The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 1937, Page 1

VOLUME LVIIl. No. 7, Associsted Press Day Wire Service, For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Chief Baker Says. Permits. ust ine Everything is in readiness for, manifested by the many a ‘ oe the opening dinner and dance to! have made reservations for at | Vi 1es ‘ {be given tonight at the Casa Ma. | tending. For Cotreione OF OUTSTANDING. /*Tn Ce Seda at ‘ States That Round Up|'O@@@Ogaeaae, | Will Be Made To As- certain How Many Are Defying Law Chief Harry M. Baker, of the Key West Fire Department, who also has the authority to issue building and repair. permits, told The Citizen this mornng he is about to start a general roundup ©f those persons who are defying the building laws and doing con- struction work without securing the proper permit, “Some of these evasions I have seen and others have been brought! to my attention,'said. the chief, but I am waiting to see if those who are responsible are eoming to my office to secure permit cards before I take drastic steps. “The building and repair per- mits cost but 50 cents, but a per- won who goes ahead with con- struction without complying with} the law may find himself forced to pay a fine, law in these instances is punish- able by a fine of as much as $250 or 60 days in jail,” said the chief, “or both.” REPORT OF MAN'S | DEATH, IS FALSE ‘WAS INJURED THIS WEEK BY BUS NEAR TAV- ERNIER Reports were circulated this morning that Wallace Watkins, who was injured this week when he fell and was injured by a bus near Tavernier, was dead. Inquiries were made by The Citizen at the office of Sheriff K. ©. Thompson, and Chief Defiance of the! Alli GREETINGS FROM HIGHWAY ASSN. ——- Cards haye been received in the city which carry “Greetings from United States No. 1 Highway Association, Inc., Washington, D. C.” The cards bear the follow- ing words; “Twenty Three Hendred Miles of Good Cheer from the Tip of Maine to the Tip of Florida.” Folsom B. Taylor, is presi- dent of Baltimore, Md., Ken- neth Hyde of mond, Va., lis vice president, and Clar- ence R, Lano, of Sanford, N. C., is secretary-treasurer. EAGLES HOLD | INSTALLATION SION, OF ORGANIZATION PRESIDED OVER BY ROS. c. SAWYER : At a regular session of Ke: on January 5, a joint installatio: jof officers of Key of the the ensuing..term was he!d. Ross C. Sawyer, preme Chief, installed the cers as follows: Key of the Gulf Castle No. 2 Chief. Lykes O, Turner, Vice Chief. Wm. Hermit. W. Pinder, Venerabl ord. George F. Archer, Ex. LILI I I @ 4 OF OFFICERS CEREMONIES AT JOINT SES- of the Gulf Castle No. 2, K. G. E., Gulf Castle No. 2 and Ignacio Agra-} | onte Castle No, 3, K. G. E., for Deputy Su- offi- Chester Thompson, Junior Past Chester Thompson, Noble Chief. Charles M. Hilton. High Priest. Wm. T. Archer, Master of Rec-! Wallace Pinder—Clerk of Ex. Keeper of Fernando M, Voght, Sir Herald. ! ee RESRIRE Ss. ceed VARIOUS ISSUES | ARE NOW FACING ADMINIST RATION TO CUT DOWN LOAD OF RELIEF AND GOVERNMENT EXPENSE | Oa Past years. 9 until] 2 o’clock in By PRESTON GROVER ling (My Associated Presu) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—The Pa . f thostelry, administration, and for this PUT | crowd at pose that includes congress, must| which great show some time soon just how is expecting a tonight’s interest is Dinner will be served at }o’clock, and dancing will be from: pected to draw as equally a large the piped ee affair, adic fateaue mdine tomate ee Seas gaa ee eee eae a ee aed The Ke i KEY WEST, FLORIDA, rites , JANUARY 8, 1937. Formal Opening Dinner And | Dance At Casa Marina Tonight ‘These annual mics! has been extended to the people given in past years have always of Key West, which has been an| been yery successful, annual custom of the management large number of Key Westers! jand others as well attending, and 8, the one to be given tonight is ex- All details. of brave it is, The test will come not only in cracking down on the big fellows, |but upon the little ones, The jobs| involved are: To control the prosperity | rise before it explodes into a boom. To cut down the load of re- lief and government expense, or increase taxes. Several measures of courage elready have been displayed in dealing with the possible boom. Less political heroism has been indicated so far in cutting down the burden of relief and govern- | ment expense. [naa one of the most colox morning as Monroe County Democratic ecutive Committee to attend Cone, returned last the highway. night Months ago the banks were or-|had ever witnersed. The dered to put about $1.300.000,000 more reserves back of deposits. inauguration of Governor F. over; West group who left for Key W West Representatives To Cone’s Inauguration, Return: Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard step for supper at Lake City was) Waite, Sidney Thompson, city made exceptionally pleasant by electrician, and Pressy _Weather-' ied see : ford, who left Key West Sunday representatives ithe courtesies and attention re- the be forgotten. P.| Another member of the hassee was E. C. Shine, whose They said today that the evens, home was originally in Tallahas- 11 they! see, and who decided to remain for de to a while, and return to Key West} Tallahassee was delightful, their later. That wasn’t meant to make the deposits safer, No fear is feit for 1g | them. otherwise might have been Ss pumped into the security mar: | kets, Federal Reserve In Action Political courage was read into} {the government’s issuing public! Y|)warnings that there was danger! to the stab‘lity of American mac- njkets from the influx of about seven billions of foreign capita’! which might be withdrawn precip- itacely, That was followed up by) treasury action “sterilizing” all! new and foreign gold #eeipts so they cannot swell bank reserves so actively. The federal reserve board also; pulled on the reins by increasing | °* marginal requirements. in other) words, reducing the amount of! cash that could be borrowed on stocks for speculative purposes. The reserve board still has au- thority to require another billion or so to be set aside as bank re- serves, There is talk of asking con- | ares: to give the reserve board and the Securities and Exchange | commission still further power to| hand'e the boom. But now check up the economy the year 1936, totalled $63, | fice. issues¥o# tt-permits totalled 125. AN [LLINOISAN LOOKS PARTY FROM THE NORTH FINDS KEY WEST IDEAL - le ee The lapse of sev ce my visit to Key Wes' ifteen hundred miles Building and repair permits is- Inspector Harry M. Baker during, During the month of December/ ‘al weeks} home. ine’ uding | the four and a half hours fer vide that separates us, and freez- water, Notear tet to: Building Permits Issued For | inte and th 1936 Reach Total Of $63,178 CRAFT AGROUNDIN Issues during the past week to- ;sued from the office of Building, talled $200 and were issued for: Repairs to building used by the 178,, Church of God. Owner of the} according to the records in the of-} j building is the congregation of {the church; cost, $150. $8,-/Sreet. Owner, cost, $50. LOOKS AT KEY WEST. VACATION CENTER I understand it now. He the/ must loye Key West, her people, fishing grounds—and jee had to talk to any one he met her fine with a arrangements L. P. Schutt, manager of the;have been attended to, and it is; large| predicted that the affair will be | Beverage Department, and Con-: Straight Wh’'skey, one in’ greatly enjoyed by those who pro- being pose steading. Yt dei jived, and their stay in Talla-! na hassee Was an experience never to’ Key: Talla-| Repairs to roof at 224 Petronia} Julio Cabanas;| Van Hyning ( Officers Make Raid On‘Sloppy Joe’s Place Here Last Night the George Gomez, of State'five half pints of Town Tavern pint of jstable Ray E:wood, arrived in the! Gordon Dry Gin, one four fifths vicinity of Sloppy Joe’s place on quart of Five O’Clock Cocktail Greene street last night and aft-|Gin, and one quarter pnt of er awaiting favorable opportunity , Rock and Rye. entered the place as officers of} Mr, E:wood’s take consisted of {the law. | one umbrella wheel, one crap Mr, Gomez devoted his time to! game layout, chuckaluck apparat- a check up on the large stock of, ;us, and a number of chips of dif- {liquors and other beverages car- ;ferent colors, Ivan Saunders was |ried in the bar section, while Mr. ' placed under bond of $100 for |Elwood carried his investigation his appearance for prelim’nanry {to another section of the building ' hearing. | devoted to wooing of the goddess! of luck, or chance, operated by: the time of the raid but this Ivan Saunders. {morning to'd The Citizen he was The beverage representative| having a warrant issued for the was successful in securing ap-| arrest of the proprietor of the proximately five gallons of liquors , bar. which did not carry the necessary! It has been but a brief time, jstamps as stipulated in the laws December 31, to be exact, since lporeening the sale of intoxicating; a lot off gambling paraphernalia beverages. The capture is below: | Judge William V. Albury, was Ten ha’f piints of Paul Jones| taken out in the yard at the coun- Rye, seven half pints of Royality jail and either smashed or | Oak Straight Whiskey, eight half ; burned or both. Some of this, it jpinnts of Penn Maryland Blended | is said, came from the place con- j Whiskey. five pints and thirty-; ducted by Ivan Saunders. CALDEZ CHANNEL IS ACTIVE AGAIN |YACHT SEA/WARD WAS ON INJURY TO BACK IN WAY TO KEY W2:ST YES- TERDAY AFTERNOON 1916 KEPT MRS. HENRY GING- ERY IN BED (Wy Axscctated Prean) TISKILWA, IL, Jan. 8.—Sevy- Mrs. Yacht Sea-Ward, with the own-| jer, a Mr. Gillette, on board, was} en route to Key West yesterday | enty-two-year-old afternoon and between 4 and 5 o’clock went aground at the en-/ |trance to Ca:dez Channel. years a-bed, looking for time to At 3 o'clock this afternoon it 3 still aground and arrange-| which ments were being made to come to! ; Worked—beside a number of other an agreement with a iocal com-! pany to relieve the yacht tomor- enterprises. rene i row at high tide, | In 1916 Mrs. Gingery fell | down her cellar steps, injured her NYA SUPERVISOR ‘back and was sent to bed. Then| COMING T0 CITY But she decided she couldn't | Henry Gingery is up and about. after 20 finish 28 quilts on she she had a stroke of paralysis. Enumerates Work Of Or- ing Meeting Held cently ee At a recent meeting of the social welfare board Conrad Van | Hyning, commissioner of social welfare for Florida, told the Citizens Advisory Council, of which Mrs. William R. Warren, is chairman, many interesting facts Mr. Gomez made no arrests at! of the work of the board. He enumerated some of the work of the organization, which includes certification to the WPA, CCC and NYA, determining eligi- bility in the distribution of sur- listed which was ordered destroyed by| plus commodities, gathering s0- cial histories for state institu. tions, which jimciude those at Chattahoochee Mariana and Ocala. And what is probably the most INVALID 20 YEARS, | important of all the activities of the board, «tudy the status of aged persons who had made ap- plication Zor the old age assist- ance which was put in effect sev- eral months ago, A number of local problems were brought before the meeting Practically all of them were analyzed from every and diseus.ed. iside and the problems entgiled were elucidated by Mr. Van Hyn- ing and plans devised for their solving. The commissioner expressed his deep interest in Key West and sincerely hopes, he said, that ft will soon take its place among the thriving cities of Florida. Besides Commissioner Van Hyn- ling the meeting was attended by Mrs. Warren, Dr. J. C. Gekeler, Deputy Bernard Waite said that; George F, Archer, Worthy|talk. President Roosevelt nigel) weather here in Illinoiz| but a short time to find the peo-| | jus st lie there. So she sok naga- ee ih vata pr] i r) i 1 " discourage: a ‘sons i- | 4 er e saa Spears “ 5 4 5 sebagai et ee cinta Worthy Cham: | tious te cat gorersmoat eects when [are sufficient to lead perspective! ple of Key West love Mr. Heming. Spe ‘zines. painted greeting cards andj superintendent of public instruc. death were not true. | berlain. j the let it be known that his reor-/t? an Tlinoisan's :mpressions of way. I went down to see him—| B. Howard Brown, district sup-' calendars, made more than 1,000!tion; Mrs. Robert Spottswood, When he came in contact with, Charles Curtis, Ensign. ganization plans called more for | the Southernmost City in the! he s off to Miami to arrange ervisor of NYA activities, wired. artificial flowers, pieced 15 quilts|Carl Bervaldi, chairman of the the bus Ms, Watkins had received} Sumner Sweeting. Esquire. | cfficiency than economy. United States, Key West. |for a new yacht or so his fine | the local division today that he! and cut material for the 28 oth-\ board of county commissicrers; a number of bruises and slight! Herman L. Roberts, First Guard.| Harry Hopkins, WPA adminis-|_ Four of ivy friends and I, choos-| co‘ored gardener told me, but he/wou'd arrive in Key West over] ers, : : |Dr. W. P. Rice, surgeon in charge Hartley Roberts—Second Guard,| trator, has indicated he wanted! ling to spend holiday seascn; told me more, and when we fin- ithe highway this evening, accom-, Then, in the middle of 1936,! o¢ the local clinic; John C. Miller, wounds, but none of them were considered serious. COUNTY B BOARD MEFTS TONIGHT | = Ignacio Agramonte ene P. Millian, Vice Chief. 5) Cecillio Borges, High Priest. sylvania. even more than the half billion; \s'de, when he sought recently to; 8¢st thrills of our I-ves. jhad ended we realized we was overridden, eae the Southern States, fell/ished our ha’f-hour visit together | panied by State S ‘almost by accident upon the ferry i should have believed the author ecilli a i id ” Su ne aunion Past epee Ereceny beds this (trip to Key West, and thereby! of.“Death in the Afternoon” was, VThsodoro Betancourt, Noble| hes! year. Yet, on the saving paved the way to one of, the.bigajs sup¥imataralor-epica] God, and| By the}f built up a strong appreciation the NYA work, is mak'ng cut WPA rol's in New York, he {time our two-day visit of the city} of this laborer who so earnestly | ments to show the v had) applauded his master. or Young-} medica] skill worked a miracle for | blood and Miss Densemark, who her, The first thing she wants to is associated with the work. finish is ‘hose quilts, James Fort, locai supervisor of | sage nge- | Ry tie TUG WARBLER omplish- Supervi jvarious projects and a: | sanitary engineer, connected with the state board of health; Miss Mary L. Partrick, and Mrs, Gladys ; Roberts. TEMPERATURES : a | 7 | Aone spent two of the most interesting,| Key. West'is. filled with sur-| ments of those employed. | RETURNS HERE mare | Manuel Bilervo, Venerable Her- hi Hoe Pia aura eee |caucati onal and worthwhile days| prises for the visitor. It is one! pees ee i I" pecnee County Commissioners tonight’ Edelmiro Bauta, Master of Rec-| if is difficult for observers to} f our lives. |of two cities in the United States FIRE HOSE GIVES UP Lowest Highest at 8 o'clock will hold a recessed! orgs Hook to congress to volunteer any| Key West has everything to of- | that gives the tourist a feeling he $35 IN GOLD DUST/ Wrecking Tug Warbler arrived| Station— ast night last 24 hours meeting in the clerk’s office at) Eloy Albury, Clerk of Ex real cutting of government costs.|fer the tourist, the traveler or is in another country; Santa Fe,| Lia eee eae Caeae re Abilene 14 20 e y cour : | ; x y Wes! city of New Mexico, is the other. Apolo port yesterday afternoon from} "4 4). nt 48 50 the county court house for the| Rafael Lazo, Keeper of Ex. |The trouble lies in this: One-third Sightseer. Key West is a : Wie Mead | Mobile where the vessel went last > purpose of selecting the jury list! Geraldo La Fe, Sir Herald. of the senators and al! house mem-;Tomantic beauty and quaint de-| gies to the Chamber of Sommers anciipestates ieee weed Saturden: fon -avearaan Boston 38 48 -for the year 1937. __| Manuel Perez, Worthy Bard. jbers are up for re-election in less| ig. Key West _ me oy map Bes! es eae ae hotify|Patker Lyon, wealthy co'lector,| Before proceeding fo Mobile 42 # _ The law requires that the list! Henry Albury, Worthy Cham-| than two years. Their experience |in the South we foun yay o | eheyive: tailed). bas properly K D Goaehte an old fire engine once|the Warbler had been since De- o ; in counties of a population as is, berlain. did that cuttingscnmta ina Waging j7eseneceraes what we could {indi the Ampriean: people that | Key). vicn! « Nevaile anining| eumber’ 16, earsince gh, caatvane 32 m4 i y, | * : i ywhere in Florida. Yes, it is West is the city they are looking yi a Mi y wa ~12 3 the size of Monroe county, con-| Carlos Delgado, Ensign, ton also cuts votes back home. — | anYW! hi iivetak Wh tor te ae aad erent | ¢amPs and started refurbishing it operations on the Steamship Kiev, al : sist of not less than 450 nor more) Frank Cordova. Esquire. Yet if costs are not cut. the| pemnas eautiful, but hel ‘tocing eeroriscs and mesauren, {fr his Pony Express museum. ‘which ran ashore on Catalina Seay a jan 750. erk Ross C. Sawyer ‘0 Oliv: i zovernment 1 need courage to Peps ‘ Joye wag Neo a = Ss » wottinie dae! ‘ Sathad 7 alve; toy meld hodey- Gate te bak oe ae ie sci fac ahe doar pet or increase ey tax ley. |beauty is artificial the Sa perry at senens ate Fam Rey, Somethin ih th poe eee tee ee, BavasA. bo = usually consisted of 600 names, ! Guard, faleto eelire the ‘depression spant,pher welcome whic) is Sxtendeh | Weat his last. glances back leave] |i he scraped cut some of the|Tarata to/ Marscilles, Braueacand | oro" Spy ae | Time-seasoned Senator King of only to those who sone ee with him a moe beaut ee dit and@cannedilic It: won, gold. lac WGadea owen aa eGutEeceet Te Jacksonville 5 62 |Utah does not conceal his pes-|! repeat they are interested in Hon, The waving palms of 5° snd now Lyon claims to have ve-| suger) about 6,00056f whith had pets oo pe. Wi Vis Vho {simism at the prospect. He doubts) tourist's ae sat We icital -ecig aetine Beauty Some i covered a full ounce, valued at|to be removed: before the ship wien Inter tor | 0 ure ase fee ieee Wee soreernten W]e oengnip have tis best ed inn we've yictared oo. Yodentie-| 535, from the ancient hose was floateth ee bo Pessimism isn't. universal in|€2ch. The Key West citizen must/aily in our minds, are sufficient Loiievilis 62 : | Washington, but back of a good;be the finest neighbor in the to keep us dreaming for many Miami 76 ome ere eturns or eas Jamany official smiles is concern world, He is a local patriot, and moons. As the Key city fades in, as ington 0 Come: To Key Minneapolis 2 . fe over whether the courage will be loves everything about his city, the distance a quiet rendition of; New oO “4 ? available when it is needed. |from her sponge industry down to, Aloha is all that is needed to com-| New York 46 = tear qoaen fuciie steaks. Avcamual | clsts 4 poctaet wisit, { Wi t T Enj Ki Fi hi igiaals 66 Mrs. M. H. Griswold, of Wash-, It way Pee stig | question asked of any citizen, or My first visit to Key West is es 0 joy me IS ng Pittsburgh 58 ington, has again become « resi-| woutg peli Wotdertul t2 i LIGHT TENDER | }so it seemed. was sufficient to' over, but before me are several ee iSt. Louis 60 dent of Key West Zor the seaso family of th oe jtouch off a wealth of educational | beautiful conch shells to keep my , et mae f Salt Lake Ci 14 and is occupying her delightful] f#™!ly of three sons and mother and fascinating conversation that| memories refreshed, souvenirs of| John Rust Pendleton, of Wash-,here, he decided to come to Key|San Francise, 3 “4 cottage on United street which| together for a family reunion in RETURNS HERE may include the whole story of Key West, not purchased from an! ington, D. C., and Mrs. Pendle-| West and try the fishing. 30 she purchased last year. this city and Mts. Griswold] |the Southern city’s history, tho! enterpr shopkeeper whose|ton are visitors in Key West and| The Pendleton’s plan to remain! Tampa 82 “I am delighted to return tlle | jhistory of the individual himself,/wares may have come from Cali- are guests of Mr, and Mrs. E. C./a month and do all the fishing| Washington 48 this wonderful city for another! ye other sons are: Wade E.| Lighthouse Tender Ivy, which) and perhaps an invitation to din-| fornia, perhaps Japan. but sou-, Bairstow and their daug' Miss weather will permit. Mr. Pendle-! Williston 20 season, and hope to have with me)... ae" iled several days ago for Tam-/ner. Her people know the his-jvenirs fished out of Key West’s Josephine at the home on South- ton said he could hardly believe} —————~ my son Oliver Griswold, who is| Griswold, publicity head for! Bay, returned last night 10: :80/tory of Key West, und are proud mild waters myself, and had great [aca street at Francis. [the many tales of the 600 and] oor in charge of the Federal Reset-|Young and Rubicon, of New| o'clock and berthed at the station|to tell about it. They urge tho! fun doing so. | Mr, Pendleton told The Citizen| more different kinds of fish to be'Free DANCE Free tlement projects in four states,| York, and Ralph E Griswold, sup-; pier. visitor to see her aquarium. light-| Farewell, Key West, and your; aa ses fads beeuitcld ep much/ taken in these waters, from the| Tomorrow Night, 9 till ? with headquarters in Wilwaukee,jerintendent of public parks in} The Ivy was despatched to} house, turtle crawls and Mr, Hem-| 12,000 fine people, but we'll be, about the wonderful f fishi ng in! hard fighting tarpon to the speedy S L 0 P P Y J 0 E % S Wise., but he, too, was disap-|the city of Pittsburgh, and was|Tampa Bay late Sunday night to|ingway’s house. see'ng you again, and until then’ the waters around Key West and/and apparently tireless bonefish, Rhishe; kan te Si pointed when he found he was|recently voted the First Citizen|recover a buoy which was cent I have frequently wondered why|—continue to develop a person-|his “Friend Bairstow” had been! but was going to find out all Maa gs ; pater, unable to take the time off, Mrs.;of that wonderful city of Penn-! ed lost and make a replacement at/Mr. Hemingway for eight or nine} ality and charm to be found no’ telling him of all the sporty and| about it before he and Mrs, Pen- Mschae lis nN Griswold told The Citizen, | the location. years had made Key West his| where else in the South. ‘game fish which could be taken! dleton returned home. o Couvert