The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 14, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1938. RECORD EST. IN Siete VOLUME LIX. No. 38. Postmaster Harris Will: Be ~ Appointed For Another Term) Appointment. Is Made For IIOP I OI MMB | THO possess £ {7 Of Seventh District | STUNTS ON AQUAPLANE Four Years; Present MORNING: FORTY - TAKEN OFF SHIPS SINCE | West over the highway was es- tablished last week from Sun ‘| TIED TO SPEEDING CAR ~~ AND FATALITIES to Saturday, inclusive. Over 421! OOO I OOO M: Csirin HD. King To Pay Commission Will Expire In April By PAUL MAY (Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Post- master Sam E. Harris. whose commission at Key West expires April 4, will be appointed for an- other four-year term. it was learned here today. An appointment as acting post- master will be given immediately after the expiration. date, «it was said, pending the formality:.of-a}. “non-competitive” civil — servire. examination which he must take prior to reappointment. The longer the acting period, it ‘was explained, the better for Har- ris, for his new four years doesn’t begin to run until after the full appointment. The Key West post- mastership pays $2800 a year. Reappointment of postmasters, | post office authorities explained today, does not come under the/ president’s famour order of 1936 providing postmaster appoint- ments be made on the basis of | competitive civil service exami- nations. Reappointments are made ac- to the recommendations | of political patronage advisors. TAYLOR CASE T0 BE HEARD SATURDAY NIGHT Case of Carl Taylor, who was charged with removing trash in defiance of a city ordinance, and was haled before. Police Justice, and the case taken to Circuit Court,,will be heard tomorrow morning, 10 o'clock. Judge Arthur Gomez, of the Circuit Court in the Eleventh Ju- @icial Circuit, arrived in Key West Saturday evening and said that he would hear the case just as soon as Attorneys George Brooks for the city and W. Curry Harris and Aquilino Lopez, Jr., for the defendant were ready. Later Mr. Harris was seen and Stated that the official papers had been filed and the case would be brought before Circuit Court, 104 IPE, Wath, o'clock “tomorrow morn: Judge Gomez presiding. GREENSBURG, Ind. Feb. 14— Handicapped in his profession by the loss of an arm following an! accident, Dr. A. D. Galbraith, 82, turned te the growing of flowers and bulbs. Assisted by his wife, | who is 79, they have built up a profitable business. They have been married 61 years. HOME BUILDING GAINS Washington. — Constructions of homes increased during 1937, ac- cording to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which reports that 168,033 family dwelling units cost- ing $669,173,500 were authorized in 1937 as compared with 160 589 units, costing $664,845,800 in 1936. JULY 1 OF LAST YEAR i This morning at 3:45 o'clock, | Coast Guard Patrol Boat 183, } " Captain August Bradley, was call- | ed to contact the American SS. J. Fletcher Farrell, and get a man who was declared to be ill and | | Proceeding to sea, the 185 met | | the vessel and received George \ | Foster, 23, from Houston, Texas, | whe was suffering withnan<in- j fected jaw. Her was brought H | ashore for hospitalizatienen:.. | Later, at 5 o'clock, theship | 1 il : gE r i | f | F i r i f fi H H av | P. Johnson, aged 21, was taken | on board and brought to the city | for hospitalization. The sufferer was from Teague, Texas, and suf- | fering with malaria. - H HI eael T if i if | E since lL il gs 8 fi PE | § EF 4 i | : z STARTS TODAY We headed hadidi dd Seccccccscoccsqecceosesos OLD KEY WEST sececcccccccsoseseoosece (EDITOR'S NOTE: This article on interesting. old Key The Gitizes. | teriabis derived from i B. Browne's history. information and included is from re- sources. | i points in the fight of Cuban resi- dents to obtain freedom from the | opression of Spain. From here, | Of |numerous expeditions were or- ganized. Since neutrality laws | did not permit armed forces to|/ be fitted out on shore and dis- embarked for Cuba, one vessel! would set out with arms and am-/ munition, another would take the | Abilene M men, and on the high seas they | Apalachicola _ 54 would unite and proceed to Cuba Atlanta _ 56 to fight in the many battles Boston - spasmodically staged there at that Brownsville ___ time. Buffalo In 1849 Narcisso Lopez, former- ly a_colonel in the Royal Spanish Chicago . Army, came to Key West with Corpus Christi horrible fales. of the cruelty and Denver PopresiOn of the, Spaniards. He Detroit soon. enlisted a large number of Dodge City. — fadvénturous spirits, but his first; Duluth —_ jattempt at invasion was checked iby President Taylor, in this city. Et} Paso ..___ The second expedition was more Galveston succesful with Lopez and a Colo- Hatteras nel Theodore O'Hara leading the Havana _ party, landing at Cardenas, and Helena taking the garrison there. After Huron _ est sharp fighting the garrison was Jacksonville _ retaken by the Spaniards. Kansas City _ One beautiful May morning the KEY WEST news spread among the citizens of Little Reck Key West that the Creole, the Los Angeles Lopez boat, was being chased by Louisville a Spanish gungoat, the Pizarro.| Mismi The people thronged the wharves Mpis-St. P. and cupolas and watched the Nashville chase. At the last moment when New Orleans __ 62 it seemed the Creole would be New York 2 overtaken, the Cubans broke out Okishoma City 38 boxes of bacon and parts of the Pensacola 60 woodwork of the vessel and fed | Phoenix the boilers. With black smoke (Continued on Page Six) a Su StSSSVVas| VSSLRBRIRSess =n aes. St. Louis . 32 AAS Salt Lake City. 38 Franciseo ...48 Ste. 19 San “ sit - Sea eS Tampa_..__.___. 58 Washington, ___ 50 Williston __._-14 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY OF KEY WEST Announces A FREE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE By JUDGE SAMUEL W. GREENE, CSB. of Chicago, Hlinois Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts in the HIGH SCHQOL AUDITORIUM Corner United and White Streets TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 15. 1938. At 8:00 P. M. The Public Is Cordially Invited } cars were recorded. i | a F sary was on te facia j y, rei on | LOWEST IN INDUSTRIAL not being in as The Citizen goes| | ACCIDENTS: DADE COUN to press. | j TY HEADS LIST Another record went under, as 167 passengers came in spl ange | day, breaking the long-standing} | {Special to The Citizen) | | ‘TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 14—In-! January, by three passengers. It | dustrial accidents accounted for’ came very nearly meaning anoth-| | seven deaths in 61 counties of | Florida during the month of Jan- = "| Jed 2845 indu jak teas tox with a total-of 81,.but that num-/| ber was just six-ears short of the he oak reporting | @#! for Janvary)21. On Pac j.. Among the comnts nesday, also; three-trucks and one |more than 100 accidents, Dade tJijer were ferried across the wa- | dents, Gulf 221, Polk 198, Hills- | borough 782, Palm Beach 140, | Monroe 123, Orange 109, Pinellas | 102. * | The counties reporting deaths |. [from industrial accidents were; 5 a | j im Third best day of the week,; | Palm Beach with three, Hillsbor- | priday, the passengers were still well above the hundred mark,! with 98 car and 39 bus passengers | coming in on 62 passenger cars, five trucks, one trailer and one on all the days last week, second General contracting led all in- dustries in this type of accident | with 522, followed by saw mills with 146, automotive industry 145, hotels, restaurants and clubs | 139, highway construction 109,) ing houses 109. The balance, of. 1675. accidents were reported | @7-9*: > five = | by 140 various industries. “The drop from 4073 industrial) Jo oors accidents in December to 2845 in|) Gone in Monday. January is very gratifying”, stat # ed B. E. Erwin, director of the gers, 18 bus passengers and 37 passenger cars were checked. Ferry records are from the of- fices of Frank Delaney, ferry au- ditor. A total of 1644 cars, with 3311 passengers, 117 trucks and 26 paid Oversea Bridge tolls, | The Safety, director announced |that his department would hold |a number of safety councils | not go through to Key West on the ferry, but the figures show how many cars go through the | Lower Matecumbe toll gate, which is 98 miles south of Miami. SUPT. RUSSELL W. P. Brown, purchaser of the! | Key West Investment Company! Melvin E. Russell, Monroe properties and those of the inter- County Superintendent of Public lests allied with the company, ac- histruction,.who is a candidate companied by L. Z Clarke, con- for state senator from the twenty- | nected with the Brown properties, fourth senatorial district in the | are visitors in the city today. May primary, returned to Key } They came for the purpose of West Saturday evening from a looking over the holdings in com- trip to Lee, Hendry and Collier pany with Fred J. Dion, agent for counties, where he had been in Mr. Brown, and to make plans for the imterest of his candidacy. the many improvements which, it _ Mr. Russell also took in the is understood, were contemplat- Fair which was held at Fort My- ed by the purchaser when the ers while he was away on the Property was acquired. trip. Zao a eee money mis Tome | MARRIAGELICENSES Gainesville, Ga. — When Pete Sherlock, Jr.. of Atlanta, bought a new car, he had mechanics pull the tank from his old one. Turn- ing it upside down, $503.75 in sil- ver dollars, halves and quarters poured from the tank. Sherlock explained that he had been using his gasoline tank as a savings , bank. because, “It's easy to put | money..in, but. plenty hard to get } it out” Si ‘BROWN TO OVER PROPERTIES |REALTY PURCHASER ACCOM- PANIED BY L. Z. CLARKE in the office of Judge Raymond Lord, in the county court house, as having been issued during the week ending February 14. Issues were made to the following: Oswaido Disdier and Consuelo Jane Waite; Sampson W_ Wheelet and Florence Portier; Raymond Lightburn and Bessie Roberts; H. CAYO HUESO YACHT CLUB Meets Tuesday night in record of the “unlucky 13th” of} Es OF FIRE ARE AVOID- ler broken record in the highest! | number of cars last Wednesday,! Issuance of five marriage li-| censes are recorded on the records | as George. Betty's fathe?’s name INCREASE IN CITY; ~ “rareon csr mcur 12 SINCE SATURDAY | [Fr HY i | FR f E i iff IN MOST INSTANCES CAUS-| aPEE & F & i H EI ABLE | i i Ee ; a@pparatue-being sent to different ; sectionsjof,the city and in most every imstance the cause of the fire was pronounced as avoidable. Four of the calls were from! Catherine street; one from Unit-| ed street; one from South Street;| was three feet long. Fpfreiatestesl ent bugs, in the « are : - AND BAHIA HONDA Joseph Knowles’ Rites Todey Joseph A. Knowles, age 73, died Saturday night at 8:45 o'clock at This morning the Yacht “Mabel | the residence, No. 1 Pohaski with a party consisting of the held this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock owner, F. W. Scheigert, Mrs. F.'\ from Ley Memorial church, . Scheigert; George Scheigert,| where the body was placed at 2— Mr. and 'Mrs. J. R. Horne, and o'clock. Rev. 0. C. Howell, absist- Lovilia M? Horne, left the Yacht*ed by Rev. L. A ‘Ford of Church Basin fof%a passage up through!f God, wil! officiate Keys tha€‘lie between here and! Catherine Knowles; two sons, Jo- Bahia Holla. oSiseps L. and William 1 Knowles: This, with a 42-foot yacht, is a three daughters, Mrs. William that Visit Te Various Poimts Making Up Seventh Dus- trict Captain H D. King comms moner of Lighthouses will be = the Seventn Distme: Thurscay om @ visit of imspection which will carry him to different pousts bu: he will act. vist Key West. & = sed will be rendered plot America, audience in gwe ‘Talk Representatiwe to U task of seamanship that deters| Roberts, Mrs. Bertie Mateovich ™ most captains from attempting | and Mrs. Albert Cruz; one sister, the trip, say those who are fa-| Mrs. Rhona Sands; one brother. miliar with this water passage, | Milton Knowles; nineteen grand- | and the eagerness of the party to| children and nine great-grand- | make it is a strong t for | children. | the establishment of a five-foot| Pritchard Funeral Home is in |channel through this unequalled charge of arrangements. | cruising Bp 2 emer em" ——$$$—$$__——_ S$ PEARLS BRING $500 PULLS WRONG CHILD'S Gainesville, Fla. — Finding six TEETH small pearis in the oysters served | Ashaway, R. C. — When Bet-/ her at a President's birthday ban- ty Champlin, T-years old, came quet at Cedar Key. Mrs T. D ‘home from school almost tooth- Duncan gave five of the pearls to diess. her parents were infuriated. the National Infantile Paralysis ‘Tiivestigation showed that there Foundation, keeping one as * Alfonso; Frank Themnpson en@*WZas anothér Champlin girl in “memento.” The five pearls were *Retty’s class, whose father’s name appraised as high as $500. _ When the sthoo! dentist Comer. for *"George “- Champlin’s i were only first teeth and the | mistake will be rectified by na- RESTAURANT STREET