The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 29, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 25. Pian To Extend Bounderies Of Fort Jefferson Monument Will Include Alt Little | MAKES REPORT Islands Situated In Area Adjacent To National Monument Che Key West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1938. TAX RECEIPTS ISSUED SHOW AN INCREASE | LECTIONS BY CITY: PAY- Comparison of the numbers of COMPARISON MADE IN COL-| With $593 collected, $80 the half-way mark in the $1100 needed to light the White Way of Duval street, Louis Pollock, initi- ator of the drive, reports that the campaign is going to be a success. Collections have been mad since the first of this week an over{ ‘amount, a White Way dance | will be held at Pena’s Garden of |Roses Saturday night of next | week. Efforts are being made to make it a gala affair. Mayor Albury has promised his ipport and that of the members selling tickets for the dance. APPROXIMATELY $11,000 SENT TO TALLAHASSEE BY COUN- TY TAX COLLECTOR FRANK H. LADD By PAUL MAY Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen) WASHINGTON. D. C., Jan. 29. —Congress had pending before it today a measure extending the boundaries of the Fort Jefferson National Monument to include all | Approximately $11,000 have been sent from the office of Mon- tax receipts issued from the office | of City Tax Collector Sam B. Pin- der shows that during the year covering the taxes for 1936 there were 415 receipts issued, while for | sibility of lighting the Yacht Ba- the two months of the current/sin with any surplus funds that year, that is, December, 1937, and|may accumulate. At the mos January, 1938, 362 receipts have|only four docks need lighting. been issued. and three or four poles on each Payments are keeping up, says|dock ‘should provide visiting pected that next week will com-jbered stub, which makes one plete the drive. j eligible for two watches, donated Nick Osterhoudt, electrician,| by Louis Pollock, which will be will be asked to survey the pos-| given away at the dance. If more funds than are needed | for the lighting of the White Way Pollock stated. the little islands off the Florida i coast in the Fort Jefferson area lination, it is said. Mr. Oster- | houdt will confer with Curry Mo- reno, WPA Area Supervisor, ‘to/ | whom the docks have previously been leased by the Navy, and! with the Key West Electric Com-/ Following* are the donations made by merchants to date: White Star Cleaners $ 18.00 Fe og ster Dry Goods Store 25.00 Island Realty Service — The measure was introduced by Representative J. Mark Wileox President, who, when in Florida waters on his recent fishing trip, became interested in the future of the heron, which are being wiped out rapidly by hunters. Wileox said today that the! President talked to him several — 98 Hcenees - i have swelled the revenues of the yn hei been disposed of ™ | office appreciably, and it is an- Fs :. ._.,| ticipated that others will come in BE number, —- bas just | to square up their indebtedness mgt! — = - a ee pe age February arrives, when mated that a few more than 1500 | ‘© discount will be cut to two It will be remembered by the . ‘ }tax payers, said Mr. Pinder, that painother thing which seems t0\the four percent period of dis- amet escaped fe od of °@t | count began with December, then ’ ee ‘nn Jan. | it fell to three during the present trailers, ; Past }month. During February it will uary 15 the time Purchase | he two percent and in March it it) will be one percent, and after |pany for electricity rates and }then report to the White Way committee the probable cost. Mr. Pollock believes that the cost will be negligible. All money which has been col- lected is turned over to Bascom Grooms, president of the Key West Electric Company, together with an itemized account. Mr Grooms later gives an itemized | account of all expenditures to the committee composed of Mayor Willard M. Albury, Hugh Wil- Pollock. In this way there can be no question that any of the gressman that the bill specifically that the fishermen plying i Abilene _ eesie (Ry Assccinted Preas) MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 29.—The tan. Selo—a cross between tangerine and grapefruit—is the fruit with ——_ ; Kansas City __ | KEY WEST he declares, | Los Angeles __ Louisville ___ Miami grapefruit, | Mpis.-St. P. _ and also its inner texture, will etek be forever weaned away from the New Orleans __ usual run of fruit consumed pre- New York a futute, says E. J. Deakin, Miami | citrus grower. | _ “Anyone having tasted a tree- ripened tangelo,” “with all the tangerine-orange| flavor plus the odd bat rather/| faint bitter taste of viously.” small quantities but been widely marketed. DANCE ——in honor of — Jimmy Loss’ Orchestra | that the full amount must be| money is used for any purpose ~ | paid. other than the lighting, it is said. During the past few days the | Further than this, donations of |largest payments have been re-/ the merchants will be published jceived from the Thompson Es-! weekly in The Citizen. | tate, which amounted to $2,959.| To help in the raising of the en- :Pena’s Garden of Roses OK Shoe Shop —__ 5.00 Dan Navarro, In — 25.00 Lewinsky’s Furniture Store 25.00 Joe Pearlman’s, Inc. Wm. Mendell ____ J. R. Stowers Company Palace Theater _____ Store of Fashion - Pollock's Jewelry Store Holtsberg & Son L. Valladares & Son _ {Sa a = Key West Electric Company Brett-Williams, Inc. La Concha Hotel Gas Company __ Johnson and Johnson Island Inn Hotel ____ Fred Auerback Ss - 25. 10.00 iss Elizabeth Lowe, of Miami, the Key West Electric Com- and the family home on Di-| $602. ctf ite sre r-|~ ARRIVEIN CITY THIS AFTERNOON made on the Eduardo CRUISING FISHBOAT “PILAR” DOWN FROM NO NAME:, PAID SHORT VISIT LAST) NIGHT ‘HEMINGWAY 10 | + | Members of Boy Scouts Troop |52 and 5, returned this afternoon - | after a night’s camp on the beach jat Boca Chica, and report having ‘a most enjoyable encampment under the guidance of Scoutmas- loa Joseph Cates and Victor Lar- | sen. The camps were pitched, the | pup tents being arranged in a | semicircle, with the bottoms of jthe tents packed with beach sand ij Ernest Hemingway, famous au- thor, who resides on Whitehead street, arrived in the city for a! brief visit last night, then return- ed to No Name Key to board his fishing boat, “Pilar”, and con- tinue to Key West for a more | lengthy visit. i Mr. Hemingway has been cov- ering the war front in Spain, first | in Valencia, then in Madrid for} | the past year. He spent a month in Paris, France, accustoming | himself to the more orderly noises | | of civilization and later took boat} | for Nassau. From Nassau he went to Miami; where he has had the) to, keep. out the winds and make TEMPERATURES F interiors comfortable. last night Wee Se hee} 2 2AM RalRploprepared their own } "SIDED LA. NEW SPECIMENS IN - KEY WEST g 8 ee & 3 FEEE i : i 5.00 Oklahoma City Tangelos have been grown in|Pensacola have not/Phoenix | Pittsburgh St. Louis ee? Salt Lake City San Francisco Sit. Ste. Marie PRESIDENT’S BIRTHDAY | Seattle PENA’S GARDEN OF ROSES Tampa Washington two troops in the camp, and they reported having enjoyed them- selves immensely, in fact having the finest time they have experi- enced at any all night camp since | they were organized. ‘ANOTHER YACHT TO PORT One hundre and thirty-five foot yacht “Marnell”, ownef by the Marnell corporation, whose offi- cers will not release the name of the party aboard, arrived yester- day at the Yacht Basin. Fifteen yachts in the week be- ginning Friday, Jan. 21 and end- ing yesterday have been recorded by the local WPA. SPECIALS!! Fresh Strawberries. gt. Fresh Eggs. doz. Oranges. doz. | C53,Gnal | Tift’sCashGrocery | } 1101 Division St. Phone 29 | 3c 1Se-20e UERSSTSRELSELRKSRKSLSLSSSY| LLSETSESSRSRBAsSs |“Pilar", and cruised it down to! No Neme Key last night, where he was met by Mrs. Hemingway and motored to Key West. } Coming down on the “Pilar” to- | day he will fish along the war, and although it is not definitely | known just when he will be in,/ it is believed he will be here by four p. m. Mrs. Hemingway was also in Paris with her husband and arriv- ed. Thursday by plane. FE if i i iF } | | i \) \ y \ a FORTIFY SEA ROUTE .—As a means of making safer the alternate sea route from Great Britain to the Far East, should the Mediterraneans route be menaced at any time, the Brit- ish Government is planning to fortify the British West African THREE BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED if }icoast> by converting the port of | Freetown, Sierra Leone, into an During the week ending Jan-| - a uary 29, there were but three | @™Portant naval base. building permits tssued from the! office of Building Inspector H. M. Baker, permitting the » following General repairs at 416 Fleming street. Owner, J. C. Gardner; cost, $100. Repairs to roof of building at 1415 Catherine street. Owner, Theodore Knowles; cost, $100. General repairs to residence at 705 Division street. Owner, J. R. Valdez: cost, $500. General repairs to building at 415 Bahama street. Owner, Ben- jamin Lopez Estate; cost, $450. BIRTHDAY BALL Tonight SATURDAY at Boca Chica Resort i 10 P.M. Sl? | ADMISSION $1.00 “Help Fight Infantile Paralysis” { / / i Proposal Heard By City Council To Operate “Bridle Path” President’s Birthday Ball “me Tonight At Boca | Annual birthday ball for Presi-, was made out to President Roose- |dent Roosevelt's Warm Springs velt and endorsed by him. The . | Foundation, which will be cele- President and other members of A! ® special mesting of City | brated in 12,000 cities over the the Foundation have written Mr. Council lest night = iether was read in which Mr Yonge cf Hie leah requested permusmer > « Many Other Matters Taken Up During Special Meet- Chica ing Of Organization Last Night | yatehsmen with sufficient illum-/} long as the funds hold out, Mr.4 greater than last year, Commis-)has,also }sioner George Allen of the dation is quoted as saying. All funds collected-are; to the national Foundation, | quarters from grants to |to help those already. | with the disease. The funds,will | also be used for research work in i lews : | i it ‘ i i I i HY i | i | id ul if ! Hi e i i fe ij | | Vin Hi alt it i | | | i h I | | | | Hy i sf i Hs | : | | ei f i if I rr f ! ' 1. ie ht ipa lel ' Ky ites ott] | | | | 5 |g ¢ f : i j Any copper spray of equivalent strength would be satisfactory, though. Of the coconut trees, the 19 coconuts should be re- moved and the heads burned. No spraying of coconuts is recom- mended. | i | § i th ! Er fi gee jf a w Lie 8 Phal abit ill rf i bt j L bis i