The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West i Che Kry rut Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. VOLUME LX. No. 18. Charter Plane Service Officer Plans Havana In Wait Permit To Fly Over This Afternoon To Inter- Cfificials Waiting on the necessary per- mit today is George Arents, of Regular Army Reserve view Cuban Goverament Will Be Recruited To | 75,000 Men At | Once CPPS LSID Arents Air Service, Inc., which! KEY WEST BOOKLET is planning a charier line be- tween Key West and Havana, who will fly to Havana this aft- erncen with Alberto Abreu, Cu- MUCH APPRECIATED That little bookiet “Key West Welcome” printed by The Artman Press and dis- terview Today ED. MULRENNAN { | FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE HELD MONDAY. MORN- ING j ! Edwin Mulrennan, age 84, died | last evening at 7 o’clock at a local | hospital. Funeral will be held | Monday morning at 9:30 o’clock | from the Chapel of the Pritchard Funeral Home, Rev. A. L. Mau- reau of the Star of the Sea Cath- olic church officiating at the serv- ices. The deceased was a life-long . ! 5: 2] f e" 2s Major General Stanley resident of Key West and was for many years assistant harbor mas- Embick At Army Head-' ‘er at this port. In his early life | he was engaged from time to time quarters ;in clerical work with the United | Announcement Made By INFORMATION | DIED LAST NIGHT) #:<30N- INSURANCE? ae | iy i | LETTER “RECEIVED BY. .WIL- | ‘MITTEE FROM ; ‘OR | | Wm. V. ‘Little, who is 2 | charge of the local offices of the| State Employment Service, has | received a statement from Fons); |A. Hathaway, state director,| | which in part reads as follows: | “Since benefits became payable | January 2 the service has re-} ceived 14,247 claims from appli- | cants seeking jobless insurance | , Under the State Unemployment! Compensation Law, and of this| | number almost 10,000 were orig-| : inal or first claims, | “When a worker applies ‘to-the} KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1939 ‘From _Capsized irty Men Will Be Employed In School House Improvements | | | | | 1 | | | | Project, which provides for| Barcelona certain work to bé°done at Key} Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; range of only 14° Fahrenheit with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS hree Rescued Yesterday Sailboat George Marshall, Earl Snell And Son, Harold, 5; Missouri Folk In Charter Launch Make Rescue Two Miamians and a Key West- er were rescued yesterday from a@ small sailboat which capsized well off Calda Channel by a Mis- souri group who had chartere< out a fishing launch for a day | after the big fish. Threatened tributed through the Cham- ber of Commerce, is rapidly | attaining an appreciation | which is nation-wide, said Secretary Singleton this morning. | States Federal Court during ses-j offite for-benefits he alsa: tegigg) w, i i i H i fest High School’ and for which | sions in Key West, and was wide~/ ters’ for work, and although fi 4 : (Specia! to The Citizen) | ures are not available at this‘ _—Ma- | ly-known tnroughout the city. | : | ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 21.—Ma. pon Hay ayeursi he fade his} # large number of these afpli- ef | the school and gymnasium, com- | Bs ., ESE Ng 3 «4 | cants: have been placed in suit- | jor General Stanley D. Embick. | residence with the Joshua Smith} able employment. | binea, it ban Tourist Commission repre- Rescued were George Marshall, Earl Snell of Miami and small son, Harold, 5.° Harold was in the bottom of the boat huddled ! $7,944 has been approved, is for) fentative here, to continue ar- rangements to esiablish the serv- family at the corner of White-! “We felt we we had reach- ed a high mark of approval when a request was received | at Army headquarters here, an- | nounces that the Regular Army head and Greene streets. “The sasic principle of the Un-j was said today at'WPA| LOYALIST FRONT, 30 MILES | The sailboat - employment Compensation Law: - Mulrennan was quite fa- is not the paying of weekly bene-! with many incidents and} headquarters building. The specifications provide for | AWAY, FALLS BACK STEADILY up in a raincoat. | was making a long tack well out | to sea when a burst of wind cap- from the University of Miami for copies to be used in the class rooms. Every week brings in expressions of ap- proval in which the booklet is favorably compated to the | Reserve will be recruited up to fits, but to find suitable work for the complete renovation of the! | | the Naemplayed. The benefits he’ school and gymnasium roof, and| —_—— sized it. The launch, two miles receives are his as a matter of! all plumbing work is included in| ' quickly put right, a reserve fund he has built the specifications, also. Provi-| ER gees ‘and occupants of the up by previous employment in) sions call for repairs to the plas- i ae l hajiledban activities of the early history of Key West and kept a very com- frehensive diary of many hap-j | penings ard events dealing with | | from the War Department, Wash- the Island City during those | 75,000 men immediately, accord- | away, alongside , ing to instructions just received sailboat j jayvana from Havana. of the hoped am- Key also be ps to Miami. ed ou e apie OUTLINE PLANS expensive colored literature put out by a better financed Chamber of Commerce” he said. One of the most recent re- quests have been received from E. A. Davenport, Los Angeles, Calif., who asks for seyeral conies to be mailed to friends, and adds “I have seen no other booklet so ade- quately covering the field”. Within the past two weeks more than 4,000 of the book- lets have been sent out by mail and express, and only on requests. “If tne demand was met as it should be”, said the secretar$, “we would require, at least 20,000 books to rep- resent Key West, ‘as other cities are represented by FOR WATERWAY HEARING HERE SCHEDULED TO BE HELD MONDAY MORNING: PRO- CEEDINGS TO BE SENT TO HEADQUARTERS nent from Miami to. Key -| Kansas navigation y. local Ss may fected by waterway of the ovement, il important nts should be in 2 records of the ded for es, various distributing _ agen- cies”. eoecesece TEMPERATURES~ | ington, D. Cc. A change in the | which permits the enlistment of regulations | | reservists in the grade held upor ja charge from the Regular | Army will greatly increase the | number of enlistments, according | to military authorities at Fourth | Corps Area Headquarters. Re- | Servists already enlisted will be | Promoted to the grade held by | them on ‘discharge without re- \ qudst, asin Ss Southern boys who have served in the Army are becoming more interested in the Regular Army , Reserve, aecording to General >. -, Embick. Fourth Corps Area has and the en in the standings of Curps Areas of the Army from seventh days. | Some covered industry. tering where needed. |are predicting the fall of Barce- | | “A worker does not have to be, eligible for benefits in order to jrégister for work. The facilities SAILED TODAY o can be used by any unem- ployed worker in Florida who is} | seeking a job”. | GOES TO LIGHTHOUSE 7° BIRTHBAY BALL | BRING WORKING PARTY ' TO KEY WEST TICKETS READY Lighthouse Tender Ivy sailed) PLACED WITH COMMITTEE. | this morning at an early hour| : for Amitvican Shoals light and’ex-| TODAY; READY FOR ~ «| DISTRIBUTION | | | | pected to return this afternoon’ with the working party which It was said that there will be |!ona, Loyalist capital, within the 30 men assigned to the work, | week, as the present fighting on which will start as soon as the,;a 100 mile front advances to the project has been approved by the ' greatest battle of the Spanish state administrator. This is prac-| ,... : zs Civil War. tically assured as the state ap-| proval is generally given to those! War planes have been sent projects which are approved by | ahead by Generalissimo Franco of , the President. ;the Rebels to terrorize Barcelona residents. Today planes from JOE CASA GETS | Germany bombed the capital and! COURT HEARING reported heavy damage with! HELD ON SUSPICION REL- many casualties. Seventeen per- | \Six Loyalist planes are fighting | ATIVE TO STARTING | the Rebel planes and are’ re-| | ported to have brought one down! {in flames. { |. Meanwhile on the battle lines Young Harold was at firs thought to be in a serious condi tion from the cold and wetting, but today is reported well enoug':. ‘ When the boat went over he was imprisoned under it. His fat Earl Snell, dove under the and pulled him out. The chs. launch had come close in to Calda Channel when several of its pas- sengers noted the objects bobbing up and down in the water far away and remembered that the sailboat they had sighted earlier in the evening was nq longer tu be seen. Harold was pulled in on the first circle of the launch, then his father and finally George Marshall. has been at the light engaged in the work of changing the light Tickets for the dance in cele-! Sere ‘ 1 peered these changes were bration of the President’s Birth- started the white light at’ the day Ball are being placed with station was 80,000 candle power the committees today and it is red light was 24,000 ©xpected, that by this evening candle power. It is planned to Proper disposition will be made have the lights in operation” to-| and the work of selling will start 00662 eeeceecs000e0000ee~ | place on October 1, 1938, to sec- ‘night, the whitelight showing an_ in earnest. Lowest Highest Station— last night Jast 2! hours | the campaign inaugurated by the and the red light, 37,000. | Abi 50 70 60 30 28 60 34 46 30 64 e Atlanta Boston Buffalo arleston 44 64 58 66 66 60 52 68 32 68 30 62 33 52 50 62 32 40 KEY WEST Little Rock Les Angeles Louisville Miami M LAS Sd New Orleans New York o1s. 28 50 22 52 23 48 36 42 28 8 Pittsburgh Sen Francisco Williston NCE T RAUL’S CLUB John Priichard’s Orchestra NO ADMISSION CHARGE DAI ‘ONIGHT “DANCE TONIGHT _ —AT— Pena’s Garden Of Roses GOULD CURRY’S Seven-Piece Orchestra No Admission or Cover Charge The M. WELLCO. gnc. For Wholesale Quotations on FURNITURE and FURNISHINGS MAXWELL VENETIAN BLINDS RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT See or Phone G. A. PATTON, Local SIB PHONE 3108 epresentati jONEY INN. 705 DIVISION Re ive STREET EXCELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS.-FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES-$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY TOUR..PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124 ond place on January 1, 1939, in War Department to secure eniist- ni The Fourth Corps Area stood in first place in titive standings insofar as recruiting for the Regular Army is concerned, the general said, and if the present rate of enlist- ments for the Reserve is con- | tinued the Fourth Corps Area will stand in first place when such standings are again publish- ed February 1, 1939. The Fourth Corps Area com- the following Southern Alabama, Florida, Geor- | gia, Louisiana, Mississippi, ‘North and South Carolina and Tennes-) .see. General Embick hopes for | ; the cooperation of #11 concerned in this group of Southern states in | reaching and maintaining this en- viable place in this feature of Na- tional Preparedness. All prior service men are urg-: ed to contact at once the adjutant at Key West Barracks or write to the Commanding General, Fourth Corps Area, Post Office Bldg., Atlanta, Ga., for detailed information. This Is Weather That Reminds You To Take Home a BOX OF CANDY See Our Selection First GARDNER’S PHARMACY Phone 4 Hear the Harmony Boys a TRYON and KING * Songs'‘of Yesterday and Today SLOPPY JOE’S FAMOUS BAR TONIGHT i intensity of 20,000 candle power, Already some have been sold, | Dr. Galey, chairman, told The The working party which has’ Citizen, and the entire movement been at- the light since the work ; in connection with the dance, the started consisted of Machinists’ dinner and the March of Dimes arry Shaw and William Vassie,! will be well on the way to a Blacksmiths Wilbur Johnson and! successful issue by Monday. Willis Brady, Carpenters Leroy, Headquarters for all move- Sawyer and Harold Thompson,| ments are at the office of Clem; Laborer Ed Woodson and Cook C. Price on Duval street and a Leroy Roberts. group of NYA girls, under the“di- Carl Rom, radio electrician for rection of Supervisor Victor the department at Key West, and Lowe, will be on hand to assist John N. Roberts, assistant, -wh@ in whatever is needed to add were doing the electrical work, | stimulus to the sale of tickets and, expect to remain at the light for | other ‘activities in connection with a few days and will return early the various plans of the celebra- next week. i tion. i There is a quantity of equip- ment to be brought to the city on! the terider, will remain on| WPA SUPERVISOR the vessel w a trip is made to the next light which has been or-! 1 SAWYER’S BODY _ ‘SHIPPED FRIDAY | visitor in the city yesterday to Body of Joseph Ramer Sawyer, | the local branch, which is in f e yeai| Charge of Mrs. Minnie Robinson. whom the corner’s jury verdict! © eam Seclared ‘yesterday cate Yovhis| While here for a brief time the progress cf the work in this lo- death from natural causes, was/ sent to Tampa yesterday after-j noon to be forwarded to his home| in Elba, Alabama. | aes ‘ Since the death.of; the young; leaving that it was: planned to man the body had been at the | Start the establishment of a gar- Lopez Funeral Homeant) when | den on the.Jand atithe:corner of advices were received: that'thé | Baton and Elizabeth streets. mother wanted the body, it was ~ SS ARIS Miss Rosalie Smith, district; Smith found everything working pisrtod.2cc1ie. | _oiBresh Strawberries _ of Guaranteed Good selection of: i SPRING CHICKENS We Handle No GYP Products erkwdine CHICKENS —CALL PHONE 444— —Dressed in 3 Minutes— When Your Car Needs CUT-UP FOR DELIVERY Parts or Service! PARK YOUR CAR WITH US TIFT’S GROCERY We call for and deliver cars | | 1101 Division St. Phone 29 to all parts of the city ae : i -hearing before Judge Caro |police court, Sons died in the first few raids. | GRASS FIRE Joe Casa, known to many peo- | ple in Key West as Joe House,! was yesterday afternoon given a} in} on suspicion of; starting Thursday night, a grass} fire in the vicinity of the gas plant. j The person starting the blaze was seen by the watchman Willie! Hall, at the plant, and the in- cipient fire was quickly stamped | out by Hastings Roberts, who ; was near the scene and saw the burning grass immediately after it was started. | Casa was also near and coming up when Chief Harry Baker and others were discussing the fire, claimed a bicycle which was seen near the spot, and suspicion was! directed toward him because of | there being a number of sus-| picious circumstances in connec- | tion with Casa’s actions. | After hearing the evidence educed at the hearing yesterday, Judge Caro fixed a bond of $100} for Casa, pending further hearing of the case this afternoon, and the production of certain wit-' nesses, one of whom is a woman who it is claimed was in the com- | pany of Casa Thursday night. |30 miles away the Loyalists are! | propriations | steadily falling back. Pecvccerconoccesssoocces NEWS FLASHES Press) wececcccee BERLIN.—Hitler is continuing his drive to oust all conservative members of the Nazi party and place extremists at key positions. Several banking heads were dis- charged today. DETROIT.—United Auto Work- ers Union, at their convention March 20, will decide whether most of the unionists favor Presi- dent Martin or the other element! in the organization. NEW YORK.—The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad faces receiver- ship today. A bond holder who owns $10,000 of bonds has asked courts that an accounting be made, that trustees be removed and that the railroad go into re-— ceivership. WASHINGTON. — Senate Ap- committeemen be- It was learned this afternoon} lieved that the WPA bill with its pended the fine. RETURN TO HOME i supervisor of the WPA House- that at the session of police court; $150,000,000 cut from administra- keeping Aid Project in southeast- this morning 11 o'clock. Judge tion demands will go through the ern counties of Florida, was aj Caro fined Casa $100and then sus-| senate by a narrow margin of votes. ! FORT WORTH.—Elliot Roose- velt, son of President Roosevelt, Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Baron} said that talks he had with high men and Frank, Jr., cality was discussed and Miss} 0f Miami and their children, Car-| government officials reveal that who were} the administration is| ready to satisfactory. She said before| here for th efuneral of Mrs. Ba-j parley with utilities before bit- ron’s father, Aifredo Crespo, have/terly attacked. The debt struc- returned to their home, accom- panied by Mrs. E. E. Sparks, who also was here for the funeral of her father, Mr. Crespo. TONIGHT © Mardi Gras Nite —at— COCKTAIL HOUR Every Afternoon. 5 to 6 All 35c drinks, 30c; 2 for 3lc Can ¥ roe ‘ou Spare ture will be revived, AAA revis- ed and petroleum companies giv- en a year to get their books in, order. —TON at 10 In the launch were Fred Sch- mechebier, Edward Ricth and El- | mer: E.“Heinemann of Kirkwood, } Missouri, who are visiting here fon ‘two weeks of fishing. Mrs. Rieth and Mrs. Heinemann are aiso here. They charter and man | the fishing boat themselves. When the sailboat turned over | Edward Ricth grabbed his home movie camera and “shot” scenes jot the rescue. He told The Citi- zen he believed he had excellent pictures. ‘AUTO TAG SALES ARE VERY SLOW ONLY 659 HAVE BEEN DIS- POSED OF UP TO THIS TIME Since the state automobile tags have been on sale in Monroe county there has been nothing ‘like the number of purchases an- ticipated, it was learned at the office of Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd this morning. There remains but eight more days on which the tags can be purchased and the purchasers, to remain within the law, must buy within that period. Of the ex- pected 1800 tags, which is esti- mated to be required in Monroe county, there have been sold but 659. i Revenue from these sales is ap- proximately $6,500, it was said at the office this morning, and one | sale of tags made just before The Citizen entered the office was to the Norberg Thompson interests ‘and totalled $1,000. A rt SOSCCCSSSOCESOOOLEOOE® The HABANA-MADRID CLUB ANNOUNCES THE GRAND GALA OPENING DANCE IGHT— o'clock Featuring—AN EXCELLENT LATIN and AMERICAN FLOOR SHOW and DANCE MUSIC “The Most Beautiful Tropical Spot In All Florida” ADMISSION—BY INVITATION ONLY