The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 22, 1940, Page 2

~-PAGE TWO ae Che wry West Citizen Dat . ARTEMAN, Joka From Corner esident and Publisher sinexs Manager izen Building nd Ann Streets only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County ved at Key West, Florida, as second class matter “Member of the A 4d Press ted Press is exc! ely entitled to use cation of all news dispatehes credited to otherwise credited in this -aper and also ‘al news published here SUBSCRIPTION RATES ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application. IAL NOTICE ards of thanks, will be charged for at s All reading notic spect, obituary notices, ete., he rate of 10 cents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which vue is to be derived are 5 cents a line. Citizen is an open forum and invites discus- { public issues and subjects of local or general but it wiJl not publish anonymous communi- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right; be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, always fight for progress; never faction or class; aways do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or denounce vice. and praise virtue. zood done by individual or organ- coumernd ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; promise with principle. never com- i | injustice; IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Se Comprehet More erage. ive City Pian (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolid ernments. on of County and City Gov- A Modern City Hospital. foe REDS x8 Publicity is the best Spring tonic for business but, like medicine in a bottle, it won't work unless you use it. “Never by my vote, if elected, will another boy from this country be sent to a foreign battlefield.”—Senatorial Candi- date Coe, Attaboy, Socker! In Japan the people do not shake hands, which is a sanitary precaution, nor | de they shake their fists at one another, | which is commendable. They have some- thing on us there. Keeping the peace is no cinch as the | Norwegians will testify, but Norway is a} weak nation. The United States is big and | strong enough to keep the peace and not become involved in a ee war. t Walter Fuller of St. Peters- says Key West vainly looking for Fuller is off base; this city abhors another boom, but de- sives a gradual development, and is get- ting it as each succeeding year for the past few years is snows improvement, Econom ~burg, Florida, s is a boom. Jack Kirchik, Key West born, had his fingers crossed when he was sworn in as mun nicipal judge in Miami last Wednesday, ation of the event discloses. Now what did Judge Kirchik have in ~mind? Fear of the trials and tribulations that will beset him, was it just plain photo- = phobia? or In making the statement that Key is the orly frost-free city in the d States, naturally no cognizance is itaken of Uncle Sam’s possessions, like the territory of Hawaii for instance, which al- so is frost-free. claims, Key West continues to be the only frost-free city in the United States. Norway was politically dependent up- on Sweden from the year 1319 to the year 1814. From 1814 to 1905 it was united ~ with Sweden, achieving independence in 1905, the separation being “with the consent of Sweden and without the shedding of a drop of blood. In 1940 the Germans are disrupting this peaceful situation and in doing much blood. Civilization backward, is moving— Disregarding territorial | accomplished | so are shedding | ANOTHER BRIDGE FOR TAMPA . An Associated Press | Tallahassee to The Citizen | news that the State Road Department has set aside $500,000 of its funds to start work on another $4,000,000 bridge and across Tampa Bay. This is good news for Tampa and y, but something for Monroe County and Key West to weep about. Tampa al- ready has two bridges across the _ bay. | Then, too, it is connected directly with mainland highways—good, solid high- As everyone in the state, including the officials of the State Road Department, knows Key West has only one connection with the mainland, Overseas Highway. Only 40 miles of that highway are good, | solid highways over which traffic may flcw with safety and ease. The remainder | consists of old macadam that is wavy and | long wooden , | dangerous, and a score of | bridges that are narrow and | gerous. Need for the improvement of Over- also dan- seas highway has been evident to every- ; including officials of the State Road for many months. A year | one, | ae artment, ago a quarter of a million dollars of high- | | way funds was appropriated by the de- | partment and matched by the U. S. Bureau of Roads to start this work. For some | mysterious reason, the work never got | started. It is presumed the funds | available were expended on roads in other | sections of the state. partment stated that because of the emer- ruined some sections of the Florida high- y system no morey would be diately available for highway work in Monroe county. Officials here took this statement to mean that no other county would be henefited, except where highway | damaged by the frost was rebuilt. So it comes as a shock and a surprise | to the people of Monroe County to learn | that the State Road Department is ad- | vancing $250,000 from its own budget and | $250,000 allocated to it by the federal | government for highway work for starting work on the $4,000,000 Tampa bay bridges ! and highway. When finished the new j Tampa bridges and highway will repre- sent about $2,000,000 of State Road De- partment funds. The Citizen wonders how- State Road Department is going to ignore | the vital highway needs of this county. We have just one highway to the main- land. That is in such poor condition it de- | mands immediate attention. It produces | | | State Road Department. It would pay for | | itself and give Key West and the United | States defense system here a proper trans- | portation outlet to the mainland. A MULTIPLICITY OF BRIDGES (The Arcadian) about the building of a new bridge between Tampa and the Pinellas peninsula, when there are already two bridges serving the people who want | to cross from one place to the other. True, the existing bridges are privately owned toll bridges, but those who own them are conducting,a legi- timate enterprise and the charges for use of the bridges seem reasonable and fair. But the main point raised by the Sun is why | the government, which has financed at least one of the private bridges, should contribute to the building of a competing structure and probably | destroy its original investment. That is some- thing difficult to understand by anyone except- ing those who have adopted the screwy system | of reasoning just now so much in vogue. Anyhow, | | the Sun’s brief comment on the situation is in- | teresting and is as follows: “One by one obstacles to a third bridge be- tween Tampa and Pinellas county are being re- moved. The bridge is to be tollfree and is to cost four million dollars and is to be paid for in equal parts by the state and federal governments. No one has yet answered this question: Why should | we build a third bridge when both of the present toll bridges could be bought for less money? “The Davis Causeway will probably be put out of business by the free bridge. The Davis Causeway was financed with federal money ad- tion. Nobody has ever answered this question: Why does one federal spending agenty use its | “money to destroy the investment of another fed- eral spending agency?” Reports from the war front, telling of | lone planes shot down, indicate the scarcity of action in the present war. then | | On a recent visit to Key West, Chair- | man Arthur Hale of the State Road De- | gency created by the frost last winter that | imme- , THE KEY WEST crti2nn TODAY’S dispatch from | carries the- liable to have fair wea- ther tomorrow”: say. “likely”. “Liable” is used in the sense of “likely” only to designate an in- juricus or undesirable event which may befall a i percon or thing. _ TODAY'S DAI DAILY Quiz Can you answer seven of these | ten Test Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers 1. How long ‘s a decade? | 2. Name the smallest breed of; ! dog. 8. Are any Confederate veter- ans buried in the National Cemetery at Gettysburg? What is the difference be- tween indorse and en- dorse? Is it easier to swim in erate low water than in deep| water? How do you pronounce -suc- cinct? Which famous. owner invariably gives his horses names beginning | with the letter “B"? Must a cow have a calf be-/ produce. ! fore. she milk? Which great explorer voted his attention chiefly to the Rocky Mountains? Is Huron, Sioux Falls, Pier- can re, or Rapid City the cap- | ital of South Dakota? KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenines Here Here Just Five, Ten | and Fifteen Years Ago As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO Honorable i race horse | ac} discharge certific- | ates from the Key West Volyn- | leva the car ferries do not | eseeeeeees sah loke joperate-bn Sunday, but the move- ‘Today’s Horoscope; fment : pineapples has been so! scegeeqceepocccceqeseaed theavyUrecently that it is neces-/ Today may «give, perhaps, too sary to sail to Havana to avoid great ambition, 2 too strenuous congestion. ‘reaching after something too re-| mote for the inherent powers. If} Sky. D. C., born at Manitowoc, you dare hitch your wagor to a/The stars are blushed; the moon 88 years ago. star, you must not grumble if a bright disgrace; you get hurt when you fall. Yet |Their incandescent light the aspiration may be its saving; forth a sigh character, if combined with '!For I recall the glow that lit your judgment to’ kncw when you | face nave reached the end. of your | When last I held you abilities. i magic sky. iI stroll he a beach of sparkling | lin Boston, 67 years ago. san a CHARLES MENDOZA, sR. ee eevesoeee FIFTEEN YEARS AGO In alfurther discussion of the _ proposal to widen the streets of the city it has been suggested that the least, expensive to do jthis would, be to decrease the width of the sidewalks. It is pro- posed that the streets would be widened sufficiently done. bring “Winter Park, Fia., retired W. Va., 80 years ago, ‘neath a pict tiiitacnmniaiaeen | 3 d be ‘considers that the camps afford if this is'a great opportunity. ; bert | against the rocks. born at Ft. Scott, Kans., De. | Their din commands the comfort | ago. of your hand. Ellen Glasgow of |But lo! I grasp an empty air that | Va., noted novelist, mocks. 166 years ago. Charlies Angoff of New | writer and editor, born in sia, 38 years ago. eet At a recent meeting of Past,Master Masons in Key!J. Perry Chapter, Order | West have organized the Re- Molays, Hastings Smith was in-; ‘migio Lopez Past Masters Asso- stafted as Master Counsellor of! \eiation and have elected the fol-!the order, John Roker was se-| \lowing officers: President Remi- | lected as senior officer in that [sie Lopez, Secretary Charles Gar- capacity and John Cremata was ing and Treasurer W. S. Bakins. | selected as junior counsel. born And bids me ‘tina your footprints | in the sand. |My lips repeat the poem you lov- MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1940 "Today" s Birthdays Soerseeeneescooreceseesee Thorwald Solberg, retired Reg- I look upan a vast expanse of ister of Copyrights, Washington, Wis., Bishop William F. Anderson of M. E. clergyman, born at Morgantown, Dr. Oliver M,.W. Sprague of | Harvard, famed economist, -born Dr. George F. Zook, president, \To watch the waves that dash |American Council on Education, 55 years Richmond, there, York, Rus- ed to hear; Theodore Smith, tobacco ex-j;My heart embraces each depart- — |porter of New York and a mem- | ing word— Allan B. Cleare, Jr., says that/ber of the firm of Hinsdale, | But they, alas, fall prey to emp- |there is a great opportunity for Smith and Co., is a visitor in the ty air; H jthe boys, of the county to gain |city today and is meeting with|The plaintive chant devoured— experience at the Citizens Mili-'the different dealers here. He| not heard! itary Training Camp. Mr. Cleare | will leave tomorrow for a visit | When, it was meant to glory in: |was at the camp last year and'‘in Havana, to return next week. * your ear. 7 ‘Mr. and Mrs. C. Peat 1 eS ae |The membership will number | ‘31. f Sn SS a tak rg te lps LI ee Sees POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS — Monroe County Democratic scratic Primary, May 7, 1940 For Clerk Circuit Court ROSS C. SAWYER (Por Re-Election) For Governor SPESSARD L. HOLLAND For Governor FULLER WARREN For Governor For Clerk of the Circuit Court ISADORE L. WEINTRAUB Better Known As “Iaty” NO NAME LODGE Directly on Beach Famous Balua Honda Fishing Reet — T: — Permit Bone Fishing SONTARS $2.50 AND UP Stone ib Dinners a oe PHONE NO NAME KEY NO. L. Craig, Owners For Clerk of Criminal Court C. SAM B. CURRY (Por Re-Election) | FRANCIS P. WHITEHAIR i For State Comptroller J. M. LEE For Clerk of Criminal Court F tt 1 ‘or Attorney General HARRY DONGO E. B. DONNELL For State Treasurer For Clerk of Criminal Court long the | The Clearwater Sun is unable to understand | vanced by the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- i teer Work Corps were issued to| 490 pesons in the last three days, | it was announced this morning | lat the headquarters of the Key| West Administration. On their first fishing trip in |Key West waters yesterday, A. |M. Anson and daughter went out | with John Lopez and made a re-} markable catch. They caught a |pusaber of barracuda, amberjack | the; and other fish and topped day with a 74-pound tarpon. | Key West boosters are up in} ‘arms from, Key West to Jackson- | |ville, over a statement by a ra- {dio announcer that there were 50. ‘varieties of fish caught in these waters. As a matter of truth, there are 637 varieties of fish a vast volume of gasoline taxes for the: |caught in the waters around Key | West. An Easter egg hunt is to be {sponsored Monday afternoon by ithe recreational department of \the Key West Administration, which will start at 3:30 p. m. at} Bayview Park. Children who play in the parks in the after- | |noons are expected pate. Elaborate preparations have been completed for the devotion- jal Easter services at sunrise to- morrow morning at Bayview |Park. Thousands of Key West- ers avill assemble to commemor- ate the greatest event in the re- ligious history of the world. TEN YEARS AGO Willard M. Albury, former city councilman, was appointed as | auditor for the city of Key West at a regular meeting of the city ‘council last night. Mr. Albury | was appointed to succeed the late Charles H. J. Roberts. ; There was but one other appli- | cant. | Less than 160 Monroe county | poll tax payers could vote in the coming primary if it were held tomorrow. Some 2,700 voters | have paid their 1929 poll taxes, {but fewer than 150 of those have paid their tax for 1928, which is required ty law. | According to reports which jhave reached here, W. E. D. | Stokes has arrived in Reno, Ne-/ ‘vada, to establish legal résidence jof three months to bring suit of | divorce against Florence Critten- | don Stokes, formerly of Key West, as soon as he is legally in | Position to do so. Harry H. Johnson, constable in |the first district, has filed and | | officially announces his candidacy | ‘for re-election in the coming dune primary. He was appoint- | led to the position he now holds | |one year ago by Governor Doyle | | Carlton. | | company will sail for Havana | tonight for loads of pineapples W. M. “BILL” WAINWRIGHT LEONARD B. GRILLON “Lennie to partici- | mains. | Two ferries of the P. and 0. | For Circuit Judge | i ROSCOE BRUNSTETTER : (Group 1) Ability—Experience—Judicial Temperament | | ie: 4 j Re-Elect For Judge Circuit Court | W. H. BURWELL KARL O. THOMPSON For Sheriff For Sheriff BERLIN A. SAWYER (Group One) For County Commissioner, First District EDUARDO C, GOMEZ oBadie" For County Commissioner, First District ‘WM. H. MONSALVATGE {For Re-Election) For County Commissioner, Second District J. FRANK ROBERTS | 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 | For Judge Circuit Court FRANK E. BRYANT ‘ (Group 3) “A Free and Un-Trammelied Judiciary” ae For Judge of the Circuit Court j GEO. E. McCASKILL (To Succeed Judge Trammell) | 2 (Group 3) For County Commissioner, Second District BRAXTON B. WARREN (For Re-Election) For County Commissioner, Fourth District WILLIAM T. DOUGHTRY, JR. For County Commissioner, Fourth District NORBERG THOMPSON Re-nominate JUDGE WORTH W. TRAMMELL For Circuit Judge (Group 3) Re-elect For County Commissioner, Fifth District R. W. CRAIG Known Universally As “Poor Old Craig” of Craig, Fla. » PAUL 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 Attorney For State Representative } WILLARD M, ALBURY | For State Representative BERNIE C. PAPY (For. Re-Election) | | For County Judge H ROGELIO GOMEZ For County Judge | RAYMOND R. LORD (For Re-Election) | Por State and County Tax Collector | FRANK H. LADD For Justice of the Peace, Second District | (Fer Re-Election) | ENRIQUE ESQUINALDQ, JR. - . ‘or For State and County Tax Collector > vee ni a JOE C. McMAHON For Constable, First District - RAY ELWOOD For County - For Constable, First District HARRY JOHNSON For County Commissioner, Fifth District MRS. ELLIE LOWE (Formerly Ellie O'Rourke) For County Commissioner, Fifth District W. A. PARRISH DONALD CORMACK CLARENCE H. PIERCE (For Re-Election) Fer 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 Tax Assessor GANDOLFO County Tax Assessor For J. OTTO KIRCHHEINER (For Re-Election) CLAUDE GA For Constable, Second District * BASIL R. TYNES For Member Board of Public Instruction, First Distric: For Member Board of Public Instruction, First District