The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 19, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Flerida, has the | most equable climate in the - }. country; with an average . range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Kry THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. VOLUME LX. No. 248. Nazisttave Giecked |UNITED ACTION DEFERS DANGER | ENGINEERS’ OFFICE FOR- WARDS ACKNOWLEDGE. MENT OF OBJECTIONS: POSTPONES HEARING i | Prompt action on the part of | the Board of County Commis- ;sioners, Fisherman’s Association, ' “OF FISH POUND Germany; Scandin pes KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1939 Neutral Blocs Surroun avia {Chamber of Commerce and Rep- | resentative B. C. Papy has in all} | probability squelched the proposi- ‘ tion to construct a fish pound net {in Florida Keys waters, ! | United States Engineers’ office | has informed the Chamber of (My Axseciated Press) BERLIN, Oct. 19.—Germany ‘AIRPLANE TENDER Will S pport Finland ae (By Ansorinted Preand LONDON, Oct. 19.—Britain est Citizen | today declared that patrols, sup- ported by artillery fire, advanced to the French border. French IN HARBOR TODAY Commerce that the time for act- ing on the application has been lextended to October 31. Chair- | {man Carl Bervaldi, of the County } Key West jand Turkey signed a non-ag- {gresion pact today, icollapse of negotiations between following ; added that the patrols were} stopped here by strong fire. A temporary check of the ex- pected major German offensive has been called, military observ- ers state. Germany boasts brought down 69 Commissioners, has been inform- jed by the same source that, it is not the policy to grant permits | in waters within the jurisdiction of units-of government, against | protest, and the chart shows the proposed location of the pound that it has} Airplane’ Tender Lapwing ar-|net to be about 10 miles within Allied planes} rived-in the harbor today, but no! the boundaries of the waters of and has lost only 14. She alsojcommunications regarding her} Monroe county. | said that 18 shells fell on a Ger- |] tea Fire as‘, 20, View of this deadly menace! length of stay in this port has; to the fishing interests of the man pillbox and that it has shown !been received at the station. She QUESTION POSSIBILITY OF STATION OPENING BY NOV. 1 i | | jThe Key West Citizen. . | Russia and Turkey. jhad already been drawn up, and es it was merely signed after ‘ e qy H i Russian - Turkish conference reached an impasse. Russia had {demanded that Turkey close her | Dardanelles to Allied troops and The Key West Public Library city. Yesterday the issue was Turkey had refused. almost got $5 yesterday from| given away. It was the 130th In the Scandinavian conference free issue since 1910 when Pub- 8t Stockholm president of Fin- jlisher Lew B. Brown started the ‘!and said that the country is “de- The Citizen has a standing of- | practice. jtermined to defend its inde- French sources said the treaty | county presented by the proposed no signs-of damage. fish pound trap net, the objectors | fer of that amount to the Library | | wish to thank all citizens who/| quickly arose to the importance | jof the occasion. They also. ac- | knowledge the courtesy. extended Captain Harry Pence has wired by the engineers’ office in Jack- A flight of English planes re-| connoitered over Germany today. France today made available a $791,000,000 appropriation to its jhas not yet come into the dock. |She is similar to the tender Owl {in port here last winter with | Patrol Wing Five. : . | Publisher L. P. Artman is much anytime the sun fails to shine in!safpr than Publisher. Brown. this Island City. The sun was|Since 1936 when Publisher Art- pretty well hidden behind rain-|man started to follow the same clouds throughout the morning | Practice to show how much more pendence and had received con- siderable assurance of the co- operation of the other Scandi- navian countries”. No attempt at mediation of the war in Eu- rope has been advanced with the war department. j |Lieut.-Comdr. Callahan that he | sonville. iwill be unable to accept the re- | SEA STORM TOLL jquest of the American Legion to; | ideliver the principal address at! | "Baa DD DM MM A RAINFALL LAST NIGHT the Armistice Day celebrations. i E RA RY ES DEFICIENCY | The captain said he would not | (My Associated Press) ee: be in Key West at that date.| NEW YORK, Oct. 18.—There | Another night of heavy Original navy orders has said the|is one dead and 73 injured on| precipitation was recorded at Station would open November 1,|the President Harding which | the United States Weather Bureau. showing a rainfall of 5.52 inches, which makes a total, when added to the downpour of Tuesday night, ‘of 8.02-inches.-~ ~ This precipitation wipes out the recorded deficiencies of the year as previously giv en out and shows an exces; above normal for the month of 5.87 inches and for the year of 3.78 inches, it could open at that early date.| Atlantic yesterday. Also. be-| Legion members have request-!lieved to have suffered in the! ed a marching contingent from storm are the Manhattan, Wash- | the destroyers now based at the ington and Italian Liner Rex. | Station:.for an Armistice - Day.}.. . - i parade. |IVY SAILED FOR PALM BEACH | Three more men were hired to- | mae \ day at the Naval Station. They! Tender Ivy, of the U, S. Coast and others who have been hired |Guard service, sailed 4 a. m, recently are engaged in rehabili-}yesterday enroute to Port of i tation of quarters for officers and; Palm Beach, where work on jmen and in conversion of fuel | buoys will be carried on. Other {tanks to gasoline storage tanks|scheduled work will be conducted ‘said to be for the planes which ;by the Ivy while on the way to | will be based here. | destination. } ! ! | As the second straight all- night rain fell in Key West last night. filling station op- erators reported their men were being kept busy start- ing scores of drowned-out cars all over town. Usually the condensers or coils were shot. In some, batteries were not working and in ceneral the spark plug wires and distributors were SE EE ee | ‘The ‘Vital Vanderbilts’ America’s First Family | but navy officials do not see how | went through heavy gales in the | — jterritorial waters of the United ‘second port in the country to re-' conference mainly centered on preserving Finland’s independ- ence. Adolf Hitler and the German Reich today formally annexed its conquered parts of Poland. In the new sections there will be a : West Prussia also. Swift moves to ensure the neu- jtrality of the Balkan states came eee ‘about today as the eabinet of HERE MA ‘Bulgaria resigned and the coun- _ try set about reshaping its go eae but peeked out for a time in the; Sunshiny Key West is than any late morning.- With the sun. | other place in Florida he has shine came a smile from The/only given away four of the five Citizen’s business manager. dollar bills. Sunshineless dates Not so fortunate was St. Peters-|here were on March il, 1936; burg, “The Sunshine City”. The:March 13, 1937; May 13, 1937; St. Petersburg Independent gives June 13, 1937. The only time Pub- its entire issue away each day} ligher Artman worries is when the sun fails to shine in that,the fatal 13th comes around. DESTROYERS, — PLANES o94h 5 Belligerent Subs Forbidden Within Three Miles Of Land "°° eee | seekers HAVE ACTION AGAINST SUBMARINES) LATE BULLETINS COCO EHOCOOOOOOOOOSOOOOOOOOLOOOOOOOEOOOEOOOOOOOS President Roosevelt's proclama.|of Interior vessel, and an assist-| WasHINGTON, Oct. 19—A tion, issued late yesterday, pro-| ant lighthouse keeper reported | substitute plan of slum clearance hibiting submarines of belligerent | strange lights in the Gulf Stream! was proposed in Congress today nations from entering ports of |off American Shoals. | which would do away with the | According to the neutrality act,|U. S. Housing Authority. The States has a special significance |q foreign submarine may enter a| measure would be voted on at to Key West. United States’ port, buy enough|the regular session of Congress Key West was fuel to ge‘ it back to its country | next yeaf. The measure includes but cannot remain in the U. S.\a new financial plan. port over 24 hours. It must then! pane anes return to its home country, some; WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Gov- reports say. Now it is different. | ernmental’. $2,000,000,000 _ stabil- ernment. Italy is strongly favor of this Balkan neutral eee eae Prean) probably the port the presence of submarines | in offshore waters. A submarine; was first reported off Fort Laud- | For more than a hundred years, |for guidance before striking out. erdale by a charter boat fisher- Many sey that the submarine | ization fund has been temporarily PRICE FIVE CENTS onal Guard Unit Bi-Weekly Dils Immediately GOOD PUBLICITY FOR FLORIDA AT DETROIT SHOW |AUTOMOBILE SHOW OPENS FOR ONE WEEK TOMOR- | | CIAL SECTION { (Speelal to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 19.— Florida wiil receive wide publicit }through a “Southland Section exhibit at the Detroit Automo- bile Show October 21-28, 1939, it was pointed out today by Har- old Colee, president of the Flor- The “Southland Section” is an jidea of Art Scheifle, secretary of ‘Automobile Club of Michigan, jwho telephoned Mr. Colee long distance yesterday to enlist the cooperation of secretaries of the ‘local Chambers of Commerce in ithe state. | Scheifle wants them to send j him coconuts, palm fronds, Span- j ish moss, all types of seashells, |Florida photographs, literature orating the “Southland Section”. | “This is a very valuable pub- licity opportunity for Florida”, ;Mr. Colee declared, “as the De- j troit. Automobile _Show...is the ‘second largest in the nation. Only the New York City Show lexceeds it in the magnitude of !exhibits or the number of persons {passing through the turnstiles. “Michigan, of course, is the mo- | tor-car center of nation and sends |thousands of visitors to Florida levery winter and summer.’ We |can materially increase this in- {flux of Michigan visitors to Flor- jida by bringing Florida to their attention in an outstanding way jat their Detroit Automobile Show”. PLANES TO BRAZIL (Ny Assoc! Prensy ROW: STATE TO HAVE SPE- | ida State Chamber of Commerce. | and other material for use in dec- | Major William V. Albury re- ceived orders this morning from | Vivian Collins, Adjutant General Florida National Guard, to ‘begin drills twice weekly for Battery E in Key West. Additional pay is authorized ‘for both officers and men in the extra drills. Major Albury said ithat instead of the extra drill being held this week Battery E would drill on Tuesday, Wednes- day and Thursday of next week. After that until the period of training closes January 31 the drills will be held twice a week ‘on Tuesdays and Thursdays. | Orders are expected shortly jfor an additional field training tperiod of seven days to. take jplace sometime between now and January 31. Most of the | batteries throughout Florida will old this training period in the icinity of home stations but it lis believed that the Miami bat- teries will come to Key West for the period. State encampment is at Fort Taylor where intense {training on 155 milimeter guns are held each summer. This extra training will con- sist of target practice, staff--in- jstruction and field maneuvers. The seven days authorized may be used in periods of one, two or three days or all at one time, Ad- jutant Collins has said. The Florida National . Guard now has 196 officers, thr rant officers and 3,199 5 Key” izel to 77 men and then to 87. This is in line with state in- creases. The state encampment at Fort Taylor has recently been surveyed to accommodate the in- (Continuee on Page Four) COL. L. C. BRINTON |ANNOUNCES TODAY ‘FOR COUNCIL POST NTERVIEW BRINGS OUT HIGHLIGHTS OF ARMY i | | | | 1 i ! | | i | foo wet to allow starting. through five generations, the She was his spirit, his light, his ™an. A few days later, Pilot Boat | reported off Key West by the! frozen because of cutoff of mar-| WASHINGTON, Oct. 19—| SERVICE: SOLICITS SUP- BBE BB @& & & A vame of Vanderbilt has held down j lucky star. She stayed with him, first place among American fami- jin memory, until his death in GUY CARLETON jlies. The “Vital . Vanderbilts” | 1876. rolling that sum up into a for-! = \tune of $105,000,000. |biography of the family. “The original Vanderbilt strain was} ;stolid, uninspired. Its vitality they have always been called, | Certain family characteristics , the appellation going back to a have predominated through the! ANNOUNCES TODAY wITH|. “The story ‘of the Vanderbilt? is the story of the women they and | W88 tenacious and cautious. It “;,.;might be likened to a_ strong, } {day in 1810 when young Cornelius | years. Chief of these, says Knick- | Vanderbilt (Commodore “Cor-| ff = = neel”) borrowed $100 from hi: STATEMENT FOR VOTERS have married”, writes’ Cholly | |Knickerbocker, dean of New INCLUDING HIS INDIVID-! york society columnists, in his ; UAL PLATFORM H | Guy Carleton, resident property owner of Key West, to- Three members saw a submarine |White House was either sighted ;kets in Europe, but there is no President Roosevelt approved the| off the Main Ship. Channel Buoy|by one of the destroyers based;danger of the country’s credit flight of six Flying Fortresses to| ,off this city. i Oct. 19—A wide | Rio de Janeiro to celebrate the | 50th anniversary of the independ- ;ence of Brazil. On the planes will be 25 officers and 24 en- listed men. BACKGROUND Another was seenjin Key West or one of the planes. | lowering. by the'F. W. Meade, Department} At all events there have been/ jmany mysterious “hurry up” or-| BOSTON, ROBERTS SEEKS ders given the . destroyers here/|scale earthquake with the cen- and it is believed that in the re-; (Continued on Page Four) fueling of a submarine off Miami} . REELEC TION 10 by two Italian freighters that one} }of the destroyers was in the vicinity. C | § | Naval officers have pointed out |unofficially that before there was baa ream {nothing which could be done! ANNOUNCES HIS CANDIDACY ape ~ repeiing or be the | ‘ontinued. on e Three} TODAY: NOW ENDING SEC- sgshina abt . | BRITAIN SUFFERS oxo wo-vsan rem SLADE HEARING vices ASKS SUPPORT | Two British vessels sunk yes- jterday by German submarines i 1 | | totalled OF THE *|up to and including colonel. ‘AUSTRALIA WHIPS NAVY INTO SHAPE Commonwealth minister for de- fense of Australia announced WAR| Digest Of War News From All Fronts day announced his candidacy for the post of City Councilman at the coming city election, Novem- ber 14. underground. . .never flourishing as a tree until a more and exuber- |ant stock was grafted upon it”. The first graft occurred | in 1787, when Cornelius van der gnarled, healthy root growing, Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Ks Vanderbilt Whitney jerbocker, the Vanderbilt love | i man; Harold S. yachtsman; of speed: Alfred Gwynne, turf-} | ~ PUT OFF AGAIN ;SUIT TO CLEAR QUESTION OF BRIDGE CHAIRMANSHIP In this issue of The Citizen ap- pears the name of City Council- jman Jim Roberts, who is now jnearing the end of his second erm and announces for reelec- | |brings the grand total of English|serve ships had been commis- i shipping: destroyed by all means'sioned and were ready for any | |since the war began to 192,000 :emergency. » |tons. City of Mandalay, 7,028; His announcement disclosed |tons, and Yorkshire, 10,183 tons, the navy personnel had been} | the two: steamers sent to the bot-/doubled and now. totalled 10,000 | PORT OF CITIZENRY Col. L. C. Brinton today an- nounced his candidacy for city councilman in the city election. In an interview with The Citizen \today, the colonel touched briefly jon his long army career. Graduating from U. S. Militarv Academy at West Point, Coi. Brinton was commissioned and jentered the service that lasted for thirty-nine years in all grades He |saw service in the Philippine In- |surrection, in the Mexican Border | warfare and began World War jservice as the only foreign ob- 17,211 tons and now|yesterday that his country’s re-|server at the first battle of the 'Marne in 1914 as aide to Ambas- sador Herrick. Returning to this country late in 1914, Col. Brinton was depot quartermaster at Chicago and Baltimore, then he was instru- In an interview with The Citi- TO BE HEARD NO’ zen, Mr. Carleton voiced his sen-! Fit’ Sindding, hard-working | ides timents concerning his candidacy | 6 -mer married Phebe Hand, a) in these words: 1 : tom yesterday, were both regis-|men. Thirty merchant ships have | mental in training two regiments “Sonny” Whitney, ” pol nti i any ney, Polo enthus- (tion for the third term. jered in Liverpool. been taken over and armed. of heavy artillery for war duty, iast, and Cornelius Vanderbilt} i al |, Mr. Roberts:had’ nothing to say The defense minister stated all “As a recently conducted city- wide poll for candidates placed my name fourth on the list of ever one hundred names submit- ted by several hundred voters, I have decided to run for the office of councilman. “Having no political affiliations, | I will be cept to free of obligations ex- ne people. If elected I promise them to use every effort |, to improve general conditions for the benefit of all of us. “Key West has wonderful pos- sibilities and it will be my con- stant endeavor to help her realize! them. My platform is, ind .| Whitney, vice-president of Pan! = mares |American Airways. Until the} |present generation the Vander- | ; | bilts took little interest in politics bond, a . = Tne eee word, an. affinity ett ahe recent elesien sola liam; Henry Vanderbilt as gover- ;nor=of..Rhode Island seems to |herald.a departure from that, jpolicy...The governor's mother, | who. is.now Mrs.-Paul Fitz Si-| mons, stumped vigorously for | Hoover in 1932. She looks upon jshrewd, daring, jthinking girl of English | Out of this union came “Corneel” for himself, preferring to let the London reports disclose that | the last regiment sailing Novem- voters of the city who have fol- lowed the actions of city council to determnie for themselves if he as done his duty to the city. Many of the citizens have ex- reased their satisfaction at the knowledge that Mr. Roberts will again seek reelection to the office which they say he has so ably and dutifully performed. Hearing on the suit filed by Harry Gwynn, Monroe property {headed for Germany had been/jdistant destinations owner, against John Slade, chair-|captured@ last week, bringing the | equipped with guns. man of Overseas Highway Com-|total of the first six weeks of Eaaare mission asking him to show by|the conflict ta 338,000 tons. ESTONIA CUT OFF what power he holds his office on} Official admiralty report gives; FROM WORLD the Commission while also hold-|the death toll on the battleship} The litile Baltic State that is ing an assistant state engineer’s | Royal Oak as 810 men. Survivors /Estonia.was cut off from the rest job with the Road Department,/amounted to 424. Adding thejof the world jhas been postponed to Novem-jtoll on: the Airplane carrier os ber 2. |rageous to that of the Royal Oak, | within its houndaries. 23,000 tons of war contraband |ships leaving Australian ports for will be! ‘Better | Alfred G. Vandert*"+ and'. }her son’s political aspirations | with favorable eyes. The Vanderhilts have had their | quarrels; they have fought over j wills; there have been divorces, |suicides, elopments, annulments Judge Worth. W. Trammel is- |sued the postponement in Miami Cireuit Court. Attorney General Couper Gibbs has given an opinion that the two positions are not state-appointed SS RETURNER FORMAL OPENING OF | ROSE MARIE SHOPPE Friday Night From 7 to 9 the total loss of life in these two} All telegraphic and telephonic major victories for the German j|communications with the outside |U-boats reaches 1,388. Courageous |world were suspended indefin- | went down with 578 men. itely. | The prime minister said vessels sunk last week by German sub-|WAR BRIEFS (ber 4, 1918. | The Brintons took up perman- ent residence in Key West in July of 1938 in a home they built and own on Johnson street. Con- cerning his. candidacy, he had this short statement to make: “My administrative, construct- ing, purchasing and financial ac- flew | tivities in the army are the basis of my belief that I can contribute ample experience to qualify as councilman. I am under obliga- tion to no group or class of citi- zens—my sole interest being the welfare of Key West in this crit- ical Business—Less Taxation Through Efficient Government—No Un- wanted Reforms’.” |between mother and child, . .but welded together they later, whenever an important de-|stand as the greatest American cision faced him, he turned to her | dynasty. { | DANCING EVERY N 526-528 Fleming Street EVERYONE INVITED; Ce nN Seal positions, and that Mr. Slade is therefore not ineligible to hold both positions by state law. ;}marines. amounted to only one- half of one percent of the total British-shipping now at sea. Nazi military headquarters say that if Norway, Sweden, Den- (Continued on Page Three) period. “I sincerely trust that I may receive the support of the citi- zenry of Key West”. IGHT AT CLUB CAYO HUESO; NO COVER CHARGE-NO ADMISSION CHARGE; MUSIC BY JOHNNY PRITCHARD’S ORCHESTRA