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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06
Lewis And Sawyer Give Up
Scavenger Contract With City
EVEN PARIS KNOWS
ABOUT NEW HIGHWAY

Not only have newspapers
and magazines of the United
States published stories and
illustrations of Key West. but
news media of the large
European countries have de-
voted a great deal of space 10
Key West in pictures and
stories.
Edgar Sfachelberg. nation
allY-lnown manufacturer of
high.grade Havana cigars. has
just received q letter from a
sister. Madame Bordage. un.
der date of April 90. written
from Paris. One paragraph
in the letter is Of particular
interest. and is as follows:
Trench papers have pub
iished photos and descriptions
of your new Overseas High.
way. II is quite wonderful.
and Key West must be 4 very
lovely resort now.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06
SEEKING FUNDS
FOR WATERWAYS

WASHINGTON, ID. c Mig s
FNSl-Af 4 special tnectine Of
the National Rivef apd Hafbofs
conertsss last week In Washing
ton, Walter r. Coachnian. .Jr., Of
jacksonville. ,piesded for a high.
er appropriation FOR waterways.
and a resolution was adopted for
presentation to Congress insisting
upon adequate appropriations
for water projects" and asked
Congress to make such expendi-
lures a major part Of the presi-
dents ''pump-priming" program.
Coachman is chairman Of the
Florida Waterways Congress and
executive vice president Of the
GuIf-Atlantic Ship Canal Asso-
citation. The Florida Waterways
Congress was formed for the pur-
pose Of perfecting strong cen
trail organization with which 70
push the development Of Fi0Fids' 3
inland waterways It's program N.
cludes Developments IN practically
every county in the state ss > part
Of a state wide system
The Senate appropriation com
mitce recommended expenditures
Of $4,000 600 for flood control
and siis .020. 900 for rivers and
harbCrs during the next fiscal
year. ms was an tncresSe 81
IS 000. 600 for food control ard
So. O00. 600 for rivers and haroofs
over the House appropglstsc1-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06
PULLEN FAMILY
TAKES UP THEIR
RESIDENCE HERE
WILL RESIDE ON DIVISION
STREET: Mr.. PULLEN TO
BE PUBLICITY DIRECTOR
FOR COMMERCE BODY

Among the most recent Access
sions to Key West is Rodney S.
Pullen, who, with Mrs. Pullen and
their young son, Rodney, who
have come to Key West to make
their home. Mr.. Pullen has form
ed connection with the Key
West Chamber of Commerce and
will be its publicity director.
They will reside at 623 Division
street.
Mr.. Pullen has for the past five
years been publishing the Miami
Magazine, a high-grade .publica-
ton which has received the ap-
prevail of the leading businesses
and institutions of Miami Beach,
and comes to Key West, bearing
letters of introduction from the
most influential citizens of Miami
and Miami Beach.
For the past IL years the new
publicity man has been actively
engaged in the publishing bust
ness. His work before coming
south being in that great resort,
Atlantic City, New Jersey. This
garnered experience with pub
licity and especially the sort OF
publicity that commends itself to
the tourist, Mr. Pullen brings to
the service of Key West and the
Key West Chamber of Com
merce, which has engaged him as
publicity director.
When introducing Mr.. Pullen to
The Citizen, S. c. Singleton, Sec
rotary of the commerce chamber.
stated that he now considered that
the organization was equipped to
give Key West the sort of service
that he had long visualized and
which, until now, he saw slight
hope of rendering. A large part
of Mr.. Pullcn's work will be the
building up of the membership,
both locally and by interesting
his many friends on the mainland
who are already to draw cards in
the Key West setup.
After alf', said Mr. Pullen, aft
er the introduction, you know
you have one asset here which
cannot be matched in the United
States, and that is your fishing,
and | am frank TO confess that 10
me. your perfect cllaEte is just
something thrown III gratis Your
fishing only needs 70 i be known
TO bring many more sportsmen to
make this their base of operations
in company with tire many ma
tionally-known men who already
appear in your local news and the
nation, at large, viii be glad 70
learn Of. Ernest Hemingway
showed that he was an inspired
genius IN more ways than one
when he made his home in Key
West"
Mr. pullen has many mounted
specimens To- testify 70 his status
as sportsman. including mar
lin weighing AS pounds. and ex-
poets to have these on display In
/ the Chamber Of Commerce office
in the near future.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06
Mrs. Boerge Rohde Tells Rotes
Of Denmark'S COOperatiyeS
~ ~. 49,
UNUSUAL SPACE
GIVEN BRIDGES
IN MAGAZINE

Interesting is the front
cover of the Southern Bank
er. which carries a clear and
perfect photograph of a Sec
tion of the long bridge of the
Overseas Highway under the
caption Highway Over The
Sea to Key West.
J. ]. Trevor called the at
tention of The Citizen to the
magazine cover with the re-
mark that this is the first
time within his memory that
the cover Of the magazine has
ever been devoted TO an, IL
Iusiration Of this kind. M
Usually. said Mr.. Trevor.
the cover consist Of a picture.
ordinary as TO subject. thei
name Of The publication. and
in the lower right side of the
cover a large piece of con-
trasting paper with a quota
ton. II was the unusualness
of the cover which first call
ed Mr.. Trevor's attention.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06
APPRECIATION
To the Qualified Voters

To the Qualified Voters
Monroe County. Florida
Please accept my sincere thanks
for the splendid endorsement
given me in Tuesdays election. |
win continue 10 do my best to
faithfully perform the duties of
my office as Judge Of the Grim
inaI Court of Record.
I viii always keep in mind the
renewed confidence reposed in me
in this instance. aA a2FAs -
Again sincerely thanking one
and all. l am
IA Faithfully.
WILLIAM ". ALBuRY.
naYs.lfx
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06
JAYCEES WILL
MEET TONIGHT

Junior Chamber of Commerce
will meet tonight 7:30 at the Of
fices of the Senior Chamber of
Commerce.
Projects will be the principal
business 10 be discussed. Mem
bcrs have quite number 10 bring
up.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06
MAKING CANVASS
= OF LOCAL VOTE

Canvass of the vote which was
cast in the 10 precincts Of Mon
roe county on Tuesdays election,
is being conducted in the county
court house this afternoon.
The canvass is being made by
the regular members designated
by the law. and the board con-
sists OF RAYMOND r. Lord. county
Judge: Carl Bervaldi. chairman of
the board of county commission
ers. and John England. county
supervisor Of registration
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06
Real Estate Selling In City
Handicapped, Realtors Say
Score High "Boom" Prices,
J Jumping" Of Prices,
Slow Abstract Securing,
Frozen Real Estate Loans


Citizen among realty offices of
the city ii was brought out that
hundreds of investors have been
unable TO buy property here for a
number of handicapping reasons.
people in Key West are ex-
pecting a real estate BOOM, one
of the realtors said, rwell, they
are demanding boom prices now
for their properties" This is the
principle obstacle to getting out
siders interested in Key West
real estate, the realtors are unani-
nous in saying Another realtor
said, 1--WE had fellows in here
who would think nothing of slap
ping down $4,000 to $4,000 for a
deal. Yet, because prices are so
inordinately high, they gather re-
sentiment, and usually do not pur
chase"
Prices Jumped
Even with the high prices,
spectators, residence seekers,
businessmen continue to maintain
great interest in purchasing prop
critics here. But, very often when
they are ready to make a pur-
chase at an agreed price, then the
owners Jump" the prices. That,
if continued to the extreme, as is
now the case, will handicap
trade, the consensus of opinion
is.
"Another thing which is hold
ing up transactions for an I'M
called for length of time is the
amount of abstract work which
confronts the lawyers of the city.
They are so piled up with it that
they cannot get. their abstracts
through for months at a time"
a number of the realtors are say
ing. Some of the buyers have
become Disguised and withdrawn
their investments. Others see
how long it takes to secure a
piece of property and refuse to
start operations"
Slow Abstracts
There is another angle to this
matter, however" the realtors
state, lin that it is exceedingly
difficult to assemble the mass of
data concerning the deeds here
Why, in one case, we found that
a deed had not been recorded in
go years"
Again, real estate loans are
not easily available here. Very
little credit is given businessmen
planning large structures, even
though satisfactory collateral is
rendered as security.
Until these hinderances are
eliminated Key West real estate
expansion will go forward slow
Iy'', the realtors concluded.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06
Five Proposals Read At
Meeting For Furnish
ing Key West With Bus
transportation

Al a regular meeting Of the
City Council last night. Robert J.
Lswis.and s. owen Sawyer with.
drew the seavsnser CONTRACT that
they had with efhs city. and in
turnethe city cancelled the bond
posted by the operators in con-
neetion with the case.
On request Of Mr.. Lewis. the
city agreed to pay him $50 for
services performed during the
four months that the contract was
in effect. The council also agreed
TO pay Mr.. Lewis $l2.So per month
TO handle the eitY's garbage and
trash. which is the regular rate
paid for this service. Included in
this is the taking up Of dead dogs
and cats that may be found on
the streets.
MIR. Lewis win now operate the
scavenger service as an individ-
ual. with no connection whatever
with the city, except that he win
be paid for his service to handle
the garbage and trash as men
toned.
Proposals Heeeivsd
There were five proposals read
for furnishing Key West with a
bus or other motor vehicle trans
portation over the streets of Key
West.
One of the proposals was from
Harry B. Peacock. who proposes
to operate q bus system at regu-
lar intervals, with a fare Of five
cents for adults and two and a
half cents for school children.
Buses suitable TO the business
will be used on al routes 70 be
covered in connection with the
service.
The Venetian Shortway Cor
poration. of Miami. proposed TO
operate motor vehicles. with five
cents 20 be charged for adults
and two and . half cents for chill
dren. 81
so'TIel Island Transit Company OF
Miansi also had , proposal. which
calls for the operation Of buses.
wltl1s five-eent fare for adults
and two and a half cents for chill
dren.
Henry Barnett and Associates
of Miami was another company
offering a proposition 20 operate
a bus service along the same lines
Of the others
Dan Navarro's proposal b %
operate motor vehicles over .
regular route. with q fare fixesi
not 20 exceed ten cents per pas
senger.
After a discussion 81 the mat
ter. Il was decided 10 defer &C.
sion until next week IT which
time nc proposals win be taken
up 81 . special meeting. with the
eounciimen making study q
them in the meantime.
Reyssdiss Fresh wafer
A resolution was adopted au-
thorlzing L. Z. Lee and Associates
o. Miami 30 make survey cf
conditions IN connection with q
proposed fresh water pipe line for
Key West. This oxEanlxatt0n h
ffs~Mssrtssa -, paoa Ntw4
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06

A resolution was adopted au-
shorizing L. I. Lee and Associates
Of Miami 10 make q survey q
conditions IN connection with q
proposed fresh wateF pipe line for
Key West. This organization h
Continued on Page SKI
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-06

Key West, Florida, has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only Ia Fahrenheit
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29

that certain of my actions have been wrong. I am determined to meet the consequences.
 Tribulations of IVA
 TWAS quarreling directors were summoned to the White House. If this love child of the admins tration, IVA, is indeed illegiti- mate, no shotgun wedding can give it either a fair name or un- blemished reputation" thundered New Hampshire's Sen Bridges. And the President busted Chairman Ar thur E. Morgan for failing to sustain grave and libelous charges of dis honesty and want of integrity" against his fellow directors.
 Robert H. Jackson became so- licitor general. Thurman Arnold, Folklore of Capitalism" author, succeeded him as head trust-buster Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt helped Amarillo, Texas, honor mothers-in- law Greta Garbo and Leopold Sto- kowski were reported seeing Italy together. Three Albanian princesses looked America over. And the obit- uaries of Col. Edward House, Ga briele d'Annunzio and Clarence Dar- row were published.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29

WEATHER CONDITIONS AM TO-DAY
 Seattle arpor raining Victoria raining Harbo cloudy Triple Island Rupert cloudy 29; Ketchikan cloudy 26; Craig cloudy 33 Wrangen Petersburg cloudy, Windham 3l; Hoonah msing IS; Tenakee Radove 22; Skagway g. Klukwan cloudy Rock cloudy 12; 2 showing Atn cloudy Cordova, clear Chitna clear 30 Copper River clear 10 St. Elias clear IT. Anchorage part cloudy G. Fairbanks clear 36 clear 10; Hot Springs clear 24 Tanana Nuato IA; Ruby McCrath clear B Crooked Bethel cloudy Solomon Golov part cloudy 10 Gambel, cloudy Is.
 Juneau, Dec 30t-Sunrse, 8:49 pm
 WEATHER SYNOPSIS
 High barometic pressure prevailed this morning from Barrow and the southeaward Yukon and the Mackenzie valleys Alberta Saskatchewan crest of 3074 inches Edmonton The low with the the Pacific 52 north degrees west with of 20o inches dent between the Gulf Alaska the Valley ued this Precipitation reported southeastern Kodiak Aeutan Islands with weather prevailing Alaska last night Ketchikan the lower Kuskokwm Valley Nome The lowest peraure last night was -5s degrees at Mayo Y T.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29
get fasg5 enjoyment

from this holiday season. Dine where you can be sure that your dinner will be the best thot expert chefs cdn prepare. where service is q goal.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29

Anderson, S. N Behrman, Sidney Howard Elmer Rice, Robert Sher- wood and John F. Wharton. Their first production of the year was MT. Sherwood's Abe Lincoln in Illinois, and it may or may not te significant that it is the most eagerly attended play on Broadway. The public is also showing mark
 ed agility in jumping to the box
 office for tickets to MT Anderson's s
 ''Knickerbocker Holiday" in which
 the interesting Walter Huston danc- es around on peg leg.
 It is too early to state precisely what the fate of American Land scape," the third production, writ ten by Elmer Rice. will be. but the indications are that it will receive the public's blessing.
 MT. Rice, you may recall, bitterly denounced the critics some years ago and declared he was through with Broadway forever. But he is back agaln.
 An interesting point about MT. Sherwood is that he was once fired off an important magazine and one of his co-workers walked out with him, saying she would leave too if job was not given back. Her name was Dorothy Parker.
 MT Anderson, as noted in pre- vious columns. is the lord of High Tor, fantasy loving poet and the hardest man to interview on Broad way.
 Sidney Howard, another capable citizen. is famous as an adaptor, and much of his success has come rom his ability to dramatize novels nto successful plays.
 The men who compose the Play | Trights Producing company are off 0 whale of start. It will be in- eresting to see where they go from | lere.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29
MARCH,193S:
By VOLTA TORREY AP Feature Service Writer


 Herbert Hoover, touring Europe last March, found every problem save the auto-parking problem t acute"
 Political Poser No. was Austria. And Adolf Hitler, the corporal who ] had kept on fighting, finally to win ! the World War, boldly extended ! Germany's frontier clear around 1 Austria's 32,377 square miles and G. ! 760,233 people.
 Diplomats often had said the League of Nations would be "a real thing" only when it could alter Europe's map. It hadn't. And it's 1 disciples were dismissed in the spring of 38 as "idealistS," while dealers with dictators were dubbed the "realists."
 Twas even suspected that Der Fuehrer might accept a crown when he rode into Vienna in a six wheeled motor chariot, accompa- nied by his Prussian police and ! CCW -lAd OOOllllllS olCS HUI.
 Shadow and Substance
 And Berlins Unter den Linden was decorated, when he returned, with banner that read: "Fuehrer, your Sudeten Germans Gin Czecho- slovakia) also are waiting" Frances deputies upheld their shaky govern ment, 439 to ?, in a policy of stand ing by Czechoslovakia. But Ameri- cas- ex-envoy to the Reich, William E. Dodd, predicted: Great Britain won't do anything if Germany in- vades Czechoslovakia.
 Poland, eanwhile, provided March's secondary scare-by sud- denly getting tough about little Lithuania's refusal to recognize the Poles forcible seizure of the Wilma territory IS years previous. Lithuania gave in.
 Warbirds left 872 dead, 2,000 wounded. 10000 homeless in Bar celona on a single weekend. Ja- pans Parliament passed "fas- ciStic' mobilization bill. R RuS ia | tried and executed more bigwigs. l Mexico seized foreign oil proper ties valued at $400,000000 And Brazil's police uncovered a cache of Nazi daggers.
 In Stormy California Americans sang "Ti Pi Tin" and tried five-suit bridge decks, but here, too it was stormy March: Scores died and damage was set at S60 100000 when rains sent floods ripping through southern Califor- mia, marooning many, disrupting transportation, forcing Hollywood stars into real-life hero roles. Tor nadoes swirled fiercely through the midwest and south.
 Richard Whitney, ex-president of the N Y. Stock Exchange, pied guilty to thefts that shocked Wall Street declaring: T fully realize
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29
Hollywood Sight find Sound,
By eobbis Coons

HOLLYWOOD Cal, Dec 29-The a title this week make for another.
 Pauette Goddard a long cetng there-but there couple pictures School"
 Paulettes film experience a term as Goldwyn Girl opposite Chaplin in Modern Times and supporting role "The Young first talkie thought she pretty otherwise only In Dramatic School think she takes the practically award-winning Louise Raner's mouth
 Co-sar Raine the little in factory by night by day is mostly excellent The tremoo that has work is rasrained and becoming Bu Faulete partly fairness decided
 The film directed by Sinclair interesting crosssecion little training grounds
 Louise imaginative that she believes her a romance with marquis (Aan God dard) speuly brings the together plays the gentleman Inevitably however he with her devotion to the theatre
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29
atPERCY'S at

Mana for the first time Loset the becomes her lasting romance"
 There excellent supporting performances by Gale Sond gaard especially and Henry Stephenson Anthony Allan Gene Tobn, Virginia Grey, Brooks Turner
 The Beachcomber Charles Laughons latest character trat-supeb usual this supported his wife Elsa distinctive
 Maughams story, Wrath" the white Dutch Indies These lonely controeur Robert Newton the English Rev. MT cTyrone Guthrie) his Martha Niss Lanchese who zaosy missionaries; Ginger Ted Gaughon), disreputabe easygong loahes the zealots vigorously they detes him.
 direction Beachcomber reaches heights sardonic humor circumstances which the pacabe enemies become only friends but tically involved It's of the years treats.
 Thanks Everything" another musical from the 20th Century Fox pattern After slow start builds to consistent hariy in which Jack Haley guinea pig for Adophe advertising firm subjected tests discover what proyocaton the man" needs to
 picture with sngabe by Tony Martin Jack Oakfe Barnes Whean George all helpful William Setter directed
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29
SHOW BUSINESS, NEW YORK CITY,
 LACKING PUNCH
Five Ma jor PIaywrighfs Appear 10 Be Only Ones
 Upholding Standards
BY GEORGE TUCKER

NEW YORK, Dec. 29.-It may be that those five major playwrights who banded themselves into a pri- vate producing unit sometime last year may have the honor of sal vaging the theatre from a most embarrassing season.
 Certainly without them the pros poets would not be half as pleasant as they are. For when you consider the current plight of the Guild, the fact that the Mercury is turn ing more and more to radio, and that the Group doesn't seem to be going anywhere in particular, you begin to appreciate how valuable this new Playwrights Producing con- pany may turn out to be.
 Remove this unit and what re- mains? Very little, for, with the ex- ception of it's work and of one im- portation (NOscar Wilde'D, couple of musicals c'The Boys from Syra- cuSe" Leave It to MeD, and a ScreWball revue built around the antics of two reformed vaudeville hooters c'Hellzapoppin'D the thea tre has done very little to justify itself since the season began.
 Even George s. Kaufmann, that Midas of the midways, seems tem- porarily to have lost his touch. He helped author an ambitious and pretentious production called The Fabulous Invalid" which advanced the opinion that some new group always arrived in time to keep the theatre from dying. But, ironically enough, the Invalid" did die, it's scenery has been burned, and its memory remains sad ghost lost amid the shuffle of marching feet.
 You probably know that the mem bers of this corporation are Maxwell
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29
DIR. J. W. EDMUNDS
OPTOMETRIST
of Alaska and Seattle

of Alaska and Seattle is now at THE GASTINEAU HO- TEL until December 31st., at least, EXAMINING EYES FOR GLASS ES, correcting muscular Eye de- fleets, etc.
 This is Dr. Edmunds Twelfth Annual Trip in Twenty Years. He is so well and favorably known that further comment is unneces- sary.
 NOW is good time to have School Children's eyes examined, or to show the Christmas Spirit by having Fathers or Mothers eyes examined.
 PHONE FOR APPOINTMENT AT ONCE. DON'T DELAY. adv.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29
& DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. WEATHER BUREAU
 THE WEATHER
tBy the U. S. Weather Bureau)

Forecast vicinity beginning 330 Cloudy with Friday night; fresh northeast winds
 Weather res tonight Friday partly portion Of Lynn Canal slightly tonight fresh winds portion northern portion Frederick Sound Chatham west direction Strong north wind Lynn Canal
 Forecast of winds along east and southeast winds tonight Cape Omane and east and northeast nchnbrook with gale tonight Copper River
The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-12-29
BORROWING
 IS CUT BY BRITAIN

s LONDON, Dec 28-Sir John Si- mon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announces more stringent regula- tions for foreign borrowing on the British Market. The reason is un- derstood to be the need of all avail able finances for caring for Brit aims rearmament.
Evening star., 1938-10-14
Melville FORESEES
GOOD PROSPECTS
Shoe Executive Predicts Sales
During December Will Rise
to High Level.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-Ward Mel
vile. president of Melville Shoe Corp,
said today business prospects generally
for the coming winter were good" and
predicted that December would be
the best month experienced by retail
stores in some time. {
Current business Of his own COM
pany-which operates 6s2 retail shoe
stores In various cities-is running s
to 8 per cent above last year, he
said, adding that If the ratio con-
tinued to the year end he expected
the company to show a profit COM
parable to that Of 1887, which he said
was good year.
II wholesalers and retailers manage
to keep prices within reasonable limits
the upturn should be satisfactory at
least until midspring. he said.
There is little likelihood of decreased
wages or taxes In the near future,
he said. but thought this would not
prevent profits in retail businesses
generally, providing sales kept i'm
proving on q 6 to per cent increase
basis over last year.
His remarks were made on the 18th
anniversary Of the opening Of the
first shore store In the chain.