The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1936, Page 1

ttt nen ennieatns Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLU ale LV. M1. COUNTY BOARD |"2eeewwwes| PRES Wonk "ERS . GILFOND: COMMISSIONERS HIS ACTIVITIES Visitors in Key West who express themselyes as de- lighted with the city, are Mr. and Mrs. Whitney Allen cf Baraboo, Wisc., Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Ajign;» of La Crosse, Wise, and «A. W. Graw, also of La Crosse. Mrs, Whitney Allen is a sister of Mrs. Grace Crosby, and Ceci! Allen, a candy resigned district; ™@"ufacturer of La Crosse, | is a nephew. The party mem- bers are guests at Mrs. Cros- | by’s home on United street. The Whitney Allens were in Key West seven years ago, but find many evidences of improvement on the island cerviecs?| they say. The Ceeil Allens | are charmed with the many of Mon-j| interesting things they which they have never in any other parts of the coun- try. “Everything is so dif- ferent.” COMMEND | IN RESO- LUTION ADOPTED AT RE-| CENT SESSION \ M. E. Gilfond, director of the Florida WPA and FERA » Was commended this week by the Monroe Board of County j Commissioners for his “faithful, } efficient, and efective rendered to the citizen saw, roe county, in a resolution adopt- —— ed’ by the county board, i | Mrs. morning Gilfond, accompanied by Gilfond, left here this over the highway for Washington, Di. Cy sistant to Rexford G. the Administration there. ‘NEW MEMBERS ARE TAKEN INTO BOY ‘FELLOWSHIP CLUB FOUR NEW APPLICANTS VOT- EN ON AND ACCEPTED; VA- RIOUS OTHER MATTERS ARE TAKEN UP AT SESSION} where he is to become as- Tugwell, ad- Resettle: He is Thomas D ministrator of nent be ing succeeded here by Orr, The new resettlement official came here more t a year and a} half ago as director of public re lations when the rehabilitation program of the Florida ERA was launched in Key West. j adopted by the} follows: | Gilfond, | ator of | heen} C6 The resolutic county commissioners “Where M. E. FERA and WPA’ Administ Monroe County. Florida. ha called-to Washington, D. accept a position with the settlement Administration and will therefore of necessity term: | inate his ser in Monroe} County uch Administrator. and Inte for membership ate received into ‘the body, and this was the case) Fellowship Club| ces as | with the Boys SOSTI IL ISS: est in any organization is © heightened when new applicants} ‘VAN HYNING TO | | HELP KEY WEST | UNITS IN WORK BERVALDI RECEIVES REPLY, TO TELEGRAM RELATIVE TO CONDITIONS IN EM. PLOYING WORKERS | | ‘Chairman Carl Berva'di, of the} county commissioners, today his re- ceived a reply to telegram sent yester mrad Van Hyning, WPA administrator — in ; Jacksonville, thi | condition existing on the Florida }Keys in Monroe county, and the | reported ay to pointing out unjust diserimination {shown by William in} charge of Key activities, to the: \ detriment of Key West workers. Mr. Van Hyning’s reply shows ithat Mr, Green will be in Jack-! conville Monday and “I will take | the matter of Key West labor up pee him. My promise to employ | West labor for all positions od which they are qualified! j holds.” Just before Mr. Van Hyning~ ft for Jacksonville. at the con- his tion here, he/ |met with Mr. Bervaldi and others, | {and discussed the situation on the} i; Keys. It was then he made the | promise regarding employing Key ' West labor on the Keys to which he refers in telegram. Green, le [clusion of COUNCIL AIRS WATER PROJECT | FURTHER DETAILS ARE B=- | ING AWAITED BEFORE ANY | ACTION IS TO BE TAKEN /ANTI-NEW DEAL VOTE GAINS | Digest poll ! electoral votes, :ed currently indicate a larger af- {in eleven States and a decreased} | percentage in the thirty- jand New Hamprhir>. | vive 2 70-80 per cent maiority for ! disapproval of the New Deal. The The Kep West Citsen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit 1936. PRICE FIVE CENTS AGAIN IN HEAVY BALLOTING IN LITERARY DIGEST POLL Hiern registering disapproval, and the ratio of the three Pacific } 4 The vote against the New Deal increases’ markedly as over 300.-j 000 more ballots are reported in, Cozst States is virtually the same. | the latest tally ef The Literary; A table of how the pell partici- bringing the total, pants voted in 1932 and another, vote so far, which appears in the; ¥pon how each State voted in the; !currént issue of the magazine, to| 1934 Literary Digest New Deal: 1.688,4 j Poll, which appears in the cur-! Zn answer to the poll question; Tent issue of the magazine,! of “Do you now approve the acts; hows the voters’ defections in and policies of the Roosevelt ‘New , detail. Deal’ to date” 643.514 are shown] “With nearly 1,700 086 Ameri- marked “yes” and the balance of , CMs represented this week in the 1.044.948. or 61.89 per cent, are! ¢ighth report of The Literary Di- tah ilated _astballoting “ico! i gest’s poll of New Deal strength The vote in support of the New| ‘0day,” the magazine states in Deal has declined from 46.72 ner! its latest issue. “the heavy ballot- cent in the first report to 38.11!iM& shows a further increase in per cent in this week's tabuation.! he majority opposed to Admin- Thirty-six States. which repre-| istration policies. sant G00 oatiot a ctatelaact “Not only are the Administra- continue to ex-! tion ‘acts and policies’ far behind press disapproval of the Adminis-/in‘ votes as the poll approaches: tretion’s policies in the latest re-/full flool, but they continue toi ‘turns. Tha other twelve, all; ®uffer a loss in percentage. Tho; southern and border Stetes with{Nemative percentage has jumped the exception of Utah. still voien| 1-42 since last week’s report and anproval of the President’s' poli- more than 3 per cent in the last cies, two weeks. The additional ballots tabulot-; “Ono feature of the current re-; port is the appearance for the firmative vote for the New Deal first time of ‘State Unknown,’ an! imaginary commonwealth created by voters in every part of the country who neglected to write in the names of their respective States on their ballots. Even ‘State Unknown’ goes anti-New ‘Deal, its 17.813 voters bcing 57.99 again “Otherw seven oth-; States since the previous; week’s report. The only sharp declines are noted in New York er M ssippi and South Carolina the New Deal. while six other! se the line-up of the ‘States give a 60-70 per cent ap-] States remains the same as last i week, with twelve votnig thirty-six against the New Deal. “Turning to the larger ones, we find New York represented by 182.184 votes, as compared with 50,680 last week. Its ‘no’ nercentage has leaped from 65.30 to 67.91. “Pennsylvania, which also ap- Pi ; ‘oval and four more States show for and a pereentage of 50-60 in support of the Administration’s policies. Massachusetts is the only State; registering more than 80 ner cent five other New England States and New Jersey are shown voting 70-80 per cent negatively. Fifteen ‘GILFONDS LEFT , West, and Wednesday aftern {as district WPA Army Engineers Seek Fund Of $27,000°For Project Of Dredging Key West !” arbor THIS MORNING OVER HIGHWAY ' RESIGNED DISTRICT DIREC-} TOR OF FLORIDA WORKS ADMINISTRATION IS ROUTE TO WASHINGTON OD DEDODL LB Removal Gi Shoals At te EN- Northwest Entrance Of Masher Guo Gi Misia Ac- NO ERROR APPEARED | IN CONTEST FRIDAY ; HENCE NO ONE WINS M. E Gilfond, resigned district Florida Works: There were no winners in the puzzle contest announced in The Citizen of yesterday. The error was to be found in the advertisements, but there were no errors the adver- tisements something which cannot be found. Now a word of explana- | tion: The puzzle editor checks | the paper after it comes from the press \d selects the er- rer which he deems will be the most difficult for the in- experienced proof reader to find. When one is located which he is satisfied will t the readers’ ability he writes it on a slip of paver, places it ‘ i idhenthet tie eek e during No- lution preserted on the fol- | vember December lowing morning which carries | the error selected is declared {this year and would consist the winner. Yesterday afternoon the puzz'e editor was forced te director of the Progress Administration here, ac- By PAUL MAY (Special Wasbinatoe Correspondent of The Citizen) D. WASHINGTON, 11—Army Engineers companied by Mrs. Gilfond, ef for Wachington this morning » c over the highway where he is to a net is become assistant adm‘nistvator of want $27,000 for dredging Key ‘coming fiscal year, ‘the Rural Resettlement Admin’s-| tration. West harbor during the This week, wound up his 4 -cord- Director accor affairs Gilfond in ing to the annual report of on conferred for a while with Thom- 2s D, Orr, who will succeed him’ director. The resigned di: directo: came here in July, days after the rehabilitaton pro: gram of the Florda Emergency Relief Administration was ed in Key West. At that time h> served in the capacity of ¢irector of public relations. He gained untold publicity for Ker We nd the rehabilitation procram , @ee!are himself on a spot. He and saw through to commlet was puzzied to find Thc crwaniaatiranh neveral aac zling discrepancy in the is- designed to be of p! re and sue’s advertisement the interest to tourists proof reader had checked all ho were be- ine sought. a3 the major objectivs ¢TFors and the linotype oper- ators had corrected them. of the rehabilitation program, There were a number of is shown. December 18, 1934. Mr. Gil-; readers, however, who en- tered solutions, but none of fond became District FERA ad-i these were right. Where all ; ministrator when B. M. Dunes things are absolutely right, ' then administrator, resend take over the supervision of sev certainly nothing can be | the Chief of Engineers, made wiblic today. j j j } | The work proposed would few be undertaken and of oe of maintenance dredging in- of volving the removal i i northwest e j trance > harbor. { | 1 } ; The report declares “no funds can be profitably ex- \ pended for new work, in- jvolving the completion of the j jetiie fiscal 1937. during tne to ending June 30, more States are in the 60-70 per neared in the tabl2°for the first “Whereas this phureday evening when four new| j time last week, maintains about ; the faithful, efficient the same negative percentage—~ 68 81—on the basis of 143,207 votes. ‘cent bracket and the balance of ‘members were enrolled. ‘fourteen States are balloting 50- tive services gendered by M. At a special meeting of the! 69 ner cent against the Adminis. Gilfond to the c y of Mon-; The meeting at Knights of! city council held 5 o’elock yester-| tration’s policies. fon County canoe his, stay in this | Pythias Hall was well attended! day afternoon the water franchise| A close vote is indicated in only| “New Jersey, another ‘ proposition which was before the! five States, New Mexieo with altewcomer. has 54.049 ballots. of i - board last week, was again’ 53.96 percentage, Oklahoma with} which 26.80 per cent are favor- ing was given by the election of 1 unt before the body for dis-| 4 59.60 percentage and Florida} able. Other States casting a two guardians, Bascom L. Grooms, eyssion, |e BOGE cer cent agatnat theL heavy vote, California, j Jy, and Tom Alfonso, It was the sense of the meeting! New Deal; Utah with a 54.10 per- | and Ohio, st'll disapprove the New serve for the term. that inasmuch as all the details of centage and Virginia with a 52.5 50} Deal by about the same percent- Following the club's session,| the proposed supply and various; ner cent vote in support of the | c#es : ity Indeed Sa O Oe (other matters pertinent to the;New Deal. All other states give} “Most heavily opposed of all, uty ocge . F.." proposition have not been clearly, over a 55 per cent majority for|the forty-eight is Marsachusetts, which sponsors the club, held the| explained no action could be tak-; or against. {which gives 1 ‘yes’ vote of only regular sion and discussed al en, New England, as a_ section, 119.70 per cent, while ppi number of interesting innovations! Therefore it was decided mal votes more than 3 to 1 anti-New} is most loyal to the New Deal, which are being planned for the any action will be deferred until; peal so far in the poll. recent itis (Bonedawishes to ‘and added interest to the meet- express regret at his departure, “NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY TH BOARD OF COUNTY COMM OF MONR DA, i that this Board goes on record a recognizing the faithful, efficient end effective services rendered by M. E. Gilfond to the citizens of Monroe County, Florida, and expresses keen regret at his de-| who will rable. ving it a acjority of 72.61 gi The Middle Atlantic States of “As a unit, New England with | such time as more specific ‘best tourist season it * touri eral special, projects. As a result of the t'on program and publ West enjoyed last winter has ince the boom yecrs of a ee ago. That the influx was not! artificial and that there was a sound basic reason for attractire here have been given evi- denee by the fact that as many winter residents are here now a° | were last winter, and more are expeeted before the end of the] month. | Mr. Gilfond, since s‘art of the; Works Progress Administration activities in Key West, has he'd a! dual position here, serving as dis- trict WPA director. and as FERA rehabil'ta- | parture. and benefit of the club and the wel- explicit information covering a “BE IT FURTHER RESOLV-| fare of the young members dur-! ED that a copy of this resolution! ;_, ear 193 j Se an caittisis bye theliclerk of} Se ore ede this Board to M Gilfona.” | Among the important items} ap cali eiaie a 7 ene a EES j being considered is that of secur-! yp council instructed Cierk Wal-| OTHER ARTISTS | ing a suitable place to be used as; lace Pinder to send a telegram to unexplained phases of the idea} and plans are placed at the dis-, Position of the council. i ja club room for the Boys Fellow-; WPA Administrator Conrad Van! ip Club, im order that the mem- | Hyning, anent the situation on ‘bers wil! be in position to create | the Keys as follow {an atmosphere distinctly their) own which is one of the greatest PW OyARRIVED RECENTLY pee assets any organization can have. TAKE UP ACTIVIT THIS LOCALITY ‘NEW DIRECTOR ee RETURNS HERE ed by two artists sent here by the painting; and sculpture section of the U. S.j Treasury Department. Walton Blodgett. one of whose water color paintings was repro-, duced in last Sunday’s New York | ‘Times, arrived here several days; ‘ago, and already has produced | water color presentations of Key Key West's artists’ HIS DUTIES WITH LOCAL WPA ADMINISTRATION Thomas D. Orr, newly appoint- j ed director of Florida Works Pro- THOMAS ORR WILL TAKE UP ‘ | with county | comm: protesting | ! against the discriminatory employ-| ment of Key West labor in favor! of Dade county labor within} Monroe county, if such is the| PLANE BRINGS 14 PASSENGERS) MOST OF THOSE ARRIVING HAVE ROUND TRIP RES- ERVATIONS New York, ‘New Jersey. Pennsyl-{ its six States, is striking more; Maryland and | sharply at Administration ‘acts West Virginia, which ~ gave the; and policies’ than any other sec-! President 2 combined 51 per cent|tion of the country. Its disap- | majority in his 1932 election, are; proving percentage is 77.93. now indicated in the poJ]l as op-| “With the poll in full blast, | posed to his New Deal policies by , The Literary Digest notes what more than 2 to 1. j knew was inevitable—that eriti- | The south. as a section, sup-, ‘cism of the poll is in full blast | ports the New Deal by nearly 8 .also. It is the same in every poll ‘and the charges always run, about The twelve States in the fatm. the same: ‘anfair’—‘partizan’— belt show a 3 to 2 majority i‘sold out.’ Once again, we will! against the Roosevelt policies. ‘simply point to the' record of pre-| In the eight States of the Rocky vious Literary Digest polls and Mountain section approximately leave these charges to public; three of every five voters are’ judgment.” EDITORS COME _| VOLUNTEER FIRE HERE ON VISIT) UNITS TO MEET, RALPH BURKHOLDER AND| TUESDAY NIGHT SELECTED) STUART BELL ARE GUESTS AS TIME TO ELECT AT COLONIAL HOTEL OFFICERS to 2. administrator in the dis'r'ct. Th’ | is the only district in the state! ; where one man has held both po- | sitions, and bespeaks the esteem} in which he was held in the state office of both the FERA and WPA, it is stated. Yesterday aft his friends were invited gu ; the winter residence of M year wrong. j Readers of The Citizen should not be discouraged, however, as next week other arnouncements of contests will be made. that the com- {merce at preset making usc | jof the project does not jus {fer the reason ‘tify the relatively high cost SLE SAE I aaa“ this work.” MANY MORE AUTO. <=... «= LICENSES YET TO BE OBTAINED HERE Total cost i ove- AFPROXIMATELY 700 appi-| |!) Cost of all improve ments to Key West TIONAL LICENSES REMAIN 20. 068 TO BE TAKEN OUT AT COL- ad LECTOR’S OFFICE the report the fact the exisiing project for ment of Key West har- bor is only about fifty cent complete. de- de=pite that im provem per harbor 5 was $1,- addi- ex- up to June 040,408.75, tional $213, | pended du There still remain approximate-| period fo 700 tags to be ued to owners of automobites| while an ahr dies the maintenance same r state license work {with the local district irs. Edward Bruce in the Naval| and other types of motor vehicles} 1B estimated amount re- \in Mnoroe county, according Station, where a farewell party to| quired for completion of ex- pasa i masher ny them. {the records in the office of Tax|isting project none of which ‘Collector Frank H. Ladd, te F ALBERT HAS | To date there have been 440) 'S =p ° {tags issued and owners have un- propriation during the com- til Jonuary 15, inclusive, during - 5 . hey desire to remain unmolested | port | by agents of the law enferee- WPA OFFICIAL HAD F.2EN In! ment body. | Directly after returtting from JACKSONVILLE CONFERR- | Talishamwe this week Attorney !Wm. V. Albury advised Mr. Ladd ING) WITH: OFFICERS” [1 had been: told. by. Govnmee! !Sholtz the fime for purchasing li-! censes had been extended to Jan-! uary 15, but after that date a rests will be made of all owners; recommended for tates. YACHT TO SAIL SOON FOR CUBA Franklin E. Albert. district ALDABARAN WAS AT ONE supervisor of finance and report of the TIM= PRIVATE YACHT OF West scenes, Administration, in this dis- Florida Works Progress Adminis operating ears, trucks and motor-/ eycles without tags. CARNES’ SON M. Jamieson, of Washington,| D. C., arrived this week, and has started getting the atmosphere! which Key West alone can claim. | Jamieson has held one man| shows in Georgetown, and also has exhibited in the Washington | Independent Artists’ Show, re-/ ceiving one time Mahoney ; water color prize. Blodgett studiec Luks, and has with the American Water Society. He has abroad. Plane of the Pan American Air- KAISER WILH™LM y afternoon to take up his! | ways arrived from Miami _ this luties. | morning with 14 passengers, most! The new director plans to bring; of them having round trip reser- his family, Mrs. Orr and 16-year-| vations. , old som, to Key West if the} Those on the passenger list; next few days’ ‘atid establish | were: Webster Robinson, Helen! | permanent residence. | Robinson, Gustav Olander, Joseph This morning Mr. Orr had no;Turner. Anna Corcoran, John statement for publication int-! Lump, Kersey M. Sands, Franklin ' _ irapiotrtithats bea iebememteapinkd ATC) Anes @CkRrvax pices fo eee et meneee Geek 1 = Richio Wed time to meet members’ of the! Chavarax, Paul Burgess, Janice|™ember of the Press’ editorial | Sceucny bearer encom SES es {focal adntinictration staff and be. Muncom William Tripp, Howard| staff, who was here for several, 489 night declared that inasmuch | come acquanited with the differ-} Steadman. months last year, and said he en-/ 28 candidates on the ticket had j ent phases of the program. joyed every minute of his stay. jre epposition, they were . returned to Key West ye 1 { mio eats j . = +.1.; tration, returned to Key West } Members of the Key West Vol-| 14:- morning aboard the plane of unteer Fire Department wili hold| siami-Key. West Airw: ie regular election of officers next) after spending two da in Jack-} | Tuesday night. Officers elected | sonville conferring with state of- | will serve for the next two years. ficials of the WPA and Thomas This was announced at the con- D. Orr, new district director of the works administration here. clusion of a mecting held last During the two days he was in! Bill Carnes, con of Dr. E. H.j for a few days and sail for Ha- night to diseuss the action cf the! Jacksonville, Mr. Albert talked Carnes, surgeon in charge at the; vana later. ith a number of the state offi-|tocal Marine Hospital, and Mrs.| The Aldabaran was at one time cials, including L. S. Rickard, a:-) €arnes.. was operated op yester-| known as the Meteor. and at that sistant state WPA administrator; day at the local institution for|time was the private yacht of Robert J. Dill, state director of fi-! »ppendicitis, and is reported to be! Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. unan-i nance and reports, and members getting along very nicely. Ralph Burkholder, editor, and} Stuart Bell, sports editor, of the Cleveland (Ohio) Press, are in Key West for a short vacation and guests at the Hotel Colonial, and are enjoying their stay. These visitors came on the; j | Yacht Aldstaran, owner, Fran- cis Taylor, on d, is im the [harbor and was yesterday clear- 4 for Havana It was later said ‘ that the vessel will remain in port the under George! ited his work Color also studied | For the past several months Mr. | Orr has held a high exeeutive po- tsition with the Florida WPA in !Tampa. He comes to succeed M. JE. Gilfond, who, with Mrs. Gil- | fond, left over the highway this} Town Guests morning for Washington, D. C., to PRITCHARD’S ORCHESTRA ‘accept a position with the Rural Minimum Charge per couple $1 00) Resettlement Administration. HABANA-MADRID CLUB Regular Saturday Night DANCE Tonight from 10 till 3 a. m. For Members and Out-of- BURGLAR’S BIG BILL NEW YORK CITY.—When 2 !burvlar entered the home of Pe- iter Vignes in this city, he not} only stole the victim’s typewriter, | but also ran up a $100 long-dis- tanee telephone bill calling up} friends. | imously elected. | It was clearly shown last night | MOBERLY, Mo.—Earl Marict-/ that such action was not in ac-| ta, fireman in this city, took a| cordance wtih the by laws of the} fast ride to a hossital—but not in! | ergarization and it would be FIREMAN’S FAST RIDE the fire truck. He slid down the; necessary to bold the eleetion in fire pole so frst that he fractur-| order to compiz with the legal re- ed a heel. quirements, tof the Treasury Department staff The operation was performed in Jacksonville, } by Dr. Willard Bartlett, one This morning. after returning the leading surgeons of the coun- from Jacksonville, he outlined to’ try, who is now visiting in Key supervisors on WPA Projects West. procedure to be followed which is Dr. Bartlett is also a reserve designed to speed up delivery of | officer in the United States Pub-j checks, semi-monthly, to WPA/lic Health Service, and makes employes. | bis home in St. Paras Mo. THE SMART SET . . Will be seem at the HABANA-MADRID CLUB Sunday Jan. 12. 4 to 6 for a COCKTAIL DANCE }