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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-04
SPAIN TREMBLES
In DARK; WAITS
DEATH FROM AIR
LOYAL SOLDIER soUlNTs IN
To SKY AS SQUADRON OF
PLANES PASS OVER BAT.
TIE FRONT
By RICHARD C. MASSOCK
(By Associated presNI
ANII Cal. NJ

By RICHARD G. MASSOCK
(By Associated PressI
AVILA, Spain, Nov. 4.-Span-
ish nights are black and awful as
General Francisco Frances legions
march on Madrid.
Cities and villages have been
without street lights for weeks as
a precaution against air raids.
Chills creep up and down the stran-
gers spine as he gropes through
unfamiliar streets to find his ho-
tel.
1t is not the danger of planes
suddenly throbbing overhead and
dropping a cargo of bombs, but
just the inky darkness. 1t provides
the same shudders as those expert
enced in childhood when sent into
a moonless night to run an GRAND
for mother.
-.r Natives Tread Noiselessly
Il The fashion of sandals among
Spaniards, especially among SOL
diers, who mostly are shod with
sneakers or footwear soled with
rope, makes it all the worse. Stun
bling over rough cobblestone pave
ments, one is startled at unexpect-
ed moments by shadowy forms
silently appearing an arms length
in front of him, or lightly grazing
his elbow as they pass.
The stranger soon acquires a
flashlight-if he can find one.
The supply is completely exhaust
ed in many parts of the war zone.
Until he does, he learns to feel his
way along the walls careful not
to stray to the edge of the narrow
sidewalk, where the soapy slime of
the gutter awaits those who miss
their footing.
Windows Suffered
Pamplona, BLrgos, Caceres,
Talavera de la Reina, Valladolid
and Avila, all cities and towns of
any size in the nationalist zone
have been blotted out of sight
since the hostilities became dead
ly serious matter. Correspondents
driving long distances at night to
get from one front or one military
headquarters, to another, race
through villages wher not light
CLEANS.
Spanish windows are covered at
nightfall with thick wooden shut
tiers, so that nothing is changed
for the householder who stays
home of nights. His house, pre-
sumably, is brightly lighted inside
for his late dinner and there is no
feeling of somber terror.
No Air Raids
Madrid's inhabitants, however
must haze Felt the fright of dark
ened homes when Francois. troops
captured the big power plants on
the Aloerche river near Ell ITEM
bio. The soldiers shut off four
fifths of the capitals electric
lighting current, they said, when
they stopped the dynamos.
AS for night air raids, the writer
has heard of none that was carried
out. He expected one at Avila;
when the city was prematurely
plunged into darkness one night
and the church bells rang.
'That is the signal that enemy
planes have been sighted flying in
this direction" said a Spanish es-
cort. But the planes never arriv-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-04
PERSONAL MENTION


"A. T. Henderson, auditor with
the Stone and Webster corpora
ton, who was in Key West check
ing up the accounts of the Key
West Electric company, one of
the Stone and Webster branches,
left yesterday afternoon on the
Steamship Cuba for Tampa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-04
CHILDBIRTH LEFT HER
THIN, WORN, NERVOUS

"After birth of my baby I was
thin, nervous, rundown. The first
bottle of Vinol (ifon tonic) helped.
It gave me strength, needed
weight. ~ Mrs. M. Gunstone.
Oriental Pharmacy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-11-04

Mrs. Maurice Owen formerly
Miss Cuca Domenech, who is now
making her home in Fort Lauder
dale, was an arrival in Key West
Monday afternoon over the high
way for visit of two weeks with
relatives and friends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
Birth Of A Party

Sunday the Connecticut Farmer-Laool nartv was born in New Haven when convention was held attended by some 90O people, 148 of whom are official dele- rates. Official delegates for the most part represented trade unions in this state, which might tend to show that labor doeS not agree with it's recent vote III Whlcn if agreed not to enter politics, but to re- main aloof allowing individual members of unions to exercise their private ana personal privileges and prerogatives at the polls.
 But that is beside the question we wish to discuss. Among the several obJectlVeS of the new party is "an immediate inves- tigation by the Public Utilities Commis.- sion of the basis of the rates now charged for gas, electricity, telephones, and trans portation The rates now charged are exorbitant, thanks to Roraback and %. and Wall Street. "At this rate the party should get in touch with a good many of our past and present public officials who take some delight in lam basting the public utilities and in point. ing out the need for investigation or their activities and their rates.
 There also might be some food TOT further thought and speech on the part of the Connecticut Farmer-Labor party in legislative remarks of Rep. William M. Citron, Connecticuts congressman-at- large from Middletown. Back in the early part of June Rep. Citron took several Connecticut utility magnates, notably J. Henry Roraback and Samuel Ferguson, the Hartford Electric Light Co. head, to task for their performances in the field of public utilities. In fact MT. Ferguson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
This State Is Interested

The movement to have five famous American ships placed permanently in the Potomac river near Washington, D. C., as proposed originally by Rep. John ]. Cochran of Missouri was bound to have many repercuSsions. Most of them are being heard now, although the plan was proposed to Congress shortly before 1t adjourned. Actually 1t was President Franklin D. Roosevelt who started the movement to have five historic vessels brought to Washington. Rep. Cochran has been interested more in the restora- ton and preservation of the U. s. s. Olympia, flagship of Admiral George Dewey at the Battle of Manila.
 When Rep. Cochran took up the matter with President Roosevelt, the latter pro- posed that not merely the Olympia be given attention, but also such equally famous and well-known ships as the Con. stitution and Constellation, the Hartford and the America. The first named IS now a floating museum in Boston harbor after d triumphal tour of American coastal waters in recent years, following It's suc- cessful rehabilitation. The Hartford, one time flagship of Commodore c. k StriD- ling and later Admiral D. G. FarragutS flagship in the Mississippi river battles ot the Civil War, was sought by Connecticut as historic museum.
 This boat is now slowly rotting away on the mud-flats in Charleston, s. C., harpor' It was reported when this state, particu- larly Hartford, was trying to start movement to restore the boat and prlng it up to anchorage in the ConnecticuC river that 1t would cost a tremenoous H amount to float the boat and restore lC CC
 
 north The movement was finally dropped when Congressional and Navy depart ment aid was not forthcoming.
 The Constitution is too well known to require description now. The Constella. lion was one of six frigateS commissioned in 17o4 and was assigned to guard American commerce at the turn or that century. She served long years ID tne infancy~ of the American Navy Tn ootn home and foreign waters. Since lo93 Sne has been used as station ship at Newport R. l.. where in the past forty years tnou- sands have thronged aboard this century and more old frigate to view It. The U. D. Yacht America was the famous racer that won the Americas cup trophy III 1851. She was used by the ContederateS; in running blockades during the CIVIL War. Not until 1921 did she become U: 5. Navy property, her owners transferring her then. She is now preserved as rene;
 Boston and Newport have both Volceo protests against removal of the ConStitu- lion and Constellation. Philadelpnla roioht do the same over loss or the OIvnnpia or Annapolis over loss o1 tne America, Charleston, alone, would De apC not to regret loss of the Hartford, as the boat, according to reports, IS nothing now h,,t rotting reminder of her former Uiorio,ls self. If Washington attempts to Taise and float her, we feel sure Connectl- cut citizens will put in prior claim on the hulk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
Selected Poem
SEA CHANGE

SEA CHANGE (FIarold Willard Gleason 1n the New York Sun) Oh, once upon time there were three dignif1ed
 professors
 Who spent their summer holidays at quiet Cato
 Creek Solemn souls and scholarly the nemesis of guesscrs In botany philosophy and Creek Now one owned roWboat, another owned yaW, And the third owner power launch that wouldn't
 run at all =. Sing heyl roll and go, for the nautical professors Of botany, philosophy and Creek The sage who owned the rowboat lost an oar and
 anguished, drifting;
 The yawlsman, when his packet gybed, had
 turned the other cheek; The savant of the lfeless launch learned language
 most uplifting ..
 Ah botany, philosophy and Creek But he of the rowboat evolved n1agnate-fanne The yawler trolled for tuna and became large.
 scale canner; The launchist went for poetry in the Audenspender Not botany philosophy or Creek Thus affuence descended on the three seafarng No more they spend their holidays at quiet Cato
 Creekl slightingly they mention years they drudged for
 scanty dollars
 At botany philosophy and Greek! So buy yourself 8 roWboat, or borrow for yawl, or better beg a motor launch that guarantees to Then put to sea and meditate-on anything at all But botany, philosophy or GreekI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
They Won't Act Now

It was solemn and perhaps historic warming that Ramon de Valera, president of the Irish Free State, delivered to the League delegates at Geneva at their last meeting. Some observers call 1t the best speech of the session. He said: If the great powers of Europe would only meet now in that peace conference which will have to be held after Europe has once again been drenched in blood; If they would be prepared to make now, in ad. vance, only tlthe of the sacrifice each would have to make when war was begun, the terrible menace which threatens us all today could be warded off.
 "The problems that distract Europe to- day should not be left for soldiers to decide They should be tackled now by the statesmen" Unfortunately there do not seem to be any statesmen left in Europe today with the sanity of Briend and Stresemann.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14

in a report of his company asked stock holders not Co vote for such congressman as Rep. Cltron, 90 evidently his remarks produced fire.
 But Rep. Cltron did say such things % this in his talk "fn 1884 the people in the state of Connecticut used eit,- 16e000 kilowatt-hours of electric energy, for which they paid the sum of S30, ,i2S,. 0eS Under the q, V. A. rates, the cost cost would have been S16 6,72o, ,oe0, a say. inc of Si4,3D7,OOO, Under the ontario rates, the cost would have been $i2,S52,- 4o2, . saving of $l7,770, ,604. :" These are pertinent figures.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14

There still seems to be some ill-feeling in Connecticut over the government con- tract bill passed by the last Congress. The bill provides that all manufacturing plants bidding on government contracts must live up to certain specifications. That is, the plants must live up to various regulations set up by Uncle Sam. But 3 perusal of the list seems to indicate that all the federal government desires to do is to give its business to concerns that are conducting shops which are comply ing not merely with the law, but are con. ducted along the more humane lines that we demand in industry today. The bill was aimed at preventing plants in the south and west, where there never were minimum wages, maximum hours, prohi- bition of child or convict labor, and even sweat-shops prevailed getting choice contracts through brokerage bidding. Connecticut manufacturers countered by claiming it was federal regulation Of industry. You can take your choice or the two opinions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14

It begins to look as if the special com mission named year ago to find site for a new home for the feeble-minded had about decided on land not far from this city. Two sites are to be chosen from, reports last week indicated. They are m the towns of Oxford and Southbury. Both are within easy committing distance or this city, The home, if built on either or the two sites mentioned, would not pc on any of the main routes passing through these towns. This is for obvious reasons of maintaining some sort Of privacy at the institution. Members of the commis. sion believe that they have sufiicient money to begin preliminary constructor work after buying the land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14

At the age of 26 this is not an easy figure to hit. Tn fact, about the only way to hit 1t is by having an assured independent income, or by cashing in on family prestige ---and Elliott has no independent income.
 This much can be said for him, however. Though sometimes he has been very clumsy about 1t, he has refrained to 6 far great CT degree than his elder brother from cashing in on the family name. Jimmy is the high.pow. cred, highly polished go-getter type. Elliott is temperRmental, tumultuous, mercurial. But his economic motives are on 2 slight. ly higher though less successful plane.
 Family Black Sheep
 Elliott started being the black sheep of the family when he was in droton, traditional school of the Roosevelt family. He didn't get along very well there, and transferred to e preparatory school ct Princeton. He graduated at the age of l0, just two years before the campaign which was to elect his father President of the United States.
 RebeIIious at the family and determined to make his own living, Elliott launched out with . New York advertising agency, later setting up his own firm of Kelly, Mason and Roosevelt, and still again transferring to the Paul Cornell Agency.
 At that time Elliott was 20 years old, and naive enough to think he was being hired for his ability, not for his fathers posi- ton as governor of New York.
 He did not remain naive long, however.
 Joins Hearst Papers
 There was, for instance, the case of E. L. Cord, heavy owner in American Airways, who hired El- liott'S firm, the Paul Cornell Agency, to make Q survey of Q new airline he had just pur- chased. Elliott made the sir- vey, for which he received $760, and says that the report he sub- mitted twas sufficiently uncom- plimentary to Mir. Cords man. agers" to cause his job to cease.
 This was while his father was campaigning for the presidency, and also enjoying the full sup- port of Mir. Hearst. So Elliott,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
Good Luclk

This department hopes that the Dupes will be able to rouse "the more fortunate type of citizen" to get to the polls "ln this critical year." That will insure MT. Roosevelt4 election beyond ques. ton. The less fortunate know that he has been their sole friend and will be with him. The "more fortunate--those who have oppor- tunities for more education" carl- not do anything else but vote for him. Education implies among other things the development of the personal conscience and It's exercise. If Che members 0f Che American Liberty League are not moro fortunate now than they were in l0S2, at least In the material sense, then the financial pages Oe the newspapers are the clFCulatOrs Of unmltlgated Hes. That they are more fortunate, in the sense of be- ing better educated and therefore more responsive to the voice ot conscience, am not so sure. The savage quality of their attacks on the President adds to the uncer. tainty. They forget their present good fortune as easily as they for- get their panic In l929-Si. The exercise of conscience Is palsied by fear for the future security of their own special interests.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14

finances wholly or in part, dl- rectly or indirectly. No meAly~ mou6hed statement such as tho one capltallHed in the appeal, "tT TS NOT ASKED THAT YOU PLEDGE YOURsEfaF TO VOTE FOR A PARTICULAR CANot- DATE" can obscure the purpose made plain ln the paragraph in- dented above. The pupes raised tho cry that Mir. Roosevelt was laying destructive hands on "our charter of liberty, the Constltu- ton, long before the Republican National Convention took it up. They have kept it up In increas- ing volume ln the courts, the press. over the air, end by propagandA pamphlets flooding the malls. If they now seek Go have every American voter exercise his Gover- eign privilege of voting, X they arc willing to furnish gladly the necessary formsY whereon the slgner not only pledges himself to vote but sends the names of ten others eleotlon-day Slackers, it ls for one purpose,tO defeat Che Democratic presidential candidate. The rest is 30 much oomhala,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14

e. When and where did Buffalo Bill die?
 A, William P. Cody (Buffalo BID died in Denver, Colorado, Jan. 10, 1917.
 e. Who were the starting pitch CTS for St. Louis and Detroit in the first game of the 1884 World Series?
 A. Jerome H. (Dizzy) Dean started and finished for the St. Louis Cardinals and Alvin Crowder started for Detroit.
 If you want Q copy Of our booklet BEAUTY AIDS" write to the Waterbury Democrats Washington Bureau, 1913 Thlr- teenth Street, Northwest, Wash- ington, D. 0. Enclose 10 cents in postage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
Answers To Questions
By Frederick M. Kerby

Q. For how many seasons did Dustin Farnum play in "The vir. ginian?"
 A. His first performance was on Jan. 5, 1904, and he continued in the play for four consecutive seasons.
 e. If e man who served in the World war died before making ap- plication for his bonus, to whom Is t paid?
 A. To his dependents in the fol- lowing order: widow (unmarried) children, mother, father.
 e. What is the technical name for the Dog starr
 A. Sirius.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14

Reading the city'S petition to the Pub lie Utilities Commission for hearing on the new Baldwin street bridge and the New Haven roads share of expense in this project, one might get the impression the city was asking the railway to pay TOT the entire bridge. But the petition asks that the railroad pay merely for the bridge over the tracks, not over the river: which will form the longest section or the structure.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
JULY 14

Persons most easily influenced by to-days vibrations are those Wno were born from May ii through 30.
 General Indications
 Morning-O Optimistic.
 AfternoOn-CIear thinking.
 Evening-Con Constructive.
 This is Q day when you should accomplish much good hard work. Start on the foundation Of some worthy project.
 TO.dsy'S BiFth6ste
 You may be . proud person, but you should avoid too much love or superficial things.
 Your philosophy of life should De sensible and you may have the op- portunity to travel or take up studies or subjects in which you were once interested from now through August, and during Keo- ruary, 1897. You also may travel Avoid extTavagance or too much self-assursnce during March. leSJ. Danger from accidents, rash ace tions or speech from July S0 through 3i, 1888.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14

who had become an aviation en- thusiast, went to work for the Hearst newspapers as aviation editor.
 Becomes Air.Minded
 Tn the spring of 1884, Elliott went to o. Max Gardner, ex- Governor of North Carolina and attorney for the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, said he was not happy in his work with Hearst, and asked for a job with the chamber.
 This was given him by ThOm. as 4. Morgan, president Og the chamber, Q vlce-presidency with . salary of SiS,O0G
 As such, Elliott was charged on the floor of congress with lobbying for aviation companies. He denied this, and SO far as these writers can ascertain, he did just the opposite.
 When the air mail scandals broke Elliott sent Q somewhat peremptory cable to Tom Mor- gan, president of the chamber, who was abroad, advising him to resign-advice which MT. Morgan resented and did not follow.
 So in the end Elliott found that his $l6,000' job had slipped out from under him, and had to look round for more worlds to con- quer.
 Another Soft Job
 This time he turned to the Texas Centennial Exposition and 8 proposed air race from Texas to South America. Whatever else he may be, Elliott is @ real aviation enthusiast. He thinks 1t, loves 1t, dreams 1t; and when he was vice president of the Gil- pin Line he was out every morn ing with the mechanics in the hangars.
 Elliott sold hiss Latin Ameri. can air race so well that the Texas Centennial promoters staked him to . large salary while he promoted it. But the most essential part of the prO- motion was raising the money, and here Elliot tfell down.
 Once again, he found 8 cushy job folding ID underneath him, putting him out on the street. Turns to Radio
 This time Elliott hooked up with the Southwestern Radio network, and very recently, when part of that chain was sold to Hearst, Elliott helped arrange the deal. In fact, his old unhappinese with Hearst seemed to have dulled to such an extent that he was able to accept a vice-presidency in the Hearst radio organization.
 THAT BRINGS ELLIOTT UP- TO-DATE-on the economic side. He still spend most of his time in Fort Worth, Texas, where lives the family of his second wife, Ruth GoggIns, whom he married a few days after Q divorce from his first wife, Elizabeth Donner. The divorce came just after his father was inaugurated and was much opposed by his family. Mrs. Roosevelt flew out to Nevada to dissuade him from the step, but was unsuccessful.
 No Asset Politically
 POLITICALLY, Elliott has been not asset to his father, though he has been more loyal to all his fathers principles than his elder brother. It was Elliott's chain- pionship of constitutional amendment to override the sue preme court on the MIRA decision which contributed to the furoge of Texas Young Democrats against him.
 Elliott is leading what must seem to him very humdrum life these days, but all reports are that 1t is Q happy one. His wife rules like Q czar over the purse strings, and Elliott takes 1t and likes 1t. Perhaps if she rules wise- ly enough her husband will not need the 916,OO0 income. After ail. other married couples have got along with ess.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14


 clubs throughout the country. The dupont set Is terribly wrought up over Q report from statlsticlans that "in the last four national elections an average of only 6S per cent of oil citizens of voting age actually went to the polls" Also, "Unhappily it appears to be the more fortunate type of citizen --those who have opportunities for more educatlon-who most commonly neglect the duty to vote" Aside from the report Of statlstlclans, which should always be viewed with the eye of sus- plclon since they can be made to prove anything on any side of Q question, there is nothing new in the situation which affrights the League whose symbol is the Lih- erty Bell, crack and all.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
Not Here

of course 1t is true that qualified voters fail to take advantage of the right of franchise for which innumerable thousands have fought and died to pass on to them as 6 heritage. But here m Waterbury the record does not disclose any such failure.
 Tn the city election of 1881 Eighty per cent of the total vote was cast.
 Tn the national and state elec- ton of 1882 Eighty Six and one half per cent of the total vote was cast.
 Tn the city election of 1888 sev. enty and three-tenths per cent of the total vote was cast.
 In the state election of 1884. Eighty and three quarters per cent of the total vote was cast.
 Tn the city election of 1885 EIGHTY SEVEN per cent of the total vote was cast.
 The Liberty League is wasting postage sending It's appeal to Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-14
Current Comments

It is Q tremendous mistake for women to overdress. Tn effect, it de. clares: "I've nothing to offer, so I'll cover the lack with stunning clothes"
 Ernst Dryden, Paris stylist. They're . lot of guys trying tA chisel the pants of me. judge.
 Terry Druggan, former ally ng
 Capore, referring @ suine
 creditors.