The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 9, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Kry West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. VOLUME LIX. No. 266. Commeree-Body:Committee Discusses City Problems Interesting, Session Of Or-'STEAMER TRAVEL ganization Conducted In) SHOWS INCREASE Office At La Concha Ho- SIXTY-ONE PASSENGERS AR- tel RIVED FROM HAVANA YES- TERDAY AFTERNOON Very interesting was the meet- ing of the Hotel, Inn, Tourist ‘ " There was an increase in the Home and Restaurant committee | number of passengers arriving of the Chamber of Commerce, yesterday afternoon on _ the Steamship Cuba, of the P. and wale wae held tn the La Coach; 5's: Co;, from Havana. ‘The cabin for Key West, 37 first and}, no seconds for Tampa. Present were Mrs. Hugh;/Wilyjy. Key West arrivals were: liams of the Island Inn. «Peter}. Samuel Taylor, Fannie Taylor, |, Schutt, manager of the Hotel | eferino Junguera, Leonor Jun- Casa Marina; Joseph E. Browne, guera, Leonor Fernandez, Leo- manager of the Hotel Jefferson;| nard Kaplan, Philip Kaplan, Ar- L. S. Gruber, manager of the|turo Alfonso, Nat H. Hewitt, Max Overseas Hotel; Francis Dion and} Sussman, Ruth J. Weinberg, Wal- S. C. Singleton. ter Weinberg. Among the various topics of} Cjara Perez, John T. Johnson, discussion were the problem of | Alberto Abreu, Roy D. Schlegel, noise abatement, for which regu-| annie Schmitser, Irene Mertel, latory statutes have been enact-| walter Bleckert, Lillian Blckert, ed and have been for some time; the removal of seaweed from the beaches; the need for an active mosquito control unit, and added impetus to the removal of rub- bish in th city. The possibility of securing some improvement in the mov- ing picture theaters was discuss- ed at some length, and _ several plans for bringing this about were suggested. One of the very necessary movements decided upon was the correct listing and classification of ‘hotels, Inns, Tourist Homes and depend able rates, so that visitors to the city may find it convenient to locate the accommodations with- in the range of prices they were prepared to pay. This was deemed to be of prime importance, and a list presenting | this information will be prapared for publication was the decision reached by those attending the} meeting. After a number of other mat- ters were discussed an adjourn- ment was called, and the next meeting will be held when the chairman decides it advisable and will issue the necessary call, MOTOR VESSEL LEAVES PORT! JOSEFINA THORDEN GOES TO; TAMPICO FOR LOAD j OF FUEL OI | Motor vessel Josefina Thorden, sailed 3:30 o'clock yesterday, aft- | ernoon for ®ampico, Mexico, | where a cargo of Diesel oil is to: be taken on for English ports. |[ The ship arrived in port yes- | terday morning at 8 o'clock, | Clemente F, Jasques, Rufino Perez, Wiley Swift, Phillip Ru- bin. Manifest of the Cuba showed the following items for Key West, three tons of freight, one auto- mobile and five sacks of mail, and for Tampa, 23 tons of freight and 148 sacks of mail. PREPARING FOR WINTER TRAVEL (Special to The Citizen? TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 9.— Winter visitors in Monroe coun- ty will find 82 hotels, apartments and rooming houses available for their use, with a total of 1,076 rooms, and operating under su- pervision of the Florida State Hotel Commission, it. was report- ed today by Commissioner W. M. Taylor. Statistics compiled by the hotel commission at close of the last li- cense year on October 1 showed that the county has registered with the hotel commission eight hotels with 442 rooms; 11 apart- ment houses with 204 rooms, and 63 rooming houses with 430 rooms available. anted To Finish Job Despite Broken Leg!: (My Asxociated Press) OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 9.—Fran- | cis Olig, messenger for a tele- graph company here, knows when duty calls. Injured in a collision between | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1938 GIANT BELT AT GIANT DAM=—Grana Coulee—carries 30,000 tons of sand “and gravel daily. Eighty tons of rubber and cotton comprise the belt which is 48 inches wide, two miles long. COURT OFFICERS | | LEFT YESTERDAY HAD BEEN IN KEY WEST IN ATTENDANCE AT FED- ERAL COURT | | - Members of the Federal court! and other attaches, who arrived | Sunday and Monday to attend! the brief session in Key West,! left over the highway yesterday | afternoon at 3 o'clock for Miami, and Jacksonville. | In the group were: Judge John W. Holland, who presided at the {term; Clerk Edwin R. Williams, |and Mrs. Williams; Deputy Clerk George W. Pitchford, and Mrs. Pitchford; U. S. Attorney Damon J. Yerkes, Deputy Clerk Earl F. \Sprigg, Probation Officer Frank Edwards and Mrs. Edwards, and | Mrs. Florence B. Price, secretary |to Judge Holland. BOWS TO STATUE; “DID NOT RESPOND 1. =f |MAN TAKEN ‘TO ‘LOCK-UP’ AND KEPT TRF (68102) | SRF YEoM bnogd nid} : sys \‘gmnit gata tA tHy Axsociated Press) | TOKYO, Nov. 9. — Walking }home after a convivial evening, |Daisuke Ogwaa, 36-year-old of- |fice worker, tipped his hat po- berthed in the harbor and the his bicycle and an automobile, he/litely to a stranger standing in master, Captain Carlson, came) ashore to make the necessary ar-| rangements for the vessel's pa-| pers to proceed to the Mexican port. was taken to a hospital. “Can't I go out long enough to take this message?” he asked. Hospital authorities called his loffice, assured him the message | front of a building, bowed and jsaid, “Good evening, sir”. | There was no response. | Ogawa became angry. He swung a flurry of punches Mr. " Captain Carlson said that the | would be delivered, and kept him/to the jaw, following with a ship sailed from Manchester, from | which port she was cleared, then | proceeded to Milkenham, and, from that port came direct to this country. The Thorden is a twin serew tanker and fuel used is Diese! oil. ' Nest Becomes Tomb For Stubborn Bees (Ry Axanctated Press) | LIVERMORE, Ia,, Nov. 9.—The | building whieh a swarm’ o | liked so well as a home has be-/ come their tomb. Tt all happened because the bees just wouldn't move, despite | repeated efforts of workmen to, dislodge them. Four other swarms of bees in the same building heeded the workmen's demands that they | take up another abode when/ wrecking crews started razing}| part of an old hotel structure. | The fifth swarm insisted on re-} maining in a section of the build-| ing that was to remain standing, in bed. Old Iron From Mines Yields $5,500 Gold (iy Axseciated Press) SAN JOSE, Calif. Nov. 9— Olin M. Hayes is still a junk dealer, but he’s now working in an entirely different way. Familiar with the practice of miners, who pile up scrap metal from the mines, he bought up the junk piles of several old mines. Then he loaded them into a con- crete mixer, ground off all the Trust and panned the latter for gold. He says that in four months of hard work he has recovered bul- lion worth $5,500. ARMISTICE EVE DANCE Tomorrow Night. 10 Till ? RAUL’'S CLUB Floor Show strenuous flying tackle that {plunged both to the ground. To Mr. Ogawa’s amazement, {the stranger's head fell of and rolled into the gutter. Only then \did he find he had been fighting ja statue. | Mr. Ogawa was fined 50 yen for repairs and was detained by police until sober. To Exhibit Gold Flake That Caused The Rush (Ry Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Nov The original flake of gold that started the gold rush to Cali- fornia will be exhibited at the Golden Gate International expo- sition in 1939, James W. Marshall discovered it in the mill race of Capt. John A. Sutter's sawmill at Coloma on January 24, 1848. He took it to Sutter, whe in turn gave it t ;Capt. J. A. Folsom, a Quartermaster of the port | Francisco. so the contractor ordered the bees | Music By Pritchard’s Orchestra | [It is now in the Smiths jInstitution. The | flake is 73 cents. ‘ value of Board Of Directors Of C. OFC. Interesting Session Of Group Was Held Th Morning; Many Matters; Are Heard | There was a meeting of the | Board of Directors of the Key} West Chamber of Commerce, } held in their office at 10:30 this morning. Those present were President Charles E. Smith, Vice President Frank H. Ladd. E. A.; Strunk, John A. Gardner, W. w.| Demeritt, W. T. Fripp. Wm. M. Arnold, Ben D. Trevor and Bas- com L. Grooms. The meeting | wascalled to order by Vice-/ President Ladd, President Smith buin | det: The lar meeting were read and a| The of i arriving later. | 1 i the minutes, of the last reg proved. minutes meeting November 7 of the Hotel | Committee wer read. Letters to Mr. Day and to Mr. Artman in connection with the proferred aid in publishing more booklets, were read and ap- proved. The letter congratulating Wil- liam M. Arnold upon his appoint- ment as District Passenger Agent for the Florida Motor Lines was read and approved. A letter was read from a Wash- ington Correspondent asking for Cuban cigarettes, and Mr. Grooms moved that the request be com- plied with. For the committee on the Ever- glades National Park, Mr. De- meritt reported progress and the need for further investigation, and that data would’ be prepared, giving everyone interested an op- portunity to be fully informed. Sam Cole addressed the meet- ing on the need for additional publicity. Mr. Cole was intro- duced by John A. Gardner. The meeting adjourned to meet at the call of the president. PRESCRIPTIONS For Quick Accurate Prescription Service. Call 177 GARDNER’S PHARMA “The Rexall Store” Hold Meeting e—i—_._____—__. —. —________, | separate contracting unit be an ‘SSIS SS SS, .-, BELIEVES, ‘PHONEY’ MONEY CIRCULATED | One of the many visitors in the city, and who is a keen observer of things in general but more particularly of money, believes that there are a number of bills, pur- porting to be currency of the United States but which he thinks are “phoney”. This observer told The Citizen today that he had, during the past 24 hours, seen a number of the bills displayed and believes that there is, possibly, something wrong with them. He sounds a warning to persons to be careful when they are called upon to take part in any transaction in which bills of $5 or $10 denominations are used as the medium of ex- change. Lk dehedede deeded SWALLOWS COIN: | IN DOING TRICK HALF-DOLLAR DISAPPEARED BUT NOT AS PERFORM- ER EXPECTED {My Associ RICE LAKE, Wis Bill Brooten stood before the filling station asking for a half- dollar so he could demonstrate a “good trick”. Someone loaned him the whereupon Bill put it into mouth, waved his h s ously, said “pocus-pocus” then stood pop-eyed. The coin was supposed to van- ish but not the way Bill's hocus- pocus made it go. Hospital X-rays half dollar ig in ach coin, his steri- and Wants Goose Feathers For Mayan’s Headgear (My Associated Prexs) 8—} ®| materials, pursuance of hobbies, MRS. C. ROBERTS DIES THIS A. M. FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON Mrs. Charlotte Jane Roberts, age 78, died this morning 9:05 o'clock at the home, 629 Grinnell street. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon 4:30 o'clock from the Fleming Street Meth- odist Church, Rev. J. P. Lilly, of- | ficiating. The body will be placed in the church at 2 o'clock. Survivors are the husband, Thomas H. Roberts; two daugh- ters, Mrs. Lilly Sawyer, Mrs. Marguerite Albury; four sons, Cleveland and) Frank .. Roberts Kemaeai ates obe members’ of ‘the Red Men ietamegeenonieberts is a mem- er. E Lopez Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. The Building Trades Council of Key West, recently organized, held an interesting meeting last night at the Pythian Hall. The council is composed of all building trades, supply men, gen- eral contractors, carpenters, ma- sons, plumbers, plasterers, elec- ‘tricians, tilemen, roofers and painters. It is a pre-requisite that each established place of business, and open for public service, be gov- erned by a code of building regu- lations and be-+provided with the ‘usual license to do business. The cooperation of the public jis asked in an effort to advance the building lines along with other advancements now being under- taken in other activities. ‘COLORED MAN. GIVEN HEARING Morris Rohmer, colored, who |was arrested by Deputy Ray El- | wood, on a charge of assault and battery, was arraigned in the jcourt of Peace Justice Enrique |Esquinaldo yesterday afternoon jto answer to the charge. The evidence educed at the hearing was such as to warrant the accused in being held for the next term of criminal court, and he was placed under bond of } $100" far, hig appearance. Says Schodl Girls ~ Spend Most Time At ‘Killing Time’ (My Associated Prexs) KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Nov, 9.— Velma E. Shaffer, University of Tennessee graduate student, de- cided—after questioning 239 girls —that the special interests of most high school girls appear to be only “time-killing amuse- ments.” Mrs. Shaffer reported that rmovies were first among the |girls’ special interests; listening to the radio, second; going to parties, third; talking with lfriends, fourth; making candy, fifth, and reading, sixth. Cooking was far down the list and “caring for children,” at the very bottom. More considera- jtion, Mrs. Shaffer concluded, “might well be given to movie appreciation, worthwhile reading nd other personal interests.” Girl Writes A Letter —And Gets Education| (My Amsocinted Press) j WIELUN, Poland, Nov. 8—A! Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the. country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Claude Pepper Leads Ticket - In Election Held: Yesterday Total Vote Cast lit Monroe County Was 2,177; In Key West Total Vote Was 2,041 Dashes Mage Aaddieedan Balloting in Key West and on the Florida Keys yesterday at the general election resulted in Claude Pepper, candidate for the United States Senate, leading the tickety by a vote of 1970. The next<highest vote recorded was that’ of Pat. Cannon, with 1919, for the:office of | from the’Fourth Congressional representative COURT TEST for wage- hour law seems a possibility to | Sen. Elbert D. Thomas (above), Utah Democrat who helped draw up the act. He believes that be- cause “committee worked in ac- cordance with best constitutional | principles,” bill will survive. FIX LIMIT ON ART CLASSES In view of the increasing popu- | larity of classes at the Art Cen-| ter, the director would like to} draw to the attention of all those | who are interested that there! must naturally be liniits to the} number of pupils who may be ac- | commodated with the very small! teaching staff available at this time. The school regulations provide that those pupils absent from: the. class.three times running will automatically be~ dropped from the registration and the vacancy filled by the next applicant in line. A limit has been set up for the various classes according to} the facilities to handle them with- out crowding. The Saturday morning “Begin- ners” class, which started with a} limit of twenty-five under one} teacher, was recently increased | to a limit of fifty with two teach- | ers in attendance. This class is now full and until vacancies de-| velop it will be impogsible to ac- | cept more pupils for this class. | However, registrations will be| put on file in order and the pu-j| pils taken into the class as soon | as possible in that order, it is an-| nounce | Car Goes Beserk While Being P: (By Associated Press) { ROCKFORD, Ill. ;jNov, 9.-+Mr. | and Mrs. John Estes quit driving | their new automobile shortly aft- er they bought it. Neither knew much about me- chanical gadgets but John had! heard that when the starter} stuck one could get things going | by pushing a car in gear. So he put Mrs. Estes bhind the ] before he went out front to push. Things got going in great shape. The car backed over a curb, crashed into Arthur Galla- gher’s front porch, swerved down an alley, peeled the paint off Ar-, thur’s house, missed a telephone | pole and a tree by inches, ef down a trellis and settied in the} middle of a fine garden. | Seeks To Become World’s Music Center| (Ry Associated Preas) PARIS, Nov. 9.—Plans to make Versailles the musical and artis-| tie center of the world have been decided upon, with the/ creation of a “National Season of Music and Art” to take place |this summer. Gaston Henry-Haye, French senator and mayor of Versailles, MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 9.—jletter to Marshal Smigly Rydz|said he hoped to draw such or- W. C. McKern, anthropologist at the Milwaukee Museum, is look- ing for a healthy gander to con- tribute some clean, white feath- ets to be made into a headgear for the Mayan chiftain now be- ing constructed for exhibition. McKern plans dying the feath- ers according to formulas used |from Mania Susak, 15-year-old} | Jewish girl, has won her an edu- | cation, When Mania discovered jher parents were too poor to send her to high school, she wrote in despair to the marshal asking whether it would be possible to lobtain an education at govern- ment cost. chestral leaders as Leopold Sto-j kowski, Arturo Toscannini and} Bruno Walter who have vowed! not to return to Salzburg uy PARSONS, W. Va—In a coffin) 5 11,266; against District. In the city of Key West the final count showed there had been cast 2,041 baiiots in seven } | precincts and in the three pre- | cinets on the Keys there was cast 136 ballots, making a total of 2,- 177, out of a possible 5,382. The votes of the candidates are shown in the following: For U. S. Senate: Claude Pep- per, 1,970; Thomas E. Swanson, 82. For Representative in Congress: Pat Cannon, 1,919; J. S, G. Gal- lagher, 74. Attorney General: George Cou- per Gibbs, 1,083. Justices of the Supreme Court: Rivers Buford, 998; Roy Chap- man, 860; Elwyn Thomas, 935. Railroad Commissioner Florida: Jerry W. Carter, Eugene Mathews, 900. State Senator, 24th Senatorial District: David Elmer Ward;.1,- 380. Representative of the gisla- ture: Bernie C. Papy, 1,524; For County Commissione®, Dis- trict Number 1: William Mon- salvatge, 1,100. For County Commissioner, Dis- trict Number 2: Braxton B. War- ren, 1,301, For County Commissioner, Dis- trict Number 3; Carl Bervaldi, 1,361. For County Commissioner, Dis- for 1,177; |trict Number 4: Norberg Thomp- son, 1,214, For County Commissioner, Dis- triegyNumber 5: T. Jenkins Curry, 1367. For Member Board of Public Instruction, District Number 1: Claren¢e H: Pierce, 1,262. For Member Board of Public Instruction, District Number 2: Allan B. Cleare, 1,383. For Member Board of Public Instruction, District Number 3: Ralph K. Johnson, 1,309. To Amend Section 7 of Article {wheel and the gears into reverse 10, Constitution of Florida r lating to homestead exemption: For the amendment, 1,360; against the amendment, 57, To Amend Section 21 of Article 3, requiring general and uniform laws on the subjects mentioned in Section 20, and providing that no local or special bill shall be passed, etc. For the amendment, 1,132; against the amendment, 51 To Amend Section 2 of Article 9 of the constitution -of-the State of Florida, rears Toesmnent of revenue to de! 4 EXDeDZECS of governpyeotyy yindtitidg 1athte appropriation for benefit of uni- form system of .. public... fram schools, ete. Fer the amendment, : the amendment, L To Amend Artic Constitution of the State of Flor- ida, relating to State Mi providing for a Florida Nation: Guard, subject to the lawful or ders of the Governor as Com mander-in-Chief, providing for its support and maintepance in ar cordance Acts of Congre and regulations of the t States War Department. For the amendme 1,162; against the amendment, 79. There were several whose names were writte 39 of the zens non th by the Mayan chiefs who ruled] The marshal investigated the | built from lumber he had cut for/bellots, but as they were not Chichen Itza, ancient Yucatan, Mexico, around 1000 AD, i ranged for her tuition. t cently. i city in}case immediately, found she was that purpose 20 years ago, Doctor| tenders in any of the races. t an outstanding student and ar-|U. M. Carweil, 85, was buried re-|names are not carried in | ch icle.