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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-21
A KEY WEST RECREATION

A KEY WEST RECREATION
COMMISSION has been propos-
ed. More than one city official
is considering the possibility of
establishment of a commission
similar to that enjoyed by West
Palm Beach. At West Palm
Beach there is a commission of Is
members with an advisory COM
mittee selected from the winter
visitor ), population to represent
their wishes. There is a season.
al fee for visitors of 81 per men,
Der, which includes social priv
ileges. Ten cents an evening for
card playing is charged. Suppers
are SOC. There is SWITCHBOARD
Club with So fee year, lawn
bowling club with SIS fee. Fish
ing club SIS. City furnishes mu-
nicipal building, lights, water and
two attendants. In this building
many recreational and social af-
fairs take place. Locally there is
some objection to furnishing the
salary required by the chairman
of the commission and to icharg-
ing the tourists. Many are keep
ing their eyes on the fact that
provision of recreational facili-
ties for visitors will be another
means of keeping the tourist
population in the city.
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A RESIDENT GROUP in sthe
city has proposed to the City
Council that it would be glad to
act as a Sign Committee to. zone
the city as to types of-signs and
to locations. The group, which
has its beginnings among Key
West Art Center members. would
be glad also to furnish attractive
signs, such as that advertising the
boating excursion at the foot of
Duval street at the usual COM
mercial costs. This group would
eliminate such eyesores as the
conglomeration at the entrance
to the Boulevard.
TO COMPLETE THE SEWER
and water project in the city
there is required testing of the
present 20 miles of lines for leaks
and building of sewerage out
fall on Grinnell street similar to
that going out at the foot of
Thomas ] street alongside Fort
Taylor. Machinery has already
been installed at the plants.
with connections and other finish
work to be completed. A very
important step resident home
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-4INKEY WEST

Wednesday.
Sale Day at Municipal Sponge
Dock.
-" Friday
Key West Boat Club meeting.
open to visitors. 8 p. m. Light
house Building Three.
Sele Day of Sponge fishermen
at Municipal Sponge Dock, cor
ner of Grinneli and Caroline
Streets. $50 a. m.
- Sunday
Pirates and Key West open
new. Trurnbo field with first
game of championship series,
Seafood Grill and Blue Sox in
first game. 1870 p, m. Corner of
Eaton and White streets.
Biweekly handicap golf tourna-
meat. l:S0 p. m. Key West Golf
Course.
~ Monday
Sale Day at Municipal Sponge
Dock.
SWITCHBOARD courts open to the
public daily are at Courthouse
Square. Bathing Beaches are at
south ends of Duval and White
Streets. Swimming pools are at
Roosevelt Boulevard and Yacht
Basin. Tennis and Handball
courts, diamondball field, picnic
tables. riding devices for chill
dren, checkers. chess, domino
tables, horseshoe court at Bay
view Park. For further infor-
nation concerning Key West APP
ply at the Chamber of Commerce
or The Key. West Citizen. Tour
of Key West booklets are at the
Chambers offices,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-21

, Mrs. Bert Baker and Mrs. w.
A. Gardner, were passengers
leaving on the morning bus for
Lake City where they will visit
with their mother, Mrs. J. l..
Thompson.
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r CUE rWIsTER

COVENTRY Eng. More than
90 years after it was. embedded,
shrapnel was removed from the
tongue of a World War veteran
here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-21

Miss Marian Doughty of San
ford who was visiting her
brother and /, sister-in-law, MIR.
and Mrs. VIII Doughty and
family Tor several weeks. left on
the early bus on the return trip
home. ----'
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!. Mrs. George Mitchell, formerly
Miss Blanche Pine of Key West,
who was visiting her mother
Mrs. Manuel Pine and other rel
atives, left this morning over the
highway for her home in jack
sonville.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-03-21

Mario P. Napoles left on the
afternoon bus yesterday for jack
sonville to look after some prop
erty interests in and near that
city, and expects to return Sun
day.
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Mrs. Rose Kirchik was a pas
senger on the morning bus going
for a visit with her son Attorney
Jack Knchik, of Miami.
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Roosevelt Seeks
Billion And Half
For Relief in 40
Requested WPA Fund for
Next Year Represents
One-Third Reduction

WASHINGTON, April 27.
(UP) = President Roosevelt
today asked congress to ap-
propriate $1,750,000,000 for
relief in the 1910 fiscal year,
of which $1,477 100000 would be
used for the Works Progress Ad-
ministration.
The proposed WPA appropria-
ton represents a cut of one third
from relief costs in the present
budgetary year. President Roose-
velt estimated it would enable WPA
to maintain an average payroll
from July l. 1889 to June 80, 1910
of slightly more than 100000 per-
sons.
He placed present WPA employ
ment at 100000 and said the av-
erage for the 1899 fiscal year would
be about 100000 persons. Cost OF
1889 WPA operations was $2,25O,-
100000.
Mr.. Roosevelt declared that at
the present rate of operations ma
tional income should approximate
S67 900 100000 in 1899. He emphas-
lied his belief that national econo-
mic problems would be substantial
ly eased if income could be lifted
to $80,000000,000. He noted how
ever, that he did not believe "thiS
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Warships Massed
InMediterranean
As ENJOYS Dicker

PARIS, kpril 27. (UP)-
British, French and German
warships moved near the
western entrance to the Med
iterranean today as Soviet
Russia was reported negotiating
with Rumania to back up a state
ment that the Moscow government
is prepared to aid the European
anti-aggreSsion front.
Apparently rushing negotiations
in advance of Adolf Hitler's speech
to the Reichstag tomorrow, Ivan
Maisky, the Soviet ambassador to
London, arrived in Paris from Mos
COW by way of Copenhagen, where
he told the press that Russia is
ready to help with materials and
machines if the western democra-
cies are attacked"
Maisky was reported arranging
a secret conference with Grigore
Fafencu. the Rumanian foreign
minister who is now in Paris, on
terms of Russian aid-presumably
munitions. arms and airplanes- in
Continued on Page 2; Col. A.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

points:
Japan would enter a military
alliance with Germany and Italy
directed exclusively against Soviet
Russia.
2.-The alliance would be broad
ened if the democracies became al
lied with Russia and constituted a
menace to Japan.
3.-Under the anti-Communist
pact. Japan, Germany and Italy
would exchange information and
military supplies.
1t was understood the japanese
government strongly resisted a
German proposal that Fuehrer Ad-
off Hitler be enabled to include an
nouncement of Japan's support in
tomorrow's Reichstag speech.
Present indications were that
Berlin is unwilling to accept the
Japanese compromise proposals but
that the japanese are firm against
further commitments.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Woman Says She's Alive, Even The
Law Insists She's Dead Eight Years

SAN FRANCISCO, April 81. CUP)
Many persons have pleaded for
the right to live but all that
sprightly Mrs. Flora Alice Cassis
wants is legal confirmation of the
fact she is alive.
Her appearances in court, her
amused denials that she is dead.
the fact that scores of persons saw
her bustling around with an old
black shawl over the head-theSe
do not count.
The law says she is dead. In its
dull but thorough way it records
on the proper records that beyond
question of reasonable doubt" she
died in Cairo, Egypt, eight years
ago on a round-the-w world cruise.
But the law, which is somewhat
"stuffy" in the opinion of the elder
ly Mrs. Cassie, errs just the same
as humans do. And when it does
it must have proof that an error
was made.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

contract provided roughly 100 miles
of pole lines within the metropoli-
tan areas. Work started Sept. l..
1898.
This means that district power
is now available in every valley
city," he declared. ANY additional
work is just question of hooking
on to the lines. This work will be
done by district electrical crews,
as new customers are added"
Additional lines will be strung
within cities at intervals through
out this year. financed by PWA
funds approved at last September's
special election.
Work will start on these supple
mentary lines within a few weeks"
Dowd explained. "They will serve
outlying sections within the towns
and territory near them not touch
ed by the REA lines"
At the same time Dowd disclosed
that district power consumers had
gone beyond the 5000 mark. APP
proximately 1000 were added dur
ing the last month, he indicated.
District engineers announced that
drafts of plans for increasing street
lighting facilities in Ell Centre
would be submitted soon to city
officials. The district announced
definitely, however, that contracts
would be let within a week for
materials to erect lighting sys-
tenn in alleys north and south Of
Main street from Fourth to Eighth
streets.
The alley lights have been the
subject of negotiation for consider
able time between the city and
power agencies.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

lO introduce ptdCe JlIllc CoiloCi lp-
ton, which is bitterly opposed by
labor, said that:
II do not want to give you the
idea that war is imminent. 1 do
not think it is. I do think we are
in a position in which very little
one way or the other may decide
whether war is going to come or
not"
He also indicated he felt disaster
had been averted by the conscrip-
ton decision.
1T would have been stupid to
prefer to lead the country to disas-
ter rather than take the decision
announced yesterday" he declared
He also said conscription is SO i'm
portant that the government may
be forced TO call a general election
if the opposition pushed the con-
troversy over the issue too far.
The prime minister plainly show
ed, however, that he is anxious to
avoid an election if possible be-
cause it would leave the country in
a state of uncertainty in what
might be vital weeks"
AS soon as the prime minister
finished speaking, the opposition
starting with Maj. Clement R. Att
lee, Labor leader, opened bitter
attack on his decision.
Chamberlain braved angry Lib
eral and Labor opposition to force
vote on his conscription plan be-
fore the house of commons ad-
| journs tonight.
He demanded an immediate vote
so that the principle of national
CONSUMPTION would have become an
| accomplished fact before Adolf
Hitler made his speech in the Ger
man Reichstag tomorrow in answer
to President Roosevelt's peace ap-
peal.
AS members of commons, re-
spending to mandatory three line
whips" from party leaders, crowded
into the little commons chamber to
record their votes on conscriptior
Continued on Page 2; Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
|. A. Man Appointed
Job Office Head

Thomas N. Finney is the new I'M
perial county director of State EN-
ployment Service appointed to take
the place Of Russell Bailey, who re-
signed.
He was transferred from the Los
Angeles office with instructions to
take charge Monday. Ray Keller
man, field supervisor of southern
California, accompanied him to El
Centro to help him acquaint him
self with his new duties.
The new director has been en-
ployed by the state for four years
and has been with the State En-
ployment Service for a year.
Bailey resigned to accept a posi-
ton with San Diego as city civil
service personnel manager De-
partment and division heads Of
San Diego will hold open house
Monday night in his honor.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Incidents Point
Jittery Tenseness
On Brink of War
Sub Activity, New Troop
Movements, AtrOcity
Stories Make Rounds

Lobster fishermen kick a
submarine German school
children hit by stones =.
England's king trades a war;
ship for a liner German
troops move into the Rhineland E.
Although many jagged holes were
vacant in the worlds jig-saw puz-
zle Thursday, such items as these.
insignificant in themselves, cast a
diffused light on behind -the-scenes
maneuvers that the world fears may
bring another war.
From Halifax, Nova Scotia came
a new report of Canada's mystery
submarine. Herman and Victor
Nickerson, while pulling in lobster
traps near the Tusket islands, NOV
ed into a patch of oil on the water
and:
I'VE came near enough to kick
the SUBJ they reported.
London supplied the information
that the king and queen will travel
to the United States May 6 on
chartered liner and not aboard the
battleship Repulse. Reason was the
Repulse may be needed in Euro
pean waters at any time. 1t is the
only big gun ship capable of over
taking and destroying German
pocket battleships.
German officials in Cologne said
troop movements were routine.
but reports to Unitd Press persisted
that large numbers of soldiers har
been concentrated in the Cologne
area, As miles from Belgium, dur
ing the last 36 hours.
Berlin reported anti-German in
cidents in the Polish corridor. Ger
man school children were stoned;
German homes wrecked; Poles beat
Continued on Page 2, Col. So
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

ton with the war department. II
tentatively suggested a national
network of free highways compris-
ing five east to west and seven
north to south trunk lines. 1t op-
posed tranScontinental super high
ways for which tolls would be
charged to users.
Mr. Roosevelt pointed out that
the report emphasizes the need OF
a special system of direct inter-
regional highways. with all neces-
sary connections through and
around cities, designed to meet the
requirements of the national de-
fense and the needs of growing
peace time traffic of longer range"
The president directed particular
attention TO the method of excess
condemnation of land for highways
whereby he said costs of construct
ing the system could be greatly re-
duced.
The bureau recommended five
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

For that reason Mrs. Cassie was
asked to appear in court today
with an affidavit duly assuring SUI
perior Judge I. L. Harris that she
is not walking corpse" but as
much alive as he is.
At the same time Albert Roche,
family attorney, said petition for
probate of Mrs. Cassie's estate
which he, himself, filed for her
daughter, Mrs. William Bowen
would be withdrawn.
A hearing on the petition was
what led to the revelation Mrs.
Cassie was not among the dead.
She suddenly bobbed up in Su-
perior Judge Frank Dunne's court
and said there was no reason to
probate her estate or for letters of
administration to be granted her
daughter. She gave a good reason.
I'm very much alive and hope
to live a few years more" she said.
She is "a.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
WeeyiI Infestation
Confined 10 Yuma

Alfalfa weevil infestations have
not spread from Yuma into the
Bard area, B. A. Harrigan declared
Thursday, and because efforts have
been started to wipe out the pest
in Yuma fields there is little dan
ger that the weevil will spread be-
yond fields now infested.
Through a typographical error,
an article in the Post-Press We'd
nesday reported the infestation had
spread to Bard.
Inspectors of the agricultural
commissioners office completed
final surveys Thursday, Harrigan
said, and reported all fields free
of the pest.
Shipments from Yuma have been
halted to prevent spread of the
weevil
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
japan Refuses TO Join Anti.british
Pact Unless Own Security Threatened

TOKYO. April 81. (UP)-Premier
Kiichiro Hiranuma is planning to
invite the German and italian am
bassadors to a conference in which
he will explain that Japan is un-
willing to embark in a general
front against the democracies, it
was learned today from official
sources.
However, Baron Hiranuma will
offer a compromise under which
Japan would join such an alliance
if Britain and France enter a mill
tary alliance with Russia which
would be considered a menace to
Japan.
The compromise includes three
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Werners Sentenced
To Jail For Year

LOS ANGELES, April 27. (UP)-
Judge Frank Swain today granted
Helen M. Werner former politician,
and her husband, Erwin P. Werner,
former city attorney, convicted of
attempted grand theft in an at
tempt to "fix" a criminal case,
three years of probation and or
dered them to spend the first year
in the county jail
The jail sentence marked the
closing of the Werners' sensational
careers in which they stood trial
six times on criminal charges in
the last five years.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Fl Centre Sales Gains Far Above
State Average. U. S. Survey Shows

Ell Centres independent retail
merchants exceeded the average
sales gain for the state last month
with an improvement of 28.7 per
cent
The city was second in gains in
cities with a population between
5000 and 10000. The average gain
for the state as a whole was 81
per cent The only city to exceed
Ell Centro was Monterey The gain
in that city was 318 per cent.
Ell Centre has led or been near
the top of the list of cities with
sales gains for more than year.
Monthly compilations of business
are made by the United States
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

point program of roads designed
to meet the requirements of ma
tional defense in time of war and
the needs of growing peacetime
traffic of longer range
1.-An inter-regional highway
network, utilizing to a large de-
gree present routes, and carrying
them directly through large cities
by construction Of depressed
thoroughfares, main arteries run
ming in canal-like lanes below the
level of ordinary street traffic.
2.-Modernization of the federal
aid highway system
3.-Elimination of hazards at
railroad grade crossings.
4.-Improvement of secondary
and feeder roads.
Establishment Of federal
highway authority TO help states
obtain highway rights OF way.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Chamber Directors
Back Relief Plan

Directors of the Ell Centro cham
ber of commerce voted Wednesday
night to endorse the Santa Barbara
relief plan which forces relief re-
cipients to work out, at the rate
of 40 cents an hour, any sums
given them.
National Farm legislation and
How 1t Applies to Wheat and
Other Crops" was discussed by
Robert Wilson of San Fernando
Valley, in charge of administration
of the California agricultural act.
M. o. King, chairman of the hous-
ing committee, was directed to
confer with school authorities re-
garding a plan for using the old
Lincoln school building.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce and are based on con-
fidential reports from 4,7O9 inde-
pendent retailers in California
These reports are regarded as a
fairly accurate index of the con-
dition of retail business in the
state, Robert Hays of the Ell Cen
tro chamber of commerce said
Thursday.
The business picture would be
more accurate, he said, if more OF
Ell Centro's independent retail mer-
chants, these operating only one
retail store, would report their
monthly sales. The data is conf
Dental and valuable because it
shows continued improvement in El
Centre.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Coal Miner Killed
I'm Union Clash

COSHOCTON, O., April 27 (UP)
One coal miner was shot to death
and another was wounded seriously
today in a clash between union
and non-union miners at OtSego,
Muskingum county, 20 miles south
east of here.
John Abram, "a, was shot through
the shoulder and was pronounced
dead upon being taken to a New
Concord doctors office.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Fun Last Night;
Headache TODAY

PLASTER CITY, April 27.-Tos-
sing a bottle through glass show
case may have been a good idea
last night but several hours Sc
clusion in the county Jail probably
brought a change of mind TO Alvin
Roth, 81, and Ray Lee Waldron, "a.
They were said to have done
their bottle tossing at a cafe here
and then entered a car and head
ed toward Seeley. The cafe owner
telephoned the sheriff's office.
When deputies Sebe Robinson and
Robert Parrish received the call.
they were busily engaged in ar
resting Roth and Waldron for
starting a fight in a Seeley cafe.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

tense program with all possible
speed.
The war department signed a
contract for 571 bombers and pur-
suit planes to cost $4,000 600,
launching the program that will ex-
pand its aerial strength to 6000
planes, soon after President Roose-
welt signed the S549 100000 war de-
partment appropriation bill from
which the money comes.
Louis Johnson, assistant secretary
of war, announced the contract,
then saw President Roosevelt Oft
on his private train for Hyde Park,
Aboard the train, it was revealed
that Johnson had told the president
that theN new planes had a speed
in excess of 400 miles, which makes
them the worlds speediest fight
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Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

by Thomas Doyle, D., Los Angeles.
to exempt the major federal de-
partments from the state sales tax,
such as the army, navy, interior,
and others. Such agencies as the
Federal Housing Authority, Home
Owners Loan corporation and other
bureaus will not be affected.
The budget battle was to be re-
sumed later today in the assembly,
with Republicans and insurgent
Democrats insistent that SO amend
mentS, with reductions totalling
Continued on Page 2, Col. g.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
One Man Injured
In Auto Collision

BONDS CORNER, April 27.-1van
Lumdstedt suffered slight injury
early today when a car and a pick
up truck collided head-on 2l9 miles
west of this place.
The accident occurred, Highway
Patrolman Al BiSgard said, when
j. H. Price of CaleXico, driver OF
the car, violated the right-of-way
rule and crashed into the truck
driven by Claude ODooley, also OF
Calexico. The officer gave Price
a traffic citation.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27

Approval of the inheritance tax
bill was the third-and largest
administration revenue measure to
go to the floor. Others were horse
racing, expected to raise $2,000,OO0
from increased taxes, and gift taxes,
expected to provide an additional
100000 during the 1894 bien-
ium. The inheritance tax bill,
aimed principally at bequests from
distant relatives, will bring about
S3,000,000 more than the present
laws.
The committee also passed a bill
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Attorney Denies
Barrymore Split

HOLLYWOOD, April 81. UP)-
Leo Schaumer, Hollywood attorney
for John Barrymore, today denied
emphatically that the famous actor
and his fourth wife, Elaine Barrie
Barrymore, planned a divorce, as
reported from st. Louis where both
are appearing in a play.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
Inheritance Tax Bill Voted 0utof
Committee as State Assembly Waits
Final Showdown on BUDGET S|ashes

SACRAMENTO, April 27 (UP)-Increased inheritance
taxes one OF the major advocated
Gov Cubert Oson sent to the assembly floor today
by the revenue and taxation committee lower house
struggled to reach governors S557 OOO
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
U.S.. Auto Industry Spends Millions
Fitting Plants to Turn Out Arms;
Army Orders Fastest Combat Planes

WASHINGTON April 27. (UP)-The automobile in
dustry has spent millions charging its plants for
ORDERS and the army has ordered fighting
planes superior any in the world it revealed today
as the government pressed to complete it's gigantic de-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-04-27
2b,000.Mi|e National Defense Road
System Recommended to Congress in
Report Forwarded by Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, April 27. (UP)-President Roosevelt
today submitted to recommendations by the bu
of public roads for 26700 mile inegraed national
highway system with special emphasis national defense
needs The drafted by the bureau in consuta