The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 5, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 186. Scientists In Trailing Lightning, Go Adventuring In Armored Car Portable Equipment Used WORKING UNIT In Invading New Mexico AT NAVY YARD For Better Understand- IS INCREASED ing Of Storm Causes I | TOTAL NUMBER ENGAGED IN PRELIMINARY WORK IS SHOWN TO BE FIFTY; 25 STARTED YESTERDAY By AL WEST (By Axsxoctated Prexn) ALBUQUERQUE. N. M., Aug. 5.—A portable re armored laboratory sembling a home-made car is invading New Mexico’ ee, storm area in quest of a more de- tailed of he causes of electrical storms, sought day at the naval station . there understanding have been additions made which today brought the number of by Benjamin Franklin with a kite, a key and a piece of string more than a century ago. Increasing the force at this frate, it wil not be long before {the yard will be one of the bus‘est siety of Philadelphia, which in an! places of its size in all of Florida, indirect way “Poor Richard” help-/ it was said. ' Commander K. B._ Bragg, ed ito found, is financing in part! (. E, C,, U. S. N., who came from headquart at the Char‘eston |Navy Yard to get work started on the preparatory activities be- fore actual construction funder way, left 10 o’clock morning in a navy plane [was sent from Opa-locka. At Miami the commander fentrain for Charleston but ‘come again to Key West j material starts arriving, | said. The American Philosophical So- this modern-day scientific investi- gation in which he was a pioneer. The mobile “lab,” which easily could be mistaken for a stream- lined armored car such as Uncle will will when was Sam uses ;:o cart around gold bul- E. J. Workman and Dr. R. E. Holzer, lion, was designed by Dr. it University of New Mexico phy- ‘Object of this scientifie in- quiry, Dr, Workman and his col- | i ‘ELECTION HELPERS | WILL SERVE FREE leagues, Dr. Holzey and Dr. J. wl a Beam and Dr. L. B. Snoddy of ee the University of Virginia, de-| Clerks, inspectors and deputy scribe as the simultaneous photo-| sheriffs, who will serve in the graphing of cloud to cloud a dj polls for the primary election for cloud to ground lightning flashes,' United States senator, August 11, measurement of the related elec-! will do so without compensation. trical field, and recording of ac-| It was also stated at the court companying meteorological con-| house this morning that owners ditions. jof buildings in which the voting booths will be constructed will Fool-Proof ‘Lab’ The scientists were reluctant to | | workers to 50 by this noon time.|4@y and eats only when he gets | bering this| eyes twinkled under bushy which | brows. | GIVES ADVICE ABOUT EATING: AND DRINKING BERNARR MACFADDEN BE- LIEVES POLITICAL HEALTH OF COUNTRY THAN PHYSICAL HEALTH By CHARLES NORMAN (2r Axsociated Prexn) NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—Bernarr Macfadden thinks the _ political health of the country is worse than its physical health, but he’s still enough of a shysical cultur- ist to offer a few tins to election ‘to campaigners. Rule number one, he says, not to overeat. (Ee is doesn’t Felieve in three meals a{ those mentioned were Chairman is hungry.) Rule two: “Don’t overdrink. Rule three: Balance mental ef-} Assistant State Atorney J. Lance-: smoothed out and placed on forts with physical exercise. In his immense paneled office! Chief Deputy Bernard Waite and glittering with leather chairs and mahogany desks from which he directs h’s myriad enterpzises— 2 magazines, children’s schools and health resorts, employes num- 2,000—his gray-brown ey Still Looks the Part Behind him, sunk leve! with the windowsill, was a radio; inhi rigkt hand he held a white hand-'*@xes would be paid and within a) purchase would be kerchief which he never pocket- ed. Occasionally he put it to his face. His aides tip-toed, softly. At 68 he still looks much as he did when George Gray Barnard, | delinquent taxes in Cand ty famous sculptor, cast Macfadden| certain interests may be unhinder-! signers and later ratified e in bronze. To his walking vroclivities he has added an enthusiasm for fy- ing, and now pilots his own plane. A year ago he IS WORSE) Causeway Realty Corporation himself} Present at the meeting besides! ’ i e-| acres in Monroe county | spoke|# number of men be working. { 1 i | walked | for the assessment of the acreage} $20 miles to Dansville, N. ¥., in}at 25 eents the acre, is a matter|ed and forwarded to the KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, Che Kry West Citizen | 1936. Key West. F most equa courtry range County Commissioners Asked To Restuce Assessment (On Acreage | In Mainland Area Of County ! and} fore a satis- could be} Ray Parker, represemting the, would have to be analyzed gone into in detail be: factory arrangement which he is worked out. 5 A Today Clerk Sawyer discussed} panied by Captain George Cook,| 1 Beaten with Captain| owner of large property interests! Cook in a long distance telephone} nae cein tae meet. | Conversation, and suggested that | |the captain make a return vi to img with the county commission-!Key West at an early date, yo! ‘over the entire matter with As-/ isessor Kirchheiner and when the} sed taxation on the holdings of ai matter of reduced taxation has) s| group of landowners with a view | been agreed upon and other de : . __ {tails in connection therewith sati reductions|factorily settled, the matter can made. i= taken up with Clerk Sawyer, | and quickly brought to conclu-: . Sion, | i It is understood that Captain: B. Cook agreed to this proposition B. Warren and Nathan Niles,! and will return as soon as pos-! County Attorney Arthur Gomez, _ sible and spend some time in } Tax Assessor J. Otto Kirchheiner,'ing all the various questions a member, accom- ers yesterday afternoon, discus- having certain Carl Bervaldi, Commissioners i anj lot Lester, Clerk Ross C. Sawyer,! equitable basis. A resolution was adopted au- several interested citizens. {thorizing the State Board of A'd-| ‘Both Mr. Cook and Mr. Parker ministration to purchase ettat addressed the meeting and re-i ings of $102,000 worth of bonds } quested that the holdings which! $100,000 @ 60 and $2,000 @! they represented, about 169,000' 59. acres of the approximate 400,000} In connection with the purchase ; on the’ of these bonds a telegram was! mainland, be assessed at 25 cents/yeaq which was from Roy Cru:n-| the acre. .._|mer, of the Crummer Brown com-} It was pointed out that in the' pany, suggesting the purchase of event this was agreed upon the these bonds and showing that the advan-| very short time a great deal of activity’ taseous to the company. would be seen in that section and; yy Grummer is the head of: enee 'the company which has been au-! The proposition is to have the: thorized to eggineer the bond re- lands free and unencumbered by! funding of Monroe county, as order that! decided by the county commis- at a din the project of drilling for; yyblie meeting held in the coun- oil which, it has been said, may/ty court house. The amount in- be found in that section. jvolved in the process of refund- The proposition as suggested | ing is $3,200,000, Another reso'ution was adopt- State two weeks—then flew back in an} @uite too large to be settled in aj Board of Administration, asking hour and a half. This year cause of political engagements. Advocates Single Tax “I believe in a balanced bud- he | few hours in an afternoon. couldn’t make the annual walk be-; are a number of matters There; that bonds purchased for Monroe which | county in July and which are now casual cancelled, be sent to the commis- which! sioners. are not anparent to the thinker, it was shown, igrow COST GF FOOD MAY BE HIGHER | DURING WINTER: For Interest ‘MeGrady Conseals Motives a Labret REPORT COMPIL2D BY Cl TOOT O OM. , Te Be § . ‘CULTURAL DEPARTMENT REVEALS FINDINGS RELA- TIVE TO EATABLES By SIGRID ARNE any WASHIN day’s chicken, ug. hould ¢ i ost no more | this winter than last, figures! from the department of agricul- ture show. But the food billy seems likely to go up for several other commonly used staples such | s milk and potatoes. | to do First, | The weather had most with it, the report says. there was the l*te spr.ng frost which harmed fruit trees, andj then the drought hit states which feed for the animas which supply meat for the market, The department's report does not forecast actual prices, but hows the food divisions in which upplies are Lk<ly to be higher than last year. And when ower or supplies are low, prices rive Less Milk In Sight The report says: Dary products supplies are ex- pected to be shightty cause pastures have been burned. that means farmers have to buy fecd for their cows, eke kui them and sell them :or meat. In} it cuts the of lower be-| vitner case milk fox Poultry be larger. spring hatchings th's yea last. Even so, th rise the drought prices so high that cide not to raise t maturity. There wll be less spring frost harmed Apple and peach 28 smallest since 1 citrus fruits, though, be plentiful. There be<f, veal and lamb twelve months. But more pigs than la:t drought reduced th upyly the an shou'a ger gg supplie: © were prices s de- r chickens to fruit. The the trees. are the Pears and promise to is expected to be xt be The or the 1 there wil year imount FOUR AND HALF INCHES OF RAIN IN THIRTY HOURS Should Key West have no more rain during the entire month of August there should be no complain’, as the rain fall recorded at the weather bureau covering the period from 8 o'clock yesterday morning until 2 o'clock this afternoon, was Key Wes"'s natural allowance for the month. Records at the United States Weather Bureau show that the normal rainfall for the entire menth of Auge: is 4.51 inches. And from & o'clock yesterday morning until 2 o'clock this afternoon vhe exact precipitation rec- orded is exactly 451 inches MORE CASES IN PLANT SPRAYING BFING PREPARED ONE OF PERSONS IN INJUNC- TIONS SOUGHT WILL FIGHT MATTER TO LIMIT. STATED Tv 6s Key West unit of the state plant board are preparing ¢o se- cure im circuit court several in- jenctions against have objected operations, it was stated today persons who to the spraying Application for one of t junctions was being prepared this morning and will be presented te the court tery About Efferts Te Smecsth Out Rew In O:- seed Bedi By PRESTON CROVER deere Pree WASHINGTON. Aug 5 There is some mystery about As sistant Labor Secretary McGrady's effcrts .c smocth out the ow = ergan.zed laber ower -mdusria’ wa craft emonem Madame Secretary Perkins’ chicf trouble sheoter— be is acting secretary, imcidenial = d@urimg aco absence — protease: be pmee of af parti wan Federatee pute. playing bu ; alow the use of the property |get,” he says. “Constructive plans he earliest moment with that end in view should be formulated. What everyone wants is security, now, next yesr, and feed and the reduced feed wi probably curtail meat Potato Shortage Seen discuss the practical benefits of! free of rental. their investigations, but indicated] Names of the clerks and in- that they might aid technicians in!spectors and the location of the allowable by law after the return of Judge Jefferson B. Browne who is at this time m Miami production YACHT ARRIVES CUTTER KIMBALL cent more eliminating static in radio recep-| polls will be announced tonight tion. by the commissioners in regular Their “lab” is as fool-proof as} meeting. possible, Dr. Workman said. | heavy copper lightning conductor! HERNANDEZ RITES encircles the roof of 14-gauge sheet iron. A 100-foot cable chain connected to this rod and the metal covering may be _ trailed from the rear of the car. Theoretically, if the car were] pyneral struck by lightning, the bolt would scoot off into the ground without doing damage or injury! to the occupants. The “lab” itself is mounted on the chassis of a large automobile. There. is working space for three men and a driver’s seat. The equipment consists of three services for Mrs. he'd from the residénce, 516 An- gela street tomorrow’ afternoon 5:30 o'clock. Rev. Guillermo Perez will officiate. Mrs, Hernandez died 6 o'clock Sunday afternogm eS ices ;Were announced: for-5330 ‘o*élock B a , Monday afternoon. Shortly before specially designed cameras, aN the services were to be held a electrical field measurement de-| telegram was received from a sis- vice and a calibrated instrument’ ter, Mrs. Caridad Alfonso, in Or- board. jlando, that she would arrive in Cameras At Portholes |Key West this evening, which is Lenses of the three cameras the reason of the funeral having peer out of portholes in the side! been postponed. of the armored car in much the! same way barrels of machine guns MRS ROBERTS stick out of the side of an army le tank. \ “These special cameras,” ex-| ON VISIT HERE plained Dr. Holzer, “differ from! ones, high quality machines in! that the film is placed on very i ‘ rapidly rotating drums which oper-! sincleiea a oats was ate in such a way that the cameras sre. George E. Roberts of Tat- are always focused.” { : i Pictures are taken only at "USMines Fig, ts ts night. The cameras are without visiting with her sister, Mrs. shutters. When the lightning! aenes* Pritchard, and other rela. flashes through the skies the! tives and friends. image of the jagged streak is ree-' Se cr eee film by its CUPID, BUSY IN JUNE Be ane aclEe the pore pe Cupid was indeed busy a 5 s in a series o: ‘hes, if he was as active in al although the naked eye sees pend eave the country as he was what appears to be a sustained'in the Ell:ton, Maryland, flash. The moving film, driven by! in the “Little Chureh. Around the a bank of storage batteries. ree-! Corner,” in New York City. Rec- os each flash as a separate pic-'ords at the office of the clerk of mre. court | } | Evangelina’ He:naridz‘'are ‘to be| $ in Elkton showed that!for Tampa with the five years from now. “I think business organizations should take their workers into partnership—sign them up for a division of the srofits and do away with violence and bloody strikes. “This could be done by alloeat- ing some of the profits to stock- holders and some of the work- ers. “T believe in a_ single hich wou'd include all other taxes. As it is now, city, state and federal tax bodies eat ~ up revenues by their numbers.” He also believes farmers should organize along business lines to protect their interests.” CUBA BRINGS IN 94 PASSENGERS VESSEL LEFT LATE IN AFT- ERNOON ENROUTE TO TAMPA tax, Steamship Cuba, of the P. and O. S. S. company arrived yester- day afternoon from Havana with eight first class and 14 second class passengers for Key West; 67 first class and five second class passengers for Tampa. Key West arrivals: Rafael Ban- cells, Enrique Varela, Manuel Varela, Enrique Varela, Conchita Varela, Manuel Domenech, Eloise Martinez, Florinda Torres, Eu- femio Chavez, Renato Chavez, Louis Norcisa, Zoila Norcisa, C. Norcisa, Lawrence Lowe, Sarah Fernandez, Josefa Avila, Oscar and| Avila, Juan Borges, Isolina Bor- ges, Alicia D. Borges, Juan A. Borges, Delia Cobo. The Cuba sailed at 5 o'clock following Equally important to the inves-, 1,189 licenses to wed were issued|bookings from Key West: C. tigation are the sinwaltaneous' there during June, while wedding} Grane, D. H. Ferent, D. N. Fer- measurements made with the pie- records in the “Little Church|ent, M. S. Ryan, E Medard, A. S. tures. “This measurement,” Dr.| Around the Corner” divulged that|Moritz, A. M. Laurenflens, Mrs. Snoddy said, “amounts to esti-/251 ceremonies had been per-j}James Coulson, James R. Coul- mating the voltage difference re-|formed there duting tthe same son, Kenneth Coulson, H. H. Dar- sponsible for the lightning flash.”| period. by, E. S. Hitech. FROM TORTUGAS) — COMES TO PORT ANTON DOHRN BRINGS IN| COAST GUARD SHIP HAD SEVERAL SCIENTISTS | BEEN SEARCHING FOR VES- UPON ARRIVAL | SELS SAID TO BE LOST Yacht Anton Dohrn, Captain} Mills, arrived yesterday after- noon from Trotugas and berthed at one of the wharves in the inner harbor. i The Dohrn is in service with;of vessels, smz'l fishing the Carnegie Laboratory at Log-j sponging vessels, :eported gerhead Key and had as passen- ing from ports on the west coast. Cutter Kimball; Coast Guard arrived in port today after a cruise of almost a week in search i 1 | andj miss-! to of more fru:tiess | Power Mr. and Mrs. Gus Avala an- nounce the birth of a daughter: at the home, 414 William street, | ers a group of scientists who! a 2 8 have been pursuing their biolog- | — Kimball was assigned ical studies and experiments at‘ this port one month ago and has the laboratory. been berthed at one of the finger; {piers in the naval station except! NEW ARRIV ‘AL AT | when searching after missing ves- sels. One of her longest trips YALAS ':" being temporarily assigned | HOME OF A to duty here was one | than 2,000 miles in a {search for the missing Boat Nunoca. It is expected that another Cut-] ter, the Yeaton, from Gulfport, yesterday morning. j Miss., will arrive here within the The »ew arrival has been giv-;next week to relieve tNe Kimball, j en the name of Joan Anette.| which will.then leave for her} Both mether and baby are doing home port at: Pascagoula, Miss. | nicely. Mrs, Ayala was before’ ee ths | her marriage, Miss Doxa > COMES | daughter of Mr. and’Mrs. Ari i rai }die Tynes, was an arrival in Key West yesterday over the highwa; | Lard will be 25 pe plentiful this year tnan ‘ast. Butter prices are high because of the drought, and farmers in the intensive dairy regions ave busily producing it to me.t the demand. But if meat prices go high in proportion, : are likely to sell their c or meat. That would mean less milk, butter fat, and lower stocks butter. There will be p'enty of wheat of all kinds exce;t those used for bread and macaroni Rice stocks are expected be larger. Farmers “in Califo ad the south planted more this year year. Potato supplies will te ma ked- ly less this year. The prices for them the last two years were so! low that farme: planted less acres in potatoes this year. SMITHS LEAVE ON VACATION rs oss of a h of the Ley Rev. M. L. Sm Memorial Church, accompanied by Mrs. Smith and the rest of the family, left Monday morning over the highway for po nts South Carolina, where they spend a vacation visiting tives. The prayer service tonight at the Ley Memorial church. due to the “absence of Rev. Smith, wll! be conducted by Uriah Curry. in a will rela- wth relatives an Steamship Miraflores, Standard Fruit and Steamship This is Mr. Tynes’ first visit to company, arrived in port this} Key West in nineteen years, hav- morning at 10:30 o’clock from, ing left this city that many years; Philgdelphia, took 29,678 gailons}ago, when he enlisted with th of fuel gil at the Porter Dock} United States forces for service | company and sailed 2 o’clock for during the World War. Frontera, Mexico. Since that time he has been} Another vessel of the same line | making his home in New York and! the Ceiba, is due in port Saturday | other sections, and states that he! from Philadelphia, will bunker at,is much pleased to be back in the Porter dock and sail for the}Key West again with his many same port. friends. i of the} friends. It nde against whom the be through a’ od that t asked will fight the all. nother case which. pected, will be heard matter decided spon the turn of Judge Browne which a certain has been cited fer contempt im disobeying an injunction which was issued several months ago. WPA OFFICIAL as one property owne: OFFICE ENCIN=ER FOR FLOR- IDA OGAMIZATION COMES TO CITY YESTERDAY J. G. Moore, o for the WPA state was an strive coast yesterday local projects. Today Mr. ice engineer the vist ower for es 2 Moore meeting with Acting Administrater Rey Goodman, \sho is also engmeer charge of all projects, and going over the situation here It is um derstood that the vi meer will remain days. Washington Youths Use Tax Tokens As Targets (My Assectates Frew TACOMA, Wash. Aug 5.— t | souri citizens may be able to use Regu'ar meeting of the board { county commissioners is sched uled for this evening at 8 o'clock in the clerk’s office at the county court house. Besides the regular routine business of the board it is under- stood that a number of matters anent the election to be held on) August 11 are to be diseussed. | their tax tokens for milk battie caps, but Washington state youth holds the quarter size meta! dacs cireulated here im imgher esteem For example, youngsters have found the tokens make excellent Indian-style head bends to keep schoo! girl locks eat of faces. dec- erations fer home-made cowhey belts and targets fer air rifle prac- tice. WHETHER IT BE BEFORE THE SHOW, AFTER THE SHOW OR ANY OTHER TIME..YOU'LL FIND REAL ENJOYMENT IN AN ICE COLD DAILY DOUBLE BEER