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Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-31
HERE'S EVIDENCE YOU CAN TRUST!

Soe and Notono
PRESIDENT OF UNITED
Department
Department
tRepubicon California
Oil
Nofon StriPper
Petroleum Association OF
Dealers Association
advice from such reoble
"YES ON S"
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-31

And then there was the unsuc-
cessful radio comedian who made
the mistake of thinking great jokes
from little chestnuts grow.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-31

Since his book, "Mein Kampf,'
contains SO many mean remarks
about his new pals, the Russians,
Hitler. to be consistent, ought to
have the volume seized and burned
as seditious literature.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-31
Photographs

Shrimps do not like bad weather
and bury themselves in the sea
bed, SO catches are smaller III
stormy weather.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-31

Not enough students participate
in intercollegiate athletics, bemoans
a magazine article. Maybe the kids
are just dumb enough to think that
the prime reason for college is to
study
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-31

Eighty-six billions of the one
hundred and sixty billion cigar
cites manufactured annually in the
United States are produced in North
Carolina.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-31

The man at the next desk says
the new auto models have SO many
curves they must be wearing cor
sets.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-31

With Russia cutting in on the
spoils. Germany is the first ma
ton in history to go to war fully
equipped with a hitchhiker.
Moose Pass miner., 1939-04-27

A touri st who was eating dinner at Curry, heard the engine starting off be- fore he had fini shed his dinner.
 "Hold on!" he cried, running after the train, "you've got a passenger on board that's beft behind."
 While working on a log drive, logger fell into the water. Dizzy and nearly exhau st ed, he managed to grasp big log and hold onto it. The current was 90
Moose Pass miner., 1939-04-27

strong and swift that it swept his body under the log until his feet stuck out on the other side. au.s t. Just as a comrade, who had run to his assi stance, grabbed him by the shoulders, he caught sight of his own feet protruding on the other side of the log.
 1T can hold on bit longer, "he gasped. "Save the fellow who' 8 in head first"
 Advanc co.
Moose Pass miner., 1939-04-27
Moose Pass Miner April 27, 1889

Cont inued from Page g. We fail to sec
 why. Each year. s experience is used to make the roadbeds better and safer. So why strain at the difficulties on the Seward
 end of the railway and swallow the block ades on the northern snde Both are un- avoidable at present, but cCn ec r11edied in time. Why not be consi stent? There would be no lowering of freight
 passenger rates and little time saved, if the Portage Bay project were adopted. On the contrary, the railway would have tel make up the expended the Portage Bay spur, and it would out of the consumer.
 REVEILLE Get up in the morning, folks! Get up while the air is clear! blueI Arise, while the sky still helds it's Before the clouds appear! The best of the day is the morning, The best of the year is the spring, So treat yourselves to double joy Tn early widening.
 M. R. S. | Sam Estes captured crook last week in the vicinity of the Roycroft Estes Bros. sawmill near Sunrise. It is unique among crooks in that it is crook in spruce tree. Just above it's ground growth, the spruce tree had madsca complete loop around the loop as syrmet rica1 as doughnut.
 Better see it before Sam gets it under a roof and charges admi ssion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
AN EvER-GRowING PROBLEM

Fifteen or twenty years ago the prob
lem of improved highways was attacked
upon the theory that, with given road
mileage, the simple way to complete the
construction of highway system, was to
build given number of miles year for a
definite number of years.
Two facts have upset the idea. First,
new mileage has been added to every high
way system and the need for additional
highways is pressing. Second, highways
built fifteen, or even ten years ago, are UNI
able to meet modern traffic needs and
must be relocated, rebuilt or enlarged.
Two decades ago very few highway
engineers, or automobile manufacturers,
had any clear conception of the speeds
that would be commonplace today. "a
mile a minute" used to win speedway con-
tests but now it is the accepted pace of
many motorists who travel long distances.
Highways graded for forty miles-an-hour
speeds are not safe for the seventy-miles-
an hour that some sane drivers attain. The
same observation applies to sight-distances
that safety requires.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
You and Your
Nations Affairs
Supreme Court and N.L.R.B.
By ERIK Mckinley ERICSSON
Professor Of History, Unirersify Of Southern c.


employment The TWO remaining de.
cisions upheld certain procedures OF
the Board.
The opening Of the .le38-iD3o term
Of the nations highest court found
a number OF new cases awaiting de.
cisien, Before the Christmas recess
tive OF these cases had been disposed
of with results not entirely pleasing
to the Labor Relations Board. On
December 9th. In 3, decision involv.
ing the Censoiiuated Edison Com
pa1y OF New YORK. the Court
stretched the commerce clause even
further than II had previously.
Though the company made the plea
that Its activities were entirely with
IN the state or New YORK. the Court
nevertheless held that II was subject
to the Boards jurisdiction Because
IL sold part OF It's product to other
companies which were engaged in
Interstate commerce. No decision by
the Court has ever gone further than
that in permitting the GENERALIZATION
OF governmental power.
The part OF the decision that was
distastefnl to the Board was the dec
laration that the agency had COM
mitted procedurai errors In order.
Ing the company TO scrap seven con-
tracts with g union afhliated with the
american Fedegation Of Laoor. The
court majority oid moi tnink mat the
authority o. the law went no Tar az
to<e9nfer punitive 1arisdictien" on
the Board. H..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
A Very Bright Boy

The parents OF young son,
who had been deeply moved by
the film "Skippy", took him as a
Christmas surprise to the sequel
to that picture called Smoky.
On their way home the boy was
enthusiastic about Smoky"
"Better'n 'Skippy' even, he OBJ
served. 1T ends happier.
But it doesn't end happier,
James, said his mother. Doesn't
Snooky's mother die?"
"Oh, sure, said James, "but in
'Skippy' the dog died..
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

several decisions by Circuits Courts
OF Appeals which the Supreme Court
has refused to review.
During its i936-1937 term the Court
greatly broadened the meaning of in
terstate commerce in Ave far-reach.
ing decisions. The most important OF
these upheld the right Of the Board
to regulate the labor relations in
the stream OF interstate commerce. !"
The interstate character OF the COM
panies concerned was demonstrated
to the Courts satisfaction by the
facts that they brought in goods from
other states and then shipped their
finished product in interstate COM
merce.
1, In the ls37-is3s term OF the Court
the Board was again uniformly sue
cessfal. winning six decisions In all.
One OF these decisions, involving the
Santa Cruz Fruit Packing Company
OF Oakland. California, stretched the
meaning Of the commerce clause still
further. The Court In this case held
that the Board had jurisdiction over
the labor relations OF a concern
which handled goods produced with
in state. only part of which was
shipped in interstate or foreign COM
Tnerce. Next in cases involving the
Pennsylvania and the Pacific Grey
hound bus lines, the Court sustained
orders Of the Board requiring the
companies to withdraw recognition
from company unions. In a case in.
volving the Mackay Radio and Tele-
graph Company of San Francisco, the
Supreme Court upheld the right Of
the Board to require the company
to reinstate with back-pay striking
employees who had been refused re-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
IRON LUNGS SAVE LIVES

Lord Nuffield, Great Britain's mil
lionaire automobile manufacturer, has
turned over part of his Factories to build
iron lungs free for every hospital in the
British Empire.
The iron lung is designed to provide
artificial respiration to patients who would
otherwise die. The device has already
saved many lives and if hospitals generally
are equipped with them, many others will
owe their existence to the mechanical APP
paratus.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
GAS BAGS REPLACE TANKS

BALTIMoRE.-New type fuel
containers to be used in Glenn
L. Martins new airplanes viii be
bags instead of the usual metal
tanks. They are made Of a thin
fabric irnpregnated with synthe-
tic rubber and are designed to fit
the shape of the interior compart-
ments of the wings, fuseiages or
floats of the airplanes. 1t is claim
ed that the fabric tank, if pune
tared, creates a slit rather than a
hole and the pressure of the fuel
tends to close the slit and reduce
the leakage.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

MANY MOTOR BOAT opera
tors in Key West to a great ex-
tent were rum runners during the
prohibition era. But there was
rarely trouble. Take hi-jacking,
for instance. Quite bit of ex-
element reigned over whiskey
hi-jackers with many here be-
lieving that a ring persistently
held UP liquor boats coming into
Key West and hi-jacked their
cargo. Such was not the case.
There was quite a bit of double
crossing during that period. One
fellow would contract with an
agent in the city to deliver a car
60 of whiskey. Well, he made
the run ever to Cuba all right
and loaded up with his cargo.
He also made the run back to
Key West some dark night, but
instead of delivering the cargo to
the agent he had contracted to,
some other supposedly hi-jacker
received it. But these cases were
isolated and generally known.
And the double-crossed ones
never resorted to violence.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
A RECORD AND A WARNING

Included in report just prepared by
auditors of the Overseas Road and Toll
Bridge district is succinct little state
ment to the effect that during 1888 there
were only five minor accidents on that Sec
ton of the highway between Lower Mate
cumbe and Big Pine Key. In none of these
accidents was any of the passengers in the
cars injured and in no case did the prop
erty damage exceed 500.
That is a fine record, probably the
finest ever compiled in regard to a COM
parable stretch of highway in these United
States. When it is understood 10000
motor vehicles used that highway last
year the record of five accidents stands out
like typographical error in an editorial.
Two reasons are given for this achieve
ment: First, that the highway was proper
ly designed to carry motor vehicles at high
rates of speed; second, that the highway
is patro1led to prevent such traffic crimes
as parking on bridges and excessive
speeds
There have been several fatalities on
what is generally known as the Overseas
highway during the last year, but it is a
matter of record these ALL occurred on
the old county road and narrow wooden
bridges above Lower Matecumbe and be-
low Big Pine Key. Not one person was
hurt or killed on the fine stretch of high
way under control of the Overseas Road
and Toll Bridge district That section
contains no sharp curves, few rough pieces
of pavement and all the bridges are of
width.
The lesson is obvious. Unless the
highway stretches between Key West and
Big Pine Key and between Key Largo and
the mainland are soon moved over to the
old railroad bed and viaducts and recon
structed along the lines followed in the
bridge district, there are certain to be
more accidents, more fatalities and more
injured persons and badly damaged cars
Those county and state highway Off
Gals at present charged with the duty of
solving the problem involved in these high
way extensions have plain duty before
them. First making certain of their pro-
cedure, they must act quickly in what
ever remains to be done to complete the
highway. There have been a number of
delays in procuring clear title to right of
way. There should be no further delay.
Every months delay in forwarding
this program means, on the basis of last
years record, another life sacrificed and
other persons suffering the agonies of seri-
Gus injuries. We must condemn the old
wooden bridges and dead mans curves,
not the lives and bodies of innocent men,
women and children.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
T E S T YOU r
KIN OWLED DC E
Can you answer seven Of these
test questions? Turn TO
Page 4 for the answers

/. In which ocean are the Falk-
land Islands?
2. From what sort of trees is
bark obtained that is used
in making quinine?
3. How is 1885 written in Ro-
man numerals?
4. Name the Mayor of a large
eastern city who was re-
Gently attacked on the
steps of the City Hall.
5. Into what body of water
does the Gulf of Alden
empty?
8. What is extradition?
Z. Which letter of the English
alphabet is most used?
8. Are seals fish?
9. OF what country is Kaunas
Kovno) the capital?
10. Name the author of the
novel, Richard Carvel".
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
Don't Give UP Lady

Commence each day with a
smile, they say.
But take it from me it does not
pay.
l greeted the morn with a joyous
song
And my neighbor called, rs
something wrong?"
When the bacon burned l merri-
ly laughed
And my husband said: Have you
gone daft?"
| told a caller l liked her hat
And she told me | was getting fat.
l started the day with a glad good
will
l finished up with a will to kill.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

STARS Reveal Hitler's Early Doom. -
Headline. While this is contamination
perhaps undevoutly to be wished. it should
be remembered the stars also revealed
that McKesson & Robbins, common, was a
good buy" Oracularly, the stars we're
right; but the revelation should have been
interpreted as good bye
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
HAppenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today As Taken From
The Files Of The Citizen

Ross c. Sawyer's appointment
to the position of county clerk for
Monroe County, which would
have expired January 8, has been
extended to cover a period of two
years or until the general cleo
ton in 1881, according to a tele-
gram received yesterday from
Governor Martin, by Mr.. Saw
yer. The message from the gov
ernor states: Il am appointing
you, beginning January 8, until
next general election, which is
two years hence. Mr.. Sawyer
is leaving this evening for Talla-
hassee for a conference with the
governor. It is considered as
practically sure that Governor
Martin has received an express
sion from the incoming chief
executive that such action would
meet with his approval, for the
Importance of keeping Mr.. Saw
yer in office has been convincing
ly shown to Mr.. Carlton through
representations of representative
citizens and in such number as to
deserve a most careful considera-
ton of the virtually unanimous
voice of the people of Monroe
County.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
SHIP-WRECK

The ship sailed from the harbor
Out to the deep blue sea.
Oh, she was in her glory
The wind was on her lee.
She sailed like wild bird
With its wings spread once more;
The great blue waves rolled high
er
AS they left that peaceful shore.
They had scarcely left the harbor
When the wind began to blow;
Then they heard the skipper
shouting; =i
Bar her up and let her go"5
Now we see the Seamen running,
Doing all that they can do,
But the ship is blowing onward
To her doom in the ocean, blue.
Now the wind is bowling louder,
The sea rolls mountains high;
They can see the breakers yonder
On the reef that's SO nearby.
Oh, they hear the shippers or
ders,
Every man now at his post,
But his words were uttered vain
ly-
All were lost on that rock-b bound
coast.
LOUIS M. JOHNSON.
Key West, Fla,
Jan. 5, 1889.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
We Win!

Englishman-Odd names your
towns have. Hoboken, Weehawk-
en-, Oshkosh, Poughkeepsie.
Americana suppose they do
seem queer to English ears. Do
you live in London all of the
time?
Englishman-No, indeed. l
spend part of my time at Chip
ping Norton, and divide the rest
between Bigglewade and Leigh
ton BuzZard.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

The state of the world is very neatly
described in recent remark Of Viscountess
Nancy Aston, the American-born member
of the British Parliament Admitting that
Great Britain does not expect war, the
Lady declared, We never can tell what
will happen, because dictators are like
lunatics at large"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

A merchant operating under
the NRA put a new boy to work
the other day. The boy, OF the
next day, saw a 50-cent piece ly-
ing on the floor, and he promptly
took it to his employer.
You're an honest boy: l put
that money there to test you, the
merchant said.
Eyes, / thought you did'. re-
piled the boy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

When Hopkins and Jackson are con-
firmed by the Senate one-half of the Presi-
dents cabinet will be New Yorkers-Mor-
genthau, Perkins, Farley, Hopkins and
Jackson. 1t is evident that the President is
a New Yorker There are AZ. states in the
Union. .rs.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

OF 1890 3 Wa1
OF twelve deei-
sions involving
the administra.
ton OF the aet
by the National
L a b or Rela-
tons Board had
been handed
down by the
highest tribu.
nal. This Was
one : fourth oil
all the Courts
decisions on the
" h ole N e "
Deal program
In a d d tito h
there have been
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

About the only rod the modern Key
West youngster knows anything about is a
steering rod.-Key West Citizen. Doesn't
anybody in Key West have rod and reel?
p. E. B. in Tampa Tribune.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

Financial note: Since 1881, when
the present deficit financing period began,
the Federal government has expended al
most % billion more than it has received.
Suppose business would operate on such
an inverse ratio where would it be in seven
years?
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

Roosevelt Boulevard, circumambient
to Key West, during a short life, has had
several depressed spots, which gives
credence to the reports circulated when it
was being built, that some deteriorated
cement or other inferior material was used
in its construction.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

l. Water and Sewerage.
2 Comprehensive City Plan (Zoning).
8. Hotels and Apartments.
4. Bathing Pavilion.
5. Airports--Land and Sea-
6. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
A DAYS FISHING

A DAYS FISHING in Key
West would set the most conser-
vative and debated writer to
running off lines again. Running
up the main ship channel with a
gentle roll, Gulf clouds hang low
on the horizon. and there is a
beautiful light breaking through
in the east One passes dark pur-
pie spots underneath. Those are
reefs about 20 feet bleow. At
the dry rocks" the reefs come
out Of water and show yellow
masses Of live coral polyps, which
are covered with heavy slime.
Don't try walking among these
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

1t is commendable to be optimistic,
but no one over so years of age should ex-
pect to see the moving picture production
of "Gone With the Wind
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
THEIRS WAS KINDLINEss in

Key West rum-runners, also. We
know of one fellow here who,
when struck by some hard-luck
story of a rum-running agent or
boat captain, would often bring
back part of his load to that fell
low for no more than the cost
of the liquor in Cuba so as to put
that fellow back on his fee,
again.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

KINGfisH SPAWN in the wa
tiers just a few miles below Key
West during the winter, fisher
men report. No mans Land,
where the Gulf meets the Allan
tic ocean, is the spot. CONNER
cial fishermen fish there.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

1t doesn't take only married men in
Key West to tell you that the best way
to get woman to talk is to tell her to keep
still.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

What book has helped you
most in your career?" he was
asked.
"The volume OF business, re-
piled the merchant prince.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

Germany is famous for the police dog,
hot dog and underdog.-Key West Citizen.
And don't forget to hit that mad-dog die
tator
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

What 1889 means to you is matter
that is mostly up to you. Bacon said
Chiefly the mold of a mans fortune is in
his own hands"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

Trading at home is not buncombe;
money sent out Of town usually stays out
side.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

Add up the national losses from fire,
crime, ill health, accidents, and insects
and there won't be any national income.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

No part Of the New Deal program
has caused as much business Tor the
Supreme Court as has the National
Labor Relations Act. Up TO the, end
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
n WAS A HARD JOB ferry

ing those loads across the rough
Florida Straits. The men shifted
at the wheel and one operator
here says the seas were often so
mountainous that although the
men were taking but five minute
tricks at the wheel. they would
turn around frequently in those
five minutes and ask if the time
were not up. Heavy seas piling
against the boat and rudder put
a terrific strain on ones arms at
the wheel.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

There is "pun" in punishment and
"fun" in funeral, but we don't enjoy them.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05
THE ISLAND CITY
Along the Waterfront
MANY MOTOR BOAT opera shoals, for long spine

shoals, for long-spined sea urch-
ms are in corners and it is very
unpleasant to receive a wound
from them. On the ocean side
the reefs drop straight down,
sometimes 200 feet. A charter
boat captain running close to the
reefs will pass over long finger
shoals going out into the deep
and very often spots big 40-pound
grouper and long silver barra-
cuda skulking in the white sand
under the rocks below. A few
seconds later and the fish smacks
into the trolled bait.
A SHOUT FROM a party and
turning ones head one sees acres
of small fish leaping into the air
escaping the thrusts of mackerel,
kingfish, sailfish and barracuda.
Like silver fountains they rise
gracefully from the blue waters.
Suddenly one leaps high. high in
to the air and plunging right out,
al mackerel rises 20 feet, almost
straight up, after it. The bait is
mostly BALLAD, a beautiful silver
green fish with orange trim
rf1ings, easily seen and struck by
the larger fish. BALLAD feed on
surface mfflutiae and have no up
per beak. They are also known
as half beaks. On the tip of
lower, beaks is an orange spot.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-01-05

Chief Ivan Elwood, of the po-
lice department of Key West, last
night addressed the city council
at general meeting and requested
that he be bought a new auto
mobile for official use in connec-
ton with his duties. The matter
was referred to the proper COM
mittee with authority to act.