The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 24, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wirg Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Key Wiest Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LX. No. 47. McCALL PAYS Estimate $77,500 Of Tourist Monies | For City In January Called Meeting ‘For Tonight | To Hear Air Base Mi Matters Wweereeeee. EATH PENALTY Mrs. Olaf Soderburg And liens” _ Mrs. Clarence Thompson — Injured In Auto Crash WARMEST U. S. SPOT, Mrs. Olaf Soderburg, 1118 Flem-| The cars crashed at the corner. In the present cold spell Key West still remains at the top of the country’s list in fine weather for winter re- sorts! and Mrs. Clarence Mrs. Thompson was cut on. the’ jhead and leg and received a} number of bruises and contusions. | Victims of an automobile acci- Injuries received by Mrs. Soder- | dent which occurred at abut 1:30 Use pave: npr) been deterniried The low here in the last 24 hours was 58 with a high of | by her physician, but Mr. Soder- | Members of the joint commit- o'clock this mrning while they: burg, seen this afternoon by The | Switch Thrown On Kidnaper OF Cash Child At 11:08 Interim Catholic Ruler ‘Protested That K He Was In- | obeSeneneucmae egeneenes) nocent Of Crime Up To Last Minute As He Was Placed In Chair Lodging And Transporta- tion, $15,500 Each; To-| | tal Of $20,100 For Amusement 62. At Los Angeles it dropped to an even 50 with\a high of 66. At Miami it went down to 46 with a high of 62. There are signs of the pres- ent norther lifting today, with the weather bureau predict- ing warmer weather for the weekend and local fishermen ling street, Thompson, 540 White street, a: (Ry Associated Press) RAIFORD, Feb. 24. — Business has indeed eee in Key West and on the Florida} Keys and Key West merchants | are just realizing the jump. H In spite of the fact that in many | lines of business additional shops have come in to compete with | local merchants and “spread the| profits”, most of the shops, such! es dry goods, drug stores, curios, | Teport an increase of 15 percent end more this year. The season started badly be- cause of a devastafing summer New England States, and exceptionally warm hurricane in the weather. But it is coming along well at present. Take last month, for instance. It was a record month over the Highway but winter brings another Oversesa each month this record with it. There 560 persons Key West. That most of these} came straight through to Key! West is proven by the fact that] only 14,610 persons were check-' ed through the gates going | north. | According to conservative fig- | ures released by Hote! Commis- were 15,-| | travelling south into | KEY WEST BOOKLET VERY INTERESTING; “Have you read the little story of Key West, which is in a booklet sent out by the Chamber of Commerce there? I think that you must have been responsible for its com- ing to me. It contains such interesting and wholesome ideals for the building of a recreational community that I shall have to change my mind about Florida, although the thought of Miami and its ‘Own Whiligig’ still bores The above paragraph is an excerpt from a letter written by Harry E. Fosdick to a for- mer secretary, and was sent by the latter to Secretary S. C. Singleton, of the local cham- ber. The letter continues: “But Key West is separat- ed from it by the great water highway and there may be hope of building a city sane and fine, and shall I say, al- together lovely. “My sister and her husband are in Florida now. They go down every winter. Maybe Tl go down with them next season and if so we shall come to Key West. They might decide to buy in Key West instead of locating fur- ther north”. FDIS ST IMIS IS | Commissioners, BRINGING RESULTS Rotary ctub. |Bank, the Junior Key West as a site for the pro-; bee representing the City First National Chamber of Commerce, the Chamber of Com- merce and other organizations 8 the are called to meet the tonight o’clock in rooms of Chamber of Commerce on Flem- ing street. Object of the meeting is to take further action on the pre- sentation of the advantages of | posed naval.air base. The necessity for this action is so urgent that it is deemed neces- ‘sary for members of the joint committee to be present to take part in the discussions which will ‘naturally come before the meet- ing. Council, | 'at the home of Mr. and Mrs. B. nee Papy. Mrs. Soderburg was driving north on White street, returning home with Mrs. Thompson as her companion, and as they reached ;the corner of Division street a car driven by Jay Pohlman, of Perky, Fla., was going east on Division street, with Mr. Pohl- man driving with several others jin the car. Big Day's Fishing 1 | hicles. ceanty (te returning frm a card party Citizen, said it is believed her ‘injuries are serious, but would "not be determined until further: examination. Seen in the county jail where he was placed. by jailer Leon, Roberts after delivery by Con-; stable C. F. Pellecier, who made i the arrest, Mr. Pohlman said that) his car was struck by the other car. Both of the cars are reported | to be badly torn up and consid-, ered of no further use as ve- Bat Gets ae —— Forty-Pound Ki Kingfish Landed, Nine-Foot Shark’ And Another Thirty- | Three Pound King, Also | One of the important things to be discussed will be the advis- ability of sending a representa- tive to Washington, and the se- lection of that representative. This is another reason why the , presence of a full number of per- sons from the different organiza- tions is urgently requested to be present. TEMPERATURES sioner W. M. Taylor, the average! ‘COLONEL TAYLOR eccccccccccececccccccoes tourist spends a minimum of $5); a day. This means that in January the tourists spent $77,-) 500 in Key West. This was di- vided as follows: About $15,500 for lodging, about the sarfe for transportation, ‘which is divided up until bus fares, gas and oil! bills, repair work, and for amuse- ments and recreation, $20,150.) For food, about $21,700, and for clothing, laundry and miscellan- eous expense, about $6,200, How- ever, it must be remembered that a sizeable portion of these monies do not remain in town. With this figure for January it can readily be seen that a three- month period will bring over $200,000 to the city. Up on the Keys far-sighted persons aie at present seeking the most hkely spots for develop- ment. These spots must have! deep harbors, which will be a} protection to the hundreds of yachts that will be there, both owned by residents from the north and by visiting yachtsmen. Probably the most rapidly grow- ing key is Marathon, with a hur-; ricane harbor originally: used by boats when the F.E.C.- railroad} was built and used for a century before by fishermen and wreck-; ers. Many important and beau- tiful residences are going up at! that key. The settlement is thriv- ing with a number of stores and! amusement places. Other likely locations will be Big Pine Key, which even has} fresh water; Overseas Road and; Toll Bridge cottages on Pigeon! Key, which are continually fill- ed since its opening a week or so? ago, and probably Long Key and teh Matecumbes. } ' Lieut.-Col. DIES THIS A. M FUNERAL TO BE CONDUCTED Boston TOMORROW AFT- ERNOON Colonel Hugh K. Taylor, Towers. Funeral will be held tomorrow) KEY WEST afternoon 4 o'clock from Lopez Little Rock Funeral Home Chapel to St. Paul’s church, Rev. A. B. Dim-j Louisville mick officiating. Survivors are the widow, Mrs.’ Mpls.-St. P. Mercedes Taylor, and one daugh-' New Orleans ter, Miss Barbara Taylor. Two squads of soldiers, tery. Honorary pallbearers are Ma-: Seattle - Tampa Daltom Colonel Houston, Colonel Washington - jor-General King, General A. F. B. Edward, Colonel L. C. Brin-! ‘ton, Lieut.-Col, J. D. MacMullen, Snydos. Paramount Newsreel of PRESI- DENT ROOSEVELT IN KEY WEST at all shows tomorrow at Monroe. feb24-1t WEEKEND SPECIALS |SNAP DRAGONS, GLADIOLI, doz. __. STRUNK FLOWERS PHONE 5987 - $1.00 ‘* Abilene : L h 64, | Havana retired, died this morning at 12:30 Huron o'clock at his home in Martello! Jacksonville ; with Pensacola full colors, will attend the fun-' Pittsburgh eral, and acts as a firing squad’ st. at the grave in the city ceme-' Salt Lake City 28 i Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 hours 50 64 26 20 16 32 12 26 20 56 66 2 30 26 58 38 50 36 46 --8 40 22 .. 40 =f 86 28 42 28 26 40 32 52 28 60 18 Atlanta Buffalo Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit Galveston Kansas City Los Angeles | Miami New York Louis San Francisco 50 38 36 . 26 6 SYSSSSRSSES Williston STH ANNUAL NIGHT IN HAVANA —TONIGHT— Cuban Independence Day Habana-Madrid Club Starting At 10 o’Clock Sponsored By bunch _. 0c | KEY WEST CITY OFFICIALS Director, Eva B. Warner Recreation Division, WPA Benefit. . . Recreation and Park Fund Having the greatest day's fish-| ing sport in her life and yet not; catching a single fish was the ex-! perience of Mrs, Fred Lehmkuhl! of Le May, Missouri, out in Cap-| tain Veral Roberts’ yacht “Lil | Dot” yesterday. She hooked into a huge shark, ;estimated at 10 feet by veteran ‘Captain Roberts, and played him for 20 minutes when, exhausted, ishe handed the rod over to the captain, Captain Roberts was ‘then timed and for an hour and \five minutes he played the big ‘fellow until it crashed away roll- ling and twisting on one run and! ‘broke the line. It was hooked ‘when Mrs. Lehmkuhl caught a {grouper and that huge mouth came out of the depths to swal- _low the grouper whole. | With her were Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Duffy of Creve Coeur, Missouri, and Dan Zimmer, who brought in | mackerel, grouper, kingfish and the slashing barracuda. Captain William Wickers’ Penn- | sylvania party of Mr. and Mrs. J. |B. Cohen and, Mr. and Mrs. Wal- iter Blain landed two huge king- ifish, a 33-pounder and a 12- |pounder and had a rather large’ | fishbox full of a yellow jack, five }mackerel, one grouper and 25 ; barracuda. , Fishing was on the | “Pilot One”. | Arthur Browne, Mr. and Mrs. From Berlin, Maryland, came A. Waddill of Washington, ‘D. C. vits has been obeyed. ‘THREE APPLY FOR POSTMASTER’S JOB) y ocinted Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.— The Civil Service Commis- sion announced that Fred Joseph Dion, Sam E. Harris and Frank Delaney had made applications for examination for the Key West postmaster- ship. TSI IIIS SSS ‘nine-foot shark taking three hours to land on a 24-thread line with a No. 9 leader and also a number of mackerel, grouper, kingfish and barracuda on Captain John- ny Spencer’s yacht “Mary Ann”. Then there were Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bassett of Brockton, Mass., who hooked one tarpon but lost it; however, getting grouper, bar- | | , arrived stating that all signs point to a breakup of the norther. Then will come the delight- ful 74-78 temperature with warm trade winds blowing over the island. Yachtsmen may continue their cruising probably Mon- day with the Charter Boat Fleet ready to sail the same day and commercial fisher- men also preparing to go out. VA ALLELE ELLA ____ NEWLYWEDS FLY OVER TO NASSAU _Not A Fish For Missourian > =. = = CURRY DELIGHTED WITH TRIP (Special to The Citizen) NASSAU, B. H., Feb. 24— Stepping out of one of the fa- mous flying clipper ships yester- day, Mr. and Mrs. Allen E. Curry, 703 Eaton street, Key West, Fla., to bask on the coral beaches of this tropical isle. Mr, and Mrs. Curry said they were delighted with the flight over the superb panorama of the | Florida Keys and emerald isles dotting the Gulf Stream waters, which the passengers can see |¥.-R. Strickland to.land a big| “out ‘ie plane. i The visitors have planned their visit for two weeks and _ will leave for Key West March 8. ‘MANY LAID OFF racuda and jacks on Capt. Henry, Weatherford’s “Lucky Strike”. Fishing with Captain Ernest Pierce, Sr., on Tuesday, were Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore Jones of Chi- cago. They landed two sting rays, one of which weighed 200 pounds, and the other 150 pounds, it was said. Many other varieties were caught during the trip. Mr. and Mrs. Gilmore state that they OF WPA WORK SOME SKILLED HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO PAY OF LABORERS B. Curry Moreno, area super- visor WPA, said today that ap- proximately 100 men were laid off from the different projects following orders regarding aliens and those who had _ received were greatly delighted with the: their first citizenship papers. day’s fishing. A nice catch of a large amber- the payrolls of the 1 about 25 men on WPA who There are jack, 12 barracuda, one red snap-' have made no effort to obey the per, two mackerel and 14 grouper injunctions regarding making of was brought ‘in by Capt. Saunders on the yacht Bra affidavits Patrick their citizenship, and they are to be dropped from the rolls until! with his party of R. W. Boiling, | You and Your Friends... * ARE INVITED TO ATTEND THE OPENING of the Beautiful, Air-Conditioned RAINBOW ROOM and RAINBOW LOUNGE LA CONCHA HOTEL TOMORROW, FEBRUARY 25 Dinner. . . 6 te 9:00 P. M. Rainbow Lounge. . . Open 9:30 P. M. ’Till Presenting—LARRY SOTHERN’S ORCHESTRA “Music In The ‘Sothern’ Manner” DINNER and DANCE MUSIC For Reservations Phone 160 A. G. POWELL, Manager 'Phone 177 with reference to . the order regarding their affida- It was also said that 74 work- men, including skilled and semi- skilled men have been reduced to the pay of laborers, due to cer- tain classes of work being com- HEAD OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH until a new pope is named to succeed the late Pius XI, Eugenio | Cardinal Pacelli (above), 62, | is an interim ruler called H “Chamberlain”. | (eS Cowcewewsewconsecces LA SEMANA ALEGRE PROGRAM | Ceweccccsceteces . Running at present Key West's gala La Semana Alegre or in Week of Joy, celebrating Cuba’s | Independence Day is the Junior Chamber of Commerce Hobby Show with favorites for prizes being Nina Calle. shells from all over the world and the Santa Maria ship model built by E. L. Patterson. New exhibits which have been added are Key West Model Airplane parts assembly display, display of tropical woods by Troop 52, a 60-year-old colle tion of Sioux Indian moccasins, tomahawks, and pouch bags from Ralph Boyden, coconut boat and {Civil War sword by Wilbert | Woehrke. Hours are from 8-6 daily at the Old Post Office Build- ing. Show will close March 2. Opening tomorrow is the an- nual Key West Flower Show- by the Garden Club and Tree Guild, the most beautiful collection of | tropical native exotic flowers, in . th state, with most of the blooms from Key West. Show opens at 3 p. m. and will close | Monday night. Indefinite as yet it is expected ‘that there will be repeat perform- ances of the Key West Historical Pageant, which delightfully mir- rors the life of swarthy pirates, fierce Indians, intreped wrecking masters and night life of Old and ' Present Key West. This will be at Bayview Park. Annual Night In Havana Cab- aret will be tonight at 10 o’clock. It will be held at Habana-Ma- drid with a half score of nations represented in the numbers. The Key West Boat Club will present the thrilling and reckless sAtlantic Aquatic Stunt Team, which makes stunts for national movie films, in outboard stunting | Sunday at Yacht Basin, 2 p. m. HIGHER GERMAN TAXES ‘pleted. These men will remain: in the class of laborers until other projects offer the oppor-' BERLIN.—Higher | income tax- es are slated for Germany’s Franklin Pierce McCall went to his death today ing he was innocent of the kidnap-killing of James Bailey Cash, Jr. and assert- ing he had been made a |martyr. The 22-year-old minister’s son was strapped the electric chair shortly after ll a.m. Sheriff D. C. Cole- man of Miami, threw the switch at 11:08, and Mc- Call was pronounced dead at 11:16. Walking to the chair with \a firm unhurried step, Mc- |Call calmly read rom the handwritten mantis while protest- into attendants fastenec the straps to his legs. “Judas Iscariot sold Christ for 30 pieces of | sil- ver’, he said. “It would be interesting to know how much someone got in this case.” He added he did not be- lieve int capital punishment “because it does not deter from crime” but preferred death to another year of “unjust imprisonment.” REVIEW OF CASE McCall kidnaped the _ five- year-old Cash child from his par ents’ home at Princeton, south of Miami, last May. The boy was killed, McCall said, when he used a handkerchief to prevent an out ery. Early Decision Arrested a few days later, he admitted the crime, and said he wanted the $10,000 ransom to get “some of the better things of life”. He led federal and state officers to a thicket where he had placed the little boy’s body. The ransom money was recovered. McCall pleaded guilty to kid- naping for ransom, which carrie: a death sentence in Florida. He was not tried for the Cash child’s death. A death warrant was signed last July, but it was revoked a few days later when McCall, through Jawyers retained by his family, appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court's decision of the case came down in less than a month after attorneys’ arguments were heard on De- cember 13. Irregularities Waived | Justices said McCall was given jconsideration outside the court jrules in his appeal. Justice Bu- j ford wrote: “The transcript of record here |does not comply with the rules of tunity of being returned to their ‘wealthy. According to govern-|this court. There was no motion ‘kind of work, which is said to be ment releases this is being done| for a new trial in the lower court, carpentering. PRESCRIPTIONS Ce Registered Pharmacists ‘GARDNER'S PHARMACY. “The Rexall Store” 534 Duval St., jto level off the classes. ‘Ahern Funeral Home: Joseph L. Plummer Vice-President | AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 22211 i Miami, Fia.| |no exceptions taken during the |proceedings in the lower court, ‘and no bill of exceptions pre- sented or settled. Therefore, all of the transcript could be strick- (Continued on Page Four) Paramount Newsreel of PRESI- ROOSEVELT IN KEY WEST at all shows tomorrow at feb24-1t | i | ‘DENT EXCELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS-’-FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES-$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY TOUR..PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124