The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 1, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 130. , And Possibly e, Taken Up For Kidnaping Questioning side In Search For Ab-| ductors Of Child GOPHER-SNAKE IS CAPTURED ON KEYS One of the largest gopher- snakes ever captured on the Florida Keys was taken this week by C. S. Singleton who was a member of a party*¥e-*’ turning from a trip’ 18 Mate?” cumbe. Ansocinted Press) cris PRINCETON, Fla., June 1.—Felléral agents took at long and is to be sent*#é Mi* least dhé’ tah, and possibly ami to be préserved ‘by “the? noted taxidertist Al II SLIP LLL LY The reptile ‘is ‘seven’ ne Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. ‘GIVES VIEWS ON MATTERS BEARING ON TAX ISSUES CHARLES TAYLOR, CHAIR- MAN OF OIL MEN’S ASSO- CIATION, EXPRESSES HIM- Growing public interest in taxa- tion and the cost of taxes to the | individual, is one of the few bene- ficial effects of recent depres- sions, is the opinion of Charles Taylor, chairman of the Monroe County Oil Men’s Association. |Mr. Taylor expressed the hope that both the growing public in- terest ih taxation-and the con- tinuing ‘cost of taxes soon would lead to a revision ‘of the nation’s complicated an@*hopelessly costly tax«systemi tics ./'The old, saying ‘that it’s’an ill- “nobody recent SELF ON IMPORTANT TOPIC | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1938. Topographic: Map | \Entire Area Except That Of Northwest Section On | Matnland Covered By | Fourteen Maps Lieutenant E. R. McCarthy, of | the Coast and Geodetic Survey, | | | | operating in this section of Flor- ida, anmounced that the topo- graphic map of Monroe County ‘has been conipleted. The county, i covered by a series of 14 maps, | jon a scale of 1:20000. : | except forthe northwest sectiots} ‘on the maniland, is completely'}? ‘his work. It must be con- Comty Has BeeitiGompleted [7772222224 SEES KEY WEST FORGING AHEAD From being the forgotten city, said Secretary S. C. fair to become the “Darling of the Nation.” A instance of this is the election of the secre- tary to the Directorate of the Florida Commercial Secre- taries Association. By no stretch of the imagi- nation, Mr. Singleton said, : “ean this’ be considéred an ®@arned*honor for which any "personal credit is dite"him or f for what it a ‘splendid extension of the right hand of fellowship to » where. the, office is located, three into custody today for questioning in connection with the kidnaping of Jimmy Cash for $10,000 ransom) while 26 determined posses combed the countryside. M. F. Braxton, stocky, | bold carpenter about 55 years old, was questioned at the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation office in Miami, and | | unconfirmed reports were cer eRRATION MANAGER MET “°Stly tax system. The motorist that two others were held. Outsiders were barred | from the top floor of the sky-| scraper office building! and agents issued no state- ' te | Farm trucks took posse- naires, 100 CCC men, scores’ of WPA workers and Boy, Scouts, and virtually every) in the Redlands farming district, to| sectors assigned to them. Federal agents emerged! from a conference with the! boy’s father, James Bailey Cash, Sr., in his home to’ grab Braxton in the school- | yard, 100 yards away from | ger. If Mr. Pflueger decides ™ not to kill the snake and mount it, it will be returned and released on Torch Key where it was captured, The reptile is perfectly harmless to human beings but is deadly to rats and other destroyers of vegetation. UL hha ded death ds SMITHS ARRIVE AT CUBAN PO BY OFFICIAL DELE- GATION Receipt of a telegram yesterday afternoon by Cuban Consul Rod- j ed ‘the information that Warren Smith, manager of the highway celebration, and Mrs, Smith, arrived in Havana and |government, and of taxes, now} | | being made in several states, is SERVICE CLUB | were met by representatives of the hope that some way can be’ | |the president, secretaries for the! found to achieve economies in! men, 400 American Legion- National Defense, Secretary of| government operation and there- | | State, the mayor and Emigrados|by permanently reduce tax costs. | Revolucionarios Cubanos. properly canbe ¢ } the City of Key West, out- pga anal yen) spate: These maps, said Litecteanatl standing brapny fe pie many |, “which appear ave n | aq-| Which come to hi ‘every beneficial in arousing growing | McCarthy. neprerent me sions ad-| day, from organizations public ‘interest in taxation, and | vanced step in topographic maP- | throughout the state. | especially in the cost of taxes to ping as they were made from! | the individual. People whose in-|aerial photographs. The photo-| OPPO DOLD DP SI partes eee ave _been cur-| graphs were taken with a. five| guy iy aed and who find it increasing- | ens camera carried in a planefly- | jly difficult to make ends meet, |. ; | lare paying more attention to the | ing at a height of 10.000 aia | high cost of taxes. about two miles, over the area, | ARE CONDUCTED | “Items in the press indicate; Each photograph when assembled | | that all over the country people | and mounted resembles a Maltese | jare becoming aware of the fact! cross, is 36 inches across and at| jthat taxes are costing too much | the scale shows an area 10 miles) ihe mae cre enie ce oo were 535 maps re-| SI Sous : “| quired for the project. FFEREN’ tion’s complicated and hopelessly | “ The compilation of the plies pr T GRADES | taxpayer, protesting his own high | eg wa mages 53 eel ee ee and duplicated taxes, has been! grammetry, and because of the| SALES EXCEED FIVE HUN- joined by thousands of others) case and accuracy with which in- | | DRED DOLLARS who have also discovered that| accessible and isloated regions| ise Policy of shifting taxes to} may be mapped, is rapidly super- |somebody else cannot be substi-| ceding ground methods. | tuted for reduced tax costs as a) Advance copies of these maps pgohution of the: tax, |may be obtained from the diree- ‘= “Among the more promising ef-/ tor in Washington, D. C. forts are studies of the costs of | i AIMS STATED, Our organization is ready and Sponges displayed on the mu- nicipal dock this week were the usual kind taken at this season, jalthough there were some few which were said to be fairly good and brought reasonable prices. Altogether there were 585 bunches offered for bids. There were 229 bunches of wool, 97 bunches of yellow and 259 bunch- es of grass. The wool offering, which con- Mr. and Mrs. Smith were es-/ willing to cooperate in these ef- REV. JOE TOLLE DISCREDITS/‘isted of 17 lots, sold for $361.71. corted to the Hotel National, where they were to await the ar- rival of Mayor Williard M, Al- bury of Key West and other members of the commission from this city, who were due to arrive jin Havana this morning on the} P. and O, Steamship Cuba from Miami. LARICE FINE, 14, DIED THIS MORNING Clarice Fine; 14; died at 4:30 where posses. were being Or- | o'clock this morning at the-sheme®, | 11- Nassau lane, Funerat-x } 4:30 o’clock from the Lopez Fun- eral Home’ chapelio*Ree) Yaney j will be held tomorrow ateeiten z | T.. ‘Shehane, jeharch, will officiate. od 2: 4 FOUND Survivors are the grandparents, }Mr..and Mrs. Ralph Fine, and one brother, Julius Fine. Pallbearers who will serve are} Matthew Zacal, Antonio Mar- }tinez, Joseph Williams, Ulric |Gwynn, Jr, Percy Lowe and, | Hubert Dion. YOUTH KILLS 27 No trace has been found of the | body of Richard Skelton, 79 years old, who disappeared from hi boat anchored at Archer’s Key last week, while Mr. Skelton went on his usual sponging trip.! The dinghy was found, brought to the city and searching parties, started out on a search to either find the lost man or his body. This continued throughout Satur- day until yesterday, and! all hope ‘was abandoned when no trace of | him had been found. SEARCHERS GET LOST Parkita W. Va—While out searching for 4-year-old Victor Schinosky believed drowned, Smith Stokes and Jake Digman got losteand were found only after colleagues had searched all night in heavy woods for them. Okayama, Japan.—Leaving his bed during the night, a deranged | young man went through his home town, armed with a shot- gun, and killed sleeping men, women and children. After fatal- ly wounding twenty-seven, he shot himself. mM hbk df) PUBLISH VERSES OF KEY WESTERS South Dade Advertiser, under title of “Pirates’ Gold”, edited by Lily Lawrence Bow. recently published verses of many Key Westers. Among them were Rev. A. Locke Maureau. S. J. Billie Camero, Dick Hernandez. Charles Mendoza. Mrs. Hilde- gard Ott Russell, Emmett L. Walden. Roland Keeton. Charles H. Ketchum and Ed- win Berkowitz. ee “Still Topping Them All” —with— Otto Divanti and His Orchestra HABANA-MADRID CLUB Key West's Finest ~——NO COVER CHARGE—— ae HEADQUARTERS FOR SCREEN WIRE AND POULTRY NETTING---THE SOUTH of First Baptist? +t wes said by,a representative! dist church and the newly-found- |forts”, Mr. Taylor concluded. ‘WORK BEGINS AT PINEAPPLE PLANT TIONS WERE STARTED place for heated arguments, Rev. | Joe Tolle quoted the real ideals |of the club in the principal ad-! i dress last night. | It is a club with fellowship in| |the Christian spirit. It has high: Granday | moral aims and high civic aims, | Co., were|Rev. Tolle said. Stating that, ywiclvo'clock,! there had beens some misrepre-| iorce of employees | sentation of the aims of the club .{t@ handle,aoship-| among the general public, Rev. | POLITICAL LINEUP, | ARGUMENTS | Stressing the fact that | [OP | THIS MORNING WITH ; SMALL FORCE Operations, of the bi jen a sma! wee pineapples which | Tolle restated the primary aims es ivedhpirom Cuba on of its found G | eB wer ijHeron, which is| A very: ie ting explanation | yy the Thompson Co. jof the organization of the Metho-; of the company that there is no|ed Methodist Church of America, accurate knowledge of the num-j|which incorporated both north ber of pineapples available this| and south bodies, was delivered. season, but last year there were | Vigorous questioning was clearly under cultivation 20 acres of the | answered by Rev. Tolle. fruit, while this year there are’ Guests of the club were Charles 100 acres. | Smith and George Curry. sep gga err of sa tinge a son Co., wii jeave al once ‘or COMMERCE BODY | BRANCHING OUT the plantations. This will be the SECURING MEMBERSHIPS ON vessel Powers, and it is antici- pated that the Heron will leave FLORIDA KEYS AND ALSO MIAMI tomorrow. It is expected that when the machinery of the plant is in per- fect operating condition, there will be about 200 persons working in the plant. COUNTY BOARD Largest sale was of 53 bunches, | which sold for $171.66, and the (next highest sale was of 23) | bunches;*which brought $42. There were seven lots of grass, the largest of which had 86 76 bunches, which sold for $45.60. The entire lot brought! $154.82. Of yellow there were seven for 18 bunches. sold for $29. Total sales was productive of $545.53. The entire lo! SCHOOL ANNUAL WELL PREPARED SCHOOL ACTIVITIES, 1S OF BEAUTIFUL DESIGN Of beautiful design, artistically arranged as to reading matter and illustrations, is “The Conch” of 1938, which is a record of the ac- tivities of Key West Junior- Senior High School for the year, and which is issued annually by the student body. Issues of the annual have ever been beautifully gotten up and very attractive, but the current) issue surpasses those of previous dates. The instant appeal of the book is seen when the reader glances at the cover and decora- tions. In bas relief on a field of blue HIGH SCHOOL SPANISH CLASS RANKS HIGHLY RAUL SIBILA TOP STATE STUDENTS | Key West High School hasbeen | notified: thet four Sénior students jin the Spanishielass taught’ by 'Mrs. Addah* Jolinsoni'Ramsey ranked higher than those of any lother Spanish classes in the state. | The examination,-which is sent {alternately irom Florida State College for Women and the Uni- versity of Florida, showed that Harry Bravo, Rafael Mario Herce, and Raul Sibila top- ped the list of students in High School Spanish Classes in the state. The High School Spanish class- es showed higher than the | Spanish classes of any other school in the state. In the 75 percentile class, Key West attain- | ed 69 median points, where other schools attained but 60. In the ;50 percentile class, Key West made 58 where other school made | 54. In the 25 class, Key West had | the same median number as other schools, 48. | The tests included intelligence, | English, Social Sciences, Spanish, ‘natural sciences, mathematics and | are principally to establish a rat- ,ing for students who contemplate | entering college, and also for reference, In the other examinations Key West classes had approximately | the same rating as those of other schools. THREE TRANSFERS | IN WEEK’S REALTY ; the | bunches and brought a price of! - | Stone Church Service Club is not! $51.60. The next highest was for ONE QUIT CLAIM, ONE AGREE. | | MENT, AND ONE OUT- RIGHT SALE (lots, the highest. bid being $13.35) | There were three realty trans- actions during the week ‘ending Monday in the city, aévordinig'to | records in Motroe Odefity pide HERCE, | Principal Horace "©’Bryant of} Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FI VE CEN {TS Modern Fertilizing Plant To Be Established In Key West M. M. Schulsinger Has Started Negotiations With Leading Citizens Relative To Matter REPORT THEFT OF BAG FROM AN AUTO CAR CONTAINED $95, WATCH AND| OTHER ARTICLES: TAKEN| ™.- M. Schulsinger, a resident of FROM AUTOMOBILE PARK- | Key West for many years, has ED ON BOULEVARD returned to his home city to of- ee |fer it a completely modern in- dustrial plant, and has’ "begun negotiations with leading citizens in order that the projéct inay be MrsHugh Williams, who re-! sides ‘atthe eorier Of Eaton and Dave? ‘Streets, said''this morning id been ‘the unfortunate Bancells, | “lwietith of a sneak thief who stole a bag containing about $95, watch and several other articles. Mr. and Mrs. Williams went out on the boulevard. They were in the water for a while and when they emerged from the pool and | went to the car, Mrs. Williams |found the purse missing. } Starting to remove every art- icle in the car in the hope that j it may be hidden under a towel | or some of the impedimenta in jthe car, a thorough search failed |to reveal the bag, and the de- jcision was reached that it was | stolen. Mrs. Williams said that she had |no idea who the miscreants are. | Two youths came in the vicinity | while riding bicycles, but ques- tioning some of the perséns in this morning to the bathing pool | |as beneficial as possible fo the community. During a conversation with The | Citizen. Mr. Schulsinger pointed jout that the modern. fertilizer |plant is a boon to any locality. and cited the outstanding features jof such a plant to prove his con- | tentions. | The modern plant is equipped }to use and dispose of most of the refuse, which is a problem to any city. The modern plant, taking advantage of all local products pertaining to the manufacture of fertilizer, naturally tends to in- the vicinity revealed the fact that neither of the young men were ot tr cnkarsieod set pace it is un that ter has been ‘turned ovet to the| h®ough the,wizardy.of engineers. sheriff's office and the police de- | 1 $2 equipped as to be ‘abso- The modern plant is, also, 35 + _ | lutely free of the unpleasant odors partment and a diligent search is ; Being mae to leate the og and |W are usualy asoiated wit | the possible guilty parties. ipo West, beyond a doubt, said Mr. Schulsinger, offers almost CLEANUP UNIT sexscesrese ste“ | ANS " | Hete;we baye ‘un¢ounted mil- P lions of fish, whith are not desir- able from @ food: standpoint but readily oe arty the form Pe fer- THER TOM! AFT.’ tilizer. too, and sea- Lcd peasagies weed, with their wealth of iodides ERNOON AT LA CON- and other Lene es agen vn com! is, are iy aval ee here, said Mr. Schulsinger. It is planned to conduct the operation of the plant as a com- |_ After a complete survey by the | pletely local enterprise, and Mr. | Boy and Girl Scouts of the condi- Schulsinger, whose main offices tions that exist throughout the | are in New York, will appoint a lcity, Adrian O’Sweeney, chairman | representative here who will be « | of the clean-up committee for the | resident of Key West, rather than | Celebration, admitted to The Citi- | an_occasional visitor. zen today that the situation was; He told The Citizen that he has \far beyond his control, and said,/an assured market for many ‘am, calling a special meeting of |Key West products, and the as- House. ‘thé committee for 2 o'clock Thurs-|sociates who accompanied him | An agreemefit'et Sale’ between |'day afternoon at La Concha Ho-! here, are enthusiastic about the | Charlotte’ J:"Reberts‘td John '\H! a |many opportunitfes... by ' Boig involved the 49x88 ‘property! “In checking back on some re- i at the corner of Cath e" ' Gtid | ports, Q'Sweeney stated today, | Pearl. : ‘never has he been brought face to | Sch Grace L. Russell sold ‘to Mf.| face with such conditions which| ing organization, whith has suc- and Mrs. Fred Snoddy et al of| denote such unsanitary conditions established markets for Bagdad, Florida, the 150x93 cor-, under which some families are| products from Czechoslovakia, ner of Washington and Leon) jiving, | Finland, Denmark, Latvia and | Streets. | Members of the committee, who | Lithuania, and Key West may Jose Romaguera et al waived! are to meet with O’Sweeney, are: | confidently look to her returned all claim to the 42x86 property on! john Costar, Norberg Thompson, {citizen as a channel to direct Duval street between Division|c N. Recio, Everett Russell, Ben | world market contacts, it was as- and Olivia streets to Edwardiqyeyor and B. Curry Moreno. | sured. Romaguera. | City Judge Thomas Caro and Act-| This afternoon Mr. Schulsinger jing Mayor Earl Adams are also and associates are mecting with in the rooms of the latter organ- HALF-DAY CLOSING | invited to attend the meeting. the county commissioners, city ization to discuss the proposition Meeting of the Junior Chamber i “council and chamber of commerce BEGINS TOMORROW JUNIOR CHAMBER — in 1 dicus —,. ... POSTPONES of Commerce whith was set for qma te In accordapece with the cus- tom which has been carried out in this city for many years, local; retail stores will close at 1 p. m. | o'clock. Under the active premotionof is a section of the Overseas Rodney Pullen, connected with) bridges; in glistening silver with the Chamber of Commerce,ihe isiam automobile on the span. In uncovering acres, af diamads-in! the ‘upper teft hand is a replica friendly relationships:all the way} of w conch shell,the lip of which up the Florida Keys and:in Mi- is in silver with the name, “The ami. Conch, 1938". So many of the business men There are 53 photographic illus- along the highway are signing up’ trations showing the officers of for membership that Secretary | the school and the classes, and the S. C. Singleton will get out a clas- different organizations which sified business directory of this form a progressive institution of long procession of friendly greet- learninig and a nurnber of pic- ers who Meet the visitors before tures of scenes posed for in a they reach Key West. lighter vein. This directory is to be incor-) porated im the new guide book splint grained leather, and the’ which will be published shortly entire issue is a product of The by The Artman Press. Artman Press. { MEETS TONIGHT First meeting of the county commissioners for the month of June will be held tonight in the clerk's office at the county court house, at the usual hour of 8 While practically only routine business is the only matters scheduled, there will possibly be a delegation of engineers, com- mittees from several organiza- i each Thursday afternoon during the summer months of June, July and August, according to an an- nouncement made today by Joe Pearlman, president of the Key West Retail Merchants Associa- tion. This is done to afford em- ployees of these stores one after- noon of recreation during the summer months. Graduation Gifts FLORIDA CONTRACTING AND ENGINEERING COMPANY. Friday has been called off, it has been announced. Howard Chatham, just. out of Pians are still going ahead for u.. Marine hospital, following an the sightseeing trip, dance and (ration for sppendicitis pers buffet supper to be given Sundsy | tormed several weeks ago, ap- evening to visiting Jaycee Con-| 11104 this morning to the Porter ventionists. | Deck Co. for transportation to June 24 will be the date of the| 0" tn. “tne Masodak, of the next meeting. | American Range Lines. NOTICE TO PUBLIC i “Key West's Smartest and Most 2, Exctusive” Tomorrow Wight Is BANK NIGHT AT FRANK SABINTS LA CONGA Charges TELEPHONE 598