The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 5, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Deyoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 290. Call For Toys. To Supply Needy Children: Meets With Quick And:Liberal Response Now Appears That Every/SCHOOL GROUP Child Will Be Provided) PANS DEBATE For During Christmas Holiday 'SEIZURELAW SC | INMEXICO IS | NEW SUBJECT i} | i CONFISCATORY M=ZASURE IS i WIDE AND SWEEPING IN; POWER GRANTED TO TAKE: OVER PROPERTIES | By PRESTON GROVER (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dee. 5.—Part} of official Washington has the jitters over what may grow out of SUBJECT SELECTED IS ONE the Mexican expropriation law. HOLDING ATTENTION OF; It is a sweeping act under which' |the president of Mexico is author-} CAPITALISTS AND GOVERN- ized, in the interest of the pub- MENT OFFICIALS |lie’s need, to seize any property’ {within the republic, either tem-; uiccinacian Germeyanen aia or permanently, The pur-; emmers of the Key : pose for the seizure may range Citizen|School Debating Society and fiom military needs to the sim- Music Department will present an’ pjey desire for “the equitable dis- yevening of entertainment and in- tribution of wealth, whether hoard- Asked if she had the truck go-{structive discussion on the eve-|ed or monopo-ized to the exclusive jning of Thursday, December 10,'advantage of one or several per- {beens at : aa : {sons and in detriment senerally of There will be presented one Of the population as a whole or of a the most interesting debates! social in particular.” which has ever been publicly held; American investments in Mex- jin Key West in which a question|ico are estimated at a billion do!- }which has held the attention of:lars. Enelsh and Dutch invest- capitalists and government offi-! ments also are large. cials over a long period. Eudiarrpetes! VekcetRatiey, This is the question: “Resolved! ‘he jaw would be embarrassing ated.” This subject is known Bisel oe ita egies ae the national debate and will be ine behest of President Cardenas studied, analyzed and debated, jyst when the inter-American con- daring the year by students ference was taking shape, throughout the nation. k ! Peace is the watchword of that The debate will be presided‘ conference. Property seizure over by Chairman Hilary Albury.‘ doesn’t iook too peaceful to Amer- FOR THURSDAY Miss Martha Buck was morning enthusiastic over the re- this sponse to her appeal for toys and books for the poorer children of} the community which has appear- e@ in two issues of The this week. ing around making the collection of gifts Miss Buck that she had started the vehicle t morning and before noon found it replied would be necessary for it to con- tinue for another two hours in order to respond to the widely separated calls which had been made. If the response continues it is} the belief of all of those inter- ested that every needy child inj Key West will, on C tmas Eve, receive some interesting toy or} entertaining book to brighten the hours for them. In addition to the ready re-} Chr Kry KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, Emergency Arising Causes Sewer Units To Work On “Off Days” OZARK BROUGHT HEAVY FREIGHT ! VESSEL LEFT SHORTLY AFT-| work on days other than those ER FIVE O'CLOCK YES. TERDAY AFTERNOON * ! For the first ‘time since the sew- jer and water project was started [by the WPA in Key West, it has | become necessary for workmen to | designated Ly the rules and regu- lations. In this case it is an emergency It was not until 5:20 o’clock and working today and possibly 1936. 1 i REACH OUT FOR _ TOURISTS FROM EUROPEAN PORTS | SAND TO NEW YORK, THEN | TO FLORIDA i H _ , | A p'an to bring 100,000 tour-) ists from Eurdpe to New York} j land thence to Florida by rail,! Bridge Contractor PERPALL SENDS rat Citizen = vector Says Full Force Will Be Working On By First Of Year CONTRIBUTIONTO « Se« Comme A “ese cussmg Mate lyesterday afternoon that the’ tomorrow will be in the interest Steamer, bus or airplane, approv-|KEY WESTERS RESIDING = Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde- é Mallory Lines, sailed for New Or-!0f saving time and labor on that|ed and supported by Governor! OTHER PARTS DONATE AS Jeans, after discharging heavy’ part of the project on Newton - i j Ti HOSE LIVING ipments of freight for Key West.' street; where it is continual:y cav- eee ae nine The vessel arrived at 9:15 o’clock’ in the morning. i ing in and presents a problem:for;Vited the co-operation of news-; HERE Gearge 4 Thee, coe ad-at «nd & —_¢ oe .=— pe ees = = cf Tieemesse o> ae = © those tin charge, Roy Goodman, director of WPA activities, said today that has become necessary to work the ‘men in order to continue the work ‘of laying pipe and keeping. the | excavations free from water, as ‘the water is continually undermin- ing the s'de walls of the street- Steamship Miraflores, of the, {Standard Fruit . and Steamship! j company, is due to.arrive in port this evening consigned to the Por- ter Doek company for fuel oil. The .ship.is from New York and |is bound for Frontera, Mexico, Due to arrive tomorrow morn- |ing from New York is the Steam- ‘5 ae | ship Alamo, of the Clyde-Mallory sone gxcavauas and the walls are |Lin , with freight for Key West continua!ly falling, filling the and will, after discharging, sail oe and adding to the labor in- EOE Teer To the end that this condition ;may be remedied and future pre- cipitations of the walls into the trench be averted, it was decided to have the forces continue the work of laying pipe and keeping ithe pumps going until the section where the falling walls are a source DEVALUATION HAS INCREAS- | + danger is passed. ED COST OF LIVING FOR-" | TY PERCENT ‘DROP OF FRANC BLOW TO TAHITI i { i ‘LIGHT TENDER WILL paper editors of New York, Ar-: it }thur, Brisbane, B. C. Forbes, the | West responding te the London newspapers, as well as all transportation lines. Wiliam C. Dewitt, editorial writer and reporter, will spend two months in Florida to report on actual conditions there ! write news stories for newspapers, : |m2gaz:nes, and trade papers. He will visit this city during the month ,of December. | The fol'owing is the kind ef let- ter William H. Rankin has asked Governor Sholtz to write to nerth- ern newwspapers and European editors: ‘ November 24, 1936 j i j (To the Editor of the New York Times and other New sponse given, the necessary paints The affirmative side will be pre-)ican eyes, whether on this con- (Bs Associated Press) ; York, Boston and Washing- Net only are the people @ Kice oe fer cont-ibutions te the memos ity Weliare Fund. bat Key Wes ers residing im other parts country are sending z nations One of these recemtiy tece by Mrs. Wm RB Warren was Georz Gamer + —_ = Ee We tte cee ee meet. s = & Se comers: co Springs but with bs on Key West and & Mr. Perpall vead ¢ ments im The Cam- ing the worthe=s ths week sent 2 substert= tribution te the communis ‘une which i= deeply apprecuted for which these whe recese ™ benefits afferded + © gatefu, % is awured cares bees os Leng Kine Siig joe a Tie. Beer Some ane Toms . Beige and eel Me Thee, the were oo ce pere -t oe ee ee --ese> and brushes, with other materials, sented by Sidney Aronovitz, Anita! tinent or elsewhere. PAPEETE, Tahiti, Dec. 5. | AT COLONIAL PARK ton, D. to be used in renovating the gifts have been received, and. arrange- ments have been concluded for rebinding and repairing whatever books are. receiv: ich. are._in need of this wor | Berkowitz and Winnifred Shine. The seizure law has a terrific; N MONDA | C., newspapers) The negative argument will be double-edged impact. It provides] handled by Vance Stirrup, Andrew for compensation where seizure Elwood and Norma Garcia. ior government contro! is imposed. Each. apeaker_ will be perjnitted, But the compensation.is+ta, be the Tahiti’s “depression prosperity” has come to an end w:th the de- valuation of the franc. For years past favorable ex-; change has made commodity prte {> 1 as ; | POINCIANA TO BECOME EN.|D°# Sit: GAGED IN WORK ON INTRA- | COASTAL WATERWAY During the past three month= e have considerable time) to oecupy six minutes of time and’ amount at which the property is there will be two three-minute re- listed for tax purposes. buttal speeches. Mary Louise Bon-! Now anyone acquainted with niwell will be the timekeeper. :tax procedure either in this coun- Preceding the debate Love's try or elsewhere knows that prop- ANNOUNCE DEATH es low, while the island’s principal} export, copra, enjoyed a premium { voted by the French government. | Added to this was an influx of} Lighthouse Tender Poinciana is tour’sts that hrought about a mod-' Slated to sai] Monday morning for, ‘in corresponding with newspaper | publishers and in investicating the ‘plan that has been in view tof ‘bring as many Europeans to the U. S. A., via New York, Mon- treal, Boston and Port Everglades, Dream will be presented by the erty is assessed for taxes at any High School Orchestra and follow-' level from 20 percent of its full ing the arguments the chorvs of-cash va‘ue. But usually far less est building boom. | work on the Intracoastal Water- Devaluation of the franc has in-| Way trom No Name Key to Mi- socksenene ond eas See harbors. CLASSICAL AND POPULAR = AlRS WILL BE HEARD oe ING PROCRAM A vanety of sclectoms, Tangs from classica: number> te popu airs and song bits, will sented tonight by the ey Wee Hospitality Band = Colemm! Park. The concert «ii beg= = be oe OF BURT M’GHEE boys’ voices will present “Night than the latter. Courts have up-! DECEASED WAS STATIONED) On The Water” Roeder and “Calm held the right of railroads, for itt | once of passenger service by the| aids to navigation, repairing and AT ARMY BARRACKS HERE | As The Night”, by Bohm, follow-, stance, to have one value for tax| ne direct line to A ticg and | recharging ican aitigt & ing which the High School Or- purposes and another higher value‘ 4 y tralia, So stringent are condi-; number of other types of work chestra will conclude the evening upon- which passenger and freight | tions that authorities have had to; which are assigned to tenders of with Van Norman’s “Rose Dance.” rates are based. ‘step in to prevent prof:teering, | the lighthouse districts. | = aay In Mexico the situation is re-| Adding to the problem is the! The flagship of the fleet, Ten- MRS. C. LEITH creased the cost of living 40 per | ami. cent, and with it came discontinu-| Object of the trip is to install FOR MANY YEARS Word was |ported as the same. Oil wells,j Spire: by Key Wes received by Mrs. large number of natives who are; der Ivy.-is in port and the Poppy, s of Miami, and also he me ee cee ae sagt now lardlezs, having forsaken | another tender, is pursuing a ;tax roils = ;their tribal homes when there; course of repair and replacement, relatives, announc- : der cash value. Thus an owner of | wore plenty of jobs to be had in|work on We should invite Europeans to spend from 20 to 40 days in good- will tours, with a week in New York, two days in Washington and ten days in the State of Florda— the New World’s Riviera, and re- turn from Miami and Jacksonville via steamship lines. This would start 2 European good-neghbor movement and be helpful to our hote’s, railroads, steamship lines. ing the sudden death by heart fail- ure of Warrant Officer Burt D. McGhee in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Mr. McGhee was serving as mess officer in the Army and Navy Hospit«! in Hot Springs and! was abou! ready for retirement, having cor.pleted more than thir- cf continuous honorable the U.S. A 7, it was service s. NEW YORKER _ EXPRESSES HERSELF AS BEING DE- LIGHTED WITH CITY Mrs. Charles Leith, of New York, who is visiting at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Dudley, on Ann street, is delighted with Key | such property is faced with this dilemma: He either can run the risk of} having the government seize his} property at its low tax value, or! voluntarily go to the tax official and have the assessment raised. That course means paying more} taxes year after year. Capable Of Drastic Action Troubled particu’arly are own- ers of mines and oil fields, where town. | River. thin dihsinianied Missnitiiien Tomorrow B.:P.. QO, Elks 551 will 3:30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon told their-annual memorial exercises in the Key West High Schoo! audi- toritifn, and have extended the usual invitation to the public. As has been.the custom in previous years a solemnly impres- ive program of musica] and vocal numbers has been arranged in the Caloosahatchee iu. jines and air lines, as well as Seredy. {all such transatlantic lines—ané ‘help their business during their idull travel months—from Europe in Jcauary, February, March and jApril—a.d what will be quite p'easing as well as surprising— iduring-the months of June, July jand Augyst where our maximum {temperature, on account of the jfriendly Gulf Stream, is 86 de-; igrees, while it is from 10 to 15 8 o'clock The band is 2 unit of the Fe eral Music Project sapereec = this distfict by George = “White. Alfred Barrese wll rect the organization tenyrht 1. March, “Cadet's Laurendean. 2 Waltz, Ou” ~Stracsmata 3. Selection. “k Happened = Nordland” —Herbert_ 4 Popular sciectioes- & Can't Escape From You”— Whe ing; (>) “The Way You Leck Tonight”—Kern March “Lights Out” —Me- « 5. Cor. 6. sey- Intermezzo, “Misha” —L =e March, “Triumpt of Peace” which some of the outstanding musicians and vocalists will par-|degree- higher in New York. ticipate The oration will be delivered by Dr. William R. Warten. | Many, many times the number 8 hay be taken by the government as O2ficers of the lodge are: Exalted Ruler, C. G. Hicks; Esteemed ©f-furopeans could — vd the | Key. It impresses Mrs. Leith as one;j ication under the law for ex-| Leading Knight, Armando Cobo; Esteemed Loyal Knight, Frank v. ete: How You, ee of the few cities which are not PTopriation of property of native|Shepherd; Esteemed Lecturing Knight, Aiquilino Lopez, Jr.; Secre- and Flovida in sammertime ¢ i _labor troubles have arisen. Under i ‘certain circumstances these could West and thinks it the most amazing and intriguing city in rcs visited the MeGhee “Star Spangied Bano-™ family whiic on her return trip August of nd she states that he Was apparently in the best of health at that time. Mr. McGhee married Miss Vio- let Roberts, a sister of Mrs. Spires, | also a sister of P.’ B. Roberts,! clerk in the Key West post office. Mrs, McGhee died in Washington, D. C., of pneumonia in 1920. | Mr. McGhee was a member of, longer before leaving for Texas, 4tawn at EBvenos Aires. Dad Lodge, F. & A. M., of this city and served in the Key West Barracks for a number of years, before and after his marriage tol Miss Roberts. He was well and, favorab'y known to a large num-| ber of people here who will a, with regret of his passing. He leaves a daughter, Mrs. Ed. R. Owens of Hot Springs, Ark., and two sons, Burt H. of Denver, Colo., and Bernard Charles, who | is in his last year in a business} college in Boulder, Colo. ee REGULAR SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE tonight, 10:00 o’Clock i HABANA-MADRID CLUB} Bob Pinder’s Orchestra 1 ADMISSION _... 5 wae REGAL HAS THE REPUTATION OF BEING A BEER THAT IS THE SAME ALL THE TIME. FINE FLAVOR, MELLOW AND BEST QUALITY. of the old world which has an at-|and foreign investors alike. mosphere which carries the visi-' That the Mexican government j tary, George O. Lucas. Treasurer, Morris Holtsberg; Tyler, Newton Curry; Ezquire, B. C. Papy; Chaplain, Nestor Recio; Inner Guard, tor back to other scenes, such as is capable of taking drastic action) J. Aronovitz. the Riviera and conveys the im-|is indicated by the manner which large landed estates have! pression that one is living in a foreign city. So delighted is Mrs. Leith with her visit that she decided to re- main here instead of going to Ha- vana and will remain for a while for a visit with another family group. “I have five children living in different sections of the country,” said Mrs. Leith, “so I am contin- ually moving from one group to another, out I can say without reservation that I have, unqual- ifiedly, had a delightful time in Key West.” STRANGERS Stop at my POULTRY FARM of POULTRY I carry. YOUNG TURKEY HENS 6% to 9 Ibs. each SOFT BONE ROASTERS BROILERS FRYERS STAGS GEESE BABY CHICKS Fulford’s Poultry Farm Phone 880 I Deliver’ | 'and see for yourself the quality! i i \ in been chopped into communal plots for former peons. The whole prospectus fit nicely into the peace picture President Roosevelt hoped to see SHOPPING | DAYS LEFT doesn’t | ‘Members of the Memorial Committee are: Wm. Curry Harris, Armando Cobo and H. D. Warren. Below will be found the program: Lodge and Audience Ceremonies, Lodge Officers... (Invocation by Reverend E. R. Evans) Violin Solo, “Ave Maria”. -Bach-Gounod Norma Yates Dopp, accompanied by Alce Curry Ceremonies, Roll Call of Absent Brothers....... ....Ritual (With Taps by Leroy Voght) Quartette, “The Vacant Chair” ....... erseeeree Janice M. White, Mary Jo McMahon, George Mills White, W. Curry Harris, accom- 2. ..--Ritual ---Root panied by Gus Ayala Ceremonies, Lodge Officers. Trio, “The Rosary”... Clara Yates, Norma Yates Dopp and M&ry Jo McMahon, accompanied by Gus Ayala Oration... = Dr. William R. Warren Tenor Solo, “The Palms’ George Mills White, accompanied by Gus Ayala (Auld Lang Syne) Lodge and Audience Quartette, “Prayer” (from “Stradella”).....Von Flotow Janice M. White, Mary Jo McMahon, George Mills White, and W. Curry Harris, ac- companied by Gus Ayala Ceremonies, Lodge Officers... (Benediction by Reverend E. R. ‘vacation time) than could come to ,the U. S. A. during the winter! season. If they really knew the; jfacts and how inexpensive they! ‘could take a 20 to 40 day tour at) ‘a cost of from $500 to $1000. | Steamers, the Queen Mary, -4 jmandie, Europa and Bremen have jcut down the time between Euro- jPean ports and New York to four {days, and the Italian liners, Conte ; de Saviea and the Rex in six days ; : Those who have more ‘eisure woul? | jenioy from seven to ten days in four United States lines ships, the |Manhatten and the Washington, jor the Red Star lines, the West- ern and Penniland. We, here in Florida, betieve that | if we can form a sort of Commun- jity of interests of all concerned. newspapers, railrogds, steamship lines, hotels, busses, New York; City, Washington and Fiorida, the, New World’s Riviera, we cam ac-; complish in one year what will ac-/ tually hzppen in five years, pro-. vided we let nature take its course. | As soon as the Europeans know ; what we have to offer in health. sunshine, happiness, entertain-j ment and sight-seeing in New; York, Washington and Florida! they are sure te come in thov- | sands and eventually as many will. come to our shores as we send to {Continued on Page Four) ! | | DR. @ CRILE from Miami were toGey seet=g notice of the arrival af seme == pediment which had Deez <omppe< from Cleveland and here now. Asked if he mended for a fishing trip at Crile said that leave today for and fish until will return and & the shipments arrive, will the Ten Theussnd Idands Teomight at 8-08 o Clock Offering stock of branch tore“ “ recently chsed and mew CHREST- MAS GIFTS. FREE PRIZES FRANK JOHNSON Coicma Mee Bence ee i eeape oe TRY IT TODAY DANC Tog SP aT RAUL"S CLES ao 3