The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 17, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE WSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. hemes. fail Reprt "az, Bowland wai Presents, Council = Violent Warfare VOLUME LXI. No. 170. Convention: Waits Opening Ballot To }Aquilino Lopez’ office last_night, jand went over revised plans of- {fered by Capt. Luther Pinder for |the erection of a hotel and cottage 'PINDER GIVEN BOARD OKEY FOR PROJECT ZONING BODY MET LAST NIGHT AND APPROVED RE- VISED PLANS: COTTAGES INCLUDED IN PROGRAM j i Advice from Senator Claude Pepper’s office in Washington, Teceived this week, indicated that progress is being made in) Providing military recognition of | Burma Ttaly Claims Further Afri President Releases Dele- |colony on United street. |FULL INTERPRETATION OF FIGURES FOR the Overseas Highway’s import- | ance as a route over which sup-/ gates From rieages: STUDY GEOGRAP HY Farley Calls For Ad-/QConnells Here In Trailer : se o- journment Tomorrow IN PRACTIC AL W AY (By Associated Press) i CHICAGO, July 17.—Delegates By PENETRATOR i Mr. and Mrs. Francis O’Con- inell of Brockton, Mass., with Peared apprehensive today on their three children, Grace, 9; the question of whether or not David, 6, and Ann, 4, arrived in |Key West this week in their trail- er. Mr. O'Connell — is with the Ivy H. Smith. Construc- tion Company, as a painter at for a third-term. Ithe air base. Late last night, President; Mrs. O’Connell is a graduate Roosevelt officially informed all Bridgewater Normal, fore- them of their pledges. and that,|™0St teachers college in Massa- as individuals, they were free to Chusetts and before her marriage vote for whomever they chose. {taught school in Hanover, Mass. : Despite this move, which is Hence she is quite capable of tu- toring her children if they do not taken to mean that the Presi- dent has left the back door open get all the public school work they need, due to traveling from at the Democratic Convention ap- President Roosevelt will accept the draft move now planned to enter the presidential campaign of still wider for a draft nomina- - | Five members connected } Following inspection of the; jPlans and a strict interpretation! of the zoning law, which pre-} ;viously had acted to cause Capt. | iPinder’s arrest for violation, the | tboard gave permission to Pinder! The Citizen presents in this is- jto start construction. Conces-! sue, for the first time in the his- ‘sions sought in violation to the!tory of Key West as far as is jlaw were denied. {known, a detailed balance sheet | of the board /of the City of Key West, showing j;were present at the meeting: conditions of the city’s finances ;Chairman Frank H. Ladd, Secre-,as of July 1, 1940, and reflecting itary Joe Pearlman, Judge Ray-,i" the figures the accomplish- mond Lord, J) frank Fisies and {ments of the present city council : : jfor the seven months’ period it Ralph Russell. e ee jhas been in office. In granting permission “ The presentation at this time issuance of a permit, the board jis of all the more interest in that specified that the cottages must |#M article appearing in The Mi- each have a bedroom, bath and /|ami Herald this week treated on kitchen in order to come within|the report as issued by City |provisions of the ordinance call-;Auditor Charles R. Roberts in an ling for “residence status” in the |/uncomplimentary manner in re- district. 'gards to the present council, Concessions sought had to do;When, if a true analyzation of with set-back of the restaurant the report had been presented, |part of the hotel. Pinder request-|the facts would have born out ed that he be allowed to con-'the statement heard on all sides {struct the building five feet from|that “the present council has ‘the west side property line. This | done a better job than any simi- |was denied, as was a similar re-;lar body for the past twenty SEVEN MONTHS’ PERIOD CORRECTS HERALD ANALYSIS plies for Key West must travel. The advice is with: inecting the Florida mainland hot present a complete and ac- |and Key West has been designat- curate analysis and interpretation ‘ed as a military highway of im-| ae | of the information recorded in!portance. Studies are now my report”. As to the micsinterpretations: % Figures don't lie, as the old say- jand the Bureau of Yards and ing goes, and it cannot be denied | Docks of the Navy as well as the that, taking all accounts pay- Florida State Highway Depart- able and due on salaries = as to costs involved in re- bills, the city has apparently op- i = erated at a ee qari the ten oe ae Repeal: ee months’ riod. But—and here is where’ the” misinterpretation -cOMPrising the center of the comes in—a consideration of the ;>Tidge both from Key West and receipts and expenditures, which | the mainland. : follows in detailed form, showing! “Some twenty bridges are held approximately $18,000 excess of to be inadequate bee — the expenditures over receipts, must |!0@ds that might be anticipated include a realization that the in time of need. present council has found it neces-!_ “The Florida State Highway sary to expend more than that ;Department estimates that the amount in the liquidation of in- ,C°St may run as high as $4,100,- debtédness contracted by coun- 000 and the Government is ask- cils before its administration. {€4 to bear the major portion of In other words, why didn’t The this cost”. . ae Herald take into consideration at! least this one item in its analysis? | printed here- i “The Overseas Highway con- } |ing made by the Bureau of Roads | :Proaches to the 90 miles portion! tion, there were many. delegates j. choosing to feel uncertain about the success of the plan now widely discussed to give Roose- velt an overwhelming vote on the first. ballot expected tomorrow. Leaders of the party here, however, appeared to have no fears that the “draft Roosevelt” Place to place. quest to leave only a two and | Mrs. O'Connell says: “They are}one-half foot rear yard, instead! getting their geography lessons'of the required five feet. in a most practicable way. And! —— the discipline of trailer and camp - life is especially good for them after having had the freedom of | 1 years”. In cémmenting on The Herald’s apparently purposeful misrepre- sentation of the figures, Mr. Rob- erts had the following to say: “It is of extreme importance and, certainly, obviously neces- The report ‘shows that $13,780.01 of the floating debt retirement fund has been liquidated by the present council, which amount was left as a debt by the previous council to be paid. And, it was paid. D. A. PRINTZ DIED "TUESDAY IN NORTH a large house and big backyard | STEEL SIAMESE jsary that the analysis and clas- in New England. They are learn- ing to mix with people and to co-operate with them. Some times they get the worst of the ‘mixing’ but that is good for them, too”. The O’Connells hope to con- tinue traveling for two years at least. and to cover all the United move would encounter any pit- falls. Platform of the Democratic party is expected to be delivered to the convention late this after- noon. National Chairman James Far- ley warned the delegates that no attempt to nominate Roosevelt should be made without follow- ing convention roll call rules. The statement was made, it is be- lieved, to force all states to re- port votes, rather than allow a vote by acclamation to rule the day. Farley, Wheeler and Gar- ner are expected to tally some votes on the first ballot. Farley urged that the conven- tion'end its sessions on Thurs- day, one day ahead of schedule. “Then someone else takes charge of the party”, he smilingly stat- ed, bearing out previous reports that he was retiring from pol- itics. Collection Of Pipes Dispels State Dignity and around Jacksonville prior to coming to Key West. Mrs. O’Connell has an interest- ing collection of letters from newspaper columnists to whom she wrote when she thought of becoming a columnist herself while in college. She highly prizes her letters from Newton Newkirk of the Boston Post, Neal O'Hara, B.L.T., ad F.P.A. One unnamed columnist was quite tart in answering, said, “Why bother me? See Who’s Who”. Grace O'Connell has started {an autograph book, in which she | already -has the names of trailer- lites from all over the country. And she gave Penetrator a_ big thrill by asking Penny to sign, too. just Stat&. They spent six months in| H {Sification of accounting informa- 'Difterent Sides, Single Unit |tion contained in financial state- i . ee ments be carefully followed and \correctly interpreted, when that ‘TWINS PRODUCED !ixtormstion is offered the gen- ' eral public. = was; “The Miami Herald’s brief summary of the City of Key West's revenue and | By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE | AP Science Editor NEW YORK, July 17.—Ameri- can® metallurgists have invented |a new process which forms Sia- ;mese twins out of two entirely different kinds of steel. One side of the metal is a dif- ‘ferent type of steel from the op- posite side. Yet both are a single, | {solid unit, with no sharp dividing jline between them. | The new process was invented ;by the Alleghany Ludlum Steel jCorporation of Pittsburgh and jthe W. M. Kellogg Co. of Jersey ! |City, N. J. It was designed to join stainless steel, so that one {face is the high-quality, rustless metal, while the other, and jusually the bulk of the metal, is ‘low-cost, ordinary steel. | Not only have stainless sur- 'faces been created in this way, | Colonel L. L. Pendleton, U. S. {A., who arrived from New York yesterday to relieve Lt. Colonel J. D. MacMullen, from the com- | Was seen at his quarters this aft- ernoon by The Citizen and given la hearty welcome. | Just beginning to get settled the house was in a confused con- dition. Mrs. Pendleton has not expenses | during the past seven months did Col. Pendleton Arrived At Barracks Yesterday mand of Key West, Barracks, ; | Other items, listed in the opal] OF KEY WEST SPENT ance sheet, bring the payments INTER of the present council on old | bes ace: indebtednesses up to and in ex-/ s of th t debit bal j ‘ appre ee ext balanes) Word has been received in Key Finance Chairman Col. L. c, : West of the death of D. A. Printz Brinton comments on the dis- fete: — home ‘at Franklin, Pa., crepancy in this wise: j s “The former council's indebt-| Mr. Printz had been a winter (Continued on Page Four) |Tesident of Key West since 1935 jand was one of the most popular jand loved newcomers. In 1938 he purchased the old George Curry home at 620 Eaton street and since then the Printz family has spent most of its time here. Mr. Printz has been ill for over a year and last summer was un- der treatment for several months jat the Lankanua Hospital in Phil- | York. He was in command of adelphia. He spent all this past jthe National Guards of that/ Winter quietly in Key West, and |state, the same position which | !eft two months ago to spend the ‘Colonel MacMullen will summer in his old home at 4 take | Franklin, Pa. 'over following the end of his; The end came peacefully yes- duty here. terday afternoon. Mr. Printz is MacMullen Leaves Friday survived by his widow, Mrs. Bar- Col. MacMullen told The Citi- | bara Printz, and two daughters, zen that he expected to leave Arleen and Davie, and literally next Friday on a vacation trip to' thousands of admiring and de- {By Ansociated Press) LINCOLN, Neb. July 17— Governor R. L. Cochran likes to! maintain informality in his ex- ecutive office and believes the dozen or so pipes he keeps on his desk help clear the air. {but hard tool steel has been over- jlaid on a basis of mild, less ex- jpensive metal. ! | A secret new electric furnace ; |does the twinning. In it the high-j *jcost coating metal is poured WARBLER WILL LEAVE FOR N. arrived, being in San Francisco where the Colonel will go to meet her and ride back to Key West sometime in September. The Colonel has just left New San Francisco before taking up his new post with the New York National Guard as instructor. || The MacMullens have been feted at many parties during the jpast two weeks, and expressed |themselves as becoming more re- voted friends. Details of the interment have not been received. YOUTH HAS FOUND 300 BEE TREES IN DECADE ‘T’ve noticed that a stranger usually glances at the luxurious furnishings and tightens up, but once he spies these disarming pipes he’s all right”, Cochran explained. The governor's pipe collecting is not a hobby. Wrecking Tug Warbler has “My Scotch instinct won’t let;been grdered to New York and me throw any of them away’,(will leave about Sunday morn- he explains. “One came from/{ing ‘for the trip north,, where} in London, one from Sweden, and}the ‘epinion of the salvage mas- others from many states. Sev-}ter, C. N. Peterson, she will re- TUG WILLET COMING TO TAKE OVER DUTIES IN THIS AREA moulten on the other steel. The! latter is not ali melted, but only/ a thin layer to merge with the {molten coating poured upon it. | The result is like putting frost-| Sate jing on a cake—with the top por-: tion of the cake still dough when; WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT the frosting is poured. i MEET MILLE Where the two metals meet, | sae a they fuse into a union which all | - «IN CITY sorts of twisting, pulling, break-} : ing, hammering and heating have failed to destroy. The Allegheny | Ludlum reports that the _ stain-. ing the story'of Cecil B. De Supplementary advice concern-| eral are gifts”. Cochran has about 30, half of them at home. {main indefinitely. here in 1923, the Warbler has} ‘less, or other coating, never peels Im } Stationed here since she came|off in these tests. The metal | n ille’s expected arrival ext month to take movie here location | Sretful each passing day of the thoughts of having to leave their many friends here. |. Col. MacMullen stated that he ‘and his family had made more: 'friends in Key West than at any ,other post he had been stationed jat in his army experience. TURTLE RETURNS AFTER 30 YEARS PITTSFIELD, Mass. — Thirty ‘years ago, Sidney D:: Newton, ‘at the age of 14, cut his. initials '“S. N. 1910” on the back of a life (By Associated Press) APPOMATTOX, Va... July 17. —Nineteen-year-old Havilah Bab- cock, Jr., is nicknamed “Beé” be- JAP APPEASEMENT ; (By Associated Preas) LONDON, July 17—A furore jbroke out today in both houses of parliament here when the news of appeasement policy wrth | the Japanese was reported upon In answer to the governmen assertion that it had seen fit te | accede to Japan's demands that jthe Burma road be closed for 2 jperiod of three months, shutting ;0ff supplies to the embattled Chinese, the officials reporting were subjected to vociferous complaints on the part of vast House of Commons | House of Lords. ; Many Englishmen chose terpret this appeasement policy as closely allied to the Munich appeasement case, and thoug! the English people could put r more faith in Jap promises tha jthey could in those made by Hitler. Of chief concern, was the |“losing face” situation now being experienced by Britain im the and the Present government heads see no chance of preventing at least un- | til the situation at home clears j up. ‘SS. CUBA'S NEW SCHEDULE GIVEN LIONS’ CONVENTION IN HAVANA Announcement was made today of a revision of boat sailings for the S.S. Cuba by the P. & O. SS Company, to hold good before during and immediately follow- jing the Lions International Con jvention opening next week im Havana. Arriving from Tampa at 7:09 a. m. next Sunday, SS. Cube will Sail at 7:30 a m. for Havana ik will return to Key West sailing from Havana ‘at 4:09 p m to ar- jrive here at 10 Pp. m, and then | sollowing embarkation of a full boatload of Lions here, & will jsail at midnight for Havana No sailing will be made to or from Key “West until next Tues day, when SS. Cubs will arrive from Havana following a round- trip to Miami Reguler arrive! from Tampa’ will come next Thursday, July 25, then the ship will not arrive here until the following ‘Saturday after another trip to Miami. A sailing from Key West to Havana and return } able BF ket ee LONDON. July I7—Thee a= betore tne som There you neve tee eteenor Followmg wget sarume Engiaed te p= anc German vate sx Engacc majority of members im both the « far-cast, a condition thatthe % world awaits abated teesth waltieg & ness whether tee Brom Exeor will be able te wuthstamt me oor t ung PSs amt stalls a world power of fest memk Wor docs the cake states we here that the Bova Ar Force mg rascs ce suitary over widely scattered os many teelf These affecis ocx vroeving Gughiy sect oo Braons here Despetches marr morning tom of crus Somme a tecks on the & ce at Mata Alexandre and Gore ter by Iles pees Pee Ge £ rd —— latter city mie ate the reports the Br * ali bombs fe te & ne Gamage cesere Nez rede brusccasts ast feciared thet unfsvoramle =e ther conditums over mat of Ex rope was belt ctorfoy vespee te for the slowiee Gown of Gee War on England 3 The eeeu, Seu wurzimg = the Leht of acces eee Das aier eithesw = t& ake & withstand the sitzkceg expected acy ¢ev "AAI LA SAS. Se He Took His Tham And Went Te Caliege 2 a ee it [ breaks only like a single piece, | shots for the super-film,|Snapping turtle. Recently Sid- j with no reference to its Siamese | “Reap The Wild Wind”, was con-/ney’s brother Dean E. Newton, | strip. : : {tained in additional advice to found a turtle with the letters Moreover, if the coating metal; Miss een Williams this week. |“S. N. 1910” on its back. He is ’ i i The only pipe he ever lost was been in Key West ever since with the one he prized most. He | the exception of a year and a bought it in England while serv- half when she was sent to some ing as in artillery captain in the} World war and lost it after his | return home. He prefers straight stem models, but has one well worn, curved-stem corncob. BOY ELECTROCUTED SOUTH AMBOY,. N. J.—John Kyist, 14, was fatally shocked other station. The Willet, which has been stationed at New York, is on her} way to this city to relieve the Warbler and is expected to ar- rive tomorrow morning. Work of changing the gear; from the Warbler is now going on and will be in readiness by the time the Willet arrives to- jis stronger than the other, the fused piece is strengthened just in proportion to the volume of the coating. Expert Auto Repairing BY SHORTY It is possible that Miss Thelma ‘holding the turtle for Newton to Strabel will be present in Key see. West during Mr. De Mille’s stay. Despite Miss Strabel's commit-| ments in Hollywood on a new. film story, shé is making every; HUNTINGTON, Ind.—Though effort to be present here to as- unable to talk ,walk or move his preliminary work. HIS FOOT TESTIFIES | Steers ee Previously Miss Strabel had and burned when he climbed onjmorrow morning. The crew of top ofa freight car and his head the Warbler will remain in Key came in contact with an overhead! West and take charge of the Wil- high voltage line, let upon arrival. \Southern Service Station | advised that she would’be in Key | White and Catherine Oe ee wee in prevented that trip PHONE 5 from her home in New York. i li il i i fr | l tf j: rhe? ir 1 yl il lf lit } I I 1 H ! | | OF hdd dd)