The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 26, 1939, Page 1

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KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939 Senate Passes House Bill Amending Old City Charter Of Key West ae ee 1 SOOeTeeee, ~ 'PRESIDENT PRAISES _ | Original Draft; One) OFFICERS IN CHARGE | About Fire Dept, Other, OF RESCUE WORK Anent Pay Of Council (By Associated Presy) WASHINGTON, May 26.— highly commended the Navy offi- CHURCHILL SEES | WAR IN EUROPE ‘NOW OR NEVER ANT POWER, BELIEVES BRITISH STATESMAN | | | President Roosevelt (By Axsocinted Press) H TALLAHASSEE, May 26.—} Senate passed House Bill 1599, creating new municipality of Key | cers in charge of rescue work at the scene of ithe i West, as set forth in the recently | Squalus disaster. ‘ | sauamatieouaue Cian) Mrsigi@bMise St Pavenenace jed in cn pup ane today ee | (Friday) in Collier’s day concluded -gotiations yeconeluded snesotahons) i title “War Now or Never”, were the purchase of three fine water- front lots on the eastern end of Mr. Churchill's views, express- | under the | j cabled to the magazine in Te- | | the Island of Key West, adjoining the radio control station of the United States Navy. sponse to a radio-telephone in-| jquiry from William . Chenery, the editor, and are based on aj |thorough analysis of the many No Evidence That Submarine Accident Was Through Neglect (By Associated Press) PORTSMOUTH. N. H., May 26.; The question of raising the ape the’ submarine now’ engages the , Navy’s experts. Apparently the sunken submarine Squalus for! bodies of the victims will not be; St cage 3 s brought up before the submarine indications of life aboard brings) js raised to the surface which ‘may take “a week or two or! j longer” according to Navy ex- perts. | ' |. One reaction in Congress to the disaster concerns the sug-j gested appropriation of money to! jbuy more diving bells for the! Navy. The one used in this case | performed in excellent style and | |; proves the value of spending | {money for experiment. Each of ; the Navies’ five diving bells cost ; examinations of 1 ' | forth definite information. from ‘divers that the flooded fore and aft sections of the craft were full i of water to the hatches, preclud- jing the possibility that any of the twenty-six men are alive. { | In answer to some statements (being circulated today, the Navy | but $10,000. j officially states that “there is nO. ‘The formal board of inquiry | ' evidence to bear out the belief! will be named today or tomor- | ‘that the mishap was caused by | row by Secretary of the Navy : someone's negligence.” The Navy | Swanson. It is reported further ! also scouted the idea that any-. that widows and relations of the ‘thing deliberate on the part of| victims will receive six month’s | unknown persons caused the dis-; pay with a possibility of pen- j aster. | Sions to come later. ‘ FIRST AID POINTS 'GOVERNOR SIGNS GIVEN BY COUNTY | TWO BILLS FOR NURSE LAST NIGHT, MONROE COUNTY | _ENTHUSIASTIC STUDENTS AS- :ONE DEALS WITH KILLING SEMBLED AT FIRE STATION! OF DEER: OTHER PERTAINS Formerly, Mr. and Mrs. Vecker | factors involved. In opinions, Mr. present Fi weaker neigh- | | explaining | NO. 1 TO HEAR MRS. MAR- TO ZONING OPERATIONS Churchill | why Herr} Hitler has been able to overawe j ‘rance and England while he has | Mr. Vecker is the gen-' been breaking his treaties andj jbors is the fears—or perhaps it} ‘im- | i The Brit- | the fire was quickly extinguish- ed. No damage was inflicted on ‘much to.say that by 1940 the British air force and the British nation will feel a great measure | IN KEY WEST GARETE SMOCK 1 Enthusiastic students of the} a eS : : é TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 26. principles of First Aid, assembled ; ‘ at Number 1 First Station, heard ;—-Governor Cone today signed the salient points of the work ex-! House Bill 1339, which was in- pressed in detailed form by Mrs. Fog i by Ri ntative B. C. Margarete Smock, registered | nurse at the Monroe County, Papy. to prohibit the killing of Clinic. | Virginia deer in Monroe county. The instructor explained that the governor also signed House jthis and future instructions to be, 5 P jgiven to classes was in no man- Bill 1363, providing zoning regu- ner connected with her work at i adi: Ithe ‘clinic, but she believed that: ‘Hons for Key West, building. jevery person who could find-the This was also introduced by Mr. jopportuniyt to be instructed in} tne principles of First Aid should! igrasp the opportunity. } =e Mrs. Smock explained to The; Bill 1339 was published in The Citizen that she was enthusiastic’ Cjtizen of March 30, and provided {about the work and it gave her that it would be unlawful for jgreat pleasure to impart to earn-) : jest students the knowledge she|@"Y Person at any time i one ‘had gained! through her studies | injure, kill or be in possession of j {and experience, and she expected: any deer, male or female, of the a larger class at the next course | Species of Virginia deer, common- of instruction, which will be giv-|ly known as the Key deer, except en next Friday night at 7 o'clock; they be taken for propagation or lat the fire station. scientific purposes. The class of last night was| Bill 1363 appeared in The Citi- composed of 24 employes of the!zen of April 21, signed by John Fire Department, Police Depart-| 4» Long. and provided for the } Electric | Passage of a special bill granting {Company, members of the U. s, |and conferring to the city coun- |Customs Service and others. jcil of Key West, and the City of Attending were: Harry M. Bak-|Key West, Florida. a municipal Papy. | ' tment, Gas Company, Key West, Florida, has the, most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | PRICE FIVE CENTS Plan Project For Rehabilitation OfSpongeBedsAround Key West ToGiveOperatives Employment LOCAL UNIT OF HOME SOCIETY 1S ORGANIZED MARCUS FAGG, STATE SUPER- INTENDENT, GAVE OUTLINE} OF WORK AT MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT The organization meeting of; the Monroe County Sponsoring Committee of the Children’s Home Society of Florida held at the La Concha Hotel last night, resulted in the formation of a permanent organization. Marcus Fagg, state superin- tendent of the society, outlined to the committee the purposes in organizing the Sponsoring Com- mittee. He gave a brief report on how the Society was first; formed, the work it and its future plans. These committees has done in the state, and the purposes of the committees are as follows: To inform the people of Florida; of the great State-wide work for are being; formed in each of the 67 counties | 7 } Lkehekehakakeaeadl Congressman Pat Cannon |KEY WEST PROJECT | IS GIVEN APPROVAL. Sends Letter To Chester ; Thompson Outlining Matter The Citizen today received a telegram from Senator Claude Pepper at Washing- fon relative to a new project for Key West being approv- ed. The wire siates: “It is indeed a pleasure to advise that WPA project No. 31054 has been approved by the President for an amount of $5,041. This project is to improve the grounds and renovate ward 6 at the U. S. Marine Hospital. It is now eligible for operation at the discretion of the state admin- _ blight in this section, which was istrator”. | | i | i { Extremely assuring tc th ‘sponge fishermen of Key West is a leiter from Congressman Pat :Cannon received yesterday by | Chester Thompson, in which was | enclosed a letter from the Bureau | of Fisheries relative to the sponge jsent to Mr. Cannon by Acting PLD I IMM MS 4! Commissioner Charles E. Jack- COUNCIL AIRS CITY CHARTER The letter to Congressman Can- non is in réply to one sent to the Bureau of Fisheries _and j follows: | {| “In reply VARIOUS PROVISIONS TAKEN | |May 11th regarding the situation UP FOR DISCUSSION lin Monroe county, Florida, you LAST NIGHT i are advised that a survey made | is as to your letter of The City Council met in spe- (cial session last night for the by this Bureau showed a consid- jerable mortality of sponges in the Florida and Biscayne Bays. Data collected by Dr. Paul S. Galtsoff. Florida’s homeless, orphan and; purpose of discussing matters who was detailed to make inves needy children, serving every placeable child that should be ceive aid and care. People learn- ing of the perfectly and won- derful worthwhile servite being rendered to the’needy children of the entire state, will want to become partners with the Society in rendering this service. Con- stant need of good homes for homeless children, of funds to carry on the work of providing food and clothing for the Family of hundreds of destitute children. Miss Minna Robertson, dis- trict superintendent of the Sout! eastern Branch; located at Mi- ami, gave a short talk on what the Society does. It is a child placing agency and receives nor- mal and placeable children who |have lost their home and parents permanently, or children who should be removed from their homes permanently by court pro- cedure because of neglect, abuse, | immorality, and like reasons. No children are received, or placed, where there is a definite history of feeble mindedness, epilepsy or insanity. The committee adopted as its! quota for the year the sum of $260, which it was pointed out would be sufficient to take care Big! more, Md. LONDON, May Britain is considering amended city charter, which was, “OOM LD) I LI LS PMA; NEW YORK, May 26.—Bar- presented to the House by Rep- | ‘ring some drastic and unexpected Bese a : 'VECKERS PURCHASE ‘change, Chancellor Hitler will re ee ORE ene Dee {consider it in his interest to force on Tuesday, May 23. ‘WATERFRONT LOTS: general European war during : epee i {the present year, in the opinion Notice of the intention to pre- | a | i: i sent this bill was published in| | St ennod pp Couschill stamous The Citizen of March 25, and | PROPERTY ADJOINS RADIO | British statesman, who adds, a signed by the Key West; CONTROL STATION ON [bowever, that if this year passes arter Revision Committee. i i without war, the chances for con- When presented to the House EASTERN SIDE | tinued peace are excellent. for action on May 23, there had | been several changes made, two! i of which were considered very material. In the original char- ter one of the items fixed the emoluments of the city council at $1 annually. This was amend- ed to read $250 annually. The other pertinent amend- ment provides that the chief of the Key West Fire Department be elected by the members of | : ‘ | the Volunteer Fire Department | lived in Key West, which is Mrs. | tis. and appointed by the mayor, and | Vecker’s home, but several years Writes: not appointed by the mayor and ago they moved to Raleigh, N. C.,!_.£he main reason = evi service ard as provided where they have their mi timemice home. jeral sales manager for the North overrunning his | During the years since their would be truer to say the uncer- ‘realized, he has frequently said, Oh, = the: are: abouts caer a jthat Key West was the place for nie add ae werse cleat a ue Two alleged offenders against | his home La the evening of iain navyetaut thejeinibeloage £6 the law regard g licenses for ile was comin; on an ie jome tis re ss « ry r jus-| When he has retired and will be aE of Franklin Arenberg, peace jus-| “ | “Both the British and French tice, tt answer the regular winter home of the: S. eae a. ss moose Sdaeg answer | family nhl thet tise. ; Sovernments, through ther in - O hee ot q . be eeperel re compre ee in Ps withou' @ prope! pense. ; veloping air power and air de- First called was Milton Falco, FIRE LAST EVENIN tensive measures, were particu- who pleaded guilty anfl was Oe larly sensitive lest they be ex- placed under $50 bond to appear 3 posed on this score, but a more at 54 ge ae ot Ry robust feeling reac STOWE Lon cour nm a similar charge Wil-, {both sides of the channel. e liam Schoneck entered a plea of | Crees {French military authorities are guilty and was also placed un-! Burning equipment, in connec- | inclined to view air attack as only cer bond of $50 for the next term 'tion with the electric refrigerat-|a somewhat less efficient and ef criminal court. jing plant in the grocery store of more widely ranging form of ar- “ROSIE EE ‘Charles Tift on Division street, | tillery bombardment. it YANKEE CLIPPER | ccesststea 22 starm of tire te- ist are conscious of very rapid | ing sounded from Box 331 at 9:30, increases in strength and _ effi- 7 jlast night. ciency; already the British air NEARS TRIP § END: When the apparatus responded , force is far stronger than in Sep- jand the natare of’ the fire was tember and all the arrangements ‘discovered, Chief Baker instruct-!for enduring air attacks have NEW YORE. "May 26. ‘The .°2 that the foamite be, used and{advanced. It is not perhaps too Yankee Clipper arrived at Horta’ eos ‘store or stock, but ‘the electrical b this morning on the last half of | motor was ruined, it was said. |of confidence so far as the pee 2 ERR a cities | On.the Trun_to the fire last | fense of the British Isles is con- inight, the gas tank cap off the cerned. and this country, last | fire engine was lost, and Chief! ne may say, Catania sis - ;. Baker requests that in case any- {a year’s improvement in the Ger- = eernigg trams s Balt) ne finds same, that they return|man army will be more than iit to the No. 1 Fire Station. overmatched by a year’s improve- Y ment in the British air force. It > a a “~~ | seems difficult to believe that e (Herr Hitler and Field Marshal England To Move Against: (o"s.r=i> sve" the blackmailing squeeze of air 9 terror gradually melt in their hands. This reflection seems to { Japan’s Coast Blockade '::*..'% scsiz.se | “To sum up the argument, it SUSE ES iseems that unless some change (By Asscciated Press) , ‘of heart or change of regime takes 26.—Great | gulfed by the Nipponese in a gen- | place in Germany in the near fu- reprisals ign influence from the Far East. terest to make war, and this is against Japan's virtually complete | eens is oe ee more likely to occur in the pres- A ;, anese ambassadors to 'y andjent year than later on. The blockade of the Chinese coast in |Germany have expressed “great | summer and autumn months must the form of Naval escorts to sol pen eariece with their Sone a period of intense strain and i . jtrys hesitancy in joining € | anxiety to all countries”. ships flying the Union Jack. Be-|Rome-Berlin axis. Thd threat-| JSS SSE SEES Sins ic action is taken, how- jened resignations of these am-} SMOKE MELTS SNOW .. | bassadors may precipitate a crisis} a ever. the Foreign office will await s the Foreign Relations setup in| OGDEN, Utah — Farmers be- c . japan. | lieve they have solved the mys- advice of United States reaction” Russia seems closer to union | tery of why snow in this city to the blockade as the two coun- pean eosin #8 France each | melts days earlier than it does in : |day as advice from this capital/the surrounding country. They tries have usually worked hand indicates a closing up of all gaps/ attribute it to the warmth of im hand on any territorial expan- jof misunderstandings and differ- | smoke hanging over the city jences on alliance matters. j area. sion aims of the Japanese. —— ~ 3 | NOTICE K.W.H.S. ALUMNI de-j eral move to eliminate all for-'ture she will deem it in her in-! Other serious rumblings in the Orient have to do with the alleg-; ed_stirring up of trouble in Tient- | sin by the Japanese. presumably | as a forerunner of seizure of the! foreign settlement at that point.! DANCE and BANQUET to be held THURSDAY, JUNE Ist has been to RAINBOW DINING ROOM— LA CONCHA HOTEL If this move develops, it is said| Final Date For Dues ca that other settlements will be en-! Tuesday, May 30 jem Edward R. Johnson, W. G./Corporation, additional powers !Goss, Benjamin L. Erickson, Leo. | Others than those contained in the jnard A. Curry, H. Darnell Carey, City charter, allowing and au- Donald Cormack, Bert Baker, | thorizing the city council to zone Henry Johnson, George O. Lucas, the City of Key West, Florida. Paul L. Mesa, E. A. Lunderville, Jack Perez, Ernest Perez, Darnell ‘Pinder, Octavio Recio Everett R. | Rivas, Charles Salas, Earl Sands, : Louis Solano, G. J. Stricker, Basil | \Tynes, F. W. Whitmarsh and |James G. Wells. (CONGRESS TO VOT ‘ON TOWNSEND BILL <>" | f | Detroit (Hy Associated Prens) | Galveston WASHINGTON, May 26.—The | Huron) Jacksonville House Rules Committee has giv- | Kansas City jen the ‘right-of-way to the | ttle Rock Townsend Bill, which will bring it to vote in the next day or two. } TEMPERATURES eane eeseececooseses Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 hours Abilene 66 Atlanta Boston _ Buffalo Charleston 66 58 60 _ 74 . 64 _ 46 ———- _ 54 { 62 H 74 - 68 75 68 64 68 {Los Angeles | Louisville ; _ Miami | Leaders state that there is no|Mpls.-St. P. _ chance of the Bill passing, the | NCW Orleans - jManeuver being taken to “smoke Pensacola z j jSt. Louis _ out” legislators who have re-|Sait Lake City mained in the dark on their pen- bias: tho in % sion beliefs. Williston __. 50 SANESSEE HE Nice Lot Of Just Received Strunk Lumber Yard 816 of one child for one year in the receiving home. Officers of the permanent or- ganization in Key West are: Rev. John C. Gekeler, president; Wil- liam V. Little, first vice presi- dent; Mrs. Howard Wilson, second vice president; Allan Armstrong, third vice president; Ernest A. Ramsey, recording sec- lretary; Miss Florence E. Sawyer, | corresponding secretary; Joe Pearlman, treasurer. Those attending the meeting were Superintendent Fagg, Miss Minna Robertson, Rev. John C. Gekeler, Rev. Joe A. Tolle, Dr.} William R. Warren, } and Mrs. William V. Little, William W. Demeritt, Mrs. Stephen W. Douglass, Ernest A. Ramsey, Charles E. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Willard M. Albury, Mrs. Howard E. Wilson, Mrs. Grace B. Phillips, Miss Florence E. Sawyer, Mrs. W. P. Archer and Joe Pearlman. FINISHES LONG JOB | SOUTH PASADENA, Calif — Charles C. Reynolds did inlaid woodwork for years, and when; he started his most ambitious work, a-directors table, he de- cided to count the pieces used. | It took him six years to finish it, and the wood used consisted of | 1,110,000 pieces. WANTED Automobile Salesman Apply in writing only. to INAVARRO, Inc. jrelative to the new city charter. | One of the main provisions | taken up was that relative to the | Board of Pupne » works,--which | would be abolished according to |the .new setup. The council would take over the duties of |the public works board under |the charter, and the matter of | fixing the proper levy of millage for taking care of the work now carried on by that department | was one of the issues involved. | In fact the whole discussion ‘centered on the method to be adopted in financing the various departments under the new char- ; ter provisions. The discussion was entered in- j to by the councilmen and many of those in the audience, but after going over the matter thor- oughly, there was no definite conclusion reached, and without any action whatever being taken in the matter, the meeting was j ordered adjourned. Editor, The Citizén: The street is full of rumors about the special meeting of the city council Thursday evening and to keep the public properly informed it might be well to re- view the situation. The council meeting was called for the pur- pose of considering a proposed charter that had been public property and on file in the city hall for some time; at the time the meeting was called, the char- ter had already passed the House. A member of the coun- cil, Mr. Doughtry communicated by phone with a member of the Charter Revision Committee and | asked that members thereof be present; as many as could be re- | cruited at the late hour, were there at the city hall. A discus- sion was had on four or five points and from time to time members were asked for infor- mation, which was supplied. The council’s position on these points were proper and apparently their objections were well taken, ‘but unfortunately no remedies |were suggested — the sections | were criti but means for correction were not discussed or given. Accordingly such mem- {bers of the Charter Revision Committee, as were available, tigation, showed almost complete destruction of Yellow and Grass ‘sponges and about 70 percent mortality of the valuable Wool Tspohges. “The report of this investiga- tion is now being prepared and will be used for outlining a proj- ect of rehabilitation and conser- vation of sponge beds in Key West, which will give employ- |ment to the sponge fishermen {who have lost their means of livelihood”. 43 In Congressman Cannon's let- ter is shown that the receipt of the foregoing letter was gratify- ing to him and: the fact that it is proposed ‘by'the Bureau of Fish eries to employ the sponge fish- ermen of Key West in the reha- bilitation plan “will be good news to you and your colleagues”. The letter closes with the as- sertion that “I am very happy to have been of this assistance to j you”. Explains Status Of Council Nectng Concming Chat | known that several members of the city council are on the Char- ter Revision Committee and at- tended meetings, but prior to last night neither they nor any one else have ever brought to the. committee's attention any measures that seemed undesir- able, except the provisions tel- ative to the fire department, and which were changed. And re+ member please that the proposed charter has been on public view for two weeks or so. Also, the work of the Charter Revision Committee, which consists of 40 or more representative citizens, has extended over many months, has been in open forum to which the public have been frequently invited through articles pub- lished in your paper. With these statements of fact the public should be able -to draw their own conclusions, of whatever nature. A really careful consideration of the matter will lead most per- sons to agree that the functions of the city can better be per- formed under a new method of procedure—a new charter. Very truly, OBSERVER. | worked late that night in an ef- fort to make all the sections that | were criticized—(4 or 5 in all, | out of some 70 or 80) more in ac- ideas and apparently have suc- ‘cordance with the councilmen’s} Ahern Funeral Home Aero-Car Ambulance Service “Air Cooled” AMBULANCE SERVICE Miami, Fla.