The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 15, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. 271. Wilcox Announces As Senatorial Candidate TO OPPOSE PEPPER No. i Opponent Of Claude Pep-| per Proposes To Con- duct Active Campaign After First Of Year Recently while Congressman J. Mark Wilcox was a visitor to Key West he intimated that he would Senator Claude oppose Pepper for the senate but that an an- mouncement to this effect would He made! Saturday } be forthcoming shortly. his announcement last night. Mr. Wilcox‘ will conduct an ac- tive campaign after the first of the year, his just completed swing! around the circuit serving as a} test of his strength, Evidently the result has been judged favorably by him or the decision to run against the incumbent would have; been considered unwise or at least} delayed. “I am a firm and steadfast believer in the principles of the Democratic party, and I will continue in the future as the past to support which conform Mark Wilcox, above, of West Palm Beach, who the United States Senate in next spring’s primaries, in opposition to Senator Claude Pepper of Tal- vigorously oppose all | lahassee. measures which are at vari- ance with those principles.’ Congressman Wilcox ig serving his third, term as representative of the Fourth Florida district. He MRS. FULLER Seren ca oak Ante namie appears ag thé author on the municipal bankruptey law, the} COMES TO KEY WEST IN IN- air defense act and the Ever-| TEREST OF REESTABLISH- giades National Park act. He sup- ING ART GALLERY ported the legis'ation guarantee- erpaien ing bank deposits, establishing the} Mrs. Eve Alsman Fuller, State Home Ownefs Loan Corporation,| Director of the Federal Art Proj- has announced his candidacy for! KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, Installation Of COSGROVES ARE BACK FROM TRIP TO MANY POINTS SPENT MOST OF SUMMER VA- CATION COVERING’ SEV-: ERAL MONTHS IN GEORGIA AND NEW YORK Postponement of the _ installa- |tion of the newly-elected city of- ficials was announced this morn- “We have enjoyed a delightful|ing- Instead of tonight they will) summer” said Captain and Mrs.jbe installed tomorrow night, be- PL. Coagrove, who returned tol ginning at the regular Key West this morning from 3 meeting, 7:30 o'clock. jvaeation of several months in} | Georgia and New York, but said| they were glad to get back to Key, j West. They first went to Lakemont, Ga., near Atlanta, and after a ' most enjoyable stay went to New, Work, where they spent a very en-jn0t believe it would be wise to re-| joyable time and saw a number of'main out at a late hour, which, elightful theatrical productions. {would be against his physician’s While in Georgia the family de-| oTders. cifled on purchasing a small sum-| Being the agent of a large oil | mer: home, a cottage, located Lakemont, which is near Lake! day with an auditor of the com- | Rabun, which is located in the ‘pany, and this also means an add- northeast section of the state in}ed strain which would be in di-| mountainous and interesting coun-'Tect contrariety to the orders of. try. he physician. Returning they went to Pensa-| Also, it was pointed hour 'postponement, which was under- stood to have been planned for Mayor-Elect Willard M. Albury} is suffering from a cold and does} out that ! grove’s relatives, there they were Scheduled to begin at 4 o'clock 'joined by Mrs. Emma Lovering,| this afternoon, may take up a mother of Mrs. Cosgrove, andj!onger period than is anticipated, hreturned this morning on the specially as the ballots wilt be Cuba from Tampa. {examined very carefully and it is | Captain Cosgrove concluded by ‘believed that progress will be con- ‘saying that this was the first real Siderably slower than under ordin- For Tomorrow Evening = There were two reasons for this’ tie between W. ithis evening. One of these is that) the city council. ‘eola for a week with Mrs. Cos- } counting of the ballots, which was} v The Key West Citizen NOVEMBER ary circumtanees, hence it was aat |cided to have the installation to- morrow night. On every hand today specule-, tion is rife as to the outcome of; the recount -this afternoon. !t is believed that there is a _ pos- {sibility of some discrepancy being’ }found which may change the; P. Archer and’ Wm. H. Monsalyatge, each being; j accorded 716 votes, for a seat on! 4 And even though the pecniate! proves to have been correct and! |no change is effected in the stand-} ing of the two candidates, City! Fem Aquilino Lopez told The} Citizen that two of the absentee | | ballots, which were not counted, in! company, he is spending the entire; will be placed in the proper pre-/ ‘closed season on all | einet boxes and counted this eve-| ning. i Counting these two ballots may prdduce some change in the coun-} {eil situation, as applies to those} tied, and it is the opinion that this, will be the result. One of the! ballots should have been placed in! the Second Precinct, but was placed in the ballot box of the First, and the other which was; placed in the ballot box of thej | Sixth Precinct, should have as jin the Fifth. vacation he has had after Hoing 47 years in the service, and Mr: | Cosgrove said he acted “like a kid on his holiday from school.” MATERIAL FOR REPAIRING PIER ARRIVES TODAY ... | SHIPMENT OF PLANKING IS BROUGHT IN ABOARD VES- SEL OF OVERSEAS TRANS- PORTATION COMPANY Ree | { eee ‘SAILED AROUND H 566666 Wine Ortieer ! { SUA. Petersen, Cutter 185, stationed here, who iled around the Horn WARRANT OFFICER S. A. PETERSEN HAS Still Gets ‘Kick’ From Key West Coast Guarding will be transferred to the “Pan-; dora” in Miami December 1, has! foi three, eee | | | kee ORN THREE TIMES | trips around the Waa Orie trip’ in command of the Coast Guard het ich Ena” was foreod way | Recreation Department and vari-' ‘the collection of toys, and re-} down into the Antarctic in trying) to round the Horn. Later, he! joined the gold rush to Alaska. | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit 15, 1937. Impressive Ceremonies Mark Dedication Of Monument To Victims Of Keys Hurricane Dove Shooting Season To End This Evening Dove shooting season ends PRICE FIVE CENTS Cornerstone Laid By Dr. Wm. R. Warren; Amer- ican Legion And Other Units Participate Under clear sl and a bright, in this county they were larger than) |. un, the Florida Keys Me- jin former seasons and plentiful. During the period William = evening, and at the same hour the’ Demeritt, designate! by the U. game goes} Biological Survey to band birds i in’ ithis seetion for the purpose of ;Studying their migratory habits,’ 20,' said this morning that during the, | short period, October 1 to Novem-| | cities, a lar ber 15, he had caught and banded | upwards of 700 doves. Monroe county at sundown . this! | merial at Upper Matecumbe was * dedicated yesterday afternoon with Veterans and Patriotic Or- South Florids mber {dents from Key West and Miai into effect and remain effective until Saturday, November when the regular season opens. Bringing to an end the carly} season in Monroe, Broward one) Season for quail, turkey and} Dade counties this afternoon,' deer will begin on November 20, means that shooting of doves in which is Saturday, with the deer these three counties will cease for season closing December 31 and} the year 1937. The season was the season for quail anj turkeys) one of the best in years, and mm and tal cleting February 15. | County Board of Public Instruc- Start Campaign To Obtain Toys For Christmas Tree! = sort Beginning this morning, was the tributions of money may be mail-' ‘The burial services; at which general campaign for toys and ql to either Miss Nellie Louise, contributions for the Community Russell, Postoffice Box 850, or to. ashes of 23 victims were in- ; Christmas Tree, which is being Miss Susan LaKin, Staples Ave. e i | sponsored by the Junior Woman’s; Boy and girl scout organiza- fae oxet sondiasted Club in cooperation with the WPA tions Will take an active part in by Chaplain EDN. Ready of Har vey W. Seeds Post, American Legion, assisted by « Protestant ganizations from of = resi- and winter visitors to the sting at the ceremonies. | | by the Monroe County Board of |County Commissioners The ceremonies were sponsored with co- | operating sponsors, the Monroe ous organizations of Key West. ‘painting. The fire department | For the toys a depot has been has offered to do some of this named at the Chamber of Com-; work. NYA and sewing room merce and also at Bayview Park.; will construct soft toys. Various | Minister, a Catholic Priest and a the farm tenancy program, the act cteating the civilian conserva- tion corps and he assisted in draft- ing the pending bill to “take the profits out of war.” Key West- ers will recall with gratitude his diligent efforts to secure from the government the funds with which to build the Highway to Key West, now in an advanced stage of completion. Although his presence in Florida was needed in furtherance of his campaign for re-eléction to the post he now holds, Mr. Wilcox was loathe to leave Washington and as a fac-} tual matter did not leave the Capital until the President him- self gave him the assurance that he would grant the request for the funds. - An outstanding accomplishment of Congressman Wilcéx was the fearless stand he took ggainst the Townsend Plan when,it was ram- pant in Florida and_ particularly strong in the Fourth District. He made Townsendism the issue his 1934 campsign, and his foren- sic eloquence was credited with destroying the political of that organization. Mr. Wilcox} Wag Opposed to the court reform | bill which was killed in the sen-! the! ate. He is an opponent of wages and hours bill, which will! come up for action during the present extra session of gress; he is a'so opposed te the spending of more than $200,000,-; 000 to dig the Florida cross-state} canal. Senator Pepper has favor-} ed the Townsend Plan as well as these items of national legisla-| tion, the records show. Whenever Congressman Wilcok could support President Roose- velt’s program he unhesitatingly did %, but tepeatedty the seventy-fifth Congress, he op-! posed the President’s tneasures, and he now makes ho sécret of hi misgivings on some of the pend-: ing legislation, Friends of Wilcox and Pepper believe the forthcoming campaign! will be one hotly waged as they} are the exponents of such diamet- rically opposite views, and because of this situation, the electorate of the Fourth Congressional District will watch with keen interest the doings of b e sion which ope today and the re year. r session next of} potency} Con-/ ect, was an arrival last evening in Key West, coming to the city. afte attending the unveiling cere- monies of the memorial at Upper Matecumbe yesterday. Objective of Mrs, Fuller’s visit: is to make investigations and con- tact the many in Key West inter-| ested in art with the idea in view} of reestablishing the art gallery! here. Today the vaitor is in company! with B. C, Moreno, supervisor of | WPA projects, visiting different places and contacting a number of Key Westers, women and men, | who have displayed a keen inter-! est in the idea. Mre. Fuller told The Citizen | this morning that she anticipated | success in her plans, and was| looking forward to their early, culmination. COME HERE T0 | CONTEST WILL’ Chester H. Ferguson, represent- ting the firm of McKay, MacFar- | lane, Jackson and Ramsey, at- torneys of Tampa, and Wm. L.| Albury, S. S. Cuba this morning and filed a motion in the court of Probate Judge Raymond R. Lord, in con- nection with the last will and testament of the late Mrs. Char- lotte Amelia Hodgdon. The petition is asked by Phil- |tip Bourquardez, Arthur Bour- quardez and Annie Bourqvardez Jackson, and requests the court to revoke the will, the accounting, remove the executor and asks for additional sectri| Power Boat C. W. Powers, of| the Overseas Transportation Com- rany, arrived at the Porter Dock Company main pier this morning with a consignment of 10,000 feet of planking to be used in placing decking on the company’s pier. All of the steel piling which was jused for reconstruction and rein- | forcement of the pier is in place} end naught is left but the !aying of decking, all of which has been secured and more than 50 percent placed. Als soon as thi pier has been! jcompleted, work will begin, it is! | said, on Dae mas sh ‘ee the WIDELY fantera ARTIST ARRIVES HEINRICH PREIFFER TO BE-} GIN WORK ON SERIES OF PAINTINGS Heinrich Pfeiffer, widely-known | rived last night, and today is look- nig around for suitable accommo-} dations to start work on a series of paintings of the sea and boats. Mr. Pfeiffer is accompanied by his wife. Discussing the local with The Citizen, Mr, said that he anti able to secure roomy and fortable quarters with a remaining for the entire season, Pfeffer com- to winter Sidney Thompson, elee- tri was this morning ing and getting in rewliness four traffic lights to be different sections of the city, city jan, prepar- installed in Last year these lights were 1) placed, one at the corner of White Division streets, one at the and [corner of Duval and Division, | Making Ready To Install Four Traffic Lights Her another at the corner of Duval and Fleming streets, and the last at Caroline and Simonton streets. Mr. Thompson sali this morn- ing that specific direction had been given to place one of the lights at the former location, le! White and Division, and location: He camé to America and shipped! dren are alive, but of the others would be designated 2s @ deck boy on the clipper ship, large i*“John Ena”, later. | ated being! times in clipper ships, yet still’ gets a kick out of his Coast ;Guard activities in the waters laround Key West. Outstanding was the thrill he jgot from being instrumental in saving a radioman’s life, A steam- er in the Gulf contacted another passing ship by blinker light and| asked that a message be relayed} Ito the Key West Naval Radio Sta-' man was dying and asking that a! (Coast Guard shin meet them > the sea buoy in the entrance Key West ship channel at teas P.M. on a Sunday. The call reached Key West Saturday 8 P. M. Officer Petersen phoned the tine Hospital asking for a vol- iteer doctor, as he was guing to try to intercept the steamer near Tortugas. Doctor Saler of the Hospital agreed to go along. o'clock Sunday morning the 185 contacted the steamer. The radio- man had a fever of 107. Dr. Saler: ; {gave’ an intravinous saline injec-| tion to lower his temperature, eared for the typhoid fever pa- tient in other ways, and event- jually saved his life. There have been individual assistance 79 cases of| rendered of Key West, arrived onjartist, is in Key West, having ar-| since Officer Petersen took charge | of the “185". Most of the cases have been “medicos”, that is, re- moving sick persons from passing ships. But assistance has been rendered loca! yachts and fishing j vessels. situation | Since July 1, there have been 30 calls, four more than all of last fiseal year. Coast Guard of- ficials at Ft. Lauderdale think the need so pressing at Key West that it will not have the is- land without service even for an jhour. Officer Petersen wi!l take the 185 into drydock at Lauder- jdale Nov. 16, but he has been in-| structed not to cast off until a jsubstitute cutter, which w {Lauderdale on the 14th, j here. | Officer Petersen asks only that when the 185 ic called out for in- dividual assistance, it be notified promptly if the boat in question is located. This will save much unhecessary cruising. Officer Petersen is Copenhagen, Denmark, from a family.! which made three mn informing them their radio-} Nine | reaches! During the World War, he start-, To either of these places the con- organizations have made contri-! ed back to Denmark on a British | tributions may be taken any time butions. Pelee BR See ee :ship. Three men in line behind| between 9 0’elock*in the morning; One of those who has displayed thim were from Wales, Ireaind | and 6 in the evening, except Satur-/a great interest in the annual ;and England. So there was noth-| | days when 12 o’clock will mark the! Community Christmas Tree sat jing left for Petersen, who paige today that approximately 1,500! were anded by Harvey W. ed very, very badly to get back' However there is one other children will need to be served! |to his folks, but to become a‘means whereby the toys may be this year, and that every effort | Seeds Post Drum and Bugle Scotchman, and a Scot he was for sent. Phone Number 495 and a will be made to bring joy to their Corps. The flag was raised over the monument. fired by units from Battery E, Florida National Guard. Taps jthe voyage. Officer Petersen re-' scout will call for them. Con- hearts. jceived his Master Mariner’s li-| cense from the Academy in Den- mark, and also here in America. He was 28 years old when he was given command of his first ship, the “Kinta”, a Shipping Board | ship, Lynd Navigation Company. | Officer Petersen was Third |Mate on the ill-fated “Vestris”) |which sank off Cape Hatteras a; 'few years ago. He is also a col-! jlector of old books. His prizes are two volumes on ships..and, shipping, of which only 300/ volumes exist, Petersen has had 18 years serv-| Monroe County Illiteracy Shown To Have Reduced { Dr. John J, Tigert delivered the i the jnoon, a simple, impressive speech. Dr, Wm. R. Warren of Key West laid the cornerstone. Later, individuals, and the fol- ine Veterans and Patriotic or- By PAUL MAY {ganizations of Key West, present- (Special Wasi Corresponacas, ¢d wreaths at the crypt: Arthur —_——. ‘PREPARES STORY | ot pated |Sawyer Post, American Legion, ABOUT REY WASHINGTON, D. C., Novem-| presentation by Post Commander ice in the Coast Guard, and has! \ber 18.—Monroe county’s annual| Wn. H. Reardén; Spanish War been stationed both in Alaska and|TO oa RED SHORTLY '¢*""ing power has been boosted | Veterans, represented by Mrs. G. tin Boston. IN WIDELY READ PUB- [approximately $9,075 during the |Warner By pe ng wisi — ‘OLDEST KEY WEST yen | past four years through reduction and 5, Victor Larsen; Ladies | of illiteracy in the county, ac-| Auxiliary, American Legion, Mrs. “The Town T That Everybody | cording to estimates by specialists | Adriana Sands; Monroe County Sold Short” is the striking title him the Office of Education. | Commissioners, BE. R. Rivas Rebecca Ambrister, one of the pioneer members of the Bethel A. M. E. church, colored, died last week in Key West at the age to a story of Key West whic! ee Among the individuals: John A will be printed shortly in a wide.| The estimated ten percent re-| Russell, of Islamorada, presented illiteracy, of 116 years. The deceased was jborn in 1821, as shown by the ly read publication. “The article [luction through |_ wreath as a memente of the will be from the pen of S. Roger | federal, state and loeai adult eda-|38 members of the family whe Wodin, of the Public Re lations|cation projects, means approxi- | lost their lives in the hurricane. Eastern Division of the Pan mately 60 persons in Monroe cote | Lt. Comér. O | A. Sandquist, American Airways. |ty have been taught to read and! General Chairman of the Dedics Mr. Wodin came to Key West|write during the four-year pe-| tion Committees, received a tele- Tuesday on a brief vacation and |riod, it was said, igram from President Roosevelt records of the family. to assemble data for his story i The recognized deficiency imjduring the ceremonies. It was As far as it is possible to as-'To insure authenticity of the ma- | eartfing power of an illiterate per-jread from the monument. The certain, she was the oldest person terial he contacted Mise Ileen|son is 50 cents for each working | contents follow: “White House, who has ever died in this county, Williams and Miss Minnie Porter day, and it is on this basis the November 14, 1937. I join in tie of whom any record is available,’ Harris, knowing that from these; increased earning power of Mon-' dedication of the monument to but some of the older inhabitants {two well informed business women|roe county through reduction of those who met desth in the awfal! who had known her since they he could secure reliable and eab- iMiteracy is figured. visitation that swept the Florida |were children, and had been asso-: stantial information. The county still has approxi-|Keys on Labor Day 1935. The ciated with the fami believed! They left the office on Duval mately 550 illiterates, however,’ disaster which made desolate the that she was older than the giv- street and before the hour for| according to Office of Education hearts of so many of our people }em age at the time of her death.'the plane to leave, Mr. Wodin | estimates, However, the reeords of the!said that he had material suffi-| Federally sponsored adult edu- because some years ago family have been well kept and ‘cient to round out a thoroughly cation projects alone will have many residents of the Keys there is no doubt in the minds of |interesting stoty, and had he the reduced illiteracy im Florida by tender to all whose hearts were many persons of advanced age, time, he could sit down and write 35,132 at the end of this year, it; torn by the long of loved ones an who have been intimately associ- ated with the family, who are convineed that the age ix correct as given to the mortician, None of the children deceased are known to be and only three of ; principal address of after- in it right then. The thing | was said. jaseurance of heartfelt sympathy. that intrigued him at that) [Franklin D. Roosevelt.” time was a name to attract the! j Motoreades came from beth attention of the most casual| ‘Miami and Key West. Over six reader. | PHILADELPHIA—When Asron hundred care and from 12000 In silence he sat and at last, Fels, #1, and Mra Sarah Gold- to 2500 visitors were estimat- with his face radiantly expressive,| berg, 74, were married in this' od to heve been st the scene. Car! said, “I have the caption for the/eity, their grownup children of Bervaldi, chairman of the Monroe story.” which are the six words at/ former marriages acted ss st- County Commissioners, made avail- the beginning of this article. [ tendants. (Costinsed on Page Pour) only ACT AS ATTENDANTS the livin her grandch: there is a number of great-grand- ichildren, who survive EVERY JOB NEEDS A GOOD COAT OF PAINT WHETHER SMALL OR LARGE. FOR FLOORS OR FURNITURE, USE SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PAINT. SOUTH FLA.