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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 290. The Key Wiest Citizen Golf Club Directors Take Up Matters Dealing With © Site For Local Airport Shown That Plans As Out-| P29 O79 29 IO a9 04 lined Would Interfere} 5 . oa | With Regulation seat teen-Hole Course i Members of the Board of Di- rectors of the Key West Golf} Club met at the home of Melvin! Russell Monday night. Import- | ant among the matters discussed | was the question of the proposed } airport site. It was shown that according to the blue prints and description of} the proposed airport, the plans; call for a large part of the present/| golf course and the majority of | the land set aside for the regu- lation 18-hole course. Final action will be delayed until a general meeting of the club is held and an expression of all the members is recorded. At first it was proposed to use as am airport only that land desig- | nated for golfing purposes, but | it has developed that the new! plans call for an expropriation! | STATE BIRD REFUGES HAVE 83,448 ACRES Some significant facis con- cerning the establishment of bird refuges in Florida such as that recentiy established on the lower heys from Ba- hia Honda Key to Dry Tor- tugas is released by the Bio- logical Survey. Government bird refuges already cover 83,448 acres in Florida excluding the mudu: flats and coral reefs of thé!* new acquisition. The 14 ex- isting refuges ranging in size from two to 67,000 acres are scattered from Florida's northwestern arm to the low- er coast and are designed to protect all forms of the pen- insula’s abundant bird life. The largest is the St. Marks migratory bird refuge in Jefferson and Wakulla counties. This year’s pro- gram extends boundaries to reservations 20,157 acres. The refuge on the lower Keys is designed principally to end destruction of the pic- turesque great white herons, which are estimated to have been reduced by man and na- ture to 350. The bird lives also along the shores of Cen- tral and South America but biologists said the species re- acted unfavorably to trans- planting. of the numbers 2 and 8 greens, ¥ gr g PIO IS Ds. numbers 2 and 9 tees and a large} “ of the ni and 8 fair- ways. Income and expenses at the| course for the period beginning July 1 and ending December 1 were checked and auditd by the! committee composed of W. W.; ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE Watkins, Paul Mesa and Ned Mc- | Carthy, and the report was or-| dered placed on file. ! Junior Chamber of Commerce | Were to sponsor a tournament} with a number of well-known; ‘COURT -HOUSE - WORK STARTS MEN TO BE EMPLOYED ON PROJECT Work under the direction of Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with &n average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER. IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1938 GROUPS WOULD __ PROFIT UNDER ~ PARK® CONTROL |SHOWN" THAT FISHERMEN | HAVE BETTER CONDITIONS| IN NATIONAL PARK AREA | The matter of protection tor] j fishermen and spongers of Mon- jroe County upon the establish ment of Evergiades National/ Park Service was brought up in| a communication from National! Park Service headquarters in Washington recently to President | H. E. Day of Key West Lions! Club. The letter received fro: Arno B. Cammerer, ‘director of | the Service, is in answer to in. quiries concerning local objec-; tions sent by Mr. Day. Quoting from the communica- tion, it is discovered that the Na- tional Park Service “recognizes that there is no precedent that Pendangers the rights and opera- tions of commercial fishermen within park waters. Rather, it appears that park control would bring about better conditions. . . Investigation will show that be-} fore any regulations are made within a park, the local people are consulted and their needs consid- ered. That friendly relations be maintained is a settled policy”. The local Lions Club struck several snags in its cooperation King Carol of Rumania pared for him. London eovcccccce eeecree who was in London recently visiting King George gazes earnestly at a pineapple pre-]} However the above ‘pineapple’ has no: ‘significance. In the U. S. ‘pineapple’ is slang for a bomb. with District 35 (Florida) clubs in announcing sponsorship of a {drive to bring the Everglades Na- tional Park to realization. Since Jocal objections were raised—the drive in Key West was discon- tinued and headquarters were so notified. In the meantime, cer- tain information is being sought in answer to these objections and the communication herein quoted constitutes one part of the infor- mation file . being ~made up ‘for local perusal. The objection has been raised that sponging activities would be seriously, if ‘not completely, cur- tailed with the establishment of the new park. According to the information now at hand—this belief seems in error. And, more} ‘ important—it appears that a cer-|the county court houses: with tain phase of local sponging | Judge William V. Albury presid- might well be thoroughly _pro- |i9& and all officers of the court tected when it is learned that | Present. the National Park Service has|, Mike Donnelly, TWO. CASES HEARD BY LOCAL COURT CONVENED IN SPECIAL SES- SION THIS MORNING AT COUNTY COURT HOUSE Criminal Court of Record met in special session this morning in charged with Casa Marina Officially Opens Saturday, Schutt A nnounces ‘Advice Listings Require Early Opening; Formal | Dinner And Dance De- cember 30 Manager Peter Schutt today told The Citizen that the %00- room Casa Marina Hotel would be officially opened for the win- ter season Saturday, with the jearly date advisable to accom- modate advance registrations. | PAY TI FOR’ ALf GOVERNOR ORDERS. ALL MONIES COLLECTED BE FORWARDED TO STATE ! TREASURER BY DEC. 10 | t In a letter received at the of- PMPP DPD ISI aI MI A fice of County Tax Collector §tate Prisoner Slips Frank Ladd from Governor Fred } Petition Note On Tag P. Cone instructions are that all ~ A tale of woe from a state prisoner strangely and unpre- meditatedly came to Rev. O. C. Howell of Ley Memorial moneys collected for the sale of | automobile licenses and any oth- er monies due the State Treasur- | er, must be remitted by Decem-| .<¢hurch today. ber 10. Handing him his nice new It is shown that the Christmas} 9989 red and white license plate, Miss Elaine Johnson, in tax collector Frank Ladd’s this morning, felt something unusual on the re- verse side of the plate. Turn- ing it over she read this in- scripiion: “Will the buyer of this auto tag please send me a U. S. vacation of the teachers in the} educational: institutions of the) o¢tice state will begin December 16 and} the letter concludes “I am anx-! ious that they receive their sal- aries before the holidays”. { There has been forwarded to} date, it was learned at the office | of the collector, gan _ kee Postal Money Order for a lit- amounts collected wil sent} , daily until the expiration of the| He money ice: Copetnae, 68 F | I don’t get any pay for my pee for remittances to be sent; work in the Auto Tag Plant \to Tallahassee. | at ihe Florida State Prison. | Address me (White Man)”. | Then fcllows the name and i KEY WEST ART ENTRIES SEN GO TO BALTIMORE FOR, WORLD'S FAIR JUDGING AND PREVIEW box number of the prisoner at Raiferd, Florida. Rev. Howell said that spec- ulation this morning at the tax collector's office was that the prisoner pasted the note on the back of that particular tag which was marked 38-45, one of the first tags sent out, to insure Christmas delivery of the money back to him. His skill in slipping the note on “probably got him there in the first place”, the group Six entries from Key West representing all the phases — of art, watercolor, oil,»sculpture and| g4,j others, went forward: this week jeridacd, “~ to Baltimore where a national ’, jcommittee will judge them along; SITIS ILS LO: with thousands of others from: the South for a hanging in New ‘ JAYCEES PLAN BLVD. REPAIR aa a York during the World’s Fair, ‘beginning next summer. | | COMMISSIONER BRAXTON B. WARREN PRESENTS WORK- of the Art Center, who super- ‘vised the selection and mailing told The Citizen that but 20 is ithe quota for Florida and _ that the Key West entries are in the | | midst of severe competition. | Many Matters Affecting Key West Discussed By Chamber Of Commerce as attendénce. | Supervisor Engineer M. J. Horre dent J. Otto Kirchheiner ap- | Was started this morning on the pointed Bob Spottswood, Melvin county court house by the S. C. Ruzsell and Sam Goldsmith as a| Davis Construction Company of committee to cooperate with the! Miami Beach. — : visitors. | Stakes marking the outline of Among the visiting golfers will the addition to the building and; be a foursome composed of the! the other activities provided for well-known champions, Craig: in the contract were placed yes- Wood, Frank Walsh, Billy Burke | terday and. this morning Mr. and Dick Metz. The caravan will! Horre was making arrangements also include such well-known) for securing the workmen. : players as Willie . Macfarlane,| The suprvising engineer was in Lawson Little and Tommy Ar-! the office of William V. Little, mour, ,of the National Reemployment are to be designated by the serv- ice if qualifiéd to do the work.’ Material has been placed on the at Court House full knowledge of the dangers of improper exploitation of the sponge gathering business. The i being without any visible means jof support, hence a vagrant, an- i swered guilty to the charge and {was sentenced to spend 30 days “Advance listings for January,} February and March at the Casa! Marina are gratifying’, Manager, When the paintings are select-; ed they will be hung in a Balti- more preview exhibition begin- F. Townsend Morgan, director | ABLE PLAN Junior Chamber of |Commerce committee on repairs PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Subjects Taken Up During | Regular Monthly Meet- | ing Held Last Night In Chamber Offices ; Marked by free discussions and ‘a lively interest displayed in | matters affecting Key West, reg- lar monthly meeting of the hamber of Commerce was held lin their rooms in ihe La Concha | Hotel building last night wilh | President Charles E. Smith pre- i ' siding. j | Present Costar, {Everett Russell, Berlin Sawyer, Frank H. Ladd, W. W. Demeritt, (George A. Patten, Fred J. Dion, Charles Tayior, Guy Carleton, — ‘Roland Adams, Bascom’ L. Grooms, J. P. Tonetti, L. S. Gru- ber and David C. Gill. Mr. Gill was introduced by Mr. Dion as his guesiand before the meeting was ended had become a mcin- ber. | President Smith announced that there were too many delin- {quent members and that tiny ‘question to be considered was whether this condition should pe correcied or thé Chamber: €iosed. lit was the sense of the meeting that continuance of the chamber’s | work was of importance ty the ‘community, and that the matter of delinquent members could be fandied successfully. J. P. Tonetti, chairman of the ‘hotel committee, reported gather- ling information on road signs. His committee will extend an in- vitation to the people interested in noise controi, rubbish collection, mosquito cvntrol and kindred subjects to meet with them and iormulate action. Guy Carlcton, chairman of the were John following quotation from the let-| ter seems to point out a definite relief from the danger, and one that might very well be well considered by Key West spong- ers: “It would be fallacious to say that the fishes and sponges of the Bay are able to withstand any amount of exploitation. The fishermen of Key West know differently. They have»been-en- jat hard labor in the coounty jail. In connection with the above i prisoner, he was given a hearing before Peace Justice Franklin Arenberg yesterday and entered ‘a similar plea. W. E. Trapnell entered a plea of guilty to the charge of driv- ing an automobile while under the influence of intoxicants, and | was sentenced to pay a fine of ; $50 and costs. taking of sponges ‘by illegal’ 9, methods because they’ know ‘that! the supply will give out unless! sponge beds are harvested in anj intelligent manner. It seems; gaged in an effort to prevent; the | ey NEWS FLASHES | Service making the preliminary arangements for the workers who- j Square and activities will well underway in a grounds be few days. WINTER PROGRAM COMMIT- | There will be about 25 men at TEES MEETS WITH STATE REC. DEPT. HEAD } work when the peak of activi- 2 'ties is reached, Mr. Horre told| cooperate with any agency pre-| State Cordell Hull and aides of | The Citizen. sa tate Once pute wea' PUBLIC SCHOOLS fieid supervisor of recreation, is conferring with Junior Chamber ; of Commerce officers today at the | post office building in regard to PLAN HOLIDAYS reasonable to suppose that the! paciagy Gate people who make their living by | seceevesee fishing and sponging among the | keys, reefs, and certain sections FOREIGN Peru. — Secretary of Florida Bay will be glad to} of LIMA, pared to help conserve and pro- the United States arrived at this perly utilize the marine crop.jcity today for t Pan-American That is exactly what the National | Congress with it appearing a cer- {Park hopes to do. ... All we can | tainty that the nations would }say is that regulations will be!adopt President Roosevelt's plan Schutt said. The formal opening dinner and dance will be held Friday, De- cember 30, at the Casa, Mr. Schutt also advised. The Casa Marina orchestra, under the di- rection of Dave Garson, which has been summering at The Homestead in Virginia, will ar- | rive before the formal opening. The beautiful Casa is situated at the water’s edge with a large , @@@@eeeeeoooseeseeCCNS January 1, which jprivate beach, a fishing dock, tennis courts, colorful cocktail patio and spacious grounds studd- ed with coconut palm tree Two major tennis tournaments between guests from The Break- ers at West Palm Beach and Mi- ami Beach hotels and those at the a are being planned for the season. There will also be weekly tennis tournaments among the guests at the Casa Buttons as prizes for the larg- est catches of cach species of sport fish will be awarded to guests this year, Manager Schutt {kept at a minimum and _ there | for military cooperation with the ® ; will be a logical and well sub-/ United States. Argentina had |stantiated reason for every one yoiced its objection and nothing | that is proposed for the area.” the Jaycee - Recreation Dept. sponsorship of the Key West win- INSTITUTIONS TO CLOSE DE-) ter program, which will officially | open in two weeks. CEMBER 16 FOR XMAS Mrs. Geiger has had consider- HOLIDAYS able experience with the work od | throughout Florida and will be of; Christmas holidays for the} invaluable help to the Key West) teachers and pupils of the public! groups in planning their cultural, ! schools of the state will begin on Sports, exhibition and carnival) December 16 and will continue} program. until the first Monday in Janu- lary, which will be January 2. SCOUT EXECUTIVE This statement was made this} {morning at the office of Melvin! | E. Russell, superintendent of pub-! lie instruction of Monroe county. | Rance Osborne, scout executive) NEW YORK—Herman Fliohn of the Dade-Broward-Monroe of this city was arraigned in Council, advises that he cannot court for stealing a bathtub to/ make the trip to Key West he buy liquor. The judge promised; was planning this week to in-!}Fiohn dismissal if he would sit! stall the new Boy Scout Troop 50, all day with a bottle of whisky, sponsored by the Elks’ Club, be- and not drink any. cause of illness. He hopes to be here next week. ‘ went to jail. COULDN'T DO IT j i (MASONIC OFFICER Most Worshipful George Fish, Grand Master of the State of Flor- jida F. and A. M., will arrive in Key West 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon to pay his official visit to the Twenty-Fourth District. Members of Key West lodges say that this will be the first | visit the Grand Master has paid to this city but are satisfied from his communications that he feels he will like the city. OFFICER SUSPENDED NEW YORK—When Policeman Edward Sholby of this city drop- while they investigated. | written will be prepared. All jagreements will be oral. Twenty- jtwo nations are represented. ROME.—Italy disclaimed any responsibility in the demonstra- jtion of Italian students yester- ‘day reque ing Italian ‘ colonies by France Meanwhile, certain sources indi- cated that Mussolini in private requested Hitler to use his news- papers to agitate against France in the matter. i NATIONAL } NEW YORK.—Stocks experi- fenced a favorable rise today | COLUMBUS.—Convicted _ poi- json slayer of 70-year-old Jacob | Warner, Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn | followniig the governor's decision ; not to intervene said that she had j been tried on . mony introduc- “Anything | ped a roll of $400 in a police sta- ed regarding three other deaths but that,” gasped Flolin, and he | tion, his superiors suspended him 2nd not the one she was on trial | for chutt announces also the names of the operating staff at the Casa as follows: Miss Bobbie Gordon, secretary; Newton Grobe, chief clerk; H. E. Lunt, room clerk; E. K. Gulley, Jr, cashier; H. E. Geissinger, night clerk; Josph Reiser, night auditor; Mrs. E. V. Kinsman, private bookkeeper; Lawrence Day, master of ceremonies; Miss May D. Beale, publicity; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buzzell, in charge of the bathing beach; Eddie Cassity, tennis professional; William Van- deBogart, dockmaster; - Charles Herscher, chef; Mrs. Ed McCarty, housekeeper; J. A. McDougall, maitre d’hotel; Harry Scales, bar- | keeper; the genial “Prince”, who has long been with Mr. Schutt, as superintendent of service. ‘ning December 20 and ending 44 Roosevel noise abatement and traffic regu- January 20. From there they wil: go to the Fair. | On the Florida state commit- tee are Mrs. Eve Alsmans Fuller, who heads the Federal Art Proj- ect in Florida, F. Townsend Morgan, director of the Key West Federal Art Center and C. Per- cival Deikel. | TEMPERATURES ry | Lowest Highest ; _ Station— ‘last night last 24 hours Abilene 36 64 it Boulevard surveyed |the Boulevard this morning in company with County Commis- sioner Braxton B. Warren and County prisoners guard Leroy Torres and formulated plans for its repairs before the winter sea- son. Mr. Warren proposed a plan | whereby the Boulevard might be jput in first class shape before is considered jthe opening of the winter sea- ‘san, ;.The plan will be laid be- \fare the proper authorities and a 'Tequest made that it be given prompt attention due the ‘urgency of the case. to Atlanta 32 Boston 40 Buffalo 32 Charleston 42 Chicago 34 Denver 38 Detroit 32 Galveston 60 Havana 66 Huron 30 ; Jacksonville 44 Kansas City _ 38 KEY WEST 59 j Little Rock 33 Mr. Torres informed the com- | mittee that last year with N.Y.A. youths ranging from 6-20 at times, many repairs to bad spots were made. In some cases the rutted top surface of stretches 50 yards or so long and the entire width of the boulevard were seraped off. These stretches which may be noted entirely around the boulevard were scrap- ed off nearly a year ago and to- day they are still holding up nicely. The work was done only Los Angeles _ 64 Louisville 38 Miami 50 Mpls.-St. P. 26 2 New Orleans . 49°{ V New York a? Pensacola 48 Pittsburgh a4 | St. Louis 38 Salt Lake City 34 ;San Francisca, 52 | Seattle 48 4 36 r 7 60 50 38 | Tampa | Washington | Williston | PARKS ON COP’S FOOT | CHICAGO—When he stopped his car suddeniy in this city, Walter Boston noticed a police- man waving his hands and yell- ing beside the car. “There's so much noise I can’t heer you What did you say?” asked Bos- ton. “I said that you've stopped your car on my foot,” replied the cop. with pick and shovel and county prisoners were also used on the job. The present plan would speed the work greatly THIEVES STEAL ALARM BELTON C.—A burglar alarm protected the automobile owned by A. T. Sublett of this city until thieves stole the alarm. Pate) . . vert pA |BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS iation committee, spoke of the necessity of enforcing the -extst- ing ordinances and detailed the measures that would be under taken with the cooperation of the mayor and city council. Th chairman was requested to con tinue the work. W. W. Demeritt reported. that his committee on the Evetgiades National Park was awaitirg i+ plies to letters which had been sent out before making 4 fepori Charles S. Taylor reported that the Yacht Basin Committe has secured a number of signatures to the request to the area cupt:- visor arking permission ty mak arrangements for the plaging of watchmen on the picrs and-other arrangements for the convenience of visiting yachtsmen, F. J. Dion reported for committee appomtsd from joint City Council, County missioners and Chamber merce meeting of Ne n was held for the sponsor » of projects. He said that the committee had decided tw have printed in English © om panish a circular advising th ople of the city of the situation. to calling & mans for consideration which might be presented tion of the committer was approved. It was reported by the tary that the supply of folders bearing the “Welcome Key West" was about exhausted and it was decided to adopt the -meth od of financing the printing of another 10,000 which was em- ployed getting out the first edition. George Patton brought up the matter of the constant risks as- sumed by school children riding bicycles in total dicregard of ali traffic rules, and the secretary was instructed to communicate | with the school superintendents jand' P.-T. A. officials, asking that the children be instructed to ex- ercise the necessary precautions i while riding. the t om. mbér 20, seere- in