The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 16, 1934, Page 1

a PEEL FER ae eK OOd Hager o ¥ VOLUME LY. No. 168.0 oye LY. No. 168. aboee - Oficers OF FERA rs Of FERA Activities ~ Return From: Dry Tortugas| * : Return To City Yesterday Two Days Spent, At Points In That Area | Architect Donald Corley and FERA staff of experts and spe- elaligts, who were at Tortugas for two days making investigations \‘wwwmrerews BEAUTIFUL PLANT BRILLIANT PARADE Saab STARTS “NEW LIFE’) TO TRANSFORM ETHICS. AND MODE OF. LIVING IN CHINA | AT BEVAN’S YARD E, J. Bevan of 810 Caro- line street, who has a garden en his premises, has among many other plants, the Night- Blooming Cereus, a cluster of which he presented. to The Many of these species are cultivated for their beautiful on the Lighthouse Tender Poppy, spotinesatie: Peterson and crew. While at Loggerhead Key the caveat eas | Military bands . furnished visitors were guests at the home of Lighthkeeper Andrew Albury and consider the experience of a night on the island surrounded by} beauty in. many. forms.one ef the! highspots in their visit to the] tropics, Speaking of Loggerhead | Mr. Corley remarked that he has never seen a place which was in every) WRITTEN BY MISS HAVILAND-| TAYLOR; A MARRIAGE MIX-. UP FEATURES HER LATEST}! ‘way so immaculately clean as the key, its buildings and everything fonnected with the station, es- pecially the grounds and houses of! the lighthouse department. It seenes which are a de- to the eye of anyone looking! for the beautiful under the most! delightful conditions. While at Loggerhead and also Fort Jefferson, Altists Stanly Woods and Avery Johnson who: were members of the party. number of scenes and took a number of pic-! ‘Witt Ber Tike brochure to be prepared. The four voyagers ex; their appreciation for ‘the ‘hos-" pitality they enjoyed at the hands: of the entire personnel of the Light House Service, which was ar- ranged for them by Superintendent W. W. Demeritt. RIFLE TEAM ae MAJOR WILLIAM V. ALBURY, "ALSO COMES IN YEs. TERDAY Major William V. Albury, C. A. ©., Florida National Guard, who was appointed range officer at the rifle meet held Jast week at Camp Foster, returned yesterday frour — on the Havana Spe- vs t 1 ‘ | i ee 4 on the same train were’ Liedtenant Wm, E. P. Roberts, in charge, he rifle team from Battery “KE.” which competed in| the shoot with other teams from the ional Guard, from all over! the State. Team pn ers are First geant Joaquin Romaguera, Serdgant Octavio Recio, Corporal vi Watkins and Privates Fred | Mathews and Herbert Eddy. | j Mrs. Sawyer, wife of County Clerk . Sawyer, underwent &® ninjor operation Saturday at ‘| local hospital. Friends of the happy to easy today, has fully recovered from the effects of the anesthetic, and mid Semis is anticipated. ents and was educated both {this country and abroad. She labels | “HOLD SERVICES family will be} !been translated into Dutch. In a ‘amily will be) dition, she has written five one- tearn that she is resting} act plays, one of which has been ‘SPITE MARRIAGE’ STARTING TODAY IN THE CITIZEN WORK Katharine . Haviland - Tay! OF, | ; whose new serial, “Spite | Marri- “age,” starts today in The Citizen, added to a long list of titles this story ofjan impetuous girl who married a mam she did love, When = ‘Miss Haviland-Taylor, “teed” WW Cah butled the last sheet of the ‘novel: ,jfrom.. her typewriter, she had “drought the romance of Marsha ‘Meore to a happy conclusion and: had cleared up the misunderstand- | ing clouding the choice that Mar-! sha had made between Geoffrey {Tarleton and Bob Powers. Getting heroes and heroines in ‘and out of the*troubles and dilem- mas that lie between the covers of , books is a task that has aomgeh : ‘familiar one to the author i .”” When she fin. asked her to check up on what she‘ had turned out in her active ca- reer, }221 articles on various ‘subjects, 400. short stories and 21 serials. Her books have been published in England as well as. the United : (By Associated Press) | FOOCHOW. China, July 16.— {General Chiang Kai-Shek’s “new | life” movement, which aims to jtransform the ethics and mode of ‘living of China’s millions, was in- troduced here with a gorgeous | lantern parade. | .Marchers, numbering 10,000, | passed through the streets five abreast, each carrying a huge lan- tern of colored paper. | Grotesque allegorical ; \representing the evils of opium and [omer drugs, gambling, . cigarette smoking and dtankenness, appear- ‘ed in the procession. figures, the , music. SAIL TOMORROW | VESSEL GOING TO JACKSON. VILLE FOR EXTENSIVE REPAIRS ! Lighthouse Tender Ivy is ex- pected to sail tomorrow evening, |ta undergo extensive repairs, the contract for which was awarded a, ‘company in Jacksonvile. | HB. Haskins, assistant super-| ately call it, go through its most Key West and over the big car fer-' ete,, no change was reported for, intendent of . lighthouses, will leave on the ship and rem not the vessel until the work is laid’ watched it reduced to its pre ‘out and under way. He will return as soon asthe, work is showing signs of progress and perhaps other trips to Jack- sonville before the contract is | completed. Tender Poppy went on the ways this morning for repairs. ‘The _ propeller of the tender was dam- aged when it struck some submerg- ed obstruction and docking was Spcenenion, 2 i SPEEDY ARMORED CAR FOR POLICE CAPABLE OF SPEED OF ONE: The report showed 16 books, HUNDRED MILES OR MORE ae ij a HARING HAVILAND TAYLOR States and three of them have d- produced in Spanish. Her poems number 87. Miss Haviland-Taylor was born in Mankato, Minn., of eastern par- in! herself “an entirely domestic woman with a love of work and an occasional good time.” Sage ye has been made that Rev. W. J. Martin, pastor of the Ley Memoria! chureh, will eon. duct ‘ices tomorfow evening at ity Presbyterian church. A special program will be ren- dered in connection with the ser. vieeg it is stated, “I have too,” she adds, “ a taste for travel which circumstances has been kind enough to, permit, and I have lived for more or less long stretches in Paris, London, Florence, Venice, Rome and Ha- vana—all of which places seem as much ‘home’ to me as does my own home town.” KEY WEST'S SANITARY CAMPAIGN IS ; (By Associnted Press) BARTLESVILLE, Okla., (16.—A citizen of Bartlesville, who. preferred to remain anonymous,’ has given the police an armored motorcar capable of) ‘speeds in excess of 100 miles an: hour. The car will be supplied with | machine guns, sawed-off shotguns, is and wireless, ‘BOOK PRESENTED | iT O MAYOR MALONE: B.. M. iene gl Duncan, FERA adminis-| jtrator in Key West, this morning | ; presented Mayor William H. Ma- ‘Jone with an autographed copy of! | “Compulsory Spending,” the author of which is Julius F. Stone, {Sr., state administrator of FERA, | jin Florida, + The book is a thesis on the! |scareity of money and offers to} the reader Mr. Stone’s plan for getting more money into cjreula-{ tion by enacting laws which will force the hoarder to spend. 'E. R. KIRKLAND GOING TO TAMPA; aire OF In the St. Petersburg Times nea July 8, appears an article by John | { Watts, native of Key West, who is now city editor of that periedi- Island City's prospersus days and the things which later contributed its present plight. The article in | question is reproduced herewith: | (By JOHN WATTS) Nothing is sadder, perhaps, cal, telling of the to \ city slowly dying. Nothing so sad as to wateh community, once vigorous al ively, dropping off to sleep, it ; stores and homes slowly closing, jits families leaving for other ‘scenes, its streets becoming de- | serted, Nothing so nostalgic or heart-! gripping as to come back “honte” jafter years spent in other places, to find the town you knew as bustling and happy now practically forsaken, its streets and sidewalks dilapidated and broken, a once-' How i’s Dowafall Came on ,of the rope around the _ sent ‘neck. i being. ‘the week-end crowds {thinned out as more and more men were laid off. Then the cigar fac-; ‘tories began closing down, moving -¢loser to shipping centers, Tampa got most of them, Jacksonville, others, some just closed up and | stopped business, | Nothing looks so depressing as len empty, abandoned cigar fac= tory; only their odor remains, than to watch a once prosperous Pungently stale. That was the era; tof fires. The factories burned, fone by one,:some in very mys- terious fashion, but they burned, leaving gaping plots which were} never again built upon, The Cubans thinned out, mov- j ing away, followed the factories to other places, others went back to Cuba. Merchants began closing their stores; most of them moyed; to Miami, where tourists, attract- ed by the Flagler hotels, were be-| ginning to make the Magic City a winter resort, The _ natives, the “Conchs,”} But slowly a change came into, With the railroad finished; gradually | ” aaa IS GIVEN ROSES, IS WAY OF SHOWING NOBILI- TY RESPECT IN GER. MANY Operatives Began Yester- day In Sweeping Of Streets And Other Ac- + ss tivities INUAL REPORT 1S- SUED BY BUREAU OF LABOR. COVERING MANY CITIES IN INDEX RECORDED | “Clean up and keep clean” & the slogan of the FERA and omprehensive start toward SOLINGEN, Germany, July 16.) ” a —Salutes and “heils” are given} 4 wae started yesterday and ix nazi leaders and respect is shown | going om ceaselessly today. the old nobility, but Prince Aug- Immediately on the arrival of ust Wilhelm, who is both nazi and toni he 5 <a noble, gets flowers. Roses covered the road he tout | 7 the ‘highway, preparations jto a peasant festival near here, were started to begin the sani jand large crowds-repeatedly stop- tary campaign which is to be par- ;ped his automobile until the trim} d with " ont ly-clad second son of the ex- -kaiser| finally had to remonstrate. every place in the city is epich and Lutsy cheers greeted his brief | speech at the gathering where be Although yesterday was For the United States as a)... s } . z ;,,/enjoined his hearers to have con-| day, officials were not whole three of the six major! >; iaeiioe ex the, future. | | groups of items included in the (Special to ‘The Citizen) WASHINGTON, July 16,—The general index of cost of living for ‘ families of wage earners and lower talaried workers showed an in- crease of one percent during the} six months’ period ending June, { 1934, according to the semi-an- | nua] survey of the Bureau of La- bor Statistics of the United States |Departfhent of Labor. The index,| based on the average of the year! }1913as 100.0 was 136.4 as com- pared with 135.0 for December,} 1933. The survey made by the; bureau covers 32 cities widely scattered throughout the United | States, 1 . (By Aseweinted Cregep | b wun deterred {from putting their ideas inte ef fect and before noon a force | Workers were actively engaged and trucks of the city and those family budget showed an increase, two showed a decrease and one no jchange. Food increased 2.7 per | teeming downtown section shut- Stayed. And for a while the ship- | cent, clothing 2.1 per cent and! | tered and silent, only a few souls Ping. fishing, sponging, car ferry; house-furnishing goods 1.8 per} | abroad like wraiths left behind in 2d naval station business kept the | cent between December 1933 and: GETS NEW 40B fast reeived were bap ep Today the same work is being department ; la deserted village Goldsmith might, have had in mind when he wrote | his famous lines to a-memory. « ~ This is what happened to Key {| West. This writer, reared there ! vom his early childhood, saw. the “old rock” as the natives affection- Prosperous phase, and lately, re- threadbar ‘e, bloodless existence. .Miami A Trading. Village It, was in 1908 that. we moved from Miami to Key West, by schooner, leaving a small imamed Lion on the dock because the schooner captain wouldn’t let him aboard, Miami at that time was still a trading village, little more than a fuelling stop for locomotives bound south where. Flagler was building the overseas ,highway and things were boom- ing. Down at the tip of this railroad, 156 miles across the sparkling sea, was ‘Key West, the state’s frontier city and plenty wild and | woolly. Twenty-five thousand persons, about 30 per cent Cuban and the i rest natives and those hailing from pus line that made fewer and few-! Angeles, ithe Bahamas, populated the seven- | by-four mile island. Trolleys ran | from one end of the island to the! 1924-25- 26 revived Key West for| the 32 cities covered. ‘other, there were two or three g ness, 50 cigar factories turned out the finest cigars in the world, a! Havat station with hundreds of men quartered in barracks there {or employed from civilian ranks took care of hundreds of navy ves-} ‘sels, an army barracks at the other} end of the island supported two ; Fegiments of regulars, a fleet of | several hundred fishing and spong- ‘ing boats sailed the coral reefs! | nearly and brought their ‘catches into teeming wharves, passenger. ships ran to Havana, Galveston,; Texas, New York city, and huge freighters came down the natural | channel to tie up to one of the icity’: $s Numerous well-tended docks. Holidays Every Week-end Fridays and Saturdays thous- sands of men employed on the overseas railroad pouréd into Key | West, and by Saturday night the | town was a scene of gaiety and so ;crowded that sidewalk space was at a premium. Sailors from the [seven seas swelled the crowds, money flowed like water, saloons: were wide open, beach resorts 1 couldn’t take care of the crowds,|what is there to sce and do when} and, Ohio, Decreases were shown} ;the whole town blazed | diamond. Key West’s golden age lasted jfor about 10 years. In 1912 the like a} Flagler extension was completed}ang Key West slumped still fur-} change: was reported for Seattle. fara “H, M.” himself stepped off \the first train to be greeted by} | cheering multitudes on Trumbo dog. town alive, This was during the, war. Sugar was bringing high! prices, millions poured into, Cuba and the plantations ordered ma- chinery and the planter sautomo- biles and American-made products. ' Most of these passed through ries to Havana in their — original} in with| turning after years spent away, freight ears, And back poured a with June of a year ago alll of the sent Steady stream of unrefined sugar,! 32 cities showed increases with a molasses, pineapples, fruit of all description. This business alone gave employment to hundreds of | men. But with the end of the war, Key West's star began quickly to set. The price of sugar went duwh, and as a consequence the freight thinned, the navy began quartering for the winter in Guan- tanamo instead of Key West, and the naval station began laying off +men, ‘The army barracks closed at the same time and sponge buyers be- gan going to Tarpon Springs for last their sponges; more and more mer- | Teans each chants moved away, where five | Movies once turned away business only one remained; the trolley s tem was abandoned in favor of al S- er trips. The Florida real estate boom in short while. There was money July | banks, all doing a rushing busi- jn the air, the island built a road) in Birmingham, Ala., around its fine beach, a golf course or adjoining Stock Island, filled | in lots. But this false prosperity soon left the isle, leaving it in a worse plight than ever. Onee again, however, was the [island to feel a breath, of life, of hope. That was when the over- seas highway was announced and | work actually started on it, ithe Key Westers: “Wait ‘till the road through! Things will ,be ent!” Highway Adds Nothing But the highway added nothing. jin the first place there was not sufficient funds with which to con- struct the road all the way down the keys, At Matecumbe it was necessary to bridge a 40-mile Y)strip of seawater with a s ferry ride, an expensive ride at that. Tourists, unless they were very rich and had a lot of time on their {hands, couldn’t sce spending any- iwhere from $5 to $10 on that [ferry ride. Besides, said they, | gets differ- one gets to Key West? come, The overseas highway turn- ed out to be just another chimera, ther into despond. And what can be done about it? If other Florida communities be- E. R. Kirkland, clerk in the local ‘island, which he had built from|lieve they have an ideal winter custom house, has been notified of his transfer from Key West to/ jbay mud. | Little did the happy people climate they must all bow to Key West. The little island, so flat the Tampa division in the same | standing in the hot sun waiting|that its: highest point is only 12' capacity. |for a glimpse of the old multi-| feet above sea level, has never He is to report August 1 to take ‘millionaire realize that with the known even the slightest touch of up the work in his new assngment! ‘and will, with Mrs. Kirkland, leave the latter part of July. NOW ON! completion of the railroad—an event they hailed with huzzas—} i |was to mean the first tightening frost. In this writer’s 12 years on Key (Continued on Page Four) CLEAN UP DAILY, LIVE CLEAN AND KEEP CLEAN. ~ DRI Said! -hour } At any rate, the crowds didn’t| | cartied on, There ere nur APPOINTED | trucks and 55 men on the AS CASHIER IN CUSTOMS | The trucks carry large ash a jand the men are provided with SERIE | shovels, brooms, brushes » |fact anything and everything Harry D. Warren, who has bee’ mn used in the collection of trash and acting as deputy collector and | S@™bage. acting cashier at the local custon More Trucks Coming house for several months, has re: Ten more of the consigorner , ceived his permanent appointmen’ xpected Notice of this was received at of tenance weuhond the office yesterday showing that|°ther phases of the campoige the appointment will date from ; Sanitation will be undertake ‘July 16 and this morning the vath!'soon as they are placed in was administered according to} ness, : - = law. second largest gain by increasing, Mr. Warren is now head of the! Before begianing other pi 2.1 per cent. Washington, D. C.,' ,-counting division of the custom|in the extensive program of and Cleveland, Ohio, showed aN) service at Key West. The position | habilitation the sanitary pr advance of 1.9 and 1.7 per cent; -arries a substantial increase in| ™ust be well under way and respectively. Portland, Me., with’ emoluments ing signs of soon being in a rise of only 0.1 per cent, showed | | state of progress as to warrant the smallest increase for any of ‘ treducing innovation along the 28 cities. Only four of the j oe. tcities showed a decrease in cos Plans of wider scope of living. Chicago and New Or-} | ther reaching than any whic showed a decline) |s0 far been announced are ‘of 0.2 per cent and Mobile showed| | made public in a few days a decrease of 0.3 per cent. The! |said by officials, and the p largest decrease in cost of living.| John J. Romero. HI, son of Mr.jin general will begin to {0.5 per cent, was reported for Los and Mrs, John J. Romero of Opa-! more conerete idea of the | Locka was operated on in Kendall! of the program aturday morning. | fore been pos The patient is getting along} Other Arr The de-;nicely and expects to be. taken) Recent arrivals in creases ranged from 0.1 per cent!home in a few days, it is stated.' connection with the FERA to 3.4 per) duct of affairs in city and « feent in Pittsburgh, Pa. Detr e Colonel Joseph Hyde Mich., showed an increase of 2.8 Southeastern per cent. e . with headquarter Clothing showed an advance in} Paul Geek’ Tes snalien increase! TONIGHT | reported was 0.8 per cent in Buf-| Palace—“The House of Roths jfalo.. The largest was shown for child.” Jaeksonville where an i se of} _Monroe— 3.8 per cent was shown. The, Mate” and average advance for the 32 cities} covered was 2.1 per cent. showed advances of the cities. The, child.” largest increase was shown for! \Monroe—‘‘Take A Chance.” ; Detroit, Mich., where a rise of 7. 0; i per cent was reported. Savannah, | Ga., and nton, Pa., each re-| Iported an increase of 0.4 per }cent, the smallest increase shown] jin any of the cities, poate) |Fla., showed a decrease of 0.7 per: {cent, New Orleans declined 1.1 {per cent, and Los Angeles de- }ereased 3.1 per cent, Average costs for house-fur-! nishing goods increased in 29 of! night the 32 cities. These increases’ ranged from 0.4 per cent in San} Francisco to 5.0 per cent in Cleve-| tured the motor launch V-21239,| the plant board. aA When large aim ; June 1934. Rent showed a de-! ,erease of 1.7 per cent while fuel PERMANENTLY and light fell 2.1 per cent. For, the miscellaneous group of items,} which include medical and dental services, drugs, hospital laundry, transportation, H rates, tolacco, ithe total. Comparing June 1934 | rise of 6.3 per cent in the general index, In the 28 cities where cost of ‘living inereased the greatest rise | oceurred in Detroit, Mich., which| ‘reported an increase of 2.7 per cent. Pittsburgh, Pa., showed the than has bh | During the six months’ period }rents declined in all but one o als Key W eees| ing are ! engineer Arthur F. Perry, I FERA engineer of Seth Peskins, regional “Tarzan and His) FERA of Miami and ¢ ‘og Over Frisco.” | of Mt, Dora, Fla tate officinls t urvey of the a view to | provements which ma necessary i Customs Officials Make Capture Of Vessel Having Much Liquor About 10:30 o'clock Saturday Jack i TOMORROW in! Palace—“The House of Roth recommending ar Custom Officers | pounds of mamey Lounders and L. C. Taylor cap) turned over to the loca t was known cksonville, Fla.,!a large quantity of liquor reported a decrease of 0.9 cent and Kansas City, Mo., crease of 1.1 per cent. in two cities, per a de- No some fruit at Curry’s abutment. | tured done was Bacardi other intoxicants For some time these officers n the spirt it is made into “higt have been on the lookout for land~ rum, aguare b lings at this point and Saturday! jeame to the dock from the water|— MONROE THEATER Johnny Weissmuller - Mawre O'Sullivan in TARZAN AND HIS MATE Bette Davis-Donald W FOG OVER FRISCO Matinee: Balcony, 10; Orches tra, 15-20c; Night, 15-25« | side and captured boat and liquor SPITE MARRIAGE, | By Katharme Haviland: -Taylor| but found no one to arrest. In the catch were 148 tins of alcohol, containing 444 {two five gallon demijohns of aguardiente, three boxes of face! gallons, |} ! ON PAGE FOUR DRINK WAGNER'S “PRIDE OF FLORIDA” BEER