The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 24, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 47. Fire Engine Company Has Taken Preliminary Steps In Suit Against City Bet Ae Teo NEW PLAYGROUND | | | | | EQUIPMENT FOR) KIDDIES PLANNED American La France and/ Foamite Industries, a corpora-| tion, has today made the primary Step in a suit against the City of Key West for damages amount-| ing to $30,000, in the matte: of) ment for the children who daily the fire engine which is a part of | play at Bayview Park, another SEP pest cf the Key West | Fire The is being handled for | the La F: and Foamite Indus- .Walter H. Rogers, who today.! through Judge Lord, filed with | the United States Court a re- quest for a praecipe for summons | in the matter. KEY WEST YACHT CLUB HAS SESSION if if i; merce were selected as the meet- | £] Paso _ ing place of the organization until | Galveston the flag of the club shall be ho'st- | Hatteras ed over a clubhouse. Havana Dr. J. Y. Porter and Dr. Ar-} Helena mando Cobo were appointed as a! Huron membership committee and H. V. Jacksonville __ Connable was authorized to act) Kansas City __ for the club in arranging for par-| KEY WEST ___ ticipation in the celebration to be Little Rock __ held at the completion of the highway. j At the conclusion of the meeting Commodore MacMullen served refreshments. | | | HUGE MONUMENT PLANNED | Salt Lake City, Utah—A huge $250,000 monument, to mark the Spot where in 1847 Brigham Young, looking out over the great Salt Lake Valley, declared, “This is the place,” will be constructed St. Louis E Salt Lake City | San Francisco To provide piayground equip- i depllties started a search for b THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938. Disabled Steamer Towed Into Port Leaves For New Orleans CURTIS DARROW BACK IN JAIL; THIS TIME FOR THEFT ENTERED PREMISES OF CAP-| Ata brief meeting of the Demo- leratic Executive Committee of TAIN JAMES ADAMS AND Monroe county held last evening LEFT WITH VERY VALU- |i the county court house, the matter of assessments of candi- ABLE WATCH dates in the election of this year, |the first primary of which is to | be held on May 3, was discussed Curtis Darrow, colored. is once | and final decision announced. again in the grip of the law, and | ——. will probably have time to pon-| der on his shortcomnigs until he/ | VISITORS COMING FOR ONE DAY Democratic Committee Meets And Arranges For Primary The law permits as much as! two per cent of the annual emolu- | ments of the office to be assessed | by the committee, but it was de-| cided last night that the assess- ment would be made one and one-| half per cent, and this figure was} made a matter of record. | REMAIN HERE FOR FIVE WEEKS Adams, of Fi ‘avenue. |_ W. F. Mahanay, of: Jefferson, | ~The captain’ was engaged in| low2. who, with Mrs. iv. ki bout hi mises and | Came to Key West for the purpose _ ad- | of staying one day and stayed five his; Weeks, expresses his delightful Che Key West Cittern eecasecoce ‘OCTOPUS, ALTHOUGH APPEARING AS This Was Recently Demons HARMLESS, FIGHTS trated At Local Aquarium FOCOSSSOOSSSSSSSOSOSESSSESSSSSESSSSSSESESSSESESES An octopus is a harmless ap- be quiet for a time, and then the | pearing mass of pulpy flesh, and | smaller would glide over and seems to be imbued with the idea start his annoying tactics, until in tow of the Wrecking Tes letters in reply to those he sent to | friends in other parts of the coun-/ try, and the first of these was} from Dr. R. L. Barnett, of At-} lantic, Iowa. In it Dr. Barnett gave thanks for the paper and booklet sent by ,| Sire to spend a few days in this! f juding a stay of five weeks in lovely oid city and we do not ish to leave without expressing pleasure we have experienc- not only from your pictures- be RF AE ible climate, but also from the unspoiled hospitality of your 3% fi ing faces and a sincere de- to contribute to our enjoy-' it have met us at every turn., there ever was a place where scriptural injunction, ‘If a you to go a mile with we , i" i i 5 i § i see twain’, is exemplified, it) f a to especially stress | appreciation of the part play-' by qf Ha : rf i { A ag li ee os z ghar Hb rf as 8 Ba f f i E ; F ily rf fir f gh world travellers, with an enjoy- |able memory of good fellowship! that will hold as prominent a/ lace in our cherished recollec-| prs | tions, as will the photographs we found to be| have taken of Key West hold/| At) in our album. f § itern- } decided the descrip-| have it in their power to affect; ‘were of aca and the/ the destiny of Key West, that for im. | your lives sake, you fight against | the entrance of sensational resort | j| features and make of Key West! and not dissipation”. | * Later in the day Mr. Mahanay } came to the office and explained | tiene of in-) offered was enough to warrant the the committing magistrate | placing him under bond of $200) to await action at the next ses-| == CNIAL RECS Darrow has been connected sEETING OF DEPARTMENT with a number of similar epi- BOARD HELD LAST NIGHT Meeting of the Key West Fire Department Board was held last night at which matters pertaining to the carnival, which operated here for several weeks under the jauspices of the department and the first of this week departed for other parts of the state. It was stated that the returns were not as large as anticipated, / in fact, the results of the stay after a sojourn of six months in the county jail. surroundings, your incom-| i |and delightful climate and _ among One of the first things Mr. Ma-/ hanay did when he came to Key} some corn Chamber he had promised the State Ex-| perimental Station in the Okee-| chobee district. | The Citizen, commenting on the| display of corn, wrote an article’ in Jefferson, Iowa, as follows: | “From the southernmost town | southernmost newspaper in| the United States comes the fol-| | the’ “And for a takes hot and humid nights for such eats of humid nights things which our mers fail to produce. “We are only i this corn’, Mr. Mahanay stated. ‘It ed a yield of 60 bushels to the acre, gives it a very distinct value growers’.” | When the above appeared, Mr. Mahanay purchased 125 copies of |The Citizen and sent them to his| friends throughout the country and would have purchased other Se they been available. FIREMEN DISCUSSED TAX CERTIFICATE SALE TOMORROW TOTAL OF 268 PIECES OF PROPERTY INVOLVED IN THIS SALE Another sale of tax certificates under the provisions of the Mur- phy Act is scheduled to take Place tomorrow o'clock, in front of the county court house. The sale will, as usual. be conducted by Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, of circuit court. Involved in this sale are 268 of getting as far away as possible from danger, especially while held in captivity. It even seems to fear the near- ness of its own kind when the at- titude of its kind appears to be! that of an aggressor, intent upon | forbearance wanes, as was evi- denced in the case of the two, which were recently in the Key West Tropical Aquarium. The smaller of these two was Wherever the larger was it would CONE AND WILCOX BACK STAMP IDEA HIGHWAY COMMEMORA- TIVE STAMP Fred P. Cone, governor of Flor- man and candidate for U, S. Sen- ator from Florida, have both writ- youths who initiated the request “To sum it all up: we are look-| was brought here to be given to for the stamp and solicited the Key West, promised that would interview Postmaster eral Farley on the matter on Mr. |Farley’s return to Washington, The Governor Cone promised to inter- PROCEEDINGS DEAL WITH CASE AGAINST MON- ROE COUNTY the other would be forced to de- | fend itself, but always quietly |and never appearing to be making | an effort to defend itself. | This has changed, definitely | smaller, and in a brief time it was no more. Monday, Romero fed the | H vanquished cepha- to the turtles in the larger of the oval tanks. 'P. J. CONWAY GLAD TO BE BACK IN CITY | | } | | TO INTERCEDE FOR OVERSEA PENNSYLVANIA RESIDENT P. 3. Conway, of sylvania, is a visitor in and is enjoying his thirteenth vis-_ it f the city, and county, where ko ten endorsing the idea of a com-/ he Owns several pieces of valu-| |memorative Oversea Highway | able property, admirably located eeceeseeseecsesosseseses | stamp, and state they will active- | in the county. While paying a visit to the of- | | V. Martinez, the two high school | Said that he was glad to get back where the climate is | warm | among | county cated. is located there Pay for employes of the county of Monroe will be made available tomorrow at the office of Clerk were so unsatisfactory that the | Pieces of property and the own- sued an order quashing the alter- receipt of a check for $4,000 which native writ of mandamus which was recently received from the was issued against Monroe coun-/ Florida Racing Commission, has ty in behalf of John E Morris, | been cleared, and enables pay- relator in the case. ment from the General Revenue This was a matter in which the Fund, for the month of Decem writ was issued against the coun- ber 1937, and from the Fine and ty ordering that there be made on | Forfeiture Fund for the month of British Steamer Arrives In Port This Morning To Take On Fuel O@ At Porter Dock Steamstup Puc Agul whict was Warbler wach rescued the vessel from 2 perilous potliies on Triumph Reet seer Fowey Rock: for a supply of fuel ofl. Loading of the supply took sev- eral hours after which the vessel continued on its jourm@y to Curacao Power Bost Schwete of Bridgetown, Barbedos, was at the Porter Dock Co. in the @iip, this morning. The vessel came to Key West trom Miami and berthed while repairs were mage t the muffler. ato es have repairs done to from which a biade was wher yell gi | Th lif if te tft i i | EY i i | li f i} le ul Sit. Ste. Marie men who were used at the fairjers number 117. Individually the 1938 tax roll of on a rugged hil! east of this city. It was the end of the long trek |Seattle westward by thousands of “saints’ cae who were seeking a new home, Will pgeen —. and the beginning of the mass set- | ‘s - tlement of what is now Utah. teeta SAE OUGHT TO LEFT LONG AGO | PTT TT MITT TIT rs SREABMISSeAVsSetsssaesssss| aesusseseseseseas Fri. and Sat. Specials LAYER CAKES. Date, Nut, Tutti-Frutti, Chocolate— ON SALE 35¢ SPECIAL AT ANGEL FOOD and DEVIL'S The Home of Baker Boy Bread 812 Fleming St. Phone 818 CHICAGO.—Mrs. Emily Ger-/i rand of this city was granted a divorce on the testimony that for 20 years she had lived in daily: ARCHITECT State of Florida William at Fleming Street —PHONE 80— were paid off by the department / owned pieces of property are as and a small sum was left to be/ follows: T. A. Thompson Estate, added to the fund for pensions for | 44: W. H. Malone, 24; Juanita Al- retired members of the depart: | bury, 10; Mary M. Thompson, 8; ment. K. O. Thompson, 7. RESTAURANT FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET Specializing In Finest Certified WESTERN MEATS Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup BREAKFAST—A LA CARTE DINNERS—FROM $1.90 ALSO—LATE SUPPERS AND SANDWICHES BEER and WINES Fred Auerbach. Mgr. Phone 98 the county 2 provision whereby the county would be enabled to pay bonds owned by the relator. The bonds are 3 In connection with this matter Attorney W. Curry Harris, for te county, appeared before the November 1937 (COLLECTS IRON FOR JAPAN Managua. Nicaragua The | gathering of old iron is becomung ja very profitable business im Noce- ragua. Old steamship hulls and