The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 20, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LXI. No. 173. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1940 State: Roa Department Here Next Meeting For This City; Resolution For Aug.22 2 ! WALLACE TO. QUIT CABINET FOR CAMPAIGN Pre-Convention Affairs Scheduled For Tonight . | CITY MOURNS DEATH OF W. C. DUNCAN TODAY SERVICES HERE TOMORROW Che Key West Citizen TO HAVANA-DELEGATE LIONS 1 ! i j | j BATTERY :‘E CAMP stituted By Churchill- AFTERNOON: HAD BEEN. Aqueduct Line Approv-|Makes Farewell Address ed Efforts of the county and city | governments of Key West to have | their two daughters and son, Joan the State Road Department hold | and Margareesand James D., Jr., left yesterday afternoon by auto for the first leg of their journey that will terminate in New York |City, to which Col. MacMullen jhas been assigned as_ instructor of the New York National Guard. Col. MacMullen gave what he its next meeting in this city met with success, as it was announced at the Lakeland meeting, con- cluded yesterday, that the August 22 setsion would be held here. DENT SAILS ON WEEKEND j CRUISE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, July 20.—Po- EEE ERES MacMul- | tical activity, forming on “both ‘delegates to the International len« witht) Mrs! facMullen. and sides of the fence” for the presi-' Lions Convention opening dential campaign to open shortly. has moved back to this capital of the United States, and specula- tion is running high on the re-, port that several prominent Dem- ocrats are plannnig to make an- nouncements of “no support to President Roosevelt”. Included in this list are Sena- |. DANCE AT LA CONCHA ‘HOTEL AND FISH FRY } AT LOCAL CLUBHOUSE | i Yesterday and today, Lion.An expert chef has been engaged | ‘to superintend at the frying, and ; suitable, accompanying food will! be on hand to make a perfect set- ! | ting for an informal Saturday night meal. Impromptu enter- ‘tainment will be given at the clubhouse. ; , Headlining the day’s activities for the visiting Lions, over two hundred of whom are expected in Havana next Tuesday, arrived in Key West in preparation for em- barkation on the S. S. Cuba to- ‘@morrow morning and midnight. Members of the local Lions Club, arising to the occasion, and according to plans long made, acted as hosts to some of the visiting Lions last night in an in- Accordingly, ocal agencies were today making preparations to welcome officials of the SRD on their visit to the city and to do everything to make their stay pleasant. Naturally, most Key Westers hoped that the decision to hold the meeting here might be taken as a token that work may soon start on the extension of the Overseas Highway. At any rate, as some pointed out today, the trip over the--highway to Key West may convince the members of the need for the project. Action taken at the Lakeland meeting included the passing of a resolution pledging the depart- ment’s co-operation by permitting the use of the Overseas Highway right-of-way in the proposed construction of a water pipeline from Homestead to Key West. Copies of the resolution were sent to the RFC at Washington and to the Navy Department. Florida Keys Aqueduct Com- mission was instrumental in re- questing that the Road Depart- ment pass the needed resolution. RITES TOMORROW FOR H. BULLARD DIED YESTERDAY AFTER- | NOON AT MARINE HOSPITAL Henriquez Bullard, yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Marine hospital. Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon at 5 o’clock from the Church of God, where the body will be placed at 2 o'clock. Rev. L. A. Ford will of- ficiate. Pritchard Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Survivors are: The widow, Mrs. Henriquez Bullard; two daugh- ters, Mrs. T. M. Norris, Galax, Va., and Miss Shirley May Bul- lard of Key West; two sons, Eu- gene Bullard of Jacksonville and Puriegton Bullard of Key West; four sisters, Mrs. Sarah Baker, Mrs. Margaret Key, Mrs. Nora Betancourt and Mrs. Bessie Mil- ler, New York, and one brother, 50, died William Bullard of Key West. MASONIC NOTICE All members of Date, Dri Fetix | Varela and Anchor Lodges are requested to be present at Scot- tish Rite Hall noon, 1:30 o'clock, to attend the funeral of Brother W. C. Duncan. F. O. WEECH, Secretary. WE CAN SUPPLY.... Guaranteed A. & P. Mufflers and Pipes Also, Any Other Paris Needed For Any Car! “Open All Night—Year “Round” ALBURY’S SERVICE Phone 444 800 Simonton Street jly20-1t ‘termed his farewell speech to tT Edward R. Burke of Nebras- formal get-together at their Den to be on hand this evening, will! PRINCIPAL AT HARRIS SCHOOL TWELVE YEARS Prof. William C.. Duncan, 53, died early this morning . at. the. Marine hospital from complica-! tions following operation for ap- Ppendicitis, performed last Sun- day. Death came as a surprise, as it had been previously believ- ed the operation was a success and that he was on the road to recovery. Prof. Duncan leaves a definite vagancy in the educational sys- ey ka, who has promised aid to Key West at the Rotary Club poe) luncheon Thursday noon. Besides | Wendell Willkie, and_ Senators stating that he and his family Ellison D. (Cotton) Smith, of! had made more friends on this /50Uth Carolina, and Rush Holt of , duty than on any other, he went | West Virginia. The latter two on to offer many constructive haven't indicated whether they criticisms of Key West, both on Will support Willkie, however. civic matters and club aims. Rumors were rife here today Col. L. L. Pendleton, who ar- that Secretary of Agriculture rived from the post that will be Henry Wallace, running-mate to taken by Col. MacMullen last President Roosevelt, will resign on Seminary street, and planned to be on duty there all day today and tomorrow to welcome the visitors and take care of any of their wants. This afternoon, all visiting ‘Lions have been invited to join a motorcade through the streets of Key West to the various points of interest. Following this event, which will start at 4:00 o’clock, be the Pre-convention Dance in tem of this city. He had endear- hotel, starting at 10 o'clock. jed himself to hundreds of boys Mrs. Eva Warner, in charge of and girls of the city since he the floor show at this dance, has|took on the principalship of the -aheeaages some of the — op” | Harris Grammar School in 1928. notch entertainment, including | 7 A Josephine Ubieta and Orlando Es- | He first came to Key | West in quinaldo in a rhumba dance, | and served as principal o! John Bennett, Spanish tenor,|the High School for a year. Fol- and Key Kest’s youngest and/|lowed two years at Tampa and tomorrow after- | Wednesday, and who is now in charge of Key West Army Bar- racks, was a guest at the Rotary meeting. ‘WM. CHRISTENSEN DIED YESTERDAY Word was received here early today of the death yesterday of Dr. Wm. A. Christensen of Los Angeles, Cal.. son of Mrs. Lottie Hayes, 802 Eaton street. Dr. Christensen will be better remembered here as Chris Kemp. {His mother left for Los Angeles on the 11:00 o'clock bus ‘ this morning. his cabinet post immediately and take the stump for the party’s ticket. Mentioned prominently for his post is Marvin Jones. | President Roosevelt signed the Hatch clean-polities bill today, | which forbids all state émployes! receiving any Federal funds from | participating in election cam-| paigning. The bill also restricts all visitors, their friends and families, have been invited to at- tend a Fish Fry at the Lions Den. oe . political campaign expenditures . Unearthed In El Salvador drastically. It was one of the hardest-fought bills in this « BE MAYAN OUTPOST sion of Congress, even with presi- | \dential approval. - The President left today for a| (Associated Press Feature Service) weekend cruise on the Potomac; NEW ORLEANS, July 20.—A river. He may be joined by am- j buried city which may represent bassador to France, Wm. C. Bul-/the southernmost advance of an- litt, who arrived today aboard /cient Mayan civilization is being the Pan-American Dixie Clipper | unearthed in western El Salvador from the Azores. ;by a Tulane University expedi- . |tion. Un (Special to TALLAHASSEE, July 20. —; This month marks the third an- niversary of Florida’s» participa- tion in the Unemployment Com- pensation program of the Social Security Act, and Harold C. | Wall, Chairman of the Florida Industrial Commission, pointed out that this federal-state pro- gram has been instrumental in securing jobs for thousands of Florida citizens and has placed more than six million dollars in the trade channels of the State through the payment of jobless insurance to eligible unemployed workers. The State Unemployment Com- pensation Act was passed by the| 1937 Legislature and began op- erations in July of that year with a staff of six, under the direc- tion of Harold C. Wall, present Chairman of the Industrial Com- mission, which is the supervising agency of the Unemployment Compensation Division and the State Employment Service. The Unemployment Compensation Division now has a personnel of 128 persons and is directed by Fred B. Bradshaw, who suc- ceeded Wall in June, 1939. In 1939 the State Employment Service was organized under the direction of Fons A. Hathaway and began accepting applications |for joks. In a little over a year this agency has accepted 167,149 job applications and made 50,802 |placements. At the present time {it has 68,932 applications in its files and can fill requests for any / |number of workers for any type |job. There is no charge te the employer or the worker for this i service, Marks Third Anniversary : | The first season's work has un- |covered wells, flocrs, steps, pyra- jmidal terraces and a tomb, con- |structed with a plaster-like sub- |stance of metallic clay and fine jvoleanic cinders. A cache of |carved jadeite jewels also was uncovered. j Sixty grass-covered mounds, |the largest more than 100 feet On January 2, 1939 the Unem-|high, indicate the buried city ployment Compensation ne te The Citizen) dor, capital of the republic. The began accepting applications for} jounds are in a small valley ex- | ipbless Visufares ehd Ro dete 86.- lcessively dry between rainy sea- 225,000 has beer. paid to eligible) on: Nearby are the San Salva- | Florida workers who became un-|dor volcano, last active in 1917, jemployed through no fault sss hme the Izalco volcano, active the their own. Wall pointed out that | Past 200 years. these benefits have been paid in| The expedition is under the di- j}every county in the State and/|rection of Maurice Ries of the they have benefited the com-|Tulane Middle American Re- munities and the merchants, as i well as the claimants, by supply-| City has “definite Maya charac- ‘ing money to the unemployed |teristics” and was the southern- who, in a great number of cases, |™ost point at which Mayan influ- | would have had no other means |ence had been reported. Walls of support. and steps, Ries said, are similar The two divisions now have ato those unearthed during the last trained personnel of 265 persons | three years near Guatemala City and every position was filled by| by archaeologists of the Car- competitive examination under|negie Institution of Washington. the merit system. This provides; The expedition was financed job security for the personnel) by Mr. and Mrs. John M. Dimick, some 20 miles from San Salva-j smallest (pint-size) rhythm-prin- | cess, Miss Lydia Paz. Sergeant ‘Frank Purnell, of the Regimental Band unit, will give several vocal solos. Barry and+¢his orchestra have beef engaged for the dance and will play for dancing which will last until 2:00 o'clock. Many Lions have come to Key | West as a side-trip before em- barkation on the S. S. Florida at Miami Monday or Tuesday, }and many more are expected this weekend. | Informal party will be held all, j day long at the Lions Den to- morrow. It is expected that the | major part of the delegation em- barking here will arrive during the day tomorrow. TO LIONS’ MEET | Leslie L. Prime, president of the Lions Club of Tallahassee and a former resident of Key West, lis in the city visiting his father, | J. R. Prime, prior to attending the Lions Convention in Ha- vana. | Mr. Prime has a party which} will arrive this afternoon, con-} sisting of Mrs. Prime, Mr. and} | Mrs. Lester Moon, Jessie Brown jand Miss Onnie Waters. They | | will leave on the SS. Cuba for Havana tomorrow morning. | Mr. Prime enjoyed a day's \fishing yesterday with the De-| |Mmeritt brothers, local commercial |former Key Wester. TUG WARBLER IN FINAL LEAVE _ All arrangements were com- \Pleted yesterday afternoon, gear, had all been transferred and) then back to Key West. He had been reappointed to the same po- sition for the coming school year. Bo in Greenwood, S. C., August 3, 1886, Prof. Duncan began his educational activities following receipt of his A.B. de- gree from Wooford College at Spartanburg, S. C., in 1910, en- gaging in active teaching for thirty years. He received his Master’s degree at the University (of Florida in 1936. Prof. Duncan served during the World War, with the title of colonel, at the Plattsburg R.O.T.C. Services will be held at the Lopez Funeral Home chapel to- morrow afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Rev. O. C. Howell of Ley Me- morial church and Rev. W. R. Howell of Fleming Street Metho- dist church will officiate. A short Masonic chapel service will be observed. Surviving Prof. Duncan, be- sides his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Duncan, are three brothers. Following the services here, the remains will be “shipped to Tampa for interment. Polk County Leads Way 3 “Some of the boys, I hear, have been writing home about cond: tions of our camp here at Ft Screven, in rather a poor light Iam ata loss to understand this, for, in all my camp experi- ence, I have never seen quite as ideal a set-up as we have here Perhaps they were just a little homesick”. Thus wrote Lieut. Will E P. Roberts in a special dispatch te The Citizen today. He wanted all relatives of Battery “E” members not to take too serious- ly any comments that might make it appear the boys are dis- satisfied. Life goes on apace at the F Screven encampment as the boy: see the end of the second week drawing to a close. The encamp- ment ends Sunday, July 28. A description of the anti-air- craft practice was given by Lieut. Roberts in his second report to The Citizen. High explosives are being used in the problems worked out daily im the camp and the boys are “catching on to the work in a satisfactory ma ner, he stated. It appears that Key upholding the softball We tradition 4000900 New Under are needs streneth im leacershan The smut lee meipded the name of Sr Alien Branke t the ret of com mander-in-chief of @-~ has beer selected Tr ie om cies in fine style at Ft. Screven. Bat- } tery “F” of Miami challenged the local boys to a game the first of the week. Going imto the ninth inning, the Miami team was leading 9 to 3. but Battery “E exploded a terrific barrage of hits in the final frame that ended in ten runs being scored and vic- tory. Lieut. H. H. Taylor has been given a new nickname—“Crick- et”—according to Roberts. Tay lor is gun officer and battery executive. Roberts is range of. ficer. Both are working with Captain Harris to gain complete knowledge of their duties under the new assignments “Morale still continues high™ Roberts concluded in his report _ To Reduce Millage Rates (Special to The Citizen) BARTOW, Fila, July 20—Im- |search Institute. He believes the |anglers, who well remember the perial Polk, the first county, in the state to complete their tenta- tive budget for next year, an- nounces a reduction in the coun- | ty-wide levy for operating ex- by the ability, honesty. and <f- visions, and governmental func- tions and services performed by the various countees are virtually penses of a 2-% mills and a re-| duction in the debt service levy | of 4 mills. The Florida Tax Rexision League in Jacksonville said to- day: “This gives Polk County taxpayers the lowest operating and greater efficiency in the op-|New York socialites who partici- everything was in readiness for | millage since 1936. Taxpayers in eration of the agency. The ad- ministrative expense of both. di- visions are paid by the Federal| mapped the,ares. Government. expedition _ photographer. | All claims for jobless insurance } - must be filed through 2 State | iii. Employment Service Office. R UL’S Since January 1, 1939 the Key West office of the Service, under BIG DANCE TONITE the management of William : Vv. Little, has accepted 857 claims The Very Best in Music and Entertainment. for unemployment compensation, as a result of which more than No Admission Charge en $23,500.00 has been paid, in the WELCOME, LIONS! an engineer, surveyed form of weekly benefits, to the; unemployed in that territory. During that period the Key West office has accepted 2824 job applications and made 499 | job placements, of which 386 were made during the first six | ‘months of this year. |stationed there indefinitely: ‘ed at Key West sirice pated in the field work. Dimick,'the sailing of Wrecking ‘Tug | other counties might well call and | Warbler. The tug sailed for New | the Mrs. Ries was | York at 4:30 o'clock and will be | commissioners to the reduction in | Polk County as a concrete illus-; | Tug Warbler had been station-/ tration of what can be done.” injecting economy and :The tentative rival here and the crew and most/ government generally has in- | ‘of the officers are natives of this} city. They will remain here for! \the operation of the Tug Willet,: |which came here from New York |Welcome, Lions. . . | ai [a - creased rapidly for the past sev- “The total operating cost of coun- ty government for all counties ‘eral years”, the, League says,| Thé air ottecks creased Nazi gress the violent warfare leashed bare cut the sor Hitler's noe premacy Earope pa ar Ita joes tree Com Cam ¥ ee for Pee Siiowing confmesen Germar tust aby comms i