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Azsociated Press Day Wire Service For 59 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LX. No. 186. Fifty Thousand Will Participate Maneuvers Being Two Killed: tn Activities To Be Caixied| On In Wide Area Sit-| uated North Of Lake| Champlain i (Speetat to The Citizen) NEW YORK. Aug. 7.—More| Two persons met their death jand three others met with serious than 500 medical officers of the | injuries in an automobile ac- Regular Army, National Guard cident which occurred 9 o'clock ; Saturday night when the group and Reserve Corps will guard the | were coming south over the high- health |way and their car crashed through oF oe OE ere et ne callacof atin’ Can Saud will move into the 460-square-; bridge and went into the water. a | Claude Hamilton, of Decatur, mile area north of Lake Cham: Ga. who was driving the automo- plain for the big maneuvers of! bile, and Miss Frances Kreamer, | 24 of Miami, were killed. in the the First Army fo be held there | accident, and Miss Kreamer’s luring |twin sister Margaret, E. Daniels, . Jem tye meaty ot ;also’of Miami, and C. G. Mullens, August. jof Atlanta, Ga. were taken to ® es ‘ |the Post Graduate - hospital in! Emphasizing the importance of | sanitation and heaith measures! Homestead for treatment. | It was reported to the officers’ in such a great concentration of | who arrived on the scene some- | men, Major General Hugh A,| At Card Sound Bridge Piece of timber that went through ; Che Ker: THE SOUT y Me in Big Pamed Accident — { i } | | } time after the accident that the car was the third to hit the rail-} ings of the bridge during the day, due to the slippery condi- tion of the bridge after the rains which had been » intermittent! throughout the day. | A resident of Homestead, said to be named Vann, dragged the | persons, injured from the water, | assisted by Earl Howard, opera- | tor of a barbecue stand near the | bridge. Vann said“that Hanilton | and Miss Kreamer were wedged | in the car and held there by a’ the side. It was later that the dead were removed and the car brought from the water, which was about 12 feet deep. Drum announced today that the | normal complement ‘of the Medi- } cal Corps would be augmented by | civilian officers, many of whom | are distiguished in their commu- | nities, drawn from the civilian: components of the Army. They will assist in supervising the; medical phase of the maneuvers! by serving on staffs of all. units, | from the First Army right down! to regimfent and special units. | The coordination and supervi- | 2 Ra ere sion of this large staff of physi-| Frank Frazier, colored, is in cians, surgeons, dentists « and | the county jail and will be given| veterinarians will be under the Preliminary hearing : piclock | direct control of Colonel Frank| this afternoon on a charge of W. Weed, Surgeon of the Second | Tecklessly driving is automobile | Corps Area, who will be assisted °° the public highway, Saturday ight, and crashing into a: barbe- | by another Regular Army veteran |™8°t. 4 : medical officer, Lieutenant Colo- | CU a at the intersection’ of nel William C. Munly. Rnosevelt : Road 4. i‘ One of the biggest health pro- blems during the “dog days” of |,, Parts of the stand were demo- | August, Colonel Weed pointed | ished and another car which was out, will be the inspection of standing near was driven into}! meats that will be consumed by | the building, adding the damage the big army of healthy men, | Ca"S and building. For instance 344,000 pounds of Alberto Camero, captain of the fresh beef alone will be used, to Police force and a deputy sheriff, | say nothing of fourteen tons of 24 Harry Johnson, police officer . arrived on the scene a few! Sot hte moo 1 ta bs as jminutes after the accident and! “ art ‘placed the negro under arrest! sage, veal, lamb and chicken. and brdaght-him to:the city: | | They said the car which had PARK FUNERAL, csuseo ne samace i owned’ by 1M. D. Ellis and ‘the stand is; owned. by Ernest Lawrence. They | are both expected to appear at; | the hearing this afternoon. Coun-' Mrs. .Y. Solicitor Allan B. Cleare will “jalso be at the hearing. EXPENSIVE DAMAGES *. i Funeral services for Carolyn Park, who died Saturday morning, are to be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock, instead of Esti 2s 4 o'clock, The cies was in-| TOPEKA, Kans. — Attorneys, formed today by Lopez Funeral | with a mind for figures estimated ' Home which has charge of the | the various costs of a lawsuit that | services. - jreached the state suprem court} The services will be held from totaled about $100. | Ley Memorial church where the! The suit involved a $5 fine as- body will be placed at 2 o'clock. | sessed against a Topekan charg- j{ Rev. O. C. Howell will be the of-!ed with having no rear light on} ficiating minister. this car. ! H Various arn Sas Scare in oval Wats : | Charles R. Burt, professor of;in Key West while eaociated | Biology at Southwestern Univer-|with Ross Allen, at the reptile! sity, Wit'field, Kansas, was a/institute, and who has recently visitor at The Citizen office this! opened a place of business at collection of certain classes of| Professor Burt said that he had marine specimens which he had/gathered a nice collection of collecting in the waters|specimens, some of them which RNMOST NEWSPAPER IN THE RPE RE Ged KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1939 PIPPI L LDL J SUIT AGAINST NEW YORKER SAYS HE WILL SOON BE ‘KEY WEST BOUND’ One taste of Key West cli- (Ry Associated Press) FILM CONCERNS WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—All| ed 2 Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit t=r11 U. S.A. PRICE FIVE CENTS Twelve Thousand Florida | mate arouses an appetite for more, according to word re- ceived here today by Bill Lee, newspaper correspond- ent, from Frederick S. Park- hurst, Jr., of Olean, N. Y. Parkhurst formerly served as city engineer of Niagara Falls, N. Y. and Olean, and has been a mining and civil engineer in many sections of the country. Until last sea- son he used to park his car and trailer near Hollywood for several weeks, but last winter decided to make a trip to Key West to see Bill Trailer space was arranged for Mr. Parkhurst at Trumbo Island Hotel, where he re- mained seven weeks, At the time Mr. Parkhurst said that it was the finest spot he had ever found for his trailer and declared that the trade winds and the climate in general had provided him with the greatest vacation he had ever spent anywhere in the coun- “I'm not going to stop this year near Hollywood or any- where else on my way to Key West", Mr. Parkhurst writes Mr, Lee. “I'm going right through to Key. West and stay there the entire season. probably four months, I want the same trailer site, and pléase arrange the same kind of heavenly weather we had last year. I'll be seeing you about Thanksgiving Day.” | y SHIIITsses Ts ‘major motior. picture producing | 4 companies tcgether with several | i large theater chains were in- volved today in a suit instigated | “by the justice department which | jecharges the defendants with “\“eombining unreasonably” to re- (strain trade. “7 Assistant Attorney Murphy. | =: The proceeding is designed to! WPA Workers Affected break the’ monopoly central ex- | |ercised by the defendants: in the! exhibition of motion: pictures in! parts. of New York, Ohio, Ken-; | tucky, Maryland and Delaware. ee is thought that the outcome of; |the suit will “have far-reaching } j effects in the motion picture in- | |dustry distribution set-up. | t | Poland's: Stand In Danzig Issue Rather Luke Wa MRS. CASTRO n) | (By associated Press) j DIES IN CUBA! CRACOW, Poland, Aug. 7.—)the behavior of the other side”. iS | } jFocus of world attention was! The speech was made on the jagain turned on the free city of twenty-fifth anniversary of the 5a 3 Danzig ‘over last weekend as! march on Cracow by. the Pilsu- be OF en ane alas de. Cos- | sterstiall “Edward , Smigly-Rydz |dski. legion, the city that lies. bul , Cuba, Saturday morning. Funeral |Poland’s “head man” declared | thirty-five miles north. of the "services were held in the Cuban | that Hitler will have to answer | border of Nazi-protected Slovakia ‘capital yesterday. jfor any move made against the | where heavy concentrations of The deceased was one of the free city. _{ GERnaN fepgpe! sxe eset red: founders of the Mercedes Hospi- | The polish -Marshall stated, in| “Danzig for centuries has been tal, and was a member of the Do- ,@ Speech to over 100,000 country- 'closely connected with Poland”, lores Mayg Club, who first sta®t-|™en in this city, that “our posi-' declared the marshall, “and we !tion is clear in regard to Danzig.! consider it the lung of Polish ed the movement for the hospi-' * ” tal. We shall shape our behavior to | economy”. | + } Survivors are her husband, RI GIT Odea nti: Hs REP DORON War ipt Meroe eye ie Ga” Sen Meee Abelardo Castro, two sons and | Strange Tribe Includes | Woren Who Won't Talk'N, Y. A. PROJECT (Ne Anwocinted Prennd | sisters. i ‘Epscthres Sete Gpecial Session Of Congress May Be Called In November Automobile Crashes Into | Barbecue Stand On Road SIMLA, India, Aug. Teespeciatt {police armed with sporting rifles ; ‘have been sent to the Andamans: —India’s penal settlement island —to put down a wandering tribe ,of deadly Jarawas, none of whom has ever been captured alive. These natives, living under ul- tra-primitive conditions, number only 300, but lie in wait for labor- lers, cultivators, and police parties | It was learned from Victor Lowe, area supervisor of the N. Y. A., that a project of much im- portance to the male youths of Tow morning, and all former em- ployes of the N. Y. A. craft shop will be put to work at that time. WARBLER LEFT STARTS TUESDAY’ the city will start work tomor-| (By Ansocrated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—!|posirig us”, is the theme of the President Roosevelt today was/Song now being sung by the considering the advice of many of | President and his brain trust. ns Republicans, on the other hand, “his co-horts ‘that-he call a special! +4te that they would welcome an session of Congress early in No-/extra session. Senator Vander- jvember for the purpose of pass-| berg, leading contender for the jing some of the major bills that|Republican Presidential nomina- | were “spilled” by successful coali-|‘tion, stated today that “the tion of Republicans and anti-New {country would be better off wih i TO AID SHIP Wrecking Tug Warbler received to the assistance of the Steamer | Eastern Blade, which was near! ‘Savannah, Ga., and is need of aj tow. The Warbler sailed from port | at 6:45 for the vicinity of Savan- ; nah and was to take the ship in| .tow, when the scene was reached, and proceed to Jacksonville. | Nothing was received as to the trouble with the Eastern Blade, | but it was naturally concluded | that her motive machinery had ; ben placed out of order, making the tow necessary. eh dd de A S. ‘AYS KEY WEST | keep working,” said Dr. D. W.; oldest RIGHTLY NAMED Arthur Steed, WPA time- i Paradise", had a great idea | and could not have selected a | perfectly H slogan. Mr, Steed and nephew Bill, who are here temporarily. Rex Wilson, field engineer of the WPA, now acting as area supervisor in this district, t | | it “ll F i Fl By i ATS SPELT Hill i fl E z ui fre f a He Fis ‘ir _ at ad f Et i ( and cause many deaths with deft; bowmanship. Apart from other defensive’ measures police have attempted Boulevard and State |® call Saturday afternoon to go!to learn their language from. wo- }men. Jarawas, But the women, | showing great aptitude for learn- j jing English, remained sullen and; about their | uncommunicative own tongue. Maybe You'd Better Ask Your Doctor| (By Associated Prewsy WICHITA, Kans. Aug. 7.— , When two physicians met the) ;other day for the first time in} ‘years each commented about how well the other looked. Basham, 80, Wichita’s practicing physician. “On the contrary,” riend, Dr. er. years.” You take your choice, ia Fellows Aves Here L. A. Sampley, Grand Master; “The way to keep young is to; said his} Richard Sutton of; ansas City, explorer and travel-| “I have been playing for 38} SOIOOOa SIL, \PARTY ENJOYS FISHING OUTING Mrs. Alvina Faul and son ;Deal Democrats in the closing congress in Washington”, con- {scenes of Congress last: week. |tinuing to outline the President will call the session or; than one’ in dealing with the ‘not, however Roosevelt did ex-|many problems to be solved in press confidence that the next the near future. \Session would pass all of the| The President expressed him- jmajor bills that were not passed jself as being well pleased with ithis session. “When the Congress- |the accomplishments of Congress, men get home and hear the cri-| though it was generally conceded |ticism aimed at them for not sup-|that the session was the most ‘porting the New Deal measures turbulent for New Dealism since t ‘they will quickly make up their the instigation of its program of {mids that they. did wrong in op- |new-style legislation. cry iBritain Is On Guard | LONDON, Aug. 7—After six months’ countrywide terrorism by the Irish Republican Army, of- ficials in Whitehall’s gloomy government offices have realized | there’s nothing to stop anyone of | reasonably good eppearance from |leaving a bomb in one of their | corridors. Steps have been taken. Now all visitors to various department buildings must fill in a “Who- | Why-What-Where-When?” ticket |before being admitted and theo- | retically cannot leave again with- ‘out it. | Not even veteran reporters who jeall the door attendants by their any a ted Press) { BOMBAY, India, Aug. 7A ""%t Hames are exempt. marriage bounty for any of his; subjects harrying a widow is of-' jfered by the Kuler of Mandi, of | :the Punjabs states, to try and | stop widows being the victinis of , white slavery. Although the law does not pre- i | { i | Marriage license was yesterday | jissued from the office of County | Judge Raymond R: Lord, au- {thorizing the wedding of An- jthony Albert Pabian and Ruth | Carl House. | Immediately after the license | was issued those to whom it was ! given, asked that the -ceremony | be performed, and Judge Lord | gratified their request. | Marriage Is Encouraged | On All Fronts, It Seems | | ter Of Odd { ! 1 f craad the. city ‘viding. the tne! it and progress to stamp it out alive of a 1 reasons | It is not known whether the ‘why “two heads would be better } Approximately Four - Hun- dred Persons Will Be Taken Off Rolls In Local | Area (My Associated Presa) | JACKSONVILLE, Aug. ' Cancelling announcement made last week, Roy Schroder. State administrator of WPA, -to- day infermed the ‘state of Florida that approximately 12,000 work- ‘ers would be forced into a 30-day — layoff in accord with provisions of the new relief bill which calls (for a month's vacation without { pay for all these that have been on the roils for a period of eigh- | teen monihs, Previously it had, been an- jounced that. Florida would be he exception in this rule, in that ir. Schroder had been success- { ‘ul in persuading nationai head- quarters that this state had no ;Summer industry and that the jrule would work a hardship on hundreds of families. The counter- |mand of this exception has puzz- led areas statewide, however, |small satisfactions is gleaned from the fact that , Florida | state rolls will not be \eat (ab sev- jerely as at first though! neeces- sary. ity net pA ABOUT 400 HERE Local headquarters have made no announcement concering the state rule, although it is under- » Stood that approximately 400 will !be off the rolls in Key West by {the end of August. Zoological Expedition Finds Deer That Bark’ UBy Ase stated Press) |. BOMBAY, Aug. 7.—Mystery ‘of the barking deer, one of the jleast known of animals, has at jlast been solved by the Varnay- {Cutting Zoological Expedition, which included British and American natural scientists, says | the India News Bulletin. | After.a 700-mile trek into the Burmese hinterland, the expedi- tion secured two specimens, male. and female, of black barking deer and a number of skins and skele- tons. As far as is known there jis not a single specimen. in an: museum. a | Existence of the deer...was known 15 years ago. The expedi- tion also secured 1,200 specimens of small animals, 1,500 specimens ‘of birds and 2,000 specimens of ‘plants of 500 different species. It _has an example of the Chinese coffin tree, over which there i been considerable discussion:

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