The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 10, 1941, Page 2

TWO ~ one SPONGES COMING BACK The Key West Citize able sponge industry is beginning to get | back on its feet strike a hopeful note, both for the fishermen and dealers directly in- volved and for the city as a whole. Tests in the waters aound Key West seem to have revealed a complete absence nd Ann Streets Newspaper in Key West and | Montde County Key West, Florida, as second class matter ing industr ; final blow in 1939. At that Er eeaasaten de uime, experts found from 80 to 90 percent | news dispatches creaitea to Of tle spanges had been ruined by the blight Ci - Sig this paper an@’ctso'l andthe industry came to a standstill. ‘kefay, with Tapon Springs divers finding increasing difficulty in locating penges as far away as the South American coast, backers of the local industry oH ! praying for a comeback. Sponge fishing ir the United States, srally considered to be an almost exclu Tarpon Springs business, began at It was Key West sponge fisher- men, driven from these waters by fear of Spanish naval action during the war year of 1898, who began the Tarpon Springs Member of the Associated Press SUBSCRIPTION RATES $10.00 5.00 2.50 RTISING RATES lication SPECIAL NOTICE resolutions of at thanks, » charged for churches from which ents a line 1m and invites discus- | fisheries. Ee nase It also was a Key West sponge mer- | chant who first sent to Greece in 1905 and launched the present thriving of t Tarpon Springs. riding the wave of the *sponge industry in those years. In 1849, ! théefirst shipment had been sent to New york, and in 1891, this city had achieved a !complete monopoly of the United States market. More than 100 vessels were ets of 1 h anonyrs colony IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN Greek dive Key West was Water and Sewerage. Hotels and Apagtments. Beach and Bathing Pavilion Airports—Land and: Séa. 6 Mi “f County and City Gov- || bringing | home a crop valued at upwards of $750,000 6. A Modern City Hospital. a year and some 1,200 Key Westers earned ‘ their livings in one way or another from ar nsolidation rnments. | the sale of sponges. | The fisheries here in the days city’s greatest prosperity alwa ran behind the cigar industry in revenue, but a baseball fans the spring offen- | yeturn to something like the old figures ins when the umpire yells, “Play | would be a valuable addition to local fi- ybe the world. crisis will die down the baseball season begins, of the far To the nances. | The sight of the new sponges on the When the average American shouts | dock and word that the blight over is » means that other people should | good news, and Key West is hoping for the best in the battle of one of its reliable | ‘meal tickets” for a comeback. is nity n line with his views. We know a U enator who could | the government to the satisfaction , one U. S, senator. CIRCUMSTANCES: GUAM AND SAMOA | The House Naval Committee has f Monroe county ean prac-| uranimously approved plans for the de- and promote their own | velopment of Guam and Samoa as naval ion “lookout” stations. This is interesting because the | chieftains have been after such a develop- The proposal was when recommended, it might have upon e neighborli neral welfare without waiting on outside | avi help. | naval This country is not going to the bow: | ment for several yea o long as there are lots of youngsters, ected by Congr ce 10-year-old Robert Stanley Archer, who | because of the aff “Uncle ry than mother’s | Japan. Certainly, nothing has happened the past two years to lead anyone | to lieve that Japanese sensibilities have been altered. So we conclude that the House Naval Committee is now ready to do what it would not do before, and somebody may | wonder why BEC nittee has reversed extra- | wonder why the comr Sam even bet in berry jam.” be- Senator Barbour of New Jersey said y that the “powers of the President tic matters are not affected in any end Bill.” We quite the yielded to him on foreign yorried about ; ; the Congressional committee. The explanation lies in the fact that members of Congress have grown-up, so to speak, in regards to international affairs. A year or so ago it was the popular idea that the United Statesfcould not possibly be concerned with thoughts of danger, that the Mighty republic would-promptly slap down any challenger and that, compared with a .mud-moun- } profitably have a con- sharkPmeal to supply Yrer: dog, eat and poultry such congerns in other, n Florida, whys notin this area? hamber of Coramerce should interest matter, if it has not done so al+ Key West could nufacturing ihere are pour strength, Gibraltar was tain. Nowadays, since the nation faced the | possibility of British defe Americans are proclaiming their The sober- to Maybe not, but Extreme at so voluble in ss to “lick the world.” usion that we might have ‘ not quite precautions In Wash- on duty at all en- iny emergency ne cone sume the task is responsible for the eradica Ro DADE ARES Ob any yn of much foolishness in connection with unless carried by A or shipped sh fense. nated ated CURES DISEASE PROPER FOOD t and the quantity thereof yeasures length of your life of diet in the well-be- nereasingly although one years, no ortanc Rres viduals has . been out his oent n recent decade and easity wonders why, f many s to have undertaken a reaf study tent of the human body. are believe Lhere wise people who diet, the individual proper giver sroper avoid disease. Of course, ran . spread o several generations would reduce recessary because of physical weak- ors from eighty transmitted r to provide prod- n some nave learned that lack of cer- food are responsible f way same discovery may Reports that Key West's once profit- | of the blight which gave the already totter- | are | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN © . ALONG CAME CINDERELLA By VIVL YESTERDAY: Lovely Daye and Roger Cosgrave have met by accident, and by chance also Roger is to be married to Emily Perry in a month. Yet in spite of Roger's background of wealth and Lovely’s hard life in the tenement district of New York, their attraction for each other is growing. Now Roger has left Emily at her beautiful home after a party and is driving mad- ly to New York. And he knows he is mad— Chapter Seven | Stolen Meeting Ox he saw her, Roger tried to tell himself, it would all be over. He’d know the thing for what it was then. An impulsive, feverish whim. And he would be | rid of it. And could go back to Emily with a heart free of all these shadowy uncertainties: that had suddenly possessed it. His foot pressed the accelerator. Ossining! Tarrytown! Hastings! | Yonkers! They seemed to fly by. And then he was on the Drive speeding down town. It was an unhappy walkup, dingy, forbidding, that bore the street number Lovely had given him, Roger climbed the stairs, scarce- ly aware of the odors that weighted the atmosphere of each) floor and gave clue to the nation- ality of its occupants. Gert opened the door and stared at him, unable to mask the sur- prise on her face. Roger recog- nized her as the sister of Lovely’s story as she had told it to him that morning. No, Lovely hadn’t come back from the movie yet. Maybe she’d stopped for beer and a sandwich. Sometimes they did. Would he come in? The last hesitantly, be- cause Gert knew Joe would be with Lovely and that might not be so good. x Two men after the same girl. And two such different men. In- stinctively Gert disapproved of Roger for Lovely. Not as an in- dividual but as a class. Men from his walk of life rarely meant good for a girl like Lovely. Yet there was something about Roger—but he was speaking: “Ive got my car. I'll just wait down there.” ‘ He hadn’t long to wait. Lovely came swinging along with Joe. They were walking close. A knife seemed to turn in Roger’s heart as ite saw Joe’s arm around the girl. And then suddenly he knew Lovely was aware of him, had recognized his car there at the curb. He was about to speak to her but caught something in the} atmosphere. She didn’t want him to speak. She was hurrying along. | | He heard her say: “No, not tonight! Don’t come up, Joe. It’s been a swell evening but I'm tired now. Too much dancing I guess. Rain check for tomorrow night!” Joe tried to linger, tried to per- | } suade. But Lovely blew him a a and her heels clicked in the all. “See you tomorrow night then!” Joe said. But he was not to see her that night. Or the next night: Or for many after that. Joe turned and moved slowly |}: down the street. Roger sat wait- ing. Should he go up? sure Lovely had seen him. Late Drive UDDENLY she was at the car, opening the door and slipping in beside him. The strange dark| weight within him lifted. Night in that neglected street had become magic. He caught the faint fra- grance of her—cheap perfume he knew — but the most satisfying scent that ever had assailed his nostrils. She had on a dress instead of the slacks of the morning. A thin tight little dark silk that suggest- ed almost nothing under it. The lovely,curves of her went to his head and to his heart. It was a moment before his voice could rise through the mist of emotion that swept him. “Lovely! I had to see you!” “Jeepers creepers, boy! When I ur car I thought I was see- s. Had to do some quick g to get Joe s T’'m—” but Roger’s voice in- terrupting was compelling: “Lovely!” Emotion was a torrent in it, a steady surging torrent. Devasting. it, like frail , the swee curves of her, the lush temptation of her li the subtly suggested passion weaving like a thread of gold through her voice. joment of we soft against Like sweet, ina clinging , | by cigarets and s said 9 £. for words. There jwas no for them. They -had spoken to each others in their es with h de’ eness. rds could add nothing. ger drove madly. N. a path throu | looking He was/ ed on his} EN GREY It wasn’t until they were on the Parkway with its sweeping fields on either side scenting the night with the pleasant odor of summer that Lovely spoke. “Where are we going?” she asked, a waltzy glamor in her voice as she still looked up at the stars. “Not that it matters. I never ae anything could be so per- OC! The question brought Roger up with a start. Where were they go- ing? He had been aware of noth- ing beyond the desire to take her away with him. Have her alone. Know the depths and the heights of their mingled emotion. He told jher exactly that. “I hadn’t thought,” he said. “I must have been mad. The only thing I could think of was‘having you alone, taking you away with jme. This isn’t being very fair to |you, is it?” Slackening the speed of the car. _ “It's all right by me, good look- jing!” On a gay note. “I'm getting |a swell ride through a swell night jin a swell car. And what've I got to lose?” | Roger feurved space at the side of the | Parkway and stopped. He turned |to look silently at the.beauty of the girl for a moment. Then: “Do you realize what you’ve said? It’s past one. Your legiti- mate boy friend supposed he took you home. By all that’s right you're supposed to be there— home, But you're out here on a lonely road with me, a man you |met only yesterday. You know nothing about me.” He hesitated. “But I’m going to tell you this much—you'll never meet a man who'll want you more desperate- ly than I do, I'm on the ropes, Lovely. It’s your_beauty but it’s more than that. It’s something I can’t put into words, and I’m not sure how much you should trust me.” | Lovely was thinking. Out of her thought came one murmured | word: “Home.” Home. She hadn’t any. It was Gert’s home and Gert had a right to it alane, Gert had a right to a chance at happiness without a sister mess- ing things up for her. Of course there was Joe, who was ready to marry _her any time she said the word. But what could he give her? What Gert had. And that wasn’t what she wanted. Anyhow Joe still had his mother to support. Two women on his small pay. Lovely turned her lush YounE beauty to the youth beside her. “So what, good looking?” she asked, a new softness in her voice. “All right.” Roger was stepping jon the gas. The motor responded |instantly. The car moved out into |the highway once more and was jrolling north. “But I’ve warned ou.” swung the car into a | Her soft hand reached out and jtouched his on the wheel. Her | head nestled a little closer against his shoulder. “This is swell,” she murmured, a warm lush note in her voice t struck a matching chord in jhis being and echoed and re- jechoed through his awareness. The Cottage | FPINALLY the car was on the Albany Post Road again and swinging right on a secondary ighway and up a hill. Lovely felt they were climbing straight to heaven. Up and up. Stars seemed very close. The moon a lovely sil- jmignt take in her hands. Lovely felt herself reaching for it. And then drew back. Her hands were always reaching for something. Wanting, taking hands. Never had |they had all of everything they | wanted. | Roger’s tenderness was like a warm flame lighting all her life. Touching it with beauty. Joe never gave her anything like that, | He loved her. But his love had no magic. The car turned into a drive and stopped. Lovely thought she made out the lines of a small house in the shadows under tall trees. “Home at last!” She said light- ly, trying to make a gay passing adventure of the thing. But Roger, around at her side jof the car, opening the door and {taking her in his arms as she {stepped out, looked down at her with possessive tenderness. You may have something there,” he said. He kissed her slowly and with passion. He held oment entranced by the derness of her. He liked lightning changes of her It was like swift move- men crystal clear water. | They walked to the door of the cottage. Roger produced a key and opened it. The light he switched on revealed a pleasant nd comfortable interior. Colonial. something about it surprised her. ‘t was all too real for an escapade, | SE ad expected a summer party cottage. Cheap furniture burned ed. by glasses. | i ' in fi i oe i$ into the r ings now beyond sion that had Lovely smiled into the night. | ver disk that in a moment she | MARCH 10, 1941 ! —_——— KEY WEST IN | DAYS GONE BY i WHO KNOWS? See “The Answers” on Page 4 Happenings On This Date Ten Years Ago As Taken From Files Of The Citizen Se S W. W. Demeritt, superintendent of the seventh — lighthouse trict, left yestercay afternoon for Miami, where he is to meet the superintendents of the fifth and sixth districts. Proce dis- ding by lighthouse ten- der and train, the pi y will in- ect navigation Baltimore, returning here about 10 days. in Almo, Germen shepherd who saved the life of his master, a former Key Wester, was dec- orated for bravery at Los An- geles recently. When fire destroyed the Oak- i hotel last September, Almo his blind master to safety ough heat and almost suffocat- smoke. The dog’s owner, W. A. Christianson. is well-known , West and has numerous relatives living here. America Anna Lopez Al- 9 and John Russell Fabal ere matried yesterday by the Rev. P..I. Marnane at a quiet ceremony at St. Mary’s Star ‘of Catholic church immediate ,members | of ly were present. The pair will make their home at 912 Simonton street. Mrs. Agnes Malone and Wat- son Carey were married Satur- day night at the office of the county judge. Both are Key Westers, well known in the city. The Citizen, in editorial para-! graphs. said: “If the Woman's club can per- suade the police to enforce’ the erdinance against allowing live- stock to run at large on the is- land, the whole community will be the gainer... “A visitor to Key West recent- ly expressed surprise that a writ- er has come forward with a book which assails the character of General Robert E. Lee. When one remembers, however, the many harsh things that have been written and said about the “Meek and Lowly Nazarene”, this isn’t as surprising as it might be. . . “Council's stand that occupa- {tional license taxes are to be col- lected without regard to the per- sons involved, is to be commend- ed. The pity of it is that there is so little of this sort of thing !where law enforcement is con- \ ot JOB PRINTING well-rounded is equipped proper machinery enough _ skillful men give you speedy service on large or small jobs. You'll like our quality and price, too! Our ization organ- with and to The Artman Press THE CITIZEN BUILDING Overseas Transportation Company, Inc. Fast, Dependable Freight and Express Service —bet ween— MIAMI AND KEY WEST Also Serving All Points On Florida Keys Between Miami and Key West Following Schedule Effective June 15th: sce Nseries nanny Express Schedule: (NO STOPS Arrives at Midnight. LEAVES MIAMI SUNDAYS) AT night and arrives o'clock A. M. Local Schedule: (St At All Intermediste Points) LEAVES KEY WEST DAILY (Except Sundays) at 8:09 o'clbck A. M. and arrives at Miami at 4:00 P. M. LEAVES MIAMI DAILY (Except Sun- days) at $:00 o'clock A. M. and Key West at 5:00 o'clock Tives at P.M. as far north J dog’ WEST DAILY (EX- CEPT SUNDAYS) Miami at 12:00 o'clock 1. How many nations are now EXCHANGE included in the partner- ship? 2. What is the strength of the Turk army? 3. What trustee of the Warm Springs Foundation represents a foreign country in Washington? | 4, What movie sta cently» honored | for ance” in 1940? Is. San. Francisco closer to yo or Manila? 6. What present member the Supreme Court resigned run for the presidency? 7. What is an ichthyologist? 8. What is a “closed shop”? 9. Where is the “center of pop- ulation” in the United States? 10. Has Germany any modern* battleships? Axis ee 150 ACRES, some excellent land, all usable, once cleared but un- fenced. Half-mile frontage on railroad and paved highway. Fishing creek. 9 tenant hous- 5 miles west of Perry, Flor- ida. Churches, schools near. Too old to operate it. Will ex- change for comfortable ‘small Key West home. Good opening for hustler with vision. E. R, Freeman, Hampton Springs, Florida. marl0-1tx were “best re- per- of bee WANTED WANTED—By well established concern, ambitious young man, preferably high school graduate, with knowledge of typing. Chance to learn bookkeeping and general office work. Ex- perience unnecessary, but wil- lingness to work and learn, es- sential. Good chance to ad- vance in permanent employ- ment. Write Box TA, care Citize mar8-2t ccrned—not only everywhere else”, here but almos Four Key Wester more will ma to attend the tion wh morning. Shriners from here leave this afternoon Stowers, John Park, Thompson and D. N. Gor and possibly up a delegation Shriners’ conven- a h opened in Miami this IRE TO RENT furnished cot- tage or bungalow in or near ey West month of April. Ref- erences; small family. Write K. Q. Lewis, Box 507, Poplar Bluff, Mo. mar?-4tx who will are Mr. and Mrs. Hollister of Stone Ridge, N.Y. here from South Americ; will be gues’ f Capt. R. T..Men- ner and Mrs. Menner at thtir navy yard quarters tonight Invited to the party were Gen. Harry C. Hale, Major M. S. Lom- bard, Dr. William R. Warren Mrs. Warren and Curry Harris. TRANSPORTATION ANY ONE DRIVING to California within the next two weeks con- tact Thomas M. Hart, Land’s mar4-Iwkx PICTURE FRAMING PICTURE FRAMING, Diplomas; ique frames refinished. Sign Paul DiNegro, 614 janl8-tf . Roberts, , who went for returned R. Sellers Persona Key We: a short visit in Mi i, here yesterday s an outgoing passenger on the yesterday. ..Mr. and Mrs. Burrell Lowe, who now make their home in Miami. arrived on the morning train for a visit with relatives. .Mrs. Cameron J Smith and her daughter, Virginia Rose, arrived yesterday for a visit with Mrs. Smith’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Lowe, at their home. at 414 William street. 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