The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 18, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No. 274. One Of WPA Projects In Key: West To: Be: Resumed With Increased: Personnel edededededededok, |HIGHWAY WILL BE OPENED TO HOG KEY ABOUT DECEMBER 15 (By Associated Press) MIAMI, Nov. 18.—Paul Marks, attorney for the Over- seas Road and Toll Bridge District, s: today that the Overseas Highway will be operied to Hog Key about December 15, saving motor- [PLAN ELECTION ON MATTER OF GAS TAX FUND |To BE HELD DECEMBER 30; RELATIVE TO COUNTY TURNING OVER MONI=S TO CITY -DEPARTMENT Relative To Archives And Records Covering Vari- 4 Notice of the election relative to the payment to the City of Key West by the County of Monroe, the sum of $50,000 for the use jspevified, will appear officially in The ‘Citizen tomorrow and for four consecutive weeks after- ward. This. was decided iast night at a recessed meeting of the board of dounty commissioners which was ous Activities In Monroe County By PAUL MAY (Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 18. —The WPA archives and records project in Monroe county, halted several weeks ago because of ists about three hours of the ferry journey. Attorney Marks said that through traffic would prob- | keld in the office of, Clerk Ross C. Sawyer in the court house, which was attended by Chairman Carl Bervaldi and Commissioners B.»B. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBE The Kry West Citizen R 18° 1987. Making Efforts Toward Staging Operettas In Key West T his Winter George Mills White, supervisor{ Mr. and Mrs. White , while in of Federal Music Projects in Re |e wiil attend the concert to West, aceompanied by Mrs. | be given there tomorrow night by | White, left over the highway this) Fritz Kreisler, world renowned morning for Miami to confer with| violinist, and have the opportuni- Dr. Clarence Carter Nice, state!ty of renewing his friendship musie supervisor, on the possibili-| with Carl Lamson, ties of presenting operettas in|for Kreisler, with whom Key West this winter, and also on| White was associated for a plan to take groups from Key; years while in Boston. Mr. West for Gilbert and Sullivan|)Mrs. White expect to return shows in Miami, home early next week. ‘COMMERCE BODY’S SECRETARY. SENDS OUT UNIQUE. INVITATION accompanist ; Mr. ive | Over Sixty Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Parcels Of Key | West Property Change Hands Exhibit Of Rocky Mountain Indian Given At Recent Fellowship Club Meeting) A valuable exhibit and first- hand information on the Rocky Mountain Indian was tendered members cf the Stone Church Civic Club at their regular meet- jing Tuesday evening by Speaker Emmet S_ Walden, professor at ithe Division Street School. Mr. Walden was employed in isthool work at Little Haskell, [Some OF Holdings Includ: ed In Deal Recently Consummated Are Sit- uated On Duval Street ] The Indians are famous for |their medicinal remedies. Those} lin Oklahoma have even perfected! ta positive cure for snake bite, and jnot that customary among some Key West Investment white men, but the younger gen- | jeration have not continued this Inc., holdings for the More than 60 parcels of prop- erty in Key West, comprising the Company, End City |study and.a great deal of this iknowledge is being lost, | The Indians notoriously have a j great weakness for firewater. On | Holding Co., Inc., West Proper- ties, Inc., and Southern Land Co. Inc., were sold to W. P. Brown shortage of funds, be sumed with increased personnel, Warren, Norberg Thmopson and Cleveland Niles; County Attorney W. Curry Harris, attorney for the W. E. Crummer Bonding Co., J. !Lancelot Lester, and Chief Dep- uty Bernard Waite. # resolution on the matter of the election wag presented and ;read, and provides for an election to be called December 30, in the will re-| ably be possible after March 15, although two months will be required after that to clear parkways, erect guard and other like matters. BGLII I ISIS DMs ‘FLORIDA PRESS it was announced today at the of- A j rails fice of Senator Andrews. * The project will be carried for- ward to completion in the county requiring probably eight or ten TO BRING VISITORS TO CITY Oversea Hotel; received a copy of | the New York Times of Novem-| tour to the south which terminat-) jed at St.:Augustiné, and a letter jfrm George W, Wells, of the Re- i and Travel Department, Leo F.. Hughes, manager of the!and migrators south got’ over that! positions of athletic director and | ball team with him in the smoker notidn some time prior to 1912. “Man Alive! You haven’t come ber 7, containing an: article on a south when you get to St. Augus-) o¢ You have only ‘started south. St. Augustine is a lovely place and we congratulate any one who gets that far, just as we tine. Oklahoma for four years in the) one trip, Mr. Walden had his foot- Miperiiitendent and Associates this week. | The Indian articles { we: \talking over plays. He failed to exhibited | notice, however, that the porter; re'all partly made of the skin| was regularly beckoning his play-; 86me animal and were over 60/ers out, one by one. Came the | yesterday through the courtesy of lyeats old, showing the excellency | game—on the first line plunge; 2 Clarke- vice-president of \of the Indian tanning process. | al] his players sprawled on the; | There were 2 number of toma-jground, while the opposition, sur- jhawks, made of horn and _hide,|prisingly, stayed om their feet. On made This announcement was the Briggs Manufacturing Co., of Detroit, Michigan, makers of more months’ work, as part of a statewide project for which allotment of $175,371 WPA funds has just been approved by the President, the Senator's of- fice said. When the project finished, all archives’ and records of the county, either historic or official, will have been catalogued and tab- ulated, it was said. Senator An- drews asked for the grant to con- tinue the work after numerous protests had been received from Florida on cessation of the work, his office said. is 1 i ASSN. MEETING GRAND SUCCESS, ANNUAL CONVENTION CLOS.| | ED WITH ELECTION OF DON LECHNER AS PRESI- DENT TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Nov. 18. (FNS).—Staging the most suc- cessful meet in its history, the Florida State Press Association brought its annual convention to a, close hete with the election of Don ier, publisher of — the Clermont Press, as president for county, in all voting precincts for ‘the purpose of voting on the fol- lowing proposition: The State Board of Administra- tion shall be authorized annually ;to pay Fifty Thousand ($50,000) Dollars of Monroe County Gaso- line Tax Funds, to the city of Key West for debt service pur- poses. Polls for this election shal! be ; kept open from 8 o’clock in the orning until sundown and ail j qualified electors of Monroe coun- ity shall be quelified to partici- pate, The Citizen was asked this morning if qa qualified elector at the city election of last week could vote in the election of De- cember 30, and to this the answer {is no, unless payment 6f the 1936! | poli tax is made prior.to the day of election. Before this question was an- ‘swered the quéstion was put to several attorneys and in each case the answer was that it. would be {heetssary fot a voter to pay the required poll tax, unless, of course, jthe ensuing year, sueceeding Rob- lert F. Sikes of Crestview. Other officers chosen were Tate Péw- lell, Jr, MeClenny Press, first SCOUT OFFICIAL ARRIVES IN CITY GENERAL SECRETARY OF IN- vice president, and Paul Rardin, Everglades: News; Canal Point, second vice president. Henry ‘ he was on the list of exempts in the registration books. qavrt congratulate any one who which reads as follows: religion, but you are not “The article, ‘Southward Over ‘the Battlefield Trail’ which ap- pears in the attached issue of the Report and Travel Section of the New York Times, is sent you in the event it m: have escaped your attentio The outstanding thing that did not eseape the attention of Mr. Hughes was the fact that a trip south which did not include Key West seemed to him a littlt short of the mark, and yesterday at the meeting of directors of the Cham-/ ™ ber of Commerce he referred! ® egpeh sandwich. — the letter to Secretary S. C. Sin-| “You will realize why St. gleton, with a request that he | Augustine is recommended as be- take up the matter with Mr. ing the oldest city in the United Wells. Mr. Singleton’s reply in-| States; she never had a conch dicates that he feels just as does|$2ndwich. That is, it looks that Mr, Hughes, and Mr. Wells gets! Way, We hope you will give an invitation to come to Key!TFopieal Florida the benefit of West in these cordial terms: | your descriptive talents and if you “Dear Mr. Wells: jean get down here you will realize! “Your letter to the manager of} that you can write a very interest-| the Overseas Hotel was handed ing story for which this fine pub- to me, calling attention to the | licity of November 7 will only be lvery beautiful publicity you are|a preface. Any trail leading to-; in dred miles; not until you get to , Key West. “Having gotten as far as St. Augustine let us suggest that you | pause, diseard your winter cloth- | ing and come on down here where j you will feel over-dressed in the threé cornered lingerie of your childhood, and can eat breadfruit and can live on the milk of the }eocoanut and human kindness. Unfortunately, from my point of! tlefield Trail, if the historian giving to the southern migration.! ward Key West becomes a ‘Bat-} view, your description of the mi-'stops short of the only Tropical! feathers and animal hair. The heaven yet, not by several hun- head of one stone tomahawk was|smeared. Then, someone in ‘shaped in the form of a donkey’s ‘hoof, the emblem of the tribe. | Another tomahawk, except for |the stone head, was entirely cov- ‘ered with beadwork. A pair of beaded moceasins and a quiver completed the exhibit, The true blood Indian, Mr. Walden continued, is honest and trustworthy. Many great states- men and athletes of this country {is also a very moral person and {deeply religious. | ‘the tribe, it gives only the pun- jishment which should be meted but does not provide for its in- fliction.. The member in_question | performs that himself, whether it be banishent, torture or death. ‘Judge Refuses To Remove gets'and stone and hide, decorated with!the next play, a runner literally and was the stands shouted, “I want my money back. Why, all those Indian boys for Haskell are as drunk as owls.” Mr, Walden’s boys lost 59-0 and Mr. Walden, clinging to his bench for the remainder -of that long drawn-out game, was never more glad to hear a final whistle. Another experience of Mr. Walden’s was that in which he |staggered around end jdians ih southern Colorado, whose only sound to each other is a These the the that uttered by a goslin. Indians are very timid and government maintains them, ;Speaker stated. | The club now has a__member- ship of 42, ten new members join- ling in the past month. ‘automobile bodies for Ford, Chry- ‘sler ard General Motors, of which company Mr. Prown is president. The purchase was made the name of Brows Properties, Incor- porated. The sale was conducted through Fred J, Dion, agent for the Key | We repeat, come on down and get|Were Indian blooded. The Indian|came across the cliff-dweller In- ; West Investment Go., and allied properties over whick the com- When an Indian council sits on| plaintive “weep weep,” much like pany exercised jurisdiction. with the misconduct of a member of} the assistance of Paul Marks, at- ‘ torney of Miami, and legal rep- | resentative of the Overseas Road | and: Tol}. Bridge Commission. Properties involved in the sale include all of the holdings of the lKey West Investment Co. and | which are under the management jof the Guaranty Trust Co., “of Wm. Freeman As Executor) |New York. a Surveys of the holdings are to be made immediately with a view to future land uses. Many Hudson, Titusville Star Advocate’ was reelected treasurer and Rus- sell Kay, Florida Clipping & DORAN FUNERAL ice, Tampa, was feeleeted see-} HERE TOMORROW retary. The visiting editors, many of Domingo Romeu Y. Jaime, gen-|whom arrived Thursday after-' eral secretary of the internation-|100n, were entertained at Capi-| al boys scouts of Guba, is & visi- tol Gardens that evening. An all-| tor in Key West, . day businesg session was held at accompanied by | Wakulla Springs on Friday during) his daughter, Miss Marta Romeu./which a luncheon was served by| Conversing with The Citizen!the managemnt of the poe od today Mr. Romew said they were| followed by a boat trip. to the . é A levine a very intessetiag visit, | gardens where trained fish assum-| |, F magic cap hs pet rie pet and were enjoying themselves to}¢d the role of entertainers to the | sicepital cal a wel the utmost. delight -and amazement of the he held Pd erday Prids: ing, eles They will remain in the city | visitors. { i ae” pid, of until tomorrow afternoon when| All speakers were barred and ro tidiag 7 sare ms ‘rom they will leave on the Steamship |the entire session was given over| san — ; igs Peg Cuba for Tampa, And after. ajto the discussion of actual news- | Snwier Fee! pa ming short stay there will ‘go aenoss|/paper problems. Publishers atat-| church will officiate. state to Miami and rétirn to Ha-|ed that it was the most interest-| The interment is to be accom: vana on the Steamship Florida. jing and coristructive session in panied by full military hondrs, years and President Robert F,({ and all veterans of the Spanish NEW ARRIV AL IN Sikes was complmented by every.| American War are urgently in- TERNATIONAL UNIT OF CUBA IS VISITOR REV. SHULER PEELE TO OF- FICIATE AT SERVICES AT 4:30 O'CLOCK Rev. Street one on his conduct of the affair. | vited to attend. The local committee, under the) Pallbearers who have been se- direction of Gilbert Freman, left) lected to serve are all service men nothing undone in the way of en-/ or ex-service men, as follow: tertainment, the gridiron dinner! William Weaver, W. W. Johnson, = staged at the Florida State Col-| Christian Nonnemacher, Cleve H. Mr. and Mrs. F_ H. MeKiniey | tage for Women being the high-/ Steinspring, Fred J. Dion, Har: anounced today the birth of ilight. Guest speaker on this oc-| son T. Reese, Sergeant Joseph W. daughter yesterday afternoon in! easion was Clayton Rand, past) Mixon, Sergeant James Gallagher, the Alachua County hospital in| president of the National Edi-| and Sergeant Roy L. Beck. Gainesville, Fla. The baby weigh-| torial Association, whose inspiring | aes ed + gpg pectin vr address held his — entey-| ANNOUNCES FOR ing at e Citizen Offlee | tured for over an hour. this afternoon, Mr. McKinley said| Selection of the spring meet-| that mother and the new arrival! ing place was left. to the incom: | STATE OFFICE are doing nicely, and are expeet- fing Board of Directors, While | ed in Key West shortly after the} Lake Wales was chosen for the; tis Christmas holidays. fall meeting. | geting |W. E. (Buck) Hancock, formerly jof Bay County, but now a resi- Winter Schedule Of Ferry Pong ty: + oh gy tmelll gees 4 the! gration halts at St. Augustine,. City in the United States.” CUBABRINGS 24 TONS OF FREIGHT | ALSO HAS PASSENGERS; VES- SEL ARRIVES FROM TAMPA ENROUTE TO HAVANA Steamship Cuba, of the P. and) |0. 8. S, Qo., arrived this morning | |from Tampa with 12 first and thtee seeond cabin passengers for KeyWdst{ 14 first cabin, passen- jeers fr Havana... There were no seconds for the Cuban port. Key West arrivals: Mrs. 0. Wharton, daughters, Pamela and Joan; Mrs. J, A. Kerr, children, |Francis and Joan; Mrs. E. Wheat, {Mrs. E. Zimmerman, Mary Cohen, ' F. H. Boyd, G. W. Westrich, A. }G. Watson, agdalena Elweld, Adelaide Gonzalez, Jose Gon- lez. On the ship’s manifest hown the following items: jtons of freight and three sacks of |mail for Key West; one ton of |freight, one automobile and 239 {sacks of mail for Havana. CUSTOMS OFFICER IS VISITOR HERE i ' were MADISON, Nov. 18. (FNS).—} 4. G_ Watson, assistant col- lector of customs for the district f Florida, was an arriva! on S. S a this morning from Tampa rw a brief visit with Deputy Col- Cc ‘MRS. WHARTON ARRIVES HERE ACCOMPANIED BY CHILDREN; TO REMAIN DURING WINTER SEASON Mrs. O. Wharton and children, Pamela and Joon, were arrivals this morning from Tampa on, the Steamship, Cuba, and are occupy- jing Quarters D, in ‘the Naval Sta- tion for the winter. Herman Oliphant, general eoun sel for the United States) Treas- !ury Department, and Mra Oli- phant, parents of Mrs. Wharton, are expected to arrive some time in December and rémain’ until after the Christmas holidays. The families were in Key West last year and enjoyed their sea- son stay to such an extent they determined to again come for an- other stay. TRAFFIC INCREASES MIAMI, Nov. 18. (FNS).—Al- fie J. Angle, collector of customs, said passenger traffic to Miami from foreign ports during the first ten month, of this year increas- ed 27.9 pereent over 1936. There were 56,322 incoming boat passengers and 21,394 plane passengers this year. compared with 46,485 by boat and 14,131 jby plane last year. SPECIALS —at— Hearing on several items em- peal for increase of the bond of} \ the a | of the properties, it is said, will filed errs seo og genie ne demolished and new buildings | Monday in the court of Probate) In addition to increasing the; <recte A gigi pati 9 Judge Raymond R. Lord, relative, bond to $10,000, the court issued Propper ecrmer ig ee to the will of the late Mrs. Rage Figen dare apeanesy wl ‘The consideration is not to be ;lotte Amelia Hodgdon, were held = y {otder of the court, was he to PAS aspera until the buyer re j : » ae is information. this morning before Judge Lord, | any of the legatees, devisees oleae = pres Sa ae and perenne va an order being is- claimants, nor transact any busi-' volved in the sale are: Duval street sued increasing the bond of Land bopeaes the last testament 1 tween Southard and Angela, ecutor William A. Freeman from! the deceased. adjoining Navarro’s, Ine., and It was also ordered, in connec- * the Monroe Theater; from 606 beets rage | tion with the increase of the bond cimonton street to corner of An- The petition, as filed Monday’ of the executor, that the addi- gela, thence on Angela from No. by Chester Ferguson, representing tional bond of $9,000 be posted £17 't. 599. On Southard street the firm of McKay, MacFarlane; | within the next 48 hours. \from No. 512 to 518. Several Jackson and Ramsey, of Tampa| Attending the session of the parcels corner of Fort and Olivia who represent Phillip Bourquar-! probate court as participants in streets, dez, Arthur Bourquardez and’ the proceedings were: Judge Al-| Several parcels of Emma, An- Annie Bourquardez Jackson, the, bury, representing the contestants, gel, and Geraldine atreeta, several contestants, requests the court to’ Mr. Freeman and his attorneys, J.‘on Thomas street near Division; tevoke the will, the accounting, Lancelot Lester, and Aquilino severa} on Whitmarsh lane & to remove the executor and asks Lopez, Jr. joining Aingela; several on Cath- | for additional security, Attorney’s for Mr. Freeman crine and William streets, near the Additional security and re-| were told that the answer to the gas plant; several parcels on low- moval of the executor were the’ petition of the contestants of the,er Duval street opposite Florida subjects touched on this morning.! will is to be presented within the Motor Lines bus station, on Greene jJudge Lord denied the petition | next 20 days when the hearing on and Fitzpatrick streets and also for removal but granted the ap-|the matter will be hebi. jon Front street near the Mallory ‘Community Christmas Tree BRITISH VESSEL Committee Kept Very Busy COMES TO PORT | Bus vil? y days are ahead for the wil! be made this year. It was, |Community Christmas Tree com-| said this morning that many prom- / STEAMER BERTHS AT PORTER DOCK AND TAKES ON mittee, and evidences of this ac-|‘#*s of fruits and candies have) FUEL OIL re i been receiv: | tivity are seen in the replies to} arty Sennies toys| |the letters sent out to various or-' are welcomed, it is said, and these ganizations and individuals who! will be called for if the donors are asked to cooperate. These re-| Will phone 495, or will contact] githh Gtheswhip West Hasee plies are being checked at pres-|2"¥ ey or girl scout. Cash ‘dona-"yampa, arrived If the hartor last pel tions should be mailed to Mis’ niggt and at 9 o’clotk berthed at braced in the protest on { Construction of new toys and | Louise Russell, post office (botltte Porter Dock Compant’# main 850, or Ming Sasan LaKin, at her? Service To B in Nov. V3\ 0 he would be a candidate for the offiee of railroad commission- | Democratic er in one group, subject to the primaries of next er Norberg Thompson, head of | May Collecter A. J. Angle expected he ferry committee, it was decid-| The terms of Eugene S. Mat-'to come with Mr. Watson, but planaed to be put into effectied to put in effect the same ws and Jerry W. Carter expire foutd that business wou Tuesday, November 23 This} schedule as last winter, ferries to|in Jan . 1939. They have not petmit hig visiting at th statement was made this morning/leave No Name Key going north/ announced for reelection but are| ard Mr. Watson said that by Bugetio Demeritt, manager of)at 9 in the morning afid 2 o’clock/ expected to do so short! Ca stay would enly be for one the system, {in the afternoon, and simultan- es for their plac t was mecestary for him Maloney Bros. Bakery ,.ore=<* used ones will get PINEAPPLE RHUMBA and MILK! under way next Monday. at the! CHOCOLATE LAYER CAKES, NYA work shop. Painting | only ‘ 30e toys will be done by the boys in! All Pies, only 20c the shop and also the girl scouts . Cookies, doz 18e Boy scouts will assist in collect Fruit Cake, tb SOc! ing and assorting the toys. j Tonight, 10 tifl 7 n Cream Pies 2S As soon as possible employes) pema’s GARDEN OF ROSES Cream Buffs, doz. Se at the WPA sewing room will be Pritchard's Orchestre pier for bunkers en route to Cor- pus Christi, Texas. After taking on 29,877 gallons of fuel oil the ship sailed for ber destination where a cargo of scrap irom is to be loaded. | Officers of the ship said that the vessel was bought by an Eng- Tish concern 18 years ago, and this ector G. N. Goshorn and the local force. vesdence on Staples Avense Imerease in the service of th Monroe County Ferry System LOS AMIGOS CLUB'S— GRAND DANCE day, as to Mr. Demeritt said that follow-|eously the ferties would leavejelection in two groups in Novem- fi ing a discussion with Commission-' Matecumbe for the trips south. |ber, 1998. GOOD HARDWARE IS ESSENTI leave tomerrow m orning f sami. > ‘or Mi- ‘ Phone 818 812 Fleming Street was the first trip she has made jSmee the time of her purchase gin making soft toy, atid dolls and zn 1on~— many kinds of new styled toy: eo sete? * AL IN ANY JOB. DON'T BE SATISFIED WITH CHEAP GOODS. CALL SOUTH FLORIDA FOR ANYTHING IN THE QUALITY LINE