The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 20, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No. 301. Many Yachts And Other Craft Arrive In. Port; mee | Most Of Vessels Coming "SPO PPO aaa O’SWEENEY PROJECT... In Last’ Week Take) ‘STARTED YESTERDAY Berths In Yacht Basin} ——— The project sponsored and At Submarine Base iota i pestiod > Cali py oT ee Adrian O’Sweeney, which is that of cleaning up the gut- ters on Duval street, between Angela and Eaton, was stari- ed yesterday morning on scheduled time, 6 o'clock. It required two hours to perform the task, three car- loads of trash being taken up and hauled away. Berthed at the Yacht are a number of yachts, schoon- Basin ers and other pleasure craft which arrived during the past week. The “Mako”, registered at i Che Key West Citizen | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1937. GIRL SCOUTS MORE PUBLICITY COLLEGE BOYS MAKING READY | FOR ISLAND CITY} AND GIRLS NOW FOR HOLIDAYS)... .uo:2 cr comencs! ARRIVING HOME HAS NEW METHOD TO PUBLICIZE CITY MANY HAVE ALREADY COME IN WITH OTHERS TO FOL- LOW: TO SPEND HOLIDAY SEASON MEETING HALL SCENE OF MUCH ACTIVITY IN PRE- PARING FOR COMMUNITY! The Key West Chamber of| Commerce has approved a meth- perce od for further publicizing Key West. The story of the city will 2 be told in an attractive and con- Girl Scouts of Troop Number 1} gensed form, on letterheads and rejoiced at their meeting Friday) the envelopes leaving here for the at the prospect of soon again be-! four corners of the earth. ay able to yak: their prescrib-| Key West has as interesting a ed routine of real scouting. tory to tell as hi ity in the For the past four weeks their} Country. All that is neded to do|_ 4 late group motored down headquarters, Adams Hall, was) is to tell it, and the pet ambition| {fm the University of Florida converted into a workshop and at of the Chamber of Commerce,} with Billy Warren, who is a se-} all hours of the day the scouts, “No dull season next summer,”|nior this year. Robert Dopp, | assisted by volunteers and boy/ wit) be realized, states the secre-| president of the Conch Club,/ Key West’s college boys and girls have been coming in for the Holidays this weekend from col- leges over the country. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with am average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS ——— Group Of YWCA And YMCA Wo City ‘Pay Visit Esmond Sawyer Injured’ In Fall From Esmond Sawyer, employe in the lighthouse service, is in the Ma- rine hospital suffering from se- rious injuries received Saturday afternoon when he fell from his while on Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, is on a southern cruise which will take it to Haiti, Cuba, South America, as Mr. O’Sweeney was assist-| ed in the work by City Coun- cilman W. E. P. Roberts. scouts, could be seen busy paint- ing and reconditioning toys for the Community Christmas Tree scheduled for Thursday after- Literally thousands of letters going out from Key West will carry this message. senior; Edward Woodson, sopho- more; Jeff Knight, freshman; Hil- ary Albury, freshman, and Paul Sawyer, junior, were in the fas as Trinidad, back up the coast to the Panama Canal and a short/ The! who hd hedhdhed ADOPTS:NEW METHOD FOR way up the Mexican coast. owner, Thorne Donnelley. nosy The seal bearing the words,} group. Jerome Berkowitz, fresh- At the last meeting, Father} «prive to Key West over the only| man, drove in Friday, who was) Mullin was a welcomed visitor} overseas highway to the only) Visiting in Miami. Sidney Arono- and in his instructive talk stated) frost-free city; best fishing in the! Witz, feshman, came by: bus Fri-| the pleasure it gave him to see] ty s will have a special interest/day. Nicholas Goshorn, sopho-| this fine group of girls following] ¢o. Key West since it bears otit} More, arrived Saturday by bus. motorcycle, riding Roosevelt Boulevard. | How the accident happened has ; not been learned, although dwell- ers in that section said that Es- mond had been seen, previously’ to the report of the accident, standing on the seat of the ma- chine, riding along at a moderate rate of speed. It is thought that he may have also owns the Wakend Press of Chicago, a famous printing con-| cern, with Mrs. Donnelley and guests, Mr. and Mrs. Isham, are EXCELLENT GROWTH NOW the scout policies and being train- the theo of the Chamber “of ed for future leaders in the world. pebete that home products Kates oH ea good women are best. The drawing, reproduc- eripani bse kde ed on the seal is the work of At yesterday’s session, Scout Steve Sin A gleton, Jr., who has the oneal ape eren ese toh at remembering where Steve Harold Felton, senior, has been in} been doing one of his many town for the past week, as has’ stunts when the accident happen- Ignacio Carbonell, junior. ed. He was an accomplished rid- From Florida State College for; er and ofttimes was seen emulat- Women, Cleo Kemp, sophomore, , ing the tricks of professional rid- Rose Appel, Junior, Kathryn) ers, and it is said his performanc- His Motorcycle | Havana and it is believed that it was here that the motorcycle became un- ‘manageable, and he was thrown from it and struck on the hard pavement with great force. It must have been several min- utes afterward that he was seen by a passer, who left his car, saw what had occurred, and phoned the Lopez undertaking parlor for an ambulance. The vehicle arriv- ‘ed within a brief time, he was placed in it and taken direct to the hospital. ’ At the institution this morning The Citizen was informed he had not regained complete conscious- Kness. It was said that he had lost a considerable quantity of blood and the surgeons had seen the necessity of a blood transfusion. ‘This was done Saturday evening, hig brother, Carl Sawyer, furnish- Hospitality of Key West was last night extended to a group Given Herndoti; Lake Wales; Flo- ra E. Vandéwent, Lakeland; Frances Slaughter, Orlando; after blue marlin and hope to} BEING SHOWN IN EXPERI- ture by Saint Luke which tells! the beautiful story of the joyful} season which we are approaching. land a world’s record catch. They have the very latest and best fishing equipment. The boat is a Motersailor, eighty | feet long, Gloucester fishing boat type. Its cabins are beautifully and comfortably equipped. The boat also has a ship-to-shore tele- phone with which the party can keep in touch with almost any! part of the world. It is a two} way phone, Of interest also is} the radio direction finder which! the boat also has. Captain Frank Seabrook is in charge. M. J. Madigan and R. V. Hy- land, consulting engineers with) * Offices in New York -Cityy--are down in the “Sybil” for a three week fishing excursion, They re- port good fishing with many bar- racuda, grouper, jack, dolphin} taken. Fishing is done from the! MENT; ARE KEPT OUT OF | SOIL ENTIRELY Giants of the family of toma- toes, seeds and roots of which are outside of soil and have never been in the ground, are growing in Key West, the result of experi- ments by Water Culturist W. J. Allen, one’ of the south’s most suc- cessful experimenters in this field. Mr. Allen came down from New York last spring to restore his) arrange the program of entertain-| health, took the water culture of | plants as a hobby, and has in the past few months perfected chem- ical control whereby plants are nourished from a liquid in tanks | Annabell Moffett, Marjorie Parks 'and Marie Sands were selceted as Rev. O. C. Howell, of Ley Me- morial church, made an interest- ing talk portraying the story of! the Nativity and also the story of Santa Claus. Many activities for this, week, were planned. Their own Christ- mas Tree will be held on Wednes- day afternoon at headquarters at 6 p.m. The Star Patrol will su-j pervise the tree and its gifts. Red’ Birds are in charge of refresh-! ments and the Flying Eagles will) ment. Scouts Barbara Guerra, | hostesses. Captain Eva B.. Warner and Singleton, Sr., pufs things at the Chamber of Commerce and who, arriving in Key West from Penn- sylvania in July, has already be- come an enthusiastic native, it is shown. The seal is an invitation and a news story condensed. Oval stickers are to be furnish- ed at a neglible cost to business and professional men by Harry| Davis, who has distributed these | in great numbers to the great} commercial cities of the north,| and also in Palm Beach, Sarasota, | St. Petersburg, Fort Myers, Gainesville, and many other re- sort cities of the state. Mr. Davis comes bringing high- ly commendatory letters from Chambers of Commerce where his project has been adopted. The same school'Anne Kennedy, fresh:- Lowe, junior, Eloise Guito, sopho- more, came in from Miami Satur- day with Mrs. Violet Hendrix, who will visit her mother, Mrs. Otto Lundquist. By bus from the man, arrived Saturday. Ruth Rose Galey, senior, at Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, ! Virginia, motored down Saturday with Betty Moreno, who is taking a preparation course at the Penn- sylvania Museum of Industrial Art in Philadelphia. Marie Thompson, sophomore at Trinity College, Washington, D. C., re turned by plane yesterday. John De Poo, who is in the; sixth grade at the Cuban Military Academy in Havana, Cuba, came on the S. S. Cuba Thursday. John ‘was recently promoted from ca- es were creditable. When he was discovered Satur- ing the life fluid. The question was asked to Director Hudson Butr, se; Messrs. Dick and Woody Ex: (day afternoon shortly after 4 o’clock, he was lying in a pool of ; blood on the boulevard near the curb. He was just about 30 feet on this side of the railroad crossing, ‘Tender Brings In Equipment From Launch Iris Salvaged Tender Poppy, of the lighthouse department in this district, came in port 5 o’clock yesterday morn- ing having in tow the piledriver; which usually a this below'where the growths are cul- {Lieutenant Nellie Albury decided tivated. “| t6 be just guests Wednesday eve- He has his experimental green} ning and the scouts are to show house at South Beach on the Dr.| their ability in the different capa- J. Y. Porter estate, and is at the cities, present time employed by Dr. W. being prepared by young Steve Singleton, genial assistant to the secretary of the local chamber. det to the rank of corporal of the) guard. ¥ Walls Zurhorst, with his moth- er, Elizabeth Zurhorst, motored from Washington, D. C. Walls is! in the first year of an air condi Light Attendant /Nathan Niles, Jr., and was sunk Jast week when | rammed by the mail boat, in com- mand of Captain Darrell Lowe. It was said at the lighthouse the possibility of his recovery and the answer was that he has a chance for recovery, but the time required for recovery in this case was not stated. John Wincey, and Dod Gainesville; John Tibbs, Durrance, and Burton of Orlando. : * The tour is an ahnual. event ‘Last year Mexico was» and it is anticipated to the Pearl of the Antilles afford as great, if not gp ; pleasure to the students {resent the following . Southern College, Lakeland, MORE MONEY versity of Flos, and ll puEpe |e ait TO PAY ALL SALARIES BY END OF MONTH “Judy”, Captain Douglas Osbo1 | R. Robinson, at his residence near TEMPERATURES tioning course in that city. which accompanies the “Sybi Captain Jobn Mill is in command of the Sybil. This is the second winter Mr. Madigan and Mr. Hyland have! the beach. Mr. Allen sees great possibilities in water culture, he told The Citizen. Mr. Allen has 16 tomato plants. from 2 to 4 feet high in a excel- | WATSON INFANT Lowest Highest 30 . 40 Abilene Apalachicola - DIED LAST NIGHT 56 last night last 24 hrs. } . 5: Expected in today are Lance, Lester, freshman medical student? at Tulane University in New Or- j Jeans; Ignatius Lester, freshman! in Arts and Sciences School at} headquarters this. morning that practically everything had been} TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Dec. 20. salvaged from the Iris, but the| (FNS).—Sufficient money to pay ae vessel is a wreck, as the whole of all school teachers’ salaries is ex~| merce, andl ino; d the starboard side has been de-| pected to be distributed this) maintains a hospice’ Sc molished and it is a question as to} week. On Thursday of last week,| back on America’s last = | sior mattress which is laid on a come to Key West to fish. They) wire netting above a tank con- consider -the fishing grounds here taining 150 gallons of a chemical much better than in-Miami. Not} | composition. The seeds take root only that, but they are even more | and these roots fall into the solu- Pleased with the city and its peo-| tion, and within a brief time buds Fr ap Sd agape td ned and the fruit comes forth. | ‘Throughout the winter, Mr. Madi.’ Fabey satis / Sea nb it Hr gan and Mr. Hyland will be drop-' quet is much setter than that Ping in, as they plan to: be in’ which is grown in the soil. It is these waters most of the time. {of a more solid nature, round and Po rood pe maga hey arbres eelgh at at and the fruit is juicy and * erage ‘- delicious. They grow very rap-( page ting spe idly, says Mr. Allen, in fact much fore leaving for Miami, later to go} ries sido ar teode " to Nassau and the West Indies. } The schooner has just come from Tortugas. It has been ‘chartered by George A. Humphries, from J. W. Munn, who is captaining the! boat. Mrs. Humphries -afid her| mother, Mrs. Warren Hildreth, who was here in the “Hope II” SENT TO PRISON LEEDS, Eng.—Walter Condon of this city was sent to prison for} a month for sticking pins in his} mother-in-law. FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS AFT- ERNOON George B. Watson, four months! Corpus Christi old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Watson, died at the residence of Catherine street, last evening at 6 o'clock. The funeral under the direction of! Pritchard’s Funeral Home will be held from the chapel this afternoon, at 4 o'clock, with Rev. O. CG. Howell, pastor of the Ley Memorial church, officiating. Survivors are: The parents; grandfather, Ernest Cook; grand- mother, Mrs. J. F. Rainer; broth- er, Ri \B. Watson, and four sisters; Betty, Camille and Joyce Watson. last year, is accompanying Mr.) Humphries. The Humphries are| from Detroit. In the sleek sea-green, fifty-foot Dawn * Cruiser, “Martina III", which will be here until Tuesday, | is Leon Falk, Jr., president of the} community chest fund in Pitts- burgh, who last year made the quota of $2,500,000 for the first ’ : | time in five years. With Albert) f theatres in Detroit, landed the | | Detroit - Mr. and Mrs. Vernie Griffin, 1413 | SAILFISH IN KEY WEST WATERS, i Pensacola \ After a forty-five minute fight, , the occasional indisposition that; Pittsburgh | Jacob Schreiber; owner of a chain | afflicts persons not accustomed toj s+ Louis . 36 36 60 24 54 44 70 34 60 34 64 36 32° 44 12 34 54 Atlanta — Boston Brownsville - Buffalo Charleston Chicago Denver - Dodge City - Duluth Eastport El Paso Galveston -. Hatteras Havana - Helena - Huron Jacksonville Kansas City _ KEY WEST . Little Rock __ Los Angeles _. Louisville _... 30 Miami . . 58 Mpls St. P. --2 Nahville 30 New Orleans 46 New York 34 | Oklahoma City 32 44 38 30 32 Phoenix the tossings of fishing boats in the; Salt Lake City 24 whether the necessary repairs} D. W. Finley, motor vehicle com~ ; will not cost as much as rebuild-j misioner, turned over $325,000 to They will gant! ing a new vessel. . . | be added to the state fund for that ay’ | Just when a board of investiga-} Purpose, and more money will be ition will be summoned to carry| Placed at the disposal of the fund |on an investigation as to culp-|as fast as received. The state ability in the collision, is impos-} hopes to have $880,000, the sible to announce at this time.| amount of the December deficit, | Superintendent Wm. W. Demeritt} before the end of the month. ; Said that Captain Niles’ compan- r | ion on the trip was Esmond Saw- |r stated that last year his depart- jyer, who is seriously ill in the , ment collected $750,000 in Decem- Vinita Weta: wontons | Marine hospital, and until he re-| ber for the school fund, and pres- St a frechinan, and three | covers sufficiently to tell his story | ent indications are that the de- thet Da t th ml “ in| of the collision of the vessels, the | partment will be able to equal or other Sartmouth collegians will’ board of investigation will not be| exceed’ that amount by the end motdr down. | assembled. of December of this year. County tax collectors are rush- | Harry Weintraub, junior at the; University of Florida, is expected | . ing in their remittances of license FAMILY REUNION tag receipts as fast as possjble ir. tonight by bus. mse to the appeal’ which | McKILLIP FAMILY MEMBERS TO RECEIVE PAY Tulane; Jack Hayes, freshman in Dentistry at Loyola University at New Orleans. down. | Jack Hall, junior at Rollins Col- i lege, Orlando, and George Ga-! briel, of Hartford, Connecticut, a! senior at Rollins, arrived yester- ; day by car. They will be here | for the holidays. f A group from Dartmouth Col- lege are expected to arrive today. state. LP ae aEaane ac ea County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer | made an announcement _ this | morning which will bring smiles | of happiness to county employes; P = . who are paid from the General} Happiness reigned in the home | Revenue Fund. | of Mr. and Mrs. William McKillip | Mr. Sawyer said that checks , 0" Eaton street Saturday evening, |are this afternoon being drawn on| When members of the family in Members of the committee who are arranging the community Christmas Tree, are sending out The motor vehicle commission-| Army, He at ‘once Captain W. Curry Harris, of the | Florida National Guard, and ‘the captain found it | envision the Armory as a cb-ed- ucational institution, he to the secretary the privilege of assuring the prospective that they were welcome to their blankets there. was anticipated, a | for the custodian of the key to the | armory was started, jwith an im whereabouts of Secretery ton, who was found having a rip- | Foaring time swapping yarns wi | Fred at hospital. The search tinued and a guide the person of Fred the search to Major Albury and finally to of the Keys, Sergeant Pierce. | pale 5 Ait been by deeply the & & | | the many been extended to is a lovely city, we ing forward to another g Hs iF g § I i i [ Gulf Stream, Mr. Schreiber stat-| an appeal for more cash donations we return from Cuba on San Francisco . 56 | this fund and wilk be distributed| Key West, assembled to greet Einstein, who is no relation to the | prize sailfish catch of the season, famous mathematical wizard, andj a seven-foot eight-inch beauty, | David Leiter, they have been en-' yesterday, in Captain Bra Saun-| ed that he would be content to die} sit Ste. Marie peculiar affliction ; even with that as long as he had one of the big 8 42 48 | tomorrow morning right after his, 0ther members who arrived dur- Seattle j office is opened for business. was a real family reunion. ing the past few days. In fact it with which will be purchased | ber 28." ‘ more fruit and candy. | The visitors were deeply It is being asked that these do-' pressed with the colorful Ey i ; Zam Th vi 4 Washn ' Pile ee gprs, Among the arrivals and attend-| nations be sent as soon as possible of flowers blooming in Resa of money on deposit to’ ing the reunion were Mr. and Mrs.| in order that a thorough check of the city, and lreake a bag dey | Odes T. Pogue. Mrs. Pogue was} may be made on the total amount) seen as they drove : : | before marriage, Miss Camille| of fruit and candy which can be city. When | McKillip; Mrs. Peter Curry, for-| purehased, and as many children be given a |merly Miss Ethel McKillip. This! taken care of as possible. | as arrangements | group arrived from St. Peters- Donations may be mailed to. to take them Nie : Miss Nellie Louise Russell, P. O.! esting : i joying the bottom fishing. When | ders’ boat while fishing in the) sport fish in these waters at the) washington the weather clears sufficiently,| Guif Stream. .end of his line. He was high in! Williston they will go after the larger sport} Catches were not, confined.,.to/ bis, praise of the attentions of | wytheville fish. Mr, Falk has been coming) the sailfish. _Two thirty-pound./ Captain, Saunders during his tem- 7 here for the last two years. He! amberjack, many tuna, bonita, ; porary indisposition, and com-} bas been making the trip in the} grouper and several large barra- j4mended, the fishing lore that is! “Martina II” but this year bought | cuda were also brought to gaff. . | the captain’s. i the brand-new “Martina I AN)" In the fishing group, besides! Kf it is possible, Mr. Schreiber } will Haye his prize catch mounted the Martinas-have been captéined | Mr. Schreiber, were Mrs. Schreib- ik is very! er, Captain Bra Saunders, Cap-! here and later shipped to him in 3 12 30 i ei i : § S8 NEW 1938 DODGE FIVE PASSENGER TOURING SEDAN, Hh bys FL | The other members were Com-| Box 850. island | mander David H. Stuart, U.S. N., \ retired, and Mrs. Stuart, formerly ‘Miss Fay McKillip, who arrived by C. D. Jarrait. Mr. (Continued on Page Foyt} .,...tain Mimi Malone and Ulric) Detroit. Mr. Schreiber will leave, a Gwynn. | tomorrow for that city. HUMAN CLOCK TIRE BURSTS: BOY GALA NIGHT DANCE | The theatre magnate has been| coming here for the last 17 years.! —Tonight. 10 til] 2— He was able to stay here only a Pena’s Garden of Roses | few days’ for fishing this time,! —Music By— but wishes it could have been HEM OLSON’S ORCHESTRA | ™uch longer. Mr. Schreiber is a} Ladies Free Gentlemen 60c reat lover and booster Key} j West. Although aff with! of ed Delivered in Key West, $999 NAVARRO, Inc.---Dodge-Plymouth Next year Mr. Schreiber will return as is his custom, and in- tends to show complete techni- color films he has made during his visits to Key West to his many frien: He will also invite Ern-; est Hemingway, noted novelist, to see them. (LLL A Ld (4 \) i i ‘ . Ne h) from Brookdale, Maryland, and expect to remain until March. Dartad the ri " % joined the family party. These were Roy McKillip, Cap- }tain Wm. McKillip, and Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert McKillip, and their two sons, Odes and John. Shawnee, Okla—Since a shell! Yankton, S. D. exploded at his feet during the! year-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Wil- World War, Charles Hester's head ' liam Patterson, leaned has ticked like a clock, a sound so/ old high pressure loud that it can be beard three|on the family sutomobile, feet away. He entered a Chicago! tire blew out, The explosion hospital recently in an effort to) broke a rib which punctured the discover the cause of the ticking. | child's lung, fatally injuring him, i i _$— — a — — ——_——_—_—_—$_—_—$_ ———— $$ et LADIES!..CASH IN ON THE MANY BARGAINS WE ARE OFFERING IN DINNER-WARE AND DISHES—SOUTH FLORIDA CONTR & ENG. COMPANY. PHONE 598