The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 14, 1939, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key We: VOLUME LX. No. 62. st Cigar Company Finds Key West Proper Place For Manufacturing | Products Concern To Locate Here) Will Work On Island, City’s World-Wide Repu tation In Industry (Special to The Citizen) ¢ TAMPA. March 14.—The “Key West-Havana Cigar Co.”, just in- corporated under a charter Florida, makes its debut into the cigar industry, and thereby giv testimony to the optimism of its’ founders, who are not yet ready to concede that the field of fine Havana cigars is lacking in the promise of a future. Walter M. Woolfson, whose} achievements in cigar promotion | are widely known, will head the| new organization. as president. Associated with him in the enter-| prise are Jose M. Garcia of Ha-' Cigar Company—methods which | isive acreage in vana, who assumes the role of] W!!! greatly enhance the earning /area of mainland property. vice-president, and Raul Garcia of Tampa, a well-experienced ‘CIGAR FACTORY WILL OPEN HERE COMING WEEK SECRETARY AND MANAGER OF CONCERN ARRIVES; GIVES DETAILED OUTLINE OF OPERATIONS { veils EER 4 Raul Garcia, secretary and manager of the new Key West- Havana Cigar Company, arrived here last night to take over all 'work in connection with the opening of the factory, which is scheduled for the first part of j next week. In an interview today, Mr. Gar- {cia had this to say concerning the methods that will be employ- ed, in the factory: “New methods, i which have the manufacture of cigars, will be lused by the Key West-Havana power of those persons who will; be hired to make our cigars. “Following our Tampa experi-! ,ence, we see no reason why a: | just recently been employed in} Che Key West Citizen Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE U.S. A. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1939 CITY :REALTY -.- SALES ‘NOTED!!2| PAST WEEK" (x, SOUTHARD, OLIVIA, vance PROPERTY MOVE; KEY.! MAINLAND PROPERTY AL Sales of more city property is OOO OOHM.| noticed in the realty recorded in REMEMBERS CONVENT Clerk Ross C. Sawyer’s office for | the week ending yesterday. James H. Adams sold to An-| nie Adams a 52x65 parcel near the corner of Margaret and j Southard streets. i Evie K. Johnson et al sold to; John H. Dawson et al a 46x91“fot ' at the corner of Walton and: Von! Phister. First Trust and Savings’ Bank’ of Dade County sold to J. M. | Bethel four lots in the Sunset! Cove area of Key Largo. Four: other lots in the same Cove area! went to J. B. Bethel. Laura Sands sold to Marina Crespo a 184x41 lot at the corner of Olivia and Windsor Lane. Tamiami Everglades sold to, Central Baptist Church of Miami 10 acres of mainland property. | Evie K. Johnson sold to B. T.| Pollock the 60x133 corner of Pearl | and Eliza streets. In a sheriff's deed the Cheva-| | lier Corporation lost to the Thir« | | National Bank of Miami exten-| the Pinecrest! The Citizen's news release relating of the Yacht Race from Havana to Key West Saturday contained the in- formation that the captain of the Half Moon, George S. Wallace, was a Spanish War Veteran. What wasn't known at the time was this © fact: Mr. Wallace spent consider- able time in hospitalization in Key West during the war. Talking with The Citizen Sunday, Mr. Wallace told of his experiences in this city in 1898. In need of surgical aid, Mr. Wallace was shipped to Key West, to find that the Marine Hospital facilities were not available. To take care of the emergency, the Sisters of the Convent of Mary Immaculate turred their buildings into hospital rooms, and Mr. Wallace was cared for there by Sister Louis. Always feeling that he owed the Convent a debt of gratitude, Mr. Wallace has waited for an opportunity to “balance the account”. Sat- i | | ; West Properties Incorporated | ‘sold to Tessie Crews the 52x131; property at the corner of White- | ‘head and Fleming. BY CONTRIBUTION | Drive’On Delinquent : is Now Being Planned On New Establishments in City i | | A drive on delinquent occupa- |tional licenses will’ be initiated {shortly on orders from City | Council. Auditor’ Charles’ Roberts | been preparing a list of those de- | linquent this year as checked | against last year’s list. jat the regular council Thursday. Although those who regularly {reside in this city and are at |present delinquent will thus be jlisted, Mr. Roberts said and that ' this would not be a check against | those new establishments which ‘have sprung up and are at pres- *ent delinquent. It is expected that license inspector Elwood Carbonell will make a check of | these establishments. | The drive is expected to end ‘June 1. meeting | Auditor Checking Old De- linquents; Plan Check' has | Mr. Rob- | \erts said he would submit his list | For Sewer Project Meeting VIAL ALLA '41-INCH CRAWFISH AT DRY TORTUGAS Claude Gandolfo, Key | Present Order | For Shut-; | down April 15; 20 Miles’ | Of Water And Sewer; West fishing enthusiast. re- j { Lines Laid 1 t ports Dry Tortugas is the | Place to spend a fishing vaca- E. S. Lofberg, assistant direc-| tion. tor of operations from the W.P.A. Sunday he brought back a nine-puond “baby” crawfish Jacksonville state office, will be rorteiiegy the reef just off in Key West tomorrow to confer} og sunken Bird Key. Craw- with city officials regarding con- fish have been taken there tinuation of the sewer Project | 41 inches in length from an- | here. The present order is for clos babe Sie |ing down of the project April 15 Seer ea junless sponsorship funds are| paggien SG Tesi ALOR A180 es | made available. There are at} present 442 workmen employed aa oa N hdd de de dedededh Plan which has been advanced by the city and county is for the! KEY WESTER | ( supply toward sponsorship of the H city project. It is believed that RACE WINNER this will enable the project to | run on three months longer but | { county to loan the city $10,000 to confirmation on this point is to ‘be obtained from Mr. Lofberg. panies ————— pee FIRSTS IN MIAMI : Approximately 20 miles of pipe} ! jline have been laid by W.P.A.| | Lotherg Arrives Tomorrow | ‘etc. has been received at i PRICE FIVE CENTS | Report To Work March 16; Employment Officer Gandolfo Preparing La- ~ | bor List Word of approval of a $30,000 federal-sponsored project at Key West Barracks for repairs and re- ' | habilitation of buildings, utilities. the W.P.A. area headquarters build- i ing by supervisor B. Curry Mo- i | reno. One hundred and forty-four ;men will go to work March 16, :employment officer Claude Gan- |dolfo told The Citizen today. In this group will be one supervisor, {18 skilled men, 13 semi-skilled land 102 laborers. js enuiaition forms will be sent 0 Miami to Karl A. Goodbread ea from that office the regular procedure of sending notices to report to work will be sent to the men. SEEK AIR BASE REPRESENTATION man in manufacturing, who will ‘low average of from $3.00 to $4.00! Tamiami Everglades Co. sold per day' cannot be maintained by ,to C. E. Albury 10 acres in the act as secretary and factory mana-) the workers, running as high as’ mainland section of the county. | CRICKET CLASS CREW MEMBERS urday last was his day. He ilabor since December of 1934. | called at the Convent, found | There were only nine miles of| ger. The new. company will perform a dual function. It will promote intensively the products of Men-j endez Garcia & Co., of Havana,' “H. Up-' including the famous mann” brand as also the Dunhill controlled __“Montecristo”, the sales franchise for which has been controlled in the United States and Canada for over two years, by the president of the new organization. In addition, the corporation will enter into a program ot manufacturing in the long famcus city of Key West, where it will produce clear Ha- vana cigars of the highest quality obtainable, in conformity with the ideals and traditions which gave that community internation- al prestige. Holds Great Promise Interviewed relative to project, Walter Woolfson, in very enthusiastic fashion, stated: “During thirty-one years of ex- perience in the cigar business, I have never before, been associat- ed in an enterprise that founded on sounder principles, | or held out greater promise. The success and growth of the im-} ported lines which we will ex- ploit, is already assured. The “H. Upmann” brand is enjoying a wholesome, steady growth and is today in second ranking position of popularity among Cuban-made/ cigars. “It has provided a testimonial to the prospect of success which necessarily attends quality pro- duction when coupled with sound ‘promotion. It was this experi- ence which gave rise to the con- viction that similar-results could be achieved under a parallel plan in the popular price field of clear Havanas. Key West Logical Site “Entry into Key West as a manufacturing center seems log- ical. Its favorable geographic location, just ninety miles from the city of Havana, insures cli- matic conditions simulating those in the Island of Cuba. Its former) prestige in this field gives ade- quate te’timony as to its desir- ability. In establishing there, we have, however, need of courting modern prac- tice. “The factory site selected is the property of A. Santaella & Company. This building will be thoroughly renovated and im- proved to provide every modern facility, insuring comfort to the (Continued on Page Four) | $6.00 as experience is added. { George W. Adams sold to Mary , “These comparatively high O. Adams the 92x44 property on averages are._made possible by South street between White andi, was, the use of tW6 devices, which aid A the hand-rolling of cigars”. these devices, and. the method is called the Garcia Conformer style of cigar-rolling. * Contrary to rumors locally, these devices, as stated, will not replace hand labor. The balance of the cfuipment| arrived with Mr. Garcia last night, approximately 6,000 pounds of material and equip-! ment coming in by truck from: Tampa. Twelve women instruc- tors and supervisors will event- ually arrive from Tampa. Fe- male help is planned exclusively. The period of instruction will take two or three days, after which length of time operators should be proficent enough to be}! jable to earn the low average} | wage mentioned above. a The factory will start with anj original working force of from 20! to 30 girls, and will reach aver- ;age production size later in the month or by the first of next month with a total of at least 100. Mr. Garcia has had extensive experience in the cigar business, | Starting in 1920 to learn the busi- ness with the Perfecto Garcia’ Bros. Company in Tampa. Fol- | lowing experience as manager he | was with the Nordacs Cigar Com- A. & B. Cigar Company. | Raul Garcia Manufacturing Com- pany, manufacturers of clear Ha- vana ene GREEK VESSEL AWAITS ( ORDERS Mr. Garcia is the inventor of pany, E. W. Berriman Company, | In 1937 | he organized and managed the: A. E. Bacon sold to Amy R| Barlow 35 acres on Key Largo. ‘AIM TO PROTECT KEY DEER HERDS | Representative B. C. Papy has {requested the local Chamber of Commerce to issue a call for all interested persons in Key West {to assemble at Chamber head-} j quarters this evening at 8 p. m. | to obtain expressions relative to | the conservation of deer and oth-! jer wildlife on the Keys. | Various organizations have pe-! titioned Mr. Papy to introduce} legislation aiming at protection) for deer on the Keys, and it is the representatives’ desire to as-! lertain the wishes of the city- -at-| (large in the matter. TEMPERATURES, :; : ‘Peep eceescoesesecosseoes | Lowest Highest Station- - Jast night last 24 bows | Abilene - 60 80 Atlanta Boston Buffalo = Charleston - ‘Chicago Denver Detroit {Galveston Havana Huron Jacksonville Kansas City _ KEY WEST . | Little Rock; - Los Angeles Louisville 62 32 32 68 46 62 40 68 38 70 Miami __. 3 Mpls.-St. P. _. |New Orleans _ New York - | Pensacola Greek vessel ' biricos is at the Porter awaiting orders to sail. The vessel came here from} Nicolaos Em- Dock recognized the! Belgium and carries no cargo. Deer Hunters Take Notice At the request of the HON. B. C. PAPY, there will be a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce at 8 P. M. tonight, Tuesday, March 14, to hear of the deer on the Lower Keys. Hunters and conservation- ists invited. S. C. SINGLETON, | Pittsburgh’ i St. Louis espa Washington 34 i Williston 0 12 SATURDAY—MARCH 18 ' GABANA-MADRID CLUB American Orchestras wcosTuae PRIZES ‘cian Game given 50 first 50: a a ,Admission — $1.00 Per Person that Sister Louis was still | there, and turned over a check for $200 to the Con: vent, Mr. Wallace lives in Co- ; lumbus, Ga. He left for his | home yesterday. | PLP LSI ILI ST TS 4 | NPS OFFICERS "ENJOY FISHING AT TORTU |GANDOLFO WINS PRIZE FOR LARGEST AND MOST FISH; | BENNET AND THOMAS ON. TRIP | See mans |_F. W. Meade, | Brun, was expecting to leave to-; |day for the run to Tortugas with’ la load of men and equipment fol-' ‘lowing government ‘funds !the project. Sunday, Mr. Bennet, St. Aug- ustine Coordinating director NPS! and J. R. Thomas, WPA employment director | Florida, returned after making | the trip to historic Fort Jefferson. ;Claude Gandolfo, local employ- ment officer, was also along. The group enjoyed splendid! fishing in the area. In a pool, Mr. | Gandolfo won the prize for the! largest and most fish. Gandolfo’s’ largest fish was an 18-pound mut-} tonfish. Mr. Thomas won the; prize for the first fish. DELINQUENTS TO BE SENT CARDS j CURE 80% TAX REDUC- ‘ “TION UNTIL JUNE 1 oximately 1,000 cards giv- a ing notice that the 80% reduc-/| ‘tion in delinquent taxes will be jeffective until June 1 is being prepared in the office of city tax} assessor-collector Sam B. Pinder today. |full amount becomes due. Prop- erty owners who wish to take advantage of the 80% reduction imust pay their current taxes in delinquent taxes. FOR NEW SHIP ‘ AWAIT T ORDERS WILL GO TO CAMDEN, N. J. TO JOIN NEW LIGHTHOUSE | ' | | + | | | [CAPrAme BANKS AND OTHERS 1 | VESSEL | Captain William Banks and imembers of the crew who are to_ jman the new Lighthouse De-! |partment vessel “Zinnia” are awaiting orders to go up and bring the vessel down. The Zinnia is at ;Camden, N. J. She built. | The “Poppy” is at present 15 |miles south of Miami off Feather- present at is newly! | bed bank and will proceed to Mi-| Captain Alex’ ami to pick up supplies, fuel and | Key West. transport a barge to this The barge is a pile driver. Poinciana, whieh is in city. the made Intracoastal Waterway between| available last week to continue be Lucie Inlet and the end of} ke Worth is replacing buoys | ‘there. | Tender Ivy is to leave at about assistant Midnight to electrify Carysfort | for , Reef. WPA DIRECTOR __ LEFT YESTERDAY ENGINEERING DIRECTOR OF | PWA WAS HERE ON BUSI- { NESS VISIT Arthur J. Bulger, Director of Engineering, PWA, with head-} quarters in Washington, D. jleft Key West yesterday follow- ing a three-day visit, on a com- | trip. | While here Mr. Bulger in- spected the County Courthouse {project and expressed himself as jvery well pleased with progress {made and the manner in which | \the new addition was being con-| |structed. He expressed fons linterest in the native marl type of concrete construction. Mr. Bulger stayed at the goat of Geo. F. Widemyer, local PWA June 1 ends the six months pe-! riod of 1939, beyond which the spent bras = pe amet Beer B. M. {. Duncan at the Pigeon Key Camp. He also tried his luck inate int Rev West wa- ters. Mr. Bulger also ii order to secure the reduction in/the Overseas Highway, viewing the spans for the first time. city water line laid previous to {the W.P.A. work, which makes ‘the present system more © than double the old. The original’ Jerry Gwynn, 22, former Key experience in boating from his ; West resident, who had his early} + The old city lines is at present sea sewer project contem- | plated 35 miles of pipeline.! |'There are about 60 miles of; streets in Key West with about {20 miles inhabited. | uncle, Rodney Qwynn, won two} first places in his speed Ga Wa II Sunday in hotly- contested ; cricket classes of the Miami} Yacht Club sailing program on| |the Miramar course. | in very bad shape. The city is| In the first heat, Jerry was! {using part of the new water pipe first. In the second heat, second, | Hine for fire protection and run-| and in the third he was first| ining water facilities. Alongside ; | again. lof the new water line is a new| “yy ‘g. | ; : Thompson, another for- jsewer line which may be con-| ier Key Wester, finished third! nee rte eas homes ae mn ithe snipe class in the “Barbara | In the original sewer project:” soot |there are still, $260,000 ‘which| Miami Yacht Club is planning! |may be seapervied for the protect | jan annual regatta shortly. STATUS SHOWN depends on decision of the state} W.P.A. office which, in accord- | |Has NOT BEEN ASSIGNED TO ANY PORT ON FLOR- ance with state regulations, is re-! IDA COAST quiring a sponsors share from W. H. STOWERS DIES IN ATLANTA News that tie contemplated [Prose Marine Training School | Bachar ‘OF J. BR. STOW-} has not been assigned to any prt | on the Florida coast, was con-| ERS, KEY WEST {tained in a letter received by} RESIDENT | Mayor Willard Albury last week-} end from Senator Charles O. An- | drews. News was received here last | A communication from Rear night by J. R. Stowers of the | Admiral Emory S. Land, chair- death of his brother, W. H. Stow-|™an of the United States Mari-| ers, 66, in Atlanta, Ga., shortly | time Commission in Washington, after the former had returned |D. C., to Senator Andrews, dated from a visit to Atlanta to see his| March 8, states that “the com- brother. Mr. Stowers spent three| Mission has not yet determined days in that city. whether or not it will establish a The deceased was the eldest| training school on the Gulf”. jof four living brothers, the sur-| Plans now call for the visit of vivors besides J. R. Stowers be-|the commission’s training ship, fhg J. L. Stowers of Havana,|the American Seaman, to a num- |TAYLOR ADVISED HEPBURN BOARD WILL MEET K. W. DELEGATION Charles Taylor, chairman of the Citizens Committee which is attempting to have the naval air base now proposed for the South eastern area situated at Key | West, is today arranging for rep- resentation at Washington for the Hepburn Board. Mr. Taylor has been advised by Florida Jepresentative Pat Can- non, in’reply to a telegram he sent yesterday, that the Hepburn Board will meet with the »Key West delegation some time _ be- fore Saturday. T. B. Price, attorney for Trum- bo Proterties, Inc., where the {base would be logically situated, and B. M. Duncan, manager Overseas Highway, will probably make the Washington trip. The Hepburn Board is at pres- ent speeding up its report for presentation to thé Senate by March 20. LEGION PROGRAM TOMORROW NIGHT OPEN HOUSE FOR ALL VET- ERANS TO BE HELD ON OCCASION Open house for all veterans of the World War will take plac tomorrow night, Wednesday, i: Legion Hall, on the occasion of the Stag Birthday Party given by Arthur Sawyer Post, No. 25 American Legion, the event marking nationwide celebration of the Legion’s 20th Anniversary Cuba, T. J. Stowers of Ft. Worth, Tex., and M. G. Stowers of Den- ver, Colo. Two sisters also sur- | PROPERTY OWNERS CAN SE- bination vacation and‘ business! Vive» Mrs.~Robert Hunter and _{Mrs. J. W. Cobb of Atlanta, Ga. "Services were held this afternoon ber of ports on the Gulf for the purpose of taking on additional enrollees for the maritime serv- ice in June. Admiral Land goes on to say that “this visit of the steamship American Seaman will in Atlanta. aid the Commission in determin- ing whether or not a shore train- | MUNRO, ition onthe Gull should be ;WORLD WAR MINIT \tden Koaks Wek | REUNIO as Koehn Weds... Artaro Henrique Arturo Heaeinune and Helen Koehn were united in marriage today at noon. The ceremony | was performed by Judge Thomas |S. Caro. igue> LEGION E HALL ; WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, ey | ¢ 8:00 P.M. Witnesses ‘to the ceremony Free Show were John G. Sawyer and Rafael! | CE Henique:. | | The committee-in-charge an- nounces a “real old-fashioned stag party” with plenty of free eats and drinks and an outstand- ing floor show. 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