The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 7, 1932, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIlI. No. 264. Monroe Democrats Look For: Great Victory At | Polls Here Tomorrow Much Interest Shown tal Various Offices To Be Voted Upon In General| Election Monroe county voters will go to the polls tomorrow to cast their ballots for the vari- ous county, state and na- tional officers aspiring to election, and from all indica- tions there will be a large number taking advantage of the privilege afforded to se- lect those who will serve for the coming four years. The first seven names on the ballot are the democratic electors: Willard W. Ayres George M. Doran William Fairbanks Herbert Wm. Fishler W. B. Lanier G. T. McClellan Hugh C. Sparkman They are followed by the name of Duncan U, Fletcher for United States senator who is unopposed. The next comes W. J. Sears, demo- cratic nominee for congressman- at-large who is opposed by Glenn B. Skipper, republican. The others are in the following order: Mark Wilcox, democratic nominee for congress from the fourth district, who is unopposed, and Dave Sholtz, democratic can- didate for governor, opposed by «W. J. Howeyy republican.~ R. A, Gray’ for secretary of state, unopposed; Cary D. Landis, for attorney general, unopposed, and J. M. Lee, democratic nomi-| nee for comptrolla@, opposed by} A. F. Knotts, republican. W. S. Cawthon,. democrat, for superin- dent of public instmuction, is un- | Nathan) Mayo, demécrat, for commissioner of agriculture, un- opposed; Rivers Buford, Fred H.) Davis, William H. Ellis, for justice} of the supreme court. Three to be! elected. W. D. Douglas, democrat, | for railroad commissioner, un- opposed. On the local ticket will be found William V. Albury, aspirant for representative to the legis-/ lature, is unopposed. Hugh Gunn, county judge, unopposed. Karl 0. | Thompson, sheriff, with no regular, opposition, althoug it is stated that! friénds of Cleveland Niles intend writing his name on the ballot. | Ross C. Sawyer, clerk circuit’ court; ©, Sam B. Curry, clerk criminal court; J. Otto Kirch- The Key West Ci KEY WEST, FLORIDA, Army Of 50,000 To Aid Give Readers Prompt George Washington learned he had been elected president of the United States two months after \the ballots were-cast. The 1932 candidates will know the news in PORTER RETAINS EVERY HOPE FOR | GETTING BRIDGES: LEGAL TECHNICALITIES | MAIN MATTERS HOLDING UP DECISION BY FINANCE CORPORATION Wm. R. Porter, vice chairman of the Overseas Bridge Corporation, and a member of tne committee that went to Washington October | 10th, for the purpose of making formal application to the Recon- struction Finance Corporation for a loan of $10,700,000, for the construction of three long bridges to complete the Overseas High between Miami and Key West, ri turned to this city yesterday to vote and attend to personal mat- | ters. When interviewed by a repre-; sentative of The Citizen this morning, Mr. Porter stated: “I am just as sanguine now a matter of hours after the polls} close-—because THE ASSOCIAT-! 1ED PRESS, of which The Citizen jis a member, will compile the re-| {sults with an army of workers. { Not less than 50,000 persons will | participate in informing the voters promptly on what was decided No-! vembe Most of these will start | | their work after nightfall and con-! tinue until the job is finished. Precinct reporters throughout, ithe country will speed the results! jto county or district centers. Pr ressive totals next will be for- | warded by telephone or telegraph; to zone headquarters, from there} \to a central zone state bureau. The results from each state,! jearefully checked and _verifie + | jnext are simultaneously tele- graphed over leased wires to mem-} i ber newspapers and to THE AS-} SOCIATED PRESS bureau at ashington, the national tabulat-) ing center. ) At frequent intervals, , the electoral and popular vote to- tals will be provided, to show the, trend of the steadily mounting tabulations and the final results. | The election organization in leach state also will tabulate the, votes for senators, representatives | {and state officers. The results of ; | congressional elections, because of | their impirtance in the makeup of! 1 OOOO CCCOCOO OO EOOOOOOOOESOOOODOOOOSOOOEOOOOOO OOOO OOOO OOOOO SOOO OOOSOOOOOOOR eencveecocececes Spe cesevccercadeocspesesoeesouces The complete story of the November 8 election reach The Citizen readers-promptly and accurately through the na- | fgir trial. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1982, The Citizen Vote Returns eeccees e Ben |Amesican Populace Eagerly Awaits Decision On Nation’s Presidency; Both Factions Express Confidence For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE GENTS NEGROES HELD IN ASSAULT CASE TO _ GET NEW HEARING SUPREME COURT RENDERS DECISION IN PROCEEDINGS; SEVEN HELD FOR ALLEGED ATTACKS ON. WHITE GIRLS! ' | { | | i | t (ty Asnvciated. Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.—The| | supreme court today. set aside j | jnegroes at Scottsboro, death sentences imposed on seven iconvicted of assaulting two white | girls. | The ruling means the cases will! \g0 back to Alabama courts for a} ‘new trial, The highest court up-| ; held the contention of the negroes’ H will! counsel that they had not hed “| results Alabama, |" KARL THOMPSON SHOULD RECEIVE SUPPORT OF ALL FAIRNESS AND — JUSTICE] ke y Associated Press> SHOULD PROMPT EVERY} WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. VOTER TO PUT MARK BE-|——America’s voting millions FORE HIS NAME irelaxed from a bedlam of 5 political debate today to Aside from polities, fairness and await the writing of the final | justice should prompt every voter|chapter of a precedent-shat- in Key West to cast his or her bal- | tering campaign — tomor- {lot tomorrow for Karl Thom a for shetitt. P80" jrow’s choice at the ballot box Mr. Thompson took part in shel the nation’s next presi- primary and, after a fair and hot-/ dent. ily contested fight, won the Demo- . cratic nomination for sheriff. | Both sides expressed con- His opponent evidently realizes!fidence in the outcome as that to be a fact, because he has told voters in Key West that it ig| the Preelection spotlight his “friends” who have put for-;played on leading figures. ward his name for the office for Th which he was defeated for the| /hey are campaigning to the last. nomination. he : President Hoover was en [Final Darwuk: Looking 10 Victory Carried On In Activities Sections In Various ! Washington. of ultimate success of our negotiations with the R. F. C. I was in the beginning. We © made marked progress during our stay in Washing- ton and every feature of our application is in such shape as te enable the engineering board and the legal and finan- cial advisers of the R. F. C. to pass on it quickly when they finally come to our pro- ject. There are some legal techni. ies still to be iron- » ed out,;-however; and. there are also thousands of appli- cations pending before the R. F. C., all of which must take their turn, hence it may pos- sibly be several weeks yet be- fore our case is finally de- termined.” Mr. Porter will go to Miami within the next few days to con- fer with other members of the committee before returning to Mr. Cotton remain- ed in Washington to look after the bridge interests until other | members of the committee return, Women Workers Turn Out 476 Garments Last Week! The complete list of garments! made during the three days of last week by the women employed by the County Council of unemploy- ment relief shows that 476 were completed. There were 29 women at work and the results for the three days are considered excellent. One of the employes made 54 complete jthe new legislative department, | e tabulated nationally with the! me speed as the presidential re-| sults. } Unusual precautions are exer- |cised throughout the election 0 | ganization to safeguard against || errors creeping into THE ASSO-| CIATED PRESS reports. Figures and totals are subjected to careful) checks and tests by staff men ex-| ‘perienced in handling election re- [sais : STORM MOVING TOWARD YUCATAN | CHANNEL TODAY | } i \ | | POSITION CENTRAL ONE HUN-) DRED MILES SOUTHEAST OF SWAN ISLAND; CONTINUES | TO MOVE NORTHWESTWARD| (By Associated Press) MIAMI, Nov. 7.—The tropical! storm that lashed the coast of South America and tered two boats in the Caribbean! Sea, moved slowly northwestward | § toward the Yucatan Channel to-j day, Richard Gray, government} “It can-| bat-) meteorologist here, said. ‘SKIPPER T0 BE ) REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE 10 northern} Mi Photo shows a group of As- | New York | tionwide staff of The Associated Press. sociated Press election and markets tabulators in the | headquarters. Any possible discrepancy, suchjing of electoral college ballots in! as an unusual reversal of party ad-| February to learn who will occupy herence in a precinct or section,| the White House for the next four; is immediately investigated by | years. trained experts. Only when there Member papers of THE ASSO-| is no question of its accuracy is| CIATED PRESS will bring tens’ the néws released. American newspaper readers. the news as promptly as humanly will not wait | for the formal comnts possible to obtain Le isan pagent i ee \NILES’ FRIEN FRIENDS HEARD TONIGHT: URGE VOTERS TO | WRITE HIS MOVEMENT UNDERTAKEN, PLACES SHERIFF IN RACE WHICH IS TO BE DECIDED IN ELECTION TOMORROW i 1 ADDDRESS VOTERS AT BAYVIEW PARK Glenn B. Skipper, republican} candidate for the office of con-! gressman at large for Florida, op-| posing Joe W, Sears, will address the people of Key West tonight inj Bayview, Park. Associated with Mr. George Henry Bradford, , Who will also make an a S. Se aie a been cam-/his friends and voters write paigning for Mr. Skipper all over! the state and this isthe final tally Stadio mead mney sh Samat yl Please be sure and write X C./} of the campaign. Dr. Bradford will speak on both | Niles and by so doing you can aid; f | state and national issues and will in electing him to the office o: tell the people of Key West just’ sheriff, | when the present depression reach- | ed the bottom, where it took place { | | | | { | i j Skipper is| We, the friends of Sheriff of} Cleveland Niles request that on| ‘election day, Tuesday, Nov. 8, that! his | Dr. We believe that his achievements | le freight train. 'TO START WORK jmust have realized also that no- In making the decision, Justice; body likes a poor loser, and, in | Sutherland said the men, from the} j realizing it, he is trying to shift \time of their arraignment to be-) ‘the blame of his running to his “friends.” ginning of trial, had been subs We consider that it is a poor ex-} stantially denied counsel at a time; cuse to assume such an attitude. when such representation was of|No “friends” can do anything for | vital importance in properly pre-}a man that is against his prin- serving the rights of the de-|ciples. If the “friends” persist in fendants. doing it, then he can make a pub- He suggested that the cases hadj lic announcement that they ate been forced to trial without pro-| doing it against his will and his per preparation by counsel... advice. The alleged attack occurred on; In this case, however, he has The case at-jjoined in the canvass that is being; ‘tracted world wide attention and} made by the “friends,” and, when because of the intense feeling aroused by it, extra guards had been at the court on every epinion lday since late last term. jrunning | because his “friends” jurged hini to run. The opponent should be aware that, “friends” or no ‘“‘friends”, | participating in future Democratic primaries, because he has bolted the Democratic ticket. From a_ political viewpoint, Democrats who participated in the {recent primaries are ON BOULEVARD) bound to vote the Democratic tic- OPERATIONS ON PROPOSED) EXTENSION TO BEGIN ON If they don’t, then they can} base their action only on two so- WEDNESDAY called reasons: first, they are hard ; losers and don’t believe in ma- jority rule; secondly, they have no} Wednesday morning work is to/regard for a moral obligation. {begin on the extension of the bou-| We call on all voters, who be- levard from the unfinished west | lieve in fairness and justice, to put } jend to White street. B. Curry)a cross mark tomorrow before the Moreno will be in charge of the|name of Karl 0. Thompson for) |eonstruetion which is authorized | sheriff. |by the County Council for Unem-! | ployment Relief. As soon as approval is received | THE COMMITTEE. SOME ASSEMBLAGE asking for support, adds that he is} have| what he is doing will bar him from | morally | In making that statement route to his home state, Cali- fornia, to vote, and Franklin Roosevelt in New York state just prior to his final appeal \for the national support from Poughkeepsie. President Hoover arranged two final speeches, one, at Salt. Lake.-City at noon and the other tonight at Elko, Nevada. | On the same program to- ‘night will be’ former. Presi- dent Coolidge, speaking from his home at Northampton, Mass. wd Governor Roosevelt ch | for today an automobile tour 'and few brief talks in his 'native Hudson River valley. “TODAY'S EDITORIAL : eccesccoasoes In the leading editorial of today’s ¢ will be found the names of the democratic elec: tors, which are published for the benefit of those who may not be acq ited with the fact that when you vote for these seven you are casting ycur ballot for Franklin D. heiner, tax assessor; Frank” H. jsince he has been in office, ee-| beautification and mosquito eradi- Ladd, tax collector; Melvin E. Rus- | Roose ‘garments during the perios iod. not be said whether the storm will| and when the beginning of the re. BORGER, Tex.—An automo-} sell, superintendent of public in-! struction, are unopposed. Wm. R. Porter, Braxton B. War- ren, Carl Bervaldi, Norberg Thompson, Roy S. Fulford, for county commissioners, also are un- opposed. Clarence H. Pierce, Allan B. Cleare and Ralph K. John-} son, school board, have no epposi- tion. Ray Elwood, constable, first district, democratic nominee is op- posed by John F. Roker. E. B.| Parker, constable third district, and E. R. Lowe, justice of peace, third district, are unopposed. The polling places in Key Wi ‘est! will be as follows: First precjnct, 501 Whitehead} street; second, 601 Fleming; third,! $31 William; fourth, 822 Flemi | fifth, 719 Duval; sixth, 1100 Divi-! sion and seventh, corner United) and White. The key precincts are: Eighth, Woodburn: Grocery, Mara-! thon; ninth, James Carey Grocery, ! Matecumbe, and tenth, Garrett; Grocery, Rock Harbor. j STRAND THEATER The Home Town Theater Today “POSSESSED” See Page 4 for reader on this picture. Matinee 10-15¢ Night 15-25¢ MONROE THEATER “DARING DANGER” Matinee, 5-10c; Night, 10-20¢ a continue toward the Yucatan Chan-! covery from that depression star! t-| pecially during the recent months, | cation work will begin on the keys. | jwhich will pass near Swan Island ADVISORY ADVISORY 9 A, M.: disturbance central nearly 100 miles southeast of Swan Island moving slowly northwestward at-| east of Swan Island. It is attended] tended by shifting gales and wind of hurricane force near center | lash Cuba,” Gray said. The position of the storm today; was central nearly 100 miles south-| Tropical } by shifting gales and winds of hur-} rieane force near center and is e pected to pass near Island} {late this afternoon or tonight. late this afternoon Swan Caution advised v or tonight. els in path. | | | i | ' Election Returns land it is expected that within a | months | short time afterwards, the finance / cleared up. All arrangements have been made for furnish- ing returns of the election tomorrow night at The Citizen office where a special wire will be installed by the Western Union to: furnish reports from all sections of the country giving the results of the national race as rapidly as they are received and tabulated. State returns will also be included in the wire service, while results of principal local races will also be posted on the bulletin board that will be placed across the street from the office for the benefit of all interested. Everyone is invited to call at The Citizen office tomorrow night, and get first-hand reports on the various contests that will be conducted in tomorrow's general election. TRESS AV SR Sane TLRS OEE OIE Sey BOSE EN I REEL 5 nel or recurve to the northeast | ed. | he ! tion of the loan, and I am satisfied | bers that were arrested by him. | warrant for him another term in Mr. Skipper, on being asked it} | office. We believe that if Sheriff | would make any mention of! Niles had waged a the request for an appropriation | for the bridges in his speech, said} C@™Paign before the June primary he would not. that he would have won that race. | | more active} \'This project will be under the su-j bile assembled from the parts of pervision of Will Curry, formerly) 10 other discarded machines _ is: with the maintenance forces of the | | being driven by George Scheir- istate road department. ‘ten of this city. y address tonight will be} The manner in which he ha a political one, and the| conducted the office of sheriff! bridge proposition does not come the fact that it w: t |under the head of politics.” Asked siesta Shep | what was holding back a decision} Parent that he was to relinquish | the Reconstruction Finance}|the position, has won for him! | Corporation, he said that Dr. Ros-| many new friends, i enthal had dropped the monkey! Sheriff Niles represents no par- | | ttowever, serge Skipper, | jticular clique or class. He has! “you may say that the Rosenthal | Conducted his office fearlessly and } | proposition will be disposed of af-| without faver. It was largely | iter December 31, if not before,, through his efforts in recent! many robberies were He succeeded in ob-' .| taining confessions from ail mem-| i | despite of corporation will decide the qui that it will be fav the Overseas Bridge C ble to | We, the friends, have come to! feel that the services rendered by ff Niles entitle him to an- jother term. Friends who wish to vote for him are cautioned again to write X C. Niles in the blank be-| (low the office of sheriff, and by doing this we can elect him again to the office he has filled so faith- fully in the past. Thanks. Nosotros los amigos de Cleve-' land Niles, pedimos a todos sus} amigos que e! Dia de las Elec-} ;ciones, Nov. 8, pongan en la Boleta: | su nombre Para Sherife, beseiagrg | de X C. Niles. Haciendolo asi,} podremos elegirlo para el cargo que ha desempenado cumplidamen-! jte en el pasado.—Gracias. “HIS FRIENDS.” VOTE FOR FOR SHERIFF |Gerbers BEST FOR BABIES Gardner’s Pharmacy Phone 177 Free Delivery |i { YOU ARE URGENTLY REQUESTED TO VOTE FOR A MAN WHO DID NOT HAVE A SQUARE DEAL By not being permitted to have his name printed on the ballot as an independent candidate WRITE IN THE BLANK SPACE PROVIDED For Clerk of the Circuit Court X GEO. V. PERPALL Don’t forget to mark the X before name after (Paid Political Advertiznement} TO MY FRIENDS I am not a candidate for any of- fice, and I ask my friends not to {write my name on the ballot, but linstead to vote for the ~ regular Democratic nominee Braxton B, Warren, j Cc. C. SYMONETTE. | nov7-1tx SUED OWNER , ST. PAUL—Miss Margaret Jeogan of thia city thinks the cold she caught because an apartment ; house she lived in was too cold, is H worth $56,000 so she sued the | owner for that amount. FREE DANCE TONIGHT YOUR VOTE WILL BE APPRECIATED ROSS C. SAWYER CLERK CIRCUIT COURT Democratic Nominee