The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 3, 1938, Page 1

Associated Day Wire Devoted to the of Key West For 58 Ye Best | The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. . KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1938. ‘HIGH SCHOOL TO GRADUATE 58 TONIGHT DR. RUSS A. WILLIAMS TO DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS; IN CASE OF RAIN TO BE HELD IN SCHOOL CITIZEN EDITORIAL IN ALBUM GIVEN TO DUKE AND DUCHESS (Special to The Citizen) NEW YORK, June 3.— Duke and Duchess of Wind- sor on their first wedding anniversary celebration today were presented with The Key West Citizen’s outstand- ing editorial on “Romance Which Shook An Empire” in a surprsie gift of an unique memory album, compiled by friends here. MUCH INTEREST OVER HIGHWAY With a ated in School’s colors of _crimso! gray, Dr. Russ A. Wilianal noted South Florida orator, will deliver the principal address at Com- mencement tonight 6 p. m. at Bayview Park and Principal Hor- it will give 58 gradué e beautifully decor- County High and Monroe 3.—A flee ed their search fo Jimmy Cash the Florid while J. Edgar There is a possibility of rain to- night and if this is the case .Com- mencement -will be’ held in the cool Auditorium: F, enior Ball tonight at. the Country Club 9:30 will conclude snement Week. m follc ory Overtu rector of the F Of Inveztigalion, aug his staff by 14 G-Men rushed here by plane. Emil Ascher. sssional J 1, Felix Men- High School Orchestra. lemie Procession. Gradu- , Allan B. € Johnson, Clarence H. Pic vin E. R 1, John C. Gekeler, Horace O’Bryant, R A. Wil- liams Invocation, Rev. John C. Geke- James Bailey left his home for EXPECTED LARGE NUMBER ohn WILL COME HERE FOR time since b CELEBRATION 060 ransom | vestigate an we Citizen) June to be no let-up in interest which the t : evidencing in Florida’s Highway which links Key West with the mainland. Requests from automobile and published in continue to arrive office of the State Road nent asking for articles; information and pittutes of this unigue, -going- highway which: Seayset: meéans of conerete, bridges and viaducts spanning the spaces’ on humerdns! ittle —coral a c to> travel a hundred miles out into (Spe TALLAHA There the port that his five appears of Youth”, Soldiers’ Wagner, Key Male Chorus, Addre: son’s body had heen f entire In the meanwhile Mrs cour aaa West High Schoo Conintencement Russ A, Will S. se Or Orche: Fs Conferring of Diplomas, Princi- pal Horace O’Bryant. Benediction, Dr. John C. Geke- ter, Re tonal, “Festival Bartholdy, Orchestra. «,.... » List of graduates fol¥ews: Kathryn Helen Albury, Earl Leonard Almyda, Joseph Alvarez, Rofacl P. Bancells, Lucette Si- mone de Barritt, Dorothy Warren saat genie toe wonthern: |B Antonio Vicente Bethen- most point in the. United States:| court Arsenio John Bethencourt, From the talk heard on every Jt. Sarah Ann Birs, Mary Louise hand here in Florida’s capital city, * it appears that the great major- ity of the officials and state em- ployes, as well as numerous oth- er citizens, are planning to take advantage of the . three-day,. v nd holiday, July 2, 3 and 4, to witness the formal opening of the Overseas Highway and to en- joy porate Spanish festival » which the celebration committee nt Key West is arranging for the ‘ occasion, was in bed under the £ Over! Dr. A. J: Bertram of Mism Cash ‘er ed his home witht Cash, and two fee entered his automobilc With the | fati j party sped a4 a 80. clip by a round, gdest a? Hame weer’ wits ‘ port, south..of © here, «wh negro woman hi ud «found thing decomposed in a bur It turned out to be and the party returne an hour. Hoover arrived Bureau office in \ the morr position he worked far him were 1”, C. Paul Her- >; jtouriet me nes furth. northern. state jin ¢ {| Depar: March” ‘al in up: late at the mi Bowery, Harry on Lopez Browne, Dorothea Louise Camalier, Bar- bara. Phyllis Carey, Mae Charlow, Corir Mary Min Joseph Del Pino. t Lisi e Dexter, Flor- ise Dillon, Joseph M Dorothy Dungan, 4 vood, Mar- G loria Theresa Nemesio Herce, Hoff, William Jr. .} e el: some South 4 along EMBARRASSED PAPA Nellie Lopez, Mar: tye MgGlapahars "AAS William 1. Mow- : Qader 4 Answering an alarm which had come in from nome neighborhood, William sér, fifeman, was embarre tind” his r-ol standing tthe box. The admitted that a companion ha hoistad yim up to turn in” the ‘ * “just«to see the engines Cincinnati - main} mh “Otilia alor it c oF SOAS pe ‘1 , t the } southw explored : Pindef?, ens pete dith Lil Russell Samuel Andre » Rodrigu Betty Rae » Sands, Raul Mr. And Mrs “Albert Boza Be King And Queen umba At Rauls Club SUFFERS FROM Conshokocken, Pa emainder of th stimulate The to seed last Chris SETTLES 10.447 DISPUTES —DRESSED POULTRY— Young Roasting Ducks Broilers. Fryers and Hens —Ali Sizes— Fulford’s Poultry Farm Phone 880 I Deliver , County Telephone ABT ARS Mn Ngan. Mae Ral gnerite, Robs 4 Ernest Hemingway’ Still Thinks Loyalists Will Win s rrr President F. D. Roosevelt Will Send Representative | To Overseas Celebration | (ity Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 3.— Senator Claude Pepper said today that President Roose- velt had promised to send a representative to the formal opening of the new Overseas Highway, July 4. Senators Pepper and An- drews invited the President to attend but he expressed re- gret ihat he could not. ‘Shows Where ete They Can _ _ Hold Off For Year; Local, | Autos Without Brakes Worse Than Bombs You can’t get Ernest Hem- |ingway, war correspondent | Spain, who has just completed a contract with the North American |Newspaper Alliance, after 45 | days at the front and has returned ; ;to Key West, to admit that the | Spanish war is just about settled. | in Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit City Council Adopts’ PRICE FIVE CEN Ts For Federal Housing P.&0. Company Bitte Bitterly Opposes Establishment Of West Indies Steamer Line (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 3.) —A West. Indies Steamship. does not receive subsidy, | nor does it intend to ask -@” | He still thinks the, Loyalists are}Company application».for a \for one. PLANNING AERIAL TELEPHONE LIN APPLICATION FOR PROPOSED | WORK RECEIVED AT EN- GINEZR’'S OFFICE received at from Lieu- rl North, district sonville, of the} by the Inter and Te M wo of 1 aerial tele- Big Marco Notice has been The Citizen of! tenant Colonel engineer at J application made Company, of F¢ for the followin, Construction phone line cro: River south of the bridge on the} road from Collier City to the} Royal Palm Hammock and to the Tamiami Trail at level of 40 feet above me: water and located as follows its easterly end 49 feet soul the center line of the highway; at the easterly side of Snooks Is-| a minimum / high | At land, 200 feet south of the center | line of the highw at the} westerly end, 49 feet uth of the center line of the highway. Poles of the line will be spaced | 176 feet apart except where it} s nnel, where 200 feet apart > will be no publie h - ing held on this application, it is announced, but anyone caring to protest the proposed work from the standpoint of its interference with, or effect upon, navigation, should submit such protests in writing with sufficient r ons in detail to permit of consideration Protests should be the District Engineer, gineer Office, P, O, Box 4970, Jacksonville, Florida, in time to be received on or before June 11, 1938. mailed to U. S. En- OF GREEK ml VING SUIT FOUND John sine local sponger, found a Greek diving shoe and part ef the diving suit collar near Key West recent- ly. Also a serial number of a Tarpon Springs boat. The boat was wrecked near Marco, Florida. which is near the borders of Monroe county. It is this type of bor- der-operating boat which is making the raids into Mon- roe county when local spong- ers return to Key West for a three week’s stay to sell their wares, the sponge fishermen say. Ii was renorted to one Key West snonger tfat in a raid the Greek spongers piled a key high with their sponges and the catch very nearly covered the island. rf the intelligent | PISS ae going to win. A very interesting fact he of- | fers, however, is that. the Loyal-| ists can stave off defeat for at’ jJeast a year. That group has now ‘established its own munitions plant, builds its own planes, and is self-supporting. But he says |also that the Spanish government ‘is reorganizing its army, that Franco lacks infantry badly, hav- ing used up all his Moorish sol- \diers, and that he is now recruit- ing from French Morocco with recent captures proving this by idiscovery of French papers, on soldiers. He is stiil getting many Germans and Italian troops, Hem- ‘ingway adds, with the Italian troops very good and the German troops very bad. Hemingway supplemented his | belief with that of Spanish Prime | Minister Juan Negin, with whom jhe had a personal chat before | leaving and who is greatly op- |timistic over the success of the | government forces. The morale of the Spanish lately has. been’ very high, | ingway said, adding that he | | was surprised for from recent re- | ports he expected the soldiers wt |be very gloomy. |. Immediate major action, Hem ingway brought out, is in Franco’s attempt to take either Valencia or | Castellon. So far he has been launched in six. weeks by Franco, Hemingway said, but if it is stop- ped Franco will be in a dangerous |position. If a second offensive is thrown back, “Franco’s through”, Hemingway concluded. “It's much more dangerous to be in Key West and have an old jalopy without brakes crash into you than it is to be under heavy | fire from airplane bombs, artil- lery fire, and machine guns, as I was 24 hours a day”, he said, re- ferring to his auto accident Tues- | day returning from the airport, where he had landed after flying from New York in a day. Asked about a play, written; by him, which is to be produced }in New York, Mr, Hemingway said that it has bi&éh uiamed ‘the “Fifth Column” apdy bag passed through so many © publishers’ hands that he wouldn't know who. has it now. It will be produced \in the Fall, however, he said a’ little more seriously. The last frip he made to Key West it was his intention to write short stories of the , war, but haste in getting back 1d the front postponed that. However, he expects to do this in the coming summer. Key West has the most bril- liant future of any town in Flor- ida, Hemingway said, and it is an assured future. Other towns in the country may have recessions, but Key West will have a won- derful future in the next few years. Key West’s comeback will bring it beyond its most prosper- ous days years ago, Hemingway believes (and we hope this predic- tion is ip a different inspiration from that which considers the outcome of the Spanish war) “Tl do all my fishing around (Continued on Page Six) “For Whalesale Quotations on FURNITURE and FURNISHINGS MAXWELL VENETIAN BLINDS RESTAURANT EQUIPMENT © TELOMOUSE COLL OF PUSTCARD WILL GRINS O88 HEPEELENTATIVE Te SEE YeE! ;tween Havana and stopped. A new offensive will be - construction doam» and .isub-| \sidy for a vessel to ply. be- » Key West, drew strong support and encountered sharp op- position today at.a hearing before the mission. Harold B. Wahl, Jackson-_ ville attorney, told the com- mission the P. and O. Steam-| al-| Maritime Com- ship Corporation was ready providing more than) adequate service the two points and added it, George Junkin, president of the! | West Indies Steamship Company, | | said there was a definite need for additional service. He said his) company planned to build a $1,- | 750,000 ship in an American yard for a one-way daily service. | He did not ask any definite amount toward construction, say-, ing this matter was for the com- |mission to determine. Dr. Guil- |lemo Belt, Cuban steamship operator and former Havana} | mayor, said he intended to es-; tablish a Cuban flag service be-| | tween Havana and Key West if ‘the West Indies project fell | through. He said he now re- | ceives $1,000 a trip from the | Cuban government for operating | one ship between Havana-Miami, between and has a promise of $60,000 an- | nual subsidy for a proposed flag | meee Sheriff Investigating Report Greeks Are In Local ¥ Waters SOTTO NT ae: ELWYN THOMAS EXTENDS THANKS The Citizen sen is in in receipt of a letter from Elwyn Thomas, who was nominated for the position of Justice of the Su- preme Court in the recent primary election, in which he writes: i “Again I want to thank you for your generosity in giving me publicity in my race for a place in the Supreme Court. Your contribution had much to do with my success”. In a statement of apprecia- tion to the people of Monroe County, he says: “Tl am very happy for the splendid support you gave my efforts to attain a place in the Supreme Court, and I surely hone that you will nev- er have occasion to regret the confidence which you have placed in me”, JAPS HUNT ELEPHANTS Bangkok, Siam —Four hundred Japanese naval officers and ma- rines recently visited Siam to take part in an elephant hunt. The sport has been revived in this country by military authorities. SPANISH GOLD TO U. 8. Perpignan, France —Two hun- dred tons of Spanish gold and sil- ver passed through France en route to the United State where it would be used in “payment for orders for material placed in America by the Loyalists.” NAMED DEPRESSION HARRISON N. ¥.—The tenth child of Mr. and Mrs. Pasquale lantarelli of this city was regis- tered in the office of the town clerk under the name of “Frank- lin lantarelli” REAL SURPRISE VALUES IN QUALITY MEATS OF ALL KINDS AT YOUR FAVORITE MARKET THIS WEEK END!) BERMUDA | White and Virginia St. _Phone 52) Sheriff Karl. Thompson, who had motored yesterday to Prince- | |ton to offer the aid of Key West jofficers in the kidnaping. case, | was phoned by Deputy Sheriff |Bernard Waite and told that |there was another rumor: hefe | that Greek spongers were invad- | ing county waters and using div-| jing suits to secure sponges, which lis against the law. | Sheriff Thompson promised to | investigate the matter and it is | presumed that he is making the | investigation by motor boat to- day. Deputy Waite said he was ‘interviewed by a number of local | spongers and told of the situa- tion. This is the third time there has! | been rumors of invasion. On the jother two occasions the rumors were unsupportable. | Make Raids Spongers from Tarpon Springs are believed to enter Monroe county waters and dive with div- ing suits during the two or three weeks in which most Key West spongers are in port selling their catches. Then they rush in, dive a load, and cruise off before the ——~ Key West spongers return, local spongers say. There are around five or six Tarpon Springs boat which dive the county's waters at these pe- riods. Although their identity has not been discovered, many spong- ers report this number of sus- picious craft sighted, end they feel certain that nearly all of the suspected craft are Tarpon Springs spongers. Key West boats have all left for the sponging grounds with the last of the bulky, broad crafts go- ing out this morning. There are from 100 to 200 sponge fishermen hooking on sea bottoms. Market Worse The market has been getting steadily worse for local sponge agents, it is reported, and it is suspected that the surreptitious raids are lowering the demand for sponges. Many excellent Key West sponge batches are being seid out of Tarpon Springs, local spongers affirm, citing as au- thorty report tom their custom-, “She Greek spongers tempted to go into Nessau and Cuban wa-, ters, but the governments of those islands escorted them beck it, local traders say. t the edge of the three-mile lim- | 'Many Other Matters Taken Up During Regular Meet- ing Held Last Evening At City Hall City Council, at a regular meet- | ing held last night, adopted a | resolution relative to the creation ‘'@f a Federal Housing Authority pnewanization. The meeting. was | presided over by Councilman | William H. Monsalvatge in the hdtieece from the city of Earl Adams; rresident of the council. | William Freeman, president pro- |tem, who serves in the absence of president, was unable to pre- j side due to the fact.that he is act- jing mayor while Mayor Willard \M. Albury is out of the city. The resolution in questiom was presented along with a petition , by S. C. Singleton, executive sec- retary of the Chamber of Com- |meree, who gave a short talk on | the matter. Mr, Singleton was followed by | Hugh Williams, local realtor, who } gave a thorough outline of the | proposed proposition. | The main points covered in the |resolution include a project call- _ ing for the expenditure of $100,- “000 for better housing in Key |West. The government is to \furnish ninety percent of the |funds, while the city is to take care of the remaining ten percent. | To begin with, the plan will take jcare of about forty families, who would: be given better housing, with improved sanitary condi- tions. In connection with the project, the mayor will be empowered: to appoint a commission consisting of five members, with approval of the council. Meeting Monday Night It was decided to call a special meeting ‘for Monday night at which time Mayor Albury will be requested to explain his reasons for the stand taken against cer- tain members of the council dur- ing the recent election. A letter was read from C. H. Stief, Jr. of the Island Transit Company of Miami, stating that the company 1s no longer inter- ested in operating a bus system in Key West. This leaves but one bidder for the privilege of oper- ating buses, who is Harry B. Pea- cock Mr. Peacock addressed the council and stated that the speci- fications forwarded him were sat- isfactory, with the exception of a few minor points. He declared he was ready to make his final proposal. Instruction were given Mr. Peacock to draw up the pro- posal and present it for consid- eration at the meeting to be held Monday night. A letter was read from M. M. Schulsinger relative to the opera- tion of a fertilizer plant here, in which he requested the abete- ment of texes on the property to be used, and other matters in con- nection with the proposition. The matter was referred to the project committee for consideration. It was ordered that bids be called jor for the purchase of one thousand feet of fire hose for use in the fire department. It wes ordered that an amount of $500 be apportioned to the Board’ of Public Works to take eare of work now being carried on in that depertment. It was decided to have the cur- (Continued on Page Six) “Still Topping Them All” —with— Otto Divanti and His Orchestra HABANA-MADRID CLUB Key West's Finest ——NO COVER CHARGE—- ROOFING PAPER--GALVANIZED SHEETS.-SHINGLES--ROOFING CEMENT AND ALL SUPPLIES-AVAILABLE AT SOUTH FLA. CONTR. & ENG. CO. PHONE 598