The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 4, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire | Service. For’56 Years Devoted to the 4 Best Interests of Key West Key West. Florida. bas the j mest equable climate im the country; with a= sverage range of only 14° Fahrenhest re Key West Citizen ny KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1936. - 7 ~~) PLANT BOARD HAS ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS CHANGED RULING Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend || eee ontend bat fc ny Na- agewee TO MOVEMENT OF mai a in jationa! lems ‘p- arable From Local Welfare || oa otter te i a aed” ae CE FIVE CENTS Hopkins Never Has Been Candidate But His Policies Feature Campaign Pop reo peewee a VOLUME LVII. No. 82. CASA MARINA ~ CLOSES AFTER GOOD SEASON | THIRTY GUESTS REMAINED | AT HOSTELRY UP uNTIL| | CUBA BRINGS IN | 58 PASSENGERS ERNOON ENROUTE TO TAMPA VASZLZLZLL LA | HOOKS LARGE ONE; FAILS TO LAND IT “Almost but not quite” jis Rodman Bethel’s lament to- day when relating his latest fish story to his friends. How ke battled for two hours with one of the largest ; YESTERDAY; SCHUTT MUCH | PLEAS2D WITH BUSINESS Although the Casa Marina Ho- tel was officially closed April 1, this mpgnificent hostelry did not} actually cease operating until i yesterday afternoon, the extended} time being a courtesy extended to about 30 guests who remained to take passage on the Cuba yester- day ‘afternoon. Among those staying were D.! Ingalls, assistant secretary of war,| aeronautical branch, during the} Hoover administration, Mrs, In-; galls and their children, Louise, | Ann, Edith, June, and David, G.! B. Buchanan, confidential advisor! to Thompson and McKinnon, and} other notables who were guests} throughout the season, numbering} in all about 30. | The season just closed, despite} lack of transpo n, was con-, sidered very satisfactory it was learned today, and the belief that with the coi of bridges and easy a the city, there will always be a won-} derful season at the Casa Ma-, rina, One thing which attracted a struction ess to tarpons seen around these waters this year, was told after returning from a Thurs- day afternoon outing with employes of Sauiiders Whole- sale Grocery Co. Bringing the fish almost up on No Name bridge, he claims that it became tangled in the pilings and was so large that it broke the line with which he was fishing. The party reports that fish- ing is good at No Name bridge, and that they brought back an unusually large catch of various kinds of fish. TIT ILIISS 2 MORE FUNDSFOR CONTRIBUTIONS Steamship Cuba, of the P. and O. S. S. coMpany, arrived from Hevana yesterday with six first and one second class passenger 11 pas- sengers for St. Petersburg; first and two second class sengers for Tampa. Arrivals at Key West Marion Douglas, Eleanor Doug- jlas, Henry Woodward, J. W. | Young, Rafael Rodriguez, Leslie M. Roberson, Georgia Poole. The Cuba sailed shortly after i : were: gers who boarded the vessel at Key West, making a total of more than 80 on the vessel when she left port. | Among those taking passage at iKey West were: Mr. and Mrs. H. L. O’Neal, John Durham Wing, G B. Buchanan, M. de Baur, O. L. | Hubbard, M Hubbard, Mrs. D. FURTHER RECEIVED BY RED CROSS CHAPTER i David Ingalls, Mrs. Agnes Sol- Collections for the local Red| ep ee Aeon Cross Fund today fall just a lit-| Schilder, Waldo M. ‘Pierce, Mrs. tle short of $200. There are, Pierce, Michael Pierce, Chamber- auite a number of persons who lain Pierce, Anna Pierce, Mildred have signified their intention of; Burrows, Henry Woodward, J. W. contributing to this fund and they| yo Sit G: ow Velthton W, are asked to make their donations j Schoepperle. as soon as possible. | Previously acknowledged $184.88 5 o’clock with about 30 passen-} {Ingalls, Louise Ingalls, Edith In-{ jgalls, Ann Ingalls, June Ingalls,| | | According to tradition, a major;in the first week of March, and ‘war scare always has a sttong’ schedules were due to rise there- ‘effect on business in a great in-' after. Motors have been the | dustrial country, such as the U.j bellwether of the recovery move- ,S. But Europe’s recent difficul-;| ment. ties—which certainly brought the RETAIL TRADE—Retail busi- for Key West; 38 first class pas-,world closer to a big war than it’ ness is naturally hit the hardest; © as been since the spring of 1914; by severe weather. Even so, Jan- had surprisingly mild repercus-;uary and February department jgions here. There was a brief store sales held up _ surprisingly | hysteria in the stock market a, well, and marked heavy gains few weeks ago when France and over last year. Fiiture reports ! Germany were nearest to combat,; will doubtless show big advances. | jbut it was of small significance.| The foregoing give a good idea | American industry, as Business! of current conditions. Stock mar- | Week has pointed out, is focusing ket’ activity has reflected better {its attention on the American) business, with a long list of is- market, is paying ‘relatively little: sues making and holding enéour- attention to foreign lands. laging rises—some stocks have For more than two mionths,,even come within shouting dis- bad ‘weather has dampened recov-/tance of the stratospheric j ery—even though business in the! level. The bond market generally jfirst part of 1936 was a. great ‘has been inactive, with U. S. gov- j deal better than in the equivalent} érnments and grade A industrials j months of any of the depression.’ selling at almost prohibitive fig- jyears sinée 1930. Now that springj ures. This would indicate that ‘is here, the outlook for iriprove-' investors are hot impressed by iment in the near future is held! the ever-cirent rumors of infla- jto be bright. The late floods will) tion, inasmuch as first-class bonds naturzlly be a blow to business in| always go into a nose dive when somé sections, but it is impossible} currency expansion appears. as yet to determine how widely. When the Supreme Court threw their baneful influence will be, the NRA into the legislative ash- felt. can, did the hope of the worker At any rate, nothing seems able| for better pay and reasonable to stop recovery. A brief survey | hours go with it? Did the sweat- lof business conditions, takenj Shop, prince’ pal target of the \from the most authoritative re-| Waze provisions of the NRA, im- | ports, follow: | mediately flourish? | RAILRQADS—January net in- eome was 64 per ¢ent over Jan- The answer is No, according to ,;@ survey made by the National uary, 1935, was the best for that month since 1930. _ Increased | Industrial Conference Board of ‘ corporations within 25 industries, railraod business for the balance of the year seems certain, with During the first nine months 1929! Pursuant to an order issued = George H. Baldwin, chairman of, the state plant ovoard, through! | Plant Commissioner Wilmon New-| Il, the rule which prohibited the! movement from the Key West! area of native grown fruits and of the soil about the roots of; growing plants because of the presence of the West Indian Fruit Fly. has been revoked. } This announcement was made yesterday by the local branch of the state plant board and shows that the unrestricted movement of fruits growing within the Key | West district to points outside is permitted. However, Rule 6C, which re- lates to the movement of plant material from the-Key West area because of the presence of an in- sect known as the Black Fly i still in full foree and effect. Plant material may be moved from the Key West area follow- ing inspection and certification as to its freedom from infestation | with the Black Fly. ! ADDRESS AT RALLY | | ‘ATTENDS MEETING OF SO-, CIAL WELFARE WORKERS IN WEST PALM BEACH EXCELLENT SAILFISH By THOMAS J. HAMILTON, 22 B. Aweeigced Preeme WASHINGTON, Aped 4—The pobars welfare worker who has feet, seven 1-4 inches. The Hannays have been experiencing good fortune im their angling and besides this sailfish have several good sized tarpon to their credit. Earlier in the week Colo- nel and Mrs. Hannay and Mr. and Mrs. Dwight J. Scovel, of New York, formed a party they returned after = day's f they brought im nine tarpon, besides a mumber of other fish. angling has personality acd € « youthfu. mever held—eor ewce been 2 com ardat- = elect ve office bed fair to play = major part im the {1936 presidential What Har-y arpage L Hepkins says counts a.m mach as whet be doc: ot as and he's m= the front jBme trench: of the “mew deal All of their been done from the cruiser Moceasi ith Captain King Gomez guiding. war” Opposition attacks os him daily becom- more frequent and vigorous "SS ILI LIL s. BAND FURNISHES ~~ DEPARTING VISITORS THROW MANY COINS ASHORE TO TO COLORED YOUTHS Lively scenes were enacted yes ‘OFFICER OF WPA number of visitors was the golf WPA Social Service Dept. 10.00 j following NRA’s invalidation, the, (Special to The Citizen) course, which is now in excellent condition and Manager Peter, Schutt, of the hotel, believes tha’ if maintained at its present state) it will always prove one of ' strongest attractions for winter, visitors. The Casa Mariha was con-) structed in 1921 and with the ex-! ception of the seasons 1933 and} 34 and 35, when closed because} of the depression and troubles in; Cuba, was operated under the} management of the Schutt family.| Previously the manager was L. P. Schutt, who was its first man-} ager and continued in that ca-! pacity until the period when the! hotel was closed. During that! period the elder Mr. Schutt passed on, and this season the able and successful management was con- dueted by his son Peter Schutt. ‘Many visitors have declared that the atmosphere of the Casa Marina is the best to be found throughout the the cuisine unsurpassed and the courtesy extended guests that kind which makes it a guests, and creates a feeling of comfort and satisfaction and a longing to return. Manager and Mr: remain for a short to leave about the middle of next week for their home in Fort Myers. - FELIX GIBSON GIVEN HEARING Felix Gibson, who was recent- ly arrested on charges of non- support of his family, was ar- raigned for preliminary hearing yesterday before Judge Rogelio ‘Gomez. After hearing all the evidence in the matter the judge advised ‘the defendant that as he had promised to take care of his fam-} fily, he would, upon payment of costs, dismiss the cas GOES STRONG AT 108 LOUGHBOROUGH, Eng.—‘T’'m going strong,” was the laughing reply of Mrs. Sophia Bird of this| rest assured that if I am favored) | opez Funeral Home chapel, Rev. | j Arthur B. Dimmick, of St. Paul’s city, to callers’ congratulations on her 108 birthday. BINGO GAME Auspices* American Legion TONIGHT Bingo Stand (old Boston Store) Duval Street opposite Monroe Theater VALUABLE PRIZES ‘Rogelio Gomez 1.00 employing millions of workers. steel production rising, and the}! “ FRANK 0. ROBERTS United States,! of| de-: light to be numbered among the: 1.00 -50 1.00} F. O. Weech Friend ... Berkowitz Children ARRIVES IN CITY average industrial employe put in ‘six per cent more time per week (2.1 hours). And he received six per cent more pay ($1.31). @n May, 1935, last month of the NRA’s brief and exciting life, the average industrial pay en- velope contained $21.76. In Jan- uray, 1936,-it contained $23.07. And January witnessed a season- al drop from December, when the average wage was around $23.50 per week. FIRE ALARMS — SOUNDED TODAY TWO SENT IN SHORTLY AFT- ER NOON; ONE SMALL BUILDING BURNED Two alarms of fire were sound- ed about 12:30 o’clock today, one from Box 222 at Division and WEST PALM BEACH, April jterday afternoon at the P. and O i 4.—Mrs. William R. Warren, member of the District No. 10 ' Board of Social Welfare, Key ; West, made a short speech at the rally held at the West Palm Beach High School Music Port-} lable, Wednesday night, to pro- mote interest in the Conference S of Social Work to be held at Day-|M. de Baur. two winter visitors, tona Beach April 15th to 18th. | guests at the Casa Marina, arriv-) Dr. Carl N. Herman, chairman|ed at the dock with a jazz quar-) . of District No. 10 Board of So-jtette. Immediately after arriv- cial Welfare, presided and spoke|ing the musicians began to play briefly about the state and dis-|and kept on until time for the trict sdministrative set-up. Miss/ boat to sail. ' Blanche Albury Asbury, assist-- The excitement started in jant of the Child Welfare Depart-! reality just a few moments be- }ment, State Board of Social fore the Cuba sailed. Mr. Buch- | Work, spoke about the Child Wel-|anan and Mr. de Baur began to fare Pang] at the State Confer-| throw coins from the deck of the ence. atherine Randolph, ship, and in a short time other sistant director of the Depart-' passengers had the ment of Transients, State Board, | sport. gave a talk on the Transient! Then began the maddest seram-° Panel and Miss Florence Van bie seen on the wharf in many Sickler, member of the program! days. At times there was a per-| Associatic | comm‘ttee, outlined the program.) fect shower of coins from pen-| iti | Miss Hester M. Graham, acting, nies to quarters, and those who! City ico director of the district) were casting the money seemed to | ereduated j board, described the social work | get as great enjoyment froth giv-/ im his nativ being done in different districts.’ ing as did those who were fight-/ 1912. He jdocks during the half hour pre- jvious to the sailing of the Cubs} jfor Tampa and St. Petersburg, jwith a jazz band plsying and ‘groups of colored youths scrame bling for money being thrown, to the dock by passengers. | Friends of G. B. Buchanan and joined in Schutt will! ie and plan; imotor manufacturers busy as bird ‘dogs. Railroad executives, how- ever, are of the opinion that more | PROCUREMENT OFFICIAL ¢° the “railroad — problem”—that | change in the Federal regulatory ree ; CONFERS WITH ORR RELA- | poliey toward all common carriers! IN PRIMARY RACE) reach a respectable figure. i STEEL—A remarkable change | | in policy, hailed as a forward step | : ; States procurement officer with! ers, has taken place in this it OFFICE OF JUVEN- the WPA administration, station-|acrtry, Since the turn of the} ILE JUDGE ed at Miami, is in Key West to-| century, steel prices have theoret-| | officials tai - 5 basis—a large buyer paid the! as ‘ er talking this morning,/same price per ton as a small) In this issue of The Citizen,| with first Thomas D. Orr, diree-j buyer. Actually, there has al-| 'find the f 1 ht it of Frank ©. Roberts, who aspires to members of the procurement of-|q. ¢., with the final result that, ithe office of Juvenile Judge of © 3% discussed in detail the/ a few months ago, it was forecast a for making purchases. | that the steel price structure was! ‘ j; Considerable time was spent in! shout due for a collapse. Now! ; Roberts made the following state-) working out and explaining the! major producers in the industry,| | *T with the: voters: of Monroe | “ctsis tm connection, “with re jled by, Republic, Steal, sheve oul ‘4 vhich was recently arranged by/ tity di t frank to & e t tl ffice | ‘ 'y é ity discounts, are frank to say fhat it Has been a ees ‘ot Dircctar, Orr vincoegen Fee auick- | that the big buyer will get a bet- deliberation and upon request of ,& Service could be had, and in| ter deal than the small buyer. It who have: 4 re followed me close in all of my of-' get the benefit of WPA pur- inside | ficial actions. My friends ang) hee supporters know: that: have tiev-' w4,. Kelly. They arrived yester- * ak a ES day afternoon, coming over the |kain, after, havi ryed as Jus-| g i tice of the’ Poet avtithe the past highway. They are guests of Mr. Bhtce Acces in the naval station. 5 2 Two other officials of the jhas.been very little since I have! : os always tried to settle cases pend-| Florida Works Progress Adminis- ing before me to the best interest | afternoon to spend a few days in ?, “ Key West going over projects and Ptah frseenaaean i Pe mah at office details of the local unit. Court where I felt that the cit-' vector of Finance and Statistics, olous and our county would ae Pe an Kel assistant direc- tain unnecessary expense merely | for my own personal gain. My ; the public, and I feel that I hold the respect of every member of! jthe Monroe County Bar Associa-! { traffic is not the entire solution TIVE TO PURCHASES tis necessary if railroad net is to) MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT FOR| C. G. Kelly, deputy United| py practically all outside observ-| day conferring with local WPA} ically been fixed on a firm unit) ithe voters of Monroe County will’ tor Mr. Kelly conferred with! ways been price-cutting on the! \this city. To The Citizen, Mr.! RConaky tociaiowstiabsinuanaking purchase of materials locally,!jicly posted prices allowing quan- innumerable. friends, {order that local merchants could js figured that this will eliminate Mr. Kelly is accompanied by er used my Offige efor personal jand Mrs. Orr, at their residence “My income from this office tration are expected to arrive this of my fellow-citizens and the They are Robert J. Dill, state di- cumstances involved were friv- records have always been open to tion. { DEAD; AGE 85 ts ; Herbert Davis, said to be about jing on the WPA and FERA pay- | 5 years old, died this mornnig 4 jrolls, I wish to assure you that’ oriock in the county jail where “I, have heard that there have} : been some rumors about my be- jI am not on these payrolls atid) ne had been for some time, liv- | have never received one cent from: ing on the bounty of the county. jeither of these administrations. | ‘Funeral ‘services were held 1 j__“The voters of this county miAy | o’clock this afternoon from the | with their votes, that I will con- duct the affairs of the Juvenile’ church, officiating. ; Court in the same manner as I; c jhave the Court of the Justice of ; the Peace. I will always unself-) ishly look to the betterment of; {the delinquency of ovr youth. | “Tt will be utterly for me to contact each voter be-| ized overhauling service. fore the coming primary, so’ I 3 G take these means of colieiting! Yates Service Station {your vote and suopo-t.” | SILENT! Note the difference in the run-! yr {ning of your motor after you've impossible | had your car through our modern-| Phone 252-J White at Catherine! | “cut-throat ithe industry. | CONSTRUCTION—Revival in jhome-building seems to be at ‘hand at last, with reports of stim- ulated construction in the face of bad weather, coming from all sec-; itions of the country. Heavy {construction is holding up well, though government contracts still predominate. TEXTILES — Business Week |says textile manufacturers spent {$79,000,000 for new machinery ‘and parts last year, as a start in /a campaign to increase efficiency, ‘reduce operating costs. This fig- | ure will be substantially exceeded ‘ Hl competition” Thomas streets and the other from streets, Immediate response was made by the department and the ap- paratus arrived on the scene of old Lennox Hall, on Howe street, 'and the department’s promptness \saved several other structures | which were menaced. The building which was de- stroyed was a small structure in 1936. i which lived a decrepit person, but AUTOMOBILES—85,000 cars| Who was gotten out before the eame off Detroit assembly lines | building was burned. in t 5 We invite the public to see our $2,000.00 ‘air con- ditioned equipment. The Palace tries to do its best to please its patrons. Palace Theater—Fire Proof; Silver Sheet Screen; Good Reproduction; R. C. A. Equipment; The Best In Sound; United Artists, Gaumont British and Republic Pictures; Better Pictures; Arctic Nu Aire; The Latest In Ventilation. Box 224, at Catherine and Duval; In addition there were thre jminute talks by the followin, Miss Jessie Love, Medical Soci: | Worker, Good Samaritan Hospit- jal, West Palm Beach; Adjutant |E. F. Breazeale, Salvation Army, | West Palm Beach; Mrs. Fred Miller, President of the Y. W.! 'C. A., West Palm Beach; Dr. Paul} i 1 | the fire, which was in back of the! & gin Director of the Cousty| ‘scai-<eete an ‘Health Unit, Fort Lauderdale;) Mrs. Frank Stranahan, Broward} | County Welfare Worker, Fort! | Lauderdale; Miss Lou Honaker, | i Palm Beach County Red Cross Nurse; Mrs. Charles Branch, } Palm Beach County Member of ; the District Welfare Board. Kel-; “sey City; Mrs. Paul Luther, Presi- dent of the Vero Beach Woman's Club, Vero Beach, and Mrs. Wal- ter Dickey, St. Lucie County | Member, Fort Pierce. The WPA Orchestra gave an interesting musical program. H . The concert scheduled for to-; jorrow afternoon at Bayview; by the Key West Hospital- ity Band has been postponed, it ‘was announced this morning by George Mills White, district sup-, ervisor of the Federal Music Pro-| ject of the WPA. said. The next concert will be given Thursday night in the park. | SENSIBLE ADVICE! SERVE WAGNER BEER AT EVERY MEAL AND YOUR REFRESHMENT WORRIES ing for them. T0 HOLD DEBATE AT HIGH SCHOOL PERTAINS TO MAKING MED- of New ¥ ! Franklin D. Roosevelt. named bim director of the t new Command: Beg Army When Hopkins became feders: relief dire. ed is Who's Wi rele? w armie — | oer = “Resolved, That the several) more ar states should enact legislation to! writer provide a system of complete! the gen medical service available to all|the days citizens at public expense,” is the} subject of a debate to be given) it, is Thursday morning, April 7, 8-25) the Pr o’clock in the auditorium of the|of confider Key West High School [eben Debating Society had glanmed| priate 2 to hold this debate at night, but) be sp due to unforseen circumstances,| That wil it was found best to have it dur-ite nes ing the regular chapel period} Mr The public is invited to attend. | ciple of . Nicholas Goshorn, George Col-|“pump priming” =chesl of sor lings and Wynifred Shine will up-jernment spending. bas been com- hold the affirmative side while verted during the last year te Hop the negative will be argued by| kins ides that work cam be ar Sidney Aronovitz, Vance Stirrup ranged meet the skis of the and Norms Garcia. Each speaker! particulac peosle ele ore éesti will be allowed six minutes ‘; ‘ute. which to present their Rae Louise Russell will timekeeper. Immediately before the flag will be AT PUBLIC EXPENSE ] i tioned are all members bating Society.