The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-02-23
Bridge Loan Action Held
In Allegiance As Result OF
Request From Overseas Co.
Shows News Published In
Miami Paper Relative
To Rejection Was Pre-
mature

con the strength of a request
made by the Overseas Bridge Cor
poration to the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation the application
for loan to construct the pro-
posed bridges between Lower
Matecumbe and No Name Key has
been suspended nearly two months.
"The Overseas Bridge Corpora
tion specifically asked that action
on the application be withheld I'M
til further notice, and such notice
has not yet been given"
The information contained in
those two paragraphs was received
by The Citizen from its Washing
ton correspondent. The informa-
ton is authoritative and correct.
The Citizen is giving the infor-
nation to its readers as a result
of special that was published
in The Miami News for last Satur-
day, in which it was said that a
member of the r. F. G. advisory
board had declared that the appli-
cation for loan made by the
Overseas Bridge Corporation had
been rejected because the project
was not considered 'liquidating
in fact"
Residents have phoned The Citi-
zen and have made personal calls
at the office to ascertain if the
item published in The News is
true, and The Citizen replied that,
so far as it knows, the member of
the advisory board was correctly
quoted by the correspondent Of the
Miami paper.
Not Aware OF Request
But, The Citizen explained, it
believes that the engineer was not
aware of the request of the Over
seas Bridge Corporation, made
nearly two months before, that ac-
tion on the application be suspend
ed until further notice, and that
that notice has not yet been given.
Incidentally. that request was
made to the directors Of the r. F.
G. and not to its engineering
board.
In view of that fact, how could
something be rejected that was
>pot asked for?
II can't be, and the only con-
clusion to be reached is that the
engineer has not been informed,
because there was no reason to in
form him. that the application had
been suspended.
The reason that prompted
the Overseas Bridge Corpora
ton 10 ask for the suspension
was because George j. Rosen-
thai was proceeding legally
against the corporation in the
hope Of eventually frustrat-
ing its efforts TO get the loan
for which il had applied.
In other words, the corpora
ton realized that IL had a
fight on it's hands with Rosen-
thai and wanted 10 put an
end 60 Il before continuing
its appeal TO the r. r. c. for
money to pay for the con-
struetion of the proposed
bridges.
All of which may explain the
reason why the news about what
the engineers had said did not APP
pear in any other paper. so far
as The Citizen has been able to
determine, besides The News.
Key Westers, in discussing the
matter with representatives of The
Citizen, remarked that they had
not seen it in this paper, or that
paper, and concluded invariably
BY asking why The Citizen had not
received and published the news. "
The Citizen replied that it is a
member Of The Associated Press
and that il also has correspond
ent in Washington. and that It had
not received a single word from
either of those sources, and prob
ably the reason why the correspond
eut did not say anything about the
so<alled rejection" was because
NJ did not consider it news. as he
had long known that the applica-
ton had been suspended at the re-
soest of the Overseas Bridge Cor
pogalion.
Furthermore, the engineer who
wa austed as saying the project
was enot self-liquidating in fact"
was not aware that the Overseas
Bridee Corporation, after il had
gCentinued on Page Threel