The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 21, 1938, Page 1

Press Day Wire t Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Associated Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE so Che Key West Citizen UTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. VOLUME LIX. No. 121, KEY WEST, FLORIDA. SATURDAY , MAY 21, 1938. yo YACHT STORAGE BASIN WOULD BE PROFITABLE HERE t | CAPT. P. NILSEN OF YACHT housand Dollars °2,2.7°%,2, °22 Many Different Grades of NEW CUNBOAT T0 | TO BE YACHTING MECCA. Sea Products Are Dis-| In the period of future pros- A “house to house and store to) ture four or six round preliminar- | |store” campaign to raise funds ies, six or eight semi-final bouts, ' for the Highway Celebration was|and a ten round main bout be- !begun yesterday by members of |tween two of the best and most the Finance Committee, headed | colorful fighters itt the state. by Chairman Ben D. Trevor. Carl| Mr. Bell will bring the Railey- | Bervaldi will be treasurer of the Milam baseball team to the city campaign. as one of the teams to play, and | Word came through from Jack | games will probably be held Sat- | Bell, Miami Daily News Sports| urday, Sunday and Monday. _ VISIT KEY WEST |perity which is in store for Key | Fditor, that the News would spon- | West, Captain Peter Nilsen, of | sor a three-fold sports section of All games and the boxing are |} to be held at the Navy Field,; PRICE FIVE CENTS Local Marine Hospital Work Key West Labor To Be played At Municipal Dock | FOR FIVE DAYS |WILL ARRIVE JUNE 20) ON| Last sale of sponges was A D-WILL TOUR: CoM.| yesterday at the Municipal sponge | the 106 foot yacht Elfreda, owner H. R. H. Ripley, which will make Key West a base next year, calls local marine men’s attention to} the fact that storage basins for | ships should be a profitable in-| vestment. | “Yacht owners are beginning to} realize that storing a ship in the the Celebration, Director Warren | which will seat 10,000 persons, Elaborate Entertainment For Smith revealed. ‘and will be’supplied with a new| Key West has been divided into | roof over the grandstand for the | five sections, each of the sections protection of spectators. | to be covered by a Finance Com-! A delegation from the Commit- mittee. The importance of donat-' tee will go to Miami again Wed- ing liberally is stressed by Chair-' nesday to petition the Dade Coun- man Ben Trevor, who is anxious | ty Commissioners fora donation |Active Campaign Work To Elect Miss Mattha Car-, i sent cae, | MANDER. C. F. BRYANT; HAS ck; closing @ week of | s8les) 1) OFFICERS, 160 MEN Bey which were above the ordinary, different lots offered 97 bunches, in the sale of Yes! day. \ 2» Offered yesterday were 750! “bunches of vpol sponge, some of | them bringing upwards to $6.70 a bunch. Others of the larger lots were: 193 bunches, $1,304.99; 180 bunches, $980.71; 160 bunches, $1,080.66, 32 bunches, $88.88. The entire offering brought $2,826.03. Yellow sponges displayed were contained in nine lots of 178 bunches and were sold for $62.08. The largest lot held 52 bunches and sold for $33.10. Grass sponges arrive in Key West June 20 and -jremain for a peridd of five days on a goodwill cruise, Mayor Wil- lard M. Albury is informed by Charleston Navy Yard Headquar- ters. The Charleston is a new gun- boat, built at the Charleston Navy | | Yard and commissioned in 1936. | She is commanded by C. F. Bry- | ant and will bring 12 officers and | | 160 men to this port. The gunboat has a_ displace- |ment of 2,000 ‘tons, a length of; | 328 feet, a beam of 41 feet, draft of 11 feet. She carries a seaplane | on a takeoff chute, four five-inch ' | | The new U.S.S. Charleston will * were 49 bunches and sold for | guns and two three-inch guns as $6.35. Wednesdays offerings contain- ed 999 bunches of grass; 998/ took the route of Guantanamo, | of which will be the eventual {it of the series of dances spon- will be printed in ballot form by | | her battery. | She left Charleston April 21, jto raise as much as possible to! make the celebration a success! {that will last in the minds ‘of | People pleasantly long after it is | north may cause serious damage to the hull when ice forms, and usually requires a a = hauling job each spring. | ever. } “Daytona ner ives served nel * The fight card, baseball games, | Plied these: facilities, also docks, | 4 i-6y' races and outboard regatta jwith all bare of marine supplies. |). the fields to be sponsored by It will surprise you to know that the News. “There is a great deal the business, in spite of doleful| of interest here among the boat forecasts, is doing very well”, | crew,” Mr. Bell announced after Captain Nilsen said today. ._ |preliminary contacts with yachts- Captain and Mrs. Nilsen this "men. He promises a good show. week purchased two lots near the ‘Tides and charts are to be sent Rock House, and intend event-' him by Mr. Smith. ually to build a home on them,| ‘he all-star fight card will fea- and retire to this little island. He | has interested some capital here, | through his yachting connections. | Captain Nilsen has often prais- | (ed Key West’s deep yachting | | waters and the beauty of cruis- ing along the Keys. He has boost- ,ed the Island City wherever he has gone, and prophesies a great | future for the town, not the least Much Interest In Advance reservations for the | Chamiber:of Commerce with Mrs. | ;of Commerce, ‘duled for the girls, An outstand | enthusiastic dinner ‘meeting at! Celebration Dance Tonight toward the celebration. } Miami ¢elebration headquarters | : hove Sook oat up in the *Miami} bonell Queen of Celebra- T. Crowson’ in charge of the L*i/tjon’ ane’ ‘onigh . booth, Mr. Smith said. ' Begins T t A Miami Civic Center dance ate will be held May 30 through the ‘ : courtesy of the Miami Chamber| With an’ elaborate ‘:entertain- Those who have ment planned for the delegation been nominated for Queen of the ' from the Junior Chamber of Com- Celebration will be taken. along as merce convention in Miami June | guests of honor. Publicity photo- ; “es J had | graphs and radio talks are sche- 2-4. Key West's Jaycees had an ing floor show will be given. | Stone Church Annex last night. It is planned to have the La |Concha Hotel as official head-| | quarters to greet the delegates at 2 P. M., June 5, and from that, point conduct them on sightsee- | ing tours of the island. A gala) dance at which members of the} Highway Junior Woman's Club will assist | i ‘as hostesses is scheduled for the | cents. The back of each ticket Tahara skate. bepinhing ot 60,1 m. At 6:45 a buffet supper of Key | bunches of wool and 353 bunches | Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, La’ ond of a yachting mecca. of yellow. The entire offerings of | Ceiba Honduras, Puerto Barrios, approximately 2,300 bunches sold ; Guatemala, Belize British Hon-) KEPT BODIES IN HOME {sored by the Overseas Highway | which the purchaser may vote for | West dishes will be served. The| Celebration Committee to select; his choice for a “Miss Key West.” | dance will continue then through | Ballot boxes will be provided at | the evening. A colorful floor show | for $4,923, Largest sale of the week was that of Monday when offerings consisted of 84 bunches of yellow and_ 1,609 bunches of wool. The} by going to the Canal Zone early home for sixt: duras, Galveston, _ Brownsville, | Corpus Christi, Pensacola, Pana-! ma City, Havana, Key West, Nas-! sau, and, wil] complete the cruise a Miss Key West, which will be, held tonight at the Habana-Mad- | rid Club, indicate that one of the} largest crowd ever to attend an affair of this kind in the history _of the city will turn out. i LONDON.—Mrs. Jane Shaw of | this city kept the mummified, bodies of her two children in her the entrance of the dance floor. |} Planned during the evening and} ‘The contestants and their spon. i™Promptu humor will be al sore are: Miss Lilia Acevedo, | fF from talented members of the > * | groups. eee Socek Cha’ Moet: Mine | Official. delegates to th. Miami Visiting Jaycees Planned een “CITE eeeee LIONS WILL READ OF NEW HIGHWAY | othe Key W Club Chatter Delivery: * Banquet held recently here, was’ the annountement ‘made by Dis- trict’ Governor: Millard G. Conklin of Daytona Beach. that pictures made of the Ov- erseas Highway of Key West and the many banquet scenes would appear in the July is- sue of “Lions”, published Vhididddidekd Used In Operations; Work Will Last For Sev-. WASHINGTON. D. c May 21. Ls Bidsieineaagiasition of the U. S. | peau « Key West, | Floridawill Be opened in Wash- | ington June 15 at 10 a. m., it was j learned here today. | ifications for the work may be obtained from the custodian \of the building or from the as- | sistant director of procurement, |public works branch, procure- ment division of the Treasury, | Washington. These specifications | were prepared on the report of a hap buildings inspector -sub- mitted in May of 1937, In general the work will con- | sist of interior and exterior paint- jing, repairing termite damage, }and making various other miscel- laneous repairs. Several months will be allotted for the work, and local labor will be employed on the job. It is ex- | pected that a contract award can jbe made early in July and the entite display brought a total of | in July. les on the dock during the week brought a total of. OUT IN CLEAN 2 + UP CAMPAIGN THIS MORNING AT SIGNAL FROM STEAM LAUNDRY Highway Celebration, and hear- OF FIESTA” BULL Following a sub-rosa tourna- /ment by a Miami newspaper that | there would be a bull-fight held jin connection with the Overseas | ing a great deal of speedy discus- | sion on the matter, The Citizen | reporter went a roving today and | asked the question, “If bull fight- Twenty-seven Boy Scouts and ing were not illegal, would you twenty-five Girl Scouts reported | favor a bull fight during the WHISTLE yy years, until she died herself. aes : An elaborate all Spanish floor Bernice Brantley, Lions Club; convention will be Rodney Pullen, To See Bull Fight Here, MOCOSOOHOOOHESOSOSOSOEOLODOSESOOSOOOEOOOS EOS sere | show has been arranged by. Mrs. ; | Eva B. Warner, chairman of the committee in charge, and. Billy} | Armond, master cf ceremonies. |. The six contestants for the jhonor of being selected queen of | ‘Others Condemn the fiesta, July 2-4, will be the| Agee | guests of honor. FIGHTING FENCE: Fox. tix gecasion ton clab tan been especially decorated and will e ae present-an attractive background |for the six beautiful girls. Miami | |newspaper photographers and a | Photographer from Carl Byor and Associates, the firm which handles publicity for the city of Miami, will be on hand to make pictures of tonight’s festivities. There will be no cover charge “T have heard some strong ob- jections from heads of organiza- tions in this city since the rumor began, and I believe that many ‘church groups would be violently against it. I think, too, that the Society for the Prevention of or other charges except the price Cruelty to Animals would bring Of the tickets which will be 50 a convention down here to stop) ———-—.... Miss Martha Carbonell, Junior Chamber of Commerce; Miss Susan LaKin, Woman’s Club and Miss Ada Rodriguez, San Carlos Institute. 4 NO JACKPOT? TENINE, Wash.—Mark O'Neil of this city, while fishing, drew uu a small slot machine into which he dropped a nickle, but it , didn’t work. 1 KISS; 11 MEN ARRESTED MILWAUKEE. — Eleven men were locked up in this city after a fight which ensued when one of them kissed a girl on an excur- sion train without her permission. {the fight”.—Victor Larsen, WPA Supervisor of Recreation. | Earl Adams, Isidore Weintraub, | Howard England, Edward Bayly, | Henry Taylor. They will make | an individual canvass of those| | who will continue on to Key West, | and also make an appeal from | the floor of the convention. Stick- | |ers, with the notice, “On to Key ONE HUNDRED AND FOUR, West, Jeycees,” will be posted on Convention cars. Miss Carbonell Introduced Miss Martha Carbonell was in- | \ troduced as the official candidate | from the Junior Chamber of Com- | merce for the Miss Key West Celebration honor. At the first dance tonight a committee com- posed of Isidore Weintraub and Darnall Carey will solicit votes at the door. At the second dance in| the series Paul Mesa and Edward Bayly are nominated, at the third dance, Rodney Pullen and L. P. Artman, Jr and at the final) | to the court house at the signal Highway Celebration?” The an- from the Columbia Steam Laun-/ swers— “I have never seen a bull fight, dry whistle at 8:45 o'clock this) . “You bet Ido. I think it would except in the movies Si morning to begin the cleanupiidraw so many people here you! would like to:seevone. Bring ‘ofie campaign survey of the cityi:in wouldn't have place for them. I on. ‘I’ve been swaitinig for this for cooperation with the Ovemieas saw a bull fight in Cuba and Ia long tine, It would draw big Highway Celebration. atl o¥Neas as-excited as the rest of them crowds;'" téo”..«Fabiola®' Olivieri, 3 Adrian O'Sweeney was on hand!avhen the bull charged a group of | Court» Héuse watehinan! "> » ais the supervisor of the move~athateur bull fighters, and chased 19 go 2 : Be — sige yi Bies ate Pa ong be nay out of the ring”.—-Gonzalo «1 gin't” believe ii it! | I've got ins sey eae te Caleceet ace lea of the Pal-| nothing more to say about it.’ 1 te bnever did like those kind of and each scout was furnished an outline of the area to be covered — «you can have bull fighting as | things, and I never will like it”. — | well as bull shooting. Bull fight-| Ray Elwood, constable, First Dis- {depends upién sound and To The Voters-Of Monroe County i32'ctic! : ci. ‘ei once again work, for balloting of | athe Paycees entry, Ail members oh ‘be gah will individually: seli+ 0) jowever.. How much good will come to us,,; eit hensive, plan, of com: und and conservative effort on our part.:mistees Will be drawn, up) atoa We can readily visualize a, s4bstantial interesse in jlater meeting, and members are tion, new’ industries, a large, building program, additional to be ipresented with mimeo, banking facilities, one or more newspapers, the greatest graphed. form’ 'to show their pre- super-highway in the world . connecting the Americas, ference for different lines of steamship and air transportation expansion and an ade- work. It is hoped to have every quate fresh water supply in keeping with these desirable member of the Jaycees. working | developments. vo he next two years will be the most important in our, ‘ory of over a century. Wi ABSENTEE : VOTING’ } 95d. 6 BALLOTS CAST FOR. | SECOND PRIMARY Count of absentee ballots when voting ceased in the office of County Judge Raymond R. Lord showed that 104 ballots had been cast as against 129 in the first pri- mary. When the final summary was | made last night the count was as follows: Precinet 1, 11; precinct 2, 4; precinct 3, 15; preeinct 4, 16; precinet 5, 14; precinet 6, 23; pre- einct 7,47; precinct 8, 3; pre- cinet 9,1. There were none cast from precinct 10. In\addition to the ballots which! were cast by voters who propose being absent on election day, Tuesday, May 24, five ballots were sent out by the judge to Key Westers who will be absent on election day and wrote in for bal- lots. a** acar } EXTENDS STAY | DRAWING COMPLETE PLAN E: 3. Quisty, national secretary ‘of the Electric Railroaders Asso- ciation, is a visitor in the city, staying much longer than he ex- ‘pected, but says the lure of Key ‘West urges him to prolong’ his stay, and that’s whet he is doing. Compiling a history of the Flor- ida East Coast Extension is the principal object of his visit, Mr. Quinby says, and he has ‘been busy drawing a complete plan of the terminals at Key West, which is now . practically complete, ‘every track, building, and, in fact, ‘not one aecessory veing omitted from the drawing which is made to exact seale: ge Mr. Quinby keeps in touch with events in. Key West by subscrib- \ing to The Citizen, which he | started to do before coming to the city and now that he is here he fecis a copy of the paper neces sary to complete his day of in- teresting reading. in detail, Scouts on bicycles and on foot ing is a lot cleaner than some back yards here”.—Adrian O’Sweency, Scattered to the different,sections | in which the survey was to be Chairman of the celebration clean- made, eagerly scanning their up committee. guide sheets and apparently eager | aeeERe te start this important work. They expressed themselves as much pleased with the assign- ment and further pledged them- selves to undertake any other as- signments which may be de- manded of them, Before starting out on their in- dividual assignments, the »scouts were grouped together on the}, ” Si grounds and a picture taken pO pens dey soprach —. “It would be pretty hard to imagine anything that would give Key West a lower standing in the eyes of the nation than this pro- position of staging an outlaw bull lars to some alien concessionaire. My idea of welcoming the pro- fight for the sake of a few dol-_ moter is basedgon warm tar and) on some committee. It is my humble opinion that the foregoing items I have | fissar nape enumerated, eszential to our growth and_prosperity, rests. largely upon the manner in which we, the citizens of Mon- roe County, respond to our responsibilities in the future. We must make every preparation and lay broad plans in order to be ready to grasp opportunity when it knocks at our door. A most essential part of the preparation will be the legislative azsistance your state representative must pro- vide to help bring these things about. Another two years can come and pass without any constructive results unless we are alert and equal to perform the tasks expected of us. I hope to go to the legislature in 1939 and do my best toward creating that community co-operation which we } trict. t Project committee reported that Ci Me f M G ty the W.P.A. mosquito-control pro- t ject should be ready to begin in I IZENS 0 onroe oun another week, that the historical | signs to be placed throughout the city are being coostrecied snd | STATE OF FLORIDA.) will soon be ready for lettering,| COUNTY OF MONROE ; that the question of a municipal We, the undersigned, members of the City Council of the City stadium and municipal beach will of Key West. being duly sworn, depose and say, soon be taken up and comprehen- That sevece! soenitie con, Wiens 1. bets, ete ee sive reports will be given to the of Key West, suggested that charges be preferred Thomas City Council and County Com- Caro, Police Judge, and urged us to institute impeachment proceed: mission. ings against the said Thomes 8. Caro: Guests were Miss Martha Car That, among the charges preferred were: bonell, Dr. Fred Carbonell, Clar- First, that the seid Thomas S. Caro, as Police Judge, was ence Kessler, John Costar, and making a laughingstock of the Police Department of the City of Key West: . the workers. at «<j Commetce, io as € ry UNDER PROVISIONS Rioy quired NOTTINGHAM, Eng.—Mrs. R. G. Perry of this city, wiligd, her- husband $60,000 With the prove} sion that if he remarries the money should go to charity. BIG DANCE —TONIGHT— th “If bull fights were legal.I be- ‘lieve they woyld: be a big-attrac- ition and might draw some addi- tional people to the celebration”. —Ross Sawyer, clerk, Circuit Court. Seeeecoogseccseceesosees. (Paid Political Advertisement) all recognize as necessary if weiare to realize our hopes and aspirations for a sound future prosperity and happiness for Monroe County and its people...idiny mistake in our judgment at this time would be. tragedy indeeed. I have discussed the issues. with! you from You must realize that I am conscious: of the serious respon- sibility that will rest upon my shoulders if on Tuesday, May 24th, I am elected by the people to be their public servant in carrying out their will to the end that their constructive ideas may be put into effect. Respectfully, '@ CHESTER, Pa.— Mrs. Charies day 't: . Grace of this city, who weighs ‘sated a day. $820 pounds, sank to her neck in soft mud in a newly filled ditch, and it took gix men to get her | C@eecsceoocessooososesss | Thirdly. interests of and ' STANLEY'S FINE LINE OF HARDWARE IS FEATURED AT SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING COMPANY. PHONE 598. WE HANDLE THE BEST