The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 31, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Kry THE SOUT VOLUME LIX. No. 258. U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938 Consider ‘Naval Station, Golf Course; Airport Sites snare — National, State, Airport’ “ART E X H I B | T 10 N. Officials Make Favorable | Comment But Give No, Official Statements | | E. M. Haight, regional airport engineer. of. New Orleans, H. HL. Perkins, of the Civil Aeronautics | Authority, and D. W. Cole, sistant director of the aviation} division of the State Road De-; as- | ‘REVEALS ARTISTS’ WORKING METHODS |“AQUACHROMATIC EXHIBI- ; TION OPENING TOMORROW | AT ART CENTER IS OF WA- | TERCOLORS One of the most watercolor exhibitions important of the partment of Florida, who arrived | year makes its showing at the by plane Friday morning, spent! |Key West Art Center, opening the day looking over the possi-| tomorrow, under the appropriate i { Dilities of an airport in this sec- | title of “The Aquachromatic = tion. *| They were accompanied by B.| Curry Moreno, area supervisor of the Works Progress Adminis. tration, Franklin Albert, head of) ; the department of project plan- ning of the WPA, and Robert | sGraham, in charge of the radio} station of the Department of| Commerce. ‘The group went over the pro- posed airport site near the Key! West Golf Links, and discussed the data which compiled by; Mr. Moreno some time ago when the proposed airport was first brought to the attention of au- thorities in Key West. Plans for the several sug- gested runways were outlined | ‘numerous compilations of| i bymade in connection with ways and the boundaries! Be followed. The day was productive of a great deal of conjecture in Key West, but those directly interested in the con rac la nothing favorable - twrbay. ‘ From the site of the proposed airport the gificials went to the naval station and met Lieutenant | + Fort Callahan, U. S. N., officer) im charge together with L. M.j Pierce, aide to Lieutenant Calla-| han, and made a ‘thorough in-| spection of facilities at the sta- tion im connection with the pro- posed airport. Saturday the visiting group | conferred with Lieutenant E. R. | of the United Siete Coast and Geodetic Survey rel-| ative to soundings and others se- ured by Lieutenant McCarthy. Neither Mr. Haight, Mr. Per- kins nor Mr. Cole, made any Statement as to their findings nor the conclusions arrived at, but it is thought from the ex-| ns of satisfaction made at} is by the group that their} inspections were productive of very favorable impression NYA OFFICIAL ~—s: VISITED HERE, B. HOWARD BROWN GREATLY PLEASED WITH LOCAL ACTIVITIES B. Howard Brown, district supervisor of National Youth Ad- ministration activities, arrived Saturday afternoon, accompanied by Mrs. Brown and daughter Mr. Brown told The Citizen oo before returning to iami, that he found everything — along very nicely, ever) of ihe work up to the ark, and was especially pleased | ‘with the work being done by the NYA at the aquarium He said he had had. quite a) discourse with Victor Lowe, con- cerning the work in Key West, ‘and was particularly pleased with | thing: Pin hie talk with Mr: Lowe Mr. ‘Brown said his idei‘was to ex- d the automotive répair and ine’shop ‘project’ whe ths will receive valuable e along this line, and he brought an excellent outfit tools to be used by the work He concluded by that of the projects now in op were written and approved h a view to giving maximum enefits in work training to the primarily, and for the of the community. saying ; the Battery Officers Course. jwas a private in | hibition”. These pictures were Selected! from hundreds of original water | colors submitted by some of Am- |erica’s most famous painters, in! which each artist has indicated in a series of squares provided on the front of each painting, the colors he used, by an actual | brush mark. Thus the “supposed mystery” of the working methods of some! of our greatest contemporary ar- | tists, is bared for public scrutiny. | This exhibition is receiving the cooperation of some of America’s leading art institutions, such as the Tiffany Foundation, Na- tional Association of Women Painters and Sculptors, and many | museums throughout the coun-/| try. The American artist today is showing an ever-increasing in- terest in the permanency of paint- | ings done with water colors. CAPTAIN JOHNSON GOES 10. PANAMA MAJOR WEBSTER F. PUTN. TAKES PLACE JANU- ARY 1 (Washington News Service) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 31. —Major Webster F. Putnam, Jr., of the Coast Artillery Corps, has been assigned to Key West Bar- racks, the War Department an- nounced today. Major Putnam, now stationed | with the 52rd Coast Artillery at Fort Hancock, New Jersey, will assume his new duties about the first of the year, when he will | be detailed with the 13th Coast Artillery at Key West. Major Putnam is a graduate of the Coast Artillery School and of He the Brigade upply Depot during the latter ays of the war,;and was _pro- rank of October moted to the lieutenant on 1917. Major Putnam Massachusetts. 26th of is a native of Lt. Colonel J.B: MacMullen, officer in charge of the harbor defneses of Key West, told The Citizen today that Major Putnam would replace Captain W. L. Johnson, who will be transferred to a Panama station. COUNCIL MEETS TUESDAY NIGHT There will be a special meet- ing of the City Council held to- morrow night, beginning at 8 o'clock, at which time the amend- | ed Jiquor..ordinance, which has been passed on its initial reading, twill come up for its final read- ing. Another matter to come before ; the meeting. for discussion will be the proposed foreclosure of a morigage held by A... Maitland Adams on the Wagner - property at the foot of Simonton street in which the City of Key West is interested. SNEEZE SAVED HIM CHICAGO—Albert Humphreys used hay fever as the reason he drove past a stop light and he got off with light fine. “My hay fever made me sneeze and I failed to see the traffic light,” he told the judge. second | The French Underground Forts GREAT BOOST FOR BOOKLET ON KEY WEST SECRETARY OF CHAMBER OF i | | } | COMMERCE IN RECEIPT OF | LETTER FROM - PENNSYL- VANIAN “Here is a bunch of orchids | |for that little welcome to Key | | West that the Artman Press got | jout for us,” said the Secretary lof the Chamber of Commerce ‘this morning. “It is so personal | {that I was going to bury it, | —_— SS Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS District Army Engineers Investigating “Matter ‘ Of | Miami-Key West Waterway |MRS. CONE CHRISTENS| | j | | Practicability Of Improv- ing Intracoastal Route Is Main Issue. Now Being Taken Up (By Washington News Service) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. 31. fiwhen':President Charles Smith | ithought’ it was such a boost for thebodoklet, that he advised giv- —With an investigation now un- Dis- the derway by the Jacksonville |trict’ Army® Engineers on ‘Ving it to the’ press.” | Robinson;'of- Hawley, Pa., and is} | as addressed to Mr. Singleton: The letter is from Harry E. “Thank you sincerely for your letter of October 11. in you to take the time to explain the situation there. I have writ-} Out of the depths of the Maginot line come French soldiers after maneuvers in the , e" Several towns in Florida and | underground fortress built by France to protect from invasion some 250 miles of east- ern frontier. forts. SET DATE FOR WINTER EVENTS CONFER TO PLAW FOR WINTER PRO- GRAM Mrs. Eva Warner of the Recréa-| tion Department will meet with} | city officials and Jaycee direc-}| EVENTS | tors tomorrow afternoon 3.o’clock | €n years of Natural foliage and rounded cantours help to camouflage these pillbox eeeves (JAPS TRYING TO ) Cur OFF “CHINESE 'Chiang still Has Rich Territory Near Fisasing Bessie eee sé's RETREAT; GUERILLA WAR PERHAPS WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—Sev- {for Chiang and his various arm- bitter, intermittent o plan out a definite program | Warfare have put Japan in a po- Yfor the coming year which will |Sition to take a half nelson on be highlighted with a Semana | Struggling China. But don’t jump Alegre February program. | An attempt will be made to set definite dates for the winter program which will consist sports, exhibitions and social af- fairs the first of which will get underway within a month. With the return of Mrs. Stephen Douglass, president of the Key West Woman’s Club, which in the past have presented many of these programs, definite arrange- ments can be gotten underway. The plan is to have the clubs and business houses of the city spon- sor an event. THREE BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED But three applications for ilding and repair pe ts were ued from the office of Build ing Inspector Harry M. Baker during the week ending to The permits totalied $2450 an#A¥bket, wheat basin, anc the largest was issued for, woxe on the furniture store at the cor- ner of William.and Fleming streets and the next in price Was issued for a residence at the cor- ner of Catherine and William streets. The, furniture store owned by the Long Furniture Co., and changes are being made i the entire front at a cost of $1,200 cording to the records the residence is to be 24 feet by 34 feet, is owned by O. Velazquez and will cost approximately $1,- 000. The ‘third permit on was issued for repairs the building at 130 Duval street which is owned by Frank John- son, and the cost will be $250. AUDITORS BUSY AT COURT HOUSE A. J. Henry and George W Marshall, of the State Auditing Department, are visiting in the city and sy at the county court hou: alling a new ac- sone | system which is now in practice in other parts of the state. Preparatory to this installa- tion, Clerk Ross C. Sawyer had during the past month, gotten to- gether the accounts of the coun- ty and had them ready for pre- sentation to the auditors upon their arrival. is the to list {at conclusions—yet. Here is a-thumbnail survey of what it all means, dating back to of | the 1931 push into Manchuria: 1—The Japanese army and navy has established tenuous control of a 1500-mile reach along the rich coastal pla’. of eastern Asia. from Hong Kong on the south almost to Vladivostok on the north. 2—On a map, the now under the nominal ence of the Japanese looks two huge bites taken by giant, the northern chunk ex- tending from Shantung to Siberia, and the southern from Canton to Shantung. ‘That territory includes less than one-quarter of China’s 4,- 500,000 square miles (including Manchukwo) _ but- id that is vastly important—it ‘covers most of the developed wealth of China and two-thirds ‘of Her populatign, of 466,000,000 pedple 4.—Left' to China are territory influ- like Thie, rice tea fields of the! interior; catfavan routes to Thterior Asia; one “railroad . link with the outer world at Yunnan- fu in the deep southwest; and vast undeveloped mineral re- sources including coal, copper and oil A Three-Point Loss Thus have Chiang Kai-shek and his generals lost the great reserve of man-power on which they have been drawing for the arm- ies they sent. against the Japan- ese. Only one thickly populated province, Szechwan, and it’s 52,- 000,000 people remains outside the Japanese sphere. Likewise the great transporta- tion arte the railroads and the riv lost to Chiang, as well as the bulk of the nation’s manufacturing resources ower of the customs rev x of the salt tax money. That amounts to about 150,000,000 American dollars a paying off sol- loans. a dreary picture ne Chinese point of experts tell you nany conch Watch for and Chinese but the np at too 1 next few we For instance, note that the Japanes® are moving two armies toward e@ch other from Canton and Hafitew. This object is to , close the door te orderly retreat some | lies. If Chiang succeeds in with- drawing with most of his men. he may be able to muster enough | Strength to make it worth while | for the Japanese to deal with him. If not, he has been remov- ed from the picture. | The Japanese privately claim they are counting Chiang out. On that basis, all the signs point to the establishment of three big puppet states like Manchukuc along the Chinese seaboard. A northern state could be dominat- ed from Peiping by Chniese will ing to talk Japan’s language. A middle state would be rule from Nanking or Shanghai, and a solthern state from Canton As American experts see it, the idea would be “divide and con quer”, Big Nation to Control Then what? In the long range of years ahead, the Japanese have gueril- las and interna], wreckers. to fight. At Tedst 500,000 and. probably. J {000,000 ‘Soldiers would be .requix- dd to keep a semblance of, the ‘peace. ‘It is interesting to specu- ate whether the salt tax, and the customs receipts would cover the cost of this expeditionary army Some authorities say taxes have covered only 10 percent of the cost of the Japanese army in Manchukuo. And certainly it will require years to develop a poverty-ridden nation, with hardly enough pur chasing power left to buy cotton shirts and rice. Thus, the development of China is still a subject to be discussed in terms of generation months and years. s, HAD BULLY TIME SUPERIOR, Wis.—When Oscar Larson went fishing bull chased him through barbed wire fence on Sunday and on Monday he fled into Iron River to eseape another snorting bo- vine Hotels and Restaurants, Take Notice CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Regular Monthly Meeting Tuesday. Nov. 1, at 7:30 p. m. at the rooms of the organization. All parties interested in the hotel or restaurant business are especially invited. whether they are members, or not. S. C. SINGLETON. your answer is the outstanding one, in its warm consideration. | For instance from Palm Beach, the answer was just words. “I do not know whether or not you are a tennis player, but if not, you probably would not at- tach too much importance to this} over any other sport. I have for-| gotten how many players are in| this country, but the number is far in excess of any other sport. “My brother, Daniel G. Hobin-| son of New York asked me to write you. I thought that you | might be interested in knowing! | that he and his Harvard Univer-| ‘sity associates are unanimous in declaring Key West their choice of all Florida cities as offering | jthe seclusion, the charm and! stability which is so imperative | lin their lives. “IT read carefully from cover to! cover ‘A Welcome to Key West’. It is a beautiful tribute to both Key West and yourself. It frees the town from the stain of ques- tionable commercial competition and cheapness. It leaves one .with a desire to sing ‘Home. Sweet Home’. And it reveals you, its spokesman, as having found there the greatest thing in the world, Peace. In fact the booklet is worthy of being bound in leather and on the outside in beautiful gold letters the one word ‘Peace.’ “I hope I may have the oppor- tunity of going to Florida this winter and an opportunity of go- ing to Key West and shake your hand.” NO ONE HURT IN ACCIDENT MALL, TRUCK TURNS OVER: SECOND ACCIDENT ON ROAD SUNDAY Although the mail truck which plies between Miami and Key West turned over about 3 o'clock yesterday morning on the road just north of Tavernier, no one was hurt, the truck was not dis- abled and the mail arrived on time. The driver of the truck, whose mame was not learned, but was said to be a Mr. Lowe, was forced te the edge of the road by other cars, and it was thus that the ac- cident happened. There was not delay, and the mail coming in to- day was well ahead of time al- though the train was reported late arriving in Miami Another accident was reported as happening yesterday the road on Saddle Bunches, but no details of the mishap could be secured. A, car was found off the road, damaged to some extent but the owner's name could not be learned. one moment's on DIVORCED AT 15 WABASH, Ind.—Mrs. Elizabeth Fosnough, 15-year-old mother of a nineteen-month-old child, was the youngest person ever to get a divorce in the Wabash cir- cuit court. She and her hus- band, Ralph, 19, were married in November, 1936. It was good | in a few) the Mi- | practicability of |intracoastal waterway from improving ami to Key West. local pressure: | by interesied parties and backing of the Atlantic Deeper Water- | MRS. FRED P. CONE, wife of the Governor of Florida, who will christen the new Sea- board Railway Diesel Electric Locomotives in Washington, D. C., today. ALBURY ELECTION War Department officials point- FRAUD WARNING = mrt had already forwarded NOW FULFILLED 0 ine soun ananie av |sion engineer at Richmond, one SUPREME COURT DENIES AN- iu nfavorable récommendation OTHER TRIAL OF TAMPA | against improvement of the wa- CASE; CIRCUIT COURT HAD ‘erway between Miami and Key | ways Association would be es- pecially advantageous at this time, it was indicated here to- | day. REMOVED ALBURY According to advices received |preme court ruled Saturday that zens on election fraud charges cannot held, fulfilling the warning of Judge William V. Al- bury of Key West, who presided at the August 8 trial, that this would happen if the Circuit Court were allowed to remove him Circuit Judge L. L. Parks ruled that the order assigning Judge Albury to the Hillsborough coun ty criminal court was because it be not valid as not signed persen- ally by Gov. Fred P. Cone, ill at the time. Judge Albury left the bench the day of the ruling. The state supreme court, forced to decree that the men could not be brought to trial again because this would place them in legal “double jeopardy”, said Judge Parks had no power to prohibit Albury: from proceed ing with the trial Part of Judge Albury’ ment at the time follows defendants now on trial in the Criminal Court are in jeopardy and if the trial is stopped at this juncture they can never be tried. This is of the reasons I have advised m attorney these procecdings; i fnd ts are to be freed without tri t shall be no fault of mine There are other vital and import ant issues and questions involved in this unprecedented proceeding which I feel should be decided But w of the attitude of newspapers and the ney represent, in de ding that the courts ignore Jaw and adopt their wishes as the attacks while tate The to oppose these de against such a condition in this munity that renders m — ss as a judge of the Criminal Court of Record of this Cainay ende en I have finished the 1 case which is now in progress I shal} ask the gover- nor to relieve assign ment as we e trial of any further cases in said court” com of CHINESE BUY BONDS SAN FRANCISCO—The new safety vault of the Bank of Can- ton here now contains $3,000,000 in Chinese Liberty bonds. These represent money loaned to fi- nance the Chinese war by resi- dents of San Francisco's China- town. ‘tor whose improvement is es- jfrom Tallahassee the Florida su- | pecially desired by Key West in- terests. janother trial of five Tampa citi-| | Although the the preliminary investigation receiv- reports on ed here this spring recommended ag: any ment of the waterway, it was or- dered by Congress in a resolution of the committee on rivers and harbors, passed April 28, 1937, that the report be reviewed in connection with another survey The new investigation will, for the most part, be a udy of the pre 1 investigated last year, on which the unfavorable report was issued. No information has been re ceived by army engineers here a to when the report may pected from the field engineers’ offices at Jacksonville and Rich mond. It was pointed out that after the! feport leaves Jackson ville it will to: Richmond for study by the division engineer there. The division engineer will add his own recommendations to the report before forwarding it to Washington. The reported “last link” in th Atlantic Coast intracoastal water way, that across New Jersey, seems well on its way toward being forged special board of army engineer favor ably to Washington earlier tt month on a canal across lowe New Jersey which would connect the New Jersey Inland Waterway with Delaware Bay. From Dx ware Bay the Chesapeake Delaware canal leads into the Chesapeske Bay, which in turn is connected with the intracoesta waterway down through th sounds of Virginia and North Carolina. The favorable report was based n a preliminary survey similar to that underway for the Miami West waterway, so approval of the board of army engineers for rivers and harbors and of Congress must be gained here for ‘a cost survey. Only until that i pleted and funds for a canal appropriated, will forging of nat link be begun. ainst further improve- now A reported Tonight 9:30 sill 7 PENA’S GARDEN OF ROSES Prize for Queerest Costume Gould Curry’s NO ADMISSION ——— ILD RIGHT NOW! PLAN NOW FOR BUILDING AND REMODELING BEFORE WINTER SEASON. SEE US ABOUT MATERIALS. SOUTH FLORIDA PHONE. 596