The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 19, 1939, Page 1

Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Associated VOLUME LX. No. 145. I Crininl posed Of Court Today All Dilsicks Entered! GUERRO RITES Pleas Of Guilty With Sentences Imposed By Court At a special sesion of Criminal Court called this morning and | HELD SUNDAY LORS TO FLEMING i STREET CHURCH Che Key Uk THE so BUSINESS MEN ARE PROTECTED COMMERCE BODY MAINTAINS PUBLICITY COMMITTEE | “One of the most valuable ser j vices that the Chamber of Com- ;Merce provides for the business ‘men of the city is the maintain- t a | ance of ‘a Publicity Committee, ' ended this noon when | FUNERAL FROM LOPEZ PAR-, ees see : v5 P which is always ready to consider ficent air-liner, Atlantic Clipper, country, sponsored by represen- | ick etisi . landed in the blue waters of the | tatives of the chains who were! i bay: publielty cr See Oo | |COMMITTEE INTRODUCES RETURNED TO HOME AFTER) pPpsition submitted to it and to endorse those that seem worth- | while and to withold its endorse- oat SPAPER IN THE MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1939 Atlantic Clipper Lands In Mediterranean Sea Ending 48-Hour Flight MARSEILLES, France., June}! dio contact with the Clipper 19.— The last of the trial flights | with its New York base was kept of the newly-established Pan'during the whole flight—and American air-route to Europe many of the reports were broad- the magni- j cast over national chains in this KEY WEST, FLORIDA, H Mediterranean Sea at this point! on board. ,with its human load. of thirty| Magellan's history 'persons—members of the crew ocean trip, following infi and newspaper and radio ex- | tedious preparation, making nite and Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit consumed j+ Citizen | U.S. A. Blockade Of Chinese ~ About Very HOMESTEADING POISONED | BEFORE HOUSE TAKEN TO HOSPITAL % | LEGISLATION CALLING FOR CONSIDERATION TREATMENT TO EASE PAIN HAD BEEN ADMINISTERED PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Brings Serious Complications | round Concession Area With Wire Electrically | Charged (By Associated Press) The funeral of Frank Guerro,’ ment from others which ,do not Perts. The flight consumed slight- | aver two years to make the Phil- | who died on Thursday night, was appear to warrant the outlay. of ly less than forty-eight hours | pine Islands from Spain by way ! ¢ i | i held yesterday,,.afternoon ‘at 5 the money required, it is stated, from the take a y eetatlie ph ere eek Ejaand the aa | held in the office of Sheriff,K. O. H TIENTSIN, June 19. — Tho ‘Thompson, three cases were heard ! Washington, 187 Senetinted Prase’ | Last night about 9:30 o'clock, blockade, situation in the foreign by Judge William V. Albury. with officers of the court present. Morris Allen, colored, charged with the theft of a carton of cig- arettes from a private car, was arraigned and the charges read by County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr. Allen pleaded guilty to the charge and was sentenced to four months in the county jail. David Hepburn, who was held as an ac- complice, was released on the testimony given by Allen. Frank Jones, arrested on a vagrancy charge, was arraigned, and pleaded guilty to the charge, coupled with that of panhand- ling. He was sentenced to thirty days, the period to begin from o'clock from the Lopez Under-; taking Parlors to the Fleming! | Street Methodist Church, Rev. J. P. Lilly officiating. F The opening number of the solemn service was “Abide With |Me”, followed by a duet, “The Old Rugged Cross”, rendered by Miss Susan La Kin and Mrs. Carl Bervaldi. The closing hymn was “Till We Meet Again” by the choir. ! There was a large concourse of sorrowing relatives and friends |in attendance at the funeral, the services being concluded at the grave by; Rev. Lilly. The pallbearers were: Rex | Shaw, Clifford Watkins, Oscar |Catala, William Knowles, Bien- | venido Perez and Paul Thomp- son, | The. following out-of-town “The average business man is ‘afternoon, and the only incident not in a position to make all the separate from a routine schedule desirable inquiry into the merits that made the trip seem like a | just reasonable checking of flight | eines, and with - luxurious; , in slightly less than eight WASHINGTON, D. C., June 19. , Mrs. Edna Chambers, who resides ~The House Committee on Pub-' on the eleven hundred block on lic Lands has introduced legisla- Georgia street, was seized with concession areas in this ancient Chinese port is becoming hourly of the many propositions submit- ted to him: his time is valuable, the solicitor is a good salesman, and continues to consume time until the merchant signs up as the shortest way to end the ar- gument. } “A good many of our business men are discovering the advant- age of asking the solicitor if the. the Chamber of Commerce and flight from New York to Chica- | start on the new route on Wed- tion calling for consideration of go, or any other well-established | days. | the whole subject of homestead- terrific pains and being question- More serious as food supplies ap- :ed she said she had swallowed proach near-exhaustion. -British flight route, was the slight de-| Regular passenger traffic will viation to avoid a storm area as}nesday, June 28. Advance reser- the plane approached Lisbon, | vations have been made for a , Portugal, yesterday afternoon. | full load on the first trip. HOWARD WILSON ADDRESSES JAYCEES proposition has been submitted * SHOWING SLOW GROWTH OF KEY WEST .if it has not, to decline to discuss the matter until it has been. Of course, a refusal on the part ; of the Chamber to endorse a pro- Position is not necessarily a re- flection on the integrity of the ‘promotor; it simply means that | relatives of the deceased were in @fter due inquiry, the Chamber _Fhat the laék of proper pub- forged ahead has been for the jlicity is one of the main reasons | gad neglect and lack of the ‘prop- for the slow growth of Key West er type of publicity’. You will Lafuet Lona ew arate et Friday | vote that I used the word ‘proper’ iF i night by Howard Wilson, Deputy s 2 Collector of Internal. Revenue, in'in that statement, which I will ing in the United States. The i bill, if enacted, will give much ! needed relief to homestead ten-', ant farm families of the nation in | the form of purchase of tax liens wy the Department of the In- some of the contents of a bottle of Lysol. Ambulance from ard’s Funeral Home was sum- moned and Mrs. Chambers was ae : , Tushed to the Marine’ hospital. j terior and extension of other aid! There it was found that the pa- | by the federal government. fee | "Senator: Vandenberg of “Michi-| tient had not taken any Lysol. gan today called on the Admin-| Reggie Pritchard, conductor of sitration to put “aid to United | the funeral home, told The Citi- States bse be ote the cale ieee Mrs. Chambers had taken jof “must legislation”, pointing) ome potion, not Lysol, which | fics ek en tere a rendered her body perfectly |to be cleared away in this session | rigid. of the national legislature. Fai Alter her stomach had been the Pritch- | troops ran the blockade today with seven truckloads of perish- able foodstuff—and tice, flour and cold storage meats stocks of still are ample though they are not expected to hol@ out more than another week. Business in all of Tientsin is paralyzed as a result of the block- ade and thousands of residents ) dependent upon the ordinary flow of imports and exports for their attendance at the funeral: Manuel June, TT. ;Guerro and son, Thomas, from Frederick Urban was the last on the list and he entered a plea} of guilty to a charge of vagrancy and was sentenced to spend 10 days in jail. The sentence is to date from June 14. WAGNER ACT Florence, Ala.; Mrs. John A. West, Mr. and Mrs. John West, | Jr., and children, Shirley, Thomas and Robert, and Mrs, Alma Ben-{ nett and son, Mickey, of Miami. | CUBA ARRIVES | FROM TAMPA. _|takii does not see its way clear to re- commend the expenditures of local money on it. No one has to agree with that opinion, but a lot of time can be saved by in- viting the promoter. to see the Chamber of Commerce before ‘mui in general.” OFFICIAL GROUP RETURNS 70 CITY ure to provide relief from ex. -| emptied at the hospital and other Jivelihood. face a complete stop- speaking to members of the Key|try and explain. We have around icessive taxation and other trou-! measures taken to ease her suf- Page of all revenue, further add- up, the. time.of the’ -com~/to see. the: beginning. ofa. new, West Junior Chamber of Com- Key West one of the greatest at- merce at the supper meeting held ‘fractions to people that exists. ehh Lee ane A hi ‘The reason for its greatness is in! at most of us here‘; A Bae | i i that it knows no age limit, it can | tonight believe that we are about * = be enjoyed by both . the _ young | FKey West", Mr. Wilson’ said. “By|nd“6ld, ahd the rich “and “the this statement I mean we will see poor: I speak of our wonderful new changes in our economic af-|tishing grounds. I do not be- fairs, barf press affairs, _ tieve that the rich and the poor.}mostly from “southern areas. fOUE Soe Merete 1: Beneraly Ale speak of our wonderful fishing| Schedules calling for “shorter icomplete change, which _ will! |hours..in-all industries and high- slowly but steadily come about./grounds. I do not believe that "oy 3° a result of the new ‘blesome legislation now in ef- ;new plans, to effect wage and hour agremenits’ with employers, |fect, will seriously effect recov-| | fering, she was taken back to her ing to the seriousness of a food 4 , Shortage still more drastic than that which is experienced at a e [resent 4 J = 1% There is, considerable. mediation WILL MEET AGAIN: «i; on the question that origin- } ally brought on the blockade— jthat of the deliverance |GUERRO CASE WILL BE RE. | SUMED THIS AFTER- by the | British of four allegedly renegade “| Chinese to Japanese authorities. | British diplomats complain that IS CREDITED | Arriving on the Steamship «(By Asmociated Press) }Cuba from Tampa this morning WASHINGTON, D. C., June 19.| were 77 pasengers. Of the number —Officials of the National Labor | there were two first and five sec- Relations Board are today cred- | ond cabin for Key West, 66 first iting the Wagner Labor Act with | and three second cabin passengers millions of dollars saved the na- thon in 1938 as a result of the for- mation of their board. The savings were effected, ac- cording to the report released today by the Board, as a result of a forty-four percent decrease in strikes from the number called in the previous year. Employers, employes and mu- nicipal governmental agencies were all beneficiaries of the de- crease in strikes, it was pointed for Havana. Key West arrivals were: Mrs. 'C. Price, Raul: Garcia, Doriana | Velasco, Emilia Velasci, Georgina | Alvarez, Luvardo Alvarez and | Leona Alvarez, Listed on the manifest of the |ship were the following items: For Key West, nine tons of freight, one automobile and five sacks of mail. For Tampa, one |ton of freight, one automobile and 307 sacks of mail. The ship sailed at 10:30 o’clock \for Havana with 54 first cabin | and seven seconds booked at Key | West, six automobiles and six | sacks of mail. ARRIVE FOR “WEEK'S VISIT County Attorney W. Curry Harris, County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, and Commissioner Wm. Monsalvatge, chairman of the fi- ‘nance committee, who left last i week for Orlando to confer on matters of bond refunding with! the R. E. Crummer Co., fiscal agents of the county, returned to the city last night. | The result of their conferences and plans, which were worked out, will be heard tonight at a special meeting of the county commissioners called for 8 o’clock which will be attended by Mr. Crummer, who is due to arrive | today. PEACOCK PARTY . LEFT FOR CUBA Launch “Willard” with the {There is no question, or doubt,| this ieading entertainment fea- -in my mind that this organization jure has received the proper kind is going to play a decidedly im-|.1 pupucuy. 1 have neard peo- portant and large part in these! e make tne statement that it changes. | was not necessary to publicize our | “I have been iold by some of|isihing because everyone knows jour old citizens that when the) that tish could be caught in Key :railroad was completed into Key | «est due to our geographic loca- | West it was believed that nothing | tion. This statement is partly could stop the growth and pros- | correct.. However, everyone | perity of the city. It is true that | knows that tobacco companies lit did prosper to a certain point} :nanutacture cigarettes; yet they You and Ij are forced to daily remind people jhave heard many explanations| that such cigarettes exist. ;as to the cause. I recall when the, “I believe that the proper way first: road was built to the main-|to bring the fishing possibilities {land in conjunction with the }of Key West before tne eyes of ;ferries, everyone said that noth-; the public would be to formulate ting could stop the progress of;an annual. fishing tournament, {and then stopped. jhour hasis, are meeting stiff op- ! position in committee hearings on ‘the question. j NOON Taking of testimony in the | HOLDS SESSION last Thursday night will be con- |Arenberg and Assistant State | ‘BUGLE CORPS | case of the killing of Frank Gue- tinued 4 o'clock this afternoon ; Junior Drum and Bugle Corps, | Attorney, J. Lancelot Lester. j ;tro by Leland Robert Sawyer |by Coroner ex-officio Franklin “which is sponsored by the Ameri-| The jury met last Friday after- {can Legion, held their first re-' noon and continued until late in| ‘gular meeting Friday night and the evening. A recess was ofdered ‘elected the following officers. | at 7 o'clock when just about half Captain Eugene Berkowitz; First of the witnesses had been Lieutenant Gilbert Hall and| brought before the jury to tes- Second Lieutenant Lou Smith. ‘tify. jKey West now—because ‘didn’t | we have a road to the mainland?’ |We again prospered, after a fas- ‘hion, for a brief period, and that, ¥too, came to an abrupt halt. On {April 1, 1938, the Overseas High- jway was thrown open to the ; public and everyone thought that similar to the one Miami conducts! Captain Berkowith said this) Several of the witnesses who during the summer months. Mi- morning there were at the present. were called last Friday, it is un- | ami conducts hers in the summer ‘time 21 members of the ‘corps derstood, will be called on again | so as to keep the eyes of the na- and ,they had a few of the drums to tell their stories to the jury, tion on them during the dull @ndhugles’ required. ‘The boys | and others are to be heard before months—in the winter they do are very much interested in the'the case will be officially closed. not need it. I recently read Outcome of the venture and feel) ; Z | where some resort in California that they will all be supplied! Mrs. Eloise Perry and _ sons, Rodié and Abbott, arrived in Key West Saturday for a week’s visit | with friends. They are staying! with Miss Grace Grosby at her | home at 1417 Ashby street. Mrs. Perry has been coming to| Key West for the past five or six | LEFT SUNDAY Staff Seargeant H. O. Young jand Mrs. Young and children, j Olivia Gloria and Joe, and niece, Miss Sadie Young, who arrived a short while ago from the Philli- “| pine Islands and had been visit- jing Mrs. Young's father and | friends ‘here, left yesterday after- , |noon for their new station at | Fort Benjamin Harrison in In-. diana. | The Young’s will stop enroute owner Milton Peacock, Willard |that was the beginning of a new S. Maloney and Judge O. B. Sut- ton, of Coral Gables, and Miami, arrived in port last week for a few days, while the party enjoys the fishing. Mr. Peacock and Mr. Maloney left on the Steamship Cuba for : Havana where they will visit briefly, return later in the week and leave for home. DEFENDANT TO This morning’ Judge Sutton, fera for Key West. This has been a little over a year ago, and now ‘I hear the ery, ‘What good is the bridges without the water line?’ I do ‘not profess for one minute , to know all the reasons for these ;happenings, neither do I profess to know all ithem—but I believe that I do 'know one of the reasons, why the remedies for/ |has arranged’a tournament along the lines of Miami's; apparently | they have realized the value of this form of -advertisement. I | will not attempt to go into detail on this subject, except to say that usually some civic organiza- tion sponsors these affairs. I would like to see this organiza- tion take the initiative steps on this; however, I do not mean that SCOUTS LEAVE FOR TORTUGAS MEMBERS OF ORGANIZA- | TION LEFT ON GOVERN- | MENT BOAT with instruments in a brief time. | } ‘SOLANOS COME HERE ON VISIT 4 Rafael Solano, who is attached ,to the Railway Express Com- pany in Miami, arrived yester- there has been no expression from the Japs as to their policy in connection with a continuance of the blockade—rather . feeling | that Tokio is seeing fit to bring the whole subject of foreign in- |fluence domination in the Far East to a showdown upon the comparatively flimsy excuse of the one isolated case that has | brought forth official protest from | Japan. The United States is contacting | Tokio today asking about the holding of American missianaries for alleged offenses against Jap- anese soldiers. It is expected that England, France and the United States will push mediation meas- ures soon, though extreme cau- \tion is being exercised on ; ithe) | part of Great Britain in that! éfh! er concessipns in China will suf- fer if: np vert act is committed | that wy give the Japs a clear | field to other blockades. In the meantime, it is reported \that the foreign concession area jin Tientsin has been surrounded |with electrically-charged - wires \by Japanese soldiers, further en- forcing the complete blockade. MORE SPECIMENS. nied by his wife, and brother-in- law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. An- gel Delgado, left Saturday after- noon over the Highway enroute | and Savanah, to visit PRESS GROUP ARRIVES Arriving» on the Steamship Cuba this morning from Tampa be | to their destination ‘at Tampa, BE ARRAIGNED Lednzia McGee, who was ar- rested yesterday by Sexton Otto i Bethel of the cemetery, on a {charge of stealing flowers from the graves. is to be given a hear- ing this afternoon before Peace jJusti¢e Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. | As»far as can be learned there seems to be little doubt as to the ‘culpability of the girl and the MONROE THEATRE TONIGHT |Key West has not gone ahead! like it should. From _ observa- tions I would say that we de- pended altogether on the curios-/of publicity will pay great divi-/ ity of the public in wanting to see | dends to the people of Key West. the railroad and the highway to /{t that keep* bring people to Key West. We ‘made no effort to publicize our city, likewise we made the se- rious mistake of not trying to keep pegple here after they come —in we have neglected to sell Key West. “I repeat that I sincerely be- plieve that one of the important | }Teasons that Key West has cose you should assume the entire burden of the whole thing. “} feel confident that this type} f attracting the winter visitors”. MRS. SAUNDERS ano, daughter, Barbara, and son, | ARE DISPLAYED day, accompanied Mrs. So-} | “4 ee Members of Troop 51 Boy! or Louis, to spend a week in his old{ Scouts who left today for Fort R. E. Freeman, manager at home with relatives and friends. Jefferson and other places in the Trumbo Island, has donated an- It has been some time since the | Tortugas group were one of hap- other assembly of specimens from Solano family visited in Key Piest crowds of youngsters ever| ihe sea and they are now in the important ben must i West, and Rafael says that he is leaving on one of the high ad- {preparing to enjoy himself to the| Ventures of boyhood. jutmost, and will be guest, along|_ The trip is being made on the with his family, at the home of|Deparment of. The Interior ves~ 'Mrs. Solano’s brother-in-law and | $el. F. W. Meade, regular vessel sister, Mr. and Mrs. Jose Pelaez, | Plying between Key West and ‘on Caroline street. Fort Jefferson. The boys are ac- companied by Scoutmaster Al- | bert E. Pierce, Jr, manager of |the Key West Gas Co., but just |a big boy among a happy crowd | Hall, Russell Hyman, Paul Light- ‘bourne, Donald Lowe, Robert | tropical aquarium. Among the specimens were a (number of angel fish, scotch por- } ies, octopi and others of the ‘smaller kinds of fish found in | these waters and one six-foot | specimen of the sand shark. MEET TONIGBT Membership meeting of i ization the I