The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 7, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the | Best Interests of Key West Will!) Bes Héldd: Tomorrow Balloting To Start At Eight" ANAS REPUBLICAN O’Clock In Different Pre- cincts Of County; Get- Vote-Out Movement | --- \ Tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock, ! Polling places will be open for balloting in the general election. | Claude Pepper and Thomas E.| on the tickekdoriowhom “All candidates on ‘the: ‘county | ticket will be without contestants, if is stated, and from the absen-|* tee voting, there will be many| REPUBLICAN hopes for putting Kansas back in | Earl F. Sprigg, deputy «cl ; Frank. A. ras, THE SOUT FEDERAL COURT CONVENES HERE THIS MORNING ONE CASE WAS CALLED TODAY; COURT RECESSED | TO MEET AGAIN THIS AFT- ; ERNOON was convened this morning at 10 o’clock in the Federal Building, with Judge John W. Holland of | Miami, presiding. Other officials | present were: | Edwin R. William, clerk from Jacksonville; Damon J. Yerkes, | | assistant U. S. attorney, Jackson- ville; George; W. P. Pitchford, deputy iclerk.in charge at | Fall term of Federal Court | { that Miami. ;remain until the term:of:court is concluded this week, are Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Pitchford, Mrs. \ Others who arrivediiand will |\) H KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, eceee eeeevecce ecccocs New American Rice Fields COOCPOCCOOOOOOOEOOOOOEEOESOOLOSOOCOES CEDECDEEEEECD Us Si Ae 1938 eonnes Key West, Florida, has the: most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS hd hdead ‘Accident Occurred Three MOON ECLIPSE Miles North Of Taver- _ THIS EVENING ae nier; Injured Placed In When the moon is first 3 vaguely seen this afternoon Key West Hospital at 5:40 o'clock the face of the orb will be totally obscured by the shadow of the earth passing between it and the rays of the setting sun, As the total eclipse ends at 6:08, the.moon will not be very high at the time of the shadow:passing. However it will be-distinctly visible to all persons in*Key West who will be at the extreme east- ern end. ofthe island when the moon--tises above the horizon. While enroute yesterday to Key | West the Hialeah aero car, which was‘otransporting the baseball | bering.25-met with an accident about three miles north of Taver- nier and two of the passengers . _Americawrice for U. S. tables is goal of rice farmers in Arkansas and other South- suffered injury. |teammand.a group of fans num- The darkened shadow which will cover the moon after the eclipse has passed begin to fade at about 7:12 ern states where new fields have been opened. This irrigated field of rice’is near Good-| win, Ark., .where—farmers say—2,500 gallons of water per minute will flow across| this land for 90 days. Workers keep the fields clear of foreign matter, prepare for the voters who will not take A . ranks t est trouble, to vote, deeming it Soe. = Togcpabey ee parily on State Sen. Payne Ratner (above), who'll try to Edwards and Mrs. Florence B. aig secretary to Judge Hol- land. j Police Sergeant James Lavery suffered a broken right arm, and + ever, there has been a quiet movement put forward to get as many to the polls tomor- tow as possible, and it is confi- dently expected that there has Been a number of those of the 5,- 831 qualified voters who did not intend to vote but who have pledged _ The themselves to go to the and vote. different polling places will open at the regular hour, 8 e'clock, and will, as usual, be de- clared ‘closed at sunset, which is at. 5:43. Below will be found the “a of the seven polling in the City of Key West: , First Precinct — Polling Place: Gesaty “Court House. Clerk: J. C. . Inspectors: Chas. E. Rob- Enrique Precinet—Polling Place: Clerk: — Lo f Charles.) Ge 0. Roberts, Elwood olling Place: Clerk: Ws Henriquez, Wm. : Patil Mons: ussell, H. Blake Rob- rth Precinct—Polling Place: + Ashe Street. Clerk: Clyde jer. inapectors: Wilson Jolly, Curry, Orion Russell. Precinet — Polling Place: Clerk: John W, . B. Curry, Fernandez cinct — Polling: Place: Bull Petronia Alien. In- Phillip BE. ‘olling Place: “School Gymnasium, Seminary Francis Stree Clerk: J. B. Inspectors: Amelio Garcia, 40. Voght, Henry Saunders, le ‘ke: MRS. M. PINDER DIES THIS A. M. FUNERAL SERVICE TO BE HELD TOMORROW AFTER- NOON Mrs. Maria Pindet, 9 years, died this we: o'clock, at the residence of her son, 1402 Newton stree' 70 Ley Memorial Church, Rev. O. C. Howell and Rev. Joe Tole will officiate. B. and Hamilton Pinder, Key West, one brother, George M. Parks, Key West, one sister, Mrs. Hanah Lioyd, Bradenton, Fia., eighteen grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Pritchard Funeral Home charge of arrangements. in NOW IMPROVING. Mrs,... Marjorie, Higgs Baeza, who was operated on) Thursday at a local hospital, is reported to be improving. This will be gratifying news to Mrs. Baeze’s numerous friends, who wish for her a speedy re- covery. ARMISTICE DANCE Friday. November 11. 9:30 till ? CUBAN CLUB Music by John Pritchard's Orchestra Admission 7S¢ Ladies Free unseat Democratic Walter A. Huxman as governor. SPONGERS FEAR | GULF BEDS FACE QUICK STRIPPING EMMANUEL PLANS RELIEF APPEAL TO WASHINGTON IN INTEREST OF DEPLETED BEDS (Tampa Morning Tribune) |“PARPON- SPRINGS, Nov. 2— {Steps to protect the sponge fish- : }ing: beds of the ‘gulf from too eager sponge fishers were taken today by George M. Emmanuel, a former president of the Sponge exchange, and president of the Tarpon Springs Chamber of Com- | Merce. Emmanuel, who predicted the “ruination of the sponge indus- try” unless conservation laws are enforced, said he was preparing i - | Samuel The only case called at the ses- sion this morning was that of Pest, Morris Kuper,|! Moises Kempener and Israel, | Ainsztein, charged with viola- tion of Section 2 of the Immigra- tion Act of March 4, 1929, illegal entry into the United States. These aliens were found! August 25, 1938, at Ballast Kev, and were brought to Key West on Coast Guard Patrol Boat 185, turned over to the U. S. Immigra- |tion authorities and later placed \in the county jail to await hear- ing. When they were arraigned | this morning to answer to the charges, they entered a plea of guilty to having violated the; law, and told a pitiful story to| the judge as to how they were off at the key, where they await- ed the return of the vessel which had brought them, and were still waiting until they were in a de-} plorable condition when taken| off the key by the Coast Guard Patrol boat. Judge Holland, after the case had been conciuded, announced a recess until 2:30 o'clock at which time he would render a decision | in the matter. brought over on a Jaunch and put |; fall rice harvest. ecerccce NEWSPAPER EDITOR RUNS AGAINST Indiaga Demo Machine Rans Well; Queer Iowa Race eae site eee INDIANA SENATOR FRED VAN NUYS \OOQHP eC oceeooeevecoseooes doccccccenccocccccoscces By The AP Feature Service INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 7.—Po-|veteran opponent of Roosevelt litical observers have put In- | policies—battle for a United diana’s election returns on ‘their.! States senatorship from Iowa. “must” list. | Senator Guy M. Gillette, 59, is The outcome of the Republican; | stumping the state in an attempt ocratic battle: for: one, j to keep it in. the Democratic col- ip and 12 house seats™ ‘umn ‘where .the Roosevelt sweép offset the flowernig of the Presi-| carried it in 1932. dential boom for the formet In-| Former Senator Lester J. Dick- diana governor, handsome Paul |nison,.65, is trying to pull Iowa V. McNutt. {back into the Republican fold In the headline race, Raymond! where it rested in comparative E. Willis, weekly newspaper. edi-; serenity for three-quarters of a tor’ of Angola, Republican, chal-' century before Roosevelt. lenges Frederick Van Nuys, Dem- | In the background is the effect S. senatorship. ‘have on Democratic presidential Nutt Has Remote Control _ possibilities for Iowa’s Henry A. McNutt, now American high Wallace, secretary of agriculture. commissioner to the Philippines, | Wouldn't Be ‘Purged’ {purge against him, the other a) MANY CHANC FOR PUBLICITY BEING OFFERED PRESIDENT OF STATE CHAM- BER OF COMMERCE COM- MUNICATES WITH LOCAL BODY ON MATTER “We get a good many chances ‘for free vublicity, at a fraction of its real value, but no ‘pay dirt’ as |rich in potential value as the co- operation being offered by the |president of the State Chamber of Commerce, has turned up for {alongtime” said Secretary Single- ton this morning to The Citizen. “Of course, the Chamber of jocrat, who wants to keep his U-/the outcome of the contest might | Commerce is not in shape to.avail itself of the offer which means publicity worth many thousands ‘of dollars, but we are doing the | best we can by referring the mat- and at 8:14 the orb of night will have resumed its natural color and brilliancy. There will have been two eclipses of the moon this year, the first of which was on May 14, and the one which will be seen this eve- ning. MRS. OWENS SUPERVISOR OF WPA DIVI- SION OF WOMEN'S WORK HOLDS CONFERENCE Mrs. Ruth B. Owens, area su-| pervisor of the WPA division of | Women's Work and Professional Projects, who was in the city Friday for conferences with heads of departments, left late in the afternoon for Miami. While, here Mrs. Owens con- ferred with supervisors of the different projects and made a com- plete inspection of all the work , Lckuuhuheute duu’ City Clerk P. E. Hackney a brok- jen right wrist. Arriving in Key | West the injured men were treat- ed at the U. S. Marine Hospital, jand Mr. Hackney was afterward able to attend the baseball game. | Sergeant Lavery remained at the hospital. . The accident was caused, it was said, by a rear tire on the car to which the aero car was attached being punctured, causing the larger vehicle to overturn result- ing in the injuries to Mr. Lavery and Mr. Hackney. The injured men were brought to Key West in an ambulance from the Pritchard Funeral AMERA CLUB | MEETS TONIGHT IMPORTANCE TO BE | TAKEN UP a¥ {to go. direct to Secretary of Com- ‘merce Roper, whose department lineludes the federal bureau of | fisheries. FOUR PERSONS the gathering of small sponges is} CHARGED WITH SETTING UP jnot rigidly enforced, Emmanuel | | said, many sponge beds have be- AND OPERATING GAME come exhausted since 1935, when OF CHANCE a federal inspector was last, here | jto see that sponges of less than} Four persons were . arrested five inches in @iqmeten were not |Saturday night by the forces of molested. The job was abolished | the sheriff's office charged with| is cfedited with having kept a! tight hold on the reins of his stafe’s Democratic machine, fash- ioned: during his governorship. A sweeping Democratic victory in Indiana would be hailed by Mc- Nutt followers as adding new lus- ter to his reputation. A Republican victory would tend to dampen hopes that the former national commander of the !American Legion was on the road to the White;House, dw ont Gillette, although long known ter to the board of county com- las a liberal, voted against the missioners for their action. We joriginal AAA, the NRA and the don’t care who gets the glory as) Roosevelt court reorganization |!ong as Key West gets the goods. bill. In the June primary he |The letter is as follows: found his opponent, Rep. Otha D. “Dear Singleton: om | Wearin, indorsed by WPA’s Har- ‘We have been receiving aj |ry L. Hopkins and smiled upon large number of requests for | | by James Roosevelt. But Gillette |¢tion photographs of deep sea} |beat Wearin about 2 to 1. fishing of the Florida coast. | A week after the primary Gil-| These Tequests come from ae |lette and the President lunched | Are" and more important iaines | hgets rade sealing and are wanted for use in special | being done in this area, and ex- pressed herself as being satisfied Tonight at 8 o'clock the mem- with the accomplishments. |bers of the Key West Camera —_— Club will meet at the Key West |Art Center in their regular bi- FAUSTO AQUIAR weekly business session. There A. ‘are many matters of great im- Po this meeting and it is therefore very important that every mem- FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE ber make an especial effort to attend. CONDUCTED THIS AFT- |portance to the future of the le club which must be taken up at Many questions pertaining to ERNOON the club’s Maritime Show to be in 1935, but @¥éHort time after, the state conservation depart- ‘ment kept a man there. | Since then the,crews have been {unhindered in,,,,gethering - the among the catches. Emmanuel said that a sponge tmeasuring five inches in dia- meter brings about five cents, but if they are left in the water another year they will be seven- inch sponges and will cents. Territory Is Limited Furthermore, Emmanuel said today that local crews have only the beds off Anclote key and Rock island to work in, because of dif-} ficulties encountered with hook- ers of Key West in Monroe coun- tx and Taylor county officers. He attributes this trouble directly to gatheife ‘the small sponges, since the Key,West and Perry} ‘hookers have resented depletion of their sponge beds in that man- ner. An officer-of “the state con- servation department has been investigating the conditions here atid is cooperating with the ex- change and packing houses who thave small sponges, Emmanuel said. He has agreed to allow 30 except that there were some|hamas or 250 miles southeast of action. | angles to the case which were to| Nassau attended by Exchange sorters have been di-| be investigated. Bond was plac-| Winds and squalls north of cen- days before taking any rected to cull all small sizes with apenalty of losing their jobs should they allow them to go through. . “The sponge industry is Tarpon Springs’ major industry,” Em- manuel said, “and I don't intend to see it ruined by the divers gathering small songe. I am keeping st it until some action EIRCHHEINER AND NEWTON ‘nue caution is taken to preserve the beds.” bring 65, | setting up and operating a game ‘of chance. Bw OV 4) Those named in the! warréht were: Robert Coleman,’ Vivian | Tomlinson, Bert Godwin and*R. ; i , Funeral 8™all and illegal sponge and to-| Dp. Casey, who will be charged at will be held tomorrow afternoon !78Y; according to Emmanuel,’ preliminary hearing with operat- at 4 o'clock from the residence to ©¥®TY boat has five-inch sponges| ing a Bingo game on Duval street. It was said at the court house this morning that the game was put in operation despite the warning which had been given that it was against the law and arrests would follow if it was ‘ opened. The case, it is said, will come up for hearing between 4 and 5 o'clock in the court of Peace Jus- tice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. ‘OPAL FUZZLE | UNDER ARREST) | Arrested this morning and | brought to the county jail by | Constable C. Floney Pellecier was | | Opal Fuzzle, charged with grand | larceny. The prisoner is a com-} parative stranger, it is said. { None of the particulars of the/ case were learned, it was stated, ed at $1,000, i | VISIT—— i FRUITLAND COURSE CARPET GOLF | 607-609 Division Street { ns | DES, MOINES, ::) Nowiseiet Wo CReirian Samed) Al Orie} ang| Winteratravel and tourist snowy-haired.,.. militantse-onelto a} other patty: leaders” Have” asstited New Dealer,despite: an unoffiidiall)Giltette’ of: their suppor’ “9%! TWOVORFICIAIS? ALFREDOTHOMAST PAY VISIT HERE ON VISIT HERE WESTERN UNION OFFICERS EXAMINER WITH LIGHT- HOUSE SERVICE ACCOM- PANIED BY WIFE Alfred H. Thomas, examiner with the United States Light- house Service and Island Posses- CAME IN ON BUSI- ! NESS MATTERS A. H. Ford, official of the West- ern Union Telegraph Co., from Atlanta, Ga, and W. C. Moore, attached to the office of the com- jtions. gov “We want to get in as much of |: idbissoffered publicity for Florida bastquick handling as is humanly (possible. Too, we'd like to see your city and area receiving some of this very valuable publicity and advertising in these recog- nized media. “Won't you, therefore, imme- diately send us 6% by 8% inch clear glossy photographs of deep isea sports and other fishing in your locality, at least four or | five, that we may have them in our office for immediate forward- ing. “We would also like to have — pany in Orlando, were visitors in the city Saturday and expected to go fishing yesterday. They were contacting The Citi- zen and correspondents for out sions, is in Key West on one of any other photographs you may his regular visits, and this time }haye available. Scenic beauties, is accompanied by Mrs. Thomas./ sports, palm trees, parks and Discussing his visit with The/water front scenes, industry, Citizen Mr. Thomas said that he tourist attractions, in fact photo- of town papers, with a view to se- curing an idea of the volume of business done here, and the effi- ciency of the service rendered by the local office of the company. ADVISORY 2:30 P. M.—Tropical expects to be here about weeks this time and will prob- ably visit other points in the dis- trict bfore returning to head- quarters. Asked if Mrs. Thomas was en- joying her visit he said that she had already fallen in love with disturb- the city and expressed herself as jance of increasing intensity cen-! |jking to live here for the winter tered I p. m., EST, approximately | a¢ Jeast. 60 miles east of Long Island, Ba-j The body of Meyron Fabrikant, who died Friday at his residence on Southard street, was taken to Miami Saturday evening in the Lopez Funeral Home car. The body was shipped from Miar~ to relatives in New York. increasing ter. Watling Island reports 50 miles per hour wind and several ships 60-mile squalls. Direction af movement uncertain, but prob- ably foward the north. Caution advised vessels near and north of storm center, and all small craft from Florida East Coast over and beyond the Bahamas should con- WEATHER BUREAU. : graphs of anything in your area you feel would interest persons living in other portions of the United States. . “You send us the photographs and we will see that they are dis- tributed. With warmest personal regards and every good wish, I jam, Harold Colee, president Flor- ida State Chamber of Com- merce.” Mr. Singleton said he thought this a tremendous opportunity, land there is no part of Florida that can contribute more inter- esting pictures than can be sent from Key West. ‘Ahern Funeral Home JOSEPH L. PLUMMER, Vice President ICE SERVICE Miami Phone 22211 - | 4@B49P can and give these inquiries }' Fausto Aquiar, age 37, died this | 'morning 1 o'clock at the home, 1111 Watson street, Funeral will be held this afternoon 5 o'clock from the residence with Rev. Perez officiating. Funeral arrangements are in charge of the Lopez Funeral Home. Survivors are: Mother, Mrs. Teresa Aquiar, and one sister, Mrs. Gloria Aguilar. E. GONZALEZ BURIED SUNDAY DIED SATURDAY EVENING AT HOME ON ELIZABETH. STREET Emilio Gonzalez, age 77 years, died Saturday evening at 8 o'clock, at his residence 919 Eliza- beth street. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 3 \ o'clock from the chapel of Pritch- ard’s Funeral Home. Father A. 'L. Maureau of the Star of The Sea Catholic Church officiated. Survivors are: one daughter, Mrs. Mary Lopez, and one son, Maximo Gonzalez. b {| WASHINGTON.—Uncie Sam's | Veterinarians are conducting ex- jperiments to curb an epidemic of sleeping sickness among horses which affected 170,000 animals in this country last year. j iheld in the latter part of January are to be discussed and a, de- | terrijlhed €lfort will be madg, jo guartintéé’ the best show. thpt Key West has ever seen. jae The club has received so many compliments for its first show, which was held during the July {Fourth Gala Fiesta that the members feel that the only way to repay them is to give a great- ly improved and vastly enlarged show during January in order to start the Winter Season off | properly with a local event. The opening show will occupy both galleries of the Art Center instead of only the small room that was used first by the club. This means that the number of pictures on display will be ap proximately four times as large as the first show and will of course be more comprehensive. Alt exhibition is not until We hk part of January there are a great many details in yon it st be dule of work will be laid down so that nothing will be left until the last mimite as é6 ofr ‘heppeéif in events of this type ve The subject for the show was chosen only after much thought and those in charge believe that the Maritime theme will be truly representative of Key West and thus will afford the city much valuable publicity. BIG ROSE BUSHES 35 Each South Fla. C. & E. Co, PHONE 5986