The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 4, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Key West Citizen | THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. VOLUME LX. No. 287. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1939 Aqueduct Commission Meeting Heard Chances Good For Fresh Water MEETING HELD SATURDAY IN MIAMI; RFC SEES MERIT IN PROPOSAL; ARMY AND NAVY | THOUGHT INTERESTED IN SEEING | LINE BUILT i Hope for the project assuring|done within the figure if other ss federal agencies can be induced Florida keys and Key West with | +, participate in the project. fresh water from the mainland) Whether the RFC refers to the army and navy, has not been made absolutely clear to the | aqueduct commission, but it is presumed in some quarters that jthe army and navy may enter a the project as part of its national Participating in the conference | defense expansion program in were Morton Macartney, chief of |Key West. the self-liquidating division of As result of the conference the Reconstruction Finance Cor- Saturday with Mr. Macartney, it eRe was decided. to authorize Elsom poration, Washington; William T. Killam, nationally ki T. Doughtry, -Jr., Earl Adams and Pate Ua MODELY 2 enon : : waterworks engineer who is William Arnold of the Florida’ identified with the firm of L. L. Keys Aqueduct Commission; “ 5 ~’| Lee & Associates and who drew — pac Eaten - up the original aqueduct: plete, othe Pa gr dale Be x Washington. ere he Miami, head of the engineering Sues eee and WPA offi- fr Nee See ae = anon, | lala with any required informa- = oun obineau, attorney for | tion and engineering data in an er 6 a Doughty cat tne effort to insure early action on ~ | th lications for $1,311,000, commission called the meeting to Ee oe Garvey To ere | be ‘treld) in “Miami because “Mr. 1: ig expected that’ if the fed-” encase Sette me tery al me eral agencies do approve of the portant to get his views on the Sa eile eee rege i applications of the commission she keys pam ey Wektito velar” oe ne “ahs mp ich: to mine the possibility of making — Leki Peatect the project self-supporting and ‘The ‘commission His” “applied ‘S¢l-liquidating through —_ water for a loan of $1,000,000 from the ConmumPtion. || The | Dosti _ Pear ‘ will carefully chec! io de- RFC, apd gota one Pel: itermine the probable consump-! aamiacyn sncesin the WPA. ie tion of business and eqomnerial . spons * ‘ i z interests here and along the eet by utilizing some of the ieys, by houscholders, by home- | cone” the mqueduet commission steaders and farmers and by the i shicl <yon. army and navy. | —— once alee bee area “Informal statements made to m8 oa ie! ARS The total {US Sounded favorable,” Chairman ae Benet cost. of the Doughtry told The Citizen today. ee 1 shia $1,311 000 “This does not mean the project “ It will be recalled, Doughtry will be spproved bila oy, a tartiia , Many angles must be ironed out pointed out, that originally the fest and many uncertain factors a nae te was cut to must be weighed carefully. We around $2,400,000 and still later believe we are making progress the commission applied to the “ . ‘ zs PWA for loans and grants total- crowns sibonrttetonere muni ing $1,818,000 to cover the cost of CIN ane il 24 pets Becianine 745 the program. The PWA applica- | P!ans, but we ginni ? tion was approved by PWA en- see hope for consummation ci gineers and fiscal experts, but it rea dream of a fresh water sys- was returned to the commission 3 because congress did not make additional funds available for such projects. In short, it met the same fate as hundreds of other similar applications then pending before PWA. Merit Seen Now it is unofficially reported appeared brighter today as a re- sult of a conference Saturday night at Miami. Guard Encampment Opens; teh Men And Seven Officers Drill LA MONACA GIVES "sui": GOOD CROWD YESTERDAY AT SOUTH BEACH ASSOCIATION PLANS ADDI- TIONAL CLEANUP WORK FOLLOWING LAST WEEK’S EFFORTS Further work may be done on South Beach to make it more attractive to visitors if proposals now being discussed by members of the Key West Hotel and Tour- ist Homes Association are ap- proved at a meeting scheduled to be held at La Concha Hotel at 2:30 p. m. tomorrow. The beach yesterday attracted the largest crowd of the season. Many of them were visitors, ob- viously delighted with the cleanup work carried on during the past week by the association. Scores of visitors funned them- selves on tha sand along’ the wa- ter’s edge. The sand was clean and the seaweed was virtually all removed. | u Some work should be done at once, according to R. A. Leh- mann, president of the associa tion, who. with Archie Thomp- son and C. E. Alfeld, have been supervising the job. It is planned to strip off the grass for some distance beak from the sand to make the beach wider and clear up Some seaweed that remains near the Simonton street en- trance. Last week nearly 50 truck loads of debris and weed were hauled away, some of it in a truck donated by the county commission. Members of the association also are discussing the possibility of installing a shuffleboard court at the beach. This would be built on the old tennis court. The matter will be brought up; before the association for discussion. The organizaton already has ex pended. some $50: for the “work, and may appropriate another similar sum tomorrow out of funds realized through sale of associate memberships. MRS. H. CURRY, 87, DIES THIS MORNING Mrs. Helen Curry, 87, died 1:30 o’clock this morning at the home, 508 Margaret street. . Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon 4:30 o’clock from the Chapel of the Lopez Funeral Home, Rev. Vari Ryn of the Gos pel Hall officiating. Survivors are two daughters: Mrs. Thomas O. Sweeting and Mrs. Edith Henriquez; 13 grand- children, 32 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. 176 the RFC sees some merit in the estimated cost of $1,311,000 and believes that the job may be TO CELEBRATE — FLORIDA DAY OFFICIALS OF PORT ST. JOE PLAN CELEBRATION ON DEC. 11 Battery “E” and Battery “F”,; All shipping is advised to pro- comprising the Second Battalion, | ceed with caution during the 265th Coast Artillery, National Guard and the Regi-jPle living in the vicinity of mental Band, are in camp at Fort oe Ee erent in pele eee Ab Woe Spee |to remove pictures and other ar- week December 4 to December 9. ticles from the walls to prevent Battery “F”, under the com- , Possibility of breakage. 4 mand of Captain Thomas J. Commanding Officer Harris Kelly, and the band under com- | 2S? said that these will be a con- mand of Warrant Officer Caesar | °*' ht ue rf a k a ee LaMonaca, arrived yesterday on pee ai nies “ii eto & chartered busses of the Florida | "@ance wi! ee SOY ; Florida j periods of practice firings. Peo- | ecccee WEEKEND <'PATIENTS ENJOY Catch-Included : Species | CONVALESCENCE HAD MANY THRILLS. AT CENTER HERE eccoteoce ° | Weekend trip taken by Mr,|CC-C. PERSONNEL AND PA- and Mrs. Rébert Shields and Mr.| TIENTS DELIGHTED WITH! and Mrs. Meyer Frandsen of; CLIMATE; WOULD LIKE! YEAR-ROUND CAMP | 4 La Washington, D. C., on’ the char: | ter boat “Marlin” was productive | of many fishing thrills. C.C.C. Convalescent Center, Mines Stop Cruising along the upper reef Which opened at Fort Taylor No-| near Pelican Shoals Saturday Prats ar bes eae afternoon terrific strikes were pe sent to it during the winter. experienced far out toward the; Commanding officer is Alex I. Gulf “Stream. Huge barracuda Jones, who states that the pa-. were ‘slamming into the bait and tients who have already arrived | ended enjoy their location immensely. | w . "Mr. Jones also said that the en- One fish, which was about a 25- tire personnel hopes that the. pounder, “got away”. It was a'camp may be run under a year-' beautiful specimen of what is Tound basis instead of the six’ believed to be a moonfish. It ae, it ie iw overated: Baste) i ; cial results of the climate were swirled oyer and over in the also ‘stressed by Mr. Jones. i water and loosened the hook. |, “Phe climate is all that could’ Anchor For Dinner» be desired”, Mr. Jones said. “It The stake at peaceful Sugarloaf is warm, and summer clothing is; Harbor, which is on the outside quite comfortable the year round. | of the Keys and is a good. an- Beaches afford excellent oppor: ANCHOR NEAR MAIN chorage, was brought alongside tunity for swimming and sun at just about dark. Anchoring in bathing. Recreational facilities inj SHIP CHANNEL; TEN- the channel, the edges of which Key West are excellent”. | DER GANNETT EX- could clerly be seen by the; Get Camp In Shape | ripples, dinner was prepared over, Shortly after the officers ar-- PECTED IN SHORTLY a gasoline stove. jTived they began getting the} Later in tha evening there was camp in shape. Buildings were| bottom fishing. Then the shark Cleaned and scrubbed. Minor re- | lines were put over with goodly Pairs were made. Lawns were portions of sliced barracuda for Mowed. Utilities were installed. bait. Everything was peaceful. Mess hall was placed in opera- The water was lap lapping tion under Truman Tillman, against the hull. Small fish graduate of cooks and bakers planes are assigned in addition rose and puffed at the surface. school. Cooking is at present:to the five which are now sta- Suddenly the shark line began to Over two gas stoves. {tioned here. go out. Wheeeeee and it ripped! Previously the camp was under } Commander G. B. Hoey said through ‘the water as one person district F. & H.,. but is at present this morning that others assigned hung on to it. Bang, and it under District I, commanded by sheared as clean as if a knife had Col. P. S. Sage, with headquar- | gay or two. been applied. {ters at Ft. Moultrie, S.C. C.C.C.! ‘The planes which arrived yes- Catch Sharks boys suffering from sickness or | terday afternoon made the trip Seven Planes several of them were Flight of seven navy airplanes yesterday afternoon in command of Lieut. Commander Storrs, and jalighted in the harbor. The overboard. Rip, rip and the line|down here to. recuperate from ‘non-stop flight. . They circled eight-foot sand shark was hoisted | in after a terrific strike , and brought. up on deck. The line was dropped again and in just a moment it sailed out once more for the open spaces. This time’ it was a shovel ngsed shark, which was particularly vicious. With badly burned hands, the boys were glad the girls then de: cided to call off fishing. for the night. The moon arose in a golden half circle and dispersed the million and one bright twinkling stars. To the left the red are of American Shoals flashed. To the right a glow was Key West. Autos rattled the boards of the Besides Mr. Jones there is the rival and each taxied camp surgeon, Irving I. Fuchs. | dividually for the landing. Camp personnel consists of Ernie; The total number which will Ji M. Reynolds. Co. 4469, Colum- | known, although reports fix the bia, S. C.; R. M. Allen, Co. 4469,' number at 12. Others will arrive Columbia, S. C.; Elbert B. Doss,/| from Norfolk and the Co. 2444, Starke, Fla.; Rober D.' squadron already here will then Riley, Co. 2444, Starke, Fla.; 0S- proceed to Guantanamo Bay, coe Towns, Will E. Brown, Rog-| Cuba. ship channel in shelter of the of Co. 1418 from Fargo, Ga. j bank there, : Airplane Tender Gannett, \ which was in port a few days ASPIRANTS SPEAK =<. will probably return to i service the planes. The Tender | — ‘Lapwing, now ‘in port, will then wooden Sugarloaf bridge. | (By Asnociated Presn) leave for Guantanamo Bay, Coming back on the reef some| MINNEAPOLIS, Deé. 4.—It ap. | Cuba. of the first kingfish of the sea- Pears that Minnesota is going to| — son were brought in, and a 15- be made the COMMISSIONERS “testing ground”) pound grouper. Another shark for GOP aspiraants to the nom-, |hit out in the Gulf Stream and ination for President. County Commnlsstoniry Wm. | Monsalvatge left over: the /high- was landed. Many other darra-| Thomas Dewey, prosecuting at- cuda and grouper adorned the torney of New York, makes his Frank ‘Gannett, noted newspa- way yesterday afternoon for Key per, chain owner of New York,, Largo, where he was to be met! catch. keynote address here on Wednes- }day, which will attract nation- will appear here tomorrow for a’ by Commissioner T. Jenkins | uke ‘ians. Mr. Gannett has stated'tend a meeting of the Road ithat he is not definitely’ in the! Builders Association in Miami. race, but that he stands ready.! Following this they will attend jlike any other patriotic citizen, |a meeting of the State Road De- , to accept the nomination, if he is partment and then a meeting of | called. | the State Planning Board. | | ! j One public concert is sched-/ uled for Wednesday evening at! Bayview Park, Warrant Officer} Caesar La Monaca, conducting | the band here in connection with the National Guard camp, an- TO PLAY EVERY NIGHT THIS WEEK: FOR PUBLIC WEDNESDAY Arrived Came. From ‘More Comin REUBEN JAMES _ SUFFERED ONLY SPRUNG PLA ER OFF REEF FRIDAY AT | NOON; WATER PUMPED FROM HOLD Destroyer Reuben James ‘on Tributarius de Minerva reef 15 miles north of the coast of More bait and hooks went ,Some. serious accident are sent) from Norfolk to Key West on a|Cuba and its forward hold was, flooded with, water, whith was ‘noon by the Wrecking Tug Warb- L. Cash, Co. 2414 Sumter, S. C.;;be stationed in Key West is not‘ !er with wrecking master C. Pe-| tersen in charge. | Mr. Petersen then turned the | th Airplane Tender Lapwing aft- ;er anchoring it behind the reef. ; Yard under its own power with | a convoy ship making the voyage i with it. There was no water in the James’ hold, Mr. Petersen told The Citizen, when he arrived. He emphasized that there was no |Meessity for placing a patch on ; the bottom as only the plates | Were sprung. Bringing the James off reef- was accomplished by plac- ing a 12-inch hawser around the bitts of the Warbler and around | the bitts on the James. Two hun- dred and fifty fathoms of . rope , Were let out and then the power- ;ful steam engines pulled the | James off in about a half hour of PRICE FIVE CENTS Soviet Advance; Islands Captured |\BOTH ARMIES FIGHTING IN SNOW STORM; LOOK FOR LENGTHY AND BITTER STRUGGLE (By Associated ER LONDOH, Dec. 4.—Finns ‘and | Russian soldiers were engaged in |furious battle today in the midst ‘of a blinding snow storm. The | storm, generally believed .to be jof benefit to Finland, is making ' progress very slow on either jside, although dispatches re- ‘ceived here state that the Soviets are making some head- |way towards the capital city, | | | | | } jarrived at Key West 4 o'clock | WARBLER PULLED DESTROY- | Helsinki. | Feature of the Russian ad- ‘vance, however, is the large num- jber of land mines exploding as |the Finns retreat from various {strongholds. Over a _ thousand Russian soldiers have been killed ‘here were expected to arrive in a’ sprung its plates when it went,25 the mines were exploded by the Finns. ) Scandinavia opinions added up to the belief that the present struggle would extend into a was -out ‘again: 'This* time an ll over the Fourth-Corps-Area: ‘the city immediately after” ar-| pumped out by the crew. ‘The 1©2sthy war as Russia seemed-un- in in-' James was brought off Friday @ble to push ahead fast enough to bring a Finnish army route. | ‘The four islands originally | wanted by Russia, and the land ,which brought on the present part of a’ vessel over to the commander of Warfare, are now in Russian hands, according to late advice. The Soviets are pushing on, how- er E, Perkins, Lester Pettyjohn| All of the planes are anchored The James was said to be pro- ever, to “free” es Finnish peo- ‘on the western edge of the main! ceeding toward Charleston Navy Ple, as they say ‘from the, brutal rule of their despotic rulérs”. Much of the civilian popula- tion of Helsinki has evacuated the city, in expectation of more air raids to come, the govern- ment cabinet, nowever, is still sticking to its post in the capi- ‘tal building. the | TEMPERATURES Lowest last highest last Stations— night 24 hours Abilene 36 64 Apalachicola — 45 60 | Atlanta 33 48 towing. Boston 43 55 scheduled speech to the Kiwan-|Curry and: then proceed to at-} | The Warbler has 1700 horse- {power reciprocating steam en- |gines. The seagoing wrecking .tug was originally built by the Navy for mine sweeping work. It is leased by the Merritt-Chap- man Corporation, still. being owned by the Navy. The Warb- ler is very similar to the Air- | plane Tenders Lapwing and Gan- inett. which have been in Key | West port. On the trip out 14 men be- isides the regular crew of the | wrecking tug were carried, Mr. | Brownsville 50 80 Buffalo 32 43 | Chicago 30 35 Corpus Christi 47 78 Denver 31 62 Detroit 30 Dodge City _. 32 Duluth 20 Eastport 38 'El Paso __. 36 Hatteras . 43 | Havana 64 'Helena 34 Huron - -. 32 Jacksonville _ 41 Kansas City — 32 40 61 28 53. 70 54 77 51 50 60 52 j | Petersen said. Regular crew is |composed of 19 men. | Warbler arrived back in Key 'West Saturday night. at 7:30 PORT ST. JOE, Dec. 4 (ENS). —In the past the day of the drawing up of the Florida con- stitution, which was drawn up at old St. Joseph in 1839, has! been known by various names and last. year was celebrated at the Centennial or One Hun dredth Birthday of Florida, but officials,,and business men of Port St, Joe have decided to be- gin on.December ith in cele- brating that day as Florida Day. Florida Day will designate the 101st birthday of Florida as a state although the state was not admitted to the Union until 1845. This decision was made by offi- ; cials Mayor Joe Sharit, Attorney nounces. ; Concerts will be held every | night, beginning tonight, and in- cluding Friday night. Admit- tance to the Fort will be by pass | only. Passes may be obtained! from headquarters of Guard en-! campment. KEY WEST _ 61 Little Rock _. 33 Los Angeles - Louisville ' At the scene was the naval air- Miami — A Key West “Get Together” |English. Other units will be in’ craft carrier “Ranger” and ten-' Minneapolis party will be staged at the | charge of Thomas Curry, Orlando‘ der Lapwing. | Nashville |Armory, corner of Southard and | Esquinaldo and John Bennett. | |New Orleans Program for this evening's White streets, at 7:30 p. m.| Other recreation workers who. |New York __ ficer. | ‘concert follows: ; Thursday. Program is under the | will act as hostesses are Misses ‘NAVY TANKER Oklahoma City 39 There is also present at thei |March, “Gardes Du Corps” Hall supervision of the Key West unit | Beatrice Moreno, Dora Gonzalez, | DUE TOMORROW 2=""", Higone ae Motor Lines, and arriving at the! =a reservation found Battery “E” SCHOONER LEFT in command of Captain W. Curry | Harris, who is also camp com-; mander. | There are 76 men and three of- | ficers in Battery “F” and in Bat- | tery “E” there are 75 men and| SKIPPER OF STANDARD| three officers. There are 25. men; BRINGS HIS CHICKENS in the band and one warrant of-! WITH ‘HIM 35 camp Lt. Colonel C. C. Youmans,| Schooner ’“Standard”, which is'Concert Waltz, “Southern Ros-. ‘of Works Progress Statewide : Florence Sweeting, Ruby Thomp- | |Phoenix 43 in command of the medical de-| sailed by an old sea captain who! es” Strauss Recreation Project. i Jose- | | Pittsburgh as 32 tachment, and the facilities for!lives on lime groves on Key!Popular, “Wishing Will Make All entertainment for the eve-;phine Ubieta, Tillie Cervantes, | | the treatment of the sick and Largo owned by Sheriff Karl| It So” / ‘ning will follow the. motif of Hilda Yado and Mrs. Lillian! those who may suffer from in- Thompson, sailed out of Keyj Vocal Solo by i ii juries during the camp. West today for the upper keys. | The commanding officer said The schooner had in tow a| “Campus Memories”, today that tomorrow and Wed- motor launch and several small! of College Songs E. Clay Lewis, Commissioner nesday, December 5 and 6, sub- skiffs. On the schooner lives an|Mexican Serenade, Bernard Pridgeon and the Busi- caliber ammunition will be fired old sea captain and his wife.|- loma” ness Men’s Association at their and the danger area will be about The old captain sails the entire | Overture. recent meeting. 5,000 yards south of Fort Tay- schooner himself. Organization of the celebration | lor, | Best known item regarding the | Popular, “Moon Love”, adapted has not been completed but work On Thursday and Friday, De- schooner is the owner’s statement| from Tschaikowsky’s 5th will begin on this matter imme- cember 7 and 8, service practice that he brings his chickens down| Symphony, 2nd Movement diately, with the idea of making with the 155 millimeter guns in coops from the Largo estate Vocal Solo by Sergeant this a big event in the history | will be held. During this prac- on each trip. The reason he gives Frank Purnell of Port St. Joe and the State of tice the danger area will be is that they must be taken care| “Finlandia”, Symphonic Poem his guit Program for the day/about 15,000 yards south of Fort of and that is the only way he » Sibelius | World’s: Fair in SN announced later, i Taylor. can tend to them. “The Star Spangled Banner” esagsestuaseesavassas