The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 13, 1939, Page 1

——— Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West EERE a Ee Se TOE | VOLUME LX. No. 217. THE SOUTHERNMOST NE Chamberlain States Hitlerism Must End’ BACKGROUND | OF THE WAR Digest Of War News From All Fronts CHAMPS AT WAR A number of heavyweight! | Che Key West Citizen SPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1939 Neil Acts To Raise Occupational Licenses Key West. Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Germans Find Going Tough As Poles Put Special meeting of the City champions and challengers who |Council was held last night in |fought eee. in America ‘Council chambers for the pur- are joining their regiments “ini jose of teking steps i Poor old Primo Carnera Pon, as i eng. Sens te Bipwats ‘is in Sequals, Italy, running a)/4S for WEA Sponsorship by | restaurant, but his knapsack is |™eans of a raise in occupational ! France. meeting to be held tomorrow night dealing with a flat twenty- | five percent raise on all estab-) lishmerts new doing -business in | the city. { As stated, the funds thus rais- | Up Strong Defenses (By Associated Press) WARSAW, Sept. 13.—Encouraged by continual rain British, French Confer packed and his big No. 16 boots ticense fees, planned to be effec- led will be especially allocated to/ | . : ; RS i jare shined ready to march if Il tive city-wide. All councilmen a WPA sponsorship fund. I | Duce tells him to. Max Schmel-j were present at the meeting. Study Liquor Licenses jaiding their forces and taking advantage of German cay saneceuniuacinrcens: Fel pect aaa in Sommeny, bs, All matters pertaining to occu-. Considerable discussion was | LONDON, Sept. 18.—Address: Suid ss ie fic 2 j b, {ational licenses were reviewed ‘ntered into by the councilmen | F ice ‘ \ lee ee ee : on the subject of state laws gov-| broke through German lines i eral places and attacked ing the British Parliament today ; but would march in the line.} by the Council and action taken erning effectiveness of the rise | e 4 In sev D 3 al |Paulino Uzcudun, the Durable jconsisted of instructions to At- in taxes ordered in the case of ithe Germans from the rear. Ge ea | races! is Sitet of iepelics in| torney Henry Taylor, Jr. to draw places selling liquor, beer and! x Associated Press | wit! “i i ;< | Valencia, pain, ani ‘ommy}up a special ordinance for Gee ‘ee LONDON—Duke of Windsor very much pleased to be back on ;“U" French leaders in Paris io)" ih) could’ win. fights in|. aod | ate canteney ‘eoetial elie me ae, md his native soil for the first time since his abdication is awaiting Prime Minister Neville Chamber- London “but not in New York, is{ Lvisions in’. the new oidixinice military office job, probably as air minister, in connection with |). _. ‘backingChamberlain to __ the} ¥ whi ing Sulenke cacti. [lain said that the British-French jimit Gustav Kilian and Hans] SPSS MIM IM, which would regulate opening enantio s Es lalliance was determined to ca a best bicycle riders! ENDORSE PUBLICITY ROME—Mussolini has ordered plans for the 1242 World’s Fair; | ede. ore Has Seen in years, have: to continue with the implication that he expects peace to be ine once and for all this|returned to Germany and _ re- PLAN FOR KEY WEST City Council officially en- 4 joined their regiments. P. s.| Europe before then. pseess When last heard from Joe Louis! dorsed an advertising and publicity scheme for Key was in Detroit eating fried! West ai the special meeting * Late War Bulletins | ed | after returning from a conference troops too rapid advance into Poland, Polish troops today Polish military stated that Germany’s lightning ad- j vance into Poland might prove disastrous since they ad- i i ithout lidating their de- and closing hours of such estab- acolits maxyspoutsons' without conso| Sg spebeeste |lishments. ; At present, a statute requires ,that night clubs or dance halls! jthat charge admission are ~ re- ;quired to pay a flat $50 license \fee per year. The council revis- | ,ed this law to read “all establish- | fense. The German lines are threatened to within 60 miles of Warsaw. Berlin denies the reports of counter attack and states that German armies are still progressing forward,- but eee \ WASHINGTON—The government forces are watching closely; Chamberlain admitted, how- ) chicken. fo ensure no great profit-taking from the imminence of war, but ever, that the English expedi- ene Roosevelt as yet has taken no step in that direction. i WASHINGTON-—Martin Dies states that the Communist party ' has spent $40,000,000 in the U. S. to spread its propaganda and is i tionary force had not taken part in an engagement against the e@waiting reports of witnesses to confirm his statement. jeermans, but said that English NEW YORK—Seven hundred and eighty-six Americans landed ,P!@nes were fighting alongside here today with many of them among the Athenia survivors. Sur-; French planes against Germany's vivors praised the bravery of the crew of the Athenia. iterated statements that the ship was shelled after being torpedoed and that she had been zig zagging Belts And Badges Shin over the ocean. e Forth On Patrol Boys Belts and badges were issued! yesterday to the members of the Safety Patrols of Division Street | a Harris schools. The dis-/ sution of these*insignia of of-| was made by Police Officer | Myrtland Cates, director of the! patrol: Mr trit fice Cates said that his visit to the schools showed that Prin- cipals W. C. Duncan of the Har-|{ school and Earl Hamilton of | the Division Street school were} very busy in getting the puvils assigned to their rooms for their tudies, yet displayed great in- terest in the presenting of belts} Following will be ist of patrols and ige and ri found the} members to belts were | Di KEY WEST TO HAVE MANY NEW PRIVIES SANITARY PROGRAM WILL GET UNDERWAY IN | TWO WEEKS 7,000 project to supply | privies in certain sec-! city, in which it is to connect with the} ystem, will start in two| Sanitary Engineer D. Z.| Harrison announces today. Appre tely 250-300 of the € to be built, conform- State Board of Health with the cost of $15 pplied by owners of | the buildings in question. of 28 W-P.A. workmen to be employed on the proj- central location and cost privy will be only actual ry the ision Street school: Captain | C Forrest Arthur, Lieutenants Her- man Cerezo, Myrtland Cates, Jr., Norman Roberts, Jr., Joe Thomp- son, Jr., and Robert Cruz. Patrol- men: William) Albury, Jr., Emilio Blanco, Jr., Billy Spencer, Nilo Albury, Harry Sawyer, Jack Niles, Charles Baker, Jack Curry and A. Brost. Harris school: Captain K. Kerr, Lieutenants E. Albertus and L. Padron. Patrolmen: John Owen Monsalvatge, Billy Show, Nar- cisa Castillo, Kermit. Sweeting, Robert Archer, Bobby _ Sikes, Thomas Swicegood, Kermit Rob- erts, Larry De Lozier, Clayton Papy, Frank Rom and G. Sweet- ing. Mr. Cates stated that he had jappointed Billy Ladd, Paul Light-|. Lord Halifax bourne and ptains of Leroy Sawyer as Instruction. These High School, but because of their splendid work with the patrol, the last school term, the awards that’ England would follow with’! were merited. Officers Myrtland Cates and Basil Tynes are in charge of the chool Safety Patrols and are ing the support of the citizens of Key West, requesting them to jbe cautious in driving their cars especially in the vicinity of the schools. The patrols are sored by the Rotary Club. Mem- bers of the patrols are furnished show tickets twice a month and one boy from each patrol is in- vited to the Rotary each Thursday. RITES YESTERDAY FOR CHAS. HILTON Funeral services for Charles MacGregor Hilton, 72, who died | Monday morning at his home, 310 Fleming street, were held They re-)} spon-j luncheon | \air force. | Every aid will be given Po- jland, Chamberlain said, {pointed out that the British navy j was successfully blockading Ger- an intensive war against Ger- man submarines... Three Polish and ;Many ports | } \destroyers have joined the Eng- ish fleet. Meanwhile from the war front’ came news that Frati hag. cap- tured several strategic posilions | where its artillery could bo brought to bear on vital German ‘Siegfried line entrenchments. | Shelling of the area near Luxem- ‘burg began today. Capture of the strategic positions came | within the last 36 hours. bitterly nounced the German announce- de- Ss were promoted to the Junior ment that it would soon begin to ‘air attack. bomb civilian centers and said “an eve for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” retaliation policy. RETURN WARBLER SALVAGE PUMPS WERE USED ON WRECKED FERN GLEN FOR TRIP TO NEW YORK Steamship Colorado, of the Clyde-Mallory Lines, sailed 2:30 yesterday afternoon for Tampa, after discharging cargo of mis- cellaneous freight at this port. Among the heavier articles re- ceived here were six pumps and }imany , SHORT WAVE PROPAGANDA The war of guns is 3,000 miles/ jaway from America but the war! of propaganda is no further away than the dial on your short wave} receiver. NBC officials say these | broadeasts can be picked up by' a good set anywhere in the U. S.! }But there is irregularity of broadcast times and sometimes broadcasts are cut off in a mo- ment because they make fine beacons for approaching enemy The barbarous Poles are hacking ; out eyes and tongues and chep- | ping off fingers’ of German avia-; tors. ‘The’ English themselves, Tpedoed the Athenia. to gain’ sympathy for themselves and hatred for the Germans. Polish aviators bomb a plainly marked Red Cross hospital. This came from Poland: Germans destroyed the relic of the Holy Virgin in, the Catholic shrine of Czesto- chowa. Sudden and unexpected victory of the French on _ the western front has into. a panic. Germans tried} to murder the American ambassador and his family. GERMANY BEST AT FIRST Immediate strategic advantage in Eurofedn war strongly favors {German arms. Long range ad- {vantage favors Franco-British al- liance. As for bombing, Ger- {many is almost entirely sur- jrounded by neutral states which ,act as buffers for attack. Both sides are trying to trick the other ,into making the first barbarous British and French jalso-have the problem of starting a very’ costly attack on the Ger- (Continued on Page Four) L | Miss Edna Maddox, field rep-! resentative of the Division of So-! ‘cial Workers, WPA. is a visitor in the city today discussing with ; Miss Mary Falk, supervisor of the local organization of Social Work- j Sers, relative to the recertification of those workers who were dis- | charged under the provisions of ' |ments that provide for dancing, whether admissions are charged {or not will be charged the same i fee”. held last night, which is un- derstood to be in the form of @, lottery. Moscow releases recognize that the Poles have started a vigorous counter attack and have broken through in cev- planes. This came from Germany: ,, thrown Ger--: The plan was presented to the Council by one William ‘Brown after having been studied in executive session by Mayor Willard Albury and members of the council. It is stated that the plan embodies an item dealing with prize offerings to citi- zens based on guesses of to- tal traffic coming into the city during specified periods of time. The city govern- ment is to derive a certain ‘percentage of ‘the profits of “the plan. 'GITII I ISS 4 CRIMINAL COURT TO MEET SEPT. 25, Judge William V. Albury of Criminal Court of Monroe Coun ; ty said this morning that the next ' jterm of the court is set for Mon-} day, September 25, and the in- tention is, if possible, to clean up the entire docket. It was said by the judge that the reason for postponing court activities until the last week in the month is because of the fact that the new Criminal Code re- cently adopted by the legislature will be made effective October 1 and it is desired to clean up the docket and start on the new code on the first day of October; which will be Monday following the week of court. : Recertification Work To Start Next Friday have severed their ¢on- nections with the WPA or had them severed and who are to be given consideration. These and various other. matters are being discussed today by Miss Maddox and Miss Falk and their decisions will be published in tomorrow’s issue of The Citizen. eral cases. During rains the Polish 1 Carnival License | Of wide interest in the city jwill be still another provision, ; which raises the li¢ense tax on ;amusement parks from $500 per {year to $5,000 per year. An additional clause is that no} {carnival willbe allowed to re-j main here more than - fifteen! |days. ‘ART CENTER FULL TIME SCHEDULE | NEXT MONTH TEMPORARY FIVE-DAY) army, become bogged down. Lvov, strate, : important city. | SCHEDULE MADE POSSIBLE | | BY KEY WEST SOCIETY oF! ' ARTISTS j Exhibition and program com- mittees of the Key West Art Cen- ter announce a temporary sched- ule, which started Sunday, to keep the Center open five days! a week. H For the past two weeks the! Center has been open only two| Jewish folk of Key West are days a week, die to staff reduc- | ready to celebrate the Jewish 'New Year with services to be a larger staff will make possible ent temporary schedule is made | —~ possible by members of the art (SWEENEY T0 their time to attend gallery. ' Through September the Center ; days.and Fridays from 10 a. m.! TUNITY TO CONCENTRATE to 12 noon and from 2 p. m. to: ON MAIL PROBLEMS ;m. to 12 noon. } Exhibitions showing until | {of Congress and circuited by the: {Federal Art Project, W-P.A., and of Artists, Series of pastels i i “Of course we get criticism. and for the most part, we have it coming to us”, said the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce to- day, “but criticism has a consid- erable value at that, as will be {shown”. of Thomas! One of the weak points cf the tion, held tonight. Thursday and Center and the Key West Society HELP.C. OF C. Will be open Sundays from 4 p. ee a ;4 p. m., whenever possible. Sat- Sept. 24 are PRINTS by Currier ; |PAINTINGS AND PRINTS by It is expected that in October a full time schedule. The pres- Friday at the B'Nai Zion syna- of Artists, who have volunteered | nm. to 6 p. m. Tuesdays, Wednes- {GIVES OFFICE FORCE OPPOR- urdays the hours are from 10 a. and Ives, loaned by the Library ; members of the Key West Society Flavell now on exhibition at Mi-;Chamber is that it does not have | ami Federal Art Galleries will ‘29 outside man to meet people be shown in Key West next half-way instead of waiting for |week, Director Morgan states. them to come to the office and | The pastels have won wide atten- find out for themselves what is tion from Miami art lovers. ;8oing on in Key West. Adrian O’Sweeney, who gets ‘about the city to a great extent, plains become mud bogs and ‘motorized units, such as are the pride of the German Significant, too, was the Berlin statement that Polish forces have made battlegrounds out of their cities and that Germany regretfully must bomb those civilian centers. Thus far Germany has bombed no civilian center to insure no further. displeasure of, democratic nations. city south of Warsaw, is the scene of intense fighting as the Nazi army pushes for recapture. Polish high command is exerting every effort to retain this Jewish New Year Begins Tonight; Have Serves |gogue, Rabbi Lazarus Lehrer an- nounces today. Tonight there will eve- ning services beginning at 7 o'clock, Thursday and Friday , Services will be at 8 o'clock in ‘the morning and 8 o'clock at night. Rosh Hashanah, popularly called New Year, initiates the ceremonial calendar of the syna- gogue, but is not like the secular New Year which is designated to |mark time. Rosh Hashanah is an oceasion for each member of the fellowship of Israel to put himself in harmony with God and fill his soul with new and bette? resolves. The New Year is also a Day. of Judgment for Judaism places the Day of Judgement not after death but in the midst of life. This day ranks with the Day of Atonement which falls 10 (days later. Biblical basis is found in Leviti- cus 23:24, where it is said: “In .the seventh month in the first ‘day of the month shall be a solemn rest unto you, a memorial ‘proclaimed with the blast of horns, a holy convocation.” _ In the Mosiae code it was a me- be cost of concrete and wooden ma- PONY EXPRESS ae TO RACE AGAIN. jing up new members and saving |suctions which were consigned to i ‘ . 3 sapaser ponte foie | , to ‘the: 18 months ruling. ‘COUNTY BOARD volunteered to help out. at’ morial day, later the Rabbis of type of construction in- rag hag ener: a oom te Wrecking Tug Warbler. This! Miss Maddox said that the re-! the chamber, incidentally, writ-|the Talmudic era made it a day sures against insect disease car-' Funeral Home to the First Con-|¢auipment was taken to New certification activity will begin! MEETS TONIGHT \of divine judgement. riers entering. The base is a con- | gregational ‘Church, Rev. Wm. L.! York on the wrecked steamer Friday, September 15, and every! | (My Annecinted Press) ja lot of the cash customers the} . crete floor fitting on a concrete Halladay officiating. {Fern Glen, and left there after person who will apply must have | | BASTROP, ‘Tex. Sept. 13,— | trouble of taking their dues to} BAKERS VISIT HERE fra | Mr. Hilton was survived by his; the ship had been delivered. their 403 cards with them in or- | | Premier feature of the Bastrop the office by calling on them in REE Sy Board of Health will/widow, Mrs. Georgina Hilton,} The pumps were in charge of der that they may be able to| Meeting of the board of county 'County Livestock show this fall Person. Mr. and Mrs: Earl Baker, for- those privies at present | three daughters, Mrs, James Pin-|Clarence Thompson, who made show they have been laid off commissicners will be held to-, will be a 278-mile pony e | This act of Mr. O’Sweeney,!merly of Key West but who have are unsanitary. The sec-) der, Mrs. Joseph Ladd and Miss the trip.on the Fern Glen, to|from.the WPA work for the night in the office of Clerk Ross ride and horse endurance con- {says the secretary, will give the|been making their home in West ions are méstly in colored town | Marguerite; seven grandchildren | keep the vessel's hold free of stipulated period of 30 days. |C. Sawyer in the county court | test. joffice force a chance to concen-/Point, Ga, for a number of ar Fort Taylor and also in @|and one great-grandchild; two! water while the ship. was pro-| There are approximately 450)house and the meeting will be| Riders will carry a letter for trate on the problems which | years, are visiting in the city and hite section near the center of prothers, Thomas Hilton of Nas-/ceeding north under consort of persons who were affected by the called to order at 8 o'clock. jdelivery when they return from come in daily with the mail and |are guests at the home of Mr. and » town. Harrison will super-‘sau and John Hilton of Miami; the Wrecking Tug Peacock. Mr.'lay off order and who must be| Mr. Sawyer said there will be'a trip it is estimated will take to go on with the work of assur-|Mrs. L. M. Pierce at 905 South both condemnation and in-'three nephews, Harold Pinder of Thompson returned to Key West recertified before they can be as- jonly routine matters to be han- the best horses at least five ing correspondents in Seattle and | street. allation. |Key West and Carl, Willis and early last week. signed to work and it is said that | dled and checking of the deposi- | days. way stations in between that} Mr. Baker was recently retired Advance orders may be phon-' Frank Hilton of Miami. |, Another vessel of the Clyde-| they will all be notified whether |tory accounts. There is a possi-| The route is from Bastrop to|they really can drive to from the Postoffice Department, ed to Monroe County Health | Members of the Knights of Py-/ Mallory Lines is due to arrive in|they are to be returned when the bility that matters pertaining to! Austin and San Antonio, and’ West and, contrary to what i ii * office at 467. No orders are | thias attended in a body and pall-|port Friday evening, coming|activities start or their applica-| the budget for 1939 and 1940 may livestock officials hope the win-jof them have heard, there i: t in locations which mayjbearers were selected from the ' from New Orleans on the return|tions turned down. be brought up for consideration ner will reach Bastrop on his re-|good automobile road connect with the city sewer sys-! membership’ of this organiza- | trip bound to Key West, Miami} There is also another group of |but this was not included in the|turn the upening day of the Jefferson, which is tem soon to be in operation tion. and Jacksonville. workers, who, for differenti schedule for tonight. ishow. miles away by the water