The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 2, 1934, Page 1

fawn Probar Wi ez be Years Dereeed t tye Best Interests of Key West _ Tie Key West Citizen VES LV. No. 183. Von Hindenburg, President Of Germany, Dead Nation Mourns Outstanding Figure. Rose}. To Supreme « Of German Armies Dur- ing World War (By Associated Press) NEUDBCK, Germany, Aug. 2.—President Paul Von Hindenburg, the old warrior who was one of the most outstanding figures in Ger- many's military and civic history, died at 9 o'clock; this morning, German time. He rose to the supreme command of the Ge armies during the World War, and was of a type that appealed to all patriotic Germans for his stern virtues and lasting devotion to his country. His demise has spread a great gloom over the entire nation, with peo- ple in all walks of life ex- f Showed Great Resistance He lapsed into uncon- seiousness a short time be-| fore the hour stated, and his physician was amazed at the! president's power of resist- | ance. A revelation follow-: ing the news of his hgeane by! Adolf Hitler, said that the} service. and department of vache was 11,656. latter planned in the event! and recreation of the FERA. of Hindenburg’s demise to} become both president and chancellor. No arrangements for the’ funeral have been made as yet. Life Sketch Emerging from retirement at the age of 67, Paul von Hinden- burg, in the years that followed, became one of the most con- spleuous figures in the military and civic history of Germany. He bad earned nis retirement by long and notable service, whic ineluded two.wars, in the army of the former German Empire. His @teatest work in behalf of the! Fatherland, however, was still to! be performed and the opportuni- | ties for it came with the World! War and in the chaos that follew- ed when the great strife went egainet his country. Called from his life of ease at Hanover, von Hindenburg was «s- Signed to stem the Russian inva-} elon of East Prussia in 1914, “I believe your old man is go- ing to be famous after all,” he wrote jokingly to his wife on the; eve of the battle of Tannenberg. : Thus, what was written in jest turned out to be fact. It was that! battle that gained for him the title | ef “Savior of the Fatherfand,” won for him a field marshal’s| the tents and getting the camp in | Barrancas, leaving Daytona Beach! personal property at the baton and as many honors as a grateful country could bestow. From that time on von Hinden-| tinued to be a living re-| “ag burg futation of the fallacy that man is tov old at forty.” Teok Command Of Armies He rose to the supreme com-} mand of the German armies dur-} ing the World War and with boa | conclusion hostilities once more, apparently with his life’s eat ended, sought the seclusion to which he felt he was entitled. Six years later another emer- gency threatened the future (Continued on Page Four) SPECIALS KEY WEST VEAL Peanut Fed Hens Milk Fed Fryers Swift's Ham Str. Fresh Eggs Spring Lamb = Milk Fed Veal CENTRAL MARKET Phone 20 805 Fleming St. of | | MANY GUESTS | ATTEND ROTARY MEET TODAY VOCATIONAL PROGRAM CAR-/® RIED OUT UNDER DIREC- TION OF EVERETT RUS- SELL, CHAIRMAN OF UNIT | | A vocational service, under the} direction of Everett Russell, who heads the entertainment commit- tee, was carried out today at the; luncheon of the Rotary Club. Mr.! | eevcccccocccoce: eee ‘DIES THIS MORNING | POSCCCO SSO CSOOCCCOE® Russell had as his guest at the meeting, Charles Taylor, manager) of the Porter Dock Company.} Eddie Strunk, president of the club, presided at the general ses-| sion. Mr. Strunk had as_ his ests, | nile Caldwell and J, a Sam “Goldsmith, who helps to! out!) weather. conditions in, West, gave a talk today on! /subject of hurricanes and/ /eweather matters, his. re-} s being very interesting to! assembled on the occasion, Mri'Goldsmith was also a guest of | the club, » A, P. Baumann, traveling audi-| i B |'tor for the Clyde-Mallory Lines, , Was present at the meeting as the guest of Chas, E. Smith. There was a birthday celebra- tion held for Bill Demeritt, and inasmuch as he is so fond of birds, | | 1 | } the club decided to present him with one which they obtained for this specific purpose. ; = Sebastian Cabrera had as his | NEW ORDERS ON | guest, A. Dewitt, representative ‘of the Florida Times-Union, who! is in Key West securing data for; FERA VOUCHERS *ssere sce } | Captain Blaine, officer on ‘board one of the government ves- STATED THEY MUST BE USED ‘els in port, was in attendance as the guest of Jerry J. Trevor. FOR PURPOSE AS ; B. Curry Moreno made a r t j Port of the census taken in con- weet | nection with the FERA activities. The incomplete report showed that’ ~the-total> population for Key West i Two Pwereh important, announcements je today “by” “the ~Sociar f | ‘That of the social service pro-' ! | vides that vouchers issued to per- sons on direct relief must be used; | for the purpose specified and only) ; | for, that purpose. ‘CUBA BRINGS IN 114 PASSENG Tssued for food the cr ae | catinot be used for the purchase Steamship Cuba, of the P. and of clothing or vice versa, It does O. S, S. company, arrived yestér- } not matter for what the voucher’ day afternoon from Havana with| | calls it can be used for nothing! 89 first class passengers and seven , | Sst but what is shown. [second for Key West and 11 first ! © department of parks and? class and seven second class for recreation announced that during Tampa. | the summer months the fees at the; Of the 114 passengers arriving golf course will be 25 cdits for on the ship there were 61 aliens nine holes and the caddy*fees ca to be sassed by the immigration) | be the same. service. | t| "Advance Guard Of Coast ‘Artillery Companies Will Arrive Here Today Is Major P. L. Wail, 265th Coa: i : zh !ernoon and arrive at 5:45. ' it Guard, Artillery, Florida National Guard, Meo bes Wok tens aa | will arrive over thé jhighway " officers and 58 men, will be the! the official car this ‘afternoon to} first to reach the camp. This the en-| Unit is under instructions to leave | the armory, going by trucks, andj H ‘arrive at the camp not later than) 11 o'clock in the morning. Bc eesmpenying PR Ney YEE hace ‘will be one battery leas jbe four trucks with mea and this year than there was in camp | paraphernalia. They will start ‘Yast year. This is Battery “C.” | fof Daytona, with two officers and | | work tomorrow morning pitching, 50 men. They will go to Fort| will “Tease Miami | take charge of preparing campment at Fort Taylor. on the afternoon of August 4 and arriving at Pensacola the follow-| | ing morning and go direct to Fort hing there a) All of the tents for the visiting nee TERRE 3: SHERS cemwenieg have At Key West the troops will be! jand are in a car on one of the’ greeted by hundreds of citizens,| | sidings at the Florida East Coast! as heretofore. They will march ‘terminals, ready for unloading. | direct to the encampment which Schedule of departure and ar- ‘has been transformed into onc of ithe most complete and comfor- rival of the several units has been'tabie in the United States, issued. This shows that the Medi-| With the new kitchens, mess’ | cat Detachment, one officer and ‘halls, lavatories and every modern! 15 men; Headquarters Detach-’ convenience the troops will be iment, three officers and 30 men; Surprised at the changes which; Battery “A,” three officers and have been made since they were 7 here last August. 50 men and Battery “B,” three} Grounds graded, several miles! officers and 50 men will leave! of new roads of modern construe- | Jacksonville 6 o’clock in the morn-/tion and more than 1,000 trees} ;ing and arrive at Key West 5: 45) planted, the Fort Taylor reserva- in the afternoon, {tion presents an appearance of | Battery “D,” three officers and comfort which was sadly missing ; 52 men and the Regimental before the new construction was ‘Band, one officer and 22 men,j authorized, ‘ | order for the arrival of the troops Sunday. ivad, it is said, | number of years has been juvenile last night, she sets forth her de- project to be ‘ami ' relative ried in the Miami Herald two in- in the aft-twas not clear in the minds of all | printed. twice, KEY WEST, FLORIDA, . THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1934. CENSUS TAKEN SHOWS 11,656 INHABITANTS WORK ASSIGNED UNDER) DIRECTION OF OFFICIALS, OF FERA ORGANIZATION POMSOSCOCEDO CE oEEEODORTELOCRELODOEOODEEEDEEEOESOS Elucidation Of Stranger In| Gleanings Of Island City While standing at the cor- mer of Duval and Fleming streets last night, opposite the Colonial Hotel, a stranger within our midst, who was en- gaged in conversation with a group of local residents, was heard to remark “that while he appreciated the efforts that were being put forth by the FERA to rehabilitate Key West, he nevertheless" felt that the city was receiving some pretty hard knocks in other parts of the state and the country as a whole through false information re- lative to the unclean iwas¢-reported to ” e as much attention as the cost- with everybody showing great lier ones, i seemingly 4 pride in this spect.” The visitor also spoke re- lative to many other things | ‘ is at this time to be found here, one of | doeiavue cmap se which was the great hospital. | West @ population of 11,656, ac- ity of the people. He stated |Cording to the “that during my sojourn in ‘concluded by enumerators work-} the Island City, I have been ‘ing under the direction of Donald! eo aoe ee x by ‘Corley and Harold Ballou, for the | ¢ with whom ave © | FERA. come in contact, and neve * } my entire life have I ever The first tabulation completed} jand announced yesterday, seen a more courteous people, who are ever jthis number and divides the in-! ape ope — Pecan % | habitants into three « distinct ers, and also that of showing &°UPS of people. Anglo-Saxon! @ great willingness: to: help | Whites; Latin whites and negro * them in every respect, what- In these groups the figures ever the case may be.” | dicate approximately 6,000 Anglo-| He concluded | by ~ saying 1% axon whites; 3,000 Latins and) ‘that if one is looking for a 2,000 negroes. The remaining city with a aome-like appear- | | few hundreds do not fall into any, ance, that Key West is the of these categories. place, and I propose to boost Of the total population it is in- the city in every possible way | dicated that there are 10,479 citi- during my travels in the fu- | zens and 1,177 aliens, | This first tabulation pertains to} tthe population _ solely. Other | statistical matter is being as- sembled and as soon as ready will! be announced, particular re- | | in census recently! gives: ing his stay here, with what he had seem of the city, he finds Key West to be a fairly clean :place,: ‘especially the streets, and said, «regarding automobiles,:‘‘never «in all! my travels, have I ever seen auto cars kept in better con- dition as to clean — appear- ance and smooth-running en- * He said, “even the lower-priced cars are given Juvenile Judge Makes Offer To County Commissioners To Serve ‘BRIDGE HEARING Without Compensation In Future: SET FOR AUG. 16 |W. R. PORTER ADVISED OF! ssment remain MATTER BY PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION Miss Ileen Williams, who for a dered that the as it is, | B, Mendenhall Harry} Gwynn advised that certain pro-! * jects were to be started at Key| Large, amusement park and other reativnal activities, and 2 and judge for Monroe county, offers bags to serve, in the future, | Wm. R. Porter, - chairman of camp, ; the Overseas Road-and Toll Bridge rec- Commission, was today advised by asked! the Public Works Administration that a road be constructed, the’ that there will be a hearing before: approved by the! the Board of Review of the ad-| 'FERA and the county to furnish’ ministration August 16 on the ap-! certain materials. It was or-! plication for the loan for the , fering free service, the financial dered that the petitioners be ad- bridges. vised the county had no funds Asked if he was going to he with which to undertake aiding in present at the hearing Mr. Porter! construction of any kind, !told The Citizen someone repre Officers Make Reports jsenting the commission would, County Judge Hugh Gunn re-| necessarily be present and he} ported issuance of one merchant’s|would make preparations to be in license during July, $4 for the} Veabinates on that date. state, $2 for the county Licen ses GOES TO MIAMI Clerk Sawyer reported t_ com) includitig a fishing fa a letter to the com read at the meeting of the board cision, giving her reasons for of- \ baabities of the county. Present at the meeting were Chairman Norberg Thompson, Commissioners Carl Bervaldi, Wm. | | R. Porter, B. B. Warren and Roy Fulford. Clerk Ross C. 3 Attorney William V. Albury, En- gineer H. Herrick, Chief Deputy Clements Jaycocks, Ferry Man- ager Eugene Demeritt, and Ferry Auditor Roy Faulkner. Ray Bush, representing the Mi- Herald addressed the board to an advertisement car- tions of $3,803.87 for tax redemp| tions during July. Sheriff K. 0. Thompson’ port showed deposits of during the same period. A communication from W. V. Knott, treasurer ex-officio of Monroe county, called’ attention: to the purchase of ‘bonds with} gasoline tax money and provision relative to the cancellation oft F. L Phippeny, radio engincer same. |v h the Department’ of A resolution covering the pur-| merce, who was in Key West for chase of bonds was ‘adopted ‘as) two weeks, left yesterday after follows: Resolved ‘by the Board! noon for Miami where he will re- of County Commissioners of Mon-| main a few days before going to roe County that the State Board) Washington. of Administration be requested! Mr. Phippeny came to Key to cancel all bonds of Monroe} West for the purpose of making county which have been purchased| installations of radio telephone by said Board of Administration| equipment for the lighthouse de justment would be satisfactory, under the provisions of Chapter, partment. and the sum was ordered paid) 15891, acts of the Florida Legis-| With Carl Rom, {when funds were available. Mature, 19 ! electrician with the Communication from Ca-i it further resolved that al he installed one at brera relative to on! copy of this resolution be imme-; station in headqug Palace} diately furnished the State Board| other was placed board Theater was read. An investiga-| of Atiministratio! ender Poinciana. Tests proved tion was asked by Mr. Cabrer All bills were read and ordered | the system of communication per After some discussion it was or-i paid when funds are available. | feet. One of these radio telephones is to be installed on the ' Poppy and another on the Tender Court Issues Order Relative To ase is planned. Payment County Highway Bonds ss": sis." 20" sterday by Rr. Rom and they ; Series of experiments being con ll stop in Miami to observe ducted by the Ethyl company. $48.55 F. I. PHIPPENY INSTALLED EQUIPMENT FOR LIGHT. HOUSE SERVICE , sertions, only one of which the board had paid for, During a discussion which fol- lowed it was brought out that | there was a misunderstanding’ | about the advertisement and it Com joners that the adver- to be ‘the. commit tisement was authorized Make Adjustment It was ultimately decided to offer an adjustment of the bill of $135.52 and pay $100 if this | amount was acceptable by the | Herald. Mr. Bush stated this ad- senior raclio department, the central ters and R. assessment Be the ‘Tender a (By Assoc 1 TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 2.—The} board of administration will ration to do this was granted by |, , be! the Leon court today to Ben Hur, WHERE TO GO $8,140 | eocccccscsessccoccersece TONIGHT Monroe—“Little Miss and “Let’s Try Again.” Palace—“Love Past Thirty.” TOMORROW Hold The Pre ove Past Thirty.” required to show cause in Leon life insurance holder of county circuit court August 27{ Worth of past due and unpai why it should not pay out of Mon-| terest coupons on Monroe county Marker” rog county funds held by it in| bonds. In the petition for the writ, the , association claimed $50,398 collected past due and unpaid interest on the county’s highway bonds. An alternative writ of manda- in Monroe county funds mus ordering the board of admin-| from a special advalorem tax. | ministration for the PRICE FIVE CENTS (Key West Postal Savings Show Decrease As Banks Institute MISS A. ROYCE IN CHARGE OF LOCAL CLINIC ANOTHER ARRIVAL IN KEY WEST DURING WEEK was| Specint MRS. VERA JUDGE, COMMUNITY NURSING ON | | This Does Not oa Any Slump In City’s Busi- ness, However, Officials Declare Ry PAUL MAY Woking of WASHINGTON, D.C. Aug | —Though the postal savings ds | goeéte for the fiscal your ending Miss Ainah Royee, experienced | June 30, 1934, im the Key West in clinical work, has been appoint-! ed to take charge of the now under preparation at ‘th: javal Hospital on street.. She arrived this wee eh j that this does sot mean from postoffice show # decrease 11933, postal officiaks declared « & Miss Royce was for a number of | tease im Key West business Washington county, was six years in charge same work at Jackson | hospital. Another arrival in Key ‘this week was Mrs, Vera Judg in charge of community nursing, and is actively engaged at this tme in looking over the situation There will be close associat | between the clinical work, and the social service, as well as commnn ity nursing it was stated by Miss Royce. When the clinic opened has not been announced, but it is understood it will be Florida, and of Memorial | operation within the next 10 days, at alest on a temporary basis. Mrs. Mary W. Matthews, trict supervisor of nursing for the state board of health, who was in Key West several days in connec tion with the clinie project and other matters, left yesterday aft- ernoon for Miami. SAUNDERS GIVEN POST BY SHOLTZ dis- | APPOINTED TO POSITION ON RACING COMMISSION IN FLORIDA (My Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Aug. —Governor Dave Sholtz to- day announced the appoint- ment of R. R. Saunders, Fort Lauderdale attorney, to the state racing commission from the fourth congressional dis. trict. He succeeds B. F. Paty, West Palm Beach, who resi ed recently. ‘COPIES OF STONE BOOK SENT HERE STATED THEY WILL BE PRE- SENTED TO RESIDENTS OF KEY WEST Five copies of th Stone, J Florida FERA' Key West te dent. pulsory Julius F autographed been sent to sented to re These de pients of the ignat in, officer at W. B of service charge tion Arthur B. Browne anc missioner Norbe Gomez MONROE THEATER Shir LITTLE MISS MARKER Diana Wynw « B o LET’S TRY AGAIN Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches tra, 15-20c; Night, 15-25¢ | ‘years engaged in clinical work in| the | { 519, "' The 1933 posta | will be! in| SIGN ‘AUTHOR AND The 1934 postal saving posits in Key West were #20 the number of deport and the average deport, § wa ¥ bag were $334,927, the nube positors 699, and the averne The same rele posit $479.44 Seu figures for 1992 were 929 and $532.63. Posta icwals announ profit in the postal 1954, the ne tem for though a haven't exact pr profit for 1933 was $2,118 $1,023 The postuffice departines and for 19 5.901 claim, is not seeking pm ings deposits. The maney say, goes into & bank oh it is deposited in a pustoffic under the new banking | any bank i money TRAIN AND BOAT EMPLOYES JOIN VOLUNTARY UNI! a safe vlace ¢ UP AS MEMBERS + FERA VOLUNTARY CoRnrs CONNECTION with RE HABILITATION PROGRAM pledg R. HALLBURTON RETURNS HERE WRITER BEEN ON VISIT TO TOR TUGAS iF YOU HAVE NOT YET SIGNED UP WITH THE VOLUNTARY WORK CORPS, DO IT NOW. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET TRIED WAGNER'S BEER, TRY IT TODAY