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made to solve this problem by as
siging each Senator to a desk, and
visitors to the gallery are given a
diagram showing the seating.
However, this is not very success
full, since the Senators show a
great lack of cooperation with this
system and insist on moving about
and sitting at desks other than
their own. One thing that first
impressed me, as it usually does
the visitors in the Gallery, was the
lack of attention among the mem
bers when speeches containing ma
terial of real value were being
made. However, I soon learned
that it was much easier to get the
meat out of these speeches while
reading the Congressional Record
in the comfort of ones own fire
side.
LENDING FOR RECOVERY
The fate of the Presidents $780,
100000 lending-for-recovery plan
is less assured than more contro-
versial phases of the Administra-
tion program. Prospects are very
doubtful for approval of authority
of $500,O00,000 in foreign loans,
5000, 100000 in the new fiscal
year. There is better chance
that the RFC will augment Ex-
port-Import Bank capital. Self
Liquidating local public works, on
a strict loan basis, probably will
be sweetened with some Federal
gifts-smaller than the present As
per cent. Toll road program is
somewhat doubtful, with more en-
phasis on bridges and by-passes.
Increased tenant aid and rural re-
Mobilization stands better than a
$3.50 chance of approval. Rail
road equipment buying through
government corporation appears
on the skids. More likely is relief
to railroads through RFC refinanc-
ing of old debt to release funds of
the railroads themselves for equip
ment buying. The Mead-Allen plan
for RFC insured bank loans to
small business men seems to be in
trouble. Opposition of jesse Jones,
new Loan Agency head, badly up
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Has Safety Lock That
Is Knobless and Keyless

LONDON.-An amateur lifesaver,
who has rescued % people from
drowning, hopes to save thousands
more from death by a safety lock
he has invented and patented.
He is F. Reavill, Nottingham hotel
owner, and his invention was In
spired by the death Of friend, Sir
John Rees, who was killed when he
opened the wrong door Of a railway
car.
Foolproof and simple. the safety
lock can be applied to railway
trains, planes, cars, or anything
with door on it. It enables a driver
Of train to lock every door secure
ly by operating a lever. Pilots Of
planes will be able to lock the doors
Of the plane from the cockpit, and
motorists will be able to do like
wise by moving a lever on the DASH
board.
The lock dispenses with keyholes,
knobs or spindles.
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A New Color Stem
to weight and color fastness.

these colors run the range from a
very light blue through to dark
blue, dark green and out to light
green. Their chief merits lie in the
fact that they are highly resistant
to fading, and are free from spec
tal ~ImpuritieS'-that is, free of
mwanted colors.
This means that for the first
time, pure" blues containing no
trace of red, are now available.
This is particularly of Importance
to the printing industry, for exam
pie, since the enormous increase Of
color printing in magazines, book
lets, advertisements and 80 on has
created the need for pure" colors
that will blend in with others in
process printing to give the desir-
ed effect. All blues previously con-
tanned some slight trace of red.
The new pigment group also
makes available light blues and
light green paints for outdoor paint
ing such as on shutters, where un-
fading colors have not been possible.
Inside the house, too, this is impor-
tant, for wallpaper In light blue or
green tones has generally faded
out speedily due to the action of
light or the alkaI In the plaster.
It provides colors for oil painting
which have the valuable property
of appearing the same under arti-
ficial light as under daylight.
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MINES STILL
YIELD GOLD
Cripple Creek Continues as
Rich Producing Area
of the Nation
PRODUCED S5,5OO,OOO 1888

CRIPPLE CREEK, COLO.-Crip-
pie Creeks gold "diggin's 's"-the site
Of one of the first gold strikes in
Colorado's mining history-still is
one Of the state and nations richest
gold producing areas.
Rumors that the ore veins of the
pioneer mining regions hundreds of
mines were fading out were dis
proved with the estimate that near
ly S5.500,000 in gold ore was taken
from the veins in 1888. Production
estimates of 1888 conceded almost
exactly with the 1887 production,
showing no decrease in activity and
no sign Of slowup in 1899.
New developments during the last
year indicate strong possibility
that the region will increase rather
than decrease production this year.
New shafts are being dug and i'm
provements carried on in the old
mines, giving the entire region the
appearance Of the boom days" Of
the eighties, when Colorado came
into its own as gold-mining state.
The average depth Of the major
Cripple Creek shafts is between
1000 and $500 feet into the rocky
sides Of the mountains. Most i'm
portant Of the 1888 improvements
was the sinking Of the main shaft
Of the Ajax mine to the 2,600-foot
mark. Officials Of the Golden Cycle
corporation, operators of the mine.
said promising series of smalI
veins had been opened in the lower
diggings, indicating a long working
period for the shaft.
In addition to the large enter
prises now under way, many small
er mines have undertaken improve
ments which are designed to in
crease their capacity. "Watered" or
flooded mines are being pumped out
and reconditioned. Several shafts.
long abandoned because of slump
in metal prices, are being cleared
for new operations, and owners hope
to develop Cripple Creek and its sur
rounding towns into another bonan-
"a district.
A survey Of the mines in the dis
trict showed that 1853 miners are
employed in mines. mills and Of
fees.
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a NEW source of colors, chemi-
caliy akin to the natural pig
Ients that color plants green and
!our blood red, has just been
Ufousht TO light by chemists 1t
lepresents a highly important de-
'enpment in this field, a sphere
= Hnich the technically trained lab
ssiory man has. oddly enough, far
sSnpsen the romantic artist of an
Selef Gay. Announcement of a new
'"r stem, as 1t were, rises out of
Ie realm of the commonplace, for
smie colors and pigments are made
multitude of shades, they re-
1--WE themselves down into a rel
lively few primary groups based
on their chemical composition.
e new basic group, just made
n, represents the first impor-
l addition to come up In the
past Is years
= the recent American Chemical
e'y meeting, DIR. Miles A. Dahl
!. ~ Pont chemist, made public
- results of the research in this
sN family of colors which has now
r, a aided to the chemists pallet.
81 arc known chemically as
'I'haiocyanines." and are based on
SUBSTANCE closely akin to chloro-
,,' ,asii' Tie green coloring matter in
,.' als' and hemin, the red coloring
OF Tie blood. Up to now
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Governor Opened New Highway

Gov. Richard Q. McMullen Of
ficially opened the new highway
between Bethany Beach and Fen
wick Island Wednesday afternoon
of last week during an inspection
of the road by members of the
Democratic State Highway Com
mission. The new highway con-
meets with the Maryland highway
system leading into Ocean City,
Md, on which construction work is
nearly completed. Prior to the in
spection the board met in the
Hotel Townsend at Bethany Beach
with c. w. Cullen, chairman, pre-
siding.
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WASHINGTON
NEWS LETTER
CONTINUED From Page Three)

to know to which of the As mem
bers from New York he refers. In
the Senate an attempt has been
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set chances of favorable action.
Prospect is that RFC insured bank
loans to small business men seems
to be in trouble. RFC itself prob
ably will ease conditions for dirct
loans to business.
ADJOURNMENT OBSTACLES
is working itself into
the usual session-end tangle. Sill
yer provides this years initial by
play, with everybody trying to out
smart everybody else with compli
eating results. When the argu-
ment ends, prospect is that Amer
lean silver producers will have
somewhat larger subsidy and the
President will regain authority to
buy foreign silver and to devalue
the dollar. The two principal
hurdles to adjournment are the
Lending-for-recovery and neutral
ity. Both call for extensive de-
bate; each promises to be COM
promised.
SOCIAL SECURITY-The Social
Security Act will receive further
consideration in the Senate Fin
ance Committee on the House-ap-
proved revision. The Senate Com
mittee has accepted the House
amendments keeping old-age pay
roll taxes at their present level for
the next 3 years, instead of grad
ual increases up to 3 per cent by
1943. The bill was also amended
to require State Social Security
plans to conform to merit rating.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-20

DR.. M. A. TarunAanz, superin-
tendent of the Delaware State
Hospital at Farnhurst told mem
hers Of the Kiwanis Club in Will
mington last week that the hos
vital has increased its case load
during the last 81 years from $50
10 1910 patients partly because of
greater recognition today of men
tai illness as a health condition and
not a disgrace.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-20
Milton Man Accidentally Shot

While cleaning a revolver pre-
paratory to camping trip, David
Dutton, Jr., son of the late David
Dutton, for many years one of the
leading fur buyers of lower Della
ware, discharged the gun accident
ally and the bullet passed through
the palm of his left hand and i'm
bedded itself in the wall at his
home in Milton. He was given
treatment in the Milford Memor-
ial Hospital.
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More than 5000 persons lined
Dover streets Wednesday night of
last week for the annual firemen's
usrade. feature Of the Robbins
Hose Company carnival. More
than % companies and auxiliaries
from Delaware and the Eastern
Shore of Maryland competed for
prizes.
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Found Guilty in Sussex Fatality

Samuel w. Elliott, Jr., 25, Re
hoboth Beach, was found guilty of
involuntary manslaughter by a
jury in the court of Oyer and
Terminer at Georgetown recently
in the death of Mrs. Jessie Lingo,
SO, in an automobile accident on
October 10. Sentence was defer
fed after Elliott's attorney, Fred
erick P. Whitney, of Lewes, made
motion for an arrest of judg-
ment. The case will be heard
again by court which is meeting
this week.
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Held As Still Operator

Charged with operating an un-
registered still near Dagsboro,
Leonard H. Willburn, near that
town, was held in 81 900 bail Sat
urday by U. S. Commissioner AL
bert F. Polk. Willburn was ar
rested by Delaware Liquor Com
mission Inspectors Simon and Rig
gin while operating the 1O-gallon
still, the officers said. Marshal S.
B. I. Dunsan took him to Whining
ton.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-20
Rabbit Fears the Stoat

Most animals either fight or fee
from a natural enemy. But when a
rabbit meets a stoat, says writer
in Golfers Weekly. the rabbit
freezes" in its tracks, so utterly
paralyzed by its fear that it cannot
move and surrenders to its fate
without the slightest struggle.
Smyrna times., 1939-07-20

Residents of the Elk Neck, Md,
section are out with guns, hunting
a black-haired terrorist-a bear
thought to have escaped from a
road-house menagerie between
Elkton and North East, Md. The
sheriff's office in Elkton has re-
ceived several calls asking for help
against the animal, and the search
has been going on for several days.
Fort DUPONT will be practically
deserted during August, when the
entire First Engineers regiment
will be away and engaged in the
maneuvers of the First Army
around Plattsburg, N. Y. An
nouncement of some details as to
the regiments participation in the
maneuvers was made at the post
Wednesday night, but it is still un-
certain just how the troops will
move from Delaware City to
Plattsburg.
The two city ordinances passed a
year ago to curb marrying par
sons" and "supid taxicab" activit-
les in Elkton, Md, have been re
placed with more stringent mea-
sures effective August 1st. The
two ordinances repealed and sub
stituted by the town council with
stronger laws, concern soliciting of
marrying couples on the street and
the zoning of the town for mar
rying parson" and marriage infor-
nation signs.
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RRJEF ITEMS OF
THE PENINSULA
p,ief News Items Of People
we Know in and Around
Larger Peninsula Towns
FROM OUR EXCHANGES

turning his car over on a road
.icb was being repaired, Francis
''---riroton thresherman anG
,,rrer Of Midway, Sussex county,
.scsived two leg fractures and
other injuries.
AZ per cent decrease in the
.nr,ber Of accidents among o2 Del
.ware industrial plants during
Nav. as compared with April, was
.snorted last week by the Della
ware Safety Council.
4 transient worker known only
:. aMolton" was arrested recently
! Milford, charged with assault
and battery on his wife. She IS IN
~ Milford Memorial Hospital suf-
fsring from a stomach injury.
Delaware, retaining its free in
tsr-state trade policy, is among
~ states showing a tendency
syainst trade barriers between the
commonwealths, a report Of the
nsnartment Of Agriculture disclos-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06
Commissioners Appropriate
Fund To Help Legion Unit
In Drive For Convention

delegates and their friends and
relatives assemble.
During the parade of the state
department, the Key West repre-
sentation will include the Thumba
dancers in numbers they will
present on the streets of Fort
Lauderdale, the Hospitality Band
in pirate costumes, Frank Sabini
of Club La Conga in the night
clubs with Slim Vermont, who
will do number of blackface
turns when he is not acting as
drum major for the band. Other
arrangements will be announced
later.
A special and emergency meet
ing of Arthur Sawyer Post has
been called by Commander Rear
don for Friday night at request
of Convention Chairman Mills.
1--WE want every member of
the post on hand to enter. into
some important discussions re-
garding our plans for bringing
the convention here in 1870,
Chairman Mills said today.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06
COMMISSIONERS
HEAR MATTERS
ON LEGISLATION
RESOLUTIONS READ OPPOS-
ING PASSAGE: ISSUES ARE
COURT ADJUSTMENT AND
SALARY REDUCTIONS

Three sets of resolutions rela-
tive to bills to be introduced at
the 1899 session of the Florida
Legislature by Representative B.
c. Papy were read by Clerk Ross
c. Sawyer at the commissioners
meeting last night.
The first of the bills was that
which provided for the payments
of certain portion of the race
track funds to the schools. The
second was that bill which pro-
vided for the abolition of the
criminal court, and the third pro-
vided for the reduction of the
salaries of county commissioners.
All of the resolutions were
Numerically opposed to the
passage of the bills and the pro-
visions Incorporated and at the
conclusion of the readings there
was but one voice raised to offer
motion for the adoption of the
resolutions, and this was that of
Commissioner Warren. The rest
of the body remained silent, and
the resolutions were placed on
the table.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06
COMMERCE BODY
NAMES OFFICERS
this MORNING
EVERETT RUSSELL ELECTED
PRESIDE nj: OTHER MAT
TIERS TAKEN UP DURING
MEETING

At the organization meeting Of
the Chamber of Commerce this
morning 10 O'Clock, the following
officers were elected for the en-
suing year: President Everett
Russell. First Vice President Mel
vim Z. Russell. Second Vice Presi-
dent William 7. Fripp, Treasurer
Fred J. Dion. S. c. Singleton
was appointed executive secre-
tarY.
Leo Warren, Of the WPA, ap-
pcarcd before the meeting and.
in order TO provide sponsorship
funds to continue work on the
sewer, offered the following Sug-
gcStion: THAT the Chamber of
Commerce endorse the PROPOSE
ton TO be placed before the City
Council that sewer and water
connections be extended into
property lines, the cost of ma
terial to be borne by the prop
erty owners, said cost to APP
proximate $40 or less.
As this would continue en-
ployment for many people of
Key West and work no hardship
on any one, the proposition was
and recommended to
the CITY council.
Permission was granted L. S.
Gruber. proprietor Of the Over
seas Hotel, to have the use of the
office for the purpose
OF calling a meeting of all bust
ness and professional persons, to
whom the Overseas Highway
Celebration Committee might be
indebted.
Other business was deferred
pending a meeting of the newly
Board of Directors.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06
COMPLETING C&C
WORK in COUNTY
LIEUT.. c. L. ANDERSON Ar
RIVES FROM GAL
WESTON

Lieut.. c. L. Anderson of Gal
weston has arrived to take charge
of the completion of the records
of the field work of the Coast
and Geodetic Survey in Monroe
county.
With Lieut.. Anderson are Lieu
tenants Junior Grade Harry F.
CARRIER and j. c. Tribble. The
group will work over the records
until June l when they will be
transferred to Pensacola for in
land waterway work.
The work to be done by the
new group is strictly office work
and there will be no field group
employed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06
COUNTY FORCES
RECEIVE PAY

Checks are available today at
the office of Clerk Sawyer in
the county court house. for the
payment of employees for the
General Revenue Fund for Janu-
airy 1899. and those from the Fine
and Forfeiture Fund cor Deem
Der 1888.
Amounts available from the
several funds include $2,913.56,
General Revenue; $1,321-66, Fine
and Forfeiture; 5000. SO, Special
Advertising Fund; $586.21, Road
Fund; S29420, Excess Fee Fund,
and $500.
Included in the general distri-
button are the miscellaneous bills
and payment of bills in connec-
ton with the construction of
the annex to the court house.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06
THREE DEFENDANTS.
ARE GIVEN HEARING
CHARGED WITH VIOLATING
STONE CRAB LAW:
FINES IMPOSED

Sidney Tullis, William Carey
and Chapman Hodgkins, who
were arrested Tuesday by Deputy
Sheriff Rex Mcleod, charged
with taking stone crabs during
the prohibited period of March 81
to July Fl, were tried in criminal
court at a brief session held by
Judge William v. Albury yester-
day afternoon.
After hearing the charges read
the three young men entered
pleas of guilty to the indictments
and were sentenced each to pay
a fine of $50, with costs ordered
suspended.
This was done and the offend
ers departed on the early bus this
morning to join their vessel which
is at Perrine, Fla. s
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06
Fisheries Bureau May
Send Official Here To
Inspect Sponge Blight
information Contained In
Letter Received Relative
To Subject By Chamber
OF Commerce

DR.. Paul S. Galtsoff. of the Blu
reau Of Fisheries. is expected 10
pay a visit 10 Key West 10 in
vestigate in Inc matter of The
sponge blight. which threatens
destruction of the sponge in
these waters.
In a letter to the Chamber of
Commerce. British Vice Consul l..
A. Oates. explains the situation
regarding the fungus growth
which has been found on sponges
during his recent visit to the Ba-
hama Islands. The letter follows:
with further reference to our
correspondence regarding the
sponge blight, | have Just had a
visit from DIR. Paul S. Galtsoff, of
the Bureau of Fisheries, Washing
ton. who has just returned from
the Bahamas where he has been
studying ihiS trouble on behalf of
the Bah ma government.
DR. Galtsoff has found a small
fungus OF sponeeS in that terri
tory. This is only found on IN
healthy sponges and those re-
Gently dead. but is not found on
those which have been dead for
comc time, not on those which
are perfectly healthy.
He informed me that the
blight Is very serious and extern
sive and Will require four to five
years before it viii bc possible
to carry on the sponge fishery
again. He stated that the blight
may be easily carried from one
ground 10 another by vessels
which have already transported
the diseased sponge. DR.. Calls
off expects the Bureau will ask
him 10 60 to- Key West at some
time to make an investigation at
your port.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06
PATROL GROUPS
Are INSTALLED
ACTIVITIES CARRIED ON AT
ST. JoSEPHS
SCHOOL

Two more School Safety Patrol
groups were installed this morn
ing at St. Joseph's School and at
the colored Douglass School by c.
w. Bigelow, manager of the
South Florida Division of the
AAA, which is sponsoring the
patrol throughout the state.
The patrol sponsorship is also
secured through the Rotary Club
Youth Service Committee of
which Lieut.. E. r. Mccarthy is
chairman. Present at the cere.
monies of installation were Mayor
Willard Nj. Albury, MIR. Bigelow,
X. j. Fenley, assistant to Mr..
Bigelow; Officer Myrtland Gates,
in charge of school safety patrols
in Key West, and assistant officer
Basil TyneS; Ernest Ramsey,
president of Key West Rotary
Club; Lieut.. Mccarthy, and FL
WOO0 O0l OOilGI-
Each group was installed with
the taking of oaths of office by
the officers of the school boy pa
troll. Officer Gates then pinned
the badges of authority on the
boys, and Mr.. Bigelow concluded
with a general talk of instruc-
ton on the duties of schoolboy
patrolmen-
LySle McCown is captain of
st. Joseph's School Patrol, Rob-
ert Lunderville is lieutenant and
Myrtland Gates is lieutenant. Pa
trolmen are Dario Sanchez, Fred
Valdez, John Costar, Ralph So
lano. Daniel Sawyer, Hector Cas-
tillo. Albert Para, Joseph Crusoe,
Julio Torres.
Peter Valdez is captain of the
Douglass School Patrol, Charles
Allen is lieutenant, and Griffith
Thurston is also lieutenant. Pa
trolmen are Manuel Cruz, Leo
nard Tynes. Nathaniel Ingraham.
Edward Roberts, Richard
Knowes, Victor Cruz, Theophis
Knox. Carl PA and Edwin
Knowles.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06
DEER ARE LIGHTER

KEERVILLE, Texas - Wild
deer are becoming smaller in
Texas, says Earl Sanders of this
city, state regional game man
ager. Sanders weighed 1000
deer killed in recent seasons and
said that they averaged 70
pounds. dressed This. he says
is much lighter than deer killed
a few. years ago.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-04-06

Voting an appropriation of 500
to Arthur Sawyer Post No. % of
the American Legion, the Mon
roe board of county commission
ers last night directed the prep
aration of an invitation to the
1889 convention of the Legion at
Fort Lauderdale next week to
come to Key West In 1910.
Favorable action on the Lee
gion'S request for assistance in
bringing the Legion convention
here next year followed a parade
of the LegionnaireS from their
clubhouse at the foot of White
headhead street to county court
house. The parade was lead by a
detail of police under Chief Ivan
Elwood, Troops 5 and 50 of the
Boy Scouts and the Girl Scout
organization, with the Hospitality
Band clad in pirate uniforms sup
plying the march music.
Tonight the Legionnaires will
make a similar appearance be-
fore the members of the City
Council when they gather at
City Hall 1t is expected the
Icouncilmen will follow the lead
of the Chamber of Commerce and
the County Commission in back
ing up the pre-convention eff
forts of Arthur Sawyer Post.
Spokesman for the post before
the official bodies are Com
mander William H. Reardon,
Commander-Elect w. J. Schoneck
and AL Mills, chairman of the
ILegion's Convention committee.
Plans for promoting the Key
Westward movement of the state
department of the American Le-
gion before the delegates and
visitors at Fort Lauderdale are
progressing, Chairman Mills re-
ported today.
He announced that Mrs. Julio
y. DePoo had consented TO re-
Fcruit six of the city's finest
rhumba dancers, supply them
with costumes, transport them to
Fort Lauderdale and act as
chaperon for the young ladies at
a series of public appearances be-
fore the American Legion con-
Ivention, in the Fort Lauderdale
might clubs and hotels where the