The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 13, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Inte1ests of Key West . Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. ‘OPEN MEETING FOR ROTARIANS; PUSH SCOUT: CAMP JACK LONG EXHIBITS PLANS The preliminary of lunch being l yesterday at noon, president Wil- liam V. Little announced that street program is town. Avenue E in ‘head of the island” section! Guard regulations. ‘dren was continued under | chairmanship ;Gekeler. NO STORM REPORT FILED AT BUREAU H. G. Kull, retired railroad en- | gine from Trenton, Missouri, received tod: and Mrs. Kull are visitors in Key;G. §, Kenne: West today and are devoting their West Weath time to seeing the many interest- ing things which they have in the city, Since his retirement, Mr. Kull, always accompanied by Mrs. Kull, has spent the greater part} of his time visiting different sec- | tions of the country, and have}; just returned from an extended; LOUISVILLE, Ky., Oct. trip through Canada, coming When the Louisville grand jury from there to Key West, with }convened for its fall investiga- only necessary stops. , tion, it was headed by the young- They arrived in the city yester- est foreman in VOLUME LX. No. 243. In a teur of W.P.A. construc- { ler had been arranged for—con- An extensive building | ‘might appeal to them. tions of the INDIAN KEY that enough singing was done to now a broad thoroughfare, along | deubtedly here, along the Boule- |: Cfosland has applied for a per- chairman of the club's Boy Scout between County Road and the! Indian Key. porawn {Cr a Dennene ot Seve eat Ber cette ;on the application, but anyone!ed to the club. phalt will be placed ag a surface. ! interference with or effect oan Hey West tn tne eyes in patch work for the strects torn j Protest in writing to the District ;Commander Fort Callahan, Ever- nearly -complete to keep” the}on or before October 21, 1939. |for the purpose of advancing the the County Road. sti PRESS tioned here; Lieutenant Charles area, South, Washington and Von! prc, aye ee, Mores in width work was very difficult in dig j ise: will Bekinulttsof tienbet line ee ee cee ee was basdflint-Rock-wall-ic laid}-15.seet:-xiid the structure will be Sweeley was accompanied by eight inches of marl laid. This jthis project to Key West. KULLS TO STA There are now about 350 men the gram. await movement before work | RETIRED ENGI: * {over at the Rotary Club meeting | ‘SEEKS PERMIT TO tion projects in the city yester-, day The Citizen was struck by! BUILD | the great number of projects an FISH TRAP tary program and that no speak- operation. i ' quently it was up to the mem- being “carried out|/ARGESIZE FISH POND WILL |. to discussipiich © topics. as both in white and colored sec-} BE CONSTRUCTED OFF H Emil Sweeting being absent, the Dr. James Parramore saw to it around the Biological Station is} ae i " Information has been received | start things off in a good humor which property levelopments f z if jnay now be carried out, Un, |{f0™ the War Department that T.jand then Charles S. Taylor, 7 interests, called upon Jack Long vard on the Atlantic side and the ; Mit to construct a fish pound net | interests, ca section around Von Phister street |trap in. the waters adjacent to |‘? ¢xhibit the plans that he has Bay side of the Boulevard there | Camp on Stock Island and the de- will be developments of very} Marl already been laid on {desiring to protest the proposed AEE wae ne una: epics Avenue E and in two weeks as-|work from the standpoint of its | that a sreat work was being done : j }movement and Mr. Taylor called Surface work awaits the heater,! navigation should submit which is in the city proper aiding |’. a submit such upon a committee composed of up by the water and sewer sys-| Engineer's office, Box 4976, Jack. | ott Humell Howstds Overt, ae ems. A drain and catch basin sonville, in time to be received! T° 5° emp, dack Long an $ avenue dry. Avenue E goes to! [Lengtn of the proposed trap | i bee a i : project. 14th street and then turns into| win) he 1,747 feet, including a 1,-| Find solid Rock ;75-foot S bay and a 60-foot trap. Officer of government craft sta- On sections of the Von Phister | the n 134 feet for the L bay to | A. Barnes, senior officer in com- Phister are being rapidly con: | 69 feet for the trap. The struc-|™Mand of the flying forces in this verted into beautiful roads. The | and netting with the maximum!the Real Estate Division of the ging out the surface rock, which /height above mean low water of Federal Housing. Authasity. ..Mr. on each side of the street after it] lighted in accordance with Coast{Postmaster Fred J, Dion, who has has been. dug out 15 inches, then \been working hard in bringing is later compacted to six inches. % The club project for furnishing Thus is the road held together. working throughout the city on| L the city-wide road building pro- | Heaviest rock work was struck | on Catherine street. Electric poles | ENJOYING VISIT; MR. KULL IS continues on this street. Howe| street between Division and NEER Louisa; Julia between Whitehead and Fort; Emma str Division street from Whitehead to Thom-! ; Fort treet; Geraldine be-| tween Emma and Fort; Petronia) street; Olivia from Whitehead to Emma—all in the colored section | of town how men working in| building streets. First work is done with picks. Then the rock holding wall is placed and marl laid. Finally, the asphalt is plac- ed and id spread to work into the eit and dry it. Electric Company men were setting some of the poles back as The Citizen | toured the work projejcts. Another section around Wind- | cor Lane is being worked up, in- cluding Havana from Olivia to Division. Rebuilt Boulevard On the Atlantic side of the Boulevard it was thought better to completely renovate that side/ because of its ocean view, rather than the Bay ‘side and or get the Bay side if funds were avail- able. The Atlantic section is be- ing throughout scraped, then new marl laid and finally the asphalt stfrface will be placed. On the Bay side a patch work crew has er Bureau. found Rico, however. been circulated that a storm has been announced. YOUTH WILL PREVAIL (ity Ansocinted Preasy time to take passage on S.S. Cuba insurance clerk. Dean was ap- for Havana, but finding they had pointed by Circuit Judge Loraine arrived too late they decided to Mix. remain here until Monday and then make the trip. i | | Frederick L. McCloskey, |New York, was a passenger on j the bus this morning for Jack- |Sonville, after completing a bus tour which he had taken for the LEARN OF DEATH OF MISS HOEFFER 3's: sorties been working. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Roberts last | _ On the Atlantic side from | night received a telegram from | reer err eae aa: Bertha street to the first turn, a|St. Louis announcing the death grassing crew has been working|0f Miss Mary Hoeffer, daughter | MT AMI GETS WAR BULLETINS DIRECT in clearing he area around the|Of Mr. and Mrs. Christopher coconut palms and planting grass. | Hoeffer, formerly of Key West. : Funds for this project will short-| Mrs. Hoeffer was before marri- | ly run out |age Miss Katie Demeritt, daugh-j} The dangerous turn from the | ter of the late Benjamin Demer-| highway into the Boulevard near itt. Both the deceased Miss Mary | Stock Island is being rapidly elim- |Nd a son were born in Key West. inated by a nicely banked scien-|!t was some time afterward that | tii ly placed curve. The re-|the family moved to St. Louis, mainder of the hill will be leveled |Where they have since made} off. ee home. j Drooping Palms Going down the Bay side of the | SPECIAL Soulevard, many of the coconut |Hen’s, Stewers, Ib 25c | yalms were noticed as yellow and | Fancy Fresh Eggs, brown. doz. 42c | rooping. This matter has been) CHOICE ROASTING PULLETS reported to the county commis- AND FRYERS om. One of the troubles is} No Charge for Dressing and thought to be lack of proper soil Cutting and Delivery or fertilizer in the sections in} ad i which the palms are, since mostly | Brady’s (Live) Poultry marl was used there. A number | Market (Continued on Page Four) | Phone 840 (Ry Aaneciated Press) MIAMI, Fila. Oct. 13— Patrons of a festaurant’\in the shadow of the Daily News building assumed the pro- prietor had access to all the latest dope on the war situa- tion. Wearied of answering questions about doings at the front. he typed a com- munication to himself and showed it to all interrogators, It read: “Everything coming along all right, as expected. Adolf Hitler". | i this was an open date on the Ro- j No public hearing will be held} tails of the project were explain- | |E. Berkowitz to meet with him | Guests of the club were Com- | 500-foot leader, 112-foot L bay,!mander Harold A. Parker, senior | | 13.— | FROM ADOLF HITLER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, | { | i 1 | i! ' { ifunds toward «di. <; were host to between two hun- dates for council, first making Serre AN A :dred and fifty to three hundred the effort to get them all to run. of Rev. John C, Members and friends of the or-|opened the meeting, then turned i | | No report of a storm had been will support in the coming elec- | votes down. lay at 3 o’clock by , tion. dy in charge of Key; Full tabulation of the nomi-j|dorsed by the assemblage—mem- Pressure is low around Puerto last evening, are listed elsewhere Brinton, W. Freeman, E. Winter, Reports have in this issue. i { county history,!Marvin Kemp president, day and had hoped to be here in ‘27-year-old James J. Dean, Jr., an Ann Pierce treasurer, Paul Stev- LEAVES FOR NEW YORK Olga Aguilar president, Franklin of! ‘secretary. Hector | 1 White 8t.| TOSI OOOML nega worry to families. ‘Hitler's “liberal” peace demands. {stand solidly. ; speak to Parliament again tomor- | negotiations jrow. The only English criticism! been making gains in the Baltic local Lions are making plans to ‘came from the “peace group” led|in the wake of ,Chamberlain clearly state gov-itries to allow ;Thompson secretary, Armanda ; Bering Straits; around Iceland; in FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1939 LIONS MEETING FEATURES, MORE _~ HEMP FOR BEACH {TO SEEK MORE BENCHES | AND COCONUT TREES:;!| | KETCHUM REPORTED ON RECENT TRIP TO GEORGIA For Expect ~ Naa Attack (Ry Associated Press) | | Key West Lions Club studied further advancement of their new |Clean-Up Rest Beach project at the regular meeting held last {evening at Stone Church. Presi- 'dent H. E. Day called the meeting LONDON, Oct, 13.—Allies dug {Ameritan government to mediate Oot oe Oo . . a les erican ‘ernment to mediate ‘ i: into the trenches today prepar-!in the present crisis. Germany,' Commitee oo divulged ing for a major attack at anyjaccording to the press, is still plans bee have member Lions moment by Germany, which may | willing to have peace but “can- make periodic visits to the beach be in the nature of a “lightning | not wait forever.” _ ito assist the five Boy Scout war.” Finland On Spot ‘troops now engaged in making Berlin Nazi-controlled radios| Norway, Sweden and Denmark all of the beach attractive for impressed on the German peo-|are anxiously awaiting the out- residents and tourists. ple that Neville Chamberlain of |¢ome of compromises offered by More venches will England had “rejected” Adolfja Finland representative to for the beach and a separate com- Soviet Russia, which is said to mittee was appointed to seek! have placed an ultimatum before coconut trees to border the priv- i !Finland. Conferences were held ate road. Acknowledgement of! ‘today and. others are scheduled financial aid from the Service for tomorrow. Club and the Hotel and Rooming West Wall. On Finland’s borders its army House Association was made. Britain Backs Chamberlain |0f 350,000 men have been mobil-| Zone conference, with Lion England backed Chamberlain’s | ized and will be led by its presi- president H. E. Day as chairman, Chamberlain will'dent in the event the Russian will be held at Pigeon Key Camp fail. Russia has on Sunday, October 22. Many | | | be sought { War in reality is expected to break out at any moment. Allies have observed heavy movements of German troops behind the! the European attend the conference. by Lloyd George who asked that jcrisis by forcing smaller coun- Aid for the city’s Lunch Room it to establish projectg was voted. ernmental aims to the English | military and naval bases in the Lion Charles Ketchum reported people. Baltic Sea. Indications are that on “the state of Lionism in Geor- President Roosevelt in a press;Germany is allowing this in re- gia” as found by him on his re- conference today said that Ger-|turn for important — supplies cent visit to Atlanta. many has made no plea to the, which Russia will ship her. Guest of the club was police of- — ficer Basil Tynes. Citizens And. Taxpayers ick refed’ Candas § Inc.,} endorse the highest | | | OBLIGING | HOUSTON, Tex.—To oblige a} friend, Fred.Muegge stayed three days at the friend’s house to be sure the house wasn’t robbed ; during his absence. Upon return- ing to his own home, Muegge dis- | covered that burglars had taken $9.20 in cash, a gold ring, dia- mond ring, gold stickpin and two gold crosses: Citizens and Taxpayers, ten candi- residents of this city last night,; Col. L. C. Brinton, president, ganization, at a meeting at Har- i the gavel over to Henry Brewer, ris school auditorium. } who explained what the organiza- Purpose of the meeting was to| tion had in mind and gave par- announce the tabulation of re-|ticulars of the procedure to fol- sults in the candidate preference ,low at the meeting. nomination effort recently con-; For mayor, the ballots listed cluded in a city-wide drive, and William Doughtry, Jr. with a to draw up a slate of preferred | high sixty votes. Others in the candidates that the organization | balloting received from seven BRICKS KILL WOMAN NEW YOK.—Miss Anna Marie Hannon, a seamstress, was killed by falling bricks as she was pass- ing a garage, when an automobile with defective brakes rolled down an incline and ripped a 15-foot hole in a wall on the fifth floor of a, garage, sending a shower of | bricks to the sidewalk below. | The ten high for council en- i FINDS BALL THIEF NORFOLK, Conn.—Deciding to} investigate the reason why so} many golf balls disappeared from the second fairway of the Coun- ;try Club here, two golfers found , Sixty-four of the balls—in a squir- rel’s winter cache. { nation forms and ballots taken bers only voting—are: Col. L.: |G. Carleton, E. Russell, Dr. W. According to announcement, ; Warren, R. Boyden, E. Ramsey, Citizens and Taxpayers, Inc., will J. Gardner, E. Strunk. High School Notes TEN B ONE CLASS has elected Betty OLD WATCH RUNS BOWLING GREEN, Ky.—Find- | - jing an ancient watch among some Peering out of house windows at heirlooms, John Davis wound it! passersby. Interfering in family and — fa It has Bech enn troubles of neighbors or friends. 2ccurately ever since. ie watch | Girls using makeup in public belonged to his grandfather and, is at least 75 years old. Hl places. Making fun of cripples, aa by | — ! aged persons and the like. Use ATTACKED BY RATTLESNAKE | of profane and vulgar language on! NEWPORT, Tenn.—While Dan { public streets. Lack of courtesy Norton was killing a rattlesnake for others in local theaters. with a stick, a second rattler em-, gg bedded its fangs in his clothes. | ‘A hunting companion, Manuel | Franklin, shot the snake while! it dangled from Norton's pants. Both men were uninjured. SKINNED ALIVE WADEWORTH, Neb. — After shooting a cow, Marshall Matley began to skin it. The cow wasn’t as dead as Matley thought, how- jever, and kicked his hand, the \knife cutting "his face. He was . ‘forced to go to a hospital for BETTER SINGING is noticed treatment. jin assemblies of both Senior and | ‘Junior High. John Day ‘was very ; good in his trumpet solo before a| wrateltihs P.-T. A. meeting. Walter McCook! R. H. Northcutt who had been also gave an visiting in the city for five days, phone duet ‘his object being to see for the Methodist first time the attractions of Key | West, left over the highway this ,morning for Miami. { ens secretary, Betty Bowen rep- resentative to student council. Class officers of Ten B Three are Wickers vice-president; Eugene Albury treasurer, William Lowe Pita, student; BSNS council. Seven A One Bird Club! SOME OF THE DOPEY an- has selected Edward Moore presi-' swers received in history classes dent, Georgina Angueria vice ‘follow: Labrador—off western president, Patsy Albury treasur-'coast of South America; he dis- er, Noelia Bravo secretary. Nine’ A elected Raul Cuesta president, ' Vera Waite vice-president, Ruth | covered an island; off coast of; Spain; northern part of Florida; Canalejo treasurer. Eight A elect-' Central America; between Siberia ed Donald Pinder president, Gus-'and Arabia. tavo Disdier treasurer, Ruth Han-! cock chaiman program commit-} tee, FIRST CHAPEL of Jr. High was held Thursday. Rev. O. C. Howell led the students in devo- : tional exercises. Junior class has #94 Henry caste received its High School arm |€xcellent classical saxo bands. Funds will go toward Jr.- ;3¢ Fleming ad Sen. Prom. fomees _—_ i SOCIOLOGY STUDENTS at SPECIAL! the High School report the fol- - lowing bad manners cbvcrved| Friday, Ge ara at aceite ce oare ato sur ma” ‘Ahern Funeral Home ing’ sailors and other ‘Goaiping| Spee Seen 33° Aero-Car Ambulance Service men down the street. Gossiping and prying into the affairs Bakery| SERVICE Phone 818, Miami, Fie TOURIST LEAVES | | | { H i | Starting false rumors! jment with private concerns. competent and qualified help for PRICE FIVE CENTS | Largest Merchant Ship In World Sunk Today: Enroute From Houston (Ry Associated Pres: UNEMPLOYMENT | wast S27 FIGURES DR 0 P jLargest merchant marine ship in jthe world, the British ship, : |“Helsingpool”, was sunk today 5 | by a German U-Boat as it neared STATE SERVICE RELEASES English shores en route from | Houston, Texas. Crew of 36 were = sa | picked up by the American DATA liner, “President Harding.” The Harding was proceeding ; toward another spot in the At- ' }lantic from which S.O.S. had MALLAHABSEE, Sp aeed 13, | been_heard when it intercepted The active file of the Florida|WCrrdeq trite original’ den State Employment Service de-/tination where it discovered a creased 3,606 during September! French freighter in flames, but although 9,498 additional applica-|no trace of the crew. tions for work were accepted in | Eaeibas wat ben — this'-same period, - according’ -to jsix submarines operating in Fons A. Hathaway, director of | Caribbean waters and added that the service. | they “belonged to a country em- “The svlendid cooperation of j bittered eee This the empleyers is noticeable in the | Statement was taken garng tnbsoeaed number of private |that they were German sub- placements the service is making, | ™@™es- Hathaway said. “In September | the Employment Service broke ALL LOCAL DESTROYERS all records for this type of place- | STAY IN PORT ment when 1,770 unemployed! Today at noon at workers were placed in employ- Naval Station call three itroy- \ers are based in port. J is “This is also a clear indication | Very. unusual as one destroyer of that business conditions in Flor-i the trio is usually out on four ida are definitely on the upgrade | 4@¥ patrol in the Caribbean, and and with the coming of the win- jenother destroyer usually sails ter seasori, the Employment (or past the reef and returns Serviee expects to place thou-! daily. sands, of jobless Floridians. The Citizen has reported _ the in the ranks of the employed. | “of many British-Seeie “The Employment Service now | ther nation’s ships which have has 45,330 men and 16,356: women |Tecently anchored in American registered for work and from; Waters, either at Rebecca Light, this list an employer can secure |@t Northwest Channel or in Key West harbor. These tankers were said to be awaiting further or- {ders and were believed to have | been doing ;this becaus¢,of sub- marine danger. is i | Secretary to the. President {Stephen Early reported) a for- ‘eign submarine as,off Key. West ‘and also another off Miami. Rep- jresentative Snyder's statement |today to Congress is highly sig- | nificant. ih West any type of work, at no cost to himself or the _ worker”, Hath- away stated. OFFICIALS LEAVE ON FISHING TRIP Late yesterday afternoon a ee group of anglers left the city in the launch of Representative i» HEBREW HOM C. Papy, with Mr. Papy, Clerk! HEAD TO TALK Ross C. Sawyer, of the Circuit Court and Dr. Armando Cobo, “Development of Child Care in merica” is the subject of the members of the party. It has been planned by the anglers to visit at Boca Grande} jand Marquesas, spend most of the | addrecs to be delivered tonight |at 8:45 o'clock at BNai- Zion | synagogue by Armand Wyle, ex- | ecutive vice-president of the He- brew Orphans Home. The Hebrew Orphans Home is «Dy Ansociated Press) ‘ . MOUNT SHASTA, Calif., Get. ia toe Saen Atlantic Seaboard 13.—Two laborers being called} age fof forest fire duty thought it pe- tas i adenes<. Bo-appesi |for support will be made. culiar that there should be two} KNITTING TEACHER men named Jungers in the same} truck. They got to discussing | FALLS CITY, Neb.—For=five |days a week, Mrs. Raymond Dunn r-atters, found they were broth-| ers who were separated in Spo- \of Shubert goes to the schoolhouse land knits from 8:30 a. m. to 2 p. kane 20 years ago. a SIO aease, jm. : ted to teach. time fishing, and return to the city late Sunday afternoon. BROTHERS |. The pubic is cordially invited POPP LLL D | After A Man’s Heart JEAN RANDALL : STARTS OCTOBER 15 puna now ore living bep- | GN THIS PAPER (SOI I IIS IIMS A De eh hehe | | | |