The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 2, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West he Key West Citisen 2 3. VOLUME LVII. No. 5: KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1936. ‘Inflation’ Always A Fighting Word, Echoes Again In Halls Of Congress | | ore te Also Swirls About Trading: IES LSS ST Posts Of Stock Exchange|F INE JEWFISH CAUGHT } E | And Various Other Busi-| —— j One of the finest jewfish ness Centers caught in some weeks from the local docks was taken this morning by the airplane land- ing crew while awaiting rival of the morning plane. After being dressed the fish, which had by that time attracted the attention of a number of visitors, was placed on the scales and weighed 72 pounds. The largest of the species taken in some years, it was said today, was caught some months ago from the Porter dock and weighed 475 pounds, immediately after be- | ing taken from the water. | ' Prob-| SID ISS ST I :| ably few who hear it and few who! ——— use it na just what it BRIDGE MATTERS means. Yet few words, if needed| AND RAILROAD TO. BE TALKED OVER : ! ar- By CLAUDE A. JAGGER | (A. P. Financial Editor) | NEW YORK, March 2.—A! mystical word echoes through} panelled and tapestried offices | high in Wall street's skyscrapers, | rumbles in the halls of congress, | H is Weard in the dignified offices of the federal treasury, and swirls| about the trading posts of H Stock Exchange. the This word is ‘inflation.” any other word, so quickly stirs emotions of political, financial and business leaders these Aas It friendships, starts arguments, destroys! SEVERAL DIFFERENT UNITS | WILL HOLD MEEAING THis! AFTERNOON AT COUNTY ‘COURT HOUSE stirs not only anger but fear, and cause ists to shift their timid capital- | millions into. fresh havens. Though infil. understood, i in its severest ruin unequalled by ar haps save war. ion may be little is well known that is | Board of county commission- ers, city council, members in Key West of the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge Commission and a committee from the Rotary Club, will meet 5 o’clock this afternoon in the county court house to dis- cuss bridge and railroad matters. B. M. Duncan. manager of the bridge commission, and consulting gineer of the state road de- partment, and C¥mrhissioner Nor-! ; berg Thompson, left yesterday by! automobile and boat for Miami,i where they were to consult with, Judge W. H. Burwell, member of the commission; Attorney H. H. Taylor. of the commission, andj Hamlin, attorney for the state rpad department. forms it can bring! ny force pe The most terrible experience with it in recent times was in post-war Gc where the currency became v market-basket full would scarcely pu neless, a of money hase a loaf of bread, the great middle class was impoverished tense suffering said htnger“&nd in-! over the not new. In the 1780's the Republic suffer- Boston, swept land. is Rome saw it. infant Amer ed from it. Adams found a suit of clothes cost him $2,000. Samuel that a new hat and Money’s Value Decline: adly, economis' ion means a decline inj e of money, and a eanse | quent rise in the price level. | occurred in Rome when Nero re-| duced the metallic content of the} | FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE coinage. That was easy to under-+ tand. With less precious metal; CONDUCTED TOMORROW | AFTERNOON in each coin, the seller of a new| tunic naturally demanded more | cows. But today, when we use chiefly paper money, and more important still, tr t about 90 per cent of our business by use of bank checks, inflation is more il-, lasory. One of the most commonly ac- cepted theories of inflation that it occurs when the effective volume of money and credit in- creases faster than the physical: volume of goods. Mass Emotion Thus, if the number of dollars available to purchase a quantity of goods doubles, but the quan- tity of goods remains unchanged, the price of the quantity of goods doubles. This, of course, is an’ex- tremely simplified version. It might seem from this that effec- tive control of money and credit could be accomplished, and prices kept stable. Ind that is one of the objecti of recent mone- tary and bank legislation. But a vital factor which is be- yond control, economists explain, is mass emotion. If confidence in the effectiveness of the controls should vanish, the result may be' a rush to spend money for fear it may be worth less tomorrow. Something of way nature happen-| ed in Germ . Once such a move-| ment starts, money is spent fast-| r and faster, prices rise, the need | for more and more money to ear-| ry on the movement tends to! of the Boys Fellowship Club are! speed issuance of paper currency. | No one wants to hold a fixed in-| ing to be held this evening 7:30 come security like a government! o’clock in the home of Director bond. Government treasuries can-! George F. Archer, not finance themselves by selling! street. the Jose Ygnacio Avila, 53, died! last night 11 o’clock in the resi- dence at 413 Eaton street after a brief illness. } Funeral services will be held to-| | morrow afternoon 5-0’clock from * the chapel: of Pritchard’s Funeral Home. Rev. Arthur B. Dimmick. , of Paul's Episeopal church, will officiate. The deceased has but one sur- vivor, his mother, Mrs. Josefia is! ROTARY CLUB TO. MEET TOMORROW Key West Rotary Club will hold its regular weekly luncheon to-! morrow at the regular time in-} steed of Th=rsday this week. This change was made to af- ford the members an opportunity | to hear an address by Dr. Con-} radi, president of ‘the Florida! State es for Women in Tal-! FELLOWSHIP Cl CLUB TO MEET TONIGHT ! judiciary. committee, i ‘who is charged (RITTER HEARING SCHEDULED T0 BE HELD THIS WEEK IMPEACHMENT PROCIZEDINGS AGAINST FEDERAL JUDG= TO CCME BEFORE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 2.—Im- peachment proceedings | Federal Judge Halsted L. Ritter of Miami probably will be called up in the house of representatives this week. Chairman Sumners of the house who ' dueed the impeachment resolution for the committee, said it would | be brought up at that time. Four articles of impeachment are made gaainst Judge with accepting large fees and gratuities from persons who had business in his If the house adopts the court. resolution for consideration on whetker it is | to be made final. Impeachment was proposed for “misbehavior, and for high crimes; ‘and misdemeanors” in office by; Judge Ritter, a «Republican who appointed by President Coo-| j {was Idige and was qualified as a Unit- hed States judge on Feb. 15, 1929.' The first article charges he ac-} ‘cepted $4,500 from A. L. Rankin,! an attorney in mortgage fore- clese actions against the Whitehall Building and Operating Company of Palm Beach. It charges the; payment was made after Judge | Ritter allowed Rankin $75,000 for his services, in addition to; $15,000 previously allowed by, Federal Judge Alexander Aker- man, who considered the fee fix-| ing at Judge Ritter’s written re-! quest. Rankin was identified as law partner of Judge Ritter before ; , the latter’s appointment to bench. Judge Ritter was charged in the second article with entering into, an agreement to continue mort-! gage litigation against the Palm JOSE AVILA, 53, | Beach company even after Bert W. [F. Holland, of Boston, who had! , the proceedings instituted. sought ito withdraw his case. ‘bers of his family and others oc- Leupied rooms and received serv-: Hulswitt, Sarah Hulswitt, Charles {four second class for Havana. at the White- time the ‘ices, without cost. {hall hotel during the | property was in receivership in his; { court. A third article charged Ritter solicited and received $2,000 from a New York law firm as addition-} al payment for litigation he con- ducted for the firm before his ap- peintment on the bench. The fourth article charged Judge | Ritter brought his court seandal and disrepute” by his ac-! tions and orders in other cases. | Among these was his appointment of Cary T. Hutchison as_ special master in a proceedings by which ; the city of Miami sought to force reduction in rates charged by the Florida Power and Light Com-: | rany. Judge Ritter also was charged | interests within the territorial jurisdiction of the court of which; Judge Ritter was judge. NAVAL OFFICER ARRIVES HERE COMMANDER R. B. BRAGG WILL MAKE INSPECTION OF LOCAL STATION Commander R. B. Bragg, U. S Members of the senior division ‘N., public works department, was Starke captain: an arrival this morning on the: being reminded today of a meet-'Cuba from Tampa, and was met’ sailed yesterday morning. on his arrival by Lieutenant Wm.! Klaus, officer in charge at the! 1425 Newton! naval station and his assistant, L.' Three guests on the vessel. M. Pierce. against | intro- | Ritter, ; it will go to the senate} the} the} “into | {master is R. G, Hogsberg. { Ohio, James M. Hewitt owner, has; bonds, <nd are forced to to print} Matters of much interest and; It is expected Commander Bragg} still more money, Such a move- importance are to be discussed at| will remain in Key West for sev-} ment soon becomes inflation in} tonight’s meeting and a full at-!eral days making comprehensive | its most virulent form, tendance is expected. j inspectiow of the naval station. ‘Key West Man For Operating VISITOR FINDS FEW MERCHANTS | WHO ADVERTISE JUDGE MILLER DESIRING xl H { i 1 MAKE PURCHASE OF ARTI-| CLES FINDS BUT FEW Bus-| INESS PLACES HAVING ADS! i Sei don’t your merchants ad-! vertise?” was the question asked of The Citizen Saturday after- inoon by Judge E. E. Miller, aj visitor who is enjoying a vacation | +in Key West and who came in the; office to place a subscription. Mr. Miller explained he was a) itor and was residing at 1311 | Grimnell street. Desiring to make , purchases he looked over the pa-! is , Per and was chagrined to ind so few announcements by business ! places. H This has at- tracted the attention of a number. ,of other visitors who remarked, ! in a general way, that there are; many persons who visit a com-' munity and base their ideas on that community by the newspa-, per advertisements. i PLANEBRINGS 10 PASSENGERS same condition tien, iy THIRTEEN LEAVE ON AIR-' CRAFT YESTERDAY AFTER- NOON ENROUTE TO MIAMI { —— Plane from Miami arrived this! ; morning with 10 passengers: Nora Shaw, Arthur Dillivig, George! White, Myrta Boggs, Zack Hud- son, Claude Gandolfo, George Bernard, Nathan Adelman, John | Flynn, Edgar Stowe. Departures yesterday afternoon | were: Phillip Dixon, Richard; It also was Howell, Clementina Webb, Teret-j™orning from Tampa with | charged that Judge Ritter, mem- ta Galvin, P. J. Galvin, ; Speiser, Maurice Speiser, Martha Frank Hulswitt, Mary J. Scott, Grooms, John W. Flynn. Arriving yester were 14 passenger Henry J. Gill. Stern, Calvin Wardlow, Arthur Conn, Orr, Jesse C. Evans, Nina John-} son, Jerome T. Moore, Irma Bent- ‘ ley, Sterling Stuart, Caroline! Danley. i ‘Leaving Saturday on the seven! passenger Sikorsky were: Victor ; Clark and Floyd G. Stymu | aes morning Mary Gill,| Max Stern, Beatric Bentley, i FOURYACHTS =: COME TO PORT | | with accepting $7,500 from J. R.; ALL OF PLEASURE CRAFT| | Francis who had “large property | H TAKE BERTHS AT KEY WEST YACHT BASIN | H | Four yachts arrived over the; week-end and berthed in the Key West Yacht Basin. Only one of the vessels had been to this port! this year. Yacht Nicoya, A. W. Johnson ewner, of New York, with three; | guests, returning: for a stay. The Cruiser Stella Polaris. Dayton, } |three guests. “Cpptain F.4Smith. Houseboat Zénithia, Cjneinnati,! hio, R. .K. LeBlond owner, A.} There ‘are three| guests on the Zenithia which Staysail Schooner Venturer, E. O. Spencer owner and master. Cruiser Furlough, with owner jirg, has been granted permission | an amateur operator. {| Clyde-Mallory }from New York ye: Given License Radio Station tal Liconagiiidtipe|2 i ernment As Amateur| Operator Seececere: eecececcoes i By PAUL MAY | (Special Washington Correspondent! of The Citizen) 1 WASHINGTON, D. C., March} 2.—A mew radio. station, from| which no music or advertising! will be broadcast, has been licensed to a Key West man, it was learn-! ed today at the Federal Comramt| cations Commission. John H. Lawson, Radio Oper- ators Quarters, Roosevelt Build- to operate W4DZN, an amateur breadcasting station. At the same DENT EPwano CoNRAL Dr. Edward Conradi, | president of Florida S$ the| for Women, will speak | West Tuesday, Mar jhigh school, Rotary clu! music or advertising, but he will; club, Key West F, j dinner, and at a reception ¢ !the observance of busiress, private, or government | Week.” COLLEGE HEAD DUE TO ARRIVE | | | | | time he was granted a license as H (above) FCC regulations prohibit Key West man from sending out be allowed to communicate with stations on both ship and shore. | He may run his station at ary) time of day or night, so long as he does not interfere with com- sched-} communica-; mercial broadcasting, uled \ | or | ship-to-shore H | ;DR. EDWARD CONRADI COM- ING FOR F. S. C. W. WEEK; | TO BE ENTERTAINED BY; ALUMNAE CIRCLE CUBA BRINGS IN 220 PASSENGERS | VESSEL ALSO BRINGS EIGHT! TONS OF FREIGHT FOR { KEY WEST Edward Conradi, president jot the Woman's State Gollege at Tallahassee, accompanied by his ‘ daughter, Louise Conradi, is tevening over the highway to be in | stteneemee at F. S. C. W. Week Steamship Cuba, of the P. and| in Key West from March ist to 0. S. S. company, arrived this! 7th. 10} Dr. Conradi’s theme in connec- first and four second class passen-! tion with addresses to be given gers for Key West; 202 first anij here is: “Some returns on your investment in Florida State Col- lege for Women.” The visitor and his daughter) will be entertained this evening at a dinner to be given at the Casa} R. Bosworth, M. D. Adams, Mrs.' Marina in their honor by the offi- ;C. R. Rendueles, J. J. Carlson, A.| cers of the College Alumnae in Bancells. Alicia Lopez, Rosa Ga-}Key West. vilan, B. Piniero. He will address the students of The Cuba also brought eight the High School tomorrow morn- tons of freight and 159 sacks of jing, and will give a talk to Ro- mail for Key West; 386 sacks ot |tarians at a meeting to be held ‘mail for Havana. jat the noon hour tomorrow. Freighter Colorado, of the! Tomorrow afternoon he will ad- Line: arrived! dress the Woman’s Club, and to- erday morn-| morrow night he will after tained at a dinner to be given at 2 o'clock, the Delmonico Restaurant by the | Alumnae organization. SKATING TOBE GEORGE BERNARD RESUMED HERE COMES ON PLANE Skating at cont Isle Casi od will be resumed tomorrow night, | starting at 7:30 o’clock, it was} anounced this morning by the rec-} reation section of the WPA spon- | soring the semi-weekly events. i Last week, the programs were | Arrivals at Key West were: R. B. Bragg, W. C. Wardman, Mrs.! L. Mathews, Alicia Mathews, D. H. Wagman, Mrs. T. S. Caro, Mrs. } ing 11:30 o’clock and ee sical sailed OFFICIAL ARRIVES IN CITY TO MAKE INSPECTION OF DOCK DAMAGES George Bernard, ship and en- Alegre,” but they will be given! an arrival by plane this morning twiee weekly from now on. Music' and today is the guest of C. E.! will be played at the casino to! Smith. general agent in Key West add to the pleasant surroundings’ for the Clyde-Mallory Lines. for skating. ‘HOSPITALITY UNIT TO MEET TONIGHT There will be a regular meat | | ing of the Hospitality League held | | tonight, beginning at 8 0’clock,} ‘sel of the lines was docking last ‘week during a heavy northeast- fer. Bermuda Meat Market i“F.S.C.W. Week” Speaker| the ‘an, Hapgood, be enter-} Mr. Bernard’s visit is to make! |an investigation of damage to the! | Mallory docks caused when a ves-| Great Interest { } Over two theusand fear han j i the Ke the | dred persons visit West jPu | days, blic Library dur three Wednesday, 1 Friday, 28th, February 26th, " when. the Flower Show was in progress. This at cluded not only jalso winter {section of the country, and Cuban iais here fer La Semana Alegre celeb ns the distinguished guests ‘ gl at the Show were ™M jand Mrs. E Johnson, ef Wast lington, D. and Mrs. 'mon B. Philadephia , Dr. and Mrs ‘ami Beach; visitors 20N, Da: Mrs. Wilfred Jess Burt B. Proper, Mra and Mrs. Elswor Mass.; Mrs lor Hagerstown, {R. H. McCaw Mrs. Reber Marvi of New York Cx Stuart Warrer | Mia’ j Bail, of Muncie, 1 and Mrs. £ Washington, D. and Mrs. Louis E. —— Mass.; Mrs right. of Pirates sive! and Mrs. E f New York City; Sohn Edward Brown Dr. and Sirs. of Ceturmau-. Recent Flower Show Sponsored By ate" Garden Club Proved Grand Success Centered In (By Nima delice Calleje {Ohio; Mrs. Hallie B. Wilcox and _ of ) Mrs. Calvin Bentley, Mam ‘Beach; Mrs. Bertha Heckentleik- * ner, of Charlotte, N. , and Mr George Warrington | Judges Of Show Judges of the Flower were the Messrs. Joseph Raine | R. B. Pittman and Celie Bryant | Kirke. and the judges of the table j arrangements: Mrs. Calvin Ben ‘ley. Mrs. Stuart Warren Crame: !Mrs. Paul Judson, Mrs. Ernest Wheeler and Mrs. Richard Ne The Key West Garden Club = |Miss Etta Patterson (Chairman of the Show, wish particular thanks be given te following non-members Club who gave their aid to the presentatien Show, and whose help much appreciated: W. H. Griswold, Miss Rathbone, !Mrs. and Miss Yarbell, Mes. Rash Mrs. Ernest Wheeler, Mrs. Paul Judson, Mr. and Mrs. Winter, |Joseph Rainey and Max Richard | Noyes Thanks are due also Mrs. Calw | Bentley, of Miamj Beach, who instigated and gave valuable sug Panapee for the first Flower Show 0 be held in Key West three years ago, and Mrs. J. Julien Souther land, producer of the Miami Beach Flower Shows, who gave = prize of $10.00 for the best school de play, this prize having been & \vided between the schools having displays. | It is the writer's observ | that while there were not @ Snow Genera. of the invaluable of the = = Reger Alten, ry many plants and flowers on ds * | suspended because of “La Semana! gine surveyor and appraiser, was) Play 25 last year, the specimens mm ; this year’s Show were of more « leareful and professional selection and were exhibited much mere ad- vantageously. The two most interesting exhib- its, from the points ef view of visitors, were of course the trop- ical fruit and vegetables and the seeds and seed pods of tropical jtrees and plants. Both of these | displays were awarded biue rib- |bons, end they were excellent im Mrs. Stephen W. Douglass ar- jat the Hospitality House, accord-| Nice Fat %-Grown Hens and | "@nged 2 most attractive and i the Convem “Garde black ar and pott a table dixvis Exchange. which showed = arturies made ef fish scaics and flower of sea shells. The luncheon. dinner and cork- i P. M Gelett, and three guests, arrived this morning from Mi- ami. The party will spend sey- eral days fishing. ing to announcement made to- day. A reqyest is made for a large’ attendance of menibers. |teresting exhibit of these fruits tail tables that occupied the cen- jand vegetables. including pome- ter of the [obract were cherming. granates and blossoms, figs, mon-, The cocktail table. by Mr. and jStera deliciosa, sugar apples, Ja-' (Continved on Page Four) - Fryers Meet at prices you can meet Phone 52 Quick Service’ ‘WAGNER BEER IS BREWED IN STRICT ACCORDANCE WITH IDEAS OF THE MOST. SKILLED BREW MASTERS. LEISURELY AND THOROUGHLY. FACA 22RBBs0