The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 15, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to Best Interests of Key W' Commissioners From Citizens No. 40. Carried On By Plant Board! More Than Fifty Appeared At Regular Meeting Of County Board Conducted | Last Night ee 80 in number of both sexes, ap- peared before the county commis- sioners last night protesting against the activities of the state plant board which, speakers said, are killing all the wees in the city. Attorney T. S. Caro, represent-/ img the protestants, was the first speaker. He prefaced his re- ying that the court’s led that marks by erder pro should not spraying activities of citizens with the plant board, and he would not touch on that phase of the matter, interfere the The much talked of payroll of the organization in this city was practically nil, he said, as most of the employes drawing the larger the est On Activities: {CUBA BRINGS IN 133 PASSENGERS ; VESSEL LEFT LATE IN AFT- ERNOON FOR TAMPA WITH 123 ON BOARD ‘ i | Steamship Cuba, of the P. and} |0. Steamship company arrived; yesterday afternoon from Havana {with 13 first and two second class | i passengers for Key West; 93 first, class for St. Petersburg; 21 first | |and four second for Tampa. | The vessel sailed 5 o’clock for Tampa with 123 passengers, five itaking passage from this port. Arrivals “for Key West were: 'Palmer Jones, Charles Poeston, |Joe Watkins, Jennie Watkins, | Joan Watkins, Martha Watkins, Nancy Watkins, William Stephens, | Marian Lewis, J. Forrest Sims, |Heen Sims, Mr. and Mrs. Berardo ; , Rodriguez. ! | Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde-/ | jing from New Orleans with light ‘cargo for Key West, discharged land sailed for Miami and Jack- | sonville. | Freighter Colorado, of the same lines, is due to arrive to-| i Mallory Lines, arrived this morn-i WATKINS FAMILY ~ RETURNS TO CITY MR. WATKINS HAD BEEN SERVING ENGINEERING DE. PARTMENT AT PANAMA { After residing seven years in | Panama and other South Ameri- | can countries, Joe N. Watkins, \of the United States engineering Mrs. Joan, department, and family, Watkins children, Martha and Nancy, returned yes- and terday via Havana, Soon after his arrival Mr. Watkins said he was glad to get baek to his home and hereafter he expected to spend the rest of his life in Florida, his home state. Mr. Watkins left, a few hours after arriving, on the Cuba for Tampa en route to Jacksonville, where he is due 10 o’clock Sun- day morning for assignment to an engineering project in Pensacola. Mrs, Watkins and the children | il remain for a while enjoying! a visit with relatives and friends HOSPITAL PATIENTS Maria Gutsens, matron at the Mercedes Hospital, reports the following patients now being tak- amounts for services, were strang-| morrow morning from New York! en care of at the institution: ers from Georgia and other states, and sent most of their salaries out of the city. !en route to Tampa. Edward Sands, Charles mer, Edward Johnson, Paramo and Mary Lowe. Cul- Pedro It is shown that Jose Chacow, who had! KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1936. Student Editors At Florida College > OPO OOOSOOCCOOOOCOCEES ARORA AEEA2A8808CR SHRA KRENTZMAN 2 EDITH We = DISTAFE ~ as EBB «i TAaCOWo= Student editors of the three campus publications at Florida State College for Women at Tallahassee are shown above. Miss Sara Krentzman of Milton, (left). is editor of the Distaff, quarterly maga- zine; Miss Ruth Persons of Fort White,{center) editor of the Flam- beau, the weekly newspaper; and Miss. ‘Edith Webb, (right) editor of the Flastacowo, the college annual. All three pub- lications have been awarded high -honors by the.National Scholastic lications. j serve aa the staffs of the three publications, the Flambeau claiming the largest staff of 48. Berardo Rodriguez Valdez, won high honors several times in competitions in this country. A Cuban consul here, returned to Mandarin, | Press Association, recognized authority:/in.the, field of college pub-| More than 60 students.of Florida State.College for Women| ISSUE REPORT ow Cuban Gunboats, Marine Band And Several Officials Coming Here For La Semana Alegre The Key West Citizen Key West, Florida, has the / mest equable climate im the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS RULING IN PLANT. BOARD CASE GIVEN BY JUDGE TODAY MERLIN ROBERTS CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT IN ACTI- VITIES IS FINED; JURIST EXPLAINS STATUS OF LAW Judge Jefferson B. Browne this morning issued an order on rule nisi in the matter of the 'state plant board versus Merlin Roberts, charged with contempt of court for violating the court’s restraining _ citizens from interfering with, preventing or obstructing the agents of the state plant board from spraying the trees on his premises. ; The defendant is ordered to injunction tempt “and if the same is paid by twelve o'clock M. Tues- day, February 18th, to be con- fined in the county jail for twen- ty-four hours.” ; Browne pointed out } legislature, that the plant board so constituted, auto- cratic and despotic powers which ; they may in individual instances i exercise to the detriment and in- convenience of the public.” With that the courts have nothing to j do. “The laws, and | has conferred upon legislature makes the “Fine courts enforce | them.” He points out that three judges of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit granted the state plant { | ; | pay a fine of $10 for such con-| esting meeting last evening in the not} County Court House. In issuing his order Judge} bers. Charles H. Ketchum and J. “the | Otto Kirchheiner both spoke brief- whether wisely or not,|ly on matters state | Democratic Party. i H Hundreds of fruit bearing trees COMMA, BACK IN have either been killed outright} W ENDS FIGHT, LA a or robbed of their fertility by the; application of the sprays used by| the board, he said, and the peo-| ple “have been reved to ‘such aj (Bx, Ananciated Prenn) | pitch of indignation that unless! AUSTIN, Tex., Feb. 15.—The| something is done to alleviate the, battle of the comma has been “co conditions they will resort to the, tled. : Q deplorable expedient of cutting! Texas liquor law authorized down all the trees preferring this' local governments to prohibit the; method of speedy destruction of sale of liquors within 300 feet) their trees and shrubbery to the| “of any church, school or educa- mental torture experienced daily; tional institution. by seeing the products of their: years of care and attention slowly aad there—that the law simply Some argued the comma wasn’t; |mavigation in the harbor of Mi- been under treatment, was dis-! charged yesterday. Louisa Hackey, colored, is also} a patient at the hospital. abeard the S .S. Cuba, bringing efficial word from the Cuban POPPY ENGAGED IN HARBOR WORK Lighthouse Tender Poppy is ac- tively engaged in restoring aids to |* government that it will take part bration of La Semana Alegre, or The Week of Joy, starting Sun-, jday afternoon, February 23. Key West yesterday cianee| extensively in the Key West cele-! |to be given over to the Two Cuban gunbeats, the Juan; Marine baseball team also is com-| board a “perpetual injunction en- ing and will compete in two joining the respondant, Merlin games with a star team of Key’ Roberts and other persons named} West players. jin the injunction, from interfer- Mr. Valdez returned here bring-; ing with the plant board and re- ing cheer from the Cuban offi-; fusing to permit them to enter cials, and the extent to which the: their premises for the purpose of Cuban government is par pat-| spraying or otherwise treating ing in La Semana Alegre indicates ' trees, bushes, shrubbery and oth- i that the week is to take on aler plants.” more international aspect than! The order shows that an in- had ‘been anticipated originally. | junetion of the court has all the All of Monday, February 24, is solemnity of the law, and the vio- Cuban} lation of an injunction may be West when} punished by the court without the celebrate Ej intervention of a trial jury. population’ of Key those citizens will dying out from the activities of the plant board. Showed Value of Trees Mr. Caro stated that most of the beautiful fruit bearing trees mot only afforded restful shade in the sultry days of summer for the many families, but in hun-! dreds of instances the fruit was! sold to assist in providing sus-} tenance for the family, and fruit for children in need of its health giving properties. | Chester M. Thompson followed’ Mr. Caro. He cited mapy speci-' fic instances of destroyed fruit trees, giving names of residents and their home addresses, andj itemized lists of trees which have been destroyed. He stated that} despite all that has been said iny Chairman Carl Bervaldi, mag ge and defense of the plant board opera- tions, the fluid used is poison to trees and fruit and made the as- tounding statement that not five per cent of the fruit trees in Key West, especially the plum trees,} are bearing. He concluded his talk with an appeal to the commissieners to take some steps toward bringing} about a better condition, always} keeping within the law, as said by Mr. Caro, but take some steps to preserve from utter destruction! the trees which remain. Termed Fluid As Poison Sam Hart made an impassioned appeal for surcease from the} complete destruction of the trees in Key West. He said that the fluid used by the plant board was poison to every thing. Not only did it remove blossoms and fruit from the trees, and bark from them, but would remove paint. | He cited the case of a Mr.} Kemp whose newly completed] boat was in the yard where the spraying activities were carried on. The boat was thing, and had been painted gbout three weeks. The fluid not only removed the paint from that section of the vessel it had touched, but actually had eaten ut the heads of the nails, he “We have no hog plums, Jimes” Mr. Hart continued, (Continued on Page Four) no and a beautiful; “ehurch school.” = The secretary of state formal- ly installed the comma, omitted in early reprints of the law. Remuneration for district dep- uty supervisors of registration was last night fixed by the board of county commissioners at 25 cents a name for the primary election and $2 per diem two days each week prior 'to the} general election. Present at the meeting were sioners Braxton B. Warren Nathan Niles; Clerk Ross C. Saw- yer, Attorney William V. Albury, Chief Deputy Bernard Waite, Sup- ervisor of Registration John Eng-| land, and about 50 citizens. Mr, England addressed the board relative to the compensation for district deputy supervisors, and it was decided to pay the same rates as heretofore, as above. The group of citizens were there to address the board rela- tive to activities of the part of the commissioners in de- vising means to have the destruc- tion of trees stopped. This mat- ter is shown in another column. License for the operation of a private elub at Key Largo was presented the board and after brief discussion, was epproved. A communication was read by. Clerk Sawyer in which ‘it was shown that the P. and 0. S S.., company could not grant the re- ida stop at Key West from Mi- mana Alegre. Another communication, from the All Florida Advertising Com- mittee was read, asking that the appropriation of $1,334.40, auth- orized by the commissioners, be placed at the disposal of the com- mittee, The clipping from another Flor- ida paper which shows that Key } ami and that vicinity. Bruno Zayas amd the Colombian,/ Grito de Baire, Cuban national After careful consideration of Fund For: Maintenance Work On KeyWest Harbor To Be Provided dn House Measure DEMOCRATIC CLUB a CONDUCTS SESSION HERE LAST NIGHT SEVERAL ADDRESSES MADE DURING MEETING; COMMIT- J aeolian TEES APPOINTED For piF-. “ ASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—All of the money FERENT ACTIVITIES | . asked by the depart- ‘ment for maintenance work Appropriations Bil New Pending In House Ex- pected To Be Approved Without Amendments By PAUL MAY } j | war Young Men’s Demoeratie Club on Key West harbor is pro- vided under terms of the \Rew department appropria- of Monroe County held an inter- ‘tions bill, now of the House. | Having received approval pending in Several prominent citizens the city were in attendance, and made short addresses te the mem- of the House appropriations committee, the bill is ex- concerning the pected to be approved with- Elaborate plans are being made by the club for Ladies’ night to be held on Friday, February 28, in the Court House. Scores of young women of the city have al- ready made application to join the organization, and it was decided that each member of the club out amendment as regards funds for of irivers and harbers prejects. | Out of the $38,677,899 | carried by the bill for main- would bring = lady guest at the | tenance work, the allocation next session. |for the Key West harbor is Through an invitation from/ _._ the Monroe County Democratic $27,000, to a Committee, President Wm. Arnold| jtemized statement present- appointed two members. W. Curry! AA and Wm. A. Freeman, to\ed by the war department serve on a committee to intro-| at hearings on the bill, and duce out-of-town candidates who} . lic visit this city for the purpose of JUSt made public. Segre addresses in the ord This represents the orig- thei: di Bs s . Snarecemrgpuoaar par Secretary | inal sum asked by the war Ray en both urged the cist | department for maintenance to make a drive to increase the i 2 . membership of the club. | work on this project during Franklin —_— made a very | the fiseal year 1937, which interesti instructive talk. As : Sap raniney eases experi. |Starts July 1 of this year, ence in organizations of this kind jwar department officials in various parts of the state, he} maintenance according | | Tender Poinciana is en route to holiday, around which the observ-| the pleadings in the case the was able to make many good sug- the Cape Sable section to engage | will ari Feb 3, and. hie hare Febenasy (9: 5% ance of La Semana Alegre is of | said. COMMISSIONERS FIX COMPENSATION | TO BE PAID FOR REGISTRATIONS shown | plant} board, and ask for action on the; in repair and installation work. U. Franco Granero, chief of the! military unit at/the Cuban presi- dential ‘palace, who is to rep- resent the Cuban president per-: sonally during the celebration. 1 West was not mentioned at the; Florida advertising booth, which} was read at the meeting of Feb-! Terry, president of ruary 5, was referred to and dis-| Nacional de Emigrados cussed, and it was decided to send | cionarios Cubanos, high ranking this clipping to R. G. Grassfield,; Patriotic organization of the Re- advising that the matter of the{ Public, will arrive aboard the S. S. appropriation would be acted, Cuba, accompanied by Mrs. Gran- | upon when a full board is pres-|¢ro, in time to attend the presen- tation of the Pirates of Pen- | zance being staged Tuesday night. Besides these two prominent Two days later, Hon. Association Mr, Bervaldi read a letter from |L. K. Cannon, assistant highway T engineer, replying to a telegram’ figures in the Cuban Republic, sent C. B. Treadway anent the re-| Several other prominent persons pairs at the highway ferry slips. | from Cuba are expected to come, | The letter shows: and with them will be the mili- The repair work at the No | tary Cuban Marine Band, com- Name Key ferry slip is being} posed of 80 pieces, which has done by the FERA forces who, aboard them will be Commander; based. | institute, Andres! Besigle¥ jmembrial sebv- ices, the Marine .band wil! pre- sent at least one program. Details of the Cuban celebra- tion that day are to be worked out at a meeting tomorrow aft- ernoon at San Carolos Institute when a committee headed by En- rique Esquinaldo, president of the will confer with Mr. Valdez, and officials of the local | WPA organization which is spon- Revolu-;soring largely, the week’s activi- | ties. a This métning the Cuban consul | outlined» the: plans which were laid by Cuban officials during the | three days he was in Havana con- | ferring. with them. Meantiie, recreational activi- |ties have been planned for the week, although the highlight of | the entire celebration is expressed to be the presentation of Gilbert jand Sullivan’s colorful operetta. | Pirates of Penzance. This will be j staged at the Navy Ball Field. “I understand will move from, 3 age Gey to 5 STRAY DOGS ARE Key. “The department’s forces have been and are now at work re- storing the road on what is known as the Key Vacas group which j extends from Hog Key to Grassy Key. “Tt is my understanding that CAMPAIGN STARTED AGAINST BEING PICKED UP’ PLANE BRINGS 13 PASSENGERS ELEVEN DEPART ON AIR- CRAFT YESTERDAY AFTER. | court is satisfied that “Merlin Roberts did violate the injunction and is therefore guilty of con- tempt.” Believing. however, that Mr. Roberts and his wife acted under a mistaken idea of their rights. the judge announced he would not impose a long jail sentence nor heavy fine for this first violation of the injunction, because the court believes that the penalty imposed will act as a deterrent upon others from violating the injunction. “Leniency in this instance, however, is no indication of what the court will do to others named in the injunction for interfering with agents of the board” and the penalty may be more severe unless that in the present case has a salutary effect on others. Others named in violation of} the injunction and summoned to appear before the judge are: M: and Mrs. _Suljie Ochandarena,| 1100 Angela street; Mr. and Mrs. J. Carylyle Roberts, 625 Francis street; Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Lowe, 822 Francis street. | The case of Mr. and Mrs. | Ochandarena is set for hearing Monday; that of Mr. and Mrs. Lowe for Wednesday and of Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, Friday. state plant; | 15.—Residents of this town gestions for the furtherance the club in this county, it is stat- ed. President Arnold announced that there would be a meeting of the oard of directors next Thursday evening at which time he would appoint various standing committees. EJECTION REPAID ‘CARO ANNOUNCES "FOR LEGISLATURE | WILL MAKE RACE IN COMING PRIMARY ELECTION TO BE CONDUCTED IN JUNE | Thomas S. Caro teday threw }for Representative to the State Legislature in the June Demo- (My Ansociated Press) cratic Primary. EL RENO, Okla, Feb. 15.—Aj 1, making his announcement. stranger walked up to Horsee} wr Caro summarizes his platform Parks, standing at a filling sta-)in the following statement to tion, and struck him in the face i The Citizen: with his fist, without warning. “If elected it will be a great When mint recovered, he asked | pleasure for me to drawn up and aGaees ea replied he ai — Se : P re - lilar to the plan advocated by Dr een ejected from kery Townsend. One that will pay each a serdar aaa — | individual above the age of sixty ad neither forgiven nor orgot | and each individual regardiess of ea shat age who is totally or partially je man with the long memory | permanently disabled, a suffi- was fined for fighting. j cient sum to enable the aged and Suiee Bailly Gilde. \aee of a nee days of their lives in reasonable os =a | comfort. Facing Across Rhine oo oi cine the schools to be of a | prime importance, I will support (Ry Associate? Press) | . “ i , f LOERRACH, Germany, Feb.|*!! 00d legislation offertd for ‘are! the schools and imsist on the | schools being placed on 2 parity quest to have the Steamship Flor-| ami and Havana during La a jthe new fetries purchased by the |FERA have some alterations that are necessary in order to convert them from side loading to end leading and I feel satisfied that the | both slips and the road will work out in conjunction with the altera- | tions of the ferries.” A lengthy communication from Pedro Moran, head of a number of organizations in Cuba and vit- ally interested in restoration of the line between Key West and Miami, to S. M. Loftin, waneioee | of the F. E. C., a copy of which was received hy the commission- ers was read, and placed on file for further consideration. Depository accounts for the month of January were read, checked and approved, ALL NOT BEING PROPER- | LY LICENSED ERNOON FOR MIAMI Stray dogs are being picked up} Plane of the Pan American Air- plan of operation for repairs of|in Key West and taken to the ways arrived 10:40 o'clock this| Horatio M. Reader, master me-| | city pond, it was pointed out this! morning from Miami with 13 pas- sengers. Arrivals were: Lovie Newsome, Carlton Ellis, John Craig, Anna Nadler, Nina Watrous, Fellmon Hall, Stratton, Bob Duncan, Fairehild, Dorothy Wallace, Mabel Thacker, Olive Kruspe. Departing yesterday afternoon 4 o’clock were: Urie Parks, Roy morning, as a further warning to i Key West residents that this prac- tice is set up for all dogs without licenses, The dog catching is being car- tied on by the city, although a truck and other equipment is be- jing lent bythe local WPA. All dogs, it was emphasized, are sup- posed to have licenses, and if they are without them, will be im- pounded. Larsen, Cowles, Leon Fletcher, Bart Grif- fin, Blanche Ostrander, George Ostrander, William 8B. Rude, Dorothy Bellman and George * White. |REC. PUSHING | greatly impressed by the modern EDWARD’ Ss CARRIAGE fortifications that the Swiss are putting up, just across the Rhine j nent Bese. ; The forts, of stone ‘and crete, seem to lie along the Jura jchanic, is reealling the time he, heights—oné diréctly opposite the | Pushed the baby carriage of King’ German town’ of Saeckingen, and Edward VHI of England. another above the historic city of (By Associated Press) SOUTH BEND, Ind. Feb, 15.— With other state institutions and departments and given 2 suffi- on loon it appropriation to carry } ins! their work properly. “I will also introduce and push |2:law prohibiting working men on + public work in the state more than hi oor uaitrent - | It was 40 years ago when the Laufenburg, Switzerland. Lilah | present king was an infant and! Nancy ; the then youthful Reader was an said here, has appropriated nearly! creating the bridge apprentice carriage maker to the royal family. } Through his work, Reader says, he came to know Queen Victoria, V, Queen Mary and the ruler of the British empire. One of Reader’s treasures is his cer- ‘tifieate of apprenticeship bearing | the seal of Queen Victoria. Margaret Larsen, John| King Edward VII, King George) present jthat no man receive less than fifty cents per hour for labor. “I will have the present act commission amended so that all bridge com- missioners shall be residents of Monroe county and elected by the people. “If elected I will introduce and push legislation to abolish the The Swiss government, it is $2,000,000 for these works. DANCE TONIGHT, 10 O'CLOCK RAUL’S CLUB Pritchard’s Orchestra State Plant Board and require that the state pay for all damage done in this county by the Plant Board.” DEAR FOLKS, AND YOU SHALL HEAR THE PRAISES TOLD OF WAGNER BEER: IT’S GOOD, IT’S RIPE, IT’S MELLOW, IT’S CLEAR. FACA 22RBB80