The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 18, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVI. No. 67. ! VISITORS OPERATE ‘CONCERT TONIGHT EXHIBITS IN NEW | INBAYVIEW PARK SCIENCE MUSEUM: EVENT ee ON BY NEWLY-ORGANIZED HOS. = NEW YORK INSTITUTION PITALITY BAND CARRIES ON VARIOUS ACTI- H VITI | BtES yy he eecOuNEcuo™ George Mills White, local sup- WITH SCIENCE, INDUSTRY | ervisor of the Federal Music Pro- ject, this morning announced the! program for the first concert of the newly organized Key West Hospitality Band. | The concert will begin prompt-; ly at 8 o’clock tonight at Bayview | Park, with Alfred M. Barroso} jeonducting, with the following} numbers: | 1. March, With Trum- pet and Drum ... Weldon Overture, Fountain of Youth ... Selection, Babes in Toyland Waltz, Over The Waves TES: Popular Selections Intermission Overture, American { Triumph ..............--- Darnall Selection, Gems of | Stephen Foster ........ Tobani| Saxophone Solo, Tang's Sax ........- Dell Woods, Soloist March, Caravan Club .. Finale, Star Span- gled Banner ... [REV. M.BOYNTON | VACATIONS HERE CHICAGO PASTOR LEAVES; YESTERDAY AFTER PLEAS. ANT STAY IN CITY Several thousand men, women and children a week are pushing} buttons, pulling levers and turn- ing cranks in the New York Mu- seum of Science and Industry in Rockefeller Center, delightedly showing themselves how the wheels of the modern world go around in the smooth-running of the ma- chinery of their everyday lives. The New York um Science and Industry is pre-emin- 2. . King} Mus of . Herbert | ently a place where things move H end, even better, a place where observers themselves make things move, thus staging their own dem- onstrations, In almost every other kind of . Rosas museum the visitor's only part is to stand and look, to walk around and lock again. In the New York Museum of Science and Industry ke puts on his own show, and en- joys himself thoroughly in doing so. .. Brown} { King ie Key} Moving Exhibits Of the eleven permanent divi- sions of the museum—aviation, power, ‘ay transportation. marine transportation, railroad; transportation, textiles, housing, communications, machine electro-technology and practically every one of them in- cludes numerous moving exhibits, either in full size or in scale mod- els. The main attraction of this kind in tke tion section is the so-called “pilot trainer’—the air- plane coch»it into which anyone Rev. M. P. Boynton, who for more than 30 years was pastor of} Pcouss Baptist church in Chi- may climb} and, operating the} ©2£%. completed a most pleasant ; Gials on the instrument bord inj and instructive vacation in Key front of kim, manéuver the ma-; West yestesday, he told “The Citi- ich he is temporari!z| Zen, and left yesterday for Tam- the sclo pilot this way and that| P2, en route north. way—in any direction except up in’ After spending one month here the air. : amidst delightful surroundings and ln the traasrrztation s*etion, | enjoying a summer season during the visitor’s whim is all that is|the winter, Rev. Boynton said he needed to start the wheels of loco- | felt much improved physically and motives turning, operate railroad | experienced a wonderful period of signals and flash important lights | mental diversion and relaxation. —all in miniature models from] He was a member of a party chine of v | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit | PROPOSED RACES TO BE HELD: Che Kep West Citsen —— KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1936. FIRST OF BOATS FOR RACES COME | INTO PORT TODAY SEIZING TELEGRAMS BETWEEN .WEST AN BECAME af BLACK DEFENDS COURSE ST. PETERSBURG; OTHER} | BUSINESS MEN GATHER EVENTS ON PROGRAM | RAILROADS AND LABOR | REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES Arriv. this orni the} i ae Teeth Wena, | PRE-CONVENTION STRATEGY | staysail rigged Ketch Vamarie,} | rst of the yachts which will en-| THE TAX DISCUSSION 1 ter the races for sailing vessels to; ! be started from Key West to St. Petersburg, from that city to Ha- vana and back to Key West. While the Vamarie will not en- ter the race from Key West to St. Petersburg, it was learned at the yacht basin this morning, the | i By HUGO SIMS, The Citizen’s Special Washington Correspondent The Administration has aban- doned its appeal to the Supreme | Court in the Louisville housing a Z a és case and apparently accepts the abu the other two! decsion of an Appellate Court, VadliacS/satabexattaand oMee holding that the Federal Govern-: ment has no power to condemn, Makaroff, owners of the yacht Z ie didsnot: arsige Ganctha, ceseek tatk| Sees ee etee: housing: a i | purposes. The action of the Gov-' pine sbetgeesenesyt of! ernment resulted in considerable} "The Vi ae h ene: | speculation, some contending that Be Ae ve i iain ae ee Se ti but ake pe ot plies }sion and others maintaining that pei tiatis saitepee tea elastic] none ee nine doen te oa, eee | the Administration, which plans sened the number of recorded thealnwaad vaiveck =. Beleral secon. | victories. 1 | struction and leave the job to lo-! Another yacht arriving at the} ti = es <p, Cal authorities, financed through! yacht basin is the Alamo, which Federal loans and grants, came in yesterday afternoon with; a . Ae ad Toe Be Manesene ase While twenty States have pass-! Mlamo is from New York and isi 4 enabling acts, permitting coun-/ al wale ian ple £n"S\ ties and municipalities to set up! captained by George Anderson. |housing authorities, only twenty-| Yacht Alva, owner and master.) three communities have done s0.! W. K. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Van-' the De Manat cat) Snitien | derbilt on board, was in the re ones stream this morning anchored off H said | ‘the action was taken because the: Fort Taylor. The Alva has just returned from a cruise in Carib- | to get together and Hooxcune _CLMATEPROVED at | ! | es retailers, but is also being backed} by wholesalers who think it will! help them to regain business lost! jte the chains and to buying pools| which seeure quantity discounts; and lower prices through mass buying. The bill applies “to aj huge range of commodities, in-! cluding groceries and drugs, andl would apparently revive some of the price controls of NRA. | Impetus to such legislation has been given by revelations that! certain chain store organizations vhave been receiving special prices,| jt in the health restoring and counts, allowances and adver-| tising funds from manufacturers, vigor renewing climate of who make no such concessions to small purchasers. In some in-! stances, the amounts allowed these large purchasers were suffi-; cient to enable them to under-} sell independent stores by an ap-; preciable margin. While there is considerable sentiment in favor, of the proposed legislation, op- position arises from the fact that some trade experts insist that re-; striction of the special discounts allowed for buying in large quan- (tities will and millions of dollars! eq and never returned.” to the annual food bill of Amer- | ican consumers. 1 President Roosevelt has urged railroad labor and management’ settle their conflicts without throwing the! problem before Congress for a legislative solution. The railroads have been anxious for some time! to effeet economics in operation! through the combined of use of) terminal facilities, but Labor! leaders, fearing further unem-! ployment, have been cool to the, MORE VISITORS | VERY BENEFICIAL | COME TO CITY | MANY inineciaiai we | TO NEW YORKER eee | QUIRIES OF HOUSING DEPT. ALEC Al WRITES TO THE! septa | FOR ACCOMMODATIONS | CITIZEN TELLING OF HOW} | HE WAS CUR=D OF AIL-: | j ‘Colonel George W. Graham, U. MENT WHILE HERE iS. A., retired, daughter and/ | grandchild, are recent arrivals ini | Key West. They are making plans! Ponce de Leon may not have | to spend several months here. | There are a number of other found the actual fountain of youth | prospective visitors for the {Spring who have written the lo- cal housing department relative ed the nearest approximation of to accommodations during the | Spring and Summer. | Others, a number of which Key ‘have been recorded in The Citi zen, are writing regar from | commodations for © next winter land some of these have alread, !made arrangements and pl Mr. Allen was in Key West last! deposits to insure their having the year and a sufferer from arthri-|same homes next season as this. His letter shows that all the| Recently a letter was received tis. {from Glenn Bacon, who at this v k treatments could not! .. Sea “sil New York tre: time is in Saratoga Spring: move the pain from a “section of 'y who pians living in Key West the right foot. Yet 10 days of} next winter. Key West sunshine plus a few; The writer is a composer wims and that sore spot evaporat-| Painter and so “I have an | pecial interest in knowing The writer is not the only visie| 2" of Possibilities in the Co eee ee 2 to be found there,” hs ! tor to Key West who has written | concludes. of the benefits received from the! All who write are given the re bathing and sunshine in Key West. H quested information with fo There are scores of others who| TS. maps and all literat: 4 have voiced or written of the|‘#inine to Key West and marvelous improvement they have} 2 experiéneed in Key West. Mr. Allen has written a whimsic- al poem for The Citizen and un- der the title “Key West Phan- tasy” will appear in tomorrow's issue. in Florida, but “I surely discover- West,” writes Alee Allen New York to The Citizen. and ‘CUBA BRINGS IN | 49 PASSENGERS cases “had become moot” since no, {funds were available for the! bean and South American waters. PLANE BRINGS 13 PASSENGERS FIVE LEFT ABOARD AIR- CRAFT YESTERDAY AFT- ERNOON FOR MIAMI Plane of the Pan American Airways. with thirteen passengers, arrived 10:45 o’clock this morning Louisville and Detroit project Un- | suggestion. Recently dosent E| der fire. However, this is no ex- 5 =f i : Eastman, transportation coordi- Planation why, only two weeksi nator, brought the situation to a| before, the Government filed its! }0aq bg: undering the eatapletet ; i | et anaes more ee aed ment of comb‘ned terminal facil-} Be cacad ee rica a e the! ities in eleven cities. This will be! Gente ee en a start and Labor, knowing that present protective legislation ex- - Par 2 !pires in June, is anxious to have Quite a stir has been raised by some law to bar economics which! the discovery that the Black-Lob-' | lt i i bying Committee had secured from‘ bebieee eas aan employment the telegraph companies copies of; mae “lobbying” telegrams and that in| . Contenders for the Republican £ many cases the senders of the! mination for the Presidency are messages were unaware of the: eile ab . 5 {beeoming more active, sey taken by the Committee. THe sates being atteagind to issue was raised by Silas H. the} strategy employed. Difference of ; template securing the {numbers and registration BOAT NUMBERS ARE AVAILABLE : peuees AND CERTIFICATES! H CAN BE OBTAINED AT LO- CAL CUSTOMS OFFICE Motor boat owners who con- required certif- icate for their vessels can secure VESSEL LEAVES LATE IN AFT- t ERNOON EN ROUTE | TO TAMPA Steamship Cuba arrived from lavana yesterday afternoon with three passengers for Key West. jfor St. Petersburg, 13 first class and one second class for Tampa. Arrivals for Key West were Carme: 1a Barroso, John Desak and Margaret Best. The vessel] sailed for Tampa at 5 o’clock with the following pas- sengers from Key West: E. M. from Miami. On the passenger Strown, Chicago lawyer and for-! list were: mer President of the American opinion exists as to whether Sen- the early crude designs of loco motives to the stream-lined mogul of today, The communications sections has innumerable fascin- ating things that answer to the composed of Mrs. S. Kidby, Mrs. | T. ©. Rawlings and Mrs. Frances! Robert Hopper, Harold Horton, Jacobs Nickels. Mrs Nickels isthe|Ann Horton, Sidney Monroe, author of the poem, “Key West,!Meude Burns, Frank Denniston, Florida,” which was published in| Daisy Burns, Harry Burns, Dana The Citizen yesterday, and fully| Brown, Paul Burgess, Ellis Law- Bar Association, and of the Cham-! #%r Borah, Governor Landon, or; ber of Commerce of the United|C®lonel Knox has the strongest States, who secured a restraining | Baise oe ae, Seuator companies from delivering to the andy Mies eattdnnevGathe the ' pri- them from the local customs of-! starr, Mrs. E. M. Starr, Ed. Starr, tice : Barbara Starr, Beulah Parker, A Heretofore it has been neces-!Tunga, Mrs. W. M. White. Mrs sery to get the necessary papers} Daniel F. Bacon, F. M. Smith.,| and number assignments from|Tyoy Brown, W. P. Boynton, Miss| Tampa. Recently an order was}s. Kidby, Mrs. T. S. Rawlings, issued giving the local office au-} Mrs. Frances F. PRICE FIVE CENTS WHEREABOUTS FERRY BOAT WAS UNKNOWN TODAY FERA HEADQUARTERS FAILS TO HEAR FROM FLORIDA ‘S WHICH LEFT YESTER- DAY FOR NO NAME KEY No advices had been received at FERA headquarters up to noon as to the whereabouts of the Fer- ry Florida Keys which left yester- hrough the imtra- waterway for Ne Name Frank'in E. Albert, executive charge of ferry opera- The Citizen he was at s morning when the Ferry Key West arrived nd at that hour there ef the Florida Seer in at 8 o’cloc’s was ys. Mr, Albert said that orders had becn issued for the Tug Three Brothers, Captain William Rob- to leave at onee through the route, locate the Florida render any assistance if no evidence re are no fears felt of the ferry it is vy winds of yes- vening may have 2 position which readily relieved tence of the tug. being y all night, be- chor 2long the cumbe to No arrived 8 o'clock this th a full lead of cars. ck the ferry sailed ins, Eugene De Stanley Key, and tw understanding the le will be main- e Florida Keys is apt sing to press The vised by Mr. Albert Guard Cutter 244 ng Jocated the Flor- nchoted off Sawye- Key. The vessel was awaiting favorable weather, undamaged and all on board safe. NEW SPECIMENS ARE EXHIBITED IN LOCAL AQUARIUM COLLECTIONS IN TANKS ARE VIEWED DAILY BY VISI- report ida Ke pressure of a button or the lift-| oe een centinonte of her |son, Reginald Shackford, Roy| Committee copies of the messages \thority to make these issues, G. N. TORS WHO MARVEL OVER ing of a gadget. For example, one| i , | may give himself a practical dem-| 28*0ciates, she said. onstration of ship-to-shore radio} communication by operating the apparatus, in miniature, by which! a ship determines its position in| relation to lighthouses sending}! out radio signa's. By pressing button and turning a knob, one/ maneuvers the tiny radio receiving loop on the prow of a small ves- sel into the proper position to catch the signals from the light- house which flashes in the dis- tance. Guided by the repeated ring of a bell, timed to the light-/ : house flash, he turns the apparat-| _ Cleveland Dillon, member of the us this way and that until he has| Key West Fire Department, today it so adjusted that the signals}2"nounces as candidate for the quiie Smet that clearest, office of constable in the first Modern Machinery | district of Monroe county. | Modern machines used in va-, Mr. Dillon has had a wide ex-| rious types of in al plants—} Perience as an officer of the law, automobile factories, iron and: he points out to the voters. For steel works, power plants, refrig-}¢ight years he was a member of erating plants and the like—can;the police force, five years a be observed in action | deputy sheriff and also a con- Four special exhibi assem- | Stable. bled by as many of the country "3| As deputy sheriff he was with famous research laboratories. like-| the wise contain machines for casuai|served during a period when the} operation. These are the exhibits| office was one of the busiest inj of the Eastman Kodak Laboratory, ! the state. He was appointed by}; the Goodrich Rubber Company,! Governor John Martin as con-| the General Electric and the Bell} stable in the first riet to fill: Telephone Company. The first of | out the unexpired term of Dalbert; these offers various devices of} Bethel, and was later elected to! particular interest to camera fans.| the office, resigning during the! The second shows an operating de-| tenure of Governor Carleton. IN PRIMARY RACE MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT FOR POSITION OF CONSTABLE FIRST DISTRICT i Robinson. Departures yesterday afternoon were: Scott Lillie, Charles Winn, CLEVELAND DILLON | 3st‘ Donctoe, tnsiaue Gonzales, Benjamin Rodriguez. | "ANNOUNCE DEATH | OF A. S. CREWS DECEASED WAS FORMER MEMBER OF FLORIDA LEGISLATURE Word received in Key West to- day announces the death of A. S. Crews, former member of the legislature and assistant state at- |torney of the eighth Florida ju-; opposed the district. Death occurred night following a dicial last Friday heart attack. Mr. Crews is survived by his late Sheriff Roland Curry and! Widow, Mrs. Maud Dowling Crews, can only be obtained from and four sisters, one of whom is Mrs. W. P. Archer, of Key West. 'MINOCA COUNCIL MEETING TONIG maries of several Eastern States to and from his law firm. Then: fonsed the battle The right of the citizen to be free from unwarranted search and seizures is asserted by the contention that no government of- ficial should be permitted to go on a “fishing expedition.” The {admission is readily made that the governmental agencies have the! yright to seize specified messages ,and correspondence, but this, say; j the objectors, does not include any | he to concentrate west of the general examination of documents Mississippi and by showing in order to ascertain whether or! strength there, gain eastern sup-| mot valuable information is to be| port at the Convention. The} j *ound tn.thens. Borah campaign, if waged to the (bitter end, aeeerding to present! j, Senator Black, of Alabama,’ indications, will cause a disturb- jhead of the Lobby Investigating! ance that might possibly create | Committee, and defending the ac-| serious party discord. Just what ;tion taken, points to the revela-|the Idahoan will do in the event tion that many companies which that he fails to dominate the Con- Holding Company) vention and to whom he will throw | Bill, burned all telegrams andjhis support is unanswerable at j letters dealing with their cam-|this time. } paign. In such cases, information as to messages sent and received; ' The Borah contingent claims! that Eastern leaders, represent-! ing big business, wants to use “fa-} vorite sons,” ete., to hold the line for Governor Landon but re- ports from Kansas indieate a re- luctance on the Governor’s part to accept this support. The Landon maneuver seems to With $356,288 in the Party the| Treasury as March began, the il More-| Republican National Committee is j over, the Alabamian insists that organizing a drive to secure $1,- iB is not possible for an investi-| 000,000 through the sale of “Par- gating committee, seeking evi-| ticipation Certificates” to one mil- dence of activity, to give accurate; }ion Americans. The certificates ‘information as to telegrams which | will bear the portraits of Lincoln |have been exchanged but de-| and Washington, with quotations {stroyed and denied by those con-! from each. They will be printed ; cerned, in red and blue ink on white telegraph companies’ files. Goshorn, deputy collector in charge, told The Citizen. TWO STEAMERS ARRIVED HERE ARD FRUIT COMPANY CAME TO PORT YESTERDAY INFANT, IS DEAD FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS AFT- ERNOON Nancy M. Knowles, baby daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil M. Knowles, died 5:30 o'clock this! morning in the residence, 310 Margaret street. Funeral services Two vessels of the Standardjwill be held this afternoon 4:30 Fruit and Steamship company/0’clock from the residence, Rev./ were in port yesterday. They were|E. R. Evans, of Congregational the Ceiba and Yoro, both con-j church, officiating. e signed to the Porter Dock company} _Pritchard’s Funeral Home is in for fuel oil supplies. icharge of arrangements. The Ceiba arrived 11:30 a. m.,| Survivors are the parents and and departed 5:15; the Yoro ar-| grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Mil- rived 7:20 p. m., and sailed 12:30 ton Knowles and Mr. and Mrs. o'clock this morning. Between’ George F. Archer. them the steamships took on 81,-{ = 582 gallons of oil. They are bound CORRECTION OF j for Frontera, Mexico. H i QUEEN UNNOTICED ON | DRIVE TO ART SHOW, ~ In the announcement of Rogelio Gomez, who is a candidate for the cng, fed Presn) LONDON. rh _18.—Unable| position of county judge in the yet to undérgo the ordeal coming primary. and who was public appearance, Queen recently appointed by Governor of a Mary: nevertheless does not spend all her} Sholtz to fill the unexpired term jit is VARIOUS VARF=TIES Numbered among additions to th the recent smaij tanks at the Key West Aquarium is a srezimen of quill ne of the eddest of crextures taken from the sea. Biologist charge Emory L. jierce says this crustarean is al- ed to the shrimp family. It about ¢ long ord was caught in an eld piece ef wreck- az M Key. While the entire appearance of the animal is most unusual, Mr. Pierce, who has examined many queer examples of sea life, says the food masticating members of this is the most complicated ar- Tangecnt he has ever seen Anoth imen p'acd in the large oval tank this morning is a remora, sucking fich, which is the larg@t « ren at the aquarium. a and a half-feet It never grows larger than ght inches two long. of the three recently is an exeeption- They are een about three inch- es long. but the one now im the tank with crawfish is a giant of its kind. CITY COUNCIL TO imens large sea tous: jeer. the device by which the wings! Mr. Dillon feels that his cat Owing’to the nomatrival of the of the modern airplane are kept} ence in different divisions of law | ferry last evening, the scheduled free of ice when flying through! enforcement in Monroe county,! meeting of Minoca ~ Council |paper. Chairman Fletcher says Around a_ thousand business | the plan marks the beginning of for;men recently gathered in Wash-) an effort to finance the party ‘time in the apartments and gar-} of the late Judge Hugh Gunn, ap- dens of Byckingham Palace. pearing in The Citizen yesterday. She recently paid, a surprise] it was stated that Mr. Gomez had low temperatures. PROVED HE COULD WRITE | NEWPORT, Eng.—To prove to his grandfather that he could) write, a seven-year-old boy of this | city, filled in part of a prescribed form in the last election and then took it to the polls. The boy’s! father was fined $15. QUALITY IS HIGHER THAN PRICE IN WAGNER BEER. THAT'S ONE REASON WHY WAGNER’S IS THE MOST POPULAR BRAND faction of the government and} those from whom he is soliciting! support, devote his time to the execution of the requirements of the office in such a manner as to retain the ioe of the citizens of Monroe| Pocahontas and a group of asso-|The measure concerned is presum-| rector, as “an application of the county. j fits him to flil the office to which last night to’ greet Great -Poca-|ington to influence Congress to'through annual contributions of he aspires, to the complete satis-| hontas Deleie Geer, was postpon-|take favorable action on the so-;the “rank and file.” ed until tonight 7:30 o’clock. At that hour the local council! . will assemble in Red Men’s Hall} He promises, if elected, he will] on Caroline street to meet the: “farmers’ march” last visiting officer, who arrived this morning 8 o'clock on the ferry accompanied by four Past Great ciates, called “anti-chain” measure,| j {known as the Robinson-Patman| bill. Other evidence of Republican As precedents they had the; activity includes a proposal in year to! fifteen western States to put on support the ammendments to the! a campaign in precincts with . an AAA, and for “business men’s|army of workers, according to ;march” for a revival of the NRA.| Harrison Spangler, Western Di- ed to benefit and protect small (Continued on Page Four) | visit, on a Sunday afternoon, to; completed a coutse in law at the the Park Lane mansion of Sir} University of Florida. j Philip Sassoon to view paintings, The Citizen misunderstood Mr. by Gainsborough, her favorite art-| Gomez in this statement, he hav- ist. ing said that he had taken 2 She was unrecognized as_ she! course in law at the university. He | drove through the streets in \ did not make any reference to closed automobile with the Prin-| having finished the course as was cess Royal. Her daughter has been! stated in the article. The Citizen a devoted companion of the wid-| hastens to make this correction in| owed queen, | Mr. Gomez’ behalf. There will be a regular meeting of the City Council held tonight at which time the ordinance pro- viding for a tax on gasoline will come v7 for consideration. This is the only matter of mach importance that is scheduled to come before the meeting, all oth- er business being of a routine na- j tur. ON TODAY’S MARKET.