The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 9, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 86. Kep West, Florida. has the mest eguabl =2'< i= me Citizrn KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1936. Wilcox Predicts Restoration Of Key West Naval Station Representative From This) District Expects Pas- sage Of Legislation By Congress This Session PLAN REPAIRS ae AND THEATER WILL BE RENOVATED IN PRO- GRAM OUTLINED By PAUL MAY (Special Washingto Correspondent ot « WASHINGTON, D. —Restor: , April 9.) ion of activity at the} Proposed plans and specifica- tions for a program of repairs and renovations to San Carlos \school and theater are being gone etre risomowicther Ee erent over today by Rene Echarte, sup- by ‘ervisor of the Public Works De- | partment of Cuba | Mr. Echarte arvived this morn- Failure of such restoration will} ing to confer with Cuban Consul srardo Rodriguez, Managers Gon- lo Bezzanillo and Rogelio C: back to the city by the navy de-/brova, of the theater and of ae «(cals of the San Carlos Institute. partment, but this is an unlikely “What the extent of the revairs renovations are to be was ated. At tire conclusion of harte’s conferences, it is expects passage at this session of ; understood, the program of re- pairs will be made public. Key West Naval base, if not un-! der the Navy department, then; agency, was predicted today Representative Mark Wilcox. mean that the base will be turned j alternative, Mr. Wilcox said. ! not In any event, the congressman M Congress, of legislation specifically ; of the: ai- um With President Melvin E. Rus- sell in the chair, the Rotary Club held its regular v kly luncheon So it’s Hall. had AT SAN CARLOS, ered Duri ALtze Mt | SURVEY ONSHIP ‘Treadway States Plans For HERE CONTINUES on New Highway Over Railroad DIVERS EXAMINING HULL gt ASCERTAIN POSSIBLE DAM- AGE FROM GROUNDING i H \ Divers today continued exam- | jination of the hull of the Italian! Meeting Called For Tomor- Steamship Maddelena Odero, is row Morning At County | which is anchored in Southwest | +Channel awaiting the decision of} . Court House To Discuss Matter ANOTHER ANGLER W. J. Peabody, another angler who is spending his vacation in Key West, has been having just the kind of luck with tarpon and sailfish good anglers have in these waters. Early in the week Mr. Peabody went after tarpon and before he had completed his catch had taken 1: of these beauties. Nine of them were of ordinary size but two tipped the scales at more than 8$ pounds each. Yesterday si ish was the aim of this itor and be- fore the day was over had caught two of these much sought after trophies, each of which weighed over 50 pounds, Mr. Peabody was out fish- ing with Captain King Gomez on the launch Moccasin. | the surveyors as to her seaworth- | iness. ; The steamer went ashore Sat-| ‘urday night and was floated yes-! terday morning after 700 bales of | cotton, 10 tons of paraffin wax! Outlook for the and about 1000 barrels of oil had! the Florida East Coast been taken from her holds. | This afternoon George Bernard, | Company’s viaducts and trestles :marine surveyor, acéompanied by | very encouraging said Chester B.} Charles Lowe, representative of | ‘ Lloyds, were to make a survey pf | Treadway, head of the Florida; ‘the shin for the underwriters. It! state road department, ‘is not .expected their report will) 3 | be ready until late this evening. | Tived this morning on the Steam-j As ‘soon as this report and that of the divers who made the . in- spection of t're hull has been made | (it will be determined what dis- position is to be made of that por- tion of the cargo which has been ‘removed. bridges over Railway | | { who ar-! ship Cuba from Tampa. Mr. Treadway, as forecast inj ‘ { | The Citizen yesterday, will have !a statement to make relative to j the progress of the work and his | accomplishments since he was au-| 1 ‘ Agree To Pay! at meetings of commis- ok i sioners and council held several! PPP PIII LI LILI SE = weeks ago, to negotiate for the] iba) gis Glam a For Services purchase of the railway notainzs. CUBA BRINGS IN This statement is to be given} tomorrow morning 10 o’clock fol- 21 PASSENGERS e@ torm: lowing a meeting, he said, to bel held in the court house with coun-| j ty commissioners, city council and} VESSEL ALSO BRINGS TWEN- { {members of the Oversea Road and! ‘Ty TONS OF FREIGHT FOR Many Other Matters Heard) tot Bridge Commission. | gree x : ey ‘ + | Certain matters which are to be During Regular Session) j;....<c4. at the meeting tomor-! Of Body Conducted Last i” will have a bearing on the ; jstatement to be made by Mr. Night | Treadway, it is understood, and j until these matters have been dis igers for Key West; five first and jeussed and clarified Mr. Tread-} give dik sane, passengers for | way said he would have nothing; Havana. ito say except that the “outlook} Key West arrivals were: W. ae ROT COC EARN jSavage, W. E. Olson, C. L. Judge William H. Burwell,! Spence, Mrs. Spence, Ada Dan- member of the Overseas Road and: jels, P, Neuman, H. Prince, C. B. {Toll Bridge Commission, arrived Treadway, J. S. Arnold, E. Por- this morning to meet Mr. Tread-| ter, K, Saunders, way, county and city officials and; Also arriving on the vessel B. M. Duncan, manager of the'were 20 tons of freight and 102 | Steamship Cuba arrived from ‘Tampa this morning with nine | fixg and two second class passen- Ceunty com jioners agreed last night to remunerate Justice jof The Peace E. R. -Lowe, at | Tavernier, in the sum of $250 for services rendered on the Florida \Keys following the hurricane of | September 2, 1935. Present at the meeting were | Now Look Very Encouraging SILI SSS DS IS MEETS WITH LUCK Wilcox Announces Plans Construction Of Storm Refuges On Keys At Cost Of $300,000 . j | WEATHER BUREAUS WILL ALSO BE BUILT IN CONNECTION WITH PROGRAM TO BE UNDERTAKEN THIS YEAR: WORK WILL START AS SOON AS ARMY ENGINEERS CAN WORK OUT DETAILS SHOLTZ CONFERS WITH JESSE JONES ON HIGHWAY ISSUE (By Associated Press) ‘WASHINGTON, April 9. B> Fark war <pecial Washington Correnpendent of Th j WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 9—Construction of } Mine ctorm refuges and weather statioms alome the lower | east coast cf Florida to cost approximately $300,000, will | be undertaken this ye>r, the work to start 2s secon as army | Cngineers can work cut the details, Reoresentatiwe J. Mark i Wilcox said today. After a lengthy conference with Works Progress Ad- | minictration officials, Wilcex ammounced that the entire Flan submitted by him for the construction of a series oi twenty storm refuges and weather stations has been ap- proved and :idopted for early construction. Im addition to the lower east coast, this program imcludes the Lake building the: highway. Okeechobee area, Wilcox said. The plan submitted by Wilcox and adopted by “h- ARRIVE TODAY structicn of hurricane proof community houses along the ‘jemimoener and im the Lake Okeechobee and the TAKE! keys region. The buildings will be cf sufficieat size te house the entire population im the area served by each | They will be used for school, church, and general ciwic ! purposes and durmg the hurricane season will be used a New arrivals in the yacht basin! houses of refuge in which the people of the area may e= {today include the Yawl Sea Call,! : = !of Chicago. The yacht was one cape the of high an 2 : | of those in the race from St. Pe-, Will be equipped with standard weather recordimg imstra- | tersburg to Havana but was fore-' ments and will be used as stations for the collection and jed by circumstances to seek a: | ~ - |haven and went to Tortugas. : distributicn of accurate weather information. } Wilcox explained today that the complete program ‘ calls for the construction of at least twenty such buildings Dave Sholtz —Governor came here today for a con- ference with Chairman Jesse Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation on the Possibility of connecting the nd city of Key West with the Florida mainland by new Overseas Highway. The conference is to | | held this afternoon. 1 The governor gave no in- dication of a specific plan for ALL OF VESSELS BERTHS AT SUBMARINE BASIN | } / } | | { { i i The owner, Mrs. Adelaide R.| | Everett and Mr. Everett, master, |remained on the vessel while the ' our and! providing for disposition ee Key West base. ¢ oners This legislation will be spon- OMMISS! be based on results of the he to be held by the House nava fairs committee on possible alter- natives for disposition of the base. The hearing has been de- R d staff, but will probably be held) en some time next week, Wilcox said.} —___ Ses whe Discussing the forthcoming; hearing, Mr. Wileox revealed that SEVERAL GUESTS he had given the concerning! matum was > to put! the base to some use, or turn it! back to the city.” Urges Some Action tm TODAY, PRESIDED OVER put to some good use if it is to be BY MELVIN RUSSELL retained”, the congressman said. “I told them if they didn’t want: it, to give it to some other gov-j ernment agency that d and if then to give it back to the city. Of course, they said they didn’t yan lo that. u : » i they do want to do with it.” ticular agency in mind to which} he wanted the e turned over in the event the navy department will not agree to restoring it to service. “I simply want to see down there, ¢ ore our pay-! rolls”, he de He pointed that the Navy} department has sed on sev- eral different oc to ap-| which we wanted the Key West} base put”, and sa‘d he had urged | upon the naval affairs committee the argument the department must either admit it no longer} come forward with a» suggestion of its own for use of the base.; This idea the committee has! adopted, the congr said, | and will.form the the} The base i: oing to seed”} without proper care at the pres-| ent time, Wilcox said, and pre-} sents a liability which might well be turned into an asset with pro-! Going To Call Bluff | He said the Navy department “has turned down all posals for use of the base”, now must either “put up or shut “We're going to call their bluff”, he said, nd make them tell us what they will do with the! base, instead of j telling us, what can’t be done”. that the base will be in some way) restored to detivity-on the belief; that the department will not be) willing to part with it, and that] only alternative in progressive use! of the base in some manner. } “I’m going to be at that hear-| ing, making all the noise I can”,| Wilcox declared. ‘Als soon as it’s} sored by Wilcox, he said, and will - . “ Justice Lowe layed by illness on the committee depart-' ment an ultimat ; REGULAR LUNCHEON HELD “T told them the base should be no such agency could be found, Wilcox said he no par- the government put some men prove some particular use to} had any use for the base, or else hearings. 4 per handling. up”. He said he based his prediction the committee will agree that the; over, I’m going to introduce a committee; and I think we'll have no trouble in putting the bill through at this si i sion.” | they were present, Sebastian Ca- ' when details of the status of the “| dealt with. The customary ritual and salute m Chai i, is- to the flag, opened the exercises. Bed on St) sioners Wim. R. Porter, Norberg | Thompson, B, B. Warren, Nathan ee Attorney Wm. B. Albury, | Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, Sheriff K. 'Q. Thompson, and Chief Deputy aneelot | Nee (MacanecliWaite, John Bogart invoked the divine blessing. introduced by invitation Guests were members upon whose brera introducing J. Lester as a former member, re- turning to the club. ie _The question of meeting the William Demeritt introduced! Pill presented by ,, Peage | Justice : Lowe for serviees on the Keys W. J. Savage and W. E. Olson, of was brought up hy. Chairman the Edison Company of Orange,! Bervaldi who said that as a full New Jersey. j board was present with, the at- Ben D. Trevor introduced his: torney, it would be a goed time € . {to settle the matter, once and for fellow members of the Monroe County Road and Toll Bridge Commission, Chairman Judge But-| cussion dutings aiichaule Soba well, Chester B. Treadway, B. M.! ong phases of the situation as pre- Dunean and T. Jenkins Curry. i gented:in Mr. Lowe's Brief addresses were made bY: discussed. Attorney Albury said cach of the commissioners and’ thot the peace justice was cer- they hoped that all present might | tainly entitled to pay for his ef. i si spe aR ety coor forts, as he had done some’ val- Lease cinipasrp Ci & ™\uable work and should be re- munerated, but not in the capacity of coroner. | The opinion of Mr. Albury was ‘also voiced by other members of the board, and it was finally de- cided that Clerk Sawyer should Lowe of the board’s bridges and related engineering! problems could be more fully Due to the important messages that these guests had to bring be-j fore the meeting, the election of! : a board of Uirectors was postpon- | 2¢vise Mr. Co toa tare eens ing Mr. Lowe’s bill of upwards of 1. This brought on a lengthy dis- | bills were} | deeision and that instead of meet-) ing to the proposed! {bridges and purchase of the right| | of way units. ' i Asked if he would remain over' | until tomorrow to attend the! |meeting. Judge Burwell told The{ | Citizen he did not think so, as he} ‘had arranged to be back in Miami | tonight. ‘AVIATION SAFETY | TOBE EXPLORED Hi i 1 i | ! | | | COMMERCE COMMITTEE PROBE EXPECTED TO AIR MANY OLD FEUDS i | (Ry Ansoctated Press) ' WASHINGTON, April 9.—The! jsenate’s decision to explore the; | question of aviation safety through! \its commerce committee may re-| sult in disclosures v-nich will have ; far-reaching effects, } There have been hints of al | shakeup in personnel and organ-} lization of the bureau of air com-! | merce before it is over. Officials! of the bureau, at least, are pre-/ pared for anything. H Ever since Senator Bronson} { sacks of mail for Havana. Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde-j Mallory Lines, is due to arrive to-| morrow from New Orleans reute to Miami and Jacksonville. Colorado, another vessel of the lines, is due to arrive from New en nee Sunday en route to Tampa. | ! FOUR LICENSES TO WED ISSUED Four marriage licenses issued during the week ending to- day from the office of Judge Rogelio Gomez. Issues were made to: Raul Llanes and Claribel Mo- lino; Emery A. Curry and Lucille Baxter; Roy Roberts and Mar- jorie Sweeney; Benjamin C. Rob- erts and Mary Louise Pinder. were CAME FISH NOW ~*~ Cecil Gray, loca} taxidermist, | reports having had a rather poor .$600,-the board had decided to! Cutting of New Mexico plunged to | Season and is now engaged in j pay him $250 upon presentation of a bill which eliminates any reference to services as coroner ‘in connection with his services on j the Keys after the hurricane. his death in a transport plane | jnear Kirksville, Mo., last year,/ jair safety has been a question o: j;major concern to senators. Cutt jing was a great favorite among mounting a number of specimens of game fish for exhibition, ale. These excellent specimens are | records after receiving a letter) o be placed on display where they Depository aceounts for the his colleagues. His death foscus-|¢2n be readily seen by visitors to The continued hearing yester-; month of March were read, check-' ed attention on the bureau of air| Key West. day of Sylvia Dennis, colored, in} ed and approved. court of Judge Rogelio Gomez on Clerk Sawyer presented for charge of émbezzlement, resulted; signed approval a mass of tax ex- in the defendant being dismissed.:emptions which had been ap- This case was called for hear-' proved by the tax exemption ing Tuesday afternoon but it was! board at its last meeting. They deemed necessary to call more} were officially signed, the evidence aduced was not suf-j}were being prepared in aceord- fieient, the eourt declared, ‘*ojance with the board’s instruc- hold the prisoner for trial. tions. THIRSTY? TI RED? HOT? IF Y' and Mr.! bill embodying the findings of the, witnesses. They were called but}Sawyer announced that others; ida, this bank will not be open for} HOT CROSS BUNS OU ARE ANY ONE OF THESE THREE. {commerce and its efforts to en- F force safety regulations, { HOLIDAY NOTICE | i Good Friday, April 10, 1986, a legal holiday in the State of Flor-} | business on that day. | THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. | apr8-2t FRL-SAT. SPECIALS MILK CHOCOLATE and HONEY NOUGAT LAYER 35° CAKE, special .... i Saturday and Sunday MALONEY & PEACOCK ee BEING MOUNTED) and! on Friday, ! ‘ion, and discuss matters’ sacks of mail for Key West; 36] other members of the sailing par- | ty came to Key West in a launch | last week. Cruiser Elsie II, E. S. Witten- bel, owner, with two guests. The vessel is from Miami. ; Aires is master. Yacht Minoco, owned by the ! Mills Novelty company of Chi- ‘cago, is berthed at one of the finger piers. There are nine | guests on the vessel. | Yacht Marnell, owned by the Marnell Corporation of Duluth, | Minn., with two guests on board is also at one of the piers. Cap- tain Swensen is in command. Yacht West ‘Wind, under char- ter to Dr. O. M. Edwards, of | Wilmington, N. C., is at the barge | pier. Dr. Edwards has a party ; of eight guests. P. L. Adams is | master. Cruiser Arlis, R. L. Sullivan | owner and master, of Philadel- | phia, and three guests is lying off from the piers in the basin. | RECORDS REVEAL | TOWN’S NAME WAS LONG MISSPELLED (My Aneseiated Presx) CENTERVILLE, Ia., April 9.— 'The name of this town has been spelled with a “C” for years when, as a matter of fact, it should have been an “S.” The error was diseovered by County Clerk Howard D. Evans searched through the | when he addressed to Senterville. A history of Appanoose county shows, says Evans, that early day residents here decided to name the community Senterville in nessee. Later, the state legislature, not knowing about the connection with Governor Senter, thought it was just a case of bad spelling on | the part of the old timers and | made it Centerville which, in all | Probability, it will remain. George | ‘honor of Governor Senter of Ten-) j i] j ago. ! but that only nine could be built this year. The estimated | value of the nine to be constructed this year will be $309,- | 000, he said. Discussing the matter, Wilcox said, “I am delighted over the octcome cf the conferences. | submitted the plan | to WPA officials last November and since that time there | have been numerous conferences between myself and Mr- | Hopkins, Mr. Aubrey Williams, Mr. Van Hyning, and Mr. ( Pynchon. The appreval giver the matter today assures us of the beginning of the first real step toward the pro- tection and preservation of life im the storm areas. It will | probably take sixty to nimety days for the engimeers to work out the necessary details before work can begm, but | we are now assured that it will go forward. I regard this | as one of the most important and beneficial things which | has been done for Florida. I shall sow go on with the | second half of the program which contemplates the com | struction of a series of weather stations with radic equip- | quire the cooperation of the Britich government. | “Witeox explained that should no relief funds be ' available for the ccnstruction of the belance of the refuges next year, he would introduce = specizl bill to get the ‘funds with which to complete the program. j The $300,000, for construction of the nine refuges to be constructed this year has already been made available by the WPA, the congressman added. The mime refuges locations of the refuges have mot been determined, he The Citizen beat the country on this hurricane refuge plan having carried a story concernimg it several months DROP IN AT YOUR NEAREST VENDOR AND REFRESH YOURSELF WITH WAGNER BEE)