The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 17, 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 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. VOLUME LIX. No. 2738. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938 LOCAL HOUSING Congressman Wilcox Will PROGRAM WILL — 8 "BEGIN ToNicT Visit Key West Saturday GIVES ESTIMATE [Representative Of This MANY UNITS SCHEDULED OF BUSINESS IN | District Proposes To Re- TO BE HELD AT CHAMBER : \ ; 4 _ i main Over Until Coming | OF COMMERCE | TOURIST TRAVEL | Sous | Sunday ;'SHOWN THAT OVER ELEVEN | MILLION DOLLARS WILL! BE SPENT IN FLORIDA IN} ousing Proposition Taken JOURNEY TOsMARS, Up At Meeting Yesterday WOULD TAKE’;000 , 'YEARS IN ROCKET Hugh Pomeroy Meets with FOUR CASES IN FASTEST ROCKET SCIENCE iy ES - ; : | IMPORTANT CONFERENCE a. City Counc, Mayor A CRIMINAL COURT bury And Others During | Afternoon Germany. Stores' Death Dealers’ HAS PRODUCED ATTAINS, SPEED OF SEVEN HUNDRED | HANDLED TODA MILES PER HOUR THREE DEFENDANTS PLEAD. | (By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE) | ED GUILTY; FOURTH CASE| AP Science Editor | NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—In 60, | | A very important conference o: | Sedat Hugh R. Pomeroy, chief of the| all architects, contractors, real- Congressman J. Mark Wilcox Field Service of the National As-; sociation of Housing Officials met with Mayor Willard M. Albury.| and members of the City Council, yesterday afternoon at the City! Hall for the purpose of ing matters relative to” Authority matters. | Fred J. Dion, chairman of the} Federal Housing Authority in Key West, and Henry Taylor, Jr., city attorney, were also in at- tendance. i Mr. Pomeroy gave a descriptive outline of the workings of the proposition, whereby those pres- ent became more familiarized with the matter, while no definite action was taken dealing ee the subject. Mr. Pomeroy was introduced | by Councilman Adams. Mr. Pome- roy stated that he was down here representing the USFH and that his headquarters was in Chi- cago. Mr. Pomeroy informed the; members present that Key West. was much advanced in her pro-} gram due to the fact that they) had a just program under way! which was being supervised by, Mr. Albert. He stated that the’ program fie had which was of ‘ Sg eeTD was made up from 4 ind“Use Survey and Prop-" erty Survey. { Mr. Pomeroy stated that thé USFH was for the of providing houses for families whose income was very low and were not able to pay high rents, he stated that the largest pro- gram was in New York (Slum. Clearance). . He also advised that; the program was first started by | the PWA in that it had 51 houses in 36 cities but that the PWA_ has certain limitation. He also: stated that the program was be-/ gun November 1, 1937 but it got into effect December 1, 1937 with; Nathan Strout, as their super-' visor, He also stated that 33; states in the U. S. have a local Housing Authority and that there are 217 Housing Authorities, | and said that a large number are in Florida. He stated that Jack- sonville was already to start on its construction, that they had already gotten the bid which is for 60 years. | 18 BEING CONSIDERED BY |,....,. since the so-called “canals” | JURY Criminal Court of Record for Monroe county met in _ recessed session’ this’ morning with auaae illiatn 'V/Albury presiding and all other court’ officials present. | “The “firsttase called’was that of Martin “Key, ‘ charged’ with driving’ ‘an automobile while*un- , der’ the inflifénte\of intoxicants. The accused*éntéred a ‘plea of guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and costs. Next case called was that of | Bob Bratten, charged with selling liquor without the necessary li- cense held by the accused, entered guilty was also entered and the judge imposed a fine of $10 and costs. Alice Reed, charged with sell- ing intoxicating liquor not per- mitted to be sold under the li- cense hid by the accused, entered a plea of guilty and_ sentence was imposed of a fine of $25 and costs or 30 days in jail. Milton A. Parrott was the next prisoner to be tried. He was also charged with selling liquor with- out a license. A motion to quash was made by the attorney for the accused, but the motion was over- ruled by Judge Albury. The accused entered a plea of not guilty and the following jury was called to try the issue: Fran- eiseo-B.-Guito, George A: Albury;- Pedro Valdez, Douglas Anderson, ‘ L. O. Turner and Robert Shultz. ‘The case was being conducted until the noon hour and witness- es were examined up to that hour when the judge called a re- cess until 1:30 o’clock. At that time arguments of the attorneys started, STRANGE TYPE OF PLANT LIFE BURNING SAWDUST PRO-' DUCES BIRTH PREVIOUS- | LY UNKNOWN ' (By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE) AP Science Editor CHAPEL HILL, N. C., Nov. 17. —A_ burning sawdust pile in northern Chatham county, North | were discovered on Mars. science has not been able to rule out ab-} solutely the possibility of living} beings on the red planet. j Two kinds of beings are still) possible there. ‘ One is the “lifé'’as we know, it” sort, meaning oxygen breath- | ers like men. Astronomers have definitely established that Mars/ has only about one thousandth j the oxygen in its air that is pres-| ent on earth. No human could; live there without an oxygen helmet. j Mars Shy On Oxygen But, as pointed out ‘by Dr. Henry Norris Russell of Prince- ton University, one of the world’s | greatest astronomers, persons on’ Mars, of no greater intelligence than man, could have learned to extract oxygen to use for breath- ing purposes. A long time ago Mars is presumed to have had) more abundant oxygen. The other sort of person on} Mars would be “anerobic,” that is, not needing oxygen. Among bacteria and a few other low; forms of life on earth, there are! “anerobes.” They live without | oxygen. So if evolution is plaus- ible, life might develop on Mars with little need for oxygen Mars’ temperature, around the equator, in summer is about 50 degrees Fahrenheit. This has; been accurately measured by as- tronomers:,Glouds _ have _been seen in telescopes: They seem to stand about 15 miles above the surface. They may be huge dust storms. A few “canals” are two thou- sand miles or more long, almost straight lines. They stretch across the planet’s face at odd angles. Short feeders, like telephone crosstrees, enter them at some places. Looks Like Vegetation Some areas on Mars turn dis- tinctly gray-green in summer. | Vegetation is the best guess as) to the cause of this color change. If this is vegetation, is prob- ably would be of a lowly desert variety. Photographs do not show the “canals” at all. These have seen with the eye. best astronomers claim to them; others have denied lines are visible. | The earth’s separation from! t see, DEATH HAS AN OFFICE in Germany's underground chambers of the Limes fortifications, where boxes of ammunition are stored in business-like cabinets, future reference” Local Delegates Attend Lions ves Clab Meeting To Coral Cables SIDELIGHTS OF LIONS | CLUBS ZONE SESSION HELD LAST EVENING 1@eheverecoceseoseocesoce Copies of the club bulletin— “Conch Chowder”—were present- ed to each delegate in attendance The Key West Loyality Song was featured in the at the meeting. bulletin and Lion Gerald Saun- ders led the gathering in singing that song. to be (all delegates to visit Some of the|@uring the coming winte | “Conch Chowder” also invited Key West season Reports from every side indicated Lions and Lior SSeS. number the {that the invitation would be ac- cepted by a large of He informed the board that the Carolina, has’ giveli birth . {9,2 communication with Mars is be | ye stunt that won the Enter first thing that they had to do. was to work on the survey which |.) The thing looks like’ an alga,’ retically a space ship could make Mr. Albert has, and find, :aut \the ‘scm ‘which forms ‘on still, the flight. { what are the incomes from *the, families throughout the city and) what they are paying for . ren plant previously unknown. water. Algae are usually green. This one is'gray, the color of a mold, and lives on decaying mat-! er in the water. { coming less certain now. Theo- Would Take 1,000 Years i Rocket ship’ propdision would | do it—for a man who had one He also stated that the paymen' should be fixed at the lowest pos-| Dr. W. The discoverers, which you have to provide for is | University of North Carolina, de 60 years, By that he meant that! Scribe the sawdust product to the if Key West would .get a loan National Academy of Sciences. {t from the USHA it would have to has appeared in two small “runs” base its economic standard for 60 that receive the seepage water years, what the future would be/ from the charred sawdust. in that time so they could pay, Algae make their food by aid back to the government the|f the green chlorophyll which money they borrowed. He stated) Sives them their color. But this that the USHA would lend a loan‘ Plant, lacking anything green, of 90 per cent on bonds that are Puts out viscid roots, that branch issued by the USHA and which, Until they are nearly haif an inch are secured solely by revenue of long and have exactly the the project, they bear an interest Pearance of a vigorous of either 3 to 3% per cent. He; mold. also informed the board that a| With their aid the plant is a contribution of 10 per cent would Parasite. The North Carolina have to be made by the city scientists report that several either in the manner of land or a Parasitic alga-like plants that bond. have nearly lost their green pig- Those attendi ‘i ment are known. But they say were: Hugh gj Lovee sige oe they know of no other plant with Adams, Dan Nayatro, Fred Dion, | te form of algae which feeds E. Ramsey, Mayor Albury, W. strictly on decay. Doughtry, W. E. P. Roberts, H. EI Taylor, E. Carbonell, B. Williams, Spaniards Throw Everything But Bull Wm. Lee, Miss Neen Williams. {Ne Axaneisted Press) j Wm. Lee, Miss Neen Williams, William Monsalvatge, Roy Ful- ZARAGOZA, Spain, Nov. 17.— When a bullfighter puts on an es-' ford and Jim Roberts. GROWS BIG LEMON pecially caring act, Spaniards their appreciation by toss-' water COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. | show —The lemon is hardly native to/ ing hats, coats, fans, wine pouch- | the Pikes Peak country, but Mrs./es and cigarettes into the arena. R. S. Niswanger has just com- The toreador and his assistants! pleted her usual “lemon harvest,” |dont mind the trouble of tossing’ She plucked a lempn 18 inches in/ the articles back into the stands. | cireumference, enough to make It wouldn't have been a genuine’ three pies. jovation otherwise. sible figures and the period for| Coker and Leland Shanor of the |°"d, fuels which do not exist ap- | j would be necessary. |know that stores of high energy ‘tousand years or more to live, The engineering _ principles have been established by rocket motor scientists. These have shown that a rocket will shoot through “empty” space, in fact, travel much easier there than in ‘atmosphere. Rocket . engineers have pro- duced speeds of 700 miles an hour with small rocket motors, and might predict that speeds of 1,002 miles an hour are attain- able. At that rate, unless the rocket jShip travelled many times faster ‘in space, it would take about 1,- 400 years to fly to Mars when the planet is closest. The distances from earth range from 34,000,000 miles to 46,000.000. For .Martians, if they exist, to be the pioneers in a trip between planets, much more advanced knowledge than exists on earth Scientists exist in the binding forces of atoms that could drive a rocket ship millions of miles. But there is yet no idea of how this energy can be obtained, and some doubt that it can ever be done. If Martians have found out how to get atomic energy, it is likely they also have. the ma- terials and the engineering skill to make a flight to earth. But no Martians have arrived. so that this speculation, like all the others, ends in the verdict— no evidence of higher forms of life on Mars. there. the than local club by “Professor” ne Rev one Joe jtainment Cup for Key West was ja “steal” from that presented to other Tolle at a supper meeting a short while back house- Lior presented strong Key West It seems that never be hypnotiz by the Lic Mic on h Joe ed Han Alle featured one part of the avail go to sleep” tainment were to simply would not especially when th fered Joe $10.00 if he opened them- his eyes. Joe didn’t collect. hy Snake Pays Victim’s Hospital Expenses Uhr Annormret HILLS, Caht ROLLING 17.—Franklin Fr seven rattlesnake eventually he mother nm pital danger d good lesson to m own hospital bill The only raise thé mc snake that b: neh for 15, The act brought down the as it did at presentation: Gerald Saunders was A n 1 Angelo of n At least the ivery best efforts of an expert enter- tist could o NEVER CALL HER FAT BROOKLYN Mark Rurich Mag |tors, lumber dealers and repre- | |Sentatives of ‘financial institu- | tions, newspapers and utilities of Key West will be held tonight, | November 17, Thursday, at 8:00 ‘o'clock, in the’€hamber of Com- ‘merce, according to S. C. Single ton, executive secretary of the’ , chamber. : : C. W. Butler, acting district di- rector; Earl J. Robbins, chief un- derwriter; H. M. Strickland, jun- ior mortgage conference repre- sentative, and A. H. King, state production manager, from the in- suring office of the Federal Hous- jing Administration at Jackson-! ville and Miami will be present ‘at the meeting. | They will discuss plans for launching an extensive Better Housing Program in Key West tying in with the nation and state-wide movement to stimulate ; building activity under the New |Amendments to the National {Housing Act recently adopted by Congress. | |_ Details of this New Better Housing Program will be fully explained by the FHA speakers. j Matters involving underwriting procedure and mortgage risk will also be discussed. The FHA of- {ficials will remain here tomor- ‘row, “following up” with in-; cone; groups and those indi- i marked—no doubt—“for viduals directly connected with! the building industry, furnishing additional information, literature, | | FHA Insured Mortgage System :Loan application blanks and ren- ! The Key West Lions Club roar- ‘dering every further assistance ! necessary incident to launching the new program locally. i ed forth in grand style last eve ning when a delegation was in a! tendance at the Southeastern ' ARRANGE DRIVE Zone meeting of District 35 at | Gables Country Club. i TOW, ARD HELPING | Thirteen members and escorts JEWISH f GEE city and from all appearances | i took over full control of all fea- | 1 tures of the evening. |JOINT DISTRIBUTION COM- Attendance MITTEE TO INAUGURATE FUND RAISING CAMPAIGN IN KEY WEST Coral traveled to the meeting from this \ prize, in the form of a beautiful gold loving cup properly engraved captured by Key West. This prize was of- | fered on a mileage attendance b Lion president H. E. Day remjnded the delegates upon ac cepting the cup that “six months and five days ago at the Key West Charter Banquet he had that he would bend every effort towards building a Lions. Club of the name, and one that the International Asso ion and State District would A campaign to raise funds in Key West in accordance with | Similar campaigns throughout the country, in an effort to reach the goal for 1938 af, $4,500,000 to as- sist Jewish refugees, id to help reconstruct the Jewish homeland in Palestine, will start here Mon- | Writes friends in Key West that WINTER SEASON (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 17.—The Florida tourist of 1938- will spend approximately 26 tents of ach dollar in his vacation pock- etbook for amusements and rec- reation, ‘Hotel Commissioner W. M. Taylor predicted today after a study of statistics compiled on tourist expenditures indicated a minimum income to Florida busi- nesses of $11,250,000 for the sea- son. “I have previously gauged the winter tourist population of Flor- ida at 2,250,000 for 1938-'39, mak- {ing my estimate as conservative as possible and only after a care- ful check of all available informa- tion”, Commissioner Taylor said. “Now I find that $5.00 a day will be an equally conservative estimate of the average expendi- ture of each of those winter visi- tors, with Florida benefitting to the extent of approximately $11,- 250,000 for the season. This sum, it must be pointed out, is an absolute minimum, but it has been my experience that it is al- ways best to deal with minimums in figuring tourist trade’, Commissioner Taylor's statis- tics as to tourist spénding, he said, indicated that in addition to the winter visitor's spending 26 cents of each dollar for amuse- ment and recreation, he will spend, on the average, 20 cents of the dollar for living quarters and lodging, 28 cents for food, 18 cents for transportation and trav- el and eight cents for clothing, personal equipment, laundry and similar expenditures within the state. “Using the $5.00 a day figure as the probable minimum expen- diture for the average tourist, my checkup of various agencies over the state shows that the tourist will spend $1.00 cach day for lodging or living quarters, 90 cents for transportation, $1.40 for food daily, $1.30 daily for his amusements and recreation, and 40 cents for clothing, laundry and other miscellaneous expense”, Commissioner Taylor said “The indication from these fig ures is that our hofel,, apartment house and fooming house indus- try may figure on aseasonal in- come of $2,250,000 at the ,very least from the Florida, towrists of 1938-39", he went on. .,. “Restaurant proprictorg and grocery and food stores wall hene- fit to the extent of 150,000; transportation agencies in Flor. proud of. Lion Day submitted that proof of the fulfillment of that promise was amply at hand ation put on at in attendance from 1 Beach to Key West eatured novel and highly enter- taining skits. To complete the route and to further bring Key West inte ght, the local awarded a special best act pre- meal, speeches and dancing of the eve- Members of thé Key West par- ty were: 44, Ev Day, president; Al- an Armstrong, secretary; Joe Al- vice-president; Gerald ond viod-president; nd wife; Ray- D. O. Mar Miss n rst i and THERE WILL BE A MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE MONROE INVESTMENT CO. ON MONDAY, NOV. 21ST. 1938. AT THE GOLDEN EAGLE HALL. AT 7-30 P. M. BUSINESS OF GREAT IM- PORTANCE TO STOCKHOLD- ERS AND REPRESENTATIVES OF STOCKHOLDERS. DO NOT FAIL TO ATTEND. V. A. ARCHER, novl6-5t PRESIDENT. day, November 21. The Key ida, including gasoline and oil West quota is $250.00. dealers, $2,025,000; clothiers, A non-sectarian committee con- ‘laundries, dry cleaning establish sting of Joe Pearlman, chair- ments, etc., $900,000; and proprie man, Fred Dion, W. W. Demeritt, tors of amusements and recrea Mrs. M. FE. Berkowitz, co-chair- tions, $2,925,000. man, and Morris Holtsberg, En Statistics of former yearn rique Esquinaldo, Chas. Arono- show that the Florida tourist is vitz, Rabbi Ben Miller and Isa- decidedly bent on pleasure and dore Appelrouth will call on the relaxation, and that he is more people of Key West during next than willing to pay for it. Be week to solicit funds, “and it is cause of this willingness, he will hoped” that they will be received cut a 26-cent slice in the spirit of humanitari: dollar for thi needs, and will meet with a gen- pose” erous response from all of thos , called upon Contributions may also be sent or mailed to Joe Peariman, chair man. Declaration of Sympathy In connection with the above the clergy of the city resol “The ministers of Key West “Cannonball may w with sympathy the efforts ¢ dowr the ¢ United Palestine Appeal to Grande Va t Jews being deprived of The v their homes through oppression, has a y od a haven of refuge a tifically “In a world disturbed by con- which t flicting political, economic, and “cannnonballs” social philosophies, a major con- The pods are the size cern of all, must be the preserva- shape of old-fashioned car tion of racial and religious toier-' balls and they explode when ance, which to the to scatter seeds. maintenance modern civiliza- tion. We approve of the purpose o America f out of each particular pur Cannonballs Grow (My Annwet WESLACO, Tex, Nov. 17 become lower es in Rio Hey y experiment station ung tree known scie ‘Courpoita Guianen- rs pods known as is and ripe, is essential KILLS $5,000 PREY : our t Jewish fellow of COLUSA; Calif—Floyd Mar- : who suf from shall's dog killed an altino | bersecution We earnestly com-shunk Later taxidermists in- |mend their appeal to ali citizens formed Floyd that had the rare f Key West regardless of rage anima en taken alive jand creed.” jhave sold for $5,000. faith T {he proposes io come to the city | Saturday and remain until Sun- ' day. In his letter to the publish- er of The Citizen, Mr. Wilcox writes: “I haven't had an opportunity of getting down there I came home from the last session of congress, and in view of the fact that my term of office is rap- idly coming to a close I want to make at least one trip down in my official capacity before the end of my term. “I will be going back to my office in Washington to close out my affairs and attend to the last of my official duties some time in December, so I am going to take advantage of the present opportunity of coming down for the weekend. “I do not want any nor expect entertainment or anything of that sort, but I am coming to look over the city and see what I may do on the closing days of my congressional term in the fur- ther discharge of my official du- ties. I shall look forward to see- ing you Saturday afternoon”. since RED CROSS..UNIT MEETS TONIGHT THOSE CONDUCTING DRIVE TO ASSEMBLE AT HOME OF MRS. PHILLIPS There will be a meeting of all workers in the, drive for member: ships in the Red Cross Roll Cail tonight at the home of Mrs. Grace Phillips, local executive secre tary, at 421 Duval street At this meeting, reports on pro- gress of the work wlil be made with other matters to be taken up. All interested are requested to be in ettendance The contributions far follow Previously acknowledged $37.75 Key West Electric Co. 25.09 Capt. Wilder 100 Chas. Aronovitz 100 Mres'R. Appel 1.00 Mrs Prank Lewinsky 1.09 Geant Kantor 3.09 Ibe Allen 109 Henry Brewer Loo Fred Dion, Sr 1.00 Fred 199 Mr bray 1.00 Joe Crusoe 1.00 Mrs, M. Manigold 1.00 Neil Archer 1.09 George Archer 1.99 Chas I. Park 1.09 Eliza Aimyda 199 Horatie Carey 1.09 Lorenzo mer 16) J. J. Kirschenbaum 10) J. R. Adams 1.09 Martin Lo Ben Trevor 1.0 G Bonniwell 0% 00 a) made thus Dion, Jr ree 1 ark i L.. Roberts i Tonby Painting Co. 2099 Miami $89.75 Total Man Was Stabbed By Playful Monkey sie Annmcinted Crean SPRINGFIELD, UL, Nov. 17 John Steinhoft was stabbed by Will Colvin’s pet monkey pickings from the Steinhoft lunch pail Jocko, the monkey appeared while Steinhoft was unpsecking the lunch in the shade of Colvin's rchard Jocko started picking tid-bits from the pail and then stabbed inhott’s arm with a pruning knife when the man tried t drive him off The monkey scampered into a nearby tree and Steinhoft taken to @ hospital, over