The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 11, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 86. France Mobilizes Fleet For t Mediterranean ean Duty) ner Pe Stren gthe | ieienenemamuae Reaas | TARPON TIME COMING Military Forces; Beaver-\" 5 CUIDES SAYING brook Says War Will De- es According 0. © to word from stroy Nazi Party the charter boat fleet this is the best time of year for tar- pon, with the big silver weighing more at this period of year than it does later in June at the height of the sea- son. Fishing for tarpon here is done at sunset, in moonlight nights, and in” the dark nights, with various captains claiming different times the best for catching the huge fellows who lurk in the shadows of banks nearby Key West waiting for the “bait” to come off the flats | | (iy Assoet: LONDON, April 11.—One thou- sand four t } hundred Japanese | trcops landed on the British éon- | cession off Hongkong and march-/ ed through to the interior as fins! second affront of Japan to the | Allies this week, the first being] occupation of French Pacific is-| lands. | Kry THE so ee JUDGE LANDS 100-LB. TARPON IN HOUR MOUNTED, IT GOES TO COURTROOM: ALSO A 64-LB. TARPON AND SEVEN-FOOT SAILFISH LANDED | A dream of a long lifetime—to catch a big saltwater fish and have it mounted in his court- room—was partly fulfilled last; night when Judge E. J. Jeffries of Detroit, Nich., brought in aj 100-pound tarpon, stretching six| last night on! feet four inches, veteran Jakie Key’s Legion. Besides this catch, one of the ijudge’s guests, Philip Gabel, brought.in a seven-foot forty-! UTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. Ke KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1939 Inaugurate Movetnent To ea Highway Indebtedness ‘Issue ( Call For Meeting To Be Held Tomorrow Eve-| ning In Rooms Of Cham-! ber Of Commerce ‘SEWER PROJECT 10 SHUT DOWN | ON APRIL 15 WORKERS TO BE REDUCED) TO RANK OF LABORERS:| | Creditors of the Overseas High- H OUTFALL WILL BE com-! “@¥ Celebration Committee, and | PLETED | interested individuals have been ‘called to attend a meeting in the! | rooms of the Chamber of Com- | | Unless ehanges are received at) ithe WPA office before April 15)™@Fee 8:30 o'clock jin the orders relative to the sew-/ night. ler, the entire project will be dis-} Detached Boatswain M. J. Bruce From Atlanta (By Washington Correspondent of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C.. April Ibis pr REE RES | 11.—Chief Boatswain J. B. Krest. sueliiccowr | j no Medi-| terranean nation would be given; a protectorate by England andj{ Italy allow it. | Italy is beginning to enroll Al- banian officers in its regular! army. Its fleet is maneuvering! in the Mediterranean. Germany | is quiet teday. All this from the} totalitarian i Italy declared that nations — Germany, ! Italy and Japan. | On the other side of the fence, Lord Beaverbrook, famous Eng-! lish publisher, who 1s well versed! in foreign affairs, decla that Germany will never attack Eng-{ land because if it does it will mean that the Nazi party will be destroyed and Hitler realizes it. Beaverbrook was interviewed by | Publisher Howard of the Scripps-' Howard chain. Meanwhile, ments of the little pe | the military move- democracies boded for Europe. The Brit- ish fleet is off Greete in~ se¢reti "7 maneuvers. France today a ed all its seamen’s Easter jean and mobilized its entire fleet for peciertansats maneuvers in de-} ve of Italian demands for| n colonial expansion. King} came back to London to| review and approve military pre- cautio: French ambassador to} Spain came back to Paris and is! reported to have secured infor-! mation as to the extent of support} | | to seize it. Key West guides trolling their parties’ mullet baits through the waters in search of the silver king promise the world’s best fishing sport to those adherents of big game fishing. Starting with a 21- thread line for the big fel- lows, expert fishermen, then graduate down to 15-thread line where one can have the greatest pleasure of one’s fishing life with a big fellow on that size line. Matching one’s wits with a tarpon taxes every fisher- men, so full of tricks are the big fellows, and it’s a reai ac- complishment io land a sil- ver, which range in weight from 25 pounds to weil over a hundred in Key West wa- ters. We kd dod hue LEONOR WARREN. IS HONORED AT SMITH COLLEGE KEY WEST GIRL IS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF COLLEGE jthree pound sailfish in the Gulf; ‘continued and most of the work-! j Stream before the tarpon fishing'€Ts reduced to the ranks of la-| fisesautt Along with the judge’s/ borers, with corresponding reduc- |catch, another guest, Arthur} tions of pay. ‘lutions to be Presented to Rep-! | tesentative B. C. Papy. request-| | ing that en enabling act be pass- | Thorpe, brought in a 64-pounder measuring five feet four inches. | Biggest fight of the day was j that given by the big silver. | Fighting it for an hour and five jminutes on 15-thread line, the | judge had the greatest piscatorial ipleasuré of his life, and he’s 54 lyears ‘fishing old”. When the j big fellow first hit he took out inearly 300 yards of ‘just a few turns left on the ispool. Four times did the re- | doubtable judge bring the tarpon jto the stern of the Legion and jfour times did the tarpon slam , off in a silver streak. | Jakie had told the judge all he ‘could about it:—“Watch when he! {shoots out for his leap so he doesn’t throw the hook, not too ,much drag”, and ete.—and the ‘rest was left up to the judge. | Up and down thé: mile long , Man-of War Harbor twice did Ja- i kie have to maneuver the Legion before the big fish was boated. When it was all over the judge flopped on a seat and shouted for a beer, completely exhausted from the thrilling fight but prob- ably the happiest he had ever felt while fishing. line with} i B. C. Moreno, area supervisor! ed by the tof the project, said this morning that there is one part of the work | which wi!l be continued and that Whem the Celebration Committee | jis the activities in connection with! is indebted. jthe outfall at ‘Trumbo Island, | which is being sponsored and the! pipe ordered. This work will probably re- quire 50 men and will take about two weeks to complete after the legislature Providing | for the remuneration of those to! L. Pe Gruber, proprietor of the | Overseas Hotel, by whom th-| meeting is being called, requests | all creditors to be present at the} /meeling with 5 additional pipe is received, it was a ens seroma sie said. The balance of the work-| #emized form, in order that anj ers will be transferred to ther’ activities, principally street im- provements. Another reduction in the num-) pe secured. ber of women working cn proj-: ects has be enordered, “Mr. Mo-} reno said. There will be 12, Se ee LOTS OF OF and their status will be determ-| « ined by their efficiency, and not) their needs, it was specifically announced. NEGRO BOYS ARE ARRESTED exact summary of the total in |SEVEN OFFERINGS DISPOSED OF AT MUNICIPAL DocK Seven offerings of sponge, SPONGE SOLD, jensen, on duty with the Coasi |Guard Patrol Boat Pandora. has bee ordered detached from the | Key West base and assigned to |ihe Cutter Triton. stationed at | Gulfport, Miss., the Coast Guard j announced today. The transfer will become effective about May ja. the order stated. j Replacing Chief Boatswain | Krestensen on the Pandora will |be Chief Boatswain M. J. Bruce. !who will be detached from the; | Recruiting Office at Atlanta. Ga. ‘EARL GREENE MEMBER OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY PAID VISIT TO THE CITIZEN OFFICE Earle Greene, of the biological at Cittzrn Boatswain Krestensen Is From Duty Duty Here BUREAU OF FISHERIES OFFI- CIAL LEAVES WASHING- TON OFFICE: REACHES EPI- DEMIC PROPORTIONS (My Associated Press) WASHINGTON. April il. —With the sponges from Key West to Tarpon Springs be- ing killed off rapidly im a ed the proportions of an epi- demic. a representative of the National Bureau of Fisheries is on his way to the Florida , Scene. Both Key West and Tarpon this bureau asking for a con- sultant arg investigate the | debtedness of the committee may ont ee a VETERAN BLAN BLAMES VOLCANOES FOR SPONGE BLIGHT CLAIMS GASES EXUDED FROM DEEP SEA VOLCANOES RE- SPONSIBLE: AFFECTED 000 KEY WESTERS GOING ON TRIP. Chester Thompson, veteran HOUSE AT NORTHAMPTON, — MASS. PERMITS CHARGED WITH STEALING catches, prices for which were jsurvey, in charge of the great Sponge fisherman and present heron refuge in this sec-/CUrio shop owner. is inclined to Franco will give the totalitarians. | Greece and Turkey have been guaranteed sovereignty in any! military invasions reputedly by! the Allied nations. 11 (By Mail).—Leonor See | Warren, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. COURT HEARING | William Richard Warren of 511 | Eaton street, Key West, Fla., was I THIS AFT. ERNOON house of residence, Morris House, in the elections recently held at ‘Smith College. Miss Warren, i who is a sophomore at Smith this year, formerly attended the Con- vent of Mary Immaculate in Key West, Fla. In her new position as house president, Miss Warren assumes a good deal of responsibility. matter of the charge of assault | Automatically becoming an offi- and battery lodged against Sully cial of the Student Government Ochandarena by F. H. McKinley,! Association, she is required to at- civil engineer of the WPA. itend meetings of its legislative The assault was made Satur- | branch, the House of Representa- day morning in front of the WPA| tives. At the meetings of this headquarters and in the after-! | organization, she represents the noon Mr. McKinley went before! public opinion of her house; she Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo, | iso conducts her. own house Jr., and filed an information. ‘ meetings, in which she keeps the Beginning of the hearing was med started yesterday but inability to WAtpas REL ecs = find certain witnesses made it necessary to postpone the hear-} ing eS this ee j | ties, an honor shared by all those Mary OCHANDARENA WILL BE AR- RAIGNED ON ASSAULT AND " BATTERY CHARGE Hearing before the peace *jus- tice of the: Second District’ will be held this afternoon in the , dent Government Association. Miss Warren, occupying the, | highest honor bestowed by her’ j house, is also assistant hostess in actions and decisions of the Stu-! | TO BUILD ISSUED ONE OF APPLICATIONS CALL . FOR EXPENDITURE OF A THOUSAND DOLLARS NORTHAMPTON, Mass.. April elected president of her college’ New addition of concrete block is to be made to the office build- ing of the Thompson Enterprises on Caroline street, according to a permit issued from the office of Building Inspector Harry M. Baker. The addition is to cost $1,000. : General repairs to the con- crete building at 517 and 519! Duval street, owned by Dr. J. M. Renedo, are covered by a permit issued this week. Other activities are as follows: Repairs to porch of residence at 219 Simonton street. Owner, Mary B. Sanchez; cost, $50. General repairs at No. 4 Pohal- ski street. Owner, H. Bullard; cost, $50. General repairs at 427 Caro-| line street. cost, $300. Repairs to floors in residence ;at 808 Simonton street. Owner, ‘A. Barisca; cost, $100. Repairs to roof of residence at 409 Southard street. Owner, Miss Owner, A. Lopez; | General repairs at residence, '1403 Catherine street. Owner, A. Knowles; cost, $350. { jrefused at the sale held yester- | White | day morning at the Municipal ‘tion, was a caller at The Citizen dock, were later disposed of at | office today to express his appre- | Private transactions. | ciation of the use of his arteile in |. Three of the sales were as fol- | Three negro boys were arrested ‘lows One lot of 128 bunches for | ‘is Paper, which called forth a great deal of appreciation. 4 this morning by Cleveland Niles, Which was offered $733.99, was caretaker at the Trumbo Island increased to $800. Another lot, Mr. Greene said that he is leav- romernes ents moungsters were eee Leases ed bide 4 ie ~ |ing tomorrow to attend a meet- caught in ict oO} i ‘efuset was sold or . : Sees Sanat aie ele ies $1,300, and another lot of 145 ing of the Georgia Ornithological |equipment on the Island. bunches for which $804.99 was Society, which is to be held at | It was learned at the office of Tefused, was sold for $850. | Brunswick, April 15 and 16, and he will be back in Key West some time next week. Sheriff Thompson, that the boys _ It is understood that some ve NEWS FLASHES WIRE AT TRUMBO IS- LAND PROPERTIES are to be turned over to Juvenile S¢ls which did not place their | \Judge Juliette Russell for hear- Catches on the dock yesterday | ing. They were taken to the Will have them on display tomor- | ee sheriff's office this morning 'by row, along with others of vessels | Mr. Niles. @which have arrived since the | This pilfering of equipment at! ®4!¢, i Trumbo has been going on for | i some time, and Mr. Niles was ‘CURRY FAMILY | | very anxious to catch some of; ® those responsible, ne told The Citizen some time ago as their depredaticns were becoming dif-} ficult to cope with. ‘SHIP STICKLEY REMAINS TODAY The body of E. B. Stickley, who was found dead S#urday in a feabana at Rest Beach, was shipped this morning by Pritch- ard Funeral Home to Urbana, Ohio, for funeral services and l interment. | Robert Stickley, a son, arrived WASHINGTON.—Senator Rob- lert Wagner, who authored the* | NLRB, said that he will support |), jany bill for collective bargaining ; |the WPA has completed arrange- ments for his Vacation and plans | fended the general principles of to leave today on his trip tothe Act. Washington in car and _ trailer, Sees accompanied by Mrs. Curry, chil-' NEW YORK. — Colonel Lind- dren, and her mother Mrs. Iima |bergh will arrive in this city Fri- Garthside. jday to testify to comparative Mr. Curry said that his idea is’ strengths of ees nations. to sever his connections with the | WPA and when he arrives in| WASHINGTON._A plan to! Washington accept a position|supply foreign countries with! which was offered him some time | American wheat and corn in ex- ago. Just what the position is change for needed rubber and tin will be determined after his ar- the House today.' rival ak Sistccagitat bass proposed in the use ‘y-| over sith ; When two labor unions are fight- | Ray Curry, office engineer with iregedes Abie ease gnarl wade believe that gases or acids thrown off from Continental shelf semi- active volcanoes are responsible for the present sponge blight which may tie up scores of boats and affect 1,000 Key Westers, families who depend on the 200 fishermen. Thompson, on hearing of the blight, immediately took a trip to nearby spongebeds and brought back a string. Most of them were dead on the bottom, and some could be torn as easily as old cloth, all their texture de- stroyed. He has also written to sponge fishermen friends in the Bahamas for more information ‘concerning the blight there. He cites two significant facts for his belief, which is contrary |to that of marine biologists who have tentatively blamed a_ fun- gus growth for the blight. One is the fact that thousands of fish have been found floating dead in the area, which is an ‘unusual occurrence. If it were a blight, how explain this condition. An- other is that the blight appeared \Suddenly extended 600 miles north of Key West and appeared also in the Bahamas. A fungus would appear only over a small area and then spread, Thompson points out. The location of many “peaks” in the Gulf Stream are known to 'fishermen, Thompson says, and ‘cited one ridge which the cable boatmen find 12 miles off Sand Key where a hill rises to within | 150 fathoms of the surface where y West Mariners Rescued Boat Party During Night Members On Beard Crait Were Found At Woman Key; Brought in Ths | sistema Tin Caen Tri- SCIENTIST WILL Mormag ton; To Be Replaced By STUDY FLORIDA «.. a ome auch Sewk wes « coller @ ine stuce ot Ine Causes nocer eccompamec Sy Sire Florence Wuuen enc re@sec newung © ich: ketagkt = @ & Womans Key anc rescuet Demac Wilkems esd Mise 9 Mangeset Tedd. The boston which Be WE liams and Miss Tedd weet for tne inp nac expenemcec engine trouble and was practcually ou: of commission when Captsir Thompson and his party ermvec at the Key. On the Hewk were Captsin Paul Demeritt. Captain Eddie Saunders and Charles Bowser. They left the city 11 o'clock and returned this morning 4 o clock with the rescued party to find Mrs. Williams: son. John. and daughter-in-law on the dedi! WAR BRINGS BIBLE BOOM CHINA AND JAPAN BUYING MORE EACH DAY DE- (Ry Ane tated Preant NEW YORK, April 11—China and Japan are still buying Bibles in spite of war, says the Amer- ican Bible Society. The Chinese bought from the Bible Society more whole Bibles in 1938 than ever before in their history, it says, and Japan bought almost ten per cent more volumes of Scripture, including Bibles, Tes taments and Gospel Portions than the year before. The society's total distribution of scriptures in China last year was 1,395,515 and in Japan, 703,- 068. TEMPERATURES Lowest Station— last night last 24 hours Abilene Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Denver Detroit Galveston - Havana Huron Jacksonville Kansas City _ KEY WEST _ Little Rock — Los "Angeles — Repairs to porch of residence | yesterday afternoon the at 522 Simonton street. Owner, Mrs. Emma Costar; cost, $50. highway from Miami to complete! funeral arrangements. He will ac- VALUABLE COAT | WASHINGTON.—As President | on either side it is 600 fathoms. |Roosevelt announced that the' Sponge fishermen have been Construct garage at 1124 Wa’ |son street. Owner, Charles Pa; , cost, $100. company the body of his father): ELIZABETH, N. J.—Samuel :$150.000,000 proposed to be cut’ pen’ “nee Giseovery of the to Urbana, Ohio. \Miller of this city was upset | {rom the relief bill would cut off putting their boats into commer- oe : E. B. Stickley had been an an-! when he found that his brother ; thousands who are waiting to en- | Pil! fishing, although there is : Small addition to the residence /n421 winter visitor in the city./had sold his overcoat to an old | Toll in W-P.A, the senate consid. not enough market for all of Salt Lake City at 1106 Angela street. Owner, | At the time of his death, he was/clothes dealer foc few cents. |€red more the question. Senator | them. Relief rolls, also, are San Francisco Robert Pinder; cost, $100. ‘renting one of the cabanas at Samuel had pinned $190 in the Pepper is still waging a strong jaryeiy closed. {Seattle ____ Repairs to-porch st 10 Waited teat Beach. lining of the coat. fight for restoration of the cut. At PLLA eae street. Owner, C. Roberts; cost, the same time a sub-committee! MAKES AN OFFER | of the House began to investigate | a: Se GARY, Ind. — Otto Reising| | the W.P.A. and will call Col! administra-!ran this’ newspaper notice “If; [she paves vee a= acta I ALAS Mean eink BRERRLSKSS BBSSSLRSTSLSKSSSTS Las | SSSszt|ess ri SMALL REWARD sheriff, was captured last night; DIES TODAY of contributing to the delinquen-{ , Son, George, of Key West; three* General ts “ab i General | SHENANDOAH, Ia. — Charles at South and TYopical la. — PLACED | IN JAIL elected to the position of house} by Deputy Ray Elwood, and: cy of minor children, according to _ Lloyd M. Koch died this morn- daughters and one brother, — Cor. Fleming and Elizabeth Sts. /Will be announced later, are Owner, George M. Gray; gp) | president. Whitney Baker, wanted for placed in the county jail. } the affidavit filed against him. {78 in the U. S. Marine Hospital of WELCOME TO Uri Il. Virginia Patterson; cost, $100. Good Music Gospel Pen ee | ieee eee some time by the office of tre ILLINOISAN He is to be tried on a charge : in this city. The survivors are one repairs to os REVIVAL IN BIG TENT Fureral arrangements, which Preaching ‘bana, Ti EACH EVENING AT 8:00 |" charge of arrangements. Pritchard Funeral Home nas! goo repairs at 1110 Geor- gia street. Owner, H. S. Parker; [cost, $500, Bencfishing Excellent. Record Holding Gaide Ed. Barry Permuncatiy at Pecky, Fla be exhibited at the New York has on hand, conveniently for World's Fair. It is seven feet tall. him.