The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 12, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 139. Visiting Rotarians Will Be Entertained Tomorrow SOIIOOMIOS {GOVERNOR VETOES ONE MEASURE AND APPROVES ANOTHER (Ry Asnociated Press) Tallahassee, June 12.— Governor Cone vetoed legis- lation that would postpone for two vears the reversion | clause of the Murphy Tax Redemption Law. which thus gave the state title to thou- sands of pieces of land against which it held certificates over two years old. The Governor -also signed into law a gas tax bill (Senate 1218) giving the: State {Road Depariment’ eighty percent of any. \‘sur+ plus gas taxes: credited to a Delegation Due To Come Here From Havana En- route To Cleveland Con- vention Local Rotarians are carrying forward their plans for the en- fertainment of the visiling’ Ro-| tarians from Havana who will arrive tomorrow afternoon on the Steamship Cuba from Ha- vana, The visiting group will consist of-approximately 50 Rotarians and Rotary Anns under the lead- 4, at Witizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. s. A. MANY PARTS FLORIDA HOSTELRIES JOIN OTHERS SITUATED IN VA- RIOUS PARTS OF UNITED STATES (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, June 12— The Hotels of Florida are joining Hotels all over the United States | that the greatest peace-time con-! “Rev, Joe A. Tolle of the First SW™mer encampment at ee é in celebrating National Hotel Week from June 11 to 17th which makes the 145th year of “Open House” dating fromthe establish- ment of the’ first réal Hotel in 1794, : Nation wide observance of National Hotel Week which began June 11 was hailed by Leonard — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1939 {TWO PREACHERS ockoaieaapen \ BRITISH ANNOUNCE ONE OF REV. TOLLE HAS BEEN GIVEN GREATEST PEACE TIME | "APPOINTMENT AT FORT “* PROGRAMS PIERCE (By Associated Presa) f “According to news, received to- LONDON, June 12—Kurope dgy from the Methodist Church is girding itself for a summer of Conference in Tampa, Rev. O. C. watchful waiting according to re- Howell of the Ley Memorial A s Church, and Rev. J. P. Lilly of } alah yea forth from capitals the Fleming Street Methodist { 4 . : Church, will be returned to Key British diplomats announce West for another year. ‘centration of armed forces will Methodist Church will be sent to ibe trained and held in readiness Fort Pierce, and will be re- ,for coming events. A total of placed here by Rev. G. W. | approximately 1,000,000 men will Hutchinson of Tampa. thave been trained by the end of 4 ————_—— [athe ‘LEAVING FOR ‘remains tense,e as the press of, — C ONVENTI 0 The German-Polish - situation: j the two countries: hurl charges‘ and counter-charges back and! forth at each other. Reports in-; SCHOOL PATROL RETURNED HOME LAST EVENING ALL MEMBERS OF ORGANIZA- TION REPORT HAVING HAD WONDERFUL TIME DURING TRIP | ' Sunday night the Key West School Patrol, sponsored by the; Rotary Club, returned from _ its the way to Miami Patrol was met at South Miami by an official police escort fur- ;nished by Mayor Sewell of Mi- ‘ami and Clifford Bigelow of the {american Automobile —Associa- ,tion, and escorted in to the ‘Esmeralda Hotel where Patrol stopped. A sight-seeing trip for the Patrol boys was arranged by Mr. the! Key-Wes+7lorida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS King'And Queen Of England Return T British Territory PIII LI OM Ms Trin Bearing Royal Cou- ee OF CHAMPIONSHIP) P!® Pauses In Quebec — | Alferding Them Time (Ny_Axsoetntea Presa) ! PHILADELPHIA, June 12. | For More Sleep —Byron Nelson of the Read- ing Country Club, defeated Craig Wood in the play-off today for the National Open Golf Championship. Both Nelson and Wood were tied at the end of a play-off round on Sunday. Nelson will be remembered as a member of the two-man team that ‘defeated the Key West Amateur-Pro team of (By Associated Press) DELLSON, Que., June 12—The King and Queen of England re- turned to British territory this | morning when the streamline |special crossed the International Joe Lopez and Eddie Bush | Boundary at this city. The train oe ago in St Augus- | paused here for two hours. al raw, wee to allow the royal couple to | complete their much needed sleep ership of Dr. Ramon Lorenzo ex- governor of District 25, and will arrive at Key West 3 o'clock to- morrow afternoon. All members of the local organization are re- quested to meet the boat. Tomorrow night at 7:30 in the rainbow dining room of the La Concha Hotel the visitors will be guests of local Rotarians at a din- ner, and arrangements have been made to have several local en- tertainers appear at the dinner. Wednesday the group will leave to attend the meeting of Rotary International at Cleveland on June 19-23, and have been ex- tended an invitation by B. M. Duncan, general manager of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District, to stop over at Pigeon Key for a visit. WORTH A SMILE hes = NEW YORK — Asked how he felt about receiving $50,000 from his employer's -estate, Allen Evans, a Scotch chauffeur, re- county under the 1931 law. K. Thompson of Miami, its orig- ‘dicate that feelings of Polish and ;Bigelow and was as_ follows: } TDI Daa SSL ‘Deaf Mute Couple 1 (My Ansociated Preantd ZION Ky., June 12—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bennett, deaf mutes, run a restaurant apd dance hail near here. Customers either write their orders or make their wants | known through the Bennett child- lren and Bennett relays the orders to his wife by finger talk—high in the air. | Mr. and Mrs. Bennett say | they’re sometimes a little thank- ful for their handicap. | “That thing,” . wrote. Bennett ~ (for ain tintepviewer-as Hé~pointed | to the big electric phonograph in the corner, “plays almost con- ‘tinuously. It would probably Operate Restaurant | drive any other person nuts. Me, plied: “Well, its worth a smile, af 'T don’t even know it’s going.” anywa: SOMETIMES SCRAP IRON COMES HOME THE BACK WAY ROUTE: By PRESTON GROVER (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 10.—One her across the ocean. Then- the ship was loaded with as much serap as it c: sailed it back to Japan? of the weird things United States is to be hired by the Japanese to haul steel over to Japan to make bombs to kill other Chinese in interior Chin: Japan always has been.a heavy purchaser of scrap steel and iron in the United States. Japan has few such resources of ‘her own and we have plenty, Steel is made these days out of a half- and-half mixture of new iron and old steel and ‘iron scrap. Scrap comes in all shapes and sizes, old car wheels, steel rails, trimmings from steel plants, junked automobiles, occasionally that can’ happen fo a Chinese sailor in the! ; Chinese crews usually can be hold. And who?! That is: where the romance of war comes, tional Committee, establish closer relationship with the public. “Although we are 7th largest industry in the Nation” said Mr. Thompson, “and the very nature of our business brings us into close contact with the public, we have been singularly reticent about our roll in the social, jeconomic and civic life of the community. This year for ‘the| first time we are making a formal and concerted effort to make the |public aware of our Hotels, for granted”. | The official slogan for National To The Community, A Service ‘fo ‘The Nation”. Mr, Thompson released statistics showing | that mere are approximately 1500 Hotels in Fioriaa with property valued at approximately 190 mu- non aollars and nat ney empioy more than 3U thousand peopie who receive wages in excess of 41U million annually, although a sarge number are strictiy season- al employees. Hovels were the first to use and popularize the inventions and new appliances which are com- mon place today, but which were | jlooked upon askance during the j 29th century. This tendency, Mr. ; Thompson points out, exists to this very day as is evidenced by the adoption of air conditioning by many Hotels. According to research conduct- ted by the American Hotel Asso- (ciation as a feature of National as an im- | portant opportunity. for hotels to sauits on police officers of both: | which too often have been taken ! | Hotel Week. js “Hotels, An. Asset inator and Chairman of the Na- |German citizenry are fast reach-' }ing a crisis period as rumors of shooting -affairs and various as- | nations re heard. In the Far East, Japan con- ‘tinues to harrass four major powers with additional blockade threats, the latest directed against foreign concessions in Tientsin. France, England, the Netherlands and the United States are effect- ed by this move and diplomatic corps are working over-time in effort to rouse a strong feeling against the Nipponese. ‘AUDUBON SOCIETY. GROUP Ri Members of the Florida Audu- ben” Society-who--were spending’ one week at Tortugas, studying the ‘Noddies, Terns ‘and ‘/ Sooties which are now assembled there and banding hundreds of the ! ‘Isadore L. Weintraub will leave Starting at the County Cause- over the Overseas Highway to-}way to Miami Beach, along the morrow morning for Tulsa, Ok- beach to the 79th Street Cause-} lahoma, where he will represent way; the Eastern Air Lines Air-; the local Junior Chamber of Com-' port, Hialeah Race Track, Musa merce at the National Convention Isle Seminole Indian Village, to be held in that city from June Pan-American Airport at Din- 20 to 23. ‘ner Key Base. Sunday morning In Miami Mr. Weintraub will the Patrol attended church serv- join that city’s delegation where ices at the White Temple, a motorcade will be formed and; Accompanying the boys on tite at all points along their route, in'trip were: Director Myrtland Florida and in states through !Cates, Traffic Officer Key West which they will pass, delegates Police Department, who wishes *will join in the motorcade to to thank all who helped in mak- Tulsa. ing this trip possible and such a ‘Elaborate entertainments have , big suecess, and to commend the been planned for the delegates in parents of the boys for their ef- many states including banquets ;ports in making them the right ‘and dances in Birmingham, Ala- kind of future citizens. ‘bama and Memphis, Tenn. Also accompanying the boys Mr. Weintraub is taking quite | were: Ulric Gwynn, Jr., super- am assortment of Key West lite- | visor; W. C. Duncan, principal frature furnished by the Key West 'of the Harris School; Leroy Tor- ber of Commerce: and will res, driver for the trip, and A. STICKNEY VISITS "ct Billy Ladd, Paul Lightbourn, la. Parra, Jr., Byron Cook, Jack ‘Niles, Thomas Dion, Billy Shaw, birds to: determine their migra-, tory ‘habits, returned Saturday . afternoon on the Coast Guard Patrol 185. H Visits were made to Long Key as well as Garden Key where there are thousands of the birds: to be found at this season, de- spositing their eggs which liter- ally cover the beaches and are PORT ST. J0 J.P, Stickney,.who has re- cently returned from Port Joe, Florida, was a welcomed visitor in that city according to The Port Saint Joe Sentinel, newspaper published in the city. “The honorable J. P. Stickney ma Sad guarded by the older or South Florida, was among the Kenneth Kerr, Kenneth Solo- mon, Forest Arthur, Kermit | Sweeting, Harvey Shehane, Nilo | Albury, Lawrence Padron, Ralph Solano, Edward Albertus, Her- ‘man Cerezo, Robert Cruz, Chas. Sands, Norman Roberts, Leroy pers Daniel Lujan. LANDON HEARD | The group last week was head. Prominent Yanitons pete tant, Soy y. “His interest in the city was centered around future business opprtunities. He expressed him-! iself as very much pleased with ;the city in general”. i ed by E. B. Stowe, of Sanford | and this morning another group / left on the Meade to continue the work of banding and have made arrangements to return on June E MOLAY MEET | | JAYCEES ADD | | ON “POLITICS” (Ry Associated Prexn) BOSTON, June 12—The Re- publican Party’s standard bearer |in 1936 stated here today that in case of a Republican victory in 1940, and he was sure that that j—then proceeded to the next B. L. GROOMS RETURNS HOME { Bascom L. Grooms, president England. of the Key West Electric Co.,| The first city at which a brief returned to Key West last night | celebration was held was Sher- jin the family car which went to) brook, Que., a few miles north of ‘Miami yesterday to meet the!the boundary. train of the Florida East Coast} Members of the royal party told which was bringing him back! newspapermen this morning that from New York. |King George and Queen © Eliza- ‘ President ~Grooms left one | beth appeared to be quite rested week ago and in’ New York following theit hectic four-day fps ne Pd thea | visit to the nation’s capital and to Incorporated, to discuss business New: Yok eepecally seas matters in connection with the W@S the comparatively unevent- KWECO, which is a subsidiary of ful Sunday afternoon and eve- the above named company.. |ning spent -on President Roose- _ He also attended -@pnual | velt’s Hyde Park estate. __ The convention of the raise eet " t cal - Institute, which is the Na-jtle red brick station at Hyde tional organization of the Elec-|Park shortly before midnight last trical Utilities Industry. | night. - The cares of business meetings | and conventions be concluded} Mr. Grooms then spent the bet-} - a4 ter part of two days at the; Mr. and Mrs. William Russell World’s Fair, but visited only the | and baby left Saturday - evening most attractive and: interesting | over the highway for several displays. Among them he says | days’ visit in Miami. Mr. Russell the Florida Exhibit is outstand-!is employed-as a linotype‘operator ing. at The Ctizen office. ; city on their remaining rail trip jte Quebec and Halifax where tho jentourage will board ship for | RUSSELLS LEAVE EXTRACTS OF STORIES APPEARING IN JUNE 12 ISSUE OF NEWSWEEK It began to look last week as;existence of monopoly or other lif the century-old Shakespeare- | violationss of the antitrust laws. | Bacon imbroglio might end soon, | This week the commission re- with a decision going to the|, 04 its report—2,900 . type- ‘streamline train left from’ the iit-"~ hired cheapest for such. pick-' Hotel Week, Hotels were the first | ‘would be the case, the leaders of |Shakespeareans. In a lecture to | jtre G. O. P. should not “swing penny jobs. The Japanese hire \to use gas light and electricity to them. After -all, the seamen!any marked degree. The first have to eat and sea-going jobs. elevator was installed in a hotel, don’t grow on trees these days. modern plumbing was first used On arrival in Japan they. are extensively by a hotel, even the transferred perhaps to Oriental path tub, that great, American : vamp ships always on the look- institution, obtained its first yout for low-cost crews. One such vogue in the Hotels, Chinese crew attempted a mu-/heat and the .modern radiator. There was a brief news-| an old hulk of a worn out ship. UDY Every Scrap Used In Japan, ship and cargo both ‘are melted down and converted into munitions, not a _ rivet wasted. In 1933 Japan bought a! half million tons of steel and iron ; _ Scrap. By 1937 it had swelled to; back ‘1,901,202 tons, dropped back to} 1,381,901 tons in 1938. Senator Schwellenbach paper account of it. | i of | Hotels were among the first subs- cribers to telephone service. URGE FOR PEACE NOT WEAKNESS (By Ansoctated Prenn) WEST POINT, N. Y., June 12. AT PENSACOLA Members of Robert J. Perry Chapter of DeMolay have re- eéived word that the tenth an- ‘as did steam |2Ual Conclave of the Associated and were approved. ,Chapters of Florida will be on | August 20-23. The meeting this ;year will be held at Pensacola. Delegates from the local Chapters. have not been elected as yet but it is assumed there will be a nice ’ | representation. Meanwhile the Chapters has igone ahead with its plans for a mer program: Many activi- ties are listed on the calendar for the period up to the meeting at Pensacola. Kermit Lewin, Master; Washington introduced a bill} —President Franklin D. Roose-|COuncilor has the Chapter seeking to embargo export of! , Scrap. He says West Coast docks velt told the graduating class at West Point this morning for some fine ritualistic ac- li ivities as well as ‘social and ti that “are piled with the stuff waiting | “the United States desire for }athletic events. shipment to Japan. But’ when the Senate committee looked in. to the business it found a hive of tae country’s position in con- {that invitations were being trouble. Big ‘steel companies; were eager for an embargo. | Foreign competitiin -for scrap steel had forced the price up to, for adequate defense _ measures $20 a ton within a dollar of the! S| want to be deprived of such a’ jrich market. Never had Laban i peace must not be mistaken as a of weakness”, i nection with. diplomatic activity in behalf of peace. 2 3 The President stressed the need and stated that there was: plenty personnel in thathe isnow = DISTRIBUTOR Howard Pinder, Chairman of to |the Social Committee announced importance, relative to bringing ; issued for a Party to:be held Friday, also NEW MEMBERS too far to the right” in their PRES | plans to bring the country back |to. prosperous times. At the last meeting of the! By “swinging to the right”, ‘Junior Chamber of Commerce,! Landon declared that he didn’t there were six names of prospec- ; mean “a leaning towards Fascism tives offered for membership or Nazism”, but towards,a mod- erate conservative viewpoint. | The names of the newly ap- | Certain measures of the New ithe Royal Society of Literature, written pages. While it called at- H i tention to the “high degree . of \London, Dr. Robin Flower, deputy | ae 4 > keeper of ancient. manuscripts at|concentration” in the industry, it the British Museum, announced admitted that active competition that three pieces of paper in the #™mong automobile manufacturers museum, covered with a faded igave to the public “improved jecraw!, were probably parts of, products often at substantially an original Shakespeare play on |Teduced prices”. It admitted also | the life of Sir Thomas More, six- that consumer benefits from this ‘teenth-century Lord Chancellor Competition “have probably been proved members are: Darnell} ‘Pinder, Joe Pavlock, Henry ‘Alonzo, Dr. Delio Cobo, Everett : _ Sawyer and Dr. W. W. Demeritt. Deal should be retained the | while business is given a chance to expand. Landon blamed both big business and- President Roosevelt for the present eco- nomic status, stateing that “they ‘DEMOCRATS TO MEET TONIGHT meeting of the Young Democratic | Club held tonight, beginning at 8 o'clock, at the County Court House. Matters of state-wide ew both been too arrogant.” i ‘STRIKE FAILS TO HOLD OUT . (Ry Associnted Press) FLINT, Mich., June 12.—Homer a unioh skirmish with O. this morning when a jis officials had called at 3 i 4 : the national convention here in 941, will be brought up for dis- and : HH he! land author of “Utopia.” +Flower has ben examining the | manuscripts for years, using the jultra-violet and infra-red rays; now he is convinced they are genuine. No handwriting exists which everyone will agree is Shakes-j| peare’s. Autographs known to be, ;the poet's have merely played: |into the Baconian’ hands; they are in such an illiterate scrawl, claim the Baconians, as to pre- clude the possibility that their author could have written the witty and profound Shakespeare plays. - i The Bacon theory goes back to 1769, when it first saw print in a neem by one Herbert Lawrence. ts t jalleged pressure {more substantial than in any lother large industry studied by ithe commission. | Nevertheless, the report crit- icized a number of practices including: manufac- jwithin the industry, by contracts; additions made by dealers to finance company charges without performing any extra service for such additions; charges against purchasers for transportation of cars from the factory by rail when they--may actually have been transported by water or motor carrier; sale as new cars of those which have been towed or driven from the factory or used as demonstra- tors. ‘The FTC recommended no new legislation or punitive action and, on the whole the tone of its report was mild. Few new facts about the industry were un- (3) he signed his name|s0me of tout the plays in a of these ‘by the motor companies them- through self disciplinary