The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 21, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 147. The Key THE so British Subject Being Held By Japanese Causes England ToBecome Situation Growing Out Of Blockade In China Is Cause Of Much Specula- tion (By Ansociated Press) TIENTSLN, Coma, June 21.—j A British subject engaged in the; being held by Japanese soldiers that are surrounding the foreign | Lendon diplomats transmitted | strong protestations against the seizure of this person to Tokio. Japan has not replied. There you have a brief Petre of an incident that bids fair to be the “straw that broke the camel's back” of patience on the; part of Great Britain in dealing| with the blockade situation along | the coast of China. As one incident after another i ' j occurs in this and other foreign | concessions of China, the settle- ment of the whole question, ae ther by force or mediation, comes mearer and nearer. Three great powers are now combining in! ééniférences ~ to “consider” “what steps must be taken against the! encroachment of Japan into “ position of complete control of} Chinese territory without appar- ent respect to property rights of! | foreigners. Economic reprisals of an_in-| formal nature, are already under | way. The Tokio press releases | stories today concerning British | ships refusing to take on car-} goes of Japanese goods and oth- | er acts of informal reprisal are} described, though nothing offi-} cial is admitted by London in G reatly Perturbed SHREESISSa I! SCIENTISTS DEFER PROPOSED VOYAGE It appears that the an- cient, sunken city of James- town isn’t going to be photo- graphed, and the reason for the cancelling ofthis widely heralded junket to St. Kitts by Captain Robert Hall of the Motorship Albee is found in the unseasonable start of the trade winds this year. Other members of the par- ty are Rupert Conrad, George Lawson, George Mur- phy and William Wright. The party made up of prominent scientist, movie- photographers using recent- ly-developed undersea equip- ment, deep-sea divers and various technical advisers set out from a northern port three weeks ago,.to take views of the ancient city off the island of Nevins in the Caribbean Sea, figuring that they had ample time before the trade winds set in to take their shots and scoot back north. However, as related, the winds have set in, and the party, following preliminary background shot work, was unable to proceed to St. Kitts. Captain Hall and his par- ty sailed from Key West yes- terday for their return trip north. Before sailing he called at the office of The Citizen and stated that. in all likelihood, the shots would be made next fall, following the hurricane seasen. West yacht basin last Sanday from Tortugas, where she had been laying up awaiting the end of the “small hurricane” blow recently passing up the Gulf. Carried by Captain Hall were a number of the latest improvements in undersea photographic equipment, and diving apparatus, which was equipped with reservoirs con- taining oxygen and helium to enable a diver to descend to a depth of 420 feet and work at that depth for a brief time. The party. said Captain Hall, had secured some ex- cellent photographs of the Steamship Valbanera, Span- |CHARTERGRAM IS EXPLAINED SHOWS ACTIVITIES PARTICI- PATED IN RELATIVE TO ISSUE (The following article is “Eponsored by the Charter Re- vision Committee—and is in- seried to amplify the state- ment made in today’s Char- tergram appearing on page one.) Citizens of Key West were in- \vited to participate in the move ithat culminated in the presenta- tion of a New City Charter for {this city at the Legislature in jTallahassee. It is suggested that ja resume of the meetings held be {publicized herewith, including athe initial incidents that were ‘responsible for the formation of {what is now known as the Char- iter Revision Committee. | Over a period of two .years !prior to June 9, 1938, various or- } ganizations and groups had been | discussing the advisability of a inew charter for Key West. In recognition of those discussions, and to bring the matter to a was presented with a resolution at their June 9, 1938, meeting, calling for the start of a move- ment to study the present char- ter with a view towards amend- ment or the formation of an en- tively new charter. i the record shows, and a commit- tee was appointed to “start the {ball rolling”. Following consid- erable study, this committee early in September, sent out an invi- lation to representative citizens; |ineluding all political office hold- ers, to join “in the» New Charter movement, and to stand prepared to attend; a meeting soon to be ealled. Over one hundred and fifty cards were sent out—the re- plies being dirceted to the club secretary. Sixty-five citizens answered the “call to arms”—and those {persons were summoned to jmeeting at the Courthouse on September 15, 1938. The Citizen story on the day previous to the meeting contained these words: '*All citizens are invited to at- tend this meeting regardless of {invitation”. Oven fifty persons tattended the meeting at which head, the Key West Lions Club} , The, resolution was adopted, as |’ UTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1939 Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Grand Jury To*Be‘Called |Work Of Extending Overseas Next Week To‘ Consider » Case Of Leland Sawyer Se aNobii Judge Arthur Gomez said this imorning befcre leaving for wt SAWYER HEARING aii tliat he anticipated retuthx ‘SET FOR MONDAY ing to Key West next week and| START PROBE IN | RECENT ‘SINKING | _ OF SUB SQUALUS' on Friday afternoon expected TENTATIVE DATE: MAY BE ithat he would call a session of | HELD LATER IN WEEK j circuit court for the purpose of ! hnaming a grand jury to consider | t nl YOUNG DIVING EXPERT IS |the cise of Leland R. Sawyer.' rand before whom ¢ preliminary, HEARD IN TESTIMONY GIV-| jcharged’ with fatally shooting | hearing‘ Will'be held'in'the mat-|' EN RELATIVE TO DIS-| } \ter of thé’killing of Frank Guerro | | Frank’ Guerro. iby Leland’ R, Sawyer, said today; ASTER The judge had been on one of it was his intention to set the. {hearing for Monday, June 26. | However, said the judge, be- i jhis usual trips to Key West for (hy Assoctated Press) and left foe that time arrives something PORTSMOUTH, N. H., June 21. a imay happen which will make it —‘The signal lights were all jteday to attend to some urgent! necessary to set the date later in green”, was the statement given the week; hence he would say today by a young diving expert, “tentative” Navy member of the sunken sub- marine Squalus. The statement | Was given this morning in the testimony before the Navy Board of Review convenced to; determine reasons for the disas- ter. Lieutenant Doyle of the Squalus made the above statement, con- | tinuing to testify that even down | to the 50-foot level, the signal NO NEW ASSIGNMENTS OR, NEW JERSEY SENATOR SAYS poard gave no indication that the - +) ee . i . forward compartments were being SESE EeTS ARE SE RTES TMEATY-TWO BER: rooded: At that level, he site TO BE MADE | RESENTATIVES FOR. HIM ‘ ja visit with his family, case, which were pending in the! tht Monday is. the court in Miami. ‘date for the hearing. i \PLEDGE DELEGATES FORFDR NEXT YEAR 4 1 | , other incidents than signal lights jtold officers in the control room | FG that water was poring in to the; (By Associated Press) ‘submarine, supposedly through} * ‘ ‘ induction valve that was. sup- trator in Jacksonville, has * re-| WASHINGTON, D. C., June 21, an in b Frtn ei ceived from F. C. Harrington, ad-|~ Senator William H. Smathers posed es ee ener H while on the surface. | |ministrator in Washington, infor-|0 New Jersey stated today that“ ‘Testimony brought out the, |mation to the effect that no. new Fe pasa thirty-two delegates to fact that if the induction valves! assignments~or~replacemedifs ont Democratic. National: Conven-. failure to.close. was the real cause | the rolls, except for certain speci- | t j fied reasons, are to be made. These reasons and the order was received today by Area Su- pervisor B. C. Moreno and read|ed that democrats of New Jersey’ gates had been offered to the Fi Roy Schroder, WPA adminis-} tion‘next year would be pledged -of the accident, that a device ig- to Franklin D. Roosevelt for a nored by the Navy for the past third term. ote Sees here = cor-| 4 rec e failure of the valve to’ Senator Smathers further stat- work, A system of interlocking i] { | | as follows: |believed that President Roose- Navy, and had been turned down. | Persons returning from private} velt would win the national elec-' PPR ELBIT Fe iemployment subsequent to June | jikelihood, th k TOWNSENDITES 21, 1938; ca ith be- | likelil , the New York dele- ss paar | gates would be pledged to Roose-! j}due to illness or injury; such} Persons as are essential to. effi- 2 CRANE aR Sa | |thorized by the regional directer. |GET TIME FOR jMASEONAL: SON an tone | GINS IN INDIANAPOLIS The instructions became effec- Highway Over Railroad Right Of Way To Be gin July | First POPS MT Ms During Present Year Ac- RAYMOND MOLEY TAKES CREDIT FOR | ‘NEW DEAL’ TERM tivities Will Be From Big Pine To Ramrod Or Possibly Further As a resuit of a series of con- (By Axnociated Pressy NEW YORK, N. Y., June 21.—Raymond Moley. one of the original brain trusters in the “inner circle cabinet" of President Roosévelt, today released a story in a nation- al magazine in which he takes credit for the term “New Moley states that when the first group was formed to as- sist the President in formu. lating national policies short- ly after election, he ed the name “New Deal” to cover all activities to be en- gaged in, and the name wes accepted, as the world now knows. President Roosevelt called his group “his privy council” until a New York paper coin- ed the word “Brain Trust”, which was also accepted and used ever since. Moley also took credit for the term “Forgotten Man”, used profusely by the Presi- dent in early New Deal speeches. ferences among officials of the ;bureau of roads and the | seas Road and Toll Bridge Dis- {State road department, the U. S. H Over- ils, extension of Overseas High- jway will get ‘about July 1, ‘ported today. This year it is proposed only to extend the highway via the old | railroad right-of-way from Big | Pine Key to Ramrod or possibly under way on or it was reliably re- | Summerland Key. for the funds ‘that will become available July 1 Vircin, appropriations by the state \road department and the U. 5S. {bureau of roads will not be suf- ‘ficient to improve the entire dis- ! FO DM DDS GB gy ere 10 Key West. ; Just when the mainland artery OLD ‘RESIDENT ! will be finished on the former ;railroad bed and viaducts — be- tween Key Largo and Lower RETURNS -HOME ‘Matecumbe..and- between Big Pine and Key West is a matter lof. conjecture. It is reported MAS “fhat sufficient money for this bis BOBERTS. , 82, HAD | work will not become available BEEN SPENDING VACATION | before next year, though it = ea sible enough cash will be foun: IN FLORIDA CITIES Ito pee I the work as far as {Pirates Cove this year. Some months ago the state road Thomas H. Roberts, of 629|commission appropriated $146,- Grinnell street, who had been/000 for extension of Overseas 4Spending a vacation of four | Highway, the funds to be avail- weeks with a son, Edward, ofjable in the fiscal year beginning Tampa, and another four weeks}July 1. Such ‘appropriations with a son, Leroy, of Jack-|usually are matched dollar for sonville, returned on the after-|dollar by the U.S. bureau of noon bus yesterday. roads, so that a total of $292,000 During his absence, Mr. Rob-|is assured under this arrange- |the officers of the Central Com-|tive June 19, 1939,.and shall re- mittee were elected and the mat-|™ain in effect until further. no- | SEWER PROJECT employment, who accepted such | tion in his state and that, in all ,cause of temporary separation r] 10 ASSEMBLE velt, also. f | : i —-- ;cient project operation as au-} TOMORROW MORNING jerts, who ‘is 82 years young, vis- sited a number of the neighboring {ment in 1939. | Although it is esumated this that direction. ish vessel with passengers, British now insist that the| situation has gone far beyond) one of local significance, at the} same time calling for a “pooling | of forces” to cope with the prob-| lem. The United States has indi-| cated strong interest, though no| mention of the Tientsin affair | has been mentioned in notes to} Tokio. Only the Amey blockade at Shanghai and the bombing of! American property in China, se-} rious enough taken together, has | been protested against by this na- | tion. | CUBA BRINGS IN 89 PASSENGERS VESSEL AFTER SHORT STOP AT THIS PORT LEFT FOR TAMPA } \ { } Arriving on the S. S. Cuba | yesterday afternoon from Havana | were 89 passengers, and of the) number there were 77 first cabin | and five second for Key West;} four first cabin and three second for Tampa. Among those returning to Key! West were J. A. Parrott, Mable| Parrott, Bienvenido Perez, Sabi- | no Hernandez, Milton Peacock, W. A. Maloney, O. B. Sutton, John Giles and Esperanza Giles. Others on the list were booked to points in the north, most of them for New York. Listed on the manifest of the ship were the following items: For Key West 15 tons of freight, six automobiles and five sacks of | mail. For Tampa 55 tons of freight and 47 sacks of mail. The larger portion of the freight for Key West were consigments of which was sunk during the hurricane of 1919 at Half Moon Shoals, about six miles east of Rebecca Shoals, at the end of the spot known as quicksands. VOLOOL ELIS BARBARA TAYLOR RECEIVES HONO |KEY WEST GIRL STUDENT stance, as AT UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN {Speciat to "The Citizen) Madison, Wis. June 21.—Bar- bara L. Taylor, Key West, Fila: ‘the Legislature, finished the work ' Baptist hath: Ghee the body the iiahiiiuasee pervicd. Xo’ be seed + | student at the University of Wis- |f drafting the suggested changes ‘was placed at 2 o'clock. Rev. Bachelor of Arts (General) at the 86th annual exercises of the State University in the University Field house at historical Camp Randall on Mon- day morning, June: 19. Approximately 2,000 bachelor’s |and higher degrees were caer ‘red at the exercises in the pre- Arenburg, the word July sence of more 12,000 parents, re- \latives and friends of the gra- duates. The degrees were present- ed to the graduates by C. A. Dykstra, president of the Univer- sity, who also gave the charge ‘Lions Club. | From then on regular meetings were held and amply publicized jin The Citizen. A Charter Study | Co |tee was formed, who met each | week ‘from September 22 to De- ,cember 9, studied every section jin the old charter with a view to i jimprovement or change. tee were held, to which the pub- lic was invited, on October 10,! ‘November 3, ,November 14 and {January 10, 1939. stated, all possible peed was given to the move- ment. | Subsequent developments are jeeseredy known to all. The committee, faced with the de- ' parture from. Key West of their ‘chariman, and the need for ‘in presenting the new charter to ‘into a new charter, which was jconsin, received the degree of completed early in May—and a ‘the officiating minister. | copy of the new instrument was handed over to the city clerk, and commencement ' that fact made known to the pub-/Sealy C. Knowles, William T.| jlic in The Citizen. | CORRECTION i “of a warrant by ‘and Coroner Ex. peared through error. The correct reading is as fol- |te taken out of the hands of thejtice. They do not, however, ap- | mmittee of the main commit- | Meetings of the whole commit- | In every in-j; {ply to new assignments and re- |placements on federal agency }projects or nationwide federally sponsored projects. |PLAN TO START WORK OF INSTALLING OUTFALL PIPE ON MONDAY (CHARLES FINE ‘DIED YESTERDAY, Tentative date for the con: struction of the sewer’ outfall a Trumbo Island was today set by 4 FUNERAL SERVICES WILL) BE. reno for?Monday, June 26, and jthe U. S. Engimeer's office at vacksonville has been so advised. Selection and classification of | CONDUCTED THIS AFT- TERNOON | | project was started today and the setup for the project will be ready by the date set, it was said. Charles R. Fine, 33, died 1:30 ,o’clock yesterday afternoon in the ,Fesidence at Number 6 Nassau ; Lane, Mr. Fine died after a very , brief illness. | Funeral services will be held ;this afternoon 5 o'clock from the | |to secure one of the helmets |which are used by employes of by the men who will do the work Yancey Tillman Shehane will be; i i | Pallbearers who have been se- slected to serve are: R. T. Curry, ! VISITORS ENJOY FISHING HERE Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Daniel, Ed. | Weatherford, Jerome Nottage, | William Knowles and W. F. Col | lins. | Survivors are the parents Mr. | five _sis-| ; Ralph and Sylvan Fine. ap-} a as ‘ows: “That Leland R. Sawyer, ‘on the 15th day of June 1939, in jthe county aforesaid” etcetera. | In the same issue Leonard Gue- connection | cities to Tampa and Jacksonville, | fund would carry the work only def idelegation of nearly twenty | Hy | Area ‘Supervisor B. Curry Mo-' ' Arrangements have been made (Dy Associated Press) H INDIANAPOLIS, .Ind., June} j21—The Townsend National | Convention opens in this city to-| ‘morrow morning and an expect-| jousand is anticipated to be on and as each train coming in' city unloads hundreds Townsendites today. | One of the main issues to be; taken up at the convention is re- prisals against congressmen who voted down the recent introduc- tion of the Townsend Bill in Congress, according to advice re-{ of cers. ‘ A strong program of club for- mations in districts represented by anti-congressmen is planned. | The program as outlined and released does not include any third-party movement. Dr. Town- | send hinted that a third party may be formed when his bill was decisively beaten in the House of Representatives last month. Later j decisions and policy to be fol- lowed turns thumbs down on a ithird-party, with concentration lof the reprisals movement by all ; members. HARRIS GIVEN I | | | ‘ { { | Granderson Pearce versus Max- which he says have been tre-|to. Ramrod Key, including elim- mendously built up and improv-/|ination of the wooden bridge ex- ed since his last visit. tending from Ramrod to Sum- In Jacksonville, one of the|merlnad ‘Key, highway engi- places which inost intrigued him|neers hope this year to raise suf- was the paper bag factory where! ficient money to extend the these containers are turned out highway to Pirates Cove. y thousands every working; At present the old couniy road- hour. Another interesting place way distance from Big Pine to was the zoo wher, jhe says, al-|pirates Cove includes two miles most every type of animal may of wooden bridges and eight miles be found. Ad |of pavement. When the highway Mr. Roberts started out _ t0|is extended over the railroad be- stay four weeks, but as time!tween Big Pine and the Cove passed quickly amid new sights.|the distance would be about six at least new to him, he gradually miles, Six wooden bridges would the men who are to work on the ,leased today by convention offi-| began to long for the time to re-| be eliminated at Little ~ Torch, turn when he would come back | mrod, Summerland, to the “little city where he had |Gonjre pa Sugar Loaf Keys. ved practically all of his life”.| ‘Retliaty B. Hale, chairnian, of \the state road department, head- GRASS FIRE ON ed a delegation of engineers and ‘officials over the weekend in an } inspection of the proposed high- (Key West. With him were SE Ae Ee Brooks Bateman, engineer for An alarm of fire sounded from|the department; Charles D. Box 225 at 1:50 this afternoon’Snead, Montgomery, Ala., dis- called apparatus to the corner of trict gngineer for the U.S. bu- Petronia and Simonton streets reau of roads; H. J. Morrison, where a grass fire was burning. |Gainesville, state representative At 2 o'clock the flames hadjof the federal bureau and field been subdued and the recall of engineers of the two depart- the enginess was sounded, | ments. "7 At Marathon, Hale and ~his party consulted with John Slade, Tallahassee, chairman of the ' ‘Overseas Road and Toll Bridge FILED IN COURT Distt, 224 2M. Duncan, Key West, engineer and manager for oe rst sngiocers coesked piaus, fo " i eral engineers 5) for Bill of complaint filed in the| the roadway and bridges between office of Clerk Ross C. Sawyer.|pig Pine and Pirates Cove of circuit court, is that of James} against the engineering experi- ence of Slade and Duncan -in the construction of Overseas Highway between Lower Mate- cumbe and Big Pine. Chairman Hale informed Key West officials it had been decid- ed to go ahead with the Big Pine- Ramrod construction about July 1. He had been assured of the @| approval of the U. S. bureau of ‘reappraisement | roads of an appropriation match. ing the state allotment,