The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 17, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1938 VOLUME LIX. No. 246. Cuban Gunbeat Left Sunday On Return Trip To Havana Large Number Assemble | At Dock To Bid Officers Of Ship Farewell On| Voyage Back Home | ‘CHARTER STUDY | GROUP TO MEET TUESDAY NIGHT COMMITTEES TO MAKE RE- PORTS FOLLOWING INVES- Lindbergh Coinventor eecccccce | CITY CHARTER | | ae P | The Charter Study group of eo | the City Charter Revision Com- | mittee will meet at W.P.A. head- quarters tomorrow evening, Tues- day, at 8 o’clock, H. E. Day, pre- siding. As planned and directed at the Gunboat Juan Bruno Zayas, of the Cuban navy. which arrived | here a week ago Sunday with a number of high officials and dig- | | TIGATIONS RELATIVE TO) 1 i | | mitaries of ithe government, who meeting held October 4th, five sub-committees. wil came to take part in the cere- © monies of the “E] Grito de Yara” ion. left the harbor yes- jay morning at 7 o'clock. Cuban Consul Berardo Rodri-| # guez, and his associate vice con- sul, Jose Perez, Miss B. Ramon ‘Albert and Edward Grahat and a number of teachers of San Carlos Institute, and a larg ber of others, were at the dock to bid the officers farewell. Commandante To: Gamba, commanding the vess: express- | ed his regrets at being forced to leave, saying. that he had never} had a more enjoyable than that in Key West, and hoped that opportunity would be pre-} sented for him to make an early return to this delightful city, and) his many friends. | The Zayas had been delayed al week due to a small tropical dis- turbance paket sperodibeed the Florida coast from the st and broke up before it struck the state. | Before leaving three trees from | Havana were presented to Mrs. | Eva Warner, city parks supervisor, | @s a gesture of friendship from {| the Cupar, ity. The trees were planted Friday if Bayview Park. ! They are a laurel, a ceiba or cot- | tonwood, and a royal palm. i Taken Over On Ship Raymond Aparicio, native of Cuba who had been in Philadel-| phia for some time, arriving in! Key West after the Zayas came} to this port, was taken back oni the ship, said to be suffering} from mental trouble, as it was not considered safe for him to be away from his family and friends. | 0 FERRIES MAY. LEAVE TOMORROW COMMERCE FAPERS FOR WAIT TODAY FOR DEPT. OF gines have been found in excellent conditivn”, T. Clamp, Belcher Towi pany's general superintendent, told today referring to “Pilgrim” and “Tra formerly operated on gap between Lower and No Name Key have been purchased by the com- pany. “We're waiting o Department of Com before we take them papers are expected any minute. If we receive them today we will leave tomor tg “There will b manning each b kept temporarily when we efrive in the company decides be done h them. signment has no termined,” — SENT TO ASYLUM LEFT YESTERDAY IN CUS. TODY Of DEPUTY SHER. IFF WAITE Citizen ferries. which th ce pape Pp. will a be them until will as- wh Their et been de-! i. i Bernard H. Wa iff atta: iff K. 0, T highway at enroute to C In his care nifred E. Rob had been deciare had been ordered asylum, the NAILS FOR ALL JOBS. CH num- | The Legislative group, sections 23 to 26 and 34 to 38, with |Charles Ketchum, chairman, will | jreport, with members, Henry; Brewer, ‘H. E. Day, Dr. J. B.} Parramore, Allan Hampton. Section 39 to 66, treating on Taxation, will be reported, under ‘leadership of Everett Winter.! |Members of his committee. -are | | Fred Dion, Clifford G. Hicks and | ithe City and County Tax As- sessors. | The Board of Public Works sub- | committee, will present its re- SCIENTIST Alexis Car- rel (above), co-designer with Charles A. Lindbergh of the “artificial heart”, recently ar- rived in New York from abroad. Dr. Carrel will spend the winter working at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. CABLE SCHOONER TO BE LAUNCHED | |present charter, sections 67 | C. Moreno is chairman of this} group with these members: B. D. | Trevor, Paul Mesa and William| Monstlvatge. ! The Elections portion of the) to; | wherein camouflaged guns help repel theoretical raids by soviet bombing planes. port on the present charter. B.| SCIENTIST SAYS BODY DOES GULF DISTURBANCE PASSES|KEY WEST RESIDENT DIED Japan Air-Arms ‘Against Russia Japan’s ‘ifautonomic governments. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average rage of only “4° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Jury Finds Webber. Guilty Of First Degree Murder; RecommendationFor Mercy eccccccecos "| Verdict Rendered Satur- NEW 5 FLASHES day Night; Prisoner To (iy Associated Press) Be Sentenced On Wed- Seccccevecaaseceaeaseoes PRAGUE. Czechoslovakia| pesday will not yield to Hungary’s de- mands because Adolf Hitler has taken the stand that it need not. Salient is whether a Slovakian | section should be deeded. The Slovaks have granted a_ large number of Germany provinces Guilty in the first degree with recommendation for mercy. was the verdict of the jury in circuit: court which had the case |of Bdward Webber under con- ; Il sideration »Saturday —_afternoén layetetore England his Propesi-| saa matured a verdict at 20 France if they will adopt a hands | o'clock Saturday night. *SBERLIN.—Ado!f Hitler will off policy on his actions in mid-| Judge Arthur Gomez, officers dle Europe. A survey of British | of the court and attorneys were {opinion finds that the English | present when the jury announced public is at high tension and em- concern over Russia is reflected by the constant air raid drills at Tokyo, | FAT DEPOT FOR |MODERATE STORM ROBERTS RITES | RECONDITIONING TRAVELS INLAND HELD YESTERDAY NOT IMMEDIATELY | CONSUME IT OVER OR NEAR GALVES. TON THIS MORNING EARLY SATURDAY EVENING \ | | The Gulf disturbance of mod-; Funeral services for Mrs. Jen- NEW YORK, Oct. 17.—When a | grate intensity, which had been | hie Volina Roberts, who died 6:40 | | (iy Associated Press) |that most of the small countries | |to the east of Germany down to} phatically against any such ar-} rangement. They indicate that} the time has come to halt Hitler’s | actions through an English stand. | Neville Chamberlain will return | |from his vacation and meet with | the British cabinet Wednesday. | The cabinet is expected to vote! strong rearmament. j BERLIN.—Walter Funk, Ger-/ many’s economic minister, reports | the Black Sea have decided to| cooperate with Germany eco- | nomically. Rumania is expected to agree later. Meanwhile pro- | German parties in west Germany | \ that they had reached a verdici. There was also a number of visi- tors present. When the verdict had been read and recorded, Judge Gomez announced that sentence would be passed on Webber Wednesday morning, October 19. Spring term of the court was then ad- journed sine die. Members of the jury were: Ed Mathews, Jr., Scott Sawyer, John Ogden, Robert L. Bethel, Roscoe Roberts, Archie Albertus, Vivian Pinder, Rudolph H. Sands, John A. Knowles, James Hyde, John Blackwell, Jr., J. A. Keaton. Meets This Morning Fall term of the Circuit Court EARLY FEBRU AR |97, will be reported on by FE. A.} | Ramsey, sub-committee chair- | eae WILL BE READY IN JANUARY: ; PLANKING PRACTICALLY! COMPLETE; DECKING, CEIL-| ING, CABIN REMAIN | | The cable schooner now being! constructed in the old Aero-| marine shed at the foot of Duval! street will probably be launched; in February although she will be! ready in January, foreman Lox-; iad ; meeting tomorrow evening, are: person eats fat, his body does not | wan, John Fark, ge aan wi immediately consume it, but| ot tee eur ‘sends it to a fat depot to be re- er members of the Study | onditioned. . } committee, not assigned to sub-| This discovery, made at Colum- | committees, and who are expect. | bus University by Dr. Rudolf} ed to be in attendance at Uh Belvepapenameey is one of the prac- tical results of heavy water. Howard Overlin, Joe Allen, Mrs. | Heavy water contains hydrogen G. N. Goshorn, J. Roland Adams, | atoms of twice normal weight. Mrs. M. E. Berkowitz, R. F.| All fat is rich in hydrogen of Spottswood, Herman Holtsberg,/the ordinary sort. When the! Carl Bervaldi, William Freeman, | heavy hydrogen is mixed with fat! Earl Adams, Chas. Aronovitz, | foods, some of the heavy stuff re- Hastings Smith, Stephen C./ places the light-weight hydrgoen Singleton, Albert E. Peirce, Jr.,\in the fat. When this fat is fed T. A. Leonard, Capt. R. F. Sling- ‘to animals, their bodies use it the hovering in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico for the past severaby days, changed its course and moved northwestward, the cen- ter having passed over or near! Galveston, , this morning at 8 o'clock, ording to advices issued by G. S. Kennedy, mete- orologist in charge at the local weather bureau. The maximum wind velocity from this storm never at any time exceeded 48 miles per hour, which was felt at St. Petersburg when it din that section. The warnings displayed were jo’clock Saturday night, were) |held yesterday afternoon 5. o’clocky! from Fleming Street Methodist | church where the body was plac- |ed at 2 o'clock. Three ministers officiated at! the services. Rev. J. C. Gekeler, of the First Presbyterian church, | | assisted by Rev. J. P. Lilly, of ‘Fleming Street Methodist church, jand Rev. O.:C.’ Howell, of -Ley |battleship Hood and the German} / ‘Memorial chureh, battleship ‘Deutschland left here | C°55 until Pallbeaers were: J. H. Pinder, bound for Spain, edch playing the | Ogtober 19. G. P. Tedder, Horacio Carey,)national anthem of, the other| |Ha:old Russell, Clifford Watkins | country. FIVE BUILDING | } { for the Eleventh Judicial Circuit met. this morning. et /10..9'clock | with Judge Arthur Gomez pre- siding and all officials of the court present. The case of Helio Renedo versus the Atlantic Mutual Fire Insurance Co., was called and on motion of the attorneys was con- tinued. Judge Gomiez announced a re- Wednesday morning, lost much of their votes in elec- tions, a NEW YORK.—Profit taking cut what appeared to be a “boom” in stock market activity today. Prices went to new high before profit taking cut them down. GIBRALTAR. — The British and Will Camalier. luff and J. R. Stowers. }ing was laid on and all is now in| ley Arch told The Citizen today.| Franklin Albert is The schooner will be the largest | chairman of the built here in the last 40 years.|sion Committee which During recent weeks the plank- | general ple in the rear stern which await in-|in the meantime, hold meet-} stalling of propeller shaft logs. When. the schooner is launched the masts will then be placed! chym, vice-chairman; ceiling which also ’ finishes the ' Beach : . " } a large cabin forward able to ac- | Finance chairman is C. G. Hicks, A cap- | Publicity is in charge of Hugh | Williams and Precinct Organiza- tain’s and officers’ cabin will be | tion work will be handled by aft and will accommodate from | William Monsalvatge. four to six men. There are five Key Westers : EXAMINATION the seven laborers working} on the job with three, in-} cluding foreman Arch, originally | from the Grand: Cayman islands, | In the examination rooms at the Federal Building this morn- |ing Harry Warren, cashier at the {custom house, acting as assistant SPIT TTIS TS, Civil Service Secretary, is hold-/ AMERICAN SURGEONS OK MARINE HOSPITAL ing an examination for the posi- | tion of draftsman. Official announcement of the 1938 list of 2.664 approved But two Key Westers are tak- jing the examination. They are hospitals by the Clinical Charlies Lewin and Mario Calleja. Congress of American Callege of Surgeons finds Key West's U.S. Marine Hospital ap- proved, One hospital in Bay Pines, another in Century, one in Clearwater, one in Daytona Beach, one in Eustis. two in Gainesville, five in Jackson- ville. one in Lake City. Lake- Three marriage licenses were land, Lake Wales. Miami recorded during the week past in Beach. two in Miami. Orlando, office of County Judge Raymond R. Lord. The records show is- sues having been made to the following: Julio J. DePoo and Isabel Mc- Namara; George M. Maigrat, Jr., and Edith May Henriquez; Wil- liam Ashe and Elizabeth Carey.- commodate 12 seamen. Pensacola, St. Augustine and St. Petersburg, one in Ocala and West Palm Beach and three in Tampa are approved in Florida. TLD Ia LDIF a as | ings each Tuesday at 8 o'clock p. | to the place ea | ™M- at W.P.A. headquarters. Other!ed. There it rele }officers include: Pepe Ket. fount of fat, which was con- i 5 im + | Si lier the newly-eate: she will be stigged out, and thesiArmstrong, séctdtary °"shd’ Misd}pay tt Neu of the newly-eaten engines installed. Remaining: ‘ix Ueen Witliams;‘ treasurer: Mem:"5 ‘The.new. fat, while | construction of :deck “and insices?diens of Pe ae ae rapidly changed by chemic- fe PMs 5 So “tal PeSS' ar - } Opes -Ac' Ramsey, ‘Aaititing |, Process inside sides of the boat. A small} Lopes; dx,pcEntique «Esquinaldo, | were alter ¢ trunk cabin will be on deck with }Jr., and. Mrs..M.:.E.': Berkowitz. | t * electrical link ; together. ‘OIL DEALERS | Same as regular fats. By mixing just a little of the; Charter Revi-|heavy hydrogen with food fats, holds! Dr. Schoenheimer wa meetings: at the courthouse each|trace the course of fat through second Monday of the month. | the body. : The next meeting will be held'to the New York Electrical So- exeept eight short pieces; November 14th. Study groups, ‘ciety. able to He reported the study After this fat was eaten it went s where fat was stor- ased an equal in storage, Some of its carbon d. Its chemical bonds nd replaced se bonds are the | that bind atoms ge in the bonds shape of the remo’ by other bonds.. Th Ac changes the atc jfat. After these chemical changes }the fat was ready for consump- tion. PLAN MEETING |MERVILLE ROSAM LEFT TO- DAY TO ATTEND PRO- POSED SESSION Merville Rosa: with the Porte day over the a meeting of dealers in M product of t conference of d ferent sections BINGO PARTY Auspices St. Mary's Sodality ST. CECILIA’S HALL—Convent Tomorrow Night. 8:00 o'Cleck HAM as Door Prize Prizes each game mainly for small craft operating} widower, Cleveland Roberts; one Mrs. Roberts is survived by the | JERUSALEM.—Jewish leaders | | that was issued this morning: in waters adjacent to the dis- turbed area. The following is the advisory ADVISORY 9:30 A. M.—The_ tropical dis- turbance of slight intensity is: moving northwestward. The cén- ter passed over or near Galves- ton, Texas, at 8:00 a. 'm. attended by fresh to strong shifting wind? and squalls on the upper coast of Texas. The disturbance’ “wil diminish in intensity in moving} inland, and no further advisories! are indicated. Warnings on the Texas coast will be lo ed after winds subside this morning W.P.A. FINANCE OFFICER HERE CONFERS WITH B. CURRY MO-! RENO ON REGULAR VISIT Charles H. Lowe, who is con- nected with the Finance depart- ment of the Jacksonville W.P.A. office, arrived today on a regu- lar visit to confer with Area Su- pervisor B. Curry Moreno. Mr. Lowe is accompanied by Mrs. Lowe. COURTESY REPAID Spatchor, dancer, former eficiaries un- will of Mrs. tt, wealthy champion . York”. Miss securities accused Britain of attempting to} son, Clarence, and four daughters, | compromise with Arabs, and the | Miss Florence, Miss Marjorie, | accusation was borne out in Lon- | Miss Eloise and Miss Elizabeth.|don reports that England had! There is also one brother, Her-| abandoned its Palestine partition | man W. Saunders. plan. Six Arabs were killed on | Relatives Arrived | fighting today with 300 prisoners | Relatives of Cleveland Roberts, | taken, but Jews fear a mass at-| whose wife, Mrs. Jennie Volina|tack on Jerusalem. British sol-! Roberts, died Saturday evening |diers have been instructed to be and wes bugied yesterday, arriv- | prepared for anything. | ed last weeks and, yesterday to at-| eo tend the sexwices,and-left over the| HONG KONG.—Japanese plans | highway, today, for; their. several |to collapse northern China _re- homes icsrro> 219ks0q ) to bsistance by capturing the south- Clarence, the:sowy, atrived’ Sut-lern section reached new heights urday; alternoan, accompanied by as they declared that Canton,) Mrs... Rebents,Jand::left:today. for}China’s important base of sup. | his home,in#ort ‘Lauderdale; Ed- | plies, would soon be captured} die Roberts’ahd wife, brother) and capital Hankow would fall | and sister-in-law of Mr. Roberts, | shortly. thereafter. Two hundred other brother, Leroy, accom-|to Canton with 40 Jap ships ready panied by his wife, left today for |to land more troops. The Japan- their home in Jacksonville. |ese are only 30 miles from Han- —_— i kow. JAILED FOR FIGHTING H os } WASHINGTON. — The new | LONDON—When Mr. and Mrs.' wage cut to railroad employes is Joseph Colwell of this city wereia menace to railroad security, committed to jail for fighting on!Hay representing the railroads the street, the husband request-'told Washington officials. ed that his wife’s term be defer- | red until he had completed his. | WASHINGTON.—Criminal in- | idictments against the American | Ba BABA OA EAA MAA Medical Association will be 75-FOOT MIAMI | sonia oan jr Be that it se YACHT ARRIVES coercive action to prevent a co- Yacht “Iolanthe”, a 75-foot- operative health movement to-| er, arrived today and berthed at the Porter Dock with C. B. |tumbia medical society will be in- |cluded in the charges, Moody, H. B. Wells and lip Berkowitz { rs) HOLLYWOOD. — It appeared today that Anderson, singer Ruth | Etting’s busbarid, who was shot} lyesterday by Martin Snyder, her | first husbend, will recower. Holly- | | wood fears that if he does not a! major scandal of the inside of | Hollywood lives will be revealed | in a murder case. deft + TEE INDIANA.—Twenty-two fiers passed their 114th hour in the sir | ‘in an attempt to stay 150 hours aloft. They have already passed DBA BDDA LLG; wooitlcial record A 106 hours. | 8 Be OOSE THE RIGHT KIND FOR YOUR JOB FROM SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING AND ENGINEERING COMPANY. PHONE 596 PERMITS ISSUED ONE OF APPLICATIONS I5 FOR REMODELING OF FILLING STATION . Remodeling the filling station at the corner of Fleming and Margaret streets is one of the activities for which requests for permits were made during the past week. The permit was issued by Building Inspector Harry M. jleft today for Tampa, and an- | thousand Chniese are on the way | Baker, and was to the Standard Oil Company, and the estimated price of the work is $3,000. Construction of a Tropical Collecting Station is contained in a request for a permit issued to Ross Allen. The building will be at the lot opposite the Light- house Department headquarters and the cost is estimated at $800, Other repairs named in permits issued were: General repairs at residence on Flagler Avenue. Owner, V. A. Johnson; cost, $1,000. Construct ficor for bowling al- ley at 115 Duval street. Owner, J. A. Jennings; cost, $75. General repairs at corner of United and Pearl streets. Owner, Ross C. Sawyer, Jr, cost, $75. 5 Yo 8 P. M. Daily CAYO HUESO CLUB Jefterson Hotel featuring JIMMY THOMAS The warbeling mixologist MARY LINDSAY The Sweet Swingster and OUR HAPPY TRIO