The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 29, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service : For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 283. Waterway Charts From Main To Southernmost Key West Coast And Geodetic Sur-)'e**#** vey; Many Yachtsmen| Use Waterway With the approach of the pres- ent winter season, the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey recently completed the last of a new series going south via the inside route, | — more properly known today as/ They are published on a scale | of 1:40,000 (about 1.8 inches to! the nautical mile), and are double |‘ the scale of the series now with. | drawn, permitting the inclusion of additional.important data. All are 22 by 34 inches in size and 1 Maen is | 3 - shown with a red line, making} ‘ ; the main route essy to follow.! Sym os vest mare ae shoaler than 6 feet is tint-| SS.a oftne Rev ceo. W. it blue. A distinctive fea-| - pals owe the navigation aids, estab- | pea ay ia ie ‘by the Lighthouse Service’ _ (#bove o spends his time ghown on the charts, is the, isiting Sisatnis. selews 2 .| camps. Here ied one of a yellow border on all day- | Pelle coavick couperk tity Reaooiatea “Prewed Seeserorseseceveeesene FOREIGN _ PARIS.—Premier Daladier -will mass the armed forces of France for 1937, to break the strike of protest of: 5,000,000 French workers tomor-'@ct, passed by a fubber-stamp] only confuses postal troops garrison i i ‘ Vinies re gotiate foreign ‘trade , treaties | along the Atlantic Coast fromjdlone from the Paris New York City to Key West.| will be called out. 1 from the ocean at! a crisis of a | litical i } a is of a long political illness. time by te ogee Pee fre of it Daladier may emerge ards * | with new dictatorial powers or where penetrating far inland— o! Forty thousand oe ye 7) labor may regain new strength. today traversing the expanse i shies Chesapeake Bay and tomorrow) BERLIN.—The German plane -colored | which last August flew from Ber- lin to New York and then re- the route is everchanging. : jturnéd by the same route is on - | At intervals are magnificent es It is. hoped ‘its way to Tokio. tates, beautiful gardens, memor-' 4+ ’the flight will pave the way for Berlin-Tokio passenger sexv- ing. There is always leasant earicipation of pele un- | .—Admiral Van Brun usual, just beyond the next bend. | of the Netherlands _ Tepresenta- Seagulls change to pelicans, conic | tives se the cckoionmigm pra fers to cocoanuts, mud to coral, 'tervention committee attempting aaa winter to wanders 2 jto settle the war in Spaiti¥€sigtied The highly — significant thing Oday in protest of politié¥'Oof the about this route is that it is|committee. Belgium todiy pro- sheltered. The trip is no more | Posed that mediation in thé civi am ex ive, difficult or war be proposed with Bel; i bitious, expensive, is dangerous, than many taken by Great Britain and France the thousands of motorists who crowd mediators. This is expected to our great national highways. precipitate a political fight in Thousands of dwellers along the Belgium from left wing elements. Atlantic seaboard between Long! PBR Island Sound and Hampton Roads ! NATIONAL who own motor and sail boats,) SAN FRANCISCO.—A missing follow the wild geese southward United Air Lines plane carrying year after year in ever-increasing | four passengers and three crew numbers. {members was sighted in the Pa- The Waterway has a long his-' cific by a lighthouse keeper. tory dating back to 1763, when Coast Guard vessels are racing to George Washington made the/the scene. The pilot lost his ra- first surveys of the ee Seen | dic beam and was obliged to Canal, constructed in . In’ y, vhen he 1837 and 1875, oP tiie jand when he ran out of gas. between Norfolk and Charleston, Log ELES. — to determine the feasibility of an Jones, a hae Scaieciae eect inland waterway, but it was not; with ae - with some flying experience, until 1911 that a real canal of 10- Salk emth swren': civattacted hopped off today for New York ‘green ths 8 River ant tee expecting to land there in: 128 og -'hours. His plane has a normal fort Inlet. The protected route odin £ 300 * ‘was completed in 1936 with the Saeed: wmiles.irs section between Little River and Winyah Bay, S. C. 5-12 Fi. Depth WASHINGTON.— Airmail ‘serv ice by your back window may ; . be a possibility of the future if Cee ins seul yachtonan the flight scheduled for today be- and motor-boat enthusiast will teen Camden and Philadelphia find full information for making ‘° which an airmail plane is to a trip from New York to south- land on the roof of the new ern waters in a handy little| Philadelphia post office is suc- volume prepared by the U. S. cessful. Coast and Geodetic Survey as a pea result of its field investigations, NEW YORK.—Stocks opened known as the Intracoastal Water- Fa today with moderate trad- way Coast Pilot—New York tofing. The steel group went up, Key West, selling for 50 cents. , Bethlehem, Youngstown, Inland, The Intracoastal Waterway is,Republic. Railroads went up. operated and maintained today General Motors went up. Air- by the U.S. Corps of Engineers planes were mixed. Metal without tolls. It has a depth of strengthened and so did farm (Continued on Page Four) portion of total world imports de-| , Che Ke st Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, Feuding Labor Leaders eseeae | |NEW TREATIES CONSIDERED! | | cuBa‘s COLONEL BATISTA’s |, PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF| i i | VISIT TO UNITED STATES (Editor's Note: Following is the yes and no answers to the question whether Amer- ica should continue her trade pact policies. Colonél Batista, strong man of Cuba, who re- mentioned to The © that he was greatly interest- ed in reciprocity’ treaties.) WE SHOULD NOT By H. STYLES. BRIDGES — H U. S. Senator! from: New : Written for The Associated Press CONCORD, N. H.,. Nov. 29.—In ; 1929 the United States had the {largest foreign trade of any sin- i gle area in the wofld.” By: 1982, | -—————--~---——---- ---—— based on gold value, our percent- | t D lage of the total world exports Coun y ec ‘had dropped from 14.6 percent-in} “>- $1929 to 12.2 percent. ‘Our’ pro- C In Land clined from 11.2 percent’ in 1929 ; to 9.5 percent in 1932. In 1936 our percentage of world ; trade was 11.4 percent for exports and 10.9 for imports, This shows|) |how our proportion, of world ex- REQUEST MADE {ports has decreased while _ our ‘ percentage share of world imports thas increased to the detriment of our domestic ‘industries and . to jthe enhancement of foreign prod- ucts. . The figures show. that our 1936 foreign trade position was im- -Use .the seals on the back ani not 'on the front of your lettérs, } "Phe news. spotlight is tu leaders John L. Lewis (left) thieftain of the C.1.0. William Green of the American Federation of Labor. cently President Roosevelt asked both to stop feuding: The } CIQ.at present is continuing the Chicago stock yard strike |852 Collins Avenue, Miami, fol- over AFL-protest.: Both groups are.watching the present lows with Justice Lowe's com- | ‘labor monopoly hearings at Washington. ae eee ) ides To Start ondemnation Movement Owned By Perky IN USING SEAL —e UESDAY} NOVEMBER 29, SSCCoCCCOTOLCCLCCLS ececocecce 1938 JP COURT | COULD BE ' |JUSTICE E. R. LOWE COM- MENTS ON KEYS COM- PLAINT IN WHICH TAX- PAYERS COULD SAVE j__In the November issue of “The Florida Justice” a publication re- leased by the legislative commit- i j tee Justice Peace and Constables’ ming. on ‘these two, labor and Re- At an executive meeting fol- ipwies a special meeting of the gounty commissioners last night, ers of the board, all of hom were present. with Clerk percent over the 1932 level, but This‘ is a request going out from’ ceedings against R. C. Periky, who ‘this improvement! was due to the! agstmasters all oyer Florida to, owns about 18 miles of the land ‘Association of Southeastern Flor- ida has an article concerning the unnecessary expense of a justice of the peace decision in a Mon- roe County Third District case. The publication “is designed for “simplification and economy in the lower courts for the bene- | fit of the masses and the — busi- ‘ness and professional: people”. In ; ‘it is also.an article»on the’ Flor- | ida Keys. Letter of Mrs. Isidine Brasenian, iment after. “My conscience forces me to report what I consider a gross in- justice perpetrated on a poor and helpless negro who was driving an auto for a Mr. Roth of Detroit from Key West Tuesday, April 19. I happened to be in the auto as an invited guest. We were driving through an_ unfinished part of the highway, when an auto came abreast and com- manded:us to halt and then told the driver that he passed a sign designating a camp. The boy pleaded that he didn’t see the sign, but the fellow in khaki bade him follow him, and we followed. Arriving at an apparent court, we had to wait quite some time for the arrival of the judge. We were surprised when the officer made the charge of reckless driving. The didn’t have it and the owner of the car had only $15 and begged asked, Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS issioners Approve EXPENSIVEloweM@@Ontract For Work At Court House Buildmg CI ITOTAI IN syec:0) Suites Conducted NOTORIOUS GUNMAN REPORTED TO BE ON _ Night To Complete HIS WAY TO KEY WEST, Final Arrangements In Matter Advices received at the of- fice of Sheriff K. O. Thonip- son are to the effect that Benny Dickson, notorious gun-crazy desperado, and his blonde.j;young wife, Esther, are for Key West. AL ‘Hifutzena, special age: r i, advises that the pairnmay be using. @ Buick sedan, Buick conver- tible coupe, both with Michi- gan licenses, or possibly) a Ford sedan with California tags. More than 50 men have been watching the highways in Indiana and Michigan, and it is anticipated the couple were headed for Chi- cago Heights. Dickson, @c- cording to Special Agent Ruizena’s letter, said he was bound for Little Rock and would eventually land in Key West. When last seen Dickson and his wife were both wounded in a battle with To- peka peace officers. Dickson was seen with two automat- ics, He is considered as dan- gerous as the infamous Dillin- ger. A full description of thé desperado is on file in thé office of Sheriff | ; Special meeting of county com- | missioners was held last night for ee purpose of reading over the | contract and resolutions in con- nection with the repairs and ad- ditions to the county court house, which will be started, it is ex- pected, within a short time. Present were Chairman Ber- veldi, Commissioners Porter, War- ren, Thompson and Niles. County Attorney Harris, Clerk Sawyer and Chief Deputy Sheriff Waite. At the conclusion of the read- ing of the contract and resolu- tions, they were unanimously ap- proved by the board and it was announced that S.C. Davis, head of the construction company which was awarded the contract, Was expected to arrive today to sign the necessary papers. Chairman Bervaldi announced that'a very important meeting had-been called+for this evening by the Chamber of Commerce to be held by that body jointly with the commissioners and the city Ee a ted 2 * prselgrea es tre eo ge lurchasers and users of Christ: low 1932, as is also the situation | és Seals. ; +T6 put Christmas Seals on the The reciprocal trade agreement) frent of letters and packages not authorities hut: is a violation of postal regu- iptions. without the advice and ‘ consent}. Posttmasters throughout the of the Senate, contrary ‘to ‘the state have been helpful in pro- United States Constitution; to | thoting the sale of Christmas raise or lower rates of duty .50/ Seals. .Through their hands pass t without ‘definite (stand-]@pProximately 185,000 Christmas Maaapa ls Fog csp for} Seal letters annually, directed to such action; to fix the level of} Floridians who support the tu- rates and to grant this preferen-j €rculosis program. tial rate to all nations. I am for a policy of real reci- procity but I am f granting the powers of the al ent act to the President without | jrestriction. It is giving him a q,: year 1937 total exports from blank check on the Very a ttgg|the United States showed a : : 5) {107.6 percent increase over our = men and women of the |{o141 exports in 1932, and even prs a New nee through | through the business recession of ree trade” treaties, has sent iste 1937 and 1938, exports re- millions of good; American dol-| mained one of the brighter spots lars to the worst, Sweatshops in in the economic picture. the world, while many of our! Our imports during recent years own industries are idle and mil-: pave been strongly influenced by lions of our own workers walk special factors. They spurted the streets in idleness and want. [noticeably as a result of the droughts of 1934 and 1936 and of WE SHOULD our increased industrial activity. i By HARRY C. HAWKINS {But more recently they have fall- | Chief, Division of Trade en off because of normal crops Agreements, State Department congress, gives the. President power among other things to ne- en jstand feady to buy the products 4 Of other countries. “The Act was passed in 1934. Sirice then, our export trade has itmproved steadily. For the calen- ;and the present lower levels of Written for The Associated Press” business activity. WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—The! For the fiscal year 1937-1938 reciprocal trade agreement be-' our total imports from all trade- tween the United States and Ecu-!agreement countries increased ador, signed on August 6, brought | 26.2. percent over the 1934 and the total number of trade agree- | 1935 annual average. This rate is ments concluded up to tke pres-; not markedly different from the fent time to 18. }28.5 percent increase in imports | The United States now has from all non-agreement countries J agreements with 10 Latin- ifor the same periods. Ambrican countries, seven Euro-} To the United States this means \pean nations and Canada. Agree- | foreign markets, greater domestic »fWnts haye been concluded with | purchasing power, as well as ad- vGuba, Belgium, Haiti, Sweden, ; v@ntages for consumers. To this »Bfazil, Canada, The Netherlands, | 2d all other countries it also gives Switzerland, Honduras, Colombia, | hope of escape from the innumer- Guatemala, France, Nicaragua, able devices which, by constitut- ‘Finland, Costa Rica, El Salvador, ; ing veritable economic warfare, Czechoslovakia and Ecuador. Ne-?have been strangling world trade. gotiations are now under way wo with the United Kingdom, with Canada for a new agreement, and | PHONE 9108 with Turkey and Venezuela. The Trade Agreements Act provides for negotiations with foreign countries for the recipro- cal removal of excessive barriers to an increased exchange of prod- ucts with them. Such barriers contributed to the decline in United States exports of from $5,250,000,000 in 1929 to a little over $1,500,000,000 in 1932. The trade agreements policy recog-) nizes that in order to be able to isell its products, a nation must’ See or Phone G. SIBONEY iNWN. 708 wer which runs the right-of-way ‘of the proposed Overseas High- way. | This matter has been under discussion for some time, and Sunday afternoon Mr. Perky’s at- torney, W. McL. Christie, and Richard P. Daniel, attorney for ‘the State Road Department, met ; with Attorney Harris and Chair- man. Bervaldi to discuss matters pertaining to the holdings of Mr. Perky and sécuring rights-of-way over his land for the continuation of the Highway from Big Pine Key to Key ,West. The discyssion proved to be anything but productive of fav- ‘orable results and it was decided by the commissioners that they would meet in executive session ; last night and go over the matter from every angle, and this was done with ‘the result that con- demnation proceedings would be started at once, or as soon as necessary resolutions are receiv- ed from the State Road Depart- ment, It was also mentioned that the matter of argument for dissolu- tion of the order enjoining Clerk Sawyer from disposing of any tax certificates in connection with lands ownd by Perky will be held in Circuit Court in Miami on De- cember 8, and Attorney Harris will present to the court the argu- ments for Monroe county. In the event that the court de- cides ‘in favor of the county, and | and turned into the F. & F. fund, | brought to the dock it is believed this will be the re- sult of the hearing, certificates may be issued against the Perky! holdings and purchased by party or parties who so desire. JOHANNESBURG — Armed with a long horsephip with wire attached to the end, a native flicked it over oxen he was driv- ing, and on the rebound, the wire pierced his heart. He died almost immediately. The MAXWELL CO. Jae. For Wholesale Quotations on FURNITURE and FURNISHINGS MAXWELL VENETIAN RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT A. PATTON. Local the judge to take that, but the arrester objected and finally the poor fellow was held for trial for May 12, which meant 23 days’ imprisonment awaiting trial, and the charge of reckless driving against this defenseless creature May meun a severe sentence. All for an innocent passing of an un- seen sign, which would ordinarily warrant a fine not exceeding $5. This poor unfortunate will be kept so many miles away from his home in Miami without a change of clothes or friends to mind this injustice is as much to society as against the offender, for instead of the state accepting the $15, the people will have to house and feed the prisoner and more convict for the state to cope with, with another public enemy jfor the injustice done him. “Christianity, justice, _toler- ance, brotherly, love—where, oh where, art thou? . “ISIDINE. BRASENIAN, “852 Collins Avenue.” “The above refers to a case in the court of E.R. Lowe, justice fof the Third District, Monroe jcounty. In commenting on this article Judge Lowe quite agrees with Mr. Brasenian, that it was an injustice, but procedure under the present statutes in counties having a criminal court, com- pelled the justice to do just what he did. He has no power to fine in criminal cases. Result. the county was out five or ten dollars ;that could have been collected | and eventually footed the costs to the tune of about one hun- jdred dollars. WHY, Mr. Taxpayer, ; what do you think about it?” NO PENGUINS YET LONDON-—No penguin chicks | have been hatched at the London Zoo for eight years, but “Wuthori- ; ties are hoping the fick ° will ' change this year. Eight penguins tare in turn sitting on four eggs in four nests. | MOSCOW — Soviet Russia's {youngest locomotive engineer ;2)-year-old Elizabeth Pitersya. She is pulling freight in the Mu- }rom district, east of here. |X Good DOCTOR Is Only Half Of The Cure The Rest Depends On His ‘PRESCRIPTION Registered Pharmacists Only GARDNER’S PHARMACY Free Delivery see he gets any help. To my, the expense of trial and add one: ‘the boy OY ama”. WHALE-LIKE FISH CATCH HERE 1912 PHILADELPHIA. EVENING BULLETIN PRINTS STORY PICTURE OF CHAS, THOMP- SON INSIDE HUGE MOUTH Commenting on an article con- | cerning a whale-like “mystery | species” fish in the Philadelphia ; Evening Bulletin James W. Dun-; away wrote an article for the Oct.{ 19 edition concerning the mys- terious, whale-like fish caught’ here during the davs of the con- struction of the Florida East Coast Extension. A large photo of the fish with Charles Thompson seated inside [the huge mouth accompanies the article. ,The, article follows: ! | SIR: I was.much interested in “Uncle Ray's” article in The Bul- letin entitled hale-Like Fish Still a Mystery.” It so happens that I was working for the Fior- ida East Coast Railway, Key West Extension, in about June or July, 1912, when this huge monster was caught. I knew Captain Charles Thompson and recall very dis- tinctly when the fish was caught It was in the vicinity of Boot Key some 70 or 80 miles south of Mi- ami when the fish was finally The fish was sighted by the huge dorsal fin sticking out of the water and I recall that in order to finally subdue the monster it was necessary to harpoon it and ‘siiéot it a great number of times with a high-powered rifle. All of this took some six or seven hours 'When' the fish was finally {brought in it was lashed or rather chained to the side of the boat, a | good-sized schooner. I was pres ferib at the time and took some excellent pictures of the fish. You will notice one picture shows a man inside the mouth of the fish. The gullet of this fish was large enough to pass a beer keg through I don’t recall the length or weight of the fish but as the pictures will attest, it was certainly a “whale of a fish.” #. H. Hyman, general manager. lof the Florida Power & Light Co,’ Miami, and C. J. Corliss, now con- nected with the Association of American Railroads in Washing- ton, were present and saw the fish Certainly if any one saw this fish he could het doubt the, Biblical story of Jonah and the Whale ' JAMES W. DUNAWAY. } council, in the roomis ef the cham- ber. Object of the meeting, it is said, is to diseuss. ways and means for securing funds with which to sponsor projects ef the WPA. It was then announced by the chaitman that the board would hold an executive session for the purpose of discussing matters in ¢onnection with the proposed con- tinuation of the highway from Big Pine Key to Key West, and the attitude of RC. Perky, as voiced by W. Mch. Christie at the conference held Sunday with Mr. Bervaldi, Mr. Harris and ' Attor+ ney Daniels representing the State Road Department. PERMITS ISSUED FOR REPAIRS AND PAINT PROJECTS SIX APPLICATIONS FOR AC- TIVITIES CALL FOR EX- PENDITURE OF TVENTY- FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS Painting and repair permits is sue! from the office of Building Inspector H. M. Baker during the past week total $2,500, as shown by the records in the inspector's office. No building issues were made Permits follow a General repairs at 902 United street. Owner, E. V. Kinsman; cost, $1,000, Genetal repairs and paint st 915 Fleming street. Owner, Aaron McConnell; cost, $600. Paint residence at the corner of Simonton and Caroline strask. Owner, Frank Delanay; cost, $650. Repairs to store at 1117 Duvel street. Owner, C. Vasquez; cost. $50. Construct doors at building on Simonton street. Owner, Louise Porter Estate; cost, $50 Paint building at 629 William street. Owner, Louisa Porter Estate; cost, $50.