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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
GARDEN CLUB
MEETS WITH
TREE GUILD
DISCUSS PLANS FOR SYSTE-
MATIC IDENTIFICATION OF
KEY WEST AT MEETING
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON

A well-attended get-togethel
meeting of the Garden Cub and
Tree Guild was held in the public
library Wednesday afternoon for
the purpose of discussing plans for
a systematic Identification pro-
gram. 1t was the sense of the
meeting that the two organizations
could work more effectively as
one, and on resolution duly adopt
ed the two bodies were consoli-
dated.
The announcement by the ac-
tive vice-president, Mrs. William
r. Warren, that the local WPA
was formulating new city-wide
Identification project, met with
profound applause, and the club,
by formal resolution, went on rec
ord as sponsoring the project and
pledged to Director Reck its full
est cooperation in the prosecution
of his proposed Identification pro-
gram.
Miss Mollie Parker announced
that she had been appointed by
Mr.. Reck to prepare plans for
planting every street in the city,
and asked that a committee from
the Garden Club be appointed to
assist her in the preparation of
these plans. Mrs. William r.
Warren, active vice-president of
the Garden Club, and Rev. John
C. Gekeler, president of the Ro-
tary Club, were designated as a
committee to work with Miss
Parker on the street planting
plans.
1t was the sense of the meet
ing that Director Reck should be
requested to meet with the club at
the earliest moment possible and
outline his ideas and plans for the
Identification of Key West and
indicate what he would like to have
the garden club do in connection
with his proposed program, and
the active vlce-president was in
structed to interview Mr.. Reck and
ascertain if he would meet with
the club at o'clock Monday eve
ming, August oath, in the public
library.
Regular meetings of the garden
club will be held on the first and
third Thursdays of each month,
one business meeting in the after
noon of the first Thursday, and a
combination social and education
al meeting in the evening of the
third Thursday of each month.
These meetings will be open to all
residents and visitors who are in
terested in a more beautiful Key
West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
NEXT SAILING TO
TAMPA ON FRIDAY
TRIP WILL BE MADE BY CUBA
WHICH WILL COME IN
FROM HAVANA

Several prospective travellers
by P. and o. boat have asked in
formation as to the next sailing
of boat to Tampa. This will not
be until next Friday afternoon
when the S. S. Cuba returns from
Havana.
The Florida sailed yesterday
afternoon and after dscharging
passengers at Tampa and st. Pc
tersburg, will continue to Mobile
where she will be placed in dry
dock for~overhaul and general
cleaning and scraping.
This vessel will return Wednes-
day of next week to Tampa, leave
the same evening for Key West,
sail from this port for Havana
whee she Will go back on her reg
ular schedule, between Havana
and Miami.
The Cuba, which has been on
that run while the Florida has
been on the Tampa-Key West-Ha-
vana schedule, will arrive Friday
and will take the Florida National
Guard units to Tampa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
Mrs. Duncan, Driver OF
Car, Reported To Be
In Serious Condition At
Hospital
Try ASsocIntca PrsssI

WALTERBORO, S. C. Aug.
22.-Mrs. B. NJ. Duncan of
Key West was reported to
be in a serious condition In
a hospital here following an
automobile accident which
fatally injured her daugh-
ter Ann, Is, and son Bob,
ID.
The accident occurred yes
terday on u. S. Highway IL,
two miles from Walterboro,
as Mrs. Duncan and children
were on the way to visit her
brother, Carter Thomas, of
Lancaster, S. c.
Mrs. Duncan, who was
driving apparently lost con-
troll of the car which over
turned.
Sheriff B. L. Rhodes of
Walterboro, who investi-
gated the accident, said no
inquest would be held.
Mr.. Duncan was notified
of the tragedy by telephone.
He went from Key West to
Miami by speed5oat and
car, proceeding to Jackson
vile where he planned to
catch a plane for the Caro-
lima city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
BERNARD WAITE
RETURNS HOME
DELIVERS PRISONER TO
GEORGIA SHERIFF YESTER-
DAY AT MATEcUMBE

Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard
Waite returned last night over the
highway from Matecumbe. He
left yesterday morning for that
point with a prisoner, VERNE An
derson, who is wanted in Lowndes
county, Georgia on a charge of
seduction.
At Matecumbe Anderson was
delivered to Sheriff j. L. Spivey
of Valdosta, who was awaiting to
receive him. "This is what l call
quick work." said the Georgia
sheriff.
Anderson was arrested, on a
warrant received Tuesday from
Georgia, at Big Pine Key by Dep
uty Waite, accompanied by Dep
uty Ray Elwood. He was given
hearing Thursday. Friday morn
ing at the request of the Lown-
des county sheriff he was taken
to Matecumbe. Sheriff Spivey
said he would be IN Valdosta this
morning.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
Hitch-Hiking Rabbit
Disrupts Auto Jaunt
nlx An.eciated Presal

PERRY, Okla, Aug ~. - A
frightened cottontail in NOV
ing automobile with six persons
can kick up quite a commotion.
The surprised bunny hoped
suddenly into the front seat OF
an automobile on a county road
near here. After flounderlng
around up front, the rabbit
jumped to the back squarely in
the face of Mrs. Antoine Piiske
and scratched her severely before
bounding to the front again.
r. A. Pliske, driver finally cap
tured the crazed animal. He
maintained control of the ma
chine in spite of the excitement.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
'BAPTISMAL SERVICE
SUNDAY EVENING

1t is announced that a regular
baptismal service will take place
at the First Baptist Church Sum
day night during the regular eve
ming service. "a IlgskL
Pastor Yaney T. shehahe' viii
deliver d message to the congre-
alton on the subject of "The
Devils Supreme Masterpiece of
Deception" and following this
message, several candidates who
arc now waiting, will be baptised.
The entire membership of the
church and all friends and visi-
tors are cordially invited to al
tend this service.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
COLLECT RARE
SPECIMENS FOR
N. Y. AQUARIUM
J. J. SHEA AND HAMILTON
KNOWLES GATHER VARIE-
TY TO BE TAKEN ON STEAM
Err TO NEW YORK

j. J. Shea, of the New York
Aquarium is today adding to the
collection of fish which was start
ed Thursday morning when within
few hours he had bought $50
fish.
Mr.. Shea arrived Wednesday
evening from New York. Thurs
day morning he started buying
and before noon he had 304 fish.
Later on he added others and by
afternoon had collected a nucleus
of one of the finest collections
ever gotten together, it was said.
Hamilton Knowles, who is also
connected with the New York
Aquarium is wasting no time in
getting together his collection OF
invertebrates, and has to date Sc
cured a number of specimens in
Guiding several octopi.
Should the additional specimens
be secured as readily as the first
both Mr.. Shea and Mr.. Knowles
will have a great many by the
time the fish are ready to be load
ed on the ship for New York.
The vessel on which the tanks
will. arrive is the Steamer H. R.
Mallory, which is due at Key West
Monday, August 81, coming from
Galveston.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
LORD TO REMAIN
in SERVICE HERE
LATER ORDERS RECEIVED IN
PROPOSED CHANGES IN
CUSTOMS DEPT.

Orders relative to changes
among the customs personnel in
Key West have been received one
of which countermands the orders
for William Lord to proceed to
Jacksonville, and for the present
he is to remain in service at Key
West.
j. C. Cormack has been ordered
to Tampa to assume duties in the
liquidating division; j. T. Hath
away will leave in a few days for
his new assignment at Pensacola
and Oscar founders has been or
dered for duty at Miami.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
Automobile Accident In South
Carolina Takes Lives of Son
And Daughter Of B. M. Duncan
MARK WILCOX
PAYS CALL AT
CITIZEN OFFICE

Congressman J. Marx VIII
cox was a welcomed caller at
this office today, and ex-
pressed his pleasure at being
again with his many friends
for a few days in Key West.
MIR. Wilcox arrived yester-
day afternoon by Coast Guard
rlane from Miami accom-
panied by his son, Joe, who
is also having splendid
time.
According to plans MIR.
Wilcox and his son are to re-
main in Key West until Mon
day. He expects to spend a
brief time at the national
guard encampment and the
rest of his say will be
utilized in meeting friends and
discussing matters in gen.
eral.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
NOTICE

All streets in the city of Key
West that are torn up and under
construction are declared one
way streets.
Take due notice and give to
your right.
By order of the Mayor.
WALLACE PINDER,
aug22-1t City Clerk.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
Believes America Now
Center OF Music World
thy Associated Press)

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. %,
Paul Domgureau, young French
concert pianist, said he believes
the center of the musical world
has shifted from Europe to Amer
lea.
The musician, visiting his sister
prior to an American concert
tour, said Europe is bored with
art and artistic personalities, ad.
ding.
LAS a result, the best artists
come to America where where
they are received with an open
heart"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
VACATION SCHOOL
PROGRAM MONDAY

The closing exercises Of the
Cuban Vacation School will be
held in the school room of the
First Methodist Church Monday at
z p. m.
Rev. G.. Perez viii present the
diplomas. The exercises will be
in English.
Rev. A. de Barritt will preside.
The program will close at 8
o'clock.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
new ARRIVAL in
DELANEY FAMILY

Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Jack A.
Delaney Tuesday afternoon at 4
o'clock at the South Beach Infirm-
airy, a baby girl weighing eight
pounds and three ounces.
The little lady hes been given
the name of Jacqueline Marie.
Mother and baby are reported
as doing nicely.
Mrs. Delaney was before mar
riage Miss Anna DUval.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
BRACASSA TO
REMAIN HERE
ACCEPTS POSITION AS PHAR:
MACIST AT GARDENERS
- PLACE OF BUSINESS

L, T. Bragassa, who recently
graduated from the school of phar-
macy, University of Florida, has
decided to reside in Key West.
He has accepted a position with
Gardeners Pharmacy at ,;outhard
and Duval streets where he has
been placed in charge of the pre-
scription department.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
CAPTAIN HOWE
ATTAINS HONORS

cry Associated PresAl
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.
The Navy Department has
announced that Capt. Alfred.
C. Howe of Key West was
among the III naval officers
who received awards from
foreign governments in rec
ignition of efforts to pro-
mote friendly international
relations.
Howe, now stationed in
Washington, received the
Peruvian Grand Cross of the
Order of Sol and Diploma.
The awards were held here
by the State Department and
distributed this week under
authority of a Congressional
Act.
Capt. Howe, it will be remem
oered, married Miss Hilda Gre
cory of Key West, and is wei
'nown to many friends here.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
JOYRlDE IN HEARSE

PAULSBORO, N. IA former
mayor of this city, John j. Vanne-
man, has been charged with steal
ing.a hearse, going for joy ride,
and wrecking it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
STEALS BURIAL SUITS

ST. LOUISA thief of this
city broke into an automobile
owned by Florian Goick, stole
three burial suits and approx
naately dozen shrouds.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
PAYS BACK DOLE

HULL, Eng.-After being on
the dole two years, James Haw-
trey of this city found his wife
had a bank account, and paid
back all he had received.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
GRANTED REQUEST

COLUMBUS, o.-Ab Billings
of this city told a policeman he
wanted to be kicked for being
drunk, and the cop obliged him.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
THREE EGGS I'm ONE DAY

MARSHFIELD, Mo.-Mrs. Fin
is Rupe of this city declares one
of her hens laid three eggs in a
single day.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
new ARRIVAL AT
I7N HOME OF MOORE

Mr.. ard Mrs. p. J. Moor, an.
nounce the birth of son recently
at their home, 529 Simonton
street.
The new arrival has been given
the name of Paul Joseph.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22
NELSON SCHOOL
TO BE- REOPENED

Mrs. N. P. Nelson's Kinder
garten School will reopen Mon
day, August "a, it was announced
today.
This school is located at 727
Love Lane.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22

Associated Press Day Wire
Service.
For Sc Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-08-22

Key West, Florida, has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only IA Fahrenheit
Evening star., 1936-08-18

Her last words were an appeal to doctors
and nurses to tell her story to the world,
so that the lesson of her mistake might
profit humanity in general.
The thought of suicide, it seems, is a
temporary phenomenon. In only a
relatively few instances is it more than
a passing whim. According to great
European authority on mental aberra-
tions, it appears in the experience of
practically everybody. Many of its con-
notations are social and, therefore, sub
ject to correction. The courage that is
needed for it should be applied to its
prevention. A change of mind, like that
which Piers underwent, solves the
problem.
And help always is to be had for the
asking. Let those who feel that they
cannot "go on" consult any physician
or priest-even any policeman-and
they will find sympathy and understand
ing equal to the emergency. The world
is kindlier place than might be sup
posed. Give it chance, and 1t will
not fail to provide aid for its sorrowful
children.
Evening star., 1936-08-18
Change of Mind.

Milton Piers is fortunate man. Yes
terday he attempted suicide-and failed
Only twenty-eight years of age, discour-
aged and disheartened, he jumped from
the Highway Bridge to end his troubles
In the Potomac. Fifty feet through
space he fell. Then, providentially, his
coat caught on a projecting piece of
iron and, with assistance from passersby,
he pulled himself back to safety. At
Gallinger Hospital last night he ex-
planned that he has changed his mind
about self-destruction.
But Piers may not realize his luck.
Many individuals who momentarily
have been tempted to terminate their
lives have wished to make other choice
when 1t was too late for the wiser deci-
sion to be of any avail. Not long ago a
beautiful girl, disillusioned in love, drank
a lethal poison for which there is no
known antidote. Yet Immediately after
she had taken that fatal step, she re-
gretted 1t; for two weeks in a hospital
ward she struggled to survive-in vain.
Evening star., 1936-08-18
Pet or Pest?

Few things strike the heart Of the
friend of dogs so woefully as the sounds
Of puppy crying in the night. locked
out from its owners in the mistaken be-
lief that this is the way to train dog
as it should 60.
Just how the owners themselves can
sleep so blissfully, when the remainder
of the neighborhood is lying awake
listening. is one of the perennial mys-
teries of city life.
Those lying awake, torn between the
sorrows of dogs and their own discom-
fort, never are able to understand how 1t
is that the big brute in bed is SO oblivious
to the cries of the little brute in the yard.
The cries of the damned would not
wake him. evidently. He is lost to canine
appeal. Some one has told him that a
pup ought to be kept in the yard these
hot nights, when all the time the base
ment is by many degrees the cooler.
City life is noisy enough, without any
one adding to it this lamentable crying
in the night. Many little dogs are almost
human, in the queer, sobbing accents
they acquire when cut off so ruthlessly
from the companionship they have all
day.
The night is dark, and the world huge,
and puppy so little, and the neighbors
trying so hard to sleep, let no one to
whom the ownership of a dog is en-
trusted make of himself and his poor
helpless little pet pure pest.
Evening star., 1936-08-18
Barbarism in Spain.

A hideous chapter in the history Of
warfare is being written in Spain, per-
haps the worst in all the human records.
Day after day from that riven land
come reports of the slaughter Of pris-
oners. Both sides, the government and
the rebels, are executing those taken in
arms. and even others who are cap
tured in the course of the fighting, sus-
pected of partisanship. Giving full al
lowance for eXaggeration and mistake
in the reports, there is plain evidence
that the conflict is marked by the ut
most savagery.
Warfare is necessarily destructive. Its
purpose is the annihilation of the COM
bative power of the enemy, whether the
enemy be alien or native. In the earliest
times those taken in arms, and indeed
served as prisoners. becoming slaves of
the conqueror. Life was spared, not
from a humane motive, but for economic
purposes. Reprisals were common then,
as worker was recognized.
In this conflict between factions in
Spain there has been a reversion to
worse than the savagery of barbaric
warfare. Prisoners have been slain by
the hundreds, the thousands. The
motive, it would seem, has not been
economic, avoidance of the cost and
pains of immurement to prevent re-
newal of military service. 1t has rather
been vengeance, expression of bitter
hatred.
In no other war in modern times has
such course been followed. In the
Civil War in this country, seventy years
ago, the care of prisoners, while not
always the most considerate, was the
| established rule. In the latter stages of
that conflict exchanges Of prisoners were
effected. In the World War, of twenty
years ago, prisoners were confined in
detention camps and there were COM
paratively few instances of deliberate
cruelty. Charges of reprisals were
brought by both sides, but with little
proof.
The ferocity of this present warfare
in Spain has been attributed to the fact
that the Spanish population is strange
mixture of races, making for veritable
barbarism. This may be libel upon
the Spanish people, who have a long
history of a cultured civilization. Yet
here are the hideous facts, brought to
view day after day, to suggest that some
thing has happened in that land to
arouse the blood lust of the belligerents,
with record for destruction that is not
to be equaled in all history. The future
recorder Of events will find in this chap
ter one Of the most battling puzzles ever
presented by the conduct of man.
Evening star., 1936-08-18
Are the individuals Rights
Secure or Insecure in L. S.?
To the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Recently a commentator asked: us
there any other country where the rights
of individuals are as secure as in the
United States?"
A more important question is: Are
the rights of individuals secure in the
United States?"
In one particular the layman was led
to believe that the United States Su-
preme court 6 to ~ answered the sec
ond question affirmatively on this point
in the Tennessee Valley Authority case,
so far as the rights of minority stock
holders are concerned. Sustaining its
pronouncement by citation of various
United States Supreme Court cases, 1t
was decided that while their stock
holdings are small. they have real in
terest, and there is no question that the
suit was brought in good faith"
1t was currently reported at the time
that the four so-called liberal justices
concluded that the minority stockholders
were not entitled to be heard. One suS-
tanning quotation from a previous court
decision was this: "The directors repre-
sent all the stockholders and are pre-
sumed to act honestly and according to
tiiSh bCoU JuOSulGtlG 1OI tIlC 4IlOClCobo Va
all. Their judgment as to any matter
lawfully conf1ded to their discretion may
not lightly be challenged by any stock
holder or at his instance submitted for
review to court of equity" etc. This is
rather precarious basis, considering
that the presumption" is subject to
many contrarities of human nature, and
seems to assume that the directors Qike
the king) "can do no wrong"
The majority conclusion 6 to u
made 1t possible to get the case before
the highest court and get for the Gov
ernment q decision that the surplus
electric energy generated under the war
act OF 1915 and the commerce clause OF
the Constitution Cncluding "naviga-
tion~ could be sold as property belong
ing to the United States. Had the mi
nority opinion prevailed, its exclusion
OF the minority stockholders would have
prevented our highest court from rem
dering decision in this momentous case
1t appears, then, that the rights OF
individuals are secure in court procedure
only when all courts are as alert to
recognize and protect their rights as
was the Supreme Court of the United
States in the Tennessee Valley Authority
case. They will not be secure If courts
superior or inferior are to deny them
recognition because they hold very
small proportion of stock and the di-
rectors of the corporation have not
Joined in the litigation. There will not
be "a legal remedy for every wrong" If
the little fellow Is granted no considera-
. ton and no chance for redress when
threatened action against his individual
or stockholders rights leads him to believe
they are endangered.
Adherence Of all courts to this latest
nnited sta&es Supreme Court pro-
Evening star., 1936-08-18
Mathematical Conclusions
On Our Billions of Debt
To the Editor of The Star:


During the past three years We have
read and heard much about billion
dollar appropriations and expenditures
by the New Deal. yet it is possible that
the average citizen has little concept of
these tremendously large figures when
reduced to time and common dollars and
cents.
What is billion? Simple enough
one thousand times a million. This is
quickly written and even more quickly
pronounced, but no human being with
out the aid of a machine could count
it. One can count $50 or ITO a minute,
and even 200 in the same time, if addi-
tional effort is applied. At 200 minute.
one can count $4,000 in an hour; 228,O 900
in 24-hour day; los, 10000 in year
of 365 days.
Now let us suppose that Adam at the
beginning of his existence had begun to
count according to the above rule, and
had continued to do so, to today and be-
yond, he would still not have counted
enough. For to count billion, he would
require 9,512 years, "a days, hours and
20 minutes And, mind you, no time
out for food or sleep.
If Mr.. and Mrs. Taxpayer throughout
the country would multiply the above
figures by IS, he or she would get some
idea of what '$35, 1000 100000 the ma
tional debt, and soon to be more)
amounts to and how long it will take to
balance the budget.
A considerable amount of the above
has resulted because of A. A. AS, N.
R. AS, ship canals, Alaskan colonial
tions, Passamaquodies and other New
Deal experiments of the past and con-
templated in the future. With this
knowledge at hand, it might be bene-
fetal to carefully scrutinize that ballot
before casting 1t next November.
j. ED SNYDER.