The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 11, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57,Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit te ero The Key VOLUME LVIII. Auto Smash On Duval St. In Early M Three Occupants Of One,” Car Slightly Injured; | Other Auto Was Struck'**2°°2* While Parked No. 294. PRICE FIVE CENTS KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1937. INRACEFOR. Leonar d White Injured. ds Obtained orning "I Fall From Bridge sForsmprovements At Fort reo cnr "a i's oars eames’ JeffeySOn National Monument Key West Youth Commits (°°: "= e | i FRIENDS AND ACQUAINT-'Mrs, J, ©. White, of Caroline!young White in the ambulance, | Candida ngr > ees ae Visi eg ANCES ‘street, fell from Pigeon Key|@nd he was brought to the aed Replanting Parade Ground In Center’ Of i land placed in a hospital. eecccccevecccs {Bridge gusterdey, afternogn cepa The Citizen was informed today : -_____ | suffered a compound fracture of that the fall from the bridge to | Arriving in Key West last night the left leg near the ankle. ithe water was about 30 feet.| jfrom Miami, was Henry H. Filer,| Responding to a call from No Young White fell on a launch and \former Key Wester, who is mak- Name Key, Benjamin Sawyer, then into the water. It is believ- ‘ing the race for Congressman manager of the Lopez Funeral'ed that the injury to the leg was! from the Fourth Congressional Home, left in the ambulance forjcaused by striking the anchor on} | ama: ! : i { | familiarly a Edison Knowles, known as Red, decided to take a! ride early this ‘morning, selecting a car which is the property of a Mr. Kenney.” Knowles took as his companions R. Melrose .and Wm. Bell,.members of the, ship‘s| company.from. the Steamship Summerleai which is undergoing repairs at the Porter Dock Co. The ride was not of long dura- tion, in fact it was very brief, as | when the riders reached a point just north of Eaton street .on Du- val street, the car made ungentle contact with the rear end of the Imperial. owned by Dr. Julio De “Poo, and the result was a com- Plete wreck of both the cars. Knowles said he was along at a moderate rate of speed, i about 20 miles per hour, and when turning out, or trying to; turn out, to missithe car which! was parked in front of. Dr.. De Poo’s residence, the wheels of the” driven car were found to be lock-! ed, and it was impossible to turn! out to avoid the accident. The speed of the travelling car was 20 miles, said. the driver, but driving |, District. Mr. Filer, who was born in Key} West, and who is also a nephew of | {Allan B. Cleare, Sr., paid a call at; |The Citizen office today in com-} | pany with Mr. Cleare. Mr. Filer, while here, is inci- ggentally meeting many old friends; and forming new acquaintances, in connection with :his activities i in the interest of his candidacy. } ie stated that he was more than jdelighted to be back in the Island j to Miami on Monday. | Mr. Filer, former chairman of; ‘the Dade County School Board ‘and past President of the Florida} yEducation Assotiation, will seek jthe post now held by Congress- | man Mark Wilcox, who will con- |test the seat of United States Sen- jator Claude Pepper in the forth- ‘coming national elections. The; RETURNS HERE om announcement was made! ees |shortly after news of Congress- WIDELY-KNOWN ARTIST TO ™2n Wilcox’s plans were Soe public. REMAIN DURING WIN- “I am entering the race fully conscious of the tremendous re- TER SEASON sponsibilities of the office,” Mr. Filer said in disclosing his candi- = dacy. “I am now at work sum- Anton Otto Fischer, widely-'marizing my platform, which 1} known artist, and who is deeply ‘shall release later. Meanwhile, I! interested in Key West, as evi- ‘feel that the public of South Flor- iG : j ida should receive assurances that dence by his return for another 7 Win put forth, the same unselfish stay for the season, is back for work in Washington that I have the winter, accompanied by Mrs. endeavored to perform locally. It Fischer, and daughter. They have ‘eased; thtough the fitnior HENRY H. FILER | | j H faithfully and fairly, showing par- City again. He proposes to return }. |shall be my purpose, if elected, to, speed, it was said: by experienced | son and Johnson, the Carey resi- men, as the larger car, the Im- perial, was driven up on the side- walk, and the front end smashed into a pole and was wrecked. The smaller car crashed into the rear of the larger, and resulted, na- turally, in the demolition of the rear of the larger car and com- plete wreck of the striking auto., In fact the only puzzling part of the results is why nobody was seriously injured. Knowles re- ceived’ several minor injuries Bell complained of _ strained muscles and tendons in the left leg, and Melrose had a slight cut on the forehead, presumably from flying glass. The steering wheel of the smaller car was smashed into Small pieces, and was torn com- pletely from the post, glasses broken in both cars and other injuries, indicate a terrific ba pact, and it. was said hat V inconceivable ‘how if fj teaye ling at but 20 "Wiles Bek | hour, could effecy "Sen! eheral,, . age, and’hote sot ‘the. riders be w ning, was fined $1 been found guilty of driving an automobile while under the influ- ence of liquor, and causing injury to another car. His companions were fined $25 each, but this fine was later reduced to $15 each. The charge against them was! drunk and disorderly, In connection with the forego- ing case W. D, Hainning was ar- Yaigned for carrying into the city jail for prisoners. He was sent to the jail by the ship’s captain to ascertain the condition of the men, and decided to do the Good Samaritain. He took two bottles of “suds” dence, 1401 United street. One of Mr, Fischer’s most at- tractive pictures, at least to Key , Westers, is that story of this sec- tion of the waters of the Atlantic which appeared several months ago in a widely-read_ weekly magazine, and which was _ illus- trated by a painting by Mr. Fisch- er, which depicted a sea-scene showing a wrecked schooner fly- ing the British flag, in distress position, and another sailing ves- i tiality to no single group, clique or faction.” Mr. Filer was born in this city, | , bu has lived in Dade County} boyhood. His grandfather represented the county in the jstate legislature at the time that | Dade embraced nearly the entire southeast section of Florida. The} ‘older Filer payed a prominent part | in the passage of legislation which |No Name, accompanied by Depu-}the deck of the launch. ‘REAL INCOME’ OF C Lk Lh Lhd hdd NEW SPECIMENS AT TROPICAL AQUARIUM Day by day new specimens are being added to the col- starts he expects to Have a much more varied display than that of last year. Within the past few days there has been placed in the tanks several new species, in- SDI LILO ME TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest enabled Henry M. Flagler to ex- tend his railroad system south-' ward from St. Augustine into Mi- jami, and thence by the overseas route to Key West. sel, close hauled, on the stern of which was shown, “Flying Fish, | Key West.” * Twice president of the Florida Education Association, Mr. Filer is known throughout the state as the jchampion of the state’s school ap- igned » . owles | br 60 days, having r : ! intoxicants CUBA ARRIVES FROM HAVANA Steamship Cuba, of the P. and O. S. S. Co,, arrived yesterday aft- ernoon from Hevana_ with two first and three second cabin sengers for Key West; 21 first and two second cabin passengers for Tampa. wee Arrivals for Key West: Amelia Canal, Judith O’Farrill, Julio Benavides, Maria Berrera de Rod- riguez, Gregorio Gonzalez. Among the items listed on the ip’s manifest were three sacks of mail for Key West; five tons of freight and 96 sacks of mail for Tampa. Cuba sailed at 5 o’clock with Grace Methodist church, where he OkJahoma City 24 one for each of bookings from Key West as foi-;W@s chairman of the board of \Behsacola propriation bill, which finances the state’s educational system on a basis of $800 for each teacher unit. He commaded the educa- tion essociation during the trying days of the 1935 session of the istate legislature, and succeeded in providing the schools with their first adequate financia] setup. Be- cause of his services to thé'Schools, he was made a life mémbér of the Florida Education Assétiation. He frst entered politics in 1912 when he was elected treasurer of Dade county. He was re-elected {and held the post until its aboli- ition by the state legislature. He jwas a member of the first city jcouneil of Miami Beach and later | was elected to the county school board. He was a member of the board for 16 years, 12 of them as He is married and has two daughters, both graduates of the Florida State College for Women at Tallahassee, Florida. He is a ,Mason, an Elk, and a member of his shipmates, and his “good lows: H. Mandell, Mrs. J. R. Hor- Stewards for twenty years. deed” for the day cost him $30. lett, W. R. Bedinger, and several }second cabins. | | } BUSTER CEREZO | t } STEAMER OZARK TRADE UP: VALUE DOWN Geneva, Switzerland. — while] COMES TO PORT Mallory Lines, arrived in port 2:30 o'clock this morning with heavy shipments of lumber for local dealers and a number of creosoted poles for naval station ac’ The vessel came fro: ville and Miami, and charging cargo sailed 11 for New Orleans, tl year, the gold value of this remained only 47 percent, of the 1929 value, according to fgiures published by the League of Nations monthly | statistical bulletin. In other words, despite trade barriers, the world is hanging about as much goods as at the height of prosperity, but S getting only half as much gold jtherefor, IMPROVE THE LOOKS OF YO olume of world trade was al-} back to its 1929 level in June’ Buster Cerezo, charged with at- tempt to commit an assault, was arraigned this morning in the court of Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo for preliminary hear-j ing, and entered a plea of not} guilty. j ; After hearing the evidence in was visiting with her son-in-law’ ings rather than real income—but| Lea’ last night last 24 hrs. Abilene 28 36 Apalachicola Atlanta Boston - Brownsville .. 40 Buffalo ____.. 16 Charleston Chicago _. Corpus Christi .. 42 Denver —..___. 24 Detroit __ 14 Dodge City _.. 16 Duluth - 2 Eastport — El Paso Galveston Hatteras — Havana BRelena Huron -.— Jacksonville Kansas City __ | SoMESNSe¥uw| SBB¥ Little Rock —_ Los Angeles Nashville oe New Orleans —. 32 New York ____ 24 BtSrsSBsSRRes | SESESRSSESRSRRLSE y a Phoenix’ *_ Pittsburgh - 10 St.Louis - 14 Salt Lake City _ 48 San Francisco _ 60 Sit, Ste. Marie Seattle _ Tampa _ Washington __ Williston __ Wytheville __ 48 RSILSLIRIS - g REPORTS “BITTER COLD” Mrs. Braxton .B. Warren, who. RISES DESPITE TRADE SL ‘ 1 ONSUMER Robert Izquierdo, not quite 11 years old, is presenting a problem to officials of both county and jcity by continually getting into jtrouble through acts of petty | thievery, and:his, pernicious ac- tivity was again brought to the at- MINNEAPOLIS, Dec.. 11.—A tention of the sheriff's department gain of six cents on the dollar, Thursday night when a_ report ‘over a year ago in “real income” , Was received that he was suspect- of the average citizen explains ed of the theft of a pocketbook why “the business recession has Containing $255 H 5 { The complaint of the loss was not cut seriously into some trades, lodged by members of the family according to a study made public of Hilary Whalton, who reside on here today by Investors Syndi- Duval street, near Olivia. They cate. went to see Peace Justice Enrique “When Mr. : Esquinaldo and after hearing the Sakai re Fe Pape details, he decided to turn the in- . -* formation over to Chief Deputy $1 they had a year ago,” explain- Sheriff Bernard Waite. ed the consumer's study, “and, Mr. Waite learned that Izquier- when they have to spend only do had been seen in the vicinity $1.06 for every $1 they spent a of the Whalton home, decided he (Special to The Citlgen) A j was a suspect, having, in fact, year ago, they will continue to confessed on previous occasions to thefts at the homes of Wm. W. De- meritt, Ernest Hemingway, and other homes and residences. Calling at his home, Mr. Waite found him absent and dwellers in the home said they did not know when he would return. “Might be absent all night,” as he sometimes buy briskly, provided, of course, they see prospevts of their income continuing.” National consumption capacity actually is at the best levels since the depression, because the pres- ent business recession has not yet cut seriously into the “real in- come” of American consumers. If this consumption capacity Maintained and exercised, the 9) ion of top-heavy inventories, should ae trouble- some. return until the following day. The search was continued and | Another Act Of Thievery asserted his innocence, and swore by everything sacred that he had nothing to do with any theft, and so pitiful were his pleas of inno- cence that he won the sympathy of prison inmates, who were shocked at the persistence of Mr, Waite. However, the chief deputy had much experience with. type of youthful tran: and especially boys of Robene type, several of which are roam+ ing around this city, and he per- sisted, and at last told the boy that he was going to put him in one of the cells. He did so, slam- med and locked the door, turned off the light and took his depar- ture. | He had gone but a few steps when an inmate of the jail called to him. Returning he was advis- ed that the boy wanted to tell him something, and this something was a confession of the theft. Mr. Waite said that when he first caught the boy he just casual- ly went through his pockets, and was amazed when the boy un- buckled his knickerbocker and from around his leg at the knee, unwrapped a handkerchief, in one corner of which was tied practic- is left in the evening and did not ally the entire amount he had tak- ,en from the pocketbook. Following this he was taken ton homeé where he sho ‘where Immense Structure Another allotment of funds has been allocated for use af Fort are to be done at the fort is sal- the parade ground. Other work in connection with these projects have been outlined. Activities will start about De- cember 17, it was said. and 12 men and a supervisor will be as- signed to the work. Arrange- ments for transportation of the workers are now being made, and it is anticipated that all will be in readiness to leave and get ready for the work by the date of start of operations, learned that he was in one of the he had tossed the pocketbook aft- Public buying power has been theaters and seated on the fourth accelerated by the increased cash Tow. A visit was paid to the the- income being placed in the hands ater and Izquierdo was seen try- of the farm population. Urban ing, ineffectually, to hide from the cash income when contrasted with eyes of the deputy. : November 1, 1936, is not particu-| He was taken from the - show larly impressive because it was at and to the office of Justice Es- this season last year that the wave quinaldo where he was out of wage increases began to swell through a gruelling questioning substantially. \that would have broken down the Wages show the largest gain in defensive denials of hardened }eash incomes, being up 14 cents criminals. He won the hearts of jon the dollar as contrasted with those who were listening and they {November 1, 1936. Investment in- gecided that he was being impos- |eome, despite the recent collapse eq ypon, and was decidedly not er removing the contents. From | there he was led to the Whalton: home and while the family were seated at the dining table he went in and placed the pocketbook money on the table. i Y consternation when the ly learned that the boy who had won their sympathy, was really the theief. bd a | The boy was afterward turned over to his mother for the usual thrashing he receives after one of his escapades, as he cannot be held a prisoner, and cannot be JUDGE GOMEZTO — \rea Eleventh Judicial Circuit, who.ar- rived this week to attend. fun- jof security prices, ranks second in jpoint of gain, dividend and inter- est payments combined averaging leleven cents on the dollar more {than at the start of November a guilty. Mr. Waite thought differently, and took him to the county jail for questioning. He still stoutly sent to the reform school, as he is not quite 11 years old, and the youth limit is 12 years at the|Ida E. Gomez, will return to Mi- state institution. ami tomorrow to resume the court jyear ago. Other income, which is ‘composed largely of payments to farmers and individual business owners, stands at $1.09 in relation to last year’s dollar. Salaries, however, are up only six cents on! the dollar, contrasted with the) same month in 1936.. Living costs, by their advance | of six.cents on the dollar over a} year ago, have somewhat offset} the gain in cash incomes. } Food, the biggest single item on| the budget of the average house- holder, shows the smallest gain in | daily expenses when compared} with a year ago, because only $1.02 today is required to buy the same amount o* nourishment that could be had for $1.00 on Novem- jber 1, 1936. Rents—a particularly signific- ant figure to those wondering about resumption of building ac- itivity—have gone up so much that} it requires $1.10 to rent an apart- | ment, flat, cottage or house for every $1 asked at the start of No- vember, 1936. Clothing, another important’ ;item in living expenditures, is up; six cents on the dollar over a aot { ago, being the last of the major{.q= ‘ender items to stage an advance. Mis- bs ppateate a cellaneous expenses, such as; Arriving in Key West this morning was a gentleman from Missouri by the name of Tom Herridge. Like all gentlemen from Missouri Mr. states that he re- quires absolute proof of everything told him. So when he first heard of a num- ber of tourists using the new mofor scooters to tour the country, Mr. Herridge de- cided to find out the truth of the statement for himself. Promptly he a scooter and in July started off. Since that time he has | t i START HOMEWARD Ivy is today ‘SCOOTER’ TOURISTIN KEY _ WEST HAS COME 12,500 MILES TENDER IVY WILL |SEA SCOUTS UNIT travelled 12.500 miles, through 18 states in this 20 try,and two provinces of Canada. The scooter will be taken over water soon or the first time when Herridge takes it to Cuba in the next few days and later to the Bahamas. In the spring. he will leave again, for northern fields and plans to visit Nova Scotia. The scooter. which differs from the ordinary type in that it carries a trailer, is a small machine with 12 inch wheels. It has held up re- | markably in ifs long run. Sea Scouts held an interesting on the BODY BEING PREPARED FOR SHIPMENT TO HOME IN NEW YORK Mrs. Mary Cohen, 68, native |Richmond Hill, New York, this morning 5:25 o'clock home of Rabbi Joseph ner of Simonton and for. starting meeting Thursday night at the | streets. jamusements, automobiles, mani- cures, shaves and so on, are five cents on the dollar higher than The body has been the Lopez Funeral prepared for the homeward trip and will prob- O44 Fellows’ building when new ably be import by Christmas, said admitted to the or- pradhate! +4! Wm, W. Demeritt cousin ams <n 1% | eas were at the beginning of No- © vember, 1936. 2 ; si The ‘difference between the: The tender, said Mr. Demeritt, cash income of the average citi-| has completed the buoy work in }zen and his cash outgo is his rea} Tampa Bay. This morning she lincome. This “real income” of|Was at Tampa where she will re- } $1.06 is not a mere subtraction of fuel and take on provisions. This cash income from cash outgo— afternoon the vessel will be at St. ‘which would be an index of sav- Petersburg. wing there the vessel will at of the Seventh District, this morn- my the case, the magistrate decided and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Clem-' an average of relative figures of once resume the activities, which there was not sufficient grounds ent Hudsgm in Miami, returned income and outgy designed to at this time consists, mostly, of for holding the accused, and dis-| {missed the case. Thursday and reported “bitter cold weather.” show how the cost of living af- relieving buoys, and will start [fects the adjusted income dollar. |this work at Saresota. | A basketball team was formed, ‘with plans made for putting on games. The mutter of purchasing tation company this Miami where it will be met by Harry Mandelbaum, son-in-law of uniforms will be taken up again], when the head of the organization returns to the city at which time ‘he will be contacted in reference to the subject. Many other activities were car- Tied on during the course of the |meeting. ton Cohen, also of Richmond Hill, UR HOME WITH A GREEN LAWN, OUR LINE OF LAWN MOWERS AND GARDEN IMPLEMENTS IS COMPLETE. SOUTH FLA;