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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-28
RUDDERLESS LAUNCH
GETS BACK SAFELY

a party of Key Wesfers.
out in Cleveland Niles launch
yesterday at Sand Key. ex-
perienced a touch of the
danger which goes with all
boating. but which never
disheartens a true boatman.
With the barracudas slam
ming away al the trilled bait
on the rocks around Sand
Key. someone. iaf him remain
unnamed. LET the boat In just
q little too close to the shoals
and on the surges bango the
rudder sheered completely
off. Ingenuity came to their
rescue though and they rig
ged up an emergency rudder
with a long oar.
Now that was swell. they
thought. especially when they
had proceeded half way TO
Key West with their make
shift steering device. Then
spluiter. splutter. pop pop.
and the motor stopped. The
gas had run out.
Somebody came up from
the galley with the news that
there was a pint of white gas
in the stove. This was used
in the motor. and you'd be
surprised how far we came
in on IL. one of the party
said. However. the MOTOR
stopped again. and the group
was forced 10 scull the boat in
TO Key West island far away.
They hove TO. off the rocks
at the southern end of Whit,
head street. where a skiff
was put OUT from Snofe 10
bring some of the party in TO
phone for gas.
The Pilot One had left in
search of them q half hour be-
fore they made the landing.
The weather was very calm
and ideal for boat break
downs.
Two other boats were re-
ported missing last night. and
search was made for Them by
the Coast Guard. II was re-
ported that one boat was
brought in by the Army boat
stationed at the submarine
base-fhe other boat. owned
by Ernest Yates. coming in
under Ifs own power early
this morning. having run out
Of gasoline during the night.
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Mayor A|buy Urges
BidgGCOnlnliSsiOnT To
Meet On Toll Issue

Mayor Willard M. AlburY. who
is one of the members of the
Overseas Road and Toll Bridge
Commission. has written John II.
Costar. vice chairman of the COM
mission. explaining his attitude.
regarding his belief that If is ne
cessarY TO call a special session
of the commission by August 81.
If moi earlier.
The letter follows. with copies
to the Chamber of Commerce and
The Citizen:
Referring to yours of 23rd in
slant, which you state there is no
necessity of having a special
Injecting during the week ending
August 18th, as you feel sure that
the entire state now knows that
the increase of tolls does not 60
into effect, cannot agree with
you as am receiving letters from
residents of the state as well as
out of the state asking for infor-
nation regarding same.
At the meeting neId August
18th, Mr.. Slade proposed the next
meeting be held in Tallahassee,
/ Florida, after his arrival from va
cationing in the North. / at the
time told him, also Mr.. John Ken
nedy told him, / would not be
able to attend such meeting, and
/ am placing you on notice at this
time as well as Chairman Slade
ito this effect.
1T will be impossible for me to
make the trip to Tallahassee, and
i have learned that Mr.. Symon-
! cite concurs in my statement.
Further, Mr.. John Kennedy from
Fort Eauderdale intends leaving
Sunday, August 9th. on the Gov
ernor's Special for New York and
will be gone approximately ten
days. Should Mr.. Slade not ar
rive back in the state before the
date of August 31st, any action
taken at the meeting of August
18th will be effective September
list, 1885,.
you are well aware of many
important matters to be adjusted
not later than August 31st, con-
lcerning our budget, appointing a
new manager, etc, and ! am still
/ of the opinion that this meeting
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LONDON, Aug. 28.-Britain's
answer to Adolf Hitler's query as
to what England would do along
lines of forcing the Poles to
come to time on the question
of giving up territory to the Nazis,
is on its way to Berlin, and is
scheduled for official presentation
to the German feuhrer from the
hands of Ambassador Neville
Henderson early this evening.
Advices released unofficially
from Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain's office state that
the British will. in no sense,
revert to another Munich" cpl
sode, and that the answer to Hit
Ter, is in effect, a great big mo"
on the question of consent to a
division of Poland.
1t is even intimated that no
consent has been given to agree
ment that Danzig or any part of
the Polish corridor should be Civ
en- up, although opinion has been
expressed that the British Cab
met was still in hopes the crisis
may work out in favor of peace
if satisfactory transfer of that
territory could be effected, with
definite guarantee of no more
territorial claims from Hitler.
Door Left Open For Hitler
The door has been left open
for Hitler still to avert war. That
he will be angry with the British
answer, goes without saying, al
though press time today was too
early to ascertain what his reac-
ton will be.
Parliament of England has been
called to another special session
for tomorrow and it is said that
consideration of the formation
of War Cabinet will be consider
ed at that time.
Meanwhile, to ell appearances,
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Different Picture
OF Bridge District
Affairs Presented

The following article is
submitted. as prepared. by a
group of interested citizens Of
Key West. who made an in
vesiigaiion of the charges
in articles written by Paul
Marks. attorney for the Over
seas Road and Toll Bridge
District board. recently ap-
pearing in The Citizen:
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MADRID. Aug. 28.-Spain will
remain neutral in the event of
war in Europe. il was stated To-
day. General Franco is engaged
in building up his war machine.
and the Catholics of Spain are
chagrined at the German Russian
alliance. being the two reasons
advanced for the neutral stand.
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Britain Stands Firm Against
Hitler Taking Any Territory
All Nations Continue To
Make Preparations To
Meet Any Eventually
That May Arise
my Associated Presal

BUDAPEST. Aug. 2s.-Hun-
gary today took steps TO mobilize
her army of over 100000 men.
No indication in the report was
given TO show that any other
position except neutrality will
hold in the move considered.
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LONDON. Aug. 2s.-British
war department has ordered i'm
mediate emergency measures
aimed at guarding their interests
on the high seas. This step was
taken following rumors that Ger
many had sent a number of sub
marines TO the Mediterranean
Sea.
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HAGUE. Aug. 28.-The Meth
erlands has ordered immediate
mobilization of IFS army TO pro-
feet. at all costs. IFS affirmation
of neutrality. Troops win be sent
10 all borders.
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OTTAWA. Aug. 2s.-The Ca
madam provincial government
took steps today TO guard the
PROVINCES harbors and ports from
attack from any foreign nation.
In the meantime. il is reported
that hundreds of former veterans
are signing up. this though no mo-
Utilization order has been issued.
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WARSAW. Aug. 2s.-PoIand
reported that several clashes be-
tween Polish and German soldiers
occurred last night and this morn
ing along the border line between
the two countries. Trouble was
brewing. il was stated. when vio-
lafion of closed border edicts
were reported from both sides.
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PARIS. Aug. 2s.-Newspapers
of France today carried stories
that indicated no hope for settle
ment of the crisis. No traffic was
allowed across the German
French border except nationals
returning 10 Germany and
France. 60
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Key West, Florida, has the
most eQuable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only IL Fahrenheit
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Liquor License Protest
Made 10 Control Board

School officials yesterday made for
NAL protest to the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board against the granting
OF license to Sophie Shapiro for
the sale of bottled liquor goods at a
store in the 5000 block of Georgia
avenue NV.
James D, Minor, principal of the
Monroe School, told the board at a
public hearing on the applica-
ton for the license that he had seen
boys and girls. Of the ages of IA and
IS, drinking beer near the Shapiro
store. He said:
Il have seen half-pint bottles
drained of whisky in the alley be-
hind my school. believe that If
the board approves the license in
this case the moral standards of
the children definitely will be low
cred"
The board was told that the
Shapiro store is within 400 feet of
the Monroe School, and on this
ground the Board of Education had
filed formal protest against the is
suance of the license.
Mrs. Agnes K. Mason, acting
chairman of the A. B. c. Board,
said a decision would be announced
within few days.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Transit Firm Buys
79 New Vehicles

New street cars and buses costing
S990200 in all will be put into service
in August, under purchase orders
approved by the directors of the
Capital Transit Co.
Included in the new equipment
will be 80 streamlined street cars
costing $4,000 each, making a to-
tai of S646,000. These are to be de-
1ivered on or before August l. When
they have arrived the company will
have 153 cars of the streamlined
style, it was explained by President
e. D. Merrill.
Fifty-one new buses of various
sizes are to be delivered in the late
spring. These will include seven
4l-passenger buses, thirty-four "a
passenger buses and ten 40-passen-
ger buses.
The new equipment is being finan-
ced under equipment trust notes,
taken by Washington banks. This
financial system was adopted about
three years ago when the company
made efforts to meet the demands
of the Public Utilities Commission
and the public for more new rolling
stock.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Conductors Beaten
On 7 Street Cars

Two street car conductors were in
hospitals today as result of beat
ings suffered by thugs last night.
One Of the victims was robbed of
more than $18 in cash and tokens.
but the other managed to fight off
his assailants without giving up any
money.
Two colored men beat Frank E.
Smith, so. of GA I street S.W. on
the head with an improvised black
jack and fled with his change
carrier after the street car had
stopped to unload passengers at
Seventh street and independence
avenue S.W.
Though he was beaten almost into
a semi-conscious state by two colored
thugs, answering to the same gen.
eral description as Mr.. Smiths
assailants, Harry E. Walter, 81, of
1118 Sixth street S.W., managed to
prevent the men from taking his
change carrier when his car stopped
at Upshur street near Illinois ave-
nue. NV.
Evening star., 1939-01-27

n. |. R. B. Prepares
Second Move
Against Ford
Reody to Issue Order
To Halt Interference
With Unionizution
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The National Labor Relations
Board advised the Ford Motor Co.
today that it would direct the COM
pany to stop discouraging member
ship of its workers in c. I. O.'s
United Auto Workers Union at its
Dearborn plants and to reinstate 20
workers unless 1t proved within 30
days that the company was not at
fault.
The board made public a proposed
order against the company which
will become effective 80 days from
today, providing the company does
not convince the board that charges
made against 1t are untrue. Under
the proposed order the 20 workers
would be reinstated with back pay.
The board said it's order also would
direct the company to refrain from
recognizing as collective bargain
ing agency the Ford Brotherhood of
America, Inc. and to cease organiz-
ing or supporting "vigilante or SINH
lar groups"
May File Exceptions.
Within the 30-day period the Ford
company may file exceptions to the
proposed findings and request time
Tor oral arguments before the board
The. proposed order originally was
issued December %, 1887, as a final
oroer, but was withdrawn over
the objections of Ford Co. counsel
Tor procedural changes after the
supreme Court in April, 1898. had
set aside an Agriculture Department
order because of procedural defects.
objections raised by Ford counsel
TO withdrawal of the original order
were overruled by the Supreme
The board said its proposed order
would direct the company to cease
permitting members of its service
department" from interfering with
It's employees joining the United Auto
workers Union or any other labor
organization.
The board said its proposed find
ings were based on testimony re-
oeived at a public hearing in Detroit
in July, 1887.
Testimony presented at the hear
ing, the board said, indicated the
company "evidenced an unconcealed
hostility toward bona fide labor or
ganizations and fought the organiza-
ton OF its employees by the auto
mobile workers with utter ruthless
ness"
The company, the proposed find
ings state. had made its antago-
nism to labor organizations so evi-
dent that no employe whose eco
nomic life is at its mercy can fail to
comprehend it."
Describing action of Ford service
department employees beating up
union organizers and sympathizers,
some of whom were women, on May
26. 1887, the board declared the func-
tioning OF this service department is
such that within the respondents S
vast River Rouge plant at Dearborn
the freedom of self-organization
guaranteed by the act has been re-
placed by a rule of terror and
repression"
Evening star., 1939-01-27
France Awaits Sign
OF Peace From Foscists

PARIS, Jan. 27 R).-The French
government looked today for some
peaceful sign from the Fascist pow
ers to justify going ahead with its
proposal for an international con-
ference to Danish the fear of war
from Europe
Both Premier Daladier and For
eign Minister Bonnet announced in
the Chamber of Deputies yesterday
that the government was ready to
call an economic and disarmament
conference if 1t found support in
other nations.
At the foreign Office, however, it
was said no official call for such a
conference was envisaged until the
reaction to yesterdays speeches was
studied and inquiries made through
diplomatic channels.
Hint From Hitler Expected.
An indication of Nazi and Fascist
intentions was expected from Chan
cellor Hitler's speech before the
Reichstag Monday and Premier
Mussolini's speech Wednesday.
The French government main
tained close contact with Great
Britain on the Spanish situation and
stuck to its firm policy against Ital-
ian encroachment on French in
terests which won a vote of conf
dence in the Chamber last night
M. Daladier was silent about the
steps he would take if italian influ-
ence in Spain were to peril Frances
Mediterranean com m u n cations.
These plans. however, already have
been mapped out In secret conference
of the Permanent Committee of
National Defense and will be pre-
sented to the cabinet tomorrow.
Evening star., 1939-01-27

been evacuated from the Barcelona
area.
When I left Spain late yesterday
streams of travel-Worn, beWildered
refugees still were pouring north
ward in one of the most tragic phases
of the tWoand-a- half year -old civil
war
The government of Spain was
slowly reorganizing after the stun
ming blow it received when General
issimo Francisco Franco captured
Barcelona. the former capital.
President Manuel Azana was re-
ported to be still in Catalonia.
Premier Juan Negrin and Foreign
Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo
located in a town which they asked
not be identified.
From tiny crowded rooms in small
villages they began again to admin
lister the affairs of government
Spain which until this week they
had directed from luxurious Offices
in Barcelona.
Premier Negrin set up shop in a
small room. Over the door was
scribbled in red pencil: president
of the Cabinet of Ministers.
The governments plans still were
uncertain. Its leaders said they
were optimistic. pointing to the
Valencia area as the center of gov
ernment hopes. Observers were con-
vinced there would be no suing tor
peace in the immediate future.
Broken Families Wander.
In the little farm towns of North
ern Catalonia was being enacted one
of the most heart-breaking mlgra-
tions Spain had ever seen. Families.
scattered by the suddenness of the
governments flight, wandered aim
lessly along roads and in fields.
Conveyances of every description
jammed highways. Trains of box
cars or ancient windowless coaches,
gorged with weary refugees, slowly
craWled to the north through In
surgent aerial bombardments.
Their pitiful freight was dropped
in towns that could not find room
for their own War-sWollen popula-
tions.
Barcelona railroad platforms were
packed with thousands Tuesday
night before left by automobile. I
carried with me family which had
left Madrid in the early months of
the war when their home was wiped
out by bomb. They had moved to
Valencia and Barcelona and now
were on the move again.
Border Town Swarming.
When we reached town near
the border it was swarming with
men, women and children searching
for rooms. Constant bombing alarms
scattered them to shelters so crowd
ed they could not get in. They
were forced to huddle in doorways
facing empty holes made in the
streets during previous raids.
Officers of the towns military
command were swamped with twin
burdens of military defense and
civilian refugees. A few truckloads
of dried fish came over the border
but there was no sign of immediate
large-scale relief.
Vincent Sheean, American author
and journalist, was stranded in
Northern Catalonia when his pass
port was stolen while he slept on
the floor OF a crowded Office.
Evening star., 1939-01-27

Orders for national defense rep
resent most of the steel business in
France at present.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Planes
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larger American air program was
started.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the matter had
been considered by the cabinet. He
added six major plane factories in
the United States were closed and
one large engine company had laid
off 1,500 men.
New Orders Desirable.
In view Of that, he said 1t would
be desirable to get new orders and
have these plants going by the time
the American program was about
to get under way.
The President said he did not
believe Great Britain was seeking
any planes from this country at
this time.
No American governmental finan-
cial assistance was involved in the
French orders, he said.
Asked why the French observer
was aboard the bomber plane when
it crashed, the President replied
the War Department had no OBJ
lection to other countries ordering
planes from private manufacturers.
He added the plane that crashed
had not been accepted by this Gov
ernment.
He said 1t was a manufacturers
plane being flown at the Los Angeles
Municipal Airport and he did not
know whether the Government
would buy that or some other type
of plane and the decision would not
be made for several months.
France placed orders last year for
American-made pursuit planes cost
ing s500O.OOO, and Great Britain
contracted for 400 craft which, with
spare parts. cost approximately
s30,OOO,000, official records dis
closed.
Mr.. Chemidlin was seriously in
jured and the pilot, John Gable. was
killed when the plane, built by the
Douglas Aircraft Co., fell out of con-
troll The ship, though constructed
for entrance in Army competition,
was not built under contract.
The War Department bans outside
observers from new planes built
under department contracts and
usually inserts a clause in the con-
tract that the maker cannot sell
similar ships abroad until six months
after delivery to the department.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Hitler CongrotuIotes
Franco on Victory

BERLIN, Jan. 81 (P).-Reichs-
fuehrer Hitler today congratulated
insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
Franco on the capture of Barcelona.
He telegraphed:
Il send you my heartiest congrat-
ulations on the brilliant success with
which the National Spanish Army,
under your leadership. has met in
the freeing of Barcelona. 1 con-
f1dently hope that an early victor
ious ending of the war will bring
peace to the Spanish people and
open a new epoch of happy develop
ment for the Spanish nation"
Evening star., 1939-01-27
'Isms' Aimed at u. S.
Youth, Speaker Warns

A warning of an undercover drive
to teach foreign "isms" to American
youth was voiced last night by
T. S. Wilcher, executive director Of
Boys Republic.
Mr. Wilcher, speaking at an Or
ganization meeting of parents and
children at the Ashton Heights
Community Center, Arlington, Va,
told of the efforts of Boys Republic
to guard against such teachings.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Bada|ona Captured
By Rebels Pushinq
North Of Barcelona
Frances Army Reported
Facing Almost No
Opposition
By the Associated Press.

q, the Associated Press.
HENDAYE, France, Jan. 81
Spanish insurgent armies today cap
tured Badalona, only 10 airline miles
from the French frontier, after
pushing north with ~unslackened
speed from Barcelona
Refugees streaming into Caldetas,
on the Mediterranean coast above
Barcelona, said GeneraliSsimo Fran
cisco Frances advance guards even
had reached Mataro, 20 miles north
of the captured government capital
and only 5 miles from Caldetas.
Officers aboard the French de-
stroyer LIE Fortune, which arrived at
Port Vendres, France, from Caldetas
this morning, said Gen. Frances COL
hlmns were sweeping up the coast
virtually without opposition.
Seaboard Mopped Up.
While an insurgent force on the
coast mopped up the seaboard in a
campaign to wipe out the last gov
ernment resistance in Northeast
Spain, others converged inland on
the important city of Granollers.
Both Badalona and Granollers are
important to government defenses
of its shrinking Catalonian terri
tory. Badalona was source of the
governments electric power and the
center of many of its war industries.
Granollers straddles the line of the
governments retreat into the far
Northern Pyrenees.
nsurgent-censored reports from
Barcelona said mobS yesterday had
set fire to the headquarters of leftist
political parties.
A huge public mass was celebrated
In the Plaza de Catalunya at noon
in thanks for the insurgent victory
Officers of French warships said
insurgent bombardments had dam
aged Caldetas heavily. while its
streets and roads were filled with
thousands of refugees streaming
enorthward toward the French bor-
der. They said they did not know
whether the United States Embassy
building at Caldetas had been hit.
1t is occupied now only by Spanish
clerk.
Both the officers and refugees said
insurgent planes had raided Caldetas
and surrounding towns five times
yesterday.
Officials said French warships
would continue shutting between
France and the Spanish coast at
ports just ahead of the advancing
insurgent armies.
Site of New Stand Unclear.
Where the government troops
would take new stand remained
unclear. Their territory in the
northeast corner of the country was
shrinking steadily, their bases of
operation and supplies were getting
fewer and their chances of holding
out in Catalonia more slight.
Border observers considered COM
pletion of insurgent conquest Of the
once semi-independent Province of
Catalonia only a question of time,
but peace still was not in sight.
Evening star., 1939-01-27
Rome
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terpreted this to be an indication
he believed the time now was op-
perfume to bring the Italian French
dispute to head.
II Popolo di Roma, referring to
this concluding phrase of the
speech. observed that the world
knows Italy will pass. 1t will pass
over and beyond every 'jamais' both
in Spain and outside Spain"
The newspapers use of the word
"jamais s'-French for "never"-was
an illusion to the declaration of the
French foreign minister. Georges
Bonnet, that France never would
yield an inch of her territory.
Premier Daladier. addressing the
French Parliament, declared that
French Italian differences were
racing toward a climax" Foreign
Minister Bonnet said question of
force" might arise.