The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 11, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit VOLUME LVII. Price Outlines How 6. 0. P. | Convention Fight May Result TWO YACHTS ARRIVE HERE | VESSELS COMING IN YESTERDAY No. 61. Old Party Leaders Enter Into Many Discussions Having Bearing On Im- portant Issues By BYRON PRICE (Chief of Bureau, he Associated Press Was! ten) It now is possible to get asome-} Py yachts arrived in port yes- i what clearer view of the Republi-|terday. One of them, the Minoco, | owned by the Mills Novelty com-} pany, here earlier in the season, | returned for another stay. i 5 | The Pelican II, G. Grant Mason, ! The most prominent feature of |, nor and master, with Mrs. Ma-) i of son and guest on board, arrived, sterday afternoon after a speedy ; trip from Miami. to prevent any foreclosures of the This vessel is a new Mathews leruiser, 46 feet eight inches in| ad: | jength and has a: cruising speed | lof 24 nautical miles an hour. li can situation, although many ob- scurities persist. the picture is the effort a powerful group of old-line leaders} presidential nomination in vance-of the convention. is | This effort focused pr =} ! sitiely to tee cact ond mia-reat| WO OFFICERS The plan is to keep the conven- H tion balance of power in the| ARRIVE TODAY: hands of a sikeable bloc of dele-} | gations pledged to no candidate.! That would make it possible to} settle the matter on the ground,; COME HERE FOR CONSULTA-} after a final canvass of the situa- TION WITH HEADS OF tion. To this movement adhere many} LOCAL DEPARTMENTS of the recognized leaders of the! i old guard. Apparently no objec-| tion is raised by the friends ot! Miss Lora Locke, supervisor of ; most of the candidates. | women’s and professional projects! (Whether Herbert Hoover is to' for the WPA, in Miami and Key be a candidate or not, his dl West, and Mrs. Martelle Wilson, sociates appear to believe that h } supervisor of vocational training best bet is to let the nomination) for the state educational depart-| question remain open. The sup- | ment, arrived by plane this morn-! porters of Governor Landon mani-jing from Miami. festly are secking to keep him as| They expect to remain a short! much in the “dark horse” class as|time consulting with heads of de- |} possible, and to avoid arousing re-! partments in Key West relative to. sentment by entcring primary| the activities, either proposed or contests, | under way. { Naturally. the friovids of such! i other dark horse candidates = MEMBERS 01 OF LOAN | Senator Vandenberg and Senator} H Dickinson interpose no _opposi-| tion. A dead-loc convention,' _ SYNDICATE ARRIVE with a preponderant “number delegates free to shift to a com {* promise candidate, would be ex- actly to their liking. How It May Go There is of looms TO KEY WEST TO CON- FER WITH LOCAL REP- RESENTATIVE | one exception—pos- ‘sibly two. The definite excep- tion is Senator Borah. The pos- sible exception is Colonel Knox. | ; : Knox himself refrains from dis- Hugh B. Fleece, regional direc- of| tor of the Home Owners Loan’ Corporation; Richard E. Knight, Florida director, and W. Carroll) on, director of the southern - ‘district, arrived this morning by 2 plane from Miami. ries! These officials come to meet V. | - ' A. Johnson, appraiser and inspec- | tor in the Monroe county district, jand go over the situation here. | structed-delegate — program is | They expéct their atay will be| open and direct. ae p ‘onounces} btie®. HAS ROUGH TRIP; cussing the political wisdom choosing uninstr delegates, ; but his adherents are at work in| many states for delegates in-; structed for Knox. He alone, aside from Borah. showing readiness to go into the pri and fight it out. Borah’s opposition to the unin- old ware to make its own choice,! for its own purposes, in a back-| room caucus. | Thus do events appear to ar-} range themselves, on the basis of} the present rcumstances, for’ three successive waves of action.} First comes the SHIP OF OVER-SEAS TRANS.’ PORTATION COMPANY AR. | RIVED YESTERDAY initial heat be-| tween Borah and Knox, each seek- ing to line up enough delegates to nominate him. ‘If these two are stopped, or if, they stop each other in the con- vention, the next step seemingly! will be to try out Larfdon, or pos-' pany, arrived yesterday after-; sibly Hoover. | noon, after a rough trip from Mi- Finally, if neither of these can| ‘ami with about 30 tons of freight. | make the grade, the vention! Early in the day there was! must turn to the dark horses, If, some uneasiness felt for the} it is of a mind to select a candi-/ safety of the vessel but this was| date with a middle-ground record, dispelled when, Maitland Adams, on the “new deal” } be of-' manager of the company, learned} seems the whereabouts of the vessel and better to take an nd-outer,| that she was en route to Key it will be asked to look over; West. Dickinson. | This information, Mr. Adams loners — —e soir he had NEW ARRIVAL AT contacted lighthouse keepers on HOME OF PINDERS jthe reef who telephoned the ves- Power Freighter Heron of the Over-Seas Transportation Com-, co sel was apparently encountering high seas but was steadily pro- Re to her home port. When the Heron arrived it was! aoe seen she had been thor- Mr. and Mrs. Maitland Pinder|oughly drenched by the seas,| announce the birth 3:30 o’clock which the captain said washed yesterday morning in the home at/over her during the trip, but the 816 White street of a daughter, | cargo was uninjured and all; weighing eight pounds. She is to safe. be named Barbara. | The C. W. Powers, another} Mother and baby are reported | power boat of the line arrived this as doing nicely. morning, Mr. Adams said. ATTEND “THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING FRIDAY, 5:00 O'CLOCK AND PROTEST THE LEVY ON A GAS AND OIL TAX. P. S.-DRINK WAGNER QUALITY TY BEER | —Express Y! congestion and accidents, for ‘has found that as congestion is ‘specific traffic problem as a re- | yesterday afternoon completed a |teur of South American and West re CLINTOCK CITES | ELEVATED ROADS AS TRAFFIC CURE) hae OF BUREAU MAKES STATEMENT RELATIVE TO RELIEVING CITIES OF MUCH CONGESTION i (By Axsociated Press) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 11. highways, permitting speeds greater ‘than 40 miles any \heur, alone will relieve cities of | traffic congestion, studies by the j Harvard Bureau for Street and| Traffic Research show. The bureau has found that such} free from all intersec-!° highways, H {tions and built usually as elevat-} ed roadways, eliminate the! causes of 72 per cent of fatal ac-! cidents. In most cases the express high- | ways would cost less than widen- ing streets to carry the same} volume of traffic. Dr. Miller McClintock, director | of the bureau, said the time that; commercial vehicles would save: on express highways alone would } justify their cost. Surface Roads Inadequate Pointing to the need for drastic ; ‘innovations in street construction, ; Dr. McClintock said: “No type of improvement of surface routes nor control of traf- | fie over them can materially speed ‘up traffie in urban areas.” The Harvard traffic bureau, es- tablished in 1925, seeks to reduce it will relieved, accidents diminish. Next fall it will offer two grad- | uate courses in the principles and problems of street and highway traffie control. Money donated by the Automobile Manufacturers’ association has enabled the _bu- ; reau to offer 15 graduate fellow- ships. Students Of Experience ~ Those receiving fellowships must be college graduates, and most of them will have had ex- perience in police departments and ity engineering offices. Each student will study a search assignment. Of each fellow- ship, $200 will be for traveling! expenses, permitting research in various parts of the country. Previous research has taken bu- reau investigators to Chicago,! ew York, Kansas City, San Fran- seo, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Washington and Boston. JOHNSONS COME | IN YESTERDAY HAD BEEN ON TOUR OF} SOUTH AM)ZRICAN AND WEST INDIAN CITIES Mr. and Mrs. Knight Johnson; Indian cities when they landed in Key West after an absence of abiut eight weeks. They enjoyed a delightful trip, returned to Havana and yesterday morning took passage on the Seed | | i | arriving here for a stay of three weeks with Mr. Johnson’s parents, | Mr. and Mrs. V. Johnson, when * they will leave with their two children and maid for the home in Peoria, Ml. | { COURT DEFERS | SAWYER CASE. i { . Sige! Criminal court met 10 o'clock | this morning pursuant to an-; nouncement of Judge J. Vining Hart presiding, made yesterday | after the docket was sounded. The case of Rodolph Sawyer, charged with trespass after warn. | ing was called for trial, The de fendant’s attorney asked that the | case be deferred for trial until} tomorrow as he had not had time! to familiarize himself with the! question at issue. The request was granted and/ adjournment ordered, inasmuch as this was the only case set for ; trial today. j ‘AMATEUR PROGRAM i starting at 1 dances, and novelty numbers. j to the Mocking Bird.” TSI ZLL LA LLL LALLA LALLA Le Che Kep West Citwen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, Treadway Confers With Loftin On Purchase Of Oversea Road Chairman Of State Highway ; Commission Acting As| | Negotiator For Key West ; And.Monroe County | MARCH 11, | TOMORROW NIGHT: EVENT TO TAKE PLACE ATj BAYVIEW PARK BEGIN. NING AT 7:30 O’CLOCK (By Associated Press) os JACKSONVILLE, March | Another amateur night program! 11.—Chester B. Treadway,| will be given tomorrow night’ chairman of the State High-| 7:30 o’clock in Bay-| iview Park, ice the supervision | | of the recreation section of the here today with Scott M. ca V 1 . . } = 2 WPA. |Loftin, co-receiver for the Numbers to be presented ; way Commission, to-) jmorrow night will include sever-| Florida East Coast Railway, | hits, tap’ _about efforts of Key West! laud Monroe county interests al of the recent song One of the highlights of the, | program will be several old fav-ito buy the hurricane-dam- | orite numbers to be played on the! éged'versea Railroad. violin by Richard Hall who Key! Westers will remember as a fiddler | Treadway was made ne-| |for square dances and other en- gotiator for Key West and| tertainments a score of years’ Monroe county ago. One of his numbers, by! s | special request, will be “Listen; Who hope to obtain Recon-' istruction Finance Corpora-| tion funds to buy the bridges and roadbed, and use them! jin completion of the Over-| 'sea Highway into the Island: City. Receivers for the Florida! iEast Coast Railway have asked the Federal court here | (whether they should re- | build the line at a cost of | several million dollars or sell it and abandon rail from the mainland south to! Key West. The Overse Railroad was severely dam-! interests | The publie is invited to attend: the program. CUBA BRINGS IN 44 PASSENGERS VESSEL LEAVES LATE_IN AFT- ERNOON :ENROUTE TO TAMPA Steamship Cuba arrived from Havana yesterday afternoon with six first and six second class pas-! sengers for Key West; 30 first and two second class passengers: for Tampa. | Among the Key West arrivals were: Santa Vascos Noria, John T. aged by the tropical Ogden, Edward Biosea, Frances} . Leonard, George Johnson, Myrtia| @R© Which took a toll Johnson, Antonio Sanchez, Aurora | 400 lives in the Florida Keys! Gomez, Aurora Dole, Eva Dole, | tast Labor Day. | service; a acer! | Nestor Bole. The Cuba sailed for Tampa 5 o’clock with the following pas- sengers: Charles Perez, Josepn Pritchan, Erie Norberg, W. G. LOS ANGELES. —Police found | Starry, J. N. Spearing, C. A.|John K, Jones lying on a railroad Parramore, Mrs. M. Carr, Mrs. I.| track near this city thought he Ronksley, L. Carr, Mrs. Inez Croz,; was dead and started for the | Margarita Cruz and Raymond] morgue. On the way John got upj and asked what was happening. NOT “DEAD” YET | mnmncinniniaemaeen OPPOSE CITY GAS TAXI §) Already motorists in Florida pay the highest state gasoline tax in the United States with ex- eeption of Tennessee which also has a tax of 7c per gallon. In addition they pay a Federal tax of 1c, a total of 8c per gallon. OLDS ML: It is now proposed to enact a city tax of le per gallon on gasoline and 4e per gallon on lub- ricating oil sold in Key West. IF THIS PROPOSED ORDINANCE BE- COMES A LAW— (1) Key West will be the ONLY city in South Florida with a local gasoline tax and the ONLY city in Florida with a local tax on lubricat- ing oil. (2) Visiting motorists will be taxed while in Key West. (3) (4) Local persons in the gasoline business who pay city taxes will be penalized in favor of persons outside the city who pay no city taxes. YOU CAN HELP —By requesting your city councilman to vote AGAINST these taxes when they are con- nacre Friday afternoon at 5 o’clock at the City all. —Ask your city councilman not to tax the privilege of coming to Key West in an auto- mobile. Motorists should be encouraged rather than discouraged to come to Key West. —Sign a petition at your nearest filling sta- tion PROTESTING these taxes. KEY WEST OIL MEN’S ASSOCIATION FIPPIPLALAAL DELL ON Gasoline and oil will cost more. H i | | lhachnchachanhacrhenhnhenhthehhachenthhnchonch cen yi | WARNING ‘LOCAL GROUP TO | Lowe propose } question’ ‘the export office of the P. and'I am wrong. I can 1936. COUNTERFEIT BILLS Cy BEING CIRCULATED, GIVEN ABOUT NOTES OF FIVE AND TEN , DOLLAR DENOMINATION | ITALIAN ALIENS | T0 BE DEPORTED There is now in circulation: throughout the country a counter-} feit, $5 denomination, and a $10 certificate, both on the Federal) WILL BE SENT OUT FROM Reserve Bank of New York. This is announced in a bulletin} —————— issued by the United States pos-) MORNING tal service calling attention to the! two issues and warning handlers of currency to be careful. While there are several defects on the face of these certificates which can be readily detected by| the county jail, are to be, tomor- those accustomed to handling cur-' Tow morning, deported to their rency, the backs are very skill-' native land. fully exeeuted and will deceive, Bruzesse and Guerriero are two pecs nendlerschathix kind o¢ a group of five aliens who! Some time ago Associated Press! Were on October 3 captured in a despatches announced that a Flor-; house cn Louisa street by Immi- {ida postmaster turned in his re- | gration Inspector Claude Albury, | ceipts and among them was 2'in charge, and Patrol Inspectors epurotarss 00 Rn | Gerondg Roman and Herble Todd. Others in the group were Sal- vatore Aiello, also an _ Italian, ‘and two Armenian women, Ham- aspout Kalorsdian and Mary Hag rearre Aiello was deported some time ago. Hamaspour Kalorsdian was released on bond, was afterward ‘rearrested for contempt and serv- ;ed sentence in Miami jail. i The only one of the quintette |remaining to be either deported {or otherwise dealt with is Mary | Kashian, who is still in the Mon- | roe county jail. i | | | | | Domenico Bruzzese and Gio- vanni Guerriero, Italian aliens in LEAVE ON TRIP TO DEPART OVER HIGHWAY! TOMORROW MORNING EN ROUTE TO MIAMI Mrs, G. N. Goshorn and daugh- ter Miss Marguerite Goshorn, M Charles Lowe and Mrs.! \Catherine Sanders, plan to leave | | over tomorrow of several the highway morning for a_ visit days in Miami. j Mrs. Sanders and Miss Goshorn} will spend their time visiting! while Mrs. Goshorn and Mrs.| taking the pre- scribed proficiency tests before! being qualified to act with the/ iGrand Chapter Order Eastern Star. Mrs. Goshorn was recently ap- ! pointed Grand Representative for janebecs Canada, to the Grand pCuapier O. £. S., in Florida. “ Claims ‘Abandonment Of Railroad Would Mean Over Million And A Half Dollars Loss To Key West: the} FILE LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION Letters of administration in re the estate of the late Curry Black- well were filed this morning in the court of Probate Judge Roge- Yio Gomez. John Blackwell, brother of the deceased, was appointed adminis- trator of the estate. | “Employes on the Steamship Florida, the Ferries of Florida East Coast Car Ferry Company, | the oil pumper, water pumper. jand the hundreds who were em- ployed during the pineapple ship- {ping season, and the smaller number employed during the time when potatoes and fruits of all kinds including tomatoes, were) , Shipped in large quantities from} Cuba. “And don’t forget that there — a heavy tonnage of ice used in refrigerating the cars during bridges} these recy Bie that ice was | produced in Key West. | “There is also to be taken into rather have the railroad than half! consideration the number of gov- {ernment employes, residents of 'Key West, who have been forced Asked where he got the ‘ae to leave their homes and reside 1 the railroad was he had mentioned that $1,659,500, cuners since, the riiire pees What price bridges? was ked this morning by/ ‘ one friend, of another, and the answer was promptly given, “$1,- 659,500 annually to the city of; Key West.” The-person who made this re-' ply continued: “J am unalterably oppesed to up that railroad right of way for our Roads are alright, but I dozen highways.” was the annual loss to ate done which are reported to be ' contemplated, the number will Key West without the railroad, he| he surprisingly increased.” { Do you not think that this teas! | will be greatly counterbalanced by “From a compilation made by the great influx of visitors when a government official who was'the road is completed? designated by his superiors to in-; “J most assuredly do not” was vestigate and report on the the reply. “Take out your pen- sources of revenue the city and! cil and figure it out yourself, and county would be deprived of wie iee will be surprised. the abandonment of the road, and} “Why it means a loss of ap-' I em convinced it is correct and proximately $4,500 daily, every- conservative. jthing considered, and this means “Of course, more than $100,-. that an average of 450 cars must 000 of this sum is in taxes to visit Key West daily, and each county and city. The rest rep-' car. its oceupants | mean. must resents the many sources discon-| spend $10, and I for one do not tinued by the loss of the road. believe this will be done, or any-; “These include salaries to ee near it. machinists and helpers, car de-! “I could continue along this partment employes, car cleaning‘ line for a much longer time, brt department, workers on the Pull-'why do so. We need the rail- man cars, electrician and helper,|road and a deever intracoastal clerks in the mechanical and car, waterway. with these we can con- departments, the large group in'tinue. Without these. and I hope see nothing and ticket! but partial depopulation and @ city of just a few thousand.” | he stated wi replied: 0. 4 S. company, ! Confederation, jing of Wilhelm Gastloft, le: j | others ‘close all central and district head ted him across the PRICE FIVE CENT Swiss Authorities Say “Out” To Both Fascists And Nazis Movement Started To Break Up Propaganda Machines Of Two Dif- ferent Factions (My Associated Press) BERNE, March 11.—The Swiss sandwiched be- ‘tween nazi Germany and fascist Italy, is determined to smash the machines of both id black shi little Switzerland propaganda brown shirts For years bas been a battleground in a war <f propaganda between exiled agticrazis and anti-fascists against loyal German and Italian units or- ganized in many cantons. Recent- ly the Swiss federal council de- cided to put an end to it. Events leading up to the decision cluded the assassination of a azi propaganda chief, the kidnap- nazi writer, the ar- sts for espion- attempt of anti-fas- their propaganda in- on hydrogen balloons. Snuff” “We've had enough,” wrote the Journal de Geneve after the slay- head of the nazis in Switzerland. “We must exterminate foreign politic- al organizations and end the pro- paganda from Germany and Italy which jeopardizes our liberty.” The ssination of Gustloff by a Jewish siudent in Davos and Hitler’s subsequent speech making Gustioff a reich hero drew Swiss attention to the thousands of Ger- ;mans organized in Swiss nazi ' units. The federal council acted quick- depor’ a number of nazi fused entry permits to nd ordered the nazis to ing of an ant rest of thre and the S to fleat to Italy ‘Enough Berlin were in the cantons. but the | quarters | protested, Po inaping Case Cited sie only nazi we want in Switzerland as the representative f the reich is her regularly 2 Jercdited = mi flared the Journal de Geneve. To nazi demands for an explana tion, the Swiss pointed to the Ja cob case, Berthold Jacob, an anti- nazi writer living in France, had heen enticed to Basel and there was kidnaped by nazis whe rush- frontier ito Swiss Germany. For <ix months Jacob laneu:sh- ed in a nazi prison while lit: [Switzerland became more and more angry. Protests te Berlin, aceompanied threats to drag the whole affair before the world court ev Hy brought Jacob back riand uninjured. Each Side Accuses Other Switzerland’s southern neighbor has 2 en the cantons trou- ble. from anti-fascists, police raided a small Italian news- paper and jailed three fascist writers on charges of treason and espionage. They had been cam- paigning for the attachment of the .canton of Tessin to Italy. er fascists turned the by telling police about the mysterious activities of thre= Italians in the mountaiMs ear Palerno. southern tip of Switzer- land. Police found the tric await- carry te S psoas into Italy with anti-fascist propaganda. County commissioners are sched- uled to mect this evening im the clerk’s office at the county court house for the second regular meet- ing of the month of March. Only regular routine matters, including checking of depository eccounts for February, are expect- ed to come up for consideration.