The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 12, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 10. Harry Baker Reelected YACHT DAMAGED eat Cttizr —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1938. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with am average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Gipsy Smith Gives Address | Chief Of Fire Department InsiDE ROUTE Leroy Torres Returned To _ Office. As. First Assist-|* ant In Election Held Last Night Despite assiduous and sweeping | efforts on the part of the oppon- | first assistant chief of the fire de- partment, the Key We.t organi- zation of paid members and vol- unteers evidenced their apprecia- | tion of the work of the incum-| bents, and returned them to their Positions at the election held last | night. There were but two of the of- fice-holders, Chief Harry M. Bak-} er and First Assistant Chief Leroy} Torres, who were opposed in tne’ REHEARSAL OF election. The chief's opponent, was Clarence Thompson, ae | anician with the department, and Assistant Torres was opposed by Joe Valenzuela, a member. When the 139 votes were count-| ORGANIZATION TO ASSEM- ed, the results showed the chief) to have received 92 votes and his BLE AT HARRIS SCHOOL HARRY M. BAKER | MISSING LIGHTS CAUSE VES- | Giving a short summary. of the} | work of the three great philoso-; SEL TO RECEIVE DAMAGED phers of the world and the value} PELLER WHILE of the greatest of them, Gipsy} = on WAY smith, Jr., evangelist, gave an TO KEY WEST | excellent, clear-cut address at the jwetkly dinner of the Stone es | Church Service Club at the Sun-/ Al . Johnston’s 94-foot | day School Building last night. suigh es . cae The first was a Greek, he said, | Mathis Houseboat, “Nicoya”, of| who gave the world the highest ah te 3 | form of wisdom up to that time, a New York, which is in Key West) 2m not afraid of death, who this morning, damaged its pro-| valued life only for what it was, | who reached thousands of people, saa! and stern roller bearings) whose philosophy was “Know) coming down the inside waterway | Thyself”. The reason for the) from Biscayne Bay to Bahia ™@¥ failures nowadays is that) "3 | they did not know themselves. | Honda in running aground three| Rey Smith personalized and said times because of missing» lights he once followed the sea and held | and buoys. Mr. Johnston has a master mariners certificate but sm-coming ‘here forthe last sev-| eventually found.his true voca- | tion. The second great philosopher was a Roman whose teaching was in the thought “Control Thyself”. | | An instance of the Civil War Gen-} need for yaehtamen | eral of Charleston, S. C., who the:,inside* route. | could control an army, who quell-| in all-the yacht clubs on | all ed a race rebellion by his pres- ence alone, but who died in a drunken stupor, was given. The Jast philosopher was a Jew whose great lesson was “Deny Thyself”. Nothing greater has been said since his time. In his Philosophy are contained the oth- er two philosophies. The sacri- fice of the sailor in Tennyson's “Epoch Arden”, whose wife, be- lieving he was dead, married again and on returning and learn- ing of the marriage, he went away never to be seen alive again, was emphasized. This Jew revealed the mother heart of The greatest manhood and the high- est ideals are those in which one dehies’ himself anything that will him or other members of so- cidty, the speaker explained. short piano selection by Bill Nevin was much en- ed. uests were Harry Beaver, rles H. Ketchum, Jr., Bill Névin, David Elkin, Octavio Recio, Edward C. Smith and E. J. Fephtel. Meeting For Tonight To Organize Yacht Club opponent 47. For assistant chief, the incumbent received 84 and his opponent 51. roll of officers the same as before the election was held. ‘The highest number of votes given any member of the depart- ment was 109, as shown in the count of Assistant Surgeon Gard- Thus leaving the} i AT 7 O'CLOCK | Key West, Hospitality Band will hold a rehearsal this evening, | beginning at 7 o'clock, in Harris | school, with the idea in view that more local musicians will be able inside the reef. They must go in- to Hawk Channel even now when they come down from Bahia Honda to Key West, and that par- | comfortable and perhaps ous than the Hawk Chanel route from Miami to Bahia Honda. The ner. The next highest was 101,| to attend and help to bufld a big-| Jacksonville to Miami is much as shown in the count of Treas- ger and better band. urer Archer, and the thira-high-| An invitation is being extended est was 99, as indicated in oe Key West, count of Dr. Galey. all students attend these Following the election and the | rehearsals. pater iagre honor at a crawfist-venchilado, | Thursday night of each week, a given by the paid members of the | Concert will be played at Bayview department in his honor, at the The will be the di- fooms of Number 3 Engine. “ ~ "The official ballot as furnished | Tection of Alfredo Barroso, and ‘The Citizen is shown below: will receive the full cooperation For ‘Chief of the Federal Music Project in ___ gq| the promotion of its activities. ~ 47| To each individual who plays ‘an instrument, or who owns g4| and wishes to learn to play, 51 | Cordial invitation is extended | attend this meeting tonight. j Sea i ee Fir ph Pinder arrived over the Duluth highway this morning accom-| Eastport ying the body of his father, | El Paso orge W. Pinder, who died yes- Galveston tekd morning in Miami. In Hatteras cdimpany with Mr. Pinder was | Havana S SF im Reginald Pritchard,| Helena ___ ho left for Miami yesterday to eel = mp arrangements for the Jac! ville i | Kansas City __ ervice will be held tomorrow KEY WEST noon 4:30 o'clock from the | Little Rock of the Pritchard Funeral | Los Angeles — Shuler Peele of Fiem- Louisville __ jethodist church, as-; Miami —_ _Wm. Halladay of | Mpls.-St. P. 1 thurch, will offi- Nashville ____ | New Orleans the Gulf Castle, Knights New York Golden Eagle, will attend | Oklahoma City ices in a body, and pall-| Pensacola ___ will be selected from the Phoenix ship. Pittsburgh ¢ Pinder is survived by two, St. Louis — joseph, of Miami, and Harry | San of Key West; one sister, Sit. Ste. Marie ouisa. Walterson, nd two | Seattle Charles and Juiius Pin- | Tampa Washington Williston Wytheville OXFORD, Eng.—Horace Fisher of this city was struck so hard by a flying partridge that one of his ribs was broken. BLBLESRBVSSSBBHBSSESBSLE a! sas.srsceusessaaty suvagugssagsuaressaseeses| seerdéxseesesuszas Your memories of 17? | to Key West, where ticular stretch is much more un-| Two courses are open to the! | Both of these models will be on | Key West Yacht Club which will exhibition tonight, ready for the be organized tonight at the meet-/ caustic comment that every sail- ing in La Concha Hotel. ‘They | boat man feels obliged to make | can specialize on one of the stock | whenever he sights a boat that | boats like the Moth of Ships, and he did not build. The lads of the be eligible to compete with other | manual training class at the Key | classes on the east coast, or they | West High School, have been in- can specialize on a Key West/vited to attend the meeting and model, and invite the rest of the;see what has happened to the world to try and beat them at/hulls which they were kind en- the sailing game. | have the opportunity to is believed that they will do| }ough to construct at the request of the Chamber of Commerce. ae i bE have sent them a bill demand- payment. | “Our equipment is at present! engaged in other work. How- Pte ange ayn ape egal jTeplace the lights. We are also! planning lights of sheet steel pil-| ing, filled with we ; land, | believe will | the impact Mr. | back because of an oil leak. | men of the} |the inside waterway, many would | net come down, and-it is his belief | that many have not come because “of that reason. Insurance com- panies will soon raise their rates’ | to such an extent that yachtsmen | wil find it too expensive to make | the run here, he added. ; |__Mrs. Johnston is accompanying Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Park. | Captaining the “Nicoya” is R. J. Hagberg. i i Mr. Johnston is part owner of | } the “Greenwich Times” of Green- | | Accompanying the larger boat is | the custom-built 42-foot “Doub- }lon”, Captain Erie Hansen. It is }an express cruiser. | Stil in port are the “Helen J.”, }indianapolis, Indiana, Owner J. D. Reese, who is here with Mrs. that there are now approximately 42,500,000 savings accounts in all types of banks throughout the United States, with total deposits of about $23,500,000,000. The average sum in each amount is $691.62. : S. C. Singleton! One of the things to be discus- been preparing practical sail- sed at the meeting, among others, of the. South Sea Is-| ig.e club ofdads who will build ak like |race models and get in training ber of {to bring glory and renown to the [Island City. (CUBA ARRIVES IS MISSING } FROM HAVANA | ERNOON ENROUTE TO TAMPA Officials of the Pan American; Steamship Cuba arrived from Havana yesterday afternoon with porense apemaced: et SEM) 16 tet catia ance eacensl cobs that the Samoan clipper was re-' i, passengers for Key West; 46 ported missing between Pago first and five second cabin pas- Pago, Samoa and Auckland; N. Z. sengers for Tampa. The flying boat, weighing 19° Key West arrivals: Ernesto tons, left Pago Pago for Auck-' Melby, Aurora Melby, Henry J. a distance of 1,800 miles, Otto, Mildred Otto, Donald Post- after being two hours in the air,'on, Julio Gumm, Lila Harber, sent ina radio message that the | nonald Bright, M. M. Horn, Ben- airship had been forced to turn jamin Firm, William Heher, Anice Heher, Herbert Helier, Helen In command of the plans is the Smiley, Abraham Matin, Jose transpacific flyer Captain Ed- Perez, Abelardo’Riverd. ward C. Musick, who was The vessel also had‘én the man- one of the first aviators to oper-. ifest, five tons of freight and ate out of Key West, about 10 three sacks of mail for Key West; years ago, when the first mail 139 tons of freight and two auto- and passenger line was started in ‘mobiles and nine sacks of mail for the United States, between Key Tampa. West and Havana. Sailing at 5 d'clock were the ——_—_____ ________- following bookings from this "BABB D AAA, wo. Mrs. HC Tsenudy, S PARTY LANDS SAILFISH 32750. ono: Watecer bt SECOND STRAIGHT DAY Camburn, and a number of sec- ond cabin passengers. MAKE CHANGE IN | CHANNEL MARKER Key West Main Channei light- ed whistling booy was changed today by the Lighthouse Tender Ivy, which Sef this'morning for HE tthe purpose and reterned to port * Announcement’ was made that the characteristit'ef the light is changed from a flash of three seconds duration, to a short and long flash. KILLS SELF OVER GRAVE LEXINGTON.—Grieving over the death of his wife. George Bryant killed himself over her PD AOAA AMADA cree ix the cemetery in this city. of taxing property. New United States Destroyer Dunlap To Visit This Port TAX PAYERS MAY HAVE SIT DOWN STRIKE THREATENED BY PROPERTY OWNERS IN CENTRAL FLO- RIDA CITY: OPPOSE TAX PAYMENTS (Special to The Citizen) OCALA, Fia., Jan. 12—“A sit- is. @hreatened property taxpayers in one of down strike” VISITING KEY WEST tral Florida's most j..progressive., cities, according. to. a news.si appearing in the Ocala Star. 4 According to the Star, City Treasurer, Stephen Jewett, re-! ported to the City Council that | “Since the Murphy Act went into} effect people have been coming into my office saying that they were not going to pay their taxes, | peoples whose names you would be surprised to know. This. threatened “sit-down strike” on the part of property owners, according to the Star, strengthened the councilmen in their stand on the tax question. The Murphy Act was condemned by the copncil as “The work of the devil himself.” In commenting on this situa- tion, the Tax Revision League said today: “It is little wonder that the property onwers are re- fusing to pay their taxes when we consider the many inquities of our obsolete ad valorem method, “Property taxpayers have for ‘years been made the goat of an! antiquated, unjust and inequit- able tax system which forces them to pay taxes far in excess of their equitable share of the cost of government, whether con- sidered from the standpoint of ability to pay or from the stand- point of benefits received from government. “Then, to make bad matters worse, the Murphy law was en- acted which penalized those who have paid their taxes regul‘arly and placed a premium on tax de- linquency by allowing virtually a cancellation of back taxes. “And, as a fitting climax tax gatherers continue to push total tax levies upward—as an illustra- tion, total taxes levied by the City of Miami have been increas- ed 45 per cent in the past two years.” * itiw & COUNTY BOARD. it: MEETS: Second regular'méé@tirig of the month of January of the board of county commissioners will be held this evening in the office of Clerk Ross C. Sawyer at the county court house. Reading and check of the de- positery accounts for the month of December, and other matters of minor importance, are the only items scheduled for discussion tonight. FAIAAL LL LLL ANOTHER KEY WEST PROJECT APPROVED (Special te The Citizen) BPaIIaaaaas in Key West, and Mr. Lovering was caller at the office of The He will be kindly as the publisher of feteare where he remained i out his interests several ago. Mr. and Mrs. Lovering to remain in the city until Fri- day, and during that time hope to meet many of their did friends. charged with setting up and oper- ating a game of chance, was the only one heard in criminal court this morning, and the trial was based on his plea of guilty, made before Peace Justice Enrique Es- The defendant entered the same plea as that offered at the preli- iffminary hearing, guilty. and was vaaktenced by Judge William V. yrAlbiry to pay a fine of $25 and ot Ernest Butler's case of the “nemsupport; of his mimor chil went dren) was calied for trial, but as the Gefendant did not appear his bond of $100 was’ ordered <s- treated, and an alias capias is sued, on order of thé court, for his arrest. Those were the only two cases heard at the session, and a recess was ordered until 9:30 o'clock to- morrow morning. and Mrs. William G. Camero Whitehead street, who was badly injured recentiy in a moter accident, is now rapidly erating, and was able to be for a short while today for the first time. Miss Camero's numerous friends wish for her a speedy and complete recovery. Texas. They were delivered. Fifteen Hundred Ten Ves- a 1 check enti TO KEY west Hudson Burr. the the Y MC Key West seversl to Havanese several Gays later t preceatively of the - tended while here The followmg setter & achtres: ed tw S C Sangieton secrecy of the Chamber of Commerce esc was writen after the return of Ge party to Gauneswilie “T wish to take tus epperta=s: AT Wen. ass if at any time we might service & you