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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-13
Bridge Tenders And Toll
Gate Workers Shown To
Be Operating Now On
Eight Hour Shifts

Tolls for the week of March
% TO April 4 for north and south
bound cars over the Overseas
Bridges detailed se.s34 a report 10
the Highway Commission at
meetings yesterday and Monday
reveals.
SOuihbound through the toll
gate at Big Pine Key s.s3a per-
sons and 2.l27 passenger auto
mobiles were recorded. Going
north there were s.Ss2 persons
and 1885 cars. This shows that
during the week 377 persons in
III cars stayed over TO see the
city more fully. the other cars
being round irippers."
Trucks passing through north
and south were Ill and buses
so.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-13
Jaycee Drive May Bring
In Hundred New Members
Forty Tentatively Secured;
Identification, Finger
Pier Projects, Charter
Night Discussed

Allegations that unTeprescnta
tive citizens were being solicited
in The membership drive the
Junior Chamber of Commerce is
conducting. and which is now in
full swing. were discussed last
night al a special meeting of the
body. and another special meet
ing called for Monday night TO
pass the bodY's bylaws. which
calls for the appointment of a
Board of Directors TO act on the
eligibility of each new member.
Anibal ArmayOr, captain of one
OF the teams in the drive sub
mitted a list of candidates he
has secured, as did also Isidore
Weintraub, captain of the other
team, and the club expressed in
formal approval of those mem
bers.
Interviews with the team cap
tains, who are guarding the
names of prospects closely, reveal
that over 40 persons have sig
nified their intention of joining
the Junior Chamber. The goal is
hundred members, the drive to
close April %.
Committee of Howard England,
chairman, Wilbur Moehrke and
Stephen Singleton, III. was APP
pointed TO confer with those
planning the Formal Highway
Opening Celebration at an in
formal meeting tomorrow night.
Finger Piers
Question of securing a WP.A.
grant for a number of finger
piers TO be erected in the CARR
son Blight was discussed and in
formally it was agreed to CO
operate closely with the Yacht
Club in getting the grant. 1t is
understood that 90, of the cost
of the project must be furnished
by local city or county agency
At present there is mean 10
foot depth in the Garrison Blight
from the drawbridge entrance to
the Boulevard, which makes the
project feasible, discussion
brought out Tentative plans are
20 erect the piers either at the
draw entrance or on the boule-
ward side. They will probably
be built close To the water for
the convenience of yachtSmcn.
A project committee with Poly
Artman, chairman, and Edward
Bayly. Franklin Albert Anibal
Armayor, and Allan Hampton,
members. was appointed. This
committee viii handle all prof
ects brought up by members of
the club. posting them unJb the
Jaycee bulletin board auatthe
Chamber of Commerce. sif
Identification Projects
A communication will be sent
TO the Board of Public Works
asking that the driveway at the
cemetery leading from the en-
trance TO the Maine Plot be put
into prcscntahle shape. Tourists
have complained steadily Of the
appearance of this particular see.
ton.
A city Identification project,
which as suggested will give Key
Vests streets blooming trees the
year round by planting alternate
varieties, was referred 10 the
project committee. Certain of
the streets in the city which badly
need shade trees and planting
We're suggested by members.
Charter night banquet and
and dance. April %. win b. held
al RaufS Miramar Club at 8
O'Clock Communications have
been received from Miami area
Jsycee bodies and also from
other Jaycee groups IN East Coast
towns above Miami Franklin
Albert. local member. viii per
Sonally interview iaycce groups
in Miami this weekend and in.
wife them down TO the Key West
Clubs Charter Night
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-13
MODERN BUCCANEERS

LONG BEACH. Cahf.-plratcs
wearing black hoods boarded a
gambling barge anchored Oft THIS
city and got away with cash ard
lewelry valued az SS2.oo0.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-13

Toll gate tenders in the Over
seas bridges are d. b. Russell. G..
Symonettc, S o. Sawyer, Francis
X. Delaney. Roy Cuppy. J. H.
Huau. Bridge tenders are r. c.
Jackson. o. p. Hill. ]. G. Gallop
is the chief patrolman and S A.
Senneff is another patrolman.
The bridge tenders and toll gate
tenders work in eight hour
shifts.
Payments for the month Of
March were made yesterday 20
S J. Groves and Sons Co. Wis
consin Bridge and Iron Co. { Y
Thomson. Wannamaker and
Wells. Clark Brothers. Thomas
+. Kenncy Co.
The speed law decided on az
the Commission meeting was
that enforced on state high
ways Although no mileage t.
stated IN this law. Il Is under
stood that any dangerous or
reckless driving lays the offender
open 10 arrest regardless Of the
spes d at which he IS travelling
Identification OF the OVERSEE
Bridges was discussed at tie
meeting. bat no definite action
taken. The only work Of this
sort being done az the present H.
the cleaning off Of the right 81
way in the District. which Is
follow up job after ali bridge
construction work
AZ present. there IS no cor
temptation 81 installing lights GA
the bridges. - NJ Duncan ssid.
except that there are navigation
lights on the drawbridgea ard
also lights on the toll houses 81
the District
The OveTseas District still hg
$1,000 of bonds Il has issued
which have not - yet been sold
10 the PWA- This IS the total
left ~ the $500 900 original
granted b the government
aRency. Uses for this reserve
fund were discussed a. the meet
inEs buf nothing definite de-
cidcd.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-13

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-04-13

Key West, Florida, has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only Ia Fahrenheit
Evening star., 1938-11-15

several thousand times more vio-
lent, DR.. GamoW said. These are
the so-called "super-novae" for
which more satisfactory explana-
ton can be found than for ordinary
novae. Such an explosion, DR..
GamoW explained, can occur only
in a star many times the size of the
sun in which the weight of the
outer layers is so great that the
proton and electron gas pressures
of the interior are not great enough
to support them. Then the star
collapses.
According to his hypothesis, Dr.
GamoW said. this collapse must
necessarily occur in heavy stars at
some stage in their evolution. 1t
could not possibly occur in a star
the size of the sun.
While ordinary novae outbursts
occur at the rate of about 80 a year
in the star system of which the sun
is a part, Dr.. Gamow said, they are
seldom observed except by astrono-
mers because they are so far away
There have been only two or three
super-novae explosions in all his
tory, he stressed, among the billions
of stars of this galaxy.
The Milky Way galaxy, however
is only one of several million similar
aggregations of billions of stars, all
Of them so far away that their light
moving at about 200 600 miles a sec
ond, requires million years or mors
to reach the earth. When these are
explored at least one such super
novae explosion may be expected
every year.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Hamilton Calls COP.
Committee 10 Meet
In Capital Nov. @
Future Of Frank Group
Expected to Come
Before Session

The Republican National Com
mittee will meet at the call Of
Chairman John Hamilton in WASH
ington November 20. The results of
the recent election will be carefully
canvassed and the committee will
also make plans for the future.
Members of the national COM
mittee are distinctly pleased with
the gains the Republican party
made In Congress and in control of
State governments as a result Of
the recent election.
One matter which will come be-
fore the committee is the future
course of the Program Committee,
headed by DR.. Glenn Frank. This
committee, set up by action Of the
national committee, may make a
preliminary report at the November
meeting. However, it is expected
that the full report of the commit
tee probably will not be submitted
until next year.
Look to Congressman.
Members of the national commit
tee recognize the fact that policies,
particularly legislative, are made by
members OF Congress and not by the
national committee. That being the
case, the national committee will
look to the Republicans in the new
Congress for policy making.
In some quarters it has been sug-
gested that an effort may be made
to dislodge Chairman Hamilton.
This seems entirely improbable. al
though any member of the COM
mittee is entitled to bring up any
thing he desires at the coming meet
ing. National chairmen are elected
for a period Of four years. At a
meeting of the national committee
in the fall of 1886, after the over
Whelming defeat of ALT M. Landon
by President Roosevelt. Chairman
Hamilton submitted his resignation.
BY a vote of "a to the national
committee declined to accept it.
At that meeting Representative
Hamilton Fish of New York. who is
not a member of the National Com
mittee, but who held a proxy, made
long attack on Chairman Hamil-
ton. Since that time the proxy rule
has been changed, so that the holder
OF proxy must come from the State
or Territory of the committee men,
Der granting the proxy. Mr.. Fish,
unless he obtains the proxy of Ken
meth Simpson or Mrs Ruth B. Pratt,
the New York members of the Ma
tional Committee, will be unable to
take part in the coming meeting.
Financial Situation.
The national committee probably
will consider its financial situation.
The committee broke about even in
the campaign just closed. However.
it has a deficit of about 100000
coming over from the campaign of
1886. Plans will be made, it is ex-
pected, to retire this debt and clear
the decks for the campaign of 1910.
The meeting of the national COM
mlttee this year is in conformity
with the rule adopted by Chairman
Hamilton of holding an annual COM
mittee meeting The meeting last
year was in Chicago. and at that
time the Glenn Frank Committee on
Program was authorized after q
brisk fight.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Scottish Rite Temple
Ground Is Broken

With high officials of the Scottish
Rite of Freemasonry attending,
ground was broken yesterday for a
new temple on Sixteenth street just
north of the Italian Embassy.
John H. Cowles, grand commander
of the Southern Jurisdiction, dug
the first spade of earth in the cere-
mony Members of the Executive
and Building Committees attended.
Frank Stetson is chairman of the
Building Committee.
Among those attending the cere-
mony were John c. Palmer, COM
mander of Robert de Bruce Council,
Knights Kadosh; Hector G.. Spauld-
ing, venerable master of Mithras
Lodge of Perfection; Frederic B.
Blackburn, wise master of Evan
gelist Chapter. Knights Rose Croix;
John o. Bowen, venerable master
of Kadosh, Albert Pike Consistory
and C. c. Combs. deputy of the
Supreme Council of the District.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Mrs. William B. Harrison
Dies Suddenly at Sc

Mrs. Leila Wheeler Harrison. So.
of IT'S Q street NV. widow of Mai
William Burr Harrison, U. S. A.,
died Yesterday of a sudden illness
at the home of her nephew, 1t
Comdr. John W. Vest, U. S. N, on
Kent Island, Md.
Mrs. Harrison had been a resident
OF this city some 80 years. Until re-
Gently she had been visiting her
brother-in-ia and sister, Col and
Mrs. Joseph H. Earle, at Greenville
S. c. She had planned to return
here after visiting her nephew.
Besides her sister in Greenville
she leaves daughter, Miss Mary
Butler Harrison. Greenville, and
another sister, Mrs. A. w. Vest OF
Kent Island.
Funeral services were scheduled to
be held at 2:30 pm. today in Christ
Episcopal Church, Leesburg, Va.
Burial will be at Leesburg.
Active pallbearers are Burr Powell
Harrison, Grey Beverley, H. L. Rust,
jr.; Calvert Bowie, Frank Saunders
and Joseph H. Earle, jr.
The list of honorary pallbearers
includes c. Powell Minnigerode,
Judge Charles Kerr, Jack Anderson,
Gen. Frederick M. Wise, Comdr. F..
L. Sandoz, Lawrence Patterson, DR..
B. H. Earle, G.. P. Apperson, William
F. Ham, Capt. Henry Williams, Col.
Frank Glover, Frederick Saunders
and John Anderson.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Home Economics Dinner
To Be Given Friday

The home economics department
of the District public schools will
sponsor a dinner Friday evening at
the American Association of Uni
versity Women's Club.
Miss Edna Amidon, chief of the
home service. Interior Department.
will be guest of honor. Teachers
recently added to the home eco
nomics staff of local schools will
be welcomed
This year for the first time funds
have been made available through
the George-Dear Act for increased
work in home economics. Mrs. Ola
Day Rush, director of the depart
ment, will discuss plans for carrying
out the homemaking program.
Mrs. Catherine Anderson, Eastern
High School. is chairman of ar
rangements for the dinner.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
| Agriculture Unit
Wants to Employ
Autogiro Pilots

The Agriculture Department is in
the market for-of all things-auto-
giro pilots.
The Bureau of Entomology and
Plant Quarantine uses these flying
Wlndmills to war on Dutch Elm
disease, a mapper who rides with
the pilot spotting infested areas and
turning the information over to the
ground crews which apply corrective
measures.
The Civil Service commission to-
day announced an examination for
pilots who will work out of the
Bloomfield. N. j.. station and get
$4,000 annually. Applicants must
meet certain experience require
ments and cannot have passed their
46th birthday,
The department has been using
the autogiros several years. The
disease can be spotted best from
above. and these craft have advan-
tage over airplanes because of their
ability to fly low and slowly, and also
to maneuver in terrain that would
offer insurmountable obstacles to
planes.
The commission will receive ap-
plications until December IL and Is
for this work. the last-named date
applying to Colorado and States
West.
Examinations also were announced
by the commission for junior medi-
cal officers at St. EliZabeth's Hos
pital here and senior biological aid
Agriculture Department. These
posts also pay $1,000.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Stars Explode, Grow Brighter,
Then Fade, Scientist Reveals

Some day the sun may blow up.
About 80 stars year in the 30
000, 100000 or more that make up
the Milky Way galaxy, some of
them approximately the same size
as the sun, suddenly explode, be-
come more than 10000 times as
bright as before, and then subside
to their ordinary luminosity in a
year or so.
This was explained last night by
DR.. George Gamow, professor of
theoretical physics at George Wash
ington University. who has just
evolved a new hypothesis to account
for the heat of stars by the con-
tinuous transformation of hydrogen
gas, the mother stuff" of creation.
into heavier elements. Preliminary
calculations. DR.. Gamow said, show
that there is certain critical point
in this transmutation process when
a great explosion is likely to occur
He now is working on a formula by
which it may be possible to predict
the time for any particular star.
Such an explosion of the sun
would probably wipe out the solar
system, including the earth, in the
tWinking of an eye but-at least
until DR.. Gamow works out a pre-
diction formula-there is no need to
worry about 1t because the chances
Of its happening to the sun in any
generation are considerably less
than billion to one.
What might happen to the sun
would be just an ordinary star ex-
plosion compared with three or four
which have been observed. including
the Star of Bethlehem, which were
Evening star., 1938-11-15

A group Of George E. Aliens as
sociates during his tenure as a
member of the Board of District
Commissioners gave him a testi-
monial luncheon at the Carlton
Hotel yesterday-and Mr.. Allen
picked up the check. The former
Commissioner. who resigned to be-
come an insurance executive, also
was presented book of testimonial
letters and desk set for which
he did not have to pay.
The affair was arranged by
committee under the Craftsmanship
Of Harry c. Butcher vice presi-
dent Of the Columbia Broadcasting
System. Mr. Butchers associates
in planning a gala party for Mr.
Allen Cat Mr. Aliens expense) were
John J. Pelley, president of the
Association of American Railroads;
Merle Thorpe. editor of Nations
Business: Stephen T. Early, men,
ber of the White House secretariat;
j. Russell Young, White House cor
respondent of The Star. and Holly
Stover.
Principal speakers at the luncheon
were Messrs. Butcher, Early and
Young, all three of whom engaged
IN friendly 'ribbing" of Mr.. Allen.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Jane A. Deluno Post
Unveiled Portrait

In an advance Armistice Day
story carried in The Star last Thurs
day it was incorrectly stated that
members of District Salon IA. Eight
and Forty, were to unveil a por-
trait OF Jane A. Delano at the Ma
tional Museum.
The portrait was presented to the
Museum by Jane A. Delano Post,
No. s, American Legion. and the
unveiling ceremony. held last Friday,
also was conducted by that post.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Important Posts
In Wage-Hour
Division Filled
Two University Professors
And Business Man
Named by Andrews

Three important posts in the
Wage and Hour Division of the La
Dor Department were filled today by
appointment of Elmer F.. Andrews,
administrator.
To complete his administrative
staff. Mr. Andrews named Ralph j.
Watkins, director of the Bureau of
Business Research of the University
of Pittsburgh. to the post of assist
ant administrator in charge of the
wage and hour standards branch of
the division.
At the same time, Carroll R.
Daugherty, author and teacher of
economics, was named chief econo-
mist and Burton E. Oppenheim. Bal
timore business man. was appointed
chief of the industry committee
section.
Will Aid Organization.
Mr.. Oppenheim task, it was ex-
planned. will consist of aiding in the
organization of industry committees
for the purpose of reviewing the
special labor standards of each in
dustry and making recommended
tions for PRONUNCIATION of better
than minimum levels by the Wage
and Hour Division. For several
weeks Mr.. Oppenheim has been
serving in connection with the Tex
tile Industry Committee, first of
such groups to be set up.
The divisions participation in such
will li-
rectly under Mr.. Watkins.
Mr.. Dougherty, a graduate of the
University of Pennsylvania. served
the Bureau Of Labor Statistics in
1886 in making productivity studies
of the automobile and iron and steel
industries. He has taught eco
nomics at the University of Alabama
and the Wharton School of Finance
and has written textbooks on labor
and economic problems.
Graduate of Texas U.
Mr.. Watkins, a graduate OF the
University of Texas and Columbia
University, taught business and sta
tistical research courses at Texas
and Ohio State Universities.
Mr. Oppenheim was in the gar
ment manufacturing business in
Baltimore for nearly 20 years. Dur
ing the days of the N. r. A., he was
a deputy administrator in charge of
some 80 codes in the Apparel Divi-
sion. Subsequently, he served as as
sistant to the chairman of the board
of the Prison Industry Reorganiza-
ton Administration.
In addition to the personnel ap-
pointments, Mr.. Andrews announced
today that petitions for hearings in
case of exceptions to the ruling that
telegraph messenger boys must be
paid the minimum wages may be
filed Is days hence.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Senators Pushina
Merchant Marine
As Aid 10 Defense
Committee Works on
Legislation to Build
Up Such q Fleet
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A special Senate committee, re-
porting improvement in maritime
labor conditions, turned its atten-
ton today to legislation to build
up the American merchant marine
as supplement to national defense.
Chairman Bailey said the group
would try to hasten construction
of merchant ships which might be
converted to Government use in
wartime
His announcement was made
shortly after President Roosevelt
conferred with high Government
officials yesterday on the new de-
tense program. AS one outgroWth
OF that meeting, it was believed
that w.. P A. might use its resources
to enlarge military airports and con-
struct new ones.
Legislation to coordinate the
merchant marine and defense pro-
grams probably will be the final
work of Senator Bailey's committee
No Labor Hearings Needed.
The chairman said such rapid
strides had been made toward peace
full maritime labor relations through
collective bargaining agreements
that the committee had decided
there was no need for public hear
ings on that subject.
Members agreed yesterday, he
said. that any inquiry now into gen.
eral labor conditions or reports Of
subversive activities would only stir
up antipathies" Under the late
Senator Copeland. Democrat, of
New York, the committee gave much
attention to charges that Commun-
lists had filtered into the ranks of
merchant sailors.
I'VE nave no reason to believe
that our merchant marine is being
run by Communists" Senator Bailey
said.
Airports Discussed.
Alrports, 1t was said. formed one
OF the chief subjects of discussion
at the extended conference on ma
tional defense yesterday between
President Roosevelt and other high
officials. Conferees included:
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau, Assistant Secretary OF War
Louis johnson. Harry Hopkins.
works progress administrator; Gen.
Malin Craig, Army chief Of staff,
and Herman Oliphant, general coun-
sci of the Treasury.
The presence Of Secretary Morgen-
thau was interpreted to mean in
creased appropriations for national
defense in the l939-40 budget.
No definite decision on the w. P.
AS role were made, it vas said. Mr..
Roosevelt may comment on the
meeting at his press conference
today.
The National Defense Power Com
mittee recommended yesterday a
Standardization Of steam turbine
generators of 10000 kilowatts rating
and above so as to speed up the
national defense program and re-
duce the cost of electric power equip
ment.
Assistant Secretary of War john
son is chairman of the committee.
Evening star., 1938-11-15

10000 cigar filler and binder, IS 900
to 10000; general crops dncluding
commercial truck, 145,000,000 to
150000,0O0.
The price-adjustment payments
cannot be determined until jan
uary 81, 1899. The 1899 payment
rates, however probably will be 2
cents pound for cotton, 8 cents a
pound for corn, II cents a bushel
for wheat and 10 cents a hundred
weight for rice. The price-adjust-
ment rate probably will range from
1.6 to 18 cents for cotton, s to 6
cents for corn, 10 to II cents for
wheat and IL to 13 cents for rice.
Evening star., 1938-11-15
Americans Injured
In Mexico Accident
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated PreSS.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 15.-Mrs
Mary Cole Lincoln, Minneapolis
Mimi, secretary to the United States
military attache, and three other
persons were injured Sunday night
when they attempted to escape from
men they thought were highway
men.
The motor car in which the four
were riding was wrecked in ravine
where bridge had been washed
away. A group of IS or 20 men
had attempted to stop the car.
Mrs. Lincoln suffered a skull in
jury and leg fracture. Her daugh-
ter suffered broken arm. Two
Mexico City persons were slightly
hurt.
Evening star., 1938-11-15

The extensive northern disturbance is
moving slowly east-northeastward with
center this morning between Hudson Strait
Hudson Strait, 1884 inches Pressure is
abnormally low and falling over North
western North America. Bethel: Alaska:
2s.7o inches. and Copper Mine. district Of
Mackenzie. 2906 inches, and broad
Western South Dakota and Eastern Wyo-
ming. An area of high pressure is moving
southeastward over Minnesota and Wis
consin. Alexandria, Mimi. 3034 inches,
and pressure remains high from the Pacific
Coast eastward to the Middle Atlantic and
inches: and Fort Smith. Ark. and Ashe-
Vile; N. G., 3O.36 inches. Generally fair
weather has prevailed except for light
rains in Southern Texas, and the North
Pacinc States and light local SHOWS from
North Dakota eastward to Northern Maine.
The temperature has fallen in the Atlantic
and East Gulf States the Appalachian re-
gsM Elon and the Red River Of the North
over the Western half Of the United States
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
at Harpers Ferry: Potomac clear at
Great Falls today.