The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 30, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit rat Citizen VOLUME LIX. No. 284, Two Overseas Highway Sections Included In U. 8. Highway One} State Road Department SPP OOOO LSS 4 Chairman ‘PUBLICITY FOR =e KEY WEST SOON eral Monies Can Now Be Spent On Construction | Booher es a Wo | winter is making up again. The Cilizen knows of two groups in the city who are planning articles about the Island City. A special sup- plement by a Miami newspa- per will be presented next week with pictures and art- icles. Another writer in the city is planning a series of syndi- cated articles to be spread throughout the country. In (By Annoeti Presn) TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 30.—' Chairman Arthur B. Hale of the State Road Department an- nounced yesterday that in the ‘ dition of 131 miles of Florida highways to the federal aid sys- tem the Maine-to-Florida high- way 1 will include the road from Florida City to Key Largo and Bocas from Big Pine Key to Key West, ms ssh Key West is visit- besides a spur road from Florida’ by hundreds of - writers | for a fresh field. Last City to the Royal Palm Park. Piso oa? “The extensions”, Hale said, Ye@ short stories and art- “mean that federal aid funds may, les of Key West flooded the be expended by the state road de-| Country's best magazines un- partment for improvements on! Precedentedly. the roads.” Mr. Hale received ; notice from Harry L. Brown, act- Ack udeuheute ue utubeubeude ing secretary of the Washington | Bureau of Public Roads. ‘NO P ARKING IN TWO LANES | officials were at the La Concha} f th - poe Sunes: ony ead ib | Bahama and Smith lanes, which the survey back to Washington are between Southard and Eaton so. PER streets, will be no parking streets | june e Citizen in an+in the future, Se t J h Editor’s Note appended to an ar- ik page iesupetierst wag ticle concerning the State Plan- emp told The Citizen today. ning Board’s proposition to make| The streets are exiremely nar- a four lane highway of the East |Tow and easily congested when! Coast U. S. 1 stated that the in-|parking is allowed. Signs are; clusion of the Overseas Highway being painted today on the | as part of U. S. 1 was to be de- | streets. sired. Confirmation of the pro- | posal, tentative for a year, is drive to inaugurate and continue | made in the Associated Press re- an efficient traffic system in the | port. leity during the winter. “Establish Bird And Came Refuge On Lower Gulf mig Editor’s Note: On May 5 The Citizen carried the story that a group of Bureau of Public Roads | The U. S. Bureau of Biological order to meet the various crews survey bird and game refuge on and to familiarize himself with the Gulf Keys from the Mar- | the vessels operating in this sec- quesas on the West to Little Pine tion. It is quite likely also that ° Key which has been proposed for Mr .Shultz will be interested in! some time has been finally ap- cooperating with the State Con: proved, E. M. Moore Audubon So-' servation Commission in its ef. ciety conservation agent told The forts to preserve the sponges in Citizen today. , lower Monroe County waters. The area comprises all the wa-' “Biologically speaking, this area ter and land lying between the is an almost untouched treasure main keys to the east to the open house and it is almost certain that waters of the Gulf. The refuge the scientists of the Bureau will was established principally to find much of interest and value protect the great white herons, in the refuge. There is no reason which are still in some danger of why Key West should not become extermination. a mecea for the scientific collector F. W. Shultz, field officer in and investigator”, Mr. Moore charge of the refuge, states that said. there will be no interference with! , For over a month now the sur- fishing activities or with sppnge|vey’s trim boat, “Scooter” gathering... He will probably | been anchored at the Yacht Ba- band. every ost Jo, the, again, sn. ENGLAND WAS MORE THAN GLAD eee eee Germany's New Trade Inventions Knock Out Markets eee eee eee | TO GET TRADE TREATY WITH U. S. Soecccccccccccssses (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Noy. 30.—By, ered her own customers. taking a nose dive into British An article in the London Econ- | economic and trade publications omist points out some of the | you get more of an. idea why/ mechanisms by which Germany | England was glad to take any sews up trade. Suppose tobacco, step, such as the trade pact with oil and what are needed. All these the U. S., offering some offset’ are available. in the Balkan against further German trade ag- countries. Germany offers to buy | gressions. jlarge supplies of these goods. | By a system of trade inven- She will pay aski marks, which tions that amaze the English, are good only for purchase of Germany is able to buy and buy German goods in return. and buy food, cotton and other) Maybe the Balkan countries Taw materials, and sell her own don’t like to be tied up to buying manufactured articles to coun- only German goods, so they ob- tries which England once consid- ject to the deal. Germany ————— promptly offers to pay higher than the world market price. Farmers, eager for an opportun- ity to sell at a high price, insist that the deal go through. And Since peasants in the Balkans outnumber everybody else, they have to be satisfied. That leaves the Balkan banks loaded with aski marks with which they ean buy only German cc goods. Now if a Balkan importer a has been used to buying British shees or fabires or steel, he will be persuaded instead to buy in the banks have Germany because BBY CHRISTMAS SEALS. t use up this German exchange. The move is one of a recent + ' state THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938 Pianist'Gbserves 50th Anniversary Fifty years of melody were observed in New York by Mois Rosenthal (center) 75 o year old pianist who onée was court pianist for Austria’s emperor Franz Josef. golden jubilee book is a cake Genet TSS IS SSS SS | MISS LaKIN CHOSEN MISS K. W. AVIATION Miss Susan LaKi LaKin will rep- resent ihe city of Key West as Miss Aviation of Key West at the All-American Air Maneuvers in Miami January 6, 7, 8, in Miami, Mayer Willard M. Albury told The Citizen today. “We conferred with Mrs. Stephen W. Douglass of the Key West Woman's Club at the request of the Maneuvers cand. decided -on fo-statt Miss=~: LaKin. She has accepted”, the mayor said. Miss LaKin will be guest of the city of Miami during her three-day stay there. "FEE SS SE SME MORE FUNDS TO MEET EXPENSES ANOTHER CONTRIBUTION BY COUNTY FOR HIGHWAY CELEBRATION Up to the present time county commissioners have given toward the fund for defraying expenses of the Overseas Highway Cele- bration $3,000 and it is planned to give another $200, making the total $3,200. This statement was madc__ this morning by Clerk Ross C, Saw- iyer, who also stated that this fund, which had in it $286.8¥'Wi divided. by giving the ‘db stated sum to the celebration j committee, $80 to the fund for en- tertainment of Colonel Fulgencio Batista, and the $6.81 balance in the fund to the Chambef of Com- merce, STUDY KEY WEST SPECIAL ACTS CHANGES IN 34 LEGISLATURE ACTS REGARDING CHAR- TER PROPOSED Thirty-four special acts of the legislature from 1919, the date of establishment of the pres- ent city charter, to 1935, were studied with the view of making them gnform to siggested chenaee the city charter last night in the final meeting of the charter study committee. The suggested chan then go to the legal co for drafting and after their ap- { Proval will be tugned over to the Precinct organizati and speakers commitcees Ww will prseent them te the pul for their perusal. Present were chairman H. E. Day, Col. Louts Brinton, Everett Winter, Charles H. Ketchum, John Park, Emest Ramsey. Franklin Atbert and Allan Arm- _ Strong. ‘| quarters WEiidcation, and ’ Howard Brown, WITH CATCH \ 1 | | 200300.TURTLE BROUGHT IN BE- | ING UNLOADED TODAY: ’ WILL BE USED FOR TURTLE | SOUP | | ! | Turtle Schooner A. Maitland Adams with Captain A. E. Banks in command arrived last night in {Key West harbor from Mosquito |Key off the Nicaraguan coast {where the catches were made and where they left November , 22. i ; Unloading of about 300 250- ‘pound green turtle began today ~ and withwontinue throughout thé The Supervisors Of Women's Projects Hold Meeting With District Official : Nay Matters 0 Of Interest Relative To Activities, Are Taken Up For Dis. re cussion — Uni: Work and Professional projects’ met this morning at WPA head- Owens, supervisor of projects in the fourth, fifth and eleventh areas, which comprise the south- eastern district of Florida. There are 12 unit supervisors in Key West, all of whom were present at the meeting, and oth- ers, not of Key West area, who attended were Mrs. Margaret Bailey, stant to Mrs. Owens, and Mrs. Veeley, district director of the Federal Music Project. Many matters of interest for the advancement of the several projects were discussed, and ideas for the success of cach worker were voiced by those attending. Mrs. Owens, Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Veeley arrived late Monday evening and will return to Miami this evening. PLAN SHIPPING NYA ARTICLES Victor Lowe, supervisor of NYA activities in this area, said morning that he had been preparing a shipment of articles made in the craft shop under the direction of Peter Knight The shipment contains the fol- lowing articles: Two desks, two typewriter desks, one armchair, one stepladder, two stools for boys! suffering with infantile pa- ralysis, 95 office chairs, three fancy chairs and four filing cab- inets. Qther articles of different de- r on, are to be manufactured n Key West for the Di are to warded to Miami. These articles are made in Key West on instructions from B. director of the al Youth Administration in section. bu $5.00 REWARD supervisors of Women’s with Mrs. Ruth B.| FLORIDA LEADS SOUTH IN OLD | ALSO RANKS NEAR ‘TOP OF ENTIRE COUNTRY IN PRO- PORTION TO POPULATION | IN AID TO BLIND (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Nov. 30. —Florida is leading the entire South in the ‘percentage of pop- ulation, more than 65 years of age, receiving Old Age Assistance and Aid to the Blind. Statisties acknowledging this claim were published in the Octo- ber number of Social Security Bulletin, issued monthly by the Social Security Board, with head- quarters at Washington. Outside the South, Florida ranks near the top, being second in the entire United States in the percentage of population more than 65 years of age receiving Aid to the Blind, with Maine leading. In the Old Age Assist- ance category it is surpassed na- tionally only by Oklahoma, Min- nesota, South Dakota, Arizona, Colorado, Utah and Nevada. Oklahoma’s matching federal funds were halted by the Social Security Board when it charged that ineligibles were being placed on the assistance payrolls. For comparison, statistics cover- ing the Seventh Region, of which it is a part, show that in Florida 320 persons per 1,000 population 65 years of age, 137 in Alabama, 243 in Georgia, 184 in Mississippi, 150 in Tennessee and 309 in South Carolina have been granted Old Age Assistance. In the Aid to the Blind cate- gory the showing is even more fa- vorable with Florida leading with 107, followed by Tennessee with 47, South Carolina with 44, Geor- gia with 37, Alabama with 16 and Mississippi with none. Florida's Aid to the Blind pro- gram was inaugurated in Decem- ber of last year, while its Old Age Assistance program was picked up by the State Welfare Board when it assumed office on July 1, 1937. At that time the case load was slightly in excess of 10,000. November Old Age As- sistance checks were mailed out to 32879 recipients and Aid to the Blind checks to 2,142 re- cipients, SOME PUMPKIN GAINESVILLE, Fla — A pumpkin on a vine in this city grew an overage of more than one and a third pounds daily un- til it reached a weight of 107 pounds at maturity day asetlierlarge barge is towed? back anidiforth from the schooner : to the'crawls at the Thompson | Fish Company dock. The pro- ; cedure is always interesting to! | tourists and attracts a large rowd. | The turtle are taken from the| hold of the Adams where their} {flippers have been tied together | , with thatch cord and where they ! have been stowed side by side| throughout the boat. They are | {placed on the barge and brought | to the dock opposite the crawls. , The thatch is then cut, the turtles | j Placed on a chute and slid into | | the crawl which is a concrete pil- | jing, open air affair. On the Cee of each turtle is carved the in-| aes of the seaman who caught ‘g ort Nicaragua on the banks: | around keys there the turtle are caught in nets spread over their | sleeping lairs and the turtle ris- | jing for air is entangled.and cap- | eres Only green turtle are eee the green turtle cannin, “tony nearby. the turtle is pre} ; for market with the meat going} to some distributing points and} the gelatinous portions of the} flippers and other sections of the| turtle kept for the delectable tur- | tle soup. } | The schooner which is from} |araad Cayman will remain in : port a few days. | badwas! i ecoe NEWS FLASHES “ (Ny Associated Press) esepastpegusescsesesones| ; FOREIGN PRAGUE.—Czechoslovakia was recognized today as Dr. Emil Hodja was elected president. The premier is expected to resign to allow Dr. Hodja to elect his own premier. PARIS.—French industry stam- peded back to work today as only 1,000,000 of the 5,000,000 proposed |, strikers went on strike. Head of the French Confederation of La- bor announced that the strike was only partly successful and laborers fearful of losing their jobs rushed back to work. The strike was in protest of Daladier's strict policies concerning labor. There were 10 deaths when strik- ing street car operators fought with police. One thousand were arrested in Paris. BUCHAREST.—Leader of Iron Guard and followers who were jailed in the spring on an attempt to overthrow the govern- ment and establish a dictator- ship were shot today attempting to break prison. the BELFAST.—Armed bands pa- trolled the Irish-British border today in protest to British strong arm policies over Ireland and it became a possibility that the two states of Ireland would join to- day. NATIONAL NEW YORK.—A former army air corps chief is standing trial for Nazi activities in the United States. DETROIT.—Thirteen thousand handiers in the Plymouth fac- tory are on strike today with the possibility that 8,000 more today will be thrown out of employ- ment if the strike ts not settled WASHINGTON. —John D Lewis is testifying before a Sen- ate committee and stated that profit sharing is not the way to- ward satisfactory industrial rela- tions. PRICE FIVE CENTS Matter Of Raising Funds To Sponsor WPA Projects Discussed MISS LEWIS! Last Evening Members Of Different Or- Meet Joint Session In Com- ganizations In merce Body Rooms At the joint meeting of the | Board of Directors of the Cham- ber of Commerce, County Com- missioners and City Council held last night at the rooms of the chamber, the matier of raising funds for the sponsoring of addi- tional WPA projects was the | | Subject of discussion. RARELY SEEN by th pub- ¥ |Kathryn Lewis, who is jive assistant to her i er, CIO’s John L. Lewis, will attend Lima, Peru. con- ference of the Americas, Dec. 9, as a U. S. delegate. NO MACKEREL CATCHES YET ‘COMMERCIAL BOATS TRIED LAST NIGHT BUT TO NO AVAIL -© nay The. chairmuat,-Chas. Ey Sith > Although a number of the mackerel and kingfish . fleet, of jthe Thompson Fish “Company went out last night no catches were reported. It was hoped that there might ,be catches of mackerel, though the kingfish usually come down later, but all efforts were unsuc- 1. Commercial kingfishing lusually begins around January 1. The market, too, has. been veeped recently over the Thanks- {giving holidays, but it will, pick up later. Attending the meeting were ‘Charles E. Smith, Bascom L. Grooms, W. W. Demeritt, Frank H. Ladd, Charles 5. Taylor, Fred J. Dion, Melvin E. Russell, Ben D. Trevor, W. T. Fripp, Earl R. Adams, Will T. Doughtry, Jr., ‘W. HH. Monsalvatge, William Freeman, J. .S. Roberts, Carl Bervaldi; Norberg Thompson, j William R. Porter, W. Curry Har- ris and Franklin Albert. | The necessity of providing con- ‘tinued employment for Key Westers and the fact that unless additional. projects were duly sponsored a large number of Key , Westers will be without employ- ment with a consequent loss of revenue to local merchants and jthe city generally was brought out. ‘president’ of the Chamber of Commerce, appointed the follow- ing committee to bririg forward plans for the necessary provi- sions: Will Doughtry, Carl Ber- valdi, Charles Aronovitz, Earl Adams and Fred J. Dion. From the WPA there wefe present B, Curry Moreno ‘tnd Fred O. Eberhardt, who, without specifying any definite sum, stat- ed that in the future it would be necessaty for Key West to pro- vide the same spontorship for projects as was provided by oth- er Florida cities, TAPS” HAVE GRABBED OFF SHIPPING American Ambas:ador Grew’s Protest Comer Devices AND BANKING ° OF (By Anwect WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.— Japan has bitten off a péttion of China containing half its populae tion and most of its wealth The end result of that is as certain to realistic observers as the rising sun. Japan's share of the historic China trade will in- crease by leaps and bounds and the share of other nations will de~ crease in proportion, The methods by which it will be brought about already are be- ing demonstrated with such mark- ed success that the state depart- ment, through Ambassador Grew, has protested. By one trade de- vice or another American and other foreign merchants and busi- ness men have been frozen out of Manchouquo. Protests about that brought no result. Business By Bayonets The latest protest mentions what has happened in Manchou- kuo and cautions Japan against letting it happen in the rest of China. But the odds are, we get from more than one authentic source, that the results will be no better as far as American trade is concerned. Japan is next door to China and is determined to dominate it as a trade zone. It has spent ne two billion dollars or ‘more the mths’ conquest, So far, reports from the “front” in- dicate, the net returns have been comparatively small because busi- ness does not thrive under the beyonet. But the methods Japan has adopted in the conquered ter- ritery cannot fail to destroy com- petition and leave virtually all export and import business in the 15 bands of Japanese. “DEFEATED CHINA Press) In his message to the Japan fp hog minister, Ambassador rew mentioned several devices Foreign merchant ships are bar- red from operation on the lower Yangtze because of the “emer- gency.” Japanese ships continue hauling goods up and down the river. But they refuse to haul American or other foreign goods. Ambassador Grew does not mention it, but reports had react ed here earlier that American and other foreign goods were lett standing on the railroad platforré while Japanese goods were rout- ed ahead. That has worked so well that interior merchants, un able to be sure they will get Am erican goods, now save them selves disappointment and delay by ordering Japanese goods. It does not take much of that to ruin foreign shippers. The same processes will operate as effectively in the rest of China more recently brought under Jap anese sway. If Japan had no other explanation ready, it could insist for several years that “emergency” cogditions continue to exist. By that time other for eign business men in China would be ruined and the competition gone. Reaches To Banking. Too Japan has set up its own export banks in the conquered territory American and other exporters have to allow these banks such wide discounts that they cannot make their trade profitable. The Japanese operatots are a)- lowed to pay smaller discounts and get the business. That sort of thing. Mr. Grew reports, already is going on. ss