The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 29, 1937, Page 1

Asseciated Press Day Wi Service. For 57 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No. 283. ire City Council Draws Up: Specifications Bearing » On Seay CONTRACTOR REQUIRED | TO FURNISH PERFORM- ANCE BOND IN SUM OF $1,000 The City Council has drawn up Specifications to be followed -farrying/out.the scavenger con- tract for whichsthe city will re-| ceive’ and open bids at its reqular, meeting*on » Thursday! evening, enger Contract JUDGE GOMEZ LEFT SUNDAY RETURNS TO MIAMI: ACCOM- PANIED ON TRIP BY MRS. GOMEZ Judge Arthur Gomez, *of circuit courtiin the Eleventh trict, and Mrs. Gomez, left over’ the highway yesterday afternoon, and took the 2 o’clock ferry at No: " Dedember2) Ihe provisions em- | Name Key, returning to Miami. TWO ‘COLORED MEN ON DIVISION STREET Allan Smith and Michael Jones, colored, operate a wine and beer dispensary at 100 Division street. Last night these proprietors had words and also had a fight, which resulted in Smith landing in jail as the aggressor and Jones being placed in bed. Smith, it is said, started to work on Jones with a knife, inflicting injuries in Jones’ scalp and parts rf ‘made out this morning, fol-! Mowing the signing of an’ ‘ affi- davit made by Jones’ before Che Key eat Citizen — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1937. THE TWO AMERICAS DEMOCRACY FADING 13 DICTATOR-NATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA COLOMBIA DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AMERICA LAND-OWNERS CONTROL FUTURE COMPLICATIONS al action on the! major : measures} now pending before the special session and for business and the: Costa Rica (550,000) and Panama Zone, a strip of land belonging to the United States, five miles wide on each side of the canal. The Canal Zone splits the Republic of Panama in half, although the cities at each end, Colon and Pan- ama, are in the jurisdiction of the republic. Interesiing is the observation that the canal runs southeastward from Colon, on the Caribbean Sea, to Panama, on the Bay of a Panama, thus making the Pacific terminus further east than the Atlantic terminus. Leaving the Panama Canal, we along the Isthmus of Panama 1f6South America through the tepublic of Colombia (9,000,000), Whith boasts the only government bodied tri the! \specifications fol- low: The city will give all possible protection to the contractor by en-; forcing sanitary and fire ordi-; hances. ‘The city will turn over to the contractor, all trucks and equip-| ment that they may own, and are now used in the scavenger ice. The contractor to furnish all materials and labor necessary for such, and to furnish such other trucks and equipment that may be necessary. All trucks to be pro-;| vided with solid walls and floor- | ings, and any cover such as a; tarpaulin for the prevention of} overflow after loading, and while ; hauling to dump. i The contractor to furnish serv-)| fice to all homes, collection and i of garbage and trash; weeltly, each disposal.to be: up to a thirty gallon confainer or! equivalent; service in excess -of| this, for stores, restaurants, “and other places to be furnished at aj rtionate increase in price to, stipulated in bid; and each bid | must stipulate the removal at nol cost of dead dogs or cats foun on the streets. E The contractor, to furnish pers; serv- formance bond from a registered awell-attended meeting of Troop|nomic Imperialism”, “Friends in and qualified boriding company in 52, Boy Scouts held. on Priday{Council”, thé: sum of one thdusand dollars. CUBA ARRIVES FROM TAMP VESSEL LEFT SHORTLY AF- TER ARRIVAL EN ROUTE TO HAVANA \ ! jofficial scribe’ of the | org The Judge and Mrs. Gomez re- turned from Miami for the week end, and said that it was im- perative that the judge be in Mi- ami this morning for court open- {ing, as there were eight cases. of murder to be placed before the court at this session. ‘SIX LICENSES TO WED ARE ISSUED | Six marriage licenses were is- sued during the week ending to- day, as shown on the records of the county in the office of Judge Raymnod R, Lord. Issues were made to: Hamilton I. Rothrock and .Eve- lyn M. Rothrock; Elisha King and Mary Louise Johnson; Oscar Bazo and Augustina Torres; Rexford McLeod and Nellie Knowles An- derson; Robert A. Magee and Laturiette Ingraham; Amado Pla,. Jr., and Florence Roberts. SCOUT TROOP ~ HOLDS SESSION ‘There was an interesting andj evening at headquarters,, accord- ing to report. made’ by Bill Porter, aniza- tion. k Rev. Joe Tolle, pastor of. ‘the First Methodist (Stone) Church gave an address, which was very much enjoyed. Ben Byron was unanimously elected to membership in the troop, besides many other matters having been taken up during the tneeting, one of which was. that | Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo,|44™inistration to conclude thei®/fepresenting the popular will of Smith will be arraigned for pre-|Process of adjusting differences;}the people, as expressed in an liminary hearing within the next| we are going to make a rough!honest, uncontrolled election. few days. survey of the situation in the!There are ten nations on the jenSSUeine sees onseenene rant Western Hempishere, where more} South American continent. Two NEW BOOKS AT than a score of nations are grap-'of them, Peru (6,150,000) and pling with serious domestic prob-| Chile (4,300,000 are distinctly DONATED BY MRS. ELIZA- lems while their foreign relation-j leftist, having large mining popu- ships become increasingly import-| lations with some communist ten- ant. dencies. Seven republics have ee rightist governments, hardly fit At the start we are going to}to, be classed as republics, and write off, so far as this discus-|now under control of ultra-con- BETH ELDRIDGE OF LONG sion is concerned, all the territory |servative minorities of wealthy ISLAND Miss Mamie Wardlow, librarian at the Public Library, is in re- ceipt of a shipment of books do- nated by Mrs. Elizabeth Eldridge of Great Neck, Long Island. Mrs. Eldridge was a visitor here last year for the first time, be- came interested in the Public Library work, and promised to send a number of books. She also sent’a donation forthe annual Show, given at the Library ! the newly - received; books, a copy of “Robert’s Rules of Order” is especially welcome, since there have been many calls for the book. ‘Titles of the other volumes are, “The Deserted Yacht”, “The Reli- gion of a Literary Man”, “Eco- “The Tempo: of Madern | Life’, “The Riders of the Pi “The Life of Lord Strathcone” (2 vols.), “The Baffle Book”, “Jubi- lee Jim”, “After 2,000 Years”, “The ‘Pleasures. of Architecture” “Cap'n George Fred”, “Aldrich’s Complete Poems”, “The Life of Joseph Hodges Choate” (2 vols.), to the north of the United States, ' including Canada and other Brit- ish areas. There is, we think, no cause for alarm over the lands that separate the United States and Alaska. Relations have rarely | been better and the future out- look is bright for sensible comers ation in the improvement of trade and cultural intercourse. Out of the' twenty South Ameri- cans republics, only four can be} classed as democracies, three would be classed as radical or of the left, and the other thirteen are definitely of the rightist or dictator type, with tendencies to- ward fascistic forms. These clas- sifications are somewhat general: ;but they represent reasonable ap- proximations. In the thirteen re- publics now ruled by strong-arm dictators there is practically noth- ing left of representative govern- ment, the opposition is almost universally outlawéd and the ad- ministration in power is support- ed by. the military: - Significant- ly, the Jand-owning classes in al- most all of these republics are the chief beneficiaries of the conser- vative governments and the main prop to their support. spat “The Real Horatio Bottom- ley”. J. SPOTTSWOOD Looking at the situation from the standpoint of the number of people involved, we find that the four democratic governments con- trol about 12,000,000 people, the landowners which seized power from the people during the last These seven include four on the East Coast, Venezuela (3,250,000), Brazil (45,300,000), -Paragu: (900,000) and Argentina (12,400,- 000). Peru (6,150,000) on the West coast, and Bolivia (3,000,000) and Uruguay (2,000,000) in the interi- or. The ried reer republics generally show t for many years after they won their inde- Sioerot be landowners, however, did not eas- ily give-up their power and have gradually regained their’ ‘control’ through revolutions ‘and are’ now determined’ to retain‘ it at ‘all costs. The governments are in ly denounce all” opponents as “communists” and refuse exile to political refugees. Iti nearly all of these countries the governments have been repu- diated by majorities which have been suppressed. Brazil, which re- cently proclaimed a more cen: tralized state, is an example. President Vargas seized power by revolution in 1930. He promptly recalled to active service all re- tired officers of the army, raised Unit Key West Pupils Rated High Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit On Saturday —~—__——» k a FORTY AND EIGHT OR- GANIZATION CREATES In Their Vocabulary Studies| sensation on parv- “In their vocabulary, pupils of cal survey ii the country-wide vocabtlarystudy made by the National ‘Education Association with ‘headquarters at Washington, D.C. The Key West report com- posed of 1000 papers was mailed today. Those in charge of the survey are especially anxious to get rep- resentative results from the dif- ferent sections of the country, Mr. Waldron pointed out. The Italian and Indian element in the country has been pretty well covered in the past, but the Cuban and Mex- ican element has been neglected. This year, however, the border states of the southwest and cer- tain sections of Florida have been Warbler Leaves Aid To Distressed Steamer Wrecking Tug Warbler sailed this morning 1:45 o'clock, in re- sponse to a call for‘ assistance.is-;home-—pert for the coast of sued by the’ Ward Line Steamship Cauto, aground near Puerto, Mexico. Immediately after the call was received preparations were gotten under way, a crew of 10 addi- tional wreckers was added to the |rowznas SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON | William I. Pent, age 55, died ING ENGINE OVER CITY be}’ Patviotism and respect fo° the well surveyed. Since there is' a & th local survey, Mi. Wald- | sy interesting audWell “aliended Yotr’Stated that he woie te NEA es : <3 asiting them to transfer the re-|mecting Heli Sala@ay Wight in a eO ee Coben be aie a td | Americatt epldiriialt) Withee. School at Columbia, Alabama, his station last year, to this city. Arthur Sawyer Post: ‘The Wuliy, token lest deur Ole tee Sees of the upper grammar grades, was ‘members of the “40 and 8” con- this year on the primary section, those fiom the a Ta ee grade inclusive. West Without previous drills, the; ~" ANNs sHending. pupils were assigned topics and; Visitors from Miami arrived in asked to write essays. From the number, kind and manner of|*he afternoon on the early ferry words used, the school rating is hen: free from Hog Key, and their arrival Approximately 200 schools, a{in the city marked the first arri- representative cross of the country, were interviewed in|! of the epgine which is one of the study. ‘ |the distinctive features of this section of the “40 and 8”, and ‘Geiven down in front of the Hotel ‘La Concha, and parked. hour stated. the vessel left her: jie Fan, Mexi chet of the Just how seriously the Cauto is| Suites, D. Bagar Sakon injured, was not known at the! George Hutton, and Mrs. Azoe L. Porter Dock Co., except that the Number 1 hold of the ship was|Buzzell, committeewoman from filling with water and this was|Coconut Grove. taken as an indication of the need} At 8 o'clock in the evening Jo- of prompt assistance. cal and visiting members assem- bled at the hall, when the busi- AT. | necessity of paying due reverence to the flag, was discussed most impressively. Members of Arthur Sawyer Post declared that it was the most interesting event which had been Paul Marks, attorney who was| planned over a long period, and | ;HAD BEEN IN KEY WEST TENDING TO BUSINESS MATTERS leftist nations about 24,000,000 | their rank and gave them six| Sunday morning 5 o'clock at the jand the dictators around 84,000,-fyears’ back pay. Naturally, the] residence, do. 6 Pohalski street. | 4 4 RECEIVES HONORS \c0:. When we consider resources }army officers are~ his strongest | 1 will be held thi the legal end of the matter, with | ward a greater allegiance to Am~» * dit is plain, from the alignment of jsuppofters. Similar tactics have| arkocn 406 Golock pe pm atthe sale of the holdings of the|erican institutions and the flag of the republics, that the democratic! been used by other countries un-| |Key West Investment Company, {the country, will-be evidenced in nations are weaker than the other}derimilitary rule. Argentina de-| 1 Chutth, Rev. O. C. Howell, was 4 visitor in Key West Satur- no posnee' way, jot giving out baskets of groceries inSHS TOT )for Christmas to many needy per- Steamphipt Cabainotiaine Pe and | 8A, ©. S. & Gan arbixerk thisimorning 5, er pronouncement of the associated, and is still working on} the results of the movement to- (Special to The Citizen}, - : nediction, the meeting was or- from pst, ,andy 4 from TRBpa a by AP seni for | ered *cieuryed. rs Sécond TEXAS pasteneetedh® Hava. © f ; A. 0M ON JIQUOR L. Rob-} Car-| ith Sul- M EASY VIOLATORS (ny Randeintea Press) AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 29.—Bert j Ford, state liquor control adminis- | trator, says he is convniced there is small possibility of obtaining a | liquor law conviction anywhere in At | Texas. | He was advised recently that a Galveston jury had found a per- A ena,’ son guilty on an “open saloon” anchon Tynes, ! charge and fined him $100. W. Clayton, M.|" “So far as we know,” the offi- \cial said, “no other jury in Gal- veston had convicted a liquor law Stone, .C. Perez. Pz erts, W. J. Reagan, Marth bonell, Ada Rodriguez, livan, Teresa Sulliv: dina, Beatrice Moreno, Bethel, M. Agnes, Elizabeth Sa yer, Mabel Perez, Anabel Mot Dorothy Parks, Dorothy Olga Renedo, Onelia Sister Louise, Walter Maloney, Eidora Styles, Canalejo, Arm Hilda Canalejo, men: A. Nelson, W < GAINESVILLE, Ga., Nov, 29.--! Official announcements haye just. been published that cite. ,Cadet Jahn ' Spottswood of Key . West, Florida, for his excellent wor! Cadet Spottswood, one of River- — Military Academy’s Corps of ‘groups. Beginning at the Rio Grande and continuing to the Panama Canal there are seven republics, ; starting with leftist Mexico and . its 17,000,000 people. The next pores we especialy com | four nations, in order as they ded in recent public exercises come, are Guatemala, “El Salva- of the Academy for having made} ao, Hond: and Nicaragua— a weekly general average of at) ruled by dictators who seized | least 95 per cent. their power by arms, aligned be i i is! cto ‘BAR’ AND ‘JAZZ hind an anti-communist pa i their own and working together; NEW WORDS BEING to suppress their political enemies | USED BY JAPANESE | as “communists.” The most popu- earKS ERE lous, Guatemala, (2,250,000) and (Ry Ansociated Press) El Salvador (1,500,000), under; ting, assisted by Rev. Joha | iy) . Stroud Sf the Assembly of |92%4 God. | "The funeral will be under | the directibn of the seat, serves special treatment. The | offi present regime seized power in! 1930, It has given the nation good} and efficient’ government, ‘which | has not. bows: repastiated: ty. the! P'S ivort ere hie widow, Mra| . two daughters, } it diffieult to express their oppo- | Mildred Pent; pte chasers of the investment com- ion at the polls. A fascist sen-|Mrs. Virgil Higgs, “Miss Estella é : ‘ ny holdings, are planning to iment exists but President Justo Pent; son, Eddie Pent; stepson, | Pome to Key West pier the recently warned that the bulk Se ber md Knowles; five grand-1)\jidays to lok over their pur- the nation’s trade was with two |°™Gren. j chase, and complete plans for CABALLEROS democracies, Great Britain and! the structures which are to be the United States, and that open placed on the lands. GET ‘NER’ 9 PUTS AN END TO KANGAROO COURT —e (Ry Associnted Prone) and left yesterday aftgrnoon ite, "Marks said that “W. P.! Brown, president of the. Briggs| Manufacturing Co, and Henry Donbright, vice president, pur- espousal of Fascist principles} might prove costly. Six countries of South America are definitely under the domina After the meeting the membera, both visiting and local enjoyed « ride around the city in visiting Engine 492, which was thoroughly enjoyed. The visiting legion- naires left yesterday afternoon on the 2 o'clock ferry for Miami. Naomi Cornell. violation in state court before, TOKYO, Nov. 29.—With the ap-| German and Italian influence, re-| tion of the military class, inclu MOTORMEN, ESPECIALLY. BE- LA PORTE, Ind, Nov. 20— brought, &S during, or since prohibition.” proach of the Olympic games in| spectively, quit the League of Na-jing al rightist governments ex- Sheriff Joe Wolf has outlawed shown on the manifest, 10 tons of freight and two sacks of r Key West; one ton of fr 198 sacks of mail for F Bookings at Key We: for Havana were i Virginia Higgins, Mrs. Atbe Tokyo in 1940, learning English | tions and the latter was the first cept Argentina and Uruguay, SPEED PRODUCTION (Ry Associated Press) MOSCOW, Nov. 29.—Premfums and prizes have been’ awarded has become a popular craze}nation in the world to recognize ; Chile and Colombia. The latter among the Japanese. Manchukuo. The other pair,;nation is democratic. In Chile, This has resulted in the adop- | Honduras (900,000) and Nicaragua; President Palma has managed to tion into the vernacular language | (300,000) are just as firmly fas-| maintain a coalition government of’ nore and more, expressive |cist, and now in dispute over a/in office by playing to various i factions. In Uruguay the situation BECOME FEARFUL OVER (By Ausotinted! Presd eR a VALENCIA, "Woy: “29, “kangaroo courts,” mock hearings conducted inside bullpens by pris- Johnson, Mrs. Walter O. Johnso to| Sr.. Albert E. Johnson, Jr) Jz Johnson, Dolores Johnson Johnson, and several seconde NEW ARRIVAL IN CURRY’S FAMILY 1 Wate lagging When Raga shoot railfoader’ Who upset the! system by accidents and bad| Now his suecesor, Alexei| warding prizes. He recently distributed 200 watch- railway Stakhanovites 0 coal minérs ‘in the i n by Lazar novi ‘ ‘missar' of heavy thdstty, ee in eal | Sir of railroads the poley was tof. A tendency fo insert Engli prod lecers If we look eastward the! the; are_converting we eastward we see the’ a ins, into, English, to | island of Cuba (4,000,000) under eye of and {a military dictator and the Do- . jminican Republic (1,500,000) | ish | where rule by force has been car- jitary pressure like the bulk of the/by ‘the tain of Bottite and shells is not clear to the writer, and no|men thai” wottieri”” if a comment is made. Ecuador, one of} street cat ett especial the leftist countries, is under mit-| have had their4 aoe ih lof mental cases has been much | “fine.” If the prisoner can't rightist governments. But the increase in the, numiber “always words into conversation or writ-|ried to its greatest extent. Be- ten Japanese began 30 years ago|tween these two, on the same when it was considered fashi jisland with the Dominican Re- able to speak English. Today it is; public, lies Haiti (2,500,000), now regarded as not merely fashion- | under a democratic president af- able but indispensable. The study | ter long years of dictatorship. The While the nations in South) lower than anticipated and is not/the “fine”—money, America and Central America use | alarming. officials aver. candy or personal the terms “fascist” and “commun-; Instances of shell shock among }fellow ist” quite freely and there is some , volunteers in the Spanish repub-}“ similarity to the ideas and formsjlican army are unusually low,| In We adopted, this does not mean that i i f Announcement has be of the birth of a boy Seven and a half pour and Mrs. C. Sam B.C morning at their } Olivia street The new arriv the name of C. Sar Mother and baby are to be getting along nice of English is compulsory in all | recent killing of a number of schools and universities. | Haitien laborers in the Dominican Among the commoner English | Republic has created a trouble- words appropriated by the Japa-|some issue which the United nese are: radio, taxi, camera, bar, | States is anxious to mediate. xe home of Art Bales of this| jazz broadcast, mass production, } ees y dashed to their truck only to! factory, ete. They have become so} Checking back, we pass through nd that petty thieves had drain-jwell established that they are now | Mexico and the four dictator na- the gasoline tank. Bales’ home regarded as newly-coined Japa-jtions anf come to two republics iwas destroyed. nese words. classed im the democratic group, they will align themselves with | studied the effects of the war inior at similar nations across the Atlan-'S pain in indivi dual nervous} tic. In fact, most observers do not| breakdowns, explains the resis- expect that this is likely at this|tance by the fact the men know time. Generally, any political; what they are fighting for. opposition is branded as belong-/ Cases of shell shock, it is re- ink to the other group. The peo- | ported, seem to be more frequent ple, while demanding improved smong members of the Interna- conditions, do not deserve the ac- | tional Brigade than among Span- (Continued on Page Foor) = jiards. (shock workers), i DRAIN GAS TANK MURRAY, Ia—Firemen called! i? | k 1126 nti ate » FOR THE HOME OR PORCH, FOR THE LAWN OR BEACH, USE ONE OF OUR FOLDING CHAIRS. SOUTH FLORIDA CONTRACTING AND ENGINEERING >