The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 4, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 30. aniel Carter Beard Gives Adiress At Rotary Meeting Several Guests From WW 7 A S. GINRICH IS ACCOMPAN:| Of Town Were In At-| | tendance At Yesterday’s| Luncheon | — | Daniel Carter Beard, founder| of the Boy Scouts of America, was| present at the Rotary Club meet-| ing yesterday in St. Paul's An-| nex, and made a short talk point- } | ing out that the Rotary Club “a the Boy Scouts were organized in the same year, 1905, the ethics of ally the same. Sixty-three years’ ago, “Uncle Dan” said he started! here, but “it's a long way down! ‘ ' and I didn’t make it until this year”. | Uncle Dan is vacationing at the | Casa Marina. He stated that on) his last birthday. his 85th. there! were 7,625,000 Boy Scouts. He) made a humorous call on Rotarian fathers to supply scout members. | Lieut. John Faigle gave a re-} port of recent work that has been | done at. the naval station. He} showed that modern finger piers, electric welded in the latest man- ner, and a dock which will berth | light cruisers and the older type! of battleships, have been con- structed. The majority of labor | was employed from local relief} rolls, the Lieutenant said. ! ‘The beautification, rebabilita-| tion of the grounds and roads in| the Station was also stressed by | Lieut. Faigle, who said the Sta- tion is im first class. “ pointed out that grounds of the old Naval Hospital and Remote Control Station have been cleared and ‘that these places may be! leased to interested parties. | Ed Fecktel, Gas Company man-} ager, and L. P. Artman, Jr., don-| ned the traditional baby cap, | were given rattles and were in- itiated as “baby Rotes”. Rev.| Shuler Peel presided at the initia-| tion. | E. B. Alexander of a) Oklahoma, was a visiting ta- Tian, as was also Dr. Wm. A. Dun- | can. Mrs, Duncan, a Rotary Ann,! was also present. The Duncans are from Russellville, Kentucky. Guests were D. N. Stuart and L. A. O'Donnell of Washington, D. C., D. E. Jones of Wilmington, Delaware, L.A. Mosher of Atlan- | ta, Georgia, Captain R. G. Sling- | a visitor in Key West, and is mak- | Huron luff and Colonel Daniel Carter Beard. Cbdndeddbhddd CATCHES LARGEST AND SMALLEST SAIL B. C. Hopemna of Waynes- boro, Virginia. who caught the largest sailfish of Casa Marina anglers this year. a seven-foot eight-inch mon ster. yesterday caught the smallest sail. a four-foot eight-inch fellow. Russell Maguire of New | York. who'landed three sail. | fish Tuesday. yesterday hoist- | Paul Demeritt’s | - bringing in a SO- | Pound and a 60-pound speci- | mens. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur | Blumeyer accompanied Mr. | Maguire and had an exciting | time hauling in 30 of more other large grouper, king- fish. barracuda. bonita. mack- erel. Quite a large number of daily from the Casa Marina pier with local fishing guides to experience the famous Key West fishing. which is consid- ered the best in the country. BLIP IIs@a: seeccescccccce BIG FREE DANCE Tomorrow Night At SLOPPY JOE’S BAR Geo. Dean's Rhythm Boys —NO ADMISSION. 1500 POUND MANTA Che Key ‘INDIANA FOLK | PAYING VISIT. TO KEY | } ! | IED BY GROUP WHICH HE 3 —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938. ‘Yacht Makes Rescue Of Two | i Yacht “Shy Ann If"! madea)\Ebinger and guests, Dr. Joseph! rescue yesterday morning of two CAUGHT YESTERDAY |- MET ON BOARD STEAMSHIP | Key West boys who were stone lier at siitt i uti sith eid ddddeddel PLAYWRIGHT OF LONDON TO STAY HERE TWO YEARS YORK KEY WEST HAS AT- MOSPHERE PECULIARLY ITS OWN E. Stock, of London, England, is ing plans to spend a period of probably two years in the city. Mr. Stock is ja playwright, ,, and. while, in New, York he was ad- | vised: by; friends that Key Wet; Louisville « had an atmosphere peculiarly: its \own, and it was:a’grand place: in| Mpls.-St. P- which to:live. After: arrival, Mri Stock be- came delighted with practically everything he encountered on the island, and decided there was a lure that would interest him in- definitely, and came to the de- cision to stay for a while. With Mr. Stock and enjoying his stay is G. M. Whitney, of 4327 Diego street, Congress Park, Il, who had passed Key West many | times while sailing on voyages, | T@™P@ and always had a desire to see the city. He is having his wishes pleasantly and happily satisfied. BURIES CATS ALIVE LOS ANGELES—Mrs Alex Stearns of this city sued for di- vorce on the grounds that her husband buried cats alive while she looked on, just to annoy her. i Habana - Madrid Club Champagne Dance SATURDAY NIGHT one bottle of champagne will be given away every hour! Dance Starts At 10 P. M. Sharp Habana-Madrid Club Orchestra Marvelous Floor Show Cuban Rhumba —NO COVER CHARGE— ..| vessels, had been in ‘Haiti, | CUBA N. S. Ginrich, of Mishewaka, | Indiana, is in Key West in an-} | swer to the lure of the island, and | accompanied by a group of friends whom he met on the boat | from Cuba, and are preparing to | Teturn to their homes tomorrow. | They are all from Indiana. | Others.in the party with Mr.; | Ginrich are O. C. Clark, of An- | derson, Teal estate operator; Miss Helen Jenkins, of Richmond, and | Miss Ernestine Scott, of Muncie. | The group was making a cruise | on one of the larger. passenger | Ja- ™aaica, and Cuba, and though they | wee} Were all from Indiana cities, they had never met until they were on/ board the steamer, and their trip was made doubly enjoyable. ‘They were at the aquarium this morning and there were having a! happy and interesting time, hav-! ing the different fish and their habits explained by Gideon Curry and Aquarist Jose Romero. “We like Key West so much that we wish we could extend our stay for a few days, there are so many more places and things we would love to see, but we must leave for home tomorrow”, the party said, with the excep-! tion of Mr. Ginrich. Mr. Ginrich said, “Iwill never! forget my visit of two years ago, |when I spent more than three | months here, and then only left! | because business demanded. | shall return in about one week, and again enjoy a delightful stay | on the island”. =, Lowest Highest last night last 24 hrs | 76 { 62 Abilene 3 | Apalachicola - Atlanta —___ 48 | Boston + | Brownsville __ 76 | Buffalo’ __ rs Ss Chicago a Corpus Christi Denver Detroit Dodge City Duluth Eastport _ El Paso | Galveston Hatteras ) Havana Helena Jacksonville | Kansas City | KEY WEST {Little Rock ; Les Angeles Miami Nashville | New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Pensacola Phoenix Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Sit. Ste. Marie Seattle SERBSESRRBSLALKSSESLLSSIL IY! ELSSSSSBSVSSBSSeS SSSSRVLSELSABSSRALASRKARASRRE| RSSSRSELSSS Washington | Williston | Wytheville BEARD 17 FEET LONG | ee MAHPETON, D.—Hans Langseth of this city, who died at the age of 82, had a beard seven- teen feet long which he exhibited for many years as a circus freak. ARRESTED FOR ACT CHICAGO.—Walter Ryes of this city was arrested when po- lice caught him trying to drive his automobile up the ‘steps of the elevated car line. 42 52 GOOD NEWS FOR ALL SHOPPERS —in the— BERMUDA MARKET ; i H i crabbing in their open 15-foot motor boat off Ramrod Key. They had broken their propeller. and were drifting out to sea. The boys are Henry Garcia of 917 Grand street and Steve San- tana, 1314 William street. Atten- tion of the yacht was drawn to their plight by a shirt which was mounted on an oar and set afire. They had been drifting for two hours. i Owen of the yacht, Walter D. A» Burgun, Arthur K. Young and} ‘Raymond Kilthau, picked up the| youths, but were forced to aban- don their boat as it was half full of water and could net be towed. The youths were fed, given other assistance and brought to Key West yesterday afternoon. Expressing surprise at the risks; Key West boys take in boats, Mr. Ebinger said that the boys had a nice bushel basket of stone crabs with them and were proceeding Key Westward when they experi-/ enced the propeller trouble. The basket of stone crabs was left as! a present with Mr. Ebinger and; the boys joyfully scampered off, | the yacht owner said. Captain of the yacht is V. Bod | holt. { Officers Find Fortification | Work Here Very Satisfactory Major James MacMullen. officer in charge of the local army units, reports that Colonel Earl North, District Engineer in charge of the River and Harbor division of the War Department with head- quarters in Jacksonville, and Colonel George E. Brown, District Engineer Reserve Officer with headquarters in Miami, find the local fortification work satisfac- | tory. The inspection was of Fort Taylor and East and West Mar- tello Towers in the work -which has been done and is yet to be done. Colonels North and Brown ar- MANY INQUIRIES SEEKING DATA rived Wednesday aboard the U. S. Engineer Department boat, “Ribault”, held conferences with Major MacMullen yesterday and also inspected the work at first hand. Accompanying Colonels North and Brown on the “Ri- bault” were Mrs. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Savage of Norfolk, Virginia, and Captain K. F. Hert- ford. Colonel Brown assisted in the criginal construction of the new- er fortifications at Fort Taylor and the Martellos completing the work in 1900. The party left the"boat. today aboard ON KEY WEST BEING RECEIVED ooo Secretary S. C. Singleton. when | seen this morning, was busily en gaged in sorting the mass of mail, | assorting the “brickbats from the bouquets”, and paused in his ex- plorations of the keys on his type- writer to say: “Mrs. Nina Wilcox Putnam's story in Colliers is still bringing in letters. Some day we will have to launch a memorial to Mrs. Put- |nam, but she is getting fed up with letters sent to her for in- formation about Key West, and is sending them to us. Here are a | batch of them sent to use to be answered, and all the writers want to know more about Key West: “One from George E. Merrick acknowledges receipt of a ‘Gen- eral Epistle’ which was sent out from this office, and in which the writer says, “Thanks for the epistle. I'm hoping to be in Key West soon and have some things I want to talk over with you. You are evidenYy doing great work down in Key West’.” Secre' it leton paused to shed a tear* is point. “I wish some of the local merchants who are getting the benefit of the Chamber of Commerce work had as good hearing as Mr. Merrick has”, he said. “If they did, I would have some up-to-date fold- ers to send out to inquirers. As it is, all I can do is to impose on the charity of Melvin Russell, get the use of his mimeograph, and let it go at that. But even that stuff is welcome, it appears. We get letters like this one in this morning’s mail. H. W. Yencer, of Watervliet, N. Y., writes: *“Received your information to- day regarding Key West. This data that you submitted is well written and interesting in detail. In fact, it is better than Hetature put up with photos which cover three-fourths of the same with a few explanations. It is very com- \I expect to spend a liftle more plete and on the strength of same | time in Key West than we an- ticipated. The promptness of your reply is inviting. Thanking you for your courtesy, I am yours truly, (Signed) H. W. Yency’. “Nevertheless, we want to tell Key West's entrancing story in the most attractive folder that can be printed in Key West. and the sooner our merchants wake up to the opportunity before them, the better it will be for all concerned. We would not need any other medium than The Key West Citizen which has been so generous to us, if we could send it to all our correspondents. But, that being out of the question, we want that folder,” concluded the secretary, turning again to the pile of letters to be an- swered. TAYLOR'S CASE TO BE DELAYED JUDGE GOMEZ WILL NOT AR- RIVE UNTIL EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEK Advices received from Judge Arthur Gomez, of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit, now in Midmi on legal matters, aré to the effect that he will not return to Key West before some time early next week. Hence the case of the city versus Carl Taylor, in connection with the alleged violations of the ordinance relative to collection of garbage and scavenger work, which was;te have been heard in court tomorrow will be postponed until some, date fixed by the judge. “that the RESTAURANT ‘ FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET SPECIALIZING IN FINE WESTERN MEATS Clear Green Turtle Soup—Sea Foods CLEAR GREEN ange HAND-MADE CIGARS OF HAVANA TOBACCO Shipped—charges prepaid—to any point in the U. S. A. FRED AUERBACH. a ge West Citizen Key West, Fierida, bas the most equabie climate m the country; with an sverage range of only 14° Fabrenhe= | City. Council Passes PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Liquor Ordinance Last Night J. R. Slade, Chairman Of Bridge Commission, And J. = “= % = B. Kennedy Visiting Here .. >. J. R. Slade, engineer of the State Road Department and re- cently named by Governor Cone as Chairman of the Oversea Road and Toll Bridge Commission. was getting his first view of Key) West. In company with Mr. Slade were J. B. Kennedy, attorney, of Fort Lauderdale, who was ap- pointed a member of the commis- sion simultaneously with Mr. Slade Attorney Paul Marks, May- or Willard M. Albury and Clar- ence Symonette, members of the commission; Dan Navarro, and Thomas Kenney, contractor for work on the Oversea Highway. Mr. Slade told The Citizen that yesterday while enroute to the city they had an opportunity of seeing the construction work on the highway and bridges, and it! was a remarkable piece of engi-; every way. ~ Chief Engineer B. M. Duncan and Bridge Engineer A. L. West, and. therefore, got an intimate idea of the work and progress to date Some time was also spent at Moser Channel Swing Span, which is now well underway. and work on which was 5 week. tion, when as it} will be at an.elevation of about 70 feet above the water. While preparing to leave for the ride around the city, Mr Slade said that plans had been made for a meeting of the com- mission to be held tonight im the offices of the commission, on Eagle Avenue, at which time or- ganization of the body would take place and other matters, neces- sary at this time, would be han- | died. Following the reorganiza' ‘ matters pertaining to the bridges will be discussed generally, and the activities of the commission brought up-to-date. Chairman Slade and Mr. Ken- Various Other Matters Are Heard During Reg- meeting lect sight peeed os amencec aces: sc sence s amitaal reedumg Those wotimg cor the ordimance were Counciimes Deughtry Fulters Wil Bose= “Ne hquas. wime or beer shell oe sold within 300 fect cf acy = tablshec church or schosl prohibited by said ordineece within the ime of 3 mmutms be fore opening ci service ce ip struction ci ssid cutebliched church of school and 32 sumac @ resolution relstiwe te tex ames ment Lens in connetten woth the instaliaon of the sewer srstex (neering and really beautiful in| nedy will in all probability leave be sent to Senater Claude Pepper in the morning on the return to and Congressman J. Sick WE- There was not one phase of the | Miami, enroute to their homes. cox requesting thet they howe = several contracts with which they were not made acquainted, as) they were met at Matecumbe by: ‘Wm. Scripps, Jr., Scripps Motor Co. Owner, Here Recent yacht artivals at, the Basin are Stanley E. Hubbard's “Standick”, Walter D. Ebinger’s “Shy Ann II”, Edward L. Olin’s “Goldenrod” and Dr. John J. Bowlen’s “Aurelia”. Stanley E. Hubbard is owner of Station KSTP in St. Paul, Minne- sota. Aboard the yacht also is Wm. Scripps, Jr, owner of Scripps Motor Company in De- troit. The party is waiting to make the run to Cuba, but have been held back by reports of a coming norther. Captain Ken McGregor, genial skipper, is another yacht captain Attorney Paul Marks, for the commission, will in all probability | leave at the same time. } . thur K. Young and Raymond Kil- thau. Besides the owner, Dr. John J Bowlen and Mrs. Bowlen, Edward Chamberlin, guest, is aboard the 42-foot “Aurelia”, captained by Warren Newell. They will remain in the city for a few days for the wonderful fishing of Key West waters. They came in yesterday in the early afternoon, went out for two hours and soon had five kingfish and a mackerel trolling the Stream. Owner of the “Goldenrod” & E. L. Olin, who owns the Goiden- rod Ice Cream Company in Chi cago. His yuést™ts Charles P Rowan, who is president of the bill if rE fF iyt Fil An which will of a tag. fixing « more than $250 for city's bul who boosts Key West every /Charlesy Atlas,»,dad. eompany, the aquarium. to be used as an chance he gets. “It is an easy trip down here, and as soon as yachts-| men realize the beauty and excel- lence of the cruising waters down here I think you'll have more yachts than Miami”, he said Aboard the “Shy Ann II", cap- tained by Viga Bodholt, is the owner, Walter D. Ebinger, and guests, Dr. Joseph A. Burgun, Ar- publishers of the famess muscular development iiterature. Mr. Row-: an is also connected with an sé vertising -agency ‘in New York? City The “Goldenrod” is a 38-foot yacht and the owners expect + get in a little bottom fishing be fore returning to Miami within the next few days. KELLY NAMED ADMINSTRATOR Bond of Thomas L. Kelly, as administrator of the estate of his father, Thomas M. Kelly, was filed in the court of County Judge Raymond Lord yesterday after- noon, and signed by the judge, and bondsmen, J. Otto Kirchhein- ,er and Lionel L. Plummer, and the administrator. It is shown in the papers filed t value of the estate is about $1,600, and the heirs are the widow, Jennie Ettles Kelly; son, Thamas i... Kelly; daughters, Alice Whitmarsh and Lena Al bury. For Better Service On— PRESCRIPTIONS Any Time of Day or Night — PHONE 177 — GARDNER’S PHARMACY The Rexall Store 33 DUVAL STREET 3-DAY BABY OPERATED ON Portland, Ore —Although only three days old, Jerry Lee Wiley son of Mr. and Mrs. James Wiley was operated on for the remove of his appendix. The oper 1s believed by doctors here to the earliest surgical removal of an appendix on record. The baby is apparently on the road to re covery. te ALANLEMAY’S novel of high adventure EMPIRE FOR A LADY Starts in this paper FEBRUARY 8 ot sijock «addresset = the @ounci! requesting a donstzon & ward lighting the Duval street whitewsy. The matter was fe ferred to the finance cummutaer He also requested that partung {f automobiles be allowed on both sides of Southard street. be tween Dw and) 4=6Whiteheed Mrs Joseph Sonnetas af Pit burgh Pa. addressed the boar relative to the city obtamung odd trange and curious snimais on mounted conveyances to be used 2 po parade crietre of the compiction of the Overseas Highway when the eo re project ts firushed She show the pactures of the many thangs babe am ittee from the Service spused of Darnell Carey. Alien £ Curry, Allen Hampton and Gereild Saunders, were at the meeting. and brought before the council the matter of placang wooden traffic DANCE Tomorrow Wight 18 o'Cleck sill ? RAUL’S CLUB John Pruchards Orchestra Ne Saag