The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 17, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 6 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LV. No. 221. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1934. FERA Employs.Band To Greet Musical Organization Or- ganized For Purpose Of Giving City Specish| Atmosphere Carrying out the scheme to gi this city a Spanish seach the FERA has employed a group ef lecal Cuban musicians known es the Sexteto to meet ever F. E. C. arrivals ains and also pass fengers on the Oversea Highway! ferries. This group meets at the station at 11:40 a, m. and after giving several selections for the incoming passengers, they proceed to the ferry slip at No Name Key and} play for passengers on the ferry, whieh leaves at 2 o'clock and those who come i 6 o'clock, “Sexteto Encanto” is under the} management of Benito Perez and: is directed by Antonio Castro. The band holds daily practices and render programs of typical Cuban music including tangos, solos and; musical selections by the individ- wal members, | Members of the band and their instruments are: Antonio Castro, first Maracas; Candido Perez, second Maracas; | John Bennett, Guitar; Delphin} Feal, Tres; Amado Machin, Bon-} go; Carlos Parra, Claves; Ed-' mundo Cabrera, Marinbula. EXPANDS DEFENSE WITH MORE FORCES MILITARY ee eaaeset se FOR SOUTH AFRICA NOW | UNDERTAKEN ! \ (My Associated Prexs> PRETORIA, Sept. 17.—Military reorganization for South Afri a has been undertaken by the union | defense force. { For the first time trench mor- | tars are being used. and besides being trained as riflemen, the members of the various units will! be made specialists in branches. i They will become machine | gunners, trench mortar crews,, @nti-tank gunners or signalers, Eight new regiments, named‘ for national heroes, are bene formed. Those recruited in the Free State are the De Wet,! Steyn and Louw Wepener regi-| ments, while in the Transvaal | there will be the Louis Botha} and De la Rey units. The Botha regiment is being} established for the Northern; and Eastern Transvaal and the eighth for the vaal. | LAKES BOOM TEXAS TOWN, See | (My Associated Press) | ROCKSPRI Tex., Sept.! 17.--An immense cavern, worm-} ing its way for miles underground, | is bringing tourist money to this! town, The “Devil's Sinkhole,” describ-; ed by Dr. Frank E. Nicholson, ex- plorer of caverns, as “bigger by far” than any other he has plored. lies beneath the wooded’ hills, of a ranch 12 miles east of | here, It contains numerous lakes, | clear as glass and cold as glacier! i* { t legally in Texas at the STATION BOOTH TO BE REOPENED PREPARE FOR GIVING OUT INFORMATION TO TOURISTS Workmen are busy at the F. E. | C. terminal getting the informa- tion booth in shape for the com- ing tourist season. It has been painted snow white with green trimmings. All adver- tising matter has been eliminated and the interior finished in beaver board. It is reported that the FERA will operate the booth during the winter months. “MRS. G. PALMER RETURNS TO CITY | TO SPEND STAY OF SEVERAL WEEKS WITH HER PAR. ENTS HERE Mrs. George Goldston formerly Palmer, Miss Rosalind Groom: arrived here today from Virginia to spend a stay of several weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Grooms. Mrs, Palmer will later go to San Diego, Calif., where she will join. her busband, .Lieut..Palmer, who is stationed on a navy basing at that port. NEW ship ARRIVAL AT HOLCOMB HOME Announcement has been of the birth of a son, weighing thirteen pounds, to Mr .and Mrs. made certain H. S. Holeomb, yesterday at their) home, 410 Fleming street. Mrs. Holeomb before marriage was Miss Jennie Mae Rendueles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Faustino Rendueles, ROMERO FAMILY RETURNS HOME Mr. and Mrs. John J. Romero, Jr., and son, John J., III, left over Western Trans-! the highway yesterday for their | home in Opa-Locka. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Romero’s mother, Mrs. Harry L. Lowe. Mr, and Mrs. Romero had been visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Asa L, Whitaker on Varela street. TEXAS “HOT OIL” STILL BEING PRODUCED DESPITE CODE RULING (Special to By CARL C. CRANMER WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.— “Hot oil” is being produced rate of water, Dr. Nicholson. said, and a! 80,000 barrels a day, according to hill 600 feet high and a miie in{ circumference. WHERE T0 GO. TONIGHT Monroe—“Girl From Missouri” | and “Here Comes the Groom.” lace berlost.” TOMORROW and “Here Comes the Groom.” Palace — “The Man Couldn't Arrest.” ‘ estimates | spite all contrac! just rounded out its first year “The Girl of the Lim-| the experiment to stabilize a $12, ' 000,000,000 industry and to con- | serve one of the jst : ‘i | valuable resources with a number| While their total production — Monroe—“Twentieth Century”| of accomplishments claimed to its |°M!Y about 500,000 barrels daily, | jecredit by Secretary They | Ickes. received by the pe- troleum administrative board, de- regulations and | codes thus far devised to curb the flow. Yet, the oil administration has nation’s most of Interior Crude oil prices that were a-| in| TOURIST PENNIES FRENCH CHATEAUX | _ NEW YORK, Sept. 17.—Out of HARD TIMES HIT PRINCE: j | tragedy at sea have come more | AND MARQUIS AS HEAVILY; AS OTHERS; MANY HOMES | ARE GOING TO RUIN efficient safeguards for passen- | gers and crew. Nearly every time Davy Jones opens his grim locker for another By ALEXANDER H. UHL (By Assoeiated Press) PARIS, Sept. 17.—Tourists’ pennies are helping to keep the! of devices, to cheat him of his prey | human sacrifice, the science ‘ navigation keeps pace, ever seek- ing and finding new ways, new wolf from the door of some | France’s most magnificent cha-/ in the future, oe | That has been true in the past, Hard times have hit prince and @"d already, on the heels of the | marquis just as heavily as every-/ Morro Castle holocaust, in which one else and some. of France's’ More than 100 are dead or miss- most famous country homes are me errors are, sider. waitovine e é : sure against a repetition, falling into ruin because their ; Constant vigilance is the watch- , owners can’t afford to keep them word of the federal. bureau of ‘up. navigation and steamboat inspec- Now an association of chateau: tion; at the very moment — the (owners has been formed whereby Morro Castle was. burning a oor, i cae . ference of its executive eommit- tourists may visit these private i tee under Dickerson N. Hoover, dwellings at certain times on pay- chief of the bureau, was in pro- ment of a slight fee. The money gress in Washington to draft a | goes toward keeping plumbing in Rew boiler code for ships. lia tumbling! Reinspection Regulation down, ‘ai It was the General Slocum ster, in which 955 persons, | British Follow Suit most of them children, lost iheir It has worked so successfully lives, that initiated the rigid hip that a similar association may be. supervision in effect today. The {formed in England to help the General Slocum, excursion steam- lordly owners of some of Britain's er, burned in New Yor East stately houses, |viver, June 15, 1904. The board Called the, “most aristocratic of supervising inspectors there- trade union in the world,” the| upon developed the system of re- French association was founded by inspection of vessels subsequent the owners of chateaux to defend to the regular annual inspection, their own interest and to pre-and there are now three inter- iserve for France a tourist a: mediary inspections of passenger | that was being threatened with! vessels each year. | oblivion, — x Modern boiler The chief qualification to cedure dates ; own a chateau, preferably with! = rvati ; ! historic interest, and to be ready Pee Scot enrations ae i to throw it open to the public... In| tives were lost.® The boiler never | return, the owner is supplied with’ \ac recovered, although the boiler j funds for upkeep of the place and’ safety valve was found to be in | sometimes even gets tax advant-| serfect working condition. j Seesvandithe vight to keep his es-| 1) the Titanic tragedy. 22 years tate intact for himself and his! go 1513 men, women and chit heir. jdren paid the penalty of in- adequate safeguards. The veil was lifted then by a senate com- mittee, and navigators found the answe| Titanic ‘Unsinkable’ | The Titanic was believed to be so safe and “unsinkable” that ‘only 20 life boats and rafts were | the terraces interrupted by visi- ee a ee eon i tors, so definite times have been 35) out Pees assigned to sightseers, | The Morro Castle, however, There are more tha 60 chateaux | 0781 nomen [Nie boats i | in the neighborhood of Paris which | “@'T¢d enough life boats to meet : now can be visited. Many of them | int nueh on emetgency that be- gale-swept jfell it in the early | hours of September 8 off the New and walls from | inspection pro- is from the explosion Guard Coffee Hours Funds are raised by subscrip- tions and by the collection of 60! i centimes (about three and a half | cents) from each visitor. Some of | the proceeds pay expenses of the organization: Naturally chateau owners have no desire to have their coffee on ! never have been open to the pub-! | lie. of | 4 New Safeguards. For -Passengers Follow Disaster Of Many Ships (By Ausociated Press) Jersey coast. That been learned, Another result of the Titanic’s loss was development of the coast and geodetic survey’s present ‘tem of charting daily movement of ice in ship lanes. collided with an iceberg and sank : quickly. : When the Titanic went the S, S, Californian stood only 19 «miles away—less than an hour’s run—but her wireless operator had gone to sleep, and the fran- , tie appeal went unheeded. | Traveling Too Fast | Investigation of the sinking of the Titanic resulted*in the follow- ing statement: | “The Senate Investigating Com- mittee agrees that the Titanic was ; traveling too fast through the ice ; fields after having received at least three warnings. “The Senate Investigating Com- mittee agrees that the S. S. Cali- fornian violated all dictates of hu- manity,. international. usage, and the requirements of law by not answering distress sign. t ate Investigating Com- mittee agri that the ship (Ti- -tanic) was under-equipped. ; “The Senate Investigating Com- mittee agrees that the wireless operator of the S. S. Carpathia was not duly vigilant in handling messages after the accident. “Therefore, the Senate Investi- gating Committee recommends: “1, That the bulkhead system of ship-building be improved. a “2. That all ships carry- ing more than 100 passengers carry two searchlight That every ship have sufficient life-saving equip- ment. “ lesson had . And that every ship e a wireless operator con- stantly on duty.” When the Morro Castle put to sea, presumably‘ she had complied with these requirements to the let- ter. Yet, according to testimony of survivors, some of the crew showed ineptitude in the handling of lifeboats, + One point, in particular, the federal committee investigating the loss of the Morro Castle seeking to determine is why the. signal was delayed so long fire was known to have broken out. Perhaps new regula- tions will pave the way to greater safety. And Pre suggested ident that Roosevelt congress has enact legislation to sweep wooden pas- senger ships from the seas. The Morro Castle was not a wooden jliner, but much of her luxurious furnishings were ofg wood and lother inflammable material ~ Pe A. MEETING via £ ON BUYING TRIP | The ‘Citizen’ has been Yeqiiésted ' pe ayES YESTERDAY _EN- j to announée that the meeting -of | | the High School P.-T. A., which! ROUTE TO EASTERN MAR. : was called for tomorrow _ night, | | has been postponed. | KETS ON ANNUAL TRIP ‘ It is stated that this meeting | will be held a week from tomor- row night, September 2 | Charles Aronovitz, of D. Arono- vitz Department Store, left for New York yesterday on his an- | nual buying trip at E | kets, A complete line stern Mar- of new fall merchandise for men, women and children will be purchased, includ- ‘ing the latest ready-to-wear, mil- ‘The Citizen) Hl averaging 30 or 40 cents a barrel; line novelties for the Christmas sea- son, Mr, Aronovitz expects to be away from the city for over a month but will ship the new goods to this city as soon as the pur- chases are made. D. Aronovitz’s Department Store is said to be the oldest es- tablishment of its kind in the have been raised to 90 cents or} linery and shoes and a $1 where they cover the cost of; production in most fields. Daily crude oil production that was! averaging 2,800,000 to 3,000,000 barrels has been reduced to anj javerage of about 2,400,000 bar-! |rels for the past year, with total jlegal and illegal oil probably not ; exceeding 2,500,000 barrelz a day! at any time. | city, and is the only department Thousands of “stripper” wells! store. Its management h jin old fields that could not long! made it a point to cai have been continued in competi-! yng best merchandise. ion with new gushers have been! pt in operation as a result of |better prices, it is estimated. 'y exclusi Jean Harlow-Franchot Tone in GIRL FROM MISSOURI Jack Haley in many million barrels of oil which'| HERE COMES THE GROOM might have been lost with shutting |] matinee: Melooay, abc;/Orckes- down of the wells, are believed to fy dh t 5-20c; Night, 15-25 be in reserve beneath them. \ resi aes i is POSTPONEMENT OF ARONOVITZ GOES — always i MONROE THEATER | ‘LEGION UNIT: WILL: “CONDUCT MEETIN , There will be | American Legion auxiliary held tomorrow afternoon: beginning’ at | 4:30 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. J. G. Piodela, 420 Fleming street. It is expected that a large num- ber of members will be in at- tendance, as it is stated there will be important business coming be- fore the session. “HOSPITALITY UNIT _ TO MEET TONIGHT There will be a meeting of the 1 of | Key West Hospitality League held| standards are too low, | tonight, beginning at 8 o’clock j the rooms of the Public Libra’ ; according to announcement made | by James S. Day, secretary of the | organization. stated that matters of vital | importance will be taken up, and lit is expected that there will be a | large number in attendance. at | PETER DOELGER BEER Has a past, and reputation to live up to—that’s why it’s always GOOD. Po}: Is always pure dependable and The Titanic, } down a meeting, of. the | | a WEEK'S PROGRAM ‘AT PLAYGROUNDS OF BAYVIEW PARK VARIOUS ACTIVITIES WILL BE PUT ON, UNDER DIREC. TION OF J. GERRY CURTIS OF FERA | MARTW:BUILDING PERMITS ISSUED BY COMMISSION The following is the program of | MOST GIVEN OUT BY STATE events arranged for Bayview Park| ORGANIZATION WERE FOR during the week under the direc-| tion of J. Gerry Curtis, director of REPAIRS AND RENOVA. ) TIONS parks and recreation: | Tuesday 00-3 :00—Drill, boys and girls. | 3:00-5:00—Diamondball, boys! and girls, Group games for small| | 2 — (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Sept. 17. 580 Gane cof instrue- | —Building permits totalling $345. for boys and girls, ! 975 were issued by the state hotel i -6:00—Free play. Most !of them were for repairs and ' Wednesday | » 2:00-3:00-—Drill, boys and girls.| renovations of existing hotel, res. 3:00-4:30—Diamondball, boys chi | sion during August. taurant, apartment house and rooming house structures, The district, with mits totalling $298,100, was far —Boys’ and _ girls’, badge and letter instructions and contest. 30-6:00-—Free play. Miami per- ; ahead of all other districts com bined. taurant It had 12 permits for res- work totalling $25,700 10 for hotel work totalling $102, 900, seven for work totalling | for rooming ho} $1,000. The biggest single permit was for $50,000 and covered an apart ment house at Ocean Drive and 11th Street in Miami Beach. The next biggest was for $43,500 for a hotel at h Street and Indian Creek in Miami Beach. eee rill, boys and girls. :00—Boys’ and girls’ dia- mondball catch, fly to bat, ete. 5:00-6:00—Girls’ volley ball. Boys’ group games and free play. i Friday 00-3 :00—Drill, apartments house $ $168,500 and one work totalling boys and 00-4 :30—Diamondball catch, '30—Boys’ volley ball in structions. Girls’ free play. 5:30-6:00—Free play. Saturday 9:00-10:00—General exercises. | 10:00 - 11:30 — Diamondball catch for boy: | 11:80-12:00—Free play. \ 2:00-3:00—Girls’ group games. Boys’ ball catch, STORM REPORT ADVISORY 10:00 a. Tropical disturbance central east 3:00-4:00—Athletic contests for of the Windward and Leeward Is Girls’ free play. lands moving very slowly but with Vietor Larsen and Nell . Rose 'some evidence of north-northwest Knight will act as supervisors. | movement, m. Irate Citizens Of Soviet Urged To Air Pet Peeves Against Erring Officials (By Axwociat: 17.—The Press) LENINGRAD, Sept. Soviet Union is a land of com-! ton, The United States i jolized for its mastery of plaints. The bolshevik It government in-/td achieve. American capitalism vites them. believes in self-; is despised less than the capitalism | cui@eisas lof other lands because of the highs | | The public is taught from .10,-; development of technique in the industries of the United Stat govern- mere / Why—Why—Why And Why? } ment is theirs and it can win per-| | | American €F- by workers thoroughly schooled in the 000 platforms that the technique, practiced | fection only by learning its rors. } Marxian phisosophy, is ideal But to this ideal is rough Why achieve No press in the world airs of bolshevism. the approach many In and edi- wails woes. torials, special articles and letters do the railways fail ‘to the maladministration editors, and pair work assigned to them? Why do the stations the construction is denounced. Communists and non-com- machine — tractor | munists alike join in the barrage. fail to have combine lp, . 3 threshers and tractor Zouquets are far less numerou jfor the harve Why do use in their which shrinks? Ww > and Why a clerks pern in | than brickbats, t h | Life is hard in the Soviet Union. “4 cchen ; Stalin and his associates in con- j trol of the communist party admit! a ca it in their peeche Living manager cae to but the & rt public is told that the only way mid to raise them is to join heartedly in the plans of the pole- | tarian government and hasten ‘complete socialization of industry jand agriculture. ; Transportation, industry, j keting and agriculture are all un- der fire. Failure to fulfill plans ti jailed from Vladivostok to the} \ Baltic, from the White Sea to the Black. Great Faith In America Critics have little to say about the plans them. The t system and the second y plan generally are regarded as above criticism. At least they are not attacked in the press and in public utterances. re ; The general faith in mechaniza- areas which comprise ‘tion attains the proportions of a | Union. whole- 1 overcharg Why are w in prov cent quarter Why are br Ww scarce so h fat mar- dipricd and and ar? Why is the supply of goods for women’s dresses jwhy are the J Why able? Many Queries Answered These and questions rea’ patte >A isn’t Kremlin fr th 1 : ms scattered and ublics ac +t postage ‘Price Claims Republicans Have | By BYRON PRICE | (Cbtee of Burces, The Aeeecteted Presa, Washingtow) WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 Orthodox republicans had « le son in Maine two years age the the one in the elections just ever Tt was that their campaign wee » they had better get , busy of take the comsequences It was two months bef They got busier, surely enough, and recap tured rocky Maine for Hoovers but nevertheless lost 43 of tion In Maine © the Roosevelt avalanche ne other 47 states, Now Maine is definitely their far as strengthening < in November js concerned. Taking tt Te Heart How much they will profit this new lessen can guessed; but the nation ization is manifestly taking heart The incidents not l In 1932 sapping. The high mand had no idea of the ext of the swing away from © until the Maine returns were This time the organization jalert, oilitant. It bere terminedly with some of the & talent it could muster } The results were about same, only more of it. De Governor Braun's majority o 100 beeame 30,000. This tespit calls for his defeat to disown new deal.” Review Of Strategy No party can laugh off such sults nedly. Nor lars doing s are t are steve the party ” uncone are iblican re T grim to break Maine soures will take « way. The would seem to presage review of strategy that were all se | when lican publican have The their repub! we leader own F arties from # a strengthening, of both be studied the more « dication ‘ of new tactic | production, which Russians hope not ke the afte President H telegraphed are . Maine tally that un time ‘ headquarters of a “need r th the “the ewed and suex at v tronger may full stake Chairman have We intend t people ! effort And dire reople Senator Hastings It A “unles: can made ‘ j paigning o ‘ possibil that for repair of life-long de ng the republicar y Ie Ac believe are three of t is conduc part the What Maine k how nd-pa ha into Mair two weeks before the bill will be higt vember, NO “DOWN IN THE DUMPS” FEELING AFTER A BOTTLE OF WAGNER'S BEER. A BOTTLE BEFORE EACH MEAL WILL WAKE UP A SLEEPY APPETITE