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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 44. Nomination Ballots Now Being Made Read By om Secretary Of Organization Also Tells Of An Indig- nant Letter Just. Re- ceived Major py was noticeable at the Chemex of Commerce this morning when The Citizen called on Secretary Singleton, to find all hands preparing the nom. ination ballots which will be re- turnable before the March meet- ing. This will be about the last chance for delinquent, as well as; Prospective, members to get their mames on the ballot, the secre- tary said. Colonel Jack DeLysle has sent an indignant letter to the cham- ber, occasioned by a long article in the Oklahoma City Daily, in| which Key West gets the worst! of it in a story signed by Ernie Pyle and dated Key West. The | secretary said “the writer” found several bars, open gambling, two: carnivals and a golf links, and! that was all for the tourist to see. “All of which”, said the secre- tary, “indicates that he found the bars first and did not get around) to seeing the snakes at the rep- tile exhibit. If he had spent; enough money at the bars he might have gotten that far, The! only thing he liked was the’ ‘heat’. He will probably find it: hotter the next time he comes. I “Thanks to the generosity of} Chairman Carl Bervaldi of the County Commissioners, the cham- ber has been supplied “with a large table which is to be kept supplied with the interesting cur- rent magazines and papers com- ing into the office, and for which visitors are showing apprecia- tion”. Several callers at the chamber'’s office this morning declared they , had come for a brief visit, but) have “fallen in love with the city”, have gotten comfortably lo-' cated and will stay longer. Secccceccorecesccoccecee| NEWS FLASHES = {Chicago BURGOS, Spain—it appears probable today that France will shortly recognize the Franco gov-' ernment after a French envoy! now in this Rebel capital returns to Paris. Earlier reports had it that France would renege this ac-! tion. : pee i LONDON.—King George of England today is to launch a 50,-| 000-ton dreadnaught and prepa-! rations for a vast expenditure of; armaments is going forward in} Parliament today as the British Cabinet studies a rearming plan: which will go above three billion j dollars. Prime Minister Neville; Chamberlain is studying recom-! ee ~ NOTICE TO BOAT OWNERS | AND OPERATORS Your 1938-39 State License is past due. This law covers all boats en-! gaged in fishing and sponging, +180 all seafoods. Our boat is at Coast Guard! Basin. fo Cc. W. GASKILL, Conservation Agent. | 1 feb20-2t Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | Sunday at 2 p. m. at Yacht Basin | waves rolling in from the open sea} |Mills is acclaimed one of the best G. L. Bourne and F. Schaff, of- two 22 horsepower Jacks, George Fay and Che Key eat Citizen 22 THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. ‘ATTEMPTS CUBA A WINDY NIGHT BE SHIPMATE ON LONG! CRUISE ma LARRY MILLS, ATLANTIC large number of yachts came in| AQUA SKI CHAMP, ANOTH-| just before the weekend to be in! = : ‘the city during President Roosé. velt’s arrival here Saturday. One group of young fellows had a tough time last week. Aboard the Unda Maris they tried to go over to Havana but got as far as ‘The Key West Boat Club which | | the main ship channel before they | is sponsoring the Atlantic Aqua-! decided it was too rough to at- tic Stunt Team in a stunt show | tempt passage that night. Huge ER STAR: COMICS FEA- TURED: SHOW AT2 P.M. | "greeted. them and knowing of the deep, deep water ahead. they isely turned back.. Key West has arranged, for 15 numbers packed. w. ith,.the greatest thrills. —— KEY WEST, FLORIDA,. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1939 vecte rr Brazil Minister. To U. ri 2) At the Yacht Basin quite a| © DEFENSE AND TRADE will probably be discussed when. Oswaldo Aranha (above),. Brazil foreign minis- | fer, arrives. scon in Wash: nigton, ‘D. C., to talk with FDR. Featured. will be the beautiful|.waterfronters will. remember Liela Mae Beasley, Queen of) Wednesday night as the night the! Stunters, who will be backed up|,weather turned decidedly rough. ! by a group of six male stunters; The Dixonia of Lawrence | who have performed before JONes, Frankfort . Distilleries’ ; Pathe, Universal, Grantland Rice! rs ap eee ty eee) are | wee > | onia has been making Key Wes and other well know sports! port more times this season ian movie groups. lin past years in conformity with | Another star of the show will|the trend of many South Florida, be Larry Mills, who will perform | Yachts southward to the wonder-: on the aqua skis. Aquaskis | ful cruising waters of Key West! which are placed on the feet | and the other islands of the Keys. | much like snowskis skoot over; Ed Walsh, owner, is aboard the| the water with the performer | 102-foot yacht “Lela”, Captain | hanging on to a rope tied to a 35| Phillip Adams. mile an hour outboard speedster. | | On the Onwego, 120-footer, are | aqua Atlantic | feiials of the Superheater Com- Coast. | pany of New York. Also aboard ; The familiar jump at the show | are Mrs. Maud Mood and Mrs. ilast summer, a_ six foot high ‘Mary L. Schaff. They will spend} jump, will again be in evidence! some time fishing here. Captain; with the jumpers to take the/is C. B. Hurlbut. high leap while riding aquaplanes | La Camparasita is a 39-footer| towed behind speeding boats.| owned by Miss M. Falk of Pitts-| Comical acts will be another fea-| burgh, which is at the Basin,| ture of the show. 'Catches of red snapper and bar- Boats which will be brought racuda were reported. down are one 15 foot Lyman and| Mr. and Mrs. C..F. Eaton: ‘one 14-footThompson. ~ Motors! Boston “and Fort Lauderdale are are one 33 horsepower Elto and | aboard the Nomad II, a 50-footer, ! Johnsons. | with their guests, Mr. and Mrs. R.! Names of riders are Carl King, |g. Frye. Milton Coxe, Miss Leila Mae! On’ the Penguin, a 70-footer, | Beasley, Johnny Harrison, Jack charterer Mitchell of Philadel- | Larry | phia finds that two Vierel 125- | ‘horse engines have given perfect woccccboccee. | Tesults on the trip down. They | will take the hop to Cuba this TEMPERATURES Weex. : ' e@eeece; On the 32-foot Cee Jac, name Lowest Highest jof which is euphonized from Sea Station— last might last 24 hours 16 40 72 66 skiers on the ‘Mills. ‘and Mrs. A. M. Callaghan of East | Orange; and Arthur DeLucca of | East Orange, N. Y., and Arthur 38 | Simonds of Coral Gables. 74 ; The 22-footer sloop Muchachita 22 jis being groomed for a long! 2 l cruise trip to Cuba and the Tor- 38 tugas and Tampa with a local. 72 boy, Robert Dominguez, to be | mate to Captain M. H. Sobel of a” |Detroit, A new Palmer four- | #0 ‘cylinder engine has just been in-! 10 | stalled jas auxiliary. Captain So- al bel has:tried outboards as aux-, a | iliaries but finds that they quit| 66 |when sthey are most needed.! 46 | Auxiliary motors are used when} 78 | it would be difficult tacking back | 2 | forth to make a point. | 4 | ‘Aboard the Miramar, Mr. West 66 and the Shannons went for a | short spin in the Gulf last week 68 |but no one get sick except the 54 | young Sailor boy on board, who. 26 gets seasick on every cruise, they 32 | report. 62 | Most of the yachts left the 50 {Basin over the weekend. 82 His name is Snicklelritz and he 72 comes Towa, where the only | 10 thing that moves anywhere near! \like the ocean is the tall corn.| Mr West, a retired movie pro-| |ducer of early days, owns the! The Key West Electric Com-|Thelma Todd Cafe in Los An-' |pany will close its office at noon | geles and has spent many sailing’ , tomorrow, February 2%, in ob-}years around Key West. One) servance of Washington's, Birth- | time gong over in a norther in a} | schooner from Key West’ to Cuba, | ‘he got deathly seasick and so did most of the crew.. The toptain! called on him to take the tsar 54 36 12 60 . 16 . 10 16 38 68 £3 _ 64 0 73 ne Atlanta Boston -.. Buffalo Charleston enver ... Detroit... , Galveston , Havana Huron Jacksonville , Kansas City — KEY WEST _ Little Rock _ 26 Los Angéles’_’50 Louisville s a4 Miami __ Mpls.-St: PA Ris ‘New Orleans — 60 |New York 36 Pensacola 64 Pittsburgh 28 St. Louis - 12 Salt Lake City 16 San Francisco 46 Seattle 38 Tampa . } Washington Williston _ WOLICE ~< —_—— i j ake, it | too, has had some _ ini ‘boating experiences. pede Fg got on For Wholesale Cisbtiens on FURNITURE and FURNISHINGS MAXWELL VENETIAN BLINDS RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT See or Phone G. A. mb gee — SIBONEY INN. PHONE $108 ‘COLLECTIONS OF J.C. HOBBY SHOW - ARTICLES BEGIN COMMITTEE TAKES ALL PRE- - }ers; a 25-footer, from California. ' ‘l'Phey- left Washington, D. C., 10 : } weeks ago'and proceeded to Port-' WINNERS OF ESSAY CONTEST VISITORS HERE PARTICIPANTS IN PATHFIND- | _EH NATIONAL CONTEST TO, ‘WRITE. ARTICLES FOR PUB-| “LICATION | To Takert Arriving in Key West over the weekend for a week’s stay are 18 winners of the Pathfinder Na-} tional Essay. contest, who will Write three days on the results! 1 oftheir investigation while here! | with the information to be print-, @d‘in “Current Events”, a Path- finder publication. { The -boys ranging in age from | below 20 to 23, with some college! ‘graduates and some not, travel in ‘one of the country’s hugest trail- TENDER IVY TO ENGAGE IN LIGHT- HOUSE ACTIVITIES last night for Sombrero reef & this mornnig activities started on the necessary work increasing the intensity of light and electrification of tl Jand, Maine.’'They then made ‘their--way back along the East- vern Seaboard to Key West, Flor-: jiying quarters. hida;-the southernmost point. | Leaving on the Three days out of every week’ electricians, machinists, black- they are required to write in their smiths, carpenters, boat builders, ss car”. The other days of assistants and the cook. The en- ie week they spend in recrea-, tire working party is under the tion and in digging up informa- {leadership of Carl W. Rom, chief | met editors. | vise the work. LEAVES PORT ; 'GOES TO SOMBRERO REEF ° é -|ition. Thy are supervised by for-| radio electrician, who will super- ‘EBERHARDT NAMED :Boys -here are: Williams, Buffalo, N. Y.; Ray! | Johnson, Idaho; Walter Bell, |-Arkansas; Woody Wilson, Texas; Joe. Barfus, Wyoming; Ralph (Grubbs, Pennsylvania; Eddie! collec-| Sheehan, Connecticut; Bob John-} the | 80", New Mexico; Jesse James, CAUTION FOR SAFETY OF, ARTICLES: OPENS THURS: DAY AT OLD POSTOFFICE’ tomorrow continue for Today and tions will Hobby Show which will open} bama; Bob Hadley, Ohio; Ralph’ Thursday for a week’s run at! Hawthorne, Arizona; Travis Bark- , the Old Postoffice Building. at/Jey, Mi Ralph Bowen, New the foot of Greene street. Hamfpshire;-Cy Pearlman, Michi-| Hundreds of interesting ar-|8an; Willard Wells, Maryland; |ticles, hobbies and collections | Bobby Mohiman, Delaware; Ed jhave been registered with the! Cobley, Washington. |comrmittee and will be on display | me | Exhibits will be arranged on man, Jr., Wilbur Moehrke, Izzy ' licenses issued from the office of a BY nik pains soe THREE. MARRIAGE A motif of foconut palms, pot | ted plants and patriotic color: will be carried out for theishow. LICENSES ISSU ‘tables with appropriate cards de- | |signating the type of article and! interesting data concerning it. During the week ending yes- The committee of L. P: Art-|terday there were three marriage Weintraub, Edward Johnson, Ed- ‘County Judge Raymond R. Lord, ward Bayly reports that one! making a total of 13 for the large: room at the building will’ month to date: be utilized for all..the exhibits.; Issues during the week were, | Jack, are Robert Callaghan, Mr. This’ will insure safety of the made to the following: Allen E.! many valuable articles. A guard’ Curry and Nellie Louise Russell; | will be stationed at the single! Argelio ‘Alvarez and Hilda Mo-| entrance as further precaution. Jina; Randolph Pritchard and El- The hours will be from 8 a. m. to! (len D.: Roberts. FOR COURT TRIAL locked as another , precaution.: Use of the building has been do- | nated by Lieut. F. H. Callahan, | } Boagan.Funderburk was arrest- ' ‘ed yesterday on a charge’ of as- sault and battery.) In ‘the after- officer in charge of Key West! Naval Station. | jTique Esquinaldo, Jr., for Se | liminary hearing. It was announced today at) After the evidence was heard WPA headquarters by Area Su-|the committing magistrate gave | pervisor B. C, Moreno that Fred it: due consideration and decided | Eberhardt has been appointed| to place the aecused under bond area timekeeper for all activities; of $50 for appearance at the next in Monroe county. .._. | trem of criminal court. Arthur L. Steed, supervising} | tmeKeeper for the Sfate of Flor-) ‘ida, arrived in the city last night} ee | and is; with Mr. Eberhardt, going; WESLACO, Tex. — Grapefruit | over the records of the timekeep-jin colors, such as purple, may’ ing department. |soon make jts appearance on the nation’s breakfast tablets. Seek- ling some mieans of marking fruit SER TS itaken out of commercial chan- ABINGTON, Eng—The first|nels by the: Surplus Commodities arrest in this city in nineteen | Corporation, grapefruit growers years took place when an ex-con-/ suggested it would be easy to vict was taken for obtaining;color it with harmless dyes. :money under false pretenses. Purple was proposed for a trial. hk Gee —FIPIIIPPPSLCCCICLCCCL ON Fred Marvil Announces. . . . COUNTRY STORE NITE-TONIGHT ; CABANA and PATIO N 605 DUVAL STREET NEW PRIZES and CHAMPAGNE TOWNE TUNESTERS INAUGURAL DANCE IN PATIO \ vescrrswersererss» pre- MAY BE PURPLISH EX-CONVICT ARRESTED Herbert Mac! noon, hé was brought before En-| less, and when completed | 000 candlepower, just double the | present intensity. The Ivy is expected to be ab- ‘sent for two days and on the re-' |Junior Chamber of Commeree} | Kentucky; . Jimmy Stokes, Ala-| | turn will take on a cargo of ma- | terial for the Tampa Bay section It is expected the work will cover a period of two weeks or| the} light will have an intensity of 44,-: | Recess DIRECTS WORLD LABO jee | ‘Tender Ivy, of the lighthouse department, sailed 11:30 orto * were: tender were WORLD LABOR POST is filled by former governor John Winant (above), of New Hampshire, recently sworn in at Geneva as the Interna- tional Labor office director. STATE OFFICERS ARRIVE IN CITY and proceed to that area. to build! six new structures for front and | rear range lights. When that work is completed |the vessel will return and pro- leeed to Carysfort Light to start ,CHECKING UP ON ACTIVI. TIES OF VESSELS OP- ERATING HERE | activity similar to that being dene. ;at’Sombrero Light, ‘except that | the light at this point will be in-| creased in intensity from 130,000 to 190,000 candlepower. Tender Poppy sailed this morn- | ing. for Card Sound for work on the Intracoastal Waterway, where new lights are to be installed and a rearrangement of the present | lights is to be made. Enroute to Card Sound the ves- | Sel will go to Coffin Patches and { place a buoy to mark the spot of | an old submerged mass of wreck- age, which, it is said, has been! there for about 50 ee ee NEW BOAT FOR SAM ANDERSON S.C: Ae owner of |Trumbo Island and of Munson Island, is the owner of one of the, neatest and most thoroughly- equipped cabin cruisers that are) afloat in these waters, and: was built in'Key West. | The new craft is to be launched’ some time this week and before Saturday is to be delivered to the owner at Munson Island for use by him and his friends, many of whom visit him Biett him during the year. | SPONGE SALES HELD MONDAY Small sale of sponges was re. corded at the Municipal pier ye \erday. The entire offering con sisted of 13 bunches of wool, of grass. Yellow offerings sold for $23, ; the wool, 13 bunches, were bought for $28.82 and six bunches of grass sold for $1.25. Total sales, $53.06, LETS, Auerbach’s Restaurant 410 Fleming Street oes A delightful place to Eat Luncheon from 65c | Dinner from 85c : —o— 410 TRIO PLAYING NIGHTLY Dicosenimnesianienadl 50! bunches of yellw and six bunches! C. W. Gaskill, agent of the State Conservation Department, ‘is a visitor in Key West, accom- panied by Thomas Crosland and Earl Jackson, members of the conservation forces. , told The Citizen he plans to re- ‘main for one week. The group is making -a check up on véSsels engaged in fishing, sponging and other activities whereby livelihood is gained from the sea, and the department is de- {termined ‘hat all vessels coming ! within the provisions of the law must be provided with the neces- sary license. Mr. Gaskill said he will also make inspections of the catches of crawfish and stone crabs and determine if any of them are be- ing caught under size. As a mat- ter of truth, the group is in Key West for the purpose of investi- gating transgressions of all laws of the conservation department ~— seein those who. tbgeak aie PREPARE BLANKS FOR CITIZENSHIP Members of the National Youth Administration, along with oth- ers, assembled in the WPA rooms this morning and were busily en- | Baged in filling out their deposi- |tion blanks, required of them to establish their citizenship. It was ordered that this be ,done when it was decided that all aliens were to be removed from the lists of employes, even those who had secured their first citizenship papers. _ Miss ‘'Margatét “Martinez and Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., notaries public, were on the scene for the | purpose of notarizing the declara tion ; Waterway from Miami Mr. Gaskill! | those PRICE IyS CENT CENTS Rivers And Harbors Board ! »Intracoast al we Data Forwarded For Review Of Practic- ability Of Proposed Project (By Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 21. ; The War Department field en- gineers’ report on the proposed improvement of the intracoastal to Key West is due at the chief of en- gineers office of the rivers and harbors board on March 9, it was learned here today. The report has been returned | to the district engineer at Jack- sonville for further information It was not revealed what further ; data was needed in order that the tivers and harbors board the ability of the project. could adequately review practic- Officials here would not make any statement as to the in the nor would they hazard any prediction to what the ultimate recom- mendations of the field engineers will be in light of the additional information requested by the chief of engineers office here. However, should the report recom- mendations report, ‘recommend against further work, local interests will ha portunity to present arguments in open hearing before the rivers and harbors board gives its deci- sion. Should the recommendatic of the field engincers reverse of a previous report, ap- proval of both the rivers and har- bors board and the congressional rivers and harbors will still be necessary cost survey, the ni ceedure, could be undertaken. When the latter survey is com- pleted and funds appropriated for the work by congress, only then can forging of this link in the At- lantic Coast intr: stal water- way actually be EARL DE NOON ON committee before xt step in pro- a ‘VISIT TO KEY WEST Earl De Noon, member of the American Society Testing Ma- terials, arrived in Key West for the periodic inspection of ma- terial for the General Motors Co., being exposed at the Key West naval station. It has been several months since Mr. De Noon was last here and on that visit he was accom- panied by Mrs. De Noon, who be- fore her marriage to Mr. De Noon was Miss Alice Bate, who has a host of friends here, and spent a most delightful visit. BABY CHICKS $1.00 Per Dozen RUPERT KNOWLES ‘4, NIGHT IN HAVANA” FIFTH ANNUAL CABARET Benefit City-Recreation Park Fund FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24th Cuban Independence Day Rhumba—Ballet—Tango—Jarabe—Maracas Admission $1.00 Couple $1.50 Reservations At Chamber of Commerce and Clem Price