The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 30, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West | High Setiool Announces : Inauguration Of New Intramural Program VOLUME LX. No. 232. The 7 THE __Sign Pact kk ddd) PY SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. Turkey eat — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1939 With | (By Associated Presa, LONDON, Sept. 30.—Announce- ment of a coming pact between Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Citizen PRICE FIVE CENTS Drivers: License. Sales Jump To Half Of Tot Amount; Check Up Soo Announcement of an_ intra- mural program this year at Key West High School was made by Athletic Director John Orfutt. In the two health classes which Mr. Orfutt holding, there will be played such sports football, diamondball, and horseshoes. as touch basketball present the held only for the Seventh Grade. It is planned perhaps to have regular physical education classes which the milder sports for both boys and girls. When these plans are completed, the girls’ physical education director will handle that group in sports to be played for a period during the day and in league playing after school. The same thing will be done for the bo’ Besides the health classes, there is an up and coming young baseball league which is running through its schedule at. present with four teams representing 49 boys. Director Orfutt is coach- ing the teams and correcting the faults of batters and _ fielders. Eventually the varsity baseball ;,NOwnced, was for the promotion | Clerk Ross C. Sawyer and Miss by America. Money will also be team which will represent the|f no specific purpose. but was|Camille Pierce, who are enjoy-| appropriated for stimulated. in- year, general get-together to discuss|ing a vacation in different sec-/ stallation of machinery for pro- school scholastically this will be chosen from this group, Basketball activities, start in the middle of October, Mr. Orfutt stated. There will be an intramural league from which pected to be released as a result to Key West over the highway ' ships. This-was considered as a/S. Gruber, chairman; Mayor Wil- two teams are to be picked, a Varsity squad and a B_ squad. About 30 will be carried all to- gether, Mr. Orfutt hopes. In in- tramural play there will be both junior high and senior high play. Coaching the Senior High will be Mr. Orfutt and coaching the Junior High will be Robert Dopp, former High School star. Coaching girls intramural play in both Jr. and Sen. High will be Miss Juanita Lewis. The intramural baseball league now running is composed of Cap- ickney’s Panthers, Aurelio Menendez’ Rookies and Frank Aritas’ Sharks. The Mongooses and Rookies are leading the league with two games won each. The Sharks and Panthers have each lost two games. gooses have scored 14 runs, 17 hits and made six errors.’ The Rookies have scored 18 runs, made 19 hits and nine errors. The Sharks have scored 14 runs, | 11 hits and made 20 errors. Panthers have scored seven runs, four hits and made nine errors. Leading the league in batting is Jack Baker and F. Sands with 1.000 #nd F. Aritas with .667. Games,in the baseball league are played at Trumbo Field. JAMES M’MULLEN IS COMMISSIONED RECEIVES APPOINTMENT AS FIRST LIEUTENANT IN U. OF F. R.O.T.C. (Special to The Citizen) GAINESVILLE, Sept. 30.—The military department of the Uni- versity of Florida today announc- ed the appointment of 28 captains and 26 first lieutenants in the uni- versity R.O.T.C. brigade. : The infantry regiment will have six companies with 10. cap- tains and 14 first lieutenants, while the artillery regiment will be composed of 12 batteries with 18 captains and 12 first lieuten- ants. The 146 senior military stu- dents serve as officers of the brigade and command more than 1,500 students who are in the military crganization. James L. MacMullen, of Key West, son of Col. and Mrs. J. D. MacMullen, was appointed to a first lieutenant’s position. At} health classes are} for next year | will} bring in all who are able to play} tres’ Mongooses, John | The Mon- |} ' Phone Call To Denmark | Brings New Family Here ‘OFFICIALS OF CITY LUNCH WITH HEADS | | OF K. W. CHAMBER i | DISCUSS PROBLEMS OF MU- TUAL INTEREST TO BOTH BODIES; TEN IN LUNCHEON GROUP A transatlantic telephone call to far-off Denmark this morning at 4 o'clock will re- sult in a new family for Key West. Capt. Alex Brun of the De-* partment of Interior vessel, “F. W. Meade”, called Mrs. Brun, who lives near Copen- hagen, Denmark, and asked: her and two children to leave’ the troubled European area and take up residence here. Mrs. Brun was very accept- able to the idea. ee With Mrs. Brun will come two children, William and Robert. Mr. Brun expects that it will be about a month | before they will be able to | The invited guests were the city; get here. s | Mr. Brun explained that fathers and those attending were’ the phone call was made at ‘ " .| four o’clock this morning to Mayor Willard M. Albury, Coun | reach Drs: Beiiat 10’o'ctock jcilman Wm. H. Monsalvatge, W.; in the morning Denmark \E. P. Roberts and Council Presi-| time. dent Earl Adams. lp | The hosts were directors Ever- BS . ON WAY BACK HOME } | Chamber of Commerce had ‘another house warming at La | | 1 | _Concha Hotel yesterday at noon. | ett W. Russell, W. T. Fripp, Chas. E. Smith, Charles Taylor, F. J. ed Dion and W. W. Demeritt. Miss Florence Sawyer, deputy | The meeting, as previously an- clerk in the office of County | the most important project in Key | tions of the country, are return- favorite West, that of cordial cooperation | ing «to. Key~-West and__were,/ for use in. casesof-amar. ; sport of the High School, will in all matters pertaining to the| Thursday, guests at the Riviera! ‘The Navy Department today | and: Lai jcity’s interest. News of especial near Daytona Beach, Fla. | interest to boys in the city is ex-| The two young ladies returned {of this conference. last night. MOST MAJOR FOODS, ‘eles SURPLUSES OF see | World Wer Repitition Need Not Worry Housewives eee eee DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE SAY see | By SIGRID ARNE, Associated Press Feature Service Writer World War when the family sat the peak years of 1920 we were down to macaroni and cheese so supplying Europe 50 percent of the pork and beef could be her food. Our farms have never shipped “over there”? ‘shrunk to the pre-1914 level. It Remember how. your favorite should be easier this time to ex- restaurant hid the sugar bowls’ pand acreage to meet peak de- {and slipped you one lump of mands. sugar tor your coffee? When you: To Keep Prices Down ripped up the lawn and flowers’ ‘There's our own jealously and planted “Victory gardens” of guarded food plan, if worst vegetables? comes to worst. It’s part of the American housewives seemed war plan whigh has been worked to remember only too well the'cn since 1920. It includes a sys- first week of September this tem of rationing that could be year. Some of them stood four 'put into effect immediately. But and five deep at the grocers de- it’s such an unpleasant idea that |manding 10- and 20-pound sacks officials hush-hush it. And, any- of sugar. | way, the only rationing in 1914- But, says the Department {18 was voluntary. of Agriculture, this country | There’s the new war resources has a huge sugar surplus. | board, already at work, to soften There's no need for a price /the economic shock that war al- tise. Moreover, there are {ways brings, even to peaceful surpluses of most major | foods. ‘sion to meet profiteering. That's different from 1914. Remember how the old food ‘Then the war broke on an un- administration affected prices? | suspecting world. This is a tail-!Take flour. In° the last peace jor-made war, in the making for‘ year it cost $8.75 a barrel. By three years or more—right down May, 1917, it was up to $17. Then to food supplies. ithe food administration was or- Our Own Carry-Overs } ganized. By February, i} countries, }of wheat and sugar, smaller ones : barrel. in other foods, and the warring} There's the change in Euro- countries are supposed’ to have! pean buying of war supplies. laid up big reserves. | England and France have’ Our food carry-overs for pooled their purchasing. In next year include: 300 mil- 1914 they competed with each lion bushels of wheat and other in American markets | 250 million pounds of food and drove prices up by their fats. I. There are other changes since; Of course, there are the “If's”. If we slapped on a strict em- i i | ! ' ' 1914, and several “If’s”. There's the diet change. Back | bargo of all supplies to warring in ’14 we were meat-and-potato | nations, prices might drop. |people. Now food chemists have! If we removed restrictions, the jtaught us so much about vita-j munitions industry might boom, mins and calories that our diet}men go back to work, and prices spreads over a wider range 0of|rise—as they always do in a} foods. The whole world won’t/ prosperity cycle. be demanding meat at once. But, anyway, there aren't any | There’s the change in farming. | “Meatless Thursday” jit {In 1914-18 the farmers jumped'around Washington. ‘writets are selling a IS NECESSARY WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—Re- the size and number of farms to! member those times during the meet expected demands—and in} » {regarding the sand in the st That has a food divi-; 1918, | The world has huge surpluses ‘flour had dropped to $10.50 a! ters liberty. He left in the afternoon ‘with his friends for Miami. the Tutkish government and the English government was made here today, with Turkish am: } bassadorial forces to confer here | === Ind bis Oto Industrial Survey Shows of automobile taken a |jump forward according to a re- sudden As Poland fell, the foreign am- | bassadors announced that thej ‘conquest by Germany’ was aj terrible piece of work ‘and: tha: | (By Associated Press) Poland would continue “to fight; ‘ B0°; WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.—;are affected are the “heavy” in-| ,on. It is reported that Jewish H ;persohs are being persecuted United States unemployment is dustries such as those which : quietly in parts.of Poland. Jewish ‘ aN ‘ thels.. works as business climbs | make machinery and such prod- fback to good 1937 levels, accord-' ucts, ing to federal business agencies. | ever, port received just before noon at down 4% {for food. England hears today from Ger- many that the grandson of the ;former Kaiser, Prince Victor, ,was mortally wounded while fighting in Poland. Fighting at the front with France are a num- , ber of Freneh movie stars from American Holywood including Charles Boyer. Business how- | leaders, ‘ are anxious | WASHINGTON, Sept. 30.— | President Roosevedt was told to- } ;day that there should be close ‘observation of monopolies which’ ; were trying to boost food prices jin the United States to an un-| warranted degree. | | Meanwhile news came through {that the government had —ap- proved 10,000 industrial plants - for production ‘of war materials in case war should be declared * ; i | |duction of “ungommon” products Piss eS ona TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY By RUSSELL KAY PA OFFICIALS ASK FOR | iw | PATIENCE; PROCEDURE jas al TROOP 52 FIRST |, | T0 V IN licenses have LIONS BEACH PLAN the office of County Judge Ray- | mond Lord. The number has in- VOTE TO HELP CLEAN UP ‘creased to approximately half of REST BEACH AT MEETING an estimated 2,500 total. HELD LAST NIGHT INSCOUT; Judge Lord said that the HALL figures in his office represented | concerning isale of 71 chauffeurs’ licenses, Most of the industries which | these industries since they claim | eight special licenses for school | 4 SOMBRE TS Ir Re ‘that as soon as present inven- Troop 52, Boy Scouts of Amer- | buses and vehicles of similar BEACH LEASES \tories are exhausted that there ica, was the first group to step type and 1,248 drivers licenses. | will be retrenchment and con- forward ee ie ek a ee Sie is the nak ~ on he uent falling off of mploy- su yest lay by Key esi situa | ie licenses are to purchase: WERE DISCUSSED Beals eps casi !Club to assist in a regular pro-|and there was a large crowd | Thousands went to work this'8tam of cleaning up Rest Beach. | peste aes oe he work- ipour in for additional products. ' ing held last evening in the Scout | required f licati : pment i aig f quirt form of application, as t pathy wane with odroated DAS" | Hall: |also was his clerk and an extra POINTED TO DRAW UP: Among industries favorably af-|at the meeting, the troop recited | the ater of ener haere ~~ ae LEASES ON TWO PROPER. |fected were auto, utilities, coal,/the Scout Oath, Law and Motto, ning the number of issues will be |carloading and retail and whole- led by Ernest Avila. Report of a| I Ly office ue Pik Collector TIES FOR BEACH | sale businesses. jcontest between patrols of the _ In the off i a | troop showed that the Wolf, Pan- Frank Ladd it was learned tit ‘FRANK KULL IS |ther and. Cat parols are tied for a caine poate rogr. Be ; joi H ‘first place. j oan At‘a meeting of the joint Beach H Pp Committees held last night in the! VISITING IN CITY) ‘Raymond Gonzago ed _the | Bas, been 11 liquor licenses. sold offices of the Chamber of Com: | eke shop. ro ve aa aggre Period, | tors. ree, matters pértaining to the! Frank X. Kull, head of the Kull; an the Grea jutmas' jer’s sale of these af the: the Gata | Memorial, Works of Mipmy is is- | Benedictiogclosed the meeting, a be of the sale of these rranaga ies were | iting in Key yy for ‘the: ‘SENT TO ATTIC. places on the Florida Keys, is |placed a ban on information. re- | discussed. | Burpoee te aes ‘sides one ENT TO ATTIC midnight tonight and it is an as- igarding thi iti f its -| Attending the meeting were L. | tracts wi e. : be EF Ow rN . H. Hair, of the Mina: “SHIT cen hidased wat . 4 Mr. Kull is very enthusiastic, NEWARK, N. J.—Complaining ia teed pine nthe in |step toward greater efficiency in| lard M. Albury, Colonel L. C.’ over the response, which has been that his wife had relegated him | tite aia wal te in Kev, “West feoast patrol work and~ also to! Brinton, J. A. Daniels, R. A. Leh-'given him in this city and he. to the attic for two years, Harry | Monday to check up on all places block possible sabotage work. | mann, John H. Lehman, and Joe states that he will be back in 30 Moore won an_ uncontested di- | ho are selling either . beer, i BSE. | Pearlman. days to make ‘installation. ;Yorce from his wife, Fanti | yes or liquor, Mr: Ladd’ said W Mr. Gruber called.the.mecting |, Kull Memorial Works is a regu-, Moore, after eighteen years: °F that to date he has sold 28 oc- PRO 16 order at 8:30 o'clock and after lar advertiser in The Citizen. ' mafried life. |cupational licenses. The sale for i ; [Tapores, from members, of the com- | + ai ‘last year totalled 361. i AS DUST SWIRLS mittees were made and discussed, | Tax Assessor-Collector Sam B. j | Mr. Pearlman moved that a | Pinder said that at noon ‘today | committee proceed to secure exe- }there had been issued 60 oc- cution of the leases for the prop-| cupational licenses. Last year jerties. The motion was seconded | |the records show that there had jand. unanimously carried. | 'been sold 676 occupational After further discussion of pro- | ji : . , licenses and it is believed that a |posed improvements, Mr. Daniels; You folks can go ahead and formerly possible. It is no trick ji. number will be in demand moved that Colonel Brinton, Worry yourselves gray over the| at all to nop in a car and drive | ro, the present year with the | Mayor Albury and R. A. Lehmann | invasion of Poland and the Euro- down here from the east or mid- | time limit for securing them |_ With one month to go on finish-| represent the committee in pass-|Pean mess if you want to, but if|uiewest avd more folks are find-|¢ 64 at November 1. This means |ing the Water and Sewer project, ing on the leases. This met with You are stnart you'll forget it and! ing it out each year. \that about 616 will have. to. be W.P.A, workmen are continuing | the general approval of the meet- start frettin’ about the “INVA-|. Thousands who would have’) nased during the coming to do patch work and tarring on'ing and was also unanimously SION” of Florida that is fixin’ to journeyed to Europe this winter month, |the streets which had been torn| pa: E take place this fall and winter. ‘now find themselves all dressed; ip, ‘secure an occupational jup in laying the pipes. eee || Unless I miss my guess, we are|up with no place to go, and a license it is necessary that the Supervisor Wallace Thom! | / | gonna have an army down here large percentage of them will | soplicant must have paid his the citizenry to be patient TO CAMERO: ;this winter that will make Mr.'turn to Florida and Cuba. I eratical taxes for the year 1938 ts, | Hitler's look. like, a mere trifle—| During the period I ‘spent atl or the application will “be ~de- whigh is gréatly . necessa: SEEKS REELECTION jan army of tourists that will the Florida Exhibit in New York! nied, said City Clerk Archig Rob- | the/asphalt. used becpropeeePinr. ‘swarm over the state like ants/I encountered hundreds of people |... dened... If this were not,done the re ‘ jover a picnic lunch—and if we/planning to visit the state this, 1; was also stated in the office |aspHalt would "soon be rippéd up AS POLICE CA |don’t start makin’ plans for their | winter, and as a result of our €x-' o¢ the city clerk that 23 _ city by passing cars. 1 { * reception we may find ourselves| hibit I am confident that thou-| automobile tags for the current | W.P.A. authorities realize that — as bad off as Poland. , / sands will come beg tab ee: this | year had been sold to date. Last the sand blows about and gets in CAND} | Fortunately we won't find it| fall and ‘inter an the money | year there were 1500 of~ these | people’s homes but ask indulgence } IDACY. ABMOUNCED. In necessary to busy ourselves in the | they will spend or invest here tags sold. Approximately 1477 jpending the completion of the} THIS ISSUE: ON FORCE FOR | building of bomb shelters or the | will napa over for the of the orange and black tags must i: project by Nov. 1. TEN ,construction of a defense line at|cost of the exhibit. be sold during the month of Oc- " Only the central strips of streets YEARS: NATIVE KEY our border. | Travel bureaus, hotel and | tober. are béing patched and repaired | WESTER Instead we can erect “Wel-j|transportation officials and | Delinquencies in occupational and not the sections on the sides/ come” signs, provide additional chamber of commerce secretaries jjcenses or automobile licenses lof the streets since this does not STs | accommodations, and plan enter-|all report greater Pero in the after November 1 implies a a0 lcome under the scope of the Wa- Alber _|tainment for these guests who! state than ever before and antici-| per cent addition to the origina’ \ter and Sewer Project. day ed gaa peor Lge ae |come to us seeking only rest and | pate the greatest tourist influx cost, The tree-planting project will’ in the coming November election | Tecteation. Instead of shrapnel | in our history. i come to a close in the middle of for the position of captain of po- | they'll lay down a barrage - of Every town and hamlet in the | October. llice, whieh he now holds. dollars. 1state benefits from this increased | | ——— ‘Cathars has been on the police| In many Florida cities today} tourist trade. Revenue, from the; force for 10 years. For the past | there is an acute house shortage gas tax, from racing, from liquor} 60 T0 TORTUGAS § F four years he has served as cap-|#"4 the demand for accommoda-| sales, is stepped up to where! ‘f jtions this winter will be the!every county gains and such rev- | pi STAND HIS BOND tain ing the first two years re- |ONDAY MORNING {sulted in him being returned to oe ARMED Ne sonar loffice for a second term by a large ON C. G, PATROL Edwin R. iby, who was ar- ‘majority. BOAT 165 ain oe Polite. - His record a5 CaP- | createst in our ‘history. It is alenue-this winter should ‘prove jraigned in Criminal Court at ‘they His’ record as a peace officer | ood time to get that spare room | mighty helpful. session Monday and answered to/shows capable and fearless per- |inshape, add a sleeping porch,| Another thing to think about | |and fix up the house so that when|is that each season a certain the charge of violating the law.;formance of duty without fear, or |Felating to crustaceans by having favor. * your local tourist bureau or|number of tourists:‘become perm- | chamber of commerce calls you ! anent residents. They buy homes jean say, “Sure, P've got room for | here, invest in» Florida “enter-| ’em, send ’em over”. | prises, and as permanent citizens) 4 w.P.A. working mpd pl ;in his possession crawfish weigh-: He j, i | Each season sees marked im- | assume their part of the tax bur-|tween 20 and 25 men will leave ing less than a pound, with a! has soade (is diy fi hie ann, | proveitieht in all types of trans-|den and help in the upbuilding ‘Wonday morning at 10:30 o'clock |plea of guilty and was fined $10/ pj ; jPortation, and today the matter/|of the state. lon the Coast. Guard patrol boat and costs or 60 days in jail, is a | free man. ‘ | Friends of Mr. Ashby learned: +of his plight through the columns} | It is the duty of every citizen|1g5 for Dry Tortugas to continue many friends, for re-election. of The Citizen and yesterday I. to these visitors, | work there. uine and{ At Fort Jefferson at present are L. Daniels and Abe Kurman, two) ja. ice Tonicht ‘can make the trip in greater com- state depends upon \ of his friends, meptnr Ae eters onight «.:: and at less cost than avex\t receive and treat home. | only Superintendent and Mrs. J. or dislike the |B, Felton and Engineer U. Blount. visited him in the county jail, and * at | before. | afterward it to. the sheriff's’ - be Pena’s Garden Of Roses you and/There is no working crew there. office where’ the fine and costs Gould Orchestra He’ is waging an active cam- paign, with assistance of his! | | were paid and the prisoner set at 4