The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 20, 1937, Page 1

' | ; | Rem roe ES Associated Press Day Wire eos: tbe aed War VOLUME LVII. No. 17. SF Che Key 7 ‘Aocidente _ |MISSPARKER Two Auto Accidents le Yesterday Result In VANDALISM Three Being Injured STATES THAT SHE 1S BECOM- ING DISHEARTENED AT DE- | STRUCTION OF PLANTS SET NOEXPLOSION =| om | The first occurred in the after- THIS MORNING toon when two colored boys, Al- fred Gray, 711 Olivia street, and| pyNAMITING ACTIVITIES AND. The Citizen this morning that she Wiltie Whyns, 731 Olivia street, lis daily becoming more and more both on one bicycle, rode into an Se ee ee oO ARES RS at ike ruthless van-| gutomobile driven by John Pinder,, CAUSE OF RUMOR BEING’ delicm being dsiplayed by some at the corner of Angela and White-| CIRCULATED persons in the city. : head street. Day after day she is apprised of | Grey received a fractured jaw| _ thé havoc wrought by persons who and Whyns a gash-on the neck., There was no fatal explosion delight in destroying the progress} The former was treated by a phy-| this morning nor were there any ‘made through the untiring efforts aa s 5: S . : of those-who are endeavoring to sician, but the latter refused to/| person or persons blown to pieces make the ‘city’s streets highways| have the wound in his neck treat-| by dynamite, nitro-glycerine, T. o¢ color and beauty. ed, it was said. {N. T., or any other highly potent’ Nothing seems to be sacred to} Peace Justice Franklyn Aren-| zorce, despite the several hundred the vandals and recently Miss! berg investigated the accident and! »ymors in circulation. | Parker was confronted with proof | said he learned the boys were| There were lots of explosiv Two automobile accidents, both of which resulted in injuries, were} reported to the office of Sheriff} K. 0. Thompson yesterday after-| noon and last night. Miss Mollie Parker, who is con- ducting one of the most compre- hensive beautification programs ever undertaken in Key West, told speeding on the bicycle and the! taiks and exciamatory vounds i e that the beautiful mahogancy trees | driver of the car’ was held blame-! suing from the mouths of misin- which she so carefully reared in her conservatory and set out in less. formed persons whd “heard” that different section of the city hadj Another accident occurred about} not proven immune to those who from one to several persons had 8 o'clock last evening when a cat! do not appreciate beauty and at-! been blown to pieces by dynamite,’ driven by Adolfo — Boza, 1207 jsut all af these statements were ttactiveness as provided by nature | White street,..passed over the lit-| proven,to,bé,,imaginary. 1and improved by man, tle soto? Mr: al Mirs4B. F. Sas-| ee 2 heavy! _, Thtee of the’e trees which, Miss! nett, near the residence at 1115 ollowing the ‘sound of a heavy parker said, would be worth at! Cathernie street. One of the lit- ) discharge of dynamite on one — least one hundred .dollars each| tle fellow’s legs was fractured) the projects, the sound of the when grown, had been torn up by; above the knee. _— on ‘the ‘new fire apparatus the roots and others had been of the army barracks was heard’ practically destroyed. This done, she said, by persons who evi-} © dently have no respect for the ef-| forts of others, not any of the at- | This accident also was investi- gated by Peace Justice Arenberg,|#"d immediately the who said that after the accident| bell in The Citizen the Sesnett child was taken to the| {funeral homes and the Marine hospital but was afterward | |office began ringing. |tributes which go to constitute aj treated by a local physician and! Everybody was asking the same normal human being. In_ other then taken home. | question: “How many were kill-’ sections of the city these perni- Mr. Arenberg ‘said that this was ed,” although in some instances cious practices have been equally! another case where the driver was/ statements were made that three , destructive. held blameless, as the little fel-| persons were killed in one group,! low ran in front of the machine.|in another five were killed and cian of New York, who jone statement was that a WPA acquired a beautiful resi- employe who was engaged in haul- dence near South Beach and is —— ing dynamite had, when his load convinced that beautification of ST. LOUIS.—Mrs, Mati'da Pri-; exploded, been blown to atoms the city will mean that hundreds or of this city left her $45,000 es-|and not a trace of him nor his of others, like him, will acquire tate to her son, bequeathing only, vehicle had been found. jh ‘s in Key West when the safe- $50 to her husband from whom} Imagination, wrong conclusions, ty and beauty of the home and sur- | she was separated, “to buy some!and fume and vapor, nothing, roundings be assured. token of remembrance of me.’ _: more. | Up to this time this addition to the city’s beauty lovers has been telephone office, abe sherif?’ r lover of the beautiful SMALL SUM FOR HUSBAND EERE) ge 5 Te eee ae |continually working to beauty his home in Key West, spending i ount 4 1 rk: Busy ‘much money to improve its ap-! ‘ | pearance and even while in New peer etiy | York during the summer had a caretaker here carrying out aj a in "a # program, of bez tion | In this vesident’s opinion the i beautification of the streets and Key ‘West is much more vitally important to the} progress of the city and will be} a greater inducement to prospec-| tive home owners, than the sewer! stem, it id. | | CUBA ARRIVES FROM HAVANA |VESSEL LEFT LATE IN AFT- | ERNOON ENROUTE eae TO TAMPA Welfare Work Discussed L At Meeting Last Evening: County Clerk Ross C. Sawyer residerices of is busy today preparing a payroll and warrants for accounts of the General Revenue Fund, Fine and} Forfeiture Fund and Ferry De- partment Fund. The last named payroll will be easy to arrange as it covers but one month, May, 1934, The other months are for Fine and Forfeiture: March, April, May and June, 1936; General Rev- enue: August and September, the same year. | board last Wednesday night and The pay warrants drawn for; the reply was received this morn- payments now aa prepared were j ing. | ate possible by a request, last week by the board of county commissioners, forwarded to Comptroller J. M. Lee, thority to transfer $7,990 the Indebtedness Fund as follows: To General Revenue, $4,800; to Fine and Forfeiture, $2,150; to! Ferry Fund, $1,040. Request for authority to make; these trasfers was made immedi- ately after the meeting of the! ap- proved for au- from Sreaehi Cuba, of the P. and 0. S. S. Co., arrived yesterday afternoon from Havana with eight first class and eight second | s passengers for Key West; 221 t and two. second class passen-} ifi An interesting meeting wags eee ithe, organization unanimously | gers for Tampa. held last evening durnig which| agreed on the proposal to prepare; Key West arrivals: Jack Casey, many matters of import in con-|a message of sympathy to be sent Virginia Casey, John Stemler,| nection with welfare work in thiz|to Conrad Van Hyning, state com- | Mildred Stemler, Kenneth Haker- district was discussed, especially; missioner of the Board of Social|man, Harold ‘Colvocoresses, Alice that of making renewed efforts to} Welfare, who _ recently suffered; Colvocoresses, Harold Colvocores secure contributions to the Com-|the loss of Mrs. Van Hyning in anjes, Jr., Eduardo Leon, Bernilde: munity Welfare Fund. automobile accident and, in which! Remond, Maria S. de Roca, Nes-| It was decide] to again ask the| he sustained severe injuries. jter Alvarez, Sarah Alvarez, Clara} citizens of Key West to subscribe} Attending the meeting were:| Alvarez, Nestor Alvarez, Sylvia. | to this fund which provides the|Mrs. Wm. R. Warren, Dr. J. C.| Bookings on the vessel for the! only cash relief available for those} Gekeler, Melvin Russell, Car] Ber-| Tampa sailing included: J. B. Pat- | aged unemployables who are not|valdi, Mrs. Robert Spottswood,jterson, Mrs. Patterson, C. | Ww. eligible for old age assistance and | Joe Pearlman, Mrs. Mary L. Part-} Schlucter, Dr. C. L. Williams, C. yet have no relatives who are re- | rick, John Miller and Mrs. Gladys | A. Parramore, Wilmon Newell, Mr. | sponsible for their welfare. Roberts. and Mrs, F, W. Haas. was * : |Public Resentfal Towird | Many Acts Of Vandalism Under the authority of the WPA, and sponsored ‘by the Key West Garden Club and the Key West Woman’s Club, a Beautification Project was begun in Key West which had for its object the establish- ing in our streets ‘and parks of the most glorious col- lection of tropical trees and plants in the United States. No city ‘in the country can vie with Key West in this particular. It is our peculiar advantage and, with our climate, ‘but a very few years need elapse before we can command the admiration of the world. Thousands of dollars have been expended, and expended with a degree of efficiency not often ex- perienced in “projects.” For once, the right person was placed in charge of the work. Miss Parker has a passion for growing trees and plants and her generous contribution of the contents of her nursery, gave Key West a wealth of material which would not have been within its reach under the required proportion of expense to be divided between labor and material, if it had been necessary to purchase it. ¢ All this has been subject to destruction by van- dals too contemptible to permit of description in a public print. The mental and moral status of .a creature who from utter wantonness would ruin a mahogany or a Poinciana which in a few years would be a pride to the neighborhood can not prehended by decent people. With satisfaction, it is noted, that the sheriff has now offered a reward of $50.00 for the detection of the public enemies who have done this damage to our city. When the offenders are detected, their punish- ment should be adequate to put a stop to this out- rage. In an editorial printed in The Citizen on De- cember 22, protest was made against this reprehen- sible vandalism, and by request the editorial is re- printed below: “Tt is a bitter and humiliating confession to make—that we have in Key West certain persons of *h a low and cowardly mcntality that they can wilfully destroy young shade trees and up-root valuable shrubbery. “There is but one way that we can redeem our city from the reproach of harboring such vermin; and that is by mak- ing it absolutely clear to them, and to the outside world, that they will be sought out and given ample opportunity to realize that there is no place for vandals in a civilized com- munity. “If they were merely destroying that priceless thing we call “beauty”, there might be tho:e among us, not sharing cur estimate of the worth of beautiful things; who could feel that defacing a work of art was no great matter; that the only things that count are the things that can be measured in dollars and cents. “But even by the standard of values that can be &s- certained at public auctions, this crime of destroying trees planted along the streets of the city, may be as costly to a people as the crime of arson, and should be as sternly re- pressed. “Here in Key West we have caught the vision of a city of streets embowered in trees, of long, shaded avenues in which may be found that luxury of shade and breeze that can be found nowhere else in the United States and which will add a hundred-fold to the summertime charm of living on this. favored island. This ideal is being realized as sys- tematic planting is being done on a scale never before at- tempted and which, iri this climate, will within the space of a few years show results that elsewheré could not be attained within a generation. “We call upon the city authorities to guard the interests entrusted to them, te exercise whatever may be required of special vigilance to put a definite stop to the reprehensible vandalism which is destroying the property of the common- wealth and depreciating the value of those individually own- ed properties located where their contemptible work is car- ried on, “Too much is at stake to permit of our remaining inert and supine while an element, worthless and vicious, sets at naught this phase of the regeneration of Key West and an impo¥tant item in its claim upon the regard of the American publi¢ as the country’: most lovely place of abode, summer as well as winter. “Compare the value of a residence on a bleak, unshaded street, and a similar residence approached by a_ glorious avenue of Royal Poincianas or Mahoganies, and join The Citi- zen in its determination to protect public and private values in Key West.” be com- { i | | ! j } i i ' { | | | | | 1 ) {Arturo Armayor; | Maestro | Porta Estanadarte, SOOTTaae es, MAKES CATCH OF AFRICAN POMPANO One of the most beauti fish in form and coloring is the African Pompano, and though rarely caught in these waters, it is said, Mrs. H. B. Scott, of Atlanta, Ga., caught a fine gpecimen this week, while out fishing with a party of friends. They are all guests at the Casa Marina hotel. The pompano was unex- pected as the party had been catching other specimens of the various fish which are taken in these waters, in- cluding, grouper, several species of jacks, kingfish and mackerel, and were satisfied with the pleasure and excite- ment of the afternoon’s take. However it was readily realized that an extraordi- nary capture had been made when Mrs. Scott brought to the boat this magnificent specimen cf the African Pompano weighing _ nine pounds and which is to be mounted and taken to the home in Atlanta. Other members of the party besides Mrs. Scott were Mrs. Earl Core, Mrs. L. H. Filic, Miss Roberta Crew and Jack L. Tway, all of Atlanta, Ga. ‘GREETINGS ARE SENT! BY LODGF| CONTAINED IN FOLDERS Is- SUED BY ORDER OF CABAL- LEROS DE LA LUZ Greetings and salutations from the Sovereign Grand Lodge Cabal- leros de la Luz, of the United States, are being sent out and one of the fo'ders was received at The Citizen offiee this morning. During the last three days of the year 1936 the organization held its annual convention in Key West and the following grand lodge officers were e'ected: Gran Caballero Luminar, Juan F. Fleitas; Gran Vice Luminar, Gran Patriarea, Oliverio Gonzalez; Gran Tesorero Enrique Agui'ar; Gran Vice Tes- orero, Manuel Perez; Gran Secre- |tario, Jose Fernandez; Gran Vice | Seeretario, Guillermo -Molinet; Gran Experto, Julio Perez; Gran de Ceremonias, Pedro j Aguilar; Gran Guarda T. Interior, {Carlos Placeres; Gran Guarda T.} Exterior, Eliseo Barbery; Gran} Ignacio Me- din Gran Caballero Pesado, Domingo E. Placeres. -° eocse Lowest Highest ;Station— last night last 24 hours | Abi‘ene 46 | AUanta 2 | Boston as | Buffalo Charleston ‘Chicago Denver Detroit Ga'veston .. Havana _— Huron 8 ! Jacksonville KA 82 iKansas City .. 30 36 {KEY WEST .: 75 82 Little Rock 3 52 ;Los Angeles . 38 52 | Louisville 36 Miami Fe Minneapolis 6 New Or‘eans .. 68 }New York ... 82 | Pensacola ...... 68 | Pittsburgh 30 36 ‘St. Louis 32 38 {Salt Lake City 4 24 ;San Francisco 34 50 jseattle ......... 18 30 !Tampa .......... 70 84 Washington .. 34 46 “Williston ...... --12 Luminar | Chief Executive Takes Oath OF Offce For Second Time IMMENSE THRONG STANDS IN RAIN TO WIT- NESS CEREMONIES AT NATION’S CAPI- TAL; CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES ADMINIS- TERS OATH TO'PRESIDENT _ By" Awioctated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan, *20—Franklin Delano Roose- velt renewed the presidential oath’ and pledged his second administration to blot cut “cancers” of economic injus- From the white-columned stand below the towering capitol dome, the chief executive told the rain drenched throng: “I assume the solemn obligation of leading the American people forward along the road waich they have chosen tc advance. Test of our prosperity is not whether we add more to abundance of those who have much, it is whether we provide enough for those who have too lit- tle.” tice. Roosevelt spoke after placing his hand on an old family Dutch Bible and repeating the presidential oath to Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. A few minutes befcre, Vice-President John’Nance Garner had been sworn in 2 Senator Robinson, Democratic leader. ~ a covered stand about the chief executive; Itaders- of the federal government heard Roosevelt say millions of ! peor swelt under the “pall of family disaster.” He warned that prosperity “tests the persistence of our progressive purpose in its example cf will to peace.” 2 “We are determined,” the President said after re- viewing progress since he first took the presidential oath, “to make every American citizen a subject of his coun- try’s interest and concern.” Senators and representatives, justices of the supreme |ccurt, government leaders and a huge crowd braved a i driving rain to witness the ceremony and inauguration parade which followed. Governcrs of nearly all states had special positions Brightly clad members of the diplomatic corps of all nations represented at Washington were present. cf honor. A last minute suggestion ‘By the arrangements com- mittee that the ceremonies be held inside the capitol be- cause of the weather was vetoed by the President. “If those people can take it, I can too,” he said when in- | Fetreteadd that large crowds waited in the cold and rain. “We are determined to make every American citi- and concern,” Progress in recovery is obvious, he zen the subject of his country’s interest | said the President. ie. said, but the “new order of things, brought about since | 1933, means more than that.” Restating his philosophy in broad terms and leaving his specific program to the future, he rpoke of using new | materials ef social justice “to erect on old foundations a future more enduring structure fer the use of genera- | tions,” j “In these last four years,” the President said, “we have made exercise of all power more democratic; for we their The ; legend that they were invincible—above and beyond pro- cesses cf democracy—has been shattered, they have been | challenged and beaten.” | Mentioning the democratic process at another point, ; he made this assertion which occasioned some speculation jas to whether he had courts in mind: “The { democracy cf our nation and safety of our people depend |not upon the absence of power, but upon lodging it with | those whom the people can change or continue at stated | intervals through an honest and free system of elections. The constitution of 1787 will not make our democracy impotent.” j have begun to bring private autocratic powers in | proper subordination to the public’s government.