The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 12, 1939, Page 1

ciated Press Day Wire Service Years Devoted to the rests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NE\WSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1939 cen Lots Of Sponge MORE REVEWE May Mobilize Italian Navy; SOPWITHVISTS At Dock Today | Re Near Duce Won't Attack Greece Meat PRICE FIVE CENTS Bahama Sponge Blight Investigators Point To 5 During Bidding’) © SIE LS S| ‘SEA COW’ GAVEL TO BE PRESENTED SPEAKER OF HOUSE arious Preducts Ex- ee Hundred (By Washington Correspondent = of The Key West Citizen) WASHINGTON. D. C., April 12.—Speaker of the House, William Bankhead of Alabama, may soon be rap- Ping for order in the noisy House Chamber with a gavel fashioned from the rib of a Ficrida coast “sea cow”. Captain A. E. Conway of Vero Beach has sent two hand-made gavels to Repre- sentative Pat Cannon asking him to give one to the Speak- er and ihe other to anyone else he thought might have use for a siurdy “order pro- ducer”. Conway shaped the business ends of the gavels from the ribs of a Manapee. known familiarly as “Sea Cows”. gra The Cannon office said that totalled Bankhead would undoubted- ly be offered the gifi when NPANIND TUR the Congressman returned 'D YESTERDAY from a vacation at home. His secretary did mot know to ERVICES WILL BE FRIDAY ys this morning val dock numbered isling of nine lots of ; three lots of d one lo 37. Yellows whom the other gift would ° COLORED YOUTHS | ARE ARRAIGNED : THREE GIVEN HEARING BE- FORE COURT OF JUS. TICE OF PEACE m » colored boys wer ar Peace ed in the ex of afternoon on stolen other eqhipment The youngsters were caught in t of thievery by Caretaker nd Niles at Tr bo, who ting in the c of r, as he has een When arrested the Is were taken to the of the sheriff. the hearin were determined Roberts and turned over to 2 trial, the other bc v tel t 1 Judge Juliette ac i Apo hoa kh EROS ERDAY Vis d in the cus- At yesterday th boys i Charlies urt fc 1 Morse, Juvenile I After the hearing produced howed that neither r Hanna were 16 years old ar before OCHANDARENA CASE HEARD NEXT TERM OF CRIM- INAL COURT DEFEN Ochandarena_ charged and battery the m Engineer F. H. McKin- y of the WPA was given a liminary hearing before Peace ice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., yesterday afternoon. There were five \witnes prosecution and one nse. At the - conclu: aring the . o itting rate placed the accused ier bond of $100 to answer at next term of criminal court. *s for ion of the HOUND ON MARRIAGE BERLIN — Karl Oepfer, former Prussian officer, was convicted of marrying four women in two ‘HCLLYWOOD EXTRA!’ Operetta in Two Acts BIG TENT nick scHoot. AUDITORIUM i Elizabeth Sts. Thursday-Friday. 8:15 p. m. oc ic for the’ ee 1 ADJUSTMENT OF CONTRO. VERSY IN LEGISLATURE OVER TRACK FUNDS IS PRACTICALLY ASSURED | | TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 12 (FNS).—With adjustment of the! controversy over five-day racing | and the distribution of race track to the 67 counties prac- assured repre- county and the »-cailed small county bloc, fepi this week tu:ned ot the program of addi- racing ad- vanced by the Florida League for s Re Following fund tucally between entatives of Dade lative observers from tional revenue ulations, Inc. revelation iiwen and epresentative Ern- P of Dade with the Char lami Comptroller J that he injunction verte contact distributing race track began ont of differ- conferences were to adjust r ween Dade and other counties. Although five-day racing and curtailment of the dog racing been the chief topic of , the small counties’ watched by for Racing a League tson, Miami accountant, president Kiutsen points out in a nent irom Miami this week ie League wants more than day racing and a shorter dog meeting for all dog tracks He says the League ee the small admission " : cents increased to nty-five cents and the state’s the pari-mutuel pool ton jumped one percent, it the distribution to each of race track funds will nearly $500,000 additional » racing fund annually. This ie is computed on the basis of the play through the mutuels in 1937-38 and the season which slosed April 10. in Racing Commis- sion expense, through cutting dog track meetings one- third, will effect a saving of about 20,000, which can be given to the s to help offset the loss of The increased ad- rve a double asing revenue and deterring y persons from visiting race s and losing money ‘ they afford to drop. Kitson expresed himself as agiceably pleased with the action by members of the in recognizing the F f the League program i in their disposition to cc ider the racing situation from an All-Florida angle. Bils providing for restoring the I recall phovisions in the lac law will be intro- duced im the Legislature shortly May Ist, Mr. Kitson said. be local measures from Dade county. No im- » action is planned against ck, but the proposed s will serve as a police regula- county sion sug beirig promp iegisiature ack CH FUNERAL SERVICE TODAY Funeral services fof Lipyd M. Koch are being held this after- noon 3:3 o'clock from the chapel of the Pritchard Funeral Home, Rev. A. L. Maureau, SJ., of St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Catholic church officiating. Following the services the body is to be sent to the home of the Geceased in Urbana, IL, for’ in- terment. in hte family plot. PRESCRIPTIONS Carefully Compounded By Registered Pharmacists GARDNER’S PHARMACY Italian Naval Threat Held Necessary From French And English Mediterran- ean Naval Moves (ity Assvectated Press) ROME, April i from Mussolini ioday to be ready for compleie mobilization, the Duce emphasized that he had no he Italian Navy received orders intentions of attacking Greece. Duce Mussolini held the naval threat and En since French h moves in the Medi- terranean demanded it. necessat From Washingion came a rath- bold bifl in the House to to sell military r supplies in exchange er quiet but nevertheless in the America jed rubber and tin. trade France foreshadows Engiand, these th Holland, ad Bels and is ¢ in the t m in gned as another move at of power to be used against the totalitarian nations. BLOCK DIVERTED RACE TRACK FUNDS DADE COUNTY WISHES MORE PERCENTAGE; THREAT- EN SHUTOFF € tity Ansoctated Press TALLAHASSE April 12—A determined bloc against any oth- er d mn of the state race than is at present un- der the equal distripution method will proba! es in th A Dade county the held, reve track funds y hoid off any chang- present system. majority of races are as attempting to get more to Dade county from the y bloc threat- ened to stop racing entirely if Dade attempted to push through any such action. Asseciat a Press ee KANSAS CITY. move to place slice of this city di- ra board approved by governor has been in- terpreted as a political move to r from Tom Pender- strong arm in this City is noted as the in the country. weencee sovece WASHINGTON. — Revelation of the possibility of securing pow- er from nlight instead of from coal and oil was made today in this The only difficulty is t intermittent nature of sun- light city PHILADELPHIA.— Indictments fell today 2S court action reveal- ed the forcing of prominent person to write a fake Lindbergh child finding report during the kidnaping of the noted aviator’s n. ATLANTA.—With temperature dropping off 30 degrees the South- ern States today recorded three dead in the cold wave. BEST OF RECIPE PECKSLIP, Y.—Mrs. Eliza Murphy, 100, of this city, asked by inquisitive reporters for her recipe for longevity, replied: “I mind my own business.” 12.—Although | matters, | ‘DEBTORS BUILD oup, in whose ~ INEW SENATORIAL eases cose a DISTRICT CITED | BRITISH YACHT RACER, SUCCEEDING LIPTON, IN NEW PLANS. PLANS FISHING TRIP MONROE COUNTY WOULD british Yacht Philante, with HAVE SENATOR OF ITS owner T. O. M. Sopwith, who succeeded in the Newport, R. L, OWN IF REAPPORTIONING yacht races taking the place of PLAN IS ADOPTED Sir Thomas Lipton, is in Man of War Harbor and will probably leave today for Boca Grande for a fishing excursion. It is the Philante’s first trip here. The Philante has been visiting ‘a senator of its own if Senator extensively at differ@nt ports in Wm. C. Hodges’ plan for reap- both the Pacific ang Atlantic tioning the state senate goes oceans. It came to Key West and es ie asim ot ti a the United States from Puerto e ~S"*"| Castillo, Honduras. irs. Sopwith is aboard; her plan t, Mrs. R. C. Kirkland; Col. given R. C. Bradley and Dr. J. Doug- lacs of New Zealand. Master is D. McKillip. BURIAL RECORDS | BEING COMPILED BRING TO LIGHT INTEREST- ED THINGS AS FOUND IN RESEARCH WORK Monroe County will form jnew senatorial district and have a lature. Under Senator Hodges’ six new senators will southern Flodida, increasing the number of state senators from 38 to 44. This plan leaves Lee, Col- lier and Herdry a part of the’24th district, with one senator. In splitting the present 24th district, Senator Hodges told the senate that fair play demands southern Florida’s large sena- torial districts should be splii to bring them in line with the rest of the state and since amending the constitution is the only way é to do this, he feels that the con-| | Individual records of burials in stitution should be so amended. ¢ city cemetery as compiled by If the Legislature passes the the WPA workers conducting this Hodges pian, the people will have Tesearch work, have brought to an opportunity to vote on it in ght a pumber of interesting the 1940 general election. things, one of which is the record jof the first child born on the | Island City. | The name of the child, a son, was Anthony J. Pent. He was born on March 9, 1823, and died at the age of 88 years, 10 months ; and seven days, May 16, 1912, and was buried on the following day. CONTRIBUTE LABOR IN PAY- Cause of death is given as sen- i ility and the name of the attend- MENT OF SERVICES ‘ing physician was Dr. J. N. Fog- RENDERED = : Interesting also is the record of marriages in Key West from 1827 to 1935, an accurate revord of which has been gleaned as far be counties, now DOCTOR'S HOME (By Associated Press) LEMON GROVE, Calif., April 12.—After six years of an un- usual debt-payment system Dr. able. Ebon B. McGregor has moved in-|| The first marriage of which to a substantial two-story dwel- ‘here is any record on file was ling. « that of Samuel Bills and Mary Unable to collect his bills in Stewart and took place on April the worst of the depression, the 28, 1827. From that time until physician’ wrote some 50 patients 1829 no other data could be se- suggesting they contribute their | Cured. labor in building him Assembling the records from Not one refused. 1829 through the years to 1935, The “first shift” did not com- show that there was performed plete the house, but subsequent in the intervennig years, 14,260 calls on delinquent patients marriages. gradually finished it. ———— Since he had fixed his profes- sional fees, he insisted each worker fixed his own “wuges for construction work. WAS PASSENGER ON BOARD PAN AMERICAN AIR- ARNDT CONTINUES | a house. _ CATCHING TARPON Werner A. Arndt, salesman of Jules Webber, Inc., distributors of Granday Green Turtle Prod- ucts, continues his tarpon ex- ploits on the “Poor Fish”, Cap- tain Austin Roberts. After landing a 75 pound tar- pon last week, he proceeded to bring in a 40 pounder Monday night and a 35 pounder last night. Last week also Arndt caught several big amberjack, including a 64 pounder and a grouper weighing 35 pounds as outstand- ing catches out at the reef. (Special to The Citizen) HAVANA, Cuba, April 12— Ralph Russell, of 616 Eaton street, Key West, Fla, was an arrival at this port via ship of the Pan American Air- 's, for a brief; va int After several days sper in seeing the city and_ its colorful life, Mr. Russell! will deave) sant the Clipper for Miami “** "’ PLACED FIRST (My Associated Preas) NORMAN, Okla, April 12— Their principal purpose in com- ing to the university was to “make friendships,” 313 of the |333 freshmen women at Okla- ‘homa university said recently in @ questionnaire. FIND CASH REGISTER DENVER, Colo. — Police on an anti-gambling crusade confiscated slot machines which were trans- ported on a truck, and upon un- loading their haul later, dis- covered among the spoils a well- as possible from the data avail-' clipper . __ Probable Fungus ¢ Cause Fungus Found In Diseased es; Find High Chemical Content In Waters POUND TARPON ON FIRST TRIP }SePERRIFIC FIGHT IN SMALL |? 4BAY CHANNEL Dr. Paul S. Galtsoff. of the U Fisheries. and Dr Smith. of the Bia Sponge Fishere have concluded hike filament found diseased sponges of Bahama sponge beds respor ible for the blight which has de troyed vast areas of sponges S. Bureau of F. G Walton au, Bahamas. Investigations. Out on her first tarpon fishing | that a fungus trip last night, Miss Mary Morg- an. daughter of F. Townsend Morgan, director of the Commun- ity Art Center, and Mrs. Morgan brought in a 70-pound tarpon un- aided after a terrific 30-minute struggle. ; Miss Morgan, Carl Woolrich. | Tod Sands and L. P. Artman, Jr., jbottom fished in the Marlin on j the bar off Fort Taylor first and jlanded a strange variety includ- fe |ing grunts, porgies, scorpion fish jand a small shark. Then opening r j the motor up the sun began to 1 | set, they arrived at one of the channels off Man of War Hbrbor | They had just dropped the mul- jlet baits cver and were skirting a bank where the big tarpon lie |in wait for the small fish which {come off the flats, when— ! “Ive got a strike”, Miss Morg- ‘an shouted. Twice more the big | fellows lashed at the bait, then the rod bent nearly im half, the } line -began screaming out and a serious, bewildered expression settled over Miss Morgan's count- enance. She was catching her | first big tarpon! | With the advice to keep the line taut firmly fixed in her mind }Miss Morgan frantically pumped the reel, sometimes even when the fish was making a run, and Sprir at all times kept the line taut w has from the pole to the big fellow’s fected with the mouth. Then woosh, high into caused practical ;the air the big fellow leaped of the sponge operation jturning over toward the boat, area his gills extended and his head shaking from side to side. Splash back into the water and the line was held tight all the time Finally, after careful maneu- vering of the boat in the narrow channel so as not to let the tar pon get any free line. it we: brought close to the boat. Wisssh, wheeee and the line was lining out again. Gentiemanly. Mr Tarpon had sighted the boat and was making away as fast as he could. Then the slow pumping to get him alongside A few more runs from the boat, then shorter runs he was brought to the | surfar The gaff was brought under his gills and he was lift ‘high out of water. One last great kick, which left one of the party hanging on to the gaff with but one hand, and then he was lifted into the boat where he fell im the stern sheets with a terrific thump Miss Morgan had expenenced one of the great thrills of life COUNTY BOARD Second regular meeting of the board of county commissoner for the month of April is sched uled to be held tomght to'clock in the office of Ross C. Sawyer at the cow ; Sourt house m the th as the Bahamas. Dr. Galtsoff and Dr. Smith. 2 report of their findings Bahama srea sent the West Che c 10 Tr nt out that the sequem of « po. was f east aftea. anc t f the mfection not diminish on any front would probably be the case if any large quantity of sea gases acids were released im the ares However, relatively high coppet content was found m and very hugh ammonis nitrogen content The fungus filaments were = found in healthy sponge tissue mor in the remains of sponge which had been long dead T particularly abundant m newly deed and bving tessu- diseased sponges. with the spreading gradually the tissues, starting often inside The Key the area 2 tee weter are tion origin tar = Bay ath Complete repart tele A heavy mortality te among the commeragl spec ponge (Wool Velve Yelo= nature th Decemibe Was recutded Eastern } spread by th there Tepe ene ne c Florsda. m March Tate of th Barams % percent and “The wvestgebes m met im the mgh ete posers: s nese 238 Tk 4 It was said this morning that none other than routine business and the checking of depository accounts was scheduled to come before the board. “Gospel Preaching Gen. 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