The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 9, 1940, Page 4

PAGE FOUR Casa Marina Notes | THE FIRST BINGO PARTY of the year was held last evening at the Casa Marina. More than twenty-five guests “were present and afterwards enjoyed the danc- ing. There were seven games played and Mrs. C. H. Stuart won the final and biggest game of the evening. AMONG THOSE PLAYING were Mrs. L. A. Kniffin, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schmitz, Mr. and Mrs. Glen O. Smith, and Mark and Patricia Smith, Mr. and Mrs. George L. Penty, Mr. and Mrs. ©.-B. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Burkelow, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Stwart, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard P. Moore, Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Netz, Col. and Mrs. Henry P. Barrett and Robert wton. DR. AND MRS. GROSVENOR of Washington, D. C. were overnight guests at the GILBERT Casa Marina. Dr. Grosvenor is the editor of the National Geo- graphic Magazine. When ques- tioned about the Overseas High- way he remarked that in his esti- mation it was one of the finest pieees of engineering he has ever seen. It was also his first visit! to Key West in some time and was very well pleased to find business here improving. He and Mrs. Grosvenor left yester- day but will return later in the | Season. MR. AND MRS. GLEN O. SMITH and their two children, Patricia and Mark, left this morning for their home in Cleve- land. They have been at the Casa Marina for the past three weeks. This was their first visit to Key West, always having gone to the west coast before. How- lever they think there is nothing like this city and are already making plans to return next year. ONLY ONE BOAT yesterday afternoon Casa Marina dock. It “Legion” with Capt. Jakie Key and the anglers were Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Sudler and Dr. L. W. Netz. They returned with several good sized fish but it re- mained for Mrs. Sudler to show up the men by pulling in the biggest bull dolphin landed here this season. The fish weighed 13% pounds. out the the went from was TUG PEACOCK CITY ORDERS LEFT MONDAY LEFT TO TAKE PANAMANIAN VESSEL TO TOW FROM POINT NEAR MIAMI In response to a wirele: sage, the salvage boat Peacock left Key West yesterday for point below Miami to go to the assistance of the S. S. Henseat, a Panamanian vessel. Her captain wirelessed he was in need of tow but did not disclose the nature of the difficulty. The Peacock plan- ned to tow the Henseat to Mobile mes- a SIGNS DOWN DECIDES AGAINST OVER- HEAD DISPLAYS; MUNICI- PAL CARS MARKED | Duval Street merchants today were commenting‘on the fact that all banners had been re- moved from above that thorough- fare. The banners were hauled down under orders of the Police Department following a confer- ence between city councilmen and Mayor Willard M. Albury, it an SPEAKS TONIGHT Dr. Manfred Arie, noted Vien- nese jurist and profound student of Jew will speak before Congregation B’Nai Zion at the synagogue, corner Simon- ton and Southard streets, tonight at 8 o’clock, in behalf of the United Jewish Appeal for Ref- ugees and Overseas Needs. The United Jewish Appeal for Refugees and Overseas Needs, representing the combined ef- forts of the Joint Distribution Co ittee, the United Palestine Appeal and the National Co- ordinating Committee Fund, Inc., is devoted to the three-fold task of relief and reconstruction in Europe, immigration and _reset- ish problems THE KEY WES' LEAGUE CITES | MURPHY ACT 1 | | | | | (Continued trom Page One) piled and made available to the public. The league also charged that | the Board's ruling on sales of tax | | delinquent property will result in! |great injustice in the case of |thousands of pieces of property , delinquent for one or more years as result of neglect or oversight of former owners or as result of errors on the part of tax offi- cials, making it necessary for) such ‘owners to buy back their! own property or have it con- fiscated. | The league also referred in its letter to a heretofore overlooked provision of the Murphy Act. It pointed out that Section Ten of the Act requires that when prop- erty is sold under the provisions of Section Nine any amount re- ceived in excess of delinquent taxes and cost shall be remitted | to the former owner. It has been generally assumed that the entire amount received from property sold under the Murphy Act would go to the state. One group recently esti- jmated the total amount would be approximately $60,000,000, but, according to the league’s letter, the state will receive only the amount of the unpaid taxes and ‘not the full sale price of the prop- erty. The Board was reminded that property with a - total assessed tlement in Palestine and refugee | value of $97,000,000 was tax de- adjustment in the United States. |linquent when the Murphy Act Dr. Arie was “Oberlandesge-|!was passed. This was equivalent richtsrat und Senatsvorsitzen-|to 30% of the assessed value of jder” in Vienna, a position equiv-|all real estate remaining on the alent to that of a presiding jus-|tax rolls and approximately 50% tice of a State Supreme Court in of the land area of Florida. It the United States. He was a was claimed that most of this member of the Jewish Academic! property was delinquent because Fraternity “Hasmonaea”, and a it was not worth the excessive member of the “Ring der Alter taxes levied against it—not as -re Horrn juedischer Verbindungen”! syit of delinquency as a means in Vienna. of tax evasion. Most property of A Doctor of Law, and Profes- any potential value has been sor of Criminal Law, Dr. Arie cleared up, in the opinion of the contributed numerous articles on league, and that remaining sub- legal questions and Jewish prob-' ject to sale is of but little value. lems to Continental publications, The league appealed to the T CITIZEN Carter Family Has Unique Reunion There were 16 members of the Carter family present when this New Year’s day reunion picture was taken at the Indian River County home of Mrs. Blanche Williams Carter in South Flor- ida at the Wabasso, eight miles from Vero Beach. Mrs, Carter, 82, is the mother of Jerry W. Carter, Florida railroad commis- sioner. The photograph was taken at the old Carter’ home- ;Stead where Mrs. Carter lives with her son, Robert Daniel Car- ter. The Carters settled at Wa- basso when the county was still St. Lucie, and before the exist- ence of Vero Beach. Commis- sioner Carter is fifth from the left and his mother stands in front of him at the left. Others in the picture are her sons, their wives, grand children and great grand children. ONCE A WAR PRISONER—ALWAYS| ks Otherwise NAZIS TELL GERMANS} Treason Charged To Anyone Who Thin A WAR PRISONER AP Feature Service BERLIN, Jan. 9.—“The enemy}; Prisoners are held responsible | remains the enemy”, the German for the seepage of much military | people have been told in a cam- information across frontiers dur- { paign to prevent citizens from ing the World War. Women who! contacting the several hundred ‘unwittingly sympathized with} thousand war prisoners taken by ‘prisoners are held up as_ their | the German army. Treason is the charge placed against Germans. who smuggle letters or other written matters to prisoners or who assist escape. greatest accomplices, In this war, they must not offer prisoners? food or drink. Some, during the World War, even accompanied } prisoners to the frontier, pro- | TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1940 CONTINUES PROBE OF PENICK BLAZE INVESTIGATOR DAVIES AS- SISTED BY CITY POLICE AND FIRE OFFICIALS H | | Investigation of the explosions and fire which partially destroy- ed the home of H. O. Penick at Emma and Southard streets last Tuesday was. continuing today under direction of Edward S. Davies, Tampa, special agent for the arson department of the Na- tional Board of Fire Underwrit- ers. Co-operating in the probe are Police Chief Ivan Elwood and members of the police depart- ment, Fire Chief Harry Baker and fire department members, and deputies under Sheriff K. O. Thompson, Agent Davies said. “We are working on the theory that the fire was of incendiary origin”, Agent Davies declared in a visit to the office of The Citi- zen. GOODBYE, NOW. _ (By Associated Press) SEDALLA, Mo., Jan. 9.—A duck ; hunter, returning from a_ hunt, | | openéd his game bag on the! i street to show a friend the giant | | duck»he had brought down, Out flew the duck. ! YOU AND I Along the road we wander, Just you and I. What would we do if the Savior, Should happen to come our way. Would we stand and meet Him. Or would we turn aside, He who is always looking For His dear lost child. Would we stand with bowed head And whisper a silent prayer And ask His forgiveness Of the many wrong shared. things we —L. S. NASH. Key West, Fla. The American Association for the Advancement of Science was founded in 1848. CHEST \ COLD MISERY IRST—rub throat, chest, and back wn Vicks VapoRub at bedtime. spread a thick layer of Vapor on the chest cover a warmed cloth. RIGHT Away, VapoRub goes to work—loosens phlegm—eases soreness or tightness— clears air passages—relieves it often t of - if most o mz WICKS For Real Purity For Real Economy For Real Service was reported around city hall. An avtomobile driven by Night Police Captain Alberto Camero now carries a sign clear- The Warbler is still working on the removal of the Japanese freighter S. S. Kinugasa-Maru, aground on Trinity Shoal off the es E coast of Texas. It is not known /¥ announcing that it is a police when she will return to her sta- Ca! This is the only such car |Fire Chief Harry Baker belong | } VISITED HERE tion here. jowned by the city. Cars driven |by Police Chief Ivan Elwood and NYA OFFICIALS to them. Signs were ordered by jcity council on all city cars. | PERSONAL MENTION J. A. YOUNGBLOOD CAME ON | BUSINESS FOR STATE | | Mr. and Mrs. Jose Fernandez DEPARTMENT |who were spending the holidays — {with relatives in Havana, Cuba, Arriving over the highway |returned on the Steamship Cuba Sunday cvening were Mr. and last Thursday aftetnoon. Mrs. Joe A. Youngblood. —— Mr. and Mrs. Edward Roberts Mr. Youngblood, who is state administrator of the National |arrived here over the highway Youth Administration, came for | Sunday evening for a short vaca- tion at the home of Mr. Roberts \father, Thomas Roberts, 629 ‘Grinnell street. They were ac- companied by their daughter, Mrs. George Jones and _ infant daughter, Carol Annette. the purpose of inspecting proj- ects in the Key West area and for a consultation with Victor Lowe, local area supervisor. After a pleasant and satisfac- tory visit, the visitors left for Jacksonville y afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Portela, arrived from New York for a two and before coming to this country Board for justice in the sale of was active as a leading inter-|tax delinquent property, pointing pretor of the law in Austria. out that while they opposed pas- With a keen insight into the sage of the Murphy Act, they also | ‘problems of Jewry throughout recognized the fact that “the real the world, Dr. Arie has long injustice was not the Act itself studied the situation of the Jews | put the inequitable, obsolete ad in European lands and seygra, | valorem tax system that made Nom ee travelled . Palestine, !such an act possible—and within | better to acquaint himself with | certain limits. necessary. | the position of the Jews there. In the concluding paragraph | ee lof their letter the league said, | WM NELSON 71 \“the results of the Murphy Act, | e 5) ’ j the Futch Act, and the Gomez 7 Act, and hundreds of local tax DIED YESTERDAY adjustment laws enacted within the past 20 years should convince | SS {any one—except those who prof- AT it from its maladministration and abuse—that the ad valorem sys- tem should be abolished”, andj issued a warning that unless of- ficials and citizens recognize the fact that the ad valorem system is economically unsound; abolish FUNERAL SERVICES LOPEZ CHAPEL TOMOR- ROW AFTERNOON Any contact whatsoever, without permission, is punishable. Prisoners must be isolated, in the official view, although this is difficult, for they are being worked in fields and other places where they must be close to peo- ple who are not their guards. tecting them enroute through their knowledge of the language and geography. ‘ More than 107,000 out of 526,922 captives escaped ahroad between 1914 and 1918 currying information and _ strergthening ithe enemy. Economic Highlights At this writing, the official re-} ports on fourth-quarter business activity have not yet been pub- lished. But preliminary reports and authoritative estimates are at hand. They show that busi- ness during the latter part of 1939 made one of the most rapid rises in our history. Where the Federal Reserve Board index of production stood at 98 in June, it shot upward to 125 in Novem- ber. And the December level, going by advance estimates, was 127 or better. Of vital importance is the fact that practically all manufactur- ing shared in the improvement. In our previous “recovery” pe- idly and inventories keep business firms in the most liquid condition possible—rela- tively large cash resources, small inventories, and the minimum of future commitments. Within the past four months (Mr. Robey wrote this in late December) the whole tendency has been to re- verse this policy”. If that is true, it explains a great deal that has been mystifying. And there is much evidence to back it up— business is spending its cash rap- are being built up to extraordinary levels. Main point now is, how long will the trend continue? General opinion holds that there will be 2,- | DELIVERED DAILY EVERYWHERE Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION | PHONE NO. 8 JWC Social Hour Postponed Junior Woman's Club social meeting, originally scheduled for this Thursday evening at 5:00 o'clock, has been postponed un. til the following Thursday, Janu- ary 18, at the same time. Conflict with the Senior Wom- an’s Club supper on the same day this week was discovered after the publicity release was given yesterday. Harris P.-T.A. Meets Wednesday Harris School Parent-Teachers Association will hold its first regular meeting of the new year tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday, in the school auditorium. Mrs. Grace Archer, president, ill call the meeting to order at 30 o'clock. 's wi 2 Woman’s Club Supper Thursday Key West Woman’s Club will serve supper at the clubhouse, 1309 Division street, on Thursday evening, 6 to 8 o'clock. Reservations for the supper can be made by calling Mrs. J. J. Trevor, telephone 356. Legion Auxiliary Meets Tomorrow American Legion Auxiliary Will hold a regular meeting to- morrow afternoon, Wednesday, at the home of Mrs. John Z. Wharton in the Army Barracks. The meeting will be called to order at 4 o'clock. weeks’ stay in the Island City. The Portelas formerly lived in this -city, but moved to the Metropolis 10 years. ago where they have since made their home. They are guests of Mr. and, Mrs. Pedro Aguilar on Duval street. Mr. and Mrs. Armando Perez and Mrs. Lucretia Cabot of Tam- pa, after spending the holidays with their parents and _ friends here, returned over the highway | to their homes. | Mr, and Mrs. Mario Alvarez, | Roberto Alvarez and wife and! their children spent the holidays in this city with their parents on Catherine street. They left over the highway yesterday for their homes in Tampa. Miss Mabel Lindemann . of Chicago, Ill, is a visitor at the home of her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Du- Breuil, 310 William street. INQUEST TO IDENTIFY MAN (Continued from Page One) tion in the first place, a few seconds before he discovered the body on Monday. It was be- lieved the sweater belonged to the dead man. “As soon as we hear from the FBI we will complete the in- quest”, Justice Esquinaldo said today. “Unless the federal bu- reau is able to identify the body, it is doubtful if it ever will be identified. Some 200 persons al- ready have viewed the remains and we are quite certain it is not that of a Key Wester.” More than half the population ‘of Panama is of mixed race. William Emelius Nelson, 77, | the system and set up a fair, hon- died yesterday afternoon at 2:30 est and equitable basis of taxing o'clock at the home on Pine /property, the headaches, de- street. struction and economic stagna- Services will be held tomorrow |tion resulting from the Murphy afternoon, Wednesday, at 4 Act will be repeated within 10 to o'clock in the Lopez Funeral 15 years, Home chapel to Fleming ' Street pea anne Pera Church. Surviving the deceased are NATURE NOTES the widow, Mrs. Susan M. Nel-! son, four sons, Eugene, Ashby, John. Edwin, five daughters, Mrs. Miriam Saunders, Mrs. Ruth Helton, Mrs.‘Irma Gwin, Mrs. |Lulu Kinsman, Mrs. Jewell Mot- ‘low, a sister, Mrs. Anna Watkins, fifteen grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Knights of Golden Eagle lodge members and the Fire Depart- ment will be in attendance at the services. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT Bolls Announce Grandson Telegraph advice was received by Mr. and Mrs. William Boll, 221 Duval street, of the birth this morning of a son to their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Dougherty at Rahway, Ned. ANSWERS TO TODAY’S DAILY QUIZ Below are the Answers to Today's Daily Quiz printed on Page 2 Matthew 7:12. Stephen A. Douglas. Columbus. As a separate course, fore the dessert. Yes. Papeete. Capt. H. A. Badt. Harold (Jug) McSpaden. Seventy. It is used in the manufac- ture of perfumes, ie oe be- Porm | New York subway workers rarely glimpse the sun while on the job, yet are accounted quite ‘healthy. (Continued from Page One) fine finish are among Mr. Kirke’s attributes. He brought out a box of tiles, made in North Caro- lina, decorated with prints made directly from plant sprays and colored daintily before glazing; jthese are to be built in a fire- place now under construction. And here were leaf stems of the! | Washintonia palms, bordered each side with spur-like thorns, which , |had been cleverly worked into carved designs of fish, animals | jand birds, the thorns serving as | beaks, fins and tails, etc. “Key West maintains an Art Center, a W.P.A. project under! \the supervision of Townsend Morgan, himself a landscape art- ist and designer of ability. Here exhibitions of pictures are held, other cities exchanging; and local arti: have their pictures ‘on exhibition and sale. Some charming works, mostly water- colors of local scenes, are on the walls. The lady directors take their turns behind the desk; here we were kindly received by Mrs. |Linton D. Curry, there for the day. “Calling one morning on our friends, the Gekelers, we com- mented on the beautiful wood carvings we saw about, and were surprised to find they were the work of Mrs. Gekeler, who ‘comes from a Quaker family of | Richmond, Ind. Here were trays and others in exquisite designs of leaves and flowers in full relief, in dark mahogany, fault- less in composition and execu- tion. All over the city one con- stantly runs into the most de- lightful or unique bits of hand- craft; the curio stores are filled ‘with them”, : jafter half a year of steady de- “Ladies Appolo Club”. a moderate leveling off soon, and that certain readjustments must be made. And most spe- cifie forecasts reflect the opin- words, the betterment was usual-|i0n that 1940, on the average, ly spotty. Thatt certainly’ wasn’t | Will be a considerably better true last year. Only a handful year than 1939, whether we get of relatively minor industries in | big war orders or not. the manufacturing field failed to} respond to the general trend. | BROUGHT ’EM LUCK Interesting point is that this! remarkable jump in businéss was (iy. Alisdelatedornnn) PUEBLO, Colo., Jan. 9.—Fifty- riods it has often been the case that some major industries lagged behind or remained static while the rest advanced—in other almost completely unexpected. All of the experts were’ fooled. 'seyen years ago 18 young women When the June low was reached, |at Osborne, Kans., formed the As long cline, most of them forecast that }as they lived they kept in com- the pickup which was in mild| munication with each other and evidence then would carry on ‘nine survivors still correspond into the new year. But they by means of a “round robin” let- thought it would be a slow ad-jter. Of the 18, all but one mar- vance which at best would take \ried and none was divorced. us to the 105 level by December. Instead, expansion took place be- yond all estimates. Just what caused this tremend- | cus upturn is the question that is being widely debated now. | And it isn’t an easy question to, answer. There has been no par-} ticular change in the domestic} situation, political or otherwise. | You can’t attribute it to Europe’s | war—war orders so far placed , in this country have been under | = early expectations, not above. It pe ils rae Be West can be argued that the country! ST ‘AR * BRAND ee was way behind in its require- CUBAN COFFEE ments of goods of all kinds—but ON SALE AT ALL GROCERS PALACE EDGAR WALLACE’S Most Baffling Mystery THE PHANTOM STRIKES Also—Selected Shorts PRIZE NITE — TONGHT that has been the case for many years. i Ingenius key to the puzzle is| provided by Ralph Robey, News- week’s business authority. 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