The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 23, 1938, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 304. Chamber Of Commerce. Isa Ready To Receive Visitérs Several Groups From ere Ss erent Organizations To, Spend Christmas Holi-. days Here Chamber of Commerce is work- ing overtime these days arrang- | ing, as far as is possible, for the visitors who are going to set a, new record this Christmas tide.| Mrs. James M. Garson will be in| the city with more than a dozen pupils from one of Miami's lead- ing schools, and the Y.M.C.A. ot! Gainesville’ will again fill’: the armory as they did last year. Secretary Singleton was. es-! pecially jubilant as he informed The Citizen that the Chamber of | Commerce would close the year} without an unpaid bill on its files, which he suspects comes pretty close to establishing a record for Chambers of Commerce in this section. One of the most recent acces- sions ‘to the organization is the Key West Charter Boat Associa-! i] | | 1 j { | i | tion, an organization which the! cooperation of the chamber is . forming. Displayed in the office | {MAILING OF GIFTS — SHOWS PROSPERITY News at the local post of- fice’ this morning demon- strates that Key Westers re- member their friends during Christmas and there is more prosperity here now than there has been for many years. While no record is kept of the number of packages mail- ed, except those that are in- sured, the receipts show that more Christmas -gifts were sent out this year’than dur- ing any other yea?-in this de- cade. Sale of stamp stock up to the close of business yes- terday for December was larger ihan during all of De- cember, 1937. As tor Christmas cards that Key Westers sent to friends or members of their families, several thousand more were mailed this holi- day season than during the 1937 Christmas, From De- cember 5 to the close of busi- ness ai the post office yes- terday, 44,000 one and one- half cents stamps were sold. These are the stamps that are puf on Christmas cards enclosed in unsealed enve- lopes, and the number sold is more than three for every man, woman and child in Key West. of the chamber is a photograph | OMQ™°M DIOP OOM DiI, of Veral Roberts, secretary of the | association, and also a picture of ' some of the boats lying at | berths. The next thing on the praca said get the taxi drivers to take a sim- ilar step and get that activity on! @ business basis where members p,Jihcig will be protected from irrespon- sible competition and have a recognized place in the business of the community. This step will be one that will be greatly appre- ciated by visitors to the city. FISCHERS ARRIVE i Higgs. Mother and baby are re- NEW ARRIVAL IN _ HIGGS’ FAMILY); Mr. and Mrs, Virgil Higgs, of street, announce birth of a son weighing eight; pounds in their home on Decem-' ber 18, The new arrival has been given the name of William Austin " ported as doing nicely. FOR WINTER STAY WELL KNOWN MARINE IL- Apilene LUSTRATOR WILL PAINT KEY WEST SCENES Anton Otto Fischer, illustrator Denver for the Saturday Evening Post Detroit known Galvetson and other nationally magazines, and Mrs. Fischer are Havana in Key West to spend the winter Huron at their United street residence Jacksonville | Kansas City in front of the Naval Hospital. Mr. Fischer who is known es- pecially for his marine paintings Little Rock has done several beautiful oils of Los Angeles Key West scenes. He told The | ouisviile Citizen today that he expected to iami paint more this year. Mrs. Fisch- Mpls.-St. P. er is daughter of Admiral Sigs- bee, who commanded the Maine yu york which was destroyed in Havana harbor by an explosion. The watchword “Remember the Maine” was used throughout the Spanish American War in which Salt Lake City Key West was a valuable naval S@" Francisco base of supplies. The Fischers are well host of friends. — known Tampa in Key West and have made a Washington | Buffalo , Charleston eccccccce Seccensesee TEMPERATURES POR Cecoocccccesovesooece Lowest Highest Station— last night last 24 oa . 44 52 32 48 18 18 38 28 20 28 62 66 14 44 32 65 40 48 36 68 24 58 20 52 24 32 18 52 48 52 30 Williston 16 Atlanta Boston Chicago KEY WEST New Orleans Pensacola Pittsburgh St. Louis Seattle SPECIAL CHRISTMAS DINNER-~$1.50 CHILLED CELERY SWEET GHERKIN PICKLES MIXED OLIV FRESH LOBST es CREAM OF OYSTER ROAST YOUNG FRESH CRANBERRI FRESH APPLE SAUCE MASHED RUTABAGES » SWEET POT. ATO i STRING BEANS NEW POTATOES IN CRE GLASS OF VIRGINIA DARE LIGHT WINE HEARTS OF LETTUCE FRENCH DRESSING HOME MADE FRUIT CAK LIME PIE AMERICAN CHEESE MAYONNAISE PUMPKIN PIB CHEF'S SALAD BOWL RUSSIAN DREs: COCOANUT LAYER CAK MINCE PLE ROQUEFORT CHEESE SALTED ALMONDS COFFEE TEA MILK Fred Auerbach’s Restaurant FOUR TEN FLEMING STREET the; 1) After going over The Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, PSO SSE 23, 1938 -_|scout TROOP | EXCELLENT caiman: | ON WEDNESDAY“EVENING | IN CONNECTION WITH EN- JOYABLE EVENT ; In an atmosphere in which !their scouting activities have} tbeen successfully carried on, } |members of Boy Scout Troop 52! held their Christmas tree party; {on Wednesday night 7 o’clock, | ‘and had a most delightful time. Readings of Seasonal poetry,! and. singing of carols started the; festivities. A short talk was given by Scout Chairman E. R. McCarthyontthe progress of the | troop following which presenta-! itiqns of (appropriate recognitions | were madeto’Scout Ernest Avila | for goodattendance and civic ihelp, to Scout Bert Cates, as the! | most outstanding member of the | troop and his achievements, and ito Scout Eugene Sawyer, for ad- vancement in rank. Presentation of a miniature ' first class pin was made to Scout- |mother Sawyer, in recognition of ithe encouragement in the work | jshe has afforded the members. ; Junior Assistant Scoutmaster | Joseph Campo presented Mr. Mc- | Carthy with a tie clasp in recog- | nition of his untiring efforts in| | the advancement of scouts in the | \city. The clasp was a gift from | \ the entire. troop. This was followed by the ex-; change of gifts by the boys and} gifts of balloons and noise mak- ‘ers by Chairman McCarthy. Each | member of the troop was given a ; “good turn” token, in order they | may remember to do a good turn | | daily. | i Those in attendance were: j Scoutmaster — Victor Liitsen,| Scout Chairman McCarthy, | | ltunior Assistant Scoutmaster | pgeph Campo, Scouts.James chy, Calvin. Cates, Jotm Mem? iat. Ernest Perez, Bert Cates, 'Gordon Dill, John Marzyck, Paul Herrick, Allen Porez, Albert Peterson, Arthur Lowe, Ernest} oe Phillip Bradley, Sherwood ; Cruz, Jack Sawyer, Eugene | Sawyer, Ramon Gonzago, Henry | Soldano, and guests Espinola | Roberts, Richard Dill. | The program was brought to a/ WALTER WINCHELL PLANS VISIT HERE Key West may expect in- spection from one of the keenest observers in the country who is known to practically all America, by voice at least, and many sec- tions of the world. The name of the visitor is Walter Win- chell. Just received this morning at the office of Secretary S. C. Singleton of the Chamber of Commerce, is the follow- ing note from Mr. Winchell: “Dear Mr. Singleton. Thanks for your wire and letter. I will try to make it. Good Wishes, Walter Winchell.” Carroll John Daly, noted writer of detective stories, has made up his mind to live in Key West, and writes: “And right now I want to congratulate you on that booklet which started me writing to you. I know the book started me and I know you kept me at it. But I did not find out until the other night that you wrote it. Someone had shown me the book. Later I discovered that it was written by you. So come on. You know me well enough now. Put me wise to how much I should pay. It's costing plenty in time and getting ready and it will cost more to get my furniture and books out of storage, and ship them to wee ver my address will e."” TL IAAIaMES | (iy Axnociated P Cecrerecrreunccces BERLIN. — Under - Sccretai Welles’ refusal to apologize for! Secretary of the Interior Ickes! recent verbal attack on the Nazi government has widened the German-American breach. Welles pointed out that the German controlled press has made many attacks on President Roosevelt and that no complaint had been registered with German officials. The German retort was that ry | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit OOOOH OTT S HARRY HOPKINS "GETS NEW POST Pan American Airw HARRINGTON AND WILLIAMS | ALSO GIVEN APPOINT. MENTS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23. —Stephen Early, President Roosevelt, secretary to today an- nounced the appointment of Har- ry Hopkins, by the President, to the position of Secretary of Com- merce, the post which was for- merly held by Daniel Roper, re- cently resigned. To fill the post made vacant by | the appointment of Harry Hop- kins, Colonel F. C. Harrington was named by the President. Wathingion Correspondent of The Key West Citizen WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 23. ; U. S. destroyers{h the’ (By —Two Childs and the Williamson; will | errive in Key West from Norfolk The third appoiniment of the day was made when Aubrey Williams was announced as head | of the Naiional Youth Adminis- i ‘ tration. ‘MAGAZINE STORY GREATLY ENJOYED IN THE CITIZEN The Citizen, in the of Tuesday, carried a story under ‘caption “One Road To Key West,” which appeared in the current issue of the Magazine_ Traveler, and- was such an interesting one | that republication of parts of the story was decided on. So many favorable comments | were heard on the different points covered, and The Citizen was asked so frequently “who wrote the story”, that it was de- cided to investigate. It did, and !learned today that the writing was from the facile pen, or type- issue close by contests and games of "° German official had ever’ writer, of S. C. Singleton, Cham- | skill, in which all the troop mem-| spoken against an American of- | ber of Commerce ected | bers took part. ‘FIND SKULL OF HUMAN IN SKELETON Skull and bones of a human! skeleton were disclosed yester- day by WPA workmen, who were | excavating on South street be-| {tween William and Alberta} streets. | There were also several but-! tons brought to light from the | surrounding soil, which indicated i that the/etothing was of old time ; make whichRKad carried the but- } tons. No one could account for the presence of the bones, and there | was plenty of speculation as to {how they came to be placed in this out of way spot. The excavation was part of the ; work being done on the sewer | project, and the relics of the past were placed in the fill and were soon hidden from sight. ‘PRISON INSPECTOR 'ARRIVES IN CITY | J. E. Creech, prison inspector j for Florida froni thé! effick of | Nathan Mayo, Conymissioner of } Agriculture, was a visitor in Key | West this morning for the py?-} | pose of inspecting the county } jail the institu jtion, Mr. Cedi} jpronouncedd | everything in excellent condition and said that he could give at j jail a clean bill. ‘Ahern Funeral Home men L oe i i AMBULANCE. 551 proce pi ener tom og 22211 ficial. WPA WORKMEN ENJOYING REST | FORCES WILL NOT RESUME OPERATIONS UNTIL AF- TER CHRISTMAS Practically all workmen on the, rolls of the Works Progress Ad- ministration are taking it easy to- day and the period of relaxation will continue uptil Tuesday, De- ember 27, when it is expected that all activities will be resum- ed Preparations for this Christmas period of rest was started several weeks ago when the workers be- gan work: a greater number of hours in order to get in the time which would afford them the rest end, incidentally, insure receipt of the pay checks before Christmas. LAST CALL FOR— Films and Cameras Excellent Gifts Full Stock of Types and Sizes GARDNER'S PHARMACY The Rexall Store 534 Duv SRaEPsPIOTsIVsasssasassa FRED M™M aaoeee 4 “Carles” re, Announcing the Opening of Tomerrow Afternoon — Saturday and “Tony” behind the bar 605 Duval Street SHIT VIITODIIIIIes ss: PIODIIIDIL... | Cabana Cocktail Lounge ‘TUG WARBLER DUE TOMORROW ‘ Wrecking Tug Warbler, which t left port Tuesday to go ot the as- ; sistance of the Estonian Steamer |Torni, which was reported in trouble off Cuba and near Porto | Padre, will return to Key West tomorrow morning 7:30 o'clock. The Steamship Torni is cording to Lloyds Register, a ves- | sel of 251 fegt length, 2044 ton | gross and 1209 net. What act was done by the Warbler was not incorporated in the radiogram which was received by the Por ter Dock Company this mort ing. HARVEY CLOPTON y Clopton, fc vertising 1 Lousville, of the Advertising Club of Louis ville, was a visitor in Key West Wednesday Mr. Clopton spent the day look- ing over the city and was a plea ant and interested visitor in the afternoon at The Citizen office ; ARVIL’S il \| i} | } il i| ! FIP BaAS SF. | who for the past 12 years has re-} ity | about Januery 8 for a ten-day! stay, it was stated here today at, she Navy Department. | Sailing date for the two vessels | from Norfolk has been set for 2. January it was said, and it is expected that the vessels will re-; turn to that ciiy afier the Key} West trin. During their slay in Key West the navy ships will lay off the Naval Station. The destroyers’ visii is the only voyage of naval vesséls to Key; West, scheduled at this time, the Navy Degertmens said. MRS. HENRIQUEZ | DIED IN TAMPA’ RESIDED IN KEY WEST BE-| FORE TAKING UP HER HOME IN TAMPA Mrs. Eduardo Henriquez, 77, a former resident of Key West but | sided in Tampa, died December ! nd interment was held the! j bart | noped, following afternoon. Before her passing, several o! the children went to Tampa soe spent a short time with their | mother. They returned before | her death, except Enrique Hen- riquez, who remained until the end and returned over the high- way last night. Mrs. Henriquez is survived by her children, Mrs. Ramon Deri- zans, Havana; Mrs. Alberto Roche, Tampa; Rafael, Arcadio, Enrique | and Eduardo, Jr., Regino and Joseph of Tampaoi PRICE FIVE CENTS Airways Plan Service Between , Miami And Havana U.S. Destroyers D Due To Arrive Here January 3 ‘CHRISTMAS TREE AT FIRE STATION | DONATED BY A. B. CLEARE, FORMER MAYOR AND COUNCILMAN Number | fire station Wednes day night was the center of at- traction for pedestrians and auto mobilists, each anxious to see the beautifully decorated Christmas wee, which is placed just inside he entrance. Each year at this time mem- | bers of the Fire Department re- ceive a tree from a friend of the iepartment, which is dressed up with tinsel and many colored iights, and placed where it can ve seen by passers-by. The tree this year is one of the most beautiful fir trees which nave been seen this season, and was a gift from former council- man and mayor, Allan B, Cleare, Sr., who ever bas a warm spot .n his heart, for the fire-fighters. It. preselits', a — delightfidly } Christmas look, but there is miss: ing from the branches the pres- ents: and greeting cards which usually form the most attractive of the decorations of a Christmas tree. Members of the department are anticipating gifts and are looking forward to Saturday when, it is that many gifts will be uspended from the branches. SCOUT TROOP RETURNS HOME MEMBERS ENJOY ENCAMP- MENT AT THE PINES ON STOCK ISLAND Scoutmaster A. E. Peirce, Boy {Scout Troop 51 and a group of the members, returned yesterday from the camp which had been established at The Pines on Stock of Key,West;|Islaud. The camp was arranged expressly for, the purpose of giv- ing the boys certain tests which are required by the scouts. Mr. Pierce said he was able to give the scouts a splendid outing much of which was due to the courtesy of Major Wm. V. Al- bury, Florida National Guard, who loaned the tenting equip- ment which made the com- fortable camping possible Those who took the tests and passed were: Anthony Boza, Lyle McCarron, Leonard Key, John J Romero, Donald Lowe, Anthony Albury, Frank Papy, Gilbert Hall, Joseph ess, Paul ee "SOTTO AILS Just In Time For Late Shoppers NOW OPEN CORAL REEF | 212 Duval Street ‘os i i i | i i | | | | TOYS - GIFTS COSTUME JEWELRY SOUVENIRS | SHELL NOVELTIES CUSTOM-MADE TIES | DOLLS i ~eeccecceceses | Station To Handle Passen- } gers To Be Constructed On Waterfront; Plans Nearly Completed Pan-American Airways will operate plane service between Key West, Miami and Havana, providing all necessary facilities for the handling of passengers. from Havana and other govern- m’ tal activities in connection therewith, are provided locally. Jim Yonge, legal representative of the Pan-American Airlines, and J. Galhaus, an engineer of the lines, were in Key West this week and discussed the matter with W. R. Porter, president of the First National Bank, in all detail. Station Necessary The visiting officials pointed out that it would be necessary to construct a station on the -water front where planes could be brought down and _ passengers landed. In the station will have to be rooms for the use of gov- ernment officials ‘which include U. S. Public Health Service, the Customs Service and the Immi- gration Service. Mr. Porter told The Citizen toy. day that arrangements have been completed for the construction of the station which will be on a conveniently located pier in the subbase, according to the blue prints which have been made and are in Mr. Porter's office. Ships which will be used in the service are the Pan-American Clippers, Trips are to be made from Miami to: Havana, from the Cuban port to Key West, back again to Havana and thence to Miami Capital Needed However the service will not be put into effect unless Key West capital is supplied for the construction of the station and facilities in connection therewith Conservative estimates place the cost at from $800 to $1,000 and Mr. Porter said that the best portion of the amount has been secured, or promised, and there was but little doubt in his mind that the entire amount needed for the station would be secured. The far reaching effects of this service, the small cost to passen- gers, which it is said will be something less than the passage by steamer, and the short time of the trip and the convenience to travel, make it certain that the necessary funds will be provided A REAL DISAPPOINTMENT Chicago. — Thieves broke into the automobile of Nathan Glazer, shoe salesman, and stole -four cases of shoes, including «men's work shoes, women’s gold and silver evening slippers and sports boots. The only trouble, the thieves would have to be. one- legged to profit much—they were all for the left foot. Secesserecccoecoores The formal Opening Dinner and Dance at La Casa Marina will take place this year on Saturday evening, December thirty-first. A cordial invitation is extended to the people of —— West ‘to participate as has been the annual Diener will be served at 8:00 o'clock and danc- ing is from 9: 30 till 2. The charge will be $2.50 per person. Please call Mr. Grobe, phone 780, tor your table reservations. This is necessary. CASA MARINA, FT. JEFFERSON CRUISES -- TUESDAY, THURSDAY, SATURDAY - $5.00 ROUND TRIP -- TICKETS -- INFORMATION -- PRICE TOURS -- 505 DUVAL ST. ~ . PHONE 124