The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 28, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key West Citizen FILALLLL LA 'TWO BOYS HAVE Feary LOCAL YARD| NARROW ESCAPE Those interested in grow- FROM DROWNING ing beautiful flowers would do well to visit Xavior Rogers’ home, 810 Shavers Lane, and seea ht blooming cereus vine covers, an old building in the rear of the residence. Saturday morning it was estimated that about five hundred blooms were open and the beauty of this spectacle was enjoyed by those in the vicinity of Shavers Lane during the early morning hours. It is stated that these blos- soms open at night and re- main in full bloom until the sun hecomes too hot then they close their glossy white petals and wither. These beautiful white blossoms with golden centers cover the roof of the old building and hang well over the sides. For those interested in viewing this floral exhi ion, Shavers Lane is between Duval and VOLUME LVII. No. 231. JEWISH FEAST OF BOOTHS TO BE OBSERVED EVENT BEGINS AT sunpown| WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER! 30; SERVICES TO BE CON- DUCTED BY RABBI MALC lone INCIDENT AT PORTER | ! DOCK; OTHER AT CAUSE-! ‘WAY LEADING TO OLD AIR! STATION | i Two escapes from nomibiel Rich in tradiiion the Jewish Feast of Booths, or Sukkoth as it] | |to The Citizen. drowning were reported yesterday | One of these oc-! H | ‘curred at the Porter Dock com-| . } !pany’s main pier and the other at| is known in Hebrew, will be ob- served this year fox eight days be- | ginning at sundown Wednesday, The eighth day is known as the Feast of Conclusion} and on the following day the Feast | of Rejoicing in the Law ob-| served. Services in connection with the} event will be held at the local synagogue by Rabbi Joseph Male. pereeaiber i {the causeway leading to the air! j station. j In this latter case, Jack Hol- senback, little son of Mr. and Mrs. ! J, Holsenback of White street, was ! playing on a bank near the cause-" | way. He started for the shore, | is | YOU VOTE FOR DELEGATES | LANDON TOTAL IS 217 —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1936. l GUESSING THE ELECTION THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE fore proceeding with this ar-) ticle, the writer wishes to state; very clearly that he is not giving! his own view on the situation,! what is here said about the vari-| ous States is based entirely upon a careful study of a number of! polls and reflects what the law-} yers would call “the greater} weight of the evidence.” It should! also be understood very clearly} heck such polls are not conclusive,| ‘that there is conflict between} [them and that, when all is said! jand predicted, no election is de-| cided until the votes are counted. * In the next few weeks the writer| By HUGO SIMS, 'may hazard an estimate of the' Special Washington Correspon- situation but, for the present, he} dent of The Citizen j bases this article upon the reports: With the Presidential election}0f other polls. Here is the line-! little more than a month ahead up of electoral votes as ara of us, the average American ‘citi-}ber ends: zen is, as usual, trying to guess’ the returns, Everywhere one goes} there is speculation about the out-t WHAT THE POLLS SHOW ROOSEVELT HAS 241 73 VOTES IN DOUBT ROOSEVELT VOTE SAFEST THE POLLS DISAGREE THE REVISED BUDGET Key West. Flerida bas the most equabie climate 2 the country; wih a= average | range of only 14 Fabreche& Bridge Bonds Validated By SATURDAY NicHT Circuit Court Judge Today DEFENDANT CHARGED WIT! "eee eee Proceeaines Deni eo ELECT'ON FRAUDS ACQUIT-. REGRETS NOT HAVING TED BY JURY AFTER FouR VISITED ISLAND CITY Matter Conducted Beiore HOURS’ DELIBERATION | —-— | 2 i, cme manager of the East Michi- “We the jury find the de- | S28 Tourist Association, of GOMEZ’S CASE | CONCLUDED ON fendant Rogelio Gomez not guilty as charged in the in- dictment, so say we all.” The verdict above was found by the jury in the case of the State vs. Rogelio Gomez, ex-county judge of Monroe county, who was on trial last week, charged with election fraud on 17 counts, all of which were misdemeanors. { After the charge to the jury | Saturday afternoon the case went! Read and Toll Benige Deecrat of Monro Se Pubic Werks Adgmectaten cere coe ducted ths morumg beface Jncige Scfferce B Geese & ccuit court cmamae> at after he had received from Key West some of the at- tractive becklets put cut by the housing branch and a let- ter from Miss Heen Williams, in charge of the depart ment. that he is thankful for the cats br bt Aneees @ Tepler, of the bexige comme In biblical times Sukkoth was | an agricultural 1. It was| the occasion for Jews to make al pilgr ge to Jerusalem, there to; Whitehead streets and inter- sects Olivia and Petronia. LIDS IID IDs }to the jury about 4 o'clock and: | the verdict was rendered five min- jutes after 8 o’clock that night, found himself in deep water and!come of the voting, with’ ‘in- |was struggling to reach safety, | dividuals basing their’ predictions imostly upon their* hopes rather 12 “excellént booklets.” sent hie and concludes with: “I now think that I made 2 mistake ; said other youngsters in the vici- lay sacrifices on the altar of the temple and to sing hymns of praise and thanksgiving to God for His bounty. The destruction of the temple and the disappearance of sacrifice as a form of worship brought changes in the observance of the} holiday but tke spirit of the festi- val has not changed. Observant | | ORLANDO PAPER Ity at the time. H i Woodrow Niles, son of Mr. andj} | ars. Nathan Niles, made an ef-! ‘fort to rescue Jack, but the task: - me was tae great aud be was ope 0 } ing his struggles get Ja 0 . shore when Jack Richardson, an- . | other youngster, son of Mr. and | | Mrs, Paul Richardson, jumped in-: than upon any basis of reason. Vr The possibility exists of a groundswell that will give one! candidate or the other ar over-| whelming victory, although the polls do not point that way. How-; ever, since the Presidency is won} in the Electoral College, and not by popular support without hav- Jews still kuild a Sukkah or small! FOR! booth, in their yards where they | eat during this week. It in-| tended to be a reminder the time when the Jews lived in such} booths during their 40 years of | wandering in the desert and of MER KEY WESTER SHOWN to the water and pushed Jack Hol- jing much show for it in electoral} ‘senback up on the bank of the/votes. It is easily imaginable} RECEIVING CHECK FOR| causeway to safety. Boy friends | that the race, so far as popular| LETTER WRITTEN ON SPE-, assisted Jack home, weakened but: voting goes, will be closer than |smiling after the experience, ianyone expects but that the win- CIAL SUBJECT | The other case was that of'ner will have many more than the; is of He rode down to God’s goodness to them. The Suk- kahs are decorated with fruits and! foliage of the fall season to sym- bolize God’s loving kindness. The synagogue too is decorated with; fruits and flowers, the palmj branch or lulab as it is called in: Hebrew, with citron or the ethrog, | —sprigs of fragrant-—myrtle, —and; boughs of the willow tree. All! these represent the harvest char- acter of the festival. Sukkoth is also marked in Re- form Temples by a ceremony of consecration in which young chil- dren are formally inducted into ; Frank McMann. 266 votes that is needed in the ae | - 10 8 9 13 11 8 <2 . 23 a |: Kentucky ... Louisiana . Maryland Mississippi North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas ... Virginia oteh 26 .....8 ae For Landon: 46 » Connecticut Kansas . Maine .... ‘Massachusetts {the end of the Porter Dock on his, jbicycle. He got off and placed ‘ As I his foot on what he thought was Jando Sentinel is “shown former! the timber surrounding the edge! Mayor of Key West Wm. H. Ma-}°f the docl:, but missed it and; | plunged into the water, still cling- {ine to the wheel. ; 5 . Handicapped by his shoes and tin Anderson-with Colonel M. J. agtnitig onlookers “decided he was Moss standing near and smiling.|in danger and may drown. unless :assistance was given. Oharlie De- The characters in and action of! meritt was on the dock and realiz- the picture is explained by: “New-! ing that Frank was in danger, comer Wins Award. Senator Win. | Plunged into the water and sssist- ed h'm to safety. H. Malone, who recently In a recent issue of the Or- lone receiving a check from Mar- moved) “Back on the wharf Charlie did Electoral College. New Hampshire 8 9 5 7 4 /Vermont ......... 3 Bearing in mind that the peo- ple vote for delegates to the Elec- tora] College, and not for candi-; dates for the Presidency, one! should also temember that the: vote of a State in the Electoral College is cast as a unit. If there are three groups of candidates in the field for the honor of being electors, that group will win which gets the highest yote, regardless of the fact that the vote cast for the other two groups when com- Total . - 46 Roosevelt Inclined: 87 :Arizona . ?California “Missouri Montana Nevada .. New Mexico . North Dakota Oregon . ‘Utah on | | signed by J. Frank Roberts, ‘man. Other members of the jury | were: Clyde M. Baker, Berlin A Sawyer, William R. Archer, J. R. | Villareal and Felipe Marrero. | When the verdict was rendered { there was a c-owded court room 1 awaiting. i | verdict was read by Clerk C. Sam B. Curry, Judge Dewell asked if | there were any other charges against the defendant ,and receiv- jing no reply ordered the case clos-‘ jed and the defendant dism'ssed. | j Makes Eloquent Appeal i In his summing up address \ A. Worley, who was des gnated to assist County Solicitor Allan | B. Cleare, made a most eloquent (appeal for conviction. He pointed jout the distinct evidence of fraud | which had been brought out on the {stand and told-the-jury its mem- bers could not sit supinely there and permit this fraud which would encourage others to do the same as the evidence showed had been ; done by the defendant. Hl During the course of his ad- dress. Mr. Worley made it plain fore-; Immediately after the , to; the jury, State Attorney George; on my first trip to Flerid= last year by not getting to Kev West. “Conseauently I did not <=- joy Florida very well and re- turned home len- before my vacation expired” hteatadeadatadenteadienl { FIRST OF SERIES PUT ON AT COLONIAL PARK SAT- URDAY NICHT The first of a series of Satur- day night concerts te be giver br ‘the Key West Hospitality Band i= Colonial Park proved highly suc- ;cessful Saturdey night pes ‘ Every seat which had been proved- ted was taken and many persons stood up during the concert. ' A bandstand has been com bined may exceed the total cast the religious school, with empha-' here from Key West for the fitst group, is being anotker good Samaritan deed by sis placed upon the thought of | awarded a check for his letter on| using his knowledge as an ex- God’s goodness as manifest in the ' = | gifts which the Sukkoth season Washington Wisconsin ... DORA Om ON oo Total . that he believed a damnable out-| structed at the park, lights have ™= rage had been committed by thiev-' been provided, and seats have 4 ing politiciaps, and the people of, been made available, and the Monroe county were the suffer-‘ weekly concerts are expected te : the subject ‘Why I Would Like to perienced fisherman and removed ! brings to the world. Live in Lancaster Park’, itn through the middie finger o¢{fF President, we do support the) _ ° Landon Inclined: 171 “Colonel! (Kentucky) M. J. Moss, promoting Lancaster Park, who signed the check seems to be OF WORLD S jYather cheerful about it. Martin Anderson presented Senator Ma- TREVOR & MORRIS MAKES jlone with the check. | “Senator Malone has lived in ARRANGEMENTS FOR RA- DIO BROADCAST ' ,a fish hook which had been os While we do not vote directly! TO GIVE RETURNS _ i | Key West the greater part of his i life and ably represented that sec- tion in the legislature for many {years. For years he was a prom-; fiment figure in politics and: “served Key West as mayor. He is f the anglers on the dock. | £toup that, is pledged to a certain onthe Bicyela whiek went over] Candidate and we know that the} board was later retrieved by Wil-|Vote of that group will go to the! liam Wickers, expert diver and al-;™2" of our choice. Because of ways in demand when articles are : this faith, we popularly assume/ lost from the docks or ships in the ; that we vote for President. Tables harbor. | ! | pledged to support a specifie can- Delaware Indiana . Towa .. Minnesota New Jersey - New York Ohio .. Pennsylvania South Dakota . Wyoming ... Arrangements have been made by Trevor & Mor Ine., to re- ceive radio reports on the World Series between the New York Giants and New York Yankees. The | account of the games will be given} out at the Ford Show room on: j didate. CUBA BRINGS IN ee Americans supported can- 33 PASSENGERS | | didates in the past, are secured | VESSEL ALSC BROUGHT FoR-! by adding together the total num- ber of votes cast in the forty- | TY-ONE TONS OF FREIGHT | FOR KEY WEST eight states for groups of electors practicing law in Orlando”. STEAMER YORO ARRIVES SUNDAY Illineis Michigan Nebraska Rhode’ Island Wet Virginia In November, then, the people lof each State will go to the polls, jto select a group of electors to} represent their State, voting for j the group that is pledged to sup- i port the candidate of their choice. Tatal + 1 ers, Presents Ballots While his summing up of the evidence in the case was being rendered, he presented a number of envelopes which contained the absentee ballots and asked the jurors to examine them. It must | be plain to the eyes of the jury, i Said the state attorney, that those {envelopes containing votes which were legally cast have been steam- ed open and the others have not | been tampered with. | Producing the tally sheets as j evidence of his contentions, Mr. Worley said that these showed jthat the defendant received al- most all of the absentee ballots. Those who were present in the ley’s summing up of the case was court room agreed that Mr. Wor-} | become a highlight of the | week's activities. Alfred M. Barroso, band con- ductor, had arranged a varied 2 city interesting program for the first = concert given in the new setting The applause with which the sq ;eTal selections were received iné ; cated that the audien-> was pleased with the numbers The concerts are sponsored * |the Federal Music Project whick is part of the WPA. — | TOWED ISSUED. |APPLICATIONS AT OFFICE Simonton street. ‘FREIGHTER ALAMO ALSO|_ Stesmship Cuba, of the P. and The ballots when counted will! As indicated alee President eloquent and was a direct appeal’ OF COUNTY JUDGE ARE FOR The opening game of the series will start at 1:30 o’clock, Wednes- day, September 30, on the Polo. Grounds, home field of the Giants, } CAME IN YESTERDAY, UN- LOADING CARGO O. S. S. company, arrived this’ show whieh group has been elect- morning from Tampa with nine eq and on the second Monday of |{irst and eight second class pas- January the electors will meet at jsengers for Key West; 15 first the state capital and perfunctorily to the j verdi ilty ' {Roosevelt is certain of 154 elec-isgainct the Atendannnt Of euilty ‘toral votes from 14 States and; 3 jhas the edge in 12 States, which MONTH OF SEPTEMBER in New York. The preliminary broadcast of the annual classic‘ for Havana. will start at 12:30 p. m. { Steamship Yoro, of the Stand-| "key West arrivals: G. S. Me- The public is invited to hear ard Fruit and Steamship company, yfulien, J. R. Blair, G. L. Scheer, the play-by-play account of the arrived yesterday 10:30 o’clock in jy. Porter, Mrs. J. Y. Porter, O. contests, | the mornnig, took on 27,829 gal-, Marcus, J. Agran, L. E. Bailey, \lons of fuel oil at the Porter Dock’ Jean Marcus, Annie Rodriguez, OPERA UNIT T0 (passe De | Neely, Elsie Rodriguez, Ed. Stick- class and one second class passen-* i Mallory Lines, arrived 3 o'clock! ‘The Cuba also had 41 tons of {give him 87 more, making his to-| tal 241, or just 25 less than need-j; jed to win. Governor Landon is {sure of 46 electoral votes from 6 States but is ahead in ten others,! | with 171 votes, making his total | {217, or 49 less than needed to} win. Six doubtful States, with 73! cast their vote as electors, thus giving to the candidate the vote of the State in the Electoral College. The vote will be mailed to Wash- ington, where it will be counted, with the similar vote of the other States, in the presence of the twq houses of Congress. The winner! votes, are left to decide the con- must reeeive a majority of the: 4 jtest on the basis of the present votes in the Electoral College, °F | outlook. j ! i | To date there have been 11 mar riage licenses issued from the of fice of County Judge Raymond FB JUDGE TAYLOR LEAVES TODA ; Lord during the month of Septer:- |. Records for the week ending te CAME HERE IN INTEREST OF | Gay show five of these licenses i= HEARING ON VALIDATION | *¥¢d to the following: Cecilio Crespo and Milagre E> | OF BRIDGE BONDS jtevez; Raul Garcia and Ders Le company and sailed midnight for! Cejig Picollo, Verona Mingo, Mary! MEET TONIGHT. Freighter Alamo, of the Clyde-| ney, Camille Marshall. yesterday morning and sailed 6 a. ; the contest passes to the House freight and four sacks of mail for lof Representatives for decision. m. for Tampa, after discharging Key West; one ton of freight and — It should be here written that} | tina A. Torano; Antonio M. Here Judge H. H. Taylor, attorney for | and Gloria Chacon; Orlando Brave REHEARSAL TO BE CONDUCT- ED IN ROOMS AT OVER- SEA HOTEL All persons interested in the! production here of Gilbert and} Sullivan’s operetta, H. M. S. Pina-; fore, are expected to attend the! rehearsal scheduled for 8 o'clock! tonight in the Oversea Hotel. The practices, so far, have been gratifying and encouraging, Geo. Mills White, district supervisor of the Federal Music Project which is part of the WPA, said today, and he hopes a large number will attend tonight's rehearsal. | ya miscellaneous cargo of freight.) 958 sacks of mail for Havana. j 47,427 gallons of fuel oil. the States assigned to President With these preliminary re-| Roosevelt are generally speaking marks out of the way, let us ex-/his by a greater margin than is amine the prospects of the candi-!the case with the States allotted didates in the Electoral College.;to Governor Landon. Two na- There are 531 votes, with 266 | tionwide polls, for example, gave needed to win, The present out-) look is that all of the votes of the; votes, respectively, compared to D. F. Coyle, 78-year-old former! college will be cast for the candi-! 53 and 49 “safe” votes for Gov. district judge, has conducted a/dates of the Democratic and Re-} Landon. The electoral votes in one-man, free law college as a! publican parties because none of States generally classified as “un- hobby in his home here for 21/ the other candidates have shown certain, subject to change,” were years and his students never fail: sufficient strength to indicate given as 249 and 285. However. to pass Iowa bar examinations. {that their <lectors will take the, in the consensus given above, 150 Former state representatives, | lead in a single State. The ques-| votes, from six close States, have county attorneys and men and! tion theh, so far as any individual, been included in the “Landon | - Included in the items for Key; Vest were a number of packages, for the naval station, including | Lowam Runs Free College nails in kegs, and a group of ma-| For Lawyers As A Hobby chinery afd part$ "for the Colum- bia Steam Laundry. Steamship Granada, of the Standard Fruit and Steamship company, which arrived Saturday shortly after noon, sailed 3 o'clock for Frontera after tuking (By Associated Press) HUMBOLDT, Ia. Sept. 28.— | Freighter C. W. Powers, of the Overseas Transportation company, arrived yesterday morning and went into the submarine base to {women who have scattered to other, discharge a cargo of cement for|states have practiced law with) highest vote will go te the electors, strong showing in the Literary the WPA. The cargo was unload-| only the training received in Judge} favoring President Roosevelt or, Digest poll of these States. Mary-; ed at Finger Pier Number 8. Coyle’s home classes. jto those pledged to Gov. Landon. (Continced on Page Four) the President 229 and 247 “safe”! State is eohcerned, is whether the Inclined” eolumn because of his. ithe Overseas Road and Toll Bridge {Commission, Mrs. Taylor and {Judge Taylor’s secretary, Miss Florence du Pare, afrived via launch and highway Saturday aft- | ernoon. ing. Judge Taylor and his secre- tary remained for the hearing be- jfore Judge Jefferson B. Browne, jin cireuit court chambers, on vali- jdation proceedings of the $3,600,- '000 bond issue for construction of jthe Oversea bridges. jwas concluded this morning Judge panied by State Attorney G. A. Worley, left over the highway for Miami. i ‘ Mrs. Taylor returned this morn- {| Taylor and his secretary, accom- | i jand Blanca Machin. “Chain Letter’ Addicts Getting Quarters Back «my ua Pres) PONCA CITY, Okla, j—Ten quarters, A short time after the hearing | | | j i movement viciated department regulations. i stacec BELES soic Mew York Seastems $08 Fliemcg S WHY SWELTER AND SUCCUMB TO LASSITUDE AND LAZINESS WHEN YOU CAN KEEP COOL BY A DAILY BOTTLE OF DAILY DOUBLE. TRY ONE TODAY