The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 12, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 242. Three Key West Foundation» Tracts Are: Sold) Company One To Californian, An- other To South Caro- linian; Believed Future Residential Area Realty during the three week period beginning September 20 and ending Monday as recorded in the County Courthouse fea- tured the sale of Key West Foun- dation Company lots..a subdivi- sion expected to develop into a section of beautiful residences and located near the north end of Flagler Avenue. Key West Foundation Company sold to Essie:E. Strom of Los An=|» geles, California, two jJots on Flagler Avenue between 16th'and 17th streets. ‘ The Key West. Foundation: Company sold also to Lloyd Innes Taylor of North Carolina a lot in the same subdivision on Eagle Avenue between 19th and 20th streets. Mrs. Thelma Page transferred. to Annie Page another lot on Eagle Avenue between 17th and 18th streets. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Russell et al sold to Mildred C. Key in a deed dated April 6, 1925, a 25x68 Snyder - Jot in an alley on Grinnell street | between Fleming and Southard streets. Aubia Eubanks sold to Ernest J. Arnold and Nellie P. Arnold two tfacts of the Russell Estate on Matecumbe. . Waho Corporation sold to Henry J. Howell of Westhampton Beach, Long Island a 200x1,500 sold to Mr. and Mrs, Allan Knowles et al the 42x41 lot on Southard near t. Mr. and Mrs. Juan Carbonell sold to Thomas Renedo 9% acres on Plantation Key. The Catholic Club of Key West sold to Mrs. George the 100x160 lot on Division street near Windsor Lane. This was a deed of May 14, 1935. Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Stephens sold to Nona May Stephens a lot in the Pinecrest subdivision on the mainland. In a master’s deed E. R. Lowe and J. G. Edley received 80 Key Largo acres from former pos- sessors Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Frost. R. L. Burton sold to R. W. Al- bury as executor of the estate of loseph_ V. Albury of Tavernier acres on Key Largo. “Mr. and Mrs. Vesey Johnson Edward W. Gates the corner of.Pearl and Cath: q Mrs. L. E. Archer: sold . and Mrs,, James Cormack piece, on, Eleanor» street Sone Road...» ' Jerome B. Pinder sold. to. Cyril H. Lowe two lots in. they Grove Park section on Upper Mate- cumbe. i z Mr. and Mrs. Robert D. Smith| sold to Mr. and Mrs. John B. ja Czech ministerireported on his | Carey | Mr, and Mrs, T. W. Johnson Fe Sawyer} Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | Che Key West Citizrn THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. (hy Associated Press) JERUSALEM. — Six Arabs were killed by British soldiers just 13 miles north of this city when they were demolishing an Arab sniper’s post. In a second clash one British soldier was killed and another wounded. England was alarmed as the Arabs continued to secure war supplies and said that they would recognize no peace overtures from the Arabs until the disorders stopped. Brit- ish planes helped in the fighting. Bethlehem is under curfew law and is on virtual war footing. PRAHA.—Hungary and Czech- gslovakia’ weres»deadlocked on how much:)/territory “ Hungary | should gét.of Czechoslovakia with pte to Berlin for advice. ROME. — Mussolini said that the German-Italian agreement; | would continue, that its 125 mil- lions of powerfully armed men were unbeatable, and that both nations would be on guard de- spite the Munich pact. France, too, continued arming prepara- | tions. HONGKONG.—As Japanese troops landed here to fight their j way across country to Canton to} destroy supply stations the Chi-; nese are operating. England| warned the empire not to go too far. Both English and American | ambassadors prepared to evacu- | jate peoples of their nations to! nearby towns. Fifty thousand (more Japanese troops are expect- | jed to face a Chinese army of 1,- 000,000, ef ARE—-Prodictions that e present iness upturn may | turn into a “boom” were made today, as levels approaching 1927-29 prosperity days were} reached. The national income has | jinereased .a billion dollars, with (a total of $36,000,000,000. The ’29; ‘total was $81,000,000,000. More | than a million more of unemploy- | ed are at work with building, | steel work, carloading, retail auto! shops, textiles, machine tool and}! chemical industries on the up- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938 Atlantic Fleet Heads Newly-authorized ‘Atlantic Squadron will be under direction ofithis staff, shown! aboard the flagship, Philadelphia, off Norfolk. Left to right: Lieut.;\Commander H.| W. Smith, Lieut. J. W.\Adams, Rear Admiral Forde A. Todd, who is im charge of the 14-ship squadron; Lieut. G. L. Caswell and Lieut. C. B. Laning. ‘This will be first such squadron for U. S. since 1931. | ESTATE CASE 10 BE HEARD AGAIN JUDGE TO TAKE EVIDENC TOMORROW IN HODG- DON CASE County Judge Raymond R. Lord stated this morning that taking of evidence in the matter} of the proceedings for revocation of the will of the late Charlotte Amelia Hodgdon, which was or-| dered by Judge H. F. Atkinson, will begin tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, in his office at the county court house. The will was. contest >. atives. In the document Besides certain small amounts and ar- ticles of more or less value were} stipulations leaving to William Freeman, the residue of the es-| tate which was appraised at $13, 353.50. At a previous hearing the court | upheld the will and ruled that the provisions were valid, and the! proposition to remove Mr. Free-| man as executor, was denied but} the bond of the executor was} raised to $10,000. | swing. i ONTARIO.—More than 5,000, ' 'CCC and volunteer workmen} | fighting the 700 square mile for- | jest fire raging along the Cana-| j}dian-Minnesota_ border believe | they will shortly bring the fire | junder control. Many are report: | }ed missing i DETROIT.—One thousand CIO| workers struck today.in an auto | plant. here, stating that employ- | @ts had refused to negotiate after | {ld contract had’ expired. }« SAN ‘FRANCISCO.—One hun-| tdréd and ‘thirty-seven Bay area | warehouses were closed today on} ja new strike but outside media- ftion may bring about a truce. t | AKRON.—Six thousand WPA | workmen are idle today as truck- It was charged at the first, hearing that undue influence over the deceased had been used by the executor, during her ill- ness. COUNTY FORCES RECEIVING PAY | CHECKS MADE AVAILABLE) AT OFFICE OF CLERK ROSS C. SAWYER » | i Pay checks at the county '¢ourt) house are ready for employe’ of ; the county, was the statement! made this morning by County} Clerk Ross C. Sawyer. ! It was decided last week at of ers laid down a blockade follow- | the regular meeting of the com-. MURDER CASE SYGRAND JURY INDICTS ED WEBBER: TO BE CALLED IN CIRCUIT COURT AT 9:30 O'CLOCK ' | | Friday morning October 14 at 9:30 o’clock the case of the State of Florida versus Ed Webber charged with the murder of James Taylor, will be called for trial in Circuit Court. Judge Ar- thur Gomez will preside at the | trial. This morning at 10:30 o'clock the grand jury, which had been in session since Monday saring te: ony in the matter, an a nur of witnesses were, ex- amined, including Drs. Rubino and Saunders from the Marine hospital where Taylor was taken after the shooting and where he died several days later, made the | presentment to the court. | “Grand jurors of the State of REDHAMMERS SAVED BOCA CHICA BRIDGE Guests of Juan Carbonell at the Habana-Madrid last night were Mr. and Mrs. Red- hammer who not only caught a grouper at Boca Chica bridge yesterday but prob- ably saved it from destruc- tion by fire in throwing buckets of water for an hour. ‘Mr, and “Mrs.” Rédhammer are from Trenton, N. J. and were fishing the beautiful _ blue channels of Boca Chica when they noticed the smoke. Rushing to one of the red buckets placed at intervals on the wooden bridges of the Overseas Highway by the Monroe County Commission- ers they labored for an hour dousing the flames, until the fire apparatus arrived. Chief Harry Baker of the Key West Fire Department was high in his praise of their work, calling attention to the fact that a high wind could have caused burning of the entire bridge. The minor injuries to the timbers will be repaired next week by State Road Department forces. TF IIS SS SSL FLORIDA C. OF C. CONSIDERS: SOUT CONVENTION TO, BE HELD DEC. 12-13 AT HOL- LYWwooD Service Club Asks Saloon Ordinance Enf orcement | ! TaD SS SSS @. |Saloon In Front Of Harris | School Chief Sent Petitions Most Flagrant Violator; Mayor, Police! Stone Church Service Club at their supper mecting last night assed a resolution requesting en- reement: of the city ordinance requiring a saloon not to be jnearer than 300 feet of a school or church. jbe sent to Mayor Willard M. Al- bury, Chief of Police Ivan Elwood |and Key, West City Council. Principal point of attention be- jfore the club was the operation} of the saloon at the corner of | Southard, and Margaret streets in front of the Harris Grammar |School. In discussion before the |club it was pointed out that resi- jdents in the area would not ‘lodge a complaint because they {did not wish to involve the opera- tor of the saloon. | The operator has stated that the La Concha Hotel was granted |a liquor license and that this is |discrimination. The ruling that all hotels with 100 rooms or over | were exempt from such ordin- Copies of the petition are to} Florida, duly called, empaneled and sworn to inquire and true | presentment make in‘and for the | body of Monroe County, upon their oaths present. | “That heretofore, to wit on the 19th day of August A. D. 1938,} | within the County of Monroe and | State of Florida, Ed Webber un- lawfully and from a premeditated design to effect the death of | James Taylor, did kill and mur- der him, the said James Taylor, | by shooting the said James Tay- lor with a pistol, a further and! {more particular description of} which said pistol is to the Grand |Jurors unknown, contrary to the |form of the statute in such cases made and provided, and “to the} | evil example of all, others in like case offending, and against the} peace and dignity of the State of Florida.” The Grand Jury presentation was signed by State Attorney G. | A. Worley: ‘The foreman is Wil-| liam Cullingford and the clerk is iIra F. Albury. It was shown that at the time | \of the shooting that Webber was | intoxicated and entered a bunk! | house on the Keys where there, were others at the time. _Webbder | | started shodting and before ‘he {had concluded had wounded two} others beside Taylor. | Paul, Ebney was shot through | the arm arid Willie Hill was shot through the right thigh. Neither of the men were badly wounded | |and were released after being! given first aid treatments. Taylor, it was found had re- ceived three wounds in the ab- |domen, and the intestines show- ed eight perforations, the bullets ‘also entered the kidneys. He lingered for several days and on the night of August 23 at } 10 o'clock, died. A coroner’s jury |composed of John C. Lord,/ Vast Army PRICE FIVE CENTS Barracks Improvements Planned EDISON’S DAUGHTER , Jer transportation REPUBLICAN congressional nomination from New Jer- sey’s llth district is sought by Mrs. Madeleine Sloane (above), daughter of the late Thomas A. Edison. Her brother, Charles, assist- ant secretary of navy, dis- agrees with her—politically. He's a Democrat. WATER BUCKETS VERY ESSENTIAL THIS WAS BORNE OUT DUR- ING FIRE DISCOVERED YES- TERDAY AFTERNOON ON BOCA CHICA BRIDGE Availability of the water buc- kets, which are conveniently lo- cated on wooden bridges of the Overseas Highway, again proved their value and the possible sav- ing of the Boca Chica bridge, when fire was discovered on the structure yesterday afternoon. Chief Harry Baker, of the Key | ances was pointed out to him. It| George M. Park, James A. Curry,| West Fire Department, was ‘Teé- was also stated that eventually with stronger zoning his place | would be ruled out and that much | better {looking cocktail bars him as arguments influencing a change to another location. State and’ national senators and representatives are to receive pe- titions from the club advocating ‘George Gomez, Robert Pinder and | Bernard H. Waite, was summon- |ed to investigate the case. ; On the morning of Thursday | verdict to the effect that “Tay- lor came.to his death as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted by | Ed Webber.” o'clock advising him, that.,,.the bridge was burning and the flames had fact, shat Reconstruction Of Quar- ters And Much Other Ac- tivity Included In Pro- gram (By Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 12.—An improvement program for Key West Army Barracks, the largest «| Of.two. projects. costing $109,980, which was‘authorized for the Is- (land: City by State WPA Admin- istrator Robert J. Dill. follows: The work will include recon- struction of barracks quarters, storehouses, other buildings; also improvements for airport and oth- facilities and water supply. Scheduled for operation over a six months’ peried, the work will involve expenditures of $85,267, including WPA allocation of $67,- 936, provide employment for 1832 certified security wage earners. Beautification project for pub- | lie building grounds has also been j authorized to cost $24,713, includ- ‘ing a WPA allocation of $19,453, jand will furnish 55 jobs. ‘PURGE IDEA MAY CHANGE VOTING | LY UNDER FIRE IN FUTURE | | (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—From j@leanings here and there we are jable to present something of a picture of what the New Deal | Strategists expect will result from | the so-called purge. Keep in mind there is another side to the picture, but this is THEIR side. Some of the older heads, who {had buttered their bread with politics for many a year, knew before the purge started that de- feat was certain in several in- stances and likely in others. They knew the defeats would be in terpreted as setbacks for the ad ministration. What was to be \gained? \, First off, as these people see it, jcipient of a message at 380)4 Democratic senator listed for }the purge! will be a marked man in the future.’ That may or may ra) : gained, igbie| not influence hi voting in the would be\serious competition to | August 25, the jury rendered its | headway, despite (aie oe , é }next congress) New Deal figures travellers over the highway. were) participating in the purge suspect making va the flames. Apparatus from Number 2 sta tion was ordered to the scene and ant efforts te. quench establishment of a Merchant Ma-| OM MOM DMG OB se chief went immediately to rine training school in the city. Key West’s request for a deeper CATCHES RATTLER take charge. Arriving at Boca Chica he found that two men it will) The party loyalty of | those “marked” senators has been questioned by the head of the party. : These marked senators may consider that blind following of party leadership ié not party loy- and two women were using the alty. They may hold that true four buckets from the frame on‘ party loyalty compels them to the bridge and had done good | vote against administration pro- work. The booster of the engine | posals they consider unwise , draft of water on the low water «(s fal to The Citth , ! HOLLYWooD BEACH. Oct, inland waterways stretch from! WITH BARE HANDS % "| Bahia Honda to Key West will be | - Ross Alien, who is com- called to the attention of a con- Bs aa" and George streets. | ing the giving of contracts to low- | missioners that a pay day would M. Hankins quit claimed to! est bidders and not ‘to relief /be made by transfering funds} — A. Tingsey of Los Angeles truckmen. jfrom the ferry account to the/12—Program Committee to com- _ Tamiami Everglades Corpora- tion sold to L.M. Hankins an- other mainland section, Brown Properties sold to Er- skine A. Rolle the 40x71 property on Thomas street near Fleming. J. C. DIRECTORS MEET TOMORROW Junior Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors will meet to- morrow night 8 o'clock at Cham- ber of Commerce offices to pass finally on eight new membership applications. € Other preliminary matters of importance are up before the group. ROB PARKED CAR CHICAGO—Thieves broke in- to en, of a salesman in city stole 500 sample corsets. PROTECT YOUR HOME AGAINST SH MORE SPONGES | AUCTIONED OFF | | |DIFFERENT GRADES OFFER-| ' | EDATMUNICIPAL DOCK | | ON SALE DAY j | ‘There was a decided falling off ;in offerings of sponges displayed on the municipal sponge dock this week's sale day, when but | 140 bunches were offered to buy- ers. Wool offerings numbered 43 bunches, offerings of grass num- bered 82 and yellow offerings | were 15 bunches. Wool brought $70.34) yellow sold for $16.57 and grass brought $2.95. The best price offered during the sale was for 13 bunches of wool, which sold for $36.30, or ‘aproximately $2.79 per bunch. jwas added $2,650; to several regular accounts of the | county. To the General Revenue Fund Forfeiture $1,350 and to the Road Fund, $450, and a telegram was sent to Comptroller J. M. » advising of the action and re- quest that it be sanctioned. Reply to this was received the comptroller) as follows: “Retel, resolution ap~/ proving transfer, ef funds 10th”. Provisions have been made for} the following, , disbursements: ; Those receiving emoluments from} the General Revenue - and:.Fine and Forfeiture Funds will be paid { for the month of July. Those who are remunerated from the Road Fund will be paid forthe month of September. DRESSED AS WOMEN BRIGHTON, Eng. — Policemen of this city dressed as women secured evidence on which a notorious dancing club was or- dered closed. ‘in the act plete plans and arrangements for the 22nd annual membership Chamber of Commerce in the Hollywood Beach Hotel here De- cember 12-13 announce the two- day meeting will open at 10:00 a. m., Monday, December 12, with | jyesterday by Clerk Sawyer in a»regi! as first order of ‘telegram from Hoved ‘by the general which Leonard K Thomsen of Miami, chairman, will direct 2s the presiding offi- ‘cer, acdording to “thé program. In‘ view of busi’ conference tentative President Roose- velt’s recent remarks on South-/ ern economic problems and the widespre: erest of the public ities of the National Emergency Council, t theme, “Florida and the Nation’s Num- ber One Economic Problem”, has been selected for the annual statewide business conference, Harold Colec, president of the state group, declared. vention of Atlantic Deeper Wa-} terways Association to be called Fine and|Meeting of the Florida State |in Washington, November 16. Guests present: Joe Pinder and Edward Brady. ‘WPA OFFICIALS SITING HERE | Among the numerous visitors pleting negotiations to es- tablish a snake farm as a tourist attraction in the city found business right up his | line in a trip to the city yes- | terday. | Coming down the Overseas | Highway he found a Key | throwing rocks, sticks and anything he could lay his hands on at a five foot rattlesnake. Now this Mr. Allen is one of those fellows who gets { i | in Key West today are Regional} {Director Robert Belote of Em- }Ployment W.P.A., from New Or-) jleans: Karl A. Goodbread, field representative of the employ- ment division, who are meeting }with local representatives and checking up. Another visitor who is looking over the work and accomplish- ments of those assigned to the different projects in company with Area Supervisor B. C. Mo-/ reno, is E. S. Lofberg, assistant {director of operations, from tead- quarters in Jacksonville. hhh hake] ORT CIRCUITS—USE OUR ELECTRICAL SUPPLIES. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENG was brought into play and the flames rapidly subsided. Most of the fire-fighting was done from below as the flames were burn ing the string pieces, and a large had been burned. Traffic, said Chief Baker, still permitted to cross the bridge which is to be repaired by work- men of the State Road Depart- ment. COUNTY BOARD Regular mee roe County © ond in October, ir the county court house, in the of fice of County Clerk Ross C. Saw yer, 8 o'clock tonight. There are a number of matters to be brought brfore the meeting besides the regular routine busi- ness, it is said. May Rise As ‘Martyrs’ Contrary to some New Deal ex- pectations, an aura of martyrdom may attack to them, increasing their independence and benefit |place to the side of the decking ting them in other ways. Senator Clark of Missouri, for instance, was examined more closely as a presidential prospect after his name was “posted”. Nevertheless, New Deal sources predict that a Democrat accused of disloyalty will be a “very uncomfortable” Democrat. IS CELEBRATED Columbus Day is being brated locally in the city with « number of business institutions c ' In e discoverer of America, Christopher Columbus, the holiday is celebrated in Fior- lida and 33 other states. orle INEERING CO. PHONE 596