The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 27, 1936, Page 1

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Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Che Key Wrst Citizrn VOLUME LVII. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY , 1936. = Wilcox Explains Status Of Bridge Matter In Address At Court H House Yesterday Remains Very Hopeful of Heard 0: Obtaining _Roosevelt’s ‘ie Approval Toward Secur-| ing Necessary Loan | eoeereees J. Mark Wilcox! yesterday told the people of Kes West that the fate of the bridges | “God Franklin D. Roosevelt.” { rests with almighty and! | Every | thing possible has been done toil secure the appropriations for ' building them, When at 2 afternoon Mr. Wilcox entered the! i | 1 i o'clock yesterday! assembly room at the court house he was given a rous-| ' county | ing cheer by his anxious and an-| ticipatory adherents, many of them women, who were eager to} hear the message the congressman! brought to Key West. He was introduced by Allan B./ Cleare, Jr., lent of the board! of diréeiorst0f the Young Demo-_ cratic Club, who in a few words told of Mir. Wilcox’s mission and his hopes for the support of Mon-| roe county in race nor Ie election a: congressman the Fourth Florid+ district i Talks On Main Points H Without useless words the v ing congressman told of his inten- J. MARK WILCOX, | Candidate For Reelection To Congress ‘SEVEN NAVAL PLANES ARRIVE in Bridge Matters | (GIVES STATUS OF | DIRECT RELIEF | 10 UNEMPLOYED SHOWN THAT COMMUNITY! GurFEy LAW. VOID. | CONTINUED HERE | | |. If direct relief to unemplo a people and the ERA Hey of Key West ; this wi ynext few weeks. This ‘tion was given to members of the local citizens’ advisory comm: ‘tee by Mrs. W. R. West representative of the State ! Board of Social W District Although direct relief was di: the throughout the country December . Key West has continued the benefit of this must assume } responsibility the ‘are, Ten. ‘ontinued — by lief. | The Works tration, members of the advisory told, i Progress Adminis- i committee we: ‘designed to give work to employ- persons, and its acti \stop there. It w tea set up as a direct relief-giving | ‘ agency. |. Since the FER jidly liquidated and brought to a !elose, Key West is faced with lthe problem of taking over _the# responsibilities which always have jits own. It was emphasized that | ‘unemployatle people who can never be 3 dustry beea ‘tal needing medical dcfinitely the responsibility ;state and local community | not the Federal government, se of physical, men- attention, defects or old age, and those | are! of the! wa and | MUST TAKE OVER RESPON- jUSTICES WIDELY APART. SIBILITY IF AID IS TO BE LABOR REPORTS LOSS. clinie | | INFLATION DEAD ISSUE. are to be continued, the commun- Ij THE FAR BAST. > ae | informa- | Warren, Key, FERA! , the ily fell with the other and spec an agency | not organized ; | comme A is being rap-' t an | tion because the qu ‘orbed by private in-| mature inasmuch as the provision i i re. | Rot be fixed by Congress because! 000 persons, Leomine at po DIVIDED COURT. !Justiee Hughes expressed his views | ‘on both questions most | Otherwise, the decisions many legal puzzles. fully. created | PERMANENT JOBLESS. | FOREIGN TRADE POLICY. he first quarter of | HULL'S FOURTEEN TREATIES. 36 per clue higher shan j same period of last year but the average work week was near © hours longer, with i wages higher by $1.00 By HUGO SIMS ; Employment, Washington Correspon-| With business recovery dent of The Citizen | NRA. according to the Federation, The Supreme Court’s decision: has fallen far voiding the Guffey Coal Law as! os a violation of States’ rights, brings! _ Business, the survey to an end the legislative effort to; March had traveled per cent stabilize the bituminous coal in-}of the way back to normal but dustry through the regulation of; only 46 per cent of the depression labor and prices. Five justices con-| unemployed had bi to cluded that mining of coal is a‘ work, This depression shortage of local matter and that wages could! employment is estimated at 2,850,- but some 4,000,000 this would infringe on the rights! other workers t be added to of the States. They agreed that, include the young people seeking price-fixing section necessar-i work for the first time, and an- other 1,900,000 who had no jobs cally refused to pass on that sep-.in 1929. Altogether, the Federa- arately, | tion figures that there is a total ——— {job shortage of much more than Chief Justice Hughes agreed: 8,000,000. This figure should not j that Congr has no power to! be confused with an estimated regulate mining because it is “not! 12,184,000 unemployed and_ the ”’ but thought that the! Federation points out that only ing section of the Guffey: one -third of them can expect em- Act was a valid exercise of Con-|Ployment from even 'gressional authority. Three dis-! When it reaches “ senting justices-agreed Gait pr =} . a fixing is valid and reserved a de-| Whether the people of this coun- ion on the wages-and-hours sec-| try know it or not. the fourteen! tion Reciprocal Trade Treaties negoti- ated by the United States two years are the beginning ; world-wide movement for tariffs. To understand the effect of these treaties, one should real- ize that before any of them were ness, the American Federation of | vitrstel eeortniy survey of bu: ' ee points out that profits for/ this year were; average Special behind. gone price business might never be invoked. The reaction of the President an assertion that the New! will attempt to achieve s y: present y' who ay lower tion to touch only on several points which were of vital interest to Key West, one of which was} AIRCRAFT MET ON ARRIVAL | BY LIEUTENANT WIL- x |bilization of the bituminous At the last meeting of the ad-! industry despite the. decision. committee, ways of rane Labor leaders were stumped by » to carry on the clinic andthe ruling, pointing out that the signed, the United States had en- tered into most-favored nations agreements with 27 countries. | These bound the nations involved the bridges, And this question he: LIAM KLAUS would take up first. He would} neither attempt to fool the peo-j ple nor extend false hopes. He said that he so deeply interested in the matter of the! bridges that he had spent a great deal longer time in Washington! than he had intended, and when, They were met he left the capitol had just enough! Wm. Klaus, U. S. } time to spend one day in each! at the naval station. city in the interests of his cam- Coming in the air craft were paign, before election day. | 12 officers and seven enlisted per- He did not mind this, however,! because it was in the interests of “ne! in command of duieutenant | A. K, Moorehouse, «commandant Key West and its people and he felt that they deserved whatever’ &t the naval base at Opa-Lockg, could be done in their behalf, not only because they were the most} hospitable people he had ever met, but because they had been placed in a position where it be- came necessary to help them in! theiry isolation and distress. | Seven naval planes from air base at Opa-Locka, Fla., ar rived this morning and landed at the Pan American landing field. by Lieutenant in command ef active flying service. They planned to spend the day sightseeing in Key We: They irst visited the radio equipment at the naval station, from there they went to the aqua- rium and after that spent the time in visiting other interesting places and seeing the sights. George Lucas, of the Key West Electrie company received a ' telegram notifying him of the ar- rival of the planes and wondered in what way his duties could be ‘connected with the naval reserve flying service. This mornnig he decided tc fol- low the instructions in the tele- gram. that it came from an old friend. Lieutenant Walter Gearhart, who was a member of the flight group, and took this method of giving ; Mr. Lucas a ae ‘SMALL FIRE ON Also he could not forget that two years ago Key West gave him the greatest percentage of votes,, as to population. he had been given anywhere else in the district and it w: desire to do all possible for Key West and its people. When the idea of the bridges was first mentioned i ‘ial Washington it was considered a preposterous and fantastic idea. Just a pipe dream, and to over comé the senti als required a long and discouraging fight. The proposition had never been turned down, just pigeon- holed. Time and again he had asked’ for additional data to that which he had been given, and on more} than one occasion B. M. Duncan, | consulting engineer of the state) road department had been re-/ quired to come to Washington} with other and additional infor-; The fire appartus mation which he, the speaker, to an alarm yesterday afternoon,’ the | just completing a‘two weeks ‘tour station and! and was surprised to find! CHARLES STREET responded | er parts. ito provide necessary direct relief: Court narrow Local civic or-} private | oth- upon | | were discussed. | ganizations and groups, | citizens, business firms and be called t in this work which other | the Florida communities have _ been; {handling since before the first of | i the year. Entertainments also may be given to help raise the |necded funds. | Mrs. Warrn said \tee would weleome any sugges- |tions from local citizens as to j Aways’ whereby the necessary | -funds ean be raised. 4; bor to ans | tee. Those aattending the last ses-; sion of the advisory group were ; Mrs. Warren, chairman; the may- or, Dr. William R. Warren, the; Rev. W. J. Reagan, S. J., B Idi, Melvin Russell, Clifford | Hicks, Miss Dorothy Schober, act- | ing case supervisor, State Board member of tha commit: ; of Social Welfare, and Mrs. Laura leniand Spencer, ERA} elniie. supervisor of the Other members of { committee are: Rev. J, C. Geke-| 224 ler, Mrs. Florence and Joe Pearlman, GRAHAM LEAVING Spottswood, | | HERE TOMORROW { t i Robert M. Communica- ; tions shou'd be addressed to her} | { | i the commit- | ‘ Carl j au | | i to give the same treatment to all, ly defined interstate, e teountries ha h agreements. commerce and apparently held! that it applied oily to freight! which is definitely moving. There; were hints in labor circles that; only recourse was a reliance upon the economic strength of la-| bor, which must be united in order, to exert its power. John L. Lewis,| president of the United Mine Workers, grimly declared that‘ further than that. For ‘every decision of the Supreme|When Sweden recently | Court seems designed to fatten her tariff on American automo- jcapital and starve and destroy) biles 15 per cent, she also ex-| labor.” itended the same lower tariff to! a leountries having most-favored- The decision of the Court left’ Nation treaties with her. ithe score against the Government| in New Deal cases at eight to two. In considering the American! | Only in the TVA and gold clause tariff situation, one should re- has the Government won a'member that the tariff of 1922, n. Justice Cardozo has! boosted by the Hawley-Smoot Act voted with the Government seven! of 1930, resulted in a great wall s in ten cases, Justice Bran-. being thrown around imports into and Stone six times, Chiefithis country and, in the opinion | Justice Hughes four, Justice Rob-! of a majority of economists, caus- erts twice, Justices Butler, Suth-'ed a reduction of pure! and Van Devanter once,| this country by other nations. Consequently, when the United; States, in a trade paet with a sin- gle nation reduces its tariffs onj a commodity, the same rate auto- matically extended to other countries under the most-favored-| nations treaties. The proc ee ! | dec the | 22d Justice McReynolds has voted | t the Administration’s con-; The figures show that from }1925 to 1929 our exports aver- {aged annually about $5.000.000.- The three divisions of opinion’ 000 but by 1932 dropped to were expressed in emphatic lan-; 611,000,000. Part of this loss in tention in every case. j guage by the justices, illustrating; trade is to be blamed on the de- | what has been referred to before,! pression. but some of it undoubt- the fact that the Court is wi idely; edly followed decreased imports apart in its present views and that} when high tariff rates prevented { the social and economic philos-| profitable trade. In 1934, when jophy of the members are in vio- ,imports began to move upward, Graham, radio op-' lent conflict. Among the opinions} | trade experts point out that ex- erator of the plant at the head of , were two separate views as to the, ports also impreved. Of course, it ithe island, and to whom is due} attitude of the Court toward its, should be noted that business was ithanks for all information rela- | obligations, the two ideas about; improving at the time. \tive to the movement of planes in; its proper legal procedure, and} this section, will leave, accom- | another concerning its attitude to- panied by Mrs, Graham, over the, ward preserving parts of a doubt- highway tomorrow for a month’s! ful law. Chief Justice Hughes ob-| The treati negotiated by vide for tariff reductions that have been Seeretary Hull pro- that vacation in Washington and oth- | jected to the Court’s “specula-! average about 20 per cent and Before leaving, however, — The dissent of- the three} affect about a third of our inter- Mr.! : justices almost taunted the ma-! national trade expotts that were felt necessary. {Cha on arriving on the scene on| Graham called at the office cf| jority for avoiding a decision up-; valued at $733,200,000 in 1935. Goes To White House Four months ago he decided to val street, 2 wooden top of a cis- | statement enlist the support and. action of| tern was found ablaze. ' official Washington. To this end| The blaze was soon extinguish- he went to the White House and; ed, with no other damage result-}to The C (Continued on Page Four) tne Charles street, leading off of Du-| The Citizen today and with that he wanted to, ! keep in touch with affairs in Key) | West, renewed his sent to him curing his vacation. | J the | holding price-fixing and criticized| Altogether, the reciprocal agree- it for “imaging” what Congress! ments have cut duties on products would have done. The Liberals! worth $261,200,000 or 44.2 of all subscription | avoided the wages-and-hours see-! American imports in 1934. In re- en and will have it) tion, which was denounced by six! turn. foreign countries have made of the justiees. Altogether, Chief! (Continued on Page Four) ‘LARGE NUMBER ATTEND RALLY LAST EVENING MANY CANDIDATES IN INTEREST OF CAM- PAIGN; BAND CONCERT RENDERED ON OCCASION HEARD of One the political meeting: period of night at neert held last fo'low.ng West Hospitality There were 14 few exceptions | a ¢ for county offices ers, 7 except were either o of | andid candidate of oe: ed time and th emark on the ¢ the candidates wh ed. Then foll of recrimination of which t hands anc The meeti ried on, ¢ cheered an though every was with him or the gender County owed Solicitor was introduced th allotted the tn pon by the Yorn D HODGES OUTLINES CAMPAIGN PLANKS CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR TELLS GF*MANY THINGS IN WHICH HE IS INTERESTED (Editor’s Not other in a series of articles Democratic candidates Governor wrote about them- selves in response to an in- vitation from The Associated Press to outline their plat- forms.) T us is an- for WILLIAM C. HODGES, Of Tallahassee “Ten-plank _ platform 100 percent for preser enlargement home emption amendment not only gave tax f sed revival in and building spirit (2) favors old ag mothers pensions ida congressional support Townsend 7 (3) Opposed sates veto as governor valorem taxes first rem opposed nuisance taxes ¢ cigarets. and amusements; inating usele: which overlap an ness. “(6) Fav bile tags to fund established property damage dents on highwa: taking tax off gasol fishermen and farmers i: ; (8) repeal laws and not enact new “(9) Fairness to labor capital, advocating cooperation between two; (10) giving public schools ample money to functior properly.” of an tobaccos HER FIFTH DIVORCE HEREFORD, FEng.—A fifth vorce has been granted Mrs. Flos sie Sullivan-Parr-Yane, 21, © ithis city. Selects Federal Attorney To Succeed Judge Ritter we wecccccececooes Addresses Voters weccceccceee ED Candidate ED. 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