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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 218. County Board Fixes Monroc Tax Millag At the regular meeting of the| board of county commissioners, held last night the budget for the! year 1939 and 1940 was discussed‘ at length, at the conclusion of | which a millage of 59 7-8 was unanimously voted. | Present at the meeting were Chairman Carl Bervaldi, Com-' missioners Braxton B. Warren, Wm. Moncalvatge and T. Jenkins’ Curry: Clerk Ross Attorney W. Curry Harris, Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard Waite,’ Representative B. C. Papy and C. Sawyer, several representative citizens. Clerk Sawyer announced that the items of the budget were as General Revenue, 8 mills; Fine and Forfeiture, 3 mills; Road, 6 mills; Special Ad- mills; Indebtedness, General School, 10 Maintenance, 10 ; Mandamuses, 3 mills; State, 4 7-8 mills, making the 59 7-8 to- tal follows vertising, 3 12 mills; School mill advertisement calling for bond offerings, which was re- ceived frum the State Board of Administration, was read, ap- proved and ordered published in The Gitizen. . Signed plat of Roosevelt Boule- | vard from Bertha street to Flagler Avenue, which was made by Engineer Homer Herrick, was presented to the board by ALARM SYSTEM NOW IN ORDER CITY ELECTRICIAN REPORTS THAT WIRES HAVE BEEN CHANGED | | | | | Circ 1, of the Key West fire alarm system, which had not} been working since Tuesday aft- ernoon, was in complete working order yesterday afternoon, City Electrician Theodore Albury told The Citizen today. . The of Ca uit No tion is from the corner | ine to Angela on Thom- | eet and wires, which had sagged down on the 2,300-volt regular city wire, were placed below to eliminate the trouble and for greater safety, Mr. Al- bury said. RECEIVED WORD | | | | | Attorney Harris and was care- fully studied by the members. This plat is necessary to se-! cure absolute title to the boule-| vard and will be used in making | application to the WPA for the beach and dock, which, it is an-| ticipated, will be built in connec- | tion with county sponsorship. After being analyzed by the board members, the plat was! signed, as required by law, byj{ the chairman, the clerk and{ members of the commission, india | ink being used to affix the. signa- | tures. THE SOUTHERNMOST.NEWSPAPER IN THE The Key West Citizen U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, ‘THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1939 Cermans Pound Warsaw Defenders; Artillery More Active On Westem Front * | | (By Associated Press) WARSAW, Sept. 14.—The Polish army which yes- iterday, aided by mud and renewed spirit, had launched a BACKGROUND | | very successful counter-attack against the invading Ger- RECERTIFICATION BEGINS TOMORROW AT W.P.A. OFFICE | QUALIFICATIONS FOR REIN- STATEMENT STRESSED BY MISS FALK; APPOINTMENT | WORK EXPECTED LATER ‘ | | Miss Mary Falk, supervisor of; the local organization of Social ; Workers, stated today that ap- ;Pointments for persons applying | \for recertification on the Works {Projects Administration activi-| j ties will be given every week | (day from 8 a. m. until 12 noon, i with the exception of Saturdays, ;beginning tomorrow, September 115. i { } Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit President Believes Special Session Will Revise Neutrality Act TWO WEEKS ARE | = PRICE FIVE CENTS (By Associated Prean) |. WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.— Stephen Early, secretary to Presi- ‘dent Roosevelt, in an interview today. declared that the Presi- ‘dent had carefully sounded out ALLOWED TO TAX OBJECTION |the opinion of the country before CITY CLERK'S OFFICE WILL 'Congress for next Thursday. RECEIVE COMPLAINTS The secretary said that tho President believed that the ma- EACH DAY: ROLL OPEN TO jority of the country wes in INSPECTION favor of calling a special session 't0 revise the present Neutrality | Act. He stated the chief execu- Letter of thanks was received | | Two groups of Persons are, © Announcement is made in this ‘the iLINE LEAVES: CITY OF THE WAR Digest Of War News From All Fronts from Eugene Berkowitz, express- | ing the gratitude of Boy Scout | Troop 51 for the use of the} county’s truck in conveying the troop to and from their annual! camp site. The matter of the inequality of | RUSSIA WAITS assessment on the stock of} Aa the Saunders Wholesale Grocery | Copkeone eee eapet ussia Company was brought before the | 8uessers” is that board by committee members the slightest intention of moving Monsalvatge and Curry, who /a soldier or firing a shot until were appointed to investigate the jwestern Europe is in shambles. claim of excessive assessment as ee ; ; made by B. C. Papy, member of | The German viewpoint was that the firm. Warsaw was going to surrender The excessive assessment as'at the mere announcement of a claimed by Mr. Papy was brought German-Russian pact and that before the board at the meeting Britain and France would make ithe best of a bad bargain. Rus- held on September 6 and was referred to the committee named for investigati The matter sia and Germany would then di- was further discussed last night 'vide Poland. Considerable rum- and it we souded aan as- ors continue by which the Balk- sessment be placed on the basis e of $1,500, instead of $2,000 as it 2° States would also be parti. itioned. Considering Russia as an _active military ally of Germany jand attacking the Poles at the was at first. Commissioner... Curry. stated |proper time it is difficult to see ‘how Poland could resist the sheer that thé allowance. of $28° month- weight of numbers of Russian (Continued: on Page Four) OFFICER OF FERRY troops, despite the bad quality of a Russian command, staff and transport. Then Turkey, too, , would hesitate to side in with the Allies because of her exposed Black Sea coast and Caucasus frontier. i 2 4847 £ ‘HOW ABOUT BALKANS? What will the ‘Balkans do? Di- i | REPORTS MUCH INTEREST IN PROJECTED SERVICE |man army was thie morning pounded hard by a German attack. | The Germans claim the capture of several important | lecations and cities in their attack. ! The German attack was characterized by furious j airplane and artillery firing. hasn't | } Sixty thousand troops were claimed to be captured by the German troops. | As French and German artillery fought in a duel on | France’s western front, advices came from London that ‘Hitler was very much concerned over the western mobil- jizaticn of over four million en against him. enou; { gh to the German west wall to be ready to inflict seri- ous damage on it. { Important coal mines Honig to, Germany have | been captured by French troops in the Saar ‘région. : The Duke of Windsor entered Buckingham castle to- day for the first time since his abdication for American- | born Wallis Simpson, now the Duchess of Windsor. | Another British ship, “Vancouver City” was sunk to- day by German submarines. An American vessel out of | Mobile, Alabama, was searched by German subs. 1 = =. | Meanwhile French claimied to have approached close | \eligible for appointments. Those ; Persons laid off under the 18 months continuous _ employment , law and who have been unable to |find private employment and who , at the date of application have’ , been off at least 30 days. Those, | who have not been off for this! jPeriod will find it useless to ap- ply. Also those persons whose WPA | icase has been cancelled for vari-' |ous and other reasons, but does! |not include persons who have ‘never worked or had an open {case on the WPA. Neither does this refer to persons who worked ;on the CWA or the FERA but not on the WPA. | It is especially important to jthe applicants that the ‘appoint- jments are to be made on Friday, } tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday, and the actual recertification work will be started on’ Wednes- day and assighments’ will "be made in chronological order. | \Failure to. keep the appointment! jas made will mean that the ap-| jlicant will be. dropped to the foot of the list. Applicants are advised that} :when they return to keep the jappointment which has been| | granted it will be necessary for | the applicant to show the agency ; the need for WPA employment. | There are other needs. for the ap- |plicant to comply with in order that the case. may ‘be cleared NAVAL STATION CONDENSERS CO. TO CHARLST issue of The Citizen by Archie Roberts, city clerk, that Tax As- sessor-Collector Sam Pinder has submitted the preliminary tax roll for the year 1939 to City Council, and that the same will be open for inspection by citi- zens-at-large. For the purpose of filing ob- jections to the assessments made in listings or in valuation, the office of the city clerk will be open for that purpose, starting today. Hours are from 9:00 a. m. to 1:00 p. m. and from 2:00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m. each week day, Corrections must be filed by 5 p.m. on Thursday, September 28, following which deadline the councilmen will sit as a Board of ‘Review to determine justice of} claims filed. OTHER TO BE. FINISHED TODAY: TAKEN. TO MAL- LORY DOCK FOR SHIPMENT Condensers of the large water distillation. plant at the naval sta- tion, which. is now being rehabili- tive also felt that the majority of congressmen were in favor of amending the Act, which at pres- ent gives Germany a strong edge on the British-French Alliance, since arms and armament ship- ;ments are forbidden under the Act. j The one abjection congressmen have expressed is that the ques- |tion of placing power in the |hands of the President in this |matter would not be desired. It | was the reason Roosevelt's first revised Neutrality Act failed of | passage during the last session of ' Congress. It is probable, however, that ithe Act alone will be amended \during the coming session to al- ‘low the sale of arms and arma- | ments on a cash-and-catry basis. | Isolationists, whom President “Roosevelt” has “eal av “Wk ~“the | minority, believe that any at- | tempt to allow the sale of arms to ‘Europe's warring nations will ;TWO DISMANTLED AND AN- ‘eventually mean that America will be drawn into the war to Frotect our interests. Borah of ‘Idaho has been the principal ob- ' jector to the plan. | The cash-and-carry plan of jsale of armaments will eventual- lly be lengthened to a credit plan jtated by the navy department, jand the United States will again trect railroad, connections from | Bree j without delay: are being removed from. the |10s2 billions of dollars, as it did B. G. Gili, treasurer of the Pan American Link Transporta- tion Co., who was visiting in the city for several days in the in- ny : | nd Russia to Germany . go through | erin iil Hl Poland. Part of direct water route | from Russia to Germany via the 4 Baltic is not navigable during | It must be shown by the ap- plicant what employment he has {had since the WPA. He must! {furnish a complete history and’ plant. Two of thé condensers'in the last war, when England, have been removed and the oth-| France and others of the Allies er is expected to be disconnected |reneged on paying their war oday. ‘debts, many favoring isolation the winter. Britain is attempt- ing to keep Germany from _re- ceiving any supplies from across {| the sea. Conclusion: What the’ Balkans do about supplying Ger- many or letting supplies pass) terests of his company and dis- ing business with Attorney W. Curry Harris. left over the highway for Detroit this morn- ing. During his visit Mr. Gili con- {tacted a number of leading citi- zens relative to the new line of ?portance in the war. | vessels, which he is contemplat- can Britain and France Further— | City-wide interest has been in-, be allocated to a special fund ex- 0 \dicated in the special City Coun-| Pressly for WPA sponsorship. ing, and said that everyone was through Roumania to aid Poland? | ¢1 meeting to be held tonight in|, Beer and wine, as well as in favor of the line. His trip to Can Russia send supplies down|Coyncil chambers, at which a, quor establishments — are re- | Detroit is for the purpose of get-: to: Ge i as thence via the Black | special ordinance to raise all oc- | Ported to be in opposition to the ting the vessels in readiness for Sea, Roumania and Hungary to |cupational licenses will come up! "¢W closing regulations to be in- inaugurating the service. | (Continued on Page Four) for first reading. jtroduced, although, waiting until 2 Local merchants interviewed | final draft of the provision is this !'™Made known, proprietors are re- serving final opinions until later. Carnival License It was stated today that dif- ficulty might be experienced in " | yesterday afternoon and |morning about the new increase | contemplated, report general dis- | |satisfaction with the arrange- | ment, although, in all cases every TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY {bring signed statements from his ;* last two employers, or one em-} The two already removed were! aver. | ployer as the case may be. These 2t once taken to the docks of the j eda should be written on |Clyde-Mallory Lines, as will the jthe letter heads of the company } jand include date when employ-! (Continued on Page Four) : | Cn ce eet ‘WARREN BENNETT | ARRIVAL I IN j , TRANSFERRED TO LIGHT- | HOUSE DUTY FROM CUT. | TER TALLAPOOSA | | | | other, ard tomorrow evening upon arrival oi the Steamship Ozark from New Orleans the jthree condensers will be placed ‘on board and sent to Jacksonville | for reshipment .to Charleston Navy Yard, where necessary re- Pairs will be, made. ART GROUP TO MEET TONIGHT Regular weekly meeting of the Art Appreciation Reading Group CHAMBER RECEIVES ‘A BOOSTER LETTER EVERYTHING WAS SATIS- FACTORY” STATES R. B. LIBBY.“VISITOR HERE | Another of the interesting let- ters from visitors to Key West who have found naught but pleasure, delightful accommoda- tions and everything satisfactory jin- every way, comes to the Chamber of Commerce from R. OF JUDGE'S DEATH By RUSSELL KAY \sympathy for the purpose of the jadditional city funds was ex- I think that all the newspaper cautioned them not to smoke un- | pressed. The funds raised are to putting through the new $5,000; Warren Bennett, who was re- has been announced for tonight B. Libby, secretary of the Little license on amusement parks in! cently transferred from the Coast @t 8 o’clock at the home of Mr. River Business Men’s Associa- News of the death of a well- view of the reported contract al-' Guard service as water tender on|and Mrs. F. Townsend Morgan, tion, in answer to a letter sent known Detroit judge, who spent rt of each winter fishing in West waters, was sent The Citizen by Jacob Schreiber, also a Key West fishing enthusiast. Judge Edward J. Jeffries was 74 and well beloved in Detroit in his Recorder's Court work. He had been in office 32 years, was sharp-tongued and insistent on points of law. He edited a news- paper once and had always been a friend of labor. A great outdoor sportsman, he had hung in his office the huge 100-pound tarpon and 70-pound sailfish he had caught off Key West. NOTICE TO ELECTORS Notice is hereby given that the City Registration Books will be opened at the City Hall from September 16, 1939 to October 28, 1939 inclusive for the regis- tration of all persons eligible to qualify for the coming City Gen-| eral Election, November 14, 1939. ; Office hours will be from 9:00 a m to 12 m. and from 2:00 p./| nm to 5:00 p. m. daily except days. E. C. GOMEZ, Supervisor of Registration. septl4-15 ready signed by members of the volunteer fire department with folks who were members of the til after the take-off. j Pearce tien etioniiea t (CATES ANNOUNCES =‘ssinivax company tor the com: {Press party visiting the New| Taxi-ing down the field, the | ing season. York Werld’s Fair for “Florida giant ship turned for the take- HIS C ANDID ACY Organization expression from Week” ceremonies will agree off, the motors roared as they | ; : s that the highlight of the trip was|warmed up, and then before | different clubs in the city, as well ja night flight over Manhattan | anyone knew it we were off abe peli gichetene Riemer na fom jand the Fair. 3 ground to look down on a sight asaaaia teeth As guests of Eddie Ricken-| Yhich, once seen, could never be | backer we were taken from OUF | orgotten, | hotel, the Martinique, Broadway | pe " sf ,at 32nd, in private motor cars to! Leaving Newark we glided di-| \ stated that thy ill fight the Newark airport where we rectly over the Statue of Liberty | + state ; we ‘ ey he fet any boarded Eastern Air Lines “Flor-| while greafet New York’ in a/ j Carnival: that .. contenp op- | provide the incentive to override 'the contract reported to have tbeen made. Many citizens have OF NIGHT POLICE; FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT i ida Flyer”. blaze of gloryMlay stretched be-| Officer Myrtland Cates is the erating here next year on the The. trip from the hotel to the} low, a, veritable «fairyland of /first Key West citizen, present STounds that conditions do ess airport, via the Lincoln tunnel‘ light sand Invisible ‘motor | office-holder or otherwise, to toss |favor such amusement in and over velvet super-highways, |cars, “dist! ishable only by /his hat into the ring of aspirants | City- i which for a distance skirted the | their headlights, could be seen to public office in the Geet ning ST ‘AYED river to afford a magnificent;making their way along the/|Election to be held November ; view of the Manhattan skyline,!great arteries of’traffic. Speed-|14. Officer Cates announces for} BY HIS MASTER was itself a thrill, but nothing to |ing trains were visible in all di- | the position of Captain of Night! jcompare with the actual flight. rections, looking for all the Police. | nike Knondddten cans) For some of our party it was|world like illuminated cater-} Mr. Cates has gained wide} REGINA, Can., Sept. 14— a “first flight” and they were a pillars, and as we gained altitude recognition as director of the Key | Tracked down by a Royal Cana- bit nervous as they took their'more distant areas came into| West School Junior Patrol units,'dian Mounted Police dog, Nelson seats and were immediately |view until the great human ant- co-operating with the Rotary Sammy, an Indian, shot and strapped in by the attendant who ‘hill of seven million souls lay!Club to make this safety feature killed Constable W. E. Rhodeni- | visible below us as a magnificent a success. ‘ser. Sammy was shot in the FREE! FREE! “City of Light”. The support of his friends is; breast and hip, but will recover. RADIO BROADCAST The Battery and lower Man- sought in the coming election on je arrest not far away was the Amateur Nite Program hattan with its .stately group of the basis of his qualification due ;culmination of a three-day hunt. Habana-Madrid towering buildings were easily |to his experience gained in police! The police dog lay: beside Rho- Friday Night, September 15th | identified while midtown, Times|work during ‘the past year and | deniser take no fur- Dance Will Follow—Music By {Square, Rockefeller Center and /during a former period on the) ther in the ventual cap- Gould Curry and His Boys |! (Continued on Page Four) force. Le. ture. = ENTERS RACE FOR CAPTAIN nival in the city next year may| the Cutter Tallapoosa to the posi-: jtion of third assistant kepeer at | 618 Grinnell street. The subject for tonight’s ses- |out by Secretary Singleton, con- cerning misrepresentations which | Tortugas lighthouse, arrived over ,5ion will be Japanese Art, with have been made concerning Key ‘the highway yesterday, accom. ‘Particular attention to Japanese West. jPanied by Mrs. Bennett. | Furniture ; {hold impedimenta of the Bennett family, arrived by vessel yester- ‘day and this morning were | awaiting disposition at Coast \Guard headquarters. - | j t STEAMER ALABAMA’ | BRINGS OIL TO PORT Tanker Alabama, of the Texas ;Company, arrived 7:14 o'clock ‘this morning from Port Arthur, |‘Texas, with a cargo of fuel oil to Benites are in the white ward, | well as plentiful. ibe delivered in the tanks of the’ jeompany at the Porter Dock Co.! | Immediately after arrival the | ‘Pipe line was laid from the ship | ‘to the tanks and pumping was! ‘started on removing 10,000 bar- |rels of the fuel to the receptacle, ebsapay was completed at 2 o'clock ; this afternoon and the ship sailed jfor Jacksonville, where the bal- jance of the cargo will be deliv- ered and the Alabama will start the return to Port Arhtur. Prints illustrated by many ex- and other house-'@mples from the collection of Mr. lows: Morgan. These meetings are for the SIX CONVALESCE AT MERCEDES According to a report from Mercedes Hospital, there are six | persons in hospitalization there. Charles Culmer, Michael Cul- mer, Jose Chacon and Alberto while Henry Din and Isaac Brown are in the colored ward. SPECIAL! SPECIAL! Friday, Saturday, Sunday PEACH DELIGHT 33e Devil's Food Squares _..___._ 25¢ @12 Fleming St—Phone 818 The letter from Mr. Libby fol- “Your letter of August 31, : with clipping attached, concern- ing the misrepresentations which ‘public and all whe are interested have come to you as being broad- jcast regarding your city, has been read to the members. of ‘this association and a plea has been made for the stifling of |such rumors if any come to their attention. | “Numbers of us have visited |Key West and have spent most enjoyable hours there. We have been well received and most hos- |pitably treated. Prices were [found to be most reasonable and | accommodations were good as “It is entirely possible that you jare experiencing much of the same propaganda that Miami in |general is faced with each year, jWhen some of our neighbors to jthe north of us here all but bar the roads to keep tourists. from coming further south. “Be assured of our entire co- operation in connection with the wishes @ prosperous @: flourishing