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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 85. The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Scandinavian Neutrality Endangered; British Lay Mine Feds Near Norway “once cena HIGHEST TRIBUNAL Pinc into HANDS OF DENIES PLEA MADE BY STEEL COMPANY BRITISH NAVY | |REPUBLIC STEEL COMPANY WANTED REVIEW OF 1937 STRIKE CASE; N.L.R.B. DE- | CISION UPHELD or not those countries could | (By Associated Press) LONDON, Apr. 8. — Future neutrality for the Scandinavian countries was all wrapped up to- day in the premise of whether (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 8.—The ;U. S. Supreme Court today de- jnied the plea of the Republic Steel Company to review the de- countenance activities of both the Nazis and Allied countries in neutral apparent violation of rights. {ment secretary joriginally UNITED SPANISH WAR AUXILIARY’ CAME TO CITY SATURDAY FROM TAMPA FOR OFFI- CIAL CALL OF LOCAL CHAPTER IN EVENING Mrs. Delia Weil, department president; Mrs. Cora Faulker- bery, department past-president, and Mrs. Crystal Manson, depart- of the United Spanish War Veterans Auxiliary, arrived Saturday afternoon from Tampa. Later in the evening the visi- tors met with the members of B. H. McCalla Auxiliary Num- ber 2 and held their official vis- it, at which time there were a number of important matters discussed and decisions ‘teached on a number of questions. They remained ovér Sunday, being shown the _ interesting sights by Mrs. Manson, who is from Key West, but moved to Tampa about 30 years KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, APRIL 8, 1940 JIMMY POWERS; NEW YORK DAILY:NEWS Featured Key West Experiences ‘In Reeént Colamn ese eae eae SPORTS WRITER, HAS MORE’T0 SAY SOOSSOSOSHOOEOOSOOSOSOOSSESOOSOOOOOA2OO88E88 ee By JIMMY POWERS in New York Daily News of March 28, 1940 KEY WEST, Fla., March 27.— the baseball people who open The Government plans to make|their seascn regardless of wheth- j a great resort center out of this|er the Spring is hot or cold, dry | lusty colorful Tata originally jor wet, the tarpon pay absolute- called “Cayo Hueso” or Bone ly no attention to a calendar on (Key after a great pile of pirate|the wall. Ordinarily the waters | {bones once found here. The around these fantastic islands word “Key”, itself, is a modifica- laying 375 miles farther south! tion of the Spanish “Cayo” mean- than Cairo, Egypt, should be as | ing shoal, or little island, and is|warm as split pea soup. Yester- | probably of a Basque origin. In|day the water was only 68 and Haiti there is a city named “Aux only a few silversides struck. |Cayes”. It is French for “The |Jimmy, a young man who is our | Keys” and. very probably the [namesake and who is in our :par- origin of our ward “Okay”. Sail- \ty, brought a beauty to the stern | jof the boat at sundown _yester- | tors liked the rum made at “Aux | x . Cayes” and whenever they wish-|4@¥- When he saw the’ guide wire leader, young { ed to refer to anything of got Fe wel mpipart ofthe! jquality they always said “Okay”.|icp is done”. He set’ down’ ‘his| {I wish I could use this term in irod, picked up his camera, whirl- : reference to the tarpon fishing./e@ and heard the guide groa According to the schedule there|“There he goes”. In a final des. should bé a lot of tarpon here at! perate lunge, the gamester tore | \this time of vear. But, unlike! (Continued on Page Three) j |ADMIRAL COOK 4 () FROM COCO SOLA {EXPECTED TO ARRIVE AT 3:00 P. M. TODAY: WILL ,IN- SPECT NAVAL AIR BASE HERE Arrivai of Rear Admiral Ar- thur B. Cook, commander of the ;Air Craft Scouting force, United States navy fleet, and his staff of five officers frem the air station at Coco Sola, Canal Zone, at 3 o'clock this afternoon was an- nounced today by Capt. Walter F. Jacobs. The purpose of his visit here will be to inspect the naval air base, Key West, and Squadron 53. Admiral Cook will be greeted on his atrival by Lieut. Com- mander’ A.’ P. Storrs, III, of Squadron 53, Capt. A. S. Carpen- der, commander of naval forces } afloat, and other officers. -A colorful full guard background of Marines will also be on hand for the reception. Commander Storrs will enter- Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS | W.C. Brooker, Legion State Commander, 10 AddressPublic Tonight = a ARRIVED HERE SATUR- PUBLIC WELFARE | DAY NIGHT ON OFFI- F GROUPS DISBURSE CIAL VISIT TO ARTHUR $6,700 MONTHLY, **”**" ress Commander William C. Brook- PRESENT RATE IN MONROE! te jer, Tampa, of the Florida depart- COUNTY BASED ON $80,808; A 3 |ment of the American Legion, ar- ANNUALLY FROM FOUR |tived in Key West at 9:30 p. m. AGENCIES z | | Saturday for an official visit \that will extend through tomor- (Spectal to The Citizea) JACKSONVILLE, Fia., April ' row. ‘cision recently rendered by the ; National Labor Relations Board j which accused the company of calling a strike to crush a union. maneuvers in Scandinavian wa-| The refusal of the court to re- ters, and more recently of def-|view the case’ meant that ap- ise : zig | PFoximately 5,000 C.LO. workers poe as pee panes would have to be re-hired and Rey i | given back pay for the time they Sweden in shipping iron ore to here have long known of flagrant violations com- Observers ago. They visited the U. S. Ma- rine Hospital and other govern- ment institutions and had a de- lightfully interesting series of visits. . The party left this morning at 8 o'clock for Miami, where they will stop briefly and then ‘con- tinue to Tampa. Tonight Commander Brooker will make a public address. at Colonial Park. The public ang the national defense forces in this area, together with repre- sentatives of city and county government agencies and civic clubs bave been invited to attend this meeting. To be introduced by Mayor Albury, Commander : jtain Commander Cook and his 8.—One of Monroe county’s most! gencies ooperate 0 |statt at a party at 5 p. m. today. ‘substantial payrolls is derived ! A ‘ aged, | mitted by the Germans in naval Build Children S Hospital « itself quarter: auiihemacalai leer ees ep a jtion at 5 p. m. tomorrow. ‘from allotments made to de- —_ | The visiting rear admiral and pendents at home by enrolees in staff will leave Key West Wed- the Civilian Conservation Corps. nesday morning. No future itin-/ Based on March figures, Mon-| erary of the fleet has been an-jroe county is receiving $80,808 | nounced. annually from the four sources, | “Build This Summer Crippled Children’s Hospital,” already is the most publicised slogan ever i whole army of them—agreed to attempt the gigantic task of writ- ing a street address on 200,000 envelopes. Thursday, April 11,! ihave been laid off. that country. Lay Mine Fields CONGRESS MOVES In retaliation, now comes the | TOWARDS ADJOURNMENT news that the British moved|| WASHINGTON, Apr. 8.—The | ieee Se United States Congress today against the “existing conditions | cleared all decks for fast action by secretly establishing three on impending bills with an eye to separate mine fields in North Sea| adjournment by June first. waters designed to force German} A number of important mat- shipping into more open waters |ters have to be voted on, how- 5.5. CUBA MADE FINAL SAILING AMI-HAVANA RUN START- | RELIEVES S. S. FLORIDA MI-! to have swept the southern end of the state. In response to repeated de- mands from other counties, Dade County Crippled Children’s so- ciety now accepts the assistance of the other nine counties in the district, it is announced by W. L. iPhilbrick, president of both the was selected as the day for stuff- i REBUILD STRAND vided by the Columbus Hotel and j chairs by the Biscayne Tent &| REPAIRS TO COST $5,000; OTH- Awning Co., for Saturday's task. | Enclosures will include a picture | of the mascot of the society,’ little Neil Harrington in base ball suit and bearing the slogan “Let's | Brooker will respond with an ad- dress appropriate for servicemen and former servicemen. After the meeting Commander accoraing to the State Welfare! Board, which administers the three public assistance categories and is the selecting agency for Brooker will be the guest of Ar- cece. z 'thur Sawyer Post at the club- During March the county re-'house, Whitehead and United ceived $4,321 in Ojd Age Assist-| streets. ance, $1,263 in Aid to the Blind, Since his arrival here, Com- ;$730 in Aid to Dependent Chil-!mander Brooker has been stay- | ER PERMITS FOR BUILD- ING LISTED ING TOMORROW crippled children’s society and of the hospital corporation. Mr. Philbrick explained that dren, while $420 was paid as/ing at the Trumbo Hotel as the ; compensation to the 14° young! guest of Al Mills, propricto:, and jmen from the county enrolled in}Arthur Sawyer Post. Inline where, it said, British navy ships|ever, before the legislators can Play Ball’; an application for lie in wait. ., leall it a day. family membership in the hospi-| Norway has demanded that! these mine fields be removed in-| stantly. Whether or not Britain will recognize this demand is not known, but, it is thought here | Representative Treadway of Massachusetts introduced a bill today calling on dismissal of Fed. eral judges found guilty of mis- use of their powers. The Judge Steamship Cuba of the P. and O. S. S. Co., sailed yesterday at :30 o'clock for Havana with 59 first cabin passengers and eight that little or no attention will be Manton case was held respon- | Second cabin booked at Key paid to the demand. The move came as a complete surprise, and was felt necessary and entirely justified in the light of British belief that Germany had _ been guilty of repeated violations of Scandinavian neutrality. Berlin, advices stated, was bit- ter in denunciation of the latest, move to tighten the . biockade| against Germany. Retaliatory moves were spoken of in dis- patches row coming in, one of which mentioned that a German | squadron of 15 ships was now steaming out of a North Sea base to effect removal of the mines. This news, it was stated, was welcomed, though doubted, by the admiralty as that is exactly | what the Allies would want—a chance to engage a major part of | the German navy. | The British populace greeted the news of the mine-laying; with much enthusiasm. The press | carried large headlines and fea-| ture stories concerning the “awakening of the British lion”. | Further blockade measures were being studied by a joint conference of France and Eng- land. The Balkan states came} in for attention with the ear- marking of huge sums to start | buying efforts in that area to counteract shipments of supplies to Germany: ARRESTED ON ASSAULT CHARGE sible for this bill. Other headline bills coming up} for action soon included one that | would re-organize the foreign policy of the government, re-or- | ganization of provisions of the! Wagner Act, Senator Pattman’s anti-chain store bill, and one that} will attract major attention is the j one which will seek to raise the legal debt limit over the $45,000,- | 000,000 figure. SDE IS SS SSE CHICAGOANS SPEND | WEEK OF FISHING Three more tourists from Chicago, Ill., have succumb- ed to the charms of Key West and willingly testify to its slogan of “better fish- ing”. They are Samuel Le- vin, Duane Swif and A. W. Warner, who arrived Tues- day of last week and regis- tered at the Ocean View Hotel. Mr. Levin is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago, a member of the Chicago Board of Education and manager of the Chicago Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Work- ers. Mr. Swift is cashier of the Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank, and Mr. War- ner isa Bond and Invest- ment broker. Fishing with Manuel Lo- pez of the “Five Brothers” {Atlanta .j Charleston on Wednesday and Thursday of last week, the three Chi- cagoans caught mumerous barracuda, two weighing twenty-five pounds: grouper: mutton fish and kingfish. ‘Thursday's experience in- cluded the harpooning of a 400-pound' turtle in the Gulf Stream off Sand Key light. which entailed quite a strug- gle in boating. Saturday night an unsuc- cessful iry for tarpon was ex- enced. Guests on board Leonard Harris was arrested this morning on a charge of as- sault and battery on the person of Livingston Winters. It was} charged that Winters was beaten with a bottle and otherwise mal- treated to such an extent that a| physician’s services were neces-| Harris is now in the county | jail and will remain there until} the hearing in the case is given| before Enrique Esquinajdo, Jr.,| tomorrow aftrnoon at 5 o'clock. | Harris and Winters are colored. | then were Albert E. Peirce, Non-Support Charge | Jr, and. Allan Armstrong. The case of Milton A. Parrot.) The party plans to try their who was arrested on charges of! juck again tomorrow and non-support, made by his wife,| - shen depart for their home Thelma Parrott, will be heard city on Wednesday. stopping before Peace Justice Enrique ff for a visit in Miami. Esquinaldo, Jr., this afternoon at f 5 o'clock. { West. There were also four auto- mobiles and 15 sacks of mail taken at this port. The vessel arrived from Tampa shortly after 7 o’clock in the morning with six first and one second cabin passengers for Key West and 57 first cabin and seven second cabin passengers for Ha- vana.” According to announcement by the steamship company last week, this will be the last sailing of the Cuba for some time. The ship leaves Havana tonight for Florida while that ship goes into drydock at Mobile. TEMPERATURES Lowest last Highest last Stations—__ night 24 hours 60 64° 39 54 43 58 - 62 67 42 50 29 48 39 50 51 72 ae 90 62 76 39 ‘ 46 76 83 53 68 47 63 77 80 34 41 44 63 42 54 56 65 52 63 ‘Boston Buffalo. Chicago Denver Detroit El Paso Havana Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Los Angeles Louisville Miami San Francisco Washington red Marvil’s— CABANA Penny Cocktail Hour: i} every day—S to 6 P.M. and Continuous Entertainment from 5 P. M. till 2? ? Monday—Prize Night. Tuesday—Country Store. Wednesday—Novelty Night. Thursday—Rhumba and Bal- | loon Night. Friday—Amateur Night. Saturday—Mardi Gras. Always Something i Doing at The CABANA Miami, and will relieve the S. S. | |the state of Florida maintains a {Crippled Children’s Commission which pays for surgical and hos- |Ppital expense. | The Commission divides the ;State into four districts with dis- ‘trict headquarters in Jackson- ville, Ocala, St. Petersburg and Miami. In each district the state ;commission maintains a surgeon, ‘his assitant and a nurse. | While the state commission fi- |mances surgery and _hospitaliza- ‘tion it does not provide braces, crutches, special shoes or other ;mechanical aids. The South Flor- lida Crippled. Children’s Society jwas organized to provide these ‘needed appliances for children whose parents were unable do so. Always there has been a wait- ing list of children whose phy- sical handicap could not be cor- {rected, until their turn came. Need for a children’s own hos- pital, which should be open to all \children, has been felt for many jyears, The Softh Hips Crippled Children’s ‘socie Dade Coun- ty is a Community Chest agency. The Chest dees, ft build hos- pitals. “Its fands are used for maintenance of the welfare pro- | gram only. Therefore a separate {corporation was of formed to collect funds, jand maintain the hospital. build jten counties are also directors of jthe hospital corporation. A num- | Plans drawn by Coulton Skinner ‘architects. The American Hos- {the American Medical Associa- jments which are * being |porated. The plans were de- clared to be up to the minute among modern hospitals, and when built the edifice would be incor- the finest of which the director | knew. Ween teceived. ‘Plans for, special ‘gifts may be made by’ communi- cating with the campaign office necessity | Directors of the society in all | ;ber of sites have been offered, ! but no selection has been made.} {pital Association, a subsidiary of! 7 offers of assistance have | to i that no tone person will be { { { ' i i i | of the John & Coulton Skinner, | will be candidates for degrees at tion has offered a few improve-{ida State College for Women. | FSCW GRADUATION tal at $1 per member of each; family and a return envelope, ad- ‘ dressed to E. C. Romfh, First! National Bank of Miami, for use in Miami and other areas outside of Greater Miami _ territories. Banks in Coral Gables and Mi- ami Beach will be depositories for those cities. ; Never in the history of Miami has. any movement created such } interest. The price of member- ship, $1 per person, is popular and since 100 cents on each dol- lar goes to the building fund (all campaign expense is being fi-° nanced by friends of the move-! ment) everyone wants to help. | The campaign is expected to, raise $250,000. { “Let's Build This Summer Crippled Children’s Hospital.” When copies of the application! are mailed, every resident in the ten counties will be given oppor- ; tunity to participate. It is hoped missed. EXERCISES MAY 27 SIX STUDENTS FROM KEY WEST AMONG 258 RE- CEIVING DEGREES (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, April 8.— Two hundred fifty-eight students ! | 1 the annual Commencement Ex- ercises Monday, May 27, at Flor- This number, which is virtual- ly the same as last year, includes five for the Master’s degree and 253 who seek. the Bachelor’s four-year, degree.» ;\; Commencement speakers this year include Thé’ Most Reverend | Patrick Barry, bishop of the dio- cese of St. Augustine, for the baccalaureate service Sunday, Strand Theater, which was partially destroyed by fire on the morning of July 6, 1934, is to be! repaired, according to a permit issued from the office of Build- ing Inspector Harry M. Baker to Publio L. Carbonell. The work to be done will cost $5,000. Other permits issued from the office of Chief Baker during the past week call for the follow- ing: General repairs to the one- story building at 1209 Division street. Owner, W. W. Bowen; cost, $1,000. General repairs to one-story building on William street. Own- er, Mrs. A. Page; cost, $200. Repairs to two-story residence at 601 United street. Owner, Ramon A. Herrera; cost, $100. Repairs to the building at the corner of Eatémi'and Whitehead streets, .Owner,--J. L. Lester; cost, $100. Repairs. to; roof of one story jframe residence at 105 ° Olivia street. $100. Erect small building at'the cor- ner of Catherine and William street. The building will be Owner, J. Roberts; cost, ‘used as a bath room and will be 10 by 16 feet. Owner, Key West Gas _Co.; cost, $300. BOATMEN MEET AT DOCK TONIGHT Veral Roberts, secretary of the Key Wesi Charter Boatmen’s As- sociation, has issued a call for a meeting of the group for tonight jat Craig’s Dock. |the CCC. They are. allowed to|with the arrangements of Mills, retain only a maximum of $8 per|chairman of the entertaining month for their own use. committee, Commander Brooker, In addition, the county receiv-;an ardent angler, went fishing in ed liberal quantities of surplus|the Gulf Stream yesterday and commodities, distributed by the! again today. BLIGHT LESSENS ; Public assistance _ is paid | CAPTAIN SPENCER'S BOAT ‘monthly in the equivalent of! ‘cash, it was stated by State Wel- DUE WITH FINE CATCH IN THREE WEEKS “fare Commissioner C. C. Cod- jTington. The payroll is made up| here in the state office of the! state welfare board and forward- ed to Tallahassee in district re- lays, where state warrants are | issued and mailed. | No county tax funds are in-} volved in the payment of Old| LAge: Assistance or Ald to the| Captain Nelson Spencer was a , Blind, the state’s portion of the passenger leaving this morning ,;revenue keing derived entirely jon the bus for Bahia Honda, ac- ‘from the beverage tax, the com-|companied by his son Frank, to missioner pointed out. CCC join his sponging vessel which funds are supplied by the fed-iwas anchored thére while the eral government, while ADC: captain visited his family in Key. funds come from the general’ West. revenue find-of the state and are!*“The captain said that the matched on a 50-50 basis..-by sponges were showing signs of | |with which they were stricken jlast year, and some of the catch W jof 100 bunches which he now has jhe has ever seen. He expects to jarrive at Key West and put his { ‘weeks. His son has about the jDIED EARLY THIS MORNING: | same number of bunches on his | There was a small sale of OLD - sponge this morning at the muni- |bunches and three sponges, the William. Henry Kemp, 91, died ,entire lot selling for $26.43. his home at number 3 Nassau tLane. Funeral services will be , Uncle Sam. recovery from, the terrible blight ‘on board are some of the finest FOR W. H. KEMP Sanaa \catch on the dock in about three NINETY-ONE YEARS j boat. cipal dock, consisting of 13 thi i 30 o'clock in is morning at 6 oO PRO! jheld tomorrow afternoon 4:30 Sealed bids will be received until Friday, April 19, 1940, 8:00 The meeting will get under-|o’clock frcm the chapel of the jway at 8:00 o'clock. Important Lopez Funeral Home, Rev. Wm. subjects will be discussed, it was Halladay, of the Congregational ;Stated, &’nd a full membership iChurch, officiating. ov attendance is desired. TENDER IVY The deceased is survived:: by his’ widow Mrs. Sarah { . G. Bethel and Mrs Alex Sands of Key West; two sons, Mrsa p. m. for furnishing the the fol- lowing materials f. 0. b. Key West: : 1400 Lin ft. 6” Terra Cotta } Sewer Pipe. £0, 6” Ys,Terra Cotta. 25, 6” 45 Deg. Bends, Terra Cotta. 10 6” Ts, Terra Cotta. 80, %” Corporation Stops, Cop- William end Jonathan Kemp of} ,of the South Florida Crippled ‘Children’s Hospital, 660 West May 26, and John Temple Graves, Flagler. {mewspaperman, author and lec- | Saturday, April 7, was se-|tarer, of Birmingham as ‘the ‘lected as the date when tables | speaker Commencement morning, jwould be stretched throughout | May 27. x |the length of the Shoreland Ar-} Candidates from Key West cade from Flagler Street to First! are: Cynthia Pearlman, Cleo |Street. Typewriter i |where apparent, agreed to fur-|Alice Park, Bachelor of Science ;nish 200 typewriters. Business! in Commerce; Emma Anne Ken- houses were asked to loan their | nedy, Bachelor of Science in SAILED TODAY Lighthouse Tender Ivy sailed at lo’clock this afternoon for Jacksonville, where she will be decked, painted and undergo }fome repairs by the Merrill- jStevens Co. The vessel will be weeks. . Key West. There are also 22 grandchildren, 17 great-grand- ichildren and two great-great- ! grandchildren. ' Notice, Charter Boatmen! Important meeting of KEY ; ASSOCIATION tonight 8:00 iper, Mueller Thread. 25, %” Copper Unions, Mueller Thread. 80, %” Copper Curb Stops, Mueller Thread. 50, %” Wrought Copper Coup- lings, Mueller Thread. Bidder to state date of de- companies | Kemp, Edna Roberts, Bachelor of away from port about three} WEST CHARTER BOATMEN’S livery. cooperating in the spirit every-|Arts; Anna Josephine James,! The usual right is reserved to Tender Poinciana is at Stew-,o’clock, at Craig's Dock. Be sure|reject any and all bids. art, Fla. and the Zinnia is doing jbuoy work and work. on struc- tures in Tampa Bay, to attend. VERAL ROBERTS, Secretary. {BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, CITY OF KEY WEST, FLA. Bprb-26