The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 16, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Cttizei THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 16, 1940 VOLUME LXI. No. 169. Additional Delegates: Enter ‘Draft F.D.R.’ StampedeMovement SSE Guands Anat Orders “Farewell Political!) Speech” WILL ARRIVE ON YACHT TO TAKE LOCATION MOVIE SHOTS | Today May Produce New Peace Gesture - e a jnew story would necessitate her in the Fall. it has been previous- j [presence in that city from now ly announced. The cast has mae Cecil B. De Mille, famous mo-,his private yacht, it was stated, vie director and producer, is ex-| With in Seagy crew to take loca- | ; ted t ag West isit tion shots o! the city and sur- fee Sener ee ee ie — roundings for preliminary work {some time in August, it was an- ion filming of the picture, “Reap inounced today by Miss Ileen'The Wild Wind”, the story on | Williams, who passed on the in-:Key West during the old wreck- formation sent her by Miss Thel-jing days, written by Miss Strabel, ma Strabel recently, to that ef-'!and which appeared in The Sat- i fect. urday Evening Post recently. | Recently, Miss Strabel had an-| Miss Strabel stated in her com+ (By Associated Press) e | her intention to visit | munication that she would 4 ey West to note progress being‘the months of December | i t ide on her new residence, the | January in Key West in her new (CAGO, July 16. The sec-| ; Southernmost Home in the U. S.;home, which is expected to be jit was learned that she will not completed in another forty days. | ond day of the Democratic Con- | ‘be here until December, in that, Production on “Reap The Wild j vention opened today here at! RESIDENTS HEARD REPORTS ENCAMPMENT HERE WILL STAY FOR ONE YEAR noon when the permanent chair- | man, Senator Barkley, tucky, pounded for order with mitied fon until late in the Fall. as yet, been definitely an. Mr. De Mille will arrive aboard ‘nounced. of Ken-: his gavel before an estimated at-| Speculation ran high in Key the band will again appear at La; tendance of over 25,000 assem- bled delegates and spectators. Behind the scenes, however, is where the major part of pres- ent action to pick the presi- dential and vice-presidential can- didates is being conducted, with formalities and speech-making displayed on the floor of Chicago Stadium. The “draft Roosevelt’ move- ment is said to have gained addi- tional headway since last night, with leaders of the move report- ing an estimated 900 delegates lined up to giye President Roose- velt a vote on the first ballot. Meanwhile, the White House remained quiet, as before, on the subject and no word has been transmitted, officially. to the con- vention officials and delegates. Conjecture ran high following James Farley’s speech last night as to whether he would retire from politics following the con- vention. Majority of opinion was that his speech made last night, was to be interpreted that way. His name, however, will be presented to the convention as a presidential candidate, as will Vice-President Garner's. Isolationists came into the pic- ture here again today, with ad- ditional demands on the plat- form-framers to make the party’s stand against war and “mixing up in things abroad” still more strong. It is already known that the plank on foreign affairs will include President Roosevelt's as- sertion. regarding “no American boys to foreign shores”. Rogsevelt, if he accedes to the draft movement, and there is no- body here who thinks he won't, will probably control the conven- tion’s pick of his running mate. Out of several known to be fa- vorable to him, one man was eliminated this morning when Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced that he would def- initely refuse to consider the post. Supreme Court Justice William Douglas was an addition to the names mentioned yesterday as being in a favored spot to get the nod from the President. Introduction of the Democratic platform is expected to come to- night, with first ballot for presi- dential nominee scheduled for some time tomorrow. Name ‘Dixie’ Traced To Pre-War Banknote (Ry Associated Prexs) HOUSTON, Tex, July. 164A New Orleans ’ been responsible ‘for:\ tte’ «term “Dixie,” applied to the land be- low the Mason-Dixon line. Henry E. Elrod, Houston en- gineer, believes that the Citizens Bank of New Orleans was the originator. The bank’s 10-piastre notes, issued in 1852, were print- ed half in English and half’ in French. On each note was the word “Ten” and the correspond- ing French word, “Dix.” Southerners called the bills “Dixies”. In those days, states issued their own money. The New Orleans bank was prosper- ous and its notes circulated wide ly throughout the South, which came to be known as the land of | Federal Supreme Court, which| the “Dixies,” land, bank* may have; West today as reports were heard that the present encampment of Florida National Guards at Fort Taylor may receive orders to jStay here for a one-year period lin accordance with plans recent- ly announced from Washington to the effect that all National Guard units of tne nation may be ordered into encampments for that period ot time. ‘ Rumors were heard last night that the orders had already been ‘issued. “Numérous cases of re- ports that members of the camp ,had written folks back home to |that effect were heard. However, check-up with camp jofficials this morning brought |the statement that no such or- jders had been received. It is not Muse that anything definite | would be heard, it was explain- jed, until after the Democratic ; convention in Chicago is adjourn- {ed and Congress meets again. | The order to stay in encamp- |ment for one year, it has been jannounced, will be amended to jallow married men, low-ranking jofficers or privates, to resign jfrom the National Guard. Key West Battery now j encamped at Ft. Screven, has not 'been heard from since it left on July 7th. The order would ef- |fect that unit, also, and Key Westers were contemplating a condition where approximately 800 out-of-town Guards would become permanent residents of the city, at least for a one-year period, while a total of 88 would |be subtracted from the list of residents by reason of the local Guard encampment in Georgia. |Figures, however, would be sub- ject to revision due to the above- {mentioned reservation for mar- ried men. Band Concert Warrant Officer Caesar La | Monaca released the program for the private band concert of the | 265th Regimental Band at Fort ; Taylor for tonight, starting at 7:45 o'clock. Tomorrow - night, FARMER WAS LAWYER, TOO (By Associated Press) LAUSANNE, July 16.—Swiss ‘hotel keepers will have to think , it over before giving credit to customers, following the sad ex- Perience one had with a farmer who knew the law. |, The farmer made a deal with a hotel keeper whereby the farmer | would furnish his products to the , hotel to be marked to his credit against drinks. All went well until the hotet |Keeper found that the farmer drank a lot more than he was en- | titled to on the strength of his ; deliveries of vegetables. manded a settlement because the |farmer had delivered $45 worth of goods and drunk $98 worth of | wine and brandy. The farmer invoked an old law ;which forbids tavern-keepers from dispensing drinks on credit. | The case went as far as the and finally, Dixie-|ruled that the hotel keeper was|at the marriage of any church not entitled to his money. One day the hotel keeper de-! Concha Park at the same hour. The program for tonight follows: March, “B.P.O.E.” Caesar La Monaca Selection from the Musical Comedy, “My Maryland” Romberg | Humoreske Dvorak | Overture to the Opera “Rienzi” | | | | NEW YORK, July 16.—Twen- ty-seven percent Florida’s Wagner ; - A commercial banks made more eee cemied ce Mer: 3 Dien 155,000 loans totaling over “From Africa To Harlem”, a ; $113,000,000 to business firms Rhapsodic Evolution jand individuals throughout the David Bennett jstate during the year 1939, ac- Popular, “El Rancho Grande” cording to the second semi-an- (requested) Uranga | nual survey of bank lending ac- Descriptive, “The Evolution of tivity of the American Bankers Dixie” Lake ; Association made public today. The Star Spangled Banner Key; The survey was participated in Firing Practice by 46 banks or 27 pester of pe Firing of the 155 mm guns will |!65_ commercial banks of the start tomorrow with Battery oe |e he benks Seemed of Pensacola, Captain A. E. Mills, j that during 1939 they made: jcommanding the battery. Thurs-| 94565 new loans to- day, Battery “B” of Jackson- ine ville, Captain A. V. Boswell, will| >8809 renewals of have its practice, and on Friday, | loang totaling. SRg1t47% Battery “A” of Jacksonville,| 2267 mortgage loans Captain J. B. Cato, will be at! ei practice. }ness firms in the state are using MRS. L. CASSIDY Hess than half of the “open lines. DIES IN MIAMI INJURIES PREVENT | News was received yesterday | by J. Roland Adams of the death | Be ey ee OCS) Brailan \Comeinn aig tale ay afternoon: of his sister.!Fones, were arrested yesterday, Mrs. Lula Adams Cassidy, 75. | charged with making an assault Funeral services will be held to-|and battery on the person of morrow afternoon in Miami. {@scar Carpentier. They were to Survivors are two brothers Mr. | be given preliminary hearing Adams and Paul Adams, of Mi-!this morning in the office of ami, and one sister, Mrs. R. C.'Sheriff K. O. Thompson, before Ennis of Miami. {Peace Justice Franklin Aren- Mr. and Mrs. Adams , Mrs, | berg. Mary A. Lowe and Fernando A.| The court was sitting and: Camus will leave this afternoon ready for the appearance of of $ 66,355,321 7,944,589 155,741 $113,711,387 The survey reveals that _busi- at 3 o'clock for Miami to attend |Carpentier, and Deputy Sheriff | ‘the funeral services, ~ Ray Elwood was sent after him, jand returned with the informaz ¥ j tion that the physician, who was Well: Read Farmer | attending him, said that a cut on Adds To Knowledge jhis arm he had received during Se !the fight yesterday prevented (By Associated Press) {him from attending the court, VASSALBORO, Me., July 16—,and that he must not leave the A farmer who had read all about | house until he was given permis- , this “fifth column” business, be-jsion by the attending physician. | came suspicious when he found | Le aaacagy Serene i attached to a parachute, “in his HASKINS RETURNS | attached to a parachute, in his! } pasture. i ! He called in the newly-formed FROM JAX TRIP: ‘American Legion police. They! j gingerly picked up the contrap- | —— t spot ne H to the Augusta) _-zicutenant H. B. Haskins, ex-| Officials there explained ~ that ‘ecutive officer at the Coast Guard ; the instrument was sent up by ! headquarters “2 Key West, who | balloon from the federal weather ;5ad been on special duties for a {bureau at Portland, 76 miles; We¢* im headquarters of the dis-; |south, to record atmospheric con- jt in se cyceiinbee: mages wd ditions. the city last evening at 5 o'clock.’ | Mr. Haskins said that he had: FREE WEDD! OFFERED met others of the local force who; so a mED oe lhed been transferred to Jackson- } satis {ville from Key West and they all| (By Associated Press) | appeared to be getting along very | CHARLESTON, W. Va—tIf;nicely and were well satisfied. { you belong to the Rev. H. Lloyd Parkinson's church, and want to get married, you’re in luck It dismayed the Baptist pastor that so many young couples went to Kentucky for the ceremony. He would like to see them united at home, so he offered to officiate |. A GUARANTEED A. P. MUFFLERS and PIPES ai ALBURY’S SERVICE | lmember until Dec. 3i—tree. | n0ne “#4800 Simonton Street Florida Banks Make , 155,000 Loans In ’39 (Special to The Citizen) ASSAULT HEARING : of credit” maintained for their use on the books of the banks. Fifteen banks in the larger cen- ter of the state reported that they | | Key Westers are going to have a chance to welcome approxi- mately 600 visiting members of various Lions clubs throughout the nation this weekend when {that number arrives in the city Istarting on Friday, through APPROXIMATELY 600 LIONS WILL BE IN CI"¥ : OVER WEEKEND Concha hotel on Saturday maght Starting at 10:00 ociocck Sar roso’s orchestra has been hired for this affair, and the loca! mittee; which has issued for all Key Westers to turn and welcome the visiters a carried on their books during the | Saturday and Sunday, to em- Planned many novel and enter second-half of the year $4,667,150 bark on the S. S. Cuba for the ‘#iming features for this dance in “open lines of credit” consist- ing of specific amounts of credit offered to and kept available for established borrowers for use as International Convention to be |held in Havana starting next Tuesday, July 23. First boat leaves Sunday morn- >°Ur- ing at 7:30 o'clock. About 200 of The Rainbow Room will oe closed to the general public om Saturday, following the supper Another feature for the vist needed by them. Of this amount the visiting Lions will leave on ‘'5 Will be @ Fish Pry to be het $2,147,868 or 46.0 percent actually used. The average number of new loans made per bank was 2,058 and thé average new loan was $701. The average number of renew- als per bank was 1,278 and the average renewal was for $670. The average number of mort- [cinecty to Key West from Ha- vana on Sunday to take on a full ‘load of Lions, leaving again for Havana at midnight. Open House will be held at the j Lions Den, starting Friday night ;of this week and all day Satur- i day and Sunday, with members lof the local club on duty to care for wants of the visiting Lions. Sightseeing trips are being ar- was that trip. The Cuba will come Preceeding the Rambow Room dance, this, at the Lions Den on Seminary street. Jewfish steaks with accompanymg food and drinks, will be served all wieit ing Lions. Entertainment at the clubhouse too, has been planned To guide the visiters te The Den, a local committee is work ing hard on painting welcome signs for the head of the land and for the markings em route te age loans per bank’ was 49 and; the clubhouse. Establishments be Ls ranged by the local club and a ms nich Gacy tad ' the average mortgage was for $3,504. The Florida survey was part of a national bank lending activity survey made by the American Bankers Association. For the country as a whole 6,- 333 or 44 percent of the com- mercial banks reported that they made 24,998,000 credit extension totaling $39,810,810,000 during the year. These consisted of the following: 12,680,000. new loans totaling-$23,120,000,000 12,033,000 renewals of loans_ totaling 15,791,000,000 285,000 of new mortgage loans to- taling 899,810,000 24,998,000 $39,810,810,000 The number of new loans in- creased 10 percent and the dollar volume increased 20 percent. T. J. CURRY STATES HAMLIN NOT HIRED BOARD MINUTES INDICATED SALARY WILL BE INCLUD- ED IN NEW*BUDGET T. Jenkins Curry, acting chair- man of the County Commission- ers, took exception to The Citi- zen’s story on the board’s meet- ing last week in which was stated that the members assembled, Hamlin as the county's print- expert ling approval of board. : jfull round of entertainment | being arranged. } Dance On Saturday | Headlining the citywide en- { tertainment, will be a dance held yat the Rainbow Room of La ZONING BOARD MEETS TONIGHT PLANS FOR HOTEL AND CAMP is Frank H. Ladd, chairman, has called a meeting of the Zoning | Board of Appeals to be held to- jnight at 7:30 o'clock at the office of Aquilino Lopez, Jr., city at- torney, on Duval street. The members will have up for * jdiscussion Captain Luther Pin- der’s new application for a building permit to construct a hotel, dining room and tourist cottages on the site on United street. Board was to have met this morning at City Hall; how- ever, a majority of the members could not get away from their businesses. The following are members of the board: Mr. Ladd; Joe Peari- man, secretary; John Allan Long. Ralph Russell, Judge Raymond Lord, J. Frank Fleitas and Allan B. Cleare, Jr. ELLSWORTHS VISITORS IN CITY Mie | titser Ri i uf to display welcome signs, also. Delegations of local Lions will be on hand at the P_ & O. docks to wish the visitors “Bon Voyage”, and to imvite them & come back through Key West on the return trip. that about 125 cars will be ie in this city by the visitors. Yesterday, 2 delegation Lions met International Treasurer Henry Kreuger, and Mrs. Kreu- ger, before they sailed om the Cuba for Havana. Mr. and Mrs Kreuger arrived in the city Sun- day, and expressed themselves } as delighted with the trip over the highway and with the sights of Ely Spencer, 92 die@ this morning at 6:30 o'clock at the residence of his son, George E Spencer, street Funeral services will be held to- 4 cciock from the chapel of the Pritchard Funeral Home. Rev. John C : Gekeler, of the First Prestyyterian Church, will officiate. Pallbearers who have been se- lected to serve are: Frank EL Ladd, Benjamin D. Trevor. G. BR Steadman, Benjamin Felton Pressy Weatherford, Charles & | Ketchum, William L. Weaver « @ ; Survivors are one daughtes Mrs. Charlotte L. Lockwood, Wethersfield, Conn. Otis Spencer, and fi i i i i ih | f f | t f I RITES WEDNESDAY : ELY SPENCER : a f ’ y? 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