The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 2, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 260. Coast Guard Surfboat Races [HASSFALK To, To Be Held Here Tomorrow Lt. Callahan Giliciatag | Cutters Vigilant And} Pandora This | M Arrive With two other Coast Guard cutters, the Vigilant, Chief Boat- swain C. W. Whitney, and the; Pandora, Lt. Commander C. H. Hilton, arriving this morning and; the Nemesis, Lt. Commander T. Y. Aywalt, expected to arrive hourly, everything is ready for the} divisional surfboat races tomor- Tow morning at the Yacht Basi "SSS SSaaS, TWENTY-FOUR-MILE WIND HIGHEST FOR MONTH OF OCTOBER Meteorological summary for the month of October, sued by the United St Weather Bureau, shows that barometric pressure for the month has at no time been lower than 29.70, and this was on October 14. Highest pressure indicated during the month was 30.14 and was on October 9. © The: monthly Lt.. F. H. Callahan, officer:im|+ charge of the Naval Station, who. will judge the races, Citizen today that final details await the arrival of the Nemesis before the course and the time of beginning is announced. | The race will be on a two-mile | course in 19-foot surfboats with four oarsmen and a coxswain in one boat from each cutter. The; divisional competition which in- cludes the territory from Charles- ton around Florida to Panama| City will this year be only on} surfboat races in Key West. Last} year there were fire drills, man| overboard, abandon ship events, besides the surfboat race. The} surfboat race last year was won by the Nemesis. Winner of the surfboat race to- morrow will go to New Orleans for a competition with the win-! ner of that division which ex- tends from Mobile throughout the Texas coast. | Crews to man the racing boats! tomorrow morning are: H Dix: A. J. wn, coxswain; E. P. Ward No. 1 oar; F.C. Williams No. 2 oar; F..J. Magro No. 3 oar; ‘Harlie Fieming No. 4 oar. Vigilant: H. J. Carter, cox-{ Swain; H. E. Queen No. 1 oar; J. W. Bourn No. 2 oar; D. W. Orr) No. 3 oar; M. E. Mathews No. 4; oar. H Pandora: A. Curlee, coxswain; | E. J. Matthews No. 1 oar; J. M.| Betingfield No, 2 oar; W. E. Al | deman No. 3 oar; J. T. Burton) No. 4 oar. The crew of the Nemesis will not be known until it arrives. CATES JOINS = POLICE SQUAD, Valter Vinson, one of the two officers appointed as members of | the police department this week, told The Citizen this morning that he did a tour of duty last night, but thought he would ten- der his resignation today. Another officer appointed was} Myrtland Cates, who was_ given | an appointment as motorcycle '¥ ficer, and began his tour of ser¥- | ice this morning. ca og SCOTTI TES#A Coast Guard Officers Debate Race Course | Over the side went the surfboat from the Pandora | this morning, lowered on | davits. and in a few | “It's the oarsmen with the most practice that win the race”, one of the Coast Guard officers said. Meanwhile, there are many more matters to be straight- ened out before the race to- jests may be present, it w iW LL A dd | ou tekpreaarnt Dan? nar hee told) The}: were just a little below nor- mal. Precipitation during the period was 2.63 inches, which is 3.37 less than normal. The normal precipitation during the month of October is six inches. For the first 10 months of the year the rain- fall has been far from nor- mal, which is 34.25 inches. Up to date it has been 19.19. Prevailing direction of the wind has been from the east. Highest velocity was experi- enced on October 11 when the anemometer at the bureau recorded a velocity of 24 miles, The highest wind was on October 30 when the rec- ords showed nine miles from the north. Average hourly velocity was 11 miles, and the strongest wind since 1871 ex- perienced during October ‘was on October 17, 1910, when the! ‘wind velocity: = was ~re* corded at 76 miles from the south, IIS IIIS LS COMMENTS ON TRAFFIC SIGNS MILTON W. CURRY OFFERS TO FURNISH NECES- SARY PAINT Milton W. Curry, head of the firm of Wm. Curry’s Sons Co.,! | was a pleasant caller at The Citi-| zen office today, and while at- tending to other matters re- marked that there was a dearth of stop signs on “He ets. These signs should be wher ind i moto! nd” Mr.” © ced of » and ie ‘signs. properly placed: would bably result’ in‘ accidents en the season Was opened and there were many motorists on the Street. In conclusion Mr. Curry said that in the event the paint for the signs was needed, he would gladly furnish the color to the city for the work. COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT) Regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners will be held 8 o’clocek tonight in the of- fice of Clerk Ross C. Sawyer at the county court house. No matters other than the regular routine business is sched- uled for attention, it was said. There is a possibility that rep- resentatives of the Perky inter- said, but no one connected with the board had been so advised up to this afternoon. MONSTER PAYS VISIT ELGIN, Til—Jerome Hannon of this city found a gila monster paddling around in the basement of his new home here. The poisonous reptile is a native of! TALLAHASSEE. — Senators! 3rq 8 am arid regions of Southwestern United States, so Hannon guess- es it escaped from a medicine show that visited Elgin a few days before. Che Key pat Ctttern THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938 WILL BE PENSIONED J 20 YEARS’ SERVICE IN CUSTOMS DEPT. Charles Falk, of the Customs House forces in Key West, has very nearly reached the period of service which warrants his being retired and is looking forward to the time when he .will be free and untrammelled, As a matter of fact his leave of absence begins on No- vember 4, Friday, when he will go on furlough for one month and on December 1 at the com- pletion of 20 years service will be retired and placed on pension. 4° BERLIN.—Italy is swallowing defeat as the conference here be- tween statesmen from Germany. and Italy meet to determine Hungary’s rightful lands in Czechoslovakia. But little is ex- pected to be given Hungary. Italy was hoping that Hungary would get Roscinia as a “common border” with Poland against en- croachment of Germany toward Russia’s fertile Ukraine region. The Ukraine region extends also into Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Poland. WARSAW.—Five million Poles may form a new state in the Ukraine province fearing en- croachment by Germany of the territory. LONDON. — Premier Neville Chamberlain proposed to the House of Commons immediate recognizance of Italian Ethiopia and also asked that the Anglo- Italo treaty be consummated as soon as possible. The treaty has been hanging fire since April. JERUSALEM.—Arabs have be- gun a general strike and boycott against England as a_ protest against Military interference. Five Arabs were sentenced to death today for carrying arms. They gave as excuse that they were carrying them to a wedding celebration. TOKIO.—Japan denounced the nine-power treaty insuring an “open door” policy in China to- day and Said that it would con- tinue the war. New fighting broke out on the Manchukuoan front. Twelve Russian cavalry- men were believed to have gone across the border and attacked | Japanese infantrymen. HENDAYE. — Extensive gains in heavy fighting along, the Ebro front in eastern Spain were re- by the Rebels today. The ists stated that this was true but, that the, .mgin, attack “had ‘been decisively beaten back. —r e NATIONAL” NEW YORK.—Stocks fluctuat- ed mildly today. WASHINGTON. — Roosevelt will soon go to his Hyde Park |home to deliver a Friday speech in regard to the New York polit- ical battle. New York is usually watched politically as it usually determines the presidential elec- tion, From New York came President Franklin Roosevelt. FLORIDA i MIAMI. — Six representatives from Florida cities of Palm Beach, Gainesville, Orlando, Tampa, Lakeland and Jackson- ville were named on the Orange Bowl group. The Orange Bowl football game is an annual event of New Year's day. TALLAHASSEE.—The supreme court ordered the Miami Com- mission to “show cause” why it jshould not be held in contempt for discharging Miami City Cler' Frank Kelley. Kelley has been {discharged three times by the commission. On his second dis- charge the State Supreme Court ordered his reinstatement but the commission fired him for the third time immediately hing. } Pepper and Andrews and Repre- | sentative-designate Pat Cannon jwill speak today at a Townsend Club meeting. All three favor eae plan. last i follow- | ti LEAGUE LINEUP Ebene Venezucleiajiecision to resign from the League of Nations makes hher the ninth country in the Americas—North and South—to pull away from 2 Europe-domi- tated brotherhood. ‘Augest, 1939. Other nations out are: Guatemala, Brazil, Costa waguay, Nicaragua and Honduras. Dear to the heart of Pan-American Union is concept of western hemisphere nations united by trade agreements, by a coliective security program.. Map shows how, out of 20 original members, Latin American nations are quitting league. Com Quite a number of matters of | importance were discussed at} the regular monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce last! night, in their rooms at the La’ Concha Hotel building. Most of the matters were in connection with what is considered Key ‘West’s major tourist season, which; is just approaching. | Attending the meeting were: President Charles E. Smith, Vice! Presidents Frank H. Ladd and Melvin E. Russell, Mrs. Hugh, Williams, W. W. Demeritt, John) H. Costar, Bascom L. Grooms, Joseph Browne, J. P. Tonetti, W. | T. Fripp, L. S. Gruber, Charles! S. Taylor, J. J. Trevor, Guy} Carleton, J. R. Adams, Everett; Russell, J. H. Gardner, B. N.| Adams, G. A. Patton, and Secre-| tary S. C. Singleton. Many requests for literature; advertising Key West were read and the urgent necessity for an| increase in the supply was dis-/ cussed. | Mr. Demeritt, Mr. Russell and | Mr. Costar were appointed mem- | bers of a special committee to consider the “desirability of en- dorsing the, Everglades National; Park proposition. Certain changes in moving picture theaters were discussed, and the following committee was ;appointed to take up the matter with the several managers of, theaters in Key West. The com- mittee consists of Albert E. Peirce, J. J. Trevor and John A.} Gardner. For the purpose of organizing and coordinating the hotel and! restaurant business in Key West, the Hotel and Restaurant Com- mittee of the Chamber of Com- jmerce was appointed. The com- mittee is composed of J. P. Tonetti, chairman, Mrs. . Hugh Williams, Mrs. A. A. Boll, C. E. Alfeld, F. J. Dion, J. E."Browne and L. S. Gruber. President Smith, “niembers Grooms and Demeritt ‘volunteer: | ed as a finance committeé to look after certain matters which are! pending. f Mr. Tonetti. who ig the —man- jager of the La Concha » Hotel, +spoke on the subject of hotel or- {ganization and gave a very in- iteresting discourse on the sub- {> } Mr. Carleton gave an exceed- ingly interesting talk on the jsubject of street noises and the ATTENTION ELKS! | Thursday. November ledge room. Official visit of Chelsie J. Senerchia. DDGER | AD Elks welcome. | GEO. 0. LUCAS. p=" Secretary. merce Body Discusses Many Important Matters At Meeting’ Last Evening | chairmen | gether Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Council Passes Amended Liquor Ordinance Last TAKEN ON TOUR OF CITY: BECOME FAMILIARIZED WITH CONDITIONS IN THIS | LOCALITY Rudolph Nedved and R. Stan- ley Sweeley, the United States Housing Au- representatives of thority, were in Key West yes- terday for the purpose of con- ferring with members who are/ attached to the authority in Key! West. Some time: ago J. Fred Dion, chairman of thé local board, was advised that»miembers of the na- tional authority would arrive in Key West for conferences v other agencies. Acting e tary Franklin E. Albert, of of the department in Washington and was advised that represen- tatives of the agency would be in Key West at the earliest possible moment. Mr. Nedved and Mr. Sweeley were taken on a tour of the city in order that they may familiar- {ize themselves with existing con- ditions. Although their inspec- said that they saw the necessity of improved housing conditions. Mr. Dion presided at a meeting of the authority in Key West which was attended by Mayor Willard M. Albury, and the fol- lowing members of the local agen- cy: Hugh Williams, J. Lancelot Lester, Wallace Kirke and Frank- lin Albert. Mr. Nedved explained the pro- visions of the U. S. Housing Act and indicated that a project could only’ be undertaken with the whole-hearted support of the community and the local govern- ments. secretary was instructed to take this matter up with the city authorities. Mrs. Williams addressed the meeting on the subject of the ef- ficiency of the Chamber of Com- merce, and suggested the regula- tion of unauthorized solicitors making a practice of misrepre- senting certain hotels for the purpose of diverting business to others. Those who attended the meet- ing said it was one of the most interesting held this season. FINAL CHARTER SECTIONS STUDIED DETAILED REPORT OF FIND- INGS DRAWN UP TO- MORROW MARRIES COACHMAN | LYONS, France—Mme. Jose- phine Coutrelles of this city, a wealthy 80-year-old widow, has married her 40-year-old coach- man. SOME CARD HAND WYTHEVILLE, Va. — Thirteen hearts were held in one hand in. a contract bridge game played re- cently at the home of Mrs. O. M. Johnson in this city. KEY TRUCK FARM Colored Folk, Find Soil Her GRAPEFRUIT IN. K Key West city charter, )taxation| ‘The land of milk and honey and elections, were tdscussed by | fruit and flowgysy for which we Everett Wiiter and/always seek, may not be so far Ernest Ramsey, last night at a,#Way! charter study revision committee meeting at the W.P.A. office building. Final two sections . of, present {ed residents at 413 Thomas street just around the corner from the W.P.A. building, where Erskine Committee chairmen Col. Louis | Rolle and wife's littla place finds Brinton, Charles Ketchum, B. C. / delicious and highest grade gold- Moreno, Winter and Ramsey, to-|€" grapefruit spotting their front with Franklin Albert,|and side yard, tropical guavas, chariman of the central commit-|@nd more northern peach, and tee, H. E. Day and Allan Arm- | three beehives. This is just part strong will meet tomorrow night /Of the story. at 8 o'clock in Mr. Moreno’s of-| We'd like to take you through fice for the purpose of preparing |the yard and have them show a detailed report on the suggest-|You the many varieties of ed changes in the entire city|the beautiful grapefruit, sweet as charter, all sections of which have | €an be, and let her tell you of the now been studied, The last meet-/| Various excellencies and peculi-! ing of the study division will re-|arities, let her point out the rosy ceive. this. report at.its regular | bloom on the shaded parts of the meeting Tuesday and, decide on|famous pink grapefruit, let her final form. of the report to be | Show you seedless types, let her given to the central committee at |@meze you with the various pro- its!monthly meeting Nov. 14 yisjons Gf'the Maker! Or stroll Chairman Dr. Wm: R. Warren |%0 the oranges and see the finest and his: speakers’ committee will brands. Or take you to the three take up their tasks of presenting }old-fashiaged beehives, unscien- the findings to the general pub- tifically constructed. which pro. lic in a series of precinct meet-|duced 16 gallons of honey. You ings following the central com-| Would be amazed as we were mittee m rd for those trees, she says “I attribute most of it to the soil”, said the Rolles, who truck WAUPACA, Ill—Conservation farmed on the Thousand Is- Warden George F. Whalen really|lands, Knock ‘Em Down Key believes in conservation. Whenjof the lower Keys and now an unwelcome skunk was found|Key West, “it will produce by a housewife in her basement,’ anything. Sometimes I think that Whalen and several cautious as-]if Key Westers would only get a sistants chioroformed it and car-[little pep and go out and stick ried it to a marsh. There it re-|the right roots into the ground vived and scampered away. they would be a lot better off”. CONSERVES SKUNKS tion was necessarily brief, they! \ It isn’t for two Key West color- And this is not a “harvest” year in, Night On Final Reading [Place Opposite Harris School Can Operate: Must Close, However, During School Hours The amended liquor ordinance, | with a new amendment attached, which permits any place of busi- ness established prior to the ex- ‘listing law restricting 300 feet »j distance from a church or school, local branch, contacted the head !™ | POSSIBLE RECALL is hint- ed for Alexander Troyanov- sky (above), Soviet ambassa- dor to U. S., who will not re- turn from a Russian visit to be host Nov. 7 at the embas- / sy’s huge party marking 25th | anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. BALLOTS VOTED | Some elections have brought jout a large number of absentee voters, but not so in the general }election which is’ to ‘be held on | November 8, next Tuesday. |cast in the office of Judge Ray- |mond R. Lord are said to be fewer than ever before, and as there are but two more days af-; ter today on which absentee bal- jlots may be cast, the outlook for {a large vote is not very promis- ing. Today Judge Lord announced that but four votes had been cast j|to date, and one of them was ., voted this morning from a_resi- \dent of the Sixth Precinct. The | three others were voted by resi- dents of the Third Precinct. ERS GROW LARGE e Produces Enormous Frait EY WEST HOME {The Rolles,live, just around: the corner from the WPA. office but have never gone on relief. The wonders go During the months when harvest is far the Rolles live pre- serves, grapefruit and guava and oranges and other fruits How de }they make these preserves. Well, honey, produced in their own yard, supplies the sugar and most delicious preserves are thus sweetened. Potatoes grown be neath trees, in 2 most unorthodox manner, have grown to enormous sizes, and onions as big as two fists together have also been pro duced. The Rolles are Tittle cramped for space, though. “Why did you move away from the Keys?” The Citizen asked. “Well it was too lonel: and my husband di ne alone for weeks at a You see, neighbors ar far one might get sick. But because I was d training enough answer a hostile a shotgun in the Islands. That's bad country with criminals hid- there. Strangers ap- house always hail a long di ce off of a shotgun load would go out to meet him All lights were put out at night” They wanted three things mostly, more space, more rain for which they prayed. and the Plant Board to stop spraying the trees. Several of them died from the spraying, she said. Otherwise, the land of honey and fruit isn’t so far off! i on. away, on a aw we didn't scared. We in how to stranger wi Ten Thous h FOUR ABSENTEE * As a matter of fact the ab-! sentee votes which have been) - | Tolle and W. L. Halladay, C voperate,. was passed on ifs sec- ond and.final reading at a special meeting of the City Council last night by a vote of 4 to 3. Voting in favor of the ordin- lance were Councilmen Roy Ful- | ford. Jim Roberts, Will E. P. Rob- |erts and Earl Adams. Opposed | were Councilmen William Dough- | try. William Freeman and William | Monsalvatge. | This action of the council gives | Johnny Blackwell the right to op- jerate his place of business at the |corner of Southard and Margaret | streets, opposite the Harris | Grammar School. | Closing Period | The ordinance as amended last jnight provides that any place of | business in this status must re- main closed all during .schoel hours from 5:30 a. m. to 4.p. m. from Monday through Friday, with the exception of school holi- days, from Sept. 1 to June 1, dur- ing each year. re Prior to the passage of the ordinance, there were several communications read from churches and schools urging that |no change be made in the present law. The communications were ordered to be placed in the min- utes of the meeting. There were several of those present who made an address to the council requesting that no | change be made in the liquor law. Those being heard were Revs. Joe raid | Saunders and Eugene Roberts. Property Matter The matter of foreclosure of |mortgage by A. Maitland Adams on the Wagner property at the |foot of Simonton street, owned | by the city, failed to come before ithe meeting. When the meeting adjourned last night, the council jmen went into private session to discuss the matter, which will be )tekqpeap at a later date. MORE PROGRAM EVENTS ADDED CLUBS TENTATIVELY AS- SIGNED SPONSORSHIPS IN MEETING Tentative assignments of win ter program events to clubs, hotel id business houses of the city e made yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Eva Warner who heads the Recreation Department-Jay- cee committee sponsoring them. Added to the events already to be sponsored is a swimming card of All-Star swimmers here in the state during the winter, « group of federal theater plays, marion- tte shows, nursery school and sewing room exhibits, Spanish operetta and Gilbert and Sulli- van operetta. Many of the events have been definitely planned out and arrangements are going for- ward on others. It is expected that release of dates and clubs sponsoring the will be ready wit three weeks. In general the program will consist of major nts with well known units coming here, local groups also staging several of these events and minor events which will be scattered through the three winter months of January, February and March. A calendar of events will be _ Prepared for distribution, 4 events