The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 2, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire ' Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 131. Coun: Hears Complaint About ~ Truckmen: Having Garhage And Trash Without Proper License Many Other Matters Tak-| en Up During Regular THE so UT ew England Pays Tribute [Ray W..Gates And Norman Harris FOR KEY WEST: CALLED OFF PROPOSED ORCHESTRA EN- DUE TO LACK OF SUPPORT IN OTHER CITIES % Fk hh hide hd dl U. S. MILLIONAIRES | NUMBERED 49 IN °37 (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 2.— Music lovers in Key West dem- jonstrated their loyal support of the musical treat that was offer- ed by the Florida Federal Orches- To Heroes W Aboard U. PORTSMOUTH, N. H., -June.2. |. —tThe late"New England Spring- time wove a mourning tapestry with the purple of lilacs and the pink and white or apple blossoms ifor the 26 sailor dead trapped in! the sunken United States sub- 'RNMOST NEW NWSPAPER IN THE » FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1989 » Met Death S. Submarine (Special: fo The’ Citizen) By FRANK W,LOVERING — Hrouene to the surface and the in focusses. its attention aan on the humati- wreckage ithin her smooth steel walls. beg ‘and the sea continued | mighty motion, caring not for the works of man- j ae a Key West, Florida, has the most équable climate in the country; with an average Z EI range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Killed In: Collision This Morning MEMBERS GUESTS OF ROTARY CLUB PRINCIPAL ADDRESS. waAs| Khon . mae MIM. d cident Happened “When MEASURE TO PAY Auto Hit Heavy Truck ALBERTO. CAMERO! On Highway At Stock Is- June 2. csoclntee | and —The House passed Senate (Ry Asnocintea Preah) ‘ALLAHA‘ Elmer Ward paying $674.27 Lives of two young Key Session Of Board Held The number of millionaires in Last Night faigeicnacn | the United States dwindled | from 61 in 1936 to 49 in 1937, according to Internal Revenue Department reports issued to- day. In’ explaining the figures, ed out that the number of taxable persons — increased’ The matter of several truck- men of the cify operating with- out the proper license for hauling | trash and garbage was brought}. before the meeting of the City 7 4 Council in regular session . last! poees icles paid Sight, with a lengthy discussion | than two billion dollars. ensuing. Ve had dh hehe ake dead, The discussion was precipitat- ved following a statement a. MANUF 'ACTURERS Robert J. Lewis, who operat ~ tat WANT CONFIDENCE @ trash and garbage service; that’ there were several persons en- |tra, and are keenly disapppoint- ed to learn that the trip to the | MADE BY REV. TOLLE; imarine Squalus~fifteen miles at Brooklyn In Salute for relief of Alberto Camero, |sea in 40 fathoms, on Tuesday's | {Northern Memorial Day—a~ day southernmost city in the U. S.!¢¢ such confusing memories as ‘has been. cancelled, not for lack lof support: on the: part of Key {West citizens, but solely because other cities. enroute, far’ mote table to sponsor this splendid ‘of- ‘fering, have fallen down on their expected support. In order to “make” Key West, it was necessary to have at least jone other engagement, both going ‘and coming; and because that can ‘not be arranged, Key West is de 'prived of the expected treat. | Every one to whom the sym- phony concert was ‘mentioned has worked enthusiastically to | ymake it possible, Certainly, the \failure to bring. the orchestra jhere is due to no lack‘ of local gaged in the same business who 7 have not obtained the proper li- cense, the amount of which is; $50. Mr. Lewis requested that he be reimbursed the amount of the! license paitl, saying that he felt! that it was not fair to him to al- low the others to operate without the same license. In this connec- tion, Mayor Albury instructed the license inspector to make»an }. investigation of the matter. Purchase Pictures It was ordered that an old col- jection of pictures of fishin Key West waters, which have been made available, be purchase at ‘the price ‘of $15" tobe “displayed at the local-aguarium for the benefit of - visitors, These. pic- tures were taken by a — photo- grapher who was located in Key | ‘West many years. ago. | It was ordered that a donation | of $50 be made to the local Red} Cross Chepter, which is badly in| {music lovers are already endeav- oring to find ways and means to | provide this treat for this music- loving town. TO BE RESTO CALLS ON GOVERNMENT TO HELP BRING BACK PROS- e |. George. Mills White, who has PERITY: DRASTIC TAX RE-' been managing the concert local- vIsi ISSED jly, expresses his regrets and si Te ra | thanks, the committee. members :and others who have worked so (Ry. Asecciatea< Prem) jhard to assure a successful con- “CHICAGO, June 2—The As-|°"* here. sociation of Manufacturers PATROL GROUP convention session here sonar! * in order that a more pronounced | panny PIERCE, NEPHEW OF degree of prosperity may be re-| Cc. SAM_B. CURRY HEADS UNIT turned. | Major points freated in the dis- | {support and some of Key West’s; New England never has known before; least of all the Navy. Yard ,at Kittery, Maine, just across the |Piscataqua River . from Ports- |mouth, N. H. From the great concrete which spans this turbulent river sweeping out of the Maine and} -New Hampshire hills eastward to the sea, hundreds of hands drop- {ped into the swirling tide. on Memorial Day armfuls of lilac; and apple blossoms. The flowers’ spun in the sunlit air as they fell; to the foaming water and swiftly whirled away, turning ‘black as’ ithe growing perspective reduced their colors to tiny indefinable} , Splotches. The ceremony at the — Piscata-, qua bridge is carried out on each} returning Memorial Day, but this} year the decoration week had brought tragedy and broken hearts and’ poignant memories which made the observance one} went’ to: their life’s ending so few| brief days before. 1 Twenty-one Gun Salute _ | At the Naval Station a salute of 21 guns honored the memory of the crew lost with the Squalus. | Those: 38.. who survived. sat stoic-} ally. at: the. services im-theyyard, naval -officers high and. low among them—a brotherhood of the sea mourning:all their * as-1 sociates who had gone ~ before,/: but more especially the mien»: whom a moment had parted for- ; ever the previous Tuesday after- noon. \ Just seven days of salvage \lilacs and apple blossoms which | alone. for the sailor dead in the |" uyesteryears but for the heroes who |" A quarter of a mile from the} RAMSEY GAVE SPEECH OF) spot where the famous rescue ship, Falcon, swung at her moor- | ings, the Cruiser Brooklyn, tem- / porary home’ of rescuers” andj newspaper workers, fired a salute | turned to the work of the hour. ! Com. A. E.. Stone, chaplain at | the Portsmouth Naval — Station, ' referred in his address’ at the: naval cemetery within the yard, ; {te the dead out there at sea.i The gathering piace was at-! This was previous to the salute! of the United States marines and the doleful wail of “taps.” Com. Stone said “it was in the per-| formance of duty—every last} man at his appointed station— that the meh of the Squalus Were cut off from us.” Among ose gathered in mourning many fore black. A few of them, ‘idows and orphans, wept. Lieut. liver F. Naquin,- commander of the. ill-fated submarine, led the Squalus delegation to the ex- excises. Plane Drops Wreaths When the divers had gone back to their task of carrying out the ; navy’s latest salvage plan—to mpve the sunken submafine in- land, under the ‘surface, to shal- lowgr depths than’ the 240:feet in which she. lies—a plane flew Gagesse wdend this wes Salem, Mass: in behalf of the Na- tiénal. House naval affairs com- mittee. ; But ‘the most simple and touch- | ing part of the observance was the tapestried: field of New England ; WELCOME | Bill 1,000 by Senator David | | | i who was suspended from of- Westers were snuffed out in fice as. constable of Monroe ;. County by Governor Dave | Sholte during his adminis. | Members‘: of the graduating | tration in 1935. { fof 21 guns at intervals. of a/class of the Key West Se fe tt fd Ff ay ¢| minute. Then every. man_ re-|Sehool, in atcordance with a cus- tom of some vears. standing, the. guests of the Rotary Club itsduncheori-meeting yesterday in St. Paul’s Parish House. t IS CLARIFIED, 1 | 3 ‘ |MEASURE BECOMES | sion, with scarlet hibiscus, ferns Li erro ted! and would palate | PETITION FOR REFEREN- | Ina few-well chosen words, | DUM IS NOT PRESENTED | President Ernest Ramsey wel-| comed the: graquates. Harry | |an instant early this morn- |ing when the automobile in which they were riding north on Overseas highway struck the side of a heavy truck near Palm Dairy, Stock island; about half a mile from the city limits. The dead are: Ray W. Gates, 24, ‘son of Mr. and Mrs. John “W. Gates, who lived at Angela and Francis streets. Norman Douglas Harris, 30, who lived on a lane be- Knight, president of the class o: ’39, made an excellent response. During the ‘luncheon, those present were entertained with musical selections by members of the class, including a yotal solo by Miss Virgie Key, accompanied by John Robinson, and @ spirited rendition of ‘“El ‘Rancho Grande in Spanish by a sextette compos- ed of Paul Esquinaldo, Orland Esquinaldo, Lionel Cobo, Hector Barroso, Alden Roberts and Dick Hernandez. President Harry Knight then introduced the ‘class members in-| dividual Horace Thompson, metnber of the faculty. -. > The principal address was de- livered by Rev. Joe Tolle, who chose as his subject, “Making the Best of a Bad Mess”! Mr. Tolle explained! this by saying that the together. . with Prof. ryant and Mrs. Chas. class sponsor and ; 5 tween William and. Mar- Di ) Strsenoe iscussing. the Key West _Char- - t st : ter, which was recently passed | 8' » by the Florida Legislature, City; Although the truck, own- \Attorney H. H. Taylor said this|¢d by the Standard Whole- |morning that with the changes,| sale Grocery Company, Mi- | which were made in the bill, he | ami, overturned following jean detetmine no sérious objec- | the collision, neither the jHons that ean be made to the driver, Charles H. McBride, charter as it now stands. inor his companion, H. D. j bine «injured. They were ‘being required number of signatures | 4 » for the petition, which must be | held here as material - wit- nted for election | Resses for appearance be- ‘within the Stipulated 00 Saya he fore a coroner’s jury. ~~ felt that they could be “had if) BOUND TO KEY WEST | there. was; 8. concentrated, effort! h6 ‘truck was bound for Key West at the time of the McBride told | In a communication from’ Tal- lahassee, it is shown that the full accident, Sheriff Karl O. Thompson that he was. driving the ‘text of, the amendment to the} \ charter as offered by Senator El- mer Ward -is: world in which these young peo-| “In Section 74, strike out the|heavily-laden truck and a ple were. entering was in a bad! entire section 74 and insert Sagas the right te of mess and he hoped that they jiew thereof the following: { . et sethcce Mg able to make something} “ ‘Section 74: | This’ act shall] the highway arid) suddenly out of ‘ ‘take effect upon its’! ratification | saw the at ile bearing _ He Urged that they should bear by a majority of the ‘qualified | gown upon him:. McBride in mind these things: to have a ‘ciectors residing: in Key West, het ‘altel! I Pe trie test of greatness; to realize } yonroe County, Florida, voting at said he ‘p as far to the right as he could, but that the car carrying Gates’ and need of funds at this time for|cussions included necessity for | taking care of_a part of its activi-| drastic tax revision, a balanced ties. national budget, a revision of the | An article appeared in a recent’ operatioris which drew tribute }loving hands, inspired by griev- ‘issue of the Homestead News from all the world, had passed jing hearts and minds, laid on the relative to a trip made to Wash-'since the morning the Squalus} breast of the lordly Piscataqua Repos, Presented | Wagner Act-and the N.L.R.B. Act.! ington, D. C. by. Captain Harry | sank. may be. that three as the river boiled eastward to A report was presenteti on the) While commending Congress on; Pierce and members of the months of death-defying work, mingle with. the blue-gray wa- operations of the local aquarium |its beliefs in the need for tax re-|Homestead Safety Patrol, Mr./remain before the Squalus ii tere of the North Atlantic. for the month of May, which | vision, attention was called to the | Pierce is a nephew, of C. Sam B.| showed that the receipts for that/ apparent lack of immediate en-|Curry, Criminal Court clerk of | period totalled $119.05. aciment of legislation to bring! Key West. The article is repro- The report of Ivan Elwood,!about fhe revisions recommend-' duced in part: that youth is the gathering time: , special election called by the of life, and to make the best of! city Council in the event twenty- a bad mess, = chief of police, showed that an} amount. of $255.50 was collected | in fines during the month of} May. | Harry Baker, building inspec- | tor, reported that $44.50 was col-| lected in the issuance of building | permits during the month of! May. 4 A resolution was adopted..-in/ abatement of .taxes on the prop-| erty of the Key West-Havana | Cigar Company‘due'to the fact that this is the:policy of the city| in cases where local help is em-| ployed. i An agreement between Joseph’ William John and the City of Key} West was entered into last night} ed.” | “The trip through the head- | quarters of the Federal Bureau ,of Investigation was the high {point in the recent trip to Wash- tington for Capt. Harry Pierce of ithe Homestead Safety Patrol, and his opinion was that his. troop jmates would catalogue that as SCHOONER GOES ON LOCAL WAY Schooner A. M. Adams, of the | local school boy traffic copg Thompson Fish Co., was placed on} naturally saw with much interest } the No. 1 experience also. The} ANOTHER NAZI | the Jocal Maine Railway yester-| the fingerprint files, etc. of. the, day, where the vessel is.to be-re-|smost glamorous.cops of the day; painted and certain minor repdirs }the G.-Men.' ti made. “The youngsters called ‘at the The vessel has . just eaearneds attics of Senator C. O. Andrews from the coast of Nicaragua with! and were presented with cards a cargo of more than 300 live/for the senate gallery. “From turtle, which were placed in the}there they heard part of the de- in a document drawn tp where-'crawls for disposition by _ the by the city agreed to purchase a Granday Canning Co: bate on the: Florida Ship Canal [and other activities carried on.” page in a booklet to be issued: in which Key. West and the Over- | seas Highway will be advertised. | The price of $100 is to be paid} for the space, with 25,000 copies | to be distributed. | Request Donation j A communication was read from the Fire Department re-| questing’ a cash donation toward defraying the expenses of a dele- gation that will attend a conven- tion of the firemen to be held in| that preparations bad been made, sion for e continued safety to settle the taxes owing the city, | « its the property. ? NaThe mages tatormed the coun: cil that he ‘had appointed Miguel Castillo as a special. police and High Hopes Ae Held-Out For Saving Men ln Bish Sobmaring (By Associated Press) ‘Memorial High | > King And ARMY PURGE IS | _ NOW IN OFFING) |ADOLF HITLER PLANS GEN-/ CERS; NO REASONS FOR Closed To Traffic During ERAL SHAKE-UP OF OFFI-, way Will Be i Queen’s Visit (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON; June 2.—The Memorial Highway between sag i _._ {determine to a large extent the! | Friday whew the King and Queen|succtor later years. i ‘of England. will travel over the road on the return trip to Wash- flegion aftte: a ‘visit -to the Na- jem travel fo. Mt. Vernon with | for the royal oi accommodate newspa- 4 tors are to! Hl i : tH | youth gathe *\ five 25%) of the qualified voters ! residing in the City of Key West ; Shall petition the said City Coun-| cil for such an election within 90} x days after the passage of this act.! cause he is great, and the pur-!1¢ twenty-five (25% Not said qual- pose with which “we serve will ified electors do not petition’ the er our measure of great- said Council as aforesaid within : . ; Ininety (90) d i Rev. Tolle declared that youth Benin’ hn dat kan aceea te is; life's gathering time because |jyw*" ; it-is during that period when} 2 essential. know- ledge and fundamental principles and -he urged those present to. endeavor to gather all, that. is; good during youth, as that would Harris struck the left front wheel of the truck. An examination revealed that the front bumper of the truck had not been hit, but. that the left front wheel had been'smashed and the side ‘of the’truck ripped < open. | The truck landed on its side |in.the ditch, spilling its load of canned and bottled goods on the ground. The trailer remained on its wheels, but | stopped at right angles. to the road. ae The true test of greatness, the speakers stated, “is service. No mati is great because He serves, he ‘said, but that man serves be- COAST. GUARD ~ CUTTER SAILS The speaker concluded his. re- | Coast Guard Cutter Pandora. marks with the hope that the young people who are finding the world in bad conditions will 3 jdo something to make it better, /the district. COMING ACTION KNOWN open Shrine. The royal couple|“It is not as important to be se-| rious”, he said, “as it is to be serious about important things. ;Find the important things of life, and be serious about them”. i whiclr is asigned to the Port of Key West, sailed. this morning for the regular periodical tour of / CAR DEMOLISHED The car, owned by and apparently driven by Gates, was completely demolished. The top had been sheared off by the impact and both occupants had been badly mangled. First to reach the scene As a rule the vessel is absent from the port for a week or 10 days, it is said, and visits are’ | made to a number of points to in- j woeteate conditions. . roars } Of Definite | were Mr. and Mrs. Ollie Ol- Q |sen, who were also north- bound on the highway in