The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 1, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years.Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 27. emingway Tells Of War, New Play; Outlines War Correspon-} "a Avs 8 dent’s Life; To Shew]| War Film Here; Regrets | Local Criticism Of Novel | Ernest Hemingway. nofed au- thor, who resides on Whitehead street, in an interview with The Citizen drew a graphic picture of @ war correspondent’s life in Spain and also discussed his latest work, a play. not named as yet. which will soon be produced in Broadway, and which -was written in Madrid during @ dull in the ‘battle when the Loyalists were awaiting an anticipated “drive” of General Franco. The play, Mr. Hemingway says, is of life under fire in the Madrid Hotel where he resided, the same hotel which has been struck over 30 times, one shell entering his room and “‘ i yim SUFFERER FROM": STRANGE MALAD¥}: TAKES RELAPSE Robert J. Lewis of this V Lckcheud uhh uheut uf) JOSE ZARATE | | Interv KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1938. STATE OFFICERS Carle C. Conway, “OF CONSERVATION | W ARRIVE ON BOAT ww urensor or ex. INCREASE IN | AT POSTOFFICE CENSES State salt water conservation | COMPARISON MADE FOR JAN- } arrived aboard the power boat| “Allapatchee” and are enforcing} PERIOD IN 1937 the conservation laws pertaining! = ead rs see ESS Comparative figures for Janu- | checking up on fishing and spong- is A. C. Silvers, W. L. Rose and} sale of stamps at the local post- | Roy Braman, conservation agents | office, with the sales of the same | working through: the offices of R. | month in the year 1937, show an L. Dowling, supervisor of conser-| | vation. Brag | appreciable increase for 1938. On their last visit here in Aug-| Figures secured from’ Postmast i ust, they founda great deficiency |.teg Sam Harris show that fn Jan: |censes and “were obliged to en- force the law vigorously. How- since Friday night, they report | $593.98, or 19 percent. that 70 percent of the boats be-| Gaines are noted all along in ‘tween Boca Grande and Key the business of January for 1938, Reorganizer | officials, shellfish division, have} UARY OF CURRENT YEAR WITH THAT DURING SAME) mended steps that have been |in the number of fishing boat li-| yary, 1937, the sale amounted to | *Elfreda”, | $2,879.63, compared to January) |le¥e was i | ever, after a preliminary survey, | 1938, sales, of $3,453.61, a gain of | | Stock Exchange nC ester | In port yesterday aboard the | “Elfreda”, 145-foot Diesel yacht, | } for the famed fishing of Key West, was Carle C. Conway, chairman of the committee, ap- {pointed by President Cherles R. |Gay of the New York Stock | Exchange to study reorganization | |of the body, and which recom-j } By PAU praised over the nation for their WASHINGTON. D. C.. Feb. 1— | soundness, practicality and broad- aga Value of commercial tonnage at | With Mr. Conway is Edwin £.|Xey West harbor during 1836 Frost, partner of Mr. Conway’s Teached a total higher than at ing boat licenses. Aboard the boat|@‘Y of the current year, for the| <n in Norton Conway and Com-| any time since 1931, while the |pany. Mrs. Frost is accompany- | amount of freight handled at the ing the two. port slumped from 1935, it was Fishing yesterday in the Gulf disclosed here today im the an-| | they caught a large number of | nual report on water borne com- | Jacks‘and groupers, and Mr. Con- merce for that year just released | Way-characterized it as “the best | by the War Department. }day’s fishing of my life”. |. The survey was handled by the | Peter Nilsen, captain of the! office of army engineers, and is owned by H. B. H. Rip-| compiled over virtually a year instrumental in bringing | following the last daté covered in | the party here’ Mr. Conway and / the report. It is on the basis of {the Frosts wanted a quiet place| this survey that the department {with wonderful fishing, and Nil-| makes its decisions as to the ad- sen, one of Key West’s most per- | ditional needs of harbors and wa- sistent boosters, immediately | terways and improvements there- Shows Value’ OfeCom Tonnage In Key West Harbor $=" “= Special Washington Correspondent of The Ontines Che Key West Cittzrn —— eS Sponge Sales Monday Near Mere Vessels Wah Good Catches Wi Ace —— L MAY died $2913 euth <ttuige| “= Coee eas the value placed on 103,402 tons. cipal apemge Geck peaerdey gore highest point the value reached before a decline to 1935, after the * =Suat—=_i= 2 ap = 1930 total values of $4,704,845 sponge: tor sme mee el a The engineers broke down the shipments to and from Key West Sty Se cee per oo other ae to show that the largest ship- which hewe token gine Gating ments received during the year under study were of fuel oil and Siar semen cf Ss peat mixed lumber, 23,199 and 1229 : Yemerse: te ste eee tons of these commodities bemg recorded respectively as coming of 190 buackes: cf euch wl into the harbor. Smallest item was two tens f seck. prouge SUEZ < emcee = Shipments amounted to 3440 yellow which ssi for SHAQ and tons, with 1,311 tons of scrap iron and 600 tons of lighthouse me “2 Sumche ci ges wiih ott terials and supplies ranked high- .. gem Tee aegec ot = eon est in coastwise shipment up things”. The Madrid Hotel is| | | West have secured their licenses. They have checked the size of | IS ARRAIGNED. the nets used in mackerel fishing and find those in Monroe County in the money orders issued, mon- ey orders paid, and also in the! postal savings account. In January, 1937, money orders ; seized the opportunity to recom-} mend this city. His party has had a wonderful time here, and think | to. Key West tonnage in 1936 to- talled 66,350, as compared with nonmetallic minerals, machinery sw ss only 12,000 yards from the front | line. One night it was hit nine times. It is a seven room place. It is the only hotel with hot water, the author said, so people stay on in spite of the! danger. An unexploded shell which fell in the hotel was made into a lamp, the nickel point polished and & shade with a bat- tery firing placed on it by the hotel porter. Hemingway brought it back for “the kids,” he said. Author Hemingway now wants to write short stories of wer life, and will soon begin work. Just when he may be called. back Bilas casted ct on eal criticism of his latest novel, “To Have and Have Not”, Mr. Hem- ingway regretted that this is so| and said, “I am delighted to be} back in Key West. It is my; home and where my family is. | PLACED UNDER BOND: CASE TO BE HEARD IN CRIM- INAL COURT Jose Zarate, charged with ag-| gravated assault on the person of William Malone, was given a pre- liminary hearing yesterday after- noon before Peace Justice En- rique Esquinaldo. The evidence educed at the hearing. was such as to warrant ing Zarate under bond of $100 for trial at the next term of criminal court. Two other charges are said to | to conform to the law. | Quite a bit of small crawfish | | Striking and trapping have been | $36,341.79, or a gain of $10,452.09, | reported, they say, and they warn | for the month. those who are caught in this prac-| Money orders paid during the |tice that they will be apprehended month of January, 1937, totalled | in the near future. |$12,104.20, while durnig the month | They are very much interested | just ended, total payments were | in the clam beds of Monroe Coun- | $15,225.24, or a gain for the month |ty waters, the largest in the of $3,151.04. world, situated from Shark River} Postal savings receipts at the to Indian Key. They are trying | end of the year 1937 showed a to- j4o conserve the bed for future! tal of $288,825, while at the end } generations. It has been reported | of January for this year total re- that the bed is being rapidly de- | ceipts were $295,045, a gain dur- pleted and an investigation is be- ing the month of January of $6,- | ing conducted. 219. if the recent fi CREE ees gS in Miatii would pe - come j le plied that during .the last five, been reported on the increase. | COMING HERE | The officials praised Key West ———— issued at Key West totalled $25,-| 889.70; in 1938 the issues totalled , | that Key West has a future as a| the 79,464 recorded for the city | real tourist center. | during the previous year. This | The Committee was organized | traffic was valued at $2,868,625 by | in answer to the criticism of Wm. | the engineers, a more than $600,- | O. Douglass, chairman of the Se- |000 jump over the $2,236,528 value | curities “and Exchange Commis-| placed on 1935's Key West port | sion, headquarters at Washington. | traffic. | Mr. Douglass gave his enthusias-| In 1931, Key West harbor han- 'tic approval of the Committee’s) . ___.. report, as did also Mr. Gay and tother financial leaders of the | country. | Mr. Conway said he believed , the report would establish “bet- j tex relations between Washington and the Exchange and every one is very much pleased”. ae Yachts in port since Saturday | Some of the changes proposed} were “Eifreda”. with Carle | ility of groups within the insti- seanpbtasioaentmnetle deearcaied | ‘tution perpetuating themselves ‘in management, a more*liquid mar- meoryanize the New York Stock | ket for securities of the small in- Exchange, Commodore Arthur; vestor, a reduction of the govern- ‘ 20 foot ing committee from 50 to 32 mem- | Curtis James “Lanai”, an 85 bers representing a wide range Of } houseboat, the 6Sfoot “Frama- | My best friends are here. No one | Zarate will be held. One of these! investigated fishing on both the has more admiration for the town, and appreciation of its peo- jis a charge of aggravated assault }on the person of Cyril Griffin, jeast and west coasts of Florida and have ample evidence for their ; ple, their friendliness, the fine| who charges that Zarate cut him | Statement, they stated. life and wonderful fishing here | in the hand with a knife, and an- | than I have.” | other charge of breaking and en- led to make Key West their base The motion picture, “Spanish tering is to be made by Leonard 2nd will remain until their work Earth”, made by the Dutch di- rector Jores Ivins, the running commentary of which was sup-|be heard this afterrioon before! plied by Ernest Hemingway, will be brought to Key West by Mr. Hemingway from New York, when he goes there to make ar- rangements for his play, and shown here as a benefit perforrn- ance for charitable purposes, The Citizen was told. The picture covers the war in Spain and ran! forvten weeks on Broadway. President'Roosevelt saw it in a private Showing at the White House. Mr. Hemingway covered the front on two separate occasions. | in’ The first time he left here February of last year and re- turned at the end of May. He remained until August, then went back to the front, where he com- pleted his duties with the taking of Teruel by the Loyalists. He is a correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance, which relays his stories all over the world and into such far away continents as Africa and Asia. A war correspondent must go into the front lines to report a battle accurately. In order to establish the authenticity of the report it is necessary that the correspondent state where a cer- tain action took place, and de- seribe the place through his story. Otherwise one’s story is liable to be thought propaganda, Mr. Hem- said. The humor of it is when the Franco and (Continued on Page Six) ' Mr. Jacob Schreiber’s—= Colored Moving Pictures of Key West Will Head- line the Features at— The BIG FREE DANCE Tomorrow Night At SLOPPY JOE’S BAR Music By Geo. Dean's Rhythm Boys —NO ADMISSION— ! ' | Guerra. | On the last charge, which will Peace Justice Esquinaldo, Ignacio | Lemus will be charged with being ‘a party to the offense. TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest last night last 24 hrs. 46 | Abilene Apalachicola Atlanta Boston | Brownsville Buffalo Charleston Chicago Corpus Christi Denver Detroit Dodge City Duluth | Eastport El Paso Galveston Hatteras Havana Helena Huron Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Miami . | Mpls.-St. P- Nashville New Orleans New. York Oklahoma City 26 Pensacola ...__ 28 Phoenix “Pittsburgh 10 St Louis 16 Salt Lake City 36 San Francisco _ 48 Sit. Ste. Marie _-14 Seattle 3 Tampa 58 Washington xu Williston -10 Wytheville 18 64 a a4 52 26 68 14 50 60 18 30 Bsetosesss & i BRSEBSSSRSwol S8BSERm oe) SoLAs aVBVRSSRRSRoSVlSINFn.0/ BERS A VEGETABLE BIN IS ONE KITCHEN NECESSITY ALL HOUSEWIVES SHOULD HAVE. . FOR YOURS, CALL SOUTH FLORIDA CONTR. AND ENG. CO—S8s ~ RITES TOMORROW | | Funeral for the late Thomas M | Kelly will be held tomorrow aft- lernoon from the residence of his json, T. L. Kelly, 613 Francis street, to Congregational church, where the services will be held | by Rev. Yancy T. Shehane. ider their scope, they re- years tarpon and sailfish have! 5 : e | fishing as the “best in Florida and be pending on which hearings of | pechapd in the world”. They have| GOVERNMENT DESTROYER IS TO ARRIVE IN PORT MARCH 11 The group have been instruct-! Official advices received’at the ; Naval station by Lieutenant Wm. Klaus, officer in charge are that another destroyer, U.S. Som- ers, is due to arrive at Key West on March 11 and 12. This destroyer is of a much larger and more modern type than the USS. Dunlap, which was here last week, and has a displacement of 1,800 tons. It was said that the stop of two days at this port is for the purpose of giv- ing officers and men shore leave. The stop of two days will af- iford the opportunity of both watches, the port and having one day’s shoe business and civic interests, wide- | spread public education and in- | formation on the Stock Market. . Finally, it is proposed to establish the integrity of the Exchange in ; that regulation should be self-ex- ecuted rather than imposed. However, the government has access to valuable material for} study which the Exchange has not. Since administrative law is a slow process, a closer relation- ship with the government should exist in that the Exchange can take swift and preventive action in any contingencies to aid itself in the future, the report of the Committee on Reorganization states. The party left aboard the yacht blast night for Miami. idl CAADJUSTS: FIRE lin" with owner Worréll ‘Clark-— son, retired of St. Paul Min- mesota aboard. and the large “Alva”, with owner Wm. K. Van- derbilt aboard. The Vanderbilt yacht was in port over the week-end. The Conway yacht left last night. Worrell Clarkson and party are here on their yacht for the first time, but Mr. Clarkson came here seven years ago by rail. He has been bringing his yacht to Florida for the last 17 years. He will remain until the end of the week and reports that service at the Yacht Basin has been splen- did. Grocerymen here furnish and vehicles shipped to Key West se tug spe that of est Pretes wmet ogee a ‘ vessels, and ‘ S@s for the pot Chere 16 barges called at the port, the =". a= are Gey Gee 989 J total being credited tan other sales during the yee wih 2 ae s . before the The firsts fay aoe we Vanderbilt's Yacht And Others Arrived In M. Price and Captain R. ton. ca se lover of Key West oad.aaiees Spin Say eee Captain Johnston was @ young i { proceeded to Jupiter Inlet. TR!) ayoree: AMEIVAL DUE TO people living in that vicinity thought the U. S. warship was « DAY TO RELIEVE foreign ship and turned out the lights of the harbor. Tas Captain Johnston was then sent ashore to wire Washington the whereabouts of the “Oregon and also to receive a wire inform ing Captain Charlies E. Clark of the “Oregon” of the position of the Atlantic Fleet. Captain Johns ton also came ashore with $99 in gold to send other telegrams to Byron Cock. formerty of Eer Knights of Pythias will be in attendance arid pallbearers will be selected from the membership | of the order. Mr. Kelly is survived by the widow; his son, T. L. Kelly, and two daughters, Mrs. Lancelot Whitmarsh and Mrs. Lena Al- By Russian Designer (Ry Assectated Press) MOSCOW, Feb. 1.—V. F. Bolk- everything from caviar to a shoe- string, the watchmen at the dock are courteous and efficient in their services, and gasoline and water is furnished them prompt- ly. Mr. Clarkson will remain un- til the end of the week, and ex- pects to return later SOUNDING OF FIRE RELL HEARD AT INTERVALS families of the officers and mem- bers of the crew! The operator there at first refused to send any telegrams, but when he saw the telegram addressed to the War Department, his eyes bulged and he soon had permission to send it and all other subsequent tele C. T. Boower of Jacksouwilie, =the bas beer transterred ti Key ee to rebeve Inspecter LC Taye transferred t Jerasonwiie Botr Inspertem Lert anc lor will spend sume tame @ Ke West netore ees ng for thew wes ¢ ectewtt scenes bury, and a sister, Mrs. George Malic, of Miami. AGUERRO INFANT | DIED LAST NIGHT Anita L. Aguerro, infant of six months, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Aguerro, died last night 8 o'cloc® in the residence at 517 * Whitehead street. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock from the chapel of the Lopez Funeral {Home. Rev. Wm. Reagan, SJ. will officiate. Survivors are the parents: one brother, Louis Aguerro, Jr, and the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs Augusto Aguerro. and Mr. and Mrs. Jose Rosendo. } SHOWS GRATITUDE WOODBURY, N. J.—A farmer of this city expressed his grati- tude by presenting three stolen chickens to the two policemen who caught the thief. hovitinoff, Red army airplane de- signer, has announced that he is working on a plane to surpass all other planes by flying faster, higher and farther. Bolkhovitinoff, who designed the plane in which Sigismund Levanevsky and his five compan- ions disappeared somewhere in the Arctic on a flight to Fair- banks, Alaska, is being assisted by five young designers. He promises to give the new airplane to the country “to the joy of the friends and the distress of the enemies of our fatherland.” DURING NIGHT Sounds of the fire alarm belli at intervals throughout the night kept residents in certain sections of the city awake during their sleeping time. This morning about 5 o'clock, City Electrician Sidney Thompson was awakened and immediately went to the city hall and made the necessary adjustments in the electrical apparatus, which cut off the annoyance at once. RESTA CATERING TO THE | | ' | i HAND-MADE CIGARS i } } Shipped—charges FRED AUERBACH. Manager Specializing In Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup FINEST WESTERN MEATS SERVED CLEAR GREEN TURTLE SOUP —and— prepaid—to any point in the U.S. A. URANT EXACTING PUBLIC OF HAVANA TOBACCO | | Commodore Arthur Curtis James of the New York Yacht Club has as his guests Mrs. R. SICK MAN TAKEN OFF TANK VESSEL Wireless messages received at the office of the Porter Dock com-, pany yesterday afternoon asked, that a vessel be sent to contact) the British Tanker Sirinic. for the purpose of taking a sick member of the ship’s personnel ashore. Bar Pilot Boat No. 1, in charge of Captain Clarence Thompson. and Engineer Myron Russell. went in answer to the call and returned with Alfred Turner, who was brought to Key West and placed in the Marine hospital VERY COSTLY SMOKE LEEDS, Eng —Because he sow his niece smoking a cigarette, J C. Baring of this city, canceled a $50,000 bequest to her in his will grams from the ship. According ly all the telegrams went off nicely. TO REPAIR ISSUED === Records in the office of Build jog Inspector Harry M. Baker qshow that..ssues for building and iy permits for the month of January numbered 18 and totalled | TUNE IB —WFLA Clearwater ing at the corner‘af Front Fitzpatrick streets Rame of own ex is Dr. Julio de Poo, ant cost 1s $509. Wed. Fe. & Pa. Foe oy Yor Bee