The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 27, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire . Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West rot Citttern Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit The Key THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. VOLUME LIX. No. 306. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1938 PRICE FIVE CENTS Educationab:Studeats:Paid Visit Here; Left FoneCuba Group Arrived Sunday Aft- | GUIDE LISTS’ ernoon And Visited Plac-| H es Of Interest; Left Mon- | CITY POINTS - OF INTEREST Bese: |FORMER NEWSPAPERMAN, Seeing the sights in Key‘West’ ayLD LAMPTON, EMPHA.| and visiting all places of interest) sizes SCORES OF BEAUTI- Sunday was a group of co-educa-» ryt, AND UNIQUE POINTS tional students _and teachers, sponsored by the Y. M. C. a) Auld Lampton, former news- | of the University of Florida.! paperman,/told The Citizen re- Th id Sand: mate: in the! cently thathhe has established a nie ” | tour and@irguide service for Key} | ' ) | _A. O'Donnel, Mrs. W. “Four bells and all's not well “among: some Chesapeake oyster fishermen. conservation officials trying to ‘curb illegal dredging tied napolis, Md: *..” ches SriAS : CUBA TRANSPORTS 303 PASSENGERS. THIS NUMBER LEFT MONDAY ~~ . ON STEAMER ENROUTE REBELS NE ‘ARIN ri : “SPANISH WAR WIN Arriving’ on ‘the Steamship | « ; i | Cube, of the P. and.O. S..S. Co», CAPTURE IMPORTANT. BASES from Tampa Monday were 178) passengers. There.were five first, ‘@h@ four’ second cabin ‘bookings ; for Key West and 166 ‘first and . . three second cabin bookings ‘for, eee 2 ' Havana. 4 HENRAYE. Dec. 27.—The Reb-| Key West armvals,weré: John. el forces today were in sight of Anderson and Mrs. Anderson, .l.., éheir objectives in their present P. Lyons, Win The War campaign along a Mrs. T. S. Caro, Amelia Hernian- wide front by their. capture of dez, Paul Edgar, Mercedes Lanis | Several. vital Catalonian bases of and Mrs. E. Thompson. | supply .of the Loyalists. Shown on the maniiest of the! The, campaign opened a few ship ‘were the following. items: | days’ ago and was impeded for a For, Key West, 35 tong of ‘freight, | time by snows and ice of a cold oné“automobile ‘and two'sacks of{ Wve. which swept Europe. The mail; for Havana, 130 sacks’ of! Catalonian sector is a rich section mail. ae oe astern -Spain, strongly When the vessel sailed for Ha-‘\ fortified..and a means of entry vana Shortly after’ 11 o'clock, fot. supplies. for. the Loyalist there were 113 first cabih tind 21 armies. HERE TOMORROW There was, a total of 303 passen- OP SUPPLY IN CATALON- _| ‘>, ¥AN SECTOR | ALL SAFE IN "HIGHWAY SP ‘Abad spill on the lower Keys ata bad curve turned cut ail right for Peace Justice E. R. Lowe and Mrs. Lowe Saturday morn- ing. Coming around a curve, Judge Lowe, who was driving, found tlie car skidding on the wet Faghway. Attempting to stay on the road he was not successful afd the “REY WEST RESIDENT DIES THIS MORNING AT 3:30 O'CLOCK Mrs. -Ledora M. Roberts, 73, died this morning at 3:30 o'clock in the residence, 716 Fleming street. Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock from St. Paul’s Episcopal church, where the body will be placed at 9:30. Rev. Arthur B Dimmick will officiate. Christmas Holidays Recreation ~ On Wide Front Over Weekend State up many boats at An- Good Sailfishing; Bal! Game; One Fire, One Accident; City Dif- ferent From Last. Year. Christmas. holidays. vacation recreation was on a wide front over the week-end. Churches held elaborate page- ants, programs, choral selections in‘honor of Christmas Day. With the influx of many tourists bene- fit dances: given Christmas Eve were well filled with a new spirit evident at the- contacts with- outside folk. Key Westers found a new and different Key West this Christmas. Many. new forms of recreation were offered them with scores of new places catering to the public. Gift giving was hardly a problem with many new gift shops carrying the latest in dress and smaller gifts ‘for women and men. In the realm of sports a hum- dinger of a ball game was played Sunday when the Roadside Pi- rates defeated the Key West en- try in the Miami baseball league 5-4 with a ninth inning rally. Three other ball games were played yesterday and Sunday. Eight charter boats from the Charter Boatmen’s Associatiop went out Sunday and a large number went out yesterday with the total number, including pleas- ure boats amounting to around 30. The charter boats fished the Gulf stream. Prize catches of sailfish were noted in the Christ- mas catches. A small fire at the corner of Du and Catherine added to the excitement and Judge E. R. Lowe's accident on the lower Keys in which his car went over Close’ afternoon and left yesterday w..+ which will adequately cover | yy <1, | the city. Their tour through Cuba will) ME: Gainittin explained that time visits will be made to cities' extremely comprehensive and | and points of interest within a that tourists would go away with ‘The tour is one of a series, all ed-| beauty and uniqueness of the ucational, planned by the organi- | Island City. i ntemplation, said; est will be covered: San Car-) Fe. Sissenson. one of the!los Institute; Cradle of Cuban bers who left sterday Plant making ice from salt water; aaee Waldo Fe cabees director; | longest street in the world; John Yarborough, Dr. and Mrs, | ing “Birds of America” etchings j pate ny Dr. Prdsien Doe, Lucy | Only Inland lighthouse in U. S.;; d Mr. Si . |Station, Sub base, Marine Ho: Pep ersey: ae hier | pital, Fort Taylor; Ernest Hem- PROVIDING FOR | play and museum; Turtle crawls; | Dr. Mudd’s treasure box, Mary | tality House; Old Armory; Fish Market; Curio. Shop; Cable; MONROE COUNTY fess; Aou%22" county cour. Re eh ieee ma ie [house>City~ Hell; Porter Dock;! REPORT COVERS AMOUNT TO dens; Old Cigar Factories; Bay-| TAKE CARE-OF OLD PER | view Park; Jose Marti Monu- IND | Natural Coral House; Parker og mat ose eae | Plantation; Casa Marina Hotel; PENDENT §FTLDAEN | Skeet Shoot Grounds; Rest Beach <b, , SMS and Cabanas; Pan-American Air- JACKSONVILLE, Dec. a1 — | Sune: Only pineapple cannery ill ive . in U.S. er itcie Pgroaana during |“ Million Dolla? Roosevelt Boule- 1939, on the basis of October Vard; Reptile Institute; Salt Beds; grants, in Old Age Assistance, Trained Fish; A grave above pendent Children, according to West; Old Island Trading Post; figures made public here by the Art Gallery; Tug Warbler. ministers these three public as- blooms in the city which will be sistance categories. The county Pointed out are the Rubber Tree; year surplus commodities and Tree; Limburger Tree; Cork clothing fashioned in WPA sew-! Tree; Sacred Tree of India; on the basis of November dis-, Ties; Sugar Apples; _Pomegran- tribution, : bs jate; Sapodillas; Breadfruit Tree; Aid to Dependent Children and White Orchid | Tree; Australian ! Aid to the Blind will be in-|Pine; Woman's Tongue Tree; jati i j. | Almond; \t Blooming Cereus; appropriations as pending appli- Al rf Us; cations are disposed of, and will Soursop; Barlyan Tree. portion to appropriations made MRS. E R HUNTER by the 1939 legislative session, | je Be ° plus commodities and clothing DIED SUNDAY NIGHT will be dependent upon the ac- in January. strides made by state and federal governments during the present the needy and the corresponding curtailment of the county’s re- distressed. During October, the last month lable, Monroe County re- cipients received $6,907 in Old pendent Children; $1,584 in Aid to the Blind; $2,872 in surplus distributed among 754 families each estimated to contain 42 dividuals. Mr. and Mrs. Curry Skelton of 1418 Pine street announce the @ nine-pound girl, who is to be christened Mary Louise. to be getting along nicely. morning for Havana. the many points of interest in oceupy eight days during which the service was expected to be! radius of 300 miles of Havana.|many pleasant memories of the zation, and there is one to Eu-! The following points of inter- group. | Liberty; Southernmost Home; Ice Amy Fetzer, Madge Baker, Lor-'J. Audubon’s residence in finish- | Simonson, David Bell, Al Holmes, | Maine Memorial; U.S. Naval | ingway residence; lighthouse di MANY NEEDY IN | Dunn House, Lowe Home, Hospi- House; Aquarium. « \ | Radio... Station; Botanical, ee ;ments;. Coral Isle Casino; East and West Martello Towers; (Special to The Citizen) ‘port; Army Barracks; Bahama proximately $102,252 during Aid to the Blind and Aid to De-' 8round; Oldest house in Key State Welfare Board, which ad- Among) the beautiful tropical will also receive during the new Geiger Tree; Mahogany; Sausage ing rooms to the value of $34,472, Spanish Lime; Key West Lime; Grants for Old Age Assistance, Canary Isle Date; Seagrape; creased from present legislative Avocado; | Jacaranda; Tropical be increased or decreased in pro- sae while future distribution of sur- tion of Congress, which convenes The statistics reveal the vast WIFE OF MEMBER OF CAR-., year in providing assistance for sponsibility for the care of the for which complete figures are Age Assistance; $30 in Aid to De- commodities and WPA clothing, persons, or a total of 3,167 in- SKELTON FAMILY birth, on Friday, December 23, of Mother and baby are reported FT. NIVAL SITUATED ON DIVISION ST. | upside down: in a lagoon. car went over the side, turning Reaching over and-opening the | door, Judge Lowe pulled Mrs. Mrs. Frieda R. Hunter, 26, as- sociated with her husband, with the carnival at Division and Du- val streets, was taken, suddenly Shin ak night, and died a short while later in a local ite | The body was Pigld inthe Pritchard Funeral Home where it has been prepared for inter- ment, and willbe’ sént, accom- —— by the husband John A. lunter, to the former home at one Clinton Ayqpye,; Cleveland, | io. JAA AAP EOL 0 CORSAGES For Your New Year’s Eve Parties Orchids. Gardenias, Violets, Roses. Lillies of the Valley EARLY ORDERS FILLED KEY WEST FLORIST 616 Duval Street Phone $28 °SIPILDaILaLID UISES - TUESDAY, TH Lowe out with him. Neither of them were hurt although bot! were badly shaken up. The car | was brought into Key West by a wrecker. } FIRE YESTERDAY. ON DUVAL STREET “A fire was discovered yester- day afternoon about 1 o'clock in the residence occupied by the Cuervo family at the corner of Duval and Catherine streets. The fire was in the kitchen of the two-story building, with little damage resulting. The blaze was quickly extinguished, said Chief Baker. The alarm was sent in from Box 224, corner of Duval and Catherine streets; with the: fire apparatus from Nos. 1 and 3 sta- tions responding to the cail. { | three daughters, Mrs. H. R. Dar- URSDAY, SATURDAY - $5.00 ROUND TRIP - TI Survivers of Mrs. Roberts are on a curve were the only acci- dents. Duval street, in an old Latin custom, was filled with pleasure seekers and a carnival air with bright colored confetti thrown around reigned ling. of Hawthorne, Nevada; Mrs William Mosher of Coral Gables, Fia.; Mrs. Hilda Salas, and one son, Ivan Roberts, of Key West There are also five grandchildren. The formal Opening Dinner and Dance at La Casa Maring will take place this year on Saturday evening, December thirty-first. A cordial invitation is extended to the people of Key West to participate as has been the annual custem. Dinner will be served at 8:00 o'clock and dane- ing is from 9:30 ’till 2. The charge will be $2.50 per person. Please call Mr. Grobe, phone 780, for your table resergations. This is necessary. CASA MARINA PETER SCHUTT. Manager. | | CKETS - INFORMATION GREAT PROBLEM IN ANSWERING SOME LETTERS Here PRIZE OFFERED BY COM- MERCE BODY FOR MOST SATISFACTORY ANSWER TO LETTER RECEIVED “Some of the letters that come , to the Chamber of Commerce are quite a problem to answer,” said the secretary this morning. We get by after a fashion with the lad who wants to know if this is a good place to raise dogs; and ‘when it comes to fishing, we can really throw our weight into tne reply. Indignant letters from people who want to know how we expect them to come when they have been informed that the ‘toll on the Oversea Highway is some fantastic figure, are easy enough. But the Chamber of {Commerce will award a prize of | ONE DOLLAR to the writer who will suggest the most satisfactory ‘ answer to the following letter and if there is no answer deemed sat- isfactory, there will be no dollar. Here is the letter: “We expect to live in Key West, Florida, for about six weeks * * * we want an inex- | _— ‘pensive place for that period of time. Our idea is merely to camp out in a small beach shack | with room for servant, child and ‘ourselves. Kindly state amount ‘ of rent.” i Perhaps the contestant for the prize does not know the answer to that one, so here is another chance: “I would like to have some literature concerning a pleasant location of a furnished cottage. We are a family of three adults and a well trained, well behaved little dog. We will spend several |months. We want a small fur- ;nished cottage, on or very near jthe beach. One comfortable, | large room with one double bed, , one single; or thrée single beds. (Pete, the dog, will bring his own jbed) a kitchenette and small bath, or shower, we would re- spect others’ property as we do our own and can leave here most any time.” “Of course, I can always take another aspirin,” Singleton said “but, seriously, this is about what twenty-five per cent of them want and what Key West must prepare to furnish. TUG WARBLER LEFT MONDAY WRECKING VESSEL GOES TO TAMPA TO BE PLACED IN DRYDOCK Wrecking Tug Warbler. sailed yesterday morning 7 o'clock for ISLAND “CITY PAINTING TO WORLD’S FAIR TOWNSEND MORGAN'S WORK AMONG 11 CHOS- EN FROM FLORIDA; PRE- VIEW IN RICHMOND F. The Southern States Preview Committee has announced that 11 works of art from Florida‘ have been'chosen for a New *‘¥ork World’s Fair exhibition of ¢on temporary art and a work’'by Townsend Morgan is included in the list. Mr.’Morgan, who is director of the Federal Community Art Cen- ter in Key West, told The Citizen that he did not know what type of painting the successful work was. He submitted several in various media on Key West sub- jects. The Glorida group will be ex- hibited shortly in Richmond, Va., in a preview hanging and from there will go to the World's Fair, which opens this spring. Of 58 works submitted from the State of Florida 10 of the 11 which were chosen were by Federal Art Proj- ect artists. The exhibition is representing contemporary art. “NEWS FLASHES My Axnociated Perens) Seeeeceneetenessece BERLIN.—The Nazi” newspa- pers lampooned America for fail- ing to gain its desired ends of a united front against totalitarian nations in the Lima Pan-Ameri- can conference, LIMA.—National delegates to- day were preparing to sign a dec- laration of new world solidarity and other agreements at the Pan- American Conference here. PARIS.—French troops were reported sent to French Somali- land when strong concentrations of Italian troops were noted on the frontiers of the sector. ) VIENNA.—Twenty-two mem- bers of a sabotage ring is now the total number captured in this city. Among . them’ are many young spies. Many have escaped but secret service operatives are staging a thorough hunt for them. ba Bichon . ,; GENEVA.—Protests from the Tampa where she will be placed tLeague of Nations were sent,to- in drydock for usual repair and overhaul, Sailing on the Warbler were a number of members of the wrecking crew, who are being taken to be held in readiness in the event the vessel receives a call envecee TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest last night Jast 24 hours 20 42 42 58 30 38 30 58 8 4 16 38 68 -8 60 10 70 22 50 18 70 --8 50 3B 48 % 4 1B 48 8 a] 42 --20 Station Abilene Atlanta Boston , Buffalo Charleston | Chicago | Denver | Detroit Galveston Havana Huron Jacksofville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Miami Mpis.-St. P. New Orlears New York Pengacola Pittsburgh St. Louis Sait Lake City San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington Williston day to the Danzig govern which is today preparing a f i attack on Jews, causing mafy to leave the cit TOKIO.—United States and British demands for immediate action on discrimination and ‘ closed” China policy of the Jap anese government in China were received at this city. Both coun- tries insisted that nothing be left for the future to be “ironed out” WASHINGTON. President Roosevelt is scheduled to address Congress January 4. Rumors are rife today in the capital on just how far Roosevelt will swing to the right to placate those Con gressmen opposing him. JERSEY CITY—“Majyor Frank | Hague was ‘called a “witch chas er” today in référence to his meth ods, in handling business and po liticul groups. ee GALA OPENING of the WINTER SEASON Key West's Most Beautiful Club, The Habana-Madrid is proud to present LARRY SOTHERN and his Music In The Southern Manner Direct From The TOWN CASINO CLUB— MIAMI BEACH “Dancing under the Palms— Dusk ‘ill Dewn” -. PRICE TOURS -- 505 DUVAL ST. -~ Man«Found«Dead In Bed ‘Webterday ‘Afternoon | Body Of Norman Schef- freen Of Boston To Be Shipped To Miami For Cremation Norman D. Scheffreen, 53, ot Boston, Mass., was discovere! dead in his bed at the Southern Inn on Southard street shortly after 12 o'clock yesterday. The information was at once sent the “office of the sheriff, and Coro- iy polmer Cfficio Franklin Arenberg. | summoned to the scene. After an examination as to the , cause of death had been made, it was decided to have an autopsy held and this morning, this was done by Dr. Wm. R. Warren, who ; Stated that death was due to car- diac dilation. No coroner's jury was considered necessary. From papers in the possession the deceased, including a money order and check for $300, it was found that he had a sister in Miami who was at once con- tacted by long distance, and her representative gave instructions to the Lopez Funeral Home to send the body to Miami for cre- mation. of USE PLANE UNDER FALSE PRETENSES | HEARING IN COURT THIS AFTERNOON All kinds of vehicles have been allegedly stolen in Key West, but this afternoon in Judge Raymond R. Lord's court two men will be given a hearing on the use of an aeroplane without the consent of the owner. The story is to the effect that on Saturday Fernando Stirrup and Armando Alfonso went to the hanger were the airplane, be- longing to Daniel Lawson, is kept and represented to the person in charge that they had the permis sion of the owner to use the plane. The person in charge agreed to the use of the plane under the representations of Stirrup and Alfonso, who took the plane off the ground and proceeded to Mi- ami. They remained until yes- terday when they returned, and placed the plane in the hanger. The aerialists were later ar rested by Deputy Sheriff Ray Elwood, and taken to the county jail where they were later re leased on bond of $100 each, to appear before the judge this af- ternoon for hearing. Both of the men arrested claim they had permission from Mr Lawson to use the plane. Mr Lawson declares positively that this is not true, and signed the affidavit to this effect, on which the young men were arrested PAUL REVERE MADE TEETH BOSTON .—Paul Revere, who is known for his ride and for his lver-smithing, also made false teeth. WPA workers conducting research into Massachusetts hi torical records found that Re vere not only made the teeth but sold them RETURN TO CITY Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Plummer returned yesterday from Miami where they went to spend Christ- mas with their son and daughter- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Plum mer, and their grandson, Joseph Lionel Ahern Funeral JOSEPH L. PLUMMER, Vice President AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 22311 Miami, Fla Ay MARAT RES I PHONE 124