The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 19, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. THREE GUNBOATS FROM HAVANA TO | VESSELS WILL BRING LARGE NUMBER OF REPRESENTA-/ TIVES FROM CUBA FOR CELEBRATION HERE Three Cuban gunboats, instead of two, will arrive here Sund. with Cuban offi and others aboard to take part in the annual celebration of El Grito de Monday, which is Cuban pendence Day. This word was received yes day afternoon by Berardo Baire Inde- r- last week for who was in Havana making arrangements of Joy, highlight of which is to be the open air staging of “The Pirates of Penzance” next Tues- day night. Aboard the three gunboats, which are scheduled to leave Ha- vana at 11 o’clock Saturday night, will be a girls’ basketball team, members of the Cuban Marine Band and Cuban Marine baseball team, Commander U. Franco Granero, chief of the military unit at the Presidential palace and personal representative of President Barnet for the celebr tion here, and many other Cub: officials and dignitaries, includi representatives of the Cuban tional Association of Revolution- ary Veterans, Sunday night, a gala ball will given at the Cuban Club honoring the visitors, starting at 9 o'clock. CUBA BRINGS IN 53 PASSENGERS VESSEL /SAILED LATE. YES- TERDAY AFTERNOON EN ROUTE TO TAMPA Steamship Cuba arrived Havana last night with 10 and two second cla for Key West, 31 second class Tampa. The vessel sailed 5 o'clock for Tampa with 54 passengers, taking passing from Key West. Among the arrivals from Ha. vana were: Olga Martinez George Leonard, Jane Leonard Samuel Marshall, Edele Marshall Charles S. Davis, Florence G fi and passengers for Rod-; Tiguez Valdez, Cuban consul here, | the | Cuban participation in The Week} from st s passengers 10 19 'PYNCHON PAYS VISIT TO CITY ‘ IN PLANE YESTER- DAY ACCOMPANIED BY THOMAS ORR E. A. Pynchon, Florida WPA j administrator, arrived yesterday; in company with Thomas D. Orr, | director of WPA activities, who jwas visiting in Jacksonville and !conferring with officials. and im- shortly by Coast Guard plane {mediately after arriving, noon, went for a ride to the dif- ferent projects, especial atten- tion being given to the sewerage. The visiting official said he ap- proved the unit system of sewer- in effect some time ago by Mr. Orr, and each of the four units now form a separate project of the combined whole. Concentrating on one unit, completing it from assemblage section to discharge, will preclude the necessity of having many | Mir. Orr pointed out. This morning before leaving by {the plane Mr. Pynchon said he ; was extremely pleased with the |work going on here. He would have extended his stay, he said, j but had a number of important matters to attend to in other sec- | tions of the state. B. RIVERO WAS STRICKEN ILL |RUSHED TO MARINE HOSPI- i | | i TAL HERE AND GIVEN ATTENTION ‘Bonifacio Rivero, resident of Pine street, was taken suddenly ill last night. Unsupported rumors were that he was poisoned. Ambulance of the Lopez Funeral Home was summoned and the suf- ferer taken to the Marine Hos- pital, He was given prompt attention by Dr, P. D. Holloway, who was on duty at the time. This morn- ing the doctor was asked what was the matter with Rivero, and j his questioner was told he had just been discharged from the hospital. PRICES LEAVE ON | ot i} { | after 4 o’clock yesterday after-; age activities. This idea was put; i streets torn up at the same time,|! Davis, Glenn Campbell, and Viola Campbell. On the list of departures were: Mrs. W. Miller, C. Scharfing, and Mrs. W. M. Ste -] EN Rice, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Pringle, CUBA FOR TAMPA ROUTE TO TARPON Mrs. Sylvia Farney, Mv. and Mrs. rice, SE Mrs. Walter Me- McIntosh, and Mrs. C. I. Metzger, Intosh, Mr. and Intosh, Walter Frank Cates. Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde. Mallory Lines, is due from Miami and Ja route to New Orleans. Steamship Braz of the sam lines, is due to arrive Friday e ning from Galveston en route t New York, ROTES MAKING GOOD RECORD MUCH PROGRESS MADE ATTENDANCE DRIVE FOR FEBRUARY Key West Rotary Club breaking all past records since the attendance com mittee headed by Dr. Wm. Kemp inaugurated the drive make the four meetings in Feb ruary 100 per cent. Every member attended both! been! the} of the meetings that have held so far this month and committeemen are busy contact ing the elub’s roster urging them Mrs. E. K, Hubbard, Mrs. P. Warren, oat Of Me- tomorrow ksonville, en} IN is] attendance} 2°t a success and that they could to} SPRINGS. TO. ATTEND FUN- ERAL OF ERNEST MERES i|__ Mrs. Clem,C.;, Price and son | Walter left on the, Steamship Cuba yesterday for Tampa, ac- companying the body of Ern fleres, father of Mrs. Price, | which is being taken to the home at Tarpon Springs, for funeral ervices and interment. Mr, Meres died Monday morn- ing on the Steamship Cuba while coming on a visit with his daugh- ter and the family. The was prepared for burial by the Lopez Funeral Home. Mrs. Price and son will return left over the highway yesterday morning and after attending the services will leave Tarpon Springs | for Key West. | OLD COPLE SEPARATE I | SALT LAKE CITY.—Declar- ing that marriage at their age was be more contented apart, Martin _| Van Buren Reeves, 103 and Mrs. | Elizabeth Reeves, 96, of this city, | have separated, JUST RECEIVED FRESH STOCK OF WHITMAN’S CANDIES All Sizes body to Key West with Mr. Price who | JAMES LARRIMORE ps PARTY COMING | | | TO CITY FOR VISIT TO BE GUEST OF FREDERICK WAGNER ON YACHT PAULA LOUISE; WILL BE TAKEN OUT ON FISHING TRIP James executive secretary of the Miami Beach Rod and Reel Club, and Mrs. Larrimore, ing by plane from Miami and will jbe week-end guests of Frederick { Wagner, on his Yacht Paula Louise. Atriving also to be a guest of Mr, Wagner will be Earl Carroll, of Vanities fame, and owner of Palm Island. He was a guest of Mr. Wagner last year to spend the week-end instead of a day. Immediately after the arrival of the plane the aprty will board the Paula Louise and proceed to ; Marquesas for the fishing which Mr. Wagner declares without fear of contradiction surpasses that in any other section of the world. This, coming from a a man whos? experience has not been confined member of the and Reel club with a closed mem- , bership of 400, largest in the world, comprising anglers from many sections of the world, is a statement which has never been contrav d. He recently established a club record for permit, that game 1 ! species of pompano and a hard| fighter, by taking one weighing j 22 pounds 13 ounces on a 3-6 jtackle. He has also caught many other large gamey fighters. at Marquesas. It is this kind of fishing which Secretary Larrimore, and Mrs. Larrimore will be introduced to | on theid trip to Marquesas for the week-end with Mr. Wagner. PROGRESS SHOWN | IN PROGRAM OF |. BEAUTIFICATION TREE-BOXES ARE PLACED ALONG SIDEWALK BORDER- ING NAVAL STATION ON WHITEHEAD STREET Not only is the program of beautification at the naval station, under the direction of Lieutenant Wm. Klaus, U. S. N., offieer in charge, showing evidences of, great progress, but the sidewalk along Whitehead street on the naval station side is also coming within the scope of the program. For some time past artisans {have been constructing tree-boxes and yesterday 57 of these protec- tive inclosures were placed at in- tervals along the curbing for the | protection of a like number of ;Poincianas that were set out by. station forces. Lieutenant Klaus said today he | intends to do all possible to make {the naval station and surround- ings a place of allure for tourists: and visitors, and towards this end he is making excellent progress, *it is shown, ‘PLANE BRINGS IN | FIVE PASSENGERS | | FOUR LEFT ON AIRCRAFT YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ENROUTE TO MIAMI | Plane of the Pan American Air- ways, one of the smaller Sikor- skys, commonly called a “Duck,” arrived this morning from Miami and landed at the field adjacent to the boulevard. There were five passengers on the plane as follows: W. R. Ken- an, Benjamin Alexander, Borthman, Marion Blaine, Cleore Johnson. Departures yesterday were: Larri-| Mr. Pynchon and Mr. Orr came more, will arrive tomorrow morn-; wrote a comprehensive and de- a widely advertised night club on} to these waters and a; iami Beach Rod! All! i ~The Bey West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1936. ! i ! P. Moran, proprietor of Hotel | Royal Palm in Havana, and mem- ber of various economic, and so- icial organizations in Cuba, has written an analytical criticism of the report made to United States court by Seott M. Loftin and W. R. Kenan, co-receivers of the Florida East Coast Railway, a i copy of which was received by the ;Monroe county commissioners. Mr. Moran several months ago j i i j tailed appeal to the court setting | torth the needs of Cuba and Key , West relative to rebuilding the jroad. This was published in The ' Citizen of Wednesday, January 1. | Herewith is his letter to Mr. ; Loftin: “February 1, 1936| j “Mr. Scott M. Loftin, co-receiver, “Florida East Coast RR., “Jacksonville, Fla., | Dear Mr. ‘Leftin: “In my former communication |to you, under date of December | 4, 1935, I stated reasons why the | Florida East Coast Railroad should {not be abandoned. The interest of the Cuban people in this mat- ter is not to be doubted when a matter of such vital importance ;confronts them. My previous statements hold the same basic facts now as then. We business people of Havana know what it farther away with outlets to oth- er ports. “We are writing you again be cause we have just received 2} copy of Document 504, Final Re- port, ete. This report is a great surprise, in that it is a double- barreled affair, (a) A statement of hurricane damage, presumably; (b) A plea to abandon said rail- road, by suggesting the course of action, desired by the said esr- poration, te the honorable judge of your federal court. “The material covered by said report is very thoroughly in one clear effort to show the lack ef profits to your railroad and the failure of the company to con-| duct its business to a satisfactory end, for the stockholders. The many false claims and insinua- tions against the City of Keyj West, and reference to Cuban re- lations with said city, leads me to “submit for your consideration what those, who prepared said re- port, kept covered up or refused to furnish you. Your affidavit} thereto says ‘that he has read the foregoing atid knows the contents thereof and that the same are true to the best of his knowledge and belief.’ We do not believe you would swear thus if you had the facts at the time, which con- i P. MORAN WRITES CRITICISM OF REPORT-MADE TO UNITED STATES . COURT: BY RAILROAD OFFICIALS) “BEGIN ON FRIDAY ernment, as they can provide the means through the many agen- cies at hand? “Paragraph 6-11: ‘In re cost of building.’ Suffice it to say that responsible bidders are at hand who will rebuild damaged portions of the railroad estimated in your report value at one and eight tenths millions and two and 94) hundredths millions, for the amount of one half million det- lars. “Paragraph 10: tion exists between the present rebuilding and the earlier costs of damage? This reference nei- ther adds to nor detracts from the said RR to Key West and the benefits to be derived by your people. If federal aid is needed to support this benefit to your people is it no less valuable than that other public buildings which all the people pay for? After all it is the people’s property which furnishes the revenue base for taxation. Corporations serve the public by delegated powers derived from the consent What connec- of the governed. If the corpora-| tions were properly controlled, for the benefit of the public, in- stead .of- granted special priv- ileges, the profits should not be so great on account of the money invested. “Paragraphs 12:16: It is true means, perhaps more than others) that competition has crept in and; due to the depression there has been a noticeable fall in all lines of business. This ought not to be held as the fault of Key West or lack of business from Cuba. the other hard, we must advise; that with the present reciprocity treaties between our Island Re- public and the United States, there is to be greater business than ever sprung up. The tourist business from the states to Cuba has not been crippled because of internal strife in Cuba, but be- cause of lack of money in the states, for the support of touring. In the argument in Paragraph 13 presented, the effect on the sit- uation in Key West is hard to see, if it ever would have come through that port. Also the shrinkage noted in Paragraph 14, is admitted, but why the falling off? The business in the United States fell from 105 billions dur- ing the same period to about half that amount, and every railroad lost business in the same time but they still had the same overhead. In Paragraph 15, it is hard to see just how the I. C. C. rulings would militate against the outlet of goods shipped from Havana to Key West, which will give at least 10 hours quicker delivery than is possible now. merely ! On. | BUS SERVICE WILL | - " FIRST VEHICLE WILL LEAVE THIS CITY 6:45 ON FRIDAY MORNING ENROUTE TO; NO NAME KEY HAUPTMANN RESENTENCED. (By Associated Press) TRENTON, N. J. Feb- ruary 19.—Judge Trenchard today resentenced Brune Richard Hauptmann to be electrocuted for the kidmap- murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. The date for the executiof was set for the week commeicing March 30. Twenty-four hours before the murderer of the Lindbergh baby was to expiate his crime im the electric chair, Gover- nor Hoffman granted the prisoner a reprieve which ¢x- pired last week. | Highway bus service by the} | Florida Motor Lines will be in- ; sugurated at Key West and M } | ami Friday morning, the bus start-| ing from this end for No Name! Key at 6:45 o'clock. ; This was announced this after- noon by Franklin E. Albert, FERA | jexecutive officer at Key W jwho received a telegram to thi 1 effect from T. B. Osteen, traffic manager of Florida Motor Lines in Miami. The question of bus service be- tween Key West and Miami has been discussed for the past sev- eral months, and Mr. Albert has \been trying to get the service in operation as soon as possible. He states he wes very much | ‘ SERVE SENTENCES IN LIEU OF: gratified to receive the informa-j tion of bus service starting, which | follows the long period of cor-; ROBERTS AND OCHANDERENA respondence and telephone con-; versations, | RELEASED AFTER TWENTY- The bus will arrive tomorrow | FOUR HOURS afternoon and Friday morning} start service. It will be one eh the smaller vehicles of the com- pany and operate between Key, West and No Name Key ferry, slip. } There passengers and baggage will be transferred to the ferry and arriving at Matecumbe will) {find a bus awaiting them for the; fe : { trip to Miami. {board in spraying the This service will continue, it is their premises, choose said, unti] the new ferries are put: sentence of 24 hours in service when the buses will jain rather than pay a fine of $10, | i j | | Merlin Roberts, who was last week adjudged guilty of contempt; of court by disobeying the junction which enjoined him and others, from interfering with the activities of the state plant trees to in on serve county make through trips between Key}. imposed by Judge Jefferson B. West and Miami. iSisoun: ee He was joined in his decision § ANDS’ FUNERAL by Sullie Ochandarena, who was, tried Monday on a like charge and! was yesterday sentenced to pay ®! ~ HERE TOMORROW tie sic x"scrve 24 tours ie county jail. They both started/ oe sentence yesterday at noon and! Funeral services for Harry/ were released at noon today. Sands, who died 4 o'clock yes-) iMr. and Mrs. Wilson Lowe, of terday morning in his home on, 822 Francis street, appeared be-| Virginia street, will be held to-|4aw Judge Browne this morning. morrow afternoon. ; They were summoned also to an- Rev. J. B. Culpepper will offi-|swer to charges of contempt in ciate at the services which are to! disobeying the injunction. Judge: be held 4:30 o'clock at the chapel Browne reserved decision until] ; of the Lopez Funeral home. tomorrow. ENGINEERS PERFECT PLANS FOR CITY WITH MOVING SIDEWALKS it range ef only Militia; Await Call Te Arms National Guard System Is Converted inte Stands Army With One Milken Men In Readiness By JOHN LLOYD (ty Aaeeninted Pewee MOSCOW, Feb. 19—ie ww of what the Soviet Union's bigt command sce. 2 2 Soreategeme = termatvena! ..tuat-on simest tac whole red “national guard” tem has bers stand ag army — converted inte = There now anc more than 600,000 mes under arms and ready to take the field om « mo ment’s notice im Eurepe or the Far East (Ye war + Tok conce force Huge War Budect Revealed BOY wor was annov Simce a be strength, « the Union v 500,000 m end of th The to used | ing the called “terr Of man 2 ealled up a The relat ing and territor most the were until the reorgar cent of the manen More Tarks and Planes Much me ing 19: force. been given of tanks alreacy reverse | they thousar # much-f soviet militar ment of planes. Thos. do not have trovert most of the claims made, no doubt in good faith. “Throughout the report from Article 1-26 there stands many facts which need no comment, “Paragraphs 17-20: It will be noted that from 1890 to 1900 the population of Key West reached over 17,000. The beginning of the extension in 1905 was deem- 1 | | NEW YORK, Feb. 19.—¥or ‘the “new city” which engineers | foresee soon, sidewalks that move, ; some starting and stopping, others (By Associated Press) passengers to enter and leave the local walk while similar gates would let them pass between local and express when stopped, and) pacity to vital cen most likely Soviet U Henry! and very briefly we will such numbered paragraphs as should be corrected, and such new {material withheld from the re- port. , “Paragraphs 4-5;21.— “In paragraph 5 you say ‘the same through schedule time. . as was formerly made through the Key West gateway’ the best possible steamer time is 21 hours to Havana through Port Ever- glades, five hours from Key West to Havana, six hours Key West to Miami. A difference of 10 hours in favor of the former method of transportation. You do | not say that the City of Miami is very anxious to have the terminal, instead of its being at Key West. Why is this given consideration? “Paragraph 5: ‘This service is at least as satisfactory as the for- mer service through Key West’. Have you ever asked any tourists the question? Do you give the different in travel time any con- sideration? “According to the conclusion of Paragraph 5, ‘except the actual difference in mileage revenue for the haul from. Miami ,to Key West, which is offset by saving in operation and maintenance of the Key West extension’. Why | | {te discontinue the F. E. C. from! ; Jacksonville to Miami? 1 “Paragraph 21: ‘Other forms} jof transportation between the j mainland and Key West.’ In keep- ing with this display of logical reasoning, why not discontinue the to be present at tomorrow’s| G ARDNER’S PHARMACY | Clarence Carter Nice, Calvin P.! railways the couhtry over or bet- luncheon in order that the record) will not be broken. Phone 177 THIRSTY? TIRED? IF YOURE ONE OF THESE, DROP IN AND REFRESH YOURSELF WITH | ence Janks. Free Delivery Bentley, Ward Janks and Flor-|ter still, why not just surrender’ your franchise to the federal gov- cover, ed advisable and was not complet-| never stopping their 15-mile-an- Red the walks synchronized speeds. ree ed until late in 1916. Most of the extension, claimed as so Vv heavy a burden of upkeep, was completed after the chief indus- tries left. The change in trade re- lations caused most of the slump in business relations, but since the reciprocity, mentioned above, is in force, the former business will be resumed. Tourists will in- crease in ever larger numbers as the “hard times” leave under the New Deal, and #f Paragraph 21 states the truth, the fact that oth- er more expensive travel finds it profitable to carry passengers to Key West, why will not the F. E.} C. RY. reap the benefits of those by carrying them to Key West? We might go on indefinitely mak- ing statements for the purpose of creating suggestions as to the fu- ture possibilities, but everything considered we know mere state- ments do not make truth nor strengthen argument. Opinions without facts to support them, or half facts, fall in line with mis- representation. “The literature published’ and spread broadcast as to the ravag- ing beauty and scenie grandeur of nature along this Key’s route does not do justice to the real’ beauty company’s} wouldn’t it not be better business; as enjoyed by the people who have traveled over it in the past years. Either the F. E. C. did advertise this as the most wonderful stretch of sightseeing, or it did not. If it did so inform its patrons as to this magnificent trip, it was ei- ther a stretch of the imagination or it was the real truth. We can testify to the accuracy of the (Continued on Page Four) | i There would be seats on the ex- press platform; none on the local. The express would seat 4,000 per- sons per mile, or 68,000 persons’ past a given point per hour. With! standing permitted Mr. Storer] estimates the express as carrying 165,000 an hour past the point. | He says the biway, as a subway, | hour rush, have been perfected in’ ‘a plan by electrical engineers. i Moving sidewalks in the past ‘have come close to adoption in | greater New York. The new plans,’ jelectrical engineers think, will go lover the top because they wil] be j cheaper than subways to operate, i quieter, easier of access, letting! | passengers on and off every 42 would cost to construct $3,500, seconds and every 400 feet. | 000 to $4,500,000 a mile. With a! | The plans call for a double side-' five cent fare it would pay operat-| iwalk, a “biway.” one walk beside; ing ‘costs jand jinterest carrying | | and parallel to the other, one a; “only 79,000 passengers daily.” jlocal starts and stops, the com-! Central Station Control | panion walk an express that never! The walks would be in sections, articulated like streamlined trains. Stationary motors un-! derneath the walks would drive; them. The adhesion driving meth- od would be used, that is, the mo- tors would have wheels fixed on istops. As described by N. W.: | Storer, of the Westinghouse com- pany to the Aimerican In: of Electrical Engineers, thi: way would run in subways, or on one of the multiple traffic levels / of the expected new city. j their heads, whose friction would}! Would Synchronize | push an endless rail bolted to the Electric energy which swings! bottom of the platform. to and fro like a pendulum makes; A central station, Mr. Storer the express walk possible. The; says, could contro] this drive to loeal walk would move from stop' speed up or slow down the walks to nearly 12 miles an hour and. to meet traffic conditions. Pres- stop again every 41 seconds. {ent jams of passengers would be Alongside it the rushing ex-: eliminated, he thinks, because press, averaging nearly 15 miles! there would be so many more an hour, would travel at swinging: places for entry and exit. speeds, ranging from 16 miles! Emergency buttons would stop down to 12%. Its’ slow speed! the system iti case of trouble. would synchronize with the fast’ JUNIOR WOMAN'S CLUB motion of the local alongside. BENEFIT But this starting and stopping, Thursday, 3 till 5 p. m e Power, ugh the’ pendulum swing, or interchange| 'WOMAN’S ee of kinetic energy of the platforms’ For Reservations 7 Call 50-W Automatic gates would permit} Germany an Aries. Decisior big Soviet taken, they have cause of thr Japanese orig Army Is Vast School Compulsory gives the L ply of recruit is spending | tional work the perio. deseribed a: schooling t for life as A 60 per « r been promised t year and & the country and remod military ion a JAMES OGDEN IS BROUGHT HERE TAKEN OFF SHIP AND TRANS- PORTED ON PLANE: CAR- RIED TO HOSPITAL James Ogden, member of the personne! of the U Dale, was brought to the city last night in a Coast Guard plane and taken to the Marine hospital. The plane was in port awaiting instructions to leave when the call came. It left in command of Lieutenant Erickson, for Tortugas where the Dale was lying. AN ICE COLD BOTTLE OF WAGNER BEER. FACA 22RBB80