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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05
Jericho, Palestine, has been adver-

Jericho, Palestine, has been adver-
tised for many centuries, yet has a popula-
ton of only 1900. So let us not get dis
couraged here in Key West.-Key West
Citizen. If anybody doesn't like Key
West. you can tell 'em to go to Jericho
Lee Morris i'm st. Petersburgh Independent.
For many years. in every part of the land,
undesirable people have been urgently
advised Ito go to Jericho" but evidently
the advise is not needed as the population
Of that well publicized place in Palestine
does not increase, as noted above
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

The home is still the most dangerous
place in which to be. 10000 persons lost
their lives within the haven of their homes,
while $500 were killed on the highway
in automobile accidents, in the year 1886.
The total number of deaths in both cases
was an all-time high.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

every re a so n
why we should
criticize any
and all officials
w h { n we be-
lieve they fail
to give us the
maximum re :
suits at the low
EFT poss b e
cost.
Y e t fairness
n az be asked
in this as in all
other matters
and tile Ameri-
c a n pu b Ii c
should not COM
pIoip cv ran
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

The firm of Stone & Webster classify
their treasurers at Key West and Tampa
as ante-meridian and post-meridian. In
this city it is A. M. Hewitt and in the west
coast city it is p. NJ Miller. Whether the
meridian, too, is accounted for is not
known to this writer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05
T-- f

1936-Postmaster General Far
ley lashes Liberty League-organ-
lied labor and capital in Monterey,
Mexico. demonstrate in huge pa
rade against Communism, while
five nations in southeastern Eu-
rope open war on Communism.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

1840-Cunard Ines first
steamer; the Britannia, about l.
100 tons and 207 feet, launched
line then the British and North
American Royal Mail Steam Pack
ct Company.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just 10 Year,
Ago Today A Taken From
The Files Of The Citizen

The Key West Chamber Of
Commerce has offered $3.50 re-
ward in cash for the arrest and
conviction of the robber or rob-
bers who stole the equipment and
appurtenances from the Yacht
Kingfisher and damaged the yes
sci while it was moored off the
Casa Marina last Tuesday. Sheriff
Cleveland Niles stated this morn
ing that he is working on the
case and expects results within a
day or two and possibly at any
moment. Mr.. Bliss, owner of the
vessel, had it built especially for
fishing in the waters around Key
West and for cruising among the
Keys.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05
IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

I. Water and Sewerage.
2 BRIDGES to complete Road to Main
land.
3. fres Port
4. Hotels and Apartments.
S. Battling Pavilion.
g. ports--Lana and Sea.
Z. Consultation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

NJ Y Id E A L

My ideal girl is the old fashioned girl
With Nature pink cheeks and her hair in curl
The kind that doesn't powder paint
And throw a good old fashioned faint
The kind that says limbs instead of legs
And thinks that rabbits lay Easter eggs.
The kind that ctl wears a necklace watch
And can't mix drink double Scotch.
The kind that I'd like to chance my fate with
But thank Heaven, don't have to have date with.
-RASPUTIN
ey West, Fla,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

The incipient Zoo which has
been established in the court
house square by Sheriff Niles
continues to attract attention.
The four compartment cage now
houses a monkey, three alligators,
one gray squirrel and a flying
squirrel. Within few days there
will be added to the collection
two young deer.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

Editorial comment; Some Of
those people who are attempting
to reduce their flesh, seem to re-
duce nothing but their pocket
books.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

1934-Some 10000 prohibition
cases originating prior to Dec,
1888, stricken from Federal court
dockets by decision of the Supreme
Court.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

The Tennessee state senate has passed
a bill prohibiting editors from publishing
'any untruths." And the Fort Myers
News-Press thinks it's good bill, st will
bar them from quoting state senator's
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05
Today In History


1S37-The hot blast in smelling
furnaces used at the Clyde (ScOt-
land) Ironworks by its inventor,
James B. Nelson.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05
OeOooOOsoOoOO
Today's Birthdays
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,

DIR. Bayard Dodge, president of
the American University at Beirut,
Syria. born in New York City, 49
years ago.
Ewin L. Davis of Tenn, Fed
eral Trade Commissioner, born in
Bedford Co., Tenn, 81 years ago.
Ralph Fogg of Lynn, Mass,
consulting engineer, born there,
SO years ago.
Michael Williams, editor of The
Commonweal, New York, born at
Halifax, N. S., go years ago.
Aaron Sapiro of New York,
lawyer. born in San Francisco, 63
years ago.
Maxine Elliott, actress, born at
Rockland, Maine, "a years ago.
Sir Arthur Keith, famed Eng
lish scientist, born II years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

1917-Senate passed Immigra-
ton Bill containing much discuss
ed literacy test over Presidents
veto-first step to barring immi-
grafton to country.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

Key West basketball fans were
treated to one Of the finest exhi-
billions of basketball seen here In
a long time when the Marines
trimmed the Athletic Club az.
gregation Of 25 to % last night
The game was fast and there was
not one moment when the crowd
was not eagerly awaiting the next
play and were seldom disappoint-
ed in the result as each play was
a good one and the results were
such as to satisfy all Of the spec
tators.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

1930-President Rubio of Mex
leo shot two hours after taking
oath of office.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05
You and Your
Nations Affairs
Economy in Government
By ERNEST MINOR PATTERSON -
Presidents 4aercan Acaasmy Of Potica and Social Science

1t is proper for all of us to demand
economy in government. Waste and
ineficiency in the &C ndurt of public
affairs is a general loss. There is
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

Interesting statistics: Sixteen million
tons of rain and snow fall on the earth
every second.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

but is being held 1t Coral Gables
by q bond sale. The Telegram a.
SO says that Mr.. Ricketts, win Be
prepared to submit a proposition
to build the pipe line.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05
Opens Skin Pores
Kills Scalp Itch

With. six itch killing medicines
in liquid form, Imperial Lotion
flows into pores and hair fOllicles
and thus gets at snd kills the
cause of scalp itch. 35c ard S1.OO.
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80 al .tsst sdlf 20
7TII5tuJs slftf
Warren H. Owens, understood
to be an under cover agent Of
some kind charged with forgery
and the posssssi0n Of intoxieation,
which he. held illegally, forfeited
a cash bond Of 2 $500 when he
failed to appear for preliminary
hearing before Judge Gum yes
terday. Owens was about town
yesterday and in the sheriff's off
flee at IL o'clock. 1t was learned
that he took the niidafternoon
train for Miami. A deputy sheriff
was sent to Key Largo where the
man was caught and brought back
and is now an inmate of the
county jail.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

Judge w. B. Howell, of New
York, who has been a guest at
the Casa Marina for a month,
will preside at session of United
States Customs court which will
open in Key West Monday morn
ing, February IA. The customs
court does not handle criminal
cases, but deals exclusively with
Disputes and claims relative to
customs and duties of exports and
imports. ----.-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

Mrs. Elizabeth Page, wife of
Andrew Page. died 5 o'clock this
morning in the home at 619 Ashe
street. The funeral was to be
held o'clock this afternoon at
the Ley Memorial church, with
Rev. E. L. Ley officiating. Mem
bers of the local order Knights Of
The Golden Eagle will attend in
a body.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

j. w. Ricketts,, Coral Gables
financier, is expected to arrive
Thursday and will sumbit an of
fer to build fresh water pipe
line to the city. A telegram re-
ceived this morning by Captain
Clark D. Stearns, chairman of
the water commission, says that
Mr.. Ricketts, would come earlier,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05
UN DER Gov Err
Key West, Fla,
Jan. %, 1887.

Rasputin, Rasputin,
Oh, why do you hide,
Under that terrible name
That we cannot abide.
Is there something the matter
With your conscience or face
That you keep under cover
As IL in disgrace?
Your versus are clever.
And are read without fail
But sometimes I wonder
Ii they are written in Jail.
e. NJ
Key Wet Fla,
Jan. 80, 1887.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

Sir Arthur Keith, famed Eng
lish scientist, born II years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1937-02-05

Key Wet. Fla,
Jan. 80, 1887.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20

entail explaining how they went
back and forth from the island
to the mainland. The column rises
precipitately from the floor of the
canyon. 1t is an extremely danger
Gus and difficult climb for men
an apparently impossible one for
animals.
Yet the scientists had found some
evidence that in past ages, perhaps
sometime around 1900, animals hab-
itually migrated, probably season.
ally, from the mainland to the island
and Indians established hunting
camps on the saddle strip of
land connecting the side of the
canyon with the wall of the island
far down the column-to kill them
from ambush.
Hunters and natives read descrip-
tions of what Anthony and An
drews were finding on the plateau,
where they are perhaps the first
human visitors for centuries, with
nods-they had known right along
that they'd find nothing unique.
They found especially significant
the fact that the scientists had
found deer horns and droppings,
all several months old, but no deer
and no fresh sign Of deer. Deer
had been there. Where had they
gone, they asked, if not to the
Anthony and Andrews
also found many signs of coyotes,
but no coyotes. A sly beast, the
coyote is nevertheless curious one,
and the natives believed that If
coyote were on the island in any
number they would have been seen.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20
Mexican Youths
Captured With
Sack of Loot

CALEXICO, Sept. 2O-Two Mexi-
can youths were caught red handed
Sunday night with a magnetic,
wrenches and bolts stolen from a
tractor at the Fuller ranch.
The boys, Luis Tapio, 10, and
Domingo Luna, II, were headed to-
ward Mexicali with heavy gunny
sack when two deputy sheriffs
passed them in an automobile. The
officers stopped to investigate,
found the magnetic in the sack
and assorted wrenChes and bolts
bulging from the pockets of the
boys.
They admitted stripping the trac-
tor and are held in the county Jail.
Complaints were scheduled to be
signed Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20

hloh VI ISW IOFAs WClCUilllllb lllo
fellow legionnaires", uttered plea
for an "ever vigilant public opin-
ion" TO safeguard religious and civil
liberty, religious and racial toler-
ance.
Lehman said that in the wake of
the World War "the work of CEN
turies has been undone" by dictat-
orships. Other nations, he said, may
turn back to the darkness of the
middle ages" but in this country
I'VE must hold the torch of liberty
aloft".
"Fanaticism ana intolerance" he
said, can be destroyed, "only by
increased good will and understand
ing"
Mayor Fforello II. La Guardia
told the $4,000 convention delegates
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20

LII. 1dIOlQ II. AnthOny, OF the
American Museum of Natural His
tory, and his assistant, George An
drews, camped on the "island in
the sky after perilous climb up
its sandstone sides, had trapped or
shot more than a dozen specimens
OF the islands animal life.
Instead of unknown animals or
even strange animals, the result
of evolutionary development over
thousands of years in an environ
ment entirely isolated from the
surrounding countryside, their spe-
cimens all appeared the cousins or
brothers of specimens common to
the vicinity.
All were readily claSsifiable and
other three specimens showed a
superficial differentiation. These
were three chipmunks which had
frosty gray streaks down their
backs. Anthony and Andrews also
killed cotton tail rabbit, leaf cared
mice, and wood rats.
Scientists were not yet ready to
concede that the animals and their
forebears had not inhabited the
almost inaccessible plateau for
thousands of years without contact
with animals on each side of the
canyon. Such concession would
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20
Freighter Collision
Does $160,900 Damage

SAN PEDRO, Sept. 20 UP)--
Damage to two freighters in an
early morning collision In Los An
geles harbor today was estimated
at $160.000.
The $3.50 ton Isthmian freighter
Knoxville City knitted into the
American Hawaiian freighter Ark
ansan at dawn yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
United Press Hollywood
COrrpSnnndent

HOLLYWOOD. Sept. 20. UR -
The busiest girl IN arl Hollywood
today is Joan Crawford, doing
these things simultaneously, with
out the aid of mirrors, magic, or
anything except a reddish and level
head:
1. Acting like she's singing; NOV
ing her lips soundlessly in time to
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20
StrollS Thru Hollywood

the music of a phonograph.
2. Dancing with Actor Alan Cur
tis and doing the leading because
Alan isn't SO good at dancing before
the camera.
3. Steering herself and him in
front of the proper lights.
4. Denoting sex appeal with a
capital "S".
81 still can't see how she does
it," says Frank Borzage, the curly
haired pipe-smoking director of
'Mannequin" in production on the
M-G-M lot. How a girl can sing
without singing. dance without
really dancing, keep her mind on
! the lights, and still emit glamor is
beyond me-"
The scene is that of cheap chop
suey restaurant Joan is supposed
to be dancing with young Curtis
and grooming a song Of love into
his ear. It'll seem simple when you
see it, but all that looks easy on
the screen frequently isn't.
For one thing, Joan sang the
song, Forever And Forever" with
the proper musical accompaniment
couple of weeks ago. The words
and music were placed on a wax
record, which is being played back
for her now.
She must act as though she is
singing, forming words with her
lips, but making not a whisper, so
that her original song will not be
marred when picture and music
are merged later in the laboratory.
AS she sings s1undlessly, she
must dance ever so slowly with Cur
this. He's good enough dancer, but
he simply can't move his feet as
hesitantly as the script demands.
Miss Crawford therefore does the
leading, steering him with her left
hand on his shoulder. This dane
ing isn't made any easier by the
fact that both her feet are encased
in felt boots. So are Curtis. The
boots are to keep their shoes from
making scraping noises on the floor.
Miss Crawford must turn around
the floor, with due respect for the
lights. Unless they shine in the
proper direction constantly, ugly
shadows from her nose and her
eyelashes will mar her beauty.
She therefore must make her
swings at the proper split second
for one blue-white light to leave
her face and another, shining from
different angle, to pick it up.
There are two other dancers also
on the set, who never will be seen
on the screen. They are property
men and they each carry on their
shoulders a baby spotlight, with a
long flexible cable leading to the
power supply.
AS Miss Crawford dances, they
also dance-out of the range of the
camera-so that the rays from their
lamps will form highlights in her
hair and send dramatic shadows
across her shoulders. The property
men must dance like Miss Craw-
ford does, else their lights would
not be steady on her face.
Curtis, meantime, is a young
fellow we don't know whether to
envy-or pity.
This is his first really big pic
ture, playing opposite Miss Craw-
ford with Spencer Tracy. These
many years he's admired her
from distance. Now he's holding
her in his arms
Ambitious, intelligent and hard
working, he memorized all his lines |
letter perfect. Director Borzage was
amazed at his proficiency as an
actor. Then came the big moment
in the film, when he was to clasp
Mis- Crawford tight and press a
rAo ccior ota Uicc ,1nnY1 ba, lire
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20
LECIONNAIRES
HEAR PLEA TO
GUARD LIBERTY

NEW YORK Sept. 20. (UP)-The American Legion,
opening its 1887 convention in Madison Square Garden
which decked with flags and martial emhlems and
saturated with military music, exhorted today to
strive for the preservation of peace Gov Herbert Leh
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20
MYSTERYVEILS
ANIMAL LIFE
ON SKY ISLE

SILVA TEMPLE EXPEDITION BASE, near Grand
Canyon, Arz, Sept. 20 (UP)-Disapponted scientists
began to suspect today that their new world perched
atop $500 foot high column in the Grand Canyon was
an ordinary part of the ordinary world
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20
Dull Headaches Gone,
Simple Remedy Does 1t

Headaches caused by constipation
are gone after one dose of Adlerika
This cleans poisons out of BOTH
upper and lower bowels. Ends bad
sleep, nervousness.
Clements Drug Store
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20

in the Garden that "it's thrill to
have you here"
1--WE have learned a great deal
since we marched down fifth ave-
nue. 10 the transports 20 years ago
to make the world safe for democ-
racy'," He said. Tomorrow we
march again-we march as expe-
rienced citizens, an army of peace
determined to mind our own busl-
ness"
Imperial Valley press., 1937-09-20

BROOKVILLE, N. Y, Sept. 20.
Ue)-Crash of a U. S. Navy plane
in which they were flying from
Squantum, Mass, to Anacostia, d.
c., today killed Mackenzie, Win
chester, Mass. and Raymond A.
Schmidt, Alton, Ill.
Evening star., 1937-05-07

background of the flames, they saw no
one jump.
1T seemed absolutely inconceivable
that any one could survive that acci-
dent" Mrs. Poole Immediately said
Almost Immediately after it hap
pened, Mr.. Poole told me to lead the
Belins away from the field. We were
all sure that Peter had been killed,
but my husband wanted to approach
the ship with the possibility of giving
assistance.
The Belins were marvellous. I sup
pose the shock made them practically
insensate. They were perfectly COM
posed AS the shock began to wear of
AS they began to gather the full i'm
port OF the tragedy-we heard that
whistle. I can't describe its effect, but
we wheeled around and there was
Peter. perfectly calm, to tell his grief
stricken parents that he was all right"
The Belins left Princeton for WASH
ington by train this morning after
spending the night at the nooles.
Popular in Washington's younger
set, young Belin was graduated from
Yale University last Spring. He ex-
poets to enter a foreign service school
here this Fall At the Sorbonne he
studied subjects to prepare him for
the service examinations.
Father Was Minister to Poland.
His father was Minister to Poland
in 1923. and previously had been
with the Scranton (Pa) Lace Co.
in his native city Related to the
Du Pont family of Wilmington, Del,
he was vice president of the E. I.
du Pont de Nemours g. Co. and was
associated with the Aetna Explosives
Co. before entering the American
foreign service.
Prior to his appointment as Min
lister to Poland he served as secre-
tary in Pelping, China; Constantinople
and London. He was also secretary
Evening star., 1937-05-07
II. p. MAJ, Tells
Ho'oHeSnapped
Blast Pictures
Had Camera at Eve
Leuel When Ship
Burst Into Flame.
BY MURRAY BECKER,
Associated Press Photographer.

Associated Press PhotoRrapher
LAKEHURsT. N. J. May IL have
been a news photographer for years,
covering major events, but never in
my life have had such a tragic and
spectacular picture as the destruction
OF the Hindenburg appear before my
eyes.
I had taken several "shots" as the
Hindenburg approached the landing
field and had backed away for q gen.
erl view when the first explosion oc-
Cured.
I had my camera up to the eye level
when the ship burst into flames Like
a hunter, had my sights on the
target and my finger on the trigger.
I shot the picture showing the first
puff OF flames.
Changing my plates, got a second
picture of the airship striking the
ground with the flames shooting the
length of the ship, and then started
running for it.
1t is hard to explain my feelings. I
was in daze and yet I was trying to
get all the pictures possible in the
least time. One OF them was of man
half-naked, his clothes burned from
him, stumbling from the ship.
Trying to recall everything now, the
screaming of people on the field, the
flaming ship, the mad scramble with
pictures, I find it impossible to CO.
ordinate them all. 1t was a moment
Of spectacular madness.
Evening star., 1937-05-07
IS BIG D|R|C|BLES
FELL IN g YEARS
Three of Worst Involved
Macon, Akron and
Shenandoah.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
There have been 18 major dirigible
disasters in the last % years-three
of the worst involving the United
States dirigibles Akron, Macon and
Shenandoah.
The disaster list:
February II, l935-The Navy dirigi-
bic Macon destroyed off the Pacific
Coast; died, 81 saved.
April 4, 1933-United States Navy
drigible Akron crashed in electrical
storm off New Jersey coast; 70 dead,
3 survivors.
October 4, 193O-British dirigible
R1o1 exploded over France while en-
route from England to India; 46 dead.
May IS, l928-Italian dirigible
Italia crashed in Arctic in flight to
North Pole; dead.
September 3. l925-United States
dirigible Shenandoah, formerly ZR-1,
wrecked in Ohio; IA killed
December 81, l923-Frencn dirigible
Dixmude presumably struck by light
ming over Mediterranean; So killed
February 81, l922-United States
dirigible Roma, bought by United
States from Italy, crashed in flames
near Hampton Roads Army base; "a
killed
August "a, l92l-Dirigible zR-2
bought in England for United States,
frame buckled over Humber River;
AZ killed.
January 20, 192l-British dirigible
R-34, wrecked in gale in Howden,
England; no lives lost.
July 81, 19l9-Dirigible burned over
Chicago: 10 killed
July is, 1919-British airship NS-l1
struck by lightning over North Sea;
IL killed.
June 20, l9l4-Airship and air.
plane collided at Vienna; killed.
September 8, 19l3-zeppelin LII
destroyed off Heligoland; Is killed.
October II, 19l3-Zeppelin LIZ ex-
ploded over Johannisthal Airdrome; :;
% killed.
July 2, l912-Balloon Akron ex-
ploded at Atlantic City; killed.
Besides the zeppelins LII and LIZ.
Count Zeppelin lost four other great
peace-time dirigibles in accidents, the
Zeppelins 3 and 6 and the Deutsch-
lands l and 2.