The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 14, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West a eo, 2 Sees Key West, Florida, has the r most equable climate in the ‘ country; with an average ; Z range of only 14° Fahrenheit KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1936. VOLUME LVII. No. 39. PRICE FIVE CENTS 'TO PLAN PROGRAM ] PAPOSS CSL TTT TTS OSOSOSSOSOOOOOSOST OTT EOTOOOOOORS PATY REFERS TO Mrs. Long Helped ‘Launch’ Huey; Now She Succeeds: Him’ In Senate With Baby On Her Lap She! Prepared And Folded Campaign Circulars For His Political Career By RALPH WHEATLEY (Ry axsociated Press) NEW ORLEANS, Feb. Mrs. Huey P. Long goes to 14.— the United States senate as successor to her spectacular husband well grounded in the machinations of From early married life and un til the last few years of his career, she fought for his advancement from behind the scenes. It was she, with a baby on her lap, who prepared and folded for mailing| H the campaign circulars that} launched her husband in politics, He sought and followed her ad- vice as he prepared the ground- work that brought him to the poli- of Louisiana. of Huey Long’s life, he became a little too tempestuous with his polities for her and she played small part in his public life. Helped Huey’s Career Like her husband, she came from a farm and she was almost his age. In 1892 she was born on a farm near Greensburg, Ind., and in a few years the family moved to the town of Greenburg. Her mother@ags 9 nati¥e Of Bouise jana and when she was 10 the! family moved to Shreveport, La., where she met her husband by winning a prize for the best cake made from a compound that Huey Long was selling. tical dictatorship But in the last years At the age of 20, she married’ Long in Memphis, where they lived a short time until Long de- cided on a legal career. She came with him to New Orleans and did housework on a shoe-string until her husband completed one year of law school, enough for him to pass the bar examination. They then settled at Winnifield, La., her husband’s birthplace. After a few years they moved to Shreveport and turned to polities With small funds and little en- couragement, she worked with her husband at her home doing the clerical work and her house- work. From Shreveport they went to Baton Rouge to the gov- ernor’s mansion and with Huey well launched on his career with plenty of money, Mrs. Long turn-} ed her attention more to her chil-| dren and her home. She let her husband proceed alone in politics after that and had no desire to go to Washington as a senator’s wife. ! Acceptance Surprised Friends | Mrs. Long is a brunette of, average height and a little plump.! She is pleasant and jolly, caring! little for society and club _life.| She said she was happier with her! daughter and two sons in her! home. Until she was appointed! senator, she had no desire for pub-} lie office and her acceptance sur- prised those who knew her best. She is the type of woman who! can grace a mansion as well as a! cottage and probably will fit into} the- senate as a quiet and inter-} ested member. She has no special; political plans and hardly could) be expected to attempt to a the uproarious course of her hus- ' band. She probably will map her. own course as she goes along. | TOMORROW NITE, 10 O'CLOCK! RAUL’S CLUB Pritchard’s Orchestra ddd ade chiral CITY PLACES “BLACK MARIA**IN OPERATION The city of Key West has at last placed in operation a police patrol vehicle, com- monly knewn as a “Black Maria,” which was seen on the streets yesterday for the first time. The vehicle will be kept at the city hall, and will spond to all calls sent in by police officers in making ar- rests im different sections of the city, bringing prisoners to the city jail. The patrol wagon will be cperated by Call Officers Paul Thompson and Basil Tynes. condone DELAYED PLANE - ARRIVED TODAY AIRCRAFT COMING IN FROM MIAMI BROUGHT FOUR- TEEN PASSENGERS re- Plane of the Pan American Airways arrived this morning with 14 passengers, most of whom were passengers on the one yes- NON-ENFORCEMENT OF STATE LAWS MENT OF POLL TAX PAY- MENTS (Special to The Citizen) PENSACOLA, Fla., Feb. 14.— A declaration that, if elected next governor of Florida, he would not take the oath of office “with my| fingers crossed” in respect to law enforcement, climaxed an address lJast night in the Escambia county cireuit courtroom by B, F. Paty, candidate for governor. The address, first of the 1936 gubernatorial campaign delivered in Pensacola, held the close at- tention of a crowd which filled} the courtroom beyond its capa- city and drew warm applause at! its close. Included in the gathering were about 20 prominent political lead- ers of the county, according to one political observer, who said the force and virility of the ad- dress and its proposals was “al pleasant surprise” to the crowd. ! “Laws on the statute books of | this state should be enforced with reasonable diligence or they should be repealed, and if I be- come governor I shall use my dili- gent effort to see that they are enforced as the constitution re- terday which came as near the KEY WEST HAS HAD LESS SUNLESS DAYS THAN ST. PETERSBURG WHICH CLAIMS TO BE “SUNSHINE CITY” Despite terrible blizzards throughout the country with cold waves reaching ‘ar down in Florida, The Citizen has mot, so far, been called upon to make good its offer of $5 to the public library on the day, the temperature falls below 50 degrees. And even though the sea- son has been more than usually rainy, and there have been several days when it seemed the sun would not shine, its other proposition of $5 to the library each day the sun does not shine in Key West, has not required ful- filment. Both of the pro- posed gifts were made Janu- ary 1, of this year. One other newspaper -in Florida, the St. Petersburg Independent, has been giving away its first edition. for each day the sun . does. .not shine in the “Sunshine City,” TWO MORE YACHTS ARRIVED IN PORT | i | BOTH OF PLEASURE CRAFT ARE BERTHED AT SUB- MARINE YACHT BASIN Two new yacht arrivals were eo and has been called upon to fulfill this promise but 120 times during a period of more than 25 years. Satisfied that Key West's record for sunshine days surpassed that of St. Pe- tersburg, The Citizen decided to go The Independent one better and also made the oth- er offer of $5 for each day the temperature falls below 50 degrees. Several persons have face- tiously remarked that thi “gambling with the weather.” Not a gamble at all, but a substantial indication of ab- solute confidence in’ the truth of the statement appearing thousands of times in these columns, that .Key West has the best and most equable climate in the United States, and does net come under the classification of “arid re- gions.” |PLANT BOARD CASE HEARD HERE TODAY MERLIN ROBERTS ‘ARRAIGN- ED ON CHARGE OF INTER- FERING WITH ACTIVITIES In the case of Merlin Roberts, and political; icity as Key Vacas, and then re- | turned to Miami, because of ad- verse weather conditions. On the arriving list were: Bart Griffin, Robert Hulswitt, Corne- jlia Hulswitt, Charles Hulswitt, ‘Henry Nowe, James Hancock, Sylvia Hancock, Margaret Best, James Petite, Ann Petite, H. S. | Dexter, Walter Maloney, Russell Sherman, Eugene Matelene, COUNTY BOARD _ MEETS TONIGHT County commissioners will meet tonight to hold a regular meet- ing which was postponed from ; Wednesday, It is understood that | Chairman Carl Bervaldi and Com- {missioners B. B. Warren and Nathan Niles will be in attend- ance. Only the regular check of the ; depository accounts for the month of January is scheduled for con- sideration. PAPY ANNOUNCES FOR RE-ELECTION FORMAL ANNOUNCEMENT AS CANDIDATE FOR LEGISLA- TURE APPEARS TODAY quires of the governor,” he said. “The first duty of any man really loyal to the principles of popular government is to see that law is enforced and order upheld.” Paty also struck at the prac- tice of the present chief execu- tive in asking for undated resig- nations from appointees at the time they received their appoint- ments. “I shall never ask any sheriff or any other official for his undated resignation on his jappointment to offiee. The sher- iffs and other officers should be | permitted to serve unmolested by ie governor unless there is con- vincing proof of misconduct in office, in which case I would un- hesitatingly exercise the power of removal. But I would not re- move an official until he had been given an opportunity to be heard.” Calling the practice of “charg- ing people to vote” a thing “re- pulsive” to him, Paty pointed out only three states now charge poll tax and said he would advocate abolishment of the practice. He said the revenues from the tax, which goes to schools, is ap- proximately $300,000, propor- tionately small, and “one stroke of the axe in a state department would save enough to offset it.” However, he made plain, he in- tends no interference with a prov- en source of revenue to the schools unless some adequate and substantial source is offered in its stead. Paty was introduced by W. Pierce Bledsoe, president of the i registered yesterday at the dock-; i casteee office at the yacht basin.10f Francis street, heard before 'The June IV and the V-20326. The former is a cabin sport cruiser, owned by E. G. Hall, of. cireuit court chambers this morn- Crystal Springs, Fla., and reg-i sy the jistered in Miami. The vessel has|'"® ;G. C, Hall as master. There is would render a decision this aft- one guest, The V-20326 is a cabin cruiser owned and mastered by Peter onl Mr. Roberts was arraigned on }loff. The vessel has one guest.} It is registered at Miami Beach, ;® Charge of interfering with mem- Two yachts which have been in} bers of the state plant board in the basin for some time sailed; their work of spraying trees and yesterday. The Pegasus sailed foliage in the yard of his home. for Cuba and the Westwind sailed} py. plant board’s case was in for Miami. } 2 | A number of other yachts are| Charge of Attorney Wim. H. Ma- scheduled to arrive before thejlone. The defendant was repre- jseason ends, according to ad-|sented by Attorney T. S. Caro. vices received by Dockmasterj Charles Archer. UIT STEAMER {Judge Jefferson B. Browne, in | judge announced he ernoon, PHILLIPS RITES HERE ON SUNDAY} GRANADA DUE TO ARRIVE TOMORROW CONSIGNED FUNERAL TO BE HELD FROM j TO PORTER DOCK CO. RESIDENCE TO ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH Fruit carrying vessel Granada, of the Standard Fruit and Steam- ship company, is due ‘to arrive in Key’ West tomorrow, for bunkers }at the Porter Dock, company. The mks . | Granada sailed from Philadelphia the residence 421 Duval street, 8 \o'clock-Wednesday morning en Funeral services for Living- stone Bethel Phillips, who died at noon yesterday, will be held Sun- day afternoon 3:45 o’clock from | priations Committee, Escambia County League of Young Democrats. From Pensa- cola he goes to Punta Gorda where he will begin an intensive campaign of the state Saturday morning. \CAPT. DEXTER RETURNS HERE HAD BEEN IN JACKSONVILLE OVERSREING SALVAGE OPERATIONS Bernie C. Papy announces in this issue of The Citizen for re- election to the office of represen- tative to the Florida legislature from Monroe county. Mr. Papy’s activities while a member of that body elicited fav- orable comment from his consti- tuents, it is shown, and the re- sult of his work was praised. His efforts brought about the recent road program on Key Lar- go, and he was also responsible for the comprehensive schedule of repairs and improvements now being carried on between Key West and No Name Key, is pointed out. He was chairman of Aviation Committee, member of Appro- Fish and Captain H. S. Dexter, wreck- Game Committee, and other of} ing master in charge of operations the committees,in the last legis-j of the Tug Warber, returned this lature. | morning via plane from Miami, Mr. Papy, while talking over] after spending several weeks in his record as. | yepresentative,| Jacksonville overseeing salvaging told The Citizen.that,as a candi-| operations by the Warbler on the date he stood on his record in the| sunken steamer Welcombe. legislature as printed im the} The Warbler left January 20 journal of the house, and asked|to raise the steamer which sunk that all voters familiarize them-|in the St. Johns River following selves with these journals before} a collision with the Steamship casting a vote. Cherokee. Mr. Papy was active in having} After the ship was raised the a circuit court resident judge con-| Warbler was instrutted to go on tinued in Monroe county and alsoj another mission. These orders in securing the appointment of an| were countermanded and the ves- assistant state attorney from Key|sel came to her home port at Key West, - West. it to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Pigs: Rey. Arthur B. Dimmick will of-|"°Ute to Ceiba, Honduras, ficiate. Lopez Funeral Home will be in! charge of arrangements. Pallbearers will be: Carl Rom,; Edgar Pangle, Curry Harris, Joe Sawyer, William Arnold and Harry Beaver. Personnel of Battery “E” C. A., Florida National Guard will at- Coast Guard Cutter ©. G. Me- Lean arrived in port last night, berthed in the submarine base and sailed 9:30 o’clock this morning. The vessel is doing patrol work. Freight carrying vessel Heron of the Oversea Transportation company, arrived this morning from Miami with cargo for local merchants. tend services and interment. ANOTHER SPONGE SALE CONDUCTED: OFFICIA‘ F STEAMSHIP | coop PRICES RECEIVED FOR ees COMPANIES DUE TO AR- OFFERINGS AT MUNICIPAL TOMORROW: | DOCK TODAY : ae JOHN CRAIG TO PAY VISIT HERE rm John E. Craig, first vice Si- Another day of good prices for! dent of the Clyde-Mallory, aes Sponge offerings was announced) is due to arrive by plane tomor- this morning following sales con-| row from Miami, according to ad- ;summated at the Municipal vices received by C. E. Smith, | Sponge Wharf. loeal general agent of the com- Prices for the larger lots ranged, pany. from $825 and $815 down to $148{ Mr. Craig’s last visit to Key jand $136, with a number of lots! West was made about two years selling for prices in between. ago when he eame to make a gen- With a group of smaller offer-| eral inspection of the property ing bringing approximately $350,| and operation of the lines at Key the day’s sales totalled just a lit-] West. It is understood this is the tle more than $3,000, mission of his visit this year. | | FOR ADVERTISING STATE OF FLORIDA 'Oklahoma’s Blind Senator Displays: Amazing Memory GOVERNOR'S ALL FLORIDA CoC C eee x, Gere Ref Aid COMMITTEE WILL. HOLD MEETING TOMORROW a TAMPA ; (Speelal to The Citizen) JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 14.— Means to spread Florida’s advant- ages to the rest of the nation wil! be determined by the Governor's All Florida Advertising Commit- tee at a meeting in Tampa, at 11:30 a. m., Saturday, February} t i ' 15, in the Tampa Terrace Hotel.|” The meeting has been called by| Ralph Nicholson of Tampa, and C. H. Overman of Bagdad, chairman of the committee, to select media and copy for the present national advertising effort, hear reports, and plan for continuance of the | campaign to attract visitors the} year round, summer and winter. | The committee, during the last four months, has placed advertis: ing in 15 national magazines and} 30 northeastern newspapers. Ap-} proximately 15,000 arswers have! been received vy the Florida State} Chamber of Commerce, which was’ named by the committee to han- | dle the follow-up on the requests. | Requests for general information are sent a booklet about Florida, prepared by the State Department of Agriculture. Those who write for detailed or specific informa- tion are given special handling by the Florida State Chamber of Commerce, The All Florida Committee divided into two groups, the Plan- ning Committee, composed of eight prominent Floridians, chairmaned by Mr. Nicholson; and the Finance Committee, which is composed of ten well-known men, under the direction of Mr. Overman. All were appointed by Governor David Sholtz to raise the money, select media and copy, and direct a na- tional attempt to advertise the state ad a whole to the rest of the United States. P. M. CREWS, 56, DIED THIS MORNING) FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE! CONDUCTED ON SUNDAY AFTERNOON Phineas Melvin Crews, 56, died 12:10 o’clock this morning in a local hospital. Funeral services! will be held 5 o’elock Sunday aft- ernoon from the Lopez Funeral Home to Fleming Street Metho- dist church. Rev, Shuler Peele will officiate. J Knights of the Golden Eagle,; members of the Ladies’ Temple Golden Eagle, and of the Degree of Pocahontas, will attend the| services. Pallbearers will be se- lected from the Knights’ oraniza-| cT@tic representation at the gen- tion. er, Mrs. Elzina Crews, of Brad- fordsville, Ky. Sister, Mrs. So- phie Burris, of Riverside, Ky. Three brothers, Pomeroy, also of Bradfordsville; James, of Clinton, IIL, and William, of DeKalb, Il. LIGHTHOUSE SHIP LEAVES ON VOYAGE) VISITING OFFICIAL OF DE- PARTMENT MAKES TRIP ON TENDER | Lighthouse Tender Ivy sailed! this morning for Sand Key andj Cosgrove Shoals. At each of these points an ion of the units will be made by Assistant Light- house Engineer W. J. Schoneck. Others making the trip besides Mr. Schoneck are A. H. Thomas, examiner from Washington, who arrived to revise the accounting system, and Disbursing Officer’ Lionel Plummer. DID YOU KNOW THAT WHEN YOU BUY WAGNER BEER, YOU ARE NOT ONLY GETTING THE BEST BUT YOU ARE Vk LL es NEW YORK EDITOR BOOSTER FOR CITY R. H. McCaw, night man- aging editor of The New York Times, is completely sold on Key West, letters ar- riving here from him and his friends indicate. Mrs. McCaw plans to come to Key West within the next few days to remain the bal- ance of the winter, and Mr. McCaw already is making plans to spend his vacation next winter here. In addition, he is making arrangements to have Key West temperature readings included in the weather re- port appearing in the Times. This will give persons in the north an opportunity to see just how equable the climate is in Key West. Temperature readings in Key West show definitely that when it is cold in other parts of Florida, it is warmer here, and when it is warm throughout the state it is cooler in Key West. | | tn Many instances Dur- ing His Activities As Solon By HERBERT PLUMMER {By Anneciated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The senate’s remaining blind senator | —Thomas P. Gore of Oklahoma |—asked for and received the seat | | | jf the Inte Hucy Long the | front rew in the chamber, but his | physical handicap had nothing to ] do with the request. | The white-haired, distinguished. | looking, sightless senator, a vic- |tim of two accidents im his boy- | hood, spurns any such aid. Aside }from relying on the arm of @ | page to conduct him toe and from the capitol and his offices, he is amazingly self-sufficient. Rather | than depend on braille, he relies | selely cn what is read to him to CANDIDATES FOR Gore's statistical memory is re- STATE POSTS TO markable. Once in the senate, for | texample, during debate on a fi- | nancial measure, a colleague ask- the BE INTRODUCED DECISION MADE DURING JOINT MEETING OF DEMO- CRATIC ORGANIZATIONS HELD LAST EVENING ed for information on total | tax burden of the American peo- it off mto tple. No one could give oft- 'hand. Gore chanced chamber in time to hear the ques- tion. After the others had failed, the quictly rose and irom mewory offices; not only gave the total, but broke the Candidates for state visiting Key West will be accord-| it down into federal, state, county {and municipal taxes. x ue Once he was to make an On his w ed the courtesy of having some person to introduce them should} j they desire to address the citi-| zens, ad- idress in Baltimore. y to the railway station in Wash- This was dccided last night at/ ington, it occurred to him be a joint meeting of the Monroe | should include in his address the County Democratie Executive) popular vote for — eet Committee and the Young Men’s ea, bres eee wa Democratie Club. He stopped at a news stand in The question of making provi- the station and bought. an al- sions for the intrdouction of state manac. During the less than an candidates to the voters of Mon- hour’s ride, 2 companion re roe county was discussed and it him these figures. By the tim ives decided taat th he mounted the platform to vas decided that the visting C8M-1 sseak, he had committed them to didate will be accompanied on the memory and recalled all without stand by a member of each of the |, single error. bodies and the introduction form-| p.14, ps even more remarkabie ally carried out. l¢ham this command of figures end Tt was also decided ‘hat the| statistics is his knowledge of the ue an im harmony 2m | tremendous library be has built Sees See ee ee: lup on every conceivable subject. cratic political situation in Key) Ww both bodi ork zeal. He knows the location on thy est, and bot lies w ur | shelves of his books and can either ously to increase the membership’ ’s Democratic ®° himself or direct others to the eeeg ee |spot where a volume can be to The sense of this phase of the | U"4- ; meeting was to have the demo-! eral election in work toward that end. MORE VISITORS November, as. sometimes more often, in : A ;.|large as ible, and the mem-,ever city he may be, he spe= Mr. Crews is survived by his 85 peo, ; y y widow, Mrs. Tessie Crews, Moth-| Dership pledged themselves to!an hour or two browsing wit Browses In Book Shops 1 Every Saturday afterneon, what | companion im second-hand beok jshops. He'll have his companion {read first the title of a be Like as not he'll say he has th | Marigelds, deus ene. If not, then the title page. j the table of contents and « few paragraphs of the opening chap- Iter is read. If he is imtereste: Mr. and Mrs, Dallas Det and. O° * © ot atte oe Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Ross, of package o wa “ag —_ ‘Washington, D. C., are due to ar-| 202" °F more others au steie: “alin # me the high later to his home or office. to remain here until March 1.0 | a aces Both Mr. Dort and Mr. Ross are ©"** — » say ns = to Corringt Gin, who ©? for 2 book purchased 2 year is 5 t to Hi Hopkins. It *"¢ 2 half before. i € was after Mr. Gill’s return to) Mrs. Gore, his personal secre- Washington after a visit “of sev- ‘ay, and the three or four clerks eral weeks that he recommended ™ his office, take turns reading Key West as the place for his as- to him. He sits im a specially- . their winter made rocking chair 2s he listens. = to spend ir = He ~ i ts is to deliver. Supplied with ail , the data he wants, be shuts him- self up in a remote place for ‘hours at When be ise emerges his address fi = ly fixed mind, even te the South Florida Nursery | He sttributes bis faculties of PHONE 597 jmemery to these hours of sc- clusion. : HELPING THE SCHOOLS OF FLORIDA COMING TO CITY he CUT FLOWERS CALENDULAS, dozen a ti he has in he