The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 28, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 230. ¥ Trumbo: 3 (My Asavelated TALLAHASSEE, State Press) Sept. 28.— Superintendent Colin Eng- * arses FLORIDA SCHOOLS | ceWitineaeadligester celine com | Plaints regarding real estate and UNITING TO SOLVE: |plaint thus for filed is that of (Trumbo Properties. | | After 5 o'clock this afternoon ‘all complaints which are not in ENGLISH URGES FACULTIES fice cannot be presented to the ; Council which will begin sitting TO REVISE INSTRUCTIONAL ‘as an Equalization Board to- a night 8 o’clock at City Hall. ACTIVITIES: LOCAL STUDY Trumbo Properties claim that GROUPS URGED y . | basis when other properties ‘throughout the city are on a {50% basis. | There has been an increase in the personal property taxes val- in the real ‘estate valuation of $174,035, according to the valua- tion which has been submitted to council by Tax Assessor Sam B. Pinder. , personal property valuations for YOUTH PROBL! ce | City Clerk Archie Roberts’ of- ithey are assessed on a 100% uation of $12,750 and a decrease This year the real estate val- lish today announced plans for the mobilization of teachers and | public school leaders into or- ganized units for a study of the Che Key 1939 at 5 o’clock, the only com-' THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. ae KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, SERTEMBER 28, 1939 ports Stil Comé “rss In About Up-State -sn=== Key West: Knockers VON RIBBENTROP, NAZI OF- FICIAL, IN MOSCOW TO DIS- CUSS FUTURE POLICY: TO DIVIDE POLAND Here’s the latest story about that Key West lacked water and Russian officials comes at a time sparaging remarks made to ‘that i iti | 5 minist brought her fully 100 percent ' tourists planning a visit to Key unos ha Wyeast see when Turkey's foreign - more visitors than ever before, West. tee nee thy best bivand esbial lac ol ee unoffici Florida may confidently look for-| J. C. Grube of 2745 Moore Advised to remain in other points) Although no ivr gay ward to 1939-40 as another rec- street, Philadelphia, Pa., located of Florida. _ ifareltsasre logeqas eevee res ,ord smasher in winter season a missing sister, Mrs. George E.! Mr. Grube made this _state-/## 18 Nabe af bee |annals, Harold Colee, president of the Florida State Chamber of ;Commerce, declared today. | Discussing Florida ‘travel, Co- »lee quoted from a letter written him by Earl W. Brown, manager! of Florida National Exhibits, who said: “It is interesting to note that travel to Florida this sum- jmer, by all lines of transporta- tion, is 100 percent greater than STATE CHAMBER LOOKS FOR BIG | TOURIST YEAR ComplainantTo WAR IN EUROPE WILL RE-) LEASE $500,000,000 IN U. 3, FLORIDA EXPECTS BIG; SHARE (By Associated Press) MOSCOW, Sept. 28.—It is held as highly significant that Von Ribbentrop's conference with high (Speeint to The Citizeny | JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 28—) Just closing a record-breaking | |summer season estimated to have | di | i |between Germany and Russia this city this week after having the present time I have ‘found | (a) cage ie ,lost track of her for 12 years. nothing wanting, and on my re- fai oy Rees ap reaer i pee cpipdicasany also to have jitor’s Note: im Hart of, ing her again, but told The Citi-. 424 William’ street who told the’ driven another hard bargain with zen that they were afraid for a Grubes to tell their story to The |Germany regarding demands on time to come to Key West be- Citizen’ suggests that all Key 'Slavie territories. In return Ger- cause of the rumors concerning, Westers and their friends try to) many gets many supplies from water shortage and sanitary con- get-the names of the places of | Rsssis, which she is sorely in last summer and I have no hesi- ditions here. : } business upstate which are jt I tation in predicting that Florida’ At New Smyrna and again at spreading the rumors and that / is generally believed to be about is facing one of her greatest tour- Miami the usual “blarney” some an attempt can then be made, | half and half. list seasons”. ,upstate hotel and gasoline sta- possibly through the Chamber Germany’s Von Ribbentrop Agreeing with Brown’s predic- tion operators give tourists was of Commerce, to enlighten the talked with Russian officials for tion, the State Chamber official heard again. The Grubes heard proprietors.) five and a half hours last night. itemized several factors that | | Point to 1939-40 as a great winter | season. “First, while Florida regrets the conflagration, the. present European War will keep at least! '$500,000,000 worth of American! his wife. They were very joyful at. see-} se bapeeme ny at ee Satan 7 - ; 2 : ACCLAIM GERMAN oge a AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP Citizens And if FAY Ing BERLIN, Sept. 28.—A German \ ? le news agency announced last night ; ‘i that the friendly relation be- {tween Russia and the Nazi state at Citizen Hale of 311 William street in ment to The Citizen: “Up to concerns (1) division of Poland | Mr:' Grube was accompanied by turn will inform anyone that Russia to Germany (3) possibility | need of. The division of Poland) Key West. Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS 8. §. Guba Will Arrive Monday OnRegular Run RUSSIA CENSURES ESTONIA AS POLISH j *. John Costar, Peninsular and’ | Occidental Steamship Company agent, announced that the S. S.{ Cuba will leave Tampa Sunday | night and would arrive in Key; | West Monday morning resuming regular schedule between. Tampa, Key West and Havana. i Mr. Costar said no mention of FLEET ANCHORED OFF RE- isettlement of the strike which; had tied up the boat was made! VAL; TROUBLE ANTICIPAT- jin advices received by him. It is believed that a crew. other| =O AS ESTONIA COVERS UP than the striking crew has been} SUB INCIDENT taken aboard the Cuba. Two} }members of the crew who had! |not been on strike are Enrique! CRY Ananebitals snes ' Hernandez and Frank Rivas who| REVAL, Estonia, Sept. 28— lie Tuesday for Tam- Reports reaching here today state } Regular schedule of the Cuba that the Russian fleet is off shese lout of Key West for Havana is at 1 shores in connection with diffi- 10 a. m. Mondays and ~ Thurs- culties arising out of Estonia's idays. Tuesdays and Fridays it failure to explain the escape of a leaves at 5 p. m. for Tampa. iPolish submarine from en Es- | life needs of Florida youth. jhad erased a mistake that prob-! The Cuba’s last trip into Key tonian. port. The statewide organization of uation is was $3,750,060. This year personal property valuation $3,576,025. Last year it tourist dollars from going abroad | the this year. Shut off from Europe, * is 1 expect a sizable proportion of War. Calls For ‘More Nomninations ably cost the Kaiser the World! West was July 24. Proceeding Se eine to Tampa the same day she was ‘tied up the following day in her ESTONIA’S ANSWER educatior forces is in prepara- by $513,700. Last year it was $500,-! these travel dollars may certain- 950. ‘ly come to Florida”, he stated. | Officers of Citizens and Tax- drive ‘payers, Inc., today reported that tion for a concerted Actual fixing of the valuation of real and personal property rests in the council with con- sideration of the values. to be taken up tonight. . Just when the ‘couneil % Ves the roll will de- pend on examination of the val- uations fixed by Assessor Pinder and also consideration of com- plaints. school pupils, parents and teach- ers to determine for themselves the full responsibilities of each’ echoes! in the democrstit: life of community. The current issue of the Florida Bulletin will carry 1400 state - accredited suggested procedures for: ~ its Schvol to about school Coccveveccccceccccvececs organization of local study groups by superintendents and pals. Special bulletins woe PALM BEACH by leaders in the movement will | eee Le provided by tne slate to each cur; princi- * group which organizes: for. riculuin study. “Each school group will be ex- pected to attack the problem in its own way, but we will all be; working in an organized manner toward a common goal”, English said. When a school faculty agrees upon a’ guiding philosophy, def- inite objectives for pupil growth, end then analyzes everything that the pupils think and do in and out of school in relation to these objectives, such a faculty wilt never be satisfied until every teacher has _ reorganized his part in the guidance of pu- pils to fulfill individual needs} and the needs of the home and, (By BOB BALFE) We're back from war duty. We have proven ourself a man of action. While others con- tented themselves with talk, we just up and proved ourself a “do-something-about-it” guy. It all started a couple of weeks ago when someone reported sec- ing a submarine off Key West. Lots of folks became excited over the thought of U-boats around so near us. Some even became alarmed. But not us. | We rose : to the occasion nobly. When no are urged by the state one else even suggested doing endent to work in close harmony with parents and civic organizations in a thorough sur- vey of community resources and our services. We told our boss- rifice our entire vacation to go ‘i {check up on that submarine re- horoughly democratic ap-/| port. ch to our problem is essen-| So that’s how we happened to English said, to solve any go to Key West, and to the Naval so closely related to the| Station, where the commanding petuation of our democratic: officer is Lieut-Comdr. F. H. of life. The school must use ' Callahan, who’s not only a swell li intelligent, constructive critic-| guy but a fine example of what » that can be obtained The! Annapolis and the U. S. Navy can room program should be so!produce. He didn’t think much ned that parents will rec-jof the submarine rumor. But he nize the value of each school ; was willing to help us in our self- in development of those appointed task. i habits, understandings,! We. talked it over at great and skills essential for individ-;length, and in fact it took us a ual growth of children and social; couple of days to get around to welfare of the community. mapping our campaign of action. The program for revision of|To be perfectly truthful we must classroom methods was started)admit that we enjoyed those this summer by faculties from} days, but-not for a minute would Palatka. Panama City, Gaines-}we have you believe that it was ville, Arcadia, Reddick, and/a vacation. Néver did we forget Chipley, which met for six weeks!our submarine-hunting duty. |Reports On Key West Experiences In Post Times Peeoersnccccccccsccccenceceeses ; anything about it we volunteered } man that we'd be willing to sac-° “Then, too, these same Euro- pean difficulties are giving im- petus to many lines of industry , and business in the United | States, which, in turn, will mean dividends.” to © share-hol in {scores of American firms. No doubt these dividends will make possible a winter vacation for. (Continued on Page Four) | ST evcce eo eo SPORTS EDITOR’ ee eee | i eee i GAVE UP HUNT FOR SUBMARINE. ° | general direction of Cuba mae nary a sign of a sub. So we gave, it the supreme test. We started combing the waters. We dropped (Continued on Page Four) i ARTHAN PRESS "RELEASES GUIDES ALSO PRINTS NEWS OF but simply as an experiment to yj ;Provée that “it is always good Carbonell, Jr.) as candidate for |#T8ngest war I've ever seen”,, good fellows get the office of eity couneiiman, |=a8@ one of the foreign corre-' nEW BUILDING IN KEY WEST FOR STRUNK i | | Five thousand copies of a new Information Guide of Key West, designed for the merchants of Key West to distribute among their clientele, was issued by the Artman Press today. Also issued is “News of Build- : ing in Key West” which was printed by the Artman Press for E. A. Strunk, Jr. : | The Information Guide will be issued monthly during the win- ter season and is a bright 24 page booklet;.containing locations of points of interest in the city, fishing data, bus schedules, church directory, boat schedules, freight service, Key West to Mi- ami auto mileage,, mail sched- ules, lodges and clubs, poetry, Spanish lessons and general in- formation and advertising. The Strunk “News of Build- ing” tells of such interesting 1 | a good proportion of the blank Nomination Forms recently mail- ed to a cross-section. list of Key West. citizens has been returned ith- names ‘of. preferred « candi~ lates inscribed thereon. It. is further announced that a com- plete tabulation will be printed in The Citizen in the near future. The organization sponsors an advertisement appearing on page four. today which gives other R C.OF C. INVITES “CITY TO LUNCH FFICERS OF CITY AND CHAMSEN TO MEET TOMORROW { i — ! Key West Chamber of Com-! merce has sent invitations to! members of the city council and to Mayor Willard M. Albury to join them at luncheon tomorrow ‘at noon in the diningroom of the WITH FORMAL ANNOUNCE- | La Concha Hotel. It-is announced that this meet- ing is not for the purpose of lur- ing an innocent group into a po-; sition where they can be proposi-! tioned for any definite purpose weather ‘when together”. FEW APPLY FOR LIQUOR LICEN COLLECTOR LADD WARNS INSPECTOR WILL BE IN CITY NEXT WEEK . Members of the force of Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd’s office are wondering what is the mat- ter with owners of those places, which use beer and wine licenses. ' Last year there were 115. sold, and they miust be purchased by. the close;of business Saturday. | Looking over the sales record } in Mr. Ladd’s office it was shown that there have been but 18 of! the licenses sold to date and ot Newspapers in several sur- citizens a chance to ‘suggestirounding countries “hailed the names of canddiates they would] visit of Foreign’ Minister Von like to vote for in the coming Ribbentrop to the Russian cap- gity election. The forms can be} ital as being the biggest news of ean pier a or Rp a ge the day and further helped the ited a ie’ Citizen office or!two countries’ mi | agreement. Eesti ‘Chamber... of hindered pcr sa sexstineea-< teak “the headquarters. ties now binding Russia and Ger’ It is not practical to send every ¢ (Continues on Page Four) prospective voter in Key West’ edge asa one of the original Nomination Forms, and the blank in this is- sue. will allow all those who| would like to suggest names .of candidates for Mayor gr Council- men to voice their choice. Nat- urally, no forms call for signa-' ture of sender—nor is any such;.French front came the report informaticn: sought by Citizens that seven German planes have and Taxpayers. ‘been shot down. Reassurance ——— jhas been received at French JOHN ¢ A \headquafters that Germany is not ELL »}Planning a mass attack at pres- ‘ : jent. IN RACE FOR CITY | Advices have been received 4 rh that only seven German subma- COUNCIL POSITION jor: out of the fleet’ which |sailed to’ sea. to war against Brit- Scare jish merchant marine. British SOLICITS FRIENDS’ SUPPORT ,/0rces believe that 12 submarines jhave been sunk. j was in progress at Watsaw at j midnight, last-night. jally. believed, however,’ that'Ger- man troops will march into the city tomorrow. LATE BULLETIN Uly Axnociated Prem), LONDON, Sept.’ 28—From the iTines have returned to German It is also stated that a battle MENT IN THIS ISSUE OF! THE CITIZEN This issue of The Citizen car-! ‘ (ui PARIS, Sept 28—"This is the es the announcement of John‘ and the candidate solicits the |$POMdents today while touring support of his host. of friends and |*#® western front. He spoke of the voters of the city. |Such things as men playing foot- Mr. Carbonell was born and Dall some way back from the raised in Key West. and feels {fonts of single plane engage- that his knowledge of local con- yriaged and scattered _ artillery ditions and abiify to serve in’ fife as the only fighting of the Sif capacity of city councilman '°*Y- will enable him to perform the} ce ‘ duties of the office te the com-| ROME, Sept. 28—It is be- jplete satisfaction of the citizens lieved that Pope Pius has sent ae “peace message” to the leaders of the belligerent nations. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—The Relations Committee met of Key West. { In presenting himself as a can- didate, Mr. Carbonell says that: he will put forth all efforts for’ Fi ae advancement of the, eng tigre arnt ad [neutrality legislation. Meanwhile TANKER AWAITS iday sent its armed soldiers into the British concession in a raid Texas,}on American press quarters and Motor Tanker Daronia, bound from England to H It is, gener-' sv me, curriculum director of ‘the | rounding waters—but no sign of | ice of the First National Bank as | we even kept our eyes open un-/|in Key West, has a sketch of Friday, Saturday, Sunday |S, then one day we reached pictures of remodelling Key West Devil's Food Squares jed by vendors of beers and wines} Signed to the Porter Dock Com-:ican consul most of them have been purchas- arrived in port this ing, con- radio department. a —_— a on the Florida Keys, which leaves|pany for orders and this after-|fermal protest. It is believed a large number to be purchased;}noon was lying in the harbor in Key West before October 1. |awaiting advices from the own- H. H™Hair, Jr. who is the ers. se ' Florida Beverage Department of-' This morning the vessel was’ mediate ficial.in this district, will be in boarded by Doctors Rubino and conflict was’ met with silence | is understood that all places hospital; Immigration Officers Al-}said that DISPLEASES RUSSIA MOSCOW, Sept. 28.—Estonian jreply to Russia concerning the {escape of a disabled Polish sub- imarine from one of the little Baltic state’s ports was declared Hnsatisfactory in this city. BREMEN IN NORTH. ee, i The sub had evaded German ‘capture wnen it fled to the Es- 'ANNOUNCED BY CHURCHILL | ,tonian port where it was sup- IN HOUSE OF COM- jposed to bave been interned. It MONS YESTERDAY “home port” in a strike of some, ‘of the crew members. | | ' lis believed in many quarters, that | iEstonians repaired the sub.'and | (supplied it with enough fuel for | ja Jong journey. | ‘Russia has announced that it will guard its Baltic sea area frem foreign ships. (tity Associated ‘Vrenst * LONDON, Sept. 28.—Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Brit- ish ‘Admiralty, announced in the | “House of Commons yesterday afternoon that he had reason to believe that the German liner Bremen was in a north Russian | {port. He did not elaborate on} | NYA QUOTA IS this statement. | RAISED TO 200 ‘that the Bremen, pride of all Ger- VICTOR LOWE CALLS ATTEN- jmans, had been camouflaged. and was flying an Italian flag. At| TION TO BENEFITS another time it was. reported the ! TEN liner had been captured by the ey — | British but this was denied by the | government. | Unemployed youths are bemg ‘advised of the increase. in” the ;quota allotment for Key -West | which will make more “ oppor- tunities for youths to gain .ex- |perience in their chosen lines of jendeavor and in some cases gain ‘a liberal education along —-par- BOOK PUBLICIZES | ticular lines. | Victor Lowe, supervisor of Na- FLORIDA AND KEY itional Youth Administration ac- WEST | tivities in this area, said today j that he had been officially ~ad- —— |vised by Joe A. Youngblood, re 'State Youth Administrator, that | Visitors to the Chamber of the quota for Key West which |Commerce are admiring one of} was heretofore 150 had been in- :the finest pieces of publicity! creased by 50 making a total of which has ever been produced, ' 299 who may be assigned.to vari- ntitled “Florida via Camera”. | ous activities. - CAMERA SHOTS OF FLORIDA DISPLAYED t i Florida’s enchantments, so @e- iKey West and. the Overseas. zen the members of the Customs | The first two pages are de-| ——————, |lightfully presented that it be-| {comes a matter for wonder as to} |Highway are given three pages. Border Patrol in this city are to which are acknowledged as due. be.transferred to some other lo- (voted to the Florida exhibit at: the World’s Fair and the follow-, ing 96 pages to photographs of; Y BE ; why anyone would want to go, anywhere else. | According to information. un- In the collection of scenic stars: officially received by The Citi- to the courtesy of the Key West;cality where there is greater |Chamber of Commerce, and Nor-' need for their service, and the berg Thompson. In the interest | possibilities are their next as- of accuracy the Chamber of Com-! signment will take them to the merce places ninety-five per cent | border of Mexico. of the courtesy to the substantial} At the present time there are cooperation of Mr. Thompson.;two members of the patrol en- All the chamber did was to dig gaged in active work in Key tary told The Citizen. | With nation-wide circulation; was asked by The Citizen whe- given to this volume of interest-/ ther there was any foundation ing pictures by the ‘Aero-Graphic| for the statement that Corporation, the Eastern Air’ tivities were to cease ~ 28) skies were a little heavy, and the| West. There are also ads of dealing in wines, beers and bury, Elwod and Pace; Customs not be |Lines and R. E. Crummer and area, and the at the P. K. Yonge Laboratory Once we even went up in a light-| matters as facts of F.H.A. loan school under leadership of M. L. house and looked over the sur- remodelling, points out the serv- State Department of Education. |a U-boat. We were so conscien-|the Key West FHA. agency, —jtious about the whole thing that! mentions the need of apartments SPECIAL! SPECIAL! der water while swimming—but) William (Wild Bill) Spencer, | no U-boat. Strunk lumber ‘distributor, _has BANANA NUT i ii the climax of our submarine- houses and a feature story on LAYER CAKE 33C the ° Out to sea'we went. The/how lumber arrives in Key Maloney Brothers Bakery | water a trifle rougher than usual, | many hardware stores and other liquors, must have their licenses 812 Fleming St—Phone 8 wi but wa were determined. Wel agencies supplying building on display when the officer, or went dbout 10 miles out in the ‘needs. _ . fofficers, arrive. Officers Cook, Kessler and Lun- recognit derville, and Plant Board Offi-| government cial Milner, : consent to that, reply Co., Florida and Key West have! that nothing official forward in no uncertain! received relative to any | plated changes.