The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 17, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West pat Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahsenheit Citizen VOLUME LX. No. 144. City Council Agrees To Sponsor: Street Project Vote To Take Care Of De-\ 9 OOOO IIMs ficiency Of Fourteen AUTHORIZE KEY Hundred Dollars In Sponsorship (By Associated Press) MIAMI, June 17.—Florida WPA Administrator Roy Schroder today authorized the following projects: Key West—Resurface the Roosevelt Boulevard, five and six-tenths miles, fifty feet wide, scarify, fill, grade and oil, eight-one workers, twelve months. Cost, $64,- 714; WPA allocation, $51.- 364. Key West—Renovate U. S. Marine Hospital, improve There was a special meeting ot | the City Council held last night which was attended by represen- | tatives from different civic or- ganizations of Key West at which time matters relative to sponsor- ing WPA projects and others as grounds, twenty-one work- PY THE so OF CZECH NATION MAY AID CANADA IMMENSE SHOE MANUFAC- TURING CONCERN APPLIES WEST PROJECTS| FOR APPLICATION TO ES-| TABLISH ON THIS SIDE (By Associated Press) TORONTO, Canada, June 17.—' German expansion in the former Czecho-Slovakian nation may cause industrial benefit for the j province of Canada if application ‘of a leading manufacturer in the old nation meets with Canadian consent. ys Thomas Bata, head of the im- mense shoe manufacturing con- cern bearing his name in present Bohemian territory, has appli UTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SAf i { 'URDAY, JUNE 17, 1939 ZON : \SHIOLIIOTS IN G | SISTER SUB OF SUNKEN “" WHAT IT IS...WHAT IT HAS WHAT IT CAN DO By Frank W. SQUALUS IS LAUNCHED (Ny Anxociated Prean) PORTSMOUTH,. N. H. June 17.—The commandant of the Navy Yard at this city today officiated at the launch-. ing of the submarine Sea Raider, sister ship to the sunken Squalus. The launching is made on the very day that Navy of- ficials begin their official in- vestigation of the disaster that brought death to twen- ty-six members of the Squa- lus’ crew, whose bodies are | | { : The Citizen republishes today the first in a series of articles on Zoning for Key West, written especially for it fourteen years ago and printed! then during the months of June and July (1925). The matter was et in anticipa- tion that the time would come’ when West would see the necessity of a competent Zo Plan. The Enabling Act authorizing Zoning for the Island City has just been passed by the Legislature. The writer was for ten years associated with Zoning and City Planning, a member of the Board in his native city. H ‘ ! ' i i Article No. 1 | Boston, nearly three centuries > ZONING. . .CITY PLANNING old, adopted zoning in 1915. Key | still on board the vessel. “Where there is no vision, j West’ hag just begun to reach tor OMGILI LILI LS I ST the people perish”. \her crown of glory. Many times’ City Planning will not wreck) } fall, ithe Golden Rule. It is not im-/She will stumble and will jpossible; is not a myth; is not|ut if Key West in these forma- /Gestructive; but City Planning is, 40n days will adopt a zoning} | Wt ai | | GUERRO RITES HERE SUNDAY 5 O'CLOCK FROM LOPEZ CHAPEL TO CHURCH | Funeral services for Frank Guerro, who died in the Marine PRICE FIVE CENTS Coroner’s Jury Hears Testimony In Guero Case; Adjoums. To ‘Monday Aftemoon | Several Witnesses Heard During Session Held Late Yesterday Afternoon In Court House No verdict was reached in the | coroner's inquest called to order | yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock ‘in the public mind, considerably | ardinance, fathered by capable} hospital 11:30 o'clock Thursday |{? the court of Franklin’ Aren- citizens, carried forward by a! pears aE | | Planning Board of practical men, | | Today, more than twenty-five | lurtured through the e«!y stages STATE DEPARTMENT AWAIT- bake £ fines her speeding gro, h with millions of Americans are living; ; : : ING ADVICE ON BRITISH under ahat best _ which Zoning | judgement and with care, she can } tp the government. officials of ‘camouflaged under the name of 158; WPA allocation, $5,041. Canada for permit to establish a! Zoning. : : branch of his factory on this con- | shang SOI I BASE GB vont. It would be necessary | v. MP ie permission to be granted ap- ! ers, four months. Cost, $6,- night, are to be held tomorrow! berg, coroner ex-officio, to inves- afternoon 5 o’clock. The body will be taken from! ‘the Lopez Funéral Home to! well were taken up for discus- sion. B. Curry Moreno, area supervi-! sor of the WPA addressed the; tigate the shooting and death of Frank Guerro by Leland Robert council, giving an outline of the status of operations now being i carried on and stated that it was' absolutely necessary to have the city or county sponsor future projects that are now in plan- ning. SPONGE SALES DURING WEEK {proximatley 200 technicians of) the main factory to travel to Can-; jada to open the factory and it is jupon this. question that officials are asked to pass. The workman | !would be kept in Canada only; siong enough to establish the fac- - dnd will in the afterglow become | can give them. i ja city of business and of homes, | Today over 500 cities and towne a paradise on earth, a thing of} are zoned under a form of ordin- ‘beauty and a joy forever—a joy| ance that lays no heavy finger | 1 the generations yet unborn. upon the pulse or nen purse-' In Massachusetts it was neces- strings of the public, the citizenry jsary to have adopted a constitu- of our every day. REPRISALS iFleming Street Methodist church, Sawyer. which occurred late | where services will be held, Rev. | (Ry Associated Press) } WASHINGTON, June 17.—Of- ficials of the State Department are eagerly awaiting advice of Thursday night. Jim Lilly officiating. } Pallbearers will be Rex Shaw, Clifford Watkins, Cesar Catala, |in the case had been called up to William Knowles, Bienvenido|7 o'clock, and the However, half of the witnesses inquést was | tional amendment, providing that Few lots of sponge were offer- tory and see that it was in effi-| S| “the General Court shall have contemplated British Mr. Moreno said that there was ‘ In addition to the zoned citie: economic Perez and Paul Thompson. adjourned to 4 o'clock Monday | A oe , icipal jcient working order. a prufict calling for rebuilding of ie for buyers at the municipal jcient wo ig ler. streets in Key West now under :SPonge dock yesterday. There consideration, and said that there | were 166 bunches of wool and was a deficiency of about four- ‘eight bunches of yellow. teen hundred dollars, which; peers Ne, be jena ie bs the lots and had prices been ac- imm« ve) the city’s cae. Be se would be cepted the sale would have to for furnishing necessary ma-/ talled $287.41. However, owners terials to the amount as stated.:semeed to consider the prices for The city council agreed to take certain lots entriely too small, | care of this portion, and _ this i j project will get under way ag an Ly following offerings were soon as the approval is obtained "*!use from headquarters. ; For 49 bunches of wool, $119 The matter of raising revenue for 16 bunches of wool, $56.31; to sponsor projects was discussed’ for three bunches of wool, $2.35, from_many angles, which in- and. for 15. bunches of wool, $39. posing sales tax, and “the total ag other methods of taxation for the Hence the total ‘sales amounted purpose of raising a working | ‘© $70.75. fund to take care of projects in| ¢ There-were two small sales the future. a és earlier in the week. One of It was decided ‘to hold another | meeting some time during the} coming week to take further ac-| tion on the matter. GROUP LEAVES THIS MORNING GOING TO TAMPA TO ATTEND | FIREMEN’S CONVENTION | JUNE 19 TO 21 Fire Chief Harry M. Baker,; Mrs. Baker and daughter, Miss Ruth Baker, and Electrician é : Theodore Albury, Mrs. Albury | til Fire Department Company and their son, left over the high-| No. 3 responded to the alarm and way this morning en route to | extinguishment of the fire fol- Tampa to attend the Convention lowed. proximately, and another cf Wed- nesday, totalled $50.85. BRUSH FIRE ON BOULEV A brush fire of quite serious proportions was discovered late bordering Roosevelt boulevard on the Atlantic ocean side. Several coconut trees in the near vicinity were threatened-un- Offerings were received on all} of Firemen which will be held June 19, 20 and 21. Others, members of the depart- ment of Key West plan to leave tomorrow morning, They are) ‘LT. CALLAHAN | ‘erations is blamed upon Ger- ;man restrictive measures on it | dustry in former Czech territory. LODGE UNIT WILL MEET TOMORROW | Recreation committee of .the Order Caballeros de Marti will meet at the lodge’s hall.on Eliza- beth street tomorrow noon for the purpose of outlining and com- pleting plans for its independence Way “celebration on “July 4th. ~~ | A reception committee will be ‘appointed to meet visitors arriv- ing here from Tampa, and from Miami by Overseas Highway on Monday, which totalled $175, ap- the morning of July 4th and will ; be escorted to the city by mem- bers of the local unit. The up- state delegation will be met at ; Pine Key. ; Composing the recreation com- mittee are: J. F. Fleitas, Julio Perez, Sr., Joseph Fernandez, Oscar L. Milian, Mrs. Concha Vasquez, Mrs. Rachel Sanchez, ‘Mrs. Dulce Maria Perez. | A group of 25 or more Sacer- dotisas del Hogar of the Woman’s Lodge will also make the trip to yesterday afternoon in property this city representing Tampa and : Miami. The visiting members will number from 50 to 65. HALE, BATEMAN PAY VISIT HER Arthur B. Hale, chairman of the State Road Department; Brooks Bateman and Tony Ma- sede, members of the department, The cause for the shift of op-{ ‘and towns which are better and happier and are thriving on its! benefits to the country, more | than 200 cthers have zoning plans {under discussion. | | ,Key West should be, and must be, numbered with this enlight-; !ened host. | The first section of any “stand- jardized zoning ordinance will) tread about as follows; and as it, \reads, so in a nutshell zoning is} defined: !morals, convenience and general welfare of its inhabitants, to les- isen danger from fire, congestion jand confusion, and...to.. impreve and beautify the community, | Pursuant to the (general) laws of jthe Commonwealth, and ail! jamendments thereto, the use,} | construction, repair and alteration! {of buildings or structures and | ithe use of premises in said com-|} ‘munity are hereby restricted and , regulated as hereinafter pro- | vided”. | From this paragraph it will be} ibeen that a; Code of Building |Laws is essential, and that, 'protect property owners, an Act lof the Great and General Court ‘js desirable. Throughout the ‘country,. the Supreme Courts ‘have handed down decisions bearing upon the validity of zon- ‘ing ordinances, and these deci- sions have been and most as- suredly will be continuedly fav- jorable as upholding the innate | wishes of a liberty loving people} ito have and to pleasurably and} | profitably hold that which they/turing, commercial and mercan- © Lie tol” ithe power to limit buildings ac- cording to their use and con- struction to specified districts of cities and towns. “The voters passed this referendum more than 2 to 1. In Boston city this vote was over four to one. It took three years to thus far! e the way. The next step was the delegation of this power specifically to local municipali- ties, For,this purpose a second; | act was proposed and passed, an ‘ca, ti Is i ‘. “To promote the health, safety, | enabling act, giving to cities and Shangtial < spain pbreiecia pe towns the authority to establish! zoning by-laws and_ ordinances, “in such manner as will best pro- mote the. -health,-safety, con-! venience and ‘welfare of the in- habitants”, ete. i This authority was delegated, under the “police power” of the Commonwealth and that is the same authority under which fire regulations and building laws} operate. There is, therefore, no- compensation to individuals on account of such regulations with the regard fo development or use of property. Zoning is a proper exercise of ‘police power”. Numerous court decisions have well established , this fact in various cities of the: United States. The Massachu-| setts state zoning enabling act | was not alone held to be in ac-} cord with the state constitution, ' but also was found to conform to the constitution of the nation. The Supreme Court decision furthed yliscounting of said: reprisals against Japan in antici- | ' “The segregation of manufac-»0f England were pation that the United States deceased have arrived in the city will arrange similar action, al- to attend the funeral: Manuel though, it is stated, this nation Guerro, brother, from Florence, will treat the subject with ex-' Ala. Mrs. John A. West, Mr. and treme caution in that no territory Mrs. John West, Jr., and children, in the blockaded foreign conces- Shirley, Thonias and Robert, and sions in China is involved in the Mrs. Alma Bennett and son, present British-Japanese dif- Mickey, of Miami. ficulty. A . | SS AER ELSE'S SR Alleged mistreatment of Ameri- CUBA ARRIVES FROM HAVANA areas, however, in causing some concern here, and it} is expected that should Britain | furnish the lead, that government * reprisals with strong protesta- | Arriving yesterday from “Ha- tions against the blockade. vana were 57 passengers on the Japan still holds a rigid block- Steamship Cuba. Of this num- ade, however. Food supplies are per there were 34 first and nine running short. No advice has come forth as to whether British 5€COnd for Key West, and for warships will be ordered to bring Tampa were 14 first.cabin pas- in food to the concessions, sengers. though it is felt that this action|' Key West arrivals: Romando will come soon’ should the: block-' - js Noe Castellano, Gerardo Gundiola, ade still hold over th kend. 4 . over the weekend. ,Carmen Pieruco, Ben Lubelsky, PERTURBED OVER lNercipe Agnes @ Corton, bi P. GERMAN ARTICLE ‘Carroll, Bertram Johnson, Niles P. Johnson, A. F. Llanes, Luis F. Otero, Angela C. Garcia, Teresa ;Caraballo, Anita Hullmare, Mar- ‘garet Shieds, Berthy Bryan, Mil- (Ry Anseciated Press) PETERBORO, Canada, June 17.—The mayor of this city is incensed at the German press the enthusiasm ' dred Rector, Gus Myerholtz, Madeline Myerholtz, G. C. Fer- with which the King and Queen received in mei nante, Rose Marie Fernandez, Woodrow Loos, Marjorie Loos, Helen O’Brien, was, Eleanor Gillespie, Walter Hullman, Gloria Avalo, Mariano seg 2 Ferrero, Maria Casas, Emerito Barbara Bosel-| j Possess; to grant more light and/tile business of various kinds to jair, better conditions for the A message has been tranisiit- | ‘particular localities, when exer- ted from the Council of Peter-| iFerrero, Marie Ferrero, Jose Es- The following relatives of the! | afternoon, at which time J. Lance- lot Lester, assistant state's at- torney, assisting in the case, will | | interrogate the rest of the wit- jmesses at the scene of the shoot- | ing. | Witnesses appearing yesterday | were: Dr. Edwin Saunders and ‘Dr. S. N. Goldson of the U. S. Marine Hospital staff. Dr. Saun- ders testified that he attended ;Guerro when he was brought to e. hospital _ and_ was. present yhen the victim died. Dr. Gold- tson' related of the autopsy held yesterday morning during which it was determined that Guerro jhad died “from hemorhages caused by gun shot wound”. Other witnesses included Wil- lard Wells, gateman at the. Naval |Station entrance; Arthur,- Baeza, |Mrs. Annie Laurie Bethel;, Mrs. Eloise Sawyer, estranged wife of | Leland Sawyer, who ds held with- out bail in the county jail await- ing verdict of the jurv; Eugene |Spencer, Armand Roberts and | Robert Leland Sawyer, son. of the defendant. Baeza and Mrs. Bethel both testified to extreme nervousness and inability to construct a co- herent story of the happenings shooting. Both |‘vere present on the bench with Mrs. Sawyer and Guerro “when {the car drove up in which the |Sawyers, senior and junior, to- | gether with young Roberts and Spencer, were seated. They both, however, recalled that | preceding the ichildren, greater security in the! ‘home—which in many crowded (districts today is lacking when jfire menaces; to extend, withal, ithe widest privileges making for cised with reason, may be thought to bear a national relation to the -' health and safety of the munity. .. com-«+ .The suppression and grevention of disorder, the extin- ,‘ncidentally, find out what so! pinola, Catelina Bonache, Teresa Sawyer Ruiz, Sam Mellott, Julia Mellott, | approached the bench and order- Constance Mellott, George Mel-|ed all occupants to rise “and go ‘lott, Jean Garcia, Napoleon Po- | home”. quet. | Mrs. Sawyer appeared quite Listed on the vessel’s manifest; composed. She stated that she boro inviting Adolf Hitler to per- sonally visit Canada’ “Then he will find out just how we wel- eomed our royal’ monarchs—and, rt RETURNS HERE visitors in the city this| better civilization. Peaenings meeting officials of the; I have before me as I write, ‘county and city and other friends. | with numerous other pamphlets, Milton Roberts, Oscar Cruz, Le- roy Roberts, John Lord, Cleve- land Dillon and Councilman Will |suishment of fire and the en- 8 ‘welcome we would give him’ forcement of regulations for ,Stated the mayor. * were the following items: For|had been estranged from. -her b , ‘Key West, one ton of freight,| husband for two weeks and had E. P. Roberts. It is said that during the con- vention there will be racing and other contests which will be held to test the mettle of the depart- tents members, and the Key West aggregation will be pre- pared to take part in the tests. FRANK JONES GETS HEARING Frank Jones, suspected of be- Lieutenant Fort Callahan, U. S. N., officer in charge of the naval station, who left several days ago over the highway for a visit of inspection of reserve units in this area, returned to the city this afternoon, accom- panied by Mrs. Callahan and their niece, Miss Margaret Chal- fant; from Bainbridge, Ga. Miss Chalfant, met Lieutenant and Mrs. Callahan in Miami, and | as she had such a delightful time on her previous visit decided that it would be really grand to again spend a while in Key West and will remain for several weeks. ing a vagrant was haled before Peace Justice Enrique Egqui- ., this morning and in EDEN FAMILY LEAVES ON BUS jief engineer Co. and night by Constable C. Floney Pellecier, who had been on the lookout for the» man following reports of his activity, and told the story to the magistrate. Jones pines “Eg under bond of $50 to await action of the criminal court at the next session. ~ |. R. Par- lay from datigh- left this Citizen this intended to DANCE TONIGHT ’s Garden Of Roses Pe and was surprised yesterday that it for his im- take up the F. W. BRITTIAN DIED THIS A. M. Frank W. Brittian died this morning in a local hospital. The body was placed in the |Pritchard Funeral Home to be | prepared for burial. Funeral . arrangements are pending word from Miss Gertrude Brittian, 44 Moore street, Prince- ton, N. J. DIVORCE DECREE | Final decree in the divorce suit of Esther Smith Morton versus W. Morton was filed| yesterday in the office of Ross C. Sawyer, clerk of the Circuit Court. They'll melt in your mouth! FRYERS, & ____ TODAY AND TOMORROW | peRMUDA MAR White and ' \three automobiles, and five sacks | been living at the home of her a copy of the 64-page booklet cov-| ances designed rightly to “pro- ering zoning in Boston. Benegth i mote the general welfare, may be the city seal of the “Hub of the| facilitated by the establishment Universe” appears a “Foreword”, | of zones or districts for business | | fof mail. For Tampa, 49 tons of freight and 42 sacks of mail. The Cuba sailed 5 o'clock for treet traffic, and other ore: CLIPPER ON LAST mother. She blamed her son Robert for “the whole affair”, relating of a conversation fol- }from which the following is quoted: og “On the eve of celebrating, in 11930, the tercentenary of the} jfounding of Boston, a Zoning ;Plan has been made for directing | {the more orderly growth of the city during the centuries to come than has prevailed in the past three hundred’ years. With equal rights for all and special privileges for none, the Plan will protect every. district from detrimental property uses, pre- serve home neighborhoods, en- courage the most valuable de- {velopmert of business and pro-/ ‘mote’ sound industrial expan- |sion”, | ‘That paragraph, in a way, }seems to me to be more explana- | tory of the aims and purposes of} _ city planning than is the typical introductory section of a more nN as distinguished from residence”. | Following the enactment of the necessary permissive legislation, | the City Planning Board sub-; mitted to the mayor a compre- hensive city plan. It will be seen, therefore, that authority for zoning in Boston is direct in that it comes from the people themselves by referendum vote on constitutional amendment— | safeguarded and protected at’ every step by «legal opinion—! truly “a government of the peo- ple, by the people and for the people”. As finally enacted the Boston Zoning Law was not passed un-! der the authority of the so-called | (Continued on Page Four) ‘the Pan American air service to Tampa with 10 first and six | lowing the shooting she accused jsecond cabin passengers booked |her son of “going for his father OF TRIAL RUN Roberts, owner and driver of the jear ,when they espied the two |couples sitting on the bench in front of the old postoffice. His a testimony to the effect that “he keenly alive to the advantages! drove home to get his daddy to day dabainaten Wrenn) jat Key West, and one sack of}when she had been seen ‘on the |he did do just that. He had been tere i uereticc!Famee TQ. TORTUGAS 3:00 p. m. Monday. See PORT W. I, mail from this port. | bench with Guerro”. Sine Wear ist Gaal ven of — Robert Sawyer admitted that E 1 i ‘SCOUTS GOING lout riding with two chums, rope left this afternoon for the | Taaasn Beieneds kel AMMA thence to Marseilles, France, | where arrivals is scheduled for | { Entice ores Clipper “had on Members of Scout Troop 51 are persons—members jof the crew, newspapermen and; radio observers. This flight is the jlast ina series of five trial |flights ordered by the Aeronau- tical Commission before regular passenger traffic is established early in July. PLAYS WITH TOYS of their trip to Tortugas on Mon- jday, and say they will be on the ‘spot at the Yacht Basin when the boat leaves at noon. | The trip is to be made on the i it of the Interior ves- [sel F. W. Meade and will be un- der the direction of Scoutmaster | Albert E. Peirce, Jr., who expects beat Frank up” was substantiated by both of his chums in their ap- \pearance at the inquest. Ques- | tioned as to why he wanted his daddy to “beat Frank up” by Mr. Lester, Robert stated that “he didn’t think it was right for his mother to go around with Guerro”. ‘to remain at Fort Jefferson untit| Testimony by several of the Ee Ps Thursday afternoon. witnesses brought out the in- bag ees fete gone Scouts who will make the trip|cidents prior to and following t all his spare time playing -°"¢° Miguel Bazo, Richard Bar-|the shooting. Sawyer and ‘his —_ r ber, Eugene Berkowitz, Anthony/son got out of the car and told {Boza, Paul Esquinaldo, Gilbert|Guerro “to stand up and fight”. ‘Hall, Russell Hyman, Paul Light-|Guerro then grabbed young Saw- LOS ANGELES — Mrs. Helen Robert Malone, Lysle McCown, Frank yer for a shield, but Robert broke loose, following which