The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 22, 1936, Page 1

————$— $$ Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 46. CUBAN GUNBOATS DUE TO ARRIVE HERE TOMORROW | MANY HIGH OFFICIALS FROM| HAVANA COMING FOR CELE- BRATION OF LA SEMANA ALEGRE BRUCE RAE GIVES CITY BIG BOOST Bruce Rae, night city edi- tor of the New York Times, who arrived this week with Mrs, Rae for a vacation, has made the discovery which more than any othér thing has made friends, for this city. Strangers who come to Key West find in a brief time they become Key West- ers. Those who go to other cities, rémain’ visitors. Truth in a conch shell as it were. Gunboats of the Cuban Navy| will arrive here tomorrow morn-j ing shortly after daybreak with high officials and dignitaries} from Cuba aboard to participate | \ POPPI IPO a a ID Is in Key West’s annual celebration | ree — of “La Semana Alegre” or The MRS, R. WCAW 10 Week of Joy. which opens tomor- fe BNe row. Berardo Rodriguez Valdez, Cuban consul here, was advised | | ARRIVE NEXT WEEK lof federal, state, county and mu-! this morning that the boats were leaving Havana ‘onight for the| CQMING FOR: RESTIVITIES IN said today. trip northward, and that they would arrive about daybreak to- morrow. Meanwhile, final preparations for receiving the visitors and en- tertaining them were worked out last night during a meeting held in San Carlos Institute, attended by members of a joint committee | representing the various Cuban orgenizations here, and by repre- sentatives of the Key West Ad- ministration. The Cuban consul attended the session. The drum and bugle corps of the local post of the American Legion will be on hand tomorrow morning to play while the Cuban officials disembark from the gun- boats upon their arrival, and rep-} resentatives of the various Cuban organizations, of the City of Key West. and of the local office of the WPA also will be there to of- ficially greet the visitors. Among those coming are Com- mander U. Franco Granero, chief of the military unit at the Presi- dential palace, personally repre- senting the President of Cuba; Dr. Teodoro Cardenal and E. Gomez, representing Cuban Emi grados Revolucionarios; —_Elizio Perez, Antonio _ Bardesuarez, Francisco Rivero. ~ Dr.” Andres Terry, head of the revolutionary ‘emigrants, will arrive Tuesday. Tomorrow night a ball will be staged at the Cuban Club honor- ing the visitors. The official opening of “La Semana Alegre” will take place) tomorrow afternoon. starting at 3 o’clock, when the Key West Botanical Garden, a WPA _pro-} It! ject, will be formally opened. is located at Stock Island, im- mediately adjacent to the Muni- cipal Golf Course. More than 100 varieties of tropical flora have been planted there to en- hance the beauty of the spot. With the arrival of the Marine baseball team, and a_ basketball team from Tous Academy in Ha- vana, athletic events will begin Monday afternoon at 3 when a baseball game will be staged at the Navy Ball Field. At 5 o’clock a basketball game will be played at the high school gym- nasium, and Monday night, be- ginning at 7:30 P. M., the velada, or ceremonies, will be held at San Carlos Institute, commemorating the anniversary of Cuban Inde- pendence Day, El Grito de Baire, which is being celebrated all of Monday. The Cuban gunboats are ex- pected to remain here until Wed- nesday or Thursday, and may stay throughout the remainder of the week, with the officials join- ing in the celebration of Semana Alegre.” GABRIEL LOW: AND WIFE COME HERE Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel L. Lowe were arrivals last evening over the highway, having been called here} owing to the illness of Mrs. Lowe’s brother, Roy Canfield. BREAKS DOOR PANEL MATTOON, Ill.—Intoxicated by moonshine, Herman Gloron of this city, called on a girl and butted his head through a door in. WASHINGTON’S BIRTHRAY BALL Tonite, 10 till 3 HABANA-MADRID CLUB Dell Woods’ Orchestra ‘ADMISSION .... | o'clock | “Lal CONNECTION WITH SE- MANA ALEGRE Mrs. Raymond MéCaw, wife of Night Managing Editor of the New York Times, will arrive from Mi- ‘ami early next week accom- panied by Mrs. Mary Payton and sister, Mrs. Nellie Morris. While here for La Semana Alegre, Mrs. McCaw will be the guest of Mrs. Peyton and Mrs. ; Morris and their sister, Miss Jen- | nie Seymour, at the old family | home on Elizabeth street. Mr. and Mrs, Edward Bodine are due to arrive Monday morning jane will be guests of Mrs. Bo- {dine’s mother, Mrs. D. A. Printz, 'at her apartments on Fleming street. PIRATES COVE CAMP NOT ; Many rare specimens are now being caught at Pirates Cove Fishing Catnp. Dr. Robert Seifert of Philadel- ia brought in an African Pom- ; pano—the third of that variety jtaken in these waters, in five years. It is a very rare and beau- tiful fish, silvery blue in color, with a very thin skin and small jscales. The African Pompano puts up a fight equal to that of a Bone fish. The fish was presented to Pi- rates Cove, and is being mounted by Cecil Gray, taxidermist of Key West, to hang in the Lodge with the other fine specimens there. Dr. Seifert is an old patron of Pirates Cove, and never loses a day on the water, no matter what the weather may be. Recently he ran into a school of King fish. and brought to camp seventy-five |_most of them carried by his guide, “Braw” Saunders, to Key West for distribution. Dr. Seifert hooked seven Sail- fish last week; but, unfortunately, lost them all. He says, however, he will accomplish the feat of landing one before he departs for Philadelphia. Bishop A. C. Thomas of Vir- ginia has also been having a fine time fishing, bringing in an 85- pound Amberjack (Seriola lalan- di), King fish, Bonita, Dolphin, and a number of Jack Crevalle. R. G. Munroe, E, H. Kendall. and G. M. Phelps, Jr., of New York, have arrived, and are fish. ing for Tarpon, bringing one to camp so far. Mrs, Harry Hector and her daughter, Emily, from Miami spent the week-end at Pirates i Cove, and enjoyea@ some fine | fishing, catching a large Tuna. hooking a Sail fish, and bringing in a number of King fish and Dolphin. } Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Daugherty jof St. Paul have been guests at | Pirates Cove for a week, and are enjoying: a rest, and fishing, after panel when she refused to “a the rigorous climate of St. Paul:| Dr. and Mrs. A. W. George of Boston, well known sportsmen, are recent arrivals for a stay of some weeks, Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Galloway, Mr. and Mrs. Jno. R. Ranman of New York, and Dr. and Mrs. D. 2 $1.09 W. Rosi of Detroit, are all ardent jfishermen at Pirates Cove. EVERYBODY'S DRINKING WAGNER BEER. MEN LIKE IT BECAUSE IT SATISFIES AND HITS THE SPOT. LADIES LIKE IT BECAUSE IT’S MILD AND MELLOW | department’s | | The Kep KEY WEST, FLORIDA, eae a eee eH s\TREADWAY MAKES |PRIVATE H. JONES |HOLIDAY EVENT ae ® mm SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1936. |CITES RULES AS REPORT COVERING | TAKEN TO — OBSERVED TODAY) TO REGISTRATION AVIATION UNITS: HEAD OF STATE ROAD DE- PARTMENT GIVES ACCOUNT; OF VARIOUS FACILITIES| NOW! IN USE (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Feb. Aviation state, established under vision of the Fiorida state department, have reached a to- tal expenditure of $3,194,779.85 | 22—' in the super-} road | improvements | nicipal money, Chairman C. B.! Treadway of the road department | Since the establishment of the; aviation _division| April 15 1933, Treadway said, aviation facilities have been in-' creased from 22 landing fields} suitable for modern planes use to! 136 usable airports in the state. Total expenditure on airport improvementd by all governmental agencies was $2.409,214.85 up to December 15, 1935. In addition to airport improve- ments a statewide system of air marking has been developed to include painting names of towns on the roofs of approximately 500 large buildings over the state and the erection of several thou- sand roddside directional markers along the highways for direction} of automobile traffic to airports. This airmarking cost $49,611 to the end of 1935. The federal government has al- lotted $635,955 for 43 active WPA projects on airports in the state, which had not been ex- pended at the first of the year, Treadway said. Another aviation development) includes the establishment of a statewide network of radio sta- tions, for purpose of broadcast- ing weather information to avia- tors and patrolmen of the depart- ment’s traffic enforcement di- vision, Treadway stated. RICHARD CHILDS ON VISIT HERE ACCOMPANIED BY THOMAS RAY; BOTH MEMBERS OF MORTGAGE COMPANY Richard Childs, president of the Monroe Bond’ and Mortgage Com- pany, and Thomas Ray, also of the company, arrived by plane this morning and are guests at {the Casa Marina. | Mr. Childs comes to look over the company’s extensive holdings in the city. He and Mr. Ray ex- pect to remain until next Thurs- day. /FOREIGN COUNCIL DIRECTOR FAILED IN HISTORY ONCE (Ny Associated Press) CLEVELAND, Feb. 22.—When Brooks Emeny was a boy in Salem, O., 15 years ago, he failed in history and geography courses in high school, (Now he is educational ctecela| jof the Foreign Affairs Council} here, and one of the most sought; jafter commentators on foreign] affairs. The trouble with history in the |old days, he says, was not in the] jsubject matter, but in the way j teachers offered it. It’s still true {to an extent, he says. ; “The subjects frankly bored me,” he explains. “As in so many. schools, they were dry because they were taught on a basis of facts and not of interpretation.’ That’s the trouble. We have set up scholarship on a basis of memorizing. We don’t teach pupils to think.” | MARRIES BROTHERS = | aa ' WOODLAND, Calif—As a young woman, Mrs. Etta Richard- son, of this city, became the bride of Geo. Richardson, and after he died she married his brother, Al- fred, and when he died she mar-. ried his other brother, John. | | | jattended to in the county, TO BE GIVEN COURT MAR-}KEY WEST QUIETLY CELE-! TIAL ON CHARGE OF STEALING PAINT Henry I. Jones, private at Key West barracks, was a passenger on the S. S. Cuba yesterday aft- ernoon being taken by Corporal j J. V. Wharton to Fort Sereven,iticn of the anniversary Ga., to be trféd by general court ; martial on a charge of stealing ' paint from the barracks, ‘it was said. Theft of the paint was discov- ered some weeks ago. The matter} others sunbathing at Rest Beach, was reported to the sheriff’s of- Search warrants were se- cured and the paint was found. On being charged with the theft arraigned’ before | Peace Justice Gomez, Jones ad- fices. when he was mitted his guilt. After certain formalities were the FRANCIS DUCKETT ARRIVES IN CITY WORKING ON SOUND APPARA-’ TUS IN PRODUCTION OF OPERETTA Francis Duckett, of Miami, was last evening and today is working on other in- | stalled for the production of the Penzance Tuesday an arrival over the highway and being the sound apparatus electrical equipment Pirates of night. Mr. Duckett says he is glad to with his many friends in Key West and of! is a and Mrs. Thos. Mrs: Duckett was, be- fore marriage, Miss Iris Pritch- get back for a_ visit number He expects to meet a them during his stay. son of Mr. Duekett. ard. P. CONWAY COMES HERE FOR VISIT P. J. Conway, of Pittston, Pa.. owner of considerable property inj Key West, atrived yesterday for) his regular visit and to meet his many friends. He made a courtesy visit The Citizen office this and said he was glad to get away {from the snow and ice in the north and enjoy some of West’s sunshine. day,” he said. MAN WHO FOUND $10 WOULD WORK IT OUT (By Associated Press) ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 22. —Page Diogenes, for un- doubtedly here is an honest man. Mrs. J. W. Clements, a {widow, lost a $10 bill in the local post office lobby and advertised for it in the lost- and-fowaid column of a news- paper. Harold N. Pinkham, who lives in Macon, 95 miles from liere, promptly replied: “I found the money, but have spent most of it for food and clothing, since I have been out of a job for five years, but I'll come to Atlanta and work the money out.” GET TICKETS TODAY ¢ —for— “PIRATES OF PENZANCE” Navy Ball Field TUESDAY NIGHT, 8:15 A Better Performance Than Last Year Tickets: $1. ‘ nee ON SALE AT: Casa Ma- rina, Key West Drug Com- pany, Page’s Soda Fountain, Key West Colonial, Paul” Club, Over-Sea Hotel, Admin istration Building. IN VOTING HERE SUPERVISOR EXPLAINS PRO- CEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED BY ELECTORS TO BECOME FULLY QUALIFIED BRATES GEORGE WASH- INGTON’S BIRTHDAY With cloudless skies and a “ perature of 66, Key West is, as usual, enjoying a quiet caer of the . : . Liv of Gacige Washingtah | During the preelection period rane K °n-\there are a number of questions f 3 ore and ey Westers always arising as to certain things were today spending the hours at }to be done by electors to insure the beach, some in the water, and | their being qualified John England, supervisor of near thi A ne ne cabanay registration for Monroe county, Being Saturday, most of the business places remained this morning, and merchants will! | was asked a few of these ques- ©PeN | tions by The Citizen, which are st Citizen Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Hastening Of Adjournment Hints New Deal Campaign Will Be Based On Record (JSS ELE LL Ld Being Put Forth In MUCH PRAISE IS Matter Places Many Dif- GIVEN KEY WEST i et | ferent Angles On Politi- “We newspaper must make Detroiters Key cal Situation West conscious, and them what a winter's tion in this wonderful city means. You will be safe in saying that next year there will be as many visitors from Detroit as there are from other states now.” | | j tell vaca- i | By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Burean, The Sasocinted Press Washingtes) The current effort to haste= { the adjournment of congress has to morning! Key; “It’s a glorious | | keep their places open during the usual hours. Offices of corporations are lelosed this afternoon. City hall, court house and First National Bank were closed during the day. Gcvernmental units are inactive peRceDy the postoffice, where em- ployes this afternoon attended to dispatching of mails for the out- coming mails. One delivery was {made but all windows, stamp, reg- istered letter and money order, | were closed at 10 o’clock. ‘CUBA BRINGS IN 195 PASSENGERS VESSEL LEFT DURING AFTER- NOON FOR TAMPA WITH 198 PASSENGERS Steamship Cuba of the P. and O. S.:S. company srrived from Havana yesterday afternoon, with 12 first and eight. second cl: passengers for Key West, 86 first for St. Petersburg, 85 first and four second class for Tampa. The vessel sailed 5:30 o'clock with 198 passengers, 23 taking passage for Tampa and St. Pe- tersburg at Key West. Power Boat C. W. Powers, of | the Over-Sea Transportation com- pany, arrived from Miami and in- termediate points this morning with consignments of freight. Freighter Ozark, of the Clyde- Mallory Lines, arrived yesterday from Jacksonville and Miami at {11 o’clock and sailed 1:15 o'clock The vessel ‘for New Orleans. | brought heavy cargo. | Steamship Brazos, of the same lines, arrived 8:15 o'clock last night and sailed 5:45 o’clock this morning for New York with ship- ments of sea food products. live turtles, 68 crates of raised on Trumbo Island, sponges in bales and miscellaneous cargo. PLANE BRINGS | sinieeenain SUNDAY PLANE: SERVICE TO BE DOUBLED FOR FOUR DAYS the Sikorsky type commonly call- ed “Ducks,” arrived this morning the the from Miami and landed at Pan American field near boulevard. There were four passengers ar- riving as follows: Pauline Hem- ingway, Richard Childs, Thomas Ray, Theodora Lynch. Beginning tomorrow plane service will be doubled, two of the j Commodore planes making round j trips daily up to and Wednesday between Miami | Key West. and ANNOUNCEMENT— PLAZA CAFE 503 Duval Street Now operated by Mrs. Nora Bethancourt Serving Regular Meals, Short Orders * Spanish and American Cooking EL ee | é going plane and distribution of in-! tomatoes | 4 PASSENGERS One of the smaller planes, of including explained in the following: Changing party affiliation: Any elector who wished to: change party affiliations, must do so at least 60 days prior to holding of the first primary. Married women electors: woman elector who by marriage or divorce has changed her name since registering mugt notify the supervisor of registration. | Changing precincts: Any elec- 'tor who has moved from the pre- cinct in which he or she was reg- | istered must see the supervisor of registration and get a_ transfer certificate. The law is very strict about living in one precinct and voting in another. Legal residents state or county: dent of Monroe county who is living outside of the state or county and has never registered. may now do so by making appli- cation to the supervisor for proper form for absent registration. Mr. England said he would urge all electors whq are in need of in- formation on subjects in connec- tion with these matters or others relative to voting, to see him at his home, 912 Southard street, at any time before April 6, and he living outside @8$} will gladly serve them. BARTLETTS TO LEAVE MONDAY NGTED SURGEON AND WIFE) 7 S. Caro appeared before the| ENJOY VISIT SPENT IN KEY WEST Dr. and Mrs. Willard Bartlett, who have been spending a six weeks’ visit in Key West, plan to leave on Monday enroute to their home in St. Louis, Mo. Dr. Bartlett is one of the dis- tinguished surgeons of the coun- try, and is an associate ‘in the surgical department of Washing- ton University. He is also the author of num- | erous works of surgery in which fields he has made important con- tributions that bear his name. ! Dr. Bartlett is engaged in priv- {ate practice cf surgery in St. | Louis in which two sons are asso- ciated with him. The visitors expressed them- selves as having thoroughly en- joyed their stay in Key West, and hope to-return next winter. MISS D. LYNCH ARRIVED TODA WILL ASSIST IN REHEARSALS FOR STAGING PIRATES OF PENZANCE Miss Dorothea Lynch, state di- rector of WPA dramatic projects, was an arrival by plane this morning from Miami and was met by George White, director of the Pirates of Penzance. | (Miss Lynch will remain in Key ; West for the production and as- tsist in the final rehearsals of the ares and Sullivan comic opera. 3 Membership Dance Sunday, Feb. 23, 9 till ? CUBAN CLUB Pritchard’s Orchestra | Any| Any legal resi-{ This was a parting state- ment of S. L. A. Marshall, editor and resort writer for the Detroit News, who has been erjoying a vacation im Key West with Mrs. Marshall. They arrived about one month ago. Mr. Marshall left yester- day afternoon on the Cuba for Tampa en route to De- main for a longer vacation. Sai IIeL£. TO REQUEST IN SPRAYING ISSUE SECRETARY TO GOVERNOR LS CHIEF EXECUTIVE | WILL NOT BE JUSTIFIED IN INTERFERING WITH WORK ' Governor Sholtz will not be justified in interfering im the matter of state plant board activi- ‘ties in Key West, is the belief of | his secretary, J. P. Newell. 14, @ Friday night, February group of citizens with Attorney county commissioners and plead- ed with that body to take some steps toward having the activities of the board’s representatives conducted along lines less dan- gerous to fruit and foliage. A number of citizens addressed the board, including Attorney Care, Chester Thompson, Sam Hart and Cleveland Roberts, all of whom made impassioned ad- dresses relative to the matter at issue. At the conclusion Attorney William V. Albury, representing the board, asked Mr. Caro what request or suggestion was to be made to the governor. Mr. Caro replied that he thought it would be the proper thing to ask the governor to send some person to Key West to investigate the situa- tion and hold an open hearing on the matter. He felt this would get results. Accordingly the telegram wast drawn up by Mr. Albury and the} same night sent to Tallahassee. The reply, received by Mr. | Bervaldi this week, was sent by the governor’s secretary to the ef- | fect that the telegram would be | presented to the governor upon his , return. “I am advised, however.” the letter continues, “that the activi- ‘ties of the plant bosrd about ! which complaint is made has been | made the subject of litigation in j Your circuit court and that im junction has been granted against | interference with the board’s work from which an appeal has been taken to the supreme court. “Under these cireumstances I \ believe the governor would not : feel justified im interfering in the matter at least until the case is decided in the supreme court.” WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY | RAUL’S CLUB | Pritchard’s Orchestra | may prove of first-rate import- | | "ag on the depression to re- Broadly, Mr. Roosevelt now has a choice between two courses of political action. He can plunge into a new series of bold experi- ments on the eve of the reelection dramatic | capture some of the momentum | of his earlier days im the White | tense. Or he cam rest on the | record as it stands. | His opening addres jent seas / tigating his politi- je! enemies and announcing there i would be mo retreat, was mter | preted widely forecasting lanother tense period ef creative ington. Rightly or wrongly, when he said he would ‘not retreat, many beliewed | meant he imtended to advance. j Subsequent «vents have led to je reconsidczation of that fereeas— jf administration pressure for jearly adjournment is taken at its s te the pres- m, c® as letfort at Was face value, it can mean only that the President is willing to go to |the country on the ples that be has done all he could to recovery, and is confident his ef- forts have succeeded / Few Legislatwe Requests | To realize the unusual char- acter of the present legislative situation it necessary only to compare it with what bas gone ' before. j Almost from been customar, lay on the doc even in norma legisiat:ve proposals. It is no tax om the memory recall how, im each Roosevelt congresses, t was accelerated so greatly requests for major legisiaten fel- lowed one another im breath-tak- ing procession , In contrast, may almost be said that Mr. Roosevelt has asked nothing of the present session. He {made one or two very general [suggestions im his annual mes ‘sage. He recommended inter the ;Fepeal of the cotton, tobacce and potato statutes, after everyone already regarded those statute: as | dead letters. Indirectly, and or formally, he bas asked that jsomething be done to replace | AAA. but 2 new farm act was in- | evitable without brs recommends :tieon. He indicated, also mdirect- | iy. thet a restricted tax bill should be passed to replace the |processing tax. His neutrality measure. once regarded as shout }the only prime sdministratics proposal. appears have beco laid aside without protest. * Significant Date? Nothing more is beard of sew NRA, although the President bew- \self mentioned such 2 prospect | several months age. An early ad jourument would mear that a0 legisiative recourse would be at jhand should other “new deal” laws now im the courts be = validated. For all of this there must be some special reason. It mdicates, for the time being ot “eat 2 large-scale change of legwiative . The cause mey oom hidden for weeks = the political fog, but some politicians think they can guess what * = — the frst, & has for Prendents to ot aot offically to