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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-04-09
INTERESTING NOTES

Il 81 - i
A, shipment of Oregon Angora
rabbit wool broughtI$6 a pound
on the London market. The rab-
bits are sheared every two or
| three months.
'-----
Although Kellogg. Ida, is nes-
tied high in the Occur d'Alene
mountains, the lowest point of
one Of its mines, the Bunker Hill,
is "a feet below sea level.
Sixty per cent Of the men
students enrolled at Fresno State
college, CAL, earn part or all of
their living expenses.
Bristow, Okla, no longer has a
"white way" The city officials
turned off the lights to save mon
ey.
GoStCtH OklaHuHta THIS year
cooked down the biggest crop of
"long sweetenin, sorghum mo-
Iasses) in its history.
State Director of Finance Roll
land A. Vandergrift is advocating
the finger printing of all persons
handling California state funds.
Encouragement Of game birds
and animals to help solve the land
use problem arising from cur
tailed agricultural production is
suggested by the u. s. bureau of
biological survey.
tA
Ministry of commerce statis-
ticians at Madrid announce that
the Till Spanish exporters reg
istered in the ministry did an
average gross business Of e7,OOOi
pesetas during 19ss-the lowest
in years.
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DANISH PRINCE Is
GIVEN PROMOTION
sny Associated Press,

COPENHAGEN. April o.
Prince Axel of Denmark has been
made a director of the East
Asiatic company in which he has
held an important post for sew
eral years. He is the younger
brother of Prince Aage, who re.
nounced his rights to the throne
to become soldier in the French
foreign legion.
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Summary: Runs hatted On: A.
Aeepedo. Pena 8. Casa. Baker;
two base hitss peFea. Casa. Penn.
Baker: three base hits: A. Ace
vedo. fena; stolen bases: Perez.
Gat@ ?. Rodriguez: bases on
hallss eff Gates Z; struck out: BY
Gates !, BY Casa 3; passed ball:
Rodriguez; left on bases: Pirates
?. Stars 6.
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Today In History

l8S3-First free library in
country to be supported by taxa
ton at Peterborough, NJ. Y.
1865-Lee's surrender at APP
pomattox-ending Civil War.
1917-Canadian victory at
Vimy Ridge-World War.
1933-Conviction at second
trial of Haywood Patterson, Mt
Decatur, Ala.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-04-09

IRE the song which had been on her
lips all evening. Celtic L'ndo." The
floor was packed with swaying cou.
Eles. at the tables the natives took
up the theme and sang with the or.
chestra and Judith and Slim sang
with them as they danced.
Verses innumerable, the floor fill.
ing until Judith and Slim returned
tc the table. Cunard had goLe to the
gaming room and there In the pri.
vacy eof the impersonai mob. Slim
spoke.
Judith watched him cup his hands
a he lighted a cigarette. watched
the yellow fame FURNISH the bronze
of his face. then saw the quick fash
OF his smile.
"Jude. will yon hate me IL ask
You a question:"
It'd find It bit dificult to hate
yon. Slim"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-04-09

Summary: Runs batted in. Fru-
to, Molina 2, G. Acevedo, Griffin
81 three base hits: Molina. Crit
fin; double play: Al Acevedo to
Baker to Swain: stolen hases:
Swain. Molina. Gonzalez; bases
on balls: off Sanchez 2. off Gates
2; struck out: by Gates 2. BY Grif-
Fin I /; Wild pitches: Gates, passed
ball: Rodriguez 2: left on bases: :
SluRgers 5, Stars Q.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-04-09

The hydra, small fresh-water
polyp, is one of natures strangest
creatures. It is capable of not
only swallowing an animal SO
times it's size, but of functioning
normally when turned inside out.
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GOOD REASON FOR DIVORCE

CLEVELAND Because her
husband selected the ponies that
"als0 ran" and she was forced to
get job to provide for their five
children, Mrs. Susan Rhein of this
city, sued for divorce.
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Evening star., 1934-09-28

Virtually every department. however,
was shown to favor canceling interest
charges on loans already made 10 vet
Grams against their bonus certificates.
Patman estimated it wonld take $2,-
200 600, 900 to pay the bonus now.
Distribution of the bonus now
would help the country II emendously."
Patman declared. Cancellation of in
terest charges on bonus loans would
help the veterans, of course, tut II
would not help the country as whole
until 1945."
Value Is s3,679,533,l4o.
The face value of bonus certificates
issued since 1925 is S3,679, ,533, ,140. Un-
less the law is changed. the bonus will
not be paid in full until 1945 Con-
gress has allowed the veterans to
borrow up to so per cent of the value
of their certificates.
The Veterans Administration now
holds bonus certificates on which vet
Grams owe 1,685 100000 as the re-
suit Of borrowing. Banks have an ad-
ditional S60,00,000 of bonus loans out
standing. Veterans have repaid sl3,-
792,35l on their loans from the Gov
ernment.
Unless interest on ioans is Ciscon-
tinued, or the whole onus paid in
advance of the fixed date, it was figured
that veterans would owe 81 $50, ,000,-
900 of their adjusted compensation to
banks and the Government by l945.
Evening star., 1934-09-28

saker, member of the Aviation Com
mission.
One or Two Exceptions.
Excepting in one or two instances,
yes" Lamiell replied.
He told the committee that in most
instances only one ship line had bid for
each of the 40-odd ocean mail con-
tracts now in existence.
"The competition on price was more
or less meaningless" he was asked.
Lamiell said he preferred not to
answer that question because the Post
ONCE Department next Monday is to
Evening star., 1934-09-28

licenses in Boston for the first six
months Of repeal were SO per cent
over the corresponding period the
year before, and that arrests for
drunkenness the trst eight months
were IS per cent greater than for the
preceding period.
Traffic fatalities in New Orleans
increased 80 per cent during the first
six months after repeal, she said, and
in Portland arrests for all causes
totaled 1926 for the first eight
months Of this year, against 17.349
for all of 1888.
Evening star., 1934-09-28

vention would have cost approximately
100000.
Lamiell said the rate system was
"a subsidy to help build up the Amer
ican merchant marine"
In spite Of the subsidy. he said more
than half of Americas first-class
ocean mail is carried by foreign ships.
because they are more numerous and
offer faster service.
Lamiell told the committee that $l2
per mile was the maximum rate al
lowed ships carrying the mails under
the acts of Congress.
DO you not pay the maximum in all
cases?" asked DR.. Jerome C. Hun
Evening star., 1934-09-28
OCEAN MAIL RATE
HELD EXCESSIVE
$31 100000 Last Fiscal
Year Ten Times Too High,
Aviation Group Told.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Testimony that the Government Is
paying ocean mail rates 10 times higher
than those advocated by the Interna-
tional Postal Convention was given
today to President Roosevelt's Avia-
ton Commission.
John E. Lamiell, director Of the in
ternational postal service in the Post
Office Department, testified the Gov
ernment paid s31, 100000 during the
last fiscal year for transportation of
transocean mail.
100000 Other Cost.
He said the same service under the
rates of the International Postal Con-
Evening star., 1934-09-28
VETERANS DIVIDED
ON BONUS ISSUE
Patman to Launch Drive for
Cash Payment at V. F.
w. Convention.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Differences over bonus legislation to
be asked of the next Congress cut
sharply today through the ranks of
World War veterans.
representative Patman, Democrat,
of Texas told reporters he Planned to
start a new drive for III mediate cash
payment of the bonus at the ra-
tional encampment of tne Veterans Of
Foreign Wars in Louisville Monday.
Legion Views Differ.
But at American Legion headquar-
ters, officials disclosed only five of
their 48 State departments had voted
TO ask Congress to cash the bonus.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
DRUNKEN DRIVING
IS HELD INCREASING
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Anti-Saloon League Of America
yesterday cited statistics from Boston,
New Orleans and Portland, Greg, and
concluded that trafflc accidents and
arrests for drunkenness had increased
since repeal.
Miss Laura Lindley, league research
secretary, said revocation Of driving
Evening star., 1934-09-28

open hearings into the ocean mail sit
uation.
The postal oflcial said ship-to-shore
airmail service had reduced the Allan
tic crossing by one day on the two ships
employing it.
Evening star., 1934-09-28

Humane Branding Urged.
Humane branding Of cattle by
chemicals Is being urged In England.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
Air Service Opened.

A new air service connects England,
Ireland and Scotland.
Evening star., 1934-09-28

Golfers who use these fine balls
are rewarded with longer drives.
truer flight more accurate puts.
A lone-wearing. well-made ball.
Low priced, too.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
n FOOTBALLS
With Genuine Leather Cover

Here's a ball that will
stand a lot of rough usage!
Sturdy leather cover! Good
quality gum-rubber blad-
der! Rawhide lacingI
Metal lacer!
Evening star., 1934-09-28

Now's the time to get every member Of the family
a nice, new wash cloth. These are exceptionally
heavy, exceptionally absorbent exceptionally good
quality wash cloths for such low price. Three
colors e of each) in Cellophane.
Evening star., 1934-03-21
Baltimore's Large Delegation
Menaces ID. C.. in Pin Tourney

Washington Baltimore bowling RI
valries once tops" in intercity shoot
ing until Capital duckpinners, seeking
further laurels, shifted their atten-
ton TO duels with New England pin
men, is expected to blossom forth in
large way, beginning Saturday,
when the National Duckpin Congress
championships are held in the Monu-
mental City.
Present indications are that Wash
ington will send one of the greatest
maple toppling contingentS in history
to the nearby tourney, but reports
from Baltimore have it that upward
Of 10 Oriole teams will enter the
classic. which will be rolled on the
Recreation Center drives.
1t wasn't a record, but Herbert
Blumenthal was still a-tingle today
following his 2l4-string shot last
night, at the Columbia, in a friendly
match with Buck Warsaw.
Blumenthal opened his big game in
impressive fashion, chalking up spares
in the first two boxes. but even these
two-ball frames gave no inkllng of
what was to follow. What did follow
Evening star., 1934-03-21
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR
THE Washington base ball team

THE Washington base ball team
l. opens its schedule of pre-
season games here against
Georgetown within a few days.
Connie Mack, manager of the
Philadelphia Athletics, is reported
to want his son, Earl, who is man
aging the Raleigh pro team and
coaching the University of North
Carolina nine, to give up base ball
and learn to play the violin.
Among names appearing in the
Rod and Gun columns are Maj.
Sylvester. John w. Hurley, Charlie
Porter. Al Buechler, Dick Mullett,
Edward Craig, William White,
Edward A. Strachan, Charles R.
Holman, E. ]. Lycett and Mack
Sparrough.
The Brockton team surprised by
trimming an all-star Washington
bowling combination all five games
at Brockton. Rolling for the WIN
ners were HALEY, Rider, Baum,
Krauss. Michaud and Rodrick.
Georges Carpenter, heavyweight
boxing champion of Europe, meets
Joe Jeannette, American colored
boxer. tonight in Paris.
Evening star., 1934-03-21

were six consecutive strikes and an
other spare in the ninth box.
BlumenthalS game is believed to
be the second highest string ever
rolled in the District A few years
back Sam Del VecchiO amazed the
bowling folk by shooting a 240 game
on the Queen Pin alleys, but it, too
was unofficial inaSmuch as it was
done in informal competition and
without a foul-line judge.
The forthcoming city tournament
will be discussed Sunday at a meet
ing Of the Washington Women's Duck
pin Association, at the Columbia
bowling plant. All league represent
atives are urged to be present when
President Lorraine Gulli's gavel falls
at o'clock.
Seyforth and Minister took occasion
to rCll a couple of powerful single
games simultaneously last night, in
the Masonic League. with the result
that a seven-year- record is being
wiped away TO-DAY.
Replacing the mark made in 1927
is a 660 team game by the Harding
team.
Evening star., 1934-03-21
LTHOUGH Georgetown Prep

A LTHOUGH Georgetown Prep
" has available considerable
~ experienced base ball material,
n Coach Joe Gardner is not
optimistic over the seasons
prospects. He fears lack of an ex-
perienced catcher, too little time to
practice before the start of the cam
paign and the fact that so many of
the diamonders are as much, if not
more, interested in golf than base
ball. These are handiCapS Gardner
figures will be difficult to overcome.
John Mayock, hard-working
senior. is set for determined try
to fill the catcher's job that was
handled so well by George Cohan last
year, but this is the first time he has
aspired to the post. Squire Penning-
ton, foot ball captain-elect, also has
volunteered his services. but he, too,
lacks seasoning. Bobby Renehan,
last years junior catcher, is i'll and
will not be able to get out for a
time Gardner figures that anyway
you look at it the job of replacing
the graduated Cohan, son of the
playwright and actor, is going to be
hard. The catcher's job. in Gard
ner'S opinion, is the key position,
especially on a schoolboy team.
The Prep squad hopes to get start
ed at practice in a day or two. but
Evening star., 1934-03-21
G. U. Prep Coach Is Pessimistic
Despite Good Diamond Squad

at best will have only a few DAYS to
practice before the Spring vacation
opens on Saturday. The vacation
does not end until April 10. giving
Gardeners hOpefulS only three days
more practice before they start their
schedule with Western High.
Boys upon whom the Prep will be
counting heavily include Tom Keat-
ing. veteran shortstop. a fine all
around inhelder: Don Mcnamara, who
last season pitched four D. C. public
high school teams into submission;
Charley Case, second baseman. a
Washington boy and regular second
baseman; Maury Nee. center fielder. a
highgrade performer; Frank tShanty)
Allan. third baSeman; Billy Dettwiler.
who appears to have the best chance
to land the first base assignment, and
John Mcmahon, infielder last Spring,
who will be put in the outfleld this
year
Other aspirants include Charley
Anderson. Jack Tatum. Buster Leslie,
Duncan Ficklin. Berwin Morse, Elkin
Franklin and Bobby Troutman, who
are after outfield jobs, and DeSales
Powell. Washingtonian, a southpaw
pitcher who may be used in the out
field when not hurting.
Tom Keating may do some pitching
When he does Dettweiler probably
will be moved to shortstop and Nc
Namara to first base
Georgetown Prep will meet all the
public high teams of the District,
according to the 16-game schedule.
announced today. st. Adams is the
lone prep school the Garrett ParkerS
so far have listed
Georgetown Prep's card as it now
stands:
Aplil 13-Western at Western.
April 1S-Charlotte Hall at Charlotte
Hall.
April 1o-Central
April @3-Bethesda-C Chevy Chase High,
April 25-Tech.
April 27-Forest Park High.
April 3O-Ea stern
May 2-Loyola at Baltimore.
May 4-FriendS
May Roosevelt
May 9-Eastern at Washington.
May 10-Woodstock at Woodstock, Nd
May 16-Central
May 1S-Charlotte Hall.
May 23-WeStern.
May 25-Loyola
Evening star., 1934-03-21
MAJOR FEATURES AND PROGRAM NOTES.

Lenore Uric, Broadway star, and
Donald Novis, tenor, will be the guest
artists during the Musical Cruiser pro-
gram on WMAL from 10 to 1890.
Miss Uric will take part in a dra-
matte sketch and Novis will contrib
ute several songs.
Albert Spalding, violinist, will fea-
ture Believe Me if All Those Endear-
ing Young Charms" during his recital
Evening star., 1934-03-21
GENERALS PRESENT
GREEN TRACK TEAM
Only Six Letter Men With Squad.
Dunaj Recovers-Sawyers
Is Lone Sprint Vet.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
r EXTINCTION. Va, March 2l.-
| Pretty good" is the best Coach
Forest Fletcher can say for his
Washington and Lee track team,
which has only six monogram wearers.
Dick Dunaj. sensational distance
man. has recovered from the illness
which kept him out of early Winter
meets. He's expecting exceptionally
keen competition from Bird of Duke
and Uddus of V. M. l., both of whom
defeated him in the conference indoor
meet. He will run the mile and the
two mile
Joe Sawyers, better known for his
exploits on the foot ball field and bas-
ket ball court, is the only veteran in
the dashes.
A pair of veterans, Bill Schuhle and
LIE Roy Hodges, will take care of the
hurdles assignment. In the quarter
mile Fletcher has Capt. Harry HAZEL
and George McGeory, both veterans,
and possibly Bill Ellis. another of the
grid stars who are helping out on the
cinder path
Frank Price. a sophomore who for
merly sprinted the shorter dashes, has
been shifted to the quarter mile. Ajax
Browning, another sophomore, and
McGeory are slated for the half mile.
With three of last years expert per-
formers missing from the high jump,
Schuhle and a newcomer, AL Denni-
son. will carry the burden.
Although only one veteran, Early
Clements, is available in the pole
vault, the Generals are well fortified
in this event, with Duncan Corbett
and Bill Higgins, sophomores, and
Knight Laird. member of the 1881
freshman team, who has returned to
school.
April 14-Virginia Tech.
April 21-Duke.
April 28-Richmond. at Richmond.
May 5-Maryland, at College Park.
May 19-Southern Conference meet.
Evening star., 1934-03-21
Pro Hockey

BY the Associated Press.
National League play-offs: New York
Rangers, 0; Montreal Maroons. 0.
International League play-offS: De-
troit, 3; London, 2.
Canadian American League: Que
bee, 3; Philadelphia, /. Providence,
l; New Haven, o.
American Association: Kansas City,
2; Tulsa. l. st. Louis. 3; Oklahoma
City. 2.
Evening star., 1934-03-21

Fred Allen and his troupe of come
dians will join with Theodore Webb
and Lennie Hayton's Orchestra in
presenting the first Of a new series OF
musical programs tonight at 9 over
WRC. Called The Hour Of Smiles" J"
the program will fill the two half
hour periods previously occupied by
Fred Aliens Revue and the Trouba-
dOurS.
Evening star., 1934-03-21

on WJSV at $50 with Conrad Thi-
bault. He also will play "Scherzo and
Tarentelle' and Cuts "Orientale."
WRC will broadcast at 1890 the
speech of Sir Arthur Salter, famous
British economist, before the Academy
of Political Science in New York His
topic is Financial Policies for Re
cOvery."
Evening star., 1934-03-21
College Ringgman Beats Eggs
Brown of Utah, Also Cridder, Matches Girls in
Domestic Science, Except Sewing.

cook, so he. went in for it in big
way. his objective being a job as
a chef in a hotel or hospital.
He plans to take all the courses
the university offers in cooking
and may work for a degree if he
does not have to take too many
subjects that would be "embar-
raising"
Sewing, for instance" he eX-
planned.
Asked about his grades, Brown
said they are "just about the same
as the girls"
Evening star., 1934-03-21
MAY REVIVE LEAGUE.

FORT WAYNE. Ind, March 21
LP).-Plans for reorganization of the
Central Base Ball League will be dis
cusSed at a meeting TO be held here
Saturday. Cities included in a tenta-
tive roster are Fort Wayne and Terre
Haute. Ind; Springfield, Bloomington
and Peoria. Ill; Grand Rapids, Flint
and Bay City, Mich.
Evening star., 1934-03-21
Grid Practice Pales Spring Pastines
Big Rifle Match
On Navy's Range

A NNAPOLIS, Md, March 21.--
~ Teams from this section will
take part in a smooth-bore
rifle match at the Naval Academy
Saturday, one of the four sectional
matches of the National Collegiate
Rife Association.
Minnesota won the national
championship, with the Navy Sec
ond, last year.
In addition to the Navy. George
town, George Washington. Mary
land, Virginia Military. Virginia
Poly, Western Maryland. Johns
Hopkins, Cornell, Pennsylvania and
probably two other colleges will
compete in the match at Annap-
oils.
Evening star., 1934-03-21
ORIOLE GUNNERS VISIT

Meet Washington Club in First
of Seven Trapshoots.
The fourth of the annual series OF
seven team trapshoots between the
Washington and the Oriole Gun Club
of Baltimore Will be held Saturday
afternoon, at l o'clock, on the Wash
ington clubs range at Benning. 1t
originally was scheduled for Baltimore.
Washington has won two races and
the Orioles one so far in the COM
petition.
Evening star., 1934-03-21
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, March 21.-
Between activities on the foot ball
field and the boxing ring, 200
pound Harvey Brown is learning
to make salad dressing and buy
potatoes.
Hands that snapped the pigskin
back to quarterback during the
grid season, now are working over
the mixing bowls in the domestic
science department at the Univer-
sity of Utah. He always liked to
Evening star., 1934-03-21
CATHOLIC FIVES START.

CHICAGO, March 81 CP-The
drive for the national Catholic high
school basket ball championship
opens at Loyola University gymnasium
tonight with 80 teams from IA scat
tered States entered. Cathedral High
of indianapolis is the defending
champion.
Evening star., 1934-03-21
YOUNG GIRL TO DIVE
Alma Doherty, 10, to Compete for
Title in Meet Here.

One Of the youngest swimmers ever
to take part in national competition
will perform in the junior indoor
women's A. A. U. championship dive
Friday night in the Shoreham pool.
She is Alma Doherty of Natick. Mass,
who is only 10. 1t will be her first
competition. The little girl, who
weighs 70 pounds and stands feet 7
inches, is reported to have plenty of
promise.