The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 1, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1939 How Submarine Will Be Raised From 40 Fathom (Special to The Citizen) By FRANK W. LOVERING PRICE FIVE CENTS Townsend Old Age Pension : Bill Voted Down In House Ss! Forty Building And Repair Poppe tesa Seiee Hey Total Amount Expended| "SPO OOM OOM, | ~ |GROUP. WORKING IN INTEREST OF CULTURAL UNITS| } | During Period Kecesded |“ eaueees ust START MOVE TO HAVE KEY WESTERS SEND LETTERS! TO REPRESENTATIVES IN, PORTSMOUTH, N. H., June 1. |The sunken submarine Squalus will not be raised to the surface ‘FDR TO CONFER "BEOOODO LA. eierted By Vote Of 302 RAINFALL SLIGHTLY | +, 96. Efforts Were Seventeen Thousand) Dollars | During the month of May, 1939, there were issued from the office of building inspector Harry M. Baker, 40 building and repair; permits, which come to a total of! $17,600. Issues for the last week of the month were as follows: Construct private garage at the! corner of Angela and Ashe streets. Owner, Harold Thomp- son; cost, $100. General repairs and paint 608; Duval street. Owner, Joe Pearl- man; cost, $50. Repairs to doors at 422 Petronia street. Ownet, Robert Lewis Es-| tate; cost, $100. Building frame 1'-story struc- ture on Parsons street. Owner, Victor Watkins; cost, $1,000. Paint 816 Fleming street, two- story residence. Owner, Albert Sweeting; cost, $200. “DON'T RATE” | (By Aunoctated Presx) WASHINGTON, June 1.— Past members of Congress today heard that “they don't rate anything when royalty comes to town”. The Congressional commit- tee in charge of arrange- ments for the reception for the King and Queen of Eng- land to be held next week, has announced that there will be no room on the reception list for ex-members of Con- gress. Only those now in Congress will be admitted, as well as thirty newspaper correspondents. Ladue ade de ded de) LANDON HEARD IN SPEECH LAST NIGHT, | directly above where she lies in |40 fathoms 15 miles southeast of the Naval Station here. ‘ By a change in the ‘salvage Edwin Trevor, president of the plans the death craft, in which H i! 26 men are entombed in the oes ey ae Cen-. creer compartments, will be first er Corporation, ‘1s., calling OM raised and suspended in the sea Citizens of Key West to get busy through the use of pontoons to a sending letters to Pat Cannon, ‘height of possibly 150 feet, and representative of Florida, District then will be towed toward the z, ;naval station till she strikes 4; Claude Pepper, senator, and c.) Shallower bottom. io. Andrews, senator, in Washing- | If the plan shall proceed suc- {ton, relative to the WPA Appro- cessfully that far, the pontoons priations Bill, now before Con-/will be sunk taut at a new and gress, which excludes all cul-'lesser depth and the sub raised jwural projects. .from that location and towed | Mr. Trevor points out that the still further toward shore. Sev- Community Art Center in Key,eral miles of gradually rising West, which has required great ocean floor will thus be passed efforts to bring to life and vital-!and salvage work will be much lity, is threatened by the with-;less dangerous than under the |arawal of government funds and | plan first proposed, which was to {support on June 30. He feels that! bring the Squalus straight up to this project is one which will the surface and then tow her to | prove of permanent value to Key , Portsmouth. 5 West, and that in time it will! This is the most complicated lead to a form of community , underseas rescue operation ever WASHINGTON. Paint 824 Fleming street, two-| PREDICTS VICTORY FOR RE- story residence. Owner, W. A. Johnson Estate; cost, $250. | ee Paint 628 White street, resi-! 1940 dence. Owner, Jack Gaiti; cost, | SPECIAL RULES T0 (ty Axnoctated , BUFFALO, Ju 1—Alf M. jLandon, Republican candidate | for the Presidency in 1936, spoke! here last evening, expressing his} center work, which, as in other Florida cities, will be a most im- portant attraction to winter visi- tors. He declares it is vital there be no delay in the dispatch of the letters emphasizing the work which has been done, the value to the community and the loss ‘attempted in the history of the {world, and by it the tremendous j handicap of underwater pressure, figured at 109 to the square inch, | will be overcome. So great is this pressure that naval men say : solid logs would be ‘squeezed into j wood pulp down there 240 feet where the Squalus lies. First Shift Two Miles bow. These pontoons will be_ lowed. to possibly 150 feet from! WITH LEADING the surface and rigged there. | LESS THAN NORMAL Rainfall during the month of May 1939 fell just a trifle short of the normal precipi- tation for the month, accord- ing to the Monthly Meteor- ological Summaty issued for the month just ended by the weather bureau. Rainfall was 2.71 inches, normal is 3.54 inches. Hottest day of the month ‘was recorded on May 9 when the thermometer registered 89 degrees. Coolest day was on May 1 when the ther- mometer showed 81 degrees. Prevailing direction of the wind was from the east and the average hourly velocity was 9.6 miles. Hardest blow recorded at the bureau for The negative buoyancy will be removed and compressed air will; be pumped in. Then the sub- | marine’ is expected to pull away} from the opposing suction and MEETING WILL BE HELD dee; th ir | ate the surface. "| AROUND DINNER TABLE IF drums seek the surface. cs Tugs Will Tow Wreck PRESIDENT’S COLD WILL PERMIT Suspended then in mid-depth. | tugs will drag the Squalus un-| der water till she strikes a shal-} i lower bottom’ when the _opera-} tion may be repeated, possibly } (By Associated Press) | two times, Capt. Edwards says. | WASHINGTON, June 1—) He further explained that he President Roosevelt will meet) could not estimate how long the , with some of the country’s lead- | work would require, anti while ‘ing industrialists tonight at the fully aware of the difficulties of White House. | the new plan, this plan eliminates} Depending upon whether his| the danger of the death-trap ris-- cold will permit. the meeting will | ing one end first. The captain be held around a dinner table at said “it would be fatal to get the the White House. ship up too fast.” Otherwise, the President will, {He month since 1671. was on Tunnels probably will have to’ meet with the industrialists fol- | May 2,.1937, when the velo- be excavated aft through the. lowing their eacal, ee | city was 43 miles and from “compacted clay mud. This work, ‘The Secretary of Commerce, the northeast, - can be accomplished with the’ Hopkins, i: the! use of compressed air and an im- eee we plats cpmeaiae Some | OM LI MI IT I I DI AT 4 proved type of fire nozzle. If| forth as to the exact nature of the| done, it will be one of the most: giscussions. | dangerous phases of the salvage ; . 1 work. for the heroic divers. | | . It is ‘possible one or more ANNOUNCE DEATH IN WPA RANKS divers may be put inside the | Squalus during the underwater} : OF i ae changes in position of the wreck, | le | rae a Be ike but.this will not be done unless; 3. Asapemel, ead [Sbooltely necessary. If the! eke | WASHINGTON, June 1—A KEEP SPIES AWAY (My Annociated Press) WASHINGTON, June 1.—By executive order, special rules now apply to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Navy base. | No ships will be permitted to! enter the harbor except by spe- his assertion made last year, that; cial permission. 5 m nis }any curtailment of funds would belief that the Republicans will; mean, Mr. Trevor believes that a win the 1940 election, no matter | jarge number of letters from in- Capt. R. S. Edwards, com-|struts. of the Sualus’ propeller | manding U. S. Submarine squad- ean be used for rigging the pon- WAS REGULAR VISITOR TO | complete shake-up in the WPA KEY WEST: RESIDES IN /i5 Scheduled, according to com- who is nominated. He was silent on the subject lterested persons in the city wil y. TON No. 2, expects the first shift toons aft that may be done, andj _ mittee action Heuse PORT JERVIS, N. Y. | nee * Made To Present New Measure | | | | | | (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 1. |—The Townsend Old-Age | Pension Bill was crushed by |an overwhelming vote in the | House today, 302 to 96. Just before the final vote, loud chorus | squelched an effort by Rep- ja of noes jresentative Treadway (Re- publican of Massachusetts) |to send the bill back to the | committee. Treadway, ranking Re- publican on the ways and Ventas committee, proposed that the legislation be re- | turned to that group with ‘the view to bringing forth a bill that would provide “just and equitable pensions” for ihave the: desised-effect in ‘Wash-:i2 position of the Squalus will be will save much tunnelling. ‘Representatives, renotied to be elderly persons” on a pay- |of who will be the GOP aspirant. | ington. jabout two miles generally due! Lieut. Com. Charles B. Mom- warding off questions about the| “ North toward Isles of Shoals. sen, inventor of the “lung” for {New York Sinte favorite Mry Trevor, aaee she: caress Changes in the plans first deter- | escape from submarines, which an aired for public approval in the Telegrams received this morn- | near future. ing from Port Jervis, N. Y., by; > Vanderberg. Landon reiterated, howeve: he would not be a candidate. Excellent Progra Put On Last Evening At Chis Day Exercises Class Day Exercises of the Key West High School were held in the auditorium of the school last night before a record audience. The auditorium seats 574 and it was packed with the lobby filled to overflowing and every window on either side of the building crowded with friends of the class members. The entertainment opened with an overture by the High School Orchestra and was followed by the Salutatory, which was de- livered by Mario Napoles, with officers and members of the crew of the Good Ship, and the passen- gers, all at their posts, on the stage which was dressed as a ship under way. Crew and pas- sengers were composed of the graduating class of 63 students. Log of the ship, which was the class history, was read by Mar- garet Bernal, and during the reading the highlights of the students were depicted by the members of the class who were shown at their several tasks and courses of study. Shooting the Stars, the “class prophecy, was a very entertain- ing part of the program and was in the hands of Dorothea Stricker, and her outlining of what the future held in store for her class- mates, were at times interesting and replete with humorous sug- gestions. Last will and testament was read by Phyllis Adams, and the opening of the sea chest was an event, and in the distribution of the various gifts brought cheers and laughter from the audience as the awards were handed to the members of the graduating class. On each gift was a bit of verse which was read as the! The Senior Class presented to the school the 1939 edition of the “Conch” and a splendid set of for the ref- . son, and prompt attention te sending aimed at keeping out all spy ac-| John Dewey. and the leading | these letters for the sake of ‘tivities in this important U. 8. jcandidate at present, Senator, Two minéd upon to. “scissor” the sub- ;Marine to the surface by alter- nately raising bow and stern, and ,then towing her to port, were ‘shifted when divers early this week that the Squalus in her death dive plunged about |20 feet of her after end into: blue clay mud. By the new program of salvage it will be necessary, the naval appier and more prosperous Key He suggests that points to ;be stressed in the letters are: The Art Center opened to the | public on July 3, 1938. The Fed- jeral Art Project gtanted the al- j location of the Center at the urg- | ent request of a large, group of} \ citizens, who realized the isolat-* ed location of the community | {and felt the need of their fellow citizens for cultural uplift through’ jthe fine arts, which had been’ {denied them and which could be four pontoons above the after end—possibly - where exposed aboVe the mud—and two’ to the reported | authorities assert, only to bind, i proyed out in the warm and Vanaliow® waters of Key West 10, | years ago, but was not used be- cause of conditions surrounding the loss of the Squalus would not make a statement as to how long the salvage of the Squalus , might require. Com. Momsen is one of the navy’s most experi- enced divers and salvage men.) “Nothing like this ever has been, attempted before,” he said. “We- have no precedents. The weather will have very much to do with; it.” +A considerable. . and Mrs. Clarence Thomp-".— aa ae |son, conveyed the news of the | *alaties and numbers in the ‘death of °J. Northrup who with ‘ollar classifications is his family, left the city weeks ago for their home Port Jervis. Shortly after their leaving the | Thompson’s were advised the Northrup’s had arrived safely; after their long trip, and were. much surprised to receive noti- fication today of Mr. Northrup’s death. ~ i The family had been. visiting ‘whit- being two; planned and other. efforts to cut at | down the total roll will be under- laken, | Key West ‘for several years.‘ Mr. | ---+---~-—— {Northrup was a sufferer. from /@ ~-you-go basis.” ALL THIRTEENS NEW YORK — Superstitution ; was defied by 13 New Yorkers who organized a 13 club at 13 | West 13th street on the 13th of jthe month. i | Sitting In With The Lawmakers :* By GILBERT D. LEACH Florida News Service made possible by a Federal Art arthritis in its most painful form, | Center and program. erence set and stated it would be|“‘in responce to the call for! placed in the library where it~, i le * it“ sponsorship, the city responded! would prove of immense benefit iwith a city-owned building, and bs pupils of the Key West High ‘ytilities, substantial _subscrip- sbi on ems “4 ears to come. 'tions of money by the County ir. O'Bryant then presented | Commissioners, Senior and Junior cenes In Legisiature g Time Approaches Bisy § to Anita Berkowitz, the class Woman’s Clubs, Rotary Club, Bercy: | And this is the time those Leg- ve ace He. bps "py | islators who promised the voters his, wife and a daughter, Miss | they would give them everything ! Olie Northrup. " |they wanted but wouldn’t in- ; jcrease their taxes, came mighty | {near carrying out their promises. STEAMER CUBA | Right up to the final week of the session nobody’s taxes had_ frankly with questions that are jarising and tells how he feels and invites the folks back home to let him know if they think he jis off the track. More of this ‘kind of representation would not hurt Florida. With three sessions a day in As Casi valedictorian, a book given by ‘Lions Club, Stone Church Service j been increased but appropriation both Senate and ‘House, nobody is the P.T.A., to the senior girl with the highest scholastic aver- age. To Anita also went a cer- tificate stating that she was to receive a year’s subscription to a diged é This ‘award | many individuals, who later be. the Readers Digest. is given to the valedictorian of each senior class. To Mario Napoles was pre- sented a book, the P.T.A. award to the senior boy with the high- est scholastic average. The Bausch and Lomb Science award also went to Mario for the highest average in science. This award is open to those seniors who have had three or more years of science. Bonnie Mae Watkins received a bronze key which is presented | Club, Garden Club, Parent-Teach- lers Associations and many other civic organizations and |Sehate Was Today Consid- READY 10 CONSIDER: COMES TO POR bills, general and specific, had promised many millions of new dollars to various interests. having time for much whoopee and if they had time time they jwouldn’t have the inclination. There were subscriptions ‘came members in the corporation ; which now directs the sponsoring ‘of the Art Center. | VESSEL MAKES FIRST TRIP HERE SINCE TAKEN OFF RUN FIVE WEEKS AGO About the time you read this, It’s a “wore-out” bunch. Only a | the members will be in the throes few young fellows like Uncle Joe lof those awful pains which pre-'Peeples still have their spizzer- j¢ede the bringing into being of inctum. Fuller Warren hasn't a new life. And an entire,State lost his pep, even if he did slip |TWELVE DAYS OLD; TWEN- by} Pill That Has Found Its! "The Center is already a force) Way To Floor ,in the community: The value to : j TY-EIGHT CITATIONS ithe city through the encourage- H AGAINST FACTORY iment of creative power and the (ity Annocinted Press) | (greater appreciation of art in re-| TALLAHASSEE, June 1.—The| : lation to everyday life cannot be Senate today is considering the! ww: 4 ¥ Andociated Press) A ata cais vine commun’ |third Sales Tax Bill that has DETROIT. ithreshold of new birth through a come on the floor. The other old strike at Briggs Automobile ‘difficult rehabilitation program. jtwo Proposals were turned down. | Body Factory in this city is sched- ‘Any curtailment of government Proponents of the bill state that ;wled to receive serious attention June 1,—The 12-day, ‘| After having been taken off|Stands around the couch await-.off and get married to his law {the run for five weeks while go- | ing the event. Whatever it is, it partner over the weekend, and ing on drydock, the Steamship | Will not be a blessed event, but every once in a while he adds a {Cuba, of the P. and O. S. S. Co., | the” Legislators themselves dread ‘little zest to the proceedings, \arrived this morning from Tampa | it most of all. {mixing horse sense and humor resuming her schedule between| | still haven’t changed my mind in homeopathic doses. Senator the ports of Tampa, Key West about the solution—transaction Mapoles isn’t as full of fight as and Havana. {tax—but I hope I'll look foolish* he was earlier in the session and The vessel's passenger list car-| When this gets in print. Anyway, : the galleries miss his homely but tried the names of 57 passengers, |? few more days and the agony ‘adroit quips. Senator Stuart each year to the winner of the.{unds at this time for the Art it is necessary to provide the today by Federal Conciliator J. F. \Balfour award. This is the high-;Center would mean an irrepar- est award in the power of the: able loss to the community, not; revenue that their act will fur- | Dewey. who is on the scene to ad- }five of whom were for Key West | will be over. fand 52 booked for Havana. Key| In these closing days of a hec- West arrivals were: F. A. Del-| tic. session, it is well to look back gado, Wm. Johansen, Ned Berri-|@nd congratulate ourselves upon as yet financially able to carry | ish in order to balance the state | jucate grievances of the workers. the better feeling that has exist- | bronze plague which hangs class to bestow. It is given by! the vote of the senior class and. is awarded to the classmate who} in their estimation has the high-{ est measure of scholarship, loyalty on the educational Arts program. ‘budget, already strained with| Twenty-eight citations against {bill being considered today will!8nd Mr. Dewey will judge the and achievement. The name of; merits of all counts. turning in ; x i Provide $12,000,000 annually, ! the winner is engraved on a atk phe cue ee this verdict The principal went on to ex-! ‘passed on to the consumer. \to appeal decision made plain that some awards, such PY agente eae, pen eGo Litérally hundreds of general nS eae: however, tollow. | the D.A.R. medal and the Student TO LABORATORY AT as closing time session cision of the Federal representa- |Spproaches a mid-/ tive will stand as tendered. . night deadline, at which ‘ollowing acceptance be rewarded properly, for tere| Yacht Anton Dohrn, vessel at-| time it is expected that both | alescone once were a number in the class who tached to the Carnegie Labdra-} houses will end all business, al- |through hard work, faithfulness! tory, left this morning for Log-|though the clock will probably and general dependability bad | gexhead, Key where the labora-|be stopped at a minute or i —————_———_ i by this | the company have been posted by YACHT ANTON Pa | tonight. in | Under terms of the NLRB, the | Council Medals had already been LODGMEAD ar numerous session of the Legislature. The| the labor side of the controversy the entrance hall of the school. | retail business which will be, dor be {presented to the winners, He} said that it was his regret that; all who did good work could not of new contracts which are re- made pissible the success of the tory in this section is located. On| before midnight to |¥ear’s program for the class. He!board the yacht was a. group of | minute legislation commended them for their ef-! scientists from institutions in the! Texte in Sheed thems sieeenes ene States, who will carry on |——— |ing terms for their part in the biological studies. general success of the class. | Captan Mills, in command of: BIG DANCE | . Following the presentation of, the vessel, said he expects that!{ Tomorrow Night, 9 till ? MARATHON CAFE Marathon, Fla. ithe honors Miss Berkowitz de-|the next trip of the livered the valedictory, and the|be made in about SS a ee nae Admission to ’s _ entertainment _was'it is expected Satna e pe man, Mrs. J. Opp and Sonja Opp. Listed on the vessel’s manifest {were the following items: For Key West, 32 tons of freight and ‘one sack of mail; for Havana, one automobile and 166 sacks of ed between the Press and the Legislature this session. There has been less “sniping” on the part of the Press of Florida and less “slipping in” legislation on |Gillis, urbane as when the ses- :sion strated, continues to rise ‘and set on both President Turner Butler of the Senate and Speak- er Pierce Wood of the House. Both call for calfrope every once in a while now where they took it standing in the earlier days of the session. | For more than a week McL. mail. There was no freight fot|the part of lawyer-members of Christie has been the big boss of the Cuban port. the Legislature than at any ses- and l8tal bills are passing through |‘ ing past procedure, there is good Sacks of mail and three auto-/ company officials and! _ workers will take up the question j city, The vessel sailed 11 o'clock for|sion we can remember. There Havana with 39 first cabin pas-|has been some of both, but very ;sengers and 12 seconds, sevenjlittle. And the State, the Legis- lature and the Press have bene- | fited. Mr. Holt of Miami intro- |duced a resolution in the House praising the Press in not only —— | BEFORE AND AFTER BELFAST — Lecturing in this| and it met with a vociferous re- Mrs. Sarah Barnes defined {ception on the part of the Rep- resentatives. There is one member of the House—Speaker Pro Tem “Hon- a “liar” as “a woman before she is married” and “a man after he is married.” |flattering, but intelligent, terms | the House. Chairman of the Rules Committee, when the House went under rule he had ,his committeemen spotted about ‘the House, ready to object any !time some member wanted unan- imous consent to departfrom the day’s fixed order. ‘House managed to co! }much time discussing i {—and some not so i measures as did the Se: they went ahead wi! inary courtesy rules. *~ ss Maybe you'd like to know wiiat becomes of bills that are intro- duced and never heard of by the public again. There were nearly 3,000 bills introduced in both houses, over 1800 in the House and over 100 in the Senate. Some (Continued on Page Two)