The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 13, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 11. Che Kry 'THE SOUTHERNMOST NE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FR Committee Arranges For ’s Birthday Ball President Event Will Take Place At Raul’s Club January 28; | Supper At La Concha| Hotel Birthday ball to be given the| latter part of this month cele-| brating the birthday of Presi-| dent Roosevelt, will be on Satur- | day, January 28. The dance will! PLAN PANAMA CANAL DEFENSE MAKE IT IMPREGNABLE TO, ATTACK BY FORTIFIED CA- RIBBEAN AREAS By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.— | Plans to make the Panama Canal j impregnable to attack were re- EXPECTED TO BE SENTENC-| ED AT SESSION OF CRIM- INAL COURT TOMORROW! | MORNING | | i | Mosby Matcovich, who was | found guilty of assault with in- j tent to commit second degree | murder, at 8:45 o’clock last eve- | ning, will be sentenced, it is ex- | pected, at the session of Criminal Court of Record tomorrow morn- | ing at 9:30 o’clock. | The convicted man was accus- ;ed of shooting Jimmie Saunders, jan employe at Craig, No Name Rissaian Ruler? rst Citiern WSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. —— IDAY, JANUARY 13, 1939 SECURITY ER IS SHOWN "| T0 BE ESSENTIAL { a a AP- | | PLYING AT OFFICE RE-! i t QUESTED TO FURNISH j NUMBER | Unemployed workers applying i ‘at the local offices of the Flor. ida State Employment Service, under Wm. V. Little, should be |prepared to furnish their social! ‘security account number, accord- | ing to Fons A. Hathaway, direc- | ,tor of the state employment service. ( The director points out that ;numerous delayed claims for un- | reer a Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Main U.S. In Atlantic eocveccvccccccccescccese | GAVE LEPER KISS | Cocccccescocccococcccocs | Fighting Ficet Maneuvers 140 Surface Vessels, 600 Aircraft, 3.000 Ofiicers And 50,000 Enlisted Men Participate The Key West unit cf Pairol Wing Five, comprising a destroy- er, an airplane tender and 18 air- planes, under Commander L. T. be held at Raul’s Club on the; vealed here today. efemployment compensation in the | Key, on June 16, 1938, and was Hundt, will participate in large boulevard and it was proposed that a supper be given at La; Concha Hotel. This was at the second meeting held to discuss { the subject, in the office of Dr.| H. C. Galey on Eaton street, last night. It was later in the evening de-; cided to make further investiga- | tions into the matter of the sup-! per, and contact other institu- tions relative to the arrange-| ments. The price of the tickets; for supper and dance “was pro-| posed at $2.50, but there were | certain objections offered as to} the price proposed for the din-| ner, which called for the discus- | sion and resulted in the proposi-! tion for further investigation. | It was the sense of the meet-| ing that the committee, members | of which are C. G. Hicks, Fred! Eberhardt, George Lucas, Dr.} Amando..Cobe, Larry Gardner. and John Delgado, meet with! managers of other institutions with facilities for furnishing the! banquet, and report at a meet-/ ing to be held this week. | Further along in the meeting} it was decided to have the folders which are fitted with 10 spaces, each to hold a dime, be placed in| the hands of individuals who will) make an effort to have the spaces} filled with dimes and sent to; committee headquarters as soon! as ready. { The circular tin cans for the collection of coins of any descrip-| tion, are to be placed in busy} places throughout the city, and it} is believed that the cans will be, well filled when the time arrives! to collect them. Several of the! cans which have already been! placed indicate generous contri-| butions. It is the intention of Dr. Galey; to have the tickets printed for! the functions at the earliest pos- sible moment, and they will con- | sist of a coupon for the name of; the buyer, another coupon for the! dance and the ticket for the sup-| per. The coupon for the name of the buyer is to keep track of those who have been contacted, and provide against them being asked again. Distributions of the tickets will be made to persons in different walks of life, so many to dpch group, to insure the possibility of | every person being approached} for the purchase of one or more. | All matters are to be ararnged! and worked out satisfactorily by | the end of this week. Those attending the meeting were Luther Pinder, Ray Bush, | L. P. Pierce, Albert L. Peirce, | 2o"sacola Jr., Wm. V. Little, Isadore Wein- | traub, Warren Sawyer, Benja-; min Sawyer, Carl Bervaldi, Dr.! H. C. Galey, Clarence Thompson, | Leonte Valladares, Dr. William / Kemp, Clifford G. Hicks, Victor Lowe, Ramon Delgado, Fred/ Eberhardt, George M. White, Dr. Julio De Poo, Miss Ruth Rose Galey, Miss Kathleen Watkins, and Dr. J. Canfield, a visitor to Key West for the season, who is deeply interested in the fight against infantile paralysis. FOR SALE CONCESSION STAND Partially adjoini equipped. adjoining = Bowling Alley. 111 Duval Street; TO BE SOLD AT ONCE GERTRUDE, POTTER At The Bus. Terminal | Tious points in All Atlantic passages to the! | Caribbean were to be closed to! lien forces in the mock war be-; | ing carried on in ihat area. The ships and planes stationed at va-/ the Caribbean, area are believed capable of keep- | ing an enemy 1,000 miles off the; is al coast. The Pacific area ready well fortified. | Key West, one of the bases in: the Caribbean area, at present has two destroyers and 16 planes. | Two more planes and an airplane tender will soon arrive. One de- stroyer will leave for the Canal zone. Key West was long known, as “key to the gulf” but her Nav-! al Station here was on an inac-' tive basis for many years. MOLLY MOLLISON IN-ISLAND CITY | bury that a directed verdict of Molly Mollison, who says she, is the wife of noted aviator Mol-| lison, and who created quite a scene at the Miami All-American Maneuvers ball at Miami this week, is in the city and volun- teers the story of her life to The Citizen. Aviator ;Mollison denies that she is related to him in any way. She was ‘arrested during the Maneuvers bali scene. (iy Associated Press) Pecccvevcencceccccncoces ROME.—Pope Pius received: Neville Chamberlain today and! discussed his talk with Mussolini. , Latest bulletins of the talk re- veal that Chamberlain told Mus-! solini England would stand be-} hind France in her decision to to retain her colonies. Mussolini | then told him that he planned no hostilities against France, and in- ; vited Chamberlain back after the ‘termination of the Spanish war.) Halifax was told Mussolini ex- pects the Rebels in the Spanish Civil War to be in Barcelona in a, few weeks. | HENDAYE.—Rebels captured | key point on the Barcelona} drive today, which advanced | ; them quite some way on their} New seacoast fight. | You are invited to inspect—so | that you can recommend the CENTRAL INN TO YOUR FRIENDS “In the Heart of the City” Duval at Southard St. Phone 600 | Perea Nn See DRESSED POULTRY Ready for the Pot BROILERS, FRYERS. BIG CHICKS, SOFT-BONE ROASTERS, PULLETS and HENS No White Leghorns | We don’t cut prices—we give you Quality and Honest Weight {26 years in Poultry Business! | FT. JEFFE : Fulford’s Poultry Farm cies aae a RSON CRUISES -- TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY ~ $5.00 ROUND TRIP -- TICKETS - INFORMATION -- PRICE TOURS -- 505 DUVAL ST. -- PHONE 124 | cluded his motion when the jury | Charleston - | San Francisco | Betty Stephetison was j Answer Three Questions brought to Key West, a prisoner, on the following day. He was given preliminary hearing and} released on bail June 24. Members of the jury, which was; empanelled to hear the case yes- terday afternoon, were: Harry H. Baker, Harold Cruz, Berlin A. Sawyer, Jr., John D. S. Rivas, Louis Aguerro and F. S. Elbert- son. claiming him czar. in Germany. Oh! Oh! Oh! Stirrup Case Heard Fernando Stirrup, who was ar- rested some time ago, charged with using the property of an-| other, airplane, which is the; property of Daniel Lawson, was} placed on trial this morning. He} waived formal arraignment, en-! tering a plea of not guilty. | The trial was of brief duration | and after several witnesses were examined the case went to the celo, Ignacio Perez, Charles G.; Mendoza and Ramon Delgado. | Found Not Guilty They retired for a few mo-| ments to consider the verdict and | in the court room County Soli¢j- tor.Allan B. Cleare made.,a.mo- |... tion before Judge William V. Al-| > TERDAY MADE SOME “. FINE CATCHES not guilty be given. | A 26 pound grouper was the rey + | Prize catch aboard the charter Solicitor Cleare had just con. = Aigne Hethisl week and was made by Mr. and Mrs. Morris L. |Johnson of Atlantic City. A 9 pound grouper and two mackerel were also caught. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson of Atlantic City also several days ago on a charge of had good fishing. Mr. and Mrs. vagrancy, was before the court ¢ 1 Gist of Morgantown, West on the charge and entered a plea Virginia and Dr. Ethel Rake Hen- of guilty. Sentence was deferred | ke] of Philadelphia brought in by the judge. ‘grouper, mackerel and shark. Court was recessed until 1:30° Mr. and Mrs. Robert Patterson o'clock this afternoon when the staying at the Casa Marina were case of Stanley Wilkinson, charg-' out in Captain Filer’s launch and ed with unarmed robbery, was brought in a fine catch yester- called for trial. |day. Mrs. Patterson had quite a |battle with a 30 pound amber- | jack but succeeded in boating 'him. Her husband caught one e slightly smaller. They are fre- | quent visitors to Key West an jare ardent supporters of its jequable climes and friendly citi- zens. | _ Mr. and Mrs. J. Griess and Mrs. Phillip Robson of London were ‘gn; |Jakie Key’s “Legion” and ; brought in several large dolphin, ‘ kimgfi8h and mackerel. Mrs. Rob- son éijoyed her first deep sea ' fishing trip very much and was | thrilled especially by her catch of a 2 pound barracuda. Mrs. Rob- ison sent a story on Key West ‘fishing to the London Illustrated , News today. returned to the court room with such a verdict. Sentence Deferred Jerry King, who was arrested TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 hours Abilene 36 Atlanta 42 i Boston 20 Buffalo - 24 48 |: 32 RES | 26 46 68 18 60 Chicago Denver Detroit Galveston Havana Huron : Jacksonville . Kansas City _ 36 KEY WEST _ 73 Little Rock _ 36 Los Angeles _ 54 Louisville . 32 Miami — 72 Mpls.-St. P. _. 20 DETROIT VISITOR _ GETS BIG SAILFIS Neen te aa | Sixty-pound sailfish caught by 2 |R. E. Curtis of Detroit last week = | while fishing with Mr. and Mrs. | J. F. Wendt of Chicago and Miss such a prize that M¥2\€urtis ‘has decided | to send ¢opies''té 'Hisfriends and i will be a firm ‘Booster of Key West fishing. * St. Louis Salt Lake City . 44 . 64 30 18 Seattle Tampa Washington Williston 8 46 i FINED:FOR SPEEDING ~NEW: YORK—For Speeding on Place: | horseback, "Charles Collins and cay | Charles Wagensell paid fines of CLUB CAYO HUESO | sio-each when arraigned in this Jefferson Hotel Bldg. : city. How Good Is Your Memory? | -—- Come and Find Out Time: 12:00 P. M. NIGHTLY correctly . . . Cash Prize $5.00) Answer Iss Oooins aaae| The best selection of wo eee . ‘Answer One Question ... $1,00| Cameras and Supplies All questions could be answered!in the city. See our full line by any High School Student | today. Movie Cameras and EVERYONE WELCOME—TRY IT | sgicagpeaie —DANCING— |GARDNER’S PHARMACY CAYO HUESO TRIO | 534 Duval Street Phone 177 I Throne in the Ukraine does not interest Grand Duke! Vladimir (left) declared the 21 year old pretender to: czarship of Russia, shown at recent Paris ceremony pro- | Speculation that Hitler contemplated! installing him as a ruler of the Nazi-coveted Ukraine, now ' number, in order to avoid delay ' Russian territory, followed news that Vladimir was to visit in the payment of his benefit”) Say, That Man’s Come Back Again ERSEYANS GET Alber: Pack, Who Turned lip, Hash BY Pinder, Julio Bat-| BIG GROUPER OTHER PARTIES OUT YES8- “state now paying benefits, could \be traced to the failure of eligible helaimants to secure social security account numbers while they worked in covered employment, | or to the fact that they held more than one number. | “Every worker in Florida; should have a_ social security | ee lathaway explains, “but it is equally important that the work-' er have only one number as the | possession of more than one num- ber is as confusing as none at all.” Any worker who has no social security number or who _ holds more than one number is being advised to report immediately to} {the local state employment of-! , fice. i “The State Employment Serv- lice will notify the Social Security ; Board” he said, “and where a Day S Fishing S jworker has more than one num- es |ber the board will bring together ay port bai tory, [into one account the several num- ' bers and all but one will be can- celled and the worker be notified which number he is to retain.” ROTES PLANNING — BEACH CLEANUP TOURISTS CLEAN-UP SOUTH BEACH THIS MORNING: “HELP KEY WESTERS” | | In Outstanding Single- Arrives Again The Citizen Yachts reporter is ‘a nervous wreck today! You see, Albert Pack of the Yacht Chieftain who it will be remembered caught a 100 pound tarpon, a 350 pound jewfish, a 200 pound shark, one eight foot and one seven and « half foot} sailfish, besides a fishbox full of | stream and reef fish for one of| ——_ the best fishing days in recent; A committee from ihe Rotary Key West history, has just been| Club, composed of W. R. Fleck told that more tarpon has been | and J. J. Trevor, are investigat- rising to scraps | thrown over-} ing possibilities of establishing! board by his fishing guide. That’s| hired help to clean up South how his fishing day started last | Beach regularly. | time, when he cast a bait among} Appointed at the Rotary lunch- those tarpon and hooked the 100) eon yesterday the committee has) pounder. ; | plans of hiring a man who will' So if those tarpon right there | work daily or one who will clean-| alongside his yacht are acting UP! up the beach weekly. Funds are ! again, this reporter can hardly to be supplied by the Rotary stand the strain of preparing to| Club and possibly other clubs of write another one of those |i, city stories! By the way, Mr. Pack) “uch complaint of the untidy has a beautiful new fishing boat} 4 a in blue and white with flying| condition of the beaches has been bridge. ie y heard recently and The Citizen, Gennnitenrion J. Edgar Hires of earried an editorial on the mat- the Otiin City, N. J. Yacht CluQ ing anys headed by A. L.| is at the Yacht: Basin with George | niin ts Rete EAE ee Darby, Jr: in the yacht, “Sylvia! “is Patsy Sniaas est: rr III”, which was chartered for the | *horoughly and were tapering off” trip. Hires is owner of the Hires| their work when interviewed by Root Beer Company with offices} The Citizen. ; | in Philadelphia. Darby is vice Hunt said in learning that the president of the Thomas Gasse-| Rotary Club had appointed a, ner Stainless Steel company.| committee to consider the state. Captain of the boat is Arthur} of the beach, “We took up the Fulton. work from the resolution on. We Captain John Van Mills down| realize that the people of Key | in the “Sybil” brought in an 85} West are working hard and we! pound amberjack and a 37 pound! who are mostly on vacation de-! barracuda among big catches.| cided to do the work for them”. | Sybil left today. | All seaweed and other untidi- | Sixty foot motorsailor, “Balmy| ness was swept away, and the Days”, Captain C. H. Wade andj beach has a metamorphic look. family arrived and is at the | Ahern Funeral Home Yacht Basin. The Wades expect Joseph L. Plummer Vice-President to spend the winter in Key West. On the Balmy Days is,an,,,auto- matic rudder device, which, made the trip down ,especially com- fortable, Captain Wade said.. A jradio compass is another feature \of the boat. ~ is Rather strange appear the! at+} titude the David Garners_of St. Petersburg take, toward fishing’ here, but not so odd on further investigation. Here on their) launch, “Lapwing”, a forty fioter, the Garners never go fish- jing in their launch preferring to} fish from bridges. During the! week they have spent most of their time at Boca Chica bridge. | But—what’s not so funny about, it all, is that the Garners, who like tarpon fishing best of all,| lcaught two tarpon there during the week fishing with light _ tackle. Larger fellows have brok- | AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 22211 Miami, Fla. | ° — J.P. TONITE 7:00 P. M. $45.00 Both J. P.’s Forfeited LAST NIGHT KEY WEST PARK i ‘ KISS SHE GAVE a leper, quieting the patient, earned for Mme. Gerke a prize giv- en to French nurse showing devotion to duty. DISTRIBUTE 200 WINTER PROGRAM COLORED POSTERS JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE, WPA RECREATION DEPARTMENT PREPARE. JANUARY DATA Two hundred beautifully-cotgr-: ed placards with January Winter Program bulletins were distri-| buted yesterday and today by Junior Chamber of Commerce and WPA Recreation Department: Winter Program chairmen. Each month during the “sea- ; Son” a bulletin: of events will be printed and distributed. The post- ers, which were prepared by the | Federal Art Project in Jackson- ville through the cooperation of | Key West Art Center are in three colors and represent a maiden with long flowing hair riding a‘ seahorse. A starfish is spotted among the words, “Winter Pro- gram of Event: Key West, 1938-39". Colors are orange, ma- roon, blue. On the lower right- hand corner is the calendar. Junior Chamber of Commerce financed the poste: The Art- man Press furnished the bulletins at cost. Mrs. Eva B. Warner of the WPA Recreation Department and L. P. Artman, Jr., of the Junior Chamber, drew up the program. They will continue their work during the remainder of the season. MADE TO PUSH CAR SAN ANTONIO, Texas—De- ‘tectives caught three thieves in a stolen car ten miles from this city, and made them push the machine all the way back here on foot when it ran out of gas. scale maneuvers in the Atlantic along with 140 surface vessels. 600 aircraft, 3,000 officers and 50.- 000 enlisted men. According to leased in the Army and information Navy re- : Journal the “show” is to impre the dictator states cf Europe The Fleet Problem, to be held in the West Indian wate s and the Atlantic Ocean to the -ast of the Lesser Antiles, has b n planned for more than a year d at pres- ent fits esp lly nea’ * into the administration's cur diplo- matic strategy. The Fleet, under i will be divided into t White Fleet under A. Kalbfus and a White Vice Admiral Adolph Black is defending t must defeat the Wh tempting to establis: the coast. After the problem the Fleet will rendezvous in Guantanamo area for tactical gunnery and sroblem, orces, a al E. C. t under ndrews sst_ and eet at- ‘ase on +) misceHaneous exercises. Upor the completion of these exercises th« Fleet will proceed to New York for a visit to the World’s Fair, stopping at Norfolk enroute. The main fighting force of the United States is at present com- ing through the Panama Canal. SCIENTIST WILL STUDY MOSQUITO “CONTROL IN CITY F. W. FISK TO TEST FEEDING HABITS OF FISH IN DARK CISTERNS: LeVAN LEAVES FOR CONFERENCE Word has been received by the Aedes Aegypti Control Unit that Junior Bacteriologist Frank W. Fisk, U. S. Public Health Serv- ice, will arrive in Key West Mon- day to be assigned to study the ' control of mosquito larvae (“wig | gle tails”) in the large, dark cis- terns. At present, along with other control activities, the work of Z. D. Harrison, county sanitary offi- cer, in placing top-feeding min- nows in open cisterns, is being carried on by the unit. Passed Assistant Sanitary En gineer James H. LeVan, U. S. P. H. S., officer in charge of the Aedes Aegypti Control Unit, left yesterday for Miami and Charles- ton, S. C., and the office of the surgeon-general, Washington, for conferences in connection with ; the mosquito control work of the You'll want to read about the heartaches of Broadway andthe head- aches of Hollywood in NEW YEAR’S LOVE an entertaining serial STARTING JANUARY 14 IN THIS PAPER U. S. Public Health Service. While in the north he will at- tend the annual meeting of the American Society of Civil Engi- neers. Mr. LeVan was in charge of mosquito control work in the city. He will return in ten days. LARGE SHIPMENT OF ¥,-Grown Hens Just Received From TENNESSEE, th. 20€ Heavy Western Beef .. . and Baby Beef ... Pork Ham and Pork Shoulder Armour’s Star and Swift's Premium Hams PRICES AT LEVELS THAT DEFY COMPETITION j BERMUDA MARKET | White and Virginia Streets PHONE 52