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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
UNDER CONSUMPTION Z

seafoods, due to lack of a uniform
supply of all varieties being avail
able to consumers, could be cas-
lily overcome by better marketing
and storage facilities" the SGD
report continues. FLORIDA
.SEAFoOD MARKETS COULD
SUPPLY THE ENTIRE. SOUTH,
BUT THERE ARE HUNDREDS
OF TOWNS WHERE THERE is
NO SUCH THING AS A FIRST
CLASS FISH AND SEAFOOD
MARKET. Fish,, judged by quail
ity and price, is the cheapest food
that passes over the counter.
When prices are found to be high
the reason is invariably because
of seasonable scarcity or lack of
distribution and marketing facili-
ties; and when ridiculously low
the reason will be found in the
g1utted market, dumping of over
supply because of lack Of storage
and dealers inability to hold and
practically distribute the particu-
lar product, until the seasonable
demand reaches normal".o
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Today's Birthday

90 o &c
Prof. John Dewey of Columbi;
famed philosophers. born at Burr
ington, VT, 80 years ago.
Charles n. March of Mimi,
Federal Trade Commissioner,
born at Cedar Mills, Mimi, 90
years ago.
U. S. Senator Sherman Minton
of Indiana, born at Georgetown,
Ind, 40 years ago.
James Wright Brown, publish
ier of Editor and Publisher, New
York, born in Detroit, Sc years
ago.
DR.. John c: Merriam, president
of the Carnegie Institution. Wash
ington, d. c., born at Hopkinton,
Iowa, 20 years ago.
Edgar Selwyn of New York,
producer playwright, born IN Gin
cinnati, "a years ago.
Frances Kellor of New York,
sociologist-author, born in CO.
lumbus, o., SO years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Five Fifteen Years Ago Today
As Taken From The Files OF The Citizen

the Burglar Alarm win be pre-
sented at the High School audi
forum next Friday night. Mrs.
William H. White, of the Fine
Arts Department, will direct the
play.
Francisco Fernandez, Spaniard
who attempted to take his life
IA few hours after his arrival from
Tampa last Thursday, is getting
along nicely at the Mercedes hos
pital, and Mrs. Gutsens, the ma
tron, says he will be able to get
out in a few days.
Election Of officers for the en-
suing year will be the main bust
tnass of the meeting of Catholic
Daughters of America to be held
! tomorrow in the hall of the or
ganization at 8 p. m, the secre-
tary announced today.
OCTOBER 20. 1924
Due TO the unfavorable wea-
Their conditions the sponge fleet
from Key West has deferred sail
ings until later in the month.
HAD it not been for the northeast
erly gales blowing in this section
the sponge fishermen would have
left for the grounds several days
ago.
; Charles H. Ketchun, as repre-
sentative of the Chamber of Com
merce, will visit the Navy Depart
|ment this week and win take. up
with officials the proposition to
have a navy band assigned to
Key West, which is the only head
quarters without a band.
Editorial Comment, AS a mat
ter Of fact a large part of the so
, called chaos against which candi-
dates are warning the people. viii
| be confined to unsuccessful office
hunters faced next month with
the necessity Of going back to
work. IS. ~ ),
Both the Navy and NE Key
West teams win be in tfp-top
shape ana Key West cans: are
looking forward to the baseball
game scheduled for tomorrow
afternoon, which it is promised
win be one Of the best :. games
during the season.
United States ship Tulsa. gun
Boat which was recently con-
structed at Charleston navy yard.
arrived in port this morning for
/ the purpose of taking on supplies.
When TINS is completed the yes
isei viii SAID for Galveston.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
OCTOBER 20. 1884

Construction of a dock at the
southeastern end of Duval street
was authorized at the meeting Of
the city council last week. The
work will be done by the FERA
but use to which the dock will
be put was not stated.
Drum and Bugle Corps of Ar
thur Sawyer Post %, American
Legion, will leave over the high.
way tomorrow morning to attend
the Legion convention in Miami
Post Commander ]. S. Moore left
with his family over the high.
way this morning and Command.
er B. P. Roberts win leave to-
night. 4a<~ ~ -
Sheriff K. o. Thompson this
morning seized a lot of sponges
which were all under the size
prescribed by the law. This law
provides that all sponge taken
from the territorial waters OF
Florida must be five inches, OF
over, in diameter. The sheriff
said that none of the sponges
were up to required size.
]. w. Schoneck, assistant con-
struction engineer with the light
house department, will leave in
the official car tomorrow to con-
duct an Inspection of the lights
in the district. After the inspec-
ton on this coast the inspector
will 60 to the. west coast.
DR.. w. j. Churchwell, who is
holding revival services at the
First Methodist church, and Mrs
Churchwell were yesterday after
noon at chicken dinner given
in the church parsonage by Rev
and Mrs. George E. Summers.
OCTOBER 20. 1928
Work preliminary to the con-
struction of modern and prac-
tically fireproof building at the
corner of Duval and Fleming
streets was commenced o'clock
this afternoon. The work is to be
completed in six weeks, says An
drew Page, owner of the proposed
structure.
Lights Golden Jubilee, the fiji
tieth anniversary of the inven-
ton of the incandescent lamp by
Thomas Edison, is being celebrat.
ed today throughout the State Of
Florida by the official proclama-
ton by Doyle E. Carlton, COVER
nor.
Under the auspices of the
woman's Club comedy entitled
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
afraid to attack wrong or to applaud right;
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece of any person, clique,
faction or class; Always do its utmost for the
public welfare; never tolerate corruption or
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue
commend good done by individual or organ
izs.ion; tolerant of others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contamnate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

Grover Bergdoll, draft evader, says
he spent seven years in the United States
while reputedly he was living in Germany
as a fugitive He says he came back to
Eet a. pot of gcld'' he had hidden in the
mansion of his mother in Philadelphia
Many people believe that this pot Of gold
eased the draft dodgers way to freedom
in 1920, and kept him unmolested while
in the United States on his several visits.
The trial may reveal something more in
teresting than his assumed guilt.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

For while dairymen thought cows
gave more milk and were more contented
as they listened to the sweet strains of
music during milking-time concerts fur
nished by radio. But this theory has now
been debunked, and it is the mixer and
netthe cow that steps up the supply. ''The
music said one of the dairymen expert
rienting with the theory, docs not in
crease a cows milk production, but it
brings the rhythm of happiness to the
mixer and that increases the output be-
cause he turns in better job" The cows
seem rontented but indifferent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

whose undying enthusiasm for
Key West compels her to pass on
anything good, gives us excerpts
from several letters written by
former Key Westers. Says Will
liam H. Malone, of Miami, 81
want to congratulate the people
of Key West in securing the re-
opening of the Navy Yard. 1t
should never have been closed.
No doubt this will restore a meas
ure of prosperity to Key West,
which is very gratifying to me-.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
Nor VERY ENTHUSIASTIC

is the State Conservation Depart
ment booklet just out concerning
world famous Key West fishing.
The map shows the highway COM
p1ete only to Key Largo. The
booklet, which is supposed to be
"a Guide to Florida Salt Water
Fishing by Highway, says, BE
low Miami and on to Key West,
where the weather conditions
are not subject to much change.
tarpon and other fish found in
the waters, such as sailfish, am
berjack and so forth and they
may be caught the year round.
Boats and guides are available at
Key Largo and other keys along
the Overseas Highway to Key
West. We like the way the regal
Gulf Stream sailfish, a fighting
champion, and that bundle OF
dynamite, the amberjack, are
called "other fish! :,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
ABOUT TOWN: Drivin


around, being stopped at the gates
of Fort Taylor by a handsome
soldier who said, "You can't come
in until you see Major Putnam, ,
and that certainly would not be
an unpleasant task, we replied.
Incidentally, Major w. F. Put
man is the husband of one of Key
Vests most popular girls, the
former Ruth Cash. The Boy
Scouts of this city are doing a
grand job in cleaning up Rest
Beach. When anything hard has
to be done the scouts are always
called to help. Praise to the Lions
Club, also. The Lions have long
been roaring about beaches. d.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
icorFEE SHOP talk:

COFFEE SHOP TALK: Any
time the spectators get tired of
dry parts of the City Council
meeting, they need only wait for
the oratory to start. Last night,
it was Bill Monsalvatge, viii
Roberts, and Earl Adams who rose
to the heights. Principal oratory
was on reduction of taxes at
Trumbo, a big long distance tele-
phone bill, and reassessment of
liquor dealers by their stocks. /.
State Conservation Department
says production markets of craw-
fish centers at Miami and Key
West. 1t adds the market is re-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
TOURIST: There is a marked

TOURIST: There is a marked
difference in the reaction of trav-
elers who come to Key West. To
those looking for gaudy display,
glitter, tinsel and hullabloo of the
neo-rich, there is i'll disguised dis
appointment, but to the educated,
cultural world traveller who has
spent much time abroad and seen
most of the interesting countries
OF the world, there is a real APP
probation OF Key West. They
Immediately fall in love with its
old-world atmosphere and praise
its mellow beauty.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
WHAT MIAMI NEWSPAPER

today said that officers and men
from the Army air unit, which is
contemplated for the old Pan
American field, would be quar-
tered at Fort Jefferson, because
of its proximity! @4I 3ste
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WESi
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

|. Water and Sewerage
2 Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
8. Hotels and Apartments.
g. Bathing Pavilion.
). Airports---L md and Sea.
6. Consolidation Of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

If you like reading The Citizen, there
is no law to prohibit you from telling your
notwithstanding friends (if you know any
about it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

: When better rubber stamps are made,
Congress will make them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

If Information will help cancer suf-
ferers, it might do something for Herr
Hitler, provided the period is long enough
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

Nearly everybody believes the other
fellow is making money. 1t would be
swell if it were true.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

Have you ever come into contact with
a suspicious soul who is afraid that nobody
else has any principles whatever?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

Salary is a word derived from the
Latin SAL, meaning salt. There are some
people who are not worth their salt.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
CRACKS and COMMENTS
BY A
FLORIDA CRACKER
no EMIL.

TO EMIL.
Your advice to Cracker is very
clever
But does not work with great en-
deavor.
/ keep a pencil by my bed
But what avail, an empty head.
If vocabulary such as yours l had,
I'd be so very, very glad.
You wonder, How so much I see,
To know you all from A to ".
To know kind friends from z to A
Is part of life that's fun and play.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

Well men seldom appreciate doctors,
nd vice versa
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

Being poor has its compensations.
The poor are never investigated or kid
mapped.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
THE ISL AND CITY J.

stricted to an inadequae supply
and the prices are good Just
ask the fishermen around here
who have tried to sell their craw-
fish for at least two years.
! There is some enthusiasm locally
for placing the Overseas District
toll gate at the entrance to Mon
roe County, Card Sound bridge.
Thus many hundreds who now
fish the county waters and do not
60 past the, Lower Matecumbe
toll gate win help support the
highway for the wonderful fish
! ing they get.
VERY CONSTRUCTIVE is this
Thought of the State Conservation
Department: Among Florida's
outstanding needs is a stable
market and better distribution OF
| its fish. and seafoods. The in
ddstry is suffering from. a de-
moralized price-cutting condition,
brought about by necessity
Smaller dealers are being forced
to sell their product Immediately
on account of lack of cold storage
and quick freezing facilities
which necessarily makes price
cutting and competitive market
prices inevitable, Fishermen are
unorganized, dealers as a rule
not cooperative, no unit of pur-
pose or cooperative force behind
production, distribution and sell.
ling"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
A DEAR WOMAN FRIEND

A DEAR WOMAN FRIEND
tells of her plan to take a con-
versational course and we know
she was vaccinated with a Vic
trola needle.
MY DEBT TO YOU
You welded my heart with love;
And filled it full of song.
Now love, l owe a debt to you
My whole life long.
You've given me hours of glad
ness
That last the whole day
through;
All, love and / can only give
My self to you. 'A
Adios,
FLORIDA CRACKER.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
THOSE WoRkrNc for ! Kes

West Publicity Bureau in this
city report that minor differences
between several of those concern
ct have been srnoothed out and
the possibility of starting the Blu
reau is being considered again.
Key West, on the opening of the
highway, received realms of very
favorable publicity Now, the
amount has largely slipped off
with the city out of national news
value. Here is where an expert
enced publicity agent can step
right in and start pitching. He's
got plenty Of material here with
which to work and almost any
kind of fairly clever publicity
about the city will hit the pages
of the country's newspapers
again.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20

Charles johnson of the Silver
Palm has been more than a
strong right arm for the Garden
Club tree-planting project.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-10-20
AMONG THOSE directing the

W.P.A. in the city is office engi-
neer F. H. Mckinley. He is the
boy who has all the figures con-
corning work being done by the
W.P.A. at his finger tips. Head
supervisor is Homer Herrick. I'm
mediately below him are super
visors Alton Goehring and G. c.
Symonette,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04

World War is the fate of the German liner Bremen, which slipped out of New York harbor August 30 and disappeared into the mist that hides the fate of the Cyclops and other missing ships.
 The Bremen has been reported riding off Nova Scotia with her superstructure dumped into the sea, acting airplane carrier and submarine supply base She has been seen racing through West Indian waters with darkened lights. Rumors have placed her heading through Arctic mists to take refuge in the Stalin Canal sold to Italy and heading for Mexico An announcement from Berlin says the ship reached an unnamed neutral port.
 German envoy said inquiries regarding the Bremen should be referred to Winston Churchill First Lord of the British Admiralty Churchill expressed surprise France said England had it, and later port had the Bremen reaching English port in the custody of British warship. The latest, and most persistent, report is that the Bremen reached Mur- mansk Russia where she is safe from the Allies but out of commission for the duration of the
 The present Arrangement of the world could hardly be better illustrated than by the strange disappearance of 46500-ton $2OO0OOOO liner In normal times the fact that the Bremen lost for an hour would be front-page news the world
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
Did General Sherman Go South
 for His Health?
Philadelphia Recordl


 When we read that the Daughters of Union Vet erans wanted to ban the showing of Gone With the Wind" we first suspected the fine hand of Hollywood press agent.
 But further investigation reveals that the Daughters also trying to prevent erection of a statue of General Lee at Arlington Cemetery and are against statue of Stonewal Jackson in West Virginia.
 Not being able to detect any commercial tieup in the last movements apologize to the ladies for our first thought, but still take issue with them.
 The Daughters say that Gone With the Wind is unfriendly to the Union cause because it depicts Shermans March to the Sea expedition designed to break the morale of the South by terrorzng the civilian population and cutting its economic and military communications Not Sherman, but the Confederates themselves burned the plantations, the Daughters say.
 The argument seems to be based on a misconcep- tion of the nature of war, which is not a romantic joust but effort to bring nation or part of nation into submission sherman had a job to do along that line and he did it with military efficiency There is for believing that he enjoyed burning houses than there is for believing that Gen eral Lee liked those errorzng cavalry raids at which Jeb Stuart and some of his other generals were so adept
 War think would be more unpopular than it is if the fundamental brutality of it were made plain. During the days when most wars involved the sieges of walled cities nearly all hostities direct ed against civilians There is no humane war"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
ALASKA LABOR BETRAYED?

If as a newspaper report from Seattle indicates, workers for the $12OOOOOO naval airbase construction program at Sitka and Kodiak to be hired at Seat tle Alaska has been handed resounding slap in the face by the contractors and union labor.
 The approximately 1000 jobs which the two big projects will furnish belong by rights to Alaskans The Empire at least is going to shout its head off until the who live up here get large share of them.
 We have heard reports for months about tent city of Alaska laborers having sprung up at Kodiak in expectation of jobs when the base starts and of the rush to Stka which news of the letting of the contracts caused The Alaska Territorial En- ployment Service has been signing up available Alaska workmen and making arrangements to get them to the two jobs at the minimum of expense to the tractors.
 All we need or want from Seattle are few skilled key men which we admit we do not have available in Alaska. But the Territory furnish common laborers carpenters pasterers electrical workers bod carriers plumbers teamsters, painters, sheet metal workers bricklayers and fathers Gall mentioned as having been provided for in the agreements signed at Seattle) ill abundance.
 The 12 Seattle unions which negotiated the agree ments with the contractors doing disservice to "brothers union workers in Alaska The good union in the Territory are already facing critical public opinion here because of the sins of outside unions which have obtained a strangle hold greatest industry, salmon canning, and now attempting to construction jobs away froIn the Alaska who should have them.
 The naval base contractors Sems-Spokane Com pany Johnson, Drake and Piper Inc, and the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Company certainly owe an explanation, and speedy one to the residents of Alaska. Maybe there is explanation; maybe the Seattle agreements will only workers which
 
 The contractors are throwing their money away if they are paying transportation from Seattle to Sitka Kodiak for workers which be obtained right the ground at nearby Alaska cities. Alaska workers just capable any which can be sent here Alaska jobs the contractors will find them superior to imported workers.
 Alaska demands an explanation.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-10-04
Horoscobe The stars incline
 but do not compel
THURSDAY. OCTOBER 5


 This is read as an uncertain day l in planetary direction. In the early hours workers are well directed, but they will be guided by dictators in their organizations. The configura- tion is fairly favorable to mewenary i leadership which demands wage. in- creases. There will be growing un- rest in the rank and file of labor unions regarding their domination by officials. E
 Heart and Home: Young folk to- day should forget romance and con- centrate upon practical plans. De mand for expert mechanics is, to. be widespread in coming months. Girls may assume duties hitherto han dled by men The urge for home owning will be strong under Ftllis sway, but warning is givens thsy It is a common failing to desire too expensive plans.
 Business Affairs: It has 8 been pointed out often that with the flew era old giants of finance as well as statesmen long entrusted with pub lie business will close their careers. It is wise for men past 50 to put their commercial houses in order since severe strain is prognosticated for the world of finance. 8y
 National Issues: Women may cause embarrassment in Washing ton, D. C., by original and amazing demands for complete information regarding certain phases of public business. Relief and the parole sys- tenn are to be discussed by represen- tatives of women's organizations A nationwide scandal regarding waste of money in administrative head quarters is prognoSticated. ,F
 International Affairs: Astrologers agree that the reign of the worlds dictators will be short and they warn against any act which will precipi- tate conflict. The concluding may of the year is threatening to Japan which will go too far in attempting control of Asia by Asiatics. An un- usual gesture by the United States is indicated by the end of the year. The Mikado is under evil ornens presaging great tests for his sub jects.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of good luck, but for many there are portents of trouble through love affairs. Temp tation to be extravagant will be strong.
 Children born on this day will be thoughtful and serious in youth, but when these idealists meet disillusion- ment they develop easy-going and irresponsible personalities. Iii ey should be wisely guided.
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