The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 6, 1939, Page 1

a Azsociated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 289. Barracks, Quarters And Other Buildings To Be Constructed At Trumbo orry NEW YORKER GO BIDS FOR LOCAL CON- TRACTS TO BE PUB- Che Key as @ a t THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE Seals “Tose Hotel Men Vote More ___TUBRCTLOSIS Funds For South Beach DOCTORS WILL BE IN KEY) WEST TO CONDUCT MANY | ee Give | X-RAY EXAMINATIONS in| TWO MEN EMPLOYED NOW; ONE CARETAKER WILL BE SUFFICIENT IN SEASON; PUBLICITY MATTERS DISCUSSED * i FEBRUARY | Monroe County is indeed for- |tunate in being selected for a !Tuberculosis Survey by the Di- “Additional expenditures for: port for a Key West booklet from tween Duval and cleaning up South Beach be- the association, it was voted to Simonton | have officers of the organization , . Key West, Florida, has the : most equable climate in the range of only 14° Fahrenheit U. S.A. 1939 "FROM ANNUAL SODALITY MEET FOUR DAY CONVENTION END- ED SUNDAY: NINE FROM KEY WEST WERE IN AT-| TENDANCE | GERMAN SAILORS Daring Finn«Aviators Bomb Russian Bridges; Storms Hamper Soviets = |FINLAND CELEBRATES 22ND ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE; ‘WILL NEVER SURRENDER’ Members of the Young Peo-' J ‘. ple's Sodality of St. Mary Star of, Yawl Seized By C. Guard | i i The Sea. Catholic Church re-| LISHED SHORTLY; PAN-| COAST IS ARCHITECT Additional information on the Trumbo Island hangar site of the Navy. describes the extent ofa total construction on the whole project. rector of Tuberculosis of the |Florida State Board of Health, | according to Dr. J. B. Parramore. TASTE OF FISHING «2c it school children and indigent con- coe Caught Large Kingfich tacts and suspects were x-rayed {for tuberculosis. A number of S. Connett, of Staten Island, |new cases were discovered and |N. Y., Monday had a taste of 48 @ result, from last reports by what fishing is like in these wa-| the Physicians and nurses, they |are now .on the road to a com- He went out aboard a local |plete recovery. | ters, i streets were voted yesterday at contact other groups to enlist|turned by bus Sunday evening a meeting of the Key West Hotel their cooperation. It is proposed and Tourist Homes Association,|to have the association take a Several men have been engaged page in the booklet and on the for several days cleaning ‘the; page publicize the new beach beach and it is now. reported in | facilities. good condition for tourist use. | L.§. Gruber and Charles John- It is planned to keep two men/son were named a committee to at the beach to complete clean- interview Mayor Willard M. Al- ing up the debris and putting the | bury in regard to a proposal for grass and parking plots in shape:|city-NYA co-operation in setting jLater, one permanent caretaker'up a Key West publicity bureau. It is understood that besides | Vessel in search of kingfish and} Dr. Parramore, Director of the will be employed. It is beli¢ved|It would require no financial the main hangar, the buildings to be erected officers’ quarters and house. Hangar a construction foundation and doors. facilities; water cisterns small boat ~ dock. roadwork on the 60-acre include a, barracks, | store and contract Wiii,include the superstructure, | this did not stop him from doing Also be constructed are concrete run- | prized “king” to boat. ways, electric and gas utilities’! all, he landed the largest king- | ai fi Considerable | which gave him a tough fight. tract | to ;eame back to port with a catch|Monroe County Health Unit, of over 1,400 pounds of the/States that it xs not part of his A : | work to treat these cases as that ‘silvery fighters of the deep. | Gebis 1 5 5 j will be done by the local phy- { Mr. Connett declared he_ had lnisiana .. “Tike diState auseard 108 Health desires to make it pos-! ‘sible for the patient to have the | Loe hee 4 ; diagnosis of Tuberculosis made ; his share of bringing ee highly” | when the disease is readily, © top it curable, so it is going to provide free x-ray examinations to all | those on relief and to their fami- lies desiring this examination. {In fact,-any person who states i ih | never seen such vicious battlers and in such numbers. However, hh of the catch, a 20-pounder, Mr. Connett, with Mrs. Con- one man can keep the beach!support by the city. It is plan- clean once the season’s accumula- ned to set up a bureau for dis- tions have been removed. | tribution of Key West news In connection with a request:stories to mainland and northern by J. W. John for financial sup-' newspapers. 2e . eoee THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A WEEKEND Come Along With Us On'This One: You'll Love It! ose eee eae will be dene also. Early Navy release stated that chief architect for the project would be Albert Kahn, Inc., of Detroit, the firm that does a ma- jor part of navy and other gov- ernment construction. Late in. formation, however, states that Russell T. Pancoast, of Miami, has been designated by the, U. S. Government Bureau of Yards and Docks as the architect. Pan- coast is busy at work on all plans now. Previous.information .on the project stated that outside of con- struction of the hangar it is un- derstood that all other work will | be let out to contractors in this nett, have been the guests of |Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bush at the |home on Virginia street for the past week. They planned to leave yesterday for Staten Island. ‘TORTUGAS TRIPS BEGIN ON DEC. 10 YACHT FLORIDA TO BE IN- | SPECTED<TOMORROW BY | they have not the money to pay for an x-ray of their lungs can have this done free of charge. | Dr. A. J. Logie, Director of; | Tuberculosis of the State Board! jof Health and his technician, Mr. } ;Morehouse, are going to. be jand 21st to make the ¥-ray ex-! jaminations. Dr. Logie, an ex-) !pert in interpreting the results! lof the examinations will mail a report to any physician referring | | the patient. ; | Tt-is Possible to takeover 100 fill all-our tanks, tuck “away” a pocceccsccoe “Let's take @ cruise! These magic words said from in one Key Wester to another adds} |Key West on February 19th, 20th quite a thrill as the weekend ap-| proaches. Very few of those who. visit the city know of the won- ; ders of cruising just a few chan- ;nels away from the Island City. We pile in gasoline enough to’ area Bids for the work are ex-} | x-rays per hour, so Dr. Parra- ‘more. is desirous of having at least 1,000 people take advantage of this unusual opportunity. As Tuberculosis is more prevalent in UNITED STATES AGENTS United States Inspectors of small barrel of water, a gasoline stove, blankets, all sorts of food from a side of ham to canned vegetables, with plenty of onions! ‘CRUISE AMONG THE FLORIDA KEYS Pr ere ) swift barracuda or large permit ,and bonefish. | Bottom Fishing We then go back into the blue. {channel leading into the key, {find a rocky bottom and drop our mullet baited hooks over. Bang, and a little grunt is haul- ed in. Then follows in quick succession, yellowtails, snappers, }small grouper. Soon the botto: jof the boat is littered with the |small bottom fish and we head back to cur cruiser. : That night with the moon’ .| Owens, Jacksonville; and limes on the side. pected to be published shortly. TEMPERATURES Lowest last highest last Stations— night 24 hours Abilene 42 74 Apalachicola 52 70 |steam vessels are expcted to ar- rive in the city tomorrow morn- ing on the Steamship Cuba for the purpose of inspecting the vessel Florida of the Sutton |Lines, which is at the Porter 'Dock Co. A The ship arrived in the harbor |this week from New York, and ‘the colored race, any colored per-! ‘son or persons with mixed blood | will be given this opportunity to ‘have an x-ray of their chest for |diagnostic purposes. In order to |reduce the death rate in Monroe ‘County from Tuberculosis this opportunity is made available and everyone is urged to take ad-' We go out through Winding Calda channel on the bayside with markers guiding our way. A cool wind is blowing from the north and adds a bit of zest to the day. Going out we troll a squid behind over a long stretch of rocky bottom, known as the “Grunt bar”. Wham, the loop in | overhead, the water lap lapping | against the hull and the sense of solitude and separation from | Strife and fuss of business, one feels a new thrill at being alive. | With .Ssteaming coffee or hot ; chocolate as a drink, there will | probably be fried yellowtail or |-grunts for the meat with a side dish of hot vegetables. Dessert Atlanta 41 Boston 34 62 59 since the arrival members of the vantage of it. crew have been getting every- our line spins out and we pull in| will be a bit of chocolate or a large sized five-pound grouper. | canned fruit. 80 36 58 45 81 74 70 40 70 32 68 78 59 74 60 60 68 62 76 70 79 51 51 48 60 67 44 68 70 82 35 59 55 60 33 57 70 47 60 Brownsville 59 Buffalo 31 Charleston 49 Chicago 36 Corpus Christi 51 Denver 33 Dodge City 34 Duluth 30 Dodge City _. 34 Eastport 23 El Paso. 36 Galveston 54 Hatteras 47 Havana 52 Helena 43 Huron 25 Jacksonville 52 Kansas Citv 33 KEY WEST -_ 62 Little Rock 36 Los Angeles . 62 Louisville 30 Miami 59 Mpls.-St. P. 27 Nashville 34 New Orleans _ 49 New York 36 Oklahoma City 43 Pensacola 50 Phoenix 45 Pittsburgh 31 St. Louis 32 Salt Lake City 24 San Francisco 52 Sit. Ste. Marie 31 Seattle 45 Tampa 59 Washington 40 Williston 32 COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT Regular meeting of the Board of County Commissioners will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the office of Clerk Ross C. Sawyer in the county court house. There are a number of matters to come before the board at this meeting, one of which is the sponsorship of the float for hy- droplanes, which was the sub- ject of a visit by Captain Robert S. Fogg. of the Civil Aeroplane Authority, this week. thing in readiness for the inspec- | tion and to take up the scheduled | trips between Key West and Fort | Jefferson on December 10. ‘tors will come prepared to issue record books to applicants who are contemplating entering the |service. S.S. OZARK BRINGS FREIGHT | Steamship Ozark. of the Clyde. Mallory Lines, arrived in port \last evening from New York at 5:45 o'clock with a cargo of mis- cellaneous freight for local deal- Jers, | The vessel sailed at 8:35 o'clock |with a shipment of bottles and |sponges, and a miscellaneous as- jsortment of freight for Tampa. It is understood that the inspec- i ‘MARIS’ LEAVE FOR NEW POST Mr. and Mrs. John G. Maris | were passengers on the Steam- \ship Cuba yesterday going to Tampa en route to Long Island, (New York, to;which point Mr. 'Maris has: been transferred from service at Key West Barracks. | Mrs. Maris was before mar- riage, Miss Helen Archer, daugh-* ter of Judge and Mrs. W. P. Ar- cher, and was married to Mr. Maris at a beautiful home wed- ding on November 21, Rev. J. C. |Gekeler of the First Presbyterian go north we. see the bay islands on our right and Key West is but a line on the horizon with a few houses and the radio towers in miniature. Soon they fade away entirely. Harpooning We break through a channei just north of West Harbor Key and anchor there. Breaking out our dinghey we slip on the out- board motor, pass .in a jug of water and another of gasoline, besides a few fishing lines and a harpoon. Over the flats we go. It is half tide and the big fish come up on the flats to feed. Sometimes our dinghey’s keel scrapes bottom and we feel the branch coral crunch beneath. Then we sight it. ' As we | Jewfishing | Next morning we up anchor | and are away after first cruising | through all the myriad channels | of the Harbor Keys, Mud Keys | and Snipe Point. Going through | these channels with the high mangrove roots on either side is like a bit of Venice without the} houses. ».Dropping anchor at the |mouth of one of the channels, | we take the dinghey and with a ‘live yellowtail from our well | drop a large jewfish hook _be- | Neath-a likely spot and wait. Sud- | denly a long black shadow moves |out from the recesses of the | bank and we've a jewfish on our jline. Just a little fellow, a 30- pounder, but he’ll be good eat- ling. We tie him up with a rope Spanish War Veterans Units Elected Officers Yesterday | B. H. McCalla Camp United!membership and was taken into |States War Veterans met in reg- the organization. en session last’ night at the| Officers for the year 1940 were jhome of the American Legion A |with a large number of members , “lected and the following named: jin attendance. Reports of of-|President, Lucy Goshorn, Senior |ficers for the 1939 were read. Vice President, Annie Richards, Announcement of the election| Junior Vice President, Margaret of officers for 1940 was made Doran, Chaplain, Rose Peat, and the election was held with} zs js ithe following results: Com- Patriot Instructor, Lois Norman, Conductor, Flora Michael, Guard, Jennie. Ketchum, Secretary; Faye |mander, G. N. Goshorn, Senior | Vice Commander, James John- J. Higgs, Treasurer, Clara Moth- erwell. json, Junior Vice Commander, | Arthur J. Stewart, Trustee, x.) M. Motherwell. | Officers will be installed at the | The elected officers will be in-/ first Ser uoiine to be held pes with the regular cere-|on January 4, 1940, at the resi- Eaetaaechage ies ay at the Legion ‘dence of Mrs. Lillie Weaver, 819 all, on January &, 4 | Southard street. | Auxiliary Met The regular meeting of the B.' | H. McCalla Camp No. 2 Auxiliary | |United Spanish War Veterans! | was held at the hall of the Amer- | ican Legion last evening and an} jexceptionally -large attendance) | was at the meeting. | One new member, Mrs. Mar- igaret Doran, was nominated for | Dance Tonight RAUL’S CLUB |! Raul’s Hawaiian Orchestra - || Ne Admission or Cover Charge church officiating. | “Stingaree!” the harpooner in| behind, securing his mouth to- 'the bow of the dinghey shouts| gether so he won’t swallow much {out. Helm over we head for the| water, and we proceed up the | stingaree at high speed. Ap-| keys. |proaching we slow down. Too; Stopping far above Snipe |late. He has heard us and he’s| Point we discover some likely joff in a ploughing of water with/locking rocks below. We try a jhis big black wings flapping. | light line and a big hook. Sure | The harpooner points out his path enough, there is a tug and we with his harpoon and we follow.|have a large grouper playing {Soon we are on him again|heck with our light handline. Throwing the harpoon just a lit-| After carefully working him up tle below where he wants to|toward the surface we finally strike to take up deflection of the} bring him in. A good 15- water he hag scored a good hit|pounder and a prize. Someone and we are away. The pole pulls/else in the party hooks a big out of the harpoon and we pull| one and soon there are three or it in with the attached string.|four of the big fellows flopping , The big ray. pulls us all over the around. We release ‘all but one, \flats, sometimes doubling right) which we throw in the well. ‘back umider the boat with the} We land off famed ‘Content vicious whip dangerous pol-| Bottom fishing is produc- {Sonous spike ing near us. i : |. Finally ‘he gives out. We puil, “him in, give him a few jabs to} jdispatch him speedily and prob- fi ‘ably cut away the spike as a ‘trophy. We are careful we are | li we |not scratched by the sharp bony./have a nice little fight on our |protuberances of the tail. “Look hands. We haul him in, and he , behind”, someone shouts and we |i 4 the ‘see a large shark attracted by the blood weaving back and forth hungrily. { from West Palm Beach where they attended the Ninth Annual | Convention of the St. Augustine} Sodality Union from November } 29th to December 3rd. Several | jhundred Sodalists from all parts | of Florida were in attendance.| Headquarters of the convention! were at the George Washington | Hotel. Guests of honor were the Most! Rev. Patrick Barry, D. D., Bishop | of St. Augustine, the Rev. F. D./ Sullivan, S. J., diocesan director, | Rev. F. P. LeBuffe, S. J., Direc-| tor of Eastern Sodalities, Miss Dorothy Willmann, National Ex-| ecutive Secretary for parish) sodalities; regional directors Rev. ' P. E. Nolan, Lakeland, Rev. R. E. Philbin, Jacksonville, and Rev. R. T. Bryant, S. J.. West Palm Beach. Sessions of the convention were devoted to an_ intensive study of Parish Sodality rules and organization. Officers of the union for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Miss Catherine Secretary, Miss Ethel M. Green, Miami; Treasurer, Miss Cecilia Ells- worth, Lakeland. The conven- tion closed with a banquet and dance held at the Monterey Hotel on Saturday evening. ! Members of the local Sodality ttending the “convention “were: Misses Marjorie Gwynn, Louise Hawkes, Vilna Alfonso, Mary E. Whalton, Mary Agnes Kelly; Messrs. Antonio Martinez, Bert Buckley, John Frank Del Villar and Rev. P. J. Kelleher, S. J., di- rector. WARBLER LEAVES TO GO IN DRYDOCK | Wrecking tug Warbler sailed this afternoon for Tampa and will be placed in drydock for minor repairs and complete over- haul. The vessel will be in charge of Captain W. B. Wilder and Sal- vage Master C. L. Petersen, and it is understood it will be placed in the drydock of the Tampa Shipbuilding Company. NOTICE! STOCKHOLDERS MONROE INVESTMENT CO. A, special meeting will be held Friday, December 8, at 7:30 P. M. at Knights of Golden Eagle Hall,‘ 1213 Petronia Street.’- Business of importance. R. B. RUSSELL, Pres. DOUGLAS R. TREVOR, Sec. dec6-3t MUST GIVE BOND. ,,.exssse—: STOCKHOLM. Dec. 6.—The Seooosocooocoocs| $5 (By Associated Press) |Russian-Finnish war today was NEW YORK, Dec. 6.—German | py, ini with a 43 foot yawl Lekala, which was | s™keted in ice and snow seized yesterday in New York|heavy snowfall over Helsinki Harbor, is being held until the; % captain and crew saving the Finnish capital from can furnish | bond for their proposed voyage | further bombing raids. Courage and defense of the to Germany. The yawl was noted taking|miinich nation was revealed aboard six months’ provisions in ‘Baltimore but police did not stop it until it reached New York. It is believed that the yawl is out- fitted either to run the English blockade into Germany or to contact and aid German subma- rines in these waters, Furnishing of the bond will/ release America from respons- bility of any act of the yawl. If it, for instance, rammed an En- glish submarine, America could not be held for damages in per- more than ever today as it was announced that a daring Finnish |raiding party landed in Russia in the Arctic region, bombed a |bridge and departed for Finland | again. | Russians claimed they shot down two Finnish planes which were attempting to ,counter- bomb Leningrad in_ retaliation for Russian bombing of Helsinki this week. Russians are said to have ad- {vanced their troops 11 miles to- {day, but the report is uncon- firmed. Russia announced that she plans to strike at Finland shortly from the north, south and mitting the vessel to outfit in a neutral American port. Considerable mystery has fol- lowed recent refueling of Ger-| man submarines, with several lei: hi th complaining that the refueling |°@St, Striking from the nertlt rt ‘precludes the possibility a was done from American shores. |Russia can land troops on the There have been unconfirmed | |Finn shores across the Gulf of charges. that German U-boat cap-| Finland which is heavily forti- tains have come ashore in sev: jfied. Land batteries in this gulf eral cases. Off Miami two! ‘ i Italian ships refueled a German Sree pea vyh raion fee the submarine two months ago. = coast. neo Bi rand ~ celebrated “MS. “22nd ~ FINLAND PA |year of independence today with solemn faces and adoption of the motto to “never surrehder”. Fin- ‘nish blue and. white flags were IN RELIEF FUNDS flown over the country today. Correspondents returning from | the Helsinki area report that it is “transformed” following _ the bombings. All shop windows have been boarded up and death land destruction are prevalent. ae Grim faces are seen on the (By Associated Press) | street, ASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Fin-} Writings of Lenin have been EX-PRES. HOOVER TO DI- RECT NEW AGENCY: TOM DEWEY SPEAKS TONIGHT land will pay its 1940 debt to the United States this year and it. is believed that Congress will do- |dropped over Finland by Russia in an effort to spread the | Socialistie doctrines. agricultural policy and the gen- ,campaign for presidential nate the $234,000 to Finnish re- lief’ program now being handled by former President Herbert Hoover. ‘BRITISH NAVY * DESTROYS SUBS CLAIMS TWO TO FOUR EACH WEEK ARE SUNK: JAPAN CALLS RUSSIA ‘FRIEND’ MILWAUKEE, Dec. 6.—Thom- as Dewey will speak tonight at 9 p. m. Central time on the eral governmental policy in hi nom- |, nation. Other GOP candidates in the field are Vandenburg. Taft, Bridges. (By Associated Prens) LONDON, Dec. 6.—English Ad- |miralty Lord Winston Churchill told House of Commons today that the English fleet is wiping out the German submarine fleet faster than Germany can produce | them. The English destroyers are de- WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—John L. Lewis has okayed the secur- ing of contractors in the CIO union regardless of opposition of the AFofL. Artillery Band Will Present Good Public Concert Tonight Warrant Officer Caesar La Monaca, conductor of the 265th Coast Artillery Band, F.N.G., an- nounces the program for to- night’s concert which will be} given in the Bayview Park band- shell starting promptly at 7:45 o'clock. The program contains many high-class numbers, and opens with a march, “Squads Right” by Davenport. Next is a Grand Selection from the. Ballet “‘Sylvia”’ by Delibes. | The number includes the intro- duction, Valse Lente, Pizzicate Polka, Barcarole and March. Balance of the program is as fol- lows: ‘ Popular Selection, “Good Morn-} ing”, from ‘Babes in Arms” by Fa eaten pee eeneneeREEE A SPECIAL GROUP? of 6 Better Buys in GOOD USED CARS selling. DODGES, PLYMOUTHS, bas a 2 2 Te Ee rc res -------——— | stroying the German subs at the | rate of two to four a week. Ger- man report is that they are | building the submarines at the lrate of one a day which would {seem to indicate that they are meeting the destruction with a building program, but which still Freed and Brown. Vocal Solo by shows that they will be seriously Sergeant Frank Purnell. prs: in their submarine Cornet Solo, “Arbucklenian | Warfare. Polka” 2 ..| Bitter attack of the German Sergeant Rosary Piccolo. |Press, was made today on_ the “ ” |“English - Franco Imperialism’ oun se hard ioe by tee |phase. The newspaper attack al- ay oi di ine cuacoimneia tS blamed Turkey for making a bs Lh) cepa “ | pact with England and accused Popular Selection, ‘South of them of possibly causi ious the Border” (Down Mexico Way), >: spec maimed Balkan repercussions. Solo be Sageent Pune, V°!| Italy today said that Russian “ ° idiers were being moved for- — “Slave”, by_ Teche rag bere police with ma- a | chine guns at their backs. Star Spangled Banner. | Japanese newspapers < today The Overture trom Giuseppe | .unded a note of warning to Verdi’s “Nabucedonoser” is sel-| tries who were planning ac- dom heard in eoncerts, yet, Dilton inst Russia. The Tokio rector LaMonaca assures all that | sotant that Japan and the selection will be thoroughly |PaPers claimed that Japa enjoyed by all music lovers. The} Se. ope - favorite selection, “Slave”, clos-| ing the program, will be remem-/| bered with delight by the audi- ence, with its featuring of all sec- tions of the band. The Artillery Band played at the Marine Hospital this: ning |,, at 10:30. Another concert will be given tomorrow night at Fort Taylor.