The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 15, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No. 219. Che Key West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WKDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1937. Another Sponge Sale Held Here Yesterday Increase: Offer- | Several Shows — Slight Over Previous ings Of Past Weeks | Sales of sponge at the Munici-| pal sponge dock yesterday showed | a slight increase over the previous | Offerings of the last few weeks,|the Pslac sales totalling $358.47. The largest offering 48 brought $190.90 of wool «pj tains near which sponge was bunches and the next 37 which sold for $123.80. There were 95 bunches on the wharf. Sunday. The: citie: largest was bunches er having had } tion, 44 bunches i Among the lower grades there was one offering of in neighboring anilla, who had been spending month’s vacation in Brevarc lina, returned over the states an Arsenio Bezanilla, enjoyable " BEZANILLA RETURNS HERE | ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE) AND BROTHER; WERE AWAY ON VACATION Gonzalo Bezanilla, manager of Theater, and Mrs. Bez- a the i, North Caro- moun- the highway i also visited scores of oth-|two months ago on a charge Carolinas and and brother of ef yellow which sold for $11.41, | Mr, Bezanilla, accompanied them | and 112 bunches of grass which|on their return trip brought $17.65. | PARTY LEAVING OVER HIGHWAY HAD BEEN SPENDING VACA-. | | TION WITH RELATIVES IN KEY WEST beth street. of \Mi: | Mrs, liam street Mr. owner of been} Miami, and | York Dr. and' Mrs. William W. De-!} | meritt, Jr., and Dr. and Mrs.! Henry: Renedo, who~ +eve Spending thir vacation with rela- tives in Key West, will leave cea the and is a house guest at the home on Eliza-{prisoner started this morning in} Congress and there is no report, vaca-| ISTATE PRISON OFFICER CAME IN YESTERDAY J. L. ROBINSON ACCOMPAN- IED BY HIS WIFE; ARRIV-! ED IN COMPANY WITH CON- STABLE SCARBOROUGH NEW DEAL ENEMIES ROOSEVELT’S STRATEGY REVIEWING THE PAST |REALIGNMENT UNDERWAY had PARTY OUTLOOK J. L. Robinson, recruiting — 1 ee ae | INNOCENTS SUFMER A. F. OF L. STANDS PAT C. L. 0. IS MILITANT ROOSEVELT’S TRIP WILL STATE HIS VIEWS 5 {cer from the state prison at} | Raiford, arrived in the city yes-} terday evening from Miami, i | ac-! j cempanied by Mrs. ‘Robinson. {They arrived in the automobile ‘ebiinias By HUGO S. SIMS (Special Washington Correspond-, ent of The Citizen) get| Many months ago, in } ‘ |columns, we pointed out jtie person of Michael Moses, who} changing political scene that was following the reform efforts o The New f constable | of Joe Scarborough, from Homestead. to these Mr. Scarborough came court ; (President Roosevelt. ; Deal program had them, now, bitter enemies within {was convicted in criminal of j buying limes from persons on the Keys and being cognizant of the;panks of the Democratic fact that the limes were stolen.!who will not hesitate at any i Moses was sentenced to one|manoeuvre which promises to |year in Raiford, and in the in-jwreck the Roosevelt machine. jterim efforts were started to se-|That much was certain long be- ‘cure a new trial, but apparently] fore the Supreme Court fight and | these efforts were futile as the!the wages and hours battle reason the party He is a business man | custody of the prison recruiting | for any amazement when the op- of Havana and had tioning in Miami. CLIFF STORM ~ VISITING HERE, a | West with his friends, Hugh Williams, at 516 Wil-| of @ hostelries ge ates America and Marlboro. chain been vaca- iCliff Storm, real estate broker | passing. tioning in Key Mr. aan Storm was for many ual Tamiami Hotel of! of New| the including fhe highway tomorrow worsine| NEW ARRIVAL IN for ‘Miami, enroute to Atlanta, | Ga., where Messrs Demeritt and} Renedo will resume their studies! at Southern Dental College. | Mr. and They will be accompanied Wm. W. Demeritt, Sr, and daughter, Mrs. Al Moore. . Mrs.} street Moore has been enjoying a de-} The young ! to the born lightful vacation and will continue with her brother and his party to Atlanta to join her husband, Lieutenant Mr. Demeritt, Sr., will make a brief inspection in the vicinity of Miami and plang to return home} Friday evening. ly. her HOUSES RANSACKED GRANVILLE, ransacked the fraternity at Dennison University in this city, but overlooked the Beta Theta Pi. He returned a few} nighs later to rob it, and !eft this note: “Thot you were luckie. Hah.” O.—A _ burglar houses issued by Seventh =I Reef light, } extinguishe: this Mrs. Emil by | are the proud parents of a girl} four first cabin and five second afternoon, j o'clock, at the home, 826 Eaton |47 first and three second SWEETING FAMILY Diggs in the P. and Sweeting 12:30 g lady tipped the scales} tune of 6 | mother and baby are doing nice-{Otero, Frank A. Bowman, Mrs. Sweeting marriage, Miss Al Moore, U. S. A-' teacher at Harris school. BEACON WILL BE A RELIGHTED, Announcement was made today] in the regular Notice to earner | Ww. W. istrict, which d, pounds. Both was Mary Demeritt, sup- erintendent of lighthouses for the | that was Pacific reported will be eee Douglass School Building Being Thoroughly Repaired One of the projects which is, and varnish being carried on by members of the NYA in Key West is the re-! pair activities at Douglass colored public school, and which reached stage whereby 19 colored the work can be pod. Before the were started badly kinds. sightly were renova make prese To th have and the ams all locke been placed in and renovation ed and a needed. the on of some Ss emy pair read present th tivities building repairs of many presented an un there was! tion have in » F entire pro, sidered work, and Ab r } scraped gener these hed. Ben frame sashes have been removed, all panes replaced where Wallboard, which? was ia 2 Ver speaks . tr nches and chairs” ¢} have been repaired and painted. Window have been condition, repair s in’ need Of today re pre view NYA ¢ rojects. be before | Curry,| | officer to hegin his term. Leaving with Constable Scar-| |borough was another prisoner, ‘who two months ago was | tencer to 60 days in jail {offense committed on the position rears its head. sen-! mined that the Democratic party, for aniso Jong as he was in control, Flor-| would be the liberal political or- ida Key His term expired, he | ganizations of the United States. left this morning in custody of fe was willing then, and he Mr. Scarborough to stand in Homestead, charged with tres-| servative group of Democrats in lexchange for the acquisition of |Republican and independent lib-| CUBA ARRIVES =: FROM HAVANA en oe fing the administration of Presi- dent Wilson, the Democrats were} \hopelessly in the minority. In fact, the first election of Wilson, jwas made possible when Teddy} | Roosevelt, out for President on} the Progressive ticket, cut the; political throat of President Taft, seeking reelection as a Republi- company, arrived yester-| can. Wilson was a minority Presi- i afterncon from Havana with; dent during his first term and the} possessor of a small majority dur-j| ting hig second term. Then came, . the deluge that covered the Dem- cabin! ocrats, massive majorities tha elected threé Republican Pres’ dents in a row, Harding, Oool- idge and Hoover. The nation! |seemed forever Republican. {nently successful as the ections attest. | VESSEL LEFT LATE IN AFT-| i ERNOON ENROUTE | 10 TAMPA | | cabin passengers for Key West; | passen gers for Tampa, i Key West Antonio; Ruth Lopez, Aida Martinez, arrivals: t 13 tons | This was the situation when the President went into office in the dark davs of the 1933 panic, with his strategy already aimed at win- ning the support of labor and the farmers. Roosevelt regime was to effect a rolitical coalition between the Progressives of the West and th East and to retain the South in the Democratic gam How well this was accom- shed is to be seen in the fig- ures of the 1936 election. Landon 0 cane force 1 7:00 a 200 to Martin, parent slow m hour Bowman, ' Josephine ae j Antonio Castro, When Wlison was reelected in |Thomas Fernandez, Edelmira Fer-; 1916 he polled 9,129,606 votes. It] jnandez, Jose Perez. is worth noting that when The vessel clso carried hong beaten by aged in het vo a he unprecedented majority o Jot freight and three sacks of mail! 7 499 900, the Ohio Democrat ac- for Key West; 86 tons of freight.) nally polled more votes than the} | two automobiles and 120 sacks of} war-time President, Four years | mail for Tampa. jlater Coolidge beat Davis by a | greater number, and although Al) ADVISORY | Smith polled more votes in 1928 | than Coolidge got in 1924, Hoover 33 lled him across the line by more BULLETIN ;, 3:80 P. ‘M.—Trop-| tan 6.000.000 bebiew. ical stogm of hurricane intensity 19: came the amazing reversal, remains almost stationary at lea: jwith Hoover dropping more than ‘300 miles northeast or e north-' ¢ 900,000 votes and Roosevelt east of St. Martin, Leeward Is-\ jicking up 7,000,000 more than lands, with some tendency — toi smith, to almost equal the record move in a northerly _ direction. sloted ‘by Cocliire in 1986 | There have been no indications of] when he beat Davis be 7,340,000 a westward movement during the | yotes. past eighteen hours. | WEATHER BUREAU. ADVISORY M.—The al disturbance, attended by ng gales and winds of hurri- near center, was cen- m. EST approximate- 200 miles northe Leeward Island. stationar past of St ly alme veme s. Caution advised rm area. JUDGE ALBURY GAVE ADDRESS AT BANQUET earing y relativ a ne fiss y dge Ww ittiam V i om the uninter <a OKING fa ae | the} ral and has; in! The President long ago deter-}| trial| willing now, to give up the con-! erals. His strategy has been emi-}| recent | Then, in! Plainly the hope of the: | } | | i } i proaching normal conditions, there; will be a realignment of votes} along the old division. This re- mains to be seen but there is per- isistent talk of a third party to} ‘challenge the long supremacy of tthe two old-line a] organi- jzations. Common conversation al- jways igludes the possibility that jJohn L. Lewis will attempt to set} up a I ghor party and he may do |so, but'the writer thinks that he lis too smart for such a manoeu- jvre unless there develops other {splits within the two major par- ities. 3 po! What we mean is this: The ex- {perience of Teddy Roosevelt in; 1912 amply demonstrates that a | third party cannot beat both old parties in any election. It can ‘prevent the success of the organi-} zation from which it comes and that is about all. However, if} ‘there is to be a split in both old- line parties the field would be wide ogen for another organiza- tion, such as Labor, to get in on; ian even. basis with a fair chance| of success Otherwise, the third! party movement ig not apt to be/ effective. = i The battle between the Ameri-| can Federation of Labor and the | Committee for Industrial Organi-! zation has been waged for slight'y | jmore than a year. When |A. F. of L. suspended ten unions | | for affiliating with the C, I. O t lost aboat 900,000 member but the Federaion has gaine more than a million members in year and a half, giving it a pa up total of 3,600,000. John Lewis, militant leader of the al organization, claims that I. O. unions have enrolled 18,000 workers. L vi the 3,- = j \7 While the A. F. of L. has been reluctant to close the door to a | possible reconciliation, there } ;_| seems sto be little possibility of isuch a development in the near }future. Both tabor organizations | are fighting for growth and em-| |ployers are sometimes caught be- {tween the fire of union acti Hn fact, even employes themselv | sometimes suffer fr the bitter, >| fight. The warfare is hotly con-|{ | tested in some industri is about }to open in others and in_ still lothers the sniping has hardly be- ! gun. Space does not permit even; a brief survey of the chief points | jof warfare or an effort t» de- scribe the different methods be-| {ing adopted by the two organi-; }zations as contrasted with the c. I. 0. plan along innate lines, / | t ' ' While it is not the purpose of} Cox | this column to attempt any expert | Having } the present conflict! anes undoubtedly doing tem- !porary injury to the cause of} labor, there are many who be-! Hieve that eventually the C. I. 0. H idea should be adopted for the! mass production industries and ithe craft. organization retained in other fields. The. tacties of John L.. Lewis, incloding a “tell-it-to- the-world” policy ond a_ ten-! dency to play up the _ political power of his organization is prob- ably responsible some of the gains made by the C. I. O. but is also a distinct danger and may possibly become the decisive fac- tor in determining the outcome war William ¢ cted , the along conse on summary of heads a which tracts. the is | the “I the a i cently j dition, | States, Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an. average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE C Forty Million Dollars To Be Expended To Establish Monte Carlo In Key West Proceedings Of Day In Criminal Court this with on the] ws Criminal court convened at 9:30 o’clock William V. Albury bench and all officers of the court, morning Judge present. i court con-! Allan B.} Zum- nmediately after vened County Solicitor Cleare advised that Julio bado, who was awaiting trial on a charge of conducting a game of jchance desired to enter a plea of guilty. Zumbado was arraigned and up- on entering his plea was fined and costs or sentenced to end 60 days in county jail. Ar- rangements were at once made and the fine, which totalled 4, was paid. Judge Albury announced that gambling paraphernaii: which was captured at the time of est, consisting of cards and chips, be burned following pok {immediately upon adjournment of ‘ court. ‘empar ‘Race Track To Be Includ- ed; More Details Are Given In Despatches Re- ceived From London | Approximately $40,000,000 is The case of Kenneth Saunders, | the sum mentioned in recent dis- ‘ i charged with a statutory offense, | Ps , and Attorney : is was administered the Nested in Key West by ms qreat court This the; entioned. in The Citisen of last patches from London, to in- L. | oath “and was named by the t Solicitor Cleare in prosecution. Selection of a jury was started) week. d the following were fi ally | led: H. L. Olivieri, Fabio Oli . Enrique Henriquez, Ber-| which was brought to les yer, Jr. Harvey Brost) have reached Key West, in which and Wilson dolly. { Following announcement of i that “Negotiations completion of the jury panel, tak-! teow ing of testimony began and was continued until the noon hour, Period between representatives of when recess was announced. At ) court activity was resumed, | and indications are that it will be Lloyds, came to a head late this afternoon before this deal was closed for a $40,000,000 case will be concluded. Case of Antonio Pere: u. 's. with assault and battery on the A.” person of F. H. McKinley re-| sulted in a mistrial yesterday aft-} ernoon when members of the jury have necessarily been kept secret reed that they could not agree. | gambling snydicate. was Further details of the deal, an issue, is shown pending in London, over a a Great Gambling Syndicate and when a ‘promotion’ at Key West, charged ’ Details of the gigantic project and all interested refuse to dis- Furnishes Remedy To Wipe Out Menace To Palm Trees Several places in the re-; kind city reported that some of blight had appeared among the palm This at once recognized as a serious con- affecting of Key West’s major attractions, and She: K. 0. active in seeking for some means} |whereby the menace might met and conquered. In the course of his activity he called on Secretary S. C. Single- jton, of the Key West Chamber of Commerce with the request that the ai Washington be sought. ion Biscayne Key. is the largest coco- plantation in the United Mr. Singleton recal!s }a similar trouble having oceurred {there and that it had been suc- ecssfully met by Jack Brant, superintendent of the Malcolm Matherson estates, A letter to Mr. Brant brought! forth a reply which seems to| thrdw considerable light on the subject. Citizens noticing signs of disease on their palms, it advised, should lose no time taking action and reporting same riff Thompson or to the Chamber of Commerce. This trouble need not amount to much it is said, if it is not allowed to trees. was one Thompson became | be where ther nut is in the to § "; get a good start. h y Te- of on letter of Mr. Brant, wh was sent in reply to the q from Key West, herewith produced for the information those who have this blight their palms In answer the palms, The is inquiry disease among our I have had won i henathen i wiped to your practically t our trees by using the f Hons of ad until among ywer fronds n where the 4 ins the palm and eut the off the ws it ° ga the the Pour into at po affect close to a Sprinkie one waving and to heal around palm | found to be jclose any matters relative to the | plans. reliably said that pened of this plan were also connected with the late Heres M. Kea ‘railroad magnate and of Florida, U. S. It is ‘first promote the third or fourth from the bud. | A- The tips of the frond will turn a! very bright yellow and it will) fail out. There is a very strong; odor as well. If the tree cannot | Monte Carlo, and the most modern be cured it should be cut down! race track possible, with all beach nd the bud ‘urned, it will be} Z Faia ke tact of Geaksil | accommodations: which will be at- “In curbing the spread of this! tractive to the tourist trade from it is well to sprinkle; ne-half to one-pound of | parts of the world. around the adjoining} ‘JOHN ROBERTS Plans, it is believed, call for in- guration of the world’s greatest se from bluestone palms. “I have cured not only our own palms but palms at Miami Beach as well and you figure saving eighty time. I he ease where the land filled in. “On natoral lag@ the trouble} seems to be bud rot. If taken inj the early stages this can be cured! by tieing a small cloth bag filled; with pickling salt, and nothing ‘else, to the bud and allowing it to} trickle into the heart of the paim. This disease is very con- tagious, and if the palm hag start-|John Roberts, of the local light ed to leak a brown sap, the palm! house department forees should at once he cut down and He left burned as the rot is carried in the air by the wind partment truck to deliver to the “In the bud rot the whole palm and it is it early enough on I this infor. ip you, and T will anxthing I can to been} WENT TO JACKSONVILLE TO DELIVER TAIL SHAFT TO LIGHTHOUSE VESSEL has Returning to Key West last levening over the highway was last week with a de Tender Ivy, in dry dock at Jack Fla., a tail shaft The the Ivy had become un fit for use and was, replaced Mr. seems to wilt at once rd to catch palm will sonville, one on by Rob mation be e one delivered by glad to do ist you te Local Fisherman Brings In Excellent Catch Of Grouper w from 10 to Paul Demeritt returned to © of them everaged th port mont day afternoon w one of 30 pounds there was plack group-'one lerge enough to attract of this fish’ attention of the dock habitucs of its size and excellent er and other species because condition When placed on the was found to weigh s few ounces ‘more than 50 pounds. and Mr Demerritt ssid that the weight of the same kind he believed. wae 54 pounds, taken nthe am which has been in these ters in ce wa many ms scales it —RECEIVED TODAY— Fresh Shipment of WHITMAN’S CANDIES reeow, of fick. © the Be sm PHARMACY of «hich were caught by Richard “This disease tips of the fronds “The Rexall Store” Demeritt two seasons ago, alone Phone 177 Free Delivery, ¥'th others averaging above the usual weight. 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