The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 18, 1937, Page 1

od ws v Associated Press Day Wi Service, ire Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the For 57 Years Devoted to the VOLUME LVIII. No. 196. Hospitality: Band: To: Give Concert-Tomourew Excellent Program To Be Rendered In Afternoon At New Band Stand On South Beach Another concert by the ‘West Hospitality Band will Key be given tomorrow afternoon at the mew band stand on South Beach. These concerts are presented by the Federal Music Project with Alfredo Barroso conducting. The concert planned for Sun. day afternoon at the beach is to be postponed in deference to the directors of the Social Club Marti who on that date, will stage a musical and dramatic presentation depicting a history of the Cuban people and their relation to Key West. Several members of the Hos- ‘pitality band are assisting in the orchestra which will play for the club and as the Federal Music Project is always ready to assist im promoting any local presenta- tion, the band members have been assigned for the event. VISITORS LEFT OVER HIGHWAY Miss Nancy Mazi) and mother, Mrs. E. P. Magill, of Miami, and .over_the . high-, . They had been spending a stay ‘of several weeks here as the house guest of Miss Marjorie Russell on North Beach, 0 Working On Bridge At Duck Key Drops Dead Richard Pea, negro, employed by the S. J. Groves Construction company on the contract at Lit- We Duck Key, fell dead at 11 o'clock this morning while at Best Interests of Key West MRS. 0. LONG Mrs. O. S. Long, head of the Long Farniture Store, left over the Ovreseas Highway this morr- ing for a combined business and pleasure trip. She will be away from the city for about six weeks. First point which Mrs. Long will visit wi be the furniture markets in New York, Later she will go to markets in Maine and Chicago then to South Carolina, famous for the manufacture of L LEYS BODY" ARRIVES ON BOAT FUNERAL SERVICES WALL BE CONDUCTED HERE THIS GOES ON TRIP! | AFTERNOON Arriving this morning on one of the vessels of the Overseas Transportation Company, was the furniture and to Saluda, S, C., for a visit with relatives. Mrs, Long intends to make a comprehensive study of the new furniture styles and purchase for her store a line of furniture for the coming season that will be as fine as can be foznd anywhere. body of Lovick Ley, whose death occurred last Thursday night. in| eeecccecceccvesccoceccces THE WEATHER Miami... The body wag taken. to jthe Lopez Funeral Home and/ from; there to Ley Memorial church where it was placed at 2 o’clock. . (Puneral services will be _neld| Highest this afternoon at 5 o’clock from | viean. : this church, which was named in} |memory of ‘the much-bd@oved rd Normal Mean R: ‘er of the deceased, who, for about * qn 10 y , officiated as clergyman. Yesterday’s Pxecipitation .03 Ins. Rev, Shuler. Peele of Fleming| Norms! Precipitation -_-14 The Street Methodist church will of-) ending at % o'clock thin morning. ficiate at the services. Tomorrow's Almanac Mrs, Ley and her two children,| Sun rises m. John L. and Camille, arrived last} Sun sets m, night from Miami, accompanied | Moon rises m.} by her mother, Mrs. Amelia Oli-|Moon sets m. veri; brother, Charles Oliveri; Tomorrow's Tide: brother-in-law, Willard Ley, and A.M. P.M, sister-inlaw, Mrs. Harry Hey-| High 7:53 9:05 ward. Low .. 4 2:39 Barometer reading at 8 a. m.: Sea level. 29.94. | WEATHER FORECAST PICKETING A bill to punish those guilty of "i steak with yellow “leoffee and Spanish KEY WEST, FLORIDA, [Key West’s Hospitality And Warm Cordiality Given In Word Picture No more interesting word pic-;place a mark at the southernmost ture of Key West nas appeared|tip of its southernmost Key you than one in the recent issue of} will have the ‘X’ that marks my The Highway Traveller, a copy of;room. It cost me $5 a week and which was sent to Miss Heen Wil-| the tourist season at its height. A iliams by A. P. Hogan, advertising| room like that in Miami would sales manager of the Greyhound} cost not less than $10 a day. But Lines. then they do not speak Spanish Harold S. Kahm, the story’s!in Miami. author, was a visitor here some} “No street cars or buses in Key time ago and his story under the| West; one uses a car of his own caption Hasta Manana, Key West|or a bieycle. A bicycle may be j—America’s Little Spanish Town,; n iwith a number of interesting il-| $4.50 monthly or if it is desired lustrations, is an. expression of -by, thesweek,.at 25 cents a day. interest. and-.admixation, | clearly!’ ‘Did the Senor. desire to fish? and perfectly told, and here. it is:| Good? It is a simple: business. “It was impossible for me to} ¥ou buy some line and tackle for believe: that I was in the United) about 25. cents, .and 10 cents had for a great sum of money. J | States, in Florida... When. I, step-' worth of bait, ther sit.on the edge ped outside of the bus station. J. of: a:steamship: dock,. anybody's stepped into Spain, or at the Jeast Steamship dock, and catch enor- hotels the La Concha and the there is no telling’ what you will Casa Marina. The restaurants in catch. Yesterday a man lande | the town, all but one, Spanish, 2 450 pound jewfish with a hand and throughout the peaceful line, and no one seemed sur- atmosphere of Manana, ‘tomor- prised. lrow’ | Clothes are a simple matter. “] walked into Senor Ramonin’s You may wear practically noth- cafe and ordered a green turtle ing. A pair of swimming trunks, rice. preserved and a shirt, if you are figs. A blue coated brass button- fortable everyone is pleased. The jed American policeman (of Span- Sun is hot but kindly. No doubt ish extraction) strolled in and policemen when no one is looking. ichatted with the proprietor in it speaks Spanish with the Senors voluble Spanish, then he came, The temperature averages 70 in jover to my table. I saw him com-| Winter and never exceeds 90 in ing and wondered if I were going thé. summer. country ; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1937. Che Key West Citizen PRICE FIVE CENTS Delinquent Taxes * ~ ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- Cuban 2 pair of shorts, a pair of slacks} com-| 1 tional and International Problems Insep- | arable From Local Welfare 1 i In Future Decision In Matter W: Arrived At Following ' Meeting Held Last Eve- ning Concluding a lengthy meeting Not smce 1917 has a major na-’ suspicious #f the others. The situ-}@t the county court ‘house last jtion declared war. ‘Yet in the in-| tion as it exists in Chima, is as it} {tervening years there have been! encht American state governor a number of far-reaching, san- had a great private army which guinary conflicts. What might be jhe could use for any purpose he a suburb of Havana, the Jargest-mous fish.\: With a heavier line! termed Mars’ modern technique} Wishes, even to the extreme of fighting the armies of neighboring | does not require a formal declara-| i governors. phen. of war-—armies = pemgieod ‘As a consequence, plus Japan’s ied, soldiers and civilians are/far more efficient and modern | slaughtered, cities are devastated; war machines, it is believed cer- jand governments change evenjtain that the Japanese will en- | while, officially speaking, actual eget ig pice nay pe ae haetesad = x She will take over cities and ac- In Italy’s Ethiopian campaign,’ complish destruction on a vast | for example, war was not declar-| sczle, and probably replace pres- 'ed—but the result of the inva-| ent local governments with pup- | sion was to eliminate the Ethio- a Core a ro) Vv lapanese, as she jpian Monarchy and make the! G4 jm Manchuria. But in the ; country into an Italian colony jong run, Japan’s chances of suc- | governed by the Italian Military.}cess are dubious. China is 2 tremendous country, with the larg- +from the county to be arrested for not being able! “Key West is a mile and a half | Russia and France -have not de- to speak Spanish. But ah no,! wide and five miles long, so that Clared war on the Spanish Insurg- |Senor Policeman, as one of the all there is is near to wherever ents, nor have Germany and Italy * picketing foreign legations and Key West and Vicinity: Partly embassics has been favorably re- ported in the House at the re-j cloudy with scattered quest of the State Department, | showers this afternoon, thunder- tonight, for its ic establishments in fozeign countries unless _pre- pared to offer the same protec-|ed thundershowers this afternoon tion to foreign diplomats in this; and pogsil’y near south coast to- nountry. night; Thursday scattered show- abe winds, mostiy easterly. ,ers. Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Gentle to moder- ate, mostly east and southeast winds; partly overcast weather to- night and Thursday with scatter- ed showers. WEATHER CONDITIONS Sheriff W. A, Parrish, at Mara- which points out that the United) ang Thursday; gentle to moder- ; ~ | eno. 2 mile away. _ He, intro-| * Florida: Partly cloudy, scatter-! thon, was contacted by the sher- Pressure is moderately high this The beaches, the art town’s official representatives,' YoU are. merely wished to welcome me to! gallery (there is an excellent one), Key West, for he knows everyone! the public library_with its tropical in Key West and can spot a gatden, the aquarium, the hotels «i, restaurants, the night clubs their’ Cuban orchestras and low prices. “The food! Ah, the food! Devilled, crawfish, ice box lime |duced himself, in wiess Eng- lish, and offered me a_ cigarette, and invited me to make myself} 6 home in Key West. Several, others came up and _ introduced ‘ ’ {guava duff, fried plantains, baked themselves, shook my hand as) “ though I were a long lost brother,| Mutton fish, Spanish bean soup with sausage, yellow rice with and they all told me that the in-| "> S82 z |nabitants of Key West were as a|strimp, crawfish enchilado, cas- large family and that I must be-; Sava fritters, bolichi roast, stone a aie el a crab cocktail, cocoanut ice cream, a A % - l|arroz con pollo, eggs Malaguena, ‘# friendly Scotch terrier mux mango sherbet, stuffed chaotas, zled my leg and seemed sprprised be when I spoke to it in English. Its! and hot Spanish bread. And, of course, Florida lobsters, oysters ry ee dor gal and everything that swims. nalts Fresh? The fish are cooked to or- Spanish and it instantly under- der while you wait, | ' est population in the wo¥d. Not since the dawn of history has it been permanently conqvered— ‘pie, fried y@lowtail steak, baked; {broken off relations with the | over 8 period of many years, the Spanish Government—yet it is nO invaders intermarry with the Chi- jseeret that Franco’s cause has nese and are virtually swaliowed {been kept alive with the aid of by the immense country, China German.and Italian troops and, has more than half.a billion peo equipment, while the Government) ple as against Japan's 75,000,000. }forces would have collapsed long} Furthermore, it seems incon- since had it not been for Russian) ceivable that Japan will be per- ‘airplanes and armaments and| mitted by othed powers to advance French mifitary experts, Today in| unhindered into Ohina. Russia is tthe Far East the world is again’ strongly anti-Japanese and will, witnessing a war without a dec-/if matters go far enough, throw llaration of war that is of the ut-, her resources to the side of China. most significance not only to the And if it came down to a Russo- nations involved, but to the! Japanese war, most military ex- Western World as well. perts think the bear would win. Japan has gone to the limit in| England will attempt to limit recent years to build up her army | Japan’s conquest in the interest of and navy. For a small country,| her own trade, and so, in all prob- |she has an amazing military ma-| ability, will the United States lehne, far superior to that of the} and France. And lastly, it is a Chinese—though China herself | question whether Japan's financial night, members of the committee commissioners the committee from council announced that a tenta- tive agreement had been reached in the matter of a schedule for the city collecting delinquent taxes. Members of the two commit- tees were: Commissioner Chair man Carl Bervaldi, Commission- jets Wm, R. Porter and Norbery Thompson; Councilmen Wim. Free- man, Frank Q. Roberts, W. P. Archer and Frank Delaney. The meeting was decided upon Monday night when resolutions were read in which it was provid- ed that the commissioners agreed to assign to the city the sum of funds credited to the account of Monroe County by the state allo- cation of taxes upon gasoline and which ~vere administered by the State Borrd of Administration. Allocation of these funds; was in connection with and city city's bonds which is to be done by the R, E. Crummer Company, which has in course of operation the county’s refunding program. At the meeting Monday night, iff’s office and advised that, if} morning from Alabama and Ten- possible, to find County Judge! nessee eastward off the Atlantic Raymond R. Lord, who was in’ coast, over the Canadian Province work. Pea, it ig said, was orig-| that section, and report the th | ‘io southward into inally from Rock Harbor but had} of the Negro to him. a eng ose Corel and over the registered for work in Key West.} Some time after the sheriff's: north Pacific States; while low The information was brought to! office had talked with Deputy | pressure areas are centered over Key West this afternoon by C, A. Parrish he phoned in to say that! the north Atlantic States, and mid- eng yerwasite ae the - had — met Judge Lord, told! western Canada, with a trough of roves company, who arriv in' him of the death of th ji the city shortly after noon today} Se ae eee ona business visit, and went to/tle Duck Key, where the judge!anq thunderstorms have occurred the sheriff's office to give the in-| wotild investigate and determine! sings yesterday morning in south- formation. whéthet-or not a coroner’s jury|crn Florida, Miami rting @/ brea phot Later this ‘afternoon Deputy will be necessary. iheavy rainfall of 392, inches ta the Senet ah ie | There have also been light to mod.) did the Senor brea erate showers throughout much) regally. of the Mississippi Valley, from! “at the bank—alas—they the southern Lake region eastward and that they were going to Lit-jto the Mexican border. Showers} |stood, and played ‘dead dog’, stood on its hind legs, ‘spoke’ and performed other tricks. How humiliated I felt! even the dogs not I. “In the morning I passed chil- dren on their way to the schools, |For breakfast did the. Sepor, rey quire doughnuts? Alas there were none to be had. Would _ the ‘could not cash my New York could understand Spanish but! chattering in Spanish and English,” “It is six hours by boat from Key West to Havana. A _ large portion of the inhabitants of Key ‘Wiest have visited in Havana, but many have never been to Miami, triotie Americans but nontheless when you come to Key West you willbe atY Americano and you will middle \6f the sen.” Senor care. for-some hot Spanish eeseeeseeeecosoeooossess JUMPS TO DEATH | San Francisco.—The first per- resources are sufficient to stand a long struggle—today more than 50 percent of her government's |has made progress in unifying tand strengthening the country. China’s greatst weakness has al- Mr, Porter asked if the city had made any definite plans for col- 165 miles north. They are pa-) beiina flittle’Spanish town in the) ways been the corruption of her loci yovernments — as Oswald | Garrison Villard has written, “The purchasing of Chinese statesmen land generals is Japan’s long suit; it has advanced her and her poli- cy of conquest far more rapidly than have her rifles and can- non.” The central, Nanking gov- ernment has usually proven un- | able to contro] the superabundant over the north Atlantic States,| check, because I was a stranger,|$0n to commit suicide by jumping) and in portions of the southern) was I not? Does one trust a|from the newly opened Golden) Plains and eastern Rocky Moun-| stranger and cash his checks like| Gate bridge was a man, about) tain States, Temperatures have/that? Ah no, Dios no! But to/ Sixty years old, who climbed over; risen somewhat in Montana , and} be sure they would send the check|the railing and leaped to the; the Dakotas, and fallen in por-|t > New York for me and mean-| water, 200 feet below. j tions of the Lake region and|while if 1 needed some money Fellowship Club}Has _ Meeting Last Night Weellly meeting and supper of Fellowship Club of First M. E. (Stone) church was held last eve- ning in Sunday Schoo] Building, with Allen E. Curry, presiding. F. H. McKinley, George Mixon and Robert Dopp were introduced as guests of the club. Preamble and purpose of the organization was read by Gerald Saunders, who = ; Ti Tth rs, fund to be spent to com-) 4 §3 4 a t unemployed in years of | °™ er 3 or _ | depression. A fund of several bil-{ Suitable ‘ : lhion dolisrs could keep down |" was Mea To Work On Bridges|icrcvs-- Eight assignments are to be sent as soon as possible te the C. ¥_ Thomason Construction Co., at! sin Bridge and Iron Co., Contract Japan $204,312,000 and bought Tain was the surf just below my) Dallas, Texas, Plateau States; while elsewher? 5 s.¢ changes have been eoeagie the guests with.» brief jon Unsettied squally weather Several musical numbers were prevailed yesterday. off the south |rendered bya tric consisting of Florida coast and in the Floride }Gerald Saunders, vi@in; Fred | Staite. Knight, guitar, and Joe Allen,} banjo, At the close of the: meeting, reaeaer pie continued the ‘shuffle PPB tourney now being conduct- | ed, G. S. KENNEDY, Official in Charge DEPRESSION FUND A Business Advisory Council is ‘ . studying a plan to create, in good jbeen received, the- men requisi-| Japan amounts to about $300,- | tioned to be sent to the Wiscon- they would be glad to lend me generally! some, but trust me, Never. So for! {the first time in my life I bor- rowed money from a strange bank |which would not trust me. Bor- jTowed it without security, so that HUGE ESTATE GROWS New York.—The estate of Wil-| jliam Rockefeller, who died in | 1922, is growing at the rate of a/ million dollars a year, according lto accountings made by trustees. 9. 5. S. company, arrived yester- budget is earmarked for the army and navy, and she has a soaring national debt. So here is another grave threat to world peace—the gravest, per- haps that has yet appeared. Wheth- er war is actually declared is only of theoretical importance—to ali intents and purposes a major War is now underway in the Far East, and interests directly affecting i would not be embarrassed for! From $50,000,000 the estate has ready cash while waiting my! grown to $63,713,889. \check to go through clearing.} } Madre de Dios. What a peo- : BALLOON SIGN ; iple. Niagara Falls—To help tourists “I needed an inexpensive room. find the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge Instantly the whole town com) ® captive balloon with the name mandeered its forces to discover a! °f the bridge painted on found. A charming room!Known as the “Lower Arch I woke thei Bridge.” it will| Thompson, Norman Bodin, Jack one for me. A suitable/ float over the structure, formerly) Bodin, Emmet L. Mitchell, Ethet leeting the delinquent taxes of local War Lords—each with his| ¢vety nation in the world are in-| the committees to meet in joint own interest at heart and each| Volved. session, thrash out the obstacles and devise a plan whereby the A Business Week survey shows| city would begin the collection of ‘CUBA ARRIVES that business activity averaged| delinquent taxes on « standard i 10 percent higher in the first six | basis. FROM HAVANA months of 1937 than in the sam2| Last night a tentative plan was period last year, worked out by which the collec- Rahn 2s Steel production rose 35 per-|tion of delinquent tax indebted- cent; automobile production 12] ness can be carried on, a plan el- VESSEL LEFT LATE IN AFT-| percent; residential construction| most, if not quite, similar to that NOON 54 percent; lumber production &| now im effeet by the county and = snouts. percent; electric power output 13|one which will be a boon to the i TO TAMPA percent; factory payrolls 29 per-| taxpayers who are now in arrears, cent and factory employment 13) if it is made effeetive, it was ssid. Farm prices ase rig pt cceedred Steamshi: the P. and rose 18 pereent;j collections is te be on construction costs loomed 13 per-| discussed at the regular meeting day afternoon from Havana with| Ct, and department store prices at which upped 7 percent. Stocks aver- {13 first and four second cabin |passengers for Key West; 27 | first and one second for Tampa. } Key West arrivals: Myron Rus- | sell, Anne Russell, Warren Russell, | Clarence Thompson, Miriam Mitchell, Marcell Mitchdl, Chris- Grassey Key, Contract B. The! H-1, Bahia Henda bridge. Re-|from her $171,719,000 worth of Window; the very Atlantic was} requisition calls for four rough! quired for this ject are onej goods. ports China ing to attract ttention, earpenters and eight laborers, a ve ns soaritoiey “3 Another requisition has also SOMETIMES THE LIFE OF A METAL ROOF CAN of city council tonight, | time the committee report of the |taxes during a depression, thus| i 4 houst by the sea. \ Ethel Prezell, Virgil Frezell, Wm “a : next morning, or rather, I began jrelieving business of the bwigans cwahen and te thet Aelfotete! GLEAMING SPORTS SHOES be Gomez, Teress Rivero, Anthony jthought it was pouring rain, but (Ry Associated Press) | The vessel also brought ight] Arriving on the Steamship Colo-| made end the two pleces thorough- [when I opened my eyes wide I saw{ NEW YORK—Sports shoes! tons of freight and two sacks of|rado from New York yesterday|!y overkavied, remodeled and | American trade with China and/the tropical sun shining through flash gay messages as the Pan-| mail for Key West and sailed with] were two anti-aircraft guns to be ™odermized. {the palm trees that brushed myj American influence becomes Sp-'125 tons of freight and 120 sacks This will make four of thee 000,000 a year. In 1936 we sold Window. The sound of pouring parent. Inspired by the coming! of mail from Havana to Tampa.|*#4*# to the battery now at Fort) 0, now at Port Taylor, it was exposition, shoe! Sailing form Key West, booking} T*yler. said. Two of them ere mounted originators have ornamented’ from this port: Troy Brown, Mr.| These guns were at Key Westion the regular carriages and the i i suede and buck oxfords with stud-'and Mre John Henderson, T. J.) but were sent to an in\|two received and being taken to | structural steel foreman and two] $46,819,000 and imports $74,339,-/ trying to be friendly. If you will| ding and nail heads. Copper is Thrumley, H. A. Kiesow, Martel! the north, to have certain chang-|the fort today are to be mount- 894. jconsalt a map of Florida andiecspecially popular. | Wilson, Carl Malone, RT. Roachtex made. These changes were! ed on concrete bests. | electric welders. BE EXTENDED MANY YEARS BY USE OF SHERWIN-WILLIAMS ALUMINUM PAINT. SOUTH ~