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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
ELKS' OFFICIAL TO
PAY VISIT TO CITY

The Key West Lodge of ElkS
will be favored with a visit by ]
Frank Umstot, president of the
Florida State Elks Association, OF
Tuesday evening, February 26th,
at 3 o'clock.
Mr.. Umstot is a prominent fig
ure in Elkdom throughout the
state and actively participated in
organizing and establishing the
Crippled Children's Home at Uns-
atilla, Florida.
He is still actively interested
and engaged in the management
and maintenance Of this charit-
able institution.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
'e1 FAIR TO THE FAIR

Editor, The Citizen:
In the basketball tournament
here in Key West, all of the
players have joined in good faith
and promised to play fair and
square. The games l have wit
messed so. far have truly lived UP
to these standards. So why must
your sports writer cause any hard
feelings by his write-ups?
am especially referring U
the item of Feb. %. In it is men
toned the height of the Lions
Team, which in itself is air
tight, but why must one girl be
singled out and such remarks as
towering" be used?
Might l remind you that this
same player played on the High
School team last year but you
read no such embarrassing re-
marks about it then. So why, all
Of a fsIdden, why must it be
mentioned. this year?
n If any other team had the good
fortune to acquire such a good
player, you can be sure she would
also be out there on the field
playing.
The girls themselves. play
5cleanp Can't we keep the write
APPS that way too2
'I.5 gu A BASKETBALL FAN.
key West, Fla,
Feb. ~ 1916.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
The Answers


|. In 1901 by ]. P. Morgan.
2. AT Jachymov, in Czechosio-
vakia.
! 8. For her experiments on split
ting the uranium atom.
4. $3.50.
/. 5. 10000, 900 pairs, according te
the Civilian Production Admin
tistration.
6. A blue discharge" is git ca
to a soldier not entitled to ar
honorable discharge but who's
conduct still does not warrant
court-martial and dishonorabla
discharge
Z. About 80 carloads.
8. Citizen radio.
9. Cats, $4,000, 900; dogs, 49,
|000. 900.
10 The .elotlIre rule limits de-
bate and is the only way to stop
"a filibuster. Two-thirds of the
Senate must demand it before il
can be applied, however
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
PEOPLES FORUM

| to the churches. Prohibition die
not work and is not necessary
but there must be moderation
in the pace that is being set. I'M
less we are to expand our bars ir
accordance with our rate of con-
sumption.
No minister of God should
desecrate his. high office to APP
pear before any assembly wheth-
er it is legislative or otherwise
when members of that assembly
pass legislation which defies not
the laws of man but the laws OF
God himself deffes the very
Bible on which he places his
hand to take oath of office-to
pass laws to keep open the bars
into the morning of the Sabbath.
There is in process of organiza-
ton body which is not afraid CT
political pressure, any of the
threats of gansterism, or the
screaming demands of those sell
fish individuals who are concern
ed only with their own pleasures
and profits. Hitler ussolini and
others have defied God but
against the gates of He'll the
Church has prevailed. The fool
may smile but the righteous will
prevail and sooner or later the
fool will shed tears of salt on the
earth that will receive him.
Whatever his earthly gains - he
can't take it with him-into hell
itself.
ALBERT G. ROBERTS. b.
Key West, Fla,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
While Afloat Got Very Lit
tie, Seafood: Called. Joe:
From Land-locked, Mid
dle-western Ohio
BY FRANK i. WELLER


AP Newsfeatures,
| WASHINGTON, D. C.-Adm.
Joseph Francis Farley, new cona-
nandant of the u. S. Coast
Guard, drips words around you
like disinfectant.
For. instance, he told me he'd
rather have seen his grandma
smoke cigar and boot the Bible
around than answer my dam
fool questions.
He seems to be a swell egg,
though, and l found out he is a
sucker for sea food, of which he
got very little, for some reason,
when he was on duty afloat.
One day the admiral, now 81
six feet tall and weighing 200
pounds, sailed in hungry
from the sea, picked up his wife,
Ruth, and high-tailed it to a
famous New York restaurant.
The Adrairals Appetite
He brought himself five
pound lobster and whammed
back into the kitchen to pick it
out himself He ate all of it, and
most Of tbs three -poYpder Ee
bought Mrs FaSlsS st.seees
His best friend, Commodore
Ellis ReedsTIiils remembers many
times the admiral grabbed up
him and others he happened to
tag on to and treated them to
/seafood in a Washington hotel.
Farley frequently ate a peck of
steamed clans and polished that
off with the biggest lobster he
could find plus a double back-fin
lump crabmeat salad and shrimp
Norfolk.
After a few years as a wartime
part of the Navy, the Coast
Guard is back under the Treas
ury Department. During combat
it had a top enrolment of $4,000
men, with a sprinkling of SPARs,
Before the war it had only $4,000,
and now likely will wind up with
something less than 10000.
Coast Guards Function
! The Coast Guard is a maritime
police force-normally busy. with
civil, not military duties-but,
says Farley, intended to, be- a
sturdy guardian of the merchant
fleet in wartime. ''""
~ Yet, he says, in peacetime the
Guard has many civil duties to
perform and should be bossed by
civilians. 1t has to ram around
spotting icebergs in shiplaneS,
fuel lighthouses and feed their
person nel, train and get life
guards out to distressed vessels
and help u. S. immigration Off
Gals and u. S. customs officers.
"Joe"-they call him that for
short-doesn't rightly know why
he went to sea.
He says maybe it was. because
he was born in land-locked Ok
ford, Ohio, got little ship-silly
as a boy in Ithaca, N. Y, and that
the Indian names for Coast
Gaurd cutters such as Mohawk" +,
"Onodaga" and Seminole" in
trigued him.
Stocked Lake Freighters
He batted around bit as fire
man on Great Lakes freighters.
Since then, smoking a dip-down
pipe and scowling black thunder
in battle, he has been over all
the oceans. He Joined the Coast
Guard in 1909.
Maybe his raft-jron nerves had
something to- DO o with his guP
&c. - -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
CORAL ROCKETS
BY, L. p. ARTMAN. JR.

Cross told. me of Captain Lee
Maxwell of the charter boat
Heidi Ho coming into his hotel
Sunday night and asking if any
one wished to go fishing.
! THE BUILDING. INSPECTOR ;
Here's a boost for. city Building
Inspector Errol Sawyer. Mr..
Sawyer, is in right close
sdaily contact with various local
builders. He continually gives
good advice and offers inforrna-
ton of value to the builders. Mr..
Sawyer knows his business as
near as; l, can judge and knows
the various markets available. He
has a strong constructive atti-
tude and likes. to see new bust
nesses come to town.
CLASS cLEAvAcES
Some few persons have asked
me why occasionally 1 refer to
the cleavage between winter Wis
itors and Key Westers. Usually
/ do thsi whenever the cleavage
is. developing into hard feeling
This cleavage will probably al
ways exist and since it is free
country people can choose their
own companions, but I do believe
that Key Westers. should extend
themselves to understand winter
visitors and more especially / ber.
1ieve winter visitors should ex-
tend themselves OF. under Key
sWesters. Together there can be
much JOYS With, strong cleavages
you have the. sort of trouble
which breeds such expressions as
these, saw he's just stranger"
or on the other side of the fence,
Eyes, we're not considered much;
we're just winter visitors" There
should be none of this. I have
heard it for many years and / am
mighty tired of it. This column
is designed and will continue to
be designed to bring all factions
together in the American way. l
dislike to see factions grid for
struggles.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25

SON BORN AT HOSPITAL

Announcement has been made
of the birth of a boy, weight, lg
seven pounds and twelve ounces.
to Mr.. and Mrs. Ernestine Es-
tedez at the Municipal Hospital
on February %.
The Estedez family reside at
1906 Staples Avenue.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
DONALD PINDER
HOME ON VISIT

Pfc. Donald S. Pinder, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. James Pinder of
1917 Petronia street, accompanied
by Sergeant Nelson Sollinger,
both of the United States Marine
Corps, were recent arrivals in
Key West for a visit.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
Coral Gables
Editor Here l

! Visiting. here over the week
end were Mr. and Mrs. Albert E.
Harum and two sons of Coral
Gables. s,
Mr.. Harum is. the editor and
publisher of Coral Gables Ri
Were. -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
BEARING BREADFRUIT

TREE. 600 Francis street. On,y,
bearing breadfruit tree in coun-
try, true test of a tropical climate
KEY WEST CIGARS. Corner
Duval and Division streets. Here
are made Key West cigars from
pure Havana tobacco.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
TRACT SITUATED ON
NO NAME. KEY SOLD

Carlton L. Craig and Grace
Craig have sold a tract on No
Name Key to Thomas R. Mullen,
Jr., Richard Leslie Mullen and
Ruth E. Mullen, for $1,000.
The tract, which has water
frontage, is 220 feet wide and
1920 feet long.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
|. MAINE MEMoRIAI..

and Margaret. This is turret of
the Battleship Maine blown up in
Havana Harbor February is. 1885
At the end of Margaret street, in
the city cemetery are the remaif !:
of soldiers and sailors who lost
their lives in the sinking.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25

merry record. Back in 1928-29,
when he commanded the
Wilkes, his ship attained the
highest score in Destroyer Force
target practice.
He holds life membership in
the National Rifleman Associa-
ton, but he certainly flubbed up
a duck-hunting expedition in the
Carolinas one time. His host bet
Farley ten bucks he couldn't
down a duck coming in - gave
him the favored position and
first shot. He missed d mile. He
says he got smart and figured
out what the dumb duck would
debut if did1't. tsl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
us, NAVAL OPERATING BASE

Southland and Emma, Commodore
David Porter drove the Pirates
from Key West in 1922 and estab-
lished base here then. 1t has
served well in every war since
then. Closed to the public.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
CONVENT OF MARY INlMAc.

ULATE. In 1868 the Sisters of the
Holy Names opened a boarding
school for. girls here, Here is
housed a museum open to the
public in which a flag of the Bat
tleship Maine is exhibited.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
SALT PONDS. Snr

SALT PONDS. South end of
Bertha street. Built of rectangles
loo x so feet of native coral rock
for solar evaporation and gather.
ING of the salt. $4,000 bushels SAT-
produced in one year.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
MoI.LIE PARKER GARDENS.

1915 South street. One of most re-
markable tropical gardens. in the
country. Linburg erstrees, sausage
trees.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
MUNICIPAL. SPONGE DOCKS

Caroline and Grinnell. Sponge
sales are held on Monday, Wed
nesday and Friday of each weak.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
soUTHERNMosT HOME. In

1899 Judge ]. Vining Harris con-
structed this home on the SOUTH
ernmost point of land in the Unit
ed States at a cost of aroui q
100000,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25

KEY WEST LIGHTHOUSE.
Whitehead and Division. Origin.
ally constructed on Whitehead's
Spit in 1925. One of few inland
lighthouses in the country.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
BARRIER REEF.

Atlantic side. Seven miles out is
the Florida Keys barrier reefs on
which were wrecked Spanish
galleons and great commercial
sailing ships.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
OPEN Arr AoUARruM. White

head and Front streets. Only ope
air aquarium in the country. Col
sorful sight Win be reopened
shortly.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
TURTLE cRl

TURTLE cRAWLS. Carolirc
and William. Only green turtle
soup canning factory in count1 y.
Live turtle in crawls.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
DEEp. SEA FISHING DOCK

u QEEF SEA F.ISF1ING. UONh'
sGrinnell and Caroline streets.
Best fishing in the country. Elk
perienced local charter boatmen
EAST MARTELLo TOWERS.
Roosevelt Boulevard, east side.
Old Fort begun at outbreak al
Civil War.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
U. S. ARMY BARRACKS.

White and Southland. IN. 1924 a
company of marines were sta
toned at Key West. The sea
quarters erected in 1874.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25

CUBA BOAT. North end of
Duval street Here are expected to
berth mammoth ferries which
viii take cars to Cuba.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25

FISH MARKET. Elizabeth and
Greene streets. You can point to
the fish you want here in cars
and it will be caught with net
and dressed in front of your eyes
No freSher fish.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
BOTANICAL. GARDENS Ian

: BOTANICAL. GARDENS and
COUNTRY CLUB. Stock Island.
Thousands of specimens of tropi-
cal flora. Seuthernmest Golf
course in country, nine holes.
ROCK HOUSE. South and Key.
noldss Not piece of wood in it
except doors. and window panes.
Built 5 1900. .35*s Il 4
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
RAYvrEW PARK. Ro,llev

and Division streets. Recreational
facilities for all. Comfort stations.
Night tennis, softball, basketball
play.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25

Well here's the straight dope
on the hotel situation in Key
West. There were approximately
1876 rooms vacant in Key West
on Sunday night from the hotels
proper. This survey was conduct
ed by Miss Gertrude LaubScher
following an article in a Miami
newspaper which just about
painted the worst picture of Key
West which I have ever read.
You know about sleeping on
beaches and so forth. 1t has GER
tainly created furore among the
hotel people and I understand
that phones have been ringing
and ears burned up ever since.
There were only two hotels filled
up last night. Evidently this news
of lack of accommodations was
confused with apartment accom-
modations which are damned up
Another thing you can get
charter boats to go fishing. Man
ager John Dillinger Of Southern
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

Whitehead and Southland. Present
building constructed : in : 1883.
Original scene of wrecking sal
wage courts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
OLD BAHAMA HOUSES. "a

on and William streets. Floated
over on schooners in 1865 from
Abaco, Bahamas. Original cypress
wood.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25

FORT TAYLOR. Whitehead
and United. Begun in 1845. Closed
to the public Can be seen frtrn
sightseeing boat.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25

OLDEST HOUSE. 322 Duval
street It has withstood every hur-
ricane since its construction in
1925: Dutch oven is iii rean
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
MAIN. SHIP CHANNEL. Whi,e..

MAIN SHIP CHANNEL. Whit
head street, south end. At night
navigation lights can be seea
blinking down this channel which
goes out into the Gulf Stream and
which ships take going to Cuba.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
OF COMMERCE. AND TRADE

Here is another chat ON news
paper practice. If you happen
to start little store and send
news item to the editor of the
local paper, this is not news but
an advertisement and you should
not expect publication of this
item either as a news item or
for a personal favor. To do this
would be working a wrong on
the rest of the businesses houses
who use the effective advertis-
ing columns of The Citizen. Now
whenever your store comes up
in an article which is, news
worthy why then your name or
store should be mentioned, Such
as for instance a rare gem found
in an old corner of your. store
and SO on, Nor, should one ex-
pect boosts as emanating from
that store without recompenSe
to the paper. Publicity material
is paid matter if you are in a COM
mercial business.
BOOSTING KEY WEST
The practice in the future in
The Citizen viii be to continue
boosting the city's resources, the
fine fishing, the commercial
fishing, the turtle soup, the
city's projects, new school build
ings, thesNavy here the climate.
And from time to time you can
expect big articles which will
bring out these civic matters.
The latest addition to The
Citizen is a waterfront column
news of which will be garnered
by George Davis who will cover
Key Vests fishing and put the
names. of parties. and charter
boats in. In turn The Citizen is
sent to Russell Kay's clipping
service for service to various
news agencies over the state and
country. Also serviced will be all
the newspapers in Florida which
pick up these items from The
Citizen and also the statewide
Florida Sportsman and Florida
outdoors who have personal con-
facts with The Citizens writers.
A file of photographs on Key.
] Vests points of interest and nat
sural resources is being made. up
sat present and will be available
ito. the country's writers when
sthey come down here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
0ese eaoaeee zoe e.eaeeeeeNe

NAMING, OF KEY WEST.
North End of Duval Street. Bones
of Key Caribbee Indians wee
found at a beach nearby by Span
ish. fishermen who 2 promptly
dubbed the island Cayog sHHeso,
later anglsized ito Key WesYslsy
IBahamansAf& - Y III sAlSE.SF5A
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25

The Citizen welcomes express
sI0ns OF the views Of its, read
erH. but the editor reserves the
right 10 delete any items which
are considered lIbelOus. or unNar-
ranted. The writer's should ne
fair and cOnfine the letters TO
800 words, and write ON one side
of the paper only. signature OF
the writer's must accompany the
letters and will be published un-
less requested otherwise.
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- Inally there was "a google
fisherman performing. He dove
under water with a pair of Jap
anese goggles over his eyes and
with a rubber hand spear in his
hands. Presently there was a
great Hopping and you could see
him reach out and grab the
spear. He brought up grey snap
per of about eight pounds. Now
that is a big snapper Next time
/ go up the keys and look under
the banks with my water glass
I'm going to carry one of those
spears. You draw the spear back
in the case which is made of
rubber bands and then cock the
gun and fire it by pointing the
gun and pulling the trigger.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1946-02-25
FRESH AIR SATURDAY

Saturday afternoon. We drove
Cup to the old Boca Chica bridge
lsfor fresh air and green water
Isvistas. With the little weedie wee
lsbundled UP we walked along the
bank on the west end of the
bridge. ItabWass falh high n tide
Eand the water was so clear that
1--WE could 3sees to the bottom Of
la blue ten foot channel. There
Twas a hermit esab gwhpshad swip-
led a conch shell and who was
making his way along with his
|scurved red legs and leaving a
Isstream of smoky, mari dust:
There were little ''yellowbellies"
half yellow and half blue scurry-
ing about, there were tiny
brownies" only two inches long
who chase every fish their size.
There was queen angel fish
with her blue and gold crown.
There were tiny striped black
and white fish. There were some
good sponges with their beautiful
curved round and delicate text
ure. There were rouftl LOBBY
loggerhead sponges much like
loaves of European bread and
very. dark looking. There were
small putting. fish who puff their
bellies. huge size when attacked.
There were school masters with
the brown quill over their eyes.
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Uncle Ruy's Corner

When some one speaks Of Jungle
beasts" the names or images OF
several kinds of animals are likely
to come to mind. Most often, I be-
lieve, a person thinks Of lions, tigers
and elephants.
India is the only part Of the world
where those three kinds of animals
live in jungles.
Perhaps Africa's jungles are bet
ter known than India's, but Africa
is without tigers.
In India tiger may meet lion.
and If they fight against each other
it is battle royal. A fight may take
place in the jungle when the beasts
both want the body Of slain ami
NAL. 1t also has happened at vari-
Gus times when tigers and lions
have been matched in pits to amuss
people who came to watch.
Reports from India tell us that
sometimes the lion wins, but more
often the tiger. This has been taken
as proof that tigers are better fight
ers than lions.
Yet there is doubt about the point
The lions of India seem somewhat
less powerful than those of Africa.
If we wished to make sure about ths
best fighter in the cat tribe, the way
to do it would be to match ths
strongest and fiercest lions of Africa
against the strongest and fiercest
tigers of India. A series of contests
would be needed to prove the point
one way or the other.
Evening star., 1946-09-16
Take My Word for 1t
BY FRANK COLBY.
"Ahnt" or can't?

A New England reader recently
wrote to tell me that she would no
more think of referring to her aunt
as "ant" than she would of calling
her bug" or insect" Only illit-
crates" she states. SAY ant for
aunt And no dictionary sanctions
ant"
The charge that "ant" Is illit-
crate is without any foundation, as
is the statement that mo diction-
ary sanctions ant" Kenyon and
Klott list "ant" as first choice. So
does the Thorndike Century. The
New Century lists "ant" as "com-
monty United States" While Web
ster's New International, second
edition, explains in paragraph 80
of the pronunciation section that
the fiat A of man strongly pre-
dominates In the country as .
whole"
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