The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 23, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West - VOLUME LX. No. 19. ENSIONS IN FLORID NUMEROUS Report Shows That Total Of 10,226 Persons On Rolls For Services in Va- rious Wars (By Washington Correspondent. THE SOUTBERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. a Es ¥e Ll of The Key West Citizen)***” WASHINGTON, total of 10,226 men in Floti were receiving pensions at the close of the fiscal year, June 30, for services rendered in various the United States has fought, going back as far as the Mexican War of 1848, learned today at the Veterans Administration. wars it was Summaries compiled for Brig.- Gen. Frank T. Hines, administra- ter of veterans’ affairs, showed that during the past year pen- sions were being paid to the de- pendents of an additional 3,295 veterans now dead. No living survivors of the Mex- ican War, fought 90 years ago, now remain in Florida, but pen- sions totalling $2,355 are being paid to the survivors of four vet- erans. of. that, war... Forty-one Floridians, however, can boast of their participation in the Indian Wars—and collected $26,815 from the government last year for that participation. The dependents of 55 other deceased veterans of the Indian Wars are also collecting $20,555 in pensions. World War Largest The largest bloc of veterans in the state is, of course, that of the World War. About $3,122,000 was paid last year to 5,848 veter- ans of that war, 4,918 of whom were being paid for service-con- nected disabilities, 865 for non- service connected disabilities, and 65 of whom were receiving emergency officers’ retirement pay. At the same time, veterans of- ficials said, $666,726 was paid to the dependents of 1,477 deceased veterans of the World War. In the southern states are 83 Jan, 23=0A7°* war games. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1939 Fleet Goes Through Panama Canal Waterway Hearing Held Today; Subject Greatly Discussed At Meeting Matters pertaining to the Intra-, plained, and stated one import- coastal Waterway, which runs| ant fact was that there were from Key West, Fla. to Point; about 13 miles of the route from Pleasant, N. J., and the proposi-|Bahia Honda to Key West which tion to deepen the stretch from | would require no dredging. Bahia Honda south to Key West! Praises Demeritt’s Report was thi j i | A ‘as the subject of a hearing held} jy porter said that the report this morning in the engineering} ‘ 7 4 of Mr. Demeritt was so complete offices of the lighthouse depart-! * Theat catam hich Colonel dscersa 4 and comprehensive and had been ‘orone” ews H-!so ably handled that there was Watkins, District Engineer, pre-' very little which could be said | further, Officers Present | However, he continued, there Colonel Watkins was accom-| were a few points regarding the panied by Colonel George E.;ships and the number of vessels Brown, in charge of engineering which would find it of great eco- operatiéns*&t Miami Beach; En-|riomical value and ‘also. from a gineer Bryan Cornwell, from! point of safety, if there was an Jacksonville, and P. W. McGrath,| inside route. Mr. Porter cited a official recorder at the hearing. | number of instances where yachts Present at the nearing were ajhad put into ports to the north body of representative citizens,, of No Name Key and telephoned including W. W. Demeritt, super-| to Key West for cars to come for intendent of lighthouses; E. P.}them and convey them to Key McCarthy, Coast and Geodetic! West. The necessity of this |han, officer in charge, Naval Sta-| there been the proper depth of tion; L..M. Pierce, aide to the! water from that point down. {officer in charge, Naval Station; Itemized Report Prepared Henry B. Haskins, Melvin E. Rus-! S. C. Singleton briefly spoke of: | sell, . Peterson, Fred J. Dion,! the need of the deepened water- | Frank H. Ladd, B. C. Moreno, A.| way, but explained that as writ- | Maitland Adams, C. E. Archer,'ten reports had been requested ; Rev. J. C. Gekeler, Franklin Al-|by the engineer in charge, his |bert, Cleveland Pierce, Ross C./tull explanation as to the needs Sawyer, Chester Thompson, W./of the deepened waterway was ; Curry Harris, Charles S. Taylor,|contained in the complete and ; Guy Carlton, Captain L. Muse,| itemized report, which he was fags a Ses es | submitting. neck, Carl Bervaldi, S. C. Single-} Others Address hering jton, W. R.:Porter, C. C. Symon-; wayor willard ie was ette, C. Sam B. Curry, H. P. Con-| 11. next to address the board i \nable, Mayor Willard M. Albury *| and submitted a resolution which was formulated by Miami inter- B. L. Grooms and others. Lighthouse Report Survey; Lieutenant Fort Calla-|would have been obviated had} DR. S. K. AVERY ASSUMES DUTIES NNOUNCEMENT OF AP- POINTMENT WAS MADE | IN THE CITIZEN } | | ja amounting to $1,638,000 was au- | oe Seenyel de. “AvEry, ig arian by the Overseas High- | Public. Health Service, has been ‘assigned to duty in Key West at the marine hospital, and has as-} | sumed his position as dental of- | amissioner John Kennedy has been on panaehont ot, Dr. Avery's | uthorized to go to Washington appointment fo the marine hos- pital was made in a_ dispatch! from. the Washington correspond- | ae of The Citizen on January “way commission at a meeting held in Miami Saturday and com- in interest of the propositon. It was pointed out that the Overseas Highway is the only - |road project in Florida which did gestions in the folder, which con-|"°t Benet Wy niet Toate cluded with the statements that 00,000 supplied by the--govern~ it was believed that smuggling ment was a loan. Previously the operations were carried on in this;commission sought by letters to vicinity, and that to prevent this and te enhance the value of Key} West in every way, the deepening | of the waterway was a sound and | \econemically justified undertak-| ing. j resentation will now be tried. Authorization of $12,000 adver- tising fund was made by the board with advertising in state /newspapers and bids for 150,000 W. C. Harris addressed the | . ‘ |folders and 100,000 postcards to | meeting and said that as attorney 1. distributed free to all autoists {for tl 1 Baa : a ns yaa raeeeegine going through the Overseas High- | that the board had been and was! oa Ove High: D: ‘still actively behind the proposed rete opshtcersatih aan. gostei ter echa leompletion of the waterway to marking the informal opening of {Key ‘West at a depth proposed by jthose who understood the re-| | quirements. | Transportation Report A. Maitland Adams spoke of ; the many delays which had been |caused in the activities of the| | Overseas ‘Fransportation Com-| pany and allied interests, factual money lost through these | | delays, due to heavy weather, and! | was postive that a protected wa-| terway would have prevented; {sin, with a percentage of the pro- debts owed by the Highway Cele- Kennedy To Washington As | $1,368,000 Grant For Highway, | secure the grant. Personal rep-| Ki m country ; ey West, Florida, has the ost equable climate in the with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS | | | i | | { | New Street Sweeper Placed In Operation MRS. A. K. LOPER | Hastings Piodela To Be In | | j \ | 4p oat Through closely guarded Panama Canal and into Limon ‘Bay for a brief anchorage, 80 men o’war recently slipped, including U. S. craft shown fm transit.. Mine-sweepers went first to insure safe passage. Then the aircraft Lexington led the fleet through canal, on way to Caribbean! i king | DIED YESTERDAY ,BODY TO BE BROUGHT TO, KEY WEST: FUNERAL HERE TOMORROW Mrs. Annie Kirchheiner Loper, 67, died yesterday 1:30 in the morning in the home at 536 Southwest Third street, Miami. Services are to be held today at the Holy Cross Episcopal church in that city. Tomorrow the body will be brought to Key West over the highway and funeral services will be held at chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home at 5 o'clock, Rev. A. B. Dimmick, of St. Paul’s Episcopal church, officiating. Pallbearers will be the hus- band E. D. Loper, sons H. Kirchheiner, J. O. Kirehheiner, H. D. Kirchheiner, Glenwood Kirchheiner and grandson H. E. Kirchheiner, Jr. The deceased is survived be- sides those who will serve as Charge Of Operations; Schedule Being Worked Out New street sweeper, which was purchased by the Key West Board of Public Works, is to be put in operation today with Hastings Piodela in charge. “Mr. Piodela was the operator of ‘the former sweeper used in the’ ¢ity several years ago, and his work was considered so pro- ficient that it was decided to place him in charge of the pres- jent machine. Discussing the machine with The Citizen, the operator said that the operations today would be in the way of working out a schedule, which would prove the most effective and enable a i | pallbearers, by a daughter Mrs. greater area to be covered. It is Request for a 45 percent grant) bration Committee, which han- Clara Hyrne, one sister, Mrs. R. anticipated that the principal [dled the July 4 formal opening. B. Templeton, and eight grand-| thoroughfares will be covered Opening of Pigeon Key ramp |was announced in two weeks | time. Extensive repair of cot-! | tages for tourist facilities, install- ing of a power plant and refrig- jerating system is being conduct-} jed. District Cabin Cruiser Le! Pecheur has been offered for sale. | | H.C. Nichols was named acting ;manager of the District in the jabsence of B. M. Duncan, who is ‘at Lima, Peru, attending an in-} |ternational road conference. Mr.} {Duncan will be in Key West ; February 15. | Efforts to hasten the comple-; : tion of the least modern section of the highway, 40 miles from Big! Pine Key to-Key West, has been . |initiated with the State Road De- \partment, The plan is to run the! highway over the railroad via- | ducts. H Tolls for the highway are aver- |aging above $900 a day, showing an increase within the last few {days of an average of $250. Win- |ter. tourist traffic is setting in. Present at the meeting, which was presided over by John Cos- jthe highway to traffic, will be: tar, vice chairman, were Mayor }, given in Miami by the Key West) Willard M. Albury, commission-: <4) Cecil Ru |Club of Dade County, president, er; C. C. Symonette, commission- [jz7ie Cle |Joe Montecino told the commis-/er; John R. Kennedy, commis- grandchild H. |sioner; Attorney Paul Marks, jceeds to go toward settling the C. Nichols, R. B. Alexander and eeeceeeeee iH. E. Day, auditor. “% Sailfish And Wahoo Landed terday’s Fishing children. aanEay snightly. German World War Indemnity Arranger, Owen Young, Here RUSSELL RITES THIS AFTERNOON KEY WEST RESIDENT DIED YESTERDAY MORNING 6 O'CLOCK Mrs. Sarah Ellen Russell, 68, died yesterday morning 6 o'clock at her residence 1125 Fleming street. Funeral services will be held 4:30 o’clock this afternoon from the chapel of the Pritchard Funeral Home, Rev. J. P. Lilly, of Fleming Street church offi- ciating. usband, Richard T. Russell, one ll, one sister, Mrs. Miami, and two TEMPERATURES Weccccccsccccccccesooecs Lowest Highest night last 24 hours 30 40 52 44 Station— Abilene Atlanta Boston Mrs. Russell is survived by her . Other Notables Are C. H. Langmuir, Dr. Paul De Kruif; Owen Young Fish- ing Today Owen D. Young, who was on the international committee which arranged for the payment of a large indemnity by Germany to the Allies, is in Key West the Casa Marina. Mrs. Young is at with him and they are registered from New York City. Mr. Young is at present chair- man of the Board of the General Electric Company. Germany’s indemnity was arranged through an international bank established at Bresle, Switzerland. Mr. Young who began his legal practice at Boston was a member of Tyler and Young of Boston, vice presi- dent of General Electric Com- pany, director and member ex- ecutive committee Electric Bond and Share Company, director Bankers Trust Company, French In Yes ‘ests which earnestly indorsed the | ost Gt Ate: He enid thats | E \ [broject of: deppentog (the Water | | cerisnot aver «period of abous| way. } 4 4 pet of interesting. ales te ont key of the economic needs cl sponging ane Siting industry, | {re p samba waterway, but ex-| pressed himself that he did not! old veterans who fought with the Union against the Confederacy, |. Upon the opening of the meet- while the dependents of 718 oth-|ing, Mr. Demeritt addressed the er Union veterans are now liv~(igathering and proceeded to read ing in Florida and receiving pen+| ati assemblage of iacts and figures sions there amounting to $338,-|/in connection with the applica- 861. Pensions to the 83 veterans} tion for the deepening and widen- amounted to $111,174. jing of the waterway, giving in- 5,048 Civil War Vets Living | timate details of the projected - plan, and paying stress on the This amount should be much activities of the lighthouse de- less this year and in years to Amettean Banking Corporation, a ljettuter at the Boston U. Law Spheol, trustee of St. Lawrence Us in his interesting career. The Youngs went fishing yes- terday aboard Captain Red Wil- liams, “Evelyn”, and were “pleased” with a catch of barra- cuda, kingfish, yellowtail, group- ;er and mackerel. They are fish- ing again today. Also at the Casa Marina are Tolbert Comes In With Sai ‘INJURED MAN Flag Flying; Vireinian BROUGHT HERE and the hardships endured by| Lands Fighting Wahoo; | those who were engaged in the 7 : be 4 005 industry when eb, es believe that the matter of nation-| one | Clarence Norris, of Port Ar-/ Jacksonvill ; : | , - le it necessary for them to seek har-|*! defense played an important Bottom Fishing Catches |... Texas, was brought to Key Kansas City : | part in the plan, but believed that | i Nichia io ie Cele cae le its help from an economic stand-| —_——- West yesterday on| KEY WEST Buffalo Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit Galveston Havana 32 64 18 38 20 72 20 74 28 76 24 63 jhigh tax of gasoline which was} afternoon char: Soe thakanksiot Wehake in| Partment and stressing the diffi- | the blue are fast thinning. As of June 30, pensions were being paid to 5,048 veterans of the Civil War throughout the United States. A! year ago, the number was 7,031. Nearly 2,000 had passed on dur- ing the year. The average age of Civil War veterans this year was 93. The Spanish-Amercian War is still remembered by 3,710 veter- ans in Florida, who receive pen- sions amounting to $2,327,272. De- pendents of 900.other veterans of that war were being paid $317,- 732. Veterans of no particular war are the 544 men formerly attach: ed to the peace-time army: who were reteiving pensions as of June 30. The Veterans Administration has other expenses in Florida not covered by the monthly pension checks. Insurance must be paid, culties under which the district has labored in reaching points on the coast when forced to go through the waterway in the sec- used to build roads, but there was ‘nothing provided for the safety ,of the vessels which sailed after jthe fish and sponges and on the tion reaching from Key West to points further north. Many other details were ex- {revenue from which there were |approximately 4,000 persons de- pending. He referred to the loss jing plained in the 10 pages of ex-!of vessels through the need of a planatory déta submitted by Mr.!safe waterway, and said that Demeritt, and at the conclusion much loss would be saved if the of the reading, the matter was; waterway was constructed. handed to,Colonel Watkins for; E. K. Sharlow, record to be used in presenting} Chamber of Co. the case to the U. S. engineers, | stated that he had prepared the The colonel thanked Mr. Demer-| endorsement of the deepened wa- itt and said that he was of the; terway to Key West and handed opinion that the data would have;the papers to Colonel Watkins. great. weight with the engineer-| He said that there was other in- action Would rest. Cc. & G. S. Report Lieutenant McCarthy present-| ed his report, and in doing so_ ™ade a few brief remarks on the! | now in course of preparation and | would be forwarded to the dis- trict engineer as soon as it was ready, which would be in ample time. , representing the "with whom the decisive formation and data which was! data which had been accumulat- Smuggling Operations? ‘point would be invaluable to the! | city. | Watkins Askes Questions lyesterday’s catches at Key West | Colonel Watkins then asked a! ‘number of questions regarding |*¢ef and in the Gulf Stream. Sailfish and wahoo were in lof great value in forwarding to | Washington in his report, and/ville, Kentucky, brought in a 34 |from different persons attending | pounder which measured 6” 2” in ‘was given assurance that the in-! ¥ formation asked for would be CPt. Bagley Filer’s launch. Fish- | given. : ling with Judge Tolbert was Bert- brought: in the pipe line to the, V@, who last year caught the city. Mr. Porter answered thatjlargest and smallest sailfish at jhe wasspractically convigged that! the Casa Marina. Both are at the withim the next five or six | Casa Marina. Another nice catch ae ths the gs ee be! was of a 27% pound wahoo, made lordets al tisve been imued to iby C. B. Cole of Roanoke, Vir- that effect. jginia who was fishing with Dr. F. N. Carrier of Santa Rita, N. Mex., in Jakie Key’s launch, “Legion”. Coast Guard Patrol Boat 185 and | Placed in the marine hospital for | treatment. | It was said that Norris had ;been struck on the side of the | jury was not considered serious, later he sank into an unconscious state and was brught ashore for hospitalization. | Inquiry at the hospital today !revealed that his case had not been diagnosed but he was sleep- ing and apparently resting easily. jold Buddy Ellison landed three grouper and 12 snapper to} ‘turn in an_ excellent grouping. | |Ralph and Glenn Ballard of Mon- roe, Michigan, caught three 'shark and three grouper. The jshark kept chasing the bottom {fish being hauled in by other jfishermen and finally they were Hlanded. B. A. Bergman of Phila-! |data which he thought would be} Judge J. Dan Tolbert of Bards- head on the ship. At first the in- \f" Yon 42 56 32 74 16 76 42 72 36 26 32°7 56) bid 10 50 30" f Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Miami Mpls.-St. P. New Orleans 32 48 20 56 2 48 10 Pensacola 42 Pittsburgh 8 St. Louis 20 Salt Lake City 22 San Francisco 46 Seattle . 42 Tampa — ._ A Washington 20 Williston _. 14 DANCE TONITE! : Habana-Madrid Club TWO ORCHESTRAS and the ne eq, angling grounds. Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Lang- muir. Mr. Langmuir is vice-p: dent of New York Life Insurance Company. They are from Engle- wood, N. J. George T. Dunlap, former Brit- ish Amateur Champion and five times winner of American North end South Amateur champion- ship, is at the Casa Marina for a few days’ stay. Mr. Dunlap is spending the winter at Pinehurst, N. C. To- day he is fishing Key West’s fam- Mr. Dunlap arrived last night. Blond Mr. “Panlap is rather young as golfers 18: Heviooks the same today as the’ day"he won the British Ama- ur prize in 1933. Pro Eddie Bush of the Key West Golf Course had a friendly chat with Dunlap yesterday. Mr. Dunlap was sorry that his stay is limited to a few days as he | would like to play a round on Ahem Funeral Home: On the bottom fishing boat, | delphia landed three 12 pound “Alyce B” several large grouper |grouper. Dan Daniels of Key FLOOR SHOW ‘OWN id Geodeti: ed by the Coast an letic FLO | the southernmost course. Mr. Connable said that he had} aes administrative expenses met, and . his com- new construction provided for. ‘The total of all moneys paid into the state for these items — pen- sions, hospitals, insurance, and; Survey forces under mand. to the meeting and it had been Facts and figures, as submitted handed in by Lieutenant McCar- by Mr. McCarthy, of the estimat- thy. He then secured it and read ; othe rest—was $9,695,667. ed costs of the project were ex-|a few of the most important sug- prepared a paper for presentation | Jemeph 1. Plamm : er and snapper catches were re- ported. H. Gutman of South SERVICE Orange, N. J. made the best catch Miami, Fla. ' with a 16 pound grouper and a 17 pound snapper. Twelve year 4 West caught another large {Stephenson and Mrs. N. C. | Schroeder of Columbus, Ohio, al- |so enjoyed the fishing. Latin and American Acts NO ADMISSION, COVER OR Paul de Kriuf, noted surgeon, from Michigan was a brief visitor \in the city last night at the Casa Marina and left this morning for ja Havana trip. i EXCELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS.-FT. JEFFERSOBRCRUISES--$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY TOUR...PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124