The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 7. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1939 Finland Anniilat Another Division Soviet Attack Army VICTORY DUPLICATES SIMILAR ROUTE GAIN- ED LAST WEEK; OTHER | SECTORS QUIET (By Associated Press) HELSINKI Jan. 8.—The 44th i | total of some 16,000 soldiers, was | Russian Division, comprising a | today reported practically wiped | out by Finnish troopers in al duplication of entrapping man-| euvers that spelled complete route and capture of the Russian, 163rd Division last week. Scene of the new, outstanding victory for the Finns, was just a few miles from last weck’s mas-: sacre. | A communique from | the front on the middle sector in| Central Finland, related of hun-| special dreds of big guns being taken as! fifty were well as more than Huge captured intact by the Finns. On other fronts, both north and in the ‘extreme ‘south; fight- | ing was at a standstill over the! weekend with, sub-zero weather keeping troops inactive. Army headquarters here heard today of the heroic action of two Finn ski-troopers who spent nine days in temperatures constantly near the 40-degree-below-zero mark in advancing to the Mur- mansk-Leningrad railroad to plant bombs that wrecked a con- tanks. | also fighting supply trains NEXT FRIDAY ROSS SAWYER TO LEAVE THURSDAY ON S.S. CUBA FOR MURPHY MEETING County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer will leave Thursday afternoon on the S.S. Cuba enroute to Talla- hasee to attend a meeting of all county glerks in Florida, assem- bled to hold final consultations with the Internal Improvement Board on procedure to follow in advertising Murphy Act lands unredeemed for . Mr. Sawyer stated that the meeting would be held on Friday, January 12, and that he would probably return to the city next Sunday FIPFAIAL ALA UNIVERSITY DEAN TO RETURN VIA KEY WEST Miss Pearl Aikin Smith, Dean of Women at the Uni- versity of Southern Califor- nia and Mrs. Robert W. Walsh of Hollywood, Calif., left yes- terday morning for Havana. They plan to spend two weeks on the island of Cuba visiting many places of in- terest including the Univer- sity of Havana where they will be honored guests. Their former plans had called for them to take the boat back to Miami but they were so fascinated by Key West that they are returning here instead. During the three days they were here, at the Casa Marina, they visited every interesting part of the island city and said that they found it one of the most fa: cimating places they ha encountered during whole trip. SILIIZT SII TS | \ | ATTY. GEN. JACKSON TO GIVE RADIO TALK | In a wire to The Citizen today, U. S. Senator Claude Pepper states that Robert H. Jackson, new U. S. Attorney General, will speak over a national radio chain hookup tonight from 9.00 to 9:30 o'clock, SURVEY REVEALS RATE OF AUTO INFLUX TO STAT FOUR MAIN HIGHWAYS CHECKED SHOW NEARLY 6,000 VEHICLES COMING IN EACH EIGHT HOURS TAMPA, Jan. 8 (FNS).—Re. turning from a state traffic sur- | vey, Asher Frank, director of the Florida Safety Council, stated that the four main highways leading into Florida showed that between 9 a m. and 5 p. m., twelve cars per minute were coming into the state, or 5760 cars during this eight-hour pe- riod. The survey shows that these j cars are carrying an average of | three passengers or 17,290 visitors | are coming into the state each} eight hours. This survey didn’t | cover bus, train, or truck travel. | There are approximately 7,500 | miles of state maintained roads. | It is estimated that in a 90-day | (Continued on Page Four) HUNDREDS SIGN Claims, Service Inadequate | P. & 0. PETITION, Yecsecccccnncccsces Several hundred signers been noted on_ petitions being ; circulated here to the United States Maritime Commission ask- | ing that it compel the P. & O.| Steamship company to provide | better service to Cuba or approve any application for authority to operate a Havana ferry service | that may come before it. The petitions were prepared | and circulated by the Key West | Hotel and Tourist Homes As- sociation. Also enlisted in the, effort are members of the Key | West Chamber of Commerce and | of the Merchants’ Association, ac- | cording to an announcement by | |R. A. Lehmann of the hotel or-| ganization. In the preamble to the petition, | t is stated that the P. & O. serv- ice has been cut in half, that it is regarded as inadequate and that} it should be restored. Officials | of the association point out that when a ferry operating company more than a year ago applied to | the commission for a certificate of necessity and convenience the; P. & O. opposed it on the ground that its service was adequate. “Key West business interests then asserted that the service was inadequate”, Lehmann said. “If it was inadequate then, it cer- | tainly is worse than that now, jfor the service has been cur-j tailed. Now the S. S. Cuba} makes only one round trip week- | ly between Key West and Ha- vana.” ‘SUPPER! SUPPER! | Auspices K. W. Woman’s Club [ WOMAN'S CLUBHOUSE | 1309 Division Street Thursday, Jan. 11, 6 to 8 p. m. EACH PERSON 60c; | hone 365 For Reservations) | have (CONGRESS GETS READY TO SLIP’ AR, | | HOUSE STUDIES TRADE RE-! | House !U. S. Senate got down to high-| jthe admunistration’s request jnot at all satisfy the party. The Venezuela, as a democracy, is jits recent call for united action | other lines. [eee eree ee | DAVIES SILENT oraRRIVE Tomorrow ON PENICK FIRE Flight of the good-will REVELATIONS aviators from the Miami air maneuvers to Havana by way of Key West was postponed |/DECLARES HIS BELIEF THAT i - ‘ today until tomorrow, ac. TUESDAY'S BLAZE WAS OF INCENDIARY ORIGIN; RE- MAINS TO PUSH PROBE INTO HIGH GE ! CIPROCITY ACT; SERRATE || STARTS DISCUSSIONS ON: i 1940 BUDGET H cording to word received by Mayor Willard M. Albury and officials of Key West Chamber of Commerce. Some 50 airplanes had been expected to land this morning on the airport adja- cent to East Martello Tower. Word from Miami was to the effect that the number of planes entered for the Ha- vana flight had been reduced, so that the entire contingent will drop down in Key West tomorrow morning. They are scheduled to leave Miami around 7 a. m, and land here around an hour later. Refreshments will be serv- ed the arrivals tomorrow morning at Raul’s. Later the contingent will take off for Havana. (By Axsocinted Press) | WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The of Representatives Circumstances surrounding the jexplosions and fire that seriously |damaged the home of H. O. Pen- \ick at Emma and Southard streets jlast Tuesday night were being linvestigated today by Edward S. |Davies, Tampa, representative of jthe arson department of the Na- {tional Board of Fire Underwrit- fers. | Investigator Davies arrived there Saturday and over the week- jend made a preliminary study of jthe evidence produced by Fire Chief Harry Baker and the mem- |bers of the fire department, Be- | yond declaring that in his opin- jion the fire was of incendiary \origin, the arson expert remain- ted silent regarding the result of his examination so far. The investigator did state that and } gear action today in the fi whirl of contemplation of legis- | lative action in the new session | opening last Wednesday. | The House was busy studying ; for | extension of the Trade Recipro- | 1 ause At Key West city Act. One resolution present- | ed would extend the President’s | power for a three-year period. | American Federation of Labor | served notice today that it was| cpposed to the trade agreements | (OP IDI ILI SIA in the future, and added that! the standing agreements should | s#eeeeeseereococe = be repudiated. The same sroup/ FERRY BOAT 1S 0 also served notice that it would! jhe would continue his probe in actively support a strong revision | ae s* ;co operation with Chief Baker of the National Labor Belanons | P jand the sheriff's office. He laud- Board. eal ik led the decision of local officials Ente Sones Pata Harrison to keep a guard at the Penick committee of senators and rep- | 7 1 Key West firemen reported ssentatives combine to study the | —” < sae mee ie es ne t. {(Reprinted From © an cc ias they were getting ready to —_-_—______-- | Times-Union, Jacksonville, ‘light the. fire Migsieead, ene LABOR PARTY T0 i January 4, 1940) _ |Penick residence. They report | In furtherance of Pan Ameri- \finding electric fixtures and rags {ean “good neighbor” relation-|soaked with an inflammable QUERY DISMISSAL |:nivs and to mark the passing liquid in the house. Mr. Penick of a familiar craft from the Jack- {had been away from Key West oe Isonville waterfront; members of {0" Several’ days and was not HAVE CHANCE TO CALL IN-ithe Scuthside Business Men's “Wate of the conditions discov- : ee tered, VESTIGATION OF BRITAINS Raines Capea eaee eal Investigator Davies is accom- ‘ ss a anied by Mrs. Davies. Th CONDUCT OF WAR | Ferryboat Jackson with the new Rect A: area acing, NOLES rap jowner, Senor Pedro Bar Boza, fay, days. . a Venezuela developer, Capt. An-| s (Ry Anncointed Preasd !drew S. Velez and Mayor George LICENSE SALES LONDON, Ja 8.—Given the'C. Blume among the. many COLLECTOR LADD STATES chance for the first time in a Suests. long time to gain nation-wide at-| Informal talks served to estab- ONLY ONE-FOURTH OF TAGS BOUGHT the| tention, the Labor party to-|lish an interesting comparison day landed with “all four feet? between the type of service ren | on the recent dismissal of Hore-;dered by the “Jackson” in the Belisha from command of the UPbuilding of the Southside, by British army, and indicated that furnishing dependable transporta- it would demand a special ses-'tion to the downtown area over sion of the House of Parliament @ span of more than 10 years, to get to the bottom of the ques-'and the purposes for which it) tion. |will be used on Lake Maracaibo This maneuver would give the ‘in Venezuela. party an added chance to ques-! Captain Velez, a native of Por- tion the war policy now being |to Rico, speaking in behalf of followed, which it is said, does Senor Bar Boza, reminded that Only about one-quarter of the {automobile owners of Monroe county hed taken out their 1940 ;motor vehicle licenses up to this ‘afternoon, according to County Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd. special session would be embar-| speedily being modernized along’ Unless extended by order of the rassing to the ministry in view of transportation, public utilities The “Jackson”, he “winning | said, will connect with a new, (Continue@e on Page Four) the tags is Jan. 15. concerning matters of the war”. ithis year another driving hazard {will confront those who have not procured their new license ;Plates when the deadline arriv- The county now has a state ‘road patrolman and one of his duties is enforcement of the auto jtag law... This patrolman is con- |stantly on the road, but he may Four Important Subjects Headline Planning Program Starting an impressive and; much worthwhile series of pro- grams this week, will be the first of the Planning Program pre- sentations tonight, to be given at The program, under chairman- |°!tY limits. ship of Clifford G. Hicks, will be- ARITHMETIC PROBLEM gin at 8 o’clock and last for an! (By Associated Press) hour. Interspersed with the! speeches, will be musical num-| bers furnished by the WPA) SACRAMENTO, Calif, Jan. 6. Coast Guard Headquarters Build- Band, string quartet. |—The California Department of ing. The program is presented! Good attendance has been! Education is looking for a “more as part of Key West Planning noted at the State Planning|meaningful” method of getting Week and runs jointly with the|Board exhibit. The programs to) mathematics across to children. State Planning Board Exhibit be given each night this week|The department thinks at pres- which opened here last Saturday Should attract good attendance injent the subject is not taught morning and continues for the View of the interesting subjects} with close enough relationship to duration of this week. to be headlined. jthe pupils’ actual problems. The subject of tonight’s meet-! - ~ ing which is announced as free to all, is “A Special Project’s Rela- tion in Community Develop- ment”, and a top-notch list of speakers will discuss four im-! portant project subjects. Wallace B. Kirke will talk on the U. S. Housing Authority, | bringing out progress made on the present application for a | Housing Project for this city. | John Allan Long, chairman of! the Key West Zoning Board, will! HEWETT’S COCONUTS CAPTURED PRIZ | Fanny Thing, Though—He Didn’t Know About It IN ‘TAMPA TIMES’ PRODUCTS CONTEST Tewevcenacaasrecccesccesescevesesnacascsence Mrs. J. J. De Guenther of Tam- ;some { i coconuts grown in his jSpeak on Zoning—with especial;P@ advised The Citizen today|front yard and gave them to his emphasis on the work of his pence ae the “prize Key West board which expects to present j nephews, Jimmy and Bobby De entry” of coconuts, which were|Guenther. The youngsters, re- a completed project to the Cityjentered in the Florida Prize'calling The Times Contest, car- Council in the near future. ;Products’ Contest recently spon-|ried the coconuts to town and B. M. Dunean, well-known to sored by” The Tampa Times|entered them in the Key West, wil speak on the sub- | newspaper. {their uncle. ject of Aqueduct Commission:| The entry of coconuts was! A unique feature of the ex- and will have a vital message in |made under the name of A. M. jhibit, which took one of the divi- regard to what that project can | Hewett of Key West, although, as/sion prizes, is that it constituted do towards developing this city. |Mrs. De Guenther explained, “Mr. |the only entry of coconuts and Edward R. Neff, manager of|Hewett didn’t know a thing|was the cnly entry of any prod- the Overseas Road and Tolljabout it”. uct from Key West. It was also Bridge Distirct, will speak on} On a recent trip to visit his|the entry made from the further- subjects related to his work. sister, Mr. Hewett took along jet Point. a ithat two explosions were heard | governor the deadline for buying } County officials point out that j enforce any state law inside the; Che Key West Citizen | U.S.A. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Dead In cials Think M an Found Pool Was Suicide } eeecccwccceescccceccccs| DOROTHY GEORGE Is A Conch Enthusiast | AGAIN A. VISITOR eonccce Boston, Mass., director of the Vesper George School of Art in| Boston, has again returned to the Overseas Hotel for a stay of sev- | ‘eral weeks. Aside from the, magnificent drive out into the! ‘sunset, which leads to this Pic- | ituresque islet drowsing under | the palms, Miss George finds; the community offers endless en- | tertainment. ! “Where else in the world”, she |says, “can one find such a unique collection of activities elbowing jeach other within sight of the} encircling. seas—Negroes, the | staccato crack of ‘Slap Ma Feet’, Conchs, Cubans, marines and} fishermen, aviators, destroyers, | soldiers, ceroplanes and bicycles, | turtles and tourists, wreckers and | spongeboats. The thrill of game! fishing and indolent beach pic- | nics, yachts and dugout canocs, | The Casa Marina for swank, the | Shack for food—dice and danc- ing, Cuban sandwiches and Slop. py Joe’s, temperamental cele- brities and retired generals, art-! ists and designers, art hand-/ painted or a conch shell, art dis- | | t played in the lemon -yellow halls of the Art Gallery. “By turns shabbily picturesque or proudly gleaming with fresh paint, the,local architecture is smothered in the lush green of palm plumes and mantles of blazing pcinsettia. “Key West with its informal atmosphere holds a warm place in the hearts of those of its visi- jtors who have taken the trouble to meet its friendly hospitality half-way”. REV. J. J. MULLIN T0 NEW ORLEANS KEY WEST PRIEST GIVEN TEACHING POST AT LOYOLA U | Rev. J. J. Mullin, S.J., who, for two and a half years, has been a priest ‘at St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Reman Catholic Church here, fas departed for Loyola University in New Orleans, where he will teach’a class in philoso- phy. Rev. Mullin received news of the appointment early today and immediately made preparations to leave for the new post. Many of his friends in all walks of life in Key West gathered to bid him farewell this morning. HOTEL MEMBERS MEET TUESDAY President R. S. Lehmann of the Key West Hotel and Tourist Homes Association announced to- day that a meeting of that group will be held at La Concha Hotel, tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday, starting at 2:30 o'clock. Several important matters will be up for discussion, Mr. Leh- IN ASSAULT CASE A charge of assault filed against Fernando Stirrup, 905 name of|Catherine street. by Walter C.|/corps, and four sons, William! Maloney of Maloney Brothers} Bakery, was dismissed Saturday | when the case came before Peace | Justice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. The charge resulted from a controversy in front of the Ma-; loney home. Stirrup had wit-| nesses to prove he was else- where at the time. 1 i jour sugar needs for more than SUGAR CONSUMERS ots ones was ARE AFFECTED BY OFFSHORE | STATUS ee EFFORT TO ESTABLISH Discovery of the bloated body of an unidentified middleaged i PHILIPPINES, PUERTO RICO, HAWAII, CUBA—ALL _IN- TERESTED IN SUGAR LEG- ISLATION; CONTROL STOPS | man in the swimming pool at the jedge of Roosevelt Boulevard off today to de- |Florida bay at 7 a. m. (Special to The Citizen) started an investigation NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—The re- cent suspension of sugar control | legislation definitely proved the| failure of such legislation to pro- tect the American consumer. Despite this very apparent failure it is likely that sugar in-| Although the man’s hands and terests will again try to obtain! feet had been tied with cord and legislation at the present ses-| ge : sion of Congress. Under the |? rock was found fastened to the Sugar Act of 1937 the states were body, the sheriff's office and permitted to supply less than 30, Coronor Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., per cent of their sugar needs;| were inclined after a preliminary Cuba and other foreign countries | «amination to belie thie were guaranteed another 30 per; 4 ee cent and the remaining 40 per | Co™Mitted suicide. cent was guaranteed to three; Officials who viewed the body diverse offshore afeas, namely! at Pritchard’s Funeral Home were Philippine Islands,; Puerto Rico | convinced that the body was not and Hawaii; the jm “diverse” | tat of any well known Key West is used advisedly ag the relation- | ship of each of thege three areas| 2M, but of some stranger. "On to the United Sta’ is entirely |the body were found a theap different. | watch, a knife and a small wal- Hawaii is a ;it has,let. This contained oigi¥.anote supplied a substantial portion of) reading: “Poison Dick. No. 244,948.” half a century; its citizens are Coroner Esquinaldo directed full citizens of the United States,, Roy Hamlin, the county's Bertil- paying income taxes of large!lon expert, to take fingerprints amounts into the United States of the dead man with a view to Treasury; its employees receive |sending them to the Federal Bu- wages comparable to those paid;reau of Identification at Wash- on the mainland; it is an integral ington in the belief that he may part of the United States, and it have been a former convict. The became such a part on its own'numerals on the note lent some request. credence to that belief. Puerto Rico was part of “the The body was discovered by spoils of war” at the turn of the Silvio Carrera, a WPA watch- century; it pays no income tax man, as he was walking to work. or other taxes into the United The body was floating face down- States Treasury’but is in fact a, ward in the pool near the diving termine whether the man had been murdered or had killed himself under unusual circum- stances. man serious drain upon our resources; platform. At the moment of dis- many of its people are crying for covery a Parks’ Dairy truck was (Continued on Page Four) passing the scene and Ike Parks, the driver, stopped when he 2” * ** heard Carrera shout. “Here's a dead man”, Carrera GOLDEN WEDDING =: Parks jumped from his truck ee ee and ran to the spot. He leaned i: down and turned the body over Celebrate This = Ww eek A glance revealed the man had been dead, probably from three eee Parks called Chief Deputy bond @eececeee Sheriff Bernard Waite When i i Waite reached the home 0 aa pram ae Te Coroner Esquinaldo he discovere a Jose G. Piodela, 420 Fleming that Pritchard's Funeral opti street, well known and respected @lready had been notified of a citizens of Key West, this week 8rewsome discovery. _ poor are celebrating the 50th anniver-, Was ordered removed to — sary of their marriage. ard’s Division street morgue. : As soon as all of the members| Feet and hands of the may of their family arrive here, a had been tied with a green an 5 solemn mass will be sung at St. Hanging from, the hands an 2 a Mary’s Star of the Sea Church cord around the man’s waist vhs in their honor. Mr. Piodela, now a dog collar looped oue > : 78, has been ill for several years,/ man’s belt. The ESteneee le in but is receiving the congratula- small rock. The rocl hag poe tions of his relatives and friends| heavy enough, in opinion o Ms at his home. Mrs. Piodela, 71, is, ficials, M gee body on the i ive i i bottom of the pool. cuca spar Scores.of bathers were at saa Miss Josephine Blanco, a pool Saturday and Suncare? native of Brooklyn, N. Y., became no one presumably saw the AG the bride of Jose Piodela at It may have lain on Se Brooklyn January 10, 1899. Be-, bottom daring this Rosca ae fore going to Brooklyn, Mr. Pio-' could not have float aie toe dela, a native of Spain, had been the tem as the in! engaged in the tobacco business screened.) ‘ okey West. Four years after A wound stiaeresaed pan 2 the marriage, the young couple right cheek: is believ he "4 came to Key West to make their' been caused by contact wi me home. \rock in the pool, Laundry mai see In all, there were nine chil-|on the cheap trousers worn by dren, six boys and three girls. | the man were checked ee Living today are the three| bia Laundry company, fired n gaughters, Bessie and Rosinda of |record of it was found there. a Key West and Mrs. Isabelle Hy-} Coroner Esquinaldo — . land of Brooklyn, wife of Quar- have the body examined y a termaster Sergeant G. J. Hyland|physician before determining of the United States Marine| whether an autopsy is necessary. Hastings, Jose, Jr., Frank B. and} SPEEDING BICYCLER LOS ANGELES.—When Com- Wilbur Piodela, all of Key West.) Mr. Piodela was in business/ here for many years prior to his/| missioner H. B. Blakely of this retirement. He was-one of the|city asked prospective juryman first members of the Key West | Perry Wilden if he had ever been Lodge of Elks. During the world arrested, Wilden’s reply was: |war Mr. Piodela'served with the |“Yes, for speeding on a bicycle (Continued on Page Two) in 1906”,