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Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Intérests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOLUME LX. No. 68. 75 Percent Of Property Owners Use Murphy Act! Expect 80 hand Of! Prop- UNAUTHORIZED TO. erty To Be Cleared Of MAKE COLLECTION Delinquent Taxes; 40,-| 000 Items In County \REPORT FUNDS BEING SO- | LICITED FOR BENEFIT OF According to the clerical de-- © MERCEDES HOSPITAL i Pariment handling the Murphy-! Mrs. Maria Gutsens, matron of Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. "KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1939 COUNTY CLINIC GROUP a a NEW F | INDIVIDUAL ap cakes, FALL AWAY ALARMINGLY; COOPERATION OF PATIENTS. ASKED 1 | Faced with providing funds — for the continuance of the Mon-j roe County Clinic the Welfare ; Advisory Council is alarmed, Chart Stratosphere Weather zation of Monroe county property, | there is about 75 percent of the, clearing of taxes of the county; completed with about 80 percent | the total expected. In the settled part of Key West | Island Murphyzation has _ been: completed for about 75 percent of the city. There remains out- lying sections of ‘the city over the dropoff of individual j PRICE FIVE CENTS “Stirrup Case Started This Morning; Special Venire Of Jurymen Called By Court ‘Much Buildin g And Repair List Of Those fiat Reguiar | Group Became Exhaust- ed; Enters Plea Of “Not Mercedes hospital, was a visitor | to the office of The Citizen yes- terday and was very much per- been received at the institution. Mrs. Gutsens said: “Information has reached me} | that a collection is being made, or has recently been made, for the | benefit of Mercedes hospital. I wish to state that I have not au- and|thorized any party or parties to} turbed over reports which have} coperty. which is ewned b: r- | make any collection for the hos- oid oe “Bias mere | pital, and the hospital, has not contributions. Dr. John Gekeler, treasurer of the group, reports that the con- extremely small few. Accord- “\ingly the Council has appointed | JP. Dorgan as collector and Mr. | Dorgan is at present making his rounds of the.city. Mrs. _ Florence chairman of,ithe Council, made a pleato all have been treated at the Clinic free of charge because of their linability to pay that they pay the below-cost fees for medicine Spottswood, today tributions have fallen away to an! those who}, j i Activity In Two Weeks | | Permits Issued Durin ewww ee eee ‘DANIEL LAWSON Trial of Peried By Inspector cant GIVEN STUDENT charged with manslaughter in For Expenditure Of Over PILOT LICENSE) the matter of the death of Alice Four Thousand Dollars | Eilelor, 13 years old, on the night (By Washington Correspondent | of The Key West Citizen) | |of January 26, was called this Guilty” Fernando Stirrup. WASHINGTON, D. C., Building and repair permits is- with Of the 114 Florida. Keys, all of | Teceived any funds whatever which are owned by someone, about 50 percent have taken ad-! vantage ot the Murphy Act and cleared their past taxes for small fees. The mainland area is pretty | well completed with oil com-! panias Murphyizing their leased! lands. Land company near the, Cape Sable region has also com-} pleted its work in this mattcr. Thus far there are 1,700 prop- erty owners in the county who have Murphyized their property. There are, however, about 40,000 parcels in the county. The deadline for Murphyizing: set by, one’s property has been Clerk of Circuit Court Ross C. Sawyer for May 19, in accordance | with orders to have all clearances | through the pleted by June 9. Properties are cleared of ace Murphy Act com-! 1 from such collection. “It would be appreciated if those who have given funds re- :cently to the party making the and room service as soon as they find they are able to do so. Many [of those who could not afford or-{ dinary doctors and hospital fees! ; canvass would report to me the find they can pay the fees of the} |facts in order that proper steps! Clinic and do so. Without these! |may be teken to punish the im-! funds it would be impossible to poster”. jrun the Clinic, unless added} ‘AYALA FUNERA FUNERAL i sourers of revenue were avail-} HELD YESTERDAY ; Recently, too, the number of | cases at the Marine Hospital have | SERVICES CONDUCTED IN AFTERNOON BY REV. AR- jbeen more costly than usual. THUR 3B. DIMMICK | {One hundred and ninety-one fcases have been treated there, | ‘free of charge, except for a small i Be | | | $2, 801.97. It received from patients $1,930. The difference’ must be lumped in with other ;expenses of the Clinic and taken’ leare of through revenues of, zero. held i which individual contributions! Funeral services were iyesterday afternoon at 4:30) sued during the past two weeks; } | | | March 21.—Daniel Lawson of Coconut Drive, Key West, has been issued a license as | , from the office of Harry M. Bak- H ;and totalled $4,585. a. student pilot. the Civil Aeronautics Authority said today. Lawson may take solo flights after he has eight hours of dual flight instruc- 1 er, building inspector, number | | Issues were for the following: i i ! ! { | Something about the peer is being none by the U. ‘at 1119 Catherine sireet. carrying charge for room service.'S. Weather Bureau which plans a systematic air mass Leslie Albury; cost, $100. |The total paid by the clinic was analysis in the Atlantic, such charting intended as an aid ,to planned oceanic plane travel. graph balloon released from the Cutter Chelan off Bos- ; ton reached 35,000 feet recording there 63 degrees below : street, a 8 meson yas it was 45 anal: Above radio meteor- tion. and is certified by his instructor to be competent to fly alone. The Key West pilot may advance his aviation rating in step with his proficiency until he gets a transport pilot license. | , hewhahoudadathadiatuihe Repairs to roof at corner of! =~ Greene and Ann streets. Owner,’ MRS, M. LESSNER L. P. Artman; cost, $60: 1 street. TELLS OF AC ACCID Repairs to roof at 515 Duval| Repairs to porch of residence at 828 Francis street. Owner, Her-| {bert Weech; cost, $50. Repairs to porch at 422 Amelia| street. Owner, Order Caballeros ide la Luz; cost, $50. Minor repairs and paint home| Owner, 624 Olivia Repairs to floors, Owner, Mrs. R. Daniels; | |morning in criminal court \Judge William V. Albury pre- | siding, and all court officials | present. Court began with the arraign- /ment of the accused who swered to the charges as read by County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr., with the plea of “not guilty”, {and selection of a jury to hear |the case began. | At 11 o'clock the entire venir |bad been exhausted and there | were but five tentative jurors in the box. They were: Arturo Henriquez, Stanley Key, Myrt | land Cates, Leonard F. Curry and | John Walker. Members of the special venire \are: Albert L. Albury, Oliver ;Gato, Henry W. Weatherford |Faustino Rendueles, J. N. Curry, ;Marcus Quesada, Milton Rob- an delinquent taxes by the payment! o'clock at the chapel of the | 27° hare of $11 for the first parcel and $7) | Lopez Funeral Home for Ar- HENRY HASKINS for eachsubsequent parcel, plus! mandoPrederick Ayala, who small commissions in both cases. |died Sunday morning after an, United States ‘Denounces Pe... Owner, J. M. Renedo;! jerts, Valter Vinson, Louis Ed- ‘cost, $600. |INJURED WOMAN NOW REST- | Wards, Charles T. Archer, Wil- Repairs, to..porch at cornert*Va- liam B. Knowles, John. A. Lord ela and Catherine streets.” Own- } | Following the drawing of the ING COMFORTABLY® IN LOCAL HOSPITAL If one Murphyizes one parcel, then waits longer he m@st pay $11! for the first of the second parcels entered. * Property under the Murphy Act is determined by certification with each lot or part of a lot cer- lified separately considered as one parcel. This point has to be often explained to those who lump many parcels under one homestead. Under the Murphy Act the property is sold at public auction! with the owner buying it. In Monroe county there has been no competitive bidding. All delin- quent taxes may be cleared off through the shih col sia 1939. MARIUS CRUZ GETS NI NEW JOB Marius L. Cruz, of the Light-| house Department, has beeri no- tified of his appointment to the position of asgjstant engineer of the Tender Zinnia, recently de-' clared ready for inspection and trial. Mr. Cruz will leave for the shipyard in New Jersey, said Su-| perintendent W. W. Demeritt, as soon as orders are received for illness covering a period of 15] months. | Regular services of the church! were conducted by Rev. Arthur | B. Dimmick, of St. Paul’s Epis- } copal church, and ritualistic serv- | ices were canducted by members | of the local Masonic Orders and | the Shriners of which the de-} ceased had been a member. ‘ | Attending the funeral were! H. B. Haskins, assistant super- |the brothers of the deceased who | intendent of lighthouses on the arrived on the Steamship Cuba’ Seventh District, left yesterday | |from Tampa, and a large num-|morning over the highway for ber of friends and relatives of | Miami enroute to Camden, N. J., the family. to be in attendance at the official Among the visiting group tests of the Tender Zinnia, which were: Gabriel F. Ayala, Gus- jis scheduled for March 24. ‘tavo Ayala, Roland Ayala, Nel-| Mr. Haskins told The Citizen son Ayala and Oscar Ayala,!that he will visit in Washington ; brothers of Armando, and Mrs.| and Philadelphia, and will cross eased ovals Hes onemibers| ave to the shipyards at Cam- will return to Tampa on the/den, on the date of the tests and |i. inaster’s laws. oe bog ba trials. Agiae condision ofthe hear-| After the trials of thes Zen ing the committing magistrate’s COMES 10 PORT |x: afterward visit several of \warrant ‘the accused in being | LEAVES ON TRIP’ ‘CLINTON SMITH GIVEN H HEARING DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH WEOLATING HARBOR MASTER'S LAWS GOING TO NEW JERSEY TO: INSPECT NEW LIGHT- HOUSE VESSEL | ' ' Clinton Smith, attached to the passenger boat Talofa, which runs between this port and Tor- i|tugas, appeared for preliminary ‘hearing this morning _ before |Peace Justice Franklin Arenberg the World's Fair in New York, 2t the hearing was sufficient to, jthe lighthouse, districts on the | joancover to await action of the itrip home. |criminad-court and he was placed under pond of $250. = | i SOSSOOOSSOSSSOSSCESOASOOES i WASHINGTON.—This capital | Apiiene | Steamship Alamo of the Clyde-| Mallory Lines, with light cargo, | jarrived this morning from New peork, 2:30 o’clock, and berthed at the Mallory dock where dis- | charging cargo started. At 6:15 o’clock the cargo, most! TEMPERATURES 1@OCeesococcecsa2ec0esceer bart cp ease Lowest Highest . 52 76 ‘on a charge of violating the har-; ‘| England by King George. Station. - last night last 24 hours | the personnel assigned to the Zin-|of which consisted of small mis-| preparing for a long list of nia to leave for the vessel from} cellaneous items, had been un- Key West. jloaded and the ship sailed for —_——_——. |Tampa, which is the end of the A PAL INDEED {run. ae ES | Sika icniintiiaiecadabingnen rina, CLARENDON, Texas—A Rus-| NEED BETTER REASONS sian wolf hound, missing from | ranch headquarters for a day,| OMAHA, Neb—A witness in recently limped into camp at the| District Judge Herbert Roades/| Lewis ranch near here. Its front! court testified he heard the two; foot was in a coyote trap, trail-|principals in a divorce action | ing 15 feet of chain on a steel/quarrel over a game of cards. drag. When released the animal! The judge exclaimed: “My wife} whined and, hopping on three|makes me mad lots of | times legs, led a cowboy a mile away | when I ‘want her to finesse aj Spring and Summer visitors from} abroad if international complica- | | tions do not arise to stop them. President DeValera of the Irish) Free State will visit. Crown) | Prince of Denmark and Iceland! are next scheduled to arrive. Then will follow the president of i Nicaragua. King George and ‘Queen Elizabeth of England will be in this country between June 19- July 11. Crown Prince of Nor- ‘way will follow that visit. { 68 40 34 62 36 66 36 68 _. 46 . 26 16 50 28 40 20 60 68 es) 50 36 "68 30 50 | Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston | Chicago Denver ; Detroit "Galveston Havana Huron , Jacksonville Kansas City“ |KEY WEST Little Rock | Los Angeles 62 70 62 73 70 60 where the dog’s mate was in another trap too large to drag. BONEFISHING EXCELLENT. BARRY PERMANENTLY AT PERKY, FLA. WASHINGTON. — President 1 ouisville ’ | Roosevelt is said to be resigned yigmi to the cut in relief funds: appro- Mpls.-St.' priated by Congress this session. |New. Orleaiis! iNew York - ‘Pensacola Pittsburgh __ 16 St. Louis - 38 62 76 38 “72 46 64 52 60 66 60 60 76 60 54 32 58 32 ‘54 —— 24 54 queen and she plays her ace, but | ‘that isn’t grounds for divorce. { | i Bip ig od pt ey incisco |GARDNER'S PHA PHARMACY | seaitic “The Rexall Store” Tampa Bi 594 Duval st. | Washington od RECORD HOLDING GUIDE ED. Czechoslovakian Annexation i \France’s President Visits England Today; Lithu- | ania May Lose Territory’ To Germany (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, March 21.— “Sumner Welles today released for publication the United States’ an- | swer to Germany's annexation of Czechoslovakia, which stated! j that America has been on record} as opposed to military aggression and is in the present case. | | Foreign press reports going to! the, State Department office ser} vealed that President LeBrun sand} ;Foreign Minister Bonnet France were today welcomed to Their | | visit to England at this stage of | abnormal European events is considered significant. i Proposal for a Pan-. marian | front is being broached in Eng-! iland to prevent Hitler’s present | drive to the East. Back in France, | | Daladier renorted that he would; increase the army by 300,000 men | lif events protended a need for it.} \ From Berlin came reports that! ; Germany is preparing reprisals | ‘for trade treaties which are im- | posing penalties on her. The |} Lithuanian cabinet met today! ‘and considered the possibility of ; materials of various kinds, which | j losing Memel to:Germany with {no action ‘by Lithuania, believed! \for the present, | | In Rome the Fascist .Grand| }Council.met. From Burgos came |reports. that the Loyalists of Spain would shortly surrender to, |General Franco. | ‘NEW 1939 CHEVROLETS Cars Delivered From $749.00 Delivered | | $695. , ¥. Cobo; cost, $75. General repairs at 916 Windsor ‘Lane. Owner, Guy Carleton; cost, $600. General repairs to 525 Petronia | street. Louis Bancells; cost, $1,- 000. Build garage-apartment at 922 Eaton street. Owner, Fred Solo- ‘mon; cost, $1,000. Construct frame residence at Leon and _ Wsahington INSPECTING NAVAL STATION MATERIAL THREE SCIENTISTS PAYING ANNUAL VISIT TO KEY WEST Three scientists, members of the American Society of Testing , Materials, are paying their an-| When she returns she will tell | be |ual visit to Key West..and in-| her host of friends of the very! |specting the materials,. which Hy streets. ; Owner, Leo Haskins; cost, $1,000. Mrs. Mona Barrett Lessner, who was injured in an automo- bile accident last Friday night on the highway when she and her! party were about 65 miles from Key West, is at present resting j comfortably in a local hospital. The car turned over several |times, said Mrs. Lessner, and it is fortunate indeed that the oth-| ers in the car were not’ more! ‘badly injured than they, were. “As it is I am the only one con- fined to a hospital bed”, she said. Telling of her experiences, Mrs. Lessner said to The Citizen that jShe thinks Key West is a fine , Place. That the people have been so elegant and kind, those in, were very solicitous about fer come rt. i { Béssner’s home is at 135 went 9th Street, New York, and | | courteous treatment she has re- and even/| arge of. the ambulance | {names from the box, Judge Al- jbury announced a recess until 1 o’clock when it was expected ;that all members ef the special |venire would be on hand. | There are 15 witnesses sum- |moned fot the State and six for | defense, and “all were to be in |the céugt room at 1:30 this aft- ernoon. | Judge Albury was asked by The Citizen how long the after- {noon session was to be continued and he replied that he would con- ; tinue the court in session until 6 jo’clock this evening, and if there was no possibility of the case being concluded, he would call a recess ee tomorrow. TAX LIEN WAS FILED MONDAY | AGAINST EDGAR L. SANCHEZ | AND WIFE, MARY M. SANCHEZ Notice of a tax lien under the jhave been undergoing the re- ceived at the hospital from all internal Revenue Law was filed quired periods of exposure at the test racks in the naval | station. In the party are E. E. Taylor- son, of the Carnegie Illinois Steel Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa, R. F. ! Passano, of the American Rolling Mills Co., of Middletown, Ohio, and H. E. Dix, of the Aluminum Co. of America, of Pittsburgh. This group arrived in the city | earlier in the week, and are now | 'going over the specimens with L. M. Pierce, aide to the officer jin charge at the naval station, | who has charg e of the testing racks and the many pieces of} ine undergoing the tests, which are ont afforded at any other place in the United States. | connected with the institution. ‘OUTFALL FUNDS ARE NEEDED Prseident Earl Adams of the City Council has been informed by W.P.A. Area Supervisor Curry | Moreno that the outfall to be} constructed on Grinnell street { will require a sponsor’s contribu- {tion of approximately $1,400. Mr. Adams has contacted Will Doughtry. chairman of the Proj- ect committee of the city. PAL While ifi the city anda going | over the-results of tests, the ‘PLAYING .wisiting- group are the guests of Mr. Pierce; who- locally repre- gents the American Society of Testing Materials. GIVEN PAROLE LONDON—Thomas Childs, 16, of this city, was paroled to his parents when they testified he had stolen for a “40-year-old vampire” with whom he became You Must See | infatuated. lyesterday afternoon in circuit court by Howard Wilson, local [deputy collector, acting for J. | Edwin Larson, collector of Inter- |nal Revenue for District of Flor- ida. The lien is against Edward L. |Sanchez and wife Mary M 'Sanchez, of the Coral Hotel apartments located at 312 Simon- ton street, formerly the Trevmor Apartments. Taxable period, as shown on the lien, is for the years 1929 and 1930. For the year 1929 the tax and interest total $48,977.09, and for the year 1930 tax and interest total $9,267.35, or a grand total ‘of $58,244.44. STARTLING SHOCKING WOMEN—Are You Afraid To Have a Baby? MEN—Did You Ever Have a Secret Love Affair? the Expose of AMERICA’S MOST HIDEOUS RACKET! The Terrifying, Horrifying Facts About THE TRAGEDY OF THE UNBORN ‘Victims Of Passion’ or ‘Race Suicide’ Millions Made Yearly Murdering Babies and Maiming Mot