The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 17, 1936, Page 4

PAGE FOUR PSCC ooecenTsyesOSSOSOOOSOSESOETR oo: SOIT Y Nifia deLisa Calleja, Editress TELEPHONE 149-3 Hospitality League To Give Entertainment Tomorrow Night . . West Hospitality, they desire during. the “evening. | tomorrow night hold! with the warm, atmus-| The Key League wi genial a card party, beginning at 8:00} o'clock, at Hospitality House on Duval street, to which, in addi- tion to local people, winter visi- tors are part:culariy invited. This affair is one of the many} phere customarily prevailing at, {the House it should prove to be! ‘a vastly enjoyable and entertain-| j ing evening. Arrangements are in the cap- CABLE FAMILY RETURNS HERE HAD BEEN ENJOYING FEW DAYS FISHING IN WATERS AT TORTUGAS Mr. and Mrs. Austin B. Cable, and Mrs, Cable’s | mother, Mrs, Lula Horning, of Philadelphia, have returned from a few~ days fishing at Tortuas and a visit to Fort Jefferson at Garden Key. Mr. Cable is .another of the many visitors who have suceumb-{ ed to the charm of Key West and is seriously considering making THE KEY WEST CITIZEN THE ABANDONMENT OF THE RAILROAD: By ULRIC GWYNN, JR., Sophomore A Student, Key West Senior High School On September 2, 1935, a storm of great intensity occurred on the Florida Keys causing the loss of the railroad into Key West. Citizens of Key West are rest- less is their slumber as they have vague dreams of the discontinua- tion of the railroad. Some of the people, with the loss of the. rail- road imminent have been able to think of nothing but that loss. Now, of course, the ideal’ solus tion would be to have; the railroad restored and to have, also, “‘the Over-Seas highway. This:solutign The chances of getting a Fed- eral highway are too remote to be considered at all. The people of; ‘Key West should concentrate on the rebuilding: of the railroad. They should offer every possible; concession the community can af- ford, to the railroad people to get them to rebuild. .The, highway! should be 4 secondaty considera- { tion. . i To rebuild the railroad, it will) cost approximately two and a half! million dollars, it is stated, and it} is the concensus of opinion that, fthis is an erroneous estimate. To! fbuild a federal highway it would | t MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1936. ow: SOG MS 4\ CU] WASHINGTON FOLK HURCH OFFICIAL WILL SPEAK HERE ON VISIT TO CITY Dr. Henry H. Sweets of Louis- Mr, and Mrs. E. C. Bairs- tow of Washington, D. C., ac- companied by t! daugh- | ville. Ky., Moderator of the Gen- ter, Miss Josephine Bairstow, | crai] Assembly of the Presby are among the many visitors | terian Church, will arrive in Key West by plane from Miami on 'Tuesday morning. At 7:15 p. m in Key West. They arrived last week on the Steamship Cuba from St. [he wi'l address members of the Petersburg, bringing their rst Presbyterian Church. Fol |lowing the service at the Firs | Presbyterian Church. Dr. Sweets automobile, which is said to | will speak at the Trinity Pr re been the first car com- ing in from that city by boat since that port was included in the new steamship sched- | For several years Dr. et ule. They are stopping at the | has directed the work of Chris Over-Sea Hotel. | tian Education and Ministerial The visitors paid a call at Reli-f cf the Presbyterian Church The Citizen office today, and | and is said to be a forceful speak | terian Church. | ! { i | t| For Representative to POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY ELEC- TION, JUNE 2, 1936 . - For Representative to State Legislature T. S. CARO ‘State Legislature BERNIE C. PAPY For County Judge Supervisor of Registration JOHN ENGLAND being held throughout the winter able hands of the Entertainment season under the auspices of the; and Greeting Committees of the/ League, when visitors and t»wns- Hospitality League. Mrs. Lewis) people meet and talk together for! Pierce is serving as chairman ofj a pleasant several hours. The;the Entertainment Committee, Hospitality House is the scene of|which numbers also Mrs. William impossible for two redkons.| oot five and a half million dol- t indications the jars, q difference of three million Florida East Coast would prefer) dollars, If the railroad is turn-| to discontinue its service into Key} ¢q into a highway, the Florida{ West, and second, in view of the: rast Coast will recive only five fact that the public works admin-|hyndred thousand dollars from! Key West his headuarters during | Seems the winter season, if suitable ar-| First, from all rangements can be made. f expressed themselves as being | er. very much pleased with Key West in every respect, and ex- pect to remain here for an in- definite stay. BENJAMIN LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME Serving Key West Half Century 24 Hour Ambulance Service "Ekerial lieve the sore. lichy spots and whey pp Ae activity for these events, and, there are always many present at the various teas, parties and otber informa] gatherings. At the card party tomorrow night there will be refresaments! in a delightful array, and guests may play almost any card games i R. Warren, Mrs. William H. Ma- lone and-Mrs. Frederick Kirt- land, and the Greeting Commit- tee, of which Mrs, H. C. Galey is! chairman, is composed of Mrs. Clifford G. Hicks, Mrs. Eola Swicegood, Mrs. Louise Auxier and Karl Thompson, School Circle To | Meet Tomorrow 1 Regular monthly Key West Junior-Senior High} School Parent-Teacher ocia- tion will be held tomorrow after-} noon in the school auditorium. At this session the anniver- sary of the organization will be} celebrated. i meeting of, The Hospitality com-| mittee has arranged an excellent Founde: as follow Founder’s Day play in one act ith the following characters: Mrs. Jones—Mrs, James Pin der, Mary—Mrs. Milton Sawyer. Mother Morgan—Mrs. . Wesley Archer, Mrs, Bright—Mrs. F. Ford, Several musical selections will also be rendered. Day program which as; wi Today’s Birthdays istration has had to drop so many ‘the federal loan if it is appro-| O° OOP IIIa Ss projects, it isn’t likely our bridge! pyiated for the highway, and in: | help heal the the te: ivensed Emba.mer ‘Looking At Washington PLANE BRINGS — 13 PASSENGERS| FULL LIST BOOKED FOR OUT- GOING TRIP THIS AFTERNOON Thirteen passengers arrived on} the plane from Miami this morn-| ing, and a full list is booked for this afternoon. Tomorrow, Wed-! nesday and Saturday smaller planes will be in service, four pas- genger carriers, which means dis-| appointment for a number of peo-! ple bound from Miami to Key! West or vice versa, unless other! arrangements are made by the} Pan American company. ! Arrivals this morning were:} Oscar Roberts. Dorothy Brown,| Hugh Jetton, Alphonse Maureau,| William Donald, Edwin Pugsley, | Milton Blum, Malcolm ‘Wimmer, | George Mills White, Clarence Car-| ter Nice, Minnie Smith, Dayard Boyle, Elizabeth Boyle.” Departures yesterday were:} Neal Brock, Palmer — Jones,| Charles Poeston, Sheldon Atwell,| Joseph Atwell, T, D. Orr, Ross| Young. Arrivals yesterday were: John! Emory, Zorah Sullivan, Hazel! Walton, C. Aubrey Nicklas, N.! Brock, Fred MacFarland, Nina} Johnson, Mary Demeritt, Miguel! Fajardo. Departures Saturday: Goff, Edward Goff, James Petite, | Ann Petite, John E. Craig, Olive | Kruspe, Dorothy Wallace, MabW | Thacher, Joseph Fanakel, Helen} Krause. L. F. Morstrand, Ed. Schacter. Stewart | | { | ( FELLOWSHIP CLUB | TO MEET TONIGHT SENIOR DIVISION TO ASSEM- BLE AT HOME OF | DIRECTOR Members of the senior division of the Boys Fellowship Club, boys from 14 to 18 years inclusive. will meet 7:30 o'clock tonight at the! NOTICE OF SALE STREET CAR RAIL PROPOSAL | Sealed proposals will be receiv- ed by the undersigned up to and} including Tuesday, February 25,! 1936, for the purchase of approxi- mately 400 tons of street car rail which are now lying on vacant lots. Ten per centum (10°) off the! standard weight will be allowed for corrosion. i Bidders shall furnish price bid per ton and the successful bidder shall remove the rails from where they are now lying at the present time. The City Council of the City of Key West reserves the right to reject any or all bids. i WALLACE feb8-10-15-17 PINDER, | City Clerk. [CUBA BRINGS IN 236 PASSENGERS VESSEL ALSO BROUGHT 21 TONS OF FREIGHT FOR KEY WEST Steamship Cuba. of the P. and 0. S. S. company, arrived this morning from Tampa with 23 |@ principal amount of $4,030 and! be ruinous, as S application for a construction of David F. Houston, president of Silden: <ieex tee crater ante: be Mutual as ae itis Ce, oné| complete the road to the mainland time seevetary of the SreGsuty | will be eusieidened, and of agriculture, born at Mon-| coe of the disastrous conse- pegieael a tine quences that will occur and have aS i already occurred by the discon- ney creer ey (eared ao4|tinuation of the railroad are: First adult education leader, born at| it Will in a ee “of oes ee, EE A the port. Second, it will cause the large customs house and the im- migration service to be materially reduced as all foreign connections would be severed. It will mean the final elimina- | tion of the automobile ferry serv- jice to Cuba, as well as the direct railway - steamship passenger service. This would result in the Dr,, William S. Bainbridge of New York City, noted surgeon, born at Providence, R. I., 66 years! ago, Josephine D. D. Bacon of ‘New York, author, born at Stamford, Conn., 60 years ago. ly payrolls to this community. The effect of this abandonment both directly and indirectly on the entire city of Key! West would (Continued from Page One) H tends sixteen and a half years for; points out that about seventy-/_ very grave sitiation without }loss of about $100,000 in month-} It would leave us inj ‘one year’s time the East Coast| Wil! tourists come if we have no could make more than this if they; "ilroad? SaaS Citizens of Key West: I, as a Not only is the business world | member of the Senior High School, of Key West affected by the! ask you to strive to do your best | labandonment of the railroad but{2%d work for the restoration of jalso the educational world. If/the railroad, for without it our the railroad service is not resum- Schooling is curtailed. ed the publie schools of Key West, write these reasons why the will have to close short of its nine /"Filrord should not be discon- I rotiths term because the teachers tinued because I feel it means the and ptineipale are paid in part future of myself and,of my school with the Florida East Coast taxes. Stes as coming citizens of Kep iIt will-mean that for the first West by regaining the railroad. ‘time’'in the history of Key West Our schools cannot be kept open have.the public schools shad to without the help of the Florida, j close’ down due to lack of finan- Bast, Coast taxes. ; : a Cold? It is true the Over-Sea bridges OVER-SEA HOTEL CLOSE TO THE BUSINESS AND ENTERTAINMENT CENTER Away From the Noisy Stream of Traffic Its Quiet Rooms ard Wide, Hos pitable Porches Invite You 919 FLEMING STREET PHONE 9103 ght To help end it sooner, rub throat and chest with § are needed vy Key West but more so is the railroad needed. Without ; | the railroad Key West is in an al-' | most ruinous co:dition because rot the value the railroad has had ‘in this city. Family and femily are, having {to leave their homes in Key West Yas MONROE THEATER sielisedicationin ap | ‘Resinol Phone 135 Night 696-W ai Be 9 SY PLANE-FROM KEY WES1 TO MIAMI Daily Except Friday RATE, ONE WAY, $7.50 Leave Key West 4 p. m., Ar rive M 20 p. m. Fast - Comfortable - Safe Over-Sea Transportation Co., Inc. REGULAR AND RELIABLE FREIGHT three per cent of the mortgages) any means of communication ex-} due to the loss of the railroad, are for amounts of less than $5,-' cept by water and the proposed! and the Peninsular and Occi- 000. highway. This would leave us} dental Steamship Company. Their ar : one hundred and fifty miles from | jobs, if not directly, have some William Green, president of the; Miami, the closest point for pas-' connection with the railroad. So, American Federation of Labor.!senger, mail and freight traffic! without the railroad the families urges amendment of the Constitu-} to and from Key West. {of prominent Key West citizens tion to permit enactment of “so-| Not only in these few waYs! will continue to leave. i cial justice” legislation and to] would the abandonment of the} We should take into considera- stop “judicial subordination” of) railroad hurt Key West, but in’ tion that we have a highway con- Congress, He warned that “when/ many others. | nection with the mainland by the government becomes too rigid to. For instance, the Thompson| aid of a six-hour ride on a ferry- meet changing needs, revolution’ Fish company. Approximately! boat. Why not put all of our first and 12 second class passen- gers for Key West; 201 first class and no second class passengers for Havana, The vessel also brought 21 tons of freight and 151 sacks of mail for Key West; 342 sacks uf mail for Havana. Practically all of the passen- gers en route to Havana are men.- bers of the perscnally conducted touring parties from St. Pete burg and Tampa going for sev days in Havara and other cities | in Cuba. Steamship Granada, of the Standard Fruit and Steaniship company, arrived 9:45 o’clock yes- terday morning and after taking bunkers at the Porter Dock com- pany. sailed at noon for Ceiba, Republie of Honduras. Steanisnip W. W. Pruce of the Continental Steamship company, is due to arrive today from Balti- m for bunkers at the Porter Dock company. The vessel is | bound for Texas ports. Steamship Colorado, of. the Clyde-Mallory Lines. arrived 10 o’clock yesterday morning from ew York with a consignment of freight for Key West, and sailed 12:15 o’clock for Tampa. Yacht Truant, which has been at Key West for more than a month, but has made frequent vis. its to Miami and Tortugas, is back in port. The Truant is under {charter to Walter P. Murphy, of Chicago, who is owner of the magnificent Barkentine Yacht In- trepid. Yacht Wilanna, of Miami, N. W. Rice, owner; Paul Weise, mas- ter; is berthed at one of the fin- ger piers in the yacht basin. home of Director George F. Arch- er, 1425 Newton street. Plans for the betterment of} the boys of Key West and other important matters are to be dis- cussed, and members and director say that new applicants to the club will be extended a cordial welcome, _|It has made the issue very clear— }| vested interests can be protected, breaks the deadlock” and points two hundred thousand dollars are| force into, getting back the rail- out that the present government jnvested in the fish business, rocd and perhaps in a few years has “demonstrated its competence| which is worth a half-million dol-| we will get the bridges. to meet a crucial situation” but:lars each year to Key West. The; What will we do if we fight for that with recovery “big industries} abandonment of the railroad! the highway and it is promised and wish to regain their special priv-; means the complete loss of this: never comes? No city can become ileges and freedom from regula-| business because you cannot Op- prosperous without connection by tion in the public interest.” He/erate a fish business without airail, Key West is meant to be a insists that the Supreme Court has’ railroad. Boats cannot be used to;“Bermuda of America,” but how “told us that our Constitution is! carry fish because often when the, not flexible enough to premit us; boat is not in port there is a great to have the laws we need today.| quantity of fish and when there jis a small quantity of fish the: jboat is in; and due to the fact’ that fish are perishable and have; ; to be moved quickly when they; {ere on hand, boats would be use- less for these shipments. A few years ago Norberg; Thompson, owner of Thompson’s Ice and Fish Company, spent one and the Federal Trade Commis-| hundred and fifty thousand dol- sion’s chain store inquiry, the; lars on a _ pineapple canning Senate Judicial Committee has! Plant. This plant during pineap- unanimously approved an amend-i Ple season employed three and. ment to the anti-trust law, intend-| four hundred persons. All rawj ed to protect independent mer- materials came from Cuba by the, chants. According to Senator|Florida East Coast ferries. Ifi Robinson, of Arkansas, author. of| the railroad is discontinued the the provision, its general purpose! Pineapple factory will be closed would be to “suppress more ef-| down for good. i fectually discriminations between! The damages resulting from the customers of the same seller not!!oss of the railroad will affect supported by sound economic dif- the entire business of the com- ferences in their business position’ "nity, and no freight to Key or in ost of servicing them.” It West can come in except about would be unlawful, under the! "¢e 2 weer wk amendment. for commereial houses; ,, It would be a ca'amity to lose but human rights equal protection needs be met.” Basing its conclusions upon a House Committee’s investigation of the American Retail Federation cannot have nor can new we'l py you Double for SERVICE BETWEEN Key West and Miami NOW MAKING DELIVERIES AT KEY WEST —_—On—— TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MORNINGS WE FURNISH PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE OFFICE: 813 CAROLINE STREET TELEPHONES 68 AND 92 Jack Oakie, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Bing Crosby, Amos and Afndy in BIG BROADCAST OF 1936 Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- || tra, 15-20c; Night: 15-25¢ } CASA MARINA Key West’s Hotel De Luxe AMERICAN PLAN 200 Delightful Rooms, Each With Private Bath Evening Dinner Luncheon Afternoon Tea or a la C. Palm-Shaded Sandy Beach with CASINO Masseur in Attendance PETER SCHUTT, Manager your Trouble ~ advertising and other to make price discriminations be-| the railroad. This may not be in tween purchasers of goods similar, in grade and quality and there! would be a_ prohibition against granting allowances for psuedo- promotion services. Brokerage commissions would be banned ,under certain} conditions as when the _ inter- mediary is subject to the direct, ,or indirect, control of any party to the transaction, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Young in RED SALUTE Comedy and Silly Symphony in colors Matinee: 10-15c; Night: 15-25¢ line with the thoughts of the busi- ness people but is in the thoughts of many. Opens Skin Pores Kills Scalp Itch With six itch killing medicines in liquid form, Imperial Lotion flows into pores and hair follicles and thus gets at and kills the ; cause of scalp itch. 35¢ and $1.00. SPECIAL OFFER —on— PERMANENT WAVES fw its ie, SOOO Better Waves, $5.00 and up MRS. MILLER 407 South Street Phone 574-3 i i Peninsular & Occidental Steamship Company oe 1935. Leaves Port Tampa on Sundays and Wednesdays at 2:30 P. M. arriving Key West 7 A. 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