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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here just 10 Years
Ago Today As Taken From
The Files of The Citizen

At a meeting of the city coun-
Gil last night the proposition of
Dr. ]. S. Merrill, one of three
submitted for the purpose of
furnishing the city with fresh
water, was voted on most fav-
orably. DR.. Merrill represents
the Central Trust Company of
Chicago and the Standard Water
System of Hampton, N. J. DIR.
Merrill addressed the board in
connection with the franchise
which he hopes to secure from
the city. A charge of So per
thousand gallons would be made
with the understanding that this
would be the minimum charge
whether or not that amount
would be used. In the event that
$4,000 gallons are used there IS a
possibility that the price would
be reduced to 81 per thousand
gallons. The proposition from
the International Water Com
pany in which the city was asked
to permit the company to drill a
well for the securing of water
with the understanding that the
city furnish $4,000 for carrying
on the work with the water COM
pany to finance all other expens-
es of the company, was read
Should the project prove success
full the. charge would be 31Jb
cents per thousand gallons, while
special rates would be made on
larger quantities. The city would
become the owner of the system
in 30 years. This proposition was
rejected.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

wife, Lena. Harry and his broth
er-ln-law, Bill BoZarth are see
ing that there are some more
new buildings put up for those
who may feel impulsed to 60 to
Miami to live. We saw the mag
nificent new million dollar race
track, The Gulfstream, which
opened with great pomp one day
last month, and then closed down
IN financial distres in Just a day
or two. It seems Hialeah and
Tropical Park can furnish all the
race sport the Miamians need
just now.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

S. W. Brown, for the past three
years manager of the local gas
plant, has been transferred to
the office of manager of the gas
plant of the company at Pensa-
cola. He will be succeeded here
by w. v. Malone, chief clerk in
the office of the company in Key
West. Mr.. and Mrs. Brown will
leave by automobile tomorrow
for Atlanta before going to Pen
sacola.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

Fifteen merry men and women,
whose combined ages would rep
resent more than 1000 years,
members of the Three Score and
Ten Club of Miami, came to the
city yesterday and appeared to
be as much enthused over the
joy ride as if they were in their
teens. The good will trip was
headed by DR.. A. F. B. Oden, sec
rotary of the organization, which
is the only one of its kind in the
world.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

MANCHESTER - TeIeElSun
bruzdcasr Of q rulier-sEzElE A.
was diSruLfed when the tN0 An
erican Performers fen 81 1e
table on which they Were spn-
mig and one Vas knockcd ou1
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

touched the button that opened
the Worlds Fair at San Fran
cisco The Navy unit is in a big
park covered with gorgeous palm
trees and scores of other trees
and shrubbery I could not name.
A big Sausage" tree refused to
bear fruit. and they told US it is
because il is a male" tree. q
don't know how they knew.
always failed" in botany. We
visited the great docks where
the big ships take off for Cuba,
eighty-five miles away. We were
invited to visit the inside of one
of the ships (the Cuba to see
how luxurious are an ocean ships
appointments. We saw colored
swimmers dive for coins thrown
in the deep water and marveled
at their diving skill. We looked
over the section of the dock
where port inspection for Gus
toms duty is made. We visited
where is located the furthermost
southern house in the United
States, and walked out on a little
dock just SOS to be a little fur
Their south YETI.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15
Sundays
Horoscope

Todzy's natives ETT or-z ~
20 great heiEh-s E1r hs1e A.
great creative pUWErs cc--cE1ez
win SOM arlslc Eer1Uz- ny
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fluence e rhose zrEzc1sa - 60
by Their u1agnerlc CZzErleE
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

The u. S. navy maintains a very
extensive base here at the west
end of the island on which Key
West sits. Here was parked
the cruiser Houston, ready for Mr..
Rooseyelt's fishing trip recently,
and hardly was the platform,
still up, where the Chief had
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

A bathing revue and beauty
contest sponsored by Girl Scout
Troop 4 is to be held at st. PauTs
church parish hall this evening.
The attractive program as pub
.ished is expected to draw a large
attendance.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

Editorial Comment: A New
York bank gives a safety razor
to each depositor. The Key West
Citizen does even better than
that; it gives a safety razor and
strop with every Is cents want
ad. The outfit sells everywhere
for 81.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

Our, friend, Harry B. Clark,
former Fairfield auto salesman,
drove my Buick on sightseeing
tour that took US to places we
missed last winter. Harry is
much intrigued with Flo, ida, but
I discerned some Indication Of
i1omesickness a. the mart of his
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

DR.. J. S. Merrill, representing
a water corporation in the North,
was an arrival yesterday for a
business visit.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

A venire of 40 jurors for a petit
jury for the term of United States
Court to be held at Key West,
beginning May 6, has been order
ed by Judge HalSted L. Ritter of
Miami, who will preside at the
term. Congressman Michaelson
is to be tried. "
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15
Today's Birthdays

Gov. Luren D. Dickinson of
Michigan, born 80 years ago.
DR.. Bred Engelhardt. president
of the Univ. of New Hampshire.
born Al Naugatuck, Conn.,, 81
years ago.
Samuel r. McKelvie of Lin
coin. Nebf.s newspaper publisher,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

! There is little of Importance
growing on the small islands or
Keys We saw a few oranges of
interior quality, but plenty of
slinles. Lime pies and Imeade are
advertised at the wayside refresh
ment places. 1t gives one dis
tinct thrill to drive a car over
much of this Overseas Highway,
for which privilege you pay one
dollar for the car and driver and
Is cents for each additional pas
senger therein. These fees are
to pay the railway for that right
of-way and the PWA for its loan.
Key West boasts of a climate that
changes but degree or two be-
tween winter and summer. See
ing it only in socalled winter
months, / cannot say.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

ex-governor, born at Fairfield,
Nebr., So years ago.
Rev. DR.. H. Lester Smith, ME.
bishop of Cincinnati, born at In
diana, Pa, So years ago.
DR.. William F. Leiserson of the
Natl Mediation Board, born in
Esthonia, So years ago.
Lita Grey Chaplin. actress,
born 81 years ago.
James ]. Jeffries, onetime
pugihst, California rancher, born
In Ohio, "a years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

AS the guest of retired naval
doctor, attended the Key West
Rotary Club meeting in the Par
ish house of the Episcopal church.
After the luncheon we started
back towards Miami over the
Overseas Highway again. On one
of the Keys at Islamorada costly
monument marks the site where
a crypt guards the bodies of sew
eral scores of those who lost
their lives, by the blunder of
somebody, in the great storm of
three years ago last Labor Day.
Some one told us the victims in
the Inflated camp had plenty of
warning to get away but the man
in charge of the railway trans
portation was so drunk he did
not do his duty, hence the loss
of several hundreds of lives, on
Key Largo, as you read in your
paper. On the long, seven mile
bridge engineers split in two
lengthwise the 263 foot railroad
swinging draw, while it hung on
its pivot, widened it to the twen-
lty foot highway it now is, did it
at cost of $4,000 QesS than es-
tirnate) without losing a tool, in
terfering with navigation or in
; jurying a man, an engineering
feat without precedent, it is said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15
OLD HOME WEEK MURDER
by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
The Characters

The Characters
Asey Mayo, Cape Cod sleuth-
Zeb Chase, young Baked Bean
heir, Sulitfep with Jane. -:
Weston, seIectmGn of Billings
gate. = Ok
= !: M 4
Yesterday: 1t looks as If the
murder tCill; bloJU Old Home
Week sky high.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

We started before the break of
dawn, March 18th, and by mid
afternoon we were in Key West
Wife counted the bridges, and we
have her checkup as authority
for stating there are SO bridges
TO cross after reaching the first
key" before entering this
southernmost city of the U.S.A.
They're all over salt water
passes, inlets, channels, and, one
of 'em is full seven miles long, By
the speedometer. Much of the
way we are. m sight tof ,bofhSthe
Atlantic Ocean and the. Gulf of
Mexico. a Flagler railway. oiiee
entered this farfout tity,s;baK a
stormy IN 1885 destroyed d large
part of the land portion Of it. ard
bankruptcy of the conpaiiy pre-
vented rebuilding. The State
Road Department for q halfsnlil-
lion dollars. bought de railroad
right.of-way over a large pert of
the distance and on ne up ot
the concrete arched raiIfdad
bridges, they have builded a very
splendid highway. I climbed
down under one of the bridges
to see how they had constructed
the concrete highway. The great
highway had been somewhat
''tidied up, for just a few days
before the President of the Unit
ed States had motored over the
road to Key West in a motor
cade-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

e. z. oBrien publishes PAR.
Times Of Cuba and Pan Amer
lean Review al Sam Isnacio 81
Havana. p. o. Box 32s. Tel.
M-1ol2. Chamber of Commerce,
Hotel La Concha. Bus Station.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

Alarm at / o'clock this after
noon called the fire department
to the old shack, which was in
flames on Caroline street near the
Gulf Refining dock. The fire
was extinguished with chemicals.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15
A FLORIDA TRIP
By E. H. cHnDREss in Wayne County nll Press

/ NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla, Mar
26, 1939.-We're just about tC
wind up our three months stay
in Florida. Since writing the last
story. we have tFaVersed some,
thing like one thousand miles OF
, the highways of the Palmetto
State, and are much better in
formed about the things to be
seen in the length and breadth
or this great commonwealth than
we were ten days ago when we
left Fort Myers.
We found the three hundred
mile motor trip from Fort Myers
to Key West all the tourist
narrators had told us. One hum
dred miles of Everglades ira
versed by the one and only Tam
iami Trail, is a deary drive, as
far as variation of scenery is
concerned. It's just about the
same palmetto, scrub brush, wire
grass, swamp grass, water lilies,
lakes, swamps, lagoons, marshes,
cypress trees, with big knees, and
hung with millions of wild
orchids, most of which were In
flower. Water birds, frighten-
ed, wing their. way from the
canal at the side of the highway,
to places they regard as safer, as
motofists rush by, but no one
would hurt ,'em. Here and there
is a Seminole Indian village, with
signs out in front trying to in
veigle tourists into them to see
alligators, raccoons, and a lot of
curios the women folks make to
sell. No other human habita-
tionS.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

We spent a couple of days in
Miami, where the women folks
compared the big stores with
those in Chicago; we drove from
one end to the other of Miami
Beach; saw the Al Capone home;
and the home where our Gov,
Henry Horner is recuperating fol
six months or so: where they've
builded out in, the bag a great
monument to Henry M. Flagler
who did more than any other
man living for south and east
Florida. It's badly Re-worn
now, and ought to have a batH
or a scrubbing" the editor of The
Miami Herald said in an edi.
torial- We saw the Firestone es-
tate and some more estates where
wealth gorgeously glitters in the
Florida sunlight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15
OVERSEAS
CAFE AND LODGE

Marathon. Fla. Phone No. 4
The Best in Food and Rooms
Between Key West and Miami
COMPLETE GARAGE SERVICE
Charley TOPPING. Prop.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

When we pulled out of Key
West we could say that we were
really headed for home. But we
were going to criss-cross Florida
and see what the state really has
to offer for the education and
edifieation of touring editor. A
few miles below Miami, return
ing from Key West, we stopped
at the small municipality of
Princeton. Fla, near tine Cash
filling station, and ate a lunch
we had with us in the car. Last
May Franklin Pierce Mccall
ministers son, kidnapped the two
year old son of MIR. Cash, smoth-
cred him to death, and then col
lected $4,000 ransom from the
anguished parents. Just five
weeks ago they electrocuted Nc
Call at the state prison at Raj
ford, after every known legal
procedure to delay justice had
been employed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15
DON'T MISS p. A. r..

La Revista Mensual en- Espanol G
Ingles. Mailed at Havana Month
lY on the 18Th Ten Cents. 81 .
Year. Six Years IS. Sample FREE.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

The city aquarium is a worth
while place to see, Florida boasts
of 600 varieties of fish and there
must have been this many in this
aquarium One who hasn't visit
ed this aquarium would never
know what peculiar kinds of fish
inhabit the southern waters. We
were intrigued much at watching
a .copch fisherman getting the
ugly animals out of those fancy
shells you see for door-stops all
sover the countrys He stabs a hole
through certain part of the
shell. inserts an ice pick, gives it
a deft turn and then out comes
the live conch, to go into some
body's soup that day or the next.
Watching the process is not ex-
actly an appetizing experience,
but most folks profess to like
conch soup.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15

Key West is a novel little city.
1t has rather narrow streets and
distinct Cuban (Spanish) at
mosphere prevails. Plenty of
wide porticos overhang the side
walks. Windows have the old
fashioned shutters, so folks can't
see what goes on inside the home
after nightfall. Fishing, turtle
hunting, sponging and cigar max
ing are important industries. A
tuIfle5farms owner showed me his
aquarium pens of giant turtles
! soHedofItf1em. four feet across
their backs. Visited the slaught-
er house where half dozen of
the big fellows were waiting their
doom the next day. So they
won't try to run away, but stay
put, they just turn 'em over on
their backs and they're utterly
helpless. They make soup out of
them and turtle steak" is served
at the better restaurants. You
! can secure a ''turtleburger" in
Key West as easily as you can
buy hamburger at a county fair.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-15
LEGALS

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE
ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
or THE STATE on FLORIDA
II AND FOR MONROE COTNTH-
N EHANEERN
Evening star., 1939-02-05
West Virginia Society
Dinner Dance Feb. IS

The West Virginia Society will
celebrate it's 25th anniversary Feb
ruary Is with dinner dance at
the Raleigh Hotel. Louis johnson,
Assistant Secretary of War, will
speak. and Senator NJ M. Nicely of
West Virginia will be honor guest.
Other prominent West Virginians
who have been invited to attend
include Gov. Homer Holt. Repre-
sentative Jennings Randolph, for
mer Gov. E. F. Morgan, Senator
Rush D. Holt, Representative George
w. johnson, Representative John
Kee. Representative Joe L. Smith,
Representative A. C. Schiller and
Representative Andrew Edminston
The committee chairmen for the
celebration are: John w. Smith,
tickets; Harold H. Martin, seating
arrangements: George Barr, radio;
David S. Davidson, publicity; James
M. Moriarity, dinner. and T. w.
Cain and Mrs. E. H. Nunnally, en-
tertainment and music.
Evening star., 1939-02-05
City News in Brief

lODA4.
. Meeting, Photo Engravers' Union,
Hamilton Hotel, 10 am.
Luncheon. Sigma Phi Gamma In
ternational Sorority, Wardman Park
Hotel, 2:3o pm.
Meeting, Upsilon Lambda Phi,
Wardman Park Hotel, 6 pm.
TOMORROW.
Board meeting, National League
OF American Penwomen, Willard
Hotel, $50 am.
Dinner, Maryland and Virginia
Milk Producers Association, Will
lard Hotel, 1915 pm.
Luncheon, Washington Execu-
tives' Association, Willard Hotel,
1890 pm.
Luncheon, D. c. Building Con-
gress, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Newcomers Club, Carl
ton Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Sigma Phi Gamma
International Sorority, Carlton
Hotel, pm.
Dinner, Argo Lodge, Bnai Birth,
Mayflower Hotel, $50 pm.
Buffet supper, Order of Alham-
bra. Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Meeting, Abraham Lincoln Cir
Gle. No. 8, Ladies G. A. R., Willard
Hotel, 8 pm.
Card party, Providence Hospital,
Willard Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance, Court Forest Glen, Cath
olic Daughters of America, Ward
man Park Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Performance, Washington Civic
Theater, Wardman Park Hotel,
$50 pm.
Evening star., 1939-02-05
Birthday
. To Be Marked at
Memorial
Loyal Legion to Sponsor
Patriotic Exercises
Next Sunday

Washingtons patriots and patri-
otic organizations will unite next
Sunday, February II, in paying
tribute to Abraham Lincoln at the
Lincoln Memorial at 2:3O pm. The
occasion is the Civil War Presidents
130th birthday anniversary. Presi-
dent Roosevelt may be present to
lay a wreath at the Memorial. An
other wreath will be laid in the
name of the District Commissioners.
The exercises will be held under
the auspices of the District Com
mandery of the Military Order OF
the Loyal Legion. DR.. Thomas E..
Green, chaplain of the commandery,
will pronounce the invocation and
the United States Marine Band will
play.
Soldiers, sailors, marines and coast
guardsmen under arms will act as
the escort of the national colors
land the commandery colors. Some
40 organizations represented by del
egations carrying their colorS and
emblems will present Wreaths during
the exercises.
Col. Lawrence c. Crawford, U. S.
A.. retired, is chairman of the Com
mittee on Arrangements for the eX-
ercises. His colleagues on the COM
mittee are:
Capt. Chester Wells, U. S. NJ;
Charles Mason Remey, Laurence "
Benet, Col. Goodwin Ordway, u S. A.;
Oscar A. c. Oehmler and Charles
c. Clark, jr.
Evening star., 1939-02-05
Federal Workers Support
Grievance Referee Bill

Legislation to provide for ref
cree to handle grievance cases when
other methods of adjustment have
failed will be pushed by the United
Federal Workers of America, it was
announced yesterday.
A bill has been introduced by Rep
resentative Randolph, Democrat, of
West Virginia, Incorporating this
idea, which has been employed pre-
viously by the U. F. w. where agen-
cies concerned agreed.
The union proposes that the ref
cree supplement the adjustment
units that are expected to be set up
in the various Government agencies
under President Roosevelt's June
order. This arbitrator, who would
be chosen by the Civil Service Com
mission and the employe affected,
would consider appeals
The union also announced sup
port of measures sponsored by Rep
resentative Randolph to establish a
minimum wage of $500 for full
time employment in the Govern
ment, and for extending classical
ton to the field.
Evening star., 1939-02-05
Men More Apt 10 Contract
Pneumonia Than Women
Ey the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Men are more apt to contract
pneumonia than women.
This conclusion was reported by
the Public Health Service yesterday
on the basis of survey of pneu-
monia frequency in 1887. The sur
vey disclosed, the health service
said, that the rate among males was
6 per 1000 persons and among fe-
males was 40.
No conclusion was reached as to
why men are more susceptible.
The report also said it was found
pneumonia strikes with greatest
frequency in the lower income
groups.
The pneumonia case rate among
1relief families was over twice the
rate of that among families in the
upper income groups" the report
said. There was also an excess in
the rates among families VINO were
rot on relief, but whose incomes
were less than $125 a month"
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Narcotic Law Sentence
Held Divorce Ground

Serving of a two-year sentence
after conviction under the Harrison
Narcotic Act is sufficient moral
turpitude" to sustain a decree for
absolute divorce. the United States
Court OF Appeals held in an opinion
handed down today.
Mrs. Margaret L. Menna BROUGHT
suit IN District Court for an abso-
lutte divorce, under a provision that
this may be granted in the District
where a spouse has been convicted
OF felony involving moral turpi-
tude, where the sentence Is for as
much as two years and Is served in
whole or in part. She contended
that her husband, Victor A. Menna
has been twice convicted under the
Harrison Narcotic Act. He asked
the District Court to dismiss her
divorce bill on the ground that his
conviction did not arise out of an
of1ense involving moral turpitude
The District Court overruled his
motion and he took special appeal
to the United States Court of Ap-
peals. The appellate court held that
the offense complained of is one
against society in general and does
involve moral turpitude.
Evening star., 1939-01-09
Fair Weather 10 Continue;
Thousands Crowd Parks

Continued fair weather, with pros
poets for Washington of slightly
warmer temperature today, followed
yesterdays spring-like weather
which brought out thousands of
motorists and sent other thousands
to walk in local parks and the Zoo.
Yesterdays high temperature of
SO degrees at pm. was described
by the Weather Bureau as quite
unusual" but was representative of
the unseasonal January weather
which prevailed throughout the
Eastern part of the country. A rec
ord January high temperature of 81,
IN Cambridge, Mass, brought out
even early-bird boating enthusiasts.
The forecast here for today was
fair, with continued mild tempera-
ture, with cloudy weather in prospect
for tomorrow. At Washington's
water front, however, only a few
boatmen were on the river yester-
day, but boatyards were filled with
owners at work over-hauling their
crafts hauled up for the winter.
Otticlals at the Zoo reported that
nearly 10000 persons, in cars and on
foot, crowded the park throughout
the day. At the Botanical Gardens
some OF the seasonal Towering
shrubs showed signs of early bud
ding, and officials hoped a killing
frost would not cut short the buds
early career.
Despite the crowded highways, no
serious accidents were reported, al
though traffic officials said there
was an unusual amount of motor
traffic.