The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 24, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No. 227. Preliminary Activiti Of Planning Project Practically Conclude Those Assigned To Work/CQRONER’S JURY Are Now Actively En- MET YESTERDAY gaged In Formulating AUTOPSY ALSO HELD ON Essentials BODY OF MAURICE ANDER- SON, SHIP’S STEWARD of the newly, approved. movement known as the Monroe County Planning Preliminary activities Pursuant to advices that an Project have been practically cop-jautopsy was to be held “on the eluded, and those,.who have, beenj body. of Maurice Anderson, assist- assigned to the work, are. now.acs\ant. ‘steward on the Steamship tively engaged in formulating the | Castillo, of the United Fruit com- essentials. che pany, and a coroner’s jury was to J. Frank Roberts, Dario Gar- be empanelled, the cia, Archie Roberts and Faustino Rendueles, Sr., are diligently gaged on the work of % tberg, coroner ex-officio: certain data from records in the! s, Owen Sawyer, Cleveland a}Dillon, Elwood Carbonell, John necessary part the project , Nelson, W. F. Collins and George ‘ai 1M. Park. After the jury met, 3 jMr. Sawyer was seiected ‘as fore- At the WPA headquarters build-} man, ing Harold Pinder, Mrs. Doris; The body was viewed by the Doughtry, Miss Louise Curry and Panel which assembled at the Miss Josephine Ovide, are select-'". itchard wenare Homie: om, Divi- ; ‘ é sion street, and it was announced ing data covering desired infor-\that the autopsy would be held mation relative to population andj afterward. This was done by Dr. places of business and abode. Ralph Braund and Dr, P. D. Hollo- All residences for either one or| Way, of the Marine hospital, two families are being listed. Liv-| The findings of the doctors will ing. where, .twe..or more, be ced to the coroner's jury families reside are to be listed nel which ete reassemble this after- apartment houses. All places of "090n, after which, it is assumed, business, hotels, garages, recrea-! the verdict will be announced. tional buildings, lodge rooms, pub-| Anderson died at sea while the lie buildings are being catalogued; 8- 8. Castillo was about 220 miles and placed in their respective, 0m Key West. A plane of the groups. : Uinted States Coast Guard was jurors yesterday were summoned afternoon “tby Peace Justice Franklin Aren- securi county court house, which is of Che {HIGHWAY MEETING HELD TODAY IN RICH PLANS DISCUSSED FOR PUR- POSE OF INCREASING TRAMEL FROM MAINZ TO KEY WEST MOND, VA.' R. R. (Martin, Fort Pierce, Franklin M. Sawyer, and Cocoa, are Florida’s representatives at the opening meeting of the U. S. No. 1 Highway Trade Promotion and Highway Development Campaign being held at the John Marshall | Hotel, Richmond, Virginia, today. This campaign is of an especial significance to the Florida east of the efforts which will be made during jand following the campaign to jimprove Highway No. 1 that it jmay be the outstanding northern and southern highway along the Atlantic corst. Among the im- provements propesed is the con- jstruction of a four-lane, dual highway from Jecksonville to Mi- coast not on'ty because ami. In furtherance of the program, which it is hoped will eventually bring about this dual highway, the Highway No. 1 Association, In- eorporated, helped in organizing and is cooperating with the Flor- ida East ‘Coast Association, of which Mr. Martin is the head. This assceiation, organized a few months ago, is for the promotion of travel, trade, and business along the Florida east coast and has tied in with the program of U. S. No. 1 Association, The Trade Promotion and High- Way Development Campaign will center its activities during the next two years in first, improving Highway No, 1 by straightening euryes,, improving road beds, and otherwise making for the comfort and safety of travelers; second, Rey KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1937. West Franklin E. Albert, Despite . Injuries, Returns To Work For the first time since the trouble Monday afternoon Albert replied, by writing on a pad, that he had been ordered to when he was attacked by Alberto} *¢™ain at home, but as he had a |great deal to attend to he de- Acevedo, WPA eisai’ Frank-| cided to go to his office and get lin E. Albert, official who is work- busy. ing out of Jacksonville, and lo-! It will be about four to six cated in Key West,-was seen in| weeks before he will be able to his office. carry on a conversation, he wrote, on Asked by The Citizen if he had|and in the meantime is forced to, returned to his duties and could consume nothing but liquid food be daily seen in his office, Mr.’ through a glass tube. About Sixty Persons Take Swimming Lessons At Beach Today marks the last of the o’clock in the morning at the sub- period of instructions in swim-! marine base. ming and other natatorial activi-| Lieutenant Wm. Klaus, U. §. ties which have been conducted N., officer in charge of the naval during the’ week under the direc-|station and alligd areas, upon be- tion of Arthur Oliver, instructor ing asked for permission to con- for the WPA: who arrived Monday! duct the tests at the base, gladly evening from Miami. ; complied and advised that Pier All of the activities have been| No, 9 was admirably suited to the carried on at South Beach where' purpose. excellent advantages are offered Mr. Oliver said that he did not for beginners, and about 60 have know just how many would be taken the opportunity of learning listed for these final activities, the art of swimming under this but believed there would be an able instructor. jappreciable crowd, as increasing Tomorrow morning the scenejinterest had been daily shown, of operations will be changed and) and many of the swimmers had the tests, which are the conclud-| expressed themselves as eager to ing part of these programs will be} secure one of the Red Cross but- given between 9:30 and 11:30, tons. DEPICTS SCENES OF AMERICAN LEGION PARADE IN NEW YORK The following article was sent “On less frequented streets, to The Citizen from New York by | Yojtutes of the 40 and 8—the mo- jtor-driven locomotives — haulin: Myrtie Cosgrove, who writes un-/ 4 - > Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Conducted Today ceed Eight Hundred Dollars Chief Of Architectural ivision Of Lighthouse | > Department Coming Here} ..... =... ... sponge these days are higher than R. L. Hankinson, chief of the where he will arrive early Mon-| they have been in years, is the architectural and structural divi-[ day morning. sion of the lighthouse department, tis an expected visitor to Key West! and wilt probably arrive some time ; the latter part of next week. + Ima letter to Superintendent | Wm. W. Demeritt, of this district, | |Many Different Varieties | i { tat tt made this morning b; From Tampa the inspection wil] Rese Bs 4 start with trips to Boca Grande| ¢ Who bas for years been and other units in the section, at, buyer in,the, Key West market the conclusion of which the in-' and haswatched, the fluctuations } spectors will leave for the east! f ‘it is pointed out that it is desir-|coast of the state, make the neces#}?:PFf*.19F, many years. ,able that a member of the staff of | sary visit to points to be inspected|,, This grade of the growth is , the local district plan to meet Mr./and then come to Key West. . , z ; Hankinson and with him go over} Mr. Haskins said he had 20 Shite damm en..tbe, of prices, , the district to make a scheduled. lined up the itinerary that, if it is| but the texture of many sponge , inspection, aceeptable to Mr. Hankinson, the es * ie H. B. Haskins, assistant super-/ area to be inspected, other than boles palaces eesialies ,intendent, plans to leave Key’ that in this section, could be cover-| such as to warrant the buyers in | West Sunday afternoon on the/ed in time te take the plane from! é: good price, mpari plane for Miami and there en-|Miami Thursday morning and o ipaibalgis eee train the same evening for Tampa! in Key West about 10:30 o’clock.|#0m to that of former days. During the week good prices Several Cases Disposed Of x= Ss In Criminal Court Today’ buyer gave $481.88 for 622 | j | | i | bunches, and another offering of 350 bunches was pdonght for $220.66. One smaller offering !which sold for $6.75 made a total Judes Willi at 5 of $709.29 for 1,044 bunches. : ud ge William V. Albury pre- Joe Hunter, charged with as- Sales of yellow were incon- \sided this morning at a brief Sault and battery, confessed to his/ siderable this morning, a total of | session of criminal court, which! S¥ilt, and the sentence of the | ga bunches being offered which |Was convened for the purpose of|court was that he pay a fine of} brought $20.92. The largest num- jhearing pleas of several prisoners | $10 and costs, or spend the next, ber offered in one group was 40 who had expressed the desire to!60 days in the county jail at{bunches which were sold for ‘be heard and enter pleas of guilty. |hard Inbor. : 1$11.11, | All officials of the court were} Last on the list of pleas was) Wool offerings amount ‘present and attaches of the sher-| that of Henry Ayer, who was ar-'bunches which sold for a total of der that pen name, and who is the | \wife of Captain Phillip Cosgrove,!¥P ttaffie while their both of whom are now vacation-| | imitation French box cars labeled, | igs, office, | rested on the Florida Keys by “40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux,” held| Horatio Stubbs, charged with| Deputy Sheriff Raymond Ma- miniature trespass early in the morning on|loney, on a charge of being drunk cannon fired blank shells. Sedate,!the property of the J. Y. Porter | While driving a car. It was shown grey-haired men climbed on the'family at the corner of Carolnie|that Ayer had driven his car on spare tires of cabs, and Duval streets, acknowledged | one of the bridges and had placed | $123.60. offering con- sisted of 30 bunches which sold for $68 and the next largest was 12 bunches which brought $26.76. Total offerings at the Munici- pal wharf this morning amounted publicize Tizhway No. 1 in papers|ing in the north and east: of the north and east; third, seek for the increase of travel! and However, this work and that'Se"t to the ship. On this the geen, Meeks I kody: was’ placed. auld" broughy 15 “Most of them went to their his guilt. it in such a position as to. ef-|to 1,168 bunches and the sum of a ie §=6cour' Ms “New York, the suave, the blase, | hote's only at the break of day. It| Stubbs was fired at by Eugene fectually block traffic. prices paid for the whole was house, is only the beginning of Key West Wednesday afternoon. the project, it was said, which is scheduled to cover a period of one year. It is understood that Miss [een Williams, former head of the hous- ing department of the FERA, wil) be placed at the head’ of this Project immediately upon her re- turn from New York where, with Miss Minnie Porter Harris, she is vacationing with relatives. BAND CONCERT INLOCAL PARK tes dy TO BE. GIVEN - TOMOR ‘EVENING; ALSQ'PLAYED | AT HOSPITAL TODAY Ee 13: rodth 7a The following program will be a by the Key West Hos-! | i | } ‘COUNCIL MEMBERS MET LAST NIGHT INFORMAL MEETING HELD} WITH CITY AUDITOR TO \ DISCUSS BUDGET Members of the City Council} met informally last night with City, Auditor Willard M. Albury} farythe purpose of discussing mat-; ters, pertaining to a new budget. {| ,/ The, question of having Bayview | Park and the golf course seanet {up was also taken up, and it was! decided to have this attended to} as soon as possible. Several other matters of a mi-| jor importance were discussed} riefly, which will be taken up at! n | bi | tion to the preventing diversion of traffic to other highways; fourth, the developing of trade in every com- munity fror Fort Kent, the north- ermsterminus in Maine, to Key West, its southern end. ‘Mr. Martin is the _Vice-Presi- dent of Highway No. 1 Associa- tion while Mr. Sawyer has been selected ds Florida State (Chair- man for the present campaign. Directors of the Highway No. 1 Association from Florida in addi- above are: C, McNulty, president of the Bank of Melbourne; George C. Blume, mayor of Jacksonville; William Cozens, cr., St. Augustine; Russell {Dymona, Daytona Beach; John L. Norris, Miami; Thomas coast, Miami Beach. _ ADVISORY J. Pan- Key West, Fla., Sept. 24, 1987.|is disrupted, her traffic snarled,! gun and ready to take it where} The}her nerves wracked by firecraek- | ADVISORY 9:30 A. M. 7 } rendered ja later date. pitality Band, under direction of} SSG Se, SNe Alfred Barroso, tomorrow evening| JEROME PETERSON at Colonial Park. The same pte-| gram was played this afternoon; at the U. S. Marine Hospital: March, “Promotion” Nicola Wa'tz, “Chiquita” Wayne | Fox trot, “Lonesome in the Jerome Peterson, area supervis-; Moonlight” Baer | or for the Southern Zone, District | March, “The Coast Defender” lof Floida, was an ariyal over the jhighway last night on one of the! “Operatic Fancies” | remular visits to Monroe county. | jwith B. C. Moreno going over the! jset up in this part of the zone, jand was to visit each of the proj-! lects before returning to Miami, | | t | | Overture, “Bijou” Bennett | Jewell Selection, Laurendeau | This morning Mr. Peterson was PopularMedley: lake A Wish” “Merry-Go-Round” March, “Present” Strauss Friend Laudendeau Steamer Granada Due To Advices received by radiogramjat Sea Buoy at } The vessel is en route from ship Granada, of Standard| Philadelphia, and after taking | it i {supply of fuel oil at the Porter) rah and Deck Company, will proceed to indicate the arrival of the vessel] destination at Frontera, Mexico. | 11 e’clock ni this afternoon from the Steam-| the Steamship Company, \ | Atlantic hurricane was central ;a. m. Est. near latitude 30 degrees! north, longitude 55 degrees west,j moving north northwest or north attended by shifting gales and heavy squalls over a large area and winds of hurricane force near| coming to the city. By boat, auto, | corps of which falied to win the! taught in the Gaffney, N. ©, High center. Center of disturbance will pass northward some five hundred miles east of Bermuda during the day. Caution advised vessels in path. WEATHER BUREAU, Jacksonville. BULLETIN 9:30 A. M.: atively low pressure over and southern Bahamas in junction with high pressure the northward is causing Rel- Cuba con- to con- |siderable squalliness in the Baha- fas, Florida Straits, and on pootheastern Florida Coast. Cau- én advised small craft next wenty-four hours in this area. WEATHER BUREAU, Key West, Fla the FREE — FREE BALLOON DA Tomorrow Night, 10 till ? PENA'S GARDEN OF ROSES Bridge Builders Orchestra —EVERYBODY WELCOME— | Admission 60 H | NCE) Friday, Sept the insolent, has been swept from| her feet. The American Legion| has tweaked the nose of the «dig- nified dowager, ruffled her hen- naed hair, and led her through the mazes of the Big Apple, Won-} derful to tell, she laughed | and liked it. | “Today, she lines 5th Avenue to} see her “Big Moment,” resplend- ent in uniform and brass buttons, pass in the parade that lasts from dawn to dark. Squadrons of planes 200m overhead, cannons! roar, banners wave in the chill} morning air, drums roll, bugles} shrill. The street resounds to marching feet. “New York adores parades. Her fickle heart flutters; frantically; she waves scarf and handkerchief, | she shrieks herself hoarse. ' “Bedlam reigns. Her business | has ers and torpedoes, but New York only smiles and powders her shiny nose. She eagerly looks forward to the two last remaining days of the convention. “For a week they have been | train and plane. Trailers, carry-! ing the entire family, have stead-| ily rolled in. One Legionnaire | came on skates. They are here! now, half a million strong and} they are having the time of their! lives—no mistake about that. H “Last night, the Legion went on a rampage. Times Square from/ 42nd street to 50th, was a seeth- ing mass of humanity. Nothing on wheels moved. Men climbed on} top of stalled trolley cars and esbs. Girls ‘perched on the han-| die bars of motorcycle cops. Ex- ploding firecrackers showered pe- destrians. A husky Legionnaire| wearing a barber pole striped eve- ning gown, bore a sign, “I'm Mae West.” BALL | . 24, 10 till 2 p.m. | Pena’s Garden of Roses Auspices Social Club Marti —Pritehard’s Orchestra— Ladies Pree } i jean doughboy marched down this! ; There.” is said that 100,000 elephone ealls| Pierce, watchman on the premises Sentence of the court was that, $853.81. went out today. “Send up a/and the projectile from the gun! Ayer pay a fine of $50 and costs, = .” It must have been ef- passed through the muscular por-|in default of which he is to be ‘ective for they turned out for the|tion of the left upper arm. Sen-| confined in the county jail at hard{ various breakfasts, luncheons and tence of the court was that he! labor for a period of 60 days. C. HOGSDON dinners given in‘their honot, as spend three monhs in the county} The defendants in the three} - DIED LAST NIGHT well as to participate in the va-jjail at hard labor. tases were colored. ; FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE vious contests and the Big wo W. W. NPKINNEY \NO INQUEST IN CONDUCTED TOMORROW ARRIVES IN CITY, CASE OF ROUSE} “Senn “At this writing, the parade! is well on its way down 5th Ave-! a Mrs, ‘Charlotte A. Hogsdon, 83, ADDED TO FACULTY OF KY/COLORED MAN FOUND DEAD| died last, evening @:45 o'clock in WEST JUNIOR-SENIOR YESTERDAY AT HOME — | "* residing a 0b nue. | street street. HIGH SCHOOL IN BAPTIST LANE on his way to “Over He was going to make the world safe for democracy; to wage a war to end all wars. It) was no fault of his that his great end was not attained. “Today, as he marches along, you natice he is older, a little less agile, a bit plumper, a little moré bald. But his heart is in the} manual right place. He is still ready for} “Twenty years ago the Ameri-| Funeral services will be con- ‘ducted '8 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing from’ 8t) Mary's Star’of the’ Sea Catholic chuteh, where .the Ther necessi body will be placed at 7:15. rr shes is Pallbearers, selected ate: Step- the| hen Whalton, William T. H. Boll, Caesar. Catala, George MeDonald, George M. Park and William Free- home at| man. Lopez Funeral Home will be in W. W. McKinney; teacher in treining, ‘Attived hereying an inquest yesterday in over the Overseas Highway Wed-jcase of Carl Rowse, colored, who he finds it. | nesday evening and has been add- “One of the high lights of the} was found dead in his 806 Baptist Lane. | parade is the Florida delegation,|¢d to the faculty of the Key West This statement was made this | are rede ppg el by morning by Peace Justice Enrique|two pieces, Mrs. Annie Jackson Esquinaldo, coroner ex-officio,}and Mrs. Farleigh . Herald, and who had charge ‘ the investiga-|two nephews, Phillip Boquardez tion. end Arthur Boquardez, of Tam- It was found that Rouse, who} P*- was about 30 years old, bad been a hard drinker and was tubercular. baad had recently received treat- ment at the local clinic. Following bis complete investi-} 2,000 strong, with former Gov.! Junior-Senior High School. Dave Sholtz among the leaders.| : This unit has two bands and nine) (Mr. McKinney hails dram and bugle corps, the Miami| Greensboro, North Carolina, from but coveted prize, among them. The}. ‘ float carrying 30,000 otanges,|*“ROo! !ast year. lela which Florida bathing beauties} Courses in manual training tossed to the crowds, was wild’y|and mechanical drawing will be acclaimed all along the route. jeffered high schoo! students this “The women are here, too—/.emester and the work ig expected nurses, yeomanettes, and Gold to be expanded by the opening of| gation of the case and all matters! Star Mothers. Some of them) the next semester, states Profes-|in connection therewith, Mr. Es-| from far off Hawaii and Alaska.| sop Horace O’Bryant. jauimalde decided there was no] : “Key West's sole representa- Mr. McKinney will also be ath-j necessity for a coroner’, jury's! by at ggg egy sa ar is letic instructor for the Tee pees and so announced. | iss Flossie er. er ver | Hi boys. Sea cap, bearing the innerigtiog ea Wrest Janior-Senior i “Key Wes, Fla.”, attracts wide-| School now offers boys and girls} ever! . spread attention. Its all splendid! better opportunities than Field Of WP edvertising for the Island City. [before, sates Professor Horace} 1s ion Dept. Departs ecreation “Mra. Wm. V. Millington, for-| O’ Bryant. merly of Key West, but pow liv-/ Not in the past 10 years har ing in Miami, is also here to at-/the school had a better group | Miss Essie Geiger, field super-[a number of Key West people in- jviser of the WPA Division of| terested in the recreations! aetivi- tom and one evening enjoyed & tend the convention. She is a/teachers, the professor said member of the Harvey Seeds Post | —_—_____. | Recreation, whe was in Key West and Cock | tor several days this week, left! delightful ovting on the beach " Extra Charge— i for| where the members roasted im blue have taken the big town! over the highway yesterday for group and turned it upside down, and! Fulford’s Poultry Farm Miami. ; wieners, played games and bed « New York smiles, smiles, smiles.”| Phese 880 1 Deliver! While here Miss Geiger met with| very pleasent outing. SERVICE WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 24. —James M. Landia, who leaves the Securities and Exchange Commission te become Dean of the Harverd Law School, says that an enlightened teaching of the law is « distinct service Government. High} DRESSED POULTR Fryers, 2% to 3% tbs. Hens, 3 to & and wears an orange colored cap. “Well. three days of the con-} vention have come and gone.) Thursday writes finis; then comes! the long trek home. These chaps| LET'S GET KEY WEST READY FOR A BIG TOURIST SEASON STARTING DECEMBER. GET THOSE SPARE ROOMS RENOVATED. SOUTH FLORIDA. PHONE 598 ‘to 56 |