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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21

On March q, 1899. there was
passed in Congress a resolution
providing for the celebration by
the people of the United States
of the one hundred and fiftieth
anniversary of the establish
ment of the Lighthouse Service,
and that the week beginning
August 7 be designated as Light
house Week.
Today there was received at
the headquarters of the service in
this city the following telegram
addressed to w. w. Demeritt,
superintendent in this district:
The president on July 90, issued
the following proclamation pur-
suant to public resolution Num-
Der 16. of the Seventy Sixth
Congress.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21
HITLER CONSIDERS
BRITISH PROPOSAL
NEW MOVE BY ENGLAND TO
ALLEVIATE THE PRESENT
WAR TENSION
sRy Assoeia.ea l,reasl

BERLIN, July 81. Adolf Hit
Ter was today considering new
move by England to alleviate the
present war tension in Europe by
definite proposal calling for
cooperation along economic and
military lines.
The proposal from England
came at a time when the Ger
man press announced that no
one in Germany expected any
war over the Danzig situation
rather that annexation of the
Polish free port would come by
Fall with peaceful measures.
England's proposal concerns
guarantees of disarmament on
the part Of Germany in return
for huge loans to Germany by
England for financing Of her re-
covery from dangerously low
trade activity levels. Certain
colonial concessions to Hitler
were also included in the pro-
posal It was reported.
It is not known what Hitler
win reply to the proposal, how
ever. opinions by many diplo-
mats run towards acceptance Of
the move, at least in part.
Germany announces that con-
ferences on the subject Of Dam
zifi will be opened with Poland
next week, aiming at settlement
of differences that have occurred
recently IN connection with re-
cent military gestures by Polish
guardsnen and the Polish Gus
toms House official shooting
yesterday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21
Meetinq Last EVENING

Local Lions Club met in regular
session last evening at Stone
Church Annex with Lion presi-
dent H. E. Day in the chair.
Lion Gerald Saunders, intro
duced by the Patriotism and Citi-
zenship committee chairman,
Lion Ketchnm, gave an inspiring
talk on Patriotism. This fea-
ture follows the plan to present
some similar topic at each club
meeting either in full program
time or in a short presentation
during each meet.
Program. as scheduled, was in
charge of the clubs new Tail
Twister, Lion Jack Delaney. He
presented several members in a
Spizzerinkter program, featuring
most profuse discussions on such
profound subjects as why Do
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How
High Is Up?', How Long Is A
Piece OF String?s and THE
Onion" AS can be imagined, the
Tail Twister was kept quite busy
keeping club members in check
during the discourses.
Lions John Costar and Gerald
Saunders reported the start of a
new membership drive. Coop
Grafton with the American Legion
5th District Conference was fur
Their discussed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21
STEAMER WILL
SAIL SATURDAY

During the few days the Steam
er Miraflores, of the Standard
Fruit and Steamship Company,
has been berthed at the main pier
of the Porter Dock Co, the ship
has been given a general over
haul and cleaning preparatory to
sailing tomorrow.
The vessel viii be given a sup
ply of fuel oil and water, and
provided with needed stores. and
sail at - o'clock for Zamora,
Mexico, for a cargo of fruit.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21
THOS. ROBERTS
DIES SUDDENLY
STRICKEN WHILE ENTERING
RESIDENCE: FUNERAL
ANNOUNCED LATER

Thomas E. Roberts, 80, died
suddenly at Has this morning at
his home Sol William street. Mr..
Roberts was stricken while en-
tering the residence, ana died
shortly after the arrival of the
physician
Funeral arrangements which
will be under the direction of the
Pritchard Funeral Home. will be
announced later.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21

WASHINGTON, July 81. =
Works Progress Administration
officials today declared the
strikes against provisions of the
new Relief bill at an end and an
nounced that concentration on
enforcement of all regulations
viii now be undertaken.
Workers, meanwhile, through
the Workers Alliance were de-
batting whether or not to stage
demonstrations against other
provisions Of the act. The main
provision that caused recent
work-stoppages concerned the
new hour regulations calling for
80 hours Of work each month.
Other provisions distasteful to
laborers are the enforced vaca-
ton regulation and orders calling
for general reduction of numbers
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21

learning under the most attractive
conditions.
Any youth accepted and sent
to these projects can through
efforts on their own part become
sufficiently experienced at the
particular occupation, which they
take to accept private employ
ment when it is offered.
Those youths DESTROYS of APP
plying for assignment to the
camps should contact the Area
Supervisor at once.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21
ANNOUNCE DEATH
OF PETER ZONES

Mrs. Al. H. Russell received a
telegram from her sister, Mrs. Pc
ter Lones, announcing the death
of her husband this morning in
Philadelphia. Mr.. Lones was well
known in Key West, having been
born here and resided here a
number Of years.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21
CUPID CAN WAIT

GLASGOW. Applicants for
Corporation houses in this city,
among them many young people
wanting to marry. have been in
formed the waiting list IS 50
heavy they viii have to wait at
least two years
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21

Credited With Score OF
S5.7; Pensacola Unit
Was Close Second With
Score OF 1872

Records made at the service
practices with the iss millimeter
guns at Fort Taylor this week
dirciosed the fact that Battery
e.. of Key West. commanded by
Captain W. Curry Harris. gained
the record for the firing by max.
ing a score of ss.7.
Winning of this record on the
l55 MN. gun was no great sur
prise to most of the officers at
the camp as it was stated yester-
day by Lieutenant Maurice p.
Shaver to The Citizen that Bat
terry e" had the score 'in the
bag.
Battery ID" of Pensacola ran
Battery ''E" close race, making
the score of 1872. However, the
Pensacola battery gained the rec
ord for all around efficiency dur
ing the practices on the pieces.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21
FINAL DIVORCE
DECREE FILED

Final decree in the divorce suit
of Betty Lou Newman versus
Frank d. Newman was filed and
recorded in. the office of Clerk
Ross C. Sawyer, of Circuit Court,
yesterday afternoon.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21
Special E|cCtiOnl(n CITY
! Charter Set For Aug. z
Many Other Matters Taken
Up During Regular Meet
ing OF City Council Last
Night

The City Council at its regular
meeting last night decided upon
holding a special election on
Tuesday. August 20. at which
time the Key West electorate viii
vote on the question Of the pro-
posed new city charter.
This will be in the form of
referendum submitted to The pao.
pie to decide whether they are
favorable toward adopting the
new charter or not. There win be
but one polling place. and that
will be at the city hall.
Chas. Taylor, chairman of the
Sponsors Committee. addressed
the council and requested that
the council appoint fifty persons
for the purpose of soliciting and
collecting pledges in the move
ment recently started toward Sc
curing funds for sponsoring WPA
projects. The Council favored
the proposition, and will contact
the number of persons required
with request that they perform
this service. -.
Frank w. Johnson, who is also
a member Of the committee, adj
dressed the council in connection
with the proposition.
Mr.. Hart, representative of the
Florida exhibit at the Worlds
Fair in New York. addressed the
council relative to a five cent per
capita contribution from the city
for taking care of the $hoW next
year. Key Vests pE6faa for
this year was ten.cent der capita.
The request was Kfar1teds
MIR. Hart explained the matter
and stated that every community
in Florida. was contributing its
part to the exhibit, and said that
it was going over big, with great
results being obtained by the diff
ferent cities in the state through
the excellent publicity given at
the exhibit. He also said that
Florida had by far the Largest
and best exhibit on the entire
grounds.
Mayor Willard M. Albury adj
dressed the council relative to
the matter of so many lewd wom-
en- running around the town, par
ticularly frequenting beer and
wine saloons in which many of
them are employed serving
drinks to the public.
The mayor stated that as. a re-
suit of these practices that.many
cases of venereal diseases had
developed among many of the
young men of the city. and offer
ed as proof for this that he had
been informed that there were a
large number of persons visiting
the clinic daily for tests and treat
ment along these lines. The
mayor urged the council to pass
an ordinance that would grant
him full power to rid the saloons
and other like places of this uu-
element, and also to
remedy other existing conditions
bearing on the situation.
The mayor concluded his re-
marks by saying that these con-
ditions were deplorable in the
extreme, and felt that urgent
steps should be taken at once to
remedy the situation. The coun-
ell win meet within a few days to
take up the matter of adopting
that will furnish the
mayor with the necessary power
to carry out his proposed program
in cleaning up the city in this re-
spect.
A communication was received
from the Chamber of Commerce
(Continued on Page Fourl
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-07-21

Key West, Florida. has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only Ia Fahrenheit
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
YULE AWARDS
READY FRIDAY

Sixteen winners in the Yuletide
Decoration Contest conducted by
the Patterson Newspapers will re-
ceive awards of cleaning silver
loving cups Friday.
The inscribed awards will be
presented at special ceremonies to
be broadcast over Station VOL
from 8 to 8:15 p. m.
The cups will be presented by
an official of the Herald and
Times, while L. A. Carruthers,
president of the Federation of
Citizens Associations and A. j.
Driscoll, Citizens Association
editor of the Washington Herald
and Times, will assist at the cere-
mony.
Cups were awarded for the most
beautifully decorated yards and
doorways of Washington and the
nearby Virginia and Maryland
counties during the Christmas
week.
So successful was the first COM
petition of its kind to make Wash.
ington one of the most beautiful
cities in America at Christmas
time, that the judges have decided
to make the competition an
annual event.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
Auto Deaths
Drop 2OPct.
In 1888

G.N.S) Deaths from automo-
bile accidents in 1874 major cities
during 1888 decreased 20 per cent,
the Census Bureau reported today
Fatalities numbered 8,O77 dur.
ing the past year as compared
with 10,109 in 1887, according to
the bureau.
Only one community-Cleve
land Heights, Ohio-boasted of a
clean record with no automobile
deaths during the year.
New York city, with 912 fatal.
ties, had the largest number OF
automobile deaths, followed by
Chicago with 658 and Los Angeles
with 554.
Auto deaths in other cities in
cluded Atlanta, SO; Baltimore
1870; Birmingham, SO; Boston
ITO; Camden, 65; Canton, Ohio
80; Cincinnati, 145; Cleveland
1871; Columbus, Ohio, 83; Dallas,
So; Des MoineS, "a.
Also Detroit, 216 Erie, 80; Flint
As; Fort Worth, so; Houston, 81;
Louisville, "A; Miami, 46; MilWau
kee, 60; Minneapolis. 90; Mobile
40; Oakland, Cal, 85, and Omaha
As.
Also Pittsburgh, 1856; Provi
dence, 81; Portland, Ore, 83; St
Louis, "a; Salt Lake City, 68; San
Antonio, 72; San Francisco, 101;
Syracuse, At; Toledo, 83, Wash
ington, 1874.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
ASYLUM
Patients to Enjoy ShotC
At St. Elizabeth'S

Young people of Washington this
week are combining their talents
to provide an entertainment for
patients at st. Elizabeths Hospital.
They will present a variety pro
gram at 7 p. m. Friday in Hitch
cock Hall at the institution.
One of the featured players will
by Leona Rule, 300 C st. N. E., an
accomplished accordion player. An
other will be Nadine Petrey,
Golden Mirror girl of the Patter-
son Newspapers.
Others to appear are Erna S.
Mollari, Mary Jane Owens, Elynor
johnson, Patsy Power, Sylvia Helm,
Dlmples O'Conor, Opal Petrey,
Hllda Mollari, June Gay, Dolores
anderson, Betty Lou Breen, Gloria
Grlsso, Beverly Stubbs and the
Kits Keyboard Caperors.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
Sit Strikers
UnderFireQt
Bar Session

CHICAGO, Jan. 9 G.N.SJ.
Amendment of the National
Labor Relations Act to out
law sit-dOwn strikes was to
be recommended to the House
of Delegates of the American
Bar Association today.
The move was taken by
the associations committee on
labor, employment and social
security headed by William
l.. Ransom, past president of
the association.
A second resolution drafted
in committee and to be sub
mltted to the legislative and
policy making body of the
lawyers organization pro
posed denunciatiOn of Nazi
prosecutions in Germany.
Eleven nationally known
lawyers, headed BY Homer
5. Cummings, former United
States Attorney General, and
District Attorney Thomas E.
Dewey of New York, signed
the complaint against the
NaziS in which it was stated:
We express our dismay
that human beings have been
Systematically prosecuted and
prescribed by the formal acts
of the government of the Ger
man Reich"
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
PrintUaft Golf Group
Plan MidWinter Dance

Plans are nearing completion
for the mIdwinter dance to be
neld at Beaver Dam Country
Club, undel the auspices of the
Union PrintcraftS Golf Associa.
ton, January 81.
The group which sponsors this
annual affair is made up from
personnel of allied crafts serving
on the local newspaper, jobs shops
and the Government Printing
Office.
Frank Thornburg, Times; New
Strausbaugh and Roy Corwin. of
The Star and Fred Stringer of
Judd & Detweiler, president, and
Buddy Murray, of Potomac Elec.
trotype Company are serving on
the dance and entertainment
committees.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
Keith Rides On
8Oth Birthday

WARRENTON, Va, Jantary
9.-Julian c. Keith, former
master of the WarrentOn Hunt,
will celebrate his eightieth
birthday anniversary by riding
to hounds at DunnOttar this
afternoon.
Two daughters, Mrs. James
Peggy" Hamilton and Mrs.
Neville Bearns, and four grand
daughters will ride with the
veteran hOrseman, who will
entertain the field and several
hundred guests after the hunt.
Mr.. Keith is president of the
WarrentOn Horse Show ASsOcia-
tiOn and one of the oldest mem
berS of the WarrentOn Hunt,
founded in 1887,
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
Poughkeepsie Curbs
100000 Dock Fire

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y, Jan.
9 G.N.SD.-Forty-five fire COM
panies from Poughkeepsie and
nearby communities early today
brought under control a spectacu-
lar blaze that swept the aban-
doned six-acre plant Of the Moline
Plow Company, valued at 100000,
along the Hudson River water
front. Three firemen were hos
pltalized, one with a broken ankle,
two by exhaustion, and a dozen
treated on the scene.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09

comedian dashed to an airport
and left for the East. He is
travelling Under the name OF
Clarence Barrett" and is &C
companied by his manager, Myrt
Blume, known for the duration
OF the flight as William Steven,
SON.
It was understood that Benny
was to appear before the Fedora,
grand jurors tomorrow to go into
details of his friendship and asso
citation with Albert N. Chaperau
who claims immunity in bringing
articles to this country on the
grounds he was an attache oI
the Nicaraguan Consul General.
The Government is contestine
the validity of Chaperau's Mica
raguan commission.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
.SALTONSTALL
URGED TO SEIZE
FOOD IN STRIKE
Truck Deadlock PeriIs
New England Cities

BOSTON, Jan. 8 GN.S0.-Seiz-
ure and distribution of food stuffs
under wartime acts were recon-
mended to Governor Leverett Salt
onstall today by health authorities
as concerted efforts were made to
settle the strike of 5000 truck
drivers, which caused many sec
tions of New England to face a
serious food shortage.
Mayor Murice ]. Tobin, repre-
sentatives of both sides in the
labor dispute, now in its fifth day,
and members of the State Board
of Cancellation and Arbitration
were meeting after an 18-hour
peace parley collapsed when the
food seizure plan was brought for
ward.
URGES WARTIME RULE
Assistant Attorney General Ed
ward Proctor recommended that
the governor resort to wartime
measure, empowering him to ap-
point a head of the division of
the necessaries of life emergency
food and fuel administrator with
power to seize and transport
supplies.
Greater Boston housewives were
without poultry, fish and butter,
and perishable food and merchan-
disc consigned to metropolitan
Boston and other cities and towns
in Massachusetts, and other States
is piled up on wharfs and in
freight yards.
GRAVE TRAFFIC JAM
An all night conference of union
representatives and employers with
the Massachusetts Board of Con
ciliation broke up this morning
with both sides standing firm
the drivers demanding a wage
boost and a shorter work-week,
the employers insisting on main,
tenance of the present work-week
but offering a wage increase.
Support Of the strike was voted
by Seafood workers and long
shoremen as market officials ex-
pressed fear the loss in perishable
food would be at least $500,000
and might reach a million dol.
lars. Arrival of new train-loads
of food nd goods Grated a serious
problem in railroad sidings and at
Icongested wharves, already over
taxed by cupplies rendered i'm
mobile by the strike.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
SURPRISED BY MAJOR

The three were surprised in the
burglary by Major Butler B. Mil
tonberger, of Lincoln. and Capt.
Earl H. Kelso and his wife, of
Omaha, who went to the armory
for an inspection tour. Captain
Kelso was seriously wounded in
fighting the desperadoeS.
Major Miltonberger closed in on
Brucks, managed to grab the crow,
bar and slugged Brucks into un,
consciousness. Meanwhile, one of
the three madmen had hit Captain
KelSo with blackjack and at.
tackled him with a razor. Captain
Kelso's left wrist was so badly
slaShed he may not be able to use
his hand again. His thight also
was SlaShed.
HaineS and Blatz fled as soon as
Brucks was knocked senseless.
G,MEN JOIN SEARCH
Brucks admitted to police that
Haines and Blatz were with him
With the two madmen still al
large in the vicinity, Omaha DO
lice, Federal agents and the State
highway patrol launched a wide
spread search for them. Radio
warnings were relayed to all large
cities of the State, and police O.
nelghboring States were warned
to be on the lookout for them.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
TWO MADMEN
FIGHT Way OUT
OF U. S. ARMORY
Third CaughtAfter Guard
officer Is SIaShed

OMAHA, Neb., Jan. "a great
manhunt was widened today for
two Ohio madmen after one of
their leaders in the New Year Day
escape from the Lima (Ohio) in,
sane hospital was captured in a
fierce battle in the National
Guard Armory in Omaha.
The captured fugitive was Will,
lard Brucks, "a, one of the five
maniacS who broke out of the Lima
Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Brucks, with two companions
Frank Haines, SO, and William
Blatz, 80, broke into the armory
with crowbar in what Brucks
said was plot to obtain guns for
holdupS,
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
SAVED
But Would-Be Suicide
Ber72oQ7S Rescue

NEW YORK, Jan. 9 G.N.SD.
Her mind tortured by worry over
the fate of her family and friends
in Nazi Germany, Mrs. Bella Ras-
kin, 40, a Jewish refugee, gave no
thanks today to two alert park
department employees who saved
her from suicide in the Hudson
River.
"I don't want to live" she
Sobbed from hospital cot.
The park employees leaped into
the river and pulled her from the
mud in which she was stuck face
upward under three feet of water.
Constant worry over family and
friends in Germany and hardships
which faced her and her husband,
Morris, in this country, unbal-
anced her mind, she told ply
SicianS.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
UnCIe Marries Girl, Is,
To Kentucky Youth, 18

WHITESBURG, KY. Jan. 9
G.N.SD The case of another
child bride confronted Kentucky
authorities today. Word was re-
ceived here that Matte Lucas
Barley, 13-year-old school girl had
been married over the weekend to
Morris Sergent, 18, in the little
mining town of Farraday, seven
miles from Whitesburg. The Rev.
Tilden Lucas, uncle of the girl,
performed the ceremony.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
Justice Laws Asks
Witnesses Room

Justice Bolitha j. Laws doesn' t
want to keep witnesses behind the
bars while they are waiting to
take the stand in United States
Court. This was revealed by Com
missioner Melvin C. Hazen. who
said the jurist had visited the
District Building to see if the
three -celled prison" adjoining
his courtroom in Police Court
building can be torn out and a
waiting room for witnesses SUBJ
stituted.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
Don't Sleep When
Gas Crowds Heart

If you toss in bed and can't sleep from con-
Stipation and awful GAS BLOATING remem-
Be- % f 4S cffoSS FL Sp'E Y6S 5Sf6 9 revs S sS
GAS. You must clear the bowels. Adlerika
is just what you need because it acts on the
stomach and BOTH bowels. Adlerika is
BOTH carminativs and cathartic. Carmi-
natives that warm and soothe the stomach
and expel GAS. Cathartics that quickly and
gently clear the bowels of waste matter that
may have caused GAS BLOATING, sour
stomach, sleepless nights and indigestion for
months. Adlerika relieves stomach gas almost
at once, Adlerika usually acts on the bowels
night relief Adlerika does not gripe, is not
habit forming. Get genuine Adlerika today.
At All Leading Druggists
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
Indiana Train Wreck,
Injuring 5, Probed

GOGANSPORT, Ind, Jan. 9
Q.N.S.) An inquiry was opened
today into the derailment of six
passenger cars of the Chicago
bound Pennsylvania flyer, the
Florida arrow, in which five per-
sons were injured yesterday. Mrs.
Florence Lee, IS, of Winnipeg,
Manitoba, was taken to the
Logansport hospital uffering g
from shock. Four trainmen in
Cured minor hurts. The train
plunged from the rails near Cut
Ter, IS miles southwest of Logans-
port,
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
PLEDGE
JeuOiSh War Veteran
Fight Communism

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Jan. 9
G.N.SD.-Members of Jewish War
Veterans of the United States
were pledged today to a fight to
the finish against communism.
A resolution affirming the Or
ganizdtion's 42-year stand against
anti-American doctrines, enlarg-
ing committee against commu-
niSm and directing the committee
to continue its work ito the end
that this menace be rooted out
and destroyed,' was adopted by
acclamation at the midWinter
conference here.
The Washington times., 1939-01-09
PLANE SPEEDS
Benny TO QUIZ

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 9 O.NS.)
Still declaring he doesn't know
what it's ali about" Jack Benny
radio and movie comedian, today
was flying to New York to ap
pear before the Federal Grano
Jury in the Chaperau smuggling
case.
After competing the second OF
his Sunday night broadcasts, the