The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 19, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wi Service, re For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No. 275. Red Cross Organization , Has Inaugurated Drive: For New Membersh Various Workers Start Ac-| tivities Covering Many Different Sections Of City Red Cross activities have been under way for the past few days! and from every source Feworsblat reports are being received. Work- ers will contact every person’ in Key West before next Thursday. It is the earnest hope of those! who have undertaken the duties f securing members on the 1937 Roll Call, that should any person be passed during this period, they will call on one of the workers! and present their membership ap-/ plication. | lready some of the rolls in the; hands of the workers have reach- i ed a point where 100 per cent, collections is assured and others feel assured that they will by; Thanksgiving Day be in a posi- tion to make similar reports. E. A, Ramsey, who is taking a very active part in‘the Roll Call for this period, has compiled a list of those who have undertaken; the work this year, and the list, | while not complete, gives a com- prehensive idea of those who may be called on in the event some persons has been unintentionally neglected and who is desirous of joining. Workers are: Mrs. Rosalie Bocker, Mrs. Madeline Brown, Mrs. Genevieve Sawyer, Mrs. John Costar, Mrs. Carl Bervaldi, Miss Kathleen Diaz, Mrs. I. Nash, Mrs. Christopher Knowles, Miss Marie Knowles, Mrs. Ella Curry, Mrs. Gloriana Bayly, Mrs. S. A. Ber- kowitz, Mrs. George F. Archer, Mrs. Grace Phillips, Mrs. C. E. Shine, Mrs. W. W. Demeritt, Mrs.! John Fleming. Those who have been reauested and have accepted the mission in the colored section, and who are also making progress are Mary Moreno and Grace Palacios. Handling the membership drive among the organizations are the| following: Rotary Club, Hugh Williams, Warren Sawyer, Everett! Russell and Joe Valdez; Light- house Department, Wm. W. De-! i Naval Station, L. M.| Pierce; U. S. Marine Hospital, Dr. Ralph R. Braund; Postoffice, William Watkins; Public Schools, Melvin Russell; Parochial Schools, Rev. Wm. J. Reagan, S. J. FORMER VISITORS ARRIVE RECENTLY TWO GROUPS RETURN TO KEY WEST TO SPEND ANOTHER WINTER SEASON } | } Recent arrivals in Key West} number among them two groups; which have spent previous winters! in this section Florida and come prepared to enjoy another season in this “delightful city.” | Mrs. John H. Kerr, of Windsor} Farms, near Richmond, Va., and} two children, Francis and Joan, arrived yesterday from their} homes coming by way of Tampa,! and are pleasantly located in the Reynolds home, on Reynolds Ave., for their second year’s t Miss Elizabeth Rowan, of Clin-! ton, Massachusetts, in Key! West for her third season and is’ accompanied by her father, Mar-/ tin G. Rowan and aunt Mrs. Delia Conrey. They are happily lo- cated at the home of Mrs. Fannie} Curry, at Whitehead and United) streets. | of | i ISP SIMS LS SS SS, | STONE REMAINS INTERESTED. IN OLD KEY WEST | “The Citizen is a comfort to us” writes Julius Stone from his Washington office to friends in Key Wes’ “We can hardly wait for it in the morning, get the cover off and see what going on there.” Which indicates, said one of his closest friends to whom the letter was sent. that the interest of the former WPA: | { is Py KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1937. ROTARY CLUB ‘MEETING WAS MUCH ENJOYED YESTERDAY OF PRESIDENT TAYLOR IN ABSENCE The future state of the nation jgot an overhauling at the Rotary ‘Club luncheon yesterday as the Key West High School debating team discussed the relative merits of the Uni-Cameral vs, the Bi Cameral forms of legislative structure. ably Goth propositions were | of the office of Ross C. Sawyer, jelerk of Circuit Court, the clerk | will be prepared to handle any 'questions relating to property and |the sale’ of same, under the pro- jvision of the Murphy Act, known y as House Bill 396. Mr. r received today from J. M. Lee, comptroler of the state, the following letter: “The Supreme Court, denial of a rehearing on Bill 396, and handing down the jfinal mandate, has, so far as I | know, removed every bar which i by its House hag heretofore prevented you sell- jing delinquent taxes as provided |by this act. Yon therefore now thave full authority to proceed un- pal County Clerk Now Entirely Familiar With Provisions — Relative To Murphy Act Monday morning at the opening{ “All the sales made under this reported separate s and sales under {act must be from redemptio of each month ycu will be furnish- ed with instrzetions and blanks er with instructions for proced- ure to be followed in distributing eny proceeds which may be avail- able for distribrtion. The form of advretisement which was nished you on June 26, should continue to be used, method of computing the required to be advertised, recom- mended by the Clerks at the meet- ing in Orlando, should be used. “Unless the circuit court hav- and other laws, and before the close} fcr making these reports, togeth-| fur-| 1937, | taxes) Key. West, Florida, has the \ most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Citizen PRICE FIVE CENTS City Council Adopts New Budget For:Ensuing Term SHOWS LIABILITY |NEW BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS MEMBERS OF U S IN BOND ELECTED AT REGULAR MEETING LAST NIGHT; VARIOUS OTHER MATTERS ARE TAXATION ISSUE; DISPOSED OF DURING SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT RELATIVE) TO MATTER IS MADE BY COMPTROLLER FOLLOWING i { | { | | | its{the extra amount is for the entér- | tainment of distinguished _ visi tors who may come to Key West frem time to time. A resolution was adopted to the effect that taxpayers must pay current taxes in order to erm joy the benefit of the eighty per- Everett; cent reduction in the payment of The new City Council at regular meeting last night elect- full ea a’ set of members to | AUDIT OF TAX ROLL jserve on the Board of Public i] Wo.ks the term. for ensuing (Special to The Citizen) administrator still lingers, and | P®esented and if the conservative is evidenced by a number of activities which have been, Rotary Club went on record 30 in- ing jurisdiction over, your county, der the Act as interpreted by the|}™4 ree ee ice, you should Attorney Genera! in his opinion of TALLAHASSEE, .Nov. 19.— Uncle Sam’s liability for his share \They are J. H. Costar, j delinquent taxes, j Russell, Norberg Thompson, B. D. It was ordered that five hun- {June 25, 1937, copy of which has make no deviation from the law of the bond taxatitn levy in coun- All of [dred copies of the Miami Triburtey Trevor and C. N, Recio. and are being. initiated by him, whenever possible, and this practically means when- ever needed. SII IIL SI SI Ss ltem,” but probably because their HAVE COMFORT }x0e:ie»« with the — prevailing 'system had convinced them that they would try anything once, for a change, it is said. The affirmative side of the i 2 imy: decbiidicd Prana) ‘question was ably presented by WASHINGTON, Nov. 19—1If;Anita Berkowitz and Vance Stir- Uncle Sam’s naval aviators should/rup, while the negative was set by some strange turn of events forth with equal ability by be called on to bomb any foreign’ Lucette de Barritt and Andrew cities, they would do their work! , i ay gar peden ay | Elwood, Miss Eliza Gardner in- The latest “flying boat” bomber troduced the speakers to the developed by the navy has a galley) club and Miss Dorothy Mae Dun- that would make any housewife’s; gan was mistress of ceremonics eyes shine... It’s , complete with; Dry John G.-Gekeler had charge electric stove, water distiller and! ¢ the gavel ix the absence of even a dry ice refrigerator. : isthe There’: jPresident Charles ‘Taylor and ere's: tino & telephone system complimented the winning team jt 11 in favor of Nebraska’s ‘novation in! government, it was not because of any lack of abil- to the resolution, “Resolved: That ‘the several States should adopt the Uni-Camerai legis'ative sys- LATEST FLYING BOAT HAS GALLEY WITH EVERY CONVENIENCE yinciine on their success, and the — losi team on their ability and their SUICIDE UNIT ;sportsmanship, as they accepted WIDENS ITS DRIVE": the opposing team. | Guests present were J. Wilbur ETS !Rogers of Miami, introduced by SACRAMENTO, Calif. Nov. brera introduced 'C. H. Wehman, 19.--A state-wide campaign against! 4¢ Chicago. snicide, tobe waged through the!” Vice-President Gekeler remind- here with the incorporation ofjtion to those who do not share The Suicide Prevention Society, “our sind fortane” in dating of America. lregularly and made a statement Rehkugel of Oakland, the group jocal need has been campaigning there ‘ against suicide for more’ than - a) giving Day, there will be no club the result of the balloting and (By Associated Prexs) lHugh Williams, and Sebastian Ca- press and by radio, was announced! oq those present of their obliga- Under the direction of Robert of the funds in hand to meet the year. Rehkugel says that a num-| meeting, consequently, no record ber of despondent persons already|of absentees, thus providing for| have been talked out of ending |a one-hundred percent record of} their lives, ‘attendance. Mayor Determined To Have All Laws Strictly Enforced Mayor Willard M. Albury said; this morning that the time has ‘tinued, “all of the law infrac- arrived for warning to all viola-j,. . A - - tions which have become a part of tors of laws in Key West, ‘andl s ae to advise them that a cessation| the life of the citizens because of these violations means safety! of official neglect, are to be en- y for them. forced to the letter, and before He has already admonished the|that date, Monday, police force as to what he ex- I intend to again make my “Next Monday, the mayor con- |22, |Pects from members of the police | position plain to the law enforce- department, he said, and law vio-|ment branch of the city govern lations brought to his notice by}ment, and in no uncertain terms others than members of the de fadvise them that what the admin-| dents from the student bodies investigated, | istration wants is results, and no|the various colleges and universi- partment, will be and if he finds that the offensejexctses are to be accepted has been ignored by an cfficer,!non-performance of their duties.” for any reason whatever, the of-! Mr. Albury was asked by The ficer will be summarily dealt} Citizen what particular law with, jfractions were uppermost in Mr. Albury told The Citizen}mind at the time, and the answer this morning, “I am determinedjwas that all of them were be- to have laws and ordinances in fore him at the time he was talk Key West kept effective, and to}ing, but one of those laws which have made real those which have; are being continually become obsolete, apparently, from neglect, and also from the lack- adaisical attitude of those to whom law enforcement should te 2 sacred trust. “There are many instances of citizens ignoring the laws and ordinances, and doing many things which they know are against the law, but do the act because many others have done the same, and are continuing to! do so, because there has been ne action by police officers. on the sidewalk, and by. wome and men. “This must stop,” the concladed. “Monday is the dead- 1 and I am instructing the of. ficers to bring into city court any person, regardless of sex or sta- tion in life, and let them explain their attitude to the judge. I am determined to bring to a Stop at all and I am sure there are various violations.” once, if possible, violations, ity on the part of those opposed | Next Thursday being - Thanks-! | mayor November} Phillips, ‘Charlie Miller, Bill Phe- for | ties throughout the country are se- in-| names placed in th his} in A | i ignored | Biologi ig that relative to riding bicycles | The Spri n tary i ¥ i }the proposed Art Gallery in Key jhave been geleted as iW. J as interpreted by the Attorney: “For’your protection in the fu-| General, and in these counties ture let me at this time impress| Where the court has ruled other-) upon you the importance of care- wise, yOu of course should follow} fally caleulating all years delin- the order of the court, unless the’ quencies against. a particular! Mer of the court has,been supe property when a request to ad-| ceded by an appeal. If any fu vertise is filed with a. The, thér action is started in the Su- Attorney General, in his opinion,! Preme Court whch will affect this has shown this to be the law and| Act in any way, I will be glad to, j !notify you immediately.” been furnished you. assets at a reduced price, it is im | Mr. Sawyer said today that h portant for your protection that} force of clerks will be all pre- strict record be kept of each| pared and in readiness to handle trensaction so that should any|the volume of gusiness which is question arise in the future, your] expected to follow initiation of recors will show that your zcions| activities in line with the Act were in entire conformity with| which is commonly known as the} the law. “Murphy Act.” { Hopeful Of Establishing - Art Gallery In Key West. Eve Alsman Fuller, director of;ervisor B. Curry Moreno, and} | Florida’s ‘been contemplating action the comptroller broached the idea} art projects in Florida, feels the} visited a numger of places Pusish possibility of bringing into being) W°T¢. declared suitable for the ex- works of art. West, and thanks The Citizen for the interest the project. When here last week the direc- tor went over the proposition in company with WPA Project Sup- evidenced in am taking the matter up with the officials in Washington.” aN PHELAN ATTAINS COLLEGE HONORS «== NOES... LANDED ON ONE WHEEL Newark, N. J.—Just as the pilot of an American Airlines i transport plane was about to land jhis ship at the airport here, he} discovered one of the wheels of ;the landing gear was stuck. After advising airport officials | ese | ONE OF STUDENTS ATTEND- ING SPRING HILL COLLEGE (The Springhillian, Spring Hill,} Aja., Nov. 12) t Five Seniors and one {fer am hour and ten minutes be-| Juntor}fore: ‘attempting, the dangerous} planding. Finally, the pilot, B. C. representa- | Moore, executed a ‘one wheel’! landing, bringing the ship to the) |ground safely. The seven pas- “Who’s Who in American Colleges }sengers were only slightly shaken! The selections} were made by the Student Coun-| 7 KILLED IN FALL as | Huntsville, Ala.—Seven young cil and its faculty advisor, Mr. Sid-! people were apparently instantly} {killed when their automobile! iplunged from a mountain road! Charlie |down 200 feet into a ravine. is thought that a blow-out might thave caused the accident, n, Tom Keating, Dick Dolan and | Joe Collins. { IN JAIL SUNDAYS Each year the outstanding stu-; Sioux Falls, Iowa.—Al of berg will spend the next thirty! Sundays behind the bars, having jbeen convicted on charges of in- texication. tives of Spring Hill College in the and Universities. ney Tonsmeire, S. J. Those selected were 1 | | i Hag-} BEAR KILLS TRAINER wa Gopenhagen.—As Edward Re-| ges and Univer-' sonhagen, an animal trainer, en-| tered a bear cage, a female bear the}attacked him. His daughter and two sons tried vainly to rescue ,jhim but were too late of} | lected by their schools and their “Who's Who eriean Colle sities. Bill Phelan, is prefect Sodality, president of the Tri-Beta of fraternity, n staff, and secre-| mem! HEALTH KING ILL Omaha, Neb.—Two months after being selected as Douglas- county health champion, Frank Kopecky, 16, became a victim of infantile paralysis. he dent Council. Mr. Phelan is the son of Mrs. Phelan of 12303 Whitehead He is a senior at Spring lege, taking a pre-medical Mr. Phelan is the second Key West college student to re- ceive a “Who's Who” mention ths year. Mr. Louis Wilson at Loyola University at New Orleans is the other. ol CRUEL SILENCE Omaha, Neb—Mr. and Mrs Herbert Phillips recently testified in their suit for divorce that they had lived together for one year | without speaking to each other. | | $60,000 which, jment bought all Iden off his lands merely j te ties where the government has purchased thousands of acres of land has been laid squarely on his J. today, following audit of Liberty Coun- ty’s 1937 tax roll received this week from Tax Assessor R, H. Deason. Liberty County’s levy of bond tax against U. S: lands acquired since bonds were issued will be the basis of test cases to deter- mine if federal purchases can wipe out bon! liens against land, the comptroller stated, prepara- tory to, similar. levies in many of counties which have broad shoulders, Comptroller I. Lee announced here since to various assessors last summer. Several counties have been put ina financial straight-jacket by federal acquisition of lands—Lib- jerty offering the most potent ex-! the ample of what can happen unless hibition of paintings and other'the U, s. assumes its share of the|places the amount of taxes to be burden. Liberty county’s school This leaves only about 125,000 acres in private ownership to bear the burden of bond issue of with interest, means a lien of $120,000. The lands are assessed at only 50c to The per acre. More thar half of Liberty CGounty’s 520,000 acres |have been bought by the govern-jthe municipality. ment for forest purposes. Tax Assessor Deason has levied no bond taxes for the past two years because the liability of the vernment has been disputed. “f simply refused to put an un- reasonable burden against the priv- of his plight, he circled the airport) te land owners,” he stated, “whilelof the different departments op-| nearly half the lands subject to the bond levy seemed about to es- cape.” Comptroller Lee summed the: issue up in these words: “Suppose 2 man owned ten acres in thet school district, and the yovert- but that ten pcres and the bond holders tried to collect the entire bond issue ifrom the owner of that ten acres. | of It is ridiculous. The government knew of this bond issue when it bought the lands. It bought them It} Subject to taxation for that bond) chief executive. issue just as surely as if that bond issue had been a recorded mort- gage held by one man. Uncle Sam will just have to tote his share. “If the sovereign people of Florida can’t lift bond taxes off the homestead with a constitu- tional amendment, Uncle Sam hasn't any right to lift this bur by 8 change of possession.” Meanwhile. the question shoves to the U_ S. Supreme Court's door step the old story of an irrisist- ible force meeting an immovable object. For dteades the court has prated about the sacredness of bond liens against property and has been just as vociferous in declaring Uncle Sam exempt from taxation. The nine old men will have to give in on one of their theories—unless QGongress comes the reseve, recognizes the government’s lisbility and passes laws requiring the federal treas wry to pay taxes for bonds issued against property prior to sequisi- tion by the govermment and its moltitade of land buying sgen- ces. GOOD HARDWARE IS ESSENTIAL IN ANY JOB. DON'T BE SATISFIED WITH CHEAP GOODS. CALL SOUTH FLORIDA FOR ANYTHING IN THE QUALITY LINE teil, and following the reading of containing a rotogravure section ladvertising Key West be purchas- ed at four cents a copy, to be de- livered on December 12. The agreement is that these papers be turned over to the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce for distribution in the interest of Key West. j Mrs. Eva Warner was reap pointed as supervisor of Bayview Park for the ensuing term. Ain application was read from Gideon Curry for the position of after which it was adopted. helper at the local squarium. The re; til a lat- | The new budget calls for an| matter was defpared SA 3e er date. assessment of one hundred mills} abelardo Lopez, Jr., and E, M. against the current tax roll, which! Carbonell made application for |amounts to $938,790. While the|the position of license inspector, ‘ oie { i in the }amount of mill: is increased|but no action was taken in Sa eee cacciveea{matter, but will be taken up. at considerably “over previous] the next meeting. year, when it was placed at twen-| Thomas E. Russell made appli- | ty-five mills, neverthelss this does! cation for the position of ihspec not mean an increase in thé/tor of weights and measures. The | | these members submitted applica- tions for the position to the coun- jthe applications, were unanimous- lly elected. | The tentative working budget |for the new administration was read and thoroughly discussed; amount of taxation, it is shown. | pplication was tabled due to the ‘As a matter ¢f fact, wetoreiig’ 0} fact that Tid yrovisions Nive’ toer statement of Tex Assessor-|made in the budget to take care {Collector Samuel B. Pinder, itjof the matter. ‘ The printing committee which |paid on the current roll about/was overlooked at a previous In her letter to this newspaper; bond district No, 4 has approxi-|twenty percent below that of the/ meeting, was appointed last night Mrs. Fuller writes: Ate ya with! mately 225,000 acres. The U. S.! previous year, which is due to the/It consists of Roy Fulford, chair- great encouragement that we may! has acquired, for a national for-|eighty percent proceed with the project, and Test, approximately 100,000 acres.|was made in the payment of de-| Doughtry. reduction thatjman; Will Roberts and Will An ordinance creating the po- {short time ago, jsition of city electrician was pass The budget covers the amounts!ed on its initial reading. The {needed for the various depart-| position calls for a salary of {ments of the city, including offi-}$144 per month. Sydney Thomp- cers’ and other employes’ sal-}son was retained in this position jries, and all other expenses in| Heretofore, Mr. Thompson's work \connection with the operation of|was confined strictly to the up- Ikeep of the fire alarm system The different departments are, but by the new ordinance, he will fire, pension, golf course, aqua-|be required to perferm any elec rium, scavenger, sanitation, street trical work necessary for the \lighting, contingency and Board| city. lof Public Works. Nine mills was} An ordinance creating the assessed for the operation of the sition of license inspector was al Public Wiorks Board to take care; so passed on its first reading. It was decided to have the Jerated by that branch of the city: traffic lights placed in four dif |eovernment. ferent sections of the city. One ere were a,few changes, in| will be at Division and White ithe, amount of salaries of #0nle|one at Southard and Margaret fof the officers and employes ap-|another at Smonton and Eaton [eprine on the budget, gt? ofjand the fourth at Simonton and {wilich was a slight incfedde! Yor! Division. The lights are to be | the custodian of the city hall.| turned on 8 o'clock in the morn Another item was three hundred|ing, and remain on until tt dollars per annum to take care|o’clock at night. entertainment expenses of There were several other mat Mayor Albury, which is in addi-;ters of a routine nature dis tion to the twelve hundred dol'ed of during the session after \lars a year salary fixed for the; which an adjournment wa: Lt specifies that .dered, }linquent and current taxes @ \ pe or ‘Tomorrow Is Dead Line For Securing City Auto Tags al Tomorrow will be the last day of business with ocecupation for the purchase of city auto- licenses, and will mobile licenses, and those who are tomorrow afterncon. ‘found without them Monday, may! Up to the time this is writ | find themselves in an embarrass-\ there are a number of mer ing position, it was announced to-' ana automobile y- City Tax Collector Sam Pinder said this morning that to date bot 705 have been purchased, on against 967 purchased up to the same date last year. During 1936 a total of 1153 were purchased and it is estimated that there is a greater number of motor vehicles being operated in the city requir- ing tags, than during the previous Chief of Police Ivan Elwood and Patrotman Franklin Aren- berg are continuing their investi- gations as to the holders of auto license tags and slsc those places continue until car and | operators who have been withoot the necessary | and these have all been that the time is rapidly when nonpossession of the will be sufficient cause fer ealled before city court to good and sound reason why laws have been ignored teenses give MARRIED 72 YEARS Ripley, N. ¥ —Ma: well, Ohio, in 1865. Robert M. Rownd brated their seventy-cecond ding anniversary M re i