The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 6, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire 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 West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 6, 1939 OFFICERS CHECK Interesting Old Fort Jefferson , AUTO ILACENSES Draws. Scores Yachts Yearly PRICE FIVE CENTS This Year Bonefish Were | Found In Key West Waters VICTOR MOFFAT DIED LAST NIGHT INTERMENT TO TAKE PLACE IN ASHEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA VOLUME LX. No. 55. Estimate Visiting Yachtsmen Spun $240 Yea coed NEWS FLASHES | (By Associated Press) | Pecccvevccnccevccnaceoes BURGOS.—Spanish Rebels will | probably cooperate with General } Quesada as he has “shaken off | the last ties with Russia”, it was/| } announced today following the seizure of the government, at Ma- drid by Quesada yesterday from the deserting Negrin. The Rebels are but waiting for the quelling of | COLORED MAN WAS DROWNED IN SUB BASE {ALFRED HURT. COOK On) DIED LAST NIGHT BOARD YACHT, FELL FROM| DECK OF VESSEL EARLY! | SUNDAY MORNING FUNERAL SERVICES ARE AN-, NOUNCED FOR TO. | Alfred Hurt, colored cook on| oe | the yacht Loretto, berthed in the ‘submarine base, fell from the} (By) Aneucintud Scone). ‘deck of the vessel at 12:15 Sunday} Word received today from FORT LAUDERDALE, March morning and was drowned. The | Asheville, N. C., announced the vessel is owned by E. V. Rich-/ death in that city last night of ara | Victor Moffat of Key West. Mrs Sree ekes __ | Moffat was at the bedside when Immediately after the accident.\he passed away. Captain R. Neal of the vessel,; Mrs. Moffat’s two daughters ‘and the engineer, Max Lucas, as-. Miss Edith and Miss Anna Belle sisted by the watchman, William Moffat, sister, Mrs. A. E. Wood- ‘Cullingford, and several others, burn, and aunt, Miss Isabelle got to work with grappling Duffy will leave this afternoon irons, and at 12:45 the body was,for Asheville where funeral ecovered. services will be held Wednes- Ambulance from the Lopez Fun-' 4 ;eral Home had been summoned | to the scene, and Hurt was placed si ede co ARTHUR C. LUND Con-' ‘Williamson Lands Five Beauties; Big Bull Dol- phin; Two 20-lb. Mut- tons; 24-Ib. Cobia |Dr. Mudd’s Prison; Fishing Grounds; Work Beautiful; struction Began 1846 Most Beautiful Cruising Grounds Of Country; Excellent Yacht Basin Here; Good Anchorages Inspectors J. S. Dixon and E.; D. Blount, of the State Motor: Vehicle Department, arrived [ast night and this morning were busily engaged in thelr work of checking on delinquent purchas-' ers of tags and those owners who! : P “heir & sandy strip called Garden Key. | pare improper; (fags: (on Laue and once built to protect the two! a piace i¢;.| Passes into the Gulf of Mexico—, £ Sauna woe ee a famed also as the prison of Dr.) zen it was pointed out that the Sa 1 Mudd, wh i the beck-| the Com: satic dichards indie ._| Visit of the inspectors was expect- ares ‘ > rn ree Sruier Booth |6.—Arthur Galen Lund, Sr., 52, alist “Si pai Gbeters cect Yi ed daily, and those who were i: an 2 Cube Lincoln— | deputy collector of customs at 7 di Thi ae 1.| using cars for hire, which were page ae a! 5 eaflad. toUAticn y and''cense, costing $1 a hundred- es Wai ak = | night of a heart attack. He came F : | weight, would be checked. ae — eal —— = It was learned this morning . Nearby is one of the best fish-' here in 1935 from Kye West. The up By i vunti! J . ; igi He has just put $100 geccling) in an interview today censored ae ceakiy CHES tae) ibe About thirty miles to the east is Mr. Lund is survived by his wife into. his tanks. During his four | Cana : sane gta | with | pay the costs of storage'and oth- “ 1 4 oe nib pend a in canRerOUs Fa er 8 j er sums incidental t@ the’activity. Pl@se of quicksands and rough) There have been sold in Key water, where Key West commer-' i 1 | | | \ | i | Old Fort Jefferson, situated on’ Some idea of the amount of left by the yachting trade in Key West may F. E. Williamson, president of N.Y.C.R. Casa Marina fishermen Saturday : ‘ . won the envy of all money which is be obtained from examining the by returning with five covet figures one yacht owner gave The Citizen at the time he left; bonefish. They were all big beauties, weighing from seven to ight ds jiece. Miss Gladys the Basin recently for an East eight pounds ap’ s . who Coast trip. Jenkins, of New York. brought in bonefish Friday, also four sons... caught more Saturday. Previow Interment will be held in the Moffat family plot in that city. weeks stay he figures that for| French leaders were second rat- ly, there was little bonefishing ers compared with such as Hitler: r. Lund was a native of amusements and _ transportation he spent $120. Food ran about $50 a week. With other items! such as salaries paid his captain and crew, both of whom notor-|Germany is weaker than at the| iously spend most of their money in the port in which they are laying, and repair labor needed he summed the total at $350 for the month. Say, that weekly he ‘spent a quarter of that amount about $90. According to figures by the W.P.A. office which is oper- ating the Key West Yacht Basin from January of 1938 to June, a five months period, there were roughly 270 yachts visiting Key West port and staying in town from a few days to a week and even to a month. That that, taking the $90 weekly as a unit of spending of each yacht, there was $24,300 spent locally duifing the season: = Yachtsmen get friendly advice locally around the Basin and the W.P.A. operated Basin charges no fees for dockage. With no dock- age fees, naturally, the usual fresh water to wash salt off var- nish is not supplied, but may be purchased at two cents a gallon. The docks are much larger than. those found at other yacht- ing centers, and the water is about 20 feet at dockside. Its color is fascinatingly beautiful in blue and green shades. All yachtsmen coming here agree that it is the most beautiful and best yacht harbor on the Coast. A half mile long break- water protects the Basin. In an area from 40-60 miles among other places of _ interest, the following: Old Fort Jeffer- imprisoned for setting the broken leg of the murderer of Abraham Lincoln. The Gulf Stream with the only coral reef on American coasts where lurk huge fish in the shelter of the rocks. The Bayside with its innumerable blue channels cutting into pro. tecting banks, white beaches and delving through the middle of the keys where chief sport is from catching giant 200 pound jewfish and tarpon. There is a protected inside route area where boats drawing three feet may {and Mussolini, but that Germany {and Italy are deceived if they think that England and France ‘are afraid to fight. He said that | time of the world war with Eng- !land’s navy and France’s army | inferior to none in the world. | INDIA.—Mahatma Gandhi is | very weak today from his protest | fasting, with a higher blood pres-| he cts .sure. He gets dizzy when {rises up in bed from the effe: |of the hunger fast. Gandhi is protesting the non-initiation of constitutional reforms in India. WASHINGTON.—Senator Al- j ben Barkley believes that the 350 | billion dollar defense bill will go | through the Senate late today. means | The bill provides for 6,000 planes. | #uron | A naval bill, while going through | the House, has not as yet gone {to the, Senate. . BOSTON.—Throughout Massa- |chusetts today the AFL union is laying an embargo on CIO op- erated shops. AFL claims that CIO raided its ranks. CIO claims that AFL is “selfish”. | \WASHINGTON.—The “peace” meeting between the AFL and CIO truce committees called by President Roosevelt will take place tomorrow at the White House with President Roosevelt, and Secretary of Labor Perkins to ‘ greet the committees. East | “MARION, Ohio. — Politeness | was costly for Milford Schmidt of this city. He broke his arm at the ; back from the dinner table. | secce L | ee | A real man’s sport in the OCCC0COCCCOCCOOOSFOOODOOOOTSCOOSSSODOES® MAN'S SPORT IN | while at the same time last year | there had been sold 1625. It was | sold this season would reach 1700. TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest Station- - Jast night last 24 hours , Abilene 38 70 | Atlanta | Boston _ | Buffalo {Charleston _.. | Chicago ! Denver ' Detroit Galveston Havana 8 46 44 4 38 34 40 72 18 84 40 83 83 68 12 80 22 84 52 70 64 62 32 52 44 82 16 16 | Jacksonville i Kansas City . | KEY WEST _ | Little “Rock __ | Los Angeles . | Louisville |Miami —.. Mpils.-St. P. New Orleans _ |New york Pensacola , Pittsburgh St. Louis | Salt Lake City 'San Francisco Seattle Tampa e Washington - ; Williston _. 14 46 40 66 60 12 MAKES TEETH FOR DOG | LONDON.—A dentist city completed\a set in this , teeth for Jumbo, an Irish terrier, | son where Dr. Samuel Mudd was | ¢!bow as he lifted his wife’s chair which for years has been a noted | rat catcher. - | Fish At Slack Tide; Use Whole Fish; Catch Bigger Ones| eee ‘FISHING WATERS AROUND KEY WEST bait it with a whole fish, a whole of false’ West to date 1540 tags of all kinds, ‘ial fishermen fish huge schools} Camicil Bluffs, Towa, and -enter- of kingfish. : Interesting Sights | ' through the channel nearby he is ‘struck by the sight of twisted 'masses of blackened steel, once ja coaling dock, destroyed around! 11902 by a hurricane. A_ large | building inside the Fort protects |above the outer walls of fortifi- | cations and were an easy target | for old men of war through some | pre-Civil-War engineer’s lack of tactical knowledge. } | The Fort itself was started in! | 1846 but never finished. Govern- | ment speeded construction in | 1861 with the Civil War ahead. | In 1871 it was finally abandoned land is at present under super- |vision of the National Park ; Service, which is attempting to | make it’a tourist mecca. The Fort is hexagonally shap- jed. Four of the sides. are 476 | feet long and two are 324 feet. | Around the moat it is a half-mile ‘and there is a seven-acre parade |ground in the center of which ‘grow oleanders, gumbo limbo,’ | guava, date palm, coconut palm, |tamarind, and other tropical | trees and shrubs. Crossing Moat | Walking on the bridge entrance | across the moat one can see on |the right a cell ventilator, the |edges of which were worn down by a _ prisoner who escaped | through it and swam to Logger- jhead Key. To the left past the ; entrance is a museum with many {rare and beautiful marine shells {and specimens. Beyond this is one of the cells where Dr. Mudd : was imprisoned. Above the main entrance on the second terrace is another cell in which Dr. Mudd was kept. He wrote that here he was tortured, given old vege- tables and little drinking water.' The ingenious dotcor dug into the floor with a sharp instrument and made a little canal at one end of which he dug a_ wide basin. In this way he collected the rain drippings from the roof. | Not a foot away from Mudd’s: canal is another and the Doctor| probably advised another prison- jer to do the same as there are marks of a cell partition between ‘shadow effects. ed the customs service West, October 21, 1918. at Key He re- estimated that the number to be When one approaches the Fort| mained actively engaged in the service here until he was trans- ferred to Port Everglades 1935. He was apparently in good health, it was said this morning, and retired last night about 11 o'clock. He was suddenly strick- ‘en after retiring and 1 o’clock this morning Clifford G. Hicks, in member of the family, received a! telgram announcing his death. Mr, Lund, familiarly known to his host of friends as “Doc”, is in the vehicle and rushed to the Marine hespital, where methods of resuscitation were started. At 1:30, Dr. Sidney Gholsen stated that the man was dead. Peace Justice Franklin Aren- berg, as coroner ex-officio, was called and summoned the follo ing as members of the coroner’s jury: Benny Pierce, Basil Tynes, Harold Cruz, John Sands, Ralph DuBrueil and Jose Espinosa. The body was viewed and the jury met again this morning 10 i o'clock. survived by the widow, Mrs. Lur-' lene Lund, and four sons, Galen, Frank, Richard and Clayton Lund. munication arches. Sun playing on the arches forms beautiful Original design called for 450 guns but these many were never installed. There ar about 15 guns still within the Fort, each weighing about 25 tons. Remains of a telegraph line to Key West is found. It was used up to 40 years ago. er’s wife, is buried. Another grave-like structure is a monu- ment to Dr. Joseph Simon Sniter, surgeon in charge of the Fort during the historical yellow fever epidemic. Various colors of the brick are due to different kinds of brick used. It was difficult to always get the northern brick first used. . Ruins Of Fort Baker On the second floor of the bat- teries many of the Fort’s con- tingent lived. Remains of Fort Baker is an interesting structure with brick work on the roof of the ovens marvelously intricate. Ruins of the servants’ quarters, the kitchens and outhouses are Only grave; ; within the Fort is that in which ‘Mrs. Wm. Italy, lighthouse keep- Add to death by drowning The jury at 11 o'clock this morning in the office of Sheriff K. O. Thompson, brought in a verdict of death by accidental | drowning. i here about The body is to be sent to the address of the widow 4140 Thalia street, New Orleans, La. and will be taken on the Cuba to- morrow evening to Tampa and expressed ‘from there. NEW YORK PARKS HEAD IN KEY WEST Robert Moses, commissioner of parks in New York State, who was largely responsible for the establishment of excellent and widespread recreational facilities for children, a program which came to a head about two years ago, is at the Casa Marina with Mrs. Moses. Mr. and Mrs. Moses a week. will’ be They were ‘at the Casa last year. due to vandalism. Nearby is a} “hot shot” oven into one end of which cannon balls were dropped heated red hot and brought out; the other end. These balls were fired at ships to set them afire.; Sewerage system was based on: tidal action, but didn’t work and the moat received most of the: waste. MOST REVE4/, BEAUTY UNADORNED- Mr. Moffat was president of the Saunders Wholesale Grocery Company of Key West, and two years ago ill health forced him to resign. He left the city and went to Asheville, where he re- mained until the end came. He was a member of the B. P. O. Elks, American Legion other organizations. and PURIM FESTIVAL | IS CELEBRATED «: PROGRAM RENDERED LAST EVENING AT LOCAL | SYNAGOGUE Purium Festival was celebrated by the Jewish colony in Key West with a program ‘rendered last evening at the synagogue in connection with the conducted by Rabbi L. Lehre who recently arrived from Ashe- ville, N. C., having been assigned to preside over the local con- gregation. The following is the program as rendered: Opening Song, “Hatikvov”, (America), by congregation Opening Prayer by Appel. An Kalouhanoo tion. “The First Creed” Appel. “What Is True? Donald Pear “The Le Jack Appe “The Second Creed” nette Weiner. Pappirc Greenstein. ape For the Guilty” Donald Pearlman. ction of songs by Rabbi Jack by congrega- by Betty Honesty” of Purim” by by An- by by Jack WW B¥ Annette Weiner “The Legend of Lights” stein. Prayer” by by Donald Pearlman. A speech by Dr. Daniel Law- ‘rence, N. Y. | Adon Olem by congregation. by Vivian |; around Key West. Mi kill, of Philadel- phia Mr. t ought t g yesterday with kill and Philip Powers, ot in Jakie Keys’ Legion, n a beautiful big bull » 23 pounds. It of the est brought into Mari this sea- » other dolphin were in Gi burgh, tolphin on ia dock of Springfield Fred H. O'Hara in Capt. Brad ugnt in a com weighing »lson b y a, With Hemingway Wiley, American min at the Casa iley and Mrs of Indianapdlt Gr Fila. are Wil ent Sat Willi and Mr Harold G, McMas: id Mrs. L. G. Ryan re out after tar omez last eve- ht in four beau 35 to 40 ter account- and Mr lung from McN ihree of them n one Sidny Goldsmith, Jaylona Beach, and rd yacht Luck pt. Henry Wea caught barracuda, and a small second visit p a by the jolds mitt are good fishing friend f toberts on the out F. B. Sarg- N. H., Dr. Ed nice, Fla. and »y, New York, for fi Mr. Sargen ailfish measuring 6 inches and weighing 30 The party also boated a 14-pound mutton dolphin, albacor« Col. Shelb. ail but lost it when hi un Ve Col, Frank Shelt t caught a feet four pounds Dus poude thre il shark. i M. A. Huscher, Rochester, and C. D. Adams, Palmyra, N fished aboard Capt. Hent therford’s Lucky Strike, ar grouper, nd yellow jacks. n, Portchester, 1 Misses Jean and Oi Springdale, Conn., fisi Capt. Thos. Moore of Pirates Cov shi a muttonfish, a y jack, two grouper, three bar racuda and two mackerel. At Pirates Cove Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hutchin- sou of Lawrenceburg, Indiana and Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Reock of Cincinnati, fishing at Pirates Cove with Capt. Earl McQuai on the Vellela, landed thr jacks, @ bonita, two mackerel and two grouper. Dr. and Mrs. William M. Dy of Trenton, N. J., and Mr. and Mrs. John Adams of Toror Canada, fishing with Capt. E McQuaide on the Vellela at P rates Cove, brought in four ba racuda, two grouper and {iv muttonfish. Prize of the week at Pira Co went to John Adar. Toronto, Canada, who, fist iwith Capt. Earl McQuaide, | (Continued on Page Four) journey through this paradise of famed fishing of Key West] keys and find tropical herons) waters is fishing for the giant and ducks flying out from keys | 959.490 pound jewfish who skulk nearby in this little travelled |. he bi h " country. No Man’s Land where jin the big shoals around the ree! the kingfish fleet bring in thou- | and around piling. sands of pounds of the fish daily.| Many jewfish catches are Kingfish weighing as much as made right from the docks around 85 pounds are brought in every | Key West as the big fellows like year. to hang around piling and any mullet or the tail of a crawfish. | ‘he canals. | Roof Interesting i Crawfish are the jewfish’s fa-' Original Nails Still There | One communication arch shows vorite food. On the inside of the outer walls} the labor expended and beauty You'll find the line go out/are iron railings. If the garrison; of design accomplished. The arch! | |slowly. Let it go. Three, six,|was stormed the soldiers could is curved to the left. The roof | nine yards out. Then strike! jrun planks on the railings and'is curved concavely from the "UNASHAMED’ And you'll think you're hooked fire on the troops within the! floor and where the curve of the A ROMANCE IN THE NUDE BEAUTY UNAFRAID- racuda, ANGLERS CLUB HERE FISHING into the bottom and the bottom| walls, Power magazines inside! roof meets the curve of the side = suddenly came to life and moved! the Fort are of long-leaf yellow walls there is perfect joining. All eS : off. Four men are usually re-|pine and excellently preserved.| work was done by hand by Irish For cruising and fishing the other sort of protected spot with |quired to hold one of these giant Original square-cut nails have) bricklayers. Black iron light- Keys, Florida Bay, Gulf Stream|deep water. One time while! jewfish. Sometimes they will go|been left as they were. Wood/house is on the eastern wall. and reef is a never ending cleaning fish off the stern of the/into one of the big caves running |inlay work is marvelous, circular | Walls inside the lighthouse are of , source of delight to the, yachts- ‘boat in which this writer was in| beneath the g and then one| roof being of hexagonal , lines, | wood and covered with scores of men. jthe four foot water of the Gulf|must tap>the line, run a can up! beautifully fitted. Everything autographs, many of them old. jDock a big fellow reared right|and down it, or pull it suddenly | was done to protect the powder, Birds nest on the moat in which ee ah Sr ibaa fia a spec Pair Angee ae eran with the wood keeping out damp-! are now big fish, but no more of _—_—_ \rifie sp! r the remains 0} , i foot | i ‘i i MOSCOW.—A surgeon in this|the dressing and the big barra-ifight's on again! When you!lord jack wan, nt * 100%) aie Dig sharks Kept there in olden | city was sentenced to a year at/cuda which had been thrown'finally get the cavernous mouth | Pecans | “Bartacks within-the Fort cual hard labor for leaving a towel overboard. jand bear head raised alongside On the’ firing platform of each | quarter ten companies, 1,000 men. | two feet long, in the body of aj Around the reef and in the | the boat you will’ have had a real pildginie: as Gre gun sections are| Ons cistern was iprobatily. feel man he had operated on and who ‘channels are certain deep holes ‘fight and you'll be tired so tired. called, es gckia tacks pai for ‘a iwaiee dungecn.? Thistone! died Jater as a result. {surrounded . by solid; walls in; ‘Jewfish have more Massachusetts. Floor of six-inch | is just deep enough to prevent a peculiar |which the jewfish may be found habits than most fish. One of the tas | ad : on a i . eS A shale, with iron gun tracks set}man sitting down and high i Hi jeight and ten at a_ time. ‘The most in terrane oe etenne ee ae, te ‘Seal, Below the estugi to: prevent his standing Joseph L. Plummer Vice-President in PLAN MEETING IN CITY AND FISHING THROUGH MARCH 10 ohn dtsone 6 si Twenty members of the {Anglers Club of the N. Y. Ath- sletig, Association, arrived at the oa last evening. They f ENTIRE PRODUCTION § PHOTOGRAPHED AT THE » TOWEL IN STOMACH MODERN GARDE of EDEN. ~OLYMPIC FIELDS- PETER 5.PCOMVILE CAMP DIRECTOR ere for;a meeting and for e:,, fishing, and will remain thropgh.the tenth. A few more are.expected today. | Those already here include Mr. and Mrs. Eugene McK. Froment, | Messrs. F. A. SansomeJ Lee Mc- ;Canless, Robert Levers, Andrew ,H. Gerndt, Richard Hillman, | Harry Bailey, Nils G. Kral, Julien | jbest time to catch them is at a feed. A little fish or a crawfish | emake skal: cudeimas, Pines} un. | oo higt ° i opines case 7 | up. ‘ eee beaten) Sane seine eh Nearby, in camouflage | from the terreplein (upper roof, These sights keep yacht own-! OPENS TOMORROW AT. THE | J. Soubiran, H. W. Ryan, Walter stir themselves: to. feed. Drop a/with the ; walls, waits one|f Fort) run into them. Cistern/ers and their guests at the Fort!| PALACE THEATRE J. Ryan, Dr. Thomas’ Baker, | . | quarter inch or more line with a‘of the big fellows. About two | Openings are revealed into whcih | for days at a time. There is also 1Q¢.15¢ 15¢-25¢e Joseph McCann, Edward F. Cos- AMBULANCE SERVICE large shark and a short length of feet away, the mouth’ will open | buckets eould be dropped to se-) a passenger servcie boat and liv-' 4. Children Admitted—Uniess 2tiff, Herbert Hagan, L. J. Dur- Phone 22211 Miami, Fla. leader attached to prevent his'and the little fish will shoot in—| cure water to douse the hot guns. | ing accommodations at the Fort,' Accompanied By Parents in, W. C. Graham, Walter f ignawing the line through and impelled by a strong suction. |Behind the casemates are com- | established out of Key West. | | Loomer and John H. Dessing. i EXCELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS--FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES-$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY TOUR..PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124