The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 27, 1938, Page 1

® + 3 ‘ Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX, No. 255. ~ Day With Greetings State-Wide Naval Reserve) Emergency Drill Takes) Place; Lieut. Emerson Addresses Rotary Club The Union Jack, white stars on) a blue field, the official flag of the United States Navy, flew from the gates of the Key West ‘Naval Station, all,day today. For today is Navy Day. | The Naval Radio Station on the second-story of the old red- bricked postoffice building regu- larly sent out messages of cheer | “from the Secretary of the Navy} to the merchant marine ships. | { DEWEY FOR GOVERNOR) The messages were sent out on| : time signals and weather reports. | The merchant marine in this area | passing around Dry Tortugas on their way to Cuba or up Atlantic coastal cities or even to Europe ‘were requested to write in to the Navy Department in an effort to determine the number of ships receiving the message. ‘ Lieutenant Fort H. Callahan, officer in charge of the Naval| Station, who is also inspector of | the Florida naval reserve radio! stations at Jacksonville, Orlando, | ‘Tampa, Miami and Key West,! listened in all day as the Naval Reserve operators “took over” the duties of the regular operators in, a state-wide drill for emergencies ‘The reserves’ are * ible. for use if war were to break out or} a hurricane to strike and special | broadcasts were needed. The units kept in constant contact with each other. A number of visitors dropped | FIGHTING for his election as N. Y. governor in the Nov. 8 general election, Thomas E. Dewey (above) has abandon- ed the county-to-county can- vass and is concentrating on populous cities, MIGUEL BRAVO IS ARRESTED IN BRADENTON |FORMER KEY WESTER AND Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KE CONE“ OPPOSES | AMENDMENT ON | STATE MILITIA. | | |CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF FLOR- | IDA CLAIMS IT WOULD j | STATE 1 | TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Oct. 27! | | (FNS).—Governor Fred P. Cone} said this week that after a care-| ful study of the proposed amend- | | ment to the Constitution of Flor- |ida relating to the state militia, was opposed.to it as being | Y WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1938 Siam Wild Elephant Roundup oe i WORK TO DETRIMENT OF | ¥ inst the best interest of the} | le and. the general welfare of state, and that if the voters anderstood the far-reaching pow- it confers, they would over- | helmingly defeat it November 8. “The: people of the South since the early days of the Republic have stood steadfastly for state| rights as opposed to a strong cen- tralized Federal government”, | | said Governor Cone. “The adop- i cherished rights by making National Guard subject to Acts of Congress, regardless of | | the statement that ‘They will be) under lawful orders of the Gov- | ernor’. | “Florida in territorial days and since the adoption of our Consti- | tution has met every emergency | presented to the people, and in | many instances independently of | | the Federal government. The first | and second Indian Wars in Flor- \ida were fought by volunteers} {coming from the sturdy pioneer | citizens of Florida and neighbor- ing states. Likewise, heavy con- | tributions were made to the Con- federa¢y both in men and neces- faites We have progressed since! those early days without the help | of the Federal government \in our | its | the! Headin’ for the first roundup, more than 800 wild elephants were captured at|Tiods and Sundays intervening! “ @ | TENDER IVY SAILS TODAY |GOING TO REBECCA SHOALS | TO TAKE ABOARD WORK CREW THERE | | | {lighthouse Tender Ivy sailed) from: Key West this morning: at 6:30 -o’clock enroute to Rebecca 4 ht} Shoalg:light for a party of work- }men'who were sent to the light jon September 27 for work at Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Has | Approved’ Expenditure Of _ Fund For Naval Station [Stated That Thirty-Six | Men Will Be Given Em- | ployment For Period Of Eight Months (My Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 27.— Works Progress ‘Administrator |Robert J. Dill announced he has japproved the expenditure of $17.- jell for proposed improvements | to buildings and grounds and oth- ) | scraping and painting the struc-|¢r activities at the United States i tion of the proposed amendment | Lobburi, Siam, and driven into this enclosure. After the roundup, which army authori- | will surrender one of Florida’s | ties had ordered, 50 elephants were kept and remainder turned loose again. — CENSORSHIP 1S ALWAYS A BIG | MOVIE PROBLEM | LARGER FUND FOR SCHOOLS — ~~ DURING YEAR’ CRITICISM COMES FROM! MORAL AGENCIES AND NA- TIONS WHOSE PEOPLES ARE CARICATURED. - HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 27.—A/pLoRIDA INSTITUTIONS TO Much Progress Made In Beautification Projects ‘local affairs. {modern motion picture producer, | RECEIVE MUCH LARGER, Bayview Park And Other Public Grounds Have Been Made Much More Attractive, Horticultural project in Key West, which has recently been granted additional funds for ture. With only the required rest pe- the workmen have done a com- plete job, and finished the work | well within the specified time as it was estimated that the work | would take about six weeks. As a matter of fact the actual 28 days or practically one month. Members of the party which is in charge of Willard A. Albury are Edward Woodson, jmack, Mervin D. Albury, Roy | Roberts, Allan Robinson, William | Albert Roberts and George J. del Pino. They are expected to ar- {rive some time this afternoon. | Ceececcevesccoscoseseese (By Associated Presa) seeeeceseonce eeecesee FOREIGN LONDON. — President Roose- | work has taken a period of but} G. Cor-| OTHERS ARE TAKEN UP } “The amendment provides for | the control of the National Guard |in addition to the numberless re- AMOUNT FROM MOTOR VE- continuation, and is now busily | yelt's “Peace By Fear” speech | i | Naval Station at Key West. The state administrator said that the Works Progress Admin- listration would furnish $16,011 and the station would pay $1.- 600. Administrator Dill added that thirty-six men will get work for about eight months as a result of the allotment made to be expend- ed for improvement purposes. RIGHT GROWTH "POR COCONUTS TS EXPLAINED | SHOWN THAT TREES HERE ARE FORCED TO STRUGGLE FOR EXISTENCE AT GREAT engaged in beautification proj-| brought sharply conflicting emo- BY AUTHORITIES IN ALIEN by the Acts of Congress, but the ects was in during the day. Salient at the station are new improvements, among them renovation. of build- | sponsibilities arising out of story- | HICLE DEPARTMENT PROCEEDINGS maintenance, support and cost of | throughout the city, started just one year ago this | tions from European leaders. |German newspapers did: not pub- . A | the National Guard shall be rais- | buying, casting, publicity, and month. The main object of the| lish the speech and only brief | | DIFFICULTY “This is the way coconuts grow when they are not starved for drink”, said Secretary Singleton ed by taxation, not on the part|other major details, is ever on| of the Federal government but! 14. alert for the criticism ings, shops, a new qual wall, new steel finger piers, and much pier | | TALLAHASSEE, Oct. 27.— that | (FNS) Florida schools will re- project is beautification, and | accounts appeared in Rome's pa-| Miguel Florida Bravo, formerly | commendable ppeiees tas: ger jpers. The talk was received with | made in e fulfilimen! ol 1e reconstruction. "3 lof Key West, but who has for At the Rotary luncheon at, jupon the people of Florida, and! I oppose it on the possibility of day, Lieut. Phil Emerson, |S°™Me time been absent from the | increased taxation. j USN. Ret. told the club that he! city, was arrested at Bradenton, / was agreeably surprised to note the excellent condition in which| the Key West Naval Station is pet. pointing out that “this is portant in view of recent for-! eign developments in South Am- | Lieut. Emerson and Lt. Com- mander H. N. Hartley were guests of Lieut. F. H. Callahan at the luncheon. Lt. Col. J. D. MacMullen, CAC US. Army in Tesponse to a request pointed out that the Coast Artillery Corps ‘was known as the “marine corps of the Army” and that the Army has a small fleet.of boats and ships in many of the country’s ports. Captain Wm. L Johnson CAC US. Army was guest of Col. MacMullen. MORE WOMEN ON LIBRARY PROJECT Four women of the WPA forces have been added to the Public School Library Project and are attached to the libraries of the schools. They are Mrs. “Anne Lamb, Miss Anna P. Vinduzer, Miss Irma Allen and Miss Maria Farto. Practically all of these women have had library training. These assignments have been made through Jacksonville and are for the purpose of improving the Public Library Service® of ' the? state. There are also two assistants to the librarian at the Key ‘West Public Library. They are Mrs.’ Carolyn Hattrick and Mrs. Jen- nie B. DeBoer. JOBLESS GROWING HONOLULU — Of Hawaii's 411,000 residents, approximately 8,601 are unemployed, says San- ford L. Pratt, director of the ter- ritorial unemployment service. Those unemployed are chiefly laborers who, he said, face a steadily diminishing field for employment. Florida, Wednesday, with two Chinese, who escaved in Miami Tuesday. The arrests were made by immigration authorities. It was also stated that Higinio Nebo, was placed under arrest by United States authorities under charge of concealing and harbor- ing four aliens who were also ar- rested Tuesday in Miami. Nebo is being held under botid jof $2,500, and is due to be givén a hearing before the United States commissioner at an early date, tat The:Chinese who were arresfé e@ in, the, car which was being driver by Bravo were Hong Lung Chong and Fung Dim. Arrested with Nebo was an Armenian and three Chinese were arrested while driving to Homestead from some point on the Ke: Nebo has been in _ similar trouble in Key West, and at one time was haled before United States authorities when caught while driving several Armenian women over the county road to- ward the No Name Key ferry landing. He explained that he “The National Guard is now {controlled by the Legislature, or | other provisions of law, and the right and privilege of the ap- | pointment of its officers is vested |in the executive of this state. If; ithe proposed amendment is | adopted this prerogative will pass from the control of the people to ithe military cliques who will be placed in charge. The right to idiscipline the National Guard \ will be taken from the people and be vested in the War Department |afi the United States. The Fed- ;eral- government should not be ‘given the power and authority ex- ! | pressed or implied by the terms }of:the proposed amendment. | -}*I call upon the people of Flor- jida to carefully study the pro- | posed amendment and go to the polls on November 8 and vote ‘against it for the following rea- isons: 1, It is contrary to state right; 2, It will increase taxes; 3, It will give the War Department of the Federal government con- trol of the National Guard; 4, It will place the officers of the Na- tional Guard where they will not be responsive to the will of the people; 5, It tends to establish a floods Hollywood from censor-|ceive approximately $500,000 !more money from the Motor Ve- abla oe eend ursosticnt. hicle Department in 1938 ° than Eight of the United States and they did in 1937, and a million | 268 of its cities have censorship dollars more than they received boards, says Jimmie Fidler, popu- from the daprtment in 1936, D. lar Hollywood columnist W. Finley, Motor Vehicle Com- “« ; missioner, said this week when Every European country and he issued his departmental _re- jmost of the Asiastic and South port for the third quarter of the American nations have censor- | year. x ; Total receipts for the first nine ee Urge ant no two’ st then months of 1938 amounted to $6,- ever seem able to agree on any- 029,000 the record shows, as thing”, Fidler says. jeompared with $5,863,733 for the “A Mickey Mouse cartoon, ap; i‘entire “year of-1937, and $5,238,- plauded everywhere’ ‘else “was "724 forall of 1936. i it 'r The report shows 436,993 tags. nen “y mcg wes ecpue teold 10 ee three-quarters, of this Mickey’ - kissed Minnie, on, her. year'as compared with “447,965 scrawny ...neck.. ‘Hell's >-Angels’,, for all of 1937, and 308,106 for the was scissored and slashed by. al-) entire year of 1936. This can par- most every board on earth; yet tially be accounted for, Commis- not only were no two boards in sioner Finley says, by a stricter perfect agreement on their objec- | enforcement, of the law. tions but the great majority of The expenses of the depart- them failed to agree on a single ment have again been cut. The Point. total for the nine months “If the villain of a picture is amounts to only $252,378 and are identified as a son of any for- expected to be less than $300,000 eign nation, that nation’s ire is for the entire year, as compared kindled”, Fidler points out, “and | With a total of $339,887 for all of by habitually showing Mexicans 1937, and $452,213 for all of and Italians as illiterates, Ger-, 1936. This is due in a large mans as beefy militarists, French- | ™easure to the fact that that the men as ‘Ooo-la-la-ing’ fops, Eng-| force of 182 employees who were was simply hired to drive the passengers to the ferry, and had no knowledge of them. He man- aged to escape punishment. Bravo, to the best knowledge of the authorities in the - city has never been before the _ au- thorities for arly charges in con- nection with matters of this kind, or in fact any other. A friend of both Bravo" and Nebo, was ‘ih the ‘office ‘of The Citizen today''and said that both of the men were at one time Yun- ning on the P.-and ©. Steamship Florida. GIRLS KEEP GOBS’ CAPS military oligarchy similar to that of Hitler and Mussolini”. SHERIFF LEFT WILL GO TO HOT SPRINGS. ARKANSAS BEFORE RE- TURNING HOME Sheriff Karl O. Thompson left over the highway yesterday for Miami and was to take a train there over the Florida East Coast Railway for New York where he will visit briefly. At the conclusion of his New York visit the sheriff plans to AUCKLAND, N. Z.—When the American cruiser Louisville reached here after its Australian visit, the distinctive sailors’ caps in her stores were all but ex- hausted, and many a gob had only to his name. The girls,:entrain for Hot Springs, Arkan- however, took such a fancy to sas, there to remain for a while them, that they grabbed them on taking the baths, after which he FOR NEW YORK lishmen as ‘what-ho-ing’ silly | awsses, and Orientals as menials, ; Hollywood nearly lost its foreign markets. “Show an unethical doctor and the Medical Association flames”, Fidler says. “Show a crooked lawyer and the Bar Association boils and show a stupid or crim- inal policeman and the law-en- forcement agencies burn. The butchers, the bakers, and the can- dle-stick makers threaten to boy- cott and mayhem if their respec- tive trades are ‘reflected upon’.” But what Hollywood can’t do is well balanced by what it can ac- complish and Jimmie Fidler points to a luminous young star for proof—Hedy Lamarr. Miss Lamarr has become the country’s “Ecstasy Girl” since her recent import after a sensational success in a foreign picture bear- ing that title. “Her face is more than lovely”, Fidler says. “It is on the payroll when Governor Cone took office in January, 1937, were cut to 141 in that year and have been reduced to only 121 this year. In the first nine months of this year $5,918,317 has been turned over to the schools, as compared with $5,507,926 for the entire year of 1937, and $4,920,640 for all of 1936. In June of this year the schools were given $250,000 from the surplus in the operating expense fund. In November 1937 they received $175,000 from this fund, and in November of 1936 they received $100,000 from the surplus. Commenting on the depart- ment's record of increased rev enue and decreased expense: Commissioner Finley said he has been only carrying out the in- structions he received from Gov- ernor Cone to collect every dol- lar possible for the benefit cf the schools and to cut every corner plan to the definite improvement of the community. A nursery is maintained where plants are rooted and cultivated for distribution to citizens for their homes and grounds. They are also given to units of the project to be used in landscap- ing. Women do the work and they are very much interested. They appear to be most con- tented and happy in the routine of the work. Heavy work is done by the men who are employed especially for the purpose. Units of the. project include public schools, Bayview Park, County Court House and the nursery. Bayview Park is the largest piece of work to come within the scope of the project so far. It is a decidedly different place than it was before the work was started. There was a great amount of trash and weeds, and these piles have disappeared and in their place have been arrang- ed beds of attractive flowers. These flower beds are distinc-| tive attractions and the attention} of visitors is drawn toward the variety of blooms, and also to the trees which have been uniformly placed and the shrubbery has become a source of pleasure and enjoyment to Key Westers and visitors alike. Plans at the park have been enlarged to such an extent that eventually flowers will be plant- ed all over the grounds, and be- come a perfect profusion of beau- tiful blooms. Mrs. Eva Warner, supervisor of the park, and Cecil Catala, has proven an able as- sistant in laying out and exer- cising supervision of the work. Both Mrs. Warner and. Mr Catala have the work very much at heart, and are by the workers. They are anx- jous as the supervisors to con tinue under the project recently approved and expressed to The Citizen their love of the work and the beautification of the city They feel exceedingly grateful to Meivin E Russell, superin- tendent of public instruction, the members of the County Commis. particularly | pleased with the interest shown/ {enthusiasm in France, Great Brit- ‘ain and-in League of Nations | circles. | ROME.—The Italian govern- ‘ment was favorable to the Presi- {dent’s disarmament plan and would join in conference to dis- |cuss the plan. PARIS.—French government is taking a firm stand against Ger- many’s colonial demands and will give no colonies to their Nazi friends. French attitude ap- ‘peared stronger than the Brit- ish. BUDAPEST.—Struggle east of +the Rhine is hotter than ever to- iday. In an extra session, the ‘Hungarian cabinet demandéd more lands from the Czechs. It was evident that Hitler was sup- plying the backbone to Czechs who refused to surrender even that territory which is populated by Hungarians. NATIONAL NEW YORK.—Early buying to- ‘day brought stocks to the highest levels for more than a year. Steel and aviation were leaders in the morning's trades. WASHINGTON. — Despite ef |forts to halt Chairman Dies’ in vestigation until after election, the investigation will continue New Dealer Robert H. Jackson challenged Dies to prsent views on Communism and un-Ameri can activities to Supreme Court jJackson says he will ask court to listen to Dies’ views on the lease. He stated that it is the jcongressman’s duty to make re- | ports to the court instead of news- papers. WASHINGTON. Perkins reports weekly pay rolls jumped seven and a alf million dollars for Septem ber. However, pey rolls were jdown 22 percent from last year | WASHINGTON. — Charges lagainst Senator George brought j against him as a result of Geor | gia’s primary election will be Secretary factory siomers and to the sponsors, the heard today by the senate inves- ,every hand. will return home. expressive for it mirrors every [emotion effortlessly”. ‘ service. sas of expense possible with efficient City of Key West. | Ngating committee. of the Chamber of Commerce, as jhe pointed to several splendid specimens which were brought to | Key West by a friend from the Keys. | “Here in Key West”, the secre jtary continued, “our coconuts make a brave struggle for exist- ence, penned in between pave | ments which divert about all the water that falls, and being con stantly mutilated by boys em ployed, by short-sighted persons, to gather the fiber for commer cial purposes. “These nuts from the Keys show what the coconut palm can do when its roots have ready ac cess to water, and the tree is free to fulfill its glorious, destiny. The comparison between these nut and those we see growing along the streets tell their own story Useful Book “By the way, the Chamber of Commerce is indebted to the Florida Motor Lines for a well bound book of 122 pages which is the most useful book of reference which has come to our notice. It is composed entirely of question and answers and no ‘filler’ or un necessary words are contained yin it “Of special interest to the pros pective visitor, and to Key West- ers is the fact that the book con tains 26 separate items referring to this region. Many an original article on Florida, in days to come will be found to have had thew roots on this compact little Flor ida encyclopedia “Incidentally, we are down to the last 2,000 of those 10,000 booklets which The Artman Press printed for ua and we are being forced to refuse requests for lots of from 50 to 200 in order to have a supply for individual cor respondents, which may be tak en as a gentle hint to the believ ets in Key West that we will weing them soon. Visiting Here ‘One of the inte in the city today i liam Wilson Acheson written some interesting and « tertaining stories of the C of Florida and was a caller at t commerce chamber this morn- jing”. Li be BUILD RIGHT NOW! PLAN NOW FOR BUILDING AND REMODELING BEFORE WINTER SEASON. SEE US ABOUT MATERIALS. SOUTH FLORIDA PHONE 59