The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 25, 1939, Page 1

‘Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME es No. 21, THE SOUTHERNMOST NE Che Key Wrest Citizen WSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, SMR 25, 1939 Distilleries Owner Says Key West Weatherbeaten, Likeable Is Ancient, St. Louis Cardinals’ Doctor "SOOO ODI I iS, Here; Los Angeles Doc- tor Says Key West Har-| bor Best Of Both Coasts, Lawrence Jones, Frankfort Distilleries Company at Louisville, Ky., who has been coming to Key West for the past 46 years told The Citizen today that he likes the city because it is “ancient, weatherbeaten, and likeable”, He is at the Yacht Basin in a new yacht, 134 foot owner of Dironia. ville and Stewart Scott of New York City. Dr. H. J. Weaver, who is medico in charge of the major league baseball team. St. Louis Cardi- nals, is at the Basin in the 46 foot yacht, “Cardinal”. Captain Bill Massacar. Guest with him is Robert May of Ohio. Dr. Weaver and Captain Massacar usually spend the winter aboard the yacht. Captain Massacar’s pride is a new 150 horsepower diesel engine. Dr. Weaver is a_na- tionally known photographer. Dr. and Mrs. Eric Wilson of Los Angeles, California, aboard the yacht, “Clarinda”, 98 feet stated that Key West harbor and naval station was the best they had seen along the entire Pacific and Atlantic coasts, and that they did not see why the government was not developing it. Captain of the Clarinda, which by the way is formerly from Charleston Navy Yard, is O. Gross. Roy Miller of Houston, Texas, oil company owner, is here on his 83 foot motorsailer. With Mrs. Miller he has come down fram Galveston, aridewill later go ‘around to Miami. .Captain is E. E. Howell. An interesting trip down is re- ported by a sloop with Captain Sobel of Michigan and R. C. Moseley aboard. Coming down the rough Hawk Channel all the way on the outside with two northeasters overtaking them, they made the trip in 22 hours sailing time. The sloop is equip- ped with an outboard motor as auxiliary. It held up on the seas excellently in the rough passage. They may later go to Tortugas. Also here is the 46 foot Moun- tain Lass with Mr. and Mrs. Fred S. Wood aboard. They are from Amigo, West Virginia. They have been coming to Key West off and on for 29 years. They were fishing up on the keys. It kept getting colder and_ colder, and they kept going southward and southward, until they arri- ved at this Southernmost Spot, Yacht Alva, owner W. P. Van- derbilt, Jr. which was in port Tuesday night was taken out through Northwest Channel by Key West Pilot Boat for a Gulf voyage. DUVAL MAIN BREAKS TODAY REPAIR TO WATER PIPE EX- PECTED TO BE EFFECTED BEFORE EVENING water main broke this at the corner of South- City morning ard and Duval streets and floods | of water ripped open the inter- section. A force of workmen at noon today had dug open the area and were preparing to remedy the trouble. repair will be effected before evening, but until that time city water has been shut off. The water is salt water. This water main is not to be confused with the water and sewerage system at present be- ing laid by the WPA. In an emergency the WPA sewerage systera could be utilized for wa-; ter needs of the city. At pres- ent WPA engineers are checking, the line for possible leaks. With him are Mr. and} Mrs. Henry Fitzhugh of Louis-| ‘St. Louis It is believed that the! | VISITGR LANDS LARGE KINGFISH Among those spending the day yesterday fishing in Key West waters were Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Goldsmith of New Rochelle, N. Y., who are guests at La Concha Hotel. They were accompanied on the trio by several friends. Mrs. Goldsmith was the cutstanding member of the party by landing a 36-pound kingfish, measuring four feet, eighi and a half inches. The izip was made in the launch “Lucky Strike”, Captain Weatherford. FLD MIDIS SS TS ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE FOR BIRTHDAY BALL SUPPER WILL ALSO BE GIV- EN ON SATURDAY NIGHT PRECEDING DANCE AT LATER HOUR Plans for the tainments in celebration of the President’s Birthday Ball have progressed to such a degree that positive announcements regard- ing the supper and dance to be given Saturday night, January several enter- 28, may be found in this issue of ! The Citizen. The supper which is to be one of the outstanding affairs of a similar nature during the s : is to be held in the spacious din- ing ‘hallof ie La Concha hotel, and it is to start promptly at 8 o'clock. Arrangements for the have been completed and will be held at the Club Miramar. on Roosevelt Boulevard, begi at 10 o'clock, and arran, to ha’ a delightful floor show in connection with the affair. Floor show and features connection are to be staged George Mills White, and program for the entire ev at Raul’s will be printed later date. in by ng at a @cveo TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest Station— last night Jast 24 hours Abilene \2 Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit Galveston Havana Huron Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Miami Mpls.-St. P. New. Orleans New York Pensacola Pittsburgh . 30 40 16 26 20 48 38 46 32 22 Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Tampa Washington Williston Attention, Guardsmen! All personnel Battery “E” 265th C. A. FNG are ordered to report at Armory Thursday. January 26th, 8 p. m., for the purpose of having group picture made of Battery for National Guard Review. Uniform will be slacks, shirts and helmets. Paid drill. WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Captain, cac FNG, Command- ing. jan25-1t dance Italy Reminds! Italy’s reminders of war are these large shells set up in ‘martial display at an ex-| Above view was made in the arms pavilion. ssolini are working together toward a war it is bélieved from recent confer- 3 higher budget deficit of $2,097,-| hibit of Italian minerals in Rome. and M ences. COUNTY ANNEX — WORK AHEAD OF SCHEDULE ADY IN EARLY MARCH: WALLS AND ROOF BY FEB- RUARY 6; MOVE COUNTY OFFICES TO RENOVATE Light realty sales marked the; week ending Monday according to records in office of Circuit Court Clerk Ross C. Sawyer. Joseph S. Dongo et al sold to V. Cremata a 50x93 lot on Wash- ington street near Catherine. | _G. A. Medealfe sold to H. F. | Cordes a lot in the Baywood area Work on the new $25,000 an-} of ey, Lara: Both are from « to the Monroe: County Court:| aes fuarnibal et al «sold Juse is progressing ahead of | Sarah Pierce a 79x50 lot edule for the annex expected | A nolia street near Thomas. dy in six weeks’ time for! qyazel I, Pinder gave a quit for the various county | claim to Vincent Cremata on the i 26x108 property on Watson n.the county offices are j street. inte, the annex, then reno-; n of the present courthouse will begin. Extensive of room ,and complete | s of the outside with stuc- co paint is to be a feature of ae thouse building. Concrete outer walls, vault ena! rvof is ¢ ‘cled to be completed by February 1. Interior walls, plumbing, wiring, plastering is neat in line. The vault and in-; tc:ior walls are of reinforced con- to on TAX CERTIFICATE SALE TOMORROW ANOTHER WILL BE HELD ON FRIDAY ALSO AT COURT HOUSE rete, ‘The exterior walls are of! 1 coneret county is supplying 55 per- Two sales of tax certificates sat of the funds with the PWA have been scheduled this : para of 45 percent. week by Ross C. Sawyer, county SR, T. Pancoast, with’ cerk. ‘The first of these will be sc ‘onstruction Company, M. J rates contractor, handling held tomorrow at the county the job. « court house at 3 o’clock, and the In January the county was giv- second on Frjday afternoon at the same hour. OW. oe ee heh Ee oiarel For tomorrow the number of 50 percent, complete, whiek,2PPlications are 56, and the num- Se Le seatine Ab or | Ber of parcels listed 550. Among hould be February’ 15. It was’ the largest holding are the fol- begun December 6. lowing: Euphemia Maloney, 20; Chevelier Corporation, 94 and GREAT RESPONSE \the Key Farm Land Co.,.339: ;° The number of applications Sweeting, 48; Model Land \Co., 44; Palgrove Co., 97 and C. FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND A. ieee See 46. listed-for Friday are 37, and the DOLLARS FIND WAY TO s number of parcels are 310. Largest holdings are as follows: ha GENERAL FUND for TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 25. — (FNS) Continuing their response to Comptroller J. M. Lee’s collec- tion drive launched early last Fall, estate tax payers have poured $400,000 into the state’s general fund the past 50 days. These receipts, coupled with somewhat heavier license collec- tions, have made it possible for the comptroller to pay up more than a half-million dollars of the general revenue fund’s deficit’ this month, cleaning up all bills received in the comptroller’s of fice prior to ‘September Ist. This leaves the general revenue fund deficit at $1,341,000. While most of the estate tax payments were small items, some of them being advances by the taxpayers anxious to help the state in its emergency, there were several large items, including one payment of $230,011, another of $104,719 and several running | $5, 000 to $25,000. TICKETS pe SE Ea , Le DINNER 8:00 Seven Realty T ransfers Here During Past Week = available. a ; Tamiami tion, and to Ray T. Parker. 1 TIS OSS. TOI PITOIA LAS ¢ ‘ President’ sBirthday DINNER TICKETS..... $2.50 on sale at PRICE TRAVEL BUREAU Reservations—Phone! 124 LA CONCHA HOTEL Reservations—Phone 160 BIRTHDAY \BALL RAU oa. LUB BOTH EVENTS — SATURDAY, NITIIIIEIIISIOIISO DS —* ! | H | i i iMarch 2 Moning In Fort Lauderdale Will Consid- er Preferred Projects; Petitions For Extension (By Annocinted Prenx) TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 25.—At | @,meeting held here last night,| | the Florida State Road Depart-, Hitler | ment estimated that it will have | 586 at the year’s end than last year and Chairman Arthur B:! | Hale said new construction could | be undertaken only as the funds ; A meeting will be held in Fort é | Lauderdale March 2, after which | W. T. Price, Inc. quit claimed < properties on the mainland to,® list of preferred projects wee Everglades Corpora- expected to be established. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Freeland’ Chairman Carl Bervaldi of the} sold to Glen Freeland mainland yonroe County Commissioners | property. S. C. Anderson transferred to! Florida East Coast Receivers a Of-way over the 40-mile stretch 50x575 for a sanitary sewer sump, ; from Big Pine Key to Key West, ; pump house, pipe connections and) which include approximately 15 for a 15 inch sanitary sewer ona miles, are just . about 20x1473 strip going into the Gulf secured. | of Mexico and for power lines Key Farms titles to certain por-| 20x950 strip on Trumbo. Island. tions have been secured, and R. Te sewerage system is at-pres~)¢ Perky is awaiting approval of era petie aids by) te Were |tne State Road Deparmtent to “sign over the titles he owns. i. E. MONTGOMERY. -The State Road Department has been petitioned by the Over- TY seas Highway Commission and ON VISIT 10 C Monroe County Commissioners to complete the stretch in to Key} WAS FORMER EMPLOYER or: West. It is the ae modern of the Overseas Highway. The MARCY B. DARNALL IN | project will call for laying of the YEARS GONE BY |roadbed over the railroad via- ‘ducts and eliminating wooden | bridges plone tt the route. Harry .E. Montgomery, pub- | lisher of the newspaper, “Union”, MAY HAVE | HAVE C. Ge at Junction City, Kansas, was aj} welcomed visitor at t the office of Marcy B. Damall formerly | part-owner of The Citizen, was agar Teas |\COMMANDER KIELHORN IS GATHERING DATA ON FACILITIES m years gone by, employed by Mr. Montgomery as a compositor, and ple ed recalled by Mr. Montgome: | He will remain in the city for a few days enjoying the fishing. DOUBLES: SENTENCE Commander Kielhorn of ths * ULB | United States Coast Guard, which) PHILADELPHIA — A woman is interested’ in stationing anoth-; who was found guilty of dis-;er Coast Guard vessel in Key orderly conduct in a court in this West is in the city today gather- city called: the judge a “dis-'ing information for a report of reputable villain,” and he’ facilities available. doubled her sentence. A Rotary Club committee re-| ree Ses cently secured a list of apart- ments available for officers and men of the ship. The ship is be-' j lieved to be the Pandora. ‘LOPER FUNERAL HELD YESTERDAY Funeral services for Mrs. Annie Kirchheiner Loper were held yes-} terday afternoon from the chapel |of the Lopez Funeral Home at 5! o'clock. Rev. Arthur B. Dimmick, | St. Paul’s Episcopal church, of- i= : Loper died Monday in the} i ieereare Street, Miami, and the body was brought to Key West yesterday, | following services in the Holy | Cross Episcopal church. the husband, E. D. Loper; sons,! N JAN. 28 DANCING 10:00 Ten. I most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit State Road Department’ _ Deficit Climbs This Year Bervaldi of the |Commissicn told The Citizen to- ‘been accomplished on | Key West, Florida, has the es FIVE CE! TS. S GSP IIIS SS 8 MIAMI ‘CREDITED’ WITH A NEW KEY WEST FISH STORY L. S. Gruber, owner and manager of the Overseas Ho- tel, suggests the above head- line—and supplements it with this further remark: “Miami Papers, Please Copy”. It all comes about from a stream of reports that come to him over his registration desk concérning information reputedly being given tour- ists in Miami, who are Key West-bound. Voluminous were the re- ports in the past anent the lack of water and food here, the high cost of gasoline and lack of accommodations. These stories have grown whiskers, the “boosters” for Key West have now switch- ed to “tall stories’ woven around the fact that “you can’t go bathing in Key West on account of the barracudas and sharks”. Which is no small Key West Fish Storv in itself. | said ‘that the titles to the right | TO IID ISIS SS ‘BLVD. REPAIR COMPLETED BY FEBRUARY 1 50 PERCENT COMPLETE AT will be PRESENT; NORTH SIDE OIL- ED; HAD BEEN IN BAD! SHAPE WITH DEEP RUTS Repair of Roosevelt Boulevard, considered one of the most beau- tiful in the country, December 24, should be complete Carl Monroe County by February 1, Chairman day. The work has been in progress twice weekly, Saturday and Sun- day, with the boulevard ripped marl added when nec up, ssary ‘and rolled. A roller, scarifier and grader are being employed. A mile of the work has already both north and south sides. side will be complete Monday with 1,500 feet of the area re paired oiled also. There is one stretch to be repaired and that will be done this weekend. Fifty percent of the entire work which is to be done is com- plete at present, Mr. Bervaldi said. The Boulevard was in bad shape with large ruts making the drive over it greatly uncomfort- able and hard on cars. Most of } the rutty section was on the south side. From the turn at the beach on the north end of the south side to well beyond East Martello ; Tower the Boulevard has been ‘LIGHT TENDER LEAVES POR Lighthouse Tender Ivy sailed home at 536 Southwest Third | yesterday for Port of Palm Beach issue of the magazine. jto relieve sea buoys at Lake Worth Inlet and to establish one! lighted buoy. Tender Poinciana was ready} weather which will permit the! gaging in other activities. which began the! The north | 2 Key West Housing Authority To Assemble This Afternoon | Oathine Of Work To Be Carried On Will Be Pre- sented During Session At WPA Building Key West Housing Authority. of which Fred J. Dion is chair- man, has been called by the chairman to attend a meeting of the body this afternoon. The meeting will be called ai 5 o'clock in ithe WPA building on Eaton street. It is the intention of the au- thority to discuss the proposed imeeting of all Housing Authori- ties in the state which is to be held in Jacksonville, the definite date of which has as yet been un- decided. In Jacksonville there has been one activity completed and an other is now under course construction, and it is the inten tion to hold the meeting in that city so an idea may be had of the completed work as well a that under construction, and be cause of the fact that condition which are met are peculiar to this state and are found in this state alone. | Plans which have been worked out for Jacksonville will be macc {available to the delegates from !Key West and the other cities of the state. At the me number ‘of coi eting this evening a fu! tions from authoritative sources giving out !lines of the work in the locali jties where a project is going on 1 and discussed. Memb ‘of the local Authority \and who are expected to attend | the ‘theeting other than Chairr | Dion are Wallace B. K {Franklin Albert, J. Lancelot Les- iter and Hugh’ Williams. HENRY N. HALL DIED YESTERDAY FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON Henry Norcross Hall, 41, yesterday afternoon 6 o'clock the home, 406 Grinnell Funeral servic will be held after n 5:30 o'clock from Lopez Funeral Home chapel, Rev. Wm. L. Halladay officiatmg Pallk ers selected to Charles Curtis, Phillip ‘hompson, Claude Thompson, Johnny Nelson, Owén Malone and cdward Rabagny. Survivors are the mother, Mr. | Mary E. Hall; two brothers, Wil liam T. Hail and Charles Hail of Miami, and one son WANT CITY IN “100K” ISSUE WALTER NASE IN CITY MAK- ING SHOTS OF INTER- ING SPOTS died at | Walter Nase is in Key West preparing to shoot scenes of the [Island City for a large spread in “Look” magazine. | Mr. Nase was the photographer | who recently portrayed the beau- | ties of Silver Springs in a recent He is at | Present securing advice from | many excellent sources in the city | regarding snaps of the highly in- teresting spots for a similar sec- Pallbearers at the funeral were this morning awaiting favorable | tion. | Mr..Nase was in The Citizen J. Otto Kirehheiner, H. E. Kirch-| vessel going to the seaplane base! joffice today securing information heiner, H. D. Kirchheiner, Glen-' at Dinner Key Basin for the pur-| | tor his picture story. The en- wood Kirchheiner, and Leo War-) pose of relieving buoys and en- | tire facilities of The Citizen were Pe open to him. EXCELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS.-FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES--$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY TOUR..PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 12 124