The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 20, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service .s For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 94. American Legion Officers Installed Last Evening Schoneck Is New Com. "MP OOO ODS £ WATKINS CATCHES SECOND SAILFISH Fishing for the third time mander; Supper Given: At Local Restaurant Pre-' ceding Meeting Installation of officers of Ar-| thur Sawyer Post 28, American Legion, was held last night in the Legion Hall with District Com. mander E. C. Cantrell, of Fort | Lauderdale, acting as installing officer. ven-foot sailfish yesterday. . Watkins has been on run between Key West Miami for some time, at every opportunity has wn angling with friends. first catch was a sailfish the second tim a silver king which Bs 5 BESEaE 2 Recently elected officers, who were ushered to their seats, were: Post Commander W. J. Schoneck; First Vice Commander George Newton; Second Vice Command- | er T. A. Woody; Adjutant U. J./ Delgado; Chaplain Frank A. Leh- man; Historian Harold Russell, | and Sergeant at Arms Patrick I this year. Yesterday he was out in the Madeline with Bob strike Proved to be the seven-foot The Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN“WTHE U.S.A. —- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1939 MADE FIGHT FOR . DUPONT TAXES} THAT WAS DUE STATE OF FLORIDA | (By Assdemtca Press) P Coveencesseaseevese|” towns of Canada and northeast- ern United States to a state of} wonderment, when it was divulg- ed today that the U. S. Coast Not only did Jim Lee successfully | GU@"4- Presumably. has been as- » of agned to hunt for the marine for the Control of Cancer, are hold out for the “last dollar” of | visitor. ae 2 ? ! i 2 aCe. beginning to be received, and the | ithe additional DuPont tax, claim-! Sighted by several fishermen "prospects are that Key West will; _ed as due as a result of his 18- and other boatmen in and near! be as well represented in this jmonths investigation of DuPont the harbor of Halifax recently, |year’s campaign as it was in the jholdings and their values, but he pionencepie minted recall tere eal Is f isu 5 | Personal appeals for mem- actually collected the costs, of the | high speed, authorities in this|berships sent out by Mrs. M. E. ee and negotiations, ‘country have dropped their for-|Berkowitz, 323% Whitehead according to the “Capitol Letter” |mer air of disbelief, and are fol-'street, director of the local cam- lissued weekly by William Griffis, |lowing up the matter with a view { paign, it is stated that cancer de- | former Tampa and Gkcechobee | discovery of ownership of the;stroys approximately 150,000 i j vessel. lives each year, and. that per- {oe eeeeeenan: No subitiarines of this haps ‘half of these deaths: could | Griffis tells the story as fol- country “aréat present in |have been prevented if’ a few ‘lows: | Canadian-waters and Canada | simple facts about the:vdisease “It cost the State of Florida! does not‘own any under-wa- [were known. The slogan’ of the jnothing for negotiations which ne geet h: Ob Sa biepeiseei leg ee {finally resulted in the recent Du- t is known that several sub-| |Pont estate tax payment. / {Specint to The Citizen) Memberships in the campaign “TALLAHASSEE. April 20.— for the control of cancer spon- sored by the American Society Former Locomctive ARRIVED. TUESDAY; ;, Into Key West Tuesday came ja riding a new plane, an Aeron- tea seaplare, which has been pur- |chased by Daniel Lawson of the ~ Lioénsing Pleas Engineer Tickled Pink marines have - been constructed he at MeTE ain ee oes “ th: i ions | @ble, Fig! i now! fe. “On March 28th Comptroller J. by two or three foreign nations ; | that are capable of cruising radius} M. Lee, representing Florida, and equal to that necessary to reach} S0ciety for the Control of Can- The purpose of the American | city and which is parked on a float in the channel to the rear of his home on Coconut drive, eat Cittiern Ure Anglers weccee Shown That Adoption Of Measure Would Be Det- FLOWN YESTERDAY. *“""~ Seeecccccccosccsceceseseseses Recerv Lawson owns a little power Commerce yesterday © boat also which he is soon going! gram wh =i to sell now that he owns a brand terest to new seaplane, a boat and plane pecially to combined. Piloting Mr. Lawson livelihood is Tommy Woods, well-known im | gaged Florida aviation, who lives hege ure fish ich will |DuPont estate representatives !could have reached a settlement |which would have - given the [State $2,691,805.64. But Lee in- sisted on penalties and interest ;amounting to $235,532 more. Lee theld out for this, plus the cost} jincurred, and April ist the Du- |Pont representative agreed. | “Lee then insisted the DuPont theirs pay all costs, including that for appraisors and attorneys’ fees land a check for this now has jbeen received. It amounts to an jadditional $29,273.38, wiping out ; the last penny of Florida money {expended in the entire meguiias| ! tions. i jthe coast of Canada. BERLIN.—Adolf Hitler’s birth- |day. was celebrated in this. city jtoday with a mammoth, four- hour pafade participated in by over 40,000 crack troops of the nation’s army. Observers commented on the up-to-the-minute appear- ance of equipment, especially in regard to new anti-aircraft guns of larger design. ROME.—Mussolini’s__ unofficial reply to President . Roosevelt’s cer, it is shown, is to bring the truth about this disease to every man, woman and child in the United States, and memberships are the means by which this work is carried forward. Enlistment in the Women’s Field Army is one dollar a year, and each dollar will help to save a human life. Send in your dol- lar to Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, di- rector, or to Mrs. A. M. Hewitt, treasurer of the local unit of the ‘Women’s Field Army. [DRAINAGE BILL just off the Stock Island Bridge.|at present. Mr. Woods is plan- RS Dymond t The yellow plane is powered | ning to catch tarpon from the Daytena Beach Chamber with a 40 horse Aeronca motor,! rear of the plane, sometime a which can pull the petite sea- Ysterday the plane was plane at a cruising speed of 85 gassed and was taken out for a th miles per-hour. It can get more trial spin. All went well while f | than twenty miles to a gallon of! it was maneuvered down the lit- F) Game gas, and aviation gas costs almost' tle blue channel in the Stock through conselida’ jhalf what ordinary gas costs as'Island area and was gracefully Sponsored by !there are no taxes on it. The taken off. Then out over the {pontoons of the plane draw no ocean, the motor began missing. more than nine inches of water! and pilot Woods brought it down | Opposites but | when it is hydroplaning and only, well on the ocean. It was dis- — Flonda Wi about 15 inches wien settled covered that the right magneto Yen Club down in the water. was wet and required drying out ’ The name of the plane the re- A Second flight found conrtion port and more peace message incorporated such phrases as “ridiculous” and “ab- The Duce went on to state that the | geographies of the world must be ‘tired locomotive engineer, who is’ fvorable. Will you get actively a bachelor, says will be “Honey-, Lawson sold his other land wise ~ moon Special”. This Lawson is vlane as it was discovered that wot burt: tourist busin not only an exceptional fellow landing conditions locally were hurts your business It also hurt but comes from an exceptional not well developed and that @ counties wimg off recme = family. Born on @ farm along seaplane would be more conducive gasoline taxes derived from with 10 other-ghildren over in'to safer flying with the vast populous towfist centers Help | “No one can deny Lee proper! 4 5 i jeredit for having collected $235,-'c4rq and Messia‘n-like”. Prior to the installation, Com-} mander Cantrell, Mrs. Canttell| 7 OIO@OSDID IMIS DS oughly enjoyed and waich Mr. | and Mrs. Cantrell declared was ling officer spoke on a number of ,COMES TO CITY FOR PUR- subjects of supreme interest to POSE OF INSPECTING could and should be made much } bs j larger. | Dr. Paul S. Galtsoff, Ph.D., of DuPont interests finally agreed and members of the post assem-{ bled in a local restaurant for “DR. GALTSOFF one of the most delightful inci-} dents of their visit. the organization, and expressly stressed the importance of i SPONGE BLIGHT This morning when preparing /jhe Bureau of Fisheries in Wash- |‘ P@Y- His insistence requiring : Changed to make amends for mis- j ~ i departure, Com; ithe estate to pay all-costs of 8P- ttakes-made“in post-war divisions Kelly. | Spanish supper, which was thor- ARRIVES HERE At the Legion Hall the instal-| petra creasing the membership, which | ;000 above the amount which the ! ats Cae expressed. himself ag, éton;D: Ciyarrived in Key West’ praisal, attorney fees and litiga-| In a bulle The ouliet Commerce Beach bas wigerousiy and protestec agers > MADE CHECK OF AUTOS NOT HAVING PROPER a Ta, 3 MEASURE WILL HEI. FLOR- yn’: in- areas vate and being delighted with his visit and -this afternoon for the purpose of ‘tion, and saving that amount for ee —_ taken from the Central .P R. pene pedigree ote reece oa of water around the Islan a hoped that he and Mrs. Cantrell investigating the sponge Blight ee a eee eal poli | Meanwhile, on the other IDA DISTRICTS IN APPRO- that there is not one now with-. Mr. Lawson, who knows every up intere would soon have an opportunit; i i 4 y ae fs i . ght Pvietul tay otto «be a dabl formance.” } stated definitely that Turkey Lawson, tie eldest, recently com- engines of the New York Cen- tons and its hospitable citizens. | boltonis adjacent to.Key West (es tee : concluded an economic and PURPOSE | pleted a correspondence law course tral, is tickled pink over this lat-| merce | There a) be considerate. JOHN MILTON arms treaty with England jin one year and nine months. The est acquisition. “I've got just propose CITIZENS GROUP work in connection with his in- are seriously considering a | (FNS) Florida’s drainage districts ; * Some stepping. mee | : j triple alliance with Russia. will have an opportunity to par-! — “~~ -—- MEETS TONIGHT | «nic: will include taking “sam-! A new Ministry of Supply port-|ticipate in a $40,000,000 Federal CUBA COMES IN R. i: LANGFORD ples of the water, and of the! rae Hr reed beer al oe j iffe1 i ‘observing a significant move by | for leral assistance in the re-' Be Se ee those who are closely observing pair, reconstruction, rehabilita- | which was formed Thursday, |; : preparations being made by Eng-! tion and improvement of such! April 13, at a meeting held in the |ington for analysis and careful! rooms of the Chamber of Com-|study. i Eberhardt was elected the per-' %g ; Sees manent chairman, will meet to- -tF that he will pay his first visit night in the rooms of the cham- to beds tomorrow to sceure speci- This will be.a meeting of im- sponges, and it is expected that portance, said the chairman, and he will make the trip in com- it will be interesting to every ~ e vital importance will be dis- who met with him and discussed cussed. A number of influential , the situation this afternoon. citizens and visitors have 2) a aS | 5 i ml niversity degree. Daniel bolt and gear throughout the big P apereere 5 5 tical mts an excellentl: side of the fence, it has been PRIATION SOUGHT FOR ©Ut a universi' to again visit this delightful city, | beds in many sections of- the sea! ee ee i and the British and French TALLAHASSEE, April 20, course is a three-year ona Which | what I've always wanted” a tax _Vestigations, said the doctor,! VISITED HERE: SE nae folio has been created in London, appropriation if a bill to provide ; Key Citizens Organization ora these wil be taken to Wash DURING MORNING DIED YESTERDAY {land to bring all branches of the {districts now being considered by | a meee merce, and at which Fred O.} It is the expectation of the doc- bers. (mens of the waters and diseased person attending, as matters of Pany with Chester Thompson, invited to be present. OFFICIAL A ARRIVES H. H. Hair, of the Beverage Lowest Highest | ' LICENSES jnation’s war machine up to per- | fection levels. | John Milton, inspector of the’ WASHINGTON.—One hundred Florida Motor Vehicle Depart-' and twenty warships of the U. S. ment in this district, was a visi- Navy are today steaming towards tor in Key West yesterday mak- the Panama Canal on their re- ing the regular check of drivers turn to Pacific Coast stations in of automobiles and trucks. ,Obeyance of orders issued last There were very few found Saturday by the President. who had not secured the 1939: No specific reason for the jtags, and these were ordered to! move has as yet beeri forth- /Secure tags from the office of coming from the State De- ,Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd. | ‘ There were no arrests made by; Mr. Milton. j DESTROYERS { NEW YORK—The stock mar- {following opening this morning. iReports from abroad were con- sidered “conciliatory” by inves- |ket advanced “all along the line” | Station— last night last 24 hours! Abilene 66 Atlanta ; Department of Florida in the; | southern district, is a visitor in | tors—causing considerable buy- Boston - Buffalo Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit | Key West today, and is a guest |of Supervisor Geo: i Key West. | Mr. Hair is visiting many of the dealers, mostly wholesale handlers, of wines and liquors in rge Gomez of ling activity. | Congress passes. | George G. Gross, executive sec- | retary of the State Planning | VESSEL MAKES LAST TRIP H TO HAVANA UNTIL ; Board, has issued a call for all, jdrainage districts in the state interested to attend a meeting to ;be held at the headquarters of | Congress, 1147 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. at 10 A. M. Friday, April 28, to review the foment: of the above bill. Nine states will be represented ,at this | meeting and plans will be made jfor the solution of acute prob- lems confronting all drainage dis- i tricts. at Heretofore Federal cooperation jof this nature has been available |to only the arid and semi-arid | western states, Secretary Gross , ‘said, and it is hoped that as jmany districts as possible will the National Rivers and Harbors | JUNE 1 Last trip of the Steamship Cuba, of the P. and O. S. S. Co. from Key West to Havana until June 1, was made today. The next trip of the vessel from Tampa will be made on Monday, and the ship will proceed from j this Port to Miami and take up the run of the Steamship Florida, “while that vessel goes in dry- dock. f anv ml provaimg ASSISTANT ENGINEER OF the conseldet capes See RAILWAY CO. R. L. Langford, assistant «mp ahd gineer of the Florida East Coast | oS Railway and for 2 long time 2 _ ‘aman Citizen of Key West, died = St *™ Augustine yesterday. after am © iliness of several days. = thet news received today by Rey Pat-12= = ter from Chief Engineer L. C Frohman, of the F. EC By — Mr. Potter was asked by Mir Frohman, in the wire, that PL Wilson, Harold Cates, Agent John “= Costar, B. M. Duncan, and a of ~ The vessel arrived at a late the many friends of the @ .jour this morning from Tampa in Key West be advised The funeral will be held m St DEPART TODAY Destroyers Cummings and! CINCINNATI. — Flood tide 'Dale, which came into port yes-| along the Ohio River and tribu- terday from Gulfport, Miss., and tary rivers is receding, according berthed at Pier B in the Naval to reports issued by the Depart- Galveston Havana Huron Jacksonville - Kansas City KEY WEST _ Little Rock __ Los Angeles _ Louisville Mpls.-St. P. — | thi 4 a ill bel .Station for a supply of fuel oil, ‘ment of Engineering today, with ete Bost ar MeO, ‘sailed at 6 o'clock this morning, normal river depths being pre- this aftern {for Norfolk, Va. {dicted by next Monday. Resi- i oss |. Though the vessels were at the dents of river cities are reported CUTTER PANDORA ae ' jport longer than was anticipated,‘ returning to :there was no liberty parties giv-|earlier in the week. { | Coast Guard Cutter Pandora, ' | which was recently assigned to; jduty in this district with head-i ren shore leave, as the crews were MEE under “stand by” orders so the! WASHINGTON.—Col. Charles quarters at Key West, arrived in! port 11 o'clock last night. ships could get under way at a_A. Lindbergh was scheduled. to . The Pandora had been of a, {moment’s notice. appear before- the President to- | regular day to report on his plans to uni- ify. all byanches of the, air service | trict, and went through regular | target all in this eguntry.> | practice while out at sea. WERE DUMMIES DALLAS, — “Nude wo- PBRSSSRSLSSLSSSSRSRS| SPREVSSTES cruise throughout the dis-! ' aoe ; {terday found out of town evi boc Goel of oranges and grapefruit engag-| - ed in selling the fruit, which! were not stamped, accordimg: to; law, and seized the contents of be represented at the meeting ‘and that appropriate resolutions {and letters of endorsement will !be transmitted to the Florida ‘delegation requesting their active |support. In addition it will be ; most helpful if each district will | Prepare as detailed memorandum }as praiticable containing all per- tinent data concerning the phy- | sical and economic situation justi- fying Federal assistance in | improvement of, present facili- It is desi¥ed' that each agency ing action to assist in this yprogram forward copies of all {randa to the Florida State Plan- ining Board to ‘assist*ii ‘the prep- |aration of a suffiniaty “Statement | , With three first and one second! Augustine tomorrow afternoon cabin passenger for Key West, and nine first and six second CITY W. H. Norman, Mrs! John Sharp- ley. Captain J. Slingleton, Dolores Cremata. Listed on the manifest of the ;Ship were the i items: |For Key West, six tons of freight ,)and one sack of mail; vana there were no shipments of freight and 90 sacks of mail. ' There ing of the month. Gates a= ; Nothing other than routine Teleis wes oot gens ©