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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
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| ins. Cm J| ’
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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. •
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WHERE TO GO
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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