The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 4, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 3. City Granted More Time In Payment-Of Funds Oa:Sait Judge Atkinson Of Miami SHOW VARIOUS, # Grants Stay In Writ Pre-/ MANIPULATIONS viously Sustained Deal- IN TRADE WAR ing With Case EXTENSION OF NEW AMER-| ICAN CREDIT TO CHINA IS EVIDENCE OF NEW PHASE OVER TRADE By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—The extension of new American credit to China and discussion of American loans for Latin Amer- | ican nations is evidence of a new! |phase in a ten-year-long world war over trade, The battlefields are the ports} of the world. Ammunition is the } goods exchanged between them. The soldiers are the dollars, pounds, marks, francs and all other international units of money. In one camp are the nations that favor a more or less free | |flow of trade and the settlement This case was brought about cb sterneone maccounte with gold. ie nites es, having as a result of default on payment ‘a tremendous supply of gold, is| of bonds. ‘the standard bearer of this group. | This means that no levy will be ., Ranged against them are na-| made against property to take oe jbeswil pa ein care of the payment in question country. Germany leads the during the time as specified. |column, Japan and Italy are close A copy of the telegram follows: | behind. pete have ica in =F “H. F. Atkinson, senior circuit| Change (gold). They pie ecu judge, today granted a stay of | nations willing to accept goods in| peremptory writ in the sum of | payments, Germany, for’ in- 10,915 iousl: ted in the | Stance, trades in blocked marks. i Hee Mops ee The | Traders in other nations can sell sad page Rae ibs: Me € | their goods in Germany, but they City of Key West. This means! can rarely take gold out of the that taxpayers will not be re-j| country for payment: only | quired to pay this sum of money City Councilman William H. Monsalvaige received a wire last night from Henry H. Taylor, Jr., special counsel for the City of Key West, who has been in Mi- ami for several days in the in- terest of a judgement case against Key West. which contained gratifying news. the municipality of The communication showed that the court has made a favorable ruling whereby the City of Key/| West will not be required to pay the sum involved during this year. | Che Kry West Citizen Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE JU. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4,,1939 New Army Attack Plane ! Gathering of war clouds on ot! ing peacefully over Downey, Calif. in tests. of three. her continents directs attention to U. S. Army’s new Vultee V{l2 attack plane soar- Ships carries bomb load of 3,000 pounds, six machine guns and crew PRICE FIVE CENTS Shark..Gets Bonito, Angler 2 Sails Landed a rd S|. Gets*Shark; : Shark Frightened Off By Pistol Shots When Pur- suing Hooked Sailfish; Large Grouper Caught ae! ee eS PRECIPITATION FOR YEAR SHY 15 INCHES | Monthly Meteorological Summary issued yesterday afternoon by the local United States Weather Bureau, gives the mean temperature for the month of December as 65, while the normal tem- perature is placed at 65.9. Warmest days of the month were three, December 5, 26, and 27, when the ther- mometer reading was 81. The coolest day in the month was December 19, when the regis- tration dropped to 57. Clear days numbered 24. There were five days partly cloudy and two days cloudy. Percentage of sunshine for the month was 82. Prevailing direction of the wind was Northeast. High- est velocity recorded was on December 15 and 16 when 24 miles was registered. Low- The old story of catching small fish on one’s line and then a having it swallowed by a larger fish, and it by a still larger, and so on, happened to Mrs. Dr. E. K | LaRoe Gierding yesterday in the Gulf Stream. Mrs. Gierding hooked a bonito, but instead of waiting throvgn the process of having a larger | and still larger fish swallow each j other, it all happened at }time. For a 125-pound shark looped his cadaverous jaws j around the bonito, was hooked and brought in. Mrs. Gierding is a well-known plastic surgeon 'Her husband, also a_ doctor, | brought in a small shark, bonito | dolphin and barracuda. Both ang- one CUBA BRINGS IN 244 PASSENGERS VESSEL ARRIVED YESTER- DAY FROM HAVANA EN- | ROUTE TO TAMPA | GREENS SET FOR TION: Arriving yesterday afternoon on the Steamship Cuba from Ha- vana were 244 passengers, of whom there were 91 first cabin and 13 second cabin passengers; YEAR YESTERDAY } | i | | } | | i | | Opening of the greens at the for Key West; 139 first and one | Key West Southernmost Course} will be attended by an exhibition PLAY TOMORROW’ EDDIE BUSH TO GIVE EXHIBI- | TOURNAMENT TO-! MORROW: BIGGEST DAY OF Economic Power The Goal this year, and will materially aid | The goal of sthe contending the bond-refunding program. | The writ before the stay required | this levy on all real estate, in- cluding hemesteads. The budget may now be adopted and taxes 4 h | second cabin passengers for Tam- | groups-is economic power. — For) pa. . economic power—raw materials,' Key West arrivals: foods, ‘industrial production, ma-| iia Gray, i Hl | Wm. Gray, Jose jchinery, and the like—is no less Roa Vera Pratt, Fred Pratt, A. decisive in the world today than |B. Seneca, J. Seneca y Alvarez, | military strength. ; A. Llanes, Bernard Hines, Melba} of straight and fancy golf shot hibition by professional Eddie Bush and a handicap tournament | tomorrow afternoon. Mr. Bush will give his exhibi- | NEW GOLF LINKS |M’CALLA CAMP PLANS VISIT |” HOLDS MEETING OFFICERS INSTALLED; COM- MITTEE NAMED FOR ME- MORIAL SERVICES | Committee was appointed last night at a meeting of B. H. Mc- | Calla Camp, United Spanish War | Veterans, to arrange memorial services to be held on Maine Day, | February 15, at the Maine plot in ! the city cemetery. The commit- | tee named is composed of G. N. Goshorn, James Johnson and Charles J. Peat. Regular installation of officers for the year was held and Past |}Commander John T. Leary of Gilmore Camp No. 16, who was lers are at the Casa Marina. | A good day was turned in by | M. Y. France of Columbus, Ohio, | who landed a seven-foot one-inch | sailfish to top the day’s catch ; Mr. France also brought in a 40 |pound grouper, four-feet long. | M. L. Pegg, also of Columbus, brought in a horseeye jack and | many other reef fish. France had |some difficulty in landing the sailfish, which was being c i since Januery 1, 1938, 15.53 | by a shark. Pistol shots wer inches, ‘used to scare the shark off. SSIS PLA LS J | Sailfish by a Casa Marina guest was landed by Dr. F. N. Carrier Covccccccencccecescceces| ! New Mexico, who landed a N 5 | six-foot eleven-inch fellow. He (By Asnociated Prean) est shown was for December 19, when seven miles were shown. Highest velocity shown for December since 1871, was 44 miles from the north on December 20, 1915. Highest precipitation was recorded on December 28 and 29, when .10 was re- corded. Departure from nor- mal during the month, was 1.41, Accumulated departure ' TO TORTUGAS, LOMEW AND WIFE DUE THIS MONTH i ( | Professor James R. Bartholo- mew, Research Associate in Dia-} toms, of Harvard University, is} among the distinguished scientists | who will be a visitor at Fort, |Jefferson during the month, and/ |to this effect he writes S. C.! { was accompanied by C. B. Cok of Roanoke, Virginia, who was | delighted with his bonito, barra- cuda and dolphin catch, In the long run, the nation or | Hines, Harry Claver, Jimmie tion at 1:15. Immediately follow- | attending with Mrs. Leary, per- collected”. INSTALLATION OF LODGE OFFICERS CONDUCTED LAST NIGHT BY group of nations commanding the | balance of economic power will {be impregnable in the event a, |military war comes, because it! will be able to hold out longest. | | The World War proved that.! No combination of European | | armies was able to whip the Ger- ;man combination. But, despite | submarines,’ England and_ he: caver a ee Howard \ing the 15 minute exhibition the aver, Edouar ontalvier, John = + Harkness, Robert Coolidge, rH rapa z wae oe ray guel Gaston, George Griffin, Rus-| 8°! tournament will get unde sell Davis, Jack Gretzner, Kath-|Way- Some of those who will leen Gretzner, Nelson Acherson, | compete will be Robert Spotts- Mary Acherson, N. P. Castillo, i wood, Curry Harris, J. O. Kirch- Milagros Valentina, Norma Per-}heiner, Eddie Strunk, Sam Gold- do, Napoleon Perdo, Albert Ryals,;smith, Lt. E. R. McCarthy, Mel-; formed the duties of installing } officers, and officially seated the following: H. M. Motherwell, Commander. G. N. Goshorn, Senior Commander. James Johnson, Commander. Carl Eich, Trustee. Junior Vice Vice! |the Chamber of Commerce, as! | follows: “Dear Steve, Mrs. Bartholomew jand I are making arrangements ; to spend a month at Fort Jeffer-: json. We will be down to look over Key West, have a pot of tea with you, and continue to Tor- jtugas. Regards. Hope you have 'a swell season and look forward |to grasping your mitt.” Mr. Singleton says: “The cor-| respondence with this man, whose } position is so assured that he can} afford to be informal, has been | one of the most enjoyed features | ‘Singleton, executive secretary of eeeeecevcescccccconccccs| SHANGHAI.—Peace is expect- ed in China with attempts to ne- gotiate with Generalissimo Chi- | ang Kai Shek underway. WASHINGTON. that any attempts to go on record as opposing Nazi Germany may | mean a complete breakoff of re-} lations between the tries. WASHINGTON.—The _ nation- — American} diplomats have warned Congress} two coun-/| | if ‘COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT TWO NEW MEMBERS OF OR- GANIZATION TO TAKE PLACES ON BOARD ! | | County Commissioners of Mon- roe will hold .the first meeting | al indebtedness this year is a bil-| of the year 1939 at 8 o'clock to- allies were able to establish an’ Sam Sogg, Pauline Sogg, Oavid|vin Russell, Willie Watkins, Dri} Gormmander Motherwell then| during the past year.” OFFICIAL OF CUBA LODGE economic blockade and starve Z Mr. | Budde, Jessie Buddell, John’ Corkins, Ike Parks, J. James, J.) |the German people slowly to- Budd, Helen Castle, G. Hardy, |Sparkman. |ward a mood for |The entry of American supplies ‘and men was the last straw. The Members of Cuba Lodge 15, people of Germany revolted. Not 1.0.0.F., met in session last night) until then did the German army at the Masonic Hall on Elizabeth | crack, street, where the installation of| ‘The decision of the United officers elected at a previous! States to extend more credi to meeting was held. The presiding! the Chinese against their gold officer at the installation was! horde in this country is a double- Deputy Enrique Esquinaldo. ‘edged weapon. Not only does it Officers who were installed increase American, sales of trucks were: a and other supplies, but also it re- Juan F. Fleitas, Noble Grand. | inforces a SH tighting one of Juan Carbonell, Jr. Vice Germany’s economic allies — Grand. | Japan. Secretary, Ignacio Medina. | Gives Traders A Choice Finance Secretary, Jose Fer-| The same thing is true of Sec- revolution. | Kosey, Lovin Lawrence, John| W. P. Kemp, John Pinder, made the following appoinments: George E. Spencer, Adjutant 3 d Quartermaster. Yesterday witnessed the best! om ‘ day of golfing of the season, with | Chas. H. Ketchum, * | Instructor. 45 golfers playing the/ “Win. M. Weaver, Historian. P. L. Cosgrove, Jr., Surgeon. Livingston Bethel, Chaplain. | Alberta Hardy, Marian Siegel, A.| ; Coleman, Michael Wolff. | F. Flymonds, Fred Symon, | 0VeT | Minnette Appledorn, John H. Ap- } course, {pledorn, Fred Smoody, Grace | Walker, Martha Toland, Eliza-} | beth Torian, D. Torian, Jose A.| | Gomez, Coralia Carela, Nereda| | Varela, R. E. Walker, R. E. Walk-/ (er, Jr., Helen C. Walker, Aurelio} | Hevia, J. A. Garcia, Raymond | Abilene ) Muller, Boris Margolice, Clara; Atlanta | Margolice, Carolia Margolice, An-| Boston gelo Pullara, Sara Pullara, Salva- | Buffalo ;dor Pullara, Luis Lavara, Jose-| Charleston | phine Lavara, Allen Chtworthey, | Chicago Patriotic ae0ce3ce TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 hours 50 74 48 66 18 20 16 24 50 70 34 44 36 52 | Day. 1 W. W. Johnson, Officer of the Guard. John Peterson, jor. James B. Pinder, Quartermas- i ter Sergeant. Arthur J. Stewart, Senior Color Sergeant. W. H. Collins, Sergeant Ma- Charles J. Pent, Officer of the | | | | ‘OFFICERS WORK — ON THEFT CASE STOLEN FROM CITY | CEMETERY | | | RELATIVE | | | | Arrests are momentarily ex- jpected of the grave despoilers who are guilty of removing from; nandez. Treasurer, Feliciano Castro. Vigilante, Horacio Ponz. | retary Morgenthau’s announce. iment that the United States jtreasury is studying plans to | Cora Chatworthey, Alfred Chat-| Denver |worthey, Jimmy Chatworthey,! Detroit - ' Antonia G. Vidal, Froilan Gato, ! Galveston 24 -.. 36 68 Sergeant. | designated the graves, the brass’ George Wells, Chief Musician.|T0ds of which were sold to Luis | Interesting talks were made by Bancells, who operates a grocery | _ Chaplain, Santiago Valdez Rod- | jend money to Latin American riguez. : |nations. With money in hand, Following officers were named | traders in Latin America can buy in 40 76 64 80 64 58 66 78 28 16 42 66 58 70 44, 58 48 80 George Sojos, A. Zacazoga. | Havana M. Alvarez, Manly L. Light,! Huron |Phillip Brown, I. Wendell, | Jacksonville !Charles Wilson, Joe Schmidt, Kansas City - ‘John Schmidt, Salvador Napoles, | KEY WEST _ 73 | Rosa Waillage, Margaret Schmidt,, Little Rock — 60 | J. Sufante. Maravillas Sufante,| Los Angeles . 50 | Hurley Reedy, Dorothy Reedy,| Louisville 54 | Ester Gibner, Raymond Gibner,, Miami __- 72 (George Giffin, Russell Davis, Mpls.-St. P. 24 ‘Charlotte Heilbron, Beatriz Mo-|New Orleans _ 66 {reno, A. Holmes, Lucy Simonson, New York 28 i ShAEles Doe, George Simonson, | Pensacola 62 . Bell, Robert Draper, Edmond | Pittsburgh 42 Taylor, F. M. Garcia, Aurora|St. Louis - 48 Garcia, Fidel Garcia, Jose Lin-| Salt Lake City 26 ares, Nicolas Almeyda, Eosa Hel-} San Francisco 48 ena Almeyda. | Seattle 40 Listed on the manifest of the; Tampa 62 22 .- 62 48 ed officers, after which the meet- ing was adjourned. ‘NAVARRO RITES THIS AFTERNOON Funeral services for Jose M. | Navarro, who died in his home ‘at 424 Elizabeth street, 5:30 | o’clock Monday) afternoon, will |be held this afternoon at 5 | o'clock from the residence. Arrangemegts for the services and interment are in charge of | | Cuba were the following items: Washington ._ 36 56 34 AFTERNOON T HIS t Nice Key West, 24 tons of freight, Williston - 16 | Seven automgbiles and two sacks | the Lopez Funeral Home. Members of B. P. O. Elks 551, | of which the deceased was aj }and Simonton streets. It is understood that the! sheriff's office was to be fur-' nished the names of those guilty | ‘ of the depredations and ee ! | were to follow immediately. W. D. WATKINS DIED YESTERDAY’ { FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON | | W. Dorsett Watkins, 63, died er than last year. tional income year. However, na- increased this WASHINGTON.—A review of the AAA case is promised by the U. S. Supreme Court. SAN FRANCISCO.—Alexander| Ripham, who was falsely con- | Victed of murder many years ago, | will : | evidence of ballistic experts that be released” tdday on the a bullet found in a murdered woman was not fired from his gun. Testimony, which had con- mounds in the cemetery the em-| Victed him, hinged around the} Junior Color!/blems of the Red Men which, ¢Vidence that the bullet was in official positions of the board from his gun. HARTFORD.—Oscar Bartilini Mr. Leary and the newly-install- | Store at the corner of Petronia| was saved from the electric chair last night as new evidence was! revealed that Lyons, fiance of a murdered woman, might be alive and that he might have killed her. RALEIGH, N. C.—A state gen- eral assembly has been called. MYRTLAND CATES JOINS, IVY CREW hbi7 sorta cycle off tendered: ‘his’ "ety motor-| | lion and forty-nine million great-| night in the office of Clerk Ross | C. Sawyer, with three of the old members, Chairman Carl Ber- |baldi, Commissioners Norberg |Thompson and Braxton B. War- ren attending. Newly elected ; Commissioners W. H. Me vatge and T. Jenkins Curry to be present also. Chairman Bervaldi has been a |member of the board for 18 |years, Mr. Warren for 32 years and Mr. Thompson for 10 years. Clerk Sawyer was appointed 10 years ago, receiving his appoint- ment from Governor Martin, ju before the inauguration of Go jernor Doyle Carlton. Speculation as to the changes {have been rife for some time | past, but the opinion is that no | important changes are tobe made It is understood that Mr. Ber- valdi will still remain as chair- {man, that W. Curry Harris will remain as attorney for the board, and other employees will remain as they are at present. SISTERS DIE ON CHRISTMAS 4, ) MRS. NELLIE MORRIS; he) DIED IN OHIO | j a | resignation with the city to join) the engineering department of| Appearing in a current issue the Lighthouse Tender Ivy. of one of the newspapers pub- MAKES SUGGESTION | mmber, have been summoned to! yesterday afternoon 4 o'clock in pide Beng meet at the Elks Club 4:30 this) @ local hospital. Funeral services’ guties this morning. article announcing the death on NEW YORK—After his store| afternoon to attend the services| Will be held this afternoon 5) Christmas day ef Mrs. Jennie had been robbed five times in and interment. |o’clock from the chapel of the} May Parshall of St. Claire. Mrs. Parshall was a sister-in-law of Miss Mary Eliza Roberts, who of mail; for Tampa, 55 tons of) was known to her numerous! freight, seven sacks of mail. friends as Aunt Lottie, died this! sane morning 5 o’elock at a local hos-? pital. Funeral services are being | Mr. Cates entered upon his new] lished in St. Claire, Ohio, was an USED TO COVER HOLES STEAL OFFICER’S CAR Pritchard Funeral home. Rev. J. held this afternoon, 3:30 o'clock, five months, Harry Gershman) by the chair. Arturo Armayor,!in a market of free exchange. Mario Perez.Rolo, Delio Cobo,’ deal for exchange of goods. Eloy Albury, Ignacio Perez, Jose | In effect, you have in these Besides the installations the’ American answer to the German third degree was conferred on' system of controlled trade. They Gonzales, Hector Rodriguez, Jose program of reciprocal trade.’, an F. Rodriguez and Rafael Betan-! effort to lower tariff barrjery nati team, members of which made a} revive world trade. * lasting impression by their mag- Refreshments were served dur- ing the following hours, and The closing hours of the Ses-; sion were brought to a close by emblem rings, one to Enrique! Esquinaldo and ofe to Augusto, their magnificent work during» the year just past. | its membership, officers state, from the chapel of the Pritchard and the books of the organization ! Funeral home. Enrique Barcelo, Luis Alfaro, They won’t have to make any old Gonzalez, Antonio Perez. {credit arrangements the latest the following candidates: Jose are a logical sequel to the Hull court, by a competent degree) along the line in all nificent work. ROBERTS FUNERAL a number of speeches were made. | the presentation of two beautiful | Aguero, Past Noble Grand, for: This lodge is rapidly increasing | indicate that 1939 will be a ban-| Rev. J. P. Lilly, pastor of Flem- ner year for Odd Fellowship, it} ing Street Methodist church, is| Nathan said he had to wear them was said. Ee officiating minister. | NEW YORK — After being’ taunted by a creditor in court for failing to pay his debts, and al- ‘ways wearing spats, George C. front door. We are tired of re-'to Rev. Paul Chelmsford of this placing, windows. Regards. Harry’s}city a file of sermons stolen in | Grocery.” ‘1925, placed this ad in a newspaper: } RETURNS SERMONS “Burglars, Attention: When rob- ‘to cover the holes in his socks. | P. Lilly, of Fleming Street Meth- odist church, will officiate. H | two sons, Franklin and Henry | Watkins, and one brother, John | Watkins, of Miami. KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Thieves maa seth , wil jstole the automobile of Howard a bing store this month please use LONDQN—A thief has returned, Mr. Watkins is survived by | Hill, state probation officer of| Parshall, collapsed on receiving | this city. In the car were Christ-|news of her sister’s death, and mas parole applications from convicts in the state prison, 42 | Mrs. Nellie Morris of Key West. | Mrs. Otis Bruce, sister of Mrs. also died on the same day, ac- cording to announcement. | FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES - TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY ~ $5.00 ROUND TRIP -- TICKETS - INFORMATION -- PRICE TOURS -- 505 DUVAL ST. -- PHONE 124