The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 19, 1939, Page 1

Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit Associated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen THE SOUTHERNMOST NEWSPAPER — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1939 Scottish Rite Masons To Hold [Large Number Of'Visitors [City Council Adopts Resolution : Annual Convocation InKey West! Expected Here ThisSummer| For Issuance Of Revenue Bonds ROYAL WELCOME DELINQUENT TAK (ort Kay wea way” crortw nepe SH COUNTIES CONFIDENCE VOTE sw Wit Agrete A GIVEN KING AND LIST OF COUNTY Take Steamer For Trip eee LINED UP ON | GIVEN ENGLAND’S | Amount Of Three pac QUEEN IN OTTAWA, GAS TAX FUND PRIME MINISTER sand Dollars; Various i BEING PREPARED To tliva REWARD OF FIVE DOLLARS, | Other Matters Heard } |BROUGHT OUT IN INVESTI.;URGES CERTAIN CONCES | OFFERED FOR ARREST 1 i TWO DAYS TO BE SPENT IN|TAX COLLECTOR SAYS THAT Committee of members of the. AEP) CONVICTION aes CAPITAL OF CANADA; BAD| GATION: AGREED TO PAY | SIONS IN FOREIGN POLICY; The City Council at a regular FOR ANY ADDITIONAL AL-' IF “PEACE COULD BE AS- meeting held last night, adopted LIST BEING PREPARED Key West Chamber of Commerce ; WEATHER DID NOT HAM.! WILL BE LARGER THAN “ch Wa: appointed to suggest! Plants of various kinds, includ- PER CROWDS LOTMENTS | SURED” jcertain changes in the by-laws; iti ; A Sibson jing varieties of cacti, are being USUAL jand constitution has completed} fi | |the work and are to submit their |St0len from the nursery of the ‘report to the body in the near;Key West Garden Club and Tree County Tax Collector Frank H. future. |Guild, and a reward of $5 is be- IN THE U.S.A. VOLUME LX. No. 119. PRICE FIVE CENTS First Of Contingent Will Start Arriving Satur- day; Two-Day Session Planned The Scottish Rite Masons of the Jurisdiction of South Florida will hold their Fifth Annual Con- vocation with the Scottish Rite | Lodges of Key West, May 21 and| ' ‘a resolution authorizing the is- 'suance of general revenue bonds Uy Associated Presn) (By Associated Press) | | aggregating $3,000 against the + (By Awsociated Press) : i 19—Prime | may 22. The Jurisdiction. of South Florida is made up of the Scot- tish Rite Bodiesvef Tampa, Mi- ami, Lake Worth and Key West and is under the direction of Brother James Donn, 33rd de- gree, as Deputy of the Suprem? Council 33 degrees of the Scot- tish Rite Masons of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States. This is the second time that the Key West bodies have had the honor of entertaining the South Florida Scottish Rite Ma- sons, the first of these convoca- tions was held here in May, 1935, and each of the others have en- tertained once. The representatives of the va- rious bodies will start to arrive Saturday and the rest will arrive during Sunday. About one hun- dred representatives are expect- ed to attend this meeting and from reports it is expected that a number will be . accompanied by their wives” —- Free Admission Through the courtesy of the Monroe County Baseball League the visitors will be admitted free to the championship game to be played Sunday afternoon be- tween Roadside Pirates and Key West Conchs. By a like courtesy of Mayor Willard, M. Albury and the Key West City Council admission to the Open Air Aquarium will be free to the visitors. Tickets will be given each of the visitors for the above attractions. The representatives will regis- ter at the Scottish Rite Hall on arrival and will be furnished a program and their tickets for the; various events of the meeting. Sunday night at 8 o’clock the two-day Scottish Rite Masons will attend. the Presbyterian church service for a sermon by Rev. J. C. Geke- | ler, 32nd degree (Northern aur isdiction). Plan Luncheon Monday morning at 10 o'clock will be held the fifth annual con- ference of the entite group fol- lowed by luncheon at the Scot- tish Rite Hall given by the Ever- ready Star Club of Fern Chapter, ' Order of Eastern Star, and the afternoon will be given over to sight-seeing trips about the city | and informal talks by resident} and visiting Scottish Rite Ma- sons. At 8:30 o'clock Monday night} there will be presented a Ma-/ sonic dramatic production by the Scottish Rite Dramatic Club of} Miami and all Master Masons in the city are invited to see this drama. It is expected that the M. W. Grand Master of Masons of Flor- ida, Ralph I. Kishpaugh, 32nd de-; gree, ‘of West Palm Beach, will! attend this session, and he states that he is coming here not on an) official visit with the Lodges of | the Twenty-Fourth Masonic Dis- | trict, but as a-Scottish Rite Ma- son and that Se will later make his official visit. YADKINVILLE, N. C.. May 19.—Mose Bryant loved his dog. year-old farmer was chloro- OTTAWA, May 19. — King , Ladd is at work at this time com-' | George and Queen Elizabeth of piling the list of delinquent ‘tax * \ A t |England were given their justly- :P4¥eTs which is now being got ;due Royal Welcome in this, the! tion and says that tion, Secretary Singleton said today} that if all the people who want to go to Havana, and have so written, plan to take the first ‘following a lay-off of about one ‘month, the P. and O. Company will have to attach a trailer to capital of Canadian Government, | larger than usual: this noon, shortly after their ar- | It is surprising, the number of leivalstecnsMomtioal rd their 22mes which will be included in the list, said Mr. Ladd. Those | who have redeemed their prop- The weather was bad, a drizz- erty under the provisions of the |ling rain holding forth, but the Murphy act. and thus paid the ;Royal Couple’s loyal — subjects | taxes for 1937, seem to have lost {turned out by the thousands to' sight of the fact that 1938 taxes {greet their King and Queen. | must be paid. The King will spend two days! ‘There are a number of others, ‘in this city, spending some time, ' owners of homesteads, who were jin between fetes, officially con- supposed to pay nothing on the ducting the affairs of Canada’ tax rolls for 1937, but who pos-! jseated upon the Royal Throne in sibly have forgotten that there! {Parliament headquarters. He will’ was a mandamus secured against ; witness such splendid spectacles, the county and a two mills tax modern streamline train. | ing offered for the arrest and Daeg of the thieves. | Ladies, who are members of iten in shape for regular publi¢a-'boat to Havana from Key West|the club, say they can not con-j it will be When it makes its trip on June 1, jceive of persons stealing the: |plants because when the growths TALLAHASSEE, May 19—| LONDUN. | Following investigation made by Minister Neville Chamberlain re- i Governor Cone, six counties in’ Sived a 220 to 96 vote of confi- ‘this state were found to have dence in Parliament following ‘made special arrangements with | his statement urging certain con-| 11355 shis sum of mone; jreach the age when they are ready | attorneys to pay percentages e&sions in foreign policy if j general revenue fund of the tax jroll for the year 1939. {shown in the’ resolution that it ‘was necessary and expedient to It was to be ,used for different municipai pur- SG Gite for there in, a large | for transplanting, they are given number. ' Residents of the northern sec-jers of nature and properly care tion of the U. S. seldom take | for their plants and trees. their vacations in the Spring, but} Members of the Garden Club there are a great many who have |and Tree Guild are very much signified their intention of visit-| disturbed by the theft of the ing Key West this summer and it!plants and are determined to is anticipated that the large num-!make every effort to have the ber will make the visit to Ha-' marauders placed where they are vana. ‘unable to further carry on their Colonel Jack de Lyle, who has | depredations. ito those residents who are lov- | ‘ranging from five to 20 percent, “Peace could be assured”. The bonds will bear six percent interest. ! | poses. on additional gasoline tax mon-} Chamberlain stated, however, | ies for their respective counties that no “peace would be bought”! 4 j.440. was read from Robert should legislation sponsored by |8t the price of sacrificing Eng- | J. Lewis entering protest against | . 5 ae : jp, Others engaged in truck-hauling the attorneys successfully be en-|land’s position in world affairs. ithout having paid the proper towards license. Mr. Lewis stated that s E inasmuch as he had obtained a | Monroe, Citrus, Pasco, Frank-|?€adjustment with the Rome-Ber- jicense, he felt that he was not lin, Santa Rosa and Bay courties | jin axis would hinge entirely | being given any protection in the acted at this session. Negotiations aiming very nearly completed a most were the counties that admitted | {matter, and requested that the ; yesterday and said he will furn-j !German troops. comprehensive map of the city; | which is loaded with informative | data, was a caller at the chamber | ish the office with a supply of! the maps as soon as they are off! the press. . | “What we want”, said the sec-| PLANES WILL REPRESENT retary, “is for two or more peo-! ; ple to take advertising space in| ‘ FLORIDA COUNTIES AT the popular little book, “Welcome | WORLD'S “FAIR to Key West’, so we can get it} printed and into the hands of in-} quirers”. | WEST PALM BEACH, May 19 eeee | (FNS).—Plans have been com- NEWS FLASHES |pleted for the gigantic Florida air tour in June, when more than a | hundred planes _ representing (hy Associated Press) every part of the state will fly eevece | from this city to the New York BERLIN.—Adolf Hitler assert-;World’s Fair for the observance ed that he would welcome an ad-|of Florida Day, June 24. Accord- Berio of ope _ataia ling to Wright Vermilya, Florida mention in amberlain’s | i x, ; | governor oi the National Aero- neag before Parliament earlier | nautie Associatfon which is spon- jay. |soring the flight, the air caravan ie 3 |will leave here June 20 and ar- MADRID.—Over 200,000 {r00P5 i rive at-Roosevelt Field, Long Is- arched into this capital of Na-iiang June 22, with overnight ionalist Spain today, finally | stops in Savannah and Washing- bringing about the Victory ig on the way. rade so long heralded by Gen-| Th wae eral-Dictator Franco. _ Italian! e return trip will begin June cee . 26, with overnight stops sched- Cee ee ered bye eract|wed for Raleigh, North Carolina. z The city. was iu and Savannah, with the third night bringing the pilots back to this city. gala attire, giving itself over to* a full day of celebration of the) The complete itinerary for the jnorthbound trip calls for brief occasion. ‘stops at Melbourne, Daytona ito the governor that such ar-|upon Germany’s willingness to| amount paid for the license bc iTangements had been made.) refunded unless the others were ‘Other counties contacted by) placed in the same status. The Cone, who made the state-wide} Hopes for an early agrement matter was referred to the mayor. inquiry following reports of such | H Asks Assistance live up to its promises. TOUR PLANNED: “Worse than any ‘Yellow tactics that he ever seen” sentative Dies in pressing charg- —_—_—_— les against Gilbert. ! epecoonnsnameeere seen) Frenne (TWO. VESSELS <sisen| DUE TONIGHT Lowest last night last 24 hours 68 86 anti-semtic association | made by Mrs. Busto and the re-:was the answer given to Repre-| Beach and Jacksonville in Flor- ,ida; Brunswick, Georgia and the first night at Savannah. The second day stops will be made at Orangeburg and Camden, South Carolina; Lawrenceburg, Raleigh land Warren. in North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia, and Wash- | ington for the second night. Tour ;members will be entertained at | Washington by officials of the |National Aeronautic Association. IVY REACHES EGMONT KEY , agreements, stated, in some in- stances, that they had been ap- proached on the subject and had| ; turned down proposals, jother cases, had not proached. and in been ap- The Monroe County Commis- sioners agreed to pay 10 percent of any additional gasoline tax monies received from the state. This was agreed upon at a meet- ing of the commissioners last Fall, the subject being intro- duced by Attorney Curry Harris. CHARLES HOLY HOPES TO RETURN TO KEY j WEST THIS YEAR AT | AN EARLIER DATE i | | pA ; Writing from his home in Ma- rengo, Ill, Charles Holy _ inti- mates that he may decide to re- turn at an earlier date this year to spend the fall and winter sea- sons on the Florida Keys as he has done ‘for the past several: years.”: With his family, Mr. Holy was, during the past season, on the Keys for several months and paid weekly visits to the city to meet C. Sam B. Curry, and oth- er friends, and on a number of occasions brought trophies of his , Skill as an angler. | One of his catches was an im- mense jewfish, one of the largest ‘taken on the Keys in_ several years, and his letter indicates {that the thrill of that experience | lingers with him and he longs to jreturn to the scene of his good fortune, and try for a larger one. He concludes his letter with jthe statement that.in none of his traveis has he ever been pro- vided the excitement he hai while fishing in Key West and held | \SPANISH - SPEAKING CITI-' COMING BACK a Center director. ‘MRS. PAUL MESA | wagSaEse ,as “Trooping the Colors” and oth- | was ordered placed on the rolls jer functions will keep him busy for 1938. {both days and nights of his visit) Of course this tax of two mills here. tis very small and even on large | U.S. Itinerary Announced {homestead holdings will not; | The United States itinerary |amount to much, but it must be jwas announced today. The paid, or the property will be ' streamline train will cross the in-|added to the delinquent list and ternational boundary at Niagara | advertised. Falls on June 7th and will arrive; The collector suggested that \in Washington on the following) the owners of such properties day where the official welcome| look carefully into this matter, j will be accorded the King and|make the necessary payments | |Queen. That evening they will/and avoid future embarrass- | sleep in the White House, to leave | ment. | the next mornnig for New York/ { jand the World’s Fair. The eve MRS, BUSTO IS | ning of June 9th and all of June} le 10th will be spent with President | i Roosevelt at Hyde Park. The} ADMINISTRATRIX' Royal Party will leave for thej 1 ‘return trip to Canada on June -_— j ek NAMED TO HANDLE ESTATE CLIFFORD HICKS = or sa 0 f BAND RETURNS HOME | } p eadaernn ds |. Mrs. Lois Busto, widow of the |late Attorney J. F. Busto, was REPORTS THAT HIS DAUGH- | yesterday legally appointed by- TER IN GEORGIA IS | County Judge Raymond R. Lord, administratrix of the estate of MUCH IMPROVED | the deceased. XR inecs It is recorded in the court of Clifford G. Hicks returned over | Judge Lord that the deceased the highway yesterday afternoon | died August 15, 1934, and the es- | from a visit with Mrs. Hicks and/ ‘ate is valued at approximately : their daughter, Mrs. Dan Lewis. | 3,000. ae WASHINGTON. =, The Dies The latter is a patient in the| Part of this is real estate Committee today was accused of hospital at ‘Thomasville Ga. | valued at $1,000, and half in-' fostering race-antagonism by W. Since the early patt of the year | terest in a judgment against the Pierpont Gilbert, New York mil- Mrs. Lewis, before marriage Miss | Florida East Coast Railway in lionaire, when reports that he, | Annie Lois Hicks, has been suf- | the sum of $12,000, the estimated Mr. Gilbert, and others were ac- fering from an illness which has | Value of which is placed at ae ue in baffled the physicians, and last : es 8 {WOKR. week was deemedt to Pe ina very! The oath as administratrix was Sheet’ critical condition. Upon receiving word of the ex-| quired bond of $100 posted. treme illness ‘of his daughter Mr. Hicks decided to leave at once. He said this morning that his daughter shows great signs of! ee improvement, and he believed | she was on the road to Tecovery.' Station— ; Abilene | Atlanta* Boston* | Buffalo* NOW IMPROVING re:eton | Chicago ae Denver } Paul Mesa, distribution super- | Detroit* \intendent for the Key West Elec- Gelvertan \tric Co., returned over the high-| Huron way yesterday afternoon from a |@ visit with Mrs. Mesa, who un-| \derwent a major operation sev-| eral weeks ago in a Miami hos-; pital. | Mr. Mesa told The Citizen that | the operation was entirely suc-' |cessful, Mrs. Mesa is rapidly re-; } covering from the effects and ex- pects to return to Key West about | June 1. \ ~ 58 |Salt Lake City* 64 |San Francisco 50 NOTICE, B. P. 0. ELKS from the Keys, nor has he met | with Russia were also raised by ithe Prime Minister. | CUBAN GROUP _ AT ART CENTER | § ORGANIZE ZENS FORM COMMITTEE AT MEETING ON WEDNES- DAY NIGHT On Wednesday night there gathered at the Key West Com- munity Art Center a group of people representative of the Spanish-speaking citizens of Key West. The object was the or- ganizing of a Cuban Committee to work as a group of the Art Center to encourage participation by this part of the community in the cultural activities of the Art Center. There were present: Vice Con- ‘sul Perez, representing Berardo Rodriguez, Cuban Consul; Ber- nildes Remond Isern, principal of the San Carlos Institute; Dr. Jose Sanchez, president of the San Carlos Institute; Alfred Barroso, Mamuel Camero, Mrs. Everett Winter, representing the Pro- gram Committee; F. Townsend ‘Morgan, director of the Art Center. Remond Isern was _ chosen president of the committee, and Dario Garcia was selected as secretary, subject to his accept- ance. It was decided to write to additional representative people to serve on the committee and appoint an executive board in- cluding the officers to carry on the active work with the Art Another meet- ling will be called in the near |__A letter was read from Robert F. Spottswood, chairman of the ‘local Red Cross Chapter, request- ‘ing that the city contribute fi- jnancially toward the organiza- jtion. He statéd@ that —-wille= the {present funds, the chapter would |not be able to carry on much further. The matter was re- ferred to the finance committee. i Asks For Refund | A letter was read from Miss | Mollie M. Parker in which she stated that at the latter part of last year she was fined three dol- |lars for a.vioiation of the traffic laws. She stated, however, that ‘the case was taken ‘up again, and | dismissed, and requested that the amount of the fine be returned to her. The matter was referred to the police committee. Two Firemen Retired The matter of retirement from the service, and to be placed on the pension list, was the cases of Firemen Herman F. Roberts and Hilburn Roberts. After making an investigation of the matter, it was shown that both were en titled to this privilege, and they were ordered placed on the pen- sion list. Contribute To, Bocklet Mr. Johns, representing a printing concern, ;,addr d the council and requested tiat the city purchase a page ad at $100 in a proposed booklet to be print- ed and distributed in advertising Key West and the Overseas Highway and also the Florida Keys. The proposition was to | distribute 25,000 copies. some to be passed out at the toll gates on the Overseas Highway and bridges, with some to be placed with the Key West Chamber of {Commerce to be sent out to va- rious sections. It was agreed that a contract be drawn up between the city and Mr. Johns with the city to purchase space at a cost of $100. i It was ordered that $300 be paid to the Housing Authority | when the funds become ayailable .... | Steamships Brazos and Ozark) ‘Tender Ivy was reported fr of the Clyde-Mallory Lines are|the ‘Egmont, Key Baten ae due to arrive in port this evening | o'clock ‘yesterday morning, where jmore congenial companions nor made so many new friends. : future. f { | for the purpose of taking care of ‘expenses in connection with the and will discharge cargoes at the Mallory docks. The Brazos is from Galveston and is bound for New York. The} Ozark is from New Orleans and is bound to Miami and Jackson- ville. TENDER ARRIVES AT PORTSMOUTH Telegrams received lightho@se department this morn- ing sh@Wed that the Tender Zin- ;the vessel arrived to land the | material to be used at that point BOND SET FOR E. STACHELBERG i SRERSBRSSSLSKSSSSSSLSSRSSSSRES jand also the working party. |. The party consists of five men, ja foreman and a cook, and will j be engaged in the construction of }@ radio antenna tower. It is ex- jpected that the work will require {several weeks. | Radio messages from the new (Tender Zinnia, which is enroute |from Edgemore, N. J.. to Key West, show the vessel reported at Baltimore Wednesday. to be en- route to Portsmouth, Va. ee |SERVICES AT NINE O'CLOCK AT LOPEZ FUNERAL HOME COOK AT DELMONICO RES- TAURANT TO BE TRIED IN CRIMINAL COURT | ! j | | eign onaai | Funeral services for Edgar J. rested Tuesday by Deputy Sheriff | c BE Ray Elwood charged with hav-|Stachelberg, who died yesterday ing salt water crawfish in Coa age gd a brief illness, will possession has been placed under ;%¢ he! morrow morning bond of $100 to await trial at the o'clock at the Lopez Funeral next term of the criminal court. |Home Chapel. Rev J. M. Mul- Fernandez is a cook at the Del-' lin, S.J., of St. Mary’s Star of the; monico Restaurant, and the ar-|Sea Catholic church, will offici- rest was made because he vio- ate. lated the conservation law which | provides that the season for these crustaceans is closed frdm March 21 to July 21, inclusive. Mr. Stachelberg was a member B. P. O. Elks 551 of Key West proposition. | Councilmen Adams and Mon- | salvatge reported on their trip to , ea | Tallahassee in the interest of the reallocation of gasoline tax funds {which are to be turned over to ithe city by the county to the amount of $30,000. They claimed ithat everything was very suc- lcessful in connection with the matter. A quarter of a month’s payroll was ordered for all city employes !from the funds made available for this purpose.