The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 5, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 107. County Board Awards Contract For Work To Repair Roof On Jail Slate Is To Be Replaced PIII OMT A sed . \COMPLETE VOTEIN By Modern Metal Shin« cENATORIAL CONTEST | gles; Tedder And Balt-| FURNISHED HEREWITH | zell To Do Work (Snecial to The Citizen) FORT MYERS, May 5.—In jor the state senator- Contract for removing the slate _ 24th senatorial er, Ward of ess , declared. i atanas and Aa of a metal shingle roof, was last night | +! awarded to the firm of Tedder | and Baltzell. Four offerings were t | companies involved. This liqui- |a profit if the workers’ demands | were to be met. SHOWS ACTIVITIES RESULT-! ING WHEN PRESIDENT CAR- DENAS ANNOUNCED HIS; i PLANS { { (This article is a personal interpretation of a current condition and does not pre- tend to be a complete state- ment. It's not a solicitation of any order.) When President Cardenas an- noynged on March 20th that his government was expropriating Amerjcan and British oil com-| panies, in Mexico, it caused some liquidation of securities of «the dation, and any that may be un- der consideration, may be ill ad- vised. The Union of Petroleum Work- ers had been demanding higher wages and better working condi- tions and the oil companies had claimed they could not operate at Following a gen- | COMMERCE AND COUNTY) COMMISSIONERS TO MEET TOMORROW NIGHT |to drive foreign interests out of jcase to the | Court. eral strike in the Mexican oil \fields last spring the Mexican | government intervened and de- |ereed a wage increase of about $11,000,000 a year, an extensive {Pension system and give workers ‘a participation in the manage- ‘ment. This decision was the first move in the government’s attempt Mexico. The oil companies carried their Mexican Supreme The companies’ appeal! was denied and the court ordered that back wages of $6,000,000, ex- tending from May, 1937, to March 7, 1938, be paid immediately. The-action of the Mexican gov- r,ernment in expropriating foreign oil company. properties means that the government. will run these properties in a planner com- parable to a receivership in the United States. The properties “i 1 APPEARS, Attends: Meeting NEWSPAPER IN THE KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1938. Celebration Group She Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST U.S.A. Commissioners Last Night Members of the several com-;the matter mittees which are adjuncts of the | taking some space in the maga- ;general committee making plans {for the celebration on July 4 of the formal opening of the Over- | ning. Board members present R. Porter, W. Curry Harris, Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard C.-Waite; Overseas Highway Committee | members: Chairman. John Costar, Mayor Willard M. Albury, Aronovitz, Charles E. Smith, Frank H. Ladd, and B. D. Trevor. Mr. |seas Highway, were present at| ty were received from the State the regular meeting of the board ; | Board of Administration and after of county commissioners last eve- | | some discussion and a were:| was decided to purchase bonds Chairman Carl Bervaldi, William | to the amount of $69,000, the pur- Braxton B. Warren, | chase varying between 64 and Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, Attorney:| 65. | Cc. Gi Geresuctte,|c Trevor acted as spokes-/of the ferries, and answers to the man and said that it was planned | to raise a fund of $10,000 to stage | the celebration and would like to ask for a liberal donation from the commissioners. He said that it had been decided to not name any amount, but to ask the com- missioners to do the best sible. Mr. matter of the donation by the commissioners be discussed at a pos- | Porter suggested that the; meeting which is to be held at a! later date, at which time a full attendance of the board may be present and the matter more com- pletely discussed in detail than it could be at the present time. It was so decided. Matron Maria Gutsens for permission to address board relative to a request assistance in the payment of the! notes on her automobile. The} indebtedness was said to be $150. asked the Mrs. Gutsens was unable to ad-| General School, and School her talk was translated by Com- | $791.30. dress the board in English missioner Warren. The gist of her appeal was that her work as’ Judge Raymond Lord for April, matron of Mercedes hospital necessitated her moving over the for; j lowing accounts: | of Monroe county {zine. Mr. Porter and Mr. War- ren were appointed to meet with Mr. Agey. Offerings of bonds of the coun- of it study the amount available for this, Attorney Harris was authorized to draw up the necessary solution | to be forwarded to the board of | administration. lerk Sawyer reported that munications were being re- ceived from different sources rel- ative to either lease or purchase} queries were being asked. Two of the letters, one from O.} W. Hughes and another from James Cohen, were read by Mr. Sawyer, who stated there were others of like tenor, but it was decided that at this time nothing definite be done on the matter. Communication from Mrs. F. Babette Root, relative to the pro- posed publication of the Key West Periscope and asked the county board to consider purchasing space in the issue. was de- cided that there nothing which could be at this time. Report of Tax Collector F. H. Lafid showed deposits in the First National Bank of $3,622.15. Distribution was made to the fol- General Rev- enue, $1,084.33; Fine and Forfei- ‘ture, $249.07; Special Advertis- ing, $332.10; Road Fund, $332.1 $833.25 District It was done jal Tax No. License report from County of $514.88, received $: showed receipts which the state of} 25 | Kane, Day services which are to be held this year in memory of those who | lost their lives in the hurricane of 1935. Post Commander W. H. Rear- jdon of Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, American Legion; Arthur Sheppard and Charies Ketchum, formed a committee to wait on the board of county commission- ers last night and discuss plans \for the Decoration Day exercises} which will be held this year with local legionnaires in charge. Mr. Ketchum also addressed the meeting and discussed brief the assistance which would be asked ; will be operated primarily for the benefit of labor with any theoret- ical surplus accruing to the legal owners. Obviously, maintenance and good management cannot be expected. Since approximately 60 percent } of the oli produced in Mexico last year was exported, the oi! com- panies can subject Mexic oil industry to a severe “sque ' Mexico has little or no access to | world markets and without trans-! portation facilities the industry is | faced with serious problems. i The foreign companies can} 4 | of the commissioners, and sketeh- | shift to other sources of crude oil | gave a lengthy outline of the dif- pos: ed an outline of the plans and the ideas of the committee regarding ] i cs the vote was: Russell 2744, Ward 876. In Collier county. Russell 84, Ward 1,339; Hen- loridered| dry county, Russell 268, Ward “ | 98%: Lee county, Russell 869, in reply to bids called for by the’ Ward 4,259. county commissioners and which SAAS ALS fi were issued by Clerk Ross C./| Sawyer. Bidders were: Gates Tin | ‘COMMITTEES T0 Shop, Palmer Roofing Company, | Christopher Knowles and eda MAKE PLANS FOR and Baltzell. After the reading of the bids, MEMORIAL DA Commissioner W. R. Porter took them under consideration for the | i board, and after a few minutes) GROUPS FROM CHAMBER OF} devoted to an analysis of the! items in each bid, asked a few questions of the bidders, and de- | cided the lowest bidder was the ee of Tedder and Baltzetl.~ The Feat F9L was for $335. ™ 4 Ride “Balicelt, spokesman for pi penn f d oB tof the firm was advised to meet At- pire pun will : | 01 ill mee! torney W. Corry Harris, acting| tomorrow night to discuss miat: for the board some time this} ters pertaining to the Memorial morning, and the contract swale | be drawn up and signed by the interested parties. The plumbers of Key West met jointly with the ordinance com- mittee of the City Council last | night at the City Hall for the pur-| pose of discussing matters rela-' tive to a code to be adopted in connection with workers who fol- low the plumbing business. A tentative code was presented at the meeting, and was read, cov-; ering the many plans to be fol-'t Jowed. _cau'l beDayeéxe Rises woultebe held. { After the reading Ofdbe codeiteot Wrntakt) Posten isikgested that al as presented to the — commiting besianpalited: for the committee for furth +s Shudys.anch: Cemmissioncns tw ynectwith one} the matter will be tS atin, fae, the Chamhersof ‘Commerce | later date. 4 ecient ‘aad jagecfromythe American Le- ORE REE a. A = en Friday, and talk over ce APPRECIATION» = splot 2 ' Chairman Carl Bervaldi, Mr. Porter and Commissioner Brax- My sincere and gracious appre- vieraite a “tiation of the vote tendered me in| (On. we pa mi pene sae Shean the primary of last Tuesday in the’ SS 0% the committee and it w P y decided the bodies would meet ee for reelection to the office! oy and make arrange of representative in the legisla-' OO%t: of the details. sane’ ture from Monroe county, is! “4 hereby extended to my friends! Lesa and all of those who contributed ciry C COUNCIL to my suce Another election will be neta on May 24, the last of the pri-/ j maries, and I can give the assur ances that the motives which were behind my candidacy in the firs' There will be a regular meet-/ primary, will still be those which! ing of the City Council held to-j will govern my actions and, I night, beginning at 7:30 o'clock trustfully hope, lead to my being; There are several matters to! given the plurality which will en- | come before the meeting in addi-} able me to again represent the | tion to the regular routine, one} people of Monroe County in the! of which is the matter of propos- legislature jed bus transportation service for iKey West 5 RAPT. BERNIE HENRY H. FILER LEADING CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS Fourth Congressional District Deeply appreciates the excellent vote given him in Monroe County and earnestly requests the support of all friends and voters in the second primary on May 24th—thereby assisting to send a— NATIVE SON TO CONGRESS —_——— { | ' | | | \supply without disrupting their | I operations. Therefore, it appears failed in its aims to out-bluff for- j eign oil companies. | The estimated proportion o} earnings of. American oil panies dérived from ope catia in ) MexictBate as follows Seatidard Oil, 30 percent Std. of New Jersey, five foent: Gulf Oil, three percent Texas Corp., one percent Consolidated Oil, negligible. Hence it can bee seen that the earnings of American oil com panies in Mexico are not seriously affected by President Cardenas’ order. The principal loss may come from ultimate confiscation of oil properties. Standard of Newj Jersey would be the largest suf- feret Its Huasteca Petroleum Co, is valued at approximately $65,000,000. The controversy oil companies and the government can very likely be} settled by a compromise and the properties restored to them with | perhaps some governmental man- agement influence. Mexico is not equipped to con duct her own of imdustry such a compromise develop: ; seems logical. ? per. the | Mexican | between ' ay ent Cc. P. WINTER IE eee | “TOPPING THEM ALL” Habana-Madrid Club Key West's Finest Dancing and Floor Show NO COVER CHARGE CEE KEEP OUT FLIES AND | MOSQUITEOS WITH GUARANTEED SCREENS. FULL STOCK AT SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & l city a great deal and the use of|and the county, $172.62 the automobile was a real neces-| Report of C. Sam B. Curry, sity. clerk of the criminal court show- Mr. Porter said that the matron! ing activities for the month of was an efficient worker, had de-| April was read and ordered) voted the greater portion of her’ placed on file. life in Key West to the hospital Sheriff reported deposits in the and was deserving of any st- | First National Bank of $109.25. | ance which could be given her. It} Clerk Sawyer reported the re- |could be arranged he said to take ceipt of $6,551.15 from the State | jup the indebtedness on the car. | Racing Committee, which is the H. M. Agey, representing the last, he expects, of funds from ‘magazine Gimlet, addressed the the organization for the season of board on the matter of Monroe | 1937-'38. county arranging for space in the! The receipt of the check from spring issue of the periodical. He the racing commission makes it ble to arrange a payroll and to pay current bills, it was an ferent steamship, railroad and K est, Florida, has the most ‘quable climate in the country; with an average range «/ only 14° Fahrenheit RICE FIVE CENTS Public Roads Surveys hway Extension Project S.R.D.; Action Expected In Few Months KING GEORGE TO INSPECT GREAT over Weekend; see Key West Cities Printed References To Exhibition. eee eee NEW YORK, May 5 (ICN).—, When King George VI and his eee arrive in Glasgow tomor- to open Scotland’s Great! Empire Exhibition, they will in- spect a new huge volume, com- piled expressly for the historic) event, Citizen and other leading repre- sentative American newspapers, indexed under their respective cities, will reveal to the Royal couple “What the United States row “| Thinks of the Empire Exhibition”, it w: revealed here today at headquarters for the event. The “American volume” was compiled under the direction of Charles Hemstreet at the request of Miss Will Envoy, who just sailed for Scotland after an extended offi-! cial visit to the United States and Canada. The volume itself is one of the most ambitious and unique works | in which The Key West! ,of New York, ; Marie | the British Empire's Good- | lpia Officials In City Project Will Cost Less Than illion Dollars eae piace) Aathur 5 B. |; Hale, of its ina ever aut bound in red withe wake to Rave,,.a. definite on its 320 “open newspaper the Qver- | pages of heavy prs mas Under its jcity-index The Citizen’s printed sees Highway over the Flor- | references to the exhibition and ida East Coast viaducts from Scotland’s industries have been | | Big Pine K w carefully mounted below the ig Pine Key to Key West in pal one ee Toe wl: | “several months”, communi- ume took a large s! o! ir. 9 Hemstreet’s assistants two months | ¢Ation to The Citizen fror to compile. iJ. H. li ate Hi, hh The volume will get its Royal’ re s introduction at the exhibition’s Way Engineer, states. Palace of Industry, where, after} ‘ormed its special inspection by the King! The Citizen. 4. inf and Queen, it will be placed on from reliable sources that view for the millions who are ex- funds pected to attend the event. pat of the fer. Gee The Empire Exhibition, the project will be secured from most elaborate offering of its the Bu of Public Roads. The cost of the extension has kind since Wembley in 1924, will run from May 3 to the first of been set at less than a” mil- lion dollars. October. Miss Kane in her official Last weekend a group of ‘CAPTAIN AND MRS. CHARTER MEMBERS’ |BORGE ROHDE ARE VISITORS IN CITY (MRS. ROHDE WAS RUTH BRY. AN OWEN, "KEY WEST'S ADOPTED DAUGHTER”, CONGRESSWOMAN Captain Borge Rohde Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde, “the adopted daughter of Key West”, AND! and Mrs. , | capacity as Good Will Envoy, will | extend personal greetings to dele- gates from the United States and; —__-| attics of the Bureau of Public Roads was in Key. ‘West, registering at the Ho- OF LIONS CLUB T0, ‘tel La Concha, for the pur- BE NAMED TONIGHT vo of making » survey. of | the project. | ADDITIONAL L_ OFFICERS AND they carried back to depart- DIRECTORS WILL BE ELECT- ment headquarters and there ED; CHARTER NIGHT TO BE. will submit it as incident to STATEWIDE AFFAIR This survey { we final granting. Complete organization of char- ? tional officers and directors is scheduled to take place tonight at | are visitors in Key West, having |# Special meeting of the newly- | , formed Key West Lions Club, ae- arrived over the highway yester- | | cording to announcement by H. E day, guests of Mrs. W.) Day, president. The group wil) meet at 7:30 o'clock at La Concha Hunt Harris and Miss Minnie otal obasueiy and are BURIED TODAY Lenora Bebecca Weeks, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Ltacy contracts” air lines on which the magazine is nounced. he! dayon which the Decoration | that the Mexican government has | regularly placed It was decided that Mr. Agey bursement uss‘ noon at 2 o'clock meet with a committee to dis Clerk Sawyer said that ready, for dis tomorrow after- funds would be by TO PROHIBIT SALE OF PRO- DUCTS AT LESS THAN USUAL PRICES PETERSBURG. May 5 (FNS).—Florida’s alled Fair Trade Act, which is designed to prohibit the sale of nationally ad- vertised products at less than the usual prices, was held to be un- constitutional by Circuit Judge Frank Hobson last week Judge Hobson said that it was sufficiently different from similar statutes enacted in 43 other states ST so- |as-to prevent its being enforced legally This ruling was made an oral jorder issued by Judge Hobson in which he declined to restrain Webb's Cut Rate Drug Store here from selling nationally advertis- ed products of the Bristol-Myers Company of New Jersey, the com- plaintant, for less than the usual pri However, he gave at- bee for the Bristol-Myers ay additional time to file Aros arguments. The law was designed to pro- test trade mark owners from the “injuries and uneconomic prac- pew! of price cutting, and oper- “through the use of volun- It was this last phrase which Judge Hobson said made the act unconstitutional. “FAIR TRADE ACT" JOSE GALINDO IS HELD INVALID. DIED THIS A FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON Jose Galindo. died thi morning at his residence the rear of 610 Di will in 1 street. Funeral be held tomorrow the al J services from Fune afternoon at 5 o'clock Chapel of Pritchard Home. Father R. J St. Mary's Star church, officiating. Mr. Galindo is daughter, Mrs. Rene Alvarez, Key West; a brother, Alberto Galindo and sister, Mrs. Pilar Galindo, of Muli of of Cuba — FOR — MOTHER’S DAY' NEXT SUNDAY We have a full stock of the best —CAND tT in the city. Boxed—at all prices We have just received new j lines of YARDLEY'S COS- METICS which will make excellent gifts. too Gardner's Pharmacy —The Rexall Store— Porter Harris at their home. Mrs. Rohde expressed herself as being delighted to be in Key West again after a long absence, where thé{“hospitality is as warm | the sunshine”. This time, Mrs. Rohde said,’ she feels free to ex-} press her pleasure at being in the again and meeting the peo- ple here when she is not solicit- g votes. Mrs. Rohde represent- he Fourth Congressional Dis- of which Key West is a and a frequent visitor a trict unit wa here Mrs. Rohde said that although he had heard a great deal of Flor- ida and feared, for that reason, he would be disappointed in it, but he has found it a wonderful| place. He expressed his ght in, being in the southernme y of the United States. Mrs. Rohde was envoy from the United States to Denmark. Mr.; Rohde was.@ Captain in the Dan-} ish ards. cation for American citizenship and his voting residence will be ant Flor’ The Rohdes will be ¢ henor at the annual Mothers and; ers tuncheon of the Wom ub Saturday. They were honor at the Rotary ill return j He has made appli-/ Plans will be completediae this: Werka died Tussday night St the meeting for the Charten:Delivety Banquet to be held): Thursday! May 12. Anil al .Armayor ‘is chairman of the committee:oriar rangements. His assistants wil) j be. appointed tonight. It is expected that over one ‘hundred delegates to the Banquet will be in Key West, coming from Lions Clubs in Miami, Miami Beach, Miami Springs, Coral Gables, Homestead, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Havana, Cuba. Dis- trict Governor Millard B. Conk- lin of Daytona Beach will pre- lsent the charter to the Key West club. Deputy District Governor j Earle Middleton will also be pres- ent. Local civic leaders will be honored guests for the evening PROTEST EST LIVE LIVE WIRE FENCE | | Narberth, Pa—' ising a live | wire, charge? with 110-yolts, Ar- ‘thur Burns declares he is within his rights to protect his property from neighburhood dogs. Citizens are protesting, however, because they fear that children in the | neighborhood might be injured by \ faiminy* residerice, $28 Johnson. Lavie) 4 aftemnoort! 3:30 -o’elock trom sa th: ‘Of, Pri 's er’ wee Rev. J. Mpg Be of St. Mary's Star of Catho- lic church, officiating. brothers; two sisters; grandpar- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Ham- APPRECIATION Citizen Publishing Co., Mr. Editor Please express through . the preciation for the splendid yote given me by the votets in Tues- I wtil continug to campaign and work harder than ever to win in solicit the help and ition of all the voters to that end If County's best interest and~-the best interest of all the people. ? Auerbach’s Restaurant —Serving From 11 A. M. To Midnight— LUNCHEON—Soup, Entree, Vegetable, Dessert DINNER and A LA CARTE BEER — WINES — LIQUORS Funeral’ services’ Were beid this Honie, Rev. R. J. Survivors are the parentée; two ilton, and Mrs. Irene Albury. Key West, Florida. colurnns of The Cititen my ~ap- day's election. the next primary on the 24th and elected 1 will work for Monroe Gra maySeltx THOMAS | 5. CARO, 410 FLEMING STREET and Drink From 45c to 66c PHONE 98 ENGINEERING CO. PHONE 598