The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 19, 1939, Page 1

oa Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. | VOLUME LX. No. 16. Between SixtAnd _ Thousand’ Dollar: Out Here Aboard Ships Williamson Left During Morning Enroute To Canal Zone; Owl Arriv- ed Yesterday Mayor Claims City Must Call For Bids Before Officers and enlisted personnel of the U.S.S. Childs and William- son, tenders to Patrol Wing Five. U. S. Aviation Forces, stationed at Key West, received their pay! checks yesterday about 4 o'clock in the afternoon. | First National Bank had been | notified the checks were expected | and arrangements were made | whereby the bank was opened at; 4 o'clock and remained open until! H Buying Pa SRM OTE S ei Ordinance pertainingrto traffic PLANS ANOTHER SCRAPBOOK ON rkin g M et ers, boat. Young Hemingway and his| depending on the winds. Maybe shipmate, Jake Klimo, sailed her ! H !yegulations and installation of! | Parking Meters, dated January — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939 HEMINGWAY SHIPMATES PLAN CRUSE Coypealé: eee eee Maybe Cuba, South America; Sloop Here Three Years eee see eee SOUTH; WHERE? WHEREVER WIND BLOWS) Ceeeoccaccceccccssccccseneenseccoccococoncoececes | A sloop has been lying in Key; They stayed two weeks, fishing} ; West harbor for the past three; and harpoonnig sting-rays. The} years. She is a strange craft,! harpooning was the most sport— and doesn’t look like a Key West} giant ray puts up a good fight. | boat. In fact, she “isn’t. The Now they are back in Key eS West, outfitting for a longer sloop was built in Puerto Padre,| cruise, Water shortage was the Cuba—by a Spaniard named) biggest problem until now. A | Juan Cortez y Pan. Juan sold! fifty-five gallon barrel lashed in} ' the sloop to Lester Hemingway,| the hold will keep them in water| brother of Ernest Hemingway,| until they are ready. to return. | who was looking for just such a] The destination is undetermined, Believed All Obsta PRICE FIVE CENTS ers ‘Streets cles back to Key West, stripped her sails, unstepped: the mast and, leaving the boat, headed north. They planned to return within the year, but it was almost three years before either did. HUSBAND’S LIFE | 10. 1939, will be returned by! son returned last summer, re- SAFETY HARBOR, Jan. 19 (FNS).—Mrs. Harry Hou- dini, widow of the world- famous magician, said at her home here last week that an- other giant scrapbook on her husband's life will soon be completed. It has been willed to the Houdini Room the last of the money had been! paid out to holders of the govern- | ment checks. It is estimated that disbursements approximated be- tween $6,000 and $8,000. H U.S.S. Williamson, tender to. Patrol Wing Five, which had been in port since January 12, received‘ sailing orders and left port this morning at 9:30 o'clock for her assigned station at Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone. | The Williamson has been re- jieved as tender by the U.SS. at the Library in Washing- ton, D. C. The scrapbook contains clippings from every state in the Union and from most of the foreign countries. An especially interesting part is devoted to clippings on the founding of the Houdini Na- tional Magic Day, set for Hallowe'en, the spooks’ na- tional sports day. | | DIRECT ACTIVITIES OF LO- | CAL INSTITUTIONS party came here from her ernoon. ‘RUSSELL NAMED ization of Squadrons 14 and 15 of -the practices, firing and other LOCAL SUPERINTENDENT OF and a young fellow, Leonard! rect the March of Dimes cam- did not buy his plane from Ar- | sea Monday, as reported in Tues-. Mayor Willard M. Albury at the | | meeting of the city council to be held tonight. j | When asked of his attitude re- | ;8arding the purchase of the | meters, the mayor said that they ‘could not be purchased by the city without first advertising for bids as provided by the Charter ' jof the City of Key West, which has the following provision: Chapter 8987, Purchases On Bids Section 1. That it shall be un- Tortugas. Once more they head- ed north, leaving the sloop at an- chor in Key West harbor. Last Christmas, Jake Klimo ar- rived in Key West with a new shipmate, Fred Mitchell, of New Providence, Iowa. They hauled the sloop on a marine ways and prepared for a cruise. | rigged the sloop and cruised to} crooks. | Cuba, maybe South America! The sloop is named the Aquila de Oro. She is thirty four feet in length over all, with a draft of four feet. Built for the inter- coastal banana trade in Cuba, her Les; hull was designed for speed and Hemingway, his wife and small! durability. hard, native wood, The framing is of all natural ‘she is planked with mahogany. When Les Hemingway bought it, the boat had just been complet- ed. He covered the open cargo hold with a low cabin and built in bunks and a galley. The sloop Have Been Eliminated Below the water line,’ | : . Discussing with Chairman Carl , Bervaldi, of the county commis- | Sioners, the situation relative io | the right-of-way for the continua- | tion of the road from Matecumbe rides low in the water, and is un-! usually fast for a boat her si The iron, Although there is a motor-moun' to Key West over the unbridged openings, he told The Citizen that In: Right-Of | ballast was chipped and red-lead-) ing in the boat, young Heming-'. | ie: ed, all the running rigging re-| way has preferred'to keep the 1 his opinion all obstacles to the ‘newed, and after two weeks’! sloop motorless, depending cn-' completing of the work had been | work, they headed out Northwest} tirely on the’ wind for power. DIED YESTERDAY SCHOONER WILL BE LAUNCHED UATE FEBRUARY READY FOR USE IN MARCH: lawful for the City Council or the Board of Public Works, or any of-' ficial of the City of Key West to, expend more than $200 for the! purchase of any commodities, or | for the construction of any public | work or building, or in any man- ner expend more than the sum of $200 without first advertising for | bids on said purchases or trans- {action, and after the receipt of | said bids the said. purchase made | lor the work done by the lowest | | responsible bidder. | DECKING, CABIN HOUS- | Section 2. Any official or! D | és. ETE! NT- | agent of the City of Key West/ INGS, COMPL i | guilty of violation or evasion of | LY | dem Act shall be guilty of a mis- shall be punished as provided by law. | demeanor and upon conviction | | Mayor Albury said that this | | must not be considered in any , ld airplane shed at the ‘foot of ; manner as an act of vetoing on! Duval street will be ready for} | his part, he was simply insisting | jaynchirig by the end of Febru- ‘on the provisions of the charter | fe dactie Ape Ahk | being complied with. [ay eee Ones: ALED 80 | The Citizen today. | | Recently the last of the trenails, | ! | pronounced “trunnels” by water- t | fronters, was driven. Although. { the locus wood trenails from) Czechoslovakia still protrude in} | several places all that remains is | | to cut them off. They are driven |at the head of the galvanized {spikes to prevent water from ‘rusting the spikes holding the i | schooner together. | Caulking the boat is also in | progress, and a priming coat of | white has been applied to ‘the | upper part of the hull. Caulking chy pesecletee | will be of oakum and cotton with ** NEW YORK, Jan. 19.— | red lead filler. The deck has re- . | cently. been laid and the seams |The Steamship New Orleans’ caulked with oakum and cotton, \radioed today that the Mo- | but pitch used to seal them. Even tor Tanker Jaguar had brok- | been filled in this way. Canvas en in half about 200 miles | C@"nct be used because of the . laid. This requires careful fit- | night. | ting to follow the curves of the The message said, Duala picked up seven of hatch and the fo'castle. the crew from forecastle rail grooves: last night and 30 this morn-, down seven feet to the keelson. ; There a block of wood receives ing from after part. The ;, ; ir,; mackerel and Spanish mackerel. | | it in a tongue and groove oftait. |The SI e oak sae tried | , i lieved be! This is to seat it properly ani patter oh ele fo | not allow it to slip. The rudder \still afloat. occurred suddenly. No ra- jdio call for aid was sent 1 \out”, |let down through a polished | round pest. At the lower end of the rudder post there will be a protrusien which will not allow jit to eome up from the force of The vessel’s position was j about 1,400 miles east of |Cape Hatteras, midway be- jtween Azores and the Cape. | : | The New York maritime) ‘register lists the ship as the) | also be of wood. The schooner should be com- pletely outfitted by March. fa SE ae SE a FOR SALE Cable Schooner G. R. Stead-| | man, which is being built in the; Mrs. Houdini and her Owl, mine planter, which has! oe VL haku dh heute ual in port 3:30 o’clock yesterday aft- id this morning that the organ- nel were lined up and progress of | oy present being licensed in Miami Russell has been appointed to di- Mr. Lawson told The Citizen he | set x z participate in the President’s or- aviatrix, when she came down at! was armounced here today “by bought the plane from the Sunny- | lish, who is campaign chairman VISITORS EN JOY | serve the President's birthday in | been made available for use in M. DeSmidt,. of the Riverside ics. Tampa and his son. | for winning essays. themselves as delighted with the! | ter of Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Cuer- NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC continued. Any one using city | Pritchard Funeral Home, Rev. A. home in Hollywood, Califor- nia, for a rest. been asigned to duty as tender to Patrol Wing Five, and arrived Commander L, T. Hundt, in| charge of activities at Key West, 10 HEAD MARCH Wing Five was now complete, and officers and enlisted person- maneuvers were going ahead without a hitch. | SCHOOLS APPOINTED TO | TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 19.— Daniel Lawson's cub plane is at County Superintendent Melvin E. Lowe, is also getting a license to’ paign in the schools of Monroe —— {county, in which children will mando Alfonso, who was with, ganization for combatting infan- Hermilinda Briones, Ecuadorian tile paralysis. The appointment Magia’ Citizen! sk ae son said) hel State Superintendent Colin Eng- side Airport in Miami. for Florida. There are three private planes School teachers throughout which base in Key West, includ-| the state have been urged by ing Mr. Lawson's cup. | Superintendent English to ob- the classroom by stimulating in- | terest in the war against a dis- ST. ‘AY ON ISLAND} ease which had made 600,000 chil- i dren its victim. Materials have i | assembly programs, discussjons Visitors in Key West yesterday; in health classes, and themes and callers at the office of The! concerning the need for scientific Citizen were E. C. Hilfert and R.! research, first aid, care and clin- Paper Corporation, Appleton, | The children will be given an Wisc., and were accompanied by! opportunity to join in the March J. L. Wood, manager of the, of Dimes to help swell the nation- Knight Brothers Paper Co., of! al fund. Cash prizes are offered Mr. Wood is a regular visitor] to the city, but the trip was the! first ever made by Mr. nilfert’ CUERVO INFANT and Mr. DeSmidt, who declared} scenery, the many interesting: views they had seen and promis- ed to return at a later date for = a longer stay. ; Georgina Cuervo, infant daugh- | vo, 1206 Duval street, died yester- day afternoon, Funeral services In the near future, the use of| were held this morning at 11) the old water mains will be dis-|0’clock at the chapel of the 5,514-ton Norwegian Tank- water will have to make other ar-| L. Maureau, of the Star of the rangements. | Sea Catholic church, officiating. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.; Survivors are the parents and jani9-1t | two sisters. er Jaguar, last reported De- \cember 7 at Gothenberg, (bound for Key West. made im area bounded by Palm {Avenue and County Road, i i | the cabin housing decking has “didn’t stay long enough.” | The accident post, which wilt be of wood, js | 2nd much enjoyed. ‘ | { | { { e °f! and down pipes into wells | the seas. The rudder itself will] sermanent supply. Thus the wa- swept aside. i ' Luck with the breezes! i ' Mr. Bervaldi and Attorney W.! NTT PS CLLCLL A Curry Harris left Monday for Mi- ;ami for the purpose of meeting CITIZEN ADS | with the owners of the Key Farm BRING RESULTS) Land Company. The meeting ; Was secured and the officers | made out a deed to the interests | of the company which would be | affected by the right-of-way. Attorney Harris and Chairman ! Bervaldi returned to Key West | last evening with the deed, which jis to be forwarded at once to the | State Road Department, and Mr. | Bervaldi said that was the only ment to rent in Key West, | impediment which stood in the published in this paper. The | Way of the completion of the clipping from The Citizen |Toad. The deed to the Perky was enclosed in a letter from | holdings was drawn on January the reader. a woman, and | 10'and after being signed by the negotidtions were started | interested persons was delivered which resulted in the apart- | to Attorney Richard P. Daniels of ment being rented for Feb- | the State Road Department, who ruary. left that afternoon for Tallahas- } Another letter was receiv- | 8€¢. | HAS MEETING and the result is that the pe: son desiring the apartment ment in The Citizen. | ' | Regular meeting of Boy Scout OOD B ADEE GM Pr 51 was held at Wesley master Pierce, Senior Patrol meeting. | Repeating in unison of scout After a trip to Tortugas on the; Prayer. Roll was called and dues Talofa this week, 3. C. Foreman | collected. jof that week will be time for At Monday’s ses- * Does advertising in The Gitizen bring quick results? is a question answered in letters received by an adver- * tiser, One from Michigan and the other from Missouri. A short time ago a resident of a Michigan city read an advertisement of an apart- wanted it for several months. He also read the advertise- | House Monday evening. TENNESSEAN GETS Due to the absence of Scout- KI N ! Leader Ray Perez conducted the {oath and laws opened the s jsion, followed by the Lord’s of Harriman, Tennessee was im-| It was decided to hold a short pressed with the fact that he, Meeting next Monday on account Fishing was great for Foreman. | school exams. As the Talofa was nearing the}; sion final plans for an overnight | workboat features of the schoon-; Tortugas dock he smacked into a| hike will be completed. southwest of Azores last;cr. Railing is at present being/big fish with a 9 ounce tip rod. | | An O'Riley Drill was held and Fighting him all the way into the} enjoyed by all. dock, Foreman brought up a four! Meeting closed with the Great “§.S, boat. Hatches on are the main | foot kingfish, weighing 38 pounds. | Scoutmaster’s Benediction. A : | | cabin, the engine room, the cable | Another friend, J. D. Christmas } T Sebastian Cabrera, III, is troop in trolling after the group were | scribe. Interesting are the rudder and} there brought in a 20 pound bar-| The mast is let!Tacuda. Twelve varieties were, landed by the fishermen in Log-! gerhead waters, including cero’ NOW IMPROVING R __ | Mrs. Thomas James is’ th’ re- Foreman was particularly im- | ceipt of a letter from, her daugh-, pressed with the circular _ Staif- | ters, Misses Josephine and Gwen- way in the old Fort and with the! dolyn, who are students at Flor- ancient water system. This wa-' ida State College for Women at, ter system filters through sand -raljahassee, advising that they for @) are both confined, to their rooms’ with intestinal flu. Miss Josephine wrote the letter explaining that her sister was too | ill to write but they were both ‘on the recovery list and the let- | ter was written so as Mrs. James, last night in a restaurant here! ter was kept pure. Dr. Mudd’s cell was an interesting spot to) visit. SHE CAN'T WIN Bids ‘for street sweepings will) BENKELMAN, Neb. — Mrs. would have no cause for worry.| be received by the Board of Pub-} John Burcell’s problem: She re-' P lic Wérks. Delivery will be!ceived a check representing a Ca!ried the story and in some pa- A number of state papers have! ten per cent dividend from a: Pers the illness was described as ‘defunct bank. It will cost five! “epidemic” and one of the pe- ay Issu TEN BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED ONE CALLS FOR ERECTION OF FILLING STATION ON NORTH BEACH Announcement has been made by the Sinclair Oii Co. of the vpening of a new gasoline supply station to be erected at the cor- ner of North Beach and Roose- velt Butevard. Specifications in the office of Building Inspector Harry Baker show that the struc- ture will be of stone and will cost $5,000. Other permits issued from the office during the past week are ‘or: ilies Frame two-story house at 817 Fleming street.. Owner, Johnson Estate; cos at Sosin place t reet. Owner, cost, $1,000. Storage garage at the corner of White and Fleming streets. Own- er, Raymond Curry; cost, $1,000. Move house and make general repairs at 511 Southard street. Owner, Fred Dion; cost, $500. Addition and roof at 1120 Whi street. Owner, C. L. Soule; cost, $500. Small addition to 1118 Southard street. Owner, Emerson Arche cost, $100. Garage Apartments United street. Owner, McKillip; cost, $1,000. Paint 1110 Watson street. Own- er, Mrs. L. Morris; cost, $1,000. General repairs to 719 Ashe stree Owner, Harry Shaw; cost, $350. at 1500 Gilbert Loe “TEMPERATURES Low Station— last night last 24 hours ; Abilene 30 60 i Atlanta 30 48 Boston 16 26 Buffalo 14 20 Charleston 46 66 Chicago 24 34 Denver 32 40 Detroit 10 24 Galveston 48 54 Havana 74 _— Huron 4 10 Jacksonville — 38 70 Kansas City 22 34 KEY WEST _ 66 82 Little Rock 32 50 Los Angeles . 56 76 Louisville 24 36 Miami 58 80 Mpls.-St. P. 12 16 New Orleans _ 42 56 New York 18 30 Pensacola - 40 54 Pittsburgh 18 30 Sto Louis $244 2 Salt Lake City 28 8 San Francisco 48 56 Seattle 46 52 1 72 34 28 Tampa 44 Washington Williston 24 16 CURE FOR JEALOUSY LONDON—A man in this city} complained to police that his/ wife was responsible for the in-! sect bites he had all over his! jnow I really do not ~ Cleared Of Cars During Operations Of Sweeper Hours Specified In Ordi- Provided Are Until nance From Midnight Daylight The City Council at special meeting held last night, pa an ordinance on its initial read- ing prohibiting the parking of automobiles on the public streets between the midnight hour and 6 a.m. This is for the purpose of having the thoroughfares clear in order that the street sweeper m operate without hind rance. Order Bond Be Issued It was ordered that a revenue bond to the amount of $650 be is- sued to the Board of Public Works to take care of a payment on the street eeper which was recently pure ed by the city To Repaint Street Signs The police committce w thorized to have the str signs repainted in diffe of the city. These acti continue until all of — the markers have been brightened up. Thanks To Guy Carleton It was ordered that a vote thanks be extended to Guy C ton for the donation of a traffic sign placed at Roosevelt Boule- sed any vvard and Paim Avenaé. WINTER VISITOR MUCH ENTHUSED J. J. COLLISTER CLAIMS HE LIKES KEY WEST BEST OF ALL J. J. Collister assistant traffic Universal Atlas Cement subsidiary of the United eel Corporation, is a v Key West. Mr. Collister h several winters in Flori says Key West is his choice. Writing to “Dear Friend in the Frozen North” Mr. Collister shows that the fact of meeting so many good friends upon his ar- rival last month “kept me from leaving the island the day of my arrival, which was fortunate, cause Key West has, figuratively, put the finger on me” The letter of Mr. Collister con- tinues with an intimat tion of the city and its many tractions including the many tropical fruits growing in the city, trees of many descriptions, and specially mention those former ger of the Co, a States itor in pent but retired be- descrip j which are of notable ch tics, such as the “sausag gainvill poincianas, and avo- cado pears. Here is the fisherman’s heaven, j writes Mr. Collister and describes ‘his fight with a sailfish, which he brought nearly to the boat after a struggle which lasted more than half hour, and which broke the line and “left me a trembling wreck.” This was but one of more than six hundred varieties which are “waiting for the angler.” The letter is one of the most interesting which has been writ- \ten from Key West during the season, and evidences the truth ‘of the statement made by thou- sands of visitors, “at first I did not care so much for the city, but after a few days it got me, and want to leave.” TONIGHT! RHUMBA CONTEST $5 Cash Prize and a Bottle of Liquor PENNY COCKTAIL HOUR every day from 5 to 6 in | quantities of 10 to 500 loads. Aj cents to cash the check. It will load consists of one yard or more. HAROLD PINDER, the bank, while the check is for Clerk. | two cents only. jjani9-1t cost three cents to mail it back to’ ptomaine poisoning. The letter Fred Marvil’s CABANA 605 Duval St. | | riodicals announced that it was body. The wife explained that/| she had put insects in his bed to} “keep his mind busy and cure him of jealousy.” ,_ from Miss James contradicts that | Statement. i EXCELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS--FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES-$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY TOUR..PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124