The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 23, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No. 226. Che Key West Citizen KEY ee eae FLORIDA, THURSDAY, See 23, 1937. Building Permit Issued | Calls For Improvements At Hotel Casa Marina Three Oter Aplin MUCH INTEREST Made To Building In- IN SWIMMING spector For General Re- CLASSES TO BE CONDUCTED pairs HERE THROUGH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY Four building and repair per- mits are recorded in the office of Polly Oliver, swimming instruc- tor with the Recreation Division of the WPA, who is directing “Learn ‘to Swim Week” at South Beach, ig well pleased with the large attendance at the classes of instruction and very well pleas- ed with the progress being made. Instructions. will be given through Friday, and Saturday! |will be devoted to gi ing tests for} proficiency. Mr. Oliver said this morning that all who are taking the instructions will be able to pass the tests. Each student who successfully passes the tests will be given an American Red Cross Building Inspector Harry Baker! as being issued for the week end- ing September 23. Most important of the ‘issues was one indicating that import- ant changes are to be made at the| Casa Marina Hotel to be in readi- ness for the comfort of the ant pated large number of guests this! and future seasons. Issue for the hotel permits the construetion of a sun porch as aj new adjunct to the hostelry, \button. which will cost approximately $2,000. Other permits call for: ROBERTS GIVEN General repairs to residence at} 1212 Varela street. Owner, E. HEARING TODAY Martinez; gost, $500. Repairs to roof at 704 Thomas street. Owner, L. A. Gabriel; cost, $50. General repairs to building at 515 Fleming street. Owner, L Bethel; cost, $75. PLACED UNDER BOND FOR TRIAL BEFORE CRIM- INAL COURT Bradfoxi Roberts, charged ‘with’ committing’an aggravated assault on the person of Frank Harris, wes arrainged this morning in the court of Peace Justice Franklin Arenberg to respond to the charges at preliminary hearing. | As a,resu't of the session the accused was shown to be probably guilty as charged and he was | placed under bond of $250 to ENTERTAINMENT MUCH ENJOYED PERFORM/’.NCE PUT -ON LAST} | EVENING AT HARRIS SCHOOL of; i lawait action of the next term of criminal court. by the Key West Civie Players) % “y Club was presented at the Harts tended, despite threatening aie | | BROUGHT T0 CITY} er. Two one-act plays, ‘,The Bo-} Slicker’, were entertainingly pre sistant steward on the Steamship sented and it was evidenced by | Castillo, of the United Fruit Com- the applause that the audience | pany, was brought to Key West! | yesterday afternoon on a plane of! The latest song numbers, ‘hits|the United. States Coast Guard. of the summer season, tap’ dane: Immediately after arrival ing and other numbers on the) the plane the Marine Hospital was of this requested repeat perform-| Home was notified to take the} ance. { body to the undertaking parlors Sponsoring this “Evening of En-| and await, instructions. nior P.-T. A., and officials of the| Justice Franklin Alrenberg w: organization are Mr§. J. Russell,| notified, as coroner ex-officio, by| Mrs, Charles Ketchum, (Mrs. §.| the Marine Hospital that the i $ be senting the Ways and Means, held, and a coroner’s jury will be! Committee. t Another snecessful performance | school last night and was well at- hemian Shawl” and “The C Body of Maurice Anderson, as- F i appreciated the presentations. long program, were the highlights! notified and Pritchard’s Funeral tertainment” was the Junior-Se-; Shortly after noon today Peace! “ | com-} Watson and Mrs. J. Key, repre-| pany desired an autopsy to ‘empanelled this afternoon. — New Masonic Club To Be Known As Southern Cross’ At the Scottish night there was Sroop of Ma scheduled Masonic members from all Ledges in Key Rite Hall enthusiastic last | cross than any other in the United an States. A Board of Governors, ¢ ed of six member: president of the c omPos: which the ter Masens for a of ab is mee Club, to organize a Present Masonic a num-} also a was elected by written without nomination. ' e the duty of s board to formulate all policy and be gen erally responsible for all activi- ties were member, ballot will b Recommend: ed previously apr pose were [ri approved with few ficers were then elected imation and written ballot a@ group of names suggested the name “Southern Cross” was vot-/ ed most pepel lar end the organi- gation vill ben as the Sou from gene was deemed since the loc: more nearly tion submi committee inted for that p' fly discussed a date to Any alterations. ( Master Mason 1 becom were: jent; president; secretary George M Gabrie L i {organ |charge of the program }game of golf next Thursday aft- } Charles Ketchum, -|autom .' dent, ,and had flag Baso received o ALBERTO ACEVEDO IS BOUND OVER TO U. S. COURT ARRAIGNED BEFORE COMMIS- SIONER CHARGED WITH ASSAULT ON FRANKLIN E. ALBERT Trespasser On Porter’s ; Property Gave Himself | Up To Sheriff’ g Office : SOOOMETTS. Horatio Stubbs, colored, who; was trespassing on the property of! Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | PRICE FIVE CENT: roe County’s Gasoline ax Funds Not Endangered Despite Court Procedure (DANIEL DOHERTY | | TO HEAD LEGION Niherto:Aeauedopehaseed qwith the Porter family at the corner of assault and battery on the person of Franklin E. Albert, was given} a concluding hearing in court of; United States Commissioner C.| Rodney Gwynn this afternoon, and bound over to await the ac- Caroline and Duval streets and (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Sept. 23.— Daniel J. Doherty, 43 years old, Woburn, Mass., lawyer, who served 17 months in the to the sheriff's office. \ nd bound over American Navy during the / After the shotoing Stubbs made: Momiof United fiates commtun-| ost commander of his escape and succeeded in evad-! der bond of $500. | meri i oday. Hearing in the case started yes-) ae aap aoa terday afternoon and after the! testimony of several witnesses had‘ been heard the presiding officer announced a recess for the after- noon and a resumption at 1:30 p. m., today. The first witness was Mr. Al-| bert who was asked a number of; questions relative to the demotion} was shot at by Watchman Eugene] Pierce, gave himself up yesterday na- the His | ing the efforts of officers, one of | whom went to his home yesterday! "PLP LI SI IS SST Ss jand was assured by his | mother! |that he would go to the WASHINGTON NOTES FREE HAND {found lodging in the left cevedo from the job of truck; Frank R. McNinch, new chair-; arm. He will, possibly, be ar- ver to that of laborer, all of! man of the Federal Communica- ‘raigned for preliminary hearing ich were answered by the wit-/ tions Commission, which has been this afternoon, ness writing his replies, because’ subjected to vigorous criticism. of his inability to speak on ac-| says that he has been given a fr ‘ CUBA BRINGS Ih IN count of a fractured jaw which is; hand to remedy the situation in sic, 24 PASSENGERS and surrender. When he arrived at the yesterday it Watchman Perce’s j the event of found bullet was that a had ation, Mr. ‘ Dis jalong with a result of the encounter. {regard to governmental Following came B. C. Moreno,!|tion of radio, telephone and tele-/ project supervisor in the third! graph utilities, It is no secret! WPA zone, who answered a num-; that the work of the Commission | ber of questions anent the de-jhad seriously bogged down and | VESSEL LEFT SHORTLY AFT- in ease the Meeting Today To Formulate Plans For Evacuation Of ‘Keyseln Event Of Hurricane)... o>... Final details of the plan, nounced recently in The Citizen,!tioned at Hog K for the evacuation of the Keys in } purpose, other office | olated today at a meeting of those| and members of the most closely in touch with said this morning just before leaving | in their cars the men upper for Hog Key. Wilson is chairman of the preparation. Overseas Road and Toll rict Commission, and has been} jand line up, the deta’ | devoting a great labout arrangements make jit a matter of a short time|M. Duncan, chief to have every man taken ; the Keys before a storm strikes, With Coast Guard readiness at all times ‘Shown That Comptroller Does Not Question Al- location Of Monthly Con- tribution tay |funds to the tune of $16,617.99 an-;the men, the Ferry Pilgrim, sta-| per PSR aBen eer as for the same; vessels ready for|/ Comptroller J: M. Lee's refusal to be form-| use should the emergency arise, | tp pay out money under special Key West! the Rotary Club in readiness to leave Regardless of the Wilson! ;for No Name Key and bring back! court does about the comptroller’: from the! in perfect | Po monthly will continue, the comp- storm, ar acts. what Howard ition, the benefits camps, everything is accruing To make the final arrangements; ils of tha evac- | troller pointed out deal of time,| uation program, it was said by: others, in bringing|Mr. Wilson this morning, that the ! which will} conference will be attended by B. engineer and} from general manager of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District, jcommanders of U. S. Coast Guard He told newsmen he is in| vessels, and representatives of the move | different contractors on the Keys. | *king the e Bridge | to newsmen, because he has not questioned the allocation nor the continuance vf any part of monthly contributions | by the State. necessity arises. vessels to merely t to tell him which follow a man who is discharged. were to be obtained. A number of relative Field were afterward discussed when; BUSINESS | ) Attorney T. S. Caro, for the de-; ; Government experts look for a} Steamship Ouba, of the P. and fense, addressed the court and ad-lrenewal of the business. upswing vised that Mr. Acevedo did not in a few months unless the out- 0-8: S- Co., arrived this morning intend to take the statd-at the'préak of war, with thé applica- hearing. Mr. Caro then entered a! tion of the Neutrality Act, upsets to the privilege which is accorded’ j necessary if the desired results | TO TAMPA | i motion of the accused and also as that some positive action was} | ER ARRIVAL ENROUTE | | matters} ' | :fxém Tampa with three dirst cab-| in and no second eabin pas-j sengers for Key West; 21 first( ceeding ‘Comn West L.;in the case L. arrivals Curry were: and Gale s WPA Left Over Highway. O. A. Sandquist, field represen- jtative of the WPA in there | Florida zone, who West yesterday to attend the pro: | the same purpose, was Karl Good-|¢ounty when the State “houcht” before oner C. Rodney Gwynn s Alberto Acevedo, jthe highway this morning. in Representative Of | of several acts he will ‘ those counties having one or amore special acts in addition to the There are 115 loca! | acts—some counties haying Vand’ sme acts appljiing We flee’ | counties, making quite a party! on a H | original law. con. Another member of the south} | which arrived Key | Coast Guard plane from Miami for! the yesterday : ake a The original amount alloted this United States of the WPA was service, who also left this Mr. | bread, employment | its roads in 1931 $2,903,- morn-; 816.05 and every dime of this will 2 | Sand- | be paid to the county by the State, of Franklin E. Albert left over, ing in company with | quist. j according to Comptroller Lee, re VOCATIONAL SERVICE PRO- GRAM PUT ON DURING LUNCHEON | FILE REPORT ON U. 5 OS =: | Ce ompany, SHOWN THAT 23,087 PAID) port tomorr UNDER $1,000 BY UNCLE SAM : | Porter of du case of assault. have moved upward ahead of: ij hi he first ti in many | At the conclusion of the ad- |, Phils is the sb y !purchasing power and that the passages, it was said, that first paragraph. jand the unexpected slack in bUY- | Sort. ROTARY ( CLUB ‘ing in the United States. | eg The Works Progress Adminis-| Items of freight listed on the | tration reports payments going to!Cuba’s manifest were 43 tons s people. The United States Em-jand 274 sacks of mail for ployment Service has listed five | vana. |Conference Board says there are 16,082,000 unemployed and the Whether the proposed “census” Charl lor, preside: f e ; . % : ident of the) of the jobless will be accurate is vocational service committee, had Be saa put on| definition “unemployment is! ine the sedsion. | troublesome and, apparently, the! present is “unemployed.” The | {value of the count taken by vol-| (Ry Associated Pr WASHINGTON, Sept ernoon. : Steamships Ozark And Steamship Granada, Fruit is due te row consigned to Dock | Receipt of a telegram a | fice of the agents this morning in-! | dicated that the vessel left Phila delphia Tuesday and will If i Lee is upheld, the money must be |xardless of court decision lused first to retire the bonds is sued to build the roads; * | plus being available to the count rana la Du e OMOTTOW <o2sorr solely for county road purposes. If Lee is reversed, ithe commissioners can divert the any sur of the this port tomorrow, take on fuel! money to salaries and other pur ‘oil and sail for Frontera, Mexico.! oo... |_ Freighter Ozark, of the Clyde- |! s in Mallory Lines, is due to arrive to-} | When the full “purchase price the! morrow from Jacksonville and Mi-}0f the roads” has been paid the y, agents.{ami, will discharge freight at thiv!county, the law provides that the the of.| Port and sail for New Orleans. {monthly payments—without Another the same) penny’s reduction—shall the Steamship Colorado, is! ito be paid, for the benefit ¢ to arrive in port Tuesday from! county, regardless of the « ‘ew York, en route to Tampa. | decision. If Lee is upheld, and Steamship, ) * arrive Compa vessel of iline, la reach plea that the bond in the case be! jour foreign trade. They seem to seas atau na Reis pew| dr Commissioner Gwynn an-|stock market is unduly influenced | ore no’ second eabin passengers | \Curry, Mrs. | MEETS TODAY 1,500,000 heads of families, af-| freight and one sack of mail for j million individuals looking for} The regular luncheon of the|A™erican ‘Federation of Labor; a question which few observers Tolle of the Stone Church /C&8Sus will leave each individual | untary registration of individuals made nominal, as it was simply al agree that prices in this country Mengaek Son Mavens: nounced the bond as stated in the jby the threat of war in Europe; for either this city or the Cuban | OUT OF WORK Curr. ‘fecting an estimated six million|Key West; one ton of sis jjobs. The National Industrial} Rotary Club was held today, with| ®t the figure at cight | million.| Will Doughtty, chariman of the answer in the same way, The challenged the Kotary Club to a|t® decide whether he or she at is problematical. ports to the budget bure {there are about three ment employes making $1,000 a year for h one + +). ing more $5,000. j It may be interesting to recall) '"%, than 0 tm 1278 Ini %, For each over $10,000 that in 1878 the United States} : | there are below $1,000 | proposed a joint naval offensive . a as of January | against piracy in the Mediterran- 31. 1 ¢ the ean. Tae nations were accustom- “ P government Annual ed to paying ransom to Algerian : 3 a compensation averaged $1,860 but pirates for the safe passage of 4 . ™ = | the largest umber of emple {their ships. Finally, in 1815,) Sgeagrs: apie any one bracket—33 |Stephen Decatur broke the pirate | by defeating the Algerian|°? $1,440. pbs — Pay envelopes of less n - fleet off Gibraltar. Pay envelopes of less than $1, ; 0000 a year are list r 23,087 of the »yes report- ed. At for the William Kemp,} Will Watkirs/ and Russell Kerr, with Eddie] Srtunk, Curry Harris, Melvin) Russell and Bascom Gooms_ rep-! resentin the Rotary Club Ablury was a guest of Singleton, and Mrs. Enid} Broward Hardee of the State ' Board of Health was a guest of} James Prrramore. ANTONIOBAZO KNOCKED DOWN is AUTOMOBILE ing many ‘ misrepresentation. The players Stone church will be govern- than earn- - ess PIRACY, 1785 Funera Demeritt, w UNFAIR ia The Federal Trade Commission! 000 or more and 89 earned $10- extremely active in prevent-| 000 upward. unfair competition and issues Z 4 o'clock th orders designed to prevent In addition, it halts certain efforts to secure bus- ss through the medium of va-i An condemned, use of a picture puzzle con- to secure names of ind < who are subsequently i for business. ADVISORY ADVISORY 9 Atlantic hurricane A.M EST ngitude moving nerth path. WEATHER BUREAU 291 earned $5,- at Tuesday m STRUCK BY YESTERDAY WHILE WORK- ING ON STREET residence, Brethren, FOR MATERIAL ~: rious types of “bait.” ex-! Antonio the WPA ed dow Baso, an emp , Was struck and rday morn on Divisi The test WASHINGTON f keep by an bus: salaries. “ 000. The fe jocal go workers Elizabe reet payment the ¢: ognize him Baso, at the time of the was spreading which 30 M.—The central la A was acei- sand on the been oiled, layed at the als® a s which reads, “Men Werking—Drive Slowly” Tt was said this mo mg that vessels i ty minor bruises. | and sunk that oy) te sinee street, near 54° scene igm™Ms, Bat, b ernm ‘ barden, Caution advised or abo INSECT SPRAYS AND DEMERITT RITES THIS AFTERNOON LOCAL RE. HOME HERE TUESDAY services for 610 White is afternoor and Mra at the ceemonies —SPECIAL— 2 TEK TOOTHBRUSHES ) value, "GARDNER'S PHARMACY ~< “The Rexall Store” ‘SCOUTS PLAN TO MEET TOMORROW Tomorrcw afternoon at 4 o'clock the WPA a meeting will be he'd for — }money goes to the State Road De | partment to be spent j this county on roads of the ret ‘second and third state road systems amply safeguards jagainst any of its spent in other counties. If Lee reversed, the counties can, under special acts, divert this mc jsalaries or other county «x regardless of the need for ¥ The flow will cont e unt ithe roads of the three highwa systems in this county are bu many years hence—before part of oes to the general fond of t spent only on State highways ithe preferentia The + this count share being SIDENT DIED AT in building on Eaton ney rpose of organizing a troop + troop is to be Mrs made under the Eva B. Warner, u i direction of ho died in the any who will be captain street 6 « the State where it to for eer ages of 10 and ble become are e igi mem rning, are being held benefit of all countic from the “Case Of Henry Ayer Is = Sent To Criminal Court t the Societ by William Franklir This morning in the court of e Peace J Enrique Esqsinaldo the case tate versus Henry th driving an under the im was calied for nary hearing. Ayer was arrested several days m the Florida Keys by Deputy { Raymond Maloney who im on the ferry to No Name .Key where he was met and brought to the punty Deputy Ray Elwood This morning whens he admitted bie = guilt placed under bond await the action of rived yesterday regular 5le : on sale, quinside charged with ana battery. His bond was fix $100 to answer to the chargee at reap : the next semsios of criminal court SPRAYERS. AT SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING COMPANY. PHONE THAT MAGIC NO. 598 AND SAY “KILLS IT”