The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 13, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. f For 6a Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LV. No. 192. Silver Nationalization Now ‘Tops Money Control Program W. H. GOULD WAS | cabin LaMONACA ARRANG- ' SUNDAY VISITOR ES EXCELLENT PROGRAM. TO BE RENDERED, BEGIN. NING AT\7 O'CLOCK | ! | ! Latest Action Adds Page To Metal History In United States’ Mone- tary System (fy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug, 13.— } Nationalization of silver marks snother move on man’s troubled) o¢ ine Wagner Brewing acl trail from the ancient temple of isi A ‘i e : pony, was a visitor-in Key West| of the program which will be ex-/ Jane. It was there the first coins | yesterday and the guest of Victor} tremely interesting. This is were made which people could| Moffat, of the Charles Saunders! Rumba “La Spagnola,” The Star! {of Love. The italian words and sive in exchange for the things | company, and other members ae the music to this was written by| they needed: Moneta was the, the firm. | Director LaMonaca. eurname of the Roman . goddess) Mr, Gould expressed himself as) The director: says it is an in- DIVISION MANAGER BREW. ING CO. GUEST OF VIC. TOR MOFFAT i Another of those delightfully! entertaining concerts by the 265th Regiment Band has been arranged for 7 o’clock this evening by War-! rant Officer Caesar LaMonaca, in charge. There is one particular number W. H. Gould, division manager | bile, with Venezuela as the des- est Citise fice KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1934. Hemingway And Companion Make Start:On 2,300 Mile Voyage Imbued with the spirit of ad-; and high seas were followed by a z 4 period of calm weather and after venture and with the: determina- drifting several dasy and nights tion to complete:# journey which! the mariners landed at Fort My- j ers, There the vessel was recondi began several months ago at Mo-| tioned and supplies taken on and | the voyage to Key West was re- jrumed, the travelers reaching this ; city early in May. SeGs i | While spending a while with jailed midnight Saturday in an 18-) Mr. Hemingway’s brother, Dudek foot yawl,-on the first leg of a, teceived notice of the iliness of | his mother in Chicago, just as the the voyage further south was to be re- West Indies and South American *¥™¢d, and he left the same aft-; jernoon for his home, Circum-| | stances prevented his returning! |.and since then Leicestr has been| ; communicating with friends andj knowledge is but 19 years old. He, Bob Kilmo decided to make the! i | trip. | is a brother of Ernest Heming-| Their first stop will be in Ha-! way, noted author of Key West.| “ana where a few days will be) | spent with Ernest Hemingway.) i 1 { timation, Leicester Hemingway 2,300-mile voyage through waters. This daring youth seeker after SURVEY MADE TO LOCATE CHANNEL IN LOCAL AREA COAST AND GOEDETIC UNIT CARRYING ON ACTIVITIES IN FINDING CHANNEL TO NO NAME KEY Among the varied activities of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur- vey unit now operating the waters in Key West harbor will be the location of a channel to No Name Key. A The one now marked by the lighthouse department is the only one which is used gnerally by the vessels of light draught plying be- tween these two points, Should a channel be which is deeper than the one men. in located } i end gradually these pieces of metal came to be known “money.” ‘The process by which metal ‘Was made into money was called “monetization,” which, strictly speaking, meant to endow that metal with power to be the stand- ard of exchange. Monetization, —remonetization and demonetization of precious commodities have, in their turn, influenced the political, economic! and social fortunes of mankind ever since the first coin was swap | ped for a loin cloth. Bank Crisis is Start Nationalization of a monetary metal in the United States has been of recent origin but springs from the age-old struggle to manipulate the functions of; money. It began during the banking crisis in| March, 1933, when congress passed a law pro- Viding that when the secretary of the treasury deemed it necessary to protect the currency system of pry he might vequive the ef gold coin, bullion or gold Certificates to the treasurer of the United States. H In January, 1934, gold was na-| ‘tienalized by act of congress and title to all gold was vested in the federal government which buys end sells the metal at stated prices. Government Gains Profit | Nationalization of silver gives’ the treasury contro! and vests in, the federal government title to! the silver of the United States ex cept that which is fabricated, One aim of nationalization of | ® monctary metal is to gain for the government any profit which might be made by buying and selling jt. Another purpose is to! al a more stable ted States was on standard during the} last century the fact that the) market price of silver differed! it price resulted in an! Uasatiofactery nvonetary system. m in 1792 | The battle between gold an) siiver im this country is almost ol old ap the country itself. The int eet written by Alexander Hamilton in 1792 established bi metailiom with silver at a ratio of | 18 white to 1 of gold. { By 1873 large domestic de-| Peeite of sliver opened up, and! the currency act of the Grant ad- Ministration terminated the use of the white metal as a tase for currency. Silver was o: ficialiy demonctized, and gold be- tame the single standard for American money j The Bland-Allison act of 1878) Femonetized silver over President| Mayes’ veto, and the treasury was| imetructed to buy at least $2,000, 008 of silver a month and coin ‘The Sherman silver purchase act ef 1890 imereased silver pur- thaves to 4,500,000 ounces tenth and made silver certificates! redeemable in gold. President Cle i forced peal of the silver purchase laws in $898, bringing on the McKinle Bryan campaign in which fr eeinage of silver was a ringing is-} eae. WE AGAIN FILL . ‘ . ? spiration of Key West during the being delighted: with business con-| Saeempuant of 1933 and is re- ditions as he found them in Key’ spectfully dedicated to Mayor Wm. West and is looking forward to a} H. Malone and the people of Key return to Key West later:in the} West. Tonight will be the first| year. age it will be played. Mr. Gould was connected with} the executive staff of the com-' The full program is as follws: 1,—March, “Washington Post” (requested) Sousa His companion is Bob Kilmo, ms who is fishing for marlin and oth-| tioned it will be staked out for the ne | er large fish to be found in the} purpose of guiding yachts from Mount Vernon, lowa;iwhoijeined! watorsiedjacent to Cuba, . after| Miami to Key West, young Hemingway in Key West) Which they will sail for Haiti,: In the opinion of many persons a channel from Miami to. Key, | Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico. Cruising around these islands it; West with ample depth for yachts | | is the intention to study the hab-| is second only in importance to j its of the natives and gain other | bridges for vehicles between the several days ago. Neither is 21 years old. Ww Confusions And Contradictions CHARLES CURTIS DIES ON SUNDAY FUNERAL SERVICES BEING CONDUCTED THIS AFT- ERNOON Political Map (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 13.—A Charles Curtis, 67 years old, | ™id-sensom survey of primary and died yesterday morning 5 o'clock) convention recults, chews that the in the U. S. Marine hospital. He} political situation is still quite was dangerously ill for two d8¥5) pussting im many respects. The following a major operation for} an aggravated condition of the, "°?™ stomach. large areas, according to weather , cea services are being held | sharps, who refer to the political o'clock this afternoon from the c residence. at Caroline and. Simon. | ™9e a* deine: extremely “Spotty.” ton streets to the First Presby.| No one denies that in other see, terian church, Rev. Ryan | es bese 7 tions weather-vanes have Woods, Moderator. of St. Jobn’s| Presbytery of Florida, officiating. | shifting appreciably and the out- Pallbearers are V. A. Johnson,| look ttled.. Nowhe Frank Delaney, Thomas K, War-| ” ts ren, A. C. Elgin, Charles Maloney, there any sign of | and Jonathan Cates. ar-| cyclonic § de j along other lines than those now 2.—Suite, “Atlantis” (The Lost} Continent), in four parts . Safranck Popular, “All I Do Is Dream Of You” Brown | pany in\ New York but was, two and a half years ago, transferred from Buffalo to Miami and has! since been in charge of that divi- sion. He is also manager of the 15 plants of the City Ice and Fuel company. SPANISH PAPER PUBLISHED HERE FIRST EDITION OF HUESO” APPEARS YESTERDAY i t t Rumba, “La Spagnola” (The Popular, “Nasty Man” “Chimes of Normandy” | Two numbers of the concert; and so expertly was his direction | and to the delight of his audience } the initial edition of a Spanish! Its purpose, as stated by the! BEGIN TOMORROW: make a newer and better Key} of the city and is expected to add | IN MORNING Another aim of the publication the greatest possible cooperation; Florida National Guard and a} The first paper coming off the the morning in that area east of | visiting in the city. | alert of danger signals. i ©. Armayor and an administrator,! gitining at the same hour. The, —Popular Waltz, “Just A Year Ago Tonight” David Star of Love) LaMonaca | 4.—“Humoreske” Dvorak i Henderson 5.—Selection from the light opera, Planquette | | The Star Spangled Banner. “CAYO Saturday night were played under | the direction of Governor Sholtz, done that he was asked to direct} other numbers on the program Sunday morning, August 12,] baat me | ! lished. | | editor, A. O. Armayor, is to as-} sist the FERA in its movement to; West. The paper is especially for, PRACTICE BY NATIONAL ; the S| ish-speaki ti e Sbanist-speaking | population) GUARD TO START 8 O'CLOCK | to the Latin atmosphere here, one of the purposes of the FERA. | is to unite the Spanish and Amer-| Tomorrow will start the heavy | jean groups into a solid unit for} gun practice at Fort Taylor by the} in Key West's rehabilitation pro-} warning is issued to all shipping. ject. Firing will begin at 8 o’clock in, press Saturday evening was pre-' the main ship channel and all vented to Governor Dave Sholtz,: shipping is advsied to be on the Publication will be weekly and! This heavy gun practice will al-| the staff consists of a director, A.!'so be continued Wednesday, be- Feliciano Castro. The Artman} same precaution should be taken; Press is in charge of the printing.! by shipping. \ | 2 Julius Stone, FERA Administrator, Pleased With Rehabilitation Work Julius F. Stone, Jr., FERA ad- ministrator for Florida, said yes- B. M. Duncan is continually at work on new phases of the re-! jhabilitation program and will,! terday before leaving for Jack- | when all plans are perfected, | make announcements through the; press covering the entire scope of} the projects. While in Key West this time} Mr. Stone received a telegram from the editor of the Washing: ton Post asking for a 2,000 word} article on Key West. This he wil) start preparing at once. He ex- pects to be in Washington be-} fore August 25. | Before that time he will go on} movement} the air and tell the world what being done in Key West and what is further contemplated by the; administration. The entire time,' it is said, which will be occupied, by the administrator in his talk* Speaking of what is to be done} will be devated exclusively to Key West and Monroe county. About September 1, or as soon, thereafter as possible, Mr. Stone; sonville, he was very much satis- fied with the progress of the re- jilitation work in Key West. While there is a great improve- it is not so of the administration le thorough surveys of the jon before the started and recently went over} the ground to see what has been accomplished, being prosecuted he said while} jis being made was built in Mo-j | started in April of this year j would have been foolhardy in the {nearest port but the heavy winds | few Seminole Ind The boat in which the voyage bile and the first leg of the t from that port to Key West was ith Al Dudek as Hemingway’s s ra companion, but after reaching a: point within 40 miles of Key West, heavy winds were encoun= tered and the little craft was hat. tered so badly that to continu’ | | extreme. It was decided to the make | H | i | | to! most people only as the home of a ns, a vast, dan-| gerous hunting region or a swamp thickly populated with alligators! and snakes. As a matter of fact! some of our congressmen appar-} ently did not have a clear idea of, it last spring when the park pro- ject was under consideration. Sev-; eral of them shouted “snake leg-} PORE RRO CeCe DESEO DESOLCOOESDEDOLOODOODOOOOOOORTS | | by Congress at its last session | are found maples, ash, cypress, tions of this site lie in Mon- trail from the branches in such States to 24, an area of. | age relief is about one foot above be ready for visitors for some | turtles weighing up to 300 pounds park is different than the nests made in the sand. These eggs} jungle foliage—a fairy land turtles are themselves excellent | Kind of Park” reprinted || from 140, to 200 eggs. Florida Everglades, is known feeding grounds of thousands of} herons. Students of animal rife | snakes. The waters abound with vergiades National Park: 2 2 e e J on e se | A portion of the Florida as tall as 100 feet and coconut! as the site for a national park | mahogany, rubber and many oth-! to be known as the Ever- | €r varieties. From many of them,| roe and Dade counties. This | numbers as to form almost im-! will bring the number of na- _ Passablg barriers. Here and there| something like 20,000 square | sea level). Attached to the roots miles. Exclusive of the Ever- of trees on their banks may he time—3,000,000 people vi make their home here and come} ed the national parks last out on the sand under the cover} others in that it is not moun- are considered great delicacies tainous but an expanse of wa- | and natives spend a great deal of | for thousands of birds. and are caught as they move from The following article titled | the water to their nests in the from The Pathfinder, issue Ornithologists find the Ever-/ of August 11: glades a fairyland for bird study birds. Among the species to be} found here are the ibis, spoonbills, | may find some bear, panthers or} wildcats, foxes or deer—not to! fish. The Everglades proper is a great! { Everglades was designated {rces are abundant. Besides the: e| glades National Park. Por- especially in the interior, vines} tional parks in the United | are salt water streams (the aver glades Park—which will not | found’ growing oysters. Hugh sea year. Our newest national {of darkness to lay their eggs in; ter, tropical flowers and time digging for them. Also the “The Everglades—A New sand; A, single turtle often la Our newest national park, the a8 it is the roosting place and egrets, cranes, flamingoes andj mention a few alligators and} saw-grass morass extending from} | well as a islation” and “alligator farm.” | But botanists and other scientists! tell us it is a place of beauty as{ ich,fertile region; andj that it will develop into a beauti-| ful national park comparable with any of the others. At any rate it offers an inter. esting contr: Instead of snow: capped peaks, wide canyons and; valleys, deserts and caves the| tourists will have an opportunity; to gaze on expanses of water,; tropical flowers and jungle foi!- age. Dr. John K. Small, head| curator of the New York Botan-' ical Garden, relates almost un-} believable tales of the plant life! of its interior. More than 25 va-} rieties of orchids grow there.| some of the plants estimated to} be as much as 500 years old.) Some orchids have been found with stems 15 feet long and flow-| the southwestern side of Lake] Okeechobee in southern Florida; and takes in an area variously es-! timated from 2,500 to 5,000] square miles, It owes its origin] to the copious rainfall and the} ight relief of the section, Ini act, the relief is so slight through-| out the region that a two-foot rise | of water in the past changed hun-} dreds of square miles into a lake. Much of it was submerged during | the rainy season. i Besides the land acquired 500 acres) by Congress for site of the park the state of Flor- ida has madi lable many thou- sands more and the Florida Fed eration of Women’s Club have of- (Continued on Page Four) MONROE THEATER Pat O’Brien-Glenda Farrell in ( the | | | |A. PR E § Cc R | P T 1 0 N § | many things that are going on at fer the | this time are obvious, there are BL ANCORA SOCIETY ‘other activities being planned will return to Key West and de-; vote several days té an intensive! study of the progress of the re-| habilitation program and also to) PERSONALITY KID i Janet Gaynor-Chas. Farrell in CHANGE OF HEART ers so large it required four men| to handle them while others had s many as 1,000 blossoms on one} ’ | which have not been announced Gardner's Pharmacy |for the reason that the complete Phone 177 Free Delivery jj setup has not been determined. THERE IS NO BETTER DRINK TO BE HAD THAN ICE COLD W making plans for other contem-| plated projects. ‘ stem. Mangrove trees grow thick and! Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- }| tra, 15-20c; Night, 15-25¢ information which will be used in! same points. a series of articles to be written! by young Hemingway covering} the highlights of the cruise and adventure. After leaving Puerto Rico the| voyage will take them through the; Windward Islands, down to the coast of Venezuela, where they} will make for the mouth of the| Orinoco River, which was decided} upon as the destination when the} ‘ voyage was planned last April. It: is expected the trip will take} about four months. i COURT HEARING Catherine Saunders and John McQueen, both colored, were giv- en preliminary hearings Saturday. The former was charged with trespass and the latter with as- sault and battery. | After hearing all evidence con- | nected with the case they were! next term o of bound over to the criminal court in bond each. seeccee eoeee WHERE TO: CO seccccccccceccccccessece TONIGHT Monroe—“Personality Kid” and “Change of Hearts.” Palace—“Manhattan Tower.” TOMORROW Monroe—“Murder in the Priv- ate Car.” Palace—‘Chloe.” Governor Sholtz And Man Officials Inspect Guards’ Camp. day at Guard Yesterday was a busy the Florida National camp with the large number of guests and many callers from i the city going out to meet friends S)and look over the new arrange- ments, Many who had not the camp since its rehabilitation and the new buildings were surprised at the transformation whigh has taken pl since the troops were here last August. It is understood that changes are contemplated. buildings to be constructed many improvements which seen other New and were not included in the original plans; are being considered and _ steps will be taken to bring the ma before ‘the authorities in ington, With this end in view a com- plete survey of the camp and all equipment was made _ yesterda all buildings checked and the im provements to be asked for noted. It is understood that the needed additions will be asked for at an carly date, Those in the inspection party re Governor Dave Sholtz, Aid u t General Vivian Collins, No. jor Wade W. Rheir S. A., Major R. T. Gi instructor of the ment, Lieutenant Colonel M. Woodward, F. N. G., and Chief Justice Fred H. Davis, Supreme Court of Florida. Later on Governor Sholtz. his brother, Carl Sholtz and Colonel J, E. Yonge, members of the gov- ernor’s staff took plane for Mi- ami. While the inspection was being made at the encampment Con- gressman J. Mark Wilcox, Julius Stone, Florida administrator for iFERA, C, B. Treadway, chairman| $50) ' cials and the - plished in the =| Daily Funeral arrangements are charge of the Lopez Home. Mr. Curtis is survived by his | widow; one daughter, Mrs. I. N in Funeral | Meltzer; three sisters, Mrs. Jennie | Pierce. Mrs. Mary Williams and | Mrs. Annie Delaney; one brother, | Edward Curtis and a grandson, | Charles Curtis Meltzer. ‘CUBA BRINGS IN 102 PASSENGERS Steamship Cuba, of the P. and ; 0. S. S. company, arrived ®atur- day afternoon from Havana with 76 first class passengers and sev- en second class for Key West, 18 | first class and one second for ! ‘Tampa. Of the number of passengers { listed there were 51 aliens and a | few of them making entry in the | United States for the first time. | Freighter Henry R. Mallory |the Clyde-Mallory Steamship Lines, is due to arrive in port this afternoon from Galveston enroute ‘to Charleston and New York of the state road department, Lieutenant Commander Gibbs, Captain S. Barchan, F. N George G., and Ellis ‘editor of the Miami Herald, lef Tortugas where an inspection: of the Fort Jefferson was made and the party returned in about two hours, Today ea of honor At the ! by plane, fer historic canip is Geypral A, H. Blanding, commanding the comprising the Stat Georgia and Alabama. eral arrived over the East Coast yesterday to k over the npment and today is becoming acquainted with the FERA off work rehabilitation « Ist Division, of Florida. The gen so far accor Key West Most all of the visitors encampment Saturday and parted yesterday either the H at the Sun jane or train in The governor, his brother Carl and Colonel Yonge by plane Among thos ernoon train were Mark Wilcox, Admini Stone, Jr., Secretary R. A. Gray, Ellis Hollums, of the Miami Herald; News; Fred Rossner, Hitt and W. H. Gould. | Tomorrow morning at 8 \the first of the heavy gun firing will commence. The First Bat alion will practice with the 15: M. M. rifles. And on Wedn day the 15 inch mortars fired by the Second Battalion tern aving on the | : Congre: man, private overnor; Hal on Hollums, managing velopments, The | most of their present big majorit ; in the house, and while republican gains are accepted as certain, few | leaders of that party go as far as ; to forecast any actual republican democrats expect to keep majority. Because of special cir | cumst conceded democrats will retain control ces it is th | the senate, possibly by a consider ably increased margin, The bigger question is what all protends with respect te | Roosevelt regime at Washington On that question the claims are distinctly conflicting, and side is.able to produce evid which it seems to regard as con vincing. cab is possible only because 1934 is becoming a year of pol tical eccentricities. Everyone agrees Mr has an exeeptionally control over hms party Yet in the Chairman Farley went the Rouseve effects one instance whe of openly ei , candidate Virginia that cand ieated for the ne Every ven agrees that man Mr. & to that publ ) ve It voters prefer leadership Y republican ¢ tp republ President Virginia and R poervats babiy the two tic an senate the have been re without Eve high © the “ one murmur know lack “Pp mand western g | hberais. Yet Idaho kota attack of tha Nye “ two are > and of Some More Paradones ‘ The chine what »clock will be ac But ever th During both of these the range will be east of the main ship channel and shipping practices warned to keep on the watch for danger signals, AGNER’S “PRIDE OF FLORIDA” BEER. ITS DELICIOUS FLAVOR WILL QUENCH YOUR THIRST