The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 31, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 68 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 Kry at Cittzrn THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1938 'YACHT CAPTAIN ‘Unemployment Subject Of Next MANY PASSENGERS _ SURPRISEDAT Government Film, Lorentz Says ARRIVE ON.SS CUBA PRICE FIVE CENTS Council Grants Amusement VOLUME LIX. No. 310. Negotiations With. Perky i i f Hifi * office of this company will not be Involving Right: Of Way: Called Off This: ; Morning Ceiniatiners} Make Deci-|* EDEN "AND HAT sion During Meeting Coccccccccccocococcoeces Held To Discuss Mat. ter Matters pertaining to the right of way of the Overseas Highway | over certain holdings of the’ Perky interests, were the sub-j jects of considerable discussion at! a Meeting of the county commis- sioners this morning, and it was! the sense ot the sonetiog that all, ‘Attending the meeting |were Chairman Bervaldi, Commission- | ers: Wm. R. Porter, THE FAMOUS black) Ham- burg hat, 'as closely associat- ‘Thompson, Clerk Ross Sawyer, ; oe ore Heer mee: Attorney W. Curry Harris, and! * iplomat, as his blue | eyes and cheery ways, is seen Tax Collector Frank Ladd. 1 «aati ticy Be: pecan’ wlalt 40 America as Mr. Eden peeks out of a taxi. Eden arrived in England today. Some few weeks ago it was thoroughly understood, as shown | at the mecting, that the commis- | sioners were to pay the Perky: ay ee interests $3,900 for the entire VALUABLE FIND right of way over the holdings in nis question. WORCESTER, Mass. — While It now develops that Perky cleaning her attic, Mrs. Ada will only grant the right of way, Dodd of this city found a first over the holdings of the company edition of “Tamerlane,” written from Big Pine Key to Key West,’ by Edgar Allen Poe, and sold it reserving the right to exercise for $15,000. complete authority over the right) ————....___. of way from Lower Matecumbe to the Dade county line. The _ Perky. interests ree is the entire taxes o1 ' holdings, approximately Peal 000, but’ reserve the right to ex-! ercise plete garleniction over | that’ 6f the ings from’ Lower ‘Matecumbe fee 3 the “North OFPhiladelphia: Gets Largest; ; Noted Adven-! ‘turer Gets Another ; unfairly dealt with in the egos! tiations: with very erky, and. it was. that. the stand now ken by Mr. Perky was his final decision the best course for the commissioners ‘to. pursue. was. to,, “call off” all negotiations, and it} war ®; “de ei er Pag Four sailfish caught by Casa Marina guests highlighted the | day in fishing yesterday. John S.- North of Philadelphia and C. B. Cole of Roanoke, Vir- ‘ginia, were im a race for the | biggest sail. North won by three pounds with his 61 pound sail- a vacation of several fish. Both sails were seven feet in Havana, a group of stu- ‘four inches Tong. It was Cole’s its sponsored by the Y. M. C. first sailfish in these waters. ed to Key West yester- North is a well known author, oon on the Steamship ,and sailboat adventurer. after a short visit. Dr. F. N. Carrier of New Mex- friends, left over the ico, persistent angler of Key Miami. | West waters, brought in a rarity last Sunday they ‘se- ‘in the Gulf Stream line again. ings for the night in,,It. was a salfish under five feet f the local hotels, and early which weighed only 15 pounds. morning secured passage It was boated off American vana. Their stay in Ha- Shoals. Carrier this week)also was made delightful by all caught a 28 pound wahoo, a rare they came in contact,, catch in American waters. .An- other sailfish was brought in by Sam Daugherty, student at Woodberry Forest School, of Daugherty, Texas, fishing with his brother, Bill, and his father. The sail, his first, was pounder. egerse au ss shat ia rs of the group, which co-educational, were: Waldo Farabee, director, Amy Fetzer, Madge Baker, Lorraine Yaro- . Dr. and Mrs. D, Cope- land, Dr. Charles Doe, Lucy Si- monson, David Bell, Al Holmes, Bob Draper and Geébrge Simon- son. H York, was a rather large catch and was served to the hotel guests at dinner. Two more sailfish were hooked by another party but one glance at their faces when the charter boat docked hardly had to ask if the stream rovers had kicked off the hook. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Watson of Philadelphia each lost a sail. But big dolphin were in the catch ranging from 18-20 pounds. David D. Kell of New York got areal thrill out of landing a 39 inch dolphin. In the party were |S.Samwich, who also last a sail on a strike, and I. Janowitz. The party brought in nice dolphin, i | RES STS | Any Service or Part that Your | Car Needs—Night or Day is available at HOLIDAY NOTICE Monday, January 2, 1939, being observed as New Year’s Day, the open for business on that day. THE KEY WEST ELECTRIC CO. dee. 31-1t Gala New Year’s Eve Celebration Key West's Most Beautiful The H ana-Madrid Club LARRY SOT SOTHERN and His Music in the talking about beg et heaee ert ALBURY’S SERVICE wt eee | Expert Auto Repairs and Storage Admisnon 75c Ladies . NO COVER Free | 800 Simonton St. Phone 444 »with Mrs. ;Conrad, have been here for a Youngster. Gets. Grouper jing for their home in Zeadon, | Pennsylvania. a 31; A 41 pound kingfish | by Dr. E. C. Gierding of New) and The Citizen} | YACHT'S {NAME is in an age of modernizing |brought up to date with modernt ‘FRIDA” DURING SPAN.-AM.: WAR; BASED AT YACHT‘BASIN S. D. Baker of Eau Gallie, Fla., owner of a china manufacturing plant in Trenton, N. J., is here | with friends on the 50 foot yacht, | “Gulf Stream” at the Yacht Ba- sin. Mr. Baker is captain-owner of yacht. With him are Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Swain of Del Monte, California. Noting the yacht El- freda which is based for the win- ter at the Yacht Basin, Captain Baker was reminded of his Span- ish-American War, experience when he enlistediaboard a naval vessel named; “the Elfrida off Long Islandit;.4 + } Visiting “@beard the “Altair” young captaiw James Meyer. who Meyer and Preston month are Jimmy’s grandmother, Mrs. J. Harrington of Brielie, N. J., his uncle, Richard Harrington, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. , Meyer and his brothers and si: ters, Clarence, Adrian and Va- lerie. Taking the folks out fish- ing Thursday a catch of two large jacks, several bonito and the “surprise” of seeing a sailfish appear alongside the boat, al- though they couldn’t hook it, was very much welcome. Yacht “Miohn” left this week for Dry Tortugas for a cruise. The yacht is from Boston, will return to Miami sec ned pana onl ai Key West. Four Sailfish Highlight = Fishing Catches Yesterday Peseta Renae yea ‘PEABODYS LEAVE ENROUTE HOME Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Peabody and son, Donald, left early this morn- While they were in Key West they were visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Motherwell and Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Norman, Before leaving this morning, Mr. and Mrs. Peabody said they were delighted with their visit, and enjoyed the fishing very much. They expect to return to what they consider an ideal place for a vacation. barracuda, mackerel, including one large mackerel a barracuda had sliced in half. Ellsworth Pegg brought in a large grouper aboard the “Mar- lin,” Captain Frank Gates and several other bonito, ‘tuna and barracuda. Pegg; who is from Columbus, Ohid}" is! down for a real fishing vacation i in Key West. With him was W. P. Stafford, who owns a cabin cruiser on the Great Lakes. Stafford, who is from Cleveland is another angler who gets a great kick out of his angling. He was reeling in grouper, barracuda, and bonito right alongside of Pegg. A 20 pound grouper, almost as large as the youthful angler, ; the abandonment of. the frozen Jimmy Hodgin of Thomasville, | N. C., six-year-old son of Dr. and | Mrs. O. R. Hodgin was landed by the young fellow. Jimmy, who was proud of his catch, opened} his eyes wide as the grouper was taken from the scales and a yel- jow grunt it had just capt dropped out. Many barrac' were also caught by ~_ be and ected reat wife. ; BALLOON DANCE | RAULS CLUB Tonight JOHN. PRITCHARD’S ORCHESTRA Admission $1 Per Couple | governmental institutions! BAKER SERVED:} ON “EL-\.- This is an age of social reform! And Pare Lorentz, tall and PeNdeseae: with a languid, facile RIPLEY'S “ELFREDA speech and a brain like lightning —the head man of government. motion pictures— chatting with The Citizen yesterday unconsci- ously revealed how he is far in front in those two aims. Maker of two greatly success- ful pictures, “The Plow That Broke the Plains,” a dust-bowl picture and the famous “The River,” a pieture of people and floods in the Mississippi; whose prose in the commentation of the pictures has been called by liter- ary stylist James Joyce, “The most beautiful I have heard in 10 years”; dramatic teller of. the greatsmeeds of the country; and “musthaver” who, when threat- ening*to resign because of lack of fundsy'was given a,taise of salary by Rexford: Tugwell, Lorentz is quite! the genius. Asked what is the subject of a new picture he is making ‘at pres- ent and about which’ there has been much secrecy, Mr. Lorentz stretched a point.. While Scrib- ner’s Magazine in its January is- sue, devoting the principal arti- cle to Mr. Lorentz, only hinted at the subject, Lorentz frankly told The Citizen, “It will be on unemployment.” This most press- ing of the country’s problems which will be worse in the fu- ture due to natural population in- crease, technological unemploy- ment presents a tragic paradox to Lorentz. “The paradox of crowded city slums in the East compared to the vast, open land, filled with natural resources to the west will be presented pic- torially in the film,” Lorentz said. ' “The possibilities in the virtually | undeveloped : Northwest, with | every natural resource there in) great quantities, excepting: coal, | and power which would be need- ed from. coal. available front? . | Grand. Coulee’s -Wuge-‘dam, is, an /“*Station— ar wee iat Oto Faay lesson.” ; No Smack-the-Richer “The theme of the picture, te centralization, touches also on spots in this country where wealth is stagnating and no new wealth can be created.” Lorentz, , however, is not a believer in the , smack - the - rich philosophy. talk with him and you will find; him a sound, government man, working on basic principles yet with the vision of better days ahead. If there were more like him in the New Deal, the new social-political philosophy would be better received in the country. ' Mr. Lorentz has a research staff which covers the country at his direction for the pictures. Oliver Griswold, son of Mrs. H.! Griswold annual winter visitor to Key West, and who will be re- membered for early government rehabilitation days here, is on, Mr. Lorentz’ reportorial staff and is in the city at present visiting Mrs. Griswold. Lorentz visits many of the areas in which he is interested himself. All branches of government motion picture production have recently been coordinated under . Lorentz. Former films which dealt with dry subjects in an even dryer manner will be IN 1939 - DRIVE A BETTER CAR! Bring in your old car and hade it for a better— Pedigteed Used Car! In most cases your car will be the down payment COME IN AND INVESTI- GATE TERMS TO SUIT NAVARRO, INC. | A Chicago | Huron | Los Angeles | Miami « Williston motion picture methods. Theater owners netted $100,000 of in- ¢reased revenue in showing “The River.” Lorentz, for example, does not believe in the “gag” film which he says works on the principle that the public is too dumb a bunny to appreciate any other sort of motion picture style. He believes that a good subject can be filmed in.a dramatic, in- ,telligent manner on its merits alone. Some subjects he wouldn’t tackle. He defies anyone to pic- ture the moving ideas in the devaluation of the dollar. Talented Writer The “documentary” field in which he is working will shortly be invaded by hundreds of films to be produced by patriotic or- ganizations which will probably -be forced on theater owners. Lorentz doesn’t like anything to be -forced on the public. \ He be- wails ‘the advertising stuff most theaters spread on thickly. Lo- rentz’ pictures are the rave of movie critics. His “The River” won the Nobel prize at the Venice exposition. with . over 70 other documentaries entered.‘ Before taking up government motion pitture work Lorentz had gained fame as a movie critic in work on Judge, Vanity Fair, N. Y. Journal, Town and Country, Mc- Call’s, Time, Fortune, Newsweek. He has written a book, “The Pri- vate Life of the Movies,” and edited a new picture volume “The Roosevelt Year.” Lorentz, who is down for a week or so, and his pretty wife, Sally, who is well known for ‘several Hollywood pictures, spent yesterday rambling about the wn, liking the quaint style of thé houses which “look beauti- fu} even when’ they’re falling down,”' the warm climate, and the tropical ocean. Ceedesevorecccovscoveccs ‘TEMPERATURES PESOS OKO LSE HOSES SOOOCE Lowest Highest Abilene » Atlanta x Boston Buffalo Charleston 1 30 % 36° 18 10 42 6 36 8 46 14 44 48 34 18 50 16 54 16 50 3% 50 26 80 46 76 36 78 10 62 36 58 28 26 50 50 54 64 40 12 Denver Detroit * Galveston Havana Jacksonville .. Kansas City KEY WEST Little: Rock 70 30 54 22 68 a2 50 24 48 18 22 28 a4 50 56 26 4 Louisville Mpls.-St. P. New Orleans New York Pensacola Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle ‘Tampa Washington SUPPLIES STOLEN SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Fred Hillman of this city, who offered membership in an anti-crime or- ganization with each magazine he sold, had to suspend business because all his supplies were stolen; including door emblems to warn thieves away from the homes of his anti-crime subscrib- ers. JAM SESSION}! New Year’s Afternoon womurie od 5:00 o’cloek 77 Eixeare Pritchard's ae” rum ne The MAXWELL CO. doc. For Wholesale Quotations on FURNITURE and FURNISHINGS MAXWELL VENETIAN BLINDS RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT See or Phone G. A. PATTON, Local ! Johnson, WESSEL‘ BRINGS! IN* inst: \( NUMBER “OF "SEASON ‘°¥ESTERDAY The largest’ passenger list which hasbeen recorded as ar- riving from*Havana for Key West this season was that of yesterday when 127 first cabin ant, 20 second cabin passengers came in on the Steamship Cuba of the P. and O. S. S. Co. For Tampa there was 115 first cabin and one second | cabin passengers. Passengers for Key West were: Harry Compton, Iva M. Potter, Richard Potter, Charles Luall, Edward Brittain, Estelle Brittain, Jacob Schluester, Leuti Tudor, Daisy Tudor, Francis Wilkes, Louise Medcroft, Beryl C. Me- Connell, Lolla Cook, Laina Hill, Minnie Harper, Everett Harper, Ronald Reed, Disdier Carduas, Robert M. Smith}“Agnes Smith, Rafael Lopez, Elises- Chancy, Carl L. Chancy, Cart Ss Chancy, Martha Kelly, Paria‘Kelly, Nicolo Angelo Laine, AnnaLaine, Eli-’ George Gozen;’ zabeth Gozen, Carl Cline, Leona Cline, Gladys Cline, Lilda Williams, Minnie Dantzug. Mabel Lirrle, Anthony Little, Margaret Hermez, Thomas Hermez, Charles Diggs, Connie Diggs, Marie Hourigan, Alice Thompson, Clyde Taylor. Robert Huber, Millir S..Post- hoff, Ollie Holmes, Florence Weiss, Jeanne L. Coleman, Pa- tricia Gibbons, Kate Eyer, dred Crause, Wm. R. Crause, Nanette Gibbons, Vira Lapham, Ruth Beamer, Iva Dee Pearce, Dorothy Doty, Dorothy Reed, Charles D. Reed, Anna Rishey, Elizabeth Caro, Albert Caro, Elizabeth Caro, Eymon Silver, Mary Silver, Jacinto Llaca, Jose- phine Cassanova, Robert E. Parks, Elsa Parks, Joseph Allen, Grace Allen, Julie Scranton, Lo- well Scranton, Mollie Armstrong, , Clay Armstrong, Christian Bon-' ney, Guy Bonney, Nile Cole, Donald Cole, Jean Cole, Henry Kelly, Henry Burgess, Charles ar Osborne, Janet ,Osborne, Max Daniel, Leagreta ‘McKee, Hattie Silver. Samuel Shaykin, Oda Shaykin, Mannie Brown, James, Warren Strachan, James Altman, Pearl Altman, B. R. Altman, J. E. James, W. A. James, Mary James, John Howes, Louise Howes, Clarence Harper, Rachel Gilman, Bettie Hoodaway, Arthur Hood- away, Charles Steele, Viola Red- lich, Ivon Redlich, Francis Du- Vries, Henry DuVries, J. L. Les- ter, Jr, Selma Howard, Minnie Howard, John Woban, Charles Scoll, Ida Ebling, Iva Enelli, Rena Enelli, James Doley, Anna Schluster, Lenda Reglin, William Roglin, Elizabeth Gosen, George © Gosen, Hans Deutch Dralich, Benildes Remond, Frank A. Del- gado, Herbert Orr, Ruth Bates, Cecil Harreison, Ida J. Scott, James J. Scott, John Coulder, Ethel Katz, Henry Marschat, Meree Meyer, ,Phillip Louis, Lor- raine Yarborough, Amy Fetzer, Madge F, Baker, Waldo Farabee, D. W. Copeland, Mary. Travis, Polando Sicarras, Edmond Tay- lor, Albert Holmes, Eugene Roig. Shown on the mahifest ‘of the ship were the folléwing items: For Key West, one ton of freight, nine automobiles, three sacks of mail. For Tampa, 17 tons of freight and seven sacks of mail POOR RICH MAN ST. THOMAS, Can.—Consider- ed a poor man, William Richard- son, a retired miner of this cit was revealed to have left $128, —-|000 upon his death. By his will, |the Red Cross received $100,000. | | TURKEY S. EY SANDWICHES 4 | i OYSTERS FO FOR THE| HEN. YEAR (-— Any Style $ 5” LUNCH ROOM 93 Southard St. Phone 523W | meena tony @very night from now on LOOR SHOW —a— SLOPPY JOE’S FAMOUS BAR | . Rhumba and | F a j Tap Dancing and Songs. Your favoriate entertainers SIBONEY INN, 703 DIVISION [ L_ Sennenanes FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES - TUESDAY, THURSDAY, Y, SATURDAY ~ $5.00 ROUND TRIP -- TICKETS -- INFORMATION -- PRICE TOURS -- 505 DUVAL ST. -- PHONE 124 _} Mil-! | night | Park Permission To Open Operations This Evening BRONX CRITICISM \'Trumbo .*}made to the council, STORM RAGED over mural painted by Ben Shahn (above) for a Bronx post of- fice in New York, who had included in it a Walt Whit- man quotation. Rev. Igna- tius Cox, S.J., professor of Ethics at Fordham, calied “it “prepaganda for irreligion™. “NEWS FLASHES (Ry Axaveiated Preasy PO ec eworereossuresssseee ‘ FOREIGN #TOKIOW—A sharp rebuff was received’ at the Japanese office here from the United States, which insisted upon might be tiations} rote. said the Washington LONDON. re ported.” here that Charaberlain has about- faced on the proposition to settle the Spanish Civil War since Ger- many announced an appropria- tion for submarines. as, MARSEILLES. French troops sailed from. here today to reinforce the French gariisons in French Somaliland. Munitions and artillery were also aboard. Premier Daladier’ left for Corsica to reassure the resi- need not be turned One ‘shousand over to Italy. BERLIN.—The German charge poet ix! in Washington was re- y. but it is not be- Hitler wishes a com- FOREIGN INDIANAPOLIS.—Booming for Paul McNutt as Republican can- didate for president will be in ed in officse here next month. MeNutt is expected to arrive from the Phillipines, where he is governor, in March WASHINGTON. — Reed, youngest U. S. Supreme Court Justice in years of service, celebrated his 54th birthday here. He was expe ito attend the egular Saturday conference of he Justices, who diseuss lega ‘ecisiors. Stanley F. WASHINGTON. Barkley was elected Democratic majority leader of the senate to. — Senator; Matter Relative To Install- ing Parking Meters Was Heard; No Action Tak- en The City Council held an_in- formal session last night at © the City “Hall at which time several tax matters were discussed. To- day is the dead line for payment of delinquent taxes on the eighty per cent discount basis. Park Opens Tonight Another matter taken up was {that relative to the. Amusement Park which is to operate on Island. Upon request the amuse- iment company was granted per- {mission to open up this evening tat 7 o'clock. Permission w granted to the other am company to open tonight a’ corner of Duval and Division streets. Parking Meters The question of installing park~ ing meters was taken up again, with representatives from both of the companies interested, resub- mitting proposals. Miss Elizabeth Myers, senting the Dual Compan: a talk demonstrating the auto- matic and manual meters, as the Dual company handles both types of machines. The manual meters are hand-turned. Allan B. Cleare, Jr., represe: ing the Henry Shaw Company, which puts out only the: manual meters, also gave a talk in con- nection with the Shaw comnany’s proposal to install’ meters here. No action was taken, the matter repre- open-door ‘ : bert. Kramer, ; Hagel ipfits.: Certain changes” oer China being: referred:to- the police con! werked out by | pegorg mittee: for further consideration as to which ‘is the best of the wo propositions offered. out To Furnish Tractor The council agreed to finance the matter of placing a tractor in ‘operation for the purpose. of mashing down the many tin cans and other mosquito-breeding re- ceptacles which have been -col- lected and placed at the dump grounds, It will require about two days to complete this’ work. These were the only matters coming before the mecting, after which an adjournment was or- dered, MANY TENNESSEE CARS COME HERE A pleasant surprise during the past few days is the Tennesses automobilist, down . for. the Orange Bowl Tennessee-Okla- homa game, who are in Key West Six were seen Thursday on the Overseas Highway. Depending gn drawing quite a large number of the visitors Miami during the winter, long have been clamoring fo teresting side trips from th ami area, Key West and its farne eight wonders of the world picturesque Overseas Hiv! which goes out to sea, has ready drawn many. NEW YEAR'S PARTY Swing Out the Old Year at | Pena’s Garden Of Roses | Gould Curry’s 7-Piece Dance Band 10 “till 777 aie TS cope day with the theme of harmony} among Democrats to be stressed JUNEAU, Alaska. —B. W. Grif | fithy pioneer 1898 gold rush resi-} INAUGURAL Sunday Afternoon Swing Session den}. who was acting as governor} ‘of Alaska in the absence of Gov ernor Troy, dropped dead of a heart attack at a banquet last He was stricken as he rose to talk | ‘Spike’ quests. Ten ’till ?—Good Music Presents ‘Moon’ Restivo, zerke of keyboard ‘Roby’ Stubbs, hottest trumpet | ‘Solid’ Stalder, terrific tenor sax horty’ Barton, Dixieland swing Tragesser, muted jive ‘Chuck’ Stepson, songs and guiter indering Vi New Year's Day 4 o'clock ‘till ? eee