The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 8, 1936, Page 1

Page views left: 0

You have reached the hourly page view limit. Unlock higher limit to our entire archive!

Subscribers enjoy higher page view limit, downloads, and exclusive features.

Text content (automatically generated)

op , in the balance, Associated Press Day Wife Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 189. Republicans Cite Dealing With National Campaign)" KROO COAs Map Out Program Cover- ing Various Activities To Be Carried On In Interest Of Party By PRESTON GROVER (By Associntea Prenn) WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—The extent to which the youthful, dynamic John Hamilton and other spokesmen for Governor Landon have been shaping their campaign fo woo dissatisfied Democrats is reflected in Landon’s acceptaneé speech, The governor’s own approach strength © dis- New Deal. seems to be read in the with which he stressed his approbation of the There were, such 2 for example, statements as: “The time has come Be to fumbling with recovery.” Many Issues | TERROR STALKS LIBERIAN GOVERNMENT IS STILL ENGAGED IN HOSTILI. TIES WITH REBELS STONE STATUE IS UNEARTHED DISCOVERIES MADE SHOW! INFLUENCE OF EGYPTIANS DURING PAST AGES 8.—Terrorism, starvation and areas of the Kroo Coast, where (ydaiabeaticalabconsy the Liberian government is wag- BEIRUT, Syria, Aug. 8.—Arch- eological discoveries showing the strong influence of Egypt along the Lebanon coast from the 18th to 14th centuries, B. C., have} ‘The chief revolted from the been unearthed at Djeleil, site-of!rule of the Monrovia government the ancient city of Byblos. in 1932 and has successfully Exeavations by archeologists of ! fought governmentgsoldiers ever the Lebanon republic brought to! since. light a splendid stone statue of a man in Egyptian costume, thej force of the government driving ruins of a temple,, several gold: hard to conquer or exterminate statues and other ornaments set; the rebelling peoples, terror fi with precious stones and a silver | the bush, according to reports re- ax. ceived here. Djeleil’s archeological treasures} Hundreds of native villages and provide a record of its age-old ses have been burned and tory and its many occupations. ! ing war with the notorious Kroo Chief Nimley and his fellow tribesmen. Now, with the entire frontier death are reported stalking great L There are the tombs of Phenician! ‘We must be freed from istces-lyings, a row of columns erected driven with their families into KEY WEST, FLORIDA, 0° Settlement There seems to be no settle- ment of the strike situation volving a group of workers on WPA projects, the sewer, it was decided today fol- principally lowing a long conference between Avalo, other members of the | striking group, and WPA Direc- tor Herben: Reck, and officials of the WPA. ference Mr. Reck was The Citizen. seen by Asked what was the result of the conference the di- rector said that there seemed to be no settlement at present as there were certain things being asked by tthe strikers which rules {and regulations did not permit, and ‘he, therefore, could not grant. That all persons who wanted to go to work Monday morning ed, while natives have been! eguid do so, and that he had been Mentine trouble, and he —under- assured that the police depart- Att the conclusion of the con-! Che Key Wiest Citizen —. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1936. ‘ (MAJOR B Of Strike veneer By WPA Workers As Yet) commc to crty overt acts committed woctuiiiiiiis TRIP TO KEY WEST afternoon and the services of} TO ENJOY FISHING OUTING neither deputies nor police of- fieers were required. | WITH DEMERITT BROTH- - This afternoon a visit was paid} as the leader of the strikers to; the WPA officials. | U.S. A., is an ardent angler and He replied that they, he and} ; those who were with him, had! {agreed that when men were wet! Key West, waters. jby rain after they had been on} believes that the best fishing is ir This he has were forced to quit wo they} should be paid for the time lost. That shelters be provided for vious jaunts to this city. Formerly connected with the protected in time of rain. That men assigned to work in water should be provided with) rubber boots by the WPA. | That instead of working hours the laboring man be l cxtpronthi Kans., he has been trars. ferred to Washington aot writes Demeritt Brothers that =o much nearer Key West he is 128 planning a flying trip to this city for duty j other cities in Florida. { The major plans to leave Wash the job and because of the rain{Proven tq his satisfaction on pre-| the workmen so that they may be! General Stall School at Fort Leav- edd hd |NAVARRO LANDS BIG BARRACUDA jto the home of Luis Avalo, on] ERS Georgia street south of Bayview! Jerry Navarro of New Park, and The Citizen asked what| | York, formerly of Key West, were the propositions made by him; Major Charles Y. Banfill who is visiting here with rel- atives and friends, was taken out on a fishing trip yester- aay by Benjamin Sawyer on the launch Fay owned by Cleveland Niles, and succeed- ed landing one of the largest barracudas ever taken i these waters. The immense | sea specimen measured over five feet, i< is stated. Leuis Carbonell was alo « guest of Mr. Sawyer on the trip. The fishing excarsice was a farewell event im homer of Messrs. Navarre and Car- bonell whe are leaving tomor- row morning for New York j signed to work a neriod of | pin Most of the time during hours monthly. which, he said, | for the express purpose of fish- the «rip was spent at Mas |was the allotted time for some|ing in waters around this island cotte Shoals, with ninmctecs different wariecies of fish be- He concluded his statements by! ington about 5 p. :n., Augu:t 14 | ing taken. saving that he had been fired from| 14 fiying al night will arrive in Other mentbere of the pasty ; the position as foreman for fo- Key West Saturday ro:ning, ac were Cleveland Wiles and : icompanied ty a fried He ask.; Nathan Niles, : stood that the sunervisor on the if he and his friend eczn be met same work had also been dis- at the sea wall it the sant governmental intimidation and hostility . . . from excessive éxpenditures and crippling «taxa- tion.” Both Landon and _ his spokes- men doubtless realize that as against openly disaffected Demo- erats like Al Smith—to whom Hamilton has made gestures— there are both Democrats and Re- publicans who voted for Mr. Roosevelt in 1932 now swinging For Governor Landon to engage} in pyrotechnics against’ the New\ Deal, say some observers, may throw this balance against him. { Landon Keeps Door Open To point out mistakes in poli- tical judgment is one thing. To condemn outright policies being pursued is another. The Republican nominee admits that he himself has been mis. | taken. ! “As a young man,” he said, «! was attracted to the idea of cen-} tralizing in the federal govern- ment full power to correct the abuses growing out of a more com- plex social order, When the peo- ple rejected this alternative. I was as disappointed as any one.: But in spite of this have lived to see many of those abuses substantially corrected by, the federal government in its field of interstate commerce.” In answer to that part of Gov- ernot Landon’s speech, some op- position editorial writers were not} slow to dig out excerpts from his} speeches as recent as 1933, which they say show he apparently was; of a different mind then. One thing appears certain from a careful reading of the accept-| ance speech. Governor Lando: has kept the door wide open foi voters of both parties who were; in the Roosevelt camp in 32, but’ who now aré wavering in their support of the President for re- election. Bid To Borah Seen ‘Politicians here, in analyzing Governor Landon’s acceptance speech, were struck by his refer- ences to anti-trust laws * 4 monopolistic control. Could the governor be openly inviting Senator Borah to take the stump for him in the campaign?; Anti-trust laws and monopolies are the Idaho senator’s pet is-} DANCE Tonite Danes tenn Ae tea oe and be cooled by fresh a breetes se ADMISSION 75) rejection 1) Boy Monarch Of Siam jagain next year. the jungle where they are dying from exposure and starvation. Small children have been found by the Greeks, a small Roman theater, Arab structures and for- tifications built by the Cru-} { Saders. jabandoned by their fleeing par- ents. Others have been found Today) it is a minor seaport. dead, from starvation or from strangulation. HEAVY Y FREIGHT The revolt has spread . along jthe French Guinea frontier, and whole villages are escaping across the border to set up hew villages and to become subjects of the French territory. (DE POOS LEAVE THIS MORNING VESSEL LEFT LAST NIGHT AFTER DISCHARGING CAR- GO AT THIS PORT Steamship Ozark _ sailed night 8:40 o’clock for New Or- alens. The vessel arrived 2:10 in H PROPOSE TO VISIT AT MANY the afternoon and discharged 207 | tons of freight, consisting of as- phalt in drums, heavy shipments of lumber and a miscellaneous col- lection of smaller freight. Fruiter Ceiba, of the Standard NORTH AND EAST Dr. and Mrs. Julio de Poo left this morning over the Over-Sea Fruit and Steamship company, Highway for a vacation trip in arrived this afternoon from Phil~| various points in the New and Dock company’s main pier and is They will first go to New York taking bunkers. Another vessel where Dr. de Poo will do some of the same line is due to arrive; special work at a Post-Graduate tomorrow from New York. { Hospital in that city. Afterwards Freighter’ Colorado, of the| they will visit Mrs. de Poo’s re < } tives ston and Springfield, Clyde-Mallory Lines, is due a pai ER BOE iionaae a : = Mass, mrorow morning from New York, } 7. 3 z “31 John de Poo, son of Dr. and and after discharging will sail Mrs, de Poo, left Thursday by for Tampa, Fla. z eet the arrival of his parents. Cheats Death 4 Times In Less Than A Year To ‘Visit’ Subjects Cty Associated Press) | "SINGAPORE, Auz. 8.—For the} (By Associated Press) first time since he was proclaim-;| PLEASANT HILL, Mo., Aug. ed sovereign in March, 1935, King} 8.—With four close escapes from Ananda Mahidol, boy ruler of; death in less) than a year, Monroe Siam, will take the throne in the | Littell believes he bears a charm- Royal Palace at Bangkok next! ed life. November. ; In January his car turned over His visit to Siam has been de-; but he escaped with scratches. layed for several months by the/ Shortly afterward a block-and- Italo-Ethiopian conflict. The] tackle broke, dropping a heavy ouncil of regency, ruling since; farm mechine within inches of he abdication of Ananda’s unele,/him. Then he caught double pneu- ex-King Prajadhipoh, feared to| monia. let him travel from his school in! Recently a tractor turned over Lausanne, Switzerland, to Siam|and pinned Littell beneath, un- while the Mediterranean situation! hurt but satuvated with oil and was unsettled. igasoline. Another man switched The boy monarch is expected tojoff the ignition and prevented return to school in Switzerland | fire. at, Priest-Scientist Honored As Second Ben Franklin 8.—The memory of Father Pro- copius Divisch a priest-scientist Missing Cigarette Case Was Once Grand Duke’s (fly Ausdctited Press) WARSAW, Poland, Aug. 8.— Burglars who broke into the villa of Bernard Mosztelski here stele} credited with independent inve a jeweled cigarette case oncejtion of the lightnin geonductor in owned by Grand Duke Michael,}1754, two years after Benjamin brother of the mudered Cza*! Franklin, is honored by a museum Nicholas of Russia, jopened at Brenditz, near here. That the thieves scorned other Father Divisch’s first lightning jewelry and valuables in the villa/rod, it is said, wag destroyed by hintéd the case might have been angry peasants who attributed a taken by a collector. The grand duke is reputed to have smoked his last cigarette from it before he was niurdered. : chine” the priest put up on his vicarage. One of his models is on display in the museum. last | DIFFERENT POINTS IN | | i | plane for New York where he will | crop failure to the “strange ma-} ment and the sheriff’s department} charged for not reporting pend- would cooperate in affording pro-' ino trouble. tection for those who desired to; Sneaking for himself he said work, | thot he was not demandine to he Deputies from the sheriff’s of-} put hack to work but had told the fice were placed at advantageous} officials at the conference today ‘points yesterday afternoon to give, that he felt the ren would be bet- the proper protection to return-, ter satisfied if he was returned ing workers, and an_ increased; to work. j foree would be assigned in the Before leaving his interviewer event they were needed, it was|was told that he had called said at the office of the sheriff. | meeting for 10 o’clock tomorrow Fortunately there were n0,mornine in Bayview Park. 74 PASSENGERS FISHING AR VESSEL LEFT LATE IN AET ERNOON ENROUTE | ATING OFF COAST OF TO TAMPA i GREENLAND I Steamship Cuba of the P. and! oe See ee Sree | { HULL, England, Aug. 8.—New 0. S. S. company arrived yester-' fishing grounds off the Green- !day afternoon from Havana with! land coast which may have | reaching effects on the supply of fish have been discovered by jpacsengess for Key jtrawlers returning to this city tfirst and seven second class pas-;and Grimsby, it is reported here. far- seven first and five second class! 55 West; Vessels have been arriving in , | Port with cargoes of halibut, cod Miss | ond sprats caught in Greenland O'Neil, | waters. Shannon O'Neil, Jose A. DePoo,| time ago closed the Bear island Isabel DePoo, Graciela DePoo, goaquin Cuervas, Crespin Perez, j Mr. and Mrs. Simon Van Griek- en, Maria Teresa Van Grieken, Esther Margaret Curry, Leonardo Benitez. i The Cuba sailed 5 o’clock with the following Key West bookings: Mrs. L. Booth, G. N. Goshorn,; Cheerful and encovraging news Charles Ebra, Mrs, Charles Ebra,|was received by relatives in Key Mrs. Baldomero Ebra, Dulce Ma-{ West yesterday from the bedside ria Ebra, G. C. Pierce, J. C. Dahl-}of Sylvia Dillon, daughter of Mr. sengers for Tampa. ‘Arrivals for Key West: Frances Jones, Stewart and White sea grounds to fisher- men, SYLVIA DILLON quist, Mrs. Dahlquist, two chil-|and Mrs. Cleveland Dillon, who dren, Mrs. Arthur Gomez, Mrs.jis in St. Francis Hospital in Mi- Adelfa Ar‘as and four children. | ami, = In a letter to his sister, -Mrs. mot ~— Russell Kerr, Mr. Dillon wrote ‘that Sylvia is still being kept in By Elop secant oxygen tent and showing signs (Wy Ansociated Press) of improvement, and both he and } NEMS, cNuporlnvins Aug. 6.-— Mrs uae ie very happy over ¢ Hi mee e change for the better. Forty-three peatants of this little Lent itgit, however, id. lone south Serbian community are! distance telephone call from Mi- scuvaniy <pewon sentences: toteling) ami, Mt. Dillon’ ssid there wis & 50 years as a result of a girl's ehange for the worse and every plan Be shrines. nts’ orders, the|idication was that the little girl Fed heats Leshajes dy aie in a very seriuos condition. Derwischa determined to marry "Sor put me mate? NEW ARRIVAL AT ing Village Potreba afd planned that he shou'd carry her off when Naboj men were at church. This happened, and thé angered Nabojers armed and stormed Pot- reba. A battle ensued in which} Announcement has been made two men ‘were killed and several |of the birth of a son this morn- woundéd ‘before Derwischa wasjing to Mr. and Mrs. Horace eapturéd “and returned to Naboj.| Averett at their home, 804 Divi- Forty-fité men were subsequent-|sion street. ly tried, but two were acquitted! The new arrival has been giv- as acting in self-defense. the nathe of Thomas Robert. Ai that city just what kind of re A sea fishing act some, SERIOUSLY ILL AVERETT’S HOME landn, SOOO ooeer ‘field Ly one of the Is. .01 itt Brotir- a fishing trip immesiately after | The big idea of the vip is to! catch a jewfish, have it by inward trimmed and cutup Sunday moru- jing, and about 50 pounds be tak- CHAIRMAN GF DEMOCRATIC ten back to Washington the a s Stinday and show their friends in| COMMITTEE SAYS TO VOTE FOR RIGHT MAN sar j fish are caught in these waters. j One or more of the Demeritt | brothers wijl meet Major Ban- A | fill upon his arrival next Satur- E ;day and hig desires will be grati-. voters of Monroe {fied as the members of this fam- the polls Tu ily are noted for going out and ‘getting just what is asked for by pede friends. PLAN ADOPTION OF NIPPON TIME veque:t that ualif count sday t right man in the special sensteria primary, v Trevor, chairme Monroe County Benjamin D the Con tte votes as poss MANCHOUKUO'S CLOCKS WILL. oenition. The Democratic com BE SET BACK ON: HOUR | mittee is not telling anyone wh ! AT FIRST OF YEAR j } to vote that the voter for the ior, ty cané HSINKING, Aug. 8.—Manchou-! 2g"! 8 | kuo’s clocks will be set back one jhour on January 1, 1937, | this eountry goes standard | Japanece time. when need of proper suppo: ington, Gucrd and on An imperial ordinance will be | 4 did not have senator . | promulgated soon, announcing the |», ¢ bat and fight f - adoption of Osaka time (135 de- grees East Longitude) as officia’, jin order to cl@ar up difficulties ‘which now exist in communica tions with Japan. CONCERT SUNDAY \Pidsoie Foca «| «AT’ «LOCAL PARK | Forced To Accept } ? PROGRAM TO BE RENDERED | i New Deal’s Check BY HOSPITALITY BAND ' (By Associated Presa) | MANILA, P. I, Aug. &—Don 1 AFTERESSS ! ;Meximo Carbungeo of Guagua, neces Pamganga, must take $7,500 in The program t sugar processing tax money wheth- jer he wants it or not. The aged don was dead set Aquarium Park tomorrow = against accepting the money, be- noon was announced toda cause, he maintains, it was offer- . concert starts F led “in violation of the laws of “"° egpeeity gona The band is part of the Federai} God,” | The don is a land owner, and Music Project, « upon his lands grew sugar cane., Mills Wh The sun shone, the rains fell, all! 4. Barroso nature smiled and the don’t crop; band. is € was something to boast about. 4 Selection: in the program | ‘Théli catie the New Deal’s crop low: “control plane. The don’d cane was March, Empire State—Co j destroyed by fire. The Pamganga Overture, From Dawn 1 sugar mill was authorized to pay light—C. W {him $7,500 out of processing tax Selection Chime: of | funds. —L. P. Laurendean ij His sons, heris to the don’s for- Waltz, L’Estadiantina—F_ Bos Senett Ne {tune, insisted that he accept it, as. jand when he continued to refuse Novelty March, Basselexy— ithe funds they went into court.’ Mackie-Beyer. | The court ordered that the money Overtu:e. Morning, Noon and | be paid to the heirs. Night in Vienna—Suppe } His idealism shattered, the aged: Selection, Sullivan's Operatic Gems—J. S. Seredy Habanera—7h E-ner. March, Officer of the B. Hall Star Spangled Banner—Key , don just shook his head as the | check was handed to his sons. He | told friends that he would not be j Tesponsible for any act of divine {Province that may befall his sens. | Day— RB Candidates Engage In Bit- ter Struggle In Seck- ing Seat in United States Senate By SAM F ARRINCTON JACKSON, Mian four norsemes pee <s arc engaged = 2 bt struggic ower 2 United semate scat The fight proper. to at the August 25 primers, & be tween Semater Ps img 2 foeckh t= Coe Sennett mitial bid for Hewever, mack sematorsiue 5 The other “bors Theescre CG Bilbo and Ger Hu L. Whiee. te amec Thee pee tige amd posssbly peice oe Harrsos-Comme- Bilbo. Stake We a on Crassing OF Swords Tonight 19 <'Cleck RAUL’S CLUB Jobs Prachards Adm $1.90 Orch Ladees Foo 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

Other pages from this issue: