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Aasociatad Prats Day Wire Service. For St Yean Devoted to the Bast Interests of Key West VOLUME LV. No. 192. Silver Nationalization Now Tops Money Control Program Latest Action Adds Page To Metal History In United States' Mone tary System I Hi Pressl WASHINGTON, Ah ( . 13. VlatiaMliMllaa of tilnr marks aaolkor movo on man's troubled •rail from tba ancient temple of Juno. It was there tbo first coins more made which people could (its la eschange for tbo things •hop needed. Monet a was the ooroame of the Roman goddess, aad gradually these pieces of metal came to ho known as The protean by which metal' was made into money was called “monetisation,” which, strictly •peaking, meant to endow that metal with powor to be the stand - •Pd of each Alt Iff. Monetisation, remonetisation •nd demonetisation of precious eentmmlitier have, in their turn. Influenced the political, economic Mil tortsl fortunes of mankind over store the first coin was swap pei for • loin cloth. Ranh Crisis Is Start Nationalisation of • monetary; metal In the United States has been of rerent origin but springs frm the age-old struggle to manipulate the functions of money. It began during the hanking crisis in Mkrch, 1933. when congress |ssed a law pro vtdittg that when the secretary of the treasury denned it necessary to protect th. currency system of, •he nation he ought require thr ee ie of gold coin, bullion or gold certificates to the treasurer of the United States. In January, 11134, gold was na j t lona liked by act of congress an <!j tith tu ail gold was vested in the federal government which buys and aells the metal at stated prices. Geeerameat Gams Profit Nationalisation of silver give* the tr easury control and vests in ( the federal government title to* the silver of the United Stales ex I tept that which is fabricated. One aim of nationalisation of • nun lory metal is to gain for' the government any profit which might he made by buying and selling it. Another purpose is to give the metal a more stable •Whie. When the l otted Status was on a hi metallic standard during the! hist century the fact that the! market price of silver differed from the mint prir resulted in aa| ausatieiactery monetary system. Remetallism ia 17t2 The battle between gold and* Stiver in this country is almost as i aid oj the country itself. The 1 mint art written by Alexander: Hso ttoo in 1 1 UK established hi | mristi- ni with silver at a ratio of! li units to I of gold. By llti laige domestic de-j posit* of silver opened up, and’ the currency art of the Grant ad attnisi rattan terminated the use of the white metal as a major ha*s fur currency. Silver was of ficially demonetised, anil gold be came the single standard for American money. The Hiand Allison act of 1878: remonetised silver over President I Mayes veto, anil the treasury was j taut rise ted to buy at least $2,000.-' •M of etlaor a month and coin it. j TBs Sti 'iman silver purchase act! f I*s*o increased silver pur-j •An*** to 4.500.000 ounces a’ month and mode silver certificates • redeemable to gold. Piesidmt Cleveland forced re-‘ ptmi of the stiver purchase laws in tttt, hr raging on the McKinley-j Btyaa campaign in which free| coinage of silver was a ringing is- j •as. WE AGAIN FILL I PRESCRIPTIONS| for the EL ANCONA SOCIETY Gardner'* Pharmacy Phono ITT Free Delivery j THERE IS NO BETTER DRINK TO BE HAD THAN ICE COLD WAGNER’S “PRIDE OF FLORIDA” BEER. ITS DELICIOUS FLAVOR WILL QUENCH YOUR THIR> f W. H. GOULD WAS SUNDAY VISITOR DIVISION MANAGER BREW. ING CO. GUEST OF VIC. TOR MOFFAT W. H. Gould, division manager of the Wagner Brewing com pany, was a visitor in Key West yesterday and the guest of Victor Moffat, of the Charles Saunders company, and other members of the firm. Mr. Gould expressed himself as being delighted with business con ditions as he found them in Key West and is looking forward to a return to Key West later in the year. Mr. Could was connected with the executive staff of the com pany in New York but was, two and a half years ago, transferred from Buffalo to Miami and has since been in charge of that divi sion. He is also manager of the 15 plants of the City Ice and Fuel company. SPANISH PAPER PUBLISHED HERE . FIRST EDITION OF "CAYO HUESO" APPEARS YESTERDAY I - ■ j Sunday morning, August 12,: the initial edition of a Spanish paper, ‘‘Cayo Hueso,” was pub lished. Its purpose, as stated by the editor, A. O. Armayor, is to as sist the FERA in its movement to make a newer and better Key West. The paper is especially for ( the Spanish-speaking population of the city and is expected to add to the Latin atmosphere here, one of the purposes of the FERA. Another aim of the publication is to unite the Spanish and Amer ican groups into a solid unit for the greatest possible cooperation iq Key West’s rehabilitation pro ject. | The first paper coming off the press Saturday evening was pre rented to Governor Dave Sholtz, visiting in the city. Publication will be weekly and ' the staff consists of a director, A.' O. Armayor and an administrator,' Feliciano Castro. The Artman Press is in charge of the printing, i Julius Stone, FERA Administrator, Pleased With Rehabilitation Work Julius F. Stone, Jr., FERA ad-1 ministrstor for Florida, said yes terday before leaving for Jack- I sonville, he was very much satis fied with the progress of the re habilitation work in Key West. While there is a great improve ment shown, he says, it is not so evident to the casual observer as to those of the administration who made thorough surveys of the 1 siuation before the movement started and recently went over the ground to see what has been accomplished. Speaking of what is to be dona along other lines than those now being prosecuted he said while many things that are going on at this time are obvious, there are other activities being planned which have not been announced for the reason that the complete setup has not been determined. mp iiep Slest Cttijen BAND CONCERT THIS EVENING FORT TAYLOR j CAESAR LaMONACA ARRANG ES EXCELLENT PROGRAM TO BE RENDERED, BEGIN. NING AT'7 O’CLOCK Another of those delightfully entertaining concerts by the 265th Regiment Band has been arranged for 7 o’clock this evening by War rant Officer Caesar LaMonaca, in charge. There is one particular number of the program which will be ex | tremely interesting. This is I Rumba “La Spagnola,” The Star !of Love. The Italian words and | the music to this was written by ! Director LaMonaca. | The director says it is an in | spiration of Key West during the | encampment of 1933 and is re spectfully dedicated to Mayor Win. ! H. Malone and the people of Key ! West. Tonight will be the first | time it will be played. The full program is as follws: | I.—March, “Washington Post” (requested) Sousa ! 2.—Suite, “Atlantis” (The Lost Continent), in four parts Safrauck Popular, “All I Do Is Dream Of You” Brown ; 3.—Popular Waltz, “Just A Year Ago Tonight” David Rumba, “La Spagnola” (The Star of Love) LaMonaca 4. —“Humoreske” Dvorak Popular, “Nasty Man” Henderson ! 5. —Selection from the light opera, \ “Chimes of Normandy” i Planquette j The Star Spangled Banner. Two numbers of the concert j Saturday night were played under the direction of Governor Sholtz and so expertly was his direction done that he was asked to direct; other numbers on the program and to the delight of his audience did so. HEAVY GUN FIRE TO BEGIN TOMORROW PRACTICE BY NATIONAL \ GUARD TO START 8 O’CLOCK j IN MORNING Tomorrow will start the heavy gun practice at Fort Taylor by the ; Florida National Guard ami a j warning is issued to all shipping. Firing will begin at 8 o’clock in the morning in that area east of the main ship channel and all shipping is advsied to be on the alert of danger signals. This heavy gun practice will al-, so be continued Wednesday, be- i ginning at the same hour. The , same precaution should be taken ; by shipping. B. M. Duncan is continually at work on new phases of the re habilitation program and will, when all plans are perfected, make announcements through the press covering the entire scope of the projects. While in Key West this time Mr. Stone received a telegram from the editor of the Washing ton Post asking for a 2,000 word article on Key West. This he will start preparing at once. He ex pects to be in Washington be fore August 25. Before that time he will go on the air and tell the world what is being done in Key West and what is further contemplated by the administration. The entire time, it is said, which will be occupied by the administrator in his talk will be devqted exclusively to Key West and Monroe county. About September 1, or as soon thereafter as possible. Mr. Stone will return to Key Wtst and de vote several days tS an intensive study of the progress of the re habilitation program and also to making plans for other contem plated projects. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1934. Hemingway And Companion Make Start On 2,300 Mile Voyage Imbued with the spirit of ad venture and with the dtetermino tion to complete a journey which began several months ago at Mo bile, with Venezuela as the des tination, Leicester Hemingway sailed midnight Saturday in an 18- foot yawl, on the first leg of a 2,300-mile voyage through the West Indies and South American waters. This daring youth seeker after i knowledge is but 19 years old. He is a brother of Ernest Heming * way, noted author of Key West. I His companion is Bob Kilmo, of Mount Vernon, lowa, who joined young Hemingway in Key West several days ago. Neither is 21 years old. The boat in which the voyage is being made was built in Mo bile and the first leg of the trip from that port to Key West was started in April of this year with AI Dudek as Hemingway’s sailing companion, but after reaching a point within 40 miles of Key West, heavy winds were encoun tered and the little craft was bat tered so badly that to continue would have been foolhardy in the extreme. It was decided to make the nearest port but the heavy winds The Everglades National Park A portion of the Florida | Everglades was designated by Congress at its last session as the site for a national park 1 to be known as the Ever glades National Park. Por • tions of this site lie in Mon- I roe and Dade counties. This | will bring the number of na -1 tional parks in the United | States to 24, an area of ! something like 20,000 square miles. Exclusive of the Ever | glades Park —which will not be ready for visitors for some time —3,000,000 people visit ed the national parks last | year. Our newest national park is different than the others in that it is not moun tainous but an expanse of wa ter, tropical flowers and jungle foliage—a fairy land for thousands of birds. The following article titled j “The Everglades—A New Kind of Park” is reprinted from The Pathfinder, issue of August 11: j Our newest national park, the ! Florida Everglades, is known to i most people only as the home of a ; few Seminole Indians, a vast, dan gerous hunting region or a swamp i thickly populated with alligators j and snakes. Asa matter of fact | some of our congressmen appar j ently did not have a clear idea of ! it last spring when the park pro | ject was under consideration. Sev • eral of them shouted “snake leg j islation” and “alligator farm.” : But botanists and other scientists I tell us it is a place of beauty as i well as a rieh.fertile region; and that it will develop into a beauti ful national park comparable with any of the others. At any rate it offers an inter esting contrast. Instead of snow capped peaks, wide canyons and valleys, deserts and caves the tourists will have an opportunity to gaze on expanses of water, tropical flowers and jungle foil age. Dr. John K. Small, head 1 curator of the New York Botan -1 ical Garden, relates almost un ( believable tales of the plant life ' of its interior. More than 25 va rieties of orchids grow there. [ some of the plants estimated to ,be as much as 500 years old. : Some orchids have been found • with stems 15 feet long and flow ' ers so large it required four men ! to handle them while others had ' as many as 1,000 blossoms on one | stem. i Mangrove trees grow thick and and high seas were followed by a period of calm weather and after drifting several dasy and nights the mariners landed at Fort My ers. There the vessel was recondi tinned and supplies taken on and the voyage to Key West was re- I sumed, the travelers reaching this ; city early in May. i While spending a while with i Mr. Hemingway’s brother, Dudek received notice of the illness of ! his mother in Chicago, just as the voyage further south was to be re j sumed, and he left the same aft i ernoon for his home. Circum stances prevented his returning ' and since then Leicestr has been j communicating with friends and Bob Kilmo decided to make the ! trip. j Their first stop will be in Ha j vana where a few day3 will be ! spent with Ernest Hemingway. who is fishing for marlin and ofh | er large fish to be found in the waters adjacent to Cuba, after which they will sail for Haiti, Santo Domingo and Puerto Rico. Cruising around these islands it is the intention to study the hab j its of the natives and gain other information which will be used in ; a series of articles to be written by young Hemingway covering the highlights of the cruise and adventure. After leaving Puerto Rico the voyage will take them through the Windward Islands, down to the coast of Venezuela, where they will make for the mouth of the Orinoco River, which was decided upon as the destination when the : voyage was planned last April. It is expected the trip will take about four months. as tall as 100 feet and coconut I trees are abundant. Besides these ' are found maples, ash. cypress, ! mahogany, rubber and many oth -ler varieties. From many of them, I especially in the interior, vines I trail from the branches in such ! numbers as to form almost im passably barriers. Here and there are salt water streams (the aver age relief is about one foot above sea level). Attached to the roots of trees on their banks may be growing oysters. Hugh sea turtles weighing up to 300 pounds make their home here and come out on the sand under the cover of darkness to lay their eggs in nests made in the sand. These eggs are considered great delicacies and natives spend a great deal of time digging for them. Also the turtles are themselves excellent and are caught as they move from the water to their nests in the sand. A single turtle often lays from I-7O to 200 eggs. Ornithologists find the Ever glades a fairyland for bird study as it is the roosting place and feeding grounds of thousands of birds. Among the species to be found here are the ibis, spoonbills, egrets, cranes, flamingoes and herons. Students of animal life may find some bear, panthers or wildcats, foxes or deer—not to mention a few alligators and snakes. The waters abound with fish. The Everglades proper is a great saw-grass morass extending from the southwestern side of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida and takes in an area variously es timated from 2,500 to 5,00(1 square miles. It owes its origin to the copious rainfall and the slight relief of the section. In fact, the relief is so slight through out the region that a two-foot rise of water in the past changed hun dreds of square miles into a lake. Much of it was submerged during the rainy season. Besides the land acquired (2.- 500 acres) by Congress for the site of the park the state of Flor ida has made available many thou sands more and the Florida Fed eration of Women’s Club have of (Continued on Page Four) MONROE THEATER Pat O’Brien-Glenda Farrell in PERSONALITY KID Janet Gaynor-Chas. Farrell in 1 CHANGE OF HEART Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- I tra, 15-20 c; Night, 15-25 c SURVEY MADE TO LOCATE CHANNEL IN LOCAL AREA COAST AND GOEDETIC UNIT CARRYING ON ACTIVITIES IN FINDING CHANNEL TO NO NAME KEY Among the varied activities of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Sur vey unit now operating in the waters in Key West harbor will be the location of a channel to No Name Key. The one now marked by the lighthouse department is the only one which is used gnerally by the vessels of light draught plying be tween these two points. Should a channel be located which is deeper than the one men tioned it will be staked out for the purpose of guiding yachts from Miami to Key West. In the opinion of many persons a channel from Miami to Key West with ample depth for yachts is second only in importance to bridges for vehicles between the same points. TWO HELD FOR COURT HEARING Catherine Saunders and John i McQueen, both colored, were giv- 1 en preliminary hearings Saturday. j The former was charged with. trespass and the latter with as sault and battery. After hearing all evidence con- j nected with the case they were ' bound over to the next term of; criminal court in bond of SSO each. 'WWRE W GO* TONIGHT Monroe—“ Personality Kid” and “Change of Hearts.” Palace—“ Manhattan Tower.” , TOMORROW Monroe—“ Murder in the Priv ate Car.” Palace---“Chioe.” ' Governor Sholtz And Many Other Officials Inspect Guards’ Camp ; Yesterday was a busy day at I the Florida National Guard : camp with the large number of guests and many callers from | the city going out to meet friends j and look over the new arrange-' i ments. Many who had not seen the j : camp since its rehabilitation ami ; the new buildings were surprised iat the transformation which has [ taken place since the. troops were ' here last August. I It is understood that other } changes are contemplated. New j buildings to be constructed and ! many improvements which were | not included in the original plans 1 are being considered and steps | j will be taken to bring the matter ; before the authorities in Wash-; 1 ington. | With this end in view a com-j j plete survey of the camp and all 1 equipment was made yesterday., all buildings checked ami the ini-! | provements to be asked for noted. I i It is understood that the needed I additions will be asked for at an i j early date. [ Those in the inspection party j were Governor Dave Sholtz, A‘d-! I jutant General Vivian Collins, F. |n. G., Major Wade W. Rhein, U.< jS. A., Major R. T. Gibson, U. S.j ; A., instructor of the 265th Regi-j j ment, Lieutenant Colonel M. R. Woodward, F. N. G., and Chief i Justice Fred H. Davis, Supreme Court of Florida. Later on Governor Sholtz. his brother, Carl Sholtz and Colonel J. E. Yonge, members of the gov ernor’s staff took plane for Mi-i ami. While the inspection was being j made at the encampment Con-i j gressman J. Mark Wilcox, Julius I Stone, Florida administrator for, 1 FERA, C. B. Treadway, chairman. Political Map Now Strewn With Confusions And Contradictions CHARLES CURTIS DIES ON SUNDAY FUNERAL SERVICES BEING CONDUCTED THIS AFT ERNOON Charles Curtis, 67 years old, j died yesterday morning 5 o’clock in the U. S. Marine hospital. He ! was dangerously ill for two days j following a major operation for an aggravated condition of the stomach. I Funeral services are being held i j 4 o’clock this afternoon from the j j residence at Caroline and Simon- • j ton streets to the First Presbjr { terian church. Rev. Ryan L. | Woods, Moderator of St. John’s! Presbytery of Florida, officiating. : j Pallbearers arc V. A. Johnson, Frank Delaney, Thomas K. War- j ren, A. C. Elgin, Charles Maloney, and Jonathan Cates. Funeral arrangements are in j charge of the Lopez Funeral i Home. Mr. Curtis is survived by his widow; one daughter, Mrs. I. N.! 1 Meltzer; three sisters, Mrs. Jennie ; i Pierce. Mrs. Maty Williams and) 1 Mrs. Annie Delaney; one brother,) Edward Curtis and a grandson, < Charles Curtis Meltzer. CUBA BRINGS IN 102 PASSENGERS ! Steamship Cuba, of the P. and O. S. S. company, arrived tiatur day afternoon from Havana with 76 first class passengers and sev en second class for Key West. 18 first class and one second for Tampa. Of the number of passengers listed there were 51 aliens ami a few of them making entry in the United States for the first time. Freighter Henry R. Mallory, of the Clyde-Mallory Steamship Lines, is due to arrive in port *his afternoon from Galveston enrouto 1 to Charleston and New Y’ork. of the state road department, .Lieutenant Commander George j Gibbs, Captain S. Barchan, F. N. G., and Ellis Heliums, managing 'editor of the Miami Herald, left ! by plane for Tortuga* where an 1 inspection of the historic Fort ; Jefferson was made ami the party returned in about two hours, i lUOy the guest of honoi* fct Oie I canq/lls A. HL Blandmg. ; commanding the hist Division, comprising the State of Florida, I Georgia ami Alabama. The gen ! eral arrived over the East Coa t 1 yesterday to look over the an i campmcn* and today is becoming | acquainted with the FERA offi ; cials and the work so far accom ; plished in the rehabilitation of Key West. ! Most all of the visitors at the I encampment Saturday and Sun j day departed yesterday either by : plane or train in the afternoon, j The governor, hi" brother Carl and I Colonel Yonge left by plane. Among those leaving on the aft ernoon train were Congressman | Mark Wilcox, Administrator Juliu | F. Stone, Jr.. Secretary of State j R. A. Gray, Ellis Hollum.>, editoi ' of the Miami Herald; Burk Kree j man, private on the Ktaff *f the ! governor; Hal Leyshon, Miami | Daily News; Fred Rossner, Louis , Hitt and W. H. Gould. Tomorrow morning at H o’clock • the first of the heavy gun firing will commence. The First Hat talion will practice with the 155 .M. M. rifles. And on Wednes day the 15 inch mortars will be fired by the Second Battalion. During both of these practice* the range will be ea.-t of the mam ship channel and shipping is , warned to keep on the watch for 1 danger signals. ( Key Wrt, Florid*, km tbo most aquabla weatbar to tbo country; with on ovorofa range of only 14* Folwonbtrft. PRICE FIVE CENTS Democrats Aod Republi can* Depend On Great Strength In Variant Ac tivities (St AmwlhiM *MO> WASHINGTON. Aog. 11 —A . mid-season survey of primary and coavaatiaa results, shews the* the ; political sitootioq is still qoite ! puzzling in atony respects. The republican drought rsstissw near large areas, according to woothor •harps, who refer to the pohtzeol No one denies that ia other sec turns weather eeoet have been shifting sppeoriokfy nod the set look is unsettled. Nowhere k there any sign ef cyclonic de j vclopmeots. The democrats expect to hoop j most of their present btg osOjorit f in the house, and while republ sa gains are accepted as certain, few leaders of that party go as far as to forecast any actual republican majority. Because ef special cir cumstances it ia conceded the democrats will retain control a* the senate, possibly by a conmitei ably increased margin. The bigger question ia what it all protends with respect to tat Roosevelt regime oi Wasbtog*<Mi. On that question the claims r* distinctly conflicting, and ra a side is able to produce evidence which it seems to regard as t<*t vinemg. Political Occsotrls teles That is possible only harawsa 1934 is becoming a year of poli tical eccentricities. Everyone agrees Mr. Powaeveil has an exceptionally effort** control over his party. Yet in the one instance *.<• Chairman Farley went the trap* * of openly endorsing a senalm tal candidate -Clem Xhaver in * > Virginia that candidate was <*• fcated for the nomination. Everyone agrees that sms' re publican voters prefer Mr R*-*w velt’s leadership to that of old line republican conservatives, Yet probably the two meet cau* tic republican senatorial mine *f the President -Hatfield ef • Virginia and Kobtn-on ef !>•<!<*<.4 - -have been renominated aim*- without a murmur of opp*>- ’ <* Everyone hr.,.*- the tepubii so high command larks control ever the western gronp of repuhln al liberals. Yet two ef that geeup- On*ah of Idaho and Nye of North Da koto—are l<-admg the i stuck on koomvsdt palters- Seme Mere Paradoses been openly iclmitiding the port, But in MmnesoU. the d* crats si v seeking a fu v <t the republicans to defeat I - farmer laboities; V MMnia a gmup of you.,, publican liberals” is sekm, l<. overthrow of Dem*cratie o*a Byrd; m Wrt Virginia. H D Holt won the demur,stir a Iona! nomination with th port of organised laboi a*< lon 1 platform too liberal for the Fai ley barked Shave, to orrep* The evidence is wids-spread *Hs‘ the pendulum of public pu, >, But in Missouri. Bo~> Tom Pe dergsst of Kansas fitv w*h. uMv his ftoii* o tory m securing the non,.no' . of his candidate for the 4**>.* natic nomination fot senal> Even the windted pul it* mi who ordinal liy wilt undertsl explain anything from tot * winks to the Einiain th •• grow confused when they tt account for all that Is hspi-et today. But even if they can't exp it. they one and all are ah!< t present proof that is ■ntu.fs • (to them, that their ,dt will 111 November.