The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 5, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Key West, Florida, has the 4 Most equable climate in the -- country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit For 59 Years Devoted to the. Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 133. Group From Audubon Society Left On Trip To Tortugas; Members Of Organization To Study Migratory Hab- its Of Birds On Keys In That Area Fifteen members of the Flor- f ida Branch of the Audubon So- -Clety arrived over the highway last night and this morning and left on the Coast Guard Patrol Boat 185 for Tortugas. Rev. E. C. Mullen. 8.J., of St. Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic church, went with the party. } ! STILL. AWAITING . — | ‘THE sO AID GIVEN BY: WELFARE BOARD SHOWS THAT ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN BLIND. PER- SONS IN MONROE COUNTY ‘RECEIVED AID. IN APRIL ORDERS TO LAY SEWER OUTF WAR DEPT. ACKNOWLEDGES ‘CEIPT OF APPLICATION FOR PERMISSION TO PUT DOWN PIPE (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Fia., June 5. —With applications for Aid to the Blind averaging 101 per month for the past six months, the point of ‘steady turnover in All of the pipe and equipment jthis public assistance category 3 ig sahil a pan! gee a jhas not yet been reached, accord- e ‘. ‘ Wan placed in/abe viclaity of tibe,| ae neces memious ipmmed: titoe: tes scene of the work, while work-|9a¥ from the state offices of the: ers of the WPA have been await- State Welfare Board. Should .ap- MAKE REPORT OF (BRITISH SUB WASH Kry UTHERNMOST NE KEY WEST, FLORIDA;: NOT OVERLO/ PRIME MINISTER CHAMBER. LAIN MADE STATEMENT BE- FORE PARLIAMENT TODAY SHIP MAY TAKE ON‘ suP- PLIES AT ONE OF STATE'S PORT > ity Amsociatea Press) t LONDON, June 5.—Prime Min-)} ister Neville Chamberlain =: peared’ personally before the |Parliament today to state - that | | the submarine Thetis was not ‘overloaded in its disasttous run | 7éfugees from. Germany. ‘Supplies are sufficient to last { ‘ (By Associated Prean) June 5.—The German of Southeastern Florida dive last week when 99 of the 103; persons on board perished. While the crew and personnel if landing permits are not forth- ‘was supposed to be no more than/ coming from Cuba or tle Repub- fifty-tliree, there was no -xeason lig of Daminica, the ship may take to expect any mishap duéto the’ a number of crew and trial-eun in- MONDAY, JUNE 5, 1939 further orders on the! of nine hundred Jewish | HOUSE commITTEE, Into U. S. CONGRESSIONAL SEADERS TCCUES FOLDER IN INTEREST OF HAVE ADVISED PRESIDENT CONGRESS CAN ADJOURN JUNE 15 (By Apnocintea Press For- eign. Affairs Committee met to- {day fo consider changes in the jeutrality Act. Procedure to follow is being partment officials, in regard to: whethe: not fo present ! chimbate die session.of the Pensa The New York World’s Fair i jthis summer will attract many MANY FROM SOUTH AMER- _ICA AND CUBA TO PASS THROUGH FLORIDA | { | | | i } and South TOURIST TRADE! WORLD'S FAIR WILL CAUSE) spectors on board. _ } Congressional leaders have.ad- jthousand Cubans and Queen Elizabeth of England PRICE FIVE CENTS Royal Train Will Cross ; Wednesday Over Half Of Distance In King’s And Queen’s Tour Has Already Been Cov- ered | (By Ansoctated Prenn) ON BOARD THE ROYAL |STREAMLINER, June 5—Over jhalf of the 11,000 mile tour of | Cariada and this country has | been completed as King George jing the notice that. the project plications continue at the present jviced: ‘Americans to the United States. completed 6,000 miles of their was to start. | Application to the War Depart- , ment was made for the permit to do the work and was submitted | prior to the time of the arrival of the equipment, it was said b; City Attorney H. H. Taylor. Notice of its receipt was’ re- ceived yesterday, and a copy was sent’ to The Citizen. It is planned to visit Garden Key at Fort Jefferson, and Long Key. E. B. Stowe, ‘who is head _ of the expedition, said that there were seven Florida cities repre- sented in the group, ail of. whom will be engaged. in banding Terns, Sooties and Noddies, in| the interest of the study of the} Jt is proposed to construct a 10 migratory habits of the birds. | inch cast iron sanitary sewer out- There are thousands» of the/ fal). ‘The shore end of the pipe birds on Garden Key and Long} will be located about 185 feet Key at this season of the year,’ south of the south side of the Ha- and at times the sky is covered! yang Pier in front of the prop- with them as they arise after! erty owned by Trumbo Prop- being frightened by either man/ or any of the things which mean | ment of the right of way. the presence of man. _ It is proposed to extend the W. W. Demeritt, superintendent | sewer 600 feet into ‘the harbor, of Lighthouse District Number | measured from the bulkhead. It Seven and .a member of the/is to be anchored to rock bottom Audubon Society, made all the iby one inch bars spaced. on 25 necessary arrangements for the | soot centers. The pipe is to be at expedition and secured as a cook heleeators varying from. five and for. the trip Clyde Knight, who’ one-half feet at the shore line to will remain at the Keys parse and one half feet at. the end June 17. | which projects into the harbor. j erties, which has given an ease- | lrate, the ultimate total case load will be far in excess of estimates upon which legislative. approp- riations were based. z From November 1, 1937, the first month in which applica- tions were received, through April 30, 1939, 4,049 persons have sought this form of relief. Over this period 3,645 applications ‘were acted upon, of which 2,544 were approved, 1,101 were fe- jected and 404 were pending. One hundred and forty-four cases were closed, of which 105 were closed by. death. . Checks for May were mailed to 2,377 recipients of Aid to the Blind for an aggregate grant of $34,700. In Monroe County April pay- ments were made to 118 blind and near-blind for a joint sum of $1,811.00. The Aid to the Blind program is one of three of similar nature administered by the State Wel- TYNES’ HOME DAMAGED BY | BLAZE TODAY NEW VESSEL ASSIGNED TO b ‘THIS DISTRICT WAS RE- MOST ALL OF HOUSEHOLD | ‘CENTLY BUILT; CAPTAIN FURNITURE WAS DAMAG-|’ . ‘BANKS IN COMMAND ED; FIRE DISCOVERED ABOVE 10 O'CLOCK | Arriving in the harbor 9 jo’elock last night and berthing at Fire, which was discovered 10/ ‘He! Tighthouge docks | was the e’clock this morning in the home! Pg" tender Zinnia, which was of Traffié Officer, Basil Tynes, 421 Eaton street, was within a few minutes a roaring furnace and for a brief time prevented ‘firemen from Stations Number 1 and 2 from fighting the flames. Although the fire lasted only half an hour, the damage ain e the Delaware river and. started \ for the home port. of Key West. i 1 at the water line 113 feet nine inches, displacement 342 hs, The vessel has a draft of ix feet. six inches and is power- recently given her trial trip on! e vessel is 122 feet three} thes long overall, with . the! {if thenNeutrality Revisi ad oot Many of these tourists will enter jcome up for action. ‘Otherwise, Ur country through Florida. ‘leaders fear that ‘filibusters will} The’ Seminoie Hotel of Jack- ‘delay adjournment: until late in sonville has prepared a beautiful July or August. {thtee-colored folder in Spanish }to interest these tourists in the CIRCULATING rg state of Florida. This is probably H a " the first time that an American i PETITIONS ON ‘hotel has solicited “Latin-Amer- i jican business through a folder ‘especially designed for such CHARTER ISSUE, *: : ! Approximately . twenty - five —- thousand of these Spanish a have -been printed ‘and is- sENDEAVORING TO OBTAIN itituted in Cuba and other TWENTY-FIVE: PERCENT .OF | Latin-American“ countries. For- S eign tourist agents report that the ELECTORATE FOR REFER- ‘hooklets have been received with ENDUM ; much interest and enthusiasm by thejr clients. Travel has been greatly stim- ulated between Cuba and Flor- jida during the past few years because of the cordial relations that have existed. Ss { This increased travel has. pro- { There are any number of peti- ‘tions being circulated throughout the city-in an effort to secure the, required one-quarter of the qual- planned this elie apeSitien, expected to arrive. June 12 and will go to the same Keys béing visited by Group Number 1, and it is anticipated that’ their trip will be ended by Juné 17. ‘The present visitors to the keys wi complete their baiiding: activities and return June 10. fare Board, of which Old Age ldepartment to hold any public with Aid Dependent Children heating on the application, but being second in the amount~ of ; desiring to. protest the money distributed. - feet th orion Oe dane 2 to Cie FOOD SHORTAGE IN NEW YORK ACUTE e. Oi! which was burning furiously, the black smoke from which proved) a hindrance in combatting the flames or even gaining entrance. Mrs. Tynes said that two of the! children were out visiting... and she had taken the baby and gone ‘eee Propellers wiiaeke 280°: ‘for the ‘special |revolutions per minute and de- ¢lection.anent the new. Charter | velop speed of 10 knots per hour, | for the City for Key West. Those arriving on the vessel | a a from Miami, the last port of call, |being ¢irculated by County Pris- Captain W. C. Banks, who has number of signatures and others, | moted.in_ an ‘ta the United States. The Seminole’ Hotel of Jacksonville reports many Cuban tour parties. This At least one of these, which is’ indicates that a tremendous ‘hum- | ber of Cuban tourists will visit on the southern trip, were the 0m Guard Leroy Torres, has. a the United States this: summer | with such an attraction as the . been. placed in command of the who are interested in the matter, world’s Fair to draw them. trip last evening, heading. back from the west coast of their | Canadian province. | Only one stop is scheduled for today, a brief pause at Subberry, Ontario, following which the Streamline special wiil get. under ; way for the International bordér at Niagara Falls. The train will cross into the United States some time Wednesday morning to pro- ceed directly to Washington, D: ;C. where one of the biggest re- ; ceptions of the whole tour will take place on the following day; ; Thursday. The royal entourage will be en- tertained at the nation’s capital | Thursday and Friday, will take. in the World’s Fair on Saturday, and on Sunday will be enter- tained at the President's home in , Hyde Park, N. ¥. on Sunday, leaving for Quebec and home the following day. t Seema a Serre Fe? H. G. STOC GIVES ADDRESS AT LIONS MEET f PASTORS GOING — TO CONFERENCE ODIST CHURCHES TOBE | HELD IN TAMPA | WESTERN UNION REPAIR VESSEL COMPLETE EXCEPT FOR SAILS DUE SOON Schooner Western Union, own- }ed by the Thompson Interests jand to be used by the Western The regular annual district/ Union Telegraph Company as a Conference of Methodist Church- | cable repair. vessel, was taken out es made up from the Miami dis-| this morning for a trial trip and trict of Florida will convene in| was commanded by Captain G..R. Tampa on June 7, and will re-| Steadman, cable manager for the main in session all during _ the | company. remainder of the week. | On the vessel, as an observer, ~_Rev. Joe“A. Tolle, pastor of the | was,an official of the Western First_Methodist. (Stone) Church | Union Telegraph, Co, N, U. Tra and family, and Gerald Saun- | cey, division superintendent of ders, Sunday school ‘superinten-| Atjanta, who arrived by bus yes- dent and choir director, left this! terday for the purpose, of making morning over the highway to at-) the trial trip of the ship. There tend the conference. was also a group of othet folks Rev. O. C. Howell of Ley Me-| making the trip. morial Church and wife, and Mr.|- ‘The ‘schooner: was: started last and Mrs. Archie . Roberts will! July and plans drawn by Loxley Jeave tomorrow morning, |__| Arch, designer and builder, were Rev, J. P. Lilly of the Fleming | ¢o)owed during the: entire con- Street Methodist Church and struction of the vessel, which is wife, accompanied by Miss Ven- | considered one of the finest ever daline Watkins and’ Miss. Lula! nuit in Key West, and when the Bond, will leave oh Wednesday. | vessel left, this morning on her RAEN OTIE 5AM | maiden trip she was complete in GATES, HARRIS every detail except the sails, RITES SUNDAY CONDUCTED IN AFTERNOON today, but it is expected that, be here and placed is ordered in Ba i al Fe LE ye é a | District Engineer, at Postoffice ; Box 4970, Jacksonville, Fla. | ‘NEW SCHOONER GIVEN TRIAL R SITUATION ‘THERE WAS BROUGHT ON THROUGH SYMPATHY STRIKE (By Ansociated Preand NEW YORK, June 5.—Short- age of perishable foodstuffs in the New York City area became more acute today as three cold storage warehouses closed down in Jersey City, N. J. The warehousemen are, striking for pane od > hours, in sympathy “doteeaeel Yodan Pek ‘with a view. to taking drastic ac- tion ifthe public's welfare is at | confident that a settlement is in IS POSTPONED The Citizen has been advised that the Awarding Court of Honor of local scouts, which was to be held tonight at Harris ‘1so many activities claiming the |attention of the scouts that the next door to the office of, Dr.’ yaley to get a pitcher of water.' While she was out of the house, bringing the ship to port, First which was only a few minutes,| Officer Arthur H. Sheppard, Jr., the alarm was sent in, and, com-! Engineer H.R. Demeritt, First ing out of the office, found aj Assistant Engineer Maurice Cruz, dense volume of smoke pouring | Second Assistant Engineer Ed- from the building. Mrs. Tynes! mund Sawyer. said positively she had not been| rmasters will be Robert using the stove and cannot. ac-}|R. Knowles, Albert Roberts and count for the fire, ‘Esmond Sawyer, and oilers wil Practically all of’ the house-}be Oliver Ramon, G. Navarro, hold furniture was damaged,' and Harry S. Pritchard. Seamen: some of which can be repaired; Andrew Demeritt, Jose Iglesias, bedding and clothing also suffer-| Bugene. Knowles, and Wilbur ed from the flames, smoke and! Johnsen, Jr. Detailed for the water. Total damage was not es- | cruise south: R: Jones. timated, either to the house or! . Cook is’ Thomas H. ‘Mingo, and furnishings. | the Tender Ivy who was detailed to make the ttip to assist in McINTOSH, June 5 (FNS).—; Plans are being completed for ‘a! Lotus Blossom Festival to be held at the Bird Island Cruise Gardens near here. The large? plantings of Egyptian Lotus, brought. from the banks of the Nile, have attracted so much at- tention with their exotic beauty ‘that an elaborate program for a Lotus Festival is being prepared. One of the features will be the selection of a Queen of Lotus Blossoms. Dates for the festival will be announced in the very near fu- ‘vessel, Captain L. H..Muse, of ate confident*that more than thes mess attendants.are Robert Sands required number of approximate’ ly 700, will he readily secured. } The petition. which is in Num. ,ber One Fire Station; reads: “We! the undersigned voters of Key : West respectfully petition the ‘eity council of Key West to call a! special election inorder that the; \qualified voters of Key West! _might have the opportunity to, “vote on: whether or not the pres- ent city charter shall be changed for one recently introduced at the jlast session of the State Legisla- | ture”. TRIKE ENTERING “Wild Cat” auto- . to be the!?° any, way of |t0fY by the Japanese army. the s Al | i } way through-which the: travelers. from Cuba and South America will enter, it is. very important that the stat should say to: th First”. ANNIHILATION OF |WHOLE ARMY COLUMN AM- ment today relate of an into which a whole | Total petra of the Japs ample beach facilities jis reported by picked Further fighting is ‘Chinese offer stubborn sow (THEY SAVE $500 BY As Florida will be the gate- ” MANY OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST 'TO ORGANIZA- TION DISCUSSED DURING session *! /) people of » the, ern. (See Florida . H. G. Stocking, of Kansas, win- ter resident of Key West for the past three seasons, was the speak- ¢er at- Lions Club supper-meet- ing last week. Lion President-H. E. Day was in the chair. | Mr. Stocking gave impressions ‘on Key West, treating on im- | provements noticed since his stay here. He also advised on future | possibilities for the city in. its \efdeavor to become a leading p tourist center. @overn- Business transacted _ at the ‘ambush Meeting concerned the appoitit- ‘Japanese ment of a committee to investi- ‘gate the possibility of providing for Key. Chinese West. Lions John Costar, Allan : Armstrong and Herman Holfs- berg were appointed by — Presi- dent Day to report at an ‘arly club meeting. j Recognizing the urgency of the |situation, the club moved to ad- jvocate the continuance of Cul- ‘tural Projects under W-P.A. Wires were ordered sent to Rep- resentative Cannon and Senators Pepper and Andrews, requesting theif vote in favor of such legis- JAPS: REPORTED BUSHED BY PICKED CHI- NESE SOLDIERS reported as b resistance MAKING COWS WALK (iy Axnvctated Prenn) PERRYTON, Tex., June 5.—A cattle drive big th