The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 17, 1937, Page 1

9) Termes ami mere "= eA RR yn =k Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted te the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVI. No. 195. Monroe County First Announcement Of New Arrangement Was Made. During Meeting Last Night Delinquent tax payers of Mon- doubt, hail with gladness a new plan whieb roe county will, no has been arrived at and announc-! ed last night at the meeting of county commissioners, whereby delinquent taxes can be paid the county om avbasis-which is welll within the reach of every met who desires: to liquidate . this This plan of payment was un- der consideration by the commis- sioners covering a period of months, but it is only within the last few days that a very equi- table arrangement, to both the county and the delinquents, was} visit in Miami, was a arrived at and last night was the first official announcement. There were a number of prop- ositions diseussed and no phase at the delinquent tax situation which ‘was not gone into by the board and analyzed in every detail dur- ing this period of discussion, until Row the commissioners feel that the plan, which provides for a radical reduction in delinquent taxes, is one of the most accept- ble ever offered and at the same ‘time f@asible and witttin the reach @f all who want to clear up, their delinquencies. : It was said by several commis- sioners that not until the plan is explained in all of its details to; |SCOUT GROUP LEAVES TODAY ADVANCE: DETAIL ENROUTE TO HOMESTEAD TO PREPARE _— FOR ENCAMPMENT? ee The advance detail of Troop No, 2, Boy Scouts of America, left by bus over the highway this Adopts STR. COMES TO PORT morning for the preparation of the} ; camp, which the troop wil start Those who propose making the Steamship ‘Colorado of the! trip will be: Clyde-Mallory Lines. arrived in| Scoutmaster Victor Larsen port this morning 7:30 from New, Scout Counselor George F. York, discharged heavy freight} Archer; and sailed 11 o’cloeck for Tampa.| Acting Assistant Scoutmaster Fruit-carrier Yoro, of the; Dick Hernandez; Standard Fruit and Steamship = Acting gated company, is due to arrive Friday|Ray Perez, cook; from Philadelphia, will berth at; Patrob Leaders Bobby Sawyer the Porter Comnany dock, take on| ant Robert Smith. bunkers and sail for Frontera.| | Se Soa Sawyer, _ Mexico. | Sawyer, Bobby Sawyer, ly | Miller’ (bugler), Billy | Russell, EmilRoberts, Carl Cruz, Ernest Avila, Robert McClintock, Billy Mrs. Julia Algran, who was’ Porter, Joe Campo. visiting in the state for a short}, i bttase ges Seine. ti ti d the pl: . O. Cain o; 001 lo. is sand thi isschine, St mad rect! Homestead, plans were outlined foe Me.'Agrai, one of the civil| for, sniestalsmente auch 90 hikes ce oe in agg Pro)! ties. An enjoyable time is look- = be forward to by both Key West jand Homestead scouts. The advance details will be “Aivadi 'composed of Scoutmaster Victor 1 aps Lowey: wie bee 28 bY! Larsen, the cook and five scouts. Pee ie Me eee pusiness The rest of the troop will leave passenger on! Wadnesd Mie Blane returning from Miami plata, aed cs oe std this morning. gress of the camp continues, County Attorney Instructed To Have Injunction Citing Tax Certificates Dissolved ‘Attorney W. Curry Harris, for take the matter up with Tax Col- beginning Wednesday. Patrol Leader ARRIVES ON PLANE RETURNS TO CITY | the county commissioners, was in- lector Frank H. Ladd. Communication from the First National Bank and signed by J. structed to tuke the necessary | ‘on’ J. Trevor, cashier, enclosed an of- legal steps to have the injuncti granted R, €. Sawyer, Che Key West Citizen’ KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, ‘Hemingway Slaps Eastman | | oh Face; Clash Ensues “He didn’t throw anybody =, Times of August 14, 1937) | where. He jumped at me like a/ Ernest Hemingway says he! woman—clawing, you know, with slapped Max Eastman’s face with|his open hands. [ just held him! ‘a book in the offices of Charles off. I didn’t want to hurt him | Seribner’s Sons, publishers, and, He’s ten years older than I am.” } ea? js i: { Max. Rastman says he then: threw Mr. Perkins’s office retains the | somewhat Old World atmosphere | Hemingway over a desk and stood| that it had in the days—not long! him on his head im a corner. past—when it was the rule that: They both tell of the face-slap-} gentlemen should not smoke inj ping, but Mr. Hemingway denies} Seribner’s beeause women were) ;Mr. Eastman threw him any-\ employed in the offices i {where or stood him on his head} «How about books and papers in any place, and says that he will! peing knocked off the desk?” Mr. jdonate $1,000 to any charity Mr.! Hemingway was asked. “Mr. East- Eastman may name—or even t0/ man says—” |Mr. Eastman himself—for the} «Sure, some books were knock-} pleasure of Mr. Eastman’s com-/ ed off. He jumped at me, I held! pany in a locked room with all him off, there was a little, a little! legal rights waived, wrestle.” Mr. Eastman’s most recent} Aceording to the Eastman ver- book was “The Enjoyment of! sion, after Mr. Hemingway was! Laughter,” published by Simon &' knocked down he patted Mr. East-| Schuster. f He was sitting in Max Perkin’s! office at Seribner’s Wednesday— ' Hemingway Felt Sorry Mr. Perkins is editor for that firm} Mr, Hemingway explained that —discussing a new “book called’he had felt sorry for Mr. East-! “The Enjoyment of Poetry,” whey! man, for he knew that he had Mr. Hemingway walked in, he said/ seriously embarrassed him by! yesterday. ' slapping his face. | Using a few “Death in the Aft) “The man didn’t have a bit of ernoon” phrases in what he de-! fight. He just croaked, you know, (Reproduced From New York} man’s shoulder in an embarrassed, fashion and smiled. land said to be 130 years old, two j road Key West, Florida, has the most equable climete in the country; with aj average range of only 14° Fahrenheit 1937. PRICE FIVE UENTS Matter Of County Allocating ads ‘To City To Be Taken faring Meeting Tonight DECISION FOR ASSEMBLING THIS EVENING REACHED AT SESSION OF COUNTY BOARD LAST NIGHT; MATTER TO BE DISCUSSED IN DETAIL NEWS NOTES - Soccccccosesoscecces CUT TREE; SUED Great Neck Estates, N. ‘Y.—Be- cause village officials cut down a 90-foot oak, four feet in diameter, Committees from city council; “Also that the agreement made |to pay certain sums to the city, | being largely in consideration of TRACKS MYSTIFY CITIZENS|™¢tt im the county court house’ in. determined necessity to com- Linden, N. J.—Citizens were)tonight te discuss details of the plete readjustment of the debt mystified recently when two rail- ‘problem of the cityy is‘condition- companies laid parall ed upon the city using said pay- stretches of track, 5,000 feet lon; into waste lands, One track econ- residents are suing for damages in the sum of $15,000, jand county commissiouers will = 5 | contract with R. EyCrsmmer ually in connection with the Company, y-July'21 A. ’ bond refunding plan of the city.) 1937, and in the’ ‘event that co . ze | tract is not consummated by an This was the decision reached at! exchange, or in the event the city does not use the funds for appli- had no connection with any line. Both were slapped on the ground |*™ in helter-shelter fashion. 900 YEARS TO PAY New York.—With a judgment. seottand meeting al the heaed C. Perky against. Ross fer of $20,000 Monroe County! scribes as a “kidding manner,” ee Hemingway commented on an essay by Mr. Eastman that had> been entitled “Bull in the Aft- ernoon.” Mr. Eastman had written: “Come out from behind that false hair on your chest, Ernest. We all know you.” ‘ The volume containing this essay happened to be on Mr. Per- kins’s crowded desk, “and when | I saw that,” says Mr. Hemingway, | Writers Compare Chests In what he hoped was a playful manner, he said, he. bared hig ehest to Mr. Eastman and asked) him to look at the hair and say whether it was false. »-He-persuaded--Mr. Eastmat te: | bare his chest and commented on| its comparatively hairless condi-} tion. “We were just fooling around, im a way,” Mr. Hemingway said yesterday. “But when I looked jat Max Perkins. ‘Whose calling ,on you? Ernest or me?’ So I got out. But he idn’t do any jthrowing around. He just sat and took it. | “T felt sorry for him. Max! Perkins told, m, he said ‘no one! for $1,838,755 against him, Har- 5 jrig Hammond has been ordered to|of commissioners last night. | pay thef ull amount, without in- Commissioner terest. Present were: GRAVE DIGGERS STRIKE | Kansas City, Mo.—All burials | Chairman ‘Carl Bervaldi, Commis- sioners Wm. R_ Porter, Norberg: ication on account of debt service | charges on bonds issued under ithe contract, this contract shall be considered of no effect andjin- operative.” | It was at this point, and at i several intervals throughout the were rceently stopped when grave | Thompson, Braxton B. Warren has any right to humiliate a man’ giggers and attendants went on a the way you have,’ And I guess strike, he’ right. I feel kind of sorry,} but he shouldn’t go around telling} these lies.” t . } Mr. Hemingway had a_ large) containing 6,000 pieces of jewelry, RECOVERS JEWELRY on his forehead. was a result of the Thursday he grinned and shook! his. head. | SPANKING *‘UNREASONABLE’ He pulled-off his coat and show-| Waterville, Me.—Spanking a 7- ed » deep scar in the biceps of his! year-old boy for stealing oe right arnt. * ig.an “unreasonable” means “Max Eastman didn’t do that to’ protecting property, ruled Judge me, forgtl et ee i ie Be _ nt another sear. “Or it”? ‘or putting an jue Mr. Hemingway gave his pres-| marks on the boy’s thighs. ent weight at a little under 200! pounds, said that Mr. Eastman! FINGERPRINTS IDENTIFY MAN Asked if this' ed from Madrid, have been recov- battle of; ered by the government, \“E began to get sore.” pee over his left eye, high up| which disappeared in being mov- ‘Fulton, Mo—cC. W. and Cleveland Niles; Mayor H. C. Galey, Council President Jim Roberts, Councilmen Armando man, W. P. Archer; County At- torney W. Curry Harris, Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard Waite, and a number of represen’ citizens. Attorney J. Lancelot Lester was requested to read the . d lresolution, which without the Hengthy preamble is essentially: “That the County of Monroe, jthrough its commissioners, will set aside each year out of funds leredited to the county by the tt, | State allocation of taxes on gaso- the proposed payer by Clerk Ross ty, dissolved. ©. Sawyer or Tax Collector Frank This injunction restrained the Ladd, will the benefits to be clerk from issuing any tax cer- gained by the delinquent be thor-|tificates against the property on oughly understood, and all delin- quent tax payers of the county are urged to go to the county court house at once and e ; . sioners last night. this extraordinarily reasonable Question of collecting occupa- plan explained in: detail. tional licenses was briefly discus- IV GOING TO sed, and Commissioners Norberg or other properties owned by Mr. Perky. This matter was decided at the meeting of the commis- as clerk for the coun-! Bonds, 8-4-5s, at a flat price of jat him and I thought about the the Florida Keys, at Perky, Fla.,/ was narrower at the shoulders,| 72. It was decided to purchase! book, I got sore. I tried to get) just as big around the waist. them and instructions were issued! him to read te me, in person, some! .“Here’s a statement,” he of-! ‘to formulate the necessary resolu-! of the stuff he had written about) fered, as the interview closed. “If} tion. | me. He wouldn’t do it. So that's} Mr. Eastman takes his prowess! | Resolution was authorized to be; when I soeked him with the} seriously—if he has not, as it! forwarded to the State Board of book.” seems, gone in for fiction—then| | Administration for the purchase| “Was he in a chair or standing! Jet him waive all medical rights} of $29,000 of bonds from the R., up?” and legal claims to damages, and} E. Crummer, purchase to be made} “He was standing over there,”|P® put up $1,000 for any charity when funds are available. poe to a window with a win |he favors or for himself. Then ‘An offer of bonds by J. Mora-!dow seat in Mr. Porkins’s office.|we’ll go into a room and he can witz, at 73 and accrued interest| “TI didn’t really sock him. If I read his book to me—the part of was refused. The bonds had been) had I might have knocked him his book about me. Well, the best previously at 74, {through that window and out into|man unlocks the door.” } Thompson and Wm. R. Porter were appointed a committee to Lighthouse ‘Pander. Lyy is sched- uled to leave,this;ayeqing, at 6 e'elock bound ,for Miami, where an inspection will,;,be..made ;by Superintendent ,W.;,W. Demeritt. Concluding series of work projects fine, wouldn’t it? That would! Spain today. It is understood | have got me in wrong with myj|that Mr Eastman left yesterday ! jboss, and he might have had me|to spend a week-end at Martha’s! arrested. So, though I was sore, | Vineyard. \Fifth Avenue. That would be| Mr. Hemingway is sailing fog! I just slapped him. That knocked; him down, He feli back there on| the window seat.” “But how about throwing you over the desk?” Mr. Hemingway Mr. Perkins and other mem- bers of the Scribner staff refused to do more than verify the fact that the affair had taken place, is killed im a roodside fight, was line such sum or sums which may identified through fingerprints jbe necessary to fully meet the taken when he enlsted in the Tequirements of the contract un- army in 1923, der which the city’s indebtedness, which has been authorized to be SAVES SONS; DROWNS refunded, have been met. Babylon, N. ¥.—Charles Softye,| “That the county wil cause to 43-year-old broker, died in-Sump-| be paid to the city at least $30,- wams-river after saving the lives} 000 each year out of any avail- of his 5-year-old twins sons. Un. | able funds, eredited to the ac- able to swim he managed to hold}¢ount of Mornoe county, by the up the boys until they were res-! state aflocation of taxPs upon ducd but drowned before help| gasoline and administered by the could get to him. State Board of Administration, exeepting only $14,000.00 by 20 TANK CARS{EXPLODE [contract similar to this, pledged to ‘Chicago.—Caught 0p a catwalk | be paid each year to the Board of between two tracks as twenty) Public Instrection of the county tank cars of gasoline blew up/of Monroe, but said payment Dale Bowem wag rescued by fel-| shall not in any fiscal period of low workmen who plunged into|the county exceed the sum of the flames, dragged him out and}$50,000, any amount over and tore off bis burning clothes. $30,000 per annum to be 1 with the coungy. treading of the resolution, that | Commissioner Porter asked \ues- itions of both the Crummer at- torney and Attorney Harris, ‘pertaining to the resolution, and Valencia, Spain.—Two chests| Cobo, Frank Delaney, Wm. Free-| ended by asking what plan jbeen devised and recorded eity for the mittee from the city council and one from the cognty board be named to discuss this question from every conceivable angle, as he did not intend to commit him- self on the resolution until the matter had been cleared up and the essentials had been ironed out, and he considered the adoption by the city of @ definite plan for the collection of inquent taxes one of the essentials to be estab- lished. Followed a long discussion of | agreement : the commissioners afd city cout Five Hundred. Dollars the Ivy will ‘continue to Jackson- 8) PLUNG! ‘THROUGH TRESTLE ville and go in drydock for sched- wled repairs, i : Mr. Demeritt said this morning} , Offerings of sponge at the Mu-jwas 46 bunches selling for that he was taking his car on the} Mi¢ipal dock yesterday morning} $189.99. Next largest was six Ivy and at the conclusion of his} CO™Sisted of 727 bunches. Of these / bunches for $11.61. Largest sale was asked, “and standing you on your head in a corner?” [Poe the stand that “this personal matter between the two gentlemen in question.” Eureka, Calif.—Three members | of the crew of a lumber train were killed when their train plunged through a burning trestle and they were trapped in the Member Of Federal Musi inspection would return there were 76 bunches of wool, Bak aver the highway. oe 515 bunches of grass and 136 Tender Poinciana, which hay|>uaches of yellow. 2 been operating in Leke Okeecho-| _T#rmest sale of yellow consist- bee for over seven months, is on!¢4 of 114 bunches of which sold the way to Key West. Radio | for $16.21. Total yellow sales messages received today at light-|¥®S $22.91. Largest sale of wool house department headquarters indicated that the ship was in Tarpon Basin and would arrive Work On Whitehead Street and testing lights enroute, LICENSES ISSUED) sence 0: vandsion wom {prominent along Whitehead street Records of the office of Coun- {yesterday when pedestrians began ty Judge Raymond Lord, show|t notice the destruction of poin- that four marriage licenses were! ciana trees on the eastern side of istued from his office during the! the street opposite the county week ending August 16. court house. The names of the contracting} The Citizen’s attention was parties in each issue are: pened te the results of the de Hilton Pinder and Geraldine; spoilers, which had wrought havoc Lorraine Guerro; Manuel Cervan-} with several of the trees that were Fernandez;! beginning te grow and become! tes and Marguerite Eugene Turner and Daisy Harris; | beautiful additions to the street: Raymond Saunders and Estelle; which was laid out with these and Sands. jother attractive growths. jot grass was 410 bunches for $270.66. Sales of grass totalled $282.89. Sales of wool amounted to Case Against Lai veces Avalo Is Dismissed ied $22.91, making a grand total for the day of $531.17. Luis Avalo, who was haled into} In another section of the paper court om # charge of operating 9) will be found a notice issued te fishing vessel without a license} “boat owners”, advising where the} yesterday afternoon, was declared| conservation department's boat is to be innocent of the charges pre-| berthed for the purpose of col-| ferred and the case was dinmis-| leeting the required licenses. | sed. The preliminary hearing nual spe rcgghna das oe For the past week the State }water them and care for them re sine tet | Conservation boat kas been herth- a phearing the evidence to the effect} ed at the Gulf Oil deck for your jeach day, and spend the rest of % r : 3 ee Gears tc the ag ge Fthat Avalo was neither Peagpnas weitere in obtaining licenses : me i county jail, it was) ‘ ired by the Conservation laws a £ | requi y said by a bystander. — gidrng AS tte bent, Ct Sy Vicsltn, Metetie alk beats Another Key Wester wondered '7*™issal order was issued. operating under such regulations “what imp of viciousness actuates | This arrest was made by Com | will be expected to have at all such ideas in the minds of per [servation Agent F. M. Daniels,/times either the licenses or re- sons and causes them to commit! who has been in the city for some! ceipt for the money, or a copy of {such unpardonable offenses for /time checking up on operators andjs letter showing that the neces- which there cannot be any me ltaking of wessels engaged in the; sary licenses have been ordered / } NOTICE TO BOAT OWNERS | } | Some time ago there were two of these tree destroyers caught, | and senteneed to replace the trees, ‘sible excuse,” fishing basiness out of Key West.jfor the boat. auglT-Itx IS THE CISTERN LEAKING? NOW IS THE TIME TO REPAIR IT AND CATCH IT FULL OF CLEAN WATER BEFORE flaming wreckage. WALKING RECORD Los Angeles.—George Hadley, 42, completed his 3,565-mile hike from Springfield, Mass, im 57 days, beating the previous record, set by Edward Pa: Weston, in 1922) when the rabimes walker | business with pleasure and looking made the trip in 77 days. POLAR CAMP DRIFTS Fairbanks, Alaska.——Soviet resentatives camp has the Pole in i ‘ bergen. SHOES BLOWN OFF 4 Hartsford, S. D.—When an station Blew ‘op recently B. J.)who is an ardent angler buried throdgh the air. He was uninjured although his shoes were blown from his feet. Alfred R. Parr, agent cashier Key est, especially of the Key West Light Opera Company. said that hls Weasure his lost weight while he - Project Is Visitor Here ; fine fish. Nombered in the catch gether an appreciable take of jure was the heavy downpour the afternoon which caused engine to go dead and the anglers | drifted for more than ‘before ed and