The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 23, 1939, Page 5

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 206. New Lighthouse Tender Now Nearing Completion de) 0. YOUNG GETS Announcement Made This Morning By Superinten- dent William W. Demer-| itt Owen D. Young, noted fi- nancier, who has been en- joying a few days’ fishing in Key West waters, while DOLPHIN CATCH) pnrsipewr's Communicatfon received this stopping at the Casa Marine WARM. RESPONSE FIGHT MADE. ON PARALYSIS MANY CITIES, KEY WEST, | | INCLUDING TO JOIN IN BIRTHDAY | CELEBRATION | | | | (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 24.—As Che Key Wiest Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1939 Believes Road Work From Pine Key To Key West Will Start Very Shortly MANY LEFT ON TORTUGAS BOAT Seventeen passengers left on B. C. Papy, representative from | : | Monroe county, is attending a AoARe of the State Road De-| ‘partment in Tallahassee, and |feels that the work on the road | Zoning Board Meets And Outlines Operative Plans Good Tortugas Fishing, Rough Sail Back, Reported. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS | Cases Of Proposed Ordi- nances And. Map Dis- played At Court House ig Pi to K { ‘the Talofa this morning for Fort) pom Bios rine aia o ae West | Jefferson National Monument, | Will be started in a short time. Weather morning by Superintendent W. W. Demeritt, of th® Seventh Lighthouse District, gives the in- formation that the Tender Zin- Hotel, brought in a nice catch of dolphin yesterday aboard Captain “Red” Williams’ “Evelyn”. Mr. Young was very much enthused over the catch of oe campalgn | Where they will spend today and In a conversation over long | Mr, in Florida cae its final week, tomorrow taking in the sights at distance with Clerk Ross C. Saw-| reports reaching W. T. Edwards,’ te different island in the Tor-/yer, of circuit court, he advised | State Chairman of the President's |+1545 group. Those leaving were that the tone of the conversations | Birthday Celebration and the! as follows: ‘he had with members was very | And Mrs. James Meyer And Preston Conrad En- joy 10-Day Trip In Yawl i ' | the fish, which have been described as the “jack rab- bitts of the Gulf Stream”, and the most beautiful fish in the sea. Fighting incessant- ly, leaping high into the air, these beautiful fish, when brought in, are found to be a golden color on the under- side and a bright green on the upper with beautiful bright blue dots. The Judge Talbott group out in Bagley Filer’s launch sighted seven sailfish with one hitting the bait three times but jumping off. An- other was hooked but got away. Rather unusual was the evidence of five fish cut in half by barracudas. “They chewed them up as fast as we brought them up”, the Party said. nia, being constructed for serv- ice in this district is 70 per cent complete. | The Zinnia is being constructed at the shipbuilding plant of the John H. Mathis Co., Camden, N. J., and the request contained in| the letter is that an engineer be} designated to join the vessel! about February 20, as the duties | of the engineer will be in demand ; on that date. | The superintendent told The | Citizen that H. R. Demeritt, now engineer on the Tender Poin- ciana is the senior engineer in the handling of Diesel powered ves- | sels, and he has been tentatively designated for the position. | HERE FOR VISIT CITY COUNCIL HEARS CHARGES MATTER PLACED IN HANDS OF MAYOR ALBURY, WHO WILL MAKE RECOMMENDA- TION AT NEXT MEETING CIO LABOR LEADER AND PARTY OF THREE LUNCH | HERE TODAY | John L. Lewis and party of! three had luncheon at the Casa Marina today, stopping over in Key West for a short visit. j The Lewis party would not reg-} i ; ister and requested no interview. City Council, at a special meet- Mr. Lewis is head of the CIO,!ing last night, which was called “Fight Infantile Paralysis” cam- paign, show a warm response in every county in the state. “The response from the appeal to the people of Florida in this campaign against this dreaded disease is most gratifying,” Mr. Edwards declared at State Head- quarters here today. “Our sixty-seven chairmen in each of the sixty-seven counties have set up organizations that will do a permanent good. Fifty! per cent of all funds raised, in- cluding the thousands of dimes now being sent to the White House, will be returned to the counties as a permanent fund to be used in aiding those who have been stricken by infantile para- Vsis. | “The campaign this year has’ taken on many new angles. George J. Avent of the Florida | National Bank in Jacksonville, . Friday received request from E.! Clay Lewis, Chairman for Gulf ; County, to send 3,000 dimes to that county because the supply | in circulation there was getting short. Port St. Joe,. where Mr.| Lewis lives, does not have bank- | ing facilities. Mr. Avent made | arrangements to send the ~3,000/ ‘dimes to Port St. Joe. “Under the leadership — of, Claude Lee, Chairman for! Alachua County, Dr. John J.! Tigert, President of the Univer- | sity of Florida, and members of | the faculty, the student body to- | taling 3,400 students at Gaines-| ville, pledged 3,400 dimes to aid! the campaign. Estelle E. Daniel, Dunbar, Wis- consin; Effie Mitchell Savin, Washington, D. C.: Irene Dehner, Great Barrington, Mass.; R. R. Remington, Richester, N. Y.; John M. Gries and wife, Conover, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Brackell, Chicago, III.; Mr. and | encouraging and he is of the opinion that all matters in con- nection with the road would be settled at the regular meeting of \in Fort Lauderdale, March 2, at | Which he will be in attendance. | Mr. Sawyer said in a conversa- Harvey S. tion with The Citizen that a num- | Conrad aboard the ketch “Al. | interested citizens had} iber of | ‘Altair’ | ‘BarcelonaIn | Final Stand | |REBEL ARTILLERY FIRE | Meyer, Mrs. Meyer and Preston Mrs. W. P. Stugeon, St. Paris,/sent telegrams to Tallahassee | air” in a ten-day trip to Tortu Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Sterrett, Moline, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. William A. Frank, Miami, Fla.; Dr. and Mrs. G. B. Darling, Mich. Taxpayers’ Associatio 'asking for a speedy decision by the State Road Department on the time for the beginning of {from Big Pine to Key West. n Seeks Abandonment Of Proposed Sales Taxes (Special to TAMPA, Jan. 24——An appeal to the State Chamber of Com- merce to abandon its “imprac- tical, selfish and radical” pro- posal of sales taxes graphed today.by the Florida |Taxpayers’ Association. The text of the telegram read: “We urge you to abandon your impractical, selfish and radical sales tax proposal which has opened the flood gates for demo- gogic, dangerous and retaliatory tax’ schemes at a time when all public-spirited leaders should stand firm for the only per- was tele- | “From Miami, Key West, Tam-| manent and fair way to reduce The Citizen) “Instead of opening the way for radical and unnecessary tax changes wilder than the craziest i sehemes ever considered in Cali- nia, it would seem that the »€hamber of -Commerce should resume its place as a conserva> | tive, stabilizing influence in the State’s financial affairs as a buf- fer against radical tax panaceas rather than a proposer of the most radical tax idea in all world history. “It has given new hope to demagogs and cheap politicians who even now are gleefully an- ticipating the ease with which it | gas. Although the trip over was Battle Creek, ' construction of the proposed road/ made in nine hours, it took al-:©4 the Rebel artillery fire can; Rough ‘ish- Newport, Ky.; William DeVan,|'the road department to be held | ough weather and good fish-| a ! jing were reported by James; HEARD IN OUTSKIRTS OF CITY _ city And City Hall t the meeting of the Key West Zoning Board held last night at the home of Wallace B. Kirke on Caroline street it was decided to address a letter to the that meetings have been held to hear council explaining | complaints and give explanations (By Aasocintea Press) HENDAYE, Jan. 24—With the on the Zoning Ordinance as pass- |main defense lines of the Loyal- ed, and that only minor objec- ‘ists outside of Barcelona smash-| tions have been aired, and these | most 15 hours to come back with: today be heard in the outskirts ®T® readily corrected. ‘heavy northeast winds bucked jall the way. Most of the way! ‘back the railing was under wa-! ‘ter. All canvas of jib, mainmast} of Barcelona. Planes are bombing the city incessantly, with over 100 réport- | ed dead from the attacks. H Copies of the Ordinance and a map of the city have Played at the county court house been dis- land jigger mast was pressed on} Citizens are rallying to make a' and the city hall, outlining the all the way here. | Going over they stopped for a’ { while at Boca Grande and caught | |a basketful of bottom fish. Then ‘straight on to Tortugas where. |they picked up kingfish, mack-' |erel, grouper trolling all the way. After visiting the historic Fort Jefferson they set a big line out one night and brought in a 300- ‘pound jewfish. The cook at the | Fort served everyone two meals} jout of it. Coming back, they caught kingfish which they will: have for supper tonight. The 37-foot ketch “Caroline” is {here with Mr. and Mrs. H. C. | Bowen of Providence, R. I. Guest! is J. S. Barber. The ketch avoid-' ed the tropical _ hurricane |summer by remaining in Florida. Sidney Leete and Mrs. Leete! |from Haggarnum, Conn., is here) jon the cabin cruiser “Jaybee”, ‘ Call has been sent out for civili- ans to report with mess kits to man the hastily-constructed for- tifications, U.S. Cruiser Omaha has arriv- ed off the city to rescue consular officials and other American citi- KNOWN WATERCOLORIST HERE AGAIN FOR FLORIDA AND KEY WEST SCENES, RANKS HIGH ‘last stand in defense of the city. zones for the convenience of the public. This was done at the suggestion of Representative B. C. Papy. The information is being given to the city council, it is being pointed out, that the city attor- ney may be instructed to prepare an enabling act for submission at the next session of the legisla- ture. It was also said at the meeting that this act should be prepared as soon as possible, as it must be published by’ title before being presented at the legisla- ture. It was further decided that the assurance be given the council that the Zoning Board is ready at this T, FRANK LITAKER, KNOWN ll times to cooperate with the council and the.city attorney to the effect that the Zoning Ordi- nance may be passed. labor organization, been in bitter fight with which has’ for the purpose of hearing charges the | Preferred against Police Judge T. AFL, another labor group, for many years. Lewis and party fished along the Keys in a yacht recently. _ NEWS FLASHES (My Annoclated Press) S. Caro by Councilman Will E. | P. Roberts, decided to have the | matter referred to Mayor Albury, | who is to confer with City At- torney Taylor relative to the | legality of the charges as_pre- ‘ferred. Upon the attorney’s de- cision the mayor will make his recommendation in the matter to ithe council at its next regular | meeting. pa, Jacksonville, Ocala, Orlando, Lakeland, St. Petersburg, Pen- sacola,. Daytona Beach, West Palm Beach, and scores of other , cities, came equally encouraging reports,” Mr. Edwards nounced, “May I make an appeal now to every citizen in Florida, who has not already done so, to take part in this campaign against a dis- ease about which science knows) little and which has affected the } |the property taxpayer’s burden— iby honest and efficient adminis- ‘tration of our present tax sys- will be possible to put across their own wild ideas in retalia- tion for the Chamber’s current Seccccercoacesceeeccoees| Judge Caro gave a short talk BERLIN.—Germany has_ re-/and stated that he did not feel ceived a new note of warning de-! that he had violated any of the manding that no American Jews| provisions of the charter in the be included in the cancellations | handling of the cases referred to} of Jewish dental licenses. |by Councilmna Roberts. . Judge | ———— {Caro said he did not remember NEW YORK.—lInvestigation of| hearing any obscene language the British Airways’ crash of the| used in his court during the trial} “Cavalier” has been begun today | of the cases as was charged. with the air attache of the Brit-! At the conclusion of the judge’s ish Embassy, and the British Air-| brief explanation, the matter was ways officials making the inves- | turned over to the mayor for his; tigation. New standards of man further consideration, after which ty are expected to result ‘from|the meeting was adjourned. he he L i ae eenresnerre— peer mei. | eeeeecccccccocococcocccs: WASHINGTON.—Campaign to! TEMPERATURES compel foreign airships to comply | ,eeecceeceeeeeeccccscocos with American safety regulations | Lowest Highest was begun today in Congress. | Station— last night last 24 hours FISH FLEET GETS 100,000 POUNDS IN TWO DAYS LARGE, POMPANO CATCHES; TURTLE SCHOONER EX- PECTED WITHIN NEXT TWO WEEKS One hundred thousand pounds of Spanish mackerel and kingfish were brought in in the last two The crash of the Cavalier was! Apilene 34 said to prove the necessity for) atlanta this. | Boston . 18 64 44 26 days by the Thompson Fish Com- | pany fishing fleet, A. Maitland re. | Buffclo DETROIT.—Search for three) Charleston fishermen believed lost in icy | Chicago Lake Huron was begun today by | Denver _ a small gasoline launch in a!Galveston blinding snowstorm. Havana; | Huron LONDON. — A dozen small! Jacksonville _ freighters wallowed , through a! Kansas City _ North Atlantic storm today with|KEy WEST _ @ 7,200-ton freighter reported in| Tittle Rock _ trouble but able to make Liver-| 19. Angeles Pool. Louisville t_. Miami “Say It With Flowers” || Mpis.-st. P. — Beautiful Ostrich Feathers— {|New Orleans - made into lovely corsages {New York for the individual gown. Pensacola Also—Large Gardenias, Cor- }| Pittsburgh sage Roses in the pastel |/St. Louis - shades, Carnations, Sweet |/Salt Lake City Peas, Orchids when ordered [/San Francisco - in advance. Seattle PHONE 528 616 Duval St. Tampa KEY WEST FLORIST 28 62. BRENSEBE: Washington Williston SSUSZeeesess BSSses Adams told The Citizen today. ; Limits on eatches have not as yet been lifted, Mr. Adams said, } as markets as yet have not im- proved. The weather has been so mild off the southern Atlantic: {coast that Florida cities on the! East Coast have been bringing in| j big catches. When the weather is rough upstate the fish are driv- en to deeper water. Then the Key West market is in demand. | Pompano catches of between 5,000 and 6,000 pounds weekly have been reported. These pom- pano are caught around Cape | Sable, and a 6,000-pound catcfi is jconsidered a nice haul: They | are the finest food fish in the sea, the general consensus of opinion has it. The turtle schooner, “A. Mait- land Adams”, is expected in with- lin the next two weeks. Key West |tourists enjoyed watching the! turtle unloaded from the schoon- er and slid into the pens. i | tem.” Copies were sent to Harold ;Chamber; Edward Ball, Jackson- | ville; Col. Peter O. Knight, Tam- ; Pas and others, Robert L. New- ;man, Executive Secretary of the | Taxpayers’ Association, said. Not Needed “Our Association”, Newman continued, “can prove by official records that no new taxes are ; needed and that present taxes can and must be reduced; so of course we are not interested in }any retaliation. But inquiries coming to our office indicate |that the State Chamber’s pro- |posal of a “poor man’s income |tax” has stirred up a_hornet’s jnest of new tax schemes more |radical than the State Chamber ‘plan, if that is possible. |" “The mildest of these proposals jis that a state income tax should j be piled on top of our present 'shabbily - administered system, | but even a gross income tax, which is the fairest of all sales taxes, is unnecessary and would 'take away from Florida one of its strongest attractions for wealthy new residents. “Surely the members of the State Chamber of Commerce do not want the Constitutional tax exemption of their large incomes wiped out,” the secretary con- tinued, “yet that would be an in- evitable result of the imposition of a sales tax. Ask any legisla- tor if he will vote for “a poor man’s inéome tax” while the rich man’s intome remains free of ‘unjust sales tax proposal which violates all fundamentals of taxa- an-/Colee, president of the State tion. It disregards ability to pay, benefits received, and burdens the busy dollars of the little man while ignoring the idle dollars of; the rich. Have No Place “There is no place for such dog-eat-dog reprisals in the pro- lthe way provided a | {after the 1,500-mile trip down the! jcoast, the first the Leetes have! {made on the intracoastal water-| way. The few open spots along; T. Frank )Litaker, well-known e thrill for | artist, is spending iis third win- them. The tropical hurricane in! ter jn Key West, stupping at 616 New England this summer dam-! Duval street, aged the “Jaybee” nothing worse | ,than a smashed-in windshield. | West scenes were in a Fall ex- | On the ketch “Dolphin”, 40 hibition at Charlotte, N. C., in the jfeet, I. Humphries and mother,! Mint Museum. Dorothy Knox of AMONG WATERCOLORISTS Several of his paintings of Key! |New York City, are visiting Key, say of his work: “. . .in Frank Mrs. Catherine Humphries, of! The Charlotte News has this to’ FIFTY-FOUR MEN IN OWL'S CREW ONE ENLISTED PER- SONNEL There are three officers and 51 members of the enlisted person- gram of the Florida Taxpayers’; West, “the end of the'line”. They Litaker’s water colors of Florida, nel on the U.S.S. Owl, now in Association and there should be! Plan a cruise to the Bahama Is- none in the State Chamber of | /ands, also. Cemmerce,” Newman said. “Wei _ Yacht Gleam, home port New heartily agree that some relief York, arrived yesterday after- must be given the ad valorem/noon from Captiva, Florida, with taxpayer, but his plight is not the|the owner and master, Eddie fault of the system but of its|Watts in command. | shameful mal-administration. Re-| Guests on the vessel were John lief can only come when tax-|W- Ellis, Charles Hodge and dodgers and tax shifters, Henry A. Nelson, of .Cleveland, now! e d political favorites, can be forced|Ohio. The Gleam sailed this jto bear their fair share of gov-'™orning from the Porter Dock records of Comptroller Lee that} " ¥ W consolidation of errimental costs. | Co.’s. wharf for a-day’s-fishing in “We can prove with official | the vicinity of Key West. fair and uniform assessment of | taxes, full and firm collection, | governmental | . services and reasonable economy! INJURED SUNDAY in State, County and municipal | s governments, will make possible : 4 iI can feel the scorching sunshine, port as relief to the Tender Wil- 'in his pictures of the sea, I can liamson, which arrived at Key smell the salt water. . West, waited for a few days, and Mrs. Carroll Wright, a director Sailed for Coco Solo, Panama, up- jot the museum, contributes this 0M the arrival of the Owl jsketch: “T. Frank Litaker wili’ Officers of the Owl are: Lieu- ‘be represented by 20 water color tenant Commander W. C. Holt, w > | paintings of tropical Florida. He CO™Manding; Boatswain P. FE i i at Wynn, executive officer; Chief | Spent his late Winter vacation at ia chiuue iy tates engines. ck Key West where the tropical tee —" =e | vegetation, high colors, warm Enlisted personnel: D. H. Al- ‘sands parade before a restless, bi “ ert, W. J. Alexander, P. Bare- jwhite-capped ocean, where it toot’ R. H. Railey, J. M. Belardo, |meets, in calm surrender, ae the ©. N. Beliveau, K. G. Buchanan, jquiet blue-green depths of the w jy) Carmichael, A. Davidek, P. ; Gulf. - -Genteel harmony of col- ¢. Daniels, E. Y. Deyton, W. J. ors, without a too rigid control, Doyle, D. Foster, D. Gassner, M. ,easy draftsmanship and respect J. Geary, C. Hagar, A. Johnston, |for his medium in relation to W.C. B. Johnson, S. Johnson, F. | subject. with interplay of light T. Jordan, G. W. Jones, H.| E and shadow are characteristic of Ketchie, C. D. Kelley, J. F. ‘a reduction of at least 25 per cent} ‘in all present taxes and leave a surplus in all treasuries includ- | Joseph Papy, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chafles Papy, fell from a tree at thecorner of ,the artists work. at Concord. After high school He was born Knoll, J. Kozik. F. M. Laws, R. D. Liles, D. E. Catherine and Watson streets unday morning. and_ suffered compound fracture of'the right ing schools. “The Florida Taxpayers’ As- sociation urges the State Cham. ber of Commerce, and all other | interested in furthering the |"™ near the elbow. ‘Christian, democratic principle} The youngster was _ taken at of the ‘greatest good for the|once to a local Physician's office greatest number’, to join us in| Where the arm was dréssed and working toward this objective,” | Placed in splints. ‘Newman concluded. “ The MAXWELLCO. gnc For Wholesale PHONE 9108 permit Quotations on FURNITURE and FURNISHINGS MAXWELL VENETIAN BLINDS RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT See or Phone G. A. PATTON, Locel SIBONEY INN. repairs to be made on the ilding at 611. Fleming street, which is part of the Louise Per- . 705 and university he went to Boston McMains, L. Maltais, H. I. Mar- for additional study in architec- tin, D. A. Mohler, R. N. Morrison, ture, his chosen profession. At J. W. Nooner, L. L. O’Brien. J. the same time he pursued the J. O'Connell, R. D. Peterson, J. | study of water-color painting un- L. Pettit, M. E. Pouncy, H. A. , der John Whorff, aggressive and Richter, J. H. Robinson, W. I. }dominant figure in the field of Stk ae wath tk oe painting sand teece son, J. Weaver, A. J. Westwater, Dorothy Knox concludes with Bs ene, se R. Wood, H. D. this tribute, “Did you know; ene: SOR Frank Litaker ranked among the | six best water-color artists in| America?” | Bigger and Better || . COUNTRY STORE | TONIGHT DES MOINES, la—Egrets,| a i Fred Marvil’s {nearly exterminated to furnish | CABANA Plumes for women’s hats years) Lem Abernathy will again be here! 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