The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 7, 1940, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 60 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West vOnuMY ee No. 239. Hold Van Cosel On Malicious And Wanton Charges Warrant ae This ane, S. CONGRESS WILL ernoon; Case Attracts} ADJOURN TI TUESDAY Interest Throughout NOT TO ASSEMBLE UNTIL DAY AFTER ELEC- tion At a late hour this after- noon, county officials were investigating the process of law to follow in the case of Karl Van Cosel who has been formerly charged with mali- Press) Oct. 7.—Con- aking sched- of start full WASHINC gressional leader: fast work of ere legislative ules today | month's cious and wanton disfigure- Le : ment of a burial vault in the city cemetery when he re- moved the body of Elaina Hoyo Mesa to his home in defiance of health laws. anticipation to rec planned tomorrow and to last for month It was stated a this noon that with last Tuesd nothing should _ interfere the made weekend to adjourn on Key West was “Tes with talk until the day today concerning one of the most | Election Day, The Pan-American $500,000,000 a A a ) Congress over the weckend, mak- ation, " i =| and, according to observ. ling that io jmany South American countries ing to hear of the story too, for initiating defense programs sim- Jilar to the one headlined in this country. Following return to Washing- ton early in November, one of the biggest tasks up before the |Congress will be disposition of the Johnson Bill calling for finan- cial aid to Great Britain were unwilling to allow islation to come tion at this time TAKING THE ‘SUN (By Awsociated Press) RALEIGH. N. C.—Add gators to North Carolina hazards. State for found a 12-foot ‘gator himself in the iddle of in Green § WHEN WINTER COMES (By Associated Press) SPARTANBURG. S which weather hit this s« to search the denly that many Sp: the < a ned their overcoats that vision. He formality of a hasty shake of the West to mothballs. Several ere temporarily served dropping them in at the hospital a: town gutters. in the city cemetery. lowed the train of nc uncovered, lifts Van Cosel to ational inter grueson to recognition romanti- state determination national 5th following November of by interesting stories ever to break | loan was approved in this or any other city of the amount available ance, the rest of the nation is go- ‘two leading news services have placed it on their wire and tele-| Photo releases to subscribing members. _ Karl wzler Van Cosel, aged 70, a re tof Key West for the past ten years is the center of all attention here today, follow- the yesterday that had body of his sweeth 2 Hoyo Mesa, hir room of his lated house on Flagler avenue for the seven years. then employed pital 1X young i been Leaders this leg- up for considera- beside nin a alli- road wardens sunning a road at the G ry beauti- nitted to from 1931 tha tuberc That was i 19 years old. a long area nany wit the lady pictured ir ib ey her, only ob- lose least down- ow and city two weeks estigating reports bbing” in the ¢ at those investiga- llowed by the closely related, , to the damage 1 vaults. m one body of oved—but sev au- District meeting of Masonic district was hall of Dade Lodge. } 8:00 o'clock Thursc ning, October 3rd M. W. Smith L Master of the G Florida. Dr. Turner's presence in West constituted his official visit to the lodges in this district. The meeting was presided over by R. W. G. N. Goshorn, D. D. G. M. of the district. Other officials joint-s n of here included R. W. James L. G. M. of the 24th last of those Elaina re- ago Key not years e called it, was Placed in a vault himself with parental beautiful young larly by her | ry now re- > could not bear r body slowly rot- hingnes and roximately two that he deter- r remains and to preserve at the bodies present Masonic Mixon, D. D. 23rd District: P. M. Roy Martin of Hollywood 1 ee Ed. Westman, W. M. a Bearman, J. W. of Bisc: Lodge, P. M. Dr. Carson Lodge, Williston, > h of Dr. Turner, a three local lodges resented at the total of more than f: on hand to honor Dr. cluding many Pa of the 24th Dis Delicious refreshment: neet he search warrant was sworn (Continued on Page Four) 24th District Masons !appear entirely Honor Dr. Smith Turner jJournals of the | Expedition and a la SEPTEMBER TOLLS | "HIGHER THAN TWO Che Key West Citizri THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1940 SHADES OF ANCIENT GALLEONS | PRECEDING YEARS Cannons a 200 Years Old Landed At ten Key a OF 5773 CARS PASSED: 'PLYING THE OLD SPANISH MAIN THROUGH OVERSEAS eur WAY DISTRICT DURING | LAST MONTH | tolls paid September was the record turned in by the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge; District last month, according to} the monthly report filed last} weekend by C. G. Hicks, auditor of the district. Two previous Septembers had less business than last month when a total of 5773 car passed through both gates, carrying a ‘total of 12,581 passengers. Total | |tolls last month were $12,351.90. During September of 1939, to- tal cars were 4,319, being next to} the lowest month on ‘the record ! since the complete highway was! opened in April of 1938. Septem- ber 1938 saw 5,707 cars through both toll gates with 10,238 pas- sengers and $11,246.50 in tolls | paid. i Daily average of cars, going: both north and south through the toll ge t month was 192.4. A total of cars were north- bound and 3018 were southbound. Tolls collected were divided into $5,892 northbound and = $6,- 459.65 southbound. High day for last month was recorded on the first day of the month, the middle day of the Labor Day holiday period. On that day a total of 721 cars passed through the gates going in both directions. SHRIMP INDUSTRY BASED ON NICKELS (By Axnociated Prens) SOUTHPORT, N. C., Oct. 7.— If you see a Southport man carrying a bucket of nickels it’s nothing unusual. This is a nickel town. It all comes about through the shrimp industry in which a five-cent piece is the pay for be- heading a bucket of shrimp for} shipment to northern cities. Rach “picker” has a galvanized bucket into which the beheaded shrimp is dropped. A good pick-} er averages several dollars a day when the shrimp are plentiful} and of good size. The pickers carry pinned-on bags for their nickels. Some slip the coins into their shoes. When the shrimp runs are heavy the } nickel consumption of this town! about 2,500 persons runs und $1,000 a day. TODAY'S CRIME NOTE (Re Highest amount of during the month of s le on Axsoctated Prenay LAURE! S. C.—Sheriff C.j W. Wier searching for three | men who backed an old truck up } to a barn and hauled away an} 800-pound white, dehorned cow, and a 900-pound red steer in \broad daylight. | is served after the meeting pre- pared by the ladies of the Order} of Eastern Star. | { ;Source of a million or more 1 i i | | On Friday, a fishing party was| arranged for Dr. Turner, and ex-} cellent luck, it was reported, at-j (Continued on Page Four) | jwritten up to run as {the By A. should ha serial This story re fic- instead of in feature-release ninety per- entirely tion, style, for, admittedly, cent of its contents is ,»conjured up in the author’s mind. notwithstanding, for However, and we take full any lapse from news story rules and by-laws and proceed to pre- sent the saga of old Spanish gal- the responsibility leons plying the waters of Caribbean Sea. For that is just what records in the days and during the early this part of the Western Hem- isphere. With the privateers carrying riches found in the New World came the pirates to loot those richty laden vessels. Rignt here, though, we must pause to present the following— FACTS. . .Thirty-eight old cannons, believed to be well over iwo hundred years of age. have been brought ashore at Pigeon Key. Many of them are covered wtih corrosion so completely that it is impossible to distinguish markings. Oth- ers, however, were buried in sand at the place where they were found, and after scrap- ing, it was discovered that they were of English and Swedish make. The mind flashes back to tales of old galleons and frigates in the early eighteenth century engag- ing in desperate battle with each other, probably when England and Spain were at war. Or, ag was so often the case, ‘firing broadside after broadside at Blue Beard’s shipful of rascals and knaves—only to be taken prisoner and all ship's crew ex- ecuted and passengers prisoners and loot confis But, wait—more FACTS. ..The cannons be- ing brought ashore—it was said that there are at least 20 more at the one location—were found by a private fishing party at a point approximately one-mile north of Sombrero Light, on what is called Delta shoal. Wa- ter here is but 12 feet deep. Flash back to scenes of ancient times long before Key West was even inhabited by Indians. Trop- ial storms were violent then, too. One of our fancied ships—a_pi- rateer—has been running before wind, trying to outlast a heavy gale. Losing its way, it founders onto this very reef we now contemplate and sinks soon after mercile pound al- most to pieces. That's just about the storv, as we consider more FACTS. . .These cannons have been observed on the bottom history following settling of |STEAMSHOVELS ARE BURYING MT. COFFIN (Ry Axxociated Press) LONGVIEW. Wash., Oct. Historic Mount Coffin may in another vee dis- 25 years. The river huge lower Columbia monolith, men din wis and Clark the area, has been slowly in the rock crusher. In recent years it has been maw of the tons of rock annually for Columbia river jetty work. In 35 years, more than half of it has been taken away. Numerous Indian relics were recovered from graves on the heights. Les TTS SS 8 EDITOR O’BRIEN HERE YESTERDAY Editor Ed. F. es "OBrien, of the Pan American Review of Havana. familiarly known as “P.A.R.”, arrived in Key West yesterday afternoon from northern points and re- mained overnight at the La Concha Hotel. Mr. O'Brien was accom- panied by his wife. They left for Havana on the SS. Cuba this morning. LLL LL LSE ss been | jmen!” jheart in the None of this modern pro- | i A. at Delta shoal for many years. Old-timers at Marathon, in- terviewed by The Citizen, re- member seeing them, as well as hundrds of others, they claim, strung all along the reefs in that vicinity. These cannons, which are being removed by divers at the rate of about 15 per day, were all piled together, not scattered around as if rest- ing in position as located on their shiv. Probably they were captured by the pirate vessel and stored in the hold. What glorious days those were that we picture now. Mighty men of the . building up and main- taining their country’s commerce. How many of them, though, found tragic endings, tled bv pirates or by hurricanes? FACTS. . .No trace whatso- ever of the ship upon which these cannon were stored, has keen found by the divers now at work off Sombrero Light. Just the cannons are there, most of them encrusted with the barnacles and corrosion of sea. | at least two centuries. No gun were found, fur- the thought mountings ther bearing out | that the guns were loot, stored in some ship’s hold. “To the guns—fire away ready! A broadside—my good Those were the com- mends that stirred many a stout a wars of ancient when times. cedure—sighting huge 16-inchers at targets 20 or more miles away. It was nip and tuck in those days in the early 1700's. Either a few hundred feet apart, aiming to slice through mainmasts or bore holes through wooden hulls—or raking broadsides with destruc- tion to all life in its path. Those were the experiences borne by these very cannon now coming to life again. The persons interested in these! cannons would not divulge either} their name or the reason for bringing them to shore and ultim- ate shipment, it was said, to Mi- ami. Natives informed The zen, however, that the his wife, noticeably had been fishing the reefs many days recently before _ they, found the deposit of cannons. The story has it that they tired of | fishing for ba as and sail-} h and decided to “fish fsr can- no Be that as it may, passersby on the Overseas Highw looking to the right as they pass, going towards Marathon, can sec of the cannons sticking up of the water just hore barge employed in the will bring in one or two loads as weath permits, the whole lot of about sixty cannons will be transported Miami, and from there. . .? P.S.—Old scrap iron price to- day is about $2.50 ver ton. ‘Tis seid that some of the ancient guns will weigh about a ton each, GUARD BAND — for out The more then old to The of the be held at American Legion Hall ing at 8 o'clock tonight. All members have been urged to be present and local musicians who wish to join the Guard are invit- ed to be in this unit After the band rehearsal there will be a meeting of the Civic} Orchestra. This group now plays; three concerts weekly at the Navy Yard and tonight's re- hearsal is important, it was stated by George Mills White, di- ; tector of both musical units. regular weekly rehearsal ~ |vious members applied City laws now require all resi- nts living on streets on which sewer laterals have been installed | to connect up their house lines with the system. Ninety days from date of pub-! lication—September 23, 1940—is the time limit. FOURTEEN DAYS HAVE ELAPSED! either scut- driven ashore ; Citi-} man and} well-to-do, | some | operations | Key West. Florida, bas the most equable climate in the country; with an sverage range of only 14° Fahrenbeit LONDON AGAIN AFTER STORMS |GALES LAST NIGHT PRE-| | VENTED BOTH NATIONS’ | PLANES FROM MAKING BOMBING RAIDS (By Associated LONDON, Oct. 7.—! night entirely free from bomb at- tacks, this for the first time in the last six weeks, Londoners | were again forced to “scurry __; | eee ee ,cover” when Nazi planes appear- led in the skies overhead and jproceeded to drop more destruc- tion into their midst. Terrific gales over the North Sea and English channel last night iand Germany from making any rexm) Following a air attacks during most of yester- |CHINESE PRESS HOPES DEC- day and all of last night. Royal Air Force was complete- ly grounded, dispatches from the ‘war office stated, and no were planned today. The R.A-F. has done very little raiding dur-! ing daylight hours, most of the force being kept at home to con- lcentrate on defending maneu- vers against the Nazi daylight {raiders. Almost all of the raids on Germany and Nazi-controlied jlands have been conducted dur- jing night hours. | Berlin dispatches this morning lrevealed that 15,000 Nazi soldiers ;had marched into Rumania dur- ing the early hours of the morn- ing. The entrance of the German soldiers is said to have been per- mitted by Antonescue, the pre- mier-dictator of that nation. Purpose of the “invasion”— peaceful enough, to be sure—was to guard Rumanian oil wells and armament factories against any Sabotage acts. Rumors have been :Tife concerning danger to oil well property and armaments works by Rumanians not in sym- pathy with the governmental \“lean towards the axis’ cause”. It was thought, too, that British agents may have been active in suggesting destruction of oil well Property. Work, Not Moonsh ine, Seitles Garden Feud (Ry Associated Prexs) MEMPHIS, Tenn., Oct. 7.—In a gardening contest designed to settle the argument over the best time to plant crops, Pete (Light Of The Moon) Zarzoli defeated !C. F. (ark Of The Moon) Whit- jaker, 10 to 2. Each gardener received a plot on the Mid-South Fair grounds and panted the same kind of seeds. Neither used fertilizer. Whitaker planted in the dark of the moon, Zarzoli in the light. Whitaker got best results with okra and bush beans. but Zarzoli led with squash, pole beans, beets, corn, butterbeans, carrots, tomatoes, turnip greens, pump- Kins and sweet potatoes. | Whitaker admitted that {work had won for Zarzoli, but ;explained that the moon “has {been queerer this year than in 30 | years.” hard prevented both England| raids ; 0 4-0 Victory CHINA WANTS US. Fancy Double Plays Halt 10 WAR ON ON JAPAN Tigers In Sixth Game Of Series; Red Pitcher Blasted Homer LARATION OF WAR WILL COME SOON (Special to The Citier= CROSLEY FIELD. Ciecienati Ohio. Oct (Ry Associated Press) —AL cf Cincienanh HONGKONG, Oct. 7.—Reports were heard here today that sev- eral newspapers throughout China had combined editorially to print strong articles calling on the United States to declare war on Japan. img back the Detroit Tigers to Feeling that there could be “no peace of honor with Japan” the editorials were said to have stated that China will not coun- tenance such a move, which 1s al- leged to have been a part of the Japanese program in order that full attenticn could be paid to driving British interests out the Far-east. is im fever cf voting Bucky Walters a spice im the Hall of Fame this afternoon im recog nition of his mighty feet iz tern day and winning his second World's Series game—thix Complete shutout. 4 to & of GAYDA SAYS ITALY NOT INTERESTED IN ELECTIONS IN U. S. ROME, Oct. 7 Gayda, Italy’s leading and I) Duce's public: stated today in a spe that Italy was outcome of ti in the Un — Virginio editorial write expert, news release, interested in the National Election States. The article was written swer to rumors heard he axig-power agents in the U States were doing their utmos to influence voters against Pre dent Roosevelt's aspiration a third term. TAYLORVILLE, N Deputy Sheriff W busy cutting a 400-g distillery somebody el busy cutting the ficer’s autor TIME MARCHES OFF C—Whi pile WILMINGTON N reported to police that some stole his pants containing a $5 watch and $50 in cash w snoozed on a park bench here Battery “E” Seeks = 15 More Recruits = Key West Guard Band will } “It is with deepest catistartion4: alts that I am able to report that our recruiting campaign on behalf of ; Battery “E” has, at long |. met with at least partial success”. | Lt. W. EB P. Roberts, of Bat- jtery “E”, recruiting officer for the Hlocal FNG unit, sponsored the j foregoing statement and went on lto state’ that “to date, we have jrecrdited 13 new members, all young men between the ages of 18 and 21”. | There are Battery “E”. still 15 vacancies in Twenty-eight pre- for dis- ‘charges in that they had depend- ‘ents. Present strength is 72, but , the authorized strength of 87 re- quires that number of recruits now being sought. Lt. Roberts stated that he ex- , pected the local National Guard junit to be inducted for a year's training in the very near future |The assignment, as publicised in |The Citizen recently, will prob- ably be at Fort Crockett, Gal- eee Tex., he added. In that no “effect: been announced, which wi the day on which the loc tional Guardsmen go to camp, Lt Roberts felt that all those wh were contemplating joining up on voluntary enlistment, should dc so immediately. It was pe d out that no enlistments could be ive date” has jaccepted during the 24-hour pe riod immediately preceding the date of order. And, the order naming the day, is expected mo- mentarily. In Lt. Roberts’ young men might very well ¢ advisability of joming National Guard and have the ntage of “taking military se ice” along with men whom they are acquainted with rather than be subject to edicts of the Selec- tive Service Board and be place: in training camps entire! strange “Why wait for the draft? En- list voluntarily in the National ¢ Guard”—is the way FNG officers opinion, loca! see the