The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 2, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 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 Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1939 LOP-SIDED GULF {FUNDS FOR SEWERINEW VESSEL STREAM 10) AlD,. PROGRAMGROWING): WILL/SOON BE WEATHER MAN ensisvermnoneopa.. 1 °IN'SERVICE LARS HAS BEEN SUB-- | SCRIBED,,.. _{CABLE,,SCHOONER WILL BE; PLAGED;,ON DRYDOCK TO X. No. 104. PRICE FIVE CENTS Attorney For Road And Toll Bridge District Clarifies Adequate Water Supply Issue HAVE PROPELLERS . AND Bearers iproject being sponsored by the! IP ‘aul Mar! ks, Requested To Chamber of Commerce Commit- | i: eerie SOVIET AID 10 DEMOCRACIES jtee to raise funds for ie oe i ek a WOULD PUT THEM FAR AHEAD) Give Explanation, De- . = | scribes Activities In Let- “sewer work in the city builder of the Schooner Western | gressing quite satisfactory with a Union for the Thomps inter- | : ee nion for the Thompson _ inter. SPL SIS SSS 5| | Direct Criticism At Chamberlain Citing Russian Negotiations »=.2 0 .-" ; ~_ | BERMUDA TOWARD COAST} . | VIII LISS IS OF UNITED STATES VIBRATION CAUSE | cacamnies: OF BELL RINGING: sy nowarp w. BLAKESLEE Associated Press Science Editor | WOODS HOLE, Mass., May 2. |—The Guif Stream is tipping side- | The special sewer and water Claim That Prime Mi ter Was Rather Slow In. Tapping of the fire bell this morning gave rise to the thought that it was probably Diplomatic Proceedings | total listing to date of 114 resi- dent lots. The aim of the com- ests, said this morning he ex-; BY ALEXANDER R. GEORGE In Situation ter (By Ansociated vUN, imay enn) LOn 2.—Laborite mé¢mbers of Parliament are criti: | cizing Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain for the slowness of diplomatic handling in the Rus- sian negoliations. Chamberlain has refused to re- veal the plans of the negotiations; | however, he has stated that “everyihing is proceeding salis- factorily”. it is known that England is pur) ly “gcing slow” on thei. fact arrangements with the So- viet for fear that antagonism will be buili uv by Japan, who has let it be known that such moves ight align her definitely in treaty agreemenis with the Rome- Eerlin axis. R. PALMERIO IS ARRAIGNED telling, irregularly, for the departure of some member of the depariment, or tests were bing made by Elctrician Theo- dore Albury. ds However, it was neither of these happenings, but the Key West Electric Company was installing a transformer, and the tapping of the bell was caused when one of the wires leading into the alarm box | broke from wokiten climbing | the pole, and the vibration was caused by the contact made by the broken wire. OM ee) COURT OFFICIALS LEFT YESTERDAY Judge John M. Holland, who was in Key West yesterday for the May session of Federal court, ided over the tribunal the ceremonies attendant citizenship —_ applications were conducted by P.P.O.Elks, 551, left on the late bus for Jack- sonville. Other court offici: in attendance at the si Miss Edith House, a: tict attorney; Edwin R. ‘Williams, and u while upon clerk of the court, and Miss Ellen» E. Williams, deputy court clerk, | all of Jacksonville, and Miss Myra Phillips.of, Tampa. Robert Palmerio was arraigned before, Reapodeilustiee ~ Franklin’ Arenberg this at the courthouse to‘answer to charge of trespassing on the property of La Concha Hotel. When the indictment was read to him the aecused said that he guilty of the trespass, and! as placed under bond cf $100 to r to the charge at the ses- ion of criminal court which will Monday morning, May STEAMER ALAMO ARRIVES HERE PLAN WELFARE BOARD EXAMS Announcement is made ticley of coming examinations that will sponsored by the State Wel- fare Board. These are Merit ystem examinations and will be , held on August 26. | | Applications for this examina- tion must be on file by the 15th of July with the local unit office here. Blanks a be secured from Mrs. Gladys Roberts, super- visor. morning county the was De » examinations are. given ate and are e had some ex- MRS. MONINIS OPERATED UPON nship Alamo, of the Clyde- Lines, arrived in port morning and berthed at 3:15 at the Mallory wharf where the cargo of miscellancous merchan- © ow unloaded. The ship ailed for Tampa at 5:15 mployes on the dock and the iores who were _ handling were so badly _ bitten they at one time iccided to give up the work, and would have dane so, it is said, ! the shipment the cargo Mrs. Charles E. Roberts, of 1212 Georgia street, has received word that her mother, Mrs. J. H. Mon- in, of Elizabethtown, Ky., had undergone a serious operation at the Mayo Brothers hospital, Ro- chester, N. Y. News in the letter was to the effect that Mrs. Monin had with- stood the operation and was at the time doing nicely. ‘Coffee Used To Sober Up Helps Only Temporarily, mosquitos had not most of been light and easily handled. eve Highest ght last 24 hours 88 76 56 44 74 48 72 52 76 Low 64 52 40 40 66 3uffalo Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit i (Me Ase cinted Prexs) i CHICAGO, May 2.—The_ be- lief that coffee will sober up a drunk is discredited by experi- ments reported in The Journal of 34 68 | wise. | Its surface is lower, that is, on jone side than on the other. The | slope is downward from the di- jrection of Bermuda toward the ; coast of the United States. This situation is nothing new, {but scientists have only recently idiscovered it. An odd scientific ifact, it is to be put immediately o the practcal use of finding out hether the volume of the Gulf ;Stream changes much. That is | useful, because, if the stream va- jvies, variations can be used for | long-range. prediction. | A Norwegian oceanographer, Bjerknes, figured that an ocean river, like the Gulf Stream, in the ‘northern hemisphere, _ would, {when the current increased in | trength, fall on its left side and ise on the right. | Tide gauges on the Atlantic sea- jboard and at Bermuda, says ;C. O’D. Iselin, indicate that this ‘is to some extent a fact in the ,Gulf Stream. Careful measure- ments to verfiy it have yet to be made. pose has been installed at the Bahamas, opposite Miami, Fla. The theoretical calculations how that on the Sargasso Sea side the Gulf Stream may be about four feet higher than on the American coast. ~ P.-T. A. PLANNING MAY DAY FESTIVAL PRACTICES ARE BEING CAR- RIED ON DAILY AT PARK GROUND Finishing touches are being added to the annual ing conducted daily at the Bay- view Park. The joint Parent-Teacher As- sociations from the three public schools, with the cooperation of the W.P.A. Recreation Depart- ment, are working harder than ever before to make this the most enjoyable festival sponsored by these organiza- tions. Thursday afternoon for the first time the program will be presented on a_ stage with ap- propriate entrances and _back- ground. A large gathering is ex- pected and seating capacity for all will be available. The Hospitality Band, under the direction of Alfred Barroso, jwill furnish the music , for the ; occasion. In addition to the crowning of “The Queen of May” there will be military drills, a Gypsy num- ber, physical education drills and exercises, a kiddie parade and Maypole dance. Lovely Miss Agnes Thompson will be crowned in the beginning of the festival. Her escort will be popular Paul Esquinaldo, both being students of the Monroe County High School. All at- tendants are also chosen from the student body of the High School. Bayview Park in all its beauty is an ideal setting for the May Day programs which are taking place this week, it is shown. Many Key Westers who do not often frequent the park activities One gauge for this pus-! May Day| Festival practices, which are be- | ever! Hav Huror Jacksnoville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Miami Mpls.-St. P. New Orleans New York Pensacola Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City Francisco ana n 60 52 70 58 54 42 66 40 64 44 64 34 44 48 48 . 46 . 62 ae AB 84 84 82 81 80 70 66 86 70 80 60 80 56 72 74 56 66 82 60 74 the American Medical Associa- tion. The paper’s Berlin correspond- ent says that experiments at Ger- many’s Heidelberg University showed no change in the al- coholic content of the blood of; persons who downed, “substantial quanities of beer” strong coffee. “Fifteen to 30 minutes drinking the coffee, the subjects no longer felt fatigued; the gait was steadier, and_ indistinct speech had disappeared,” the ar- ticle reports. “However ... the drinking of coffee produced only brief recovery; and if the person was accustomed to coffee. the is the first of the Standard Com-| sobering effect i diminished.” followed by: after! . will indeed enjoy the flowers and landscape beauty, it is said. STEAMER COMING TO PORT TODA Steamship St. Mary of the Standard Fruit and S. S. Co. is , mittee is to raise a starting fund of $2000 in order that the project under WPA rulings can bet set up. Over half that amount is now on hand. | The. list on recent contabue! ‘tions is printed herewith: Previously reported $ 780.00 Col .Frank Edwards 10.00 Mrs. D., A, Printz 10.00 Tleen Williams. 10.00 Minnie. Porter, Harris 10.00 Duval NV fe Co. 20.00 L. W. el Estate 10.01 Mrs. Annie Page 20.01 Sweeney Estate _... 10.00 Wallace B. Kirke 10.00 Berlin A. Sawyer 10.00 Monsalvatge and Baker 10.00. Key West Drug Co. 20.00 Mrs. Richard Peacon Estate , Willard M. Albury :'T. A. Thompson Estate Mary M. Thompson Mary Louise Scheurer Aaron McConnell Clem Price Benj. Lopez Estate 10.00 10.00 70.00 20.00 20.00 10.00 10.00 60.00 + Total $1140.00 ‘TENDER PLACED | ON NEW WORK Tender Poinciana, of the Light- jhouse fleet, which has been joperating in Miami harbor and vicinity, has been ordered to proceed to Baker’s Cut and begin , operations there. " jcomplete the installation of new aide to navigation, and the new {assignment calls for changes to be made in the positions of the old structures, in the cut. GETTING NEW OFFICE READY Judge Arthur Gomez, of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, has es- tablished offices in the north side of the new annex to the county courthouse, which are being got- ten in readiness. Mrs. T. S. Caro, official court stenographer in Monroe county, was today overseeing the work of getting everything in readiness and told The Citizen that the of- \fice would be ready for occu- \pancy by tomorrow. “Auto Fees Are . Applied ' To Two Western Parks (Ry Agagciated Press) DENVER, ,.May’ 2.—The na- tional park service has an- nounced a $1 automobile fee for cars visiting Grand Teton and Rocky Mountain National parks. Heretofore no entrance fee has been charged. There will be a 50 cent fee to enter Devil’s Tower Monument in Wyoming. The announcement said the park service is attempting to make the parks “as nearly self- supporting as possible.” The $1 fee for Grand Teton will be waived if a car first has visited ; Yellowstone National Park, | where the entrance fee is $3. Or if the $1 has been paid at Grand Teton, this will’ be applied on the $3 charge at Yellowstone. The two parks adjoin in Wyoming. War Influence Seen ‘In Maharajah’s Home {My Aksocinted Press) _ { “ | ‘SANTA ANA, Walif May 2. —A home built much*tike a for-| jtress is under construction here pects to have the vessel in readi-| AP Feature Service Writer And ness by June 1. It will be used; Veteran Military Affairs = | by the Western Union Telegraph Observer { Co., as a cable repair ship. | WASHINGTON, May Mr. Arch was seen on the ves- which of Europe's two combina- sel which is moored at the dock ',. . of Wm. Curry’s Sons Co., and tions of powers is the stronger? | told The Citizen that the work! A composite appraisal of the was going along nicely, and he major factors in all-around war-, expected to have the ship placed waging effectiveness, made for on drydock the latter, part of this Thee A. Bivieature . Secvice by! week when the propellers and a és i shafts will be placed in position 'thtee well qualified military ex-; and expects that when this is'Perts, gives the Franco-British | completed the ship will be ready ‘@lliance a small margin of; for service. superiority over the Rome-Berlin | Hundreds of persons, many of, @X!S- j them able to give expert opinion, : Those experts rate the relative expressed the belief that aside Power of Great Britain, Ger-/ from being a particularly attrac- ,™any, France and Italy in five tive model, with every indica- Principal categories of military tion of being a speedy sailer, the ffectiveness: army, navy, air vessel will when under sail prove force, industrial production and to be staunch and steady “as aj8eneral resources (money and church”, and in every way sea- | Vital materials). { worthy. Democracies Have An Edge | Preliminary work on the West-| Giving five points for No. 1 ern Union was started in July |jranking, four points for second | 1938. and so on in each of the five classifications, the British-French | jentente scores 33 and the Ger- ;man-Italian combination, 30. The experts also rate Russia, the one big “outside” European ;Power, and her score is 12. Should , the huge Soviet nation become definitely aligned with Britain (My Asnociaty Pee edcorconce WASHINGTON. — Leon He Irene) woovece derson was confirmed by the Senate today to fill the vacancy in the S.E.C. created by the ele- (and France, the 11 to 10 lead of the democracies would be bol-} stered to a 9 to 6 ratio. | Britain and-the expanded Third ' { The original assignment was to vation of William O. Douglas to! ® ‘ ¥ the Supreme Court. Reieh of Adolf ‘Hitler tie for first | * iowa oa place in all-around military po-! CLEVELAND. — Violent earth | tency, each piling up 18 ~points. | stfocks were recorded on the Uni-|France’s 15 points to Italy's 12 versity seismograph at this point |Stves the lead’ to the alliance. this morning indicating an earth-| Britain gets two firsts, naval | quake some 1800 miles south of Power and resources; Germany ; that point. This distance would |'W® firsts, air force and an in-| bring the disturbance ‘the dustrial production geared to a) southern part of,Mexico. war-time basis and’ France one 1 first, the biggest well-trained | | NEW XORK.—Negotiations for |@!™Y and officer corps. } a new union contract in the soft} Two Factors Cut Russia | coal industry looked gloomy to-j{ Despite the Russian army’s | day as operators and miners|tremendous manpower — trained | struggled to keep the mediationsjreserves number an_ estimated; alive. Critical outlook is caused | 16,500,000 to France’s 5,000,000, ! by a division of factions within ;Italy’s 5,000,000 and Germany’s the ranks of workmen themselves .2,300,000—it is ranked fourth be- —some wanting a closed shop, cause of the uncertain caliber of ‘others an open shop. ithe Soviet officer corps and — |equipment as well as_ Russia’s RALEIGH, N. May st remoteness from a likely Eu- brought in warm weather to this;ropean war scene. part of the country. However,} The experts say that German imagine residents’ surprise upon \superiority in air strength and in waking this morning to find the|immediate ability to replace war ground covered with what ap-;materials indicate the Reich ‘peared to be snow. The weather}would be the outstanding power- | bureau explained the phenomenajhouse in the early stages of such as a heavy fall of haiti ¥ OW ‘a war, perhaps for as long as two | ee years. MIAMI.—Efforts » ofiothre’ Kul Britain’s great financial power, ‘Klux Klan to discouNge” the |they predict, would _ eventually negro vote in today’s’ general| enable her to forge to the lead in election in this city apparently/munitions and other strategic had a reverse effect as the turn, Materials. But it would not be- out at the polls this morning indi-|gin to turn the tide until the cated that the colored electors | middle or later.stages of a pro-| were challenging the threat with poomed: condlict That is assum-| increased attention paid to the,ing Britain and France could election. Klan members circulat-|wéather the onslaughts of Ger- ed threats through colored town |™any’s aerial might. last night, telling negroes not to FRE ES ge OO OI vote and a total of twenty-five ALVAREZ YOUTH { DIED YESTERDAY. crosses were burned in various parts of this city. A dummy lynching was also staged. 12, died at 4:30 hospital | Now Her Maid Can See | What The Duchess Sees and an at 1023; int Florencio C. Alvarez, yesterday afternoon o'clock in the Marine |following a brief illness operetién. He resided LONDON, May'2—A move to “put the maid on an equality with; up, it is said. :chamber continues to jthe ductiess in gettii@her enter- tainment” has ng * painched by \sidore“Ostret? Chairman of the jGaumont:British Picture, .. Carr poration which is ‘installing teTos vision in’ 80 of its theaters: | ‘u! “In:the past the only -people who could see such events as the Varela street. i «:Funeral services will be held; this afternoon’ 5 o’cloek from the: jresidence to thé Latin‘Methddist church, Rev, .G. Perez officiating. Pritchard’¥ Funeral. Home: will ,be in charge of arrangements. Survivors are the parents, Mr. |for Sir Yeshwant Rao Holkar,'Grand National were the fairly'and Mrs. Florencio Alvarez, and | maharajah of Indore, at a cost of $50,000. ‘Local information is that in the wealthy and those people who jlived locally,” said Ostrer. “To- day every person in England and | due to arrive in port at 5 o’clock event of a world war he intends Scotland should be able to see! this afternoon and is consigned it as a haven for his 5-year-old that event for sixpence (12 cents), to the Porter Dock Co., supply of fuel oil and supplies. | The ship will, after taking on former Marguerite Lawler Bran-' supplies, proceed to Mexico, and |Mexico in several. months. isibly for himself and his wife, the yen of the United States. {line architecture for a daughter, Princess Usha, and pos-'and see it better than the mil- lionaire. “The duchess can go to Ascot, but why should not the little [small cost?” |three sisters, Josephine, Delores and Carmen Alvarez. | PAINTED WRONG HOUSE NEW YORK — When a tenant of this city thanked his landlord» for painting his house, an in- vestigation revealed that the Heavily barred windows are so. maid be able to see just as much/painters had gotten their house | was greatly, pany ships to arrive enroute to designed as to carry out a stream- as her mistress, and at a very|numbers mixed and had painted | OVER SEVEN INCHES OF RAIN IN APRIL Monthly meteorological re- port issued from the local United States weather bu- reau shows that the precipita- tion for the month of April was 6.17 inches above normal. Normal precipitation for the month is 1.29, hence the to- tal for the month was 7.46 inches, the heaviest since the establishment of the bureau in 1871, Temperatures for the month were just about normal, the highest registration was shown on April 28 and was 87, the lowest occurred on April 9 and was 64. Extremes during any April since 1871 were: highest 91 and lowest 54. During the month the pre- vailing wind was from the southeast, with an hourly ve- locity of 10.3. The highest velocity of wind during the month of April since 1871 was on April 1, 1931, with a velo- city of 45 miles from the west. Clear days throughout the month numbered 14. There were nine days partly cloudy and seven days cloudy. On 12 of these days there was registered rainfall. LILI LS FT LIS SI 4 COMMERCE BODY MEETS TONIGHT NEW PRESIDENT EVERETT RUSSELL WILL PRESIDE OVER SESSION An unusually inieresting meet- ing is expected to be held to- night by the Chamber of Com- This will be the first meeting at which the new presi- dent Everett Russell will occupy the chair, said the secretary. Among other things to be placed before the meeting will be a motion for the appointment of a committee’ to revise merce. well as the constitution, number ‘of amendments ‘been adopted during the asa have past ‘two years. After the committee has made its report to the Board of Direc- tors and it has been approved by them, then it is referred, accom- panied by a 10 days notice, to the main body for their approval. If the motion to appoint a com- mittee is approved tonight, it is believed the work of the organ- ization will be greatly speeded that the receive a number of letters from people planning a summer's vacation, in Key West, and some who are contemplating a residence here. He says the time is now ripe for widespread publicity of the The secretary said ‘slogan “Key West, Florida’s Sum- mer Resort.” LIGHT PLAYGROUNDS LONDON — The National Fit- ness Council is aiming to turn night into day by floodlighting playgrounds and playing fields: for the benefit of working peo- ple. In a report to 1,641 ly or injurious to eyesight. { and, bring the by-laws up"to date as local | authorities, the Council says that} flood-lighting would not be cost- | On Saturday The Citizen pub- lished a legal advertismeent in | which notice was given of inten- | fion io apply io the Legislature for the passage of a bill. the sub- stance of which was to empower and authorize the Overseas Road jand Toll Bridge District to fi- nance and construct an adequate water pipe line and water sysiem over and along the right-of-way of State Road 4A in Dade and Monroe counties with the object of supplying fresh water for the maintenance of ‘properties in the disirict and selling excess water ‘to all persons, firms or corpora- jtions located in Monroe County only. Further authorization was ask- ‘ed of the Legislature to construct and operate toll bridges and toll ‘highways and to finance the con- struction over and along the | right-of-way from Big Pine Key lio Key West. | The application was signed by John R. Slade, chairman of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District. Since there was, in existence the Florida Keys. Aqueduct Com- / mission, crewted for the purpose ‘as outlined in the application, it caused confusion, and to have the situation clarified, Paul Marks, attorney for the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District. was re- quested to give an explanaiion. which he has done in the follow- ing account: “To the People of Monroe County: “The writer appreciates the court extended by The Key West Citizen to write an explana- tion of the legal published in The Citizen on Sat- urday, April 29, 1939. “The advertisement was pre pared by me on the request of John R. Slade, chairman of the Overseas Bridge Commission, and on the suggestion of Arthur Hale, the chairman of the State Road Department. As a matter of fact, this matter had been dis- cussed by the three of us at a re- cent conference in Tallahassee and by Mr. Duncan, our chief en- gineer, with them while he was in Tallahassee. The purpose of the proposed legislation, which cannot be introduced until thirty days after the advertisement, is to enable the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District to be in a po- sition legally to handle water and build the roads from Big Pine Key to Key West in the event the appropriation or allotment to the Florida Keys Aqueduct Commis- sion is not made by the Public Works Administration. In other words, the only way that the Bridge District could get this money would be to get Congres- isional action giving the District 'a grant of 45 percent of the orig- inal loan and to use this money for water and roads. | “I am advised by our chairman that the representative from | Monroe County was approached |on this matter by Mr. Duncan and that after going over the same iwith him, was agreeable to the |introduetion of such legislation since the same will become law (Continued on Page Six) advertisement