The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 17, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 117. Overwhelming,Vete For School Levy Of, Ten Mills i ; But Two Votes Polled In /POPLPLD IMDM LS, Opposition; Three Trus- /SING FA HRILL tees Reelected During Balloting Enjoying a delightful vaca- | tion and being afforded the | thrill pf their lives with the excellent fishing to be had in these waters, Howard Grieves, Robert Graham and Paul McDowell, with George Mills White and Raul Vasquez, had an exciting experience ves- terday with an 11 foot ham- merhead shark. The animal took the bait when the launch was near Pelican Shoals, and there then ensued a real struggle | with the fish towing the launch at good speed and, fortunately, toward the shore. Eventually the shark gave up the fight and was towed to shore. The visitors, who are Washington employes of the WPA spending their vaca- tion here, say the experi- ence was a great one, and they will have a true story to relate on their return to the capital in the next few days. OPPORTUNITIES BEING OFFERED AT NYA CAMPS VARIOUS YOUTHS ARE GIVEN CHANCE TO SECURE MUCH | EXPERIENCE IN, DIFFER | ENT LINESOF woRK Biennial election of Special Tax School District, which was held | in Kev West yesterday was car-| tied out and the polls closed at | sundown yesterday with very little interest display | ed on the part of the voters, . afternoon | There were two polling, plac in the city. One of these was at. the gymnasium of the High School and the other was at the Harris School. At the close of the election the added totalsi showed that 77 votes had been cast. The estimated amount was fig-: ured by the school board and trustees and it was decided that! 10 mills would be necessary to carry on the activities of the schools in addition to the regula funds from the state. and this was the amount asked to be votcd for on the ballots. Only two op- position votes were recorded. Standing for re-election as trustees were William T. Archer. Preston, B. Pinder and Strunk, Jr., and they were elected without opposition. BRIEF EXTENSION OF MURPHY ACT UP TO NOON HOUR SATURDAY Federal government, through the National Youth Administra- ‘tion, offering many oppor- tunities for work experience that - 25 will fit youths to enter private ing applications for payment of | z tax certificates under the provi- industry whenever the opening sions of the Murphy Act, was an- occurs. nounced this morning by Clerk Victor supervisor in Ross C. Sawyer of circuit court. this area said yesterday there is Noon Saturday was fixed as the , Pe eee in operation Ocala,- Camp final hour. : Mr. Sawyer advised that Roosevelt, where white girls are through _ special arrangements receiving educations and _ train- made between his office and The jing in several essential subjects. Citizen this extension was agreed 1, Cherry Lake white boys upon, as it had been heretofore % required that the matter which being trained in mechanical work was to be printed had to be in and agriculture: The Citizen office five days Recently a camp was opened previous to the printing date. at Sulphur Springs and several However, as there are a num- youths from Key West are as- ber of property holders who have signed tothe camp where three said they intended to have their weeks of training is being given applications ready within the jn carpentry work,three weeks next few days, Mr. Sawyer talked in mechanical work! and three over the matter with the, pub- weeks in metal work: After three lisher of this paper and it), was in this preliminary work agreed upon that at noon Satur- the youth is then. ‘selected for day, May 20, that all papetS in ‘the work for which he has been connection with the redemption ‘chosen, and completes the five of property under the act, must months training, which, it is ex- be filed in the office of the pected fits him to enter private ‘s industry as fist class apprentice, and the ground work for their clerk. future lives will be started. There are at this time in Key West 125 youths distributed on various projects. Results during the past year have shown that the training received has en- abled youths to accept private employment in classes of work is Brief extension of time for fil- Lowe, at are "NEWS FLASHES Press) | evess LONDON.—Arabs in Palestine are rejoicing. Jews are planning huge demogstrations of disap- pointment. Thése emotions are displayed following - release of Britain’s plan to settle the long- standing dispute in the Holy Land. The proposal sets up an autonorhous Arab-Jewish sfate, which will, it is stated,- give Arabs a three-to-one voting ma- jority in government of the land. signment. | At the present time there are nine youths from Key West at- tending the~ camps mentioned 4above, including that at Talla- hassee where negro girls are trained ii Aefignaking and boys ‘trained in. electiical work, auto WASHINGTON. — Secretary, of; State Cordell Hull today strongly.“456 the best. answered, critics of his depart-\ ment’s reciprocal trade pacts with various foreign countries stating that the pacts are “not against the best interests of the United States”, as avered by some manu- facurers in this country. STOCKHOLM. — Adolf Hitler's recent bid to Scandinavian coun- tries for mutual signing of non- aggression pacts has been turned down, according to advice receiv- ed today. The decision affects Sweden, Norway and Denmark, although the latter, because of its nearness to Germany, tempered its refusal with conciliatory terminology. sall of the ‘camps Food-is excellent, sanitation in all forms. is stressed, Obedience and regular habits strictly observed. All members of the camps have instilled into them the old maxim that “In sowing an act they reap a habit and in sowing a habit they reap a character” and that great care should be taken in the sowing of these acts. TONIGHT PALACE THEATRE Gerald Pinder Presents “THE STH RHYTHM REVUE” With John Pritchard and His Orchestra ADMISSION .. 10c and 15¢ ; with which they were entirely | unfamiliar previous to their as- mi ics. and. jorepair and pup pbe oie ditions at Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORID SEARCH FOR BODY {ELECTION AT OF BOY THOUGHT TO BE DROWNED Ww ESDAY, MAY 17, 1939 | | QUEBEC RECEIVES STATE COLLEGE KING AND QUEEN | i ‘MISS PEARLMAN IS MADE|ROYAL PARTY GREETED BY CHAIRMAN OF WEL- | VAST THRONG UPON EDWARD G. LEMMON MISS- FARE UNIT ARRIVAL | ING FROM SUMMERLAND | REY set DADE PHENT (Special w The Citizen) (By Ass jated Prens) UNITS JOIN IN SEARCH KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 17.| QUEBEC, May 17.—Cries i 1 of | echoed from thou- | ‘House Passe |Election of officers recently WaSi~Vive Le Roi” ;completed by 15 of the national} ._ Coast Guard planes, divers and ‘sororities on the Florida State ;8ands of throats as the inhabit- | {fishermen from the Keys today College campus. joined in searching the waters of; Presidents of each of the sorori- Florida Bay off Spanish Harbor {ties include: Alpha Chi Omega, | this ancient city on the St. Law- | {for thd body of Edward G. Lem-| Miss. Beth Blari, Jacksonville;/ rence river, mon, 19, son of Mrs. Camille G. | Alpha Delta Pi, Miss Marian | Sharpe, 331 Sea View Avenue, |Grinnell, Tampa; Alpha Gamma iPalm Beach, a member of the Delta, Miss Edith Underhill, Ft. ,Civilian Conservation Corps Meade; Alpha Xi Delta, Miss Mil- dred Jones, Jacksonville; 3 Camp at West Summerland Key. phi Aipha Mie Ing Belt” Anca royal party disembarked at aga ‘He is believed to have drowned dia; Chi Omega, Miss Frances! bec this morning at 10:35 o’clock. | jtate yesterday. /Slade, Jacksonvlile; Delta Delta} j i, According to reports made: to Delta, Miss Carolyn Collins, Uma-| following official greetings from Lieutenant Fred T, Kemp, U.S.A., ‘ville; Delta Phi Epsilon, Miss) ‘s ei i ‘officer in charge at the camp, the Rose Lee Feigenbaum, St. Aug- j Governor. MacKenzie King and young man’s working clothes were ustine; Delta Zeta, Miss Hildai,.. 4: rf ! discovered near tie bulkhead of Alagood, Metcalfe, Ga.; Kappa Siplomattc| compe, oni Roars Hes | Spanish Harbor Bridge by the Alpha Theta, Miss Ruth Terrell,! Empress of Australia. ;members of a working party to Tallahassee; Kappa Delta, Miss which Lemmon had been as- (Ina Margaret Robnison, Pensa-; vsigned. ‘cola; Phi Mu, Miss Jean Nichol-| = Officials of the camp believe'son, Palm Harbor; Pi Beta Phi, *e Union Jack displayed on all that some time in the afternoon Miss Janet Mattern, St. Peters-/.. : et iyesterday. Lemmon slipped away burg; Sigma Kappa, Miss Edith ides’ es, King George) and Cueaay from his companions on the Ott, Ocala; Zeta Tau Alpha, Miss, Elizabeth toured through the’ highway, where they were en-:Ena Faye Jett, Tampa. { 3 z | gaged in beautification, for a lit-' Among those elected from Key ;Sreets in a special, armored. | \tle swim. It-is believed that aft-, West is Miss Cynthia Pearlman, ' glass, ma: touri ¥ er he dived into the tide, which ' good and welfare chairman, Delta 2 — Bung eedany e. | Was running swiftly, he met with Phi Epsilon. | their way to luncheon at noon a mishap and was carried into the: today. This was the Canadian | * ‘JOHN HALL WILL Soon after the discovery of the | Governor's Luncheon and the: discarded clothing scores of other | | Ki . 5 . i memberaiat ite peat eas eel ADDRESS ROTE ‘King delivered his first North ed to the scene and immediately | | American speech. ! began grappling in the waters ee ' peatby in the Meneitiat Heibody,) 5. Cc. Hell, first’ylce real ight be lodged against sok split Mea a : i \ ee pe ma mest ome aN akntsighid iptegelt sphandihe. of ;dress of an Admiral of the Navy worked until’ darkness’ -made ficer of the. Miami, Chamber. oti ehan he,accompanied- by. the ‘further effort impossible. | Commerce, will be guest speaker This morning the work was re- tomorrow noon! at the. regular Queen, walked down the gang- sumed. The CCC youths were Weekly meeting of the Rotary plank this morning. A full sal- pe eonre Peer we ened Mr. Hall has taken over the ute from the governmeht fort at that if the young man had been’ Jeadership of the Miami cham: that di drowned at tie Spanteh | Hotbor | Charles, D."Leffler, and church bells and office and ridge. the Spas MugHestARer “Ve |e, Eall's subject Will: be “Co- peaked hernias ee in Sn Me operative Spirit Among Com- factory whistles cinity of- No Name Key, for the pray + we ss | i 5 force of the'tide there‘is so strong , Munities”, touching on the man; city-wide. ner in which communities can be i | pest eaear e one, TS of mtitual assistance in. general, The royal party will be feted | ants, predominantly French, of greeted the King and | j | ‘Queen of England on their first | visit to Canadian shores. Th>| The city was in gala atiire with The King was attired in the full | Quebec was fired at time were sounded | | at a banquet jed by City of Quebec officials. tonight sponsor- | — | Early this afternoon the Coast Peeps hat erie between eri Guard sent two seaplanes to the | 4 = aid from Lieutenant Kemp. but; r,eeceeccesevcevess up to the time of going to press! age Py Wi hTh L k ma trge of wee cmt! Sitting In With The Lawmakers with diving equipment and hel-} f & ing along the bay bottoms con-! tinuing the search. ! Florida News Service POC Deeeeecesecesccccccecscccceseoeweceeeseoeeeeee | ing the supposed drowning was ; are funny. Couple» of: so Wouldn’t the Legislature please immediately forthcoming * from ‘dozen people at a Senate commit- cut their salaries so they could Lemmon came from Palm Beach abot, - 1 ‘considration would put a trans- cat to the camp. on January 9. He | action gigs evervitind i Flor.| ReBro who didn’t want two dol-,; taking advantage of the educa- wages for doing nothing than/a day so if,he happened not to tional opportunities offered all most of ‘em ever earned when!be paid he wouldn't lose $0} dead and Lemmon was sending | mijlion} upon millions of dollars} These legislators ought to get regular allotment of his income to, involve—and only. a couple of free room and board at Tallahas- | to West Summerland Key. Then standing room only on/drum up trade in a hurry. That ‘the floor of the beautiful new) Proposal to tax intangibles at MONSALVATGE AND cious galleries fairly spilling over | of bankers, chamber of commerce ; with spectators, all there to listen; men, tax experts and plain citi- igrudge bill that affects nobody; headed by Spessard Holland got! EASE SEN ‘li i ‘like a citrus hearing. County Commissioner William ™ost any morning they could have | like 3 : Mondaleaige and Earl Adams, /S€en the same kind of a dogfight! Citrus, by the way, is still} ‘ ight from Talla- | Where Senator Graham is trying; ting everything it wants. Citrus tontaesity lle ee \to take racing apart to find its|legislation is as easy to pass as| ciderit.* and more particularly, upon the scene in response to a call for, no trace of the boy’s body had! mets at the same time were walk- | By GILBERT D. LEACH No official statement regard-! \ Folks fficials of thy Me ! Paring ore cee ee peters fan Pun Bescs (ie nearing where a. bill under. cotleet? Reminded me of the olf had been well-behaved and. was ida ‘and pay old folks higher | lars a day; rather have a dollar CCC enrollees. His father iS they wbre working the hardest—| much. his mother, who is now enroute | dozen people. | see’s hotels for they certainly can House chamber and the two spa-/ their face value brought caravans ADAMS BACK HOME to and see a dogfight over a/zens, and the Senate committee | Berea Joutside the city of Tampa. Al-|a mass of data that made it look | president of city council, returned , OV€T in the Senate chamber | thinking up new stunts and get- | hassee where they went on busi- ; | ticks but that doesn’t seem to!school laws were two and three | | neg last Saturday. nection with <atetr the popular flair. Within sessions back. ‘ US bill which had* been approved ten feet of the committee table: I've heard a lot of folks won-| by both council and commission- | Where the hottest kind of argu- dering out loud why the Legisla- ers, empowering the commission- | MPS stir the air, business goes on ture goes on appropriating money ers to’use surplus gasoline tax ®S usual. to this and that—Chattahoochee, ‘monies for the purchase as an in-! Battles and skirmishes multi-'teacher pensions, College for 'vestment in any obligation of the Ply. Senator Mapoles had a bill; Women auditorium, tobacco roads | ‘Special Tax School District. {on third reading to put the poll, to excellence and so on—before VO Me Monsalvatge said. they dis- | tax back on and was there a finding out how much money cussed the matter with State battle! That dashing bachelor | will be available and where it is ‘Senator Elmer Ward and Repre- Amos Lewis made two and a half coming from. | | sentative B. C. Papy and in each speeches that caused fluttering in| That’s an easy one. The mem- ‘ease the conferenca was satisfac- | the breasts of a goodly feminine! bers are just like you and me. ‘tory in every way. ‘gallery but it was all shattered ; When we want something we go | {when Bill Hodges tolled a dole-;and buy it on the easy payment !ful dirge. smiling all the while.!plan. After we get it we begin DIVORCE PAPERS Deas bill! Still no poll tax! {to wonder just how we're going, jthe perilous plight of Florida’s sheet and manipulate things so jbarbers—or their board—comes' we can meet the monthly pay- ing in circuit court in the divorce ;of their grave difficulties and! Well, worry is about to set in| suit of Houston (Collins versus how the barber board couldn't for the members of Florida’s Leg- IN T No sooner do we get the poll to pay for it and we begin to as jto light in a bill sponsored by , ments. That’s when the worry” , Elizabeth Jane Collins. ‘collect enough fees to pay itself,’ (Continued on Page Six) { , tax ‘situation back in hand than scratch around on the old budget Papers were filed this morn-,Senator Savage of Ocala. He tells, sets in. ' -have béen. consumed: and nothing! WOULD Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | U.S.A. es Various Bills Dealing With Monroe County PRICE FIVE CENTS EURO-ASIAN NO WORD HEARD Measures Cover Gasoline FRONT GETS FROM FLYER ON T= Bridge Empoyes, ATTENTION WAY TO SWEDEN Teste, Wear Esrer | | And Other Matters RUSSIA BECOMES RATHER LONG OVERDUE: PLANE CAR- | IMPATIENT OVER DELAY, RIED NO RADIO; 110M.P.H. | OF PACT AGREEMENT AND CRUISING SPEED INCIDENTS INVOLVED | (By Associated Preas) i | TALLAHASSEE, May 17. | Representative Bernie C. Papy of introduced the (By Associated Press) falloaisai hie oui ee aise KH 0 i why Associated Press? } STOC: OLM, Sweden, Mey; maniac z gar aig LONDON, May 17.—English|17—No word has. been heard |i#lature yesterday. and all were Monroe county statesmen’s eves are “far to the|this noon from Carl Backman, | Pa‘sed by the assembly: that! House Bill No. i thority for the County Commis- sioners of Monroe County to di vert $30.000 annually from siate | gasoline taxes collected to the !City of Key West. House Bill No. 1226 requires eastward” today in contemplated | Swedish aviator. who, at 1223 gives au- action io set machinery in motion | time, had been thirty hours away to protect its Euro-Asian front in from New Foundland, the start case of war. jot a direct hop from the United A welding of the Turkish, | States to this country. Egyptian and Arab nations into! | that the attorney and all px solid military pacts with England! arent employes of the Overseas is in process of forming, this to | ‘ising speed of 110 miles: per Road and Toll Bridge District be ; _ | qualified voters of Monroe coun- furnish a balance of power in hour, should have completed his ty. The present attorney, Paul favor of the democratic nations at flight in twenty-four hours. Marks, and two members of the the eastern end of the Mediter-| Commission, John Slade, chair- vaneaniSea. i man, and John D. Kennedy, are The problem of “what to do hap, although no definite con- | *ffected by this bill. ees E House Bill No. 1227, sponsored about Russia” will be taken up IN firmation of that fear can come, by Fred Eberhardt acti foreign policy debates in Parlia-) chairman of the Key Citizen ment this Friday. The cabinet Committee, authorizes the City of expects to satisfactorily answer | Tadio. Key West to affix special taxes to questions that are sure to come | upon the wag? earners of | this up concerning the slowness of 2d city. The funus raised from this British diplomatic action in en- NEW MEASURE ON TAXATION tax effort wiii be used to spon- tering into military agreements ELIMINATE _DIS- sor Federal projects to keep up with the Soviet. employment here. Those who Russia, meanwhile, appears | CRIMINATION AGAINST FLORIDA RESIDENTS Backman’s plane. capable of a Swedish officials fear a mis- until later as the plane carried no earn $50.00 a month or over will quite impatient about the delay, | pay $1.00 per month and those stating that over twenty ays! whose salaries.are less, than $50.00 will pay’ 50 cents per month.“ House Bill No. 1352 provides for retirement of city employes and officials at a specified retire- ment age on pension. | House Bill No. 1339 makes it unlawful for any persons to kill Virginia deer, otherwise known as Key deer, in Monroe county House Bill. No. 1363 allows the City of Key st: to enact build- ing restrictions. .This bill was sponsored by the Zoning Board, and enables the ‘city to zone the city in accord) with recommenda- tions made by the board. House Bill No. 1055 provide for the paying of the salary of the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Record from the General Rev- enue Fund instead of the Fine and Forfiture’s Fund, as hereto fore. Don’t Count On Taste To Detect Ptomaine more than a “milk and: water sub- | stitute” has been offered counter- ‘ing the original pact drawn up; by that country. (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, May 17.—To ,eliminate tax discrimination that Es RES |payers who bid on sales of sup- PAINTED Plies to or projecis for State, ;County and municipal agencies, |Senator Wm. C. Hodges _ intro- duced a bill in the Senate today requiring persons selling supplies or bidding on projects or fur- nishing.of such supplies to the State or its-political subdivisions to pay such business excise and license taxes as are levied under the laws of Florida and prohibit- ing the fiscal officers of the State and its political subdivisions from paying for any supplies furnished by or work done by any concern that has not paid all of its busi- ness excise and license taxes up to date. Senator Hodges explained that the law is not intended to erect a , trade barrier but merely requires tall who bid for public business to pay the same occupational and excise taxes so that out of State businesses or tax dodging resi- dent businesses will not be able to have an unfair advantage in quoting prices—the law will be eliminate such situations as for |instance, come up when a State jconcern is required to pay one- jhalf of one per cent gross re- \ceipts tax and while an out of ‘State concern does not at the ipresent time have to. pay such | tax and, therefore, is able to re- duce its bid one-half of one per ‘cent, giving such out of State jeoncern that much of an unfair | margin. BEING CLEANED, AND GOTTEN READY FOR LEAVING Yacht Elsie Fennimore, which has been in port for two months, this morning is on the local ma- rine railway and is being cleaned, painted and gotten ready for leaving, which will be within the week. The vessel is the property of E. R. F. Johnson and Mr. John- son and party plan going to the Bahama Islands where a_ series of under water moving pictures are to be taken in that section where the waters and sea life are said to be beautiful. Most of. the equipment has been received and placed on board the vessel, but it was said that other pieces will be taken on at Miami before the vessel leaves for the watrs of the Bahamas. It is expected the party will there about two. months. (Ry Ansociated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May —Taaste or smell is useless in de- tecting. ptomaine posoning in food, says Dr. R. M. Powell, Uni- versity of Tennessee physicia “Food infected with poisonous organisms is tered one iota in appearance, taste or odor,” explains the phy- sician. He ~ suggests the best protection is to avoid salads or other dishes made of leftovers in the warm-weather months, since high temperatures are favorable to the growth of bacteria, caus- ing the so-called ptomaine infec- tion. 17.- not TENDER IVY SAILS TODA COAST TO WORK ON NAVIGATION AIDS TEMPERATURES Secouvcccccccessesecesee Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 hours Abilene 66 82 ‘Atlanta 74 Boston 52 Buffalo 62 Charleston a4 54 42 48 58 56 48 | Lighthouse Tender Ivy sailed | ! ‘FRUIT STEAMER { Lighthow ARRIVES HERE ¢: ta this morning for points on the; Chicago west coast where there is to be , Denver 72 eae f Detroit 66 done some work on construction | peaTHED AT MAIN PIER OF Galveston 78 of aids to navigation in Tampa; | 78 Bay and there is other activity} PORTER DOCK COMPANY Secale 76 to be attended to in the vicinity. | Material taken on the tender! UNTIL TOMORROW | KEY WEST _ 84 was for erection of three struc- | c |Little Rock - 82 tures in the Bay and there was Re iLos Angeles - also a radio antenna tower which! Fruit carrying Steamer St. | Louisville is to be erected at Egmont Key Mary of the Standard Fruit and Miami station. - ‘Steamship Co., arrived in port |New Orleans Members of the working party yesterday afternoon from Phila-|New York to be employed on the activities delphia and berthed at the main | Pensacola and left op the Ivy are: Paul At- pier of the Porter Deck Co., and ‘Pittsburgh 52 well, carpenter in charge; Manuel is lying there until tomorrow. |St. Louis _.. 60 Lopez, Robert Curry, Joe Hen-| It is understood that in the|Salt Lake City 54° Tiquez, Raul Sibila, William: morning the St. Mary will be San Francisco 52 Adams and Roy Roberts, cook. given a supply of fuel oil and se-|Seattle ___._ 50 It is estimated that the work cure provisions, after which the Tampa 62 will take about three weeks to vessel will sail for . Frontera,| Washington —. 44 complete. | Mexico, for a cargo of fruit. ‘Williston ... 48 68 72 86 88 60 74 72 80 76 62 68 80 64 68 70