The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 5, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 81. Gene: Tunney, Former Boxing Champ,» Sees Sights OF City Sees’ Old Friend, Guy "POO O OOM OM, VOvERt SHEHEE, WHO HAD) Carleton; Guest Of Mr. | and Mrs. Clifford Hicks ; Here With Group While walking down one of Key West's streets yesterday, Guy Carleton of Key West saw a familiar figure. He was tail, strapping, and large of body.’ He had a short, blond, military haircut and cleat blue eyes and strode athletically along the street: “Why Mr. Tunney”, Mr, Carle- ton shouted in surprise, "How are you?_ Remember, we had lunch together once. from 4 neighboring town to your home town!” I'm It was Gene Tunney, victor over one of the game's greatest fighters, Jack Dempsey, and un- defeated heavyweight champion of the world until his retirement some time ago! To Hicks Home The Tunneys are from Stam- CONGRATULATIONS ON OPENING OF OVERSEAS RCAD Interest in the opening of the Overseas Highway is be- ing manifested from various sections of the United States, and among the letters re- ceived is one from H. D. King, Commissioner of Light- houses, sent to W. W. De- meritt, superintendent of the Seventh Lighthouse District. The letter reads as follows: The “Bureau congratulates the Seventh Lighthouse’ Dis- trict and the community ‘of Key West on the cortipletion’™ and opening of the Overseas’® Highway reported in your Tetter of March 29. The com- missioner recalls participat- ing in the ceremonies attend- ing the occasion of the arri- val of the first railroad train in Key West, and doubtless the present occasion may be equally felicitous.” . nhwthathuhnteuteadude CLEARE ENTERS PRIMARY RACE | MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT FOR! parted. Within a short time SOLICITOR OF CRIM- INAL COURT “| got ‘on the trail and suspicion was The Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1938. GOLF SHOP BROKEN OPEN AND ROBBED | BEEN SUSPECTED, WAS! CAPTURED ON ROAD AND | | BROUGHT TO KEY WEST | At 7:30 o'clock yesterday |morning, Hastings Piodela, in | charge of operations at the Key| West Golf Course, found the golf |shop broken open. Examination showed that glass in three win- ;dows had been broken, also a | show case in the shop. The state of affairs was report- ed to the sheriff's office: Officers directed to Robert Shehee;*who had ‘been around the shop for) several days, and -had suddenly disappeared, ., Chief Deputy. Sheriff Bernard | Waite started on the trail and | was going over the road in pur- jSuit, as all indications pointed to | the highway, but after starting changed his mind and returned to the office of Chief Engineer B. M. Duncan, of the Overseas High- way, to wire ahead. | Officer Joe Gallup, of the high- way official forces, was contacted at Craig’s and advised of the pos- sibility of catching the suspected | | robber. He was given a thorough | | description of Shehee, and de- he) | telephoned that he had caug! | the suspect as he got down from | |a truck on the road. + i | County concern, Twenty Two Recorded ‘During “Past Twenty-two warranty deeds were recorded in the office of Ross C. Sawyer, County Clerk, during the week beginning Tues- day, March 29 to yesterday at 5 jo’clock. It was one of the largest transfers to take place recently. The great majority of the sales | 23. were of Key property. H. S. McKenzie sold to Mrs. Josephine M. Woods a half inter- est in Lot 7 and part of lots 17 and 18 on Tavernier. Another deed gave Mrs. Woods a half in- terest in 55.98 acres on Plantation Key. Mrs. Woods figured in a num- ber of sales of her property. To H. S. McKenzie was sold a third interest in Lot 35 and part of lots 17 and 18 of Government Lot 2 on Tavernier. To'C. R. White was sold a third interest in Lot} 35, Block A on Tavernier. To} Tavern Stores, Inc. a Monroe | Mrs. Woods sold | Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 22 and 37 of of Lots 17 and 18 in Government | Lot 2 on the same Key. | Lot One of Square Nine was jsold by Charles E. Geiger to) Myrtle H. Lester. | At Palm Villa on Big Pine lot) jit was sold by Miss Lida R.} | Calkins of Miami to Roy E. Van- | jatten of Big Pine Key on March | k | Della A. Lane, sole beneficiary | of the estate of Eugene T. Lane, | | deceased, sold to Mr. and Mrs. De} Ross Kimball a lot 200x215 on| | Key Largo on April 18, 1927, and! | the deed was recorded this week. | Block 11 on Key Largo was! {sold by Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Thomp- | son and Mrs. W. W. Thompson to! De Ross Kimball. | | To Mr. and Mrs. Wm. A. Kru- | ger, Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Thomp- son and Mrs. W. W. Thompson | sold lot 3 of block 2.0n Key Lar-/| go. Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Thompson and Mrs. W. W. Thompson, sold ! | to.Frederick W. Wilson lot 2 of {Block A on Tavernier and part; block 2 on Key Largo. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Reagan sold | to Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hatch Brownell Goes To Cuba In _ Interest Of Ferry Service) * Organization of the Key West- Havana Limited Lines for the operation of a ferry service be- tween Key West and Havana was one of the things mentioned yes- terday by Walter E. Brownell, representative of the company, who was in Key West en route to Cuba. Mr. Brownell arrived ‘over ‘the Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘DeedsMajor MacMullen Gets $40,000 Meek’ More For Local Ar my Program |Present Relief Rolls Can- not Supply Men Needed; Sections Of Work To Be B@aIIEAAS SBS, Continued However SENDS NOMINATION OF SAM E. HARRIS Forty thousand dollars more is TO U. S. SENATE | to be allotted Major James Mac- | Mullen, officer in charge of the Army Barracks, to continue the Program of rehabilitating wooden (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 5.— “*President Roosevelt sent to ‘vith Senatethe nomination of and other structures, beautifying Se Sate EiHatris to be post- qniastet at Key West. bdidkddad| GUNS DISPLAY, highway Sunday and yesterday morning: ‘took passage’ on’ ‘the Cuba ‘for Havana’ to’ attend = matters” in-vconneetion ' with'” formation ofthe company and its initiation into servieé?’which is expected to be about the latter part of this month. From Tavern Stores, Inc., Mrs. | lots 1 and 2 of Thompson's Sub- | Low rates for the passage from | property. | Woods bought a half interest in! division on Key Largo. Sale was key west and all expense tours |Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 of | made Nov. 20. Square 1 on Key Largo at Taver- nier. H. S. McKenzie bought the Oil In County? Tamiami Everglades Corpora- | tion sold to Ross C. Parker of about 1,300 feet square a short ht {distance from the Pinecrest sub-| Duncan and Georgia streets, be- | and mineral rights in the section | ‘0 with the property. | from Miami are to ‘be offered, it Key West Property | was announced. The corpurati.n The corner of United and Reyn-/owns a steamship which is now BALL GAME AT POST TOMORROW | | grounds and building new roads | and sidewalks at the Army Bar- racks, Fort Taylor and the two | Martello Tower reservations. Major MacMullen has received a telegram from the War Depart- ment informing him of the ap- |proving of his reauisition. The funds will be forwarded in the | other half interest in the same | olds, between United and South | in drydock at Mobile. The vessel | streets, was sold by Aurora Go- is capable of carrying 350 pas- | mez to Everett V. Kinsman et al | sengers and 60 automobiles. of the Casa Marina. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Smith | | 1521 N. W. 55th Street a section; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Stanley Erickson the corner of | division on the mainland. All oil' tween Duncan and United streets. | Another corner lot, that at Di- vision and Albury, between Pear! | OBSERVE NATIONAL ARMY MISSING BOAT =| Ti vowe BROUGHT HERE, An excellent display of guns DAY AT BARRACKS; ARMY | {near future, together with speci- fications from. the War Depart- ment. “This appropriation will make _ jit possible to paint all buildings | at the Barracks, Fort and reserva- |tions and put them in first class | shape”, Major MacMullen said. | William V. Little, W. P. A. em- ford, Connecticut. John S. William sold to Ed-|and Albury, went to Gertrude|COAST GUARD VESSEL LO.|@"4 army equipment will be | ployment officer, announces that is from Gilford, Connecticut, and has been a friend of the Tunneys for a great many years. With Mr. and Mrs, Tunney are Mr. and Mrs. George Merck. Mr. Merck tho Mueck~-Otemi- eal Company, West Orange, N. J. Tunney is chairman of the Board of Directors of American Distil- leries, N. Y. Seeing that the Tunneys and Mercks were experiencing a lit- tle difficulty in securing accom- modations, since a great number of the hotels of the city are filled, Mr. Carleton introduced them to Mr. and’ Mrs. Clifford Hicks of 1311 Flagler Avenue, and the group were guests there last! night. This morning they are| sightseeing the city from an ample list of attractions supplied by Mrs, Hicks. | Asked about the terrific knock- | down he received in the second | Dempsey fight, when he very! nearly lost his heavywéight crown by a_ knockout, ‘Tunney | said he was hit seven times, four | while he was standing up, and three on the way down. “I don’t; know what happened. He cross- ed me with a right. Then they say your guard: lowers a_ little after a hard punch, and he got in a good left to the jaw. I re- member being in a.daze as I was going down, but-I never did lose consciousness. I retnémber being | aware that I was close to the canvas and that I was in the) middle of a prize fight. I knew | I had to take the count of nine. | All fighters do that. When Schmeling is hurt he takes a full nine count. Carnera and Willard would jump right up. Then they'd realize how hurt they were and would want the referee to stop! the fight. “The referee did just what he said he was going to do be-} fore the fight, that is, motion a} fighter to his corner after he had knocked his opponent down. I waited until T heard the count of | nine then I got up.” | Analyzes Louis Louis’ straight right is his best! punch, Tunney thinks, but bis} left hook isgood. There’s dyna- mite in either fist and one good punch from-either of them and its dreamland for his opponent, Tunney said.’ Asked about — the coming _ Schmeling-Louis . fracas, | ‘Tunney would only say that it is solicits the support of the voters| balls, 10“golf balls of inferior) at the Democratic Primary on May 3. Mr. Cleare feels that his con- Mr. Carleton | Immediately Deputies Ray El-|& | wood and Joe Roberts started | over the highway, reached Offi- | cer Gallup, received the prisoner | and was back in the city and She- hee was in jail at 2 o'clock. Loot recovered consisted of five dozen better grades of golf) Allan B. Cleare, Jr., in this is-| sue of The Citizen, announces his candidacy for the office of County ‘Solicitor of the Criminal Court of Reeord-of- county, and grades, packages of cigarettes, | | about one dozen packs of cheese }erackers and $1.60 in cash. It ward R. McCarthy 47.22 acres on Big Coppitt Key in an old deed which was recorded this week. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bacon sold to Miss Ohla Alyce Smith 40 acres on Key Largo. At Cape Sable, lot 2 of Sec- tion 8 was sold by S. L. Roberts to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Freedman on March 25. duct of the office in the past} was also discovered, that while} —————--——-———---- warrants his asking the support of the entire electorate of the) county, and assures them of his; | making the haul Shehee had also) | drank several cans of beer. | Charges are now being drawn | feeling of deep appreciation of|up for the prisoner, but it was| the support given him in the| not known this morning what past. He respectfully asks the| they would be until an estimate | further consideration of the vot-| of the cost of the loot had been! arrived at to determine if the} | charges would be petty or grand ER FROM OLD | Ricketts of Lake County, Ilin-| | ois, from Mr. and Mrs. Beaure- | gard Lowe. The section is 74x156 j and the number of the houses are | 1413 and 1409 Division street. Sale | was made March 29. \ Mary E. Lazo sold to Armentha Neely of 720 Galveston Lane lot 8 of tract 5 with a 50-foot front! ion Elizabeth street. { FAMILY CHAMPIONS MODERN IDEAS ESCENDED from colonial set- tlers who received their grants time, she would like to take a| long trip after the completion of | Sailfish, which is in command of TAYLOR CASE CALLED TODAY P | PROCEEDINGS IN CIRCUIT COURT DEFERRED UN- TIL THURSDAY Hearing in the case of Carl! Taylor, who operates a Scavenger, truck for William Knight atid} who was arrested twice yestetda: and once Saturday of last Web’ for alleged violation of the pro- visions of the scavenger ordin- ance recently passed by City Council, was called in Circuit Court chambers this morning, but Judge Arthur Gomez ordered that the proceedings be deferred until Thursday morning when the case will be reviewed. Taylor was arraigned in police court yesterday afternoon. Judge T. S. Caro dismissed the case on! the grounds that the defendant had been arrested twice in one day on the same charge, which, he declared, was illegal, accord- ing to the construction of the law, OUTLINING PLANS FOR ROAD WORK State Road Department forces are now starting preparations for the work of widening and re j larceny. HYSICIANS ON {of land direct from King George|her seventh novel. “The best | III, Blanche Smith Ferguson is as| part about a trip”, she says, ,“is | much @ part of Maryland as its! the homecoming”. sod. This feeling for the South Clash Of Old And New and its graceful traditions is skill-/ The Jeading character in “The ully handled in her new serial,| 5.) wood Barrier” is Judith CATES CRAFT AT SAND KEY At 12:25 o’clock this morning word was received at the Coast Guard base that the power boat Skipper Joe Thompson, was miss- ing and it was expected the ves- | sel and her passengers were in trouble. +3 Word was passed to, August Bradley, officer in charge of the C. G. 185, who immediately start- ed off from the subbase in search | of the missing craft. Captain Bradley made a thor- ough patrol of Hawk’s Channel, then went to American Shoals | available at the Army Barracks | the present appropriation finds tomorrow afternoon from 1 to 3/the city without laborers to con- Pp. m. to celebrate National Army | tinue the project. A great num- Day. | ber of bridge workers are avail- A real scrap, whieh will prob- | able, but application to transfer ably prove the diamondball supe- | them to the relief rolls is a very riority of either bachelordom or | slow process, Mr. Little said. matrimony, will take place when| An agreement with Major Mac a game between the Married | Mullen has been made, however, Men's Nine and the Single’ Met's | in which the Maior will go ahead club starts off at 3 p. mz These with other phases of his program two outfits either in baskétball, jase wal aes ékpecled’ influx of Volley ball, baseball or diathond- ball have. aiways put up’ hot fights. Guns to be displayed are a 155 a three-inch mobile anti-aircraft gun, a 10-ton artillery tractor, and an Army “rolling kitchen”. Members of the local post will be stationed at the various equip- millimeter mobile seacoast gun, | | The Major has been continually | besieging the War Department for funds to carry out the present | project, which is known to have been a pressing need for a long time. Small allotments, which {have been increasing all the time have been made him. With the money thus received the Major has gone ahead with the program light, then followed the line of| ment for the purpose of explain-| and has had certain sections of the reef to the Sea Buoy. At this point the Bar Pilot was contacted. ing in detail their operation. Army Day will be a world- TRIP TO HAVANA | GROUP COMPOSED OF 40 ON) “The Boxwood Barrier”, which starts in this paper today. Mrs. Ferguson sold her first story for $5 in 1926, and _ since then has published 200 stories— juvenile and adult—with five na- | tional prize winners among them, ; Goodloe, who has an old Mary- | land family to uphold her. But! the Goodloes need money desper- | ately, so, loving another man, Ju- dith marries Reuben Oliver, who | has pulled hiinself up by his boot- On board were Pilots Clarence ; wide celebration tomorrow, Ma- Thompson, A. E. Sharpley and | jor James MacMullen, officer in Myron Russell, together with Ar- | charge of the Army Barracks, ex- |it completed by the time the funds for a following requisition have been received. In this way, the work has gone along con tinually. The projects have made 9! deitlige arty tes a half-dozen serials, and four! straps. Then Reuben loses his thur Thompson, brother of Joe Thompson, going outcte’ bring in the Fruit Steamer Atlantida. They reported that the Sailfish plained today, and is of special work for a great many laborers, | significance this year because of carpenters, painters and other | attention which has been center- | local workmen to be employed as ed on the strength of the Army well as members of the army con land Navy since the foreign war py a 50-50 fight—either may win./ building a stretch of road on Big The German is a better boxer,/Pine Key, connecting up this and a veteran fighter who knows! branch with the 4-A highway. all the ropes. Louis has a fair! Carl Bervaldi, chairman of the defense, but a poor one against/ board of county commissioners, the type of fighter Schmeling is./said this morning that all ob- One good punch from Louis,|stacles have been removed and though, and Schmeling will fade! the requested easement over the out of the picture, Tunney said. road had been granted the State Louis is a good boxer, but gets Road it, at a special confused, Tunney thinks. Tommy meeting of the county commis- (Continued on Page Four) : Odeon the visitas ‘Stopping at Kéy West briefly . yesterday ‘HidHning during’ he “time S. S. ‘aba, waste pott' wae Dr. W. D. \Baritaste?, ‘Superintendent and di- rector of medical relief for the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. Dr, Lancaster is the leader in a group of physicians connected with the A. C. L., about 40 being in the party, who are on their annual vacation and were enroute to Havana, Cuba, where they will spend a few days, and ex- pect to return Friday afternoon. After the arrival of S.S. Cuba, a number of the visitors took; rides over the city. “ROBBING THE CRADLE” CHICAGO.—Mrs. Erna Shick of this city sued for divorce from her husband, charging that “he lost money in the stock market and then robbed the baby’s bank to pay his margins”. |novels. There seems to be no danger of her running out of ideas {because she is now. writing her "| fifth novel, and has; the titles for her sixth and seventh selected and the plots outlined. Her books include, “Glorious Thunder”, “Blossoms In The Moon” and “Lily Of The Field”. Hobbies | Although writing is her first love, and her chief activity, Mrs. | Ferguson is also a noted public speaker. Her fearless opinions have made her well known, es- pecially as a champion for wo- men. Her hobbies are old houses, old gardens and old sliver, which is certainly in keeping with her an- cestry. The home of her paternal grandfather, John Smith, is one of the oldest in western Mary- land Another interest is animals. She is cengtantly working for their welfare. If Mrs. Fergu’on can spare the RECEPTION —TONIGHT— Habana-Madrid Club Special Floor Show noiieliee “Dancing At Its Best” Two Orchestras NO COVER CHARGE—— RESTAURANT FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET Specializing In Finest Certified WESTERN MEATS Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup BREAKFAST—A LA CARTE DINNERS ALSO—LATE SUPPERS AND SANDWICHES LIQUOR. BEER and WINES Fred Auerbach, Mgr. money and Judith gives up the pleasant life she‘ has always | known to follow’ her husband to a rough Nevada mining town and | a northwestern lumber camp. What seems the final obstacle to their happiness comes when Judith meets her old sweetheart again and thinks she is still in love with him With sympathetic treatment, Blanche Smith Ferguson shows the inevitable clash between old traditions and new ones, between a girl who lives by out-dated codes and a man who makes his own vs. “The Boxwood Bar rier” is a love story which is real, as well as entertaining. ONE WAY OUT WISCONSIN.—Exasperated by the nagging of his wife and moth- er-in-law, Oliver Geishard of this city drank all the whisky he could hold and then called the police to take him to jail had: not returned up, to. the time they left port, Captain Bradley started. his | proportions. course toward Sand Key and ar-| President Roosevelt and other riving there foynd the. Sailfish | officials of the War Department lying at anchor. This was at 5:30| have endorsed the Day. o'clock in the morning. A hawser | was passed to the Sailfish and the NEW ARRIVAL IN launch was towed to the Coast Guard dock in the subbase, arriv- i FRED BOSSERT | Mr. and Mrs. Jack Swift, of 619 | Angela street, announce the birth RETURNS HERE 2112 pec toy at 'teir nome j The new arrival will be named Vinivaw Robert James. RECALLS PREDICTION MADE) Both Mrs. Swift and her gon are reported as d nicely, SEVERAL YEARS AGO CON- | fits CERNING HIGHWAY j |CHAMBER —OF— COMMERCE Semi-Annual Meeting | situation has increased to such Bossert, visitor from . who has spent many delightfu) seasons here, is in Key West and called at The Citizen office to meet some of his friends made on former visits. tingent at the Barracks. SCHREIBERS LEFT MONDAY |REPORT GRANDEST VACA. | TION EVER EN- JOYED Mr. and Mrs. Jake Schreiber, of Detroit, Michigan, who had been in Key West covering « long period, left over the highway yes- terday afternoon enroute to Mi- ami Beach where they will visit for a short time and then proceed to their home. Before leaving Mr. Schreiber said the visit had been one of the grandest be had ever enjoyed. Great fun fishing, inestimable pleasure in meeting the grand people of Key West, and delight- ful hours spent in showing his large collection of moving pic- tures, in the different schools of “I just dropped in to say hello, | LUNCHEON—75c FROM 85¢ —e and to recall to you what I said/ several years ago, to the effect, that if ever a road is completed from the mainland to Key West,’ the city will be the mecca of thousands”, Mr. Bossert said. From observation on the road yesterday, Mr. Bossert says he is confident that his prediction will come true, and he is joined in his opinion by a group of friends with whom he is traveling. i canvassing of | the city and elsewhere. DANCE —in honor of — Nina Wilcox Putnam TOMORROW NIGHT—I6 TILL a RAUL’S CLUB —NO COVER CHARGE— for the votes electing Directors 8 o’Clock P. M. Tuesday, April 5 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OFFICE THE CHAMPION OF PLANT AND LAWN FOODS—‘VIGORO’. NOW IS THE TIME TO FERTILIZE. PHONE SOUTH FLORIDA CONTR. AND ENG. COMPANY, 598