The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 10, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen VOLUME LIX. No. 8 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1938. State Attorney George Worley Gives Address At Jackson Day D, Event On Saturday Night WATKINS RITES Was To Honor Memory THIS AFTERNOON of Andrew Jackson of | Civil War Days In Various Winter Visitors Make Check Of Traffic Coming In Since Opening Was used in “lawful destructive | competition” and that what the | power company anticipated “is | damage to something it does not i be im- Since the upper section of the} On the initial day of the open-__ Oversea bridges, which is being ing, 46 cars, one truck, two trail-| 9 ** Chamber of Commence a built with PWA funds, WS ers two motoreycles; 72 car and one wey. says Sematary S thrown open Saturday, January 1} 367 passenger cars, 27 traskagl? Sneness —vee eres. Singleton. Encouregimg .etiecs eight trailers, four motorcycles,| Sunday, January brought in iS and 757 bus and car pasengers /38ears, one track, one motorcycle, | "=" 2 daily. bat one af the sec- have come to Key West, accord-}68:carand.44 buswpassengers. retary’s pet grievances & the ing to figures released by Frank}. January 3, Monday, recorded Delaney, auditor of MonroeCoun- }39ears;seven trucks, four traii-| =“ of dated ltersture. ty Ferry Department. : | ers, 67 car and 23 bus passengers.| Hewing no booklet except the The best day, over that peri Thursday, January 6, 40 cars, beautiful but rather antugur one wast last Saturday when 64 pas-| four trucks, one motorcycle, 55 senger cars, five trucks, 144 car car and 19 bus passengers. inherited from the FERA. be and 27 bus passengers were haul-| Friday, January 7, 37 cars, two sends cut 2 few mimesgraphed ed south. | trucks, 60 car and 17 bus passen- | sheets. These have been bringing Tuesday followed next with 53) gers. passenger cars, three trucks, one trailer, 61 car and 24 bus passen- gers. Third in best results was Wed- nesday, with 50 cars, four trucks, one trailer, 64 cars and 10 bus pas-/ | PROCEED! DEAL es | ROOSEVELT'S MESSAGE VARI 'ARCELS SOLD pee GENERALLY CONCILIATORY. TO W. P. BROWN AND ASSO- | POWER CASES DECIDED CIATES | | PROJECTS TO BE BUILT Final legal action was taken last week, Saturday, when Fred | SUTHERLAND RETIRES J. Dion, agent for the Key West| ‘38 BUDGET ESTIMATE sas sheet hal Investment Company, End City| - agra gemies ama, Sr in| Holding Company, West | TAXES FALLING OFF pee sore ae Hes, Inc, and Souther wand BUSINESS PLEASED | timated construction cost of $146,-| mapa, Eas Sfved eee ——— |978,708 for which the PWA has to: the papers whieh trametre | By HUGO S. SIMS | allocated $61,225,544 in loans and ownership of the land and build-| (special Washington Correspondent | $33 412 408 in vg | ings of the several companies, to} of The Citizen) i sis gran' | W. P. Brown and associates. The popular past time of trying | Announcement of the sale of/to guess the length of the pres- the holdings was made in The| ent session of the 75th Congress| ‘hat the Alabama Power Com- Citizen of Thursday, November| is now underway, with optimistic =, suit, sar involved cas 10, when more than 60 parcels of | observers predicting a quick. pro-| #74 grants four municipalities real estate were listed as having | cession of legislation and an.early ™ —— Alabama, ot started been purchased by Mr. Brown. | adjournment. Of course, this is |i May, 1935..and that the Duke The purchase.was announced by/ election year and the members C#5¢ which < Sago a — L. Z. Clarke; vice president of the| who face the voters this fall want Roost ree se 1 Briggs:Manufacturing Company,|to get home to their political obra czar . nicht tig! ‘of Detroit,,Mich., of which Mr.! fences but personally we see little — acta powel < pan: i i | prospect of a short session and it = nak a cars tes ooh iti. Deacons at oa — Bao gation when, at the end, the Su- == ee ee preme Court by unanimous deci ey Re ed ee dled, some of which are certain to Fen ati tag complain ee, oe It is not a pleasant commentary on our judicial system to see the Federal Government and State units tied up for years through - . useless litigation. Certainly, the ‘The President's message to Con- layman will feel that some meth- gress was generally regarded 85/ od can be devised to a! conciliatory in tone toward busi-| more expediti da Somali iness, particularly in that the of contests of such.a nature sengers.. Chief Executive took pains to £5 Point out that criticism specify- % }ing practices of minority groups Pag Reger pepe hee’ * Rg } was not to be generally consid-| ¥ Tsed eCHEION OF S. C Simgleten, Exece- tive Secretary Werkmg Indefatigably iz Boest- | petition”. Secretary of the Interi- ‘or Ickes was delighted over the KEY WEST RESIDENT DIED AT 6:30 SATURDAY Stressing the importance of the | EVENING } Democratic party to the people of | Key West, sketching « brief his-|_ Curtis Watkins, age 45. died 3 | Saturday evening at 6:30 o’clock tory, and thanking all who at-| at his home, 623 Angela street. | Funeral services will be conduct- tended the dance. George A. Wor- ed this afternoon at 4-30 o'clock ley, state attorney, gave the prin- | at Lopez Chapel, Rev. W. L..Hal- laday, officiating. cipal address at the Jackson Day} Survivors are: His widow, Mrs. dancé which was held Saturday | Kathleen Watkins; three daugh- Bight et Club Miramar, Sebastian | Jessie Watkins; and: fath- Carbrera introduced the speaker. | ¢t, Mr. and Mrs. Wat ‘ i |kins; three sisters, Mrs. Irwin Jack Davison, head of the | Sweeting, Mrs. Burnell Johnson, | sale Spalding Golf Department, who Miss Edith Watkins; one brother, | through Mr. Dion, manager of the gave up a career in the opera for Victor Watkins. | Key West Investment Company his present position, entertained | Pallbearers at the funeral will| in Key West, and Mr. Dion re- wonderfully with some songs) be: _ William Knowles, Charles! mains as agent for the new own- from the Italian and French op-| Curtis, Clarence Thompson, Jo-| ers, temporarily, he said this| develop prolonged discussion, and no one knows what new issues may develop as the winter and spring months roll by. It is interesting to point out eras, a number of semi-classical | seph Boza, Victor Lowe and Wil- ii selections and a few popular | bur Thompson. gems DEFER HEARING ON PETITION Mr. Brown is expected to arrive | at Key West early in the near fu- | ture, and it is anticipated that) | while here he will make a state- | ment as to his plans regarding the j holdings of the company, which was announced as Brown Proper- songs. Mr. Davison has a rich powerful tenor and delighted the | @udience with excellent rendi-| tions. j Miss Frances Lee Tiller won a} nounced today the postponement | of the hearing of the petition to! the | set aside the will of thé late Char- lotte Amelia Hodgdon, until pos- a | sibly January 27 to 29. | and also to raise funds! ‘The hearing was Set for Janu- | Democratic party. | ary 13, Thursday of this week, be-| had a most hap-/| fore Judge Lord, but circum-! at the affair. | stances:have arisen which makes it netessary that 4 postponement | be asked, and letters are being '|* sent to Tampa, where reside the’ | petitioners and attorneys, who} | asked for the postponement. | 4 | |= th H Hf ik ff a | ties, Incorporated, directly after Sa BE, R tative Of Audubon fered an attack on all business. | JUn¢ by which the order of three j epresen a e ting aside certain rates made by would not be balanced in the 1939 il i ee “te | VISITING HERE fiscal year, Mr. Roosevelt never- pas Comn mission of Cali- lornia, was permitted to stand. ee j : : '© 4-4 division, affirmed the Califor- | Here to Key West, where; Key West is, primarily, to LEGAL ADVISER TO TREAS- Po nia jurists, but last week the case | Audubom spent.some: happy days} in the, schools and eoqusint URY DEPARTMENT ACCOM- The message also stressed the <enmetaR 10 Catitornss | and introduced to the botanists 6f people with the economic } ‘ ; beonelusive, did not uphold the Fe riley * . | and Palanced it against adequate rates set up by the State author-| #5 incidental to his picture of the life and game resources and feere ensse A pointe ‘iity, but instructed the Lower white-crowned pigeon, Dr. Allen necessity of their pproximately one-third of, E. Hadley comes as a representa- preservation. H. OLIP While admitting that the budget Federal judges in California, set-| S nice 0 Vi it T | theless stressed the need for econ- In the the ag : | need of adequate farm | retrial/ The dicision, somewhat in- . ed : pa ie cs PANIED BY FAMILY oe the world the Geiger tree, painted | esthetic beauty | Court judges to confine - them- : their trailers, camping at points! Keys, and practically liv-/ O. F. Kane, of Mrs. H. B. Rounof, of Kent, Ohio, and Mr. lly, are camp- | re at uni til April. LICENSES ISSUED Three marriage licenses are re- | corded. today in Judge Raymond { - | | Herman Oliphant. chief legal jadviser to the United States | Treasury Department, is visiting in Key West and occupying quar- ters with his family in the naval) station. | Mr. Oliphant was in Key West | last year, but before he had con- cluded his vacation he was called the Hounofs are! Tord’s ofice as having been is-| back to Washington on important ter visitors, coming in | 5.ed during the past week. Is-| business matters. | sues were made to the following: Miguel | He arrived last Friday and with -air life for three or} Knowles; Delmar M. Eden and/George Wharton and children, is each year during the Lois E. Archer; Carl Ingraham | making ready for a sojourn in the fresh first trip of the| it their companions are | will Soon get into of life on the Florida! become addicts to free | air, as provided in} Florida. TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest | ¢Tuiser, “Amigo” af Ventnor, New last night last 24 hrs | Jersey, and the pleasure launch, Abilene Apalachicola _ Atlanta __. Brownsville __ ¥ SRERSHoOSLSEBLSLYE SERS OBSRSSS BESSSSLSo AVOSKSSRSS| SSL SSVslesslytss : city. Two Coming in last week were the | schoonet Figged yacht “Steadfast” jot Miami, the luxurious A. C.F. “Helen J” of Miami. All except the “Steadfast,” which is docked at the F. E. C. pier, are berthed at the Yacht Basin. Owner of the “Amigo is H. K. Kimble, general manager of the {Kimble Glass Company in Vine- land, N. J. His guests are A. C. Boggs, manager of the famous Brighton Hotel in Atlantic City, }and George Daub of the architect firm of Lescaze and Daub, New | York City. The fifty foot cruiser is captained by Peter Holland from Holland, who made Ripley's column some time ago when he had a partner working for him named Ireland, who was. also from Ireland. The “Amango” is being taken on a tour of the Keys and coast of Florida. She will be here a day or so then go up the west coast to Ft. Myers and take the newly opened scenic central Florida route through the Caloosahatchie river, Lake Okeechobee, and the St. Lucie canal. Retired Owner Aboard In the schooner rigged 82 foot diesel auxiliary “Steadfast.” the captain-owner T. Gregorson, re- tired from the dairy business, is aboard and has as his guests, Bowman Hinkley, Sr. and Bow- Yachts And Launch yArrived sit Basin On Friday man Hinkley, Jr. Bodden Rayal, ‘designer aiid builder of the boat, is also aboard and states that the craft,was built in Grand Com- mand, the Bahamas, 16 years ago and is in as perfect shape as ever. After a short visit here the “Steadfast” will be sailed to Grand Command, and later taken on a trip to the Virgin Islands. J. D. Reese, owner of the Willod Brook Golf Course in In- dianapolis, Indiana, has brought the “Helen J” here and expects to remain a month in this “warm- est spot in the United States.” With him is Mrs. Reese and greenskeeper of the Willow Brook course Eugene Pyles. Fished On Way Down They came down siowly through the Keys, stopping at Rock Harbor, Lower Matecumbe, and Hog Key, fishing all the way. Night before they left Hog Key, Mr. Pyles landed a 200 pound shark. They report good catches of mackerel, kingfish, bonita. This is the first time the party has been here in this city. They are very much taken up with it and the surrounding waters. So much so, they are planning to berth the “Helen J” here for the summer and then return to it next winter. A cteel dinghey with a small light inboard motor which they trailed behind them was brought by car from Indianapolis. I7AZLALL2 24 the nation depended’ upon. its farms, another third upon indus- trial plants for employment, and the prosperity of the last third was dependent upon the buying | power of the other two groups. He appealed for a national view-/ point, decried sectionalism and in- dicated a continued desire to se- cure passage of wage and hour legislation. Leon and Grace Mrs. Oliphant and daughter, Mrs.| The Supreme Court got back into the limelight last week by rendering a unanimous decision which denied the Alabama Power Company or the Duke interests |had proper standing in Court to | question the right of the PWA to | make loans and grants to munici- pal electric plants competing with private enterprise. In other words, the decision of the Court did not hinge on the legality of the PWA loans and grants but was decided when the Court concluded that the power companies had no:Jegal right to complain of competition and that if they suffered damage, it was what the lawyers term “damnum absque injurig”, mean- ing a damage without violation of legal rights. selves to the issue of confiscation, {and to base its new decision on that instead of on the procedure used by the California Commis- sion in determining the rates. This is generally regarded as |an avenue to open the way for) adoption of the President’s “pru- dent investment” basis for rate-| making purposes instead of the! thirty-nine-year-old Court theory of reproduction costs. Generally, the decision is taken to release public service commissions from the previous ruling of the Court and may enable them to modern- ize utility rate-fixing with advan- | tages to the consumer. Moreover, | the new decision seems to carry some political advantage in that it indicates a more liberal trend on the part of the Supreme Court. The ammounced retirement of Justice George Sutherland will give Presitient Roosevelt an op- portunity to appoint another lib- eral to the high court and thus pass positive control of the tribu- nal in the hands of those sympa- (Continued on Page Four) ZIAD IOLDIISLIIDLIDID LOM, ings on the part of one and all that— THE DEADUINE for all advertising, classified and display, is 11 O'CLOCK AM. on the day of publication. To facilitate the efficient makeup and publication of this paper, the cooperation of the advertisers will be appreciated. (iLL LA dA hd MD , NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS In view of repeated misunderstand- Citizen—this notice must served to advise THE ADVERTISING DEPT. advertisers in The Dh hh hh dhe headed dedi dikidi dul tive of the National Association of Audubon Societies, and the Florida Audubon Society, amply provided with colored slides and other equipment. For the past two years he has’ been lecturing throughout Flor- ida, under a cooperative agree- ment with the University of Flor- ida, awakening interest in the extraordinary beauty and rich- ¥ iP fa teens, he spent a ness of the wild bird life and ani-| mal life of Florida. Dr. Hadley’s purpose in visiting growths and Criminal Court Convened Today: ForJasitary Term Promptly on the hour the Janu- ary term.of Criminal Court was convened in tne county court house this morning at 9:30 o'clock, with all officers present and Judge William V. Albury presid- ing. Digectly after court was called to order the jury was called and after answering to their names, were qualified to serve by Coun- ty Solicitor Allan B. Cleare, Jr. and the following cases were called. Felix Hopkins, charged with entering without breaking with intent to commit a trespass, en- tered a plea of guilty and was sentenced te serve 60 days in jail. Fletcher Odom entertained a plea of guilty ta a charge of ob- taining money on a contract and then failing to carry out the terms of the contract, and was sentenced to spend 30 days in the county jeil Third case was that of Gerald ine Pinder, who wes charged with assault and battery on the person of Kathleen Andrews, and ad- mitted her guilt. She was sen tenced to pay a fine of $10 and costs, or serve 30 days. Members of the jury, both re- gular and special, who were selected to serve for the term were: Frank Key, Joseph M. Na- varro, George Key, W. B. Curry _O, Jobuson, Jr, WP, Macher, Joseph G. Knight, Alfonse Gamez, Charles ‘W, Lowe, Wm. ER. Gor- ‘don, Jdinés Griffin, Lee Baker, an informal recess until 9:39 o'- clock tomorrow morning. ° Seeerereeseeeeeeee Meer Him Every —~—— Night ist M. E. (Stone) Church NOB OIIIIIIIII IAAL OA] ?. 5. varcr, U. b Beil, Usiter ‘seecsssessessessessesses le i t f ay if uF ! rk ; r i itd H I i i vay il itt! | : i tit att lin it | | il j he 5 | t i of li il ro ry hii THINKING OF PAINTING YOUR HOUSE--CALL SOUTH FLA. CONTR. & ENG. CO.--ASK ABOUT ‘ZILO’ THE LEAD AND ZINC PAINT.