The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 4, 1947, Page 3

s. ee re Pe ee ey ee Og is =i PR a Ag tines oS NG wi - CODE EE Siete Ba daspagd a } et trimpttane te ateemattetematinmadae th ee be ni _ THE KEY, WEST, G1 6 CORTES’. CAPTURE of the city of Mexico, from Chappel’s painting. ta By ROBERT N; COOL ¥ a0 ES eee AP Newstfeatures Writer cn ee _2ANEW YORK—Time has given the last latigh to the ghost of OPPO PD DI. a ~t#''-Hernando Cortes, and revived an old dispute. a 'Kéep ‘Behind | } Was the 16th century Spanish conqueror of Mexico @ hero - Spreading civilization, or a cruel despoiler of native Indian cul-| The Times’ With “s"The recent discovery in Mexico a. Ni we Column = City of a.casket which scientists Song Of Nassau | ews: Column ‘ “gay “undoubtedly contains the! ~~ i ae, | J FENDERSON. Ky.—(AP).— sor Panes of Cortes has stirred the! (ppe Following Poem, Signed by; 44 Their intention was good sa ae historic controversy. __ |B. J. K., appeared in The Chicago! but Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Pe- |) An life, the earGed adventurer | ““qyibune, under the.Caption: | den were 25 years late. peat tricked and outbluffed the Aztecs | “Song of Nassau” While glancing through a egy: Mexico City, finally fastening '©, hear my tale of Nassau, | | newspaper, Mrs. Peden no- i: ey 7 of gold - hungry Spain’ Where the sun and sand are cheap,’ ticed that one of her friends ee ean t< eee anage" Sur-| Where they lay awake to figure! was in the hospital She and | Sie. bs ea Of & prome: race |. damited | raw. to charge you while you; her husband decidéd to call . ut ~=“his, Memory down the centuries, | sleep : WBOH the wei because of his reputed. torturing} ; air en hshapegge hospital’ . 4nd ruthless extermination of the ';.. Ber Rae = gee Beers yey AG Rakere iLying lazy on the sea, j records, however, failed fo BA, ti ed | OR , Somewhere in the old Bahamas, | reveal the name 6f anyone wr His Elusive Ghost |Where the penny things cost} the Peden’ knew, so théy Three hundred years after Cor-| three-pence, wee Weis to teread the tes conquered it, Mexico rebelled But the air you breathe is free. ifetki. . against Spain and became a re-| i aa ee ee x a “public. During bloody anti-Euro- Yes, they let you breathe the air/ one Riclee pay ey . oft pean riots that swept the capitab | a bit, Pew ge se ns eee ag in 1823 Cortes’ tomb was in dan- ' They let you soak the sun; YS 4 4 Ld 2s Ss #|) ger ot being despoiled, But just But that’s because they don’t, oar 4 as the old conquistador had es- | know how Wh 2 K us ? caped from Aztec ambushes in To tax you on that one! 0 nows earlier days, a descendant man- | 1. What does it cost our pub- aged to spirit his remains to a_O, hie yourself to Nassau, | lic schools to teach one’ pupil a secret hiding place. “Where a man can raise a thirst”,: year?, ¥ Another 123 years passed, and But you’d better be darn certain} 2. What percentage’ of ‘pre- the location of the bones remain-;That you've plenty money first. | miums are paid. out by insurance: itt eae ed a mystery. Last month they | companies as. losses?. MF nitemad were reported discovered in Mex- Where British tweeds and wool- 3. De.lawyers or physiciand 74% ” ico City—long after time had soft- ens, ata chaae have:'the higher SS a ae ened the revolutionary fury that The Wedgewood, Spode, arid such! 4 Ho teleph snisidsianinabielincentenial had endangered them. * Will sell as in Chicago— ap sae hit rpenpe = Shk o regret reg * Through a panel in an ornate! If you pay them twice as much, used in the U. S.? ; i pg casket,, a skull) ee ; mat 5. About how aTTaniy homes in ~ #"Which was declared to be that of Where walléts must be loaded the U.S. have’ electric stoves? smtatens 9 -wiCortes Could" We 'séen for the vos Sy. time since ‘those who carrie * . ‘iy. * ¥ 3 eget eat first If you’re going out to dine, 6. What is the mumben= Ofs 94 d it ’Cuz the usual Blue Plate Special radios? | e Costs a good five ninety-nine. _ 7, What U.S. company’: has! ‘tthe largest ‘number of stock- |Where bargain buys are ended, _; Holders? £ sole * Where the sucker rates begin, 8. What President’s portrait is ‘ati Where the poor are poor as church jon a $20 bill? mice - | 9. What is the total value of _* © *y- 'And the rich are rich as sin. Lend-Lease aid? : 10. What is an “open shop?” O, heed my song of Nassau, And its coral-bordered shores, | + Oe Keele Where you pay them three times The Answers : * over, , 85. ‘ Or the British Lion roars! 1. Art, vale a his hérsemen who were believed h . oe “ - 047 ¥ : ‘to be gods. The Mexicans haa} PAYSicians, Su" \— 10,000. : ‘he at |never before seen horses. - Sean 20,000,000. et Rip ‘ A fears of the people, Cortes soon 7. American Telephone and or = SS iS AY | ceached the capital where he held Telegraph Co., 683,897.. ; ARR the Aztec. king, onveqinin im 8. Jackson. re haag ‘ ; (oda jransoM. res Rapes ey iyo Aah. 29, About, $46,000,000,000, >... f ih, -HERNANDO CORTES |) When .Cortes.Agarned that thei! 10; One: in’ which ‘Gnjép iem- off had secretly immured it iy! King “had’sent a force to’ attack bership is not a conan 4 a a in mrt tr Sie onal spital de, Vera Cruz, Montebuma was com-/ ployment. &p the capital's ancient Hospital de; pelled to deliver up his secret task | — were t Jesus. hough the bones of Cortes| force. Cortes burned them all at Eevptian Rail Hero ie pee honey <p EE the question of the stake. Then he learned that a} BERN. —(AP) —A pwise i ingens in Mexican history|Spanish expedition was on 18; gineer who spent 42 years in the t : en be dis saree By and way from Cuba to deprive him of service of the Egyptian railways, - nonagge to : — inclina- his command. So Cortes marched; popert Rahm, has been decorat- rye hear while the, east, defeated his countrymen and | ed with the Order of Ismail. The more revolutionary, nationalistic- | returned, strengthened, to the | decoration was presented by the i cic ‘eserve Capital. E tian minister here, under in- * ally-minded Mexicans preserve | C@P1 ; ; sypt : neni?! fhe grudge which their ancestors; There he found the Mexicans 1Nj + u¢tions from King Faruk I of Egypt. pore him. It has been remarked revolt. Infuriated hordes of “a : agiat no public monument to the dians swarmed to obliterate the ueror stands in all Mexico. Spaniards, but incredibly Cortes | sues Prog ; istory indicates that the, managed to withdraw again pre ig INCOME. TAX * rthy politician-general who/coast. His. luck and courage filled, | ns 1947 ght gold and adventure in the the Mexicans with baffled awe. | A.W) 3 @mag fo) gmm | po World was a master of; Op july 7, 1520, an unexpected | 5 strategy. That his methods were victory on the plains of Otumba cruel and avaricious, with no re-| «ompletely turned the tables. Cor- gard for Aztec culture, is also ajteg broke the back of effective | matter of record. _ resistance and consolidated his! ; Bold Venture 'eonquests with bloody ferocity On November, 18, 1518, Her-|that drove the Indians to despair nando Cortes sailed from Cuba} anq new revolt. , H PY with ten vessels, 600 soldiers, _ Then, the usual payoff: | a cavalrymen and a few pieces o Though he had won a rich es a , <+ im i fof ug e na .. * illery. Almost immediately his Oe” cra hem Seen « t erice attempted to call him uss aK his counts ConA “a i | HOW TO USE » back and cancelled his commis- Soain. > ; a ee al aa = — ory pehebie 2 sah LONG FORM * ~ . ’ B ae = t e| e ie 3 . ® landed in Mexico and foun e 1 et iar aia ek © @ tat “a Cruz, having himself | and his body was rit y el ed oa Ys cbotaih-genortt: \ily vault at Seville. However, his GATHER all, the infor : prime this questionable author-/son brought it to Mexico City in + mation required before : it yaa an army small even for/1562 for interment in the Monas- you start. : tho e days, he burned his ships |tery of San = ou : ; behi 1 him to prevent desertions}. There it remained un f Transfer the informa- : puts it to. conquer the highly- | Mexicans freed thesmeehves. swat « tion to the werk sheets . ~ os Indian civilizations. In gpa apie Cortes —_ pope in proper order. ‘ e ne Ap toward the lofty Aztec|tMe casket’s secret remov = ital, Mexico City, Cortes quick- hiding place that wen at, found TAKE ONE LINE at a SF found that he had two aces: the| until last .year P fimé. : e ror’s re-! disunity of the native states and| desecration of the conque s the terror which was inspired by mains.