The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 2, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 2. Byrns And Bankhead Now See .. Long Session Facing Congress): SPL ILIA Ls (MRS. MOLINA WINS CITIZEN’S CONTEST Mrs. Mary Molina, Southard street, is the error contest im yester- day’s issue of The Ci » and will be presented with a handsome Gillette De Luxe Safety Razor for women, on application at this office. The error was in the ad- vertisement of the Monroe Theater and should have been “star” instead of the plural word “stars.” Yesterday's contest was the last for this week. However, readers are advised to watch, for other announcements of contests which will appear in the near future. Tentative Program From All Indications Will Re- quire Great Delibera- 921 ner of tion By Solons By HERBERT PLUMMER By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Amid| | the wishful predictions of many politicians for a short session of |* i | the} cougressiand am carly adjourn- ment to the campaign fields, two highest ranking house offi-! cers have dropped utterances at proaching cold discouragement. It is customary, even tradition- i | | | | al, for the leaders to say plea-| Fer rrr re aaa antly that they expect everybody; ROTARY CLUB MEETS TODAY Byrns himself and from his right-| ENJOYABLE SESSION CON- DUCTED AT NOON HOUR to be able to go home ear'y, even| | if they cannot say it with real; hope. But this time, precedent | hand man, the Democratic leader, | Bankhead of Alabama. What these two men say-on the question of adjournment is most authoritative, as they will go a long way toward outlining the house’s entire program. must have given a chill to the optimistie when Bankhead frankly held off from forecasting a short session, made it known that his prediction was for something just about the opposite, and Speaker Byrns disclaimed any intention 0% applying the “gas iule-to house’ deliberations, Neutrality Question Aside from the prospect of long debate that would accompany an there problem lying comparatively quiet- ly below a mass of domestic leg- islation that may prove a real and entirely free house is a heavy obstacle to a quick session. That is the qu Its potential: lone troversy apparently have overlooked in some quarters; but estion of neutrality. s for con. been some observers believe a it. It was only at considerable la- bor that the leaders jast congress, in an of intense weari members to st a much more rigid hands-off” policy than was finally adopted in the temporary measure then enacted and expiring in Febr Explosive Qual storm may be gathering over atmosphere among the The almost universal desire of members to get home last sum- mer undoubtedly ed to some extent in behalf of the admin- istration view. But now a leader in the defeated faction has se! notice that the fight will be re- newed with more vigor this ses-{ session. Curiously, it is approached by this congress just a short time after the anniversary—December 28—of the birth of Woodrow Wil- son, whose face was etched deeply with grief and worry over that same problem of neutrality 20 years ago. TWO VESSELS ARE PLACED ON WAYS) BOTH CRAFT ARE PROPERTY OF UNITED STATES LIGHT- HOUSE DEPARTMENT Lighthouse Tender’ Poinciana this morning went on the ways for regular overhaul and repairs. District Barge Number 2, also of the lighthouse department float- ing equipment, went on the ways at the same time. Other vessels of the depart- ment, including the Tenders Ivy and Poppy, are in port. The lat- ter is making preparations to leave in a few days. WAGNER BEER HAS THAT OLD FASHIONED FLAVOR THAT DAD AND MOTHER WILL REMEMBER AND YOU'LL RAVE ABOUT. TRY IT. FACA 22RBB30 Thus, it] aol major ble] 1 | | | IN PARISH HALL The Rotary Club met in its regular luncheon, After the inging of “Amer and a grace said by William W. Demeritt, W. Curry Harris introduced the guests for the day: D. A. Printz, of Franklin, Pa., Caspign Hale, District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler, of the B. P. O. E., here on an official visit, and William Hawkins, Clerk of ; the Cireuit Court of Volusia coun- ty. “ Emory Lowe Pierce, Key West Aquarium Biolovist, was intro- duced as a new member, to be initiated, according to eustom, at the last meeting in the current month, William Bates was congratu- lated upon the appearance of his picture in The Rotarian, as being number three on the list of those | with an unbroken record of at- !tendance. Mr, Bates’ record cov- ers more than eighteen years and jis exeeeded by only two men in International Rotary. . Dr. William R. Warren gave a review of “The Rotarian Age,” a | book written by the founder of the Rotary movement, Paul Harris. A letter received from the Flor- ida WPA, inviting the Rotary Club to underwrite certain ex- penses connected with the pro- | posed music project for Key West | was referred to the Board of Di- rectors, -ELKS OFFICIAL ARRIVES HERE CASPIAN HALE CAME IN ON PLANE THIS MORNING FROM MIAMI i | | i Caspian Hale, District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler, B. P. O. Elks, i Miami and will psy his official visit to B. P. O. Elks Lodge 551, 8 o'clock this evening. Mr. Hale igs accompanied by Walker Hawkins, clerk of cireuit court of Volusia county, who will day, with Mr. Hale, Asked how he enjoyed the trip by plane from Miami, My, Hale jsaid he did not care very!’ much {about the ride as he much pre- ferred doing his traveling by rail, “If IF had the money. with } which to do it,” he said, “T would j rebuild the destroyed part of the | F. E. C. at once.” NOTICE All persons operating bicycles in the city must have lights, and 'must come to a stop when the red light is shown, By order, H. C. GALEY, Mayor. Attest: WALLACE PINDER, I jan2-1t City ‘Clerk St.} Paul’s Parish Hall today, holding; in Florida East, was an ar-! by plane this morning from | remain in Key West until Satur-j) MANY OFFIC TO BE SELECTED IN’36 ELECTION GOVERNOR AND VARIOUS OTHER OFFICERS TO BE VOTED ON IN PRIMARIES TO BE CONDUCTED (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan, —-Three hundred thousand Flor- 2 ida voters this year will their choices for 2,500 public of- fices to serve terms of two and { four years. There will be few holdovers in the list of state and county of- }fices. Topping the ranks of the holdovers will. be the two United States senators, four justices of the supreme ccurt and two mem- bers of the state railroad mission. The list of offices to be filled starts with the governorship and ranges down io district school trustees. Secretary of State | Robert A. Grey figured there ; would be 2,500 oftices to be fill- ed, and he predicted 300,000 voters would participate in Deocratic primaries and the lowing general election. Among the major state offices to be filled are: Governor, .omptroller, treas: trer, secretary of state, superin- tendent of ncblic instruction; commissioner of agriculiure, at- torney general, tive representa- tives to the national congress, two justices of the supreme court, one member of the state raliroad com- mission, delegates to the national political conventions. com- | fol- { be filled include: Sheriff, clerk of circuit court, tax assessor, tax collector, coun- ty judge, county commissioners, i county school boards, some coun- j ty solicitors, justices of tha peace. | constables and others, The campaign for nomination in the primary elections already is under way. There have been ; several announcements for gov- ;ernor and other state offices, i while in the counties there have ] been announcements of ca: daey also. The first primary will be June 2 and the second primary will be June 23. AUTO LICENSES PAYABLE NOW TAX COLLECTOR HAS NOT RECEIVED ANY NOTICE OF EXTENDING TIME | i vised of any time extension for the purchase of state automobile licenses, Tax Collector | Ladd stated that he had not up to date, and to the best of his know- ledge operators of cars and oth- er motor vehicles without licenses were doing so in violation of the | law. With approximately 1200 mo- tor driven vehicles in the county, said Mr. Ladd, only 225 licenses have so far been purchased. Up until today issuances of li- censes for the operation of slot machines total 13. There are, { however, nine licenses in the tax collector’s office awaiting those who have applied for them, and there have been a number of ap- plications sent from the office to Talahassee. | JUSTICE LOWE ARRIVES HERE E. R. Lowe, justice of the peace at Tavernier, arrived over {the highway last night to remain ja few days on business and to | meet his many friends. Mr. Lowe suffered injuries during the hurricane of Septem- ber 2, last year, and has since that time been slowly recovering, At one time his condition was re- Ported serious. name} The Kep West Citwen —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JAN THE TOWNSEND PLAN EDWARD M., HENRY in The Point Pleasant (N. J.) Leader ae Political observers with a sense} 000,000 Townsend es perspective, whether or not | they believe in the Townsend , Plan, are beginning to realize that ‘what at the outset seemed a wild j dream, is threatening to become ; 2 reality and in the near future ; may be given a trial. This is not ; because of any inherent value in {the plan itself, but because a ma- j jority of the citizens of the coun- , try may support it. There can be no question that the Townsend Plan has gained adherents in the last year—and a; come from the savings fund. There sufficient number of adherents} will be no real need for saving.! to make it a real political ques-| Old age will be safeguarded. tion. Candidates for the Senate! All these claims on the part of! and House of Representatives in| the supporters to the Townsend | the 1936 election will be! faced by! Plan are based on a ‘solid foun-} ja choice of supporting the plan or| dation. Everything that the} | taking a chance on the organized | Townsendites claim will happen opposition of its supporters, and{ will surely happen. All the bene- this opposition in many instances! fits enumerated will come to pass will mean the difference between j if the Townsend Pension law is election or defeat, enacted. The increased volume o* It must be admitted that there. expenditure will do all these are candidates everywhere who),things. Then what is wrong with will be more anxious for their | the plan? personal success than the welfare}, y Townsend Plan Is Workabla of the country—and these candi-) «There is no question about the} dates will promise anything, even’ Townsend Plan being workable though they know that they ar?) and no danger of its bankrupting supporting something that is vis-! the country. Our country ionary and hardly in the line of | readily raise the funds practical operation, t to provide for the plan With this condition of affairs,! the people. The nece: receive 990,000,000 can be ra pens there would be the additional cash| spent for enjoyment that is to-j| day saved for future use. i What a tremendous boom} would come to the business of the| country, and what a demand there! would be for labor to provide all the things that the people would buy. Everybody would have much more in the way of comforts and means to enjoy than the in-} dividual has today, The new car! need not wait because the cest will | | | | , the Townsend Plan may 1 ean | necessary by taxing, ary $24,-) ed each {public offices to be filled, count JARY 2, 1936. OVER 300,000 ELECTORS FOR STATE PRIMARY FLORIDA PUBLIC orFiciats| WILL BEGIN LAST YEAR OF | CURRENT H Fs FOUR - *:&: PEABODYS PLAN TERMS BEGINNING ramay/ SPENDING WINTER SEASON IN CITY (By Asnociated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Jan. Florida public officials tomorrow | axe é =e OCCUPY STRUNK HOME; MANY OTHERS EXPECTED TO COME IN DURING WEEK 2 (Jan, 3) will begin the last year of their current four-year terms of office, and 300,000 voters are | looking to the coming elections to} name their choices for the next Mr, and Mra, W. J esse Point, Mich, egotiations with the four-year cyele starting Janu 3, 1937. the local Robert a,|Partment © 2,500 Secretary of State ; tion some weeks Gray estimated there are {of a winter home Key West. ave completed arrangements am are expected to arrive on or fices. He also estimated upwards ! fore January 10. of 300,000 voters would partici- i eye re pate in elections. EE — . cage gepeves Democratic primaries ie sane a es be he¥d June 2 and June 23, with| where they propose to live éuc the general election following in! the next few months. ing state, county and district of- ox be the Peabouys are > ac range of only 14° ——— ae ‘Borah’s Proposed ( Great Speculation In the counties, the offices to; Asked today if he had been ad-: Frank H./} the| sufficient support in the election | year. Al’ that will be showing. ; to make a formidable !and it is not beyond the bounds ‘of possibility that it may enlist enough votes to pass the lower j branch of Congress. The lower | house of Congress in the past has jenacted much worse legislation— the prohibition law—as a con- ; crete instance. Professional Organizatian The Townsend Plan is undoubt- edly attractive to the average | man and woman. It seems like an insurance of a comfortable old age. It also seems like a real nice way of taking care of the old folks, and shitting the burden of of the second generation to the country at large. Father and mother will be comfortable under the Townsend Plan, they will not cost the children, anything for their maintenance, and perhaps the | will filter through to pay the | household grocery bills and s vent. All these things make the Townsend Plan attractive, but, it would not be formidable were it not for the horde of profesional | organizers who have swung into line under its banner. Profession- al workers in all lines of former l effort, many of them out of em- i ployment for some time, because of the collapse of their former | jobs, have rushed with loud hur- rahs to the support of the Town- j3end Plan and the organization of its friends, In the list of the present ora- tors and organizers can be found the names of many former ex- | ecutives of both the Anti-Saloon ; League and the Organization Against the Eighteenth Amend- ment. The Jions and the lambs of the prohibition battle are seen lying down side by side. We can recall Dr. Clinton F. Wunder, Eastern Organizer of the Townsend Plan, as a popular and well paid orator for the “wets” something like fifteen years ago. ; Dr. Wunder was a convincing j speaker in those days, and he has not lost any of his eloquence. We could undoubtedly recognize many other names of present day or- ganizers of the Townsendites as names of orators, organizers and agitators of the “wet” and “dry” battles of the past. But, after, all, a job is a job. Townsend Plan Plausible The advocates of the Townsend Plan have many very plausible ideas that support their proposi- tion. Ten millions of our old folks would undoubtedly be made happy by its enactment and many millions more would look forward to their own attainment of the golden age of sixty, with its finan- cial reward. The poor-house j would have no terrors, old age | would hold no fear, and in all pecoeanity the savings accounts fof the country’s banks would shrink tremendously. Business would certainly bene- fit. There would be plenty of work for everybody, for every- body would be spending much more money than is spent at the present time. In addition to the $24,000,008,000 spent by the 10,- their support from the shoulders! even some of the $200 per month | required j will be to enact the necess legislation. The government w' be able to collect the $24,000,000,- ' 000. | The only danger to the succe | of the Townsend Plan is the ques tion as tu whether or not the people who will have to provide the money for its support will be willing to stand the expense. Peo-} | ple have a way | Vociferously against of protesting paying for things that are going to benefit; others than themselves. Let us take a look at the present source of the funds necessary. The Townsend Plan will take about $20,000,000,000 to support it if the pensioners number only ; 8.000,000—or to be nice little sum of 000. This sum will have to be | paid by the rest of the people— with the exception of two eent of it—$384,000,000—which ‘ Hi | sioners themzelves, But this leaves about $18,800,000,000 which wiil be provided by the rest of the people of the United States There is no doubt of the ability of the American people to pay out this amount. The annual in- come of the country is approxi- mately the sum of about $64,- 000,000,000. It will take only about thirty per cent of this in- }come to pay the expense of the | Townsend Plan. And this thirt per cent is exactly what it iil seost each income producing citi- i i urse, the greatest burden will fall on the man of large in- ! come.’ A citizen in receipt of an | income of $1,000,000,000 will pay | out $300,000. ‘while the poor man Mosees earns only $11,000 will be | eompelled to pay out only $300. This seems like a lot of money, but there are some compensa- tions. There would be greater incomes possible because there | would be vastly more work to be done and more jobs for every- | body. The average man earning $1,- 000 per year today might be able }to work longer hours and he might even increase his income to $2,000 per year, in which event he would only have to pay out $600 for the support of the Town- send Plan. Thus he would re- ceive a net income of $1,400 per ear, and he would be $400 per 'year better off. There is no question but that this possibility would be a probability. The only fly in the ointment is the fact he would be compelled to work twice as hard as he is working today. But a lot of us ean work itwice as hard without suffering very much, Courts Might Interfere The Townsend Plan looks like ia nice, comfortable idea—for those of us who are sixty or over. | Of course there will be a delay in jits enactment into law. After we bes disciplined the House of | Representatives we will still have the Senate to train—and the sen- tors are not elected as often as are the Representatives. - But once we have the two {Continued on Page Four) November. Topping the speculative inter- t is the race for governor. The { constitution prohibits a governo | seeking re-election, and t! Governor Sholtz will retire from} the office next January. { candidates already have anour- refore : Seve} j { i Hundreds of inquiric commodations are beine rec daily, and there are - a number of closures p he prelimimary ste; concluded, Those who are vith the tuend of te it is said. are convinced t nm close avel th’s v exact—the | $19,200,000,- | per! ; will have-to be paid by the pen-! be more peeple in {season than were record Indicative of the unusua! esta received at the housing on is one received today which asks for accommodat_ons rried couples, and ed, and others ara expected with- in the next few weeks. There is no prohibition in the constitution against other oifice holders seeking re-election, andj most of those now in office have announced their candidacy. Offices in the state gove: ; bringing the number up to about ment to be filled by nomination | 100. and election include those of gov-,_ This group is at present im ernor, secretary of state, attorney | Petersburg but are not satix‘ied general, comptroller, treasurer, ; They have heard so much ef Key superintendent of education, com-| West they believe they will be mirsioner of agriculturs, two jus- ; Satisfied here and as they expect tices of the supreme court. andjto remain in Florida for abeat one member of the state railroad | five months are anxious te get commission. j settled. Five district representatives te The matter of the national congress are toj/accommodations ic be nominated and elected. The two | of people coming im one party United States senators are hold-,remain for a long period, was dis : overs. j cussed this morning with a Key In the county governments, of-| Wester who is satisfied that ar- i fices to be filled include sheriff, | rangements can be made and wil j or, tax collector, clerk | at once take up the matter by, reuit court, county judge, | probably, going St. Peters | superintendent of education, | burg and interviewing the writer j supervisor of registration, county! ; commisions, county school boards, j constables, justices of the peace} and others, i Most of the elections are for! four years, but some are for two-! year terms. UNLICENSED DOCS TO BE IMPOUNDED | STRAY CATS ARE ALSO TO BE PICKED UP DURING ACTIVITIES re- fer 38 children = St nding housing this number : te | | ; ' { | i ER ARRIVAL FOR HAVANA ' j i H | Steamship Cubs, of the P. and ,O. S.S. company, arrived this {morning from Tampa with nime first and two second class passen } gers for Key West; 16 first class passengers for Havana. | ‘The vessel also brought 51 toms Owners of unlicensed dogs are of freight and 102 sacks ef mail being cautioned today by A. C.' for Key West, three toms of Tanner, sanitary engineer of the; freight and 353 sacks of mail for Key West administration, to pro-| Havana. jcure licenses for their pets, for! Among the items of freight im inext week the sanitary forces will; the 51 tons for Key West were start impounding all unlicensed) 800 sacks of cement consigned te canines, as a protection to the! the local WPA administratien for citizenry. | sewerage construction. Stray cats are also to be picked! Steamer Ozark, of the up and impounded. Mr. says. Both types of animals, when not claimed, will be pain- lessly put to death. 'MISS SHINE WILL RETURN TO SCHOOL Miss Virginia Shine, who is\ York, for Key West and Tampa. spending her vacation with her, parents, Mr. and Mrs.-C. ©. Shine, | qugegeeemepmmmmy, and be sare will leave over the hichwsy to-} WHISKIES AND CINS morrow en route to Tallahassee, €lyde- \from New Orleans, en route }Key West, Miami and Jacksen- | ville. . Among the items in the Ozark j cargo is a car of meat consicned | to the jocal FERA branch for dis | tribution te rolls, Steamship Colorafio, of the {same lines, is due to arrive im te to resume her studies at Florida State College for Women. Accompanying Miss Virgitia cn! the trip will be her mother, grand- mother, Mrs. E. L. Dorsey, ard sister, Miss Winnifred Shine. persons on relief, New, a most equable clims:e m *3e country ; wih a= avemece prenbert ' PR.CE FIVE CEN . = Senater From Idake ! Ave E ag Watched By ater Whee E. Gersh. scarred weteres cf se many pol tics! = fights, mcy have let himself fer mere woemds 2 sf ow =e b= self te be put ix the running for Presidest ic the Wiscemsls Ee publicas primar es siie.tiea i= There & 2 strarge Wisccasin, torg the bome of west ere pct <-! abcralem, thet cosit > img abest the se = ogly parades ical cesc"t of «2 defct for = mae whe is coms ¢-red ome cf the out- stardiog tiber.! Eepellco= pres dential peocpc'= Meary tuo years ago. the brothers LePolet te, “Phi and “Bch.” cucniog for geverser and seanter, spective’, pulled comrietely ost cf the Repeblcas ,a-ty acd form ve “ed their ews Progressive 3 pertr After years of Letiiag with com sorvatine _ Pepublican they became indeperdect i= cmae sate es thy long Bod tees sprit. Sstuss + Complicated thet VESSEL SAILS SWORTLY AFT- thot Tanner| Mallory Lines, is due tomorrow, | Fa cad e ard Borah as _ Eecubacse aol | ard bearer At a astever bam fis Wiscon be partes'> | watched => becasse of Borah iseue. The «ate holds Ge | preferemizai prestesial prumarr- on Tt. at a2 very carly ateee | cuesdated enty >= tne New Hamp shire primarieet. which fo ot March 10. Thus the outcome @= (Wieceess way tove « Sores wy a red as mates! importance