The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 21, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West | Che Key . 'DIAMONDBALL AT NIGHT WILL BE RESUMED GPENING CONTEST ARRANG-| Howard Wilson, chairman of ED FOR TOMORRGW NIGHT; | the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge VESSEL LEAVES LATE AFTERNOON ENROUTE TO TAMPA, FLA, Local members of the Knights of Pythias are making prepara- y Interest has been reawakened; the commission last evening at eae ” perpew, te! iin di:mondball among local fans} the county court house, and ex- % ! jand players, and plans have been | presses his feeling or regret at Grand Chancellor Will Pay CUBA ARRIVES Official Visit To Local) — ; i Lopez Funeral Home, consider-|ing in the event it was held. ‘ed the strongest softball team in’ Mr. Wilson said it had come to lth» past several weeks, in the|gard to the meeting last night and j opening contest. jin order to, clarify the position of ! Quite a long interval has ex-j}the board gave a statement to officials whovare due to arrive in | Second cabin psssengers for Key be seen in action has been’ re-/ evening, July 19, at 8 o'clock, it We se de weak aes | West; £8 first and seven second ‘ceived with happiness by lovers of |was decided: to recess the meeting on. y ee ta pasengers for Tampa. ithe game. until Tuesday evening, July -20, ever the highway. VOLUME LVHI. No. 172. LOR=ZZ TEAM TO TANGLE! District commission, explains in | formulated to resume play under | the inconvenience caused to the | ‘Key West, will meet Caraballo Red! the attention of the commission- Steamship Cuba, of the P. and jsted since there was any activity |The Citizen. Key West arrivals: Carlos Cal-! Resumption of play after a long: g.39 9'¢lock, and: the meeting was ‘WITH B=D DEVILS jthe following interview the rea- the lights at Bayview Park to-| citizens who were at the court Lodge When Members! IN Devils, who have been playing in| ers this morning that there had |0. S. S. Co., arived from Havana in this line of sport at night and! “4% the special meeung held jleja, Peter Alfonso and Lydia’ period of rest has been imade fy be held at ‘the county court ~ bi e us Sects isons for not holding a meeting of morrow night, 8 o’clock. {house ready to attend the meet- le , the afternoon Social League for | been some misunderstanding in re- tions to receivea group of lodge! yesterday afternoon with three the news that teams are again to! by ‘the ‘eommission on Monday The visiting party will be made! KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1937. ‘Gives Reasons | | | Board Deferring | Key West, Florida, has thé most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit rat Cttizrn PRICE FIVE CENTS n Bridge Key West Shown To Have Most Equable And Pleasant Climate In United States contacting ali but one of the com- ' missioners, who later met with us, se e by the time Mr. Emmert arrived. ; ee ' ? Times, a periodical from “This _was approximately % ‘At’the session of criminal court uty Sheriffs Bernard Waite and Priest River, Idaho, will prove of o’clock and he. said that neither! ke nor his secretary had been to! Iwhich° convened this morning at Ray Elwood, and gambling para: deep interest to Key Westers, and ome | Pkernal ia was seized. “I then communicated with as many of the commissioners as } could reach, and advised them to meet at the Hotel Colonial in! order that we could all be pres- ent! and find out from Myr. Em-! mett whether he wished to pro-, ‘Idaho Publication Carries | Article In Making Com- | parisons Of Heat Condi- tions $ d:nner and asked the board to await his return. This was de-; clared agreeable. He left and} returned in about 30 mniutes. It} j was then late in the evening and} the meeting was at once ealled te order and immediately reessed, ' “In view of the fact that the purpose of the meetnig was te hold an informal ’ discussion. on matters pertaining tothe: bridges ‘projects and the Public Works } loon Weather statistics are alway? the fol- Priest interesting. Therefore lowing from the River distant up of Hon. E. E. McDaniel, grand | Fernandez, possible, it is said, because of the; house'or any other place accept- Administration, it was mutually The vess2] also had 12 tons of thoughtfulness of the manage- lable to the board, or commission, agreed to proceed with the diseus | 9:30 o'clock there was but ease completed and one case was! ntering, through his attorney, incidentally te dwellers in every a plea of not guilty, he was plac- part of the United States. freight and three sacks of mail ment of the Quality Food Store.! 45, the expr * f n. Sion immediatziy, as Mr. Emmert chancellor of Lakeland, and wife;: for Key West; 96 tons of freight ee ee ee being tried when the announce: ‘eq on trial with the issue to be who deposited the required amount | forving with Paul J. Emmert, chief 54% announced that his time here “The most equable ment. of dinner time was made decided by the fol'owing jurors: and as limited, for having the meter installed for | ounsel for the WPA for Florida. wi frem the bench, Wm, Ralph Cash, Ulmont Russell, pleasant climate in the United Hon. E. Lee Stapp, supreme vice |and 161 sacks of mail for Tam- chancellor, of Miami; Judge W. |.” Raleigh Petteway, past grand| chancellor, of Miami, and wife; ' Hon. Ernest P. Roberts, past’ grand chancellor, of Homestead. | Hon. W. E. Blanchard, past! deputy grand chancellor, of | Tampa, and others. They will re- main in the city until Monday. Friday evening, the grand chan- eellor will make an official visit | ‘eurrent for the floodiights. “Mr. Emmert had previously wired the new board that he would like to meet with them this week |and diseuss with them mutual problems of the board and the PWA and the understandings and lagreements with the PWA on the bridge project. On behalf of th new board of commissioners I | wired that we would be pleased to ; meet with him on Tuesday or Wed- nesday and with him go over the ae NB “B. M. Duncan, chi i ‘The present Congress has beens leaders. They think the President! ang general sence Peace in session more than six months, |18 becoming less sympathetic with) with the board to have Mr. Em- to Key (West Lodge No. 163, and'In that time, it has passed a large| Mr. Lewis, that the CIO is grad-|mert in Key West Tuesday _eve- all members and former members| nymber of tils—more than 90! %2!¥ losing White House support, | ning as early as possible. I spoke are invited to be in attendance. and that the Administration will with him at 7:30 o’clock and: he : ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS © Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend} Checks and Tax Bills ef Every Individual; Na- | tional and International Problems Insep- | | | | “The new commission has full The completed case was that of , Peter Matcovitch, George Sawyer, cognizance of its responsibilities! Josephine Evans, who was charg-| Roscoe Roberts and S. V. McCai to the people of Key West and'eq with having in her possession thy. { Monree county and that its mem-' jiquor which did net carry the re-| Yesterday afternoon the case bers. are acting in a public capa-} quired stamps. She entered a plea | of the state against Tony Lito, ‘eity. In behalf of the the mem-! of guilty and was sentenced by | who was charged with the theft bers and myself, I want to take Judge Wim. V. Albury to pay a fine, of an automobile tire from the car this opportunity of assuring the) o¢ $20 and costs or do a term of jof J, R. Fleitas, was tried. ' people of the county that all ¢9 days in county jail, This was also a jury case and meetings of this board are to be! This woman was captured on'on the panel were: Leroy Rob- open to np ener at any _ all’ the Florida Keys by Constable’ erts, Carlos Cremata, Jr., Roscoe’ January is 70 for July 84. times and their interest and sug- Cleve Johnson and was brought to, Roberts, frank Jolly, S. V. Me « gestions are invited as it is our the eity last night and placed in’ Carthy ‘and Bias Sanchez’ Her- Riipisioqieaaagee So - common reponsibility. the county jail until this morning nandez. ” island city is relatively cool, “We are, of course, sorry Of to await trial. After hearing the evidence in- being fanned by brvezes from the any iereeeoser pote ~~ The other case is that of Perico,| troduced by the state and defense Gulf of Mexico, which seldom fail cltfixons who ‘were at the. court jess who was taken in cus-|the jury decided that the accused néated {honse last night to attend the tody poise time. ago when higLwas not guilty and he was dis- — ps Aa | meeting and out of respect to the piace in the rear of 2 house on charged. The stolen wheel and neous spells veriour :E2eple of Key West and Monroe angels street, was raided by Dep-' tire were returned to Mr. Fleitas, S¢ctions of the country have re- States, and perhaps in the the world, is enjoyed by Key West, Fla., where the perature has never above 100 nor 41 tem- gone degrees above zero, Its average for During the meeting, a committee; from the Pythian Sisters will en-{ On y night, there will be a banquet in honor of the visi- tors, with all probability of a! fishing trip being arranged for, y: ‘ On Sunday evening, the Knights; of Pythias and Pythian Sisters | will attend services at the Baptist: Chureh, during which time there) will be a talk given by Judge; Petteway. | The committee on arrangements is composed of J. Winfield Rus! sell, W. P. Archer, T. 8. Caro,| Everett Charlow, J. Solares and} Glynn Archer. FELLOWSHIP CLUB MEETING LAST NIGHT EXCELLENT TALK GIVEN BY percent of all measures are @P- take more of a’ middle ground. proved >y. a unanimous vote, as This rvflects the widespread opin- they, are of only local importance ion that the general pybli cis less ‘and t inspire argumerits-and | faygrable _ the ar . it ars » But t of ‘the reall: . few months ago. Recent events Nea al ry Rap wet remain | indicate especially that agricul- to be considered. ‘The real work Te is strongly against the Lewis han Gone: on; Tok Gm We floor oft moverens, fearing that. he may the to Senate, but in the;'Y to unionize farm hands and ittee rooms, where leaders cftablish wage levels that the plead, threaten, argue and sweat. javerage farmer cannot meet. ‘he original Supreme Court Will’ Before Congress adjourns (best is iy. deed: | Adwintstte,! 500s place that date as Laber tion floor leaders didn’t: even’ Day) there will be a good deal of 7 verbal fireworks, but it is very seg oni y wees dosnt ne \doubtful if any’ major bill of a a lus the stinging criticism revolutionary nature, with the pcs it Save from the Senate Ju- ible exception of the Court com- i ittee, ated its *. , ys _ agai s Saupe of congressmen teday is largely pacers ticad. ‘The compro-! OMe of caution—they don’t want ots ouala: th vine the Presi-; t© take any steps that will further Int to appoint an additional Jus- dittress business, and halt the re- a eS cover: " tice for each Court member over | SOVery movement. 75 (instead of 70) with the im-| portant proviso that not more than one extra Justice could be appointed in any one calendar . bs year. This would give the Presi-| 1 fur, °° interesting: and rosa oe gata eres | During fiscal 1937, the govern- On June 30, the fiscal year enced. The Treasury closed its ‘books and struck a balance. The advised that he had not had time! ‘county, the commission recessed promise, vill pass The attitude | to reach the Hotel Colonial nor! the meeting without transacting had he had his-dinner, arly ‘business whatsoever.” f | | PAHOKEE FOLK ‘LUETHIS ARE ON VACATION VISIT VARIOUS POINTS IN VERMONT, MRS. LUETHI'S HOME STATE GUESTS OF REV. AND MRS TOLLE AT CHURCH PARSONAGE k Misses Frances Howell and Sibyle Sanders of Pahokee aw visiting here as the house guests state, Vermont, are enjoying a}of Rev. and Mrs. Joe A, Tolle at | deli \the parsonage on Simonton street. } delightful various) oe ieaaey evening the visitors } points, were entertained by a bicycle ride around Roosevelt Boulevard. When halfway around, at the Naval Radio Reservation, the ' i Mr, and Mrs, A. D. Luethi, who | jare visiting in Mrs, Luethi’s home vecation at and renewing former ac- \quaintances. At present they are | spending some time with Mr. Lue-} sig. | thi’s brethor and sister-in-law, the | party enjoyed delicious refresh- ' Sophria )Reveyend. and Mrs. Luethi, at| ments at the home of'“Mri' and Hyde Park, forty miles southeast! Mrs. Charles Keister: Those who attended: ;this,, dey VISITING HERE Civic Players To Appear At Palace Theatre Tonight i 1 | As* the~ culmination of the \ Drama Institete in Key West, ; which was brought here by the | Recreation Department of WPA, hander the auspices of the Boy | Seouts of Troop No. 2, the fol- lowing program will be presented ito the public at Palace Theater j tonight at the usual hour, ii |nection with the movie |“Affairs of Oappy Rieks”: “Gakdcesia” by Geerge Tyler ; Cost— ' Gahdeenia Marylou ) Melissa i } Jane Thompson Claudia Isham Lois Malone nacre Ruth Baker Wiss Mirande ... Olga Ramos Sethe: Miss Miranda’s Home Time: 1861 vived comparisons of heat with place, on the average, is Death Valley, Calif, named, oddly enough, Greenland Ranch where the temperature on July 10, 1910, Pose to 134 degrees. “The record for cold in this country is held at Miles City, Montana, where in 1883 the mer- eury sank to 65 below zero. “Higher and lower tempers- tures have been recorded in Africa and Siberia, respectively, although the high mark in Death Velley ix IMPROVEMENTS TO Within two degrees of the world's record of 136 degrees at Azizi, Tripoli, in 1924." GREAT BE MADE AT STORE OF FASHION Remodeling work on The Store of Pashion was begun this week FRUIT STEAMER by the owner, Isadore Appelrouth. COMES Te PORT Workmen are now doing prelim-, -— inary work en the building which =R COLORADO they will transform inte an wie y modern shopping center for fash-' ARRIVED WITH HEAVY ionable women. GERALD SAUNDERS; MEM-| would not be made if elder Jus-; Ment spent $8,001,000,000,,., This) of St Albans: They” visited in BERS ALSO ENJOY SUPPER —" / Splendid talk on “Church’s Ins! fluence on Community Life” wa: given by Gerald Saunders last} evening at the regular weekly! marked a decline from, fiseal 1936, when $8,477,000,000 was, spent. |However, if allowance is made ‘for the Soldiers’ Bonus, paid . in. 1936, 1937 spending was greater. ' Feder! income was 23 percent higher than in 1936—$5,294,000,- 000. wElmore and hoped to see Mrs. Hortense Gomez Bryan of Key West, but were disappeinted as (Mr, and Mrs.'Bryan were not at home. | Last Wednesday, Mr. and Mrs. Luethi were guests of Mr. and 4 Mrs, Stephen Abell at their sum- tices retired. Court would not be permanently increased in size, inasmuch as whea, Justices over 75 retired, they would not be replaced un- ass the Court had less than nine members; actnally there could be several “extra” Justices appoint- Theoretically the, ? | Several thousands of dollars wil! FREIGHT SHIPMENT be spent to make this one of the! Cast most modern‘ and up to the min-| Mes, ‘Green Ida Weintraub ute stores in South Florida. All Edward Johnson, DertelH yrs. Jones’... Erma M. Hanscome Plans and specifications have been | Carey, Gerald Saunders, Fred! yrs Smith .. Vanessa Collin ™ade to conform with those of | Knight, Orvis Kemp and Rev. and) Mrs. Parker _.. Mrs. H, O. Russell the! finest stores with evrything | Mrs, Joe Tolle, Mrs. Richardson . Eliza Gardner ®*fanged for the convenience of t age event were Misses Fran- | ices. Howell, Sibyle Sanders, Cleo; | Kemp, Louise Ketchum, Friinces! } Lowe, Betty Jo Tolle, “The Senadaf” by Constance O'Donnell Steamship St. Mary of thr Standard Fruit and Steamship company, arrived in port yester day afternoon at 6 o'clock ‘ond ter taking 24,465 gallons of fuel off at the Porter Dock com meeting and supper of Fellowship ed and sitting with those over 75 Club of First M. E. (Stone) jat all times. Opponents of the The 1937 deficit was $2,707,- 100,000 as compread with a 1936 deficit of $4,361,000,000. The mer camp on Hathaway Road, on ‘the shore of Lake Champlain, and : Scene: Mrs. Green's Home _; the customers, ‘VISITORS LEFT Time: The Prsent Plans cali for the rearrange- pany, sailed for Frontera, Mexico. for a cargo of benanas. Church. Bringing out the various ways, im which the church helps the in-} dividual and what it ° means to} the community, Mr. Saunders! urged all members to consider and de their part to carry on the great work of this institution, In conclusion Mr, Saunders brought out a number of points! by which one could, intentionally er unintentionally, cripp! a ehurch. The speaked ex these in detail and asked nene present adopt sich a poli as set forth in thisyit. (27 Members of tho elab j & splendid supper served under} the direction of Mrs. Charles Ketchum, Mrs, Minnie Robinson; { Miss Louise Ketchum, assisted by | Charles H. Ketcham, Jr. } At this meeting, Rev. Joe AL Tolle had as his guest J. K. Ben- nett, J. V. Weodson was guest of Edward Johnson and Valter Vin- sen guest of Gerald Saunders. Following the supper members participated in the shuffle board tournament now being played for! the title of shuffle board cham. pion. that it ' SOUTH FLORIDA IS BUILDING HEADQUARTERS. ITS OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES ARE THOROUGHLY |tailed, and in a number of states opposed ‘omise and have or- original bill are mostly to the com: ganized a filibuster. ‘national cobt soared to a new fpeak of about $36,500,000,000. . a Unpledged assets t if consid- ree 2% Fy 7g | 000, 000 in gold against whic! rc <a ms jvocigg ake WW AT no notes have been issued, and : great'y Sut! $4,000,000,000 in recoverable loans owed by industry to govern- ment branches, principally the RFC. Foreign governments also owe us $11.000,000,000, but the Treasury does not consider this 2 nO Rew projects are being under-} taken. ‘Congress will prebably{ approve appropriations for pro- jects already planned, but there ‘Will be jittle new work anywhere There will be nothing new in| Teceverable asset taxation this session, with the, Secretary Morgenthau recently popd}e excertion of laws to plug | foreast that the budget will be al- up lbopholes in existing tax logis-|™°st balanced in fiscal 1938, and lation, Senator La Pollette’s pro- that in 1939 income will exceed pesal to widen the tax base (that | °Utg®, leaving a surplus that may is; ‘teduee exemptions as well as\b¢ applied to reducing the debt increase the higher bracket rages) | This year’s deficit was the seventh did not pass, bet it received a Successive one, surprisingly larg vote. Most au-} thorities feel that a similar meas- ure will be passed, of necessity, in a year er so. Tt is doubtful if laws dealing with strikes will be passed. There seems to have been a change, ac-| Important wheat arcas where it cording to most Washington ob-)was anticipated that crops would servers, in the Administration's run 30 or more bushels per acre attitude toward Iabor and itsiwill actually yield 10 or less. A sharp rise recently tock place im future wheat prices. Reason: This year's crop will be materially smaller than was anticipated, due to stem rust damage. ment of the store so as to provide have been entertained at the! home of Frances Frost, famous poet, who in private life is Mrs.; Semuel Geilliard Stoney, of Charleston, S. C., and whose love-/ ly Vermont home was purchased recently by friends of Mr. and Mrs. Luethi. About August 1, Mr. and Mrs. Luethi will te joined by their daughter, Mrs. Cornelius Herz and two daughters, of Grand Rap- ids, Mich., and their son, Harry Luethi, attorney of Miami, Fis., according to letters received by friends in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Rotert Watkins left over the highway this morn- ing for the'r home in Miami aft- er spending a visit of a few days with Mr_ Watkins Euphemia Russell, Street. This was Mr. Watkins’ first visit to this city in several years. Both he and Mrs. Watkins are employed with the Victoria Hos- pital in Miami. Mrs. Watkins is supervisor of the Surgical De- partment while Mr. Watkins is conneeted with the Laboratory Mr. and Mrs. Watkins plan a visit to the Carolinas doring their vacation. on United POWER LINE KILLS 4 MEN Old Town, Me.—When the boom of the derrick they were operating came into contact with » high voltage power line, four em- ployes of the Penobscot Chemical Fibre Company were electrocuted. One of the men, working on the rrick wineh, fell dead first. His hody toppled against another of the group, who dropped beside him. The ether two, it is believ- ed, died as they attempted to help (their co-werkers, BANNER HANGER HURT Colmar Manor, Md. — While « hanging « banner to a wire attached to the banner nad jerked Thomas Kerr, 48, to the ground, strieusly injuring his spine. mother, Mrs./ telephone - pole, a passing trock snagged a “Reno and Return” by Huron L. Blyden Cast— . Johnnie Esperdy Thomas Curry .. Alecia Boeyen . Mr. Sehoemeck i Seene: Della’s Home Time: The Present Music will be furnished by Mise , jarjorie Frow and Jack Phelan. The three one-act plays will be under the able supervision of Mins | Jewel Howze and Mr. Fager The} characters are members of Civic P'ayers. i of Ps Hon. E. E. McDaniel Grand Chancellor Friday, July 23, 8 p. m. VISITING MEMBERS AND | FORMER MEMBERS INVITED | Henry j Dela | Wallace ' Mi } i j i Freighter Co.orado, of the Ciyde-Mallory lines, sailed 2:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon for Tamps. The ship arrived severa! hours caslier with heavy ship ments of cement for the WPA and 18,000 cases of beer for hoes! dealers. for considerable more space ax i* now available. Finest methods of displaying wearing apparel and other merchandise will be em ployed when store is completed. Front of store will be changed entirely and when finished wil’ make a splendid appearance. Van Hyning To Head Relief Survey Work In New Jersey Conrad Van Hyning, formerjented, that be expected to com Director, florida Emergency Ke plete the survey by September 4 lief Administration, is now in While he was head of th: social vine to head the survey work of Newark, N. J., relief setup ta) succeed the former head of thr Emergency Relief Bureau, resign ed. ‘Mr. Van Hyning was head of the publie welfare division in Flor ida, but tendered his resignation which became effective on July f this year. He to those in the riod made « a ne ee se ee nee FAMILIAR WITH ALL DETAILS. JUST PHONE