The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 10, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West No. 189. eccecee Agent Of Conservation = |"iais"joTis” * Minneapolis, Minnesota.—After shrinking in height gradually for ten inches until] he was a stooped man of five fect. Two years ago surgeons removed half of his pa- roid glands, which control t ralization of the bones, im an effort to step the decalification of his bones. The operation was ; Suecessful and Nelsen is gradu- jally returning to the life of aj ; Dermal person. Had Been Here Checking| MRS E-0. Up On Activities Of! IPD YE Fishermen And Sponge Gatherers FORMER KEY WESTER PASSED AWAY AT HOME IN | W. Lamar Rose, agent of the NEW JERSEY State Conservation Department, | ‘was @ passenger leaving the city BUOY DRIFTS 8,060 MILES Moscow.—A wooden buoy iden- Mrs, Ella O. Hudson, 75, died! titied as one set adrift in the Lap- this morning for other points on yesterday at her home in Attantic tow Sea, in the Arctic, was re- i Highlands, New Jersey. News of|cently picked up in the Bay of the const to attend sessions of fiew deaths Waerwecelved: by mem-| Biseay. To reaeh, the Bay it had fourt, at which violators of con- ihe it jto drift north ranz Josef 32 [bers of the ‘ome im. Key West Land past the southern end of servation laws are to be placed and given, t] morning, to The! Greenland to = point off New- ath Citizen by a brother, Roger Weath-'foundland. Then it crossed the H } * Mr. R wes tees ha saan Fe as bt {North Atlantic, a total voyage of mt KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1937. More Funds For Continung WPA — Conan Activities Here ay Bond Resolution B. C. Moreno, area WPA sup- ervisor in Monroe | eounty, was; much gratified todey waen he} was ad.istd that the area had} been granted a special alletment of $20,000 for the purchase of supplies. This special $20,000 allotment} comes “at the right time as we} are in need of certain materials, and the order for these will te placel at once,” said Mr, Moreno. When asked if any of this money was to be used for the payeoll, Mr, Moreno replied that this is, and always has been suf- ficient funds for the payroll on the séwer project, “but we have at times been handicapped by a lack of material, and this special allotment comes in at the right| time.” Key West, Florida, L_; the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit =. Citizen PRICE FIVE CENTS Fine Collection Of Sponges Placed On Market Yesterday Over Sex Hundred Bunch- es Of Preducts Constitut- ed Offerings At Muni- cipal Dock Offerings at the Municipal sponge dock yesterday totalled require the Federal Reserve Bank’ ¢49 punches. There were 344 concluded at the meeting of the|of Atlanta to detach, cancel and i. at 1 Overseas Road and Toll Bridge) vesce ‘Tes bawdlogsi se hon bing gine eee at 5 2 reas! he Hi is $365. District last night was the passage die March S, 1887, on said honds,| which would have brought or a resolution authorizing tne) prior to the sale and delivery of had they all be sald. delivery by W. V. Knott, state|the bonds so authorized to be! powever, 11 of the different treasurer of Florida, of $500,000) sold.” A ol At Session Last Night One of the principal “st | five | The telegram, announcing the | 8.60 miles. \ gone about » week and will re-| demise of Mrs. Hudson gives the} information that. funeral sericeal SHOOTS THROUGH CAMP; will be held tomorrow in the New! : KILLS ONE Jersey city where death oecurred.| Covington, Ga.—Raymend Shad- The deceased was’ Kmowri to|}40*%» 27-year-old | mecha 1? many Key Westers as most of her) ie vstol bullet a early life was spent in this city, eer aS sae a Ee a Indian camp wi no apparen' to which she had returned on num-i provocation. One of the slugs ‘2rous occasions to visit with the stuck the amg pee — r . iompson, while he al mpted ene - — ee toro PU the indian childten Sak _of client cad cas HOS by ver, and fatally wounded him. grandchild. Survivors in Key's sinuTES’ FREEDOM COSTLY West are: Mrs. Ed. H. Gato, and ‘Wiami, ‘Vis. Charged wie er (glary, H. E, Lindsay, 27, suddenly | broke away from a bailiff in a and Roger Weatherford. \eourtroom and ran down six | flights of stairs. The jury. which enCOES ON TRIP es guilty of unlawful ‘en’ vec. | | ture.fo resume his activi In the meantime his associate F. M, Daniels will remain and continue the enforcement of conservation laws, and will be assisted by another agent who will have his boat on the detail at once. Just before leaving Mr. Rose said that the fisherman who yes- matter and had compiled with the law. C. ARONOVITZ LEAVES TODAY ENROUTE TO POINTS _ NORTH; TO BE AWAY "SEVERAL WEEKS ; x a much-needed pleas- ‘ure jaunt with a business trip, Charles Aronovitz, head of Arono- vitz Department Store, ieft over the Overseas Highway ‘his morn- ing for points north and will be} terday refused to pay the boat} license had thought better of the {a sister, and two brothers, Roland ommend a one-year term, chang- fed their minds. Lindsay, after three minutes- freedom, was re LEFT THIS MORNING FOR turned to court and received 2 ; sentence of fi rs. NEW YORK WHERE HE Ni WILL SPEND 6 WEEKS JUMP INJURES Indio, Calif.—Finding sleep ire os wie Saxe ” Polsibie: because’ of the heat, Oz) Morris Holtsberg left over the} Addento ran from his room and Overseas Highway this morning} jumped into a nearby reservoir, for New York where he will} He was seriously injured because spend the next six weeks seleet-|the water uad been drawn from ing the Fall stock of merchandise | the reservoir, for Holtsberg’s, bonds of the district, to the Fed- Following the adoption’ of* the! offerings, one of grass, feording to a survey made by the} PITT WASHINGTON NOTES Secccscccososecoosocoes. eeccccccece LYNCHING ! STRIKES The Wagner-Van Nuys Anti-| The Labor Department esti- Lynching Bill is not necessarily| ates that 4,500,000 man-days’ dead because the Senate has twice! k Q in J a refused to attach it to some otlier WPTK.were lost in June because picce of legislation. Senator Cope-: of strikes. The month opened with land, candidate for mayor of New 300 in progress and 575 new York, and an aiveoats fel the| strikes started. During June 530 measure, sezms to think that it is} |: hi dead but other supporters take a selene ated.) Se: far ae Peete different attitude. more work days have been lost though strikes than during all of LIVING COSTS | 1936. Washington tops fifty-nine} 2 other cities in living costs, ac-| i. «8 | Reports in Weshington are that WPA, A four-person family re-|the President has a list of sena- quires an annual income of $1,415 tors carefully prepared by the late to live on a “maintenance” level | Senator Robinson, coritaniingy the in the capital, while in Mobile,;names of 51 senators who had Ala., the city at the other end of} pledged their votes to the com- the list, the same family could: promise Court Bill belng pushed gee along on $1,130. The average|by the Arkansan, When Mr. Rob- ost in the fifty-nine communi-/inson died, some of the 51 shifted ties was $1,261 for a “mainten-|theiy positions, scuttling the Ad- * deveb—and~~ $908- for ~ecohiaheldbatthis-gien. — . - SELLING BOOKS “emergency” level, enaHT CAUSE WAR The Democratic National Com- Immediate enforemeent of the} mittee is said to be selling the neutrality laws, recently passed| pound stenographie report of the with the sole idea of making it|philadiphia National Convention eral Reserve Bank of Atlanta. foregoing resolution the question | wool and five of yellow were re- Present at the meeting were of speeding up the work. was’ is Cheirman Howard Wilson, Vice broached and Chairman ‘Wilson fused by the owners, which re {Chairman John N. Costar, Mem-|’was subjected to a sesh bar-| duced the total offerings from bers C. C. Symonette, Ralph! rege of questions relative to this f the |Boyden and Willard M. Afbury|4nd othe: phases of the situation. acai 2% Sak” eee and Secretary Miss Mary Jo Me-| | Some Higpanl od Bapecigna eres bids being $154.11. Citi t ‘were: red, ut explaine al ie “ soa matin ees jwere :o many angles to the main} There were prostiqnily ne dares E A. Strunk, Dr. Wm. R. Warren, as k. / The F Dion, Charles H. Ketchum, | Westion that he would refrain’ lots placed on the doc! 23 i from making answers until he! sed of “RS Be eee: ter,{had consulted Attorney Paul T#*** ee eee * beat rae eres ied Gostaci Marks, and would ask Mr. Marks bunches. sold for $86.50. Largest roll called, after which Mr. te he cxald leave Miami by pl intreduced the following resolu-} 444 feats prvvigerasnesstl y Plane | yellow offering consisted of 45 eee ic ie ceo This morning when seen, Mr.| bunches for which the top bid was Bindgreings te ey) ions Wilson said that immediately afte nell jof Section 5 of the issuing resolu-ithe meeting a ‘a r Soatiake Son $16.50, but was ref The tion passed September 3, 1986, jj Marks who advised that it would, largest grass offering consisted was among other things provided: '4e impossible for him to get to’ ‘i “ rj of bunches, and the bid of The bonds hereby authorized shall xay Wiest by plane this morning,!- °” be and they are hereby awarded '¢ha¢ important business matters $12.40 was refused. to the United States of America were to be attended. to and he did} PERCIVAL acting through the Federal Emer-'not think he would be able to gency Administrator of Public’ make Key West before Thursday. Works, at par and accrued inter-' However, if it could be so ar- est, and, when executed, the bonds ¢angeq he would come tomorrow. shall be placed in the eustody of) Mr. Wilson said that there! NEWLY-APPOINTED DISTRICT DIRECTOR OF STATE WELFARE BOARD Miss Mary Percival, chase, of $500,000.00 in par value’ decisions on important matters! of the bonds of the District re-| determined by Mr. Marks. recently j Many years of conducting @ l-|15 YEAR-OLD INJURY FATAL dies’ store in Key West has giv- ChicagoWhan S-rayed at a en. Mr. Holtsberg an insight into SAAS ‘a. dathelatia: the. “okwis fof pains in his back, Nathanie} Matthews, 33, remembered that 15 years before he had suffered a knife wound in his back dur- away from the city for — Mr, Aronovitz will first go to Canada and later to Lake Placid. After enjoying a few weeks’ rest | Holtsberg personally makes a trip and relaxation he will proceed to/to the markets each year and se- the Eastern Markets on his an-/lects ‘Fall and Winter goods. : nual buying pilgrimage, | Also, Mr, Holtsberg feels that|img 9 quarrel. When surgeons He intends to devote severaljin going early he can obtain a! operated to remove a piece of the weeks in New York and other easte| better selection. zknife blade which was wedged ‘ern trade centers where he will} Holtsberg’s was recently enlarg-| between: two vertebrae, Matthews study the fashions.of the coming ed and remodeled. Now it is pos- , “ied. seasons and select for his store ‘sible to display a finer and larg-; the finest merchandise - obtain-jer stock than ever before, the/ able. merchant states. t ; the individual needs of his many eustomers, This is why Mr. i WHALE DIES ON SHORE Port Washington, Fla.—Despite Jits own efforts and several at- | tempts by fishermen to get i | back into deep water, a thirty- | five-foot whale died ashore after impossibl: for the United States to become embroiled in a foreign , War could draw this country into! fered to libraries, coporatiéns war with China or Japan within} an hour, according to a statement made by Senator Lewis of Illinois to the Senate. The ban on ship- ments to either country would make possitle the seizure of our; ships in the Far East and, possi- | bly the detention of American; citizens. Such a situation might easily result in war. PROFIT Through July 27, the PWA {bought $642,598,596 in municipal] america, a CIO organization, sa bonds, of which $488,000,000 have! been placed with the Reconstruc | tion Finance Corporation at par. in an effort to wipe out its $216,-|ferred to in said resolution, |. Ref 000 deficit. The book is being-of-j “NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT) jnccting Saad cane RESOLVED, that W. V. Knott,| night, and Mr. Wilson said that the State Treasurer of the State there were a great many matters of Florida and Ex-Officio Treas-' gebated that evening, some of: urer of the District, be, and he is them of wide range and a state-! and individuals at a fixed pric? of $5. This is the first time that a National Committee has at- the Treasurer and shall be de-' ware a i { divered from time to time by the dace tane on Sak ena ‘reasurer ie purchaser upo! 5 opinion 0: bent order of the Board, “and,” Hey a he “fare, o~ could appointed director of District 10, State Welfare Board, to succeed Miss Hester Graham, is expected to arrive in Key West some time tempted to sell the bound pro- ceedings of a national convention whish are usually printed for free distribution among politicians, of- fice-holders, newspapers and li- braries, “GUARANTEE” Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers that after moving some persons “Whereas requisition has been’ pive the an: to -th made and filed with the Federal they would be concurred in pe hereby authorized and directed to’ ment of the members of the dis-'in the near future and go over deliver or cause to be delivered trict hoard was now being pre-! Emergency Administrator of Pub- the attorney, he would prefer through Federal Reserve Bank of pared for the information of the *M¢ S¢+up in Monroe county with lie Works for the sale and puUt-) waiting his arrival and have the Atlanta $500,000.00 in par value of the bonds of the District and to ‘ outro receive in return therefore, the par value thereof, together with accrued interest to the date of The of | said bonds to be sold and delivered! rival of Mr. Marks. ‘under this resolution being de-i |closing of the transaction. seribed as follows: public. There were in this statement, , also, a number of phases of the! | situation whieh required the ap- | Proval of the attorney, and th | would be cleared up after the ar- | Mrs. Gladys Roberts, supervisor, There are seven counties of Florida in the 10th district with headquarters at Fort Pierce, The counties are: St, Lucie, Martin, Mr. Wilson said that the time| Palm Beach, Broward, Okeecho- jlimit for’ the completion of all bee, Indian River and Monroe, and firing others, his union is in} “Bonds 1501 to 2000, both in-! contracts on the projects had been ‘ Commerce Body’s Secretary “a having been washed into shallow @ position to “guarantee absolute | clusive. fixed at January 26, but in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, TACKLESS BURGLAR Lowell, Mass—Charles Cooke, 22-year-old 220-pound college football tackle, made good use of Quite Busy Sending Out Hearing Of these, $400,000,000 worth have | discipline and responsibility” of; “BEIT FURTHER RESOLVED,| opinion of the chief WPA en- IVY LEAVING been sold at a profit of $11,326, it. member. This means, he said, ! 380 to the Government. In addi-| «there wil} be no tion, interest collected from bor- rowing cities, state and counties,/ pany” with which his union has/ hereby further ai amounting to $20,648,798, has unwararnted |! strikes or sit-downs in any com- that W. V. Knott, State Treasurer! gineer they would not bel of Florida, and Ex-Officio Treas-| pleted until March 1, 193 aren urer of the District, be and he is that they would surely be fifished thorized and di-)by that date. He and two other: }a contract. been turned into the Federal |rected to detach and cancel cou. j™embers were agreed that ‘there {pons No. 1 due March 1, 1937, on! was no reason to believe it would Lighthouse Tender Ivy will Information About City ‘“Phe opportunities for publiciz- ing Key West are limited only by the resources of our treasury, and et that this office is a pretty busy place,” said the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, as he paused in boxing up a lot of book- lets of Key West for a touring ageney of one of the largest oil refining compsnies in the world, te be sent to their office in New Orleans, | j | | his football experience. laa break in a neighborhood es oe grocery store, Cooke investigated velope to indicate the tempera- and saw Emile W. Wesson, 28, ture in Key West, and take this) speed away from the rear door. opportunity of commenting in this} Cook gave chase, brought him very splendid idea. down with a flying tackle and _ “We appreciate your coopera-j turned him over to authorities, tien and if we can be of service} t > ph 1 free to on please feel free call on} BOY, 6, VET S! ER The letter was signed by J. R. Patterson, N_ J.—While the oth- Anderson, assistant supervisor ;¢r children who gathered to help Tourist Bureau, of the Depart-|him celebrate his sixth birthday Treasury. AL SMITH | said bonds prior to the sale and Former Governor Alfred £.| ‘livery of the said bonds and to Smith of New York, seems to- be} ———————— “BABY” BONDS Saks of “baby” bonds are aver-! aging avout $1,140,000 per da; according to Treasury Department estimates. aking an active interest in the ‘situation in New ‘York City where jthe Tammany organization has nominated Senator Royal S. Cope-| WORKERS land, stern fee of the New Deal, Based on a study of Social Se-|as its candidate for mayor, The! curity account cards, the largest former friend of the President, j numbet of workers are in the age| Who repudiated him in a bitter! group from 25 to 29. This is dif-{speech before the Liberty League, ferent from the results of the conferred with various Tammany} — ranada Comes than | leave port this evening for Port Evergiades, where she has been ‘assigned for certain buoy work. On the vessel will be Superin- tendent W. W. Demeritt, of the | Seventh Lighthouse District, whe jwill make an inspection of the nection. LOSES CLOTHES IN PARK St. Lovis—So greatly did require any i stated. more time Philadel Steamship Granada, ® of FIND PREHISTORIC PRINTS . 1930 census “which showed the! Haders calied together informally | — thei man enjoy his sleep in a city largst percentage of workers in}to consider a successor to James; Gettysburg, Pa. — Footprints, | Standard Frait and Steamship) park and so soundly did he sleep, the age group from 20 to 24/4. Dooling. | tentatively identified as those of }°°™P&RY, arrived 6:25 o'clock last that he was ufaware until be ment of the Interior. National) Were enjoying the regular party Park Service, 45 Broadway, New ,Tefreshments. Charles (Mickey) York. {Norman 3rd enjoyed smoking 2 Relative to the temperature;™an's size cigar. The boy has “We have just fitled an orde~ from Atlantic City,” he continu- ed, “and here is the kind of let-} } awoke that someone, dering the stamps referred te in Mr. Ander-| been smoking since he was 14 years. Persons under 35 repre | dinosaurs of the cretaceous or ju-; Dight from Philadelphia, and berth. | night, had removed his clothing ter received from the National) Park Service of the United States Department of the Interior”: “Mr. Stephen C, Singleton, “Executive Secretary, “Key West Chamber of Commerce, “Key West, Florida. | “Dear Sir: i “We have your letter of July! 24, 1937, addressed to Mr. Arno} B. Kammerer, Director. A supply of your booklets and Rota- gravures would be greatly appre- ciated for distribution through this office. “We have noted the stamp used on the reverse side of your en- son's letter, Mr. Singleton ‘said, / months old. “there are 18 more of those tem- re stamps, mostly in the; “of members of the Rotary} Club, and for at least 16 MONTHS IN IRON LUNG Chicago—Fred B. Snite, Jr., 300 days recently celebrated his 27th birth- joutiof the year they eatry the|day in the “iron tung” in which news of Key West's climate all/ he has lived since he was stricken over the United States. They| with infantile paralysis while on tell the story not only to the party} vacation trip te the Orient two addressed but ta each of the many! years ago. While a flood of let- individuals by whom they are/ters, telegrams, flowers and gifts! handled, enroute. | were received, the only guests for! | } | sented 54.12 percent of the So- ON VISIT TO CITY cial Seexrity applicants, but they were only 50.36 percent of the; wis. Maxine Bates was includ- census figures. Similarly, 13.95) 04 in tse recent arrivals in Key percent of the applicants ar?! wost from Miami for a visit with over 50, contrasted with 17.64 6. Warren Spencer, and Mrs. percent by the census figures. i Spencer's mother, Mra Lillanore } Drudge, at the home on Caroline HAMILTON ACTIVE street. John M. Hamilton, National Chairman of the Republican) Party, is conferring with promin- } LEFT THIS MORNING ent Republicans before undertak-| | Tassic ages of from 59,000,000 to ed at the Porter Dock company's} | 50,000,090 years ago, are being main pier for bunkers. found daily by workmen in 4! The weasel sdiled two hours quarry near York Springs. The) ‘ j print-bearing recks occur in the interfer ter Coutintion, rect third and fourth strata which are | *e?#. Mexieo, having taken on 37,-/ jeovered with from six to ten feet | 535 gallons of fuel oil. i of solid rock. | Steamship H. R. Mallory, Clyde. | | Mallory Lines, from Galveston,| + SEVERELY HURT; NO PAIN | arrived 11 o'clock last night, dix! | charged cargo, took on miscelian- Des Moines, la —Although Leon} ¢ous consignments of freight and D. Cate, insorance salesman, suf-jsailed 12-30 this morning for and shoes. / “Tt would be a fine thing,” con-| the occasion, besides members ofjing a campsign to raise funds| Miss Celida Mendoza, who was’ fered 13 broken bones ands brain | Charleston and New York. cluded the secretary, “if every'the family, were the Chinese|to pay the party deficit of $829,-| visiting with relatives and friends! concussion in an automobile ac-/ business house in Key West would| nurses who 2 secure one of these stamps, and; the long jorrney from r Peiping| use it om every letter sent out.” | recently, i Governor Kansas. Landon, at Topeka,jthe bus this morning returning to Miami. Preighter Alamo, another Clyde- ecompanied him on/928. He recently visited formerjin the city, was 2 passenger on cident, he suffered noe pain what-| Mallory vessel, arrived 5:15 o'clock sof the brain concussion. jing sailed 720 o'clock for Tampa. SASH-—DOORS---BLINDS--MILLWORK OF ALL KINDS. CALL AND ASK US ABOUT IT! 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