The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 12, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 113. Mercy Killings For Congenitally Unfit Recommended By Dr. Fos-| ter Kennedy, Head Of Neurological Division Of, New York Hospital (Special to ‘The Citizen) NEW YORK, May 12.—A pro- Advocated ADMIRAL LEAHY GETS NEW POST RECEIVES APPOINTMENT AS NEW GOVERNOR OF PUERTO RICA Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1939 RECENT: VISITOR«{WPA.GROUP [PIODELASTO .... WITH KEY _ i a Paul wince Mr. and ek Piodela, Jr., ell-and Robert A. Graham, who’ who are visiting with © Mr. ‘MISS MARIE RAND bi # connected with the Works Piodela’s parents at the home ‘on LETTER TO THE CITIZEN Togress Administration in Wash- Fleming street, plan leaving to- TELLING OF HER IMPRES- SIONS OF CITY ay and will occupy quarters in the brief stay there will proceed to naval station. ‘Chicago. In company with George Mills! Mrs. Piodela is today being White the visitors were riding shown the interesting places in jover the city yesterday, visiting Key West, and visiting all points ‘interesting points and meeting ac- of attraction, including the light- West for two days, returned to Guaintances among the many .house and aviary. friends of Mr. White. They ex-; After serving as an employee Miss Marie Rand, visitor in Key ington, arrived here yesterday morrow for Miami and after a! Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit U. S.A. PRICE FIVE CENTS CitysGouncil: Adopts New Method — ‘Of Checking Up On Property ut}Owners Using New Water Mains ! WOULD SETUP (SEES CHANCE FOR Auster COMBAT ZONES) MORE FACTORIES | TAMPA MAN TALKS OF MAT. | Report Read At Special Meeting Conduct- ed Last Night; Other .NEW PROPOSAL TO CANCEL gram designed to legalize the “mercy killings” of tens of thou- sands of persons in the United! P States who are congenitally un-'miral W. D. Leahy today receiv- fit and about whom no diagnos. ‘ i tic error could be possible wae ee ere suggested in a signed article in’ Roosevelt to be new Governor of Collier’s today (Friday) by Dr.! Foster Kennedy, head of the! Neurological Division of New,Governer Blanton Winship fol- (By Asnoctated Press) WASHINGTON, May 12.—Ad- | | | Puerto Rica to succeed present | } Coral Gables and writes The ‘pect to be here a week. Citizen briefly of her visit andj WORKMEN LAYING CONCRETE FLOOR i impressions. Miss Rand is an artist with the Fleischer studios She writes: | | in Miami. | “Everyone kept _ telling me! there was no point in jgoing to! Workmen this morning began A ‘operations on laying an addition-, Key West. Nothing.\to see and a) jayer of concrete topping on nothing to do, so I wanted to sat- the floor of lighthouse headquar- | isfy myself and visit this place, ters. The topping will be of one- and see this queer place, out of |inch thickness. z sheer curiosity; so with two of! ,The color of the floor will be my friends we went, and were jaiq in suares leading from each delighted. \of the pillars, with a border of “Key West is like several chap- the width of 18 inches. The bor- ters taken from history books, |er and trimming of the squares The towa is quaint, people are | Will be done in green concrete. very friendly and courteous. You; can really say the city has the good old fashioned southern hos- | pitality. “It seems odd, yet enchanting, to view: people fishing from their of natura! concrete and will be: (Special to The Citizen) flying clipper ship, Norberg Thompson, of Key West, Fla., ar- rived today from the Internation- al Pan American Airport at Mi- Sitting In With The Lawmakers ON CLIPPERYSHIP HAVANA, Cuba, May 12.—By j; ;of.the P. and O. S. S. Co., and} ;connected with the forces of the ALL PRESENT NEU- Steamship Florida, for a_ time time, Mr. Piodela decided to leave the service, go to Chicago and there, with Mrs. Piodela, make their future home. GOES TO HAVANA | i TRALITY LAWS i | (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, May 12.—The {House of Representatives consid- ered a newenbsuirality proposal present neutrality laws and setup combat zones in case of war. Travelers across the ocean | would proceed absojutely at their own risk through these zones. The act would ettect all commer- cial as well as passenger travel. Committee members studying the suggestion indicated a majority opinion in favor of reommending passage at this session, although definite reporting to the House will be delayed for ten days awaiting outcome of develop- ments in Europe. 1 i | today, which would cancell al} | Matters Heard TER DURING VISIT | TO KEY WEST The City Council at a special | Meeting held last night, took up j, Francisco Roger, business man’ the }of Tampa, is satisfied that some | jof the cigar factories in Tampa | Check made of all users of city will establish branches in Key water, |West, and this in the not very! : (distant future. !being made with the new water Mr. and Mrs Roger had been) matter of having a proper and the connections now : Pipes. It was decided-to have the 1 pped in Key West for a stay city make all collections for tap- with relatives and friends and!. enjoyed themselves to the utmost |#"S on the pipes and also the rev meeting them alk again. Before leaving on the bus for Tampa this morning, Mr. Roger | for the use of the service. A spe- |said that he understood that tie | ¢; ‘ pices si Weat Havana etactory cre. |cial man will be employed to su- cently established as a branch of , Pervise the new connections. the Berriman interests in Tam-} ipa, was forging ahead, and he! ;had received information that other interests were contemplat- |ing establishing branches in this | city. | Visiting in Havana and, returning a ‘enue from the Property owners The city will place ten percent of the receipts in the general revenue fund, with the re- ‘mainder to be credited to the | Board, of Public Works for main tenance of the service. {front porches, and to be abie to aip water from the Atlantic! Ucean and a few minutes later dip more out of tue Gulf Mexico, as we uid in that ot! Reduction in the number of By GILBERT D. LEACH Florida News Service POOHSHCESESOOOHESHSESEEDE0CS eee0 Well, I've been threatening to this column may not be regarded write about the lobby for a long by all the members as a neophyte, e * Rocsevelt On Taxes | Auditor's Report of the de- time and now seems to be about jt may be well to mention that President Roosevelt stated to- day that he would not oppose the cancellation of corporate taxes. He stated, however, that if Con gress saw fit to take this step, DEMERITT ON INSPECTION TRI A report of the audit made by L. C. Brinton, E. P. Winter and Henry Brewer was read at the meeting, and accepted. The re port showed the bonded indebted- 1 Superintendent W. W. Demer- ‘ness of the city as of December Works Progress Administration, which was ordered on May 5, re- | i ughtful city. { “{ unink in the very near fu-| the best time to do it. i ‘ In the first place, there are at those lobbyists who are. on the York’s Bellevue Hospital, and: Under the title “Euthanasia: To: Be or Not To Be” Dr. Kennedy! lease of life of those he describes Advisor to the President, will be as “nature’s mistakes”. Explain- ,remembered as the President’s previously healthy person has be-! come entirly incurable”, he states MANY DROPPED | brain, damaged beyond repair, | perhaps in birth, lacks power to diagnosis, nor any hope of bet-| terment even to near normality.! AFFECTED: PLACED IN EFFECT YESTERDAY live by; no hope either or normal } dying. To these unfortunates we ing sleep. | “We must not attempt to aim! tried to indicate where these | WS Put in effect yesterday. —_—| ideas -could ‘®most~mercifully} B..C.Mosene,.area supervisor warned of these problems in | thought it would be necessary to which our wisdom and judgment | 4'0P from the rolls 88 names, but as they are for the man bound in| Pe? within the quota. pain for a while. Our ways of; There was also dropped from ‘ i | the names of 20 which keeps the young person or child who should i P never have lived at all—the tens number employed with the quota i that “needs” had nothing to do Id s psaibigepee aaa | with the reduction, That the CRIMINAL COURT = == 22,» 7 OTHER CASES SHOWN pecisenalecs | “TO BE PENDING ARTMAN TO NEW JERSEY To! ture Key West will be one of tne least two major divisions among i“@ndior” basis may report to largest winter vacationing resorts the lobbyists. There is one class their employers that a crisis has in the United States. Saturday that lobbies for something for its arrived and others appear on the night-dife is the hfe for ¢very}own associates. It pays its own ,scene. What happens then is “in person to go to Key West and ‘expenses and always wears ei-; executive session” and adds no see, in fact they would have to ther a surprised or a harrassed | noise to the buzz in what might go to really understand what I look. Then there is a class that; be termed the rotunda of the mean, lis always headed nowhere fast,!Capitol. Influence is exerted in “fam very glad my curiosity | looks well fed and nourished—as;many ways in these sessions. urge was strong enough to en-'it is. That class is on a salary; Read O. Henry’s “The Arena” and courage me to visit the city and andlor commission (if you know you will discover that folks don’t hope that something turns up to | what that “and/or” means you get change much from one genera- present the opportunity to again the idea). jtion to another. O. Henry was do so. It was really thrilling to' Ever see a hive of bees swarm? ,a newspaper man—a géod. one. stand on Duval street and realize Well, the “third house” of the! Along with lobbyists the mass you were on the longest street in| Florida Legislature (no different! mind reverts to attaches. Much the world, which reaches from'from any other or Congress) is|has been said and written about! the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of ‘exactly that. You hear the buzz; attaches. In story from all Mexico. ' even in the basement if you hap-|them are striking blondes or “Restaurants and sidewalk pen to go up that way. On the:stunning brunettes and here and cafes are nice, clean and inviting!main floor of the Capitol it is;there a bewitching redhead and serve deliciously cooked {noisy enough that you have to thrown in for contrast. Truth of food. The sightseeing tours con-raise your voice with your hat the matter is that the attache ducted by the Florida Motor Lines, when you greet a lady friend. committee is the most harrassed under Mr. Papy take the visitor!And on the second floor where bunch of aging gentlemen you to every interesting place in the;the Senate and House corridors can find anywhere. There are a city, which are many. meet—boy, that’s a racket! dozen applicants hungrily await- ; “The lighthouse with its won-| Back home there is prevalent ing every new niche. , The best } derful winding stairs and beauti- an. idea that lobbyists are crooks. commentary I can give you is ful surroundings is a thrilling} Nothing of the kind. The class that I have noticed the most place to get a perfect view of the; that is here on its own business gorgeous giri of all the applican’ is really doing a patriotic duty. hasn’t been on for a single day responsibility for substituting other revenue to take the place of the dropped income would itt, of the Seventh Lighthouse 31, 1938, to be $1,202.400, which District, left over the highway | included old bonds of various is- of} rest with that body. Treasury department is report- led. to-be at the point of offering Congress, the exact nature of ; which has not been divulged to ‘date. GEORGE JOHNSON DIES THIS A. M. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON | George E. Johnson, 88, died this morning 3:15 in the Monroe ,County Home. Funeral services will be held 4 o’clock tomorrow afternoon from the chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home. Rev. Yan- jcey T. Shehane will officiate. Pallbearers who will serve are: ;{Charles Albury, Cleveland Niles# \Morris Cochran, Walter Johnson, ‘several tax reform measures to_ , this morning for Miami and wiil! sues, and such new bonds as have make inspections of stations and been exchanged, Chalmers judg other aids to navigation in the|ment. warrants issued in favor of area. “a jemployes and vaFious other items. Accompanying the superintend-; The unpaid salaries of employes ent were Mrs. Demeritt, B. A.!/up to the end of 1938 was shown ; Baker (Larney), retired keeper, |to be $17.556.32, with unpaid cur- ‘who will consult an eye special- | rent indebtedness $31,173.19, mak ists in Miami; Mrs. Baker and! ing a grand total of $1,396,118.89. Mrs. John Fleming, who will re-| Reduce Assessments | tion. iy properties, which were consider i ied as being excessive. The parcels ‘YACHT BLACK Sweeney, Coral Isle Casino, re- duced from $4,500 to $2,800; Ath- March, sailed yesterday with the nection with the bond refunding owner, Whitman Chambers, and | Program by the R. E. Crummer for a few days’ fishing, and then Papy, representatives in the Leg- start on the return to the port of islature, be requ to intro main in that city while Mr. De-| A resolution was adopted re- meritt goes on the trip of inspec- | ducing assessments on } different |listed inciudet Berlin A. Sawyer, {Fleming street, reduced from $2,- HAWK LEAV |000 to $1,500; Mrs. Minnie I Scien lletic Club site from $3,500 to $2,- Yacht Black Hawk, which had | 700. been in the yacht basin since} A resolution was passed in con guest, Bart Schelling, on board. Company, in which it was re- Mr. Chambers said that he was Solved that the Honorable David going to the Fort Jefferson area Elmer Ward, and Honorable B. C. New York. duce an act authorizing and em powernig counties having a pop- ulation of not less than 12,974 to professor of neurology at the Cor- \lowing the present session of advocates the merciful legal re-| ing that “We doctors do not al-' Personal aide during the Key “The case is far different witli FROM WPA ROLL grow. Here there can be, after Sin cra Nor is there mind enough to hold surely might be allowed legally | or to draw laws for the idea of applied with the least, the min- {im this district said today that may sometimes err. linvestigation showed that drop-, assuaging pain grow apace. But | the rolls of those employed on of thousands of cong snitally un- | which was set for these projects. {standard of efficiency was the ADJOURNS TODAY 11 EN AND ARTMAN —.- | REMAIN INDEFINITELY; city and surrounding waters and laws to and here we are in the fifth week George Knowles and William | ! | nell University Medical College. | Congress, ! The Admiral, present Naval ways know when a disease in a, West visit in February. nature’s mistakes. Here the} five years of life, no error in SEVENTY-ONE PERSONS ARE any instillation of a dream to! to grant a dreamless and unend-|employees on the rolls euthanesia as a whole. 1 have jducing the quota from 879 to 791 imal, chance of error, and I have | before a survey was made it was “Fer the present, let things be | Ping of 71 persons kept the num- let us try to relieve of living the | professional and service projects, fit about whom no gnostic er- | Mr. Moreno said this morning {basis on which the discharges pocket cuearep wits no L.FAVING SATURDAY; | ALLEN TO VISIT FAIR May term of Criminal Court of Record, at which Judge William V. Albury presided, was brought | to a close this morning when an-, nouncement was made that the | jg docket had been cleared and no} L. P. Artman, Jr., for the past | months on the repertorial staff of The Citizen ,and Joe Allen, as- Keys. Key West has a wonder-|It is trying to get the ful aquarium, some lovely and ; conform to what it believes is famous old homes, withys mod- Tight and just to. its own indus- ern section now under«tdurse of | try or profession.’ The class that construction near by”. td is paid is trying. to carry out its employer's wishes in the st way it can, looking after the in-' terests of the particular industry of the session. There are wives and sisters and cousins but this gorgeous girl is still it? think your legislators do that! (Knowles. | Survivors arecl}itwo sons Law- outside. |Tence and-1Albertus Johnson. | Doesn’t match your notion, does :Three daughters, Mrs. Blanche’ Pinder and Mrs. Emma Johnson, There are a lot of things you,0f Miami; Mrs. Horacio Nunez, ,,, of Key West. One brother Thom- dispose of any funds received by any such counties as surplus un der the terms of the law, be em- COMES T0 POR | powered to use any surplus which leieapbeass ‘accrues for the purpose of pur- Steamship Roanoke, tanker of | Chasing as an investment any ob- e Texas Co., arrived in port/ligations of any city, special tax continued cases were pending. During the brief term which! started Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock, there were four cases; disposed of. Sully Ochandarena | assault and battery, was the only case tried by a jury which | brought in a verdict of not; guilty. Other cases were: Robert Pal-! meiro, charged with trespass with mialicious intent, entered plea of! sistant business manager, leave tomorrow afternoon over the highway enroute to New Jer- sey and New York. They will visit in Jacksonville, Washington and Baltimore on the trip nerth. Mr. Artman is going to Manas- quan, N. J., and will occupy the editorial chair of the Manasquan | Record, newspaper owned by the Taylor, Jr. | publisher of The Citizen. Mr. Al- ‘SPENDING VISIT IN ISLAND CITY Mr. and and Mrs. Archibald | : Dick, of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are visitors in Key West and are; guests of City Attorney H. H. Mrs. Dick is a daughter of Mrs. ‘than being a butcher or a grocery : keeper. or profession that employs it There is nothing degrading in be- ing a lobbyist. Not any more they don’t do and a lot of things simply don’t have time to attend to. Think that over! This week they have an early breakfast, at- tend committee meetings until time for the session, half the Either can cheat and chisel more than a lobbyist. And these lobbyists, although they make life a misery for the Senators and Representatives, really serve a good purpose. No member of the Florida Legisla- til dinner time and grab a bite and hurry back for a night ses- sion and two to a half dozen you think they neglect that they; time miss their lunch, work un- | this morning 5 o'clock, berthed | school district. or Board of Pub- |at the main pier of the Porter| lic Instruction the purchase price | Dock Co., and at 8:20 began dis-|to be at any figure mutually |charging cargo into the tanks of agreeable to the governing au- | the company. thorities of the taxing unit. | The vessel is originally from} Curry Reinstated «|Port Arthur, Texas, but comes to| Gideon Curry, assistant to the | Key West from Wilmington, Dela-| caretaker at the Tropical Aqua TEMPERATURES | ware, where the first part of the rium, whose services were dis- Seceuccccccoccceceoeese® (cargo was discharged. Rest of ,pensed with a short time ago due Lowest Highest (the cargo, 1000 barrels of diesel | to the depleted finances of ‘the Station— last night last 24 hours | oil and 8000 barrels of gasoline, is|city, was ordered reinstated. It 'as Johnson and one sister, Mrs. :Dora Baltzell. There are also six grandchil- dren and seven great-grandchil- jdren. { | | | guilty and sentenced to pay dam- j len intends going to enjoy his va- Overstreet, sister of Mrs. Taylor,;ture knows everything about “conferences” afterwards. If that | Abilene 88 being placed in the tanks of the was shown that Mr. Curry’s serv- age to a car. George Golden, cation at the World’s Fair, and|and after visiting with her aunt kind of a day doesn’t rate more ‘Atlanta 84 ! company at this port. lices at this time were greatly colored, petty larceny, guilty, sentenced to pay a fine of $50, or 90 days in jail. George Dean, colored, reckless driving, paid for damage to another car, and paid $1 and costs. | Court was ordered adjourned} and Clerk C. Sam B. Curry or- dered by the judge to pay the 27| jurors the regular allowance of| three dollars per” day, or five days, making a total of $405. due to arrive at the Porter Dock } Co. at 6 o'clock Sunday morning. | The ship is enroute from north-| ern ports to Mexico, and after taking on fuel oil and supplies will sail for Frontera. . pleaded | Plans to return in two weeks, aft-/in Miami came to Key West for a {er visiting with his brother, Wil-|visit and to get a view of this liam, at Point Pleasant, N. J. SPECIAL SPECIAL MOTHER’S DAY CAKES Let’s make. Mother’s Dinner They sell from 40c to $1.00. You can also your choice Suk coer cakes. BUSY BEE BAKERY 900 Francis St. Phone 120 jevery subject and in the thou- | Sand-odd bills already in the hop- pers there are many abstruse man. famous city. ,Jangles that nobody but one well| Now here’s something you nev- | The visitors planned to leave! vy, and trained in that par-{er thought about. You think be-| for Miami this afternoon, and (ticular line could see and evalu-'ing President of the Senate or! lafter a brief stay will go to New ate. So the wisdom of the lobby , Speaker of the House is a grand j York, see the fair, then to Mon-|is loaned, to (or forced upon) the ;honor, don’t you? Well, it is, in! treal, Canada, and other points,/members of both Houses and it’a way. But it means work that |then on to New Foundland, after ‘does some good. lyou’d think twice before choos-| iwhich they will returnito their!’ However, just so, the writer of: | (Continued on Page Two) ; home in Rio. hare spats Mr. Dick is one of the busiest ; imen in South America, is the di- ; ‘recting head of one of the rail-; toads, and has other interests. | ‘At present he is enjoying a well ‘earned vacation, he told The Citi- | | -than six simoleons, I’m a Dutch-/{ OPENING—SATURDAY NITE MAY 13th The Club Cayo Hueso in eur new home on TRUMBO ISLE, (Across from P. and O. Docks), featuring ROSS ALLEN and HIS MIAMIANS from The Royal Palm Club, Five o’Clock Club and The Hollywood Rendezvous NO COVER | needed. |! It was ordered that Mrs. Arleen | Sheppard, who was injured some- time ago by falling on thd street | where sewer work was being | AILS AREERLES ERE STEAMER OZARK | | | ARRIVES HERE carried on, be given $300 in set- eae ie \tlement of her claim with the | | Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde- city. !Mallory Lines, arrived this morn- jing from Jacksonville and Mi- jami, berthed at the Mallory dock ‘and began discharging cargo. On the ship were large ship- jments of cement for the WPA and consignments of lumber for jlocal dealers. The vessel finished ‘discharging and sailed 9:45 for| |New Orleans. | BAN “NECKING” QUINCY, “Mich —The ceme- tery in this city is no place for| Dressed and Drawn—Ready “necking” parties, says the ceme- for the Pot tery board of directors, so it has} Fulford’s Poultry Farm all Eates to, be locked be-| Pree Delivery Nell Fulford Boston Buffalo 76 52 84 50 66 58 7%. 62.) 86 66 86 70 66 72 84 58 86 72 80 66 62 68 56 76 86 78 64 éston Chitago rath ity _ Jackson’ Kansas Little Rock Los Angeles NICE DECIPHERING CHANUTE, Kans—The Cha- nute Tribune offers an orchid to Uncle Sam’s postal deciphering department. A letter addressed to the newspaper at “Chenook, Kans.,” arrived on time. DRESSED POULTRY ROASTERS FRYERS HENS BROILERS