The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 20, 1934, Page 1

'W. M. GREEN CLARIFIES SIT- UATION PERTAINING TO PROJECTS. THAT HAVE BEEN HELD IN ABEYANCE W..M. Green, regiqnal director of FERA activities in this district, clarified the situation in Monroe county relative to a number of STRICT DISCUSSES — 1S-/ propositions that were in doubt un- OF PRESENT CAM. > his arrival with ©. Van Hyning Lg yesterday. One of these ‘that had been re~ | tarding progress: to some’ ‘extent was the issuance ‘of authority ‘to sing ‘use $300 weekly for trucks on the fendry 'rental-purchase’ plan. ‘This in ad- night at ‘diseuss- the campaign Re Sie’ 22 2 ay % Dee aes REPRESENTATIVE FROM 24TH jtime ago for emergency © pur- fecelec ‘rel k é i ~ The situation relative to wor! gral and the number pf men to be em- . ployed was settled when Work Di- .’reetor Arthur Sheppard asked ‘of the meet- the original allotment of 305 men laced Sam for this county was still effective. ‘talk in the! -Mr. Green replied that 305 men * Gomez's’. cam- Were named as a starter and ‘was followed by the authorized’ Mr, Sheppard to put as SOT ae ames fgg to >a Rel pet spoke ipaly way demanded. . Instruc- “pasa tions were issued this morning : along. the lines stated by the di- Other matters of import are be- whie ¥ -today by. Seth Per- passe kins; engineer, and Miss eee : 3. viotinee Van Sickler, regional supervisor of relief. They ai . rived the highway yesterday. ‘dition to $300: authorized “some-} if} eee PPCPOS CODDOSOOSLLEELEOLOROOSES ecocccce (GTON HEADLINERS 7 ‘. Frances: Perkins By BESS FURMAN (By Associated wrens) WASHINGTON, April 20.—A small, ‘dark-haired woman named Frances Perkins has succeeded in} maintaining. her cool New Eng: | land reserve even while she’ plays; one of the “new deal’s” most con~ spicuous roles, ...,, The fact that’she’s the first woman to hold a ‘cabinet job hasn't made it-easy for her to; keep the limelight from her priv-; ate life, but the ‘present secre- tary of labor remains as enigmat- i ie as’ Mona’-Lisa’s smile in: this} town of gossip and rumors. With a penchant for facts and figures, she has done @ determin. ed: jobin the labor ‘department, and’ ler philosophies flavor many | | home address and telephone num-; ber, however, are private. E On: Statistics Reporters ‘attending her weekly; press. conferences....may absorb: ome of the thrill she gets from telling ‘of increased. factory. em-) ployment and payrolls, but they, leave without learning anything! of Frances. Perkins herself, When she! moved into the labor | department a ‘little more than a year ago she found a “secret} Pserviee” and staff tracking down alleged “reds.” She’ abolished it; {discharged 55 special immigration investigators and turned the em- phasis to building up a statistical sérvice that Would give an accus, rate pitture of the depression. The ‘Perkins Place’ Turning to cupboards crammed | | with plans people’ ‘had poured in ;for curing the depression, she sort-! ed them, classified them, called! labor leaders in to talk about the! ideas and reported ‘results to the! rif.the ‘Roosevelt doctrines. Her) | tion: of quilts up there. Her Private Life From Limelight eeecosenscocoses Frances Perkins she was before{found it was on Suzanne’s invita- fame started bothering her. The}tion, Her mother gave her one neighbors bring her doughnuts and| night each week to choose some apple pie.. She started her collee-| artist, author,.or legal light as : guest, and invite her school chums Hez door was.one of the first injin. It was part of a definite plan Greenwich Village to carfy two|of education. names for a married pair—Fran- Studying Steel ces’ Perkins and» Paul Wilson.|| Frances Perkins can be set They. were then and: still are an} down as one who loves her fellow idealistic, social-minded couple, | wan, even if she does camouflage most equable weather in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit. PRICE FIVE CENTS League Of Nations Looks For Dramatic Showdown Relative GETS < . FROM TRAMMELL WM. R. PORTER RECEIVES FULL. COOPERATION FROM SENATOR ON MATTERS Wm. ‘R. Porter has received a telegram from Senator Trammell in reply, to a letter sent...several weeks ago, and is printed -here- | with, Mr. Porter wishes it known | | that while he was in ‘Washington, the senator's office at all ‘times gave him the fullest’ measure of! cooperation, ‘particularly in © the efforts made to have the marines located in Key West for a tena- porary period. DAY, LETTER Lakeland, Flo, April 16, 1934. Hen, Wm. R. Porter, Key West, Flo, Due to my absence. from , here the greater part of the time since coming to Florida your letter ad- {dressed to me at Washington’and jin due course forwarded here has just reached my attention, Stop. I have continuously worked for and ; done all I could for Key West but j unfortunately the: Navy Depart- ment has been againgt us, begin- ning when they had ‘the . station taken off of an active status by ie House more than two years | { | : |iianerid That France May Insist Us . Investiga- tion Of German Equip- ment As Initial Step € A je@ Press) GBNEVA, Apa 20,—-The League of Nations: circles forecast».1oday & dramatic showdown. on . disarmament on May 23: : That is the date when represeniatives of nations in the world disarmament con- ference will return to Geneva in full session to attempt to catch and pull together the flying strings of many sided problems of arms control, There are even uncon- firmed rumors that France may insist upon investigation of German armament be- fore consenting to negotiate any sort of disarmament treaty, * But ‘the differences ‘of France, Germany and Great Britain form but one section i To Employ Women of ago. Stop. As you recall, T tried | Her-husband; who-has been~ill-a) the feeling with enunciations ere wenn: ihe saw MRS oF great deal in recent years, is aN | laws of general justice. able statistician. One hot day last July she went Daughter Suzanne through a blazing Pittsburgh stgel u mong the _ important things! them functioning. et are to 24 ‘talked over by Mr.| What the well-dressed woman is is th mn of putting) wearing this season doesn’t ii the CWA} terest het miueh. Perhaps | A working on| same tricorn hat and black eve- = ning dress to the White House,} placed on an| eventually the reporters will stop “not stated © but ‘some will=be put to -work/| “by Mr. Green plane for-Mi- jing over the needs é made in Monroe county with B, C. Mo- the reno, supervising--engineer, and . lothers. in. the engineering office. of , Also those in the purchasing de- ‘of Monroe; He told The Citizen this morn- constitut- ing that the airport project is ‘awaiting the signature of Mr. Green, when a force of men will put to work clearing the ' grounds and leveling off. r For this work $10,000 has been and | made available. The entire pro- ‘this should be held by ject calls for an expenditure of : $140,000, Engineer “whereby rstood, “| Miss Van Sickler is devoting covered many much of her time to the study of during his address,'health and © sanitary conditions byiand improvements and is being assisted in securing this data by Miss Teen Williams, social service secretary. GIVEN PARDONS 2 NOTORIOUS | °°. Could take the matter up with! in Wonderland.” | ATLANTA, April | mor Talmadge today pardoned Le- land Harvey and Aubrey Smith, twe of Georgia’s mest. sotorions Teceived and can Row be had in — Numerous different ‘flavors of “ice creat, all kinds of sandwich- ‘es, home-made potato chips can be had at all times at the lunch years to serve, and Smith 145 syears. Both had participated in = Smith Moreno! . recounting it as news. i Her interests are planted deep | in New England. soil. To her be- tongs the old “Perkins place” up there. She keeps the _ address cafefully hidden so that when she goes there she can be the same| - WORK HERE TO BE: PROLONGED MATTER TAKEN UP wira! FERA OFFICIALS; PROGRAM| OF ACTIVITIES WILL GO on! | INDEFINITELY ‘There will’ be cessation in the activities of the Community Sani- tation plan which was started in Key West several weeks ago but which was scheduled to stop on April 28. H. 0. Partridge, who, with Thos. E. Roberts, city ‘itary inspector, started the work, was advised by letter to continue con- 5 til April 28, when all state and federal activities along those lines were to be discontin- ued. He was advised, however, that the local FERA officials, have them submit projects ‘to head- quarters with their approval and suggest that W. M. Green, regional director, grant the request to parsue the program. Upon the arrival of. Mr. Green yesterday Mr. Partridge and Mr. Roberts outlined the situation and also the progress made and with- | | Harvey at one time had 110)0ut hesitancy the regional diree! city was sick was in the autumn tor approved the project and to- day the work is continuing and ‘will be carried on as long asi there are home owners signing up e ‘she vee} > They “have'w daughter; Suzdnne,| mill, seekifig facts to be used i there! sons that if she keeps wearing the | who never has been seen at an af-| drawing a code, letting workmen fair where cabinet members were! tell her ‘their own troubles. featured. Her mother wants to! But when a reporter asked if shield her from the fanfare andjshe thought thé mill workers ap- superficialities of reflected fame. | preciated what the labor depart- But Miss Perkins has provided} ment was doing for them, she an- a unique program of mental stim-| swered: ulation for her. Once a very fiot| “Well, we are not exactly try- ed woman in New York was, invit-|ing to do anything for them—we | ed to the Perkins’ house for din-| are trying to balance production; nery When she got there * she | with consumption.” Discard Clue Of Gold Buckle In “Tad Kiiag Proce, REEVE NAMED AS U. S. MARSHAL (iy Ansocinted Presa? NEW YORK, April 20.—A gold belt butkle ‘found on William Lardner, 37, of the | inmate (ny Annette Prean't!” WASHINGTON, April 20. President. Roosevelt today nominated Guy C. Reeve, of Miami, to be Marshal for the southern district of Florida. today as « clue in the Lindbergh Police ‘Lieutenant James Flinn, who has been connected with the kidnap investigation the j start and search " eeeee | money, said “néme of the money WHERE TO GO went for any belt buckle.” CSS CO ROSS SESE SEEOEEESE in colour The buckle was purchased Palae—“You Made Me Love{ Switzerland, and the police lieutenant said none of the $59,- You.” Strand—"Smooky” and “Alice} go, Kates te ‘lt by “Jaffsie” has terned up in TOMORROW Palace—“Looking for Trouble.”* Strand—“Hip, Hip, Hooray!" Lardner is serving three years for attempting to pass a counter- TOO LONG TO REMEMBER fels 600 64 the Becton bicet,~ MOUNT CARMEL, 1l—The last: time Charles Irwin, 77, of this of 1869, and he can't remember if it was measles or whooping cough. CHOOSE A COOL | Key West delegates to the An- {nual State H-Y congress left yes jterday for Daytona Beach where Reconstructed Porter-Allen ith meeting will be held April 20, 21 and houses now available, com- ie ond chact Maurice Felton on pr . ‘afterncon train and Frank . Al- ya {rares, Herbert Eddy and Jack w. B. | Pierce, At KIRKE Village went out over the high- way in the morning. |to the problem as a whole. seen: te: [my best in the Senate Appropria- tions Committee and the Senate to have the House bill amended ‘gees to place the station back on tan active status. . Stop. As the/one official called’ a “dis- iHouse had already acted the ‘Senate rules made it impossible | tUrBed”” disarmament situa- ito get the active status reestab-| tion with developments in ‘LOCAL DELEGATES | | OFF FOR DAYTONA) OFF FOR DAYTONA is:-f2 =" === lished without the recommenda- {tion of the navy department the japproval of the budget or by all point of order against my, amend- | ment in the Senate to reestablish jective status. Under this bandi- cap for which I was in no wise res} ;sponsible I worked as hard as I) could and so did Senator Fletcher, but the navy department having | | previously succeeded in the House {as you recall would { ator Fletcher and I, working as we were under the Handicap of the Senate rules, were unable to ‘bring about the necessary ap* propriation and a new provision ef the law. to restore the station to an active. status. Stop. Through my own personal. efforts and my jsecretary acting in my mame I did everything possible to have the marines stationed at Key West, Stop. You know the opposition and attitude of the navy depart- }ment and the reason they alleged | for not having them there. Stop. Of course I was against the De- jother hand Strongly urged the ;marines should be stationed at iKey West. Stop. ; not recede} but continued to stand by the ac-| tion of the House and both Sen-{ | 1 partment’s attitade and on the! Ata later date! and just shortly before T left) |the Far East growing out of ithe newly-stated Japanese ‘Senators agreeing nat to raise a} Policy that western powers | must keep hands off China, HINDUS PAYING VISIT TO CITY SPENDING VACATION HERE, AND ARE GUESTS. AT OVERSEA HOTEL H. Singh and G. Singh, eousina, psychics of Bombay, India, are spending « vacation in Key. West and are guests at the Over Sea Hotel. They came to the United States ‘from Paris, France, to give exhi- bitions .of their powera at the World's Pair in Chicago, and were recently in Miami, They came to Key West to while away the hours in the most southern city in the United Washington I again appealed toj States and are delighted with Assistant Secretary Roosevelt and! their stay. jAdmirai Stanley to send the ma- rines to Key West. Stop, 1 got) no encouragement, Stop. 1 will) as noon as I xn follew up my fight | to get the station placed on an) aetive status basia. Stop. 1 have! always worked most actively shd/ vigorously for Key West, begia- ning when I was largely instro- mental in getting two million dnt lars for the submarine base there during the war. Kied regards. (Signed), PARK TRAMMELL. ‘ Key West delegates to the An-/ nual State H-Y congress left yes jterday for Daytona where} the meeting will be ee April) 20, 21 and 22. i Curtia Stanton, Charles Smith; ‘and Maurice Felten icft on the afternoon train and Prank Alva vez, Herbert. Eddy snd Jack Fiaven, went out apar the Mghay im the meruing. t ; HH, Singh has a voluminous ¢ol- lection of ‘testimonials showing they have entertained some of the most renowned characters in this country and Europe. MADE. AVAILABLE W. 8. Kirke offers im this insur of The Citizen reconstructed Por- ter-Allem houses in the Porter-Al len Village on Seidenberg avenes ‘These are tow available com- pletely furnished with outdoor living rooms, garage and ¢lectric ranges, STRAND THEATER Vietor Jory-treme Bentley in smooKy Arien-Jack Onkic in IN WONDERLAND Belsowy, 10c; Orches- tra, 15-20; Might, 15-25< Richard ALICE Matinee: