The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 4, 1939, Page 1

Azsociated Press Day Wi Service ire For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West ivat Che Key Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate inthe .country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Citizrn | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. VOLUME LX. No. 235. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1939 YANKEES BEAT Derringer To Rotting In Pitcner s Battle * The mighty Payl Derringer, National league top-flight pitcher, went down to defeat today in the opening game of the 1939 World Series. He allowed the bronco- busting Yankees only six hits, but hose were enough to tie up the game in the fifth inning and furnish the winning run in a dra- finish, matic jast-of-the-ninth typical of Yanke: ogy. Red Ruffing went all the way for the Yanks. Cancinaati scored -figst the fourth inning on a pass to Good- man, who stole second and scored @ hit by McCormick. Yanks knotted it up in the fifth on a in a PRICE FIVE CENTS DS IN Bows At a meeting of the Board of ‘Directors of the Key West Cham- jber of Commerce held in the of- 'fices this morning 11 o'clock, ‘the following officers were jelected to serve for the ensuing year: President Everett W. Russell, was reelected to serve another term, Melvin E. Russell, was elected first vice president, W. T. Fripp was elected second vice president, the post of treas- urer went to William M. Arnold, tand S.-C. Singleton was named to succeed himself as executive secretary. The directors selected Miss Elizabeth Sharpley ‘to fill the (COL. WALL HERE " TOINSPECT GUARD ; CONFERS WITH COL. MacMUL. wm. R. Porter to serve actively | LEN ABOUT FT. TAYLOR as a director, but -who cordially : FACILITIES ‘any deliberations. Meeting this morning followed the election of the board of di- rectors which was decided at the meeting last night with Presi- ;dent E, W. Russell present and the following members: Charles E. Smith, Charles S. Taylor, Mel- |. Lieutenant-Colonel P. L. Wall, ‘Florida National Guard, arrived jin the city yesterday afternoon from Miami and was accom- |panied by Major William V. Al- | bury, in command of the Second Battalion 265th Regiment, and | Lieutenant H. H. Taylor, Jr., at-| tached to Battery “E", Florida| ‘Naional Guerd™ 1 Yesterday afternoon Colonel; | Wall discussed with Colonel J. D. ‘SAILOR FALLS FROM |MacMullen, U.S.A., commandant | at Key West barracks, the matter | lof widening the facilities at the Gardner, F. J. Dion, Mrs. H. Wil- liams and W. W.Demeritt. vacancy created on the board of | directors, by the declination of vin E. Russell, Earl Julian, John ingle by Gordon and a two-base | Fort Taylor reservation for the blow by Dahigren. Then came the fatal ninth when, with Rolfe on third, DiMaggio was passed and Dickey slammed Rolfe home. intcreased number of members of the official family and troops of the 265th Regiment C.A.C., who will attend the encampment in 1940. The results of the discus- DESTROYER STACK Jewell M. Taylor, member of the U.S.S. Destroyer Reuben James personnel, was taken to the Marine hospital this morning Everett Russell Re-elected To Chamber Of Commercs: Presidency The meeting was called to or- der at 8 o’clock by President Russell and téllers were named | to count the ballots with the | following result: | Elected were W. W. Demeritt, ,Wm. M. Arnold, Fred J. Dion, |W. T. Fripp, B. L. Grooms, Al- | ‘bert E, Peirce, Wm. R. Porter, ‘E. W. Russell, Melvin E. Russell, \Charles E. Smith, Charles S. 'Taylor, Ben D. Trevor. ‘BRERISH STEAMER ~ INHARBOR TODA AWAITS. ORDERS FROM LIV- ERPOQOL;: OFFICERS HERE INSPECT SHIP assured the chamber of his ac-» jcord and willingness to assist in| British Steamship Newton Pine, Charles N. Woolner, master, rived in the harbor at an. early hour this morning and is still at anchor awaiting orders. The ship sailed from Liverpool but her des- tination is to be wired to Key West 'to the agents and conveyed |to.the esse) | Later in the day surgeons from {the Marine hospital and officers ar- |U. S. Immigration office and the plant board went out to the ves-! sel on the pilot boat of the Key | West Pilot Associaion, to make jthe regular examination and in- PERCENTAGES ARE 'AD VALOREM TAX 4 ‘HIGHER STATEWIDE ‘TAX LEAGUE PRESENTS |. FINDINGS: CASE OF COL. LIER COUNTY IS BROUGHT ! tk | INTO STRONG LIGHT | (Special to Citizen) | ‘JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 4, j--The average ad valorem tax To F | | Russia Announces Plan Materials jlevy of the state’s 67 counties in- ‘epeased -34% from 1933 to 1938. | During the same period the rev- jenue prorated to the counties by! ithe state increased 90%. These! ‘figures were revealed in statistics {released here today by the Flor-| {ida Tax Revision League. The league’s report shows that} jin 1933 the millage levied by the} jcounties averaged 26.4. In 1938 | the average levy had increased to} 35.4 mills—an increase of 34%.) {Monroe county, according to the ! report, levied 27 mills in 1933 and! {28 mills in 1938—an increase of; |4&% compared to the average in-; ierease of 34%. |. These figures are for general government including schools! ‘but do not include levies for spe-| cial districts and levies for debt} service. | Revenue collected by the staté; and prorated to the counties in ~£933 amounted: to. _ 12,051,729: In | 1938 state revenue prorated to: the counties totalled $22,908,526— | | | | from the local customs unit, the an increase of $10,856,797, or| Hones Association at a meeting 90%. | The league points out that! “while | governmental functions | performed by the different coun-| ties are the same, the taxes levied | for general operating expenses | vestigation of the ship. Returning wary from a low of 14 mills in| possible and is ready to cooper- To Both Sides In War * | HOTEL MEMBERS | DISCUSS. BEACH; ? NAME OFFICER | HONOLULU, Oct. 4.—Sources | Plated by Russia which indicated = here said that the United States |‘N@t that country would not par- i ticipate in the war between MEETING HELD YESTERDAY Wold send 200 planes to be) ponce, England and Germany. AFTERNOON: R. A. LEH- based here and that they would, The advices mentioned that arrive in the next three days. | Russia was in the midst of mak- MANN ELECTED PRESIDENT: PUSH BEACH COMPLETION LATE BULLETINS (By Axsoctated Presx) (By Assoctated Press) LONDON, Oct. 4.—War Minis- |try announced today that ad- | vices. had reached England con- cerning a new move _ contem- One hundred of the planes are ing deals with neutral countries = 4 to transport food stuffs and war said to be pureult shine capable terials to Germany, England of making 300 miles an hour. and France and any other nation |that might be in the market. Chief developments of the day | WASHINGTON, Qct. 4—Sen- jfeatured behind-the-lines move- ator Tom-Connolly ofTexas said ments on both sides with accent .. |on a war of commerce. England that if present embargo restric |i, oking further preparation to tions are not lifted the nation’ stop all commerce from getting would be plunged to the brink of to the Nazis and the move is ettin, ithusiastic support from war. He accused Senators Borah, | Fyance. ore _ While awaiting final action by; the city council in the consum-} mation of the public beach proj- ect at the foot ‘of Duval street, the Key West: Hotel and Tourist. Tuesday decided to discuss the plan from several angles without making any definite decision. The association wants the proj- ect pushed through as rapidly as Nye and others of not presenting | evidence based on facts in their speeches for isolationism. ] Conolly said that America went Turkish military advisors are in London today to confer with Britain on some form of com- bination military-economic ‘pact. urkey has stated that she will Score by innings: sion were not learned. to the port the officials had noth- Collier county to a high of 64 mills | ate in making it one of the most into the World War because Ger- Hee willing to aid the Allies, how- R. H. E. Reds 000 100 000— 1 4 0 Yanks 000 010 001 2 6 0 Running story of the game fol- lows No score on either side was made in the first and second in- (Continued on Page Three) EMPLOYMENT FIGURES LOOK ENCOURAGIN in a Lopez Funersl Home ambu- lance suffering from injuries re- |ceived while at work on the ves- sell, It was said. at the station that | Taylor was working on a stack of the ship and fell to the deck |receiving a leg facture. Last night the’ visiting colonel made the regular inspection of Battery “E”, and found every- thing in first class condition. This morning after attending to other matters he left in his car on the {trip back to Jacksonville. oo eee . HITLER, BEWARE! STALIN ALWAYS Recent Mating Of Germany And Russia Is Old Game eee RE! eee eee see ‘ing to say. | Hector Castro received a fine iin Hardee. From 1933 to 1938 the| attractive tourist facilities this {millage levied remained the same! ‘SHOOTING SCRAPE | DRAWS $100 FINE | | |CASTRO FINED LIMIT; SOSIN CENSORED FOR CARRY- ING GUN in four counties; was reduced in| five counties, and the other 58} counties increased millage in! varying amounts from three to) more than 300%. | “Collier county has the lowest | ; Millage, also has made the great- | est reduction in millage since | , 1933. We asked the county com-| | Missioners the reason for this. D. | :Graham Copeland, conimission; chairman, replied. { “The answer is Collier county ‘has a strictly business board of county commissioners. -The man submarines indiscriminately ever it is expected that. various coming season, cials announced. Before adjourning the associa- tion held an election of officers in accordance with a stipulation in its papers of.incorporation. The association offi- sank American ships. He said that if the present embargo con- tinues Germany will do the same again. The ships which were sunk by Germany did not carry concessions will have be | granted. Lord Halifax again. reiterated |the British viewpoint on future |policy today when he stated that “England would be glad to~dis- jcuss peace—but would not if it to (Continued on Page Four) munitions, Connolly pointed out. ;meant dealing with Hitler”. ‘The _,|drive “to end Hitlerism” is still !very much on, he said. The Keys---Florida’s Gold Coast 1 ic ENSE VIOLATORS By MARIE CAPPICK 10 BE G ‘ “GOOD FRIENDS” of $100 or. sixty days in jail salaries paid the members of the and Frank (Packer) Sosin receiv- board are om the basis of $6.00 per month plus mileage to attend INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION LIQUIDATES — HS |ed a fine-of $15 in city court yes- \terday afternoon before Judge T. one meeting a month. This posi- (This is one in a series of articles by Miss Marie Cap- Pick on the-resources of Key West and the Florida Keys.) ;Cuban pines, coming in at a low! | tarift rate, coupled with cheap} transportation rates to northern {and western markets, killed the} JUDGE LORD RECEIVES IN- STRUCTIONS FROM GIVES FACTS ABOUT PER- ‘ tively insures people of consider-| ‘Key business. Our representa- | MANENT POSITIONS SE- CURED {Special to ‘The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Fia., Oct. 4.— A decided upward trend in em- ployment was reported today by Harold C. Wall, chairman of the Florida Industrial Commission, in announcing that 2,719 jobs were filled by the twenty-four State Employment Service Offices dur- ing the month of August. Reviewing an analysis of ports presented by Fons A. Hath- away, director of the State Em- ployment Service, Wall said 932 applicants were placed in private employment on regular jobs and 509 others had been placed with re- | the Soviet Ivan disdain of human life, Hitler and Mussolini are but mild imitations | Some months ago {Ambassador “in London, Maisky, id: “We are not senti- | mentalists like you. We are} jthinking only of Russia, not of | humanity”. \ The barbaric truth of this state-' ment was shockingly realized by! the recent mating of Red Russia} and Brown Germany. The marri- } age, of course, was one of con- venience; but it was Josef Stalin, not Hitler, who was the seducer. For years Stalin had cast flirta- tious eyes at Hitler, the one man, in Europe he feared: had he not, achieved power by the simple Josef Stalin process of playing up to his ene-! of the Russian strong-man. Stalin mies and then liquidating them ;has-no counterpart: whereas the in a moment of weakness? It’s the other dictators think of conquer- private employers in temporary old Stalin game. ing thousands, he counts his vic- jobs. In public employment,| “Stalin is striking for world-!tims in millions. It.is a_known which includes P.W.A. and the power — deliberately, patiently, ; fact that one of the Soviet con- Bureau of Public. Roads, 1,278 | unscrupulously, as has always centration camps has more pris- | In lusting for power, in their)S. Caro following a shooting able business ability being on the | | scrape early Monday morning. | One witness testified that Cas-, | tro had been throwing rocks at a} | Duval street club owned by Sosin. | Sosin said that he had been shot! |at first before he “began firing. | |Sosin also testified that “Castro| | was always troubling” his wife. | Castro. denied that he had fired! j the first shot. | Sosin was reprimanded by Caro | for carrying a gun without a per- |mit, but he pleaded that this was |necessary as he transferred large | sums of money from his place of; business to his home and needed} protection. Sosin said that one time he was badly beaten up by |a_gang who jumped him to take |away his money. i { | placements were made. Of the total number of place- ments made during the month, 701 or slightly more than 25 per- been his technique of success”,!oners than all the Nazi camps| writes Eugene Lyons, Moscow put together. And, as a former correspondent for six years and, Red Army officer says, “Not in | first reporter to interview Stalin.|four and a half years of World { board and absolutely precludes the office from being sought by People with political axes to grind.. You have asked how we have done it and I have given you the absolutely ‘correct an- swer”. “The present confiscatory tax on property”, says the league, “plus the continual increase in the ad valorem tax levy and the un- certainty as to future tax rates, is| directly responsible for millions of Florida acres and vacant lots ly-| ing idle—and the corresponding | unemployment of thougands of | en. “Abolish the ad valorem tax”,! added the league, “replace it with! \@ fair tax on property,based on! a definite percentage of the pro- ceeds from its use, and those idle | acres and vacant lots will again become safe investments. The re- On the Keys are found _pot-|tives in Washington may be able holes, which it is said prove ex-|to remedy this situation, and pine- |cellent locations for planting ba- | apple culture again would de-| nénas that grow well. and pro-' velop considerable Key acreage. | duce without any great amount of| But farming is not the only care or attention. The banana is'means toward a livelihood. Ac- a nourishing fruit, -and in the cording to Professor Gifford there West Indies is considered a staple |4are more than fifty varieties of article of diet. Other fruits that|trees and plants growing on the grow and produce well on the Keys that yield fine woods, oils, Keys are mango, soursop, guavas, fibres, food and medicine. Many Fapayas, tomatoes, canteloups, wa- Of these were planted by the late ter melon, roselle, to name a few.'Dr. Henry Perrine, who brought A farmer who has a small (them from Mexico in 1836-38. {Among those listed by Professor {Gifford are the moringa-moringa, |known as the horse-radish tree. ; The root of this tree is scraped jane used as horse-radish. The oil of Ben used by perfumers is ex-| TALLAHASSEE | D. W. Finley, motor vehicie |commissioner and executive offi- cer of the Department of Public |Safety, late yesterday afternoon jsent the following telegram from | Tallahassee to County Judge Ray- |mond R. Lord: |.“The executive board of .the ; Department of Public Safety has {ruled that after October 15.the ‘drivers’ license law will be rigid- |ly. enforced and all persons op- terating a motor vehicle after that |date without a drivers’ license will be subject to arrest and ex- |amination to determine their fit- ness to operate a motor vehicle”. oil is used also for lubricating watches. Wild tamarind provides a fine wood, heavy and with a close \tracted from the seeds and this | Judge Lord said this morning |that the sale of drivers’ licenses will be resumed tomorrow morn- jing from 9 a. m. until 12 noon j}and from 2 p. m. until 4 p. m. grain. A rich brown in color it |is exeellent for cabinet work. }|Lignum Vitae, MEN, BEARS MEET; BOTH SIDES RETREAT cent were of persons who were! “He plays with the vision of aj War did the officer corps of any drawing or were entitled to draw| Russian empire rather than a/army sustain such losses as the} Oscar Cleare, colored, who benefits under the Unemploy- ment Compensation Law. The Employment Service start- ea accepting applications for placements March 1 of this year and up through August had placed in private and public em- ployment 13,395 persons. There are now 57,794 persons registered with the Service as ac- tively in search of work. This in- cludes 42,689 men; 15,105 women; is his great desire: there will be;}Guns and brute force have and 2,784 veterans. Utopian inter-nation (the ideal of | Soviet armed forces did in recent| earlier. in the week was charged \the Russia of 1919). Its capital| must be Moscow; its character | must be Muscovite”. The entente with the Third |Reich was Stalin’s greatest step in the direction of world domina- tion, according to Lyons. Vulture- like he can stand by watching Europe kill itself off, then step in for the pickings. A long war|scraps of paper. Honor is dead. | covered sufficiently, it was said, ‘no strength left to resist him. purges”. America must become aware, ‘warns Lyons, that no nation is in- terested in making the world safe for anything, whether it be de- mocracy, Fascism or Commun-_ |ism. Self-interest, and that alone, is the motivating force of a na- tion’s behavior. Pacts are but sup- Planted ideologies. | with striking his brother in the |head with an automobile crank, | was yesterday placed under bond} | of $500 to await preliminary hear- gy a Cleare, who after being | struck was taken to the Marine hospital where the wound was|j | pronounced serious, has not re- to appear at the hearing, which will be set for a later date. » | |development and prosperity far surpassing all previous mushroom booms”. i just witnessed the marriage of | (By Associated Press) prices in the market. The sweet |the manufacture of walking canes, potato is nourishing, and in some! paper knives and other similar sections of the South are on the |articles is found on the family menu three times daily. The castor Tomatoes are considered the | grower. best paying crop with okra a close/ this tree second. Pineapple culture on the/ value, Keys some years ago was rated a fertilizer. million dollar business, but the JASPER, Ala., Oct. 4—Three fishermen at Treefoil lake sud- denly came upon seven large bears and promptly took to the tees. Once they had climbed them, the anglers—Ted James, J. Smith and discovered the bears also had