The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 2, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 131. ‘HOOVER, CHIEF OF BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION, TAKES CHARGE OF DRAPE Several Boats And Crew| SOOO MOOI M GA NICHT ‘START OUTLINING Of Divers Augment Pos- | ses Combing Wide Area Of Section (By Ansociated Press) PRINCETON, June 2.4& SOUVENIR EDITION Preparations are now being made to publish the Overseas Highway Souvenir Edition to be released coincident with the Gala Fiesta y i | | | | Che Key st Citizrn THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. INTEREST GROWS® IN. CELEBRATION® QUEEN CONTEST | FIFTH DANCE OF SERIES IN| Matter Relative To Pro-"S@°OOOOOODL,| CONNECTION WITH AFFAIR | TO TAKE PLACE SATURDAY | | When Miss Dorothy Betancourt, | sponsored by Social Club Marti, | jumped into the lead this week |for the honor of being chosen | | | Queen of the Fiesta at the Over- the formulation of a project to; jseas Highway Celebration, inter- | peautif est in the race became more in- | tense. | In order to further heighten in- | terest in the campaign; ‘Chairman | gee|John N. Costar, annowificed that} if KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1938. at i i,uie (mas pani ae * posed Project Heard At) Ai Coiinty Commissioners Meeting | Consideration is being given to! 'y Atlantic Beach and to | add to the sand which has in past | years beéi’depleted and has nev- | er been replaeéd and will not be, | } MISS TAMPA LAST SEEN DRIFTING HELPLESSLY | Last reports of the Sulphur | Springs, Florida, truck driver, | Guy C. Avery, who left Dry Tortugas in his 16 foot sail- boat and has been missing since was sighted by the yacht “Cockatoo”, returning from Tortugas May 23 off Marquesas drifting apparent- ly helpless. From Marquesas to Key West is a run of *approxi- mately 30 miles, bit 25"past the Quicksands whi the * d -Commissi Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS oners Discuss Matter Of Furnishing Fire Fighting Equ Proposition To Fertilizer Plant Discussed pment For Florida Keys re ‘Much Other Business Tak- | en Up At Regular Ses- | sion Conducted Last Eve- ning Establish During Meeting *Wésterday....n in equip- efitieht '26°BS ‘stationed on the Flor- ‘Maa Key# at Matecumbe or some J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the* Tease’ Federal Bureau of Investiga-}"’ save tion, took personal charge jthe ‘dance tickets, which are i printed in ballot form and used|it was shown. unless engineering | for voting for the candidates for | the queenship, have been de- waters of the Gulf Stream and Gulf of Mexico meét and £ bell over a dahon rough Special meeting yesterday aft-/esunty Seonimissioners ani) stretch. activities are authorized to ar- | 5 Tb I ernoon called by President Council: creased in price from 50c to 25} range for jetties to be built out Herbert Betancourt, chauf- of the Cash kidnaping' ‘case | today while a fleet of smail| boats and a crew of divers) augmented the huge posse combing this area in a rain, for trace of the five-year-old | victim, James Bailey Cash, | Jr. | Arriving at Miami from Washington, Hoover hasten- ed immediately to the Fed- | eral Bureau of Investigation | office in a downtown sky-| scraper where agents have | of suspects for 24 hours. He refused te (daca the case| OW ‘HANDSOMELY LETTER. | but said he expected to be; here several days. Hundreds of men in khaki, | Advance copies of this Sou- venir Edition to be used for mail-away purposes may be reserved by calling The Citi- zen office and arranging for advance payment of ten cents per copy. Hundreds of copies have been purchased at this date. The total run will be at least 5,000. SL LIL IIa Ls CONTRIBUTORS TO ART CENTER TO BE HONO NAMES WILL BE INSCRIBED ED SCROLL TO BE PERMA- NENTLY DISPLAYED cents, effective today. The fifth in the series of dances | | being given by the committee for | | the selection of the Queen of the} | Fiesta, will be held Saturday | |night, June 4, at Raul’s Club. A} | floor show under the direction of Mrs. Eva Warner will be staged | in connection with the dance, and! This matter was presented to} feur, said that the owners of the Cockatoo reported this to him, The 16 foot sailboat was mamed the "Miss Tampa.” WOOO IID S. from the shore. the board of county commission- ers last night by a committee con- sisting of Franklin B. Albert, B. | | | | of Commerce, in the offices of the | chamber, to consider the proposi- j tion to establish a fertilizer fac- |tory in Key West, was well at- | tended and intensely interesting. Representatives of the chamber, ' Charles E. Smith, of the Chamber | Tt ‘Wako propose thatthe” large easily atcessible point was a | the eastern end of the property of matter which was brought to the | the Clyde-Mallory Lines, would attention of board be an ideal location for the fac- ” of pepe tory, and Mr. Schulsinger and as- Commissioners at a regular meet- sociates, who had made an ex- amination of the building, said it | "2 ‘st sieht. was easily adaptable to the estab- | / warehouse, Which is located at Present were Chairman Carl veterans’ uni! hunt- re ee i remodelling end refurnithing All those contributing toward | | Miss Lillian Acevedo, sponsored | | Ada Rodriguez, sponsored by the | ing togs, many with pistols | o¢ the Key West Federal Art Cen- | "ARRANGE FOR |the gallery on July 3, will have! | Pritchard’s orchestra will furnish | the music for dancing. Prior to the queen’s dance held | in Miami Monday night, which was attended by more than 500} | persons, Miss Susan LaKin, spon- | | sored by the Key West Woman's | Club had held the lead in the race for top honors since the in- {ception of the campaign. When) | the ballots were counted follow- | | ing Monday night's affair, it was} found that Miss Betancourt had | jtaken the lead from Miss LaKin | by a close margin. Miss Bernice | Brantley, sponsored by Lions Club, and Miss Martha Carbonell, by the Junior Cham- ber of Commerce, fighting it out | for third and fourth positions. | by the Cuban Club, and Miss/ San Carlos Institute, candidates. are also! i PLANNING FOR ‘CELEBRATION HERE JULY MATTER OF PUTTING ON GIGANTIC PAGEANT OR SIMILAR EVENT TO BE DIS- CUSSED AT MEETING C. Moreno, Homer Herrick and Dan Navarro, with Mr. Albert ad- dressing the board in behalf of | the project. | Discussing the matter from several angles, it was shown that | the proposition presented several difficulties which had to be over- come at the outset. One of these was the necessity of making a! survey of the shore, making! soundings and determining the depth to which the jetties or sheet | jiling would have to be sunk. i Commissioner ~Wrrr--R. Porter! had given the matter thought for | a number of years, and was of the | opinion that sheet piling would be | the proper material to use, the piling to be sunk from the boule- | vard out to a depth to be determ- | ined by the survey, which will ne-| cessarily have to be made. Plaris for the presentation of a gigantic pageant’or somé similar entertainment feature to staged on Saturday afternoon, July 2, as a part of the program of the Overseas Highway Cele- bration, will be discussed at 8 o’- elock Monday night, June 6, at the Harris school; and all persons in- | terested in making the celebra- | |city council and county commis-| lishment of the plant. | Sioners were in attendance and| James Kelly, one of the asso- | heard the plans outlined by M. M. ciates “of Mr’ Schulsinger, ‘said /PoTte? Braxton B. Warren, Cleve- Schulsinger, who is president of that there is nothing to be appre- | land Niles; Attorney W. Curry jthe company, which proposes to hended in the way of odors from | Harris, Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, fag gprns oe a se | the plant, as it will be absolutely | Chief Deputy Bernard Waite, sev- rr. Se jinger and associates, ' odorless. There will be loyed | terésted |John M. Kelly, I. Schwartz and at the plant about 300 poy and Hla ie naectge I. B. Salzer were prseent and Mr./ they will be paid living wages. ‘e S |Schulsinger read the proposition! The matter of securing exemp-| The matter of fire-fighting ap- tor establishing the plant by the) tion from taxation was discussed, | paratus was brought before the |Representative Trading Corpora-| and Wm. H. Monsalvatge, of city; board by Commissioner Niles, | tion, providing a suitable location | council. could see no reason why) Who had been investigating con- jfor the plant could be found and this could’ not be done. | ditions on the Keys, and had giv- jcertain concessions regarding! Present at the meeting were:/en much thought to the matter, | taxation could be made. Charles E. Smith, Bascom L./especially since the destructive | Bervaldi, Commissioners Wm. R. The entire proposition was gone | Grooms, W. T. Doughtry, Jr,, Carl! fires which had occurred in that M. M. section into in detail and after some dis: |, M. M. ‘cussion a fact-finding committee,'M. Kelly, I. Schwartz, 1. , John B. Sal- consisting of B. D. Trevor, chair-|zer, Albert Acherson, John Gard- man; B. L. Grooms, representing | ner, Charles Taylor, Ben D. Trev- the chamber of commerce; W. W. | or, Frank H. Ladd, Joe Peariman, |Doughtry, representing the city; William H. Monsalvatge, James jcouncil; Carl Bervaldi, represent- |S. Roberts and Melvin E. Russell. Two, or possibly more, of the| tion a success are urged to be! groins will be built, it is the opin- | present. ion of engineers, and will even- tually be the means of collecting | Miss Edna B. Smith, director of high school music, will be in ing the county commissioners, | and Albert Acherson, represent- ing the local fishing industry, was appointed. Certain matters of fact are to be ascertained by the com-| | mittee and their report made to Seen by The Citizen this morn- |ing Agent Smith at the Mallory several weeks ago when — of lime trees had been it. A delegation from Matecumbe, members of which were Alonzo Cothron, Berlin Felton, Preston Pinder, Bertram Pinder and Shel- ton Stone, were at the meeting but did not address the board. offices said he believed the build-| They were satisfied with the ac- ing on the property could be se-| tion taken when Mr. Niles sug- cured, provided it was relievec of gested that a cotmmittee be ap- taxation. pointed to take up thé matter. in belts, streamed in at dawn | ter up until the formal opening of taken out in farm | their names inscribed on a hand- | trucks to sectors assigned for rey iota ae ee ba | | be permanen splayed in. the the second day of the search. { gallery, in order that those whose The end: names appear on this scroll may f Wink, yas ext ‘be known as the original donors northward. jof the Art Center. * * This means all donations, en Senior Cash and wife re-| whether of money, materials,| Rehearsal for the Music Hour to . +. | services, gifts of art books, etc. | be held Sunday afternoon, July | % mained secluded in baal A reference iibrary of informa- 3, at the Park under the sponsor- recta hse tate R. Por: Teatst nN sel a ~ ship of the Key West Ministerial '¢t,27d Cleveland Niles. ‘entative plans are for an his- frame apartment building | tion on art and artists and repro of t Dea waiter which. oak . | ductions of their work is being Association as a part of the Over- | rou: isi: ih din ontention 06. tm from which the child was) coljected and ca sand any seas Highway Celebration, has | )TOUS! on we j Members of the committee ap. pointed to make the investigation fand determine what type of | equipment is to be provided for ;the Kevs are Commissioners | Niles and Warren, and Chief Har- ity M. Baker, of the Key West Fire Department. E. L. Reakirt, representing the WI77 722222) KEY WEST GROUP cuaiRMAN oF state ENTERTAINED IN | Miami Daily News, addressed the DEMOCRATIC BODY CUBAN CAPIT. Bue Bade ; board relative to the county se (By Amsociated Preas) OMMITTEE HELD AUDIENCE curing a full-page advertsiement JACKSONVILLE, June 2. —Theo T. Turnbull of Monti- corin nae aaertah .) in e paper eTseas WITH, PRESIOEMT..OF RE-| 11 cnway Celebration, the cost of sand in such quantities as to make | charge of the meeting. | of the beach a much more attrac-| 5. Kennedy, who has been as- ; tive and inviting place than it is| signed by the Jacksonville office REHEARSAL FOR CELEBRA- at present. | of the WPA Writers Project to as TION EVENT TO BE HELD | _At the conclusion of the discus- | sist in the preparation of | sion, a committee was appointed pageant, will be present at the| MONDAY NIGHT to make arrangements for the sur-| meeting. Judge Enrique Es- | ; vey and other necessary details quinaldo, Jr. who is working! of the work. Members of the! with Kennedy in the preparation | committee are: Commissioners;of the pageant, will also be! present. | ie j | torical pageant to be written by | Mr. Kennedy and Judge Es-j| colle: of the State Democratic Execu- stolen while sleeping Satur-| day night. 3 | Posses turned in a number: of articles which might “oR ret might not be clues. Among! them were two striped con-| vict’s outfits found field east of Princeton. At Miami the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation an- nounced it would pay a double face value of bank- notes to finders of the first) 100 bills of the $10,000 cash the father paid in a vain at- tempt to ransom his child. Serial numbers were broad- fof June to make his usual contri maga: wey welcome. S Ail le to Di er of H. KNOWLES COMING HERE Hamilton Knowles, who is con- nected with the New York aqua- rium, has written the Clyde-Mal- lory Lines agent in Key West, ad- vising that he will arrive in Key West some time during the month col- lection of marine specimens. As usual Mr, Knowles, who was formerly a resident of Key West, spends a great deal of time in se- curing his collection of specimens, and in most instances personally supervises the work and does Pk ate a ‘this and relatedypubjectsaaill BAY’ } heen called for 8 o'clock Monday night, June 6, at the Harris school by Mrs, Edna B. Smith, musical director. contributions--should be; Miss Smith is especially anxious Warren, {to have all singers® who will as- sist in the presentation’ of the Music Hour present for réhearsal | at that time. Among the numbers to be pre- sented are “Unfold Ye Portals”, ! “Praise Ye the Father” and two numbers from “The Redemption” by Charles Gounod. A 55-piece orchestra from the Christian Church in Miami will participate in the Music Hour program. Another feature of the service will be selections played by Isabel Shaffer of WIOD on a new Hammond organ which has been donated for the occasion by Philpitt Music Conipany of Miami. DIED THIS MORNING board by Mr. Albert was the swimming pool on the boulevard, which is not deep enough to per- mit of diving,and the facilities; there, if they,are to be augment- ed, should be done as soon as pos- sible as the,e@quipment which is here with which to do the work will be moved as soon as the sew- er project is completed. This matter and possibility of working on the pool, possibly deepening it and smoothing the bottom is to be also given due consideration. CONCERT TONIGHT | IN BAYVIEW PARK PROGRAM TO BE RENDERED; BY KEY WEST HOSPI- TALITY BAND YO fc 14 | quinaldo and to be staged under; the direction of Mrs. Ann Living- | ston and Miss Christine Calico who have been assigned*'by the recreation division of'thé WPA, for this purpose. Miss "Smith, | chairman of the music’ eémmittee for the Overseas Highway Cele- | bration expects Mrs. Livingston and Miss Calico to arrive in Key West on June 9, and hopes to have all preliminary arrange- ments completed by that time so that rehearsals can be started without delay after their arrival THANKED FOR CUPPING SENT GLETON FROM ASSISTANT EDITOR OF ‘“ROTARIAN” Paul Tecter, assistant editor of tive Committee on the first ballot of today’s organization meeting of the newly-elected committee, The vote was Turnbull 67, Fred H. Kent, of Jacksonville 59, and Tyn Cobb, of Orlando 6. This gave Turnbull a majority of 2, and eliminated the neces- sity of a runoff ballot. Turnbull succeeds the late J. B. Hodges, of Lake City. aheahudadeuteuteateuteudh CITY COUNCIL = MEETS TONIGHT There will be a regular meeting of the City Council held tonight, beginning at 8 o'clock, which will be the first regular session of the month. Several The Hospitality Band,.a unit of ‘The Rotarian, writes'to Rotarian | routine business, is expected to PUBLIC: GUESTS AT WD Ms| sos enactiiienas = t to be 9296-32. ir. akirt present an out ‘QUET LAST NIGHT | line of the proposed page aes 4 the spaotrset aside for reading } ‘ | matter and illustrations. The mat- } Members Of the Key West dele | ter wl referred to a committee gation, who are in Cuba for the composed of Commissioners Por- purpose of extending invitations ‘et. Warren and Niles, and they » were given power to act. to officials and bodies of the gov-) py deposits in the First Na- ernment to attend the celebration | tional Bank of collections by the of the formal opening of the Over-| office of Tax Collector Frank seas Highway, arrived in Havana Ladd were reported. The first yesterday and were met by the represented taxes of 1934 and the Municipal Band, an escort of Na- one . The first apportionment was tional Police and members of the | made to the following funds: Gen- president's cabinet. jeral Revenue, $2880; Fine and Dr. Pedro Varela Nogueira, sec- Forfeiture, $10.80; Outstanding retary of National Defense, and : jed the greeting delegation, and | was the first to meet them upon arrival of S.S. Cuba from Miami. Mr. Nogueria is an adopted son of Key West. Yesterday at noon the commit- tee held an audience with Presi- dent Federico Laredo Bru, and last night a banquet was held in t cast yesterday. Reward of much of the catching himself. es- the Federal Music. Project, .will/SC-Snigleton: thanking him for come before the meeting, it is, their honor at the National Hotel. $500 for capture and convic- tion of the kidnapers was of- fered by the Palm Beach town council, and Dade county commission offered $1,000. At Lakeland, Police Chief Roy Hutchingson said officers were searching that section for a man, woman and small boy traveling in| an old model coupe for ques- pecially those of the rarer varie- ties. On his last visit to Key West he gathered a magnificent array of specimens, many of which were invertebrates and among them as fine collection of anemones as were taken from this port in BODY TO BE BROUGHT HERE FROM COCONUT GROVE FOR BURIAL Word received in Key West an- nounces the death of Mrs. Jona- then Cates 1 o'clock this morning | 2 in the home of her son, Wilbur Cates, on Hybiscus avenue in Coconut Grove. Mr. Cates is in Coconut Grove, and in a long distance message to Chief Harry M. Baker, of the . fire department, said he will ac~ company the body to Key West where interment will be heid. Announcement of the funeral services will be made after the ar- | Tival of Mr. Cates, ARN peel present another concert tomght et rhis:letter of May 23 and the eri-/ stated. 8 o'clock jn Bayyiew Park. The closed clipping ‘telling of ‘the’ under the direction of Al} Barroso, will. render : the; lowing program: March, Washington Post ol 1. Overture, Nabucodonosor Verdi Characteristic, Passing of the Red Men King Popular, Caravan Ellington Waitt, Les Patineour’s : Wauildteufel “Declaration of Principles”, which ‘was published recently in The Citizen. “This is indeed news”, writes Mr. Tecter. Continuing Mr. Tecter writes, “That's a forthright, farseeing and probably unique stand your civic organizations have taken. It is to be recommended for other cities faced with a similar prob- lem. “The ‘Declaration’ deserves Tonight at 7 o'clock the visiting | members of the commission from Key West will leave on 8.8. Cuba for Miami and will arrive there 8 ‘o'clock tomorrow morning. They ROBERTS GIVEN HEARING Herman Roberts was yesterday afternoon given a preliminary hearing charged with assault and battery on the person of Clarence Gates. School Tax District 1, $46.70. Report of tax certificates re- deemed or purchased from Clerk Sawyer, showed $929.57 in cash and $253.82 in bonds. Total, $1, 174.39 Report of Clerk C. Sam B. Cur- ry of criminal court for the May term was read and ordered filed. Certificate of the Board vamers of the results of H FR iz? i i Popullt, 1 Double Dare You (wide notice and we shall try to. The hearing was before Peace Shand make special mention of it, and Justice Franklyn Arenberg, who, March, Semper Fidelis ithe Key West Rotary Club’s part after hearing the evidence, placed Sousa in its formulation, in an editorial the defendant under bond of $50 Natiofia! Anthem, Star Spangled Banner Key) forthcoming edition”, DOES YOUR ROOF LEAK? WE HAVE THE ANSWER IN ROLL ROOFING, SHINGLES OR GALVANIZED SHEETS. SOUTH FLA. CONTR. & ENG. CO. PHONE 59¢