The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 20, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 146. Crummer: Gives Comprehensive Outline Of Activities Citing tne Head OF Compony Bearing His Name Addressed, Monroe County Commis- sioners Last Night R. E. Crummer, head of the R. E. Crummer Co., fiscal agents for Monroe county, who are conduct- } ing the bond refunding activities of the county. arrived yesterday | from Orlando and was accom- panied by E. W. Jackson, bond/| expert, and last night met in-! formally with the county com- missioners. Attending the meeting were: Chairman Carl Bervaldi. Com- missioners Braxton B. Warren, | Wm. Monsalvatge, T. Jenkins | Curry; Attorney W. C. Harris,! Clerk Ross.C. Sawyer, Chief Dep- | uty Sheriff Bernard Waite, Su- perintendent of Public Instruc- | tion Melvin E. Russell, Wm. R.! Porter, president of the First Na- tional Bank, Tax Assessor J. O.} Kirchheiner, F. J. Dion and sev-} eral interested citizens. Mr. Crummer was - introduced by Chairman Bervaldi and for the next several hours went into a work done ni ‘ganization | and what has been accomplished for the county, and outlined what the future holds in store if certain plans are carried out as scheduled. Following certain questions asked by his hearers he explain-| ed the attitude of members of| the state board of administration | and gave an explanation of cer- | tain of Governor Cone’s . vetoes, | which have a direct bearing on, the issues facing Monroe*county. During his talk he was inter- | rupted séveral times by Mr./ Porter, who asked for explana-! tory statements concerning the refunding program now under/ way, points of which are of vital} interest to the county, all of! which were satisfactorily outlin- ed, and the company was assured | that the program, which will be drawn up by Mr. Crummer’s organization, if followed out to the letter, will be of the greatest benefit to the county. In the end, Mr. Crummer said that Monroe county, City of Key West and the schools of the coun- | ty were in admirable shape to) share in the benefits which will} accrue from the refunding op- erations that have been started, and have successfully been. op- erated up to the present. | | } EARLE DE NOON COMES TO CITY Che Key Wrst THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE 'UESDAY, JUNE 20, 1939 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, Cad io OF COMMERCE: ARE COMPARED 2 Brigadier General ,.Wm. E.; Colonel Watkins and Brown Shedd, commanding Seneral epee this morning on the Ribault the Fourth Coast Artillery Dis-' and General Shedd and Lieute- LOCAL SECRETARY REVEALS trict, U. S.A, with Colonel nant MacNair, who are staying at FEW WITH Lewis H. Watkins, District En-/Fort Taylor, expect to leave over wieiakies ese, dco igineer at Jacksonville, Colonel | the highway tomorrow morning. ORLANDO AND KEY WEST George BE. Brown, engineer of) General Shedd is in command of ‘the Miami office of the United|allj the coast artillery in the ORGANIZATIONS | States Engineers, and Lieutenant | southeastern United‘ States in- VISITOR LANDS ! {Thomas K. MacNair, aide to/ cluding the units here, at Pensa- LA JEWFISH| : General Shedd, arrived Sunday) cola and Charleston, South Caro- RGE ‘We have just been favored ‘afternoon on the engineer boat: lina. His headquarters are at | with a visitor who don’t seem to Ribault. 4g «| Fort McPherson, Ga. i jthink much of the Key West’. The general is making mg a Saag general was stationed a H nual tactical inspection 0! ie ‘y West barracks before the passed, hale pu and whe'farbor Defenses of Key West;/'world war. Mrs. Shedd is the ee at we-are rather imposing 244 with Colonels Watkins and/former Miss Lettie Patterson, on the good nature of the town ‘Brown, has been inspecting the}sister of Miss Etta Patterson and by continuing to clutter up the fortifications. A salute to the Mrs. H. A. Prindle of Caroline landscape”, states S. C. Singleton, *general as fired yesterday and he street. General Shedd expects to secretary of the: local organiza- Was greeted with a guard of honor jreturn to Key West in July dur- tion.’ “Among our. other « short- ‘at Key West Barracks. The party | ing the period of the encampment if ‘ | witnessed the firing at Fort Tay-j|of the 265th Coast Artillery, Flo- comings, he notes that we supply !tor yesterday afternon. rida National Guard. : “inadequately” other Chambers, j ! mu hee SOOO ES Ss It took a thrilling struggle with a two-hundred pound jewfish to persuade Mrs. Her- man Prellwitz of St. Charles, Ii, that Key West was truly —"“the champion fishing grounds of the nation”. Mr. and Mrs. Prellwitz on vacation tour from Illinois, came to this city last week- Key West, Florida, has the most equable cli ate.in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Citizen U. S.A. PRICE FIVE CENTS y's Verdict Charges Lelaina Sawyer With Guerro's Death CONFERENCE ON TRADE TREATIES (By Associnted Presx) 1 BERLIN, June 20—lIt is gen-! erally known that there is no: Jove lost between German and Russian officials; however, the! status hasn’t stopped private. in-} dustrial negotiations between! | Justice Of Peace Issues Warrant For His Arrest To Be Brought Before County Judge Shorily after noon today Le- land R. Sawyer was formally placed ui county iail and the warrant for his arrest was signed by Franklin Arenberg, Justice of the Peace and Coroner Ex-Of- ficic of the First District, Mon- roe County. . “Whereas, if appears to me frcem an inquisition held be- fore me as coroner in and for said county that from the evi- dence taken in writing before representatives in that classifica-!} me, the said coroner, that Le- || land R. Sawyer, on the 15th | The coroner's jury. investigat- \ing the shooting of Frank Guer- ;to, 44, last Thursday night at the corner of Whitehead and? Greenc | streets, in the court of Franklin end to sample the fishing. Fair success had been their reward up to yesterday noon. Then, at least for Mrs. Prell- witz, the tide changed deci- dedly in favor of a lasting impressiga of fishing here- abouts. Fishing from the Boca Chica bridge yesterday morn- of Commerce with our ieee ture”, The secretary, in answer to the visitor’s complaint, said, “And,i ‘he is horribly right. By a happy | coincidence, wet get the yearly | i ;report of the Orlando Chamber jof Commerce in the same day’s; mail. Now here is a Chamber of | ing, Mr. Prellwitz and other {Commerce that is really doing members of the party left his something for the town”. wife to go for some bait. Be- | Then the secretary told of the fore he returned, workers on operations of the Orlando cham- : the road in the vicinity came | ber: running up to him and advis | ed him that “he'd better hur- ty back and help his wife land a ‘whopper’. Upon arrival back at the | spot from which Mrs. Prell- | witz was fishing, he discover- ed that his wife had landed a big jewfish measuring 6 feet one inch. She had brought the monster to the bridge, however she had fo call .on state road 4 nt work- bring “the jewfish up to the bridge floor. In relating the incident | to The Citizen, Mrs. Prellwitz | sram. wanted it expressly known {| “Orlando had just the kind of: that. this was “not a fish ‘a season that Key West wants. | atory"—even though she | Plenty of visitors, splendid infor- would have trouble with mation bureaus to send them to; northern friends believing. the | the right stopping places. It was story because of “fish story, {a fine season and no one poked postcards” having been sent any fun at the Orlando Chamber | them from other points.on of Commerce. their trips. Fea, Ses faige “Incidentally, the Orlando iy i |Chamber of Commerce had $35,- DPB L LBL BE s\ 0 10 spend and spent all but 26 {cents of it. ROY. AL COUPLE | “Maybe that is one of the dif- J0 G RES !zation that we have in Key West. ——— | Orlando has a swell secretary— lferences between the Orlando Chamber of Commerce and the CELEBRA- 4: C- Slaughter. That’s another difference”. “The smart thing for Key West to do would be to go up to Or- ‘jando and kidnap that Chamber of Commerce bodily and bring it} ;down on the Keys. “Your present secretary will be: the first man to apply for a job with that organization. if Key! West will just take that forward ;Step. The Orlando Chamber of} , Commerce has two extras .em-j jPloyed during the season, just to; ~ | good joke-with 75,090. Copies ofan eight-page, two-color booklet, be- | sides putting on baseball, radio, ; music and a swell aviation pro- hardy, amphibious little organi-; PREPARE’ FOR TIONS OF WELCOME AT, SOUTHHAMPTON ‘COLORED GIRL | (By Associated Press) | ABOARD THE EMPRESS OF) ote BRITAIN, June 20.—King George ; and Queen Elizabeth are thor-} Leonzia McGee, colored, who oughly enjoying a good rest—jwas arrested by Cemetery Sex- well-earned following the rigor-}ton Otto Bethel on a charge of ous demands of their month-long | stealing flowers from the graves tour of Canada and the United|in the city cemetery, was yester- States ending last weekend. day afternoon arraigned before The Empress of Britain was|Peace Justice Franklin Arenberg reported to be making good run-;for preliminary hearing. ning time, and is expected to} After listening to the evidence dock, on time, Thursday after-'being shown and the proof, noon at Southhampton, at which| bunch of gladioli and ferns, the} point a gigantic fgetoeaie home \econmnitiag magistrate remand-j; celebration will *be held, follow-jed the aecused under bond of | ed by various banquets and oth-/|$100 to await trial at the next: er celebrations in London. | give out. information, and. did ene ae oes Berlin in 1931, the family was in * | third birthday. tion in both countries from hold-; |} day:of July, 1939, in the coun- ty aforesaid, in and upon the body cf the said Frank Guer- to, in the Peace of God then end there, being feloniously. willfully and of malice afor thought, did make an assault, and that the said Leland R. Sawyer, with a certain pistol which he then and there had and held, in and upon said Frank Guerro a mortal wound did inflict, of which said mor- tal wound the said Frank Guerro died, and thet the said Leland R. Sawver, in the man- ner aforesaid, then and there did kill and murder the said Frank Guerro. These are therefore to command you to forthwith arrest the said Le- land R. Sawyer and bring him befcre the County Judge in and fcr Monroe County, fo be dealt with according to law”. The warrant was turned over to the sheriff's cffice and ART GROUP TO HOLD MEETIN MRS. JEANNE TAYLOR WEDNESDAY Peis keh GMs °F 3 : 2 i ‘mg conferences,on the subject} § NEPHEW NOW IN U S. ‘of trade treaties. ‘ , d i wie | While nothing definite on the TELLS ‘WHY 1 HATE MY UNCLE’ (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, June 20.—“Far mother and married again with- from scorning lavish display, Uf divorcing her. Ignoring many Adolf Hitler has surrounded hiia-| Went Tequests, neither Alois or é | Addlf ever helped her rear her self with luxury more extrava- | son who claims his career in En- gant than any Kaiser ever en- gland was ruined because he was joyed,” declared his nephew, ! Adolf Hitler's nephew. William Patrick Hitler in Look} The nephew describes in Look Magazine today. “My uncle'some of his meetings with his } Adolf's friends are a curious lot. father and his uncle Adolf. “We , He avoids the intelligentsia and had’ cakes and whipped cream,’ MEXICO CITY, June 20.—The the upper classes and surrounds Hitler's favorite dessert,” he government of Mexico is report- himself with’ movie actresses,'wtites of one occasion, “I was ed to be turning from approval dancers, and pugnacious young; sttuck- by his intéhsity and his of General Franco. men .. . Toward members of the feminine gestures.” | Recent wholesale slaughter of aristrocacy his manner is either| Speaking of Hitler’s first love hundreds of Republican Span- cringingly servile or insolent and ‘affair, he writes, “When I visited jards is much opposed by Mexi- can officials and strong notes of protest have been transmitted to Franco’s governmental head- quarters in Madrid. Other Latin-American coun- tries. have indicated similar dis- pleasure with Franco, included | chiefly in that category being = Chili and Colombia. Both of} these South American countries have advised their embassies in Madrid to protest “the super- purging activities being enacted by Franco and his staff. ee eT DUCHESS BUYS BANK OFFICIALS | ARE BEING SOLD GIT FOR DUKE, DEFEND FALIN' Bale of balh-vear doehecs for | TaMt: The: sublect for: alotuenion | ‘automobiles in Monroe county |.” f FORMER KING WILL BE FOR-|CHARGED THAT HE USED was started yesterday at the of- tian art, with a talk by Mary TY-EIVE YEARS OLD GOVERNMENT FUNDS FOR fice of Tax Collector Frank H. Louise Williams. FRIDAY subject has been released, it is| ‘known that trade credits have |been aiscussed in the conferences | jand that commerce of a restrict- ed nature may be resumed be-; tween the two ‘nations. (iy Associatea! Press) -tréable.. Geli Raubal, the daugh- some young chauffeur has be- | ter Of Hitler's and my father’s come a force to be reckoned: with | sister, . had committed. suicide. ' in the Third Reich.” | Everyone knew that she and The nephew, who is the son of; Hitler had long been intimate Hitler’s half-brother Alois, has | and that she had been expecting recently come to America with}a child—a fact which enraged his mother: Young Hitler bears! Hitler His.revolver was found by a sttiking resemblance to his;her body.” ‘ uncle, although he is. only; half; Of Hitler’s attitude toward his German. His mother is Irish and_ sister, the nephew says, “He has he was reared in-England. His‘ never gotten on with Paula be- article im Look is entitled, “Why | cause she, talked about his. pri- I Hate My Uncle.” vate life and once worked for a His father, Alois, deserted his | Jew.” The Art Appreciation Reading Group will meet at the home of ‘Mrs. Jeanne Taylor, 408 William ‘street, at 8 o'clock on Wednesday | | | PRIVATE USE jLadd, upon telegraphic authori- | The day for these meetings oes | hin jzation from D. W. Finley, motor. has been changed from, Thursday (ny Ansocinted Press) | Syke eee en 0 Ser ae ae eee calls have |" Wednesday, in order not to vo HIN’ |. D. C., June 20.' H i ‘ : PARIS, ees June 20. The | i Tank olfiniils have. been: mite ot; thal oition of Co}s! ronflict with meetings of other Duchess of Windsor has purchas- rushed to the defense of their lector Ladd ‘and prospective pur | organizations held on Thursdays, ed a birthday gift for the Duke| general. manager, A. L. Falin, | chasers have been asking when LThis group, which was started for presentation on the latter’s | Who was cited in a report to the the sale of licenses would be! under the auspices of the Key anniversary this Friday, when he | noe pe reprenmmvenves today Rey: ‘Ladd said’ today that er Bearcat a ea oe : | by Rep. ot : sai a at pur- |) eral roject, has will be forty-five years old. She| DY Rep. Ralph AL Church of Il’, ieee . linois as using government funds chases have begun already and | proved one of the most popular has told no one what the gift is. | for Private use in traveling to ;he was being kept busy, along.of the Art -Center’s activities, Yesterday, the Duke presented | and from his Long. Island estate. with his clerks, making the is-| with a steadily growing attend- his wife with @-beauytiful neck- rast © mor ean that sa po a tance, it is stated. lace and bracelet, studdéed”with | anager .has made several busi- diamonds and roku peat 2 renee er Sagar yi ameibartd 6 ace he had perfect right to turn in cation of the Duchess’ forty- expense accounts for traveling | expenditures. | BATTLING OVER (GRASS FIRE ON United States Ready To File .. Protest In Japanese Blockade (By Associated Press) at this meeting is early Chris-| | Arenberg, peace justice and coro- ‘ner ex-officio, heard the balance |Of witnesses at reconvening of \the inquest yesterday afternoon in the courthouse, and at 7 o'clock last night returned- its verdict, stating that the deceased jhad met death from a_ pistol wound inflicted by Leland Saw- yer, 40. Both Guerro and Saw- iyer were WPA laborers. The courtroom was crowded to capacity when Mr. Arenberg jealled for order at 4 o'clock yes- \terday afternoon. J. Lancelot | Lester, assistant state’s attorney, ‘took up his post as examiner, {and the first of the witnesses was ‘called. | The onlookers heard Harry M. Pinder, attendant at the U. S Marine hospital, testify ‘to . last ‘remarks made by Guerro just ‘prior to his death. He stated | that Guerro knew he jas going. |to. die. ang his me! Twere quoted by Mr. Pinder ““He didn’t want anything done to ‘Peanuts’ (widely used nick- {name for Sawyer) on account of his children”. | “He had been going with Mrs. |Sawyer for five months and ex- pected to make her his wife”. | . “Leland, for God’s sake, don’t shoot me”, the latter statement relating to the scene immediate- lly preceding the fatal shaoting, {as related to Pinder” ; ‘+ | Other witnesses ‘appearing |were Marvin (Griffin, ‘Charles Gould Curry, ‘Reggie Trevor, W. W. Bowen, Mrs. Bowen, Onofro | Cerezo, Leonard Guerro, Harry |H. Johnson and C. Floney Pelle- | cier. Griffin, proprietor of a bar at |Whitehead and Greene streets stated that he heard the shot upon coming to the street was told that Leland Sawyer had just shot Frank Guerro, this, as it later ‘developed, by Mrs. Sawyer and ‘her ister, Mrs. Bethel. Later Saw- yer came over and pushed his wife and told her to go home to | their children. At that point of- !ficers Harry Johnson and Fléney | Pelecier came up, and their tes- |timony coroborated that of Grif- | fin in describing the surrender. of Sawyer and the handing over the pistol. | Griffin testified that he grabbed {at Sawyer andy told “to | “keep out of this”. §~ | Cerezo, a spectator of the shooting, sitting on a bench about ‘100 feet from the scene told of | the shooting, substantiating pre- | vious testimony given. | Leonard Guerro, brother of the | dead man, told of coming .to-the term of Criminal Court. t ae WASHINGTON, D. C., June; ly considered, although it is felt hospital soon after the shooting 20.—The United States today is'that-such action will give Japan | and ome grist oe ex- y consideri: ction ‘ excuse to extend. blockades to’ pected to die. over Burning grass was the cai Ms ering & a that tony Pave | cher concessions on the Chinese his personal belongings, includ- an alarm being sent Station important bearing on settlement coast. The foreign office in Lon-| ing money, to Leonard and charg- 1 at 1:15 this afternon. Ap- ;of the British-French-Japan diffi- | don, however, is in a “showdown | ed him to look after his son. Gue- WAGE MATTERS UNITED STREET Permit To Construct Sewer = yo (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., June 20. | Mr. DeNoon spent the morn- ing at the naval station racks the tests are being carried eonsultation with aide to the officer er the highway Permit for the construction of;is to be anchored to rock bottom the sewer outfall, which is to be| by one-inch bars 25- established at Key West for the foot centers. The pipe is be completion of the sewer, which!at elevations i was constructed by the WPA,/and one-half feet was yes' received by Mayor/line to 12 and one-half feet a‘ Willard M. and today/the end, which paratus from the stati respgnd- | culty in Chinese territory when it! mood” and —A battle-royal between the . notes have been sent South, and the North looms as ‘ed bag creed pres reliably reported that feel calling for and expression 5 -. | burn: g at an area on init strong message of protest is about | of purpose on the part of Japan— hearings are continued before | street between Duval and Simon- to go, forward calling for a can- either a desire to settle the diffi- ‘Wage and Hour Administrator;ton streets. : cellation of projected blockadeiculty amicably, with mediation Senator C. O. Andrews of Flor-} The flames were quickly | by Japan of the Amoy foreign |of the original cause of the whole ida: quenched by the streams from the ‘concessions area in Shanghai. No affair, or a status calling for exile menutechirers: eit op poe ne on Engine Num- | mention is to be made of the/force, with Japan assuming full erators in northern states are “gunning for” higher wages and shorter hours in their plants. Southern mill owners are bitter-| ‘ly opposing such legislation- on the greunds that they could not Question: Does the new Charter effect Occupational Answer: No! The new jrro also testified to the shooting iscene as described to him by his | brother, adding that Frank gave ‘a reason for the shoting that “he had done him (Sawyer) dirt.” | Both Johnson and Pelecier re- ‘lated of the arrest: Sawyer greet- ed Johnson with the words “Here gun and the journey to the coun- ty jail. On the way to jail, Saw- only made statement to being cau? inst making any state- that might be used against