The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 25, 1938, Page 5

Fr5a¥, MARCH 2 Sports Doings Around The Golf Links 1938. (By GRAVY) Socesscccsseceensesesbed GOLF BANQUET 7:15 TONIGHT— The dinner will take place to- night at the Casa Marina and will begin promptly at 7:15 o'clock and the captains want ail the boys If the weather is good (and we Hope so) the dinner will take place on the terrace; otherwise, it will be in the main dining room. The menu and price are the same as last year. Mr. Schutt says he knows all of the boys will have a good time. LI'S GREAT.“WRIST ROLLS*— The two captains, Charlie Ketchum ‘and Cookie Mesa said, they knew they were going to be fired anyway, so they got together and matched themselves together against two other opponents. Well, * the opponents did not show up so their places were taken by_ Mr. Li Plummer and Mr. William Curry Harris and it was a yery able take too because Li and Cur- ry won by 11 up, mostly on ac- count of Mr. Plummer and his wrist-roll shots wert functioning perfectly (except when they were going into the woods). Mr. Har- ris was doing right well himself, while Mr. Cookie Mesa and Mr. Charlie Ketchum were being quiet as mice at the especial re- quest of Mr. Pious Watkins. BYE WALLOPS HARRIS!— Mr. Old Bye Sands, the Duke of Rock Sound, is now the hap- , piest man in Key West—nay, one | pot. the happiest in the world. Rea- son: Mr. eee Boe? beat Mr. Sam- ae 1 Postmas- ) and Mr. Sittin fesley Wat- “Kinis: by‘ total of three strokes | each. . It. seems.that.Old Bye drew Samuella Goldsmith as a partner in, this, dinner business and Old »Bye says since he always loses “gnyway, he was willing again. Well, he did his best and popped along with 44-43 and on the 16th, hole fie sunk a 20-foot putt for a par and a couple of points which won the match and jumped around, saying, “We won a din- ner!” and Mr. Pious said very in- nocently, “We weren’t playing for any dinner”, and now Mr. Old Bye wants to know if there is any justice in the world. In case you want to find Old Bye, he will be talking and sympathizing with Mr. Pious and our genial Post- master. RAIN DETERRENT— Mr. Handsome Horace O’Bry- ant was afraid to go out into the wet for fear of shrinking (or may- be his wife wouldn't let him go out in the rain) and Mr. Otto, Kirchheiner had work to do. So each won and lost a free meal. About fourteen other guys did likewise i on deck tion. to be on time. Mr. Bob Spottswood Red Milligan had a lot of fun. LOPEZ SHOOTS sé— Mr. George Dodge and Mr. Joe Lopez tried to birdie every hole on the course yesterday. Mr. Joe Lopez got eight of them and Mr. Dodge got two and it seems that Mr. Joe thereby got 14 skins and Mr. George got two. Mr. Ikey Parks and Mr. Leo Hughes were mostly spectators in such a match. However, Mr. Joe got a 66, which | is what you call real golf. He had the following card: 453 243 334 for 34 and on the back nine he hod 534 443 333 for 32 and a total of 66. Mr. Pro got 70; Ike 78 and Leo 86. After all this fireworks, the match énded all even__ WHAT. NO DINNER Doc Willie Penabdbe took the Rev. Joe for ner and played z Grooms and Mr. J6ht and Doc thought he was a) lotlef punk: ins on account of he had 88, while Bascom was next with 100. So you see, class will tell. Now, since they were all nice guys, they agreed before hand that they were playing for nothing but when Doc found out he had won the match by four-up he was y to jump overboard for not taking advantage of the match and making it a supper one be- cause now he will have to pay and eat whereas if it had gone as intended he would have onty had to eat, DEBATE; PLANES VS. SHIPS MEASURE TO GET MUCH OPPOSITION JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS AND SENATOR CHAS. ANDREWS AMONG OUTSTANDING OP- PONENTS OF BILL iSpecial ( The Cithzen) NEW YORK, March. 25—Sena- tor Charles O. Andrews, of Ffori- day, one of ‘the Stnators who are opposed to the government reorganization bill and will vote for recommittal first and against the bill eventually as he annouf- céd in an Associated Press release last Wednesday. James Truslow Adams, fore- Midst Student of American gov- erment and author of “Epic of Americé,” has forwarded a tele- fram to Senators Harry F. Byrd, who has released it to The Key West Citizen. Mr. Adams says he has watched the growth of one man power in all the countries and -he thinks the process in the United States is the same. His statement follows: “I am profoundly concerned ov- cer the Reorganization Bill situa- “tion which I believe practically as dangerous for the nation as that of the Supreme Court last year. Reorganization for the sake of ecénomy and efficiency is call- } éd for, but in my opinion this bil calls not for such reorganization but for alterations of our form of government. In the crisis of 1933 yast powers were granted to the President which were supposed to be temporary but théy have been retaméd ‘and fast year the execu- tive attempted in addition to ex- end control over the judiciary. Now. it demands that powers properly belonging to the legis- lature be transferred to the exe- cutive, riét bat per- manently in aa a Because experience es it powers once’ surrendered re regained with difficulty, if at all. “I have Watched at close range the growth of one man power in country after country in Europe and the process is the same. Pow- ers are granted in an emergency and then more powers until the legislatures have found that they have in fact abdicated their con- { tional safeguard that they hand over all powers to an executive when asked, then ‘It can happen here’.” “L.beg Congress not to yield up more of its constitutional power for it alone can save the consti- tution and the nation. “Citizens can make themselves {heard only by wiring to their Senators and Representatives and it is my earnest that they will do so by thousands as I have done while there may yet be time. I know of no argument in favor of continuing to transfer power after power to the executive, whereas the examples of nation after nation in Europe show the ' terrible Possible @anger involved. “The preservation of liberty is not a party question; it is the duty of every citizen who wishes to have the country and his own personal freedom. I hope citizens will telegraph their Congressman, without a day’s delay. jigned James Trusiow Ad: IN BED “MAY PROVE FA (Ry Axsoctated Press) is.” PHILADELPHIA, March 25— pr NH. Heck. U. S. coast and | Cause of death—confinement in bed. Number of deaths from be- ing in bed—10. Patients—all over 65 years of age. These figures come from the Journal of the American Medical Association, in a report by LB Laplace, MD. and J. T. Nichdl- son, M.D. of Philadelphia. The title of their report was: “Prolonged recumbency as a contributory cause of death in elderly persons”. Their conclusion, however, was that in 10 cases being in bed was the real cause--Fhe-fect that eld- erly persorts dre Tike! if they stay in| bed tio Ry Several months—i8 an —_ story The Philadelphia hag 10 cases agin, fericade in act explanation. They found! that long lying down, because it-cur- tails a person’S movements, re- sulted in congestion of blood in the capillaries. ‘That. in turn, decreased circu- lation in the large blood vessels. As a result, the blond failed to carry enough oxygen to the tis- sues and this caused permanent damage to the capillaries. After this, circulation of the blood be- fan to fail. and death was the re- sult. Forced consolidation of rail- feads considered by three Federal agencies shapping reforms. HUNTING’ {NEW SUGGESTION .| there is only one seismograph per By DEVON FRANCIS If an airplane can sink a battle- ship, defense of America’s coast- lines would appear to be a simple matter. If it can’t, a lot of en- ergy is being wasted on that argu- , ment again. While the navy’s battle wagons conduct their annual maneuvers in the Pacific, a tidy plan for stopping an invading fleet in its tracks is being evolved by the Army Air Corps. Both Make Good Cases Army bombers, as a new “first line of defense”, would wing far to Sea to engage the fleet. At best, the invader’s warships would be sunk or disabled. At worst, they would be put at a disadvantage. The Air Corps makes a good case for itself. But so do champions of the warship, insistent that the navy still is the nation’s first line of defense. Little has been added to avail- able knowledge in the Battleship- vs.-Aircraft argument by the Ethiopian, Spanish or Sino-Japan- ese wars. No modern bombing plane has been tested against 2 modern Warship. Partisans of the airplane say Italy won the first air war in his-! tory without firing a shot—by threatening to sink the British fleet in the Mediterranean if the Suez canal were closed during the Ethiopian excursion. But the facts are not public. A Deep Secret Still a deep secret among mili- tary men were thé results of the “bombing” of the battleship Utah by army planes last year, several hundred miles off San Francisco’s Golden Gate. They were impres- sive. Dropped from an average of 12,000 feet, “water bombs” pep- pered the deck and the water near the vessel. The army argued that the direct hits with real bombs would have sunk or crippléd the Utah; that near-hits would have opened her seams. The answer to the pianes’ ac- curacy was a new, secret, bomb sight. It is all theory, of course, and the rebuttal of the navv adds up to an equally logical conclusion that for offense, the airplane sas effective Gs & gnat on an ‘ele- plant’s hide. Battleship Protection Modern battleships, they point out, are armor-plated above the water line and that bulges or “blisters” below it absorb the shock of explosions. Even the value of torpedoes against modern men-of-war is questioned. At Jutland the war- ship Marlborough was torpedoed. but not disabled. The Spanish Insurgent battle- ship Espana was sunk by a chance hit down a funnel. The gunboat Panay, sunk in China, was meag- erly equipped for combat. Alone among high navy offi- cials, Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of naval operations, has con- ceded publicly that an airplane might be able to sink a battleship. Let’s enter a hypothetical war. An enemy is approaching our shores. A warning has been sounded. The Carrier's Brood Ashore are the Air Corps‘\heavy bombing planes, the largest cap- able of flying 1,500 miles, unload- ing several thousand pounds of “eggs” and returning without re- fueling. Co-operating with the defense fleet are the navy’s slower, heav- ily armed patrol bombers. On cruisers and battleships of each fleet are nests of scouting and ob- servation planes, and on aircraft carriers are several hundred com- bat observation, and light bomb- ing machimes. The usefulness of the carriers’; broods can ‘be discounted beyond | 300 ‘tnile’ ‘from! their base. Excep- tidnally‘ ‘Vulnerable to attack, the carriers “will rerhaini ‘far behind the zohe of battle. With the enemy still = thousand miles out, a dozen Air Corps i bombers take off to nget him. But, the navy interposes, how is the army going to find him? Well, runs the answer, the Utah: was found in a search of 90,000! square miles of Ocean; to find a whole fleet should be easy. All right, says the navy. The enemy has been spotted, but the enemy also has spotted the army, and a swarm of fighting planes is rising from every ship. A “curtain” of anti-aircraft shells is being thrown athwart the bombers’ line of flight. A New Idea Not so fast, says the army: (1); Enemy observation units are off on msisions and the surprise is complete; (2) Only a few enemy combat planes are in the air, and the rest are being launched too slowly to worry about; (3) The carriers, looming like the broad- side, of a barn, can be dispatched quickly; (4) Anti-aircraft fire is Linnocyoassat 30,000 to 12,000 feet, Very well, retorts the navy wi deadly finality, but the airplanes can’t sink the battleships; and as for “harassing” the enemy, sub- marines and torpedo boats can do a better job. The Air Corps recently pulled a new idea out of its sleeve. How about laying down a. blanket of deadly gas, it asks, and let the elaborate ventilating systems of enemy ships suck in.the fumes? The navy, which can give as well as take, will have an answer to that one soon. i “(DEATHS FROM SNAKE BITES ON DECREASE - any Scale Press) NEY YORK, March 24—Fifty years ago eight out of ten Amer- died. Now, out of a few hundred bitten each year, there seldom is a death. It is mostly due to the fact that a Brooklyn boy was walking through a swamp about 40 years ago and saw two snakes crawl out of sight under some rubbish. That sight is what first imter- ested Dr. Raymond L. Ditmars, the famous snake tan of the Bronx Zoo, in snakes. He cannot explain why, he says, but the fact remains. He told the story_ when the American Institute of the City of New York gave him a fellowship. Young Ditmars not only became interested in snakes, but in poi- , SOnous ones. When the Bronx Zoo opened its first snake house, Ditmars had a better collection than the Zoo. So he was made curator. Since then he has been a lead- ing spirit in research on snake venoms, collaborating with scien- tists from all over the world. Ser- um for snake bite was the first practical result, It Saves lives. Ditmars’ fellow, ee have gone onto snake bin ag an effective substance to con’ hemorrhage and a pain- , Killer. which in some cases is as * effectiv ine, but. not habit-for (By Axsociated Preax) NEW YORK, March 25. — The question is when did engineers learn to “talk.” The Engineers Club of New York City is noted for conversa- ; tional powers of its members. They are the tops of engineering / from all over the world. But when it was proposed to {Start this club, just 50 years ago, ‘this objection was made: “You can’t have an engineer's | club because engineers don’t like to talk to each other.” The objector is believed to! have referred to a tendency of engineers not to talk about soc- ial and economic welfare. That is what engineers lately have been | preaching as the coming topic of es impgrtapee for their pro- it appears that some time in} the last few years, engineers have | learned to “talk” about the social | consequences of their work. They | are the big appliers of scientific} discovery. They have decided to look to the social effects of their material works. Byron Eldred, president of ; the club, puts it this way: “The pen is mightier than te sword, and now in the last 50 | years the slide rule has become mightier than the pen. Eldred has ely to “talk.” Born to Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Trevor, 1205 Olivia street, a son weighing nine pounds. The new arrival has been given the name of Edward Douglas Trevor. “Mother and baby are reported: “to be getting along nicely. “QUAKE Press) WASHINGTON, ~ March 3.— geodetic suvey, wants this coun- try to go earthquake hunting in the Rocky mountains. The hunt, he says would save Property and lives. The Rockies are still growing. But, says Heck, 100,000 square miles in the moun- tams, not enough to discover the sources of the shakes. With enough seismographs, ge- ologists could determine the cen- ters where slipping rocks of the growing mountains set up the tremors. Next, they could deter- mine the nature of the geological formations, surface and buried about these centers. With that information,” they could begin to make blue prints to save lives. They could figure the vibration periods of the quake regions. The period is the rate of vibration. In s three a second. half-second or one a second. Putting up buildings that vi- brate at a different rate he ex- plains is a matter of life and death. The structure whose nat- ural vibration peridd happens to be the same as that of the quake. is very likely to collapse. PAGE TOKYO ABERDEEN, Scotland — Bishop F. L. Deane of this city declared that dancing is “one of the great- Pe assets of modern social fife” PITIPOPPE POLO OOOO eee i ededeukeude GLASSIFIED--- ---ADVERTISING N RATES ARE: Twenty-fiye THIS AD— OR rms AD— For Rent—tto for small family. XXX Eaton St. For one week it imum for each ihsertion—or One Cent (1c) per word — and One Cent (1c) per word For each ad- ditional insertion. FOR INSTANCE Dining room chairs and table. for sale cheap. Also two rugs. Inquire at XXX Simonfon Street. would cost 25c¢ for the first inser- tion. For three days it would cost Only 57< veniences. By day or by week. Reasonable ratet—close to town. Would cost 25s for the first day. $1.45 All Classified Advertising Is Payable In Advance The Key West Citizen PHONE si ¢ents (25c) min- All modern con- would cost only Fekkai dl ddh de dau dade diudidedeudbde deat fC hdidii de dude Lecce ROOM OCCUPIED IN. 1168, FOUND: Associated Press sam ach SS At ‘Wupatki national monument in, Arizona recent excavations in prehistoric stone ruins have brought to light a room which ‘gedlogists estimate was occupied in 1168. It held seashells from the Gulf of California which are known to have been traded from tribe to; tribe over several hundred miles, ' as well as remnants of squash shells, corncobs, pumpkin seeds, a boil of native cotton, and san- dats woven from leaves of the’ yucea plant. seeccccccoscessscceseset ebesvedsedssecs A regular meeting of the Boy Scouts of America, Troep No. 52, will be held at their scout hall, Year of the Clinic Building, to- night. The meeting will begin promptly at 7:30 p. m. . Plans for the April, May, June, program will be the main issue of the meeting, with the other features that are always a part of the evening. Patrol meet- ings, games, inter-patrol contests. Big things are looked for since the Green Bar Patrol meeting, Wednesday night, when a full dis- cussion of various projects for the | patrols, and the tropp were! brought out. Plans for the next hike or camp | will Be brought up for a vote, at i this tréop meeting, and the pre- senting of badges to the scouts who have recently completed second class tests. The Girl Scouts of of Troop No. 1 will meet this afternoon at the home of Captain Eva B. Warner and hike to the Roosevelt Boule- vard Pool where the meeting will: | bze conducted. Afterwards drilling on second class Scout tests will be executed. Swimming will also be im or- der. NEEDED INTRODUCTION CHICAGO. — Miss Dorothy Timler of this city had Ralph }Mackel aPrested for calling her} ) “sweetie” ‘without am introduc+’ } tion. Hub—t can't cat this stuff. Young lever mind, dear, I have some lovely recipes for making up left-overs. . Hub—In that case I'll eat it. oid EACH This K. D. Cypress Screen Window Frames. Without hardware— UNKNOWN TONGUE CHICAGO.—Seven interpreters were called im to translate the testimony of Michel Hordak, a |court witness in this city. 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