The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 17, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No. 273. Casa Marina: Making Ready. For Coming Tourist Season| Cocktail Bar To Be One! Of Many Improvements At Hostelry This Win-' ter Season A mag nt cocktail bar will; be an addition at the Casa Ma- rina this winter season. i Architect, Shultze and’ Weaver, who built the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City, The Breakers at Palm Beach, the Atlanta Bilt- mere and others of the country’s finest ‘hotels, have designed the! bar and also an adjacent out-of- door dance floor and band shell. Such a gorgeous thing will the | bar be that Manager Peter B./ Schutt insists it will be the “most! attractive bar in South Florida.” Long glass windows will enclose the new addition. The bar itself will be octagonal shaped, and above and around it will be the | erystal clearness of mirrors and; the magical color of blue glass, decorated with metal crests, All fittings will be in chrome steel, and a beautiful chandelier will hang from the ceiling. Deep, leather-eushioned lounge seats and a rubber tiled floor will com- plete the pictcre. The bar will have an entrance to the hotel and mnother*to “the “outdoor dance floor. Outside, there will be a color- ful scene. A _ terraced portico decorated in Spanish grillwork will overlook the circular outdoor, Cuban tiled dance-floor under the eoeonut trees, around which brightly-colored lawn chairs, tab- les and beach umbrellas will be grouped. j The setting will be complete} with the nationally-famous or- | chestra from “The Homestead”; at Hot Springs, Virginia, engag- ed “for the season, Mr. Schutt predicts a wonderful season, “much better than last year.” Visible proof of this state- ment is already available, Mr. Schutt continued, in the fact that advance reservations are “much larger” at this time than at the same time last year. Asked when the Casa Marina! ‘would open, Mr. Schutt stated that the formal opening would be on Chrismas Day, but that the hotel would be available, with/ modified service, on December 1 for early guests. Last yea: this service was inaugurated for the} first time and proved very popu- lar. The date for ‘the’ annual opening Dinner Danc> will be an-} nounced later, Other improvements at the ho- tel a The new glass enc'osure on the south loggia, new modern oil burners for steam heaters, and enlargement of the bathhouse. The popular couple, Mr. and} Mrs. Walter Buzzell, are in} charge of the Beach again this; year. A new tennis _professional,; Walter Cassitty, will take over the court duties. The operating staff this year is much the same us last, with the} addition of Newton Grove as chief clerk. “Prince”, head has been in Mr. for 28 years, will be back again, Below is the list of those on the operating staff: j Peter Schutt, manager; Newton, Grove, chief clerk; Robert Voorhis, | cashier; Lawrence Day,, front clerk; Mrs. Everett Kinsman, } private bookkeeper; Miss Bobbie Gordon, private secretary; Mrs. E. McCarty, housekeeper; J. A, MacIsugall, head waiter; Chas. Marcher, chef-steward; K. A. Jordan, chief engineer; Walter bellman, who} Schutt’s service! | Buzrell, in charge of bath house! and beach; Fd. Cussitty, tennis professional; Harry Scales, head barkeeper; Miss Mae Beale, pub- licity and correspondent; “Prince”, bead bellman. ANY LI TAMPA ATTORNEY: LEAVES ON CUBA ARRIVED MONDAY TO FILE PETITION IN MRS. HODG- DON’S WILL ‘Chester Ferguson, prominent member of the Florida Bar Asso- ciation and associated with the firm of McKay, MadFarlane, Ramsey and Jackson, of Tampa, was a passenger on the Steamship Cuba yesterday after a brief business visit\in Key West, re- turning to Tampa. Mr. ‘Ferguson arrived Monday morning for the purpose of filing the papers in the petition for re-+ vocation of the will of the late Mrs. Charlotte Amelia Hodgdon, calling for appointment of an- other executor and a new account- ing. One of Mr, Ferguson’s great pleasures in coming to Key West is meeting old friends and school- mates who were his while a stu- dent at the University of Florida. He was a guest yesterday of Coun- ABBED MAN IS QUESTIONED | BY SOLICITOR RELATES STORY OF INCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED RECENT- LY AT DRINKING PLACE AT MARATHON James Richardson, of Home- stead, Fla., who was stabbed in the right breast, while in a drink- ing place at Marathon, was being questioned this morning by’ Coun- ty Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr., in the sheriff's office. Richardson, according to his story and that of his wife, he was seated in the place playing a game of cards, when his assailant, by | name Charles Davis, entered the | place, walked up behind Richard- | san, threw his arm around Richard- |son’s neck and plunged the blade {of a large pocket knife into his | right breast. So deep was the wound the lung was punctured. But few words were spoken after, the assault, it was said by the Richardsons, but what were said indicate that it was the in- tention of Davis to “kill” Richard- son, and this phase of the attack is being sifted and investigated to the minutest detail by Mr. Cleare. Richardson expects to leave | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY ‘Descriptive Article On Overseas Highway Appears In Richmond Publication| “Great Oversea Highway to Link Key West to Mainland”, !the caption of one of the most in- teresting of the many articles de- scribing the roads and_ bridges now under course of construction, and rapidly nearing completion. The story referred to was writ ten by Larry Rollins, and appear- jed in a recent issue of the Rich- mond Times-Dispatch, published ,in Richmond, Va. The paper has {a circulation of upwards of half million, ard its president and pub- lisher is John D. Wise, brother of Mrs. J. J. Trevor, of Key West. | Mr. Wise has been in Key West jon a number of occasions and had the opportunity to assemble the important data which is used in Mr. Rollins’ article. The larg {and comprehensive illustrations {were seeured for Mr. Wise in Key ; West, and are from the Matlack studios of Miami. Five large illustrations almost jcover the front page of Section 14 of the issue, and are sur- ‘rounded by the excellent story which tells in detail “The story of man’s efforts to link the Keys to the mainland, efforts that cost | millions of dollars and 200 lives.” The progress of the work is |told in an intriguing and com- is | Browne, as to |on Duval street. j tour of the city, met many out- ‘Commerce Body Sends Out ; packages which have been sent out | Various ty Solicieor Allan B. Cleare, Jr., | prehensive manner, and is so in- who was a classmate of his. MOVE FOR REAL within a few days for Marathon! : and will keep in touch with the| terestingly placed before the read- " ‘ et ler that even one who has no idea | office of the sheriff. Davis is a ‘ f | prisoner in the county jail. of the city before the hurricane Che Key West Citizen pof 1935 destroyed the railroad, | nor of the results of that terrific | holocaust, ean readily visualize ‘the entire situation, and come to | perfect realization of what has | been accomplished and what the jroad will be when the last action is recorded early in 1938. At the left hand corner of the | page at the bottom is a picture of |B. M. Duncan, “Engineer in |charge. He superimposes a $3,- 600,000 roadway on what the 1935 ‘hurricane left of Henry Flagler’s | $50,000,000 overseas railway bridges.” In the lower right hand corner of the page is a picture of the late Henry M. Flagler, “Flagler’s | Folly” scoffers said, would burst ‘in‘a bubble. But the overseas lrailway earned $10,000,000 for! theFlagler estate in 10 years.” Whe larger of the pictures, to the) number of five, were loaned for; the \artiele by Miss Teen Wil- liams and Miss Minnie Porter | Harris. Other pictures have been displayed by these two young and progressive women to hundreds of people in various parts of the | country. | On their recent vacation in the ‘eastern states, they placed with iC. B. Treadway, attorney of | Washington, one of the sets, and} | this in turn was loaned to Harry | Hopkins, to to shown to President | Roosevelt. i \Officers Making All Business ESTATE DIVISION MATTER TAKEN UP AT MEET- ING OF CHAMBER OF COM- MERCE DIRECTORS “MRS. SANDERSON IS VISITING HERE ACCOMPANIED BY DAUGTER WHO CAME HERE TO RECUPERATE | The directors of the Key West | Chamber of Commerce held @ meeting this morning, in course of whieh wletter was received from Hugh Williams stating that after consulting real estate dealers in Key West, it had been found to be desirable to form an organization, and that the logical thing to do seemed to be to form a real es-: tate division of the Chamber of Commerse, The suggestion met with the approval of all present and the real estate dealers are invited to meet in the Chamber of Commerce sonia" on Friday night. STEAMER DUE IN PORT TODAY Steamship West Hassayampa| is scheduled to arrive in port this afternoon at 6 o'clock, pos- sibly earlier, will berth at the Porter Dock ‘Co., and take on a supply of fuel oil. Freighter Ozark, of the Clyde- Mallory Lines, is due to arrive Friday afternoon from New Or- leans and is en route to Key West, Miami and Jacksonville, Chief of Police Ivan Elwood ‘and Patrolmen Franklin Aren- |berg, are today beginning a sys- tematic investigation of all places }of business in Key West which j have failed to be provided with | the necessary licenses. Another objective of these offi- cers is a, careful eheck of all mo- tor vehicles which are required to earry automobile and truck city | licenses, and to make a compre- {hensive report as to their findings in both surveys. Mayor Willard M. Albury said this morning that his instructions to the chief and his companion were that every place of business is to be visited and optical evi- dence secured as to the license and whether or not it rovers the type of business conducted. Continuing, Meyor Albury said Mrs. Charles 'W, .. Sanderson, formerly of Key West but now making her home in Miami, ac- companied by her daughter, Miss florence Sanderson, are visiting in the city and are guests of Mrs. Sanderson’s sister ‘Mrs. Min- nie Robinson, at 709 Eaton street. Miss Florence had been suf- fering from an illness and it was decided that recovery would be speeded by a visit to Key West, hence the trip, which will last several weeks. NEW CALL FOR BRIDGE WORKERS Three white laborers were re- quisitioned today by the S. J. Groves and Sons Construction Co., for Contract F, at Little Duck Key, to work on the bridge project at that point. ' W. G. Little, in charge of the United States Employment Serv- ice Bureau, said the men are available and will be sent to the destination tomorrow morning, | | In a very interesting meeting |held at its office Monday night, members of the Board of Diree- jtors of Social Club Roosevelt agreed by a unanimous vote to igive a benefit dance for the un- der privileged children on relief Rehabilitation Of Hotel Jefferson Made Possible si" 2s tstiec! «vir Fred H, Farwell, state agent Secretary S. C. Singleton of the| however, it is believed that the for the Reconstruction Finance local Chamber of Commerce for, Club will arrange one of the big- Corporation Mortgage Company|more data, and was very favor-|gest dance attraction for some of Jacksonville, completed a con-}ably impressed with the town anditime during December, entire sultation yesterday with Joseph} its people. | proceeds of which will go to those E. Browne, executor of the estate Yesterday afternoon Mr. Far-} Necessary City Licenses Check On es Minus Of bisa he has instructed the offi- cers to make their report by Fri- dgy evening, and after that date warrants will be issued owners of all places of business found with- jout the necesary license, and \the same step will be taken in the case of owners of automobiles jfound without the city tag. h kacther of any objectives. tx to rid the streets of the city of }those riders who persist in riding |bieyeles on the sidewalks. Now | don’t tell me,” he said,.“this has been ordered before. But I am issuing orders that all sidewalk riders are to be told in no un- ‘certain terms that riding on the |sidewalks is an offense punish- ‘able by fine or imprisonment, or ‘both, and I intend to have the i laws relative to this carried out to the fullest extent.” ‘Plan Benefit Dance For Under Privileged Children , kiddiesewhose parents ean’t afford the price of a hair) ¢ut for them. |. ‘A committee headed by Oscar \Milian and Raul Rios, treasurer of the club, was appointed to | visit different barbers who will be asked to submit a bid. The best bid offered will be awarded the contract which will list more | than 200 school children. This Club organized recently for charitable and beneficial pur- poses, also agreed to make a do- nation of $12.00 to help continue diamondball through the winter season. of the late Judge Jefferson B.' well was the honor guest of Juan ; the possible re-! Carbonell at a. dinner. Present habilitation of the Jefferson Hotel] were the Messrs, Ray Bush, Billj |Egan, Frank Carbonell, Juan Car-| aj bonell, Joseph E. Browne. H Mr. Farwell left yesterday on in on'the plane. ! Mr. Farwell was taken on standing people, dropped \ i Jand encouraging reports were re- jceived at the meeting of Troop 5 . Much Key West Literature ® S22 iw In addition to numerous other; pounds, to be sent by express te United destined for esley House Monday night. lot playground is going on nicely and the patrol will go on the let this afternoon for further About one half sf the jot has been Cleaning up the for seetions of the from the Key West Chamber of! 5* and several v Canada. a ; ‘Small or large, light or heavy Key West, another lot} each package contained a variety {of descriptive matter was sent out {of publicity matter which carrie: lyesterlay. a complete de: Ption S. C. Singleton, executive sec-! points of in’ on the island be in readiness for beautification, jretary for the chamber, said that) of Key West and the Florida Keys, | which the Girl Scouts are going te jthe lot contained 71 packages | and an invitation to the world to! take over. [weighing home two pounds to 60j visit Key West, | A contmittee of seven scouts, ' {Commerce containing literature }relative to activity of | Boy Scout Organization Has Interesting Sessio Very few absentees were noted,;all volunteers, in cooperation with{gers for Key West; 18 first the | cleaned amd it appears that with, he |4 little mere effort the area will) NOVEMBER 17, 1937. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit New City’ we During Meeting Last Frenng PATRICK J. DORAN. DIED THIS MORNING | FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON LARGE NUMBER ASSEMBLE AT CITY HALL FOR PROCEEDINGS; MANY ADDRESSES ARE DELIVERED BY OFFICIALS AND OTHERS PRESENT At a lergsly attended meeting: this is the best way to dispose {of it. j The city health officer said Patrick J. Doran, 62, died this|*he "ew mayor, Willard M. Al- ry Barty rer re cn ee morning in the Marine Hospital| bury, city. councilmen and all 4 condition which causes much of- Sickness from the decay of food- stuff and other rotten matter. He urged all to take more inter- est in sanitation, and thereby city bring about a condition in this 'matter which will be more health- ful and satisfying to the city as a | lheld last night in the City Hall, after an illness covering a short} other elective and appoin' time. Funeral services will be! ficers were inducted into of held this afterncon 4:30 o'clock! im inauguration of the new from the chapel of Pritchard’s sth Funeral Home, 901 Division street. became | whole. Rev. Shuler Peele, of Fleming: i Ww. luded by ask Street Methodist church, wil offi-|aeated at 7:30 o'clock, and slew | sr tha coopeaen ae ae dees : |diepcsing of routine business, ad-'zens in this important mat- The deceased was a retired first | - f e: (ter, and promised to make every sergeant of the U. S. Army, hav-/|Journed sine die, after which the effort toward keeping the city as istration. The councilmen old ing been retired at the expiration! of 30 yéars service, and had seen} action in the Philippines and Eu-} rope, | Survivors are ' Margaret Doran; one brother,} John Doran, of three sistes, Mrs. Anna Farmer and Mrs, Elizabeth Farmer, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Mary! Baemanster, of New Jersey. | KEY WEST FREE FROM BLACK FLY, the .widow, Mrs. FAIL TO FIND ANY TRACE) \ OF PEST DURING RE- { ‘CENT SEARCH | tem. ' | Search for any traces of the! black fly, which during the early part of the year required the services of a large group of em-} phloyes of the State Plant Board,| proved of no avail during the re-; cent visit of the employes. There were 17 members of the plant board in the city and their; investigation was thorough and} widespread, no place which could} harbor the fly or larvae that was; not investigated, but not a fly nor! egg was discovered. H. S. McClanahan, grove inspec- tor in this section, under whom the search was made, declared it) to have taken in every section where the flies were foun! dur- ing the first investigation but the | island wag free from the pest. The entire group of investiga- tors have now left this section! and will not be back, said Mr. Me-; Clanahan, until some time next FROM HAVANA PASSENG™TRS BOOK HERE FOR TRIP TO TAMPA PORT i problems to be met by the new! \administration in many different | Steamship Cuba, of the P. and} O. S. S. Co., arrived yesterday afternoon from Havana with four [first and six second cabin passen- 52, a committee from Troop 52, will call on the people of the com- munity and join in the movement} | for gathering toys for the Poor) children. Edward Strunk was received in-| to membership after which seven seconds for Tampa. } Key West arrivals: Omer Her- bert, Lewis Riley, May Rueff, Jesus Gomez, James Jamerson,) Domingo Romen, Herbert B. Gailey, Leslie E. Allen, Goiller-! ;mo Guito, Marta Romen Listings on the ship's manifest showed nine tong of freight ds new council members took their seats and started off the new ad- ministration. Police Justice T. S. Caro acted Philadelphia; as swearing-in officer, and pre-| sided all through the session while the various officers took was sworn in by City Clerk Wal- lace Pinder. | The first order of business by the new regime was the selection of a president of the “ couttelf, with E, Adams being named for the position. man was selected as president pro- Dr. William R, Warren was reappointed city health officer; with Millard Gibson being ap- pointed sanitary officer and meat inspector. George G. Brooks was appointed city attorney, Chas, E. Roberts, city avditor, and Eddie Gomez, supervisor of registration. Thos. E. Roverts was also ap) pointed as a sanitary officer, who has agreed to setve without com- pensation due to the fact that he ig now serving in a like capacity with the WPA. Mir, Roberts stated that he was doing this in order to render whatever service he could for the benefit of the city, which he has always had at heart. He promised to cooperate in every way possible for the welfare of the entire community. A resolution was adopted set- ting the first and third Thutsdays of each month as regular ‘meet ing nights of the council. title for the sessions will be 7:30 | o'clock in the winter and 8 o'clock in the summer, Mayor Albury was the speaker to take the floor, and after thanking the voters for the excellent vote he received, gave a partial outline of what he proposed to do in connection with the duties of hig office. The new mayor said that he felt there would be many new ways, and asked the cooperation lof all citizens in order to bring! about better conditions in al) lines of endeavor, Mayor Albury particularly stressed the matter of having po- and lice officers perform their duties} ted that he orders to to the letter, efd had airehdy ‘giten this effert 2 Tie mpyor epncidded his ad- drew by! promising a ‘strict en forcement of al! laws in the in terest of the city’s welfare. Dr Wifiam R. Warren, city health officer, responded to a cal! William A. Free-! The) first | ‘clean as possible, especially now jas the tourists have started to larrive, and expressed a hope that everyone would bear this in mind, and lend their efforts in every way toward making Key West a clean city throughout. Others who were called upon, ‘and who gave short talks. were: ;T. S. Caro, Waddell Pinder, Sam Hart, Wallace Pinder, Sam Pin- loath of office. Mr. Caro, himself! gery, William T. Archer, George Brooks, E. Albertus, Councilmen | Roberts. lowing are the elective who Were sworn brand i ~ | dueted into office: Mayor, Willard M, Albury; City {Clerk, Wallace Pinder; Chief of | Police, Ivan Elwood; Captain of | Night Police, Alberto Camero; | City Treasurer, William T. Arch- er; Tax Colleétor-Assessor, Sam- uel B. Pinder; Police Justice, Thomas S. Caro. Councilmen: E. Adams, \presi- |dent; William A. Freeman, presi- dent pro-tem; William T. Dough- try, Roy Fulford, William H. Mon- salvatge, Jim Roberts, Will E. P. Roberts. | Election Commissioners: A. Collins, Ira Albury, jamin C. Roberts, | Appointive Officers: Oity Health | Officer, Dr. William R. Warren; | Sanitary Officer and Meat Inspee- |tor, Millard Gibson; City Attorney, |George G. Brooks; (City Auditor, Charles E. Roberts. Police Ooffi- Sergeant, Joseph Kemp; , Raymond Cabrera; Call Officer, Paul Thompson; Bienve- inido Perez, Franklin Arenberg. |John Nelson, T, F, (Buster) Ros | sell, Jose Espinosa, Tom Borchef, W. F. Collins, Laurie Roberts. Eduardo Albertus, custodian of city hall; Charles B. Sands, eap- tain of city’s sewerage. vessel, Greyhound. Standing Committees Finance: Freeman, chairman; (Monsalvatge and De , Fire: Pulford, chairman; Dough- itry and Monsalvatge, | Budget: Dozghtry, chairman; Freeman and Monsalvatee. | Tax: Monsalvatge, chairman; Doughtry and Will Roberts Ordinance: Jim Roberts, chair man; Folforg and Will Roberts Sanitary: Will Roberts, chair- man; Fulford and Jim Roberts. Building: Monsalvatge, chalr- man; Doughtry and Will Roberts. Greens: Pulford, chairman; Doughtry and Monsalvatge. Police: Will Roberts, chair- wan; Jim Robert, and Freeman. Street: Fulford, chairman; Will Roberts and Monsalvatge. Aquariam: Monsslvatge, ehair- John Ben- f “| man; Polford and Freeman. There was to printing commit- \tee appointed, which was probably |due to an oversight. the! three sacks of mail for Key West; | from the cheir for an address, and | nnn scout laws were recited and the! 16 tons of freight and 134 sacks of gave a comprehensive outline of; ANNOUNCEMENT— Benediction of the Great Scout- Master was pronounced j After the words of sdjourn- ment were said, most of the boys ned for a while and played jseveral games including Stealing The Bacon. jand several second eabin. mail for Tampa. Sailing on the vessel at o'clock were the following book-, ings from this port: J. W. Clay-| dents a ton, C. Hendérson, Chester Fer-| garbage and trash, and cited in-} guson, Mrs. Delphine Valenzuela! stances where many people have) genitary matters Dr. Warren} 5 stressed the great need for bet-} ter cooperation among the resi- in the disposal of} Grand Award Offered te —PRIZE NIGHT — at PALACE THEATER Was Awarded To MR. MERVILLE ROSAM We invite you to join in the and Joyce and Joan Valenzuela,|s habit of throwing garbage an4 ¢55 every Tuesday night. TTLE IMPROVEMENT YOU MAKE ON YOUR HOME WILL ADD TO THE APPEARANCE OF YOUR TOWN. FOR BUILDING. MATERIAL, PHONE ‘tresh om vacant lots, feeling that)