The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 13, 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 VOLUME LX. No. 295. The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE'WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. Chamber: Of Passes. Frdorsement’ Of “New City Directory WILL CONTAIN COM- PLETE LISTING OF ALL RESIDENTS AND BUSI. NESS PLACES At the meeting of the Board of of the Chamber of Commerce Monday night, H. Earl Humbert, publisher of city Directors directories, was assured of the’ cooperation of the. Chamber in| this much needed: «undertaking. Fred Dion will provide a central office from which the work will be carried on, it was announced. Present at the meeting were President Everett Russell, Mel- vin E. Russell, Charles E. Smith, COMPTROLLER LEE “TO ASK CITIES FOR | COST STATEMENTS TAX LEAGUE POINTS OUT ADVANTAGE OF COMPARA- TIXE FIGURES OF MUNICI- PAL EXPENSES Commerce (By Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 13.; reports indicate | | that the operating cost of muni- jcipal government in different cities of the state varies DIRECTORY PUBLISHER —‘Scattering | from less than $10 per capita to more han $40 per capita’, according to a statement released here to- jday by the Florida Tax Revision League. “The total cost and the com-} |parative cost of municipal gov- jernment, on a statewide basis, is | a deep dark secret that no one knows. , “Due to these conditions”, the | league said, “the most important ; development in connection with local government in many years ‘is the announced plans of Comp- ‘troller J. M. Lee to require all] municipalities to file complete } t | | { No Answer To. League; Move To Expel Reds FINLAND STILL HOLDS RUSSIANS FROM ADVANC- ING; LEAGUE EXPECTED TO EXPEL RUSSIA : by Anseerpred Prenny LONDON, Dec. 13.—Finland | pelling Russia. In assembly the desperately counter-attacked on} vote need only be a majority, their jsdutheast and central sec- Lovie big biscave at rh Latina se e the question will have tors today in effort to hold the jend up, a unanimous expression Russian hordes from advancing | js necessary according to League into other territory, this while | rules. Observers point to the they awaited anxiously word! possibility that China. may feel from the League of Nations that obliged to vote against the ex- the assembly would take definite | pulsion order in view of her pre- coohome action against the ‘carious position in the east. oviets. i In any event, foreign diplomats __ The League had not taken def-|in this capital feel that Russia inite action at noon today, al-| will shortly resign from the though the slowness was by NO’ League of Nations, whether ex- SetasTIRAT SOUL ES KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939 (COUNTY OFFICERS ATTEND ATKINSON RITES TOMORROW MEMORIAL SERVICES IN MORNING AT MIAMI COURT HOUSE; FUNERAL IN AFT- ERNOON Memorial services for Judge H. cuit bar,’who died last night in {Miami at his residence,/will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in the. court house in Miami, according to. advices re- ceived in Key West this morn- ing. Funeral services will be theld in the afternoon at 4:00 o'clock from Coconut Grove. Members -of the bar in Key West who will be present at both the memorial and funeral serv- ices are J. Lancelot Lester, as- sistant state’s attorney; Henry H. | Taylor, Jr. Raymond R. Lord, county judge. Sheriff K. O. Thompson, coun- ty clerk Ross C. Sawyer, and county solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr., will also attend the services. SERVICE CLUB F. Atkinson, 78, dean of the cir-! { ! | Sawyer Murphy i ‘SAILFISH IN TEN DAYS { aoa | L, T. Goldberg is a lucky fisherman. Or should we say—he’s an expert fisher- man. Either way you look at it, the fact that he has captured four sailfish during the last ten days of fishing in Key West waters calls for some sort of crowning cere- mony. = Latest sail caught was brought in yesterday—a sev- en-foot two-inch beauty weighing forty-five pounds. Chicago and has been going out each day with Captain Bob Daniels on the Dorna D. a, , Latedeadeadeadl 4 William W. Demeritt, F. J. Dion} and Bascom L. Grooms. There! were also present, County Com-} missioner W. H. Monsalvatge | and J. W. John. | Plans Explained Mr. Humbert told of his plans of making the directory and said it will contain the name of the husband, with the wife's name in parenthesis, their address, where either or both of them work, number of children under 18 years. All children over 18 will receive a separate listing. All business places will be] listed, giving the name of the president, viee ident, .secre-| Gordon Dili, farmer resident of tary, etc, and will designate the|Key West while stationed here H. EARL HUMBERT MARKET BUSINES |FLORIDA CITY MARKET MAN- AGER INVESTIGATING PRO- DUCE MARKETING IN CITY G. DILL HERE ON ‘financial statements with his of-| fice once each year in accordance ' with a state general law requir- ing such reports, No Authority “This law gives the. comptrol- Jer no authority whatever over; ;the operation of municipalities, | itherefore, is no infringement! whatsoever on home rule or local self-government”, says the league. ! jit simply requires that operating jstatements be filed with the’ ‘comptroller’s office as a central ‘point of assembling complete and comparative cost of municipal government,..and for the further: purpose of requiring standard} means to be interpreted as in- dicative of non-ability to agree. Reports showed that the special committee having charge of send- ing the first ultimatum to Russia; had noted the non-reply and ad- vised that they would recom- mend the expulsion of that nation to the assembly. China May Balk Some anxiety was felt League circles as to whether a unanimous expression would be |Karilian isthmus and in the cen-|Club in session at the church an- | possible on the subject of ex-j;tral sector where the effort is} nex. TRAFFIC DEATHS !pulsion moves proceed toward fulfillment or not. Argentina, as j before, today again stated that }Sshe would quit the League if Russia was not expelled. 1,500,000 Russians The Soviets today were con- | entrating more and more on a quicker settlement of their con- (quest of Finland and was re- in ported to be sending 1,500,000|ning by members of the Stone men into the battles on the being made to cut Finland in two. Late, advices still + indicate, ‘however, that the Finnish: troops aré performing in heroic’ style— owners or partnerships controll- ing a business. There will be a section devoted to the alphabetical listing of streets, giving the name of the street, the ho number, the party or parties living there and listing the home owner. Classified Section There will also be a section of the directory containing a classi- | fied business directory giving the names of all the firms doing business in the city. Mr. Humbert says the direc- tory will be compiled in Key West and all supplies necessary will be purchased here. takers, stenographers, and every- one employed in the work, ex- cept himself, will be residents of Key West, and the printing will be by The Artman Press. Mr. Humbert submitted a sample copy of a directory for in- spection of those attending the meeting, and stated that he had | been making directories for four years, his activities in Florida having been in Jacksonville, Or- lando, Palatka, West Palm Beach, Fort Myers and Pensacola. TEMPERATURES , Lowest last highest last night 24 hours 38 25 36 44 28 26 37 39 59 47 31 65 56 39 63 14 41 31 64 39 28 25 50 . 42 .. 53 _. 37 Stations— Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit El Paso Galveston Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Louisville Miami Mpls.-St. -Paul Nashville New York Pensacola Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington Census | forms of municipal accounting. “Municipal officials striving for] greater efficiency and economy } in their operations will welcome this opportunity to compare cost on various phases of municipal government with other cities of the state. Taxpayers will wel- come the compiling of these re- ports as it will enable them to check on the comparative effi- ciency of the men they have elected to municipal office. “It is to be expected, of course”, the league concluded, “that city officials who are in- competent, extravagant, or inef- ficient, and officials who have | been deliberately misusing mu- | nicipal funds and hiding the} facts from the taxpayers will ob- | ject strenuously to filing reports | have indicated strong favor for!which can be compared with: the new agency being installed |cities operating honestly and ef- by the State Board. ‘ficiently”. i with the WPA, now manager of |the Florida City State Market, jwas a visitor in this city today lin the interests ot promotion of {the work now being undertaken |by the State Marketing Board, sponsoring agency of the market |now nearing completion at Flor- jida City. | Mr, Dill, under the direction of |State Director William L. Wilson, is investigating the possibility of |providing an outlet on this mar- |ket for produce, which will be marketed at the ‘Florida City plant. | Thousands of pounds of vege- | tables and fruit will be marketed jat the new plant this year, Mr. | Dill stated, and farmers of the |Homestead and Redlands area AMERICA COOL AS ‘PERFIDIOUS ALBION’ | | see eee eee |We Would Like To See This Put Into Effect, Bat—| ‘DIGS UP UNITED STATES OF EUROPE IDEA eco eae eae eeeccescessocecoseces By PRESTON GROVER. Asscciated Press Feature Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 13.—{ “In such a Europe”, said Cham- ; Yankee statesmen see really solid | berlain, speaking of the “new Eu- ground under the widely dis- rope” he hoped would grow out | cussed plan for a European Fed-|of the war, “it would be recog-} jeration based on economic fac- | nized that there can be no lasting | |tors rather than on a purely po-jpeace unless there is a full and | Hitical bas's. constant flow of trade between They would like to believe it jthe nations, for only by increased would work. It has at least the; interchange of goods and services jadvantage of a different ap- jean the standard of living be} ‘proach, one based on assuring | improved”. \adequate bread and butter rather; Continuing in the same vein, jthan on so-called national in- |he said: | | Spirations. {| “In such a Europe, fear of ag-| Two things keep Americans ;gression will have ceased to ex- | |from whooping up .a .too-eager jist, and such adjustments of} jenthusiasm for the idea. boundaries as would be necessary |_ First is a.deep-sety belief that would be threshed out between |European peoples aré determined |neighbors sitting on equal -terms |to have their quarrels regardless ,around a table,- with the help of jof the general welfare. |disinterested third parties if it Second is the fact that it is be- were so desired”. jthat Death. the SENATOR PITTMAN ‘ARRIVED IN PARTY; YESTER- + i |in many cases hurling vastly ' superior numbers back by sheer dint of force in hand to hand | fighting. British sources heard that {Sweden was reorganizing her ; government today in prepara- MOUNT HIGHER ACCORDING TO STATE SAFETY DIRECTOR .tion for material and moral help !to Finland. Considerable un- TAMPA, Dec. 13 (FNS).—“Yes, |easiness is felt in the Swedish here in Florida the traffic daily,nation anent the Russian ad- slaughter goes on, 6n all fronts— | vance. 38 persons killed in traffic acci-! eae Ge RGR cP dents in Florida in the first ten [IST OF BUILDING days of December—an_ all-time‘ high”, stated Asher Frank, di-| rector of the Florida Safety) PERMITS ISSUED Council. ‘ i December is the worst traffic | ae ee month of the year. No one is|THREE TOTAL $1,000 EACH: thinking about accidents, all are; OTHERS FOR MINOR thinking of bringing joy and hap- | piness to someone, but Old Man! REPAIRS Accident never takes a holiday: | If there ever was a time for safe | driving and safe walking, it is! Following are the building and during the month of December ‘repair permits issued from the when every type of vehicle is office of Building Inspector on the highway. |Harry M. Baker, during the week “The State Drivers’ License/ending December 11: Law and the new Highway Pa-| trol, which is now . functioning, | street opposite Douglass School. cannot stop accidents unless;The size of the building will be drivers and pedestrans cooperate, | 27 feet by 22 feet. Owner, Theo- drive and walk carefully. If the |dore Sands; cost, $1,000. record of 91 killed in 1938 is to} Construct bowling alley at the be reduced, you drivers andicorner of Duval and ‘Angela walkers must do your part”. |streets. Owner, W. R. Fleck; In conclusion, Frank _ stated | cost, $1,000. ruthless Mas-|} General repairs of two story querader, filled many a with grief instead of good cheer last Christmas. “Let's. make this a happy White Christmas—not black with tragedy—not red with blood!” ‘Owner, John W. Sawyer; cost, $1,000. Paint one story house at 522 William street. Owner, Lucille Hall; cost, $100. z Renew flooring at 906 White- head street. One story. frame |building owned by Miss Crosby; cost, $50. 4 DESTROYER WIC VACATIONS HERE ‘p&Y FOR TEN DAYS". STAY 103 GIVEN FIRST ASSIGNMENT FOLLOWING ARRIVAL United States Senator Key | Pittman, of Nevada, Mrs. Pitt-| | j | | | | | jing advanced primarily by Eng-: Oft-Tried Idea |land, and therefore, in the eyes of! Europe has been looking for a REMEMBER! JIM’S SERVICE STATION For Correct Lubrication Oil Svraving—Tire Repairing PHONE 373 White and Catherine Streets |many, should be scrutinized federation of some sort for aj | closely. It is popular and politi- dozen generations. The Catholic \cally important just now to look |Church tried for several hundred |Hotel La Concha. first for propaganda and only jyears to fend off the break up| Seen at the hotel this morning,|given any of the ships arriving man, R. M. Hardy, well-known | silver mine operator, and Mr.; One destroyer, the Wicks, left and Mrs. W. E. Trent, are visitors lyesterday_ afternoon to go for in the city and guests at the/an assignment on patrol duty, the first assignment for this duty later for facts in any proposal into tight little nationalities. The Senator Pittman said that he and |from California last week. | from ‘ : | ‘Perfidious Albion”. ~ ‘Holy Roman Empire, with a far Chamberlain Hopes \less noble motive, sought this, Chamberlain’s speech sounded | too. for a paragraph or so as if he had his party had come to Key West| Others of the vessels: are in for a rest and expected to re-|the harbor, the Lea, Twiggs, main for a week or 10 days, tak-|Evans and Phillips, ‘Also the Build residenee on Thomas| heart! building at 915 Eaton street.! NOW ON PATROL! HOLDS ELECTION FLOYD SIX WILL BE NEW PRESIDENT: CARLETON, WINTER SPEAK ‘JEWISH REFUGEES ARRIVED ON CUBA APPEARED TO BE IN GOOD CIRCUMSTANCES; LEFT FROM AUSTRIA Election of officers for the 1940 season was held last eve- Church Fellowship (Service) | Arriving on the Steamship Cuba from Havana yesterday ¢ ; rn was a group of refugeés ftom president’s. chair, Charles H.! . Johnson will be the “mew. vice.:Wrting countries. in _ Europe, president, Gerald Saunders will ,most of them Jews frém Austria take on the secretary’s duties: who had made the trip by way again and J. S. Daniels will be of South America, thence to Cuba treasurer. ‘and to the United States. Guy Carleton was one of two; speakers at the meeting last There were only a few of the night. speaking on “The City of Tefugees able to speak American Floyd Six was elected to the! Key West”. Everett Winter was but ‘they were all nicely dressed, | the other speaker, presenting ‘plentifully supplied with money, facts connected with the work i i A and their baggage required two of the new Zoning; Board. trips of the buses last night Plans were advanced ‘for the ; ‘ : annual Ladies’ Night banquet to ahd one this morning to it from be given next Tuesday night at the steamboat dock to the bus the annex. ‘station, Today’s News Flashes As Released By The Associated Press LONDON, Dec. 13.—Action on} the West Front dividing Ger-|Representative White, Repub! jmany and France “pepped up”}can, of this state, today de- | today as reports came through of scribed as “despicable” the state- patrol fighting. Germany claimed | ments recently made by David ito have captured several cet 1 a of the Wor patrols and’ to have inflictéd|to the effect that the jobless of various losses in minor gun bat-/ several cities in “Ohio would tles. France, however, denied Shortly institute a march on the the reports and issued statements capital demanding work or it concerning several- minor ad- | crease in relief appropriations. vances made by her troops along! NEW YORK the Moeselle river and in the! soc aire — Gaia ;Saar section. | one to two points today on WASHINGTON, Dec. 13— | Dev? fading: The U. S. Government today LONDON, Dec. okeyed the sale of five Amer- ican ships to the French Line —three tugs and two trawl- COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 13.— in- i | | } 13.—Govern- met considerable difficulty in jexplaining recent licensing of | planes to Finland. Several mem- ; bers brought out | that aid to Finland would em- } broil the British in a war with government | Russia. The House was notified the vessels would be used , that a “white paper” was in pro- for commercial purposes jcess of preparement treating on only. ‘the whole transactions of the ef- jfort made last summer to effect an alliance ‘with Russia. ‘COUNTY. BOARD MEETS ‘TONIGHT Regular meeting of county ;commissioners will be held to- |night at 8 o'clock in the office jof Clerk Ross C. Sawyer at the {county court house. The clerk said there was not a great deal of business to be at- tended to and other than the checking of depositary accounts | | LONDON, Dec. 13.—One Brit- ish ship was reported torpedoed by a Nazi U-Boat today, off the toast of Norway. Only five of the crew of thirty-five was re- ported saved. ase |ment officials appearing before | jthe House of Commons today! the thought | PRICE FIVE CENTS Clarifies Provisos ih Section Nine SISaI SSSI S, ‘GOLDBERG’S RECORD-4 | INQUIRERS AT COUNTY OFFICE INFORMED OF NON -OWNERSHIP OF PROPERTY Discussing some of the prob- lems presented by the. Murphy [Act Clerk Ross C.. Sawyer,. of ; Circuit Court says there seems |to be some misunderstanding of | Section 9 as to the ownership of Hands which had certificates out- standing on June 9, 1939, which | were eligible to be sold under jne Act. | | | On instructions from Comp- jtroller Lee, through Attorney ;General Gibbs, the Supreme |Court has said that title to all jlands on which the State held certificates -up to and including ;Sales in 1934, is vested in the State of Florida. In our own every day language the meaning is that if the State held a certificate, or certificates, ,on June 9, 1939, which was is- sued in the 1934, or prior years, then the owner lost title to the land. The court goes further and | Says that all liens are cancelled, which means all mortgages, city taxes, etc. In other words when the In- | ternal. Lmproyvemient-Board. gives - la deed the property will be clear ;and free from all incumbrances. Mr. Sawyer says that quite fre- quently owners of delinquent properties come to the clerk's office to find out the amount of delinquent taxes on this or that parcel of land, saying that they {have a sale and would like to know the amount of the back taxes, and when advised that they do.not now own the prop- erty, they. are very much sur- \prised and disappointed. Section 9 of the Murphy Act |reads as follows: | “This Act shall remain in full |force and effect for two years from the date same shall become a law and at expiration of such |four year period, then the fee simple title to al! lands, against |which there remains outstanding tax certificates which on the jdate this Act becomes a law, are more than two years old, shall become! absolutely vested in | State of Florida, and every right, | title. or interest of every nature {or kind» whatsoever of former ¥ Alliance) owner ‘6fsaid property or any- one claiming by, through, or un- (Continued on Page Three) MANY HEARD DR. PLAINFIELD |contTINUES LECTURES WITH TALK AT BAPTIST CHURCH TONIGHT | Dr. Jos. F. Plainfield, superin- jtendent of Mission Work among \the foreigners in the cities of the south for the Southern Baptist Convention, spoke last evening \to an interested and appreciative congregation assembled at the \First Baptist Church of this city. | An opportunity to meet Dr. Plainfield at the conclusion of his ilecture last evening was afford- ed and many took advantage of the occasion. Dr. Plainfield will speak to- night on the story of his con- version to the Gospel of Christ, and will tell something of his life in mission work in Tampa and other cities covering a total Christian experience of thirty- five years. DANCING Te 10:00 till 2 RAU L’S CLUB Music by Raul’s Hawaiian Orchestra JIM BRADY, Manager Louis XIV of France tried two |ing it easy and enjoying a much- * Gannet and ‘Destroyer there was little to be attended Cover Charge (Continued on Page Three) {needed period of relaxation. ' Fairfax. skeen sestiac! his eye on Secretary Hull. Ito.