The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 26, 1933, Page 3

JAMES ROBERTS TO|FOREIGN MISSION BE GIVEN HEARING PROGRAM WILLBE; OF MA PAID OFF TODAY =o SUE REE OOABREI IMONDAY, FEB'Y 6, GIVENTOMORROW)..... seus sasr nave| mouer or fon viru ‘E world’s fishermen have ie ee had from sharks. Leather, at Scr H “You sro Farrell Armitage, 1 ; : | BRING IN ABOUT 3,800 ED IN CONNECTION WITH know.” {4 lonz regarded the shark mnere-|@ bargain! Te produce ordinary’ negro, OPERATIONS The sound of the clear, sofia ‘ly as an enemy, @ destroyer, aj leather requires the purchase or THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1933, € ,; THE KEY WEST SHARK FISHER Making A Profit Out Of A Loss, ‘An Asset Of A Liability (By GEORGE ALLAN ENGLAND) SYNOPSIS: Barbara Quentin blunders « and WHO CONFESSED To| EVENT SCHEDULED TO TAKE! POUNDS speaking through that salty/ dusk, | total loss, that it is good aews to/ raising of cattle, also much labor} ee gent the blood to his tefmples. | kncw this voracious killer can be} and expense in pasturing or other-j Roughly, he took control of If, | turned to a substantial profit. | wise feeding the animals. But’ There was so much to be seid and | It was my good fortune not long! sharks and sawfish need only be! he must not keep her long/on this 'ago to sail with one of the Key! gone after and killed. The crop} spray-swept shore. He noticed that | West shark-boats, and to witness) is sure. They feed themselves, / as ‘she ~=| She had a tweed coat on, mot very; | the entire process from the setting, breed freely, and are always to be does, and collapses as his car dis- | heavy. | j ! KILLING WIFE AND FATHER| PLACE IN AFTERNOON AT, | | cHURCH Hi | During the first half of the ptes-! Today is another happy one for TO BE ARRAIGNED BEFORE IOUSE OF FORINT bed, mécketer fiabevareh $k weitere of the Unemployment Re- E. R. LOWE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ‘riving at this port, have brought lief Council as a number of them jin eatehes amounting to many!are being paid off at the offices | thousands of pounds. A part of by Miss Marguerite Martinez and A foreign missions program the fleet returning here last hight | Arthur Sheppard. of the nets to the final yield of oil.) had in great numbers—if You) confessed. to killing his wife and will be given tomorrow afternoon irom “No Man’s Land” bought im} Distribution of funds today leather and other products. Be it! know where to look for them. | father at Tavernier last week, will!in the church house of First Pres-| about 3.500 pounds, whieh was amounted to $609. Thsi is but ; noted at once that nets are used;' (Sawfish, by the way, are a kind‘ he given a preliminary _ hearin: terian church, White and Wash- | consigned to the Rios Fish Com-}a portion of the money to be paid onjington streets. Quiet music will, Pany. with other smatler dealerstout before the end of the month. i James Roberts, colored, wh ‘Sppears. “Turn your collar up,” bie said. “['m not cold. I came down here because I wanted to feel jthe wind’ Petes Chapter 40 FINDING BARBARA was a month later that Armi- tage again camo to the West country. He drove the beautiful Devalet tenderly, because it was one day to be Barbara’s; but he drove resourcefully, demanding, every ounce of power and speed, because he was in a hurry. He remembered with detachment how he had been in no hurry at all on his first journey down. He had almost dawdled on the road, post- poning the moment when he should ‘present himself, the conventional week-enf guest, at South-the-Wa ter; wishing that it was the Upper going; wishing that he had stayed at home. Not even dimly sensing what havoc was to be made of bim by a girl's upturned face, pearl-clear in the dusk. i ‘iad He entered Kingd Mallara on this second — in the late iit pe B orede EF ne 3 Bs tii : .f Hi : BEB Key AH EEE tf i gi "te oF E s } a 5 : | 3 i : i & E I E Q g 3 3 EF & = Es i gf z i te i 4 B83 i if 5 ll i i i BiH if ar i F a : 3 and the spray before I go amvay from the west country. I’m starting work in London tomorrow,” “You até 86 elusive,” heAsald, his voice strange to his ears. “How do! you manage to be here by! the sea when yow live neither in'Toxeter. nor Kings Mallard?” “But don’t you know I’m staying with Mr. Frere at Upper Mallard?" Armitage laughed. At the old, well-loved Vicarage, the one place he had not thought oft “] didn’t realize you and the vicar were such friends,” he said. “I never imagined you'd be there.” “We aren't; though I've known ‘him all my life, in a way. You see, when I'd done the alterations at South-the-Water and finished the Toxeter house and sold it I had no home, And then I met Mr. Brere in Toxeter and he said I must: come stir the creatures in his pond. I Wiis @fraid I should be a nuisance to him but he said I shouldn’t, so long as I didn’t make him drink tea, So I’m always out for tea. But, Far- rel" “Barbara?” “If the vicar didn’t tell you I was! down hete by the sea, how could you possibly have known?” *f shall not tell you that until f am ‘quite certafn that you will be, leve me.” He thought that.the color swept her face but the moonlight was treacherous, The end of her scarf touched his shoulder. He held t { {ing sharks. |zilknets of extremely heavy cord,! of rays, and may be called cousins} and charged with the crime th about a ten-inch mesh. Spear-} ng or hand-lining would be far! tioo sow and laborious, It is no |haliday sport to hook a big shark jSuch a one can tow a good-sized faunch for hours, or ean pull a man tight out of a boat, if the man ‘gets his line fouled around arm or leg. As for snubbing the line, that would me®ely part it, the \heaviest line being only like cot- fern thread when a big shark is j concernél, Gill-nets are therefore, the only practicable means of tak- These nets are some; ;300 yards tong, 15 to 20 feet from! Fhead to foot. and are weighted, [with lead and bouyed with corks oF, with cypress plu: in waters where sharks ‘ and never fait to catch a goodly miumber, day after day. f | Be on hand carly,” the pro-| told me the night before. “We're! so making purchase of catches to sharks). Every fisherman knows that sharks and sawfish a his enemies, by reason of their havoc among the food-fidees, In Viovida, when the sharks get into the schools, the fishermen their gear and depart. It’s no use competing with these gluttonous and insatiable monsters. Thus the destruction of such h serves two ‘purposes: it furnishes a number of valuable _ preduc’ and at the same time helps con- serve the food-fish supply. Saw- fish leather is as commercially valuable as that from the shark. A well-known authority on the They are set subject, Hamilton Weight, in a} ¢, abound recent article in Popular Mechan-j ies, claims that: “Shark leather, owing to peculiar fabric and cross-weave, its nrietor of the shark-business had ‘has far greater strength than most} When} other’ animal leathers. haul} {be played before the program, and | by; Mrs. Walter H. Norman, foreign! Placed on the market. Justice of the Peace E. R. Lowe | mission secretary of this church,| In addition to these catches, the in whose jurisdiction the crime; Will! make an ‘introductory talk boats operating for the Thompson lwas committed. {Other numbers on the program in-; Fish Company in fhe waters ad- | One puzzling question that has|clude hymn, “More Like the Mas-'Jacent to Marathon and other, near- he investigated by county o er.” which will be sng by the; )Y sections, have heen very. suc- ‘ticials in connection with the kill-!audience and followed by the; cessful, approximately — 150,000 {ings is the death of the © young} Lord’s prayer. {pounds of mackerel having been iman, Leroy Woods, who Roberts} “Look On the Fields,” will he Caught in that vicinity during the lsays was accidentally killed by the |the subject of an address by Mrs, | Nesent week, é elder Roberts. during the me jNorman, foreign m v There are quite a number of } retary; China will be represented; "oats still out on the — fishing * LD | In two different confessions th } : |killer freely admitted ng hisjand grounds. and it is expected that : they will bring in good catches ‘father and wife, but reiterated that;or; Japan, Mrs. Kate Eldridge; l ng it Woods came to his death by acci-|Corea, Mrs. Mary F. Lankford; ' "pon their arrival in port. dent. ; ' Africa, Mrs, Will Norman; Brazil,’ What puzzles State Attorney} Mrs. Andrew Miller; Mexico, Mrs, icorge Brooks is how it could be! Maud Russell. an accident when Woods’ head and| “Prayer for the Orient,” Mrs, arnis showed 14 wounds, those in| William H. White; — ithe head being the accepted caus “Prayer for Latin jof death. | Mrs. John F. Leach; Monday, February 6. The hearing will be held Week Of Prayer Program Conducted Last Evening Male members of First Presby- |terian church conducted a pro- America,” o6deccoeccecen+eaeeeeees, Walter Il. Norman; | a Week of prayer for foreign mis- Challenge to Self-Denial, Mrs. | gram last night in connection with} going to get started by daylight.”| treated and tanned, it becomes So there I was on the wharf in | the vague and starlit warmth of a! Key West early-dawn hour. Lights! glesmed. from sailing-craft and! steamers; long wimples undulated! Over smooth waters. Aboard the shark-boat, the crew of three husky colored men were tinkering the engine and getting the nets ready. Several other boats lay near, the shark-fleet consisting of several units; but ours seemed to be the only one going out that day. I went aboard, sat down on an very soft and pliable, yet tough, and shows great resistance to stretching. Made inte shoes, it is as hearly indestructible as any material which ean be manufac- factured into eomfottable foot- wear. It is also finding use for upholstery and luggage covering. Many sharks yield leather of beautiful hue. The leather of the dreaded leopard shark, with its exquisite markings, can be used in the most ornamental uphol- Vocal solo, “How Long Shall We | Wait.” Mrs. John Gekeler. «|! Closing hymn, “The Morning | Light is Breaking,” by audience. | The meeting will open at sees All the mystery, intriguing beau- 4 The Editor, The Key West Citizen, Key West, Fla. Dear Sir: Would you be so kind as to ex- tend to us the columns of vane valuable newspaper in order that Wwe may present to the citizenry of a week of prayer now being ob- served by this chutch. ee edougescs PEOPLE’S FORUM eeonodegoeecereoecooaces OF VITAL INTEREST o'clock, and is in connection with | | sions of the Southern Presbyterian church. This program was pre- sented by the weekly Bible study class of this church, and the gen- {eral topic was “Is Our Church Carrying Too Heavy a Foreign | Mission Program?” Taking part lin the discussion were the follow- ing members: John F. Leach, *| Andrew R. Miller, Atwood Sands, A. C. Elgin, William Norman. Men are still working and others — are to be placed J TODAY'S “WEATHER eccoe reeeeeeee eae - & .. 88 74 Sy Highest | Lowest }Mean 3 Normal Mean . Rainfall® Yesterday’s Precipitation Normal Precipitation Thin recor covers 24-how ending at 8 o'clock thix morning, ‘Tomorrow's Almanac jSun_ rises jSun sets Moon rises Moon sets Ne Te Tomorrow's Tides A. M, : High <1 1203 11:00. jLow .... 446 4:12 Rarometor at xn. m, vodity. Sea level, 29.94. + .09 Ins. Pp. | Demand Clabber Girl Baking; Powder. it. You'll be sure te like steries, and is so tough as to be} Key West a vital issue. ty, splendor and spectacle of the jan26-1t practically indestruetible. For the past two summers the days of the Egyptian Pharaohs is immense pile of nets, and waited developments while I smoked = comforting pipe. As one of the : barefooted sharkers went for a|Pelt much smaller than that of a big Spanish wine-jar full of water, | 8town steer, 36 to 40 inches each and day turned from gray to rese-| W4¥ being a fair average. The pink over the harbor, I took stock|en0fmous head and great tail, of the boat and equipment. The| Which add immensely to its site, boat was about 30 feet lang and| do not figure in the cutting of the very broad of beam, so that hoist-} leather, which is taken ftom the ing the sharks aboard might not| larger circumference of the body. capsize her. She had small cud-}The sawfish, being characterized dy, 9 powerful three-cylinder en-| by great girth, yields a larger pelt gine, broad weats all around the| than the shark. “The ordinary run of sharks} 265th Regiment of Coast Artillery, taken in the Florida keys yields a| Florida National Guard, has held showing tonight at the Strand Theater when Universal’s amaz- ing drama of reincarnation, “The Mummy,” opens a feature engage- ment. “The Mummy; conceived by Nina Wileox Putham and Richard Schayer and adapted to the sereen its annual encampment in out eity. We hardly think it necessary to temind the citizens of Key West the value and benefit te them of this encampment. However, we do feel that we should call to Deh attention the fact that the estab-' lishment of this annual eneamp- imént was the direct result of un- bss selfish action on the part of the committed officers and enlisted men of Bat-' Osiris and a Priestess of Isis. A by the eminent British writer of John L, Balderston, an atelent sestilens | by a High Priest of “BEARUP’S DRY CLEANI ;| WORKS. 514 MARGARET ST. PHONE 227. KSPIXOIMOIIOOT ODEO OM Fd THE SUCCESS § sides, and a stubby derrick for hoisting in the catch. As the crew arranged their gear, ‘ tery B of this Regiment, your] British ological ition “The abundance of sharks in ideal Home tgh: Battery, Real: archeologival _expeditior | ths the fiummy of the Priest many patts of the tropical ocedns,| ising the importance of the an-\who had been embalmed alive as a they made wondrous sifhouettes| the ease and economy with which against the growing wonder of| they ean be captured, as well as dawn. They loaded net-anchors| the proximity of the shark-fishing aboard, and bamboo poles perhaps| Stations to ports from whieh the twelve feet long, which they lash-| hides ean be exported to the great Hos apright to the derrick. These| leather centers, are attracting }poles were weighted with leaden| many to the possibilities of shark balls at the bottom; then a little} leather asa world-wide industry. higher up, with cork floats; and| Shark leather presents the basis at the top, with flags black orjof a big. industry not possible in white. Ropes attached to nests|the case ef many other marine of floats were taken on, the floats; animals.” rap me of nests of huge} Conipared with the risks and pe a > otti ral- EL mecycing shat nee kl ee eT Hee. 3 9 8 > is is a mere trifle. I yo’?” asked a dark figure from the | pave seen both industries, and wharf. Be. A = know. Why moré fishermen have a an an ae Lid us off, | Never Sone in for sharks, is some- ed ‘e pus is ort. * Mf ry. * er Our ebony Hercules of a captain se aren Mt. eee cranked the engine, which stutter- ‘Meaugh ether & ed and began barking. Our clumsy jough other creatures of the hual encampment to our city, the! penalty fot his crime. When a officers and enlisted men of your| sacred serool is uhearthed, local Battery were willing to mummy comes to life, bringing to Sacrifice their trip to an annual; the modern world his ancient ee} the; encampment elsewhere in order cult secrets. Hé discovers that the 265th Regiment of the! reincarnatetl soul of his unholy Coast Artillery, Florida National! love in a beautiful Anglo-Egyptian Guard, could be brought here. girl. and his efforts to carry her The Battery fund is the source! back through the agcs so that from which are purchased the} their love may be consummated necessary materials or supplies | provides one of the most singular which help make camp life more) and strangely fascinating themes enjoyable for the enlisted person- of any recent seteen drama, ‘nel of the Battery. Neither the! |The film is replete with spectac- fe 1 government nor the state! Ular sets of Ancient Egyptian of Florida contribute in any man- SPlendor exeetited by the noted ner toward this Battery fund.|stage designer and artist W illy The result is that this fund must | Pogany. Costunies and relies of !be accumulated by contributions: ‘he past enhance — the unusual from entertainments and from beauty and effectiveness of “The similar sources. Your local Bat-!Mumi whieh presents the great tery is endea ng wo accumulate ; p artist, Karloff, in the star- the | | WORK. | id | AMBITION. FAMILY The Father of Success is: boat backed into a harbor wimpling } with exquisite hues of jade and emerald and turquoise. We were off, to the Hunting of the Shark! Toward the Sharking Grounds | Only those familiar with Florida sea, such as the seal and the wal- rus, yield valuable pelts, their quest is often attended. by, ag- merous difficulties mis daugets. The walrus is generally found in arctic and: antarctic waters, re ‘a portion of its Battery fund by |means- of a publie dance to be held at Coral Isle Casino on the evening of Saturday, January 28. The men are not asking for con- le of the reifearnated mum- His uncanny make-up is his jgreatest achievement, surpassing the unforgettable monster of “Frankenstein.” Zita Johann, al- | jluring Hungarian actress, and! \ring my. HONESTY, CELE Ah hh ddd The Mother of Success is: The Oldest Son is: COMMON SENSE. Some of the other Boys are: PERSEVERANCE, THOROUGHNESS, f ; H sgn Ge eartatee st ah axe} Mote from lines of travel, and] ttibutions but they are requesting gt seppnularchiss 1 Gece therefore reached at considerable | ¢8¢h public spirited citizen of Key those cncharbed seas "Strange {exvense. While the aggregate| West to purchase at least one 75e ‘that here should live the most/ Yl of walrus pelts amounts toj ticket which represents the prie® | emplitiew by ‘Karloff. Arthur } ferocious and bloodthirsty mon-}e%nsiderable value, the supply] °f admission to this dance. —| Bryon, Edwagd Van Sloan and sters of Old Ocean! The man-eat-|Comes in slowly from scattered} Other cities in Florida, which} Bramwell Fleteher enact the other | ‘ing leopard sharks, so justly fear-| Stations. Walruses are not taken}@f¢ in no better financial condi-|important parts in the film under ed by Florida fishermen! At afin sufficient numbers’in any one | tion than Key West, have seen fit}the direction of Karl Freund, good pace. for all her seeming| location to render their hunting! ‘? help their local units of the}whose artistic camera eye is evi- clumsiness, our boat gathered| commercially attractive; and ihe| Florida National Guard by direct}dent throughout “The Mummy. speed past the F. E. C, Docks and}catch is usually limited to certain] Contribution. We do not expect | “ the Cuban Car-Ferry, while gulls| seasons af the year. This condi-|i" these depressed conditions any) DeMolays And on crooked wings citcled against] tion is true of whalés, propoises,| C°Mtributions from the city, but, T Pla the daybreak. seals, and many other forms of|®s@im we ask each citizen to pur-| School Team Te y On our port hand we left a big| marine life which, though existing! chase a ticket to this dance and} Basketball Tonight cotton-ship unloading to lighters}in large numbers, are normally|»¢!p 4 most worthy cause. | on a reef where she had gone}so thinly distributed as to be un- Respectfully submitted, Phere Will be a bastetbell gama aground; and so we heated north-| attractive to @ latge industry. LESLIE B. RUSSELL, tonight at the High School gym- jeast over lustrous seas that, with} Sharks, however, are often found W. CURRY HARRIS. nasiese between the DeMelaye and! i the rising of a blood-red sun, glow-| localized in vast numbers where| Key West, Fla., the High School Five. This will ed like infinite rubies, No finer] the food-supply is abundant, and| J@uary 26, 1933 lhe Pago game moved ped from Menday. The school boys have won two games and lost one, while the De- Molays will try to get in the win- ning column for the first time i tenight’s contest. ‘The line-up: High School E | David Manners provide the love in- | Iterest of today, which struggles) ‘against the power of the past. ex- a E f E FORESIGHT, ENTHUSIASM, CO-OPERATION. The Oldest Daughter. is: CHARACTER. Same of the Sisters are: CHEERFULNESS, g i Ha a3 ii E = : | & 5 +4 i ; i FITFIFIFITILTLIZLLALLALEZLLBAPLLLLVIAZPLLALALLALLLLLZLEL EEF CEO Fs Teeking pipes, they stepped bodily out of the | pages of Lafcadio Hearn. . They made anchors “This,” I thought, contentedly| made itself real to me; for 48 the/ to the nets prepared smoking my own briar, “this is the} sum rose higher and the tropic! pyoy. At last very stuff of life!” But present-} heat increased, the steneh likewise} ly, how much more raw andj{grew, frém previous killings—a/tain, when we had reached a favor- Parks splendid that stuff was destined to| mingled odor of blood oil andjable sharking-ground. Our engi-| Amderson | become! on i Navarro + As our shaking wi We FWR-CITIZEN BLDG. jsnin of her ename aepeee, q| West far astern and dimmed in glowing sea-haze, I had time te) reflect on the curious fact that un- se 2 ey nobody has ever i existence of an SUBSCRIBE FOR THE CITIZEN—20e WEEKLY | exnaustiess supply of lea! ° oc ithe finest quality, too—that may THE ARTMAN PRESS PRINTING fast their THE ARTMAN PRESS Key West’s Oldest and Largest Printing Plant and one of the Best Equipped in Florida. In the Citizen Building Oppesite the City Hall PHONE 51 IP IPPAP AP ALLL Lee hd ds alll PHONE 51 :