The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 30, 1937, Page 1

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: | Armand Associated Press Day Wire Service. Por 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. Criminal Court Met Today For Special Session Man Charged With con-|CUBA ARRIVES tributing To Delinquency ! Of Minor Is Given Sen-| FROM HAVAN VESSEL LEFT LATE IN AFT. No, 26. tence Judge William V. Albury pre- sided at @ special session of crim- imal court this morning with all ERNOON ENROUTE TO TAMPA Steamship Cuba, of the P. and and re | officers present which |O, S. S. company, arrived from twe prisoners were arraigned to enter pleas of guilty. The first of the prisoners was Milton B. Steele, who was charged with contributing and eouraging the delinquency of minor. Upon entering the plea of; guilty, the prisoner was sen-!letmo Espinosa, Stanley Jacobs, teneed to serve three months in| William Grady, Daisy Dodge, county jail and pay a fine of George B. Buchanan, William L. $100. In the event the fine was|Meffert, W. E. Rushton, Isadore net paid an py itienal term of, Zamora. three months would be added to. The S, S. Cuba sailed at six the jail sentence. lo’clock, the delay in sailing being The judge, however, advised| caused by unloading 400 sacks of that the $100 fine would be sas-'sugar for Key West and loading pended if at the expiration of/@ quantity of freight for Tampa. his three months Steele would| Passengers booking at Key leave the city and promise never] West were: Mr. and Mrs. George te return. I, Sawyer, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Ruth Hindmor was avenged} $803 Dr M. d, Lake, Mrs. and entered a plea of guilty to Beryl! (Curry, Kenneth Curry, Ben the charge of using profane, in-| Watkins, Mrs, C. W. Palmore and decent and vulgar language on|S: W- Palmore, Jr. the public street:. H AT BN I This offense the jadge avised YACHT SAILS would be punished with a fine of! $5 and costs or the defendant} FOR HAV ‘ANA would be forced to spend 30} days in county jail. Fine and fests were paid and the prisoner. discharged. Yacht Paula Louise, with Own- er Frederick Wagner and nurse, Miss Inez Fesser, on board, sailed this morning for Havana, Cuba, where the owner wil! spend a few deys, it was said. An open fishing boat, property. of Albert W. Johnson, and Captained by E. Johnson, ar- rived in port yesterday and is berthed in the Key West Yacht Basin. \ | Havana yesterday afternoon with seven first and one second class ; Passenger for Key West; 89 first | class passengers bound for St. Pe- jtersburg and 35 first and four * second class passengers for Tam- pa. Key West arrivals were: Guil- 35 PUPILS ENTER _ JUNIOR HI SCHOOL PROMOTED FROM HARRIS IN- STITUTION TO SEV- ENTH B GRADE ry Tirty-five pupils have been pro- moted from the Harris Grammar| School to Grade 7B of the Junior; High Schoo’. | Station — Those who were promoted fol-} Abilene low: Atlanta ........ Jack Aguera, Tom Alfonso,| Boston Russell Baker, John Dee Bearup,} Buffalo Rau! Cuesta, John Lewis Day,| Charleston Manvel Fernandez. Chicago Curry Higgs, Benjamin Lowe,j Denver Julius Napoles, Renedo,: Detroit Roberts, lGatecaton guera, Howard Russell. | Havana Iver Russell, Richard Stewart,) Huron Charlies Rae Walterson, John! Jacksonvil'e .. Charles Rae Wa'terson, John Wat-| Kansas City k'ns, Billy Bethe ildred Evans.| KEY WEST Rose Marie Robe | Little Rock Jennie Ellen Hiner, Fannie Mae! Los Angeles Ingraham, Jewe! Fine, Barbara} Louisville dean Johnson, Loretta Kemp, Bet-| Miami ty Joan Roberts, Doris Roberts. | Minneapolis .. Catherine Saunders, Ruth’ New Orleans .. Stricker. Alice Suarez, RuthiNew York: .... Thompson, Lena Rodriguez, Ellen} Pensacola ... Mae Wharton, Vera Waite. Pittsburgh |St. Louis ...... | Salt Lake City {San Francisco BELFAST.—Their first child, a) Seattle son, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ar-| Tampa _.. thur Kempton of this city forty! Washington years after their marriage, * Williston TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest Jast night last 24 hours - 56 60 42 58 26 38 - 26 36 54 38 14 34 62 4 56 44 84 54 56 46 82 18 56 44 58 44 FIRST AFTER 40 YEARS Steamship Ozark Brings Heavy Freight Shipment Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde-;of three carloads of cement and Mallory Lines, arrived yesterday| one car of creosoted piles, besides wnoon 4:15 o'clock from Jack-|a number of smaller shipments of wille and Miami, and after dis-| miscellaneous items. ing heavy freight sailed 8:50} The S. S. Brazos, of the same lock for New Orleans, line, is due to arrive tomorrow e} daughter of Mrs. Margaret Pmer- } { | | The Key HUGHES’ AIM == 'Photogra IS SURPRISE WITH SPEED; NOTED AIRMAN GOES OUT AFTER RECORDS UNAN- NOUNCED IN HIS MANY ACTIVITIES (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.— When Howard Hughes flew from Los Angeles to Newark in 7 hours, 28 minutes and 25 seconds, he surprised the public as usual. Being secretive is a habit with H's Burbank Union Air Terminal is nearly as! him. hangar at inaccessible as a vault. Not even} members of the airport staff are permitted to enter it and his em- ployes are always mum. Hughes is slender, handsome, ; the soul of affability at times and on other occasions taciturn, re- served and almost unapproach- able. He is somewhat deaf and} does not !ike to talk by telephone. Few can boast of being his inti- mate friends, Inherited Tool Business His millions came from the es-; tate of his father, Howard R. Hughes, Sr., founder of the Hugh-| es Tool Company of Houston, Tex., an oil and mining supply} concern with branches in several states, After managing the tool! business for a couple of years after his father’s death in 1924,| Hughes left for Hollywood. He poured millions into realis- | tic films that violated the old’ rules. But he made money on a!l! of his prodvetions except the au-| dacious.‘‘Heli’s-Angels,” adn broke | about even on that, though it cost; $3,000,000. His last picture, “Scarface,” in} 1932, embroiled him with censors} throughout the country, as “The| Racket” had earlier. i Began Flying At 14 j He had intended to produce ; “Queer People,” a novel caustical-; ly and_ hilariously lampooning! Hollywood, but shifted his atten-| tion to aviation. He had flown; since he was 14 years old and aft-j er coming to Los Angeles and! meeting some of the leading aero- nautical experts and manufactur- Rote, ers he had Lecome a flying enthus- ai iast. Hughes would be the Icst one to talk abort persona! romances. but his name was linked at various times with those of Frances Drake, film actress; Gloria Baker, son, one-time wife of the late Al-| fred G. Vanderbilt; and Nancy Belle Bayly,\j ‘Pasadena’ |; soelety, girl. fii f ; In the last two years he has.he- come an enigniatig, almést. leg) endery figure in aviation, whose name suggests super-speed, super- planes, new mechanical develop- ments, U. S, army air activities, world-flight projects and record smashing, Army Reported Interested "4 One reason given for the se-} ereey about his work is that the} war department is reported to be} interested in i | His 9-hovr, minute transcon- | tinental flight a year ago was; whol'y unexpected. He left Los| Angeles without notice, and later! explained that he had seen no| need for announcing his plans. ae flew from Miami to New York in 4 hours and 21 minutes last spring (40 minutes better than Jimmy | Wendell’s time in 1933) and was equally casuz!] about it. He once made a lunch-to-dinner flight from Chicago to Los Angeles in 8{ hours and 10 minutes and there- | | by won a $50 bet with an unnam. |beeri presented the troop {Jason and the boys agreed to jbusy at once and put the k ed New York acquaintance. RECOVERS CAR | KANSAS CITY.—Mr: Wolf of this city recog stolen car on the street and fiirt- Clyde dh led with the driver until a police-/the company up to ful! member- man came along and then had him arrested. DRESSED POULTRY Rhode Island Reds—Broilers and Fryers Soft Bone Roasting Chickens, ; Hens, English Ducks and Capons You can order until 12:00 m. Principal shipments on the ves-|from New York and Miami with! Fulford’s Poultry Farm | were consigned to the Key) Naval Station, and consisted’ charge and sail for Galveston. freight for this port and will dis-' U Phone 880 Free Delivery, ee ARE NRE LESS ONES rat Citizen — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1937. ‘OF Key |MOREWORKERS | : West bani a BEING SOUGHT President’s Ball To Miami Tribune ~-<:=--re Lonight Will Be ALL VOLUNTEER SOLICITORS | ARE REQUESTED TO RE-| In response to the offer made one of the best of the water- a ee vat a rate vent LIPS j —e —_ by the Miami Tribune to use in | front scenes taken. their rotagravure section photo-| One of the most attractive st'll fae graphs of attractive scenes | Ute. photographs 48. of acl Vax H 3 i quez feeding one of his tame fish,j Robert F. Spottswood, chair-/ (PS ALALLL EA Ti Be »u homes in Key West, which offer! 4 treined ree age ‘oe Given : <i a treine ‘ouper, at the aquarium | man of the Red Cross dr:ve here, , | appeared in The Citizen of Wed-! poo! in the rear of his Club Mira- ; which is being conducted to raise GREAT INTEREST * J West nesday, Miss Ileen Williams has;mar, on Roosevelt Bov-evard. ifunds for the flood sufferers, | IN WELLS’ CHILD Country Chub ; sent a grovp of photographs which | Suether scene of yee many ‘states that additional volunteer} should prove exceedingly interest: | cher: onee aay be found in the' solicitors are needed, and asks al} icity. is a cabin, surrounded by palm! who are willing to lend their serv- =e: itrees end other tropical growths,| ices to report to Mrs, Grace Phi!- and{ jof Key West. All of the photographs meade by photographers of WPA administration in Key West, i and are typical in different ways} one-story and ha!f cottages which Here is the list) have proven so intriguing to tour- were|and dressed in flowing v:nes the| hanging from roof and eaves. sent: |fortable and an ideal building for One of the quaint but attractive! | istsyand which are roomy and com-| lips, executive secretary of the }Jocal organization. ; It is 2lso requested that all) ‘checks be sent to Mrs, Phi'l ps a°; local headquarters. { Mary Moreno and Grace Pala- icios have been made chairmen of {the city and in the “|sion card The impressive home of Ernest | Hemingssay on Whitehcad street./2 winter home in the tropics. This is of Spanish architecture and} Another of the beautiful out- situated on the spacious grounds f-doors scenes which were photo- with trcpical trees and fo:iage,| graphed during the time of the and is strikingly attraciive. construction of the swimming poo! One of the attractive alleys of ;°? Ro: velt Boulevard. the city, which, though evidently And lastly, one of the most at- in the section where dwell the tractive scenes of the island, the poorer folk, is decidedly typic {beautiful home of the !ate Judge A picturesque scene of the har-|J. Vining Harris on Duval street bor showing the water front of at the southwestern end, and the forezround home located farthest south in the This United States, {the committees in receiving con- tributions. from the colored peo- | ple of the city. The following are the donations; ; made since the last list was pub- hed: 1 Previously acknowledged ..$765.00 | Mrs. Ada L, Hansen ........ 1.00! (of the functions given im previner years. Manager Peter Schutt of Caw Marina Hot-!, has generousty per mitted the hotels erehestra te the dance ou {freee that muste will be and of the kind most to devotees of the Richard Principal, the ctor, has selected « pe tai numbers fer the furnish the tonight guarantee musie for and thi the Lighthouse Tender Ivy. Many Report Of Key West Clini } ae not able to pay the small fee, the excellent pleasing dance orchestra There are many persons in Key West, some of whom contribute : = 4 re etna al > number of to the activities of the clinic and] cited was 1,491 of which 1,177] others who do not, who will be in-| were paid for by. the. i ividua‘s} terested in the report of this who in each instance paid the small during|sum of 10 cents. The remaining }814 cases we’ n the pr ons e P| vere 25 In order to give readers of The| jn oN aie ite ioe Citizen a clear and concise idea! noid and 105 were free. of the work and the extent of the} There are undoubtedly many reief and assistance given sp’ ial! persons in Key West who do not cases at the clinic, the figures from | real‘ze the extent of the good July 1 to December 31. covering! work which is benig carried on at every phase of the we {the Monroe County Health Clinic, cured’ end wlil be found this | it said, but those individuals column, | who have been in need of medical] te.” Aion Co Compilation of the figures show| care and have been able to secure] cojgmon Plumbing Co that during that period there were; treatment during the time when’ G C adbvarte 1,600 ; ts treated. The: ir financial condition was such Will ‘Sate tients repres families ble for them; ; ei Of these, 260 paid the small fee of | to pay a re ee, realize the Tone Sauk ener 25 cents for an admission d| great benefits derived. (Se and Mes. MeKailey which cn’itled them to clinic} A portion of the community) ys.” ong Mrs. S. A. Berko- service after. of course, they had| fund, which is donated by the cit ae : ; 1.00 been dec'ared e'sible for the!zens of Monroe county, is to de- Mr. aaa i. Me Beko ervice, by the Board of Social) fray the expenses of the clinic}, wits é ‘i Welfare when it is needed, it was pointed Mr. mee ice The remaining 47 families were} cut. It was also said that any per- | i ee see: given free sorv'ce, that is, they|son who m be interested in the were not 2-k-d to buy an admis-! work being done at the clinic, ond| PETITIONS COURT ' uch as the Board! would like to make a visit there; T0 C of Social Welfare hed stated they; Nat H. Taylor, administra " wounds were » welcome at any time, it was 2d no source of income and they! sa iHugh Gunn, today entered a Sicsiaedis had + e of 25 cents. 12.75 pra‘se-worthy institution momen: J. Rowe, employed at « filling — station which makes to eseaped serious head the past six watrome the of preapect ve The return Knowles 1,00 C, B. Calkins ..... 5.00/ Mrs, B. B. Warren 200 IIIS OL Ms _! Mrs, Otis L. Hubbard . 5.00 MAN | Helio Renedo 10.00 5} cat geetes 5! FROM BLOWOUT }Sam Hart 1.00} |W. J. Peabody 10.00 Ernest Hemingway 50.00; group of Employes of WPA No. |J. ROWE, FILLING STATION 1765 and NYA No. 1464 The sale of tickets hae teen ae EMPLOYE, STRUCK BY RIM Mort craticying eed & © ee ered Mr. and Mrs, Earl Hath- } see oes ami ae 3.00, WHICH CAME OFF WHEEL from the Case Marine will be M 5.00; SUDDENLY attendance. This is the comes Peter Schutt and Mrs, G. H. Gleason 10.00} been handling the affairs for the 10.00 | ball and have 4 hundreds . P. Ordray 1.00 3.00 automobil Witbur J. Moehrke 1.00! i Mrs. Vining Harris - 1.00 ; —_—__. -_____ A . iti Sh = I Kress Employes 12.75 ctivities Shown in ' Ge ry Hale 0.00} ae ‘Gen. Harry Hale 1 om j Projects | prescriptions | een } that « large number of guests A. H. Canfield 5.00 sus of opinion of there whe here A. D. Armitage 5.00 5.00! cont ale Key tems were « of Wet Mrs. Hemy Sands }Geo. Dodge Mrs. S. S, Durfee Dr. and Mrs, Douglas . , Mr. and Mrs. N. P. N | Mrs. Jule n Judge Jefferson B. Browne the ticket for the tile ments poss the rohas injuries yesterday afternoon be Stephen cause of a hammer with which he ni ther of 5.00 1.00; 1.0¢ 5.00 | 5.00 | 1.00 | 5.00 2.00 5.00 1.00 2.00 was working while p'aec'ng a tire neentive te of tickets son on a truck He had tion with the nm to the tire for repairs and fling sta wilt be Pride given on Pein omry hed returned to an empty lot with Ly the tire to it back on one the used by the city scavenger serv ce William Knight The secondary rim was in place and the rim-lock wa when the tire blew place . the of whee's 0° « truck being operated by being set out and the secondary rim came off speed, struck the hy hand breaking king him CUBAN OFFICIAL ARRIVES HERF CHANCELLOR AT CUBAN CON SULATE PAYS Visit TO THE CITIZEN OFFICE 1.00 1.00 White -apuad we's nd st the d yn the head Rowe v away minut knocked sev and was urrconscious for sev anders bath ained co 1% ral feet wh le t until he re when he office lresse vee) i taken to his Was a physician’s where it no w at th tor at the « dey, id. ition in the court of Judge Ray- teen for the hammer held chance lot Plan Future Activities 22s. trccscc co's) tema tr tes esa Citizen to ne mowl Ber — — \ Interesting meetings are be’ held at this time by the Key West} boys held their r r and the Cadets and|m re going forward for| period of instruction by the com- instructor Sergeant Eugene , Batte E” Florida Na- tional Guard. i At the conclusion of the in- struction period announcement} , was made of the a nt of John Lowe as fir: nt and ene Kaper that} ce to creditor It is shown in th ard The} the s been duly, and proper ly published and the the cred‘tors and their claims are cit ed The tain rel ‘MISS MATHEWS = “OPERATED ON ..." the public derwent fr 1, was also held this week. necessary 1 busine legally Sea Scouts eting, followed by b names 0 preparat’ asing the and! P tatianak lead ngements to ¢ increa membership ng plans for hikes and boat be pe ain properties ma left | Ee f Key West, un fluent © operation ‘ast Marine hospita at the hospit also frow v T tive ilalie Mathews, teacher ir : excursions, the Last night the Sea Scouts met} the Fleming Street Methodist and held a very interesting which was presided over Ralph Thompson, i had deceased, wher the schools of the creditors m od. be at maj at ver the tt this bers PUTS TOWN IN DARKNESS chu rned mee by M It was shown that a boat me nd nily that M night rted t a and Charle. Jr ren ! arers. | Following announcement of | j these appoi ents the members,! {short cruises. r| about their instructors and sponsors e! joyed a’bountiful supply of deli- us ice cream, Just before the close of the meeting it was decided to go on an overnight hike next we provid- ed the nec y arrangements can made, and members of the Scout troop are to extend an invi- tation tq join the hikers perfect condition for going off on The organization is composed of 12 enthu: tic lads who are making every effort to bring ship, and are issuing invitations to all boys over 1 rs to meet with them next Thu ay night at the ‘An interesting meeting of the| NOTICE West Cadets, Company No. ————} FOOD SALE Auspices Woman’s Club Tuesday, Feb. 2, 3 to 6. p. m. Key West, Hospitality House 313 Duval Street All persons entitled to home exemption are required to file applications with the city tax a:- sessor not later than pri! 1, 1937. Blanks for this can be had at the office of the icity tax asssessor. SAM B. PINDER, City Tax Asses<®r- purpose ‘jan30-1t ene osc cen Steamer Miraflores Leaves For Mexico WPA district, said this morning | that he had heard nothing further Steamsh Standard o anent the vartial reestablishment of the Key West di which wa press news ea n the However, he trict er week expected that com the bi ap plete information covering ehanges contemplated, would received later_at which time announcement will be made. ae: ae BASKETBALL Tonight, 7:30 o’Clock Miraf Fruit company, sailed t ‘ 2 pee night after being in pe two weeks. The ship was cons gn ed to the Porter Dock company. | anil today HIGH SCHOOL GYM; When the ship arrived & on} lee Om. anders Park Tiga ry Mins Boneh Bm ain ming |e out Sa phy a is t for her destinet om 10c and 15e§ 4@* and for ‘was moore & Miraflores woul? re ch that the ADMISSION ae —

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