The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 29, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the 4 Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 231. ral THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1939 First Of Five Weekend Highway Excursions [s Inaugurated Tomorrow * Starting midnight tonight tor| the next five weekends ending| October 28, the Overseas Bridge SEAFARERS’ STRIKE: ing the trip for the usual en: SAIL NEXT SUNDAY fare and each additional passen- ger paying his fare each way. H The Bridge Commission esti- | e ! mates that from 20 to 25% of en-|PORT STEWARD JOHN KEY) tire traffic he Highway | H Se ie emi noone 2 | CORROBORATES JOHN COS- | comes from Miami licensed cars. In the summer it is expected that! TAR’S ANNOUNCEMENT RE-' this average is far beyond the} i estimate. | LEASED YESTERDAY The excursion is designed to} stimulate travel of Miami anglers | and sightseers who come down} on the bridges cach weekend to also make trip to Key West.!of the Seafarer’s International! Key Wes so may take the | union against the P. & O. Steam- trip to Miami at reduced fare. It! ship Company, which had tied up is hoped that the increase in traf-!the ships Florida and Cuba, was fic will warrant the reduction in| ended yesterday, Port Steward fare for more excursion periods.| John Key announced here today. Hundreds of cars which come; §3, Florida resumed regular down to the bridges from Miami sailing August 25 but S.S. Cuba over the weekend turn around had been tied up at Tampa since when they come to the toll kate! July 95. She left Key West the on Big Pine to avoid paying the jay before. SS. Cuba plies be. two fares. | ne} a a t The trip over the bridges is al (ween tampa, Key West oe souree of keen enjoyment to Mi-| sia; and Havana, SS, Cubs will ami visitors who enjoy a week- PER RAI Sunday trash icra ; end spent on the “highway .that*"y 0" Gunnison, business agent | goes to sea”. With cool ocean! ¢.'the union, left for New Or- breezes refreshing them while |j-ans following ‘mediation of the motoring over the ocean, many strike ahdcA, Wo. Abmationg of also stop to enjoy the angling | opie, Alabama, took his place luck. Extremely large ae Bre | ante . a Piece brought. in_ fry the bridges, in- e . pias cluding the cope ie Hladiator| © Bah peed pe caps — for of the sea, the silver tarpon and | act sip sepa uae veopplnann » delicious Atlantic . 4 Fa eee dees us vuitonfish, {Ment of the terms of the settle- | snapper, grunts, yellowtail. {ment was, made. With the reduced fare a visi-| Ta SORE aaa tor from Miami may leave Fri- TENDER ZINNIA day night or Saturday afternoon, | spend sometime fishing on, the ;* bridges or motoring, ‘then, come | DUE TOMORROW into Key West that night to/én-! Tender Zinnia, of the Coast joy themselves... Sunday morn- | ihg nfay be spent in sightseeing | here and Sunday afternoon in Guard - Lighthouse Department, making the return trip. which left Tuesday morning with Many Key Westers who do not| Assistant Superintendent H. B. feel able to make the trip tg the | Haskins to make inspections of bright city of Miami with the | light stations on the reef and de-| double toll fares can now make | liver supplies, left Miami this it at half the cost. {morning at 11 o'clock. ae —— | The el will stop at Som LOWE 10 MIAMI |brero light and American Shoals \ ON NYA BUSIN |light, where Mr. Haskins will |make inspections and then come WILL RECEIVE AUTO FOR ARNOLD EXPLAINS “men” ACCIDENT POLICIES to Key West, due to arrive some time tomorrow. AREA Victor Lowe, area supervisor of | ~ the National Youth Administra-| Harry E. Palmer, manager of tion in Monroe courfy, will leave | the railway and ticket division of. tomorrow morning tor Miami to|one of the Traveler Insurance get a car which has been assigned | agencies has advised Wm. Arn- for service in the area. old, agent of the Florida Motor It is the intention of Mr. Lowe |Lines, that there are no accident i (Special to The Citizen) } MIAMI, Sept. 29.—The strike { | t German spies are relay | formation on departure and ar- rival of Norwegian ships to Ger-! man. submarines. Two Norwegian to return as soon as possible from {policies to be issued outside of Miami and leave at once with a|North America. group of colored youths, who| The advices are to the effect being conducted at A. and M.| prevailing and special hazards ex- College in Tallahassee. jisting in connection with ocean ———————_—— travel there will be no tickets TANKER DARONIA | further advices are issued by the company. aa British Tanker Daronia, which | was consigned to the Porter | yesterday and was examined by | surgeons of the Marine hospital, | officials of the Customs Service, | Plant Board, waited in the har- bor for orders until a late hour last night the Porter Dock Co., transmitted to the Daronia and the vessel Sailed for Houston, Texas, com- have been assigned to a project |that owing to unsettled conditions | covering ocean travel issued until ‘ RECEIVES ORDERS - Dock Co., and which arrived here | the Immigration Service and the The orders were received by pleting her voyage from England. marines and one was blown up| by a German mine yesterday. | LONDON, Sept. 29.—English claim that a flight of German | planes was driven back from; an attack on the Scottish coast. | A CR a Rm YR TRESS JITTERBUG CONTEST | Tonight HABANA-MADRID CLUB WARSAW, Sept. 29.—Polish troops are leaving — today | | ‘Hitlerism Must ‘Go’ Is England's Answer To Nazi Peace Suggestion Council Meets To Act renin “So as On Four Tax Objections Hitler ‘was Willing to lay the map City council met last evening roll oh real estate, that being lof Europe-before England and ‘France today and compromise in special session, ostensibly to! Mrs. Robert Spottswood for Mrs.! consider four complaints register-|Louisa Maloney, her daughter, | + but the English government continued in their icy to “wipe out Hitlerism in urope”. i ed before deadline hour yester-!in connection with Key West! If ‘the Allies do not agree to day afternoon at 5 o'clock | Drug property at Simonton and against personal property and | Fleming streets. real estate taxes. 2 | -Two objections to personal Prior to press time yesterday! property taxes were registered, there had been only one com-!one by B. C. Papy for Saunders | | | | { | | | Ci id Key West, Florida, has the thtzrn ‘most equable climate in the country; with an average : range of only 14° Fahrenheit U. S.A. LIONS PAY HOMAGE! Rextord TO MEMBERS WHO: HAVE EARNED KEYS. CHARLES» JOHNSON, Guest, OF CLUB, REPORTS ON’ BEACH WORK: SAUNDERS. HANDS OUT CIGARS PRICE FIVE CENTS j e e { H Night at the regular supper meet- : ing. held at Stone Church Annex? 2—2-—-——_—_——* ere i ing was called to order by Lion UNABLE T0 NAME: E. A. Strunk, Jr., who was in president H. E. Day at 6:30 tional Service at the weekly Lion Joe Allen, luncheon of the Rotary Club yes- Lion to receive his Mémbership on the principles involved in MAYOR ALBURY EXPLAINS ™24¢ the luncheon seem like an Key Membership. Credit for the; old fashioned Thanksgiving din- out the nation rests with Key} SIBLE UNTIL LATER had to be arranged whenever the Members. - Four Kes ‘West Lions | clan appeared. who bring new members into! Mayor Willard Albury stated’. : Lionism—Lions “Soggie” Smith, to The Citizen last evening that 178 all members and urging them “Uncle Charley” Ketchum. 'the citizens of Key West with! and if not to bring a friend, his Charles Johnson,” member of the situation in regard to Zoning. | enterprise resulted in bringing speaker at the meeting, reporting spring at Tallahassee does not’ the club the following guests: on progress made in his Beach;allow Mayor Albury to appoint} w. H. Combs, Miami, John H. = & Last night was Key Members’, of Key West Lions Ciub. Meet- ‘ , charge of the program of Voca- o'clock. DY W who is the third i Se terd: volved id Key, spoke to the club at length! se aide nhl ge ek tere en strength of Lions Clubs through-! HOW ACTION IS NOT POS- jner in the days when extra tables belong to the select ¢ oup of those | Making a thorough job of call- “Sunshine” Day, Joe Allen and it would be advisable to acquaint |to bring a competitor if possible the Hotel Association, was a guest} The enabling act passed last! into the friendly atmosphere of committee. Mr. Johnson stated|the new Zoning Board, specific- | gonsider peace, Germany is said , plaint registered; however, three ; Wholesale, Inc., and one by Caz jo be ready to launch a huge of- | fensive by land, sea and air. other persons entered objec- tions late in the afternoon. The | Troops will pour over the Sieg- fried line against the French one known objector was Trumbo Properties, Inc., as mentioned in The Citizen yesterday. One other taxpayer registered an objection to the assessment ONLY FIVE HAVE ANNOUNCED FOR NOV, 14 ELECTION CONSIDERABLE DOUBT, IN brera Wholesale Grocery, Inc. Council committee on Tax Ad- justments. consisting of William 'Monsalvatge, chairman, and W-: E. P. Roberts and William Dough- try, will consider the objections jand report at the next regular jcouncil meeting. | Two other matters were con- ‘sidered ai the meeting. Robert |'Lewis was awarded the emergen- |cy scavenger contract at the Nav- al Station for $30 per month. An ordinance calling for all property !owners to connect with the new ;city water lines was passed on jfirst reading. This is similar to the sewer-connection . ordinance ‘recently Passed by the council. + é Maginot Line. German planes | Will form mass raids against Eng- lish and French bases and Ger- | man planes and submarines will | Wage a terrific warfare against \the English fleet in an effort to break the blockade and also | | ¥ipe out British merchantmarine ! thus cutting England off from The Allies have said already’ that while no ray of extreme | ally stating that the new group sunshine was visible in the pic-| shall be appointed by the admin- ture at the moment, all commit-| istration and city council after tee members felt that the task of {the election November 14. providing good beach faciliies for! This wording, then, does not Key. West would come to a suc-|allow Mayor Albury to fill the cessful conclusion in time for | vacancies existing on the Board, this year’s tourist ‘business. {and also stops the city council Lion “Jerry” Saunders strutted! from enacting the Zoning re- his “proud papa”. status with a/strictions into law. Mr. Albury full-box of cigars for brother | stated that many people had re- Lions. The joke was on the va- | quested that he appoint the rious Lions who discovered that | Board. The above explanation Costar, Hastings Smith, Stephen C. Singleton, UI, Adrian O’- Sweeney, J. S. Six, Robert Spottswood, Lieutenant D. T. Wilbur, William R. Warren, Jr., Dan Harrison, Howard Wilson, )Aquilino Lopez, Jr, Ronald |Craig, Joe Pearlman, W. W. De- meritt, Jr, Bradley Horton, Walter Klausen, Rexford B. Tug- well, Miss Isabell Kelly, Mrs. W H. Combs and Juan Lopez. ; After a brief address of wel- come by President William V. that the French Maginot line is their “stogies” burst forth in 4th/should clear the matter up © Little, Mr. Strunk introdyced impervious to ‘attack by land. The British fleet is known to be | ; the strongest power on the seas. itoday, inst: airraids England is prepared with anti-aircraft ‘o'clock to of July pyrotechnics. when half‘everyone’s satisfaction. consumed. Ss Lions are to meet at Mr. John-| AGES TOTAL 343 YEARS son's house this afternoon at 5 ishthe job of bring-' “BEDFORD,- Ind.—The combin~ ‘William T. Fripp who, in line {with the program gave an inter- lesting talk on his business and {the far flung line of stores which i ae Under the inspiration of Emil ELECTORATE’S MIND AS TO} wvo wis se on wso ane HIGHWAY BOARD JO MEET IN MI fire which should help in some measuté ‘and by an air fleet al- most aS powerful as that of the | Germans. H | English government officially ; |discounted the aid which Russia | | would give Germany. The Eng- 4 There is a great deal of talk at| ifor the ‘work. ing ‘ba¢k befithes to thé béaches, ed ages of four brothers, Walter, same which were removed at va- John, Aden and Cole Wicker, | Sweeting’s leadership the club rious times for other~ purposes. who gathered to celebrate the 90th |tunefully implored “Let Me Call Mr. Johnson is. loaning his truck birthday of Walter, was 343 years.) You Sweetheart” and a casual John is 80, Aden 85 and Cole 88./ glance around made it appear that it would be a 95 per cent tough assignment. Mpa. EP: °°* | Doctor William R. Warren ex- this time about who are the dan- didates who will be in, the race for the several offices that wil be the goals sought at the city election on: November 14, but as! \JOHN~ COSTAR LEAVES TO- . NIGHT TO ATTEND SESSION far,as the general public.is. aware , there “are who have announced and none of them are for mayor. The four who have declared themselves as being in the race sare Ivan Elwood, candidate for reelection to the office of Police Chief; C. Floney Pellicier, candi- date for the same office; Myrtland Cates, who now holds the posi- tion of patrolman on the force and who has announced for the position of Captain of Night Po- lice; John Carbonell, Jr., who of-: fers himself for election to mem-! bership on the City Council, and Jonathan Cates, who is candidate for Council. * From activity, which is evi- denced in different sections of the city there are candidates for other offices to be voted on in November, but as far as the read-; ing public is concerned nothing has appeared to inform them of- ficially that any other offices are) sought or will be. The election is approximately six weeks distant and it is time that the candidates place their announcements in the official column of The Citizen in order to advise the voting public who are to be candidates on Tuesday, No- vember 14. Late News Bulletins (By Associated Press) der the Versailles treaty. In its “growing” pains, Poland wars with Russia, Ukraine headed by a President and Par- liament with two houses of gov- (Continued on Page Four) also a! but “ive candidates | Overseas Highway’ Commission ; will meet tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock in Miami to complete minor details concerning the lease to be given J. F. Gough for operation of Pigeon Key. It is believed that John. Slade, chairman, and John Kennedy will attend the meeting. John Costar from Key West will leave today for Miami. Mayor Willard M. Albury did not believe he would be able to attend the meet- ing. C. C, Symonette could not! be reached. No other greatly _ important matter is expected to come. be- fore the meeting. ‘JONATHAN CATES “IS CANDIDATE FOR CITY COUNCILMAN OUT OF PUBLIC OFFICE FOR | SOME TIME; BELIEVES CITY | 1 | WILL SUPPORT HIS CAN-| DIDACY | Appearing in this issue of The | Citizen is the name of Jonathan !Cates, who is announcing his j candidacy for member of the city jcouncil and solicits the support of his many friends among the OSLO, Sept. 29—A wave of|the last major stronghold of the | voters, | fear of spies swept through this|Polish army. Poland was born | Mr. Ciites has been out of thé|>& More desirable. | port today. It is believed. that/in 1918 when its establishment | public eye for some tire but in-| Was approved by the Allies un- jeft 2 memory which he feéls’ wal ;never grow dim in the minds of | those who remember his efficient and service’ when he, as a chief dep- ships were sunk by German sub- Lithuania. The government was uty sheriff, served during the in- {cumbency of Clements Jaycocks, | Curry. jas a public officer has. been such ‘as to warrant the voters placing tin him the greatest confidence, i he will always interests of the citi- and to ably de- volve upon him as a councilman. : | A. H. McInnis and the late Roland | Junior Chamber of Commerce jtion of the vast coast-wise ton- \lish claim that the Russians have {not effected a strong military |pact with. Germany against the |Allies.: Further, it states that | Estonia today gave Russia use of Abundance Of U. S. Boats Deféated Exhorbitant Rates ciub would be glad {Estonian islands in the Baltic |sea which now gives Russia mas- ' jtery over the Baltic which was | formerly ruled: by German sea power. . ! From Frederick Eichnor, noted , |United* Press Correspondent, | came reports that he has hardly seen any signs of a war while |touring the German West Wall | with a host of other reporters. jHe said that French soldiers played,. danced and sang in easy ‘firing distance of the German lines. - Occasionally, they would | wave at the Germans and the {Germans would wave _ back.’ | Eichnor said that he could hardly , ‘see evidences of a war any- where: He had plenty of respect | for German. big guns in the Sieg- |fried Line which.could "only be’ |fired by orders from Berlin”. \built of Germany’s best ma-' |terials, and that it could not be, destroyed even by direct hits. | As soon as the announcement Hitler had the French {came through that proposed peace, mile front in the Moeselle valley. This action was taken to mean |that the French were not going |to mediate. The last time Mus- solini proposed peace French | |guns broke into a terrific bom- | |bardment against ‘the German | lines. | Among the governments of the j Baltic nations it appeared that; they feared eventual Hitler ag- | | gression as befell Poland. Other . nations in southern Europe seemed to feel that peace would LJAYCEE. DIRECTORS ‘TO MEET TONIGHT ‘has countermanded their _meet- -| He is satisfied that his record|ing announcement made yester-'able of diversion to deep-sea day to read a Directors’ assembly , at the Chamber headquarters to- | night at 8 o’clock. © : Tt was originally: stated that the full’ membership would be in attendance. Change was an-| nounced by Weintraub today. FOREIGN SHIPS WANTED TO: COU ees see ene STRANDED TOURISTS IN EUROPE By PRESTON GROVER. Associated Press Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON; Sept. 29.— fleet in action but serviceable in Yankee ship lines stopped for-' peacetime commerce. eign ships from raising prices for; These tankers are of 16,900 returning frantic Americans. | horsepower, compared to about Immediately on the outbreak 4,000 horsepower for the ordi- of war, American ‘ship lines, the nary, and their speed is 20 knots, bulk of which are in debt to the which again is almost double that government or’ subsidized by it,'of rank-and-file oil carriers, told the maritime commission By agreement. the cost of that no passenger rates would be; extta speed facilities, gun raised-until American fugitives! implacements, and other es- were brought back. | sential navy features are There was considerable ‘growl-| Paid for by the government. ing among foreign ‘lines.* An’ Oil companies pay the bal- American stranded on .a war-; ance of the cost of the ships. ridden shore is fair game for| The government owns. outrigh: jat sea and has ah additional 119 During the World war, return- ‘collecting barnacles in various ing Yankees had little recourse. out-of-the-way estuaries. They There weren’t enough American ,@fe forlorn babies of the last boats. Now there are. It has been | War- an expensive job to build up the! out of him, it seems now to warrant the trou- ble it took. Since the shipping subsidi- zation program was given new life about three years ago, 108 passenger and cargo vessels have been ordered. Of these. 19 have been launched. Others are far along ih the building. On completion, they will add} more than a million tons to U. S.! tonnage. That will double our; present deep-sea tonnage, The 18; major lines now subsidized by the government operate 148 ves-} sels of 1,028,000 tons total. New, ' |LIONS INSTITUTE DRIVE TO CLEAN REST BEACH j RAE SS | Key West Lions Club last } decided to ixsue cess in time of war. sea tonnage is only a minor frac- nage, part of which is fully: cap- ts F s transportation. In addition to the ships already ordered, bids were opened by the tember on an additional 34 ves- sels, including 12 “national de- tankers. These are tank. ers capable of accompanying the HE teat f i i 3 POI IIIas. plained ‘that as the principal com- petitor of Key . West sfhysicians was Old Sol and the#lifmite he has broughit.a frient<~ the th ka6w and introduced the speaker 6f — the day, Honorable -Rexford.B. ‘Tug- well, who made a revealing talk on the problems of cities, large and small, their divergencies and \similarities. He spoke prin- cipally on the problems _pre- sented by the necessity of city |planning. The highlights. of Mr. Tugwell’s address are as fol- lows: “Planning is not a job for a icity planning expert. That usually. results in an elaborate (Continued on Page Four) WILL OBSERVE —GRITA DE YARA |He also said that the Line was whatever foreigners can shake , about 40 commercial vessels now CUBAN COMMITTEE PLANS CELEBRATION FOR OCT. 10 Committee from the Board of troops advanced a mile along a 50 American merchant marine but PM MMM DDB! piyectors of San Carlos Institute met last night to formulate plans for Seventy-First annual Grito de Yara, Cuban national holiday, on October 10. A request has been made of the Cuban government to send a warship here to aid in celebra- |tion of the day. Invitations have | been sent civic, military and fra- |ternal authorities here and also jto those of the Cuban govern- {| ment. }- A complete program will prob- | ably be drawn up in the next few days. _Commitiee celebrating the day of the uprising of the Cubans against Spanish oppression i composed of Dr. Julio de Poo, Dr. Jose Sanchez, M. Acevedo, D. Ubieta, F. Rendueles, Sr, F. Acevedo, E. Aguilar and P. Aguilar.