The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 3, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Th Today; Jury Is Drawn Case Of Edward Webber To Be Considered By Grand Jury In Connec- tion With Court PSIIDIIOSLS, LOCAL WEATHER SUMMARY GIVEN OUT BY BUREAU Monthly meteorological summary for the month of September, as received from the United States Weather Bureau, shows the highest temperature during the month to have been reached September 17, when the ther- mometer showed 91. The lowest was on September 24, when the reading was 74, Greatest amount of pre- cipitation was on Septem- ber 11 when the ‘total rain- fall was .68 inches. Departure from normal rainfall for the month was 2.98 inches, and the accumulated departure since January 1 has been 11.69 inches. thur Gomez presiding, convened this morning at 10 o'clock with all officials present and the judge ‘proceeded at once to’ se cure from the box a veniré of!” regular and special jurors ‘fo’act| ~ on whatever cases may” be brought them, Members of the regular venire numbered 36, and the special venire contains 50 names, From the regular venire will be select- ed 18 jurors to serve on the grand jury to consider the case of Edward Webber, colored, who | is in jail charged ‘with the kill- ing of James Taylor, another colored man. Taylor was shot} Friday, August 19, and died Aug- ~ ust 23, Regular and special venires drawn this moronig and return- | able Monday morning, October Prevailing direction of the ‘wind has been from the east with an average hourly velo- city of 8.9. Highest wind velocity during September since 1871 was 84 miles from aon September 10, , Lakh uheuhude ue ah uf POSTAL RECEIPTS SHOW INCREASE Kr ‘KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1938 Soldiers Against A © 0000000000000 CCCOOSOULOCOOOSDOOSOES CODOOOOEOOODEDOHOCOOLSOTOVRLOLESEOOCES Crowd y West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Miami Outboard Club Thrills Of 3,000 Yesterday ‘SPONGES SOLD AT WEEKEND NICIPAL DOCK WAS 192 BUNCHES @Warsaw _SOVIET RUSSIA ._@ g-\— ¥ UKRA Q e Weekend ‘sales of sponges al ‘thé Municipal sponge’dock,. wit- 7 ’ @niother” sale ‘of * grass - which, while ‘not as BULGARIA t re © ndinglytarge ‘prices. i 7 “Phe largest ‘sale’consisted of | coal and other minerals. lower Danube. “It is the last territorial-claim'I will make”, Adolf Hitler told Berlin throny-re- ferring to the Sudeten*¢laim. But statesmen, reviewing Nazi expansion three years, wonder if Hitler has forgotten his own words, “Our eyes turn eastward” and | $58.68 for 200 bunches. Other whether Germany is no longer interested in the rich oil fields of Rumania and the smaller sales brought the total fertile wheat and grain fields of Russia’s Ukraine, which is also sprinkled with iron Rumania, too, has coal and wheat and fisheries along the! -192bunches,'which brought a z ‘price of $216.85. The next high- in the last ‘est price for this grade was rice for 454 bunches to $285.74. There were-few yellow offer- jnigs. In fact but 117 bunches ere displayed, and the highest price was paid for 70 bunches, ‘GIVE JEWELRY IN CAMPAIGN TIONS IN PATRIOTIC | JAPANESE OFFER CONTRIBU- was fishing along the county | which was $26.95. Total for all [ree was $36.81. The two largest offerings of wool were one lot containing 80 bunches, which sold for $186.01, }and another lot of 34 bunches, which brought $81.01. Total sales of wool was 168 bunches, $305.86. Altogether 168 bunchs of wool, 454 bunches of grass and 117 ee | GHINESE WAR CASUALTIES Miami, Fla—Rebecca Robbins} Geneva—According to Dr. V. |K. Wellington Koo, Chinese dele- causeway when a_ red snapper n “6 gate to the League of Nations, struck her line. She yanked it LL Le hk Ld MIAMIANS NOT ONLY STUNTERS All the stunts werd not put on by the Miami Out- board Club yesterday. Duke Bowen pulling up his anchor just before the race found it was coming up slow- ly. One fast mighty heave and the crowd broke into a roar of laughter. He had ‘brought up a 10-fcot long sunken piling. * Jaycee chairman, L. P. Art- Carmichael, Mills Win Race Heats; Four-Foot Jumps, Clowning Please Crowd Nearly 3,000 spectators with an estimated 275 cars lining the en- | tire length of the Yacht Basin Breakwater saw the Miami Out- board Club daredevils, spon- sored by the Key West Junior |Chamber of Commerce, give an exhibition of wild and thrilling ’*man, Jr. and Miss Matie | stunts and races which kept the Gaiti attempting to cross to |huge crowd tense with excite- the boat float on two small | ment in a two hour show. boards lost their balance and In a finale 2% mile race over slipping first one side and (choppy water featuring hairpin then to the other to the (turns and narrow crash nm lsses, shouts of the crowd. reached {“Wild Bill” Carmichael took the the float by a mad dash to first heat in a time of seven esca: ting ii minutes, with Larry Mills com- of ie wee in two font jing in second, George Fay third and Duke Bowen of Key West hahah nthadatadeathudh ‘onds, Larry Mills second, fourth. Jimmy Crosby — and BUT ONE WIFE | the second heat George Fay was |Carmichael third. Bowen | | | } Harry Curry did not finish. In jfirst in 7 minutes and five sec- Bill did {not finish. Representing Key West, Bowen's speedster was no MOVEMENT iup and the fish sailed into the not less than 1,000,000 Chinese 10, contain the names of the fol- lowing: Regular venire: Eugne Sweet- ing, George Curry, W. E. Julian, Oscar Solano, Merill F. Sands, Jr., H. B. Bowery, E. A. “Merlin \. Ramsey, Gerald’ W.. Pio- ‘Nestor C. Recio, Everett R. Al- bury, Jose Fernandez, Ira F. Al- bury, George B. Graham, Joseph C. Tift, George E. Johnson, En- Esquinaldo, Lain Dobbs, yod Carbonell, William |Cul- lingford, Jerry J. Trevor, Ni C. Niles, Arcadio Henriquez, Howard Wallace, Miguel Castillo, Jr., Walter Johnson, Clem De- meritt, John J. Cordova, Jose Pita, William H. Wells, Aaron MeConnell, W. G. Camero. Special venire: Eddie Mat- hews, John Villavasoni, Horacio Nunez, Vivian Pinder, Scott Saw- | yer, Emory L. Pierce, W. H. MeNuity, I, W. Sweeting, J. M. Bermudez, John F. Curry, Her- man, H. Bethel, E. F, Trevor, Ru- dolph H. Sands, Rudolph H, Rid- lon, Thomas A. Johnson, Thomas H. Roberts, John Ogden, F. S. Martinez, Cleveland Dillon, Ed- ward A. Louis, John A, Knowles, Rodriguez, Peter Matcoviteh, William Knowles, Clarence W. Russell, A. P. Knowles, Leo Haskins, Octavio Lacedonia, J. P. Gardner, J. 0. White, Fabio Olivieri, Robert L. Bethel, James H. Hyde, Charles Atwell, William N. Knowles, W. Hi. Monsalvatge, John F. Black-| well, Jr., Amos Malone, Ramon! Calvo, Gabriel Gutierrez, Ray-j mond ‘Thompson, Charles Math-/the city last week for an indef-; ews , Archie Albertus, Frank | Dei Villar. : 1 SAVINGS ACCOUNTS TOOK DROP OF SEVERAL THOU- SAND DOLLARS Postal receipts at the Key West postoffice for the month of Sep- tember show a slight increase over the same month last year. For this year the total receipts ‘were $2,192.92 and for the same month last year receipts totalled $2,055.11. Postal savings accounts dropped several thousand, from $302,689 to $295,059, a difference of $7,- 630. It was said by persons in- ‘terested in the withdrawals that most of the money was used in building operations. Total of money orders issued at the office was $33,585.44. Money orders paid totalled $16,839.88. JUDGE GOMEZ * RETURNS HERE COMES FOR MUCH-NEEDED | REST; TO OPEN COURT IN KEY WEST SOON Judge Arthur Gomez, of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Flor- ida, who has been engaged in ac- tivities in Miami for a consider- able length of time, returned to inite stay. The judge told The Citizen this morning that work had been i up in Miami and he was kept continually busy.. Now that an opportunity for relaxation had | ‘face of a passing motorist, who have been killed and 30,000,000 | | was so surprised he lost control rendered homeless since the be- | (i snesstlated Pence) | of his car, which crashed into an-} | i i “ inni f the war with Japan on | lother automobile. Result: The | 8nIng 0! pn | TOKYO, Oct. 3—A Tokyo! \oman was charged with disor-| July 7, 1937. | newspaper recently tapped Ja- 4 derly conduct by causing an ac- pan’s “invisible” gold reserve, in| cident and | the motorist _with a patriotic campaign, and imme- | eckless driving ‘for failing to diately found itself almost have his car under control. swamped in a flood of wedding rings, trophies, dinner plate and} dental fillings. Even a gold brick—a real one —came in. The Tokyo Nichi Nichi insti- tuted the campaign, calling on its readers for gold to be given the Finance Ministry for pushing | RADIUM DETECTOR | PRISONERS the war with China. | Washington — An instrument | Albany, N. Y.—There are more! In one day, nearly $100,000 | capable of detecting the presence parolees in the State of New worth of gold was donated. of 1-29,000ths of an ounce of ra- ' ; * DESERVED DIVORCE Bethlehem, Pa.—Mrs. Florence Campbell, 27, was quickly grant- | HOUSE COLLAPSES |ed a divore when she testified | Philadelphia, Pa. — Weakened | that her husband, Samuel, 30, had | | by rains, the front portion of aj forced her to live five months in | three-story brick house collapsed, |a coal bin ventilated only by a} | the front wall dropped like a cur- coal chute. For a bed, she used j tain, revealing one man dressing | and another in bed. They were |T#85 piled on a box. the only occupants of the house. i PAROLEES OUTNUMBER | $628.41. | | this morning at 3 o’clock in the PLENTY ENOUGH bunches: of yellow sold for ‘WOMEN IN INDIA BECOME IN- | MRS. E. GARCIA DIGNANT:; PLAN TO : DIES THIS A. ML, PICKET HUSBANDS SS FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED TOMOR- ROW AFTERNOON rere (By Assoctated Frexs) CALCUTTA,, Oct. 3.—A_ num- ber of women of Sadhaura, in the Punjab, have decided that! one wife is enough for their hus- | bands. | They have formed themselves | into a “monogamy brigade” to force their husbands not to take | second wives. Shoul? moral persuasion fail, peaceful picketing of the “pah- dal”—the tent where the second marriage takes place-will be} resorted to. Finally, the weapon of social Mrs. Enriquita Garcia, 48, died family residence at 1024 United street. Funeral services will be held tomorrow‘ afternoon 5:30 o'clock from the chapel of the Pritchard Funeral Home, Rev. Guillermo match for the fast Miami, ns, al- though daring turns kept him in the race for some time. Stunts Program Larry Mills doing trick and fancy boat driving, Bill Car- michael and Milton Cox driving the bow of the-boaf, - Carl King on stilt’ aquaplane, Cox driving. Larry Mills on skis with a four foot jump off a high board, King driving. Jack.LeMay stunting on aqua- plane with:a.jump off the high boards * Clown act, George Fay in vari- ous 1910 styles of bathing suits, Mills. driving. Larry Mills in. an adquaplane jump, King driving. Clown act, George Fay tries for & world’s jumping record, Harri- son driving. Trapeze stunts, Cox perform- | dium at a distance of 100 feet hi Soe eae ee were eeoners } | been perfected by L. F. Curti: ‘WM. DEMERITT ‘of the Federal Bureau of Stan- | dards. | GOES ON TRIP. (AER Lake Providence, La—Equip- | Ee with tractors on which | WILL ATTEND CONFERENCE there were headlights, plowmen ut HEL ji ison the 4,200-acre Olive Dell plan- a D IN WASH? tation took advantage of the INGTO! ia) cool ¥f' fight to do their plow- itd) RT ing. THe owners declare the j oer | tracyor Wpérators covered more NIGHT-PLOWING in all of the State’s combined | ‘penal institutions in 1937. In! | June, 1937, for example, there! were 26,240 persons on proba- | tion, or 2,618 more than the 22,-) 228 adults and 1,394 children in| correctional institutions. KILLS WILDCAT WITH CRUTCH 5 Santa Anna.—While driying through Laguna Canyon, , Henry Schmidt, a cripple, encountered ; | | | | | { | Perez, of the Latin Methodist church, officiating. Mrs. Garcia is survived by her husband, Elilio Garcia; one sis- ter, Mrs. Angel Alvarez, and threé brothers, Henriquez, Etgnio| jing with Mills and LeMay sup- | porting trapeze on collars around boycott will be used. |necks on two aquaplanes, King driving. | LeMay and Cox in a tandem | vide, Mills driving. and Juan. | OWN RAILRO. | Mills and Fay in a “piggy i back” on the stilt aquaplane. ‘FISHES’ GOLD | Mills and LeMay with aqua- FAILED TO GET PROMOTION: Plape and skis, King driving. | lass aquaplaning with three THROUGH ICE DECIDED TO OPERATE == boards behind three boats. #6 Sunday the Miami Outboard HIS OWN LINE | | Club will put on their stunts and Si thal merit?) | District, deft-AQ;0’elock Jast-night xyere more comfortable. jon the Tender Ivy for Miami, and | this morning entrained for Wash- ington, D. C., to attend a con- 'ference of lighthouse | tendents. This is the first of these con- (ste fewer detractions and they/#" automobile. When he started; PRODUCTIVE. VENTURE | IN. superin- | | William J. ferences which has been called | in three years, and will go in session on the morning of Octo- ‘ber 6 and continue through October 15. It is expected that all superin- ; Presented itself, he proposed to ; PLANS MEETING <= it Se the. weak ond tendents of districts throughout Charter Study Committee will! meet tomorrow night in WPA! headquarters and members st be handed mimeographed copies of the old charter of the City of} Key West, with amendments, to, give it the necessary study in: order to draw a new charter, as! Proposed, Franklin Albert, chairman ot! the general committee, said this} NAMED BY JUDGE RALMOND | morning that the Speakers Com-}! mittee will meet next Monday in| the court room at the county! court house, and it is anticipated after next, when he would be busy in court in Key West, would continue a much-needed rest. APPRAISERS APPOINTED R. LORD OF PROBATE COURT ;the Continental Union States will be in attendance at the con- ference, as well as officials from all the island possessions. __ LICENSES ISSUED Announcement was made in the office of County Tax Collec- tor F. H. Ladd, that issues have been made of 63 beverage licens- es to date, and that practically {concludes all places which are that a large number of interest- ready for them. ed people will be present. Appraisers were appointed by tthe probate court today for the appraisal of the estate of the IMPORTANT NOTICE |ine Stephen Prac Lowe ‘ty All prices advertised in our ad' Judge Raymond R. Lord, judge Friday will be effective all! of said court. this week. BROADWAY MARKET Duval at Angela Phone 268 NEED PAINT? These appraisers as named by laney, B. C. Moreno and Jerry J. Trevor. Three more licenses are ex- pected to be issued before the ‘first of the year. One for a cocktail lounge, request for which may be presented at the ‘meeting of the county commis- sioners Wednesday night, and {the judge are Miss Louisa De- two for hotels which are expect- ed to be in readiness before the po 1939. } Pointing to a yacht at anchor in tary of State, | Langford replied, i |a wildcat apparently injured. by; ground at’hight because there walking toward it on his crutch- | es,» the wildcat attacked him. Schmidt stood his ground and COWBOY GIVEN YACHT succeeded in killing the animal New York — While browsing by a well-aimed blow of his along the Brooklyn waterfront, | crutch. (Tex) Langford, 23- i year-old former Texas cowboy, 30 CENTS EXPENSE struck up an acquaintance with) Montpelier, Vt—According to a man he had never seen before. 4 statement filed with the re lower New York harbor, the man | expenditures Se satan mono Se | asked Langford cane Aiken (Rep.) for renomination | . ~ amounted to 30 cents, thi it of ally, “A beauty! The guy a Postage stamps on petitions. Ae ° owns that must be lucky. which the stranger replied. ogg | Soemted by supporters. She's you think so, you are. yours.” The only trouble about the whole thing is that Langford is practically penniless and hasn’t the funds to operate the yacht. CIDER PUTS OUT FIRE Warren, Mass.—Firemen used several barrels of cider to extin-| guish the blaze on the dwelling of Henry Freeman's farm when! RESCUES DOG: GETS BITTEN the supply of water ran out. New York—Stopping his sub-| WATCH LOST 15 YEARS, way train with 2 sudden jerk, RETURNED Motorman Daniel Healy climbed Scranton, Pa—Police recently down from his cab and rescued @' returned a gold watch to Stewart | lost and dirty white dog on the’ W. Magee of Laceyville, which | 4 (My Ansociated Prean) MANDEVILLE, La. Oct. 3.— TA veteran employe of the Guls, {Mobile and Northern railroad, despairing of ever becoming a railroad magnate, decided to | build his own line. It took Sidney J. Thibodaux two years to finish what he calis the shortest standard gauge rail- road in the world. It is only 500 feet long but it is complete with 60-pound rails and standard ties, switches, lamps, semaphores and telegraphic service. EXTRACTING GOLD FROM BEARING SEA SANDS (Ry Associated Press) NOME, Alaska, Oct. 3.—An en- terprising operator has “fished” successfully for gold through holes chopped in thick ice of the Bering sea. Howard Lyng, former legisla- tor and member of the territorial welfare board, told how Joe Sullivan, old time miner, con- ducted the first productive ven- for ture in extracting gold from Bering sea sands. The mining — beat f ely, ps ea gaat ‘hole cut} Northern, as a hobby for $1,200. in the ice near Bluff, 52 miles| | Rolling stock of the Mandeville down the coast from Nome. Dirt| Northern consists of a handcar was hauled from the ocean bed | Powered by @ gasciine engine a”d in a three and a half foot bucket,|# small flatcar. Schedules sn “high-lined” to the beach and week-days are accommodated to dumped. traffic, Thibodeaux’s half dozen After 50 days’ work the dump grandchildren and their little was “sluiced” and, Lyng said, A regular schedule is w the G. M. and N. with 48 years’ railroad experience, is 65 years old. He built his own rail- road, called the Mandeviile Thibodeaux, station agent bere : jraces for the Ft. Lauderdale | Yacht Club. | Through the courtesy of man- ager J. P. Tonetti of the La Concha hotel the 15 outboarders secured rooms gratis. Mayor Willard M. Albury supplied ex- pense money for food. Duke |} Bowen took charge of the boats. The course was laid out by the | Lifhthouse department with new | flags and buoys furnished. The | Palace Theater’s public addre: ‘system kept the large crowd er tertained describing the events with Jack Munn at the micro- hone. Eight of the outboarders re mained over last night. Both Commodore Larry Mills and retary Jimmy Crosby told Citizen the riders were © thusiastic over Key West hos- pitality. They plan to return again during the winter season and promise a much larger show. Sunday the club will put on their stunts and races at Ft. ‘Lauderdale sponsored by the inewly-organized Ft. Lauderdale tracks. As thanks, the dog bit) had been given him as a gradua-| Sullivan brought $200,000 in gold | followed cn Saturdays and Sun- | Yacht Club. him on both hancs. tion present fifteen years before and lost soon afterwards. It was into Nome. days. Sullivan is repeating the opera- PICKS GOLD FROM STREETS found on the person of a man/ tion, and others are expected to Kalgoorlie, West Australia — they had arrested. Magee’s name try the same system. It’s a familiar sight these days was in the watch. eeesuinnsnennan mand ENDS LIFE OVER COLLEGE | to see passersby on the side- pammecreyoes walks of Main Street stop, stoop OFFERS EYE FOR $5,000 down amd chip pieces from the Richmond, Va—Answering the| Asbury Park, N. J.—Denied the sidewalk. These are usually ex- plea of M. O. Warner, blind store- | privilege of attending the college! LEFT OVER HIGHWAY | Junior Chamber of Commerce |committes staging the races were L. P. Artman, Jr., Darnell Carey, {Fernando Camus, Isidore Wein- and Mrs. Charles E. | taub and Buddy Berkowitz. Wentner, son, Robert, and! = a daughter, Miss Bertha, who had | pecs in ihe eity for two days onj REGULAR MEETING OF a sightseeing trip and enjoved perienced gold prospectors who keeper of Richmond, Va. for an are chipping gold which was eye, John Carlson, of Brooklyn, mixed in the concrete when it N. Y., said he would be willing of his choice by his parents, Burt} themselves to the utmost, left G. Metz, Jr., 19, of Neptune City, | over the highway and will stop became despondent and commit-|for a few days in Jacksonville, | Chamber of Commerce i Election of Direct was laid in 1899. Constant wear to en ome Nin Siri ee suicide at his home by shoot-| before proceeding to Charleston,’ —-TUESDAY, 8:00 P. M— is revealing the ore. ‘$5,000. ing himself through the head. (5. C. a ee WE CAN SUPPLY YOU WITH SHERWIN-WILLIAMS GUARANTEED PAINTS AND SUPPLIES. SOUTH FLA. CONTR. AND ENG. CO, PHONE