The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 30, 1941, Page 2

PAGE TWO [a Che icy West Citizen SN PUBLISHING CO., INC. Published Daily Except Sunday By L. P. ARTMAN, President and Publisher JOE ALLEN, Business Manager ‘om The Citizen Building ner Greene and Ann Streets Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monroe County Entered at Key West, Florida, as second class matter Member of the Associated Press The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to. use for republication o! news dispatches credited to it or not etherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published here. SUBSCRIPTION RAT me Year Six Months Three Months One Month Weekly Made known on app SPECIAL NOTICE ading notices, cards of thanks, y notices, ete, will be charged for at e of 10 cents a line. enué is to be derived are 5 cent e Citizen is an open forum .n of public issues and subjects of local or general interest but it will not publish anonymous communi- ions, IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More Hotels and Apartments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion. Airports—Land and Sea. Consolidation »f County and City Gov- ernments, #, A Modern City Hospital. Everybody is going to Halifax, even the President. Discussion makes for progress and sometimes for conversion. Any husband can tell you why every family should have two cars. Cannon Voice of Democracy. Head- We didn’t think Pat rated that high. Why should printing be called the Black Art when the business is so often in the red? line. General John Metaxas, “strong man” of Greece passes on just when his genius is needed most. \ Quillen doubts that Germany and Eng- land had as many churches and hospitals as have been reported borhbed. Last call to register for the bond elec- tion on February 4. It isto provide for a million dollar airport on Boca Chica key, a vital need for Key West. Secretary Morgenthau says that unless Congress passes the lease-lend bill, Great sritain, Greece and China cannot continue to fight and will have tolay down their arms. That will mean peace and isn’t peace whatthe world is praying for? Watch your dead lines‘and don’t say we didn't caution you. both for city and county. February 4. . To the credit of Key West merchants it is pleasant to state fhat only one concern advertising in The Citizen demands a free subscription. The demand cannot be ac- ceded to in fairness to all other advertisers who willingly and promptly pay for their subscriptions There is an agency at work convince Washington and trying Tallahassee the necessity of dry docks both in Key West and at Fort Jefferson. Any other country possessed Dry Tertugas would not ade it for all the Twinidads and = Marti- ques that could piled into infinite This is apparent now to he pace ever. more Key West had the first international in the United States—Key West to Tt was operated by the Aero- Company for some time, and was a rai. With the establishment of the airport now in prospect we reviving some thing any other place in this country pioneer airport of America, coming inte its own! airport Havana na are have had before and before Key West, back we "| Mark Shoesmith, a | born young man, who lost the sight of both Registration for | Airport Election; payment of automobile | license; homestead exemption application, | Incidentally, do | not forget to vote in the airport election on | | citizens who talk glibly | MORE SHIPS COMING The fleet of mosquito boats, bound for | Key West according to Secretary of Navy Frank Knox last week, seems to have been appropriated for their own by Miami news- | papers. Sunday papers said the fleet would be based temporarily at Miami and every effort would be made to see that they | remain there. The navy, which does own the mos- quito boats, expects them tocome to Key | West, however, and the chances are good they will turn up here in a few weeks. One of the high-ranking officers stationed here said yesterday: “If they | are staying in Miami, its news to me. There’s no reason for their not coming here and,I think you can put the stories down as | some more Miami publicity.” Actually, no one outside the navy can forecast with any accuracy where any naval vessel is going and even congressmen don’t | have as much luck as they once did in get- | ting a few ships as souvenirs for their more | populous seaports. If Key West is the-best place for the | mosquito boats to make their base, and the | navy seems to think it is, then the mosquito boats will be based here. .Key. West looks | forward to seeing them in its rapidly: grow- ing naval establishment. A BLIND SCULPTOR Among the arts which a blind. person | might take up, it seems that sculpture would be one of the most difficult, yet there are quite a number of blind sculptors in the | | country who are doing highly | work. creditable ee One of the most promising of these is 28-year-old Oregon- eyes at the age of 10 through the explosion of a dynamite cap with which he was play- ing. He now livesin New York, where he teaches sculpture at a school for the blind. Shoesmith has just completed a_life- size head of Lauritz Melchior, the operatic tenor, which is said to be an amazing like- ness, and which he will present to the singer at a forthcoming concert. Mr. Melchior’s sister Agnes is blind, and a teacher of the blind in Copenhagen, Denmark, his native city. In modeling the head of Mr. Melchior, | Shoesmith worked with the aid of a_ life mask which he made, but had his model in person a few times when putting the finishing touches to his work. At times he felt Melchior’s features with his fingers to compare with the head he was producing. The entire time spent on the work was about 100 hours. The fact that Mr. Shoesmith had _ his sight during childhood gives him a_ great advantage over persons born blind, but the skill he has developed is nevertheless most remarkable. One of his pieces is in the home of the Roosevelts at Hyde Park and another is in the presidential palace in Buenos Aires. suc SACRIFICE FOR THE OTHER FELLOW This matter of national defense ‘leads to some interesting results, The industrial magnates talk much of , the obligations of labor not to'strike and the labor professors, not to be outdone, return the compliment by remarks about war-prof- iteering while labor sacrifices. The attitudes of capital and labor, in this instance, are equalled by many other about Americans | misfortune by of | than | | making sacrifices for the national welfare without any idea that they should do like- wise, Frankly, no man knows where world events will lead this nation, or what fate is in store for the American people. The chances are, however, that we can avoid practicing of the patriotism we profess before it is too late. some HATCH ACT EVADED Various political committees expended more than $21,746,475 during the last presi- dential campa ceording te figures com- piled by Chairman Gillette, of the special Senate committee investigating campaign expenditure. This is an revelation view of the Hatch act, designed to limit the expenditures of the major political parties than $3,000,000, each. No such result was accomplished because the ticians easily figured out schemes d@ the limitation. interesting in to not more to the various political committees and we will | pass the information along to our readers. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE ENERGY IN ONE GALLON OF SKY CHIEF GASOLINE COULD LIFT THE EMP.RE STATE BUILDING TWO_ INCHES OFF THE GROUND *4~ DEEP SEA DIVER CAPPED A GUSHE THE LANDLADY LAMENTS Lament No. i, Homestead Ex- emption. When a northerner con- siders buying real estate in Flor- ida, it sounds beautiful that there is homestead exemption from taxes up to a valuation of $5000. Then comes the awakening, the fine print part. that you - didn’t hear about. In the city limits there is a stipulation that the ex- emption covers only a city lot in area. So the $5000 value has to be concentrated on a small plot of land. The property we have is 685 feet long but homestead exemp- tion is allowed only on the “north 310 feet”, which leaves the balance of the land, a house and garage, on which full taxes must be paid. 5 Lament No. 2, Taxes. Our tax~ ‘es jumped from $19.04 in 1939 to $65.27 in 1940. Don’t ask us why. We only know we Gare not look at the 1941 taxes without a heart stimulant handy. Lament No, 3. Labor Trouble. ee It was a swell ad this handy man had in the newspaper, you know the type, “sober, honest, reliable, small wages”, and so on. We fig- ured we could use a handy man for general repairs, so we an- swered the ad. He came for an interview and we were agreed on the wages, the work, the date to start work. About the last thing he said at the interview was, “You can de- pend on me, Fm reliable, I'll come at 1 o'clock Saturday morning”. We naturally thought he meant Saturday of that week. Perhaps he meant Saturday next year, come Christmas. Neither he nor Hthe Lye'clock arrival time have materialized, Hereafter when we. see the word “reliable” in an ad, we will take it. to mean, “able to lie again”. Lament No. 4, Rent. One ten- ant pulled a fast one on us. The electric refrigerator broke down. They had it repaired and took the il! out of the rent. Two months it broke down again. Our t stopped suddenly and with- out explanation. On our return from Key West found out why. The tenant turned in the old ox on a new one that cost $169. They figured on taking that out of the rent, which was onlv $20 a month >» short work ordering we of that new tisfactory second-hand electric refrigerator for $35. We lost the box and $20 on the deal. t seemed out of all propor- » pay eight or nine months 1 rent for one piece af hor neld equipment. for a cheap ren 41 property Caretakers. Whik were y West last summer we left one house in the aands of caretakers, under whose reof leaks wh ended. the electric ampered with an nee the we are the was que! sperty was out of c 3 wt etrator was about to <y skipped— PENETRATOR PENS FORA $#10.000 REWARD Ing GASOLINE: WAS = DUMPED IN RIVERS: UNTIL THE FIRE HAZARD MADE 1T NECESSARY _jand somewhat stripping the house of all the furniture. | Inquiry around the neighbor- hood revealed the information that a certain truck line remov- ed the furniture. It was not a Tampa truck. We get the run- around on the furniture. The city police would not touch the case because the furniture was taken out of the city. The county po- lice would not touch it because it was taken out of the county. They told us to see a judge and the judge told us to see a law- yer. The lawyer had to have money to start suit, which we did not have. No money, no furni- ture. Well, at least we ha¥e the empty shell of a house. oe Lament No. 6, Sorta Personal. We moved back into our empty house with some camping equip- ment, a few kits of borrowed furniture, a kerosene lamp, no elect.icity or hot water, but a fine echo of our own footsteps when we walk around in the empty rooms. If our pioneering ancestors liv- ed with kerosene lamps and wash- | tub baths, we thought we could, too. The first night we burned a pretty half-dollar size , trade mark of the kerosene lamp on our | wrist. The next day we decided on a nice hot bath. Now the wash tub was setting under a leak in the roof, full of recent rain, but we had to borrow the tub from the leaky roof for our bath water. We tugged the tub out to the back porch, which is some six feet high, lifted the tub to the porch rail to tip the, rain water out and proceeded to throw the tub, the water, the rail- ing and ourselves, all off to the ground in one throw. We haven't had time as yet to count the seratches, bumps and bruises because our pride was hurt worst of all, Why our pride? Beeause for some strange reason, like a cat, we turned in mid-air, and arrived at the bottom, facing the porch from which we fell. and,—sitting in the tub, still half full of cold rain water. And it t'warn’t Satiddy neither. night, Our apslogies to our turning- in-their-graves grandmothers for not being able to take it Who remembers the old cop- ner tub sunk into the kitchen floor. with a trap door over it? Tt wes swell fus sliding down in- to that tub. At about t remember seei same period we ng Maude Adams as Peter Pan and figured if Pe- ter cculd flv through the air. we conatd. t les. we didn't know wires when nged off a ‘U. S. WEATHER BUREAU REPORT Observation taken at 7:30 a. 75th Mer. Time (city office) : Temperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night Mean Normal __. es i Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending | 7:30 a. m., inches Total ranifall since Jan. inches Deficiency inches Total rainfall since Jan. inches Deficiency | inches . 0.74 | Wind Direction and Velocity | NE—12 miles per hour | Relative Humidity ' ! 1, since Jan. is 1, since Jan. 1, 52% Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today Sea level, 30.14 (1020.7 millibars) | Tomorow’s Almanac Sums 7:10 a. Sunset 6:11 p. | Moonrise ---- 9:42 a. , Moonset ss 10:07 p. j Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM. m. m. m. m. P.M. S 12:27 sen OOM 6:13 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Friday) Key West and Vicinity: Fair warmer tonight ,and Friday; gentle to moderate |north and northeast winds be- ‘coming variable. , | Florida: Fair with slowly ris- ‘ing temperature tonight and Fri- day. ' | Jacksonville to Florida Straits ‘and East Gulf: Gentle to moder- ate north and northeast winds, becoming variable, and fair wea- ther tonight ana Friday. » CONDITIONS Pressure is moderately high ‘this morning from the northern Rocky Mountzin States south- ‘eastward over the East Gulf and South Atlantic States; while low pressure areas are centered off the north Pacific coast, over the Lake Superior region, and off the coast of New England. Light precipitation has occurred during the last 24 hours in a narrow strip from eastern Colorado and northwestern Texas northeast- |ward over Michigan and thence ‘eastward over northern New Eng- land. Temperatures continue be- low normal over eastern districts, with readings below zero this morning in northern New Eng- land, bt have risen and are above the seasonal average in most sections from the Mississip- pi Valley westward. | G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Ciarge. Today’s Anniversaries ETT 1754—John Lansing, the New York chief justice and chancellor who left his hotel one day and was never heard of again, born in Albany, N. Y. Last seen, Dee. 12, 1829. | 1836—J. Warien Keffer, Spring- field, Ohio, lawyer, banker, Union general, congressman and \Speaker, born in Bethel, Ohio. Died April 22, 1932 1823—James Ww. Simonton, noted New York and California journalist of his day, born in New York. Died in Napa, Cal. Nov. 2, 1882. 1839—Samuel C. Armstrong, Union colonel, educator, founder of the Hampton Institute, born in Hawaii (of American parentage) Died in Hampton, Va. May 11, 1893. 1841—(100 years ago) George A. Townsend (“Gath”), national- ly-known journalist, columnist, war correspondent, author and lecturer of his day, born George- town, Del. Died in New York, April 15, 1914. 1851—Jacob M. Dickinson, Ten- nessee and Chicago lawyer, sec- retary of war under Taft, borg in Columbus, Miss Died in Chi- cago, Dec. 13, 1928. 1857—Armanis F. Knotts, Ham- Ind. Jawyer and mayor, laid out Gary. Ind. civic worker and historian, born in Okio. Died Oct. 3. 1937. CASA MARINA Key West's Hotel De Luxe American Plan 200 elightful ROOMS, each with Pr'VATE BATH Beeutifai Cocktail Lounge NCING NIGHTLY THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1941 ‘ANNOUNCE BIRTH OF SON SUNDAY Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gutier- rez announce the birth of an eight-pound son Sunday night. The little fellow has been named Eugene Lawrence. Before her marriage, Mrs. | (Gutierrez was Miss Grace Rivero. : Today In History ne 1799—Congress enacts so-called Logan Act, forbidding unofficial intercourse with a foreign gov- ernment, araing of a private American citizen's —_ unofficial work in France. 1847—Spanish Yerba Buena becomes San Francisco. 1865—Abortive Civil War peace conference — three Confederate envoys, including the Vice Presi- dent, came as peace commission- ers within Union lines. 1900—Gov. William Goebel of Kentucky assassinated and State for a moment on the verge of civil war. 1917—Report of U.S. Steel for preceding war year show earn- ings of a quarter-billion dollars. 1919—President Wilson's sys- tem of mandatories put on offi- | cial record by Peace Conference. 1929—Prof. Albert Einstein an- ,nounces a new scientific theory amidst honor and acclamation— in Berlin. : 1933—Adolf. Hitler becomes Germany's chancellor. | Today’s Birthdays President Franklin D. Roose velt, born at Hyde Park, N. Y., 59 years ago. i Rear Admiral John H, Towers, | the Navy’s ranking aeronautical officer, born in Rome, Ga. 56 years ago. | Gelett Burgess, illustrator and author, born in Boston, 75 years ; ago, * ‘ Dr. Joseph Jastrow of New York, eminent psychologist, born in Poland, 78 years ago. Dr. Harvey J. Howard of St. Louis, noted ophthalmologis' STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE | TRIUMPH | COFFEE MILLS AT ALL | GROCERS | THE LOWDOWN FROM HICKORY GROVE In the old Sucker State, they upset the applecart at last elec- The reason I am thinking about it, is on account I been reading about the inauguration of the new governor there—Mr. Green. ‘ Tt was sure « funny way that |Mr. Green got in—he run on a |platform of economy. Imagine, tion. . | getting elected to even dog-catch- er, let alone governor, on Econo- imy. But he did it. And after ‘his inauguration he kept his word and cut the usual expense in half. | He must be an oddity. The U.S.A, elects a president }whan can spend with equal ease |with either hand—and old Illin- ois goes to work and elects this young Mr. Green, on Economy. If you do not know too much jabout Illinois and have been thinking tney call a person from Tilinois a sucker beeause he easy to fool, you are on the wrong foot. Hlinois folks get their nickname, sucker, from the days when the pioneers were en- tering the country and there were jno wells, To get water they jsucked it from deep crawfish holes, where it was plentiful, clear and cool. | Being an Illinois Sucker beats ithe other kind. Yours with the low down, JO SERRA, born in Churehville, N.Y. 62 | years ago. Sosthenes Behn of New York, telephone head, born in the Vir- gin Islands, 59 years ago, Walter J. Damrosch of New York City, famed conductor and N.B.C. music counsel, born in Germany, 79 years ago. DR. A. M. MORGAN * Announces that. MRS. JULIA HERGATT of Chicago is now in charge of the. Physical Therapy Dept. 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