The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 28, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Key West Citizen | { THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1939 t Passed Sawyer Killed In Highway Accident; One Other Injured VOLUME LX. No. 282, EnglandStopsMineRranamy PR, Menace; One ak Orrenly Bud Sunk In 18 Hours NAZIS CLAIM ENGLISH NAVY WITHDRAWN From CIRCUIT COURT | CALLS FOR 32c MILLAGE; |CAR COLLIDED WITH TIFT TRUCK ON HIGHWAY * SALARIES CUT 10 PER) —_ EARLY THIS MORNING; MR. TIFT EXPECTED GERMAN EXPORTS MONDAY MORNING CENT; STRIVE FOR) HK SME LATE TODAY e j § ‘ BALANCED BUDGET rs _G Bnitirid:clai geet i: —- | Walter Neville Brrzell Sawyer, | was epriously injured in the LONDON, Nov. 28. erman | ngland claims that she has H E a { { ees mines have apparently been|captured or sunk 12 German less s Voters of Key West indicated alias Blondie, met death about ‘Tsh, ‘t was said, and was taken : i eee to Homestead.and placed in a leared fi the English seas merchant vessels who have sailed ;| THOMAS EVANS AND BENNY A i RE STS - . | Pp Dae ees today from America under false colors | jthat they desired a “change in. 12:90 o'clock this’ morning when |),,-pital where he is being treat that only one British freighter ;|to Germany. Days of the pocket ;government” at the city election ‘the car which ’» was driving ed. It is thought that he will t was sunk in the past 12-18 hours. ; battleship Deutschland are num-{ | | < recover. French state that the English 'bered with the English navy hot \held November 14. A step in ran into the ..ir end of a vege-; “FI! details of the accident will have also sunk six submarines on its trail. ‘shat direction was accomplished table truck owned by Charles "ot be learned until the arrival NORTH SEA; ENGLAND STARTS BLOCKADING { JUDGE FOUND MALLUNGAT ASSESSED! SS S | Following action taken by the; gatory simultaneous payment was FINES OR IMPRISONMENT; | council in passing the 1940 bud-| satisfactory. get last evening, notice was given}; Both ordinances introduced at RECESS CALLED | by Finance chairman Col. L. C.' the inauguration’ meeting on No- {Brinton that the city had $2,000| vember 20-—one dealing with can- i ‘ ing with Judge William V. Al-:of that amount, which, dt was of a traffic law dealing with the 1940 budget prepared and; William Arguyle Hendry, rid-}and would return this after- mm of Germany in the past 10 days. ie jof Mr. Tift. Ina telephone con- Nazis newspapers today startling- | (PPD ADP PSS Ginn eee qi Which could be dispersed on) cellation of penalties assessed on last evening when the council | Tift. and turned over about three 'versation with a Tift’s place of ly declared that the British navy | F ircuit Court met in adjourned | <ajaries. Council passed the mo-| occupational taxes after Novem-! 4 peg ee? business it was learned that he is “in hiding” and have with-'PETITION PRESENTED | cession at 9:30 o'clock this imorn-|tion to pay salaries to the extent| ber 1, the other with changing | ™*t © special call to consider miles south of Homestead. was not injured in the accident drawn from the North Sea leav- | AGAI ER. ' ing it to German vessels. | GAINSK TAV gaol on the bench and County Stated, would pay approximately | stopping of -left turns on red ray |ing companion of Mr. Sawyer, ; 100M. : King George told. Parliament Petition 4 eeu inoun Solicitor Allan B, Cleare, Jr,,/2 0ne-quater month period. 'traffic lights in the city—were Presented by the council’s bud- | x ; Mr. Sawyer will be remember from his throne that “all ener- canal OE thai tcc » " Pah ont se 3 ". ’\ Other matters considered, in} passed on second and final Tead- | cet es ittee consisti of Col. t if jed as the young man who was gies are concentrated upon win-| siatih abit muse er Ol a | Clerk Cc. Sam B. Curry and importance, were the adoption of | ing. i s : | | tried in criminal court on a charge ning the war”. England has de-| pa erase ate. Sne enc, (Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard the City Tax Assessor’s tax roll| Councilman Boyden called for L. C, Brinton, ErnesfRamsey and , ‘of aggravated assault, more than clared further rationing of foods.| oom poe auiticent, ~ ia Waite present. for the year, enabling the ma-|reading of ordinances on bicycle Jou: = j ON CON CHARGE 2: months ago, and was fined England also announced that it; ey West residents psa at There were but two cases to chinery to be set in motion for|riding restrictions at the next |J0hn Glenwood Sweeting. | $500 and costs. His offense was vous put seremvaree upon at Seine cece deat "night Tae jeome dip afon 4 tewane) nonce of plceaen of taxes starting ed |e aed cashed ee | Many features of economy | ¢ oe Eugene Edley in the many into effect Monday morn. | SPeeial session to pass ithe | which was Thomas Evans, chars. "“An ordinance to ceparate thé doubtful points in these ordi- Were headlined in the report OBTAINED MONEY ON PRE: = ing. England will seize all ves- ehh discuast the |°4 With trespass, and Benny Ra: collection of personal taxes con-;nances were to be discussed. Siven by Col. Brinton following! | SE OF OWNING RESTAU- |°°°*** nevepeoee sels so engaged. Germany has matioe chat esterase aa mos Mallungat, charged with as-;tingent upon payment of occu- Subject of installment payment the opening of meeting by Coun- | = ‘HANDSOME SKIPPER replied that she will then begin | mayor, who was to ask the |<‘ault and battery on the person pational taxes was read and of taxes was discussed and Coun- ¢j] President Wm. A. Freeman.| # RANT IN THIS CITY i to sink neutral vessels plying to- | ata . rassed on first reading. Objection; cilman Ramsey, chairman of Chiefly stressed h ¥ { ee ee “ police department to ascer- of a young girl. F . iefly stressed was the oppor- j ward England. \ctain didust how “inuchiok ie so ume wes ahaa | noted, however, by Council-| Taxation and Records commit- suniib- at hand to eHeet. oo | aaa os LW. 0 lobe Tri - i Vedas eo blish: = The first case called was that | men Sweeting and Freeman, who} teé, was asked to bring a defin- i Umty at han er ee Wh RRS. Bbw: sB1e who lived in Loe Here On Globe rip iba ro sca sere ishment / of Evans, who entered a plea of poth felt that the present method | ite plan before the next council mies that would make Dosa bles so graetcs twos peaiy ead saat . +. toine asia by abe magetsate guilty and was sentenced to pay of tying the two taxes into obli-'meeting. ,operation of the city government ; y ;ried here, was arrested in Miami TAMIAME TRAIL Here During World War Seeovevecocccccesecocces An old Florida pioneer and TaMiami Trail blazer has moved to Key West and expects shortly to be engaged in management of a restaurant here. The name is C. P. Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan is an old experienc- ed restaurant and hotel man, was organizer of the first Board of Trade in Fort Myers and has lived in Florida for 28 years. During the World War Corri | gan ran four restaurants here but found later that decommis. sioning of the station forced him an early meeting for subse- quent council action. Sidelights on the council fight-to adopt the budget treated chiefly on the ob- jection of a further ten per- cent cut in salaries passed as the main amendment. Coun- cilmen on one side argued against ihe cuts—councilmen | on the other argued that it would be better to take the cut and be assured of full pay rather than accept the former scale and trust to luck to receive a small por- tion of their salaries. Salaries paid last year were sixty-four percent of totals due—during the previous year, seventy-one percent were paid. to move elsewhere. Now he is back to s he says. If there is any way in which he may boost Key West through his past experience and contacts in Flor- ida he will be glad to do so and would like very much to be called on in the matter. Corrigan is a friend of Baron Collier of Collier county and many other important Florida business men of present day and past day prominence. Principal memory of Corrigan was “trail blazing” the TaMiami Trail. Efforts to get the Trail started were failing fast and a group of persons calling them- selves “Trail Blazers” organized and shouted to the world they | were going to get through the Everglades with motor cars by} so HOW TO ROUSE WEAKER SEX! AP Feature Service OKLAHOMA CITY. Nov. 28.—| It’s been a long time since any | thing back-fired as loudly as the | city park board’s attempt to dis- play masculine gallantry toward | women drivers. The board announced it would open the civic center to parking to alleviate the shopping-parking | problem. “And as a special con- cession to the ladies, who have} into and out of parking places”, said the announcement, “we're going | to make the parking stalls much trouble getting cutting roads as they went. feet long instead of the usual 18 H | | 201 { ' a fine of $1 and costs or be confined for 60 days in the county jail at hard labor. Next case called was that of Mallungat and it was-the opinien’ of court officers that he would; fight the case and go to trial.! On the contrary, he heard the charges read and entered a plea of guilty. Judge Albury had heard the incidents which led up to the charge of assault: and battery and after due consideration pro- nounced sentence of $150 and costs or six months in the county jail at hard labor. Court was then ordered in re cess until 9:30 o’clock tomorrow , morning. PARIS, Nov. newspaper today charged Germany has instructed Russia she is to get a route to -the Mediterranean sea, through Italy, To Switch On White Way Drive to obtain funds for fi- nancing of the White Way Proj- ect, sponsored by joint commit- tee of Key West Lions and Jay- cees, gets under way tomorrow, according to information released she turns her attention to much desired domination of the |late yesterday by the group who , ‘Charge Germany Plans To Give. Russia Sea-Route Through Italy (By Asseciated Press) 28—A French on Finland and thus gain domi-|committee and contacts with the met at Chamber headquarters to map out the plans. All concerns in the city will be’ contacted by the committee who will seek the funds to light up Duval street between the hours of 6 and 11 o’clock each night for the next four months. It was thought that all concerns would want to be included in the drive in that the project would be of benefit to the city as a whole. The plans. of financing have been carefully studied by the that nation of the Baltic Sea before merchants will go forward in sys-' tematic manner. Terms with the Electric Company have been Balkan ‘reached and guarantee will be if she joins the war against’Ger- areas. Italy has ‘said she will | furnished ‘when the fund grows many, through Jugoslavia if Italy bitterly oppose any Balkan con-|to sufficient ‘size to remains neutral. The newspaper charged that Russia is attempting to clean up C. OF C. DIRECTORS MET AND TALKED quests by Russia or Germany. Russian soldiers were ordered to “annihilate Finns if they show- ed any provocation”. Italy is reported to be angling for important oil and wheat con- ITALY COUNTS MOUTHS’ \ i give the word to “turn on the. White Way.” (By Axsociated Press) ROME, Nov. 28.—Italy is keep tracts from Rumania in opposi- ing a close check on the nation’s tion to Russian and German de- | f00d demands. The government . on as near a balanced budget as has ever been accomplished. That the council was not all in accord on some of the economies suggested, particularly in regard to a general ten per cent salary ‘slash suggested as an amend- ment to the budget-passing mo- tion was evidenced in the final vote on the final motion, which listed the councilmen in these groups: For the budget, with amendments — Councilmen | Boyden, Brinton, Ramsey, Freeman. Against—Councilmen Car- bonell, Grillon, Sweeting. And there, briefly, is told the and found guilty of obtaining ; $350 by false pretenses in Miami ; Criminal Court. Brown was acctsed -of repre~ senting he had a restaurant in jKey West and obtaining the money from Kenneth Fox of ; 8500 Biscayne Boulevard, for part ' interest. | Brown had furnished a section ;of Land’s End Inn Hotel on Si |monton street for a tea room, {but never opened the place for | business. | Brown had left the | several months. city for A charge of is- SAILED WORLD Peeecccoser seescccesces Young, and girls, rather hand |some skipper of the Ptarmagin | ketch. @hehored “at: Porter: Dok is, {not only a writer but a romantic | character, He has sailed around the world. | Appearing currently in “Rud- der” is a series of articles by 'Gerry Mefferd. Reserved almost ;to the ‘point that his fine, clean |cut humor is entirely concealed {except when you read one of his artic Gerry is quite a fellow. He read us the final chapter of {the series, which will appear in the December issue. Also on the boat are Max Edwards and’ Ben story of the introduction into the ' suing a $100 worthless check to | Fountain. governmental scenes of this city of what many have stated is one of the first real, moves to bring a business administration to the city in many years. The original budget message included these economies: Elimination of license inspec- tor, clock custodian and one jailor. Maintenance in the adminis- | Mrs. Cora Hudgens of Key West | was dismissed. ‘SEWING GROUP WILL NOT Ml What type of things do you | find your audience likes? we ask- }ed. Weil, there are hundreds and | hundreds of boat owners all over- |the country and it is the desire of each one of them to cne day take a trip beyond their imme diate horizon. “I write about | those things from my experiences {on such a trip”, Gerry answered. The round the-world trip start trative department, police de- ' reports that the Red Cross Sew. | ed and ended at Pascagoula, Miss. Te partment, fire department duced $75.00, $300 and $200 re-! spectively. x Reduction of police patrolmen from eight to seven. | Elimination of one sanitary in- spector. Aquarium helper reduced from full year to half year employ- ment. ' Street lighting budget —_re- |duced by $1,092.00, with elimina- | tion of 70 lights. | Salary of city mechanic, ing committee will not hold a | Meeting tomorrow afternoon as scheduled in that the time will interfere with Thanksgiving Day | activities. | The sewing class will resume ‘weekly meetings each Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the | Library starting next week. BANG! THERE GOES | Gerry and an old Gulf Coast salt built the vessel, which was nam- ed the “Hurricane”. Everywhere that Gerry went along the Gulf | Coast after the trip he found his name was unfamiliar but the name of his ship everyone re- membered and had eagerly read his series of articles. Gerry would rather have deep | water sailing than sailing in close to the coast. He says there’s no danger of hitting sunken reefs or. as ANOTHER ILLUSION | of- | (By Associated Press) teduced $120.00 each. | DALLAS, Tex. Nov. 28.— Salary of fire chief reduced! there wasn’t any more mud in $228.00, _ z ‘Flanders fields than usual when Aquarium caretaker’s salary | American soldiers fought there. shallow spots iri deep water. One night beating close to a reef in the South Pacific, Gerry said, the tide and breeze brought them unconsciously closer to the reef and the ship went ashore. They were lucky to get off, Gerry | added. Another part of the trip he remembered very vividly was along a narrow channel in heavy jweather. He found he could |hardly beat up close enough to stay off the bank on one side. | There was not a safe harbor be- The amazing feat was started in 1923 from Fort Myers and was completed in 23 days. Nation wide publicity followed and plans to complete the TaMiami Trail were soon brought to com- pletion with heartened financiers giving readily. ‘One of the tractors used is still in the Ever- glades where it bogged down, Corrigan said. Strange part of the that it was first routed square through Monroe county by the Chevelier Corporation, which still owns considerable property | in the mainland portion of the county. | Chevelier Corporation and} Baron Collier later came at odds feet”. H 3 jhas distributed cards requesting | electrici d city health Feminine response was sudden | DISCUSSED PUBLICITY, THEN : chee : | data on the number of persons in| ficer, adel ‘$Paes and devastating. Among the ADJOURNED TO COFFEE TENDER ZINNIA TO ‘each family, what their normal | quotes that came from women | food consumption is and whether | AND COUNCIL MEET | ee | to hoard fe past food. reduced $300. ‘It just seemed like more, say: were these: | there is any evidence of attempts “If they’re going to put in big- | i DELIVER SUPPLIES ; ana 4 Ten Percent Cuts | Dr. Edwin J. Foscue of Southern SCHREIBER VISITED HERE | : < = - | a | These economies were further Methodist University. ger parking spaces let them put| them in for the men!” H “Why, I never heard slap: at Aeomen diivers”. Jake Schreiber, prominent | #dded to, as stated above, by the | Dr. Foscue heard so many as- Tender Zinnia, of the Coast| theatrical man of Detroit, Mich.,|#40ption of an amendment calling ,sertions that the heavy cannon- uard, is making preparations to; and party were in the city yes- | for ten per cent reductions for | ading of World War days brou; ght jleave for the west coast of Flor- terday intending to go for the /all those who received salaries'a deluge, he decided to investi- “Women can get into a tight ies fishing but the weather was|°f $100 per month or over. gate scientifically. before some of the park board | annual supplies | . | jsuccessful, by a vote of 5 to 2,|. The four years of the conflict Board of Directors of the; {Chamber of Commerce met last | such ®\night with President Everett Russell, Charles E. Smith, Bascom ! Trail is CAWhy, T've been driving since /Mritt_ attending. PE found to be itable, and they | _An effort to bring the offi-| Studying climatological data, | ~~ zs members were out of short ee ees et Ps to, the. Mats in that vieinity. | returned to Sees eos ing. |Cials previously cut back to their |he compiled the true story of Mot: anto Sacng oe was ” H city, ‘ender Ivy is at the dock in "| previ tings rainfall at the western front and 5 cone members would attend the meet-| Key West pleating boilers, and} jererinmtai before the ten| en eee ne (Continued on Page Four) ARCHERS HAVE GUESTS | After a general discussion cen-!ida to deliver r vu d {per cent cut was passed was un- found: jing of the city council and they Tender Poinciana is still located i jadjourned to the city hall in a/at Lake Okeechobee, where she ;Counéilmen Carbonell and Gril-; were not unusually rainy. In fact, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hearne an in the matter and Collier decided to build his own TaMiami Trail, which is the present Trail cutting off only a small portion of Mon- | roe. Key West, pioneer city, comes pioneer resident. SDS 5 A AAR —EAT YOUR— A. VILLATE AND SONS THANKSGIVING DINNER TURKEYS at the Dressed or Undressed. (get yours today). tb - wel | 7-Course Dinner .... $1.00 | 11:00 a. m. to 10 p. m. ! id their two sons. W. D., Jr., aed George Archer Hearne, have ar- rived from Tampa and are the guests of Mrs. Hearne’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George F. Archer, at 1425 Newton street. body. The chamber directors remain-; ed until the proceedings of the council were brought to a con- clusion, then proceeded to a cof-; fee shop and after partaking of restorative, left for their homes. SPECIAL! SPECIAL! Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday $32) raumeo noret's nancar [poe i pe ate Phone 840 Phone 650 for Reservations ee te eterna IRS ALES AS RO ‘ARAMEL LAYER Mince Meat and Pumpkin Pies | Maloney Brothers Bakery | 812 Fleming St—Phone 818 has been for the past month. BRANTLEY’S BUSY BEE BAKERY Fruit Cakes, Mince Pies, Pumpkin Pies, Gold-N-Snow ially Decorated. THANKSGIVING GREETING CAKES —900 Francis Street— PHONE 120 j ; { terminals of the Texaco Co., in Tampa, is a visitor in the city I. L. Lott, superintendent of | | ;and the guest of Chas. Taylor, manager of the Porter Dock Co., local agent for the Texaco or- Thanksgiving Eve DANCE Tomorrow Night, 10 till ? RAUL’S CLUB lon being the dissenters. 32 Mills Levy The budget, as passed, sets up {a millage of 32 mills, on a total | mount to be levied on of $94,- | (Continued on Page Two) THANKSGIVING EVE DANCE TT Night in the RAINBOW ROOM WATCH FOR NAVARRO'S slightly above normal and the jlast two, when the American {troops were in France, were be- low normal. Hence, the detona- jtion of high explosives seemingly jhad no influence upon the total precipitation. Celebrate Thanksgiving Eve at es first two years were only |