The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 13, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO Che Hey West Citizen N PURLISHING CO., INC. Daily Except Sunday By AN. President and Publisher janager Sitizen Building Greene Ann Streets nly Daily Newspaper i West and Monroe County — at Key West, F:orida, as second class matter d Member of the Associated Press ed Press is exclusively entitled to use n of all pews dispatches credited to | erwise credited in this naper and als al news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES ‘ADVERTISING RATES n application. SPE otices, cards of thanks, resolutions of 'y notices, etc. will be charged for at nts a line. tainment by churches from which derived are 5 cents a line. open forum and invites discus- es and subjects of. local or general not publish anonymous coramuni- THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it thout fear and without favor; never be i to attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight for progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, n or class; aiways do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue amerd good done by individual or organ- sion; tolerant of others’ rights, views and tnions, print only news that will elevate nd not contaminate the reader; never com- > with principle. | PROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN r and Sewerage. hensive City Pian (Zoning). Hotels and Apartments. and Bathing Pavilion. —Land and Sea. ion of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. In American place names, permit us to present: Money, Miss.; Cash, Va. It is remarkable that people can come to see you at exactly the wrong time. Hitler’s blitzkrieg thus far has been directed only against helpless nations. Advertising has paid in the past and ill pay today; why try to ignore this ° 1 fact about selling goods? it vite It is natural for a barber to be an pt at a good trimming, but most folks thous it would be a close shave. Tax Collector - nominate McMahon uld have preferred to beat a great big man rather than just a little Ladd. | substantially to this IMPORTANCE OF CONVENTIONS Preliminary steps in arranging the 1941 convention in Key West of the Flor- ida Department of American- Legion are being taken by members of Arthur Sawyer Post of the veteran organization. Al- | though the convention is not scheduled un- til next April the local Legionnaires are wisely and sensibly laying their plans now. ¢Ghis is the first important convention | ever obtained for Key West. It will at- tract betwéen 2000 and-3000 Legionnaires, their friends and their families. They will be in Key West for about four days on the average. They will spend approximately $10 a day each. In four days a minimum . crowd of 2000 would thus spend about $80,000. That’s important money in any town. This money will spread all through the community, not just into the pockets of the hotelmen, garagemen, filling station- men, cafemen, restaurantmen and _ tourist heme Operators. It will help every tax- payer, help the city and county. On top of that is the prestige that goes to a city successfully handling a con- vention of that size. Other organizations will take the hint. They will select Key West for one or more cf their future meet- ings. On the success of the American Legion convention depends much of the future success of Key West as a conven- tior city in Florida. es money to organize and ar- ange such a convention. It takes an or- ganization bigger than Arthur Sawyer Post; so it must include our civic leaders and businessmen. Arthur Sawyer Post knows and appreciates this and is planning the formation of a convention corporation | to take over the convention arrange- | ments. | Our city and county officials must | take note of the fact that this convention | will help the entire community directly or | indirectly. In planning their budgets for | next year city council and the county com- | mission must figure on a convention fund to handle the Legion convention, as well as | others that may be attracted here. Our | businessmen cannot be expected to con- tribute all the money to handle such con- ventions. In the first place they can’t af- | ford it, in the second place such affairs | should be community undertakings, as | they are in other cities. Community co-operation in handling convention includes the obligation of officials to contribute and similar com- the | our city and county y events. KEY WEST THESPIANS Of interest to a large proportion of | residents of this city is the move recently | initiated to establish a definite drama | group in our midst. Not that it hasn't been tried many time before, and with fair suc- cess. But the move now in full swing bids j fair to stick and grow into a really worth- while venture—thanks chiefly to some of | the young navy persennel. The Key West Players staged a top- | notch performance, well-nigh professional, Seven of the ball clubs in the Amef-4 about six weeks ago, and the news is now ican Leegue are ganging up on the New York Yankees. That may not be cricket, but it’s baseball—-we said base ball. Summing up the Norwegian Too many Norwegians were for cam- paig Hiticr; and several Trojan horses helped | to do the dirty work. The Allies evidently got out of Nor- way because they became aware of what next the Germans were up to regarding | the western European small nations. The New Deal is mairtaining our present standard of living by continued borrowing. This must end some day and when it does and we are called on to pay | the piled up debts, we will not be able to live as we do now. Always retrenchments zre in order while paying old debts; you don’t have to be an economist to know that much about economy. The recent statement of Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig, expressing the view that war between the United States and Japan was inevitable in view of ceftain conditions, represents a break with long standing naval policy that its officers should not make pronouncements upon fereign affairs. The navy’s policy is wise. In this country officers of the army and navy are not expected to direct the policy cf the mation in regard to other nations. This detail is left to elected officials. I feleased concerring their second effort in the form of three one-act plays to be pre- L'sefted this week. If the | tion, The Citizen’ #4l? definitely subscribe te the statement that—drama has arrived to stay in Key West! And we hope it does. There is every- thing fine in the picture of a group of young Thespians striving, first to better themselves by a study of all forms of the dramati¢ art, and secondly, in working to | provide worthwhile entertainment for all And the move will have develop- the city to enjcy. its effect on the future cultural ment of Key West, too. Even as the art of painting, with its very fine following here and reputation gained throughout the land, has come ard will continue to attract a desir. able class of visiters te this city, so too will the knowledge that a fine drama move- ment is well established. Artists are com- ing to refer to Key Wé* as the Province- town of the South. Dramatists of The former has a nhationwide in its Players. reputation of the highest degree branch of that art. Erccuragement for the local drama group, naturally, may be given by attend- | ance at their productions. A good send- loff was accorded -the first presentation. The second deserves as good, if not better, | backing. second effort | measures up to the ggtroductory presenta- | increasing | the | | future may, if all goes well, compare the | | Provincetown Players with the Key West THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO Before leaving ior Miami yes- terday afternoon, Mrs. S. S. Mc- Cahill, department president of the American Legion Auxiliary, and Mrs. Edwin J. Barker, state secretary - treasurer, expressed | themselves as being delighted with the trip to Key West. Pineapple shipments out of Key West this morning number-! ed 36 cars which were brought from Havana cn the ferries yes- \terday and were placed in refrig- erator cars at this port. There were 14,568 crates of the fruit and five cars in bulk. An appreciative audience greet- ed the presentation of the “Friv- olities of 1935” at the High School auditorium. The performance was given for the benefit of Ar- thur Sawyer Post 28, American Legion, and those who took part were all Key Westers. Benjamin F. Gardner’ repre-/| senting Dunn and Bradstreet, and Mrs. Gardner are on their regular visit to the city and will remain for several days. Mr. Gardner is checking up and re- vising the standings of the busi- ness houses and _ establishing their financial status. Yesterday afternoon the boys of the Lighthouse Department gave the Cuban Club ten its first , taste of defeat so far in the sec- ond-half of the Social Diamond- | ball. League schedule. It was a bitter loss to the boys and they fcught to the bitter end. TEN YEARS AGO Brigadier Harold B. Fiske, ranking artillery officer of the Fourth Corps Area, who was in the city yesterday inspecting the command at Key West barracks, was not only satisfied with his official visit but also with Key West and will come again. A Chevrolet coupe, the first car which has been seized a second |time while engaged in rum-run- ning, figured in the court of C Rodney Gwynn, U. S. Commis- sioner, yesterday when the own-; jer was brought before the com- missioner and placed under bond of $500. J. Frank Roberts makes his announcement in this issue for the position of county commis- sioner from the Third District. Mr. Roberts was chairman of the finance committee of the city council for four years and made a good record in that position. Peter Dow, 60, an Alaskan prospector and gold miner, wants to get married and is hoping that his bride will be a Key West woman. He has_ written Post- tmaster Chas. Williams asking that official act as an impromptu cupid, which he is doing thusly. There will be offly one case of any consequence tried in Crim- inal Ccurt next week, and that is the case of B. L. Pinner, alias B L. Smith, charged with attempt- ing to kill Ike Twiggs, Jr., dur- ing a difficulty which happened on Tirkey, one of the Ten Thou- sand Islands. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO Engineers of St. Paul, Mim are at present engaged in mak-, jing estimates of the cost of con- structing 116 miles of rcad over} the Florida Keys to Key West,! jand Walter J. Hill, of St. Paul, jis organizing one of the largest | forces ever to carry out the plan. Information received from Captain Clark D. Stearns at the naval station today that of four | United States destroyers that will | |arrive at this port*between May 12 and 15 and will rendezvous in | these waters. The vessels are) the Case, Bruce, Lardner and Breck. William H. Malone occupied the chair at the meeting of the! Rotary Club Wednesday and had the honor of welcoming the new president, Bascom L. Grooms; vice-president, Andrew Miller; secretary, Bugs Warner; treasur- et, Bill Bates, and scrgeant-at- arms, George Roberts. The United States Coast Guard | Cutter Cossack and the pilot boat |Eola, owned by Captain Luther Pinder,, were destroyed by fire in the harbor this morning. The latter vessel, which was built at a cost of $14,000, was a total loss. i | Mother's Day will be fittingly observed tomorrow with appro- priate programs arranged to be ‘rendered at the different church-° jes. The day will be generaliy ob-_ [Served in the homes while other | UNSAFE ce HOME] LIBRARY MOVES TO SOUTHERNMOST SITE Duly impressed, in a four-day visit to Key West in the Spring of 1939, with the possibilities for successful business and com- fortable living here. Miss Mabel Preston Green of Chicago, fol- lowing a_ three-months’ trip across the continent and through Deo not say, “He has lo- ceted in Chicago”: say, “settled”. i TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Can you answer seven of these ten Tes: Questions? Turn to Page 4 for Answers 1. Did snakes ever live in Ire- land? What university is in Charlottesville, ginia? i The lightning rod was in-! vented by Michael Fara- James Watt, or Ben- jamin Franklin? Is the famous city prison, called the “Tombs”, locat- ed in Boston, Philadelphia or New York? | Was the Battle of Gettys- burg early or late in the Civil War? What relation was Menelaus to Helen of Troy? -What book of the Bible con- tains Paul’s famous ac- count of charity or love? Who said of Germany’s in- vasion cof Norway: “Hitler missed the bus’? Lapin is another name for the fur of rabbits, foxes or muskrats? Which of the terms, centro- sphere, lithosphere, or hydrosphere, denotes the solid crust cf the earth? 2. located Vir- 3. esecesecoces evcccccces Today’s Birthdays eeesvecesecccececececoce Maud M. Lindsay of Sheffield, Ala., noted kindergartner, born at Tuscumbia, Ala., 66 years ago. Jean Starr Untermyer of New York City, author, born at Zanes- ville, Ohio, 54 years ago. Stanley Field of Chicago, mer- chant, born in England, 66 years ago. Dr. James H. Franklin, presi- dent of the Crozier Theological Seminary, Chester, Pa. born at Pamplin, Va., 68 years ago. David B. Robertson, president of the Brotherhood of Locomo- tive Engineers and Firemen, Cleveland, born at Austintown, Ohio, 64 years ago. Leonard H. Dyer, noted inven- tor, born in Washington, D. C., 67 years ago. Horace Bowker of New York, corporation head, bern in Boston, 63 years ago. exercises will be held at various institutions in the city. twenty-two states, returned to Chicago in June of last year fully determined to make this city her home in future. Before Labor Day she and her household goods, a stock of gifts and _ artist's supplies, and a Library of six hundred books, were on their wav to the South- ernmost city, and on December 4th, her Studio was opened at 611 Duval street. Following the close of the seasonal activities and a sale to dispose of the balance of the gift stock. Miss Green moved her Rental Library and _ the artist’s supplies to the Southern- most House where the shop oc- cupies the large corner room with a private entrance on the ocean side. In addition to the extensive stock of oil and water color paints and brushes, papers, academy and mat boards, fixatifs, and other vehicles, pastels, char- coal, ete., the Rental Library con- tains a great variety of standard and current fiction, mysteries, westerns, travel and adventure, biography and autobiography, poetry, history, philosophy, busi- ness and government, religion, and the arts. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Girl Arrives At Gomezs Home Mr. and Mrs. Emerito Gomez, 936 United street, announce the arrival of a nine and one-half pound girl, born at their home on Friday, May 10th. Mother and daughter are doing nicely. DIVORCE ACTIONS Final decrees in divorces have been entered in the office of Clerk Ross C. Sawyer of Circuit Court, in the following cases: Edna Martin Burke John S. Burke, charge of dese tion;-Ether Wolfe Rubin vers Louis Rubin, charge of and ungovernable temper: z Clements Benenfield versus Mel- ville A. Benenfield, charge of un- governable temper. Marriage license was issued from the office of Judge Ray- mond R. Lord last Saturday aft- ernoon to Henry Peter Henn: of South Hampton, Mass., a Ima Bell Rutherford, of Galve ton, Tex. The wedding ceremony was performed in the office of Judge Lord, the judge officiating. ' HALLIDAY CONCLUDES LECTURES THIS WEEK R. T. Halliday, of Camden. N. J.. who has been conducting lectures nightly at the Gospel Hall, 720 Southard street co this Friday ude > series evening Mr. Halliday with start at 8 o'clock. Public is cordially imvited attend these services at the Gos- pel Hall and hear this able speak- er. FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Tuesday Key West and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Tuesday; not much change in temperature; moderate northeast and east winds. Florida: Fair tonight and Tues day: slightly warmer im north and central portions. ilustrates as chart. Mectings talks a $60.00 Per Mon —DOUBLE— Including: (1) Gas: (2) Lights: (3) Garage: (4) Refrigeration: MONDAY. MAT 1 Real Estate T ransters county courthous that of May Pipe ocd Sete 3. S Pipe. of Bee Virgmw Moore Kom Prades KRecaucks Fast, Dependable Freight end Express Service MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving All Points On Florida Keys . FREE PICK-UP and DELIVERY SERVICE FULL CARGO INSURANCE Office: 813 Caroline St. Phones S2 and 62 WAREHOUSE—Cor. Eaton and Francis Sts 70 YOU who gave me your loyal support in the First Primary—my warmest and most heartfelt thanks. To the nine fine candidates who will not be in the Second Primary— my regrets that only two of us could win. And to you who supported other candidates, / voice my earnest hope that 1 will now be your choice in the Second Primary, and will have your active help to win. To all of you, 1 repeat the only promise | have made to give Florida better, cleaner, more economical and more progressive Paid for by frien@s of Francis P. Whitehair