The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 4, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Kr VOLUME LIX. No. 235. More Than Eleven Thou- sand Dollars Will Be Ex- pended In Program Out- lined ; The Citizen is in receipt of a telegram from . Senator Charles ©. Andrews at Washington con- veying the information: that the Public Works Administration has given its approval fora grant to take care of many proposed im- provements to the Monroe Coun- ty Court House in Key West. Over eleven thousand dollars is orks Administration pproves Grant For Proposed — per ot Cait Mele Che NEWS FLASHES | (By Associated Press) ee LONDON.—Prime Minister Ne- ville Chamberlain of England and Edouard Daladier of France will| seek votes of confidence. from their respective parliaments. In| England it is expected that Chamberlain will get the vote as a party gesture but as far as de- termining a similar British policy. $ for the future England is. ex-}.i4 tremely doubtful. Daladiexd given. a minute applause France today and said that! oslovakia. would have been dis- membered in a war and,tkat the partitioning was thougl»: neces- sary to save further slicing. CARLSBAD. — Adolf Hitler, touring the Sudeten recently ac- quired provinces, was greeted by cheering throngs everywhere. He promises special relief measures! in a program of immediate recon- siruction. PRAGUE. — Poland recovered Galicia and asked the entire Ras- cinia province as a barrier against Russia. Czechoslovakia will prob- ably give the territory. Hungary | is negotiating for its share. i MADRID. — Insurgent planes} bombarded the Spanish capital | with 175,000 loaves of bread in celebration of Franco day, then the Franco big berthas opened fire on the city but were soon si- lenced by Madrid guns. HANKOW.—China is i jeity and will probably enlist the | services, of communists, turning | the city entirely over to them. ‘Telegrams have been received today from Senators C. O. An- drews and Claude Pepper, advis- ing that the Public Works Ad- ministration have approved the fnd the grant of $11.250 for the ity | Reinforcements of Chinese have | the first received iti arrived along the battle ‘route near here. LEXINGTON, N. C. — Two | young desperadoes, on a first de- secretary of the Cham-| gree Niinder charge, given their liberty by the sheriff's daughter who couldn’t bear to see them jface capital punishment, killed a driver of an automobile who wouldn't turn the car over to that the following members of the | them. They have committed sev- eral depredations since then. HOLLYWOOD. — Custody of Beverly Jane Stillwagon was given to her aunt, Mrs. Anna Stillwagon, and the claim of her father denied. Beverly, Linda Ware in the movies, has a $125 weekly movie contract and testi- fied her father did not even give her an ice cream cone. Stillwag- plane he was piloting break to’ pieces around him at 350 m.p.h: He reached for the opening above on denied he had abandoned the t inigh tig? Test pilot Ortman found a ‘spevd cha party in 1897. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1938 18,000 Ft. Mt. St: Elias! A refreshing sight different from the bombs and chemicals of imminent war days} - is this chill, clear-air view of Mt. St. Elias, 18,000 feet of it, which was photographed |#!! sid jby Bradford Washburn on a Harvard university National Geographic Society Expedi tion to Alaska. Mt. St. Elias has been climbed only once, by the Duke of Abruzzi’s| Allan H. Armstrong has been CHARTER UNIT MEETS TONIGHT |SESSION TO BE HELD IN WPA OFFICE BUILD- ING j | | \H. E. Day, chairman, of the City |Charter Revision Committee, will i meet this evening at WPA office Vouildiag. at 8 o'clock. In addition to all members of |this committee, it is requested | Speakers Committee be present: ; Dr. Wm. Warren, chairman; Aqui- i lino Lopez, Jr. E. A. Ramsey, {Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., and B. {Curry Moreno. b4 | Work accomplished during the past week by this committee in- , cludes the mimeographing of 50 leopies of the present City Char- iter and the collecting of funds by finance chairman,. G. Hicks, to defray the cost of saine. Copies \of the charter will-be-—on hand peri at the meetin; PatikTin * itmati OP the’ 9 mittte’whidse mpeimbership in- cludes’ thé ‘names of Over sixty prominent citizéns of Key West. i him, was thrown out of the plane} and knocked unconscious. He! pulled the ring of the parachute | automatcially and came to a few! hundred feet above the ground as {his plane smashed into a thou- sand pieces below him, on a to- SPONGE SALE HELD MONDAY VARIOUS PRODUCTS DIS- IT HARDER TO ET MARKED MEASURES REQUIRE HEALTH in the United States. Three states and the District of Columbia raised the minimum marriage age for one or both par- Four states and the District @ new waiting petiod be- application for a li- its issuance, and New iting pe- of the| county lockup hasn't had an in- brought the day’s . Meas- certifical and jbacco farm. WASHINGTON. — The Congressional Committee Dies inves- | tigating anti-American activities! had testimony before it today that an Italian Fascist group sim- ilar to the German bund_ is joining the group by threatening them with deportation For Lack Of Inmates (iy Associated Presx) DENVER, Oct. 4—-The jail “business” in. Colorado has taken }such a decline that three counties are thinking about abandoning | their lockups. There hasn't been a prisoner in the Jackson and Summit county {jails since 1935 and the Custer j } {mate since 1937. i In Kiowa county there were 18 | Women prisoners last year but not {® single man. PLAYED AT MUNI- CIPAL DOCK cipal dock yesterday were fewer than those of the last sales of the ron past, and consisted of 76 bunches of wool, 99 bunches of | grass and nine bunches of yellow. Practically all offerings were of | grades not up to those of the pre- |vious week, and the prices were, lin general, less than those of last | week’s sales. ° Highest price paid was for 21 bunches of wool, which brought $48.01, Other smaller lots were: 16 | bunches for $23.51; 10 bunches for $22.50, and another lot of 10 bunches for $18.88. Sales for the day amounted to $125.53. Yellows brought small prices: }38 bunches sold for $10.11, and 25 tanches for $5.49. Other prices total up to bunches of grass $25.10. Nine brought $1.61. Total for all offerings was j $243.24. Sponge offerings at the Muni-; |Florida Ghost City | | Being Reconditioned | For Religious Group | | INT la., (By Associated Press) ERCESSION CITY, F' | Oct. 4.—The Household of Faith, | a non-denominational Christian! sect, has taken over Interocean} |City, once a ghost town, and is; |converting it into a vocational; |and women. } | Promoters spent nearly a mil-} |lion dollars during the boom days of 1925 in developing the new! icity, by building a hotel, an} {apartment house, stores, a fac- |tory and residences. | The boom collapsed and only 12 !persons were living here three !years ago when J. W. Wile, In- | dianapolis philanthropist, gave |the town and 5,000 acres of land {to the Household of Faith. i | Miss Osie English, leader of the | movement, said persons from 19 istates ar now living and study- ing in the community. Old build- ings have been renovated and new jones erected. “GEORGE LOWE GIVEN POSITION | APPOINTED AGENT OF CON- SERVATION DEPARTMENT IN KEY WEST George O. Lowe has been ap- pointed agent for the State Con- servation Department in Key West. This was announced to- day by J. S. Gim) McCawley, who has been in charge of activi- ties in this section for some time. Mr. Lowe will be on hand at all time when it is necessary to consult a conservation depart- ment representative, and will answer all questions in connec- tion with the department and its rules and regulations. ; Another statement made by Mr. McCawley was that @ vessel! of the conservation department will be stationed at Key West at all times in the future, and will be available for use whenever necessary. PLANE TRAVEL UP Washington—According to the Customs Bureau, 6,639 planes, with 45,847 passengers, arrived im this eountry or its possessions during the past year, a pro- nounced increase over the 5,851 planes the preceding year. | ; when it is considered that the; , comparatively small sum of but y West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Key West, Florida, has the most equabie climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS “El Grito De Yara” Program Sunday—-Monday, Announced | WOULD SETTLE INDEBTEDNESS |RELATIVE TO GALA FIESTA PUT ON HERE SHORT TIME AGO Plans announced today by the 4th of July, Gala, Fiesta, Commit- tee, call for a ieity-wide solicit tion drive, e liquidation;, obligation in order-that all cred- itors be paid. Scecccccccccccccovesoese RUMANIAN STATESMAN It is felt by the committee that} all residents of Key West will gladly cooperate in this drive to erase the obligation, especially $869.00 was contributed by citi- zens and merchants in the orig- inal canvass made before the celebration. For that amount, it is said to be freely admitted on les that this city received many thousands of dollars worth \of excellent publicity. |appointed by the committee to personally, and solely, conduct |the drive for liquidation funds. PLANNING FOR __ EXAMINATIONS RELATIVE TO FLORIDA EM- PLOYMENT SERVICE FOR FILLING POSITIONS {on all residents and merchants of |Key West over an undetermined period of weeks—until such a time as,sufficient funds have been | Taised.- He will work in-elese co- | operation with finance chairman. Carl Bervaldi, and under juris- |Charles Taylor, executive com- | mittee chairman; John H. Costar, general chairman of the celebra- tion; Carl Bervaldi, treasurer; E. ‘The Charter Study Committee, | training center for young men| Wm, V. Little, head of the/A. Strunk, Jr.; Ben D. Trevor,| issued. last week. Milton A. Parrott, for whom aj AS ADVISER to Carol of Rumania, Tatarescu (above), former premier, is an exponent of close political relations with France as a defense bulwark. SPONGERS ASK HABEAS CORPUS | SHOW CAUSE FOR HOLD- ING THEM Sheriff K. 0. Thompson was today served by Deputy United diction of the full committee, | States Marshal Ray Bush, with a} | writ of habeas jing the sheriff :holding as prisoners spongers charged with gathering sponges |in waters within the territorial limits of Monroe county. The sheriff is making out his jreturns today and will pi | them on Saturday mornitig in the | United States court at Orlando, presided over by Judge Alex- ander Akerman. is understood that the sheriff will leave for Orlando within the next few days, ac- companied by State Conservation ‘Officers Roy Braman and C. S. Gaskill, who were with* the sheriff at the time the spongers | were arrested within the waters of Monroe county. Spongers affected by the order jare the crews of the “St. John”, | Captain Steve Moshin, George | Kostes Kyrgiakos, John Katakis, |Theo Alivrofos, and Percy Henry Clark, colored, the crew of the “G. Coolidee”, Cap- rpus, demand- show catse of | Spatos,.,.Pete Macrinaris, Nick |Koulianos, Costas Cardunias, | George Kouros, and Willir Hardy, | colored. pursuant to the execution of the affiliation agreement between the commission and the United States Employment Service, it is probable, it is said, that the com- j bined services will be consider- ably increased in order to take | care of the demands that will be made upon the service by the du- ties imposed upon it by the Un- employment Compensation sec- tion of the Social Security Act, after January 1. NEW ARRIVAL IN PIODELA FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. Hastings Piodela announce the birth last evening at7:45 at the home on White strect of a girl weighing 10 pounds. She will be given the name Patricia Loretta. Mrs. Piodela and daughter are reported as doing nicely. San Antonio, Tex—-Up to the last count, Mrs. Harvey C. Stile’s canine money-digger, Dumpy, has tratted in with 52 $1 bills. Just where Dumpy finds the money remains a secret, although a ¢lose | watch has been kept on the dog. United States Employment: Serv- pions Py Albury and C. C. ice, has received notice of the |"Ymonette. competitive examinations which! Ppusgies of oar hag oie <_< are to be conducted for positions | ste nit costae Gr Miciatonie’ 0 in the Florida State Employment th tosh exte t ibk 8 Service in Miami, October 21 and | "© Steatest extent possible. 22, for the following positions: | State Director, Assistant Direc | Mf A. PARROTT tor, Field Supervisor, District | Manager, Senior Interviewer} Junior Intervie Application GETS HEARING forms may be obtained from Dr. James E. Chace, Jr., special rep- | -_ resentative, United States Em- ployment Service, University of | PEACED UNDER BOND FOR Florida, Gainsville, Fla.. They TRIAL IN CRIMINAL must be postmarked and mailed | to Dr. Chace, at the above ad- COURT dress, before midnight, October 12. Full information may be ob+"jy tained from Mr .Little at his of- warrant was fice in the ‘I headquarters | charging him with violation 0! building. Witlithe reestablish-| the State Beverage Law, but ment of the Florida Reemploy-_ who came to Key West and sur- ment Service, a division of the rendered last week, was given a Florida Industrial Commission, | preliminary hearing today before County Judge Raymond R. Lord./| IG ig AGRI rT co) Parrott’s defense was made on ‘SCENE OF FIRE the grounds that he was not in ON DUVAL ST. the vicinity of Tavernier, as charged, when the evidence on which his arrest based was se-| cured, but that he was far away on a clam hunting expedition on the west coast. However, Virgil Bird, supervi- sor of the Beverage Department, and who, it is alleged, secured the evidence against Parrott, avers that Parrott was on the spot at Tavernier when the evi- dence was secured. At the conclusion of the hear- ing Judge Lord stated that he found sufficient cause to hold the accused and placed him under bond of $100 for his appearance at the next. term of Criminal Court. British Women Flyers May Defend London | (My Assoct 4 Press) LONDON, Oct. 4——A corps of women aviators for emergency use in wartime is being organiz- ed by Ursula Waldron, London, society girl The uniform proposed for the corps is dark grey flannel “slacks” with leather golf coat in summer, and flying suit in win-|the tickets merely to ease his) ter. Apparatus of the fire depart- ment was this afternoon called at 1:45 o'clock to the scene of a fire at the corner of Angela and Du- j val streets. Arriving at the scene it was found that a pile of trash was | burning in the vicinity of a gro- jeery store. The flames were ‘quenched in a few minutes and the pumps returned te their sta- tion. | Buys Railroad Ticket To Ease Conscience (By Associated Prees) WASHINGTON, Ind., Oct. 4— 'A young man who purchased two | railroad tickets to Petersburg was unperturbed when told the next train would not leave for 48 hours. “I wouldn't use them, any- way”, he told the agent. Then he said he had “beat his way” from Princeton, Ind, to Washington, Ind. so many times he bought i Sunday day Parade, Memorial Exercises, ‘Velada’ And Plakue Unveiling Reception; Mon- San Carlos Institute, the Marti lodges of Key West, Miami and Havana and the Key West Amer- ican Legion Drum and Bugle Corps will sponsor festivities for the two-day “Grito de Yara”, Cuba's first movement for free- dom from Spanish. oppression, with Sunday and Monday pro- grams. Negotiations. are still tentative for the Cruiser Cuba to come to Key West for the celebration as the Cuban government's repre- sentation in the event, Cuban | Consul Berardo Rodriguez said | today. ' Colonel Justo Carrero Morales of Havana, the only surviving j member of the expeditionary par- {ties in the Cuban Revolution, a unit of the New York Junta No. 95, will be in Key West for the celebration. The plaque commemorating the | Cuban patriot, Jose Marti’s entry into the Marti lodge will be un- veiled Monday afternoon 3 o'clock on the Diaz building fac- | His task wlil entail personal calls SHERIFF 18 ORDERED TO ing Duval at the corner of Pe- tronia, Eliseo Perez, retired Cu- ban Consul at Tampa, will offi- ciate at the unveiling. Sunday night gt 8 o'clock at Marti Hall on Elizabeth /street, Key West Marti lodges will be hosts to Mi- ami and Havana Marti lodges at a reception and program. | Monday morning at 10 o'clock a Memorial parade forming at San Carlos Hall and marshalled by Arthur Sheppard will include a unit of the Key West National | Guards, the | American Legion }Drum and Bugle Corps, the Hos- {pitality Band, Girl and Boy | Scout troops, and school children of Sat Carlos Institute and Mon- roe County Public Schools. The parade will proceed to the 'Maine monument at the City {Cemetery where Lieut. Col. J. B. |MacMullen and Rev. J. C. Geke- jler will deliver addresses at the Maine plot, Captain Curry Har- ‘ris of Company E, Fla. Nati. Guards,, and Rev. G. Perez, Cu- {ban Methodist church, will deliv- ,er th addresses at the plot of the |patriots of th Cuban Revolution. | The procession will then move to | the Jose Marti monument at Bay- | view Park at about 11 o’clock and |Elberto Abreu; Cuban Tourist (Commission representative, will f| tain Drossos -Patrickos, John} speak there. | At 8 o'clock Monday night at |San Carlos Institute a “Velada of Joy program will be held. |Eight numbers have been ar- ranged. The “Grito de Yara", the “Cry of Yara", was the first uprising against the Spanish oppression in Cuba and was initiated by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes and Fran- cisco Vicente Aguilera in 1895 on a sugar plantation at La de Majo- gua in the little town of Yara in Cuba. This first uprising was put down, and it was not until Jose Marti began his world-wide or- ganization of Cuban and Ameri- can sympathizers that the revolt | was successfully terminated in ithe Spanish-American War. An all-day picnic Monday with a field meet, coftests, énd 'danc ing at Coral Isle Casino will be | sponsored by the American Le- gion Drum and Bugle Corps. A cabaret dance at 9:30 p. m. will be given at the Casino with An- derson’s Red Hot Peppers play- ing. | CASK CAUSES TROUBLE Chicago—One cask of wine exploded and caused—the injury of one workman, the smashing of | 1,650 gallons of port all over the cellar; the tripping of the sprink~ ler system, flooding the plant and | turning in a fire alarm; the col- a ied NEED PAINT? WE CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH SHERWIN-WILLIAMS GUARANTEED PAINTS AND SUPPLIES. SOUTH FLA. CONTR. AND ENG. CO. PHONE 598