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

Azsociated ‘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 tf Che Key West Citizen | 2OLUME LX. No. 293. Five Destroyers A THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. ar als KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1939 ed Today From San Digga LEFT CALIFORNIA STA- TION SIXTEEN DAYS AGO; TENDER SCHENK RETURNS Five more destroyers have ar- rived in port and are either an- chored today in the harbor off the naval station or berthed at the finger piers. They are the Flagship Lea, with squadron com- mander Captain Carpender on board; the Twigg. Wicks, Phillips and Evans. The left San Diego Calif., 16 days ago and after an uneventful trip entered the har- bor of Key West at 1:30 9’clock this aftefnoon, with Pilot Melvin Russell at the wheel of the lead- ing ship, the Lea. One of the ships which con- voyed the Destroyer Reuben James to Charleston after she was relieved of her perilous po sition on the rocks at Key Lobos, returned to Key West Saturday This was the Tender Schenk. De- stroyer Gannett also arrived in port Saturday. vessels EX-EDITOR VISITS HERE Mr. and ‘Mrs. RT. Frederick? of Oklahoma City were visitors in Key West today, coming to the Island City for a day’s sight- seeing trip from a winter’s stay in Miami. Mr. Fredericks is for- mer editor of the Oklahoma News, now suspended newspaper of Oklahoma City. eeescccccee BROWNS VISIT HERE FRANK BROWN Mr. and Mrs, Frank Brown of | Jacksonville arrived in Key West yesterday afternoon for a few days’ visit, and Mr. Brown is calling on citizens in the interest of his candidacy for the post of | State Comptroller in the election | next spring. Mr. Brown was born in Jack- sonville and educated in the} schools of Duval county, after which he spent three years in a/ Jacksonville bank. He subse quently engaged in the iron and | steel business for a period: of ap- proximately ten years and then entered the financial field where he has followed investment and commercial banking up to the present time. He id the oldest son of the late Frank Brown, who for many years was clerk of the Circuit Court for Duval county and is a life-long Democrat. Mr. Brown’s wife, who acts as his campaign manager, is the former Helen! Taylor of DeLand, and the | Browns have two children, Helen Frances and Frank, Jr. SSIS SIDS STS, K.W.-HAVANA REPORTS: ‘SALES ARE FINE’ NOW “Sales have CEES very en- couraging”, Manager Raul Garcia of the Key West-Ha- vana Cigar Company told The Citizen, today. Mr. Garcia was very much heartened by the response to the excellent make of cigars being manufactured by the company. “Undoubtedly 1940 will be even bigger”, Mr. Garcia said. A visit to the plant last week rveealed spacious office and reception room in the front of the building, and the main portion of the plant a large open room, well light- ed, where the workers were busy making up cigars from pure Havana stock. SDS LIS SS SS 5 RUSSIAN CHOIR Leaving on the Steamship Cuba this morning was a group LEAVES ON CUBA ‘COUNCIL CALLS ON CITIZENS FOR FULL PAYDAY SALARIES TO ALL CITY EM- PLOYES BEFORE’ CHRIST- " MAS WILL BE MAIN EFFORT OF CITY FATHERS | | | | ! City employes are looking j forward to what has been called \a “Christmas Present Payday” es announcement comes from the {finance committee, working in | colaboration with the whole ;council and office of Tax Asses- |sessor-Collector, that every effort jis being made to obtain’ payment fof delinquent taxes outstanding jin order that a full payroll may |be met on or before December 23. : Council members are busily yengaged in contacting property lowners who owe taxes—suggest- iing that at least partial payment lof outstanding taxes be made. Attention has been focused on |the 1940 budget recently passed by the council in the matter of ten percent salary reductions as- sessed on salaries over $100 per of Russian singers, known as\month. It was stated in council Don Cossacks Choir, under the ‘that the cut would more readily leadership of J; Kuéevasalov, -go- |effect- regular’ ‘salary payments, ing to Havana for a series of con-|tWice monthly. However, as one icouncilman put it today, the ‘whole matter of meeting salaries There were 26 males in the and payment of bills incurred group of singers, among some of rests largely with the taxpayers certs. the finest male voices which have ever come to the United States it is said. They arrived from Chicago last night to await sailing of the Cuba this morning for Havana. || ARRESTED FOR ENTERING STORE Louis Caraballo and Charles Marrero were arrested this morn ing by watchman William Gwynn and Captain of Night Police Al- berto Camero, charged with breaking and entering the place Petronia street. They were at first taken to the city prison but later transferred |to the county jail. They will be given preliminary hearing before Peace Justice Enrique Esquin- aldo, Jr. ' PARISH IN CITY W. A. Parrish, of Marathon is {a visitor in the city today, and was a caller at the office of County Judge Raymond R. Lord to transact legal business. WELCOME TO PENA‘S GARDEN OF ROSES COCKTAIL HOUR of ‘business of Robert Lewis on} of the city. CHAS. PINDER DIES SUDDENLY Charles “Nick” Cornelius Pin- ‘der, 72, died yesterday morning at 2:30 o'clock, at the residence, 912 Georgia street. Funeral serv jices will be held thid afternoon 4 {o'clock from the Lopez Funeral iHome, William Edwards of the ‘Brethren, officiating. | Pallbearers will be selected jfrom the membership of the \Patriotic Order, Sons of Amer- ica. | Survivors are: The widow, Mrs. Sarah Jane Pinder; one son, John Quinn; one daughter, Miss Claudia Isham; one sister, Mrs. ‘Charity Sweeting; two grand- children. Mrs. Edna Hardee, and Bert Quinn, of Ft. Lauderdale. | | | ON SIGHTSEEING TOUR | Mrs. James Bland and Mrs. John Henders were arrivals on} the 12:30 bus yesterday for a sightseeing trip in the city andj left on the 5 o'clock bus for} Miami. Squash Is First Crop | Harvested | One hundred pounds of beauti- ' |ful squash were picked this morning at the Convent tract operated by the W.P.A. Garden- ing Project. The squash were the first vegetables produced by the project. “The squash are wonderfully | |tender”, Supervisor Joseph Cates , |told The Citizen today, “many of \them are around 11 inches long jand of 3 inches diameter. I took one of them home and sliced it | just to make sure it wasn’t hard, | |and T was very much gratified | by the excellence.” The squash will be producing for the next two months. Work is going ahead rapidly Mr. Cates said on a canning proj- ect for the city. Cost of spon- sorship is very slight being well Beginning This Afternoon from below $100. Proximity of the 5:30 to 6:30. Two cocktails for the price of one. Music by J The “Old Maestro's Orchestra” GOULD Key West area to some of the! |country’s best food fishing | By Gardeners and should be ready for picking in about ten days, okra is out and will be ready in 20 days, Cabbage heads are above ground and will be picked in 75 days. Egg plant» will also be ready in |75 days. | A large tract of plants which were wiped out by corn stalk worm was replaced with tomato plants with 4,500 plants being set out. for picking about February ’. Mr. Cates said that initial pro- duce of the squash will be given to the school lunch room projects | ‘of the city. The ‘school lunch rooms of the city serve approxi- mately 505 lunches each day, and the supply is expected to last quite some time. Other vege- tables produced will be given to the lunch room projects. Besides the Convent tract there is also the Stowers tract on Duval They should. be ready | Ne Com Home Society Makes Appel |CHILDREN’S ORPHANAG! TO RAISE FUNDS TO ing committee for the South- eastern Branch of the Children’s Home Society of Florida last week issued an important appeal port of the home situated in Miami. Rev. J. C. Gekeler, chairman of the local committee, in ad+ dressing the appeal for support by letter to organizations and in- dividual ‘residents, stressed the fact that every effort is being } imade to raise sufficient funds’ for the support of at least one or- phan child in the home for the coming year. Cost of such sup- port amounts to $260 annually. ganized and consists of the fol- lowing citizens: Mayor and Mrs. Willard M. AI- bury, Allan H. Armstrong, Mrs. SIIIISS STS, VISITOR TOWNSEND SNAGS A SAILFISH Fishing stories are coming in faster now—with the ad- vance fishermen-tourists get- “ ting” in~ some good days out on the reefs and in the Stream. Yesterday, the Dorna-D, captain Bob Daniels, took out a party consisting of H. R. Townsend, Washington, D. C., Mr. and Mrs. William Goldberg, Chicago, Ill, and Colenel Selby Leasure, sta- toned at Fort Taylor. The catch included. cero mackerel, barracuda, bonito, jacks and the prize of the day, landed by Mr. Town- send, a sailfish measuring six feet ten inches and weighing fifty pounds. ALIENS DEPORTED | ASLAW VIOLATORS, Arriving on the Steamship ;Cuba this morning from Tampa | were two prisoners of the United States government, violators of the immigration laws, who were jcaught in Tampa, cases were heard there. They were Enrique Alejandro Mayneto and Raul Contin Rod- riguez who were found guilty of ‘transgressing the laws of the jcountry, and were sent to Key |West, delivered to Claude Al- ‘bury, with orders to see that they were deported to Havana on the Meme TEMPERATURES 24 hours 69 51 45 70 54 67 52 34 69 76 78 74 65 75 73 Stations— Atlanta —_ Boston ‘Buffalo _ ‘Charleston Chicago {Denver Detroit Duluth . _ ‘El Paso Galveston ‘Havana 'Jacksonville ~_ |Kansas City KEY WEST {Little Rock _ Los Angeles _ Louisville Miami |Mpls.-S. Paul Nashville __. 'New Orleans - New York __ Pensacola Pittsburgh St. “Louis it Lake City 54 in Francisco 50 night — 49 . 34 26 ih Sal | grounds is believed favorable to and Division streets. These two|Seattle 44 \the canning project. i String beans are on the vines ‘ect. j tracts si ae et ag ee Washington _. 49 al For Support FROM MONROE COUNTY LAST YEAR; STRIVE COST OF ONE CHILD The Monroe County Sponsor- Ww. to citizens of this city for sup- |. The local committee was or-} E SUPPORTED SIXTEEN EQUAL FULL YEAR’S . P. Archer, H. E. Day, William . Demeritt, Mrs. Stephen W. Douglass, Rev. John Gekeler, Miss Minnie Porter Harris, Wil- liam V. Little, Mrs. Grace B. Phillips, Joe Pearlman, Ernest A. Ramsey, Mrs. Juliette Russell, Miss Florence E. Sawyer, Charles E. Smith, Mrs. R. F. Spottswood, B. D. Trevor, William R. Warren, Mrs. Howard Wilson and Mrs. Everett B. Winter, all of Key \ West. | “In the communication sent out, the following stressed the need for support, as stated in the fol- lowing paragraph: “This year 327 children have Bad served during the past eleven months, 16 of whom were ‘Monroe County children. $337.40 has been expended in the serv- ices rendered for Monroe County children, and only $42.50 has been contributed by Monroe ‘County individuals, civic clubs, and others, which leaves a bal- ance of $294.92 that Dade County citizens, through the Community to aid the |. im this section before as far Finland PRICE FIVE CENTS lS Off Soviets At Aid From Lagu WPA GARDENERS FIND, WAY TO, STOP BORERS' Rare destructive worm which visited this area has apparently been stopped by local pest treatment, Super- visor Joe Cates, of the Works Progress Gardening Project said today. The worm is the corn stalk borer and is highly destruc- tive. It has not been known as can be determined, and killed thceusands of plants at the project before it was stopped. Cates put together a potent mixture of tobacco stems and leaves and water in a 50-gallon, drum, let it set for 60 hours and then applied it to the bases of the plants af- fected. The borer, which usually attacks the plants at the base and then goes up the stalk through the pithy part of the plant, has appar- ently disappeared. Mixture used was 80 pounds of the tobacco stalks and leaves to 500 gallons of that there was no known way to kill the borers. 1940 AUTO TAGS SELLING SLOWLY COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR STATES NUMBER OF LI- CENSES SOLD THIS’ YEAR BEHIND THAT OF 1938 Sales of automobile state tags | have not yet reached the 100 mark was the information avail-! able at the office of Tax Collec- tor Frank Ladd when inquiry was made this morning by The | Citizen. { One of the clerks in the office lof the collector made an accurate {count of the tags sold and stated that since they went on sale De- jcember 1 there have been but 95. sold. The information was given that the sale this year is smaller |than it was at the same time last year. TIT I PILED iKINGFISH ARRIVE 'INFLICTED HEAVY LOSS- ES ON INVADING RED TROOPS; LEAGUE NOW | IN SESSION (By Aw ted Provan) LONDON, 11.—Finland jteday is hammering away at the Russians on all fronts, and, ac- cording to most reports coming through, are apparently succeed- jing in holding the Soviet troops {from advancing effectively into eeu territory. | Heavy losses have been ‘ported, inflicted on Russian jtroops in the advances both on the Karelian peninsular and in ,the mid-country. section where Russia is making an effort to cut Finland in two. Severe weather is working to the disadvantage of the invaders, many being re- ported dead from exposure and jJack of proper food. | Matter of supplies to the fight- ey armies of Russia appears to ‘be the main problem of why more success hasn’t been accom- re- Chest, have given needy _ children Monroe | RITES TODAY FOR | of " Coiitribulions’ may be “tirried! in to Mr. Pearlman, treasurer of the committee. FOR FRIDAY MEAL AOR Prisoners taken by Fin CN gi Spd oho First large catches of king- n ‘ood and warm fish were brought in this week by commercial- houses and Thompson Fish Company fleet. vetaeaie clothing. | Finland fights and waits for yhelp she rightfully thinks should |come from the League of Nations STIS STI ISS TS and whose | SOUTH BEACH TO BE ADVERTISED: | H | i HOTEL ORGANIZATION voTEs| SUPPORT OF NEW KEY WEST BOOKLET | Special meeting of the Key | West Hotel and Tourists Homes Association held Friday after- noon at La Concha hotel brought jup further discussion of contri- | buting to the Key West Booklet | now in process of promotion and! it was decided that the sum of; $50 would be pledged to the} { prodeet. Emphasis on advertising the association’s South Beach achievement would be made in the booklet with photographs to be taken today for the purpose. Additional matters discussed \included installation of benches and umbrellas on the beach and | ~~ the collection of pledges made ! | i { for the project from various mer- |Fulgencio Batista today acknowl- | Period. Federal chants of the city. A program; of billboard advertising to be} sponsored by the association and individual merchants was also discussed. IMPORTANT SCOUT | MEET TOMORROW An important meeting of all ‘Boy Scout committeemen, scout- ‘ers and scoutmasters will be held tomorrow evening starting at 17:30 o'clock at the Monroe Coun- |ty. Clinie headquarters. | Subject of the meeting, it was | stated, will be the discussion of | \Advancement and a _ District | meeting to be held in Miami! | Thursday, December 14. 2D x SH LOPRING. Lowest last highest last ' ‘in charge of arrangements. {Gertrude Curry; one son, EDWIN R. CURRY Edwin R. Curry, 62, died yes- terday morning at 5:30 o'clock in | the residence, 1008 Petroniaj} street. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at 4:30) g’clock from Ley Memorial! church, where the body was placed at 2 o'clock. Rev. O. C.) Howell will officiate. ' Lopez Funeral Home will | Pallbearers will be selected | from the Knights of Pythias. 4} Survivors are: The widow, Mrs. | Leo- nard T. Curry; two daughters, | Miss Alce H. Curry and Miss Del- | | la Mae Curry, and one brother, | ' Austin Curry; of Miami. li Kingfish adorned the tables of many local families last Friday noon. Of delectable texture, firm and tasty, the kingfish is one of the pleas- ures of a South Florida win- ter, The fish are usually caught with handlines trolled from 32-foot boats. These boats usually go to No Man‘s Land between Tortugas and Mar- quesas for their catches. When brought in the fish and line are placed over a meal wire and board known as a “jigger” and the fish kicking about frees itself of the hook and falls in the well. OE MB Today’s News Flashes HAVANA, Dec. 11.—Ex-Col. edged important help in his com- | ing drive for election to the) ‘presidency of the Cuban Re- , Public. First to endorse him ;was the Communist party. Three other groups gave endorsement today—the National Union, Na- tional Democrats and Liberals. TOKIO, Dec. 11.—Japanese 6,000 men for a_ six-month’s Surplus Com- | modities corporation has added to the diet of relief clients with shipment of navy beans, fruits and other diet-balancing foods over the weekend. Gov. Bricker of Ohio expected that normal re- lief would be in effect in this city by December 15. LONDON, Dec. 11—Two Dec. 11.— Secretary of Agriculture Wallace today stated that 91 per cent of, the cotton growers of the coun- 'try, representing about 800,000 ‘|farmers; showed preference for Supreme Court today handed down an opinion that “evi in any government litigation ‘ob~ -| tained through ‘wire tapping’ will abla be admissable before the the department's plan to in- stitute “quota crops” next sea- fand the world-at-large. The |league, considering routine mat- {ters today, is expected to get to |the problem of aid to the Finnish | people by tomorrow. Germany, however, has warn- Jed all neutral nations that will jhave representatives at the league discussion of policy to follow in {the European wars, ‘Attendance at the league sessions”, stated one German newspaper, “does not necessarily prove an act of unneutrality. However, any ac- |tion taken will be closely watch- ed by the German members”. The announced blockade of Finnish ports by the Russian navy has not materialized, according to Finnish reports, as ships of Finland apparently go and come unmolested in their tasks of ‘bringing in supplies to the fight- ing nation. High Finnish officials today stated that “we may be able to + hold off indefinitely any serious invasion of our country”. . How- ever, it is stated, the real ¢rux of the problem will come when and as if other nations decide to Jend material assistance. In that event, Finland points out, the outcome will be most certainly in favor of definite crushing ~of the Russian invasion. RELIEF TO START (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Ex- ‘President Herbert Hoover today announced that relief to war suf ferers in Finland can get under- way almost immediately. Hoover stated that 1100 news- papers of the nation responded to requests Yor publicity in con- nection with the drive to get underway. Contributions of cash son. It was brought out in the | announcement that the cotton growers see no possibility of in-' creased consumption of cotton goods as a result of the Euro-| pean war. WASHINGTON, Dec. 11— Officials of the National Hit mi