The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 2, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. VOLUME LIX. No. 79. A Voters. Beginning A Membership "SOOO Oa eae, Drive; Will Be Joint | MEW ARRANGEMENT | i IN THE CITIZEN’S | White Way will be turned Sponsors of State Meet’ DELIVERY SERVICE u've stece ani Te In Miami | A change in one feature of | The Citizen's delivery service The Board of Directors of the is announced on page one to- | Key West Yacht Club has devot- day. Formerly complaints |€d several sessions to inspecting! concerning non-delivery of various clubhouse sites suggested by the members. Permission was Papers came to The Citizen d by Lieut. Willi Kl: & representation of vol .| Office, however, the new ar- _ Sranted by Lieut. William Klaus, PI mn of voters as pos USN., officer in charge, Naval - rangements now directs such sible at the polls May 3. In con- complaints to the local Wes. Station, to look over the old bat- | tery at the yacht harbor in this/ junction with the tern Union office, where, be- | : connection. tween 6 and 7 p. m., pst rally April 14 at Bayview Park, | . FE ‘pt It was pointed out, however,! sages of that nature will be a pa 2c and Miliary of papers _ that, although there is every de- | sire to cooperate in' the develop+ made'by special Western Un- Abe motorcade parade around the city | ion: messenger. ment of local activities, a number) of specific requirements of the ‘This change in service con- to bring the voters out. | = Navy Department would have to! | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1938. To Stage MAD ESTLL White Way To Be Lighted : For Primary CLUBHOUSE SITE | REQUIREMENTS OF NAVY DE-| PARTMENT TO USE BAT-| TERY AT NAVAL STATION | PRICE FIVE CENTS Postal Savings Deposits: At Tonight, Grooms Announces Key West Postoffice Increase; Bascom Grooms, president of | ned, the company has agreed to b] Greater Stamp Sales Recorded the Key West Electric Company, |" on the White Way tonight Increase Shown In All De- partments, According To |with the provision that the re- announces that the Duval Street | maining funds necessary be col- Announcement Made By Postmaster | lected within the next two weeks. | Every night between six and} eleven 25 lights along the White | Way will be turned on. Cost will} The light poles have each been | pe $624.25 for the period. Recent reduced to one lamp, a 600 candle- | conditioning of the light poles} ‘uver Une nunare a e je Passengers Arrive In City pee | power bulb, which has added to’ along the way has cost the com-| project j the beauty and increased the il-| mittee $513.50. This Jeaves a bal- lumination of the White Way./ ance of $132.50 to apply on the | Work of changing the lighting | light operation. The balance of} system and also of repairing bad- | $492.75 is to be collected within ly damaged wiring wa: mpleted ,the next few weeks unter pres- Passengers. on Steamship Cuba Rosalie Lasanti, Frank .Kelly,| which Louis Pollock is chairman | lock said today, bar wales | from, Havana yesterday afternoon Dorothy sails Frau aay. Postmaster Sanyi«Harris said s ised the entire funds! tions became more difficult an eorge Armstrong, le Walsh, | z x pesesatiey to Keep the lights going | finally they were at almost a picnic py hati numpet | Phillip Greeley, ‘Arthur Ochel- Yesterday that the,imcrease in over the six month period plan- | Standstill. i y Pe. jtree, Jose Rogelio Perez, ,.An-' activity at the postoffice contin- | Key West arrivals: Liberty | listed the following items: For | | Bailey, Harold Clark, Mrs. Clark,|Key West, four automobiles and | able in the stamp receipts and the Ethel Galloway, Raymond Greist, | three sacks of mail; for Tampa, | deposits. Junior Chamber of Commerce | will sponsor a drive to get as large | Democratic | the local Jaycees will sponsor aj | recently by N. L. Osterhoudt, | ent plans. electrician. Initial funds for the Although the committee of | were easily obtained, Louis Fol- | = RAMS | URES ~~} second, cabin passengers for Key |tonia Martinez, Edries Jones, | | Wes’ and 57 first and three sec-| Virginia de Rochemont. | wed to be evidenced in all depart- .,, ond cebin passengers for Tampa.; On the ship's manifest were! ments, and is aime -thetion: CABLE, SHIP; MAKING KEY. WEST — PORT OF CALL FOR MANY YEARS, TO PLOW DEEP IN OCEAN WORK | begun in 1858 by Cyrus W. Field, forms to procedure now fol- be met should the club request! | permission to use the structure. At the present time, at least, the club is not_in a position to meet |some of these requirements. Edward Bayly, chairman, Joe lowed in ‘other cities, and will relieve a special force of The late ; Albert N. Mathew, Fern Mathew, | 79 tons of freight, one automobile | Otto Prohis, Flora Prohis, John and 105 sacks of mail. | |Prechochi, John DePoo, Joseph} The vessel sailed for Tampa Prechochi, Mrs. Prechochi, Wm.| with the following passengers Merritt, Cleo Coffman, Jean Pi-| booked at Key West: Mrs. Wil-| amount was increased during the lenji, Sue Pilenji, Mario Piletti,| liam H. Smith,-Mrs. M. McLaugh- | month of March by $13,263, as on | Marie Joern, Helen Joern, Agnes lin, J. Segoat, J. T. Martinez, Mrs.| the last day of the month the River, Dulce M. Holscheck, Ruth|C. Ricketts, W. Stocklin, L. S.| amount of de*posits was $317,399. PROSECUTOR IS |the cable ship Lord Kelvin will Young, Harry R. Webster, W.|Panelle, R. Stern, Herman Oli-| During the same month last sail Tuesday from New York to Katherine Webster, Rose Jacobi, | phant, S. B. Wharton and a num-jyear the sale of stamps totalled VISITOR HERE plow ocean cables into the At Arnold Jacobi, Mario Perez Mesa,|ber of second cabin passengers. | $3,240.87, while during the same At the close of business for February postal savings deposits amounted to $304,136. This Writing the newest chapter in lantic Ocean, to protect them} . | Period in 1937, the stamp sales from submarine damage, it was} amounted to $2,978.06, which announced yesterday by _ the; | shows a gain for the month in Western Union Telegraph Com- 1938, of 262.81. pany. : | During the first three months The Lord Kelvin is well known ; jof the year 1937 postal receipts im Key West shipping circles, were $8,428.32, while during the having visited here many times | first three months of the present during the past twenty years. ‘year, the postal receipts totalled Fernando J. Camus Gets e National DeMolay Honors The world’s longest and most $10,105.73, ‘an increase for the unusual chain, according to the es eo os Sates | first quarter of the present year company, has been loaded aboard | Fernando J. Camus, Jr., has, made from,the» standpoint that } of $1,6774hu-« the ship. at,Fletcher’s. Shipyard, ‘received notification that he has| his work in the city has been so} Discdssing the speed with which Fifteenth Street, Hoboken, N. J. | been accorded the highest honor | Outstanding it overbalances those | mail is delivered today, Mr. Har- Said to be the longest chain | §¢ 4, Order of DeMolay, that {of other DeMolay leaders, who | ris said that letters or packages ever manufactured, it comprises Ss wei bcw Pa Sa |have covered wider fields over | sent by airmail from Key West 12,500 nickel steel links, each | Chevalier. | the country. 11:30 one day, was in New York weighing three and one-half, At the present time, it is under-| Mr. Camus will receive a gold | 5:30 the next morning, and prac- pounds. It is 4,200 feet long and stood, the honor is indeed a great | Signet ring and medallion for the | tically the same time is consumed weighs 43,000 pounds and is one, and the award difficult to honor at the Kansas City Nation- | by letters and peckages going to capable of withstanding as much | secure al DeMolay five-day convention, | Chicago. as 65,000 pounds of stress. Mr. beginning July 5. DUNCAN McCRAE, PROSECUT- | ING ATTORNEY; JUDGE ED-! WARD J. JEFFRIES, CLARE RANDOLPH IN PARTY Allen and Donald C p id Donald Cormack are on | Citizen newsboys from for automobiles and trucks. Busi- j ness houses of the city are to be | WMO PIP ODD &. All of the sites suggested ‘have Tequested to furnish their trucks! ir : [has their relative merits under h < en consideration. A decision will wi ich will adyertise individual | probably not be made for several political candidates, the Jaycees | TRAFFIC PATROL will decorate their car an trucks | | the matter will be placed before | the membership for ratification at the vofers to come out. | UNIT IN KEY WEST py spectelnmesting, 0. she called Poly Artman, chairman, How- — its plans. ard England and Anibal Armayor i aoa gna SST other details in the parade. | HENSIVE ORGANIZATION | NOTTINGHAM WAS A membership drive for the! | Junior outfit was begun last night | PROGRAM FOR YOUTH OF) VISITOR T0 cil Y teams, captained by Isidore Wein- | = traub and Anibal Armayor. Post- | cards will be mailed potential candidates and “personal inter-| Charles Taylor, president of ZEN; NOW CITY ATTORNEY = | views made, The team losing will|the Key West Rotary Club, Hee, OF FORT PIERCE Duncan McCrae, Detroit Lat a : A ce \guting attorney, who bantted i" tae heats jg eigeek past eat Captain. Sherman.Cannon of the | ot «she forced ‘ ‘ . { ion? a d~ *~ Deadline in the contest will be | Tack ville Police force in reply rest editor of The Citizen under pate ep > gannorahle eae the present management, was an nce oF oe neers Cant in ps All arc i secured will | schoolboy traffc control system of arrival in Key West yesterday heh P arter members of the club. | the city of Jacksonville. . f ~ ” i “ Randolph, Detroit assistant prose- Charter Night, April 22, will be} Only boys who are grade A el Key West Mr, ‘uting attorney, Mrs. McCrae, was decided. H. H. Taylor, Jr,,|PUPis are eligible for service in Netlnnehite @oRt “he ie there. Mrs. Jeffries and Mrs, Randolph, BPS i aka 7 6 PU Sen the committee which will arrange | duty. ic desirable features, and the board for the night, Boycotting all signs | SEEKING YOUTH weeks, it being very likely that with bunting and signs urging; ;when the board has completed are the committee to arrange | 7° WORK IN WITH COMPRE- | with the members split into two! CITY. | | | FORMER EDITOR OF THE CITI- pay the May 20 regular dinner for! received a communication from sl i eX POS > “Black* G. Ri Nottingham, who was the PC PME eepoees OEE 7 Charter Night, April 22, at eight | t0 his. query” concerning the Casa wierd lig cllice taeeé| ores oe 0 veetsy: Bae Clare held at Raul’s Miramar Club it! are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Camus was recently ap-; representative from the Junior! Chamber of Commerce, Miami Beach, was asked to extend — an official invitation to the various representatives of the Jaycee groups in the Miami Area. Mr. Taylor reported that Tom Smith, Vice President of the state groups, will arrange for a representative from each of these clubs to be here for Charter night. A dance is also to be given to raise funds before that date. Charter Night committce appointed was Isidore} Weintraub, chairman, Poly Art- man, Edward Bayly, Anibal Ar- mayor. Invitation from the Dade Coun- , ty Association of Junior Cham ber of Commerce to be joint spon- sors in the state convention to be held in Miami, in’ June was heartily acceptesti by ‘the local outfit. Steal DISINHERITS;, DAUGHTER nd PARIS.—Mlle. Hortense raille of this city was disinherited by her father becaus she ran away from a convent and became an actress. SHE SRIATTS THE BOXWOOD BARRIER _ Bilda- Qy BLANCHE SMITH FERGUSON ‘* Somorrow’— 5 P. M. Till ? STARTING APRIL©S. IN THIS PAPER hdd dadedel the unit, which is recognized by the Jacksonville police depart- ment as having the power to make traffic arrests. The boys are |recommended by the principal of the school and his teacher. Sponsored by the American Au- tomobile Association, they are instructed daily by a sergeant from the city police force. Com- prehensive training in traffie re- gulation is given the boys. The boys are responsible to the de-, partment for any abuse of their power. If the charge is serious enough their badge and belt are taken from them. 267 Boys There are’ 267 boys in the Jack sonville patrol group, Sergeant Cannon writesignd a unit of pa- trol mothgrs is being organized to aid in th Ewiih) The Rotary Club of Key West is seeking to’ ‘establish one of these scheolboy: traffic units in the city. “Boy Scout troops take care of boys from 12-16 years of ago,” Mr. Taylor said “The Jacksonville schoolboy tratft- unit organized them from 10 on Now this takes care of the youth ‘of the city except between the ages of 16-21. Plans have been going fortvard sometime for a Y. M. C. A. in the city with its accompanying cultural ana ath-! letic potentialities. This will just about cover a comprehensive pro- gram for the youth of the city.” eecccce wecesececoces VISITORS WELCOME MATINEE DANCE AT THE CUBAN CLUB Gould Curry'’s Orchestra RESTAURANT FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET Specislizing In Finest Certified WESTERN MEATS Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup BREAKFAST—A LA CARTE DINNERS LUNCHEON—75c FROM 85c ALSO-—LATE SUPPERS AND SANDWICHES BEER and WINES Fred Auerbach, Mgr. * PROTECT YOUR CLOTHES, LINE Phone 98 | and after remaining there’ briefly entered the legal profession and is today city attorney of Fort Pierce. The visitor left over the high- way this morning, accompanied by a group of friends who were members of the visiting party. HERMAN WALL VISITING HERE AND TWO MIAMI FRIENDS 2 Herman Walks ty 1 (a membered by nd ab i in Key West, having been in bus ness here for a number Of years, is in Key West with Mrs.i Wall and their friends, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Eams, of Miami. Mr. Wall was a caller at The Citizen today, and expressed his admiration of the highway and the bridges, and the magnificent ride over the road. Mr. and Mrs. Wall and their companions expect to spend several days in the city Bascom Grooms, Jr., To Motor Scoot Highway Bascom Grooms, Jr., left this morning on a Motor Scoot for Mia ostensibly the first to travel the Oversea highway on one of the little putt putts. H. S. Day. Overseas District Auditor states that no motor Scoot has been reported from the toll stations. Young Grooms will return Sunday. Baa aaa aes Farewell Dance Tonight siahes Pena’s Garden of Roses 9:00 O'Clock Till ? Jimmy Loss’ Orchestra Admission 75¢ Ladies Free Schreiber and are at the Colonial Hotel. Judge Jeffries has a huge sail- fish he caught here ten years ago mouted in his Detroit office. On that fishing trip he was accom- panied by Mr. and Mrs. Schrei- ber, and many. splendid tarpon were brought in Tonight Mr. and Mrs. Schrei- ber will take the group tarpon fishing again and hope to land a number of big one (OVER HIGHWAY WILL REMAIN OVERNIGHT AND LEAVE TOMOR- ROW MORNING YO Among the arrivals West today Mr Thomas Duckett, their s and daughter, Mr. and Mi man Boyd; daughter, Miss Ce- a Duckett; Miss Kittie Mc- vit and Mrs. E. Cheatham. The party left Miami this morning and are unanimous in r praise of the Overseas High which they say is a mag- nt piece ¢ ngineering, and ride the grandest imaginab Mr. Dui Citizen offi said it the members of his party himself, to remain tonight early in the morning. in Key and Mrs. n-in-law Nor- one tt was a caller at The nis afternoon. He intention of the including and Old Island Trading Post Gulf End of Duval St. SALES START MONDAY admission $1.00 jline capable of The plowing of cables into the ocean bed is designed to protect them from the heavy drags, known as otterboards, which are attached to fishing nets dragged along the ocean bottom by steam trawlers, which are most numer- ous off the Irish coast. The otter- boards cause an annual damage estimated at $500,000 to the com- bined cable systems of the world. The Lord Kelvin will proceed to the Irish fishing waters where it will begin plowing the cables from 500 te 2,000 feet below sea level Western Union | engineers, -¢iey veloped a plow whidi}in ooh be eration, cuts. a fd r e ocean bottom and feeds the cable into the furrow, _which,,, closes. over behind ‘it. A necessity for this; work is' a withstanding 65,000-pound stress, yet’ flexible enough to permit control by the complicated paying-out equip- ment. Only a chain was found practicable for this purpose and the nickel steel chain was the re- sult. Each link was drop forged and tested to a certified proof load before it was woven into the chain The standard length for ma- rine chain is ninety feet, but the Western Union chain produced by the Baldt Anchor Chain 4nd Forge Corporation of Chester, Pa. was manufactured contin- uously in one piece 4,200 feet long. Loaded in successive loops weighing 5,000 pounds each, it was brought from Chester on a gondola freight car. The Lord Kelvin arrived in New York from Caribbean wa- ters, where it completed repairs on two submarine cables. She is one of about thirty vessels in the world’s cable maintenance fleet, grosses 2,641 toms, is 382 feet overall, and has a speed of twelve knots. It has storage space for about 700 miles of deep-sea cable. “A MEXICAN FIESTA” oll i introducing— COTO GARCIA The Mexican Trovador RAUL’S MIRAMAR CLUB TONIGHT — 10 ili ? Ladies Free es prized of his selection, which was made for outstanding work The local DeMolay Chapter was instituted in April, 1922. The in the DeMolay organization. Im- | following year, Mr. Camus was portant and widespread work in the order, outstanding citizenship | and leadership are the major re-| quisites for the award. Yester-|Chapters. He became a master | day, Mr. Camus mailed his appli- cation, a formality, to national headquarters in Kansas City, Mis- souri Usually the honor is accorded only those whose names are among the “big news” of the country, but the award to Mr. Cam it understood, was BOY SCOUTS — MET FRIDAY is «| HIKE PLANNED BY TROOP 52; TWO MEMBERS PRE- SENTED BADGES Troop No. 52, Boy Scouts of America, held a regular meeting at the scout hall last night A patrol hike for next Friday at 6 o'clock to the swimming pool on the boulevard was planned. Many other important matters weer discussed and decided upon. Scout Billy Whitehead was presented with a _ tenderfoot badge and Scout Billy Russell was presented with the second- | class badge An interesting Scout Jack Sawyer and a talk about the scout rally by Scout- master Victor Larsen were great- ly enjoyed by the troop, after which the meeting was ad- journed. mame ti. GALA DANCE TONIGHT HABANA-MADRID CLUB (LALA hAhid | | il I reading by} master councilor. The same year he was made master councilor of the state association of DeMolay mason in 1924, and master of the Anchor Lodge 182 the following year. The highest honor he has received up to the present noti- fication was in April, 1936, when he was made the District Deputy Grand Master. He has been a member of the advisory council of the local chapter since 1924. TEXAS WOMEN ARE GIVEN MORE RIGHTS (My Associated Press) AUSTIN, Tex. women of Texas have won an- other fight to obtain equal rights with men in the field of politics. The legislature overwhelming- ly passed a bill making the per- sonnel of the state Democratic executive committee half men and half women. Texas is pre- ponderantly Democratic. VISITORS ro mE First Methodist Church “Church of the Flaming Cross” JOE A. TOLLE, Pastor Rest Under Our Laurel Tree i IMIIIISOIIDAIIMAI ES SM, N Effective Today If you do not Receive Your, Cepy of The CITIZEN MT By 6 Between 6 deliver your copy of ‘ April 2.—The | PHONE-- WESTERN UNION and a Western Union Messenger Boy will SECURES HOME IN KEY WEST ON VERNON AVENUE Edgar J. Stachelberg, who ¢on- templates starting a clear Ha cigar manufacturing busin Key West, has secured a com: able home and is today making final arrangements to become a citizen of Key West After today, Mr. and Mrs, Stachelberg will be fond at the Knowles Cottage on Vernon For Limited Time On MUFFLERS, EXHAUST AND TAIL PIPES ALSO ON OTHER AUTO REPAIRS AND PARTS NAVARRO, Inc. eee a. P.M. and 7 P. M. 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