The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 15, 1941, Page 1

Millage Set i 1 Melvin Russell. county super- | | figure) PERMISSION TO DREDGE KEY WEST'S WATERS | THOMPSON ENTERPRISES AL. tition to be forwarded to the In- SO FILE APPLICATION FOR BUILDING CONCRETE RE- PAINTERS "| MEMBER OF UNION STATES HE WILL TAKE MATTER UP WITH INTERNATIONAL | Herman F. Kemp, member of {the local painters’ union, said to- ay he will ask international headquarters of the organization jto investigate employment of non-Key West men through the AF.ofL. local here on housing i jobs. Kemp, who has prepared a pe- ‘diamapolis headquarters of the j union, charges local officers with lemploying out-of-town worke-s} jin order to collect the fee for ', j Work permits, at the same time idle. Key West Citizr THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1941 Secretary Knox Says Navy _ Oct. 15.— Speaking at his press conference as the house scheduled debate jfor tomorrow on the arming of | American merchant ships, Navy Secretary Frank Knox today de- clared the navy is ready and able to put guns on the ships and man them with navy gun crews. Knox told newsmen the navy probably does not have enough guns to arm ali the ships at LEASE-LEND AID TO" REDS LA i | WASHINGTON, i | Ships With Navy Gun Crews (By Associated Preas) once, but he said his department will be able to arm them as fast as the ships are able to make port. The secretary's statement came as house foreign affairs commit- tee Chairman Sol Bloom asked the rules committee to schedule debate on the issue tomorrow, and to limit the discussion to the one day. Administration sup- porters in the house said there is little question of their ability to push the measure through, and it is understood there is less oppo- sition in the senate than in the lower house. Herrol J. Skidmore, Captain, | Informed that 2 member of | ‘ = ithe union would file a protest / of Engineers, Executive As- {wees his: adesiniatration,- Busi-} (Ry Associated Press) WIRE AI AAS Corps sistant, Jacksonville, Fla. has in- marked a reduction of 17 mills | formed The Citizen that applica- t }tion has been made to the War last year’s 26-mill rate. but | Department by Thompson Enter- increased school attendance here jprises Inc, A|M. Adams, vice- i president, Key West, Fla, for a {permit to construct a concrete re- from the state department of ed- weation for a less severe slash than that handed the commis- sion. The nine mill rate already has been approved by the state and is final. Four mills will be applied to maintenance of the special school district. with 3.7 for the general fund and 1.3 for the in-! debtedness fund. In accepting Russell's figure, the commissioners revealed that! the 13 mills levy for in- | taining wall and to dredge, the dredged material to be deposited shoreward of the retaining wall in Key West harbor at their prop- erty located between William street and Grinnell street, Key West, Fla. The proposed retain- ing wall will be located on align- ment 352 feet north of and parallel with Caroline street and will ex- tend from Grinnell street to Wil- liam street. Return walls wili be constructed at either end of the wall to connect it with the shore. A portion of the harborward re- taining wall has been constructed under War Department permit. The retaining wall will ‘be of the debtedness will apply~ to Over-’tion. The area within the con- ness Agent Teddy Kerr this morning denied the charge of employing work permit men. “Only one local painter is out of work now”, Kerr said. “And only three men are working in Key West on permits”. “As far as the are concerned”, he added, “it doesn’t make a bit of difference to me how much we collect for them. don’t get the money, anyw: - Kemp said most of the out-of- town workers ere employed by the Ben Herschel company, a sub-contractor under the Paul H. Smith firm on defense - housing here. According to Kerr, Her- schel employs five men on the Mackle-Leach projects, four on the Smith company’s housing project. and two on the white housing project, all *whom he said are local men. Under union work permits rules, Kemp (By Associated Press) i WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.—Ad- ministration leaders appearing before the senate finance com- mittee have recommended Jease- tlend aid for Russia only after the Soviet Union has used up available credits in this country, Senator Alva B. Adams, chair- man of the committee, revealed today. | Asked if any of the witnesses had recommended money for Russia in the pending $6,000,000.- 000 aid bill, the senator said all of them up to now have specified that the Russians must spend all available money here before they would favor granting them lease- lend materials. NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Military airplanes valued at $1,250,000, originally destined for Peru. were ordered held for shipment to Russia today by the war de- partment. The planes, crated and ready for shipment, were to have been sent to the South American country at once, until the war department intervened. LEAVES ON TRIP Aquilino Lopez, Jr., attorney for the Key West Housing Au- thority, left at noon today for West Palm Beach, where he will attend to business pertaining to the board. He expects to return home tomorrow evening. “seas Road and Toll Bridge “ais-! trict, housing projects here, land tect extended harborward and to be! acquired by the federal government and all property, State or federal owned, which at any time was eligible for the would be required “to get=the/ fines “et < Creal - sted William signatures of five members of! Slums No More Justified Than Bad Meat, Says For- | a ining te union in order to ‘get action | 7 ee eo ape panei international headquarters, | mer Jacksonville C. Of C. Manager i ward thercof, will be dredged to a| Dut the painter declared he will ; | depth of 8 feet below mean low 2S* Support for the move at aj (The Labor World) water to secure 35,000 cubic yards Meeting of the local tomorrow i i { Moscow In Grave Peril With Nazis ing Big Drive On Four Fronts Aigenina And United States | ave Sied Tra Rew Theat Ge SS Mae: Free Capme BUENOS AIRES 15 —Arger (By Anmacinted Prene the tives at the o read congratu’ from Preside: Roose Secretary of State Corde! Overriding the protests western cattle men, the negotia- tors agreed on @ PLANE REPORTED LETDOWN To HM «6 AS. LOST (BY Associated Preas) 30 per cent cut BIG COME-DOWN NO loday Cludec one American = — or THAN LAST YEAR yeyT FENWICK levy. on) Almon Vickers, age 55,- died afternoon at 5:45 | WASHINGTON, ~Oct. 15.— !OQutlawing of “rottenhousing” to |benefit the public is suggested by James T. Daniels, former ~mana- ‘ger of the Jacksonville, Fla, Chamber of Commerce, in an larticle which advocates public Now-rent housing as a device for , Saving the taxpayer's money. | Declaring that slums cost more !to maintain than it would cost to teliminate them, Daniels writes in the August issue of “The Ameri- can City” that the only practical jsolution is replacing the slums been no arrests, only one minor: fire, and no. cases of juvenile de- a linquency in the four years of Sales cf automobile driver Project occupancy. During the ‘licenses here, although a dead- same period, delinquency increas- line has been set for next Mon- ed im the rest of the city. | day, still are below last year's Encouraged by the increase in‘, Cc ‘i R 4 Property values and the stability fig) nou in the neighborhood resulting {Lord revealed today. from the project's good record Up to now, thé judge's office and appearance, private enter- has issued 3.545 licenses of ail prise has built a higher-priced types, while 4,087 went out lest subdivision immediately adjoin-!year. Of the total this year, 3,- ing the low-rent homes. In ad- 038 went to regular operaters, dition, local business men have 4090 to chauffeurs, 88 to junior profited from the increased pur-;operators, and mine special in- of material for fill shoreward of! Might. Firemen Lose Pay the Pai = Ernest A. Ramsey, discussing Plans of this work may be seen ALMON VICKERS the budget cuts made by Comp- at the U. S. Engineer Office, 2nd trolier J. M. Lee in reducing the floor of U. S. Courthouse and millage rate from 11 to seven Post Office, Jacksonville, Fla. DIED TUESDA mills, said the county no longer at the U. S Engineer Office, } ® will be able to pay $50 a month ami Beach, Fla. Soe a to Fire Chief Harry Baker, and It is not proposed to hold a pub- FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE three firemen previously’ on the lic hearing on this application. county payroll must be trans- Anyone desiring to protest the CONDUCTED TOMORROW ferred back to the city. Baker proposed work from the stand- AFTERNOON previously has been paid both by point of its inierference with, or the city and county, but Ramsey effect upon, navigation, should said Lee informed him he would submit such protest in writing, | yesterday not approve that expenditure. Dr. J. B. Parramore, whose county clinic also came under the comptroller’s axe, urged the bourd members to work out some method of providing his depart- ment with funds, but the com-| missioners agreed there is little | they can do. Commissioner R. W. Craig, who was not present at last! Mrs. Frank McQuarry, who Verona Vickers: a daughter, Miss; night’s session, was empowered to act on the request of upper key residents that the recently purchased fire pump be placed in 24-hour, rather than 12-hour, service. Representatives of key citizens urged construction of 2 public garage for the pump, in order that it could be available for use at all times. Members of the board, after accepting County Tax Assessor Claude A. Gandolfo’s tax books, voted to recess the session until Oct. 30, when they will make a full study of the budget and again accept complaints against Gandolfo’s valuations. The board previously had accepted the complaints, but its action was unofficial, since the books had not then been approved by Lee. VERY ODD ATTIRE JEFFERSON CITY, Mo —Al- though her husband was con- ventionally attired, Mrs. Cora Viola Schaeffer of this city wore seersucker trousers and sweater when she was married. — sesceccoce Rudy Vallee—Helen Parrish pe oe TOO MANY BLONDES Comedy and Serial ecccoccccscccess: with reasons in sufficient detail to o'clock at a local hospital. permit intelligent consideration. Mr. Vickers resided in the rear Protests should be mailed to the of 624 Margaret street. District Engineer, U.S. Engineer: Funeral services will be held Office. P. O. Box 4970, Jackson-'tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 ville, Fla., in time to be received o'clock from the chapel of Pritch- on or before October 23. ard Funeral Home, Rev. Jones, of First Baptist church, | officiating. Survivors are the widow, Mrs. LEFT THIS MORNING had been visiting here with John Rebecca Vickers; a son, Roberts and family, left this a sister, Mrs. John Hall, morning for Tarpon Springs. brother, Shelly Vickers. Lewis: and a Contract Will Soon Be Let For New Recreation Center {with decent homes for low-in- come families. ; Slum Area Costly “Slum areas do not pay their own way”, says Daniels and cites } Official Jacksonville statistics to chasing power accruing to the | '230 project families who are | saving approximately $21,000 a‘ year in living costs. Monthly | rents, which include payments’ for utilities, average only $13:35* prove it. “In one slum area, call-|in the project, as compared with‘ jed Hansontown, the net cost of ‘the $2090 which | the families | | Municipal services exceed the formerly paid in the slums. 4 net income from taxation by $40,- “Rotten Housing” Hit i |000 per-year. This is a net loss} “Public housing”: writes’ Dan-' ito the taxpayers as a whole”. _/iels, “does not mean that the tax- | In all Jacksonville slum areas, payers must go on paying a sub- | {the annual per square mile cost 'sidy forever. Projects are plan-. jof police and fire protection alone ned to liquidate over a period of | yaveraged $113,500 against tax years under the present scale of ' | colections of $58,300 for the same rents and incomes... although | ‘area. Comparable figures for an history shows that both rents; javerage residential area are $16,-'and rent-paying capacity in-_ $200 for police and fire protection | creases with the years. ; and a tax return of $131,200. | “True, some individuals may | “It is evident”, Daniels points lose their former profits from jout, “that there must be a certain their ‘gougings’ of poor families i Construction of a $35,000 rec-!as Architect Jack Long has com-.of the city to make up for the reation center at Jackson Square;pieted his plans, Novarine ex-;|tax deficit of the slums”. may be completed by Dec. 15, it] plained. contractors will be called | Public Housing Profits was revealed today by Raymond/in and the contract let. ; In contrast, Daniels notes the L. Novarine, field recreation rep-} Lieutenant Kirsting,. who is record of the first low-rent pub- resentative of the federal security | stationed at Venice, is expected to ,lic housing project in Jackson- agency, who came here from Mi-jstudy the drawings with Long | Ville. All of the occupants came ami to speed the project. j this afternoon and give them the ‘from bad housing and 75 per cent Novarine, who_was joined here! approval necessary before work/of them from the two worst this afternoon by Lieut. Edward !can begin. jSlums in town; but there have Kersting of the army's construct-; City council, meanwhile, willj jtax excess from the other areas for shacks and inadequate hous- | nig, but should they not be! | forced into a legitimate business? | The federal government, years | ago, outlawed the selling of un-/ inspected and retten meats. How which affects not only the occu- | Pants, bet the neighborhood and. ithe entire city as well”. ! ing quartermaster corps, said it| be asked to grant an easement for; ithe Jackson Square property, as) isoon as the government repre- sentatives have decided whether !to build the center on the east or |west corner of the park. Al-| jthough the west corner originally | | «Continued On Page Four) = | { “TWIN _BEDS will not be necessary to advertise for bids on the project.- As soon il struction permits were issued. Tax Collector Joe C. McMahay announced at the same time that this year’s sales of automobile I , tags have gone well abowe lest Re Rae en ps year's, with 2773 of the mew LONDON, Oct 15—Serb amd | ome tags out in contrast to 2,050 im Montenegro patricts a ae 1940. against the Gemas i Fuge om Slavia have cqupped themacioes |S NO WONDER with artiliery and mechenaed- ae equipment throug? carmg seats SPRINGFIELD, 1li—Mystified on Nazi and Ttskan outpests, 2 Pra by the unusual quiet reigning in liable sources bere cepereed a om. pied by his wife and daughter, Although the ae of the ame a. ee Clay Gott investigated and. to fighting the Anis scidiers i an- [4 Doman . his surprise, found they weren't known. reports said one group ef a - there. He had driven off with- 20,900 recently Gescendietd c= = seme suk So the pans out them ‘after stopping ata fill Kuler gerscn south <f Se = com a ing station several miles back. grade. wipmg f cut | | Wholesale 5 derstood here to be undergoing a wholesale shakeup in command as the government decreed short- er college training courses in