The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1937, Page 1

Applications For Men Were| Made At Office Of State Employment, Serv- ice Here Requisitions from three of the contracting firms on the Keys were received i charge of Wm. V. Little. First of these stipulated living in Miami. : three white laborers | three colored laborers to be sent to the S. J. Groves and Sens company’s Contract D, at Hog Key. Mr, Little said that up to time this requisition was filed there hed been approximate- ly 100 men sent to the Groves camps te work at various types of labor, both skilled and unskilled. Te the Wannamaker andj year cut from the 1937 budge rieston ago « Christi 7 El Paso Ga.veston Hatteras Havana Helena Huron Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Lith: Reck Les Angeles Louisville Miami Minneapolis Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Pensacola Phoenix Pittsburch St. Louis hin San Franci: Sit. Ste. Marie Peattle Tampa . Washington i Wiilirton Wythevill: Salt Lake City 2 66 66 50 42 7” 40 60 36 Wells contract, known @8/bill was $10,300,000, to the Thomas F. Marathon, te blaster will be, eee approximately §: Highest last night last 24 hours 73 73 64 50 80 56 74 Officials Leave After Inspecting Ships Here » United States and G. L. Sheer,| els, but the principal object of inspector of boil-| Monday morning | who follow the sea and where the In-. Mayor A, D. H. Fossey, of; Mi-| {sent to all known former resi- | dents of Key West who are now d Members of the committee on TALLAHASSEE, April 28 (FNS).—The Florida legislature, heeding the demand of Governor} Fred Cone at. the start of the ees-| sion for highest possible degree of; economy, this week had the bien-! nial appropriations bill before it —with $300,000 sliced off of the’ 1935 figures and $1,070,000 a: Approximate annual total in the i Spurred to action through con- tinued failure to whip a definite . committee Mebers turned the bill loose during week- end adjournment as finance and: taxation members were strugg ing! to bring into existence a fiscal) program. t Whatever program is brougni out—and a definite alignment of: bills on finances is expécted be-| fore the end of this week—it will; ihaye to supply funds for paying 3,500,000 a year) in old age pensions, and at tne sume time répluce existing rev- ‘eave that is lost at the end of this! fiseal year because of varied rea-! ; sons. Pave Way For Program | First of the week meetings be-} ‘tween lealers of the senate and! 1 } { {house paved the way for develop-; 4+ would remain before the leg-| is | ment of such a program, although} | postponement of scheduled mset-; \ings during the weekend gave‘ the jatter part of the week by a{0f the Packard Motor company, Key West Realty company, and » first impression that the delegates! {from the two groups might find: \trouble in. getting together. ! Committee action near the end) ‘of the week worked to clear the; , atmosphere so that the legislators’ might. start almost from the! ground up‘in framing their fiscal program. The senate finance committee; voted to kiil the gross receipts tax! law, with its approximately $2,- 000,000 a year revenue, and to) | fund to schools the seventh cent of the gasoline tax. This tax) {brings about $2,750,000 a year. | While this was happening in the} | senate committee; a house finance | group was rejecting one of the! favorite plans of Governor Cone and Comptroller J. M. Lee as it {killed a bill to pool all state rev- }enues except that from the gaso-i }line tax. Proponents of the meas-! jure promised, however, that it! new form but with the same pur-! | Pose. | } The vetoed 1986 bill to repeal {the tire and tube tax was passed again during the week, as the pocket veto of former Gov. Sholtz was overridden by substantial ma: | jorities. Inspections were made of ves-} the trip was to examine the i records of a number of persons Key West Get-Together — Party To Be Held In Miami On Friday Night ‘Special Legislative Review Of Activities During Week “scheduled to bring in $10,400,000 one providing Tor pi ' posal. ELECTED MASTER: COUN- SELLOR LAST NIGHT: Rorert J, Perry Chapter, Order of DeMolay, held an election of officers last evening at the regu- lar session in Scottish Rite Hall, corner Eaton and Simonton streets. Joseph. Richardson wes re-elect- ed as Master-Counsellor, Malcolm Sawyer was named to serve an- other term as Senior Counsellor, and William Allen was elected as the new, Junior Counsellor, Plans were made by the organi- arrangements will inelvde J.| ami, will be. the guest of honor| Waldo Leon, chairman; Mrs. Mar-! party. this’ at a Key West get-together party morning at the State Em-/to be given in that city Friday " s e ffi in | ight, and invitations ere being garet Berner, Mrs. Elaine Ed-} wards, Abe Aronovitz, Bart Riley, John W. Davis and H. H. Taylor. Among the subjects on the pre- gram for discussion will be the} Overseas Highway project and what jit will mean to the Keys and Key West. Possibility that the state may go into the slot machine business for itself in spite of very definite indications that the devices will first be outlawed, was. seen by President Stuart Gillis of the sen- ate. He told of a proposal to give Florida a slot machine monopoly: a year revenue from the operation of 10,000 machines. Bills to make operation, of s'ot machines, a dangerous venture— | if from f to 5 years in jail, fine of fronf $2,000 to $5,000, and con- fiscation of real estate for viola- tors—seemed, headed for legisla- tive action. A house committce introduced such a bill as a com- promise measure after studying six or seven measures before it. Liquor revenue was scheduled for an increase under various bills, one of which bore the stamp of the Florida Retail Liquor Deal- ers Association. Most of them carried assurance of sponsors that they. wou!d produce the $500,000 said by friends of the administra- tion to be necessary to carry out to state financing. How long the Florida Recovery islature was problematical. Held off from floor discussion during series of legislative coups, the measure was headed full force for the floor as the house started the fourth week of the session. A host of proposed constitu- tional amendments were either qassed by one house or the other or were on calendars for early dis- Limit Taxation | During the last week the senate voted to limit all real estate taxa- tion to 15 mills; voted to require; to submission to the legislature un-| less a referendum vote has been he!d on them; voted to limit bond-| ed indebtedness of any bond is- uing area to 12 percent of its as- sed property value; voted to to! 1 j 8 give the legislature authority set apportionment for all school } taxes; and voted to put school | money distribution on equal dig- | nity with other expenses of state government. All must be submit- | would come back to the floor inj teq to a vote of Florida electors|stead of doing this the watches | if they pass the house. ' The house, had before it a pro-} | Posed constitutional amendment to| | abolish the one mill tax for schools} provided by the constitution, an| amendment to give the state su-/ preme court a seventh justice, ; and another setting up congres- sional district residence requite- ments for members of the court.) Investigation of the activities} of the state board of administra- tion’s activities in refunding and retiring county and special road; and bridge district bonds was ask-; ed of the house, but the demand was referred to a resolutions com-} mittee. i Public hearings were held on} the fair trades and practices act, | on three proposals for constitu- tional amendment to provide a state income tax, and on bills to | West Realty Coy hed for $10, and zation to sponsor a card party on Monday, May 10. A committee} was named. to make plans for. this; Members of Masonic bodies at- tending the meeting were Mr.; Mabrey, Frank O. Weech and Isa- dore Weintraub. Recorded in Monroe court house yesterday afternoo other valuable considerations, sold to Julian J. Marks, of Detroit, NORFOLK NAVY YARD Lieutenant J. E. Faigle, civil engineer corps, United States Navy, if expected to arrive in Key} ——~——————_ morrow coming from the West. Norf (Va.). Navy Yard. ed at to Key) West as assistant projec manager, and Lieutenant Wm. | Klaus, officer in charge, so told The Citizen. The goods Lines placed the quarters in the nav. md time ago it was announc- e naval. station that Lieu- tenant ‘Faigle was to be assigned ig officer’s household} ived via Clyde-Mallory and are now being; i t ~ |Health Service, and Mrs. Wil- al station to which he and his | liams, who had been visiting dur-; family {have been assigned. county time attending to matters in con-! ' 1 nection with the purchase of the| J0Seph Proveyor, compiler and, - oe of : (a for two of the radio sta-' the time of the Marti ceremonies @8 districts was 0 decd chowing that. the Key: 0: "pith # called by\many were tions in Cubs, has sone acquainted with land jwalues H.C. Galey ale one of the choicest parcels on the island, with several pieces o! property located on the approxi. {N. C. Before leaving on the Cuba both Mr. and Mrs. Williams said) they had. enjoyed a wonderful -|visit and really regretted the necessity.of leaving the many kind. friends they haye made in this: city. Mrs, Williams expressed the, written Mayor ; tion of the many “ tended to him and his associates | during their several days in Key “iveiling of the Marti. Memorial, Mich., the plot of land at the end mately four acres comprised in| April 10. of the island known as the (West Biological Station. Key valuable consideratio: the price of. the land is probably, not less than $40,000, and the ments to make the place one of | sideration for several months, it id. (Mr. Marks is a former official, Wm. R. Warren, president of the) 1 and was in Key West for some Constable Leaves For Tampa With Prisoner = H. C. Graves, constable ida, left yesterday afternoon for !Tampa having in custody William Solis, who was arrested Saturday night by Captain of Police Alberto Camero on a warrant issued by the Tampa authorities charging Solis with embezzlement. It is specifically alleged that} Solis while in Tampa several months ago got several watches on which to make repairs, but in-| were sold for old gold. Also accompanying Mr. Graves was John C. Key, former Key Wester who now conducts a pros- perous grocery business in Tam- pa, and was making his first visit to his old home in years. RABBIT FOOT BRINGS BAD LUCK TO SPRINGFIELD MAN SPRINGFIELD, Mass.—When! a rabbit foot was found on Arthur McBlake by police in this city, he disbustedly asked that it be thrown! away. “It neyer brought me any- thing but bad luck all these years I have carried it,” he said. | | | 1 WEARS OVERCOAT 38 YEARS GREENVILLE, S. ©.—Dave Alexander of this city claims that left yes- applicant came up to the require-! raise the tax on racing mutuel| he is still wearing an overcoat he to} ments issued continuous service; pools and to hold racing to five, purchased 38 years ago certificates. days a week. "$13.59, i the parcel. To,what extent the land.is to be Just what is meant, by “other beautified.and what buildings are ia mot to be removed: and replaced, bas specified but it is understood that’ not been learned, but it is known ‘Steamer Cuba Has Thirty For Key Wes * ' } that Mr. Marks has made arrange | Governor Cone’s wishes in regard purchase has been under -on- the most beautiful in this section of Florida. The indenture was signed by Wm. R. Porter, secretary. | transfer from the general revenue | sdvertising of all local bills prior }the First District in Tampa, Flor- a ARCHIE WILLIS “Upon my, return to. Cuba” hospitable city, where all was courtesy and kindly feeling, I wish by this letter which is also, Retired: Surgeon And "Wife Greatly Enjoy : Visit In Key West ‘Radio Station Compiler In Havana Writes About His Recent Visit Here! r_of apprecia: peers. urtesies ex- Dr. H. Williams, retired sur- thought thatishe,hed never be! geon of the United States Public fore cneountered a city where excry thing init was end attractives. interested in the shells which were jing the winter months, left yester-' numerous, and took with her a day for their home in Asheville! collection of beautiful :pecimens which was for the iwhich she will distribute to chil o¢ redietricting school t dren in a hospital in Asheville. Two. of the dearest friendships, districts in Monree County. She was especially Representative t i } Papy, killed Senate’ renewed in Key West were with) The House also killed Sen- M. E. Berkowitz, chief pharmacist at the Marine Hospital, and Mrs. ate Bill 317, fixing the salary — Berkowitz, Mr, Berkowitz served of the Monroe County Solliel- tor. entered the service. in the name of my associates at and celebration, to offer our sin- “The time we spent West was so pleasant and fraught with so many delightful experi- West on the occasion of the un- ences, that at the first oppor-| tunity which presents, I promise to repeat my visit. “The gratitude felt by myself of your citizens and request yor to be the medium of extending this sincere appreciation.” | Passengers Steamship Cuba, 9° the P. and O. S. .S, company, a*rived yester- {day afternoon from Havana with 14 first cabin and 16 second cabin jpassengers for Key West; 17) jfirst and nine second cabin for | Tampa, making a total of 30 dis- iembarking at this port. { Key West arrivals were: Ramon: Herrera, Maria Ursula} Ducassi, Raymond Gray, Mildred| Gray, Adele Gregory, Luisa Men- \dieta, Flora Ducassi, Bartolomeor from II LI LD LS IS MM 02:51, Jose Perez, Jose E. Ra- Ramirez, Bar- mirez, Dolores B. de Earl H. Matterson, Amad’s WRITES ‘BACK HOME? ‘ceio Ferrer, Maria Ursula Decassi, County Commissioner Brax- ton B. Warren is in receipt of a letter from J. Archie Willis from Chicago, in which he asked to be remembered to many of his friends in Key West. Mr. Willis, it will be membered was connected with re- the Morning Journal for some time in the capacity of busi- ness manager, and made numerous friends during his stay in Key West. He states in his letter to Mr. Warren that while he is getting along very nicely in Chicago, he still has that same old longing to be back in the Island City again, and expresses a hope that he may again have the opportunity of returning here. Sok dd ddd di j Alfredo Pena Blanco, Francis L. Barnes, Antonio Somar, Ede’miro Vidal, Yolando de la Guerro, Ser- jgio de la Guerra, Jose de la Pena, | Ana Maria de la Pena, Lilia de la Pena, Teresa Nunez, Clara de la Ona, Gabriel Cabanas, Mercedes Cabanas, Gabriel ‘Cabanas, Jr., Pedro Fox y Zanora. The vessel sailed at 5:30 o’elock for Tampa with the folowing j bookings from Key West: Dr. H. Wiliiams, Mrs. Williams, G. L. Scheer, J. R. Blair, C. A» Parra- more, N. L. Kernan, Mrs. Francis | Boyd, H. C. Graves, John C. Key, | William Solis, V. V. Carmichael, ; Pual L. Young, Hardy Jones, Nel- )son Jones. { The power boat Sullivan, Cap- ‘tain Axel Peterson, of the Over- |seas Transportation Company, ar- jrived in port this morning from | Miami with eleven tons of freight jfor Key West, | j NOTICE PYTHIANS All members of Knights of Py- | KILLS SELF RATHER THAN, CHOOSE BETWEEN GIRLS | qwested to be at |thias and Pythian Sisters are re- 1113. Varela |street on Friday afternoon at CLANTON, ‘Ala.—Usable to!4:30 o’elock for the purpose of choose btweeen two girls whom he had declared his love. killed himself with a shotgun. for |attending the funeral of Brother (A. L. Whitaker. for; Wilton Gillespie, 16, of this city, | J. WINFIELD RUSSELL, apr28-1t K. of R. & S. TWO: VESSELS COME TO POR STEAMSHIP YORO OF FRUIT COMPANY DUE TO AR- RIVE SATURDAY Two recent arrivals in the Key West Yacht Basin were this morning registered in the records of Captain Charles Archer, dock- master in charge of the basin and piers. One of the vessels is the Dog, er r, from Chicago, and is owned by R. G. Hutchins, of Mi- ami Beach, The other is the Yacht Content, Diesel burner, of New York, own- Sea ed by Howard E. Spaulding and as the McClellan. Spaulding has four guests. Content carries a crew of 11. Steamship Yoro, of the Stand- ard Fruit and Steamship company, is due to arrive in port Saturday from New York, and is consigned to the Porter Dock company. Mr. The master is i with, Dr. Williams when he first! ; tor, On motion by itive Papy, the | Senate Bill 314, fising com> | pensation of the members of \the Beard of Public Instruc- |tion cf Monroe County. passed by the House, redis- ietng Sonat Goma County. | Monrce FRAGA UNDER ARREST writes Mr. Proveyor, “and after and my companions is such that HELD FOR TRIAL AT NEXT the happy days passed in that we wish to make it known to all TERM OF CRIMINAL TERM : Constab'e €, Floney Pellicier j yesterday decided to vestigate jthe Civie Cafe on Duval street near the corner of Southard street ind did so with the result that the proprietor, Oscar Fraga, wee laced under arrest and some he- jlito tickets captured as evidence, { In the afternoon the proprietor was arraigned for pre! minary hearing before Judg» Raymond &. | Lord, but waived the examination and was placed under bond of $50 for his appearance at jterm of crimina! court. the next CHANGE IN ARRANGEMENTS ANNOUNCED BY MOR- TICIAN SAWYER Mortician Benjamin Sawyer, of Lopez Funeral H afternoon that there has been n the arrangements fot yeral of the late Asa L. Whitaker Instead of the funeral as pre- viously announced being from the me, announced residence to the Ley Memorial chureh, it will be held diveet from the church, veloc, and the body will be placed in the chureh at 2 o'clock Another Sponge Sale Conducted Here Today Another small sale of the municipal sponge wharf this morning, with sponges was conducted at but three small lots of yellow and five lots of wool being offered. The highest price paid for yel- low was in the 35 bunches which were bid in for $16.35 highest sale of wool wa bunches for which the highest bid | was $410, or $5.46 2-3 the bunch, and Total sales amounted ° $456.18, 44 bunches of yellow 96 bunches | bringing $17.96 and of wool going for $438.22, Senate, Bill 316 was also