The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 16, 1937, Page 1

me erent agente a DEATH “OF MRS. S. LEON BODY OF FORMER KEY WEST- ‘ER TO BE BROUGHT HERE FOR BURIAL a niece of the late G. Bowne Pat- terson of this city. Mrs. Leon ‘| died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Osear C. Cone, in Detroit, Although rehabilitation work Mich. . has been carried on for some} Mrs. Cone is accompanying the West Thursday morning on the Steamship Cuba from Tampa. A ® National Monument and in-| son; Waldo Leon, will arrive to- sluded in the program of the Park| morrow afternoon from Miami, Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon 4 o'clock from St. Paul’s church where the body will be placed at 3 o’clock. Rev. Arthur B. Dimmick will offi- National Park Service has re-| ciate. The following pallbearers have been selected to serve: Richard Kemp, Dr, Stephen Douglas, Vesey Johnson, Clarence Pierce, Sam Goldsmith and W. Curry Harris. Lopez Funeral Home will be in re of arrangements, Mrs. Leon is survived by two daughters. Mrs. Roy Qlark and Mrs. Oscar C. Cone, and two sons, Alexander Leon and Waldo Leon, land two grandchildren, Joan and » House Appropriations sub-committee for the Depart: mentigf the Interior. iy. all of her life Mrs, = week ‘Leon was a resident of Key West, and will be remembered by many ONE CAME IN ON PLANE AND. ¢¢ her old friends, who held her ANOTHER ON BUS OVER | 4°4% it is said HIGHWAY Two patients arrived at Key West for the Marine hospital yes- terday, one of them arriving by Coast * - here from Havana, Domingo J Gomi, pisne trem Summer | sitord, p Peek Cuban consul of land Key apd the other by bus, this city, who has been making his home in Cuba for some time, will from Miami. return to Key West this afternoon The first to arrive was John|on the Steamship Cuba. Burkh as It is stated that Mr. Milord, whose condition was such | who has retired from the service, that it was decided to send a mes-| will take up his home again in Key fage to Miami for the plane and| West, which will be gratifying when the plane arrived he was at |"¢Ws to his numerous friends here. Pia estma om we TUG SOOONY 22 ARRIVES HERE #econd patient ariving via Florida "Motor Lines for hospita‘ization at Tug sol 22) of the Standard Oil Company of New York arrived the Marine hospital, having’ been in the harbor this morning, berth- transferred from Miami. ed at the Porter Dock company. The tug is enroute from York to Beaumont. Texas, and found it necessary to make port to replenish the bunkers with fuel oil. According to advices received SUES HER BROTHER TRIFFIN. O.—Suing her broth. @r because of injuries received in ‘am accident while riding in his eat, Miss Germaine Faller of this city was awarded $2,000 dam- ages. State Inspector Checks : Up On Cars Not Having License Ta C. H. Smith} in&pector f mo th i cies would be ex- the State tor Vghicle Depart-:plained detail. ment este! ti! ¢ ivelyie The } hai their effect, Mr. sprend in & m the Smith told The Citizen, as ears and other vehicles which are} motor driven byt were Being used, °WN' without the necessaty license for;collector’s office this morning and} jhaving the matter cleared up bY! al other guests and drinks were be-|8 half-inch more water than would! ment at Jackson Memorial There were lots of cars with|secpring the 1937 license plates/ing served. 1937. license for the year 1936, or)and departing with lighter hearts. previous years, and some without] Mr, Smith said that it is not his ay license whatever, and before; desire to work any hardship on the check had been completed Mr.{the owners of cars or Smith told The Citizen, ears, or trucks. the matter of licenses straighten- These cards advised the owner,}ed out, but no car or truck or} é| Irish Free State and Britain end New | r 1937 the| friend related to me: ers werd going into. the tax! { Other} solutely white with anger. he hadj vehigles, and he will do whatever, placed tags on approximately 65/is legal to assist them in getting ‘Scotch? PEACE MAY CREATE ANOTH- ER PROBLEM, AND WILL LEAVE ONE MAJOR ISSUE UNSOLVED By DEWITT MACKENZIE (AP Feature Service Writer) NEW YORK, Feb. 16.—Even if | present negotiations between the | } warfare of the two governments, {lem and certainly will leave ‘one | major issue unsolved. Tt will tween Northern Ireland and the Free State, whose people regard each other with bitterness that often has been marked by blood! shed. And it will not remove} the deepseated hatred of the southern Iris for the English. The mere suggestion that the Anglo-Free State conflict might be approaching peace has sent a wave of uneasiness through Northern Ireland and political leaders are getting into action, The northerners are fearful of anything which might tend to! bloster President Eamon de Val} era of the Free State in his ambi- tion to achieve union of the north and south of Ireland. | Independence Or War i increase tension be- Northern Ireland has declared time and again that she will use i .toprevent unifieatipn, one doubts that.she means busi- mess. If proof were needed it could be seen in her well-armed border and trained militia which includes | virtually bodied male Ordngeman within! her boundaries, There is constant small trouble between the two peoples along the border. In some séctions there frequently is wanton des. ; truction of property. In these | parts the Northern Ireland Con-| stabulary evén wear their pistols) to ,church. regulations on both sides, and ar- rests and fines add to the discord, } Main causes of this trouble are:; 1, Religious—Proestants (whe! are in the majority in Northern Treland) vs. Catholics, 2. Economic—Northern Ire- land is wealthy and does not pro- pose to contribute to the upkeep of the south. 3. Racial — Inhabitants | Northern Ireland are largely of! Scotch and English descent. Despite the vast differences, de Valera never has abandoned, the idea of uniting the two sec.| every able-| Pin-pricking custom| attempts to curb the destruction caused by great rivers on a ramp- age. Since the great 1927 flood alone, several hundreds of millions of dollars have gone into dikes, levees, reservoirs. It was widely; believed that the flood menace; had at last been eliminated, at) least so far as important centers | of population were concerned. | of} mad, you need only mention de Valera’s name. Hatred Of English Inteuse The anti-English feeling in the! d 'Free State has become intensified! in the last five years. English-! }men have been manhandled in Trish cities. Once when feeling} was running high in Dubin I was| jadvised to keep off the streets as }much as possible as I might be} mistaken for a Briton. j | Great numbers of Irish mer-| chants have refused to handle {English goods and produce. Shops | of those venturing to sell English | stuff have been raided by irate! crowds. Saloons have been} smashed up because they stocked} Trish | beverages from across the | channel. | ‘Scotch’ And Soda? Never | The feeling of the average Irish | | citizen is well shown in a little; jincident which. an ; the evening at the home of a prom- } My host asked me fwhat I would have. I replied that | Scotch and soda would suit me jadmirably. The host turned ab- “ ‘Scotch?’ he snapped at me. | What's the matter with! }a bit of good Irish whisky?’ i “T hastily explained that I was) or driver, as the case may be.|any motor driven vehicle can be, using ‘Scotch’ as a generic term; | that the inspector was on the job|operated without the required) and certainly Irish whisky would Biges Singing, Tapping, Trucking Aurelio Lastres, Jr., and could be seen at the office of|license according to the law, andjbe fine, but it was several minutes Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd this, his duty is to uphold the law. Mr.| before my host’s face regained its | No Aduies matter morning where the of; Smith will remain until Saturday. color.” peace may create another prob-’, ‘control. jby various units of government in Driving from a ‘filling stati yesterday afternoon, Miss’ lina Alfonso had the to under-estimate the speed the car and it crossed swiftly the cther side of the* street, mounted the sidewalk and crashed: into the conerete wall on the Baton MAtet Ne of Nhe xpeiteges) of Mrs, Cornelia Sawyer, War Veterans Observe Maine Memorial | —_———. States Battleship Maine»-in Ha-' vana harbor son.’ February’'15,' 1898; was’ held: yesterday after-! noon at: the Maine plotin the ‘city cemetery. A program, appropriate to the) occasion was rendered, with Rev. J.-C. Gekeler of the First Presby-! terian Church, delivering the me-{ morial address. 1 The following is the program| that was rendered on the occa-, sion: j “America,” by audience. led by Mrs. Paul Archer and Mrs. Ira B.) Michael. } Invocation, Rey. J. C. Gekeler.| Introduetery remarks, tional and Interna “Man proposes, God disposes.” That ancient adage can be aptly applied to the problem of flood First flood control measure in this country was taken by New Orleans in 1717, when a levee was built. First Federal action came in 1850, when Congress appropri- ated $50,000 for a survey of the Mississippi. Since that time bil- lions of dollars have been spent} i | | i ‘Then came 1037, and man-made | devices again proved -inadequate. ‘Asca resdit,<tlood contrél, Dast,, present and projected, has again ‘become a natiorial issue, is éengag- men} { ing: the attention of public and engineers alike. tions. To make an Orangemat|**Most flood control projécts, as | ude reservoirs, for, the: Merrimack | #989 "eee Nicholas. Rvosevelt writes in the! New York Herald Tribune, “are! FREE DANCE | Tomerrew Night, 8 till ? SLOPPY JOE'S | Music by Rudy’s Swing Band | No Couvert Selection, ing the sinking» of. 'the « United “Nearer ECONOMIC HI Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Cheeks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional Problems Insep- arable From. Local Welfare jmuch good as $30,000,000 worth | OFFICIALS OF GROVES COM. on the forehead requiring direc! stitches, My God To Thee.” Memorial address;"Rev. J. C.} Gekeler, Pirst Church. ess, (William © Bspintosa, Cuban vice consul. Reading, by Rev. Y. T. “She- Marathon on’ Dec2mber 28, | hane, Fi: Baptist Church, en-' 1d Miss Louisa Delane: Ad- titled, “Maine Plot, Key West|" a Cemetery,” ministrator Warren Sawyer made! g ae Address by Prof. Otto Schultz, turns ‘today. = representing San Carlos Institute. 224 by She Comply ee by bugler of Hospitality Judge Raymond Lord, ns ‘ Galuto, Netional Guard. At the conclusion of the inves- Benediction, Rev. Shehane, tigation conducted by the apprais- First Baptist Church. lors it was found that the only/ item owned hy the deceased was’ ait a if Es £ H F E i i & z A : ? GHLIGHTS the bui'ding of headwater reser- voirs—it was said that at least $1,- 000,000,000. would be required if spent for this purpose, to do as of levees. This gives some idea of the magnitude of the problem. And the upshot is, according to Turner Catiedge of the New York Times, 4a se that it is now proposed to promote a coordinated, long-time pro-| Officials of the S. J. Groves} gram dealing with reforestation,}and Sons company, the company, up-stream control, prevention of which was announced as the low- soil erosion, etc., all measures est bidder on three of the bridge which would steady the flow of | Projects, arrived in the city to- water to the sea. The evidence is, day to look over the situation and now complete that our past activi-' prepare for starting their con- ties have been too scattered to) tracts when the awards have been really solve the problem—we must announced. adopt the scientific approach. It} In the party of visiting offi- 4 is estimatted that at least 20 years cials are C. H. Groves, member anaiene ip ns eg ga of would be required to complete of the firm, and P. F. Huntington the most delightful and enjoyable such a program, and F, F. Kippley. They visited ever experienced by members and In the meantime, 270 different|the office of the State Employ- guests, . control projects have beeniauthor-; ment Bureau, and discussed with ized, at a cost of, $300,000,000. by |W. ‘V. Little, matters relative, to the Flood Control Act: of, 1936. | the work assigiments on the sev- They will affect, every, state, and | eraluprojects. be located in 31 states.,; They in- PANY ARRIVED IN CITY TODAY ' | given by mi zations and was replete wi those attending cellent talent was attention of the audience. During the intermission and be- tween the different presentations, } { River Valley in Vermont and Mas- quehanna; another series of reser- TEMPERATURES ~ "| Center, it is planned to hold open CHICKEN FERTILIZER house Thursday from 9 a. m. to In the group leaving this morn-! Good for Pot Plants and Rose | 3:30 p. m. ing in charge of Harry Lloyd are:' Bushes—DELIVERED There will be arranged for gE ra a rt |eecte an cematan of Mention Lloyd, Rose Marie Anderson, Myrt- 0 ments is Moore, Lillian Basden and Rob- Shs: y 's Poultry Fee work which has been completed ert Thomas, [ana in course of preparation nated three white and three color- ed children for treatment. H tdi by! B53 HH di : i Peg dealing with results, not causes. |quehanna; another serise of reser-) COC ROCOBOSECSCLCSOOCSSICHARGED WITH Mr. Bacon's son-in-law and dnugh- They are secking to curb the dam- | Voirs in Pennsylvania, Virgin‘a and Lowest Highest WILFULLY USED Prop. ter, Mr. and Mrs. RH. Harper, age of the waters, not to curb: Kentucky; levees along the upper) Statier-—— ast: night last 24 hours were arrivals on the Steamship the waters themse:ves.” If the wa-! Mississippi in Iowa, Illinois and | Abilene 44 66 ERTY OF ANOTHER Cuba yesterday for 9 stay in Key ters are to be curbed, land now, Missouri; levees, reservoirs and Atlanta 38 62 West. They have secured, through given to cultivation must be re- | debris basins in Southern Califor-| Boston 28 40 one jthe housing department, apart turned to grass and woods, in or- |?! Buffalo 24 28 Johnny Love, colored private | ments on Fleming street. der to hold rain and prevent ex-! PR cae aROTSST Nagy Charleston 58 64 chauffeur, who was arrested on the, Mr. Bacon if a brotherdnelaw cessive run-off. Experiments nave' CHILDREN WILL Chicago 30 34 complaint, and information, of his|of Mrs. Daniel Bacon, nee Mar shown that where the run-off in; Denver 48 employer, was today released on’ garet White, and some time age a grazed, cleared lot is nine per: Detroit ... 30 bond of $100. | announced that he and Mrs, Bacon cent, the run-off in a similar wa-! GET TREATMENT Galveston 14 Love was arrested charged with and other members of the family tershed which is ungrazed and tim- | Havana . — having wilfully taken and used,| planned to come to Key West for bered will be as little as one-sixth | racic = a - Lepore, the property of an-'a stay during February and of one percent, { acksonvillg other. i March, Obvious question is, Why, then, | 5* LEAVE THIS MORNING Kansas City .. 24 40 eto ae poe . po have we spent our millions for| OVER HIGHWAY FOR FEY bee 2” u a 4 oe, i dams and levees and_ reservoirs} ittle Roc! 56 when we might have curbed the MIAMI Los Angeles .. 52 60 Garments And andicraft water at its source? Louisville 56 In 1927, according to Time,| , 76 a’ army engineers pointed out that| Six children who were examined} Minneapolis . 8 22 Work To Be Exhibited American | to reduce a Mississippi flood one for physical deformaties at the | New Orleans .. 50 78 | foot would require the holding out! clinic recently held in Key West, | New York 42 ; |“ was invited in Dublin to spend | of 7,000,000 to 11,000,000 acre-'jeft this monring in a bus of the | Pensacola 68 At WP A feet of water. If 8,000,000 acres! Figrida Motor Lines for Miami| Pittsburgh - 40 ewing ooms inent Irishman. There were sever- | °f teforested land held back just’ where they are to be given treat |St. Louis ..... 22 50 hos. | Salt Lake City 16 36 em flow off cultivated farm land a! pita), San Francisco 46 58 That: the people of Key West, those who have been working at flood would be reduced a half-inch py, Drubacker, assistant ortho: | Scattle 48 and others who may be interested, this busy center im the okt briek and no more. Similar objections‘ pedie surgeon at Coral Gables Clin-| Tampa 74 may have an opportunity of view-| factory at the corner of Gnte were brought out by the army to jc, came to this city several weeks | Washington 33 52 ing the work and progress made, crine and Grinnell streets. (| ago and held examinations at tho! Williston 34 as well as the accomplishments of It was annowneed Grom the of Monroe County Clinic, and desig- — workers at WPA Womans’ Work fice of the work center this mere ing that it will be « revelation te the people of the « wo =e | first hand come of work which has been ' they have now become finer arte of needle