The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 7, 1939, Page 1

*inance that would have placed a Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 160. Many Other Matters Tak-| en Up During Regular Session Of Organization Last Night The City Council at its regular meeting last night killed the ord- SEEK TO REMOVE. | FRED EBERHARDT levy of one cent a gallon on all! gasoline sold in. Key West. The measure was passed on its initial reading at a forme? meeting, but on its presentation for a second - Guests At Camp Fire reading last night failed of pass- age. Another ordinance fixing the amount to be paid for connecting | YESTERDAY | | Seeking the removal of Fred! THE SOUTHERNMOST NEW Ais Ordinance To Lew Castine Tax Visiting Scout Troop Good news was received this 'morning by B. Curry Moreno, jarea supervisor for WPA activi- ties, when his office’received per- mission from J. Y. Wilbur; direc- tor of operations, for the placing of additional personnel on Sewer : Project 582, repairs of streets. Mr. Moreno told’ The Citizen that this additional use of per- SSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. DAY, JULY 7, 1939 sonnel will take care of Street Project 1811, for which the funds. had been exhausted and the proj-: ect brought to a close on June 30. It was also said by Mr. Moreno! that work will begin about July | 12, and. there will be approxi-| mately 200 men to work on the! project, for’ which has been al- lowed the sum of $25,000. Interested INVESTIGATION IN LOUISIANA The vsiiting Boy -Scouts of; Troop $6, Pierce, “Polk County}? ‘Fia.,, were entertained at\a a fire ‘Wednesday night on South | Beach by local Troops 50, 51, 52) and 53. Among invited guests sinc OFFICIALDOM “QUAK- wére Girl Scouts of Troop 1, ¥ Scoutmaster Kennedy and As-| ING IN ITS SHOES” AS GOV. BEGAN TODAY, IN CITY COMMENT SHOWS NEED FOR BEACH;: VIS"TORS b | | | | | Henry S. Thompson, vité-presi- dent of the Hopkins-Carter Hard- {ware Co., of Miami, is ¢oming{ back to Key West, the old homie SECRETARY OF CHAMBER OF city for his annual visit and va- COMMERCE: FETLS THAT “ation. Henry Thompso - Boat Races Arranged {ISOLATIONISTS Began Public Life Fifty Years Ago; Born In Vir- | gina; Reached Age Of Seventy-Seven In Having (ity Associated Press) % WASHINGTON, July 7.— Claude Swanson, secretary of the navy, died this morning ‘follow- ling @ severe stroke suffered early |yesterday while visiting his fav- orite fishing camp on the Rapid: an River. ‘ CONFER TODAY } Swanson was 77 years old, hav- Mr, Thompson has made _his- sistant Scoutmaster Rentz were in charge of the visiting troop. A committee representing all lo- cal troops was in charge of up with the city's new water !- Eberhardt, as supervisor time- events, during which the usual mains was passed on its first} reading. A report was read showing that ! $133.05 was the amount. of the total receipts at the Key West Aquarium for the morth of June. Chief of Police Ivan Elwood made his report. on the coHection of fines during the month of; June, which was shown to be $204. Abelardo Lopez.made applica- tion for a license to operate a beer and wine saloon at the cor-/| ner of Simonton. and Petronia ‘Streets; batraraction~“was taker’ 2n the matter. Councilman William Freeman, | chairman of the finance commit-} tee, asked to be relieved of his} duties in’ this, conection, but no, action was taken. | A letter. was read from the American Legion Post requesting that tickets be given to the visit- ang delegates here during the} coming convention for free ad-| mission to the golf course and / i The request was} granted. A letter was read from Super- visor of Registration E. C. Gomez and Archie Roberts, city clerk, certifying ¢hat the names on the petitions circulated recently for calling a special election on the charter issue were found to be correct and in accordance with the names on the qualified list of voters. The council ordered that the matter of calling a spe-| cial election be turned over to the ordinance committee for the purpose of preparing an ordin-} ance in connection with the pro- posed referendum, embodied in} which will be the date selected} which five for the special election, will be © approximately or six weeks now, Frank Johnson, member of the committee which had been work- ing on a plan to put into effect a general sales tax, which would be a voluntary proposition, re- ported to the council last night that after a survey had been made, it was evident that the merchants and others were not in favor of the proposal. In lieu of this, Mr, Johnson submitted a new plan of contributions to the fund to take care of sponsoring er individuals, who are to speci- fy the amount they will contri- bute at regular periods toward the cause. The cot gave its approval in the ty area, a number of petitions | were circulated in Key West yes- | terday and are to be forwarded trator WPA in Jacksonville. i None of the petitions contain’ any specific charges against Mr. ‘ Eberhardt, his removal is simply asked of the administration head in the state. { On the other hand telegrams | have been sent to Washington to Senators Claude Pepper and C.| O. Andrews, asking that before | : keeper of the WPA Monroe coun-! },o¢ dogs and pop were served. A special feature’ was an in- formal investiture service _con- {to Roy Schroeder, state adminis-’ducted by Scoutmaster Peirce of ‘Troop 51, when in the presence of the entire assembly, Bernard ‘ Diaz.was inducted as a tender-j Toot scout into Troop 51. Scout Commissioner J. J. Trevor pre- sented the new scout badge. With the approval of the chair- with his: LONG PUSHES PROCEED- INGS ity Associated Pressy BATON ROUGE, July 7—High officialdom in this state was ‘to- day “quaking in its shoes” as; \threateried investigations by} newly-designated Governor L. K.| Long: starts proceedings to -un- cover activities of many officials, who are alleged to have connec-} (ing business with the state. j Governor Long states that he! jhas under advisement several} jsuch cases and that he will in- man of the Awarding Court, sist. that government officials CONCERTED: ACYION WILL tory for the famous “Snipe Class” of small sail boats, and with his HELP MATTER nimble and Speedy little “Bar- (bara II, and has written the! ‘secretary of the Key West Yacht “Independence Day brought a Club that he would like to have ‘juil in visitors and mail that a race or two arranged after his gave us a chance » catch up on arrival. He is bringing. the some details whe ¢ catching up “Barbara” with him with that) Was sorely needed”, said the sec-' idea in view. ! fetary of the Chember of Com-| Expected to arrive the latter | merce, S. C. Singl-ton, this morn-' part of this week Mr. Thompson ; would like to meet any of the} The immediate: necessity ‘for local sailors. who would like to} beach and bathing facilities was they are invited to call. at the} brought forcibly home to us by a Chamber of Commerce and re-; gtoup of visitors who had come’ ceive information. for a week’s visit and who had| There is a. strong possibility | turned around for an immediate, that the Snipe class of boat is’ |\SEEK TO MAKE SENATE RE- TAIN EMBARGO PROVI- SIONS AMENDMENT ling been born in Swansonville, | Ve. March 28, 1862. | Secretary Swanson had been |ill for the past five years, though atia! Audoonennd deagans serving full time in the Presi- WASHINGTON, July 7.—Isola- dent’s cabinet, guiding the affairs tionist Senators today met in|! the navy department. committee meeting under chair-| President Roosevelt was shock- manship of Senator Hiram John- | &4 o hear of eee cabinet — son. of California. to discuss ways | Pet's Benth: stating at ot ee and means to enforce the Senate| With deep sorrow of the déath of tions with private concerns. do-|concerted action to provide a'give his vessel a work out, and to retain the embargo provisions | ™Y good friend, Mr. Swanson. amendment recently passed The nation joing; me in. express- the House when the Neutrality | ing a deep sense of loss of a faith- Bill was oked. (ful servant, of the public’s inter- A. stiff struggle is expected est”. jany action*ig taken in the. mat- ‘TENDER ZINNIA Deco Moehrke, who was pres- jdiscontinue ae with such ; ,ent, Seoutmaster Peirce present-; concerns or resign from their po- thorough, investigation: &Y°" ed two of his scouts with metit'sitions with the state. rough, 3 ; badges, these being thé’ first of; Reorganization. \ofj) the whole - peer awards ‘under the jurisdic- | state government structure*is go- tion of the present District Com-j;ing ahead. Today the Depart- ‘inittee, Scout Donald Lowe was. ment of Publicity, organized un- awarded a badge for swimming ‘der the regime of Gov. Leche, and Scout Eugene Berkowitz an-;was dismissed, putting five men other for swimming and one as a!out of a job. ‘Other departments jdunior Life Saver. jare in for either dismissal of re- | Report by radiophone this! Following the awarding cere-,duction of personnel. ‘Payrolls. morning at 10 o'clock from the!mony, Scoutmaster Kennedy ex-; will also come up for attention Tender Zinnia showed that the! Pressed his appreciation for the, with an eye to purging the lists vessel was anchored in Hawk’s|™any courtesies. shown his troop. /of all non-workers found. Channel. to remain until the District Chairman M. E. Berko-| Meanwhile, the Grand Jury in- ‘squally weather had subsided. _| Witz responded on behalf of the | vestigation of the: State Univer- The tender is at work con-; local troops, after which Scout- sity affairs proceeds. No report structing the working platform at|master Pierce brought the camp- | of findings is forthcoming; how- Coffin Patches and setting the | fire to a close with the Great! veer, it is stated that astounding dises for the piling, which will! Scoutmaster’s Benediction. revelations are being uncovered be used for the establishment of| Others present were Acting which may bring several state the beacon on the Patches Shoal.'Seoutmaster Sawyer of Troop 52, ; Officials into the spotlight of pub- NOW ANCHORED Berthed. at the Coast Guard 'Scout Mistress Eva Warner of the lic disapproval. dock in Key West is the Tender |Girl Scouts’ troop, Scout Mother} _— a 4 Ivy, and is awaiting the call from| Reba Sawyer of Troop 52 and the Zinnia that the platform and|Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, discs are in place when the ten-| Scouts Campo, 52, Perez, 51,’ der will leave for the location | Navarro, 53, and Valdez, 50, were | and start the work of driving thejon the committee in charge of piling. ‘arrangements. Advance Detachment Of TO STAVE OFF WAR: FORMER U. S. PRESIDENT} SPOKE BEFORE CONVEN- * TION OF C.E. SOCIETIES (By Associated Press) ypext Hoover today in a_ speech | First Lieutenant Frank V. B.|com E. Yelvington. Privates First ;Couch, Florida National Guard, Class Andrew J. Sitton, Ned Hol- in command of the convoy of the | !ingsworth and Ormond U. Boni- Hoover called on the conven- Seva ee a the pe to endorse resolutions out- lorida Natio: encamp- | 7 » ‘ lawing ‘all bombings by airplanes ment, arrived this afternoon and | Charles L. Greene, Nils F. Seon ee] to force i at once began preparations to|Wich, Russell L. Mammacher, aa Sag Sg get the camp in readiness for the arrival of the 265th ‘Regiment Monday morning on the Steam- ship Cuba from Tampa. i With the arrival of the tachment, Captain W. Curry ‘Har- | equipment for ris, Battery “E”, of Key West,| other offices, of before ‘the International Conven- ities being held in this city. Walter G. Metts, James F. Shiles, William L. Tt and Ernest |/Ption pacts and treaties would enforced. Hs i : i fe j : z i E z i 14 i i i is : i HOOVER TELLS HOW stated by former~president Her- 1 | 2 bd CLEVELAND, 0., July 7.—Two | i { “important ‘suggestions ior the {prevention of war and alleviation /; \ i tof suffering during any war were ition of Christian Endeavor Socie- | return to the mainland, first the type which will be adopted: by the Key West club as the one! stopping at the Chamber of Com- Merce to give the secretary an overhauling. and issuing. their own? Declaration: ; of - »Independ- ence, “In no uncertain terms they’ stated that their idea of life, lib- | erty and the pursuit of happiness .in a southern seaside. city com- prised a bathing beach and a place where bathing suits could be put on. “This story might be called ‘bad publicity’, and it is, if we continue to allow visitors to car-' ty it back home. ' _, But it is ‘the best of publicity | if it brings:to the minds of Key, West hotel men and rooming | hotise operators the fact that a‘ little concerted action on their; art now, will save them’ thou- sands of dollars before January! 1, 1940”, { There is no insuperable ot stacle to the obtaining of a mu-{ nicipally-operated beach and bath | houses, the secretary stated, ex-} cept lassitude on the part of peo- | ple who should at least be inter- ested in self-preservation, even if they are not interested in civic enterprise. in a * {into alliance in order that inter- | ‘fair il z f ‘ gattas. ‘new relief bill: 'Phousai they will select from among the nationally approved one . design class of small Hoats, it is saith by -members of the local organiza- tion. There are many of this class of boats in the various clubs along the coast and it will be an easy matter for Key West to secure recognition in the inter-city re- All we need is the boats, Key West has the sailors, said an enthusiast of the sport. WIDESPREAD WPA STRIKES THOUSANDS OUT IN DE- FIANCE OF DEPARTMENT RULES ABOUT WORK (By Asaociated Press) NEW YORK, July 7.—Works Progress Administration workers throughout the nation were re- rted to be quitting their jobs in protest over provisions in bs! a je -eities~ nation-wide _ re- ported large protest layoffs, made chiefly because of new regula- tions requiring 130 hours of work Work projects are paralyzed in seattered areas. WPA unions are when this measure comes up for} consideration in the Senate and , the isolationists who want noth- jing to do with affairs across the Ocean. at all will carry..en» jlegislative waitdre’ with thé “ad- ministration to the bitter end, it is stated by these senators, SAPS CONTINUING | (Ry Axsoctated Press) | TOKIO, July. 7.—Increasing } evidence of Japan’s determina- | tion to rule out all foreign influ- | ence in China comes today as re- | ports tell of continued indignities being suffered by British citizens in the foreign concession areas. A complete “slamming of the door” to both British and French | influence in all affairs of govern- ment in Japanese-controlled Chi- na is likely if the wishes of the army faction in Tokio gains more} headway, as it now appears cer-/| tain it will. | Demonstrations. against the Britains are increasing through- yut Japan. Nipponese troops in China are encouraging Chinese ‘to riot: against British merchants The President spoke of Secre- tary Swanson’s ability and in- tegrity. His loyalty to principle woverned at all times. his. pera forriahce of office. Mr. Swanson began public life fifty years ago when he entered Congress for the first of seven terms. In 1906 he was elected Governor of. Virginia, following which. office he returned, ito Con- gress. In. 1933 he! Wad ‘called to President Roosevelt’é; ¢abinet as head of the navy department. The death of Claude Swanson marks the passing of three mem- bers of President Roosevelt's cab- inet. William H. Woodin, secre- tary of the treasury, and George H. Dearn, secretary of wart, were the other two deaths. STEAMER WILL ARRIVE. TODAY Steamer St. Mary, of the’Stand- ard Fruit and Steamship Co., is due to arrive in port this after- noon from New York and will berth at the main pier of the Porter Dock Co. 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