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Aaaocitted Press Day Wire Service. For 6 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LV. No. 216. Plan Restoration Of Old Fort Jefferson With Relief Labor Senator Fletcher In Re ceipt Of Letter From Refional Engineer Of FERA Unit Duncan U. Fletcher, United State* Senator from Florida, Ha* received a letter from Joseph Hjrde Pratt, refional engineer of the FERA, advising him that Fort Jefferson on Garden Key at Dry Tortuga* may undergo res toration by the NRA in the rear future. Eng. Pratt stated that consider able 'interest has been aroused in the restoration of the old fort and that it now appears the Florida NRA may arrange to take over the work through labor from re lief rolls or from t|ie transient rolls. Senator Fletcher had sent Mr. Pratt a latter from Admiral Staadley referring to Fort Jeffer son. It was to this communica tion that Mr. Pratt replied. OimiNINC PLANS FOR GARDEN CLUB _____ MATTER DISCUSSED AT SES SION CONDUCTED LAST NIGHT - j j Plans for a warden club were ditcimted last night when a meet- j ing of the advisory board to the parks and recreation department of the Key West Administration j was held. The session was held in the ad- j ministration building with mem ! bars of the staff and J. Gerry | Curtis, head of the beautification i department of the Administra-, tion. FIRE CHIEF BAKER RETURNS TO CITY Fire Chief Harry M. Baker,; who had been attending a fire-: men’s district meeting in Rivera, 1 Fla.. returned to Key West on! Bunday. i Chief Raker, who is vice-presi dent of the state organization, •bo visited at other points while away from the city. PLAN PAVILION FOR NEGROES NEW STRUCTURE TO BE I BUILT AT NELSON ENG LISH PARK Work on a pavilion for colored I persons will .start tomorrow, it | was decided during a meeting of ; interested persons with heads of the parks and recreation depart ment of the Key West Adminis tration yesterday. Only volunteer work will be j used in demolishing an existing building at Nelson English Park,: and in the construction of anew! building. The pavilion will be used for! various activities, including dane- 1 ing. theatricals and other events, j At yesterday’s meeting final; organization of a colored parks' and recreation advisory board j took place. Besides Alphonso 1 Gabriel, chairman of the board, members are S. J. Welters, W. S. Kuckhahan. Grace Palacios and Blanche Cornell, ONE SIP OF WAGNER’S BEER MAKES YOU WANT TO DRAIN THE GLASS IN ONE GULP. IT’S THE KIND OF DRINK YOU’D WALK A COUPLE OF MILES FOR jrjrjrMirMjrjrjrM \ CHICKEN’S GIZZARD YIELDS GOLD NUGGET A chicken that’s worth its weight in gold was found several days ago at the Cen tral Meat Market on Fleming | street. A gold nugget about twice the size of the head of a match was discovered lodged in the gizzard of a Rhode Is- j land Red by Walter Curry while cleaning the chicken. 'Another case of this kind was reported during the last Thanksgiving season when a much larger nugget was found in the gizzard of a turkey. ROMERO DEAD i j FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS AFT. ERNOON j Harry Frank Romero, six years, I six months and three days old, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Romero, Jr., died at 12:25 this morning. j Survivors are nis parents, one brother, John J., Ill; maternal ; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Lowe; paternal grandmother, Mrs. Asa L. Whittaker; paternal i grandfather, John J. Romero, Sr., i of Tampa. The funeral will be held at 4:30; | o’clock this afternoon from St. ' Paul’s church, where the body was ! placed at 1 o'clock. Rev. Gimmick ! will officiate. The Lopez Funeral , Home is in charge of arrange ments. ‘AMATEUR NIGHT’ ! i AT BAYVIEW PARK —i TO BE PUT ON THURSDAY BY PARKS AND RECREA- ! TION DEPARTMENT „ ! ! An “amateur night’* is to be • staged Thursday in Bayview Park by the parks and recreation de partment of the Key West Admin i ktration, J. Gerry Curtis, direc-j ! tor, announced today. Prizes will be offered, it was! ! shown, and those wishing to en ! ter should communicate with the ! department this afternoon or to-! t morrow'. S.LEUND CURRY i BURIED IN TAMPA I S. Leland Curry, who died sud denly in Tampa Saturday evening,! was buried in that city this after- j noon, according to a telegram re- j ceived here by his sister, Mrs. j Bruce Dobyns. Mr. and Mrs. R. Beecham Cur- i j ry, his parents, who were called ; j to Tampa, expect to arrive here tomorrow. PARROTT ARRIVES | HERE FROM CUBA S. S. Parrott arrived in port ’ yesterday afternoon at 5:40; o’clock from Havana with 147) sacks of U. S. mail and 20 empty I cars. STEAMER MALLORY BROUGHT FREIGHT The Clyde-Mallory ‘ Steamer 1 Henry R. Mallory arrived in port 1 last night from Galveston with a 1 load of freight, w'hich was dis- i charged at this port. The vessel left later during the j night enroute to New York. i ©je l&ep Wesl Citizen NAZI CONVICTS LABOR TO DRAIN EMS DELTA LAND ! j GERMANY NOW USING CON i VICT LABOR IN SCHEME OF LAND RECLAMATION, RE PORTS INDICATE By JOHN A. BOUMAN Illy ANKiirlalrtl Pre> I PAPKNBURG, Germany, Sept, j 11.—Germany is using convict j labor on a $20,000,000 scheme of j land reclamation, in magnitude J approaching the draining of the ; Pontine marshes by Mussolini. The moor and feniand area in question is situated on the lower | reaches of the river Ems in north- I western Germany. It is about ! 125,000 acres in extent, com ; pared with 187,500 acres of the j Italian project. The idea originated with Hanns ; Kerri, Prussian minister of jus ! tice, whose department has just j issued details of the scheme. Farm And Forest Plan j On the reclaimed land 2,300 farmer families will be settled, j and part of it will be reserved j for forestation purposes. Germany’s prisons will supply i the labor. The plan is to estab ! lish 21 labor camps, each accoin * modating 1,000 convicts. | Much is expected from the rich peat layers in the area, from j which, it is said, enough elec tricity can be generated to sup i ply the whole reich for 8 or 10 years: The peat deposits here abouts are 10 feet thick. Forced Labor Needed The whole work is calculated to i occupy at least 12 years. ! A question why the nazi gov , ernment’s “voluntary labor” or-, j ganization is not employed for j this big scheme was answered in j the ministerial statement by the explanation that an undertaking of such magnitude could be car-; I ried out only by forced labor un ; der strict and permanent con trol. similar Wes ON JURY LIST Ii I At the recent term of the Cir j cuit Court there appeared the ; name of Harry N. Baker, who was | summoned in connection with the ! court proceedings, while on the j list of jurymen in the Criminal Court which convened yesterday, i was the name of Harry M. Baker. 1 fire chief. The clarification is made due ( to the fact that many were under j the impression that it was the j same party. KNIFING RUMORS ! ARE UNFOUNDED \ * ■ There was a rumor circulated: | here last night to the effect that there had been a cutting scrape ! somewhere along the Florida! Keys, while other unfounded re ! ports said that someone had been ] | killed by falling from a train. ! | Inquiries were made at the j sheriff’s office today, but no ; word had been received there to i substantiate the rumors. P.-T, ASSOCIATION | TO HOLD MEETING i i A meeting of the Parent-! j Teacher Association of the liar-; iris School has been called for to-1 morrow afternoon at 3 o’clock in 1 I the school auditorium. I Matters of importance will be! i discussed and a large attendance j j is expected. i BAVARIAN ELDERS FRISKY. I ' (Hr Associated f*reM) RUIIPOLDING, Germany. Sept. : 11.—Showing the younger gener-i i ation how to climb mountains, 42 | ! septuagenarians of this Upper i Bavarian town recently revived | | “The Day of the Ancients.” After; ! prayers at a church, they scaled : j a nearby mountain and had enough i ! energy left to dance with dairy! ! maids in dizzy Alpine whirls. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1934. Key West Boasts Of Only Open Air Aquarium In Entire World pr* : 7‘~ l ' , K iff m > \ W : k , wuf | ins. Cm J| ’ V .lli ffiill M ; ~ , l ~ ••• ~ ! | The only open-air aquarium in the world, where tropical fish . will be kept near their natural h abitats and where artificial at \ metphere will soon be completed. Progress in the work is shown j in the above photograph. Started under the Civil Works Adntinis ; tration, the aquarium is being completed nndtor the Key West Ad ministration, now administering aII affairs of the county. Behind : the aquarium is the sea. Continuous circulating salt water in the 1 fish tanks will obviate the usually high mortality rate of tropical | fish, found when they are kept in tanks far removed from their na. > tive haunts. | France Under Heavy Fire As | French Business Takes Fall (U; AsMociated I’resai : By M. K. WHITELEATHER \ j PARIS, Sept. 11.—Partisan* of devaluation of the franc are gathering converts as business j goes from bad to worse and prices refuse to yield to governmental 1 pressure. The pros and cons of ' why the mighty franc, spearhead ! of the gold bloc, should or should not be depreciated to compete | I with the dollar aid the pound, daily are presented in the press : and from the rostrum. j Answering inflationists, Louis , Germain-Martin, finance minister, J retorts that to follow the Amer ! ican anti British examples would ; not cure French ills; he asks busi j nessmen for a “truce on pessi ! misrn.” Despite this campaign, both the ! government and the Bank of | France insist that a large majority of the people is behind them in j their determination to weather I the economic storm without tam ; pering with the franc. Autumn Crisis Foreseen The devaluationists argue that a severe crisis is due this autumn ; and that the government should ! take steps now to soften the shock. ' j They point to increasing [ failures of provincial banks, a , steadily high bankruptcy rate, [diminishing foreign trade and j savings bank deposits, a falling , off of tourist income with increas- J ing unemployment and general ; pessimism of the business com-. J munity—the whole accompanied ; by failure of prices to come down; i —as proof that the only way out • of the dilemma is to cheapen the . franc. They maintain that the govern-, Intent, which appointed three com-j missions to hasten the lowering ; of prices, has failed and hence the [ I only way left to aid business is to [ ! depreciate the currency. i Court Meets And Adjourns In Respect To Late Judge Busto Criminal Court, with Judge J. , Vining Harris presiding, conven- j j # | ; ed this morning at 9:30 o’clock, j I at which time one case was dis-1 posed of. I 1 ! It was that of Albert Ilenfeld, j * who pleaded guilty to the charge ! jof aggravated assault. The j | court imposed a fine of S3O in j ! costs or a sentence of six months ; in the county jail. ! Resolutions of respect to the late J. F. Busto, who held the position of county solicitor at th? time of his death, were adopted Price Reports Suppressed One commission was named for ! meat and milk, a second for wheat | and a third for vegetables. Re ! ports turned in on meat, milk and | vegetables have been withheld while wheat prices have been fixed jat $1.95 a bushel for the 1934 I crop—more than double the world I price. ! This autumn’s crisis, they de j clare, may be aggravated by I treasury refinancing operations ami the almost eternal problem of budget balancing. | Lacking sufficient tax income, the treasury has been keeping the government running on borrowed money, sometimes operating from day to day. On top of this, it must find a way to redeem 4,000,000.900 ! francs (about $275,000,000) worth of elemental war recon struction bonds in October. Point ing to the difficulty with which the last treasury issue, in July, was floated, inflationists say that the treasury will find itself hard* ; put to get the money to re-pay these bonds. Ask Cash On Line Holders of 6,000,000.000 francs’ worth of bonds were given an opportunity to exchange them for the July issue, but only 2,000,- 000,000 francs’ worth were turned in. The remaining hold ers, those who favor devaluation say, apparently w-ant cash in Oc tober. Both sides of the argument agree, however, that much will depend on whether Premier Dou mergue is able to maintain the] “truce government” which he set] up last February after “Bloody j Tuesday’s” riots unsettled busi-] ness and started a gold flow from ] ] the Bank of France. Should political unrest break; out anew, both sides fear that the j [already grave financial and ecu-1 ] nomic situations will be further i complicated. and read at the session this morn-j I . ; mg j Following this, the court in re i sped to the memory of Judge j Busto. adjourned until tomorrow j morning 9:30 o’clock. There are a number of minor . cases on the docket, all of which j are to be taken up during the ! j week. Chesapeake Extra Large Select | OYSTERS Just Received Cocoanut and other delicious j flavors of Ice Cream 1 NICE JUICY STEAKS WELLS’ LUNCH ROOM j 900 Southard St. Phone 207-W j LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS ENROLL f AT LOCAL SCHOOLS FIRST TWO DAYS KEEP OF FICERS AND STAFF MEM-; BERS BUSY GETTING I i SCHEDULES IN SHAPE A total o’ 522 students had en rolled at the Key West Junior- Senior High School up to noon today, ajeording to Professor Horace O’Bryant, who has been busy since the opening of school j registering new pupils, straighten- j ing out schedules and other mat ters. j Of this number 366 were reg istrants in Junior High School,, comprising grades 7, 8 and 9. and j 1 46 in the Senior High School or; ‘grades 10, 11 and 12. Teachers in the Senior High School are: ’ Horace O’Bryant, principal;! Eliza Gardner, Doris Welch, Anna; Guito, Dumont Huddleston. Lor-j race Peeples, Addah Ramsey, Hiidegard Russell, Mary Trevor. Lorine Thompson and Edna Smith. Junior High teachers are as ! follows: ] ’Dorothy Knowles, Dorothy j ; Beaver, Bessie Eagan, Annie Lois ;Hicks, Grace Hiiton, Jeanne Ir-j | vin, Ida Kennedy, Oscar Norman, Hildah Salis and Alice Roberts. Other Schools i There was an increase of 34. j students in the enrollment at the! Division Street School and an in crease of 13 at the Harris School. I states Professor W. C. Duncan. I So far 589 pupils have been en j rolled at the Division Street School and 518 at the Harris' ! School. At these two grammar schools, ■ there are a total of 32 teachers, j During the summer vacation I S of | those attended summer school. 1 j Professor Duncan pointed out. j Teachers who attended the University of Florida summer ses-| sion were: Mrs. Charlotte Haskins, Mrs.; Clarice Roberts, Miss Leona Hen riquez and Professor W. C. Dun-j can. Those who attended the Flor- j | ida State College for Women were: Miss Florence Roberts, Mrs. Magdeline Huddleston, Miss Wil hclmina Goehring, Miss Mary Pinder. Mjss Mary Ingraham, Mrs. Thelma Watkins, Miss Eliza-1 beth Acherson, Miss Florence Al bury and Mass Amelia Lucignani.i Attending the Asheville Normal, School were: Miss Sadie Moss, Miss Leota Grillon and Miss May Sands. Miss Helen Williams attended j the State Teacher’s College at Harrisonburg, Va. Division St. School j Division Street School teachers are: Professor W. C. Duncan, prin cipal; Florence Albury, Charlotte i Boyden, Miriam Carey, Dorothy Cleare, Francis Cochran, Laura Crusoe, Susie Gardner, May Hill, { Amelia Lucignani, Euialie Mat-' thews, Sadie Moss. Ruth O’Bryant, j Clarice Roberts, May Sands. Mary ■; Sweeting, Leona Henriquez and Eleanor Erickson. Harris School teachers are: Emma Albury, Isabel Ball, Mag-! deline Huddleston, Leota Grillon, | Charlotte Haskins, Mary Ingra-! ham, Mjary Pinder, Florence Rob-1 erts, Ethea Strieker. Thelma Watkins, Elizabeth Acherson, j Helen Williams, Wilhelmina; Goehring. Norma Yates and Alee Curry. Teachers on the Florida Keys are: Matecumbe: Charles Albury,! Ferran Pinder and Violet Kemp. Tavernier: Jennie Seymour. j Marathon: Mrs. Sue M. Moore. Big Pine: Linton Vitte. Rock Harbor: Harold Russell. • •••••••••••••*•?•••••••• WHERE TO GO •••••••••••••••••••••••• i TONIGHT Monroe—“ Call It Luck” and “Affairs Of A Gentleman.” Palace—“ White Face.” TOMORROW Monroe—“We Are Rich Again” and “Call It Luck.” Palace—“ White Face.” * Roosevelt Textile Mediation Plan | May Save 'Code To End Strikes’ STAR FLOUR MILL ! APPRECIATIVE OF j LOCAL BUSINESS I ! PRODUCERS OF TIDAL WAVE , PRODUCT CONTRIBUTES TO FUND TO ADVERTISE KEY WEST The Texas Star Flour Milh, ; millers of Tidal Wave Flour, of Galveston, Texas, have shown j their appreciation of local patron age by contributing SIOO toward j advertising Key West. So far as j known this is the first out of ; town company doing business in | this city to contribute an appreci j able sum toward the laudable ef- 1 < fort of making Key West better known as a winter resort. This i company, The Citizen is inform ; ed, has always responded hand ! somely in time of distress, their j contributions amounting to as ; much as the total of 5,000 -acks ( of flour. j Chas. H. Ketchum is the local j broker, and Cabrera Wholesale . Grocery. Inc., the distributor of . Tidal Wave Flour, in Key West. WILSON ENJOYS FISHING OUTING i— i i TAKEN OUT ON BRIDGES BY CLARENCE THOMPSON. LOCAL PILOT P. L. Wilson, who was in Key ' West yesterday, was taken out <>n a fishing jaunt on the highway bridges yesterday by Clarence Thompson, pilot on the Key West 1 j bar, where an enjoyable day of angling was spent. Two tarpon, measuring from three to four feet, were caught, while one snook, two feet long was also captured, besides num erous other varieties. The snook is a rare specimen, and is seldom caught in these waters, it is slat ed. Mr. Wilson, it is said, insisted on using a bait rod instead of a hand line, and as a consequence lost several hundred yards, which would otherwise have been avoid ed. it is claimed. As it was he lost a box of arti ficial lure, as the tarpon didn’t leave a single pal o’ mine plug, or a red head zarragosa, it was shown. i Mr. Wilson expressed himself ; in having thoroughly enjoyed the; day, and said h" hoped to return again in the near future for an other day of fishing in these wa ters. ‘BLOOD SHRINE’ PERPETUATED FUNDS ARE MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH U. S. CONSER VATION WORK HU AgkorinH’il PIPESTONE. Minn., Sept. 1l. : —The temple of tradition here quarries where legend says Indian I blood stained the rock red is be-; ing perpetuated by government! funds, made available through thej United States conservation work, j Pipestone Indians are grading' the premises about the quarries, j clearing away brush, planting trees and constructing a dam for* an artificial lake to beautify the: spot. The work is being done by the lECW—lndian emergency conservation work. Pipestone is noted as the only place in the world where the In dian “Caiumet,” or pipestone, is; found. Longfellow immortalized it in his “Song of Hiawatha.” , Key West, Florida, baa Mm moat equable weather fta the country; with an average range of only 14* Fahrenheit. PRICE FIVE CENTS Controversial Quest mbs Were Ducimd By Lesdcrt When C*4s Wss Introduced I By FRANK I. WELLER iMr YwelelH Preesi WASHINGTON. S*p< It.—A mediation tesrd for tke Isatde [ strike may bo Proudesl Roms volt’s way of tryisf to save be* “Wool” CoeU No. I of tbo oa tiooal edoisMlreliM. It waa As “tofs to saf strike*.” When signing it on July 9, 1933. the President said that • conference of leaders of m<i labor and social service pre*•!•* over by the government, “had eon side red the moat controvei <.uii question in the whole econo 1 problem—sages and hour* of labor—and brought that que- on |to a definite conclusion.'' The long-troubled textile indus try had studied the possibility ei self-government through an. *ie conqtacl tiade SasnmUum m. ~ ( ode No. 1 sms NRA's answer. Two fundamental etemeau o discord led to the celling m t >- general textile strike. Every code gue r• fi t9ti VuilWf | the right to organise and bargain collectively through repi • . 1 Uvcs uf then own choosing As as last March Pre.-nleni Vi Mahon of the textile workers dr dared in a public hearing tha workers were being resi led :i their efforts to organise and pe dieted a strike. Agreed To Await Probe In May textile manufat tm *t declared goods were piling up with production running s'* *• * consumption. NRA granted , mission to curtail machine i lions by 25 per cent, labor >n. mediately threatened a strike h i agreed on June 2to iit ale <• .1 investigation looking toward h er pay and shorter hour* Investigators reported that v.oikers’ demands could n<-t i. met because increased cost • not Ik* passer! on to the ton- n , because they could not al • by ihe maiiufacluit-i and b< i . the margin available ft*i pa>i< of wages hurl been squeezes tween rising prict of raw n i tenals and falling prices of finisher! goods. The 25 per cent curtailment was permitted t** i ,s to August 25. Mill* now are per mitted to operate full time. But, labor contends that, ■ i result of the cm (ailment, wa*r< * were cut under the ewie mini ~ i of sl2 a week in the mil sl3 in the north, with the • • age for the industry no Xl 0 • r week and in some < r lion* • $7.40 to $9.50. bay ’Stretch-Out' Revived It complains tnat the Irani* I “stretch-out,” or piactice of r* quiring employes to operate an additional number of nia *, ha.-> been revived. Earnings in tne mdu*ti . i arc at prc-eorlc levels, labor .1 and rates of wage paid *hr • r. ?killtil workers arc b-ing pu > down toward the niinirnuir I* charges hundreds of workei a bccu dist harged for ac: ’Vit_, labor organization.*. The cotton textile ind . relations board is brand* and m tivc and cmployer-d‘ >mintid Employers insist bit macn of the. code has been used ef:* lively to temper competitn.n ai protect labor and that c *i* ment, now ended, prevent* t wholesale shut<l<<wm*. MONROE THEATER Pat I’aU' ~•,* , in CALL IT LUCK Paul Lukas Patricia I. in AFFAIRS OF A GENTLEMAN j Matinee: Balcony, IOc; Ordwi . tra, 15-20 c. Night, 15 25c