The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 7, 1937, Page 1

4 1iieli And Passengers Handled On Ferries; Also Plane Travel ——— For the information of those who have asked The Citizen the umber of passengers and cars transported by the ferries of the Monroe County System during the season just ending, the following summary, secured through the eourtesy of employes in the of- fice of Franklin E, Albert, man- ager, gives a correct record: danvary, 1,127 cars and 3,024 Passengers; February, 1,358 cars ‘nd 3,487 passengers; March 1,- 225 cars and 5,003 passengers| and in April, 986 cars and 3,128, Passengers, Total, 4,726 cars and 14,642 passengers. Travel on the planes between Miami and Key West was not as heavy this year as it was last, the principal reason for this, being, Ht le paid, fe that there way last season a six plane service weekly and during this season there are! but three Flenes in service. / Travel Tenet Season Shows Riihar Of Core OTM, WSOLSTION ADOPTED IN RESPECT TO JUDGE JEF- WINS TRIP TO KEY ROTARY RY SSN WEST BY AIRPLANE, FE°SCN 8. BROWNE AT| WasyinGTON, D. C, May 7.. Miss Elaine Ca Carraway, of Miami, was recently elected Queen in a contest held by the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, and the prize was a trip to Key West by plane. In a letter to Miss Betty Maloney from Pan American headquarters it is shown that Miss Miami will arrive on the Plane from Miami on Tuesday ef next week for a visit to this city. In the letter it is indicated that Miss Miami is to be en- tertained by Arthur Sawyer Post 28 of Key West, and it is requested that every courtesy Possible be shown her by the airport manager. PIII LL LS s| The > ‘SPANISH SHIP teumbe hurricane disaster: Lee; AWAITING SAILING ORDERS Spanish “Steamship Guernico,' from Cardiff, Wales, arrived port this morning, been received by the local pilot’s association the vessel this a Im January 1936 there were 244 yg ice was brought into’ °f Social Welfare througiout the passengers carried; in February,!the harbor and anchored to await’ °*#!?- The committee named was 292. March, 244, and April, 140,| orders to sail some time this aft-! ernoon either to Tampa or making » total of 920 passengers! hi'e to get a load of scrap iron. fer 1936. During the four months’ Later ordes were received for the ship to proceed to Corpus just ended there were 495 pas- phon Texas, sengte: January, 118; February, STEAMER OZARK : Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde-j Mallory Lines, from Jacksonville | morning 9:15 o'clock and berth-; ed at the Mallory dock. Steamship St, Mary, of the 'delegute, ")Standard Fruit and Steamshiv ‘he cen’ 937; March, 137, and in April,! company, is due te arrive Cunday! {from New York and after taking ‘oil at the Porter Dock company take sail for Frontera, Mexico. in word having} was due! LUNCHECN ‘YESTERDAY | i} laeoa at Parish Hail, with John C. zation, presi‘ing. Sam Gold-i Key West Rotary Club held its regu'ar luncheon yesterday at} i—Key West’s postmaster missed a pay raise for the coming ‘year by $3,846 im gross receipts jof the Key West postoffice, it was ismith was eppointed recretary | 2epartment. protem. The meting was opened with! lq salute nd pledge to the flag,, |MeConnell, | Ear! ‘¥. Denoon, of the Classi-| 628, Total recipts of $28,009 orem the basis of nincty percent | { tieatio Testing Laboratory, amare we would have rated a $2,900" gross receipts. fiiited with the Miami Re ltary Club, was a visitor. Song 122 was rendered, wit | Emil Svecting leading the sing- { ing. jfor Coloxel Woodward had nm pe to make. Appoints Committee 3 Pas chairman; Will Doughtry, VESSEL ANCHORS IN HARBOR | Harry Jones. A special meeting of the board | fof directors was called by the president to look over matters concerning the Board of Social| | Welfare, “1 & committee was “also ed to draft resolutions to be sent} :to the goverror, senator and rep-; property now or formerly owned| ty. resentative at Tallahassee asking to have a bill passed through the legisl:ture continuing the Board ; Ernest Ramsey, chairman; Charles Mo-| Smith, Charles Taylor. Ernest Ramsey, who was aj delegate to the Rotary meeting in Jacksonv:i'2 made his report. ,Charies Smith, who was also a told of the activities of ention, Earl con, upon invitation of the chair, made an address relative to his work testing ma- | terials in his laboratory activi- +h | Adopt Resolution ‘A resolution in respect to the: late Judge Jefferson B. Brown? SOLD HERE TODA was adopted as follows: j | “We bow our heads in sorrow ,at the pass:ng on Tuesday of Key ' West’s best known citizen, Jeffer- With bret a few scattered son Beale Pvowns. He was horn end Mismi, arrived in port this: bunches of sponge comprising the in Key West June 6, 1857, and | yeaching the stage where a solu-! The vessel brought four cat- eq to $77.46. feads of lumber for local dealers ether freight and sailed 2 o'clock the smallest was five bunches of! “Je‘t: rag wool at $1.35. for New Orleans. ‘offerings at the municipal sponge died Mav 4, 1937. wharf this morning, bidding was! “In 1916 he organized the Key) sluggish end total sales amount-, West Rotary Club, became the ‘first president and subs2quently Tho largest sale was of 15 he was elected the first honorary and & miscellaneous assortment of bunches of woo! for $32.51, and, life member of th club. Expect Sponge Business This Year To Be Much Better Than In 1936 Persons interested in the sponge} busimess both as buyers and gath-| son B. Browne was un- :doubtedly Key West’s most wide- ily known citizen. He was admir- is for his courage, clearness of vision and expression, willingness beg battle with difficult problems, desire to serve mankind, his in- tellectusl culture and gentleness }of character. “From the time of his appoint- ment es City Attorney, the year ‘following graduation from law |school, until his death while serv- jing as judge of the Circuit Court, | {Judge Browne was continually in or VES eae show that during the} {public service. irst four months of 1937, that is} “His sbility and qualifications erers are discussing at this time from January 1 to April 31, rev-| for public office were generally munerative shown in 193 Dering last year, as shown by} continue to be as good. the records, the total revend?! Fishing, that is ors i» from the sponging industry was/fishing, for the same period $73,286.56, which w: not consid-| 1937, indicates g 100 percent in-} lity of a much more re-jenue from this source was $43,- :recognized and amply demonstrat- © iv 1937 than was/ 098.50, and indications are that, jed by the many appointments h | weather permitting, catches should | received such as Postmaster, Presi- | |dent of the Senate, Collector of! (Continued on Page Three) ered @ bad year, everything con-}crease over the same period dur-| MO 7 H E R % S D A Y sidered. But in time are that 1937 will prove | | fish caught for commercial The total value ot| This in the opin-| poses during 1936 is stated to be] CAK ES $ 5. mere lucrative. ion of those the business. | —DeMOLAY— CARD PARTY COLONIAL MOTEL: Each Player cations at this | ing last year. EE 1 BERMUDA ADV. —Page 4 St Seo Se Se The figures for the rest of seis] }year, of course, cannot be esti- mated, but based on the same pe- riod of this year, as compared to | last, the deductions are that by Moadey, May 10, 8:00 p. =. |} the end of the year a 100 percent inerease will be shown. pur-! 40c UP —Beautifully Decorated— Place orders early for Saturday or Sunday Delivery BUSY BEE BAKERY minittee on resolutions! i j | by the Florida East Coast Rail-| Ss MYSTERY OF EXPLOSION IS MANY OFFICERS HAVE BEEN HAPPENED ON ELIZABETH Sy te Or oman He is! | mow getting $2,600 ,and will com- isc) itewe at that salary throughout the coming fiscal year. rie ay RULE aa Senate Passes Bill T _ Ratify Cancellation Of President Sateen seggeinied the, | Railway Co. Taxes (By Associated Prens) TALLAHASSEE, May 7.—The, A Monroe County bill, which’ Senate passed Senate Bill 34, in-| would have cut all unpaid county troduced by Senator Arthur Go-| taxes by 75 percent, was killed mez to ratify cancellation of all) by the House upon motion of taxes in Monroe County upon’ Rerresentative Papy of that coun- jed provender, but b: which was passed: im the Senate, was introduced by plenater Gomez of Monroe county. \FESTIVAL DATE CHANGED AGAIN BEARING UP! ose wy de oun, wna | was scheduled to have be2n given { yesterday, but which poned on account weather, will be held on Monday afternoon, May 10, beginning at} 5 o'clock, at Bayview Park. MAKING _ INVESTIGATION; lesdsoakoad TEMPERATURES STREET | explosion which occurred about i who lives at the corner of Eliza }found that a part of the fence had broken. | Those who lis fof the house say that there are a umber of visitors who go there t times and that some relative lof a visitor may have decided to !give warning to the dwel.ers in ithe house that the practice of re- ceiving visitors, and some one in ; particular, had better cease. The opinion was expr? jhand grenade, or perhaps some | crudely made foun of bomb. i= on { GLADIOLI | FOR MOTHER’S DAY | —Place Orders Now With— | } South Florida Nursery 900 Francis St. Phone 120° PHONE 598 4 Apparently the mystery of the| 12:20 o'clock. yesterday morning is} tion of the reason for it may be! | discovered and explosive used may | be determined, } It was said this morning by! members of the police department ' that they had continued their jin ! vestigations and had been con-} tacted by a woman, Clarita Cox,/ et Orbe Christi lbeth street and Galveston alley. | The Cox woman expressed fear | that some one intended to do her! injury and had used some explo- } sive to carry out his intention. | The officers visited the house and ! Who moved Jude’s body? Join the frantic homicide hunt and solve this triple murder tangle on a bleak, storm-torn island. KEY WEST _ been torn away, the porch dam-; aged and several window panes) 2 in the vicinity; MURDER on the BLUFF By ESTHER TYLER STARTS TODAY H j seapres “4 that Salt Lake City ithe explosive used was possibly a’ IN THIS PAPER "| Bred Eades, visitor from other Feat was arraigned for prelim- imary hearing this morning before. :Gekeler, president of the Organi-' learned teday at the postoffice Ret Bet: Gre: Sok: OM te Soy Justice Franklin Arenburg, money received at the office, he on a charge of obtaining a meal and then being unable to pay for | Receipts at the Key West office would have won his raise but Key ip, agp Eades told the court it for the calendar year ending De- West, as a city delivery office, naq arrived here several days ago| the mooring mast, and only 200 feet while grace was said by Aaron cember 31, 1936, totaled $27,- he its postmaster’s salary fiqures| and was broke and hungry. be |made several efforts to secure meals by asking for food and met with refusals at each p.ace. Then, driven by hunger, he de- “+= === |eided to eat and did so in a local vstaurent, ordering “steak and potatoes,” enjoyed the meal and | when asked for the price of tne ied “Do what you please; I’ve bas my meal and that }:s what I needed, and I have no He was placed under bond of $50 to answer to the charges at the next term of criminal court. Samuei Hudson | man who was hungry, at least, it | was so supposed as he also secur- an entirely another himselz to the choicest steak at |the turtle canning factory of the Thompson Fish company. His mistake was in not provid- ing himself with a container of respectable appearance and in lieu }of this placed his succulent steaks in his head piece whieh was filled j to overflowing, and was iseen and he was arrested. He was arraigned for hearing yesterday and Peace Justice Aren- |burg named a bond of $50 and ijremanded Hudson to jail 2 bond is posted or to await “|trial at the next session of the criminal court, on Monday. @eoeceseses | @weeccccccccesesesocoosn Highest last night last 24 hours 86 80 74 68 84 44 82 58 80 70 60 76 60 58 84 80 72 70 78 82 76 79 76 64 68 78 84 Whitman’s and Gail’s Mother’s Day Candies Largest Assortment—All Prices bdenhuen for the first time, was in a critical siti GARDNER’S PHARMACY, “The Rexall Store’ Free Delivery easily Of the 97 passengers and members of th when the greatest of all airships ca the landing field—a junk heap of black m ghastly, grisly framework. ; a On the lips cf everycne was the qu had the Hinderborg crscted the North Atlant Ac Washington officials and Dr. Hans Li man ambassador, opened inquiries, three po —all, however, relating to ; used in German zeppelinr—were outlined b; “| should say if this disaster was sabotage,” said Dr. Eckener, in Austria, “only the ns of a burning bullet into the bags could have accomplished it. That seems highly unlikely.” Eckener set forth these possibilities: “1. When the chip is lowered, some hydrogen is usally released. This free hydrogen in the air might have been sufficiently concentrated to be ignited by light- ning cr spark, “2, When landing, water ballast is feleased from tanks. Stream of water, connecting with the earth, might ‘|have served as electrical conductor to bring up « spark from the ground, “3, Someone aboard may have made fire, spark possibly from a cigarette lighter. | regard this also un- likely, for the conduct of passengers and crew is watched carefully.” Smoking was allowed only in the spark-preof com- partment. Ccmmander.Charles E. Rosendahl, commandant at | the navl station, said the fire originated near stern about 6:25 p. m. In his report to the navy department, the com- mandant said: “About four minutes after the ropes had been drop- ped the Size appenred im the after part 0 ie ie Sam worked progressively forward, “The ship settled to the ground, tail first, and was practically and completely ablaze for her entire length by the time the ground was reached.” Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper appointed « board of inquiry to hoid public hearings not later than to- morrow morning. H Idextification of the dead was difficult. The ship's | manifest was destroyed in the holccaust. Reservations | had been made for 39, but cfficixis said only 36 were | aboard, and 61 members of the crew. All bodies recovered fron the twisted, fire-warped | skeleton were brought to an improvised morgue in the | hangar which was closely guarded. Troops patrolled the |ash-strewn ruins. The ship was insured for $2,500,000. | Many survivcrs—some cf whom jumped as the liner | fell, others who were catapulted to safety in the impact, jand even some who staggered out of the inferno alive—— were in a dangerous condition. Captain Max Pruss, who was commanding the Hin- Captain Ernst A. Lehmann, whom Pruss succeeded me who was on the ship in an advisory capacity, is also | in cerious condition, lS eee