The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 22, 1937, Page 1

cS Bearing On Matter ati dinies toe onda ‘BM im the state legislature that! Would place all gas and electric} ACCOMPANIED BY MRS. MAR-| PAPER MEN GUERITE BAILEY AND J. FULLER | TALLAHASSEE, April 22.— | Gens) —Two bills scheduled to Mrs, Ruth B, Owens, district; ™ake the life of the newspaper ceremonies of the corporations under control of the maoneviner of women’s and pro- busines; manager easier have been| ment. Angel E. Rosende, retired cap-) tain of the Cuban Army, has writ-' ten a letter of appreciation to! iin which he sets forth his im-j jpressions of his visit to Key West in connection with the unveiling Marti “Commissioners of the Nat:onal railroad commission, was taken PP beep ee Projects, is a visitor in! introduced in the house of re Council of Veterans, with Major jthe city today, arriving over the! resentatives by Rep. Robert for discussion at a regular meet’ highway yesterday from Miami. ing of the City Council last night. {Sikes of Okaloosa zounty, presi- In company with ‘Mrs. Owens} dent of the Florida State Press The meeting was presided” ver |*7¢ her cssistants, Mrs, Marguerite ; Association. pata seapentsrhonnan iad anal J. Fuller. - eevece TEMPERATURES Delaney, Freemaii and F. 0. Rob! |’ eft alse in attendance. The proposed bill as referred to|® shove was brought to the atten- | st stion— tion of the council in a telegram Abiiene Which was read from E. P. Owen,’ Apalachicola at, secretary of the Florida Atlanta League of Municipalities, address. | Boston ---—-- $8 ed to Wallace Pinder, city clerk. Bueraio 42 Mr. Owen in the telegram request-' Char'eston ... 66 ed that the council adopt resolu-'Chicago ... 38 tions opposing the measure, A Corpus Christi 60 resolution in this connection waa, penver 2 oe @rawn up and read, but the coun: | Dodge City .. 54 ell decided to defer action on its' Eastport 34 adoption until a later date. Duluth . 30 Telegram From Gomez El Paso 62 A telegram from Senator Ar- Galveston 70 thur Gomez to Mayor Harry C,' Hatteras 66 Lowest 60 70 56 Galey was read in which Mr,j Havana wy Gomez stated that he had been ” Sdvived that the Crummer Com-! Huron - a4 had outlined a method of Jacksonville... 70 pan; . ‘of Key West's entire raya. City .. 60 funded debt, including present| KEY Nese aie net ad valorem tax liabilities not exceeding $14,000, with a likeli. L°S oi Pin hood that same could be entirely eer ie 6 eliminated within a few years, and Tec t this would permit the city to a, baw 4 bes Jey unique distinction of being re- quired to levy no ad a Rew One “ taxes on account of outstanding: Ovighase City an the reading of the phoenix 4 the council adopted Pittsburgh 46 to the effect that the, s+ Louis 50 beard of County Commissioners’ gait Lake City 30 be requested to secure the passage! gan Francisco 48 of such legislation as will enable! gt, Ste. Marie 82 the beard to turn over from time! Seattle 42 ‘to time to the city for the purpose: Tampa 72 ef payments upon the bonded Washington debt, both principal and interest! Williston of the city, all surplus gasoline! Wytheville . monies received by the county,! and not necessary for the payment| ei of instaliments of principal and! interest due upon the i Many Letters Received from Outsiders Showing Interest In Chamber Of Commerce have, center free of any hectic specula- bonded debt of Monroe County. | | W. RB. Porter, member, of the County Commissioners, who . was present at the meeting was called on to give a clarification of the matter pertaining ‘to thd tasue,| whieh he did, covering various de- tails bearing on the matter. Counciiman Cobo suggested that the city clerk send letters of| been received by Executive Sec- Many interesting letters Bailey, formerly of Key West, Highest last night last 24 hour 84 73 16 52 88 46 8 36 86 76 54 80 50 34 84 82 74 42 68 84 72. 84 16 76 \ 70 80 44 12 80 50 8 74 90 68 68 14 58 46 52 82 56 62 72 es jon the calendar. The first, H. B. 236, has been poxvorshty reported by the com {mittee on publie printing and It would requi: that a receipt for payment o: legal advertising of ean be called legally terminated. The second, H. B. 459, now is before the public printing com- mittee, headed by Rep. ; Rardin, Canal Point publisher. ! It would make mandatory the jadvertising rate of $1.00 per inch jon first insertion and 50 cents |per inch on eacu repeating inser- j tion of legal advertising in Flor- jida newspapers. | ‘The present law reads that the {$1.00 and 50 cent rates “may” be |charged. The Sikes bill would jamend the law to read that the rates “shall” be charged. | Sikes explained that he spon- jsored the rate bill to prevent | price eutting on legal advertising ,vates. The bill is slated for early house action. | VISITING HERE Henry C. Megill, district man- vager of the social security board was an arrival by plane from Mi- ami this morning and a welcomed lealler at The Citizen office this afternoon for a chat with the edi- tor relative to certain matters in }eonnection with the activities of ithe board in this region. j After a pleasant stay he left to (join another visitor arriving this | morning, also of the social security |board and regional representative of the bureau of aceounts and faudits who, with Mr. Megill, will eave this afternoon on the plane lreturning to Miami. tion, you will live to see the day that your work, if not your clients, thanks to Major A. D. MacMuller,| retary S. C. Singleton of the new-| Will rise up and call you blessed. | Lieut. William Klaus, Captain Ar- thor Shepperd and others who so|!y organized chamber of commerce! op; are anywhere near the ably assisted in the Marti parade and ceremonies held here re- cently After disposing of a few other matters of routine nature, the meeting was ordered adjourned. circle of friends. The accompanying ~ from the head of one of the Jarg- | Chicago firm, and is of the country, and among a wide) letter unusual | “If Pegler and any of the oth- right which evidence the interest which track, your end of Florida is hard} {upon a return of the ‘Binder Boys' | fs being aroused in other parts of and a’! that. They will again thing in sight and, }unless I miss my guess, and inci- {dently who can blame them, the ;Key West property holders will {swoop up is! fall in line and try to ride to fi- {nancial bliss on inflated values— “As I see it, there are enough men with money who would like THREE CONTRACTORS leas esvints presenting as it does the! # Florida residence and Who would ' MAKING CALL FOR WORKERS views of an outsider and is rather opinion of a man whose ideas have| in considerable market value: “How is the Chamber of Com-j miles of road between you jalso like to keep clear of cheap the neighbors on the make, to buy ¥ the|dollars per thousand, using them! thar apy. tevery inch of property on ock. If you can just hold those |people cf yours in’ check long }enough, you will find the 140-odd and a| Miami one of the greatest assets thankless} the town has in attracting decent Requisitions for several groups; of workers hove been received to-|metce idea working out? As ay at the State Employment fale these are Service Bureau to be sent to the; following construction camps on) the Keys: at Grassy Key, six Ciarke Brother laborers 10 white hamme: borers and one jack-/lot of my ideas. Key |jobs but I figure if your business {men are convinced they need one) j 4.4 ha ©. ¥. Thomason company camp/and have the courage of their con-|the races jackhammer | vietions you should have laborers and three negro laborers.| smooth sailing for some time as Ij 4 couple or three years, but when! Construction! know of no one who can handle 9| you get the camp at Matecumbe, four negro job of that kind better than you.| down your fairly | femmes de ‘folk who e more for climate jand beauties of Nature the good endowed you with than slot machines and soire. It might take started come ight folk they will | “Now here is a quiet little tip.|and keep coming as long as you|man at the time the S J. Groves and Son company, | It may be just as hay wire as | have property to sell them and the} took place, took the Tf you can or-| fact that you are an island andj g: eperater for Contract D ganize your people to keep cleat| when the shore lines are reached | matter. at Marathon and four white labor-'of any of the threatened return] there ‘ain’t no more’ will be an| er for Contract F at Littke Duck of boom days and go right ahead] asset to you just as it is to Palm! self, was entirely to blame for all rattlesnakes barehanded, and has sand dollars which she had lost,' because he thought she had a “4 developing Key West as a resort’ Beach.” i a master’s; Paul] F.| Creseencio Cabrera and Gil Gar-' sympathetic Americans. The cere- | range, domated by the ‘cia, president of the Cuban Vet-* monies were of a nature which ' pa ptie Unilities abil Ges Ce, tel erans of Key West, were in that bration held during the unveiling of the memorial to the Cuban postle Jose Marti. ‘The ceremonies were held Juan Bruno Zayas and Patria with a party including representatives lof the president of the Republic, the army, Emigrados Revolucian-/ arios, the committee in charge 0! erecting the monument, the Cuban |Press, the navy, navy band and {Guban Orchestra Imper'o, which is composed of Cuban gir!s, “The sight of our port trasting with the lights on the Malecon, resembled a pearl neck- lace sprinkled with rubies made us feel somewhat blue as we realized we were leaving ow mother land, but that feeling wa: | Cuba and the Cuban people and where we knew a warm welcome was awaiting us. “Upon our arrival we were | RY MEGILL. . greeted with music _ from the) “We are very grateful to Com-; 3 * “| bands and-afarge ‘coreoutse of !mand@é Aguila of the Patria and: ss: people had assembled at the navy ;to Captain Estevez, erecta CHINA URGED yard when the word went forth, of the president of Cuba, and we that our ships were entering the! must not forget the fulness of the had! great work which resulted from | reached the docks hundreds wer?) the patriotic fervor and love 0: harbor, and by the time we assembled to bid us a great wel come. of the San ‘Carlos Institute, th tative officers of the American de- stroyer which was sent part in the celebration and the Coast Guard, Rotary Club, ban Club, Caballeros de la Luz, | Veterans of the Cuban Independ ence, and Emigrados Revolucion: arios, Associated Press, local press, police department and the publ schools, “We, the visiting Cuban dele- gations and associates, ‘sare offer- ed reeeptions, veladas and lunch- es and much of our time was tak- | historte old ‘city during the cele-' music and all that which tends to/ connection with ‘rom April 8 to 12 and for that\to the memory of the great! | patriotic object we left the Cuban’ Apostle Marti. | h Z cale be presented before the sale/capital on the Cuban Gunboats! “The so'diers at the barracks} to the Oihieain! dilles wii ee eee class, Miss Clara Lankford, con-: andj sentations of some of our native; publication, since they were “And this was but the begin-| i ning of a series of entertainments! spirit in securing the funds with|NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION which were attended by officials} which the Marti : mayor of the city, city council-! men, state senator and represen-/days of camaradérie during to take | ing to and returning from Key Ma-} sonic Orders Odd Fellows, the Cu-|Cuban environment which pre-} en up in responding to invitations to dances, and suppers, paying of- ficiel visits, taking in special |Cuban Consul Berardo Rodrigues, | ommitsions and being. interview: by press representatives. “One of the most inspiring. sights of our visit was the throng | which attended the unveiling cere- monu-, monies for the Marti monument) ‘ Lwhsgn allowing the official act of jcki Street, Key West, in the tacky, Pe net ~ ome | elton fof the: sobdure. Maghe<Chal wishes to thank all those compris- the large and enthusiastic audi- the three se.sions of the also unveiling speeches were made by a number of patriotic Cubans and embodied the spirit of art and. m, The Citizen's Cooperating in ’ Next year an even larger expand the soul of Cuba and the | pe Cooking School, which closed ig play 55 great American nation, all biend- | neetion with the honor being shown ' Theater thie morning. were especially courteous and we teacher, Monroe County High were the recipients of many acts’ next few days, and receive an or- School, and pupils of the Convent the principal of all outstand® of fraternity when we went to} of Mary Immaculate, attended ses- |aute the look American flag\ °F on the Tne Co. fon the wate ons of the Cooking School. and the flag of Marti. Added to} ‘Other prizes were awarded by Local concerns taking part in this the public schools of Key, the South Florida Contracting and the School were Cabrera Whole- West took an active part and like-| Engineering Co., Quality Food sale Grocery, Ine. Einhorn's wise formed a bicycle unit which; Store, Florida Public Utilities and Grocery and Feed Store, Archer's took part in the parade. {Gas Co., The Key West Citizen, Grocery, Thomasine Miller Beauty “In the moments of joy during and the Pillsbury’s Flour Mills. Shoppe, Navarro, Ine., Long’s Fur- some of the dances we were thrill |It is regretted that the names of hiture Store, Pollock Reliable ed with the music and vocal pre-| the winners are not available for Jeweler, Florida Public Utilities put and Gas Co., The Key West Citi- !ed into’one wonderful hour in con ‘a three-day run at The Palace ™ay look forward to even better prizes. i Mrs. Yradi is requested to come, Students of the Home Eco- previde , Songs which were greatly applaud-/into the general ballot box just zen, Quality Food Store and the d. Throughout all of th's great: before the drawing for the range. Palace Theater. iomage to a great man we were; The largest crowd of the three- alace Theater for the final ses- Gelatine Co., Thos, J. Lipton, Ine., 4 n of the Cooking School, and Robertshaw Thermostat Co., Lever ,ers in the schools of San Carlo: H Institute and the care and atten- for drawing the winner of the tion, Borden Milk Co., jtion, Sey give to their educative| range drew near. Mrs. Yradi was Pillsbury Flour Mills. | Work.» FLORIDA MOTOR LINES RE- | QUEST PERMISSION : eS | Cuba and her famous men which! ves in the heart of Representa. ve Castillo, who was the moving; Memorial _ was i IN MATTER jerected. FAVORS FREE TREATMENT; | “With deep feeling I reca'l the | bi DIC ST’ To} the| MESHCINE: SYSTEM AAR TALLAHASSEE, April 22 BE NEEDED West and the happy hours we spent | (with the Florida State Railroad ; Commission, the in that city in the midst of that ee |Lines asks permission to extend NANKIN! i |. —Chii Py A rn \dominates among so many descend- her ste pase = cuaea its bus passenger service to points nts of patriots and sons of our)“ 1cre Mere IS only one Peels \ now served by the Tamiami Trail ‘country. | tered doctor for every 54,000 Tours, and alleges in the’ applica- “In conclusion let me that ‘people, oniy one registered dent-/ tion that the Tamiami Trail Tours ane SA: ee pugaitaresei: “1 jthe co-operation rendered by the jist ior every 4,000,000—needs aj'8 Siving inadequate and insuffi- local newspaper, The Key West! stato ayatem if the; tnt Setvic® to that vey of og Citizen, and its courteous editor, | =e state it now serves exclusively, L. B. Artmany wil-slnaye ta re.| st Oe ee ee to| turther charging that it has charg: membered and deeply appreciac-|P¢ Yaised. {ed rates and fares disproportion- ed.” That is the contention of the}ate with rates and fares enjoyed national health administration, by other tourist centers where | two days we spent on the ships go-| medicine Council Hears The much talked of question relative to the sale of city bricks visor of the WPA, was brought before the meeting of the City ' Council last night by Councilman Frank Delaney. Mr. Delaney stat- led that this matter had been sted that the council make an} jau linvestigation of the affair. | The story deals with the sale | of bricks by Mr. Moreno to Ernest | Hemingway, who it is said pur- |ehased them at a price of two/ /to build a wall around his premises at the corner of Whitehead and | Olivia streets. The bricks in ques-; {tion were taken from the streets; ‘during the installation of the sewerage and water pipes along ! different streets of the city. { | The bricks disposed of were supposed to be those that were broken during removal from the | str , it is stated. | As soon as the question was brought before the meeting, Clif- ford G. Hicks, who was a council-| transaction! floor, and explanation of the} Hicks stated that he, hime} ve a full the talk brought about in the | ° ° | 5 | Dr. P. Z. King, head of the ad-| np namely, Bradenton, Sara- Ss ece istration, sees no other solu-' pag Pca aay ate a ‘ on in view of the ignorance andi Sot» Cun gpa evinPag rweeany by B. Curry Moreno, area super-| ,to pay the price later om as alj| brought to his attention, and re-| " | ing departments of a} others have done. Matter About ite the ea ceaeaaaanet competition in transportstion has lestablish, and subsidize medical {Meretofore existed. = { centers! 0 that the poor may have ; The Florida Motor Lines in the 2 «. . ‘application, agrees that if author- {fee treatment—with emphasis on’ °PP" a \the preventive side, ity is granted to extend its serv- ‘" ice to territory now served by the tic economic ataiaa as §he saan Arcadia, it will establish rates and i “| fares to and from such points, es, ino - se that he Most of the population, King! based on like rates enjoyed by trans-; declares, is entirely: without med-| mer tourist centers where com- ai, y | petition exists, ical care because what doctors} as had failed to officially re- there are conentrate in the citie a ae port the matter to the council. He 344 cater to the rich. ‘STEAMER OZARK isaid, however, that he did notify Ss i i P | 4 bas ° In Shanghai, for instance, is lo-, j Auditor Willard M, Albury of the cated the bulk of China’s 8,922 }matter at the time, saying that he goctors. In Shanghai, a new med- t any question jeg} center was recently opened. |would be raised over the trans-) Purther, complicating the prob-! faction, ‘lem are the quack doctors. There} Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde Mr. Hicks fully absolved Mr./ is now law in the criminal code to, Mallory Lines, is due to arrive to Moreno of all blame in the mat-’ prevent them from posing as au-|morow from Jacksonville and Mi- ter, and stated that he, Mr. Mo-' thorized physicians. a and after discharging cargo ‘reno, should not be held respon-' Under a state system, each dis-| wiil proceed to New Or'eans. matter, as he admitted was fully aware of the action, but that he through negli- jleast thought that sible in any way, due to the trict would have its own hospital; Steamship Colorado, of the same Moreno apprised him of and health workers who would. lines is scheduled to arrive Sun- the proposed transaction at the take over first aid work, vaccina- day from New York, en route t» time. tion, health propaganda, and re- Tampa. At the conclusion of the dis- por of vital statistics. Scat-! Tug Dauntless Number 10, of cussion, the chair appointed a com- tered ricts have tried the the Moran Towing company, sail- mittee, composed of Councilmen scheme with succe: King says. ed last n'ght 8 o’clock with the Freeman, Delaney and F. O. Rob- erts, to consult with Mr. Moreno and obtain a complete account of the transaction as to the amount of brick sold, and the price paid for them, Steamship Governor Cobb in tow | bound for Boston, Mass, The Cobb a | will be placed in drydock, over- SHAWNEE, Okla.—While po-| hauled and renovated and made licemen of this city were search- ready for service between Boston ing for a prowler, the man jump-. and Provincetown. ed into their patrol car and sped JUMPS INTO PATROL CAR WORKS BAREHANDED PICKETS WIFE'S STORE away. | AUSTIN, Tex.—With the aid of GETS SMALL REWARD |§ NEW YORK.—Police of this leity arrested Owen Mahon, 47, an iron hook, T. J. Shaw, profes- sional snake catcher of this city, has caught more than 10,000 live CHICAGO.—G. S. Peterson of for marching up and down with a this city, who returned to a wom- sign in front of his wife's store. an a purse containing one thou-| He said he picketed his wife, Mary, received a reward of 10 cents, never been bitten, \iriend.” ‘ ‘National adverticers participat- jsoon dispelled when we remember-| well attended by the Cuban Con-|day event today jammed the img were Fruit Dispatch Co., Knox ed that we were bound to historic ; sul, and we noted the efficient at- i Key West which means so much to! tention given by the Cuban teach. xcitement ran high as the time Brothers Co., Frigidaire Corpora-. and the Settlement, he said, de Florida Motor! a thirty. cents on the ing debts of the District. ' on the bondholders of the rate of Liquidation would permi’ the District to continue itr | (FNS).—In an application filed SISTER SHIP TO WARBLER HAS DERRICK BARG® In TOW Arrivin: in port ths merrier at 9:30 o'clock was the Tue Pee cock, sister ship to the Wreck'ner Tug Warbler, having in tow @ derrick barge. The tug and berte were bound from San Pedr, Ca'if., to New York Orders had been received from headquarters in New Youk for the tug to leave the barge at Hey West and go to Mayport and get the Steamer El tsieo, whieh & te be towed to Galveston, feture and pick up the dredge and co tinue to destination. The Peacock took oil at the Porter Dock end saied this afterncon. At 7 o'clock this morning the British Tanker Gymeriek at the Porter Dock galions of fuel o artnet took on 22 tinued the voyage to New Orteam The Gymerick came from Haw burg This afternoon the Steanedip Saint Mary, which arrived im § Tuesday afternoon from New York, came up to her berth at th Porter Dock for bunkers and w sal for Frontera, M o Th ship belong: to the fleet of the Standard Freit and Stenmehip company = TAXOGRAM Every baby bern in the i States im 1996 . da debt of $420-—-Kis of her share of the total public debt, Federal, state and loonl By the time Junior or finally works off this debt with payment wit “— | This stands a! Becter i interest the been $840. first " i mortgage on the » the child subsequently accumulate o t bold. or a on the earnings whieh he “) might now make when he starts to work - :