The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 24, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVI. No. 21. ORR OUTLINES PROJECT PLANS: CONFERS WITH CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIALS IN MATTER | LARGER PLANES WILL BE USED |TO BE IN OPERATION OVER W2zEK-END BETWEEN KEY WEST AND MIAMI | i | Miami- Conferring with city and county officials in his office this morn- ing, WPA’ director, D.! will be in operation o Orr, outlined the plan the|end, Franklin E. Albert, of the! the! Key West administration, Larger planes of the Thomas for in OTHERS ARRIVE AMONG LATEST TO COME IN ARE MR. AND MRS. J. M. BALCH Recent arrivals in Key West Key West Airways, incorporated, for a vacation during the winter; NEW BUDGET MYSTERY er the week-| are Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Balch, of New York City, who say they KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1936. | | JAPAN LEAVES PARLEY BANKERS DISLIKE RFC HOW IT HELPS RAIROADS | LOANED BILLIONS TO BANKS inite recommendation on work re- lief after watching developments. The payment of the soldiers’ bonus at a cost estimated at be- tween one and two billion dol- lars and the necessity of providing funds for farm relief will in- crease the estimated deficit con- siderably, although new taxes for GOVERNMENT LOS:S i The Kep West Citizen EARL JULIAN T0 LEAVE -ON Tae ELECTRIC COMPANY SALES. MAN WINNER OF ANNUAL | TOPPERS VACATION W. Earl Julian, Genera] Elec- trie Specialty Appliance sales-/ man for The Key West Electric’ Company, will leave by plane} project which is to start ! s : been advised, It was expected that planes would be used, but be; city hall and county court house next week, smaller has! have heard a great deal about Key| FLETCHER’S COMPLAINT | West and although here but gin-| short time, having arrived yester- i 2) NEUTRALITY A PROBLEM payments to farmers are likely to meet these expenditures, ‘January 25th on the annual Top-| | pers Vacation Trip, an award for} 'sales ability made each year to Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CEN International Stamp And Coin Exposition Cp- ad - Last Night; Many / Attend VISITING KEY WEST (United States Govern- | | i This is one of the several proj-| ects mentioned in an_ interview with the local director and pub- lished in The Citizen yesterday. Present at the meeting were County Clerk Ross C. Sa City Clerk Wallace Pinder, Muni cipal Judge T. Caro, Attorney Aquilino Lopez, Jr., City Auditor Willard Albury, Councilmen Clif-| ford Hicks and W. A. Freeman, | A. C. Manucy, head of the local outbound plane yesterday after-{ WPA! research and statistics de-j partment. The project provides for codifying of city ordinanec tablishing a comprehensive filing system and necessary registers.} also indexing and checking in-; dexes to records of the city of: Key West. T work will be by| the! es-| supervised, it is understood, Clerk Pinder and Auditor Albury. } There is also some work out-/ lined for the county court house| records. This be designated} by Clerk Sawyer who will super-! vise the project there. | j DOG ABOARD SHIP CANINE IS ON CABLE VESSEL ARRIVING HERE W:D- NESDAY.- One of the finest specimens of the breed of dogs known as the} Newfoundland, on board the! cable ship Cyrus Field, which ar- rived in port Wednesday after making r to the Key West- Havana cable, The dog, which answers to the| name “Bonza” was rescued from! an ice floe by members of the erew of the Cyrvs Field. It had doubtless been left, it is said, by! a party of sezlers who had been| forced to take to their boats and/| leave-the dog, when the ice broke. | When rescued the animal had, on its harness wl is attached to! a sled used for hauling the skins} of seals. The fact that the har- | ness was on the dog gave rise toi the thought that the owner made} a hurried departure. ! It was in a terribly emaciated | condition when taken from the; ice, an officer of the ship told| The Citizen, but careful nursing! and medical treatment brought; y and today the ani-} = about 90 pounds, and} is a handcome specimen of the| breed, i ANOTHER LICENSE | TO MARRY ISSUED, ing the list of Siriage licenses in The Citizen) reese one more is to be added to those issued from the office of | Judge Hugh Gunn, during the} Sines~pub! | ning tomorrow a 20-passenger ship will arrive in the morning from Miami and the same size plane will operate Sunday and Monday, it was said, and possibly longer. The use of these planes is made nec ry, it was said, because of increased demand for reservations over the week-end. Nine passengers left the on noon for Miami, as follows: John Corcoran, Beatrice . Corcoran, Chester Pope, Jeanne James Carter, Gustav Fuerth, | Thomas Neal, Jr., Leo Warren and} is Wn. T. Gerecke, TWO INITIATED IN BOYS’ CLUB INTERESTING SESSION OF ORGANIZATION CONDUCT. ED LAST EVENING Two members were initiated in the Boys Fellowship Club last night at the meeting held in Knights of Pythias ball. were Bob Pittman and George the fellowship test with flying colors. Equity Lodge 70, 1. 0. 0. F., | which is sponsoring the club, feel | satisfied at the progress being made by the 40 members who are all potential good citizens, and plans for wider activities are now} under way. Last night it was decided to | have each member undertake the} work of beautifying the home yards, by planting flowers or set-| ting out vegetable gardens. The boys will be supplied with the necessary. seeds. Arrangements are also to be made to have owners of lots give permission to club members to start beautification activities. Next meeting of the club will be held 7 o’clock on the evening of February 6. oa? Pope, | They| day, feel they will enjoy their va- cation of possibly several months. They are at the Over-Sea Hotel at present but are looking for a comfortable cottage or apartment. | Mr, and Mrs. Balch are accom- panied by M Balch’s mother. ! Also ariving yesterday j Mr. and Mrs. George Ross Pou, of Raleigh, N. C., who plan to re- }main in Key West several weeks. Mr. Pou received injuries to his right hip last year and is at pres- ent using crutches. He feels the need of ease and lots of sunshine, and came to Key West where he satisfied his needs can be sat- isfied to the fullest extent. ANNOUNCE DEATH "OF DR. P. MASTEN | WORD RECEIVED BY PERCY ROBERTS ABOUT DEMISE OF WINTER VISITOR | t ‘Perey M. Roberts has received ‘the intelligence of the death of !Dr. Edison W. Master who, for 112 years, was one of Key West’s ‘yaost welcomed guests and loyal | Demeritt, and they went through | winter residents. Dr. Masten was a retired prac- titioner of Cato, New York, and came here during the winter 12 years ago for a short stay, but | became charmed with the city, its wonderful climate and hospitable residents, and prolonged his sc- ourn to several months. Whe left he said he wovld tell ot of his vacation in this healthful climate, That he did so was evidenced by the number of visitors from the north who would | arrive and ask where Dr. Masten leould be found, although he was ‘usually at the train to meet them. | Dr. Masten’s pasing comes as a shock to his host of friends in Key West, The Citizen has been told. Death came December 3, 1935, funeral services were held and interment, with masonic hoa- ors in, Cato, N. Y. { SPECIAL POLL OF LITERARY DIGEST SUBSCRIBERS SHOWS HEAVY ANTI NEW DEAL VOTE A supplementary New Deal poll conducted by The Literary Digest among its own subscribers indi- cates only a fractional percentage difference in voting against the Administration’s acts and policies as compared with the final re- turns of the recent mationwide poll, according to returns publish- ed in the current issue of the magazine. A total of 229,248 Literary Di- gest subscribers are reported bal- loting in the special referendum lof which 84,969 are tallied voting | Colorado, Michigan, Nevada, New | Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin which indicate increased State percentages in favor of the ‘New Deal. In the subscribers’ poll New England evidences the heaviest | vote against the New Deal, near- |ly 4 to 1, with the Middle Atlan- | tie States next and the farm belt | third, voting over 3 to 2 against the Administration’s policies. | “A subscribers’ poll, a sort of | family party held after the main | affair,” The Literary Digest were! DEMOCRATS:END! DEFICIT | rho amount.-neediad) for. work | | relief is an unknown factor but | ; one notes that the Conference of _ By HUGO SIMS, z Mayors has called upon Congress | The Citizen’s Special Washingtcm {, appropriate $2,340,000,00 for : Correspondent _ {work relief during the next fis- 2 Denied an “upper common lim- cal year. Speaking through its it,” which means naval equality executive committee, the Mayors with the United States and Great warn the government that “at; Britain, Japanese delegates with- Jeast” three million “cases,” in-} drew from the London naval con-' volving twelve million men, wom- ference. This action ended all’ en and children will remain de-! hope of prolonging existing trea- pendent on Federal funds after | ties relating to the size of major next July and that an additional | navies and fortivications in the. two million “cases,” representing{ Pacific. While responsibility for seven to nine million persons, breaking up the parley rests upon will be dependent on State, Coun-| Japan it may be said that her! ty and municipal relief funds. position has been clear for months. ! Whether any satisfactory limita- tions of naval armaments can be effected, with Japan outside and insisting upon equality with this country, is to be doubted. | The Supreme Court, having or- dered the return of $200,000,000 } of impounded AAA taxes, the! ; question arises whether the gov-| {ernment will have to return the! Ne } $1,000,000,000 already collected | Bankers are of the opinion that’ from processors under the Farm| the government should get out of Act. Some difference of opinion j the lending business and dislike! oyjsts, with AAA counsel con- ivery much the tenor of Jesse | tending that the $1,000,000,000 happen until a “free flow of cred- ' cessors proved, as required by the it” with reasonable interest rates jaw that they had not “passed to the “‘small fellow” is provided: oy” the taxes to the consumer. by the banks. The chairman of The Court did not Tule on this the RFC backs up his ideas with yoint, Usually a taxpayer, enter- aon j taining the idea of a suit to re- : cover taxes paid, must, at the time When the Great Northern Rail-' of payment, do so under protest. road sought $115,000,000 to re- In many jurisdictions, failure to finance obligations the banks ask: | pay under protest is construed as ed 5 per cent, plus a $1,000,000; a bar to any suit to recovery. underwriting charge and an addi- tional 1 per cent on such bonds as} The dispute between Henry P. they might buy. Thereupon the) rletcher, Choirman of the Rcpub- RFC offered the money at 4 Per jican National Committee, and cent. By contrast, the Greati two large broadcasting companies. Northern, which has never e-| ijjustrates the difficulties involved faulted on an obligation in 57:in the present management andj years, has been paying 7 per cent] »ontrol of broadcasting facilities. | on the issue for fifteen years, ar About three or four weeks ago though the bankers got the bendh Mr. Fletcher requested the com- at a discount of more than eight/ panies to give the per cent. The railroad will save! party similar time to that given $3.000,000 a year which will! the President’s message to Con- more than meet its social security | press, This was refused. Recently tax. |the companies also refused t> put jon the air a series of dramatized Mr. Jones points out that the! political sketches which the Re-; present bank act allows national| publican Party planned to present banks to lend on improved real|on paid time. estate for as long as ten years and on unimproved real estate for fvie years. It allows loans to in- dustry up to ten years. The loans are available for rediscount by | the benks at the Federal Reserve ; litical party in power which reg-) and, inasmuch as 98 per cent ofjulates the issuance” of licenses} all depositors are insured andj and leaves in the minds of the bank runs are unlikely, there is|public “the distinct impression no reason for banks to maintain; that you are either exercising an extreme liquidity, or to fail to! unwarranted degree of censorship meet “the legitimate requirements | or that you fear punitive action of real estate, business and indus- j by the Federal Communieations try in proper proportion to their | Commission.” lending funds.” | It is interesting to note that Mr.| Fletcher hints that the attitude taken is “affected and perhaps in- voluntarily controlled by the po- The National Broadcasting Com-| Incidentally, the RFC has been | pany explains that it has antares | a God-send to the banks them-jly allotted on a non-partisan ba- selves. Since beginning operations |sis a reasonable amount of time nearly four years ago it has loan-|for the discussion of public af- ed to banks and trust companies | fairs and controversial issues. and $1.931,075,125, invested $1,294,- | that prior to national conventions 258,169 in the stock of 7,254; no charge is made even for politi- banks and loaned or authorized} cal broadcasts. However, the dra- an additional $1,170,031,738 to! matic skits offered, involving the 2.665 closed banks in order oj fictionizing of important political | Toppers from the trip for a week and wi ‘not licensed by Wednesday, Jan-| t@x equalization as one ‘The Citizen. | outstanding members of the Gen-: eral Electric Specialty Appliance! Department. Mr. Julian is one of; five Florida salesmen to be! awarded the honor, which is based! on the five highest sales records: in the state for 1935, and is made, possible by the George Patterson,! Inc., State Distributor the! General Electric Company. Leaving Key West Mr. Juli will go to Miami by plane and? there will take train to Savannah,| Georgia and join the group of i entire South-| | eastern Section of the United j States. From Savannah, the group i will embark on the Steamship Fairfax of the Merchants nd Miners Line for Miami, Florida.! Upon arrival in Miami,‘the group; will go directly to the Miami- Biltmore Hotel, where a_ varied program of entertainment has been planned. Membership in the Toppers Club is eagerly sought each year! by members of the General Elec-) H trie Specialty Appliance sales peupaniiac aalin cabanccees’ Cot ee —— ful in winning the honor for the; | PAID CALL AT THE CITI- ZEN OFFICE TODAY and JUDGE R. B. GAUTIER Candidate For Governor third time. Special jewel-studded| pins will be awarded each Top-| per. ‘Mr. Julian will be away on the| ill return! Judge Redmond B. Gautier of ‘Miami, Fla., who mayor of that city, paid a call at | The Citizen office today, and in- jcidentally spoke of a few of the reasons that have induced him to become one of the leading can-} didates for governor in the com- ing election. He pi mts the Friday or Saturday. PLAN CRUSADE AGAINST DOGS Dogs in Key West which are} ise necessity for of the uary 29, are to be caught up by| major issues in his opinion. Lower- ; Republican/ the city sanitary department and/ img of the gasoline tax, and a tax is virtu impounded, according to a legal: 0n automobiles graduated accord- notice appearing in this issue of ing to the actual value of the car, .are among the readjustments Licenses are now due and pay- Which he deems necessary, and} able at the office of the city tax with this a more equitable 4 collector, and should be paid be- tribution of the proceeds of i fore January 29. Tax Collector dustry. C. Sam Pinder annouces that li-' Judge Gautier will visit Key censes for male dogs cost $2 and West in the course of his cam- for female dogs $3. | paign on a speaking tour. ' EVERY EFFORT BEING MAD! TO HASTEN WORK TO, FERRIES PLACED IN OPERATION ‘Franklin E. Albert, in charge! repairs to the highway which was damaged in the storm last Fall, time consumed in the ferry trip; the Over-Sea Highway water gaps,! will be shortened even more. ._{ Both Captain J. E. Demeritt! last might telegraphed the office’... Captain A. E. Sharpley, who! of the U. S. Steamboat Inspector | /ought the boats from Cairo to! ; Key West, are pleased with the} at Tampa, asking that inspectors) way in which the ferries can be! z a -/.{ handled and Captain Demeritt! be sent here immediately to give! iii. morning ssid that even! approval to the ferries, Pilgrim though they are larger they ban! j dle very easily. of the operation of the ferries 07; former! Math Fridericus DW By Comn von M H Last night the Key West Inter- national Stamp and Coin Exposi- tion opened in the Navy Adminis- tration Building (old post office building). Amidst an appreciative crowd, the Commodore welcomed the visi- tors and read “greetings” by the sponsoring society, and also ex- pressed his thanks for dex d by ii aid ren- widuals and oc _simess men. from the Sincerely A wire then read inability to attend Stamp and Coin Key West th’s ever, I a ntereste have best governor was i International E wee position i. How and r wishes a mest Sheltz, Governo: Regret was expresse. governor's inability to be With a f appropriate {Main Museum of Ke his capacity as executive director of the museum. Forty-three framé@s have been donated through the generosity of Key West citizens. It was stat that the next div‘sion to be adde: will be an oceanographic division All stamps have been especially printed and are imperforate Stamp authorities estimated that the value of this entry is $300.000 and possibly the one million dollar mark 2 y impossible stamps that exist. but are not the open market and hence outstanding rareties. The committee of foreign government sisted of Lieutenant William Klaus, U. N., host to the ex- position in the Na-~ .dministra- tion Building- D nn R. Bal of Circleville, OF and Com- a Liuba, presi © sponsoring society Prizes To Governments Decisions which were reached unanimously, are as follows: First prize to the following govern- ments and in the following classes of exhibit: Australia. neatness ef display; Austria, commemorative stamp; Bahamas, King George the Fifth issue; Barbados, King George Jubilee set; Bermudas, Queen Vic- toria set; Brunei, highest face value; Colombia. unusual airmail stamps; Cook Islands, imteresting atrangement; Cyprus, best pic- torial issue 1934; Czecho- slovakia, blocks of stamps and cancellation prints; Denmark. complete sheets of stamps; Es- tonia, symmetry of arrangement; Finland, Lebanon, to are judges entries con- on Me of completeness; and jand Traveler, which arrived here! Having been used in fresh wa-| Unique mount ne Seine: Luxembourg, beauty of arrange- ment; New Zealand. Niue and Western Samoa, simple attractive- | | week ending January 23 | This was issued late yesterday afternoon and sanctions the mar. riage of Jack Fulford Mathews “ves” and 144,279 are shown vot-} states in its current issue, “shows ing “no” in answer to the ques-| many similarities to the big poll. tion: “Do you now approve the! and several interesting divergen- acts and policies of the Roosevelt! cies. help them pay off depositors. } issues, would “place the discus- ;ter, the all-steel hulls of the fer- These items amount to $4,395,-!sion” on a “basis of dramati _ Siqentigg sas pag gr agate 365,032—all of it being govern-|cense, rather than upon the bativ/ 1, where they were purchased lent condition when a traveling yesterday afternoon from Cairo, fact cr and Doris Beatrice Borden. |S an ae NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS Dog licenses are now due and payable at the office of the Ci Tax Collector. Licenses are as} follows: Male Dogs, $2.00; Fe-i male Dogs, $3.00. Dogs not h ing licenses by Wednesday January 29, will be caught up by the City Sanitary Department. SAM B. PINDER, jan24-1t City Tax Collector. SPRING CHICKENS, FRYERS | AND BROILERS, NICE YOUNG ROASTING HENS Also TURK Dressed and Delivered at any hour Phone 738-J LEWIS POULTRY FARM 1611 Von Phister Street s il ‘New Deal’ to date?” The percentage of the vote against the New Deal in the sub- seribers’ poll is 62.94 which com- | pares with a final negative per-' centage of 62.66 in the recent 10,000,000-ballot general poll. Only ten States show a ma- jority vote in support of the Ad- ministration’s policies in the sub- seribers’ poll while the other thir- ty-eight States cast adverse ma-; jorities. In the recent main ref- erendum of the magazine, twelve States voted in support of the New Deal, Kentucky and Virginia changing from the affirmative to in the subscribers’ poll. All States show a stronger vote} against the New Deal in the sub- scribers’ poll than they did in the general poll with the exception of GETTIN “While a substantial number voted in the special test, they are only a fraction of the 1,907,681 who took part in the big poll. Nevertheless, the ‘yes’ and ‘no’ percentages in each case are about the same. The subscribers’ ‘no’ percentage is 62.94, as com- pared with 62.66. “The accuracy of polls of The Literary Digest subscribers as a cross-section of the American | people has often been challenged jon the ground that The Literary | Digest readers represent an eco- nomic and social stratum higher | than the avefage. Yet, the sub- | j the negative side of the New Deal) scribers’ vote is within less than } one-third of 1 per cent of the percentage reflected by the coun- | try at large. “A striking coincidence is found (Continued on Page Four) ment money advanced to help the| of responsibly stated bankers of the nation and thusj opinion.” establish a strong banking sys- tem. Of this vast amount $297,-| The Columbia Broadcasting 303,971 was never used by the} Company was convinced that “dra- banks, and was therefore cancell-} matization would throw the radio ed, $2,726,226,0°0 has been re-| campaign almost wholly to the paid, $249,887,751 is now avail- (Continued on Page Four) able when conditions are met and the balance, $1,669,139,012, rep-' resents the amount that the RFC, SHOE SALE now has invested in bank stock, | SATURDAY, 8:30 A. M. 300 pairs $2.50 and $3.50 SHOES, broken stock, in white, loans and securities. black, brown and combinations; pumps, ties and oxfords. On Just how much money the Fed-. eral Government will spend dur- sale Saturday beginning 8:30 ing the fiscal year beginning July Be on time for best selection 1st is a real mystery. The Presi- PEARLMAN’S dent’s budget message forecast a + probable deficit of $1,096,000,- 000 but did not include any item” for work relief or for the pay- ment of the soldiers’ bonus.. The President expected to make a def-, Jones’ remarks that this will not | could not be returned unless pro- by the Florida Emergency Relief While the approval of the in- spectors at Tampa must be ob- tained before the ships can be put in actual operation, steps were for the run between No Name | Key and Upper Matecumbe. s'ins! at those two points must be al- tered to accommodate the lazger boats. After alterations have been made and inspection of the boats [made with the approval of the; inspectors, boats will be put | operation, and as soon , State Road Department has mad2j in G TIRED OF THE OLD BRAND OF BEER? LET US SUGGEST A BEVERAGE THAT WILL SATISFY YOUR TASTE AND POC j inspector of the Bureau of Navi- , gation, Department of Commerce, inspected thenr prior to their pur- | | chase by the FERA. Arthur A.| Grant, marine surveyor and ap- | praiser of New Orleans, also in- spected the boats at Cairo. His ‘report, after a thorough inspec- | tion, indicated that the vessels 'taken here this morning to make were in a very good state of | what repairs and alterations to! preservation. ithe superstructure are necessary | The vessels, 100 feet long with 30-foot beam and 39 feet over outriggers, are well designed,; staunch and tight. They are so light and buoyant that they carry jany where from five to ten tons jot ballast to keep their bows down. They have a draught of i three and one-half feet. ; Equipped with Fairbanks Morse | six-cylinder Diesel engines cap- (Continaed on Page Four) ness; striking display: Postage due stamps. voted to the Colonial Postmaster in Grenada, British West Indies. and to the Philippine Islands for sending displays to Key West for exhibi- tion and the judges _ expressed their special thanks to the small- er nations. colonies or states that are participating; namely, Brunei in Northern Borneo; Cook Is- lands in the Pacific Ocean; Cyprus im the Mediterranean Sea; and Transjordan in Northern Arabia. The judges in the stamp nov- Margaret Zinaida von Mictk- Liuba and the commodore, unan- imously awarded the first prize im this division to Mra Rath B. as the! able of generating 180 horse pow-| Graham of Key West for = strik- (Continced on Page Four) KETBOOK. TRY WAGNER’S