The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 14, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West ida, has the imate in the average ahrenheit Key Wrst Cittzrn | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER iN THE U.S.A. VOLU ME LIX No. 166. KE¥ WEST, FLORIDA, THURS. DAY, JULY GHES BACK IN NEW YORK No Bids Received For Purchase Sets Record Of Three Days Matter Of Establishing — Of County Ferry System Vessels Tags Vaan In Key West Discussed During - Commissic Conference Conducted Yesterday County Commissioners Still ae Te rd Sub Caliber ae This Morning 938. Proposed Budget For Year Discussed At Regular Meeting Of Commission- ers Last Night Gives ft 1:36 o’clock this afternoon with a smashing new around First. Gua Firing Began Nhe world record of less than four days. NEW YORK, July 14.—Howard Hughes and his four For National: Park k:. Projects, Will Be Heartily fellow world girdlers landed at the Floyd Bennett airport the Monroe County Ferry System STOTT OIA was received by the county com-| HEMINGWAY GETS ANOTHER SAILFISH Ernest Hemingway in a fishing trip to the Stream with Charles Thompson this week aboard the “Pilar”, Captain Jose Rodriguez. brought in a 6-foot 6-inch sailfish. It was Mr. Hemingway who caught the largest sailfish | “"¢ the ever hooked, a 9-foot 8-inch A comunication from Secre whopper, caught right off Key sc Char West. It is unofficially the een ey world’s record, since Hem- ingway landed it after an- other had hooked it. TR DID aa SS IS NO CHANGE IN COMMERCE BODY SET-UP NEEDED Not one bid on the vessels of The big $85,000 silver monoplane circled the field Once again the question of s : 5 Z oe : twice before coming to easy landing before a wildly cheer- for ing crowd. The fliers entered an automobile and were eeeceesvas-~--~> the Everglades National Park has | : ; eu ne : driven through the streets of New York, getting a reception Nominated For Thir county ; ° eecence ee e rivaled only by that given Charles Lindbergh when he re- Monroe County ceding land missioners was the report made Enlisted Men’s Dance Wil been brought before the by Chairman Car! Bervaldi and Cierk Ross C. Host After Rotary officials and once Sawyer at the : Oe t the veto on turned to the United States after his memorable flight to This regular meeting of the county ADUSSIOREDS Het pu aeic , the proposal to give any the Paris 11 years ago. Keys between commissioners held last night. e or any of the the Key lands of the Total elapsed time for the dash around the globe was 19 Present at the meeting Chairman Bervaldi, Commission- ers Norberg Thompson. Wm. R. | Porter, Braxton B. Warren; Clerk | Sawyer, Attorney W. Curry Har- ris, Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard Waite, Mayor Willard M. Albury, Judge E. R. Lowe of Tavernier and several other interested citi- zens were bay bottoms set unofficially at 91 hours, 16 minutes, or three days, mainland lighting hours and 16 minutes. H. H. Perkins Singleton of the It was 6:20 last Sunday evening when Howard Hughes Department of Commerce meeting of the commissioners | and his companions hopped off for world. the trip around the \ 1 will t moled by o V. ©. Johnson night, which was as follows Monroe County missioners, Carl Bervaldi, Chairman Dear Mr. Bervaldi “I am enclosing a copy of a resolution passed on, the 6th day | j of July, 1938, by the Miami Cham ber of Commerce, and we are 5 4 asked to lend our suppost crash with Will Rogers as his “At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Key West Cham- ber of Commerce, held July 11th, this was presented and I was asked to bring your notice to the end that Key West representa tion might be harmonious. You will note that the resolution re n Wm. H. Mon Board of Com Besides Hughes, the expedition included Harry anklin Albert. Expressed Surprise When Clerk Sawyer was asked if any bids had been received, he replied in the negative, as did Chairman Bervaidi when asked; the same question. The members of the board expressed surprise at the non-receival of bids, when. during the past several weeks, there had been a number of queries received by both the clerk and chairman, and other RUMOR ABOUT REORGANIZA- ers inquiring about the TION IS SHOWN TO BE NOTHING OTHER THAN Richard N. onnor and Thomas A. Thurlow, navigators; Cc d Tho: A. Thurlow, gat Stoddart, radio engineer; and Ed Lund, flight engineer In 1931, the late Wiley Post, who died in an airplane companion, and Harold Gatty flew round the world’s northern air circumference, 15,474 miles, in eight days, 15 hours, 51 minutes. SPECIAL SALE COUNTY BOARD TO After some discussion it was de- cided to publish another call for bids, and this was ordered by the chairman. Semi-Annual Reports Semi-annual reports of county officers received by the clerk and read as follows County olicitor Allan B reported receipts of expenses of $80; net in come of $1,100 Sheriff K. ©. Thompson, re- eipts of $3.0! expensi of $2,250.38; net income of $1,656.99 Justice Enrique Esquin- aldo, Jr. receipts of $160.46; ex $84 46 Peace net income J. Otte Kirch- of $1,725; ex- net income, Bonds Approved { Henry H. Taylor, Jr ry public, in the sum of $500, was filed and a Bond of Be eputy sheriff, in with Raymond Curry 3 M. Baker as sureties, was d approved. Budget Discussed from Dr. J. B the Monroe the s' as prepare budge pre WEEKEND SPECIALS LAYER CAKES MALONEY BROS. The Home of Baker Boy Bread 812 Fleming St. Phone 818 MERE IDLE TALK “How about giving The Citizen some information on this reor Ranization of the Chamber of Commerce that is being talked about”, The Citizen asked the secretary of the chamber this morning “We can’t tell y h about bomething that i in exist- ence”, was the nade by Secretary S. C. Singleton “It Yooks to though someone has got the cart before the horse I should think that the first step toward a reorganization would be to effect a dis-organization, and T have not heard of that, either. “7 you look over the list ft Chamber of ctors of the yu ML me as f Commerce it woul able that ar ing withe or withou idea of r consulting the reir knowledge would Key W Zopt adopted S. Tay Bascon ner fers to the land now opened by the at I would from you as this matter The resolution by the Miami Chamber of Commerce sets forth the desire of the federal gover ment for the e@tablishment Florida of Everglades Nationa Park, and shows the possibility of thousands tracted into state anually dol appreciate hearing oon as possible on of tourists being at and through _ the spending many mil ars, and that es park is taken over federal governr 1 line to receive ernment during the on five of $26,475,635, ution lions of when will whic Still Topping Them All” i Habana-Madrid Club | Dance to the entrancing tunes | y ‘ | t —of— OTTO DIVANTI'S ORCHESTRA No Admission—Cover or Minimum Charges = AT MENDELL’S THANK MIAMIANS BIG ANNIVERSARY EVENT DR. SMITH AND COMMISSION WILL OPEN TOMORROW ER REDD RENDERED SERV MORNING ICES TO KEY RESIDENTS SHELDON OUT OF RACE YOUR HOME IS WORTHY OF THE BEST’—OUR SLOGAN SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. S OUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING Mi DIED SS BALDWI YESTERDAY VDELI SALE & AT THE CUBAN CLUB ENGINEERING COMPANY. PHONE 598