The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 20, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 275. Che Kry THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE — est Citizen | U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1939 Papy Paints Bright Fu For Hlighway-Water Projects B. M. DUNCAN GOES TO WASHINGTON; HALE PROMISES IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT SOON Representative Bernie C. Papy pushed Overseas Highway ex- tension and water pipe line and Key West W.P.A. increase plans at a meeting in Miami yesterday with Chairman Arthur B. Hale of the State Road Department, WP.A. Administrator Roy Schroeder and B. M. Duncan, who will lend his aid in Washing- ton to the project. Mr. Papy said that Mr. Hale promised that there would be an “important announcement” re- garding the Highway extension very shortly. Further than this Mr. Hale would not be quoted. The State Road Chairman point- ed out that the Jewfish Creek {side Holland frontiers. They did; Spanish at the University of Ha section of the highway which ANOTHER NAZI PLANE VISITED ENGLAND TODAY HOLLAND DECLINES TO VERIFY REPORT PLANE FELL IN THEIR COUNTRY; 48 CZECH STUDENTS KILLED (By Associated Press) LONDON, Nov. 20.—A German plane flew along the Thames to- iday apparently doing reconnais- sance work. It passed close to a naval base. | There was no comment from government officials in Holland! following _ their announcement | that a German plane crashed in- | |not reply to questions as to} HOW ARE YOU? is Drifting : Mines Spanish Classes Formed| | NAZIS SAID TO BE CUTTING MINES ADRIFT; ENG- ‘COMO ESTA USTED?” ve. dgeeektuikebmecoee LISH STATE THEIR MINES ARE SAFETY EQUIP- i “Como esta usted?” “Mira la! PED; FLINT STILL IN:'NORWAY luna!”—some of the- standard | Neutral Ships Endangered By Over To New Coun “first words” uttered by Spanish | students are being heard at the! free Spanish class, which has preparing to stop neutral ship- been instituted at San Carlos'ping to Britain by cutting Ger- School by San Carlos Institute. {man mines away in the hope that The class is neld Mondays,!the mines will largely destroy Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thurs. | neutral shipping. : days at 3 o’clock in the after-! The Germans proclaim that the noon. A forty-five minute pe- | mines are not German mines but riod is employed. Direction of ine English mines. i 4 7 that recent storms have set the HenGaa ae, pea mines adrift from British sea de- ifenses. The Britons retaliate by | Stating that British mines are leauipped with safety devices LONDON, Nov. 20.—Nazis are vana in Havana, Cuba. (Ry Associated Press) neutrality act allowing ships other than those in the United tates to carry arms and arma- nts to England from this coun- , and the setting of the mines se might be blamed on that. The mines accounted for the sinking of seven neutral ships They claim over the weekend. This marks} the opening of “unrestricted war- fare” British sources claim. Nazis Mistaken American sources claim that there must be some mistake in situated near the mainland-Keys| Whether the plane was brought joining point will shortly be un- der construction. Mr. Hale inti- mated that the Key Largo sec-! tion would be constructed first. Idea for the class down by Netherlands anti-air-! py Miss Remond, Soe cua jeraft guns. seriously of an editorial sugges- ’ Reports from all over Europe ‘tion in The Citizen last year that, Roy Schroeder promised Mr. Papy that he would do all he could regarding the quota in- crease, which since last year has resulted in 900 persons being laid off in this city. There are about 600 on relief here at pres- ent. Mr. Schroeder could promise jon the “dark insinuations” of the Key Westers should all work to} which kill the potency of the ex- the Nazi statement that a certain ploding charge when the mines;American ship going to England are cut away from their moor-|is armed. The American state- ings. This equipment is in con-| ment is that the ship in question |Czech riots came in today to the \press bureaus of the world. Sum- }med up the reports state that there were 30 students of Czech University who were killed in an |encounter with Nazi storm troop- ers after an effort to overthrow show visitors the real interest of a longer stay in Key West. Miss Remond then thought up the idea of instituting a free Spanish class. This would bring the visitors in contact with Key Westers, in- nection with the international|does not carry guns nor a con- law, which the Germans do not; fraband cargo. jplace on their mines, high! . Germans are reported to have British sources state. |made a deal with Soviet Russia | Mines Adrift iwhereby she can secure Russian | British claim that possible submarines for use in the Jap- {heavy storms in the North Sea | dnese and Russian waters. the president of the government. crease the mutual knowledge and ‘have caused the German mines]. City of Flint is still in Bergen, nothing definite, but promised !Following this Nazis killed 18] that he is heartily interested in| more, the reports state. Key West's necessities and would| Highest Nazi officials have shortly plan conferences to con- been rushed to the scene, these | sider the matter. | reports state, in an effort to quell B. M. Dantait who returned “tothe rising tide. Ambassadors from Key West over the weekend from' Bohemia and Moravia have been an engireer’s job at Vicksburg,,called to Berlin to give an ac- Mississippi, left for Miami Satur-| counting of the incidents. Am- day a short time after arrival to bassador to Warsaw also reported mect Mr. Papy. Mr. Duncan has|on the way to Berlin. made arrangements to go to, Leader of the iron and steel in- Washington to lend his aid to the | dustry in Germany is today re- project for a fresh water pipe-| ported to have resigned and to be line to Key West from the main-| preparing to leave the country. | land. Recently Will Doughtry, | Fritz Ateson said that he could chairman of the Florida Keys not continue to be aligned to Nazi Aqueduct Commission, stated economic policies. | that “important announcement” | would shortly be made in regard | *® to the matter. The Navy and PROFESSOR BUILDS Army are vitally interested in that they have requested revis-|., Discovered Cheap M | the pipeline and it is understood | ing of plans for a larger pipeline | from the 14 inch line now con-} templated. The increased back- aterial sociability of both and result in a greater amount of friendliness. ‘jaye purposely cut loose the|loaded her cargo despite reports} It would also be of great profit to the visitors who are all very eager to learn Spanish. The plan..as outlined by..Miss Remond received the warm ap-} proval of the Board of Directors of San Carlos Institute, who were very glad to be able to help the city job of entertaining visitors and at the same time spread educational knowledge. Widespread interest in the class started immediately with the an- nouncement of its inception. There are 19 who have already been enrolled and it is contem- plated that there will be a rush which will go far beyond this later. Previsions are in plan- ning to take care of that situa- tion when the time arises. Con- sideration is given to both be- ginners and advanced students. Those wishing to learn include ; both Key Westers and visitors to ing of army and naval forces is expected to facilitate securing of the pipeline. MRS. E. ROBERTS DIED SATURDA Mrs. Eliza Estelle Roberts, 56, died Saturday in the Marine hos- pital. Funeral services will be held this afternoon 4 o'clock from Fleming Street Methodist church, Rev. Jim Lilly officiating. Pallbearers will be: Chester Thompson, Edwin Roberts, Wil liam Knowles, Noel Solomon Emil Sweeting and W. H. Rear- don. Mrs. Roberts is survived by her husband: Theodore Roberts, and one sister: Mrs. Clara Curry. INSOMNIA NO EXCUSE ST. PAUL.—Insomnia is not a valid excuse for speeding, ruled a judge of this city, after Floyd Frink told him that “driving fast to heat in winter. Walls are six and hotels operated by foreigners/|tion. Persistent are the rumors before induce sleep”. Starting TODAY Anew serial The , Creeping bedtime helped LOW-COST HOUSES eocce © AP Feature Service STILLWATER, Okla., Nov. 17. }—Prof. J. E. Kirkham of Okla boarding houses homes. If you would like to be able to speak with the warm and graceful accents of the Spanish tongue you hava merely to go to homa A. & M. college is Okla-|the historic San Carlos building | homa’s one-man low-cost housing on Duval ftreet, walk up to the administration. oe \main door, take the stairway to He has found a building ma-}the right and you will then find terial that he says cuts isfied? |Spanish class and all you then He mixes.common soil with| have to do is to register and at- chemicals, compresses it into tend the classes. |building blocks and produces a “Bueno, hasta la vista!” substance he says “hardens with ele ae ey id shrugs at inclement elie tp as SPY INNS ARE OUT Dozens of houses have been ae g built of it. Professor Kirkham. y Aupocinted: Preas' who seeks no profit, has offered) BERNE, Switzerland, Nov. 20. jhis formula to the public in bul- —Swiss military authorities have letin form. asked the governments of a num- “The blockg still cost too much ber of cantons in the fortified or and so I continue to experiment”. frontier zones of Switzerland to says Professor Kirkham. \Tefuse to issue or renew licenses The material, besides being ‘© foreigners for running res- weather proof, is a good insulat-|t@urants, inns or hotels. ing material and houses built of , SWiss counter-espionage agents it are cool in summer and easy have found that restaurants, inns inches thick. in Switzerland have in some It lends itself to modernistic \C8Ses become espionage centers. tr¢atment and a house of the 2Ast modern architecture now is nearing completion here. In addi- | ee i tion, a 20-roo NYA headquar- |For Thanksgiving Dinner ters is built of Kirkham-treated| Why buy Cold Storage TUR+ blocks. KEY? We offer truckload Toms Professor Kirkham is a prac-'and Hens—best North Florida | tical engineer who specialized in|crop Peanut Fed Turkeys for | building bridges and then wrote ‘those who celebrate with our two technical books before set- President on the 23rd and on the tling down to teaching and de- official Thanksgiving Day on the termining to lower building costs. 30th. Many have already placed a order with us, so order yours WANTED: HOT DOGS | pow to insure prompt delivery— prices are best in town! SALEM, Mass.—A woman here | ‘ TE sued her husband for divorce, VILLA SON: charging that he beat her be- Wholesale Produce s cause she had steak for supper 418 Front St. when he was hungry for frank-} ‘furters. | Phone 840 eae the city. They come from hotels, ! and private | u , costs yourself at San Carlos School. ; about 25 percent but he isn’t sat-! Inquire for Miss Remond or the! !to go adrift or that the Germans! Norway, and as yet has not un- imines to stop the heavy flow ofthat this would be done as soon neutral goods into England, Am- ds possible. The Flint is await- ‘erica recently passed its revised ing orders from America. Looks Come Heré From California There is definite evidence that,for prices of apartments here jthe Navy Department at Wash- | and states “our division expects {ington is considering strengthen-|to be located in Key West dur ing the Atlantic naval defenses jing the month of December”. The jand that Key West is very much | Wickes is expected to leave tin the limelight as a base point} Mare Island this week. ‘for the nation’s “first line of de-| Considerable talk is going the |rounds of the naval airmen are the;throughout the country, which irumors of transferring of both, thinks that a squadron from the ‘plane and ship units from the Pacific coast will be pulled out of | Pacifie coast to Key West area. that section of the country and Shakeup of the country’s de-!sent to Key West to strengthen how far-reaching | the patrol here, which is limping along on a half squadron patrol and has the assignment of pro- fense”. | Significant lately jfenses shows the new defense program of the! nation is. | tectin 2 e g the water pass between a is very) Certain sar: hat 3\ Yucatan and Cuba leading direct- large group of sailors, marines, |1y to the Pana Ganal aaliver. |officers, civil service personnel | 216 aval defecenda ahiscohin~ and on the mechanical phase, in-} creased fueling facilities, quar-| jters, and sizeable warship unit; will be at Key West Naval Sta- In line with “considerable ac- jtivity” predicted for Key West tion. If T. E. Price, one of ti oes chee eee a owners of Trumbo Properties,| Naval Station these’ other de- Inc., has given a price which is! velopments are expected to be jacceptable to the Navy Depart-j é imen, undoubtedly the depart-| *44ed to the picture. - ; Ment will establish airplane han-} ,8ars, machine shop and auarters P)FMERITTS RETURN ‘at Trumbo Field over a 60-acre| ‘section. FR M Now to fill up these proposed | FI. MYERS units either more ships must be} ‘built or there must be transfers! essa : x ifrom some other point in the na-| entent of re Desai png lof transfer from the Pacific rel g mae ‘payee ‘coast. Commander of the sta- Myers Sa het ean ii tion has often been mentioned as Like Navy Units’ Will ‘Captain Stapler, who will be transferred from the west coast. | That the command of the station jis chosen from the Pacific area jinstead of the Atlantic area jshows how widespread the coun- try’s defenses have become and thow important the Key West Portion is. ‘fer of officers it is to be noted ‘that Lieut.-Comdr. Ray W. Burns, | supply officer who arrived at the Naval Stations last week, is from hes Diego, California. More significant is a letter re- ceived locally from Vallejo, Cali- fornia, where-is situated the Mare Island Naval Base. Wife of a lieu- tenant on the U.S.S. Wickes asks | In connection with the trans-} been hauled out on the ways for inspection. | On the trip to Miami they were |accompanied by Mrs. Alex Jenks, jwho remained in Miami, and there they were joined by Mr. jand Mrs. B. A. Baker, who had been in Miami for about four |weeks for an operation on Mr. | Baker’s eyes. TURKEYS! CAPONS! Come See Your Bird Alive —We Dress and Deliver Free— Brady’s Poultry Market [Phone 540 1214 White St. Key West, Florida, has the most equeble climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Covernment ReinsTumed gl Tonight SCHOOL LOCOCO SOOSOCCOOCS LARGEST TIMBER Born Of 1938 Hurricane SALE RECORDED Peccccvceesvcecsoscosoce By FRANK W. LOVERING (Special to The Citizen) BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 20.—The hurricane of September 2st, 1938, which by-passed Florida to rush at the coasis of New Jersey and New York and sweep over afternoon and evening of tha’ terrible day, taking the lives of more than 800 men, women and children; creating fantastic and unbelievable havoc with homes and personal property, and fell- ing forests that dropped to earth like fabric from a loom, had a rebirth this week in what will probably prove to be the largest timber sale in the history of the nation. Six hundred million board feet of New England hurricane timber was sold to a newly- formed cooperative group of wholesalers for $14,400,000. Price to the owners was set at $24 per thousand feet. It is largely pine. The Northeastern Timber Sal vage Administration, formed by the Federal Government imme- diately after the hurricane, car- action with the which is known as the Northeast- ern ‘Timber and Marketing Asso: ciation. Washington officials said ‘the sale is without precedent. new group will take over timber at the place of The period of the agreemnt is 4% years, In that time quarter- ly payments of $800,000 each will be made for all timber with the exception of what New England will hold in anticipation of the area’s needs over the ensuing six or seven years, ¢ Dealers are allowed a profit of 20% under the contract. Any excess profits will be di- vided between the Timber Sal- vage Administration and the wholesale group. The Tmber Administration will distribute its portion of one-half the excess profits to the original owners of the hurricane timber. It was asserted that the sale will have little if any effect on jthe price of lumber in New En- gland for the reason that much ,of the lumber will be distributed joutside New England. Most of jit will go, it was stated, to points jaway from the hurricane area jas far south as the Potomac River region, and west as far as the Mississippi. Will Fill 350,000 Flat Cars There is so much lumber avail- able, sawed and in. logs largely tprotected from vermin by being (Continuea on Page Four) the PRIVATE BUILDING UP NEW YORK.—Private building during July} August and Septem- ber totalled approximately $200,- |000,000, or a gain of $50,000,000 over the same period of last year. Rising industrial construction was an important factor in this revival of private awards. |COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN LIST REVEALED; CAU- CUS SECRECY PLEDGE BROKEN INQUEST TODAY INTO DEATH OF Bi ‘| Old and new City Councils ELIEVED TO BE BROTHER i meet tonight—the former to turn OF PHILADELPHIA MURDER lover the reins of city govern- i CASE PRINCIPLE; QUERIES; ™ent in the Island City to the RECEIVED | ; Body of a man named William | {W. Allen, about 29, believed to! lien who killed his sister's; {sweetheart in Philadelphia last year and underwent a sensation-! ‘al trial, was found floating in| the water between Stock Island }and Boca Chica yesterday after- noon. New York Daily News and, Philadelphia Inquirer phoned; ; The Citizen today for the facts; in the case. Whether the drown- | |ing was an accident or whether | jit was a suicide a coroner’s jury | } latter. Meeting will get under way at 8:00 o'clock, with the president of the old council in the chair. New England into Canada on the:be the playboy brother of the;Final business, expected to be of little consequence, will be taken care of—then the ceremony of inducting the new council will be carried out. Caucus of the council, sitting in with the mayor, as publicized, was held last Friday evening— the results of which, by common agreement, were to have been kept secret. However, the main considerations have been allowed } will determine in session start-|to get out from under this agree- ried through the immense. trans- | cooperative, | salvage. | ing at 4 o'clock today. Allen was residing at Martin! | Key’s place and came to Key West from West Palm Beach in’ August. He was in the habit of | leaving his room at Martin Key's j early every morning to take a} dip in the ocean. Mr. Allen was! last seen about 4.30 o’clock yes terday morning and the body was found with pajamas and a bathrobe lying on the beach as if |it had. been discarded. when *he i went into the water. The body was brought ashore by Dr. H. C. Galey and George | Mills White and was taken to the imortuary of the Pritchard Fun- jeral Home. The coroner’s jury junder Judge Raymond R. Lord | was summoned and viewed the | body at the mortuary. ! Coroner’s jury is composed of John C. Lord, foreman; Raymond Cabrera, George M. Park, Charles {Ingraham and Scot Sawyer. GRADE SCHOOL ' HOURS INCREASED WILL ACT TOWARD ELIMINA- | | | i | ' i | 1 ment entered into by certain parties, and it is now known who will function as chairmen of the various committees for the next two years. Six Committees It will be brought out at the imeeting tonight that the city government will be run by six committees instead of thirteen as heretofore. These committees, jand their chairmen, will: be: Finance, Col. L. C. “Brinton; | Welfare, John Carbonell, Jr.; Safety, Leonard Grillon; Health jand Sanitation, Ralph Boyden; } Public Works, John G. Sweeting: Taxation arid Ordinances, Ernest | Ramsey. Freeman Is President Caucus determined that Coun- cilman William A. Freeman will serve as president of the body and that Councilman Grillon will be president protem. Appointments to. be made by the council and mayor, as deter- mined over the weekend, include the probable reassignment of Charles Roberts as City Auditor and Aquilino Lopez, Jr., as City Attorney. The matter of Supervisor of Registration, the post formerly TION OF HOME WORK : held by Edward Gomez, will be ‘left open for the present, with a Seed | view to affecting a different ar- Superintendent of Public In-|T@ngement to bring on a savings ‘struction Melvin E. Russell an-|f cost of running the office. ‘nounces that the length of the day| _ Aquarium Matter ae tin the Monroe County School! City aquarium will probably system in the elementary grades "Ot be run by the city this a has been increased a half hour. |¥¢ar- Matters of appointment of A bulletin on the matter will 2 Supervisor bas been held up, i pending a concession arrange- Mae mie State Faint, which, as one observer | crease in coor hee bad ac. | States, will correct a generally cordance with state increase or. | unsatisfactory fentorpgee pee dered by the State Board. | City Judge, Wesley P. Archer, | “This will eliminate home as- stated Saturday that he was con- | signments”, Superintendent Rus-| templating @ change of. City sell said. The State Board has Court hours. He refused to Probably decided to give more | elaborate on that statement to- time to supervised study. |day when asked about the mat- The increased hours have been | jin effect a month. The first! ‘ “thi ithree grades will get out of |%f the new romaine agin = dis. j , 4 | right foot”, will come up | school at 2:30 instead of 2 o'clock, 1 at the meeting tonight. It jand the fourth, fifth and sixth | Pos ted that the chambers in | grades will be let out of school at city hall will be crowded with | 3:10 instead of 2:40. All elemen- ‘residents and friends of new of- | tary grades go to school at 8:30 | sictals present to witness the in the morning. | start of the new term | r. All other matters of starting 1 spect Boat No. 30, which had| ‘SERVICES IN MIAMI | | | FOR CAPT. 6. BALL Captain George Robert — Ball, 60, died Saturday morning in the U.S. Marine hospital, funeral services will be held in Miami,