The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 4, 1936, Page 1

Fie, iaeteee Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrerheit Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West West Citsen The Kep KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1936. ! ‘FLEETWOOD IS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend | | PICKED UP AND — | ; ‘TOWED TO PORT Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- | : tional and International Problems Insep- Considerable confusion exists,, party, and this is conclusive in the | ! and occasionally among lawyers|absence of contradictory expres-| WESSEL MADE START FOR arable From Local Welfare and judges, as to the meaning of}sions or inconsistent conduct. An} TR ! } the words “residence” and “‘citi-; alien may be resident of the state. | IP TO: VIRGIN “ISLANDS Before the present Congress, power to prevent soil erosion. The| BUT DEVELOPrD ENGINE \zenship,” and the corresponding The Supreme Court has | said convened, a great many com-! new farm bill is an amendment to! TROUBLE {words “resident” and “citizen.” | (Steuart v. State. 161 So. 378): mentators forecs ‘. " A A 5 s forecast that a knock-| |. The question constantly arises un- “Citizens of the State of this Act, whereby the VOLUME LVI. No. 53. PURIM, FEAST OFLOTS, TOBE | OBSERVED HERE. | EXPLANATION GIVEN AS PERTAINS TO CITIZENSHIP AND RESIDENCE By W. H. POE, General Counsel, Florida Real Estate Commission PRICE FIVE CENT: ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS ‘Bogart’s Report Reveals Economy THREE MEN ARE —Sa'vasing Of Street Car HELD UP DURING | Track And Other Ma- terial Helps In Cutting EVENT BEGINS AT SUNDOWN SATURDAY MARCH 7; SERV-| ICES WILL BE HELD AT LOCAL SYNAGOGUE Secretary | The loyalty of a Jewish woman to her people will be commemorat- } the world when they observe Purim, the Feast of Lots, which this year be- gins at sundown Saturday, March aa During this one ¢ festival the Book of Esther is read in the Synagogue and the Jewish people rejoice as they remember th turies ago on this day their fath- ers were delivered from persecu- tion. ed by Jews all Services in observance of this! eanings. The term as colloquial-| not make anyone a citizen of Flor-j and rigging caused when strong | gales were encountered festival will be held at the lo synagogue by Rabbi Phillip Kr tal. The story of Purim had its origin in ancient Persia four cen- turies before the Common Tradition King Ahasue- rus of Persia deposed his wife, Vashti, because w disobe- dient and 1 i Ether, a beau- tiful Jewish no the cousin of Mo 1ential man in the kingdom. Appointed General The king had appointed _ his favorite general, H: n, to the position of prime r . A bit- he s an inf cen-| 2! may be in Florida, the other in der the terms of the Real Estate| Florida are those persons who Lisense Law and under the Home-} are born orynaturalized in the stead Exemption Amendment. United States, and subject to The greatest error is in assum- the jurisdiction thereof, and jing that either term has anything! who reside in the State of | to do with voting except as a pre- Florida (Forrteenth Amend- equisite to the right to vote. The! ment to U. S. Constitution), ight to vote comés after residence and thsoe persens who are de- ‘and citizenship, and the other re- clared to be citizens of the | j quirements to vote. that is, the! State of Florida by the Con- | jage, length of residence and citi-j stitution or statutes of the | {zenship, payment of poll taxes and| State of Florida that are not | registration, have nothing to do! inconsistent with applicable vith the fact of residence and citi-; paramount federal law.” | j The Court further held that} | zenship. H general! the Constitution and statutes do “Residence” has two ly used, refers to a place where a} person stays for a time. As 30, \ used, a person may have several iresidences. One may be in town, | ‘the other in the country; one! ida who is not a citizen of the U S. residing in Florida, so that the| first clause of the definition is at! present solely applicable. It was} consequently held that an alienj was not entitled to homestead ex-| emption, as the amendment grants} it only to one who is a “citizen of ; ides in the State of Flor- Whether the state could, by make an alien a citizen-of the ate was not decided. i Other than the question of alle- | is government. there is little, if any. difference between; resident and a citizen of the; state. ' |New York. But this must not be; |confused with the more precise ‘legal meaning of the term “resi-! | dence.” Under the legal meaning, }a person can have but one r idence. It is the place where he! lintends to maintain his legal {status or domicile. and to which| ‘he intends to return from a tem- | porary trip. One may stay awa i from his legal residence for years, Shortly after leaving the Porter. terday afternoon on the ge to the Virgin Islands, ; -masted Schooner Fleet-, wood was picked up by a coast) guard cutter end returned to her berth. Engine treuble interrupted ; the proposed voyare. The Fleetwood arrived in port end berthed at the Porter Dock on February 26. Since her arrival Captain Maurice Allard and his sistants have been busy repair- ng the damage to the vessel’s hull | down-and-drag-out session was in H prospect, that titanic legislative battles loomed, that almost every day would bring new headlines from Capitol Hill—that, in brief there would be excitement, color, drama, These commentators were not 100 per cent wrong, but they were close to it. The present Congress has been quiet and al- most entirely without lustre, so far as the outside observer can see. Little acrimony has appear- ed. And debate over important’ measures has been a long way) from brilliant. is authorized to spend $500,000,-' 000 a year to pay not! = : WILLIAM ALMYDA, PAUL only for preventing erosion, but ior promoting soil fertility. Thus, LAKE AND COAST GUARDS- the Secretary can pay a farmer) wan WERE ONES SAID TO for taking his acres out of cot-' ton, wheat or other cash crops,}) HAVE BEEN VICTIMS and putting them into non-cash crops, such as clover. : power, the Secretary has just about as much influence in controlling crops and produc- tion as he did under the dead AAA. | However, many authorities, farmers Shortly before morning Police Of /1< was informed by William A that he. Paul Lake and a chief petty officer from the coast guard had been held up and robbed about Costs Of Operation The economy with which the sewer project in Key West is be- the loca dicated today in the re- John A. Bogart ing carried om under unit is port made by supervising ersimeer on tie project. Brick, asphalt, street railwey track and coarse aggregate, which ; of a nudist jThe are, of course, reasons for this—political reasons. Those ‘who know say that Mr. Roosevelt, with his tremendous House and Senate majorities, doesn’t want any more hornets’ nests stirred up before election than he can help. As a result, Congressional leaders are doing their real talk- ing behind closed doors in the committee rooms. There they are bargaining and horse-trading. By the time important bills reach the floor, everything is cut and dried. Roll calls produce a flood of “Ayes” with a scattering of “Nays,” and that’s that. between Tampa and this rort. t While the vessel has been in port, numbers of the curious have been to the dock. principally be- cause the word had gone forth, and stories appeared in the press of other cities, that the pers on the Fleetwood were members colony and were. ching for a place on which to stablish, The Citizen was told most em- phatically that those on the ves- sel were not members of a nudist colony. That their plans and everything in connection with the some within the Democratic party,| ; feel that the amendment might be given the same treatment by the Supreme Court as the AAA. Therefore the new bill permits the Secretary to provide money and other aid for setting up cro; control agencies in the 48 state State legislatures would pass laws giving these agencies powers the Secretary deems sufficient to ¢ out the major purposes the Act—and “little would be established. States re- fusing to fall in line would get no benefits after two 4 Pro- ponents of the bill belie .; demanded t fief the s " but whom 745 o'clock, Mr. Almyda s anions we bavwe wt > and hig '&*t been salvaged im the work » comy the far, hawe a walue im excess of the along work im hand ia ae entire cost of the fro them with ngela a man jui em and thre -45 caliber auto: eir money and of ling, including labor, transporta tien and other costs. valu- ables. Office Tynes said that his in- a good description r who wore no mask did not recollect of ever seeing before. He said the nothing from vat $30 fr man and a highwayman him but the coact guar er sum and watch did ter enemy of the Jewish people, Haman particuls lisliked Mor- decai and becau: da quar- rel with him 2 dual, he | with his family, but so long a& he{ | intends to return to the legal resi- dence, and does not exercise 2 rights or act inconsistent with his hated and plotted to kill all the | expressed intention, he retains his| Jews. . _. | original residence and does not ac-j He went to King Ahasurus with | quire a new one. On the other; about the Jews.|hand, if he comes to Florida, in- He portrayed._them as a deadly | tending to acquire a residence here menace; he insisted that they must | and to abandon his former resi- he.eradicate-l.froe~ the -kingdom;, dence, -he immediately becomes a and in the ¢ he resident of Florida. Often it de- acquiescence to Haman cast lots to s for the Jewish massaer the name of the festiva ned an edict under the king’s ‘to de: utterly all Jews, both young and o'd, the spoil of them for Aghast, Mordecai * Queen Esther implored her to | intercede on alf of her peo- pl. Esther had not revealed her religion. For a moment she hes- itated to se a private audience with the king, for anyone who ap-| proached him without being call-| ed, was put to death unless he! held out to them his golden scep- tre. n distorted tales ' ol OFFICE REOPENED. ROGELIO GOMEZ RECEIVES COMMISSION THIS MORN- | j ING AS NEW JUDGE | | { For the first time death on February 8 s the symbol of his forgive- | th ois ons SNES Hugh Gunn, the office of the pro- | bate judge was opened and ready However, Mordecai, sensing the he impcrative need of his people! newly appointed judge o: ting spoke to the queen in phrases! assisted by J. G. Piodela, clerk to which have ‘been’ inmértalized in! the judge. th ble, “Tink not within thy-| atthouch Judge Gomez's self that thou shalt escape, in the| {ough Judge Gomez's king’s house, any more than all|™ission did not arrive until the Jews. For if thou holdest thy ; mail by plane this morning, he was peace at this time, relief and de- | yesterday advised by telegram liverance will arise to the Jews trom Secretary of State R. A.! from another place, but thou and |g... that his commissi was. ix thy father’s house will perish; and | 079 ere ssdeege es who knoweth whether thou art|the mail, and this was authority not come to royal estate for just! for his office being opened. such a time as this?” | The first official act which, Esther was persuaded and went | transpired in the office after the to the king who held out the go!d-| opening this morning was is-| en sceptre to her. She invited] suance of a marriage license to! him to a banquet and at the feast} john Gerald Roberts and Doris she told him of Haman’s ’ dupli-| vivian Saunders. \ city, of his plan to kill v3} ee } which would include he begged the king to save her peo- ple from destruction. Horrified and angered the king ordered Haman to be hanged on the same gibbet that he had pre- pared for Mordecai. Under the laws of the Medes and Persians royal order could not be revok- but Ahasuerus issued a second t w ave the Jews the right to arm themselves and “to stand for their lives against all that wo sault then.” nemoration, the Jewish people give thanks and join in 2 on this festival. fts are given to the poor, Purim s in memory of Queen Esther are presented, carnivals are held,| and all Israel rejoices. the of Judge since Senses Need for business this morning wi com- the AMATEUR PROGRAM, TOMORROW NIGHT EVENT TO BE PUT ON UNDER SUPERVISION OF REC- * | ch REATION DEPT. The weekly amateur program! will be staged tomorrow night, view Park, under the supervision | of the recreation section of the} local WPA, it was announced this’ morning. = | ai Several good numbers have ees | bec? arranged for the program, | 5 including vocal selections by Kin Truck Arrived Yesterday Phillip snd cptliniseudiess 7 r From Miami with fresh shipment) Richard Hall. The amplif, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES of/ system will be used for the all kinds. Now on sale at gram, recreation leaders said.} RICHARDSON’S GROCERY; Victor Larsen, park recreation! PHONE 658-R supervisor, will direct the pro-! |gram. | ing} pends solely upon the word of the’ ¢ ; Stephen Fraser, Joseph Courreges. | tribution starting at 7:30 o’clock, at Bay-! government {was here to install the equipment; mark for the A person may, therefore, be-; Voyage were known to Captain come a real estate broker in this!Allard. The captain said his des-, state, if otherwise qualified, if he! tination was St. Thomas, Virgin has lived here all his life, or if born ' Islands. elsewhere, has come to this state There are eight persons on the with intention of making it his vessel. Captain Maurice H. Al- home. lard, born in Vermont. Johan Ho- And a person. if otherwise, hanson, born in Norway; Fer- qualified, is entitled to the home-'! nande Allard, the captain’s wife, stead exemption, if in addition to} born in France; Alice Allard, Gil- the requirements set forth in the! bert Atflard and Annette Allard, proceeding paragraph, is also a their children. Alice was born in itizen of the United States. | Manila, Philippine Islands, Gil- bert was born in Virginia, and Annette in Michigan. ' There are two other young Miss Mau- Miss Lucille natives of reen Landrum and Robinson, who are ! Colorado, 11 PASSENG AIRCRAFT LEAVING YESTER- DAY AFTERNOON HAD 14 ON BOARD IN SCHOOL FUNDS | Pan American | ARE MADE CLEAR leaving yesterday after-! | SHOWS AMOUNT) morning brought 11. i Departures were: Grace Flan-| diau, Katherine Ordway, Adrian: Dornbush, Grace Falke, Albert! Sheere, Albert J. Smiley, Henry | Luongo, Harrison Taylor, Elson} Weeler> Anne Weeler, Joe Torano, | Ursula Jephson, | | Plane of the Air noon carried 14 passenger. The one, REPORT coming this DECISION IN MATTER BY, SUPREME TRIBUNAL Apportionments to the B. M. Duncan,' fund of Florida during the cur-| W. V. AI rent year total - $6,014,611, in-| Arrivals were: Charles Lowe,’ cluding the allotment of $1,163,- Byrne Lynch, Roy Edwards, Wil- 059 announced last week. | liam D. Robinson, Virginia Mos-! At the time of this distribution, | ley, Marx Brombacher, Jane it is shown, the way was ap-| Stultz, Van Bittner, Jane Knoz.| parently cleared for early dis-} of the chain store) {taxes as there was no intention lof appealing from the state su-j i school | ing the matter to the United} States supreme court. i i Up to date the payments to the ! school fund do not include any ofj the approximately $375,000 col-| RD. HOBBY INSTALLING jected as chain store taxes and SPECIAL EQUIPMENT AT ‘held in trust pending the decision} ‘of the supreme tribunal. LOCAL OFFICE | Governor Sholtz and other; | state officials, while the chain} {store case was still in the courts,! pledged $9,000,000 of the legisla-j ture’s appropriation of $10,500,-| 000, it is shown, and if this sum) is paid there stil} remains to be; provided the sum of $2,985,-: 394.74. | About $1,000,000 of this} amount is expected to be derived| Mr. Hobby said that the federal) from the sale of automobile} had entered com-| licenses. | plaint relative to the Western} Liquor and wine taxes. which! Union plant here interfering’ become part of the general rev-! with radio transmission, and he. enue fund passed the $2,900,000} fiscal year. The) interference. jsame fund has received abouti | $250,000 from licenses for slot! i machines, ! In his last report Comptroller Am- J. R. D. Hobby, equipment in- talier for the Western Union Telegraph Company out of At- lanta, arrived in Key West Sun- day eveniag and is installing cer- tain special equipment at the local office. Telling The Citizen of his work to offset thi: VERY ACTIVE AT 89 DUNDEE. Mich.—At 89. he is one of the town’s strongest} school fund. men. touch the floor with his fingers|the estimate for the without bending his knees, j 500,000. B. F. Mizell, motor NOT ONLY WILL YOU BE AGREEABLY SURPRISED, BUT WHEN YOU Why do Republicans permit this? For the same reason as the Democrats — polities. Republican strategists seem to be just sure as Democratic strategists that peace and quiet is in their best interest. They prefer to do their talking on the stump. Atnd they too are motivated by the dread fear of alienating votes that might pave the way to a Republican win in November. The new farm bill which, so far as anyone could see, went through Congress with very few ripples to mar its serene passage, provides} a fine example of the conditions) described above. In the words of Time, “Pressed by sprouting cot- ton seed and impatient farm lead-; ers, Senators had no more time to as Pressed by the political necessit; of adopting a bill that would re-! sult in liberal distributions of cash} before election day, they had lit- tle latitude. The outcome of vir- tually every roll call could have’ been predicted on the basis of political expediency.” { The bill, as passed, is a curious! mixture, including as it does a} i r - ‘consider than they had in 1933., Ominous reason for 'APPORTIONMENTS — HELD IN TRUST PENDING plan for a temporary stop-gap,'the House Bill _ pr and another plan for manent farm program. The stop- gap is based on the Soil Conserva-! tion Act of 1935, an obscure and,; at the time of its passage, a seemingly unimportant bill. The Act gives Secretary of Agriculture; a per-) CUBA BRINGS IN | 85 PASSENGERS ) preme court's decision and carry-) VESSEL LEAVES LATE IN AFT-.ELECTED TO ~ OFFICE ERNOON ENROUTE TO TAMPA Arriving yesterday afternoon | from Havana was the Steamship; Cuba with nine first class and six; second class passengers for Key} West; 46 first and 24 second class; for Tampa. i Arrivals for Key West were:} Stanley Breidinger, Alfred Rena-| by, Laurence Horn, Laurence} Horn. Jr., Ira Rosen, Rose Rosen. Arville Burkhart, Besse Burkhart, } Zaleen Burkhart, Wm. Bergan, | Jane Price, Joan Price, James} Price, J. M. Garcia, Abelardo de C. Martinez. | The Cuba departed 5 o'clock with the following passengers from Key West: Charles E. Brickett, Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Wilmer, Mr. and Mrs. D. M Penny, Mr. andj | Mrs. A. D. Heisafelder, Mrs. | Mrs. B. C. Hezeman. | week to the office of archon of DAY ASSIGNED COLLEGE PLAC fixes up the constitutional angle of the plan. in from Mr. Lake. nically speaking at le: Officer Tynes reported the control would be engine y. ter to the sheriff's office and of. the states and not by the ‘ederal ficers of that department Jd of government, and so uld not the police department are inve run into the objections laid down tigating the matter. by the Supreme Court in the AAA| —— — test case. lished for raising the required $500,000,000 and a new bill must HOME PURCHASE be passed for that. There is strong sentiment in Congress to seen raise at least part of the money! through new corporation taxes. |E- C. BAIRSTOW TAKES OVER i z = Advocates of world peace shud-! tna dein iii Jal dered a fortnight ago when the! ON SOUTHARD ST. House of Representatives voted for the largest peace-time army appropriations in our _ histor E. C. Bairstow, of Washington, the super-'D. C., yesterday afternoon be- budget was expressed by Chie? 0! came the owner of the old Thomas Army Staff Craig, who said, “It, —. Saunders home at the corner is perfectly evident to everyone'of Southard and Francis streets. hat troublous times have again! Mr, Bairstow, retired sculptor arrived in the world. . . .We do residing at 2615 Wisconsin avenue not see how they can possibly) in the capital, arrived some weeks concern us. Nevertheless. it is! ago accompanying Mrs. Bairstow unwise to neglect the lessons of! and daugther, Miss Josephine, for our experience.” {their first visit in Key West. For strictly military purposes,, Shortly after their arrivad Miss des about. Josephine decided the family $377.000,000. Non-military ap-' should purchase a home in this propriations come to $168.000.-| delightful city and began looking 000, or a total of $545,000,000.' for a suitable place. Navy expenditures are expected They decided the Saunders to bring total defense spending) place was admirably located. Aft- for 1936-37 fiscal year to al-'er starting investigations they de- most $1,000,000,000. | cided it was an excellent buy, ar- rangements were made and yester- | day afternoon in the clerk's office jat the county court house Mr. | Bairstow received the deed from Attorney William V. Albury, who handled the legal end of the pur- j chase. | Mr. Bairstow told The Citizen the family will leave today for OF | Washington. Within a few days, | work will be started on a new jroof and when the family returns CHAPTER AT STETSON UNIVERSITY |re:tored in the same spirit in which jit was built, 2s his daughter wants Caner te eee Coens) | the building to remain, except for DeLAND, March 4.—Malcolm' the roof and painting, practically Day, of Key West, senior at Stet-/rs it is now. son University, was elected this ssa MISS V. MOSLEY A | ‘sae Day serves as. vice-president of | the ministerial association, secte-| MEMBER OF ‘WPA CRGAIEZA- tary of Tau Alpha Phi, national! 49" COMES IN ON PLANE honorary dramatic fraternity,! member of the Hatter staff, anaj FOR BRIEF STAY ~ reporter for the Baptist Student Union Council. i Day has been a member of the Miss Virginia M Stetson University Civic Opera;ed with the WPA district at West Company, the varsity debate! Palm Beach, was an arrival by squad, intramural athletic teams, plane this morning from Miami d was formerly chaplain for kis‘ for a short stay in Key West. fraternity. Miss Mosiey comes here for a A graduate of the Punta Gorda! consultation with District Direc- the local chapter of Pi Kappa Phi, national social fraternity. H In addition to fraternity serv- ice, Day is distinguishing himself ; in other campus ac es. , connect- | v] ch.— (J. M. Lee showed that up to date} Mrs E. A. Capplan, M. D. Adams, | high school, class of 1931. where|tor T. D. Orr and Miss Marthe pro-' brose Kene of this city boasts that | $4,416,459 had been placed in the! Wallace Stevens, M. J. Curckom, he wes prominent in athletics, de-| Buck, assistant director of employ- bating and dramatics, Day is the; ment, relative te educational pro- He chins himself, and can' vehicle commissioner, has placed;C. Akerlof, Mr. and Mrs. E. W.:scn of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Day, | jects and other important matters year at $5,-| Arnold, W. L. Richmond, Mr. and! of 524 Eaton street, K>y Weet,| pertinent to the local administra- ‘Fla. tive set up. |in November the building Will be t tion and discharge other another the street ALBURY AND DUNCAN WILL ATTEND RAILROAD HEAR- ING THERE TOMORROW A Yr Duncan, r the state read Count Albur. sulting engin departmen A an on- United St. Florida matter, State left over morning Att Arthur Gomez the the on ie Company Sunday by plane, will also a ESQUINALDO NOW PEACE JUSTICE APPOINTED TO FILL OFFICE MADE VACANT RE- CENTLY Enrique Esquinaido. nounced in The ¢ week ago as can office of justice of second district and at once beran an active campaign. Until such time a= the elector of Monroe county decide who will be peace justice in the second dis trict, Mr. Esquinalde will fill the office, as he was yesterday after noon appointed to fill the off) which was made vacant by the 2p- pointment of Justice Gomez to the office of county judge. TRY WAGNER BEER ONCE, YOU'LL BE SOON A WAGNER BOOSTER. 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