The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 1, 1937, Page 1

sociated Press Day Wi Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No. 208. re ~ For Austrian: Army Become An Officer One Has To Submit To In-| tricate Tests As Pre- ” scribed By Rules By A. D. STEFFERUD (By Associated Press) _ VIENNA, Sept. 1.—The Aus- éoldier ambitious to become officer or specialist must match his wits against a tough array of ‘-men and machines. { To investigate his > Stability, the prospective officer is | shown pictures of a murder, a! badly mutilated war victim, an! | airplane crash, and various biatio! subjects. His breathing tells his! reactions through an sieatetast strapped to his chest. To ascertain concentration, emotional he fs taken before a revolving belt | \ squares, | | Only a part of, the belt is exposed at @evered with circles, ‘erosses and lines. a time. Whenever a bell rings he is ex-} pected to do three things at once, such as covering blue squares wit! red discs, Squares as they appear, and trans-| ferring other dises from one me Ab. LO ANCHOR. pr ver sicntrs _ If he wishes to become an avia- + he must look into a strong] and then read a_ series of Tetters in a dark room while the! time he requires is clocked oft,! This is the night blindness test.| Then he goes to a long table} where three foot-high pins at one! end are attached to pulleys at the other end 20 feet distant. Sight-| ing through narrow slits, he must! imove the pulleys until the pins] are even. If he can't do this} satisfactorily he hasn’t the ability to discern ground objects . from. an airplane. If he wants to become a chauf- counting all yellow F automobile and steer, stop and instrue- | Ritchie, \SEASCOUTS COME IN ON BOARD CUBA MEMBERS OF SHIP NUMBER SEVENTY-SEVEN RETURN FROM VACATION SPENT IN HAVANA, Skipper C. J. Weber 15 members of the crew of Sea Scout Ship No. 77, who were spending a vacation in Havana, were turning passengers on the Steam- ship Cuba yesterday, bound for Tampa en route to their homes in Louisville, Ky. The boys reported having a de- lightful time in Havana, were shown many courtesies and there ‘was no moment of their stay which was not filled with interesting ex- periences, social and otherwise. Members of the organization who were on the trip in command of Skipper Weber were: George Schuster, Robert Abram, Dave Lang, LeRoy Eddleston, | Edgar Walter Johnson, Bill Frentz, Bob Beck, Kenneth Herold, Kenneth Williams, Jack Bunheim, Chester P. Bailey, loward H. Hollenbeck, Sterling Goff and Torbein Schrader. FELLOWSHIP CLUB Fellowship ‘Club of First M. E. (Ston>). Church met for the regu- lar supper and meeting in Sunday School Building on Eaton street yesterday afternoon at 6 o’clock. Charles H. Ketchum addressed the membership and guests dis- cussed the talk mada by S. C. Singleton at last week’s meeting entitled “The Bible as a Political Handbook.” Various other mem- bers joined in the discussion which will be contniued at the next and re- } meeting. George Mills White also spoke to the club on tha Key West Mu- sie Project and the work of the Key West Light Opora Company. P--feur, he must get into a moaitied | MANUEL GUERRO accelerate according to tions flashed on a him. Finally, he must indicate his in-} telligence and book knowledge in @ written examination _adminis- tered by a battery of officers and psychologists. | Between 4,000 and 5,000 sol- diers take the tests every year,} perfected by Major Kurt Feshner! on the basis of findings by Amer-} jean and German psychologists and| sereen before) ON VISIT HERE Manuel Guerro, Jr., son of Mrs. Eliza Guerro. was an arrival in Key West last evening over tho highway from Florenca, Alabama, where he has been making hig home for a number of years. He wil! remain here for sever- al days visiting his mother and othor members of the family at military men, the home on James street. Judge Lowe Thanked For 2:2": - Photographic Views Sent |HALFHOLDAY To Washington Officials Letters of Appreciation have fices, and Judge-Lowe determined! Steres. been received by Judge E.R. Lowe, peace justice of the Thir Monroe district at Tavernier, from Senators Charlos 0. Andrews and 4. Hardin Peterson of Florida, for the beautiful photographs sent to! Washington for their offices. Some time ago Judge Lowe was im Washington on a business mat-} ter and saw, with dismay, that the! Walls of the offices of the Florida! Senators were practically without @hy picture of Key West. He spoke to the senators about! this and was told that the senators Would be very glad to receive Photographs of Key West to be Placed on the walls of their of-‘ jone to see that pictures were sent. Returning to Florida one of the! |first things the judge did was to! Sum contact S.-C. Singleton, secretary! of the Chamber of Commerce. get! two panoramic piews of the city,) one of the famous breadfrvit tre of the Maine Mom memorial to those who died at the| time and in the wa? which follow-} ed, and another of the county! court house. { These were handsomely framed,| he county commissioners pre-! pared for this, and when ready they were sent to Washington, as is jenced by the letters of ap- preciation received by Judge! Lowe. i KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1937. The Key West Citizer Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS VICTOR LOWE NEW HEAD OF NYA OFFICE ERVISOR TODAY; SUCCES.} SOR TO JAMES FORT, WHO} IS TRANSFERRED Vietor Lowe, for a long time | with the i Youth Administration associated National i in an ex-| ecutive capacity, this morning as-| sumed the offices of supervising; head of the local unit. i Covering a long period, James} ! Fort was the supervisor but re- cently Mr. Fort was advised that| he was being transferred to an-} other branch of the work and Mr. Lowe was to assume control of! the project and its ramifications. This was made offeetive today, Mr. Lowe said that at this time} there are 164 young women and men employed on the various} projects, six others working in a} supervisory capacity, making a to- tal of 170 Key West youths being} carried on the payrolls of the} j CUBA ARRIVES = FROM HAVANA VESSEL BRINGS IN 71 PAS-; SENGERS; LEAVES FOR TAMPA _ Steamship Cuba, of the P. and from Havana with 10 first and four second cabin passengers for) Key West; 41 first and 16 seeond cabin passengers for Tampa. Key West arrivals: Theron D.\ Carter, Margaret Carter, Virginia Carter, Margaret Carter, DeWitt Garter, William Carter, Evelio j tect (ing instruments 6.'S. S$. Co., arrived yesterday omy ~ KEY WEST CITIZENS HOPEFUL NEW OVERSEAS HIGHWAY WILL RESTORE | PROSPERITY AND FORMER GLORIES ASSUMES POSITICN AS a, (By LARRY ROLLINS, in Jacksonville Times-Union of August 29) KEY WEST, Aug, 29. (AP).— Henry M. Flagk white-haired pioneer of Florida’s East Coast, | closeted himself in his offica one day in 1905, pored over archi- s’ sketches of massive con- crete viaducts spanning miles of open water, and visualized trains running vut to sea. With all his imagination, little did Flagler dream that another day would come to see automo- biles speed at 70 miles an hour over those seme huge viaducts jand bring promise of resurrection to a dead city. Seoffers called the plan send locomotives steaming viaducts and picturesque _ islets to Key West ‘“Flagksr’s . Folly.” But the trains did rumble out to sea, 110 miles to Koy West; and to over from the day tho overseas railway was completed at a cost of $50,- 000,000 and 200 lives, until the | disastrous 1985 Labor Day burri- cane left those twin steel rib- bons useless. } Was Thriving City Key West was “America’s Gi- , then a thriving port, the Nation’s leading cigar-manuiac- turing city. Now it is ghost; but when the overs2as highway is completed over Flag- lor’s concrete and steel piers next January it will rise again, its people hope, this time as a tour- ist resort. Flagler, then 76, began to plan the extension to Key West soon after the last rail of the Florida East Goast railway was laid to Homestead twenty miles south of Miami. He accompanied engineers down the keys with surveying and sound- in comparative secrecy. Actual work began a few Ae oe Workers were recruited in the North, most of them from New cago. ‘For seven years they labor- ed to cut through jungle growth and build tha roadbed through isnake-infested swamps and over lagoons and straits through which strong ocean currents coursed in- Rodriguez, Angela Rodriguez, Mer- cedes Carbonell, Felicia Carbonell, Mario Mesa, Angela Pent, Joseph Pent, Santiago Caraballo. Written in the manifest were: 30 tons of freight and three sacks’ of mail for Key st; 147 tons of freight and 99 sacks of mail for Tampa. The vessel sailed at 6:30 o’clock for Tampa with the bookings from Key West: June Edward Du Puis, Marvin s,, Pratt Lee, W. T. Massey, ; James T. Killigh. | COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT First meeting of Monroe county commissioners will be held this) evening in the office of Clerk} rode triumphantly into Key West! Ross C. Sawyer. The hour will, as usual, be 8 o'clock. { No important matters are filed} with the clerk at this time and it; is anticipated that nothing other} than regular routine business will be brought up for consideration. | Last Thursday ended the half} holidays for employees of local The practice of closing at 1! o’clock each Thursday during the r months has been ob- served in this city by local mer-} chants for many : RESTING EASY. Advices received from the Ma- rine } al today were to ffect that Fred Eberhardt, go | jerwent a major operation atl institution Monday, is resting as well as can be expected under the circumstances, | damage. Fivs steel ithe Gulf, and work covtinned, to the Gulf of Mexico. Conerete arches and pillars rose out of the ocean, at some places ‘from solid badrock 30 feet under | water. Many workers lost heart and ,quit. There was a standing order |for 400 now employes a week. A hurricane lashed the keys in {1908 and 149 men died in tho following! swirling waters. The next year an- | other storm swept over,Key West jand up the coast. The workers jwere better prepared this time, and only a dozen men wera lost. Accidents claimed additional lives. Tha second storm did greater spans were swept away And the roadbed was washed out in places. Blang were revised, the viaducts altered® to permit a freer flow;of water inta On January 22, 1912, Flagler the on the first train to reach | Nation’s southernmost city. Proud Day for Flagler It was a proud day for him. Blaring bands and cheering thou- sands greeted his train. A thousand school children threw roses before him as military units escorted him through the city. Ships in the harbor saluted with booming can- non. “Flagier’s Folly” was now “the eighth wonder of the world.” | | ‘Plagler died the next year, but the overssas extension earned $10,000,000 for his estate in the [first ten years of operation, Much of that was due to heavy freight traffie that went on to Cuba by huge car-ferries. Dark days were ahead. however. for the city which hailed its out- let to the mainland as a mighty boon to commerce. Koy West's troubles. paradox- ically, began almost with the ar- rival of the railroad. Long before Henry M. Flagier thought of his railroad, Key West prospered—was, in fact, the state’s largest city for a decade. the | Key West reached its peak of 25,-/ 000 about 1896. Then, slowly, it declined. When the railroad ar- rived in 1912 the population was 20,000, Helplessly, Key West watched they kept running for 23 years—{ only aj York’s Bowery, some from Chi-} ie} tits industries slip away. The ; “Gibraltar of America” lost most of |shipping routes were altered and; |the naval station was transferred. | Cigar manufacturers, embroiled | lin labor troubles, moved to Tam-! |pa. ‘Greek spongers settled at! |Tarpon Springs, and with modern| diving apparatus took of! Key West’s trade. : The population declined even’ after the railroad came. The 1909 hurricane demolished many build- jings; fire destroyed others. Thou- sands migrated to greener fields. | Ber2ft of a livelihood, many who stayed became destitute. Mors than half of the remaining 11,500 jWere on relief in 1934 when tho | city and county declared a state ;of emergency and surrenderad charter rights, Ths Federal Emergency Relief | Administration took The} idea was to beautify city, , j publicize its attractions and con-' |vert it into a’ winter resort. | Ancther Terrific Blow ' Reconstruction was progressing! |wken nature dealt the struggling | jtown one more terrific blow. Thej{ {1935 hurricane destroyed the rail-; road; Key West was isolated again. \ (Floored for a count of nine. Key | West was saved by the bell—a! promiss that a highway would be} built over the k bringing this; city less than three hours from, Miami by motor. H Already Key West is experienc: | ing a mild boom. Realty transac-' tions for the first half of this; year have exceeded activity for| \20e. whole year since the 25: oom. Po orcas { “Providence has “again smiled] kindly upon us,” said Mayor ee Cy Galey. “Two years from today our greatest problem will be what} to do with the people who flock| here.” iE | A thousand men are working to- | day on the $57,000,000 ongineer-} ing marvel—‘“the highway that} laoen to sea,” over which Key} West visitors are expected to pour! when the road is opened next January 2! its importance as a port when most over. the 25. One of its bridges will be the {world’s longest over water, For many miles massive concret- piers | rise ovt of the and support | steel girders over which _ trai: once rumbled. The wooden cri } been removed. Stve feet long ars placed} crosswise on top of the viaduct, | with conerete slabs poured _ten| tinches thick betweon them. They! are cemented over and strength-| ened by steel, braces, underneath. } Guard rails are built at the one i i REV. MAUREAU ) CONGRATULATED f } i congratulations! |Rev. A. L. Maureau received for| his jlee was a letter from C. }Grover Flint, who men ed that} he expected to visit Key West, again, and one from Stanley} Clarke, a former pupil of his at] St. Mary’s University, Galveston, not a Catholic, who wrote a long} charming letter of the old days of forty years ago. He is in the} shipping business. Formerly he used to Key West when tra on the Mallory Line. In ner he} sails to New York for his vaca-| tion, and says he would like to} “pop in” again the steamer, would on p at Key West j Amongst the stop at if HERCE'S FAMILY Announcement has been made of the birth of a nine pounds, to Mr. # tonlo M. Herce, Jr. at 1007 Division street, on past. The new arrival has been given the name of Antonio Manuel Herce, TIT. Mrs. Herce was before riage, Mise Gloria Chacon son, mar- i gp the ‘Ruth Wood, charging that he had reaultg be sent to Atlanta to be Italian Air Force Out New T Movement Underway To Reorganize Scout Unit) im °c" "" There is now a movement to together that without a scout-| reorganize Troop 5, Boy Scouts of! master they still assemble and} (My Associated Press) America which for some time has} hold meeting and go over the; ROME, Sept. 1—Am airplane been without a scoutmaster and is hie ti Nias SHS flexible like th 4 ‘ awaiting some qualified person to} : a ee ee cedar. 2o 3 ihe: take charge and carry on. ; terested parties to take over the! hind and patented five years ago This troop was originally under, troop’s sponsorship. ts A . in command of Scoutmaster J. A,| _ Tostorrow night 8 o'clock im) ta; WNRg oe, fe: being giegts, 9 Boza, and had built up an _ en-| Wesley House, a group of inter-, tryout by’ the Italian air force. viable reputation for its accom-|ested men will meet and discuss ‘ plishments and its rapid growth.!the possibility of once again se-| Umder the eves of the inventor, The troop had many outings in leeting a scoutmaster and other Ugo Antonio, of Pisa, an experi- different parts of the state andj officials to take over the respon- . was honored at the inauguration/ sibility of the troop, and continue! ™*™ eh ae of a Cuban president. jthe admirable and progressive Its existence has lasted over aj work which was so long and 80) o¢ Guidonia, near here period of 16 years and the mem-| successfully carried on when Mr.' es . bers are today so closely welded} Boza was scoutmaster. Immigration Officer George Schmucker Arrives On Visit :".2: ruc." \ tryout some years ago in England. ‘It gave excellent performance until one day when it was wreck- jed. Since then he has refined his Study Made Of Birds In Flight Inspired Inven- at the enormous “air city” Antonio’s airplane is a com- | bination of the flexible wing idea | and an invention consisting of an automatically flexible section of the wing which varies its curvature according to the speed of the Georga Schmucker, of the Duval and Greene streets, Later United States Immigration serv- he went to Havana as special of-' ice, and Mrs. Schmucker, ars re-|ficey in charge of immigration as- cent arrivals in Key West and are} sociated with the P. and O. S. S. plans. visiting Mrs. Florida Lightbourne, | company. * mother of Mrs, Schmucker, and| After being in Cuba for sever-|_ He says the plane will rise 3,- other relatives, {al years he was returned to tha) 900 feet in seven minutes, 6,000 For a long period Mr. Schmuck-| states and was Msigned to duty feet in 18 minutes, can change er was Lead of the local unit andjin New Orleans, La., where the! its velocity fro had his offfe® at ethe > corner~ of amily has since made~ pecs. A ote to 108 0 ee jvature of the wing, can land prac- At Municipal Dock Today =.=. | is a keen student of the Sponge sales this morning at, bunches of wool, which had been | ciples of bird flight. the Municipal dock were notice-| offered before but bids refused,; SPAR RAR Je becausa of the scanty offer-jand were today sold for $41.78.| STR. COLORADO ings and tke small prices receiv-!Two bunches of grass sold for 25 {FRUIT STEAMER GATUN DUE leents and eight bunches of glove) id for 65 cents. Total a TO ARRIVE IN PORT ON FRIDAY prin- ed. Total offerings consisted of bunches, Of those there were $42.68. Plans Swim From Key West To Havana, Cuba “My next hop will be from; This remarkable man, who just Steamshi; Colorado, of the Clyde-Mallory Lines, which arriv- ed yesterday porning 6:45 o'clock from New York with shipments Key West to Havana.” With this|¢ompleted the swim from the/|of steel beams for the naval sta- us tion and a miscellaneous assort- ment of freight, sailed 3:30 Charley | “2m!t#! of New York to the prin- o'clock in the afternoon for Tam- |cipal city of that great state, cov- legless | startling announcement 5 cring the 145 miles in 147 hours}P™ i so. . swimmer, decided to rest after his and 37 minates, expects to un-jun of the Standard Fruit and Steamship company, is due toe ar- rive in port Friday from Phila- | delphia, and will berth at the main ——_—__——_ —— | pier of the Porter Dock Co., for bankers before proceeding to Frontera, Mexico, for a cargo of bananas. MRS. MILLER RETURNS HERE 43-year-old long and tiring trip from id «ste: the swim at an early date, to New York City last week. it was said. John Stroupe Detai In Jail; Believed To Enrique Esquin-| other points in the state, returned a algo (to Key Wert last evening. Joe Bascom, friend of Jack John Stroupe, who was to be, Peace Justice tried yesterday on charges of as-jaldo. This affidevit was sault and battery, escaped the | signed by Ruth Wood and she was trial, but is now an inmate of ¢ n court yesterday to testify[ Miller, son of Mra. Miller, was al- county jail while officials await against hin. [so a recent arrival here from Palm word from Atlanta, Ga, where, it} The tria, was delayed while the| Beach for » visit with the Milier ig believed, he is wanted on a more judge listened to the possibility of | family. stioug charge than assault snd, Streg being wanted in Atlanta — battery. ifor armed robbery, An order was FALLS 8 STORIES TO DEATH Monday night Stroupe was ar-! issued that the prisoner be phote- rested on an affidevit. filed by | graphed and finger printed and| New York-—-While she end her i little brether were romping on beaten the woman, He was plac-| viewed by the officials. ja bed, Mary Livingston, two and ed in the city jail and was to have} It is understood there will, pow }# half years old, ost her foot- been brought before the judge sibly, be no trial in Key West un-|ing. fell ageinst s window screen yesterday afternoon for trial. til official notice is received from! im her parents’ fifth floor apart- In the meantime a warran: hed! Atlanta at to whether or not' ment. The screen gave wey and been issued for his arrest, cn a! Stroupe fe the man wanted there/she foll five storing to ber death similar charge, from the office of by the suthorities. jon the coment court below, _— pibsapinsinhihenlgpenipcionnenens I CL ACE ALC ET STORMY MONTHS ARE HERE--DON’T WAIT FOR STORM WARNINGS TO THINK ABOUT STORM. SHUTTERS. CALL SOUTH FLORIDA, PHONE 598, TODAY Tin six seconds by varying the curs