The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 1, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che VOLUME LVII. No. 79. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, KEY WEST’SRED VISITORS PROLONG CROSS QUOTAIS | STAY IN KEY WEST FAR IN ARREAR H TREASURER W. L. BATzS} SAYS RESPONSES sae BEEN VERY SLOW; — j Cleveland, Ohio, but at present INDIFFERENCE SHOWN ee j making his home in Miami, and |Mrs. MacDonald, are visitors in er of! Key West today and are planning z to stay a month or longer. Rea They arrived over the highway writes the Key West chapter that | last evening, and after being here }for a few hours decided to leave. a | This morning they started in eir car for the ferry slip at No ame, but when about half way lected in the Flood Relief Cam-| decided they had come to see the icity and the glimpse they had :last night did not afford them the portunity. | Turning their car around they chap-|came back to the city and after 5 | visiting a number of places of in- ters in the eastern area have Ye-| terest, including the Key West STARTED THIS MORNING FOR NO NAME KEY BUT DECID- ED TO RETURN TO CITY R. MacDonald, formerly of Richard F, Allen, manag the Eastern Cross area, | “It is urgent that we have prompt report on the amount col- |‘? paign.” Mr. Allen points out in his |°P communication that 1318 Key West Citizen WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 19: 36. \ 'FAMIL IFAMILY OF 16 | ADOPTS SYSTEM ainsi gp sii MUCH MONEY, SO NEW! | WAY OF LIYING IS | NATION'S RELIZF BILL MAPPED OUT | UNEMPLOYMENT VIEWS | CONGRESSMEN WATCHING |THE RAILROAD PROBLEM | COMPETITIVE DANGERS “| FOR REORGANIZATION ”)| PRESIDENT REASSURED , BCRAH HITS INTERESTS for | OOKS LIKE REAL FIGHT ' SINCE THE NRA ENDED | The children include a of: triplets and a pair of twins. The! father is 42, the mother 38.) By HUGO SIMS, | They were married 21 years ago.| The Citizen’s Special Washington Correspondent The Treasury Department, at the request of the New York Times, recently drew up a table showing the amount «Ry Associated Press) 1 KNOXVILLE, Tenn., April —‘Just a matter of system,” ex. 1 ‘plain Mr. and Mrs. John Johnso _ Who with their fourteen childrén ‘live quite comfortably here about $20 a week. set | The children are: Claude, 20;| Garnett, 18; Joe, 15; Ruth, 13;} | Helen, 12; Bonnie and Johnny, ! twins, 11; Teddy, Archie and Ke of money LoommnGc Yat | x ported to date on the fund, that} Aquarium, and meeting some of / mit, triplets, 9; Henry Quentin,! : | the folk, concluded it would be a/ 8; Alice, 6; Pauline, 4; and Betty, provided for relief during the 654 have reached their quota and | tion, proposed economics affect-' jing eleven terminals, j | | ‘This led to the present effort, }on ‘the part of Management and} {Labor to get together, and Labor ‘leaders, fearing the end of pro-, ; teetive legislation on June 16th,! ‘are moving to secure passage of the Wheeler-Crosser bill in Con-} jgress. This would protect em- ployes affected by consolidat‘ons \by giving them new jobs or two- ; thirds pay while idle, or a year’s iwages if the employe leaves the service. The negotiations may i break down before this is printed. j but it is encouraging that both 'sides prefer a voluntary arrange-: . ment, ' i ‘The question is extremely com- ; plex, with many factors involved. The oads, facing acute bus competition, find economies nec- | essary in order to. secure and hold dees. Employ many un-' ATTENDS SESSION IN PALM BEACH DISTRICT RALLY OF WEL- FARE WORKERS PRECEDES CONFERENCE TO BE HELD IN DAYTONA BEACH Key West, Florida, bas the most equable climate im the country range of only 14° Pahrem with am averre i PRICE FIVE CENTS | VIIa a aaa ws. MISS SELMA WHITE Mrs. William R. Warren, Key’ West representative in District 10 under the State Board of Social Welfare, is in West Palm Beach today attending a district rally preceding the State ‘Convention of Social Welfare Work to be held in Daytona Beach April 15-18. Mrs. Warren left here torder to be in West Palm Beach for the rally today.. A confer- ence of the distriet board is sched- uled for tomorrow in West Palm Beach. yester- | day morning over the highway, in White was very much elated | ever the prize catch TITTIES IFA Persons from all parts 6f Flor- ida who are interested in »social PLANT SPRAYING — Infermation Given Was Un- official, However; Mes- sage Sent Te Govern ment Vessel The sailing cutter Babe, 30 feet long and skippered by Comme dore Hugh Mathesen of Miami was this morning declared amef- ficsmily the summer = the seventh anual St Petersburg-Hevens sail race im the fleet as « whole and i= Class “SB”. according to radio advices rece.ved bere by the Coast Guard Cutter Nemesis Althcugh the formation as to winners was uncfficiel, @ bad | pleasant experience to spend part Lou, 2. past three fiscal years and also: tramed for other work, face hard. walters Gork da aieieeee | t their quota. — | EXERCISE SOUGHT "alen _ BY BRITISH KING “I am sorry that we could not! report that we had reached our) quota, but we are paying partic-} ular attention to the list of those | who are contributing to the fund | locally. | “Last September when we had county, } re, open- } out in! the neighborhood of 000 in| food and clothing, bought and re-| paired boats and built homes on, the Keys. “When Miss Morris was here}! giving ow people for supplies and clothing, the mer-{ ehants were asking us ‘why don’t} you send some to me for orders!’ | In a communication Citizen, W. Lawton Bates, treas- urer of the Key West Red Cross PLANS EXTENSIVE iMPROVE- RIOUS OUTDOOR SPORTS (By Associated Prexx) LONDON, Arril 1.—It is _be- lieved in court circles that King Edward is planning extensive al- terations to the grounds of Buck- ingham Palsce so as to make them more suitable for outdoor sport. Construction of a vimming pool, a hard tennis ‘court ard a ets court ssibilities disevssed. the _king’s desire that. his orders to in MENTS LOOKING TO VA- ; are among! | Following the birth of the trip-!the amount spent. In 1934, out ie nine years ago @ SiX-ToOM’ of $4,693,000,000 available, there 'house was purchased by public bak 4 isubseription and presented the! ¥@S expended $2,385,900,000; in ' family. ; 1935, with $2,681,600,000 ap- 1 There is no vent to pay so the! propriated, the expenditures were family’s average earnings of $20; $3,194,400,000; for 1936, the al- {a week go almost entirely for location was $2,260,900,000 and | food. the expenditure, up to the middle “I make from 100 to 120 bis-| of March, has been $2,136,000,000 ii very morning for break-' and the estimate is that at the Mrs. Johnson says. ‘“We,end of the fiscal year on June se 50 pounds of flour a week.” | 30th, it will go up to $2,985,000,- The father and oldest boy,! 000. 1} Claude, do hauling jobs with a 500,000 have been allocated for |treck they operate. Mrs. John-| relief and by the end of this fiscal {son earns $8.25 a week on a WPA} year about $8,500,000,000 will ‘sewing job. | vocational school and receives $6) es }a month from the National Youth; The President intimated very | Administration. Joe, 15, stays at, plainly in his relief message that thome, takes care o7 the baby and; the extent of government aid will jruns the house. The ten younger; depend upor the number of un- ‘children attend school. :employed given work by private i “Raising them is just a matter}industry. Replying, business or- |of system’? Mrs. Johnson says.' ganizations declare that private {In a family of this size each child; employment would be-greatly ac- In the three years $9,635,-| Garnett, 18, attends’ have been spent for this purpose.! ships if they lose their jobs. The question must be settled ssome- how, because otherwise it is quite possible that the inro: of other; forms of transportation v prove more dangerous, and mean great- er losses, to both Management and Labor than the proposed eco- nomies, With the Senate Committee be- ginning its work ying gov-' ernmenta] reorganization, in ac- cordance with the suggestion of ; Senator Byrd, of Virginia, the} | President, last week, wrote prac-| i tically identical letters to Speak-| er Byrns and Vice-President Gar-| | appointed a special committee of jthree to make a survey to asc! \tain which of the New Deal !agencies shall be scrapped and! J which shall be welded into the, permanent executive structure. | Mr. Roosevelt named on j ‘eral counties in southeast scheduled to attend the state-wide conference in Daytona Beach*the middle of this month. Several na- tionally known speakers are in- cluded on the program. The conference in West Palm Beach tomorrow has been arrang- ed to discuss problems a i District 10 which comprises s Flor- ida. TAX ADJUSTMENT BOARD ASSEMBLES ner, advising them that he had VARIOUS APPLICATIONS FOR ADJUSTMENTS WERE CONSIDERED | At the meeting of the tax md-' his: Justment board, with all members Well, so far, I note there are only! three merchants who have their} names on the list of contributors H and two of these never received! an order. e neople who were) put on their feet have not re-! sponded with even one dollar, “We are not dead yet and are; liable to have some disaster and need help. We should have! reached our quota without any’ trouble. Every man who is em- ployed should have sacrificed something to give one dollar to the sufferers. < administration building, one hundred pe ple working in it and could give, has responded with dol- lars. \ “I have served five yes as| Red Cross treasurer and given of my time to keep the chapter here, tut Iam sure that with this kind of response I will have to give up.” seven S Contributions to the local funds to date are: Previously acknowledged $112.00 26 3.00 | 1.00 | 2.00} 1.00} 1.001 2.00 Armour employes . Mrs. T. N. Dick Mrs. James Adams - Geo. A. T. Roberts Mrs. G. N. Goshorn William Vassie CUBA BRINGSIN 52 PASSENGERS | VESSEL LEAVES LATE IN AFT-! . ERNOON ENROUTE | TO TAMPA ; | Steamship Cubs, of the P. and} 0. S. S. company, arrived from! ana ycsterday with 13 first and six second class passeng for Key West; 30 first and three} second class sengers for Tam- pa. Among thé arrivals were: Do- lores E. Menocal, Don Grady, | Trene Bosler, Harry P.. Burton, | Ralph Whitney, Walter R. Willis, | Sraiapta aires eoneretegeer ad ptt: to take care of himself!celerated if the Government re-| should not take from him the op- | Pretty well. Until he does, the} moves all restrictions and permits portunities for exercise which he | older children are always trying; private initiative to function. On as accustomed to enjoy asi to help.” | the side, the American Federation ; | of Labor points out that in the Prince of Wales ‘ eons sa aie last half of 1935 profits of 120 The swimming pool probably BARRED FROM BID large corporations increased 140 ‘ge lals i i yearnings made possible a sub- | stantial lifting of wages. Act- ae aee ually, average wage rates v | reduced by one cent per hour and the average work week increased j three hours, and the Labor o: jganization insists that by these | inerea: | million jobs were denied i unemployed. to water plants and swans. Al-| though in the heart of London | it is admirably screened by the, high palace walls and a thick BELFAST fringe of trees. ek EEE ae eae NGT BE ALLOWED TO COLORED MEN ommnen | eae. | BELFAST, Ireland, April 1.—} j It is quite probable that Con- | Be! famous Queen’s- Island’ gressmen, facing the President’s AUTOMOBILE TURNED OVER. shipyard, largest in the world and tax suggestions, have been stalling | birthplace of many ocean leviath-} for time in order to see what the WHILE RIDING ON lans, will be forced to look nj ineome tax collections bring in. COUNTY ROAD SHIPYARD WILL to the | when other British firms battle | In the last budget, income tax col- {for a $20,000,000 trade plum, | lections for the present fiscal the building of a sister ship to the | year were estimated at $1,434,- ; Queen Mary. P ; 000,000. The Congressmen know | An act of {parliament “under! that from January Ist to March j which the British government is: 16th, collections inereased 45.6 empowered to sagsistyin-'the con-' per cent over last year and e struction of the Queen Mary and; pect the first payments on 1935 {a sister ship, states specifically, | incomes to show a tremendous as been discovered, that the! gain. In fact, it would not be in Great! surprising if this source of rev- | enue proves to. be $300,000,000 This cuts out Northern Ireland. | above budgetary figures. If this If the term United Kingdom had | js established, Congress feels that been used Belfast would not have } jt would be relieved of the neces- been barred from bidding. sity of raising a like amount by One of the riders received aj ° i a , taxation. sever eut in the back, another) EASE ‘a cut on the head and other COUNTY BOARD br and the third of the trio‘ Three colored men received in- juries when an autombile in which they were riding turned over on the county road this afternoon, The car was wreck- ed. The injured men were taken in the Lopez Funeral Home ambu- Innce to a local hospital where their injuries were treated after; which they were sent to their} homes. | it vessels must be built | Britain. ;the Railroad Management Com- ; mittee and the Labor executives | will be able to reach any agree- ;ment on the problem of taking Monroe county commissioners | C2" of employes certain to be di “have teen notified of the regular Placed by consolidation and uni meeting of the board to be held fication of railroad facilities. Nine 8 o'clock tonight in the clerk’s ¢xecutives represented the Class was unconscious, it was said at the hospital. LANE BRINGS 4 PASSENGERS | office at the county court house.|One roads, and twenty-one rail-| ne work is, so far, | ad union chiefs spoke for 1,150,- for consid. 900 employes, about 16 per cent! j of whom will lose their jobs if, certain operating economies are effected. Regula? ro: jall that is scheduled ; eration by the board. GERMANS ARRANGE FIVE » LEAVE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON ENROUTE TO MIAMI { present, held 3:30 o’clock yester- day afternoon, almost 200 ap- plications for property tax ad- ‘ justments were considered. { committee two of those acting as advisor to the Byrd committee, | expressing the hope that the ifort to convince them TODAY T=MPOR..RY OPERATIONS BE- ING CARPIED ON FOLLOW- ING MEETING YESTERDAY s of the state beerd o-ficials and local employ were resumed this morning, spray ing operations being carried on m different parts of the city. As an official of the board stated this morning, these opera- tions are considered temporary znd are being put in effect follow- ing the :greement reached at the meeting held yesterday between Governor Sholtz and Piant Beard Chairman George H. Baldwin and 2 group of citizens. At the meeting it was, acreed that officials and others “would discuss the spraying question with those who have been listed as ob- jectors make a determined ef- of the plant d hours “more than one’ House would also name a_ com- mittee and that the three hodies would coordinate their research and avoid duplication. Senator Byrd, who conferred with the President some time ago, said his committee will proceed with its investigation as directed, but in-; timated that the task would be) accomplished without a spirit of rivalry The President wants the i special committee to report to him in time for recommendations jto Congress next January. His (critics term the move a skillful/ Sand adroit plan to head off hos.’ | tile conelusions. | { The President, now on the At-! jlantie on a fishing trip, left the | Capital reassured by reports that, his opposition in the Democratic | Party is impotent, and by an ap- | parent upward swing of his pop- !ularity in the United States. Close observers have noticed that! \for many -months after the 1934! , elections the prestige of the Presi-! ‘dent seemed to suffer and dur-! ‘ing the same period the spirit and, {prospects of his opponents im- i proved. No one ean say how far} |the drift extended, and while; ‘many observers see it reversed to- day, their is no method of com-| jputing his present position or of; |telling how the public fancy will) lswing between now and Novem-i | ber. ! | Senator Borah, opening his | western campaign last week, made! | bitter attack on corporate inter- ests. Continuing his fight against} the “domination of the men who! brought the Republiean party to} These meetings are for purpose of making the of taxes on a bond and as reasonable as possible pliance with the legal stipula’ covering collection_of deling taxes. At the meeting yesterday there were 85 of these applications and statements finished in every de- tail and owners of some of the properties affected have already bi ent made payment, Clerk Ross C. Saw-} yer said today. Consideration of more than 100 others which are under prep- aration was given by the board and the adjustment as shown by the clerk was authorized, to take effect when the papers have been completed. the it n com- ions necessity of permitting the spray- ing without interference on their part. There were some at the mee! ing who believed the efforts would be met with success. On ithe other hand there were others 'who believed that while some of |the objectors would be amenable | to reason, there was a small -roup j who would not agree to the raying. “ANOTHER YACHT COMES TO PORT i PLEASURE CRAFT ARAS AL- SO ARRIVES AFTER FISHING | TRIP AT TORTUGAS i BY JAP VESSELS Yacht Sunshine III arrived this REPORTED TO BE OPERATING - IN PHILIPPINE WATERS (Ry Associated MANILA, April 1.—Alleged il- egal fishing in Philippine waters | by Japanese boats has caused army itizens to report such incidents immediately so thet the offending beats may be pursued. The latest of a long list of inci- dents occurred recently off the Moro islands in the south. Provin- cial officials reported that Jap-! anese were fishing off the isolat- | ed island of Cagayan de Sulu, and near Sionongan, Parang. The its present condition,” which he; describes as “without influence in} the nation,” the Idahoan blamed} ie party leaders for not respond-| intruders were alleged to have| migtide.of dhs Ameviegn people.” | gathered thousands of turtle eggs, | Declaring that 10,000,000 Reputs-| Killed many male turtles and car-| lieans went over to the Democrats isd * am | males. j morning and is berthed in the } yacht basin. The vessel] is own- led by H. W. Harper, of Larch- | mont, N. Y., who is on board with itwo guests. A. W. Waltter | captain. | Yacht Aras, with owner, Hugh |J. Chisholm and party on beard. ‘which was duwn in the vicirity ef ‘Tortugas fishing, returned to | port this morning. | The Aras arrived Monday aft- is jand customs officials to urge all) ernoon after a cruise in West In- jdian and South American waters. i eecccccccceccs ‘PIRATES COVE CAMP NOTES Jonkeer Van Hersma De With. Netherlands Minister to Washing- ton, Madam De With, Miss Nora De With, Miss Schimmelpennenc=, | |miece of Madam De With. are To understand the problem in- volved, it is necessary to go back to the Interstate Commerce Com- HIMALAYAN CLIMB «By Associated Press) Nilo C. Pintado, Iris Pintado, W. C. Hoffman, W. Newton, Earl) Plane from Miami, one of the M. Miller, Theo. R. Humphrey, W. }small four-passenger Sikorskys, | in 1932, he insisted that the “will not get them back by put-! iting in power those who drove} jof coast tribes, instruct the na-; Circulars, printed in the dialects | guests at Pirates Cove. ; Madam De With. caught, while’ tives to report “illegal fishing to at Pirates Cove last season, the) qd. Humphrey, A. L. Morrison, Rita Morrison. ' Listed among the departures | were: Col. W. L. Roberts, Mrs.! W. L. Roberts, Louise Roberts,! Mrs. A. E.>Sharpley, Mrs. F. J. ~ Horn, Mrs. B. A. Levell, Mrs. L. Fishell, Mrs. T. S. Garo, Col. M. E. Guerin, Mrs. M. E. Guerin, Al-! "fred B. Connable. * arrived at the Pan Americen BERLIN, April landing field this morning with! Muellritter, a member of the 1934 four passengers: Witter J. Pea-'German Himalayan expedition, body, Patrick Albin, Ellen Daw-|says he ang. companions may son, Jodean’ Cash. make another assault on Nanga| Departures for Miami yester-|Parbat in 1937. day afternoon were: Otis Hub-} bard, William Fickinger, Harriett! Fickinger, Edith Moffat, W. S.! Roberts. Zt system, plan of consolidation. This} occurred in 1931 and numerous; parleys have taken place since; plains, eral Coordinator of Transporta- “THE HAPPY EXPRESSION OF 1.—Peter | mission’s approval of the five-| them away.” that year, with the union com-} tacked «monopolies, and proclaim-| bating any consolidations that! ed his own ideas for solving the} Silver “Whoever hes seen the majes-| will reduce the employment level) nation’s ills, the politicians tie beauty of that great peak can! below that of June 16, 1933. Re-;most attention to his statement never throw off its spell,” he ex-jcently Joseph B. Eastman, Fed-| about party leadership. | the constabulary. While Mr: Borah defended the| Courts, advocating economy, at- BIG FREE DANCE » TONITE AT 9 O'CLOCK Dance Hall Rudy and Rhythm Boys INVITED Hf you are out for a good time— I" | Reg paid They do (Continued on Page Four) largest sailfish taken in The party is fishing with Capt. of Fall River. have been guests at Pirates Cove for 10 days, bring- ing in some fine fish. i beer recewed by radio from the shore by the Cutter Pandora, and relayed to the Nemes here which is standing by at the local port for the finish of the Hawane-Key West race this week-eod with Lieut. Com LH Baker ie com- wana har- the fash Ene at wading hours the Wamerie. kippered by 9 Vadiw which arrived there at ast might taking = Class A after tu@ The Venturer, 55- todas by more second piace adjustment schoener owned and be opence of lear no'fic-afly woamer = foot stay skupperes ey Others which according to the informat.on, hag arrived at the Cuban capital were the Win- some Too, 64-fect stay-sail ketch 121 a ms; the Starlight, Albert 1225 a m; Sheliback. , 4:30 a m, and the Ruder, 4:38 The balance of the flect was expected to reach Havana during the day, and from then untid the start ef the Havane-Eey West race skippers and owners will be entertained in Havana. Meantime, Key West was pre- paring for the arrival, reception, and entertainment of the yachts men, following the race to this city. Clem C_ Price. im charge of recreational activities with the local unit of the WPA and mem ber of the Key West Racing Com mittee, is scheduled to leave te morrow morning on the S. S. Cubs for the Cuban capital to make final arrangements and prepara- tions for the race to Key West He is to sign up the various en- trants and will meet with ail skip- pers who participated im the race from St. Petersburg. Just when the race will start from Havans the arrival of the last bests = Havana, and the pleasure of the skippers YY AN