The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 30, 1936, Page 1

a Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West country; range of only PRICE FIVE CENTS Che Hey West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1936. BRIDGE 10 BE VOLUME LVI. No. 104. BUILT AT ONCE BURNT | CUBA BROS Two Hundred And Eighty-Six | ate ae | Is That Of Thousand Dollars Set Aside... ..:ésascre ms sage aa For Navy Yard Improvements) “"'escsr"” NEW THREAT TO HIGHWAY | By Aeeeaens Premed TALLAHASSEE, April 30.—The Sate Read De- ertment said today a tem nazanps pune OMY Delay keine acesiaiagaiate INDIAN FicHTING Getting Materials To Site WPA TRUCK SKIDS » dren crying for the moon if we persisted in a demand toe. ee shea a sATES “YOUTH WEEK” WHILE ON BRIDGE something that we all want—the railroad, with every evi-} MARINE COMPS GIVES DE-i PL ANS HE A RD (Special to The Citizen) | i and Gence that the tide of officialdom was setting strongly, SCRIPTIVE ACCOUNT oF! f an fom against that project, the citizens of Key West assembled! BATTLES IN FLORIDA i this morning — wi wol. ‘ F Getiond a second elass passen-| i the courthouse and assured the chairman of the state { gers for Key West; 18 first and road department, Chester B. Treadway, that they would! Steamship Cuba of the P. S$. company arrived Three Piers Wil Be Re-, perary bridge will be <- ted as soom as possible ti glace the fare-destroyei one second class passenger for =. “BY built Gf Concrete With! Other —_ Improvements} Outlined (By Assi sm) WASHINGTON, April 30.| —The naval appropriations} bill introduced in the House, today ap-| propriations of $286,090 for| waterfront improvements at the Key West Naval Station. The item was requested by naval authorities who> carried direct said the department contem- plated rebuilding in concrete! three existing piers and_ re- pairing other presert crete waterfront structures, con- ROAD DEPT. 10 INCREASE SCOPE OF ACTIVITIES BLAINE McGRATH APPOINT. | ED AS EDITOR OF DEPART- | MENT’S MONTHLY PUBLI-! CATION FOR PUBLICITY (spect The Cinzen) | TALLAHASSEE, April 30.— Appointment of BI McGrath | of Fort Myers to be editor of the! state road departm publication, Flor nt’s. month Public Works, | has been announced by C. B. Treadway, chairman of the road | department In announcing the appointment, Mr, Treadway said it is the pur-j pose of the road department to in- | ay crease the scope of the monthly} magazine and to add features to the publication that will create a} con- | Space will be devoted to} of the department | {fect the gencral public, | said, and special tments will be dedicated to! improvement, other sub- larger reader interest in its tents. roadside y safety and been engaged : work in McGrath has wspaper publicity Florida for the last 12 ip ign of np 3 lorida West which, accord of cities included s an out- has just concluded publicity for the Coast Associa ing to offi in the organiz: standing suc record volume o business to Flo McGrath formerly was managing editor of the Or' to Sentinel and the Fort Myers News-Press. i in winter west coast. FELLOWSHIP CLUB TO MEET TONIGHT Members of the Boys Fellow-} ship Club are deing summoned to; a special called meeting of the} organization 7:45 o'clock tonight} in Knights of Pythias hall on} Fleming street. i This is said to be an important assemblage of special interest, and every member will be benefit- ted by the results expected at | meeting. ; be solidly back of him in his effort to secure the next best WASHINGTON, April 30.—| vIC=-PRESIDENT STRUNK IN ROY GOODMAN ‘CIVIL ENGINEER WITH WPA! {He iV ACCIDENT CAUSED TRAFFIC Havana. CONGESTION FOR ‘SHORT Arrivals for Key West were: A. TIME THSS MORNING iM. Hewett, Mrs. John C. Key, D. | D. Selmore The vessel also brought tons of freight and four sacks of mail for Key West; two tons of freight and 17 sacks of mail for Havana. One of the large trucks of the WPA administration almost left the Boea Chica bridg is morn- ing when the heels idded on the slippery deck. The front wheels were hanging over the! edge of the bridge. This accident and the of the truck caused; a traffie con- gestion, in’ which! were two women, went up on the, bridge, skidded, and struck a! truck. The coupe’s fender was) damaged, TWO SHIPS DUE HERE TOMORROW | Two vessels of the Clyde Mal- pa eee i lory Lnies are due to reach port BIG JOB FOR COPS | tomorrow. The O: _ - sonville and M i, bound to New CHICAGO.—It took 18 police-; Orleans, due in the morning. men to subdue-John Tierney, 45, | B from Calveston to New “bouncer” in a tavern in this; York, due in the evening. An- city, after he chased his wife | other vessel of the lines, the Ala- about the hallway outside their; mo, is due Sunday en route from apartment. New York to Tampa, position nd a cowe To Secure Over Sea Bridges Expects To See Presiden In Few Days When For- mal Presentation Of Pa- pers Will Be Made ASSIGNED TO LOCAL DUTIES | Chester B. Treadway, now in ADMINS ON TOIWORE | Weatingion inlthe antec oF IN CONJUNCTION WITH BO. | the over sea bridges, is satisfied ‘with the progress being made to- {ward the desired end, and posi- | tively said so in a telephone con- Roy Géodman, civil engineer | Yetsttion with Wim, R. Porter this with the WPA adininistration, is | ™°*™Ns- : in Key West assigned to service! Asked by Mr. Porter just as enginéer with the local dis-; What was the tion Mr. triet and yesterday began looking| Treadway said “we are pro- over the projects. gressing just as well and as Mr. Goodman was at one time! satisfactory as it is reason- ty manager of Fort Lauderdale.| ble to expect. We are work- had a wide experience in} img on the many details > affai it is and has which must be brought to been in charge of projects on! Perfection before the papers which were expended several mil-| 27¢ ready for presentation lions of do! to the President.” Ons In reply to a question as to Pn aehgire when he expected to see the A. C. Bogart and B. C. Moreno,| President and make formal on the sewerage project, and oth.| Presentation of the papers, er projects \zhich are to continue} Mr. Treadway said “we ex- until June 30 and for which funds| Peet to be received by the have been assured until that date.| President within the next After June 30, should funds; few days when all that is be made available, they will be} Recessary has been accom- reedy for presentation for approv-| lished and in readines: al as formulation of these por-' Mr. Porter mentioned the peti- jects will Le ene part of Mr.‘ tion which was being circulated Guobuas’santhaiets hace. iwith the idea of presenting it to In connection nh these pro-| the Interstate Commerce Commis- posed future p-ojects, Director T.! sion requesting reeonstruction of D. Orr said, it will be his purpose , GART AND MORENO is} eetives is to con-| se with Engineers J.) the railroad. Mr, Treadway said to consult city and county offi-j that the people of the city through cials, the rlanning board, and pub-| the city couneil, and the county lie agencies like the army, navy: Commissioners had appo‘nted him and lighthouse department, and {to handle the bridge matter and with these ageneies working inthe injection of any other matters conjunction with the WPA, heat this time would undoubtedly feels much can be accomplished. j Prove disastrous, See IN, “Things here are going BUTCHER HOG tnicely and I believe within a short es |time will have good news for Key PARIS, Mo.—Not only did; West. Any other matter which is thieves steal a 220-pound hog! brought up for consideration .at from Charles Courier of this city,, this time which confiicts with m but the rogues also had the nerve! mission in Washington, ean ac to butcher the porker in Courier’s!complish nothing except bring yard before they fled. about delay.” 3| ik, from Jaek-| Treadway Much Satisfied With Progress Ma de In His Efforts" long for the vesimption sof railway’ traffic; but st along One doesn’t need to read about | the exploits of Buffalo Bill, Gen-; eral Custer, Bill Hickock, nor any of the famous scouts who blazed the trails across the west for ad-/ vancing cicvilization, to get the} true story of Indian fighting. j had | at i thing—a highway over the viaducts. In no uncertain tone, Mr. Treadway warned us that the one thing that might_defeat his presentation of our | cause, would be evidence of a disunity of purpose; and | that the successful outcome of his work would be largely | dependent upon the harmonious solidarity of the | munity. ‘told the story in a more fasci Backed by the official endorsement of the County ]im¢ narrative than has Major C. | Commission and the City Council, he set forth upon his :4- Metealf, U.S.M.C., writing in | mission with every assurance of our united support; and |t#¢ Marine Corps Gazette of Feb- we have every reason to believe that he has worked faith- | 'U"¥» 1936. pean and untiringly to eliminate the barrier that stands ae Sais iniiicthes tecombuak etween us and the flood of prosperi' is ing i } . Gs i | the region only — miles a te ce al hes e elastin Zs . as aa ; . an important part, will reveal | up against a dam, money is flowing into the South and the just as much danger, hardship, only reason we do not profit by the rising tide is the lack 44"i"g» and valorous service as| | of a highway over which it may come. a ! The welfare of every man, woman and child in Key , | West is now jeopardized by the circulation of a petition, which can have at the best, only the result of a delay of: months in the inauguration of the work of bridging the | water gap that is strangling us: and at the possible worst. may result in its indefinite delay. We have every sympathy with the desires com-} Perhaps no man has ever Authentic records of the Sem-| P The U. S. army, assisted for} the first time by the Marines, started fighting the Seminole In-; dians in Florida in 1835. Such; eommanding officers as Winfield Scott, Andrew Jackson, General Clinch, and several others led these expeditions. The difficulties never were solved, except tem-j porarily. j *. First Campaign ? The government launched _ its first campaign from Tampa bay. The Indians we~e concentrated in the middle of the Florida penin- sula; perhaps about where Gaines- ville now is located. During the following several years of fight-| ing and ambushing, these forces were shifted here and there back’ and forth acress the state to manv bloody scenes of combat. It finally required the combined forces of regular U. S. troops. Marines, naval forces and volun- teers to capture Osceola, the fiery fury whose insolence kept him in arms but who never was sub- dued. Oseeola’s burning hatred so stirred the Seminole warriors they time and again turned with slaughtering vengeance and up-' set plans to move the tribe from the southeast into western reser- vations. The Sem‘nole Indians were so stubborn, so elusive, and So unconauerable they were al- most extinguished, but they never were removed. =nd their deci- | mated ranks at the end of the {long years of warrine were left ito roam the Everglades wilder- ness. of those ! can only, most solemnly and seriously deplore their well-! i meant, but ill-judged efforts. | The railroad came here in the first place because an | able financier saw it as a profitable investment. It will come again when economic conditions warrant a _ like | optimistic outlook. And the first step, and the only step} | available to us in our present situation, is the establish-| ment of the prosperity that a state highway would bring | to our community. t The I. C. C., which has the last word in such matters, forces no improvements upon communities torn by divided opinions. It is the easiest matter in the world to get peti-' tions signed. If a petition proposing that the most popular and useful citizen in any community be hung, were to be | circulated, it would be plentifully signed by citizens who ; had never bothered to read it. j The only effect that the petition now being circulated can have is to convince the powers that be that, anything , they do will be unsatisfactory to a section of the com- | munity; and the natural result will be that they will de- ‘ cide to do nothing until we can agree upon what we want. The Citizen urges those who have signed the petition, without due consideration, to see that their names are re-; moved from it; and we do this in the name of the suffer- ling people of Key West. i We ask citizens of Key West if they “have given due | weight to the fact that this petition originated, not in Key! West where the resumption of traffic is a matter of life | and death to the city, but that it comes from a section of Be keys where automobile traffic is already an accom-} plished fact; a region secure-in the possession of com-! - a munication with the mainland, no matter what course | Rogen see eel | events may take. ‘seouts who blazed the way for We do not regard this as an intentional injury to the: the regulars. They pushed into) | Island City; but none the less, the fact remains that they | the, ceases zac a ; have everything to gain and nothing to lose in their iH-: cota eaten defended fae out- ; judged efforts to secure train service. | posts until other forces could be Key West is in no such happy situation. We desire | broaght up, soy cig nae ; the railroad as much as any dweller on the upper keys, |P viver, patie swainp, a ‘cae } but we can not take the long chance of seeuring it—a/ village, and fight their way until| ; thousand to one. chance—at the risk of our community! reinforcements came. These seat- 5 ttered, but bloody, expeditions life. \ ; ar aes i he hundreds f : ' If you have not signed the petition, firmly refuse to! “hin Uncle Sum wrested the | Sign it. Appeal to the common sense of those circulating | Florida peninsula from the sav- it and in the name of fairness and justice to ‘Key West/age and made it safe for the white) urge them to desist. Hf you have already signed; and ee ‘The Indians were not the only’ sober second thought regret it, see that your name is re-! enemies the Marines faced im: moved. | Florida. Disease was dreaded as j In all the critical times that Key West has experi} mach ss - a a fang? ; : © enced, there has been no time so fraught with danger to} -ssnaities. Some of the greatest the city to which in all these troublous years our people} difficulties experienced. in con-' have clung with unshaken loyalty. j trast to the bloody fighting when | Never before has it been so tragically true that! *#htine did occur, was in locat-) “UNITED WE STAND: DIVIDED WE FALL.” : Under Protection Tallahassee, Pensacola, Apala- chicola, and dozens of interior outposts were many times under the protecting wing of the fight- ing Marines during the bloody }0f roads and food supply. jing the enemy in a country “ioe $1.08 (mo tax) Ladies CHAIR AT SESSION TODAY: CHAS. ROBERTS WAS VISI- TOR Rotary Club met 2% noon today at the Parish Hall, with Vice President Strunk in the fair Grace was said by Attorm - Lancelot Lester and an en) song-fest was led by Curry rene and Curry Harris, in turn. S. C. Singleton intreduce his guest, Cnarles New York and Miami. erts was warmly greeted as son of a charter member, the late George A. T. Roberts. Mr. Singleton aiso spoke brie!- ly on the assigned program, “The Rotarian Magazine.” The program of the Rotary Club organization for ¥ Week, April 30, was presented the general chairman, J. J. Trev or, and Tim Pittman, vice-chair man, and was as follows Committee on golf match—Som Goldsmith, Tim Pittman. Committee on swimming —Jack Leng, Emory Pierce. Committee on vocational talk —John Bogart, Chas. Smith. W Kemp. Committee on y r tion day—J. J. Trevor, W Harris, Oswaldo Carrere. Program For Week Sunday, May 3—Youth churches. Tuesday, May day, May 7—V the High School. Thursday, Rotary Lancheon— Youth recognition day will be a representative luncheon of ali the sci youth organizations of Speakers, Rev. Shuler Peel ject of “The Need of Today or Whst We Ow Youth of Today,” 2 ris, speaking oz of the Youth of Teday or What the Youth of Today Owe Us.” Thursday afternoon. O'clock —Swimming meet the sub base under direction of Swimming In structor Plant. Two series of events for boys. Juniors, 10-14 years. Lowe andier T! jonal tz Seniors, 14-18 years. Priz es for winners in each section on cumulative point basis. Entries can be made with Mr. Plant at the sub base, Mr. Trevor or Mr Long or with any school princips or teacher. Junior Events 1.— 25-yard dash. 2.— 25-yard backstroke. 3.—Underwater svim tance). 4.— 50-yard free style 5.—Low board diving (four re- required dives, three optional) Senior Events 1.—50-yard dash 2.—50-yard backstroke 3.—Underwater swim. 4.—100-yard free style 5.—Low board diving required dives, three optonia!) First place in each event—5 po:nt= Second place—3 points. Third plecc—2 points. Saturday—Golf tournament for boys—Golf match committer Mother and davghter day prorram by the Woman's Club. Sunday—Mother’s Day. (fer dx SRE a GRAND DANCE Auspices Caballeros de la Laz Friday, May 1, 1936 Floor Show—Prize Waltz Free structure limking Neo Name and Big Pine Keys. The departrest however, a matter of weeks will be required to get m=- terials to the site by t& amd boa: No estimate cf the were munediately avuilet sad. CAUSE OF FIRE IS YET UNDITERMINED tomeear Bie Pome Ker = satiefecters arvenceee= Bs R Pia = * eee: eee (Cantos or Page Fox GEORGE-THAT’S THE BEST BEER I'VE TASTED YET--FROM NOW ON PLL STICK TO "WAGNER’S”..TAKE A TIP ALWAYS CALL FOR WAGNER'S