The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 21, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. 7 VOLUME LIX. r United States Officials, = Key West Junior Chamber — To Conduct-SurveyOf - Of Commerce’s Application Fisheries At‘Key West -o= == = For Charter Is Approved , Agents From Government "SOO Oeea aa, ae | oe GROUP LEAVES —_— REPORTS ON |\SMLLOL SAAB The state Junior Chamber of j “ = : +p. EGBERT BALL STILL | | LARGE CRAWFISH ‘Commerce, holding a membership) ON PLANE FOR BRIDGE WORK = Sessem: Practically AB Bureau Will Compile Re- | : HOME TOWN BOOSTER | port Covering All Activi- | Theda thee wee ee EXHIBITED HERE jcommittes meeting in Palatka DRY TORTUGAS | Prerequisite to voting at any! | over the week-end, approved the, ti election will not be necessary at} ‘iiaher licati ian aera ns future elections in Florida, and | Bs *Y OTHERS GO ON VESSEL OF | that is the payment of poll taxes, yous COAST GUARD SERVICE: application from Key West j of the legislature in 1937. Elim- SPEMEING DAY: IN ATION: AL PARK AREA No. 44. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1938. {POLL TAXES ELIMINATED: FURNISH DATES RELATIVE One of the largest crawfich ever brought to Key West was placed in the Key West Tropical Aquarium yesterday Elbert P. Ball. former Key Westers who is still proud of his birthplace, in a letter to The Citizen, says that in all his travels he has always “ex- pounded the vitures of his home city”. He would like to return to residence and may de so at some time later, and feels that with the opening of the high- way an opportunity may be presented. “I am glad to note 2 great By PAUL MAY (Special Washington Correspondent which was decided at the meeting ‘of The Citt: | i ‘was presented by Tom Smith. of Feb. 21.) ination of this is specifically men- | tioned in the orders’ issued re-} garding the primaries to be held j in May. H First of these primaries is to fe| | held on May 3 and the second is} | to be held on May 24 District registration books will WASHINGTON, D. —Agenss of the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries will arrive at Key West within a few weeks to undertake | asurvey of fisheries and fish | manufacturers at the port. offi-| Highway, the number of assign-/t9 Hawans. 24 for Key Weet and ments from Key West has reached 960 s.- siewens cials of the bureau announced | 2 = >» | Which is March 7, will pecioarence A pimconaange at midnight April writes and expresses his | All young men under 36 years there have been 673 assignments. The foregoing figures are taken Ke Wet ania: Mx = Gros, Ms. Me Gambian SO | j from the first Monday i fe | | | | here today. The agents, S. C. Denham and; best interests of Key West F. M. Wood. junior statistical ana, “4 1 <itizens.” marketing agents of the buresu, OOO IGG OM s from 2 to 5 in the afternoon. This will continue each day in the| week, and one night each week} until 9 o'clock, at some convenient ; ' place in each election district. j | General county registration | | books will be open between April | |4and May 1. They will be kept open every day and close on mid- | | : bers of the service left by Coast | from the records of W. V. Little, SLDIILIIOILIE st age are entitled to me coed ame lin mene = s es jship. A goal of 25 charter mem-) The associate director and Mrs.| Service bureau in Key West, and tt ‘ond ‘at | Demeray describe their trip to| Show the number up to Febru- left Washington Saturday for At- lanta for a conference with state department of fisheries officials. VARIOUS CALLS %ien.°scxr | | wot Me Fi Atlanta th | Oath and filing fees for candi-| who wants to build a home in| BUS sees dates for county offices must be! Key West and spend the rest ot} WILL MEET Iahassee, and then to St. Peters- SHOWN THAT PUBLIC IS NOT | filed not less than 25 days before | life in the country’s finest | | | the first primary with the clerk |“ f zs burg. to begin the survey. | AWARE OF ALL ALARMS of the circuit court. The atest | Climate. a ‘What steps | imilar | date on which candidates can file) have you folk taken, or propose! Wood, who undertook similar RECEIVED IN CITY | their oath and pay filing fees is| to take, to protect a prospective) Announcement is made by the/ of the trip. work on the Pacific Coast last April 7. investor against the undesirable /P. and O. S. S. Co. that arrange-! Others in the party at year, will do the actual work of County candidates must file ex- | Coney Island type of development ments have been made with the! are: Dr Francis Ronalds, the survey at Key West and oth-| _ Not all of the calls on the Key| pense statements with the clerk that have come to parts of Flor- | Florida Motor Lines to meet the! assistant director; Olinus er ports on Florida’s west coast,| West Fire Department are known) of the circuit court not more ida,——for instance?” And, upon boat arriving at Tampa each! engineer; Dan Beard, of the while Denham, who performed © the: general public, because | 30 not han 25 iene ee hanes | Wednenday qorning tor the Bur-| Lite Divi ‘sion; Herbert will-be in charge of the work in SWeTed and of which the public, | If our visitors from the far cor- an a : , at least one part, is never my ners of the earth would not only ‘made without any additional cost | area of the United Stats. Ordinarily the survey, taken formed. register, but would add their local to the passengers. The* motor Another group which is at Tor-| last-year, would not have been . This month the department, or Jess than eight | ddress, there would be many a Jines will also make the trip down tugas today is the March of Time, | Li Tepeated until next year, but of- 1 4. T. Kyle De W Eee CR Snowden Mri Snowden H EB ify 5 » called for Friday night. Here comes a letter from a man ir f ! 4 i ! i | t i i BOAT AT TAMPA sicse'o iw of te “bes | waters and the gorgeous rays ETRE the rising sun, the real highligh’ f i i : acek Sag cy ‘ il i al Rae Ht i : i { i ? i i z { i : ‘| i fs individual apparatus, has replied i |re-union of friends here in Key St. Pei Port Tam- A | days primary. from St. Petersburg to writers and photographers, who | negro ficials of the bureau, having ex- to 55 calls, and practically all of “ ~ tra funds available, decided to} ;_| Not earlier than April 21 and not them have been telephoned to ei-| 2 oat ther Station No. 1 or Station No. | ‘ater than April 24, and the third 3 ayreg Hope In abnost fery instance these! P0t be filed earlier than May 25) are grass fires and in several cases and the prompt arrival of the engines has quickly subdued what might} have resulted in a dangerous fire, | had the flames been allowed gain headway. | As it was, the prompt response | the apparatus has in. every case! made enabled the department to promptly subdue the flames and make the biennial investigation an annual one. Wood will visit all fishermen and manufarturing places to ob- tain data on the number of fish- ermen, the number and types of vessels engaged in fishing, the types of gear used, the amount of the catch by kinds of fish, the number and types of manufactur- ing establishments with the num- ber of people employed and wages paid, and the value of products. When Monroe county is covered @ report will be sent to the bu- reau here. The final results of the survey will be published by the Bureau of Fisheries next year. Three marriage licenses were issued during the week erding today, from the office of Judge | Raymond Lord. Issues were made permitting the marriage of the Ollie Page and Mary H. Crider; Joseph Sands and Maric Flowers; Alberto Acevedo and Eulalie Cas- tellanes. AVALANCHE KILLS Two June Lake, Calif—Two men were killed and five families made homeless when roaring tons of earth, ice and snow slid down on a tiny community of | homes on the south shore of June | Lake high in the Sierra country. | Highway department crews fought with snowplews to ‘cover | the seven miles between «the! camp and the yijlage,. but were turned back ging blizzard } and great sn s } INTRODUCING ' El Chico's Rhumba Tonight at SLOPPY JOE’S Famous Bar This band will play every night except Wednesdays and Saturdays. 2 —NO ADMISSION— > | there was very little damage| Abilene ‘PHILADELPHIAN | reau of Information, end we have | Phoenix j of political workers | must be not earlier than May 25, and not later than June 3. TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest last night last 24 hours 2B i caused, said Chief Harry Baker. | Apalachicola __ 40 | | Atlanta Boston _ SECRETARY RECEIVES p pede City — ful LETTER IN MATTER Eastport | El Paso | Galveston W. W. Dalling, of the travel and | Hatteras resort department, Philadelphia Havana Record, writes to S. C. Singleton, | Helena secretary of the Chamber of Com- | Huron merce, advising him of a visit to} Jacksonville Key West of a member of the Kansa City staff who will be in Key West | KEY WEST this month. | Little Rock The paper has been cooperating | Los Angeles most heartily with the chamber, | Louisville and in a letter received recently | Miami he writes as follows: ; Mpls.-St. P. “Dear Mr. Singleton, I certainly | Nashville thank you very much for the| New Orleans splendid information you gave us| New York on the highway. We have made Oklahoma City copies of this for our Travel Bu- Pensacola NSRSSRVSLALSSLLRSse| sSR also turned one over to Mr. Grif- | Pittsburgh fin who is leaving Saturday, Feb-| St. Louis ruary 13,’ for the south, He will} Salt Lake City see you when he arrives in Key | San Francisco _ 48 West”. ; Sit. Ste. Marie Mr. Daifing continues his letter | Seattle by\saying; “We have urged him to’ Tampa drive to your city and I know Washington you will be very glad to meet Williston him”. Wytheville __ RSESVSERLSSECHRLBLASKLSSSRISRGS | LSRRERSKBeRRsesss | West. Every day someone finds' pa each Wednesday, making a fF are making the pictures and writ- | Tar-heel, writes: > WATROUS RITES "= a name of an old friend and wants to know where they can find him. Or, maybe, her. Right in line with that letter at the top of the column comes a re- ply to that mimeographed state- ment that we use until we can make the grade with a good book- let. The gentleman, who is a “Your mimeo- graph strikes me as different be- cause of the absence of canned ‘hooey’ and the presence of fact- ual information which answers questions that I wanted answered about Key West. I have heard a lot about Key West and. your let- ter makes me want -to visit it more than ever. Lexpect.ée grat- ify the wish in.about four,days"r ew dovtwhich was@ bedand ai bvcarded Funeral services for Mrs. J. L. Watrous, who died recently in St Petersburg, will be held this aft- ernoon at 4 o'clock at St Paul's Episcopal church. The body ar- rived on the Steamer Cuba this morning, and was placed in the church at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The body was accompanied here by the husband, Captain J L. Watrous; son, Warren Watrous of Pennsylvania, and daughter, Mrs. Clifford P. Myer of Washing- ton. D.C. Pallbearers will be: Ross C. Sawyer, B. L. Grooms, Hilton Kemp, Emil Sweeting. J. Otto Kirchheiner and Melvin E. Rus- sell Lopez Funeral Home charge of arrangements. is ip connection with the boat leaving Tampa for Key West on that date. “HILL FOLK ‘LARN’ SPEECH OF FOLK ‘DOWN THAR’ (By Associated Press) GATLINBURG, Tenn., Feb 21 —Mountain folk “way up hyar” are beginning to talk just like the folk “ ’awy down thar.” That is what Joseph S. Hall, youthful linguist of Columbia University, has found in classify- fying the speech of more than 100 persons in the heart of the Great ) Smoky mountains. The quaint RiEbilly language t- stead of “fust” and “worsh” in- Stead of “wust,” Hall found. And he heard but one boy—who had never been to school—say “larn”™ for “learn.” “Younger persons.” he com- mented, “are like to say ‘afraid’ while older people say ‘afeard.” It is interesting to note that this lat- ter word is still in"general diaiec- tal use throughout England, Scot- land and Ireland and that it was a feature of the approved literary speech during the time of Queen Elizabeth. “Fine old expressions which it is a delight to hear occasionally are ‘fotch’ anf ‘cotch’ for ‘fetch’ and “catch!” “Year’ for ‘ear’ is pre- valent whereas ‘year,’ the unit of time, often is pronounced to thyme with ‘pear.’ ” ing the story of the decline and recovery of Key West. } Many scenes have jbeen taken |, jin Key West covering the period | from the meeting 1935 when | the city was turned over to the} government, until the initiation of | the recovery program, and as a number of activities were insti-| tuted at Fort Jefferson, the his-| toric pile is to be included in the | WATERWAY MEET BEGINS TUESDAY WATERWAY PROJECTS TO BE. DISCUSSED THOROUGHLY AT CONFERENCE { MOUNT DORA, Feb. 21 (FNS). | —Preparations have been com-' pleted for the opening of the third Annual Florida Waterway Con-} gress which will open here Tues-/ day, Feb. 22. the Orange Box Derby sponsored by the congress as an incentive to the youth of the state to build High army officials, members of the Florida delegation in con- gress, including Senator Claude) Pepper and Congressman Mark) Wilcox who are opposing candi- dates for the U. S. senate, will be painting contract of sistant painters. To been sent and five whi laborers. TWO ARRESTS SATURDAY NIGHT z i ¢ L F i | i ip A i? . who operates « beer place at the corner of Mar- garet and Southard streets, and a beer_gamden at the corner of of alcohol by weight. allowed by law Mr. Papy. afternoon, would appear for pre luminary hearing this afternoor. and Mr. Blackwell will be called for hearing tomorrow morning s! 10 o'clock EAGLES ATTACK CHILD be presided over by Walter F.| huge birds swooping down to-xt- RESTAURANT FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET Specializing In Finest Certified WESTERN MEATS Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup Coachmna, Jr, of Jacksonville, 4.4 little Betty Ernestburger. 2. chairman W. P. Miley, « railrosd teakeman, The session will be opened bY Jized his shot gun fied and an address by Gen. Charies P- wounded one of the birds, iright- Summerall, former chief of staff -cing the other away. The bard of the United States Army. © | te killed %-pound " “The Value of the Florida Canal | ere, wt to the National Defense”. | “ a ‘toe cit ms weed o tee darectars of the Cu gcc they wil