The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 5, 1938, Page 1

oe Key West, Florida, hes the most equable climate in the country; with an average Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 288. Extensive Mosquito Eradication Work Over F our Months Period Paliic To Be Given Free| T. B. X-Rays; Red Cross Class Starts December 7; Health Unit Work As one of the functions under | the supervision of the Monroe} County Halth Unit, Dr. J. B. Par- ramore, director, the mosquito; control project employing W.P.A.| labor has completed 1,588 linear feet of minor drainage, gotten 58 | salt marsh breeding places under | control, eliminated 23 domestic breeding places, filled 50 cisterns! and destroyed 540 artificial con-! fainers during the period from July to November, j This projects will control breed- | ing places on outlying districts this, winter while the second ‘ phase, which will be in charge of | a U.S. Public Health unit of six | during the entire winter, will | work in Key West proper in an effort to eradicate the “pest”! mosquito. i In the sanitary division of the | Health Unit 140 cows of Key) West dairies were inspected for | tuberculosis and no reactors were | found. One hundred thirty-four | cows tested for Bang’s disease in found no reactors. Forty- | eight visits were made to camp sites and trailer parks. Seventy- five food handling establishment visits were made. t This month tuberculosis , fests at the various schools have been begun and Dr. Par- amore announced that any | case reacting positive will | be given an X-ray free of charge on December 12 at the | Health Department, Any per- | son wishing to have a tuber- culin test and unable to pay sician refer them Yor an ex- amination and ihe State Health Depariment will take | the X-ray and return the re- | port to the physician refer- | ring the case. All contacts ‘and suspects are urged to re- port for an examination re- gardless of age. An American Red Cross First- Aid Class will be started Decem- ber 7 at the High School with Red Cross certificates to be awarded those successfully com- * pleting the course: Classes will be held Monday and Wednesday evenings of each week from 7-9 p. m. Enroliment is limited to 25. Enrollees may report to Miss Felicia Carbonell, Health Unit clerk. “Chief function of the Health Department is teaching health and sanitation measures pertain- ing to health”, Dr. Parramore said. One thousand two. hundred | and sevnety-seven children have been lectured on health meas- ures. Another division of the unit is the Veneral Clinic held very Thursday and Saturday at 9 a. m., the prenatal clinic on Tuesday afternoon 2. o'clock, monthly midwife classes with the aim “No Maternal Deaths For Monroe County”, Well Baby Clin- ie first Fridays of month at 2 p. m., which check-ups and munizes children. PATROL UNITS GIVEN DRILL Twenty-two members of the Junior Patrol from the Harris and Division Street Schools were taken out for a drill in different activities Saturday morning un- der the direction of Traffic Offi- cers Myrtland Cates and Tynes. Ulric Gwynn, Jr., acted as @pach in a football game put on between tht two school teams. i Pate 13 Basil H SSS SSS Daa A NEW FIVE CENTS COIN IN KEY WEST | Have you seen the new nickle in circulation. Now. we're not trying to sell you something like Brooklyn bridge or the Eiffel tower, but the new “Jeffer- son” nickle which was placed in circulation Saturday will be continued from now on, Vice President J. J. Trevor of the First National Bank told The Citizen today. On one side is the profile view of Thomas Jefferson re- placing the rugged features of the American Indian. On the new nickle on one side is “In God We Trust” and on the other side, “Liberty 1938”. Turning the nickle over we find no more the fami-~ liar Bison but the old home of Thomas Jefferson at Mon- ticello. Above the picture of the home is “E Pluribus Unum” and below it “Five Cents United States of Am- erica”. We next, probably, must await the new edition of jokes concerning the new nickle as there were plenty about the old nickle. IDI aD SDSL. BROUGHT HERE PLACED UNDER ARREST BY OFFICER LAST NIGHT ON HIGHWAY 4aet Hight ‘and placed“in the county jail by Deputy Sher- iff Rex McLeod of the Monroe; county road patrol. | ‘The new prisoners were riding } along the road in an automobile | and their actions were such as to | lead the officer to conclude they ; were under iniiuence of intoxic- | ants. | It later developed that one of the men, George Henry, was un- | der the influence of liquor and_ his companion, whose name was en as W. A. Henry, was not intoxicated but used such lan-} guage that it became necessary | for the officer to include him in the arrest. EARL DENOON a prisoners. were brought to ; 1 Earl Denoon, of the General Motors Corporation and member of the American Society Testing Materials, arrived yesterday and this morning was making an in- spection of metal now undergo- | ing te:ts at the raval station. | Mr. Denoon is a visitor to Key! West to look after the result of | the tests which are carried on under the supervision of L. Pierce aide to the officer in at the station. 4 eeecccccccccscoces TEMPERATURES Highest Station— last night last 24 hours Abilene 36 60 { Atlanta 60 Boston 58 | Buffaio j Charleston 72 j Chicago 52 Denver 48 | Detroit 48 | Galveston 72 | ° | H s City 50 KEY WEST Little Rock Louisviile Miami Mpls.-St u H iF K Pp M. ‘cost, $1,000. ‘eclock in the Che Kry West Citizen ‘THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1938 —— To the Cuban ‘ ovations ever accorded a Cuban official. Batista. Anrives:Jn Cuba ROBERTS KEY WEST RESIDENT DIED AT 11 O'CLOCK SAT- URDAY NIGHT Mrs, Mary E. Roberts, 68, died Saturday night at 11 o'clock at the residence, 902 Division street. Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon 4 o'clock from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Catho- lie church. Rev. J. R. Mullin will officiate. Funeral arrangements will be under the direction of Pritchard Funeral Home, Mrs. Roberts is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Clarice Rob- erts Dixon; one son, John N. Roberts; one sister, Mrs. C. Yradi, and one grandchild. FIVE BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED Permission for building and re- pair projects were issued to f property owners in Key West since the first day of December. The issues were made from the office of Building Inspector Har- ry M. Baker. Total of the five permits was $2,150 and were for the follow- ing: General repairs to 1012 Du street. Owner, Francisco Rivas; General repairs to the corner of Whitehead Eaton _ streets. Owner, Lar ost, $500 General repairs to residence on Pearl street. Owner, L. Pollock; cost, $200. General repairs to residence on Vernon Avenue. Owner, Profes- sor Smith; cost, $400. Repairs to floors in Vie Build- ing on Duval street at the corner of Charles. Clem Price, agent; cost, $50 BAKER FUNERAL HELD YESTERDAY Mrs. Mary Louise Baker, 73, Saturday afternoon 3:45 residence at 1109 street. Funeral services yesterday afternoon 5 m the Pritchard Fun- eral Home chapel. Rev. O. C Howell .of Ley Memorial church, di White were b o'clock | officiated Joseph Baker, 12 grandchildren |they will find it impossible to The two d ed is survived by aughters, Mrs. Irene Cres- and N Diego Torres sons, Will and Paul one sister, Mrs. Nettie Pita; two brothers, George McDonald and po s. and four great-grandchildren. two! Baker: ; RITES Pigeon Key Ramp | Camp Re TOWNSEND TO VISIT FLORIDA IN JANUARY MERITS OF HIS RECOVERY PLAN i (Special to The Citizen) TAMP, Dec. 5.—Dr. Francis E. Townsend will visit Florida in late January as a guest of Burton H. Schoepf, of Tampa, in order to contact national leaders who are in the state at that time, re-; gerding merits of his recovery plan, according to an announce- ment today in the Townsend Na- tional Weekly. Dr. Townsend plans to attend the opening of Congress before leaving for Florida. Mr. Schoepf, long an advocate of the Town- send plan, will provide Dr. Town- send and his party with a fur- nished home in Florida and hotel accommodations as well as trans- portation throughout the state. Mr. Schoepf has arranged with Townsend state leaders;;for a series of conferences, regarding entertainments of Dr. Townsend. | The duration of his stay will be i determined largely by the nation- al political situation but because of the strain of months of over- work, Dr. Townsend has ex- pressed a desire to remain in Florida as long as possible. In inviting Dr. Townsend, Schoepf said the recovery plan would do much to relieve unem- ployment. “It will be instru- mental in permitting younger men and women to take the place of the millions of old people, who will be taken out of employment immediately and made the spend- ers of this deserved old age an- nuity,” said Schoepf “This expenditure definitely as- sures the creation of demand for merchandise and other neces- sities, the production which will absorb 12,000,000 ploy- ed, thug: solving the 's ma- jor problem.” SHOULD BRING ii o i © t c 3 t a t nati t and t Many state automobil their papers in the home, which means to the tax collctore's ¢ Frank Ladd this Purchasers of tags mus vided with their registration cate, said Tax . for without them f of ; Collector Lad purchase the tags. of the week, Manager B. M. Duncan told The Citizen today. curve of the and leads down to Pigeon Key, a rocky islet in the midst of deep water. under the operation of Schutt, who formerly the well known Long Key fish- said. renovation of the convenient Commerce since the opened in the La Concha Hotel] experience | Isabel along soon after the planting and cleaned up all the fish are hungry. For ady This V Week \Tourist-Camp Off Seven Mile Bridge Will Be Formally Opened Later; Schutt Heads It Pigeon Key Camp ramp -lead- ng from the Long Bridge will be ready for traffic by the end Overseas Bridge The ramp is situated at the seven-mile-bridge The camp which will be George operated ng camp, will not be formally opened until later. Mr. Duncan In the plan is complete the cottages for Ls of tourists wish- ng to remain ‘practically at on Pigeors Key. Attractive gra: jawns wilt:further beautify the slet, Mr. Duncan continued. “Fishing along the bridges has been better than ever”, Mr. Dun- can said. “They caught enough jacks along the bridges recently 0 fill a town, Sailfishing from charter boats in the nearby Gulf Stream has been excellent re- cently also”. SINGLETON, Ill, S. C. Singleton, Il, who was up until December 1 acting as as- sistant to Secretary Singleton of fhe Chamber of Commerce, has accepted a position as secret: John Costar, agent of the P 4.0. & S. Co, started Thursday. He he ad been connected with activities of the Chamber of office was feels that the here gained will prove a valu- t in his new work. BIRDS GET FISH FOOD PUEBLO, Colo—Forest offi- m about ducks od several tons . shrimp and other aqua- ic life as food for fish in Lake Migratory flocks came the food. Now trong man” Col. Fulgencio Batista, enthusiastic residents of Havana gave one of the greatest This is a view of the parade welcoming Batista back from his re to the United States. Some 200,000 persons witnessed the parade which lasted five hours. cent visit TIMBER PIER 10 BE BUILT APPLICATION MADE BY MAT- COVITCH TO U. S. WAR DEPARTMENT Application has been made to the U. S. War Department by Mosby Matcovitch, of Key West, for a permit to do certain im- provement work in Big Pine Key channel, at his property south of the old kighway leading to the ferry slip at No Name Key. Mr. Matcovitch proposes to construct a timber pier six feet wide which will extend into the waterway approximately 84 feet from the highwater shore line. The pier will be located 127 feet south of the center line of the highway fill, which extends 85’ feet into the waterway. The deck of the pier will be three feet above mean low water. It is not proposed to hold any public hearing on this application. it is shown, but anyone desiring to protest work from the stand- point of its interference with or its effect upon navigation should submit such protest in writing to the District Engineer, P. O. Box 4970, Jacksonville, Fla. in time to be received on or before De- cember 13, 1938. YACHT ARRIVES THIS MORNING yacht. “Vagabon- dia” v this morning berthed in the harbor hile entry was being made of the vessel which had just arrived from Nassau, N. P On the yacht was the owner, William L. Melion, and Thurston Wright, Richard S. Richards, and Gordon Fisher. The vessel is in command of Captain George Stoehr, and there is a crew of 344 men Clearance papers for were prepared this morning the Porter Dock Co, and the yacht will probably, it is said, sail for Havana this evening. TWO MEN HELD FOR VAGRANCY Dono- Magnificent as Cuba by Jimmy Deon van, arrested a i Mike agrants. ting hearing on $ ch pre Sheriff K. O. Thomp are ferred b son. ‘The men appeared to w cut visible means of support questioned by the sheriff replies substantiated the conclu- sions of the officer, who ordered them placed in jail to await pre liminary hearing. to te th th _.} out” in more range of only 14° Fahrenheit Florida And CHARTER BOAT | FLEET MOVES TO NEW BERTH | TRUMBO ISLAND DOCK NOW BEING USED: NEW COLORS SEEN ON FLEET: BUSY SCENE i Key West’s charter boat fish- | ing fleet has moved to new quar- ters on the Trumbo Island Con. crete dock and make a natty: ar- ray of deep-sea fishing craft. dropped their Thursday and oth- ers were expected to berth at the had been |concluded with T. B. Price, at- |torney for Trumbo Properties, Inc., B. M. Daniels, president of the Key West Charter Boatmen’s Association, told The Citizen. The boats this year are “diked attractive colors {than in previous years. Varnish ‘and green deck paint, which ‘were not used by the seasoned “old salts” in Key West because of their experience with the blis- tering qualities of the tropica!} sun, this year have appeared on many boats. The varnish is for beauty and the green is easier on | the fishermen’s eyes. This morn- ing charter boatmen were busy ‘constructing ladders to reach the boats from the pier above. | + Telephone service has been promised the local charter boat- men. “Other arrangements for the convenience of the fishermen and for publicity are going for- ward”, Mr. Daniels said. An ordinance which has been passed on its first reading by City Council and is for the pro- tection of Key West charter boatmen will probably have sec- ond and final readings at the meeting next week. The ordin- ance provides that a year’s resi dence before one can be a fish- ing ‘guide in these waters is re- quired. ‘ Another, meeting of the asso. ciation will be held around De cember 14, President Daniels told The Citizen, with that mecting being the final date a Key West fishing guide may en ter the association this year. Six boats had | moorings | i pier. Arrangments ARRIVED TODAY : |WORKING ON “SURPRISE” | NOVEL; HERE FOR WINTER | est ~Hemingy . famou Hemingway from Spain pend the winte their residence and w York to West” in at working on a novel that will be a “surprise” he says. He will be in and out of Key West tending to his pub lication duties in New York and to direction of a play, “The Fifth Column”, which will be produced in the Spring COURT HOUSE WORK TO START TUESDAY received at the court advised that the ' work on additions to the buildin; and chi in the plans may tx tarted tomorrow awarded the C. Davis Construc of Miami Beach, but was caused th company having to This was done and Hemingwa. Telegram house te week last contract he changed yerything has been cleared up. ‘ Plans for the work were made by RB Pancoast, and the cost | was t $23,2) i fixed Federal Government Rela Benefits Tourists Bring To PRICE FIVE CENTS tes Other States Shows Recreational Trav- elers In Florida Last Year Spent More Than Ninety-Three Miilions By Washinglon Correspondent of The Key West Citizen WASHINGTON, D. C., Decem- ber 5.—For ihe firsi time the government, eided by various state agencies, has managed to Fresent a definite picture of the comparative benefiis tourist irav- el brings to the several states and to the individuals of each ciate. The National Park Sprv- ice is author of a study nich shows that recreational travelers in Florida last year spent more than $93,900,00U wi.h the state's reiailers. This expenditure, the Park Service explains, is the Mth high mong the states, and rep resents a per capsta b*nefit to Floridians of $57.18. The report places the exact sum spent by tourists during 1937 at $93,900, 000. New York ranks travelers’ expenditures, with 9 total of $846,009,000, and Califor. nia is second with $416,000,000, While the Park Service admit that the larger the population the more money is spent by tour- ists, and the larger the publicity budget the greater the prolit from travelers, the governmn’ agency pvints out that per cap: benefits do not. generally foliow this pattern. s However, California, second in total expenditure, is third in per capita benefit, a $63.79 figure Fiorida, where nearly as much money is spent to publicize the state’s climatic advantages, trail California in tourist expenditures and in per capita benefits. The Park Service claims. it survey is the first official ondjof its kind, and in summing up the its of the study, the govern. poicts out; that the most im portant factor in bringing. nioney spending tourists to tate up parent the activity of th state in promoting and publiciz ing its attrections. In fact, th Park Servic this far : t to lure tourists verbial bread waters, ofien return tLundredfol.” Credit for the moneyed. traveler also to re law grant cit privileges, increase receipt the highest in y spe like upor the pr east influx o is given , which ma ing the sidence n whic by y of materig ly pthening Visitor WILL INSTALL NEW BOY SCOUT TROCP ELKS CLUB TROOP 50: SCOUT EXECUTIVE MEETS LO. CAL COUNCIL average De Ost Rance Dade-Broward- Boy Scout coun in Key West tomar row and during a ’s stay will install the new ponsored by the Elks Ct Esperdy mis orn Scout executive of the county mer £. The Citizer Osborne County Di perfect plar pnt other deta work locally » Boy Scouting talks by ived a strong then effort rward te miro and Scout : A number agreed to spol JOSEPH L. PLUMMER, Vice President AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 22211 Miami. Fis,