The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 30, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Kry West Citizen VOLUME LVI. No. 310. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1936. Sandquist Makes Known New{ ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS | FINALREPORT ‘Supreme Court Comptroller Status~In WPA Operations xesier rics Dowe tne | To AbidetBy-Resolation Calling For B.° Curry ‘Moreno Made MONROE COUNTY Of Railway Company Taxes | tional and International Problems Insep- | | Area. Soperisor Of) EXECUTIVE UNIT a arable From Local Welfare Projects; Many Office T0 MEET TONIGHT: Workers Let Out WALL ASCERTAIN JUST HOW ! TOTAL AMOUNT AND NAMES | | OF PURCHASERS SUBMIT- t interesting, phase of industrial activity to im-! eins nae ST t Ons te | TED BY CHAIRMAN OF! and potentially far reaching prove employment and safeguard} Phases of future usbiity for the stendy jobs COMMITTEE [MANY ARRIVALS (BODYOF MARINER + ™ tse Orésred) Te | ' HERE YESTERDAY, AT FUNERAL HOME ‘== “eww = ® nation is the increasing interest! The service industries are fol-| | ceipts In Connection shown by industry—and especially, lowing suit. For example, the! large corporate industry—in mat- railroads and the electric utilities ters of social, as well as economic are doing everything possible to Mrs. Edgar Pangle, chairman ! i i i of the group in charge of the sale! | O. A. Sandquist, regional WPA director, accompanied by Jack Ambrose, finance officer, arrived today from Miami with the announce- ment that the regular WPA administration Monroe county was officially abolish- ed and in the future head- quarters of the district would be in Miami. B. Curry Moreno, engineer in charge of sewer and has been area supervisor of prejects, with Ray Curry and F. H. McKinley, of the field engineering staff re- tained, and Homer Herrick at its head. ‘Mrs, Flora Saunders other projects, made will re- main as secretary to Mr. Moreno, and Miss Alice be secretary to the engineer. Gwynn will field Certain changes will be made in office assignments and there will be a number of persons transfer- red to Miami. Instructions were issued by Mr. Sandquirt to the effect that the labor employ~ent division and the division of finance records be shipped to Miami at once. Among those who have been ad- vised that their services will be discontinued at the expiration of the following employes of the admin- Miss Mary K. Falk, Maxwell M. Russell, Miss Louise Curry, Glenn C, Wood, Eu- gene L. Roberts, L. O. Black, Miss Margaret Martinez, Eugene De- Barcee, Ignacio Perez, B. C. De- Witt, Jul'o Perez, Miss Lois Saw- yer, J. Frank Roberts, Miss Rita Pinder, Mrs. Camille Mallard. Neither the National Youth Ad- ministration force nor those con- nected with the FERA are affect- the present pay period are istrative force: ed by the changes_noted, but will} continue as heretGfore, | it said. was Some few of those employed with the WPA are to be ferred to Miami, it Among them are Claude Gandolfo, trans- was said. Faustino Rendueles and several others who have not as yet been designated. Glenn OC. Wood, direc- tor of finance and statistics, who is listed among those, is expected to be transferred to another post. He came to Key West from the fie'd staff ‘of the finance division. significance. MANY HEY WESTERS ARE TO ATTEND INAUGURATION OF NEW GOVERNOR vided at the ing of the National Association of Manufacturers, representative organization of most of the big gocds-producing concerns of the the{country. The president of the, Association, C. N. Chester (who; in business life is Chairman of, the Board of General Foods Cor-; poration) sounded the keynote. of; the gathering when he said. “In-; dustry cannot just sit back and, enjoy the fruits of prosperity. We: going to Tallahassee for the in-| must understand. better what ‘has; | been happening since 1929. Now, GovernoneRet eat the course of the deprescion lis behind us. lending itself in its, .., entirety to analysis, it is the job The Key West contingent will for industrv. general business and leave Sunday morning on the fer-| all affected sectors of our eco-! ries, lay over in Miami during the | "omic life to icin im creatine a; night, and leave 4 o'clock Mon. | national depression study commit-; cay mactning romp tiwag ne er | Mr. Chester then presented u! jlevard. The Key West group will) specific suggestions which he be- lead the motorcade, it is an-j|lieves industry should follow. Tonight 7:30 o’clock in county court house the Monroe County Executive Committee will conclusively, meet to find out, just how many Key Westers are auguration of Fred P. Cone on January 5. ! stabilize and increase their opera-, Prime example of this was pro-, tions so as to employ the greatest recent annual meet- | number of persons and ithe highest public service. render i final report yesterday showing that during the period the sale NOON ON BOARD CUBA | FROM HAVANA INSTRUCTIONS AS TO ITS DISPOSAL ‘was bei ceted th were National political interest hast “72 Cone. Condncted: there, wen naturally been focused on Wash-/460 letters sent out and 260 of ington during’ the ast year. Ag!) vo. TOUrmee: Wi Punches es indicated. Pedeerie mio etme Neca oy Total amovnt of money receiv- eiientier: v o ted from the purchasers by letter ‘ ,and direct sales was $206.78, which In 1937, however, local polities! js practically ¢wice the amount re- will be of vital importance. , Dur-| ceived over a similar period last ing January, no less than 43 state. year, : legislatures will convene. ! A resume of the names of pur- Before these legislatures will chasers of seals and additiona! be many highly important ques-| purchesers is published herewith: tions. One of those questions is Mrs. James Adams, Harold Al- that of relief—Federal appropria-' bury, Mrs. Eliza Almyda, V. A. tions for this purpose are gradually Archer, Wm. M. Arnold, Mr. and being reduced, and tremendous Mrs. A. F. Ayala, W. C. Banks, pressure will be brought on stetes Mr. and Mrs, Carl Bervaldi, Mrs. to appropriate fund: to supplant M. Berkowitz, Big Pine Inn, Mrs. the lost Federal dollars. R. Belez, Miss Bond, Paul Boy- Only a handful of states have cen, Mrs. James Bredy, Jose yet passed laws to bring their Perez, Broadway Meat Market, citizens completely under the So-.Mrs. Frank Brown, Mrs. Charles 1 Security Act. In the bulk of, Barnes, Mrs. Sebastian Cabrera, Steamship Cuba, of the P. and) The body of William McGuire, 0. S. S. company, arrived yester-} who lest his life in an explosion day afternoon from Havana with] several] days ago on the Tanker nine first class and three second|pjjiwyn, is being kept at the class passengers for Key West;| Pritchard Funeral Home pending 108 first cass passengers and five instructions from the offices of second class passengers for Tam~ the compang owning the tanker, pa. in New York. Key West arrivals: E. H. Gato,! Upon the arrival of the tanker Jrt, Sylvia Rives, Angel Acosta, Monday evening off the bar the W. S;; Barstow, Mrs. W. S. Bars-' body of McGuire was placed on tow, Miss Francis. Duelos,.James’ board a vessel of the United R. Ryan, R.. Ryan, Tertulio Mar-! States Coast Guard and brought | quez, Ramon Baez, Amado Veliz to shore to be prepared for imter- Ferrer. | ment. | The vessel arrived after five} Another member of the Dill- o’c‘ock, due to the fact that there! wyn’s personne!, R. E. Bennett, were large shipments for Tampa,'was brought ashore, suffering consisting of sugar and consign-. with an infected hand, and placed ments of tobacco for Tampa fac- in the Marine hospital. tories. { f Christmas Seals, made her|COME IN YESTERDAY AFTER- | BEING KEPT THERE PENDING With Matter County Commissioner Wn & Porter this afterncen announced that the matter of cancellation of taxes fer the Flerids East Const by the commissioners amd abject ed to by Comptraiier 2 Mi Lea, was today clarified by -he supreme court of Flondae at Tallahassee. The glad news was received from State Senater Arthur Gomes, attorrey for the commesianers, who us im Talishassce handing the county's side of the question. ad vised that the court hed ssued « nounced. Business Week briefs them us: 1. Jr., Cabrera Wholesale Grocery. rangements to be concluded, it is} at lower cat, raising living, announced and reservations on the | standards but defending personal ferry must be raade in ample time | opportunities; 2. Put all possible it will be necessary for all of those | unemployables back to work; 3.) who intend going to be at the Keep its house in order; 4. Op-; county court house tonight so that! pose monopoly; 5. Engender great- a complete list can be arranged | er eonfidence in workers; 6. Pro- and reservations secured. ‘mote public understanding; 74 Since there have been a num-| Share the proceeds of industrial ber of persons signify their in- operations fairly among workers, tention of joining in this trip to management and investors; 8. Helv; Tal‘ahassee and partcipate in the! create economic security for all; inaugural ceremonies as delegates 9. While accepting its respon- from Monroe county, it is expect-| sipititie, insist that all other in-| ed that they-will be present at the | terested elements, including labor a _ sla tiaetalee els organizations, be made equally have definitely made up their responsible. 10. Cooperate with} minds to join the motorcade. government; 11. Join other eect WM. KN OWLES in a preventative study of de-| Social Security Act which has a criticicm that has been made pression. | These goals were approved by! ; the delegates to the meeting. Most serious di.sension arose over the aoe j many enemies as well as friends. | CHARGED WITH DRIVING AN; But finally, the purpose of the Act was approved—though the! a os Act itself was criticized in detail.) INTOXICATED { often before and will very vos- sibly lead to some revision of the Given hearing before Judge} ™e7s"re in the next Conoress. ee ~ ge] ‘The meaning of all this is that | Raymond R. Lord on a charge of} all industry is making a deter- mined effort to strengthen every | driving an automobile while in-! | United States should be restricted,' states such laws will be up for As there are a number of ar-, To continue making better goods] debate and considerable dissension Mrs. Leon Carey, is in prospeet. i Furthermore, in practically! every state local problems of more than ordinary significance’ will be an issue. The question of, public economy and taxation is looming larger every day—and the collection and disbursement of © public funds is being more closely, scrutinized. In at least one state,’ California, revision of the state onstitution is considered. ~ Thus, during the next month or two, more of the political news in your newspapers will be given to state activities. Long debated has been the pro} posal that the President of the’ by law, to but a single term of} six years’ duration. Prime argument in favor of the proposal is that under present conditions, Presidents are virtually! forced te build political fences during their first term in an ef-) fort to assure their reelection.} The single term would stop that long established practice. A bill to pave the way for a Constitutional ndment mak- ing the proposa’ t'> law of the land will probably be introduced: in the Congres. H | ae j toxicated, William H. Knowles el i | yesterdey pleced under bond o«( BURTON BURSHBY “HELD FOR FRIAL next term of crinfinal court. | " eoecese ee Knowles was one of two of-! a fenders who were arrested on like} ARING TODAY, AN! s by Constable C. Floneyho Hi 1G TADAY AND. ier during the Christmas BOUND OVER TO CRIM- |holidays. The other offender was! | tried Monday and the same bond} INAL COURT. was fixed. | $100 for his appearance at DEER WRECKS HOME } Burton Burshby, who was ar- jrested on a charge of vagrancy, SYRACUSE, N. Y.—When an was this morning arraigned in the jautomobile frightened it, a doe! curt of Peace Justice Frank 0. | leaped upon the porch of the home tig 4 jof Dr. Archer D. Babcock, went | Roberts for preliminary hearing. 'through a window, around and} It was shown at the hearing around the living room, through, that Burshby is just a wanderer ithe breakfast room, where it} with no visible means of support, wrecked furniture and china andj and he was bound over in bond of | out through another window. It} $50 for the next term of criminal was caught after it became pinned | court. in a fence. SHELLS SAVE SLEEPERS =. Chbedd dh dh hb dh dddcdddd’ | -vintra, ern--Habana Madrid Cb \ Key West, Florida TURING THIS WEEK— INNORS, (Male Impersonator) N JAV? Now, Okla—T. D. Cox | hung his hunting coat in a closet without removing the shotgun shells from his pocket. Now he’s glad he didn’t because when fire broke out in. their house during the night and spread to the closet, the explosion of the shells awaken- TWO PLANES — ARRIVE HERE) BOTH OF AIRCRAFT CAME DOWN ON WATERS IN. : YACHT BASIN eee Two planes of the United States; Coast Guard atrived within the past 24 hours and came down on the water at the Key West-Miami! airplane ‘landing barge in the! yacht basin. One of the ships arrived last night with Lieutenant W. A. Bur- ton, and W. Schissler, of St. Pe- tersburg; Eustace L. Adams, of! Clearwater and Captain Sayre, of Buffalo, New York. The other arrived this mornnig/ 11 o’clock from Miami and had as} passengers O. A. Sandquist, diree- | tor of WPA operations in the; Third District and Jack Ambrose; of the finance section of the dis- trict. START THE NEW YEAR }: jris, Mrs. Sam Harris, | Monsalvatge. and Drane, Dr. E. H. Carnes, ‘Catholic Rectory, Casa Marine Hotel. Citizen Publishing Company. Columbia Steam Laundry, Con- vent of Mary Immaculate, Cap- tain and Mrs. P. L. Cosgrové, B. T. Cruz, Cuzan Club, Cuban Con- gulate, Cuban American Forward- ing Company, Cuban Cafe, Ramon de la Cuesta, Mrs. Allan B. Cleare, Jr., Mrs, Allan B. Cleare, Sr., Beryl Curry, Raymond G. Curry, Wm. Curry’s Sons Company, Mrs. Wm. Daughtry, Mrs. H..E. Day, Mts. Fred Dion, Mrs. Stephen Douglas, B. M. Duncan, Mr. and Mrs, A. C. Elgin, B. P. O. Elks, 551, Willie Fung. Gates Tin Shop, E. H. Gato, Gato Real Estate Agency, Joe Giordani, Colonial Hotel, Luis Gon- zalez, Roy Goodman, Robert Graham, Mrs. B. L. Grooms, Gen- eral Harry C. Hale, Mrs. C. D. Harrington, Mrs. J. Vininz Har- W. Curry Harris, Mrs. W. Hunt Harris, H. B. Haskins, Helio Renedo, Mrs. H. B. Herrick, A. M. Hewett, Mrs. Bertie Higgs, Dr. and Mrs. P. D. | Holloway, Theo Holtsberg, Home Drug Store, Haydn Illingworth, Captain W. I. Jackson, Mrs. A. C. Jenks, Mr. and Mrs. V. A. John- son, W. H. Johnson, Dr. and Mrs. Harry N. S. Jones, Ear] Julian, Dr. Wm. P, Kemp, Charles Ketch- um, Key West City Hall, Key West Sunday Star, Mrs. R. Kirchik, Mrs. Wallace Bryant Kirke, T. L. Kiser, Lieutenant and Mrs. Wm. Klaus, Miss Catherine Knowles, Mrs. Neil Knowles, Miss Margaret Lace- donia. Roy Lade,: Miss Susan LaKin, Dr. Daniel Lawson, Mrs. Benjamin Lopez, ond Lopez, Judge Raymond Lord, William Lord, L. | Lowe, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen F. Lowe, Mrs. Virgil Lowe, G. 0. Lucas, Lumley and Roberts Hard- ware, E. R. McCarthy, Mr. and Mrs. Sam McClanahan, Aaron McConnell, W. G. Miller, Marcos Mesa, Paul Mesa, Miss Maxine Mes- ser, R. N.; Mrs. Victor Moffat, Vin- Miss Laura Mohine, Luther Muse, Fred Natella, Oriental Phar- macy, Oversea Hotel, Mrs. An- drew Page, Palace Theater, Charles E. Pangle, Mrs. George Parks, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pastorini, Paul’s Tire Shop. Miss Lela Pitcher, Dr. J. ¥. Por- ter, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Porter, Mrs. Potter, R. N.; R. and S. Serv- ice Station, Ramonin Restaurant, Rev. Wm. Reagan, Radio Men’s Quarters, Mrs. George A. T. Rob- erts, R. R: Roberts, Theodore Rob- erts; B iM. Russell, Harold Rus- sell, Miss Hilda Russell, Gerald cent Molina, Arriving in port this morning and berthing at the Mallory pier} was the ocean go‘ng tug Henry) W. Card, of the Card Towing! Line, Inc., bound from New York} to Mobile. HEAVY FREIGHT | ON STEAMER CUBA : DETACHMENTS OF RINGLING BROTHERS SHOWS AL- | | SO ON BOARD ; Arriving on the Steamship ‘Cuba \from Havana yesterday afternoon _ {was a large group of acrobats and animal trainers, detachments of‘ the Ringling Brothers Shows which had been in Cuba for a period of six weeks, and are now returning to their winter quarters in Sara-_ sota. | There were also a sextette of trained ponies, dogs and their per-' forming paraphernalia which add-} ed to the tonnage of the ship, to- talling 293 tons, of which there were 288 for Tampa and five for Key West, Among the shipments were 5,- 000 sacks of sugar, many crates of fruits and cases of tobacco, and a miscellaneous assortment. TEMPBRA TUBES Soeccccscccocccooesssoss : Lowest Highest Statién-O” ast fight last 24 hour® | Abilene - } ©o 74 , Atlanta wife 64 Boston - 32 i) 86 Buffalo 40 48 Chicago 46 54 Denver . 14 32 Detroit . 36 46 Huron 8 26 Jacksonville . 58 74 KEY WEST . 72 73 Los Angeles . 40 56 Miami ......... 72 78 Minneapolis 28 42 New York ... 40 44 64 50 18 46 38 St. Louis Salt Lake City BERMUDA MARKET ; Has already received a select’ shipment of HENS. We guarantee TWO VESSELS COME TO PORT | REGISTRATION CARDS AR= OBTAINED FROM CAPT. Two craft arrived in the Key West yacht basin yesterday and Captain (Charles Archer, in charge of the basin. One of the vessels is the R. C., Jr., Ill, owned by R. C. Perky and captained by Guy Santine. It is understood this launch will be at- tached to the Casa Marina fleet. Another vessel is the Cabin Cruiser Brownie, owned by the Miami Laundry company, of Mi- ami, and is captained by W. B. Macintosh. YTHIAN LODGE TO MEET FRIDA PROPOSED SESSION CALLED BY DISTRICT DEPUTY GRAND CHANCELLOR peremptory writ of mandames = Mr. Lee to accept the county's resciution te cancel the taxes of the F. EC company and inane the | This tax situation bad beee © barrier raised by Mr. Lee when be refused to abide by the county's decision and his actions meces- tated the quest.en gong te the sa preme tribunal, fer action. Much crpeneed of the question, it was shown, as the transfer of the ownership of ibe right-<cl-way of the read to Monree county. hinged on the question of tax abatement, and until the Oversems Road and To Breage Commeamen was im 2 position to prove owner- ship of the nght-of-say, se money was available One milbon dollars of the $3.- 600,000 apptopristed for the |bridres, and was recently paced at the disposttien of the comms sion, will now be available, & & understood jed and kept im touch with the pre gress of Comptroller Lee's peti | tioms te the court and Atterues ‘Gomez's handimg of ths mveived question, a-« speak ag im terms of ithe highest praise of Mr. Gomez land the quick and decisive action ' obtained {tine county ——s PENA’S GARDEN OF ROSES YEAR'S EVE REVEL | Saunders, Miss, Florence ‘ |} WITH FLOWERS {ke ana rs. Rome pees ye Weed | eee ae a - SOUTH FLORIDA —POULTRY— NURSERY ALL SIZES PHONE 597 Falford’s Poultry Farm | prone sz We Deliver Phone 800 I Deliver they are tender. Rhode Island i ed Cox and:his wife and six room- " Red and Dominic Hens, ali " ers upstairs just in time to escape before the stairway collapsed. NOTICE KRESS STORE Will close Thursday after- noon and all day Friday for inventory BO NEITA Bi T, (Hot-Cha Singer and Dancer) | GLADYS GAY, (Moonbeam Dancer, with and without } her veils) JACK AND LORRAINE HAMILTON, (Brother and Sister dancing team) ; And the Entertaining Gloom Chaser Orchestra | TOMMY JOY (In Person) Make New Year's Eve Reservations Now. A Big Time Y Guaranteed. Favors and Noisemakers for Everyone. Q Admission, $1.00—PHONE 220—Ladies Free + VeIeeTITIeIIIIIIII SAS A DINNER THAT YOU’LL ALWAYS REMEMBER, YES, THE ONE THAT WAS ACCOMPANIED BY WAGNER : SWEETING’S SWING BAND Pigs average 30 to 35 Ibs. each Seems —PLACE ORDERS EARLY— — Delivered and Dressed While You Wait White at Virginia . N ; ‘ (hahahahaha headed, 7 Ah hed hdd hdd wesesrsrrrsrrrrrrrre> BEER. ALWAYS A PERFECT ACCOMPANIMENT