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he % Indicted In Louisiana; Charged With Using One Of Defendants Is Ex-| cae General: War In. Europe: State University; Anoth- | cacti Teowre IN NGQr FutUTG Sé6H, Associated Press Day Wire 4 Service t For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Inte1ests of Key West : » S Key West, ida, has the : ; most equable climate in the : country; with an average : ; : es : range of only 14° Fahrenheit E SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY. WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1939. VOLUME LX. No. 169. PRICE FIVE CENTS. anization Gives An ine’ Of Activities : Press) ’ DEWROIT, July 18.—The dead* Conciliator John Dewey, jock. ‘between General Motors of+|wWho is on the scene as a repre- ficials and United Automobile|Sentative of the NLRB,. to force . o ; Workers Union, representative! féecognitiun of the CIO as bar- €IO branch organization, still ex-! gaining agency for the company’s Ly vists Aoday as the strike affecting | workers. = 12 factories of the Géneral Mo=| Another victory, for the CIO + tors ‘system enters its’ third week ‘was: announced today when. the, : with thousands of laborers wait-|Packard Automobile | Company!’ esa Net ling to return to work. ‘tmoved to discontinue recognition 2 Company officials are . stub-' bf the AFofL and switch its sup- bornly resisting the move by Fed-| port tothe CIO union. = Concert Last Night | FATAL FuchT i REPORT MADE) Aims And Purposes Are Explained In Literature Mailed To:-Large Number Of Citizens : ity Associated Press) (6y Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS, July 18.— | Polfticial scandal investigations go ron in the state of Louisiana— WASHINGTON, July 18,—The ;Aeronautical Commission released PARIS, July °18,—France and of military experts being out the )1(2 Smicise investigation report on Poland proceded with plans, ap-j assertion that Poland — is well-' the fatal flight of Francisco Sa- parently in the acknowledgement atmed, able to defend . herself, ‘tabio which restilted in the death (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, ‘July 18.—Sen- tor Lundeen uf Minnesota called lepartment to start. negotiations acquire all islands in the At- intic and Pacific oceans not al- |that there will be a general war|with proper support from France of the Mexican ace. flyer last |Teady called nations, such as Ja- nm the administration and state} No more acceptable musical treat has been offered the public ‘Real Musical Treat | } i | Following the announcemen! |made last weekend of the forma- 6. Rhumba, “Broadway Con- | #on of Citizens and Taxpayers. : ga” Lecuona | Inc.. the city-at-lafge learned of and more men of state-wide and|in Europe by the end of summer, |and England, from any aggres-! Siational * is as reports told today -of huge ;sion whatsoever. Germany—how- ' Skis eee becoming | -ititary maneuvers planned by ever, continues to talk of “Danzig enmeshed in the uncovering of | both countries. _ junder the Reich”*by Fall. The strengthening of home de-|-. The Rome partner of the Nazi- graft being brought to light by | tense and plans for offensive | Fascist combination appears more state and federal ind juries. (gestures are going forward fol-,military-minded than at ‘ 98 f = lowing reports: that the Nazis will! time in the past two months with Ex-President of Louisiana State |not back down in their demands huge maneuvers of her army, University, Dr. James Monroe|concerning ‘the free city. of, under way at present: Thousands month at the start of a proji non-stop flight to Mexico City from Bolling Field. The report had not been’ re- leased to the press at noon today, @NY however one of the commission} that. the}, stated, unofficially, group had ascertained the cause | } and Australia, in a move to {further protect the United States | Against any form of aggression. Foreign nations could ‘pay debts ‘wed Uncle Sam by turning over heir island holdings at a fair wice, said Senator Lundeen. The acquisition of such islands would go far towards keeping ‘this country: out of entangling alliances in case of war in Eu- ‘of Key West than was the concert! 7- Soprano and Tenor Duet: last night at Bayview Park played | a sae cn ose 6 iby the" Regimental Band, 265th | “Auf /Wiedersehn” from Regiment, Coast Artillery, and Blue Paradise Romberg directed by Warrant Officer Cae-| Janice and George White sar LaMonaca. H 8. Descriptive, “The Evolu- It can be.safely said that every , Hon of Dixie” SE was a decided hity-and_ 9. Popular, “Twilight In Tur- jthe cornet’ solo by Technical! if key”, a Rhythm Novelty | the first action taken by the of- j ficers yesterday when over five ‘hundred résidents of Key West | received an openitig greeting let- Lake/ ter signed by the executive com- | mittee, outlining purposes and Smith, already held in prison un- | Danzig. jot young, unseasoned, militiamen of the-mishap as a rag caught in der $67,500 bond to answer| Democratic states are becom-'are “going’ through. the paces of ‘the carburator of the plane’s en-| Pope, he. stated. h: i ; ity |in more ‘and more vivacious in modern warfare” in various con-' ji, robabie | Searannie. een of snuverelty a air. Both British,and French ‘centrations — throughout Italy. Gene ia ea doried ha fl by Raymond Scott aims of the association. 'Sergeant Rosary Picciolo, vocal: Featuring Jack Senter solos by, Sergeant Frank Purnell, ' and His Drums | The letter also included a card and the tap'dance numbers by 10. Sgt. S. G. Hicks from the ‘containing the Constitution and funds, was indicted today along; jaye made a> number ‘of test) The acme of war teéts, it is re- with four other former henchmen | flights. of bombing planes, and (lated, is the “bayonet drive” in of “Kingfish” Huey Long, in a/more flights are planned, despite which troopers are called on to presentment charging them with | the Pia / being | jump Hons egy ig sa i ii | brought against such maneuvers | wit undreds bare bayonets ; mane Se - ale: Pa peteasia. by the press of Germany, who ‘pointing straight up. It is further Investigations revealed that the: 24 uch. “hinting flights”. as di- | pelated that some don’t arrive at “men Traudulentiy™garvered~ $75,- i mned. to bring on’ “the other side of the ditch”, re-{ ‘Trect insults 900 from @ faké’sale of hotel'a general conflict. \sulting in serious disaster for Y Build shed at 203 Duval street. FOR KEY WEST: DIVORCE PAPERS. | brired, a! byitkding. peemalt foam | “Mee Cee neg Building Inspector. Harry M. Baker, for the erection of a brick residence on Whitehead street! ducted through the U. S. Mail,! federal indictment and- punish-| DIED YESTERDAY ease, besides Dr. Smith, ate: Sey- | aay Another new residence for Key, chine; J. Emory Adams, nephew |of Mrs. Irene B. Johnson in a| Bert P, Garnett, Editorial Re- als of companies that made huge | piace in that city. er and new citizen for this city! |two.monhts ago. She was the, Whitehead street, between Caro-! AGAINST DIVORCE: The deceased is survived by be of special brick construction. ‘| DECLARES Seas WILL Jump | tives. ler of the new home for Mr, Gar-| FILED IN COURT; NEW YORK, July 18.—“Tom | RET I MRE EEA ai | declared his wife, Mrs. Rena/Colorade are that the ship will!C. Sawyer, clerk of the Circuit from. prison, according to the 61-| to Tampa. Frederick Dalie. “I will not,” she said, stunned. Buildi Permit The article tells of Mrs. Moo-*™ Vell ng § arose between her and the Moo- | neys before he was sent to pris- | ed us with my music," declared | the Department of Editorial Re- ney in 1910. “Tom’ never , did brother and sister to live with the Look ar-|Petween Caroline and Green equipment to the University, and | In Warsaw, joint’ conferences, them. part of the transaction was con-| _ ‘ 7 eae CATT ae Gane cerebeastes 27 © Sr ars na. ‘eee MRS, JOHNSON: NEW RESIDENCE scrutiny, and, as it now seems, | | ment. ‘The four men involved in the { rat Weiss, treasurer of Huey | News was received in the ext | yl is scheduled for early con- g's state. Democratic —_ma-| yesterday announcing the death| struction. of Mrs. J. M. Smith; Louis 0.) sanitarium at Chattahoochee. She ' search Bureau expert, with office | Lesage and Monte E. Hart. offici- was 82 years old. Burial will take| in Washington, D Cy is the own- | i profits in dealings with the state: Mrs. Johnson: was taken to the and his new home will get under , > | sanitarium from Key West about | way this week. Location. is on: MRS. TOM MOONEY | wife of the late Bradley W. John-| line and Greene streets, facing son. jthe navy yard. The home will jher sister, Mrs, Mary Ellen; Wallace Kirke, 410 Caroline! Warren, and numerous other rela-| street, is the designer and build-! | eee jnett. i OFF BRIDGE BEFORE AC- ‘STEAMER IS s CEPTING IT C {Specini to The, Citizen) : ' Mooney will never have to di-| Advices received by radio from! Papers were yesterday | after- vorce ‘me. I'll jump off a bridge,” the | Clyde-Maloiry Steamship 'noon filed in the office of Ross Mooney in Look magazine today. | arrive at the Mallory wharf this | Court, in the divorce suit of Lola Two days after his release} afternoon at 3:30 o'clock enroute\La Vonne Dalie versus Walter year-old Mrs. Mooney, he de-|———-_ manded that she get a divorce. | “Then I will,” she quotes Moo-| ney as saying. i ney's 22 year fight to free her| husband, of the friction. which! . 4 ney Defense Committee, and of | ll ; the early. married life of the Moo- “From the beginning, I support-| Burt Garnett, connected with aa " mer pial are tant woe tee (ere in Washington, has se- | ter I. brought’, his’ mother, | us supported them. ticle is Mrs. Gariner Hammond, streets. The building ‘is to be 30; General repairs to 822 Terry millionaire widow, playing cro-|feet by 40 feet and will cost! lane. Owner, Annie Laing; cost, to which he.came to recuperate | Other permits for "building and flow of gas just after the take-off causing the disaster. If the block- ing of gas flow had occured soon- |: er, the plane would have been unable to leave the ground. that the idea of sabotage was dis- cussed and dismissed. almost im- mediately as theré were no cir- cumstances to point to any such conspiracy or act. BATTERY “A” HOLDS PRACTICE +, Battery “A”, Florida National Guard, was the unit which prac- ticed ‘service firing with the 155 milimeter guns at Fort this morning, firing 30 shots at the targets at a distance of ap- proximately eight miles. Captain Wm. Thigpen directed the fir- . \ All of the results of the firing have been handed in and those/ who are computing the scores imade iby the several units expect to have all those of yesterday in shape for determining the results by This evening and may be an- nounced tomorrow. Firing of the anti-aircraft rifles are to be the schedule for ‘this afternoon, it was.said at the fort today. ; LEAVING TODAY a n sucked into the carburator trom PARTY GOES an air valve and stopped the; at and Mrs. P. Taylog | Private Albert Robertson elicited Scottish. Regiment imitat- loud and continued.applause. | ing Harry Lauder. | The novelty nuniber. “Comin’ 11, Selection from the’ Light Around the Key West Moun- , Opera, “Rose’ Marie” tains”, introduced by the master, ’ uof ceremonies, and heightened by ; fthe varied interpolations by ‘the. MC’ andthe members of the band, | was an exceptionally- intriguing tnumber and proved to be the ‘happy height of the program. ; OUT. FISHING i . eectaicater ice Frimt Featuring Janice and The Star Spangled Ban: SOVIET TROOPS i M. Miller, and gether with Troy Brown, are out again today and ‘will endeavor to have their fishing excursion re- sult more successfully than di | their efforts yoteniay: ¢ At camp. yesterday, »Mr..:La-: The had no fault to find with Monaca said that he would not bé ; \the boat, none with the man in (SUrPr! ised if the concert last night | charge of the party, the bait was Would not be the last of the se-' | perfectly prepared, the tackle in ‘Ties at the park as he believed : perfect condition, but they could the remaining three concerts, as (By Ansoctated Presa) not get a sailfish, although they the regiment leaves Friday for’ TOKIO, July 18.—Official gov- jhad four strikes but failed to get Tampa, will be played at the en-' ernment releases by the Japanese a one. )jeampment. ‘army in Manchukuo today. stated By that is meant that they} Below is the program arranged ‘that the Soviet-controlled troops could not sticceed in getting sail- bY Mr. LaMonaca to be ‘played 8 in outer Mongolia had been thor- | fish, although they caught lots of o'clock tonight at the encamp- oughly beaten in battles pushing others and were well pleased ment: | the latter back beyond the boun- with the day. The only thing/ PROGRAM jdary lines between the two dis- that was wrong was with. the; 1. March, “Hollywood by the ° tricts. prizes and none of these could! Sea” Caesar LaMonaca| It is stated,-further, that the they secure. | 2. Concert Waltz, “Jolly Fel- | Japs are eager to» pursue their Their many friends in Key lows” Volistedt | gains and bring the fight into West are wishing them success in' 3. Popular, “The Toy Trum- their efforts today; but wishing pet”, a Rhymthm Nov- for success does not mean ‘the! elty wisher for parties will be success-| 4.. Private Fred | ful, beeause oneyhas to. know how | singing: | to catch a sailfish, and it appear: | a. “I’m Building A Sailboat ed yésterday that this was not: 2) arog listed among the ‘accomplish | ly to the Stars” {ments of the party of men. The to. “William Tell” i LAGE Rossini “Tiltfoduction, ‘Storm, Pas- rr ome i j torale, Allegre 3 Flute by Les Lyman. VISITOR HERE! Qboe by Harry Amidon W. S, Sweeting, of Miami, Great Sachem of the Great Coun- cil of Improved Order of Red ner ‘Soviets still more. So much so ‘is this desire in evidence that in- , ternational diplomats are consid- jering the effect of a general war ; declaration between " Japan ‘ahd Russia, and its effect should such an éventuality come toa fact. It is. generally - thought _ that. | Japan could not stand up under a | prolonged war with Russia, es- pecially in view of the demands upon the army from her Chinese engagements. McCandless | Colonel David H. Blakelock, of Men, of Florida, was a visitor last the General Staff, accompanied by his two sons, who had been at} the camp making his regular tour of inspection, is to leave this aft- ernoon for Jacksonville. the establishment of greater fa- cilities at the Fort Taylor grounds for the use of the Florida National, Adjutant General Vivian Col- lins, F.N.G., is to arrive at the encampment on Thursday and tenant Colonel G. E. Grace, U.S. Officer. night with Tiger Tail Tribe Num- CCC camp on West Summerland | young men, and told how the agree | Key were arraigned before Judge | 15 .¢¢. i i how the |that Mr, Sweeting is a forceful | Raymond Lord this morning Speaker and gave a very interest-;for preliminary hearing loot had been hidden on the key, and instructive talk on sub-! fges for law infractions which | the eventual discovery of the ar- relative to “taken place at the camp. is + i i z E ARE DEFEATED | Mongolian territory to punish the; By-Laws of the organization and an invitation to join the group by ‘signing an enclosed application- | for-membership- card.. | The Citizen's. attention was . jcalled to the fact that Citizens (and ‘Taxpayers, Inité, Solicits meni | bership from every resident . in | this city, and while the initial | mailing was made to a carefully | selected, cross-section — list of | heads of families and representa- tive citizens in all walks of Key | West life—the omission of any jperson from the mailing does not |mean that their membership is not desited. Naturally;:the mail- jing had to be restrictélt to, totals {in line with ability, tp. defray ex- | The platform |jof the jorganiza- | tion -is included on the card stat- | ing Constitution and By-Laws, which read as follows: 1. Install an equitable system | of taxation. | 2. Enforce the collection «of {revenue from the fair system of jtaxes set up. | 3..Eliminate all unnecessary expenditure of city funds: 4. Rigidly enforce the “law. | (If a law is repugnant to the peo- ple it should be amended or re- pealed.) preteg | The organization states, that it {is in favor of the Water and Sewer Projects and recomniends the procurement’ of a Municipal Bathing Beach and all WPA | Projects that will contribute to |the improvement of the city. | The letter sent to the represen- | ative citizens of Key West is pub- | lished: herewith: r |“Dear Fellow Citizen: |, “How would you like to live in |a city having. clean smoothly- paved streets, restful shady parks, | gleaming. white bathing beaches; a city where you and alt indus- trious citizens can make-meney free from the crushing burden Of | municipal debt? _ | “This is not a pipe dream. “It lis a picture of what Key West can become, as have hundreds of ‘other American cities. How.can this be accomplished? By elect- ing to your city government.men who will run the city as a busi- |ness, on a balanced budget, for. order, z i i his t E is Wi theft 6s f a The letter then states the plat- of Blo-! form of the as stated Attention is called to the of Citizens and Tax- ai Fe i eg! ifs ESicae ee "Ei aii ie i I Ht : # Hl g & ak ‘3 i ¢ § i ‘1 Hi iF i : gz 4 i : ; i! : Be FE i i! "i He i |