The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 28, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire ‘ > For 59 Years Devoted to the E 4 ry P&S T IZPi Best Int¢rests of Key West ae = THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, ESDAY, MARCH 28, 1939 BLIGHT MENACING. |Loyalist Madrid: Falls Joyfully ae nh To Generalissimg, Franco’s Forces 472222222. VOLUME LX. No. 74. | Zoning Enabling Act Given wr miu were torino ee = te Approval Of City Couneil ED WHICH CANNoT BE Ex-| JACKSONVILLE AS | Trucks; Loyalist Gasae- = - remo ov areas SITE FOR AIRBASE, as Exane; Allows, INTENSE STUDIES SELECT CREW Fer Oher Mates Wer MEMBERS FOR —dDscussed_ During Spe- IN INDUSTRY Mussolini ‘Gratified’ OF LOC Al SCENES aribase by a 15 to 7 vote. Mee tac ee | —-- Last Night Chairma: ‘inso: ! lo ie \- crat of Genesa. eaten arene Fr parr a, | ARTISTS OF KEY WEST sO- ee | janco of the Spanish CIETY PRESENT ANOTHER Rebels but instead of opposition | the vote would instruct the house conferees to accept the | GROUP OF LOCAL SUBJECT Franco fi i i ranco found only wildly dancing) sarTER; ACTIVE COLONY | Criminal, Court Met This — Morning; One Case Heard ‘Colored Defendant Given PP OOOO OOS Sentence Of 60 Days In ©OGD FISHING ON ' | ROUGHEST DAY HERE: Jail; Sands’. Case ‘Set as | For Tomorrow Mrs. M. S. Kitsmiller, On- arga, Illinois and W. J. Keene of Chicago fished on the Bay- way with Capt. Reggie Trevor on the “Madeline” and en- joyed a catch of 24 fish, and this on the roughest day with the milliest water Key West usually has. Which \ (By Axnociated Press) WASHINGTON, March 28. —The house naval commit- Captains and crews of vessels - tee approved Jacksonville as (By Associated Press) {which gain their livelihood from igathering sponge in the waters: |of Florida in this section, are {amazed and astounded at the ap- | ;Parent blight which has played | | t Criminal court of record for! WILL LEAVE SHORTLY FOR CAMDEN. NEW JERSEY. TO BOARD LIGHTHOUSE TEND- ER ZINNIA Monroe county met this morning | with Judge William V. Albury/ usually has. Which soceba ‘havoe with the sponge beds. | sebeiding: ‘and -elliolfials.of.the| OEEGT. mhtcek ee as, | Captains andanembers of sev- ! fe s! = jeral crews say they are appalled “ner S | Oceanside, you can fish the | | Hi i The City Council at a specie! meeting held last sight ap proved the propesed Zoning En Jacksonville site if the senate wrote it into the omnibus airbase bill. at the menace which is now! Gulf in Key West. If it’s {facing them and for which they | There was but one case sched- ; uled for hearing, and this was the ; case of James Mins, colored,} charged with the theft of $44 from! the fishing camp.at Perky, Fla. | Mins was, arrested last week and brought to the city by Depu- } ty Sheriff Fred Johnson, who; quizzed him after his arrest and! secured the return of $40 and! got a confession of the theft. ‘The balance of $4 was returned after! the accused reached Key West} by his turning over to the deputy! a check which covered the} amount of the theft. | Upon being arraigned this morning Mins entered a plea of | guilty and was sentenced by the judge to serve 60 days in thej| county jail at hard labor. | The case scheduled for hearing tomorrow is that of Eugene} Sands, charged with having slot| machines in his possession at his| place of business at Marathon. i HUGE SAWFISH IS CAPTURED CAUGHT BY DR. JOHNSON AND PARTY AT END OF LONG KEY BRIDGE | Dr. C. W. Johnson, a regular} winter visitor to Key West, and; party landed a huge sawfish{ while fishing at the south end of! Long Key bridge last week. The| line used was 7-8 inch rope with| large shark hook and baited with; mullet. | The party went after jewfish | but caught the sawfish instead,' which is believed to be the larg-' est taken in these waters this! winter. It was 16 feet long and} the saw blade was four feet Jong. i It took the combined efforts of! 12 people to get the fish from! the water, and with the hook in| its mouth and rope i wrapfied | around the saw and tail, the ani-' rough in the Gulf you can fish the Oceanside. All ac- cording to the wind. In the catch were gags, black and red grouper, red snapper and a small jewfish. P. S. the party liked the fish- ing. Tarpon fishing is just around the corner. A few anglers now and then are dropping around to ask about how they’re running. In Key West spring the tarpon be- gin to come into the hun- dreds of channels in the im- mediate vicinity of Key West. They skulk in the deeps of the channels during the light parts of the day then come to the surface to feed on the flats and channel surfaces as dark falls. Best time is just at twilight. To the real sports fisher- man, it is have you caught your tarpon yet? Or have you caught your sailfish? When you've caught these two you're among the better anglers. Both are wonderful sport, with the “big silver” perhaps a shade the better fighter. PIPL PRD AL ol STRANGE DOINGS NOTED AMONG BASIN YACHTSMEN NIGHT CLUB WORKER AND BOAT OWNER EAT IN TUX- EDO; CREW AWAITS UN- DERWATER PICTURES At the Yacht Basin this week are many interesting activities of skippers and boatmen. On one boat, yacht captains off the spic and span varnish and deck paint boats which come into the Basin are surprised to see a jare unable to give any. satisfac- ltory explanation. All they are ‘able to say is that different beds have been attacked by the blight and thousands of sponges,.have ; been ruined. |. In the waters of Card. Sound, Barnes Sound, the “Lakes”. and “Spots” and even on the New Grounds, the sponge have been affected by the blight. Thou- sands of them having died and literally fallen to pieces. Old timers who have been in the business since boyhood say they have never before experi- enced anything like it. They say that in some instances the hooks are attached to the sponge and when the pull is started to remove the sponge from the bed, the growth comes away in slivers and strings. : All kinds of explanations have been offered, some are of the opinion that water which is fresh has run into the ocean from some unknown source, and is respon sible for the wholesale destruc- tion. Others are of the opinion that some kind of acid which has been thrown overboard in large quantities from a ship is respon- sible. Not only have the.<spenges been affected, some of the men ;have said, but reports have been received by members. of crews that there are thousands of fish floating in the water without any jplausible explanation for the cause of their death being ad- vanced. One member of a boat’s per- .sonnel seen in the bus station this morning told The Citizen that never before has it ,been necessary to wipe off a water glass, but now the glass becomes ‘covered with some kind of slimy film and it is impossible at times j to see the beds clearly. | News has been received by ‘Key Westers from relatives in the Bahama Islands, that prac- tically the same condition exists in that section and that thou- ‘sands of dollars worth of sponges have been lost, but no explana- tion is advanced as a cause for the terrible losses which are be- ing sustained by those who gain their livelihood from this type of mal began theshing and strug-| blue and-white, not 50 graceful, ! work. gling and in doing so struck one Key West,boat with ‘a’ captain! of the members of the party on seated at a table clad in immacu-j the leg, inflicting painful injury. In the party landing the enor- mous fish were Dr. and Mrs. and Joseph G. Moretti, of Mi-° ami; H. A. Hindered, of Qalsh, Ul; Mr. and Mrs, Howard, Woodstock, New Hampshire; Mr. still at the Basin and this morn-j Charjeston and Mrs. H. L. Wiley, of Thorn- ing were attempting to put up a! Chicago ton, N. H.; Mrs. Eleanor O’Brien lightning rod on-the mainmast.|Denver *_. of Detroit, daughter of Dr. and) after which they chatted with the | Mrs. Johnson. This was Dr. Johnson's second experience of landing a big fish; in these waters. His first was; the season of 1938, while fishing with Captain Wm. Wickers off Sand Key. He hooked a nine and one-half foot shark, which weigh-| ed 750 pounds. { The doctor said that he is won- dering if he can equal this record | while spending his vacation in Key West and on the Florida Keys. He said that after landing the big fish the party was re- warded with a catch of several jacks and three jewfish. HAS FAMILY DOCTORS KENDALLVILLE, Ind. — Four generations of Dr. Williamses have treated Daniel R. Wisel, 101-; year-old Civil War veteran. The latest is Dr. H. O. Williams. The others were his great father, late tuxedo in the afternoons. | This ‘captain, however, is not at-! Johnson, of Lawton, Mich.; Dr.' tempting to be merely stylish. “It! Carl P. Arant, Wm. H. Schmidt,! is only that he works in a local| Abifene night club. Crew of the Elsie Fenjmore are reporter about the underwater color movies they are soon to be- gin taking. The owner, however, is still in Philadelphia and will not be here until April when they will take some of the shots here and later most of them in the Bahamas. The Dept. of Interior vessel “F. W. Meade” was laying over} waiting for its trip to Dry Tor- tugas this morning with the crew speculating on the latest W.P.A. |orders for workmen on the old | Pittsburgh |Fort. Formerly workmen had 15' st Louis {days at the Fort and 15 days in sait Lake City 'Key West. Now they must work! san Francisco '35 hours a Week there. Which:is| Scattle 3 hard on the home folks and “cuts down somewhat on salary con- sumption. This is a headache of W-P.A. officials. Mrs. F. E. Nixon on the Wharf Rat was this. morning panting grand- rather well pictures of the purple} Dr. Nathan Williams; Parrot fish of the Key West Aqua-jthis city was arrested for libel \ eecesseeeseeee Lowest Highest Station: - last night last 24 hours _ 62 82 . 52 32 24 . 62 _. 30 . 18 . 24 | Atlanta | Boston | Buffalo Detroit Galveston Havana Huron a Jacksonville Kansas City — KEY WEST _ Little Rock Los Angeles Louisville Miami ___ Mpls.-St. P. |New Orleans _ |New York | Pensacola _ | Tampa 3 | Washington __ Williston ARRESTED FOR LIBEL LONDON — Robert Mawler of BSSBSsessesyxsssasa: SRSSKSLSRSSSSSsVeseyl age grandfather, Dr. S. T. Williams, Tium. She intends to do some of ‘because he spread gossip about and father, Dr. Warren §. Wil- each of the colorful squares at the/a neighbor based on things Mrs. liams. Aquarium. _ i CELLENT OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS--FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES-$10 ALL EXPENSE TWO-DAY TOUR...PRICE TOURS 505 DUVAL STREET-PHONE 124 |Mawler had said in her sleep. i ‘and singing crowds in the center | 1 had, hud hokubeulia e city. welcoming him. ; This week’s exhibition of the j', For the people were tired of Key West Society of Artists at COURT HOUSE jhunger and bombs. Today a long! the Community Art Center has 1 ANNEX T0 BE line of food trucks are pouring 2M interesting range of subject { jinto the city with rations. There matter. } H FINISHED SOON: frequent famine in the city to aby, Saou aes, who. came ‘ : the city and was intrigued ‘during the many sieges. vith th i General Franco has said that ih i telly aatne oe ecaiel ‘ALL WORK WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETED BY MAY ‘5: the city and surrounding ocea {he will pardon all Loyalist sol-\has been turning out 1 oe MAKING READY TO MOVE DIFFERENT OFFICES diers who lay down their arms. stream of watercolors. Among provided they are not guilty of those at the Center this week is crimes. one of “Lowe’s Wharf” with a Former Knig Alfonso, who was fisher boat in vivid red and ousted by the present Loyalist, white colors alongside the dock. Weigel declared himself as'A colored fisherman dangles a :8ratified with the capture. King line into the water. The gray ; Alfonso may be King of Spain dock stands high out of water ‘under the Franco regime. and’ the water is amazingly Generals Miaja and Quesada smooth. Another excellent pic- have fled to Valencia and are be- ture is that of the “Turtle lieved to have boarded warships | Schooner”. for escape to France. They com- Vining Sherman, just a year manded the Madrid defenses. out of college, spent it in com- Premier Mussolini of Italy,’ ™ercial fishing with Capt. Paul while reviewing a massing of 18,- Demeritt. His “Cap ’n Me” 000 pilots of the Italian army, 3.- Shows the low lying fishing 000 of whom had fought against !aunch out in the Stream beyond {the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil 5804 Key trolling for kingfish. It War, was also much gratified to = faintly manos a ‘hear the ews of the fall. aout eee oy ged eye ae ichiana are amusing studies eae salprcigiiang , boats.and--children on the beach the preparations now. going..encé of J. P. Kennedy, Jr., in Ma~ 1° is @ Bay touch. ‘ ahead: by Judge . Reymond, R.|drid” He said that he worried be-_,,* '@FB® Photo of “Porter Dock Lord: wie is expecting to aime }catise thers was little riews from Be eer a baer the fixtures and the mass ‘of, the area. Kennedy, Jr, it is be-! trying to tanita) belie, Wor: volumes into the vault of his see-| #@ved. will remain in Madrid. “Junele Town” by J. F. Putnam tion the latter part-of the week. . is a fine piece of work on the graying, old houses on the west to the entire northwest énd - of side of town, where the first the annex and if it were not that! houses sprung up alongside the the paint which is being applied TENNESSEE FOLK GREATLY ENJOY STAY IN IS- LAND CITY Construction of the annex to , the county court house is rapidly nearing completion and will be completed and ready for oc- cupancy by May 5, which is the date set by the Public Works Administration, was the _ state- ment made this morning by En- gineer Inspector Charles Baker. However some of the offices will be occupied before that ship channel. “Peter Roberts to the walls of the vault, is not Wharf” by Alice Dudley shows fast drying would have been; the old fish dresser at his work moving in tomorrow. It is ex- in his little shell at the head of pected that the fixtures will all a rambling dock. “Back Yard” be in readiness for moving in is a day’s wash scene in the back by the last of the week or the! yard of a Key West island shanty first part of next week. ;by Martha Watson and is drip- The office of Tax Assessor J. ping with vivid color of tropical Otto Kirchheiner is to be moved light shades. into the spacious quarters in’ “We have enjoyed our visit to.. The Key West Society of Art- that section of the annex opposite Key West i , ists comprises the most of the to that to be occupied by Judge mie sorry Eee. oe aa artists’ colony in Key West. It Lord, but Mr. Kirchheiner didijonger to spend in this delight-, members know the city pretty not say just when he would start ful city. We came to spend one Well. Most of them depend on moving the equipment of his of- day, and yesterday completed , distribution of commercial phases fice into the new quarters. jour ninth”, said C. O. Tankard of of theif’ work and many are em- Office of Tax Collector Frank! Nashville, Tenn., who left over Ployed with the Federal Art Ladd is to be moved into the the highway this morning, with 'Project_ here, , Through the .city. ‘quarters now occupied by the| Mrs. Tankard. “ each yéar" passes at,Jeast 50-art- office of the county judge and it! Just after arriving in Key West ists who spend some time paint- is understood that moving of the Mr. ‘Tankard visited the office of in& Key West scenes: amt « the office and fixtures will be started "The Citizen and said he wanted ™0Ving on-..Many of them make as soon as moving operations to visit the office of the news- themselves. acquainted with the have been completed by Mr.|paper which told the truth about Key West Art Colony. Lord. The vault which is in the the city with no embellishments ae eee office of the county judge will or misleading statments. BROTHERS HAVE be utilized for the large array of; Mr and Mrs. Tankard were papers and records kept by the visiting in Orlando when they | tax collector. |read the folder printed by the! | Office of Sheriff K. O. Thomp- Artman Press for the Chamber! son is to be moved with his rec-' of Commerce, and they agreed, jords, which are very voluminous that if the folder told the truth; into the atiiers sccreed by the | that was the place they wanted ALL THREE WERE BORN ON tax collector and assessor, and to visit if only for a day. AME IFFER. {they will be put into condition’ «That we remained nine days = Sie isles ? ; With certain changes made to and are not at all anxious to} ENT YEARS !accommodate the sheriff and his jeaye, is proof that we found | force. z : everything as pictured and you; | There are two offices in the may rest assured that we will (My Ansorinted Prenat ‘annex which have not been 8S- tell our friends what a delightful | DELMAR, Md., March 28.—It’'s signed as yet to any officials of | place Key West is” they said be-'a better than fair bet that a ‘the county, but it is understood fore leaving. | birthday for any one of the three ‘that officials of the court may — |Long boys—George of Delmar, joccupy these, when the entire! EVERY WOMAN FOR PEACE | William of Salisbury, and Cur- building is ready for occupancy. ere tis of New York—doesn’t go by Office of Clerk Ross C. Sawyer: DINNIPEG _ Every woman} unnoticed. is to undergo some changes, and should belong to some peace or-| All three were born on March after being remodelled and made ganization with a definite pro-}1 George in 1907, William in ;feady for occupancy will occupy gram for peace. Miss Mary Bel-! 1911, and Curtis in 1914. pine entire south wing of the orig-jlert of Vancouver, president of And the brothers shouldn't for- ‘inal court house building, and |the Pan-American Peace Union, = = get the birth date of their sister, jwill be one large office. told a group of club women. Mrs. Lewis Melson of Delmar— born on the fourth of July. DREAMS OF DISASTER | LIVERPOOL, Eng—A woman _who said she still dreamed of a collision two years ago in which .she was pinned upright by :debris, was awarded $8,478 in an SAME BIRTHDAY Permaneaily at Perky, Fla. action against a steamship com- pany. ‘ Superintendent William W. De- meritt of the Seventh Lighthouse District today furnished The Citizen with the list of officers jand other personnel who been assigned toe be sent to Cam- den, N. J., to bring the Tender Zinnia to Key West for duty in this section. Commanding officer of the ship will be Captain W. C. Banks, transferred from the Tender Poppy, and Captain L. R. Muse. ,who has been detailed from the Ivy to make the trip south Arthur Sheppard, Jr., the first officer, Herman R. Demeritt is the engineer and Marius Cruz, jis the assistant. Edmund Sawyer ‘assistant engineer of the Ivy, and Carl Rom, chief radio electrician, and Willard Albury, assistant store room keeper, have been as- signed to the Zinnia to make the itrip to Key West i Quartermasters will be Robert |R. Knowles, Albert Roberts and {Esmond Sawyer. Oilers Ray- |mond G. Navarro and Harty) Pritchard. Seamen Andrew De-) have | Yglesias and ~ William’ ’ 4 'Jr. Cook Thomas S. Mjngo and ‘Mess Attendant , Robert Sands. | Mr. Demeritt said that yester- |day afternoon he had, received} ‘notice fram Henry, B. Haskins, assistaht superiritendtnt, who jwent to Camden to watch the ship during her trials on March | 24, and the report was that the; vessel came up to expecta- tions. ! All that is needed is for the anchor chains to be added to the equipment of the Zinnia and the, vessel will be in readiness for the trip south. As soon as notice is received, said the superintendent, that the ship is ready for the crew, they will be sent to Miami and from there via Florida East | Coast to Camden, N. J WEINTRAUB AND _ ESPERDY RETURN i |HAD BEEN ATTENDING DEM- { | Isadore L. Weintraub, presi dent, and John A. Esperdy repre- sented Morroe County at the Young Democratic Club Conven- tion at Ocala last Friday and Sat- urday, returning to Key West |Sunday. Weintraub was appoint- |ed to membership of the | committee of the organization State officers elected were sup- ‘ported by membership of the local club. All state cabinet of- ficers were present at the con- vention. Principal speaker on the program was J. Francis Reilly of Washington, D. C. STEAMER DUE HERE TONIGHT Radiograms received at the of- |fice of the Mallory Lines this jmorning are to the effect that the Steamship Colorado, which was due to arrive at this port this morning will not reach here until 7 o'clock this evening. The vessel is from New York with freight for Key West and Tampa. rules duced for passage im the legis lature by Representative B. C Papy. The act in question woul grant to the city powers im addi tion to these contained m charter to regulate and restri ight, number of stomes and ize of builds tures percent may be occupied, the yards, courts and other spaces It would also include the den- sity of population and the reg ulation and buridings structures and jand for trade. in dustry Poses, granting powers to carry into effect such regulations and restrictions, to sect up and pro vide, for boards or officers for the of admumustering ine use of residence or other pur . purpose meritt, - Eugene. Knowltiy J@8¢7 gning powers, and to grant the city powers to punish vielaters of any ordinances pertaiming zoning, with various other visions embodied im ure pr Discuss Finances A general discussion tered into relative to with tax matters also heard duging the session After disposing af a few matters .¢f minor importance meetih’ was ordered adjour was Ar probably recogni Spain The this country consist captured shortly Re until a force ha: the country and he it can keep order Queen Elizabeth visit Niagara Falls S. After being greet Cordell Hull they wt to Washington by tr WASHINGTON. Roosevelt fave two disclosed thi with Admiral Wm The approval came elation by the Presider er foreign countries a battleships more than Six new 35,000-ton U hips are being built at pre: CLEVELAND.—CIO’s nat convention will not elect year's officers until the fina of its sessions. Today it is sidering the Chrysier plant em- ployer and laborer demands. This is the second day it has been m session. day con WASHINGTON.— Congress fav- ors granting of farm parity to the amount of $250,000.00. Rehef ad- vocates had attempted to join forces with farmers, and get also its $150,000,000 “cut” beck, but farmers revolted NEW YORE—In 2 National Safety Council convenfion it was revealed that there are 32 per- cent less accidents this year in New York than were there lest year. Six thousand persons are attending the convention.