The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 17, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 93. Cleveland Looks -Forward To Fireworks As Republican Unit Makes Plans For Convention Spirited, Boisterous Gath- BEAUTIFICATION ering In General Expect- OF STATE ROADS ed When Political Forces | BEING PLANNED Assemble STATE ROAD DEPARTMENT | MANY. TAXPAYERS © SEEK ADJUSTMENT 1) OF ASSESSMENTS, | | PRACTICALLY FEW HAVE, TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF OP- PORTUNITY TO SETTLE, AL-; THOUGH MANY APPLY { | | Many have asked that the tax taxpayers adjustment board i consider their cases and many ad- justments have been ordered. Few, (By Assoctacea Press) veve av. dy ti of CLEVELAND, April 17.—Pub- however, have taken advantage of; NOW MAKING HIGHWAYS, IN MANY PARTS MORE PLEASING IN APPEARANCE lic Hall, in recent years the set- the opportunity to pay up with a ting for colorful pageants, noisy substantial decrease in taxation, circuses and the splendor of grand {according to the records of Coun- opera, will echo ty Clerk Ross C. Sawyer. Explaining the tedious and ex- the ar- (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, April Coincident with the state’s to make ida, the state beginning June 23 with what may be the most in- Lie effort! haustive processes by which in Flor- | final adjustment figures are department! rived at, Mr. Sawyer pointed out also is charged with the respon-| that 100 cases have been before {sibility of making the highways) the tax adjustment board and to of the 1936 presidential candidate, | "°° in _appearance,| work out the Tigures, "(Chairman C. B. Treadway said to the law governing | today. “The travelling public is be-! several weeks up |ginning to appreciate this, and to/ daily. A & | show its appreciation,” he said.} At the conclusion of the work ; has political) «Tourists in many states write to! and with 100 of the voluminous! the office of the department here! reports approved and signed by lafter they have returned home the members of the board of from a tour of the state to telli county commissioners, only 19 of § of the impressions the roadside | the 100 applicants have paid |{ ; beautification made.” ‘their taxes. i The work includes the planting! On these 100 applications and jof native shrubbery and trees, re-|2djustments the figure represent- | | shaping the shoulders by making ing taxes due totalled $56,005.52. ! |them wider and flattening the After adjustments had been au-| “| slopes. filling in deep ditches, cut-' thorized and the reductions made, | Expectations of national G. Q./ting down abrupt banks, and ; the total nome SaRiED Sede e lacing rip-rap to prevent ero-. the county. ith that part of the; a -veadersiaho hone the Sean sciatic auktatal. allowed Benen in! tion will generate power These improvements _ prevent | bonds, Clerk Sawyer points out! sweeping concerted drive against! washing during heavy r s andjthat the total reduction is almost! the “new d ” are matched by! high water, and reduce mainten-|50 percent of the original taxes. ; those of Ohio Republican leaders.| 22¢ costs: The motorist is giv-; Yet, his records show, the 19} whew exnoat the jen a safer and more attractive proper y owners who have paid 2 Sree Oe ‘road over which to travel, Chair- have reduced the total by only provide the s suc-/ man Tread said, and the: $3,611.29, leaving a balance of cessful attack on the De mocratic! state is receiving more advertis- $34.411.70 yet to be paid. ' regime in Ohio government, {ing and more favorable jal 5 The 81 ueoperty owners le “ ” j outside the state because of the: have not paid up to now, have Expect “Fighting” Meeting | ark. Eighty-five miles of road-'six months in which to pay their erous gathering; way in Florida have been thus! obligations Mr. Sawyer fold The! is expected. Lafay vette improved during the last year. Citizen, but if paid now secretary The U. S. bureau of public! amount shown on the tax adjust-! national con- Toad realizing the importance of ment sheets will be all that is’ i is work, has required each state | necessary. Waiting on the part! : eepacts) the convention! ;to spend a certain portion of the|of the property owner only means will be a “fighting one the) candelacanteaites highway pur-|they will be penalized, it is first time since 1912.” | poses to executing some of this| shown. The 1924 a jelass of highway improvement; moderately quict affair. AT TORNEY ALB ALBURY: FERRY LET DOWN LEAVES ON TRIP FROM WAYS TODAY more hotel ommodations. If! VESSEL LEFT EN ROUTE TO they arrive by plane, they will see| MATECUMBE TO RE- SONVILLE TOMORROW a larger airport The hall itself SUME RUN larged so that it 14,200 persons. smaller hall. might hold pr been corr such rooms. The main arena, 12 and 248 fect long, a obstructed view the hall. high, conceals the tem. Ohio's Political History In 1928, one of the crucial bat- teresting Republican political motoring safer show in many years. road The Republican party, in choos- } ing Cleveland for the nomination more pleasing according the pro- working | midnight, j selected a city and state where jcedure, necessitated his political ccntests are bitterly ” fought and widely appreciated. The hall itself background. Calvin Coolidge was nominated there in 1924 amid cries of “Keep cool with Cool- idge.” The economy platform| which Coolidge took the White House was approved there. into conven- for hy al convention to ulus for a generally B. Gleason, temporary of the Republican vention. for convention c oolidge was nominated on the first bal-} lot, 1065 to 44. Republicans who attended that! convention will find changes when| they come to Cleveland this year.| a has been en-} will now seat} The lack of! where delegates} vate conferences ha . There are now 1 William V. Albury, een leouneil of the board of county’ Ferry Florida Keys was lowered | commissioners, left over the nto the water early this morning highway this morning for Jack-! from the ways and is now en- sonville. | [route to Matecumbe to be in| It is the intention of Mr. Al- 20 feet wide readiness to take up the run south! bury to be in Jacksonville tomo fords an un-|tomorrew at 10 o'clock, lrow to attend the recessed hea from any part of] The Ferry Key West sailed this ing in United States court on the A glass ceiling, 110 feet} morning at 7 o’clock for Mate- matter of the Florida East Coast ligh sys-; cumbe, will complete the round Railway. which is set for tomor- trip today and tomorrow morning! row. ‘8 o'clock, begin the regular sched-| — Leaving Jacksonville at the con-; ule which was disreputed when! elysion of his mission, Mr. Albury} tles in the pre-convention cam- it was determined expedient to will go to Tallahassee to take up| paign was fought in Ohio with put the Florida Keys on the ways matters relative to the gasoline Col. Carmi A. Thompson of Cleve-{ for scat tax fund of this county, and make land aligned with the then secre- an effort to have certain adjust-| ry of commerce, Herbert Hoo-| : NEW A ADDITION ments made which, it is said, will ' eee T0 WPA FORCE Pensioner Turns Down against a “favorite _ son.” ibe beneficial to the county. Senator Frank B. Willis. In the} 4 ’ Widow’s Merge Offer Vy Assectated Press) background, directing the pr i-} JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April] mary and pre-convention cam.! paign was another Ohioan, Walter} 17.—Matrimony holds no interest | for Jesse R. Farmer, 76, widower,} F. Brown of Toledo, who became! |. postmaster general. \GLENN C. WOOD IS DIRECTOR} ; who received the first state old age pension check. Former Senator Simeon .| OF DIVISION OF FINANCE Fess, another Ohioan and former national Republican chairman, co- AND STATISTICS operated with Thompson and: Brown in obtaining the 1924 con- vention for Cleveland. Five major party have been held in Democratic convention was held in Ci Republican ¢ and the Dem 1880. The Libe: convention of 1872 Columbus. The last 1924 convention here. Glenn €. Wood, of Jackson-| conventions; ville, is the new WPA director of; ed that “we put our Ohio. The|the division of finance and sta-| checks together and we ought to! of 1856}tistics, at administration head-; get along fine.” ncinnati as were the| quarte s in Key West. |velope was included. } ntion of 1876} Mr. Wood arrived this week in} “Why should I?” Farmer convention of; company with B. C. Meaders, who | swered. 1 “I don’t need a woman} Republican} has been handling the division in | around at this stage of life. s held in|Key West, but with the arrival of | si was the|Mr. Wood, Mr. Meaders returns; | alone. = to his duties as auditor. | He receives $10 a month. | o'clock daily. :his words were heard the } ;month or so_ (still in’ the ‘runnin’ KEY WEST, FLORIDA,’ FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936. New Mail Service Over Star J Route | Was Inaugurated Today eer Om Call For Daily Arrivals And De- partures Over Highway System With the newly authorized mail servi starting today, Post-! master Sam Harris announced this | morning that outgoing mails over the Star route will close 11:30] Incoming mail is due at 2 o'clock. On Tuesdays and Fridays, when there is an outgoing mail by Saal way of Tampa, the mails will, as/ heretofore, also close 4:30 o'clock | in the afternoon. The P. and O. Steamer Cuba arrives Mondays and Thursda-s; from St. Petersburg and Tampa, and on these days the mail for! Havana and other points in Cuba,! will close 8 a. m. Mr. Harris says that ar- all } rangements have been completed | | and indications are that the new} service is going ahead as arranged! nd under normal conditions the| schedules will be carried out. BANDITS CAUGHT eee co ‘0 this is a stick-: ’ yelled Harry Willet, - ticket lesman in. a railroad station in this city, as three bandits walked into his booth. As, he expected, and the up,” bandits caught. | his itions for ; anglers. MIAMI DOCTORS ON VISIT HERE PLAN FISHING ‘EXCURSION IN LOCAL WATERS DUR- ING THEIR STAY Palmer, eminent eye, ear, nose and throat special- ist from Miami, and Dr. E. S. Hirsch, well knowr Florida optom- {etrist, also of Miami, were arriv- Dr. Bascom \ als yesterday for a few days vaca- tion. - Dr. Hirsch is a frequent visitor here and knowing that fish were biting and that Dr. ways happy with a fishing rod in hands and the fish readily taking the bait, induced him to come. They have perfected prepara- their and propose to return to telling of their great success as While in Key West they and Mrs. J. A. Palmer is al- fishing execu Miami ere guests of Dr. Valdes, C. SYMONETTE. RESIGNS POST j HANDS IN RESIGNATION AS DEPUTY SHERIFF OF MONROE COUNTY C. C. Symonette today tender- ed Sheriff K. O. Thompson his ; resignation as deputy sheriff, to ‘take effect at once, He gave as his reason for re- signing that he was a candidate for another county office and did not deem it proper to seek one office while holding another. “TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY” By RUSS=LL KAY oe a ee ee One candidate for Governor —- the enlargement and| improvement of the State Hos- | pital at Chattahoochee and that’ one plank I can heartily endorse} | | for this gubernatorial race is get-ithey will win regardless of | ting screwy-er and screwy-er, and! after we've listened to all the; {different arguments of all the | different candidates for another | if there’s a sane, mortal left in the state it will) | surprise me. } Ordinarily six weeks before election we ought to have some pretty definite idea of who’s who; —but this time the more you try to find out the less you know. Recent polls and straw votes seem to indicate that Hodges is lead but in certain sections it appears other candi- dates have taken the lead from, the old veteran. During the| past thirty days the progress made | jby Paty of West Palm Beach is phenomenal while Chappell, Pette- way, Cone and Tomasello all show improvement. ‘It is generally conceded that Grady Burton has the backing of the present administration but his talks would indicate that he’s against the Tax Revision League harder than he’s runnin’ for the governship. He is a forceful orator and will succeed in messin’ up a lot of votes for |other candidates even if he fails jto secure enough for himself. Then there are those who be- lieve that Burton is bein’ used as a smoke screen to draw atten-j tion from the activity of the ad- ministration in behalf of Another ; A letter from a widow suggest-| candidate — possibly Petteway—| Generalship. In the meantime it is difficult! A’ stamped en-| to find an ordinary disinterested) has wide state connections “layman” voter who has come mind as to whom he _ intends to | fore seem to have made up their mind that they are going to vote ;of State Bob Gray and | Spessard Holland for the for SOMEBODY and they are registering and paying their pol! tax. Candidates for all offices plentiful and all are are confident the number in the race. Next to the gubernatorial melee there seems to be more interest in the quar- rel over who’s gonna be Comp- troller, Commissioner of Agricul- ture and State Treasurer, with a general belief that the incumbents i will all be re-elected in spite of spirited opposition. So far no one has announced as a candidate against Secretary at thi: late date, considerin’ Bob’s ord, it would be foolish to do so. Bob is in an enviable position compared to the rest of the eab- inet offic Opponents of Knott are saying that the old gentleman ought to take advantage of his retirement privilege and “get out of the way” but when the voters stop to realize that by doing so Knott would draw $2,500 a year and on top of that the new man would get $5,000, it looks like good sense to retain the present Treas urer rather than raise the ante $10,000 for the next term and be swapping “experience” for an “experiment.” Ed Bentley of Lakeland is the only contender against Cary | Landis for Attorney Genreal Ed finally making up his mind after debating whether to oppose Pe- terson for Congress, run against State Senate or try for the Attorney Ed probably would pension: but your guess is as good as mine.| have done better to oppose Hol- land, but at the same time he Landis would breathe easier an-;anywhere near making up his;he had other opposition. But all this is just what I hea> much, if not more, about it than I do. Che Kry West Citizen === KEY WEST FIRE DEPT. TO MEET THIS EVENING MATTERS PERTAINING ENTERTAINMENT OF PRO- POSED VISITORS TO BE TAKEN UP AT SESSION To Volunteer members of the Key West Fire Department are meet with Chief Baker in the city hall 8 o’clock tonight at which time the chief will have some matters of importance to discuss Therefore, he says. he hopes 'y member who possibly can, ll attend. “Let us all maintain that rep- utation for courtesy and hospital- ‘ty for which Key West is widely noted,” Chief Baker said today. and hopes that all Key Westers who come in contact with the vis- iting firemen next week, will make especial efforts to be cour- teous and extend the glad hand of welcome. While conditions are good as in former times when conventions were held here, the chief feels that with the assist- ance of the citizenry the visiting firemen will declare their stay in Key West as entertaining as any they have enjoyed. There will be a goodly number arrive Sunday, it is expected, and more on Monday, the first day of the convention, which is to contniue through Tuesday and Wednesday, with a motoreade planned for Wednesday afternoon 2 o'clock. Sessions of the convention are tc be held daily at 10 in the morning and 2 in the afternoon, Chief Baker announced. The meet- ings will be held in the Hotel Colonial. DEMOCRATIC UNIT to not as CONDUCTS SESSION Key West. Florida, has the average udge Halsted L. Ritter Convicied By Senate Onimpeachment Charges | VOTE ON SEVENTH CHARGE UPON WHICH HE WAS CONVICTED WAS % TO 2 RE- QUIRED TWO THIRDS AS SPECIFIED IN THE CONSTITU TION ‘ ———ae Pee WASHINGTON, April 17.—Federe! Judge Halsted L. Ritter of Southern District of Florida wes convicted by the Semate on the Hcuse impeachment charge thet be brought his court “inte scandal and d=reputc™ 2fter # had barely acquitted him on six other charges. jurist from the bench The vote cn the seventh charge wes te 28, exactly two-thirds of those voting, which ic required by the Com stitution. On the first charge, that be allowed excessive fees to his former lew partner, A Lo Rankin, cf West Pabe Beach, for recciver-hips, the vote was 55 to 23, ome lack ing the reouired two-thirds The seventh, and lest, charge iscleded olf other ax The vote cn the secend charge wes S2 to 32; am the thd charge, 44 to 39; fourth charge, 36 te 45; fifth charge, 36 to 48; sixth charge, 45 te 35. Semater Austin, Vermort R-pubiicen, ammediately challenged the final wote, cluimuimg Ritter could sot be ccnvicted om “ommibus” count whe= be bed beem declared innccent of charges separately Democratic Leader Robinson = eed Semater Aast= be declared out of order amd Senator “ittesn, Mewad= and Serator Austin sat down STEAMSHIP ALAMO DUE TO COMMUNITY PLaneENc WH ARRIVE SUNDAY FROM NEw YORK BSE SESCUSSED AT =A TREVOR SELECTED CHAIR-' MAN TO REPLACE AL- BURY RESIGNED Monroe County Democratic Executive Committee announced last night the committee did not intend to endorse any candidate, either county or at the coming June primary. The meeting was called to or- der in the office of Sheriff K. O. Thompson in the county court house, and one of the commit- tee’s first official acts was to elect Benjamin D. Trevor as chairman, to fill the vacaney made by the resignation of John J. Albury, who is ill. Mr. Trevor has been a member of the committee for the past 14 years and, incidently. today celebrating his sixty-ninth birth- day anniversary. FLORIDA MASONS ORGANIZATIONS OUTLINE PLANS FOR CONVENTION IN MARIANNA (Dy Asseccated Presa) MARIANNA, Fia., April 17.— .- Masons of Florida will hold their annual convention in Marianna May 4-7. The Grand Council of Royal and Selected Masons will meet May 4. The Grand chapter cf Royal Arch Masons will meet May 3. On May 6, there will be a street parade of all Masons at- tending, and on May 7 the Grand Commandry of the Knights Temp- | and! if; No/ vote for, but a healthy sign is that | ‘round about and read in the pa-!lar wlil meet. , I’m content to let well enough} a larger percentage than ever be-|pers and you probably know as} M. R. Burton of Marianna is |chairman of the arrangements’ committee, of the Clyde Steamship Ozark. Mallory Limes, arrived this after- noon from Jacksonville and M ami and after dmchargimg care sailed for New Orleans. Steamship Alamo. of the same lines, is due to arrive from New York Sunday, will discharge car go and leave for Tampa. Fruit transporting Steamship Ceiba, of the Standard Fruit Steamship company, is due to ar rive from Philadelphia Sunday the Porter fer Pree ane will take bunkers at Dock company and sail Mexico tera og teerd ake = cert ae ae = ona «ate peeing ~=r 3 ower or REVOCATION OF LICENSES Spring term of court Crean scheduled to meet Monday mors o ing im the county court house with Judge Jefferson B. Browne presiding. There are three cases on the docket for hearing ‘The case of Helio Renedo pla tiff versus the Atlantic Fire !- surance company oF Savanrar Georgia. That of the Billing: Chapie company versus the William , Curry’s Sons company And the sut of F. W. Hull versus J. O. Webster, damage ‘claim for $1,000. RAUL’S CLUS Music by Pritcher®s Gudiecten apasrssson a GETTING TIRED OF THE OLD BRAND OF BEER? 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