The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 13, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has th most equable climate in thd country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenhej ry Wrst Cittzrn THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. ie eee Es Ee KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1939 vi ‘OL UME LX. No. 61. Stirrup Trial Set For PRICE FIVE CENT 600 Pound Jewish Landed Low Figures Of Air Base ¥ __ 'MIKE KING SUFFERS| [BRAIN CONCUSSION Tuesday Of NextWeek® 7 Amen Drove Car In Accident In ‘ewww ee eee.| ee - ‘LOWERS HIS OWN Which Eikior Girl Was, OVERSEAS RECORD Killed; Garcia Gambling | cycle rider, Trial March 23 tiding a bike over the Over- Bs seas Highway yesterday for the second straight year, broke his last year’s record by 57 minutes. Last year he made the 169 miles in 13 hours and seven minutes. This year he came through in 12 hours and 10 minutes, which isn’t a great deal of difference but shows that he feels a little more at home over the bautiful arch- es and viaducts of the High- Virginia's Trial of Fernando Stirrup on ‘ss of manslaughter will be st of the cases to go before Court which will con- » March 21. > involves culpability of Stirrup in the auto accident a few months ago at the corner of White and Division streets in ae: and ere injured, , ng. Raul B. Garcia, who is with operating a gaming room in the rear of La Conga N t Club, corner of Fitzpatrick and Front streets, wi » tried March 23. Garcia was sted February 27 on a charge of running a game of craps. ! Order Blanche Cervante: | champion ii: | Kenny Carlile, | to aeweye charged “Carlile left the Miami Daily News building on the trip down. He is at present in training for a European jaunt and bicycle races in the “Ould Country’. Accom- | panying Carlile was Louis Stasks on another wheel. } While here, the two men talked with local bicycle en- thusiasts in an effort to ar- range a club of riders, who would join bicyclists of Mi- ami in arranging exchange trips between cities. Messrs. Staske and Carlile left for Miami on the aftar- noon bus yesterday with their bicycles packed aboard. were given Friday from state attorney Geor asst. state attorney Lance ter to shut tightly the lid on gambling in Monroe county. The sheriff's office had previously made the Garcia arrest. W. J. High who is eee with operating a motor vehicle while the under influence of in- toxicating liquors will be tried March 23. Case of Frank Torres, who is charged with carrying concealed BPI MI IMS Ss “ON OUTER RIDGE} ll be heard Monday, March The coral reef mentioned in the press dispatch from Wash- ington in Saturday’s Citizen which may be dredged out if a War Department request is suc- | cessful is in Northwest Channel | between Lighted Buoy 1 and the/| Northwest Bar Light. The reef is located on what! mariners know. as the outer} ridge. $27,000 of improvements} will greatly increase safety of| passage of ships through the} channel with a 20-foot draft to; be easily carried throughout. No work will be done on the jetties, | however. | Many ships now save the trip - around Tortugas by cutting through the Northwest Channel. Stress Importance Of Yacht. Race As Tourist Attraction West-{only by frantic work, with the! Havana Yacht © held last! pump going constantly, that the weekend w ed by mem- schooner made any headway at} of the local Yacht Club to-jall. This fact accounts for the} as additional feature to! reason the Halligonian was un- attract tourists to this city. In able to hold a true course, and| view of the successful race stag-| was delayed in arriving here. | ed, efforts are now underway by, Another boat, orignially sched- the club to arrange for similar}uled for the race from Havana,} races next year With that in arrived here yesterday afternoon. mind, E. C. Robison, chairman of | It was the Josphine the 2nd, cap- the St. Petersburg Yacht Club,; tain Lars Jacobs, chartered from guests of the Key West Club over!a Mr. Penzald of Detroit, Mich.| the end, is making all ar-, This bot had “blown a sail” | rangements for full co-operation’ coming from St. Petersburg, and} aiming towards one or more races, the captain was undecided as to; next year. entering the race when the other; It is felt} that united efforts of boats left Friday. The wind be-; all yacht Clubs of the Southeast-{ came less strong by Saturday ; ern area should be pooled in in-; morning, €@nd determining that! viting northern yacht owners to; his repaired sail would hold, the! Florida waters another. year. captain decided to come over. No! An interesting sidelight on the hes records were announced. race divulged to The Citizen to-! Time records of the Blitzen} cerned the experinces of and Wakiva, with 59 minutes, 28) ew of the Haligonian, cap-;seconds handicap allowed the’ tain H. J. Bureau,. The crew numbered five. On the r burgh to Havar opened _ slightly out watches rinhindi Court Cy Sant} B. Curry said that names of jury- men for the sessions next week would be drawn from the jury box Saturday with appointments probably Moni morning and court bein jay with the Stirrup Case. PERMIT ISSUED FOR BUILDING Permit for construction of a frame building at the corner of Leon and Washington streets was ranted Leo B. Haskins. The building will be 19x30 on 3 90x93. Mr. Haskins re- cently marricd to Miss Mary ton Importance of the Key ber day an wee from St. Peters- a forward seam and pumping-} were necessary. With no chance to repair the! in Havana, and bucking a! a scant two minutes and 28 ggc-! onds. Running time for the Wakiva was eight hours, 55 min- utes and 26 seconds; for the Blit-) zen, nine hours, 51 minutes and| 158 seconds. | Detroit sea’ from Havana to Key Jest, the crew of the Hlligonian was foreed to stand one-half hour pump-manning watches all way to this city from Havana. ‘The choppy sea opened the seam more as time elapsed, and it was the} Wakiva, The Blitzen, captain R. J. Reyn-} olds, pulled anchor for Miami; yesterday afternoon, as did the! captain Harkness Ed-! wards. Other yachts in the race/ planned to leave for Miami to- day. SPEEDING CAR LEFT ROAD NEAR GEIGER'S CREEK: | JERRY KING ALSO RECEIV-| ED INJURIES Mike King, head waiter at one: of the Key fishing camps, is in| i | 1 | i } | i | At Bahia Honda By Sobel One Of “eae Sportsmen Catches; Get Eight Dol-' phin In Day; Hook 300- Pound Shark A jewfish estimated to have a local hospital today, suffering! weighed around 600 pounds was} from concussion of the brain and brought in by Mr. two or three broken ribs, as a re- Sobel and! sult of an accident Saturday aft- ;8uide Ralph Dominguez in the ernoon when he and his com-) Sloop Muchachita fishing well panion, Jerry King, also employ-| out in the bay off Bahia Honda | ed at the same camp, were driv- | Friday. ing from Key West to report for: work. The car was traveling at a high brought to scales rate of speed along the highway | Pounds. Mike King.; jtbeds arms around its when the, driver, lost control, and the car, owned by S. E. Downard of Sugar Loaf Key, pitched over the shoulder! of the road and into muck and | SPortsmen | | Although the | Was not taken, actual the and was 80 Two men couldn’t put belly, so between weight large was it. It was ‘seven and eight feet long and is * considered one of jewfish the largest catches in water at a point near Geiger’s, M@ny years. Creek. Jerry King, driver of the car, lacerations on his left hand and ‘numerous othr bruises. Pritchard’s ambulance was call- ed to the scene, and brought the ;men back to this city. The sheriff's office reported , that the men may be held to an-, The large monster from which not related to the ‘delicious steaks are obtained re- received severe Wired six men to haul it over a form alongside the bridge at the C.C.C. camp on West Summer- land Key. When it struck it towed easily the 28 foot sloop with heavy anchor down. Bait ;used was a cut yellowjack and grouper. On charter boat ‘ “Lamb”, Capt. | swer to alleged reports that they | austin Roberts fished the party | were driving while under influ- | ‘of D. A. Kane, Winnepeg, Canada ence of OT a ia ‘SPONGE SALE HELD TODA \ and Harry Sothern, Key West or- jchestra leader and reported a nice catch of eight dolphin, rather , junsual, an albacore and mackerel. Two sailfish hooked but both lost. and two errors. W. J. and Mrs. Howell, Mich. many were Jennie Casinski, and Walter Roffle, head was, Two hits’ ‘MORE CARYSFORT CAND LEP EPOWER setsiekiians FROM ! CANDLEPOWER TO 190,000 Tender Ivy wiil leave tomor-' row morning, stop at Sombrero; | Light to discharge material and! equipment and proceed to Carys-, ‘fort Light to modernize the equipmenf there. 130,000 to 190,000 will be made by the installation of an electrical system consisting of two kero-! motor | sene-electric generators, driven lens, and 1,000-watt lamp. The system was formerly of the , Incandescent oil vapor type ‘with revolving handwound clockwork. Working party assigned for,the project consists of William Vas- sie, Leroy Sawyer, Harold Thompson, Paul Atwell, Wilbur erts, John N. Roberts, Carl Rom, Harry Shaw and Ray Matco- viteh. Carysfort Reef is northeast of Key West. GATO FUNERAL 104 miles Funeral services were conduct- ed on Saturday afternoon for Mrs. Nettie Gato at the home, 1327 Duval street, by Rev. P. J. Kelle- A smali sponge sale was held G Snyder and J. Jaglay fished bef S.J., of St. Mary’s Star of the | this morning at the municipal | 7, charter Loat, dock. Capt. Gould Curry, caught and “Moby. Dick”, 59 Catholic ¢hurch. opez Funeral Home was in Offerings were 16 bunches Of released most of the 27 barracuda charge of arrangements. wool, bringing a price of nine bunches of yellow, $43; and grouper $3. 15; estimated at 300 Ib four bunches of yellow, $1.75; + | to gaff but it was j landed. A shark was brought eight bunches of yellow, $2.35,)to boat and got away. |and 10 bunches of wool, $17.00. Total sales amounted to $67.25. ! |Friday, Mr. and Mrs. ZONING ACT IS PREPARE Aboard 60 ft. boat “Alyce B” Gross and \ family, Chicago, Ill., caught 12 ‘grouper, averaging 5 to 15 Ibs., 5 snapper and yellowtail. Richard st too much | Pallbearers who served were Harry M. Baker, K. O. Thompson, B. Curry Moreno, Charles L, Rob- erts, Edwin Trevor and W. Curry Har Mrs. Gato is survived by the husband, Eduardo H. Gato, Sr two sons, Eduardo H. Gato, III, and Frank Gato; three daughters, ;Gross, 10 year old son, caught a Mrs. R. N. Hyde of Boston, Mass., ; Conn., All details have been complet- | ed in connection with the Zoning Enabling Act with the final work completed by Attorney H. H. Tay-» lor, Jr. and Franklin Albert, committee member. The act is to be presented at a meeting of the city council! Fla., : next, and final action is to be de- | numerous snapper | cided by that body and by Rep- tail. . resentative B. C. Papy, by whom Mrs. Maude A. McAlister, Fort! it will be introduced at the leg-| Myers, rl islature, which meets April 4. TEMPERATURES 1000000090000000000000008 |) 0. are used and the Lowest Highest Station. - last night last 24 hours | spots. - 46 7 Abilene Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Denver ~ 72 32 32 74 36 64 32 Galveston 72 Havana Huron SaK Jacksonville !Kansas City . {KEY WEST _ ‘Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Miami _. Mpls.-St. P. New Orleans New York Pensacola Pittsburgh St. Louis - 52 82 50 85 60 70 54 80 38 74 36 74 52 42 54 60 46 80 42 30 Sea Tampa _.. , Washnigton | Williston WORLD WAR VETERANS REUNION —at— LEGION HALL Wednesday, March 15, 8 p. m. Free Eats-Free Drinks-Free Show 5 ft. shark, snapper. Mr. R. J. Driscoll, New Britain, caught 6 large red snap- pers, 8 grouper and many yellow- | tail. Caught Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Ford, Sedalia, Mis- souri, 3 large barracuda and a besides grouper and | snapper. 4 | | Fort Meyers, barracuda and and yellow- N. H. Chapel, two 4 ft Fla., puss ambi weighing 45 Ibs., j10 yellowtail. On the “Alyce B” fishing is done mostly at the Bay entrance’ to Northwest Channel. Hand- boat al- lowed to drift over the fishing Then during the day at intervals the boat skirts the big shoals there with four at a time taking turns fishing from the stern and it is then most of the biggerfish are caught. BAN ON CHEWING GUM SYDNEY, Australia — Officers of an Australian cruiser recently announced a ban on_ chewing gum for these reasons: “Gum- chewing sailors don’t look like sailors,” and “the sailors tread the chewed gum into the deck. snapper ‘and | Miss Edna Gato and Miss Anita Gato; two grandchildren, and two , brothers, Roland and Roger Wea- therford. ANNOUNCE DEATH | OF W. BLANCHARD Advices were received today concerning the death of W. E. Blanchard, of Tampa, National | Field Agent of the Association of Humane Societies in Florida. | Mr. Blanchard died Monday, February 27, following injuries ‘received in an automobile acci- dent in Tampa on February 23rd.’ The burial was held Match Ist. Mr. Blanchard had many friends in Key West. DuPONT TO TORTUGAS Felix duPont, Jr. . with a party of guests is expected in shortly for a cruise to the famed Dry Tortugas Island, nest of pirates and prison of Dr. Mudd who set the leg of the murderer of Presi- dent Lincoln. He will journey there in his 32 foot yacht, “Buc- aroo”, Captain Mr. Brelshorazi. Another end of the trip will be pursuit of the giant sports fish ‘found in those waters. 20 MILES OR 30 - MINUTES FROM KEY WEST BY AUTO The Old Established Village Named PERKY, FLORIDA Owning its own water, electric and other utilities and with its many fine build- ings and docks, postoffice, telephone, telegraph, etc. aerrensia the 5,000 ACRE PERKY estate... The New represents the utmost in modern THE TAVERN-- with its handsome, new “SUGAR LOAF ROOM” for Dining, ready with FOOD THAT IS THE BEST. Now, a! OPEN TO A DISCRIMINATING PUBLIC y press Lodge - with the finest of all new furnishings Pecky Cc 130,000 Increase of candlepower from! , Wednesday night at Legion Hall,' ‘announced later. All World War! HELD SATURDAY Tisian playhouse, in which The ‘American. Legion was born. ,at which the Legion came into ‘ being. | the city tomorrow ee Establishment Here Ready) Stag Birthday Party And Reunion By Legion Post At Hall Wednesday Night Proposed Event Event Will Be In ‘QUESTION EF. PAP Y Celebration Of Organiza-, AS HARBORMASTER tion’s Twentieth Anni- versary | HEARING GIVEN CAPT. CLIN- TON SMITH OF TORTUGAS In celebration of the 20th An-| PASSENGER LINES niversary of the organization of; the American Legiog in this} Cootain Clinton Smith, of the country, Key West's legionnaires, | Toy tugas passenger lines, arrested /members of Arthur Sawyer Post.) Friday on complaint of Harbor- Johnson, Willis Brady, Roy Rob-+ No. 28, will stage a Stag Birth-' mary Frank Papy for not pay- ing a fee, was given a_ hearing day) Varive and hemnie next ing 3! before peace justice of ithe ‘first district, Franklin starting at 8 o'clock. | Arenberg, with the case to be An interesting program is be-j| continued until authority of Papy ing planned by the committee in is investigated. charge, details of which will be) P&Py, two years ago, on appoint- ment as harbormaster taxed visit- {ing yachts but later decided, to veterans, whether members of| abolish the practice as a conces- the local Post or not, are extend- | sion to the visiting yachtsmen in ed an invitation to attend this|@n effort to make their stay here Stag affair. as inviting as possible. National officers of the Legion| Smith captains the “Talofa”, will erect a bronze plaque on the} Passenger boat running between building in Paris, France, March| Key West and Fort Jefferson’ in 15th, now occupying the site of|the Tortugas group. The Talofa the Cirque de Paris, the old Pa-j is owned bythe Sutton. Lines, Inc. Ownet C, B. Sutton was present at the hearing. POHLMAN WILL BE ARRAIGNED J. Pohlman was given a hear- GETS $20, ALSO SIX ing before Peace Justice Enrique M 0 N T H § IN JAIL Esquinaldo, Jr., noon, charged with responsibility in an automobile crash February | 23 in which Mrs. Olaf Soderberg ia E, COOK CLAIMED HE WAS | and Mrs, Clarence Thompson, rid- |ing in another car, were injured. CORAL GABLES FORD | Following the hearing, Poh). AGENT {man was placed under a bond, and will be arraigned for | trial at the next term of Criminal 1 * Court. GATOR WRESTLER LEAVES TUESDAY: It was in the old Cirque de Paris} that .the historic Paris Caucus/ was hled, March 15 to 17, 1919, Bernard E.- Cook of Coral Gables, who was charged with! obtaining $20 under false pre-' tenses from Frank Bentley of the} Ford Motor Company, _ pleaded! guilty, before Criminal Coprt, of} Record, convening today, and was sentenced .to. six. months. in ve Harold William §,) known by Judge Wm. V..Albury: throughout the country as an al- Cook had representéd hima! ligator and shark wrestler, and as an agent of the “Fora” Motor! who, in partnership with | Ross Company of Coral Gables and Allen, ran the Tropical Reptile had secured $20 from Mr. Bentley.’ Institute on Whitehead and Front He was arrested March 1. streets this season, expects to Case of Bob Daniels, arrested leave tomorrow. on complaint of State Conserva-| He will close the Institute for tion Department that he had not the summer. obtained his party boat license, Mr. Williams plans a hunting was nol prossed when it was trip in the Everglades for the brought out that he had subse-! immediate future. quently paid the license. Saturday after-| $2Q0" Washington Committees To Receive Estimate; Pro- vide Dredging Fleming Key Area, Ship Channel ee ee | Members of the Hepburn Board which is in session at Washing ton at present will be sent mates of the costs of ing the naval air base West and other figures sho the advantages of establishn here tomorrow, Chairman Cl Taylor of the Citizens Comm:t: announced today. The Hepburn Board must have its report with recommendat in to the Senate by March | which has stepped the date some. A four page report with complete charts and maps will mailed the Hepburn Board. Mem bers of the House Naval Aff Committee and Senate committer will also be mailed copies of t report. The project calls for dred: of 960 acres off Trumbo Isla with the fill to be placed on Trumbo Island, with the dredged to be the maneuver: area for landing and taking of planes. Depth will be 8 feet Dredging will be in soft bott and will cost $2,816,000. For ir provement of the Trumbo | land site as to hangars and other equipment no figures are give as this will be largely determined by naval authorities. Provision is also made for deepening of the Main ship. Channel -leadin into the project area to a depth of 35 feet from the 25-30 depth it now has. The cost is estimated at $1,824,200. Amount of the sale of the property on Trumbo Island from the Trumbo Prop- erties, Inc. is not released but Chairman Charles Taylor said that it was “reasonable”. The project calls for bulkheading around the entire area. The committee is at present ar- ranging for immediate represen- tation-in’the interests of the Key West bid at the Washington meetings. Delegations from the Miami area have left for Wash- ington. Chairman Taylor today advises all clubs and citizens in the city to send in telegrams and letters to the Washington committees in- jterested showing that they de- sire the location of the base¢ ‘here. Coral Gables resident in the Miami area making a bid for the project have expressed themselves as opposed to estab- lishment of the base, and it is ‘desired to'show Key West's citi- zens unanimous wish for the base here. establish in Key TAKE CAMERA ALSO RALEIGH, N. C. —When the Department of Education in this ‘city complained to police that their stamps were being stolen, an $180 automatic camera was installed to catch the thief in ac tion. The next morning the ,; Stamps oe camera were scot tabi ie RETURNING TUESDAY Ross C. Sawyer, who has been; attending a convention of County | Clerks in Ocala, is expected in} | 7 | | The new cigar factory for Key | West was a more definite cer- | tainty today, with the knowledge jat hand of 18,240 pounds of equipment being unloaded this jmorning from S.S. Cuba, con- | signed from Tampa to the A. & B. , Cigar Factory here. It is expected that the owner it long last center manufacturing activities in ;County Read, will be in the city jing, this according to advice giv} E. W. Ber- jof the new factory, which will} ithe old Santaella Factory on! | this evening or tomorrow morn-} RESERVATIONS: Parties of any number—Telephone PERKY NO. 5—asking for... ALLEN. Head Waiter OUR FISHING BOATS ARE ALSO Sugar Loaf Fishing Club, Inc. Lessee and Operator SEE THE LIGHTS OF KEY WEST FROM OUR OBSERVATION TOWER ten by Carl Bervaldi. jriman is the owner, and Raul) Garcia will be the manager. It is rumored that the Tampa | will close down completely, and | that all equipment will be shipped factory owned vy Mr. Berriman!| Proposed Cigar Factory To Be On Much Larger Scale to this point, the shipment re- {ceived this morning seeming to bear out that assumption. It was | first thought that just a branch of the Tampa company would operate here, with main activities still in Tampa. Now, it appears |that the manufacturing end of the business will be conducted in this city and that a mail order | 0fficé and address will be held for Tampa. ‘Ahern Funeral Home | Joseph L. Plummer Vice-President | AMBULANCE SERVICE | Phone 22211 Miami, Fila. EXCELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS--FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES-$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY. “TOUR..PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124