The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 17, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West ——<$<$<$<$<<—_ et VOLUME LIX. No. 117. eee Various Lots Of Better "SMO OPaIOae, |GROUP HEADED BY MAYOR Che Hry THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. K DELEGATION IS PLANNING FOR TRIP TO MIAMI ALBURY: TO SEEK APPRO- PRIATION FOR HIGHWAY EY WEST, FLORIDA. TUESDAY, MAY 17, 1938. Three Contestants Announced Today For Honor Of Being Selected As Miss “Key West” Three contestants were an-|so printed that they cannot be rat Cttizrn Rosillo Left Key Today For nounced today for the honor of being selected as “Miss Key West | | readily counterfeited, will be sold | for 50 cents each; the names of! the contestants being printed on) Grades Offered Dur- ing Sales At Municipal Dock ROBERTS LANDS SAILFISH One of the finest sailfish which have been caught in the past several weeks is the ‘ROY | } specimen taken by Roy Rob- eris while out fishing with his friends Paul Demeritt, Charles Williams, Frank Lewinsky and son Harvey, and Captain Henry Weather- ford yesterday... There had been.a number . of dolphin taken,.Mr- Lewin- sky having taken several, while Harvey caught a mag- nificent jewfish weighing 100 Pounds, Suddenly Roy had a sirike and after “playing” the catch Though for a couple of weeks | sponge fishermen were deterred} from taking any sponges because of the rough seas and muddy wa- ters, conditions cleared, permit- ting, the men to work and _yes- terday’s sale was productive. The receipts were $8,502.72. | This is, of course, additional to the smaller sales of last week | Kennedy, of the Overseas Road jmember from Key West, j of the celebration, will go to Mi- | quest for an appropriation of $1,- (sioners at the body’s regular | CELEBRATION i ‘ A delegation of Key Westers, jheaded by Mayor Willard Al- j bury, vice-chairman of the Over- seas Highway Celebration Com- mittee, and composed of John and Toll Bridge Commission, of Fort Lauderdale; C. C. Symonette, and Warren Smith,. general manager ami tomorrow to appear before the City Commission with a re-| 000, toward. the celebration, The same group will appear be- fore the Dade County Commis- meeting next Tuesday, :with a similar request. |riguez, who will be sponsored by |} the back in ballot form for the | voting. The Garden of Roses, Country ;Club and the Havana-Madrid —Queen of the Fiesta” July 2-4, Warren Smith, general manager of the Overseas Highway Cele- }%° co-operate by staging at least | one dance. |. Mr. Smith today urged that all | Organizations which intend spon- Senorita Ada Rodriguez, daugh- | soring a candidate name their ter of Cuban Consul Berardo Rod-| nominees not later than 9 a. m. bration, announced. First of the nominees was the San Carlos Institute.. Miss Susan LaKin, president of the Junior Woman's. Club, was inting of the announced as the second, candi; = ¥ date... She will be sponsored byl, -- can’be added. to the 1 | after that hour, he said, Miss Lilia Aceved desig- nated by the Soe ‘uba as its candidate for the honor. The Lions Club will select a; ii ;Club have already volunteered| | Friday so their contestant’s name! | may be included in the. first. vot- ing this Saturday night. No names first. ballot would: ‘| globe-shaped. perisphere, side by Signing the official scroll of the; | World’s Fair Florida good-will! representative, a beautiful three- | foot affair with red, gold and! | black lettering, in The Citizen of-| | fice last night was Mayor Wil- Hed M. Albury, with L. D. Brew- er, good-will courier, present. “his.morning the courier .car x tioned before the La Con- cha hotel, official headquarters, models of the long, tapering, id-shaped trylon and ‘the side, and a helicline ramp, froma the ground to the models. At the |Fair the Trylon will be 700 feet and the Perisphere 22 stories ‘Mayor Albury Signs World Fair Courier Official Scroll | Baia aS aaa a4 The Citizen Editor Bade Rosillo Farewell In 1913 with Rosillo.was N. B. (Dusty) Rhodes, editor of The Key West Citizen in 1913. Mr. Cabrera unfortunately lost another album, in which Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit ‘Two Day Celebration In | Havana Begins Today; Key West Host To Flyer While Here Shy, little white-haired man of 61 years of age, Domingo Rosillo, j the pilot who made the first hop j from Key West to Havana 25 | years ago, today, considered it a | “great henor” to be so royally fet- ed by two,countries, was “glad” | to be in Key West again, and was | struck.mostly by the fact that he | had but one motor on his plane | 25 years ago, but that this morn- | ing 10:30 he left on a Pan-Ameri- ys Shea 4 ‘ Sg |can Clipper Ship with four roar- from boats °which returned be-| for about 20 minutes lost the | “We feel that Miami is, or! candidate tonight, and the Junior |high. ‘The helicline will be utiliz-| he has many other snapshots | catch which was a sail ap- |should be, as much interested in Chamber of Commerce and the/ the Key West, Woman's, Club... Boy and Girl Scouts are to meet {ed by foot passengers to ascend fore the regular fleet came in. Sales at that time were several thousand dollars, The catches displayed on the Municipal docks yesterday con- sisted of 84 bunches of yellow and 1,609 bunches of wool sponge. Neither grass nor glove were among the offerings. Yellows, which were few, as shown by the number of bunches, | sold at the usual figure. The largest individual lot consisted of | 23 bunches and brought a bid of $18.50. The other yellow offer-| ings were of smaller lots and less. valuable grades. Of weol offerings there were \nine lots in each of which there ! were from 100 to 226 bunches, | and some of them brought bids which were of more than $6 the bunch. The nine lots sold as fol- dese ae Largest lot,. which. contained 226 bunches, brought $1,531.99. ‘The others were: 191 bunches, $1,- 154.99; 170. bunehes, $1,007.99; parently about six feet. It was not long afterward | TOOT IO LS, ; i t t ‘ | © Absentee voting continues at} | the office of County Judge Ray-| mond Lord, several more being | | our celebration and the future of! our city as Key Westers”, Mayor Albury declared, “and I am sure the Miami City Commission will} | give us a sympathetic hearing”. | “There are 10,000 former Key} | Westers living in or near Miami, } and each of them, naturally, is! | greatly interested in Key West) jand its remarkable progress”, Mr. Costar said. “These people, | though good Miamians now, will | |always have a warm spot deep| | down in their hearts for their | } home town. | | “We hope to have all of them} with us throughout the celebra- | tion, and since this appropriation | we seek will be spent entirely on} their entertainment, the request! willbe anything but incongru-y | ous”, Mr. Costar concluded. | ‘ARRIVAL Fellowship Club have indicated) at the High School auditorium on each would name a_ candidate} Wednesday evening at 7:30, to re- this week. ceive first-aid instructions in The contest, Mr. Smith pointed | preparation for the operating of out, is strictly a popylar and not} the. first-aid units in the Overseas a beauty contest. The winner | Highway Celebration. will be decided on the basis of| First-aid demonstrations, and popularity, as evidenced by the| its many uses, will be given by number of votes cast for each| capable persons, and it is urged contestant at the series of dances! that every scout bring a note which the Celebration Commmit-} book and pencil, as these notes tee will hold. | will be very useful in passing The first dance will be held| first class and second class tests Saturday night, it was announc-| later. ed. “We had hoped to hold about! NSE sopra eae six dances, but the brief time re-! CHANGE IN maining and the slowness with | our invitation to co-operate may, ¢ VOTING PRECINCT necessitate a reduction in the} rem number contemplated”, Mr. Smith Plans for the dances call for the; been changed and will be at 800 ‘night club operators to donate the| Duval street instead of 718 Duval use of their premises with the| where the polling place of the | part of the building, but inside the building a “magic carpet”, a | new invention, will take passen-| gers throughout the structure. } These buildings will be open to} the publci only on state celebra- | | tion days. | | Inscribed on the scroll Mayor} | Albury. signed were the words: | |“This twentieth century courier | | brings with him greetings and a! | message of good-will to the gov- | | ernor and citizens of Florida. The |New York World’s Fair 1939. | Grover A. Whalen, president”. | Governor Fred P. Cone’s signa-| ture heads the list. It was se-} cured May 7, 1938. Thus far, the mayors of Tallahassee, Panama} City, Pensacola, Ocala, Tampa, West have been | trip has been down the west coast ' of Florida, Returning, the } | Forty-eight cars, besides the Flor- [St. Petersburg, Miami and> Key |“ secured. ie) © | | will go through the, Phy viel 165 bunches, $925.66; 159 bunches, | C@St today bringing the total $898.88; 105 bunches, $497.99; 102/ number of votes cast since voting! bunches, $530.40; 100 bunches, | Started up to 55. . Announcement ‘has been. made $627.99; 100 bunches, $617. | Precinct count shows the fol-| of the birth ofa ‘son to Mr. and The other wool offerings were | lowing from each of the seven/ Mrs. Douglas Anderson on. Satur- all in smaller lots, ranging from | Precincts in Key West: Number) day, May 14, at the home, 626 one to 56 bunches and sold for | 1, 10; number 2, 1; number 3, 8;) William street. prites ranging from. $3.51 to| umber 4, 8; nurhber 5, 8; num-} Mother and baby are reported | } $140.66. Among the spongers it was said yesterday at the sponge dock dur- ing the sale that after a short rest practically all of the boats will return to the sponging beds. KEY WEST STUDENT | Cocccevendcccccccccccccoccccccscocccoccscesesoces | terests of the state, because, after all, that tax is passed | ON COLLEGE PAPER (Special te Phe Citixend TALLAHASSEE, May = 17.— Miss Mary Sullivan of Key West’ served as columnist on the staff of the Florida Flambeau, student} newspaper at Florida State lege for Women, which has. just, been awarded “All Ameritan?, rating by the National Scholastic Ns. ae OF A DAUGHTER wi received yesterday and Mrs, Geroge F. Arch- the birth of a daughter to on and daughter-in-law, d Mrs. George E. Archer, s Ze ber 6, 12; number 7, 8. Yesterday By CHARLES | | Doubtless the most tender} } | that home where you were born. | and the cemetery where your | Parents and some of your family lie in peace and blessod memory; some one has said: “We forget the origin of a parvenué if he re- bers it and we remtember it forgets it.” No matter how is life or complicated | the cares and’ responsibilities, on a | visit to the old home town, you fare drawn irresistibly to these }two tender spots—always with. jmisty eyes and a lump in your i throat. To these two places you want to steal away—all by your- self, so that nothing may shadow | | the tender memories that are sure jto flood your mind, heart and soul. You have a secret desire to lown and preserve the former and ‘to defy the latter. You enter as \if treading on hallowed ground; iyou don’t want to talk, for that t YOUR OLD HOME TOWN ‘days, we had.- panics; to be getting along nicely. ° } Today N. HARMON these days: Avalanche, Unterri- |memory spots in one’s life are, fied Democrat. Javelin, Roundup, | ©V€TY' Anvil, Chips, Rustic, Optic, Jim? plicute, Eye, Rooster, Flash, Owl? Log Cabin Democrat, Vim. Oo ings, Gusher, Hornet and Det- rick.” — Rev, Horace Bushnell, Kansas. 40 years ago and before those | history teaches us that our nation has had | a panic or depression, on an aver- age, every 12 years. Father and/| mother, God bless their memories, carried our large family of six j through two such panics and we children never knew what a panic was till manhood days; of course ; real cash was often scarce, but! the family never wanted for the essentials, for the old smoke- house was generally filled before before the first freeze; our 99 acre farm and 5 acre orchard managed , . i | the payment of gasoline taxes. which the several better night! club operators are responding to: | Rolling place for the Fifth Pre- Said: cinct-in the Second Primary has Committee paying a major part of} First Primary was located. 4 the cost of the orchestra. Tickets! A legal notice to this effect will) Tan eae pens of} | Charles Taylor for a fishing ex- cursion this morning. He left this) afternoon. TROOP for the dances, which are being; appear in The Citizen tomorrow. To The Citizens of Monroe County : : * | | Further discussion of the issues before you in the; campaign for state representative from Monroe county/ HOLDS SESSIO! j seems to be in order. I want the general public to know; scsi | my position in all matters affecting their general welfare; ' ED, so I herewith present a few more of the problems I will sarc Serene Peemeene | attempt to solve when I am sent to the next legislature: DURING MEETING LAST NIGHT 1. I will fight to repeal the law which requires a tax of one-half of one per cent gross on the business in- | } Troop 5 Boy Scouts met last night at their, headquarters in yo \ivw | Wesley House and enjoyed a very 4M, Gf 5 pbiithusiastic meeting, which was augh, ai) Blesided over by Assistant Scout-/ ex Dick Hernandez, assisted -Sepier, Scout Leader Ray! along to our consumers in the form of his! thing they buy for, themselves and their 2, 1 will ‘oppose gyery mffost tooplit W' dhled, taj. fect in \Fiorids"For' the same seasomsanartiely, that HE a hea OF swota id! tax would Be cee mater! Off RMety stitch of phab a large” 3. Twill make an earnest attempt to get tax exemp- . : { i bers, tion for the gasoline used on the boats operated by pel Wgunnroppa disaster tag! wear emit fishermen. Through the efforts of our present state rep-| membership applications cannot resentative, the airplane companies were exempted from | be considered until a vacancy in | the troop occurs. : . tal t 4. 1 will make every effort to see that the Florida | mates pcan tthe pari Keys are represented on all boards and commissions * iis to meet with Troop 52 in the ling matters affecting Monroe county, because the Florida | High School auditorium to receive Keys represent an important part of our county and are | a pep aap aid, — rapidly growing in population and expanding in business | ¥'' gaven by an exper! activity—and, therefore, are entitled to every considera- ME daend Ses oatecle tinea Gate eee | tion by the state representative of Monroe county. sions and at the conclusion of 5. 1 will vote for adequate provisions for our public | sens es. 2 Ie que | nat ia ; ‘bought Mead oiication was received | from Kenneth Knowles for mem- | bership in the troop and as this these a general game was en} ved by the gathering. , in their home at Augus-, Would interrupt sacred memories, | which well up to-a reverent cre-| lew arrival has been nam- | Seendo: ae a them an.” Vitheit, She weighs five rat ‘< ine ounces and_ both}. “Onc axsictator, With all his d daughter are. doing | ROW Et aed>elory, marched into , | Russia, .with:500,000 experienced, _i ~ | victorious and=well edjaipped sol- 4 jers;-he..was Hinting for a place Se in the sun. dn-due time, lice, dis- THEM: A Lt Yr] case, famine, old winter and Joyal | on sas | Russians. caused tint. t6 march -MADRID - “p-right back” Ggain, with only 25.- 000 survivors.”—Mrs. Henry Fur- (man, Oregon. Drama: Grandma and grandpa on the train homeward after visiting a month with Margaret VERYNITE | and her six children; she whis-, pers: “Henry, I'm glad we will CHARGE—— |! soon be home—such noise.” | “Odd Western newspaper names Y st's Finest to fill it with just about every-| schools for the full nine-month term from definite sources | thing necessary for the table and | ef income and work to provide teachers with proper pro-| People in small towns exchanged ! = ions. “dusBille” Gd. <ther’ forma of | Com ond penstons Credit in a tight place. The w In serving all of the people of Monroe county, | will man is he, who, in good times,! net permit any man or set of men to control my actions Scoutmaster Cates was absent from the meeting because of the iliness of his child, it was an- prepares a 5 or 10 acre place near / @ good town, with a comfortable! home and ‘ith a varied amount | of berries and fruits of réfuge for a family, when the next de-} Pression comes and it surely will. so long as the law of supply and demand rules people and their efforts in the age long struggle to find God, food and clothing; en- scenced in such a refuge. an American family can then smile at some things within our recent memory: Closed banks all over town; worthless foreign bonds bought while we were quite fool- ish; stock, corn, wheat, cotton and (Continued on Page Six) when I am sent to the state legislature. While keeping myself free of such entangling alliances, | promise you I will not legislate spitefully against those who are oppos- ing me in this campaign if they ask me to sponsor and sup- port any sound and constructive measure that would be beneficial to the citizens of Monroe county. Public offi- cials who let their personal feelings sway their official ac- tions are not worthy of the public trust. Again, I respectfully solicit your support at the polls. Sincerely, Thomas S. Caro, Candidate for State Representative. (Paid Political Advertisement) | Five young women of Key West left Friday of last week for a vie- ; it with relatives and friends in Miami, and returned yesterday. They reported having a most de- lightful trip. | Im the group were: Corinne Roberts, Louise Curry, Josephine | Ovide, Celia Bello, Mary Jane Lowell, Marie Farto and Mrs. ; Lillie Louis. monoplane pow. ered with a Gnome 50 horse. power motor. | | j | similar to those flown by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk. Lieut. _McCurdy’s siaacims, Coulened. > Soe / er OC hdchadodide hdd ing raotors, he told The Citizen. Leaving on the Clipper Ship from Key West were Rosillo, Ma- jor Luis F. Ardois of the Cuban Army, Editor El Pizzi de Porras of the Havana newspaper El Mundo, and J. M. Vidana, chair- man of the Cuban Comite hand- ling the celebration. The Clipper was met several miles out at sea by a group of Cuban army and navy planes and was escorted to Havana, where Rosillo will be the guest at two days of holiday- making in his honer. Two prizes which he was to have received. as a result of his flight will be be- latedly presented to him in the /National Amphitheatre, besides a solid gold medal from the govern- ment. He will also receive com- ly every international organization existent and from the Red Cross. On the Clipper was a special pouch of mail, which, for the first time in the history of both gov- ernments, made a circuitous trip with the stamp of but one coun- try. This stamp is the specially- ‘issued Rosillo stamp, which was hie: | T ISSUED BY STATE, HOTEL COMMIS- SION REPOR {Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, May 17.— | Monroe county has a total of 74 restaurants licensed by the state hotel commission ;to do: business, | Commissioner Wi M! Taylor re- ported on compittion of a check of the full record of, his office. The detailed infarmation, Tay-| lor added, showed ‘that’ these res- taurants had a total capacity of 2,436 chairs or seats. “We gathered this information at considerable trouble and ex- pense to make it available to any person in Florida who may be interested in it, and any request of this nature will be promptly answered by my office” He pointed out that the data will be of particular assistance to chambers of commerce gr other organizations which may be plan ning for entertainment of con ventions, conferences or other meetings which might tax avail- able restaurant facilities. CHESTERFIELD, Eng. — , The will of Charles P. Markham of this city, which disposed. of» postmarked at Havana and Key West. Chas, S. Matthews, register clerk at the U. S. postoffice here, delivered the mail pouch to -Ro- sillo in person. Arriving at Bayview Park yes- terday were Rosillo, Ardois, Vi+ dana and Porra. In the party also were Miami postmaster Wil- liam C. Hill, C. T. Hansen, Miami director of aviation, and Miami police inspector Wm. J. McCarthy. Greeted by Mayor Willard M. AT bury, Rosillo was presented with the keys of the city, — a bu: tend a uet frweaes to Py flyer. A wreath was laid at fh? Marti monument Proceeding to ‘the Maine plot in the City Ci Rosillo laid another wre there. Last night at a banquet, given by Mayor Willard M. Albury, Cuban Consul Berardo Rodriguez, Pablo Fernandez and Dr. J. C. Sanchez, Rosillo was guest of honor. Among others present were Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. J. M. Vidana, C. C. Symonette, Pizzi de Porra, Major Ardois, W C. Hill, C. T. Hansen, and Wai. J. McCarthy City Medal At the Cuban Club, following the banquet, Resillo was pre- sented with a gold medal from i the City of Key West. On it were circularly inscribed from the City of Key West to Domingo Rasillo, 1913-1988.” In the center of fogdal it in American flag. $3,500,000 estate, contained only. Felix Varela 72 words. NOTICE en TO PUBLIC Chester Tift’s Dairy Distributor of