The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 9, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. : For 54 Years Devoted to thé Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LV. No, 138. Steamship Gatun Brings Number | Ot Passengers Here Last: Night! ‘HIRAM 0. YOUNG GIVEN NEW RANK’ ' Several Hire Taxicabs And Enjoy Ride Over City; Vessel Provided Correspondent izer c., | Oliver | { at WASHINGTON, D. | Steamship Gatun, of the Stand- 9. — Hiram brd Fruit and Steamship Com- June quartermasters ‘West barracks, Young, pany, arrived in port last night from Philadelphia and berthed at the Porter Dock Company 10 corps, Key Key West, has been commis- sioned a second lieutenant, The Key KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SA Gigantic Mirror May Uncover Mars, Venus, Space| To Be: Located In New Quarters FOREIGN NATI TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PAPER PRICE | By HOWARD: w. BLAKESLEE | SG gore Press Science: Editor) | |. CORNING, N. Y., June 9.—The the! ‘Secrets CITIZEN RECEIVES GRAM EXPLAINING “MOVE- MENT FOR .CONTROL oF! 200-inch mirror poured at :Corning glass works will never; SITUATION BY 5 POWERS magnify even the nearest star to! more than the pin-point size seen in present telescopes, ; The. Citizen lo, fn. reesipt of 91 aie it will-give 10-fold more-ind telegram from Francis P. Garvan, ¢ormation on whether Venus is @ president of the Chemical Foun-| young world, Mars a dying endl dation, in New York, in reference ; what comets are made of, the fre- to ‘the formation of a cartel by, quent “‘novae” or stupendous ex; plosions out in dark space which five foreign nations, which is for . his pane of dictating the price seem to be the birth of new stars,| 'URDAY,-JUNE 9, 1934. Of Key West, Florida, has the most equable weather in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit. PRICE FIVE CENT: Personnel And Offices Of FERA BRINGING THE SKY NEARER ® Grocery, Inc., has recently. been o'clock. After taking on 25,494 gallons of fuel oil the ship sailed 12:30 o'clock this morning — continuing her voyage to Frontera, Mexico, There were a number of “a | Sengers on the vessel dnd some of them secured taxicabs and rode pver the city. { army reserves, and, assigned to the quertermaster’s re- serves, the war department announced today. HERE ON SUNDA Coast Guard Cutter Tuscarora,! ~ which has been in port’ several days and berthed in the submarine base at the naval station, came up to the Porter Dock this morning for water before sailing for St. Petersburg. Steamship Agwidate, ‘Clyde-Mallory Lines, is of the due in KEY WEST RESIDENT DIED portation of, this product, AT DIVISION STREET HOME FRIDAY Funeral of Mrs. Dora Baker, 75 port Monday morning from »New] years old, who died yesterday York en route to Tampa and Mobile. CHAS. SAUNDERS GROCERY AGENTS. OF WAGNER BEER j morning in the Division’ street, will be held to- (deriving profit from reforestation i morrow afternoon 4:30 o'clock. | Baker, of Talladega, Ala., residence 1000 in the Services will be held chapel of the Pritchard Funeral Home with Rev. W. K, Martin, of Ley Memorial Church officiating. ' ,.,, of newsprint paper as used in this In this connection it is shown; ; that efforts are being made t have the paper produced to a great extent from slash pine in the | southern section of the United {States to combat the proposed | are endeavoring to take advantage | of the situation relative to the im- The | Pies received follows: i “Hope you are noting progress land troubles of efforts to start [production of newsprint made ‘from slash pine of south, thus ! diminishing unemployment, utiliz- ing waste lands of south, solving overproduction of cotton problem, | Project and providing outlet for |power of Tennessee Valley Au- thority. Promises Big Supply “This production’ promises a tinuous domestic supply, great- |movement of those nations who | {what the black dust clouds are in. |space and whether space is some< ithing limited and curved, as Ein- ein suggests. For the big mir- jror will collect four times more tight and take pictures 10 times !faster than heretofore. { » The methods of using this °200- :inch engine are bold strides’ into’ ‘a future 6f astronomy: which sub stitute analysis of electrical, heat} ,and magnetic energies for vision 'and thereby see things forever |hidden from eyes by the thickness of the earth’s atmsophere. | The ‘Youth’ Of Venus’ | Take the “youth” of Venus, an{ ‘idea suggested by some astrono- jmers which puts her back, com- ‘pared with the earth, into a cond ‘tion that’ may have existed here hundreds of millions of years ago. Teléscopes already have identified the presence of large amounts of: é¢arbon dioxide high telouds which cover. Venus. above the} But almost no oxygen at all. In} i that contrast arises the youth hy-; | pothesis. For plants consume. car- bon dioxide and convert it into foxygen. No one knows. surely Survivors are two sons, Walter Jy reduced prices without tariff,!whether this happened on earth: and bonus or artificial aids, We con-| long ago, but it has been suggest- ~~» Robert Baker, of Miami, one sis-|sume 80 percent of. the world’s ,ed, WHOLESALE ESTABLISH. os etd Kate Allen, of Key West, “MENT RECENTLY APPOINT. “ts CITY AND COUNTY Havana Special Mr, and Mrs. Walter Baker and. ED AS DISTRIBUTORS FOR So and Mr.; and Mrs. Robert, Baker and son, arrived funeral services. Charles Saunders. Wholesale - appointed as distributors for Wag-! _ ners’ beer in this city and coun-| After more than 14 years Wag- ner’s beer returns to greet a host, of friends in Florida and to bring! ‘into the minds of people the fine quatity and flavor of Wag- ner’s beer, this firm has begun a vigorous advertising campaign. | intil recently Wagner’s beer been manufactured ip five _ breweries located in different parts of the country. But, since the completion of the plant in Mi- ami, which is the largest brewery in the south, “The Pride of Flor- ida,” is_now being introduced as @ produet of this eh 2h Several thousan és of this |* beer is being given away as a means of with th ting the trial detide whether Wag- ner’s beer has achieved its high ambition to make the very finest beer possible, the management states, SCHOOL FACULTY | PAID YESTERDAY | Principals and teachers in the public schools of Monroe county received their pay checks yester- Gay, the emoluments covering a period of six weeks. This payment of salaries is an- other happy result of the payment of taxes by the Florida East Coast Railway. The amount disbursed yesterday was approximately $7,- 000, it is said. KILL PET MONKEY 'IEUT. JACKSON BACK FROM TRIP Lieutenant W. B. Jackson, U, 'S.N., officer in charge. at the; {naval station, returned over highway yesterday afternoon from. a visit of inspection units in the district. the of reserve During his tour the lieutenant visited at Miami, Opa-Locka, Or-! Jando, Lakeland, Gainesville, Petersburg and Tampa. PLANS St. ounces today this year teach This affords those students who TONIGHT Palace—.“Catherine The Great.” Strand—“It Happened One Night.” TOMORROW Church—Services at 7, 9:30 and 11 a. m, and 7:30 and 8 p. m. on the, today for the, leonsumption. Imports averaged ver 000 yearly the past ur years or 70 percent of our ;row of 100 percent of our con- sumption necessarily imported |from- Canada, Sweden, Norway, \Finland and Germany. To Form Cartel “Day after tomorrow these five feountries will form a cartel and dietate to you, to our school book bpubtiahers and to all users, the 'price of paper, in other words then become of the freedom of {the press on which all our liber- ties depend? leomment or silence of our coun- try’s newspapers on England’s re- ;pudiation of debt and on other in- j ternational questions, and consid- jer how far the fact that the ; British empire controls even at present time the price of news. tprint is unconsciously affecting ithe editorial and news opinion? | “Note an editorial in the New {York Times yesterday ‘beginning, ‘‘American newspapers took the aca Honing the Ft ce Pride of Flor ‘Miss May Hill, local’ grammar ;news of the British decision to school teacher, that she will aga summer school in the Armory at|and acquiescence which must al- the corner of White and Southard | most have surprised themselves.’ streets. d {suspend payments on the war, jdebts with a degree of calmness Glad to have your views and ask publication of this telegram as have failed in their work an excel. |Your readers are as much interest- lent opportunity to go ahead with)ed in the freedom of the press as their class, it is stated. Students/you are.” who would take new work and ad-} vance themselves may do so by attending this summer school. \COLORED MAN consumption, the present 30 per-| cent domestic production dying in| proportions of oxygen. More plant’ _ competition with imports tomor-}food and more oxygen would be; -——-——— — your margin of profit, What will | Will you not study | n Venus exists the, Also that : rai carbon ‘dio: | growth which vert that gas into much larger; imagined to favor the start of life, as it exists on earth, { Planet May Be ‘Sick’ ! But theoretically it is also pos-; sible that the oxygen originally! present in Venus’ atmosphere was, absorbed by her rocks. So that} | now she isn’t really youthful com-/} 'pared with earth. But just sick.! | The 200-inch mirror telescope: will greatly extend the tenuous in- ‘formation about Venus’ atmos- | phere. Mars’ apparent old age is simi-) {lar. Its redness is not the blood! | which gave it the name of the mythical war god, but may be |eaused, according to modern tele-! iseopes, by the rocks having ab- {sorbed so much of the Martian | oxygen, } Probing Martian Secrets The great, patches about Mars’! middle section, green-gray in; spring, yellowish in fall, which jhave been taken for vegetation, iwill yield more of their light rays to the 200-inch mirray. And 50 comié closer to. telling the truth; about themselves. Likewise the fine lines on Mars—the “canals,” which some astronomers have con- sidered artifical, and so the works of intelligent beings. i The planet Jupiter may be liquid | rather than solid, Vis settle that, but the anal, iter’s radiation in the instruments; of the new 200-inch mirror tele-} scope should go far toward clear-j ing the mystery. ! | ‘No Definite Date Set As Yet Hbeing besi Palace—“Catherine the Great.” Strand—“It Happened One SWANSEA, Wales—A’ pet mon- Night.” Dkey. owned by Mra. William | Phillips of this city was killed by after it became vicious and DELICIOUS-DIGESTIBLE On Sale At Leading Groceries Served In Restaurants 4 2 for 5¢e or 5 for 10c GIVEN HEARING} ‘<=. _ ith STORM REPORT Henry Mayfield, colored, was The Weather Bureau issued the given a preliminary hearing this} rojowing information today: morning in the court of County ADVISORY; 10:00 a. m.—The Judge Hugh Gunn on a charge .of| tropical disturbance is apparently ant profane and obscene lan-| moving northwestward over ne ., | Yucatan peninsula with increasing There were a number of wit | intensity with its center probably | nesses present when the defend-|. short distance southeast ant was arraigned. When thei asrerida It judge read the charges Mayfield looked over the array of witnesses, of} is accompanied by| strong shifting winds cn. The| The and decided to plead guilty. ‘gale foree near the center. i The judge told him he was to be| highest reported velocity is 50 held in bond of $50 for trial atthe} Soc = next term of criminal court. ‘Taught By MISS MAY HILL ARMOURY BUILDING Starts Monday Morning Your chance to make up beck work or to take new work | and go ahead | Milk Fed Veal Lamb FLORIDA HENS AND FRYERS Strictly Fresh Phone 20 805 Fleming St. Here is a dramatic scene during the pouring of the 200-inch mirror with which ce hopes to solve some of the enigmas of the mass of stars which forms the white glow, of light a re of. the famens rebula..in Canes. Venatici (above) will be studied and an attempt made to uncover such se- crets as the age of the planet Venup and the question of life’ on Regional Engineer Of FERA Unit Straightens Out Work Projects Mr, Perkins when he found, upon arrival, that he was just the very person needed to straighten out some matters, look over projects and give advice and information, Instead of having leisure to {spend he had his hands full of work and so decided to call off of Miami. the vacation and get busy in | straightening out some of the Mr. Perkins and Mr. Wartele/ yations needing his expert opinion. were enjoying a vacation on the|This was given and all is now Florida Keys and decided to pay aj etene. ET Mr. Perkins and Mr. Wurtele brief’ vieit to ‘Key. West, and-take will remain here until tomorrow it easy. for a while: and in the morning leave over the Easier said than realized, said highway for Miami. Seth Perkins, regional engin for the FERA Florida, arrived over the highway 10th district of is week accompanied by C. A.| Wurtele, dealer in high explosives For Casting | Absentee Ballots Judge Hugh Gunn's office is ad be printed and turned over to the clerk, who in turn will issue the required namber to Judge Gunn after which absentee voting will begin. Clerk Sawyer said today he will do everything possible to facili- tate the matter of getting these is compelled to reply that he does tickets out after the certification not know, nor is any other person a. ee pedaling one in Key West in a position to giv€/the voting as designated by the this information. . .. |law, whieh provides absentee vot- The principal reason is that it) ting shail begin 15 days before the is unknown at this time just who]. ction, will be in the second primary and! ____ numbers of prospe: absentee voters in the second primary asking when will be possible to cast ab: votes. To all of these queries the judge The tickets will then have to ve| U.S. ENDS ALL RIGHTS IN CUBA (Ny Ansociated Press) WASHINGTON, June 9. —The right of United States to intervene in the af- fairs of Cuba officially ended today. Two nations in the | Negotiations For: Suitable Building Now Under Way; Expect To Move On Monday the Preparations are being made to move the personnel and offices of the FERA unit in Key West to some other lecation which is yet to be determined. There are a few places in the city which could-be used to ad- vantage, it is said, but whether any of these can be secured is yet to be learned. Negotiations for a suitable building are now underway and it state department ceremony offi- cially exchanged ratifications of the treaty under which the United States relinquish- ed its intervention power. HEMINGWAY AND: "PARTNER DEFER |<" cri PROPOSED TRIP|“, The offices in the lighthouse j headquarters, where the office AL DUDEK RECEIVES NEWS| forces of the several branches of OF MOTHER'S {the FERA are now situated are ILLNESS; needed for lighthouse activities, it LEAVES ON TRAIN YESTER- | i, shown in a letter sent out to de- DAY FOR*HOME partment heads by Superintendent of Lighthouses W, W. Demeritt. ‘ One letter to Julius F. Stone, After making all preparations’ Jy, state director of activities, one for an early departure and with | to W. H, Green, regional director, their 17 foot auxiliary sloop tuned/ and one to the local social service up and ready for the long trip} director were sent out y. jfrom Key West to the mouth ot) Soon Ang vie letter was a the : Orinoco ations Leicester head. Nic. Granecieed ual imne Hemingway and sailing patdner) distance and on being told of the Al Dudek: are forced. “to defer} jetter advised that the local of- ee their arrival here several weeks ago after their rough ex- perience with strong winds and high seas after they started from Mobile to Key West, they have} been guests of Leicester’s brother, RECEIVE HEARING Ernest, at the home on Whitehead street, — During their stay the little} Henry Betancourt, who was in sloop has been overhauled and/ jail since May 29 on a charge of gotten in perfect condition and} injuring a colored lad, John Gal- they were all set to leave within! lagher, who was knocked down by the next few days when yesterday; the car driven by Betancourt. Al received a telegram advising of} was released yesterday on bond of the illness of his mother and left $500, on the afternoon train for his' He will be given a preliminary home in Patowski, Mich. [hearing this afternoon in the court Before leaving he told Thejof Peace Justice Frank O. Rob- Citizen he expected to return in/erts, The charges will be driving about 10 days when final prep-|an automobile while under infin- arations will be made and the,ence of intoxicants, damaging the second leg of the voyage to Vene-j person of Gallagher and smash- zuela will be started, jing his bicycle. BETANCOURT TO To Finance Drouth. Relief Program |__- Sate 'WENDELL BACK | AT OLD HOME (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 9— j President Roosevelt today asked leongress for $525,500 to finance a drought relief program the af. inistration already had undertak- | WAS FOR SOME TIME LOCAT-’... ED AT CASA MARINA HOTEL “Large scale assistance by the IN KEY WEST federal government is accomay to protect people in the stricken i pelea from suffering, to move (apectal to The Cities) ‘ teed to livestock and to acquire is expected arrangements will be - fiees be caf WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W. Va., June 9.—-After a short visit at the Greenbrier, Mr. and Mra. E. R. Wendell returned to their home in Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Mr, Wendell was for six years imanager of the Hotel Peabody in | Memphis, Tenn. under Frank | Schutt. Prior to this connection Mr. and process surplus cattle and to provide meat for relief distribu- tion,” he said in his message to congress, Absolute freedom for the admin- istration to spend meopey as it sew fit was asked, “We are dealing with a rapidly j changing problem, and it is im- be no ticket made up. After the ticket is made up in Tallahassee a copy will be sent to Clerk Ross C. Sawyer with the necessary certification by the sec-/ retary of state. A LITTLE PAINT ‘Will Werk Wenders on Your Car. Talk It Over With HAMILTON WILLIAMS at Lou Smith Service Station White and Catherine Phone 522 | } ANNOUNCING— Opening Monday FLORIAN STUDIO Colonial Hotel Bidg. Cor. Duval and Fleming 4 =. 10c ; j portant that authorization should Wendell was for many years with Po" Tesibic eo that funds ean be | Frank Schutt’s father, L. P./ |Sehuts, at the Casa Marina Hotel] auwed te servers! faders sree ete West, Peg beg Wendell)” ie det led wae ‘i will announce his jor a new |». nds é: jconnection shortly. pases —_——————— Clark Gable-Claudette Colbert in It Happened One Night Matinee: Balcony, 10; Orches-j tre, 15-20c; Night, 15-25< ¥ a