The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 12, 1938, Page 1

Key West, Florida, bas the most equable climate in the | country; with an sverage range of only 14° Fahrenheit 8 Years Devoted to the of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 12, 1938. PRICE FIVE CENTS fe Sa eee VOLUME LIX. No. 61. k 7772222224 0 — WPA Project. For. Revising... Criminal: Court Convened Signed By Comptroller General; For Purpose Of Revising Records Of County In a telegram to The Citi | from John Duss, assistant secre- | tary to Senator Claude Pappec| { | | } yesterday. approved by the comp-/ troller general. and has beeh for- | ‘warded to the State office im) Jacksonville. This project was approved by! ji thi President on February 26, | and has since been awaiting the | signature of the comptroller. It ‘is | expected that the announcement | of the ‘start of operations will be made by the State office of- the WPA within the next few days. : : ; DEPARTED TODAY waces rome snnoonce = ' U.S. DESTROYER SOMERS _ HAD BEEN. IN PORT FOR FEW DAYS = if { } ¥{ Criminal Court met 9:30 o'clock * |this morning with Judge Wm. V. Albury presiding, and all court } Officers in attendance. The judge Officially adjourned the February | term, and convened the term for | March. There was no docket listed, but jit was learned from County Soli- |citor Allan B Cleare, Jr., that at least six cases are to be called | for trial as follows: | Abe Allen, assault and battery. Curtis Darrow, entering with- jout breaking with intent to com- i} j|mit a felony, to-wit, grand lar- i} | ceny. Whitney Papy, selling intoxi- lesting beverages not permitted to |be sold Under the license procur- ed. | ‘John Blackwell, charged the jSame as “Whitney Papy. = | John’J. Mathias, vagrancy. TOUCH WILLIAM V. ALBURY, Candidate For Judge of Criminal Court of Record JUDGE ALBURY . ANNOUNCES FOR COMING PRIMARY see visitors to the city who thronged |the Thompson Fish Company | dock Thursday to watch the un- loading of over three hundred ‘ turtle from the schooner, “A. M. MENT OF HIS CANDIDACY Adams”, of Grand Cayman, Brit- ish West Indies, just in from the POR JUDGE OF CRIMINAL | yicoraguan coast, knew - that COURT OF RECORD | there was an evidence of tragedy | about the schooner. | Guy Ebanks, 14, an apprentice | boy of the schooner, is the son of Judge William V. Albury an- ing Ebanks, who was one an | Hol Today For March Term. : Castillo. | TeseadisedtvenvassnsnsscassusossvesstccsesTvOnww OF TRAGEDY ABOUT’ BRITISH see | VISITORS CATCH NUMEROUS FISH Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Dodd and Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Du Rand, Jr. all of Louisville. Bradford Roberts, aggravated| _Kentucky. expected to leave assault. a | “last week. but were so well Drawing from the box a regular, ‘Pleased with fishing aboard venire of 18 jurors and a special Captain _ Milton Knowles venire of 12 jurors to serve at the) ;4#unch “Birdie™ that they de- session beginning Monday morn-| “ided to remain a few more ing, 8:30 o'clock, retulted in the| “Says. following names: i Last Saturday was their Anibal Armayor, Fancisco P.| 9@la day. They brought in ten Gomez, Lyle Lewin, Manuel H.| $fouper ranging in weight Romero, Clarence Higgs, W. J.| {rem 25 to 35 pounds, two Walker, Charles Perez, Joseph! barracuda. 30 and 40 pounds, Thompson, Livingston Bethel, five kingfish, 12-15 pounds. Bernardo Vidal, C. C. Symonette,| |" @md large bonita and macker- Joseph Pelaez, Carlyle E. Wil-| @L They have fished on both liams, Fernando H Gato, Harry} the east and west coasts of Shaw, Eduardo Henriquez, Frank, Florida and enthusiastically Thompson, Frank Milord, Miguel! Stated that it was “the best G. Medina, Harold Pinder, Mari-| day's fishing we ever had.” ano Cabrera, William Shultz, //, The fistirack fairly creaked John F. Roberts, Anthony Alonzo,| 28e weight and numbers Harry Gomez, W. M. Weaver,|’ Gfthe fsh“They think Key Charles R. Williams, Charles |; West ithe “ideal fishing Aronovitz, Eugene F. Pierce, Pepe'|* Tes sii os | Father of Apprentice Boy On It Was Lost At Sea SOOOOI@S TURTLE SCHOONER “A. eevcece | Very few of the hundreds of; trip, several of them being over | the four hundred pound mark. The age of the turtle does not ex- ceed six years, the captain said. The turtle are caught in nets off Nicaragua, loaded on the schooner, sailed to Key West, and anchored at the harbor off the} Thompson Fish docks. A large barge, which was once the ferry! CITIZEN “Monroe County”, is then towed out to the ship, loaded and; brought back. The turtle. whese| Representative Bernie C. Papy tied togéther on either side when |°82¥ .qgnouncement are then unloaded.om the! his record shows figs been ably and. shot down a chute into} and well carried out in the inter- Bird Life ‘Along ——EEE Polk, Publisher Of RL City Directories, In R. L. Polk, Detroit owner of the} | roit |45-pound sailfish yesterday. Cap-| - | R. L. Polk Publishing Company, | tain of the “Sylvia III” is Arthur! “1 know ne piace iz the couz:ry | which puts out the city diréttories |in most of the cities ofthe oun- | | try, is at the Yacht Basi aboard | \his yacht, the “Polk-A.-Dot”, Cap-! ‘ daughter-in-law of Mr. Polk, re- turned from Havana | Commodore Arthur Curtis much-liked Key West, with guests | Dr. and Mrs. Louis F. Frissell of [ : 2 i ; iH Fulton. Cc P. Bently been bottom Key West in the fishBost, have off of ia | i re I ] Re ? g i E z : : ‘To Wild 7 - Keys John H. Baker, Execo- tive Official, Was An Arrival In Key West | Yesterday. where the spectacular and pecs ‘titul wiKf bird life can be seen to better w@wantage by visitors inal Court of Record, ‘ only a few charred timbers found: the turtle crawls, where they| = “ad pon ORT PAY Citals Allis’ Eipels iia akipgecteetn® abqut and’ affied ale ee pe ates of c left this | of the turtle schooner, but stated amusement to winter visitors. Babies ors during i ho ones -left this.morn-| months... | : that he is no relation to: young The A. Granday Canning Com-| !937 session of the legislature, he | at 8 o'clock, | The judge’ needs no introduc- Guy. Guy applied for duty at}pany butchers the turtle and | was appointed to membership on/ the ship's ceghiad . Ze eee ak Grand Cayman, British West.In- sends the meat to all sections of | 11 committees, and was chairman| - allowed liberty, iv. = Se Oe By ' dies, and Captaiti Ebankstook)the country. On the dock also 4 ' a bs Ap Os and has always resided in the him_on there. The ptesent tayage, is the “green turtle soup” factory |Of ne, Committee a pS |city, with the exception of three | t) the keys off Nicaragua is the where the soup is canned. reared a Tyrese’ | | years, when he was attending the! jaq’s first, Captain Ebanks said. | The schooner will leave to-| ¢ com at that session. jlaw school of the University of Some of the largest turtle in morrow morning, and will return : in having killed wes} recent years were brought in this May 1, Captain Ebanks said. | the ge eave ia: have wars! Se > mitted activity of Greek spongers ‘i ir t Se cute he trip will take her! "ts served as’ city judge for | three years and for six years ably; |represented this county in the halls of the State Legislature as |} Monroe County Representative. TEMPERATURES fl i in these waters, and which would | ‘ have ed i ble inj | Officers and crew of the U. S. The after deck of the | to the industry in Key West. | Destroyer Somers were last night been cleared and His record in the the 7 HI ; Tee | | 1 5 4 arena ramets nans a as mtn eo: eens oa iler enthus- | jasts composed .of Mr. a: Mrs... For five years he was legal advis- IS DOING WELL er to the Board of County Com- missioners, resigning ‘from that Position in 1936 to accept the ap-. Reports are being received from pointment to the Criminal Court the spongihg fleet, which has bench, which was tendered him’ been out for severa! weeks, that Mi,/ by Dave Sholtz, then governor of some excellent catches are being vacation of several months on Summerland Key, left for their homes this / struction of the Ovétsea Highway week. » som } toll bridges, Mr:"Afury was legal Members of the group” } they have never had so } real enjoyment in any camp, ior caught as many fish as they did’ this year, and their plans for next season will be made so they may return at an earlier date, for the longer season. FINDS GOLD DUST ‘TACOMA, Wash—Buying an old trunk for $2 at an auction, Osman Erickson of this city found among other things, five small bottles containing $43.33 worth of gold dust. NEWARK, N. J. — Lightning wrecked a table about which five men were playing. poker. but mone of them was seriously hurt. RESTAURANZE 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 Florida. During the many months that efforts were being exerted to ob- tain a Federal grant for the con- made, and fine weol sponges are the result,>: Only ong of the ships have ar- rived. This came.in Thursday and the catch was, plaeed on the dock . yesterday. The largest item in the adviser to B. M©Duntan, giving | offerings was one of 167 bunches unstintedly of his*timé and legal | of wool for.which a price of $555 ability for the benefit of the com-' was offered and refused. munity, which finally culminated! Other small offerings were with the granting of the loan for|made as follows: Yellow, 83 the bridges. bunches, $26.21; 40 bunches, He enjoys the distinction of be-'! $11.10: 36 small bunches, $16.21; }ing the youngest Criminal Court 49 bunches of wool, $189.91. Judge in Florida. He has just been called by Governor Fred P. Cone to preside over a court term in Duval County. His conduct in that court won for him the admi- ration of court officials, attorney: and newspapers of Jacksonville. KENT'S FUNERAL CONDUCTED TODA Funeral services for Robert John Huxley Kent were held this DE SOTO, lowa—‘“Never let, morning from St. Paul's Episcopal the sun set on a quarrel”, is the ‘thurch, Father Arthur B. Dim- advice Isaac Hoch, 96, anidihis»mick officiating. wife, Doreas, 21, of this city,gave+<+Requiem Mass and burial serv- as they celebrated. their 20th, ice were said at 8 a. m weddig anniversary. “= —s—«|s«Ss Pritchard's *Puneral Home was -—- ++ | in charge of arrangements. GIVE GOOD ADVICE bids wilk te received By ‘the indersigned up to and in- cluding Thursday, April 7, 1938, City of Key West with a system on a franchise basis, for the operation of a transporation system. The City Council reserves the right to reject any or all bids. WALLACE PINDER, LUNCHEON—?S< at 8 o'clock p. m, to furnish the | Wythevill =) Highest last night last 24 hours * Abilene 80 Apalachicola Atlanta Boston Brownsville Buffalo Charleston Chicago Corpus Christi Denver Detroit Dodge City Duluth Eastport El Paso Galveston Hatteras Havana Helena Huron Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Miami Mpis.-St. P. Na: New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Pensacola Phoenix Pittsburgh 62 40 a) ) SRAKSRKSAVTSSSELLIRSTVSS| SRSLERSRVSRS 42 local bus }ONE legislature Siven a treat @n board the ship | readiness for bears evidence to the fact that his| by Jake Schreiber, ii | . .all matters which dealt with the schools was indefatigable | 2'°, “7 UseUN: who come: here and all of those bills which were |" Stay 2 few days and is still beneficial to teachers and the here after several months. public school system of the state| Mr. Schreiber’ was invited to carried his vote. show the many wonderful pic- Another matter, in Which his tures he has made both in Key }werk-was untiring and on which West and in other places, in his efforts were ceaseless and ef- United States and abroad. Fala i fective, was that of securing pass- was welcomed on the Somers ageot the Ola Age Assistance Commander James H. Maher, Bill others of the official family ‘a! {| Mir. Papy points out that one of ; the vessel and found the ship | ;the bills whith he was instru-| pared for the entertainment. mental in introducing before the; house was the one authorizing the sbolcheamstel poll tanen in Fisecd Seo LLL LL ida as a qualification to vote, and NUMEROUS TARPON which became effective in Janu-} ary of this year. At the primaries; ARE BEING CAUGHT | in May of this yea, voting with- | out the payment of the poll tax,} Hocking tiirty tarpon. Sap ilcas ct eamencte ae! bringing five fo the edge of cising the right of fe in | . mer years will be unnecessary. i their boat and finally landing Mr. Papy is a young, progres-| %*¥®® tarpon was the exper- sive and active man, in constant; ience of Mr. Van Vernon. touch with citizens in every walk of life, and is thus enabled to ob- tain the views of the voters and | those affected by idgisiation. He | will take the opportunity of meet- | ing them and give personal assur- | ance that his work as representa- | tive of the people of Monroe , county will be done for the best} interests of Monroe county and the state of Florida. of tree iy Hits k ® THE ONLY CLUB IN TOWN WITH A PROFESSIONAL FLOOR SHOW one of four feet the other three feet. SOOTIaaIws fe j RE NAVARR ! M ' lt ily it a i ‘ f : ' AAA eee e2e22cLiriniés