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Key West, Florida, has the most equable weather in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit. Associated Press Day Wir Service. For 5a Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West The ep West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1934. VOLUME LV. No. 229. Three Prizes Will Be Awarded For Best: Floats In Big Parade Much wacuiail Being Mani-| eee aa aaa. fested In Cuban. Cele- ai bration Beginning On! October 9 ‘Three prizes, totalling $50, will be given for the three best floats entered in the electrical patade which is to be staged the evening of the second day of the El Grito de Yara celebration here, it was announced today. While plans were being ironed out for the coronation of the king | and queen which will start. the PO two days of festivities com- memorating the first ery for Cuban independence heard . 66 years ago, ballots were beginning to be cast in larger and larger! numbers for local persons’ fa- vorite contestants in the contest being conducted by the American Legion post for the selection of a! queen, More merchants today had the tickets, each of which has a value of 25 votes, and at the Key West box is being kept in an office locked at all times except when oc- eupied during business hours, bal- lots were coming in increasingly large numbers, No count of the votes cast has been made yet, but the first tab- ulation will be made the latter part of this week, and the three high contestants in the race will be photographed. The queen finally selected will reign through- out the two-day celebration with Adolfo Naranjo, being sent from Havana for the celebration Octo; ber 9 and 10, The electric parade is sched- uled for shortly after dark Octo- ber 10, following the Cuban me- morial services which are to be conducted at the San Carlos In- stitute. one of the many highlights of the two-day festival. SHIPS WILL COME | | | ; tures along The procession is to be’ HERE ON SUNDAY PERTAINS TO VESSELS OF CLYDE-MALLORY LINES IN NEW SCHEDULE Beginning October 14, Sunday, | ehips of the Clyde-Mallory Lines from New York will arrive days as heretofore, Notification to this effect was{ birds are fewrand far between, received yesterday by °C. Es Smith, agent of the lines in Key) kinds:of gamé in’ Florida's from He says that ships from) New York have been sailing on} date’ to ‘February on October, upon the kind of | after, West Wednesdays but will, 9, begin leaving for Key West on Tuesdays. NOTICE The Gccupational Licenses Auto Tags of the West, a City of Key fice of the City Tax and failure or Collector, persons, association without first obtaining a license shall deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,| and upon conviction before the Police Justice, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed $250.00, or by imprisonment in the jail for a period not to exceed 60) days. It shall be the duty of the! Tax Collector before issuing license based on a proper valua- tion of capital stock, capacity of production or other contingency,} to require the pergon applying for: 0. such lie e, to file under oath,| duly authenticated a statement of fj the amount of capital stock. of fice of the Tax Collector. SAM B. PINDER, City Tax Collector.! mail, sept24-26-29 in} port on Sundays instead of Mon-| due and payable on Oc-| tober Ist of each year at the of-| n the part of any} firm or cor-| ‘STR. CUBA TAKES be, sed i } city} FERRY PARROTT ARRIVES IN} | | | value of the property or the! class, Forms) automobiles and 124 th are to be had at the of- mail, All| licenses unpaid after October 15th! day from Cuba with one car are subject to arrest with penalty.! | stain, one Administration, where the ballot] YT of installing aids to navig » been issued so far this | 15, except in Monroe, and| CUSTOMS DEPT. HEAD ARRIVES HERE ON VISIT ‘A. J. ANGLE PROPOSES TO: ENJOY FISHING IN LOCAL| WATERS DURING WEEK'S | SOJOURN | ELEVENTH CHILD BORN | AT E. PARKER’S HOME Mr. and Mrs, Edney Park. er annource the birth of a daughter at 10:45 o'clock last’ night at the residence, 629 Caroline street. Mr. and Mrs. Parker. are A. J. Angle, collector of cus-| toms for the state of Florida, was | an arrival on the Steamship Cuba; oe en a ah aaa | yesterday from Tampa and will, ise whom are, girls and five | remain for a while with friends. | Mr. Angle told The Citzien he; CLI ILI ISS SS has not been in Key West for | tinually on the move from one! ° | point in his territory to another, several months but has been con-} + and felt in need of rest and rec- VESSEL TO LEAVE i". * ‘As usual, when in TOMORROW 5" we: he decided to come to , West and, for one. week take Tit-easy, spending most of his time | | fishing, which he says is better in Key West ,.waters ‘than in any other: section, of Florida. «Today: he was to be the guest} of Gad Coles, purser with the P.| end O. S. S. company assigned to! the Florida, and Captain Ben-| | jamin Demeritt, and with this| | group of anglers after fish it is! {said there will be fewer \ search of} ui POINCIANA’ WILL «CONTINUE. WORK OF INSTALLING: AIDS}: TO NAVIGATION FROM MI. AMI TO CAPE SABLE fish in, the water on their return that! there were before they went out. The Lighthouse Tender Poinci-' ana will leave tomorrow morning for the purpose of continuing the is ee tion on the intracoastal water- VIGOROUS LAWYER | way from Miami to Cape Sable. Sometime ago the vessel com- pleted the work of erecting struc- the route. These! ‘structures, numbering 34, will! now be completed with the in- stallation of electric lanterns, The lanterns are of 70 candle- power and will be fitted with sun velays. These relays work auto- matically, turning on the current | when the sun sinks in the evening | end shutting it off with appear-; ance of the sun in the morning. STARTS MOVEMENT TO BATTLE CRIME ~~ i i | Fe | RECENT ARREST DEALING! WITH LINDBERGH CASE_ BRINGS ON GREATER FIGHT TO ROUND-UP GANGSTERS | By HERBERT PLUMMER (ity asnwotated Prenns WASHINGTON, THREE HUNTING LICENSES ISSUED BY JUDGE GUNN “ROSS C. SAWYER FIRST TO, PURCHASE ONE; SEASON, HOWEVER, OPENED ON: SEPTEMBER 16 | Sept. 26.— | There is a “Hoover policy” on the side of law today that augurs for ensational turns before the last is heard of this Lindbergh case ar- Back of it is the aiagraye, rest. lawyer-sl-uth, J. Edgar Hoover. It is, to use his words, “not only to get th: criminals them- | selves but also all those who have! Three hunting licenses | aided or harvored them in the slightest.” 16.{ When he spoke, it was e of | country at large attacking crime {through the justice department ‘bureau of investigation which he heads. In the aspect, it; was a card-catalogue, mind; 4 mind réplete with painstaking ad. dcnda by which to develop clues,| That power now is definitely united with the police authority New Jersey on one side and of} though the season for doves has been open since September This is the record in the o ; County Judge Hugh Gunn, Ross C. Sawyer, Jr., was the first to purchase a license and though he has been, oat for game | reports that this time the The game setison for differcat intermediate 15, ‘depending | game © sought’ September 15 and New, York on the other yntil jus-| tige has been servd against ther killers of the Lindbergh infant. i No final disposition is expect-j; ed for some time. Two and one- half years of detailed labor had} to be put in before the big break} | came. | The latest break itself presents} ja mass of minute possibilties, each | | of which has to be t sory ni to make the “Hoover policy” i more feared and valuable weapon | against the lawless. Bill Search Continues What does it mean? It means that simply will be taken for granted until/ every last dollar of the $50,000) j ransom that can be accounted for} is accounted for. | | Less than one-half has been lo- cated. Every bill above that is ® potential lead to one who aided, or harbored the kidnapers. Every; one spent has passed through’ | hands that might conceivably have been able to point to the} guilty, but did not. The best results will be gained | from more cooperation than in-| two tons of freight, three! gependence. The way the federal sacks fj and state agencies team up now ; will be watched for that very rea-| | son. of; They have the advantage of of pineapples, 200 united national support. There is | crates, eight empties, 18 sacks of| none of this . sentiment called baggage and two passen-| “heroizing of criminals” to deter J them, i According to the regulations! the dove season in this state is from November 20 to February Dade and Broward counties. In these coun- ties that season dates from Sep- tember 16 to November 15. All game hunting licenses are void after February 15, nl i nothing 103 PASSENGERS PORT FROM HAVANA WITH LOAD OF FREIGHT Stamship Cuba, of the P.) and Steamship Company, sailed} esterday for Havana with 91) t class passengers, 12 second Ferry Parrott arrived y gers, , courts have authori | notable | NO ¥KOLATIONS FOUND } there found any i says Mr. Hermit’s Fear Of Snakes Leads Him To Build Swinging Bedroom —_—_ (By Associated Press) HORATIO, Ark., Sept. 26 | The burden of 70 years is too} | much for Fred Brown, the hermit of Hotatio, to carry up the rope | ladder to the strange tank sbode| he byilt in a tree when he came here more than 30 years ago. So this mystery man, who came{ | from no one knows where to live! ;Rearby mill. in the Little river country of| southwestern Arkansas, has for-| saken his swinging home for a ,shack on the ground. Like his; | former quarters, it is not far from} the main line of a railroad, yatl Brown lives apart from humanity. A small.garden and a flock “— chickens provide him a__ living.; When he comes to Horatio once, a week for supplies he enters the} same store by way of an alley and the back door, transacts his business and departs. The hermit’s fear of snakes led him to build his swinging bed- ‘toom, which he constructed from an old metal.water tank used by a}! Deprived of his nest as protec- tion against reptiles, Brown now relies upon a number of shiny bottles. set at 10-foot intervals around his shack. Snakes, Brown explained, seeing their reflections! in the glass, will be frightened away. ‘ConstitutionalaRights As Fought Outi In Courts: Under. Discussion By Ansoolaieg: Bre Press) By HERBERT PLUMMER: representatives one of its fore- JEWISH COLONY De STILL OBSERVES HOLIDAY EVENT SERVICES ARE BEING~ CON-) DUCTED DURING WEEK AT LOCAL SYNAGOGUE BY! RABBI PHILLIP KRISTAL The Jewish colony of Key West is still observing the concluding; days of the holiday, Day of Atone-} ment, with services being held daily at the local synagogue by; ‘Rabbi Phillip Kristal. The ob-} servance will close at the end of the present week. Jewish Symbols Some of the principal Jewish; ‘symbols for their Holy Festival! Season now on has been. kindly} contributed by the: Rev....Rabbi Kristal and are given as follows: Succot, or the Festival of» Tab- ernacles: Ist,.the Third Festival is ealied Tabernacles,: in': Hebrew “Suecoth.” . 2nd, it is kept. to: PRICE FIVE CENTS mocratic Committee Now Having Decay i Getting Started On ~‘Assnes: Bearing On Fall Elections SaDDDa aa. His Application For Job Was 50 Years Too Late! ROCHESTER, N. H., Sept. 26.—George Brown saw by the paper that the school board was looking for a jani- tor for Allen school. He recalied that his neigh- bor, Fred Drew, was looking for work, and told him about it. Drew applied for the job, but the school board had no knowledge of it. Drew.accused Brown “kidding” him. Investigation revealed that Brown had been reading the “Fifty Years Ago! Today” column. of res, mind us of God’s loving protec: NTI LED IMDM SS 8 tion of our fathers when He caus- ed them to be sheltered in booths WASHINGTON, Sept. se Ea most authorities on constitutional! or tabernacles in their journey} since the constitutionality of the! President's right to exercise eal pocket veto was fought out in the! 3 on con-! stitutional law had such a juicy! morsel to toy with as they have! at present. \ The right of the United States senate to is the piece de The case is that of William: P. MacCracken, former assistant} } secretary of commerce, who won his fight against a 10-day jail sentence imposed by the senate : because he failed to produce cer- ; tain papers called for in the air- mail inquiry. While the average person will take little interest in the affair— ance. ‘the suggestion has been made the preliminaries happened so long ago that most folks supposed Mac-! ' Cracken had done his 10 days and! forgotten it—a vital constitutional question is involved. Authority Called Again The power of congr committees to do their wo impaired is at stake. The decision of the supreme court promi either to become a notable victory for the courts or an equally defeat for legislative] bodie i It is significant that the senate | bas borrowed from the house of: the | = ‘WILSON FINISHES (© INVESTIGATION IN. LIQUOR SEARCH IN VARIOUS PLACES VISITED | EXCEPT SEVEN AS FIRST! I REPORTED | i ; major contest of this kind. (during the Coolidge rs prisonment, | of inquisition will be sadly erip- s right to ,| judge a citizen is going too far. law for the battle. He is Hatton Sumners of Texas, chairman of the judiciary committee. Summers was pressed into serv- ice by the government in its last t wa: administra- tion when the question of President’s power to pocket legis- lation after adjournment of con- \ gress first was raised. The supreme court ruled in fa- what | Coolidge had done. Point At Issue President While the briefs on both sides} heart and our lips are to be used, to be staged tomorrow night hardly have entered the stage ofjat all times for the service, t'@' Bayview Park under the preparation, it seems fairly cer- tain the court wiil be called upon to decide between two principal contentions, through the desert after they lett | Egypt. 3rd, in warm climates we} live in a tabernacle for the whole! week. 4th, in colder climates we} enter a tabernacle and _ bless! therein, 5th, in our synagogues! a palm branch, a citron, some! used during service. 6th, the} palm branch (Lulab) represents! our frame. The citron (Ethrog) | represents our heart. The myrtle} “accuse, prosecute and vor of Sumner’s contention in the} leaf (Hadas) represents the eye, | | case, upholding and the willow leaf (Arbenchal) | represents the lips, thus teaching! that our frame, our eyes, our] worship and the greater honor and | glory of God. 7th, the seventh: day of the Festival is . called, Hosana R—Abba, the great sal- ' AMATEUR NIGHT TO BE STAGED AT LOCAL PARK ROW EVENING AND RECREATION DEPT. The program for amateur night super vision of the parks and recreation} department was announced to- day. The event will begin prompt-| The senate’s plea. to. the court} vation when a last appealis made |ly.at 7:45. will be, shall a premium be placed on the destruction of probable in- criminating records as a means of ing to testify before a legis lative body? It will be argued that unless such action be made a felony, punishable with im- the legislative power pled. The retort probably will be that to bestow on a political body the accuse, prosecute and} be contended, this power can be used by vin-{ dictive politicians, and probably| will be used, if the courts do not check them. Obviously, it will saidimetie Safety | Committee Offers Traffig Wessiner EDITOR'S NOE | joi iThe Citizen today etechit an- other of a series of “Safety Hints,” prepared by the Gov- ernor’s Committee on Public Safety under the direction of Asher Frank, State Sxfety di- rector Safe Driving One of the best known safety | slogans in the United States is the Howard Wilson, deputy collec-| tor of internal revenue Key} West, at has completed his survey and investigation of the retail; i | liquor dealers in Key West and| finds 41 places licensed to do} business. In none of these places was} liquors except | the seven establishments noted in| the days ago. issue of The In all of these places Citizen veral; the liquor was seized and is being held in the office of the collector ther action is taken, None of the proprietors able to pay the $1,000 excise tax | demanded the government, | Wilson, although only the by seven places in which were found the liquor actually to | the tax and it will be impossible are liable | to collect from these, he says. land {large numbers of | ground passes. ! | complete, jas evidenced in the event any fur-j famous “STOP, LOOK and LIST- EN” warning once found virtual- ly at railroad crossing in ithe nation. Its brief message has, without question, done much to minimize collisions between automobiles and trains. Yet, there are thousands who still fail to heed this good advise, every year unnecessar persons a killed or injured, as a result. The railroads spend huge sums of money annually to avoid all kinds accidents, especially those at grade crossings. Grad- ually, these crossings are being replaced by overhead or under- Until the job is the motorist’s only sal- to: “STOP, LOOK and every | of vation i | LISTEN.” MONROE THEATER |) Helen Twelvetrees and Donald Woods in SHE WAS A LADY Richard Barthelmess and Dvorak in MIDNIGHT ALIBI Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- tra, 15-20c; Night, 15-25¢ Ann Ist | i | I af =| | | | tis called “Simhat Torah,” or |—One for God’s saving grace and par- don, 8th, the eighth day as. sembly. In ove synagogues | prayer is offered asking God to send rain in its season, so that! the earth may produce bountfiul; harv next year. 9th, the fes-' tival sometimes called the “Feast of Ingathering,” because it ended the season of gathering in the grape and other fruit har- vests. 10th, it closes the year’s great festivals. At the end of | each year, it is well to think of| what we have gathered in, what we might have gathered in} —the blessing of God, the love of | our parents, the good will of our teachers, the respect of all who} know us. 11th, the following day re- joicing of the Law. 12th, because the reading of the Law or Torah, is ended and re-commenced ever: year on that day. 13th, two gen- tlemen are honored by being call- ed’ to the Law, one when the last; chapter is read and one when the first chapter 4th, the former is called the} ‘Bridegroom of the Law,” Hat Torah; the latter is called the! “Bridegroom of the Beginning, “aI Hatan Bereshith. 15th, work is/ permitted on the middle days of the tabernacles. MRS. PARKS NOW MUCH IMPROVED Mrs. Parks, wife Parks, groceryman street, is rapidly recovering from| an operation for acute appen-} dicitis, performed last Thursday. } Glad news to her host of} friends will be the infcemedaa) that she will be returned home| from the hospital the latter part} of this week. of George} of Newton | GERMAN DUKES ARE_ NOW STAGE MANAGERS (iy Associated Preas) HAMBURG, Germany, Sept. 26. more and the matter of grand dukes serving as stage managers will be a habit. Gran«! ; Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse is to tage Mozart’s ““Magie Flute” ate the Hamburg State Theater. He follows the example of the late “theatrical duke,” Ernst II of Meiningen, who was famous as a, feradueers l ‘Harriet Johnson. recommended. | ee Those who will participate and ithe numbers they will offer ‘dicate there will be quite a few in- local performers who have not made their appearance he and th some of the latest hits. 1. Sun-Dance—Oscarino fonso and Gerald Alfonso. 2. Novelty Skit—C. Curry C. Pellicier. 3. Vocal Duet tand E, Rosam. 4. Song, “With My Eyes Wide Open I’m Dreaming”—Marguerite i Varela. 5. ofore eir numbers will comprise Al and Blackwell Trio, “Trees"”—Clara Yates Norma Yates and Alce Curry. 6. Song. “A Thousand | Nights”—Alicia Perez. 7. Song, “I Ain't Good Lazy”— 8. Violin selection Goshorn accompanied by M. Gos ‘ horn. Trio—C, Cur «. - McHugh. “Hold My Hands” Pelli nae Cw 11. Song, Mary Sawyer, 12. Song, “Honey tel”—Betty Enrique. 3. Accordion | Wilson, 14, ae vs “42nd Street” Moon Ho- solo—Eugene Carioca Dance — Delma Song, “How Am Do Doris Roberts. Song, “Just Edith Curry “Little Mar Day”—Flossie 1 fag! 16 | street” 17. i Had ey. 18. a Little Song, Busy Mae Miriam Albury Song. ‘SCIENTISTS ARE NOW ELIGIBLE FOR MEDALS (By Associated Press) ROME ent | explorer: athletes the public igible for gold medal Mussolini. Looking over ountain-elimbs who risk their interest are now ¢ . thanks to an 80-year-old Haw governing the award of med als for valor, he discovered t no provision had ever been mac for heroes the: follow Forthwith he amended the regula tion. In a published explanation called scientists “superior who in many cases sacrifice their lives for the high ideal of human he men | progress.” at’ Nicholas \No’ Definite Program On Activities To Be Car- ried On Arranged As Yet By HERBERT PLUMMER (Ry Avsectated Preass WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—The i democratic senatorial elections | committee, charged with the duty of seeing that the party at least retains and if possible incresses its strength in the senate in the ! fall elections, is having difficulty 1 j im getting started. Senator “Jim Ham” | Ilinois, chairman, has yet to j® meeting of his committee jone seems to know just wha | do. ig: uncertainty is due to the administratic ‘Lohan of the {not at all sure what course } | dent Roosevelt inten« | with regard to the committee progre the} myrtle and willow branches are} WILL TAKE PLACE TOMOR-) publican senators up fo tion this year who have su UNDER | him SUPERVISION OF PARKS} j ’ Lewis has talked with th ident, but judging from w {said after their | everything still is {til the administration's known definitely, committee likely mant, Party Leaders | The | already nebul t Pp Lewis « will sta ‘See Red administration's has been be }Hiram Johnson of + While Johnson will publican, he is certair wishes of the der Two other pr cans—La Follette and Cutting of yet have ances + All President run a & New receive republican supported hit makes the re cratic enators organizations a conservative red.” ‘Desertions’ Recalled They Pre having iden t nate on forgotten publican tion on the jt ‘when th hitched Meanw re have is ab graphica wing in POLAND HAS PLACED BAN ON NAZI BOOKS (as THORN Associated Pr ! 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