The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 2, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West eat Citizen Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Kry VOLUME LX. No. 1. In Key West Tomorrow Cer teinth piel Civie lecitiiias And! Clubs Are Urged To! Have Representative At Airport In connection with the Air Maneuvers to be held in Miami next Friday through Sunday, the city of Key West will be cordial-' ly invited to attend, according to. announcement by Mayor Willard M. Albury in‘a special release to The Citizeri' today. Miss Aviation will arrive in the city tomorrow ‘morning, Tuesday, at 11:30 o’clock, by plane and will land at the airport. All civic organizations and clubs are urg- ed to have a_ representative at the airport to greet the city’s guest and to attend the luncheon in honor of Miss Aviation and her escorting officials of the Ait Maneuvers to be given at Fred Auerbach’s Restaurant at 12:00 o'clock noon tomorrow. Reser- vations may be made through Mayor Albury or by phoning the rant. Luncheon will be venty-five cents, The official plane paid a cour-}. tesy call to Key West yesterday afternoon, chiefly to make atf- rangements for the visit tomor- row. The plane is a Dart, piloted by V. L. “Speed” Wikoff, and had as | snger, Robert Quinn, of- ficial secretary of the All-Amefi- can Air Maneuvers. Tentative plans for the Air Cruise from Mi+ ami to Havana via Key West to. he beld Janugry 10, were-.¢lis- cussed, official plans to be te+ leased later. While here, the secretary wés guest of Mayor and Mrs. Albury, who met the plane, together with} Miss Susan LaKin, Miss Aviation of Ke Douglas, Woman’s Club presi-' dent. Miss LaKin was given’ a; ride in the official plane. When Miss Aviation of the: Maneuvers arrives tomorrow, sh will bring an official invitation! ‘from Mayor Robert Williams ayor Albury inviting all Key; t to take part in the mhaneu- s. Fifteen cities will be rep-, nted in Florida at the races and each are sponsoring a young: lady as Miss Aviation, under leadership of Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs. Out of this group, one will be} selected as “Miss Aviation 1939", and the others will act as an hon- orary court to the winner. The mayors of each city will be guest} of the maneuvers for the three days. Mrs. Douglas and Miss La- kin will leave here on Thursday of this week. Mayor and Mrs. Albury are planning to attend. As stated above, civic clubs and government officials, together with other interested citizéns of} Key West are requested to have representation at the airport to- morrow morning at 11:30 o’clock when the plane arrives. STEAMER CUBA ARRIVES TODAY, Steamship Cuba, of the P. and 0. S. S. Co., arrived this morning from Tampa with ‘eight first cabin and six second cabin pas+ sengers for Key West, 36 first| cabin and one second cabin for; Havana. Key West arrivals were T. E. Roberts, A. R. Savage, Mrs. Sav- age, C. A. Rudisill, Mrs. Rudisill, John Rudisill, Charles Rudisill, Agnes Albert, Jessie Clearance, Francisco Lopez, Pablo Lopez, Rosa Lopez, Hyacinth Sampson, Walter Price. Listed on the manifest of the vessel were the following items: For Key West, 23 tons of freight, |for one automobile and one sack of| Ft mail. For Havana, one ton of freight and 126 sacks of mail. ees Lage ELEANOR REED HAS LOCAL SHOW IN TWO ART MEDIUMS COLOR WOOD BLOCK PRINTS, TWO TO FIVF, COLOR PRO- CESSES ALS. SHOWN: EX- HIBITION TOM »RROW — » ‘Two new exh vitions, “Paint- ings’ by Elesn Reed”, well- knowh for her local subjects, and “Color Wi .d Block Prints” ;will open at tt. Key West Com- munity, Art Ce. ter tomorrow. Eleanor Reet a talented young Philadelphia a - st who is spend- ‘ing her second vinter in Key West, is éxhiviti g a number of vivid’ and stri.tin,’ water colors, ‘the greater patt c€ them being of local subjects. “"ev Key West- ers have ‘séen n.‘ny of Miss Reed's Gil paintings. The pres- ent @xhibitioh includes a number ‘of ‘portraits ahd still lifes in this medium. -'Thé exhibition, “Color Wood Block Prints”, which is being shown upstairs in the Art Center, Cofisists ‘of 20 prints in wood and linoleum. and is representative of the wotk being done in this high- ly ‘di itive. medium from New Hampshite-to California under the-WPA-Federal Art Project. From thé technical point of view, these prints stress versatility at- tdinéd by “Project artists in color btinting techniques, covering a ithe two- to five-color : “Provineetown method of color woodblock print- a exhibitions will be on yiéw- through January 15 and are free to the:public. Gallery hours aré from 10 to 4 daily except Mondays and from 4 to 6 on Sun- | days duting' the band concert in the adjatent park. Re OS at See Proesions iddle In College Orchestra udclated Press) ate ‘ORLEANS, Jan. .2.—Up. frént in the Tulane university symphony ‘orchestra are two. deans nd a zoologist sawing away on their fiddles. Dr. Martin ten Hoor, dean of the cee of arts and sciences, tana Dr..Frederick Hard, dean of the Newcomb college for women, are first violinists. Dr. William T. Penfound, assistant professor of zoology, goes to town on _ his viola. Both deans majored in music, Dr. ten Hoor at the University of Michigan, Dr. Hard at the Uni- versity pf the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Dr. Penfound studied a | year at the Oberlin college -con- servatory of music. | | Has Thirteen Clubs And Still Loses Bid | (Ry Asacciated Press) ;_.WORCESTER, Mass., Jan. 2.— | Mrs. Mary Cary of Worcester | held 13 clubs in a bridge game, | bid it properly but lost the bid ‘and saw her opponents make aj gran@ slam. Mrs. Aida Thyberg, one of the opponents, held a fine heart hand |and her partner had better than normal support. After spirited bidding, during which Mrs. Cary ran her bid to seven clubs, Mrs. Thyberg won the contract at seven hearts and made it as Mrs. club, futilely. LEFT YESTERDAY George Barker, who is a mem-} [nin ee on Co. | to join the P iitede Patees cc the sen | vana. NEARLY POUND EACH to When the ship sailed at 11) o'clock for Havana she carried 95} passengers of whom there were! MARSH HILLS, Pa.!— Three 52 first cabin and six second | eggs laid by a hen belonging to) instead of the old-fashioned wick. | this area seemed to have taken the naval station, army barracks,| Tampa - Mrs. A. L, Chambrey of this city | The new ones also “wear” a mod-|on a feeling of thoughtfulness lighthouse department and the| Washington — — cabin passengers who passage at Key West. booked weighed nearly a Pound each. . JEFFERSON CRUISES ~ TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY - $5.00 ROUND TRIP ~ TICKETS - INFORMATION - PRICE TOURS -. 505 DUVAL ST.— THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. INCURABLE INVALID WHO CRAVED MUSIC BUILDS OWN ORGAN TOLD HE WAS GOING TO DIE} SOON, HE STARTED BUILD- ING ELECTRICAL ORGAN TO PLAY “ONE PIECE” (By Associated Press) DENVER, Jan. 2.—The doctors told R. S. Gilbert, an invalid, he ‘was going to die soon, so he set about building an electrical or- gan to play at least “one tuneful, melodious piece” before he left this world. The organ has been completed, | Gilbert still is alive and now he hopes he hives until he can com- plte arrangemenst to have the in- strument marketed on a “one in} every home” basis. It cost him $10 to build. Al- most without money, he utilized second hand material and con- structed his own electrical switches and other apparatus. In addition he “slaved for months”. It was ten years ago the doc- tors told him he had but a short time to live. “If I had to die, I made up my mind to enjoy what life was left and I thought I could get the Breatest happiness from | organ music”, Gilbert says. - “I couldn't buy an organ and besides the only ones available! then were pipe organs, which I| didn’t have the strength to oper- ate. “So I decided to build an elec- trical one. The first one took me several years to complete and didn’t operate satisfactorily. Then I built another. That is the one! I play now. | “It has but 89 reeds in it; op- erates on a standard two manual pipe organ arrangement with 122 keys.and. 34 pedals. I have figut-| ed that 340, 000,000 sound , com- binations' are pdggible”,’ * The doctors are still telling him! he ‘has only a few months.to live | but now Gilbert doesn’t believe} them. Claimed Women Would | Shun Two-Bar Street | { 4 (By Assuciated Press) WHEATLAND, Wyo., Jan. 2.— When a second bar was pro- posed for Wheatland’s main street, businessmen signed a peti- tion that said, “Another saloon | ; would make it so no woman; “would care to walk down that! ‘side of the street.” The city council decided the | businessmen were right; that one | bar for the street was sufficient | and the license for the proposed | ione was denied. | | Claims Reckless Drivers | Are Grown-Up Children (By Associated Press) AMARILLO, Tex., Jan. 2.—! Best way to undrape a person’s | personality, manners and habits is to place him behind a steer- ing wheel, says J. L. Duflot, psy-| chology teacher at West Texas State College. “The man who drives reckless- ly—darting in and out of traffic, } hooting his horn hysterically and hogging the highway with blind- ing lights—is a grown-up child having a temper tantrum”, says! the professor. “An automobile just brings his} accumulative stock of habits to; | the surface. Streamlining Comes Even To Cabooses (Ry Associated Press) CHEYENNE, Wyo. Jan. 2.—/} | With streamliners a reality, the Cary sat and tossed off club after | railroads now think it about time;dividuals was | to rebuild cabooses. The Union Pacific is spending | $4,000 a month modernizing the jears that tail-end freight trains) on the Sidney, Neb. to Ogden, | Utah division. Similar projects, Most important change, rail-| road men say, is that of discard- ling the old, smelly kérosene! | lamps used in the cabooses for 50° |years. They are being replaced |outlet for their exuberance of|ceased for the day, except the) Salt Lake City |by kerosene mantle lamps that utilize a bright-burning mantle | | emnistic shade. | ‘stops at Clewiston at the mills of the U. S. Sugar. Cor- December Postal Receipts At +| between those of 1938. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1939 eor00ee | | Florida Sugat Queen Pocccseccccccccsccooccocccsedece | _ Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Nathan Mayo! | poration to greet Miss Dixie Crystals, Miss Bernice Guth- rie, gowned in cane. Miss Guthrie invited him to inspect} the products display set up by the Savannah Sugar Refin- | ing Corporation, refiners of all raw sugar produced in the | Everglades. Miss Eleanor Gravely, granddaughter of the Commissioner, is seated in the center. Local Office nea Breaker, Total Shown’ To Be More Than © Five Thousand| Dollars; Largest On} Sone Since 1936 — AND SON DEAD News was received: in the city | yesterday announcing the death | of Willard B. Curry, from a heart} Postal receipts at the local | attack, in Jacksonville, and in the © telegram received by Mrs. W. Hattrick, 808° Fleming! cember, 1938, are the largest on/ street, who is a sister’ of. Mrs. | f the " annountement } record since 1936, it was said at| that Watson Ctieys igon -of ‘Mr. the cffice of Postmaster Sam/and Mrs. Curry, was drowned at the same time. Receipts | The Curry family formerly re-} | sided in Key West but have been | making their home in Jackson- In December of 1936 the rec-/ ville for many years. ords show a total of $3,916.18 35, No details concerning funeral} a difference of $1,689.26. jarrangements and burial were In December of 1937 the total j; announced in the telegram. of receipts recorded was $4, 4,- | ey 262.13, a difference of $1,343.31) post office for the month of De. | iJ. Harris this morning. for the month were $5,605.44. LEFT SUNDAY Miss Dorothy Knowles, what was spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Knowles, left on the afternoon bus yesterday for Graceville, i Fla. This steady increase from 1936 to 1938 is said to be ample indi- cation of the increased: number of people who have made Key West their home during the years 1937 and 1938. Key West Celebrates New Year’s In Enjoyable Way Passing of the year 1938 ne tion for others, as there was not entrance of the New Year, 1939, | {one serious accident reported, was more quietly announced at; and in the lighter accidents, } jmidnight Saturday than is usual ; ; which are taken as a matter = fee ayn fon 22 course, there was not one er small cannons as had been the/°f any injury to a person, al- jcustom in the past years, but, in-| though a few cars reported slight | Charleston | stead, the peaceful tolling of the ; damages. |bells of the different churches,|. This same spirit is prevalent! announcing the welcome to the | throughout the city today. While arriving year. | some of the stores were busy this The season from Christmas to! , morning and up until the noon the first of January has been one! hour, practically all of them are of those regular periods when | closed this afternoon, having strife and discord between . in-| ceased activity at 1 o’clock. forgotten and! One delivery of the mail was every citizen seemed imbued} made this morning, but all in- with the idea of making the}coming mail and outgoing mail period one of peace and har-iwas, and will be, handled! mony. | throughout the day, as usual. All No records of infractions of the' windows in the postoffice were law are recorded at the office of closed for the day except the oe yesterday afternoon are underway on other divisions./Sheriff K. O. Thompson, and!stamp window, which was open- there are but few arrests record-|ed for a short time this morning, ed by-the police department, and | as was the window for general these mostly of those who decided | delivery. that intoxication was the best | All other government activities; | | ‘necessary duties which are al-/ Included were! spirit, and partook too freely. Even the drivers of cars, in| ways the rule. and the desire to show considera-' custom house. t j January 13. {purpose by the legislature of! MONROE SCHOOL UNITS ASKED TO ATTEND MEETING DISTRICT CONFERENCE TO! BE HELD IN PALM BEACH | JANUARY 13; CALLED BY| STATE SUPERINTENDENT On Boca ! ee); BRICK TO F.D.R. | (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 2. — County Superintendent Melvin E. Russell .and other school officials and principals of Monroe county schools, as well as Parent-Teach- er Association leaders and others interested in education, have been asked by State Superintendent Colin English to participate in a district conference of school ad- ministrators at West Palm Beach, | The morning session of the} conference, beginning at 10 o'clock, will be devoted to a dis- cussion of the new school code for Florida. The proposed code has been in preparation for two years and is now being drafted in final form for presentation to the legislature by the school code commission appointed for the! 1937. Florida has never had a H codification of school laws, and educators have pointed to this as one of the state’s greatest| educational needs in bringing ed-| ucational practices up to date. her topics, which will be dis-| d in the afternoon session of the conference, include the new} Florida program for improveiient of instruction, library needs, a state-wide testing program, the} small class problem, remedial reading in junior high school, physical education plans, and new courses of did and new textbooks. TO PRESIDENT ROOSE- VELT this glazed brick on which W. G. Fraser (above), a London artist, painted the famous bust of Princess Ne- fe: is to be sent as a present to his hom MANY PAY UP IN ORDER TO PROFIT BY REDUCTION OFFERED | Sponge offerings displayed on) the municipal dock Friday; consisted of 78 bunches of yellow, | 25 bunches of wool and 11 bunch- es of grass. _ Highset price paid for yellows was $19 for 41 bunches, offerings totalling $30.35. Wool offerings brought a total of $55.61, best price offered being $9.60 for three | bunches. Grass offerings were $1.55. The sum of the, total offerings | was $87.51. BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED TOTAL 19 Tax Collector Frank Ladd’s office on Saturday was pesciery by a number, of taxpayers anxi+; ously inquiring if taxes were not} | paid at that time what was the penalty. All of them were informed that | the only penalty was that they | would not be able to profit by the | four per cent reduction which | was allowed on payments during; December. During this month, janu | Posite jor car to pass and the PRICE FIVE CENTS Automobile Crashes Rail Chica Bridge ;Driven By Harry Beaver; Many Other Cars Skid Due To Slippery Condi- tion Early yesterday morning there was quiie a jumble of cars on the Boca Chica bridge and the whole mixup was caused, it is said, by the slippery condition of the bridge flooring caused by ithe heavy dew which fell during the night and was still falling when the accident occurred. Harry Beaver, manager of the Gulf Refining Co., across the bridge, he said, and a was going vehicle was coming from the op- direction. Mr. Beaver ; swerved his car to allow the oth- slippery condition of the bridge decking j } caused the car to crash the rail. The car did not leave the bridge but settled down with the wheels hanging over the edgc When the car skidded the hind wheels of the Beaver car damag- ed the fender of the other. While the cars were fronts on the j bridge severa! others arrived at the scene, and all of them were affected more or less by the slip- pery condition in which the bridge was made by the heavy dew. While several of the cars were slightly damaged, Mr. Bea- ; ver Said none of the passengers | were injured, though some of them were frightened by the nearness they were to being in- jured. INSTALLATION BY “MASONIC LODGES THREE ORGANIZATIONS TOOK PART IN CONDUCTING CEREMONIES Officers of Key West's three | | Abilene During the amonth month of Decem- | ber, 1938, there were just’ 19 is-j sues of building permits from the office of Building Inspector Har- ry M. Baker for a total of $30,-| 798. There were very few large per- mits issued, most of them being} for rebuilding and repairs and some few of them for painting} contracts, none of which totalled | Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 hours 46 Atlanta Boston Buffalo Chicago Denver Detroit Galveston Havana Huron _ Jacksonville — Kansas City — KEY WEST _ Little Rock _ Los Angeles _ Louisville New York: __ Pensacola j Pittsburgh "St. Louis __ San Francisco Seattle Dee bbbbecesndesoustnessuss RSSSSSSESESLSLSSSSSS| Ss eressss Williston ___ gs ary, the reduction is two per cent | Masonic lodges were installed at pel? joint session conducted recently and during February it will one per cent. Delinquency of} payments will not be declared until April 1, 1939. It was learned that payment of {taxes is coming in steadily, and| the clerks are being kept quite | busy. NEW OFFICIALS COMMISSIONS AND MONSALVATGE EF- FECTIVE TONIGHT | | | Commissions of the newly- elected members of the board of county, become effective at mid- night tonight, which will make the two newly-elected commis- sioners, Wm. H. Monsalvatge and time. Chairman Carl Bervaldi today that unless something, im said meeting of the board will be held jat the regular hour on Wednes- | day night. CHARGES CRUELTY CHICAGO.—Charging cruelty, | GOING IN OFFICE OF CURRY; county commissioners of Monroe; T. Jenkins Curry, active at that} { | portant transpires necessitating | a meeting before that the next) jat the Scottish Rite Hall, corner | Eaton and Simonton streets. | Frank O. Weech, District De; p- | uty Grand Master, was the in | stalling officer. |. Officers of Dade Lodge No. are: W. M., Carl L. Soule; S. W., | Myrtland Cates; J. W., Clarence | E. Shine; Treas., Wm. T. Arch Sec’y., F. O. Weech; S.D., G | Goshorn; J D., Sydney Matthew |S. S., Franklin Carey; J. S., Chas. M. Curry, Sr.; Marsh., Geo. V Perpall; Chapl., D. R. Trevor; Ty- | ler, Geo. Shreiber. Officers of Anchor Lodge No. | 182, F. & A. M.: W. M., Ralph B. } Boyden; S. W., Everett Rivas; iJ. W., J K. Brady; Treas., Wm | Vassie; Sec’y., John C. Park; |S. D., Phillip A. Weber; J. D., | Franklin E. Albert; S. S., Robert | F. Slingluff; J. S., Isadore Wein- traub; Marshal, Fernando E. |Camus; Chaplain, Frank C, | Brown; Tyler, Wm. A. Cooper. Officers. of Dr. Felix Varela Lodge No. 64, F. & A. M.: W. M, Turtulino Marquez; S. W., Jose C, Perez; J. W.,. Juan F. Fleitas; : Treas., Gabriel Gutierrez; See’y., | Feliciano Castro; S. D., Eloy Al- bury; J. D., Vicente Molino; S. S., Rogelio Cabrera; J. S., Enrique Aguilar; Marshal, Publo Fernan- dez; Chaplain, Rev. Guillermo Perez; Tyler, Feliciano Gonzalez. Ahern Funeral Home N. | Robert Herrick, organist in a ho- tel in this city, used his wife for ‘Vice-President divorce. One instance of her} | cruelty, he said, was pulling out} # AMBULANCE SERVICE all the stops of the organ when | Phone 22211 Miami, he was playing. 1 Joseph L. Plummer