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

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West No. 103. Chr Kreg rat or Citizen |: KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936. GIVES REVIEW J. D. WISE TO OF ENCOUNTERS | WITH INDIANS awe OF FOUR PAPERS SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA IN MAJOR METCALF OF U. S. 2 | RINE CORPS GIVES DETAIL-} ED ACCOUNT OF FIGHTING! (Editor & Publisher) John Dana Wise, publisher ithe Spartanburg (S. |morning, the Spartanburg Jour- ‘nal, evening, the Columbia (S. C.) Record. and the Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, has been named pre: dent and publisher oz the Rich- “'mond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, fective June 1. He succeeds SEMINCL® TRIBES of | (Special to WASHINGT is not The ON, Cltizeny April 29.—It against the ‘ay t table military 1 to leas at one whic they were At failed in its objectiv Zailure. Mark who retires a8 publisher conquer. come general manager the! Louisville (Ky.) j Courier Journal, 4-i Mr, Wise was born in Barnwell. ac-!S. C., Dec. 27, 1897, and wa: educated in the University ° {South Carolina. He has been on! bu: s Ethridge, any rate, ment of and ( ing, Times capturin moving Seminole Inc One of the counts of the agains Semi Cre and} {newspapers and related ince 1913, except for t of the World War when } n the Navy. He began his ne on the Columbia serving with the Ss @ depar' until H id ther until 1922 j when he became advertising man- y fight-!ager of the Ironwood (M py, Daily Globe. Returning to Co ay.) | bia, he joi that) nartment of the State. reg 's later to es ing agen three year: ole Indiar k Inc been written by U. 1 has H. Met- Corp: into) back- vent maga ow C. Ma delve the calf, of the Major Met authentic ° rine records for pads | ground supporting a re zine art . Bitter Figh The long ing and ar the gning Marines, i duri campaign to ma th th side vert advan-} After ‘or the first} etly 's when ular army in Fior time, proved ieee in later -|rector of the four st! Which he is now iv made genera] ma Columbia Record in paper: connected. the armed for Z Mexico, In thi about one-half of seen service in F hostile Indians who never day have surrendered or been di loged from the v: amps known! as the Florida Everglades, al- though their numbers were de- cimated to a relative handful and the government quit ipaign } Editor’s Kae Because Of the lity, ; brother 07 Mrs. J..J ierer wife} Prior to the ca: n in Flor-| oe) ‘ oh ida which had for etive the! or Ane vico® fare) Wie ss | National Bank of : Key West. and, removal of the S s to I ; “he and Mrs, Wise are annual vi dian territory we the Mis- 7 tors in this city for a winter va: sippi, the Marines had joined U. - cation as guests of the Trevors. S. Regular army troops in Geor- | gia in ue } but — —— | WAS FLOATED in, Phorid . S. troops al under General Jackson, who in; vaded the territor n then un- der Spani nt back! hostile Indian en re-} sisting the en Am-| crican setilers ng down from! Georgia. | When the Creeks gave up and! the government n moving) them to the wes number of their warrior ined with the! Marines troops in the Fl their old ¢! Wide Campaign ! all of > valorous Serv ce. ever . of the ines had! § reafter he ma ade publ newspapers, the A tand the Spartanburg Herald | Journal. and its ¢ de U a t LEAVE TO ASSIST VESSEL WHEN NEWS CAME cor Five minutes before the Wreck- ing Tug Warbler was to cast off SeGehine lines to go to the assistance f Seminoles, the Yacht Jane II yesterday aft- ernoon, word was rec 1 the vessel had been floated. yacht was reported aground | In war has ferni with quite ships, and da Florida. The complete story per- hans never will be told. The cam-! paign was scattered to wide-flung outposts. There were no roads! and many swa nd rivers to Commun as many, he im-| ex- corps ae miles floated Bahia Honda, which i ,) West of Havana. She v with the assista Coast Guard Ship Havana, 0 Havana. DEMOLAYS MEET LAST EVENIN cross. times diftic possible, tremely slow. of) the sh trom fort! to fort and from outpost to out- along the x many times hitherto: uhexplored regions! This} gave the Inc ample oppor-| tunity ar and the Joseph Richardson was elected Seminoles | it per-las Master Councillor of Robert J. sistently. | Perry Chapter, Order of DeMolay, —— = — jat a meeting held last evening in DR. J. VALDES s tediously most ED AS MASTER COUNCIL- LOR DURING SESSION ans hing, nd ced for pra c.) Herald,) WARBLER WAS READY TO| | } | i ! { the! ing before ed the advertising de-| ber resigning | there an ad-} prospective | to { { { \ that | built in the state’s system of more than 6,000 miles. about 25 miles west southwest of | for the expend: ture of said, and towed to Havana by the | | provided to meet the i j costs ; JOSEPH RICHARDSON ELECT- 0 j many 'REGISTRATIONS | PUBLISH DAILY, FOR PRIMARY TO TURKISH PLEA FOR END TOMORROW POLL TAX PAYMENTS che BE MAD= UNTIL MAY MANY PROSPECTIVE VOT- ERS HAVE NOT PAID YET 16; tomor- according the governing this phase of pre-! Registrations will cease row evening, to law ef-|clection requirements, John Eng- | land, sor of registratiop | the Dardanelles, For the past week the supervis- has been the scene of ty, and so busy has be been eet that it or’s office nas been impos- him to get an idea of| registrants to ble for ithe number of To say anything whatever, re- erved j lative to the number of names onj ‘the be 4, and he is books, would only guess of the {opinion it will be Seturday morn- any accurate out. tax coliector’s office it rned from Collector Frank id that while a goodly num- ave paid the 1935 poll tax, are approximately 1000 voters who have yet’ the 1934 tax. | , he points out, as the! figures | lean be In the le he pay the| agent. he became advertising di-/last day for paying poll taxes is! militarized in 1923. w'th| not until May He | time jth 16, there is ample; n which voters can have! > matters straightened out.} it is so, the collector does| 1930, and publisher three months! not attempt to explain, but al- i key? be was } clo: her of the other threejruch to pay poll taxes, and he does {asking question afterward. Augusta Chronicle; not think this y just before the books are to! e, he said, there is a grand year will be differ-| ent from former years. i sc, mc » » STATE ROAD DEPT. ENDEAVORING TO : GET MORE FUND SHOWN THAT OFFICIALS ARE BECOMING PUZZLED AS TO, HOW EXISTING ROADS_ CAN B® TAKEN CARE OF H ‘ tarized” {Special to ‘Phe Citizen) { TALLAHASSEE, April 29.— Puzzled as to the fate of existing state roads because of the lack of funds for maintenance, officials lor the state road department are on the lookout for means of get- ting additional funds to keep up he roads that already have been “Our 1936 providing most of for main- highways, | budget, funds existing able of our av j tenance ce of the Cuban; | fails to meet the state’s needs by; it was some 0,000". declared C, B.} Treadway, chairman of the road} department. | “Unless funds are, inereasing ; of maintenance—without , even considering the needs of new highway construction in the state: — reatened at.an early date with a general wearing out the highways that already have been built. “Florida has not yet built as; roads are needed for, er opening up of the state to! . but she has now reached the point where a halt must be made to find funds for repairing, and keeping in passable shape the: m'llions of dollars worth of high-' already have been additional ; BRITISH | Bel , Rhi THINGS REVERSED {eharged that her 'BRITAIN MAY BACK YOUNG MOTHER RUNS FOUNDRY WOULD RAISE FLOWERS SHE WASN’T ONLY WOMAN OPERATOR IN TEXAS ‘DARDANELLES GUNS j FOREIGN secre.| TARY TO SEIZE OPPORTUN.| ITY ON OCCASION TO COME} <By Associated Press) BACK AT HITLER'S METHOD! SAN ANGELO, Tex., April 29. {—Mrs. B, W. Willig, who jblonde and weighs 1 thinks “would raise jlowers” H n’t the only wo Zoundry operator in Texas. | She assumed her hi By ROGER D. GREENE (iy Ansocinted Prenny LONDON, April support of 7 management of British a, nd’s iron worl ion the 17-mile strait linking the Aegean with of Marmora, when the League o in May,;. quest for permi new. “I first learned enough the ofvice business to take care when My. Willig was y,” the young business wor explains. “Then in 1927 and I went into the shop and learned to operate the machines.” Mrs. Wi not - sati: however, to manage the bu or lend a hand at a machine wh nec After her husband’s he Sea f ations acts on the case n st here. 28) fore ave Anthony Eden, British foreign secretary, it is predicted, e on the o ion to ad- minister a velvet-gloved slap at ’s world-detying method of scrapping in contr to the reasonable procedure adopted by Turkey’s dictator, President Kamal! Ataturk. | Where the nazi leader deliber- lenged the Locarno s —Great Britain, Franc m and Italy—by marchi his troops into the demilitarized Rhineland, the Turkish dictator formally appealed to the League and to the signatory powers of the Treaty of Lausanne, under, which the Dardanelles was de-) ness sa signing, and originates the terns for all ornamental ork, porch furnit and that the shop produ which covers ground pat- iron stair es, natorie: floor stom foundry work and ni eturing. In addition to repair a dry work the company tures heavy road building ment, spudders and pa and water wells, manho} !and many smaller articles. The woman iron monger added an electric welding department er her husband’s death eral heavy presses and other equi ment. The concern employs mum of 20 men. * ANNOUNCE DEATH equip- for covers British Applaud Ataturk In his role as Europe’s cham- | pion of diplomatic decorum, Eden may be expected to applaud Tur- restraint in not resorting to the Hitlerian fait accompli method—i.e. , hitting first andy a, Ataturk’s moderation made deep impression in British govern- ; ment circles. particularly since it) | followed a series of treaty rup-! 3 tu such as Germany’s viola-} tion es the Treaty of Se in! OF ANDRE LOPEZ 16. 193 D Genet s violation of (FORMER KEY WESTER DIES Locarno by remilitarizing the| JN TAMPA THIS MORNING and March 7, 1936, aid} Austria’s recent repudiation of! FROM HEART FAILURE the treaty of St, Germain by or-| dering conscription. | Reward: For Law Abiding | News of the death of Andre ‘Today, Hungary and Bulgaria,| Lopez in Tampa this morning, was alone of the countries “de 'yeceived today by memb of after the World war,'his family at the home on South- stand bound by treaty restric-, ard street. i tions. | On visiting the home, The Citi- But Turkey has at least sought zen was told by his sister Miss ! permission from the powers con- Josefina Lepez, that she had , cerned—Britain, ‘France, Italy, mailed a letter last night in re- Bulgaria Russia, Rumania, ply to one from Andre, and this Greece. Yugoslavia and Japan—; morning started for The Citizen and informed quarters, in Lon- office to secure some data relative do xpress little doubt that her to his activities here while deputy request will be granted if only as United States marshal 10 years a reward for law-respecting pro- ago, which he had requested, cedure, » when she was handed the tele- gram telling of his death. As the telegram contained information as to the cause of death a wire was at once sent asking for details, A reply was ;Teceived stating that cause of Lopez’s death was _ heart IN COURT HERE a a ano! Mrs. Lopez, mother of the de- ACCUSED RELEASED DUR- | ¢¢ased, has been a practical in- valid for about six years, and all ING PROCEEDINGS | knowledge of her son’s death is | being kept from her as the rest of the family fear the consequences should she be told. no Positions were reversed in Judge Rogelio Gomez’s court yes- terday afternoon when le sent the complaining witness in a case to jail and released the accused. | Sidney Matthe-vs, colored, wa arrested last week on complaint of his wife, it was said, who; husband had laid harsh} FALLS OFF BIKE used her severely, Hl hands on her person and abused; IN HAND WHEN THROWN her. She so attested when the warrant for her husband’s arrest | FROM WHEEL ‘as? issued. j "Yesterday in court at the pre-} “The bicycle stopped but IF. pounds, | 1930} when he died, but the work wasn’t about} o:! ed, | a death she learned drafting, de-}! ; know, are _.large number of people will have oil, SUFFERS FRACTURED BONE! :' J. FAIRBANKS PETTONS OT ‘Swiss Now Fortifying All RAILROAD LINE ___ Borders Of Alpine Domain TO BE FORWARDED TO INTER- Miltary Experts W. Re | STATE COMMERCE carer VISITING FIREMEN By a | | GREATLY PLEASED ===" SION ASKING THAT BODY Wah Greet Alere- Be | TO INTERVENE IN MATTER) WITH STAY HERE ; A number of petitions are BERN: As ADOPT RESOLUTIONS EX- ling circulated today asking | ae | TENDING THANKS TO ALL ers to a petition to be forwar to the Iiterstate Commerce Com-|} WHO HELPED IN MAKING bad kee Legu= THEIR STAY ENJOYABLE sion in Washington requesting | that body to issue instructions to} mies the Florida East Coas road over the K have t Rail-| non 7 ys reconstruct-; the Florida State Firemen's Fer mere the tary te ciation for the en | vided whil held i Sess hewe cece stated Alpe [ea. tS te it was said, were The petitions, te @etend tee : | being smelly formulated by Clifton sell, | Now folly postmaster at Islamorada. and he | ¢o gov has secured a number of friends | from strateg passes where in Key West to circulate the peti- ea tions, one of which, seen by The} sae Citizen, has a great many s Those who are in 2 posi -wemeran convinced that Baker signing of this petition br make Convention and arrang.ng that an effect on the bridges proy been uniqu emterts Ganga tireful and dis- tion which will be cireful and wen Ge se astrous. who} “W! and Sam were spoken to on the metter, de-| hendled A large group of citizens . plored the idea and stated in no —_ and in thad exactly uncertain terms that in the om eal | these petitions are sent to the In-j Co [Key | mo: | terstate Commerce mis: ion. I they will indicate that the citi- “zens of Key West are a people and the possibility of over- court jeoing out devided | tain and aid convention, now, “THEREFORE SOLVED BY THE t eous BE ff RE {sea bridges will be a question ef OPFICEES ‘the future. + They feel that the matter will} ‘be taken up by the IL. C. C. with] ay “— 2 | hearings, and then other hearings,| and the good pec for th tertainme wish t <| ing all long be r rful convention cially considering the {hardships under which thes work, and, “BE IT FURTHER RESOL ED, that, q copy of this tion be this meeting. Baker. Key We thet it be fit of the Key West. iDA CLITIOD ily ker, {which will postpone action, which tendid rr now seems imminent, on the al- = tees thie eee location of funds for the bridges and the possibility that in the end iit will transpire that this move- unior-een hac ment for something which has been declared so distantly remote as to ‘ be almost chimerical, may delay reso: action on the bridge proposition » Chie’ The a cop to and a co ent to en, until the funds are allocated with 2 fe other projects. stn Practically every person ap- proached by The Citizen relative ‘CUBA BRINGS IN gladly weleome the news that the} to the petitions being circulated, said, in effect, no one would more railroad is to be iebuilt “than 1.” {but when it has been shown that! VESSEL LEFT LATE IN AFT- ERNOON ENROUTE TO TAMPA the decision not to reconstruct the road is practically irrevocable, and even the president has shown his interest in the proposde bridges jand little or no interest in rail-| Steamship Cuba of the P. and O. S. S. company, arrived from Havana yesterday afternoon with {four first and ome second ci=: aged for Key West, 10 fire and 12 second class passenger: |for Tampa. Key West arrivals were: George C. Miller, Emma C_ Miller, Charie~ | E. Dexter, Hildredth Dexter, Adel | Sete. i The j road reconstruction, it is only rea- that circula- tion of petitions requesting Isonable to conclude recon, struction of the road will result the | Proposition, and possibly jin untold delay on bridge disas- | { trous consequences in the end. vessel sailed for Tamps o'clock with Mr. and Mrs ; Showers, Mr. and Mrs & Jones, Mrs. C. R Sheppard and . 2 Constantly increasing demands liminary hearing the woman chang- on the road department, more )atied from a complaining witness to kept going,” is the way Captain| A. E. Sharpley described an ac- ARRIVES HERE) daughter, Alice, passengers book ing from this city | Scottish Rite Hall, corner Eaton |Jack Key as Junior Councillor. | iy:. time for maintenance than fot! a noncomplaining witness and re- | cident when he was thrown from |The new officers will be inducted | ! Steamer Gatun, of the Standard jand Simonton streets. Malcolm Sawyer was. selected jas the new Senior Councillor and Dr. J. A. Valdes, optometrist of jit office at the next regular Duval street. plans to leave by} Meeting Tuesday, May 5. plane tomorr fterneon for Mi- At the conclusion of the meet ami for 2 consultation with Dr,|i®& @ Social hour was held and re- Bascom Palme: P, Bere egeeeiente were agent tandez. _— ——— Dr. Palmer, who oar, | ‘MAY DAY CELEBRATION! nose and throat special: Auspices P. T. A. ami, came to Key West abov by weeks ago in company with Dr,| BAYVIEW PARK Friday, May 1, 4:00 p. m. E. S. Hirsch, optometrist of Mi- ami, for a vacation and fishing) pjomemade Ice Cream, Cake, Candy, Sandwiches, Etc. and Dr, and were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Valdes. new road construction, are, for! fused to say naything against the | the time being answered with the’ man, and upon being closely quizz- | statement that the department)ed admitted she had not t:ld the’ Captain Sharpley was leaying! has only sufficient money to take, truth when she entered the om-'|pilot’s headquarters on the old P. leare of the most important of the’ plaint and had the warrant issued. ! and O. wharf. It was dark and as _j essential maintenance, Chairman The committing magistrate he mounted his bicycle and start- | Dreadeay i thereupon ordered the defendant: ed off the front wheel dropped in | released and ordered the woman to’ a crack on the wharf, the bicycle | FALLS DEAD IN JAIL tbe placed in jail under bond of stopped and the captain was } — '$200. | thrown. | HUNTINGTON. W. Va.—As he| This morning it was decided He at first thought the injury | walked into the jail to begin serv- that nothing could be gained by i was a simple sprain but yesterday | line a sentence. for bootlegging. bringing the woman to trial and an X-ray was taken at the Ma- | Harry Daniels “ell decd as the re-/ County Solicitor Allan B. Cleare,, rine hospital showing that the | sult of a heart attack. [J", ordered her released. | bone was fractured. his bicycle and suffered a tured bone in the left hand. frac-{ Fruit and Steamship company. 2" | rived in pert 7 o'clock last night ifrom New York tock on 34.6 | gallons of fuel oil and sailed o'clock for Frontera, Mexico | Lieutenant J. Fairbanks, U.S | Coast Guard service, arrived last! j nicht from Miami on the Coast, Guard Patrol 825 for a short stay,} and left this morning. } The destination is Tortugas waters where about one week is ;to be spent and the bird sanctuary; jat Bird Key is.given regular in-/ spection. This is done by vessels} * the service once each month. j SS ore So GRAND DANCE Friday, May 1, 1936 Floor Show—Prise Waltz Gents $1.00 (mo tax) Ladies Free 5° NREL SES bel row ook : “PLL HAVE TO TELL THE WIFE ABOUT WAGNER BEER!”-.THAT’S WHAT MOST MEN SAY WHEN THEY HAVE TRIED WAGNER'S FOR TE FIRST TIME