The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 17, 1936, Page 1

——_——— Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate im the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit No. 15. VOLUME LVI. Liberty League Brings Up Its Big Guns; Al Smith Expected arrels To Open Up Former Presidential Candi- date Scheduled To Be Principal Speaker At Coming Rally By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—The which almost American Liberty League, from its headquarters within the shadows of the White House has been taking pot-shots at the “new deal” and Chief New’ Dealer, is now getting ready to fire its biggest gun. Alfred E. Smith, scheduled as the headline speaker for the league’s rally here on January 25, is expected to “let go with both barre!s” at the administra- tion of the man who in 1928 a fectionately dubbed him The Happy Warrior. Meanwhile, Jouett president of the Jeague and most frequent spokesman, sends Roosevelt Shouse, its out blasts against the regime from the identical office he occupied when, as executive di- rector of the Democratic national committee under National Chair- man John J. Raskob, he raked the administration of Herbert Hoo- ver, ~ Membership’ Lar; The league conducts its inten- sive and publicity campaign from the suite of of- fices on the tenth floor of the National Press building which formerly housed the Democratic committee. Shouse sits today at far-reaching ! | With Both B |FERRIES ARE NOW ENROUTE | TO KEY WEST | VESSELS LEFT PENSACOLA YESTERDAY AFTERNOON; ’ EXPECTED TO ARRIVE in! FIVE OR SIX DAYS Ferries purchased by the FERA pany of Cairo, LL, left Pensacola jlate yesterday afternoon and ; should be in Key West within the next five or six days, if good i weather prevails between the west Florida port and Key West. Captain J. F. Demeritt, who is on one of the ferries, and has been since the vessels left Cairo, advised Franklin E. Albert, execu- tvie officer of the Key West ad- | ministration, by wire this morn- ing, that the ferries sailed. Meanwhile, preparations are be- ing made in Key West to have the j ferries put in operation as soon as possible. Some work must _ be j done on them after arrival, since ‘they must be converted from side; entrance to end entrance carriers. { In addition the turning basin at! the lower part of Upper. Mate- cumbe Key must be deepened and widened, and the channel will of necessity be widened at some points, Mr. Albert said this morning that most of the work to be done on the ferries could be carried on; while they are in operation, and at night, so tht the larger steel hulled craft can be put in opera- tion almost immediately upon their arrvial here, CAPTAIN KRUEGER } | ! { i 4 \ { MORE VISITORS HERE FOR SEASON, ARRANGEMENTS MADE FOR ACCOMMODATIONS BY WPA HOUSING DEPARTMENT ac.! TIVITIES | Within the past few days the winter colony has been augment- ed by a number of visitors, who made arrangements for accommo- dations with the WPA housing de-| partment, and are now comfort- ably located. Among them are: Mr. and Mrs Paul Judson, in the! Austin, home on Avenue E. { Mr. and Mrs, Hutchins Hapgood, on Whitehead street. Mr. and Mrs. Binzel, in= the Mathews apartment, \1424 White: street. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Worely, in the home on the extensive grounds of the Curry residence on Eaton street, Mr. and Mrs. Seaver, in the Rosalie Martinez apartment, near South Beach. Mr, and Mrs. W. G. Summer- ville, in one of the Wallace B. Kirke cottages on Seidenburg Avene. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Cowan, in apartments on Duval street. Others ¢o arrive in the near fu- ture are: General and Mrs. Dal- ton, who have secured the Jack Gaiti upartments on White street, expected to arrive tomorrow. Mr, and Mrs. Leif B. Nostrand} and family, due January 25, and will occupy the J. J. Trevor home on Division street. Mr, and Mrs. Walter Coach- man, due February..1,.and will ec- cupy the Hiida Russe!l bungalow on Flagler avenue. MUSICAL UNITS T0 MEET TOMORROW | i i The Rep West Citizen —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1936. STATE COMPTROLLER LEE CLAIMS | BECOMELOCATED | FLORIDA NEEDS NO NEW SOURCES OF REVENUE TO’ RUN GOVERNMENT’ (Florida News Service) MIAMI, January 17.—‘Florida needs no new sources of revenue and the present sources are ample to take care of every need of state government,” State Comp- troller J. M. Lee told the Com- mittee of 100, an organization of winter residents of Florida, at a meeting at their clubhouse on Mi- ami Beach Tuescay night when taxation was the principal topic of a half dozen prominent authori- ties invited to address the gath- ering. The state comptroller cited fig- ures to back up the assertion and showed by up-to-minute statistics of tax revenues that Florida’s in- come from present tax sources has been growing by leaps and from the Tri State ferry Com-|in the Victor Moffat apartment! younds and that efficient admin- sive enforcement of collections and a fair deal for all taxpayers —large and small alike—is pro- ducing several million dollars more revenue per year now than was produced during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, when the then new comptroller found the | state with $387.47 in the general j treasury of the state and unpaid bills, notes and other obligations totaling more than $1,000,000. Has Balance An outstanding feature of Comptroller Lee’s figures as cited to the gathering was the fact that the state’s Confederate pension fund now has a balance on hand of $1,047,021 with steadily in- creasing income every month suf- ficient to pile up a surplus by next June 30, sufficiently large to, per- {mit the state to reduce the state! millage by at Jeast approximately three mills, or more than half. Colonel Lee’s only qualification for his declaration that no new soureés were necessary was the stitément: “Unless it is found ad- visable to change the entire sys- tem of state finance. That is ti Bay, any new measures should b peal of all continuing appropria- tions and let each appropriation bill carry every penny of money to be spent. “Governmental bodies should annual such surpluses, not deficits, surpluses should be so its becoming the subject of ex- j travagance and wasteful expendi- ture, “I reiterate, Florida needs no new source of revenue. It does } ' ing the revenue now provided. This can only be obtained by a ;full understanding of the de- ;mands and needs of the various departments of state by the. fi- ; nance and taxation committees of {istration of the tax laws, aggres-| the legislature. i | “To my mind the greatest thing that could happen for this state ‘would be that the next session of ‘the legislature should meet, or- ganize, name its committees and ;Yecess with the understanding , that it would be called back in session when important commit- ;tees had thoroughly familiarized | themselves with all branches of governmental ventures. When this! !has been done then let the com-} iMittees on finance and taxation, ‘appropriations and state institu- | tions spend at least six weeks with the governor and his cabinet in a , careful study of state needs, | “This would enable them to ‘present to the legislature a work- | able and harmonious program which could be passed within a \ ;Yeasonable_ period of time, and t | misfortune of having a legislature | parley over programs for the con- i stitutional period of time {then after the expiration of the | ¢onstitutional period of the ses- [Sion m a moment of confusion and fiscord pass all of the major rev- nue and appropriation bills.” be so regulated as to create small! guarded by statute as to prevent; \need a revised system of expend-} thereby save the state from the! and; COUNCIL DEFERS ACTION AGAIN ON WATER QUESTION MEETING CONDUCTED YES- TERDAY AFT=RNOON Head Of State } The City Council at a ecalt meeting held yesterday afternoon, | again took up the question of the proposed water franchise for furnishing Key West with a sup-: ply of fresh water in an offer made by the Scott-Seiplein or- ganization. After thoroughly discussing the question, a ‘resolution was adopt- e@ in which the council deferred again in'‘taking any definite ac-| or The Citizen submitted solutions tion in ‘the matter. , to the misspelled word puzzle in The resolution adopted follows: | yesterday’s issue, and 166 were “Whereas, “the Scott-Seiplein| wrong. Only three were right, proposal to give the City of Key | according to the rules. West fresh water has not been| The misspelled word which was satisfactorily’ explained to the’ sctected by the puzzle editor was members of the Gity Council, and, |, the front page of the paper in |e desined ‘balers taking detaiie] 27 Sietimaen of Bicionay and eee Peacock’s Bakery and was “Tuti action thereon, therefore, Fruti” which should have been “Be it resolved by the City | putt; Frutti” ing all fruite. : Council in special session conven-| “There were pacasige oe agp |tions proffered which carried the” correct word. Unfortunately for one of the contestants his coupon had two solutions on the coupon, which gave him a double chance, and disqualified his solution. The other carried a fictitious name, One hundred fifty-nime readers ONLY THREE WINNERS OUT OF ONE HUNDRED AND) SIXTY-NINE SENDING IN SOLUTIONS Gne hundred sixty-nine readers ied that no definite action be tak- en’ on the water proposal fran- chise now pending until the City; ; Council is further advised in the} ! premises. “Be it further resolved that the! i chairman of the City Council, the | | mayor and city attorney shall con- | petigiey bssromapsi hed nasty the said water franchise proposal, ; 4 | and report their findings back t»|*¢lected the misspelled word im |the council as a whole for final,the South Florida Contracting jand Eng:neering advertisement. | “Be it further resolved that} Two selected the error in the said committee shall not incur in| Kinzan advertisement. Two others behalf of the city any expense| decided that “Tonite” should be pursuant to its investigation, but |5Pelied “Tonight” Another read- if and when the .same become | &F found the right word but necessary that such shall be borne ; Spelled it wrong iw the’ correction. entirely by the sponsorers seekingjthen the two disqualified, as a franchise in the premises. noted above, and the three win- “Be it further resolved that the; B€rs, make the total one hundred | action. | ‘Morree County Read and | Bridge Commission to go te Wash- PRICE FIVE CENTS Road Dept. Will Go To Washington At C. B Treadway, Florida state reed department, was this week sciected by the Teil imgten, D. C_. and use every ef- fort possible to bring the matter of the bridges te = bead This was «nid today by J RB Stowers, member of the comms sion, whe im company with B_ D. Trevor attended a meeting of the commission beid Wedresday after- noon in the office of Judge WC Burwell iz the lngraham Budding in Mi Other sion who atten.e were: Jodge Burwell, Judge © H. Tayler, P. L. Witsen, of Miami, and T. Jenks Corry, of Evy West and Eey Large Mr. Stowers and Mr. Trevor left carly Wednesday moruing over the highez; to Ne Name E- and from cont sed journey by -pee newt im commer with Wm. BR. Porter and Nerbere Phompsét. wee wom gor we BE ami te att metiber: of the commis there Ewergiace mission 2: as substitutes for present sources! ons [NATIONAL PARK Offers Solution 4 The comptroller’s solution for investigation and report of said | Sixty-nine. i committee shall not in any way} Winners whe have Auto Strop l obligate the city, but merely be} Razor Sets awaiting them at this received as a report covering the | Office are: The Citi Stowers that the meeting = the problem of paying the state’s | , subject matter of the resolution. Mrs. Bernard Cruz, Postoffice ge te Wash: IS TRANSFERRED | way with existing sources is—in} | “Be it further resolved that| Box 723. the mutr <f @e « the same desk he had during the! powerful anti-Hoover drive of 1931- . Incidentally, the league’s first publicity was rushed out on a mimeograph hastily borrowed from the Demo- cratic committee. The membership of the league is said to number more than 100,- 000, largely business men an lawyers. There two classe of membership, regular and con tributing. The regular embraces those who believe in the principles of the league and to this every American citizen is eligible with- out financial contribution. The contributing members embrace those who in addition are able and willing to give monetary help for the league’s support. The league defines its purpose as educational—‘defense of the constitution and dissemination of, information teaching the duty of government to encourage and pro- tect individual and group ini- tiative, to foster the right to work, earn, save and acquire prop- erty, and to preserve the owner- ship and lawful use of property when acquired.” Pamphiets Distributed While the great majority of the utterances of its spokesmen and of its releases to the press have been severely critical of the Roosevelt. administration, the league commended the President on two @ccasions. Qne was his veto of the soldiers bonus and the other was his reported opposition to proposed legislation requiring adoption of the 30-hour work week in industry. In the year and a half of existence, the league has dis- tributed 3,500,000 pamphlets on subjects ranging from “A Pro- gram for Congress” to a report on the constitutionality of the po- tato control act. League officials say its activities have been the subject of 250,000 new stories and editorials. In addition to the executive committee there are a national advisory committee and a na- tional lawyers committee, the lat- ter composed of prominent attor- publicity its neys whose reports on the validity’ F of “new cal” laws and proposed laws have red widespread and heated political controversy. ’ YES, WAGNER IS } | ARMY OFFICER HAS BEEN AS- { SIGNED TO DUTY IN PHILIPPINES Captain Robert Krueger, U. S. ., has received official notifica- ion of his transfer from duty in| the states to the Philippine Is-} ‘lands, : | With Mrs, Krueger and daugh- ter, Joyce, the captain will leave} Key West about May 1 and will} be in New York to sail on an army ; transport, scheduled to leave May 15. Captain Krueger came to Key West July, 1934. At that time he} ; was a first lieutenant. Last year; he took the required examinations and was later elevated to the; rank of captain. + During their stay in Key West | Captain Krueger and family have/ endeared themselves to a i wide} circle of friends who are express-: ing regret that requirements of the service makes their departure necessary. ONE MARRIAGE | LICENSE ISSUED! There was but one matriage li- cense issued in Key West during! the past week, according to the] records in the office of Probate Judge Hugh Gunn. This issue granted permission to wed to Mario Calleja and Nina de Lisa Leslie Sumlin. HOLIDAY NOTICE (Monday, Jamary 20, Robert E. Lee’s Birthday, a legal holiday | in the State of Florida, this bank} will.not be open for business on that day. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK. jan17-2) HIGH SCHOOL HOP; “The Music Goes Round and Round” with Dell Woods’ Orchestra CUBAN CLUB Tonight From 9:30 Till 1:30 Gents, 60 Ladies Free | terdant's attorney and was de-! THOSE IN WPA, ORGANIZA- TION WILL BE HEARD AT STUDIO Musicians wanting to work on the proposed music project of the Florida WPA will be heard tomor- row morning in auditions in the; musie studio at 414 Simonton | street, George Mills White, direc-| tor of the project, announced to- day. Auditions will be made from 9 a. m. until noon. A committee has , been: selectext| by Mr. White, composed entirely! of persons interested “in| music} who are not Key West residents, Which will insure a fair hearing! from all persons wishing te ibe ‘on the project. Every musician must be heard by the committee, it was stressed, and persons should bring their instruments and any compositions they wish to play. EUGENERIVERO ARRAIGNED TODAY] COURT FOR IMPROFER EX- HIBITION OF FIRE ARM Eugene Rivero, the improper exhi arm, was placed on trial in crim- inal’ court this morning and en- tered a plea of not guilty. The jury selected to try the case were: Whitmore Russell, George W. Malgrat, Harry Theo- | dore Russell, Octavio Recio, Fer-} nando Chile and E. A. Mathews. This selection.of the jury was ordered by Judge J. Vining Har- . after a motion to quash the indictment had been made by de- nied. A number of witnesses for the prosecution and defense were called. When all the testimony had been recorded jurors were in- structed to go to dinner and re- turn at 3 o’clock, to consider a verdict. addition to continue efficient ad- ministration of collections—mere- ly a question of modernizing the system of appropriating, spending and disbursing. ent system is so old and antiquat- ed that we sometimes have to dig} far back into history to find out just how to spend some of the money that is collected from the heavily burdened taxpayers.” Going into his figures Comp- troller Lee said the pension and balance June 30, 1933, was $120,- 000, and on December 31, 1935, it was $1,047,021 and the follow- ing sources show comparative col- lections for the 1932-33 and 1934-35 fiscal years were: General Revenue: $5,676,156— $6.955,328; Utility tax (1932 and 1935 figures) : $120,816—$490,120; Documentary Stamps: $251,- 858—$397,231; General Licenses: $559,671; Gasoline Taxes: $14,137,059— $17,246,748; Intangible tax levies: $51,985— $246,912; Estate Taxes: 087,237; General Inspection $494,647—$691,766; Bus and Truck Mileage: $123,- 062—$139,095; Racing Commission: $763,259— $1,403,826; “In the face of such a showing does Florida need more sources of money? New sources of rev- enues? No! A thousand times no!” Comptroller Lee declared. “What Florida needs more than anything else is a few hours of consecrated, sober thought on the part of every citizen and es- pecially the business men—hours of thought of such duration and sincerity as will produce through future legislatures a guarantee of $297,393— $357,723—$1,- Fund: “Why the pres-! —L PORTER AND THOMPSON NAM- ED ON COMMITTEES AT MEETING IN MIAMI Regular meeting of the Ever- gledes National Park commission was held in the court house in Miami Wednesday. Thomas J. | Pancoast, of Mirmi Beach, was elected chairman and presided at the meeting. Among the commission mem- bers who were appointed on com- mittees were Wm. R. Porter, of Key West, mem*er of the land and boundaries and the finance committees: Norsérg Thompson, of Key West, member of the fin- ance and public relations commit- tees. > Mr. Porter and Mr. Thompson left Wednesday morning to at~ tend the meeting and returned 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. SEEK DATA ON ISLAND CITY DESCRIPTIVE LITERATURE ON FLORIDA KEYS ALSO REQUESTED Requests for literature de- scriptive of Key West and the Florida Keys and copies of local newspapers, continue to be re- ceived by The Citizen, WPA hous- img department and chamber of commerce, and all requests are promptly answered, Even: from Canada some have been ‘sent, the last of these from John L. Day, street. Mrs. R. W. Cranch, said committee forward a copy of 531 Grinnell this resolution to the water fran- chise proposers, and take such ‘other steps as in their judgment may best aid it in a comprehen- sive investigation herein.” ‘BEALS, ROBINS 123 Ann street. | This brings to a close the series! ;0f proof reading contests which, |have been running in The Citizen! over a period of several weeks ! In the days to come ether con-| ‘tests to tax the ingenuity of The! ; RAILROAD OFFICIALS HAD BEEN HERE ON REGULAR . INSPECTION i ’ ; ' } ‘ Citizen’s readers are to be held.| i These will be announced as soon, | "pon. ‘REY. DAY DUE C. L, ‘Beals, general manager way. compnay, and F. S. Robins,| superintendent of motive power West for regular inspection or ip BEEN ATTENDING STATE property and equipment at these | @ BAPTIST CONFERENCE for Miami en route to St. Augus- tine. tendent of transportation, who; Rev. James S. Day. of First’ arrived Wednesday morning in: Baptist church, whe, with Mrs secure reservation on the plane.) State Baptist Conference in Ara-| {and was forced to remain over. |as the details have been decideds of the Florida East Coast Rail-! HERE SATURDA and machinery, who were in Key; terminals, left by plane yesterday AT ARCADIA P. L. Gaddis, district superin- ~ company with Mr. Beals, could not, Day, was attending the Plorid Principals int the cast and mem- bers of the chorus in the fortheom-} ing production of the “Pirates of Penzance” are to meet 7:45 o'clock tonight at the Over-Sea Hote! for rehearsal. But a short time remains unfil; Oliver de Guise, of Sorel Quebec. | the night on, which the opera will bridges as soon = @s practiced: GAS THIEVES c he ox only a | carry them a part of the detanc- they must go Severs! owners have managed to get within 2 few their dort their gas ==> being recerve. Some months -go there was 3 perfect epcem { ths form of petty pilfering but t was soon checked throurt the wigtarce of city and county officers of one hundred percent collections} Canada. Mr. de Guise writes: “I from all alike upon some fair oh pe read English and Spanish.” equitable basis and above all give! He also shows the temperature in us an entirely new sound and safe| his city, January 8, the date of his, system of expenditure of suchj letter, as “Maximum 28 degrees, revenue. minimum 5 oe “Why the present system is so} Mr. de Guise has been sent a old and antiquated that we some-| selection of literature issued by times have to dig far back into|the WPA and copies of The Citi- history to find out just how to|zen showing the temperature in spend some of the money is| Key West was, on January 8, maxim’ f 80 d a produced. 3 a jum of degrees an that the re-! minimum of 73 degrees. be staged, says Director George! the Pan Mills White, and it is neces:ary | service that those taking part attend all, w, rehearsals, im the Falford’s Phone 880 Podity Fos