The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 14, 1939, Page 1

Azsociated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 166. Regimental Concert Tonight At Camp Grounds Program That Will Be Rendered On Occasion} To Be Featured By Sev- eral Solos Another of the fascinatingly beautiful concerts, which are al- ways offered by the 265th Regi- ment Band. under the direction of Warrant Officer Cdesar La- | Monaca. will be played at the| encampment tonight, beginning at 8 o'clock. 1 This concert was originally in- tended for Bayview Park and ar-| rangements had been made to} present it there. This morning, however, General Albert H. Blanding, chief of the National Guard Bureau, arrived by Coast Guard plane, and it was decided to hold the concert at the camp. Vigo Me Voy) Lecuona Special attractions for the eve- ning are tenor solos by Sergeant Frank Purnell and creat solos by Technical Sergeant Rosary Pieciolo. --Those —-by-- Sergeant Purnell will be ‘Deep Purple” by’ De Rose and “Heaven Can Wait” by Vart Heusen, and Sergeant Piceiolo will offer the “Whirl- wind Polka” by Levy and “Sun-, shine Of Your Smile”. Private’ Albert Robertson will present a tap dance. 1. March, | “On the Mall” Goldman “L’Estudian- Waldteufel “Jeepers Creepers” Herold Cornet “Whirlwind Polka” Levy “Sunshine Of Your Smile” ‘Technical Sgt. Rosary Picciolo 5... Overture to “Zampa” Warren , 6. Rhumba. “Say Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy) Lecuena 7. Private © Albert Robertson will present a fast tap) dance. He is recognized | as one of the best in the} business and has danced in; oe aes cities of Bu- | | “A t “Musician Astray in the! Forest” Herman: | Musical Effect in the Distance | 9. Tenor Solos, “Deep Purple” | 2. Concert Waltz, tina” 3. Popular, 4 Solo, De Rose | ing, chief ‘of the National Guard | ‘ another European crisis HITLER-FRANCO AGREEMENT SEEN UNDERSTANDING HAS BEEN REACHED + (By Apsnocinted Preas) LONDON, July 14.—British” | today checking rumors that Ger- many-had reached definite eco- | nomic and military understand- ings with Spain, thus — establish- ing themselves as a Mediter- ranean power. No _. definite |acknowledgement of such an al- jects. liance was forthcoming today} j however, though the possibility of some sort of an agreement be- : tween Franco and Hitler was not denied. : Bastille Day was celebrated in| France yesterday. with a huge air , | demonstration i in which planes of | England: and France Staged a‘ number. Ls ane flights over! French. territ "AMother "beck u of English. territory, this time in the mid- dle area, was held last night for purposes of practicing air de- fense maneuvers. British war office today an-: nounced that approximately 560,- if there is one, up to that bodyi 000 men would be under arms by next month, the time when is ex- pected. Meanwhile efforts were going forward to “buy out” Yugo- slavia and Rumania with going over solidly to the Nazis. sub- | stantial loans to keep them from j Che ~ [LABOR UNION: THE so WOULD SETTLE WPA ‘A QUESTION: AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR SENDS RESOLUTION TO PRESIDENT IN INTER- EST OF MATTER — (Ty Anacciated Presa) WASHINGTON, July 14.—The American. Federation of, mao today presented a strong tepohs:| |tion to President Roosevelt with a@ suggestion aiming towards set- [now a of the WPA controversy ' now raging country-wide. The union ‘declares that it |e be wise to change the; scale under terms of. the new re- lief bill back to that in effect \last fiscal year. New regulations ' will make it “mandatory for | RUMORED THAT MILITARY skilled labor to put in 130 hours }a month on projects, comparing | with but 50 or 60 hours, the reg- | ber first if action’ by legislators | | does not halt them. | Mayor La Guardia of New: ! York City announced that he thought he had the solution to land French diplomats were busy|the problem today; when he ‘stated that he would present his ideas to the Conference of Mayors i {soon to be held. His “solution” has to do with holding the old! scale on old projects started be- fore July Ist. The new scale! would be allowed for new Droj- | By noon today, thousands. ot |e | workers in various parts of the ,nation had been dismissed from | ‘the WPA for failure to reBort| back to work within the five-day j deadline set by law. Administra- {tors stated that additional punish- iment would be inflicted _ on ; “strikers” in the form of with- holding of all forms of home re- | lief. “Ample warning was given | the workers, it was stated. Meanwhile, the . White»; House issus no statement as to inten- | tions in the matter. It is felt, however, that President Roose- | velt will make no recommenda- tion whatever to Congress—leav- ing the solution of the problem, | before adjournment if it sees fit to do so. ASKS CONGRESS T0 DEFEAT. BILL Spies were being arrested and: executed at Europe in large numbers, accord- ing to advice released and London this morning. Poland, however, remains. quiet, though an army of almost 1,000,000 men stands in readi- ‘Lending Appropriation Bill " now} pA beautiful ones, and while ness for ~ whatever may come PG AD ko ‘GEN. BLANDING ARRIVES IN CITY, Major General Albert H. Bland-| eventuality various parts of! {Ry Ansociated Preany ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 14.— in Paris Frank Gannett, publisher ‘of sev~'any of the aqpariums, it was| eral newspapers in New York State. today called on Congress | to defeat the pending Spending- | in. committee. | Publisher Gannett stated that {the bill -was shallow and un-} |worthy of serious consideration. | |He also avered that even those | | whe sponsored the huge “out | right gift to prospective voters” {did not understand what ‘they; aes endeavoring to do. | ulations to go into effect Septem- | t Citizen UTHERNMOST NE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SPAPER IN THE U.S. A. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939 range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS e Plans To Put t | a | Club Last Evening Everett Rivas was given a a send} . Club Club business took up the off by the Key West Lions Club; major.part of the balance of the | jlast evening at the regular club, meeting, being the first follow- Key West On Map As Convention City. jmeeting held at Stone Church: {ing installation of new officers Annex. Lion President H. E.jJast week. Club by-laws and con-} Day was in the chair. {stitution were amended in two, The occasion for the “send-off instances and a pre-view of com-:| ‘cerefigninla” was forthe reason ing club’ programs: for the sum-; that Lion Rivas is the’ club's dele-} ;mer months was presented. ; gate at-the 23rd Annual Conven-}; William J."Lee, member: of Ar-} © tion of Lions International to be thur Sawyer’ Post, American held at Pittsburgh, Pa., July 18 , Legion, ‘was present at the meet- | fo 21 inclusive. Lion Rivas leaves | jing to present a brief outline, of | for that city tomorrow. this Post's activities. Legionnaire; Yesterday afternoon at 6 Alternate at the convention) Lee especially ‘stressed the neces- ‘o'clock, Margaret Florence Grigg, will be R. B. Alexander. sity for Lion’s Club cooperation : 21, resident at 1016 Howe ‘street, tered mostly on his vote for Ha-| conference a success, aiming to-/ Lysol and fell on the bed suffer- vana, Cuba as the convention site »wards the chosing of Key West ing in great agony. in 1940, Naturally, the Key West ‘as the American Legion State She was taken to the Marine! Club is in favor of that city in/Convention site for 1941. | hospital for first aid treatment to that over 15,000 delegates. would | Rev. G. W. Hutchinson of the which she failed to respond and {be in probable attendance and a lrit M, E. Church was voted in- ' about 30 minutes later was pro-| ; good proportion of those is membership of the club. | Instructions to Lion Rivas cen-j;in making the coming district rank the contents of a bottle of | jnounced dead. She is eaaved Margaret Grigg Takes _ ‘Poison; ‘Proves Fatal by a sister Christine Simms, ‘eho! ; was with her before she took the fatal dose. Peace Justice Franklin Aren- |berg was summoned and as {coroner ex-officio said that an inquest would not be necessary. The body was taken to the ; Lopez Funeral Home and is be- ing held to await instructions from relatives in Macon, Ga. Lions Members paid a sick call on {| West on their way to or from ees | miral Richard Byrd revealed proximately 1,000,000 = square; | would at least come through Key. : ‘on member Joe Mondul following | . = air ADMIRAL BYRD { | | | (By Anxoctated Press) NEW YORK, July 14—Ad-; e 4 complete plans today for a quick; IS 3 G6 dash to Ant-Artica to claim - ap- Sie aor this: coming Fall. ,000 square. miles _al- —_——_—- BS as the U. S. flag, the | ‘The most varied and assotted remarked ‘that the fish were of ©xPedition’ is being made chiefly specimens of fish were taken| the same beautiful colorings as ‘0. claim all remaining lands sur- ‘north last night on the Steamer’ those she had seen in Honolulu, Tounding the South Pole, Thus \City of Fort Worth, by Dr. Rob-|and. there was a great variety in all land on the western hemi- ert O. Van Deusen, director of; the selection. , Sphere with the exception of the the Fairmount Park Aquarium|’ The. collection contained a Canadian province will come un- at Philadelphia. In the collec-| number of’ the beautiful Spanish ‘er influence of the Monroe Doc- |tion there were 1900 specimens | hogfish, red squirrels, queen ‘Tine. acting to ward off any a jand 103 species. jangels, blue angels, yellow ture threat of land base éstablish- | | Thursday Dr. Van Deusen felt (angels, black angels, and French ment by any foreign nation. ‘that his collection wag complete angels: Number of the gorgeous-| Plans were divulged by Ad- and was already to make the ly colored and peculiarly marked ~niral Byrd for a full complement loge check when he was able|queen triggers, ocean triggers,’ of men-on board the ship; which add five of the beautiful red box fish caw fish, beau gregory, is scheduled to leave this. city he fish and five of the yellows, | green parrots, rainbow parrots, ‘October 1. New devises for trav-; } which is the first time that these [blue parrots, ‘and one very large |el over frozen and snow covered jfish have been taken north to; specimen of the triple tail. There were also the various including a new — jmembers ‘of the urchin family, cruiser. taken gags, scamps, pork fish, green! morays, blues potted morays and J AYCEES WiLL snow said. Among the specimens by Dr. Van Deusen were some a fine collection of anemones of ‘the fish were being placed in the| varying colors. There were also icars one of 4 group of onlookers | about 20 sergeant majors. in, Chamber of: Commerce head-} LOOKING FORWARD| CONFERENCES 10 NEW PROJECT “BEING wey! == in La’ Concha Hotel “| | Members + reminded © that ‘Workers on the WPA project | (Ry wanoetated Press) this is the tehulae monthly meet+ ‘and will be carried on the trip,! ‘AMELIA GONZALEZ | | DIED LAST NIGHT Amelia Velasouez Gonzalez,’ | 79, died last nigtt at 8:20 o’clock in the residenct. at 1118 Cath-' jerine street. Funeral servicés are ‘to be held: this afternoon at. 5! miles of land for. the United} o’clock f from the Lopez Funeral thur Sawyer Post has decided to ; Home Chapel. Rev. J. M. S.J, of St. Mary’s Star . Sea Catholic church, will. of! ciate, Mrs. Gonzalez is survived ‘by four daughters, Mrs. Enrique Es- quinaldo, Mrs. Paul Lake, Mrs. } Caridad Tealand Mrs. Archie Ma- lone. There are‘also 20 grand-)| children and three great-grand- ‘children, ‘BOOST M’NUTT. - | POR PRESIDENT “Uy Associnted Press) PHILADELPHIA, July 14.— : The “McNutt for President” drive | jhas extended to the state of| | Pennsylvania, when friends of | the new Federal Securities Ad- ;Mministrator announced that they , opened up offices in main cities jof this commonwealth. Official announcement. of Me. ‘yutt’s candidacy will ‘not be | Pittsburgh next month. ‘TANKER SALINAS t American Legion Inaugu- rates Movement With Program Bearing On Matter Key West public officials and leaders of the city’s civic, fra- ternal and patriofic organizations are going to be given an oppor- tunity by Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American Legion, to as- ; sist in the long-range promo- tional program to .put this city on the map as a convention city. This was the decision this ‘week of the members of the post land the committees completing arrangements for the fifth dis: \trict American Legion state con- ference here July 29-30. Revamping earlier plans, Ar- “hold what will be known as the ‘Commenters Diniher at Hotel La” # Concha Saturday night, July’ 29, with Congressman Pat Cannon ,and state department officials. of the American Legion as principal speakers, and with a number of {Monroe public officials seated at | the guest table. ;_ At this dinner, Mayor #Willard |M. Albury, County Comimission | Chairman. Carl bend State | Representative Bé Papy and the heads, of/si groups as {the Chamber of Commerce, the | Spanish War Veterans, the Ro- tary and Lions -Clubs, the Elks, ‘{the Marti Club, the Cuban Club, | the Ministerial Association, the |Woman's Club, and others will be asked to greet the delegates to the conference, | They will be asked also to ask the delegates to. the conference ito join with Arthur Sawyer Post \and a number of West Coast Le- {gion Posts. in bringing about the selection of Key West as the scene The Key, West Junior Chamber | made, however, until the meeting|of the 1941 convention of the {of-,Commerce: will. meet, tonight! of the Young Democratic, Club in | state department of the American Legion. | ‘The conference will be attend- ‘ed by upwards of 200 official delegates and many other Le- | Mohuniven and members of the ‘LELAND ARCHER ‘Heaven Can Wait” | Bureau, arrived this morning for} Van Heusen | a visit with the official family at| Sgt. Frank Purnell the Florida National Guard en- 10. Selection from “The Choco- exe at Fort Taylor. | late Soldier” Strauss | jis arrival was made on a/ The Star Spangled Banner | plane of the U. S. Coast Guard,! Relatives and friends of Le- Last night there was ,a large, and upon his arrival at the camp |!and Allison Archér, who was and appreciative audience, by/the general was accorded the {Stricken with appendicitis Satur-' invitation, at. the regimental; regular salute of 13 guns, the day while in Miami, have ‘been camp at Fort Taylor to hear the|regulation flourishes of the dvised that the young lad has OPERATED UPON: jat the Key West Barracks are | |looking furward, to the return of | jthe new project, which was for-/ warded about two weeks ago to Washington, D. C., for approval. It was said at headquarters! | that a number of workmen at the {naval station employed on the| DETROIT, Mich., July 14— General Motors Company and CIO. United Automobile Workers: Union officials were. reported to be in serious conferences today over question of workers’ repre- | ‘sentation in mediation to come jon labor differences. No information was forthcom- j | ing of their association. A good | {attendance is desired by the vice- | president, Joe Allen, who will be; in the chair in the absence of Isa-} .dore Weintraub, president, from | ;the city. | Auxiliary units of the service- |men's organization. At a meet- jing with the post this week, Os- SAILED TUESDAY Navy Tanker Salinas which ar-| member of the executive com= rived Tuesday morning from’ mittee of the fifth district, stated Charleston, S. C., completed di S.S. ALAMO COMING TO PORT 'charging i in the Steamship Diamno ¢ of the Clyde-| During the hours between 7 in ‘ } { “The conference in Key West second in the series of concerts | bugles and the regimental band , been operated on in Memorial} WPA work there were to be laid | ing, however, as to whether the: Mallory Lines is due to arrive|the morning and her .departure, played ay the- “band; | Played the general’s rharch. | Hospital and is today doing ab! a lively topic of conversation off Bending | the arrival of the |company had accepted the CIO} this afternoon from. Tampa en-| the vessel discharged/ approxima-'jin eyery post in, the. state”, aaa areas Leovard Using, Bank === 5 Official, Visits: Here == ered over the highway for An interested ‘and interesting|there was a convention being LED. | Miami where they were to em- {bark for Nassau... On reaching [a pene string ey Mow caller at the Chamber of Com-|held there. SPECIALS! merce yesterday was Leonard A.|_ This one friendly act, said Sec-| STEWERS Usina, president. of the Florida jretary Singleton, will undoubted- National Bank and Trust Com-'ly send many_a dollar over the pany of Miami, *. < * highway and into the tills of Key Mr. Usina showed an intimate West hotels, rooming houses and and practical, knowledge of small) perchants generally. town Chambers. of Like many ‘another visitor, Mr. terest in ‘West when Usina went on record as feeling Beceem tries nies (teat cox 1 cae most _ pressing ceorepopecaryiaged rgtintiond local ind beach and bath tached to cars in Miami when house. : ao tee ane an Hens, 1 FRYERS. Brady's Poultry Market \cific number of workmen was given, but it was stated by Area Supervisor B. Curry Moreno that only a skeleton crew will be kept at work, At. the WPA sewing room there 1 3 lon- | ecco plants. The strike deadlock vilcaad in eleven of the company’s fac- tories with practically no cars being turned off the line. | assertion that they represented a ‘route to Key West and New 'tely 20,000 barrels of oil into the Committeeman Faircloth — assert- newly arranged project. No vas | Majority of all workers in ae > York. [tanks at the naval station. led. “Don’t plan on entertaining = Another Project For | -Key West Approved ===: pg at Pena’s, Be Ste ei it WPA tet oa from United States|has been approved by the lieagreany! iietaa Patel ok Wake tacnl foe ce noose ot sexta. e Pak advising that the Presi-|This project to reconstruct and |*' has approved another Key/improve streets Key neat > West is now eligible for opera- follows: \tion at the discretion of the a pleasure to ad-|State Administrator’. %