The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 8, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 109. Criminal Court Convened. SERVICEAOFFICIAL..\FINAL INSPECTION Case Handled BILLY SCHONECK NOW SHOWS SIGNS |INJURED LAST WEEK WHEN HE FELL FROM ROOF OF GARAGE BEING BUILT BY HIS FATHER Today; One Judge Orders Recess After Proceedings Began This Morning Were Conclud- ed 6d. May term of Criminal Court was convened this morning at 9:30 o'clock with Judge William V. Albury presiding, County So- licitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr., Clerk C. Sam B. Curry. Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard Waite and Con- stable Ray Elwood present. There were; 27 of the 36 jurors for whom summons were issued Saturday, both regular and spe- cial reporting. Of the original number, one was report- ed dead, two could not be located and others were excused by the judge. The case of Robert Palmeiro, charged with trespass with mal- icious intent, was called for trial. Upon hearing the indictment read the accused pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay the costs of damage done to the seat of a car in which he was found sleeping and be allowed. to depart. Costs of the damage was paid by the defendant at the office of the sheriff, and he was allowed to depart. A rece: until 9: venires, was then announced Billy Schonck, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Schoneck, who, week, fell from the roof of a gar- age being constructed by his \father at the home, was reported jtoday to be suffering from his in- juries but shows signs of provement. . Billy was on the roof of the |garage about 20 feet from the | ground, but was not aware that | the guard had been removed. He released his hold, thinking he | would be stopped by the ribbing, | which was not there, and fell to the ground landing on an old mirror, : The glass was shattered and a slab severed the tendons, veins and arteries in the left wrist, and last | im-! Che Kry West Citizen Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. P. 0. APPLICANTS DECISION ON RECOMMENDA. TIONS FOR POSITION IS IN HANDS OF CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION Interviews and an investigation jof all applicants for the position of postmaster at Key West are being conducted in behalf of the U. S. Civil Service Commission by W. J. Houston, Field Civil Service Examiner, pursuant to an | Act of Congress effective June 25, 1938 relating to procedure in fill-| ing vacancies at First, Second} and\ Third Class Post, Offices. The matters, which the Civil Service Commission chiefly con- siders in grading applicants, The | Citizen is informed, are: Kind, ex- |tent and success of experience; cess in meeting and dealing with |the public, industry, resourceful- |ness and initiative, personal at- ‘tributes and the absence of dis- | qualifying defects in character 'and physical condition. fhe Civil Service Commission | gives careful and impartial con-| sideration to all applicants, Mr. Houston stated, and certifies the names of the three highest eli- —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1939 TWO BOYS LEFT ~ FOR NYA CAMP Area Supervisor Victor Lowe, head of the National Youth Ad- ministration activities in Key West, left Saturday afternoon for Miami with two boys, James} Cash and Gerald Zarate, who have been assigned to the NYA camp at Sulphur Springs. ‘SET FOR TUESDAY Final inspection of the newly- completed addition to county | courthouse and the extra work to! the court house proper, which’ was contracted for by the Davis | Construction Co., of Miami, is scheduled for ‘tomorrow. It is understood that the engi- neer, who will make the inspec- tino, will arrive tomorrow after- a ; noon on the 3 o'clock bus from| One other lad will be picked Miami, will make the inspection|UP at Tampa. This is Gerald! and possibly meet afterward with | Santana, who was in Tampa at the county commissioners to con- | the time his assignment slip was | vey his findings. |received, and will be | REMOVING SEWER 'the camp which is but a few miles | from Tampa.* i ‘ PRICE FIVE CENTS \War Seare:Seems To Be Waning; Outlook Is Far WAR DEBATE INCLUDES MANY SUBJECTS OF VARIED NATURE By MORGAN M. BEATTY Associated Press Feature Service Writer More Brighter |All Efforts Are Being Made To Bring About Amic- able Settlement Between Contenders WASHINGTON, May 8.—While; what he’s doing. Maybe he tells; the headlines give you a blow-by- ' the truth; maybe not—but he does | LONDON, May 8.—Powerful blow account of the argument be-' plead his case before shooting. { tween President Roosevelt an Also, in a crisis, nations scram- forces): were/at workover, the the German and Italian dictators, | ble to win public opinion abroad. | weekend to bring about amicable there’s something more signific-| Phrases like Germany’s “room to (By Associated Prexs) PIPES TO OUTFALL TENDER IVY SAILS ant in the debate than the head-| live” and the Franco-British |settlement of the German-Polish extent of public contacts and suc-! ; Workmen on the WPA _ sewer} ‘project were today busily en-, : gaged in moving the sewer pipe; Lighthouse Tender Ivy sailed jand connections from the Mal-'10 o’clock last night for Logger- ,Jory Line dock and transporting head light at. Tortugas, carying “It to the location of the sewer jsupples for the station and the {outfall on Trumbo Island. | keepers. ; It was not stated when the ac-; Assistant Superintendent Hen- tual work of construction of the'ry B. Haskins went on the tender -outfall will be started this week, for the regular inspection of the but all the preliminaries are be-; lighthouse and accessories and FOR LIGHT DUTY .ing aetively carried on today. Seeseccccccccccce Sitting In With The Lawmake will return on the tender. rs By GILBERT_D. LEACH another Piece of the glass enter-! gibles for appointment in the ed the right arm at the elbow in-' Classified Civil Service by the flicting a painful but not neces-! president subject to confirmation sarily dangerous wound. He was taken in an automobile |by his fathér to the Marine hos- pital and given immediate atten- by the Senate. The investigator is limited to certaining and reporting the cts and makes no recommenda- tion. A surgeon worked for one tion as to who shall be found the | Set/ous business of Told you last week we intended|'morning for the chain stores to} jto settle some questions up here/open so he could get two for a}public doesn’t see every play)ruin. That brings danger of tem-) instead of paying 15,even yet. But the plays it misses; porary confusion and weakness the|cents straight at the corner. drug ; because they are made so rapidly | in national policy. pronto and get down to the real fixing sooo quarter tines tell, namely: That the heads of great, powers deem it wise to argue at, all. rather than shoot first and explain later. ; The mere fact that an argument is. under way is a tribute to public opinion as a world-wide force to be reckoned with. It is ample proof that no leader can afford to start a war without first making some kind of case to prove he is a defender of his nation—not a Napoleon bent on aggression. |“‘peace front” crop up. For gov-| question, not the least of which |ernments must count not only do- | | mestic support, but also world ap-|W&S the military pact signed by egaaee sac ee Edge | Halian and German diplomats at In this struggle, dictators have | the behest of dictators Hitler and |a distinct advantage in their own! |mational backyards because they | exercise control over what their | People see, hear and read. If you ;¢an control information, you can! jadopt cave-man tactics toward) Mussolini. British statesmen in this capital give litlte importance to the new pact. However, they do point out Dame Public Opinion, and she’s| This is the first instance in the! yours, whether she likes it or not history of major disputes when | —until you lose your grip. the public got at least a part of| By the same token, govern- the cases for and against war be-| ments in the United States and that the chief significance of the {strengthened axis is that Musso- lin will, in all likelihood, use his power to bring about a peaceful ;fore hostilities opened up. Up un- {til now great crisis have been If war resulted, then it was time jenough to explain to a blindly threshed out behind locked doors. | settlement of the Danzig and Polish Corridor question. It is known, defniitely, that Il Duce is opposed to conflict of Great Britain are handicapped; |on the domestic scene—regardless | of their political composition— | because they must woo public! opinion gently. They must run| any nature over the territorial jloyal public what the Z sige claims and feels, as it is felt in was all about. shooting | the gauntlet of open criticism as a normal democratic process. In No “Hidden Ball” It is true, of course, {so doing they are constantly run- that the ning the risk of disapproval and | most other European centers, that mediation can bring about a sat- isfactory answer. Poland will welcome a definite settlement of the ) tomorrow morning. hour and a half joining the tend- highest eligibles. That decision CONCERT TUESDAY lons together and tying the sev-' rests exclusively with the Civil EVENING IN P ARK veins and arteries. | Service Commission in Washing- Today his father said that he ton, shows that he is recovering from ‘Pere were only three appli- | the inj and-shock, but has to cants for the recent examination {state affairs ‘for another two fstore. | years. Like we told you two weeks Well, we settled several exas-|ago, folks are going to have to perating things that arouse the! pay their taxes. So you can ex- ire of a few folks here and there-| pect them to begin right now to ; Then we gava a lot-of-time te let/look into their assessments” and jor involve such complex diplom-' But on the world stage, the! Danzig issue, acy are minor ones. | shoe is on the other foot. Great In the past, the public has! Britain and the United States— waited months or years to get'or rather their governments—| even a fairly accurate picture of have the upper hand betause/ ) what-happened ‘to push”men into! they are trained to’. state their} especially when it becomes more and more apparent that the Nazis are swinging away from their strong anti-Soviet beliefs. It wouldn’t do at all to have ‘the COMMUNITY EVENT IN CON- NECTION WITH MUSIC WEEK Outstanding program of Music Week, which is being celebrated all over the United States this be fed for’a while as he is unable to handle anything which puts the-slightest strain. on either arm. A drain has been placed in the wound at the elbow and it is ex- pected that the wound will heal | within a brief time. , ‘GIVES PRAISE for postmaster in Key West, and they are Fred J. Dion, Sam E. Harris and Frank Delaney. COLORED UNIT TO | | big boys air their|see whether they’re being soaked | war. The World War is an apt cause persuasively, and because question “hang fire” much longer ASSIST IN CAUSE: some of the ‘grievances. They’ve got a lot of!or treated like their neighbors.|ilustration. Half .a generation t igh priced gab that simply has|Tax assessors in the various|elapsed before historians got at to be let loose or the boys back | counties are going to be consult-; private papers and other secret home wouldn't ever think of em- ed’ as never before. They wran-:documents to piece together ex- ployin’ ’em again. gled all over the House about this! actly what happened from day Now. you take this racing in-| coddling of the delinquent tax-jto day and hour to hour just be- vestigation, for instance. I haven’t: payer and the best-that could be! fore the fateful declarations. Even a doubt that Senator Graham had mustered in his favor was a yet there are arguments as to who and still has.a legitimate basis, slight chance of slipping some-! started that war. in view of this new, predicted al- liance. -| British diplomats are remind- The dictator, on the other ing the signitaries to the original hand, must reverse his tactcis on, League oi Nations pact concern- the world stage. No longer can he:ing the guarantees given Poland direct public opinion to believe in regard to Danzig at the time, as he says. He must.also be per- and they want a settlement of the } question on a basis. that ‘will con- they profess no control over the! thoughts of their citizens and subjects. suasive. He must also have a for both investigation and bias./thing by later in the session.! But since the World War the 5 ‘But for a horseman, Senator And Clay Lewis tried to make it‘ public has become more wary. Graham exhibited a sad lack of take four-fifths of the Legislature, No leader dares to ignore the close acquaintance with jockeys. to do even that. Boy! They’re public on national crisis. He tries They could have told him a long fixing to collect taxes from hefe!to prepare the public mind for time before the race that other on ‘out. Ey folks had already anticipated) Now for some random shots: } a 3 A | what he intended to do and if he} Milk Board milk is still a little; Paul O. Ladd, acting chairman didn’t change his tactic he could sour bluejohn, as it were); slots! of the Key Citizens Organization, ! not even “place” or even “show”, have as many lives as a cat—and/ said that he had met with a num-!on the board. Taking it bye and will need them all, maybe more; | ber of leading colored citizens for , large. the senator was lucky they gas.tax has brought a lot of folks | the purpose of discussing the sane ee him on some up vis who didn’t find cla ee . cnarge or other. to advocate or 0] when ey | . + formation of a branch of the ori" "You folks back home look at! got here; plumbers and barbers) TOKIO. — Advices from this The program is under the di-|Center Hotel to the Chamber of &0/zation, and his plan will ‘this thing different from the way/and beauticians and employment country today indicate that in rection of the Music Week Com-| Commerce words of praise for | Prove successful, he feels assured. I see af but 2a ransE remember | syency folks and a aot eae Mase of the strong military pact WIFE OF AUTHOR RECEIVES mittee, of which the chairman is! Key West and its people. | Mr. Ladd said that all the offi-;you’re there and I’m here. say have been here looking for “boog- signed over the weekend by Ger-! : Mrs. Norma Dopp. Mr. Leishman arrived on May | cers of the branch are to be nam._| this so-called “investgiation” and ers” but only a few little half-/ ony and Italy, the eee FIVE THOUSAND PSP ARSY IN WILL OF HENRY PFEIF- | 5 CREW 1, and his letter, dated May 4,’ ed bytha mmebers and it is pro-/“hearing” gave the boys a chance | grown spooks could be unearthed; | sas: colisiden agin nBrenGAIHIE| ZINNIA REW FER REACHES VESSEL ' posed. to,eonduct its affairs along 'to catch up with what the boy or! there are a lot of two-bit bills, — a os “I arrived here Monday, May similar, lines. to those on which |Bitl in your family would desig-|that nobody but the one who’jity of joining the axis with’ mili-| Ist, and glad to be in old New the original organization is con-jnate.as “home work”. All the|asked the member to introduce tary concessions. | NEW LIGHTHOUSE TENDER} HAS BEEN PLACED IN COMMISSON week, will take place at Bayview Park tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. The event tomorrow will be in| the form of a Community con- | cert and program, among the} highlights of which will be se-| lections by the Key West Hos- pitality Band, vocal and instru-; mental solos. | Mrs. Haydn Illingworth will| talk on the subject “Music In Our Lives” and the Key West} James H. Leishman, regular Choral Society will be heard un-| winter visitor to Key West, and der the direction of Professor who left last month for his home Theodore B. Klebsattel. in New York, writes from the case. isider the Sityatjon’ as’ it existed And it’s simply that process of | at that time. | t making a case that is monopoliz-| The whole,world, in the mean- ing your newspaper's front pages time, sits back more at ease when these days. jit realizes that, after all, no war ____ |seare seems to cloud the atmo- isphere in any respect. Concilia- ee is the byword. ‘MUCH LITERATURE BY LATE UNCLE BEING SENT OUT \ BUSY. WEEK EXPERIENCED BY CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE FORM BRANCH OF KEY CITIZENS ORGANI. ZATION TO KEY WES wae JAMES LEISHMAN WRITES TO LOCAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE NEWS FLASHES (My Aanociat ‘MRS. HEMINGWAY 1S LEFT LEGACY | | { | Wren The week of May 1 to 6 was jone of the busiest weeks experi- York again, yet I am sorry I did; ducted, and with essentially the ' time this committee was investi-|them understood or expected to — ; not remain in Key West a few! same ideas and ends in view. _{&ating the racing situation, there| see become law; hundreds of peo-|_ MANILA—Paul V. McNutt,! {Special tw The Citizen) jenced by the Chamber of Com- weeks longer as the weather here} The first step in the movement | Were more than two dozen sena-' ple bought Memorial flags from High Commissioner from tne, NEW YORK, May 8.—Pauline; merce, with everybody engaged is quite cool. Was pleased to meet | will be a public meeting to be tors out in other committee meet-) girls here and never knew what) United States to the Philippine Hemingway of Key West, wife of |in the work of preparing ship- your nephew on the bus enroute held 8 o'clock tomorrow night in ings disposing of bills numbered/they meant; committees are islands, bids farewell to his po-: Ernest Hemingway, the author, Ments of reading matters to va to Miami. I was there two days | Nelson English Park, at which from A to Izzard. It was a God- choking off a lot of stuff that sition on Thursday of this week. ; Ave 4 f ‘$5,000 by her 7i0us organizations throughout and three nights. It was very time the machinery will be set in Send to them. And that’s why) would keep the legislature here/ He sails for China first, thence to is left a legacy o! .f y her the country. warm there even in the shade. I’ motion for the formation of the j they've so nearly caught up with! for a couple of years. this country, where he is ‘expect-;UNcle, the late Henry Pfeiffer.) Most of the shipments have missed the cool Key West breeze branch. j their schedule and why bills are} Did you see that bill our fel-/eq to arrive on June 22nd. Mr, President of William R. Warner | been in packages contaniing that at night. It was hot and stuffy, es icoming out as fast as they are,|low craftsman Ayers of Gilchrist,; McNutt will start his campaign @°4 Company, manufacturing! readable and highly informative Radio message received this owing to the humidity. Then | eeecevercceeveeeevesevees or—in some instances—getting and Harris of Alachua, put into to capture the Democratic nom- | Pharmaceutists, and philanthrop-| pamphlet from The Artman Press morning by W. W. Demeritt,’ thought of the cool nights in Key | TEMPERATURES |their necks wrung in committee|the House? If school teachers! ination to the presidency follow-(iSt, filed for probate here in Sur-| with its inviting slogan “Wel- WASHINGTON.—An important announcement from “high au-| thority” is expected late today, which will affect ‘settlement of; this according Conciliator John R. It is expected that President. Roosevelt will have} something “drastic to suggest. uegeeeaeesi geeeas j Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, head of the recent cancer drive in Key West, which closed on April 30, SAVED BY JOLT Home Service superintendent of ligntnouses in| West, as I have often told the | hearings. ought to keep on being paid after | ing his arrival in this country, it |ToBates Court. ; : leome to Key West” the first this district, from the super-| poopie that there is no climate to; **°°** pqunereiae reg I meant to write about “Lob-|they quit teaching, says Ayers,'is stated. Mr. Pfeiffer died April 13 at| words to greet the eyes of the wes! ighes' this district for the new Tender’ ence as I have covered all the this and every other meeting of|ing? And especially as the farm-| while believed to be worth S€V- sent to the different chambers of Zinnia, arrived safely at the de-| states, the majority of them many aera ie any lawmaking body, but there) ers some years not only get dock- | eral millions, is declared “more | commerce throughout the coun- ston = mes. : 3 F Captain W. C. Banks and the) «well, Mr. Singleton, I hope ‘ do hope, however, to write one’ pay at all. So Mr. Ayers says let's; = “i The residual estate is placed into requests for literature about members of the official family yoy are feeling real well. I know Charleston - {i ! week's offering on that subject. the soft: cttal strike, a trust, to be administered by the|the city. There was another | Chicago Here we are starting on the|to $50 a month if they’ve farmed |<) ociman. xecut y Zinnia at once and the vessel was trust you will obtain the coopera- second lap of the two-month race diligently on Florida clay or: tific, literary and educational pur-; sent to the literature distribution placed in commission at 8:50 this | tion of your leading citizens. Havana and seweral of the. horses. have|sand for a quarter of a cenutry,/ poses. Several outright cash le-! center at the World’s Fair in New Huron fallen out. Right now we ought}whether consecutively or by f Y 3 CE | front as an’ all-year resort. Kind- “ a : Neer: Puhite parpoees in New York ‘to requests. UNIQUE SENTEN |ly remember me to Mr. Gray and | Kansas City. A |the store tax is going to be off.| Watch this bill. ! ret and elsewhere. | eam caw loaner 'KEY WEST .. That half of one percent has been | law nearly all of us can get in on Commerce Harry Hopkins states, Mrs. Annie M. Pfeiffer of New! TULSA, Okla.—Judge Warren) sq fondest regards to all. I will : : | M of this city sentences drunken | ever forget Key West as I was|Los Angeles - ‘especially to the storekeepers,| farm on the side and if they reihe), Hott passed by the United States ihold and personal _ property. | ; Louisville and they'll sigh a big sigh of re-|a couple o’ rutabagas each season’ Chamber of Commerce in rela- Brothers, a sister, brother-in-law streets with police in cars sin walks of life, and I will always ing the placard, “I was arrested | nave a good word for the city and |Mpls.-St. P. ee 2 jpeople of Key West. New Orleans - place is one by Cooley and Rob-|and that entitles them to the re-| 8loomy” jor more nieces and nephews are | drunk.” | inson to tax cigarettes “at the/|tirement pay. Of course, it may |left $5,000 each and thirty nieces ‘completely finished. Admission: Pittsburgh - c 2 | 750; there is no end to other|St. Louis sonally, I don’t see any other way] . It’s interesting to watch the Council of United States Mayors, ' reports that two more persons | now fer the store tax to be met) three entrances to the office of;appeared before the Senate in-| jenrolled toward the end of the Air ‘hot dog and other numerous ex-' Seattle 48 ’ | dan 0 l AMBULANCE SERVICE | Ah, they are there to get ,Tampa 64 couple of cents a pack costs for|nose into the -legislature’s busi-|to drop WPA activities at this when a jolt of his flivver dis-|Lacedonia. t 66 ‘there isn’t a cigarette smoker who/| ness and as far as I have seen, he/|time without an effective substi-|lodged a fishbone in his throat} This brought the enrollment intendent in the fourth district,| equal Key West's, California not fi v | bies” this week because they are! why shouldn’t farmers keep on} ‘his New York home. He was 82. | peader. advises that the personnel from! excepted. I speak from experi- poo wat wa saps an awfully important feature of being paid after they quit farm- Property left by the testator,’ ‘There were 42 of the packages 1 iene pot at Edgemere, Delaware. ame - just won’t be space or time. I|ed on their pay but don’t get any; than $10,000”. ltry, and all of them in answer uffalo 12 'give the farmers all we can UDi4, Fogerap : ; and crew reported on board the you have not an easy task, but ae executors, for charitable, scien-|jarge package of reading matter alveston —— |_ “Key West will come’ to the |: macmetii /Bacies of $50,000 and $25,000 g0| York and this also was in reply jacksonville : i eayi ' P mn to feel confident in saying that! spasms. It it becomes! . WASHINGTON.—S of ther friends. With best wishes | i y S Little Rock moncdather ther it. was vorthelit for cece aditers ine Floria toaey what fe thinks the resokt-| veg the widow, is left all house- { speeders to ride through the ted so well by everyone in all ie f a IN CANCER DRIVE os 5 Miami lief to see it gone. The only tax|the net profit ought to be more’ tion to business demands on the and sisters-in-law, are the aces | s that ‘has been offered to take its|than they make in their sho| {government were unnecessarily |ients of $20,000 apiece. Twenty and sentenced for driving while | “The hotel rates here have New York - | jumped sky high. The Fair is not Pensacola - source” and raise approximately |not pass. The farmers have no} NEW YORK.—Mayor LaGuar-' and nephews get $3,333 each. the same;amount of money. Per-| lobby. dia, acting as chairman of the Ahern Funeral | charges—25c here and 50c there.|Salt Lake City — | parec 7 | | a Aero-Car Ambulance | cceedingly high—65c for a'San Francisco 50 except that cigarette tax. And|Governor Cone. The governor! vestigating committee today and | NEW YORK—George McQueen campaign. They were Mrs. Ar- “Air Cooled” gee een ino us will miss’ the ettralenid he wasn’t going to stick his| asserted that it would b “ruinous” of this city escaped an operation | thur Mulberg and Miss Margaret Phone Miami. the money. I will try to see the Washington — : aot Fla riorida Exhibit”. [Williston — &@ reads this that would wait until (Continued om Page Two) tute. \while on the way to a surgeon. {membership up to fifty-six.