The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 18, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Key West Citizen Operations VOLUME LIX. No, 247. ate Plant Board Resumes Investigations Being Car- ried On Are Expected To Last. Several Weeks; May Be Final inspection J. W. Ludlam, of the State Plant Board, is in charge of the regular routine inspection which has been carried on in Key West since June, 1937, when the last traces of that deadly fruit pest, the black fly. had been com- pletely eradicated. Mr. Ludiam has with him a group of 25 inspectors, most of} whom have been in Key West before and were among those who waged a continuous war on the black fly from the time of its discovery here several years ago until it was said to have been eradicated. Since then there have been sev- eral inspetions made. The first one was in Octoer, 1937, and was In This Locality | NEWS FLASHES (ly Associated Preas) SOSCOKOSHSHSOESESEOSEEEE NEW YORK.—The North’s In- dian summer will crumple in a wave is coming from the Rockies. Wyoming and Montana have had four days of snow storms and sub freezing temperatures. MIAMI Alex Papana Ruman- ian flyer, who was taking off on a leg of his flight to Rumania, plane was badly, one was hurt. 4; LONDON,-~1t is_ bell President, Rocedtals, ak a King George and Queen El personal invitations to ¢ America next year. Washington society is a flutter in hopes that they will receive invitations to the receptions. JERUSALEM.—Two . thousand British soldiers are laying siege to the old section of this town where Arabs are barricaded and sniping at passersby. The flat roofs make it easy for-the snip- ers and the winding streets are easy paths to escape. A mass con- centration of Arabs in the hills is feared. SHANGHAI.—The Japs are , | now within 40 miles of capital Hankow. One hundred million dollars of China’s stores have been captured at Canton. It is i believed that China’s generalis- simo Chiang Kai Shek will per- sonally prepare for the defense of Canton. few days under icy blasts. A cool | : THE so 210 if | ij i 1 ‘he crashed today in this city.. They) ed, shown. speed of 300 miles an hour. Count will mount to 210 before Uncle Sam’s order for Curtiss P-36 purs' for the army is filled at the Curtiss Wright factory in Buffalo where a row of planes is These all-metal, low-wing monoplanes are said to be single seated fighters. They are equipped with retractable landing gear, can reach a UTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1938 Pursuit, Planes Please! MANYsBOOKLETS OUT BY C. OF C. |SECRETARY OF COMMERCE | BODY SENDING LITERA- IS MOST NEEDED “There have been received at the Chamber of Commerce 10,000 booklets from the Artman Press, and they have gone like snow- balls on a hot stove” said Secre- tary Singleton when seen at the office this morning. “The beauty of it is that all of them have gone out in response |} to requests. There has been no aimless broadcasting, just them circulated, but ev, has been sent ;to «plas they will do the set, jand Chicago, i guide Bureau of Pil writes that the little : {much appreciated, They say their supply is being rapidly de- pleted and ask for 100 more,” |said the secretary. | “About the only criticism we |get comes in the way of re- s uit ships the nation’s fastest MOSQUITO CLEANUP URGED BY DOCTOR | IN LINE WITH CLUBS’ CLEAN- | UP CAMPAIGN FOR H TOURIST CITY In line with the cleanup cam- ipaign now be organized in the jeity among certain of the clubs, Dr. J..B,.Parramore of the.Mon- i proaches because we do not send | }out the full number asked for, | and also because there is not ‘AQUARIUM, TOURIST BAROMETER, 2 tts %e% 2, tee: ‘letters received. This reached us = ice i A Pi | this morning from Cleveland. |New Fish, Painting, Classification At Local Aquarium | “I appreciate your writing me| oes ea ja fine letter and after reading it) !and also the booklet which you NOTES SLIGHT PICKUP SUNDAY 2 gescm es } \Key West does not raise al | C@eceeoccccccccccccccccccsocccocecccocccooccoooes | Modest amount of money to tell | : 3 | th Id i its. | The Key West Tropical. Aqua-|octupi, two of them with heads Presevic ped eg mare poo | rium, the only open,air aquarium | over six inches long, have been! would ret many ti: sip in the western hemisphere and|added. Porgies of seven known | “And oo" eeained Sites: jeonceded to contain the most|:breeds, scotch, pin stripe, etc. are! tary, “we continue to dole out jcolorful fish, netted 42 visitors|in the aquarium. The large! our diminishing supply of book- N TURE TO PLACES WHERE Ir American Legion’ is Mrs. James Morris of Bis- marck, N. D., who was chos- en auxiliary president at Los Angeles convention. ORGANIZE FOR WINTER SEASON LINE UP PROGRAM; VISIT- ING GUIDES MUST HAVE SIX MONTHS RESIDENCE Organizing for the winter sea- the Key West Charter Boat- FISHING GUIDES | MEET THURSDAY NIGHT: TO! PRICE FIVE CENTS ew Project Underway At County Court House Square Operations Will Call For Maximum Employment Of Fifty-Five Persons In Work Program Horticultural project, recently ; |approved by the WPA adminis- jtration in Jacksonville, became actively engaged this morning in \the out-of-doors headquarters at | jthe court house square. While there are 40 people em- ployed at present the maximum roll for empioyment on the proj- ect will be 55 and all will be fe- jmales with the exception of about five of the personnel, who will be men. The amount allowed for the | work by the WPA is $19,450, and the contribution of the sponsors jis $5,260, The project is expecte’l ito continue for about eight ;months and workers are employ- 'ed for 20 days out of each calen- }dar month. The group working today is in | the work of preparing cuttings fand annuals. These are to be used in the beautification of the {grounds round the public |schools, court house and other |public buildings and also in the | beautification of the parks, CITY AUTO TAGS | BEING PURCHASED Sunday. The aquarium has al-}vicious morays have been acting | lets, and.try-to think. of -some- ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ways been a true barometer of méri’s “Association “ “will meet} day for the next two weeks. | “| Britain is dropping her economic roe’ County Health Unit, urges ‘residents to get rid of all recep- | the first pickup of winter visitors | entirely over the walls in some | up this year. They have crawled | thing to say when they are all SOLD UP TO 2 O'CLOCK gone.” Thursday night at 8 o'clock at} Gulf Dock to consider new mem- | bers and to outline a program for | the winter season, president B.| M. Daniels announces. i A board of examiners consist-| City automobile tags were de- ing of S. C. Singleton, Clarence |livered last Friday, said Tax As- Thompson and Cleveland Dillon /|sessor-Collector Sam B, Pinder, will conduct ‘examinations for all} and up to 2 o’clock this afternoon those desiring to operate out of | there had been 180 sold at $2.50 Key West this season. A requ! }each, a total of $450. ment will be six months’ resi-| Mr. Pinder said this was not @ | because it is the high spot in a cases and have jumped from the) | visit to Key West. |side tanks over the roof to the! The aquarium is getting its|large center tanks. Visitors like | ll painting now just before the| to photograph holding the three | winter tourist rush. The varnish; year old turtle Romero placed over the Hawaiian colorings gives; himself in the tanks. | COURT WILL MEET | AGAIN TOMORROW a gay exotic effect. The show-| Prize of the tangs is probably| ‘ ; cases which were formerly black/ the biggest blue tang caught in : opened National Catholic Eu-|officer, urged local residents to/have all been scraped and fresh|these waters in some time. It is G ‘Ol FENCE ON |charistic Congress with a per-|use a little oil to destroy MOS- | coats of white will soon make the| almost a foot long. Veteran local of | ED WEBBER ONLY BUSI- : ide| dence in the county. Each guide! bad showihg, ‘in fact, the late ar- sonal message over the radio from} quitoes in cisterns”. Enough to! place shine. A blue trim on the | fishermen have said that it is a| Rome this afternoon. Colorful)spread a thin film over the sur-| outside has already been laid|prize. Two large permits, a/ ~ i religious ceremonies — will con-! face of the water, probably a half down. |sport fish, have been added. to| NESS SCHEDULED | who passes the test will carry ajrival of the tags would account tinue through Thursday. teacup to an average size cistern) One thing Romero is starting|the center tanks and seem to} pee | certificate issued by the Board to| for the small number which have _———_ is sufficient. This should be re- | in to do now is to place the fish| thrive, which is very unusual. | signify that he has a boat legally|been sold to date. Last year ARLINGTON, Vermont—One! peated weekly”, Harrison said. |of certain families in separate|Tarpon about a foot long have| Circuit court of the Eleventh|@pproved. The setup is operating |sales amounted to about 1200 thousand more volunteers will be| Warning that the oil is not to be | tanks. This will give the visitors| been living in the aquarium for| Judicial Circuit will meet at 10| Under approval of the City Coun-' tags, and for this year, Mr. Pin- tushed to a forest fire on the| placed in the cistern where top|a more classified presentation.|a year now, the only place in the |0’clock tomorrow morning in the | “i. jder said, he expects the sales to Side of a mountain near here to' minnows are used to keep cis-| However, there are a number of country where such is the case./county court house, with Judge| It appears now that 15 yi, {reach approximately 1500. supplement 1,000 others who are terns clear of mosquito larvae. | instances in which fish of one|A whopping big stingaree is a| Arthur Gomez presiding. jcharter boats will operate this} Sales of occupational license, fighting it. Shops have shut these minnows may be secured | family get along better with fish! new addition to the fish. The only business scheduled | S¢#80n besides those who have said Mr. Pinder, make a good down to release their workers to|}y calling the Health Department|of another entirely different] A swelling fish, a gorgeous car-|for the court is passing of sen- |e operating before. The sea-! showing. As a matter of fact, up de in central Europe and is | tacles holding water which will — turning to the Americas, Mean- es mosquitoes, - | while the Catholics were being} Among these are old tin cans, | ¢,. pe ted in new Nazi demon-|2¥to tires, and other holders of | ations water. “Elimination of these is important”, Dr. Parramore said. | NEW ORLEANS.—Pope Pius|Dan Harrison, county sanitary . H. w. McMullen, John Frierson, George H. . B. Guetune, Charles Stephens, Basil Daniels, C, R. J. C. Bell. have been no traces of black pest found since the inspection was started, and it is that the work will be concluded within from four to six weeks, said Mr. Brown. The investigations are to be carried on from Key West to No Name Key. CAPTAIN LORD | < yr SKIPPER AND FAMILY WERE, fight the fire which is menacing! from 60,000 to 70,000 cords of wood directly in its path, GUESTS OF HARRING- TONS YESTERDAY iin Robert Lord, formerly Steamship Cuba, is a visi- the city and meeting his; _ many friends. The captain has been appointed assistant snper-! of the line during the’ tion which is being enjoyed | tendent Andrew J. Mrs. Lord, the two daughters Eileen and Roberta, and Mrs. Lord’s mother, were in the city yesterday for a visit and were guests, with Captain Lord, of Captain and Mrs. C. D. Harring- ton. Captain Harrington is in | 5 To 8 P.M. and 10 Till ? Daily CAYO HUESO CLUB Jefferson Hotel featuring JIMMY THOMAS The warbeling mixologist MARY LINDSAY The Sweet Swingster and OUR HAPPY TRIO NEW YORK.—In investittation witness testified that he had been'| given a spétific *assigtiment” to : fnid out how, many eastetn sea} board soldiers" Ye i the United States ‘and alsé ‘how | many were in New York City. STARTS OCTOBER 22 IN THIS PAPER Seecccccosvcoseecoeeses GARDEN EQUIPMENT, FLOWER SEEDS AND FERTILIZER hy | of un-Anierican activities’ here a peas at the Monroe County Clinic”. “Another mosquito breeding street catch postion the, sity e mi hs ARS iprins Slean- it Bo . ae, Harrison said,’ 4 , | fto291 aitiod IS FOUNDED CEREMONIES CONDUCTED AT MIAMI ON SUNDAY: MANY ATTEND rol On Sunday, October 16, the ; first lodge of the order Caballeros de ia Luz, Incorporated, was en- | thusiastically founded in Miami, oan About fifty visitors from Tam- |pa, consisting of Caballeros de la Luz and Sacerdotisas del Lugar fand ten members from Lodge Marti No. 3 of Key West assem- bled on the occasion to reinstate old members from Key West and Tampa to exemplify degrees on twenty-two candidates. Officers elected to preside over the newly-founded lodge, which has been given the name of Lodge Miami No. 58,- were Os- waldo Carrero, luminar and Dr. Nilo C. Pintado, patriarca. The Sacerdotisas del Hogar Lodge is an auxiliary of the or- ganization. All present at the meeting were very optimistic over the future possibilities of the lodge, with hearty cooperation promised by all in interest of the organ- ization. family. That’s all right with Romero, too, and those fish are|a live rare Japanese crawfish, a|found guilty of murder going to stay together. Besides the riot of colors which jalways fascinate the northern | visitor, caretaker J. J. Romero} states that the many unusual ‘fish found in no other Ameritan laquarium is the second greatest ; Source of interest. |. Many of the fish are caught-im| traps laid down at the aquarium’s back door in the 30 foot channel flowing in from the Gulf Stream \into Key West harbor. Three| | SURVEY MAPS dinal fish, rainbow pudding wife, and speckled butterfly fish, a rare cuttle fish are but some of 153 varieties now in the aqua- rium which has been built up from .32:whn Romero first took over. »'A> floating coral and ‘a beautiful thin piece of fan coral donated by Frank Tynes mess boy on the wrecking tug Warbler who caught it fishing at British Honduras are interesting late ad- ditions. SMALL BLAZE ON tence on Ed. Webber, who was in the |stranger to these waters, dotted! first degree by the jury, which took the case urtler consideration late Saturday afterhoon and re- turned a verdict’ 9:30’ O'clock the same night. Mercy being recom- mended, there will be no sentence. Vibat | It is expected that attoi ‘tor | the defense John G. Sawyer will make a motion for a new trial. SCHUTT COMING | TO CITY $00 } ARE COMPLETED Land Use Survey maps, design- | There was a small blaze dis- ed by the Key West Planning; covered yesterday afternoon Project, have been completed and | about 6 o'clock in the rear of the | are, it is agreed by officials, to| two-story frame building, situ-| be the most comprehensive maps|ated on Simonton street, near of the city which have ever been | Front street, which was formerly | issued. | used as an auction room by Am-/; | An elaborately arranged legend | brose Cleare. bed oe a Pog at the lower right hand corner of / A small space burned in the) ‘Mat he is now in New York and; om bak texpects to arrive in Key West the map shows the use which Side of the building about two! round Movesiber 6 was being made of all buildings feet above the ground, and was/""'A<"t.. hotel is scheduled to and land ‘as of ‘April ¥, 1938. {extinguished with buekets: of wa-j 0) carrlier this oy ‘about In fact the: map is’so: compre-| ter just before the fire apparatus | T-Crsher 10, Mr. Schutt will hensive and correctin every de- arrived on the scene. leome to the city st an earlier tail that: a»person who is in no! | The alarm was sounded: from 4i:. than heretofore. in order to way connected’ with'the: city ‘or /box 13, corer of Simontom and /isve everything in readiness for its government, in plain a perfect ' Front streets. jopening day of the magnificent stranger, can look at the map and . ARTMAN RETU:! ' el the legend and within a few LP. — — minutes gain a perfect detail of! LP. Artman, publisher of The |NOTICE, CHARTER BOATMEN the situation of any piece of Citizen, who had been on aj} property, building or land, in the month's visit to Point Pleasant,| There will be a meeting of city. New Jersey, returned to Key|CHARTER BOATMEN'S AS- One of these maps was this West on Saturday. Mr. Artman| SOCIATION at Gulf morning conspicuously placed in| is owner of the Ocean County | Thursday, Octo. 20, the city hall and another is ready | Leader published in that city of| This meeting is of to be piaced in the county court which his son, Norman D. house. j= is assistant manager. MAKE ATTRACTIV | EXPECTED TO ARRIVE IN NOVEMBER | import- Guide. octl8-2ex | son usually opens strongly about | January 1, but Key West guides are hoping that with an early winter and the recent begm. in the stock market the season. will jbe unusually early this year, At) ; Gulf dock there are about nine |guides overhauling, ... engines, Be ype the bulls. and. fixtures fe equipment on their charter | boats at present. | For four years now, releasing of fish other than those which |are wanted for mounting | Photographs has been carefully observed by the chapter boat- }men. The Associatior® is ex ting to stress this end of the pro-! gram. The other Association officers are: Henry Weatherford, vice- president; Teddy Canova, sec.- treas; Jakie Key, Eddie Saunders, Morell Bradley, Louis Avila and Ollie Russell, Board of Directors. Letrs reaiwea ty tre cx CHARTER GROUP zen from Peter Schutt, manager} Charter Study Group of the Charter Revision Committee, are to meet 8 o'clock tonight in the offices of WPA headquarters, and it is expected that all mem- bers will be present. Members are being reminded today that there are a number of very important matters to be brought up for consideration, and a full attendance will be appre- ciated, it was said. KEN? 5 on the farm of Calvin Platt near lower jew, and six nostrils. or| to date there have been sales amounting to $11,625, which would be excellent if there was the cash to represent the amount. As a matter of truth, only about $1,000 is represented by cash The balance is represented by city warrants and certificates of in jdebtedness. Of these certificates | there are those due for the liquida- {tion of the funds owed the La France Fire Engine Co. which amount was $5,500. The payment of this amount completely cleared the indebted ~|ness of the city to the company, it was stated. i ‘SPONGE SALE. HELD MONDAY Sponge sale at the Municipal dock yesterday consisted of but three bunches of wool, which brought a price of $7.10. Several of the smalikexs boats jare in the harbor, it was stated this morning and there may be a few offerings tomorrow, ; However, as stated in The Citi- jzen of Saturday, many of the ves- sels are just prepsring for their | winter's cruises, and are, after Hleaving, not expected back in port until the week before Christ- mas. Art-jance to every Charter Boat this city has two upper jaws, one Phone 177 & YARDS—GET YOURS AT SOUTH FLORIDA CONTR. & ENG. CO. PHONE 594