The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 28, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West ee VOLUME LIX. No. 74. THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. OVERSEAS KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1938. Che Key West Citizen Y OPEN TO TRAFFIC TOMORROW PWA Headquarters Announce’ Opening OF Overseas Highiy’ Washington Organization Hails Opening As Great Achievement To Island City By PAUL MAY (Special Washington Correspondent of Fhe Citizen) WASHINGTON. March 28.— The new Overseas Highway will be opened to traffic tomorrow. Tuesday. March 29, it has been announced by the Public Works Recounting in an official state- ment the steps which led to a Grant for the highWay. and the # Soocccooqevessesooeooe Candidate For State Senator ‘JUDGE WARD: ANNOUNCES | FOR SENATOR | CANDIDATE MAKES NO PRE- | ELECTION PROMISES IN AN- | NOUNCING HIS CANDI- DACY Judge and Mrs. David Elmer Ward, accompanied by Sam A. Spencer, of Fort Myers, arrived in Key West for the opening of the Oversea Highway to traffic, Tuesday, March 29. They expect to remain in Key West for several weeks, visiting among the residents of the city and the Keys. Judge Ward is a candidate for State Senator for the Twenty- | fourth District, composed of Mon- Overseas Highway Broadcast Featuring Key ‘West To Be Heard Tomorrow Afternoon "IAB AOA AA OAD. sation WOAM of the Miami WQAM-CITIZEN RADIQ | ®*02d<#sting Company. in coop- eration with The Key West Citi- on the Street”. arrived in Key A feature of the broadcast will be a “man on the street” pro- gram, in which Mr. Harris inter- views several men and women, residents of this city. The ques- tions asked and answers given re- flect generally the opinions of Key West people on the occasion ‘ SOOOTOMOE. MOVING PICTURE | | OFFICIALS COMING HERE FOR FISHING | | H : | | il ? il £ : ff : i j j j Ri é i p f t . | | il ‘ | i ? : i ig i Fy ul iH ! : i | ] | | i i i! i & & i 5 i i : i j E Most Outstanding Ruadway Construction In History | SEVERAL THOUSAND AUTOMOBILES AND 18 000 VISITORS EXPECTED TO ARRIVE IN KEY WEST DURING NEXT FEW DAYS OVER NEW STRUCTURE ee ee MOTORCADE TO LEAVE HERE IN Dreams which beve ab sorbed the minds of Ker West citizens and visitors EARLY MORNING ‘ox = period of 20 years, axe Mayor Willard M. Albury said this afternoon that the motorcade which will leeve tomorrow morning to go to Matecumbe for the openimg of the bridges. will assembie in front of his home 1331 White about to be realizes At 8 o'clock temeree mortung the Owerseas Hag> way, reaching te Key West from the mammiand and cor |Foe, Collier, Hendry and Lee j o / counties, nk | : of the opening of ‘the highway.| along.” Generat. detatls of its constrte- par = Sp fion. the PWA hailed the open-| ding of the highway as an schieve- ment which will mean much to| the future development of Key, West, and restoration of its pros- perity. HEART TURNING TO STONE LONDON.—A post-mortem ex-| amination of Mrs. Catherine Mor- ton, who died in this city at the age of 92, disclosed that her heart had begun to turn to stone. LICENSES ISSUED Marriage licenses issued from the office of County Judge Ray- mond R. Lord during the past week carry the names of the fol- lowing applicants to whom issues | were made: Armando Hernandez and Vir- ginia Alvarez; Fred E. Knight and Gladys Johnson; Lee Mal- colm Pierce and Lauriette L. Thompson; Ralph Pratt and Lor- raine Valdez. DIVERSION OF HIGHWAY FUNDS TABOO EVEN IN MIDDLE AGES Proving the old saying, “There’s nothing new under the sun”, evi- dence is abundant that the. pres- is UBT king of England could sustain his franchise to a private citizen for the collecticn of tolls én a paiblic Judge Ward is making his an-| in The! |nouncentent for senator {Citizen and said that the senator from this distrcit has come from Monroe county since 1888, and thinks that the other | counties in the district are now entitled to a chance. Judge Ward, ‘in making his announcement stat- he was familiar with the needs of this section of the state, having been born in this district where his-damily visited among the Isiands over a period of about fifty years. He grew up on a farm, working his way through the public schools of this district Although the senator for the past 50 years has come from Key West, Judge Ward said, “I will give fair treatment between Mon- roe county and the ‘Mainland’. I believe that the highway between the Mainland and Key West should be straightened, and im- proved “I believe that the gasoline used in fishing boats should be | e§empt from road taxes; that this ent-day campaign against. diver- | highway unless: the toad was kept! séction should devote itself to the sion of highway funds—a cam. if géod repair with the funds col-| ‘Tourist Trade’, which together paign waged by the Florida divi-; sion of the American Automobile Association and by many disinter- ested citizens—has had its courl- terpart in early English history and law Back in the days when the king spent a large part of his time try- ing to rich at the expense of his subjects, it was the custom for the sov an to grant franchises Persons, usually ious barons, to is of the king- in the y Middle Ages s ruled that not even the IIIT IEES OPENING TOMORROW | 9 A.M. The newly remodelled and re- decorated Hub Store 602 Duval St. | handling exclusively | i i Now Ladies’ READY-TO-WEAR and MILLINERY Your Inspection Cordially Invited ; MRS. MATILDA MENDELL. | + Prop. | SILI sasaaa. "| AAA fected from the travelers. There can be found many cases to this effect in the early English reports. “Unfortunately for the motor- ists of Florida, the simple and rea- sonable principles of Blackstone's and other commentaries on the English common law are being thrown into oblivion”, says E. Screven Bond, of the Florida “The annual tax bill of the motorists of this state, paid on the theory that the funds would be used for road improvement. has reached a total of more than 26 million dollars; of which the state highway department receives less than one-third, much of the re- mainder being diverted to other uses. “Effective bars were placed against the English king w pre- vent excessive diversion o ‘he revenue from roads. The people of Florida have an effective meth- od to prevent this modern abuse f the taxing power. They can Ni their legislative representa- tive to correct an intolerable sit- BIG DANCE AT THE CUBAN CLUB TUESDAY, MARCH 29TH P.M. till? Gould Curry’s Orchestra Admission 60c - Members ‘: Price . . with commercial fisting and sponging are among the.-import- ant industries of this section “I am for bettering the position of deserving old persons, cutting the ‘red tape’ so that they will receive the benefits intended for them, for bettering the conditions of dependant citizens of them “I am for making the schools | for ‘school children’ and improv ing the conditions of the school teachers. “I believe in fewer laws. “Having worked my way through school and law school, I am trying to advance by hard work and by giving service I have no criticism to make of any other candidate and the only promise I make is to do the best I can for all”. INVITATION Having reo teleph call from relatiy the Honorable T. B. Mar , Mayor of Ft. Lauderdale. Florida. Juan Carbonell. owner arni man a long d / s | nf cials to attend. PROTECT YOUR CLOTHES, LINEN, ETC, and delinquent children, helping to make better | Abilene Apalachicola Atlanta Boston Brownsville Buffalo Charl Chicago Corpus Christi 7 Denver Detroit Dodge City Duluth Eastport El Paso Galveston Hatteras Havana Hel Hur Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST Little Rock geles 1a g USSRBL| SSSR ge ed at the main studio in Miami West, also made at The Citizen TEMPERATURES and the president of the Miami = Mayor Willard M. Albury; = Stephen C. Singleton, executive la Rodriguez, Cuban consul in Key Knott, state treasurer of Florida man:of the district. her. ip Cuba this ing Was f the Florida Educational As- were ma Dopp. Miss 3. L. Seymour, | for the broadcast. office, will be a feature of the Lowest — Highest | Chamber of Commerce. ad Carl Bervaldi, chairman, county . * secretary, Key West Chamber of 54 West, who spoke in Spanish, the and treasurer of the Overseas B. M. Duncan also will be heard SCHOOL GROUP sup of school teachers from on Mrs. H. R Salis, Miss Mary Pin- ‘special discs and will be transcrib- Special recordings of speeches Ba OD BAO E@, iver by prominent men of Key program along with greetings ex- tended by the Mayor of Miami last night last 24 nours| ‘These citizens will be heard on the program: 48 : a ut A 82 commissioners; L. P. rtman, publisher, The Key West Citizen: 62 ~ 7 80 Commerce; Dr. William R. War- ren, city health officer; Berardo 52 e . 48 translation being given by Vice- Consul Jose C. Perez; William V. Road and Toll Bridge District, and John H. Costar, vice-chair- on the broadcast in an interview with Commentator Philip Kelle- Tampa on the the public schools of Key West, had been attending a meet- returning party Florence Albury, Mrs. Nor- der. Mrs: O. J. Haskins, Miss M Neff, Mrs. A. E. Ramsey and Mrs SLSSLKLISESLZ RESTAURANT FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET Specializing In Finest Certified WESTERN MEATS Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup BREAKFAST—A LA CARTE LUNCHEON—75Se DINNERS FROM 8Sc ALSO—LATE SUPPERS AND SANDWICHES BEER and WINES Fred Auerbach. Mgr. at haaaditall PUTNAMS GO TO TORTUGAS George R. Putnam, conimission-} er of lighthouses, retired, who ar- rived Saturday evening, left last night 10:30 o'clock on the Light- house Tender Ivy, accompanied by Mrs. Putnam, for Tortugas. Tender Ivy has some work to do in that vicinity, it was said, and it is understood that the ship will not return before Wednesday. OMIM DOLL ILL Large Delegation Of Arrives In City This Morning Arriving on SS. Cuba this morning from Tampa were 63 members of the Ohio Lumber Re- tailers Association, who are tour- ing the principal states of the South and this morning sailed on SS. Cuba for a tour of Havana and the principal cities of Cuba The party is under the guidance of Douglas Wilson, traveling pas- senger agent of the P. and O. S. S. Company, who is on Steamship Cuba, and who spent a couple of hurs this morning meeting old friends of years ago. Mr. Wilson said that the Ohio group is taking one of their usual jaunts and so far have been hav- ing a wonderful time. Members of the association who are making the trip are Findlay Torrance, secretary of the association; Mrs. Torrance, and daughter, Miss Jean Tor- It is expected that there will be about 50 persons im- the f i He i ge u tt ¢ 8 RY e BF fee i Hu t rit [ : | t Ohioans Powell, Mr. and Mrs. terman, Mr. and Mrs peth, Mr. and Mrs. C Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Charles Seville, Mrs son, Mr. and Mrs. F. ¥. Whiteon Mrs. Jules Yoho, Mrs C. Curtis. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Johnson. TRUCK ARRIVED TODAY We now have Fresh S errs Fresh Fruits it tr; ry : | ast! Halt i WITH “BROWNS” SUPER CEDAR CLOSET LINING. PHONE 598. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTR. AND ENG. COMPANY