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

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Kerry THE SOUTHERNMOST NE VOLUME LX. No. 71. Hest Ctttzrn WSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, | Moreno Reviews Work Done | On Water And Sewer System “PERCE | | 24 Miles Of Pipeline Laid; |H. T. REESE, 54, Syttem Nearly Ready For DIED HERE TODAY Operation; Explains Ac-' |FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE| tivities: | CONDUCTED SUNDAY AFT- H Completion of the sewer sys-| ERNOON j tem to make it available for | Lea ata i operation means that the No. 1| : H s disvossl plant at the corner of} Bars pone ulna Reese | % ‘died shortly after noon today at! Catherine and Thomas must be | the residence 1017 Varela street, connected electrically and an }Mr. Reese had been ill but a} operator appointed by the city ee eae ape ee el - ve he! unday afternoon from tn Nee raat ae qntiall St. Paul's church, Rev. A. B.| rom the No. « Plant on Grinne!” | Dimmick -officiating.. The exact street, electrical connection. andj hour of services will be an-} the completion:of filter beds, be-| nounced tomorrow. H sides the connecting of the} ee has a Home in charge! - * . ;of arrangements. sewer systent with residences | Tar. Reese dad biotic eosident the residents, B. Curry Moreno,'| ot Key West for the past 19. W.P.A. Area supervisor an-j years, and has been retired from | nounces to The Citizen. |United States army after 30) Twenty-four miles of sewer/| years of service. pipe line connecting all inhabited! Survivors are the widow. Mrs. areas of the city are ready to be| Lizzie Reese daughter of Mr. and FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 1939 | Argentine Breadbasket Going a little into the background now with the totalitarian nations drive to acquire great wheat and oil lands | ‘in central Europe is Argentina’s “breadbasket” where farmers like these near Buenos Aires are awaiting disposal of | Recently totalitarian nations attempted to get sizeable markets} their crop, which serves one tenth of the world. from Argentina. MRS. WM. PORTER ° DIED EARLY HOUR PRINGS IN BIG. DURING MORNING 47m 6 FUNERAL SERVICES FOR ae, WHITEHEAD 1 WEST RESIDENT WILL BE ° | Many interesting sights are to CONDUCTED TOMORROW | be seen at the local fish markets AFTERNOON {between 4 and 6 o’clock when ‘the fishing boats return with | their day's catches. After a serious illness of more’ inceaan y ot aie m Gets Baby Tarpon, Snook And Ten Pounder FISHERS SAY FEW CONCHS' GROUPER CATC WORKER QUOTA WILL INCREASE MANAGER RAUL GARCIA WOULD NOT BE QUOTED REGARDING REPORTS AN- OTHER FACTORY’S COMING | } | eeveccccces long and others eight to ten, were all placed in the Aquarium where they will soon grow to the size ,of the others in there new, which are about two feet long. One. tarpon has no tail, still can swim ; Raul Garcia, manager of the very well. Romero explains that 5. EXPECTS CIGAR Florida Fish Received (7772222224 |KEY WEST SPONGE CATCHES ADVANCE Key West sponge catches are unprecedented at this season and this weekend's sales are expected to be as | high as Most o! ie 46 boats are expected in during the week- | end after being out only a few weeks. They are all aiming toward a total of 400 bunches. Sales for the coming week are expected to go around $30,000. Last week there ‘were $26,000 sponges sold. Reports of sponge fishing is that the sponge are being ~ brought in betier than ever. CITI TTI MS SS ROY FULFORD _ DEAD; FUNERAL RITES SUNDAY | | lorry COUNCILMAN AND aon | MER COMMISSIONER DIED | AT 3:30 O'CLOCK THIS. MORNING Key West, Ficrida, has most equable climate in the country ; range of only 14° Fahrenheit placed in operation. The sewer: Mrs. John C. Lord, and a num- | lines are arranged on a gravity; ber of relatives who make their | flow.. No. 1 disposal station is} home in Texas. 18 feet deep and No. 2 22 feet} SSSR ae ee Sy deep. Sewer pipe ranges in size| eeeceesccoensescscsesesce from six to 36 inches in diameter. | Ql ! Water for the system is supplied | NEWS FLASHES i from deep salt water wells sunk in Jackson Square and supplied | —— through the municipal water-| (tty Ansvctated Press) works plant. However, it is ex-| *@@eeceroenccovsccnncose pected that most residents will} WARSAW.—Reports here have , use their own wells for running | jt that Poland will not enter any water from house connections to} military alliance pact with the sewer conections. tri-powered France, England, and Sewage passes through a screen! Russia. Poland at first would chamber at a disposal plant which | anter into no “Stop Hitler” pact screens out foreign substances such as rocks, etc. Then it passes to the sump where it is picked up by two five inch centrifugal elec- tric drive pumps working inter-} mittently and controlled by a float in the sump and electric connections y-through contact switches at each pump. .One pump long as the capacity is ‘not ‘over- taxed. When the load becomes} is to be; run» just as; with the triple-entente group un- less absolute military protection and cooperation were given ‘her. Now, after that protection was promised by the big three, she has decided not to enter into any Dr pact against Germany. This ac-; County Commission, died early tion Places her along ‘with Ru- | this morning at ‘the family resi- mania in the -iotalitarian nation orbit. ‘dence, 314 Duval street. Porter, president of the First Na- ‘many years a member of Monroe | “nearly all the catches made in first thrown into the tanks the ‘Surprise of the day, however, gir and .water since they .have was sighting a large jéwtigh. The been accustomed ‘to the water in ; fishermen quickly baited their; the din; jewfish line and with the strike! brought back. Soon, land all hands hauling at the' they straighten out | “feel line, they brought to boat a 250- | better”. and tional Bank of Key West and for | n® spot”, the fishermen report. jfish lie on the bottom gasping for Road today told The Citizen that | 52, pany in the building on County | City Councilman Roy Fulford, , a former member of Monroe | in about, 15. days, he- expected:.to ‘County Commission and one of ghey in which they are, Step the employment quota up to’ the city’s best known business- | however,’ about 50-60 persons. Twenty are men, died at 3:30 a. m. today at employed at present. In about a year, Mr. Garcia ‘his home, 2210 Staples Avenue, the with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS Catches ~ Increased But Prices Much Lower Report Shows That Fifty- Eight Million Pounds More Caught In 1937 Over Preceding Year | (By Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen WASHINGTON, D. C.. March 24.—Although: fifty-eight million ' pounds more of fishwere caught in Florida waters during 1937 than preceding value of the catch was $198,000 the year. the less, the Bureau of Fisheries ported to the Census Bureau day. Gross catch for the 1937 was 232.175,400 pounds a value of $5,050,980. Incluc the total was 21,916,500 pounds of shellfish valued -at $1,897.45 Largest single catch was 139 000 pounds of manhaden, v at $372,970. A total of 1,369 iishermen 5 igated vessels through F! waters to catch their fish du the year. In addition, 5,853 sons fished regularly from b stat {and shore, and an additional than a year, Mrs. Grace Dorgan Hundreds of pounds of black snakes often attack the baby tar- Key West-Havana Cigar Com- | — | | Porter, 62, wife of William R.'grouper were brought in with pon in the shallow ponds. When’ 372 persons were casual fish« P..0. EXAMINATION HERE TOMORROW WASHINGTON.—Congressional ‘action is leaning toward at huge Then the substances go into! budget for, agriculture expenses modified Emhoff tanks where |and has left the national legisla- digestion is started by anerobic | ture wide open for a punch from bacteria which break down the|President Roosevelt, who imme- solids and turns the sewage into| diately pointed out that it is go- sludge. The water is then drawn j ing beyond its budget. Congress off through the outfall sewer by | is expected to compromise with too great the second pump will be cut in. Funeral services will be held x é : : * pounds brown jewfish. It was from the residence at 4:40 P.M. soon killed by the spike. tomorrow and later from First, The fishermen never reveal Presbyterian Church with the where they make their catches, Rev. John C. Gekeler officiating. but it is to be presumed that it Bearers will be Charles L. Rob- a Aue reefs. as eris, Dr. William R. Warren, Rob- hangout in those spots. ert Stowers, Norberg Thompson, J. J. Romero, superintendent of Karl O. Thompson and Jerry Key West Aquarium, Wednesday gravity. The sludge runs out through filter, beds, is odorless, has quite a commercial value as fertilizer and may be used as such or hauled away and burned at the discretion of the city. There are some alleys and other streets in which there are no sewer pipes laid but these can be added to the present system at any time without interfering with the operation of the main plant. In connection with the sewer system there has also been in- stalled a water system with pipe lines laid in the same tunnel as the sewer lines.:This will the fire protection system to be used by the city, There are 121 hydrants installed in this system, which are considerable more than are in the old system. Later, if Key West gets a fresh water pipe line from the-mainland the water will be used for drinking water and also for fire protection. The Florida Keys Aqueduct Commis- sion is working on a P.W.A. loan and grant to finance the fresh water line here. MUSICIAN VISITS AT COOK ISLAND Mrs. Elizabeth Herbst, well- known musician of Bloomfield, New Jersey, is visiting Capt. and Mrs. P. A. Cook on beautiful Cook’s island near Ramrod Key. Mrs. Herbst is making her first visit to the island and is delighted with the beauty and interest of the surroundings. She has been enjoying the unequalled climate, the fishing, swimming, sunshine, and waters of the vicinity. She will remain a month. be} the President by restoring the | $150,000,000 cut from the relief | bill. Trevor. Lopez Funeral Home is \in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Porter had been in poor ATLANTA.—This city is today | without taxicab service as chauf- feurs in the Black and White Company struck, protesting a cut in their commissions. When “scabs” were run in violence rose quickly and the company | was obliged to discarge them and | stop its service. little over a year ago she suffered ,a stroke and for a iime her death | was momentarily expected. Later she rallied, but for many months was confined to her home and bed. About a week ago she took another turn for the worse and when death came shortly after midnight today it was not unex- | pected. | Mrs. Porter was born Nov. 3, : 1876, at Mobile, Alabama, 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lyman .C. Dorgan, one of the best known families. of Alabama. Mr. and |Mrs. Porter were married in the {Presbyterian Church at Mobile, }Jan. 19, 1898. They quietly ob- served their 41st wedding anni- | versary at the home two months ago. | “Besides her husband, Mrs. Por- ter is survived by one daughter, |Mrs. Wallace B. Kirke; two ;grandchildren, Jeanne 'Kirke and Caroline Randolph Kirke; a sister, Mrs. William Webster of Birmingham, Ala., who was at the bedside when death came, and two brothers, Lyman 60 | Dorgan, Mobile, and Alfred Dor- 82 ' gan, Brunswick, Georgia. 80 | In her younger days in Key 76 ' West, Mrs. Porter was one of the 84 \leading spirits in the old Key 48 |West Cotillion Club, in which 82 | was centered much of the social 64 jactivity of the city. Of late 84 lyears, until illness interrupted, 4 | Mrs. Porter had taken an active eo 82 | 58 72 Ilighest st night last 24 hours 56 70 . 54 80 . 36 42 36 44 66 76 66 62 68 Station. - Abilene Atlanta Boston | Buffalo | Charleston | Chicago \Denver . Detroit |Galveston | Havana | Hurors 3 ' Jacksonville 'Kansas City \KEY WEST _ | Little Rock | Los -Angeles | Louisville | Mpls.-St. P. New Orleans |New York | Pensacola | Pittsburgh |St. Louis |Salt Lake City San Francisco ' Seattle | Tampa Washington - | Williston 58 46 42 64 64 48 56 52 68 60 54 64 62 48 - 62 36 . 62 44 64 44 48 48 56 . 40 . 36 82 76 84 80 82 Presbyterian Qhurch, the Key | West Woman's Club and the Key | West Garden Club. “4 NOTICE PRE-EASTER SALE OF the| Porter | left for Dead Man’s Curve for |specimens and brought in many jextremely small tarpon, ten i health for a number of years. A pounders, and snook. The tarpon, and it may be that the fish and! { some of which are six i inches - TRIAL TRIP TODAY |TENDER ZINNIA BUILT FOR | SERVICE ON KEY WEST STATION Official trial trip of the new lighthouse tender Zinnia is being |made today. The vessel is a diesel propelled steel vessel con- | structed especially for lighthouse 'work on the coast of Florida. | The trial tests are being held on |the Delaware river. It is expected, it was learned at the lighthouse department headquarters, that the vessel will \be ready for final delivery to the government shortly after the !trial trips, and’ Captain H. D. King, commissioner cf light- houses, has anonunced that the jvessel will be placed in service tat Key West. The vessel, which is of medium size, will be used chiefly in serv- icing aids to navigation in the ‘relatively protected waters of the Intracoastal Water and in Tampa Bay. Henry B. Haskins, assistant superintendent of lighthouses in this district, left Monday for | Camden, N. J., to go on. board | to remain until trial test trips. today for the Colored conch fsihermen off |Whitchead street report that Said he thought there would be there are few conchs left on the about 200. persons employed at bars off the rocky shore there.’ the fectory, according to market ‘They say they have to go nearly demands. Although production all the way to Boca Chica or to has started at the factory and ad- usually the islands to the west. One yance orders have begun to come | Wee ago and left his bed. Pneu- colored fisherman is planning to get an oubtoard motor, which will be quite in, there will be no distribution t until the first box of Key West- ‘e different from the years Havana cigars made at the fae- of pulling on huge sculling oars with the hefty muscles of those; fishermen. But, time marches on,; 34 shellfish are getting fewer. 2rd M. Albury. Asked about reports that the tadiaz-Annis factory of Tampa ,is planning to come here if the _-_.... ;| Key West venture proves to be a jsuccess, Mr. Garcia would not be ; quoted. | Garcia told The Citizen that jone of the reasons the Key West 1 GIVEN HEARIN ‘factory. has been established is that the name “Key West cigars” | Toe ay is in high repute. Again, the cli- ,CHARGED WITH TAKING matic conditions Bete are highly MONEY AT SUGAR LOAF desirable, -he said. Tobacco should FISHING CLUB ;be of a smooth velvety texture Regs EE {when it is ‘being made up into James Mins, ‘colored, was cigars, . If Rheneths cold weather brought to the city last night by | the texture will be changed en- Deputy Sheriff Fred Johnson, |tirely and it may get so brittle charged with ‘taking $44 which | that a great deal of it cannot be was the property of the Sugar | Used. Key West’s warm weather ieeal will save a great deal on pro- Loaf Fishing Club. | duction ‘cests Mr. Johnson said that Mins} Tobacco used is of the finest had been given a thorough quiz-| quality and is 100 percent im- zing by him and had eventually | ported. broken down and confessed to the robbery, and before he was COURT MEETS given preliminary hearing this morning had made _ complete; restitutidn of his theft. i ! Mins had $40 left from the; |sum, and said he had given the} rest to a friend to make some} purchases. The other $4 were Criminal court met this morn- made good by a check which he | ing at 9:30 o'clock with Judge} turned over to the deputy from | William Y. Albury presiding and | which the amount was secured. 'all officers of the court present. Arraigned before Peace Justice | _ Immediately afterward the Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., this; judge announced recess ‘until to- morning, Mins reiterated the!morrow morning 9:30 o'clock, acknowledgement of having | because of the | stolen the money, and was bound William R. Porter, wife of a term of criminal'commissioner and Roy Stephen ‘ulford, former commissioner. NOTICE to the death of Mr. the present ‘court. Arthur Pastorini, local seer: tary of the Civil Service board will meet tomorrow morning at 8:30 o'clock in the civil servicc room at the Key- West postofficc and conduct the competitive ex amination, for’ the position of postmaster. Those ‘who are listed for the examination and whose +names i after a short illness of pneu- | monia. Councilman Fulford ten days jago complained of a heavy cold ‘and underwent treatment. He j seemed on the road to recovery a |monia struck and he had been in ja serious condition for four days | when he died. tory is presented to Mayor Wil- 4 AND RECESSES, geath of Mrs.j ; The funeral will be held at | 4:30 p. m. Sunday at the Lopez |Funeral Home chapel, with the Rev. Joe A. Tolle of First Metho- | dist Church officiating. Bearers | will be the surviving members of ‘city council, Earl Adams, William: 'L. Doughtry, Jr., William Free- {man, William Monsalvatge, Jim | Roberts and Will E. P. Roberts. | The flag at city hall was placed jat halfmast this morning when ‘news of his -unexpected® death ‘reached city 6fficials.), Ondvof the {first to reach, the Fulford home jto offer condolances was Fire ,Chief Harry Baker, representing the members of the department. Councilman Fulford had been jchairman of the fire committee {of council and long had worked in close harmony and cooperation with the members of the depart- ment. Councilman Fulford was born jhere, the son of former Fire Chief and Mrs. Hyam Fulford. Chief Fulford also served as city engi- ;neer and was one of Key West’s ;most outstanding citizens. | After school, Councilman Ful- ‘ford entered the employ of the Key West Gas Company and served in various capacities. When he retired some years ago to enter the poultry business he was assistant manager of the) company. Mr. Fulford was ac- tive in business up to the day he was stricken by illness. | For many years Councilman Fulford had been active politic-| ally. His first public office was as a member of city council dur- | served as a member of Monroe; County Commission for four years, 1931-1934. He was re-| elected member of city council in | | November, 1937. | Councilman Fulford is survived | interest in the affairs of First|the vessel for an inspection and over in bond of $100 for trial at/former member of the county;ing 1927 and 1928. Later he- have been sent to the secretary from Washington are’ Sam Har- ris, the incumbent; Fred J. Dion and Frank Delaney. The law which governs civil service examination postmaster provides that the successful candidate in the ex amination is to remain in office for a life tenure, provided the rules are not changed, or the in- cumbent is not removed - for cause. The name of the successful can- didate is forwarded’ to the United States sénate for con- firmation and if such’ action taken the appointment by President is assured. SPONGE SALES HELD TODAY There were but few offerings of sponge on the Municipal dock this morning, the total consisted of 23 bunches of wool and nine bunches of yellow. Largest sale was of 12 bunches of wool which brought a price of approximately $3.88 the bunch, or $46.66 for the 12 bunches. Rest of the wool offerings sold for regular prices, and the en- tire lot brought $67.37. The wool offering of nine bunches sold for $3.75. the for the FAULT-FINDER LOS ANGELES — “No matter where we were he would al- ways pick a quarrel at dinner be- cause of the way I handled my fork,” said Mrs. E. H. Moore in her divorce suit. DANCE Visiting Ball Team From UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA CUBAN CLUB TONIGHT—9:30 O'CLOCK Admission, 75 ‘ree by his wife; one daughter, De-! ‘ORD POULTRY FARM | lores; one brother, Arthur, of Mi-| cease business operations |#mi; and five sisters, Mrs. Roy S.; the next three or four day /|Faulkner, Mrs. Nellie Dobargafies, Mrs. Raymond Cabrera and Mrs. Signed, Mrs. Roy Fulford. |John Dyson of Key West, and mar24-1t Mrs. Olivia Gordon of Tampa. TOUR...PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124 | Notice is hereby given that, ithe City of Key West will not! jhonor any bills unless same are | Gardnér’s Pharmacy jcovered by a city purchase or- The Rexall Store \der. Miami, Fla.|534 Duval St. Phone wr le OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS-FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES-$10 ALL’ EXPENSE TWO-DAY Ahern Funeral Home Aero-Car Ambulance Service “Air Cooled” AMBULANCE SERVICE Phone 22211 FINE CANDIES cial | Excellent. Record Holding Guide Ed. Barry Permanently at Perky, Fla. EXCELLENT