The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 7, 1941, Page 2

x3E TWO he uiry West Cttizen ISHING CO., INC. pt Sunday By nt and Publisher iness Manager zen Building IN PUM L. P. ARTMAN, P: JOR ALLE Paes € i und Ann Streets per in Key West and county Only Daily > Associated Press entitled to use atches credited to exclusively news dis dited in this paper and also hed here. $10.00 5.00 onths Months 0 e Month - 85 kly = 280 ADVERTISING RATES nown on application cards of thanks, resolutions of tices, ete, will be charged for at a line. tainment by churches from which ed are 5 cents a line n forum and invites discus- h al or general anonymous communi- IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Water and Sewerage. More 3each and Bathing Pavilion. Hotels and Apartments. Airperts—Land and Sea. Consolidation »f County and City Gov- ernments. A Modern City Hospital. man of honor. The ability to answer quiz program questions is not an indication of unusual in- telligence. Hitler’s bogeyman was first the Jews, then:the Communists, and now the horrors of Democracy. “Watch the car in front of you,” warns | a safety hulletin. It is also advisable to have a care for the car just behind the car in front of you. e If once we have the will to do a thing then we can do it. That was shown again decision in the $40,000°bond issue for an airport near Key Westy in the almost unanimous Priday Night, a Miami publication, edited-by Fred Girton, among other teresting disclosures, says that Florida has a treasury as empty as a politician’s head. That simile doesn’t square with the facts ince the cranium of most politicians is full rack-pot ideas. in- in- by been reliably shake-down This column has ormed that the monthly illicit business in Key West has now reached | the appreciable sum of $1,200. While that is news of considerable interest to the gen- | eral public, a‘disclosure of the various names of the benefic ationabnews. Anything that is for the best interests | of Key West is : by The Citizen-and always goes over big. The $40,- 000 bond issue for an airport here was al- most unanimously endorsed by the free- holders of this county in Tuesda elec- The small number that opposed the ways supported thon issue utidoubtedly were sincere and loyal to r conviction According ruling estead property owners, who have no yasupreme court hom the County Board had two sets cannot vote in a bond elec- it ruling into considera of prepared fer the voters in Tuesday's elec- tion—one for those eléctors who owned only their homesteads, the other for those who their matter. had other property besides home- h carried so it does Someone should start a F hen approached f akedown decline to 1 or arrest » promoter would } ry spots in tot ave heard from rnor wou ly way beautif s beautiful prospect pleases ar The gentleman is, before all things, a | ries might make sen- | CHURCHES AND GAIBLING Key West churches, in:ommon with churches throughout the wold, have for years deplored and condemed gambling. The local churches and their 1embers have been horrified by the numer of open gambling establishments in By West. It is surprising, therefor, that Key West churches in particular,!nd churches in general, have done so litth about the condition they abhor. They might attack the roblem from either of two sides. First, the most obvious wy to rid the city of gambling would be fo the various churches to pool their strengt, since they are agreed on the subject, ant use their votes as a political force to driy county and city officials into action. Afte all, deter- mined groups of people have won much harder campaigns without thy assistance of the which favor drive on gambling. . } The second method, whiajmight be combined with the first, wouli pe for the churches to wage an active ¢ paign to provide entertainment and tus remove some of the incentive to gamble People, as expect to is sheer hbling: laws a class, don’t gamble because t make a great deal of money. boredom that supports the dustry. If local churches, like t® Mormon church in Salt Lake City, fo example, would concentrate on providin entertain- ment for their young people wiaout stress- ing the subject of religion, toonuch, they would have gone a long way totard solving their problem. { FIRST CONGRESSWOMAN in- three was On March 4, 1917, more nan years before nation-wide sufrage given to women by constitution] amend- ment, Miss Jeannette Rankin beame the | first woman member of Congressafter her | election as Representative from he First District of Wyoming. Her state ad giver: women the ballot in 1914. ‘ She was defeated for reelectia, large- ly because she voted against a delaration of war on Germany, being one ofpnly six members of the House to oppose tit step. This year she returned to Congre: absence of 22 years, and it is po: she may again be confronted by te same question before her present term e:pires. | Miss Rankin, now 60, has dvoted | large part of her life to two cause-—woman | suffrage and peace. The first was vic- torious when the 19th Amendment to the | Constitution was ratified in 1920 and since | then she served for several years as_ legis- | lative secretary in Washington fr the Na- tional Council for the Preventionof War, in | which her efforts were less successful. She is not strictly a pacifist, as she be- | lieves in a strong national deferjse, but she | is opposed to going to war unless the United States is actually invaded by affostile na- | tion. She also favors a national feferendum | before a declaration of war. No one questions her sincerity of her | patriotism, but it is likely that she will be with the minority on matters of foreign policy in the present Congress, as she was 24 a years ago. SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS With the increasing numbe? of solidated schools throughout the country, an jmportant carrying con- the school bus has become transportation necessity, many thousands of children daily It is impossible to strongly the need for highly competent and careful drivers for these vehicles, It a great responsibility to be entrusted with the lives of these children and no one should emphasize too is be employed as a driver who does rot fully realize that responsibility and possess the qualifications to insure their safety. Immature or have no business driving a scheel bus, esponsible persons as deplorable tragedies have demon- It should be a rigid re- ed in the past rs must come to a full p before crossing a to observe this primarily icy of the drivers nvest gate toward eir keeping. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY Happenings On This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen Gesbaattllcat me zt City tax collections during January totaled $6,938.50, City Auditor W. M. Albury announced council. six com- Councilman jast night before cil heard from The council munications Babcock, calling attention to (1) liquor is being sold in Key W (2) city council is a creating and governing body; @) city well dig- ger should be ght aap (4) no water hydrant at head of island , Wardlow’s; (5) parliamen- tary rules should be observed by presiding chairman, and (6) bois- terous talking on sidewalks. Brig. Gen. L. H. Bash, ant quartermaster general of the United States army, and Mrs. Bash were among arrivals yester- day. | assist- Miss Gladys Elizabeth Russell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William ,, R. Russell, last night became the bride of Weiner Bethel, U.S. Coast Guard service, at a ceremony in Ley Memorial church. The bridegroom had for man, Joseph Howell and groomsmen were Charles ardson, Norwood Roberts Gerald Saunders. best the Rich- and High school alumni basketball players beat the U.S. Marines last night by a score of 41-28 at the high school. Miss Edith Felton celebrated her eighteenth birthday _ last night at the home of M Fe Hardin on the army reservation. Present were Misses Wilhelmina Goehring, Dorothy Taylor, Jennie Mae Johnson, Nathalie Knowles, Bessie Carey, Elizabeth Johnson, Coralie Gibson Florence Roberts, Willie Mae McConnell, Nettie Morris McConnell, Madeline Johnson, Rosalie Johnson, Susan LaKin, Vigerine Lowe, Dorothy Lowe, Dorothy Hardin, Ruth Hardin, Mrs. Thomas Felton and Mrs. F. H. Hardin. S. The Conchs, high school bas- ketball team, returned to the city today after a week’s tour of Red- land, Homestead, Coral Gables and Lake Worth The party included Coach Paul D. Htvddleston, Manager Joe Plummer, Assistant Manager John Blackwell Joe Hale, Rob- ert Dopp, Robert Bethel, Alvin Smith, Orion Lounders, Clifford Hicks, Jr., Joseph Lopez, William Cates, Jack Baker and Gilmore Parks. George Allan England, Key West, returned by liner from Cuba today after a five-week yachting trip along the coast of southern Mexico. England left the party to re- turn quickly aboard the passen- ger ship, while the others will reach here in a few days. Citizen, in an_ editorial, The said: “The board of public works has cut the number of its employes from time to time until it now employs only ten men to do the rk which formrelg required 40. Is it surprising that this on local government department that ca out of debt end is always has a little yn hand? And does *s policy point the jepartment of gov- state this bot 1icipal, county L. T. Bra r of custom ‘COAST GUARD WILL HOLD EXAMINATION The United States Coast Guard announces a competitive exam- ination for appointment of cadets to the Coast Guard Academy to be held May 14. This examination is open to young men between the ages of seventeen and twenty-two years. Detailed requirements for @n- trance and descriptive informa. tion mav be obtained by address ing the Commandant, U.S. Caast Guard, Washington, D. C. 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 72 Normal ‘ Precipitation Rainfall, 24 hours ending 7:30 a. m., inches Total rainfall since Feb. inches Excess since iinches rainfall since m 79 1, 1.61 February 1, 1.33 Jan. 1, 2.78 since January 1, 0.54 Wind Direction and Velocity SW—29 miles per hour Relative Humidity 86% Barometer at 7:30 a. m., today Sea level, 29.76 (1007.8 millibars) Tomorow’s Almanac Sunrise 7:06 a. Sunset 6:17 p. Moonrise 3:19 p. Moonset 4:03 a. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Buse) AM 8:05 1:23 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m., Saturday) Key West and Vicinity: Clear- ing and colder tonight; Saturday generally fair and somewhat cold- er; fresh northwesterly winds. Florida: Clearing and consider- temperature near freezing in extreme north portion; Saturday generally fair, somewhat colder in south gast portions. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Fresh to moderately strong south- west shifting to northwesterly Winds this afternoon and tonight ing somewhat Saturday; cloudy wth showers off the coast tonight, partiy cloudy Saturday. East Gulf: Fresh northwester- ly winds; partly cloudy tonight, generally fair Saturday. CONDITIONS A trough of low pressure tends from the eastern Lake re- gion southward over Florida, with centers of considerable inten: over Lake Huron and_northeast- ern Florida. Light snow has re- sulted in portions of the upper Mississippi and Ohio Valleys Lake regic and northern York State and there rain from eastern Te ward over the South States, being heavy in of Florida. Moderate to squalls occurred on the south- west Florida coast and in the Florida Straits. The northwest- ern high pressure area has spread southward into the West Gulf States, ca’ colder weather in the central P. tes and mid- dle M ppi Valley, and freez- ing southward into central Texas. A low pressure system over the Far West has caused general precipitation in the Pacific States and over southwestern districts. NEDY, PM. TAT 12:40 High Low ably colder tonight, and ex- been east- Atlantic ortions heavy next year. hy of Mich Murp S f force to evict JOHNNY MACK BROWN in PONY POST COMEDY AND SERIAL STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH COFFEE MILLS AT ALL GROCERS } Licensed Funeral Directors i and Embalmers | 24-Heur Ambulance Service i Phone 135 , twenty days of Recently Appointed FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1941 ‘COUNCIL WILL BUY MOTORCYCLE 1 TT \ BOYCE A. WILLIAMS Chairman of Florida Industrial Commission (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Feb... 7.— Boyce A. Williams of Tavares, re- cently appointed chairman of the Florida Industrial Commission by Governor. Spessard L. Holland, has assumed his new duties. The chairman of the commis- sion is the executive officer of the Workmen’s Compensation Di- vision, supervising compensation claims of workers injured in the course of their employment. The State Employment Service con- ducts twenty-two local employ- ment offices with free service to * both workers and employers, and * the Unemployment Compensation * Division handles claims for job- less insurance. Mr. Williams has been tax col- lector of Lake County for the past sixteen years and was recently re-elected by the largest major- ity ever given a candidate for that office. He resigned the po- sition to accept the chairmanship of the commission. BUICK SALES SET NEW HIGH RECORD OVER SEVEN THOUSAND CARS SOLD IN PERIOD OF TEN DAYS (Special to The Cisizen) FLINT, Mich., Feb. 7.—Buicks retail deliveries for the second ten days of January set an all- time record for this period, F. F Hufstader, general sales manager of the Buick Motor Division, said today in announcing sales of 7,341 new cars between January 10 and 20. This compares with 429 sales in a similar period last year. Mr. Hufstader added that de-| y liveries of new Buicks from the first of the -year through January 20 likewise were at a new high, the figure being 14,082 units or a gain of 16.6 per cent over the first 1940. Both un- filled orders and new orders went up during the second ten days of this month, new orders showing more than a 56 per cent rise over a year ago Keeping pace with new car sales used car deliveries were also at new level. A total of 15,313 were sold in the second period, making a grand total of 28,896 from Janu- ary 1 to.20, (Continued from Page One) line of business, was passed on its first reading. It was requested necessary repairs to the aqua- rium be made. Building Inspec- tor Ralph Russell will draw up specifications of the work to be done, after which bids will be called for. A motion was made by Coun- cilman Sweeting that the Key West Electric Company be _ re- quested to discontinue adding penalty charges for failure to pay bills promptly, and that the same discount be allowed the custom- er. The motion was lost 4 to 3, Sweeting, Ramsey and Carbonell voting yes, with Grillon, Free- man, Boyden and Brinton voting no. ‘MUCH DISCUSSION OVER PATROL JOB (Continued trom Page One) Roberts voted yes, Chairman Carl Bervaldi passed, and Norberg Thompson and R. W. Craig voted no. A second motion to abolish the job was passed by Gomez, Roberts and Bervaldi, with Thompson and Craig still voting no. Thompson then came back with a proposal to recreate the job with Maloney as patrolman, but “lost'when Craig voted yes, Ber- valdi passed, and Gomez and Rob- erts voted no. Everett W. Russell, president of the chamber of commerce, urged the commission to join the inland waterway association in order to obtain a channel from Bahia Honda to Key West. The- inland water way now carries 12 feet of water at low tide between New York and Jacksonville, he said, has seven feet from Jacksonville to Mangrove Key (63 miles south of Miami) and then comes to an abrupt end. William W. Demeritt and Mel- that certain \cHURCH SOCIETY TO MEET THIS EVENING The Woman's Society of Chris- \tian Service of the Ley Memorial Methodist Church will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock a the church. All members and friends are urged to be present. The last study of the book Methodism’s World Mission will be given at this meeting. Miss Miriam Carey, president of the society will be in charge of. the meeting. 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