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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05
CITY DEBT REFUNDING PLAN

For many years there has been a
with the result that municipal services
have suffered and the municipal employees
salaries. Some OF the cash the city did
realize from various taxes and other
sources had to be disbursed to pay old and
pressing bills. Collection of taxes has lag
ged back of current requirements and
some that have been paid were in the form
of warrants discounted by municipal en-
plOyes to merchants and others.
The city's bonded Indebtedness is to
be refunded under an agreement with
Chicago bond house, thus reducing the
annual fixed charges for that item of pub
lie expense. 1t is confidently expected in
terest and retirement requirements on the
new bonds will be met from real estate
taxes. The next tax roll is also expected
to cover current operating expenses, but
it cannot be made to take care of the city's
floating debt which is estimated to be
somewhere between $250,000 and $780,
600.
AS result of this situation, Council
man William H. Monsalvatge has devised
and the finance committee of the city
council is now studying plan whereby
bonds would be issued to take care of the
floating debt and whereby the municipal
government goes on cash basis after
January l. 1t is proposed each month to
pay off city employees, pay all the current
bills the cash on hand will allow, so that
the city's credit will be restored
The bonds would be 3O-year certifi-
Gates tentatively calling for per cent in
terest, although that point has not been
settled. While the councilmen are to be
commanded for this attempt to get the
city out of the red and on firm financial
footing, it is doubtful if all the city's
creditors would be willing to accept bonds
bearing only per cent interest to cover
their bills against the municipality. The
committee studying the Monsalvatge pro-
posal may find it more feasible to fix the
rate of interest at per cent-certainly it
would be more acceptable to creditors and
IHC1ClOIC HOIC llhcIy W NC d SuCCOSSluI
operation.
After the plan is finally approved by
the council, and The Citizen believes it
should be approved with possibly some
modification of the interest rate, it will
have to be validated by an act of the legis-
lature. State Representative Bernie C.
Papy is reported to favor the proposal, so
that legislative approval seems assured.
One thing may truthfully be said of
the present city council-it is striving in
the face Of many difficulties to make the
municipal government a going concern. If
the councilmen can devise ways and means
of compelling payment of taxes by all
classes of taxpayers to make the new plan
effective, they will deserve the gratitude
of the taxpayers who do pay their way
without getting great deal in public serv-
ices in return.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05
CHURCH PROGRAM
TUESDAY EVENING
VOCAL AND Instrumental
SELECTION TO FEATURE
ENTERTAINMENT
Jewellers Safely Service

A program of vocal and in
strumental selections will be pre-
scented in the auditorium of First
Methodist (Stone) Church, Tues
day evening, December 9th at 8
o'clock. The public is invited to
attend. The program follows:
Organ Prelude, Mrs. Joseph
Sawyer.
Invocation, Rev. j. A. Tolle.
Congregational Hymn, "On-
ward Christian Soldiers"
Selections, Harris School Rhy-
thin Band.
Selections, Division Street
School Chorus.
Vocal Solo, Master George Jen-
sen.
Selection by Monroe County
High School Orchestra under the
direction of Professor T. B. Kleb-
sattel.
Vocal Solo, Mrs. Eva B. War
ner.
Violin Solo, Aren't Sjursen.
Selection, High School Orches-
ira.
Vocal Duet. Mrs. N. P. Nelson
and Mrs. VIM. H. Sands.
Cornet Solo, John Luis Day.
Piano Solo, Miss Katherine
Knowles.
Selection, High School Orches-
ira.
Violin Solo, Gerald Saunders.
Piano Solo, Miss Francis Fin
ME.
Vocal Solo, Mrs. Minnie H.
Robinson.
Selection, First Methodist Or
chcstra.
Violin and Guitar Duet, Fred
Knight and Gerald Saunders.
Organ Solo. Jack cormack.
Selection, High School Orches-
ira.
Benediction, Rev. Jim Lilly.
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

REPORT ON BUTTER-FAT

WASHINGTON - The average
butter-fat production from cows
MIXED in this country last year
was about 40 pounds. Cows in
dairy herd Improvement aSsocia-
tons were doing better than that
more than IS years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

To get rid of her Fascist-patterned
citizens. Rumania has adopted the old
Mexican custom of ia ley de fuga", by
which the intended victims are told to run
for their lives and then shot. The official
report is always shot while attempting to
escape, and the shots in the back give
credence to the statement that the shoot
ing was done while the prisoner was run
ming away.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05
More than half a million Bis rather

More than half million Elks gather
ed Sunday throughout the world and OBJ
served once again their annual services
for departed members. For more than so
years. subordinate lodges of the Order
have commemorated departed members of
the Order on the first Sunday in Decem-
Der. P. B. o. E. No. SOL. local lodge of
Elks. held this eommcmoration since the
inception of the local lodge, and Suaday
was no exception.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05
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I'oday'S Horoscope
&oss s@assssse

Those born in the early hours
may have misanthropic attitude
of mind. possibly due to some
real or fancicd wrong. Born as
the day advances, the mind be-
comes more active, in some cases
almost daring: but the life may
be circumscribed. Under some
influences. this might go so far
as TO reach restraint of liber-
tN
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken
From The Files Of The Citizen

bringing to boat monster sail
fish while enroute from No Name
Key to Key West Monday. The
fish measured more than seven
feet and was a perfect beauty.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

A conventional insult in America is to
refer to a persons mother as one is in the
habit of scratching fleas with her hind
leg. There are those in Key West who
are most fragrant in this disrespect, and
use the infamous expression on the slight
est provocation.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

HOUSTON, Texas-The ABS
students who eat in the Texas A.
& NJ. college mess hall consume
an average Of 1000 pounds Of
potatoes daily; 100 pounds of
butter, 2.700 pounds Of meat, S.
600 hot cakes, and 1000 biscuits.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

There will be a meeting of the
Junior Woman'S Club held to-
morrow afternoon beginning at Z
o'clock in the clubhouse on Di-
vision street. All members are
requested to attend as business
of the utmost importance viii be
discussed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
3. Hotels and Apartments.
T. Bathing Pavilion
5. Airports- and Sea.
g. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Happily, Key West can forget; but, it
rlust not be forgotten, Key West can also
remember, and mole me tangere" is it's
motto.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05
Eases Vicious Itch

For itch tortured skin that needs
comforting relief, use Imperial L0-
tion. Swiftly 1t eases the itching
discomfort of eczema, rash, letter.
ringworm, scabies, scalp, between
toes, etc. 35c and 81. Money back
if not satisfied. Imperial Medicine
Co, Desk 8. Houston, Tex.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

What this country needs is a few
million adults willing to study national
questions and anxious to learn something
about them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Newspapers report that the Dies com
mittee. Investigating un-American activi-
ties, contacted 'strip-tease'' performer
The lady, We presume, had nothing to con-
ceal.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Monroe County is at the present time
witnessing case of rapacity never even
approached in the annals of the county; it
it can be almost characterized as ghoulish.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Correct this sentence: Dear Santa
Claus. You needn't bring me anything
this year because the toys that you left
last year are good enough for me-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Key West stores are filled with Christ
mas gifts. See the advertisements in The
Citizen, and patronize local merchants
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Sometimes one finds ingratitude in
persons least expected and who above all
should have been grateful.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Harem is pronounced hay-'rem; not
harem. Anyway we do not pronounce
harems in the United States, we denounce
'em
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

The POSTMASTER announces that
the morning mail will close at
$50 in the future, inasmuch as
the train departs at 10 o'clock.
There will be no change in the
evening closing of the mail.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Editors Note: In a letter to
the editor of The Citizen DR..
Flanagan refers to his book and
the pleasant days spent in Key
West, He says further;
MY wife and daughter and l
have pleasant memories of Key
West. When l went to Key West
in 1901, your paper was called
The Inter Ocean" Later Mr.
Walter Thompson and Mr.. Marcy
B. Darnall went into partnership
and changed the name 10 'The
Citizen" understand that the
dear old berg has received a new
impetus since the construction Of
the automobile highway.
Very sincerely yours.
GEORGE a. FLANAGAN"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Angling from the houseboat
Everglades" as the guest of Col
onel Robert Thompson, Captain
R. W. McNeely, commandment of
the naval station, succeeded in
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Navy DeStroyers Hannibal and
Nokomis are expected to arrive
Sunday enroute to Cuban waters
for their regular annual training
maneuvers. They will perhaps
remain in port one week. Equip
ment and detail for these vessels
are left az Key West every sum
mer for these vessels.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Editorial comment: Quoting
from the Macon News, the Tam
pa Times says: Florida is and
will remain democratic. The
Me M-ceitetao 9nhrdetaoin shrd-
lettaoin Luz. Now if the News
really said that it ought to be
sued for libel.-Sanford Herald.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

The fire plug at corner of
Southland and Elizabeth streets
was broken off by an automobile
at noon today and the gushing
water created some excitement
for a while. Richard Gunner,
colored driver, crashed into the
plug.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

More than 200 persons attend
ed the meeting last night in the
Strand theater and organized
the Booster Club of KY West with
DR.. VIM. R. Warren chosen as
president. The vote was unanim-
Gus. The meeting was called to
order by Attorney ]. Lancelot
Lester, who made a mastery ad-
dress on the need of a community
spirit in accomplishing anything
toward the betterment of Key
West. With no dues nor assess
ments, it was thought by Mr..
Lester that such an organization
would naturally appeal to the
masses, each Individual member
feeling that it was his or her
spirit of good will that would be
more necessary than their dues
in carrying forward the activities
of the organization. Others on
the program made addresses and
at the conclusion of a most en-
thusiastic gathring, the following
officers were elected and will be
associated with DR.. Warren: Miss
Mollie Parker, secretary; Miss
Marie Cappick, and Rodney c.
Gwynn, assistant secretary; Muir
ray. Cochrane, vice-president;
Wallace Pinder, treasurer. Com
munity singing at the opening
and close of the meeting led by
Sam Goldsmith was a pleasing
feature.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

81 have fished the Atlantic
Ocean from the coast of Maine
to the shores of Key West, and
must say that | have had the
greatest day of fishing here, that
l have ever experienced, said
George L. Roberts, of New Jer-
sey, before sailing yesterday for
Havana. Four hundred pounds
was his catch here in one day. Il
have never seen anything like it
in my life before, he decided en-
Enthusiastically before boarding the
steamer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05
new BOOK BY
G. FLANAGAN
AUTHOR WAS RESIDENT OF
KEY WEST FROM 1903
UP TO 1903

Ornamental Typewriting." a
new book from the press of the
Gregg Publishing Company, New
York, is by George A. Flanagan,
now residing in Oakland, Cali
fornia and who was once a resi-
dent of Key West. He spent fiji
teen years of his early life as
stenographer in the United States
Government service.
Many of DR.. Flanagan's former
students, now substantial citizens
in middle life, will remember him
as Professor Flanagan, when he
was principal of the Key West
Evening Commercial School,
1903-1908, and pointed out to
them the road to success. Dur
ing the day he was secretary to
the Commandment of the u. S.
Naval Station. He later de-
veloped the Tropical Food Com
pany, of which he became gen
eral manager. While living in
Key West he married DR.. Kath-
arene Wave Alice, prominent
physician. Their daughter, Miss
Laurene Alice Flanagan is now
a teacher in California.
Graduating from George Wash
ington University, Washington,
D. c., in 1918, as Doctor of Den
tai Surgery, DR.. Flanagan de-
voted ten years to dental prac-
tice in Hyattsville. Maryland, and
in Miami, Florida.
Oriental Typewriting" gives
promise of becoming a valuable
textbook for typistsI everywhere.
The Gregg Publishing Company
is also considering the publica-
ton Of a Spanish edition.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

Red Mems Revue, Feast of the
Red Corn, will be staged this
evening at the San Carlos thea
ter under the direction of Mad
anne Laurette Cordero. An ex-
cellent musical program has been
arranged for the event.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-12-05

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-08
PETER LEVINE IS
 STILL MISSING
His Lawyer Father Has Not Surrendered Hope
 That He Is Alive

New Rochelle, N. r., March 8. - (UP) - Murray Levine pressed to- day for chance to reestabiish con- tact with the kidnapers of his 12- year-old son, Peter, who vanished Il days ago on his way home from school.
 There is nothing new" Levine told a representative of the press in the first of the three-a-day tele- phone conferences today. When the reporter sought to question him, he repeated the words and broke off the conversation. The press repre- sentative, well acquainted with Levine personally, said he sounded about normal" today. This con- trasted with previous impressions of the conferences when Levine's voice indicated an advanced state of agi- tation. A possible explanation was that the attorney had refreshed himself with sleep. No signs of un- usual activity were noted at the police station during the night.
 Convinced that the boy is still alive, the the attorney, nevertheless, appeared distraught late last night after day of unusual activity. He declared that Peter had not returned
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-08
GIRL PARALYTIC
 HAS OPERATION

Kansas City, Mo-, March 8 - GU. ,P0-Miss Sylvia Eugenia Davis, 2O- year-old paralytic who learned to write, draw and paint although de- prived of the use of her arms and legs since birth, underwent an oper- ation today that she hoped would cure her.
 The operation required about four hours, which the physicians said was not an unusually long time for such delicate work. She was kept in the operating room for almost an hour after the work was completed
 Miss Davis chose to submit to the operation although the physicians told her she had only 50-5O chance to survive 1t. She was cheerful and smiled at her mother, Mrs. Carlos c. Davis, when she was wheeled in- to the operating room.
 The operation involved changing the nerves from the spinal cord to the brain. The physicians said only a few of such operations had been performed previously.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-08
THREE BILLION
 FOR RELIEF ASKED

Washington, March 8 - (UP0- David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance of America, to- day proposed a $3,000, 100000 relief appropriation for the 1889 fiscal year to meet increased relief needs caused by industrial recession.
 Lasser told the senate unemploy- ment and relief committee that congress must choose between the anarchistic or the social approach to the problem of unemployment"
 First theory is narrowly selfish looking to the profit of relatively few; resentful of government inter- ference; indifferent to the welfare of the masses" Lasser said. This is what I call the 'anarchistic' ap- preach.
 "The second theory seeks the general welfare approaches the problem frons the standpoint of the people as a whole" he continued This is the social approach"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-08
BARONESS TRIES
 TO END HER LIFE

Los Angeles, March @(UP)- Baroness Irene Pongracz, 45, dress model, attempted suicide by poison today in her room, police reported.
 Police said \she was the divorced wife of Cyril Tolley, American anna teur golf player, and no relation to the British golfer Cyril Tolley. At police receiving hospital she gave her name as Kathleen Anderson. A friend identified her as the baroness and this was confirmed by papers in her possession, police said.
 Leo Grevenberg, night clerk at the hotel, summoned police after he was called to the baroness's room and found she had taken poison. Police physicians said she was out of danger and had been released from the hospital to go to the home of a friend, Donna Bocher. Miss Bocher identified the woman as the baroness, divorced wife of Baron Albert Pongracz of Budapest, Hun gary. now a Hollywood film actor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-08
MISSING FRENCH
 GIRL DISCOVERED

Montreal, March 8.-CUP) Elaine Lachappelle. 14-year-old French Canadian school girl, who had been missing from her home since Satur- day, was found bound and gagged in snow bank near her home today.
 Cold and near exhaustion, she told police she had been seized by four boys es she went on shopping tour for her mother Saturday night. She was placed in a car and bound hand and foot, she said. Her abduc.ors then gagged her.
 She told detectives she remember ed driving through the city streets until an early hour Sunday morn ing and then she fell into uncon- sciousness. She remembered noth- ing, she said, until a police radio car drove by and found her lying in the snow this morning.
 A medical examination showed the girl to be unharmed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-08
Final Ne1us Flashes
REMINGTON-RAND DECISION

Washington, March 8.-(OP)-The na- tional labor board today rejected a petition of the Remngton-Rand Employees association for reconsideration of its order that the company re- instate workers discharged for alleged union ac- tivities. The board stood on it's original order of March 13, 1887, ordering the reinstatement and the decision of the second circuit court of appeals at New York, upholding the original de- cision. The circuit court ruled in favor of NLRB on Feb. IA of this year. Rejection of the em the long labor controversy up to the second cir cult court at New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-08
FATAL CASLEAk
 INVESTIGATED
Public Utilities Commits sion Probing Into Cause
 of Gas Escape

Investigation of the break in a gas main at Bank and Riverside streets last Friday, which released illums mating gas fumes which killed one man and overcame another, is now in the hands of the State Public Utilities Commission, it was learned today. Inspectors for the com- mission visited the scene not many hours after the break was discovered and have continued their probe since that time.
 Joseph P. Wadhams, of New Haven, engineer for the commission, is in charge of the investigation. His official report will not be avail able for some time, the commits sions office at Hartford said today.
 Wm. H. Mahaney Died
 Gas seeping through the ground from the broken main took the life of William H. Mahaney, 55, member of a prominent Brooklyn family. He was asleep on the second floor of the Mahaney building, where he served as caretaker, when he was asphyxiated. His body was found fece downward on the floor, indicat- ing that he had attempted to leave the smoke-f1lled building. An at tendant in a nearby gas station was overcome, but recovered.
 Patrolmen Dennis Lynch and Daniel Mecca found Mahaney's body at 7:10 Friday morning. Un- successful efforts to revive him were made by the fire department pull motor squad.
 Leak Quickly Located
 Repairmen of the Connecticut Light & Power Go. sped to the scene, and located the leak on Riverside street, about a dozen feet off Bank street. New pipes were laid.
 Charles Allen. district manager for the company, said he was at a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-08
MOTHER KILLED
 TWO CHILDREN
Tells Police She SmOth= cred Them-Sent Them
 to Heaven, She Says

Riverhead, N. Y, March 8-UP) Margaret Thomsen, a woman of 25 with an immobile face, who smothered her two babies because her husband didn't take her to the movies, joked with the matron who sat outside her cell today, and giggled over her own jokes.
 "You shouldn't carry on so," said Mrs. Jacob Dreyer, the matron, think of your poor children"
 q am thinking of them and I'm glad I did it. They're in heaven now"
 Mrs. Dreyer had sat outside Mrs. Thomsen's cell all night lest she kill herself, but she will be with drawn today because it seemed ob- vious that Mrs. Thomsen planned to live. She looked forward with appar- ent eagerness to spending the rest of her life in prison. She was in prison once, she said, and it was the happiest period of her life.
 Mother Performs Crime
 Mrs. Thomsen, her husband Harry, and their two children,
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