The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 16, 1933, Page 4

‘ PAGE FOUR THE KEY WEST CITIZEN MANY MORE AUTO TAGS REMAIN TO MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1933. YACHT MINOCO RETURNS HERE i: SOCIETY “IARIE CAPPICK, Editor - - - - PHONE 43 ONE CENT A DAY PAYS UP TO $100 A MONTH The Postal Life & Casualty In- {COLORED MAN SHOT SUNDAY Excellent Program Rendered At Memorial Services Sunday By Lodges Of Golden Eagles Knights and Ladies of the Gold- en Eagle held joint memorial ser- for departed members yes- terday afternoon at 3 o’clock in Palace Theater. There was a large number of relatives and friends of the castles and temples present and all enjoyed the beautiful and solemn memorial services. The program follows: Orchestra selection by Barroso’s America, by audience. Invocation, Reverend J. T. Coul- liette, pastor of Fleming Street Methodist church. Opening address, Ross Sawyer. Vocal selection, Miss Susan La- Kin. Address, Rafael Lazo. Reading, Miss Edith Russell. Vocal duet, Mrs. Julia Nelson and Gerald Saunders. Address, Ignacio Medina. Vocal duet, Mrs. Herschell Wil- liams, Mrs. Leo Williams. Vocal duet, “The Vacant Chair,” Gerald Saunders and Mrs. Julia Nelson. Orchestra _ selection, orchestra. Memorial address, Reverend J. T. Coulliette. Roll call of departed members of Knights of Golden Eagle. Vocal selection, Miss Alce Curry. Temple of sorrow, Golden Eagle. Taps by buglers from Golden Eagle Drum and Bugle Corps. Benediction, Reverend E. R. Evans. Orchestra selection, orchestra, Barroso’s Ladies of Barroso’s Mrs. W. Kirke Takes Much Interest Arbor Day .was observed Friday in all schools,with appropriate ex- ercises and tree planting. Mrs. Wallace B. Kirke, representing the Key West Woman’s Club visited the junior-senior high, Division street, Harris school, convent of Mary Immaculate, St. Joseph’s high school, St. Francis Xavier School and Douglas school. At all schools Mrs. Kirke found the pupils interested in planting and beauti- fying the schog] grounds, but she learned that after several at- tempts on the part of the children to beautify the grounds surround- ing the schools, they became dis- couraged on account of the wan- ton destruction of all plants. Mrs. Kirke learned that on sev- eral occasions teachers and pupils at the Monroe county schools have beautified the school grounds only to have some vandal come along and remove the plants, and those not stolen were destroyed. At Douglas school it. was learned that this has happened so frequently that the children are now dis- Mrs. Schrader Here On Visit Mrs. A. E. Schrader, wife of Commander Schrader, U. S..N., ¢ame in over the East Coist Satar~ day afternoon from Miami and fe.the guest of het brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. John Delgado. Mrs. Schrader, formerly Miss Argentine Delgado, has a host of friends in Key West, a number of whom were ‘at the station to greet In Tree-Planting couraged. Mrs. Kirke promised to do all possible to have this state of affairs remedied, to use some means of learning who the vandals are that wilfully destroy prop- erty. At the convent it was learned that 140 palms had been planted as a part of a beautification pro- gram at the convent, and these were taken out of their places, tops replaced in the holes, and roots left in the air. This has dis+ couraged the convent children. Mrs. Kirke was informed from various sources that this wanton destruction is not the work of chil- dren. It is known that young men are the ones who make a popular pastime of stealing and destroying plants which have been planted in an effort to beautify certain loca- tions. With such a state of affairs ex- isting, Mrs. Kirke feels that all ef- forts to beautify Key West will come to naught if some steps are not taken to prevent further destruction. P.-T. A. To Meet Tomorrow Night A monthly meeting of the Jun- ior-Senior Parent-Teacher Associa- tion’ will be, held tomorrow night at 7:30 o’cléck in this school. The progtam atranged for the evening includes & history of the associa- tion by ,Miss Eliza Gardner and a vocal trio arranged by’ Miss: Alce Curry. her after an absence of several years, Personal Will Hesson, who has been mak- ing his home in Miami for several months, arrived on the Havana Spécial yesterday. Gustavo Lombard, of the local colony of Cuban refugees, left Saturday for Miami where he will spend a few days with friends. Mrs. Amelia Sanchez, who was spending several weeks with rela- tives and friends, left Saturday for her home in Miami, Elliott Patterson, head of the W. B. Fair interests in Havana, arriv- ed from Cuba Saturday afternoon, left on a business trip to Miami and Tampa and will return later for a visit with his sisters, Mrs. Frederica Prindle and Miss Btta Patterson at the ancestral. home on Caroline street, Milton P. over the East Coast yesterday from Seabring, Fla., for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Roberts at the home on Angela street. J. M, Castillé w passenger over the urday afternoon for Miami wher he will stay a while with friends and relatives, an outgoing ariton Dunn, of Jamaica, Long and, New York, over the highway last night e guests at the home of Mr, Dunn's mother, 1010 Southard street. Mr lizabeth Schnoor of Jamaica, N. Y., and ss Helena Fromm of Brooklyn, were also members of the party. cock was an arrival) R t Coast Sat-} Mention Mrs, Dora Baker, who was spending several months with rela- tives in Miami, arrived on the Ha- vana Special yesterday, Mrs. Quentin Starling, who was spending two weeks with relatives and friends, left over the East Coast yesterday afternoon for her home in Belgrade, Fla. Miss Jennie Comas left on the afternoon train yesterday for Mi- ami where she will be the guest of Mrs. A, Wolkowsky for a week. Armando Mato, field manager of the Pan American Airways at Cienfuegos, Cuba, left yesterday for Miami after a short vacation iwith his family in Key West. J. H. Simmons, at one time ige foreman with the F. E. C. ~ company, at Key West, ar- rived yesterday for a short stay with old friends, and left in the afternoon for Miami. Ralph Sanders, connected with the weather bureau in Atlanta, Ga., who was here visiting with Mrs. Sanders at the home of her jmother, Mrs. Leslie A. Curry, 'eft jyesterday afternoon for his home. Mrs. Sanders and little son will }remain ‘for about two months jlonger. * | Members of the Brotherhood of } Maintenance of Way Associatiog jef the F, B.C. R’y. company, ar- rived over the Coast yester- day and held their regular meet- jing in the P. O. S. of A. hall on {Duval street yesterday afternoon. SOMOSESSOSSESSSSSSSOSLOSSSSHEHSHCEESEOCOSSOELEOEE SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20¢ WEEKLY eececceooens AT LONG KEY LEROY HENDERSON ALLEGED BY JIM MILLER, ALSO COL- ORED, IN HOSPITAL HERE Leroy Henderson, colored, is in a local hospital with two bullet wounds in his body and a Monroe county deputy sheriff is searching for Jim Miller, also colored, who is charged with the shooting. The affray happened late yester- day at Long Key, it is said, when an altercation occurred between the two men. Afterwards Miller is said to have got a gun and shot Henderson. As soon as the sheriff's office was apprised of the shooting, Deputy Harold Cates, at Marathon, was advised of the case and at once started on the hunt for Mil- ler. Henderson, it was said at the —~|sheriff’s office today, is painfully but not seriously wounded. CRIMINAL COURT MET TODAY; JURY FOR TERM DRAWN DOCKET NOT SOUNDED OW- ING TO ABSENCE OF SOLICI- TOR; TO START PROCEED- INGS TOMORROW MORNING Criminal court met this morning at 10 o’clock with Judge J. Vin- ing Harris presiding, and all court officials present, except County Solicitor J. F, Busto, who was out of the city at the time. Due to his being absent the docket was not sounded, the judge explaining that this will be done tomorrow morning when court is convened and the regular session begun. The list of jurors was drawn from the box as follows: George E. McDonald, Leon C. Roberts, W. T. H. Boll, U. P. Bethel, Charles. A. Ingraham, F. Carbonell, Oliver B. Roberts, Eugene Buckley, Will P. Roberts, John W. Pinder, F. M. Page, J. A, Gaiti, Elmer del Pino, Herbert Weech, James W. Albury, Eddie C. Thompson, Horatio Olivieri, Ross'C. Sawyer, Jr. The sheriff was instructed to Summons the jurors named an make the return when court re- convenes at.10 o’clock tomorrow morning, WRECKING TUG BACK IN PORT RELIEF ARRIVES LATE SUN- DAY AFTERNOON FROM MOBILE The wrecking tug Relief, which has been on drydock at Mobile un- dergoing repairs_and overhaul, re- turned to Key West 5:45 o’clock yesterday afternoon and is at her berth at the Porter dock. After relieving the wrecked steamer Nord Vangen off the Cuban coast, the Relief went to the assistance of the wrecking tug Willett, that was at work on the steamer Vistula, aground off the Mexican coast. With both ships freed the Wil- lett came to Key West and the Re- lief went to Mobile. The Willett sailed 7 o'clock yesterday morning for her home port, New York. STREET SWEEPER LAID UP TODAY, ACTION TAKEN IN LINE WITH PROGRAM OF RE- TRENCHMENT The street sweeper made its last trip last night. Today it is laid up indefinitely, it is said. } move is in line with the economy | program of the board of public works, which operates the scaven- ger department and other depart- ments in Key West. Another money saving item in BE BOUGHT HERE TAG AGENT FOR MONROE HAVE PURCHASED PLATES | UP TO PRESENT TIME George Gomez, state automobile tag agent for Monroe county, says that if automobile owners in the county are going to purchase tags, this last 16 day period in January is going to be a busy one. Up to the present only 200 own- ers have complied with the re- quirements of the law, which leaves approximately 1,000 automobiles and trucks without tags. i Asked if there was going to be any extension of time, after Janu- ary 31, in which to buy tags, Mr. Gomez said that there will not be. In previous years there were ex- tensions granted, but this year it is understood that after January 31, every owner who purchases a tag will find it necessary to pay an of the license plate. MUNICIPAL BAND TO HOLD MEETING MANY INVITED TO ATTEND SESSION AT SAN CARLOS BUILDING TONIGHT Invitations have been sent to.a number of representative citizens of Key West advising them that there will be an important meet- ing of the Municipal Band of Key West tonight in the San Carlos building. The organization will be repre- sentative of Key West, and as,a number of objectives are to be planned and the scope of the or- ganization discussed, it is hoped that all who are invited will at- tend. The band is now practicing as- siduously and the concert played at the Marine hospital some time ago showed that the organization is in readiness to make regular appearances in public concerts; Those in an executive capatity in the band are asking that sug- gestions from those interested ‘in this organization, from a_ stand- point of civic pride, be offered iat the meeting tonight. Florida Holly Providing | Food For Birds Cut Down In Cleaning Up Of Lots Florida holly which provides its beautiful gnarled branches and | city where areas have been clear- ed. the axe in the clean up campaign now on, the conservation committee of the toured the island yesterday after- noon in an effort to begin a pro- ject of beautifying the island and replantig such trees and shrubs as will grow here. This committee will ask that further destruction of these and other native trees be spared and jall under growth removed. In an jeffort to do thi is proposed that one or more members of this com- jmittee keep in contact with the |work being done and point out the jtrées and shrubs to be spared, | Wells’ Lunch Room Gets Fine Supply Of Oysters | | Wells’ Lunch Room, which for jyears, has been the headquarters for oysters in Key West, is an- in an advertisement in izen the arrival of a fresh shipment of Baltimore large extra select oysters. The advertisement, which is to appear regularly in the business Directory, also states that Mrs. Wells erving a variety of sand- j wich! including the delicious j oyster sandwich, } CARD OF THANKS ke th nks to all who assisted ¢ the memorial services rday afternoon a success. are due to the man- {ager and assistants of Palace The- ress in mal food for birds, gumbo limbo, with}moving freight train. resinous medicinal qualities have|was caught on the spiles, rock or jbeen cut down in all parts of the}something and my line was cut. This was discovered by|last year, in Key West, at the Por- Monroe County Council for Unem-|piece of cut mullet and ployment Relief, members of which} med” with the rest of the } He States 4-0 Hook To 24-0 Or Hook Progression KEY WEST—CLAIMS EDWARD TO-HAVE BEEN WOUNDED| COUNTY STATES ONLY 200] 98 eeeeeeccoccccccoocccccccoccccoocooosooosooee By EDWARD A. LOUIS “Will they believe it?” I said to Captain of the Navy Yard Lt. H. A. Tellman, when we saw what came out of the water with the combined assistance of the night watchman, two yoemen and the yard skiff at dusk on the eve of Friday the 13th. ‘They'll think I’m trying for membership in the ‘Tall Story Club’,” I replied( when friend Lt. Tellman said, “Write it up for ‘The Citizen’ anyway—it won't hurt Key West.” So here goes: I had’nt fished the “yard” but once since the old “Bagaduce” and her genial crew left—it was too lonesome. The fish missed the old tug as much as we and had depart- ed from Pier B where good schools of fish used to lie in wait for Cook Norton’s yell at meal times: “Come and get it!’ knowing that they would soon get the scraps. Jan’, “Beebe” and I fished the additionat 25 percent of the cost} bridge at No Name Key yesterday with indifferent luck until about sunset when I hooked a snapper weighing about six pounds. I was reeling him in amid great excite- ment from all hafds when, with the fish about twenty feet out from the bridge, a gigantic jew- fish lazily came up and gulped my fish—which was caught on a No. 4-0 O’Shaughnessy hook—directly below us and the rail. The mon- ster jewfish—it measured all of six feet or more long—carried on under the bridge and very nautic- ally, took a turn with the line around the piling. The steel piano- wire leader broke at the hook loop, the fish getting away. “Why don’t you try the Navy Yard?” said Jan’, as we hurriedly packed our gear to get in the ear and away from the maddening sand-flies. Looking at our lone- some and total catch of one yel- low-tail, caught by herself, Jan’ mused, true to the place of her birth, “I’ll bet you get some good fishing right in Key West in the ‘yard’.” “Good idea!” I answer- ed, “I’ll keep these mullets and sardines to bait up with. If any | fish are there, they will be good and hungry.” Cr e attuned, to feel the slightest touch on the bait, Nothing happened. Possibly that fish was on its way to the hospital that faces the Sub- marine Base, to get an exploratory laparotomy done, that: is, if the same fish has all the hooks in it’s gullet. I chopped up some more cut bait and chummed it overboard, letting the rod, set “on the click,” rest on the dock. The reel click- ed gently, evenly but steadily. “Something ‘would take hold while my hands were fishy!” I grabbed up the rod, set the drag and struck. “Wow! What weight!” I couldn’t stop it. Line kept paying out at the same gait, slowly but as in- exorably as fate. The line was under the dock again; and was being chafed on the under-side of the string pieces. It stopped run- ning out and I heard a_ lusty floundering splash—also deliber- ate—only jewfish (or more prop- erly, june-fish, the first cousin to the gian black sea-bass) could act like that. Then, the tactics of the jewfish that stole my snapper yes- terday, were re-enacted and the mammoth of the deep had sound- ed or took a couple of half-hitches arund something, for my line came free again but, once more, minus all the fishing rigging. I won’t repeat the “poetry” I said. The paper won’t print it, anyway, but it “helped” a_ lot. What to do now? My biggest hooks gone. But, No! I still had my gaff—a 24-0 steel hook, set with molten lead into the German silver ferrule end of a stout green- heart shaft, nearly three inches in circumference, in length about four and a half feet. It was once a surf casting rod that had won me prizes for casting. It was as tough as whalebone. I had a 100-foot long rope seized to it and. used it to hoist fish to the bridges that were too heavy to lift without. The hook on this gaff was barbless, tis’ true; but had’nt I caught sea-trout on barbless hooks and sewing cot- ton line? I had. In anger and desperation, I picked up this pre- cious gaff, selected the biggest— and by this time, rather “ripe’— mullet, one about sixteen inches FLORIDA TAKES 109 PASSEN- §GERS TO: HAVANA TODAY The S. S. Florida sailed this afternoon for Havana with 109 passengers. 87 of these arrived on the Havana Special and others ar- rived from Tampa on the ship this morning. The Florida came-in from Ha- vana Saturday afternoon with 73 passengers, 13 aliens, and sailed for Tampa 6:30 o’clock. ~ Freighter Agwidale, of the Clyde-Mallory line arrived 11 o’clock last night from New York and sailed this morning for Tampa. and Mobile. The yacht Minoco, of Chicago, which left last week for Miami, has returned ard is berthed at the F. E. C. terminals pier. Standard Oil tanker L. J. Drake arrived in port this morning from Mexico with a cargo of fuel oil for the F. E. C. R’y. She will be taken to the discharging tanks of the railroad this afternoon, ed half gone; the break a swol- len mass of serried strands; not & clean. break, but rahter as if gargantuan hands had twisted it in half. Perhaps Father Neptune does live in Key West waters, guarding Davy Jones’ locker, pieces of eight, ete. But, if it’s fish, or whatever it is, the skipper of the yard and I ate going back soon to see—for he has become inoculat- ed with the fishing virus since liv- ing in Key West and loves it’as all come to do here. If we catch this denizen of the deep that made us dizzy, I'll let you know—subse- quently. —————— Make Reservations Now Bridge Luncheon in Woman Club House, Thursday, Jan. 19, 1 p. m. Tickets 75c. For table reservations call 158 or 356 surance Co., 8388 Dierks Building, Kansas City, Mo., is offering a new accident policy that pays up to $100 a month for 24 months for disability and $1,000.00 for deaths —costs less than 1c a day—$3.50 a year. More than 150,000 have already bought this policy. Men, women and children eligible. Send. no money. Simply send name, ad- dress, age, beneficiary’s name and relationship and they will . send this policy on 10 days’ FREE in- spection. No examination is re- quired. This offer is limited, so write them today. Shipment Of Iron Piling Arrives Here Last Night Seven wrought iron piling for the lighthouse department arrived on the Mallory steamer from New York last night. These are to be used in con- structing the foundation for the new light that has been authorized for Tennessee Reef. This light is of hexagonal shape and of the same type that is to be constructed on Smith Shoals. It will rise 49 feet above the mean high water mark, Both of these projects are to be started as soon as suitable weather conditions ,prevail, it was said at the department offices today. STAINLESS | PALACE Betty Compson-George Irving in Guilty Or Not Guilty Matinee, 5-10c; Night, 10-18¢ TWO MORE DAYS ——TO BUY—— Thursday afternoon found me at}long and impaled it on the gaff’s Pier B, in the “yard”, about an| hook, then lowered it down into hour and a half before low water| the twenty-six feet or more of slack, fishing diligently for two}water there, The weight of the gaff hours without even a nibble. Just/and the metal trimmings, combined as the tide turned to run in, some-| with the leaded head, made it sink thing carried my line under the|to the bottom. dock from the channel, with slow] It was by this time, almost dark. deliberation. I gave “it all I had’| The coil of rope on the gaff was —with due regard to the four a little tangled. -I started on the ounce split bamboo rod and twelve end of the rope to untangle it, thread line—the rod creaked with ' stripping the decks for action as it the strain. No use. Whatever|were and let the slack go over- was on the other end, kept going,| board. Coiling down the line in NEW GOODYEAR TIRES ——AT———_—. USED TIRE PRICES FOR CASH ONLY ALBURY’S SERVICE STATION Grinnell and Fleming Streets. Phone 91 AMSHIP HIP Co. UNITED STATES FAST still ynhurriedly and at the same gait—it might have been a slow- I was un- ship-shape order, I took up the slack in the water and found that my “fishing rig’ was once more P& MAIL ROUTES FOR able to reel in an inch of line. I;under the dock’ with something \very heavy on the other end that I couldn’t budge. I tugged and I rigged up again, this time with|got some cable retrieved, feeling Dog Wood trees, with their}a 9-0 hook—the other was a 4-0—-!at the same time a series of tugs lovely racemes of orchid and pink|but’put on no lead and remember-|that took rope away from me on blossoms, have gone down underjed that I caught the two first/the penalty, otherwise, of pulling mackerel that way, about this time }me overboard. This give and take ee line lasted for some minutes—it felt like hours—and then, all at “chum-|once, I was pulling at some im- cut; movable object; the fish—or dem- fish. The tide was running in'on—had once more got the “rig” nicely by then and carried my line 'snagged. down the channel and alongside} What to do? 1 valued the gaff the dock. I was caugth again! No!/and certainly was curious as té The line came from under the| what sea-brute this was that har- dock but the bait was gone. I bait-pored in our Key West waters. 1 ed up again—quite deep water/took a couple of turns with the there; the bait sank slowly. “Why line around a piece that had held the loop in the line in that strong battleships and went for help. tide?” The baited end was going Very generously, Lt. Tellman against the tide! I reeled in the responded and getting a watchman slack and Lo! TI was fast again|and calling for volunteers at the to something fishy that slowly!non-commissioned officers bar- moved up tide and outside but|racks we went for the yard skiff close to the dock. I struck and/to recover the gaff and the fish “it” nodded back and once more 'i¢ such a bad-actor could be a fish. I reeled in a bare line, bare of |The crew of the skiff sculled out steel wire leader, swivels and into the channel tugging the cable- hook. |tow from out of under the dock. The sun was set to but an orange |The oar churned the water white glow on the horizon. “Can’t fish|while we, topside, payed out line much longer but what are these|with bated breath to the boat. mammoths of the deep, anyway?” Then, there came a surge in the I talked to myself. I rigged up}water beneath the decking of the for the third time, putting on the|dock and the freed end came from biggest hook from my tackle box, | under. ‘ a No. 16-0, hand forged and flat-| What came was, what had once tened oil tempered steel hook, but ‘been an “unbreakable” gaff, now put this tackle on my spare and severed roughly in twain, the hook- heavy rod that I had lifted fifty and sixty pound tarpon and jew- fish out gf the water with, sever- al times recently. I baited up with a big hunk of cut mullet and plac- ed a big sardine on the point of ter Dock. I put on a generous and Ladies of the Gold-}the hook, for luck. Without any) means of ex-|lead, I put this latest rig over. It drifted down the channel and clos- er to the dock. I had heard screams and feminine laughter a while! earlier and wondered was Aphro-! ite taking her ablutions and was} ater for use of this theater forlit, perhaps, her father Neptune,| ;the services, also for the many jacting upon orders from friend the retrenchments outlined by the’ courtesies extended to the mem-|wife Venus, pulling my hooks off board went into effect this morn- bers of these organizations. Tojso their daughter "jing. This is the once a week pro-jthase who appeared on the wouldn't get} pro-|/snagged. Sound travels well over| gram of the scavenger department, | gram, and to al! others who helped |water—“bathers on the float like-} instead of the twice weekly pro-| gram that has been in force up un- til Saturday. im even the least way on this oc- casion we say, “Thank you.” janlé-it THE COMMITTEE, | ty.” I waited tensely for a few nio-| utes, holding the rod with nerves PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES Effective Dec. 16, 1932 Leave Key West for Havava, daily except Sunday and Wednesday, 12:15 P, M. Leave Havana for Key West, daily except Sinday and Thursday, 9:45 A, M. aa my Key West for Port Tampa, Tuesday and Saturday, Tickets. Reservations and Information at Ticket Office on the Dock, ‘Phone 71 Yao HAV ENT Your name THIS BOOK! So Way continue to deprive yourself and family of the com- fort, convenience and happiness that a telephone in your home affords? 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