The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 23, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 251. Await Von fi Speech; Russia Reneges On Support To Germany BROWDER INDICTED BY GRAND JURY; PASSPORT CHARGE CHARGED WITH FALSIFYING PASSPORT IN 1937 AND 1938; "HAM AND EGGS’ PROTEST Che Key West Citizen | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE JU. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1939 EMPLOYMENT TO | CLOSE TUESDAY: | AT NAVY YARD SIX WERE EMPLOYED TO- DAY: ELEVEN GO ON TO- MORROW; 43 TOTAL IS ALL FOR PRESENT ! bbentrop’s Eleven workmen will be em- |ployed tomorrow at. Key West {Naval Station, which will close (By Associated Prens) LONDON, Oct. 23.—Minister Von Ribbentfop will be heard in one of his rare public addresses |employment for the present. tomorrow. In the light of his re-| Six were employed this morn- cent failure to secure Turkey to|ing. Total to date’ is 32. Longer the German alliance his talk is|line than usual was standing out- expected to be of great im-|side the gates of the Station this bas Nae tn Ss ae | morning and afternoon. Fe: e 4s giving; Three‘ planes arrived from} Giving very much trouble. She Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Satur- SOCIAL SECURITY TAX (By Asnoctated Presx) NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—Earl Browder, chairman of the Com-j; munist party in America, was in- dicted today by federal grand jury for having made trips 1937 and 1938 on false pass- ports. in ES, Oct. 23.—The $30-a-week ham and eggs plan group today said that they would pay their social security tax but they would do so in protest. The pension plan group claim they are exempt from the Act. The measure will come to a head at the special election November 7. LOS ANGEL WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Na- tional Power and National De- fense Councils were amalgamated today with Harold Ickes chair- man.of the.amaigamating com- mittee. It is the first time they have been brought together. WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.— Treasury today reported that America’s gold totalled $17,000,- 000,000, with $3,000,000,000 com- ing in during the past year. It is now the highest gold amount owned by any country in the world. CABRERA LOSER IN TWO SUITS JURY FOUND IN FAVOR OF JOSE PADRON SAT- URDAY | At 4:30 o’clock Saturday after- noon, Circuit Court jury, which was siting in the case of Cabrera Grocery Company in the suit for $1,200 on promissary notes signed by Jose Padron, brought in a ver- dict in favor of the defendant. On the day previous a like ver- dict was rendered in a suit by the same company against Lee Baker on promissary notes, damages amounting to $2,000. MRS. MARY TIFT DIED YESTERDAY Telegraphic advice was re- ceived here this morning con- cerning the death of Mrs. Mary Eliza Tift, 67, who passed away yesterday afternoon at her home in Miami of a heart attack. Funeral services, which will probably be held in this city, had not been arranged at press time today. Survivors are Albert C. Tift, husband, four sons, Chester and Hilton of Key West, Eugene of Miami Beach and Bernard of Tar- pon Springs; a daughter, Mrs. Violet Lazo of Miami; two broth- ers, Albert Atwell of Key West and Edward Atwell of New York, and ten grandchildren, i LOLI E APES I WHITMAN’S CANDIES Fresh Shipment Just Received PRICED FROM 25c UP GARDNER’S PHARMACY “The Rexall Store” Phone 177 Free Delivery ES SSL is reported as flatly refusing to send troops to the support of the jday afternoon to augment the! |Key West patrol group to six! Nazis and that she is also begin- ning to renege on promised eco- |planes, which will be under Lieut. | nomic aid. | ‘ ‘ r , Weller, sei fficer. fj Germany is greatly pinched at| i = epee He pet none oe i present, and has laid a new tax | ‘he Planes of the new group left; on Jewish property owners, a | returning to Guantanamo but it] five per cent tax which brings| will shortly join the Key West the total Jewish tax to 25 per | group, ; é ' cent. Nazis claim that returns | from e isap- | PAGnE: qpuuee tax owereidinap |the Key West patro! group until German propaganda depart- | definite orders are received that ment today reiterated that Eng-|# Squadron of planes out of Nor- land sank the Athenia with an {lk will be based here. No or- explosion designed to place the ‘ers have been given the squad- blame on German submarine.}Fon as yet, but it is believed | England has claimed that a Ger- | they will be assigned to this port. | man submarine is responsible. | The planes are all Navy patrol! Yesterday the 2,300 ton Sea'Planes and bombers and are Venture, an English ship, was known as PBY2’s. They are twin- sunk by a German submarine motored and monoplanes. ! and another 1,600 ton English! Commander Price of Patrol The six planes will comprise | | 1 | submarine. Fourteen the Solo, Canal Zone, Saturday after-' crews are still missing. jmoon and left yesterday after-; England today again claims noon after a conference locally. superiority in the air over Ger-} Lieut.-Comdr. Callahan said many. Germans lost 16 planes on that work is being rushed to get the air raids on English bases | the Station in readiness for open- and ships while not destroying ing November 1, .. CAUSES DAMAGE: of ed English warships and _ sent many to the bottom. For this: reason Germany will depend for ; sea warfare mostly on its sub-; marines. | Toronto government agent i predicted that Winston Churchill VALDEZ CAR RAMS INTO) ;would be the next prime minis- RAYMOND ALBURY'S | LEFT YESTERDAY YESTERDAY | WITH PRISONER ee he reached the corner of William} WASHINGTON COUNTY DEP-| oct and realized that his car UTY TAKES BERNICE PET- |had: been rammed from the rear. TIS BACK TO CHIPLEY 1 | While driving west on South-| ard street yesterday with his wife! as his riding companion, | | | I He leaped from the car to in-} | vestigate the cause and found that Flores Valdez, driver of the other! |automobile, was seemingly great- Deputy Sheriff D. W. Braxton, |ly surprised at the accident and} tof Washington county, arrived | did not know how it happened. jover the highway yesterday aft-| , Both cars were damaged to a| jernoon and departed at a_ later considerable extenit, and Mr. Val- | {hour with a prisoner, Bernice |dez, sai@ Mr. Albury, acknow- Pettis, who was wanted in Chip-|jedged that he had been in the | \ley, Fla. on a charge of desert- act of lighting a cigarette when ling his wife and child. ‘the,accident occurred and »\w; county of Washington last week|Mr, Albury’s car repaired and Monroe. Upon its receipt, Act-|and the damage would be settled. ing Sheriff Bernard Waite placed it in the hands of Deputy Ber- nard H. Waite, who, in a few {hours, returned with the prison- iets locating him in the Marine thospital. A telegram was sent te Washington county and imme- day for his home in Jacksonville, |diately answered with the infor-/after spending a very delightful ;mation that a deputy was leav- | stay. He expects to return in ,ing at once for Key West. the near future. Germany Abandons Lightning ‘War Against Maginot Line (By Associated Press) LONDON, Oct. 23.—Military|reviewers state, is stronger than} jexperts believe that Germany |Germany’s, but Germany has a} \has given up its plan to attack | FT, “Achy organized. and power- (pees by a “lightning war”. | on the sea, England is far ; The German staff has delayed superior to Germany, with Ger- | ;too long, British experts say, its! many resting its chief hope on} proposed invasion of neutral Bel-;submarines. England sank 175 igium and will probably not at-|German submarines during the jtack through those routes. | World War, while Germany sank i No new phases of defense and | 5,408 of England’s warships and ‘offense tactics have been noted| merchant marine ships. During in the present warfare. All forms the World War Germany had a of offense on both sides have|total of 244. submarines. This been counteracted by defense}was over a four-year period. tactics. |England claims to have sunken . England’s and France’s armies'24 German subs thus far. OSBORN LEAVES FOR HOME iting Miss Felicia Yado and mem- bers of the Yado family, left Fri- |TRADES CONCH ATTIRE FOR ship also sunken by a German Wing Three flew in from Coco|~ | writer, is stlil in Idaho. . i way with good-sized |spend the winter in Key West. Baltic Tensio EasesAsRussia Tells Of Plans (By Assoefated Press) HELSINGFORS, Oct. 23.—jsion of the territories in placing Peaceful solution of the Finland-}her bases and troops there. ane crisis is expected momen- Finland, meanwhile, stub- Climax in the negotiations has|°Fly prepared to resist any at- been reached and it will not be,tempt at undermining her gov- long before Finland knows its;ernment. She has sent soldiers to fate. strategic military zones bordering Finnish diplomats believe that.on important Russian points and Russia will ask no more than two has conscripted nearly every able or three islands from the country |bodied men in the country. to the east of Sweden and north} It is unprecedented action for of Soviet Russia. In the case of) the little democracy tucked away Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania,)next to Communistic Soviet Rus- Russia demanded virtual posses-! sia. HEMINGWAY IS STILL IN IDAHO is ~ FOR ISLAND CITY SENDS COMMUNICATIONS TO Cc. OF C.: GLAD ABOUT NAVAL BASE COWBOY RIGGING: TWO SONS IN KEY WEST According to news reports, Ern- -| “Cheer for Key Westers” is est Hemingway, nationally-knowm ;contained in a letter recently re- News picture of Mr. Heming- dt as a erative pees rainbow. a trout from Wood River, near the) Gcocces ey at ses Chamber oe Sun Valley resort, is Senator Penner tdled: ‘that shown. : * ‘ “Key West, I feel, is coming back By the picture, Mr. Hemingway }; ; ” : has grown quite a beard and mus-; oe een pe yet on. toe Lagat Ee ne taken to NEY Ever since I have been in (Wash- online see miei ;ington) I have had on my desk, Two sons arrived recently to or close to me, some of the cir. jculars that were issued in my campaign in 1934, relative to the ‘re-establishment of the Naval Base there, and I have done my best to make this dream of Key The Hemingways will return shortly to occupy their residence on Whitehead street. LORD IN JAIL ON ASSAULT CHARGE ELECTRIC COMPANY EM- PLOYE WIELDS KNIFE - IN ARGUMENT 1 true. “I am happy that we are mak- {ing more progress and I am do- ing everything I possibly can in contact with the President here to expedite the opening in every ! way possible.” CASA MARINA TO { i E. J. Lord, one of the em- | ployes working on the ‘renewals! and additions to the lines and equipment of the Key West Elec- | tric Co. was arrested yesterday morning about 4:30 o'clock by LICENSE APPLICATION RE- CEIVED ALREADY: DATE [PEPPER WORKING | West for a new Naval. Base come! OPEN EARLIER . ‘INVESTITURE AT FLORIDA STATE COLLEGE TUESDAY | SIX KEY WEST SENIORS WILL TAKE PART IN TRADI- TIONAL SERVICES; BOARD TO BE PRESENT (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Oct. 23.— Governor Fred P. Cone and the entire membership of the Board of Commissioners of State In- stitutions are invited to attend the traditional Investiture serv- ice at Florida State College for Women tomorrow evening in the college auditorium. At this time the 257 members of the class of 1940 will be granted the privilege of wearing the academic cap and gown by the President of the | College, Dr. Edward Conradi. Members of the board, besides the governor, are: R. A. Gray, secretary of state; William V. Knott, state treasurer; George Couper Gibbs, attorney general; Colin English, tendent of public instructio Nathan Mayo, state . commit: sioner of agriculture, and J. M. Lee, state comptroller. Seniors from Key West par- ticipating in Investiture are: Miss Anna James, Miss Cleo Kemp, Miss Emma Kennedy, Miss Alice Park, Miss Cynthia Pearlman, and Miss Edna Rob- erts. ‘ Dean R. L. Eyman of the |Florida State College School of Education, will be the speaker for Investiture, having “or his subject “What Does This Occa- sion Mean?”. After his address the 257 seniors, accompanied by !their white-clad sophomore sis- jters, bearing the seniors’ mortar | boards, will pass in procession ‘across the auditorium stage and have -themoartar. boards. placed |upon their beads by President Conradi. Miss Elizabeth Anne Webb, of Jacksonville senior class presi- )dent, is in charge of plans for | Investiture. COUNCIL BODY MEETS TONIGHT City Council wiil meet this eve- ining in special session to consid- jer two major. items. City Tax Assessor-Collector Sam B. Pinder has been request- ed to appear at the meeting to |explain why local liquor, beer and ‘wine and similar establishments jare not assessed occupational taxes on their stocks. The question of whether the \Florida Motor Lines will be al- jlowed to pick up passengers at {the P. & O. S. S. Company dock | will also be settled, it.is said, at ithe meeting tonight. i | } Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average” range of only 14° Fahrentreit ENTIRE | state superin- | Representatives of seven Lions clubs of Southeastern Florida met at Pigeon Key Fishing Camp yesterday forenoon to give re- ports of activities engaged in during the past year and to listen jto plans of the area for the com- jing year as announced by chair- |man of the conference, Lion H. iE. Day, president of the Key | West club, hosts of the affair. District Governor Roscoe Brun- stetter was also present to dis- cuss with the thirty-odd Lions |present plans to further Lionism in the state district. Resolution, sponsored by the Redlands District Lions Club and passed unanimously, will be for- warded to State authorities ask-! ‘ing for an equitable distribution of personnel in the State Road Patrol soon to be formed. Clubs} |present were especially anxious} to see that sufficient patrolling on state roads south of Miami | would be provided for. Concerning the future of Lion- ism, the conference took up sev- eral topics of inter-club interest; | the International Convention at Havana next July being of chief importance. Committee of presi- dents and secretaries of the two} southeastern zones, representing clubs from Palm Beach to Key West, was appointed to study all promotional angles of the »con- vention. Matters of transporta-| tion’ reservations were di ' agreed that | focus on embarkment at Key) West would be most preferable although general publicity would be planned to benefit the whole area. Club presidents present re-| ported on activities engaged in} during the. past fiscal period. Deputy Governor George Cooper of Redlands District also re- ported on his work in the area. | Nine Lions from Key West were ;present at the conference. HOTEL MEMBERS | MEET TOMORROW i | Key West Hotel and Apartment House Association will meet: to- morrow afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at Hotel La Concha to discuss an advertising and beach program. A large attendance is requested , as there must be decisions on im- | portant phases of these programs | ‘and others. | ! | PRICE FIVE CENTS Lions Clubs OF South — Florida Plan Promotion For Annual Convention ALL SCOUTERS URGED TO ATTEND SPECIAL MEET DISTRICT AND REGIONAL EXECUTIVES WILL BE HERE FOR CONFERENCE WED- NESDAY EVENING All scoutmasters, troop com- mitteemen ana district commit- teemen, as well as all other per- sons in Key West interested in scouting are urged to attend a special meeting called by district chairman M. E. Berkowitz at County Courthouse this Wednes- day evening, starting at 8 o'clock. A. S. MacFarlane, scout exe- cutive of Broward, Dade and Monroe counties, and W. A. Dob- son, regional scout executive, will arrive Wednesday afternoon to attend the evening meeting. Alli problems of local scouting . are scheduled for discussion at this session. Both MacFarlane and Dobson have been here before, though this will be their first trip this season. Darnell Carey, chairman of the scout examining board, has post- poned the examining court orig- inally’scheduled for this Wed- nesday evening, in deference to the ‘meeting. “The boara will meet at a future date to be ~ announced EVERETT WINTER ANNOUNCES FOR COUNCIL POSITION MAKES STATEMENT | CON- CERNING CANDIDACY AND OUTLINES BUSINESS EXPE- RIENCE, QUALIFICATIONS Everett . Winter today an- nounced his candidacy for seat on the City Council at the coming election. In an interview witn The Citizen, he made these state- ments: “My candidacy for Councilman at the coming election was de- cided upon through the confi- dence expressed by many citizens that I can and will contribute to the welfare of the city. “As a newcomer to Key West Bill Osborn, who had been vis- | Officers Paul Thompson and Franklin Arenberg on a_ charge A capias was issued out of the | willing to’ have the damage ‘to/of assaulting F. L. Stuart, another inflicting several the alleged '#nd forwarded to the sheriff of told him to take it to the garage |cuts with a knife. employe and | Lord was placed in the county jail and is being held under bond !of $200 for hearing before Peace {Justice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. It was learned that Mr. Stuart |interceded between Lord and another who were arguing some |matters when Lord turned and |began to tussle with Stuart and leventually drew the knife and linflicted several painful but pot {dangerous wounds. It was said |at the company office that Stuart ireturned to work this morning, |while Lord is in jail awaiting hearing. NOT CERTAIN Just what time the Hotel Casa Marina will be opened this sea- json is a matter of speculation jbut that it will be at an earlier date than last season is believed because of the fact that prepara- derway. This morning the office o' }County Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd was in receipt of a_ letter i tions for starting are already un-! ried many announcements of ifrom M. H. Westbury, treasurer ;@%¢ two parties held this last of the Florida East Coast Hotel | Weekend: . Season Of Spooks And Goblins Now Observed The Citizen has already car-| awarded to Willis Yates, while ; ,Anthony Niles was the recipient of the prize for appearing in the allowe’en parties held in the | sunniest disguise. ‘ity—and there are many more per anes to be reported. The following; Miss Dora Medina and Miss |Anna Louise Castili were hos- |tesses last Friday evening at a Ideal October weather com- Hallowe'en party for the Young ‘some four or five years ago, there ‘have not been many oppertuni- ties to become acquainted with the majority of its citizens. There- fore it is right and proper that ‘these good people know some- thing of my qualifications for the office of Councilman. “During the war I was captain, 333rd. Hv. F.A., AEF. Subse- jquent to duty in the Army I have been in executive positions with !the Union Public Service Co., Mil- bank Power Co., and the Inter- state Power Co., ali located in Minnesota and the Dakotas, as |Company, enclosing a check and! _ application for license for the ‘bined with the perfect setting | opening of the Casa Marina and °f Bayview Park, provided the the hotel saloon. Nothing was in | background for one of the most the letter to indicate the date of pci ie hese eg = opening but the application for | A ee a ae license was received much earlier |the children of Division Street this year than last year. School last-Friday afternoon. Dozens of appropriate and lorful costumes made a gay jicture as the wearers darted well as operating my own com- pany, the Winter Mach’y Co., of St. Paul, Minn. From 1929 to « b hall. 11938 I was associated with the * New York Stock Exchange firms the door! C. D. Barney & Co., and A. O. : ky” Co., as manager of by Slaughter & nag i their St. Paul offices. noises and fun to gain entrance.| 7, ; * Games and wave én-} It is my belief that Key West People’s Sodal lity of St. Mary’s ARRESTED SUNDAY; SCHIEF CHARGED Deputy Sheriff Ray Elwood! yesterday arrested Walter Rob-} erts, colored, at his home onj Thomas street and placed in the} county jail on a charge of mal- ‘from one attraction to the next. The pot of the witches was soon emptied of its various contents. Queenie, the pony, proved to be one of the most alluring attrac- tions. Quantities of candy, cake, snowballs and pink lemonade dis- , appeared as though by magic. joyed in the cleverly di tea |°2" re-establish itself as a going {hall, with refreshments served | later. | Among those present were: | |Felecia Yado, Hilda Yado, Bill Osburn, Henry Lounders, Mary Agnes Kelly, Frank Spencer, Mary June Crusoe, and concern through an administra- tion dedicated to operating on sound business and economic principals, and on this premise I ask the support of all those that agree with me that such an admin- istration will accomplish the de- sired result”. icious mischief. It is said that | Roberts was breaking up the con- jtents of the house when the ar- jTest was made. He was released on bond and the hearing of the case has been set for tomorrow afternoon before Peace Justice Enrique Esquin- aldo. j A tired but happy procession | ; Passed before the judge’s stand! iin the costume. parade, and first (prize, for the prettiest costume went to Little Barbara Adams, and the second prize was award-| ‘ed to Sylvia Knowles. | Honors for the most approp- iriate Hallowe’en costume were Theater on Monday afternoon |} and night. (Courtesy Chamber of Commerce) Peggy Joe Domenech, Paul Mesa, Gil- more Parks, Jay Stricker, Louisa Dees, Marjorie: Gwynn, Bert Buckley, Thurman Sands, Frank Del Villar, Anita Salgado, Vilna Al- fonso, Tony Martinez and Louise} phone 22211 DANCING EVERY NIGHT AT CLUB CAYO HUESO; NO COVER CHARGE--NO ADMISSION CHARGE; MUSIC BY JOHNNY PRITCHARD’S ORCHESTRA ~