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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
DE MOLAY MEET
AT PENSACOLA

Members of Robert j. Perry
Chapter of DeMolay have re-
ceived word that the tenth am
nual Conclave of the Associated
Chapters of Florida will be on
August 1923. The meeting this
year will be held at Pensacola.
Delegates from the local Chapters
have not been elected as yet but
it is assumed there will be nice
representation.
Meanwhile the Chapters has
gone ahead with its plans for a
summer program. Many activi-
ties are listed on the calendar for
the period up to the meeting at
Pensacola. Kermit Levin, Master
Councillor has the Chapter in
line for some fine ritualistic ac-
tivities as well as social and
athletic events.
Howard Pinder, Chairman of
the Social Committee announced
that invitations were being issued
for a Beach Party to be held on
Friday, June is. A large crowd
is expected to attend. Plans are
also being laid for another
sJook" Party. The younger set
|of Key West will remember the
First Jock" Party held several
months and the fine time every
one had who anntended it.
Harry knight, Chairman of
the Athletic Committee an
nounced that a bowling team had
been entered in the new tour
nament which has just started.
The bowling team will also at
tend the banquet which will be
held tonight at the La Concha
hotel.
The .DeMolay Password, the
only DeMolay paper in the state
is again being published and the
first issue this year was put out
several weeks ago. II is one Of
the best DeMolay papers in the
country.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
B. |. CROOMS
RETURNS HOME

Bascom L. Grooms. president
of the Key West Electric Co.,
returned to Key West last night
in the family car which went to
Miami yesterday to meet the
train of the Florida East Coast
which was bringing him back
from New York.
President Grooms left one
week ago and in New York
visited the offices of the En-
gineers Public Service Company,
Incorporated, to discuss business
matters in connection with the
KWECO, which is subsidiary of
the above named company.
He also attended the annual
convention of the Edison Electri-
cal Institute, which is the Ma
tional organization of the Elec-
trical Utilities Industry.
The cares of business meetings
and conventions be concluded
Mr.. Grooms then spent the bet
ter part of two days at the
Worlds Fair, but visited only the
most attractive and interesting
displays. Among them he says
the Florida Exhibit is outstand-
ing.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
LANDON HEARD
ON POLITICS
fnx Asseciatea presrl

BOSTON, June 1.-THE Re-
publican Party's standard bearer
in 1886 stated here today that in
case of a Republican victory in
1910, and he was sure that that
would be the case, the leaders OF
tire G.. o. p. should not swing
too far to the right in their
plans to bring the country back
to prosperous times.
BY swinging to the right
Landon declared that he didn't
mean "a leaning towards Fascism
or Nazism", but towards. mod
crate conservative viewpoint.
Certain measures of the New
Deal should be retained the
while business is given a chance
to expand. Landon blamed both
big business and President
Roosevelt for the present eco
nomic status, stateing that they
have both been too arrogant.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
Train Bearing Royal cOu-
pie Pauses In Quebec
Affording Them Time
For More Sleep
my Assoelated Pressl


DELLSoN. Que. June l2.-The
King and Queen Of England re.
turned 10 British territory this
morning when the streamline
special crossed the international
Boundary at this city. The train
paused here for two hours al
dawn TO allow the royal couple to
complete their much needed sleep
then proceeded 10 the next
city on their remaining rail trip
to Quebec and Halifax where the
encourage will board ship for
England.
The first city at which brief
celebration was held was Sher-
brook, Que, a few miles north of
the boundary.
Members of the royal party told
newspapermen this morning that
King George and Queen Eliza
beth appeared to be quite rested
following their hectic four-day
visit to the nations capital and to
New York. Especially restful
was the comparatively uneyent-
full Sunday afternoon and eve
ming spent on President Roose-
velt's Hyde Park estate The
streamIine tram left from the ut.
tie red brick station at Hyde
Park shortly before midnight last
night.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
LEAVING FOR
CONVENTION

5Isadore L. Weintraub will leave
over the Overseas Highway to-
morrow morning for Tulsa, Ok
lahoma, where he will represent
the local Junior Chamber of Com
merce at the National Convention
to be held in that city from June
20 to %.
In Miami Mr.. Weintraub will
join that city's delegation where
a motorcade will be formed and
at all points along their route, in
Florida and in states through
which they will pass, delegates
will join in the motorcade to
Tulsa.
Elaborate entertainments have
been planned for the delegates in
many states including banquets
and dances in Birmingham, Ala
1bama and Memphis, Tenn.
Mr.. Weintraub is taking quite
an assortment of Key West lite
nature furnished by the Key West
Chamber of Commerce and will
distribute this at the convention
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
EXTRACTS OF STORIES APPEARING
in JUNE II ISSUE OF NEWSWEEK

existence of monopoly or other
violations of the antitrust laws.
This week the commission re-
leased its report-2,900 type
written pages. While it called at
tention to the high degree of
concentration" in the industry, it
admitted that active competition
among automobile manufacturers
gave to the public improved
products often at substantially
reduced prices. 1t admitted also
that consumer benefits from this
competition have probably been
more substantial than in any
other large industry studied by
the commission"
Nevertheless, the report crit
icized a number of practices
within the industry, including:
alleged pressure by manufac-
turers on dealers TO take and sell
a specified number of new cars
under threat of canceling their
contracts; additions made by
dealers to finance company
charges without performing any
extra service for such additions;
charges against purchasers for
transportation of cars from the
factory by rail when they may
actually have been transported
by water or motor carrier; sale
as new cars of those which have
been lowed or driven from the
factory or used as demonstra-
tors.
The ETC recommended no new
legislation or punitive action
and, on the whole the tone of its
report was mild. Few new facts
about the industry were uTl-
earthed by the study. Moreover,
some of the practices complained
of are already being eliminated
by the motor companies them
selves through self disciplinary
action.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
Deaf Mute Couple
Operate Restaurant
ony Associates Press,

ZION KY. June 12.-Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Bennett, deaf mutes.
run restaurant apd dance hall
near here.
Customers either write their
orders or make their wants
known through the Bennett child
rem and Bennett relays the orders
to his wife by finger talk--high
in the air.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett say
they're sometimes a little thank
full for their handicap.
THAT thing" wrote Bennett
for an interviewer as he pointed
to the big electric phonograph in
the corner, plays almost con-
tinuously. 1t would probably
drive any other person nuts. Me,
/ don't even know it's going"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
AUDUBON SOCIETY
GROUP RETURNS

Members of the Florida Audu-
bon Society who were spending
one week at Tortugas studying
the Noddies, Terms and Sooties
which are now assembled there
and banding hundreds of the
birds to determine their migra-
tory habits, returned Saturday
afternoon on the Coast Guard
Patrol 1875.
Visits were made to Long Key
as well as Garden Key where
there are thousands of the birds
to be found at this season, de-
posting their eggs which liter
ally cover the beaches and are
carefully guarded by the older
birds.
The group last week was head
ed by E. B. Stowe, of Sanford
and this morning another group
left on the Meade to continue the
work of banding and have made
arrangements to return on June
IT.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12

It began to look last week as
If the century-old Shakespeare
Bacon imbroglio might end soon,
with a decision going to the
Shakespeareans. In a lecture to
the Royal Society of Literature,
London, DIR. Robin Flower, deputy
keeper of ancient manuscripts at
the British Museum, announced
that three pieces of paper in the
museum, covered with a faded
scraWl, were probably parts of
an original Shakespeare play on
the life of Sir Thomas More, six
teenth-century Lord Chancellor
and author of utopia" DR..
Flower has ben examining the
manuscripts for years, using the
ultraviolet and infra-red rays;
now he is convinced they are
genuine.
No handwriting exists which
everyone will agree is Shakes
peare's. Autographs known to be
the poets have merely played
into the Baconian' hands; they
are in such an illiterate scrawl,
claim the Baconians, as to pre-
clude the possibility that their
author could have written the
witty and profound Shakespeare
plays.
The Bacon theory goes back to
1859, when it first saw print in a
book by one Herbert Lawrence.
Its proponents hold that the
author of England's greatest
dramas must have been Sir
Francis Bacon, using Shakes
peare" as a pen name, because -
certain passages in Shakespeare's
writings are similar to passages
in Bacon's, (2) Bacon was an
educated man and great think
er, CD he signed his name
throughout the plays in a
elaborate cipher. Some of these
ciphers are so ingenious that
anti Baconians have used them
10 prove Bacon wrote books
which appeared before he was
born.
In March 1888, Congress APP
propriated $4,000 for the Federal
Trade Commission to undertake
a broad investigation of the auto
mobile industry, particularly
with reference to the possible
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
HOTEL WEEK
OBSERVED in
MANY PARTS
FLORIDA HosTELRIEs JOIN
OTHERS SITUATED IN VA
RroUs PARTS OF UNITED
STATES
tspeelal 10 1,he cIti.en,


JACKSONVILLE, June H.
The Hotels of Florida are joining
Hotels all over the United States
in celebrating National Hotel
Week from June II to 18th which
makes the 145th year of Open
House" dating froim the establish
ment of the first real Hotel in
1894.
Nation wide observance of
National Hotel Week which began
June II was hailed by Leonard
K. Thompson of Miami, its orig
inator and Chairman of the Ma
tional. Committee, as an inn
portant opportunity for hotels to
establish closer relationship with
the public.
Although we are 7th largest
industry in the Nation said Mr..
Thompson, land the very nature
of our business brings us into
close contact with the public, we
have been singularly reticent
about our roll in the social,
economic and civic life of the
community. This year for the
first time we are making a formal
and concerted effort to make the
public aware of our Hotels,
which too often have been taken
for granted.
The official slogan for National
Hotel Week is Hotels. An Asset
To The Community, A Service
TO The Nation. Mr.. Thompson
released statistics showing that
tnere are approximately 1900
Hotels IN Florioa with property
valued at approximately l9O mil
non collars ana that they employ
more tnan 81 Thousand people
VINO receive wages IN excess of
III million annually, although a
large number are strictly season
al employees.
HoteIS were the first to use and
popuiarlze the inventions and
new appliances which are COM
mon place To-Day, but which were
looked upon askance during the
10Th century. This tendency. Mr..
Thompson points out, exists to
this very day as is evidenced by
the adoption of air conditioning
by many Hotels.
According to research conduct
cd by the American Hotel Asso-
citation as a feature of National
Hotel Week, Hotels were the first
to use gas light and electricity to
any marked degree. The first
elevator was installed in a hotel,
modern plumbing was first used
extensively by a hotel, even the
bath tub, that great American
institution. obtained its first
vogue in the Hotels, as did steam
heat and the modern radiator.
Hotels were among the first subs
cribers to telephone service.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
SCHOOL PATROL
|. RETURNED HOME
LAST EVENING
ALL MEMBERS OF oRcANIzA-
TON REPORT HAVING HAD
WONDERFUL TIME DURING
TRIP

Sunday night the Key West
School Patrol, sponsored by the
Rotary Club, returned from its
summer encampment at Miami.
On the way to Miami the
Patrol was met at South Miami
by an official police escort fur
nished by Mayor Sewell of Mi
ami and Clifford Bigelow of the
American Automobile Associa-
ton, and escorted in to the
Esmeralda Hotel where the
Patrol stopped.
A sightseeing trip for the
Patrol boys was arranged by Mr..
Bigelow and was as follows:
Starting at the County Cause
way to Miami Beach, along the
beach to the 10th Street Cause
way; the Eastern Air Lines Air
port, Hialeah Race Track, Musa
Isle Seminole Indian Village,
Pan-American Airport at Din
ner Key Base. Sunday morning
the Patrol attended church serv-
ices at the White Temple.
Accompanying the boys on the
trip were: Director Myrtland
Gates, Traffic Officer Key West
Police Department, who wishes
to thank all who helped in max
ing this trip possible and such a
big success, and to commend the
parents of the boys for their eff
ports in making them the right
kind of future citizens.
Also accompanying the boys
were: Uric Gwynn, Jr., super
visor; w. c. Duncan, principal
of the Harris School; Leroy Tor
res, driver for the trip, and A..
PARA, guest of the Patrol.
Patrol Boys
Billy Laid, Paul Lightbourn,
A. PARA, Jr, Byron Cook, Jack
Niles, Thomas Dion, Billy Shaw,
Kenneth Kerr, Kenneth Solo
mon, Forest Arthur, Kermit
Sweeting, Harvey Shehane, Milo
Albury, Lawrence Padron. Ralph
Solano, Edward Albertus, Her
man Cerezo, Robert Cruz. Chas.
Sands, Norman Roberts, Leroy
Sawyer, Daniel Lujan.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
SOMETIMES SCRAP IRON COMES
HOME THE BACK WAY ROUTE
BY PRESTON GROVER
my Associated Press)

her across the ocean. Then the
ship was loaded with as much
scrap as it can hold. And who
sailed it back to Japan? That is
where the romance of war comes
in.
Chinese crews usually can be
hired cheapest for such pick
penny jobs. The japanese hire
them. After all, the seamen
have to eat and sea-going jobs
don't grow on trees these days
On arrival in Japan they are
transferred perhaps to Oriental
tramp ships always on the look
out for low-cost crews. One such
Chinese crew attempted mu-
tiny. There was brief news
paper account of it.
Every Scrap Used
In Japan, ship and cargo both
are melted down and converted
into munitions, not rivet
wasted. In 1888 Japan bought a
half million tons of steel and iron
scrap. BY 1887 it had swelled to
1901 ,202 tons, dropped back to
1881 ,901 tons in 1898.
Senator Schwellenbach OF
Washington introduced a bill
seeking to embargo export OF
scrap. He says West Coast docks
are piled with the stuff waiting
shipment to Japan. But when
the Senate committee looked in
to the business it found a hive OF
trouble. Big steel companies
were eager for an embargo,
Foreign competitiin for scrap
steel had forced the price up to
$50 ton within dollar of the
price of fresh pig iron. OPPOSE
ton came from a thousand junk
men-and the State Depart
ment. The junk men did moi
want to be deprived of such 9
rich market. Never had profits
been so good.
The State Department was
wary of taking such an open
handed crack at Japan. It didn'i
seem to be the diplomatic thing
to do.
Incidentally, the Army anc
Navy allow none of their owr
scrap, which is considerable, t.
be exported. They are not going
to be accused of selling metal tt
potential enemy to be sho'
back at them in some futurs
war.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
ALL EUROPE
Is WATCHFUL
BRITISH ANNOUNCE ONE or
GREATEST PEACE TIME
PROGRAMS
tBy Associated Preasp

LONDON, June IL. Europe
is girding itself for a summer of
watchful waiting according to re-
ports issuing forth from capitals
abroad.
British diplomats announce
that the greatest peace-time con-
centration of armed forces will
be trained and held in readiness
for coming events. A total of
approximately 100000 men will
have been trained by the end of
summer.
The German Polish situation
remains tenSe,e as the press of
the two countries hurl charges
and counter-charges back and
forth at each other. Reports in
dictate that feelings of Polish and
German citizenry are fast reach
ing a crisis period as rumors of
shooting affairs and various as
saults on police officers of both
nations are heard.
In the Far East, japan con-
tinues to harrass four major
powers with additional blockade
threats, the latest directed against
foreign concessions in Tientsin..
France, England, the Netherlands
and the United States are effect
ed by this move and diplomatic
corps are working time in
effort to rouse strong feeling
against the Nipponese.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12

WASHINGTON, June 10.-One
Of the weird things that can
happen to a Chinese sailor in the
United States is to be hired by
the japanese to haul steel over
to Japan to make bombs to kill
other Chinese in interior China.
Japan always has been heavy
purchaser of scrap steel and iron
in the United States. Japan has
few such resources of her own
and we have plenty. Steel is
made these days out of half
and-half mixture of new iron
and old steel and iron scrap.
Scrap comes in all shapes and
sizes, old car wheels, steel rails,
trimmings from steel plants,
junked automobiles, occasionally
an old hulk of a worn out ship.
Remember the Vaterland, once
crack German liner. seized by the
u. S. at the outbreak of war, cam
verted into a troop transport. I'M
der the name of Leviathan, and
then reshaped into a miney-loslng
u. S. liner? Months ago it was
sold 10 England for scrap and un-
der its own power steamed back
TO a British junk yard. Who
knows? It may yet get back to
Germany, piece at time, drop
ped from British bombing planes.
Japan Hunts Bargains
II is in such instances as the
Leviathan that the Chinese come
in. Japan, eager for bargains IN
scrap, is always looking out for
old ship hulks which can be sailed
hack to Tokyo under their own
power TO be broken up and melted
into new shapes
A subcommittee of the Senate
Committee on Military Affairs,
holding hearings on proposals to
keep Japan from buying scrap
steel and iron here, ran into the
story. Hearing of an old ship
about to be sold for junk, the Jap
sAese bought it. had its engines
fitted up just wen enough to get
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
Visiting Rotarians Will
Be Entertained Tomorrow
..1g.lIlv1wz6n1lw1
GOVERNOR VETOES
ONE MEASURE AND
APPROVES ANOTHER
sRy Associated Press,

Tallahassee. June H.
Governor Gone vetoed legis-
lation that would postpone
for two wears the reversion
clause of the Murphy Tax
Redemption Law. which thus
gave the state title 10 thou
sands Of pieces Of land against
which IL held certificates over
two years old.
The Governor also signed
into law a gas tax bill
Senate 1879 giving the
State Road Department
eighty percent of any sur
plus gas taxes. credited 10 a
county under the 1891 law.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
STICKNEY VISITS
PORT ST. JOE


j. p. Stickney, who has re-
Gently returned from Port St.
Joe. Florida, was a welcomed
visitor in that city according to
The Port Saint Joe Sentinel,
newspaper published in the city.
"The honorable ]. P. Stickney
of South Florida, was among the
prominent visitors rere last Sum
day.
His interest in the city was
centered around future business
opportunities. He expressed him
self as very much pleased with
The city in general.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
URGE FOR PEACE
NOT WEAKNESS
tny An.ociatea Pres.l

WEST POINT, N. Y. June IL.
President Franklin D. Roose-
welt told the graduating class at
West Point this morning that
the United States desire for
peace must not be mistaken as a
sign of weakness, referring to
this country's position in con-
nection with diplomatic activity
in behalf of peace.
The President stressed the need
for adequate defense measures
and stated that there was plenty
of room for trained personnel in
the Army.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
TWO PREACHERS
RETURNING HERE
REV. ToLLE HAS BEEN GIVEN
APPOINTMENT AT FORT
PIERCE

According to news received to-
day from the Methodist Church
Conference in Tampa, Rev. o. C.
Howell of the Ley Memorial
Church, and Rev. ]. p. Lilly of
the Fleming Street Methodist
Church, will be returned to Key
West for another year.
Rev. Joe A. Tolle of the First
Methodist Church will be sent to
Fort Pierce, and will he re-
placed here by Rev. G. w.
Hutchinson of Tampa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
Delegation Due To Come
Here From Havana En-
route To Cleveland Con-
yention

Local Rofarians are carrying
forward their plans for the en-
ierfainment Of the wishing 10
tarians from Havana who will
arrive tomorrow afternoon on
the Steamship Cuba from Ha-
vana.
The visiting group will consist
of approximately so Rotarians
and Rotary AIMS under the lead
ership of DR.. Ramon Lorenzo ex-
governor of District IS, and will
arrive at Key West 3 o'clock to-
morrow afternoon. All members
of the local organization are re-
quested to meet the boat.
Tomorrow night at 7:30 in the
rainbow dining room of the La
Concha Hotel the visitors will be
guests of local Rotarians at din
ner, and arrangements have been
made to have several local en-
tertainers appear at the dinner.
Wednesday the group will leave
TO attend the meeting of Rotary
international at Cleveland on
June 1923, and have been ex-
tended an invitation by B. M.
Duncan. general manager of the
Overseas Road and Toll Bridge
District, to stop over at Pigeon
Key for a visit.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
GRASS FIRE
HERE SUNDAY

An alarm of fire was sounded
from Box 124 yesterday after
noon at o'clock summoning APP
paratus to the old Salvation
Army grounds on Margaret street
where q grass fire was well UNI
der way.
Boosters from Engines Num-
bers / and 2 were used and with
in a short time the fire was de-
clared extinguished and the APP
paratus returned to their station.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
King And Queen Of England
Return To British Territory
NELSON WINNER
OF CHAMPIONSHIP
tRy AssocIntca Pressl


PHILADELPHIA. June IL.
Byron Nelson of the Read
ing Country Club. defeated
Craig Wood in the play-off
today for the National Open
Golf Championship. Both
Nelson and Wood were tied
at the end of a play-off
round on Sunday.
Nelson will be remembered
as a member of the two-man
team that defeated the Key
West Amafeur-Pro team of
Joe Lopez and Eddie Bush
two months ago in 81. Angus
tine.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
DEMOCRATS TO
MEET TONIGHT

There will be an important
meeting of the Young Democratic
Club held tonight. beginning at
8 o'clock, at the County Court
House. Matters of statewide
Importance, relative to bringing
the national convention here in
194l, will be brought up for dis
cussion.
There is a possibility that Key
West will have a post conven-
ton, it is stated.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-06-12
JAYCEES ADD
new MEMBERS

At the last meeting of the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
there were six names of prospec-
tives offered for membership
and were approved.
The names of the newly APP
proved members are: Darnell
Pinder, Joe Pavlock, Henry
Alonzo, DR.. Delio Cobo, Everett
Sawyer and DR.. w. w. Demeritt.