The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 15, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wité Service For 58 Years Devoted to the, }. - Best Interests of Key West _ VOLUME LIX. No, 271. Three: Cases. Disposed .Ot:.In % —— Number Of OthétsGaises:On RED CROSS ROLL Docket Are ToBe Taken CALL DRIVE NOW Up For Trial Darin UNDERWAY HERE Week ADDITIONAL WORKERS ARE At the session of the Criminal| NEEDED TO ASSIST. STATES | Court of Record of Monroe coun-| LOCAL EXECUTIVE OF OR- j ty, which was held this morning! GANIZATION in the county court house with | ; Judge William V. Albury presid- A call for additional workers to | k ; lassist-in- the 1938 roll call drive re Less - jot the Key West chapter of the First of these was the case of ‘pete*today by Mrs. Grace Phil- ips, executive’ secreiary of the Solomon Bowe, who was charged } 4’aoapter. with aggravated assault. The} «wey our quota’ set at one accused entered a plea of guilty!thousand memberships it is evi- and was sentenced to serve three’ dent that we will be in need of | Che Kry Mest Cttizrn Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS (MAKE: READY T0\ 'l A Live Model For An Airplane | DOWN? IN(THE INSECT | *WORLD IS A ‘BOMBER’ a giant. moth which be: distinct fore the-dribunal for hearing. -jAmierican Red Cross was. made} ee ee propellers, how its wide-spread wings resemble those ord moder Ui So:CAN'T DUMP ITS WHEAT HEAR "MATTER Charter Revision: Group Assembles Last: Evening | | SITTLIOO oS ' | FISH FOR JEWFISH t | 1 | | BUT CATCH SHARK Mark Harvey and several friends were fishing from Boca Chica bridge last night in hopes of catching a jew- fish, as there have been qui a few fine ones caught there during past months. After fishing for a short time, line tautened, there was a fierce tug on the gear and then began the struggle. After playing the catch for a while they realized that it was not a jewfish, the fish on the line was too much of a fighter. They gradually worked the line toward the end of the bridge and found the take to be a shark about seven feet long and weighing approxi- resemblance to ‘a \ vlane: about a tnipend Proposed ‘Charter Taken Up And Read By Sec- tions For Consideration Of Members Charter met 8 o'clock last night in the Revision Committee county court house for the. pur- pes? of receiving the report of the Charter The report was compiled’ by H. Study Committee. E. Day. chairman. Tt was shown that the charter had been taken up section by section, and these sections were noted on as each was read -vith COLLECT TOYS: . EVEN AT A 19-CENT BONUS "OF REPAIRING months in the county jail at hard'™ore assistance in completing | mately 200 pounds. labo: {the roll call ‘by Thanksgiving the amendments as noiea. When ir. any change was suggested by Cheszolow Massicki was called to the bar to answer to a charge of vagrancy, to which he pleaded 'Day”, Mrs. Phillips stated here today when meager returns came in from the workers already as- ‘signed their respective territories. guilty. Judge Albury was in- formed that the prisoner could go! to work as he had been offered’ a job. He was arrested Novem-! ber 1, so he was sentenced to 1: days and as the time was up to- day he was allowed to depart. When the judge finished speaking, the accused was ‘So many people are prone to let ‘George do it’ that it puts the jofficials. of the local chapter in an embarrassing position when ythe final count is made and we jfind ourselves short of member- ships, which is the only humane so , WAY the people of this commun- pleased with the coeiibtataticn [ity have of expressing their ap- shown that with great feeling he |PPeciation to the American Red imme: {Cross for past interest shown in the care of the indigent and Betty Brewer, charged” with | needy”. being . pleaded guil .New workers are requested to and ae Macicc EY we 30 Cay ace in touch with Mrs. Phillips at the court suspe her residence, 421 Duval street. at vacate - te" ‘The roll call returns, including sentence judge if the prisoner would wee oe as follows: 1.00 1.00 9:30 o'clock tomorrow morning. A “cases are 'Henty Taylor, Jr. on the docket and are ted Wilbert Moreha _ to be brought up Jater in the J.°L. Johnson _ week. its. Geo. Robinson Concha Hotel - HOUSING SUBJECT TO BE DISCUSSED dey A. Einhorn ____ Jose Lopez & ‘Grace B. Phillips . tye honk w. Bethel MAYOR AND COUNCIL PLAN R. Lopez . MEETING FoR ToMoR. {J R. Stowers t iE Tee Co. Neen Williams... {J. A. Gardner ROW AFTERNOON a A. Valladares _. ~ 1.00 = 1.00' 5.00! - 1.00 | Total— Mayor Willard M. Albuty and Out-of-town people joining the | members of the city council will Key West chapter are: tomorrow afternoon at § o'clock James A, Thomson, Braden- meet with the Key West Housing, - Authority for the purpose of con- J.'W. Thomson, Miami 1.00 ferring fc) & representative of O.:B. White, Richmond, Va. 1.00 797 See Housing alte Au- | ‘ $3.00 75} The Citizen yes- | are a number| Total— portance to be Key West (above) | Grand total— (Mei Mei, The Panda, Y Now Likes Dog Biscuits (My Anseciated Prene) 34.00 $37.75 CHICAGO, Nov. 15.—Figuring out what baby pandas should eat i at Mei Mei weighed 24 pounds when she arrived from China. | amounted to $40.90, But! some of February 18. Today she weighs these were refiised. Grats ‘sold 130 pounds and has never ceased for $4.25 and ‘yellows! “brought ‘liking her infant diet of cereals, $3.40. ‘milk and wheat in cream, topped Most of the larger Vessels are off lately with some apples, cel- out for the long cruise’ and are ery, lettuce, chard, spinach, car- not expected to: teturh before /fots and green corn stalks. She week; -unles# ‘excep- deviated recently by adding dog tionally large catehes are made, so spugaaindleas i list. it is said. \ Crisis Prochations Go Toh Museum And Cost $1.12 A Head Learn Your Liquors | pea oe | {My Aseactated Pres) : (My Associated Preas) |. LONDON, Nov. 15.—Fifteen of PARIS, Nov. 15—The City of London's borough councils have believes it can claim title | worked out the approximate cost to being the first city to install of the air raid precautions taken @ bar and tea room in a museum.’ during the recent crisis. | total The pu —_ fea room is a was $2,650,000. of the new Musee de ‘The cost per head of he popu-| the Trocadero, a hall! lation to be works out Gedicated oo scientific exhibits, {as approximately $1.12. 09 | the FOR XMAS TREE BROKEN TOYS WILL BE RE- PAIRED AND REPAINTED FOR COMMUNITY CHRIST- MAS TREE Collection of toys for the Com- {munity Christmas Tree will be ‘underway this week with all ad- dresses that are phoned to be contacted, and the toys collected on Saturday afternoon. The toys that are broken will be repaired by the Boy Scouts and repainted by the Girl Scouts. Neva Lions Club, in cooperation with the Recreation Department, WPA, NYA Boys’ Work Shop and ie “Women’s Work Center, are sponsoring this year’s Commun- ity Christmas Tree. { Last year’s trea was a splendid success with 1464 toys being dis- {tributed and an equal number of bags of fruit, six baskets of food r 00 ee 00 ,8nd the generous contributions “helped make this such a grand success. 00! This is a great event in the (00 | lives of poor children and the joy {that they have at Xmas time is happiness that is made It is hoped that those communications ‘possible. ‘who received 00 will help as much as possbile. Two shows will be presented at ‘the elementary schools for the benefit of the Community Christ- mas Tree. The admission to these performances will be a toy.' These toys will be repaired and repainted. i Contacts for the toys can be made with Lions Andrew Pritch- ‘ard, Victor Larsen, Everett Rivas; : Eva B. Warner, Thomas M. Cur-* ry, Vanessa Collins of ‘the Ree¢- * reation Department, WPA, or call phones 495, 548, '661-J and ‘Seeing Eye” Dog Knows Customers 3.75 | ' {Ry Ansoet Press) ! WIAYNESVILLE, N. C., Nov. 15.—Roy Moseman, blind, 35- | year-old newspaper route carrier, | | believes his “Seeing Eye” dog, | |Sallie, a Black, Labrador, is the | psa dog in ie country that! knows every subscriber on a} | newspaper route. i Sally knows Moseman’s sub- scribers even better than he does. ' If he happens to forget one on! his daily rounds, the dog tugs at! ther harness and refuses to move on_until the subscriber is served. | If Moseman misses his aim in tossing a paper into a subscriber's porch, Sally quickly corrects the error by picking up the paper and putting it where it ons be. Silt Fills Shanghai Harbor | {Ry Asnocinted Preen) SHANGHAI, Nov. 15.—The se- vere blow dealt this city’s im- portance as an international port }by the war may soon be made 'worse by Dame Nature. Heavy silting of the Whangpoo river, according to officials of principal foreign steamship com- panies represented here, may shortly prevent ocean liners from tentering Shanghai harbor. All dredgers were seized by the Japanese naval authorities fand are still in their possession.‘ . By PRESTON GROVER AP Feature Service WASHINGTON, Nov. —Out of its troubles the depart- ment of agriculture is shaping its A-1 arguments agains: the de- 15. {mand for the domestic allotment plan rising from the farm belt. One of the tasks the depart- ment undertook when it began controlling wheat production was to market the surplus abroad. This year the exportable surplus was estimated at 100,000,000 bushels, or roughly one-tenth of the supply. In normal ears this amount would have slid into the world market without much ado, but a half dozen wheat exporting coun- tries have surpluses this year while th® usual heavy buyers in Europe are buying “more bombs and less wheat. Had to Match Subsidies Other wheat countries, includ- izing the export of some of its wheat and the department of. agriculture had to follow suit if it expected to move the 120,000,- 000 bushels. (Special note: Secretary Waliace’s proposed two-price system by which subsidy payments would be used to make prices lower for poor Americans instead- of poor foreigners, doesn’t apply so well to wheat. The depart- ment believes the country now is eating about all the wheat it cares for and a sub- sidy would not make it eat more.) The department’s original plan was to have the export- able surplus moved by Janu- ary, so it would be out of the way ofthe huge Argentine orenops., These. countries har- vest in; January, since they are on the. other end of the world. Still Have Our Surplus To Wate the department has< been able to market only about 15,000,000 bushels of wheat after three months of effort. Half the time is gone and not more than a sixth of the exportable wheat. The department has been offer- ing exporters a subsidy reported to be 19 cents a bushel but they have insisted that the world will not take the wheat unless a 30- cent subsidy is paid. That would be equal almost to half the pres- tent market price of wheat. Now the department, in spite of the demands of the exporters, is convinced that 19 cents a bushel is quite a bonus, even though Rumania, as an instance, is reported to be paying 26 cents. Since the 19 cent subsidy won't move the crop, the department feels it has a good argument | against adVocates of the domestic allotment system which involves a forced sale abroad of the sur- ' ‘The domestic allotment plan, it | Will be recalled, provides that the | subsidy. amount of wheat this country consumes and saves for reserve will be left in the market but all surplus will be set aside for ex- port. To Subsidize Or Turn? Advocates of the plan urge that with the 10 per cent of ex- portable surplus taken off the market, the domestic price would automatically seek a higher price level. The surplus, sold abroad even at a lower price, might bring the total income up to a level comparable with other in- dustry. Now, the department feels it has fairly well established that the world will not take much U. S. surplus even with a 19 cent subsidy, when.other.nations are ‘willing to match it subsidy for Thus, the department | argues, if the country can’t eat the surplus nor sell it abroad at a fair price, it should not grow it. Whether the farm belt will ac- cept this situation as an argu- ment against domestic allotment and in favor of the present crop control plan is something the de- partment won’t even guess until the temper of the new congress is better known. Platinum Blonde Beavers Found In Gold Mine (By Associawed Press) SAGUACHE, Colo., Nov. 15.— Chief Game Warden John Hart has solved the mystery of the platinum blonde beaver. “They were living in the depth ‘of the Bonanza gold mine where there was enough acid in the wa- ter to dissolve a nail in about three weeks”, said Harti) “The acid turned their natural brown- ish color to silver”. Hart ordered them trapped alive and removed to more agreeable Surroundings on -the surface. Those Stingless Bees Are All Dead Now (By Axseciated Press) LONDON, Nov, 15.—The sting- less bees presented to the Zoo- logical Gardens by the Southern Rhody ian Government hire all dead It is believed the cold weather killeéi them. The first stingless bees ever brought to Europe alive travelled 8,000 miles by air in part of a tfee trunk that was their natural home. RETURNS To TAMPA Mrs. Lottie Ayala who was visiting in this city with relatives, returned to her home in Tampa e Overseas Highway yes- For Wholesale Quotations on FURNITURE and FURNISHINGS MAXWELL VENETIAN BLINDS RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT See or Phone G. A. PATTON. Local Representative SIBONEY INN. 725 DIVISION STREET COURT HOUSE COMMISSIONERS IN RECEIPT, OF FOUR BIDS: GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION THIS AFTERNOON YL huh dhetheuhedeuhe IT’S NAVAL DRAMA ‘WHEN U. S. SHOPS FOR BATTLE BOATS BACK OF IT LIES AGONY OF PREPARATION WITH DRAFTED AND REDRAFT- ED DISCUSSIONS Members of the board of coun- ty commissioners are in session at the court house this afternoon | to determine as to which of the By PRESTON GROVER | AP Feature Service WASHINGTON, Nov: 15— | Have'you ever seen people: od on $200,000,000 worth of battle- ships? The conclusion of this first | stage of the drama by which the | United States steps out to become jthe master of her share of the waves is calm, precise, dignified. four companies bidding will be, awarded the contract for repairs | and additions to the county court house. ‘Bids were received from John B. Orr Construction Co., Miami; Witter Construction Company, Miami; the Gaffney Waldron Company, Inc., of Miami, and the | S.C. Davis Construction Compeny i Back of it lies an agony of of Miami Beach. |preparation. thousands of blue Present at the meeting were prints drafted and re-drafted, M. J. Horre, of the Davis com-/ Rheirvossis in 4 Ebadi, — , Jack Gaff f the Gaff- | ‘cial houses, in e ite House, jaan AOR ei ‘in technical quarters in the navy, ney Waldron Co., Albert Hinson, | 214 in committees of the house of the Cheeley Lumber Co.,. and senate. Earle Wolfe, of the Russell Pan-; When all this is finished, coast Co., architects who drew j months: later . on of ir a ‘tion’s foremost seadogs cluster the plans for the work, M. J-|Jtound the desk. of Secretary Widmyer, project engineer for Swanson of the navy. His office the Public Works administration, ' js in one of the rattiest ‘buildings W. V. Little, of the National Em-! jn Washington, a concrete laby- ; ployment Service, and others. rinth slung together during the The meeting was called for 2 World War to house a swelling o'clock, but was not started until navy. When street buses pass, it 2:40 due. to the absence of Com- quivers like a chicken coop. missioner Cleveland Niles, who! However, an acceptable office was detained. Other members has been set up for the secretary. present were Chairman Carl Ber-|on the second floor. roomy but, valdi, and Commissioner Braxton far plainer then the quarters of B. Warren, Clerk Ross..C.-Saw- doormen in the newest govern- yer, and Attorney W, Garry Har- mental castles along Constitution ris. Commissioners 4 orter and and Pennsylvania avenues. Thompson are out of the city. | At the Stroke of Twelve Mr. Widmyer said that the The bids will be opened at bids would first be read, after “high noon,” says the announce- which the commissioners would’ ment. An hour before the door go into executive session, the re-. to the hallway outside is jammed sults would then be telephoned with men. Some are hard-bitten| to Atlanta, headquarters of the shipyard operators. Many are PWA, after which it was possible small operators hopeful of an ear-| that the award of the contract ful that will give them an ink- would be made. jling of where they can sell an Babs i Mpihs “ggRDUeET | order of insulation or a few rugs; JAS CASH HURT \for the officers’ quarters on the je ships. MOTORCYCLE HITS AUTOMO- As the main door opens the crowd rushes forward. A ma- BILE DRIVEN BY VISITOR Tine stops them. He let« in a | few at a time to seek places in lorderly fashion about the room Nearly a hundred men, a v-oman ‘or two as well. sardine inte the ‘room. There is a momentary | pause, a shuffling of papers as tlate arriving officials receive copies of this and that. Back at Swanson’s desk is a huge brass clock of seagoing de- sign, but it is an old grandfath er’s clock in the center of the room that starts off the party “Ding,” it begins, with the first James Cash received a thorough shaking up, a cut on the right shoulder apd an eight-inch gash on the right wrist Sunday when the motoreycle on which he was riding with Bill Ford met in col-; peat of 12 patient strokes to sig- lision with a car driven by @: nai that “high noon’ has arrived visitor, e navy is prompt. At the Cash said that the driver of instant of the first “ding” Ad- the car had made arrangements! mira] DuBose, naval chief of con- to pay the surgeon's bill, and any | struction, is on his feet. The sec- other expenses connected with'retary, formerly senator from the accident. | Virginia, has little part in the eo - final ceremony. The sea fighters SELLS HIS WIFE take the wheel. They are a trim CHICAGO.—A man unable to lot. Seven of ten high rankers in the army have blue eyes. Must meet the payment on his furni- ture, which amounted to $150, be the viking strain. At #0, Ad- | miral DuBose (blue eyes) is white sold his wife to obtain the money. | haired, erect as a picket pim _ , would be icharges to be filed to the board those attending it was noted and referred to the committee | for consideration. One of the main changes recom- mended was the establishment of a civil service board, which would hold examinations for va- rious positions in the several de- partments. One of the purposes of this board is to insure employes of continued service, and not to make their jobs subject to change every so often, Thus employes would be rewarded for faithful and canscientious service. On the other hand the public would be protected in that em- ployes who misuse their positions removed following end hearings held in which the ‘charges were proven, , City council is. to serve iar the position and assume the respon- sibilities at present vested in the board’ of election commissioners. Lowering of interest on assess- ments made on improvements and extend the time for payment of the same was recommended. The existing charter calls for an assessment of eight percent and exacts payment in three years It is recommended that the’ mite of interest be lowered to six per sent and time extended to.'four years. Many changes which will sim- plify thé existing form of ' city government were recommended, and the explanation is made. that by making the proposed changes much money would be saved. Special acts which amend the charter from 1921 to, the present date are to be studied in_sec- tions by the Charter Study Com- mittee, and recommendations will be made as to whether or not changes are to be made. Whaien the work, which has re quiged much time and study, is completed, the legal committee is toiprepare a resume of tlhe, pror posed changes in order that resi- dests may be able to famillggizée themselves with the newly form- ulated charter. Throughout the work accomplished couched in verbiage | bring it up to date ARRANGE MERIT SYSTEM EXAM. TO BE HELD BY STATE WEL- FARE BOARD AT PALM BEACH FEB. 11 charter the has -be which” will Date for, the, PRE “Merit System exemination 49 beheld by the State Welfere, Board.bas been set and willbe field at West Palm Bea ach on February 11, @A2. This information was,aecrived by The Citizen in a,,Jetter from LR. Bristol, district. directorr-ot Diitrict Number 10. Thedest ex- amihations were held on Sep tember 17, and because of the fact, it is pointed out, that the date was rather late, little op portunity was given for adequate publicity Many persons have complained that they did not know that the examinations were being held at the time, otherwise they would have had their examination ap plication placed with the board in ample time to take them. The deadline for making ap- plication for the examination to be heid February 1! is midnight January 2, and application blenks may be secured by sddreming Mr. Bristol, at West Palm Beach, i