The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 16, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 143. Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. Tampa Plans Toy Send:Large: Contingent To Key Overseas Highway Celebration Commerce Body, Business aS And Citizens In General To Make Trip (Special to The Citizen) TAMPA, June 16.—Plans for the largest.inter-city visit ever. made by, jthe local outlined at a meeting yester- day for the projected visit to Key West for the. Overseas Highway Celebration July 2-4. Warren Smith, General Manager of the Celebration, who attended the meeting at the invitation of the Cham- ber, outlined the program for the three-day fiesta. Dudley Haddock, Cham- ber Secretary and chairman of the meeting, suggested “the local contingent go. to and return the night of the Fourth. The plan was en- thusiastically adoptedand to- “| Jaycees To Have Historical Signs For r Bridge Celebration CONTRIBUTORS TO ROAD CELEBRATION. Sovececcencsovecescocces Previously acknow- ledged Elwood Carbonell Emilio Garcia Antonio Herce - Julio Lopez - Juan Mayg Ramon G. Mendoza Jesus Sanchez — Pedro Juan Santana -_, Palm Grocery Oscar Solano . $5,934.20 2.00 1,00 50 2.00 50 1.00 WILSON HIGHEST IN LOYOLA UNIV. | PHARMACY CLASS. RECEIVED LA. PHARMACEU- | TICAL, I. L. LYONS MEDALS, DEAN McCLOSKEY, STU- © Louis A. Wilson, son of Mrs. Corinne Wilson of this city, re- ceived the Louisiana State Phar- 1.00} “| Miami ‘}were made, the work being done morrow the Chamber will be-| maceutical medal for the highest Many W.P. PAL Projects, . Benefiting City, . Being Pushed By Organiza- tion At a supper meeting last night in the Stone Church Annex, the |Junior Chamber of Commerce announced that it will attempt to \have the historical signs con- ‘structed and placed around the ‘city for the benefit of visitors, be- |fore the Highway Celebration, | July 4, It was announced that many jof the W.P.A. projetts advocated in the Jaycees’ 15-point pro- gram, recently released, will be credited to the organization. Work on a number of the proj- ects has been pressed lately, and itis expected that a great num- ber of them will go through shortly. Members of the body will also take part in the Historical Pag- eant, which will be presented July 2. Captain of the unit elect- ed was Jerome Berkowitz. Reports of the delegates to the Beach state convention by state Jaycees, the efficiency of the organization, and the good times had by the members at the Convention reviewed. Key West received much publicity through SCOUTS ENJOY OVERNIGHT CAMP AT CORAL ISLE SEVERAL GUESTS WERE IN- CLUDED IN ASSEMBLAGE; BOYS HAD BREAKFAST AT | CAMP | Eight tenderfoot E | Troop 52, and one scout of Troop 42, of Crescent City, under the leadership of Senior Patrol Lead- er Arent Sjursen and Scoutmas- overnight test camp at Coral Isle jlast night. The group hiked from the scout hall to the Casino, where blankets were unrolled and beds their assistants prepared a supper of hunter’s stew, cocoa, bread and! apple butter. though there was a large quantity of food prepared, there was. noth- ing left. After cleaning up and fixing the dishes scouts assembled around the fire for songs and test passing for the second class. ’erez passed the compass test. ieesleses under the eooking test. up Guests at the camp were: a Anne Livingston, Miss Seg | Calico and Gerald Saunders. Miss pressed themselves as very much; surprised with the tasty cooking Cooks Bert Cates, and J. B. Sawyer reported at the conclusion of the meal that al- KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1938. scouts . of )PUFPOSe of establishing a fertiliz- ter Victor Larsen, enjoyed 8M | York”, Mr. i Paul Herrick and Calvin Es | Schulsinger Reports Much Progress Made Relative To Operating Fertilizer Plant Head Of Corporation In- tends To Return To Key West Shortly In Interest Of Matter : M. M. Schulsinger, president of the Representative Trading Cor- poration of New York, who was here several weeks ago for the er plant, writes The Citizen ad- wising of progress. “Upon our to New Schulsinger writes, “we immediately contacted the | Clyde-Mallory Lines and entered return into negotiations with officials for| |prepared, while the cooks and| the use of a portion of the prem- | | ises owned by them in Key West, | but as yet have not completed the arrangements. “However, we expect to have | the matter completely setiled | within the next few days follow- ing which we plan, as stated to! The Citizen before leaving, to re- turn on June 22 for the purpose of letting contracts for the neces- | sary alterations and repairs to the Scouts Calvin Cates, Dick Noyes, | building, and from that point we | J. B. Sawyer, Paul Herrick, Jr, | will proceed without delay”. ohn Yates, Bert Cates and Ernest | ARRANGING FOR PARKING SPACE Calico and Mr. Saunders led Os cana BEADY FOR VISI- scouts in a few songs. They ex-| TORS DURING HIGHWAY CELEBRATION State Director CABARET DANCE ‘TOBE GIVEN AT HABANA-MADRID | WAS SCHEDULED FOR PUB- LIC LIBRARY IN CON- NECTION WITH HIGHWAY CELEBRATION Several important changes in \the plans of the Overseas High way Celebration Committee were announced tgday by. John N. |Costar,.chairman. The cabaret dance originally scheduled to be | night of June 22, will be held at the Habana-Madrid on the same date. The price will be fifty jcents per person, and each ad- mission ticket will be good for two votes in the Queen’s race. The.regular Habana-Madrid Or- chestra will furnish the music, j;and an excellent floor show will be presented. The dance scheduled on the published program for Sunday night, July 3, has been cancelled Explains Provisions In FHA. Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14* Fahrenheit Slayer Of ash’Boy Sentenced To Die In Electric Chair M. M. Parrish Date Of Execution Will Be Set By Governor Cone; Prisoner Has Nothing To Say id Section Of wn Of Key West Can Be Beautified, New Section Built, Parrish Declares (By Associated Press) MIAMI, June 16—Fravk- lin Pierce McCall, 21, was sentenced today to die for his $10,000 ransom kidnap- ing of Jimmy Cash, Caution- brary yesterday afternoon, M. M.|ing the crowded courtroom | Parrish, director of the Federal) “ - = Housing Administration in Flor-|to keep quiet, Circuit Judge ida, told a representative audience | that Key West presented a won-|H. F. Atkinson called the derful opportunity for a building | minister’s son to the bench. program. The address was spon- Speaking at the Key West Li- iheld at the Public Library on the} sored by the First National Bank. A summary of the three titles of the Act revealed that Key West's old and new sections could the F.H.A. with low interest and long terms. Under title one, the older sec- tion of Key West, that in which the unique and beautiful architec- ture over which visitors are pro- fuse in their admiration, section Ser ae ae a of up to $10,. Under section two, buildings without living quarters, such as filling stations, restaurants, etc., up to $25,000 may be constructed. benefit by loans made through | |as the committee has decided to! The interest for these two sec-| “You pleaded guilty to the offense as charged of kid- naping and holding James | Bailey Cash, Jr., for ransom. ‘What have you to say for yourself,” he demanded, Mc- Call merely shook his head. be | find you guilty as ‘Yn the indictment,” ~ the elderly Judge continued, | “the same being a capital |offense under the laws of Florida, and I sentence you gina city-wide canvas to de- termine how many Tampans will be able to make the trip. This action came after F. IM. Traynor, vice president of the Florida Portland Cement Co., and prominent in local civic affairs, pointed out that Miami in recent years has gradually cut into the business Tampa firms have been doing with Key ‘the Jaycee members. A committee is considering low- ering the dues of the organiza- tion. average during four years in the pharmacy department of Loyola University in connection with! commencement exercises held} which was evidenced in the meal prepared for the evening's repast.'! Scout Billy Livingston, son of | Sufficient parking space for all | |hold no dance on Sunday night |under the auspices of the cele- | bration committee. And no ‘tions is 9.72 percent to be paid! within five years., This is the/| lowest rate anywhere in the coun- to be held until such time as May 29 in New Orleans, ven ana. Mr. Wilson, who has Sees pres- | ident of the Pharmacy class since | his freshman year, received also} the I. L. Lyons and Company medal for the highest average his | ‘CASH PRIZES FOR AMATEURS (Special to The Citizen) ;senior year; the Dean John F. Mc- | Closkey key for high scholastic, will be awarded amateur photo- professional and ethical standards! graphers who make the best pic- | and outstanding work in extra tures at Silver Springs on July 4} curricular activities during four! when a candid camera field day years; the Student Council key will be staged. OCALA, June 16.—Cash prizes | for service to the university in| A top prize of $25 will be given Mrs. Livingston, was a guest of the scouts for the camp. He has taken an active part in scoutwork since coming to Key West, and the scouts of the city hope to have said. rest the boys were up at 5:30, and | after a healthy swim for several |minutes, sat down to a breakfast of hot cakes, cyrup and cocoa. Those making the camp were Sawyer, Paul Herrick, Jr., Rich- | automobiles coming to Key West | dances will be held at the: Public for the Overseas Highway Cele- | ry. bration July 2-4, is being secured } The queen’s dance announced by the committee in charge of | this phase of the work of pre- him attend other outings, it was| paring the city for the tremend-| | ous influx of visitors which is cer- Retiring time was promptly 11/| tain for the gala fiesta. |o’clock, and after a good night's! The work of cleaning up the lots available for parking pur-/} poses is rapidly progressing, and | the committee emphasizes the! |need for keeping the streets open for the greatest volume of traffic Calvin Cates, Bert Cates, J. B.; | Key West has ever seen. The clean-up committee, of | | Sor Saturday night, June 18, at he Habana-Madrid, will be held u- schedued. The regular price lof twenty-five cents per person | will be charged, and each ticket will entitle the holder to one vote in the queen’s race as before. try, although it appearg high, Mr. Parrish stated. Under the third section, new to $25,000 may be constructed, interest is 6.49 percent. Title one is the most liberal of the titles, Mr. Parrish stated. Title two, section one, allows buildings with living quarters up | such as camps, hotels, etc. The} Rehearsal of the historial pag-! building of new homes in new | you shall be delivered to the Superintendent of the State Prison at Raiford. There to be held safely until a death sentence shall be carried out.” The Judge said the Gover- |eant on Friday night will be held as formerly announced, and every member of the cast of more than |300 persons is expected to be present. extra curricular activities. jard Noyes, Phillip Bradley, John | which A. O’Sweeney is chairman, sections of the city. These may|nor would fix the date for be residences, etc. Section two | regards buildings of around $5,- the execution, and specified 000,000 and would not pertain to Key West. Section tiitee allows|‘h® Prisoner was taj be: put mortgage groups of ‘homes or to death by) electricity, .aud apartments. These loans go from | for the best fish picture ta! through a glass eso Fe bisgineras Paradise, tt at the Springs, fai | Yates, John Marzyck, Ernest|has been granted the use of the | | Perez, Billy Livingston, and Arent} WPA trucks for the removal of | a_ beauty |Sjursen. The group returned to; debris from lots of owners who | teem- | Key West at 7:45 this morning. are not finangially able to pay tor} ‘NEW PASTOR TO ARRIVE TONIGHT bWest'and declared that if laiot dete | $16,000 to $200,000. concluded with the, custom -gorhething’ is not done imme- Title three, if the loeal banking “ God, have mere’ institution does not wish ‘to carry j ary. May. ai In the Loyola graduating class | there were 199 who received diplomas, diately torédstore former re- lations with Key Westers that: this basiness would dis- appear entirely. that 50 of Tampa’s business firms send ceavuetaiies to the celebration. _ Ybor city is also making elaborate’ plans to attend ready chartered for the trip) by Tampans, three have been chartered by Ybor City resi- dents, The Cuban Club and other Latin organizations) plan to send several bus loads of visitors to Key West | for the celebration. Smith discussed the cele- bration se ith var- In ad-| dition to the two buses al-| Mr. Wilson has also sucsenetitly | taken the Louisiana state board, examination and is employed in| a pharmacettical establishment in! NORE SPONGES "SOLD YESTERDAY Few spongés were displayed jfor offerings at the sale | which ‘took place yesterday on the Municipal sponge dock. Altogeth- jer there were 280 bunches. Of wool sponges there were! 132 bunches which sold for $315.- 34; yellow sponges numbered 117 bunehes and sold for $50.27 and the 31 bunches of grass brought a price of $7.96, Top prices. paid for the lereer} lots in each of the three grades were: For weol, 71 bunches jbrought $24299, approximalély | | $3.46 the bunch. Of vellow there! was an offering of 96 bunches which sold for $23.49 and the high price for grass was $5.61 for | 19 bunches. mg with tame fish thi of boat passengers’ hands. Another prize of $15 will be given for the best bathing beauty | Seat out, New Orleans this summer. With picture and one of $10 for the | He urged him is Mrs. Wilson, who was Miss best general scenic shot made ‘anywhere on the grounds. An annual swimming pass will |be awarded for the best shot of “Sunday”, a tamed wild deer at Silver Springs, and a $5 prize will go for the best snapshot made of wild monkeys taken from the deck of a jungle cruise boat. While all competing photo- graphs must be made on July 4,; entrants will have until midnight! August 1 to submit their pictures. Each picture, according to rules, must be accompanied by its nega- tive. Ninety percent of the under- water mivies of the country are made at Silver Springs because of | clarity ‘of the water and special “tga praied Photographic facili- MAKE CHANGE IN” MAIL SCHEDULES Changes in the mails each day | Popular, Thanks for the Mem- gman The Altar of Genius . CONCERT TONIGHT IN BAYVIEW PARK PROGRAM WILL FEATU | SANCHEZ Key West will be heard in the regular week- | Park, beginning at 8 o'clock. The program will be an inter-| esting one and will feature the, singing of Ernest Sanchez in pop- jular selections. Mr. Sanchez has ja clear, high tenor voice, which lends itself well to the melodic , ballads of the day. | This will be another of the weekly concerts which are pre- sented by the Federal Music Project and will be under the di- rection of Alfred Barroso, ; Program | March, The Chancellor Laurendeau King Hospitality Band} ily concert tonight at Bayview) such removal themselves. Lists of available rooms for | the accommodation of visitors are | being filed with the housing com- | mittee and will be recorded in! the office of the celebration head- quarters for the ,information of visitors. swome or eawesr PAGEANT, SERVICE. SINGERS REHEARSE Songs to be used in the Prayer | REV. J, P. LILLY TO FILL PUL- PIT AT FLEMING STREET METHODIST CHURCH | i Rev. J. P. Lilly, who will be e new pastor of the Fleming Street Methodist Church, will ar- rive tonight to resume his duties. Rev. Shuler Peele, who has}{ been transferred to Winter Gar- den, Florida, left last night. Appoint the loan on its bose alate te a company which will make the! al Bank of Key West’has gr to make any loans “which F.H.A. approves, Mr. Parrish oie In the United States mortgages to the amount of $1/500,000,000 have been insured by Bios Mr. Parrish con! In Flor- ida, $30,000,000 have ingur- ed, which places this age sgt in the country, nearly last in popula Sd ret tal loss in Florida been $482, | | with only two The jand Praise Service and Historical recent Methodist conference held | agencies which is self-supporting Pageant in the Overseas Fiesta | in. Lakeland, Florida. | It deals only with those who are | will be rehearsed tonight at the) Rey. Joe A. Tolle, of First | financially able to pay back loans High School Auditorium 8 o'clock, Director Miss Edna B. Smith an- ounces. Methodist church, who had been | attending the cogference of the’ Methodist churches of the Miami Mr. Parrish was introdueed by J. J. Trevor, vice president of the First National Bank. C. W. But- | Red Men are asked to meet at’ district, which was held in Lake- ler, assistant director of the Mi- the Harris School © tonight their part in the pageant Tomorrow night all the units in the Historical Pageant will, meet and the pageant run through once. This rehearse! will begin at 7:30 | city. p. m, at the High School Auditor- | jum. WOODMEN ATTENTION All members of Key West Camp, No. 23, W. O. W. are re- There will be a regular meet-| ing of the City Council held to- for jand, Fla, has returned to the | ami area, and E. J. Robbins, chief underwriter of the Miami ares, | | were present. | ee ea LAYER CAKES Biack Bottom, Pine- 35e loan. However, the First Nation-| on your soul.” . om He made no. POET on the $10,000 abduction Mc- Call confessed to having perpetrated at Princeton May 28, but remarked pri- |wately that “it was the most cold-blooded thing 1 ever |heard of—there were no mitigating circumstances im tment was made at the F.HA. is one of six government 413, case." McCall heard his doom without flinching. His face was impassive and he looked straight ahead. Afterward, under heavy guard, he was \taken to the elevator and re- turned to his cell on the 23rd floor. Jack Kehoe, defense at- torney appointed by the _court,said he thought M’Call were today announced from the} ories Robin postoffice. The morning outgo-| March, Habana Lecuona ing mail, which heretofore closed | Popular, Rosalie Porter at 11:30 daily, will hereafter close / Vocal by Ernest Sanchez at 11:45. Waltz, Estudiantina _ Waldteufel The afternoon mail. outgoing,) March, Felt Cornet _ Laurendeau will close at 6 o'clock each day, — Star oat Ban- except Sunday, ie Key quested to be present, bring fami-' night, beginning at 8 o'clock. This lies and friends, at K. of P. Hall, will be the second regular session | Fleming street, Thursday evening. 'of the month. 8:00 o'clock. State Manager EV. The only business seheduled | Miller will be present and would for tonight's session is of a rou-| like to meet ali members of the tine nature, while other matters camp. A good time for all who at- may come up during the course tend. June 15-2t of the meeting. POUND CAKE 1% For $12 Fleming Si. Phone S18 i of both the Tampa and Ybor city Chambers of Com- Watertown, Mass —A room in merce and reported great en- the home of Col. William J. Blake thusiasm was manifes' of this city is papered entirely Renee: with World War maps, showing where, i :Sectors where Blake saw action. DON'T FAIL TO CHASE THE HEAT AWAY-—SEE FAN PRICES ON PAGE TWO, SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING AND ENGINEERING COMPANY. PHONE 598 25¢ had received a fair trial yes- terday, and there would be no appeal. He said he fol- MADE UP OF MAPS (Continued on Page Two)