The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 30, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to-the Best Interests of Key West The Key Wiest Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U. S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1938. The ‘Citizen Reporter Travels ‘Magnificent Overseas Highway VOLUME LIX. No. 76. City Is National News, J. D,’ FRE DESTROYS Hess, Jr., AAA Director, Says oN oLVIASTREET ENKINS CURRY CANDIDATE FOR COMMISSIONER“ |MAKING RACE FROM FIFTH had struck the hour of 2 o'clock John D. Hess, Jr., Director of | " .| this afternoon, an alarm of fire Meat hahha Aas | irons Box arveaied tae decent | bile Association, Washington, D.; DAY IN COLUMNS OF THE ment to the corner of Olivia and} hake PLEASURE ON HIGHWAY OPENING Wish 10 take this means of the rallied the an ers | WAS ACCOMPANIED BY HIS Key West pioneers in link- WIFE; EXTENDED OFFICIAL the island to th : me ome main | CONGRATULATIONS to WM. H. MALONE ee NOW IMPROVING Key West citizens may well ADVICES EARLIER IN WEEK be proud of the beginning of greater and finer things for STATED HIS LIFE WAS IN DANGER MIAMI MAYOR |BUSINESS OWNED BY BEN-| JAMIN AND LYDIA FER-| NANDEZ; LOSS PLACED AT $5,000 Adrian O’Sweeney Says J Local Chamber of Com- merce Deserves Better: A / ALLL LLL \DISTRICT DIMENSIONS! Speed Of Trip impresses: Bahia Honda Bridge Like Amplane View; Deep Support | aad: My only regret is that my mother and dad who are buried there did not live to see this great day which Key West is enjoying. ABE ARONOVITZ. Mayor and Mrs. Robert R. Wil- liams of Miami arrived in the city yesterday at three o'clock and ex- tended their official congratula- tions to Mayor Willard M. Al- bury of Key West. C., said that Key West is the big news im the country today in a talk before the Stone Church Service Club in the Church An- CITIZEN Simonton streets where the New; York Barbecue Stand and Res-| \taurant was burning, | IOI DODD s,. Unable to remain longer than a few hours, Mayor Williams in- formed The Citizen that he ex- | Many friends and relatives of) tthe fi | T. Jenkins Curry announces in| sas Gees ae cine tae pected to return in a few days. Attorney and Mrs. Wm. H. Ma-/ nels and low fiat mmgh m the ax 2 white roedwey goed & Ge nex last night. | spread over the large area of the COAST GUARD The bureau at Washington has! this issue of The Citizen his can- | building, so a second alarm was} been swamped for news and in-! didacy for County Commissioner | sent in, which’called out the extra! formation of the city, Mr. Hess! _ 5 te, . a atus of the department. said. Many of the inquiries show | om the Fifth District, and gives | HUES neroe efforts of a woeful tack of knowledge of the | his Ee ee th ithe department members and/ ~ Island City, the director said, ‘im | following paragraphs: | their valiant work, the flames asking if there were any filling| = “In announcing myself‘a candi- | had rapidly gained such headwa: — stations or cating places there.| qate”'for the office’ of County | that by 2:30 o'clock the building! The AAA bureau.at Washington | ., 7 nissioner from the Fifth Dis- | and contents were declared a OS aed CAMP, ABLE SEAMAN, DIED ON BOARD SILVER annually prepares a report which | tal loss. sf SWORD: BODY TAKEN TO | He and Mrs. Williams left about Jone are overjoyed to Jearn today | | four o'clock. {that Mr. Malone is -zeegvering | — 5 apse of Fort from his recent illness and gives | e le, and a large nm cs - vi | lof Lauderdale city officials, and}®¥®TY ¢vidence of being on me) lresidents, who arrived yesterday, |T0ad to complete recovery. | | were entertained at the Havana-| Earlier in the week messages Madrid Club last night by Juan Were received by telephone ere Carbonell. The group’ left for his home in Miami that he had/ Lauderdale this morning. developed double pneumonia and | The National Safety-Wide Pa-/@t one time his life was believed trol car with Captain J. S. Clary to be ebbing fast. | Southwest yesserczy oper co oo< world, from the spreading =a land. from the white towers: Magic City cf Miami trom ioe - Greee truck ‘arms arounc Home: Steed over mangrove rociec core. islands. fer cut inte the one bounded on one side by the A: is sent to all newspapers and | trict, I do so with the thought that | The business was owned which covers the attractions of }I am well qualified to serve as a Benjamin and Lydia Fernandez, ! Yesterday the good news of a the various sections of the coun-| County Commissioner. My inter-| and it was while Mr. Fernandez! improve- est in the upper Keys as well as | Was battling with the stove, which | try and tells of ments there. Besides this method of publiciz- new {in Key West renders me as one 'was the cause of the conflagra- | tion, he was severly burned about ing, the AAA's 1,000,000 members | Who could serve the interests of| the arms and was taken to the are also told of the different sec-| the entire county fairly and im-' Marine hospital for treatment.|in port this morning with the tions of the country, and since’ partially, and if elected I promise Mrs. Fernandez was also slightly | body of John Crisp, able seaman Key West has shown such re- markable progress (a wonderful story of the attractions and new Overseas Highway here will be told members. Mr. Hess said that while sta- my every cooperation with the | other Commissioners for the best | interest of the entire county. | Fl , burned. | The loss is placed at approxi- mately $5,000. An alarm was sent in at 12:05 an office adjoining the man who | of the highway and there wil be out the information that a fence | a was father of the Dixie Highway | many matters of great importance’ was afire but the flames had been’ ™°™ing and the 185 had gone and whose one dream was that it! brought before the governing! quenched, with no appreciable | Out to the bar, returned and left would be extended to little Key | bodies for their consideration and | damage. West. Mr. Hess is glad that he has been one to realize the ma- terializing of that man’s dream. Michael Dam: “ye Herald sentative, said a “war A Seton be made-up by the citizens that editors of magazines and newspapers the country over can be brought here to publicize the place and show the remark- able things Key West has fo of- fer. “The story of Key West must be told!”, Mr. Damron said. Stating that if Key West caters to nightclubs and wild life it would ruin a great deal of its charm, Mr. Damron said that the city should depend on its peace- fulness, its uniqueness, its fishing, its climate and give the world something different. Key West is exactly what would appeal to the traveling public, he said. Adrian O’Sweeney, club mem- ber, said that the Key West Chamber of Commerce is sadly supported locally, and pointed out that S. C. Singleton, secretary, is a man of calibre and capability | the city should be proud of. Bringing out the point that Mr. Singleton is tireless in his ef- forts to better the ‘conditions of. the city and bringit before’ the yes of the world, Mr: O'Sweehey said the city as a whole should awaken to the need fn Cham ber of Commerce ari @uppert it in the future : Resolutions of gratitude to the Various newspapers and radio sta- tions in the Miami area for their splendid publicity will be drawn up and sent them, the club agreed. Guests of the club wer: Judge George “Tedder of Fort Lauder- dale; Dwight L. Rogers, candi- date for congressman; Michael Damron; John D. Hess, Jr.. How- ard Miller, Jimmy Loss and the members of his orchestra; D. A Patterson VIII SASS Exclusive Story-— For One-Legged Men (My Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO. March 30.—A shoe exchange for one- legged persons and other cripples has just been opened here. It is intended to do away with the necessity of buying two shoes when a per- son can wear only one. Odd- sized shoes for various other afflicted persons will be sought through voluntary contribution. Eventually the exchange hopes to work with similar agencies in other cities. so unwanted shoes may be ex- changed and put to good use. BILIPFIGL#: co | disposal, and I feel that my busi- | mess experiences and my know- ledge of conditions and affairs of the county render me capable of passing ton many things or matters that may j have to be considered. ; “As a County Commissioner I ' would assume that I am an agent of the people for the purpose of managing their business affairs and I would work unceasingly for | their interests that they may not ;Fegret the confidence placed in! me and I would not merely do my SCOUTS CLEAR ue CAN si ON AT ROOSEVELT BOULEVARD ; $ Boy Scouts can be seen each LOPEZ PARLORS Coast Guard Vessel 185 arrived lof the vessel Silver Sword, who died at sea. August Bradley, | officer in “Key: West and all of the other | ocjock from Box 24 at the corner | charge of the 185, said to The j jorida Keys are certain to take of Southard and Elizabeth streets. | Citizen that a call had been re- tioned at Memphis, he worked in! on new life with the completion’ arrival of the equipment brought | ceived about 5:30 o'clock this again later and returned to port ‘at 9:45. | He said he was given informa- | he seemed to be suffering, but it was of no avail. The body has been taken to the Lopez Uundertaking Parlor and ‘the morticians are awaiting word t whether or not the body is to be shipped to the home of the de- ceased at 734 South Broadway, New York. Manager Charles Taylor, of the iduty as already prescrbied ‘but afternoon busil at the Porter Dock Co. has been re- would always have the thought of Hoscencit ‘Beuzevent Swimming |auested to ask the steamship finding new means of acquiring | benefits for public welfare and | L would be a commissioner in fact as well as in name’. “I have never before sought | public office because I do not like the political game but have now decided that I would like to serve as a County Commissioner even though the position paid no sal- ary. “As a private citizen I have al- | ways interested myself in matters pertaining to the public and many pot ga iay With sary att PDA dubbcdicw 1 ¢wilbserve you well in a position with authority, then vote for me { for: Commissioner frog #ifth “Dis- pitietsund try me for two years Withcgour pidbfehla. © As to my calm judgement and reasoning and my loyalty to public trust, I refer you to our esteemed citizens, Ben D. Trevor and J. R. Stowers, with whom I had the great pleas- ure of serving on the board of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District Commission for two years (virtually without com- pensation). “If elected County Commissien- er I promise to carefully consider all matters coming before the board before rendering judge- ment, always with the thought that the county's interest shall be paramount to all others. “The Keys and Key West are now cemented together by way of the Overseas Highway; now Ict us cement the good-will and mutual interests of the entire county by electing a commissioner from the upper Keys as they are entitled to representation in county govern- ment. “If you feel that I w ll as a County Cor give me your support in the May Democratic Primary”. ————<—— DINNER DANCE TONIGHT—7 to 9:30 RAUL’S CLUB John Pritchard's Orchestra Admission __ $1.00 Per Person j pool, cleaning and clearing a por- tion of the hilly rim where it is planned to establish a short time ‘ camp. The place will be put in shape for the overnight camps and hiking rest spot for boy and girl scouts. Girl scouts will plant the rim of the pool with coconut palms and pine trees, in order to pro vide a shady and cool place and also with the knowledge that the | Toots of the trees will keep the \marl and sand from being wash- ed away. A pathway is also being built surrounding the whole pool. which is proving a very popular spot for those: who wish to be tanned by the:sun, and it is con templated by the scouts to build: additions to the pools for swim- mers and divers. It is hoped by the scouts that those who use the jpool and its accessories, when | finished, will take an interest and | do nothing in the way of destruc tion, which has so often been done by thoughtless persons. MORE SPONGE OF $1,382.30; YELLOW NETTED $53.43 While expectancy was not real- |} ized yesterday as to the amount! of sponges displayed on the Mu- nicipal sponge wharf. there. was evertheless, a fair showing, and of the offerings were dispos- ed of There were 446 bunches of wool 'sponge displayed, and the sale price was $1,38230. There were 100 bunches of yellow on display. and the price paid for them was $53.49. Largest sales of wool were 176 bunches for $601.30 and 180 bunches for $685.66. The next largest was 42 bunches at $43. | company in New York, if it is de- ‘sired to have an inquest held. If | the answer is yes, the inquest will be held by Franklin Arenberg. peace justice in the First District, {as coroner ex-officio. COLORED MAN IS ARRAIGNED TERDAY TO AWAIT ACTION OF CRIMINAL COURT ' Arnold Johnsor Back, colored, yes en a preliminary hearing before Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo on a charge of aggravated as- sault on Leonard Hall, -also col- ored The evidence brought out at the trial was sufficient to warrant the accused being put under a tond of $200 to await the action of the next term of criminal court The cutting scrape occurred Sunday. one week ago, on Pe tronia street, when an altercation was held betwee e men. Hall walked away, but was followed by Johnson, who cut him several times on the head and neck, in flicted wounds in the abdominal }Tegion, and on the left arm. He ‘was arrested by Deputy Ray El- wood and placed in the county alias in charge, with loud speakers, « aalbeicted strcot beaeacants yes. marked change in his condition terday afternoon at the corner of Was received, the crisis has been Fleming and Duval and drew a/ Passed and every evidence'of his crowd, which lined both sides of Teturn to normal was announced. | the sidewalks. Visitors, Key ee West people, young and old, city FERRIES TIED | SS | officials, were all interviewed on | their felings on the opening day LAST TRIP OF VESSELS was) MADE ON MONDAY of the highway by the personable AFTERNOON | police officer. The trip is made to boost the highway, Captain Clary said, and also to impress a TEMPERATURES 1 Lowest Highest last night last 24 hours | ee 70 _ 56 38 76 52 Christi SSRSSSSVSRISIS ee i le background of traffic safety ob- present stationed at Fort Lauder-! dale. tors to the city are Jack London, | well-known showman, who owns! Monday afternoon the health and police commitSsioner| No Name)Key, ‘ahd outstanding Detroit attorney. | West, Pilgrim and Traveller, are et | tied up in the yacht basin. BRUCES LEAVE | by Manager Eugene Demeritt, of | ‘the ferry system, who said that berthed last Friday. and the Florida Keys and Key West en- GROUP OF FRIENDS SURPRIS-| Auditor Frank Delaney, discuss- | the f Situation, said that) ED KEY WEST visitors | 115 — received regarding the ferries and | | asking that photographs and in- = |other data be given. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bruce,| wot is to be done with the! month in Key West and, as usual, leral crews, is a problem which | enjoyed their stay immensely, | 51) be left in the hands of the, ing and being entertained, left | over the highway this afternoon | ington. Both Mr. and Mrs. Bruce were mg by aygroup of friends from Hollywood, who left that city at | Abilene Key West several hours later for Atlanta the purpose of joining the Bruces| Boston - ——— Buffalo PLAN RALLY AT cscs: orp" BAYVIEW PARK °::: Dodge City Duluth COUNTY TO GATHER El Paso Galveston APRIL 14 Hatteras y Democratic Ex- | Heler rangements for a Democr: - | Jacksor ly to be conducted at Bayview | Kansas City nouncement made today. | Little Reck There will be several speakers, Los Angeles pected that there w Tee Miami ber i Su P, RESTA FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET Seecidlishaie ies WESTERN MEATS Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup | BREAKFAST—A LA CARTE DINNERS ALSO—LATE SUPPERS AND SANDWICHES BEER and WINES i Fred Auerbach. Mgr. Phone 98 j servance. He and others are at Among the better-known visi- ‘a circuit of theatres in Detroit; of the Monroe County Ferry ‘of Detroit, and Harold Eamons, four ferries, Florida Keys, Key This announcement was made OVER HIGHWAY the Traveller and Pilgrim were Sears \tered the basin yesterday. three communications have been | THIS MORNING formation as to dimensions and who have been visiting for one€/ sie; and members of the sev- meeting many friends, entertain- county commissioners to solve. enroute to their home in Wash- delightfully surprised this morn- 5 o'clock morning, arrived in | Apalachicola for a swim,followed by luncheon. Brownsviile —. Chicago Detroit DEMOCRATS OF MONROE fastport Huron ec making ar-| Havan Park on April 14, according to an-_ KEY WEST heard at the time. and it ex- | Louisville URANT SUSIRSIVLSsZ Finest Certified t Lake City mn Francisco LUNCHEON—75c 5 FROM 8Sc Washington Wiillston Wytheville AT SUCCUME3 TO HEART ATTACK Wm. F. Kapp. « visitimg guest in Key West, died 1:30 o'clock this morning im his room at the Kapp died came up munutes after the seizure jantic Ocean ex the other py ime Gulf cof Mexico te the Ettie “ac world” city of Key Wet it was Key West's G@eam of « century, and i was all lke a= ue belevabie kKalew@oscopec magx caTpet dream w the thoumnm «< ij ell i ty Mrs. Kapp, who was with her husband at the tume of his Gesth. jleft over the highway this morn ing for Miami and will there await the arrival of the body which is to be shipped 7 o'clock tonight by the Lopez Funers! Home by Mr home Homes Penn ices will be held and imterment take place FIRE IGNITES GAS TANK east Tow 4 gas were lost when far, whch started at the General Neva! Stores Company office, spread t© the lerge of tanks of a nearby of) company causing the tanks to explode Ne one was known to have been > jured. Canciunat gaijons of c Sop ef if if it th tr if rt i it | i) al i : ' j } | J ' | i t ENG. COMPANY