The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 10, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press. Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the. Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No, 138. East: Goast. Dent Opens: Mid-Sum At La Concha This Morning One Hundred Forty Dent- ists And Families Here; President A. L. Cartee Installed Tomorrow * With nearly 140 dentists and their families in the city, extends from Key West to Vero Beach, opened its convention this morning in the La Concha Hotel Ballroom. Mayor Willard M. Albury gave a short speech of welcome to the visiting dentists, and Dr. William R. Warren responded for the local medical profession: Response was by Dr. A. W. Kellner of Hol- lywood. Dr. John C; Gekeler gave the invocation. A lecture on “Dental Econom- ies” by Dr, Carl F. Damerow of Vero Beach stressed the point that dentists must charge fair fees for their work. It is too much credit and low fees that hurt a detist’s economics more than other things, Dr. Damerow said. There should be some eco- nomical system whereby the in. digent may be supplied with den- tal service, Dr. Damerow also pointed out. Three reels of clear- cleverly filmed motion pictures on the paysiology and mechanics of mas- tication were presented before luncheon adjournment. Begi ning with the lower animals ac- tual photos of the methods of chewing of rabbits, elephants, cows were illustrated. The mas- ‘tication of man was then fully illustrated. Animated cartoons of the functions not only included | covery of the body. detailed physiological ' illustra- < tion, but important points ENGINEERS teeth. Balaneed occlusion, or the proper set of the teeth, was stress- ed, and it was clearly brought out how dentistry has suc- the! East Coast Dental Society, which | al Society mer Convention [RECOVER BODY OF RICHARD SKELTON |BELIEVED TO BE THAT OF RICHARD SKELTON OF KEY WEST Word was brought to the city this morning that the partly de- composed body of a man had been found on the beach at Bal- | last Key, by Hamilton Adams and a party of friends who were cruising in that vicinity. Mr, Adams said that it wasat the northeast point of the.-Key: | that the body was discovered and it showed that it had beem:in the water for some time. Mr..Adams was inclined to believe that it was the body of Richard Skelton. Mr. Skelton disappeared from The Key Wiest Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. ‘SHERIFF BACK FROM TRIP UP ALONG COAST HAD BEEN INVESTIGATING REPORT THAT GREEK DIV- ERS HAD BEEN CARRYING ON OPERATIONS | | | | | | | | | | Sheriff K. O. Thompson return- jed Wednesday afternoon from | Miami and points along the coast, where he had been carring on an |intense investigation of the re- | Monroe county waters. | Mr. Thompson. investigated every phase) of the matter and the nearest approachto anything ) which: seemed..to touch on, the /matter,: was: the. report already | carried in, The Citizen, 1 fect that, several 1 and made-a Jandingat «Middle ;Cape to avoid rough seas and mpestuous weather. \ port that Greek divers were car-j{ jrying on sponging operations in| the ef+ ‘went sin | bana-Madrid dance were tabu- his boat about two weeks ABO. | to, pling Peornoy So gras pari It was assured that as soon as tion but = search ot dace days | the weather abated sufficiently | failed: to bring to light any sign | *° permit of safe navigation the | Death By Sharks Gomes To Yacht Captain'Near Here MISS LA KIN STILL LEADING QUEEN RACE RETAINS LEAD FOLLOWING | 2 ree Witness to one of the gripping COUNTING OF VOTES AT tragedies of the sea—death in the | DANCE GIVEN LAST NIGHT) sea surrounded by’ merciless | |sharks—was the experience of| AT HABANA-MADRID ; Joseph Mann, in the 55-foot yacht | “Backbone”, towed in by the | | Coast Guard cutter Mojave last Miss Susan LaKin, sponsoked | MERE ag egies Stream 58 by the Woman’s Club, held ee | Mann's skipper, Captain John| scant lead she had,over Miss! Eriksen, 46,.Brooklyn, N. Y., his| Dorothy Betancourt, sponsored! mind wandering, worked himself |.by,,Secial Club Marti, when the | Seat x eae whidi , i railing the boat late votes cast last night at the Ha-| 1 oa, alae and finally ak. | | overboard where all Mann’s ef- lated. | forts to save him were fruitless. | The Lions Club came out to! Mann told The Citizen that he} the dance, gave a lusty cheer for} began to notice his skipper’s Miss Bernice Brantley, their can-| queer actions Wednesday evening Apparently Crazed, Leaps Into Sea To Fight Them; Last Seen Surrounded By School * | | | | | | | | | | | | | | didate, and by some good sales~) said to Mann, “You know, I think bard: Eriksen rose from his bunk and | |. Peace Justice Franklin Aren- | berg was notified by the sheriff's | office of the find and left for} Ballast Key to determine the} | identity of the body and to take j What steps were found necessary | vessels made sail and departed. Other than this instance, which was investigated from every an- gle and possibility of the Greeks having violated the law and | which was proven without foun- | dation, nothing of a questionable nature was found, Mr. Thompson | | said. as coroner exofficio. Mr. Arenberg returned to the | city shortly before 2 o'clock i ! Bringing the badly decomposed body which will be prepared for interment. The coroner said that it had been thoroughly deter- mined that the body was of Mr. | HERE TOMORROW Skelton, and he proceeded at) once to advise Mr. and Mrs. Ern- | tengo est Pierce, son-in-law and daugh- | : nei ter of the dead man, of the re-| There will be Subealiber firing | with 37 MM Gun at Fort Taylor ! tomorrow, Saturday, June 11, be- een the fous of 8:30 apd rl m,; » adé by Captain ‘William L. ohnson, C.A. A The danger area will be five | ‘TARGET PRACTICE | \ ‘@ | manship kept her a close third) I’ve got the D.T.’s. I keep hear-| in a very close three-cornered race. : | The'next dance in the Queen’s/ +. front cockpit to the rear cabin | series will be given at Pena’S| searching for them. Then he| 'Garden of Roses Saturday night,| came to Mann with the back of | with Gould Curry’s orchestra fur-| his log book written all over with | nishing the music. | messages to his wife. ing women talking to me”. As- | Sured by Mann that there were | none around, Eriksen rushed from ; | With only a few dances left) ‘The captain then took the wheel | 0 J. B. Cash. Sr. of Princeton, before the final closing of the/ and Mann said that he began to | voting in the queen’s race, and get “madder and madder” at the ithe tremendous amount of inter-! sharks, a large school of which |est which the close race has gen-| continued to swim with the boat. erated, an extraordinarily large}Qne motor of the twinscrew crowd is expected to turn out! yacht, which was being delivered Saturday night. | to Diego Trinidad, wealthy sugar | cane plantation owner, from New J KIRCHHEINER | York brokers, was disabled on} le i the way from Miami to Key West. | |Eriksen jerked acht first one, way and then” other lunging | | at the sharks, and finally the) | steering cable, which was tem- | | porarily patched, broke. Aban- | Mrs. Grubbs says and has never | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS McCall Admits Of Kidnaped Cash Boy ‘Abducted Child From MRS. SAM GRUBBS CASH BOY COUSIN KNOWS McCALL, ALSO: SUR-| PRISED TO WAS IMPLICAT- | ED IN KIDNAP-MURDER_ | Living in this city;-701 South: street,-are Mr. and. Mrs. Sam. sin to J, B. Cash, Jr, the kid- napped child,..whose body was found yesterday. Mrs. Grubbs knows Franklin | Pierce McCall, who has confessed 1 jthat he was implicated in the kidnaping. She expresses herself as surprised at McCall being in- volved. He was a quiet fellow. been implicated in anything re- | ly criminal. Mrs. Grubbs’ mother, Mrs. Ella | | Horn, of Naranja, who is sister, the kidnaped victim's father, has) | written Mr. and Mrs. Grubbs for | | some time that the family knew | it was a crime committed by| Home While Asleep (By Associated Press) MIAMI, Fla. June 10.—J. Edgar Hoover announced today that Frank- linPierce McCall had confessed the en- tire:Cash kidnap, and that:he killed five-year-old James Bailey Cash, Jr, The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation said McCall’s admis- sion detailed that he stole the boy from his bedroom while he slept, placing a handkerchief over the child’s mouth and another over his eyes and took “Skeegie” to his home, where he found the boy was dead. McCall had no confederates at any someone familiar with the habits of the family and the area. New City Charter Was Subject Of \stage HERE FOR VISIT thousand yards south of Fort Tay- | Tax Assessor J. Otto Kirch- | doning the controls, Eriksen then | of the case. ee eee Breaks Down : “The case is now ¢om- pletely solved,” said the Di- rector of the Eederal Bu- reau of Investigation. “We | have a full confession from |the sole participant in the for, and shipping in this area is! heiner is recovering from the ef- i rinte.”” requested to proceed with cau-| fects of an operation on the left McCall, 21-year-old truck in jucing the proper steered the boat by working the/| movements in artificial dentures | clutch. He continued his tactics | Meeting Held Last Night Sanitary Engineer S. M. Mac-j or plates. ‘This afternoon's session will in- clude a lecture and clinic by. Dr. J. Russell Mitcheli on “Crown and Bridge Work; special atten- tion to aesthetic abutment pieces on vital teeth”. A banquet at 7:30 o’clock tonight, a cocktail party at 9 p. m., given by Dr. and Mrs. Armando Cobo at'the Army Bar- racks, and a dance at Club Mira- mar at 10 p. m., will conclude the day. Tomorrow morning dental ex- hibits will include the following: “Adult Orthodontia” by Dr. Roy T. Bovard; “Lower Partials” by} Dr, R. W. Burch; “Gold Foil and Alloy” by Dr. Eugene V. Denaw “Radiontia” by Dr. G. J. Ellison; “Lower Dentures”, by Dr.)'T. L./ Fitz Gibbon; “Use of Wgesia in | ready, of the State Board of; tion. Health, and Russell Broughmen, | assistant engineer of: the state | WAS LONG DEAD health board, arrived in the city | ‘PERCE Ca | Wednesday for conferences con-| DAVENPORT, Ta—James Por-| cerning activities in Key West. | ter of this city was summoned | They met in the office of B. C.|/ for jury duty but failed to ap-| Moreno, head of the WPA, and pear. When cited for contempt, | conferred with Mr. Moreno, Dr, | it was found he had been dead | J. B. Parramore, of the Monroe | ix years. County Clinic, Dr. Wm. R. War-| Soy ren, city health officer, Z. D. Har- | rison, sanitary engineer associ-’ WORLD ated with Dr. Parramore, and dis- | cussed several projects among! ee which were mosquito control and matters pertaining to the sewer. STANDING IN QUEEN’S RACE | eee * ‘LEAD General Dentistry” by Dr. Irving | Gordon; “Simple Cast) Fixed | Brdige Technique” by, Dr. T. Car- | los Henslee and Dr. Joe B. Fu- qua; “Tooth Form®ih Resoration | of Crowns of Teeth”, Dr. F. L.| Olds; “Indirect Inlays”, Dr. L. D. Pankey, and “Visual Education” | by Dr. Albert E. Rosenthal. | A paper on “Relative Tissue! Changes and Technique Incident! to the Treatment of Periodonto- clasia”, Dr. J. Harold Klock, will conclude the matinee session. 1 At a business meeting at 1 p. m.! tomorrow Dr. H. L. Cartee of Mi ami will be installed as presi- | dent. Election of other officers) will also take place. The conven- | tion will be concluded with tours of the many night clubs in the! city. * | Most of the dentists and their! families arrived last night and} this mornjng, but many of them are still:cominig in. East. Coast Dental Society of- ficers are: Dr. E. B. Penn, presi-| dent; Dr. H. L. Cartee, president-} elect;°Dr. T. ‘Av Price, first vice-' president; Dr. E.©. Lunsford, sec- ond vice-president; Dr. J. S. Me- Kenzie, Jr.. secretary-treasurer; Dr. T. C. Henslee, librarian; Dr. B. L. Wilkerson, delegate to ex- ecutive council. PRESCRIPTIONS Must Be Carefully Compounded! The Ingredients We Use Are the Purest GARDNER’S PHARMACY The Rexall Drug Store Miss Susan LaKin, ie sponsored by Woman's Club Miss Dorothy Betancourt, sponsored by Social Ciub Marti Miss Bernice Brantley, sponsored by Lions Club Miss Martha Carbonell, sponsored by Junior Cham- ber of Commerce Miss Lillian Acevedo, sponsored by Cuban Club Miss Ada Rodriguez, sponsored by San Carlos Institute i KéyWeat gunnery fans will Ber 352° thedfétf th a Teal “exhibition of’ t shooting tomorpow, afternoon at 3 32g | O'clock on «theti9ld, \Trumboair- | port when Captain M. E. Hicks 290 | of Atlanta, Georgia, one of the} | world’s greatest shots demonstrat- ‘ing for Peters Cartridge Com- 1351 pany and sponsored by the Thompson Hardware Company, 3g | local dealer of Peters Ammuni- | tion, begins his stunts with re- volver, rifle and shotgun. Captain Hicks, who learned shooting on the prairies of the middlewest, is no laboratory shooter, has hunted extensively ! there and in Canada, and has; given exhibitions for 15 years in all sections of the country and | Canada and Mexico. He has an assortment of tricks that seem very nearly impossible. Among the shots will be: shoot- ing two revolvers at one time,’ 31 a “Still Topping Them All” —with— Otto Divanti and His Orches' tra HABANA-MADRID CLUB Key’ West’s Finest oe the air, shoot a revolver six times Kree Shooting Exhibition OLD TRUMBO AIRPORT (Seaplane Shoot) Tomorrow Phrcare emgage o'clock THOMPSON HARDWARE COMPANY 534 Duval Street Phone 177. ROOFING PAPER--GALVANIZED SHEETS.-SHINGLES--ROOFING CEMENT AND ALL SUPPLIES-AVAILABLE AT SOUTH FLA. CONTR. & ENG. leye and expects to be confined until he broke the clutch in the! SOSOHHSOSOSOSSESSOSSSSOSOOOTCOOOS FAMOUS SHOOTER WILL KNOCK | Has Amazing Repertoire For Exhibition Tomorrow OUT OF CARTRIDGE IN THE AIR SOevoeSeeseesesoooosoosevesesss Tiel wiei for approximately one! remaining motor. In a fury, he . e | then seized a pole and went for- | It was learned at his office to-| ee day that Mr. Kirchheiner had not | shail ees a striking ‘the the time to advise his many | $3 v8 ra to Mann, who friends ‘af the operation, and he | outed. beck. that ‘tie was busy will be glad to see any of them repairing the cable, he then lung- who may desire to call at his} ed back and put the pole through home on Whitehead street. the cockpit sae wise. Then he ran back to the stern. This was at 11:30 p. m. Hearing a loud splash, Mann tushed aft and saw his skipper swimming toward the sharks. Mann threw him a rope, which he refused to take, then a life preserver, which he did not take. | The skipper began to swim away | in the dark. Rushing to the cock- |pit roof Mann switched the: searchlight on the black waters. 4 The yacht was rolling well oves: in less than a second, exhibit’ he found the skipper. quick draw stuff, fast shooting There spotlight at aerial targets with rifles, draw martes prc a picture of an Indian, head with full headdress on a piece of tin in three minutes with 150 shots, throw a 30-30 cartridge into the air and shoot the lead bullet out of it; flip cartridge out of his rifle, reload, and hit the cartridge before it touches the ground; shoot holes in pennies and give) Mann then tried to launch the them away as souvenirs, and with | jifeboat, but it was too much for shotguns drill five cartridges’ one man and he was forced to thrown into the air with five abandon the idea. The only al. shots before they touch the | ternative was to jump overboard ground. These are just some of! and that was out of the question the amazing tricks the captain with the sharks around. has in ‘his repertoire. | Atl a.m. Mann saw a light far Captain Hicks firmly believes in the distance. Blinking his that anyone can learn these tricks, | searchlight hopefully, hak “wot and will explain how each o' very confidently he saw the them is done. Shooting is a good, | freighted Castetla bound for clean sport and a character build-' ppyadelphia, nen towed ink. er, the captain said, He was contacted at 2:30 a. m. A lecture on safety and fire- The Castella wired the Coast | ij i lo! A new deal in the governing} affairs of the City of Key West is im the offing, if the efforts of the Key West Lions Club in co- operation with other bodies to be contacted, means anything. Head- | lining the regular weekly meet- ing of this group last evening at Stone Church Annex was the presentation of a resolution by Community Betterment Chair- man Edward Graham, calling for a new City Charter, or the; amending of the present charter, aiming at the City Manager form of government for this city and) ingress timely in. that, th for the eve: was Horace P. Connabie;* tof’ this “el e guest speaker } | c | driver. and minister's son, jnations for all | organiza’ it the meet- | {Four Minute Speakers’ should be { on its side in the Stream. Finally |. The xesolytion, was.all theamore/ drafted to visit every gathering power to correct the lawbreaking now in evidence, that interested groups take initiative steps in bringing about a new City Char- ter. Lion Graham's presentation of ‘the resolution above, was accom- panied by a letter addressed to him from the Executive Secretary of the Key West Chamber of} Commerce, S. C, Singleton, in which the latter’s personal opin- ions of the matter of changing the City Charter were given. Mr. Singleton promised his whole- hearted co-operation with “any tion that may undertake” the job of making the initial move. “Something like the old that will give them a hearing,” was a method suggested by hirn. “The following committee was who spokecat/ length: Un “some appointed to gather data and in- crying needs for our city,” offer-| formation on the subject of a ing suggestions for correction new City Charter and to work which were exactly in line with | with other bodies towards the the coincidental presentation of | universal adoption of the sub- | the resolution adopted following | ject: his speech. j Mr. Connable quoted frecly| man; Hastings Smith, Gerald from his two letters which ap-|Saunders, Edward Graham and peared recently in The Citizen,| Herman Holtsberg. in which he brought to the at-| Other matters coming before tention of the city-at-large the | the club inclided the projected deplorable condition existing in sponsorship of a Boy's Diamond connection with wilful distruct- | ball league made up of 30 Mid- ing of palm trees on the island— gets and 60 Juniors. — also calling attention to the need| Further plans were inaugurat- for immediate checking measures ed to obtain votes for the club's to be exerted on the spreading candidate in the “Miss Key West” disease now infesting palm trees | Contest, Miss Bernice Brantley. here. The speaker elaborated on Membership Chairman the articles and gave several per- Joe Allen presented L. T. Brag- sonal experiences he had had and | gasa as a new member. Guests had observed. He concluded his for the evening wete Horace P. Lions Charles Ketchum, chair-' Lion ing $10,000 \was said by Hoover to have broken ‘down’ ‘after more than a week of questioning and to have acknowledged that he perpetrated the en- tire crime. He wrapped a handker- chief over five-year-old “Skeegie’s’” mouth and an- other over his eyes as he stole the boy from his bed the nightof May 28, Hoover quoted him as confessing, and took him to his own home not far away. There he found the boy had died — accidentally, Hoover said the prisoner maintained. He took up the body, al- ternately running and walk- ing, carried it to a spot in the woods nearby with which he was acquainted from hunting trips and toas- ed it into a dense thicket, where it was not found un- til yesterday morning. McCall had prepared in advance the notes demand- ransom... De- spite discovery of the boy's death he went ahead and placed the first one within bition. RRR. Fulford’s Poultry Farm Invites Public to Inspect the POULTRY HE SELLS Also. inspect Coovs and Yard All Poultry Kept On Wire Fioors We have BROILERS, FRY- ERS. HENS and WHITE PE- KIN ROASTING DUCKS. Phone 8380 I Deliver hitting two objects thrown into’ arms will accompany the exhi-; Guard base at Miami and stood j by until the rescue was effec- tive at 8:30 yesterday morning. ‘The “BiliRbone” reached Key West at 4 p. m. yesterday and} was tie ip at a Nava! Station pier. Mann said that he believed it would remain there to be re- paired and eventually delivered in Havana. Apparently wrought up by the nerve-wracking sight, and worn from lack of sleep for three nights before the incident, Mann was still very shaken up yesterday. “I; guess we're all like that—when it comes to seeing a man in the sea | with sharks around”, he said. talk with the that in view of the lack of interest and PHONE 3.3318 OR WRITs For Wholesale Quotations on FURNITURE aad FURNISHINGS The MAXWELL CO. Jac. ney. oe gia afew minutes. Then he de- posited the second at the home of R. A. Cath, the vic- tim’s uncie, and returned to his own place. He calmly read a magazine until cries of alarm told him the Cash boy had been missed. Hoover said McCall gave as his reason for perpetrat- Ing the crime the explana- tion that he wanted “some of the better things of life for himself and his wife,”