The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 9, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 239. Che Kry- THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. City To Célebrat /\st Anniversary Of Grito De Yara Seventy-first anniversary of honor of the event will be given the Grito de Yara will be cele- | by the Cuban Club in its hall on brated tomorrow with three af-| Duval street. Gould Curry will fairs planned |furnish music for the occasion EY INDICATES PROBE OF DISTRICT | BELIEVES PUBLIC MONEY WOULD BE WASTED LOOK- | ING FOR ‘IMAGINARY MIS- CONDUCT’ i | = | (Special to The Citizen? ; MIAMI, Oct. funds in the Highway Commis- {sion and states, ‘justified in spending the public’s money looking for imaginary mis- conduct”, “After making a study of the state auditor’s report of activities while B. M. Duncan was general 9.—State’s “At-| 'torney George W. Worley has dis- | counted insinuations of misuse of , “I do not feel; KEY WEST, FLORIDA, “MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1939 EERE i Mediate In Nazi Peat: Proposal *. onboxt"ar's-wan soe BEACHES WILL GET ‘land preserving silence for the! i time being on the desire of Adolf FURTHER STUDY BY Hitler for peace now that he has ‘conquered Poland, Moscow today ‘HOTEL ASSOCIATION warned the Allies that the re-| Foreign PEPPER SPONSORS Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS cign Submarine Seen By Navy Patrols Twenty Miles West Of Key West OOOO aa aaa s (Dy Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Oct. 9.—White House said today that navy pa- ' ae IRA trols had observed a non-Ameri- At 10:30 in the morning a dele-| and dignitaries participating in manager, I have found nothing ‘sponsibility of a great war would | | gation from the San Carlos In-! celebration of the day will be wrong in the handling of funds, be on their shoulders. |GROUP TO MEET TOMORROW: | | SPONGE PROJECT” “"?Siinxinc rasr |can submarine ycsterday about 29 miles west of Key West. Stephen stitute and other fraternal and, present as guests of honor. but, on, the other hand, the com-! “Nol” rang out the voice WILL MEET WITH W.P.A. OF- civie bodies in the city will hold ceremonies in the Cuban plot and the remains of many of those The celebration is the 70th to mission has been complimented ; |be observed in Key West in jhonor of the day. The Grito de {Carlos Manuel de _ Cespedes,, on keeping the accounts accurate- ly and properly. looking for imaginary miscon- jthe Soviet nation would be glad! who died in Cuba's struggle for | leader of thesrevolt. This revolt duct”, was the full statement to act as mediator. freedom. The Maine plot con- tains the bodies of those officers and sailors who died in the sink- ing of the Maine. At 8 o’clock tomorrow night at ‘was unsuccessful, but it led later to the Grito de Baire in 1895 which culminated in America’s entry into the war against Spain |and freedom for Cuba. Cuba was given its freedom by made by Worley. Last week he had said that a \Dade county grand jury could jnot be called because it would be jout of that body’s jurisdiction, Questioning Allies’ true motives‘ and intimating that England! was moving to consolidate her | world gains, Russia was strong in her opinions. | “Senseless slaughter” would at- i tend an attempt to annihilate the } In the face of /Hitler ideology and would de-) the Maine plot in the city ceme-|yara signifies the first uprising this audit I do not feel justified /stroy a nation needlessly, Moscow ; tery. The Cuban plot contains} of Cuban patriots on the farm of in spending the public’s. money! said. Russian sources stated that ¢ WILL SUGGEST CITY DROP SWEENEY ESTATE FROM | FURTHER CONSIDERATION | 1 i Another attempt to assist in} solving the problem of providing ' the city with temporary public beach facilities will be made at a meeting of the Key West Hotel and Tourist Homes Association FICIALS TOMORROW TO DISCUSS PROBLEM (Special to The Citizen) MIAMI, Oct. 9.—Senator Pep- per will discuss tomorrow with! W.P.A. State Administrator Roy | Schroder and Regional Director | Malcolm Mifler of Atlanta a spe-} of W. E. P. Roberts, council- man in attendance at last week's Council meefing, when the roll was called to approve the auditor's report. Councilman Roberts object- ed to the report, especially in reference to the Fine and Forfeiture Fund collections. The amount listed was $38.00. It was recalled when the Council acknowledged collec- tions of $76.00 in the same Early, presidential secretary, said |it is porsible that it is the samo | boat reported Saturday 15 miles |cff Miami, The submarine was compara- tively small, Mr. Early said, and {two non-American tankers were jalso seen in the same vicinity. } Mr. Early declined to say whether the submarine and tank. lers were of the same nationality. San Carlos Hall a “velada” will: tat » be held. Addresses will be given|America in 1902. Since then it by speakers from the city and |@lso has celebrated its 10th of from the Latin lodges and clubs , October through the Island Re-| Significant was the announce-! scheduled to be held Tuesday at! ment that Russia was working tol2 p. m. at La Concha Hotel, it speed up her economic machinery | was announced today by Presi- cial project to. combat spread of j the fungus in the sponge beds of | Monroe County. fund for August aint rag | “This information is still in mayor was | to ar {process of being checked”, Early down on fhe. police depart- | ois when asked whether other FIRST AID CLASS to supply the needs of Germany. of the city. A musical program will also be held. At 9:30 o'clock a dance ,in |public. Tomorrow is a_ great day in all the cities and hamlets |of Cuba. But it was in Key West |the “Cuna de la libertad Cu- \bana” “Cradle of Cuban liberty” where the celebration originated. MEETS TUESDAY | CLASS IN PUBLIC MRS. SMOCK TO CONDUCT | Premier Daladier of France will answer Adolf Hitler tomorrow night in a radio address. Chamberlain missed an excel- dent R. A. Lehmann. ' i , Members of the association de-— plore the fact the city has been unable to reach any agreement’ with representatives of the Swee- , tomorrow. lent opportunity to inform the iney estate for the use of its The senator said that he has! discussed the project already with | Florida W.P.A. officials and will | elaborate on it at the meeting | Bureau of Fisheries has ex-} ment and enforce observance of the law and a naturally- to-be-expected increase in the fund would follow. Question is: What will the fund show for the month of governments and Amercian ship- {ping had been notified. | If the submarine is not the jsame one sighted near Miami it is CARRIES ON AS ;English people concerning the! peach property at the foot of Du- peace by addressing Parliament | yal street. The Sweeney estate yesterday and stating only that | has demanded that not only England’s position has been well| should taxes on the property be Mrs, Marguerite “Smock an-|#ffirmed in the past and needed | abated as proposed by the Civic ' {no further statement. October? jthe fourth foreign submersiblo meted in waters adjacent to the United States since the European swar began. pressed the belief that the beds/ may be completely destroyed and | that the disease may go from Key | "PQ PMP I DP LI LD Bs West to beyond Cedar Keys pro-! ——————____—______ gressively. |At Key West in those revolu-! \tionary days were thousands of} jrefugees and an active “junta” ‘which was working frantically | to undermine Spanish rule by} LIBRARY MERCEDES HEAD. HOSPITAL CELEBRATES 28th YEAR OF ESTABLISHMENT TOMORROW: MRS. GUTSENS 18 75 YEARS OLD Marking its 28th year of serv- ice to the sick of the community who cannot afford to pay for hos- pital services Mercedes Hospital| tomorrow still sees “Mama” Gut- sens as its director. The 75 year old little Cuban lady who was one of the original founders of the institution, gray haired and wrinkled, has beeen a familiar sight in the city on her errands of mercy. County con- tributes to the support of the hospital, but Mrs. Gutsens finds that many other things are neces- sary for the well-being of the in- mates and often she gets a can of milk here, a there to give the patients what they need. Times are hard but people are still generous, Mrs. Gutsens says. Everywhere she goes she is called “Mama” by white and colored alike. She is a symbol of the care of eternal motherhood. At the hospital at present are five patients who need the care of the hospital very badly. One patient has been there nine years. From time to time it is necessary to call in medical aid and Mrs# Gutsens finds that doc-|!and and Italy 6,000 each, France} tors volunteer their services giadiy. At the hospital are five in charge of the work. The hospital was originally founded by the Dolores Maig club for ladies, but one by one the ladies have all dropped out of the work until Mrs. Gutsens is the last left. In 1934 Manuel Cespedes, presi-|the other hand, the United|Russia land her oil fields.) It; With driving their cars while un- i arms and ammuni- i nounced this morning that tomor- ; n fil ne sevolutioniste’ ‘and “Also | row afternoon ze See el ees movin: NP. to. her | ‘ enlisti is iter Pirst-Aic-class i Cross) "as * r ei States. PRES Pfs PETE lasek! willbe held ta the Bed today that Adolf Hitler has agreed Statue of Jose Marti, organizer |Cross rooms of the Public Library |t0 give Russia domination of the of the Junta and patriot who and as many as is possible are , Baltic in return for her aid in the| died on the battlefields of Cuba, ; asked to be in attendance. jPresent crisis. ere : is in Bayview Park -in this city.| The American Red Cross antici- | Finland is resisting Soviet Dr. Julio De Poo is chairman’ pates a great increase this year in |Pressure regarding establishment | lof the committee handling the |the membership and last week /°f Russia as a Baltic power but) | it is believed it will eventually | |celebration and is working’ in j while paying his visit to the local : |conjunction with Dr. Jose San-|chapter, Glen W. Whistler, field |capitulate. | chez, president of San Carlos In-;representative from Washington, | SPER car = F. SOSIN INJURED Enrique Esquinaldo, Sr., & On the committee are|expressed to Secretary Mrs. Grace Aguilar, Manola Acevedo, George (Red Cross aggregation answering | ; : Acevedo, Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr.,|to the annual roll call will ve AS CAR OVERTURN | Pedro|Phillips the hope that the local! Faustino Rendueles, Sr. }much larger than usual. Frank Sosin, owner of the Cave | og but Greene and Duval streets will not U. S. Military Air Strength Is Greatest In Several Ways (Special to The Citizen) little hominy | | NEW YORK, Oct. 9.—The!she has turned out airplanes | United States today ranks high-| since 1935, the year her air re- jest’ in’ several of the most im- |portant factors of military avia- |tion, ineluding fliers, plane pro- duction ability and fuel, accord- ling to a survey of the world sit- Courtney, noted aviation editor, | who is now. in Europe. | After estimtaing present |power, including all classes, as giving Germany 12,- |500 planes, Russia 6,500, Eng- air |4,100, Japan 4,000 and the United there | States 3,900, Courtney points out} that these figures do not give a true pieture of the situation for | various reasons. “The United States is in the cellar of the aeronautical league,” he writes, “in seventh place as a | world military air power. On |uation just completed by W. B./ military j jnmaissance began: | “Moreover, there is a practical |reason why Germany and Italy cannot give their young pilots jis absolutely minimum essential training time. | United States is most favorably | gasoline. | “The United States produces troleum.. Germany’s rock-bottom peacetime requirement of fuels jis more than 6,000,000 tons; her ;own production only about a jmillion. Her wartime needs are \figured at 20,000,000 tons. You see here reasons for the covetous eyes on Rumania (and her oil | fields) and the loving embrace of dent of Cuba, sent Mrs. Gutsens | States has more active commer-/ takes about 250 tons of gasoline @ specially struck medal recog-|cial planes probably than all to. give one pilot 1,000 hours of nizing her great work. A com- mission came here to present the medal to her. Numerous Am- rican and Cuban flags have been given her by governmental |those nations combined. We. |have more than 10,000 and most of these would be useful | transport, instructional and even for} training. pilot man power that we have iriches as great as our industrial what American ‘officers believe! And why the} situated of all nations to do so:/ 60 per cent of the world’s pe-{ {Inn on Petronia street in Key | West is in the hospital at Home- {stead suffering from head in- juries received in an automobile} ‘accident on the Overseas High-| o'clock in the morning. Mr. and Mrs. Sosin left yes- iterday morning. accompanied by \their children, Frank, Violet and jJohn, and A. M. Alfonso, and) when opposite Mabel’s Place a! itire blew,and. the car turned | lover. Mr. *Sosin was driving at jthe time and suffered severe cuts jin the “heet, the results of which have not been determined, } Other occupants of the car suf-} jfered only minor cuts and bruis-} ies. The story of the accident; was brought to the city by Road ‘Patrolman-Deputy Sheriff Ray-! ,;mond Maloney. | DRUNKEN DRIVERS ARRESTED ON ROAD Two drivers of automobiles were arrested yesterday charged jing adequate Committee dealing with the, has asked the city; be razed as an‘alleged fire trap. President Lehmann stated that it had been suggested the associa- tion go on record as asking city council to drop consideration of the Sweeney property for a tem- porary public beach and to pro- ceed with plans for development ‘of Monroe County have taken to! of the- nearby Gato property at the foot of Simonton street. “We understand that for abate- ment of taxes and without any other strings, the Gato estate is; willing to give the city use of its property for the beach”, Presi-, dent Lehmann said. “This por-| tion of Rest beach would give the | city a good start toward provid: | bathing facilities : for our visitors this coming sea- son. Some of our members be- YOUNG ROBBERS BREAK IN- | Thomas said. way, which occurred at 9:15 |lieve it would be better to £0! 7Q RESIDENCE, LEAVING | ahead with this portion of the Local sponge fishermen:discov- oped the -pttghy-ot- the ~tonge+-f SAND beds shortly after the disturb- | OF Y ancé first broke out in the Ba- Hamas. When the sponges were pulled up by hooks, they fell apart. with the slightest pull. Lacking texture they were use- less commercially. Most of the sponge fishermen fishing and as fishermen as a . whole are making much smaller | Thomas calls attention livings with markets the same. WATKINS’ HO IS BURGLARIZED just about ‘FEW MORE DAYS ' President Roosevelt announce’ | “a * |Jast month the presence of a for- STREETS 22°". choar . southern Alaska and another off Boston. | . | DESTROYERS ARE ate a loaite THOMAS SAYS | repr ON RUN | WORK IS NEARLY COM. It was reported here late Sat- Hl PLETED urday that two freighters were ieee stopped in the Gulf Stream off | Bahia Honda, 40 miles northwest of Key West, and that a destroyer was alongside the vessels. It is believed ‘this destroyer was the Reuben James, which’ was mys- | teriously. called out of port at Key {West Naval Station at 10:30 | Wallace j to the ,fact that resurfacing of the sec- ltions of the streets through | which the water and sewer line} jwas run is nearly completed. Area Supervisor | “Two streets have just. been covered with sand and except for | o’clock Saturday morning. Reuben James also left at 2:2) Patch work in a number of other | o'clock this morning for an un- | |Streets, the work is ‘done” Mr. | He asked those who live on the streets which have been sanded innounced destination, which ight have been in connection with the submarine. U.S.S. Clax- ton is out on patrol, having lef: beach and forget the Sweeney’ EVERYTHING TOPSY-TURVY property. The association prob- | ably will make some decision on ; this proposal”. i LB.GRILONIN COUNCIL. RACE FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT IN | TODAY'S ISSUE OF | THE CITIZEN | In today’s issue of The Citizen will be found the formal an- nouncement of Leonard B. Gril-' lon, who has entered the race for, City Councilman in the coming— city election on November 14. 4 Mr. Grillon, who is familiarly known as “Lennie” to a large’ number of citizens and residents | of Key West, is widely known “Tt is in the quality of our) |The infractions of the law were |large following, who predict he done on the Overseas Highway, | will make an excellent race for! jand the arrests were made_ by | the position which he seeks. | Highway Deputies Raymond Ma-| During his long newspaper ex-! loney and Forrest Finnerty. perience in Key West he has’ courier purposes in war.” ‘background. Military air. ex- Both the arrested men were | been thrown iri contact with prac- | A group of youngsters, who had been seen in the vicinity of the residence of Mr: and Mrs. Wil-! liam Watkins on South street, left | evidences of their intentions by | the topsy-turvy conditions by) burglary reported today. | Residents in the vicinity made ; the intruders had entered by cut- ting the wire screening in the} kitchen door, thus effecting easy: access to the home. | They had apparently entered! every room in the house and had } strewn the floors with wearing | apparel of every description a) thrown on the bed in one of the room a lot of golf balls belonging to Mr. Watkins. H To the best belief of those who | made the investigation of the! jder the influence of intoxicants. throughout the city and has a home they marauders had appar-} ently taken nothing of any value, and the supposition is that the boys were looking for money and not finding any had left empty- handed, Mr. and Mrs. Watkins are visit- to have patience for the few \ days necessary to allow the semi- | soft asphalt used to dry... Until Thursday. It is quite probable tne Claxton sighted the subma- that type of asphalt is dried thoroughly and stops “bleeding” the sand ntust be kept on the spots to insure permanence - of the process. It will be swept off eventually, however, it °was jwhich they left the house in a' stated. “If there are hot days the as- phalt will run and the sand may jan investigation and found that! have to be kept on longer” the area supervisor said. MORE WORKERS GO |FORTY-FIVE MEN NOW EN- GAGED IN WATER AND CLEANUP WORK Approximately 25 more W.P.A. workers left this morning on the patrol boat 185, August Bradley, officer in charge, for Fort. Jeffer- | rine. U.S.S. Babbitt, which was }aue in Key West Saturday, had j been callea to Guantanamo Bay }and did not arrive until 1 o’clocx ;yesteraay afternoon. | A Bruish tanker is reported | to be anchored off the entrance to | Northwest Channel. A Coast Guard plane was pa- trolling the waters around the | Florida Keys Sunday morning jand afternoon and apparently carefully searching the seas for at least 20 miles out from shore- The position of the submarine the White House Would piace it near Boca Grande woward Tortugas. The sub ‘could jnave easily come through Boca {Grande channel, which, inci- |dentally, is American waters, and | made the short run to Northwest \Channel on the bay side where jthe British tanker was anchored this morning. JUDGE GOMEZ TO MIAMI Judge Arthur Gomez, of the son in the Tortugas group... ~ | Eleventh Judicial Circuit, who i ¥ i ‘ rraigned this _ morning . before | tically: th tire citizenry and is ‘i i tive ‘ennessee officials. Las Cuba sent} Courtney then points out that! perts of, all nations with whom |@raigned _ n ] ly: the entire and is’ ing with relatives in T car beaufifal eae ‘one Am-|the number of planes is almost|] haye talked admit that the | Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo. | shown to have friends on every and are expected to. return some rican and one Cuban. Tomor-|meaningless unless the supply of| American flier is in a class by |Clarence Cotterman. who was ar-| hand. i These. 25 will augment the 29 had been visiting for three days already. there. Assignment is row morning they will be gaily draped in the front of the hos- pital. Spirit of Mercy to the Sick and Poor will have been cele- brated once more at the hospital | and through little Gutsens. Mrs. Marie GRITO DE YARA DANCE Tuesday Night—9:30 O’Clock CUBAN CLUB count, together with the sup- | plies of gasoline which a country controls and can spare for train- jing purposes. |trained pilots is taken into ac-} “The United States, most gen-| himself. If we really spread our- {selves in a big war we can prob- jably train 50,000 pilots a year. | They won’t be as ‘safe’ as pilots jtrained in pressureless peace- time, but they will be better tested by Officer Maloney, was| Mr. Grillon states that in event placed under bond of $200, and jof his election he will put forth! A. E. Hess, arrested by Officet|every effort toward the interest | Finnerty, was placed under the same bond. They will appear for trial at the next term of Criminal of the city and stresses the fact |that he will always be sincere, at | rival they will be able to tell if anything of value is missing. jtime this week. Upon their ar-| usually for 20-day periods. | Superintendent James Felton’s house is nearly completed, and work is underway on a water erous of all with flying time,” he‘ grounded in fundamentals than | states, “gives its military pilots any foe they meet.” an average of 265 hours a year-| Among other points of Amer- \Italy gives her pilots 125 hours a jcan superiority in the air, Court- year. Figures for Germany are ney also mentions bombing ac- /not available; but while few ex-' curacy, which he says is due perts question either the number both to American ‘ini least, and will endeavor to fill) 1 the duties of the office to thejuntil 7:30 P. M. Friday, Novem- | best of his ability. \ber 3, 1939, for 100 (more or less) Ns! He solicits the vote and support old fire hydrants. Oo jof his numerous friends and the | Purchaser may remove hy- a5 YOUF public in general, and concludes drants at sidewalk level, or at by saying he will make every en- ‘elbow, and must replace side- deavor to merit the confidence walk in a satisfactory condition. Court. fe hae ctor orders. Fresh Pure lor the excellence of German air-! ‘craft, nearly all are skeptical of methods and to the training American bomb sight, a closely guarded MEMBERS FREE—OTHERS 49c:Germany’s ability to have turned secret which he describes as “ out experienced pilots as fast as “envy of ‘the entire air world.” GARDNER'S PHARMACY Phone 177 Free Delivery -}@8. a member of the city’: imposed in the event he is 's istrative bedy in the i : coming