The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 6, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Key West Citizrn THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. fee i VOLUME LIX. No. 134. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1938. PRICE FIVE CENTS ies bl on Held By = ister beater T't san KeY West Group Treated eral Unit: For Questioning: seam. mwm-r-o-« Very Courteously During In Kidnaping Case Released sUSAcanmi, ‘st reo co a aes sees wtrmeee Official Visit To Havana 1 | RESULTS OF DANCE GIVEN Solo Sailor In 18 Foot Sloop peo econ [me Lands Safely Here Saturday) » wore vances ver 10 wes heat wy Tom F. Smith | |elected state president Saturday} j ae |and making his first official “Two }on another Jaycee organization, | | +f eS . No Other Witnesses Re- mained In Custody At! Headquarters As Far As| Highway Celebration = “ssi, ienl Had Been Trying To Get }were guests of the local Junior (By Associated Prens) PRINCETON, Fla., June! 6.—M. F. Braxton and son! James, held by federal | agents since last Wednesday Can Be Learned | [ OFFICIAL STANDING IN QUEEN’S RACE Miss Susan LaKin, sponsored by the Wom- an’s Club - Miss Dorothy Betancourt, sponsored by the Social | I 319 | | | The see-saw race for the honor Into Key West Through of being Queen of the Fiesta at |the Overseas Highway Celebra- Calda, Northwest, Chan-jtion, July 2-4, which is being! | fought out by six lovely Key West | | girls, took another turn at the/ | Queen’s Dance at Raul’s Saturday | night when Miss Susan LaKin| nels Since Wednesday Tying’ up at a Naval Station Chamber of Commerce body and, many Key West young ladies last night at Habana-Madrid. | Mr. Smith was introduced by Earl Adams, president of the local group, and made a short talk in which he stressed the fact that youth must play a major part in the awakening which Key West is experiencing now: He said that Club Marti | Miss Bernice Brantley; i sponsored by the’ Lions | 51] 30 | in connection'with the kid- naping of «James Bailey Cash, Jr. werereleased to-| day after'theirewives called | at the Federal Bureau of In-| vestigation to plead for sheir! freedom, The Women emerged from! the Federal Bureau office | near hysterics, reporting | agents had refused to let! Club _.. rs Miss Martha Carbonell, sponsored by ''Junior them see their husbands or INVESTIGATE | give them any word, but the | ACTIVITIES AT unemployed carpenter and | NO NAME KEY. Chamber of Commerce 126 his fisherman son turned up | here a short time later. Both | GOODS REPORTED TO HAVE declined to make any state-| pren STOLEN FROM JOHN ment about the case, ap-| CARBONELL’S LODGE AT parently on instruction of | KEY G-Men. pele Pe, As far as was known, no! Chief of Police Ivan Elwood, | possible witnesses remained | Captain Alberto Camero, and Ser- | i + |geant Joe Kemp, made a flying in ly at the Miami | trip to No Name Key Saturday to headquarters. In the mean-| investigate certain suspicious ac-' while Cash, Sr., reopened his | tivities witch had been reported f | in the vicinity of the camp. They filling station and lunchroom | ,,..,. accompanied by Judge Wil-| for the first time since May | liam V. Albury. . n Id | John Carbonell, son of the own- 28 when his five-year-old | «+ the lodge, while fishing with son was abducted for $10,-) 4 friend from a nearby bridge ob! 000 ransom. He said he Loge wisi _— sa a light shin- ing through the interior of the heard nothing new. | todge. Mr. Carbonell flashed his! light three times, saw the same A small yellow plane number of flashes, apparently in swept low over the Federal | answer to his signal, and went to : . | the lodge. Bureau field office here this} ‘There he found the darder ing, dropping a note! emptied of its contents of canned | goods and other edibles, but no which agents picked up. The | sign of the marauders, and this “ was the same condition in which plane came from the direc-| the camp was found when the of-, tion of islands to the south | corse arrived on their search Sat- and presumably brought “| cis message from a handful of | Miss Lilia Acevedo, sponsored by the Cuban Club _. Miss Ada Rodriguez, sponsored by San Car- los Institute } } j FOUR MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED pier Saturday night» was Guy C. { Avery, Towne’s’ "Tampa. Steam} Laundry solicitor, with \‘the''18-!| foot sloop he has sailed ‘from | Tampa to Dry Tortugas and to! Key West. | It was reported that Avery was | lost by radio message and the! owner of the ‘yacht “Cockatoo”! said that he had sighted vd sloop wallowing apparently help- less off Marquesas. Neither re-| port was true, Mr. Avery, young, extremely reticent, and attired mat summer suit and straw hat this! morning, told The Citizen. | Just Sleeping j When the wind is strong Avery | sails both day and night to take| advantage of it, but when it dies} he goes below to sleep and ot coup his rest. It must have been| at one of those periods when the; Cockatoo passed him, he said, saw | the sails flapping, and no one on! deck. For Avery did not see the | Cockatoo when she went by. | As far as being lost, Avery said , that he arrived near Key West! Wednesday, but was on the inside | |route north of Marquesas. He! | tried first to get through Calda,_ ~APPLICATION TO.WARB. a achat y the dove which was a channel, but found head winds which made the trip through that | narrow, shallow channel very} near impossible. He went aground | there. | Next he tried northwest chan- nel, but found unfavorable winds | as have a number of other sailing vessels. Finally he beat back} westward, until Key West was al-! most below the horizon, when he skirted the islands at that point | and came out into deep water on the outside route. Here was found the best sailing since he left Ft. } Jefferson, and coming in on a’ spanking breeze Friday at 6:30; p. m., arrived alongside the old Fort at Fort Taylor when the breeze promptly died. On the breast of a spring tide, which flows nearly four miles an hour, Avery and his 18-foot sloop was! swept out miles again. Finally, | Saturday came and with it bet- ter winds and at 10 p. m. he hove alongside the Yacht. Basin en- trance, Sailing through the open- ing he; tied.up,at the Naval Sta-! | tion, dock, net open. to civilians, because, he didni’t: know: the: is-' jand’s. harbor,berth, Naval Sta- tion officers..were very kind to! him, be said,.and allowed him to remain there, Water Gone Today he is looking over the! ‘town and seeking a pair of sun! Wedding permits issued from | the office of County Judge Ray- mond R. Lord during the week } ending June 4, are four in num- ber and were issued to the follow- WILL BE HELD IN EVENING ing: IN OFFICE OF LA CONCHA | HOTEL and Juana Mondares; Albert H. Carey i Idilio _ | Borges and Anita Sapps; Alfred Notice in this issue of The Citi- #1 Borreson and Edna Saunders; zen calls the attention of the | Sven H. Koller and Ruth Baker members of the Key West Cham- ber of Commerce to the regular meeting of the body which will tomorrow. } is placed at 7:30 p. m., office in La Concha hotel, urged-that every mem- hO can make it possible, at- | ‘NEW ARRIVAL IN PEELE’S FAMILY ade and Announcement has been m of the birth of a son to Rev Mrs. Shuler Peele this morning at a hospital In Orlando. The information was contained in a telegram received tod which also stated that mother and baby were getting along nicely Rev. Peele left here Saturday | afternoon en route to Orlando. Regular monthly meeting of Chamber of Commerce will be held tomorrow. Tues- day, 7:30 p. m. at office in La Concha — ROOFING PAPER--GALVANIZED SHEETS--SHINGLES--ROOFING CEMENT AND ALL SUPPLIES-AVAILABLE AT SOUTH FLA. CONTR. & ENG. broken and a new spigot for his The latter he is} glasses to replace those he tal water barrel. especially anxious to get, for the reason that the spigot he now has sprung a leak on the way over and although he tried everything to stop the leak by Friday his wa- ter was down to just one last drink. This he saved until he was mighty thirsty Saturday, to drink. Two weeks’ supply went through the hole in the spigot. He left Loggerhead Tuesday, went to Fort Jefferson, loked over the Fort, and then left for Key West on Wednesday. He ar- rived close to the island late the same day. Which is good enough ailing, he said, and certainly showed that he was not lost. Newspaper reports, during the t » was attempting to make the various channel ertrances in- to Key West, had reported him lost and cost his parents much anxiety, he said. Early report that he was going {Continued on Page Four) Arete the deed from Miss Doto- lhe has always liked’the city and ‘ lits inhabitants who Have:a strong aay pain! bie lander ys ae | love for their home tity. He then Bernice Brantley, but the Wom.-| introduced the various visiting an’s Club rallied to the defense of | Jaycees“and at the insistent insti- Miss LaKin and succeeded in put- | ation of Master of Ceremonies ting her on top for the time be- Billy Armond the group sang a ing while Miss Betancourt refus- | Chorus of Moon Over’ Miami. ed to drop lower than second| introduced were: Joe Turner, J. place in the official standing. E. Sutterfield, vice-president and All other candidates made some | or po = et oe gains and are still in shooting | <0 \. “Andes, Diese distance of the leaders. jmar Dozier, of Sarasota; Al E. Several dances are still sche-| Snyder, John Bane sk ae duled between now and the clos-| Warr ele Of Mi oo ing date of the contest and any-| ee ee thing may happen before the fin- | A brilliant floor show, directed al returns are counted. Dates for bid ee ucuieniset ue ae i the dances will be announced soon Peewee, former. circus clown, pre-| Tash Cortes | sented Rex, trained terrier, in an |amazing assortment of _ tricks. OUTLINE SEWER | Peewee also staged a tumbling act. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Boza jin traditional red and white cos- WORK AT FOOT |tumes, Mrs. Boza with fluffed, OF THOMAS ST. eas lent in the undulating movements | {of the Cuban rumba, which was CITY OF KEY WEST MAKES | quite a treat to the visitors. Joe Torano sang the poignant “La) |parted skirt and train and Mr. | Boza in Cuban caballero costume |with fluffed sleeves were excel-| PARTMENT FOR SEWER | broken heart sent to a cold lover. | In the course of the dance a OUTFALL _ buffet supper of Key West punch, |sandwiches and side dishes was} jserved. The excellent entertain- ment, refreshments and dancing the War Department by the City | W@5 arranged by Anibal Armayor, of Key West for a permit for chairman of the committee, and work to be done at the foot of | Isidore Weintraub. Thomas street in the Atlantic! Returning from the Miami Ocsen. Beach Convention yesterday were It is proposed to construct a 10 Earl Adams, president; Wilbur Application has been made to} Having completed, their ele- mentary studies at. the Harris school, the following pupils have been notified of their advance- ment to the Junior High School in Class 7B Ardimas Betancourt, Charles |Cervantes, Gilbert Koehn, Jack ; Malek, Henry Munro, Irving Rob- will cross the Fort Taylor Reser- Blackwell, Isidore Weintraub, Ed- ocean for a distance of 1,000 feet. ADVANCEMENTS TO There will be no public hearing interference with, or effect upon, MAR SCHOOL consideration. ville, Fla., in time to be received erts, Harold Sands, Jimmie Sin- FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE iclia Gonzalez, Mercedes Gon inch cast iron sewer outfall which | Moehrke, Allen E. Curry, Emory 4 " ward Bayly, Darnell Carey, Pab- vafor! 09 the line of ‘Thomas 19 Calleis, L, P. Artman, Jr., and It will then extend into the} Howard England. The outfall will be anchored to} the rock bottom by means of, steel anchor rods, and will be placed under the existing Western | JR. HIGH SCHOOL Union Submarine cable. i on this application but anyone desiring to protest the proposed| ADVANCED TO 7B CLASS work from the standpoint of its; FROM HARRIS GRAM- navigation, should send such pro- test in writing with reason in suf-! ficient detail to permit intelligent Protests should be mailed to the District Engineer, U. S. Engineer office, P. O. Box 4970, Jackson- on or before June 17, 1938. DIED SATURDA gleton, John DePoo, Emma Neal Ayala, Alfa Cabrera, Barbara Curry, Erundina Fernandez, Ar- zalez, Betty Hewitt, Anna Key, CONDUCTED THIS Anna Papy, Shirley Roberts, AFTERNOON Betty Lou Roberts, Lorraine Rus- sell, Gloria Suarez, Gloria Ayala (Sawyer), Dollis Bradley Ralph Toledo, 49, died Satur- day afternoon 5:30 o'clock in the residence at 9 Thompson Lane. Funeral services wll be held 5:30 (CITY COUNCIL Selo oie aftermon, Goat tne’ MEETS TONIGHT residence. Rev. Guillermo Perez i of the Latin Methodist church will y officiate There will be a special meeting Pritchards Funeral. Home of the’ City Council held tonight charge of arrangements. beginning at 7:30 #'clock Survivors are: The widow, Mrs.; The meeting has been called Blanche Toledo, one daughter, for the purpose of having Mayor Miss Elza Toledo, mother, Mrs. Albury explain his reasons for Ygnacia Toledo, two brothers, An- the stand taken against certain tonio and Oscar Toledo, and one' members of the council during sister, Mrs. Pedro Aguilar. the recent election. Meetings Here Tonight Two important meetings are scheduled for tonight by the Overseas Highway Celebration Committee which should be large- ly attended by interested Key West citizens. The first is the meeting to perfect plans for the presentation of a gigantic his- torical ‘pageant, and the second is a rehearsal‘ for the Music Hour. Both meetings will be held at the Harris school at’ 8 o'clock. i Tentative ‘plans call for the presentation of an historical page- ant on Saturday night, July 2. The pageant will be written by S. Kennedy, who has been as- signed by the Jacksonville office of the WPA yriters project to assist in the preparation of the pageant, and by Judge Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. The pageant will be directed by Mrs. Ann Livingston and Miss Christine Calico who have been assigned by the recreation divi- sion of the WPA to the celebra- tion committee. Mrs. Livingston EXERCISES AT SAN CARLOS SCHOOL CLOSING EXERCISES | CONDUCTED SATURDAY, _, MORNING | | Saturday morning at the San} Carlos Hall the San Carlos School held its closing exercises for the 1937-38 school term. Present at the affair were the class and several hundred parents and friends of the stu- dents, local school authoriti members of the board of director: of the institute and the sch faculty, Eduardo Leon Pastor, Miss Bermildo Resmond, Miss Lesbia Esquinaldo. Mr. Ignacio Medina, vice president of the in stitute, presided, due to the ab- sence of President E. Esquinaldo, Sr. from the city. He opened the ceremonies with a brief speech, then the director of the school, Prof. Eduardo Leon Pastor, brief ‘ly outlined the different honors students and why they were given ‘prizes ‘for their work iw th! denser’ during the term: CA @rdGp Ot students then demonsttated°! what’ ‘they ‘had! learned°if? Sparish' ‘and English during the terin, atid were warm ly applauded by all present. Then the prizes were! awarded to the girls and boys that won a place on the honor roll for the school term. They were Class A (Eng- lish and Spanish): Nestro Casta fieda, Orlando Garcia, Josefina Garcia, Amelia Fernandez, Edna Machin, Onelia Fernandez, Edilio Garcia, and Evelio Baso. Class B (English and Spanish): Ivan Wat son, Rose Watson, Justo Torres, Vivian Garcia, Sergio Baso, Alba Rodriguez, Rose Alfonso and Lydia Izquierdo. Acting President Medina and Mr. Archer of the Monroe County schools made eloquent speeches, and praised the faculty of the school for the work they had ac- complished in the term, and wish- ed them many more years of suc- cess, as they had ved in the term just coming to 4 close Cakes and refreshments were served won by the “Key West's Smartest and Most Exclusive” Tomorrow Night Is BALLOON NIGHT AT FRANK SABINI'S CLUB LA CONGA No Admission. Cover or Minimum Charges and Miss Calico are expected to arrive in Key West June 9 start rehearsals. The Music Hour will be held Sunday afternoon, July 3, at Bay- view Park*tunder the sponsorship of the Key “West Ministerial As- sociation ‘and under the direction of Miss Edna B: Smith, musical director. Among the numbers to be pre sented on the Music Hour are “Unfold Ye Portals”, “Praise Ye the Father” and two numbers from “The Redemption” by Charles Gounod. Two special features of the Music will be a concert by a 55- piece orchestra from the Christian Church of Miami and several se- lections played on a Hammond organ by Isabel Shaffer of WIOD. Both meeting called for to- night will be in charge of Miss Edna B. Smith, chairman of the music committee for the Overseas Highway Celebration, July 2-4. to MAYOR WOULD LET ELECTION MATTERS DROP STATES THAT HE IS WILLING TO CALL THINGS OFF AND WORK FOR THE INTEREST OF THE CITY Asked this morning what his intentions were regarding any ac- tion which is contemplated being taken by the city council at a meeting tonight, Mayor Willard M. Albury told The Citizen: “The election is over and as far as I am concerned I have finished with everything in connection with it. best and will now devote my time to bringing about matters which will be for the best interests of Key West “Regarding the attitude of cer- tain mmebers of the council, I have nothing to say except that I am willing to let the past remain with the election and shake hands with the members of the council | = who feel hi tagonized actions have an~ and all get to gethgs.and work wholeheartedly. for the interest of our city.” CUBA COMING IN TOMORROW VESSEL HAS BEEN OFF OF RUN FOR PAST FIVE WEEKS Steamship Cuba, of the P. and O. company, is due to arrive port tomorrow afternoon at th regular hour en route to Tampa with freight and passengers from Havana. The vessel has been off the for about five weeks, going f to Norfolk for repairs, cer changes and general overhaul, and then took up the run b Miami and Havana, while rida went on drydock ne Cuba was to have arriv at Key West on the morning of June 9, but gdvices received last Friday were that the vessel would resushe the run leaving Ha vana in the morning and arriving tomorrow afternoon. I acted only as I thought |. bury, Returned To City Saturday Afternoon Returning from the official visit to Havana which was made for the purpose of extending an in- vitation to President Federico La Bru. of Cuba, and other members of the governmental bodies, to at- tend the Overseas Highway Cele- bration, the Key West delegation told The Citizen Saturday after- noon that they had a wonderful visit. Nothing which could be done to lend aid to their mission was left undone, and the officials themselves did everything possi- ble to make their brief stay in Havana one of the most interest- ing and was productive of great- er pleasure and success than was anticipated. Upon their arrival in Havana they were greeted by an array of the highest officials in Cuba, in- |cluding: Pedro Varela. Nogueita, Director General .of the National Defense, and representative of the secretary of that ‘body, who was made an adopted son of Key West in recognition of his erforts to bring about the meetings and al- so because cf his manifest inter- est in Key West and its citizens. Other Officials Other members of the receiving body were: Assistant to the Presi- dent of the Rebulic; Assistant to the Chief of the Constitutional Army. Angel G. Alfonso; Dr. F Juerra, representing the Secretary of State; Captain Antonio Tturrey, Lieutenant Juan Echemendia, Lieutenant Manuel Gonzales Soler, Lieutenant Juan sistants to the Secre tional Defense; First Lieutenant Luis Vervantes, repre- senting the chief of the National Navy; Patricio Laguardia and Captain Alvaro Moreno, _ repre senting the Mayor of . Havana, Ri io Eerra, represent the Gov- ernor of the Provine¢, ah Havana s. Terry, Antonio Pardo so Rivero San- fs jhe assoc evoluciona ries endin Cagrera and Pablo Pu special committees from the ional Veterans; Euse bio L. Dardet, commissioner, Car- lor M. Quartos, delegate from the office of the chief of information, Rene Bolivar, chief of the Depart- ment for the Protection of Tour- ist ‘ollowing the reception of the visitors, who were: Mayor Willard M. Albury, Great Light of the Caballeros de la Luz Frank Fiei- C.-<, Cubanos; ing the Cuban Club; Enrique representing the San Institute, and Warren head of the Offical Com- r of the Celebration, started (Continaed on Page Four? “Still Topping Them All” —with— Otto Divanti and His Orchestra . HABANA-MADRID CLUB Key West's Finest ——NO COVER CHARGE—— CO. PHONE 598