The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 12, 1938, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 87. he Key West Citizen THE SQUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 1938. g Collect Final FundssFor Payment Of Fire Occupational License ed Money, Paid Before Due, MOVING PICTUREMEN To Be Secured From 25 Merchants Today 4 | Steeles Yacht “Hela: and “Iri- | vian” are expected in some- time today with over a hun- | dred moving picture officials 2 | from the Sparks chain of Collections of the $2,530 of oc-; theatres, according to advices | received. z | This is an annual trip made | to Key West waters, and the the dae of their maturity by ap-/ oman, writer of the column proximately 25 merchants — pee e | Sparks each year holds begun today by Councilmen Wil- | this trip for his moving pie’ liam H. Monsalvatgé; William T.| ture officials over the coun-’ an 2 | try, who find this the best Freeman and Cify'Treasurer Wil- | fishing spot in the country, i f 7 | the theater magnate told The liam T. Archer“as''the first nek | Citizen recenily. in making final payment on the | Although nothing has been | heard from the yachts up to | press time it is believed that they will be in sometime to- night for an all day fishing trip tomorrow. —~ cupational license funds which have been subscribed to before was | large fire engine the city now owns, Collections are expected to be} complete this afternoon. A revenue bond of $3,000 was TMM DOSS SIP. recently issued by the Board of | ‘ Public Works to the group to complete the total of $5,500 need- ed to make the final payment to the American-La France fire en-! gine company. | ‘MANY LEAVE The procedure after the collec- Se tions are made, Mr. Monsalvatge | said today, is to notify Raymond, DEPARTED ON STEAMER R. Lord, the company’s repre-! sentative that the city is ready to| CUBA YESTERDAY: PLAN clear its debt. Mr. Lord will then } notify Walter Rogers, the com- Spi in ae orceatag Engine: FISH HERE TOMORROW | pany’s attorney in Jacksonville. A release to the city will then be sent by Mr. Rogers and the city's check sent to him. Engine in question was pur- | chased about ten years yo, and Thirty-five passengers booking at Key West left yesierday on Steamship Cuba bound for Ha- vana, and most of them were go- Stor avinuinbay-ot years the city ing for’tours of the Island of! could make no payment on_ it. ! Cuba. The interest accrued and the; ‘he vessel arrived from Tam- amount grew to alarming propor-' pa with five first cabin and two tions. Three months ago, the| second cabin passengers for Key American-La France company! agreed to clear all obligations for | the present amount, and plans to | meet the obligation immediately | went into effect. —*——-— FISH HATCHERY TO BE OPENED B. Curry Moreno, in charge of WPA activities in Key West in the capacity of area supervisor, has been advised that the craw- fish hatchery here is to be open- ed again this year, and he does not think the opening will be long delayed, although no defin- ite date has been set. Mr.’ Moreno said this morning | that there will be one supervisor in chargé‘of the éntire project who Will’ have’ Sever ‘attendants to assist pin’ i the conduct of the | hatchery, LB TROY A. BROWN ARRIVES IN CITY Troy A. Brown, head of the to his many friends and especially the mem- bers of the Key West Electric, o. Mr. Brown was greeted by a group of his friends upon his ar- rival, but missed the smiling face of A. F. Ayala, slaes manager of the Key West Electric Company, | of whom Mr. Brown was ever a/ &uest on his visits, but who is! confined in his home by illness. As usual the visitor spent yes terday and today visiting his friends and this afternoon will leave on the return to Tampa. ‘ : Special Low Price For Limited Time On MUFFLERS, EXHAUST AND TAIL PIPES ALSO ON OTHER AUTO REPAIRS AND PARTS NAVARRO, Inc. soe TODAY’S SUGGESTION--STEP LADDERS--THEY HAVE MANY USES AROUND THE HOME. A GOOD SUPPLY AT SOUTH FLA West; 63 first and three second cabin passengers for Havana. Key West arrivals were: R. T. Bellchambers, Mrs. Bellchambers, A. Valdez, J. H. Richardson, T. B. Brown, Mrs. A. Sands, S. Her- nandez. The vessel showed on her manifest the following items: For Key West, 48 tons of freight, one automobile and two sacks of mail; for Havana, four tons of freight, two automobiles and 270 sacks of mail. Sailing from Key West for Ha- vana were: Harry L. Mundy and Mrs. Mundy, Margaret Ryan, George Crane, Jennie Crane, Eli Hood, Texas Hood, Arthur Hood, Madie M. Butler, Florrie C. Tift, Charles Johnston, Edna Johnson, Ed. A. Diamond, Everett P. Win- ter, Marion Winter, Harry Renna, Gertrude Renna, Harry Renna, Jr, Mary Renna, Morton D. Carey, Lela V. Carey, James Monroe, Madge Monroe, Ana Mitchell, Sam Mitchell, William Mitchell, Dan Cardinal, Helen Cardinal, Edna Cardinal, James Cardinal, Wm. Duttenhofer, Hugh ©. Eisenhouer, Eduardo Perez, Edward Gibbons, George Weber. FOR JAYCEES CALLED TONIGHT TO CLEAR LARGE AMOUNT OF BUSINESS Special meeting of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Senior Chamber's offices. Quite a large number of mat- ters are pressing the Jaycee out- fit, and this special’ meeting }s to clear them “‘off. The ‘mee however, according to President Earl Adams, will be open to oth- er projects and discussions. Question of adopting the by laws, of beginning work on the historical signs to be erected in the ¢ since the county granted funds for their construction, the voters’ rally motorcade, of form- ing new committees within the bodies, of reports on the mem- bership drive and plans for Char ter Night, will be some of the many things up before the Cham- ber tonight. BAD ACCIDENTS ~ LAST NIGHT’ ON OVERSEAS ROAD | ONE AT ‘DEAD MAN'S CURVE’ ON SADDLE BUNCHES, OTH- ER ON BOCA CHICA BRIDGE; MANY HURT Forcing a car driven by James Tucker to come to a standstill! |and then unable to stop his car lerashing into it last night on |Boca Chica bridge was the ex- {perience of Gavin Drummond, | salesman for Swift and Co., meat | packers, in one of two accidents | yesterday. ; Tucker received a cut on the leg, and a mashed chest. Mrs. Lilly Tucker, his mother, had a ee ankle, cuts and bruises. iste Averette, in the’ same car, had arm and leg bruises. Mrs. } Avéerette received a broken ankle | |and miscellaneous bruises. Their | ;children were also cut, Horace, | !Jr., getting scratches and Anne | Elizabeth receiving a cut in the cheek necessitating four stitches. | | Thomas, an 18-month-old infant, leseaped injury. Percy Roberts, | with leg scratches, and Mark Plummer, face cuts, were others , injured in the Tugker car. | Drummond and pass r, Wil-! liam Spencer, Jr, were badly | shaken up and also cut Insurance | company’s representative will ar- rive tomorrow and settle claims. Another accident was on “Dead Man’s Curve” on Saddle Bunches ‘during a downpour of rain. A car driven by Mr. and Mrs. Cotton Mather crashed into another driv- en by C. K. Jones of Michigan City, Indiana. Mrs. Mather, whose husband is ja well |store owner, was badly cut and ‘bruised and Mrs. F, F. Durbin of | the Jones car also injured. Mr. Mather’ was unhurt, and “in the Jones car-Mr. Jones, Mrs. Jones, |and Mrs. S. Jones escaped with- out injury. st aid was adminis. ‘tered at Tavernier by Peace Jus- tice E. R. Lowe. LOCATE FIRE IN YATES’ STATION CAUSED BY SHORT CIRCUIT IN ELECTRIC WIRE™ ARRANGEMENT Fire this morning was the re- sult of a short circuit in the elec- tric wire arrangements at the Yates filling station at the corner of Catherine and White streets. The alarm was sent in from Box 334, which is situated at the corner, and within a brief time apparatus from Station 1 and 2 arrived at the scene and imme- diately went into action Chief Harry Baker sa: was not more than 20 minutes when the flames were subdued and the danger declared past. The interior of the building and some parts of the exterior bear signs of the fire, but the loss was not large, it was said, to either the equipment or the building 's that it ARRAIGNED TODAY Three prisoners in the county jail were arraigned at a special session of Criminal Court this morning at which Judge William V. Albury, presided The men were Frank Spinosa, Albert Thum and Frank Keenan who were arrested as vagrants and announced they were ready to.enter pleas of guilty if arraign- ed They were each sentenced to 30 days in the county jail. but that sentencé was suspended provided they promise to leave town at once. They gave their word and were released. A FULL LINE OF EASTER CANDIES atin GARDNER’S PHARMACY The Rexall Store $34 Duval Street Phone 177 known chain furniture | Public Meeting To Plan Highway Celebration FISHERMEN HERE CANNOT SWIM Robert Ripley makes his living by finding the un- usual among the usual. Key West has a number of possibilities which Mr. Ripley has used in his famous Be- lieve It Or Not cartoon, but he has overlooked two here— Will Baker, the well-known “Copperlips” of Key West fishermen fame, has never learned to swim although he has pursued his livelihood on the sea for many years. But, just try getting Will to ven+ ture on the sea when it's a little rough. Not for him! He’s not taking any chances. Cutting and cleaning fish for over 40 years within a few feet of the water is Peter Roberts, who also has never learned to swim, Believe it or not! TIS TITIES ST & STEAMER ALAMO DUE TOMORROW Steamer Alaino, of the Clyde- Mallory Lines, which was due to from New York today, | will not arrive until tomorrow. Weather conditions, which arrive pre- vailed further north, delayed her departure. Notices received at the Key | West office of the lines advises | Agent Cc. E. Smith that the | Steamship Brazos, which was scheduled to stop at Key West on Friday for freight, will not make |this port but will continue to her port of destination, which is New | York. Next Week |Interviewing Organization | Heads As Bridge Commission Ap-| Overseas | To Bond PRICE FIVE CENTS Refunding points Committee A large number of civic or- | ganizations are being interviewed | this week preparatory to form- Delightfully interesting reading | is furnished by G. J. Kochender- | Central Committee and plan the | fer, editor of the Mansfield | fo#mal celebration of the opening | (Ohio) News-Journal, in his de- aa | scription of th® Overseas High-| | way, and the ‘territory through | | which the roads and _ bridges | Pass. With Mrs. Kochenderfer, Mr. Kochenderfer has recently com- ing committees to cooperate as a | of The Overseas Bridges, expect to be a national and international event. An informal meeting will be held this week at which the setup will be outlined and plans for a| pleted a trip to Key West where | public Central Committee meet-|he was pleasantly entertained, | ing probably next week at the and given the opportunity of a, ‘Chamber of Commerce an- detailed view of the highway and nounced. the assembling of data for the de- | Overseas Highway Commis- scription and intimate recording sioners yesterday elected John! of views which are told in the Costar chairman of a committee | following article: i j to work up plans. Also on the “From now on you will be | the appearance of FURNISHES FULL DESCRIPTION AND ADVANTAGES OF OVERSEAS HIGHWAY the steel rails salvaged for use as guard rails. “Here the motorists is required to plate implicit confidence in the reliability and engineering abil- ity of those responsible for this project—as the water below has being very deep and very wet. It was com- pletion of this stretch of highway that made possible elimination of use of a ferry in reaching Key West from Miami “A few miles further along the route is the Bahia Honda bridge, more than a mile long, where the roadway reaches an elevation of 15 feet above the water—and on which even ordinarily reckless drivers are inclined to move . committee were C. C. Symonette and Mayor Willard M. Albury. Formation of the Central Com- mittee waited the election of a committee by the Overseas Com- mission. Some of the organizations to be asked to send committee are the City Council, County Com- missioners, Chamber of Com- merce, Senior and Junior bodies, Rotary Club, Woman’s Club, \Junior Woman's Club, Cuban Club, and representatives from the Cuban Government. “The aim is to.get. as -wide- spread a representation as pos- hearing much about the newly- completed motor highway, on which you can make the entire trip to Key West in your car, with only a nominal toll instead of the rather high ferry charge it has heretofore been necessary to pay. | “Recent completion of the \‘overseas motor road’, which along cautiously. For this piece of roadway the entire steel super- structure of the ‘old railroad bridge was utilized, which ac- counts for the unusual height | reached. i “Pouring concrete on _ this bridge, and erection of guard rails, marked the final steps be- ‘opened for traffic today, marks a fore opening of the entire road to |modernizing of Henry M. Flag- | traffic. ler's engineering miracle of a| “Much road improvement work quarter of a century ago when he | yet remains to be done—and it ‘extended the Florida East Coast | will be July before the new high- railroad to Key West, thus ac- way is formally dedicated—but, |complishing what even his asso-' in case you're down this Way, you \ciates had regarded as an impos- | sibility | “Future visitors in Florida will have opportunity to enjoy the pleasant, and sometimes thrilling, sible, and at the public meeting committees from all the organ- izations in the city will be wel comed”, Mayor Albury said FO DD LIMBURGER TREE FRUIT MAILED Miss Mollie Parker's “lim- burger tree” which has re- ceived plenty of national publicity has scores of visi- tors daily throughout the winter and even at present. Much of the pungent fruit in her garden have been mailed by these visitors to their friends. If you like that cheese, well you can straight and have all the thrill (?) of real limburger cheese, she said. But if you prefer it as a salad. why it has been used as such. It should be sliced as a cucum- ber and a dash of salad dress- ing added. Then it is delicious salad. Miss Parker said, wrinkling her nose. Another limburger cheese tree in the city is in the Naval Station, Miss Parker added, and naval officers of past years sent many speci- mens of the fruit away. V hedddkehadede sort of eat it SAFE BET IN KEY WEST LOVELAND f coffee 2 Free any day the sv Board Confirms Present Toll Rates On Bridges _———— experience of driving mile after mile over a fine highway that makes amazing jumps from key to key by means of bridges that rest on piers and girders of the old railroad, operation of which was abandoned after a large por- tion of it was destroyed by the hurricane of September, 1935. “Carried through with federal aid, it is the hope of Key West residents that the highway will also mark the opening of a new day for this southernmost city in the United States and will estab- lish it as a resort spot, at least to the extent of restoring a part of the prosperity it enjoyed years ago when it was an important cigar manufacturing center and the sponge industry was thriving in that vicinity, before moving up the west coast to Tarpon Springs. “Motorists looking for ‘some. thing different’ will find the drive to Key West well worth while, not alone for the quaint attrac tiveness of the little city in its genuinely tropical setting, but also for the novelty provided by the ‘overseas’ drive that covers a considerable part of the 160 miles from Miami “While the first part of the drive, after leaving Miami, may be considered uninteresting— leading down through Homestead and into monotonous expanses of pine trees and semi-tropical vege tation lining the highway on ei ther side—all monotony vanishes with arrival at the first of the keys and a hint of the adventure that lies ahead ‘Crossing from the Florida mainland to Key Largo and con tinuing along those narrow strips of land that are of coral forma tion, and between which the wa ter of the Gulf of Mexico merges with that of the Atlantic ocean. motorists greeted by new f beauty all along the Confirmation of the present toll rates in effect in the Over- seas Road and Toll Bridge Dis- trict was made by the Highway 10 o'clock this morning in the Dis- Commission at a meeting trict offices. The tolis are a dollar for a car and driver and 25 cents for each additional passenger. ‘collected at the toll station Lower Matecumbe going and at the station on Big Pine from cars going north Quite of quisitions were made to contrac They are on south a large number re tors and other companies this morning 3usines day 45 bridges, purchase of two cash reg- isters for $545 each and also bat- tery charged lighting plants, and appointment of a committee com- posed of John Costar, chairman, Mayor Willard M. Albury and C C. Symonette, members, to plan with a General Committee for the formal celebration of the opening of the Overseas Highway. There also requisitions made yes completed in yester included limit fixing a the meeting m.p.h. speed on wert terda: scenes way, with the road ahead seem Specializing In WESTER! IR BREAKFAST—A LA CARTE Fred Auerbach. Mgr. ESTAURANT FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup DINNERS FROM $1.00 ALSO—LATE SUPPERS AND LIQUOR. BEER and ing to rise directly from the clear depths of great bodies of water on both sides. with beautifully va ried coloring extending to the kyline at many points, some broken by tiny islands and the fishing boats or larger far out at sea Most impressive experience of the first trip, perhaps, is provided by driving.over the seven-mile bridge from Kaight's key to Duck key. for which the concrete piers and steel girders of the old rail- road provide the foundation, with Finest Certified iN MEATS LUNCHEON —75c SANDWICHES WINES Phone 98 |way to Key West. can now drive your car all the Our trip on the overseas highway was just a few days before the Bahia Honda bridge was finished. “On Key Largo, just a few rods from the highway, is an attrac- tive home built entirely of the pink coral rock abundant in this vicinity. The story of how this house chanced to be built is in- teresting. Around 1924 a Chicago dentist—Dr. George L. Engel— was in such poor health that he was given up to die. He found this spot on Key Largo—fronting on the Atlantic. For something to do, he started gathering coral rock to use as the foundation of a home. Surprisingly, his health began to improve and he con- tinued work on the home, which was finally completed and which he and his family now occupy Just to keep busy he adds a little something to the house each year —or to beautification of the sur roundings. He seems to have given up any idea of dying—and his home, known the rock house, has become a show place of Key Largo. “Further along the route Matecumbe key, has been erected a fine coral rock memorial to the hundreds of civilians and wer veterans who lo: their live while at work on the during the hurricane that devastated that region on September 2, 1935. “Even more ambitious then completion of the motor high way to Key West is the idea of William R. Porter. presi- dent of the First National Bank in Key West. who vis- fons this as a link in what will eventually be 4 magnifi cent Pan-American highway 14800 miles long, stretching from Maine to South Ameri ca. with ferries to handle traffic across the ninety miles of water from Key West to Havana and across the Yuce tan channel. thus bringing New York and Buenos Aires 1,200 miles closer together as ageinst fhe route through La- redo, Texas. to Mexico City. “Federal interest in completior of the new road to Key West is being interpreted in some quart ers as meannig that this might eventually become an important military highway to the Panama canal. It at least seems worth noting that improvementa are be ing made at Key West's old Fe Taylor, which has recently been manned with modern coast de fense guns and that the strategi value of Key West, in the eve of war, is not being disregarded”. a Council: Goncludes: Negotiations With Grammer Company Relative Proposition sue To Be Signed By Officials At Next Reg- ular Meeting R. E. Crummer of the Crum- mer Bond Company, and Atior- ney J. Lancelot* Lester, repre- senting the company, met with the City Council las? night for a discussion of the proposed bond refunding proposition with the City of Key West. Final negotiations were en- tered into for refunding the city’s ouistanding bond and interest ob- ligation of $1,608,000. The final contract covering the matter will be signed by the city officials at the next regular meeting of the board, which will be April 21. The refunding bonds are sup- Ported by minimum pledge of $50,000 a year against which the first charge will be the interest on the refunding bonds. A special act of the state legis- latuire authorized Monroe County to allocate $30,000 a year of its gasoline tax toward the liquida- tion of the city’s debt service. The remaining $20,000 is to be raised by the city valorem tax, These bonds are to be sold at prices beginning with twenty-five cents on the dollar. The refunding bonds are to bear interest at the rate of two per cent the first ten years, three per cent for the next ten years, four per cent for the fol- lowing ten years, and five per cent for the concluding five years a revenue through ad MEET JOINTLY mbers of the board of coun. ty umissioners, city council, and board of publie instruction, met in the county court house last night with R, E. Crummer, for the purpose of discussing thy bond situation. A discussion of jis . many angles was held following a short talk by Mr. Crummer, who is & 1ead of the Crummer Co., which is handling the bond refunding program of both city and gouty. and at the conclusion of fhe di cussion Carl Bervaldi, chairman of the commissioners was thorized to sign a joint agreement the City of Key West and board of public instruc to the refunding date progra Me ec with the relative gram t The activit pr * refunding which will t 5 t published for the { all persons int appear in The ¢ » as it is concluded the meeting were met Cheirman Carl Commissioners Wm. K rherg Thomyp Brax Warren and veland Clerk Ross C. Sawyer Members of City Council Jim Roberts, William Freeman, W Doughtry, and Wm. Mon- tge Schookj Board. Members Allan BC Sr. Clarence Pierce, and Ralph K. Johnson B c ware, ~ “Moonlight Dancing” —-TONIGHT— Habana-Madrid Club Presenting Otto Divanti and his Orchestre | | 1 Floor Show ef 11:39 NO COVER CHARGE CONTR. & ENG. CO. CALL 598