The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 15, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN FHE U.S. A. VOLUME LIX. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1938. - Council: Hears Proposal For k REGISTRATION OF? _ VOTERS IS LESS! \}CHAIRMEN NAMED LIST TODAY SHOWED 5,105; Operation Of Bus Service. "* Resolution Adopted At Many Candidates Heard At ‘Meeting Bearing On| Loan Obtained From) Public Works Board | Led by the Key West Hos- pitality Band playing stirring marches from the decks of two! T. E. Lewis and C. H. Stief, operators of a passenger bus serv- Narge trucks, the Junior Chamber jof Commerce motorcade with ice in Miami and Miami Beach, jover 20 trucks and cars paraded appeared before the City Council 4 \the main streets of Key West last | at a special meeting held last |. _ “a | night to Bayview Park where a} evening in the interest of estab- lishing a bus in Key! p Monroe County Democratic Ex- West. ¥ | ecutive Committee, was held. | The representatives. made a}: | ‘ political rally, sponsored by the service The line of march was from! the County Court House up! Whitehead to United then down Duval to Eaton, up Simonton to tivities in the event that they are Fleming, Fleming to White, White ‘ x to Division and around the Park given a franchise or may enter | twice, Stops were made at the into a contract agreement with intersections of Southard and z | Duval, Duval and Fleming, Flem- the city of 2 West. tentative proposal, giving a par- tial outline of their proposed ac- ‘ing and Simonton, and between They stated\that they would; Grinnell and Margaret, where the | operate buses carrying seventeen | band played lively selections : passengers and over, and would| CFs were decorated with signs specialize in a two and a half | Urging the voters to register for cent rate for school children, with | the coming Democratic primary, probably a general five cent fare | May 3. to be charged for adults. | Motorcade reached the Park at They stated that the company | 8:30. they represent is now operating | Trevor Presides over thirty buses in Miami and} Everything had been made! Miami Beach on regular sched-|Teady and immediately after an! ules. They will present their! introductory number by _ the; final proposal at the first meet- | band, Ben D. Trevor, chairman of! ing of the council in May. | the Democratic Executive Com- . A resolution -was adopted inj mittee, presiding at the meeting, | connection with the loan of three’ introduced the. first speaker of theusand dollars obtained by the! the evening, Attorney W. Curry city from. the Board of + Pubtie} Harris. : H Works, which amount is to be, Mr.,Harris’spoke for about 15 used with other funds collected in | minutes, on the general situation, advance on occupational licenses, lot the need for a large vote and making a total of $5,500, which | the necessity: of the voters going is to be turned over to the La| to, the polls om election day with France Fire Engine Company in| the determination to be one of: settlement of the city’s debt on | the number, to: let the rest of the Political Rally Last Night’ as warned that time was up,! and reluctantly brought his ad- dress to a close. B. C. Papy, incumbent in the legislative office, was the next speaker. His address was brief and to the point. He explained that his record in the legislative body was one of which she was proud, not only because he was a member. of some of the: most: ‘important, committees; but... the records show that he was suecess- |ful in having legislation “passed which ‘was. highly -beneficial’: to his constituents, Attorney L.! E.: Harris,.-candi-) date for judge of the: criminal TRATIONS | Discussing the registration rolls | for the year 1938 with Supervisor |of Registration John England to- day, he told The Citizen that the ;Tegistration of voters today was !a good many less than in 1936. The exact figures as given by {Mr. England for the previous | year were 5,522, while the num- | ber of registrations at 11 o’clock today totalled 5,105. When the books were opened to begin the registration in the 10 different precincts, the total Siftce*that time there have been added to the list 380 names, which added to the 4,725 recorded when the books were opened this year, DURING PREVIOUS YEAR | THERE WERE 5,522 REGIS-| shdwrreon the books was 4,725. PRICE FIVE CENTS [. L. Lee Proposes Temporary EE “Water Supply For Key West During Coming Winter Season ADVERTISING PR 2 JECTS) NOW BEING SUBMITTED TO_ Local Rotary Club Host ar i smetnen To Thirty-Four tral Publicity Committee”. | —_———. CITY AND COUNTY eo ° Visitors Doughtry, Aqueduct W. R. Porter, County Commis- | Thirty-four visitors, Rotarians | Hue, secretary, originators of the | Commissioner, Advised sioner, John H. Costar, Road and | and Rotary Anns, from the Home: idea to come to Key West, were | Toll Bridge Commission; inser Cha wore a Keg} introduced to the club. | PUES senpmaty snpely Monsalvatge, City Council; S. Cy.) west Rotary Club yesterday tioon| ‘Fred H. Tweed, Chicago, U-| of Water tiext winter for Key Singleton, Chamber of Com-\ at St): Paul’s Church Annex, ‘the | linois; who brought Rotary imto | wes}, L. Bk Lee and Associates. merce were the appointees. first Rotary inter-city meet held | New York City, and son, Ralph, | —. This meeting was originally | Since the opening of the new | were'also introduced to the ejub.| Ines of Miami, Fla. who have called for the purpose of initiat- | (PUBLICITY UNIT | Committee chairmen of various | organizations represented at a} meeting last night at La Concha | Hotel, called by the Chamber of ;Commerce, were elected a com- mittee to be known as “The Cen- President Charles Taylor ex-) ber of the Key West Rotarians, | ilaw. He cited the fact that he i had never held a political office / candidate. court, was next introduced by | Mr. Trevor. The speaker stated | Makes the number now qualified that on October 16 he would have| 5105 completed three score years and} -nepralgcucentplbeaes aces ten, and for the greater part of 1936 registration and that of the that ti had practiced criminal , Present date, is 417, but it must gears practiced ene |be remembered, it was said, that \the disqualified list, which will be published tomorrow, contains i the names of 568 voters who pains snd Deas ogre ee of have been declared to be without the bar in Key West, and asked | the right of franchise. ‘ the voters for their consideration' Mr. England said that there is at the primary of May 3. gota possibility of auite a few names He was followed by Wm. V. Al-| being added to the list of today, bury, the present judge of crim- | Curing sietine ue cbooks will inal court. Mr. Albury gave a re- Nepal soi for registration. n sine Gf Die activities: aines en: | This means that the books will 5 4 : be available for the addition of peaine lege) pitas and: cia ie | the names of voters for two more ‘act of having been police judge, | | .ok< and on the last day of reg- guemnbes oe Ee ee ares istration, which will be April 30, 7 ities the office will be kept open until proud. As judge of the criminal |v ianight of that date, if found necessary. a ast court he had been called to pre-| side in several courts of the states Bananas ZONING BO MEMBERS NAMED and his periods as a judge had SEVEN NAMED TO WORK IN of any kind. Never had been ap- been commented on favorably by | both the members of the bar and | by the press. He stated that his record was a justification of his candidacy for reelection. The last speaker of the evening was T. Jenkins Curry, candidate its large fire engine. TWO MEN SENT TO KEY PROJECT But one call for workmen on, bridge projects has been received at the United States Employment Service office during the week, Wm. V. Little said today: This requisition asked for two laborers for sub contract two of Contract H-1, on Bahia Honda bridge painting contract. The men were sent at the request of the M. W. Kellogg Co. MRS. CHAS. GODWIN. TO VISIT CITY MAY 1. Daughter of _ publisher of the. mo Daily Equatof,~ the t daily newspaper, Mrs. odwin of Williamstown, C., will visit Mrs. Nellie Mor- s around May 1. Mrs. Godwin was Mary Pendle- ton before marriage. Her father was the late C. B, Pendleton. EASTER SPECIALS Take home one of our beauti- i ful Easter Greeting Cakes. {| They are oxcellent— i 60c $1.00) —o-———— CUP CAKES | Regular 40c dozen, serial thie Woh en SO i ——entied Nice Assortment of Pastries jj CHERRY TARTS, “CRE SLICES, FRUIT **°"4 i SLICES, each I} ——— | OF AS Cream, | 25¢e AND COMPL) by SORTED PIES, Fruit and Custard. 7M BUSY BEE BAKERY 900 Francis St. $22 Duval St. Phones 120 and 210 state, in fact the United States, realize the strength of Monroe county as a political factor. The next speaker introduced was Melvin E. Russell, candidate for state senator. Mr. Russell gave a straight forward resume of his activity as superintendent of public instruction, and im- pressed on the minds of his hear- ers the fact that he is definitely interested in the education of the present generation, in order to prepare them for the future when those who are the scholars today will be the teachers of tomor- row. Mr. Russell was followed by T. S.-Caro, candidate for the legi ture. He touched on the issue ef the forthcoming election, and” the remedies for which he will, use every effort in having adopt- ed. He touched on proposed leg- sislation for the sponge fishermen »and the. many matters which are considered injurious to the pro- gress of the people and directly affect their means of gaining a livelihood. The speaker was just warming to his subject when he for county commissioner from the Fifth District. He was the chosen representative of the dwellers on INTEREST OF ZONING ORDINANCE the Keys, and felt that as the Key | section had never had a represen- tat who lived among them, the time had come for action, and asked that he be elected to his first political office. The speaker cited that he was one of the members of the original Overseas Road and Toll Bridge Commis- sion, which secured the loan of $3,600,000 to build the present highway, and believed that other monies would be secured to com- plete that great thoroughfare from the present terminus at Bi Pine Key, over. the® roatis "and Structures of the railread to the boulevard j ey.West. ge) * Trevor annoynced that he and in 44 ere crane {146 TB re tive audience attending the meeting, and announced there would be two other rallies, one on April) 25 and the last to be held on April 29, the Friday before elec- tion day, Tuesday, May 3. GEORGE PATTEN VISITED IN CITY George L. Patten, the Railroad Commi visitor in ey meeting his many is pressed himself as being delight- ed with the highway Mr. Patten was a college mate of Attorney Aquilino Lopez, Jr. and with Mr. Lopez visited friends of ‘the. attorney and made a number of new acquaintances. One-ef the objects of Mr. Pat ten’s .vigit was. at the office of The, Citizen: in the~ interest _ of the re-election of Eugene S. Mat thews as a member of the com- secretary of 10n, Was a FEW SPONGES ARE SOLD THIS WEEK Offerings of sponges made to the several buyers this week were extremely few, and far below the average. There were 109 bunches of wool, 136 of yellow and 40 of grass. The largest sale of the week, exclusive of today's sales, consist- ed of 41 bunches of wool, and the price paid was $98.99. Sales of yellow sponge brought $46.84 and those of grass totalled $6.90. Total sales for the brought a total of $239.32. week Key West's Leading Night Club — NO COVER CHARGE — DANCE and EASTER EGG HUNT Sponsored By MARTI CLUB —al— Mayor Willard M. Albury said this morning that there had been seven members appointed on the committee to formulate plans for putting into effect the zoning or idinance, the final publication of which appeared in The Citizen of yesterday Members of the committee ap pointed by the mayor were: Wal lace Bryant Kirke, Franklin Al bert, B. Curry Moreno, William \W. Demeritt, Jack Long, Charles H. Ketehum, Fred J. Dion Mr. r&lbury said that to date fMfecesved several letters of sand as soon as the dali been received, a meeting will be called for the se lection of a chairman, vice chair man and secretary There have been changes in parts of th since the first publicatior it was stated COLD IN SHOP MAKES IT HOT FOR OWNERS «my GRAYS. partners in a local bake shop were brought to court and fined $5 for violating the law They had faile: shop “reasonably it would have bee cating even a scribed by law renheit The trouble wa ed toc said,. was two minor ordinance tithe Associ the d Overseas Highway. | Bill Bates, for 21 years a mem- | peen authorized by the Florida ing action on the formal celebra- tion of the opening of the Over- seas Highway but it was decided that this be ieft to a General Committee which will hold a pub- lic meeting in the near future. The work of the Central Pub- licity Committee will be to ex- amine into the practicability of! the numerous advertising projects which now come before the County Commission and City Council. After a project is ap- proved by this publicity commit- tee it will be referred to the bodies in question. At a meeting this morning sev- eral publicity plans were pre- sented but it was requested that they be submitted in writing. William Monsalvatge, S. C. Sin- gleton and John Costar were present at this meeting. aPresent at the meeting last night were Mayor Willard M. Al- bury, C. C. Symonette, James Roberts, Will Doughtry, William Monsalvatge, Charles Smith, Bas- com L, Grooms,’S.C; Singleton, Berardo Rodriguez, Jose C. Perez, W. Moehbrke, S. C. Singleton, II, and Howard England. NEW KIND OF “AIRPLANE” IDAHO FALLS, Ida. — Fred Daniels, farmer of this city, grabbed two ‘turkeys by the legs that were roosting on a rafter. The frightened birds flew away, carrying Daniels, and dropped him on the ground, breaking three of his ribs. NOTICE “TO PUBLIC For the information of the Key West public, The Sponge Fishing Company. Ine., branch office in Key West, wishes to state they have no connection soever with ek or American Diving Boats which may have operated in? nearby waters of Marco. This company was for the sole purpose of buying sponges and selling to distribu tors a little over ten years ago. It does not own, sponsor, operate or finance sponge boats. It w corporated in 1950 with main fices in Tarpon Springs officers are American citizer G organized This statement ade for the purpose of assuring Key spongers that we had nothmg to do with diving boat to these waters to di coming in sponge To support the above ments we furnish refe follows: First National B: Tarpon Springs. Bank of Tampa Springs Chamber of SPONGE FISHING CO RESTAURANT FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET Specializing In Finest Certified WESTERN MEATS Sea Foods and Clear Green Turtle Soup BREAKFAST-—A LA CARTE LUNCHEON —75Sc DINNERS FROM $1.00 ALSO—LATE SUPPERS AND SANDWICHES LIQUOR. BEER and WINES Phone 98 West ¢ | tended a cordial greeting to the | visiting Rotarians, and expressed the wish that there would be |more inter-city meetings | tween them. Bill Rheney, president of the Homestead Rotes, replied to Pres- ident Taylor’s welcome, inviting the Key West club to Homestead at any date they wish. Shuler Peele, in the principal talk of the afternoon, humorously outlined the various sights of the city, which is “where the world begins, not ends”. ciable, hospitable. cordial and | kindest people live here, he said, and added that he would be more meetings between the Homestead and Key West was also made to rise. | Keys Aqueduct Commission be- | The most so- | hoped there | | A Board of Directors meeting will decide if the club will want to change its luncheon date from; Thursday to Saturday for an in- ter-city meeting in the near fu-/} ture with the Miami Rotary Club. | Immediately following the} luncheon the Homestead Rotari-| ans were taken on a three-hour | tour of the city as outlined in the | “Sightseeing Guide”. Stops were made at the Lighthouse exhibit, ! Lighthouse, Turtle Crawls and Miss Mollie Park’s gardens. Ben Archer, Rotarian publisher of the Homestead Leader, “set' up the! group toa treat of Key West) ‘coconut ice cream. Most of the! cars returned over ‘the highway | conduct an engineering survey and investigation of funding pos- sibilities for an adequate perman- ent supply of pure, safe, potable water, are investigating the feasi- bility of the project, William T. Doughtry, commission chairman. is informed. It is pianned to bring water here on tank barges, and store it in the large tanks on the Trumbo Island property owned by S. C Anderson, who has drawn up an agreement in the matter. Says Mr. Lee in a communica Rotes, since the Homestead club/ last night, but a number of them | tion, “I have in mind the urgency was the easiest reached of all clubs Calling attention to the fact) are remaining over today. } Homestead Rotarians and Ro-) tary Anns were Mr. aud Mrs; Ben of a situation which might re quire an adequate supply of pure, safe, potable water brought to the that there are 14 churches in the} Archer, J. R. Brooks, Mr. and Keys and to the city of Key West city, Rev. Peele stated that he! Mrs, Ray Chandler, Mr. and Mrs.|for the next winter season, as was pastor of one of them, Tolle} Bill Fifield, George Frick, Miss everybody concerned is fearful was pastor of another, and How-| Virginia Frick, William J. Geroni-| that if this is not brought about ell, a third pastor. In the church-| mo, Mr. and Mrs. Wade Hunt, it may seriously (or dangerously) es of the first two preachers there are bells, but not in that of the third. So they Peale the bell in his church, Tolle it in the other church, but in the third, they ‘just Howell”. Pantomimes under direction of Joe Tolle were laughable. “The | Hunt” showed Rev. Tolle and Mrs. Octavia Laymon in a hum- orous pose. “The Pump” had the characters, Miss Virginia Frick, and Bill Rheney. “The Fountain” brought in the inimit- able Bill Bates with the inevit able Mrs. Helen Wakfield George Frick on the saxophone, accompanied by daughter, Vir- ginia Frick, presented a_ well- blended duet Bill Pfeif ,,President-elect of es and: Frank that! what * | Howard Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Lehmon, Mox Lasner, Mr. jand Mrs. O. B. Parker. Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Parmon, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rheney, Mrs. T. J. Foust, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest P. Roberts, Mr. and Mts. Frank Rue, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Stiling, Mr. and Mrs. George N. Wakfield, Charles | | Steffani, P. B. Webb, James Wol hom. Key West Rotary Anns present were Mrs. W. Curry Harris, Mrs. | E. J. McCarthy, Mrs. Charles Tay- lor, Mrs. W. W. Demeritt and! daughter, Mrs. Claudia Moore. Visitine Rotarians were Gilbert McCoy, Springfield, Mlinois; H. A Eggleston, Toledo; Howard Cook, Great Barrington, Mass.; Fred W Bowers, Lake Wales; Dr. E. R. Lee, Wayne, Michigan easles Here ~~ Dr--Paframore Announces At the present time there are the Di De re very few cases of measles in Dr, James B. Parramore, rector Monroe County Health partment, announces in his port for February and March In February there were 60 cases recorded and in March 223 2 these were k beds and to schools city cases Other school activities ed of 266 physical examinations by Dr. Parramore and Miss Nor- ma Diaz, nurse. A great many the children were found to be n need of den isual care Others showed r moval of tonsils and were referred to SPECIALS FOR THE WEEKEND Broccoli, bunch Beets. bunch Carrots. bunch White Turnips. bunch Oranges. doz. 10c. 1c and SPECIAL ON BROOMS EACH 20 Tift’s Cit: Gonna 1191 Division St. Phone 29 | Strawberries. qt. | ! | H ' j j j H | consist-} their family physician. One hun- dred forty-four exclusions from school attendance because of pediculosis, trachoma and other common ailments were ordered. | Inspections in this matter num-| bered 2962. j In the ail-importent venereal work being done, attendance at) the clinics have shown great im-} patients have been informed of the danger of! the disease and the mode of trans- | jon from one person to en-! All cases of diseases of this are quarantined if treat- s not taken as Girected by ne attending physician, i Prenatal treatment included 120 examinations, uringlyses, etc. in preparing expectant mothers) for the arrival of a physician at the period of labor. These treat- ments are to give the proper care during the prenatal period when patients are in charge of mud wives and provement since m oth nature FIRST OF A SERIES OF SUMMER DANCES. Begins Tomorrow Night At RAUL’S CLUB 19 o'Cieck sil ? John Pritchard's Orchestra — NO COVER CHARGE — jeopardize the success of the new Overseas Highway. . .as well a the general welfare of the many thousands of tourists expected to visit Key West ‘during the next It; is: understood that private capital ‘can be secured to back the project, orice definite infor mation on the need for the water supply and revenues to be deriv ed from it are available Funding Plans Three plans have been propos ed to fund the project for a perm anent supply of water. First, to interest capital solely. Second, to obtain the monies needed through RFC, PWA or WPA loans, which is thought to be very feasibie at the present, wi the almost sure passage Vet ihe $4,500,000,000 “pump priming” bill now before Coneress, galling for many new public wotks, } A final plan. which speeds the obtaining of the monies, is to combine private capital with government capital The engineering survey con ducted by Elson T. Killam, engineer, under the direction of Mr. Lee, is at present consisting mainly in investigating other surveys which have been made regarding the possibility of svp vlying Key West with an ace quate water supply. One of th principal surveys in this matt is that made by the FEC. Ke road before the Oversea line ad imet went through. Material » being investigated through the Jacksonville offices of L. G. Fro nan, FEC. chief engineer Funding possibilities investiga tien t¢ including an accurate o port on the need of water fot the Keys and Key West, and the property investments in those places with a detailed report ox to the possible amount of revenue to be expected from consumers. Key Owners Approve A sumber of the. larger prop- erty owners on the Keys “have been contacted, Mr. Lee writes and have sli given their heartiest support to the project. Permanent investments of the Navy here amoynts to $4.279,731.45; of the Army, $1,996,436, and of the Board of Engineers of the Army | $1,253,400.42, Mr. Lee is informed in some of the preliminary date forwarded hirn. A number of construction com- panies have written the Commis som asking for information on the project, byt all have been told \ that it is stidi in its initial stages. ———— COMPLETE LINE OF POULTRY NETTING--VARIOUS MESHES, ON SALE AT SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING AND ENGINEERING COMPANY. PHONE 598