The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 13, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wite Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most .equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit sla The est Citizen | VOLUME LX. No. 140. American Legion: Conference| Old Glory To Be Held Here July 29:30" Dance To Be Given Satur- (@ Night For Purpose 10f Raising Fund For En- tertainment The eighth district conference of the American Legion, which will bring upward of 300 visitors : to Key West, will be held July 29-30, it was announced today by Chairman R. A. Lehmann of Ar- thur Sawyer Post's entertain- ment committee. In an effort to raise a sizeable fund for handling the conference and entertaining the visitors, the entertainment committee is com- pleting arrangements for a follies and dance to be held Saturday night beginning at 9 o’clock at Club Cayo Hueso, Trumbo Island, opposite the P. & O. docks. Final arrangements for the af- fair will be made at a meeting tomorrow night of the members of Arthur Sawyer Post at head- quarters, Whitehead and United streets. Plans for entertainment of the conference delegeates and their guests also will be discussed. It is hoped to make the confe- fence one of the most successful ever held by the southern posts of the Florida department of the American Legion. The success of KING AND QUEEN | STILL ON TOUR THROUGHLY ENJOYING SCE- j | NERY ALL ALONG ROUTE | = I (By Axnoctated Press) NEW CASTLE, N. B., June 13. |_"The King and Queen.of England jare motoring across their far- {eastern province of New Bruns- l wick today, visiting two main cities today. The streamliner | special train of twelve coaches was left at New York Castle and | the party entered autos for the 120 mile trip across the province ito the coast. First stop was at Frederickton, where a small celebration was }held this morning. The party planned on stopping for a short ;time at Monkton, thence on to ‘St. John, where they will put up ‘for the night. Dispatches state jthat King George and Queen Elizabeth are thoroughly en- joying the beautiful scenery of New Brunswick, and especially |the cool weather the theirmoter j registering 60 degrees, quite a difference from the scorching near 90 degrees experienced in Wash- ington D. C. last weekend. | Tomorrow the royal party will spend the whole day visiting points on Prince Edward Island. | Embarkment at Halifax for the this meeting may be one of the) return trip to Eagland will prob- ably take placé temorrow. even- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 1939 Marches*To New Milestone ‘* THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. INO CHANGES IN LIGHTHOUSE UNIT HERE EXPECTED |sTATUS WILL REMAIN SAME WITH EXCEPTION OF FEW CHANGES POSSIBLY IN. | PERSONNEL | Definte assurances that the u.! :S. Lighthouse Depot and other ; facilities will be retained at Key , i: West, is the gist of informative , jmatter which was received by | Representatve Pat Cannon, from | |; Admiral Russel Waesche, com-| jmandant of the Coast Guard in; i Washington. | {|- The admiral was quoted by Re- | + 'presentative Cannon to the effect | jthat the lighthouse service facili- | ities will not be disturbed under! {the new reorganization plan. The Proud emblem of a liberty-loving people for 162 years, Old Glory celebrates a new birthday on June Cast Guard will take over the 14. U. S. Marines are shown (left: (right) hoisting our flag over a captured strongholi at Derne, Tripoli, in 1805. Above: ) displaying the Naticnal Flag and their regimental colors, Betsy Ross, traditional maker of the first Stars and Stripes. Beloved by the citizens. of a,as the maker of the first Stars tholdi Statue of Liberty it gives'nel changes will be made in the! united nation, ‘the Stars and Stripes will pass another mile-| stone on June 14, marking: its long march through. the years tinental Congress in 1777. | and Stripes. Ghosts of Old Glory’s ancestors haunt the shadows of early colo- nial history. Colonial flags bore erty to those who are Americans either by right of birth or adop- tion. It is the reversed banner rattlesnakes, beavers and other from every racial stock on earth. lighthouse and coast and geodetic , survey on July 1. | The information concludes with : jthe statement that minor person- ! form, with the ‘plan. . { | | reorganization ! since its adoption by the Con- pine trees, anchors, stripes, stars, | of ‘an assemblage of free people DISTURB ANCE IS We Americans may well be proud of our flag. It is the most} beautiful of all national colors. | Our flag has pointed the way to freedom to countless thousands. | It stands for patriotism, loyalty years, finding it a rallying point | love of flag with the same gage.} and fidelity to the ideals of Am- erica. | There is a certain mystery sur- thus be- i rounding its origin which far has proved unsolvable cause no one who designed it. Flags bearing , either stripes or stars existed be- fore Old Glory. A well-estab- ft insignia in endless variety. | Poets have sung of the flag; Hosts of marching men as well | orators have eulogized it. Yet, as citizens, young and old, have | te each of us it has its own def- looked up to the Star-Spangled | inite meaning, because we meas- Banner for more than eight score/uré our love of country and our of patriotism, a symbol of our|The two are inseparable. national. unity. Save for oc-! Ih recent years it has been the casional changes in the number!custom to observe June 14 as of its. stars or stripes, as author-| Flag Day. On this, the flag’s ized by Congress from time to| birthday, let us keep before us | NIPPED IN BUD i (Wy Asxocinted Prenny | BALTIMORE, Md., June 13.— A reported racial disturbance in Green Falls High School in this city has apparently been “nipped lin the bud” as authorities ap- PRICE FIVE CENTS Key West Plans General. Observance VISITORS CAN SHOUT; NOT LOCAL CITIZENS (iy Associated Press) HARLINGEN, Tex. June 13.—The only persons permit- ted to.make a “public noise” in Harlington are good will delegations from other cities. They can “whoop ‘er up” as much as they please, said Mayor Hugh Ramsey, but otherwise ihe city’s anti- noice ordinance, that men- tions particularly the use of loud speakers, will be en- forced rigidly. Eenlhaenheinhe BOYS BAND MET HERE YESTERDA \its assurance of justice and lib-|administration functions to con-. MEMBERS OF GROUP BEGIN COURSE OF SUMMER STUDY Key West Boys’ Band -met yesterday and began their course of summer study. They will have three study periods weekly. Mon-} day and Fridays study will be- gin at 2 o'clock and on Friday’s at 10 o’clock in the morning. Ray Pierce, who has been chosen secretary of the organiza- tion, said today that books for SI SELIS SSS Sa Of Flag Day |Many Organizations En- deavor To Enlist Interest In Display Of National Emblem | 1 j | | | i ' i City-wide observance of Flag |Day will be observed in Key | West tomorrow, June 14th, with various patriotic organizations | joining in the effort to make as | large a display of American Flags | as possible. | ; The Junior Chamber of Com- | ;merce leads off with a plea to jal merchants on business, streets | jin this city to display the Flag | before stores, in store windows jand on counters within their es- |tablishment. This move is in | connection with a nation-wide | drive on the part of Junior Jay- cees to gain a widespread ob- | servance of Flag Day. Girl Scout troops of Key West | will participate in Flag Day ac- | tivities with a Tag Day program, /calling for distribution of special | tags showing the American Flag | with the Pledge to the Flag. Dis- knows definitely time, it is much the same as_ it|thi§ pledge to the flag: “I pledge was in the beginning. | Floating from the lofty pin-} nacle of American idealism, ert lishet ints’ to Betsy j flag is‘an emblem. ‘of enduring | prehended members of a_ junior ;Pro-bund society patterned after the German-American Bund, ; which had allegedly enrolled sev- blic for which. it stands,.| 5 ys ation} indivisible, with Sy ba inie me allegiance to the Flag* of the United States of America and to the. one study are being ordered and con-|""" © : tributions will be gladly received tribution to all citizens in the by George Mills White or Mr. city will start early tomorrow ‘other neccessaries, ‘ierce. These contributions w: * ae 3 7 isa in procuring muste “ear ? rage nd. will, cpntinye, Wl. ill Scouts will offer con- Ross, a Quaker City seamistress, | hope. Like the famous ‘Bar-}Liberty and Justice to all.” Cases.of members of the so- SEAT. SANE Sr TSN «<a emy ee ‘jciety inflicting bodily injury on H Jackrabbit Fur Goes ISCIENTISTS ARE ;student members of the Jewish | race, which is reported to have | Into Hats This Spring Discusing the band with Mr. | tainers to recipients of the tags Pierce he told The Citizen that! for deposit of whatever coin or the members were all enthusiastic coins possible. Proceeds from over the prospect and are-anxious/the sale of tags will go into to have all persons learn to play charity fund chests of the troops. an instrument, and become’ mem-; The observance of Flag Day in bers of the band. .|this city has been further en- Those who were present yester- dorsed by the American Legion day at the meeting were: Rayford' Post here and a committee; from |Roberts, William Lloyd, William this unit will call on-tocal: mer- ‘Cates, Odes McKillip, Gilbert|chants to ask that tiey par- Hall, Leonard Key, Donald Pin- | ticipate. poe der, Hagen Sands, Robert Malone,| Citizens are asked by the Jay- ,Billy Ladd, Sidney Lowe, Philip|cees to cooperate” with the Tag ‘Strunk, Norman Roberts, James |Day in the weatmg"of tags, giv- ' Singleton, Ray Pierce. Anthony | ing whatever is possible. It is CIOGROUPIS Ja STRIKE WINNERS (By Associated Preas) FLINT, Mich.,. June 13.—The jheavy enrollment, were discover- | ASSISTING N AVY by authorities and immediate (RRBkxociated Prenny ” | i action was taken to stop such ace | GRANBORKS, N. D., June 13.) , —_ | ,—Part of that new spring bonnet | (iy Annoctated Preas may hayé-loped over North} PORTSMOUTH, N. Y., June 13. HUNDREDS ARE C.LO, has been declared definite. Dakota prafries. | Serereb selene sb mave come to; BEING EXECUTED ly the winner in the strike in-| Farmers and townsmen, har- | the aid of Navy experts in helping cident at the Fisher Body Works vesting a |to raise the sunken submarine, (Ry Associated Prexn) vide the music at the Club Cayo | ON INCOME TAX show and other entertainment. (Ne Annocinted Press) law compelling all government DUE TO ARRIVE THIS | The proposed bill would © ex- comparatively new! 4 in this city as every member of “Prairie crop”—jackrabbits—have | at this) factors that will bring the 1941 Hueso dance Saturday night, ALL READY TO = wastmncton 5.2" sune | employees residing in the nation’s | empt congressmen in both houses. | Squalus off the coast AFTERNOON point. state convention ofthe Legion to/ Chairman Lehmann __ reports. RECEIVE ROTES = = Senate committee’ today |capital to pay income taxes in | Employees are expected to ques- ing. its ae ct will pro \STUDYING | AW There will be a high class floor is studying the enactment of a DELEGATION FROM HAVANA | 1:6 future. jtion the fairness of the measurg Rotarians of Key West have completed their arrangements for | receiving ang entertaining the contingent of Rotarians and Ro-| tary Anns, who are due to arrive on the Steamship Cuba from Ha- vana this afternoon. Mayor Willard M Albury, chair- man of the committee on arrange- ments said this morning that it is |calling attention to the “taxa; | tion without representation” fea- ture of the act. Residents of Washington are not allowed the voting franchise except in the |case of residence in some other |state of the Union. | The House of Representatives |today starts consideration of the President’s Neutrality Bill. which is expected to bring out strong expected that the boat. will ar-| opposition from isolationists and rive from Cuba at 3 o'clock and| conservative members of the aft the visitors have gone House. The bill would lift arms th: h the customs and have re-| embargoes to European nations tired to the hotel preparations will be gotten under way for the dinner. and give the President practi- cally unlimited power in dealing with foreign nations. the factory working force was re- ported back at work this morn- ing. R. J. Thomas, local executive of the C.1.O. branch of the United Automobile Union, stated that “the failure of the strike seals forever the coffin of Homer Mar- tin's ‘wildcat’. union”... It is stated that the -C.LO. is now in a position to demand conferences on union matters with the Fisher Company as well as with the General Motors Company. built up a sizeable industry that: has reversed one of the sleight- It is stated that Navy officials; HENDAYE, France, June 13— Boza, Walter McCook, Eric Curry, | hoped that every citizen, every Brian Lloyd, Kenneth Soloman, home and every store will dis- of-hand standbys. Instead of were experiencing difficulty with pulling bunnies out of a hat diving equipment using helium they're putting the rabbits into |@74 the scientists have entered the scene prepared to give advice the chapeaux. % Skins from thousands of North |°" the subject. Navy officials Dakota jackrabbits are shipped! declared annually to New York where the| work was progressing satisfac- fur is mixed with longer hairs of torily in the planned operations tame rabbits in making felt for | to raise the submarine employing hats. ; Pontoons of gigantic size. Banner year for the industry: was 1929 wi about seed | BRITISH SUBJECT ‘mission firms at the rate of $1.65} ‘per pound. Prices have dropped | severely since then, 25 cents per} that: ; Advice reaches this border-line = 4 |city concerning the trials being Daniel Sawyer, Hertell ell, |conducted in Spain by Franco’s. Walter Robinson, Alfred - Lowe, jarmy officers against thousands Louis Bancells, lof Republican citizens of the na- Donald Pearlman, George Pensen, tion. ; Ward Herrick, John Day. Hundreds of Republicans are CTR TE {being executed, estimates in- NEW BANK MAY AID dicating that one sentence every jnine minutes.in the day long | trials being held carries the death penalty.. Fulfillment of the sen- Billy Pinder, | |tences is carried out almost in| | mediately. IN MONEY MARKET (By Associated Presn) | STRENGTHENING OF FINAN- CIAL STRUCTURE PRE- Sponsored By Church The affair will be given at 7:30 EOLA EIS o:clock in the Rainbow Dining | Homing Pigeons Hurry Room of the La Concha Hotel! a9 eas where. arrangements have been When Family $ Waiting made for the accommodations of Se SETS 90 guests. Mayor Albury inform- | (Ry Annocinted Preasy OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., June EDWARD GARCIA - DIED THIS A. M. Pound being the quotation this’ {year with income estimated at! $100,000. ‘New Orleans Chewers was paid by!hide and fur com- APRON SLE aaa HELD FOR TRIAL Tis On Tose (By Axsoelated Press) LONDON, June 13.—L V. Law- (Re Ansoctated Press) WESTPHALA, Ia., June 13.— ler, a British subject, is held for|The only place in this town of! | trial in this city charged with fir- | 200 where a man can buy a glass \ { i DICTED i \ (By Associated Tress) CAIRO, June 13.—A central of beer is operated by a church. | bank is to be created, in Egypt, | ed The Citizen that the affair will be informal. During the dinner entertain- ment will be affored the dinners with vocal selections by Mr. and Mrs. George Mille White, and Mrs. Eva B, Warner. BULLITT 10 BE OPERATED UPON (By Annociated Presa) PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 13. —Wm. C. Bullitt, United States Ambassador to France, entered a hospital in this city for a major operation. Ambassador Bullitt stated that he did not expect to be “layed up” for any great length of time, and that he expected to conf with President Roosevelt shortly before planning his return to his post in Paris. |13.—The family worries of a hom- ing pigeon help it to win races. | The bigger the problem the | faster Pop or Mom will fly, say |members of the Oklahoma City |Pigeon Racing Society. The female has an instinctive hankering to see her offspring |the moment they are hatched. |The male sits on the eggs while she is away but she doesn’t trust him 100 per cent and so she hur- ries back with all speed possible to finish the job. The males supervise the feed- | ing of the young. If poppa’s away when there are tiny ones at home, he’s never quite satisfied that momma isn’t out galavantin’ with the girls so he hurries, too. | VISIT KEY WEST Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Harris of Edward Garcia, Jr., one year of age, died this . morning o'clock in the residence 525 Catherine street. Funeral services will be held tomorrow after- noon 5:30 o’clock from the resi- dence Rev. A. L, Maureau, S. J. of St. Mary's Star of The Sea chureh will officiate. Lopez Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. Survivors are. The parents Mr. and ‘Mrs. Edward Garcia, Sr., grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Lino Garcia. Male Crocheter Tells Why He Started CHARLESTON. S.C. June Queen of Keep Cleaners Busy | sister-in-law of the —_—— | England. | oy, Rieeennten. Prete) ; Lawler was trapped shortly af- | NEW ORLEANS, La., June 13.\ ter he had fired a bullet from a j—It takes 17 men 22 nights a/ pistol into an automobile in city’s main bucketful of gum wads is the! the residence of the Duchess a nightly harvest. __|few days ago. The trial started | Once while the gum cleaning this morning in Old Bailey Court, crew, was working away with | scene of many historic trials in putty knive, steel wool and scrub | the past. i buckets, up walked a oe = . ”” are ee |Evade State Tax By “Yes,” a wor nodded. Spiking Beer “Well,” she pi rae a large! Near wad from her mouth, “here's! (Ry Ansoctated Press) some more to work on.” | BISMARCK, N. D., June 13.— The clean-up crew works in Near beer spiked with grain al- {groups of three. One man Pries cohol has become so popular with {up the gum wads with a putty North Dakotans as a beverage |knife. Another applies mineral that state officials are going fepiri i i spirits to remove the stain and a! ask the legislature |third mops up with a steel wool! “nd ocgedg buffer. # = gike i t ue eg ing a gun at the Duchess of Kent, | { It is the Westphalia clubhouse, ' by agreement between the gov- |part of a eooperative founded by ermment and the National Bank jthe Rev. Hubert E. Duren, pastor of Egypt. jof St. Boniface Catholic church. || Finance Minister Dr. Ahmed The cooperative also embraces Maher said he believed the ; Per cent of the 700 persons in the financial and economic relations parish belong to it. | between Egypt and Great Brit- | The clubhouse, which with an ain. Father Duren declared the aim| i 'ty that J. Otto. Kirchheiner, tax athletic program forms the rec-; OO - |reational facilities of the =; TAX operative, also has pool and card | tables. It is under the direct mpeyems ste cwcs,--| BEING PREPARED of the coopérative is to enable all hadla say 7 eee te or] Legal Notice appears in this is- ;sue of The Citizen informing all VALUABLE CORSET property holders in Monroe Coun- NEW YORK — Thieves entered ,2ssessor, will have the tax rolls of a woman in this city for 1939 in readiness for presen- her corset with $1,000 tation this month. in it. Members of the Board of Coun- ARRIVE FOR VISIT | li ty Commissioners will meet at the | county court house on Monday / iH |play the United States Flag on |Flag Day, tomorrow, June 14. |Fish, Not Feathers, | Are Egrets’ Woe Now | — | (Me Asnncinted Prowss | DES MOINES, Ia, June 13.— Egrets, nearly exterminated to | furnish plumes for women’s hats |years ago and protected -from | death now by federal law, are | being threatened again. Mississippi river fish hatch- jeries complain the birds should | be shot—not for their plumage, | but because they eat small fish. Conservation officials - reply, | however, that egrets feed mostly lon the sluggish carp and other undesirable fish easy to catch, hence they serve as useful pur- | pise. | ADVISORY | ADVISORY 9:45 a. m. EST: | week to keep chewing gum wads which the Duchess was riding.ja general store and a “credit change would contribute toward | pisturbance of slight to moderate cleaned up on Canal street, this) He is also charged with similar pool” which makes loans to mem- strengthening the financial mar-| intensity central at 7 a. m,. EST thoroughfare. A shooting incidents, committed at|bers. Father Duren declared 98 ket in Egypt and in consolidating | about 350 miles nearly west of 'Key West, Fla. moving -north- | ward about 20 miles per hour at- |tended by strong shifting winds | with occasjonal squalls of gale | force north and northeast of cen- ter. Smaller vessels in eastern and central Gulf of Mexico should exercise caution next 36 hours. | Small craft warnings displayed |Key West, Fla. to Grand Isle,