The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 19, 1936, Page 1

oe P Ld 5 eS Day Wire at. J a - Key West, Florida, has the 5 " mest equable climate im the For 56 Years Devoted to the My country th an average | Best Interests of Key West a t range « t Fahrenheit — = 4 VOLUME LVII. No. 68. Council Defers Action Again | On Gasoline Tax Ordinance | Several Other Matters Are| CENSUS OFFICIAL pemnerinnineyinecian Heard At Regular Ses-| ARRIVES HERE T0 sion Of Body Conducted) BEGIN ACTIVITIES, } | ee (Florida News Service) Last Evening 2 ae Wi A. PAYNE OF DEPARTMENT} TALLAHASSEE, Mar, 19.— = | With the job of raising the un- =, Ss. eine caepemlaaimecanat cedented sum of $39,000,000; ANT CALL AT THE CITIZEN! | OFFICE TODAY COMPTROLLER GIVES ACCOUNT OF ACTIVITIES SECOND TERM TO OFFICE: MENTIONS EFFORTS TO: HELP SCHOOL TEACHERS i | | i 1 | | The City Council at its regular} { meeting last night deferred final! i to insure payment of salaries for! ! Florida’s school teachers prac-! | tially completed in spite of failure | action for the second time on the} ordinance calling for a tax of one} | of the store tax to produce avail-; W. A. Payne, official of thejable funds, State Comptroller J. | department of commerce in charge | M. Lee today took time out long amended| of the census of American Busi-; ; é ! Iness in Florida, was a welcomed! nough to ask Florida Democrats) {caller at The Citizen office to-/to give him a second term at the: state’s fiseal strue-! | conta laslicnlcnigasclinersclaiim| Key West. The ordinance was eliminating the portion levying a tax on petroleum products, such{ day, to greet the publisher, an old helm of the quaintance. i ture Mr. Payne has the distinction| gj)... . asd was read and passed on its| of being the first visitor to Key, >" tine boldly—just as he has! | West to drive his ear from the. through three years of financial, ‘ferry at No Name Key when the; stringency that have seen his ef- service was inaugurated with the; forts rewarded by a balanced! rival of the Ferry Florida Keys! budget, full payment of more than | on Monday, January 16, 1928 a million dollars of old bills and! The visitor sees a v | the state now discounting its cur-} ence between that d ‘rent bills—the comptroller issued | it was not legal, a which the! The many changes have not been a brie? statement to the voters! council decided to defer the mat-jfor the better, he agrees, but! of the Democratic party predicat- | ter until the constitu of feels as do many others, that Key ‘ing his appeal on the record of his the act is fully determined. | West is destined to be the great-} performance on his 1932 pledges} The city attorney also read a/est winter resort in the United! and the achievements of the past} telegram from the attorney gen-| States. {forty months of his comptroller- eral which indicated that | Mr. Payne expects to be here. ship, did not have the right several days getting the machin-! ery of the censvs underway and‘ rting the enumerators to work as lubricating oils and the like,| * first and second reading. Before presenting it for reading, the opinion of Cit; torney Arthur Go was relative to its legal and attorney stated that in his opinion sked he! onality to such tax in this connection. Renews Pledges Terscly, his announcement re- : news the pledges of that campaign ions Presented ned by several with instructions covering every | four yecrs ago—pledges that have’ hundred citizens were presented! phase of census enumeration. _| witnessed a performance record in opposition to levying the tax.| Those to be employed in this startling in this age of _ polities After this, Attorney Lester made a shor position to the It was broug of the council t i stood that the Pan-American Air- S was considering discon- tinuance mail plane service in- J. Lancelot: Work will be designated by the’ when platforms are usually made talk in op-; WPA officials. They will, in allity ride into office and then bej | probability, be named tomorrow! abandoned. land the enumerators started out; Comptroller Lee's iat once. jment follows: “To the Demo-| lerats of Florida: Based upon the} CUBA BRINGS IN {manner in which I have fulfilled! ; my platform pledges of 1932 and attention announce- | was under- to Key West, and that all mail} © r,] the official record of accomplish- would in this efent $é broiight in 35 PASSENGERS ménts and serviees rendered as! and sent the highway! cuch official, I hereby announce | ti whici shown would; _ my candidacy for a second term! ea serious handicap to this’ as your comptroller, subject to city. VESSEL A250 EY ae the Democratic primary. If elect- | It was decid send tele-| SIXTEEN TONS OF FREIGHT fed, I shall continue to serve in the grams to represent s in Wash- ;same impartial and aggressive FOR KEY WEST ington and other manner.” effort to have officials in an the present service] Tells of Plans continued. | The comptroller stated he plans! Adopt Resolution | Steamer Cuba of the P. and O.'an aggressive campaign—taking! A resolution was adopted to in-|S- S. company, arrived from Tam-| the stump shortly after the first | struct the tax collector to receive Pa and St. Petersburg this morn-' of the month to meet Florida! hy gee eras and] ing with seven first and four sec- in wa Democrats face to face for an: ants | West will sail tomorrow morning} given by plane motor. { KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 193 DELAYED FERRY BAND CONCERT REACHES PORT MUCH ENJOY FLORIDA KEYS NOW AT NO EXCELLENT PROGRAM REN- NAME KEY IN PERFECT DERED AT BAYVIEW PARK CONDITION LAST NIGHT BY BAND | | Captain Eugene Demeritt, in; charge of the ferries, today re-| ported to Executive Officer Frank-|!4"ee number of music _| lin E. Albert, head of the system,|ctayed throughout the excellent that the Ferry Florida Keys is at} No Name Key in perfect condi-! program offered last tion. The vessel suffered no dam- ; B sge from the winds and weather! experienced Tuesday afternoon | Hospitality Band. and night. 4 Mr. Albert told The Citizen} both the Florida Keys and Key} weekly series of concerts to be the organized band Although it was a cool night, a lovers night at ayview Park by the Key West for Matecumbe, carrying cars. Ar-| which is a part of the Federal / Key! susie Project, under the direc- {tion of Dr. Nikolai Sokoloff, and locally by riving at Matecumbe the West will double back to take up the regular schedule, leaving No Name Key 8 o’cloc lis being supervised The Florida Keys w remain | George Mills White. at Matecumbe until Saturday| Under tbe leadership of Pro- morning and begin on the regular | r Alfredo Barroso, the band schedule from Matecumbe, sailing | p nted a well balanced program for No Name Key at 10 o’elock. | night and those who attended | it termed the program “splendid,” j with an intermingling of popular -—— jnumbers with classical selections. ST. PAUL. — Bernard M.| Another program has been ar- Thompson. $35 a week garage|ranged for tomorrow morning 10 worker of this city received $50,-, o'clock in the Marine hospital for 000 for the patent rights to an air-; the benefit of the staff of sur. ! geons and nurses and the patients. i VALUABLE PATENT ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- arable From Local Welfare The eyes of America are again few put the date farther off than turned toward other shores. «The trouble—and trouble of the utmost seriousness—is putting in its appearance in both Europe and Asia. The potential import-! military agreements between these ance of what is happening in those! powers to unite in case of trouble. continents, puts the long drawn! Russia, in turn, hopes that Eng- out Italian-Ethiopian embroglio in’ land will help her in case worst the shade. ; comes to worst in the Far East. One dramatie recent event was’ Russia is the connecting link be- the assassination of a number of|tween Europe and Asia, must high Japanese officials by war-| keep an eye both east and west as seeking army officers. The Jap-|a result. 11938. fare being very polite to Both England and France Russi: This was the first of a twice} these days, and there is talk of| 6. »Death Toll In Disastrous Flood ' In Eastern States Now Nears 100 | START FROM HERE LARS BE | THIS SATURDAY! THREE MILLION DOLLARS BE CONTRI- | BUTED FOR SUFFERERS IN MANY STRICK- INFORMATION RECEIVED TO-} DAY FROM MIAMI BY CLEM| EN AREAS PRICE NOTIFYING HIM oF | CHANGE OF DATE : | i (Copyrighted By Associated Pres UNDATED—The toll cf death pushed toward 100 | teday im the most dicastrous flood devastaiion im the his- ‘tery of the eastern states. The Ohio River olumged wildly | Instead of starting the yacht f : jraces from Key West to St. Pe- down its Ercad valley, sweeping death and destruction be- urg on Monday morning, the | fore it od ied Widen, Wee _— sels will sail from Key West 9 | o’clock Saturday morning. This in- | reared over the banks to cover the business district of ~eaelsus , Wheeling Island and to threaten dozens if angry crest. ‘formation was received today by | | Clem C. Price, in charge of local The latest Est of dead by states placed Tk ter Virginia, Wheeling with 10 feet of water, to sub arrangements, from Wirth Mun- roe, chairman of the Regatta Com ittee in Miami. The vessels will yet in readiness for the t early in the morning | and be in readiness to cross the {line which will be at a point off | Fort Taylor. The warning s‘gnal | will be given at 8:50; prenara- eae = as tewn and other areas who reported relative s at first planned to have start Monday morning | and with this understanding ar- rangements weve toc being com- pleted for the entertainment of the yachtsmen, a large number of | whom are expected to be in the: yjassachusetts, th ‘harbor by Friday afternoon. With -3 | the change of plans there will be [little or no opportunity to enter- l tein the visitors, it was pointed | t. Several of the entrants in the races left Miami this morning, !bound for Key West. Among |them are S. A. Hansen's 49-foot | a | schooner, Water Witeh, which cap-| capital with its many shrines. tured both the Miami-Nasrau and | the Thomas Lipton’s cups this | | winter. \ ‘The Water Witch will be en- tered, it is said, in both the Key | West-St. Petersbrr¢ and the St. | ot! mi but fears were held for dozen: more. intensified throughout the forenoon by fam The dead by states yesterday and toda sylvania, 43; West Virginia, 15; Virginia, f four; North Carolina, two; Gecrgia two; M New Hampshire, cme, and New | York, one. Flood and explocion claimed 13 lives im Wheeline ‘ alcne. The Potomac surged toward the Chesapeake Bay on te | ow the worst rampage on record, threatening the national Delaying his departure for a Florida vacation, Presi- dent Rocsevelt summoned Secretary of War Dern and her aides to the White House for a conference on lend- anese censorship closed down! England has announced an arm- Pete rebare ae Lg retatud pie jing all possible help to stricken communities. tight, but reports that drifted|ament building program of un-| P09 ve ee 7 5 . out indicated that many regi- precedented size—a program so} Paar ie qachts tinted fox! After the conference the President issued a proclama- ments of soldiers were in a vir-' vast and elastic that nothing more| : z it ie e di Hugh | ¢j 4 - tual state of revolt, that the than futile guesses can be made Eee tACes Pierce There | 20 appealing for contributions cf $3,009,00) to the Red military authorities had the more as to its terrific eventual cost. | vill also be in the rece, Harkness | Cross for flood relief. bonds and fizty per cent in cash; 0nd class passengers for Key accounting of his stewardship. poommenvalve cvil auierites ony Seecal area on wal be given to) Edwards’ 66-foot stay sail wish-| oa a in collection of delinquent taxes,| West; 23 first and one second! “And I do not intend to use the |*#¢ Tun. Emperor Hirohito man-/ building up her air force, and t0; bone rigged Ketch Winsome Too. | The Red Cress, emphasizing the magnitude of the A letter was read inviting the| Class passenger for Havana. | offices of the state for this eam-|98¢4 finally to bring order out of making it equal to Germany's!” Fy Spence will enter his =e disaster, said 150,000 victims already were dependent Arrivals at Key West were: added when asked} i “Already my friends} | 2 i council to paign,”. he about plans. have rented headquarters outsid the capitol building where they attend of speeches to be given in Key West’ Ernest Thompson, J. W. Han- a series cock, Mrs. J. W. Hancock, C. M. Schilder, G. R. Leighton, Mrs. G. on March 27 and 28 at the Coral Isle Casino by Dr. Grau San Mar- tin, ex-president of Cuba. It ® Leighton, B. L. Schlepperle, J.. will in the near future open our; was _ stated speeches’ Key, R. Cash, L. Skinner, H. Sym- pelitical headquarters and from | would be in both sh and) onette. which they will conduct the cam-| English. The letter was signed The vessel also brought 16 tons’ paign and carry on the work neces- | by Dr. Julio de Poo, Benjamin °f freight, one automobile and 97, sary and incident to the cam- Rodriguez, Dario Garcia, Antonia S@¢ks of mail for Key West; one | paign.” Arencibia, Mario Sanchez, G automobile and 178 -gacks of:meil! Comptroller Lee is a native of Garcias, Rafael Be s and Ber-| °¢ Havana. | Irwin County, Georgia, where he! nardino Hernandez. j saa wna |was reared, educated and first | A letter from a group of color-! PLANE BRINGS db lentered politics, serving county ed residents was read _prote ie ’ jeommissioner and ordinary— . equivalent to a county judge in on at Nelson English Park, which {1923 he served as county attorney it was shown had been set aside and prosecutor for eight years. for the use of colored residents THIRTBEN PASSENGERS LEFT He was a member of the state leg- of the city The council decided i j stature in 1927, 1929 and 1931 to take this matter up for inves-| ON AIRCRAFT YESTER- prnere he took the lead in oppos- tigation with officials of the WPA| DAY AFTERNOON jine every new and additional tax organization, geass After disposing of a few other: | matters of minor importance, the! ‘TWO MORE YACHTS ‘bastian Cabrera, Jr.. Marian Horne, Ruls.e Bertley, Lloyd But- | meeting was ordered adjourned. ler, Harald Holden, Ruzs A. Wil-| Two yachts arrived yesterday! - HC S ME ING liams, Joseph A. Courreges and; afternoon and are berthed at fin-/ | Anthony Gabriel. ger piers in the Key West yacht THREE NEW MEMBERS INITI.| Departures yesterday afternoon | basin. They are: jat 4 o'clock we Leila Dunlap,! June IV, Crystal Beach, Fila.;} ATED DURING INTEREST- | Hortense Dunlap, Ellis Lawson,|E G. Hall owner and master, and | bs {Olja Lenheart, Lena Achmidt,| party of friends. ING SESSION | Sidney Munroe, Harold Horton,! Cruiser Wilya, of Miami Beach; nn Horton, Richard Nugent,| owner, Wm. J. Dero, and party of | William R. Porter, W. J. Schoneck, | three on board. The yacht is cap- Betty Dixon, Jack Davidson. {tained by J. E. Carpenter against operations in connection i with the sewer work being carried ; Pan American plane from Mi- ami arrived this morning 10:36 ; o'clock wita 10 passengers: Evan | P. Chappell, Edward Barclay, Se- Three new members were init | ated into Robert J. Perry Chap-| ter, Order of DeMolay, at a meet- ing held in Scottish Rite Hall last! evening at 8 o'clock. Those taking the initiatory de- | | DANCE MILK CHOCOLATE, TUTT! FRUTTI LAYER, and DEV- | | { gree were Paul Mesa, Raymond = i Navarro and. Delio “Cruz. The| March 21, 10:00 'Clock ak Ra ee meeting largely attended by RAUL’S CLUB Bitar penne i ; ih Pumpernickle Bread, loaf ... 10¢ both active and majority mem-| Music by Pritchard’s Orchestra nae a rs $1.00| MALONEY & PEACOCK ms from the various} ADMISSION ._. Masonic bodies. QUALITY IS HIGHER THAN PRICE IN WAGNER BEER. THAT’S ONE REASON WHY WAGNER'S IS THE MOST POPULAR chaos, and elaborate preparations; which is now supposed to be the are being made to punish the as-| best in Europe. sassins. However, the way the; On Germany’s side, there i Japanese wind blows is clear—!rumor that Hitler and Mu: ‘ini there is a strong minority in high’ are getting together in building places that believes war is in-'a new alliance. Some experts, evitable, thinks that now is the, however, doubt if this is true. time to dig the trenches and start; There is the troubled and con- ‘ring. {fused picture as it looks at pres- Second event to make big news, ent. War can break out next a j was Roy Howard’s interview with| week or next year on any one of} are others expcted to enter Dictator Stalin of the U. S. S. R.ja half-dozen fronts. Italy, Ger- Stalin told. Mr. Howard un-'many and Japan are the worst equivocally that Russia was pre-'danger spots—in those countries, ' pared to fight Japan, or any other, there is apparently a large meas-| marie | country for that matter, if a paci-| ure of publie demand for anether) This is the stay fic settlement of difficulties could; holocause of the 1914 variety. not be made. The dictator refer-| red especially to Japan’s en-/ croachment on the theoretically independent Mongolian Republic,|etc.—hardest of all. And it has; which is a highly important buf-; stayed with them longest. When} fer state to Russia. Stalin said; the recovery movement started aj} Russia was prepared to take up. year or so ago, it was restricted the sword any time to insure Mon-|almost entirely to consumer- golian freedom. This is the first! goods industries. time that Russia has made its posi-; ‘This winter and spring the first! tion clear—and, whether you like, real sign of a revival in the dur-| Stalin’s views or not, he has the! able goods industries is appear-| reputation of meaning exactly ing. largely due to heavy bea what he says, and of backing up;road purchasing. Railroad after his threats when the time is ripe.| railroad has gone into the market And Russia, undef the Sovict, has for new cars, rails and loco-| Depression hit the durattel goods industries—steel, cement.i | 1 | | j i] foot Seawanhaka Schooner Ven- bout two weeks ago and at that! : : ; : Vane Mr. Spence said he would | The Connecticut and Merrimac Rivers in New Eng- have his yacht in the race. The! soy Jove im steady rise, swelled by conti ae Kew West to St. Petersburg. | the Ohio Valley was the center of the day's greatest The 30-foot Yacht Gamecock will si lalso enter the race and wiil be the Terrifying im its swiftness, surge flood waters im See cores isa here or from} early dawn poured over Wellsburg, drowning two men. sapere the dark hours, hundreds screamed for help as which arrived Tuesday. sail } rigged ketch owned by Vadim} . . " i Makaroff. The ketch sailed this} But it was in Wheeling that the river was struck hardest. morning for St. Petersburg .tow-| Wheeling Island, in the middle of the river between Ohio est Hemingway’s Cruiser Pilar. TW ) LICENSES Dozens of persons were taken from second and third 0 fleor windows by a fleet of fifty or more recue boats. deep. Pittsburgh was a debris-strewn mass of desolation. Slime and receding waters coated the streets and build- ings. | turer, which was in Key West| upon it for aid throughout the east. Venturer will be in the race from} havoc. | sailed by Wirth Munroe, and there One of these vessels is the Va- wishbone | rescue craft plied through streets to the aid of stranded. ed from the yacht basin by Ern-| ree : and West Virginia shores was inundated. TO WED ISSUED | Over the towiand section of the city, water was 18 feet Alert national guardemen kept everyone out of the | Two issues of marriage licenses ! were recorded during the week } ending March 19, according to} the records in the office of the | probate judge. i become a first-class military; motives. The railroads are show-|" y.sues were made to: Harry | business district. Waters fell at the rate of six inches an power. | ing increased, though not sen-| Roosevelt Saunders and Izett é Third event to make. bannérjsational earnings, are getting| Elizabeth Demeritt: William H.| hour, but the city of 700000 faced another lightless heads was Germany’s sudden mili- more traffic. Their expansion! fyoffman and Julia B. Jones | mi ‘i each i i 3 night, tary reoccupation of the Rhine,'and improvement budgets na- éa H ght, in violation of the Locarno Pact.;turally reflect such betterment. This was not unexpected by the} ‘The farm equipment companies expert observers, who were. sure; constitute another member of the! Hitler would do it eventually,!durable goods group which finds; jhave been wondering for a year: times more encouraging. Accord-| nein diiat ie sieeeemmiommssaiaiaiaaimnel FRL-SAT. SPECIALS | or two when he would act. Hitleg ing to Business Week, their ex-| justified the occupation by saying’ perience during January marked it was necessary to German equal-'a 400 per cent advance over their, There were ten feet of water in some department Danger appeared to be past at Jamestown Que- ' viver was virtually back im the banks. Five hundred i BOXING Sponsored By American Legion Tonite at 8:00 o’Clock NAVY FIELD ARENA ity, that no martial intentions abysmal 1932 low. | Main Bout ‘ - " were behind it. But Germany Durable goods makers are keep- | ExQRY BLACKWELL jzeardemen rushed to the city last night es people re- neighbors, especially _ France,! ing watchful eyes on the utility} turned to their homes. George Fullmer, manager of the <a * thinks otherwise. jindustry. If this industry goes in! French commentators are free. for expansion and improvement; t® say that war with Germany is} on a big scale, all heavy industry! inevitable—some say next year,'is going to feel the good effects. BABY RAY ATWELL Free Parking Space Johnstown Telephone Company, estimeted the damage at $10,000,000, far above the great disaster of 1889. ON TODAY’S MARKET