The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVI. No. 18. Plan To Concentrate Most | Efforts On Completion Of Key West Sewerage Project Piping dahil Ma-' FERRIES ANCHOR terials To Be weed a ON SUND AY NEAR Expected To Arrive In} TARPON SPRINGS City Soon | NEW VESSELS FOR HIGHWAY} W. A. McMullen, Jr, director! ROUTE ARE TAKEN TO ST. JOSEPH’S ON ACCOUNT OF of WPA projects in Florida, and} Thomas D. Orr, director of the { ROUGH WEATHER WPA administration in Key West, | told The Citizen today that much | { | ‘Word was received today by’ {Franklin E. Albert, executive of- |fieer in the Key West Administra-! erage project which is to be com-| tion, by U. S. naval radio that the two new auto ferries, Pilgrim and |Traveler, were anchored Sunday and | ae Tarpon | i i of the activities in Key West are to be concentrated on the sew- pleted as soon as possible. Large shipments of pipe Joseph’s, near Barnes | Springs. i The ferries laid i there to ;Wait out the stormy weather West at the earliest possible mo-; which was developing at that . . }time, the communication si Puixpmaterial some which was received by the local equipngent has been held up be-' naval communications office from con-ithe U. S. Coast Guard head- | quarters in Jacksonville. Leaving Pensacola the middle Mr. MeMullen arrived yester-|0f last week, the ferries probably day with Mr. Orr and has been| Would have been in Key West by going over the situation since his; OW: had it not been for the, arrival, to get a comprehensive| Stormy | weather which swept, and withal intimate idea of con-!@¢ross the state Sunday and Sun- ditions here so as to be in a posi-| ay night, it is said. tion to definitely say what is r = quired and can be done to in PLAN T0 MAKE crease activity in the Key West district. The ground work, both Mr. Me- TO BE MADE WITH SOUND )EFFECTS; ACTIVITIES WILL Mullen and Mr. Orr said, has been laid for other projects which will BE CARRIED ON BY DIVI-{ SION OF WPA other materials are at Sound and will be moved to Key | ment, and cause of unsettled weather ditions, it was said. 4 : an-oatty-alate| and further Mr, Ort’s plans for putting more money in circula- tion, which was one of his ideas, expressed before he left last week for Jacksonville. Working On Matter Asked about the situation on| the Keys relative to employing Key Westers on the work, Mr. Orr said that he and Mr. McMullen} 4, A ; and offi | Motion pictures with sound ef- Is in Jacksonville are; _ sound agreed that workers from Key! {ects are to be made in Key West of the Motion Pic- e | by memt West should be employ m the} °° os Se peru sbenemipnyed On se | tire Division ote RedacaiawPA projects in Monroe county andj 1a°6. Ii 'si0! steps had been taken to have this| *@™/mStration. ‘ matter straightened out _* group of technical and mo- Mri Ocnsdben anid PaR within! to” picture experts composed of H. A. Crane, accompanied by Mrs. | the next few days workmen from; se . | Key West would be sent to. the| Crane: W. F. Gerecke, Robert G.| : | Morris and J Fleas i Keys and work on all projects| Morris and J. T. Gleason, are in : Key West at the Hotel Colonial. which are located in Monroe! |, ;. cnucretood that weacticalic| eat ‘ ‘ practically | jing The Citizen which keeps them j th. The ‘ean not help but be some a ‘ of steam NEW CUTTER TO — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1936. (CAMP BOYS ARE DELIGHTED WITH READING CITIZEN: AT! The Key West International! KZY WEST YOUTHS {Stamp and Coin Exposition will LOUISIANA CAMP WRITE: ba held under the auspices of the INTERESTING LETTER TO! Philatelic and Numismatic Society {of Key West in this city January THIS PAPER | 23, 24, 25 and 26. | The United States Post Office | Department and twenty-one for- members of} eign governments are participat- | La,,/ ‘2g in the displays. The exhibits i “"? by the foreign governments are happiness at receiv-| arpearing for the first time in the United States and as some ised of the tread of events and, 0f these entries will have to be} 23 ans returned direct to the foreign brings chem in thought "much overnments after the close of the ae vid | exposition they will not be seen teresting letter was received at! in any other part of this coun- this office: jtry, it is said. ' “The object of this letter is to} Among the nations represented | nk you heartily for furnishing} ate Czechoslovakia, Brunei, Ba-| us with the only means by which; hamas, Austria, Barbados, we can keeo in touch with our|tonia, Colombia, Denmark, Ber-! home-town. You have been very |-™¥da, Philippine Islands, Cyprus. tentive and we apnreciate. this|in the Mediterranean, Trans-Jor-; very much. I am glad to hearjdan, Finland, New Zealand, | that Key West seems to be as-| Western Somoa, Niue, Luxem- cending the la der to progress and: bourg, Australia, Cook Islands, | eee | Syria, Lebanon and Grenada. A “In reading the last issues of} Key West youths, CGC Camp 1-56, La Place, express thei ad MUCH INTEREST CENTERS IN KEY WEST INTERNATIONAL STAMP AND COIN EXPOSITION TO BE PUT ON number of these frames which will be on display represent mas- terpieces in workmanship. There will also be exhibited numerous frames by local stamp collectors, Through arrangements by Lieu- tenant William Klaus, U. S. N.. the displays will be housed in the Navy Administration Buiding which is the old Post-Office bui'd- ing at the foot of Greene street. In addition to the displays of stamps and coins there will be displays by the United States Lighthouse Service under the ar- rangement of Supt. of Lighthouse W. W. Demeritt and a display of hurricane charts by the local U. S. Weather Bureau. The committees of jud been appointed and the ju of the entries will take the opening exercises at B on January 23. It is hop the official patron of thes tion, Governor Sholtz,,owill present at some time di exposition, Citizen, I gather that this| winter Key K for be? onty which po: West is probably ney the United States! sa tropical clim-/ } ate with tr vegetation the “i ‘i : : || Many unique and interesting, Rona peep a5) experi | #8¢%8 about the state of Florida’ ences of the tourists, Key West! ave been discovered by the local “ {workers of the American Guide. The Guide, a five volume en-: about erclopedinet Seer ite meine, . ha a i a | prepare yy the Federa! riters’ thirty-five miles from New OF- | Project under the supervision of; leans and about sixty-five miles} : ; : the WPA. It will contain ac-' from Baton Rouge. We have the; PRS about! one Beton ito ‘curate and detailed aa ssippi River for our back. ‘every section of the state. A rather interesting back-| phe publication when complete aS ol Se es Soh ed number | iq) furnish a source of informa- from all parts of the! tion to tourists who contemplate! up and down the! trip to Florida. For this rea- son the state will derive millions of. dollars worth of publicity from; the Guide. Among the interesting facts dis- covered are: In the days of the pioneers a} charge of five dollars was made for the privilege of accompanying; the mail carrier on his walk from{ West Palm Beach to Miami. The} carrier knew the best route and} those accompanying him could! j use his boat to cross the Hills- borough Inlet. The first horse-high bars in America . . . bars so built that a man could ride in on his horse and get a drink without dismount- ing . . . were invented and built, in Kissimmee. The origina] story of the ‘The Paradise of the South’. “Our camp is situated world pa river daily. ~. SAgain..thavking you. for. the attention paid us, we remain the sami2 as ever, tcue Conchs.” BE SOUGHT FOR THIS LOCALITY WPA DIRECTOR TO MAK EF- FORTS TO HAVE ANOTHER SHIP REPLACE SAUKEE TAKEN OUT OF SERVICE i In- ol 'eting vc MANY INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT FLORIDA HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED dian princess saving the hand- some explorer had as its founda- tion an event which took place in the vicinity of Tallahassee, and Capt. John Smith “cribbed” the story to impress the people at home. A technical state of war exists between the Florida dians and the United States ernment, although they are a peaceful and friendly tribe. Much of this information been acquired through the operation of the local newspapers whieh have received and printed as feature’ stories-material of still In- |loca} or historical interest brought to them by people living in the vieinity. Considerable informa- tion of unusual interest is in the possession of private individuals. and it is only through their help that a comprehensive guide will be compiled. Any person who has in his pos- session letters, old books, or any, other information of local interest is requested to either with the editor of his news- The Kep West Citwen ra Key West, Florida, has,the mest equable climate m the country ; nge of only 14° Fahreah with an average PRICE FIVE CENTS George V Of England Succumbs; Prince Popular Monarch Ends His Reign GEORGE Vv, KING OF ENGLAND ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- arable From Locai Welfare —_ On January 1, American Busi- ness, large and small, found it- self with a new item of operating expense to pay. The item labeled “Social Security.” ! This year, unemployment surance will take 1 per cent of each employer's total payroll— | is! oe | in-' communicate] 2nd it is to be paid by the em-| cently reported, that pr ployer, not the employe. Next: wish to cooperate will have te go busily to work remaking their laws and amending their consti- tutions. Further legal troubles arise from the fact that, in the view of many able attorne; the social security act was hastily written, lacks the clarity it should have. Some think, as Business Week re- ent ieg- islation should be thrown over- paper or with the local supervisor| year the tax will be 2 per cent, | board and a new start made. of the American Guide. the cooperation of each individual it will be possible to make the Guide truly American as well as complete and exhaustive. Thomas D. Orr, director of WPA activities in Key West, said Mr. McMullen remarked that! he had been in Key West some; years ago, but that conditions: then were so much better than they are at present. During that time there were a number of cigar factories working, and he was as-| tounded to learn that only one or! two small places were now mak-! ing Key West cigars. | While discussing the of persons employed in govern-' mental activities due to the de- struction of the Florida East Coast Railway lines over thej Keys, Mr. Orr took from his! drawer a clipping from the new: paper the St. Petersburg Inde-; pendent and remarking he was keeping in touch with everything effecting Key West, handed it to The Citizen. ' | removal! Gives Description ! The article describes the elec-: tion of officers for the Jeffer-| sonian Democratic club and gives excerpts from talks delivered by some of those attending. One of the talks was by Major A. J. Angle, U. S. custom collector, in which he sa i “The Key West customs might be moved to St. Petersburg since Key West no longer is a port of call, the result of the storm last fall which wrecked the overseas railroad.” t This is another of the matters! in which Mr. Orr said he is deeply interested and is ready to do an thing within his power for the betterment of Key West. Like! thousands of others he is eager to! see the railroad restored and will, do all he ean to see this brought about, he said. Another visitor in Key West to- day from WPA headquarters in (Continued on Page Four) | ‘ :ernoon carried 15 passengers, | i SS INDOORS AND OUT-OF-DOORS; all projects are to be picturized} with the accompanying sound ef-} fects and operations will begin as/| soon as practicable. { FOURTEEN ARRIVE | ON BOARD PLANE FIFTEEN PASSENGERS LEFT ON PLANE YESTERDAY ENROUTS TO MIAMI Plane of the Pan American. Airways arrived this morning} from Miami with 14 passengers. The plane leaving yesterday aft- Today’g arrivals were: John De- meritt, William Tucker, Dora Greenberg, Lewis MeTyeire. Ethel} Epstein, Donald Myers, Joseph! Burleigh, Margaret Williams, Ar- thur Williams, Clarence Nice, Oliver Shank, Pauline Reid, Joseph Rainey, Jack Lea. Departures yesterday were: Webster Robinson, Helen Robin- son. John Dygon, James Warren, Charles Roberts, Hugh Prater, Daniel McLaren, Lottie Wagrow- ski, Thaddeus Wagrowski, Bob M. Duncan, Concha Rivas, Frank} Rivas, Annie Gardner, William R.} Porter, Norberg Thompson. | DANCE HABANA-MADRID CLUB Tonite, 9 till 2 a. m. Tourists Cordially Invited NO COVER CHARGE YOU CAN PAY MORE—BUT YOU CANT this morning that one of his im- mediate objectives is to ascertain whether or not a ‘Coast Guard cutter is to be designated ‘td’ be station at Key West in plate.of the Saukee, which has been .or-, dered decommissioned. : Mr. Orr will communicate with the commandant of the coast service at once, as the Saukee is to be sent to Baltimore and be ordered out of service. He hopeful of having another cutter stationed at Key West. The Saukee has been. in service in this district for about 15 years. | Originally the Valoonia, built for | the U. S. Shipping Board in 1918} several years later, the vessel was transferred to the coast service and was assigned to duty in this district in INSANE PATIE LEAVING TODAY CARLOS GARCIA, COLORED, TO LEAVE ON CUBA IN OFFICERS’ CUSTODY Charles L. Pound and Charles Lutz, attendants, who arrived yes- terday on the Steamship Cuba, will leave this afternoon for’ Tampa with Carlos Gareia, colored, an insane patient who has been in the county jail for several weeks. Garcia will be taken to Tus- keegee, Alabama, where he will be examined and instructions is- sued to place him in one of the hospitals designated for demented veterans of the world war. guard| (STATE OFFICERS | | / ATTEND MEETING TREADWAY AND OTHERS TAKE PART IN CONVEN- TION AT CLEVELAND (ty Associated Press) ; TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jan. 21.) —Five Floridians are attending the Cleveland convention of the American Roadbuilders Associa- tion as representatives of the; state road department. They are Chairman C. B. Tread- way. J. H. Dowling, chief engi- neer; K. Cannon, maintenance engineer; H. C. Weathers, testing} engineer, and T. S. Beard, super-; intendent of equipment. COMMISSIONERS | LEFT ON PLANE: | _— | PORTER AND THOMPSON ARE| ENROUTE TO WASHING- TON, D. C. County commissioners Wm. R. Porter and Norberg Thompson, left by plane yesterday atternoo” | for Miamj en route to Washing- ton, This morning they planned to meet Corrington Gill, assistant | to Harry Hopknis, WPA federal/ administrator and proceed with} him to the capital where they} may possibly remain for several. weeks, CLEARER VISION IN FISH TANKS RESERVE RESERVOIR PLACED IN USE AT LOCAL IN- STITUTION Visitors to the Key West Aqua- rium will in the future be able to clearly see the inhabitants of the tanks under any and all weather. conditions, This is made possible by the use of the reserve reservoir and aeration system which was com- pleted this week and put in serv- ice. : ¢ During periods when the pre- vailing winds are from the north the waters from which the sup- ply for the tanks is drawn be, comes turgid and is naturally dumped into the tanks. When this condition prevails it is, at times, almost impossible to see the fish, especially the more beautifully colored and smaller specimens. ‘To overcome this condition the reservoir, with a capacity of 5,- 500 gallons, was constructed to carry a supply of clear water to be used when weather conditions made the supply in the tanks muddy. This week the water in the aquarium began to show signs of becoming cloudy. At once the res- ervoir supply was used and today the tanks are crystal clear and many visiters were seen during the day looking at the many beautiful fish. Through! and in 1938 it will reach 3 per cent, the maximum under the, present, law. (Forecast is that the tax will produce total revenue of $250,000,000 during 1936. If business conditions remain un- changed, it will obviously produce $500,000,000 next year, $750.-| 090,000 per year thereafter, How- ever,-hope is that business better-! mént, with its corollary of in-! creased employment and higher! wages, wi!l steadily increase the} revenue even though the percent-! age of tax remains constant. Next step in the program will come in 1937, when the federal old-age insurance plan goes into operation. That will start with a 1 per cent tax on employers and 1 per cent on employes, which will mount slowly until it reaches 3 per cent on ezch in 1949. Total federal tax will thus be 9 per cent of all payrolls by 1950, of which employers will pay 6 per cent, em- ployes 3 per cent. In addition to these federal levies, states are studying ways and means of bearing their share of the expense—in the case of old-; age insurance, for example, the federal government will match state donations dollar for dollar. A number of states already have various taxes for this purpose,’ others are plannirg them. In some eases, state funds are created by payments by the employer dione, in others*by payments by both employer and employe. And there is a certain amount of agitation, in Oregon and elsewhere, for a; general sales tax to create funds for the unfortunate. | State-federal coope-ation in- volves certain legal difficulties. Requirement is that state fnnds_ be turned over to the federal) government for distribution. In; most states, it scems that this; would be unconstitutional under} on through between them, and | Soon efter his father's lowever, there seems small chance that this will be done, though it is expected the present Congress will make an effort to clear up some of the more vague parts of the law and thus make it legally sounder. Of Wales Becomes: King Royal Head Dies mm Peace- ful Manner; Body Will Lie In State At West- minster Abbey «By Assecssted Preasd SANDRINGHAM, Eng- land, Jan. 21.—Kimg George V of England died last night 11:55 o'clock, m the twenty-sixth year of his reign. Death came peacefully to the king im the presence of Wales, the duke of York, the princess royal, the duke and duchess of Ke xt. The body of the late mon- arch will be removed tc Sandringham church today and later trought to Lm don to lic im tate im West minster Abbey. Upon the death of King George V, the prince of Wales became Great Brit- ain’s king and took the title of King Edward VIL With his accession to the throne, his brother, the duke of York, becomes heir-presum>- tive. Sone ec oe kag is a bachelor, there is no heir- apparent for that position cam only be occupied by the king’s som or grandson. While King Edward VIII assumed the mantle of king- ship at once, a year will elapse before the coronatior takes place. George at throne as “ left it a Unassuming to the ness, dev hignos . Dismissing these legal and tech- nical difficulties, which must be eventually settled by the courts and Congress, it may be said that business views social security with; mixed emotions. Many leading j corporations have liberal pension} plans of their own, established long before a federal law was con- ceived. They agree with the principle the legislation repre- sents, confused as they are by some of the details. Many indus- tries are considerably worried as to where to get the money, at a time when, in spite of rising sales, net profits of numerous businesses are at comparatively low levels. Hope of the administration is that business conditions wil] continue to improve so rapidly that profits cannot help but rise, that in- creased costs wil! thus be auto- ‘matically taken care of, for un- der the law, these new costs be- come fixed overhead regardless of any profit. There. in brief, is the status of social security at present. It could be changed overnight by the passage of another kind of law. ;Sueh as the Townsend plan with its demand for $200 2 month for all people over 60. Most econ- omists feel that if this happens, the whole cause of social security will be endangered. The Presi- dent also seems to reflect this view. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE VINCENNES, Ind—A bolt of lightning struck inte the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. John Holt, of this city, pierced a feather bed in which they were sleeping, stabbed jt sympathy wor: during his 1928 and 1% mgt oe came from globe “It was as yond descr mnetse~ en huge crowd de Buctingtam messages and prayers te quarters of the tood Palace constant been grant the confidenc my people.” Trained First As Seiler Unlike British George V t begi n childhood { upancy throne. He was the second of Edward VII and old when became heir + b Duke kings, traning m eon of the son was 26 ye the crown brother. Clarence: Meanwh George bad barked upon a naval caceer wh kept hi most constant! cea time be was 1 which had carried him fi the rank of com he time of his broth- er’s death. Thereafter hic duties as heir apparent precluded exc'u- sive Gevoticn to the navy though. within two years after his father became King Edward VIE. 20c- cessave promotions brovgkt lnm rank of vice admiral. A tor. mn ch from the 2 at and rom acces present state constitutions. If that| shattered a concrete floor. Nei- sion om January 22, 1901. Prince turns out to be true, states which | ther was injured. i (Continzed on Page Four) > —_——___—- BUY BETTER BEER THAN WAGNER’S. THERE IS NONE BETTER MADE. ALWAYS WELL AGED. FACA