The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 30, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West: VOLUME LIX. No. 128. 1 Left On Sponging Trip| CO MOOOOMM 4 Last Tuesday; Dinghy Used Was Found And Brought Here Searchers returning yesterday afternoon from a search at Arch- er's Key and vigi success in an effort..,.t0 locate ¢lared missing when a searching party returned to Key West Sat- urday afternoon after an all day search of the waters surrounding | Archer's Key. When the dinghy was. found and identified, Ernest Pierce started Saturday morning in com- pany with Harold Key and others on Mr. Key's launch. Mr. Pierce, son-in-law of the missing man, believed that Mr. Skelton was possibly suffering from a stomach attack, from which he at times suffered, returned to his vessel and was so weak when he reach- ed the vessel that he fell exhaust- ed and the dinghy floated away and was afterward found and brought to the city. told went Then began a search of the land on the Key. Every inch of it was gone over but no tract of the missing man was found. The waters in the vicinity were gone was searched by the eid of water glasses. ' The Citizen called. on Mrs. Pierce, daughter of Mr. Skelton, who said that her father was 79 years old. Tuesday morning he had completed preparations for a weeks sponging trip and was only waiting to go to the polls, and vote before departing. He, polled his vote and directly af- terward left to go on board the igqported no | Reaching the boat, Mr. Pierce KEY WEST, FLORIDA. MONDAY, MAY 30, 1938. CAMERA CLUB TO BE SHOWN coon SCENE AT HOME OF HENRY BREW- ER : MAKES REFERENCE TO HIGHWAY ROUT E Tonight at 8:00 o'clock, the ; | members of the Camera Club will Pi Tsay agitating |be entertained by Henry Brewer published in the at his home, 1401 Duval, with a Agé-Herald of May 24, with | showing of his pictures of Key 3 West and Fort Jefferson. These 2 peitures were all taken in natur- ed to present Mr. Brewer's pic- tures on a regular meeting night. | At the last regular meeting the members were given two subjects; to photograph for presentation at the meeting tonight. These in- volved a cloud composition and a} seascape, Members will bring| their favorite prints of these two subjects and the other members} will have an opportunity to com- pare their work with the work of some of the more experienced fans. Also it is expected that commit- tees to handle the club’s exhibi-| tion in July will be appointed a: | wil! the other necessary commit- ; tees. A very, special appeal is made to be Beso present at this , ee ng as the future Oper ‘the .elub’ will it. thi interested in photography are in- vited to attend also and become members of this active and grow- ing Organization. A camera club furnishes not only an oportunity for. relaxation and entertainment but is enabled through the coop- eration of its members and the Civic to furnish the’ city of Key with much valuable publicity its exhibitions SO oie aw p : f One e projects that; Ceptain:P.'L. Cosgrove, who is/ i, ‘seheduled for’ action very) a Jover of-beautifuk trees and | shortly is in the nature of a pic-| flowers and ‘in fact any of | the gre tourist guide As the points! growing things which are found | © interest in Key West that are! in Key West, expresses himself as|"t touched upon by most of the | nded- at the vandsli printed folders now. in use. There! astou € vandalism Seen) are a number of places and ob-} on every hand, especially onthe } outskirts of the city. i & ai F ra F is eRe CASE. OF. DESTROYYING ° TREE GROWTH Riding in the section known as! Ow stressed in our booklets. It is along these lines that the club! Martello Towers, several evenings! in) work out its efforts | past, the captain saw two boys, be West as eo aad ag ai about 12 or 13 years of,ege, with | tourist j an express wagon, loaded with small sized coconuts, which thes had pulled from the treesjfq)that vicinity. | OBSERV Not only had the youngsters | robbed the trees of the immature | ' AOY AITARIMON Che Key THE SOUT for a telegram to hi: perros Frem Lack’ KEY. WEST KEEPS TURTLE TUREENS hy PAUL B. LEE in Standard ‘Tours and Detours Epicures who are thrown into ecstasies by a mere sniff * of turtle soup will be able to order it every day at every meal if they journey to Key West, Fla. (G-13). And green turtle steaks, too, for this Hundreds of these ocean ‘whoppers, many of them hun- dreds of years old, are brought to Key West from the Dry Tortugas group and deposited in the big crawls where you can watch their antics, When the time comes for them to be.loaded on the boats and head north to somebody's dinner table, they are turned over on their backs and their flippers tied. Although they are from two to four feet across and weigh from 200 to 1,000 pounds, the turtles are easy to manage, for they are very docile and never attempt to snap. Although many of these un- gainly creatures leave Key West alive. a goodly number come to an untimely end in the canning factory near the crawls, which are located at the north end of Margaret Street. TH6' Overseas. Highway. a water and coral reefs, now brings Key West within a few hours drive of the mainland. l adhe ue utube SOLO ATLANTIC SAILOR IS LOST! LEFT TAMPA MAY 10 FOR KEY WEST: NO WORD HERE No word was received here to- boat, who left Tampa May IN A FINE STEW} rat Citizen RNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. — QS \ t j { | | | | {Others However Infected | of fires,” the director said. | infected by the disease, unknown | |Clanahan said. “The only method | heads, with the cleavage between! |of controlling the spread of that; the friends and opponents of the disease to other palms is by de-| Roosevelt Administration |stroying those trees which are! ing sharper, it is much harder | Mr. McClanahan pointed out. ‘deficiency similar to this year,” | which wishes to keep the existing, ; tacked palms on those islands and | wibteees Dying Memorial Services Water, Fires a Stee Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Held Sunday At Matecumbe Very Impressive With Strange Disease Should Be Cut Down, | Plant Specialist Says It is the belief of H. S. Mc-| Clanahan, in charge of State Plant) }| ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS |Members of Key West Or- ganizations Join Key ||/Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Residents In Program \]| Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- arable From Local Welfare Board work in this area, that} many of the hundreds of coconut and Fiji palms which are dying are due partly tg.dry weather and | member of the: to brush fires which have swept) third of the n This is a- jittery year for con-| certain sections. of the city ree- ently. “I will say that 100 will die! the'la from lack of rain and the ravages tie ¥ my broken down. | That is a hard job ffian ordinary election year. Today, with a ma- jor depression confronting them, with a large number of great, un- settled issues raging about their; “However, there is still evi- dence that scores of the palms are to plant literature, which was de- termined by state plant patholog- ists in a recent survey,” Mr. Mc- grow-/ badly infected. From my person-' than usual. And that goes a long al observation I would say that' way toward explaining some of there are 25 coconut palms which | Cougs recent remarkable ac- | should be destroyed in the city. | tio i When a Fiji palm, however, is in-| The Wage and Hours bill is a lected there is no way of saving|case in point. Administration em. They will eventually die.” ; leaders frankly gave up all hope} | for passage of this measure some | “T think if you will examine| time ago—it was strongly oppos-| the weather report of 1935 you|ed by the influential. Southern} will find that there was a rain, bloc of the Democratic party, the Plant Board Director stated, wage differential between North- “and that there was a similar dy-|ern and Southern labor. The ing of palms.” White House pressed on behalf of . Talking with a British plant ex~| the bill, but its chances of success from the Bahamas, Mr, Mc-| seemed light. Then came anahan recen| yvered that | Florida ‘senatorial primary—long! the same sort of disease has at-| awaited as a test of New Deal) strength. The issues in this pri-| that the only method of com-| mary were fairly clear-cut—Sena- | bating them is by destroying|tor Pepper, an ardent Rooseyelt those which are too badly infect-| backer, who has voted for prac-| ed. tically every White House spon-| “However, I do not believe that} sored measure, was opposed by) the coconut population of Key) Representative Wilcox, an an-| West is threatened,” . Mr. Mc-/ti-New Deal Democrat, who had) Clanahan continued, “for there; opposed the Supreme Court and are around 10,000 coconuts here. | government reorganization meas- | But it is important to check the| ures. Senator Pepper won an} disease at present. joverwhelming victory. And a) ut a Sensi (| oth the) og pam as to iid ee the New Deal ih’ The Bee Oe ean it was! Gathering around the crypt at lately it has received some un-|Matecumbe yesterday afternoon, gressmen. Next November every} looked-for backing from conser- residents of the Florida Keys as- vative sources, such as the New . es industry. The main |Sisted by organizations and indi- oint that the President's mgth if Congress has been) Wauals fram Eee, aes page @asurably increased by the Pep-| solemn and beautiful commemor- Win. Talk is even being heard), ‘ of reviving the once-defeated Re-| Ation of that day in 1935 when organization Bill. And it is al- the resistless fw most a certainty that the Admin- | moe te sore istration’s new spending program | Swept away. from many of them. alee ~— practically in its an they had save their deathless In brief, the President isn't as love for the islands to which they influential in Congress as he was in the honeymoon days of 1932 “ling with a devotion which { and 1933—but he seems, ger not surpassed in song or story. than he was a few m ago. | This doesp’t mean that White, Under the guidance of Chief House “must” orders will be. Marshal Arthur Sheppard, the obeyed without question—it does | delegation from Key West left mean that a large number of con- |», " gressmen who kicked over the | PiteiAetincs: coax Sang traces, have returned to the res- | Proceeded to the scene of the com- ervation. And the current out-|™emoration exercises where am- look indicates that the President ple seating capacity had been pro- will issue fewer “musts” in the | vided by residents of the Keys: future—he and his aides are deal- | A most impressive feature was ing rather gingerly with Con- gress, are using persuasion rather | the Ereeenee of the scouts, boys than hard mandates.~ No Presi- | @nd girls, and the promise of the dent wants any more political | better citizenship of the future turmoil than is necessary in an| that their department under the election year, directions of Mrs. Eva Warner ave. ‘ =i niente Major contributions to the oc- gn! it, is. not) re; | casion was the music rendered by most observers as ‘being’ final—| the Hospitality Band led by Pro- other issues than Federal policy | fessor Alfreds. Barroso, a the played a part, and the Senator is | beautiful vocal numbers rendered a campaigner of unusual ability.’ by Mrs. Warner and Mr. and Mrs. Not until tests have been had in| George Mills White. other states, will the burning) - Recitations, by Enrique Esqui- question of just how strong the! rjaldo, Jr. and Captain Arthur President is with the rank and | Sheppard and the address by Mas- file of voters, be settled. Most) ter of Ceremonies, Chas. H. Két- forécasters think he has lost some} chum, breathed a great yearning support, but that he still com-| for ‘peate for the world. The ail- To secure another Plant Board day or two later when a Wage| mands a good majority in his dress of the day was delivered |survey, and have necessary ma-!and Hours bill petition was of- ‘favor. \chinery shipped into the city to! fered in the House, there was al-| Deal faces little opposition out- | Furthermore, the New by Wm. V. Little. The services were momentarily | combat the disease, it is necessary ; most a riot as members fought to | side of its own ranks—the Repub-' interrupted by a sudden shower, \that the City make a request to; get their names signed to it. Then |licans have so far made what even | which necessitated thé continue- jects in town that are of greater |day of the Tampa truck driver, | interest to tourists than the ones | Guy C. Avery, in his 18 foot sail- | Marina is considered an expert in| law will go through: is still a mat- 10, | these matters, and several persons ter of questign—the chances are e State Plant Board. the House Rules Committee voted | A Mr. Pittman, who is in charge | to give the bill precedence. | of the coconut trees at the Casa) Whether the Wage and Hours th with a, scheduled stop at Key |have pointed out to The Citizen | now in its favor, however, and West before going to Savannah, that it would be wise to have; — —., |Ga. to make a straight hop across PORMOHT HU lis ocean to Genoa, Italy. The Yacht Basin was phoned at 2 o'clock, but they rt no signs of the craft. Plans were to step a ey West rents in growths, but they had the ground Memorial Day is being observed organiza- pt Laat too much undersized to/ fatigue and allied duties were all hope of finding Mr. Skelton alive has been abandoned. | PLAN ATTENDING | ‘West's Smartest and Most! literally strewn with the fronds! today by different which had been tofn from the! tions. All government activities boles of the trees. — ceased for the day and at the Just pure vandalism, said Cap-/Naval Station and Army Bar-! tain » for the fruit was| racks, only the necessary guard, | of any of the deli-| performed. i cious and juicy jelly which iI The postoffice closed all win-| found in the coconut, and there! dows at 10 o'clock and there was | was not the slightest need for the| but one delivery of mail made! frends to be torn from the trees! this morning. All incoming mail and littering the ground. CONTROL MALADIES | special invitation, attended ser-' vices last night in the First Con- tional church. (Ry Associated Press) or rabies—may | become a thing of the past in Mis- rear Chapter 37, verse 5. “If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right! HARDWARE IS FEATURED AT SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING COMPANY. PHONE 598. Tampa, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Avery, | but the telegram was never re-, ceived Mr. and Mrs. Avery re- port. The Averys are asking aid of all vessels and will begin a search today. HEMINGWAY TO RETURN HERE IN NEW YORK TODAY: HAS PUBLISHING CON- Ernest Hemingway, war correspondent in the city during the latter part of the week. Mr. Hemingway must have several conferences with his pub-| Raleigh, N. C_—The name of a ' Spanish; Joseph and Eugene Papy: and | faniéus:sisters,:Mrs.: W. E. Koon, Home- on the P. and O. vessels from Key novelist, who lives in tits :eity,b arrived in New York today from(¢Miitmi: the war front, Mrs. Hemingway }:Mrs.Kopn arrived here Satur- told The Citizen, and isiexpested! day: to~be-with her sister. him municipally employed to! mark those trees which should be cut down and burned. MARY HARRIS - CTysedo MEMBER OF FLORIDA SUPREME COURT FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW Judge Elwyn Thomas, recently AFTERNOON nominated for member of the/| Florida Supreme Court ,is a visi- Mrs. Mary Frances Harris, age|tor in the city today meeting 76, died this morning at the resi-| friends and members of the bar, | dence, 525 United Street. Funeral and graciously offering thanks for will ‘be held tomorrow afternoon the vote given him in Key West to the Star of The Sea Catholic *t the election last Tuesday. Church, where services will be Mr. Thomas is accompanied by — by Rev. A. L. Maureau. Mrs. Thomas and their daughter, te, funeral will be under the | Pat. The judge intended to spend moyen of the Pri Funer-' . tew days and then go for a va- Survivors are: two brothers, ©4tion in Havana. Though he was two informed he could secure passage and Mrs. J. I Roberson, west, he learned after arrival , that there will be no ship saij-; ing-for the Cuban port until about’ Futie 9. i “NEGRO KING” OUT 3 DAYS: DIES lishers in New York regarding’ Negro janitor in the Supreme stories and a play he wrote of | Court building in this city is King , Palo Alto, Calif—Arontt Haw Madrid pote! under fire. Meanwhile, the black and green “Pilar”, ° fishing launch from and a new ges tank of this city testified in her di- of England Brown. kins, 31, spent seven months in a hospital recovering from in PAYS FOR HONEYMOON juries suffered in an automobile crash. Three days after his dis- charge from the hospital, he was their backers regard as an inef-!tion of the fectual assault against the New Deal citadel. All the authorities think that the GOP will make some gains in the House this fall —but that they will be small. memorial in the church nearby, an incident which served to enhance the intimate and neighborly tone of the cere- monies. There was a solemn hush as the remains of three more victims of the storm were. tp rest in the crypt, by Judge E.R. Lowe and his assistants,,,;; ” Tne program,, the. setting and the attendance were, beautiful and impressive; far impressive than any which have ben held in metropolitan cathedral and to Arthur Sawyer Post Am erican Legion, and Commander TIMR Ansortated Prean) WASHINGTON, May 30— The Maritime Commission fixed June 3 for hearing the application here of the West Indies Steamship Company for a construction loan and subsidy for vessels to oper- ate between Key West and Havana. FL duke heukubeuld NEW ARRIVAL IN FLINT’S FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. C. Grover Flint, of Miami, announce the birth of a son, bern on the morning of May 28 in Miami. The youngster weighed nine pounds, ten and one half ounces, and has been given the name Hollis Mitchell Flint. The boy was born in a Miami! hospital with Dr. Eugene Lowe, formerly of Key West, in sttend- ance. Mother and son are both do- ing nicely. ON RELIEF WITH $2,400 Pittsburgh,—When Albert Ja- kini, relief client of this city, was brought into court recently, be in readiness for the voree suit that she paid all the fatally hurt when his motorcycle | police found $2,600 sewed into the expenses of her honeymoon. ‘collided with a car. lining of his coat. W. H. Reardon, belong the thanks of the dwellers of the Keys for a faithful performance of = service te those, who are no longer here to serve. Attending from Key West were Captain W. L. Johnson, U. &. A, color guard of nine and the bug- ler of the day. Members of Battery “E" Flori da National Guard to the number of 10. Boy Scouts, 23 in number, un- der the command of Scoutmaster ‘Victor Larsen, and Girl Scouts, 19 in number, under the leadership of Scoutmtstress Eva B Warner! 1 Four members of ArthusGawer: yer Post 28, American Legfom( aris der the Command of Post :Com+ Veterans, Hospitality Bandy:1?in +! number, & . Singleton, secre tary of the Chamber of Commerce and Rodney Pullen. There were aleo a large number of Key Westers who went to the (Continued on Page Two) Graduation Gifts MAY BE FOUND AT GARDNER’S PHARMACY MANY ITEMS FOR YOUNG WOMEN OR YOUNG MEN —SEE US FIRSTI— 59% Duval Street = Phone 177 WE HAND}E THE BEST