The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 7, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 83. Che erky Transfers Property To County Granting Right Of Way To | Cont Issue Of Long - Standing Brought To Conclusion At Meeting Conducted Last Night \ last night transferred to Monroe county by a fee simple deed} Properties portions of which will be built the highway from Big Pine Key running to over Key West. The documents, of the | transfer were signed at a recessed | | sioners by Attorney W. Curry; meeting of the county commis- Harris for the county, Attorney. J. Lancelot Lester for Perky, and H. V. Bate, as secretary of the | R. C. Perky Interest, ated. Incorpor- | The meeting was called at 9:15/ o'clock with the attorneys present! with Mr. Bate, and the following | members of the board: Chairman j Bervaldi, Commissioners Warren, | Monsalvatge and Curry; Clerk Sawyer and Chief Deputy Waite. Following a short conference, between the attorncys and Secre-' tary Bate, and a comparison and check of the corrected papers,} which were not signed - on the. night previous, Mr. Harris an-{ nounced that the matter had been! concluded to the satisfaction of everyone concerned and the pa- pers were ready for presentation. The meeting was called to or- der and the reading of the reso- lutions in connection with the transfer of the property was started by Clerk Sawyer. The resolutions set forth that the county was indebted to the Perky Interests for marl used and the sum of indebtedness was $3,- 852.28. Acknowledgement of the payment of the debt was ordered and the vote was unanimous. Payment of the indebtedness of the county to the Perky Inter- ests, as provided by the resolu- tions, will require the sum of $3,852.28, and will pay for Mur- phyizing the Perky holdings, and this action will cancel the tax in- debtedness of Perky, which amounts to approximately $100,- 000. The payment of the amount for Murphyizing the property has been undertaken by the following with the amounts contributed as follows: Ross C. Sawyer, $1,670; F. H. Ladd. $718.58; Wm. F. Ma- loney, $783.70; L. P. Artman, $680. Check was received from Miss Ileen Williams, FERA liquidator, with a statement setting for col-| lections amounting to $43.50, with expenditures totalling $8.70. The! balance of $3480 was ordered} turned over to Clinic. Last Obstacle Removed Transfer of the Perky proper- ties and those of allied interests removes the last obstacle to the‘ continuation of the road by the| State Road Department from; Big Pine Key toward Key West. ! In Noyember 1936 the State Road Department obtained the abandoned right of way of the Florida East Coast Railway to Key West. However, there was nothing said of the revertible clause‘in the old deed which (Continued on Page Four) PROVIDED IN WILL HAMILTON, Canada—By the will of the late Mrs. Cecilia Hill of this city, $50 was ordered set aside from her estate to pay the traveling expenses of a friend, Mrs. Margaret Farrell of Chi-, cago, to and from the funeral. RETURNS TO CITY Carl Rom, chief radio electri- cian at the lighthouse depart- ment, returned to the city last night from -Port Everglades: where he had been to make cer- tain changes in the range lights.: inue Highway American Legion Makes Third Appearance In Parade Last Night In Convention Drive! nc. rety wasted temas SPONGE SALE AT MUNICIPAL DOCK |TOTAL OF OFFERINGS FOR DAY CLOSE TO EIGHT HUNDRED DOLLARS Several vessels unloaded their catches of sponges at the Muni- cipal dock this morning for con- sideration of the local buyers and if all prices had been accepted the sale would have totalled re- turns of $955.11. There were on the dock 186 bunches of wool sponge, running from one to 94 bunch lots, and 19 bunches of yellow. Highest price paid for wool was for a lot of 94 bunches for which a price of $581.89, or approximately .19 per bunch was accepted. The next largest lot consisted of 36 bunches of fine wool. There was offered for this lot $216.66, or approximately $6.02 the bunch which was refused. Total returns from the sale was $738.45. INSTALL. NEW OFFICERS B. P. O. Elks 551 held the in- stallation of officers, who were newly elected to serve the en- suing year, last night in the rooms of the lodge on Duval street, and there was quite an appreciable attendance. Those who were installed were: Dr. H. C. Galey, Exalted Ruler; C. Rodney Gwynn, Esteemed Leading Knight; 1 Weintraub, Esteemed Loyal Knight; C. G. Hicks, Esteemed Lecturing Knight; George O. Lucas, Secre- tary; Morris Holtsberg, Treasur- er; Newten Curry, Tiler. The newly installed officers each briefly addressed their brother members and _ earnestly solicited the support of the lodge during the ensuing year. Following the address delight- ful refresiments were served; and an enjoyable hour was spent by all. Making their third public ap- pearance in three nights, the members of Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American Legion, last jevening went before City Coun- ‘cil and were assured of the ac- tive co-operation of the muni- cipal government in the cam- paign to bring the 1940 state con- jvention of the Legion to Key West. Previously the Legionnaires here had been given the finan- cial and co-operative blessings of the Chamber of Commerce and the County Commission and they plan to make a strong bid for next year’s state gathering at next week’s meeting of the Le- gion at Fort Lauderdale. A sort of dress rehearsal of the Arthur Sawyer Post campaign to be waged at Fort Lauderdale will be staged here Saturday eve- ning. Led by the Post's Pirate Band, the Legionnaires will parade from their clubhouse at the foot of Whitehead street, to United street, to Duval street, to Fleming street, to Whitehead yand thence back to the starting point. The parade will move at :7:30 p. m. and will clear the downtown streets by 8:30 p. m. jaccording to arrangements an-. ‘nounced by the Convention Com- 'mittee headed by Chairman Al Mills. Every block the parade will jhalt to enable the Key West thumba dancers to stage the same act they plan to put on during the state parade at Fort Lauderdale and in a number of personal appearances in the Fort Lauderdale hotels and night clubs. The band will play the music for the dancers. Members of the Convention Committee hope to be able to have Representative Pat Cannon of Miami, who represents this district in Congress, make Key West’s plea for the 1940 conven- tion before the Legion delegates a week from tomorrow. No other city in Congressman Cannon’s district is seeking next year’s meeting and he is regarded as the logical man to submit the Key West proposal. While some members of the Convention Committee and the Arthur Sawyer Post delegates to the convention will leave here next Tuesday for Fort Lauder- dale, the band and the bulk of the Key West Legionnaires plan to begin their trek north Friday morning. : SCHOONER INTO and an engaging crew of comic Cape Codders make ATT MTT DNL D RI)yKR eV Nhe Nh ed ae to by Phoebe Atwood Taylor STARTS TODAY IN THIS PAPER WATER TONI MOVES SLOWLY DOWN TEM- PORARY WAYS ABOUT 30 FEET SINCE 11 A. M. Cable Schooner “Western Union”, newly built, moved down the temporary cradle built for it, at 11 o'clock this morning but by 2:30 this afternoon had pro- |8ressed toward the water only about 30 feet. ‘ Temporary “cradles usually launch vessels very slowly since Pressure by heavy jacks from ithe lower foundation against the jeradle results only in moving it \a few inches at a time. It is ex- ‘Pected that the schooner, how- jever, will be in the water jnightfall. The “Powers”, vessel —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1939 ati Troops Repu |AFFECTS 49; F. McKINLEY SLAPPED BY SULLY OCHAN- DARENA THIS MORNING Orders have been received at the headquarters of the WPA to remove from the rolls 49 workers, of whom there are 44 men and five, women. Some of the workers take the layoff philosophically but the at- titude of at least one of thé men was entirely different as:demon- strated by his actions this morn- ing when, in front of headquar- | ters, he slapped the face of F. H. | McKinley. j Seen later Sully Ochandarena, the slapper, said he was angry at ; the thought of being removed | from the list of WPA employes as he had done nothing to warrant this, and said that he lost his temper and did not realize what had happened until it was brought to his thoughts that he had twice slapped McKinley. Other employes who were’ in the vicinity at the time rushed over to the men, and the diffi- (culty was quickly settled. ALY@E B. LEFT AFTER SEASO | ESTEE GIVEN PRESENT BY FISHING CAPTAINS Sixty-five foot excursion fish- ing boat Alyce B left last night ; for Miami after spending the sea- ‘son operating out of this port. The Alyce B will probably return , next year, Mrs. Ellison told The Citizen. At the City Charter Pier, Pfleuger representative Bill Weg- ;mer, who this year has been | working mightily in the interests of the Key West charter boat fleet, was presented with a box of Key West cigars and a beauti- jful suitcase as a token of the gratitude of the captains of the fleet. Wegner has been stimulating {the fishing possibilities in Key West waters among the many visitors who come here. He has also furnished matter for many newspaper and radio stories of Key West fishing. He leaves “Sunday going to Miami for a short stay and then to the New | Jersey fishing coast. He expects :to return next season. |. TEMPERATURES. . i Lowest Highest | Station— last night last 24 hours | Abilene 32 46 | Atlanta 36 66 {Boston - . 38 50 ‘ Buffalo 24 40 jCharleston ___ 56 74 | Chicago 24 34 Denver 32 42 | Detroit 24 38 |Galveston 46 60 : Havana _ Huron 38 | Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST ‘Little Rock |Los Angeles Louisville _ | Miami = | Mpls.-St. P. New Orleans {New York __ 32 } Pensacola . 46 |Pittsburgh ___. St. Louis - 28 24 60 32 7s 2 a 36 68 28 76 20 46 | : omew aiemdedde Albania; LaterWictorious Bil] To Impose Occupational LAYOFF ORDERED. ‘tre Italian Army Sent! ON WPA ROLLS Key West Citizen THE ‘SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Repulsed In City Council Votes To Sponsor lery Fire More Successful | | (Ry Associated Presa) ROME, April 7.—After ‘touted back toward their ships on first landing by Albanians de- fending their country, Italian treops later took two Albanian! jcities today as planes bombed civilian town mercilessly and heavy ‘Italian artillery, went into action. King Zog of Albania disclosed plans to fight to the end and to ‘tiimself lead the Albanian troops resisting Italian invasion which jbegan this morning. However, the did present Mussolini with a counter proposal of peace which Was rejected. “Another Ethiopia” was little Albania today as its 12,600 army battled an Italian force almost three times that number together with 700 tanks and 400 airplanes. !The Albanian air fleet is com- | posed of only two airplanes. | Italian spokesmen reiterated, however, that the planes would not bomb civilian centers, al- {though Albanian officials report- ed many such cases. In other countries of continent- al Europe considerable alarm was felt. Jugoslavia, a country which would be hemmed in by enemies ;on all sides if Albania is taken, |held special assemblies far into |‘ the night and Rumanian officials appeared alarmed. Meanwhile, in Washington re- |ports of the government indicated ‘that $192,500,000 of foreign gold }Was pouring into. the country from recent war scares with over $150,000,000 coming from Eng- land. PLANNING STATE MUSIC FESTIVAL ; TAMPA, Aprii 7 (FNS).—A record attendance is expected here for the annual State High School Music Festival April 20 and 21. John Pollard, assistant principal of Hillsborough High School and Festival manager, states that entries of school or- chestras have already established an all-time high, and that addi- tional units are being entered this week. “From the number and known quality of school Glee Clubs list- ed so far, this division of the Festival should also be exception- lally good”. said Pollard. “State- | wide participation in this year’s jevents is particularly gratifying, | too”, he “The east coast i will beerepresented by ~ school ‘units from Miami, Melbourne, West Palm Beach, Daytona Beach and Jacksonville, and there may | be others”. ARRIVE HE Boy Scout Troop 49, of Miami, arrived this afternoon over the | highway and plan to remain in | the city over the weekend. This |is the same troop which arrived last year and had a most enjoy- | able visit. }'° There are 27 scouts in the par- \ty,'led by Scoutmaster Harry | Lowe, and during their stay will be camped at the eld Naval Hos- pital Grounds. ' LEFT FOR MIAMI | ‘Howard England, who is an em- ployee in the office of Clerk Ross Sawyer at the county court house, left over the highway to- jday for a visit of several days in | Miami. Expedition | Photographer Visits City being | | ‘J. L. Herrman Worked In 75 Degrees Below; Just | Received Congressional Medal; Describes Sights | =a i A Paramount newsreelmen, {John L. Herrman, who visited the jcity yesterday, prefers the cold of! jthe South Pole during the Byrd) expedition to the fevers of the! equator. Working 660 miles north of the South Pole in the Little America lena Herrman told of tempera- tures which went down to 72 de- grees below zero. Talking to The Citizen yesterday, Herrman was attired in a light hunting wind-| breaker. “Do you know that we use little more than a _ wind- breaker like this at the Pole?” Herrman said. “We usually wear woolen underwear, woolen shirt and pants, two pair of woolen ;socks and over all the wind- breaker and feel perfectly warm. At night we sleep in sleeping bags”. i At any temperature below 45 degrees below zero, Herrman had trouble with his movie camera work. Film would become so brittle that if one touched it sharply it would shatter. Lubrica- tion in the cameras was another problem with the cameras often freezing up. 130,000 feet of film! were taken for Paramount and also for Byrd’s lecture tours fol- lowing the expedition. Herrman was here during Roosevelt's trip ito Key West for Paramount. He has just returned from the House Sub Naval Affairs Committee's trip to Caribbean defense ports. The Little America group had some trouble with disease, Strep- tococcus, influenza, were com- mon, and an emergency operation on an appendicitis case had to be performed. The South Pole arctic lights differed from those of the North Pole. At the South Polie it was something like a diffused noon sky, Herrman said, with light pastel shades. At the North Pole the Northern Lights are very vivid. There were four montis of darkness and four months of lights with two months of sun- sets during the Fall and another two months of sunsets in the Spring. The oniy other life around them was “what came out of the sea”, Herrman said. é Herrman had just received one ‘of the 56 Congressional Medals struck for the Little America group. These medals require a special act of Congress and are individually struck. Herrman also has received fellowships from the British Royal Photo- graphic Society and the Royal Society of Arts. With Mr. Herrman on the trip to Key West is Captain Gus G. | Copeland, who was on the second train to come into Key West. Both are guests of Jacob Schreiber. SMALL BLAZE LAST EVENING An alarm of fire was sounded last night 9:45 o’clock from Box 333, and apparatus responding ‘found the fire in the outhouse ;and pump house in the rear of the building next to the Ley Me- | Within the following 30 min- | utes the flames had subsided and | two bells gave the signal that the | fire was out. The property is owned by Mrs.! | Eva Warner and the damages are! isaid to amount to $25. Fi Home | Ambulance Service j “Air Cooled” 1 AMBULANCE SERVICE | {Phone 22211 Miami, Fla. INQUIRY MADE RELATIVE TO SPONGE BL! RETARY OF CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ABOUT MATTER Paul S. Galtsoff. Ph.D., senior biologist of the Bureau of Fish- eries, Washington, D. C., who was recently in Nassau on an investi- gation of the blight, stricken the sponge those waters, writes the Chamber of Commerce as follows: “I shall be very grateful for de- which has growths in tailed information regarding the mortality of sponges in the Key At the invitation of the Britisn Government Colonial Office, I spent six weeks in the Bahamas investigating the great mortality of sponges in the West Indies. “A few days ago a communica- tion received from the British vice consul at Miami informed of a similar.outvurst wi - your area. I believe the cause of the mortality has been found; and naturally I am very interested in obtaining a more detailed de- scription cf the disease of the sponges in the Key West area. “Will you be kind enough to tell me the exact location of the areas where dying sponges are to be found and if possibie describe the symptoms of the affected specimens. How many fishermen are engaged in sponging and where may they be located? “If you desire that an investi- gation of the trouble be made in that area, I suggest that you send your request to the Commission er of Fisheries, Washington, D C., to whom I have already sub mitted a report regarding my in- vestigations in the Bahamas”. Pursuant to the suggestion of Dr. Galtsoff, Secretary Single ton of the Chamber of Commerce this morning sent to the Commis- sioner of Fisheries, and Dr. Galts- off, the follownig telegram “Interviewed returning spong- ers this morning. Report that the disease area extends over 20 miles. Have no similar experi enc of former condition. Urge very strongly that investigation be made immediately”. FULLER’S BODY IS SENT HOME Walter B. Fuller, age 27, who died in the U. S. Marine Hospital West area. ‘ Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock was taken this morning to New | Smyrna, his home, in a Priteh- ard Funeral Home car. The fun- eral services will be held in that city and then the body will be {taken to Orlando for cremation. The survivors are the widow, Mrs. Walter B. Fuller; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Fuller; baby daughter, Diana; brother, Robert Fuller, all of Edgewater, | Wright, Jr., Ft. Lauderdale. Mrs. Walter B. Fuller and Rob- ert Fuller left Thursday morning over the highway for their home ;in Edgewater to receive the re- mains of Mr. Fuller, accompanied! by his brother. who was at his , bedside when he passed away. Seryartcrtesie,, aX On Key West's Workers a Ari South Pole Byrd |W. P. Archer Elected As Councilman To Succeed Roy Fulford; Members Of Legion Heard City Council. at a regular meet- ing last night. decided to sponsor a bill to be introduced in Legislature for imposing an oc- cupational tax on all persons selling their services in Key West. the Those earning up to $50 per month would be assessed 50 cents for such period. while those ex- ceeding that amount would be taxed $1.00 per month. A copy of the proposed bill wil! be forwarded to the representa tives in the Legislature from this district. with a recommendation that a law be enacted im connec- tion therewith. This action was brought about following an address made at the meeting by Fred Eberhardt, act ing area supervising timekeepe: for the WPA in Key West. who brought before the council th matter of havingifhe city mak some provisions to derive re enue to sponsor WPA projects The principal project at present is that of the sewer, which is to be closed down on April 15, and will throw about 400 men out of employment The assessment of an occupa tional tax as one of the means furnishing this nec revenue was one of the w suggcsied by Mr. Eberhardt, and itt wa taken under consideration t council which endorsed the pr position as presented Mr. Eberhardt addressed meeting it. behalf of workers a large whom were preesnt ing. ssary the the VPA number at the meet can Legion P headed Hospitality Band. attared m uniforms, 2 police ¢ and girl sco City Hall on entering. Reardon, Schoneck r Al Mill con yon chamrma addressed the meeting and licited the endorsement council m the Legion's yecure the Key West waoilehe proposition operate in and played a select after which Will mander. W Ww. P. man, and who ext highest ful candidate: elector the vacancy created by the desth of Roy Fulford The application from Mr for the costien Allan Armstrong secretary of the New City Charter Commmit-