The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 15, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 219. The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1939 Battles Raging Both Fronts; Nazis Hope To Establish New Winter Fefty Service As soon as the capital stock is troit where he will look over subscribed, the Pan American two ships, which formeriy plyed Link | Transportation Company Great Lake waters. One is the On ae . Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit U.S. A. PRICE FIVE CENTS Council Acts To Provide WPA Sponsor Funds; Asks | | Driving Pol (By Associated Press) * LONDON, Sept. 15.—Tihe German army rallied again| today in its battle against Polish forces and presented a! BACKGROUND i more solid front, while French gains were noted east of | Saarbrucken on the French front. | In Poland German troops fronts as far away as 60 miles troops broke through early this week when the lightning | German advance left several At least twelve motorized columns were reported | : | making their way against the Polish forces at the front. | | While artillery roared severe fighting was reported near Brest Litovsk in Poland, The Germans admitted Polish forces in their resistance. that 20,000 Polish civilians by German planes. This is more than the number of | Polish army casualties they Back on the French front, fighting is centering east | of Saarbrucken with the Germans blasting away with ar- tillery at positions recently captured by the French. Along} , southwest of Warsaw. OF THE WAR Digest Of War News From All Fronts had consolidated their’ from Warsaw. Polish’ weak openings. | ARMED VESSEL NEUTRALITY America’s Neutrality. Act, which has strong restrictions against armed vessels of nations at war making American ports for more than 24 hours, helps the U. S. greatly. In the last war Germany contended that an arm- ed vessel was not entitled to warning kLefore being sunk. Sec- retary of State Lansing saw the point of the German argument. He knew it was a common prac- | tice for a British merchant ves- sel to wait until the submarine arose to give it a warning, and then either tried to ram it or fired a shot into it. A subma- rine is a helpless target before a cannon. The slightest. puncture |in its thia shell sinks it. In in- | | | that mud was helping the} Polish spokesmen claim} have died of bombardments | claim. es Back 1 LOCAL will begin passenger and auto travel! service between Key West ind Havana, according to Treas- urer B. G. Gili, who added he hoped this would be this winter. Mr. Gili; who has been visiting jin the city for several days with 'Incal interests, told The Citizen that there will be no need for ;American Maritime Commission ‘approval since the company is lerganized in Cuba. Cuban ap- jproval with a 50-year govern- ment franchise has been secured ;with Col. Batista declared very much in favor of establishment of the li r. G is on his way to De- LIONS CLUB FIRST PETITIONER | AGAINST CARNIVAL RESOLUTION VOTED AT MEETING LAST NIGHT: G. BEZANILLA TELLS ABOUT THEATERS The Key West Lions Club was the first organization in this to vote a resolution against the “Carnival Threat”—taking unani- mous action last evening at the regular supper gathering at | City of Sacramento, which has} an overall length of 308 feet, is of steel and has a passenger capa- | city of 2,027. The auto capacity | is 103. Second ship is the Napa! Valley, 242 feet overall with pas-} senger capacity of 1,528 and auto | capacity of 85. The ships burn} fuel oil and travel at 14 knots; per hour. Discussing further the propos- ; ed service, Gili declared that | eventually it might be extended ; also between Cuba and Yucatan! to complete the water links of; the eastern branch of the Pan! Public To Final Neetng | Twenty-Five Percent Raise Monroe County Receives More State School Funds In Occupational Licenses Passed On First Read- | ing; Discourage Carnival \ j "American highway. The service can be rendered daily in a six-hour lap from ei- ‘ther Key West or Havana. Pas- fenger and freight rates can be freatly reduced and we have the assurance of heavy traffic through ‘the new line, Gili said. The present European war forces tourists south to Cuba, Central and South America. Most of Cuba’s fruits and vege- table exports are shipped via Florida through the P. O. S. S. (Continued: on Page Four) TWO DESTROYERS HERE TOMORROW BELIEVED TO BE PART OF | COASTAL PATROL; DUE TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 15.—!the counties is scheduled under , \(FNS) Increased attendance in the n ‘hool code for Septem- Florida schools last year has Par ee ry ee 'boosted this year’s apportion-i °°" °* " 3 'ment for the State Teachers| Fifty-five counties which re- ‘Salary Fund to $12,091,793, ac-, Ported increased school attend- ‘cording to a summary of county ,@nce have been allotted more school reports issued today by ,funds from the state. Allotments ‘State Superintendent Colin Eng-|'0 11 counties are less than the lish. The first distribution 1o|@mount they received from the |state last year. The greatest in- tcreases in attendance were re-' (RAMSEY OUTLINES jported by the following counties: \ |Hillsborough, 1,188; Dade, 1,147; | RO TE FUNCTIONS |Escambia, 865; Duval, 860; Jack- i |son, 565; Orange, 509. The net i increase in the total state appor- IN CLUB ADDRESS icc % Boceee \ | The average daily attendance | ‘in Monroe spear uaet was H |2,119, which was pupils more joeenee ee apenas is jthan were in attendance the pre-| TO INSURE FURTHER CON- Noire hinges pigtail = portion A to this count TACT WITH ALL MEMBERS (for current teacher salary and! OF CLUB | transportation expenses. t Florida _ counties City Council took drastic ac- tion last night at a speciai meet- ing to provide WPA sponsorship funds and at the same time made initial moves to stop a “city- financial-draining” carnival from coming to Key West this coming season. In realization of the necessity to keep a $30,000 monthly pay- roll in Key West, and in lieu of failure to make any other plan work, the Council voted to raise all Occupational Licenses 25 per cent, collectable after October Ist this year. On advice from City Attorney Henry Taylor, Jr., it was found not possible to as- sess local liquor and wine-beer establishments, and other means to collect more revenue from those businesses may be dis- covered. Public Criticism Invited the Moselle river Germans are reported to be in retreat. Pounding is continuing at German west. wall positions whicheure believed to be weak. Stone Church Annex. Presiderit | . H. E. Day was in the chair. | Opportunity was given for dis- | ; ternational law it is legal for a IN PORT AT NOON merchant vessel to’ try such slick tricks. But Lansing argued that ‘ fs Pr er the law was designed-man: ate ting comments on the -resolt= 1 r wore % ago to suit orien that bere tion, but none came forth. It was! Just before going to press, defend. themselves easily against |/flt that the present crisis period Lieut.-Comdr. Fort H. Calla- employed | ‘about 450 more teachers last! Second and third reading of . ‘ |year than the year before, The the new ordinance will come Rotary Club meeting yesterday | principal -inerease- in~attendanee next Monday“evening- at anotier was madé ‘more than usually in-|\as in the high schools, largely special mecting. Councilmen are teresting by Rotarian Ernest | from children in rural areas at- anxious for the public to be pres- Ramsey, who gave a talk on the British Blockade Is _ Effective; German Supplies Dwindling? (By Axsociated Press) LONDON, Sept. 15.—Allied forces today declared that the capture of Poland coal mines by an armed merchant vessel, while they gave the merchant vessel time to unload its crew and pas- sengers. Submarins, he con- tended created a new problem. WARSAW IMPORTANCE ' Warsaw is inde¢d jah’ important spot in the war. ‘A glance at the map shows ‘ that‘ ‘all Poland’s railroads lead into it. It is much the same as if Canada would} seize Chicago in the U. S. Reich to battle with more ottec. COLUMBUS pakicysdenra ue jtiveness with their motorized|internment after another for units and planes. |Captain Dahne of the German \ here would not be helped by the presence of any carnival next sea- son. Gonzalo Bezanilla, manager and owner of the Palace Theater was the speaker at the meeting. ‘Brother Lions were much inter- ested, albeit amused, to be “let in” on some pertinent — secrets tions of a pesially in theater owner, es regard to “hgih- {handed” methods employed by distributors of pictures. Next week was designated as Vocational Night — and these |members will present short talks| miles off shore to spot for- | on their businesses—Lions, H. concerning the triais and tribula-; han of the Key West Naval ‘structure of Rotary and its inter- = 2 . {related committees. He traced Station received a radio mes- |the structure of the organization | by means of a large chart and anes Ene wor desteayens ireviewed the functions of the would arrive in Key West to- | work which is intrusted to the membership, fellowship, classifi- cation, education, publicity and | Names of the destroyers other committees. se .; Mr. Ramsey created a amok Recyyans Dekrte SBE Trae (litias Gres aert obs jlieved they are part of the |audience and elicited comments i A . jin the form of diversified sugges- \Patrol which is at present fuses and protestations. (cruising coastal waters 200° Major topic of discussion was ' |the custom which has been the despair of successive reformers eign submarines and warnjand is that of each member morrow at noon. round- | tending city schools. About 200 |additional busses were purchased ‘by the counties to provide serv-! ice for 8,592 more pupils. There was an increase in. attendance in Florida elementary schools of 2,- 261 pupils, although in nearly every other state in the nation there is an annual decline in at-, !tendance in the lower grades. ent and asked The Citizen to give wide publicity to the meet- ing. Attached to the ordinance was a provision to tax all night clubs that hold any dancing whether admission is charged or not a sum of $50 annually. Another ordinance passed (Continued on Page ‘Four) on Germany will not defeat the ef-| With speculation rife today as steamship Columbus. The Colum- fectiveness of the English sea-|to the division of Poland between | bus 8 ue operated litte | 5 ; _{ably in Caribbean cruises foi Matente, e | Russia and Germany, it ‘was, be iyears. Lots of Yankees patroniz- Germany announced that im- lieved that Russia would get {O. Martin and G. Saunders. Smith, H. E. Day, Ray Curry, D.: \ shipping. H s jed it. But Dahne is a marked fortant coal mines in Poland protectorate over the Polish;man. When the World War} would enable the armies of the Ukraine with Germany contin-' broke out (he was not on the | uing to receive all the supplies,Columbus then) he was prompt- | ly interned in Australia and re-| ae ts Gee ana mained there during the entire; NORTHERN LOBSTERMEN FEAR Wants Florida Lobsters Called Crawfish; Puts Pressure eee ses eae Being S ichoosing to sit where he pleased jand always sitting in the same |place and next to the same neigh- | {bor. The impression received; Key West is that there is a was that the rotation of seats! scarcity of water. One has to/all the keys because of this. But was a very desirable practice,! pay even for a glass of it be-|they were impressed with the icommendable, highly approved,|cause there is no regular water}beauty of Key West frangi-panni {and not at all likely to be adopt- ‘ system on the key—rain water | and the color of the water deter- yed, it being more comfortable to has to be refined for. use”—says | mined by the coral reefs. jremain where, one knew what to|the social column Chatterbox (Ed. Note: Why {people make pread Up State “An interesting factor about}velous fishing on the keys and that “surprisingly” people live on English spokesmen said that! 2; During the Munich crisis, | their sea-blockade cuts off two- he and his entire cargo of Amer- jexpect in the way of conversa- }tion. int the Daytona Beach Evening! such statements without more OFFICE MOVED :*<, of Germany's supplies from ‘ican cruise passengers waited at = |the rest of the world. Most of Cartagena, Colombia. He spent | | na the April crisis on an African NEW HEADQUARTERS OPPO-|Germany’s iron ore comes from cruise without ‘much discom- SITE POST OFFICE; OPEN F'ORIDA LOBSTER PRODUCTION wecsee Pecccvaccccesoocccescesossococs (EDITOR'S NOTE: The | Labrador to Key West, the genus New England states. which (Homarus to the north of North produce mosi of the lobster | |News, according to a clipping; basis for fact, The Citizen docs | Lieut-Com. Fort Callahan in-j;sent by Ignatius Lester from|not know. The Key West Cham- troduced the visitor of the day ,| Gamesville- jber of Commerce has refuted the Robert M. Balfe, sports editor of! The Chatterbox reviews the H fallacy of the Smith type of state- jthe West Palm Beach Post. Mr./recent trip of Norman andi ment time and again. DRINK Balfe has caught a great number |Frances Smith of Daytonai\ING WATER JS NOT SOLD ON ;Sweden and Germany would be fort In the current war he put {seriously handicapped if Sweden in at Curacao, Venzuela oil port. NEXT MONDAY stopped sending her ore. ‘After a day's stay they took an | Carolina and the genus Palinurus /of yellowtails and proven their; Beach who spent part of their|/THE KEYS, and we are certain of the country. are objecting ‘to the south, The federal trade }@dibility, and has also tested the | vacation in this.city. The Smiths |that the Smiths did not buy English said they believed that' ambling cruise, then returned to! German merchant ships were port. Later they went into Ha- Employment /£4PPlying German submarines yana where the passengers were | Florida State with dual: many in Key West, point out to Florida lobster being call- ed a lobster. Florida lobster fishermen, of which there are |commission claims that the jnorthern decapod is the “true |American lobster” while the turtle | report, too, that there is lunches. | — mar-{drinking water for themselves |but were “told that someone told isorreone else who told them” junsurpassed brand of jsoup served at Rotary He is enthusiastic over both and Service offices, which are affili-} jalso praised the quaint charm of many in Key West, point out KEY WEST BOYS ated with United States Employ- i (Continued on Page Three) that the Florida lobster is a | Florida genera is only a craw- ‘fish. About the only difference ithe city. that this was so. Chatterbox, is ‘a good newspaper column, shottid know better than to publish ment Service, and have for some; time been located in the Naval| Station, will tomorrow be trans-; ferred to 314 Simonton street. | William VY. Little, manager of the offices, today told The Citi- Late News Bulletins (By Associated Press) CHAPEL HILi, N. C.—Presi-| PORTSMOUTH, N. H.—-Twen-} true lobster and not the craw- fish which New Englanders would have us call them. Crawfish in the north are confused with small fresh water crustaceans found there and not in much de- , between the two is that the |Florida lobster lacks the big ipincher-like claws of the New {England Crustacea. j The Florida lobster season jopened on July 21 with over 1,- ;000 persons directly employed in jsecond-hand rumors. For Chat- ‘terbox’s information THERE SEEK ENLISTMENT ‘HAS NEVER BEEN A SERIOUS |ABOUT THIRTY-FIVE HAVE SHORTAGE OF WATER ON | |THE KEYS. If all the cisterns APPIZED 72 COAST j}and fresh water wells in the city GUARD BOAT | | | | LIKED US SO WELL THEY STAYED ON which has zen that when the WPA and oth- er activities, which have been hou: in the naval station, were transferred to other locations, he started negotiaions to secure a suitable office. Yeste: y afternoon arrange- ments were completed and the office at 314 Simonton street, op- posite the postoffice, will be open dent of the University of North Carolina said that the principles of democracy had failed to ful- ty-four of the 26 bodies in th Squalus were removed today with | . the two remaining lodged be- fill many needs of people. He — said it held down many leisure hind crumpled masses of steel, imeeds of the human body and which will require some time to |that it did not allow develop- be cut away. The structure was ;ment of the spirit of the indi- | inspected today with the cause |unofficially determined as being | vidual. He pointed out that over jhalf of the world is not demo- mand.) (Fort Myers News Press) A tempest over “when is a lob- ster not a lobster” has blown up over the Florida fish industry as jthe result of a threat by the fed-|than three traps a day are gen- ‘eral trade commission to prohibit | erally experienced, the fishermen ithe use oi the word “lobster” in— jthe sale of Florida crawfish ithe industry. Investments of the| VISITORS INTENDED ONLY individual fishermen range from } a minimum of $1,000 for Jath and} BRIEF STAY; SPENT WHOLE ‘frame traps costing $3 each in the ; CITY i water and boats worth not less| Pabst bio ee! ‘than $500. Losses of not less! see Mrs. W. C. Givens, of Port Orange, Fla., and sister, Mrs. J. D .McDonald, of Daytona Beach, say. when !left on the early bus today for During the old days EE EE ! |. Since the amalgamation of the Lighthouse Department with the U. S. Coast Guard service, the {lure of the sea has seemed to | suddenly. seize a number of young , Key Westers who are seeking en-} jlistment in the Coast Guard. | | Enrollments in the service are suddenly ran dry, never happened, the city can stili depend on water which is stored here in huge tanks or on the huge reservoir at the Naval Station.) NOTICE TO ELECTORS Notice is hereby given that the Monday morning. ‘ : | tie and that dem cy is de- Unemployment Compensation | pay ae igre Bureau transactions are also con-{ ducted from this office. | e FREE! RADIO BROADCAST weeceee BROILERS, tb - F REE! TENNESSEE FRYERS, 1b from a jammed induction valve. | which are equally well-known as |Florida lobsters sold for 20 to 30 Florida ‘spiny’ or ‘rock’ lobsters.;cents a pound, fishermen made 29¢ The Florida Fish & Oyster Re-} (Continued on Page Three) —~ ga¢ Porter, devoted to commercial | ——_—. panel ,fishing interests in this state, += ae Come in and ask for a seccccccece |FLORIDA BATTERY RAISED | FRYERS, tb ‘fighting the trade commission or-! | ote Fae being handled or the Cutter City Registration Books will be (their homes after a visit in Key | Pastore by Executive Officer pened at the City Hall from | West, where they were guests at| Martin and, it is said, those who,September 16, 1939 to October the home of Mr. and Mrs. Beech-' are accepted are sent to the Ma-|28, 1939 inclusive for the regis- am Curry on Fleming street. _rine hospital for the regular ex-/tration of all persons eligible to The visitors said they, had in- ' amination. |qualify for the coming City Gen- tended when they started on the! [t was said this morning that |eral Election, November 14, 1939. Ahern Funeral Home Aero-Car Ambulance Service “Air Cooled” AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 22211 Miami, Fle Amateur Nite Program | ROASTING HENS, Ib Habana-Madrid | STEWERS, t ______ . 27¢ Tonight. 10 P.M. Til? | Brady’s Poultry Market Dance Will Follow—Music By | 1214 White Street. Phone 540 Gould Curry and His Boys | ——wWe Deliver—— e | | lobster companies “back East” are putting pressure on the com- mission to hurt the Florida craw- fishermen and Two types of lobsters are found along the Atlantic Coast from! ~" gg¢ der with cbjections that the big} Demonstration ride in the new | PLYMOUTH and experience the new i LUXURY RIDE iINAVARRO, Inc. TA trip to just come and stay very!there have been approximately briefly, but after arrival they |35 young men, most of them Key | wete so pleased with the city | Westers, who have applied at the and the delightful reception they | naval station gate and been di- received that they remained for rected to the finger pier in the the period of their two weeks’| sub base at which the Pandora vacation. lis berthed, Office hours will be from 9:00 a.m. to 12 m. and from 2:00 p. m. to 5:00 p. m. daily except E. C. GOMEZ, Supervisor of Registration. septl4-15 1 ‘00