The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 31, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No, 26. Ch Extra Sailing Of Ferry "IML D LO BW, MAIOR McMULLEN FURNISH- | Proposed Schedule To Be Placed In Effect To- morrow; One Boat Each Way ~~ - ‘Demands for extra trips north and south by the ferries have be- come so urgent, that it has been decided to add one trip each way. said Manager Eugene Demeritt. of the Monroe County Ferry Sys- tem, this morning. Asked when the changes will go into effect, Manager said that tomorrow afternddti 5 o'clock a ferry will ledve™ Key for No Name Key, and the following morning, Febtuary 2. one will leave No Name Key for the trip north. Mr. Demeritt said that just as long as the demands for increased service warranted the extra run being made daily, the schedule would remain in effect. FIREWORKS TONIGHT AT BOCA CHC AN ELABORATE DISPLAY, IN- CLUDING NATURAL COLOR An elaborate display of fire- works and the natural color mo-| tion pictures taken in Key West will be shown tonight at the Boca Chica camp through the courtesy of Jacob Schreiber, Detroit. The| affair is open to the public, Mr. Schreiber being especially anxi- ous that as many Key Westers as possible see the scenes he has tak- en on the Island. The pictures were shown at the President's Birthday Ball Satur- day night for the first time and were greeted with much apprecia- tion. Additional tonight is the fire- works display which is expected to be quite elaborate, and should be a beautiful’ sight when fired | over the ocean from the beach at! Boca Chica. | Program will begin at eight! irty. aH J4 YACHT CLUB To’ Tomorrow, February 1, brings | the election of officers of the Key | West Yacht Club, which will be} a@ long step toward that place! among her coastal cities which is hers by inheritance and the en-! dowments bestowed by nature. [| Army, navy and civic organiza- | tions have joined in bringing this} Proposition to a point where the} election of a commodore and sub-| altern officers is the next step. | With that accomplished, Key West will be definitely among; those present when invitations to/ the boating fraternity, in sail or | power, are being extended. i —— THE —— Habana-Madrid Club ——has the pleasure to present to our Key West Clientele and Winter Visitors— FRANK SABINI Stage and Screen Actor Assisted By **PEPITO* from the Royal Palm Club in Miami FINE SPECIMENS fia j i | Fi f pur ital i F 7 r it Hi I i : i fi | F + fF ! i i g ; il zr. VA Add (Publishers Auxiliary) The Ocean County Leader and Beacon published at Point Plea- sant, by the Point Pleasant Print- ing and Publishing Company, Inc., is issued every Friday in the year. It is 56 years old (the Beacon having been established in 1882 and the Leader in 1916). The Leader and Beacon has an envia- ble tation, because of print- ing real news without any attempt at fabrication. It has a assortment of ads each week. The owner, L. P. Artman of Key West, ant and ends at Key West, so the owne*> has one publication at each end of the waterway. The manag- er of the Ocean County Leader and the Beacon is W. DeWitt Stanford, president of the New Jersey Waterways. His great- grandfather, John R. Stanford, re- sided in Schenectady, N. Y., and assisted Gov. DeWitt Clinton in planning the Erie canal. Stan-| ford’s great-uncle was the late Leland Stanford, United States senator from California, who was famous as a railroad builder. The assistant manager of the Ocean County Leader is Norman D. Artman, son of the owner and a graducte of Pennsylvania college. TEMPERATURES “Yast AMBEhe noice 18s Apalachicola ic 56: tanta «4 ardBri! Brownsvill2 bas42<! Buffalo 24 226:55 Charleston 52 s Highest Dodge City Duluth __ El Paso __ Galveston - Hatteras Havana Helena - Huron Jacksonville Kansas City _ KEY WEST Little Rock - Los Angeles | SBBEE1. Mpls.-St. P. _ Nashville New Orleans New York Oklahoma City Pensacola — oRSBSEENGSYSsBu0e Salt Lake City ™ San Francisco _ 50 Sit. Ste. Marie Seattle ~ Tampa Washington Williston + Wytheville 2 x 36 M 18 40 LOVZESLEBLALBLSLRoPB@IASVLo! BASS TSVVSARS e Key West KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, RESERVATIONS RED CROSS CHAPTER APPEALS _ ARE MADE::AT. FOR RELIEF’ FORT TAYLOR NITE QUOTA: ; An appeal for funds to be used | - for the relief of millions of suffer- | r _| ing-men, women, and. children in| FIXED FOR OLD (|Sas2 sesso '. Spottswood, chairman of the! | Key West Red Cross Chapter, | | who announced that at the sug-} } gestion of President Roosevelt, | | chapters throughout the country were joining in the appeal. | | } | ES LIST OF THOSE WHO) |MOUNTING NUMBER Key Wi most equabie climate i country range of Citizen | , 1938. High Record Established “In Arrivals Over Highwa esident’s Ball Featured Over Eight Hundred Pas- Reservations for the month of} February of the cottages at Fort! Taylor reservation have all been! made and are released by Major | James McMullen, officer in charge {of the Army Barracks. j | Lieut. Colonel Thomas H. Jones, | | | THOSE SEEKING AID CAUS- ES WELFARE BOARD TO ADOPT MEASURES (Special to The Citizen) In asking this community to as- ist in raising this fund, there is little need to emphasize appalling | conditions existing around Shang- {hai and other cities, inasmuch as | newspapers, newsreels and radio thave vividly pictured conditions | that exist. | accompanied by Mrs. Jones, and | ss JACKSONVILLE, Fia., Jan. 31.! This money will be allocated to Thomas H. Jones, Jr., will remain |The mounting number of those/| relief agencies and hospitals al-! until Feb. 15. Lieutenant-Colonel | seeking Old Age Assistance, al-! ready existing, and a committee} |Jones is in the Coast Artillery|/ready nearly double estimates/of American business men in | Corps, P, M. S. and T., and gra-| upon which legislative appropria-| China, appointed by the Ameri- jduated from the Georgia School | tions were based, has caused the |can ambassador, Nelson ,T.,John- of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. | State Welfare Board to fix def-|son, would be formed to distri- Captain Paul C. Howe and Mrs. | inite state and district quotas, ac- bute the fund. No personnel will | Howe will be here Feb. 16 and | cording to afinouncement yexeag & > sent from the United States. stay until March 16. Captain|day of Clayton C. Codrington,| | In addition to the urgent need ‘Howe is from the Coast Artillery, | state welfare commissioner. } food, shelter and warm clo’ ro, Massachusetts. When the quotas are filled— William T./ and the deadline is rapidly near-| China at the present time is for) Colman will be accompanied by | ing—applications will be taken| ical assistance. Great danger | his father and mother. He is in| and filed until vacancies have e¢xists that epidemics may break the Air Corps, Paterson Field, Os-| been created by the closing of| out. born, Ohio. He is expected in | casas, Codrington’said. | Admiral Cary T. Grayson, na-! Feb. 20 and will remain until; In districts whose earlier) tional Red Cross chairman, said} March 7. | quotas have ben filled, an addi-' American officials in China had From the Ordnance Department | tional 15 percent will be enrolled, | informed him that 650,000 sick | of the Springfield Armory, of! the commissioner explained, injand homeless persons were) Springfield, Massachusetts. comes | View of the heavy death rate of | crowding the International Set-| Major Walter Solderholm, and | more than one percent per month. | tlement and Greater Shanghai at | | Mrs. Solderholm. They will be in|Funds that accumulated during |the present time, with many times Thursday and remain until Feb. | the organization stage of the pro-| that number scattered throughout 24 - | gram will make this possible, as it central and interior cities, towns, | From Fort Crook, Nebraska, | is only since the beginning of the and villages that have been de-| Captain Charles F. Ivins, Mrs.| Present year that OAA monthly vastated. _ ; | Ivins and children, will be here | Payments have approximated the| The national chairman also Feb. 25, and remain until March | @verage amount provided by leg-) pointed out that lack of adequate |24. Captain Ivins is in the 17th|islative appropriations _ supple- | housing facilities for the homeless | Infantry. F |mented by matching — mereoetng the peels eae | i a in Alfred | funds. |lem, it existing pul - la. coe Pp lager iel Prior to fixing the quotas, the) ters had long been over-crowded, | Field, Ohio. Mrs. Kessler and |State Welfare Board “leveled” the | resulting in thousands of home- ismall child will come with him/| 2 welfare districts, so that all} less being forced to huddle un- \Friday. They will remain until | Should be on a parity and so that | der straw matting shelters with-| L no discrimination would be pos-j|out sufficient protection | } i need for this was occasioned | over tig, one of the great needs in|}; from night last =? March as Major Hiram G. Fry and‘Mrs. Infantry. From another southern station, Richmond, Virginia, Colonel L. C. Brinton comes with Mrs. Brin- Fry is in tor general Fourth Corps Area from Atlanta, Georgia, is expect- 'ed in the later part of February to remain until Feb. 28. | A large number of visiting |army men who come here for a | short stay remain for the winter. AWAIT TEST OF | OILY SUBSTANCE | ‘om COMPANY REPRESENTA- S“TIVE TO MAKE FINDINGS “We feel very much encouraged by the appearance of the rock and soil found in that area on Bahia Honda but will know nothing posi- tive until we have received the | Teport of the geologists who are expected to have a representative in Key West this week, to make the tests”. The foregoing, in a few words, lis the gist of the conditions on | Bahia Honda where, several weeks | ago. while excavations were be- ing made, an explosion brought to | | the surface indications of oil and | gas, which were so alluring that Thomas F. Kenney, head of the reasons why Leonard M_.. Grates; 10 men te besent to Contract of this city applied for a divorce at Bahia Honda Bridge. The company doing the work, imme- | diately took steps to further car- }t¥_on investigations. | Saturday, Mr. Kenney was seen | by The Citizen and said that they are continuing their investiga tions, and expect an arrival some time during this week of a.sep- |Tesenfative from a company | which is now operating in Texas. | Mr. Kenney said it will only be ja brief time after the company’s representative arrives when the facts will be known relative to the territory. There are two tests made, one a geophysical test and | the other a seismographical test, | j after which it will be definitely } known as to the advisability of | carrying on the work. Major J. S. Doughtery, inspec- | ON PIGEON KEY by some of the districts being | much better staffed when the ‘State Board went into office on| with bewildered men, women and $25 for the July 1 than others, and the time | children, Americans on the scene | Complete |required to obtain visitors and | reported, and since railway serv- | collected at the dance other social service workers un-| ices had been disrupted there was | to be forwarded to the’Fundation der the prevailing merit system, he said. “The State Board was confront- ed with two alternatives”, Cod- |rington stated. “It could either fix definite quotas consuming all | available funds and let the indi- | vidual grants remain the same as now, or it could place all the eligible applying upon the pay- roll and reduce the size of the | grant. It chose the former as there is grave doubt that the So- cial Security Board at Washing- |ton, would permit the lowering ' of grants that were primarily bas- | ed upon need”. The Florida Social Security Survey, made by the former State Social Welfare in cooperation | with the Works Progress Admin- istration, estimated the number of }meedy aged more than 65 years old as 27,304..-This estimate was taken into consideration by the 1937 legislature in appropriating $3,400,000 for Old Age Assistance, Aid to the Blind, Surplus Com- modity Distribution, Child Wel- fare Department and administra- tive expense. The estimate was ultra - conservative, Codrington pointed out, in view of the fact that 25,475 had been granted as- sistance as of January and the number of applications pending as of December 31 was 19,388, a total of 44.863. The present allowed quota of the State Welfare Board is 31,- 522. LIKED OVERALLS MINNEAPOLIS.—One of the was that his wife , insisted .on ‘wearing overalls. ¢ 4 CATERING TO THE thecountry. Alleys and doorways |towns and cities were / | no way to evacuate them to other| | areas. H An offer \of assistance to the! | Japanese and Chinese Red Cross! Societies was made last August | by International Red Cross Com-| | mittees at Geneva. The Japan- | ese Society replied that their re-/ sources were adequate to deal | with their situation, but the Chin-| ese stated that they very much | needed outside assistance. “The Red Cross has become an international symbol of mercy, and there is great need for our | cooperation at this time”, said Mr. Spottswood, “and I am sure thai our appeal will meet with a gen- erous response, and that we who live in such a fortunate land will assist the suffering and homeless thousands in China”. Contributions may be sent to Mr. Spottswood, Hilton Kemp or to Mrs. Grace B. Phillips,’ and checks should be made cut to the American Red Cross. | FEW CALLS FOR BRIDGE WORKERS. Requisitions for laborers on the bridge projects are few and far between these days, and it is ex- pected that as time goes on there} will be fewer calls for laborers, the projects in the meantime be- ing brought to compietion. i The latest call for workmen} was received today from the Wis- | consin Bridge and Iron Co., for} Hi) | were sent today, aif laborers, five | i EXACTING PUBLIC Specializing In Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup aie SE SEER FES CLEAR GREEN —and— HAND-MADE CIGARS OF HAVANA TOBACCO Shipped—charges prepaid—to any point in the U.S. A. FRED AUERBACH. PHONE PROTECT THE UNDERNEATH OF YOUR CAR WITH SHERWIN-WILLIAMS BLACK ASPHALTUM. IT KEEPS DOWN RUST. PHONE SOUTH FLORIDA—SsS | By Showing Color Pictures Feature ofthe President Roose| "TMG AT |velt Birthday Ball held Saturday| VISITORS AMAZED AT | |night at Boca Chica Fishing Camp were the excellent natural color motion pictures of Key West scenes apd: people taken by Jacob Schretber,. Detroit theater | Eught hundred and five passen- | gers, representing 2 new record BOUGAINVILLEA HUGE APR ma Visitors to the city stand in amazement before the lux- urious bougainvillea vines a! 1321 Newton street. the e of Mr. and Mrs. Charies Saunders, Mr. and Mrs. Thompson, Mimi Malone, Malone, Captain Robert Lord, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Supt. of Lighthouses William Demeritt, Capt. James Moore, Capt, Will Chester i : ! | I i > : Luther Pinder, Charles Atwell and others. The scenes are quite complete of each group, showing i number of movements action ue Peet | F f ' af af i g i if i ¥EE il F F ue kh alt pigik friends 5 5 Community of the which are | are not available WM. KLAUS, US.N COMMANDER OF DUNLAP RE- FERS TO MATTER IN OFFICIAL REPORT Lieutenant Commander A. Schraeder, 3 : i : E ¥ i i ' : i | a& | i U3 5. a a [ f t i : ' ' | i | “Lieutenant Klaus is very high- ly regarded by the citizens of Key West. It is largely due to his per- sonality that the fine spirit of co- operation exists between the nav- | al station and the city”. ek ; t r / | if iH fig hiv commit rfl | nt f ft Hh 6 iit i E E | * f k 18