The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 18, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 145. Sponge Sales Held Yesterday CONTRIBUTORS TO ROAD CELEBRATION Grass Variety Was Most Numerous, While Many Bunches Of Wool Were Sold Previously acknow- ledged -. etaeel vet) $5,934.20 Long’s Furniture Store 10.00 Howard Overlin 10.00 Lewinsky’s Furniture Co. Offerings of 137 bunches of 7.00 | Che Key West Ctttzen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S.A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1938. OUTLINES NAVY?S's} PARTICIPATION EN’ HIGHWAY FIESTA MANAGER OF CELEBRATION IN RECEIPT OF TELEGRAM FROM SENATOR C. O. AN- DREWS Following is the copy of a tele- gram received today at Celebra- A yaaa wool sponge, 199 bunches of yel- low sponge and 777 bunches of grass made up the fotal displayed on the municipal sponge dock the sale yesterday. Ernest Perez Wells’ Lunch Room Aaron McConnell .. Plaza Restaurant Jose Ponce —... Sales of grass were the largest,|: The 777 bunches consisted :f eight different lots, the larg single lot having a total of 333))): bunches, which sold for $237.80. Next largest sale was of 137 bunches, which brought $98. Of wool sponge there were eight lots, also, the largest being of 35; bunches, selling for $94. One lot of 20 bunches sold for $77.71, and another lot of 28 bunches went for $63.71. Of yellow, the largest lot was 31 bunches, which sold for $22.10, while other lots brought prices varying from $3.41 to $14.79. Altogether, the wool offerings brought $266.63; yellow offerings, $68.57 and grass offerings, $486.66, making a total of $803.86. Da DAY: VARIOUS SCENES DUR- ING WEEK; ALL AT HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM Schedules for next week’s His- torical Pageant Rehearsals are as follows: Monday, H. S, Auditorium 7:38 p. m. Scene III. Pirates. Scene V. Wreck on the Reef. Scene VI. Cuban Immigration. Tuesday, H. 8, Auditorium 7:30 p. m. Scene VII_ Railroad. Scene VII. Rehabilitation. Scene IX. Formal Opening of. Overseas Highway. Thursday, H. S. Auditorium 7:30 p. m. Scene II. Conquistadore. vu. Ss. Wrecking Tug Warbler, which sailed from this port 2 o’clock on the afternoon of June 12, last Sunday, returned to port today at 11 o'clock and tied up at the Por- | ter Dock Company. Sunday the ship was advised that the Steamship City of Alma, of the Waterman Steamship Co., was in tow of the Revenue Cutter Tug Warbler left as soon there- after as arrangements could be made, went to meet the vessels and contacted the Revenue Cut- ter and tow about 35 miles south- east of Miami. City of Alma was taken over by the Warbler and towed to Mobile, Ala. ~ LEAVING TODAY Officials of the city will leave this afternoon for Miami where they will tomorrow evening take train for Chicago and at the R. ¥. Crummer Company offices the refunding bonds to the amount of $1,608,000. Members of the group who will leave over the highway today jare Mayor Willard M. Albury, |Clerk Wallace Pinder, and Coun- jcil President Earl Adams. Ross iC, Sawyer, clerk of circuit court, who will go on a similar mis- ision, left over the highway yes- | terday afternoon. ployed in a in this city, has creed ebkband BLU dace jeye, false teeth, a silver nose and iver _plaf€ in_hi; i. ALL ARTIFICIAL NANTES, France — Pierre Druillard, a war veteran em-| |tion headquarters, which outlines some of the activities of the navy |in the Overseas Highway Cele. | bration of July 2-4. The telegram was received from United States Senator C. O. Andrews: “Hon. Warren Smith, “Chairman, Overseas Highway Celebration Committee, “Key West, Fla. « “Following conferences with esident Roosevelt, Assistant ecretary of the Navy Charles E. Edison, and Admiral William D. | Leahy, chief of naval operations, ,am pleased to advise that orders have been issued to assign the A full summer program for the youth of Key West was approved at a special directors’ meeting of |Key West Lions Club, following jthe regular meeting held at Stone Church Annex, at 6:30 o’clock Thursday evening. Presi- | dent H. E. Day presided at both meetings. A total of seven teams of boys three midget teams and four junior teams—that have been or- ganized into a diamondball league by Lion Victor Larsen, recreation) director ofthe W.P.A., will playp; a scheduleiof games each week~ |day morning at 10 o’clock at Bay~} |view -Park. Juniors will play) three days a week and midgets, |two days. Thomas Curry, co-or- |ganizer of the league, is presi- dent. Sponsorship by the Lions Club entails the furnishing of all | equipment. It is planned to release regular Diamond:Ball) League And Sea ‘Scout Ship ROYAL “COPELAND DIED IN WASHINGTON SIXTY - NINE - YEAR - OLD SO- LON WAS PROMINENT FIG- President, H. E. Day; first vice- president, Joe Allen; second vice- president, Gerald Saunders; third vice-president, E. S. Walden; sec- retary, Allen Armstrong; treasur- er, Delance O. Martin; Tail Twist- er, Anibal Armayor; Lion Tamer, CLE (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, June 18.—Senator URE IN DEMOCRATIC CIR- ‘ Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Clubs Unite To Keep C.C.C. ‘Fort Taylor Hospital In City DIED LAST NICHT |Many Cures, Especially In Arthritis, Rheumatism, Have Been Effected At Camp Lewis W. Robinson, Jr.; directors, one year, Herman Holtsberg and Edward Graham; directors, two years, Hastings Smith and Jos R. Peacon. The New City Charter for Key €ommittee reported on plans to contact all civic bodies in this city, aiming towards the:naming of committees to work: im unison towards the accomplishment of their project. \ Miss Bernice Brantley, the ¢lub's candidate in the “Miss Key | West” contest, sponsored by the Overseas Highway Celebration Committee, will receive added consideration by the club as a Royal S. Copeland, Democratic senior senator of New York, died at his hotel apartment in Wash- ington, D. C., last night after a brief illness, He was 69 years old. Efforts of Democratic leaders in New York State in 1922 to bring | opportunity for’ the nomina‘ | and subsequent election of |Royal S. Copeland as Unit States Senator from that state. The breach existing at the time had been caused by one of the pe- riodical attacks by William R. | jabout party harmony provided the OR. ROYALS. COPELAND Wires from Senators Claude Pepper and Charles Andrews and Congressman Mark Wilcox, in re- sponse to Rotary Club requests, signify that they are doing all in their. power to keep here the ‘C.C.C. hospital at Fort Taylor, Which General Mosley, command- r 4th Corps Area, is favoring the removal of. Transferring of the hospital to some point more centrally locat- ed will be done, Washington ad- Mojave and in need of assistance. | | league standings and synopsis of | games as played in The Citizen. The Key West Sea Scout Ship | No. 3 was also taken under the wings of the Lions, and it is) planned to hold a meeting in the near future to outline a complete | program for boys who are inter-| ested in this line of endeavor. A} charter is to be obtained and a membership drive will be inaugu- rated shortly. The regular meeting of the club new gunboat U.S.S. Charleston to Key West, arrival on July first, departure July fifth. “U.S.S. Charleston is recognized as the most modern gunboat in the United States Navy. Charles- ton is three hundred eight feet! long, has a forty-one foot beam, eleven and a half,/fodt draft, weighs two thousand tons, speed of twelve knots per hour. Con- structed at Charleston, South Carolina, under authorization . - June sixteen, nineteen thirty-|was taken up chiefly with the |three, completed February first, election of officers to serve during } lnineteen hundred thirty-six, at|the fiscal year starting July 1./ cost of one million two hundred |The slate presented and subse- | | fifty thousand dollars. quently elected by acclamation is | “In charge of Skipper C. F./as follows: | Bryant and has crew of sixty-five men. No band. “The Charleston is the flagship of special..seryice, Squadron, is in canal zone at present. Commander of the squadron is Y. S. Williams, who will also be aboard for cere- monies at Key West. “In addition the commandant of the Seventh Naval District has authorized the commanding offi- cer of the naval reserve aviation base in Miami to. make aircraft visits from Miami to-Key West on July second”. MRS. E. G. MORA, 82, DED HS HORN |FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE| At the Cabaret Dance which | | will be held at the Habana-Mad- | | CONDUCTED TOMOR- rid on June 22, the price will be ROW AFTERNOON Mrs. Emelina Gonzalez Mora, | y 82, died this morning at 7 o'clock | in the residence at 718 Duval | ‘ | At the dance tonight at the, Habana-Madrid supporters of the} six candidates for the honor of being chosen Queen of the Fiesta at the Overseas Highway Cele- | bration, July 2-4, will have their ‘last chance «to secure votes for | their favorites at the small sum ‘of 25 cents per ticket which has | prevailed during the past several ithe Training School for Merchant jeourage the abandonment of the | Tonight At Habana-Madrid {furnished by the regular Habana- | Seek 1939 State ‘cmcre=nttes Conclave For Island ity Hearst against Tammany, which | whole in the two remaining func- |had been directed particularly at | tions on Saturday and next Wed-| Governor Alfred E. Smith during | nesday. The committee was vot- | his first term. ed additional support. | In the state convention that | The directors’ meeting brought | year the leaders virtually had de- | forth two important matters of cided to nominate Mr. Hearst for city-wide interest and positive ac-| governor or United States Sena- tion was taken. It was voted to; tor when Governor Smith stepped | contact our senators and repre-|in and thwarted their plans. Hav- sentatives in an effort to obtain | ing been out of office nearly two years, after his defeat by Nathan L. Miller, the governor announced | himself as a candidate for the €.C.C. Convalescent Center now | gubernatorial nomination and in- Jocated here. sisted that he would not have Sidney Einhorn was voted into; Mr. Hearst as a running mate. [ membership. The publisher had been an ard- | William Armond was a guest of ent supporter of the administra- the club for the evening. tions of John F. Hylan as mayor of New York, and between them they had a large following in the greater city. Without that sup- Port, a chances for suc- cess Pedi Betfioperdined In the negotiations for an agreement the name of Dr. Copeland was sug- gested as a candidate for United States Senator and he was ac- |cepted by Governor Smith. | Dr. Copeland at the time was raised to 50 cents per person. This! commissioner of health of New increase in price for this occasion| York City by appointment of was made necessary, by the ela-|Mayor Hylan. He had, had no} borate floor show lasting one full | previous political: experience, ex- | hour and which will be presented | cept in local affairs in Michigan, under the direction of Mrs. Eva | about 20 years ‘before. He wag Warner. The candidates for the| not a member of Tammany; but queenship will also model some | that organization gave him its stunning gowns provided by local | support and he was elected over merchants. William M. Calder, Republican, | At the dance tonight, a floor | seeking to —— to the ered show will also be presented. | for a sceond term. | Music for the dancing will be/ Six years later, in 1928, Dr. | Copeland was re-elected over) |Alanson B. Houghton, Republi-/| |can, while Herbert Hoover won| the state from Governor Smith in | jthe presidential race. | Marine for Key West; also, to dis- Madrid orchestra. Dr. Copeland was born in Dex- ter, Mich., November 7, 1868, the | son of Roscoe P. and Frances’ Holmes Copeland. He received! his medical degree at the Univer-! sity of Michigan in 1889 and aft- erwards took post graduate cours- |Pritchard Funerali Home at 5 ,o’clock. Rev. Guillertnd Perez of the Latin Mission church will of- | Funeral services will be held es in England, France, Germany, | Belgium and Switzerland. i He practiced in Bay City, Mich., | Off to Tampa todap]'B' at-| tend the ninth annual ‘conclave vices say, because Key West is too far away trom most of the C.C.C. U. S. VESSEL | DUE MONDAY |“The Rotary Club sent detailed |wires explaining that cures, be- |cause of the climate and strong sunshine, have been numerous. CHARLESTON DUE TO REACH | Fspecially has this been the case WES’ in arthritis and rheumatic pa- sa pitocenegiat |tients. These are but a few of the AFTERNOON diseases curved by the climatic conditions of the city, and-to es- tablish the base at any other point Lieutenant F. H. Callahan, /°f the country, though it might U.S.N., commandant at the naval |S@ve transportation charges, station, is in receipt of advices Would be to take away from the that the U.S.S. Charleston will ar- | one pens the arenes ae. i t Key West Monday after- | tunity of milder temperature Soak ak S vckark: is jan extremely healthful climate, ‘The Charleston is a modern ves- |the Rotary Club wires brought sel, 300 feet long, with 41. out. nal plan beantand draft ul .The Lions Club and other 4 Siu ganizations of the city are Built at Charleston in 1933 and | importance 9f in command of the vessel, which | jonce free of disease, such were the CITY ical climate cannot be too lightly | stressed.) folk. Composing the group were Loraine Simmons, school super- Mrs. Bielman, who is ill, has flecting glass to be worn by club Thursday at St. Paul's, Wm.jinstance of the fungus “growfli, weighs 2,000 tons speed . x eased ning to send wires stressing the finished in 1936 at a cost of $1,- | Pital here. has a crew of 65 men. | South Sea islands, with a climate | healthful conditions of that clime. PATENTS BRACELET 2% Leaving the city for Miami yes- | Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Bielman and a intendent of this city, has patent- been ordered placed in a hospital; motorists to make hand signals Coconut :Diseases, F.H.A. Rules, iagere } 0 eae . V. Little, in an address on the which is a second disease attack- | of the Associated De Molay Chap- | ficiate. until 1895, when he joined the Sent Here For Celebration United States Senator Charles! Salvador Aguayo, vice-counsul O, Andrews today notified War- | of the Mexican government, noti-| There are also six grandchildren. | 0, moking bis bh egg dance ren Smith, general manager of | tieq the celebration _ committee the Overseas prea Celebra- | that the elaborate tion, a et partment ‘Mexican exhibit, which will be has Ee eeet USS accion to displayed in Key West as one of Fe Sg ior the pee ithe celebration’s outstanding at- uy 24. for gala fiesta on tractions, wil be breught here ‘Word wis ied from (Rext Monday, June 20, to assure | we samy | sufficient time for the prepara- | sports editor of El! tion of the exhibit by the open- ; ling date of the gala fiesta. tee ret Edwin W. James, chief of the Mrs. Gonzalez is survived by ; two sons, Jose, of Havana, and | Arturo, of Key West; two sisters, i Mrs. Isabelle Freye, of Tam and Mrs. Marie Treja, of Tam SAUNDERS NOT SERIOUS CONDITION Inquiries today into the condi- tion of Jimmie Saunders, who was shot Thursday night by Mosby Matcovich at the farm of the lat- jters of Florida, June 19-22, five tomorrow..afternoon; from the who had for a number of years \stead, was received yesterday. The funeral car of the Lopez Funeral Home was sent to bring the body to Key West. In the car were Warren Saw- yer and Harold Cruz, of the fun- ,eral home, who are expected to |return some time this afternoon and will bring notice of the ar- rangements. ‘The deceased is survived by the widow, Mrs. Sally Pinder, of members of Robert J Perry |Chapter will have as their prime | News of the death of R. Curtis | objective the securing of the| P8, Pinder, formerly of Key West, but | 1939 conclave for Key West. Representing this chapter will be Howard Pinder, State Organ- ist; Joe Richardson, State Junior Deacon; Delegates, Gerald Jay- staff of the Medical School of the University of Michigan, remaining there until 1908. In the latter year he went to New York as profes- | sor of opthalmology and dean of the Flower Hospital Medical | School, continuing in that capa- jcity until 1918, when he was ap- pointed by Mayor Hylan com- army, had appointed him to com- ig . mevinion of Ou plete arrangements for contests between Golden Glove Cuban amateur boxing champion- ship team and American Golden Glove contenders. Major Marine will bring the Cuban boxers on one of the Cu- ban warships which will be sent here to bring the Cuban Commis- sioners and other official repre- sentatives for the Cuban govern- ment, SUMMER DANCE TONIGHT Overseas | Manager ~-NO ADMISSION CHARGE— jmade for opening of the new $30,000,000 | } 4 | i with the ar- its his participation in the Highway, and assured Smith of his whole- hearted co-operation in the cele- bration. * ‘The work of preparing the city ifor the great influx of visitors on |the three days of the celebration is progressing rapidly, Under the supervision of Chairmar O’- Sweeney of the clean-up commit tee, the vacant lots and the streets of the city are being cleared of |many thonsands of visitors who will crowd the streets during the ithree days of the fiesta. ted the information that no serious) ao. of Miami: which have been/results were expected from: they x97. Harold Cruz, Key West, and. and clubs 40 assist “them: Mayor | wound. ' Dr. Ralph Braund, surgeom charge at the Marine .hospital,+ where Saunders is being treated,! told The Citizen that .the slug which inflicted the wound had broken the pelvis of Saunders, and he would necessarily be con- fined until the bones knitted. MRS. JAS. HARDEE VISITING KEY WEST r Mrs. James Hardee, former- CAUSE FOR DIVORCE LONDON.—Words underscored 4 in a poem by Mrs. Emily Punch-' other relatives and friends. ard of this city resulted in her| At termination husband being granted a divorce. | here, Hardee wi San Juan, where her by Use Vaccinol—it kills Wood attached to the United States Worms—Phone 319-R. _ Naval Radio Station. i cocks, Dexter Dorgan and Dick | missioner of public health and Steadman. , president of the Board of Health If this is accomplished it will of New York City. be the biggest thing the local! On July 15, 1908, Dr. Copeland chapter has ever done. It will be married Miss Frances Spalding of another aid to Key West in her Ann Arbor, Mich. bid for popularity. The conclave; Dr. Copeland was recognized as should bring to Key West from one of the leading authorities of two to five fumdred persons from (the country on public health, and | all over: the State. was the author of the Copeland. 1U. Ss. Poremuest. Public Roads, ex- | ter on No Name Name Key, elicit- | Homestead: one son, George Pin! The ‘docab¢haptersis request“!1 4 pure food and drug bill, en-| | rangemen| ing Jeading. officinis,.“ merchants} acted iat the last session of the and head of the power- | ‘Congress, W. M. Albury bat-endorsed'the?ri) maritime:committee. In addi- idea and promised fis r to his duties as commissioner sooiae CAR" Ride, Bid Wi ceitn of Sew York. he wrete the Key West elcgaies” daring) euretey? og ut Pare of tad the conclave. This should be sent number of medical volumes, in- before June 21. Address com- i munications as follows: Howard | ‘ Pinder, 242 Hyde Park Avenue; | Tampa, Florida | Soon after the delegates’ re- turn a Public Degree Service will be held at which Fernando Ca- mus will receive the Chevalier Degree. This is one of the high- est honors in De Molay. ————————— BIG FREE DANCE TONIGHT AT PENA’S GARDEN OF ROSES {GOULD CURRYS ORCHESTRA i Use Vaccincl—it kills Wood Worms—Phone 313-R. of 12 knots hour. el keeping the hos- 250,000, Cantarn C.F. Bryant 1¢/ (editor's note: Tahiti in the dias cpio oa: ) similar to that of Key West, was BIELMANS LEAVE ssi coodisons of mat cime terday was a group of Key West! SILVER CITY, N. M—Miss special nurse. ed a bracelet covered with’ re- in Miami. ‘visible at night. At the i Pa ‘year was the first recorded flag, commemorating flag day Wednesday, said that the basic principles of American democracy are today threatened by the sub- versive forces of Communism and Fascism. Constitutional government in- volves civil rights and tax repre- sentation. Communism and Fasc- ism means that the individual is subordinated to the state, which is supreme. The American flag was 161 years old Wednesday and the Magna Carta, England's first im portant bill of rights, was 723 years old. The constitution of the ing the palms, many of which can be saved by treatment of Bordeaux mixture, Mr. McClana- han said. Dr. Montgomery of the state plant board will be in town today or tomorrow Mr. McClana- han concludeg and further. infor- mation may be obtained from him. M. M. Parrish, state F. H. A director, explained the parts of the Administration which could be applied to Key West building and expressed belief that Key West could profit greatly by at- tention to the low interest and long term loans available in that organization. A Board of directors’ meeting, June 18-It. the last under the present Rotary administration, headed by Presi- dent Charles Taylor, will be held Monday nigh} at 8 p. m. Guests were C. W. Butler, Mi- ama, E. J. Robbins, Miami, and George A. Paten, Miami. Visiting Roterians were M. M. Howard McClanahan, in charge of Plant Board work, at the re- quest of the Rotary club, reported on the diseases threatening the coconut population of the city. Citing the fact that bud rot was prevalent in the Grand Cayman islands, Mr. McClanshan said that TONIGHT Otte Divanti and His Orchestra All Red Men are requested to attend a meeting to be held st the Wigwam, Monday, 730 p. m. F. O. ROBERTS. CLUB Key West's Finest ——lHO COVER CHARGE GARDEN HOSE AND LAWN SPRINKLERS—TURN TO PAGE TWO AD NOW—SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING AND ENGINEERING COMPANY. PHONE 598