The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 14, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to th Best Intcrests of Key West VOL UME LX. No. 12. e Navy Seaplanes Conduct Machine Gun Fit Fire Monday: Practice Will: Continue: Daily, Except Saturday: And Sunday, ‘Until Fur- ther Notice | | U. S. Navy seaplanes based in Key West for maneuvers and war| games will conduct machine gun firing in the area northeast, north and northwest of the island of | Key West beginning Monday Monday with the practice con- finuing until further notice. | Hours of firing will be from 7 a. m. until 4 p. m. daily except Saturday and Sunday. | PUBLIC HEARING | ON WATERWAY TO | BE HELD IN CITY: WILL TAKE PLACE ON JANU-| ARY 23, ACCORDING TO AN- |. NOUNCEMENT BY SUPERIN- TENDENT DEMERITT Publie hearing on the question of the Intracoastal Waterway Miami to Key} West is to be held in the light- department offices in Key West on January 23 at 10 o’clock in the morning. This announce- ment was made by Superintend- ent W. W. Demeritt, of the Sev- enth -Distsiet;this-morting. Later today confirmation was received from the office of Senator Claude Pepper in Washington. The hearing is to be held for the purpose of providing data for; a report authorized by Congress in accordance with a resolution of the Senate Committee on Com-! merce adopted October 22, 1936, requesting a review of previo j improving from house reports, “with a view to provid- ing a protected channel not less t eight feet deep at mean low water from Miami to Key West in continuation of the intracoastal waterway from Jacksonville to Miami”, House Committee on Rivers and Harbors adopted April 27, 1938, requesting a similar review, “with a view to determining ifgt is ad-} ihe section and a resolution of the visable to improve between Florida Bay and Key West at this time”. H All interested parties are invit- ed to be present or to be repr sented, particularly navigation in- terests and the officials of any town, city or county or local a: sociz Ss whose interests may be affected by the provisions o! the proposed improvement. Especially are they invited to! submit data on the economic | benefits to be derived from the improvement which may justify; its construction by the Federal} Government. These data should | inciude such freight and passen- ters which may be shipped or Te ceived over the proposed provement, terminal facilities available or which may be made available by local interests for| handling the freight and passen-} ger movements, compyercial fish-{ ing of all kinds, including - the} quantities caught per», annum, | number of boats engaged, ‘a of same and terminal facilities} available or whidh may* be’ madt{ available for the industry, and? other relative: daw" -M Oral statements wine but for accuracy portant should be submitted ‘in writing, | the records of the hearing will! be forwarded for consideration by the War- Departinent. Written statements may be handed in to} a heard, oN all im- | | landed there a CATCH SAILFISH WITHOUT A BILL From an Illinois gentleman comes a prize fishing story on Key West. Illinois, you know, is just about as far away from sea water as any state in the Union can be. Well, Dr. Wil- liam Yates of Decatur, Illi- nois, a couple of weeks ago came down here to see what all this news about Key West being a fisherman's paradise was about. He found out! His prize catch: a sailfish without a bill! Out in Captain Manuel Lopez’ charter launch, “Four Brothers” he hooked into the sailfish and brought him in to the accompaniment of Captain Manuel's’ excited Spanish fluency. Manuel's language, however, knew no bounds when he discovered that the sailfish had no bill. Dr. Yates was out with J. A. Stocking of 1502 United street who has recently con- structed his home here. Mr. Stocking caught a large sail- fish himself recently, but that one had a bill! Ow, FI MILI LILI SIE | PARKING METER HEAD IN CITY MANUFACTURER OF TIMING DEVICES SEES NO NEED FOR THEM HERE M. H. Rhodes, of the Hartford, Conn., firm of M. H. Rhodes, In- cor porated, manufacturers of Mark-Time Parking Meters, and many other timing devices, was among the visitors in the city, and-a*cattertat: the office of The Citizen. During his conversation on the subject. of the article manufac- tured by his, company, Mr. aid that he could not by st stretch of imagination see any reason for having parking meters in Key West, as he had not been able to find any need for them. However, if it was the intention of the city to buy them, he would probably make a bid for the busi- ness, but did not see any reason i why they should be bought for a : city this size. ECUADOR GIRL LANDS IN CUBA BELIEVES MASS. CRUISE WILL RETURN MONDAY: NO OFFICIAL WORD Hernelinda Briones, Ecuadorian aviatrix who was grounded in All:American mass cruise flight to €uba when in Key West hop- ped off for Havana yesterday aft- ernoon in a Fleet plane and late at Columbia Field. Mrs. Briones was accompanied by Armando Alfonso, Key West | mechanic. Although no official word has been received here as to when | the 34 planes will be returning to Key West from Havana, Mrs. Briones told The Citizen that she believed they would return Mon- 'day. The return date was pre- viously set for today. Mrs. Briones will return, with ; the mass cruise. GET FIVE FOOT KINGFISH Six people out in Captain Man- ‘uel, Lopez’ charter launch, “Four Brothers”, had the time of their lives fishing the Reef yesterday, | withethe prize catches two five-| facts nd arguments! foot barracuda and a_ five- foot | kingfish. | A nice variety was had With | yellowtail, grouper, runner,! mackerel, dolphin also boated. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. ‘PARTY FIGHTS AND LANDS 287 POUND JEWFISH BLISTERED HANDS HOLDING IT; HAULSD ON WRECKING TRUCK; WESTERS ASSIST With blistered hands and ville, Indiana were busy photo- graphing the catch of a 287 pound jewfish made last night at P. & O. docks. John Stocking of Evansville, Albert P. Rippenbein of New York City, Howard Stocking of New York and George Mills White of Key West were the lucky anglers. fish”, they chorused, “It was a j filled with roe”. The} -n is reminded of the Key West Aquarium story. Jewish patrons kid each other quite a bit when they note the skin of a large jewfish hanging on a post. “Say those have tough hides. And where the scales are, on the in- side, so no other fish can get them”, one said. Well back to this particular j ish. At 9:01 last night George White told the group he heard.a jewfish rise up and sigh! Rushing to the rope to which had been attached an {onormous hook and a large piece of barracuda bait, he jammed the hook in, and hollered for help. The rest of the party rushed to his aid, and with the enormous rushes of the big fellow they found their hands John Stocking got quite? a gash. Stocking sped homeward to bring back the women folk. Ar- riving the line was tied to a car: and the big fellow hauled over the wall with boards used for the last boost. Roy ‘ McKillip, another Key Wester, aided materially in the catch. Stocking fired 18 shots, two loadings, into the giant fish as a greater “persuader”. The jewfish had to be walked completely around dock in order to reach a place where he could be brought in. He was stored at Thompson Fish Company Ice Plant last night. This morning pictures taken of him. ARRANGE FOR SCHOOL B EXPECTED THAT FIFTY BOYS AND GIRLS WILL MAKE UP ORGANIZATION Fifty boys and girls with musi- cal instruments by the first of March is the ambitious goal aimed at by Professor Klebsattel, in an extensive campaign to or- ganize and make permanent the instrumental music program in the public schools. “It is not impossible to achieve this end” comments _ Director Klebsattel. “Parents will not have to assume the heavy bur- den of providing expensive in-! struments, as a rental program is being planned on moderately priced instruments, so a goal of 50 young musicians is not vision- ary.” More careful selection of boys! and girls best adapted to various musical instruments as_ revealed by scientific tests, plus the FROM. KEY) happy smiles a party of fisher-' men from New York and Evans- | “But it was not a jew-; jewfish certainly , look | blistering. | the monster was hauled up ona , wrecking car and hundreds of FRENCH FLEET | GOES TO AFRICA |MANEUVERS TO IMPRESS. | MUSSOLINI, WHO WANTS FRENCH TUNISIA ! i (Ry Associated Ptean) j MARSEILLES, France, Jan. 14.! |—The main French fleet sailed out today for maneuvers off the northern coast of Africa, near, France’s colonies. Part of the fleet will later go to West Indian waters to maneu- ver in France’s colonies there. It is believed that the maneu- ' vers are for the purpose of im- pressing Premier Mussolini with French determination not to lose the colonies in French Tunisia, which Mussolini has said he wants. The conference with Chamberlain that there would be no negotiations until after the’ Spanish war, after Chamberlain’ had informed him that England : would back France in the present ; crisis. NEWS FLASHES | | Seerecccconcoccescccanes| (My Associated Press) i | HENDAYE. — Central coastal Spain between Catalonia and Bar- celona is between the two jaws of the rebel army after the fall of important coastal cities in the rebel march against Valencia. Rebels today are within 12 miles of the sea on a new front with the aim at Valencia. | i MOSCOW.—An edict was pass- ed today that all factory workers, | including officials, if late four times, would be fired. ; BERLINi—Joseph Roth, an American stowaway, was arrested for high treason in a German seaport today after he handed; |German workers communist: newspapers. WASHINGTON.—NIRB_ voted that the Pittsburgh Slate Glass | company union was legal because it represented a majority of the workers in the present strike at the company’s plant. uve0c0es| TEMPERATURES eoee Lowest Highest | Station— last night last 24 hours | Abilene 34 50 | Atlanta 48 ' Boston 28 Buffalo 24 Charleston 68 Chicago 34 Denver - 36 Detroit 30 | Galveston 54 | Havana | Huron fs | Jacksonville | Kansas City _ KEY WEST . Little Rock - Los Angeles Louisville Miami .. Ste Mpls.-St. P. New Orleans . {New York . Pensacola Pittsburgh St. Louis Salt Lake City 28 San Francisco 46 Seattle - 40 Tampa ox) Washington _. 26 | Williston 12 36 76 44 83 48 70 32 78 26 52. 34 64 32 38 34 62 48 78 30 34 | . 28 . 24 34 ROYAL CLASSMATES | | LEXINGTON, Ky.—In Prof. J. {minimizing of the financial fag Holmes Martin’s genetics class at) son. ; with the affair ‘and are as follows IN THE BELIEVE DUCE WANTS PEACE CHAMBERLAIN REPORTS TO BRITISH CABINET WEDNESDAY (Ry Associated Press) ROME, Jan. 14.—Prime Minis-. ter Neville Chamberlain left here today en route to London where he is to report the results of his meeting with Il Duce Mussolini to the British Cabinet Wednes: day. London officials are reported be pleased with the results of the conference. Although Chamber- lain accomplished little in the way of concessions or treaties it is believed that Mussolini indi- cated he did not want war. This will pave the way toward fur- ther alliances between England ,and Italy. MAKE READY FOR | PRESIDENT’S BALL TICKETS BEING PRINTED: COMMITTEES FOR AF- FAIR, NAMED Tickets for the President’s Ball, to be given on the night of January 28, are being printed by © the Artman Press and will be ready for distribution this ning. The place for the affair has been designated as Raul’s Club on Roosevelt Boulevard. All of the committees who will take an active part in arrange- ments for the series of entertain- ments to be given in connection fave been named Dance Committee: Clifford G. Hicks, George Lucas, Larry Gard- ; ner, John Delgado, Dr. Armando Cobo, Fred Eberhardt. Music and Orchestra: George | Mills White, Mrs." Eva Warner ;and Jerome Thomas. Cuban Club: Ramon Delgado, Berardo Rodriguez, Jose: Perez, Dr. Jose Sanchez. Dinner: J. P.._ Tonetti, ; Berkowitz, Joe Pearlman. Decorations: Mrs. Clifford G. Hicks, Mrs. B. C. Moreno, Mrs. H. C. Galey, Miss Etta Patterson. General Promotion: Victor M. .E, ‘Lowe, Frank McKinley, William V. Little, Allan Armstrong, Paul Ladd. Roster Distribution: Isadore Weintraub, Leonte Valladares, Leo Warren and Benjamin Saw- yer. Ticket Committee: Clem Price, George Lucas and Isadore Wein- traub. KEY WESTERS ESCAPE FIRE In the January 6 iisue ‘f the New York Daily Mitror a front | page picture a little boy rescued | norelli, whose mother is Mrs. Mary Signorelli, former Mary Sanchez of Key West. Mrs. Mary Sanchez, Mrs. Sig- norelli’s mother; two brothers, Joseph, Eugene, and a_ sister,| | Myrtle, are living in Key West at! present -at 209 Simonton street.! {Two others of Mrs. Signorelli’s cons, Tony and Ralph, received, | burns about the face and of their} accused is charged with hair.. Mrs. Signorelli’s hair was, scorched. The fire was at 210 W. 103rd: St., with fired janitor Joseph Ma-| lone charged with homicidal ar-' Four died in the fire. Mrs. den for parents are the two im- the University of Kentucky, three Signorelli is at present living at. portant features of the new plan Students sitting in one row are | 866 Amsterdam Avenue in New| dered to pay off the jurors for for renting instruments. The music director further stated that complete details of the rental system would be made public as soon as the plan was approved in detail by the superintendent of, public instruction. FOR SALE CONCESSION STAND partially equipped. adjoining Bowling ‘atley. 111 Duval Street: TO BE SOLD AT ONCE Lewis H. Watkins, Colonel, Corps L. R. Graham of Peoria, Illinois; For Particulars See: of Engineers, District Engineer, or mailed to him beforehand. FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES — TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY - $5.00 ROUND TRIP -- TICKETS -- INFORMATION - PRICE TOURS -- Mr. and Mrs. Bert Daniels, Dr. | and Mrs. C. E. Canfield. GERTRUDE POTTER | fant Sap eaaes Duke and ee Earl. | York. Puone sie The MAXWELLCO. $c. For << a on FURNITURE and FURNISHINGS MAXWELL VENETIAN BLINDS RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT ee Local Representative IBONEY INN, 705 DIVISION STREET eve-| Miss | Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1939 U. S.A. ‘MOSBY MATCOVICH SENTENCED 0 FIVE ‘YEARS IN PRISON ATTORNEY CARO PLEADED) LENIENCY FOR 65-YEAR-! OLD PRISONER: TO MAKE! MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL | Mosby Matcovich was called before the bar of justice this morning in Criminal Court of Record to receive sentence, hav-| ing been found guilty by a jury: on a charge of assault with intent to commit murder in the second degree. Verdict of the jury was render- Thursday evening at 8:45 o’clock and Judge William V. Al- bury advised sentence would be | passed at 10 o’clock this morning }and called the prisoner and his | attorney, T. S. Caro, to the bar at the hour named, Pleaded For Leniency | Mr. Caro made an cloquent plea for the convicted man, stat- ing that in his opinion the pris- oner, who is more than 65 years | of age, could not withstand a sentence of any great length as! | he was not very strong and was apparently in ill health. Judge Albury stated that the court was going to be as lenient as the law permitted, that the of-! fense was a grave one and the law provided a sentence of 20 years, but the sentence he was going to impose was five years in the state penitentiary at Rai- ford. Mr. Caro advised that it was his intention to make a motion for a new trial and he was grant- ed until Tuesday morning to file the necessary papers. Wilkinson Given Five Years Stanley Wilkinson, who late yesterday afternoon was found } guilty of unarmed robbery by a jury consisting of Harold Cruz, B) A. Sawyer, Jr.. John D. S. Rivas, Dewitt Roberts, Ferdinand Acosta and Willard Bell, was also called to ‘the bar to receive sen- | tence. When ‘arraigned before the judge, with his attorney, L. A. Harris, who advised him to ask for the mercy of the court, which he did, he was also sentenced to serve five years in the state peni- tentiary at Raiford. Leonardo Baquerizo Rendon, native of Ecuador, who was ar- rested several days ago on a charge of contracting a board bill ; With intent to defraud, was ar- 'raigned on the charge and en- tered a plea of guilty. Senience Deferred He had been arraigned for pre- liminary hearing yesterday aft- ernoocn before Justice of the eace Esquinaldo and placed un- der bond of $106. After entering the plea of guil- ty Judge Albury stated that he would defer passing sentence and the prisoner was ordered turned over to the United States Immi- | gration authorities for their ac- ed |in a tenement fire in New York | tion. | City reveals that it is Louis Sig-| Trying Bancells Case case of Luis Bancells, j charged with receiving stolen | Prope ty, was called for trial and | the following jury was selected to ae the issue: Fernando Acos- ta, George Gwynn, Berlin A. Sawyer, Jr., John D. S. Rivas,’ William McKillip and Frow Rus-| sell. This is the case in which | . The buying | bras standards on which were: | placed emblems of the Improved Order of Red Men, marking the | graves of departed members in j the city cemetery. The case was being continued this afternoon. ! Clerk C. Sam B. Curry was or-| | the term and the sum of $402} | was disbursed. J. P’S LAST NIGHT INEZ MESA $45.00 ANGELINA VALDEZ __ 5.00 Both will be awarded at 7 O'CLOCK TONIGHT i Tonight’s J. P. 7 o’Clock $5.00 | KEY WEST PARK i | 14-foot ‘Danny Winfield, L. P. Artman,! #! the! ‘WIPES OUT TWO JAP WAR- | planes | juvenated air fleet with many | ; registered. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS City Council Adopts Budget _ During. Meeting. Last ast Night 14 REGISTER | Milage hesias Tax Roll FOR KEY WEST | Placed At . Thirty-Two BOATING CLUB: Mills; Salary Increases Also Ordered PLAN INFORMAL ae SPORTS SUNDAY: CONSID-! ERING CLUBHOUSE SITE;'meeting last night, adopted the MEET NEXT FRIDAY AGAIN. budget for the current year. The {millage against the tax roll was The City Council at a special At a very enthusiastic meei- Placed at 32 mills. The millage ing last night at The Key West 'jast year was placed at 100 mills. Citizen office, fourteen members registered to form a Key West! Boat Club with election of offi- cers and selection of a name set for next Friday night. Apportionment was made as General revenue, 14!2 \mills; Board of Public Works, A committee today is consider- | : ing selection of a clubhouse site, 5’2/ indebtedness, 5; court. judg- which will eventually be used. ments, 2; funded debt, 5. ‘also for storing of boats and equipment. Another committee is seeking permission to use the Yacht Basin for sailing and out- board motorboating activities. The club is planning a_ water eee ‘ a sports assembly Sunday, if per-|°ther sources. The non-exempt mission is secured, of their sail-|Toll aggregates $3,130,410 Last ing, outboard motorboats and ‘year’s roll was reduced 80 per aquaplanes. cent to encourage payment of de- Study of the Miami Outboard) jinquent taxes. Club’s charter and by-laws was Deductions Offered made and certain changes for the Key West Club discussed. It was; , It was ordered that 4 per cent tentatively agreed to limit dues| ‘eduction be allowed to those UE es eee |making tax payments during the es month of January, 2 per cent in trance fee. Discussion on a flag February, and one per cent in was also held. It was pointed out Murch: to the club that great coopera- tion between all the members is| the secret of successful boat clubs. | The group thus far represents ownership of a Cabin Cruiser, a sailboat, two skiffs, a| four-horse outboard, a 16-foot skiff with Briggs Stratton en- gine, a 2%-horse outboard, two} hydreplanes with 12-horse out- board, a hydroplane and 16-horse | outboard, a skiff, a 14-foot util-; ity outboard, and an 18-foot util-; ity outboard with 16-horse. Those who registered last night were: Dick Steadman, Jack Steadman, George Demeritt, Leo- nard Roberts, Albert Hinson,|;. follows: The budget was fixed in ac- cordance with $105,748.52 real es- tate taxation, with proposed col- $57,000 lections of about from Increase Denied The tentative budget called for the imcrease of salary for the | licenise inspector from $720 a |year to $900, but the proposed jincrease was opposed when the budget was presented. The budget calls for an in- ease of $10 in the salary of the sanitary inspector, making it $840 }a year. An increase of salary |for the city auditor from $12,000 ja year to $1500 was ordered in connection with the adopted bud- get. | Extension On Payments ‘The matter of extending the Ee for payment of delinquent es, which ended December 31, pees BERL Eee te January 31, was discussed, but : ia jit was decided to refer the mat- eae a ee, ter to the tax committee for fur- orris i ther consideration. This morning W. W. Demeritt, H Superintendent Lighthouses Sev-| enth District, granted a commit- | tee from the club permission to} use Building No. 3 as a me ‘ROBERTS RITES and to store their boats there. HERE TOMORROW will be uperating for next meet-| KEY WEST RESIDENT DIED ing night and a watchman reg-} ularly patrols the area. The club| THIS MORNING AT plans to store their outboard - motors and light outboard boats| 10:20 O'CLOCK in the clubhouse. Another committee interviewed) Lieut. Fort H. Callahan -who) granted permission to use the! Yacht Basin Sunday afternoon; 1120 Washington strect. ’ Funeral for an informal meet of out-! = be a2 boards, sailboats and aquaplanes. | S¢tVices are to be held 3 o'clock Permission was also secured for; tomorrow. afternoon the the City Boating Meet Jan. 28. | Gospel Hall, Bernard Larsen and ree | Joseph Montecino of the Brethern AIR F R FORCE Mrs. 10:20 this morning in the home James H. Roberts, 68, died at from selected from the membership of the So ciety of Brethren Funeral arrangements charge of the Lopez Home. Mrs. Roberts is survived by the | widower, James H. Roberts; son, F. A. Fisher, Prince’ Fla.; two daughters, Mrs. G M. Burt, Miami and Mrs. W. F. Free- | man, Stuart, Fla.; an only sister, Mrs. E. H. Key, Bahama Islands. There are also 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. are in Funeral SHIPS, PL“.WE FLEET, TWO BATTERIES o (My Axnociated Press) SHANGHAI, Jan. 14—Reports are current here that Chinese| planes sank two Japanese war- ships, wiped out two Japanese batteries and wiped out a fleet of! in river fighting in central | How Good Is Your Memory ?. Come and Find Out China. | Time; 12:00 P. M. NIGHTLY The Chinese claim to have a re- | Place: : ign pits) CLUB CAYO HUESO new planes and 500 foreign ee | "Tell Hotel Bldg. Answer Three Questions correctly + Cash Prize $5.00 | Answer Two ‘Questions oo + $2.50 AT | Answer One Question . . . $1.00 ’ All questions could be answered Pena’s Garden Of Roses by any High School Student GOULD CURRY'’S Seven-Piece EVERYONE WELCOME—TRY IT Orchestra | —DANCING— CAYO HUESO TRIO DANCE TONIGHT No Admission or Cover Charge | 505 DUVAL ST. - PHONE 124