The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 13, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 140. Wrecking Tug Warbler Goes ~ To Aid Of Distressed Ship Vessel Left Here Yesterday | Afternoon At 2 O'clock Enroute To Scene; 35: Miles SE Of Miami Wrecking Tug Warbler sailed yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock to contact and take in tow the Steamship City of Alma, which was benig towed by the Revenue | Cutter Moja’ The City of Alma is owned by the Waterman Steamship Co. She had engine troubles and was about 35 miles southeast of Mi- ami when taken in tow by the Mojave. Wireless messages were receiv- ed at the Porter Dock company. asking that the Warbler be sent to take the vessel in tow for the | port of Mobile. | TWO OF LOCAL PASTORS BEING RETURNED HERE| | 1 TOLLE AND HOWELL COMING BACK: PEELE TO BE RE- PLACED BY J. P. LILLY FROM TAMPA \ | Rev. Joe A. Tolle, pastor of the First Methodist (Stone) Church, and O, C. Howell of the Ley Me-/| morial Church, have been assign- | ed by the Florida Methodist Conference to serve their re- spective churches here for an- other year, Rev. Shuler Peele, of the Flem- | ing Street Methodist Church, has | been assigned to duty at Winter | Garden, near Orlando, and will | be replaced here by Rev. J. P.| Lilly of Sarah Spencer Me-/ morial Church of Tampa. J. F., Yancey has been appointed to! serve the Matecumbe , church’ 5 ‘ag supply pastor. . Rev. Peele returned: to?! Key |!': West on Saturday... afternoon, ! and predched his farewett Sermon | last night, and will leave the city on Wednesday en route’. to his| new station. | Rev. Peele since coming to Key West has made numerous friends, | not only among his congrega- | tion, but throughout the entire, city as well, and his departure | will be exceedingly regretted by his numerous friends and ac quaintances, all of whom wi him continued success, health and happiness in his new field of operations. a Queen Vote Balloting at the Saturday night dance at Pena’s Garden of Roses for the three leaders in the race for Miss Key West honors was about evenly distributed. Miss Susan LaKin, sponsored by Woman's Club, still leads the group with a total of 463. Miss Dorethy Betancourt, sponsored by Social Club Marti, has 421 votes, Miss Bernice Brantley, Lions Club's choice, has 403 votes. Balloting revealed that Miss Brantley received 113 votes Sat- KEEP O | FIFTH ANNIVERSARY FINDS }ments, borrowers who a few | deserve and can be trusted to car- most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Che Hey West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. CAMERA CLUB ARRANGES TO | MEET TONIGHT MOE TROGEES ecescn som: cmon MADE BY HOME | ros ronrose or senrzcr. OWNERS’ ASSN. EXHIBITION Tonight in the court house at 8 .o’clock members of | county GREAT PART OF ITS WORK HAVING ALREADY BEEN) ACCOMPLISHED the Camera Club will gather for |their regular semi monthly busi- | ness meeting. The meeting will . (Special to The Citizen) \be held in the jury. room on the WASHINGTON, D. C., June 13. | ‘cwith more . than: 750,000. bor second floor and for the purpose rowers making satisfactory pay-|0f perfecting plans for the com- ing exhibition to be held by the club. Prints will be submitted i judgment to the jury chosen for 3 TY\the purpose and the subjects today with a great part of its) ,ominated will be chosen for the work accomplished. gallery showing on July 2. Since Looking back to the troubled | all the members are interested in days when the HOLC granted its| the coming showing it is expected loans, when the average borrow- | that the jury will be hard pressed er was two years delinquinent in| to select the best pictures from both principal and interest on his|the many good ones which will then existing mortgage and far in| be entered. arrears in taxes, General Mana-! Each picture that is chosen for ger Charles A. Jones revealed | hanging will be attractively mat- records which show three-fourths | ted and titled so as to show the of the million harassed persons| subject to the best . advantage. years ago were faced with the al- most certain loss of their homes, the Home Owners’ Loan Corpora- tion reaches its fifth anniversary | who sought aid are on the road to| Full technical data on the “shot” | debt-free home ownership. More will also be another feature of than 100,000 others are still being: the display. It is extremely im- aided in their struggle, while! portant that pictures, or nega- more than 30,000 already have tives, to be submitted, be brought paid their loans in full. |to the meeting tonight as the The records of those borrow-| amount of time left for complet- ers not only brought from Mr.|ing the work of arranging the Jones a tribute to men and wom- | many details incident to such ex-| en who could fight their way | hibitions is limited. oReER back from the worst depression in| _ It is also understood, it is said, American history, but an endorse- | there is no limit to the type of ment of the present housing drive | subject matter that may ‘be ex- and inet of the most liberal hibited. The decision ofgéhe.pic- terms tp efieourage home owner- | ture jury will be final. Theré is ship. “The home owner has proved good security”, said Mr. Jones. “Many arguments are be- ing offered the home buyer to- been ceiving the largest number of votes at the exhibition may be printed, along with the picture of the photographer in the Overseas Highway Celebration Souvenir day—arguments that he should — >. sid take advantage of the best terms | dition of The Key West Citizen. and the lowest interest rates ever | REAP POF UROL BOE sc "ruc? REHEARSE HISTORY true. At the same time, it should be pointed out that American P AGEANT TONIGHT ty out those liberalized contracts. | —__ The records of the HOLC are ade- | FRID. AY ENTIRE COLORFUL quate proof”. | PAGEANT WILL BE for | a possibility that the picture re-| LEGION POST PLANS SESSION MEETING OF ORGANIZATION | "WILL BE HELD TOMOR- ROW Members of Arthur Sawyer. Post 28 American Legion are be- ing notified ofe the important meeting which will be held at the usual hour tomorrow. in the Legion hall on Whitehead street. Report of the recent conven- tion is to be read and one of the most important matters to be con- sidered is the question of re- abilitating the building, which is badly in need of this work. A full attendance of the mem- bership of the post is requested | Lead Saturday urday night, Miss LaKin 111, and Miss Betancourt 93 Miss Martha Carbonell, spon- sored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, has 147. Miss Lilia Acevedo, Cuban Club, has 41, and Miss Ada Rodriguez, San Carlos Institute, 36 One more dance will be held before the brilliant Cabaret dance, June 22, which will be the last dance at which ballots may be cast. The dance this week will be Saturday night at the Habana- Madrid, with Mrs. Eva Warner presenting another colorful floor show. | | REHEARSED Key West’s historical pageant, to be held Saturday, July 2 the romance of Pirates, Spanish Con- | quistadores, Indians, | that is the Island's history, and a Prayer and Praise Service Sun- day, July 3, in connection with | the Fiesta, go into rehearsal to- {night and Friday. | Tonight at the Harris School at 8 o’clock a group of over 200 will assemble for a general out- line of the pageant, receive music, and hold the first choral re- |hearsal, Miss Edna B. Smith, di- | rector, announces. | On Friday, the first rehearsal of the entire pageant will be held at 7:30 p. m. at High School audi- torium. This will include songs and the various historical units. The entire cast will be at this re-} hearsal. Members of the Junior Wom- an’s Clubs, Senior Woman's Clubs. Lions Club, Rotary Club; and Junior Chamber of Com- merce are asked to be at the re- hearsal tonight and Friday. Stetson Kennedy, writer of the state Federal Writers’ project is composing the material, assisted by Judge Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr., who is local director of the proj- ect. Judge Esquinaldo has made a thorough survey of the colorful | history of the city, and is combin- ing his material with that pos- “sessed by Mr. Kennedy. PARTED 80 YEARS: WED Montgomery City, Mo.—Parted by a misunderstanding fifty years ago, William W_. Hutcheston, 76, and Mrs. Price Gosnell, 75. both of St. Louis, Hlinois, met last March for the first time in 47 years. Their engagement, broken in the eighties, was renewed and they were married with children and grandchildren of both parties attending the ceremony. Wreckers | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1938. OLD GLORY HAS OUDLY waving over our na- | tion for 161 years, Old Glory | will celebrate another birthday on! June 14. Our forefathers gloried ; in this beloved symbol, which has | been handed down from genera- | |} tion to generation as the priceless | theritage of a liberty-loving peo-| ple. Born amid the first flames | America’s fight for freedom, of it to lead the way to our nation as year by year it has marched with | a.renewed hope and a high re- |solve along the’ Road of Destiny. ; | Much of our flag's early history | |is shrouded in mystery. We know > that a flag of thirteen stars and stripes was adopted by the Con- tinental Congress on June 14,| |1777, but we do not know posi- tively by whom it was designed or where it was first flown. A popular legend attributes the making of the first Stars and Stripes to Betsy Ross, a flagmak- ler of Philadelphia. | Flagmaking materials were 'scarce in those days and this was often assevere handicap to those who wished to display the new) banner. When John Paul Jones; | was at Portsmouth, N. H., prepar-! ing to sail abroad-on the Ranger, ! |the young ladies of that seaport! fashioned out of their Star-Spangled Banner which was flown to the breeze in Ports- mouth harbor on July.4, 1777. Another flag was fabricated a few weeks later by the defenders of Fort Stanwix, N. Y., when an officer donated his cloak for the blue field, soldiers gave their {shirts for the write stripes, while the red stripes were fashioned | flagstaff, raised on a bastion near- jest the enemy on August 3. | These are well-authenticated jaccounts of the early, yet prob- ably not the garliest, displays of ashore. We may smile a little at these primitive efforts at flag- making, yet we cannot forget the pride and patriotism which in- spired the makers. Old Glory first floated over a Lieutenant Presley N. O’Bannon, of the Marine Corps, and Mid- | | CONDUCTS TOURS | TRAVELING PASSENGER | AGENT ARRIVED HERE THIS | | MORNING WITH PARTY j | | | Douglas Wilson, traveling pas-! ; senger agent of the Peninsular | | and Occidental | Was an arrival on the Steamship} | Cuba this Steamship Co., morning from Tampa, | conducting a party of 61 mem- bers of a good-will group on a visit to Cuba. Among the travelers in the party were Walter S. Igou, offi- cial of the N. C. and St. L. Rail- road; Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh Crum- Mr. Crumbliss is the presi- dent of the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce. Alvin Shipp, Chat- tanooga city treasurer, and Charies Crane, associated with | the Tennessee Free Press. | The group is composed of resi- | dents of Tennessee with a few from Georgia, and is composed of fabout 65 residents of various | cities in Tennessee, with about eight from cities in Georgia. Mr. Wilson said that he will re- turn with the visitors Friday and | will, in Tampa, meet another par- ty of travelers to Cuba and re turn with them on the Cuba next Monday morning. | bliss. “Still Topping Them All” —with— Otto Divanti and His Orchestra HABANA-MADRID CLUB Key West's Finest ——NO COVER CHARGE—— UT ALL INSECT PESTS--MOSQUITOS, ETC., WITH GOOD SCREENS ALL has continued to wave through|' troublous or tranquil times, and; , Highest honors are accorded the Stars and Stripes by military own and! bodies and patriotic groups on Flag Day. June 14. U. S. Marines | |their mothers’ gowns a beautiful, of the “color guard”, shown above, proudly display our National DOUGLAS WILSON PRICE FIVE CENTS WAVED OVER NATION 161 YEARS Planes Assigned Here For Road Celebration — IID IL LILI SILI Vayor Albury In Receipt ‘VISITOR ENJOYS | ° FISHING OUTING, ©! Letter From Admiral Allen Relative To Mat- Dr. Edward Thompson, of Daytona Beach, who was at- ter tending the meeting of the East Coast Dental Society. accompanied by his son, Ed- ward, Jr. left on the after- noon bus for his home. Ed- ward, Jr., expects to return for a longer stay some time this summer. The doctor is a great friend of Bernie Papy and Dr. Armando Cobo, and spent quite a few hours fishing, concluding his angling ex- periences yesterday, after the most entertaining time he has had in years. he mid. Mayor Willard M. Albury todey received a letter from Rear Ad- miral W. H. Allen, relative to the assignment of planes for the ¢ele- bration, which will be held in | Key West July 2-4. | Rear Admiral Allen is the com- mandant of the Seventh .Neval District. His letter reads: “This is to inform you that the OPIS SS SF EG | commanding officer of the Neval TARGET PRACTICE |ocee seas arr coms TO BEGIN TUESDAY | visitsto Key West on July 2 | 1998, on the oceasion ‘of the in- 1 Flag along with their regimental colors. | | auguration of the Overseas High- |shipman Mann, of the Navy, rais- sign, Congress then authorized a} ‘ed our flag over the captured for- return of the flag to its original tress at Derne, Tripoli, where it form of thirteen stripes, one star | was flung to the breeze on April being added thereafter for ea¢h| 27, 1805. state entering the Union. Nearly every schoolboy knows’ Gone are the earlier flags of that “by the dawn’s early light” |colonial days; the- rattlesnake on September 14, 1814, Francis spreading its coils over thirteen} from the petticoat of a soldier’s|Scott Key saw the Star-Spangled stripes with its slogan of defi-/ Soldier was wife. This flag was flown from a/Banner still waving over Fort!ance, “Don’t tread on me”; autres eh | McHenry, at Baltimore, and com-|Grand Union Flag, bearing the |posed the spirited song which is'British crosses of St. George and now the national anthem. \St. Andrew where the white stars | From time to time slight chang-'in a blue field now appear. An- | @ in the flag have been authoriz-|chors, pine trees, beavers and oth- our national flag afloat and/ed by Congress. ‘The flags dis-'er colonial flag symbols in infin- | played at Tripoli and at Fort Mc-|ite variety have vanished, save as Henry had fifteen stars stripes design. Two new stars/signia in state flags. and stripes had been added when, Forty-eight gleaming _ stars, Vermont and Kentucky came in- representing a united nation, to the Union, and our flag was of shine among the fluttering folds fortress of the Old World when 'that pattern from 1795 until 1818. of Old Glory as it passes another} Realizing that too many stripes milestone on its march |would mar the beauty of the de-|the years. eeee Gives Briliant FHA MEETING Shooting Exhibition ON WEDNESD AY A crowd of over 200 per- sons witnessed the expert | through ‘Hicks and they remain as a part of the in-| There will be Subcaliber firing | with 37 MM Gun at Fort Taylor} on Tuesday, Thursday and Fri-j day of this week between the hours of 1:00 and 3:30 p. m., ac-} way there”. FAMED BUGLER RETIRES ‘cording to announcement made! Washington — Staff Sergeant by Captain William L. Johnson, prank Witchey, BC A. whose bugle | sounded taps when the Unknown | buried in Arlington | Cemetery on Armistice Day, 1920, Shipping in this area is noti-|has retired on a pension after ied to proceed with caution. thirty years of military life. reat Progress Made Raising Celebration Fund The campaign that was recently, Fred J. Dion‘... inaugurated for raising & fund of| ig hs + $7,500 to take care of expenses ini se st Ivatge & D r is connection with the propdsed | th ip. Morgan 4.4.5.40- Overseas Highway Celebration is Benjamin M. Russell —. | being waged with excellent re-! Walter Saunders sults. | Dr, Julio De Poo | Jones Duncan ~ A total of $5,786.75 of the re- s quired amount has already been ‘Win, Cutty The danger area will be five | fi = Syvee Baw we shooting exhibition given by Captain M. E. Hicks, world famous shooter, at the Trum- bo airport Saturday after- noon. . Some of the amazing shots the captain executed were © shooting two revolvers at one time and hitting two objects, firing all six revolver shots in less than a second. an exhibi- tion of quick draw stuff, shooting a picture of an In- dian head in full headdress with 150 shots in three min- utes, clean shooting out of the lead in a 30-30 cartridge in the air, shooting holes in the center of pennies. Clay pigeon shooting was masterful. One series es- pecially was brilliant. Five Pigeons were thrown into the air, and tossed around into difficult positions from the high wind. Hicks smack- ed each one, with quick aims and nipped the last when a foot or so off the ground. With two pigeons in the air. Hicks shot one, flipped a cartridge out of the air, hit it, and then smashed the other Secceeesesesssececeesee® AROUND. SOUTH STATE DIRECTOR OF ORGANI- ZATION TO BE HEARD ON OCCASION Every person interested in any or all of the provisions of the Federal Housing Administration are invited to attend a meeting at} the Public Library, Wednesday evening, June 15, at 8 p. m., un- der sponsorship.of the First Na- | tional Bank of Key West M. M. Parrish, state director of F.HA., headquarters in Jacksonville, will be the speaker of the evening. Mr. Parrish will be accompanied by C. W. Butler, istant director of Miami area, and E. J. Robbins, chief under- writer of Miami area. The lat- ter plans to stay over for the purpose of holding consultations with interested residents on Thursday, should the need arise. with FOR CONVENTION Charles E. Smith, agent of the de-Mallory Lines in Key West, who has been named as a dele- gate to the Rotary Convention in San Francisco, Ca left yester- day for Jacksonvi Sebastian Cabrera, who will also attend the convention, left Saturday after- for a business visit in Mi ami and will then proceed to Jacksonville At that city the Florida delegs ton will board a special train and proceed to New Orleans and in the Crescent City be joined by the delegation from Georgia and travel in company to the Califor- nia city where the convention is to be held. noon RIDA subscribed, it is revealed. Top- ping the contributions is that of $3,000 from the Overseas High- way Commission, which was agreed upon at a meeting of the | board Friday. | The list of contributions is pub- lished herewith: | Previously acknow- ledged _..... Overseas Highway Commission Leopolda Herrera Frank Orta Juan Soriano Clarence Russell Charles Aronovitz Isadore Appelrouth Fred Auerbach Raul A. Carbonell Caraballo & Sons Zaccaria Diaz Sergio Esquinaido E. L. McGee M. Holtsberg First Title Guaranty & Abstract Co. Florida Press Wheeler Gandolfo John A. Gardner — Pedro Gonzalez Antonio Garcia E. C. Gomez Frank Johnson J. G. Kantor . Benj. Lopez Funeral Home Curro Bar Ramonin Restaurant Ramon Rubio Guadelupe Salgado A Friend Triumph Coffee Milis A. J. Betancourt Gulf Stream Cycle Works | - $2,363.50 1.00 1.00 1.00 25 10.00 10.00 10,00 2.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 50 10.00 10.00 5.00 1.00 10.00 50 2.00 200 7 0.0 10.00 19.66 19 Charlie's Chilli Parlor .. |W. Curry Harris oe G, R. Steadman P. J. Moore — Gato Real Estate Improvement Co. .. | a Palos Gas pany ... | Perey M. Roberts | Naomi Sjursen _.. Kathryn Monsalvatge _ SSSsSsssssssse | | 3,000.00: Catherine Carbonell Fausto Castillo Zaccaria Diaz ... Hugo Diamandi Esquinaldo Photo Gulf Life Insurance Co. Louis Grabriel, Jr Georgiana Hernandez R. Kirchik Jose Sanchez Harold R. Pinder Bermuda Meat Market - J. Lancelot Lester Pierce Brothers Berlin A. Sawyer Pepper Plumbing Duval Club ‘ Estevez Photo Studio Curry Moreno Stephen Lowe Frank Holtsberg Ross Sawyer . Key West Undertaking Co, Key West Drug Co. John Gates Howard Getes Albert Boza a Richardson's Grocery . J. B. Sullivan Voght's Barber Shop Singieton's Machine Shop Armour’: Employes Total— $5,786.75 (The contribution which ap- peared in the lest list published. crediting Dr. E. with $10, should have = ae Rodriguez instead.) SS — CONTRACTING & ENGINEERING CO. PHONE 598