The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 26, 1939, Page 1

ssociated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West The Key West THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE ee OLUME LX. No. 228. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, onmittees. Unité ON England: Told Beach Project; Plans Ror War. OF u Completion PLS Neutral Ships Are | “LATE BULLETINS (By Axnogiated Presn) * At the meeting last night at! TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1939 ed ed y N a Key West, Florida, has the : ; with an a : : ; range of only 14° Fahrenheit U. S.A. PRICE FIVE CENTS Harris. And Division School Lunchrooms Willen Wines | i Uy Asuociated Prensa) LONDON, Sept. 26.—As diplo- mats await with eagerness re-| | ports of the conference between} C. G. Hicks, head of the WPA Chamber of Commerce of the two civie committees, which had been | appointed to secure a beach for| Key West for this winter season | both bodies were amalgamated | under Col. L. C. Brinton as; chairman. L. S. Gruber, acting chairman of the meeting, called for a mo-; tion whereby the two committees would amalgamate under Col. } Brinton. The motion was then} passed by the assemblage. | ‘ol. Brinton, heads one of the two committees, in a report to the meéting before the voting, pointed out that he had been in contact with Ed Gato, owner of half the beach property between , Board of Public Works for salary ! on’ purposes lest night at a seecial WORD RECEIVED OF Duval and Simonton streets the south side of the island. He said that Mr. Gato, through his| Key West representative, had ex- pressed himself as willing to give a three-year lease on _ his half of the property to a civic committee Col. Brinton said that Mrs. L. Larranago, owner of the other half of the property, | had asked exemption of taxes and also $900 a year rent for her half of the beach property. The colonel szid his committee had decided not to use her property. Col. Brinton said his commit-! tee would later be formed into a non-profit corporation, would build a 20-room bathing house and recreation center; and would j advertise for bids for a conces-; sionaite to take charge of. the} beacit- tr" " ~ > R. A. Lehman, chairman of the | other committee appointed, stat-| ed that he could secure a three-| year lease from Mrs. Larango, so; that the city could have a beach | from Duval to Simonton streets. His statement was supported by! Mayor Willard M. Albury. Mr. Lehman said that he did not see why the geheral ‘public was kept from knowledge of the work being done by the Brinton committee. He said that the} work could not be done by any! one person or group of persons, | that the whole town must be be-} hind the project when it came to! collecting funds to put it across. | He said also he wanted to con- tradict statements that he wished personal gain out of it. Under the motion the commit- tees will meet with representa- tives of the beach property own- COUNCIL PROVIDES FUNDS FOR PUBLIC. WORKS EMPLOYES VOTE $1200 REVENUE BOND FROM STREET FUND; BAK- ER ASKS BODY TO HELP CONDEMN BUILDINGS City Council decided that it would be in line with past pro- cedure to hand $1200 to the meeting in City Hall chambers. Attorney Henry Taylor’s opin- ion on the matter, however, call- ed attention to the illegality of the step, especially in regard to; following provisions outlined in‘ the charter under which the city is being governed. Emergency and convnience en- | tered into the picture, and on that score, the councilmen de- cided to issue the revenue bond for the needed amount to be sold} td the Board of Public Works on the indebtedness fund. Salaries then will be paid Board employes, ' who have been without pay for. the past month. Fire Chief Harry Baker asked. the council to assist his depart- ment in. instituting .condemna- ‘ort proceedings against several fire-hazzard structures in the city, among them being the build- ing at the northwest corner of Duval and Angela streets, anoth- jer at northwest corner of Duval |and Greene streets, and other buildings in bad repair. | The council instructed Attor- ney Taylor to contact the parties who owned the structures in ef- | Russian and Turkish envoys at | | | ! | CINCINNATI Sept. 26—In the Moscow, Germany announced re ceane sian mo wad Ce more smashing blows had been Louis Cardinals by a score of 3-1 |!evelled at Poland and Prime lit i | Minister Chamberlain of England 1 fold Englishmen to prepare for a to determine jong war which would destroy Sunk By German U-Boat (By Axsoctated Press) LONDON, Sept. 26.—Sweden’s fourth shi GERMANS ADMIT ' BOMBS DROPPED ON PLANE BAS jdivision of planning projects in ‘Key West, stated this morning 'that provisions for lunches at Division Street and Harris schools have all been completed and that lunches will be served beginning tomorrow to continue throughout the school term. ip lost by this country the winner of the National league recently. Wood pulp comprises H | pennant. j Protests to Germany due to ie jc, Cakds used Davis, Shoun! War- sinking of its freighters continu-;40 percent of Sweden’s exports, meke%and Bowman on the motnd ‘with Padgett behind the’ plate. Jim Thompson started on the mound for the Reds with Lom- i bardi catching. ’ Pepper Martin, captain of the 'Cards, hit a’home run, which |beunced off the left center wall. PARIS.—French report mass- i {ed unabated yesterday as the Future shipments will be routed 1,839-ton Silesia was sunk by aja different way in order to clear | U-boat off the coast of Norway. | the sub menace. This will result | The vessel was carrying wood in a price rise of 20 percent. ‘pulp to England, and was the} France lost its second ship’ | when the 2,660-ton collier Phryne ! {Two destroyers rushed to the rescue but found no submarines Netherlands. France fears that was torpeoded close to England. ing of German troons along the | Swiss border and also along the! |the German economic structure.; FRENCH RAIN BOMBS ON While no: definite statement |, Turkey has a pact with Eng-! FRIEDERICKS! was made es to who has been t SUN- appointed supervisor of the land, but with the fall of Poland i | ain@i with: ‘ber gkadwel:. etcircle-| DAY) SITE OF ‘HUGE Arn. Nmches, which are prepered pri- i marily for undernourished chil- ;ment by Germanand Russian] PLANE FACTORY dren, Mrs. Sybil Dexter last year noun ae stohie to Ganagn 408. to. pote in y » ly a ne ai selene oreo | asa ialimaas cdma that one -orillcegait tates {sort of pact with Rus.*. Turkey! TONDON, Sept. 26—German charge this year. 4 |has an important inlet into cen-| government. has officially con-' Mr. Hicks said that while the | tral Europe. {firmed the French air attack on lunches will be started at the | Germany claimed ca;sture of a|Friederickshafen Sunday! above named schools tomorrow, it fort in a park in Waisaw, but| Reports from the Swiss border iS understood that arrangements i with this report came news from in the vicinity. The destroyers. took the crew aboard. It was 'reported the sub fired without DESCHAMPS’ DEATH WAS FORMER KEY WESTER; | W@™ing. ; A one line German com- RELATIVES LIVE | munique, which brought no com- HERE [ment from Britain, announced !* Total of sinkings has now ireached 52 ships, of_which Eng- (By Associated Press) ‘ the sinking of a British destroyer. | say that heavy bombardment 4te being made to extend the | Warsaw. that an important Ger- ;was heard on two occasions, one Project to San Carlos and Doug- Germany, now well blockaded in- 3 aise man militarist had be a assassi- side its own limits, will attempt to force its way out through these | nated by jmeutral countries. Premier Dala- | i i ai slates. (fitat _ the French | tes are still holding out near (Maginot line is impregnable to | Warsaw and in southern portions attack. {of the country. Russian troops, MOSCOW. — The Turkish as the East Prussian Hungarian foreign minister arrived in this} borders, Polish campaign for city last night. Conferences are thi . ‘ : Ba get” uiuietway, inns diately, | Ne Future will consist of guerilla but the exact nature of the pact/ feventually to be signed between} Russia and Turkey is not | tons of contraband had been pre- lknown. ‘vented from entering Germany |) LONDON.—Sounds of a naval in. the..North, and off ‘the Norwegian coast were heard |teday. The Norwegian govern-i ‘ment is sending a force to in-| | veztigate. | MOSCOW. A Russian |communique disclosed that Pol-! {German ports. He said this was organize Germany’s economic structure and thus defeat it. He {told Englishmen to prepare for a | long war because of this. In con- |traband seized were 62,000 ‘tons of petroleum products. through the English’ blockade of, at 8:15 p, m. and another at 11 Pp. m. These reports also claim been dropped in the direction of ‘the former German dirigible | { | Air raid alarms were sounded ‘and both times anti-aircraft guns went into action. Searchlights ‘scanned the sky for two hours. ; The former dirigible base has been turned into one of Ger- Chamberlain said that 256,000: many’s largest airplane factories. | |Direct hits have been reported. | ‘TWO EXPLOSIONS IN. GERMANY Hin line with'the plan to dis-| PARIS, Sept. 26—French radio} ~~ ‘station reported two explosions in Germany yesterday. One ‘occurred in Hanover and ;another in a chocolate factory ‘rear Berlin. vF | No further details were given. lish officers and , landlords’ were) = | shot \by their troops: when they | tried to resist Russian occupation ew Book i less schools. This news follows Federal acknowledgement of the the Gestapo. Polish|that thirty bombs must have lunchroom projects as authorized from Jacksonville last week. State Administrator Roy Schro- der’s office gave the word “to go” in a special wire to The |However, had penetrated as far|twice, the Swiss reports claim, Citizen. HOTEL GROUP INCORPORATED ‘\PAPERS FILED IN CIRCUIT COURT YESTERDAY; OF- } FICERS NAMED | Filed in Circuit Court yester- |day afternoon was the charter for the Key West Hotel and Tourist Homes Association, Incorporated, jof which Attorney Allan B. |Cleare is the legal advisor. The {charter was signed by Judge Ar- | thur Gomez. Incorporators named in the fort to effect agreeable action. | Otherwise, the council will order condemnation. } Special committee appointed to investigate the garbage-disposal ; situation at the Naval Station re-| ported that only emergency serv-, ice was required, in that the! station had appropriations to care for needs but lacked person- nel at this time. City Clerk was instructed ‘to ask for bids from the scavengers operating in this city in the matter. Eddie Deschamps, 37, former land has lost 31, Germany nine, resident of Key West, died in 'France two and neutrals ten. Long Beach, Calif. September , Tonnage lost is placed at 230,574; He is survived, by his widow, | a ee Mrs. Grace Deschamps; a daugh- WAR CENSUS IN ter, Carmen. Deschamps, _his| } mother, Mrs. Carmen’ Deschamps | 4 * of. Tampa; -three *btothers<-An= BRITAIN FRIDAY. Deschamps of Long Beach, and! ——— Ernest Deschamps of Miami, and | four sisters, Miss Mercedes De-| WILL DETERMINE MAN AND schamps, Mrs. F. D. Cartasco of | WOMAN POWER OF Tampa, and Mrs. .Chariles: i ee Espinola of Detroi | Burial was in Lohg Beach, Fri-} day morning, September 22. | ; s 1 | LONDON, Sept. 26—A_ war/0f Polish territory. The officers, |census, which will include every /and noblemen, along with civil- .U. man, woman and child in Eng-|ians, took refuge in a cathedral. |land, will be begun Friday. Iden-|When they surrendered only the ST. PETERSBURG | aa | This is a preliminary step to-| STOCKHOLM.—Sweden is dis- ward country-wide rationing, and ,C0Mtinuing many forms of ship- whol’ hadsbecntenniia sregulan will also serve to explore every “ f patrol cruise in this vicinity, re-| trot eso pan ond Woman Power) soe ore shioments will also be turned to the city yesterday aft- ernoon and left this morning for St. Petersburg, it was stated at | discontinued. } i a0ih; afiér a heart ablark: jand the known death toll as 739. thony Deschamps and Manuel Perez of Kéy West and Mrs. F. | iy | tification cards will be issued to/ Civilians were spared. | Coast Guard -Cutter Pandora, | that may be available to help win the war. Government , report much succes in their discussions with labor leaders. | ments to Germany because of the | |blockade. One report said that takes a geoldgist to really see!book is for free distribution. PARIS.—There is small artil-| (Special to TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 26.—It Florida—and describe ! ties. One may know a great deal its beau- lery fire directed against the #bout the moon, but a telescope|as will’ fascinate Geology Of Florida ; charter are R. A. Lehmann, J. H. | Lehman, L. S. Gruber, Elizabeth Sharpley and Suzanne Staley, jand the names of the officers jare given as R. A. Lehmann, | President; John H. Lehman, vice The Citizen) | president; L. S. Gruber, treas- ;supervisor of conservation. This; urer; William J. Lee, secretary. < It is written in the charter that The book's accuracy is based | the offices shall be filled by elec- loss tiie highest authority. The | ton not later than 10 days from | ‘ | date of the approval of the char- jauthor has chosen such language | ter. the ordinary | ;Coast Guard headquarters, " ; Many prob- ers with the intention of securing | _ y Pl a three-ycar lease. | The meeting was opened by Mayor Albury and Mr. Gruber was elected acting chairman and Mrs. Hugi Williams acting secre- tary | Present w Col. and Mrs. L. or Albury, Mr. and Mrs. Char Johnson, Mrs. Hugh Willian Mrs. Georg Mayo, Miss Elizabeth Sharpley L. Gruber, Earl Adams, George Mills White, L. P. Artman, Jr. Isadore Weintraub, J. H. Lehman, | Stephen Singleton, J S. Daniels and A. O eeney. C. Brinton, GULF STORM HAS MOVED INLAND Advisory from the Key West) this side of the water had been|would permit a sound military THERE WAS NO PRA Airplane Attacks, Perha ENGLAND CO ps; ee By MORGAN AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, There’s a story goin, high diplomatic Sept. 26. g around in quarters in| | Washington that Prime Minister | trality. Neville Chamberlain never con- | sulted the British seadogs and} generals before he made a treaty | with the Poles to guarantee their | tack on the West Wall or (B) vio- | MORNING independence. |lems, which were not solved un- til after two years of fighting had elapsed in the world war, have | been ironed out. CTICAL WAY . ene ; ; ‘ brings the detail of this lunar Siegfried line today. The French all ae said that German movements: body for a close-up pitfiire. One \seemed to imply that they will ay know a grekf, Ypal about [soon counterattack the French in, P0tany ‘and entormolégy, but a * ‘A small Ger- bug under a microscope will en- jlayman, and in none of its 122 | Pages is there a tiresome dealing j with technical terms or, subjects. Mr. Dowling and Geologist Gun- BEACH FIREMAN ULD AID POLAND Coececereccoccesocccecococococcoe The huge food problem con- x |fronting England is slowly ad-|™&n patrol was testing the French justing, itself. It is announced | 4¢fenses south of Zweibrucken. that an expert body of scientists! be |will work in close harmony with| RUCHAREST.—Rumanian gov- agricultural leaders to further |¢™ment announced that the ring- perfect the food plans. leader in the Iron Guard murder | TO INSPECT LIGHTS ' day. If the French and British were|ON BOARD TENDER ZINNIA, to aid Poland at once, then they | WHICH LEFT THIS had to decide between (A) an at-|: Germany Would Do Same . eee M. BEATTY WASHINGTON. — Amount of mail to Congressman in this spe- cial session of Congress lessened today as Congress adjourned un- til Thursday but it was admitted that the majority of letters was against any repeal of the arms embargo. Senators Said that most of the letters, however, were from clubs and propaganda agents. ler unless he took its advice to make his peace with the Russians and complete this circle of neu- lating the neutrality of some lb est ar tna liven the study and a; leaf or |petal under‘'the same glass lifts ithe subject from “mediocre to animated biology. } The average Floridian may ‘think he knows his Florida, but until he has seen it through the eyes of a geologist he has not really had a cross-section. “Scenery of Florida Interpreted | by a Geologist” is a new book on | Florida, just off the press. It was written by C. Wythe Cooke, Ph.D. of the U. S. Geological |Survey, for Herman | Florida geologist, and published |by R. L. (Bob) Dowling, state} ARRAIGNMENT ON Gunter, | iter have presented the volume as ENJOYS VISIT HERE Geologieai Bulletin No. 17, and! BE jit becomes a part of the state's} F..W. Turpen, member of the ‘archives dealing with Florida’s | Palm Beach Fire Department, is history. This history goes “way |a visitor in the city and is hav- ; back”. ‘ing a delightful time visiting the | Those who would delve into points of interests and seeing the ithe mysteries of Florida's geology | many sights at the aquarium and }as a means of taking practical, 'also at the Coast Guard~ Head- jeveryday use of the information | quarters museum display. | will find its pages quite worth| Last evening Mr. Turpen was the reading and study they in-'a guest at Number 1 Station and , Vite. The source of great springs; met Chief Harry M. Baker and |that belch forth navigable rivers|other members of the local «de- ; at one gorge are dealt with. Riv- partment, and declares he spent ers, lakes, artesian wells, and in-|@ most enjoyable time with the numerable natural wealth of wa-; “boys”. ter supply, unsurpassed in beau- ty and worth by any other state/HAPPY DAYS The best military strategists on! European state whose territory | President Roosevelt called to-| Tender Zinnia, of the light- Weather Bureau this morning at telling me for weeks thai therej flanking movement against the|house branch of the U. S. Coast 9:45 o'clock indicated that the! was no practical way for the} reported yesterday | western ailies to help the weaker | divisions away from Poland. German. ermy, and draw its best Guard, left this morning for vis- ,its to lights on the reef, where gether six members of his Cab-! jinet today for a discussion of| jother means of insuring neutral- | STATUTORY COUNT; i are described in this book other author seems to have ‘aone.| —-FOR BEARS __ The chemistry of soils, the orig- in of minerals, the variety of (By Ansociated Preas) clays, the physivgraphy of limit- | FORT DAVIS, Tex., Sept. 26.— sulf storm , i ro Porat inland at 8:00 a. m., | Polish defenders at the outset of | ‘ ‘ : EST, just south of New Orleans. /@ great war. a __|for a quick victory, obviously. | livered. Diese Squalls were scheduled for the} Geography, military _ tactics, | Violating the neutrality of a neu- | Going bg Wor 4 lagers for . the balance of today in the northeast/and all the imponderables of tral state, such as Belgium, the | purpose. of makihg the ‘regular i ity. BAR MEMBERS T0 The West Wall was too tough |supplies and fuel oil wilk be de- | ; less landscapes; even the flora'Happy days are here again for Louis’ Wilson, colored, charged !#nd fauna of today and the pre-|big black bears, thanks to the historic animal life, all these are | automobile. fense, was arraigned yesterday |detailed and woven into a well-| Tom Redford, game warden, after ‘o'glock in the of- Fe, a and composite picture|says the modern-day rancher can fice ak Justice Enrique | © ida as it was millions of j with committing: a statutory of- ; t all storm warnings | Modern warfare required time- | Netherlands, Italy, or Roumania, | inspections Gull: arene = | consuming conferences and time-|to get aid to the Poles was the) between have been ordered down. No further advices will be is-| Consuming tactics, both on the’ kind of strategy that brought the | was | gued on this storm. eessccese oe SPECIAL! SPECIAL! | Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday “LADY BAS LAYER CAKES... 33c Maloney Brothers’ Bakery 812 Fleming St. Phone 818 battlefields and on the diplomatic; wrath of world opinion down front. While that time was tick+/upon the Kaiser at the beginning | ing away, the independence of;of the last World war. | Poland ticked away with it—for! So, in the end, the Franco-! the time being. | British alliance rejected both of Hitler Signs With Stalin those methods of offering imme- | the light. stations wh nd Key West Assi tt ~~ Superintendent Henry B. Haskins, who expects to return the latter part of the; week. imeeting has been called for to-;cused and the evidence was such Also on the Zinnia were Ervin’ morrow at 12 o’clock at County |as to warrant the’ prisoner being G. Hines and Hiram F. Cline, who | Courthouse by President J.|held under ‘bond of 1,000 for were recently transferred from} Lancelot Lester. |trial at the next term of Crim- the Coast Guard Cutter Mojave.| Purpose of thie meeting was not | inal Court. | Zequinaldo for preliminary hear- jing. | Several witnesses were sum- MEET TOMORROW Key West Bar Association|™oned to appear against the ac- | years ago, as it evolved ! the centuries, and as it peta lappears today. The depth of the surrounding |seas are measured and pictured, and the shape of the peninsula both above and below water is | given in relief. How so much in- |formation can be crammed. into find more exciting ways to amuse himself than hunting bears, so bears in the Fort Davis country are unmolested. ¥ Consequently there now are more than 150 black or brown bears in Jeff Davis county, a “great increase”. One of the ways Redford sug- gested ranchers now find pleas- gists discuss the puzzle: ae { states. The German army ap- ; Parently refused to move for Hit; Here’s how the military strate- See aid to Poland. 2. As long as Hitler’s ally, Germany first assured her-| Mussolini, should keep Italy neu-|se¢ond assistant keeper at Carys- self.a complete buffer of neutral!tral, the British dare not . send | fort light and Mr. Hines has been their main fleet into the Medi- (Continued on Page Four) | Mf, Cline has been assigned as! stated in the call, but it is under- Stdod that one important topic is up for discussion: A meeting ofthe Association assigned as second assistant keep- er at Alligator Reef Light. | The arrest of the accused was|a brochure of such compact size imade by Députy Sheriff Ray El-|is ample evidence that only a wood, Sunday in a|writer and student of rare ability {house near the corner of Thomas and achievemenf could have pro- and Angela, streets. | duced it. i ure is automobile driving “on good highways”. “There’s only two packs of bear hounds left in the county”, says Redford, <