The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 24, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. Por 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVI. No. 175. Officials Of Home Making Centers To Visit Key West Due sh ‘nine Sones CONCERT TONIGHT Evening;«To Pay Of. IN COLONIAL PARK fieial Visit To Local] |TO BE RENDERED UNDER DI- Branch Monday RECTION OF ALFREDO Mrs. Martelle Wilson, state as- BARROSO | | | Hi sociate director women’s project, Florida, | ve been made for {band coneert to be given this eve- WPA, of Jacksonville, and Mrs. Frances E. McCann,; ® eatin ms aah ning, ezinning o’clock, ai home economist and district super-| ov siat case Co‘onial Paris. | visor home making projects, will] Plans 4 The program, whieh f!olows, arrive in Key West Sunday eve-{ will te rendered under the direc- wlag, and will’ pay official; #0 of Alfredo Barroso: | March, “Flag of Truce” visit Monday and Tuesday to the! Lindos local home making center, at the) Qverture, “The Iron Count” corner of Angela and Simonton) King “ 0 3 : Medley. “Old Chestnuts’ Lake All women and girls having ar-} Fox Trot, “Anchor's Awcigh ticles they have made at the cen-| Ite: “New. Vi Sisieicbace ter, that they wish to exhibit, are| Wall “New Vienna” Strauss asked to bring them by 9. o’clock ts) “They €an’t Take That Monday morning. c Away From Me” Let all who have registered! Gershwin heretofore or who may wish to do, (b) “You're Baughing At 80 come Monday, July.26th. The} Me” Berlin hours are from 8 to 12 m. and piantat‘on Songs, “Th: Best from 1 to 4:30 p. m. every Mon-! Loved Southern Melodies day, Tuesday, Wednesday and; Hayes Thursday. There is room. Mor, gtay Spangled Banner more in the handicraft, fish scale: Songs by Alecia Camero | a! Che Key West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1937. (MANY STUDENTS | INTALLAHASSEE. | SEEK DEGREES SEVERAL KEY WEST GIRLS; ATTENDING FLORIDA cot.| IN LIST | LEGE INCLUDED 1 | GF CANDIDATES | ' | | Semi-annual reports of officers ' TALLAHASSEE, July 24.—-/0f the county of Monroe giving an jakcount of their earnings and ex- os id State College’s 24th_ an tponditures for the six months in nual summer school Commence- | this year. ending with June 30, are ment August 6 will find 139 stu-; presented in the following sum- ‘dents as candidates for degrees. or mary: (Special to The Citizen) penditures; $104.60. the ings: $124.47. Enrique Esquinaldo, peace jus- tice for the Second District: To- tal earnings, $154.44; total office ; expenditures, $66. Net earnings, $88.44, E. R.. Lowe, peace justiee for the Third District: Total earnings. $102.50; total office expenditures, $46.35. Net earnings, $56.15. Semi-Annual Report Of County Officers Are Given Herewith { County Solicitor Allan Bi ‘Cleare, Jr. Total earnings, $1,- 1155; total office expenditures,! $55. Net earnings, $1.100. | Tax Assessor J. Otto Kirch-; , heiner. Total earnings, $997;) total office expenditures, S500 Net earnings, $447. | Clerk Ross ©. Sawyer. Total) earnings, $3,960.80; total office! | expenditures, 1,085.45. Net earn-} lings, $2,875.35. { County Judge Raymond R.; ‘Lord. | Total earnings, $1,211.24;' total office expenses, $219. Net! | earnings, $992.24. | | Sheriff K. 0. Thompson. Total} earnings, $4,152.92; total o2fice} expeS@itare, $2,719.40. Net earn-! | ings, $1,433.52. H ] | | | | ! i { 1 | “We the jury find the de- fendant not guilty, so say we all.” Such was the verdict in the case of Louis Pollock. The verdict was returmed. shortly after 3 o'clock, ‘this. after- noon. | Michzel Moses, in» eriminal { | MUCH SPECULATION OVER court this morning, was sentenced ‘to one year in the state prison. He | was, on Thursday. convicted by a \jary of buying limes from certain j individuals on the Keys, and mak- -—_—_——— Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Sponge Sales Held Yesterday Near Thousand Dollar Mark Pollock Acquitted In Criminal Court Thirty Offerings © Were Made During Day's Activities At Muni- cipal Dock Thity offerings of sponge lots _were made at the Key Wiest Mu- | Yesterday afternoon the case “cipal Dock yesterday. The lots of the ctate against Louis Pollock ranged from small offerings of ‘yeas called, but there were a num- grass and yellow to a table ‘ber oi extra jurors called before lots of wool | the panel was completed. {Four speciai veniremen were Tle lergest sale .was of 90 jealled, then 14 and 18. There | were # number of these excused bunches of wool, which brought inp different reasons, and the jury $305.55. Other wool offerings was:noet completed until this morn- “ing: when the case went to trial were 60 bunches. which brought with the following jurors on the $300; 40 bunches for $93.77, and panel: Peter Mateovitch, George . vhs E. Sawyer, John T, Knowles, Mer- 27. bunches of wool brought lin Roberts, William Cappick, Paul W. Roberts. aa | {dip'omas making the highest num- | & ae hag Papo . . ice of the First District: To’ Per OF polantial summer graduates —ornings, $229.07; total office ex- Five are candidates for Net: ae: Master’s degree this summer; 66 ar candidates for the four-year: | degree; and 68 for the two-year ‘degree. One hundred twenty-six were graduated last summer. | The School of Edueation with 48 students leads in the number} of candidates for the four-year i degree, while the ‘College of Aits and Sciences has 12 ° candidates} and the School of Home Econom-} lies six. Graduation candidates must satisfactorily complete all require-! ments Lefore degrees or diploma: will be awarded, according to an- nouncement of Registrar S. R. Doyle, Summer school Commencement speakers this year are Senate! Spessard Holland, of Bartow, wh will deliver the ‘Commencement address Friday, August 6, and Rev. | By MORGAN M. BEATTY | AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, July 24— very time pistol fire disturbs the ir gver the Sov:ct-Manehoukuoan TROUBLE IN FAR EAST | ,Cembine all these factors and you have the elements of discon-| tent, or at best, an apathetic in- terest in many quarters in the) army’s scheme to build a machine} limg his purehases with the full! knowledge that the fruit was stolen. This case was one in which the aceused was arrested on evidence which was considered conclusive and the testimony at the ‘ven by William Kemp, colored, Though charged with setting up and conducting a lottery, Mr. Pol- slock is specifically charged with operating a watch club, using a bag and balls, and the holder of the number which is on the ball lection made, is the winner of a Other grades brought prices ranging from $2.80 for 13 bunch- es of yellow to $71.77 for 150 bunches of grass. Total sales trial] When the bag is shaken and a se- fer the morning breaght $953.01. Gerald Culberson, of Tallahasse: pastor of the Capital Ohristi |church, who will preach the bac: |ealaureate sermon, Sunday, Aug- ust 1, as big as Soviet Russia’s. ie n | watch, 's < Choose Russia’s Situation oe ile See eee araue is ta Two %f these clubs were in bag a egeen Now look at Russia: |minds of the jurors, nor the per- Operation, one called a 50 cents Widespread confusion and fear'sons who heard the evidence, as club and the other a dollar elub. have followed the execution of|to the guilt of Moses, . — > a ea was brought out = (By Ansociated —. i ; ‘nearly 200 citizens accused of! Kemp, whe turned state’s evi- stand by witnesses, who also PAGO PAGO, Samoa, July 24. i diplomats frown. confer Mein Ao eahotege: tie Stale gov-| denee, was cag ois == — it pty aaret wherein ix clea 90 eaeane ada keli is that ¢™nment. ‘in jail on entering a plea of gu Tson Ww e ‘ ‘ii Hawaii will Hs hetmangho wea re: feet, Bight of the executed persons to a charge of petit larceny. of the clubs at each drawing. The ae pay ee Re a more than natural heat-lightniug Were among the most brilliant) Upon the jury rendering its difference was, that some persons “° Siege sure” course generals in the Soviet army. It) verdict in the case of Moses, his got their watch for 50 cents or public sehooling in the Samoan ig whispered in Great Britain that attorney filed a motion in arrest $1, as the case may be, while islands. By the pupils order in the far east, ine world hoots an apprehensive glance to-| | ward Moscow and Tokyo. | Are Japan and Soviet bout to start another war? and woodcraft groups and even} PCE ES: Eee MUSEUM sewing groups will take more FILLS WITH BIG GAME registrations, according to an-, nouncement made by Mrs. M. i. Robinson, supervisor at the local, center, (By Associated Press) Key West students who are can- SAN FRANCISCO, July 24.—| didates for degrees include: Flor-| One man’s gun has filled an en-| ence Louise Albury, Wi'heimina! tire museum here with African | Goehring Harvey, for the degree} NEW NAMES FOR game. ‘of Bachelor of Arts in Faducation; MONTANA SALOONS| The hunter is Leslie Simson of; Jennie Mae Johnson, Marjorie . P ‘Oakland, born the heir to a vast, Jane. Roberts and Virginia Elea-| that occurs intermittently along Russia‘ (By Associated Press) HELENA, Mont., July 24.—~ Spanish land grant in California./ Now that saloons are legal ‘in Later he became a successful min-| 4 , One Again liquor “dis- ing engineer in South Afries. | rs are looking for something’ In 1910 Simon retired from r in names. business and for more than two In the old days the “Bucket of decades roamed the lonely places! Blood” was considered tops among of Africa. His trophies constitute’ the monickers. Saloons also were possibly the finest personal col-! @alled “The Sawdust Pit” and jection of African fauna in the! 's Hangout.” * ‘world. it fashion has turned the sign, To house a part of them he iter’s mind toward higher: gave $150,000 toward erecting the. The dude business prob- Simon African hall for the! had something to: do with’ California Academy of Sciences! it, old-time bartenders say. jhere, now open to the — publie.' “¥e Olde Grogge Shoppe,” the Enough game to fill two similar, “Green Buffet” and the “Shiny halls awaits suitable housing. { Salon” are some of the namies'that! The group entitled African’ 1 jany unmarked boundary in a near- gee aap nbs Za: er cag 0 Famer Hap a Nag 2 mentary degree. MRS. M. HOPKINS DIES THIS A. M.. "g zealots may be magnifying the border explosions to stir up pa- ‘FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE /|triotic fervor among none-too-en- *thusiastic populations. CONDUCTED TOMORROW | As for the border troops, them- AFTERNOON is a ever and Japan’s puppet state shifty, hazy boundary, if there was one. But the real international fear selves, the military men on both sides of the river have to keep | their official noses clean. Just to show enthusiasm and pride, they Mrs. Melissa Hopkins, 73, die mtaak:-seipert: Wack: heuns: then bbe 2 o’elock this morning at the ‘Amur’ Piversdividing “tHe “Soviet > is that Japanese and Russian{ ‘these generals were trying to form: -allianee with. the. man army to pave the way Soe military dictatorships in both (countries, end thereby cut down the power of Hitler and Stalin. Official reports of sabotage /eontinue to fill the Russian press, with the second five-year indus- trial plan drawing to a close this’ jyear. If these reports are true,‘ the question immediately arises:! has Stalin’s second -five year plan_ actually failed? If it has, what effect will that failure have on the already pro-! ‘jected third five-year plan, during of judgm ent, but this motion was tence was passed, others eventually value, of the cases id the ‘ful! and talking with their parents, niu in tt Te _. American culture should go into a Tittle more. Key West Teachers Advertise Home To Key West teachers attending the summer school session at Gainesville this vaeation period, have been advertising Key West the curriculum, “We are not going to dictate ‘what elements of Samoan culture should be taught these~ children,” said Dr, Albert F. Judd, head of the experiment. “We want th natives themselves to decide,” | The course is being financed by ‘the Frederic Duclos Barstow foun- Misses Sands and Lopez and I in- dation, established in memory of tend to stay for the second se- a shell-shocked war veteran who mester, when at the end of the Spent his last years in Samoa and session I expect my L. I. de- became much interested in the natives. have replaced the more startling, Water Hole, executed by Frank|?¢sidence in Knowles Lane. Fun- Montana ones. "DEPRIVED OF BEER LONDON—wW: illiam Walker of thig city, aged 106, complained to the police that he was being de- ptived of his daily beer. i Defendant Arraigned On ii dis- Tose, curator of the academy, one of the largest museum plays ever created. Surrounded by mementoes of. years in the jungle, Bachelor Sim. son lives with a lone Japanese servant on a ‘.a overlooking Sap Francisco buy. Reckless Driving Charge Miss Elida Valdez appeared in the court of Peace Justice Frank-! lin Arenberg yesterday afternoon ona charge of reckiss driving and causing injury (o the. property of another, The accident was one whieh oc- curred earlier in the weok and was at the corner of Thomas and Southard streets. It was at first thought that one of the wonien, several of whom were in the car driven by Miss Valdez, was se- riously injured, but this proved not to be the case. After hearing the ting magistrate stated that he found probable cause to send the case to criminal court and the de fondant was placed under $100 bend for.her appearance. Members Of Recreation evidence , duced at the hearing the commit- Department Left Today Danie! Fager cond Miss Nel) Jewel Howse, of the WPA Divi- sion of Recreation, who were in West f period f i ‘ Hey Wott fora period. toll sour tims hes been so dilight: amd. conducting the Drama Insti-| puny spent,” said Miss Howse. tate which began on July 12, left; “that it is with a feeling of regret this morning over the highway fori that we are leaving but with the Miami. : hope that we may be atle ot re Mr. Fager and Miss Howze were/turn. some day in the future and very well pleased with the Sue-jmeet again the many delightful coms of presentations h and) persons we have met on this vie! spoke highly of the undeveloped it.” talent which the; found ih Key West, some of the talent, children and elders, showing positive ge- mius. } eral services will be held tomor- row afternoon 5 o’clock from the |chapel of the Lopez Funeral ‘Home, Rev. Yancy T, Shehane, ‘of First Baptist church, will of- | ficiate. | Mrs. Hopkins is survived by Ithree daughters: Mrs. Fannie | Russell, Mrs. Earold Pinder, Mrs. jJack Newcombe; four sons. | Charles. ippkins, “of Miami, wil: jlard, Chfpkd and Douglas Hop- kins of Key West...There. are also |18 grand children and seven great- | grandchildren, Other survivors ure’ four broth= es: Adolphus Carey, of Tarpon Springs, John, Michael and Leon Carey of Key West, The deceased was the widow of James Ho»kins, who. for 23 years, was ‘a member of the Key West Police Department. ‘ Pallbenrers will be: Hilton, Oherles Curtis, Eugene Pierce, Fred F. Hoffman, Ben- jamin Ruesell and Frank Milord. NERVOUS AILMENT are telling the other fellow “where ito. get off,” and following up the ) verbal asscults. wih cppropriate | battle fire. And so the vicious cirele whirls steadily. on—to what? Few disnterested watchers }doubt that the far east is slowly |developine into a tinder box as dry and dangerous as Europe's no- torious Balkans. A few experts | yfean that Japan and Russia might \fiud themselves in a large-scale {war one fine day without having fintended to reach that crisis. But perhaps you'd like to ex- amine the evidence yourself. Let's anh with the domestic situation {in these two ceuntries. : Japan’s Shape Her2’s a peek at Japan: | The Japanaese parliament meets {again soon with the heretofore } dictatorial army group no longer i j {the two big political | posing the army won 400 of the {646 seats in parliement in the | April elections. A coalition cab- linet has the reins of government. |. The political parties have the ‘which Russians are expected to “overtake and surpass” the United,to the students, writes Miss States industrially? {Frances Cochran in a letter to Meanwhile the financial status The Citizen. jof the nation remains a mystery,' ,,, but it is plain enough that Stalin| “4 Whole period of our science has been encouraging any scheme Class was turned over to the Key that will give the nation a com-| Westers. We put on a display of —— pee nd a Thejall the tropical fruity found in ring polar flig! are an ex-/ ample, And while he warns the| <°Y West-and gl gt sats nation of its enemies without,)™°** Ko Rentady Sng. :enene -what better proof that such en-{over this.” F jemies are active than the Man-| Continuing Miss Cochran writes eee gama oa a, bo that the students’ “tasted some of used one o reeen\ rder - fi clashes asa springboard for a/‘%* Suits ‘and,_.werp », deligbte4 huge domestic defense loan. | with their distinative flavors, es- Interncticua!: Compariven | pecially with teat of the Spanish Now look at the international’ limes. They did not know set position of the two nations: such fruits were grown in the Japan is pledged in a treaty, United States. with Germany to fight off the! “We feel that as gvod old lating the communist menace, and the student body censists of peo- army statements that Japan mustipie, not only from Florida, but continue to build her military) from a number of states all over machine. ithe country, and everyone ex- The Russian press has long told. pressed a desire to visit Key West LONDON—Dr. J. S. Osborne of] support of a large faction of busi- its readers to prepare for war some time in the near future.” this city declares that persons who always want the end seat are, do American and British business communism With Japan amd as being particularly well pleased: : a nervous ail- ™n- These Japansee want a bal-'Germany openly pledged to such! with a recent editorial suffering from ment. GRANTED DIVORCE LON. ANGELES—Because her, husband complained that he didn’t like to be burdened by a wife, Mrs. T. F. Goodrich of this city won a divorce and $20 a week alimony. : LUNCHES and DINNERS | 35c¢ and 50c —Conch Chowder— Het Souse Every Saterday Spanish and American Cooking | PALM RESTAURANT G80 Duval Street {ness men who look at life much as against these who would destroy; Miss Cochran expresses herself in The jauced budget and are willing to destruction, the common foe must. forego some imperial aggression be Germany and Japan. Stalin! }to get it. jhas been sending reinforcements Running close to $900,000,000, to the far east provinces along the the current Japanese budget is Manchowkuo border, and he may one of the largest in the nation’s have established a self-sufficient history, and what makes matters army around Viadivostok. ~ But worse, the taxpayers are shoalder- have military executions dis- ing heavier taxes to keep the turbed the morale of that army? military machine up toe snuff. Maybe the Japanese can find out Nearly half the budget is going through “border clashes.” May- te the army and navy. Hereto- be. fore, the large budgets beginning bntmnectaenonimneacaniainiieee ‘with the Manchoukuoan conq=<at FREE AUTO RIDES, in 1932 have been financed br — loans instead of additional taxes.) MAPLEWOOD, Mass. — Pree And incidentally, prices have auto rides were offered as in- been rising im Japan, even on ducetment for people to attend the food in a gteat Tokyo markets.‘ Baptist church im this city. SOUTH FLOR! DA RECOMMENDS UPSON WALL BOARD FOR INSIDE FINISH. IT (itizen on the subject “Demo- eracy in Our Scholes”, especially as this has been a part of her studies this summer. gree. _ “My reason for writting this Rote to The Citizen,” Miss Coch- ran concluded, “is because I realize that you are always in- terested-in anything which is done for the advertisement of ‘our’ Key West.” Requisitions received at the of- fice of W. V. Little, in charge of, the State Employment bureau, numbered two, Service one for Charles /completely in the saddle. In fact *Pread of communism, This en- ‘Conchs’ we have done something the 8. J. Groves and Sons Com- parties op- Courages stories in the press re- to advertise our home town, a§ pany and one for the Wanna- maker and Wells Company. The former asked that two’ USES TOY PISTOL OKLAHOMA CITY.—With « toy pistel he purchased at « five- and-ten-eent store, E’mer Ford held up a bank and robbed it of + $500, R isiti | see For Work On Bridges curb and gutter finishers ¢on- erete, and one reinforcing steel setter, one cook and one colored dish washer, be sent to Contract D at Marathon. Request from Wannamaker and Wells is for four conerete finish- \ers helpers. to be sent te Contract A at Lower Matecumbe. Steamer Cuba Steamship Cubs, of the P. and With 124 P Arrives ri The vemel also brought ght “Misses Mae Sands, Susie Gard- 0. SS. company, arrived yester |tons of freight and three sacks of ner, Sadie Moss, Helen Claude Williams, Fortuna Lopez) Mrs. Emma Torano, Mrs. Leona Felton and myself, are attending, and TOLLE INTERPRET | Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream —at the— FIRST M. E. Store CHURCH Sunday Night day afternoon from Havana with four first and 10 second cabin pamengers for Key West; 108 first and two second cabin pasen gers for Tampa. Key West arrivals: Jolio Mer nandez Loper. Huzel Pinder, Eola iSwietgeed, Thumes Sw eegood, jMargarica Calle ja, Julio Lopes, | Esperanza Pers, Ana Roma Men- jendes, Carmen Gutierrez, Arnold jerson, Grace Nickevson, Norma j Nickerson. imait tor Key Went; 66 tons of ‘freight end 96 sacks of mal! for | Tampe. ; Due to the large number of baggage items te be examiped by the customs officers and tents and other equipment, which were wned at the lest excampmet of the Florida Nationa] Guard, snd were being shipped to St. August tine, the vessst salied 7 o'clock for Tampa, two hours ister than regular schedule time. GOES ON VERY EASY, IT IS LASTING AND PAINTS EASILY. PHONE 598