The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 18, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 15. Key West Takes Forty- "OO O° 2° O° 2 iM GMs Fifth Place In Florida VISITOR CATCHES Cities With Second Class Postoffices Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Gal- lagher, are among the first of the winter visitors, to catch an African pompano this sea- son and it was a magnificent specimen of the fish. with its brilliant coloring and long and tapering dorsal stream- By PAUL MAY (Special Ww: jon Correspondent of The Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 18. —Key West residents invested their savings with the United States Treasury to the tune of | $18,000,put into U. S. Savings bonds inthe 12 months ended last, August. 31, the Treasury De- Most Key West residents paige COLITIILDs START MOVE TO LIGHT WHITEWAY INATED FROM ANGELA TO EATON STREET Leesburg led the state’s second Class postoffice cities in per capita Treasury officials said letters inost buyers were setting hk @ little cash for future | education of children, the hoped- ‘for Plans for the perfegt lighting of purchase of a home some day, : : oi that section of Duval street, be- or for anticipated trip to aed = tween Angela and Eaton streets, _by avesfoing ahead rapidly, and_it 1-| the proposed idea is found feas- ‘took $4,507,175 of the 2.9 per interest bonds that mature 10 years. The national total reported at $468,108,900. put in effect. One of those who are working | on the plan is Louis Pollock, the | jeweler, who said, when asked by The Citizen, that an investiga- tion and examunation of the elec- TAX MATTERS “ connection is about completed and estimates are now being | made for the opera®on costs. | _As soon as these have been fur- RULING RELATIVE nished the proposition will be placed before owners of those ; homes and owners of places of | business, which will be effected |by the innovation, and the }amount of money necessary for In collaboration with Mayor! | Willard Albury and Captain of) from restaurant, | oy 9. pert? Camere, is ee anal and like places of matter for some time, and it was! Le ee only recently that Electrician} @keerpt from the law as | wick Osterhoudt was employed to! 1 in. the letter is explicit | make an investigation as to the | c | condition in which wires and con- to collect | nections were found. a ot | Section 5, of Chapter 18011, | of Florida, Acts of 1937,; each restaurant, cafe, cafe- | IN SICK Junch stand, etc., when such is not operated as part store. “Restaurants should be re-| James Hessley was an arrival ‘Quired to pay the tax on the this morning on a plane of the ‘amount of stock maintained, as | U.S. Coast Guard, and is consign- j by Section 5, including’ 2d to the Marine Hospital for supplies, as @ell as cigars, treatment. | igarettes, etc.” | Mr. Hessley is a member of the! : | personnel of the Steamship Dixey | ANNOUNCE DEATH | sis‘ ite "nter Suttn OF S KNOWLES |in Miami, from whence he was sent to Key West. iON ..News has been received in the, In the issue of yesterday The! city announcing the death of Silas Citizen carried a personal of Mr. Knowles, age 70, at Tallahassee, and Mrs. Lyman Adams’ depar- | Fia., on Sunday. ture after visiting with .Mr,) The deceased is survived by his Adams’ brothet Hamilton Adams. | widow, Mrs. Annie Knowles; four It should have read they were daughters, Hilda, Hazel, Dotty visiting with Mr. Adams’ mother, 9 + Mrs. Lydia Adams and other rel- Knowles, all of Miami; atives. | sisters, Mrs. Belle Freeman Renee MID - WEEK DANCE Tomorrow Night—10 to ? RAUL’S CLUB John Pritchard's Orchestra No Cover Charge No Stags cresyl EF AFRICAN POMPANO}" wc. ana Mrs. J. W. Manns, of Detroit, Mich., have just rounded out their fourth seasonal visit to Key West, as the house guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Thompson, at 1112 Angela street. As old visitors to the city, Mr. and Mrs. Mann are in a position to give views as to improvements, and now feel that to give un- stinted praise is but to give the city and its people what is due them. They contemplate making fine barracuda anda 40-pound black grouper. In the fishing party were Mr.| the University of Minnesota, and is now enroute to Mexico City. Mr. and Mrs. Mann left yes- terday for Miami, where they will spend a few weeks before going to New Orleans to attend the Mardi Gras, and hope to come back to Key West before leaving for Detroit. They wish to take this oppor- tunity to “thank the fine people of Key West for the genuine hos- pitality, which has made this vis- | it such a happy one”. MRS. SAUNDERS | DIES THIS A. | | | } Boston } Brownsville | Buffalo - PLANE BRINGS = So ible, within a short time it will be| FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON Annie E. Saunders, 74, died this morning 1:30 o’clock in the residence, 1307 Pine street. Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon 4 o’clock from —. Che Kry West C KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1938. HATTERAS, N. C., Jan. 18.— brush, grass and shrubbery. | to a state similar to that the first time trying to choose between| When their work is done, a cfeated under a recent act of | ment with $1,000,000 to -dinance itdoor: pleasure seekers. “ ALONG “ATLANTIC GRAVEYARD” U. S. TAXPAYER erage jo We | Alongside the “Graveyard of the | Atlantic,” more than 700 CCC | boys are tieing down North Caro- |. In the wind and spray of the TO REINDEER INDUSTRY. atiantic, they are working on a FREE RIDES FOR SOLONS National Park Service Project to | white men found here. Their ter- (Special to The Citizen) | Fitory extends fmom Kitty Hawk WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—A| down by Nags Head and Hatter- death and taxes, looked to being in league with : a congress, A paradise of hunting, Claus during the fiscal yeary ing, bathing and other sports the reindeer industry ingles, | Those who go there will be on man the rim of an untamed ocean Eels on the, stenpthe | cn iid feared as the “Grave jue coastal park is to be! Last ‘Might At Local Airport WPA State Director Of 9 “= ‘STS Education Arrives Here o=-= ‘==2= "= rip Nertrward | 1 | { Mrs. Iva T. Sprinkle, W. P. A.| Percival, director of district wel- State director, division of educa-| fare board. tion, who heads all the federal) Miss Percival and Miss Mattox education units in the state, ar- jrived last night over the high-| 2 eeegey ede oor to. | city, and.also to see the Island forthe first time in an official... —— | City. Coming im the same car | capacity. They will imspect an’ ao ; with her is.Miss Martha Now- adult education departments and his yeckt “Aussie Bae Gcke lin, who is»state. supervisor of | the Nursery School here A con- adult education, Mrs. Bernice ference was held today with trict 4 and 5, Miss Edna Mattox, intendent of Public Instruc- }W. P. A. social work field rep- and Mrs. Grace Crosby, W. lina’s roving outer banks with Aup Onn crm |restore the historic island fringe weary public, having a tough /as, to Ocracoke. by providing the Federal be opened to thousands of gent who pays taxes uncomplain- | yard of Ships”. Treacherous |Tesentative and Miss Mary W. teacher. ingly every time he buys cigar- ettes or toothpicks—it will be | shoals and currents have taken a steady there ever since sea-borne ;|dent Roosevelt is asking him to that ng budget proj P - | Satie found the shore route. An Early Description finance are Government experi-| When the work began of re- ments on the peanut and a dole} claiming the narrow strip of san- for “loyal” Shawnee Indians on|dy beach between the Atlantic the tepee-dotted Oklahoma plain.|and the mainland sounds, the | It will tickle the patient tax-}area from Currituch to Point payer to discover further that/Lookout had become largely a | from the yoke suspended on his|barren, windy wave-scarred shoulders dangle the salaries of | stretch. two coffee roasters in the CCC,} It bore little resemblance to a the cost of recoining Danish coins primevial picture drawn by an from the Virgin Islands, the erad-| early chronicler who described | { |fish investigation staged by the|as the very beating and surge of Commerce Department. ‘the sea overflowing them * * * The taxpayer is called upon to|climbing towards the top of the everything from free sub-' high cedars, and I think that in way rides for congressmen to a/all the world like abundance is $766,000 appropriations for the/not to be found.” poeenention af food yer toute , Kill. Devil Hil Saved pa "Ss a poor fish”! - When white settlers came, | During 1938-'39 the public will tment of various sun- |Sny National Guard mules, horses| Wide open to the. wind and waves: 4 ponies, while $83,000 will go! Devastation went on until the lto the Agrictulture Department to | 0vernment found it would have provide homeless but busy bees/ ‘© moor down the rapidly shifting | with food and shelter. | Kill Devil hill to erect its impos- | Also, the same department will /iag:memorial tower honoring the | devote $79,000 to the production | Wright brothers for their first air- of a super-colossal epic in film to/ Plane flight. A thick matting of vie with the best Hollywood pro-|8tass and shrubbery was induced ducers. This compares favorably | to grow in the sandy surface and | ication of cattle ticks and a shell-! the dunees as “so full to graypes | ‘Plan To Entertain Officers And Men Off U. S. S. Dunlap | Mayor Willard M. Albury, and | home of John Delgado, who is @ |members of the city council brother-in-law of Commander A. working in unison, have started E. Schraeder, in command of the | arranging for the entertainment | vessel. | of the officers and men of the U.| Monday evening there will be |S. S. Dunlap, which is due to|a dance given at the Cuban Club, | arrive in port January 22, and re-|from 10 to 2, at which all of the }main until January 27. i i tt i titi ff pt b i raat Nit Vetit fLc j A itt i i j i if a ‘ |that evening guests of the navy/ 10 there will be a cocktail | and army and county and city of- | given at the home of City |ficials and guests, will meet at|cilman and i te i f ' | | if f nf i I Rabe of of to as tr @ L . enjoy themselves | they see fit and find opportunity. | The following day the officers are to be invited to attend a cock- |in the city |tail’ party, to be given at the afternoon to di 4 C. HERNANDEZ SCHOOL GROUP the First Methodist church, where | with last year’s appropriation of | Kill Devil hill has not budged| the body will be placed at 2 o'clock. Lopez Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Saunders is survived by but two distant relatives, Mr. and whom she lived. TEMPERATURES | } | | | | g é Hi VVSSESSRSSVLSSSRRSLILAAeAKs | sesuueusavsuadeaaee Apalachicola Atlanta Detroit _ Dodge City Duluth _ Eastport El Paso ___ Galveston ____ Hatteras Havana __ Helena Huron - Jacksonville _ Kansas City __ KEY Miami .____ Mpis.-St. P. Nashville ___.. New. Orleans __ New York ___ City Pensacola ___ Phoenix —— Pit Salt Lake City San Francisco _ Sit. Ste. Marie _ Seattle Tampa Washington Williston Wytheville _ CoS BBoSRBSFBHaoRRaLELSBLSSH | LVSSSBSBAVSaBn ERs jan equivalent sum for similar | since. | work. | Emanuel J. Byrum, an old saw- | The Bureau of Entomology mill man who landed on Cape | (bugs) will spend $38,000 to stage Hatteras in 1934 to establish a | mortal battles between foreign CCC camp, made a similar dis- covery. He learned that by put-/ ~ imsects and parasites, while $89,- |Mrs. John H. Saunders, with 999 will be expended to track down and destroy the “phony” peach and “mosaic peach”. After glancing through the 908- page budget, another taxpayer of- fered the following verse: “I give I earn to Uncle Sam, what I am, and I am Grass and the dogwood trees /Sary examiriation for junior ad- —er, : sh when I'm broke, I'll live on air”. le said it didn’t rhyme very | well, but that you could sing it to a medley of tunes ranging from “On the Road to Mandalay” to “Over There” and “I Love You Calling at the office of The} Citizen today, was Mrs. Lois Busto, who desires to call atten- tion to a error which is being cir- culated to the effect that she draws a pension from the state amounting to the sum of $840. It is true that such a bill was introduced by Representative Bernie Papy, in which was asked | a pension of $480 annually for Carol, of Chicago, arrived in Key it is stated. Mrs. Busto and $120 annually for each of her three children. However, titis bill was killed later during the session, by one which was introduced by Senator Arthur Gomez. DEATH RATE GAINS Washington.—The death rate of the country showed a slight gain during 1937, according to prelim- inary reports of the Public Health Service, which revealed that 446,- 524 persems died in 86 cities as compared with 448.888 in 1936. However, a decrease in the infant mortality rate was noted. Among the visitors in Key West | today is Junior Administrator at | Claude Hernandez, who is meet- ting down brush on the beach,| ing old friends and enjoying a va- the sea could be made to bring cation with his family. | back the soil it had stolen. Brush fences are erected 0! time connected with the Marine catch deposits from the sea and | layer after layer is added until the surface ‘has been built back. |then are planted to save the soil Ministrator, passed the test with |A jolly taxpayer, a jolly tax-) from: new*taids of the waves. Park Nucleus Formed | -Byrum and his helpers saved {the famous old Hatteras light- house, which had been abandoned to the sea, by this process. He is now consulting superintendent of the project to reclaim the entire outer banks from Kitty Hawk to Hatteras and beyond. The government already owns. There will be a rehearsal for D€t, and it will be some time approximately 10,000 acres for po- the principals in the Mikado at tential use in creating the coastal the Overseas Hotel at 8 o'clock on park and is expected to acquire Wednesday evening of this week. |much more territory. ‘RETURN HERE Mrs. Charles Mertes and West and have already rented a home, furnished, at 1409 Newton| MANY TREES PLANTED street. Mrs. Mertes, who is 83 years Washington. —Since the inaugu-/ young, has enjoyed the winter ration in 1934 of the “shelter-belt™ ' season in Key West before, and has a number of friends who will ports that 271,000,000 trees have be happy to welcome her. HOLIDAY NOTICE Robert E Lee's Birthday. Wednesday, January 19, a legal holiday in the State of Florida, this bank will not be open for business on that day. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. jani7-2 | o4 } | son, bers of the cast are to be present, Hospital in“Key West. About i t } aS - i « § if ree ly ft , i flying colors,,and a short time afterwards was given a transfer to Pittsburgh, OPERA GROUP TO MEET TOMORROW | es url i . i | t rt t i ter that number mast be |For that reason, it is urged all teachers who can attend meeting be there. If 2 member not present, his or her name not be enrolled as a charter | bret Hite if iNet reel | | , +4 4 5 fore the name can be reentered on the lists. For this reason « 100 percent attendance is especially desired, it is A speaker will be at the and an excellent program is i [ All principals are urged to be present, and any others who may be interested are cordially invit- ed. This rehearsal will take the place of the one usually held an Friday nights. i next Monday night and al] mem-) il i | rT i i 1} : 1 ; just antecedent to ff ik f ’ it il i H a ‘i rr | i eit 1 : t ai rt ¥ fi i [ i { f tH i i | the Forest Service re- iF i | fit li been planted in national forests and on private land. i : ° le i LEBHTEE BIG FREE DANCE Tomorrow Night At SLOPPY JOE’S BAR Geo. Dean's Rhythm Boys —NO ADMISSIONt_ eeccccccccococooccs | 06 to Albany for | i wap N, i i f GOOD HARDWARE IS ESSENTIAL ON ANY JOB. FOR NEW WORK OR FOR REPAIRS--FOR ANYTHING IN GOOD HARDWARE