The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 19, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West The Key Wiest Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1938. VOLUMELIX. No. 43. Post Office Department Considers Proposal To Issue Highway Stamp Special Issue Would Com- RESIDENCE OF memorste Completion SCHUTT IN FORT And ing Of Over- Opening re | MYERS, os SO en ena — |in defraying the expense of cer- sea Highway TWO-STORY STRUCTURE IS; tifying the unemployed for WPA | jobs, according to announcement WILL HELP IN DEFRAYING EXPENSE OF CERTIFYING UNEMPLOYED FOR WORK ON WPA | JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Feb. 19 | @NS)—Uncle Sam is temporari- | By PAUL MAY (Special Washington Correspondent ¢ of The Citizen) WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Roy| M. North, third assistant post- - different worthy events, and cer- 2 paleand isa master general. said today the Post Office Department had tak. | fo issue a memorial stamp Com | Schutt two-story id at | and March. These will devote REPRESENTED BY OWNER | here of Clayton C. Codrington, | TO BE WORTH TWENTY- | state welfare commissioner. TWO: THOUSAND DOLLARS (Fort .Myers..News-Press) Hundreds of persons attracted the salaries of additional visitors Following conference here be- | Dill, state WPA administrator, it) From these cupalos Key Westers (EDITOR'S NOTE: This article on interesting. old Key West is a regular feature of The Citizen. Most of the ma~ terial is derived from Jeffer- son B. Browne's history. "Key | West. The Old and New”, but | eration included is from re- putable sources. On the roafs of most Key West | houses, visitors to the city note a{ bannistered’ porch, which is’ known Jocally as a “cupalo”, | 1 ; | was arranged for’ WPA to pay! im the old days watched the reef | waters of the island when a vessel | began to beat down too close to by the blaze. watched. the Peter |to be employed during February the reef. Great excitement pre- Fort Myers Beach burn to the | vailed when vessels were seen| | their time exclusively to certify-|groundd and wrecked. For there memorating the opening of the H mat te . . | ing A clients. About 25 more famed Oversea Highway bridge. ground Wednesday. Beach resi-! visitors will be employed for the He declined to comment on dents organized a bucket brigade | period, it was stated. the chances of the proposal’s .go- A | The emergency was created by ing through, adding that while na = was eiorae eos a guid | the announcement from Washing- he is in charge of the Depart-; Volunteer fire fighters switched | ton that Florida's WPA quota had ment’s stamp division the decision | their efforts to saving nearby cot-! been increased because of-the loss in such a matter would rest with | tages which were scorched by the of employment by those employ- Pastmaster General James A.|heat. The loss was €stimated at|¢d in a ae ae by ‘the 3 recession. To meet situation, North said that there are scores | P&tween $12,000 and $15,000. | the State Welfare Board at first of such recent requests from| The fire broke out either in the employed 19 special visitors at its for stamp issues to commemorate communities all over the country | kitchen or pump room about 7:30 |own expense. Finding that it was | both modern and historic events, but that the Department feels it is practical tv issue only a limited number of such stamps. “Since we are limited to such few issues, we have always had/ difficulty. in choosing between | opening of that bridge one,” North aad HOWN EXHIBITED LAST NIGHT AT THOMPSON o'clock. The house was occupied | Still unable to keep step with the by Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Tuttle of Martinsville, Va., and they man- aged to save a few clothes and an | bei the automobile parked under the jhouse. A smaller cottage owned | by Mr. Schutt was saved. The stand of tall coconut palms in! This force since been the luckless ship engagt |front of the residence, known as| <r... ay Isla Moranda, was killed. « ‘Mr. Schutt is at Key. West where hé'is manager of the Casa } j | | ¢ | Marina, a large resort hotel. His. | home at the beach was one of the} fronted release of labor, it appealed to the WPA for financial assistance. ‘was prompt. Old Age Assistance program was at its peak the State Welfare Board employed a per- sonnel of 666 outside the state of- to 344, with nearly fourth of the visitors assigned to | certification. t ‘A drain | upon el; the Board was con. the necessity of ask. largest and also one of the oldest | ing for federal help or increasing | beach residences.. Living quar- ters were on the second floor with an “airplane” sleeping room. Sev- eral persons reported seeing the glow of the fire at a distance of 10 miles. Editor’s Note: The Citizen is its expense of administration. It chose the former alternative and won out. “With the additional visitors the Board will be able to certify those eligible ; |The captain who got to the deck/are to picture Key West as it was at the same Annagidisereede of the wrecked ship first was au-| when the city was bankrupt are its Old Age Assistance and Aid tomatically made wrecking mas- being taken through the week. jwould be colorful silks, sweet) | smelling spices, and a thousand | | different articles for the people of | (the town within the next few | days. | | “There were usually around twenty vessels, schooners and sloops, regularly employed in wrecking, but mnay other boat) captains had salvage licenses and | | could engage in those operations | | if they chose. The men ing ' ‘the wrecking vessels knew these | | dangerous. reef waters backwards | | and forwards. They were trained |Tanged group which composed the | pointment as circuit judge in | to sail their boats in the roughest, audience thunderous ' dirtiest kind of weather while pa-|then rang out. trolling the coast. Though it were{ a gale blowing, when a vessel was stranded on the reef, the wrecking Was made in which Miss Ileen one of the largest in the state; fleet was soon gathered around | out. The keenest competition exist-| ed among the wreckers. When the wreck was discovered all craft in the vicinity crowded on sail and raced to arrive there first. Jacob Schreiber’s color motion informed by Mr. Schutt that the to the Blind programs”, Codring- | tet. having charge of all opera-’ pictures of Key West were shown to a gathering of 40 at the home} of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Thomp- son, 1001 Eaton street, last night. The gathering expressed them- selves as amazed at the beauty of | the scenes and poses in the nat-| ural color movies. Mr. Schreiber has made the films available to! home was a $22,000 structure. COUNTY BOARD HOLDS MEETING | | | many groups in the city during) ORDERS WELL SUNK ON, his stay here and also over the! country. Two of the outstanding performances he has presented this year were that- in which sound motion pictures were shown within the ent wall for the first time. in fhe, his of the institution, and_al Cuba for the first time tory of the boat. i Before the showing of the pic-| tures, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Schrei-| ber. and Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Caraballo were guests of Mr. and | Mrs. Archie Thompson at dinner. RADIO. ADDRESS 4 ON KEYS TRIP TO BE GIVEN ON MONDAY BY JOE MITCHELL CHAPPELL Joe Mitchell Chappell jon- ally-known lecturer and editor, will give a radio address on his trip through the Keys in a stern wheel boat with Henry M. Flag- ler, builder of the Oversea Rail- toad, Monday over WQAM 10:45 8. m. Information was received in a long distance call today from Mr. Chappell to Peter B. Schutt, local hotel manager, who is a close friend of Mr. Chappell. The experiences of the noted lecturer took place 30 years ago. More and more interest in the coming opening of the Oversea Highway is manifested in the publicity concerning it now going on through the country, it is i jis lecture is another m at- tention of the nation, Mr. Schutt PROTECT YOUR CLOTHES FROM MOTHS PROPERTY WHERE COURT Boston HOUSE STANDS Aba briefomeeting held yester- y ‘afternoon ‘the Geuniy Com the sinking'of a well On ‘the prop- erty <onvwhieh ‘thé court” house stands. The well ‘will bé sunk in the corner near the intersection of Fleming and Thomas streets. Present at the meeting were Chairman Car! Bervaldi, Commis- sioners Wm. R. Porter, Norberg Thompson, Braxton B. Warren and Cleveland Niles; Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, Attorney W. Curry Harris, Chief Deputy Bernard Waite. Announcement was made by the clerk that $4,000 was the amount of a check received from the Florida Racing Commission and was the second check receiv- ed from that source since the opening of the racing season in Florida. : Clerk Sawyer said that it is pos- sible that the receipt of this sum will enable a distribution of pay checks to be made next week to county employes. — TONIGHT — Habana-Madrid Club “‘HONOR BALL’’ For American Legion Auxiliary SS ae Floor Show DeLuxe —NO COVER CHARGE s o Call 220 for Early Reservations ‘ © | missioners: issued > @uthérity” ‘for Detroit | ton commented. TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest last night last 24 hours 40 70 92 73 Abilene Apalachicola Atlanta - Brownsville __ Buffalo & Charleston - Chicago Corpus Christi Denver ____ 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 Pensacola Phoenix Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Sit. Ste. Marie Seattle ‘Tampa Washington Williston Wytheville JOHN ALLAN LONG Registered ARCHITECT State of Florida William at Fleming Street —PHONE so— ZSS| SFSU eo BsSSSvserss BSKSALSSSSNSALTASLLSLSaoe| SASRRBKS SEBS SLSRSSSVSSSS 8 BY USING ‘BROWNS’ SUPER-CEDAR CLOSET LINING. IT MAKES CLOTHES MOTH-PROOF. CALL SOUTH wreckers tions for which he would receive an extra fee. In order to get aboard the ship, the captain would have to climb the vessel's ladder whcih was thrown over the side to him. So intense was the competition that when one captain began to climb he could expect that the following captain below him would seize the ladder and shake it violently trying to dislodge him. Many times the! first up on the ladder was shaken into the sea and, soaked to the skin, forced to climb back aboard his boat and be content with only a share in’the cargo. There have been well-known instances which the early jpered with the lights along the coast, changing a bea- con from ‘near a reef to a deep water spot so that the ‘vessel would unknowingly run aground when it thought it was in deep water. Again a favorite trick was to fasten a lantern on a donkey and walk it to a certain spot on shore, so that a ship thinking it was heading down a channel pro- ceeded toward the light and even- tually ran ashore. At the wreck, though, there was every consideration for human life. The Key Westers were even courageous in saving people's lives and many are the instances in which they were gratefully commended. Salvaging’ Sometimes consisted only in transferring, the | cargo to the wrecking vessel..in (Continued on Page Five) ( House; Preservation Of ed in sal-|Kirke both made talks showing county cast less than a fifth ‘POPPY SALE IS ‘YOUNG JUDGE City’s Charm Stressed | In Another Scene “All our industries have moved | css sae ‘away. We have no money. What DAVID WARD, CANDIDATE IN J. BRADNER. VISITOR. shall we do, move away too?”, STATE SENATORIAL RACE. CALLS ATTENTION TO MAT- Carl Bervaldi said last night in) CAMPAIGNING IN ALL TER: URGES IT BE CLEAN- the reenacting of the famous) FOUR COUNTIES | EDUP scene in which Key Westers faced | fupt in 1935. Around the table ~ FT. MYERS,-Feb. 19 @ENS)—| | twenty-fourth district at the age! joys very much To the Bervaldi lines, Mayor of only 28 years. If he wins, it ful at Albury replied, “The people will be the first time since 1888 most haven't even money to move that a senator from this district, the country probably, away”. Then in the dramatic | which includes Lee, Hendry, Col-| ful sunny clima‘ silence which followed, William |jier and Monroe counties, has geous waters. R Porter arose and said, “I been elected outside of Key| Mr. Bradner fi make, the motion that we turn | West. - i 1 the city over to the government,; Arthur Gomez of Key West, and see what they can do about last senator, resigned during In a selected and well ar-/ 1937 legislature to accept an i} i ik : rf E aT 3 Hit tt applause | Dade and Monroe counties circuit | succeeding the late Judge Jeffer- Immediately after the Court-| son B. Browne. Toom scene, another sound shot The twenty-fourth district wh gee f | i bay | : ik Williams and Wallace Bryant|while Key West and Monroe| ue jf aF candidates ha "| were quickly manned and sailed!plan and the effort to . interest | those tourists especially who will’ came the d not ruin the charm of the city. | country; and he and hi A panorama shot of the city ers are confident that he from the La Concha Hotel was break another record this year. made yesterday. Other miscel- laneous shots ‘structures which | i | 7 I iF 1" i ; i Tomorrow at 3 p. m. the bath- ing crowd at the Beach Pool will be photographed. An especially large crowd is requested by George Black, director. In the morning a Coast Guard plane will arrive and take the group over the Keys for shots of the en- tire chain of islands, which is expected to be one of the most beautiful scenes in the film. Monday the group are to go to Tortugas where the Old Fort and wrecked ships will be taken. Tuesday the Casa Marina will be photographed pending approval of Peter B. Schutt, manager. (Hr COOPERATION TO NEW ORGANIZATION g { : 7 | t | Interviewed on the question of the formation of a Junior Cham-~ it hy il el if [ f iy t v : 4 | junior outfit, and praised the; younger ¢elub for its initiative in| organizing. “Personally, I think it would be a fine thing for Key West", he. said. “Just like the Yacht is a fine thing. The more we do to get our people drilled in’ squads formation, and to i as organized units for the we! of Key West, the better off will be” a When he was told t was some hesitation on the part Spot than Key of some lest the new organization It was evident be considered as being in compe- Went uriheeded, as tition with the established Cham- | ncountered this ber of Commerce, Mr. Singleton hended by the deouty k somewhere, 5 I rw at i f i ; R i ¥ e s i rae CONDUCTED TODAY Poppy Day, which is an annual activity of the auxil of the American Legion, was today held in Key West, which is in the Fifth Distri¢t, and in other parts of the district, and in many other sec- tions of the state. Within two hours of the start! of the sale, the entire consign- ment received by the auxiliary to Arthur Sawyer Post 28, in Key West, was completely sold. In the consignment there were 500 flowers. a The members.of the auxiliary charge of the sale, were Pleasant. | ly sutiprised at the demands made for the folwers: ; I i : 2 E ' 4 § i i ' et Ih if ay a 8 f rf 1 att I RESTAURANT FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET Specializing In Finest Certified Western Meats Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup BREAKFAST—A LA CARTE LUNCHEON—7S¢ DINNERS—FROM $1.00 ALSO—LATE SUPPERS AND SANDWICHES BEER and WINES Fred Auerbach. Mgr. Phone $8 FLA, 598