The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 12, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Cher Kry THE SOUTHERNMOST NE” VOLUME LX. No. 242. County Board Rewrites Insurance; Takes Step - To Preserve Palm Trees CRUMMER WILL BE HERE SUNDAY TO DISCUSS BONDS cided last ree: at | sioners. LATE ADVICE TODAY ied Attending the meeting were: THAT MR. CRUMMER WILL | Chairman Car! Bervaldi, Cominis- Hea » \ i | Insurance policies on the Coun- | jty Court House and the County | |Jail are to be rewritten at once {Company at an appreciable sav-| ing in premiums. This was de- | the regular county commis-} | Housing Project Details eal SPAPER IN THE a. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1939 y Trench Fighting Begins; Peace Depends =: Uponliitler’sGuarantee (By Associated Press) LONDO) Oct. 12.—Heavy trench fighting began today for ithe first. time since the war be- Citizen QUERY DELAY IN ~BEACH PROBLEM MOVES TO BRING ABOUT NEW SOUTH BEACH | At the meeting of the Key} West Hotel and Tourist Home| Association Tuesday afternoon,’ ;Member L. S. Gruber said that {he had contacted Mrs. Lottie, | Laranaga and that reports that | jShe did not give a lease on her; ;South Beach property because | she has not been assured that | jthe Greene and Duval property | K. W. JAYCEES WILL RECEIVE NAT'L CHARTER i Key W ost country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit est, Florida, has the equable climate in the PRICE FIVE CENTS Anmistce Day Wil Be Observed Nov. 11 Post Gathers Clothing Preliminary plans for observ- ance of Armistice Day, Novem- jber 11, the proposal to hold a {high-class dance and floor show at Key West Country Club and {the appointment of a commij {to handle emergency relief mgtk- ‘ed last night’s meeting of Arthitte isioners Braxton B. Warren, St BE IN KEY WEST NEXT ae | would not be condemned by the ' PRESENTATION TO BE MADE Sawyer Post No. 28, the Amer- ge and T. Jenkins! jE Monsalvat Curry; Attorney W, Curry Harris, ; SUNDAY a |Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, Chief Dep- | juty Sheriff Bernard Waite, Chas. | 5 |L. Roberts, B. C. Papy, Melvin E.| |Russell, Attorney J. Lancelot | representing the R. E. Crummer | Lester, Dr. Armando Cobo, J. B. | ; Sullivan. Monroe | Attorney Lancelot Lester, Chas. Roberts Explains Rates | Charles L. Roberts, of the Por- ; ter-Allen Co. addressed the! board on the question of insur. ance rates on the Court House and the County Jail, explaining clusion of the regular meeting of jin detail the new regulations re- [eording increases in the amount of insurance at the same _pre- bond re-! mium rate. a funding program were brought; There was considerable discus- | up for discussion. sion on the matter and at the WWadie there were a. number of | onianin 1c Was decWed to.tave PER sane cies rewritten in she points explajned by Mr. Lester, | amount of the present sums, $16,- | there were others of rather vital! 999 on the Court House and $10,- | significance which Mr. Lester !999 on the jail, at a saving of ap- said could best be elucidated by proximately $28 in the premiums. | Mr. Crummer. To have him ex- Board Favors Cleaner y plain to the board the many in- Adrian O’Sweeney, represent-' tricacies involved, Mr. Lester | ing an electrical equipment com-’ advised that he had arranged ‘pany, addressed the board rela- with Mr. Crummer to arrive iN|tive to the purchase of a com- Miami Sunday, coming by plane! bination utensil to be used in a from Chicago, and meet with the | number of different ways, in- Key West body during the day, A an . setuttring-66-Ghieaganto'ciock: tn cluding oiling, the floors, cleaning,’ the evening: Co., fiscal agents for county, held an executive meet-! ing with the county commis- | sioners last evening at the con- the board and the ferent phases of the many dii- _|Housing Authority, under direc-; Kirchheiner and Realtor upholstery; Vénetian blinds, rugs; _ Rush Towards Completio Stanley Sweeley of the Federal{ Assisting in the selection of Housing Authority, head of the sites for the construction of the Florida Division, V. E. Stack,! dwellings and the appraisal of - member of the Land Division the property, are Fred J. Dion, from Washington, and the Local}County Tax Assessor J. Otto Clem tor Wallace B. Kirke, held con-| price, who were appointed yes- ferences yesterday afternoon and iterday. Their work is practically this morning discussing the plans/ finished and is being gotten in for the furtherance of the project | readiness for presentation to the in Key Wést. x |local authority. No information Asend ae the meenns vere jon the choices can be made pub- Cuey Seanad Os omaiiland| 4s present, it seo stated. a toca! > - ter the conference r. Adams, Jerry J. Trevor, Hugh sweeley was conversing with Williams, Russell Pancoast, ar-|he Citizen and he said that sitet and asouat Earl Woite, | everything is going along in we of iami, an arx > a id in et » 1OF-| proper manner ani a couple mer member of the authority in| o6¢ weeks the entire set up will Florida. i «;. .. |be ready for publicity, covering Many of the various details in’ plans which involve the expendi- connection with the Lele in! ture of approximately $700,000 Key West bid uated = rot | 224 the construction of 200 one various — standpoints, om ‘family units. phases of the plans are gradually! jy, Sweeley said that he ex- being straightened out prepara-| pects to be in Key West for sev- tory for presentation . to the: eral days this time, and. during \powers in Washiigton. \thaf time will be a guest at the Hotel La Concha. Mr . Stack, Mr. Lester extended an invita- tion to the board of commission- ers, the school board and the city council, to make the trip Sunday morning, explaining that he would complete the arrange- ments afid have everything in readiness to leave about 7 o'clock. Following a telephone con- versation this morning — between Attorney Lester and Mr. Crum- mer, at his office in Chicago, it was announced that the latter will fly to Key West and at noon Sunday will confer in the county court house with the commis- sioners, the school board and the city council instead of the Key West group going to Miami. HIGH SCHOOL HEARS CAPT. W. C. HARRIS. and other equipment, and naming the value of the equipment at $69.75, with an additional picce of equipment to cost mately $7. After a brief discussion as to ithe funds available for making the purchase, it was decided to take the matter under advi: ment and give Mr, O’Sweeney a definite answer at the first regu- lar meeting in November. The members of the board expressed the belief that the equipment was admirably adaptable for the work usually only part of a day, the|COMPLETES STORY ABOUT Ancther consultation will take intended. Help For Coconut Trees Depositary accounts were read by Commissioner Curry, checked by Commissioner Monsalvatge and the signature of approval added by Chairman Bervaldi. Clerk Sawyer was to write for prices on cotton seed meal in 1000-pound lots to be used in preservation of coconut : (Continued on Page Three) ADDRESSES CHAPEL IN OB-; SERVANCE OF COLUM- BUS DAY TOO LATE TO By RUSS: Columbus Day observance was’ held today at chapel services at the Key West High School, with a program headlined by a talk on the National Defense Act by W. Curry Harris, captain, 265th Regi- ment, Coast Artillery, F.N.G. The program opened with the Flag Salute, followed by assembly singing of “Alnerica”. The _stu- approxi-! authorized | who was seen some time later by The: Citizen, said that it was his | intention” to “visit several locali- } ties ‘in’ the state, after which he DESTROYERS ON EXTRA PATROI Destroyer Claxton and one of | ' | ington. \the naval seaplanes herd‘ left this |morning for patrol ‘work. U.S.S. DRIV. R HIT TREE. |Claxton will be in this evening. | \ A 1) | One of the destroyers have,| ‘each day for the past two days. been making a_ patrol lasting return to port being made eve- *nings at dusk. The daily patrol is believed to! be for the purpose of recennoiter- | ing regarding the presence of a foreign submarine in these waters as reported by the White House. Other two seaplanes in the | group based here remained in| port, as did also the destroyer Babbitt. Destroyer Reuben James ‘is out on regular four-day patrol. | DESTRUCTION OF POINCIANA Additional information, not available at press time yester- day, obtained this morning con- cerning the demolition of a |poinciana tree at the corner of |Southard and Whitehead streets, points out the fact that the acci- careless- ~|dent was not one of ness. The aceident came about when William Gwynn, driver of the automobile, swerved from the road to avoid striking another car. Mr. Gwynn was driving north CLASSIFY ELL KAY | would return to his post in Wash- | gan. i Prime ‘said that the door to peace is still k Minister Chamberlain ‘open to Hitler providing there is a guarantee of “real and set- tled” peace. Sweden and ‘Denmark asked the United States to mediate in the encroachment of Russia on little Finland and today the United States delivered a note hoping that relations between ‘Russia and Finland were of the best. Chamberlain told the British Parliament that the capture of Poland was a “grievious against huranity”. crime He said that a real peace would be based on| Germany giving back the inde- pendence of Czechoslovakia and ‘Poland. There was a_ hopeless tone in Chamberlain’s speech, and this’ was emphasized by the outbreak of major hostilities on {| the front. , Patrol work between the Magi- fot and Siegfried Lines have ‘eeasedand.-heavy _-artillery fire roars over the area as thé troops on both sides dig in for trench | fighting. | Chamberlain said that | war, came it would gre: ithe face of civilizatioi when atly change n. | Sounds of heavy fire in the |North Sea were heard today and {a great column of fire and smoke }Was seen at sea. The fighting may | be between British shins and Ger- | man ‘subMatinés of airplanes.” | | A Finnish representative today |left Moscow after, the first con- isultation with Soviet officials. :place tomorrow. LATE BULLETINS (ity Annoet | | Press) TORONTO, Oct. 12.—Prisoners from England may be sent to Canada governor of Canada told, | the British government today. | First group of prisoners are to; i arrive shortly. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Am- erican planes will be sent to |Hawaii, Puerto Rico and other West Indian islands owned by |the United States. Hawaii will soon get a complement of 200 Editor M. D. Baer of the Flor-:iocated, for, like old soldiers,|on Whitehead street and another | pjanes, ida Dispatch of St. Augustine, published in the interests of rail- way empioyes, advances a_ sug- gestion that is well worth consid- ‘eration. Baer peints out that there are today 123,000 retired railway em- ployes drawing pensions of from ee tines wise they enjoy’ sitting around re-|¢ar driven by Juan |counting their experiences over|going west on Sout oc many years of active railroad|ing the other car starting to service. {round into Whitehead, Mr. Suppose some community seek. |Gwynn applied the Goat ing good citizens were to go out | the ground at that RO ean {after these folks in an honest, | wet and slippery, ning! sl ead jsincere effort to establish them | Tan over the sidewalk, mo j | WASHINGTON, Oct. President Roosevelt today said that the American people cannot ‘remain entirely indifferent to| ithe suffering of Europe, The President has often been accused city, are false. | Mr. Gruber said that Mrs, Laranaga told him she would be willing to offer a lease on the property under the same_ terms jas the Gato estate heirs are of- i fering on their land which lies }adjacent at South Beach. This jdoes not include consideration of ithe Duval and Greene property. | Stating that he was at a loss to understand who was in back of the movement to retard the prog- ress of the Beach, Mr. Gruber ‘said he would investigate the matter. C. H. Johnson asked the As- jSociation to aid in cleaning up ‘palm: leaves at the Boulevard. |A. C. Thompson and Mr. Johnson |were appointed on a committee to investigate the matter. Association voted to make a ‘cash donation toward the efforts linitiated by the Lions Club and iBoy Scouts .to clean up Rest | Beach. tacted several lumber companies and secured a donation of $60. of lumber to be applied toward the South Beach property. :. The meeting was called to or- der by president, R., A. Lehman ican Legion. R. Adrian O'Sweeney has con- } * AT MIDDAY BANQUET SUN-| A committee headed by Wil- _|liam Reardon, past commander en Nore oon lof the post, began working today CHA |to enlist the aid of army, navy, |national guard and coast guard lofficers here in staging a stirring ; Key West Junior Chamber of pina a LS ahaa p onan is ‘ 4 i \ the St anniversary o! ¢ armis- Commetce will receive its char-| tie which closg! hostilities of ioe signifying membership in the ‘the first World War. ! Outbreak of the second World jto be held next Sunday, October War and the danger to America |15, at La’ Concha Hotel at 12:30 from belligerent activities off | o’clock. ‘our shores have increased or are Local members are making’ about to increase the army and | Preparations to welcome a good navy personnel in Key West and jdelegation of state “Jaycees” gives the city an opportunity to coming to Key West from Coral'emphasize the beauty of peace |Gables ard Miami, who are ex-'at Armistice Day ceremonies, in pected to arrive late Saturday, the opinion of members of Ar- |afternoon. Plans are to meet the ,thur Sawyer Post. |delegation at the head of the is-| Chairman R. A. Lehmann of ‘land, then devote Saturday night the post's dance and entertain- ‘to sight-seeing trips of the Island ment committee was instructed {City’s entertainment centers, es- to work up committee activity corted by local members*of the on arrangements for the first of Junior Chamber. a series of dances and entertain- | Tom Smith, national director ments at the Country Club. This jand president of- the Miami or-, committee. is scheduled to meet ganization, will present the char- tomorrow and may announce a ‘ter. Secretary S. C. Singleton, date and other details this week. \fsthe. Senior Chamber, will be. When __M. Cal lyrtland..Cates, _ post ! the speaker. member, called attention of the — |post that he had lately en- SIO ISS SM sé Please! Don’t Destroy Newly-Planted Trees! Supervisor ‘Arthur Shep- Pard, in’ charge of the W.P.A. tree-planting beauti- fication work, has discovered that several of the plants have been viciously broken off. with members, A. C. Thompson, iL. S. Gruber, A. E. Alfeldt, Mrs. | |Suzanne Staley, Mrs. Hugh Wil- {liams,.C. H. Johnson, JohnH. | !Lehman, Bill Lee and Aaron | McConnell, a new member. Vi: |tors attending .were,; Mr. ‘0’ ; Sweeney and Mr. Johns. | | -The meeting then’ adjourned! until next Tuesday, Oct. 17th, at} {2:30 p. m. at the La Concha Ho- | jtel, at which time all members | jare requested to be present. i (ty Aum vinted Preae | HONOLULU, T. H., Oct. 12—; \To fill in a’ seientifie “blank” on Hundreds of trees have been placed about the city along the curbing with the aim in view to have tall trees and shadier streets. ‘Mr. Sheppard was deplor- ing the action of the culprits who included adults as well as children according to re- Ports reaching him. HE FILLS IN-A BLANK j i the map of Polynesia, Dr. Truman} G. Tuncker, De Pauw university | jbotanist, is off to the island of, ‘Niue. The little known island is| '300 miles south of Samoa and has a population of 4,000. Senator Pittman. Confident ‘Embargo Will Be Repealed (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Oct. tinued ‘Senator Pittman, “cannot ~—Senator Key Pittman, chair- | afford to be concerned solely with 12, — | man of the Senate Foreign Rela- keeping the United States out of | jtions Committee, said today that |war, but must also consider things jhe is “confident that Congress|affecting the peace in Europe. will repeal our present well-in-| Although we have no intention of tentioned but ineffective _arms/ever again sending Americans to embargo during this special ses- {fight abroad, we May some day COLIIITILS countered several children with- {out adequate clothing to attend school, the members authorized jexpenditure of 4 small sum for {material to be turned over to. the ;}National’ Youth. Administration | for. the ecessary labor’ in ) the |Praduction of suitable clothes. Out. of the discussion ¢ame a |fesolution directing ‘Post’ Com- mandet William Schonetk.'to ap- point a committée~ to “handle |similar cases of this nature brought to the attention of the jpost. Vice Commander _T. A. Woody was named chairman of the committee, with Myrtland | Cates and George Koch, mem- bers. Chairman Woody immediately got busy. He asked the mem- | bers and any other citizens of the city to donate what spare cloth- ing they may have, contribute cash for the purchase of ma- |terials or give suitable materials | for making clothes, to the Legion |committee. Such offerings will \be accepted by Chairman “Woody at his home, 901 Grinnell. street. or he will call for them. CIT’S & TAXPAYERS TO MEET TONIGHT |WILL DISCUSS CANDIDATES FOR CITY ELECTION ~ NOV. 14 of pro-anglo sympathies. sion”. |be forced to fight here at home, | dents then sang “Onward Com- $40 to $120 each month, while|as permanent residents. Suppose|the curb and crashed into the rad which was followed by another 150,000 are eligible to re-|a colony of 1,000 were attracted | tree. Captain Harris’ speech. j tire. Many of these folks have}to the community. What would | First Lieutenant Will E. P. Rob- other income supplementing their| it mean in buying power? It |T erts was also on hand for the |pensions. 2 |would mean between $600,000 | occasion. Freed from active service, these | and $700,000 2 year from Railway | PET SE Captain Harris expressed the | pensioners are in a position to se-|Retirement pensions alone—and | sPy. yeagn Oa. is—An unofficial opinion that “the U. S.| lect most any location that ap-!remember, many of them have| PAPEETE, Tahiti. pe ARES is not prepared for war even/peals to them. In their “sunset |other incomes from investments. |€dUcational ie ti 408 ee bet though a full war-time armament} of life” they naturally desire a| Bringing these folks to Florida, P@tives 2 an oe aie program was put into effect”. He|healthful, balmy climate where|Baer contends, is not a job for |iM& carrie ca ee oA tes further stated that “the com-| living costs are nominal and out-jthe slick real estate promoter or|™¢nt. of * Hg Mae ga: parison of strength of other na-/door recreational opportunities) those concerned only with the | reely through i tions in regard to our military | exist. |sale of real estate, but rather of a : strength, brings this country into| No state, contends Mr. Baer, | the. community itself. While the | _ The ‘s earns een eed poor light”. has more to offer than Florida| income of these pensioners in-jans.¢ ma oe ae po wde deen: task The peace-time army of the|and urges that an effort be made | dividually is small, it is neverthe- | 5 higrvyanies ider prohibition to United States should be 250,000) by the state aswell as individual less dependable, and in the ag-|49€S not consi a ie cece. instead of the 125,000 now en-|communities to establish colonies | gregate.would mean a great deal | the answer to the p : rolled, according to Captain Har- jot aie bio ee Sree a { ~ any St that went after it in| ; ris. who further pointed out that!providing them with accommoda- the right way. this country is to othe countries! tions within their means and rec-| America today is pension mind-} PECIAL! SPECIAL! as a weakling is to a bully—not 'reation facilities that will appeal.'ed. Practically all of our larger, Tuesday, Wednesday, ‘Thursday prepared for combat. | He suggests eolonies, pointing industries are providing their re-| DATE AND NUT net In conelusion., the captain stated |out that these elderly railroaders |tired workers with pensions and! ae yaks FUDG! that the crisis had come, and that|like to be together. They are|amounts are being increased each CAKES it was the duty of Americans to! somewhat clannish and naturally|year. For the most part these prepare themselves for a conflict feel more at home in a commun-| pensioners represent sound, sub- even though it may be avoided. |ity where other railroaders are{| (Continued an Page Three) HEY THINK PROHIBITION ISN'T THE RIGHT ANSWER WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—To- |day the Wage and Hour . Board authorized the increase of wages | per hour from 25 cents to 30 cents. The scale will affect 650,- 000 workmen. The ultimate goal of the present law isa 40 hour week at 40 cents an hour. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. | today reported an increase ne 833,000 persons on relief. The to- tal followed a recent upswing in | WPA employment. PALACE THEATER Wednesday. Nov. 8, 1939 GIRL SCOUT TROOP NO. 1 Presents Gerald Pinder's 6TH RHYTHM REVUE also ICTURE FEATURE PI COMEDY and SHORT REEL Lifting the embargo, he added.|if any group of powers becomes \“might be tothe advantage of |dominant in the old world. If any nations“ with a strong fleet, like | group of ms ever conquers Britain’s, who-are able to convoy | Europe and Asia, they would then ; war cargoes. But, since this is|constitute a threat to us via by no means certain and since it|South America. We should not in no way affects our own strict |shut our eyes to present fascist neutrality, it could not be any jpenetration there. concern of ours”. War Danger Exaggerated “What got us into the last war”,}_ “I am impatient with the ex- continued the Nevada senator. |treme Pacifist argument that we “was fighting for our right to the |are going to send millions of our freedom of the. seas under inter-|boys to fight‘on foreign soil. I national law and delivering war {do not believe the danger of our ;materials in our own ships, We| being involved in a war is great, | now prohibit export of manufac-|if for no other reason than that ‘tured articles of war to bellig-jwar jerents, but not of war’s raw ma-|Congress and most congressmen | terials—oil, metals, cotton. War-|would bitterly oppose such a jring powers would use the samejstep. Furthermore, to send methods to prevent these mate-| Americans overseas again is con- rials from reaching an enemy, as|trary to the present strategy of they would to prevent his ob-|the United States. Our strategy taining munitions. We must let/is to win wars by our resources, anyone ‘come and get it’ and ship|our economic and financial pow- at his own risk. This will elim-jer, our large defensive navy. We inate hazards which faced us in|will make any sactifice to stay 1917”. i out of war, short of failing to de- “Our foreign policy”, con-|fend our country”. : cannot be declared except by | Citizens and Taxpayers, Inc.. | will hold an organization meeting jtonight at Harris School audito- rium to which all members have ibeen invited. It is understood ‘that special membership cards \have been issued for admittance. The coming city election will ‘headline the, discussion at the | meeting, according to president L. \C. Brinton of the group. Results lof the recent-nomination canvass Saturday ‘Night, 10 till 2 CLUB CAYO HUESO Benefit American Red Cross Music by John Pritchard Admission _____ 50¢ Per Person