The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 22, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 303. Five Men, Three Tricks OO OOO Oa aD ‘CAPTAIN SUTTON HAS To Be Used; Here Until April; Fight ‘Pest’ Mos- | quitoes Chiefly | James H. LeVan, passed assist- | ant sanitary engineer, who will! head the United States Public) Health Service anti-mosquito | unit, arrived in Key Wesi yester- | day to begin a @ztinévivegainst | “pest” mosquitoes. «6%: i Mr. LeVan told “The! Citizen | that there were three men here } and that two more would be here shortly. Thre trucks would be! utilized in the work. “Object of the work”, Mr. Le-; Van said, “is to reduce the num-! ber of disease bearing mosquitos since it has been proven that if the number is below a certain} figure that there will be no se- rious epidemics”. Pointing out that the men un- der him are all trained in the! spotting of any place or receptacle | wherein the “pest” mosquito may breed, Mr. LeVan said that they | would call at various houses and’ eliminate any of the places. Old tin cans and other water holding! receptacles in yards will be cart-! ed away by the group. “You would be surprised to’ find where mosquitoes breed”,’ Mr. LeVan said. “For that rea-| we request the pinay of | aan oe gh ns publie health service group! will be here until April when they will return to the Miami area, from where they have been, transferred to Key West. “Mi-| ami has a greater problem than; Key West”, LeVan continued. ; “It has passengers from many Caribbean areas which are in- fected with disease bearing mos- quitoes. Key West has some; travel from Cuba and other sinha also, however”. The Key West problem is ex-| tremely difficult, LeVan_ said,/| since, though mosquitoes on the island might be eradicated, a horde of others from some other: EXPECTED ALS OF THESE Abilene key might come down. Mos- | quitoes can fly forty miles, he! said. “We don't want the people | to think we've done nothing if} after our work the city is infested ! again”, he concluded. Headquarters for the group will| ricipal sponge dock yesterday’ Detroit be in thé old Naval Hospital site, where the community clinic! is now located. 134 PASSENGERS. WINTER TRAVEL STARTS TO: SHIP LINE | i Steamship Cuba, of the P. and | ©. S. S, Co. brought in this! mornnig from Tampa on her regular trip a total of 134. Of) these there were three first and two second cabin passengers for) Key West, and 109 first cabin and) 20 second cabin passengers for} Havana. ‘ Key West arrivals were: Oscar/ Ayala, William Santana, Mrsi¢Highest price for HAD AMAZING RISE) } Did you ever notice the little guy | { { trampy looking, who hangs around the Tor- tugas passenger boat. “Tal- ofa?” Well, don’t think you can put anything over on him because he is Captain Cc. B. Sutton, owner of Sut- ton Lines, Inc.. which oper- ates the Tortugas line and he’s in a higher door than an average business man. He doesn’t say much and he ‘has an: innocent grin | Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. COURT HOUSE WORK GOES ON SATISFACTORILY POURING OF CONCRETE IN | ERECTION OF WALLS IS TO START SHORTLY AFTER CHRISTMAS ments and additional building. The Davis Construction Com- pany, contractors for the work lare expediting the contract as rapidly as possible. this work with Federal funds, on October 13, and the architect, which might lead one to think he cambe taken advan- tage of. But before you start pulling the: wool over his ‘eyes -you'd better wait, because hevhas a mind like a steel trap and he knows his boat business from steam whistle to the lock nut on the propellor shaft. Coming out of the World War where he was an oiler in the Navy he had exactly $5 when he had cleared off his debts. Investing this huge sum in an obsolete boat which no other person would bid on, he first ran an excur- sion in neighboring waters of Bayonne, N. J. From then on he kept edging out until he is now owner of the Sut- ton Lines, Inc.. which runs the excursion boats between New York and Staten Island, a corporation easily worth a Russell T. Pancoast, with the co- | |operation of county commission-' ers, and the aid of the PWA of- ficials, had all the plans and nec- lessary documents prepared and the contract was signed on No- | vember 30 with actual construc- tion beginning on December 6. This, it is said, may be a record; for speed in the State of Florida. | To date all excavations for the footings have been made, and the service pipes for the lavatorie: and toilets in the annex have been roughed in and forms are |now being placed for the initial | pouring of the walls of the annex. \It is expected that the first pour- ing for the walls will be started immediately after Christmas. As in all Public Work Adminis- | tration work, this is a contract. The workmen are secured from \the United States Employment office from the certified rolls. quarter of a million dollars. A shipmate of his, J. J. ' Shandley of the Shandley Auto Laundry on Duval street, told The Citizen this amazing story. Mrs. Sutton is always after Captain Sut- Soe ac cmiae eee porigs ag eos gyi priey rey everyone will tell you he’s all right, too, both in business sense and in being | an O. K. feller. » ‘ sseecewes | PRICES OFFERED — YESTERDAY FOR | SPONGE REFUSED SAME PRODUCTS, ALONG, WITH OTHERS, WILL BE OFFERED TOMORROW ' Although offerings at the mu-, were not as many as were antici- | pated, there were several lots | | which were of the better class and grade, but were refused by! the captains of the ships which | brought them “in. The refused bids were for three | | different lots'of wool sponge as! Los Angeles j follows: One f 210 bunches for | $587; another with 40 bunches for | which a price of $105.66 was of-| | fered and one lot with 20 bunches for which was offered $53. Offerings of grass were in four | lots of 312 bunches; of yellow in seven lots with 174 bunches and in wool of 16 lots with 381 bunch- es. Bids made,for the wool offer- | ings totalled $847.92 and refusals totalled $745.66, hence the rev- enue to the captains of the ships which offered the smaller lots amounted to $102.26. Offerings of yellow sponge to- talled $70.85, and the largest price paid ‘was $17.75 for 39 bunches. grass Sponge Santana, Edwina Martinez anti} was $26.50 for 221 bunches, the John Silver. Manifest of the vessel showed} the following items: West, 25 tons of freight.and three sacks of mail; for. Havana, one ton) of freight and five sacks of mail. Shortly after 11 o'clock the Cuba sailed for Havana, carrying on the passenger list 103 first and 13 second class bookings from Key West, which added to the ar- rivals from Tampa to make a to-! tal of 326 passengers for Ha- Vana. There was also carried from Key West 14 automobiles, which were taken on the vessel at this port. Por Key! total for all being but $50.35 for 312 bunches. The total number of bunches of the three grades offered was 867 and had they been all sold the revenue would have been $969.12. From this amount must be de- ducted the rejected amounts of! $745.66, leaving a balance of $223.56 for the owners of the sponge sold. It is understood that the lots} for which prices were refused | j will be again placed on the dock | tomorrow when it is expected there will be larger and many more offerings than were dispiay- (ed yesterday. | Chicago Wages paid vary from 30 cents an hour for common labor to been supplied by the Employ- ment Office, haye been very sat- antoctcry to the contractor, it is sai When cémpletéd, said Engineer Inspector. Chas. A. Baker of the WPA, Monroe County will have a_ court house comparable with jany in the state, also the crowd- ed condition of the various coun- ty offices will be relieved. Rus- sell Pancoast has a resident ar- chitect, Earle Wolfe, on the job continuously to supervise and to look after the ons interest, Mr. egicr see said. TEMPERATURES POC eccccccccccccceesooce Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 hours‘ 44 50 26 50 24 32 . 18 30 36 60 26 32 20 28 , 34 32 . 56 60 70 on - 28 36 40 70 26 36 63 72 32 48 50 58 22 36 54 76 12 26 50 72 26 40 46 68 26 34 24 34 50 60 40 44 52 70 34 46 14 34 Atlanta ' Boston , Buffalo Charleston Denver Galveston Havana sie Huron Jacksonville Kansas City | KEY WEST . | Little Rock Louisville Miami Mpls.-St. P. | New Orleans New York Pensacola Pittsburgh Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington Williston AS PREDICTED ASHEVILLE, N.. C. — Aunt Sarah Gudgar, 122-year-old for-|¢ mer colored slave, died recently in this city as she predicted she would—“propped up in bed tak- in’ life fair and easy ‘til Ole | Marster calls me away.” WE TAKE PLEASURE of BEA LYONS Feature pianist-Radio and Stage Artist with JIMMY THOMAS i Cocktail Hour Sto 7? P. M. Daily CLUB CAYO HUESO Jefferson Hotel Building i Good progress is being made jon Key West's first Public Works + Administration project, which is | the county court house improve- pouring of concrete started. All; KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1938 Cocccccccoccccaseogsocoe NEWS FLASHES i { (By Associated Prensa) i i COrecccsconesovescascoee| PARIS. — Premier Daladier’s | government, again treading on! of; confidence on the tax issue by} thin ice, was given a vote the Chamber of Deputies but: KEY WEST PHOTOS SENT BIG AGENCY | SMIRNOFF, ENGLAND SEND) 600,000 CIRCULATION AGEN. | | | CY SEVEN PHOTOS ‘ “only by a slim majority of one} vote. Because of the narrow ma- | jority the French Premier may ; seek another ballot. | seer eens TOKIO.—Japanese government announced today that it may abandon its territorial rights in China if certain concessions are granted by foreign powers. WASHINGTON.—Sccretary of Treasury Morgenthau will ask congress to extend the devalua- June. WASHINGTON. |.—Federal Com- munications Commission meets today to hear arguments and de- cide if super-power broadcast will be permitted. Cincinnati station. seeks permission to broad- cast on 500,000 watts. WASHINGTON.—At least a ‘dozen senators will support Sena- tor Clark’s war referendum bill which weuld make it mandatory that a nation-wide vote be taken ‘ before this country would engage ' in war. Tne bill provides that vote. would not be necessary in case of attack on this country by ' foreign pewer. | GHICAGO.—Charges of at- tempt at bank robbery will be pre- ferred agginst a woman who tried to bluff her way by demanding the surrender of $5,000 or the bank would be blown to bits by two bottles of nitro-glycerine. Contents of bottles turned out to {$1.25 an hour for tradesmen. The pe water. | type of workmen which have CHICAGO.— Fourteen-year-old | Lucy Nielson, who made her ap- pearanee this week with the; ‘American Symphony Orchestra, } claims that she would rather be} a doctor than a_ violinist and sometime in the future she i tencs to be a doctor. In her spare time she collects ‘spiders! and has over 200 varieties. MISSOURI FOLK : | GET SAILFISH | MR. AND MRS. I. D. BENSON, | JR. ENJOY WEEK OF \ SPLENDID FISHING | A six-and-a-half- foot sailfish, | weighing 65 pounds, | Mrs. Benson, were fishing the ; Gulf Stream yesterday. | The Bensons have been staying lat the Overseas Hotel and enjoy- ing the famed fishing of these waters. They left this morning for a short visit at Havana. They are from Auguilla, Mo. Amberjack, barracuda, grouper have also been caught by | party this week. G cpoPrn L at? BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS Cevceccccoccoccssoesccooe That's what Fire t was caught} i by I. D. Benson, Jr., who, with: the Howard England and Robert i Smirnoff, local photographers, pmiailed seven distinctive photos ; of Key West tday to The Ameri-' ‘can Observer, school newspaper! ‘and magazine, which has 600,000 circulation, and which requested the photos through The Key West Citizen. | Mr. England submitted a photo of the Hock or Coral Home and also a beautiful interior shot of the Aquarium. Mr. Smirnoff The PWA made the offer to do tion fund, which expires next’ Sent an aerial view of Key West, j including a view of Ernest Hem-; ingway’s home, a shot of the Key’ West inland lighthouse, a photo of a sponge sale, a turtle boat un- joading, and one of the Yacht Basin filled with yachts. The Observer sends newspa- pers to the High School and Col- leges of the country on current history topics, stressing the tour- ist attractions of the various re- sorts in the United States. LITTLE IS GIVEN | NEW APPOINTMENT NAMED MA:iAGER OF LOCAL OFFICE OF STATE EM- PLOYMENT SERVICE i ' ment. William V. Littie has been ap- pointed office. manager of the Key West office of the State Em- ployment Service, it was an- ‘nounced today by Wendell C. Heaton, chairman of the Florida | industrial Commission. . His appointment was made un- der. the merit system as required "py the law. He stood examina- tion for the position and his se- | lection was made from the list of ' eligibles. “The purpose of the Key West office”, Mr. Little stated, “in ad- | dition to receiving claims for un- |employment benefits, will be to ‘cut down unemployment. by giving free assistance to any person seeking a job and to any employer looking for a par- ticular type of worker. “When a job applicant comes ‘to the office he will be directed by the receptionist to a trained interviewer who will accept his application. A record of his training and experience will be filed for our use in answering calls from employers”. Mr. Little has just returned from Tallahassee where he at- tended a school of instruction conducted by experienced offi- cials of the United States Em- ployment Service. COUNTY PAYS. ELECTION BILLS Payment of all bills in connec- tion with the election of Nov- ember 8 was announced this morning by County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer. Checks for the amounts due each person are av- ailable in the office of the clerk Mr. Sawyer also said that em- ployes of the county who are paid from the Road Fund may receive their checks for the months of October and Novem-, ber. They are now ready for distribution. “Is Marvelous’’ Chief Harry Baker had to say following the demonstration of OUR NEW PARAMOUNT SAFETY DEVICE This ingenous impzovement will cut the film and isolate the reel as soc» as any amount of heat comes in contact with the inflammable film. THIS INNOVATION FIREPROOF 1s A PART OF OUR NEW EQUIPMENT FOR JECTORS BOTH PRO. —and is in line with the PROGRESSIVE POLICY always evident at the PALACE THEATRE id Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average... range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE GENTS Increased Naval Appropriations For Key West Seem Dick Metz Wins Rod And Re Reel Given By Key West Golf Club TIFT ATA S 7 2 Twenty-Pound Bonito Big- gest Fish In Fishing Con- test Among Visiting Pro- fessional Golfers Dick Metz, brilliant young eis fessional golfer, who had the low score of 70 in yesterday's ex: hibition golf match sponsored by the Key West Golf Club and Key West Winter Program Com-' | mittee, caught a whopping big 20-| pound bonito yesterday and re-; ceived the prize of a Pfleuger rod and reel for the golfer getting the! ; bigges: fish in a fishing tourna-: The presentation was made this afternoon at the charter boat dock by Bob Spottswood, repre- senting the Key West Golf Club. ishing yesterday were Billy: Burke, Gus Novatny, golfers,' and Superintendent of Public In- struction Melvin Russell and! photographer Robert Smirnoff in! Kaul Vasquez’ charter boat, “Bar-| bare”, . and .Duck © Metz, Craig? Wood and Eddie Bush in ‘the boat! “Mary. Ann”, Captain Spencer. | Second heaviest catch w made by Eddie Bush, who caught} the largest kingfish, a 17-pound-} er. Burke had the first strike and catch and landed a_ small barracuda which he promptly! heaved overboard. Novatny had} the largest barracuda, a_ 17- | pounder, which beat Smirnoff’s | :’cuda by a quarter-pound. Burke! had the biggest grouper but it “got away” when it cut the line on the reefs. Wood had tuna, big gruper, Spanish mackerel and barracuda. The golfers enjoyed the fishing so much that they were out to- day again for a half-day’s ang- ling. Burke will leave this after- noon to assume pro duties at Belle Aire, Fla. Wood goes to Palm Beach and Metz will play in the Texas Open at Houston. A new steel rod built “especial- ly for Key West fishing” by Billy Burke showed its durability by i bending nearly u-shaped on some of the larger fish. The rod and reel prize was donated by the Key West Golf Club, Thompson Hardware Company and S. H Kress TWO DEFENDANTS HELD FOR TRIAL CHARGED WITH ROBBING GROCERY STORE ON TUESDAY NIGHT Charged with breaking and en- tering with intent to commit a felony, namely grand larceny, Leo Parker and Charles Halli, were arraigned in the court of Peace Justice Enrique Esquinal- do yesterday afternoon, and were placed under bonds of $250 each to await the action of the jury at the next term of Criminal Sourt. When the accused were ar- raigned, Hall was called and en- tered a plea of not guilty. Par- ker, however, entered a plea of guilty and his explanation of the incidents of the robbery were clear and admitted of no con- clusion but that Hall was equally guilty of the charge. The men were caught after a pery was committed Tuesday ght when the robbers broke to the grocery store of Mrs. rgil Lowe, on Division street. The loot was later recovered and Hall and Parker arrested and chafged with the felony. YAWL ‘HURRICANE’ RIBES OUT STORM T. F. Davidson, president of the Museum of Natural History in New York Ciiy, who will be in Key West Fri- day. doesn't believe in names. His 71-foot yawl. mamed the “Hurricane”, escaped the New England hurricane! this summer, while his smaller schooner, “Water Gyp- sy”, foundered. Now if the Water Gypsy goes down and the Hurricane stays on fop the natural history museum head row would be inclin- ed to disregard the potency of a name. The Hurricane arrived Tuesday and awaits iis owner and party, who will be taken to Havana io spend the Christmas holidays. Captain of the Hurricane, which was in Borton harbor at the time of the disaster to its fellow ship, is C. McLaughlin. GLI SIL SI ISI LED, ‘COUNCIL HEARS PARKING METER TAKEN UP DURING MEETING LAST NIGHT; FEW CHANG- ES NECESSARY BEFORE AC- CEPTANCE City Council met in special session last night for ihe purpose of taking up the contract submit- ted by representatives of the Dual Parking Meter Company for installing parking meters on the streets of Key West. After reading of the contract, it was decided that few minor changes would be required, and the contract was turned over to City Attorney Henry H. Taylor, Jr., for correction. He was in- structed to draw up an ordinance in connection therewith, which is to be submitted to the council for final acceptance. The contract calls,for the in- stallation of parking meters on both sides of Duval street from Angela to Front streets, and on Fleming street from Simonton to Whitehead streets, and also on Simonton and many other thor- oughfares. Parking in front of the postof fice will be limited to fifteen minutes, while most of the other sections will call for 60 minutes’ parking. A charge of five cents will be required in all instances There will approximately 300 meters installed, according to the pla Cates Loans Money The matter of making a payrol of one month's ty to each employe of the city was taken up, but it was shown that after going over the accounts there was a deficiency in the amount of $3,000 paying for» full month This afternoon, howev than Cates came to the “boys’” rescue and ottered to ‘oan the necessary amount to the city to meet the required payroll, which will furnish Christmas money, to the extent of one month's salary, to each active empwye of — the city be toward er, Jona Watch for the opening of FRED MARVIL'S CABANA COCKTAIL LOUNGE 605 Duval Street | Shown That Every Effort able Is Now Being Made To Improve Station As Na- tional Defense (By Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C.. Dec. 22. —Florida sources here in Wash- ington generally concede that Key West will@iéeselected as tho site for increagethimaval appro- although no official word can be obtained uniil the priations, Secretary of the Navy submits the Rear Admiral A. J. Hepburn report to Conyress at the coming ' session. The report was submitted to the Secietary of the Navy fast week by Kear Admiral Hepburn, ‘who, with a commitiee of navai | officials, had worked on a survey of national some months, It is known that Miami and Jacksonville have both att¢mptet considerable political pre:suie to secure favorabie action from the naval committee. Make Examination At the bequest of Senaor | Charies UV. Anurews, a member defense needs tor ‘ud wie Senate Naval affairs Com ) ines, CONTRACT. READ. tue Hepburn group made an extensive examination of ih air base possibibties-et-Key West last summer. Andiews' office at the Capitol said tocay that while the senator represented every seciion of r.o.ida, he nevertheless had spe- eificaiy asked the admirai’s group to go to Key West. Thee are two theories about Key West's possibilities in con- nection with national defense heeds. One holds that in case of war, the Army and Navy both would abandon the extreme.end of the Florida peninsula and con- centrate on protecting the near shore of the country. This theory continues with the belief. that Key West 1s situated in a com- paratively un-important section of the siate and country On the other hand, persons who believe that Key West: wili be selected as the location of an air and naval base, claim that th town is ideally situated on the first line of defense”. They point to the fact that the Navy has spent millions 6f dol jars in cataidb pe) submarine base there, t would ~ not casily give yj site and more important thi Ancreaked ‘ae tivity in building ah fair’ BG would protect the submarine in vestment already made. May Stop In The Andrews’ office said Wday thet it had reason to believe that the Navy would order part_of th Pacif.c fieet to Key West during the Atlantic manuevers — thi spring. The maneuv ar 1eved ordered to impress certain nations that the United States i elermined to follow through on its policy of hemisphere defense ow being expounded daily at Lima Furthering the interests of Key West.as the logical air base loca tion, Floridians here point to the inet that planes from all over the country ‘that are to gather at Mi- emiin a few weeks for the na- tional air races, will also go # Key West! The exact number that will fly to Key West has not been deteemined,' ateording to Florida offiers. In addition to recommending sites for naval air bases as well as increased battleship facilities, the Hepburn report is said to recommend the building of many new esi war craft, air and sea. s TEALS BIBLE DES MOINES, la—A thief broke into Herbert Clark's locked automobile in this city and took nothing but a Bible. FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES - TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY - $5.00 ROUND TRIP -- TICKETS — INFORMATION -- PRICE TOURS -- 505 DUVAL ST.- PHONE 124