The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 124. CANNON DEFEATS FILER AND THOMAS WINS OVER WATSON ~~ | Pocescsevveerseccccceoes| WINS OVER FILER Election Held Yesterdays sevseveevesevnsesveveves | | | Cannon: Wins I In Primary | By Over Four Hundred 4 Votes (By Associnted Press) MIAMI, Florida, May 25. —Pat Cannon defeated| Henry H. Filer, both of Mi- ami, for the democratic nomination for Congress, in| yesterday’s election. The vot- ers in the 188 precincts of | the fourth district, reach- ing almost a thousand miles. from Vero Beach to Key West, gave Cannon 29,953,) slightly: while Filer, trailed behind with 29,522. In the only state-wide con- test of the May 24 primary, Circuit Judge Elwyn Thomas) .. of Fort Pierce secured an) early lead over J. Tom Wat- son of Tampa and increased | it as the returns came in. Out | of 1,203 of the state’s 1,336. precincts Thomas piled up a total of 141,804 against Wat- son’s 100,315. The 133 pre- cincts yet to be heard from will make but small changes” in the total returns. PLAN TO PREPARE NEW GUIDE BOOK Ata meeting “of the executive committee of the Board of Direc- tors of the Chamber of Commerce, held this morning in the eXecu- tive offices, the secretary: was | sored ther eall, beset Whe THe | | | | | | PAT CANNON FALSE ALARM OF FIRE HERE ~ THIS MORNING | APPARATUS S CALLED OUT To! OF FIRE WAS DISCOVERED ANYWHERE Shortly before 2. o'clock morning a telephone call received | jat Fire Department headquarters | place of business on Stock Island was burning and asked the ap- | paratus be sent at once. | Immediately the hose supply machine was sent from Number 1 station and an engine from Num- jber 2 station. Both machines ; speeded to the scene but upon | arrival found that no trace of fire i was evident and nothing could be } learned from whence. the call was sent, tiga top wea | Further thy | by: the Vengin this! | announced that the Martin Key | THE SOUTHERNMOST KEY WEST, FLORIDA. WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1938. CANDIDATES For Representative in Congress, 4th Congressional District ‘T CANNON ___ o- RY H. FILER _ 4 of Justice of the Supreme Court, Group No. 2 |ELWYN THOMAS . |J. TOM WATSON .-. For Railroad Commissioner, Group No. 1 | EUGENE S. MATTHEWS For Representative in the Legislature | THOMAS S. CARO __ BERNIE C. PAPY i For County Commissioner, Fifth District T. JENKINS CURRY | | 1st Precinct 4th Precinct 2u1 191 241 185 143 226 253 231 393 226 315 398 ARRANGING FOR | OBSERVANCE OF MEMORIAL DAY. isaipemeat Cacaadiations.| | INCLUDING SCOUTS, EXPECTED TO TAKE PART, IN PROGRAM STOCK ISLAND; NO TRACE ‘Invitations have been sent out! by the local American riegites Post, and the various service, ex- |service and patriotic organiza- tions and their auxiliaries, and boy and girl scout troops to join the post in observing National Memorial Day, Monday, May 30.) These organizations have also been invited attend services at the First Congrega- | tional church on Sunday evening, to divine | SEWER OUTFALL | IS LONG DI DELAYED cITY FAILED “TO ACT “oat ARE! COMMUNICATION REQUEST- | ING LETTERS FOR APPROV. | } AL BE SENT Construction of the 1,000-foot} extension of the W.P.A. sewerage | | system into the ocean at the foot | of Thomas street has been wait-/| ing action of the city, necessary | before work can start, for nearly | four weeks. | Communication was sent the| city with a large number of blue- | prints April 30. The city must; send five copies of the tracings to| | Maj. James B. MacMullen, officer | in charge at Fort Taylor, with a May 29. Organizations which will | jetter stating that the Imhoff attend the service will meet at! the corner of William and South- ana streets at 7:30 and march into der church in a body. authorized ty have The Aftman possible ta learn angihing sabdut,r1eReNs William Halladay, pastor Press. prepare a guide book ‘te take the place of the present edi tion which-has been exhausted by an unprecedented demand This will differ from the cur- rent issue in several respects and | will undoubtedly be welcomed by | arriving strangers as well as by! many who write in for Key West data. The secretary was found busily engaged in getting matters lined up for the Yacht Club dinner te conflagration of any Kinds eye -t at is,s¥pposed that the; calt was ‘sent jp 4 pe, one who: became | imbued with the. idea that a-prop ler celebration for the election would be to call out the ap- paratus, put the city to unneces- sary expense, and then laugh it off as a joke. PPI IPL EDL L PLAN THREE HIGHWAY | ing charge of the Congregational | charch, will officiate atthe serv- ice and will preach a sermon suit- able to the moment and of inter- est. Appropriate music will be tendered by the choir. The organizations attending the memorial service in the cemetery , on Monday will meet at the cor- tier of Southard and William! streets at 4 o'clock in the after- be given tonight at Raul’s Club| RED CROSS STATIONS 200» and begin the march to the on the boulevard, arid taking care of correspondence relating to the smemorial services to held at Matecumbe next t Sunday. Announcement has been made of the birth of a son this morn- ing to Mr. and Mrs. James Hilton Pinder at the home on Caroline The new arrival weighed nine pounds, and has been given the name of James Hilton, Jr. Mrs. Pinder was formerly Miss Geraldine Guerro. S SWOTACE I wish to notify my clientele that I.am leaving for a vacation May 25th, and will close my of- fice until June 3rd. DR. F. S, CARBONELL, may24-3t Dentist. : Red Cross First-Aid Sta- tions along the Overseas Highway at Craig. Marathon | saeeeeees. cemetery at 4:30. Upon arriving the organizations will file into the Maine plot where a memorial program will be held. This pro- gram will be sponsored by the post. According to William H. Reardon, commander of the Le- gion Post, the program will be brief but interesting. The com- plete program and other details will be published later in the week. BUS OFFICIALS ~ ARRIVE IN P. G. Howe, president of the Florida Motor Lines, and Arthur Milam, attorney for the lines, are business visitors in Key West to- day, arriving on the noon bus from Miami. The visitors came for the pur- j pose of conferring with several business men, and will possibly remain until tomorrow. May 25-Tt. —<——— tanks there will be periodically | cleaned,-when there is a favor- able wind. Also, protection of the bathing beach must be prom-/ ised. Major MacMullen will then write Colonel, George Brown, di- rector of the S. Engineering Department in Miami that the lo- cation and length is favorable to him Maps enclosed with the letter now meet with Colonel Brown's approval, it is understood. These must be forwarded to Colonel Brown for his finak approval Until these steps are taken, the , construction of the outfall, which will complete the sewerage dis- posal plant in that section, is at a halt. TO THE CITIZENS OF MONROE COUNTY: The consideration you gave to me in allowing me to lead the | ticket with a complimentary vote in yesterday's election will always be gratefully remembered, My constant thought will be .to try) Che Key West Citizen NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. (ec meme et ani eipihenneene aerogenes gen es ator esetamensahae eenstenan tee on pe cn en een ae nen een ent SAEENEN! hodiens of Tuesday’ S Election 7th Precinct 5th Precinc' 6th Precinct 274 179 421 375 141 122 246 235 252 280 345 434 265 219 406 416 249 453 8th Precinct 9th Precinct 10th Precinct TOTALS 20 15 a | 57 101 55 126 (CONSTRUCTION OF Clinic Faces Shutdown Unless Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit TABULATION OF VOTES BRINGS ~ SURPRISE IN GONGRESS RACE Reelected In Primary | eeecccewesecconseocececs |: 1877 | | BERNIE C. PAPY It It Gets New W.P.A. A. Project ‘AUXILIARY OF ee WATSON. severe ELWYN THOMAS MEET TO SETTLE EUROPEAN DISPUTE ir asuniianed Prema) PRAHA, May 25.—Konrad Henlein, leader of Czechoslo- vakia’s autonomy, seeking Germanic minority, and Pre- mier Milan Hodza, met in a preliminary effort to settle their dispute which had brought Europe dangerously near the brink of war. Henlein returned to the capital by airplane, and it was understood he had come from Vienna where pre- sumably he had seen German Nazi leaders. He arrived soon after re- ports were received that Ger- man troops were withdraw- to merit the confiderict you haye |, placed in me Respectfully. T. JENKINS CURRY, “Still Topping Them All” —with— Otte Divanti and His Orchestra HABANA-MADRID CLUB Key West's Finest ——NO COVER CHARGE—— lein, all had agreed to ox- pedite peaceful negotiations. "od Project Runs Out; | | For Month; Individual! | Collections Drop | Monroe County’s Community; | Clinic, which treats 6,000 individ-| |uals at a cost to them less than} | the medicine and other supplies | used, and which has fought; | through great odds to maintain it-| | self, is once again threatened by} | the possibility of closing down. ! The W.P.A. Nursing Project,! |which pays the salaries of two! nurses and one clerk, ran out last | weekend, and the nurses are without their pay checks. This} | Serious condition is being met by | the official group at the Clinic by IZ7ZZLLACL LA a requést for another project sent directly to Jacksonville. The project in question is a state-wide project, which is not handled through local::W.PA. offices. It) may be sgmetime before the project goes through, but local Clinic officials are hoping to have it in a month, according to a statement from the Jacksonville office. Meanwhile, the County has agreed to pay the nurses’ salaries. Another obstacle recently strik- ing the badly-battered Clinic; group is the “drop” in merchant and individual contributions. With this money, such things as the medicinal and supply and op- erating expenses are met. This is the only method found to pay those expenses. Mrs. Robert F. Spottswood, chairman of the Monroe County Welfare Advisory Board, calls the ‘attention of local folk to the pressing need of their particular share of Clinic expenses and wishes to announce that a more expensive campaign to raise funds will be begun shortly. ‘arrival of a small beat, with one’ ( County To Pay Nurses | MRS. FAY HIGGS CHOSEN, PRESIDENT; OTHER OFFI- CERS ELECTED AT MEET- ING LAST NIGHT Arriving over the highway yes- | terday afternoon was a group of | members of the Spanish War Vet- erans’ Auxiliary, who met local prospective members for the pur- pose of instituting an auxiliary in Key West. In the arriving group were De- partment President Della Neal, of Daytona Beach; Deputy: Chief of | | Staff J. Bell, Miami, Fia,;, Past | Départment, President Pearl Ford- Vice ‘Commander’ Ai M.! ‘ham, Fordham, both of Miatni. Directly after their arrival they registered at their ‘hotel’ and at once made preparations for hold- ing the meeting last night, which was well attended and resulted in the institution of an auxiliary to B. H. McCalla Camp, Spanish War Veterans. The following officers were elected for the newly-instituted jcamp: Mrs. Fay J. Higgs, presi- dent; Mrs. C. W. Richards, senior vice president; Mrs. Rose Peat chaplain; Mrs. Lillian Michaels, secretary. Another meeting was called for Friday night, May 27, at & o'clock in the home of the vice president 1415 Pine street. Superintendent William Demer- itt of the Seventh Lighthouse Dis- trict, yesterday afternoon receiv eda radio telephone menage from Tortugas, advising of the passenger, from Tampa. The message gave the follow- | ing information: BY PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR Starting May 27 IN THIS NEWSPAPER “ ‘Miss Tampa’, a small boat 16 feet long with just one man on board 13 days out from Tampa, ee is morning for Fort Jefferson, or ine oct toned Gani pat We expects to continue from there to US ALA LEA AA hhh hd hddddeadiad Key West” STANLEY'S FINE LINE OF HARDWARE IS FEATURED AT SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING COMPANY. PHONE 598. WE HANDLE THE BEST * Unusual iene Manifest- ed In Yesterday’s Pri- jwitmary: Throughout Entire /< «County { Never in the past decade has an election in Monroe county awakened the inter- lest of a people, created as excitement aroused the feelings of the much and voters, in fact everybody, as did the election of yes- terday. Interest centered on the jrace for Congress be- tween Henry H. Filer and Pat Cannon, afd the race for the Legislature with Bernie C. Papy, the incum- (bent, and TS, Caro. This |was the hardest fought and created the major part of the excitement. It was evident early the morning that there would be a Hlarger vote than usual, and by jthe hour of 2:30 in the afternoon | when The Citizen made the usual check of the number of votes cast, that the balloting was voing shead speedily, for at ithe time of the first primary there had been, when the check was made, 2,102 votes polled Yesterday at 2:30, there--had been polled 2.564. One gf the great survrises was shown in the race for U. S. Con- vress between Pat Cannon and H. H. Filer. In the first primary, Cannon received 770 votes in Monroe county, while Filer re- ceived 1707. In the final count in this election, Cannon received 1924 and Filer received 1942. In the race for representative there ‘was also a rather discon- certing result. In the first pri- mary, B. C. Papy, the incumbent, received 1799 votes, and his op- ponent, T. S. Caro, received 1655, a difference of 144 in favor of Papy. In the election of yester- day, Papy received 2183 and Caro 1877, a difference in favor of the incumbent of 256. In the first primary held on May 3, the total vote cast in Mon- roe county was 3,940, including all absentee ballots. In the pri- mary of yesterday, the total vote was 4,060, and of this number T. Jenkins Curry, sole candidate for county commissioner from the Fifth District, received a compli- mentary vote of 2,487, Included in the eount published today age all of the votes cast in the county. including the atsen- tees. There were approximately five absentee ballots sent Key Westers who were out of the city which will be counted Friday when it is expected the canvass of the vote will be made by Coun- ty Judge Raymond & Lord, Chairman Carl Bervaldi of the county commissioners and Joha England, supervisor of registra- on. “Key West's Smartest and Most Exclusive” r Tomorrow Might is BANK NIGHT AT PRANK SABINTS CLUB LA CONGA No Admission. Cover or Minimum