The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 25, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Inte1ests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 227. The Kr: West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, COURT MEETS AND | State Planning Board Named As Sponsor Of Thee Local Projects KEY WEST GIRLS | RECEIVE DIPLOMAS (Special to ‘The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—} |Florida Arts Project has been of- ficially sponsored by the Florida | | State Planning Board, George C. | Gross secretary, with Art Project ; DISPOSES OF ALL CASES; RECESSES FOUR CASES HEARD; ALL DE- FENDANTS PLEAD GUILTY AND RECEIVES FINES OR IMPRISONMENT At a brief session of Criminat| Court this morning which was) held in the judge’s chambers at the court house, four cases were heard and in each instance the accuser entered a plea of guilty | before Judge William V. Albury, presiding judge at the session. The first case called was that | | ction On Neutrality (By Assoemted Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—President Roosevelt re- MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1939 Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit mt | PRICE FIVE CENTS [BELGIUM WHEAT ' i i TO GERMANY 10 ~ STOP INVASION BELIEVE DIRIGIBLE BASE BOMBED Saturday's Damaged (Dy Assoctated Press) BRUSSELS, Sept. 25.—It was understood here that Belgium ®. would furnish Germany with| needed wheat. | One of the most severe elec-| Germany is at present in great trical storms Key West has ever need of wheat in spite of its re-' experienced, according to Presi- cent conquest of Poland and its friendship with Russia. ;dent Bascom L. Grooms, of the It was thought that the Bel- Key West Electric Co., struck this of Edward R. Ashby, charged ! fused advice of his associates to launch a counter attack igium government made the con- city shortly after 9 o'clock Satur-; Storm Lines Of ACW. Electric Co. SPECIAL SESSION FOR CITY COUNCIL with having in his | MEETS TONIGHT TO DETERM- GRADUATE FROM — to employ 160 and have a $17,335 | SCHOOL IN EXERC HELD TODAY Ss | appropriation, Music employing {320 and a $32,750 appropriation and Writers employing 60 with a | $7,055 appropriation. | | There had previously been 186! statewide programs for Art,! 25.—At Music, Writers and Historical -—*“"; Records Survey projects. Ap- «(Special 19 The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 Possession j crawfish which were undersized and weighing less than a pound} each, ‘is plea was heard by the against Congress today, which adjourned-after a House Committee reported a cash and carry sale of armaments ‘cession to forego any invasion of day night and inflicted damage the neutral country, over which to the lines of the company. rumors stated that Germany was 1 judge and the case explained by | amendment to the neutraity act, not fully in accord with Deputy Sheriff Raymond Maliney {by whom the arrest was made. Judge Albury fixed Ashby’s fine 4 o'clock today graduation exer of Providence Hospital nursing school will be held with cises plications now on hand number ,173. Forty-two states are among those included in the applica- Miss Rosemary Albury and Miss 0S. 5 rae The W.P.A. Arts program con- Virginia Smith Key West tinues-under local sponsorship at among those to receive diplomas. approximately the same level of Miss Albury is the daughter of employment and operations pre- Mr. and Mrs. Hilary Albury and/Viously maintained under ex- Miss Smith is the daughter | of ,“lusive Federal sponsorship. é Key West Music project under Mrs. J. B. Smith. ‘supervisor George Mills White is; Miss Albury is expected in the sponsored by the County Com- of {at $10 and costs or an alternative jof 60 days in the county jail. and was charged with recklessly driving an automobile on the | highway. The charge was prompt- ; ly answered by the plea and a fine of $10 and costs was stip- ulated or the alternative of 60 days in jail. Leon Albury, charged with the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor, was the next case and the fine in| this case was $50 and costs or 60 Fred Bye was the next prisoner | |the President’s wishes. The House and Senate day. Hl Meanwhile chairman of would be to plunge America both adjourned until Thurs- U. S. Steel Corporation, Weir, announced that he opposed the sale of armaments to bel- | ligerent nations and said that to lift the arms embargo into war. Mr. Weir has sent scores of telegrams to Congress. G-Men are investigating a stream of telegrams from planning a march to break the British blockade. LOUD: EXPLOSIONS AT FRIEDERICKSHAFEN | Distribution lines in various | areas of the city were struck and} {in some instances ine damage was | ‘spread over a wide area: One} !aistribution transformer was de-' INE STATUS OF LOAN TO PUBLIC WORKS City Council will meet in spe- FRIEDERICKSHAFEN, Sept. | 25.—Loud explosions were heard )nearby and it is believed that the German dirgible base was bomb- ed by enemy planes. German anti-aircraft batteries went into action against the invaders. PART OF U. S. FLEET TO PEARL HARBOR WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—The U. S. Government is planning to send part of its Pacific fleet, now, istroyed and one span of primary cial session tonight at 8:00 o'clock wires was burned down. dition to this, fuses were on, 24 transformers. In ad- to receive the opinion of City At- blown! ; ° torney Henry Taylor as At various times lights in cer-! tain areas were out of service but only for brief periods. The {company’s emergency crew was lat work 11 o’clock Saturday night and continued the repair work un- | til the service was completely re- | sumed 9 o'clock yesterday morn- ing. Hl Today inspections were} city this week to visit her parents , mi: yn. before taking interne work in a northern hospital. Ceremony was presided by Right Reverend Eugene Con- nolly and was held at St. Peter's Church. An invitation to attend the ex- ercises by The Citizen. over was received Key West Art Project sponsors include Key West Com- munity Art Center Corporation, ; City of Key West County Commission. F. Townsend Morgan is Art Center director. A writers’ project with one local person to {be employed will probably be ‘made available in the near future with research to be done on folk lore in Key West. ana Monroe WICKERS Tells Of Two Narrow Escapes; Likes Diving Coins Best eee . mv EVERYTHING se es days in jail. The judge said that costs in the case would be sus- pended upon payment of the fine. Leonard Harris, colored, | charged with_assault and battery | entered his plea and said that he | just had to hit the woman who; preferred the charges, because she was a big woman and could handle him if he did not protect himself. The judge considered the -case..from_.every _.. standpain' and fixéd the fine at $1 and costs or 30 days in jail. There being no further busi ness to be brought before the court the judge ordered a recess | until further notice. Germany urging Congress not to repeal the neutrality act. The Dies committee threatened treasury department action against Fred Kuhn, head of the German American Bund. Kuhn is reported to have made a statement in a German newspaper telling all German Americans that al- though they have their American citizenship papers they are still really Germans. Reca p Shows 49 Ships Have Been Sunk So Far: (By Associated Press) off Se sae to Pearl Harbor.’ made all over the lines of the | Hawaii. {company and any irregularities that were found have been straightened out and service is! tas perfect as usual. i} | In different sections of the city, there were evidences of bolts ‘RECERTIFICATION WORK CONTINUES struck and in one particu-' ADDITIONAL APPLICATIONS that a small boat in the harbor had been practically destroyed, ARE BEING TAKEN FROM WPA WORKERS. Miss Mary Falk, of the WPA! |social service, said today applica- tions will be taken Tuesday from ;all persons who have been ..re-j| leased from the works Progitéss | Administration vecause of 18-| months’ continuous. service,. even has becnreported. ena |but no serious loss of property -ed- Then he tal Joss. — - whether it will be possible to is- sue a $1200 revenue bond to the Board of Public Works to be used by that department to meet pay- rolls, now overdue The amount would be from the city’s street fund. No other matters of importance would be brought up, according to Archie Roberts, clerk. taken sidewalk and VICTIM OF FATE PICHER, Okla.—Earl Black of this city removed most of his household goods to his mother-in- law’s home while his own burn- ts burned with a to- New England Hurricane CLEMENT HUDSON: Reviewed By F. Lovering LONDON, Sept, 25.—Forty-:over the sinking of the two! though the 30-day | FROM DIAMOND RINGS TO ANCHORS jnine vessels have been sunk since |freighters Saturday. An editorial ! period has ‘not elapsed. | . By FRANK W. LOVERING “Willie” Wickers, whose diving feats have always been a high- spot of the Key West water- front, started in by diving pen- nies thrown by passengers from ships making this port and even now his greatest love is in doing! that Whenever the “Cuba” begins sailing up the harbor, Willie un- consciousiy breaks into his yodel, which, for 40 years, has been lveaid alongside passenger ships in Key West waters. The yodel is based on “Rockabye Baby”. “If people throwing coins could see the fights which sometimes go on underwater they would get a great deal more kick out of throwing coins”, Wickers says. Wickers’ lungs have an amaz- ing capacity for air. Not know- ing that he was being timed once he was clocked underwater at one minute and 53 seconds. Wickers says he could stay under much longer than that. He does little diving of this manner now, since Willie isn’t as young as he once was. One of his most amazing feats was diving up a diamond ring for the wife of one of the mana- gers of the Porter Dock Com- pany. Water there is about 3) feet deep. Wickers said the ring glistened like an electric light on the muddy bottom and it was easy. Bvt divers will tell you he was understating the case. Among } other articles which he has dived from the bottom are eyeglasses, ships’ anchors and watches. Turning to helmet diving in 1915, Wickers has many tales to tell of narrow escapes from death. Wickers had the job of patch- ing two large holes in the bot- tom of the “Algiers” of Southern Steamship Company. While un- der the vessel, the strong tide pushed him forward and capsized his helmet, which must always) Last official check at San Carlos'Cline, members of the Coast| be kept vertical while under wa- ter. Taking a ,Wickers started up. _ When his \head popped into view alongside the schooner, the pumpers, who ; were sending him air, were very much surprised, Wickers said. government gave the order to dynamite the vessel and Wickers! ‘got the job of doing the dynamit- ing. With a strong tide, his life- line became tangled in lines which were placed under the ves- jsel ‘for him to hold on. He was forced to doff the helmet and swim the entire width of the schooner to the surface. Underneath the Mallory Dock !son, Clement H., and a daughter, ‘out there is a huge cave, Wickers says. He went part of the way into it, and then seeing things getting darker and darker he said jto himself, “I don’t like the looks of this” and jerked the cord twice, signal to be pulled to the surface. His son, Harry, does most of }the diving for the family now 1700 STUDENTS i | !ALL SCHOOLS REPORT TO SUPT. RUSSELL; FIGURES NOT COMPLETE | Checkup today revealed that |692 students have enrolled at Key West High School ‘with 423 in the Junior division. and 269 in the senior division, according to records in Superintendent of ; Public Instruction Melvin Rus- sell’s office. At Harris Elementary school |389 have enrolled, Division 488. lrevealed 58 students. hasty _ breath, | ; One schooner had capsized and} 'was towed in bottom up. The| ~ ENROLL IN COUNTY. DEAD IN MIAMI Whitmarsh late Saturday eve- ning announced the death in Mi- ami Saturday of Clement Hud- son, formerly of Key West. but who had been making Miami his home for a number of years. Mr. Whitmarsh said that Mr. Hudson had been stricken on one jof the streets of Miami. just after he had asked permission of the ‘driver of a milk truck if he could rest on the vehicle-for a moment, \He was dead when an ieudsuigal | tion was made. Survivors are the widow, a (Miss Naomi Hudson. ! Funeral services are to be held {in Miami this afternoon. 1 1 | SMALL GARAGE An alarm of fire sounded from | Box 324 at 11 o'clock this morn- ‘ing called apparatus to a lot be- ‘tween Von Pfister and Washing- {ton streets, occupied by a garage, which was burning. Telegram received by Thomas | {in one of the newspapers declar- ‘ed: “It*is ‘imperative that such llegal measures end”. Cellulose, of which wood pulp is one form, is on the list of con- Two Finnish freighters—the | traband, and therefore the Ger- 1,360-ton Walma and the 2,262-'man government approves the ‘ton Martii-Rangar—were torpe-|sinking of the freighters. “It |doed by German U-boats Satur- would have meant death to many day. |pulp to England. | British — freighter, the European war began a few weeks ago. Four sinkings were! ‘added to the total over. the week-/} end. [ten to the British”, said one Ger- 4-646-ton ' man official. jHazeltide, bound for Liverpool! Information issued yesterday \from British Columbia, was states that the German subma- shelled by a German sub off the rines reported in the Atlantic and coast of Cork yesterday. Twelve Pacific weters immediately after of the crew of 34 are missing.' war broke out must now be 28 | Thrée of the crew were killed, days. at sea. when the sub opened fire with-| The morale, the statement de- warning. Another vessel carrying a cargo|ever-increasing danger of the ‘of wood pulp to England, the|depth-bembris one of the main Swedish 1,510-ton Gertrude Bratt, | factors in destroying the morale \was sunk by a U-boat yesterday |of any sub crew. loff the southern coast of Norway.| The German U-boats, no doubt iShe was the fourth vessel to be lacking feod, water and _ torpe- ‘sunk off the southern coast of, dos, must now seek a home port. ithe Scandinavian peninsula , three days. Finland | ger will be encountered at the is highly indignant! weakest moment. t | ! | Digest Of War News From All Fronts They were carrying wood|Germans had this cellulose got-! |clared, undoubtedly is low. The in| It is then that the greatest dan-! BACKGROUND OF THE WAR: Booster pumps from Engines; Number One and Number Two! were used to extinguish the! BRITAIN MUST FIGHT flames, which had spread to the | LONDON, Sept. 25—An offi eree S00) a ee ie sil announcement _ concerning {eeie van extinge thea: time | Premier Benito Mussolini’s speech | The garage was practically a ,complete loss. C.G. MEMBERS HERE FOR LIGHT SERVIC | { jPeace now that Poland exists no imore, declared that the British ;government understood and ap- ipreciated Il Duce’s motives “but jthat the decision to fight Ger- smany was brought about by the ‘invasion of Poland and that the real reason, as the world knew, was.to “redeem Europe from the Ervin G. Hines and Hiram F. {Perpetual fear” of Hitlerism. |Guard Cutter Mojave’s crew, re-| NEWS NOTES {that England and France make | day). It was there in 1795 that | tmade. .. .Polish minister in Paris ‘has issued a statement requesting \ dered for Gulf coast from Pen-| jal Poles beween the ages of 17- 45 to register with the French tarmy for military service. . . |Germany, Propaganda Minister iGoeébbels says, will strictly re- | spect the neutrality of all neutral |states. . | .From Santiago, Chile, comes the announcement that the !United States will propose that the first partition of Poland was | ‘about 200 persons who will be ef- ‘fected by this order and it must logical order, the same as for ;elapsed. This means that those persons who have aiready made ;appointments will be handled {first, it is said. PARRAMORES BACK FROM TOUR OF U. S. Dr. J. B. Parramore, head of the community clinic in Key | West, and Mrs. Parramore, who jhad been enjoying an extended vacation in the United States jand Canada, returned over the (highway on the afternoon bus jyesterday. They first went west to view ‘the natural wonders in that sec- ‘ion and visited the Exposition at | Treasure Island, then up _ into |Canada, where they spent sev- jeral days. They came back to the U. S., visited-the World’s Fair jin New York, and from there returned directly to their home here. ADVISORY 3:00 P. M—NEW ORLEANS. |Storm warnings have been or- | i | sacola to Morgan City, La. Storm located 300 miles due south of -|New Orleans traveling northwest at 8 to 12 miles per hour. Wind ivelocity, 40 to 50 miles per hour. ee New Orleans, La. Sept. 25, 1939. ADVISORY 9:30 A. M. EST: | It is estimated that there are e understood that the appoint- jments will be given in chrono-; ; those whose 30-day periods have SEPTEMBER 21, 1939.—One,ed by insects a single Seusbn, it is / year ago this afternoon a hurri-|necessary to keep thé logs in cane that had by-passed Florida, water tifl.the mill worker can ‘ sata ead along the coasts of cut them and stack the finishe ew lersey and New York,! product. wrecked the shore lines of Con-; Last May and June the WPA necticut and Rhode Island, split | and CCC crews numbered 52,000 \ as it paar ihe tele iain men in clearing the fallen forest across New England, and when'lands. One hundred and seven- ‘in the bial iat Pog akid bebteee mills are sawing logs at ing morning the win ied out'top speed and all over the New far away in the Canadian wilds. | England States the vast piles of paras apres p st peed ze ig sawdust — as the lead ani ad cost a’ ie lowest | work progresses, and thousands estimate 400 millions of dollars! of acres of land are stacked with in property damage. the boards and scantling, which j; Nothing like it ever was has been yarded out to season be- a rapa ag prone rior 4 bas being put upon the market. at did vas! jamage ie Will Take Anot! State of Maine in 1869 is peal Bef 76 nee quently referred 40. tw pmigari.| efore this work of salvaging ton. with the “Yankes Hurricane” |“ timber wrenched from the of 1938. The Maine” gale was (core! as whole trees, entire pine ; |forests, by the hurricane; ¢an be abe pean dicl: cong yprranad (eet fully another_year of \as‘‘the Saxby. gale" |labor must be expended; * prob- Lola New: Magiend . nnsiy ES jably more. I; is a tragic spectacle 50,810 dwellings ‘ were damageai © motor over the blasted forest and 8924 were destroyed. Many feskevee! pnd ‘se the trees so laying et the Slide Side asin cot. |UPhill and down dale like~ ten |tages, which one or the other of i Pointed pas ond = thé, Stubks itwo tidal waves swept totally | many chees par 7 - a away along the Connecticut, burned fi A ad at Rhode Island and Massachusetts gga gmipon ape ——— shore lines. Not more than one-, 17, the past year saa jhalf the ruined cottages have! Se ee eee ‘been replaced, many have: been; rehabilitation alone in this sec- |the gale not over half have been ,Feplaced and returned to com- | mission. | $6,782,000 Paid For Timber timber salvage has proceeded at| a high speed under the guidance | jof the hurriedly formed Disaster , Loan Corporation and the Sur- plus Commodity Corporation. At 806 receiving yards in the six 'New England States, 582,100,000 |jurisdiction in the Americas’ wa- | Tropical disturbance attended by ;feet of lumber have been gather- ters be extended to 300 miles! winds of 30 to 40 miles per hour ©2 together and worked into along the coasts. The proposal/near center and by moderate , boards and scantling by hundreds | will be made to the Pan-Ameri-!squalls over considerable area'0f portablé sawmills. A total of ;ean Conference, which opens to- 'was central at 7 A. M. EST. 200 12,172. timber owners have been In all the New England forests | of assistance This noble work has ranged from Red Cross care \for the injured, in reuniting fam- lilies and feeding the hungry,.as ;well as the restoration of small farms and small business enter- prises, and care of the aged. The work still continues all over the stricken area. Loss to farmers alone was {more than ten million dollars. jpee the crop and tree damage cannot be replaced. Hundreds of farm buildings have been re- paired under, the direction of the (Continued on Page Four) REE NOW ON DISPLAY NEW On the Keys eleven have en- ported at headquarters of the} Canadian crop of wheat has jrolled in Marathon school for service this morning for assign-|been ahnounced as totalling 435,- ; | whites, 28 at Matecumbe, 15 at ments in the lighthouse branch. [000,000 bushels. Approximately)GERMAN VIEWPOINT | Rock Harbor and 14 at Tavernier.! Superintendent W. W. Demer-.|87% is of the first three grades, | Douglass High School for itt told The Citizen that the new! compared to 78% of last year. . .. . i lay in Panama City. {to 250 miles northwest of Pro-'paid by the northeastern timber | |ereso, Yueatan. Indications are Salvage administration the big Ahern Fi uneral Home zs Sept. 25. ___ ‘disturbance will move west, 7a “a ly os ees deliv- ERLIN, »—American |northwestward with some in- ‘er mu o hundred } a Histeners were given an insight on|crease in intensity. Small craft and sixty-seven ponds are being) DODGE and PLYMOUTH . Cooled” colored had 176 students and the|men will be assigned, one to the A German communique stated English propaganda methods by aon the Louisiana and Texas{utilized to store the logs till the! roster Than A AMBULANCE SERVICE Elementary School 239. A new light at Alligator Reef and the|that German and Russian troops | German broadcast today. The!coasts should not venture into|mills can use them. Since a great Firecracker Phone 22211 Miami, Fis [colored school opened today at other to the light at Fowey Rocks, | paraded in Brest-Litovsk, eastern! beam of the Berlin station was|the Gulf. quantity of the fallen timber iss NAVARRO, Inc. Marathon. |at both of which are vacaricies. |part of Poland, yesterday (Sun-| (Continued on Page Four) WEATHER BUREAU. pine, and would be destroy- | quae