The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen VOLUME LIX. No. 9. Two Cases Heard In KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1938. PROCEEDS FROM MOVIE WILL BE Product Sent In Response To Call From Hospital see j ‘POCOOSOS SSS OOOSSSSSSSSSSSSOSOSSO SSS SO OSSSOSSOSOSS | WPA CLASSES THANKS EXTENDED 10 THE KEY WEST. INSTRUCTIONS TO BE GIVEN BY MRS. GRACE CROSBY eee eee Plans For Yacht Ciab CITIZEN FOR TRANSMITTING MELON sxmme raocezos oF to- VIDIO IIIID One Case Was Tried By GRATIS DOCKAGE HERE | oenes *¢| MORROW NIGHTS SHOW Jury; Other Defendant Entered Plea of Guilty | To Charge Allen Smith, colored, was ar- | raigned in criminal court this | mornifig on a charge of aggravat- | ed assault, said to have been com- | mitted om Duncan Jones. | The defendant entered a plea of not guilty, and the following jury wad called to try the case: Frank Key. W. A. Bell. George Key. W. H. Curry. P. J. Baker. and Alfonso Gomez. Within a short time the case ‘was taken under consideration by the jury, a verdict was returned declaring Smith to be guilty of assault and battery. Judge William V. Albury sen- . teneed the defendant to pay a fine of $50, or spend three months in the countj jail at hard labor. Samuel Cleare who was shot} and arrested some time ago by} Mrs. Grace Crosby is now form- PRAISED BY YACHTMEN | | examination. Anyone interested | | should apply either this evening |or Thursday from 5 to 9 p. | the High School, it is announced. | | Work in these WPA will consist of learning to speak, | read and write the English langu- | ¥’ age, and the principles of govern- |ment. Similar classes are being |held at San Carlos school under | | Mrs. Leanor Valdez. Colored classes in the 1 same | under Grace Palacios. Commercial classes of WPA | work are held at Douglass school * | days. Theory of Gregg Short- | hand is taught Monday, Wednes- | day and Friday at 7:00 p. m. Dic- | tation and transcription classes | are held the same days at 5:00 p. |m. These classes are taught by | Mrs. Grace Crosby at the Com-/} mercial Department of the High | | School. } Any person sixteen years of! age or older who is not a student} jin an elementary school, high/ |school or college, may attend | ing WPA classes for anyone de-; announced over the radio urgent |siring to study for citizenship! need of a ripe watermelon, the m.| Prove a cure in the illness of a | - ¢| youth who was suffering from a j at the United street entrance of iar malady in the hospital at | classes | Point Pleasant, N. J. the Ocean County Leader at | Point Pleasant, immediately start-| Clark. ed a search for a ripe watermelon. | | Some were encountered, but none Rose Clark, also expresses her small, but luscious fruit, was se-| to know that Paul was discharged cured from Robert Lewis, of 1611/ today and seemed fine. | work are continued after the holi-| Von Pfister street. | adult WPA classes. No period of LARGE JEWFISH IS Friday evening, December 10,; samesevening the melon was se-} |the commentator in Cincinnati| curely packed and sent by air-ex-| } press to the hospital at Point) | Pleasant. Today The Citizen re-/ | ceived a letter, addressed to L. P| | juice of which would probably| Artman, signed by Arnold S.| Lane, business manager of the) hospital, as follows: | “On behalf of the Point Pleas-| ant Hospital, I wish to take this opportunity to thank you for the; watermelon which we received from you for our patient, Paul The publisher of The Citizen, ho is likewise the publisher of “The patient’s mother, Mrs. | were considered sufficiently ripe | gratitude to you for your help. answer the demands, until a| “I think you will be interested: | “Thank you again for your in-| This was on Saturday, and the! terest and cooperation.” i Hold Interesting Session | wo SLILLZLAL LALA Girl Scouts of Troop No. 1 held | their regular meeting at Adams | Hall Friday afternoon. j |the funding committee of the WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE Dr. Julio DePoo, chairman of Monroe County Community Clin- ie, announces that the entire proceeds of the movie to be held tomorrow night at. The Palace theatre will go to the Clinic. The/| second and fourth Wednesdays of each month will be regular bene- fit days for the Clinic, through the of Gonzalo Bezanilla, manager. Miss Margaret Martinez, con- nected: with the Clinic, will be in charge of ticket sales at these per- | formances. A house to house cam- paign has already been inaugur-/| ated by Miss Martinez, and it is; planed that the Boy and Girl Scouts of the city will assist in the near future. Contribution boxes have been ordered and will be placed in all hotels, restaurants and drug stores in the city in an effort to raise the necessary quota. “We must meet a deficit of $300 each | month, and every penny donated | will help,” Dr. DePoo stated. A number of dances are defi- Police Officer Bienvenido Perez, | and was charged with attempting to break and enter with intent to} commit a misdemeanor, entered @ plea of guilty following reading of the charge, and was sentenced to spend three months in the county jail at hard labor. SCOUT TROOP HAS MEETING ORGANIZATION CONDUCT- ED LAST EVENING | | Baas sas@ai (CHANGE RADIO | BEACON SIGNAL | ANNOUNCEMENT MADE BY INTENDENT * a It was learned today at the! e lighthouse department from Sup-} Troop 5, Boy Scouts of Ameri-/ erintendent W. W. Demeritt that ca, held an enthusiastic tneeting | the code signal from the radio} Wastey House. Some lime was| changed from thece sashes anda . e chang m three es, a Spent in reorganization of the unit H dot, and notice was ‘ sent with Scoutmaster. Joseph Cates / out to mariners. The frequency | emery Bourn ny ig as/ and interval of operation had not} ou ing vities for the year} been changed. | 1938, were also taken up. The proposed ‘installation of al Among the plans was that of an| new beacon at Sea Blas, on the! overnight camp at Boca Chica, | gulf coast, was given as the rea- which will bea joint affair, Troop| son for the change, but it is not} 5 and Troop 52 participating. The} intended that the Dry Tortugas! | residence is necessary, it is said. Members of Arthur Sawy: Post 28, American Legion, are ing notified today of an import- | ant meeting to be held tonight 8} o'clock in the American Legion | hall on Whitehead street. There are a numbex of matters | to be brought before the meeting, regret are Sage a roof} on the hall, activities for which Other matters of paramount importance are to be discussed | and it is for these reasons a full} attendance is desired. } TUG WARBLER RETURNS HERE Wrecking Tug Warbler, which left port Tuesday afternoon, Jan- | uary 4, to go to the aid of the! American Steamship Walden, re- | eamp wil be held on Friday, Jan- | wary 28, and the troops will meet} on January 14 to formulate ar-| one will operate with the new! ported in trouble off the coast of | one, because of the frequency Jupiter, Fla., returned 7:40 o'clock bands available for use on the/Sunday morning and made fast) CAUGHT ON BRIDGE | AT NO NAME KEY if ete gE i E i Hi fell i fi Hi FRE The meeting opened with the nitely planned, buf no certain Pledge to tne Flag, scout oath and | dates have been set as yet. laws. i 1M or cng mae or on W, VALENZUELA | overnight camp at Pine Key this/| : coming Friday, weather per-} | mitting. j | Miss Marie Sands was unan- |imeusly elected as Senior Patrol Leader for the troop. | before j Scoutmaster Victor Larsen of .; | Troop No. 52 was a visitor at the | meeting and led the scouts in a; { fine. Axis .-* # { cea Toe ne ate ne a | Capt. Eva B. Warner, Assistant | SUNY, to She Count op100 for Vanessa Collins, Lieutenant Nel- his appearance in criminal court. lie Albury, Scouts Claudia Isham, Reason for the defendant ap- |Barbara Roberts, Blanche Cer- | jvantes, Florence Boza, Frances! | Collins, Letty Sullivan, Barbara | Sherman, Magdalia Solano, Betty | Adams, Florence Jarrett, Barbara | Jarrett, Carolyn Jarrett, Jacque- |line Doughtry, Eva Camus, Eve- lyn Solano, Minnie Gardner Schutt, Rose Mary Demeritt, Bar- bara Guerra, Annabel Moffett, | Marie Sands and Marie Stovall. | Boy Scouts Meet | First meeting of 1938 of Troop | No. 52, Boy Scouts, was held Fri- 'day night at scouthall in rear of chance. The defendant listened to the clinic building, with a full attend- | | ance. The meeting was opened with a ness covering a long period. Fun- | eral arrangements and services; will be announced later. Tangements. This meeting will be | coast, the signal was changed to held at headquarters of Troop 52.| preclude the possibility of confu-| Former Scoutmaster George F-| sion. | Archer and Scoutmaster Victor; Mr. Demeritt said that the Tor-} Larsen gave talks at last night's tugas beacon operates on a fre-/| meeting, following which it was | quency of 285 kilocycles; in con-/ coneeded that the year 1938 will! junction with Egmont Key and’ prove ta be a banner year for Fowey Rocks, which broadcast) scouting in Key West. | the signals during the first and} ‘ SEYMOUR LEAVES —— ‘loting “their FOR CHARLESTON PAYING VISIT moveorsncceomes: TQ KEY WEST TRIC WELDING AT NAVAL STATION Walter E. Huelle, managing editor of the New Castle Tribune, Chappaqua, and the North West- chester Times, Mount»Kisco, New York, accompanied by Mrs. Huelle, are visitors in Key West. Mr. and Mrs. Huelle were visit- ing in Miami for a brief period, and decided to come to Key West and enjoy the sights and delight- ful climate for about.two weeks. They..were.caliers. at The Citi- zen office this morning. STR. J. H. Seymour, electric welder, who was employed on the pro- jects at the naval! station, includ- ing the reconstruction of the fin- ger piers, left over the highway this morning, enroute to Charies- ton, S.C. Mr. Seymeur came to Key West about 10 months ago, having been transferred from the navy yard at Charleston, and immediately took up his duties as wekder.on” the Projects, and remained. until they were practically finished. © :* During his stay..in Key> West be bas made many ‘friends. Later} he was joined by his son, J. H. Seymour, Jr.. who lived for a while here and was eventually or- dered to St. Petersburg, where he Steamship Colorado, of the Clyde-Mallory Lines, arrived this . . | morning at 8:30 o'clock, docked at is now associated with the Dine-| the company’s piers and began to alas Machine Co. | unlcad a cargo of approximately They made a host of friends,| 70 tons, most of it miscellaneous. and Mr, Seymour is so much in-| The vessel finished discharging terested in Key West that he sub-} at 10:45 o'clock, and sailed for seribed to The Citizen to, be sent/Tampa to finish discharging and to his address in Charleston. | then sail for New York. we | >F 7 PORT to her berth at the Porter Dock company’s pier. | The Walden was encountered} and found to be without power, | having both boiler and auxiliary | trouble. She was towed into Mi-} ami harbor and the Warbler re-} turned to her home port. t STEAMER TEXAS BRINGS OIL. HERE Steamer Texas, of the Texas Oil Corporation, arrived in port Sun-! day morning at 4:10 o'clock} and berthed at the Porter Dock Company. j The vessel came direct from} Jacksonville, which port she visit-| ed after leaving Tampa, and had! in her tanks 168,000 gallons of gasoline and 210,000 gallons of} Diesel oil, for the company tanks / on the Porter Dock. After discharging, the Texas sailed, leaving at 1:10 o'clock, for Corpus Christi, Texas. ‘RECEIPTS FROM Returns from the sale of tickets to the Jackson Day Dance which was held Saturday night at the Club Miramar on Roosevelt | Boulevard show net receipts of $145, with two sources yet to be heard from. The original sale was $205.80 with expenses of $60, of which $30 was for the orchestra. Other incidentals amounted to $30 more, making the total of expenditures $60. | MBODLZIAL#. scripture reading by Patrol Lead-! TEMPERATURES 42 52 38 “4 52 icole A Boston 1 Brownsville __ Buffalo - Charleston ___ Chicago Corpus Christi oe Detroit " Dodge City Duluth - Eastport El Paso Galveston Hatteras Helena Huron a Jacksonville Kansas City — KEY WEST Little Rock __ Les Angeles Louisville Miami Mpls.-St. P. Nashville New Orleans _ New York Oklahoma City Pensacola Phoenix _ Pittsburgh — St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco - Tampa Washington Wytheville — ~ SSSRRILESALRLSESRKALASSSS| SERSsewReEseseyrzwsss MSHOLEMNSEERS| SSRBKBSBEs| SeSesREseNst Reginald Pritchard, of Pritch- ard’s Funeral Home, left this af- | i pane gots 2 i fas then /ternoon over the highway for | jfaken* up. Ne ‘seout-| Miami to make arrangements for | j master; Joseph—-Riehardson,—was* bringing the body to Key West, | er Roberts Smith. }troop members that is beimg giv- pen thescoutmaster. The scouts | gave him a big ovation, and a few j} of them thanked Mr. Richardson | for his interest and pledged their cooperation. | Scoutmaster Victor Larsen read for the approval of the scouts a | program for this month, and part- \ly for the year. WPA OFFICIAL ARRIVES HERE | Karl A. _Goodbread, field rep- resentative of the WPA division of employment, from the office in Miami, is in the city today, hav, ing arrived over the highway | yesterday for one of his regular visits. Today he is going over the situ- | ation in Key West and the county in company with Claude Gan- + dolfo, who is in charge of the WPA work in connection with | } one phase of the employment sit- uation. SOSSSSSSOSESSSSESSESESOSE BIG FREE DANCE Tomorrow Night At SLOPPY JOE’S BAR Geo. Dean's Rhythm Boys dollars. otisecoemens PAIAAL A 222 LI | Ce Ceeecesesccoseeesesee® iy j itt "SOIODOIL OS. Wa\o MacMulies To Make DETROIT ATTORNEY — CATCHES Sail Fisy; “st = Acteties ser | Relatiwe Te Prepesed 0 — ; eve | What hes become of that yacht club. was the cusshien emma ct |S C Singleton secostary of the ‘Chamber of Commerce iscat anc _ the reply was “The pacts club = at ight” | “And thet cominds ae” the secretary coniimoec cf s mee (img which us io be bei tomerrow “might in the belrees of La Cos cha Hotel a: wmct Maso Jemm D. MacMulie: wil presen: ihe = sult cis gooc mary hous = work it preparing « pigs of or ganzehon amc whch wil pro “ably resui is tne ssspme: =: Bringing in a beautiful sev- en-foot sailfish yesterday. | | § i | Pr if hit i fi | ! 4 t | | ! i | tf i i H hint | | I Hi ut ! : il FEGERFE & i i | f ; ! [ i i r | Wes: bor: icon «: the mos wna wes handec t = ct map or a 8 5 § [ fy i g i ' | ef to Miami and whe i sow te mcm Carer Heréwere Compenr = Charles B. 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