The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 22, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire : Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 148. Aliens Receiving Old Age Assistance-To Be Dropped From Rolls Immediately One Hundred And Seven- ty-One In Monroe Coun- ty Affected By New Or- der Mrs. Gladys Roberts local su-| pervisior of the State Welfare; Board said today that the Act re- cently enacted by the State Legis- lature requires that all recipients of the Old Age Assistance, must be citizens of the United States and the board this week started/ to remove the names of all, known aliens who are receiving this form of public relief. } The Board declaring it was the! ‘intent of the Legislature to with- | hold from all on-citizens this form of public assistance, by re- solution including blind aliens in the list of those who are to be! deprived of public support. Near- ly 1,000 persons are affected by the order which will make avail- able approximately $150,000 an- nually in public funds for distri- bution among citizens of the re- public, residents in Florida. In Monroe county, Mrs. Roberts said, there are approximately 137 recipients of Old Age Assistance and 34 recipients of Aid to the Blind, who will be dropped from | the rolls during the present month. State Welfare Commissioner C. | this week made it known aliens, those whose lack of citizenship was proven at the time the original investigations! were made will be removed at} CL Ah hak had dL) DUKE OF WINDSOR MUST HAVE KING’S O. K. FOR U. S. TRIP (By Associated Preax) PARIS. June 22.—The Duke and Duchess of Wind- sor are turning aside all THE SOUTHERNMOST NE THURSDAY, JU j The Citizen republishes HAROLD C. WALL APPOINT- | ED AS SUCCESSOR TO CHAIRMAN OF INDUSTRIAL | COMMISSION has just been passed by the . Resignation of Wendell C, Hea- ‘ton as chairman of the Florida Industrial Commission and the Article No, 2 ‘WHAT IT IS...WHAT IT HAS DONE....WHAT By Frank W.:Lovering articles on Zoning for Key Ws fourteen years ago and ‘printed.then during the months of June and July (1925). The are tion that the time would come! when the necessity of a competent Zoning Plan. The Enabling Act authorizi The writer was for ten years associated with Zoning and City Planning, a member of the Board in his native city. appointment of Harold C. Wall as| his successor has been arenes | by Governor Fred P,. Cone. Mr. questions of a projected visit to the United States with the statement that conferences with the King of England, | arp | THE FIRST STEP FORW. ! “A city plan is a city planned”. Progress along an unblazed * st Citizen | ¥SPAPER IN THE U.S. A. INE 22, 1939 ‘the second in.a series of written i for it Now Of was in anticipa- ey West would see Zoning for the Island City ture. OF DISASTER TO SUNKEN SQUALUS) have been completed and accept- ed.) This work may take a year. The temporary rules require ; } rings. These hearings cannot, WORKERS NOW EXPECT THAT) ‘DETERMINE CAUSE |PRESIDENT ASKS — regular meeting held on Tu the Duke's brother. on the subject are necessary before any thought of a trip across the ocean can be entertained. It is known that the Duke and Duchess would like to make the trip, yet they real- ize that complications might arise if the journey is made too soon after the royal visit just ended. VC hehadmteatenteatheadathel ‘DOUGHTRY T0 HEAD CHURCH SERVICE CLUB UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED PRESIDENT: OTHER MAT- TERS TAKEN UP AT MEET- ING TUESDAY EVENING Wm. T. Doughtry was unani- mously elected President of the Stone Church Service Club at its esday of the First Me- thodist (Stone) Church. Other; officers elected. to serve with Mr. Doughtry were: Archie Roberts, Viee President; Jay Stricker, i Heaton relinquished his duties /t-ai) ig most often at the rate of last Saturday. {two steps forward and one step Mr. Wall had been the . full- ‘jack. jtime administrator of the State}, This .was never more true than Unemployment Division since the ‘of zoning. Against the plan for job insurance law took effect in a city plan, the private purse June, 1937. Under his administra-jrears its ugly head and it hates ition of the Unemployment Com- ‘to fight in the open, It seeks to pensation Division more than 6,-|breed discord by pulling hidden 000 employes have registered and wires. It seeks to create false contributions in excess of $13,-!impressions of honorable inten- 000,000 have been collected for tions, It cries out that’ its rights ‘the state’s “jobless” fund. ‘are being wronged and that the The state started payments of community is headed for benefits to the eligible unem- | dogs. \ployed workers in Florida last! January, and more than $650,000 mirages vanish; the real men of {has been paid out in jobless bene-|the city or the town—those fine fits. ‘piven, who stand with sturdy Due to his extensive knowledge ‘shoulders under any load they of insurance problems and* his!can lighten for the betterment of experience as head of the unem- | their fellows—Chambers of Com- ployment Compensation Division, 'merce, Boards of Trade, Rotari- jhe is thoroughly qualified to|ans, Lions—all these have been jhead the Industrial Commission, | found marching. with the winning which has supervision over thejcolumns in the great army of Workmen's Compensation Divi- ; Zoning Progress. : sion, the State Employment Serv-| Therefore, in some form or ice and the Unemployment Com- | other, the plans for cities planned pensation Division. have been advancing for about the; But in actual experience these! Mr. Wall is a lieutenant in the 24 years in the United States. held until 51% of th © oy het S| \ILL-FATED VESSEL WILL of property with:n 400 feet in any eee where some structure out }.9BE RAISED WITHIN NEXT ie common is projects, shall jhave signed a petition and waiv-|\ "FEW DAYS jer, in the presence of witness and attested to by a notary or a jus- tice. _ | The clause so acts in the tem- porary ordinance as to give all — |the most interested abutters a|-~—!t Was definitely proved to- |fgir- and reasonable right to ob-|day that the Squalus, sunken jJect or to favor. It will prevent} }a@ man whose pulse beats in his |poeket';ook from jamming a fill- fing sf ‘ion within a few feet of ja porch. It will compel a public garage to keep out of a residence district. It will allow community gatages, up to a reasonable num- ber in ‘a group or unit, to be! ‘ erected in conveniently located | inquiry into the causes of the di- | exclusive home sections. j H “It will hurt the feelings of the|"*5t™ Teported that just before |money-chaser who seeks to put a|the ship reached the 50-foot level noisy and a noisome automobile the last dive: shat : repair shop next door to a Sun-|0" te last dive, that a voice was heard from the engine room over \the telephone to main quarters (Ry Asaceiated Presn) submarine resting on the bottom Jof the ocean off this city, ety disaster from an open induction valve in the engine room. Seamen testifying at the Naval day church service, or a clatter- jing factory or a bar room _be- ath the open .windows of a sthool, stating that a valve is open and} PORTSMOUTH, 'N: H., ‘June}> Key West, Florids, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS wopean: And Orient Situation Rather Serious Nature Near-War Conditions Ap- | pear On Horizon Ove: | Treatment Of Foreign- ers In Chinese Area BUSINESS MEN TO CONFER WITH HIM i | ! ! | CALL CONFERENCES ON SUB- JECT OF SPENDING AND| LENDING TO CREATE MORE PRIVATE. INDUSTRY (By Associated Press) LONDON, June 22.—Tension in |the Far East.and tension in Eu- [rope is the foreign news today. Focus of attention on near-war (iy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 22.— President Roosevelt today issued a call for conferences on the sub- ject of spending and lending de- signed to bring stimulus to the question of creatihg more private industry. The program, it is re- ported, is to advise with small and big business men of the na- tion on just what the Federal government can do to aid private business in the above respect. Secretary Morgenthau states teday that the Treasury depart- ment is prepared for any emerg- ency in connection with threaten- ed reducing of revenue caused by | afoot to evacuate all nationals recent moves in, the House of!from the area and British war- Representatives to cut out cer-) ships are being ordered to the tain measures in the Administra- tion Revenue Bill. {conditions in the Far East was di- j verted today as rumors of serious |mature come forth from Warsaw the . Polish- the the Polish Momentary release of in- connection with German dispute over free | city of Danzig and i Corridor. jimportant news on this situation is expected. In the meantime. the in the Tientsin foreign sions area grows more So much so that plans situation conces- serious. are } | | | i | now jscene ostensibly for that purpose. once, while reviews to be made | Secretary and Aaron McConnell, during the next six months will establish tlie citizenship of those | who remain on the rolls. The Welfare Board has inaugu- rated a program of economy so, that payments of public assist-| ance grants may remain within the financial limits prescribed by the legislature which appropriat- ed $3,400,000 annually for Old Age Assistance, Aid to the Blind and the administration of all) welfare programs and the sum! of $400,000 annually for the pay-; ments of grants to dependents} children. Curtailments. already taken} ‘other than the’ elimination of | aliens include the discontinuance of certification for W. P. A. | smployment, which will effect | savings of about $6,000 monthly; | reduction of the surplus commo- | dity department budget $6,000 | per year, five percent reduction | of all welfare district -budgets, immediate evaluation of all vis- | itors on a merit basis with a view | to a reduction in staff. » Other} economies will be.put into effect by the board after a careful study of the situation and recommen- dations by the commissioner, it is stated. Treasurer. Chas; H, Ketchum, the retiring | President, took the occasion to} thank the entire membership of the club for the fine cooperation he had enjoyed during his term of office, Expressions of regret for the) departure of the retiring Pastor! |of Stone Church, Rev. J. A. Tol- {the county jail with 30 screened le, bers of the club, and at the con-; was voiced by various mem-; /clusion, a resolution of apprecia- | {steady for final inspection. tion for the fine service rendered ! the club by Reverend Tolle was unanimously adopted. The newly appointed Pastor of First Methodist (Stone) Church, Rev. G. W. Hutchinson, D. D., was present at the meeting and received a very warm and cor- dial welcome by the entire club. Rev. Hutehinson thereupon:® pledged his wholehearted coope- | ration to the club’s program and expressed his appreciation for the splendid work accomplished by , e organization that has proven. not merely an asset to the spon- soring body but to the entire community as well. } Joseph Hutchinson, son of Reverend and Mrs. Hutchinson, ; ‘was a guest of the club and ap-| } National Guard,.a colonel on the | staff of the governor,.a Demo- erat and is 39 years old. FINISHES WORK _ONCOUNTY J In these momentous days of its new birth, Key West stands on the threshold of an opportunity unparalleled except it were a just staked out. It is much as it was in the olden days; but as it is and was, so it won’t be long. Here are the hour and the place jfor almost ideal planning. Time May ‘and tide wait for no man. ithe prize not pass her by! ! The smallest place zoned thus re pantincn ‘hacoe abla in our country contains 131 jpeople. Matas a AND | One asks: “Did this little town need zoning?” Its population said ‘said so and is reaping its bene- James Wells successful bidder! ri5) results in quantity. And on ‘the contratt for furnishing further: “What places need zon- ing?” The answer to this ques- jtion is the same as-to the ques- tion: “What places need plan- ining boards?” Bids were opened for the | qT s ‘here gre people who assume. work at the meeting of the county |. until bad conditions exist i Ty Wells’ bid of $48.80 was the low-|20Ding just as there re people est and the contract was award-’ Who think they need give no at- ed to him. jtention to health until they are rk to be done by Sick. The only right way is to ee eee ‘who was 4 locate every street, every park, furnish all labor.-and material. ;°¥eTY playground or whatever it Start of the contract was made '™4y be, in the proper place, and on Monday and was completed | then to put every building of after half day's work. yesterday. | Whatever type, in the proper Or two and one half days. iplace. There is just one way to Casual inspection of the work 4°. these things—prepare for today was made by Chief Deputy them in advance. Bernard Waite, Jailer Leon Rob-| Hence the fair education: no erts and The Citizen, and it was community is so small it does not unanimously agreed that it was Need zoning; no place so unde- windows and two doors has com- pleted the project and the work a fine job and thoroughly done. | veloped it does not need a plan-| i Iso agreed that ning board. ba Mapeangh no nightly con-! A planning board is not a hel- prospective'city the surveyors had}? All of this the jporary | ing ordinance \will safely and rely do. | } But the attorney: who draws it { must mind his ‘P’s and Q’s. eae yever}iis no problem. It \is. being done successfully every day. ing penalties to prove that the With a satisfactory temporary | ordinance in effect, and embody-{ | the engine room is flooded”. .The receiver of the message, who was testifying this morning, did not} be reduced, under. b ‘khown who, made the desperate fuirements in many }call. ibaa Preparations are’ proceding ROYAL COUPLE. Many. appropriations have been cut from. the original bill and there is danger that revenue, will } Reports of mistreatment of Brit- fish subjects in Tientsin continue \to be heard ana the evacuation Lapove.is thought necessary to pro- et og tourney the foreign col- jony from further outrages at the j hands of Japanese soldiers. | London is keeping in constant \touch with Washington on. the | subject and the three democracies business is real, work toward the’ marine’ may be raised to the sur- end of a permanent law will fol- face in the next few days, carry- low in careful precision. E 4 {: Every building in the city must | 78 the bodies of twenty-six dead seamen with it. A heavy cable be mapped. 1 This sounds like a large order | has beent passed underdeath the and full of trouble. But it isn’t. craft by divers, which will be For practically every building in | used to. thread the lifting chain Key West is mapped today—by | underneath the submarine to at- | the City Engineer or Surveyor—! tach to pontoons held in readi- j;and the Board of Assessors have ‘ness for the pull to the surface. blueprints and originals, | Common practice is to rae E. KNO ‘ WLES | wards, or groups of precincts or j : | DIES THIS P. M. gate these sectional maps into |voting districts, not overlapping ; nor duplicating at all. Get, then, | |the assistance of the principal of | |the high school, and request that! jhe select two of his most intelli- }gent boys (or girls have in some | cases been used for the work) | for each’ ward in the Island City. | At a given date the boys will go} } forth for a few hours a day, when eee jand as they wish, and they will; “Samuel Everett Knowle: | jearry, preferably affixed with! djed 1250 this afternoon in. the jclamps.to small arm boards, their residence at 618 White _ street. | ward maps. ‘Funeral services will be held to- \ FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE| CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON j 1 thing for the permanent benefit! Survivors are his |eoncerned. in the danger zone— satisfactorily. to raise the Squalus jtoday it is stated and the sub- (REACH SOUTHHAMPTON THIS MORNING ON BOARD EMPRESS OF BRITAIN (By Associated Preus, SOUTHHAMPTON, June 22.— The King and Queen of England have returned to their native iand following an absence of /al- most six weeks on an unpreced- ented tour of their Canadian pro- | vince and a side-trip to Washing- ton and New York City. The liner &mpress of Britain docked this morning at this port in dreary weather, yet the crowds on hand to welcome their mon- arch home was almost as large as any assemblage met og, the North American continent. The rain and .foggy weather curtailed a huge aerial welcome | planned for King George and! Queer Elizabeth, but it didn’t dampen the enthusiastic demon- strations of welcome put on by thousands of loyal British sub- jects who met the liner this Britain, France and the United | States—are holding daily con- {ferences in Tientsin on steps to itake should the situation become | still more serious. It becomes apparént,.ds Japan jeontinues to refuse. Satisfactory answer to ultinmatims ‘from Lon don and Paris that the local is sues involved have been trans- jcended by an international seop2 jof far-reaching effect. The whole |issue of foreign exploitation and residence in China is “up for | scrambles” and it is reported that | Japan is in favor of a showdown jon just that question. ‘SAWYER HEARING | HERE TOMORROW | COUNTY JUDGE RAYMOND R. LORD MADE ANNOUNCE- MENT THIS MORNING County Judge Raymond R. Lord this morning announced that the preliminary hearing in |peared on the program with ‘cert of stinging buzzers, mos- ter-shelter proposition. Its selec-/of their home community—for Mr. and Mrs. Albert j}morning and who are strung | the case of: Leland R. Sawyer, CONCERT TONIGHT IN BAYVIEW PARK There will be a concert given tonight in Bayview Park by the Federal Band, under the direction of Alfredo Barroso, conductor. The following is the program that will be rendered: March, “U. S, Cadet”, H. A. Hale, Jr. Selection, “Operatic Pearls”, Laurendeau. 4 Waltz, “Blue Bells Of Scot- Jand”, Laurendeau. Overture, “Megnonette”, Bau- man. Fox Trot, “Moonlight and Roses”, Black and Moret. Polka, “Polka Caprice”, Her- K. H. Hall. “Star Spangled Banner”, Key. j | vocal and instrumental solos. Mr. ' ; Hutchinson who is a senior at} Emory University of Atlanta, Ga., | is a member of the Glee Club of the University and is quite a ta-! lented musician. Chas. H. Ketchum was ap- | pointed by the President to re- | present the Club’ on the commit- ‘tee recently formed by the Key West City Council in an effort W. P. A. projects. Mr. Ketchum and President Doughtry both ad- dressed the club on the vital ne- cessity of securing the much \ jneeded funds with which to en-| able the city of Key West to sponsor local W. P.: A. projects and thus avert a serious unem- quitoes, the nights now are sere- | tion is not a three-hour job. Un- nely blissful. ijder ordinary conditions it may Mr. Roberts said that the in-, best consist of five. One of these mates today were being given must be a lawyer; another ought! their usual wholesome meal, and to be a builder; in Key West a the menu was fried hamburger third should be a real estate man steak, or meat balls, boiled new of long native standing. In my Potatoes, rice and gravy. SOOO DOOLA, PLACED ON NATIONAL |The’ yours, sclecied by the mayor AWARD COMMITTEE |2n¢ eres er. Be comes, : <ul to The | cl $o: prepare a zoning ord- in the engineering department of a college, and a former member of the school committée: These men must know their | | Okla. eintraub, president | City government. | Before many weeks, following consultation with a—zoning ex- jown board there are a professor i jthe good of their brothers and two sisters, Miss Rebah and Miss |their sisters yet unborn; for the Helen May Knowles, ahd one good of all time. They will take: brother, Rudolph Knowles. pride in this. :Advance publicity ; [in the lesson and the NewS 1 TT Mas terested fof puting extra effort JULIUS STONE VISITING HERE | : i t tal id EB} I i Hi [ fis rh fi i I q ie af tl if g i along the right-of-way from this | charged with killing Frank Guer city to London as the royal party /ro-on the night of June 15, will steams into the latter city. |be held tomorrow morning ‘at 10 Princesses Elizabeth and Mary o'clock in his office at the county Rose greeted their parents n |eourt house. board the Empress of Britain, Subpoenas for 12 or more wit- having been taken aboard a few /nesses were in the hands of the miles out from a government cut- | sheriff this morning and this aft- é a %ernoon they are being officially ‘isses were enthusiastic as! summoned to appear in court to- well be imagined in that| morrow at the specified time set was the longest period of for the hearing. the children have been sep- | —— FRE YESTEDA concerned the health of | Shortly before 6 o'clock yester- day afternoon, the fire apparatus was:called to the corner of Flem- ing and Francis streets, but on arriving on the scene, there was no fire to be found anywhere. RATON, N. M—The insurance; The alarm was. sounded from