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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 120. The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1939 Senate’ Passes“ House’ Bill Fixing Compensation For Monroe County Commission Pay Fixed At Five Dollars For Each Meeting, But Chairman Will Get Dou-| ble That Amount | (iy Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 20— Florida State Senate late yester- day afferncon passed Housé’ Bill’ 1338, relating to the County’ Com! missioners of Monroe County . Legal notice of this bill was published in The Citizen of March 23, and provides that the compensation for commissioners | shall be five dollars for each | meeting actually attended by a! member, but the amount of com- pensation will not be more than} $300 annually. An exception is made in the case of the chairman, whose com- | pensation shall be $10 ior each: meeting actually attended, andi payments for the entire year: shall not exceed $600. j It is also provided that com-! missioners will be allowed 10} cents for each mile traveled to! and from the meetings, mileage will be allowed any com- missioner living within the limits of Key West. The only commis- sioner affected by this proviso is! T. Jenkins Curry, who lives ati ¥ LODGE DELEGATES _ RETURN 10 CITY’ HAD BEEN ATTENDING SES- SION CONDUCTED AT FORT MYERS Returning Thursday night from the Red Men and Pocahontas Great Council sessions held in: Fort Myers this week were Miss Miriam Carey, Mrs. Mamie Saw- yer and Mrs. Flora Michael. Visiting relatives and friends} before coming home are two oth-! er members of Minoca Council No. 13, Mrs. Cinderella Roberts} and Mrs. Antoinette Roberts. —_| Miss Carey was elected Great) Keeper of Wampum for tiie fifth | term. Mrs. Cinderella Roberts is} Great Guard of the Forest, while, the other representatives . from ‘2 Sade“) ONE-CENT COMPENSATION ASKED AS BALM TO TENDERFOOT SOLONS Deputy Great Incohonee L. B. Sparkman, of Tampa, raised the following Great Chiefs to their! respective stations: | Improved Order of Red Men:) W. S. Sweeting, of Miami, Great} Sachem; H. M. McCulley, Jack- sonville, Great Senior Sagamore; } M. L. Parrish, Fort Myers, Great Prophet; D. T. Farrabee, Fort} Myers, Great Chief of Records; | C. B. Jerkins, Miami, Great Keep- er of Wampum. Degree of Pocahontas: Mrs.| Eva Mae Kelley, of Palatka,| Great Pocahontas; Mrs. Mary Hoffman, Fort Myers, Great Wenonah; Mrs. Fannie Brown, Miami, Great Minnehaka; Mrs. Louada Lockwood, Jacksonville, Great Prophetess; Mrs. Viola Nicard, Miami, Great Kepper of Records; Miss Miriam Carey, Key West, Great Keeper of Wampum; Mrs. Edith Farrabee, Fort Myers, Great Guard of the Tepee; Mrs, Cinderella Roberts, Key . West, Great Guard of the Forest; Mrs. Mary Kinard, Palatka, Great First Scout; Mrs. Gertrude Deck- er, Orlando, Great Second Scout; Mrs. Dora Lyons, Orlando, Mrs. Fairy Day, Miami, and Mrs. Jes- sie Elliot, Palatka, Great Trus- tees. =! Tampa was selected by the Great Councils for their meeting place im 1940. NORE DANCE TONIGHT —AT— Pena’s Garden Of Roses GOULD CURRY’S LIONS LEAVE ON CONVENTION TRIP; DELEGATES WERE INSTRUCT- ED AT MEETING HELD THIS WEEK Lions Club left this morning to attend District 35 (Florida State) | Convention opening, tomorrow Inoon in St. Petersburg for a| faire possible into the two-day {three-day session. Lions H. E. Day, John Costar and Charles Ketchum are the lo-!cut was made necessary by the!Paul S. Galtsoff, of the Depart-! cal club’s delegates. Others in the party from this city include j;Lion Gerald Saunders, who will be a song leader at the convent- tion, and Lions Edwin Trevor and Walter Maloney. The delegates were instructed this week at the regular supper- meeting held at Stone Church Annex on Thursday. Instructions were to vote favorably on the question of dividing the district into District 35 and District 35-A, which will set up two districts in the state, one north and one south. It was pointed out that representation at District meet- | ings would be much enhanced by this change and that the duties of but nolthe District Governor would: be! easier fulfilled. The bid of Hollywood, Florida, |for the Convention site for 1940 | was given first call. BIRTHDAY OF KING GEORGE HONORED IN OTTAWA TODAY |ROYAL COUPLE LEAVE TO. MORROW AFTERNOON FOR POINTS IN WEST OF CANA- DIAN EMPIRE (LETTER RECEIVED tn HERE BEARING ON l OTTAWA. Seay 86/2: Kiay! BLIGHT OF SPONGE jtered into their second day’s visi! ito this capital city of Canada, TELEGRAMS SENT TO FLOR- IDA REPRESENTATIVES IN INTEREST OF OPERATIVES | | Delegation from the Key West \with a scheduled whirlwind of AFFECTED activities. | Officials are crowding all at-! | Earl Russell, of the Benjamin iM. Russell Company in Key West. is in receipt of a letter from Dr. | stay, in that the original sched- jule called for four days but the | two-day loss of time at sea on ac-! ment of Fisheries, at Washington, |count of fog and drift ice. in which the doctor expresses his | Trooping of the Colors cere-/ appreciation of the samples of |mony was held today it honor |diseased sponges taken in these of the King’s 44th birthday. De-| waters and which were sent cember 14th is the birth date of :him. |King George, but the occasion is! Dr, Galtsoff was sent here by | celebrated today in order that the! the bureau about five weeks ago |colorful pageant may be put on to make a study of the infection jin his honor, being a regular | or blight which had made its ap- jithday, Honor event. In Eng- | pearance first in tine Bahama Is- jland, tie King’s unofficial birth-|jands. and shortly afterward in day is celebrated on June 9th. | this area and caused a great deal The Royal couple leave for! of damage to all grades of sponge. | points west in; their Canadian em-|} Upon his return to Washington {pire tomorrow afternoon. Extra-| Dr. Galtsoff completed his stud- | province of Toronto whose nor-!'S "OW Preparing his report cov- mal population of 800,000 has in- | ¢ting the situation whcih will creased to nearly two and a half: form the basis of outliuing some (Much Speculation Over Proposed Change Dealing With Lighthouse Dept. | Pro ns Of Reorganiza- | tion Bill Call For Turn- ang Unit Over To Coast Guard Service | |. Employes of the Lighthouse ‘Department in Key West and |6ther sections of the country, | Where the service headquarters ‘of districts are maintained, are ! wondering what will be the ul- imate outcome of the proposed , Second re-organization bill of the President, which provides that the Coast Guard will take over “the lighthouse service. , Inquiries at the lighthouse | ments feel at liberty to make \any comments on the matter. | However, it has been announc- ‘position to place the Lighthouse ;Service under the direction of the Coast Guard has been ap- |proved by the Senate and is, House, * awaiting action by the and if it is approved by that | branch of the Congress it will be- ;come effective immediately. weewsasceweens)lillions, reaching the peak today,| kind of project,for rehabilitating. Facts inthe proposal are set (By Associated Press) POeredorceneus-conscvece LOUISVILLE.—Gun: fire con- tinued in the Harlan county min- img region as National Guards- men routed other attempts to stop “back to work movements” on the part of non-union miners. C.1.O. union is being blamed for the disturbances. WASHINGTON.—Martin Dies, representative from Texas, was {the center of tumult here today} as charges and counter-charges | were hurled back and forth be-| tweem his House committee i vestigating un-American activi- , * \ties and persons who have _be- come involved. Investigation be- fore the public Monday of the White Camelian organization, professedly an anti-semitic group, will be the next feature of the controversy. (By Axsocinted Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 20.— Balm for the tormented souls and bodies of first termers in the Florida Legislature was asked in a House bill introduced by Rep- resentatives Surrency of Sarasota and Warren of Duval. New members, they said, “ greatly tormented of body and soul in their sincere desire distinguish between _ statecraft and statechaff”. Continuing, their bill reads: “The novices and greenhorns baa ae Cae the Prov-| the sponge bottoms, and will finge hese te ¢ use of an | write to Key West as soon as the | \on ‘tke main’ highway, routes in| Proleet Js approved by the Com- | a ;missioner of Fisheries. and around Ottawa. Information contained in the 1 letter is}tiiat no mortality was ‘MORE SPONGE {found among the sponges in the {west coast of Florida, although a H {certain number of diseased spong- ; SOLD FRIDAY ‘-: were foun'd still alive in sec- jtions between Carabelle and Ce- i Sone ;dar Keys. The bureau is watch- There were but a small number | ing the further development of of sponge offerings set out yes- the disease, which has at present \terday at the municipal dock for ,"°t affected the Tarpon Springs ‘buyers but all offerings were | fishery. Soe : | bought. In connection with the blight, | ‘There were 178 bunches of 8° evident in the area affecting | wool, 127 bunches of yellow and Key West, telegrams have been 57 bunches of grass. Wool brought |Sent to Senator Claude Pepper, 15.48; yellow, $59.06, and 57 :Senator C. O. Andrews and: Con- bunches of grass, $20.40. ;ressman Pat Cannon, asking In the wool offerings there were | that they give their support and 20 bunches, which sold for $43.66; /€ndeavor to have some project 11 bunches which brought $38.10/@"Tanged whereby a means of and 91 bunches which sold for livelihood could be provided for $296.66, or approximately $3.24 rane ie been creche af- the bunch. | fect an eir families. TEMPERATURES secenvece ° Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 hours Abilene 68 94 Atlanta 62 72 rani | Boston - 52 176 pare mays and has never; Buffalo 2 65 | “The flabbergasted greenhorns vine = have been still further steeped in | - NICABO a misery, pain and suffering by the | Dovv. ‘hopeless condition brought about! Deir! ,through the accession of the} Hi — af ‘House Committee on Rules and |; amt - 7D ,Calendar to dictatorial suprem- ws cscs rs acy for the remainder of the ses- REY. WEST ;sion and they feel utterly undone Little Rock ms ;and lost at sea and are now tie pcaeeela lready to go home. Loui “rai | “It ain't right and ought to be | rouisville teorrected and said infant mem- | “1am! | forth in the following, which is lan excerpt from a journal devot- ed to these matters: | “The Coast Guard, second old- est bureau of the government, will take over the Bureau of | Lighthouses of the Commerce Department, oldest government agency, if President Roosevelt's ‘second re-organization is not dis- _ approved by Congress. “Rear Admiral Russell Waesche, commandant of the Coast Guard, was out of town | when the order was sent to Con- gress, and could not be reached for comment on the _ proposed |measure. However, officials at headquarters stated that they thought there would be no great immediate re-organization of the | Lighthouse Service. | “Among the questions to be | solved is’that of personnel. The | Coast Guard is a military organ- lization; the Lighthouse Service is 'nearly exclusively Civil Service, ‘from Washington Administration | down to the keepers of lights and the crews of tenders... Another ‘question is that. of administra- j|tion. It seems logical to predict | that: the Lighthouse Service °di8- tricts and the Coast Guard dis- R. provided. “But it is another question whether any attempt will be made to coordinate the diverse activities within the districts. |cedent for consolidation of the two services. Once before they | were in the Department of the | Treasury. The ligithouse servcie | was -created by the ninth act of jthe First Congress, and in Aug- ust will celebrate its 150th anni- |versary. The life-saving service, which became the Coast Guard, |was created a year later. Both were in the Treasury in 1852, the Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Yankee Clipper Hops ‘Off On | Second Leg Of ‘Long Flight —THE SITUATION By PRESTON GROVER A. P. Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, May 20.—We don’t pretend to know everything —well, not quite—and when af- {fairs in Europe begin to get out AR? WELL, PROBABLY NOT JUST: —. YET IS TOO MIXED UP Forty-Two Ton Aircraft Left Shortly Following Noon Hour Enroute To ‘ARMANDO MACHIN IS GIVEN HEARING ;DEFENDANT ARRAIGNED ON Marseilles, France (By Associa’ d Press) | PORT WASHINGTON, |May 20.—The LL 42-ton Yankee of hand we rush to certain wise | Giese Se | Clipper left shortly after noon on | the ‘second leg of its trans-ocean |ed from Washington that the pro-! “There is, however, good pre- |" Mpls.-St. P. . Lighthouse Board took over the have-spent days and nights read- ibers fully compensated for their ing the House rules of order in an effort to understand and avoid all of the traps, snares, bogs, quagmires and pitfalls that beset their paths, but they are contin. ually. ted with new tricks X,X X all to the sorow and an- guish of said new members. “Greenhorn first termers have been compelled to go into the committee torture chambers and there behold their palpitating, timorous little brain children (sometimes known as House bills) stamped to death in raucious glee and hilarity, and thereby have suffered untold mental pain and anguish galore. “Broken - hearted newcomers have developed the galloping lurks by their fruitless search for the table on which their beloved bills have been laid, having only recently learned that said table Seven-Piece Orchestra either has no tangible existence ;Necessary and reasonable mental {anguish and suffering by them ‘most justly sustained”, The bill proposed an appropria- tion—of one cent for each new} member, with provision that the; jRules. Committee may select a/ House quorum of 48 from the ;“seasoned members” and let the first tremers go home. | Speaker Wood referred the bill to the Public Amusements Com- j mittee. ANYTHING —you need for ANY CAR is either in stock or can be ordered in 24 hours at— i} ALBURY’S SERVICE “The Only 24-Hour Station” petet Seeemien Be Pees 468 New Orleans St. Salt e City San Francisco Seattle Williston administration of the service un- |til 1910 when the Bureau of | Lighthouses was created and |placed in the Department of ; Commerce”. DIVORCE PAPERS FILED IN COUR | Papers filed in the office of |Circuit Court Clerk Ross C. | Sawyer were divorce proceedings |against Nathaniel Thompson by men hereabouts to compare notes. us to the startling conciusion that affairs in Europe are too mud- jdled for war. There was a time a few weeks pler. It appeared to be shaping into a conflict of the democracies | against the dictatorships. On the other hand, the totali- d i | headquarters in this city are pro- | tarian nations, more especially | ‘nations surrounding her. But more recently both issues ‘were clouded. England and ‘France began dickering for the asssitance of Russia, a country which is not regarded a leading democracy. Germany Grabs Then Germany, instead simply of .setting about welding Ger- manic peoples together, suddenly ;extended her apron to cover a very. large covey. of Czechs and. Slovaks. Hitler points to a strange his- ‘torical parallel which he may have intended should have a bearing on the present situation. In September of 1918, while the German lines were slowly backing up under the eager pounding of the American and allied armies, Field Marshal Von Ludendorf abruptly became panicky. Ger- many, he urged, must ask for an armistice. President Wilson had advanced a suggested “peace without vic- tory” based on 14 points. Luden- dorf insisted that an armistice be asked, with the 14 points as the basis of discussion. But civil authorities felt that with a last ditch stand they might negotiate better terms. ‘They wanted to move more slow- ly, to avoid the appearance of panic. But Ludendorf and Hin- denburg overrode their resist- ance. { Ludendorf explained that he hoped to emerge from the nego- +tiations with his armies intact. One of his staff officers, Colonel Heye, urged that the. hegotiations ;be drawn out, saying: | “I want to save the army, so tricts will be made to coincide, that we dan use it'as a means of | and a single administrative head pressure during the peace N€£0- | coryed pork shanks and sauer- ; tiations”. Outwitted | But in one of the most. astute |diplomatie triumphs of his ca- eer, President Wilson maneu- vered the German authorities into complete surrender before the armistice was granted. It was that situation to which Hitler {pointed if his speech when he ‘said he never would allow his \representatives to enter a con-} ference without strong military backing. He has it now. The shoe was on the other foot at Munich. It would be a completely nov- el situation, but it is conceivable that back in his noggin Der Fuehrer sees a possibility of a ‘peave treaty before a war in- istead of after one, as is the usual custom. It is unlikely he would agree to sit down in mass with the 314 ‘nations President Roosevelt men- | gering complexities of such conference woul Mr. Hitler. But he suggested the possibility of conferences with \the 31 nations, one at a time. It would not bg. utterly one- sided. Each nation would likely : | And our sagest wise man helped | back when the business was sim- | | SAULT iy sf i | flight to Marseilles, France, via jthe Azores and Lisbon, Portugal. ; Armando Machin was this | thi flight i i‘ 'morning given an examination in! ee nemmenreaiene pare {the court of County Judge Ray-| flight schedule across the Atlan- mond R. Lord, on a charge of as-| tic Ocean. which, though it will sault on the person of Albert | | Arnau, who charged that Machin | jhad made an effort to kill him! for two round trips weekly bo- | by shooting-with a revolver. liwesauentanaates | It developed during the hearing | {that Machin went to his home and! The Clipper took off from Bal there ensued an argument be-|timore this morning, making the only carry mail at first, will call ductive of no results as neither |Germany, were fighting for the|/tween him and his stepson, Ar- flight to this city in two hours |the superintendent, W. W. De-|freedom of Germanic peoples! nau: | meritt, nor other heads of depart- | from the yoke of the tough little; Machin drew a .38 revolver, and! aboard and over 100,000 pieces of i heated words followed and! Only a crew of fourleen was fired once when but a distance!) ‘ e Ww. jof seven feet separated’ the fenlloarecs raglan ae tebe | Although such a short distance | The Yankee Clipper flew over was between. them when the shot | the World’s Fair grounds before . was fired, it was shown that the | continuing its flight from Balti- «bullet entered the floor several} more to Port Washington i feet from Arnao, although wit-| The flight marks the twel{t | nesses, members of the family, | anniversary of Col. Chas. A were convinced that Machin in-|Lindbergh’s historical solo flight tended his shot to be fatal be-| from Long Island to Paris, cause he said he would kill Ar- ' France. By July Ist, Pan Ameri fee F can officials announce, passenger i ie court ruled that it was a | travel will be instituted. sii placed the defendant undeér : TRAINING FOR BOYS ‘posted last night when he was! wood following the aitneuty IN MECHANICS OF which occurred at the Machin! home on Bahama street. | PROFESSOR O'BRYANT IN RE- | esti | | AROMAS FROM KITCHEN puT| AUTHORITY CHAIRMAN } END TO HUNGER i | receipt of a communication from | Robert H. Hinckley, chairman of (Ry Axsociated Press) , : | . Wis x __ {in Washington, advising that no | RACINE, Wis, May 20—Ra-) -ccific plans have been formu- | Hulett, conquered a hunger strike ; } jai jl field of aviation mechanics. jat the jail with the aid of aromas’ “oye jetter was written at the | The 26 prisoners balked at as- ae «6 i ee at 8°” says that if “boys in your schoo sctted cold: meat: tattwiches) one are ‘iiteérested in obtaining this | j the pa asta ould communicate with ‘the ls auisedieriaa ioe ceatia tien: ¥\Cnidf of Army Air Corps, War CAPS Navigation, Navy Department, . Washington, D, C.” ‘case of. aggravated -assauit andr ‘bond of $500, which had “ been | ‘Elwood following the difficulty ! | FROM Civdi AERONAUTICS i STRIKE Professor Horace O’Bryant is in | the Civil Aeronautics Authority, | re couealiey. Sew carl enite, | Males lated for trainnig of boys in the j - j om Be rlenen request of Senattor Pepper, and | night, and continued their strike aitfif'through enlistment they | were served de- | Department, or the Bureau of | The communication states fur At noon, the sheriff astutely kraut. The cooking odors wilted | the prisoners’ stubbornness. They ‘ate heartily. |the training, should contact their DETERMINED TO {State Department of Education STOP THIEVERY * a possible source of aid”. | i It is also pointed out that the National Youth Administration H |is conducted at various points a j Reward of five dollars is being | general mechanical program. the offered by the Key West Garden| primary purpose of which is to !Club and Tree Guild for the con-|discover aptitudes in special iviction of any person or persons | fields and the WPA is promoting |.who stole cacti and other growths'| studies with a view to developing “Persons who are qualified as instructors in the mechanics of | aviation, as well as those desiring tioned in his message. The stag-j al Id bewilder even’ lon Stock Island. It is here, particularly, these depredations have been car- ried on, and to such an extent ‘that those im charge, as well as -those interested im the garden, jare determined to make an effort ito put a stop to this thievery. - $1.00 !growths at the Botanical Garden | ] that" DENVER — Colorado’s latest as published in The Citizen’ Yes-| interest in aviation. 'terday, referring to thefts of Past (game census has disclosed only jabiout six grizzly bears remain in the state, says R. G. Parvin, state | game and fish commissioner. “We are sure there are one or two left on the Arapahoe peaks in jnorthern Colorado. _——= | TONIGHT | —aAT— Fred Marvil’s CABANA *~4 PATIO Edna and Albert The Queen and King of Rhumba Admission or Cover Charge or if it ever did exist was pur- cemsummanmmmmmemmmeemee rine’ by old House members in