The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 13, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. VOLUME LX. No. 88. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1939 1938 Key West Climate | Application For License | PLAN MEETING : : To Operate Fishing Club) IN sarasota|__Records. Fine As Ever. Legislature In Effort To Have : — SOOO I LL IS or. Of Agricultare Pub- — ° ° Or mates Herd AU MONROE COUNTY. "eet" counts MORE PUBLICITY Ta. renin Com Highway Celebration Debts Paid Regular Meeting Of Or- RADIO ‘SALUTE’ | TO BE DISCUSSED DURING FOR ISLAND CITY | piled By “g Good iis < lil silt ganization Conducted’ FOR APRIL 18 CONVENTION i eS ‘HODGES PLANS | VESSEL ALYCE B roe Up Suis Last Night ! ame | SARASOTA, April 13 (FNS).— BILL TO HELP | BURNS TO WATER . mad ke Com SS ee aoe natural advantage, that which is) HOMESTEADERS OFF MIAMI BEACH annually drawing thousands of! a — i | merce Becy Rooms Fishing Club for a license to op- {the Florida Junior Chamber of | . | SEED STATO ATIENE: tourists to this little green, trop-| spoNSORER OF MOVEMENT — | Comerce here April 20 to 22, =| — ical isle during the better north-} TO EXEMPT HOMES WILL’ LY: UP ON FLATS: CBaEW erate at Perky. Fla. was again’ wing HOUR {cording to an announcement by ; general chairman Lamar Dozier. er winters,—its climate for 1938! MAKE FIGHT TO IMPROVE | RESCUED: HAD TROUBLE EXISTING SITUATION OFTEN IN K. W. WATERS PRICE FIVE CENTS Arrangements Made To Petition Commissioners Turn Down ‘STATE JAYCEES i Key West acquires inter- ; publicity through | the activities of the Key | West Yacht Club. An ar- © ticle concerning the club will appear in Lloyd’s Register of American Yachts accom- panied by a reproduction in color of the club‘’s burgee. Lloyd’s Register is found in practically every yacht club in this country and also in many cities of foreign countries and is consulted whenever a yacht comes into Perhaps Key West's greatest ; Application of the Sugar Loaf =a Tange = be uss che Sea Legawtace wee mese 2c ewemng oy =e ie before the county commissioners Exe tren Dorney EC has just bec: summarized by G. | at meeting last night and 3 e included on the elabor-! z : i Pegler seesting; lest-nig| Monroe county will be featured — S. Kennedy in charge of the Key | i the application was denied by the in a special radio “saiute” over ,°'©,PFoeram. Soacd ,| State and University of Florida | {station WRUF, Gainesville, at; Present at the meeting were:|6:15 p. m. Tuesday, April 18, it; was announced today by Harold} Chairman Bervaldi, Commission- | cotee, president of the Florida | One of the most important sub- jects to be discussed at the con- vention will be the State Jaycee hree-point safety program, which includes automobile drivers’ li port flying its club flag. The Register also carries much other information of inter- est to the yachting world. i West Weather Bureau and report} ! printed by the U. S. Department | of Agriculture Weather Bureau. | Showing an equable tempera-} ture ‘both in the warm. winters; (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, April 13— Court dicisions subjecting Florida ing boat, “Alyce B™. Mrs. Ruth Ellison, burned & censes, a state highway Patrol, FGI SD ISS IL ers'Monsalvatge and Curry; Clerk | State Chamber of Commerce. and the removal of cattle fram! and -eool,, summers the monthly ; homesteads to maintenance taxes Sawyer, Chief Deputy Sheriff Waite and Attorney Harris. The license application of the Sugar Loaf Fishing Club was brought before the meeting in compliance with the law and oth- er data in connection therewith was gone It was decided that the application did not com- into. ply with the law, and under the’ circumstances should be a $600 license instead of the $125 license asked. The applicants are to formed by the board that there was not sufficient information forthcoming to indicate that the be in- club had been incorporated for a period of two years as stipulated by law. About Highway Signs Mr. Bervaldi addressed the meeting relative to the talk made at the last meeting by City At-! torney H. H. Taylor in behalf of the Key West Woman’s Club re- Barding icgislation about along the Overseas Highway, and on which no action was taken by the board. Mr. Taylor suggested a zoning law that would regulate the signs and Attorney Harris was asked his opinion. He said that he would consult with Mr. Taylor and they would write resolutions and the proposed bill which would be presented at a special meeting of the board to be called in a few days, as time was grow- ing short. It was agreed by the board that the matter would come before the body as soon as the papers were ready. Accounts Checked Depository accounts were read by the chairman, checked by Mr. Monsalvaige, approved and signed. Clerk Sawyer read a telegram that was sent to R. C. Perky, ad- vising that $7.90 was needed for; documentary stamps to be used in connection with Murphyizing property. COME HERE FOR TYNES’ FUNERAL Wilbur Sweeting, nephew of Benjamin Tynes, who died Tues day evening, was an arrival over the highway this morning, accom- panied by Don Key, another nep- hew of the deceased. ¢ They were advised of the death of their uncle yesterday, and im- mediately made preparations to come to Key West for the fun- eral services, which will be held tomorrow morning 9:30 o'clock from St. Paul’s Episcopal church. PLANS WAY AHEAD MEMPHIS — A young woman of this city consulting a lawyer, was asked why she wanted a divorce. “I don’t yet,” she ex- plained. “I’m engaged to be mar- ried soon, and I..just want to know what Ill have to. go through when I am ready for a divorce.” Bonetishing Excelleat. Record Holding signs: Guide Ed. Barry Permanently at Perky, Fla. | Each of Florida's sixty-seven | the highways. Coming at a time counties will be so honored in| when the Florida Safety Council's 'the series of programs being re A ; mi ;campaign to introduce similar, sponsored by the State Cham- | pi115 into the present session of ber, he said, adding it was the; Legislat Fi ini intent of the programs to better | trength Taha’ Waycse ciport acquaint Floridians and Florida; sould ‘prove highly effective.’ ireoriaiaties the various counties | a cher Frank, state director of the Lee 'Safety Council, has stated that pornos salevaity Send \all indications point to an early. S65 4 : ~ hearing on the safety measures. eel ne aoe ene ere Sere | With an imposing list of speak- | se pee thee a as Gack ers scheduled for the convention, ! on i d f Powell, WRUF director, whose!et “Tucie eeanty is expected to trained staff revised it into the |}. one of the features. McCarty radio script for broadcast by of- ii, chairman of the Junior Cham- ficial WRUF announces. Tom!;,, islati e Watson of the University station pee Pee eel a alla preparation of the ‘iegislation to be introduced dur- Similar broadcasts for ine the eee eee: county in the state will be made} every | i twice weekly, each Tuesday and Thursday. Fifteen minutes i ¢ AIRWAYS DOUBLE ‘ Opening and closing with a| transcribed musical program of Southern melodies, each earth OE LS EXPANDING First the history and background | ERATIONS velopments, growth and potenti-| : the county being featured. veges S23 Se | leadership in the field of com- :the flying schedule; and there- | CONDUCTED TOMORROW | The new schedules will mean William Russell, 70, died this | hours’ flying time from Panama, ;tormorrow afternoon 4:30 o’clock Toutes operated by Pan-American will officiate. | wise through Central America, 'Harvey, Mrs. Winer Bethel, and oo 1 | Miami. One brother Eugene} Lowest Highest will be Givided into two portions. ! “aN ALL OF ITS OP- of each county will be told; and,} in the second portion, a descrip-! tion made of present-day de-! Sas 5 | MIAMI, April 13 (FNS).—The Ae Special emphasis will be! new schedules inaugurated ~by given major industries and Ost-| 5. Americai Aicanes & ural or man-made attractions of ee ee ee ee | services to South America are one ;more indication of what this WM. RUSSELL 70 icountry is doing to safeguard its 2 2 ? {mercial aviation. The new serv- DIES HIS A. jice will double the frequency of a | fore double the capacity for ship- | FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE | ™ents of merchandise, for air | ;mail and for passengers. | flying more than 53,000 addition. AFTERNOON jal miles each month. They will| 'place New York City only 18; morning at 9:10 o'clock in his | 24.only four and a half days’ to- residence at 833 Elizabeth street. ; tal time from Buenos Aires. _ Funeral services will be held, There are now.six separate air |from the chapel of the Pritchard | between North and South Amer- Funeral Home. Rev. O. C. Ho-| ica. Five of these originate nere ‘well, of Ley Memorial Church ; at Miami; the sixth runs length- |_ Survivors are the widow, Mrs.’ with United States terimnals at, Edith Russell; four daughters, Brownsville, Texas, and Los An- Mrs. Hamilton Pinder, Mrs. Ruby | geles, Calif. | Mrs. Joseph Pinder. Two | *8®eecerccceccscccosecece | sisters, Mrs. Lorenzo John-| TEMPERATURES son and Mrs. Jennie Lloyd, Of | 9 ggeqncecceccesceccocccs } Russell. His mother, Mrs. Ade-! = . |laide Russell and 12° grandchil-| , Station— last night last 2 hours SENBSRENESRSS 5 | Abilene dren, all of Key West. Aeaiais | Boston SCHOOL CHILDREN 2: * | Charleston AQU | Denver Detroit - } Galveston Two classes from the » Harris; Havana School were visitors at the aqua-| Huron RA rium this morning for the pur- Jacksonville pose of seeing the living speci- mens in the tanks and receive i structons in biology. One of the classes was com-' Los Angeles _ 54 posed of scholars under the in-!Louisville 32 LODGE SLKLSSESAKSSESSSRLSS| SSVSusss P. & 0. STRIKE ENDED TUESDAY : S.S. CUBA WILL ARRIVE IN KEY WEST MONDAY FROM TAMPA Austin Williamson, _ traffic manager of the Peninsular and Occidental Steamship Company, in a long distance call yesterday to John Costar, iocai agent, formed him that the strike, which had paralyzed passenger ships Cuba and Florida, was ended. The S.S. Cuba will be in Key West Monday morning at in- o'clock from Tampa and will go/ their approach, the highest veloc-; said. 0 Ss ity was in September, with 32] voted to exempt homesteads from to Havana at 8:30 a. Florida in Miami is m. lar schedules. The strike was men working on the passenger ships. Unljcensed workers in- clude cooks, waiters, deckhands, ete., all Lut the officers of the ships. The P. & O- company, it is reported, had hired members of the seaman’s union, whith had not been designated by the union. YOUTH TAKEN TO REFORM SCHOOL of unlicensed | LEFT TODAY OVER HIGHWAY paint work on his residence. Hej IN CUSTODY OF SHERIFF THOMPSON Sheriff Karl O. Thompson, left over the highway early this morning having in his custody Richard Culmer who was _~sen- tenced last week to four years‘in’ the A ae school at Mariana by sell. Culmer was charge of arrested on stealing bottles a of jliquor from the wholesale estab- | lishment Sebastian Cabrera, Jr., on Front street, and confessed to the offense and explained how the pilfering was done. He told the court that he saw | a window open on the side of the establishment, climbed up on the sill and removed several bottles of liquor through the bars. Most of the liquor was recovered by officers. STEAMER OZARK DUE TOMORROW Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde- Mallory Limes, :is due to arrive tomorrow morning from Jackson- ville and Miami. with consign- ments of freight for Key West merchants. leaving to-! night for Havana and all P. & O.! vessels will resume their regu-; Juverflg Jutige Juliette Rus-: temperature report wit: the }maximum, temperature given ‘first and the minimum second} vas as follows: January, 75.1, t February, 77, 67.2; March, | April, 81.9, 71.8; May,} June, 87.6, 76.7; July, st, 88.9, 78.6; Fa | 2, October, 83.7, |742; November, 80.8, 72.1; De-| cember, 75.1, There are no_ t nor burning-} hot summers noted in these tem- peratures. . Would you take the sunshine? The percentage of sunshine en- joyed here as compared to the greatest possible ranged from 59 percet to 82 percent. The highest wind velocity recorded was but 33 miles an hour. During the “hurricane season” of August to October, which is only three months of each year, with the | m.p.h. Another significant point is that no frost has ever oc- curred in this locality. : Over a period of 66 years the average daily temperature was 81.9, the minimum 72.3. Highest temperature ever recorded here in 66 years was 100 in 1886. Low- est temperature ever recorded was again in 1886, with ai; FIRE CHIEF HAS FALL; INJURED Harry M. Baker, chief of the Key West Fire Department, had the misfortune to fall from a lad- der yesterday while doing some | | received a badly sprained left | shoulder, which necessitates car- rying his arm in a sling. ; _ Chief Baker, however, was on | duty at the No. 1 Fire Station to- day, although he is suffering much pain from the injury. j ‘MURPHY ACT SALES TODAY Another sale of property under; the provisions of the Murphy Act is being held this afternoon in front of the county courthouse jby County Clerk Ross C. Saw-! yer. The sale is covered by 32 ap- plications representing 157 par- cels of property. Largest owner: jare Josephine Cash, 39; Martha |B. Bates Estate, 32; Ruth D. | cash, 15. FUND FOR BAND | MELBOURNE, April 13 (FNS). |—Almost fifteen hundred dollars }in less ‘than five hours! That's After discharging cargo the ship will sail for New Orleans. in bond districts and to certain district bond taxes which bond holders claim “are special assess- ments”, will be nullified and homesteads will be relieved of such taxation under the provi- sions of the bill introduced im the Senate by Senator Wm. C. Hodg- es this morning. Senator Hodges, recognized as the “daddy” of the Homestead amendment, took up the cudgels again today in behalf of the much discussed homestead ex- emption and gave notice that the war is on and will continue until Florida homesteads are freed from all taxation except that re- quired by the United States Con- stitution. “I will not sit idly by and see the homestead exemption amend- ment massacred by courts, tax administrators, bond holders or 7. Bureau giving ample warning of] this Legislature”, Senator Hodges “The people of Florida all taxaticn except ‘special as- sessments for benefits’ and I in- tend to see—as far as my feeble voice will carry—that the will of the people is not sidestepped in any way by any group’ “When people voted to take taxes off of their homes they thought they were eliminating all taxes except prior liens and ‘spe-' cial assessments’. I desire a Leg-! islation interpretation for the guidance of the courts in determ- ining what ‘special assessments’ are proper to levy against home- steads and what ones are not proper levies’.. TAXES HIGHER THAN PROFITS WASHINGTON, D. C., April 13.—(FNS) Total taxes amount to more than total net profits in many American enter- prises. That seeming parade is strikingly illustrated in a state- ment just issued by John A. Logan, president of the National Association of Food Chains, which shows that taxes paid by member companies of the. As- Hits baa ef Re ~ Fee 8 tett ik i Palel Fett A | f : Fi i 5 i F i | PE i # F f i f? F & 3 i i [ water's edge off Fowey Hocks near Miami. Tuesday turning from 2 season in Key West waters Capt H E . Smith gineer J. F. Maxwell occupants of the forced to escape = when flames swept the within a few minutes burning vessel was seen from th Coast Guard base at Dinner Key and John Landefeid. an aviator mate, piloted a crash through the darkness to men in thei drifting infebost and rescued them The Alyce B. meanwh drifted on to nearby the tide and burned with only her rik chinery remaining valued at $7,000. The Alyce B. was continually in trobule while fishing Key West waters, sometimes with the motor and at other times with her rudder. Once with 2 broken rudder shaft it came m by tring aaa beat, wer in feast Less The == sc Chas Acomowst: Store. Jee Toran fort Mctiew: -o- Ser Beam: Arcmer for Bos bos -— the te flats with compiet- She was it im that way was towed im by Coast after its 11 passengers transferred to a2 local cha boat off Mascotte Shoals brought into Key West DEFENDANT ARRAIGNED YESTERDAY ORDERED TO LEAVE CITY Whitney Baker, who was © preliminary hearing before Peace Justice Enrique Esquimaide. Jr magistrate in issuing the opGer that Baker leave the city * fered SL255 for Ge bt but fused this pree ops Get GS - lowest price be would commer v i é ik I re i ! ! t le ; tj a | iH l an it i i ; ty 8 | a ti p