The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 22, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West THE so ViOLUME LX. No. 69. UTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA,. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1939 Stirrup Trial Con Today In Crimin Verdict In Case Not Ex- pected Until At Least! ' Late Hour This Eve-| 00D FS ning DRY TORTUGAS FISHING FOUND BEST OF TRIP;: | i Criminal court, presided over) by Judge William V. Albury, re- sumed activity this morning with the examining of state ope in the case of the state against Fernando Stirrup, charged with! manslaughter in the matter of the death of Alice Eiklor. who was injured fatally in the accident on Janubry 26 when an automobile GROUP GLAD TO HEAR OF; CITY'S POINTS OF INTEREST i Just back from a Dry Tortugas | fishing trip is the 106-foot Viator | with some of the’ best fishing ; found en theit'trip’ reported. ! The catchewiintluded a 38 pound kingfish/*18 pound mut-! tonfish, 30 pound grouper and a other fish in a catch totalling riven by Stirrup and a motor- over 2,000 pounds. The party is! bike on which the Eiklor girl was greatly enthusiastic over the! riding with a girl firend met at| 'TiP- : | Monica, where work moves the corner of White an}i Divito Oe wistoe aresowner! Dr. “production. “This ;and| simil M. A. Alexander and guests A. J. air corps on a recent inspect streets. Miss Eiklor died the fol-!Drexel-Paul and Mr. Fitzgerald, | P P lowing day. jall of Pittsburgh. Captain is J.) | Aster pabty in is ur. ana MAN ixon | . LIKE KEY WEST This morning witnesses for the Mie ron Mrs, state finished giving their testi- is not such a good sailor and} mony. There were four of them | would like to find a little cot-/| examined at the morning session' tage ‘tor a few days in a “neigh- which concluded the examination | Porhood” of quaint island houses 5 : |such as are found around Key of the state’s witnesses, who West, | numbered altogether 18, intro-! Mr. and Mrs. Nixon were duced by County Solicitor Allan’ agreeably surprised to find that! B. Cleare, 14 havi be {there was an Art Center here me (Anatase with scenes of Key West, that) TARY RECEIVES LETTER ON SUBJECT ined yesterday afternoon upto 6! Plane Production Stepped Up These Wright Cyclone motors are being unpacked in the Douglas plant at Santa | Y VISITORS "22 2ewwwww: \COMMERCE BODY SECRE. ! A Propo Che Key West Citizen se’ Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS | Key West TouBe “Second Line Of : sed Naval Airbase ” ‘In New Of Five Th | An appreciably large sale of | sponge was held on the munici-| pal dock this morning with offer- | ings consisting of 1088 bunches of | wool, 65 bunches of yellow and nine bunches of, grass. ‘ i bunches, which brought“a price | jof $2,583.66. Other “offerings were: 240 bunches, which’sold for a price of $1,450; $309.89; 62 bunches, . $201.66, and 58 bunches, $182. One of the offerings consisted {of 101 bunches of wool for which !the price of $526.66, which was snr os pester an $5.20 the bunch, was KEYS HAVE BELIEVE ‘STEAMER TRAVEL leno yellow and grass sponge} SLACKENING U Offerings for the entire lot of} | , totalled $5,469.71, deducting the} IT OR NOT FISH . |CUBA ARRIVED FROM HA- ° refusal of $564.66, leaving an ac- i ‘tual total of $4,905.05. i ¢ vana wits 1 pas: NEWS FLASHES SENGERS ! ey (Ry Axsocinted Press) | Pe covereeasasocesaosoee at an increasing tempo as result of interest in mass plane | ar views greeted Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnol, chief of army} ion visit. | —— 3 Belive it or not column, which frequently draws on interesting stories centered around Key West and the Keys, this week pictures the largest fish every captured, weight oi 30,000 pounds, | ousa ee Largest sale of wool was 420 | i 100 “bunches, | | ‘Sponge Sales Reach Total MUSIC NOT POLITICS - IGNACE PADEREWSKI, 79, world-famous pianist, who. ‘Jacksonville Recommend- ed As Main Site For Southeastern Base By Hepburn Board Ss ‘By Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, March 22.—The Hepburn board re- commended Jacksonville as the site for the southeastern air base in its report which is a virtual duplicate of the original survey. Key West was guaranteed a status as “second line of defense,” and lost out to Jackeonville because of the lack of water supply, lack of facilities, and the tre- mendous cost of a break- water. The | supplementary re- there was an Aquarium with o'clock when Judge Albury an-;some of the most gorgeously nounced a recess until this morn-' colored tropical fish found any- ing. Start Examination *This morning the examining of! — ‘The ‘Wixohs are on the 39-foot ‘scribing how the visi defense was} Wharf Rat from New York City. | directed to this city have return- started, but before the taking of| A real sailor is Captain George ‘ed with delightful descriptions of witnesses for the testimony was begun, members of the jury were permitted to make an examination of the auto- mobile and the motorbike, which figured in the accident. ! They returned to the court room and at 12:15 o’clock a re- cess for lunch was ordered by the judge. At 1:30 p. m. the jury! was back in the box ready to list-' en to the witnesses who were to! be introduced for the defense. { Verdict Not Expected Soon It is not anticipated that a ver- dict will be reached this after- nono, and if it is it will be at a} late hour as there are six wit-| nesses to be introduced, and it! will at least take one hour and! a half for the county solicitor and | the attorney for the defense to} make their summing up address- | es to the jury. i Members of the jury panel who| are to decide the matter at issue are: Arturo Henriquez, Stanley; Key, Myrtland Cates, Leonard F. | Curry, John Walker and Faustino | Rendueles, Jr. t | where, and that there were terest in the city. Wilkerson of the schooner Yan- kee Girl now at the Yacht Basin. At 19 he was master of a four masted schooner trading in the South Sea Islands and has had more adventures than most men twice his age. He is awaiting abatement of high winds at pres- ent to proceed to Nassau to meet the owner, Paul Nevins and Mrs. Nevins of New York City. At Tortugas the Nevins’ had fine fishing catching a 56 pound tarpon off the boat while still fishing at night anchored in the little blue channel that winds alongside the Fort. Trolling and bottom fishing they also brought in a 50 pound kingfish and scores of other sport fish of these tropi- cal waters. Lewellyn Thomas, executive {secretary of the Chamber of Com- merce of Eustis, Fla,, writes to | scores of other little points of in-.| Secretary Singleton, of the local jchamber, a glowing letter © de- tors: he ‘has their visits. Mr. Thomas writes: “I have done a great deal of boosting for Key West and many of the visitors I have sent there have returned with enthusiastic descriptions of their visit and the many pleasant pépple they have met. “They all enjoyed wished they could have stayed longer and commented on the ab- sence of mosquitoes. One lady told me that the children in the ischools were taught the Spanish | language and many of them could rattle it off as well as American. “In fact they have all been very ‘delightfully pleased with their which was landed off | (Slackening up of winter travel BERLIN.—Nazi troops are to after the World War. helped (port wae officially opened Knights Key after a _ fight | i |to ports in the West Indies and! move into Memel | tomorrow lasting 39 hours. jSouth America is indicated by! morning. Memel was given to organize the Polish republic, later becoming Polish pre- the trip,’ mier, now plans a wide concert tour in country, TEACHERS’ SALARY FUNDS PERPLEXING Knights Key, which is ap- proximately 50 miles from Key West, is - neer-~Bahia Honda, which the Spaniards called “deep water”. The catch was madq June 1, 1912, | by Captain Thompson, veter- | an Keys fishing guide. It was a fish and not a mam- mal, which made the catch so distinctive. . A mammal, as most know, is a marine creature which must come to the surface to breathe. The fargest fish was 45 feet long with a ¢circumfer- ence of 23 feet, nine inches. It has a very small, whale- like eye, large mouth, and vertical stripes with dotted portions. eas 7 78 ae 5 MRS. ASHE AND |the passengers on the Steamship Lithuania by the Versailles trea- ; Cuba yesterday afternoon, return-| ty after the World War. Its peo- +itig: through and from Havana. | ple are predominantly Germany | On the*returning P. and O.| but were quiet about anschluss S. S. vessel there were 66 first | until recent years. For over 700 jand five second cabin passengers years it has been the sore spot of |for Key West and for Tampa central Europe. It is Lithuania’s |there were 27 first cabin and entrance to the Baltic Sea, and an nae second cabin passengers. |important Central Europe mili- ; Shown on the manifest of the; tary point. ‘PROBLEM OF STATE }vessel were the following items:! ee i ee foes West, elent fear! of; BUCHAREST.—A half million! | freight, three automobiles and six troops are to be mobilized in Ru-| jsacks of mail; for Tampa, there a as soon as possible by King |FLORIDA EDUCATION ASSO- | were 45 tons of freight, one auto- | Carol, who has postponed signing} CIATION CONVENTION AND |mobile and eight sacks of mail. |the trade treaty with Germany| H The ship sailed for Tampa at|and is believed to have done so| LEGISLATURE MEMBERS | 5:35 o'clock with 16 first cabin at the instance of the Allied na- and two second cabin passengers. | tions. ede CuEstOM | There were also four automobiles | —— | on the vessel consigned to Tampa.. WARSAW.—Poland has post- | ia | Poned any treaty declaring aj TAMPA, March 22.—Six thou- | military alliance with Russia and; sand school teachers and county }other nations in the “Stop Hit-' school officials, attending the an- ler” drive, fearing that it would infuriate Germany. It it watch- nual convention of the Florida | this morning with Repre- | sentative Pat Cannon in at- ltendance at the meeting of the Naval Affairs Commit- | tee. HEPBURN BOARD | REAFFIRMS SITE AT JACKSONVILLE ne habe vy Press) WASHINGTON, March 22.—The navy again chose | Jacksonville today for the southeastern air base. The ‘Hepburn board reaffirmed former recommendation ever determined bids of Mi- ami, Key West and others. Rear Admiral A. J. Hep- On the yacht “Se-Ward” own- visit, with the exception of one ers Mr, and Mrs. P. M. Gelatt of elderly lady, who, from my ob- La Cross, Wisconsin, are prepar-' servation, would be lost without ing to go north today to Miami. ‘somethiig to grouch about. Every so often they take the “I thought you would like this Keys. cruise spending about personal tribute from this C. of C., week along the;entire trip. They | being actual’ ‘results from people also take trips#o;, Nassau and | sent toiyour’ delightful city by Cuba. The Gelatts like plenty this office”. of moving in:,their yachting. | ZONING BOARD NEPHEW ARRIVE HAS NV MEETING ,.ne IN uaa DURIN ILLNESS AND DEATH OF of Key West met last night in the WPA headquarters. The | bag satan | meeting was presided over by | chairman Wallace B. Kirke, and} Mrs. Eugene Ashe, who had iG, i | Education Association here last} week, adjourned Saturday after | burn said the board recom- leaving to the 1939 Legislature | mended Jacksonville “unani- paisa the job of finding revenue to re-; ae d WASHINGTON. — Roosevelt! place funds lost throughidiscounts|mously and strongly” an today was given back $100,000,- allowed delinquent taxpayers. |urged immediate construc- 000 of the relief cut the House’ The proposed emitgéhcy ap-| . d said Mi voted recently, and New Deal propriation, sufficiéht*te assure a tion. The board sai 1 forces are. working to get back full term in all séhidols, was es-' ami was in greater danger ing fearfully Hitler’s moves though and generally is prepar- ing in case he strikes. With them are guests Mr. and the zoning act was read in de-|been in Havana during the fatal an additional $25,000,000. Con-| timated at approximately $2,000, \tail, and discussed from every illness of her sister, Mrs. Charles gress generally is noting a trend 900 but members of the Legisla- of hurricane damage than PROPOSE $15,000 Mrs. S. Steffen. Master is H. K.| AYALA’S WILL standpoint, and given the ap-' Morgan, wife of Chief Gunner | toward no new taxes. |ture, in Tampa to study finance Doles. FILED IN COURT BEQUEATHES ALL OF HIS| HOLDINGS TO HIS WIFE Lowest Highest Station: - last night last 24 hours | Abilene 54 Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Last will and testament of Ar- mando Frederick Ayala, who! nenver died Sunday morning at 5 o'clock | netroit in the home at 1002 Fieming | Galveston street, was filed in the court fl ttevans Probate Judge Raymond R. Lord | Huron this morning. _ |Jacksonville _ The will provides that all of the| Kansas City — just debts be paid, and: KEY WEST _ “I do give, devise and bequeath | Little Rock __ all my estate, both real and per-)fos Angeles - SANITARY PLAN ‘WILL AID AREAS OF CITY WHERE SEWER LINES NOT AVAILABLE °| Request fora $15,000 project by | the State Board of Health, which ‘will use W.P.A. labor, is in pro- jcess of being drawn up and will provide for additional sanitary | features in the city. It is expected that about 300 sanitary privies will be construct- ed and repaired in sections of the! | town where sewer lines are not closely , adjacent. | proval of the body. | Morgan, United States Navy, re-! It was decided that Secretary tired, who died in that city Mon- Jack Long would send a letter day, March 13, returned yester- | to the city council, advising that day, accompanied by her nephew, | the act had been approved, asi Warren Weld, son of Mrs. Morg- drawn by Attorney H. H. Tay- jan, lor, Jr., with the collaboration of ; the Zoning Board, and was be-|was taken seriously ill and Mrs. ing presented to the council for| Ashe advised Mrs. Larranaga of approval of he body. _ |her intention of going to Cuba by | The Citizen was advised by a plane from New York, and Mrs. member of the board that notice | | arranaga left Key West for Mi- of intention to present the act at | ami and took the plane from the session of the legislature, | there to Havana = which meets April 4, will be pubt ‘They met ih he Cuban capital hoe iis seats aes |Proceeded to the Morgan home jand remained there during the FORTY-POUND ‘HANDICAP’ \ illness of Mrs. Morgan, and until lyesterday when they sailed for PHILADELPHIA — Magistrate | this city. ‘ Eli Myers put Mrs, Martin Pezers ; This morning on the early bus under a $300 peace bond after | Mrs. Ashe and Mr. Weld left for} (tary capture of Czeehosolvakia by | WYNN PRISON, Texas. — Search for five convicts, one paralyzed in both legs, three with ful. H i WASHINGTON.—The State Of- and taxation problems of the state, saw little chance of grant- ing the schools’ request. Recommendations for the ‘wooden legs, and one with only/emergency fund of $150 per and Mrs. Charlotte Larranaga.| one arm, who escaped from this| teacher unit were contained in a Three ,weeks ago Mrs. Morgan’ prison, has so far been unsuccess-|Teport of the continuing educa- tional council, composed of prom- inent school officials. Two-thirds of the counties, any other site except Key | West. i The board said the Jack- sonville site would involve a minimum of dredging and ‘other preliminaries, weath- ler was acceptable and hous- fice here will make no comment council members said, have re-|ing adequate for personnel. regarding the note sent Hitler, Ported their schools will have less The board recommended a yesterday condemning the mili-) the Reich. The office prefers to! wait until an answer is received | from Fuehrer Hitler. AYALAS LEFT FOR TAMPA i } than the standard nine months term. Adjournment of the association convention featured the election of James Ti Wilson, Miami school superintendent, as new president, sugceeding T. D. Bailey. ‘TWO VESSELS \supplemental base on the Banana River near Cocoa. Key West’s status will be ‘second line of defense.” j«, } MARIAH HILL, Ind—Dame iFashion’ ruled wooden shoes NOT NEW TO HIM sonal, to my wife, Emma N.) Ayala, as her absolute property} Louisville Mpls.-St. P. New Orleans . 58 Manj.0of the old, unsanitary de-) her husband complained: “She | Miami enroute to Albany, where| vices will be eliminated in the weighs 180 and I weigh 140. She’s| Mr. Weld expects to remain in-! work. The city is co-sponsor been beating me up ever since | definitely with his aunt and with the State Board of Health. uncle. |popular for sports wear just too late for Ferdinand Bocking, 79, to cash in on their popularity Members of the family of the| | j late Armando F. Ayala, who | COMING HERE to the express exclusion of all my | children whether now born or pen York Pensacola born hereafter”. Mrs, Ayala was appointed ex- ecutrix of the will and it is pro-| Pittsburgh vided that “no security be re-/St. Louis __ quired of my said wife as such/Salt Lake City 42 executrix”. * San Francisco 48 The testament was executed on/Seatlte 46 July 14, 1938, and the witnesses | Tampa were John G, Sawyer, attorney,| Washington — 38 and E. J. Bayly. | Williston _. 36 SSeer EXCELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS--FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES~-$10 ALL ADVICE TO COUPLES H | _— 1 LONDON — If your wife gets ;on «your nerves, give her a! ;Month’s allowance and go to a jhotel for a month. This gdvice | lis given to men parishioners by | jthe Rev. W. H. Elsey, Vicar of jTokeneion Wembley, = ii i \parish magazine. |we were married 17 years ago.” ‘were in Key West for the funeral ;were held Monday afternoon, ‘returned on the Cuba to their; services for Mr. Ayala which home in Tampa yesterday after- noon. Those in the group were the} brothers of the deceased, Gus- tavo Ayala, Gabriel Ayala, Ro- land Ayala, Nelson Ayala and ,Oscar Ayala and his wife. -EXPENSE TWO-DAY {the Clyde-Mallory Lines, Scheduled to arrive in port Fri- day evening are two vessels of Ozark from New Orleans and the Brazos from Galveston. The Ozark will discharge and take freight, and proceed to Mi- ami and Jacksonville. The Brazos will unload and load, and pro- ceed direct to New York. the! | because he has retired after mak- ling them for 59 years. FOR RENT FURNISHED APARTMENT 421 United Street One Block from South Beach Apply Valdes Bakery { { TOUR...PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124