The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 17, 1938, Page 1

4 3 Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Now Planning :Forw Ti To Key Wet ae Sains For Date ne mi sland City Received |" $85 ROD AND REEL From Various Sections Of Country Recovering an $85 rod and reel, after the rod had been off in and Hi nf it E F af “Such an amazing and unex- pected large number of tourists have asked for information on Key West at our A.A.A. bureau in Miami‘that we have been obliged’ to come here and gather up-to-the-minuté material on ho- tel, restaurant, fishing and en- tertainment facilities, and its! many unique features. This in- formation will not only be used 1931 Biscayne Bivd., but will also be incorporated into a special supplement which will be mailed to the 875 A.A.A. clubs in the country”, said Frederick O. Gaith- @r. manager Travel and Service departments of the South Florida » Motor Club, Miami branch of the | E i i Ee: cEE i iy | E i RE EE g | i E F f ' ! I i I i fy ii g* t i : iF MY i FF Se ee ‘The demand for facts about Key West, Mr. Gaither said, hs) 777 OOO OL. never been as great before. The ws omer on searee QPERA. GROUP i SU SERRSRSUSASSSSNLSSSVISS| BSVSVRVes| see The Key THREE. CARS _ FOUND LATER » PORTED SATURDAY NIGHT: SEARCH WAS STARTED IM- MEDIATELY Three disappearances.of. auto- mobiles were reported Saturday | night to the police force, but all) of them were recovered later on. The first to disappear was the car of Freemen Hall which was they remained but a brief time, | when they left the carnival and} began to look for the car, they} found it had disappeared. It was later found to have been | left at Raul’s ‘pavillion, otherwise | the Club Miramar, but another | car to take its place had been | taken. This was a station wagon, | which was later found to have! been driven to the Marti Monu- ment in Bayview Park, and there | it was left. Later on police officers were! advised that a Cadillac car had | been stolen from a guest at the! Casa Marina. This car was later | found near the Kindergarten | building on South street. Up to the present no clue, or; clues, have been found as to who the miscreants were, it was said. | BOATS COMPETE maneuvers of the Chamber of Commerce proa and the non-de-} Script catamaran yesterday aft-! ernoon at the swimming poll on| Roosevelt Boulevard. | » In competition was a sloop, the | same length as the exotic boats, | |namely forty-five inches, but not} up she was at a dis-| and could not give the; tive showing that was de-}| I proa lived up to her thou- | -year-old tion and was! arrow, the catamaran | | has possibilities that will repay | the enterprising sailor who will) build one and take out parties, it; OC hkdkekadhadad di } POUND BLUEFISH | | future. ‘SIIsesees: KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1938. Mosquito Contral Project For Key West Is Approved One of the most comprehensive larvae consuming fish in per- | projects of its kind was recently | manent pools and cisterns, and do approved for Key West and ad- | other appurtenant work.” jacent territory, and the project; The project will operate on the papers, with official signatures, | Island of Key West, and nearby was received at WPA heed- | Keys in the county, with super- quarters this morning. [vigety hee peerties at Rey Went. It is a mosquito control and and is sponsored by the State eradication project, and provides | Board of Health. for a force of men to be put to| It was learned at the WPA of- work to “drain, clear, fill and fice this morning, that the proj- spray, low areas, eliminate arti- | ect will be started within a week ficial and introdi jor 10 receptacles, i in luce | or days. PER REL dore Arthur Curtis James lux- | urious 123-foot Cox and Stevens twin-screw diesel yacht, the Roland West Reviews Case In Thelma Todd’s Demise Roland West, wealthy}‘retired) | motion picture producer; « ‘the/in his ‘own words, Mr. West has| — “mystery man” of ‘the actress, “in Ho faad try to uct “Annette R”; Thelma Todd’s death; who is i) ahead by stepping Ne othe: other | Ripley’s 143-foot Diesel yacht, port aboard his yacht, fellow, he said, but eventually | “Elfreda”, the second largest to owned by the retired president of the Field Point Chemical Manu-| “student 5, facturing Company, of ynctaphysics” |. L; the M. F. Reddington 77-foot said that the death was an “open| they are tripped by their urn | Stns fo Seet Reapeeer ead 7 and shut-case of accidental death Methods. “You can’t attach im-/ and if the facts had been revealed | Portance to that way of living. from the very beginning everyone | the uselessness of making a pile | Corrugated Box Company, Cleve- would have realized it. There| of money by brutal methods. You| /@nd, Ohio. ‘ were no marks on her body and know the favorite custom of old| Other yachts in port are the 94- you have to be alive to die of, miljionaires in frantically giving foot “Nicoya” and the 42-foot carbon monoxide gas fumes as the! away their money to clear their, “Doubloon”, owned by Albert W. irae, Second ee Se | sins. West is a short, pleasant-| faced man but shows the effects! the good you do for others with-|Tell’s 67-foot “Zephyr”; Roland of the strain of the grand jury in-| out expectation of return: You're} West’s 68-foot “Miramar”; the vestigation into the case, “spurred | piling up a real treasure for your-| “Pinmar”, owned by Pink Happ; on”, he said, “by newspapers on | self then. That’s why I'm giving| the “Helen J.” of J. D. Roose, and the coast”. ; jyou this story even though I'm| the “Mystery” of H. H. Benton. “Even Hearst”, continued Mr.| tired of talking about the matter.| Mr. James is commodore of the West, “said his papers were ham- Dog's you go trxiuit'to return the) Rew Tote et eS ao i | » either, it! country, is one Ly mering at me too strongly, but | favor, either, ee eS etree Brig! er owned by J. C. Andrews, re- “You know, the real way_to| into Key West is by boat if! i cafe at the time of her death in/ty and contentment of the island. He is now ii I came here twenty years ago the h son, asked if he could give them a) a 2 chance. The answer was always) i | n the same, that he was retired| been an actor, playwright and | president of the C. from producing. Invariably they stage producer. He entered pic- | Great Northern, Northern persisted asking for an interview | tures in 1916 with Joseph Sch- | and the Western Pacific r: and an opinion oh the possibili-/enck and directed the first pic-| Today the party is visiting F ties of the “little one”, even prom-|ture that Schenck produced. | Jefferson. e E ising to come a hundred miles or Among pictures he supervised are | The “Elfreda”, captained so for the interview. | “The Bat”, “The Doe” and “The | Peter Nilsen, is returning With a philosophical bent of| Monster”. West Indian waters FUNERAL RITES (CUSTOMS HEAD HERE TUESDAY COMES TO CITY Funeral services for Victor L.| A. J. Angle, collector of cus- Portuguese, who died last Thurs-| toms for the State of Florida, was | day in the U. S. Marine Hospital;}ancarrival this-morning on the| K®Y West 25 the base will be held tomorrow -afternoon| Steamship: Cuba»for a seasonal West has at 5 o'clock from the chapel ‘of| visit with’ the local unit, headed | Pritchard Funeral \ Home to) St. by G. Nz Geshern. i § mh fe ai Fhseeed } Fl | i that he will definitely 5 i gs : Porter, admitted which he had ing lost was really only $33. wanted to impress Ployes, he said. CASA MARINA extends a cordial invitation to the residents of Key West and winter visitors to avail themselves of the facilities provided by the new Casa Marina Bar and Cocktail Terrace. Starting this week—our series of Cocktail-Dansants— to which residents and visitors are invited—will be held on TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS Dancing will be from i to 1 o'clock. We are also hold- ing Gecktail Dancing on the Terrace every day extept Sun- day, f#om 5 to § o'clock. Bmve Garson. presented by Howa:d Lanin of New York and Philadelphia. and his Casa Marina Dance Orchestra. wili preside at these Dansants and Cocktail Hours. “Aloha Lii”; the 65-foot “Halaia”, | tired president of the Cleveland} | Johnston; Lt. R. W. Orrell’s 72-/ “The only important thing is| foot “Dawn III”; Mrs. F. W. Or-| i 5 f rat Citizen Five More Yachts ee os ee : Yachts arriving at the Basin | greatest winter yachting center in sen also reiterates the fact, voiced| = J#= & Sunday. te Jan. years, to iy E if is EE He i t ; 1 j RE i s rf A i elit itl tit Lr | i i intel ag i if i | | i Ditwik i iP ; if Bs ao i pe i. F Hy i ty lr I 4 F 2 i ! : E i | F E 8 2 i [ i | byee i j i gt é i [! 5 ak F i : : i ge it Hi “el te { Ih bee. ' aT At i i i ke | ; DE: cil | i l | . c i Hy ref E [ | ite bit