The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 23, 1936, Page 1

a ee Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 71. YACHTS LEAVE YESTERDAY FOR ST. PETERSBURG | LABOR HITS JUDICIARY 1A DECLAR- MOA OEEICIAISEACE NEXT YEAR’S RELIEF ED; MANY VESS=LS FAIL; | POLITICAL PICTURE TO ARRIVE HERE IN TIME o | CONGRESS FACES RELIEF FOR PROPOSED EVENT | PWA STATISTICS A LOBBYIST ENTERTAINS Sailing yachts that were in Key} West over the week-end to a acai amaiaes NEEDED ticipate in a proposed race | SOME INQUIRIES FRUITFUL meg aWicst: tosh Fi THE SEAWAY PROJECT sored by the Bisca. Club of Miami left yesterday| morning for the Sunshine City, without the official race. The craft were to have Saturday morning, but after s of the boats did not arrive in} time for a start then, the begin ning was postponed until ye from stersburg spon- Bay Yacht By HUGO SIMS, | The Citizen’s Special Washington Correspondent The American Federation of | Labor, in its current monthty sar- _|vey, takes a passing lick at the; Supreme Court by contending! day in ee she Ste hat the United States has failed expe! secaliniappertsony ito put its producing some Too and the Mischief, andj} é two also were scheduled to reach! t® work “chiefly because we were not permitted by the judiciary to! mechanism}! The Key West Citisen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1936. Federal Trade Decision | a Momentous One | | | | The charge of “politics” is de-+ nied by Harry Hopkins and _ his: administrators. Moreover, the} opinion in gradually getting; around the expenditure of! huge relief funds may be more of! a political liability than an asset. | In almost every community there! are persons on relief projects bit-| terly denouncing that they con-} sider unjust treatment and talk-} fing about what they call “favori-} tism” to other: | Col.Charles . March CHAIRMAN | Garlana@ While the writer of this column: is no astute politician, and readily | {admits the possibility of political} |benefit through relief expendi- { tures, he is not so sure that the; Administration will receive any, j great pclitical reward from its re-j lief activity. Certainly, there are} ‘arguments for both sides of the j del jebate. | Ferguson bg The PWA reports that about i | $2,000,000.000 has been spent on | Milwaukee ‘MILWAUKEE MADE. | SAFEST CITY FOR STREET’ TRAFFIC’ SUCCESS OF LONG-TIME “i PAIGN BRINGS GREAT RE-| SULTS IN EFFORTS OF MU-! NICIPALITY By CARROLL ARIMOND (By Asnociated Presn) MILWAUKEE, rch 23.— Long years of effort have given the safest streets _ of any large American city and a “triple-E” safety program widely copied by other municipalities. The triple-E pattern—for E neering, Enforcement and Educa- tion—has been the model of al- most all cities in safety campaigns | of various types, and at present! is the theme of a national assault’ gi) Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate im the country; with an average rang: >of only 14° Fahrerheit PRICE FIVE CENTS Made For Double ‘Checking Of Federal Airway | - Range Beacon Station Here LANE HANDLES |~4T PASSENGERS ‘Will Be Monitored By Spe- cial Station At Miami; All Irregularities Te Be Transmitted ON FOUR TRIPS THIRTE=N ARRIVE ON AIR- CRAFT THIS MORNING: SAME NUMBER DEPART FOR MIAMI YESTERDAY By PAUL MAY (Sectst Castinaeen Covmecpenton® << the Cutee? WASHINGTON, D.C. March 23.— “double- checking” the Federal sleway radio " range beacen station af Key West, Provisions for i | | | and out on the planes of the .’an There were 47 passengers te keep it operating c= its as sigred frequency, and ts remedy any irregularities promptly should American Airways on 16,500 projects and an equal sum will be expended on public im- ! provements now under way. Un- der construction are 2,007 new; er Saturday from Havan 5. he re ee ne urease te ork out our attempt to discover | embracing ene Sietunteg ites were the Gollacan and the} ) 0 this should be done.” Assert: | wy poats; ing that with the technical prog-| of traffic mortality. Its development they occur were explamed tedzy at the bureae of air commerce of has brought, terday and one this mornne. four mibengone on te lyess made since 1929 we would] arrived, yachtsmen who were here! "ste a national standard of liv- eci pave earl y x decided to le mye cael ‘Ying at least 6 per cent higher than | Deen on ee part i that reached in 1929, the labor the annual St. Pettrsburg-H. ana: oy ganization points out that “we race, which was originally sched-| tony work to over two. million lee Voy eer nul en wave but) maintain nearly five million of which may be postponed. | them in poverty at government Boats leaving yesterday in- expense, and do nothing for the cluded the Babe, Commodore| rg. st.” Hugh Matheson, skipper, the| Water Witch Hansen of St./ and — skipper and the Gam with Wirth Munroe, chairman of the regatta committee of the Biscayne Ba club, skipping. With them went The Federation reports the ‘tragic fact” that industry is fail- ing to solve the problem of un- employment and deplores the death of the NRA, which is says. | {non-Federal projects by munici- | palities, financed by the PWA to leost $467.800,000. In these the | {community supplies 55¢ for every} 45c of Federal funds. Also under | way are 1,093 local non-Federal | projects, financed from the old |Public Works appropriation, at a; cost of $751,400,000. There are 11.171 Federal projects with no ! to cost $782,- local particiation, ! 000,000, including post offices, improvements, !viver and harbor dams, and power plants. The housing division has 49 projects in slum clearance and _ low-rent | units under way. i | What is generally regarded ax the most momentous decision the Fed eral Trade Commission ever made wax its order to the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company to cease and dexixt from giving alleged discriminatory prices to the mail order house, Sears, Roebuck & Co., in violation of | the anti-trust laws. The case had been before the Commission for two years. The testimony exceeded five million words and covered more than 25.900 typewritten pages. The record included nearly 22,000 exhibits. | National ; United ; merce, the American Public He: |sure had been untested, ' were suffering tremendous losses both in actual money and in good| s| Milwaukee recognition from Safety Council, States Chamber of Co the ith ciation and the National Fire te council as the “safety ass WwW | city.” In 1912, when the automobile’s value beyond the field of plea railroads will and prestige through injuri and death, In that year 25 _per-| sons, including representatives of the government, the the! Red Cross; Arrivals today: Lorraine Price the commerce department. Mildred Schwab, Samuel Belcher, time checks by Jeannette Belcher, John W. ar the statens, Evans, Jr.. George H. Stewart rangy beacen w Milton de Baun, | Henry Saunders, Albert Hirth. Wallace Grigg: Paul Sutton, Lawrence Jackson. James Aylward. after Clifton [Departures yesterday noon: Mildred Johnson, Pratt, Irene Pratt, Frank Yunes, a U. S. Coast Guard cutter and « Coast Guard plane. i Friday night, the visitin: yachtsmen were entertained an..imprompiu-dapce at,the Ha- a i ineressed production and workers’ An interesting story revealed | before the Senate Lobby Com- | mittee tells how an alleged Lobby- buying power at about the same} ate through increased wages and shortened hours. By contrast is the 14 per cent increase of pro- TODAY’S WEATHER —_———— j was known as the first and industry, met here in what William Hylan Abe Aronovitz,| | coopera-|Oscar Margo, Myer Schwartz, Bartlett, Saalfrank, Nellie Mor- ‘ris, James Warren, Phillip Wiley, tive safety congress. Meeting Brought Organization duction in 1935 and the 3 per jcent increase in workers’ buying j power. In 1934, says the Federa-; | tion, under the NRA, these two; clements rose 4 per cent each. bana-Madrid Club, which was ar- ranged by the recreation section of the local WPA. MRS. M. KNIGHT {dellars for relief purposes during the fiscal year which begins next} ist who admitted receiving $25,- 177 from Western power com-; tation— panies, shared a semi-: -suburban | Abilene ouse in Wkshington last summer | Adanta ' s 2 S with six members of Congress, ; i Boston jand, at times, enjoyed the pre-| 3 sence of as many as forty icin buttalo gressmen in the cool of the even-| | Charleston . ing. Robert E. Smith, of Portland, | | Chicago Oregon, Chairman of, the National |Denver . Conference of Investors, insists | : jetroit Lowest Highest last night last 24 hours; 58 84 74 46 36 | Showers 60 j Jacksonville to Florida Straits and East Gulf: Moderate south- ; east to south winds fresh at times, and partly overcast weather to-| jnight and Tuesday with scattered | 1 i ! WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is low this morning in | waukee began 15. That first meeting led to the formation in New York C-ty the; next year of the National Council | for Industrial Safety. The triple-' E pattern was outlined and Mil-; putting it effect. By 1915, according to Clarence! Muth, manager of the safety {division of the Milwaukee associ tion of commerce, the mass pro- into Edward Wiley. Arrivals yesterday morning Oscar Margo, Myer Schwartz,’ \Frank Yunes, Edith Schoepper,’ , : Camille D. Arens, Gerald Ken- jmedy, Wi J. Schoneck, Eugene Martinez, Abe Aronovitz, Clifton Pratt, Irene Pratt, Otis Hubbard. + Departures Saturday after- noon: Margaret N. Nichois. MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT FOR; POSITION OF JUVENILE JUDGE Mereline Baeza Knight an- in this issue of The Citi-j zen for the office of juvenile| judge, and solicits the support of| the voters at the June primaries.! Educated in the publie schools of Key West and the mother of i , three as and two! is! qualified both by education and! experience to administer the duties of the office. | She points out that three of} her daughtéis were graduated| from the, Key West High School,| one son will be graduated this} year anid anéther is well along the/ road to graduation and honors. Having raised this fine family} and with the experience which naturally attendant upon mpl NeE | hood and the adjudic ch arise dur 4 juvenile — traini many matters wh the covrse of cI along successful lines, Mrs. Knight} feels she pted to! handling are! brought before Knight ha connections w v inthe capacity of | juv ‘ manager | ¢ of the High Schoo steria and| for one year the Key! West Electric | CUTTER ACTING AS | CONVOY TO YACHTS, ness fern lof the WPA a fairly plain reply ;{ tion to Reosevelt in the Demeo- | nomination battle moves into the July. Just before leaving the capi- tal for his fishing ceruise in south- waters the Chief Executive outlined the situation in a special | message, stressing the fact that! that the housing venture was strictly cooperative and that des-} Galveston pite his active interest in behalf| Havana Huron of utilitiés and railroads, there was no discussion of the Holding : mS additional funds might be nec-| Company bill or the Pettengill bill| 7° keonwvalle essary next year unless private] which would repeal the long and | Kansas Cty .. enterprise absorbs some of the} short haul clause of the Inter-| KEY WEST .. unemployed. Pointedly he observ-| state Commerce Act While Smith} Little Rock .. ed that the ultimate cost of re-| was positive that the Holding}. Angel a s Angeles .. lief, to the Government, would Company bill, which his backers), |... |depend upon that’ business does| were des perately fighting, never | Louisville to employ workers. came up zor dscussion, a few days! Miami .. = |azter the House passed the meas-| Minneapolis .. ure, he gave up the furnished) New Orleans | house. ew York .... Pensacola ...... The new funds would be used entirely in the Works Progress Administration, according to the President. who thus gave critics; Senator Byrd, of Virginia,| | Chairman of the Senate Commit-} Pittsburgh jtee on Government Re-organiza-/ St. Louis __. tion, believes that the plan to be Salt Lake City reported to the Senate next year} can Francsco will save hundreds of millions of| Seattle dollars. The junior Senator from * available for spending is impres-| Virginia has been an advocate of; T@™pa sive, aggregating $3,100,000,000) governmental re-organization and} Washington as compared with the estimate of | initiated the move for the creation! Williston, $3.500,000,000 in the current} of a special committee to study| fiseal year. | the operations of government, toj j the end of eliminating dup! ieate | Highest The polit picture has been} activiti He feels that th's is ini ‘airly quiet—that is, nothing real-| line with a plank of the Demo- | Lowest ly startling has happened. The| cratic Party platform calling for grist of the mill has been about; abolition of “useless agencies” along the line expected, except! and consolidation of “overlappi ng} perhaps indications that opposi-! bureaus.” With one billion of funds already appropriated to be spent in the ! coming fiscal year and with $600.- 000,000 in the budget for public j works and the CCC the sum 24 Temperatures* 68 71 73 Mean | Norma! Mean “ Rainfall* Yesterday’s Precipitation Boral Precipitation -03 Ins. at covers 24-hour peri cone nt NS o'clock thix morning. Tomorrow's Almanac Sun rises Sun Moon ri Moon si Anyone with the slightest _ in- formation regarding the mul cratic convention will be less than | it seemed sad the Liberty; | Leaguers are hearing that they, various activities of the Govern- jare not near as effective in alien-' ment, knows that there is room ing public sentiment as they had | for economy. This has always been hoped to be. The Republican, the.case and’ probably will con- tinue always, or so long as the pre-primary stage with some; Government persists in its pres-! evidence that Senator Borah and’ ent form: However, thoughtful! Gevernor Landon might stage a citizens should. applaud the pur-! High real battle. [pose of the Senate committee.| Low __ se . m. ma S Tomorrow's Tides A.M. ---10:18 3:50 74) |the Mississippi Valley, Plains and} | West Gulf States with a moderate disturbance over Kansas, Dodge! | City 29.36 inches, and also} | moderately low on the far north- east, Eastport, Me., 29.74 inches; while a-high pressure area over- spreads the Middle and South At-} lantie States, Washington, D. C.,| and Hatteras, N. C., 30.22 inches.! is | Precipitation has occurred during| | the last 24 hours from the Dakotas southwestward into Arizona, with! | heavy snow in portions of Colo- | rado, and there has been light to} | moderate rain in portions of the | Ohio and Upper and Middle Mis-! | sissippi Valleys, Lake | northern New England, the coast of Oregon. Tempera-} tures have risen in most sections from the Plains States eastward, being 22 to 23 degrees above} normal this morning in the Middle} Mississippi and Lower Missouri | Valleys, and have fallen | what throughout most | Rocky States. | peratures range this morning from regi and ‘ion, on! some- the; Tem-; of Mountain O. Ins.| 12 degrees at Helena, Montana, to! zactory hospitals, It is estimated 170 degrees at Miami West. and Key S. KENNEDY, | Official in Charge. { = TWIN BROTHERS, 18, | MEET FOR FIRST TIME e: (Ry aeoccmeon Press) WEBB CITY, Mo., Mareh 23. | | safety ere of the state indus-/ ; were equipped with guards to re-| 12,300 persons attended cl: {layed through key men Harold Holden, Kathleen Fessen- den, Edward Barclay, H. Shon- nard, Andrew Brun, W-lliam Reb- Alien E. duction industries faced the same situation railroads did three years earlier. The association of com- merce started a purely local move-| erts, Caroline Roberts, ment for safety in the shops. | Curry. In this campaign, the first E.| =. VESSEL ALSO SROUCHT 20 TONS OF FREIGHT FoR trial commission. Rules for the| conduct of shops were set down, | and certain types of machinery; sha arriz Tampa wit Mf these there weve our second class fer first and duce accidents. Education was et-! fected through schooling plant} supervising foremen capable of! teaching elements of safety to! {men under them. | For Fire Education { In 1923, the educational pro-| jgram swung to the fire hazard.| i Enforcement of recommendations} were entrusted to fire prevention! {bureaus and fire department and) COUntY Ju insurance codes and standards. An| veteran's hospital. — | Industrial Fire Prevention school} Chas- Lutz and Charles 1 ‘was started in 1923. Last year Pounds, attendants from the vet-' « ’s hospital at Bay Pines, eran’s !Fla., arrived on the Cuba this morning and will leave tomer row with their patient fer Tampa en route to Gulfport, Miss., where Mr. Cawthon will be placed im a hospital. MSs WOOLFITT NOW IMPROVING : {MAN ADJUDGED INSANE BE TAKEN TO VETERAN'S HOSPITAL twe -« __ L. Cawthon, imsane by @& sanity |commission appointed by the ge, is to be taken to a Charles recently ' adjudged A. Parramere, J. 5. z and At the same time the anti-fire program started. a first aid in in- dustry campaign was developed. Standards.for treatment were set by the American Red Cross and enforcement was developed within} ithe industry through insistence that minor injuries be treated in that an educational program re- reaches per cent of Milwaukee's justrial employes. In 1924, just 12 years after the! RECENTLY UNDERWENT OP- railroads turned to a safety pro-! gram, the automobiles was being) ERATION IN HOSPITAL AT WASHINGTON, D. C. recogn‘zed as a serious hazard to} i life. Milwaukee originated a pub-| lie safety commission of voluntary cit'zens appointed by. the mayor.) The department of publie works,} on of the recreation local WPA. today. The opm be furmshed f {a large number = the 7 in-} he * == d Toe an Miss Jane F. Woolfitt, secre- | Maybe it will aceomplish of the’ Barometer 8 a. m. today: install- | tary to Corrington Gill, in Wash- Eighteen-year-old twins, separated’ aided by lighting streets, five days after birth. met here for; ing clear, visible and comprehen-} jthe first time recently. jsive signals, building safety is-j lands on broad streets and chart-| One, Albert William MeIntyre,} | ing lanes. With the relief question square-| Government, eVen if the results! Coast Guard Cutter Pandora one may ex-|aré not permanent. left yesterday to act as convoy | ly before Congress, to the yachts which were in the! pect sharp discussion before the} harbor for the Key West-St.} matter is fnally disposed of. Petersburg race and sailed in the| Critics, including members of both Sea level, 30.10. lington, who spent a delightful WEATHER FORECAST | vacation in Key West during January. recently underwent an | appendectomy in a Washington This information Readers interested in, this sub-! ject will find it extremely in- (Till 8 p. m. Tuesday) Key West and Vicinity: Most- ss morning. i Leaving at the same time was: ene of the Coast Guard planes. } Both of these crait will be used i convoying the yachts from St. Petersburg to Havana. Another Coast Guard the Nemesis, which ar Friday for convoy dut Cutter, rived last sailed. [be granted. structive to study the record of | Congress in regard to the econo- mies effected by President Roose- ly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with occasional showers Tuesday; moderate southeast to south perties, will charge “polites” and attempt to prove the case. The} Administration will again be ac-, cused of using relief expenditures | velt in the early months of his ad- winds, fresh at times. as a “slush” fund. There will be ministration. In practically every, Florida: Mostly cloudy, possibly considerable criticism but in the instance the savings effected by; occasional showers on the extreme end the relief fund authorization; the Government have been can- southeast coast tonight; Tuesday requested by the President will’ celled by positive legislation from} cloudy with scattered showers; (Continued on Page Four) | not much change in temperature. | whereabouts. {adopted son of Mrs. Thomas! Ferguson of Monett, Mo., had not | been told of his adoption before. The other, Maurice Keller, adopt- ed son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Keller of Webb City, had known ‘of his adoption for several years, but did not know of his brother's! \ | hospital. “received in a letter to Miss Marian Hull, office manager of the WPA + administration in Key West. Hospitality Hous secording During Miss Woolfitt’s vacation| snnouncement made today. [period she made s number of Severe’ matters are to be G=- j friends who will be happy to learn) cussed which are ef such mter- {that at this time she is convalese-|est that every member is aged ing and well along on the road to|to be present, it i= stated Th: recovery. i Meeting i= called for 8 o'clock Bermuda Meat Market FRESH KILLED KOSHER MEAT Rhode Island Red Hens White Rock Fryers Ph 52 Quick Servi White and Virginia Sts. IF YOU WANT THE BEST AT A PRICE YOU CAN AFFORD TO PAY, ST ART NOW AND DRINK WAGNER'S “PRIDE OF FLORIDA” BEER. YOULL LIKE iT