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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-25

Construction of a large moving
Ipicture. studio is contemplated by
Frederick A. Caldwell, film play
producer and scenario writer
from Hollywood, Calf. Mr.. Cald-
well said today, II am very much
pleased with this location, the
cooperation we are receiving, the
attitude of the people and in fact
with everything we have found.
Florida has never been properly
introduced to the moving pic
ture industry, says the visitor,
who shows that the companies
that have come to the state for
location in the past have been
grabbed up by realtors. He is
confident that well-equipped
studio at Key West will pay.
Editorial comment: Cuba's
magnificent new capitol building
will be dedicated in May this
year, 1t has been under con-
struction for IA years and has
cost $l3,000.00O, chivo included.
:, IT,, ! ..a.i'-------------- .r4,lsz'
Pete Nebo,, Key West boy, lost
in, his fight with Honeyboy Fin
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-25

Browne, Senator VIM, H. Malone
ana Colonel Roundtree from At
lanta.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-25

Captain and Mrs. Percy A.
Cook, with their housegueSts,
Mrs. Hudson Maxim of New
York, Mrs. Muriel Stranz of
Ringing. shows and Frederick A,
Caldwell, motion picture produc-
er and scenario writer of Holly
wood, We're entertained last eve
ming by Judge Jefferson B.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-02-25

The Citizen is requested to an
nounce that there will be a meet
ing of the American Home De-
partment of the Woman's Club to-
morrow afternoon, beginning 4
o'clock, at the club rooms on Di-
vision street.
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Winning Contract

BY THE FOUR ACES.
David Bruce Burnstone. Merwin D Maier.
- Oswald ,Iacoby, Howard Schenken,
,nTorlds LEADING team-offour. inventors
Sf the system that has beaten every
other system in eXistence)
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Sleeps During Fire

SEATTLE R.-Hearing the dis
tant wall Of sirens. Fireman George
Grubb listened drowsily for the
alarm gong.
Silence. George snuggled down
into the covers and went back to
sleep.
Called to the phone a few min
utes later, Grubb learned firemen
from another station had extin-
guished the fire in his own home.
Evening star., 1939-01-31

for the last five years have they
worked together on their project,
which also includes a compilation of
their studies in an encyclopedia
on knots.
Although there are only 80
orthodox knots in existence, we have
collected 5000 different knots, no
two alike" the collectors say. I'VE
have pursued this work to the four
Evening star., 1939-01-31

corners of the world, and feel con-
vinced that we have all the refer
ence on the subject that exists.
Most difficult to obtain was in
formation on ornamental knotting
as developed by the Chinese and
Japanese. We have not only mas
tered all their art, but have gone
further by originating some knot de-
signs which they cannot duplicate. 4"
Evening star., 1939-01-31
hearts. What card do you play from
dummy? (Answer tomorrow
(Copyright. 1889. by The Four Aces)

The Four Aces. will be pleased to
answer letters from readers II
velope is inclosed with each communi-
cation addressed to the Four Aces. care
The Evening Star.
II you desire the pocket outline Of
the. Four Aces system Of contract
bridge. send with your request to the
-Four Aces. care The. Evening Star. a
stamped l3-cent).. self-addressed. large
outline without any charge
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Knotty Collection,

Knotty Collection.
Preserving examples of an art
which reached its peak aboard the
sAa1n whalers of century ago, two
New York eX-sailors have collected
the worlds largest and most unusual
display of fancy knots.
For the last Is years John J. Hen
Sci and Raoul M. Graumont have
made knotting their hobby, but only
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Fine Bidding

HE OIuuiIS
West dealer.
Neither side vulnerable.
Mr.. Simon.
4 Q874
vs.
<63
+ K @ j 1072
'kx K 10 :s,s -:
s62 WE
. A QJ We * 10 8
L. .s So
I A AK $50
= 1854
Mr.. Fried.
The bidding:
Vest North East South
- 81 ~ "a
a 5v 5A
bl. Pass 6v GA
bl, Pass Pass Pass
Evening star., 1939-01-31
jolly Polly
A Little Chat on English
BY JOS. J. FRISCH.
BY Fontoine Fox

c. 3, S.-"Grapefruits may be
wholesome" or 'healthful," is the
correct form. Healthy applies to
that which is in state of health;
wholesome and healthful, to that
which promotes health. Thus we
speak of a healthy (not healthfuD
person and a healthful (not healthy
food.
Just as oranges is the plural Of
orange, 30 grapefruits is the plural
Of grapefruit.
Evening star., 1939-01-31

VI. doO 1SS dSS
Yesterday we gave Charles Loch-
dge Of New York the palm for the
tst played hand of this new year.
oday We present the best bid hand
year year, bid by Herbert Fried
+ Chicago and Jack Simon of St.
|ouis at the Westwood Club in ST.
|ouis on New Year day.
The opening big of two hearts
hight be described as New Year
ko-bid." While Mr.. Simons over
caH was not particularly good, he
pad 100 honors as insurance. Easts
Use to three hearts was sound
md now Mr.. Fried looked things
yer and tried to reconstruct the
land. Naturally there weren't
Enough cards out against him to
Justify the bidding, so he knew the
opening tWo-bid must have been
haded because OF extraordinary
pax distribution. Hence, Mr.. Fried
realized that if he started to show
his great strength by jumping, the
opponents would undoubtedly con-
ltinue indefinitely in hearts and not
give him chance to play a con-
tract of his own. Accordingly, Mr..
Fried simply bid three spades. His
partners four spades now convinced
him Of one thing-that he held no
more than one heart. Hence, he
was now certain that six spades was
'2ld. Nevertheless he wisely con-
tMued to restrain himself and mere
" bid five spades over East's five
hearts.
The Fabian tactics worked. West
doubled at five, but East neyerthe-
ess went to six hearts, whereupon
Mr.. Fried continued to six spades.
West doubled again. This time
East left it In and, as foreseen, the
contract was a laydown. Incidently,
seven hearts could have been set
-nly two tricks.
Yesterday you were David Burn
stones partner and held:
AQx xxx
vx
<AxX
Xxx
The bidding:
surpstons schsssten You Ms,.r
a 81 co
Answer-You should have bid five
Eq0des. You have a super sound
- with tremendous distributional
support for your partner. You
surely cannot hurt the opponents at
i've hearts and should have a very
good play for five spades.
Score 100 per cent for five spades,
IS per cent for pass (your partner
will almost surely take action, 0 for
double (therc is no justification for
his bid.
Question No. A.
North dummy holds:
4 K 10xx
~AJ9x
= A 109x
You (South) are declarer at three
o-trump and hold:
AQx
vKx
:41 :Ak xxxx |
The opening lead Is the three of
Evening star., 1939-01-31
Twizz|er Answer

Manager A had so prisoners on his
project while Manager B had 80.
Evening star., 1939-02-06

Court of the United States shall be
appointed by the President. AS for
other judges of inferior courts"
the Constitution says:
The Congress may by law vest
the appointment of such inferior
officers, as they think proper, in
the President alone, in the courts Of
law or in the heads of departments"
Many Matters So Handled.
If, therefore, presidential or SEN
atorial politics cannot be kept out
of the selection of Federal district
judges, Congress could pass a law
vesting the appointment of all dis
trict judges in the conference of
judges of the United States Circuit
Courts of Appeals. Many important
matters relating to procedure and
vital rules Of litigation now are left
to the senior judges of the Circuit
Courts of Appeals and there could
easily be devised system whereby
the judges of the Circuit Courts of
Appeals of a given region would
make recommendations and the
actual appointments would be made
by committee of judges of the Cir
cult Courts of Appeals from other
sections of the country. This would
be introducing the merit system in
Government in the most important
place that 1t needs to be introduced.
tcopyright. 1939J
Evening star., 1939-02-06
men recommended by the political
leaders.
Senator's Power Enhanced.

To be able, in effect, to pick the
Federal judges in ones State en-
hances Senator's prestige and po-
litical power, just as it does that OF
the Governor or any other political
leader affiliated with Presidents
political fortunes, especially as it
draws to one faction or the other
the lawyers who potentially are
candidates for subsequent vacancies
and who may perform political
service in anticipation of rewards.
If Federal judgeships are legiti-
mate spoils of party politics, then
not only are the United States Sen
ators right in wanting say in pick
ing them, but the President is also
right when he appoints defeated
Congressman or others who may
have rendered him political service.
What is the way out? How can
Federal judgeships be divorced alb
solutely from party and factional
politics of all kinds and appoint
ments made absolutely on the basis
of merit? There is one way to do
1t. A reading of the Constitution
of the United States furnishes the
answer. Contrary to general i'm
preston, the Constitution requires
only that judges of the Supreme
Evening star., 1939-02-06

Germ whatever. He was then en-
gagged on another colossal work
which he said would take years to
finish. 1t may well have been
"Finnegan's Wake" the compile
ton of which is now announced as
Mr.. Joyce celebrates his 57th BIRTH
day anniversary at the Paris home
of his son George.
1t was not until IL years after
the first printing that Federal
Judge John M. Woolsey dropped
the Ellis Island barrier against
Ulysses" and not until after that
did it become a best-seller and
bring laudatory fame to its writer
as we'll as notoriety. 1t is persum-
able that Mr.. Joyce, viewing the
world calmly through his owlish
convex-lensed glasses, took his
fame, as he had taken unpleasant
notoriety, without any show of
emotion. There are only two
things which trouble him greatly
dogs and thunderstorms He keeps
handy the latest meteorological
charts and railroad time tables,
clocking the storms carefully and
making a dash for SUMMER climes,
jump ahead of the thunder, If it
is headed his way. Similarly, he
spends considerable time locating
and dodging dogs. which make him
turn pale and look for a getaway.
Big dogs he particularly dislikes.
Reared and educated in Dublin,
he lived in Italy for many years
after his marriage, and his son and
daughter were born there. He is
a devout Roman Catholic and
spends passion week at his devo-
tions In Italy. Called a literary
anarchist by hostile critics, he is
a methodical, precise and compe-
tent businessman, having establish
ed and operated successful theaters
in Dublin and Munich. My memory,
recalling him with his friends, is
that he said little, but what he
said was always cogent and crystal
clear, compared to the murky
stream Of consciousness" lingo
which his books loosed around his
unpretentious head.
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Fewer U. S. Tourists
Take Cars Abroad

Because of adverse business con-
ditions at home and unsettled po-
litical conditions abroad, American
tourists last year did less travelling
with their cars outside the country
than in 1887, the American Auto
mobile Association reported.
Though there was a "a per cent
decline in the number of tourists
taking their cars abroad last year,
1888 still was the second highest
year recorded.
ALSO significant is the fact that
the decrease in the number of cars
shipped abroad was much less than
the loss in general passenger traffic
which dropped IS to 40 per cent.
This indicates an increasing ten
dency on the part Of travellers to
use their cars for foreign vacation
ing" the A. A. A. said.
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Washington Observations
Herbert Hoover and Hiram Johnson See
Eye to Eye on IsoIotionist Potform

tary Affairs Committee, and with
Stanley Baldwin's famous allusion
to "Britain's frontier on the Rhine"
in mind, felt at liberty to suggest
that Roosevelt seemed to be in
spired by the same thought. But to
put the actual words in the Presi-
dents mouth, if he never uttered
them, would be an offense which the
overwhelming majority of Washing
ton correspondents themselves would
be the first to condemn.
Almost exactly 10 years ago, when
former Senator Lenroot of Wiscon-
sin was appointed to the United
States Court of Customs and Patent
Appeals, the last big flareup over
executive session revelations stirred
Washington. Columnist Paul Mallon,
in April, 1929, published two secret
Senate roll calls, one of them on
the confirmation of Judge Lenroot.
There was a great hulabaloo on
fore the Senate Rules Committee.
True to the ancient tradition of the
newspaper craft, he declined to re-
veal the source of his information,
Whereupon the matter was dropped.
But the result of the incident was
the abolition of secret Senate ses-
sions for consideration of nomina-
tions to Federal Office. Hence, the
country was able to know last month
just how the votes on the Murphy,
Hopkins and Frankfurter nomina-
tions came out. A neWspaperman
who had the courage to publish what
some Senator or Senators Leaked"
brought about the satisfactory con-
frmation situation that Is now Sen.
ate law.
In all the discussion about the
fitness of former Representative
Thomas r. Amlie to serve on the
Interstate Commerce Commission,
no one apparently has thought it
worth while to ask what members
of the commission and the I. c. c.
staff think of the appointment. Nat
urally these men are saying nothing
in public, but it's an open secret
that great disappointment exists
among them because the President
did not see fit to make a promo
ton from within the commission.
Many employees, and at least some
of the commissioners, would have
been delighted at the elevation of
William P. Bartel,, the present Sec
retary. He is described as being an
indispensable cog in the work of
the commission, having risen in
the Government service from mes
senger boy in the Smithsonian In
stitution. Later Bartel became an
I. c. c. examiner, assistant chief
examiner, chief of the Bureau of
Service and finally secretary. Incl
dentally he halls from the same
State as Amlie, Wisconsin.
Signs multiply that Bob Reynolds
is after Huey Longs mantle as GAL
lery god of the Senate Most OBJ
servers think the Carolinian has
long way to go. In the judgment
Of both colleagues and the press
gallery, Reynolds has about every
thing Huey had except the King
flsh's brains.
(Copyright. 193e)
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Chinese Leader 10 Speak
AtY. N. T.. A. Tomorrow

Prof. Hubert Liang, director Of
the Shanghai Institute of Social
Science, who recently arrived in this
country after travelling extensively
in China, will speak at 1890 pm.
tomorrow at luncheon in Central
Young Mems Christian Association
Building, 1875 G street NV.
The luncheon will be under aus
pices of the World Service Com
mittee of the Y. M. c. A., DR.. Car
son P. Frailey, chairman.
Mr.. Liang is former member of
the editorial staff of the District
News, a former executive secretary
of the National Y M. c. A. of China
and at one time was director of the
department of journalism at the
Yenching University. Peiping.
Prof. Liang is author of China
and Her National Crisis" and China
Fights"
At 8 pm. Thursday he will speak
at Calvary Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1939-02-06

trips to New York the Attorney General urged on the judge the ads
ability resignation understood finally to have
yielded January 20 the Attorney
General issued the effect that the Department
OF Justice was investigating the judges affairs
hours Dewey leaped into the limelght with
his letter Chairman breaking the story
getting credit for the action 1t is
Sardonc became
affair his witnesses in the trial
of Jimmy leader committed suicide under
the nose Of MI. Deweys armed guards.
nothing particularly shocking in poll
tcan grabbing credit from another particularly when that
opposite political party mentioned for the
presidency. OF the record there
nothing taking action time within
year his sincerity He have
pulled fast and robbed the New Deal Attorney General OF the
credit for the he showed in terminating the
equvocal of Appeals.
What interests he his information Dlcta-
inside
Office Of the United States
district York the energetic Mr. Dewey He
worked Office and politics being what with national
election ong the white hope Of the Eastern
Is that obtained his information through
personal pipe line"
the angle which Frank Murphy study
loaded with dynamite Under the
Cummings the Department OF Justice
political organization and the Manton only
impled vigorously Murphy tackled the job
which produced immediate
would probably object Mr.. Deweys
playing MIR. Dewey made his
leakage of official information from the
office would something else
ho no oko IN
Evening star., 1939-02-06

have persuaded a Judiciary Com
mittee of the Senate for the first
time since 1918 to reject a presi-
dental appointment of a judge on
tn ground that the appointee is
personally obnoxious" to the Vir-
ginia Senators. The words per
sonally obnoxious are not meant
IN the sense that there is anything
really personal about it but that
the method of making the appoint
ment and the reasons for it are
Objectionable. The Senators. Car
ter Glass and Harry Byrd, declare
that the President went out of his
way to pick a judge supported by
another faction in Virginia politics
so as to humiliate and punish them
allegedy because they refused to
take orders from the White House
In the last five years.
Precedent Being Created.
The other side of the story is
that the two Senators are lining
up other Senators under the sena-
torial courtesy" rule so that in
effect unless prospective judge is
assured of the political backing of
the Senators from his own State he
cannot hereafter win an appoint
ment no matter how we'll he is
qualified.
Sometimes the Department of
Justice asks Senators for their
recommendation before an appoint
ment is made and sometimes the
Senators are consulted about names
originating in the department or
among bar associations or from
other sources but, in the Virginia
case, it Is averred, the two Senators
were asked for their recommended
tions and these were then ignored.
Courts Under Close Scrutiny.
What the whole thing amounts
to is a political controversy which
now involves the kind of judges
who shall sit on the Federal bench.
There are days when the integrity
and independence of the Federal
Judiciary are under severe scrutiny.
The fact that a Federal judge bor-
rows money from persons or COM
panies who have cases coming before
him is frowned upon by the public
even though there is no proof that
the decisions in these cases would
have been any different if the
alleged loans had not been made.
So, too, the question of what obli-
cations Of a political nature are
placed around the neck Of a new
Federal judge who owes his ap-
pointment to political considerations
becomes important also, even though
1t may not always be provable that
political obligation influenced his
subsequent decisions.
To the credit of the United States
district judges may it be said that
they usually assert their inde-
pendence and do not allow political
affairs to influence them in the
slightest, though the number of
times so-called New Deal judges
have passed favorably on issues
concerning administration policies
might be compared with the num-
ber of times Republican appointed
Judges refused to 60 along with ad-
ministration requests for injunc-
tions or decisions on vital issues.
But it would be interesting to de-
termine whether the valuable re-
ceiverships which it is often within
the power of a Federal judge to
grant go to men who have been
helpful in getting him on the bench
in the first instance or perhaps to
Evening star., 1939-02-06
c. !. o. Aide Opposes
Labor Bourd Cuts

Opposition to any cut in the pro-
posed appropriation of $3.230,0 900 for
the National Labor Relations Board
or to any attempt to restist use OF
the funds. was expressed today in
a letter to members of Congress
signed by Lee Pressman, general
counsel of the Congress for Indus
trial Organization.
The letter said in part: ITO cripple
the board by cutting its funds or to
amend the act indirectly by tying
strings to the appropriation would
be an unworthy method of dealing
with the crucial issues now before
Congress relating to the act"
Evening star., 1939-02-06

VI IIlc OIllLcu
States, was declaiming against the
perils of American involvement in
Europe, which, according to Hoover,
are inherent in Roosevelt foreign
policy. Ever since the sage of Palo
Alto fed Belgium, he has rated as
the arch-apostle of cooperation
among the nations for peace and
other humanitarian works. In 1920,
following Mr.. Hoover's brilliant
service as food administrator under
Woodrow Wilson, he ranked as so
thoroughly Wilsonian in all his con-
cepts that there was serious thought
of offering him the Democratic
presidential nomination. Many
still think that If "the Chief" hadn't
suddenly decided he was Repub-
lican, he, not Cox, would have been
nominated at San Francisco.
Some of his admirers, to their
dislnay, now discern Herbert Hoover
in the role of politician, instead of
elder statesman. On no other
ground can they account for his
joining the Roosevelt pack in
the Senate, in it's onslaught against
the administrations proposal to sue
cor the democracies with the moral
support and cash-on-delivery eco
nomic resources of the United States.
The Herbert Hoover who invited
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
to the Rapidan in 1929 to pave the
way to peace and disarmament
through the London naval confer
ence of 1930-the Herbert Hoover
who in 1881 proposed and put
through the one-year inter-govern-
mental moratorium to check the
imminent collapse of Germany and
Austria-is the Herbert Hoover who
on February l broadcast from Chi
cago that "Our country, standing
apart, can make contribution of
transcendent service in holding
aloft the banner of moral relation
ship" The preceding phrase-what-
ever it means-is precisely the kind
of platitudinous hokum Uncle Sam
has spouted at Europe ever since we
decided to stay out of the League
of Nations, with few deeds to back
up our fine words, until Franklin
Delano Roosevelt lent the sanction
of his high Office to concrete ban
ner holding aloft" like airplane sales
to France and Britain.
1t decidedly remains to be seen
whether the White House press con-
ference explosion about leaks of in
formation from supposed executive
sessions or conferences will put a
stop to such breaches of faith in
political Washington. The business
of reporters is to report. News is
where they find it. If members of
Congress or other Government off,
cials care to CAB to newspapermen
and women, either voluntarily, or
under 1nterrogative pressure, it is
not only the privilege, but becomes
the duty of press representatives,
to use the information thus derived.
This is not to say that there is any
right to embroider the stuff or to
invent such headline material as an
American frontier on the Rhine or
in France" which attribution to
him, F. D. R. has just branded as
"a deliberate lie" It Is neverthe-
less easy to understand how some
correspondent or editor, on the basis
of the general statements ascribed
to the President by the Senate Mill
Evening star., 1939-02-06
Catholic U. Debuters
To Meet Manhattan

Manhattan College debaters. on
four-day swing through Middle
Atlantic States, will meet the Catho-
lie University debating team here
Friday.
They will come to Washington
after meeting Villanova College at
Villanova, Pa, on Wednesday and
the University Of Pennsylvania on
Thursday. Saturday they will meet
with West Virginia University at
Morgantown, w. Va, and Sunday
they will argue with Marquette Uni
versity's team in New York.