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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
ANOTHER TRY
FOR PRISONER
SHERIFF GOING TO MIAMI
TOMORROW TO GET ED
WARD J. CAHILL

Sheriff Berlin Sawyer, unable
yesterday to arrange for the
transfer of Edward J. Cahill from
Miami to Monroe county authori-
ties, will return to Miami for an
other try.
Cahill, wanted here on a charge
of passing two bad $50 checks to
Robert Taylor, manager of the
Boat Bar, also is wanted on a
similar charge by Tennessee of
ficials. He was arrested in Mi
ami earlier this week, but when
Sawyer went to get him yester-
day, he was told he would have
to wait.
Sheriff Sawyer, who was &C
companied yesterday by Harold
Russell, Jr., special deputy, will
attend the hearing before Dade
county Criminal Judge Ross c.
Williams. Lawyers here believe
the Monroe county charge will
have precedence over the extra
ditiOn proceedings, since CahilI
was arrested in Florida.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
PROPOSED BILL
WOULD CHANGE
VOTING STATUS
COMMISSIONERS WOULD BE
NOMINATED BY RESIDENTS
OF EACH DISTRICT UNDER
NEW PLAN

Residents of each district in
Monroe county would have the
authority to nominate their own
commissioner under a local bill
which Commissioner Eddie Gomez
will ask Representative B. c.
Papy to introduce in the legis-
lature.
Gomez bill, advertised yester-
day in The Citizen, would make
no change in the general election,
but would take primary nomi-
nations out of the hands of the
entire electorate. Thus the can
didate from any given district
would be the choice of residents
of that district, rather than the
choice of voters of the entire
county.
Previous to 1880, commission
ers were nominated by the sep
arate districts in the manner
which Gomez advocates.
Another bill which Gomez will
present for Papy's approval is a
measure to redistrict and provide
new boundaries for the five Mon
roe county voting districts.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
MRS. FRED VARCO
OUT OF HOSPITAL
TAKEN THERE FOLLOWING
INJURIES IN ACCIDENT ON
BOCA CHICA BRIDGE

Mrs. Fred Vargo, 27-year-old
visitor from Elkhart, Ind, who
was injured by an automobile in
freak accident on Boca Chica
bridge yesterday, was released
from Marine hospital today after
treatment.
Mrs. Vargo, who was fishing
from the wooden span, was
painfully injured when the door
handle of a passing car struck
and broke off in her hip. The
car was driven by Henry w. Ry-
erson, West Milford, N j.
Hospital attendants removed
the steel handle from Mrs. Var
COS hip and treated her for
bruises about the legs.
The accident followed by only
a few days the warning of road
patrolmen and Sheriff Berlin
Sawyer against fishing from the
bridges. Several persons have
been injured on the bridges and
a motorcycle patrolman recently
was hooked by an angler casting
from the Boca Chica span.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
HOUSE APPROVES
new AMENDMENTS
EMBODIED IN MILITARY APP.
PREPARATIONS BILL FOR
ARMY EQUIPMENT
Cry Associated PressD

WASHINGTON, March I'll
The House today approved fifth
supplemental amendment to the
military appropriations bill,
granting $4,O00,000,000 for i'm
mediate expenditure for army
equipment.
Debate on the measure will be-
gin at once in the senate.
Army leaders, cheered by quick
passage of the measure through
the House, said today they will
be getting an annual output of
$1,000 planes by October Pro-
duction figures for the army will
rise quickly from now on. they
explained, reaching a high total
in April and May of this year.
BY the end of the year, it is es-
timated, the army will be training
10000 pilots annually.
Navy production and training
are under separate orders.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
DIR. THOMPSON
HEARD BY MANY
GAVE TWO ADDRESSES TO-
DAY AT LOCAL SCHOOL
HOUSES

More than 1000 white and
negro high school students and
Key West residents this morning
heard two addresses by DR.. r. d.
Thompson, director and superin-
tendent Of the Florida Tubercu-
losls Sanitorium.
DR.. Thompson, speaking at
the Key West high school and
the Douglass school, congratulate
cd county officials here on their
educational program against tu-
bcrculoSis. Florida, he said, has
a higher death rate from the dis
ease than the average of the ma
ton, and education is the only
means of lowering the rate.
He. pointed to the educational
Continued on Page Four
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
Stone May Get Hearing On
Plan For Revision Of Law

(2j Receive and consider pro-
posed changes in the Law recon-
mended by the American Law
Institute. the commissioners for
the promotion Of uniformity of
legislation IN the United States.
any bar association or other
learned bodies
90 Receive and consider sug-
gestions from Judges. justices.
public officials. lawyers and the
public generally as 10 defects and
anachroniSms III the Law
~ Recommend from time 10
time. such changes ia the Law rs Il
deems necessary to modify or
eliminate aniIquated and ia
equitable rules 81 Law. and TO
bring the laws ~ tho state civil
and criminal. into harmony w1th
uodern conditions
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
MEASURE WOULD
PROVIDE MONEY
NO FEDERAL FUNDS AVAIL
ABLE FOR RECREA-
TON WORK

Marvin A. Lewis. Jacksonville
coordinator between the national
defense program and recreation
al activities who is preparing a
program for Key West, explain
ed today that no federal money
has been made available for the
work
Lewis said there is a bill be
fore Congress which, if approx
ed. will provide money for rec
reation facilities, plus Libraries
and hospitals, in communities
connected directly with the de
Tense program.
The money, ne explained, will
be available only To communi-
ties where every local facility al
ready is in use as part of the rec
rcation Sctup.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
ROOSEVELT ON
FLORIDA CRUISE
BOARDS YACHT POTOMAC AT
PORT EVERGLADES: START
ED TRIP TO-DAY
<Ry Associated Pressp

PORT EVERGLADES, March
21.-President Roosevelt today
began his cruise IN southern wa
ters aboard the yacht Potomac
Held in port yesterday by bad
weather, the presidential party
today is expected to cruise south
in the direction of the Florida
Keys.
President Roosevelt arrived in
Port Everglades yesterday after
noon and Immediately boarded
the yacht Some 5000 persons
lined an adjacent pier and roared
a greeting as he appeared.
Although ready to return to
Washington at any moment if it is
necessary, the chief executive
plans to spend about 10 days fish
ing and resting in the gulf waters,
returning either to Port Ever
gladeS or Miami for the train trip
back to Washington.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21

A plan for the revision Of Am
erican private law. outlined last
year IN the Harvard Law Review
10y Julius F Stone. Jr. Monroe
county attorney. may win ITS
author hearing on the subject
before the senate judiciary com
mIttcc
Senator Claude Pepper and
Jerome Prank. noted economist
aud author. are Interested in the
plan. Stone SAID today, and are
attempting 10 arrange for hear
lngs before the Judiciary commit
tee Washington Merry Go
Round. syndlcatcd column of
Robert S Alien and Drew Pear
son, said recently that stones
theory had drawn So much favor
able attention that the committee
would invite burn n appear and
cxpou7d his proposed reforms
Stone pointed ~ f3is article -
the success % ihc Mex York state
las revision commission and
urged establishment u similar
anils IN every state
The coun.Iss ions. following the
lead ~ = a@ York would
flt Examine the comm1n law
ard ststItrs - the state an1 cur
fcr1 5grisc.a, aecle4ona for the pur-
poee e discovering defects and
anachr9~ .suas .e tHe Lava ard
recommending nesried REFORMS
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
Carpenters Will Take Up
Closed Shoplssue Tomorrow

would negotiate, has an inter
national closed shop agreement
with the union.
Higgs said McAllster definitely
will take part in the negotiations,
but it IS uncertain whether Ro-
land Adams. carpenters union
representative, will be here
The carpenters voted in favor
of a closed shop last week, and
under terms of the Wagner Labor
act it is considered mandatory
that the Thurston company ap-
prove the contract. A conference
tomorrow morning will decide
the question.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
SERB CABINET
| MEMBERS QUIT
THREE RESIGN IN PROTEST
AGAINST GERMANS PASS
ING THROUGH COUNTRY

ISTANBUL, March 2l.-Three
Serb cabinet members in Yugo-
slavia resigned their posts today
in protest against a proposal to
permit German troops passage
through the country in a cam
paign against Greece.
Observers here said the cabinet
split seemed to have been along
racial lines, since five Serbs and
Slovene cabinet members voiced
hot protest against the move,
while Croats in the cabinet SEEM
ed to favor the plan.
Adolf Hitler, meanwhile, had a
long talk at Berlin with members
of the Hungarian cabinet. and it
is believed here outlined to them
his plans for a war against
Greece. The nature of the talks
was not disclosed.
In Turkey, two German army
officers alleged to have posed as
Turkish officers, were arrested
and government police launched
widespread probe for possible
fifth column" activities. The
two men were said to have made
frequent trips to Turkish de-
Tense points in their role as Turk
officers.
Reports reaching here indicated
Italian morale is so low that plans
for another offensive in Greece
had been temporarily abandoned.
Cairo said the attacks had ceased
all along the line.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21

Key West carpenters today are
awaiting the arrival of w. A. Nc
Alister, representative of the U.
S. Cancellation Service under the
department of labor, who will
take part in tomorroW's closed
shop negotiations with w
p. Thurston Construction COM
pany
Clarence Higgs, business agent
of the local union, explained to-
day that efforts to promote a
closed shop contract involve only
the Thurston company. Paul H.
Smith Construction company,
with whom it was enormously
stated yesterday the carpenters
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
Committee Report Heard
On Bus Company's Sta
tus In Operation Of
Sightseeing Tours

The City Council at its regular
meeting last night. heard a tele-
gram read from Mayor Fred D.
Rowe of Brocton. Mass. which
was addressed to the Key West
Fire and Police Departments.
making an appeal for assistance
for widows and children of fire.
men who lost their lives in a
conflagraiion in that city recent
lY.
The telegram was presented
along with petitions from the
members of the Fire and Police
departments, in which they
agreed to donate five dollars
each to this cause. They request
ed the council to approve the re-
CURED amount from past due sal
aries. The matter was referred
to the Finance Committee for
consideration.
A letter was read from DR..
William w. Demeritt, who has
been called to military service,
requesting that he be given a re-
fund on the occupational license
which he took out for the full
year II was decided to make a
refund of SIS on the amount paid.
The two committees handling
the parking meter question made
their reports TO the council that
the members were evenly divid-
ed on the issue. Inasmuch as the
committee were empowered to
act on the matter, no further con-
sidcration will be necessary by
the council as a whole, which
Continued on Page Four)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
RESIGNS FROM
DRAFT BOARD

Frank Fleitas. chairman of
Monroe county Selective draft
board, announced yesterday he
has rendered his resignation.
Fleitas said his resignation was
made necessary by board rul-
ing which forbids two members
of family from serving in the
same organization. Miss Eliza
Barrota, chief clerk Of the board,
is related TO Fleitas
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
City Council Drops Matter
Concerning Parking Meters
~ ~ ~ 49, ~ 49, aw- 49, 90
RESULTS FROM
AID IN THE CITIZEN

A page one advertisement
in The Citizen yesterday
brought quick action for
Frank Wright. New York
visitor who is in Key West
aboard his yacht Dolphin.
Wright informed The Citi-
zen he had lost billfold con-
tanning his passport and cash.
He offered a $40 reward for
its return.
Less than an hour later.
Mrs. J. Milton Bake. Pitts
burg. Pa. arrived at The Citi-
zen office with the billfold
and was sent to Craig dock.
where Wright's yacht is
moored.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
LEGION GROUP
HOLDS MEETING
AUXILIARY VOTES TO SEND
FUND TO CHILDREN'S HOS
PITAL IN MIAMI

American Legion Auxiliary
members. meeting last night at
the 1925 Newton street home of
Mrs. George Archer, voted to
send $50 to the children's hos
pltal at Miami The hospital
cares for children in the Fifth
district, which includes Monroe
county.
Members Of the group com
pleted plans for their particlpa
ton in the American Legion con
vcntion April 1926.
A morning newspaper story to-
continued Or Page Four)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21

Eight Key West property own
ers IN the past three days have
been issued building permits to-
falling almost $4,000 Building In
spcctor Ralph Russell revealed
today,
Mrs Maurice Saul 6l8 Grinnell
street was issued $500 permit
for general repairs, the largest OF
the eight. Total during the three
DAYS was $4,000,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
BREAKS EVEN

ERIE, Pa.-To pay for a post
age due letter, f. NJ. Gerhart of
this city dug into his pocket for
two cents. The envelope con
tanned a two-ccnt dividend on
his savings account.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
MRS. H. WILLIAMS
BUYS MALONE HOME

Mrs. Hugh Williams operator
of the Williams House and the
Island City Inn. has purchased
the home of William II. Malone
at Division and Windsor Lane.
Mrs. Williams, who paid about
$4,000 for the home, said she had
purchased it as an investment
Malone, a former Key West
mayor, is now living in Miami
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
Eight Key West Property
Owners Get Building Permits

Other permits issued were 10 7.
r Reid, 7l6 Thomas street. $lG0.
new roof. T r, Putchard, 900
White street. $500. garage: James
y Roberts, SOC Amelia street.
$3.50. general repairs: Frank
SoSln. To- Duval, $500. addition:
Jose BOA 1906 Packer. 500. new
roof. Victor Watkins. $50 Mar
garet street. 500. porch. and
Angel Torres. T37 Whitehead. $50,
general repairs
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
NAZI SHIPS Slip
PAST BLOCKADE
fBy Associated Pressb

LONDON. March 2l.-Two 20
0O0-ton German battle cruisers
have slipped through the British
blockade and are harassing ship
ping in the western Atlantic, the
admiralty said today.
The two ships, faster than
anything in their class and hcav-
lily armed, are believed to be the
raiders referred to by Prime
Minister Winston Churchill when
he said surface ships were operat-
ing near the United States
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
PRAISED FOR
SAFE DRIVING

Alpheus Higgs, Key West truck
driver for American Express
agency. yesterday was presented
with card concentrating six
years Of safe driving by Mayor
Willard NJ. Alhury.
Mayor Albury congratulated
HigGS on his record of no acct
dents during the SIX years of
steady driving
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
Na1 Unit Made Heavy Attack
Last NIGHT On British Port
Plymouth Hit Hard In
Ferocious Raid; Ten
Thousand Bombs Show
cred On City
tBy Associated Press)

tbS AssOctnten fresst
German bombers last night
continued their town a night"
bombardment of Great Britain
with violent attack on the great
port of Plymouth.
The first of an estimated TO-.
600 inendiarY and high explosive
bombs crashed in Plymouth last
night only a few hours after
King George vi and Queen Eliza
beth had completed an inspec
iion and departed for London.
Hundreds of bombers roared
over the city for hours, pouring
down a hail of bombs believed
to have dropped at the rate
more than IL a minute. Berli
said today that several ships in
the harbor had been sunk and
the entire city turned into an
inferno of flames.
Viscountess Aston. American
born member of Parliament, was
showcred with debris when
high explosive bomb dropped
beside her home. blowing out
every window in the building
Continued on Page Four
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21
COMING EVENTS
FRIDAY

B,rEo Party. hcncfi, Girls School
Safety Patrol az DIVISION Street
School Lunch Room. 5 p. m.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-03-21

Key West, Florida. has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only IA Fahrenheit
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

IN a remote way. scientific re-
search lends a slight justification
70 the designation OF. the early
American as Indian" by Column
bus: for. although he was not a
native of India, the American ma
tive was OF Asian ancestry. How
ever. it was not Indo-Asia, but
Mongolasia.
Through intense. laborious re-
search. DR.. Hrdlicka has DEM
onstrated the sequence in which
the new world was peopled before
the advent OF the Europeans.
In Asia. focus the attention at
Siberia--and then at Alaska.
Such Is the bridge OF human pro-
cesSion that DR.. Hdriicka has
found. Says he:
Prom the physical point OF
view, which alone can be reliable
I'm the classification OF human
groups, America may now be. def
niteIy connected with Siberia, and
Alaska with the rest of America.
In other words. the 10 10 20 mil
hon pre-European Americans OF
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

err may have come for several
thousand years.
"How did they spread from
Alaska? The older view was that
the migration continued in Ameri-
ca along the riveH and by land
routes. This is not correct.
THE early Asian Travelled along
the seacoast. first to the Gulf OF
Alaska, than farther and farther
southwark. Why did they GO
southwark? In search of the
sun; from Icy winds they wan
dered TO SUMMER relams. Always
man does that.
THE coast people multiplied
fast, spread TO the Rocky Noun
tains and then farther east. Only
after the coast got settled south
ward, the Asian descendants began
TO turn nOrthward and settle down
in the near Arctic and Arctic
regions.
I'm pOst-glacial period. after the
Ice age. the people who lived along
the coast in Asia, In Siberia, null
tiplied fast. for here was plent,
OF fish and fowl 10 be had. The,
had boats. From the Siberian Dor.
der they could almost see the vas
empty, ice-bound regions Of Alas
ka. So across the very cold SCI
they came to develop a new land.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

stages Of human evolution vastly
different. In fact, in the New
Stone Age-so called because the
early man had learned to use tools
and weapons of polished stones
weaving, carving, wheel making
and so on-was a great revolu-
tionary period. the cradle-ttme Of
modernism.
With his polished knife Of flint
and his stone axe, and many other
arts OF the Neolithic, New Stone
Era, the Siberian stepped across
the shallow waters, and from Asia
entered Alaska, to begin his colo
nization Of all the American lands
from the North to the South Pole
zones.
Said DR.. Hrdlicka:
"a single normal family, mar
and wife, reaching America would
FIN all America with its descend
ants in less than $500 years.
J, Before Columbus discovery oi
America, the New World wal
,Ipeopled by ten TO twenty million
peoples.
This does not mean that tn,
early migrations from Siberia II
Alaska were of vast numbers o.
people.
"Asians came TO America, across
Boring Sea, I'm relatively small
parties. These dribblings altogeth
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

Northern, Central and Southern
Americas are descended from
people who all spread out from
Alaskan centers. after migrating
from Siberia.
The American Indians, whether
Iof United States and Canada or
of Latin American countries. and
the EskimoS are all of Asian, ST.
berian and adjacent regions from
the viewpoint of remote ancestry,
In the New World descendants
OF these early corners from Siberia
multiplied and developed varied
cultures. Some strains were
evolved that seem like new races
of modern man. In other words,
human evolution took place in
physical and cultural sense in the
vast. ample laboratories Of the
entire New Hemisphere.
Underlying all the subsequent
changes. however. scientific re-
search has found the fundamental
unity Of the early American types.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06
.Mdldyans Resemble
American Indians

more than 1000 normal adult
skulls have been studied and COM
pared. Definitely close affinity
between the Siberian and Ameri-I
can skulls has been established. In
some instances the relation
between the two Is so close as TO
amount 10 identity.
"Some of the old Alaskan
skulls resemble certain mainland
American groups. The Eskimos
can be identified with the Chukchi
Russian; the Aleuts with the
broad headed fungus; the newly
discovered pre-Aleuts resemble
the Siouan Indian type Of crania.
THE pre-Koniags of the Kodiak
Island resemble the Algonquin
types; the Koniags, the people Of
the KOdial Island. resemble the
Southern Indian AlaskanS in skull
shapes. Thus, from the physical
point Of view. America may now
be definitely connected with
Siberia, and Alaska with the rest
of America"
DR.. Hrdlicka found that some OF
the Formosa types, under Jap
anese rule. have heads like those
of the mountaineers of northern
Mexico: the Pagi Pagis OF the
Malayans resemble certain Amer
lean Indians.
1t Is not possible to say much
concerning the level of culture Of
the earliest Asian immigrants TO
Alaska. But the culture Of the
Alaskans Of some 1000 years ago
can be reconstructed because OF
the discoveries Of certain caves In
Alaska.
Here were found remains Of
marvellous art and craft; Of culture
as high as OF ancient Peru. In
the caves Of the Aleutian Islands.
beautiful rugs. baskets. tapestries
show a high mental and cultural
development. In Mexico and Peru
the development was very great,
for the material surroundings were
richer.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-07-06

Those early people were not
what we now call Mongolians: they
were the still earlier people from
which the Mongolians themselves
have developed. From the pigment
of the skin, one may simply de-
scribe them as the yellow-bEown
people.
"Our research started In 1926
with Alaska. From here compre-
lAeaslEe skeleton remains were OBJ
tanned and brought to the National
Museum, Washington. In 1889.
with the courtesy OF the Russian
authorities. / was able to study the
crania, the skulls, Of 600 Siberians.
representing various populations
and going back TO Neolithic, New
Stone, times.
among the Russian specimens,
the NeOlithic skulls from the An
cara and upper Lena region
showed remarkable similarities
with the oblong type of skull Of
the American Indian.
"More recent investigation
shows that the Siberian Alaskan
and American specimens are SINH
lar In unmistakable manner.