The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 4, 1940, Page 2

PAGE TWO " ies Tle Key West Citizen THE CITIZEN PUBLISHING CO. INC. p Published Daily Except Sunday By L. P, ARTMAN, P; JOE ALLEN, From The Citizen Building Corner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County stered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively eptjtied to yse for republicatien-of ali news dispatches creditedfto it or not otherwise erédited in this paper and 4150 the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year : Six Months $10.00 5.00 Three Months One Month bin Se eae ems = = ADVERTISING RATES Made known on application SPECIAL NOTICE All reading netices, cards ef thanks, resolations of respect, obituary notices, ete, will be charged for at the rate of 16 sents a line. Notices for entertainment by churches from which is to be derived are 5 cer tizen is an open forum and publi issues and subjects of 1 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN WILL always seek the truth and print it without fear and without favor; never be afraid te attack wrong or to applaud right; always fight tor progress; never be the or- gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique, faction or class; always do its utmost for the public welfare; never tolerate corruption or injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue, commend good done by individual or organ- ization; tolerant of others’ rights, views and opinions; print only news that will elevate and not contaminate the reader; never com- promise with principle. IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidaticn of County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital $$ $$ Right through might. : It is not that we love the Allies less, but our democracy more. There are some small town merchants who cannot understand why advertising pays large corporations and doesn’t pay them; they do not undetstand advertising, and should learn the value of this essential business adjunct. General Hugh Johnson has taken a leaf from the book of General Foch, whose motto was to “attack, attack, attack.” At- tack is an essence or rather the essence of his daily column, Johnscn’s pen maybe mightier than his sword, though he was al- so a doughty warrior. Henry Ford says that 1,000 airplanes can be built in the United States every day, once we get started. So in the space of two months we can have the planes de- sired. Unfortunately, however, it is not likely that the 100,000 necessary to man the planes can be trained in short a time. pilots so The Florida delegation seems to have difficulty in determining if one of its mem- bers is qualified to take on the chairman- ship, or it will be found necessary to name an alternate for the job. Trojan Catts et al are booming Senator Pepper for the chairmanship but Governor Cone fexninst the idea, for one reason he thinks the senator didn’t go to the bat for him with sufficient determination to hit the hall during the recent election. Folities is something. is Senator Harry F. » the American people are now in the mood for sacrifice, proposes a horizontal ~in- crease of 10 per cent in all income taxes due and payable in 1940 on incomes earns ed in 1939, and consistently he thinks that every expenditure beginning July 1, 1940, be also reduced by 10 per cent. This re- duction of 10 per cent, the senator thinks, should apply to the salaries of senators and congressmen, to all employees receiving wages in the higher brackets, to all pen- sioners and farmers, so that all may know they. are making a direct contribution to place this country in a condition of pre- paredness to meet any and all contin- gencies. The plan of the senator appears to be not only fair but just and wise. ALL IS CONFUSION! News releases in the past few days, | Improvement sponsored by the Internai Board at Tallahassee and the County Clerk’s Association combine to. present. a THE KEY WEST CITIZEN | eeeeccecccccccccccccoqcecscevessceesissceveseoucesees Highlights Of Florida confusing picture in regard to the sale of , lands now owned by the State of Florida upder terms of the Murphy Act with the Board as Trustees. 2a, as looking for completion of the sales is concerned. In recognition of that condi- | ; far as the public is concerned, and | i¥ olumn pointed out awhile back, | the county clerks are “on the spot” insofar | By KENNETH FRIEDMAN eeceeresevecccscces| PO PAOCCCe Coceceesscosesecressecosesceceseseeee HEY WESTS S0t/D CEORR HOUSE, SUMUT IN 1825, EWTIRELY Ci THIS OM % OLDEST (i BY. CAPT, COUSS/iS Sn Modteas UNOGUS ($LAND WHEN YOUNG, THE LARVA OF THE 10 MOTH SPINS A SILKEN PATH FOR THE GUIDANCE tion the clerks, through their association, | have requested a meeting with the mem- | | returned to them, rejected. ' other reason than that the | drawing from ary further | with the Board (that’s where the “or else” | comes in) is not at all clear and The Citi- Byrd, believing that +2 " Alaska, under most adverse conditions. He bers of the I. E Board for the past three wecks and the request has finally been | granted. Both groups will meet in Talla- hassee next Monday and Tuesday. The lerks vow that a definite understanding must be reached at this meeting, or else. The clerks insist that the I. I. Board gave consent to the process used in adver- ng and holding the sales early this year. Yet, to their surprise and consternation, most of the bids sent forward have been | The trouble s, the rcjections have been made for no Board de- manded other than the original base bids, y in the case of non-owner bids, and yut which the clerks, or the bidders, w nothirg. And all that, as ean be readily seen, | adds up to a-confusing picture. Just why the Board appears bent on placing the Clerks in an unfavorable light, to the point where they are seriously considering with- co-operation zen is inclined to back up the Clerk’s As- sociation in their showdown demands. The whole matter of instructions to the clerks seems to have been handled in peor manner. Another example, is that concerning the procedure to follow in publishing the sales in the newspapers throughout the state. While the general instructions covered the bunching of all sales of any particular day under one legal head paragraph, many papers varied from that rule and published each parcel separately, with a separate heading for each lot. This was the procedure followed on the original Murphy sales. A uniform rule should have been given and enforced in that matter—but it wasn’t. The Citizen voices the demand of all | »y Westers that the whole matter be straightened out with dispatch at the meet- ing next week. The County Clerks shouldn't be left ‘‘on the spot” any longer. K OUR ARMY AIR CHIEF In connection with the proposed great expansion of our military air force, the personality of the Army’s air corps chief is of particular interest. He is Major Gen- eral Henry H. Arnold, who has been the head of the corps since September, 1938, and is now 53 years old. General Arnold was one of the army’s earliest aviators, and has been a flying of- 1 ficer for 29 years, during which time he has set many aviation records, the first be- ing an altitude record of 6,540 feet in 1912, wher planes were crude affairs com- pared with those of the present. In the same year he was the first flyer te receive the Mackay trophy for a reconnaisance flight in the vicinity of Washington in- what has been described as “an elaborate, chain-and-sprocket, 40- horsepower biplane of the early Wright type.” In this year, too, he was the first military aviator to use radio to report his cbservations. Five years ago General Arnold again |of the wrecking of the cabin! Many French-Canadian farm- years ago. won the Mackay trophy for his notable feat of leading a group of 10 bombing OF THOSE BEHIND, LOCATED ON DUYAL STREET BETWEEN | @8TON BNO CRROLINE STREETS, REY WEST. KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings Here Just Five, Ten and Fifteen Years Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen FIVE YEARS AGO Dentists of Florida spent two days in the city holding their convention of the District Dental Society, attended by 55 members and 25 members of their fami- lies. The time spent in the city was one continual round of pleas- ure and interesting events. Joe Allen, advertising manager lof The Citizen, has been formally appointed assistant business manager. For three years he was a newsboy, then office boy, ad- vertising manager and has now | been appointed to the position as stated above. Members of the Key West Hos- pitality League are reminded that there will be a meeting of the unit tonight and all are ex- pected to be at Hospitality House at 8 o'clock. M. E. Gilfond, Key West administrator, will deliver an address. Unless relief clients who are called to work out their direct relief, report for work they will be dropped from the rolls, says the administrator. In some cases work relief was to be supple- mented by direct relief and those cases are of large families, says Mr. Gilfond. Organization of the Key West Players, dramatic group being {sponsored by the administration, will take place Tuesday evening. | starting at 8 o'clock, A. E. Fisher, director of the group, stated this jmorning. All people interested in |the work are invited to call on ) Mr. Fisher. } TEN YEARS AGO The official list of' voters quali- {fied to vote in the election to- | morrow has been officially pre- sented for approval and contains the names of 2.625 electérs in the city and 2,720 in the entire coun- ty, as shown by the published |list. Only 95 reside outside the city. News has reached Key West cruiser Pureta, Saturday. in Ba- |haman waters with Mr. and Mrs. H. Appleton Saunders and their The United States civil service commission announces a com- petitive examinatiom to be held in Key West for the position of janitor a vacancy in the custodi- an service. Information blanks! may be had at the post office. |} The salary is $1,140 a year. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO The necessity for new andj modern radio equipment at the naval station will probably be Presented to the navy depart- ment in the report of Command- er Fenn, of the Navy Depart- ment, who has been here for the past three days making an _ ih- spection. The U.S.S. Bayspring, tug for this district, has gone to Bata-, banoa, Cuba, to help bring barg- es and other equipment belong- ing to the U-S.S. Hannibal to the naval station at Key West, where they will be kept for the sum- mer. The ships will leave for Key West Thursday. The four motor buses which will take the place of the street cars of the Key West Electric Co., will probably be delivered here about July 15 and put into immediate operation, said Mana- ger B. L. Grooms of the electric company this morning. Members of Girl Scout Troop 4, accompanied by Mrs, A. H. Mc- Innis, scoutmistress of the or- ganization, left Key West this morping on Sheriff Roland Cur- ry’s yaeht for Long Key, whefe they will spend several days 6n a camping trip. There are 44 members of the troop‘ in the par- ty. The twelfth annual bangnet of the Monroe High School Alumni Association was held Saturday night in the Delmonica Cafe with the members of the graduating classes of the last fifteen years-in attendance. Dr. William R. War- troduced the speakers. ers of'the Saguenay section have for years raised their own to- bacco. ! Fr planes from Washington to Fairbanks, ‘son, Broward, of Key West, on!__ jsidwewn as an expert in general . aero- nautical engineering, in aerial mass tactics ayd qther téchnical branches as well as be- ing one of the most skillful fliers in the army. A consistent advocate of an enlarged air force, General Arnold will now have a leading part in directing the new program which is expected to, give this country the most powerful air fleet in the world. An auto expert says every. driver should learn te skid bis car and then bring it out of the skid safely. If we ever learn ibat it will be through a correspondence course. _—s board. All barely escaped drown- ing. The first news of the mis-! hap was brought -by airplane. { Captain Robert'sTi Menser, U.SN., is expected to arrive. to- night to relieve Captain Staffor ib: R. Doyle as commandant of {the Seventh Naval District. Cap- jtain Doyle has been here since | August. Captain Menner comes after a two-vear assignment to |the USS. Milwaukee. Reports of the primary tomor- row will be posted in front ‘The Citizen office tomorrow night in keeping with the usual jcustom of this newspaper. Since but few names appear on the bal- jlot, it is expected that the re- ‘turns will jusual. ‘(UNSAFE <t HOME of, be in earlier bar! COMMON ERROR | “Pair” and “set” are not | plural forms. You can have | cme “eair” of twins and cone “set” of tools, but two “pairs” of twins and two i “sets” of tools. ————— EES TODAY'S DAILY QUIZ. 1. Does an adult have a great- er or less number o9f bones than a baby? 2. Does each star in represent a state? . What is the correct pronun- ciation of the noun en- velop? What type of plane was the | “Spirit of St. Louis”, in which Col. Lindbergh flew to Paris? What term do the British use for motion pictures? | What is the popular name for public opinion samp- ling conducted by the American Institute of Pub- lie Opinion? Who wrote Wind”? Name the greatest naval bat- tle in the first World War. Is the North Star-visible to people in South America? What is the official name for Persia? EEE Today’s Birthdavs Dr. Franky, N. D. Buchman, Lutheran clergyman, leader of the Oxford Groups, born at Pennsburgh, Pa. 62 years ago. Nora Waln, author, born at Grampian Hills, Pa. 45 years ago. Chester H. Aldrich of New* York, architect, director of the American Academy in Rome, born in Providence, R. L, 69 years our flag particular “Listen! the 9. 10. {ren was the toastmaster and in- 289. Fontaine T. Fox, Jr., cartoon- | ist, born at Louisville, Ky. 56; Dr. James P. Leake of the U.S. Public Health Service, Washing- ton, D. C., born at Sedalia, Mo., “Mrs. Vatherine W. McCulloch of Chitago, noted lawyer, born | 9. Arthur Koehler of Madison, | Wis., ‘wood technologist, born | there, 55 years ago. H National forests constitute 13 percent of Wyoming's total area. “Key West's Outstanding” Beautiful—Air-Conditioned Rainbow Boom and Cocktail Lounge DINING and DANCING TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1940 HONCE ROLL Honor Roll of the Division Street School for the last semes- ter is as follows: 1B—Teacher, Miss M. Carey; Jay Gould Higgs, Martha Anne Gandelfo, Beverly Ann Horne, Betty Jean Velasquez. iA—Teacher, Miss Gardner; Elsie Lee Thompson, Peter Diaz. Don Williams, Diana Gonzalez. Zola Marie Camus, Ronald Con- way, Gary Thompson, Terry Doughtry. 2A—Teacher, Mrs.) E Jones John Smith, Betsy Bell Cates Zaida Diaz, Patsy Hampton, Faye Knowles Betty Louise Roberts. 3A—Teacher, Miss F_ Cochran Stephen Higgins, Charlies Knowles, Jack La at Deewson Suet Schoo Sarles, Jenny Lou Davis, Edna , Jean Gardner, Georgiz anis, Mary Louise Roberts. 4B—Teacher, Mrs Anne Doughtry, Jos zalez, Vilma Thri 4A1—Teacher. Elsie Mora 4A2—Teacher, Mrs. F. Mullin ax; Elaine Albury, Linda Bow- ser, Cleora Roberts, Lillian Red- riguez, Rose Maric Sanchez, Sarah Mae Sanders. Albert Perez Hamilton Williams. 5B—Teacher, Miss J. Seymour. Rose Marie Kerr, Tony Machado. May Mae Pent For Fifty Years A NAME! In Coffee In Key West Licensed Funeral Directors and Embalmers WITA-VAR ~-4 PAIN + _ PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWS ¢