The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 13, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No Cuba Plans To Unveil Statue In Memory Of General Maximo Gomez Many Key West Represen- | HOSPITAL FOR ote To Attend Cere-| INSANE REMAINS monies In‘ Havana Com- | CROWDED, S AID ing Week * |STATE mere INSTITUTION NOT EVEN ABLE TQ ACCEPT VIOLENT PATIENTS, DUE TO LACK OF FACILITIES November 17, 18 and 19 marks the celebration in Havana of the thi Maximo unveiling of eyic: of. | Gomez, one of the outstanding| H of a statue to ie m General . A i (Speeial to The Citizen) fi | bapeer’ tektbe the) TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 13.—| Cuban Republic. ; Crowded conditions at the state | This statue, which is at the en- | hospital for insane at Chattahoo-} trance to Havana harbor, will be|‘hee, with 4,064 patients massed | history | GAME WARDEN RELATES HABITS OF MANY BIRDS SAYS SOME OF FEATHERED FAMILY AR‘ SMARTER THAN PEOPLE; KNOW WHEN! BAD WEATHER IS COMING (Special to The Citizen) MIAMI, Fia., Nov. 13.—Birds are smarter than people, some- times. That is the opinion of Jim Dur- den, game warden for the Bio- logical Survey, who lives the life of a hermit among the native birds down at Buttonwood key, in Florida bay. Jim Durden’s territory covers that area within the Everglades KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1936. hh kd | AMERICAN SIREN | STARTLES LONDON}: (By Aasosiatee Press) LONDON, Nov. 13.—Mo- | torists pulled up in amaze- { ! |REBELS RIDE TO ROADSIDE ment and pedestrians put their fingers to their ears when a police car tore through the traffic on Piccadilly uttering long and piercing shrieks from a siren. Londoners, familiar with the sound from American movies, looked in vain for gangsters, but it was |. re- vealed that the metropolitan police were merely testing an American siren for the first time with a view to using it in place of the less command- ing bells with which patrol cars are at present fitted. GENERAL FRANCO'S TOWN- | TO-TOWN MARCH TOWARD | MADRID 1 t By RICHARD G. MASSOCK (By Asnocinted Presn) WITH THE FASCIST ARMY ON THE MADRID FRONT, Nov. 13.—Highways and villages have | | | | The fighting has been less of j been the battlegrounds in the ad- i POO ILS ST SIM Ss | GOODMAN LEFT vance of General Francisco Fran- co’s forces on Madrid. MAY MOVE SLOW SKIRMISHES) IN NEW ISSUES — — DESCRIBE ACTIVITIES IN| MANY CHANGES THAT ARE OOOO OOO @ (10 Ot Views Ne EXPECTED TO BECOME EF- FECTIVE MAY BE LEFT TO | TIME By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, The Axnsociated Press Washington) Quite naturally, much of the ‘aftermath of the November elec- tion has to do with the supreme | court. Technically far removed ‘from politics, nevertheless i | stood figuratively in the ver, ‘midst of the fray. It was the court which put up | i it Che Kry West Citizen hind Baler And Caplin Abbot Dv Here Tonorox ' j i O’Nedl Awarded Nebel Prize Fer Li val Dastricts Te fespect Properties At Local easy Se hey re eee ee 26 bee ood deeded ‘battle than of skirmishes and the! ‘nea ae {into quarters and facilities for! National Park project on the Key: the-t ie i: of th and 5 jonly 3,000, have brought squarely elaborate preparations have been back to counties of Florida the concluded for ceremonies and question of caring for mentally ‘colsecatbon tailastcver a period | deranged patients until add:tional | facilities can be prepared at Chat- f thi “ ' stateeei anys |tahoochee, J. P. Newell, executive Cuban veterans have sent seven' secretary to Governor Sholtz, said round trip tickets.-to Key West ARS with invitations to the following! “the hospital, 1 am C sane erie, informed — war veterans who reside! py Col, Preston Ayers, the superin- Rafael Rodriguez, (Felo), F : i Domingo. Ubieto, Colonel. Gai tendent, is now jammed with pa- Barina tone Sieceels aan ; tients to the point where the ac- sche sand fepecialliayitetions| eee ne momenta ra Seeciens Enri ne.aBeauinalts impossible job of putting two beds sean ae £5 ‘San jit the space of one,” Newell said, Goinaide, eereyy ec: “| “but even at that, we are besieged | The deck on Emigiados C idaily with requests from the va-i Taace ea ae ieee a jn (Tious county officials to care for Fis 3 ” pore.” neater peal enue we the: Newell stated that at this time rectors of the San Carlos = it is not even possible to accept | s “| violent cases, and added that the stitute. Those who are to leav a wee as a representation of the Emi- | i} i West road, from Homestead to Camp Supply, Homestead to Cape Sable and the territory between. “If the people down on the keys had watched the birds and: follow- ed them before the Labor » Day {storm of 1935, there would have! | been fewer lives lost,” is his firm | conviction, “Just before dawn, Labor Day,” he relates, “a flock of some 200 man-of-war birds flew over my camp. The same flock was seen a little later over Card Sound bridge, still flying out of the storm area. “There’s another funny thing abouf birds,” he says. “Seems like old Mother Na- ture takes care of things her- self, because always after many have been killed in a big storm there is an in the breeding and rai young.” Jim Durden hasn’t always been j@ game warden, Pefore Mr. Durden receiv- ed his appointment last May ABOARD PLANE i lw DIRECTOR WILL ATTEND CONFERENCE IN JACK- SONVILL= fword “front,” in this civil war, is {little more than a euphonious term ito designate the roads held by the warring forces. For there is little fight'ng from trenches, or between lines stretch-" ed across fields in the open coun- try. Columns advance along high- | ways, leaving the roads only to deploy around a village and rush -its sandbag barrice<<s at the en- 'trances to its streets, {roe county, and other department Typical of a day’s operations ; was the advance of one of General !heads, summoned to attend a state-! Jose Vare.a’s columns on a string | of villages within 30 miles of Ma- t ' Leaving on the plane for Miami yesterday afternoon Roy Goodman, WPA director in Mon- i wide conference of directors and supervisors in Jecksonville. | capital. General Up At Dawn 1 i : 3 | The general, motoring out from {director were: Miss Martha Buck; | heddquartets with his pints: at 5 |supervisor of intake and certifica-'a. m., was on a hilltop at dawn, |tion; Engineer B. C. Moreno, in| to which the start of the day’s ad- charge of sewer construction;!Vanee with the aid of field glasses. = Through them, as_ the Clande Gandolfo, supervisor of | hight brightened and warm labor employment, and 0. A.| F : xz shine flooded the scape, he |Sandquist, WPA director in Dade) .ould distinguish the line of buses Trave!ling in company with the sun drid on the southwest side of the i morning ; , key policies which President ‘campaign, and a return to ‘he advocated, ‘at " letst “inferen- tially. It was the court to whose sup- port Governor Landon exhorted his followers, and for whose in- tervention he thanked providence , and the founding fathers over and over. And when the arguments were ended, two states gave their votes to Landon, 46 to Roosevelt. H Congress Sets Number Among the whole range of stions raised by the election, is none more complex than Will an attempt now be made to interpret this action of the electorate, translating it imte ;action by the government? And lif so, how? Speculation on this subject has : been traveling a devious way. No one pretends to know the answer ,governor’s office now has a wa't-! grados_ Revolucionarios Cubano3' en who are deranged to the point| Rolo. “These poor women are being! are Vice President Jose Marquez, ‘ing list numbering 26 white wom- are: F. B. Guito, Juan Pazos, B.' where mechanical restraint is Gonzalez, J. Cordiva and Perez necessary. _ Those members of the board of helg in county jails or hospitals! directors of San Carlos Institute Abelardo Castro, M. Acevedo, Ignacio Medina*and M. Casta- neda. These delegates are sched-; uled to leave Key West Monday,' space, facilities and equipment. It| November 16, and return Friday,!is far better that these patients! uests be kept in their own counties for |). while the time being, because there they | be November 20. They will be g of the Cuban government in Havana, Mr. Marquez and quinaldo have made ments to stay one week longer in Havana to present to the Cuban government certain matters of Mr. Es-| because it is simply an impossi- bility to care for them at this time i +! at .Ghattahoochee,” he said.’ “It {may seem far from humane, but our hands are tied by lack jare sure of care, whereas the ; crowded conditions at the state arrange-' hospital might preclude even th's! kind of treatment due to lack of ‘staff members and nurses.” Newell said that each day he is jhe had spent many years in the !keys 2s a charter boatmen until \that trade fel. off. But he has i always lived cmong the birds and studied their manners and_ their ways, and smong them has “many friends.” Birds in the keys are coming ck and inereasing in great num- rs under the protection of state {game laws, he reports, and it is jhis belief it will be only a few short years until they are seen again in numbers equal to those !before the days when the white !ecounty, | Mr. Sandquist arrived several| days ago with Mrs. _Sandquist.( They were preparing to enjoy a; mons to attend’the meet’ng was received and Mr. Sandquist was forced to shorten his stay. Mrs |Sandquist plans to remain a brief time before returning over the highway to her home in Miami. MRS. KENNETH } and trucks in which his bronze-| "Onda * whi se ty Moor.sh troops had MOV- | minor ed . ‘i 1 - On a white xibbon of road ahead |- eh ee: Se pered about in icial circles in Washing- few days fishing when the sum-| !of his column could be seen the (trucks and buses of the retreating leftist mititiamen and assault guards. Moving specks on the roil- ling terrain were cavalry troops rid- ing across fields to attack the left- j ists, who were fleeing at a right angle to the nationalist advance. Presently a courier roared up cn a motorcycle and handed the gen- eral a message. ton, {found in existing law for Presi- ‘dential appointment of additional jmembers of the hi | that Mr. Roosevelt | 1 of his own way of thinking. | A search of the statute: fails jto disclose any such authority 1 The consttution left the number of justices to congress. The first congressional act, passed im 1789, jman invaded their natural reser- paramount importance concerning} forced to turn a deaf ear to the “The reds are fleeing toward provided for six. Six times since, | pitiful pleas of relatives and the: linsistent requests of county of- ficials that he certify violently insane patients to the state hos- pital, i “And when it is forced upon us! to deny these requests, it is ap-! ' parent that less violent cases can- not be taken into» the STATE ENGINEER INSPECTOR tion,” he coneluded. CITES WORK CARRIED ON IN STATE the San Carlos Institute. i institu: | } i iy CULVER’S YACHT i vations and shot them for food and plumage. People don’t mean to flagrant- ily violate the law against killing; OTHERS EXPECTED TO COME birds, he believes, and he finds through friendship with the peo- ple and by informing them of the law he prevents many infringe’ ments, Flamingoes Sighted Flamingoes, he reports, are gradually reappearing i that re- n. They left when the railroad lright-of-way brought fills which in?/}They arrived yesterday and are terrupted the natural water ‘cur- rents, killing sponges and ‘craw- LEE ARRIVES Madrid,” the general said, ‘Let’s go on.” His caravan of staff cars, not more than a half-dozen, speeded into the village his troops had just occupied. As the village was near- ed, a few dead Were seen, crum- pled in the ditches. Linesmen String Wire In the outward slope of the ditches, rising eight or 10 feet, the leftists had dug rude, cave-like she'ters, scarcely larger than dog kennels, in trench formation. These were empty and telephone IN WITHIN NEXT FEW WEEKS Among the winter visitors who tare in Key West for the season are |Mrs., Kenneth Lee and daughter. comfortably located at 906 Eliza- beth street. (Special to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Nov. According to F. Engineer Inspector, Public Wor Administration, under construction in Florida four NIRA projects employing 470 men! 13.— A. Buck, State! Florida, there is} COMES TO POR GCWNER AND HERE SEVERAL DAYS tide rise has been inereaséd ‘eight BOARD EXPECT TO REMAIN jinches, and with the two bridges’ jout at Whale Harbor and Indian’ Key draw, there will be still great- ‘fish, their food, With the! open-} * ling of the waters Mrs, Mattie Harris Richard, of between: ‘the:})Mershallville, Ga., is expected to} but a few miles behind, PARTY oN’ Keys by the Labor Day storm the arrive’the latter part of this ‘month and will be the guest of relatives. Mrs, Richard is a sis- liesmen, who followed the advance already were working on the wires, hang- ing like clusters of threads from the poles, where they had been | |the law has been amended. The latest act, passed in 1869 and still in effect, reads: “That the supreme court of the | United States shall hereafter con- sist of the chief justice of the ! United States and eight associate | justices.” This is plain language, which ly congress can change; and un- der existing circumstances i inot the dlightest assurance jeven the, eyerwhelming Demo- {eratie .majority,im the new con- { gress. woyld.comsent te a recen- struction..ef the: court to fit the Roosevelt policies. Still. it might. vif. the White. House insisted |. It is possible that the court it- self will be influenced in its Be ' ter ofthe late Judge J. Vining!pul’ed down by leftists. Harris. Reaching: the oecupied village, future decisions by the happen- on the site; 49 ERA projects em-} ploying 795 relief and 1,145 non- relief employes on Public Works | Administration projects as of No-/| vember 10, 1936. This is a total) of 2,410 men working daily on) party on board and it is planned Public Works construction jobs. !to remain here for several days, | Mr. Buck further stated that! possibly longer. i er circulation, he believes. the says, will bring birds, fish, Yacht Verriere, of Miami, ar-jturtles, sponges, crawfish and rived in port yesterday afternoon’ stone crabs back in normal num- vith Owner Gene G. Culver and | bers, The first flamingoes in several years were sighted last April flying east at Flam- ingoe bay by one of the Rob- ents family who live down there. The last two pre’ ly seen were in 1933. In 1934 one used the mud banks between West Key and Torrey Key. In May of this year two more were seen filyi south at Mud Bay and on September 20 one was seen on the middle ground between Trout Creek and Snipe Point. On September 30 another was sighted at Mud channel and on October 2 one was seen fly- This, | | Mr. and Mrs, Wallace Bryant|the general and his staff climbed |'™&* °f November 3? 'Kirke and children, Jeane andjto a hill-top just outside its walls.| Repeatedly the court has em- Caroline, who have been spending The road to the next village was | Phasized that this is = demo vacation at their summer home |lined for a mile with buses, empty |CT@¢Y, Subject to the will ef the in Duchess county, New York, are| except for their drivers, and sup- Repeatedly it has refer- lexpected to return next week and | ply trucks, on which dozed their |Ted to the constitution as a flex- oceupy their recently renovated | Spanish and Moorish guards. ible instrument, always to be con- a on Caroline street. .strued in the light of conditions ! ‘TWO BUILDING |at the moment. Can a popular ! jlandslide enter into such consid- jerations? Of course only the ju- ‘tices themselves can answer that. \ BOTH FOR GENERAL REPAIRS| AMOUNT! ; which would satisfy the requisite ene ltwo-thirds of senate and house, $500 i | ‘LEAVES ENROUTE | TO HIS STATION ROY E. SMITH GOES TO NAV- AL RESERVATION AT PANAMA Finally, what about a constitu- tional amendment te reverse the court? Could such an amend- | not to mention the 36 states need- {ed for ratification? It would {seem an ambitious undertaking. Reeords in the office of Build-| These questions ask themselves Roy _E. Smith, who is attached|ing Inspector Harry M. Baker, in profusion. The court goes its ment possibly be phrased in terms ing north at Mosquito point to the naval station at Coca Sola,;show issuance of but two building way. The President keeps silent. THREE BOYS FOUND GUILTY OF TAKING = : £ SENTENCE SUSPENDED DUE ING COOD SEHAVICR FOR . ONE YEAR. MUCH TIME WAS SPENT IN CETTING JURY At Court, at wi brief scsmen Albury 2s Manuel Mesa, Evangeame Be=t = Armando = pi emdec. Alvaret ¥e »yphea-ng gc>elm ed on Booseve® the tanks of othe jury so found Members of the J ledge Curgy, Thadders Gore George M Park, Wa Mckiip. Sr. Rebert E. Know es and Baxed L. Ogden. Judg iendants t Albury semteneed the oe mes ef $20 coca or spend the county 5 that sem and then ade = Bar su-penced ing good behavier fer ome pear Hic bonor admenrtea prits that ths suspended semtemce did not zpply only to 2 rep ef the musdemcaner = uk thet amy they were charzed. offense which resulted = orallef them bemg steer. would mean that the full «tiene wou d be carmed out At the session yesterday after noon much time was spent = & ing to secure the jury, and after the origimal vemre was exheested and the special vemire compect-u and the j was Rot secured. was necess2 te cal anether group of jurors. In this group were: Wa & Killip, Sr. Robert E Know'e« Samuel McCinteck, W. A Eeup and David O. Ocden P= Oe three jurors were secured ome SEs =< taken from the second venue amd two from the first. Court will convene @ recomed session tomorrow mornimg st 938 einer IN WORK AROUND TAMPA BAY After remaining four ==rths = Tampe Bay and vicinity while o working crew wee cucaged © sealing. .cpcirmg and parser om attended wds te tavigeticn and Eureka, Captaie FW. Hat v= turned to pert this week Th's contract just commictct >5 Hall and bis vere! “xs Panama, left this morning for Mi-jand: repair permits for the week| Perhaps, after all, he means only'similer te the contract gwen “be jami and will on Monday take pas-jending November 12. Theseito mark time. waiting for the wessel last year for « Me peried sage for Havana to join a vessel| granted permission for the fol-! laws of mortality to supersede all of work bound for the Canal Zone. lowing: jother laws. Six of the nine jus Returning on the vessel as meee Mrs. Smith, who was before| General repairs to residence at| tices are past 70. It would be re- bers of the working crew were: T marriage Miss Glorina Felton, will|1126 Olivia street. Owner, Wil-{markable, indeed, if appointments, P. Atwel|, carpenter and comst™e==- to fill several vacancies did not tion foreman; W. W. White. C F and another October 14 at Mud channel. John,” a great blue heron, struts remain visiting her famly and ex-|lard Roberts Estate; -cost, $300. pects to léave to join Mr. Smith} General repairs to residence at/ automatically come the way of Skipper, R. G Navarre, Debuer Public Works officials expect a! In a conversation with The Citi-! half dozen new projects to be|zen this morning John V. Parker, | started within the next thirty | member of the company on the} days which will materially increase | yacht said that they expected to! the total number of men employed | sail within the next few days in on Public Works projects through-! company with Frederick Wagner, out the state. on the Yacht Faula Louise, and} ic Coe shea fenjoy the fishing at Marquesas. Accidents voidable, | Mr. Culver and Mr. Parker are} erate Jota friends of Mr. Wagner and the P. iJudge Says: sishing trip will be doubly enjoy- tvtrR able, said Mr, Parker. > aay, Oeldted Press» The power boat Heron, Captain LEXINGTON, Ky., Nov. 13.—|Gene Sweeting, of the Overseas Lexington’s new police judge.! Transportation Company, arrived Thomas J. Ready, who once was/in port this morning at 9:30 a professional mind reader, is/o’clock from Miami, with twenty-: bearing down on traffic offend-}six tons of freight for Key West. ers on the theory all accidents are - Jim Durden has _ particular avoidable. ASKED MONEY BE RETURNED friends among birds that come “If we are careful enough we faround his lonely camp.* “Joe,” can stop them,” he contends LINCOLN, Neb.—Robert De-}an osprey, perches in trees nearby In his first month Sadge Ready} hart of this city sued a widow;but ventures no nearer, and “Long collected more than $4,000 in|who had jilted him , and asked fines by stringent enforcement of} that the $2,000 he had spent| | Hotchkiss, Joe Torame, A Mar traffic laws. courting her be returned. *‘round and round’ the camp keep-|2s soon a8 the nation-wide strike} 1401 Florida street. Owner, Johu|the second Roosevelt administra tion. jquez and Wm £ Andrews ing a safe 50 feet away. of seamen is brought to an end.|Carey; cost, $200. % ONE THAT WAS ACCOMPANIED BY REGAL BEER. ALWAYS A PERFECT ACCOMPANIMENT A DINNER THAT YOU’LL ALWAYS REMEMBER, YES, THE ON