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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
ORDINANCE COVERS PLANNING

Delving into the records in the city
clerks office, representatives of the Char
ter Revision Committee have discovered a
number of interesting legislative relics,
among them an ordinance establishing a
city planning commission for Key West.
The measure was passed in 1927 under
authority of an act enacted at an extra
ordinary session of the State Legislature
in 1925. Subsequently a commission was
appointed, but it could not function be-
cause of a lack of public interest and
funds to carry on the work
1t seems to have been typical of the
old Key West A group of citizens some
IA or Is years ago determined the city
needed plan before it proceeded with
public improvements. The city council
approved the idea, the State Representa-
tives saw to the passage of enabling legis-
lation and then the councilmen adopted a
comprehensive ordinance creating such a
commission, outlining it's duties and pro-
viding for the employment of engineers,
architects and other experts to make it eff
fective. Public interest Jagged after the
appointment of the commission, there was
no money available to employ technical
men and the whole proposition was
shelved
Which was just too bad for Key West.
It ascertain that had such a. commission
been allowed to function the last I 0 or IL
years Key, West now would have many of
the facilities she now lacks as she enters
upon the new era of opportunity confront
ing her. For Instance, the city long ago
would have had plans prepared and ready
for submission to the P.WA and other fed
eral lending agencies for such vital i'm
provements as a community hospital, an
addition to the county courthouse, better
city hall facilities public parks, yacht
basin and others too numerous to men,
ton. Planning neglects have been costly.
OF course, there is no use crying over
split plans. What has happened is just so
much foam on the sands of time. The city
council has the power under the 1927 or
dinance to appoint planning commission.
Some capable, public-spirited citizens are
coming to the fore on the Charter Revision
Committee, the Zoning Board, the Housing
Authority and on predetermined commit
tees of our civic organizations. From
among them it would be possible to select
fine planning commission. Appoint such
a commission and back it up with suffi-
cient money to prepare plans for future
growth and development. AS The Citizen
has repeatedly pointed out, the time to
plan 1889 improvements is in 1888.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
WEATHER FORECAST

(Till 7:30 p, m. Wednesday,
Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Wednesday,
possibly scattered showers; mod
crate northeasterly winds.
Florida: Partly cloudy tonight
and Wednesday, possibly scatter
ed showers in extreme south por-
ton and near the east-centrel
coast: slightly warmer near cast
|, coast tonight.
Jacksonville TO Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Moderate north
easterly winds and partly over
cast weather tonight and We'd
nssday, scattered showers over
south portion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just Tea Years Ago Today AZ Taken
From The Files Of The Citizen

The Key West Drum and Bugle
Corps, recently organized by Cap
tain Arthur Sheppard, who is in
command of the organization,
will leave Sunday morning for
Havana on board the Steamship
Baracoa, in company with B. H.
-McCalla Camp, United Spanish
War Veterans, to attend the an
nual convention of veterans to be
held in Havana, hQctpber 8. TIE
Key West Drum CefpsAis the Of
fetal unit for the entire con-
tingent of veterans, who will hold
forth in Havana in connection
with the festivities to be held in
connection with the annual event
for which the Cuban Government
had made elaborate preparations,
and will magnificently entertain
the members of the different
camps. Key West, which is
known as the cradle of liberty"
among the Cubans, is always
linked in an important way with
all activities in connection with
the celebration or observance of
holiday events in celebration of
the several holidays which are
annually observed by the Cuban
people. The Drum Corps will
receive every attention by the
Cuban officials in Havana, and
Captain Sheppard says that the
proposed visit to the Cuban Re-
public is being looked forward to
with great anticipation.
A news item published in The
Citizen this week, Tuesday, an
nounced that the county tax col
1ector and sheriff had received
copies of the audit of the books
as conducted by the accountants
from the state auditing depart
ment some months ago. The
article stated that other officers
had their accounts checked at
the same time the books of the
tax collector and the sheriff were
audited and that copies of other
reports were received at the
same time or were expected to
come to hand soon. In an eff
fort to get further information
along this line The Citizen called
up the office of the County Clerk
and Mr.. Filler said he had heard
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

Barnum, the celebrated circus man,
said that the world wants to be cheated,
and he gave the people plenty of hocus-
pocus. That the people still continue in
their desire to be cheated is evidenced by
the vote in California where one of the
candidates for the United States senate
was elected on the promise to the voters
that all unemployed over so would be
given $50 every Thursday. 1t went the
Townsend plan one better, and will get
just Is far. "What fools these mortals
BIZ
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
TIE T YOU r
KNOWLED G. E
Can you answer seven OF these
test questions? Turn 30
Page 4 for the answers

/. What is the abbreviation for
the degree. Doctor of
Philosophy?
2. Can the u. S. Government
be sued in cases involving
contracts and claims?
8. Name the winner of the
1888 National Amateur
Golf championship.
4. In dry measure, how many
quarts are in one bushel?
5. Name the state flower of Ken
lucky.
6. Do rabbits chew a cud?
z. On which continent is the
Sahara desert?
8. What is the correct pro-
nounciation of facade?
8. What city was the first cap
ital of Illinois?
10. Does Premier Benito Mus
solini play the violin?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
WHO KNOWS?
(See The Answers" on Page A.
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/. How often do hurricanes &C.
cur in the North Atlantic?
2. When did the u. S. occupy
Vera Cruz, Mexico?
3. How many people have
WPA employment?
4. How does farm income COM
pare with last year?
S. What is the population of
the u. S.?
6. How many planes have the
army and navy?
z. What is the railway mileage
in the u. S.?
8. Has the Loyaiist govern
ment in Spain withdrawn for
eigners from its army?
9. Has Poland a minority
problem?
10. Can one buy an official map
of the u. S.?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

Politics continues to make strange
bedfellows. Men are political friends to-
day and enemies tomorrow Even Presi-
dent Roosevelt invites Republicans tpro-
vided they think and do as he doesl to the
democratic wigwam. If Senator Tydings
of Maryland. whom Mr.. Roosevelt scorched
the other day. would go up to him and say,
Mr.. President I've seen the light" he
would be received with open arms and a
hearty slap on the hack. and hailed as 4
stalwart of democracy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

The Citizen is always pleased to re-
ceive letters from the people residing in
this community. citizens or visitors, but the
writers must sign their names. The names
of the writer's are always omitted if re-
quested. No anonymous letters are pub
lished, regardless of what they are about.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
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AROUND AND ABOUT
(By C. C. FLINT)


- -
The village poetess, pale, thin
lady, stopped by" to look at our
posies. She was working up a
sonnet for the church social about
''hours, flowers and bowers, but
she likes best to do graveyard
pieces, by moonlight. Some of
her poetry has come out" in
Boston papers and she is always
invited to lead off town meet
ings with a patriotic verse.
Gould you, by any chance, re-
cite bit of your better-known
work." we invited. The poetess
blushed and simpered, well, if
you insist, she said. The fol-
lowing lines, of great poetic pow
er and beauty, are from her pen:
THE moonlight plays among the
graves,
The whip-poor-will trills from
the hill.
Some day, dear moon, shine on
my tomb
And whip above me, whip-poor-
will.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

Poor Czechoslovakia's troubles will
not be ended with the loss of the Sudeten
area to Germany. Poland and Hungary
will next demand the return of territory
taken from them after the World War in
the Treaty of Versailles.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
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Today's Horoscope
Isssssesssssesesassseess

Today's nature is changeable,
not particularly vacillating, but
shifting from an appearance of
high endeavor tb the opposite.
In some cases fthis is due to
diplomacy, which is a prime
factor in thoses born under this
degree. Under other Conditions
it may lead to various occupa-
tons or engagements.
See Paul about new Budget Plan
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

British Prime Minister Neville Cham
berlain could have reached Munich in the
orthodox manner but instead he chose to
makes his first airplane flight to reach
Hitler in the shortest possible time. Brit
ANNA rides the air as well as the waves.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
ATHLETES FOOT GERM
How To Kill II

1T requires a powerful fungi
eide. Most liniments and oint-
nents are not fungicides. Get 39c
worth of Tingol Solution with
cafrfphor. Apply full strength
for sweaty or smelly feet, itch
ing toes or Athletes Foot" Feel
it take hold. Your 30c back in
"a hours if not pleased. Locally
at Gardeners Pharmacy.--advt.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
Czechoslovakla Chechs out.

Getting out of debt is more matter
of backbone than it is matter of bank
roll.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

Editorial comment: God was
the first Kiwanian, according to
Rev. Powell of Mississippi, which
remark will probably make the
Rotarians envious.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

A crowd estimated at 400 pass
"a thfough this morning enroute
to Havana on vessels of the P. &
O. S. S. Company, going to at
tend the convention of the Span
ish War Veterans holding forth
in that city and making prepare
tons for the convention which
meets on October 8. The large
number which arrived over the
highway yesterday, joining with
those arriving on the train this
morning, were happy in their
anticipation of a delightful ride
of 80 miles to Havana and a won
derful reception as arranged by
Cuban officials.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
Today'ss Birthdays
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

'
Van Waters. 4 director
of the Mass, State, Reformatory
for Womn, birmingham. Mass,
born at Greensburg, Pa, 81 years
ago. ~
Prof. Walter A. Maier OF the
concordia Seminary, st. Louis,
professor of Semitics and editor,
born in Boston, As years ago.
Charles ]. Rhoads of Philadel-
phia, banker, onetime u. S. Com
missioner of Indian Affairs, born
in Philadelphia, sc years ago.
Buster Keaton, screen star.
born at Pickaway, Kansas, AZ
years ago.
Vice Admiral Edward III. Camp
bell, U.S.N., retired, born at So.
Bend, Ind, sc years ago.
/ Albert Ross Hill of Kansas
City, Mo-, investment banker,
onetime president of the Univer-
Sity of Missouri, born in Nova
Scotia, SO years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED by THE CITIZEN

/. Water and Sewerage.
2 Comprehensive City Plan tzoning).
3. Hotels and Apartments.
A. Bathing Pavilion
5. Airports--Land and Sea.
9. Consolidation Of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

nothing from the report made
of his office.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

1t costs the United States gov
eminent approximately $4,000 to
educate a cadet at West Point.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

J Masses will be held tomorrow
at st. Mary's Star of the Sea
church and will also be held on
Sunday at z, 8:15 and 9 o'clock.
Pensacola experienced a heavy
rainfall this morning, according
to reports from the weather bu-
reau. Precipitation of 2.94 was
recorded
Plans are being made for a
bridge party to be given Tues
day evening at the X. of c. Hut
on Duval street. The committee
on arrangements announces this
will be a vry delightful affair.
Players will bring their own cards
and there will be no progression
unless the players care to pro-
gresS.
! Total contributions to the Red
Cross fund for the relief of those
stricken by the storm has reach
ed total of $1,508.08. The cam
paign in Key West will close Fri
| day evening, and Mrs. Grace Phil
lips says that she hopes all con-
tributions will be handed in by
/ that time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

See Paul about new Budget Plan
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-10-04

Barometer 1850 q. m. Today
Sea level, 30.02.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08
Sixteen Counties
Hold Thirty-Nine
Under Ten In Jail

Thirty-nine children under ten
years Of age spent a total of 213
days in is county jsils in. North
Carolina during the first nine
months of 1888, w. c. Ezzell, di-
rector of the division of institu-
tons and corrections of the State
Board of Charities and Public
Welfare, announced this week.
Counties falling children un-
der the three-quarter year period
and the number incarcerated in
each county we're: Buncombe 8,
Wayne 4, Rutherford 4, Chowan
8, Cabarrus 3, Pitt 3, Edgecombe
2, Iredell 2, Craven 2, Sampson
2, Greene l, Martin /, Nash l,
Fender l, Robson l, and Wake
l.
Longest stay for any of the
children was 80 days for ten
year-old boy, the charge ON which
he was being held not being CIV
en- in the jailor's report to the
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State Board division.

"While the average cost of
keeping a person in jail in North
Carolina is So cents a day." Ezell
commented in making the figures
public, this amount would be adj
equate to keep the child in a
boarding home if arrangements
outside the home of its parents
are necessary.
"That North Carolina is willing
to continue the practice of max
ing grants icf only 19 cents day
to dependent children, and at the
same time be willing to pay SIS
cents a day to keep them in Jail,
or SO cents a day to keep them in
training school, is a reflection
on our whole social philosophy.
Lack of community interest
and lack of cooperation between
the courts, law enforcing agencies
and welfare authorities is doubt
less the chief factor in this prac-
tice of putting children behind
the bars of a county JAIL
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

Washington, Dec. 5.-There is
a strong belief here that there
will be more. changes in the Cab
met before long, and that some
of the administrative heads OF
Emergency offices will be fore
ed to yield to the pressure that
is being brought to- get rid of
them.
Following the announcement OF
the resignation of Attorney-Gen-
eral Cummings, Washington OBJ
servers began to keep their eyes
peeled for signs of other Cabi-
net changes.
There is a general expectation
that Harry Woodring, Secretary
of War, and Claude Swanson,
Secretary of the Navy, will soon
retire. MIR. Swanson is an old,
sick man.
The burden of building up the
new Navy is being carried by AS
sistant Secretary Charles Edison,
son Of the great inventor. He is
considered an extremely capable
executive, and the only thing
that stands in the way of his
probable promotion is the fact
that he, too, is not in very good
health. AS the successor to Sec
Fetary' Of War; Louis Jpf1nson;
former National Commander of
the American Legion.
The two Cabinet members
whose positions are regarded as
absolutely secure are the Secre-
tary of State, Cordell Hull, and
the Secretary of the Treasury,
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Hull Most Popular
MIR. Hull is by all odds the most
popular and generally respected
figure in the entire Administra-
ton. His successful efforts to ne
gotiate trade agreements with
other nations, and the scrupulous
care he has taken to keep him
self and his department out of
politics have combined with his
dignified yet genial personality to
win him friends among Demo-
Gratis and Republicans alike. In
any discussion of Presidential
candidates for 1910, Mr.. Hull's
name is sure to be mentioned as
a f-the-road" Demo-
crat who would be acceptable to
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

WINCH OOGS HOT HUlI UlloS4 1llC'
The one Cabinet member for
whose resignation or dismissal
political pressure is being put on
the President is the Secretary OF
Labor, Frances Perkins. Miss
Perkins, as she is officially known,
or MADAM Secretary" as she IS
generally referred to, is Mrs. Paul
c. Wilson in private life. The OPP
position to her on Capitol Hill
has been growing steadily for
several years. The charge is fire.
quently heard that in labor dis
putes her influence has always
been on the side of John Lewis
and his Committee for Industrial
Organization.
Washington hears the report
that committee representing the
American Legion recently made
personal demand upon the Presi-
dent for Miss Perkins removal,
accompanying it by the threat
that unless she resigned or was
dismissed the new Congress
would impeach her on charge OF
malfeasance in Office.
Friend of Mrs. Roosevelt
One disadvantage under which
Miss Perkins opponents labor is
that she is a warm personal friend
of Mrs. Roosevelt, whose inf1u-
ence got her her Cabinet appoint
ment and who is said to be pre-
pared to stick by her through
thick and thin. And nobody
vents to get into a public con-
troversy involving the Presidents
wife.
The political strategy of both
parties in the new Congress is ge-
ginning to take shape. 1t is the
understanding here that at the
meeting Of the Republican Com
mittee in late November there
was general agreement to pursue
the party's policy in the last Con-
gress. That might be described
as not getting too far out in front,
but playing ball with the indie
pendent Democrats, who might
be sticking their necks out, in the
eyes of their Southern constitu-
ents, if they appeared to be fol-
lowing the lead of Republicans.
Majority Greatly Reduced
On the Democratic side, Chair
man Farley and his righthand
men believe that, with their ma
jority so greatly reduced, Demo-
cratic Congressman will prove
more amenable to party discip-
line and there will be less tend
ency to stray off the reservation
on the part of those who are OPP
posed to the Administration and
the New Deal. If he can hold the
party together in Congress and
heal the breach between the two
wings, Mr.. Farley hopes to be
able to nominate a candidate ac-
ceptable to all Democrats in 1910
and present a United Front to the
Opposition.
The feeling in Washington, how
ever, is that the leader who will
have the last word about Demo-
cratic policies in Congress is
Vice-PreSident Garner.
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their recovery.
All, persons indebted to said ,es-
tate will please make immediate
payment. This Nov. z, 1888.
J. r. WEAVER,
Administrator of Bessie Jones,
deceased. 11-lO-6t
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

all persons having claims against
the estate of said Bessie Jones,
deceased, to exhibit them to the
undersigned at Lansing, North
Carolina, on or before the 7th
day of November, 1889, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

West jefferson stores are beau
tifully decorated and lighted for
Christmas. Their shelves and
tables are loaded with Attractive
gifts.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1938-12-08

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE
NORTH CAROLINA =;
ASHE COUNTY
Having qualified as administra-
tor of the estate of Bessie Jones,
deceased, Late of Ashe county,
North Carolina, this is to notify
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all wings of the party.
The recurrent report that the
SECRETARY of Commerce, Daniel
Roper, is due to resign, has crop
ped up again and is generally be-
lieved to be true. Talk about his
successor centers upon Harry
Hopkins is the Presidents choice,
whether he wants the job, and
whether. he could be. confirmed
by the Senate if he were appoint
ed are questions to which no
positive answer can be given.
There are many influential men
in Washington who would like to
see somebody else in the Cabi-
net, as Secretary of the Interior,
rather than Harold Ickes. Mr..
Ickes is reputed to be rather un-
happy about his job. A good
many functions of his depart
ment have been transferred to
others.
Has Strong Following
But he has built up a strong
following outside of Washington,
among Governors and Mayors
with whom he has had to deal in
matters concerning w. P. A. loans,
and there would be a good deal
Of resistance if any political pres
sure were put on the President
to remove him from the Cabinet.
Mr.. Ickes, being man of indie
pent wealth, does not need the
job, but he is of the temperament
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-16
TpAppERS PLEAD GUILTY RESULT OF
 BENSON ROUNDUP

Trappers Akers and Woods, two of five men arrested on the Lake Minchumina district by Wildlife Agent Jack Benson. have pleaded guilty at McGrath to preseason trapping and possession of contra band marten. according to a mes sage to the Alaska Game Commis- sion today from Benson. Akers was fined $200 and given 60 days in jail and Woods was fined $50. and given six months, the latter being suspended due to bis advanced age.
 Jim Sillib and Archie Holstrom previously had been convicted and sentenced and Bob Stone, the fifth man, is to face trial in about 8 week, Benson reported to Execu- tive Officer Frank Dufresne.
 The men were apprehended in a roundup of reported violators in the wilderness area between Lake Minchumina and Mckinley Park.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-16
CAPITOL FEATURE IS SPONSORED BY
 JUNEAU SKI CLUB
Ski Chase" Seen on Capi- toI Screen for To-
 night Only

Sponsored by the Juneau Ski Club, and featured at the Capitol Theatre is ski Chase" the picture which, after a years endeavor by the club to secure, will have it's local premier at the Capitol Theatre, playing to- night only.
 Filmed in Austria, the picture has it's beginning and riotously comic ending in a fashionabl ski resort, with the action and plot of the show taking place amid the breath less sceenry of the Alps.
 Featured in the comedy-film is Leni Riefenstahl and the famous Flames Schneider. whose career was apparently ended forever when Hit Ter marched into Austria.
 Because he possessed a trace of Jewish blood, and as well as being the idol of ski fans throughout the world. Schneider was declared a dangerous enemy He was arrest ed. and has never been seen again.
 The two comedians are said to steal the show from the two famous stars, as well as the ski instructors who are used for the purpose of displaying the perfection of the Arl- berg technique in skiing