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SSDAY, , APRIL 12, 1940 FIBALL LEAGUE | ELECTS [S OFFICERS MEETING HELD LAST one IN CITY HALL CHAMBERS Jiamondbal! he C enthusiasts y Hall last night and ied an inter-city league which Play nightly games at Bay- Park in the iuture. ucers were selected last it. Fresident of the league is A. Vax vice-president, Roy hi urer, Joe Cleare, Eva B. Warner. ented at the meet- ir respective managers: Blue Frank Caraballo; ca-Cola, Oliver, Kemp; Park rs. Chzrles Rosam; Army, Sgt. > VP B. A. Gill; CCC,j srsythe; Marines, Lt. end High School, John seerctar ‘eams repre by th | Rainfall, met | lers by night; mild temperature; THE WEATHER [Orsth Mer taken at 7:30 a. m., 75th Mer. Time (City Office) Temperatures j |Highest last 24 hours _. iLowest last night ;Mean _. Normal ..__ Precipi ion 24 hours ending | 3:30 a. m., inches - Total rainfall since Apri! re inches Excess inches Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches Excess inches 0.27 Wind Direction and Velocity E—16 miles per hour Relative Humidity 73% Barometer at 7:30 a. m. today Sea level, 30.12 (1020.0 millibars) Tomorrow‘s Almanac Sunrise Sunset Moonrise since ~ April oi 0.10 5.46 since January 1, {Moonset agers and those of | teams to join later n the Board of Directors. was decided that all players Other rules Many plans enjoyable Another meeting will be held Mondav at tne Citv Hall, 8 p. m., which time schedule of games ll be ned The Statue Ot Liberty eoce ° tne first Statue of was one cold aay in 1918 as a soldier aboard a_ ship ailing for England. I did not have the cpportunity of seeing the Statue of Liberty from the deck the ship but from a port hole. Orders were issued before we } sailed that all aboard would go to ir quarters that had been as- ned to them and that no one uld be allowed to be on deck due to the fact that there were many spies. As we got ready to pull anchor we all filed down below and there to await further lers from our superiors. I was nly a “buck private”, so all of ie*bucks” were assigned be- low. As our ship started out. | the engines began to groan and | you could hear the swish of the water from’ the outside. Having never been on an ocean going bateau, this was an experience for me. Standing there below, eof the fellows called out: Hey, Red. come over to the port le and look at little ole New York fading out bee you ay never her again I walked over and there ing at the buildings nd thinking of my home back | own south and my mother and ll of a sudden a great statue It was the Statue of What a thrill, what a eeling came over me as I looked at this beautiful sight that was tanding there. A thousand things eh my mind, my home, my ccuntry and what it meant to merican. After going nd and France I te to get back to my ain as many did not | he Statue of Liberty ailed away to fight for Democracy Yet, I heard music | from the tug boats that. came with thei> bands, but the most impressive thing to me that day | was the Statue of Liberty greet- ing z turned to my na- neland. I wonder how | many Americans have seen the | Statue of Liberty? I wonder how | many appreciate the liberty that | they now enjoy? I wonder how | appreciate the sacrifice others have made in order night enjoy the liber- have now. That berty still stands and may we as Americans appre- ciate our LIBERTY. ALBERT C. KEITH. tree St., Ga 1 Wall Lever iorget 1 Uw 4 saw we Liberty. 1 see standing | 918 Pe Atlan out | _ Tomorrow's Tides (Nava! Base) AM. 0:58 5:40 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight; Friday increas- ing cloudiness followed by show- CLASSIFIED COLUMN WANTED P.M. High 12:0 Low WANTED — ENERGETIC MAN to represent old-time Ordinary Life Insurance Company sell- ing insurance ‘to the service. Monthls premiums payable by allotment. Wonderful oppor- tunity for right man. One with service connection preferred. Reply Box 232, Miami. aprll-lwkx FOR SALE FOURTEEN-FT. V-BOTTOM CYPRESS BOAT; Four Horse Johnson Outboard Motor; Four Life Preservers, One Fire Ex- tinguisher; Pair of Oars and Row Locks; Anchor with Rope —all for $150.00. Apply 1217, Petronia street. jun27-s' THREE PFLEUGER TEMPLAR REELS. In good working con- dition. have Redwing 28-36 horsepow- er motor with many new parts. Will sell entirely or by parts. Apply Box P, The Citizen. jani9-tf FOR SALE—2 lots, each 50x100. Run from Washington to Von Phister street. $850. Apply rear 1217 Petronia street, aprl4+ LOT, 56’@’x93’6” on Washington street. Apply 1115 Fleming street. marl-s SECOND SHEETS—500 for 50c. The Artman Press. novl9-tf WANTED TO LEASE MODERNLY-EQUIPPED _three- Bedroom House ‘for two years. Apply Box LL, clo The Citizen. aprl0-3tx FOR RENT UNFURNISHED BUNGALOW | with bath and running water. ; Newly renovated. Apply 802 Eaton Street. aprl-tf ; APARTMENT with bath, hot and | cold running water. Apply 907} Packer street. FURNISHED HOUSE—All mad-| ern conveniences. Apply Rear 1500 United Street. apr7-tf | Two. B E DROOM modernly- equipped house, $35. Summer! or vearlvy lease. Box DM, The Citizen. aprll-6t HOTELS CLDEN TIMEPIECE Hs Associated Mrens) ON, Tex. April 11.— During the reign of Charles II. a London, watchmaker construct- ed a buiky hand-carved clock and attached to it a hammered b s plate bearing the following ii iption: “R. Hopwood, 1682. Tyme Awaye”. Today, 258 years later, the clock is the prized possession of R. J. Slage, of Houston, vice- president of the American Na- tional Retail Jewelers’ Associa- | tion. The clock was given Slage by a watch firm which bought it from an Englishman who in- herited it HOL fecit London, Passeth Swift Balinese women. bare from the Waist up. consider American ‘women immodest for showing) part of their legs, BRING YOUR VISITING friends in need of a good night’s rest to THE OVERSEAS HOTEL.! Clean rooms, enjoy the homey stmasphere, Satisfactory rates. 917 Fleming St. apri7-tf \NICELY FURNISHED ROOMS, hot and cold running water.! Two biccks to beach. VALDES HOTEL, 521 United Street. apr8-tf LARGE, COOL, ATTRACTIVE ROOMS, screen porches, very! reasonable summer rates. Monthly rates for single or double rooms. Very attractive. Trumbo Hotel. apr9-lwk Lost LOST — Yesterday somewhere! between sunrise and . sunset two golden hours, each set. with sixty diamond minutes. No re-| ward is offered for they are gone forever—Horace Mann. | _ yesterday morning | JOHN G Will sell cheap. Also, . moderate to fresh southeast and ‘south winds. Florida: Partly cloudy, slightly | |warmer in extreme north por-} tion. tonight; Friday mostly: tion in afternoon; cooler in north portion Friday afternoon or \night. CONDITIONS An abnormally strong high! pressure ezrea, crested over Mon- tana, overspreads the country this morning from the north Pa- cific states eastward to the up- per Mississippi Valley and south- ward into northern Texas, and pressure is moderately high over the Atlantic States; while a trough of low pressure extends from the eastern Lake region southwestward to the lower Rio Grande Valley. Light to moderately heavy precipitation has occurred since from LEGALS IN CIRCUIT FLORIDA, i STATE oF 7:14 | Defendant. OF PUBLICATION ing by filed in the above-stated cause that John $: Burke, the defendant there- in named, non-resident of the State of Florida and that his resi- dence is unknown to plaintiff; that said defendant is over the age of twenty-one years; that there is no person in the State of Florida the service of a summons in chancery upon whom would bind said de- fendant It is therefore ordered th defendant be and he is here quired to appear to the bill of com- said the | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN i] ‘PROVING: YOU CAN'T | BE TOO CAREFUL (By Associated Press) HARRODSBURG, Ky., April 11.—With the ground covered by 78 cloudy, followed by showers by ice and snow for more than a 69 night and possibly in north por-! month, R. E. Cunningham, 71, farmer, took pains when he went ‘outdoors. Every time he ven- tured from his house he used a | pitchfork for a walking stick, ‘jabbing the prongs into the | ground firmly to insure against ‘a fall. Then it happened. He slipped on the hardwood floor in his home and fell, breaking a_ hip. He was sent to a hospital. Plains States and northern Tex- as eastward over the Lake re- gion and Ohio Valley, with snow as far scuth as western Mis- souri. *There has also been light to moderate snow in portions of ‘the northern and eastern Rock- ies. Temperatures are generally | above normal in the eastern por- tions of the country and the Gulf States; while much colder wea- ther has overspread the Plains ¥ States and upper Mississippi Val- ‘ley, with freezing as far south as southern Kansas this morning. G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge. the sworn: bill, TRY IT TODAY— The Favorite in Key West STAR * BRAND CUBAN COFFEE ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS re- + 1 said cause on or be- | Xe h day of A , otherwise the allega tions af said bill will be taken as ed by said defendant. further order be publ for four cons Key West ¢ published in sa Done and or of April, 1940. (SEAL) ordered that this hed once each week tive’ weeks in The en, a newspaper county and state. red this 2nd day By SAW Solicitor for STATE OF A SUDICIAL COUNTY. IN IN CIRCUIT COURT, FLORIDA, F "E, Plaintiff, ys. CLAUDE IRIS WALLACE, Def bill cause 'de- in the that Claude Iris Walla the fendant therein named, e of Florida and s unknown; that a over the age of twenty-one y ; that there is no person in the State of Fidtida the service of a summons in chancery upon whom would “bind: said de- | fendant. It is therefore ordered that said defendant be and she is hereby re- quired to appear to the bill of com- plaint filed in said cause on or be- fore Monday, the 6th day of May, A. D. 1940, ‘otherwise ‘the allega- tions of said bi ll be taken as confessed by said defendant. It is furt ordered -that this order be published once each week for four consecutive weeks in The Key. West Citizen, a newspaper published in said county and state. Done and ordered this 3rd day of April, A. 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NEW Humi-dial, TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY A friend of mine. who works for a living and doesn’t worry very much over polities, stopped me on the street the other day and told me he had listened to’ all the so-called leading candi- dates in the gubernatorial race and the more he listened the harder it was to make up his mind cne way or the other. | As near as I can figure out. he says. they are all running on! the same platform; each one of- ' self. fers GOOD GOVERNMENT; other day”, he goes on, they all ADMINISTRATION, more pay ‘first primary”. for teachers, nine months school, ! aid to the blind, the aged and de- up my ears. pendent children; they offer al “Yes”, he says. cure for everything from double|up on the platform, pneumonia to acute ground-itch. |customers in prayer, tax. orphans. “Unfortunately”, hearts and hope to die’ if they steads and war veterans? add one single penny -of addi-|in a walk. . Everyone knows that tional taxes, They all gnash their the state is broke now and no- pearly teeth and snarl! at a sales: . Salty tears well up in the/gs an unjust burden by some eyes and run down the cheeks|group or some, individual. of each in turn as they review all might agree that taxes are all ‘the plight of the widows and right for the other guv. darn few said my iend, “it’s'too late to qualify, or m darned if I wouldn’t run my- ‘appeal to everyone”. I hit on a bright idea the “that that the electorate is as promise a BUSINESS would .insure my election in the jand blind as you assume, and you “Is that so?” I says, prickin’: what would happen if you were “I would get lead the drag out my fishin’ tackle and and then|go on a nice long vacation and They all pledge themselves to|promise te absolutely and com-isay, ‘All right you poor dumb build bigger and better roads, |pletely ABOLISH all taxes. Why jowls, vou asked for it and fell reduce expenses, and “cross their|stop at merely exempting “tats \for it—now like it and lump it’.” s | | wipe out the whole troublesome jmess with one boid stroke!” ' “¥eh", I says, “but without any revenue there wouldn’t be any ‘government. You -gotta have ‘money for schools and roads and ‘health and ali the other things |folks have come to expect”. “Maybe so”, says he, “but you just let some leather-lunged »serewhall mount the rostrum and | Promise to eliminate ali taxa- ‘tion and I'm tellin’ you he'd win needs today ‘s of plain old-fashioned Sense”. We have lo: of values. Gov BUSINESS and th its problems can he through sound, ciples. Our social and can be solved w and the rest of rainbows end face preblems with a ance, unselfi united in thou advance the w to the intelligent business aaministration economic 1 you and quit si our co body cares. Every form of tax ‘is displeasing and looked upon While ills i PAGE FIVE elved only i prin- + pirit of toler- 1 Por Fifty Years A NAME! In Coffee In Key West STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE THAT'S A REPUTATION folks feel that it is just right when thev are called upon to ipay. So a platform of ‘no taxes oF of no kind for nobody’ ought to “Yes”, “but I says, granting dumb | were, to run on such a platform, “Key West's Outstanding” LA CONCHA HOTEL Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Room and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING Strictly Fireproof Garag Open The Year Around jelected?” “Ha, ha!” savs he. “I'd just What Florida and this nation POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Monroe County Democratic Primary, May 7, 1940 For Governor SPESSARD L. HOLLAND For Governor FULLER WARREN For Governor FRANCIS P. WHITEHAIR For State: Comptroller J. M. LEE For Attorney General E. B. DONNELL For Circuit Judge ROSCOE BRUNSTETTER (Group. 1) Ability—Experience—Judicial Temperament For Judge Circuit Court W. H. BURWELL (Group One) Judge of Circuit Court (Group 1) BART. A. RILEY (Paid Political Advertisement by Bart. A. Riley) For the Full Term Circuit Judge, Group 1 JUDGE ROSS WILLIAMS, Present Judge Ably carrying on the tradition of the late Judge Atkinson ; inal ens Scie esiesaaneranate ae For Judge Circuit Court . FRANK E. BRYANT (Group 3) “A Free and Un-Trammelled Judiciary” For Judge of the Cireuit Court GEO, E. McCASKILL (To Succeed Judge Trammell) (Group 3) Re-nominate JUDGE WORTH W. TRAMMELL For Cirenit Judge (Group 3) Re-elect Avi! D. BARNS as Circuit Court Judge (Group 4) For Judge of the Circuit Court ROBERT J. BOONE (Group 4) For Judge Circuit Court Cc. C. YOUMANS (Group 4) Active—Experienced For State Representative WILLARD M. ALBURY For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY (For Re-Election) For County Judge ROGELIO GOMEZ For County Judge RAYMOND R. LORD {For Re-Election) For State and County Tax Collector FRANK H. LADD (For Re-Election) For State and County Tax Collector JOE C. MCMAHON For County Tax Assessor CLAUDE GANDOLFO For County Tax Assessor J. OTTO KIRCHHEINER (For Re-Election) | For Clerk Circuit Court | ROSS C. SAWYER | (For Re-Election) For Clerk of the Circuit Court ISADORE L. WEINTRAUB Better Known As “issy” For Clerk of Criminal ati: C. SAM B. CURRY (For Re-Elsction) | ie For Clerk of Criminal Court HARRY DONGO For Clerk of Criminal Court LEONARD B. GRILLON “Lennie” For Sheriff BERLIN A. SAWYER 2 Re-Elect KARL O. THOMPSON For Sheriff For County Commissioner, First District EDUARDO C. GOMEZ “Eddie” a alae 5 For County Commissioner, First District WM. H. MONSALVATGE {For Re-Election) For County Commissioner, Second District J. FRANK ROBERTS For County Commissioner, Second District BRAXTON B, WARREN (For Re-Election) Fer County Commissioner, Fourth District WILLIAM T. DOUGHTRY, JR. For County Commissioner, Fourth District NORBERG THOMPSON For County Commissioner, Fifth District R. W. CRAIG Known Universally As “Poor Old Craig” of Craig, Fla. For County Commissioner, Fifth District MRS, ELLIE LOWE (Formerly Ellie O’Rourke) For County Commissioner, Fifth District W. A. PARRISH | For Member Board of Public Instruction, First District | DONALD CORMACK | For Member Board of Public Instruction, First District | CLARENCE H. PIERCE (For Re-Election) For Member School Board, Third District RALPH K. JOHNSON (For Re-Election) For Justice of the Peace, First District FRANKLIN ARENBERG (For Re-Election) For Justice of the Peace, First District RAUL RILEY CARBONELL For Justice of the Peace, Second District ENRIQUE ESQUINALDO, JR. (For Re-Election) For Constable, First District RAY ELWOOD For Constable, First District HARRY JOHNSON For Constable, Second District BASIL R. TYNES nee