The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 29, 1936, Page 1

a Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 52. Plan Establishment Of Memorial To Dr. Mudd Proposed Bill For Erection Of Tablet Now Under Consideration By House Of Representatives By PAUL MAY (Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 29. —Establishment of a memorial to Dr. Samuel Alexander Mudd, in the form of a tablet to be erected in the ruins of Fort Jefferson, is proposed by a bill now under con- sideration by the House of Repre- sentatives, Sponsored by Representative Jennings Randolph, of West Vir- gi the bill seeks to honor Dr. Mudd because of his yellow-fever sufferers on the Am- “Devil’s Island,” service to erican his unjust incarceration there. Dr. Mudd is the physician who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Abra- ham Lincoln. He was committed to the Dry Tortugas penal colony for his aid to the assassin, but was pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, after four years, when an investigation proved Booth had concealed his identity Mudd. from Dr. CUBA BRINGS IN 216 PASSENGERS VESSEL SAILS LATE IN AFT- ERNOON FOR TAMPA WITH 230 PASSENGERS ‘Steamship Cuba, of the P. and 0. S. S. arrived yes- terday afternoon Havana with nine first and five second class ngers for Key West; 136 first and three second for St. Petersburg; 61 first and two sec- company,, from ond for Tampa. Arrivals for Key West were Martin Moran, Fred Heron, Sam Hertzler, Frank Hutchinson, Flor- ence Hutchinson, Elmer Harry, Georgia Harry, Thomas Babour, John S. Huntington, Emerito Go- mez, Eulalia Tur Olga Tynes, Evelio Valdez, May Milmore, The Cuba sailed 6 o'clock for Tampa and St. Petersburg with 230 passengers, 28 taking passage at Key West. COAST GUARD PLANE ARRIVES Coast. Guard Plane arrived 5:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon in eommand of Lieutenant C. Clem- mers, and landed at the old navy ramp, on the northern side of the city. On the plane as a passenger was Captain R. S. Patter of the Unit- ed States Co and Geodetic Sur- vey, who is i!] and now a patient in the Marine hospital. D. WILLIAMS DIES IN MIAMI HOSPITAL News has been received in the city announcing the death of Douglas Williams, last night in a hospital at Miami. The deceased was stricken with ‘PROTEST AGAINST METHOD USED IN KILLING OF DOGS | CLAIMED MOST CRUEL WAY | SELECTED WHICH RESULTS IN GREAT SUFFERING AND LINGERING DEATH At Fort Jefferson| SII SSS SS 4 PRIZE PUMPKIN BEING DISPLAYED G. W. Sykes, of 1015 Windsor Lane, is today dis- playing his prize pumpkin and the blue ribbon, first. prize, presented at the Key West Flower Show. The fruit is one of the long variety, perfectly form- ed and weighs 17 pounds. Mr. Sykes says it is like Topsy in “Uncle Tgm’s Cabin” had no care nor at- tention but “just growed.” Ne hhck hh Le 1 { Those responsible*for the ruth-} | Ness killing of dogs in the cam-/ | i paign of extermination which has} { fy been carried on over a period of ; several wecks, have adopted the} |most eruel method imaginable, | ‘say some of those who have lost } pets. { The first of the @ogs which! SEMANA ALEGRE TO WITH BIG DANCE AT COUNTRY CLUB, Key Westers and visitors here tonight are bringing a full Week of Joy, or Semana Alegre, to a close with a gala Leap Year ball Key West Country Club is located. last on Stock Island where the Since Sunday morning. when three gunboats from Cuba arrived, there have been few min- night utes during the day and when something was not taking | place for the amusement and edi-| between local teams and fication of those participating in} La Semana Alegre. The second annual celebration, (GOMEZ TO RETAIN RECEIVES OFFICIAL NOTICE PIODELA AS CLERK | were killed were not valuable and i : their removal iment. Then several dogs of ex- cellent breed, some of them with | pedigrees, were kilied. Their own- 1 caused no com- during; jers naturally became indignant, ; OF HIS APPOINTMENT AS it was shown, and two of them} COUNTY JUDGE j sicians. j Autopsies the dead j showed that they came to their Gomez,! death from ground glass, which | d probably been enclosed in meat | and eaten by the animals , to succeed the late Judge Hugh’ could not be egested ard caused} {lingering and painful death. pet: Peace Justice Rogelio | | who was appointed county judge, had jn nors | | Gunn, as announced yesterday in = | The Citizen, today received * GIVES OPINION | ficial notification of his pppant | ment, fom Talatasee. | QN LAND DEEDS In a statement to The Citizen| today Mr. Gomez said he will re. MATTER DEALS WITH PROP- tain as his clerk J. G. Piodela,} | who has held the position for 10| ERTY CONVEYED TO ROAD i years, having been appcinted “ie DEPARTMENT by Judge Gunn in March, 1926. Early next week it is expected | ! the new county judge will comply seareiehts vee fee? \ TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 29.—! with all necessary Tequirements,| attorney General Cary D. Lan- take the oath of-ffice and as-) dis has advised Arthur Simpson, sume his judicial duties. (attorney for the state road de- This will be good news to 4 partment, that it is his interpreta- number of persons who for the past tion of the state documentary 20 days have been awaiting the: stamp tax law that deeds to Jand| appointment of a county judge in| conveyed to the road department i order that they may secure mar-\ foy yights-of-ways for highways} riage licenses. do not require that stamps be af- fixed. Simpson, in a request for an{ ; opinion from the attorney gen- | eral, said some of the lands thus; ; conveyed are grants, without any; price consideration, and the ques- tion had arisen in many coun- i | | MRS. J. ARIAS, 78 ‘DIED THIS MORNING 1 | | FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE | CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON | 1 it is my opinion that deeds to rights-of-ways which are accept- 'ed by the state road department jas gifts are not subject to the terms and provisions of the law,” | Landis wrote Simpson, STEAMER CEIBA ARRIVES HERE Steamship Ceiba, of the Stand-; ard Fruit and Steamship company, | arrived from Philadelphia 2 o’clock | this morning and after taking ¢ { Mrs. Josephine Thrift 8, died 11:10 o'clock this morn-| ing at the residence 1211 Watson) | street. Funeral service will be} | held 4:30 o’clock tomorrow after- ‘noon from the Pritchard Funeral | ;Home chapel. Rev. James S.! |Day, pastor of First Baptist: Church will officiate. | (Mrs: Arias is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Mervin Sterling,’ sue] oil at the Porter Dock com-' of Tavernier, Mrs. C. E.. Dexter P », ra| |and Ms. P. A. Knight. Two sons, | Pvt? ee v'dock. for Vera William and Loami Arias. Thir- Seer ; Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde-| teen grandchildren and ten great-| 3 * o % saci A Mallory Lines, arrived 4 o'clock Two sisters, Mrs.|this morning from Jacksonville Eliza Almyda and Mrs. James) sean and M Brady and one brother, Hezekiah! Sd, Miami. sischaried ere me aamet leans. Al ; Steamer Colorado, of the same ROTARIANS MAKE lines, is due to arrive tomorrow | from New York en route to Tam-} pa, ATTAIN ONE HUNDRED PER- | CENT ATTENDANCE AT SES. SOCIETY OF ARTS 7 | | ' | | iThe Society of the Four Arts of Palm Beach, has issued invi-| tations, one of which has been re- ceived by The Citizen, to attend! a Twentieth Century Exhibition | of Paintings, selected and sponsor- | d by the Museum of Modern! FEBRUARY { \ Key West Rotary Club broke! fall records last month by making a 100% attendance record forth | four meetings in February. Thi | drive was sponsored by the ai i had their pets examined by phy-\ | ministration, who came ! opera. jwhich revolves around February | 24, Cuban Independence Day, at- tracted a number of visitors from }the lower East Coast and West ; Coast of Florida, and many offi- | cials in nation? agencies in Wash- jington. Among these were Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff, national director of the Federal Music Project, part of the Works Progress Ad- to Key Wiest particularly to see the open- ir staging last Tuesday night of The Pirates of Penzance.” He and others went away prais- ing highly the beauty of the pro- duction and the finish with which the group here presented the difficult arias and dramatization of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic It had been produced un- i der the supervision of the unit of the Federal Music Pro- ject, and more than 2,000 per- local | be Kev West Citen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1936. W. H. PIERCE OF LIGHTHOUSE DEPT. | } CLOSE TONIGHT ; sons sat through the performance. | | For three days the annual trop- \ical flower show of the Key West; ; Garden Club was in progress and| the exhibit of strange tropicali flowers attracted visitors from more than.a score of northern states. The Key West Botanical Garden, brought into creation by the Works Progress Administra-} | LEAVES POST ON PENSION: AT AGE OF SEVENTY; COM-| PLETES TWENTY - NINE! YEARS OF SERVICE | | almost tion, also was formally opened = e i ae sack. Y opencs'| WW. H. Pieree, for 30; Besides these cultural activities’ years in the service of the United| which were offered during the! states, and since February 16,! week, there were a number of} 007 a i a | athletic events staged. These in-| 1907, in the lighthouse service, cluded baseball, basketball games| Will tomorrow be retired from} those the service on the prescribed pen-| from the Island Republic to the|sion granted those who have! } South, and one basketball game, sched the age of 70. | between the Miami Daily News| ree =A and a local team. Open-air aqua-; ‘I a letter to Mr. Pierce Daniel} | tics, golf and boxing were also of-|C. Roper, secretary of commerce) fered, as well as a cabaret and/extends “personally and for the; dance in the open air. | department” sincere thanks for Throughout the greater part of 9a: . i he week: good'‘weather prevailed | °C" Satisfactory services. I haye ‘noted from the department’s! ‘0 that every event. could be stag-| j ed as originally scheduled. Clear | 'e¢ords that you entered the serv-| skies.and warm weather helped! ice in February 1907 and served to make the week the success it! Continuously for over 29 years.! has been considered. Your long and splendid record One day, ast Monday, was giv- should be a source of continuous! en over entirely to the Cuban comfort to you, and I entertain| | population here when those citi- the hope that you may long en-; |zens celebrated El Grito de Joy the leisure which you have so! |Baire. An 80-piece Marine band, , Well earned.” { | brought on one of the gunboa Mr. Pierce was for a number} jadded a great deal to the festivi- of years at Sombrero lighthouse | ties, and also played several con and on several occasions the as- | certs during the week. jsistant keepers associated with Many of the events were spon-' him have refused promotion and sored and under the supervision ' increased pay, in order to remain | of various units of the WPA and| With Mr. Pierce and continue the FERA here, and had been design- ; pleasant relations which had made! ed to give to visitors here as much | their stay at the light one to be pleasure as possible. cherished in memory. { With Mr. Pierce’s retirement! tl WOMEN’S POLICE FORCE IN POLAND WINS CONFIDENCE OF WOMEN’S PAGEANT TO MARK STRIDES OF HALF-CENTURY LONDON, Feb. 29.--Brtis women have steadily invaded the As a result, there are in Britain today: professions and industries. 966 women iron-mongers, woman tobacco merchants, 21 women makers of bricks and pot- tery and 60 women garage pro- prietors, A pageantry of their progress and triumphs is to be given at the first Exhibition of Women’s Pro- gress in 50 years, to be held London from March 4 to 21. Men will take part in the ex-| hibition Women will do the printing, ad- vertsing and managing of the ex- hibition, MOONLIGHT ROMANCES BANNED BY EGYPTIANS (iy Axnoctated Press) CAIRO, Feb. 29.—Egypt may) be a land of romance in fiction, but lovers who fall under its spell may find themselves fined or im- prisoned. Police in Cairo and Alexandria enforce a law which forbids “per- sons of opposite sex to kiss public thoroughfares property.” One young man, seeking to es- cape the penalty for kissing his girl on the banks of the Nile one moonlit night, tried to bribe policeman and was jailed for four days without bail. Another policeman found that the officer actually had taken six piastres from the youth. The offending officer was dropped from the force and also given a jail sentence. on cr public a GRANTED AWARD 2,995 | in} only as “guest crities.”! ; the first assistant will be pro- moted to the position of keeper and the second assistant will be} stepped up to first. NEW JERSEY FOLK YOUNCSTERS (By Associated Press) i WARSAW, Feb. 29.—Poland’s bfue-tmiformed~- police = mammas | | | | iare making a big hit with chil-| dren; so much so that many a| TO SPEND REMAINDER ' youngster yells “Police!” instead OF SEASON of “Mamma!” when he needs a Recent arrivals at the Ove’ Sea Hotel who come for a stay in Key West are Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Johnson and daughter Miss Bea- screams | trice, of Point Pleasant, N. J. They arrived last evening, and this morning visited the WPA housing department. Mr. John- son had a letter addressed to the housing department by Agnes Bolton O’Neill, who was a visitor in Key West last year. Mrs. O’Neill writes she proposes visiting Biloxi, Miss.. voyaging north will stop at Key | friend. | ‘Typical was the case of the lit- | tle boy whose red balloon escaped ee the boulevard. His i ; brought a young policewoman who ;8aw the balloon caught in a tree {and promptly climbed up after it. ‘One holiday night several ragged ! youngsters who saw a Christmas} \tree twinkling through the win-! dows of police headquarters, walk-| ‘ed right in and joined the party. j The policewomen made them feel/| So West where she hopes some day a Welfare Force the! #2, be able to purchase a nice lit-! uch success in winning tle home and spend her days in! confidence of the young is in line| quiet and happiness. | ‘with the principles on which the | women’s police force has develop-|day are Captain William Trip-! fed. It was organized in 1925 to, jett, 67th Infantry, U. S. from, jhelp the government’s fight against | Fort Benning, Ga., Mrs. Triplett white slavery and the traffic in; and two children, who are oc-! | dangerous drugs. Fs ee _ |eupying apartments on Duval! ‘Chief of the organization is, street and will remain uutil May! | Miss Stanislas Paleologue, who was) 1, | ; an officer of the Polish army in} At that time the captain and! j the war with Soviet Russia. Under | family will go to New York, make! her leadership the women police! the necessary arrangements, and see their greatest responsibility |take passage for China, where and opportunity in the field of so-/the captain has been ordered. cial welfare. They have estab- 2 ished homes for wayward girls ANNOUNCE DEATH | ARCHIE JOHNSON and now superintend centers for; the care of homeless children, | Marriage In Background | The policewomen are recruited ifrom among healthy, unmarried ‘applicants between the ages of 21 |and 30. They must undergo six | months of special training, and | must sign for four years’ service. | During these four years they are ; bound to celibacy, and should they {continue to serve after the four | |years have elapsed they must wait! Telegrams yesterday to rel-| {an additional three years before) atives in Key West, advised of the marriage. The girl who signs up at 21 and j |WAS FORMER KEY WESTER 1 | BUT HAD BEEN RESIDING | IN MIAMI MANY YEARS | | | merly of Key West but for about) Key West, Florida, has the } most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Proposed Chain Store Tax To Affect All Places Of Business LA LL VISITORS CATCH ° TWO FINE TARPON Captain H. L. Prindle and E. A. Srymer, U. S. A, Avia- tion Corps, Langley Field, Va., have experienced the thrill of tarpon fishing in these waters and yesterday caught two nice ones. There were a number of strikes and two trophies tak- en. One weighed 45 pounds and the other 25 pounds. They were with Captain King Gomez on the fishing launch Mocea: and will remain in Key West several days en- joying the sport. Law Passed By Legislature Of 1935 Is Expected To Become Effective At Once Every place of business is af- fected by the chain store tax which was declared constitutional ion February 25 by the Florids Supreme Court. This yesterday by an official from th= fas comptroller’s of fice. | The law, it is expected, will be was said i made effective practically at once. | All places of business will pay = | tosma tax of SO cents, registra- tion fee of $10 and be taxed onc- jfrom tax rolls at the {lean is made. jdeath of Archie Johnson, 48, for-|. MONROE SCHOO! (My Axsoctated Prena) TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 29. —Morroe County’s share of the school apportionment fund @s amnounced today, was shown to be $8,206.86. LANDIS RULES ON AUTHORITY GIVEN T0 SCHOOL BOARD ATTORNEY GENERAL ADVISES AS TO AMOUNT ORGANIZA- TION MAY BORROW IN CON- N=CTION WiTH TAX FUNDS (Special te The Cities) TALLAHASSEE, Feb. 29.— Attorney General Cary D. Gandis mount of tax revenue the board has a reasonable right to expect time The opinion was rendered at re- quest of W. S. Cawthon, superintendent of public imstruc- tion. As an illustration, the attorney general said where a county is ex- pecting $80,000 and has borrow- ed $52,000 out of total receipts of only $56,000, the amount that Mrs.| could then be borrowed would be; 80 percent of the different be- tween the amount already receiv- ed and the original amount reason- and when} ably expected during the current} fiscal year, which would be 80 percent of $24,000, or $19,200. Landis said such a transaction as the last mentioned one would be conditioned of course, on aioe ON POWER BOAT Cargo of lumber which arrived from Miami this morning on the | Power Boat C. W. Powers, of the Over Sea Transportation company, is to be used doing repair work on the Ferries Pilgrim and Trav- eler. Decking and rails of the vessels on the superstructure will started immediately upon the re ceipt of the approved plans from Washington. POINCIANA ON MARINE WA But one vessel of the Seventh state | the | Other visitors arriving _yester-| board’s having paid all prior loans. | half of one per cent om gross | sales. This law was passed by the legislature of 1935 with the ex- pectation, it is shown, that the tax would produce approximately | $4,500,000 toward the $10,500.- | ©00 appropriated for schools. j : “In a statement relative to the tax and its resultant effect on the schoo] funds, Attermey Cary D. Landis is quoted as saying: “The j commen schools are in great need ; ef the funds te be collected from ‘this tax and with every other state authority involved, am eager to get the machinery of taxation in operation as soon as it jis possible.” | Im the original law there was a {section providing for @ levy of = ‘graduated tax ranging from one- ) half of one per cent to five per ‘cent depending upen the number | of stores oprated by amy ome con- I OTHERS COME IN YESTERDAY: 5s advised that under existing| cern. j law a county school board may; ‘borrow up to 8@ percent of the} Lowers Estimates This naturally lowered the esti- mate of funds to be received from these taxes which is now placed by some officials, at possibly $3,- 000,000. Discussing sources of reven | the visiting official pointed that the revenue from siet chines was another item im the ‘funds for schools and this was be- | coming larger as other cities were allowing the use of them. For general information question was asked how was | pessible for a community to | dicate its objection to the im- stallation of these machines, for any of a number of reasons, but principally because it had become y known that minors. con- | trary to the law. were being per- ; mitted to use them. | Status of Bill A copy of the law, House Bill No. 1131, was produced. Section L2-A reads. “Upon petition of twenty per cent of the qualified — electors of any county the Coun ty Commissioners ef such county shall provide for the subm:ssion to thé electors of such county at the then next succeeding general election, the question of whether any permit or license therefore granted for the operation of any of the machines or devices de- scribed in the act shall be tinved or revoked and if the ma- jority of the electors voting jsuch question im such election ue the it n- con- on {wil be laid and constructed with! shell vote to cancel or recall the | the lumber received today. Er woe or permits theretofore be given, then the comptroller of the jstate of Florida and the tax col- lector ef the county shall not thereafter grant license for the operation of the machines and j2- vices decribed in this act. Pro- | vided further that any county re- |voking such licenses shall not thereafter participate in any of ithe revenues derived under this ict.” takes her profession seriously must /20 years a resident of Miami. Lighthouse District's fleet of ten- - Death occurred on a vessel while} | Mr. Johnson was en route from) Miami to Havana. wait until she is 28 before she can marry. Inasmuch as most of the wom- ders is in port today. This is the Poinciana which is on the ways for minor-repairs to hull and rud- paralysis a short time ago, with | tendance committee headed by Dr. very little hope held out for his} Wm. P. Kemp. recovery during the past several! Much stress is paid to attend- days. jance in the Rotary organization rt. | BELLEVILLE, [ll.—In 1930) en police look so attractive in their} The deceased had a number of There will also be exhibited Mrs. Valiena Meuer, of this city,|navy blue uniforms that they iurn/ relatives here, among them being| Tender Ivy, fiagship, is en modern rugs and designs by Fran-| was kicked by a trick mule. When} many a young man’s head, this|Captain Harold Cates. a cousin,)route from Tampa Bay te Char- ces T. Miller. The display will be|the case came to trial she was] seven-year wait has its disadvant-|who is now in Miami. Mrs. Cates|lotte Harbor, where buoy work is ders, and regular overhaul. of Mervin Elks He is an uncle Thompson, steward at the Club in this city, FOR A PAR held daily from 10 a. m. to 8 p.t m., at 441 Royal Palm Way, Palm’ Beach, Fla. H | | and this accomplishment will win the local club state and nation- | wide attention. awarded $5,000. has recently been reversed. award is $10,000. That judgment The | ages. It is already said tu havejleft over the highway this morn- complicated several romances|ing to join her husband, and at- heart-breakingly. tend the funeral service. to be done. Tender Poppy is in —_ TY, PICNIC OR HOME DINNER, A CASE OF WAGNER BEER, ICE COLD, PUTS THE FINISHING TOUCH AS AN ACCOMPANIMENT. FACA 22RBBs0