The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 3, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Key West Cittern KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937. PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LVIII. No. 210. State Director Of NYA pres FROM LONDON AND PORTS STRIVES IN PRT FORLABDE DAY Sixty-Five Aliens To Be Key West Is Termed ‘ pumping at ~“TheSleeping Beauty”. fuel oil. The vessel hails from of fice | j ‘COUNTY CLERK blood, NYA, state director, and B.} Pays Call At The Citizen| Today Accompanied By| District Supervisor Of! Organization London! \ ‘Callers at The Citizen -———— . Up to 10;30 o'clock this morn- ed with news print and other car- {go and sailed after 3 o’clock for New Mobile and Pensacola. this afternoon were Joe A. Young- Steamship Bellingham, of SH FEATURE {Dock company main pier, began events taking place every hour of’ i | On Gasoline Tax Funds ing aati peas Seores of contests and sports ————— to compete for the valuable p ldamus for payment of gasoline}*@X money in 56 counties of the ing the names of about 65 proven ; | D B | ELABORATE PROGRAM BEING lr rom 0 S } OUTLINED; BEAUTY CON- | TEST TO BE OUTSTANDING} aut pte Lae: . . } Waterman Steamship company, H ie ee i|Many Of Workers Labor- arrived in port at 11 o'clock this om tro er ives mnion j morning, berthed at the Porter) an elaborate program with | ed Under Impression 11:45 and finished|the day has been arrange? for| , takin, 22,218 gallons of| Labor Day at Boca Chica Fishing Z ca, 5, taking on gallons of | Labor ican Citizens ‘events have been arranged and (Special to The Citizen) and other European ports, is load-! hundreds of boys and girls are ex-| TALLAHASSFE, Sept. 3—An-jdirectly or indirectly affecting} ‘ pected to take part in the nts |swering Escambia County's man-jthe distribution of tho gasolie: Article In Havana Maga- | which wil) be awarded. aap H ae Rana hor may state: that éach of the laws, iN-| aliens had been listed for dropping | Buses will run betwesn Key | ‘8X fund@ under the 1931 General ding the two laws affecting) | Act, Comptrolter J. M, some! from the rolls of WPA activities zine Gives Comprehen- shortly Orleans, Lee today | Howard Brows, district director | KEPT BUSY ON West and Boca Chica all day to! ‘a County require of the NYA and a frequent visi- tor to the city. Mr. Youngblood is enthusiastic over the idea of establishing a Youth Center in Key West, and! one of his principal motives of the | isit is to secure data on the sub-| ject and endeavor to work | out plans for locating a unit here. | He told The Citizen that he has} the building, which i Camp Roosevelt, and if obstacles which have come up to partially prevent | the bringing of the building Key West, can be overcome, to he believes that eventualy a } ean be established land. When asked about the furniture factory of the NYA which is be- img conducted in Key West, both Mr. Youngblood and Mr. Brown ‘spokS" in the Dighest * writs Peter Knight's pacity and hi center on the Is- pervisory <«a:| ability to turn out some exceptionally fine work. Other units of the NYA in the /8¢t right with the city and coun-| city are accomplishing much in | the way of paving the way for the workers, boys and girls, to themsel: im the world of accomplishment, fit i it was said by the directo: SPECIAL ADS APPEAR TODAY Local merchants are today ad-| vertising their regular Monday! morning specials, usually found in! Saturday's paper, for Saturday morning buying as stores will be) closed both Monday and Tuesday of next week. Local Jewish colony will ob- serve these two days as the Jew- ish New Year, Rosh Hashanah. idays go by and vot} TAX MATTERS’ MANY DELINQUENTS ARE TAKING ADVANTAGE OF BIG REDUCTION TO SQUARE UP INDEBTEDNESS Business at the county house is growing brisker as the delinquent tax- payers go there to consult Clerk Ross |C. Sawyer as to their indebt- edness to tha county for back taxes. Under the new plan of collect- ing the delinquent taxpayer is be ing given splendid opportunities for squaring up accounts, it is pointed out, and it is the assump- tion that only those property own- to ‘ers who cannot arrange pay up, are failing to take advantage 1 this wonderful opportunity to, | ty. However that may bs, there are many who are grasping the oppor- for taking their place | tunity, as is evidenced by the col-| »|lections of the latter part of Aug-| Andr ust when the collections made by | of three upwards first Mr, Sawyer showed $8,000, and for the ‘days of this month there are ap- proximately $3,000 awaiting de- posit by him. This morning Mr, Sawyer said that he is boing kept as busy as he ever has been during his tenurs ‘of office, and feels confident that practically all of the delinquents} will have taxen advantage of the reductions to relieve their delin- quencies within the next twe months. Plan Banquet Honoring Miss D. Bethancourt Social Club Marti held a spe- the purpose of completing plans for a cial meeting last evening for banquet to be given in honor of Miss Dorothy wears the 1937 beauty crown of Key West. Miss Bethancourt was sponsored by Club Marti and rep- resented Key West in the . state- wide beauty contest sponsored by Bethancourt who LABOR DAY CELEBRATION BOCA CHICA FISHING CAMP Sports Events Jitney Dance Beauty Contest Refreshments BIG DANCE, 9 TILL ? Transportation by Florida | Motor Lines FOR ANYTHING IN LUMBER OR BUILDING MATERIAL--PHONE THAT MAGIC NUMBER, 598. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING [mando Avi the Tribune and Cotillion Club of Miami. She will be guest of honor at this banquet which will take place on the night*of September 10. All members of the club are in vited to attend this dinner. Honorary members are also being sent invitations. those present at session were: RM Oscar L. Milian, Raul Rios, Mario Sanchez, Albert Pita, do Acevedo, Hector Ramir Iberto ‘Loper, Joseph Mondt Malgrat, » Leonard Among ht's court, last ph Bet Arr George Alonzo, Ar . Armando Moreno and Romo Diama RAMONIN'S Special |— OPENING DINNER — Complete Chicken Dinner | 60c 615 Duval Street court | sive Description Of For- mer Activities In the August issue of Selecta, magazine published in Havana, is | published an jcaption Key West, “The Sleeping article under the Beauty”, from the pen of the jnoted writer Gonzalo de Quesada of the sketches ly Mirando, which is one few complete historical ‘recently written of the island. | Covering the outstanding hap- [Penipes of the island during the last four deeades and dealing with | | every phase of the industrial ac-! tivity and the decline of the in- dustries, principally the tobacco business, the writer gives a clear | and concise story from 1894 to the present. The story is with thel new Club San Carlos which was 10, 1924; ;tombs of those who lost their lives in the explosion of the U. S. Bat- |tleship Maine, March 15, 1898, |and of the San Carlos Institute. Another interesting photograph lis one which was made in 1894 by Estevez, showing Jose Marti standing on the upper porch }of Patriot Teodoro Perez. The ' famous liberator is surrounded by ja group of friends and co-work- jers in the cause of Cuban Liberty. | Brief descriptions of the in- jauguration of the Overseas Rail- ijway and swift service between |New York, Key West and Cuba, |the troubles which followed in |the tobacco industry up to the time when naught of the great cigar making industry ‘was left texcept a few small shops which are today making as they were then, Clear Havana Cigars. ‘Though but lightly touched on, ithere is no phase of the civic or} jindustrial life of Key West’ which jis not described int the story which} ‘forms one of the most interest-| ying stories of the social and eco-} nomic life of the-city, for the past more than 40 years. Much of the data in the article of Mr. Miranda and three of the photographs were furnished by S.} C. Singleton, executive secretary jof the West Chamber of) illustrated four photographs showing inaugurated October HOLIDAY NOTICE All local Jewish merchants will) — close their stores on Monday and Tuesd ptember 6 and 7 in | obser » of the Jewish New, Year, Rosh Hashanah. | RETAIL MERCHANTS SOCIATION, AS- sept3-1t Young Men's Social Club WEEK-END DANCE Saturday, 10 till ? HABANA-MADRID CLUB Music By PRESTON'S RHYTHM BOYS | 12 Piece Orchestra of Alabama { Admission 75¢ Ladies Free ~—alro— MIDNIGHT DANCE} Sunday, 12 M. to 6 A. M Admission 75¢ Ladies Free i i i Steamship Gatun, of the Stand-| carry Key Westers to and fro n| ard Fruit and Steamship com-|the scene of festivities and it i pany, arrived this morning from| predicted that there will be an} Philade]phia, berthed at the Por-|even larger crowd than which at-, : pier attended the Fourth of July events. | s Labor Day activities at Bocaj 9:25, began pumping and took on 36,094 gallons of fuel oil. ; Boy Scouts and program is It was said at the company’s! charge of Scoutmaster Victor Lar-| office that the Gatun will sail 6 sen and Capt, T, Luther Pinder. | Present plans include _ bicycle “pig contest, pie eating con-! flour sack race, outboard! ; motor race, swimming race. RE UISITIONS | Big event of the day wili be the | X Leauty contest to select the best- | i COMING SLOW; looking girl and girl with best! NO CALLS WERE MADE DUR- COLORED MAN me rer wmsct | UNDER ARREST | PLACED IN JAIL AWAITING} HEARING; CHARGED WITH / ASSAULT AND BATTERY ter Dock company main o'clock this evening for Frontera,! rac Mexico. i test, i i \ i } Jack Hayes, Frank Alvarez and Duncomb Cash, Jr., left over the Oversesa Highway this morning for thoir respective colleges after spending the summer vacation in} this city. | sigieces rn hotala - [ares | was proud of his even 100 chick-} - reo are2! ens. Imagine, then, his will return to Carroll College ativhin. atter an electric storm Wauhesha, Wisconsin, ey pe! found that a lightning bolt hac TDI Ia aaa ae truck his poultry shed and killed {them all cet alee 9 During the past week up to date there have been no_ requisitions} received for workers to be sent to the bridge and road contracts and W. V. Little, in charge of te Federal Employment Service bu-' Peter Freeman, colored, was ar- veal,‘ takes. this-as-anvincicatiCn yegteq fast vening and placed in that the contractors are satisfied | +), county jail awaiting hearing with the lineup of the men they}on a charge of assault and bat-| have working. tery. Not until this morning were any; The prisoner, it is understood, | requests for then received and} attacked a colored woman by name | two were listed from the S. J-lo¢ Effie Thompson, and began, Groves and Sons Construction} striking her on tha arms with a} Company for Project D at Mara- piece of wood, and as the woman | thon and Contract F at Little}ig partially incapacitated because | Duck Key. bof a physical condition, much in- | To the first named there will; gienation was aroused. bo sent eight husky white labor-/ Froeman will be given a pre-| ers. They will leave tomorrow jiminary hearing this afternoon! morning. For the contract ati before Peace Justice Franklyn | Little Duck Key was requested) arenborg. ia | four rough carpenters, Two of} pate | thesa hava been sent and two will) be sent tomorrow. i | YOUTHS LEAVE i 'ED PIGEONS’ TO NEEDY) ithe thousands of pigeons which —- have beon damaging pioperty,| {authgrities have ordered them fed | alcohol-soakad peas, caught them ‘and given them to the needy of! | Berlin, | BOLT TAKES ALL 1 Thompson, Neb.—Charles Sadil| dismay e { “DUD” SHELL INJURES 4 ‘Camp Riley, A “dud” shell expl d foot. of | where four Tov |men were standin }ments struck them ir |painfully, but not | wounding thom. The shell had |been picked up by the men and passed from hand to hand and jlaid on the ground nearby when jit exploded. It the iy lain 3 WEALTHY SWINDLER |*=""#"0"- FOUND MURDERED ON BABY BORN AFTER YACHT AT ABSALOM’S| ctintos, ikd-reor hoe HARBOR— Minn within Natio! Flying fra the on LEAP after her hours M FOR DETAILS READ QUOTE |» THE DARK SHIPS UN- — QUOTE BY HULBERT FOOTNER STARTING IN|, | YHIS PAPER SEPTEM- —JUST LIKE NEW!— BER 7. : weawwawaa NT hVARRO Ss; Inc) cGow x fr ve birth to a six and a und son —PLYMOUTH DE LUXE— 1936 COUPE s than 6,000 miles; sold with a guarantee! | this honorable told the court that he agreed with} ,, Escambia County that the two} q particular county, local acts which created tha con-| from the use set forth in the flict are unconstitutional but plead-|General Law.” “***that the ed “that the acts have not been | great number of these special or declared unconstitutional and} joca]_ Jaws croates confusion and of the vline tax funds of different Chica are beirfg sponsored by the!Void by a court oft competent) uncertainty and tends to make it} in, Jurisd:ction and that this respond-|jmpossible for this respondent to} ent does not now nor has he ever! procesd in a safe and orderly arrogated to himself the right to | manner. declave an act of the legislature! Jy FEseambia County’s _ petition to ba unconstitutional and void" |for mandamus, the Board of and th, therefore, a conflict ex-|County ‘Commissioners admitted ists under which there ara three/that both of E mbia County’: alternatives end he has “refusod! conflicting acts are unconstitu- to draw any warrants for such | tional and sets forth that because funds until the court advises him} of thig fact the Board of County | which of the laws ha should fol-| Commissioners are not, and will} low in paying these funds”, and/not, attempt to operate under “*** Pursuant to his general pol-|thoss acts. Eseambia's commis- *** he respectfully requests |sioners recited they merely desir? h court direct|to draw what is set forth in tho him.” General Act and that it is the in- The comptroller sets forth | tention of the board to spend said “there sre on the Statute Books/funds in corformity with the Gen- 115 special or local laws either eral Act. to Band Concert Tomorrow Night At Colonial Park ‘MISS L. GRILLION Programs to be rendered by the Key West Hospitality Band were Prepared today and are to be! Colonial Park to- morrow @vening, at South Beach/ Park Sunday and Wednesday at! Miss Leota Grillion, who had the WPA sewing room, under the!bean attending summer school at direction of Alfredo Barroso. the Florida State College for Tha yaoeremcahies pre-| Women at Tallahasses, returned sented this morning at the U. S.!\" Matine Hozpital and. will be heard | enw — a s At the conclusion of her stud- at Colonial Park tomorrow eve-' tas at the state college, Miss Gril- lion proceeded to Asheville, North | Carolina, where she spent the re- mainder of her vacation, stopping jat Jacksonvill for a few days en- routa home, where she visited with ; Mr. and Mrs. Louis T. Smith, TO ENTER COLLEGE AT 12 presented at was ning is: March, “Silver Lake” Selection, “Chimes mandy” Popular: : ailboat in the Moonlight” Can't Taka That Away (From Me” St. Clair of Nor- Planquette Gershwin Selection, “The, Only Tune” Hayes Austin, Texas.—Martin Ettlin- ger, 12-year-old professor’s son, Waltz, “L’Estudiantina”’ Waldeteufel Novelty, “Bugle Call”, Schoebel Popular: “The Merry Go "Round" Friend “It Looks Like Rain” {ber. The Loy began his studies in private elementary school whon |he was four and completed the igrades in two years. He went {through junior high school in a | year. He could have qualified for \college entrance last year but his parents broadened his course of study in order that he might not graduate f-om high schoo! “too young.” Burke March, “Vindication” King At South Beach Park Sunday 5 p. m., and at the WP. Room Wednesday, the program will be heard: March, “Field Cornet” Laurendeau | Amazon Ki Sewing following ' Overtura, “The Pr Popular “You're Laughing At Me” Berlin “It Looks Like Rain” Burke Seloction, “William Tell” Rossini | Waltz, “Danube Waves” { = Ivanovici | f rida Cracker” Brooks Three lot, of woo! sponge of yellow our Novelty, “A Fi i and one ict ss sponge were displayed on Popular Medley March, “The Whip” Holzman Two concerts are to be played at South Beach on Laber Day ne in the morning and one injjow was the afternoon, in connection with! Best sale of grass was 5! the Spanish Verbens ithe Municipal dock for the bidders’ offerings Best sale of wool way 30 bunch 856 Best sale of yet 92 for $2 es for bun es for $10.46 ENEFIT DANCE— Tonight, 9 till ? HABANA-MADRID CLUB Benefit Public Library PRITCHARD’S ORCHESTRA Admission $1.00 Ladies Free HOLIDAY NOTICE Columbia Laundry , Will be closed ali day Labor Day, Monday, September 6 RETURNS HOME. he had been hept busy & jto Key West last evening over the plans to nter college in Septem-| in Key West, and it is believed that this number covers approxi- mately workers who come within | the alien category. There are a number of these the that they were citizens and also who were under impression i others who knew that this move- | ment was underway but took no steps to the | papers. secure necessary Now, practically all who listed are speeding up to become that at are citizens not realizing this action cannot be taken but least weeks before the desired once requires at several action [ean be put through. In the ie they will have to wait | as the orders relative to dropping | them from the rolls were received } ston, and have been bse ineffect throughout the coun: Peace Justice Enrique Ido said this morning from Was! Es- that il mid- jaw ight yesterday, making out ap- for those who are list- Led to be dropped from the WPA rolls. At the WPA offices this morn- | ing the lists which had been com- pleted showed 41 aliens plication te be dropped from the sewer project The others up to the number of RETURNS HOME ABOARD PLANE Miss Elizabeth Ayala, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Ayala, who |was recently graduated from the Florida State College for Women, returned to this city by plane yes terday from Tallahasses, Miss Ayala has accepted a posi tion in the office of the Registrar of the Fiorida State College and will return by plane Sunday t take up her new daties Another Sponge Sale - Conducted Here Today | Total sales of wool, 40 bunch es, amounted to $62.17; 112 bunches, $24.91 and 61 bunches, $10.66. oF 207 bunches brought $97.74. TEENIE EE —TWO IN ONE— Monday, September 6 ix LABOR DAY and _ JEWISH NEW YEAR We have fat HENS, 3 to 5% the. and FRYERS, 2% to 3 the | Leber Day is PICNIC DAY Fulford’s Poultry Farm Phone 660 | “ER yellow COMPAN