The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 3, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, bas the most equable cimate m the range of oniy 14° Fahrenbe Che Key West Cittzrn | VOLUME LIX. No. 29. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1938. New Lighthouse Ship To Be Construeted: For. Use In Key West's District Vessel To Be Given Name| ORDER NEON SIGN | Of Zinnia; Will Have | FOR KEY WEST'S | Length Of One Hundred | And Twenty-Two Feet ! | MATTER RELATIVE TO OPER- PRICE FIVE CENTS MCONTIE ro SGN,” BIMNG AND SPEARING County Commissioners Order | Explains Method In hatter, To Short Story Writer | - _ ‘FISH HERE DESCRIBED BY HAWLEY Purchase Of Bond Offerings SELS COMING INTO PORT ae West “Goggling”, diving; ments expounded by our local Colonels North And Brown 2 Government W. FOR STAY HAVE GUESTS and spearing fish, introduced here | gogglers. | ON BOARD by M.S. Hawley of Okauchee.; “At present the night gogglers| the , during the day. Colonel North En-| will leave tomorrow eee | | | | | | | Many Other Matters Tak- en Up Durmg Regular Meeting Of Body Last Naght | Wisconsin, is described by him in| are experimenting with underwa- |a letter to Guy Gilpatric, famous| ter electric torches. These can New yachts arriving in the har- | Scotch short story writer. who in- be strapped to the wrist or attach- | a ae rs | ed to the spear itself by a clamp. BOOTH IN MIAMI a are = US. Engineer boat} itiated Mr. Hawley into the sport. | Some claim that a red light brings| | “Ribault” with Colonel Earl! Mr. Gilpatric is at present in An-| the best results but others argue North and Colonel George E. | tibes, France, and expects soon to | that a light blue blinds their op- | Brown, who are coming to in-| come down to Key West and gog- | tic nerve. However, a variety of Arriving today aboard “Ribault”, a United States County commusucnern =< =e By PAUL MAY H (Special Washington Correspondent! ROOT ae eee ED BY COUNTY COMMIS- | spect work done at Fort Taylor; | 8!¢ here. |Mr. and Mrs. James Bartholo-| Mr. Hawley 's letter follows: | mew’s 32’ “Louise”, A. S. Wittne- | “Dear Friend: | two or three is more desirable for | apparently different varieties of | fish are affected differently by gineer Department boat, was Colonel Brown is well known leat — Colonel Earl North, District En-|iocally having spent about 30 oe > gineer in charge of the River and | years in this city, leaving here im Pfoptiatien af S25 to be adiied & WASHINGTON, D. C.. Feb. 3./ —A new lighthouse tender tc| bel’s 41’ “Eleo Angler, and H. E./ “Received your letter with sug- | different colors. A blue parrot Harrington’s “Hy Ball”. | gestions concerning spear and | fish naturally has an affinity for | 1 Mr. and Mrs. Batholomew are | ©quipment. I've been in Key West | ey shade ae blue, rene it to | Jacksonville and Colonel George] built the newer portions of the purpose of lighting the white ear from Port Stanley, Ontario, and | Since Dec. 1 and find ‘goggling’ a a camouflage, and a snap- | E. Brown, District Engineer with Fort Taylor fortification, complet In order.that the Key West In-| fe 6wners of Hotel. Orion: with | £ascinating.and interesting sport. | Per likewise. With our hundreds headquarters in Miami, to confer] ing the work in 1900. weet oo cms aes the largest dance:pavilion in. Gan-} Being-rather*bull-headed, I tried | of varieties of fish in these waters | with. Major James “McMullen, of-| With Colonel North and Colonel "Duwal treet A check Ser he Their guest: is Miss® Janet} ™¥ ideaofa spear first. My auto- | you can readily see that one color, ficer in charge-of the Army Bar-'! Brown are Mrs. North, Mr and the noted professional | matic-reel worked fine. The fish | light wouldn't do. {racks and-reservations, on the|Mrs. P. D. Savage of Norfak “=== ~= Gest Guan i& | mation given out regarding Key | Swimmer. starts for home:immediately upon} “Then there are the cane. 086" work at Fort Taylor and. other | Virginia, and Captain KF. ert fevor of Bescom L Geum pee partment officials here stated to-| West may be authentic, it was|. Mr. Bartholomew. was’a-mem-| being. .hitoHe iMhe?) usually |lers. ‘This is a delightful version | reservations | ford. | authesinedy the county conamix. | ber of the<hueen's Zone: Rifles:im} }'¥e5 amon numerous ary and | of conn cid: Tooeeee ‘Conferences: will be held and| Captaining the boat is J. C\@e=! of the Key West Since day. : ; ji 3 a:merry-time, indeed, go-| ly ourth { work: i i | Roddy. ay. | sioners to have placed in front of | the World. War, going over»in}+ jin aerate living pho lcobecwith, a: Jonge here By the in question inspected | Ly Company. Purchase of songs samsung - % | the office a neon sign. 1914 with ‘the first contingents} iD& _ | s ° ; H Invitations have been issued | Not only will this additional at.| from Canad and participating in| teTs to recover my point. They prodding the fish gently with the t S5208 wee autho’ The == sect Soe « Harbor division of the War De-/| 1925, but returning “whenever I the tune benmg collectec tar <se of The Citizen) SIONERS partment with headquarters in | get the chance”. Colonel Brown augment the present ships in| Routt Flocida-waters will.be con- | 5. /fitien Booth and ticket affice| structed this: year for the Light- | for the ferries may be easily rec-| ada. Ps otra infor-.| Sheather, house Saws c raise De- | 0enized im Miami and any infor-/| for the new craft, the Zinnia, | A : the first | Seem to be able to tie some very} business end, the dynamite cap * os aes gas attack made on the| 3 overt : which when completed and turn-| rset loration of the Key West |English soldiers in April of 1915.| clever knots with a rock in the| discharges and stuns the fish, | | Mr. Batholomew, who has had | Cemter. I am now using your which immediately floats to the ed over to the service, will be) booth, but it will be a possible as = aoe i aoe : 2 | qui js i . | original suggestion and find it the | surface belly up, making it easy; sent to the seventh lighthouse dis-| lead to the source from which a quite some experience in watch lbest. I looked at my automatic| to find. It is customary for this} trict to assist the ships now there, | ar mgs of pmcerprrinaga Ty re ete ebb and ag thon reel yesterday and found it weld-| brand of goggle fishers to carry the Ivy and the Poinciana, in| 8@F0ing ferries and the city em- pet ed | ed into one solid piece by the salt, a piece of No. 2 sandpaper with anates. jhe can “see a large number of ‘ d thei ight- | - - . - ‘ ‘ ” | water. So that’s that. ; which to remove the fish from the " a tieir work of servicing light-| ‘This matter of misleading in-| tourists will come here”. “From January first until April | water, as ofttimes it will slip from | Miss Janet Sheather of Holly. pent eae ae ae si j see rg oe ght to the via: | ee ana off evs the Key West waters are ideal for the hand and return to the briny | wood, Florida, noted swimmer navigation along coastai and in- | men! jas brou; e atten-| goggling. There are hundreds of | depths. race at the World's Fair in 1933 she was one of eight to finish land waters. The Zinnia will be 122 feet in length, with a beam of 27 feet,, and a draft-of 6 feet 6 inches. She will have two propellers, each with a 200-horsepower diesel engine, developing a serv- ice speed of ten knots. Almost identical in plan is a second vessel for which invita- tions were also issued this week. This, vessel, the Narcissus, is in- tended for use in the Delaware Bay and River. A- third vessel may be Ordered when the bids are opened, March 1, if bids re- ceived should indicate that it would be advantageous to award contract for the additional ship. CONCERT TONIGHT IN BAYVIEW PARK | EXCELLENT PROGRAM TO BE ition of the commissioners by/| Shoals, A. D. Wittnebel of New |Commissioner Wm. R. Porter,| Rochelle and guests, Dr. William | |who proved conclusively and to| Gibson and Ernest Beck, in their | the satisfaction of the, board that | 41-foot “Elco Angler”, were tow- | {the Key West bureau was admir-|ed for miles, one fish towing |ably® conducted, in a thorough/ them for an hour and 15 minutes way, and those were doing all that is necessary | but failed to land the huge fel- | in the way of making it comfort- } lows because they had no rifle or able for prospective visitors to| other means aboard with which | Key West, and courteously im- | parting the information i this city, which is the main objec-| but the party is getting heavier tive. rope today and is going after the OT ld a the owner, H. E. Harrington and HERE ON FRIDA Mrs. Harrington, are guests, Mr. |and Mrs. Edwin Billings. J. O. | Hyden captains the 45’ boat. The | Billings will leave sometime to- | | another sale of property under! Mr. and Mrs. Harrington are ex- ; the Provisions of the Murphy | pecting two other guests tomor- Act, and will be conducted tomor-| row, with whom they will cruise row afternoon at the county court | ¢. Dry Tortugas and probably re- | house by Clerk Ross C. Sawyer. | turn here on the way back. ‘The number of pieces to be dis- ! RE SEF Ee boat is Joe Alvarez. tions are underway for | day for their home in Boston, but posed of are 220, owned by 50 in the bureay|and another an hour and a half, | j they could kill them. The lines) used were all eventually broken, | RENDERED BY HOSPI- TALITY BAND DANCE and FLOOR SHOW —Tonight At— HABANA-MADRID CLUB ine Cuban Rhumba —NO COVER CHARGE— | holdings are those of the First National Bank, 28 pieces; A. Mait- T. Roberts, 17 pieces; Mrs. Mary Following is the program that’ Porter Harris, 17 pieces, and Mrs. view Park by the Key West Hos-| ee ae ae Meyrelles Overture, “Nabucodonosor” | SALE VESTERD AY Ar. by Laurendeau Idyll, “The Forge in the Forest” Aaa! A Waltz, “Folle Extase” Lewis | grass sponges, were offered yes- March, “Promotion” Nicola. terday at the municipal sponge Away From Me” Mason | amounting to $100.03. Popular Waltz, “Chiquita” The best offering was made for Fox Trot, “It Looks Like Rain | sold for $41.62. The next highest In Cherry Blossom Lane” price paid was for 14 bunches of March, “National Emblem” Bagley “Star Spangled Banner” ee areata i ginning at 7:30 o'clock, which will Captain J. S. Abbott, chief of ¢ the first meeting of the month. U.S.N., in command of the Sey- business is scheduled for - enth Naval! District. is due te ar-| night's session, it is stated. noon for a vacation of two weeks.| Twe Picketers, 8, He will be accompanied by Mrs. Win Against Uncle will spend ‘their stay at the com- Bets WPS mandant's quarters in the naval SAN JOSE, Calif, Feb. 3— for theix ption. Thete’s been a good deal of pick- - noticed by Bruno Filice and Frankie Lico, both 8 years old them walking before his place of business with placards reading me, for picking prunes”. The crisis was settled with two persons, The greatest numbers of ‘land Adams, 28 pieces; Mrs. G. A. will be rendered tonight at Bay- | !da Maloney, 15 pieces. March, “Presentation” Verdi ‘Mevrelies-Nicholes' Small lots of wool, yellow and Popular, “They:Can't Take That /{ dock, the entire lot bringing bids Sciacca | a lot of 20 bunches of wool, which Werrick | wool, and was $29.66. CAPTAIN ABBOTT MEETS TONIGHT Council will be held tonight, be- staff for Admiral H. V. Butler,|, Nothing other than routise rive in Key West tomorrow after. | Abbott and their daughter, and «Ry Pee Ses Pres) station, which has been prepared eting lately and it hasn't gone un- Their uncle, M. J. Filice, saw “Unfair. My uncle won't pay $5 bills. 6 etree ~ Regular meeting of the City TEMPERATURES | Lowest Highest last night last 24 hrs 42 72 56 52 32 74 Abilene | Apalachicola Atlanta Boston Brownsville Charleston Chicago ‘Corpus Christi } Denver Detroit | Dodge City | Duluth | El Paso ‘ Galveston | Hatteras Havana Helena Huron Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock Los Angeles Miami Mpls.-St. P. Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Pensacola Phoenix Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Sit. Ste. Marie Seattle Tampa Washington Williston Wytheville 36 PLENTY OF LINEN 2 8 SLLSSSSLSALSSSSNSSSSRS..5 | SEES VRS SSEGRERSSSSELSSSLRRVIS Belfast, N. Ireland —According to a statistics, Ireland made 154.- 000,000 square yards of linen in 1937. or enough to put a strip a yard wide three times around the world and still have some left The output was valued at $61,- 250,000. varieties of fish in these waters and three days out of four are calm with an atmospheric tem- | perature of 70 degrees or rhore. The water is always warm. My host, Dr. John P. Jason and I are batching it aboard his houseboat. We are living on the typical i ‘Konk’ native diet of grits and grunts. The grunt is a tropical fish with baby blue stripes on his| |forehead which makes just that) npise when he finds.he can’t do- anything else. We also~sushe Cuban dish of the Spring Lobster } tails. These we catch in our lob-/ ster trap under the boat. We both; extend you a standing invitation to come over and pay us a visit for as long as you care to stay. This is Ernest Hemingway's home. He describes it very well, if anything a little too well, in his {latest book, ‘To Have and Have | Not’. “I have quite a little trouble getting down to any depth, but I guess it’s practice I need. “My goggles didn’t arrive from France until the first of the year, | | but I've worked them overtime since then. They have an Ameri- can-made goggle here that is made of rubber and fits flat to the face and forehead like a burg- lar’s mask, but I find the French make much superior. “Tll send you any articles that appear in the local paper concern- , ing your sport. |. “I'm enclosing.a few precepts for ‘your disciples.over there who insist’ on, complicating. and im- *proving your, original method. “The sun recently set on one of vty t delightful tropical days 2 Gilpat ric disciple could wish for. I am writing this by lamp light on our bachelor barge, and occasionally looking out on the glassy calm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. I'm in my beach robe, having spent the entire day gogg- ling and giggling at the gogglers. “The night gogglers are begin- ning to arrive around the barge with their acetylene and gasoline lanterns on the prows of their boats. There'll be fish a plenty in Key West tomorrow, thanks to Mr. Gilpatric and a few enthus- iasts who have improved and per- fected that simple Scot's concep- tion of this marine sport. “For the benefit of those of you who only know Isaak Gilpatric’s crude goggling methods, I will give you some ideas and improve- | next Fall, unless he comes back “It has been found by the orig-| #24 guest aboard Mr. and Mrs. inal or ‘Class A’ gogglers that the! James Bartholomew's yacht Jewfish, or as I believe, ‘Merou’, sacs a in your country, will retire to his | “Louise” holds the world’s profes- grotto or hole in the rocks upon! sional five mile record. which is being harpooned and take a deep a breath, thereby wedging himself two hours 28 minutes and 22 in. To overcome this obstacle, | ong, —o merely wait until he has to exhale | = art and pull like hell. Sometimes, of the Chicago World's Fair. course, the ler will have to; 7 breathe before the fish but that; She also holds the Quebec five “Mr. Glencannon (I mean Git- | 7unner up for the world's three mile record race. In the Canadian | Olympics in 1932 she won the 220 yard breast stroke race. Of 86 starting in the 15 mile OT EAR patrick) has suggested tying your catch to the waist. We have prov- en conclusively that this method is bot practical in these shark-in- fested waters. A boy we call Jew- fish tried this some time ago and turned up missing. We heard from him the other day, but couldn’t recognize the name of the country he was writing from. | The letter had a 25c stamp on it so we don’t expect him back until Miss Sheather was traimed by ing the purchase & Ss be Gumed the late Johnny Walker of To- ronto, Canada, who was known fy Ateeey Sete everywhere as the outstanding Present at the mecting swimming coach im the world Chgirmen Carl Servs, Mr. Walker trained George siccioners Wm . | Young, 29, who was the only one }to make the California to Cata- SS Thompson. Sraxue & }lina swim. Marvin Nelson, one \of the world's outstanding swim- | mers of all time, was also trained | by Walker. | is the sport of it—survival of the | mile record. In 1934 also she was Pc ngnioaermt ss i Pr i down, but aszyetrgs | proached for an exhibition | She does in’ to try ful blue naabee Basin which she _—_—_—_——. | IN HIGHWAY it the same way. “We have some ‘lead sole’ advo- cates (Class C3). They claim a little weight on the feet or ankles helps them to stay under longer, as they don’t have to waste so much energy getting down. An enthusiast broke all records this afternoon with a dutch anchor for a La Valliere. I don’t know his record to the minute as he hasn't come up yet. “The harpoon gun doesn't inter- est the high type of sportsmen We have here. We find a wumiber 16 gauge automatic shotgun'’ gives much better results-~An™ open bore with a number 3 Sutkshot is ideal for schools of fish ‘This method (Class D1) is a little tough on the other gogglers, but person- ally I'm in favor of it. “I would like to suggest a meth- od to Mr. Gilpatric which we use extensively down here. When you meet up with a fish face to face under water saying, ‘Harya Bud- dy, Harya Buddy’ (the fish, I mean) slip a stout barbed hook in his mouth and proceed homeward, unreeling the line as you go. When the frying pan is hot, reel in your line and there you are! “These few simple suggestions, along with Mr. Gilpatric’s book, ‘The Compleat Goggler’, will, I believe, bring many new enthus- iasts to our midst. even some of our wealthy sportsmen who now fish with a lot of fancy parapher- RESTAURANT FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET SPECIALIZING IN FINE WESTERN MEATS Ciear Green Turtle Soup—Sea Foods CLEAR GREEN HAND-MADE CIGARS OF HAVANA TOBACCO Shipped—charges prepaid—to any point in the U. S. A. FRED AUERBACH. Re a oe ee GALVANIZED SHINGLES, CHANNEL DRAIN AND CORRUGATED IRON, TURTLE SOUP PHONE { | i ZARATE AND LEMUS WERE ARRAIGNED YESTERDAY AFTERNOON Yesterday afternoon the court of Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., the cases of Jose Zarate and Ignacio Lemus, charg- "ed with breaking and entering | With intent to commit misdemea- ners. was heafd. pp During the hearing of the testi- mony, it was, definitely ‘shown to the satisfactidn! of the edémmitting Magistrate, that there was not sufficient evidénce educed to as- sociate Lemus with the breach of the law, and he was dismissed. The evidence, however, in the case of Jose Zarate was sufficient ly condemnatory to warrant the magistrate in placing him under a bond of $200 to await the ac- tion of the criminal court at the March term Following the case, Zarate was arraigned on a charge of aggra vated assault on the person of Cyril Griffin, who was cut, it is alleged, by a knife in the hand of the accused. The evidence in this case was considered conclusive, and Zarate was placed under bond of $100 to await trial There are now there cases lodg ed against the prisoner. On Mon day he was given @ preliminary hearing. charged with cutting Willie Malone, and placed under bond of $100 . and the hearings yesterday. with bonds of $300. | Fei, sndl Set. Speciale i in PEACH DELIGHT Layer Cake 35¢ PRALINE CAKE Truly, delicious | age tank Sonneborn, of gy 42 Specs Adwertang, Pittsburgh, Penn, ané Scoredite fae se Reet Fund SS Geo N. Y., is a visitor in the city te eta Scment 2138 Specs day in the interests of a parade School Duaret Ne 2 which may be staged at the cop clusion of the work on the high- way and bridges, as part of the. much-talked of celebration The company which Mrs. Sen neborn represents and proposes Staging the perede. furnishes « great number of odd. strange and curious animals, large and small which are mounted on convey ances, mostly vehicles, and furn ishes a strange assortment of ¢ gantic creatures. in the semblance of human being and animals, a well as prehistoric monsters Mrs Sonneborn appeared fore the county comm last night and offered members a senes of photogr: of the figures, which are all « rubber. fantastec shapes ary dimensions. and which would. doubt, present a queer spectacie The financial condition af the’ __ é county was candidly explained to 44. | Mrs Sonneborn by Cammusmoner;™ quip Beker of & Key West Wm. R. Porter, who said that & ~ ae _ a may be possible to. at a ipier det —— = ot a consader the posubulsty of putt pat Ey yee J PP cr wuts at teuy (et of the Getecerstes of the equrer’ sew on Rene anc Janusry was read approves sod oroctec pisces am fie Report wes 2 ome wow_G@a.z= & =: « wes fued -_* a appr January be On being advised that there may be @ chance of some of the figures being used. @ the event that it was decided t stage @ presentation of the kind Mrs Sonneborn left with Chairmen Car! Bervaidi the cost of the rious figures. and photegrap> and said she heped that arrange: ments could be made to put = the whole show