The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 10, 1939, Page 1

fated Press Day’ Wire Service 9 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West V@LUME LX. No. 35. Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. j ATHOLIC aribbean Fleet Problem DANIELS GIVES KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1939 STATUS COVERING | eaee WORLD MOURNS DEATH OF PONTIFF . ! | °°" OPE EXPIRES Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS WOULD HAVE CELEBRATED HIS SEVENTEENTH ANNIVERSARY OF CORONATION Biographical Sketch Of Pope Pius XI / es THIS SUNDAY As “Pope of the Conciliation,”;consequently caused some as who after two years of negotiation | tonishment by publishing a volume’ with the Italian government endedjon his earlier experiences as a Will Begin On Monday | | BUSY RIGHT-OF-WAY British, French Fleets Man-_ euver At Same Time In. Mediterranean; Station | At Key West Ready (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—The| War Department today emcne| ed that over 140 surface vessels | of the United States fleets will! engage in a fleet problem Mon. | day in which one part of the fleet will attempt to land a base on the Gulf coast while the other section of the fleet will attempt to defend it. It is significant that at the same time of the United States maneu-; vers, the fleets of Britain France will engage in similar! maneuvers. The British navy’s| maneuvers will take place in the}! Mediterranean, while the French} »will maneuver just off north AL-| rica where their important colo-} ny of Tunisia is located. | The triple national maneuvers: are believed to ‘be a significant move against Germany and Italy, | which are building huge arma- ments at present,-to show them| the power of the three democratic | countries. | and | Although Commander Virgil C. Griffin, under War Department, orders, will give no information regarding the present defense of the’ coast, it is possible that part of the theoretical attack may be directed near the Key West sta- tion. Last of the 18 planes sta- tioned here has reported. They have engaged in machine gun and bombing gunnery and night flying during the past few weeks. The destroyer Childs has engaged in maneuvers. Also here is the airplane tender Owl. The theo- fetical attack is not only to be directed against the Gulf Coast but also the Panama Canal. Peeeccccccccecsvecccocecs: TEMPERATURES Peeeesecccsoccoaseoseseoy Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 hours Abilene 30 Atlanta 60 Boston - 20 Buffalo . 20 Charleston 62 Chicago . 24 Denver ae | Detroit 28 Galveston 54 Havana ree Huron --14 Jacksonville 68 Kansas City 0 KEY WEST _ 76 Litlte Rock . 42 Los Angeles . 44 Louisville 46 Miami 72 Mpls.-St. P. _ --6 New Orleans - 70 New York _. 30 Pensacola . 66 Pittsburgh —. 38 St. Louis 22 Salt Lake City 8 San Francisco 42 Seattle _ 28 Tampa aor Washington Williston 38 82 72 54 70 78 18 78 46 7 46 64 24 46 32, 84 38 54 ~ 68 82 AUERBACH’S 410 FLEMING ST. Announces— the opening of a new COCKTAIL BAR ' JANE and CHET RODGERS Vocalists Extraordinary - DINNERS Telephone 98 for Special Supper Parties LUNCHEONS WP. A HARRIS | ATTORNEY FOR STATE ROAD | IMPROVEMENTS | srerwme woes ARE CERTIFIED ATTORNEY SENATOR PEPPER ADVISES! $9802 SCHOOL PROJECT MAY OPERATE AT DISCRE- TION STATE DEPARTMENT | |vises that Mr. Harris’ telegrams ae 'of February 2 and February 3, to Mr. Hale and Mr. Niles have been referred to him, and gives the following information. “During the past few weeks I have been perseveringly trying to complete negotiations between Mr. Perky’s attorney Mr. Chris- tie, and the department. Mr. Christie has been absent from his office a great deal, and so has Mr. Hale. “Yesterday I. conferred with Mr. Christie and at my request he telephoned Mr. Hale. for a conference in Tallahassee on Thursday. Later Mr. Christie reported that he and Mr. Hale In a letter to Attorney W. Curry Harris, for the ‘county, Works Progress Administra- tion project for $9,802 general the Harris | Grammar School Building is now' improvements to eligible for operation at the dis- cretion of the state administra- tion, Senator Claude Pepper to- day advised The Citizen by tele- gram. H the’ discretion of the state adminisira- tion, Senator Pepper advises. Operation will begin at Richard P. Daniels, attorney for | the State Road Department ad- * asking | the 59-year-old ‘Roman question” rule over the Vatican City state, Pius XI stood out as one of the most forceful pontiffs of modern |iimes, i Elected Pope In 1922 Elected head of the Roman Catholic church on February 6, 1922, he became, seven years lat- r pope since Pius IX to poral as well as a ign. He was the first pontiff in 59 years to extend paternal greetings to the king, queen and princes of united Italy. And he was the first after 1870 to leave the confines of the Vati- can, This last step, ending the “pris- oner of the Vatican” habits of hiv predecessors, he took on July 15, 1929, when he was borne in 9 gorgeous procession around St. Peter’s square. But more signifi- cant of the new freedom was his trip of December 20, 1929. Then, without previous announcement, he motored across Rome to St. John Lateran, “mother church of Christendom,” there to celebrate a haf century of priesthood. The next day, before a cheering throng and regained temporal power, with! He invited baseball playing and | introduced radio within the pre-: cinets of the Vatican. He author- | jized the taking of motion pictures ' of himself and attendants in va- rious ceremonies and he installed loudspeakers in St. Peter’s so that all might hear his voice when the, jvast edifice was packed with 70,- 1000 auditors on great occasions. | He came into power when post- | war burdens still weighed heavily ‘ fupon the shoulders of European jstates. He aimed from the start | to establish closer relationship be- tween the church and these trou-! i j bled governments and lost no op-: i portunity to make his influence, POPE PIUS XI ‘felt in its proper field. He instituted an effective sys- [tem of relief for the then fam- = jonly to al‘eviate, the suffering, but , . x Catalonia Win !to bring the church of Rome into i jeloser relationship with the East- ern church, Gave Large Sums to Charity Pope Pius also gave davies LOYALIST PREMIER CONFE jward the relief of impoverished: Austria and Germany and extend-' ON DEFENSE OF CEN- ;ed his benefactions in this regard: TRAL MADRID ‘to Ireland, Greece and Asia Min- | Ss (By Associated Press) Number of the project is 30875. had arranged to meet in Tampa which packed St, Peter’s, he cele- | or. 10.—Premier tomorrow morning, February 9, and also for a conference in Mi- ami on 11th, between Mr. Hale, Department Member Brooks Bateman, Perky, Mr. Christie and myself. PRISONER BEING brated the fiftieth anniversary of | his first mass. Endowed With Dramatic Talent Pius XI had the sense of the, dramatic developed to a high de | It was said that he gave more than $1,000,000 to charity from his privy purse in the first 19 months of his’ reign. His aims towards conciliation BROUGHT TO CITY Michael Constantino is expect- ed to arrive in Key West this | evening as a prisoner in the cus- tody of Police Officer Franklin Arenberg and Deputy Sheriff Ray Elwood. Constantino was in Key West some time ago, employed at a place on Stock Island. He decid- ed to make his getaway and at the same time make way with a lot of the stock from the place in which he was employed. He did just that and was ar- rested in Okeechobee for stealing a ride on a railroad train. A num- “The ‘most important obstacle ihas Been Mr. Perky’s insistence | on limiting the right of way to 200 feet. I countered with the sugggstion to Christie for a fee simple title. Perky was first willing to do this but later de- murred. We then discussed the easement form approved by your board, but minus the limitation of 200 feet in width. I then con- ) vinced Mr. Christie by our maps, |that the very few, 400 feet rights of way were confined to curved approaches to the bridges and were necessary for safety pur- poses. He now hopes we can reach a conclusion satisfactory att ‘of peoples made enemies by the igree. His mass of expiation for | pe 2 the anti-religious. campaign in Sv ane of be te ares viet Russia, said 2y himself in St. | Vilantly ~ pursued. sh Peter's on March 19, 1980,‘ he| Geno, conference met in the t ing turned into a solemn protest which | ater of 1922 he expressed the echoed throughout the Christian | P05! A oa ii aeaie | ter to the bishop of that city, send- In similar vein he called upon | ing the missive through Cardinal the world to pray for Mexican | Gasparri. : : 'Catholies when the hierarchy of, That conference consisted 0} ithat republic withdrew the priests |T@Ptesentatives of 29 European |from the churches in 1926 as a,#0Vvernments but the inclusion of | Russia made a dominant issue out |of renewal of relations between jcontrove:sy flamed into open re- |the soviet union and other Euro- | volt a year later when the govern. | Pean countries, Eventually the conference broke down because it d rt ll Mexi bish- j asviermred ali eneeas bie | Belgium, backed by France, insist- | protest against suddenly enforced | constitutional regulations. The ition of the Holy See in a let-: | Loyalists down are in HENDAYE, Feb. Negrin is meeting in central Spain today with his lieuten- ants to plan out the defense of Madrid as the last city in Cata- lonia fell before the Rebels to- | day. General Franco will * shortly withdraw his troops from part of Catalonia for a brief rest be- fore sending them on to the siege of Madrid. Sections of Spain held by the the ex- treme north and east. Part of the southern coastline and cen- tral Spain are still held by the Loyalists with Madrid in the central portion and Valencia on the southern coast the two strong- est Loyalist footholds. OUTLINE PROGRAM Exhume Body Buried ber of stolen articles, inclyding cigarettes and smoking material, was found in his possession, and under the gruelling quizzing of f Cossaie Simmons he con- ssed to stealing the stuff in Key West. to both Perky and Hale in Miami next Saturday.” Mr. Daniel ends the com- munication with the assurance that “I have kept behind this matter perseveringly and will |continue to do so.” ‘Here Through Mistak Exhumation of the body sup-, brother of Rubin, and a friend posed to be that of Henderson Ronald Sawyer. a After securing the permission kegs colored, proved to be the to exhume the body, through body of Rubin Strickland, who Dr. Wm. R. Warren. city health was missing from his surround- | °fficer, and Miss Minnie Porter i : |Harris, of the local bureau of ings, on the Florida Keys, some vital statistics, County Judge time ago but was only this Sess |e Gera Be een cout : udge William V. jury, at- reported to Deputy Sheriff W.A-|taches of the Lopez Funeral Parrish, at Marathon. |Home, Sexton Otto Bethel, Mr. Investigation of the attecta| Paruns uae si gragpaacehs ay reported to have been found in anq at 4:30 o’clock the work of spot on which, the supposed ed. Henderson Butler was found on| At 5 o'clock the case was Molasses Key, convinced Deputy ; brought to the surface and with- Parrish there was a sound possi- | in the next few minutes the de- bility of a mistake in identifica-| composed body was brought in \tion having been made, and yes-| View and was positively identi- terday at noon, Mr. Parrish ar-| fied by the brother as the miss- rived with John Sfrickland,| ing Rubin Strickland. The missing man was a native * of Elsie, Florida, 44 yeras old, his | was married and has several chil- dren. The necesary changes in the burial certificate were made this morning by the judge. Saturday Night LOT NEXT toLA CONCHA i and LATE SUPPERS FREE MOVIES | boycott, ordered the priests to; jstay out of politics and forbad |them to take up arms. a | Prayer and protest was the; | watchword throaghout the three | | years’ dispute and when finally the | oe returned to their parishes, they went back under a liberalized retation of the laws of the} Wrote Encyclical For Youths In another dramatic incident Pope Pius focussed upon himself | | the attention of educators in all | lands, This happened when he is-| sued his encyclical “On the Chris- | tian Education of Youth.” It was | the first encyclical to be issued in| modern languages, as well as in} the traditional Latin. | It was a lengthy document and |caused ty the republic’s expulsion | {of religious orders in 1905 had its condemnation of co-education, | for one thing, caused considerable | repercussion in the United States. |# Papal nuncio had been returned, So too did its broad implication} ‘that Roman Catholic children and | youths should be educated in none’ but church schools, { Drama, in fact, marked the; reign of Pius XI from the very be-! ginning. His first act as pope was |the multitude waiting outside St. Peter’s for news of his election. This was the first time the cere- ‘mony had been performed in the open since 1870. His predecessors | , back to that year had blessed thes | world from inside the great cathe- | {dral as g protest of usurpation of power hy the Italian government. The new pope, by this act, em- brother informed Judge Lord,|phasized that he hoped to make lations between the Vatican ani his regime an era of peace. He repeated the act six days later aft- er his coronation when he appear- ed again on the outside loggia, | wearing the tiara and extendi jhis blessing “‘to the city and the | world.” } Did Many Unusual Acts In smaller things, too, this char- lacteristie of Pius XI was empha- ;sized. Tt was unusual for the ; head of the church to appear as an ‘author of secular works and he DATIONS.-FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES-$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY TOUR...PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124 ‘ ops, but Pope Pius frowned upon hikes | ‘attempts to organize a Catholic @d upon restitution for all for- eign owned property in Russia | Which had been confiscated or de-' stroyed in Russia The significance of the gather- ing from the church viewpoint was that it was the first post-war conference which approached fi- nancial and economic problems from the reconstruction angle in- | stead of as reparations. For that, ‘reason the action of Pope Pius in} giving out a pronouncement upor it was well received and was con- sidered significant, especially in Germany. Settled French Problem Another. question of great im- port which confronted Pius con- cerned the relations between France and the Holy See. The gap been bridged only in 1921 when to Paris. - But the structure of amity was shaky and it was con- stantly imperilled by the activities of French royalists, all ardent Catholics, Pope Pius braced the official bridge into rigidity by putting on the boat which was near the exhuming the corpse was start-| to bestow the apostolic blessing on|the index “L’Action Francaise,” | the official organ of the royalists. | ‘ F a 1 | He. explained that every Catholic| tion, which will use it solely for yntil a new pope is elected. was free to prefer a monarchy to a republic, but that the political action advocated by the leaders was pernicious. The action virtually barred ON RESTORATIO IN CONNECTION WITH NA- TIONAL WILDLIFE RES- TORATION WEEK ORLANDO, Feb. 10 (FNS).— Merlin Mitchell, executive secre- tary of the Florida Wildlife Fed- ‘eration, with headquarters here, has recently announced a_ pro- gram for this state’s participation ‘in National Wildlife Restoration Week, which will be March 19 to 25. During that week, according to Mitchell, wildlife stamps will be distributed to all the 2,600 pub- lic schools in Florida. Some 5,- 000 sheets. each with 60 differ- ent std@mps showing fish, animals,+ birds and wildlife scenes, will be sent out. The sheets will be sold to the children for one cent each. Of the total money collected, 17'2 percent will be retained by each classroom to be devoted to con-' | Servation purposes, such as books 'on wildlife, etc. | Another 17% percent will go to the Florida Wildlife Federa- conservation uses. The remain-} jing 65 percent will be sent to the! | purposes. | The Federation, both state and faithful Catholics from the French Dational, is composed of hunting: royalist party. It paved the way and fishing groups, Audubon so-j| for restorations of full cordial re-|Cieties, men and women interest- ged in the preservation of wild- | France, a result which was more’ life. It is a non-political, non-| fully consummated when Pius rec-| profit organization, according to; ognized the “diocesan associa. | Mitchell. | tions”, the joint committees of} i laymen and clericals for the ad-j erent te French church) CAMDEN, .N.- J-—Declaring bes 'that he was sought for a jewelry _ Extended Time to Elect Pope theft, and that it was preying on An early official act that grati-.his mind, James Bennett sur- fied American Catholics was a de-| rendered to police. They found cree which extended from 10 days he was wanted for larceny of to 15 days the interval that must $5,000 in jewelry and $100 in (Continued on Page Two) jcash. MAKES SURRENDER eo | * pousis choke bs : Longest Reign Since Leo XiIll ‘EXPECTED TO CELEBRATE TENTH ANNIVER- SARY OF CONCORD OF LATERAN TREATY WITH ITALIAN GOVERNMENT TOMOR- ROW (By Associated Press) VATICAN CITY, Feb. 10.—Pope Pius XI, the “pope | of peace” who as 261st head of the Roman Catholic ' Church was spiritual sovereign over 350,000,000 followers of the faith, died shortly before dawn today at the age of 81. The extreme unction had been administered half an hour before his heart, weakened by two years of illness, | stopped its flutter at 5:31 a. m. (11:30 p. m. EST Thurs- ;day). Dr. Aminta Milani announced death as the pon- tiff’s nephew, Count Franco Ratti, and a few cardinals land prelates knelt at the bedside in prayer. | The interim ruler of the church, Cardinal Eugenio : Pacelli, wearing his violet mozzetta and mantle as if the | pope still lived, performed the traditional rite of an- nouncement. He drew back the white veil that covered the pon- tiff’s face, and, in flickering light from dozens of wax candles, called out the Christian name of the pope in a voice shaken with emotion. “Achille!” There came no answer. “The pope,” said Cardinal Pacelli, “is truly dead.” Soon the mournful bells of St. Peter’s tolled out the news to the world. Pius XJ] died quietly. Just before death came he |breathed a few words which could not be understood by those at his bedside. Two Swiss guards at the door lowered the points of their swords to the floor as a sign of mourning. § The funeral will be held in St.,Peter’s probably the iafternoen of Feb. 15. Burial, by pope’s own desire, will be in the grottoes of St. Peter's, not far from the tombs of his two immediate predecessors and only a few yards from the tomb of St. Peter. Funeral and requiem services last- ing nine days begin on the morning of the 12th. The body will be borne today to the throne room and tomorrow, in solemn procession, to St. Peter’s. Pius would have celebrated the seventeenth anniver- sary of his coronation next Sunday. He enjoyed. the longest reign of any pontiff since Leo XIII who died in 1903. He had expected to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Concordat Lateran treaty with the Italian govern- ment Saturday—the treaty which released him as “the prisoner of the Vatican.” The conclave of cardinals to select a successor will start 22 days after Pius’ death. FIRST FUNERAL SERVICE SUNDAY His frail body, wasted by illness and with features shrunken, was borne in the afternoon to the red-draped 15th Century Sistine Chapel, where the new pontiff will be elected, to lie in state for homage of dignitaries. Tomorrow the body will be taken to St. Peter’s Cathedral where the first of nine funeral services will be held Sunday. Burial will be Feb. 15th in St. Peter’s. Death of the pontiff, nearly 82, marked interregnum in administration of the church which Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli will fill as “chamberlain of Holy Roman Church” Conclave of cardinals may convene Feb. 25, though royalist | National Federation for similar; it can be called as late as Feb. 28, to choose a successor to Pius XI. Three United States cardinals were expected to leave New York tomorrow to attend the assembly for the first time as a group. New pope will be elected by two-thirds majority of those cf sixty cardinals who attend the conclave. 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