The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 29, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. 0, 129, HEAVY INDUSTRY ROUSES AS TRADE | SHOWS INCREASE: ! ROAR Of BLAST FURNACES; AND THUNDER CF HEAVY FRE'GHT TRAINS TESTIFY! TO RENEWED ACTIVITY William C. Hodges “Homestead Bill,” gained the attention of hit hearers at the beginning of his speech at Bayview Park last night and held it until the last word was spoken. By CLAUDE A. JAGGER (Associated Press Financial Editor) NEW YORK. May 29.—The twentieth century Goliath that is; many attractions, how years ago of this j city and even today was able to America’s heavy industry yawns) he had met many people and stretches. The roar of blast furnaces andj greet them and address them by the thunder of heavy freight| ame, and in many instances their trains testify to his renewed ac-| first names. tivity and bolster of One of the {first people he met jyears ago was Charles Ketchum, who gave him a pith helmet, which was the ugliest thing he had ever {seen and every time he wore it called for the criticism of Mrs. the hopes business optimists. for complete economic recovery. But he is still far from wide awake, ‘cherished it as the gift of a dear | friend, At the introduction of the speaker the mayor called Mi Hodges from the audience. Mount- 1 ing the stand Mrs. Hodges spoke a Rieminct . ;tew words of welcome and _ indi- ear marae amereceaed |< teaiheripleasute|atibeluguaiKey | West. Mr. Hodges said that | frequently heard homes, office buildings and plants | around the home, and had often and warehouses could wait, The! Wondered how it would sound jover the microphone. Now that | his ambition has been gratif | he was satisfied, Heavy industry has been the laggard in recovery. Production of goods satisfying immediate re- quirements, such as clothing and quickly to the impetus of renewed The building ieeyines abaaee he had old structures would do. Idle Capital Wants Work But with renewed stirrings of oi ee business enterprise, the old things| “Two things I want to call your no longer satisfy. Billions of bank-| 3ttention to are of vital interest ing and investment assets have|to Key West,” said the speake been restored, Idle capital is seek-| One of these is the lack of trar ing employment, and credit rates; Portation facilities, which lack are down. has prevented him arriving weeks New capital is not yet flowing! a0 The first time he started rapidly, but for raised by the issue of new securi-| No Name Key and Big Pine ties in the first quarter of 1933,!ed out. The next trip he approximately $3.60 was raised in| ned was by plane, and this the first quarter of 193 al For each dollar thus raised in} the first quarter of 1936, approxi- mately $8 was raised in 1929, Of; course, it is now widely agreed the! issuance of securities was exces-! sive seven years ago, yet the cur-| rent level is generally regarded as inadequate to bring the modern-} CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNCR ization movement to full flower.| Interest Rates Climb RELATES MANY THINGS CE ACe by cola oh Re ananey, IN HIS PLATFORM raised by security issue in the first quarter, about $3 went from se- eurities bearing higher rates of interest to those bearing lower rates, showing that capital is| eager for employment, Both Washington and Wall; street now are looking to heavy industry to carry on. “With heavy; industries showing an increase in! employment hich began last; summer,” says ,;Frances Perkins,} “The principal plank in my secretary’ Uf labor,’ “we should be campaign for governor is to low- able to look forward to further! ey the budget to balance taxes gains, Employnient' in’ this: group, | instead of raising taxes to balance the worst to suffer in’a ‘depression | the budget. and the slowest to'vecovér, is'at a! “7 favor five dollar ° license promising level and fuither gains: tags for all pleasure automobile would go far toward’ increasing; syitable old age pensions; placing employment in “all ‘other lines.” | the schools on a parity with other The figures for railway equip-| state departments by placing all ment purchasing are regarded as! revenues in the general treasury. significant. Railway equipment is| “I expect to appoint all nom- one of the heaviest of heavy in-' inees of the Democratic primaries dustries. At the bottom of the de-| and to, remove NO elected officer pression, it was practically at a) unless he is convicted of a crime. standstill. | “I favor the use of Florida ma- Railroads In Market In the first quarter of 1933,) wages for all public works; I only 100 new freight cars were;have always been a friend of or- ordered built. In the first three! ganized labor and see NO reason months of this year, the total was} at this time to change. 8,920 cars. No new locomotives} “I favon the small business man were ordered in the first quarter! and the independent merchan of 1932, while for the same period| and believe they shoull be pro: bur plan. time (Editor’s Note This is an- other in a series of articles Democratic candidates for Governor wrote about them- selves in. outlining their plat- forms.) FRED P. CONE, Of Lake City ‘Hodges, Candidate For Governor, Gives Interesting Address Last | | Night In Interest Of Candidacy, He spoke of Key West and its! every’ dollar, for Key West the bridge Between, {terial and Florida labor, at living | Che Key Wiest Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1936. Key West, Flerida, has the most equable cl country ; range of with an average 14° Fahrenheit PRICE FIVE CENTS the plane was enveloped in a dust} cloud at Miami and collided with; a tractor, and yesterday he was) held up by bad weather and “15; {minutes before the deadline for ‘leaving for Key West was reach- ed, the plane was ordered to | leave.” | If he was elected governor, hej said, he would not appoint | membership on the state road de- partment board any man unless he pledges himself to construct a level highway from Miami to Key West, whi be a credit to the jstate, and necessary will con- ‘struct the bridges to make the | highway complete, | Another thing he is deeply in- terested in, he said, was the ‘aquarium. He visited the aquar- ium yesterday, and last night pro- ;claimed it. one of Florida’s great- est assets. He pledged himself that should he be elected governor Hodges, but he still had it and, he will, as head of the budget, see] COMMENCEMENT EVENT T jthat there is incorporated in the | appropriation for the fish commis- | sion activities, a sufficient sum to }eare for the aquarium and main- |tain it as one of the state‘s most interesing and educational assets. iinstead of allowing it to go to pieces for lack of funds. | After his speech last aight, Mr. Hodg>s and party went in com-} is wife’s voice pany of a group of friends to va-}ed with an entertaining program entertainment, { rious places of ' visited several clubs and made an cffort te miei as many Kev West- ‘ible in the short time 2 city. mormng at. an carly hour a snecial plane arrived and he de parted for Daytona Beach where he is to be heard in an address at 3 o'clock this afternoon and from there will go to Jacksonvill> to speak tonight. He was accompanied by Mrs. Hodges and Sam Melson, who has ‘been acting in the capacity of | publicity ‘man durme “the” eat? »paign. CONE OUTLINES | MEMORIAL SERVICE, 70 BE OBSERVED CAMPAIGN ISSUES HERE ON SUNDAY|scso:as cr wena cn ‘RED MEN AND AUXILIARY TO PUT ON PROGRAM AT HALL ON CAROLINE STREET i i i | 1 i i i Memorial services of Tiger Tail. ‘Tribe Improved Order Red Men ‘and Minoca Council Daughters of {Pocahontas are to be held Sun- !day afternoon 3 o'clock in the [tribe hall at Caroine and Eliza- | beth streets. Program of services | follows: ! Invocation—Rev. E. R. Evans. Roll call of deceased member— Tiger Tail Tribe 19. Ritualistie work—The Tribe. Solo. “Some Day We'll Under- stand’—Mrs. Flora Michael. | Address—Rev. E, R. Evans. Duet, “The Vacant Chair’— Mrs. Carl Bervaldi and Mrs. Archer. Roll Call of deceased members ;and draping of charter—Daugh- \ters of Pocahontas. , Benediction—Rev. E. R. Evans. | Members of both the tribe and ‘council will attend divine services jin the evening at Congregational Church, i | FROM JOHN 0. McNAMARA ! ADDRESSES VOTERS ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend ‘Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- | The American automobile dustry must hold ail world records | when it comes to emerging {f-om j ression. It was the first in- to show signs of recove is still the leader. Motor’s first spurt forward oc- curred near the end of 1934, Du |ing the depths of depression, car jand truck sales had dropped close |to the vanishing point, Retail out- lets for all makes of cars w in | difficulties. and many of them found the going too tough and had to fold up. In 1935, the pi {ture underwent drastic chan didate For Governor ! Car and trucks sales zoomed fo !ward. and the assembly lines in | Detroit and Flint and elsewhere SCHOOL PROGRAM. "=f 2 cn THIS AFTERNOON on for the amazingly fast ix provement—a large part of Ame- rica’s gasoline—powered “rolling ' stack” was completely out of ‘oO date, and much of it was utterly j unusable and unsafe, But no one | expected motors’ boom to go on | indefinitely. Supposition was that {a certain number of new cars | would be sold, and that the in- : . * dustry would slow down again. This <fternoon o'clock at, ‘That supposition proved to be Bayview Park the last event of practically 100 per cent wrong. Key West High School Com-j| Apparently the average American mencement wees will be celebrat-| Would rather have-a new car than anything else, and the t place ,he goes when his bank account swells is to the automobile agen- On this afternoon the students! cies, He is b: ceding homes, few new furnaces or air. to ‘conditioning machines, He is buy ing cars—and how! ineteen-thirty-five stry’s best WwW. C. HODGES, TAKE PLACE AT BAY- VIEW PARK 6 of music and addvesses, who have during the pr weeks devoted their time brightening up on half forgotten themes and have successfu passed their tests, will be award sd that most coveted of all pos-| 1s sessions which go to a student, | tion and the diploma. There are just 58/avarter of 1936 are of these to be awarded. jthey indicate that this In event of rain the exerc'ses! going to put ’35 in the de. will be held in the auditorium of} Giant of the industry every- the High School. fone knows, General Mbtor % tt aa aw laa MEMORIAL DAY year ce the first out—and year is earnings in is its 1929—and the fourth best ter in its entire history. In April alone, the concern sold 200,000 cars—an all-time record for a month. Its net income for the ‘quarter was almost 70 per cent | better than in the same _ period fed TO DECORATE GRAVES OF DEPARTED VETERANS | $52,000,000. GMC_ directors jclared the usual 50¢ quarterly di- | vidend, then made stockholders j happy with a 75e extra dividend. Tomorrow morning at 8 o’clock,; Chrysler, another member of members of B. H. MeCalla Camp/the big three of motordom had; in its) (biggest was last three, No. 5, will meet at the city ceme- | the seeond biggest quarter tery for the purpose of _ placing ; history flags and decorating the graves of ; months“of 1935) when it earned all vetera: Flowers wiil be | over $11,000,000 net. Its directors gladly received at the sexton’ jubilantly jumped the quarterly house. | dividend 50e, to $1.50 a share. On Sunday evening special; Third member of the big three, Memorial services will be held in’ Ford. is not a corporation, and the First Methodist church. Rev.) profit figures are not given out. John B. Culpepper will de the | However, Ford sales were almost sermon. All veterans and patri-| ss otic organizations are invited to! participate in this s " Those! Mf DAY GIVEN who intend to attend will meet} Me 7:30 o'clock at Eaton and Simon-! to the church. i = | (Spectal to The Citizen) CANNON GIVES j DeLAND, May 29.—Malcolm a |! Day, of Key West, son of Rev. TALK T PARK James S. Day, formerly of First = A |Bapt'st cherch here, senior at Stetson Unive:si the newly- |¢lected house manager for the CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS Wesl chapter of the Pi Kappa Phi, national social fraternity. WAS HEARD BY VOTERS Day is prominent in dramati HERE LAST NIGHT fraternity service, religious activ jties, and student government. | Pat Cannon, young vracticing: ANNOUNCE DEATH attorney of Miami and candidate; for congress from the Fourth! 29, Now the figures for produc-' +Ti corporation recently report-! best first—quarter since! quar-; (last year, and came to more than) de-* S./the highway yeste.dz tional and International Problems Insep- arable From Local Welfare in the same period last year. This is the only important automobile manufacturer to show a drop. Smaller, so-called makers are also compan independent going ahe with their big bro s been losing mone} f this year it mad $72,000. In the zirst quarter year, Packard lost aro lion and a quarter doi year it earned that Hudson had a net of a 000, and reorganized Stv Corporation netted over $100,000. Interesting fact, pointed out by Time, is that the buying trend is toward in the d high-priced groups, away cheaper cars. In the q low-priced makes increased ¢ by 16 per cent, as compar 41 per cent for all othe Over 90 per cent of sold come from the fac Ford, Chr and tors. In the first qu pendents managed to an infinitesimal dent in this per- centage. ya Present forecast for the indus- try is that followi past seasonal] experience, will slowly decline until late summer, new models will appear on the market. Other industries, whil spectacular as moto doing well. Some brief interest follow: TELEPHONE: A. T. & T. re- ports that in the first four months of this year it had a net rise in telephones in use of 278,500 a compared with 161,900 in the 'same period last year. ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT : Orders in this field (which cludes batteries, ho: electric motors, ete.) re: 78 makers totaled over $1 000 in the first quarter of this year—a 26 per cent gain over last year, RAILROADS: Freight is steadily rising, with W lines showing the astonishing of 210 per cent over last y: RETAIL TRADE: In 1935, for hich complete figures have been ed by “Retailing.” retail out- lets did $2,481,000,000 worth of business —a gain of 9 per cent over 19: Profits rose 10 per cent, totaled more than $132,000,- 000. CORPORATE Business Week says dends declared by leading cor- ‘ porations in the first four months of this year amounted to 548,419, a 19 per cent iner lover the amount distributed in the ; Same months of 1 ; 1 with ars. ries cars neral Mo- les, when le not are items also ° in- ‘ffie tern rain r. DIVIDENDS : that “Divi- (SANDERS GOES TO NEW STATION |BooKKEEPER AT ARMOUR | PLANT HAS BEEN TRANS- FERRED TO GEORGIA W. A. Sander: the local Armour and company plant, has been transferred to the ; Veldosta, Ga., office, and accom- | panied by Mrs. Sanders, left over y morning en route to his new station. | C. B, Jones, of Téton, Ga., ha | been assigned to take charge of the | Key West office and is now en- igaged in his duties. Mrs. Jones, who is now in Ti‘ton, is expected hookkeeper at Courts Give New Dealers | CALLS FOR COMPENSATION FOR DEPENDENTS OF LARGE CROWD HEARS WILCOX AT VERO BEACH CANDIDATE FOR REELECTION STORM DEAD ony WASHINGTON, May Asseciated Pres) 2s. —A bill by Chairman Rankin, Democrat of Mississippi, to dependents of compensate World War vetcrans whe per- ished in work camps during last September's burricanc on the Florida Keys, was approv- ed by the Hiouse Veterans Committee. It provides that dependents 250 cf approximately whe was killed be compensated under the *erms of the un- employment compensation TO CONGRESS MADE AT- TACK ON SALES TAX ISSU= AND OTHER MATTERS (Special te The Citizens VERO BEACH, May which has 29 The largest audience ever acsembled for any candidate. red here lzst night to hea: gressman J. Mark Wilcox. f the Vero Theater to capacity An overflow throng of 700 per zons heard the speech through am- plifiers carrying it to them from the auditorium. Continuing his attack on sales tax on necessities proposed Wilcox declared he by Townsendit«s, would fight for but would not destroy those old age pension< to be aided by impossibly high pyrim- idiczl taxation. Great hardships teeause of i d brought on cost of living would wage earners hz clared, if any ferm of sales ta on necessities were imposed on the people. He was frequently by applaus> interrupted as he cxplained his desire to provide aiequate social sccurity legislation by taxing those who can afford it, without resort- ing to dangerous transaction taxes. ‘AMATEUR HOUR’ TO BE REPEATED s i | B.S. A. “Amateur Hour” will | Pres this year, 73 were bought. LANIER BROUGHT Robert L. Lanier, member of the Civilian Conservation Corps eamp in Dade county, was brought by plane to the city yesterday, suffered from injuries reeeived when a truck in which he was riding turned over. He suffered multiple _lacera- tions about the head and _ body, and a fractured left arm. It was learned at the Marine hospital today that his condition is con- sidered serious, tected. I am. opposed to a sales} | i Li tax in any form. | Statement by Collins or his al- “I am opposed to anyone. un. , leged friends that I will move dcr any conditions, holding more Key West battery a deliberate lie than one office at ahy time.” | *top The people of ‘Key West | know that I have their interests at heart stop My opponent asin j the past will say or promise any- | All members of Tiger Tail Tribe| thing to gain votes stop He knows No. 19, Improved Order of Red) that le needs them stop He in- Men, and members of Daughters} vestigated the removal of Miami of Pocahontas are requested to/ battery thousand miles away and! meet at the hall corner of Caro-| to be consistent he intends to and} jline and Elizabeth streets, 3 p. m.) has planned removal of your bat- | Sunday, for purpose of attending) tery stop My efforts will be de- memorial services. Also to meet! voted to securing additional bat- at corner of William and Fleming) teries of anti aireraft or develop! streets at 7:30 p. m. for church some plan to reinerease troops in services at Congregational church. leas West area. Regards. “NOTICE i i | F, 0. ROBERTS, JOHN O. McNAMARA. may29-1t C. of R.| (Paid Political Advertisement) { Florida District, addressed aj group of voters at Bayview Park, last night. | He is a forceful speaker and| devoted most of his allotted time} to disparaging words relative to! ‘the administration of Mark Wi'- cox and making unkind remarks about those who support him. j He also made a number of promises as to what he would do; ices will be held in Miami this ries tha qualified list of voters as/ in the event he was elected. The} same thing has been said before,! the same promises made, and Te-; sults have been the same, it was said by a number of his hearers. Mr. Cannon left by bus thi morning for Miami, accompanied | Knowles and Mrs. Lucille Hall.| been so many requests for copies} ances. by George I. Knowles. BERMUDA SPECIA!S—Page 4] OF MRS. ADAMS News has kcen received in the city announcing the death of Mrs. Ventia Adams, 69, yesterday in Miami. The deceased was a for- mer resident of Key West, having taken up her home in Miami about; twelve years ago. Funeral serv- afternoon with ‘urial take place in Woodlawn Park. Survivors are: Two sons, Merlin and Kermit Adams, of Miami; three daughters, Mrs. Robert Smith, Key West; Mrs. Arnold to Miami; sister, 'Irs. Gideon” Curry, !to arrive in Key West on | Steamship Cula on June 1. the|be repeated on Friday, June 5th, at 8 o'clock, in the High School auditorium. in response to num- ;erous requests, it is stated. } This novel form of entertain- {ment, which was presented on | May 22, for the benefit of Troop ‘QUALIFIED LIST APPEARS TODAY 8,20 eco" This issue of The Citizen car-' standing success, it is shown. The same old favorites appear- ,furnished by Supervisor of Reg-| ing on the first “Amateur Night” istration John England. It con- will be there to entertain the tains 3,809 names. public and several new numbers While instructions call for the wil! be added to the program. issuance of this list tomorrow and it was so announced, there have] amateurs giving the best perform- All amateurs wishing to of the list from candidates, and/take part in this contest, may do Prizes will again be given the} Something To Worry About | ’ MEASURE in- a quarter lower than they were| VETS Question Of Hew Far Par- ty Platiorm Should Gc In Criticism Of Court: Now Being Asked By SYRON PRICE of Reccas. The Sanectate Prewe Wenhemetee? Most of ss proceedimgs already have been prearranged, bet comveetce Chet the Democratic satonal may find one question still wide open: How far should the party platior=s co @ critics of the courts, and @ ashing judicial deal? for = aew Under-the-surtace discussion of that subsect bas deweleped a2 wise range of opinion without pointing the way to 2 solution. Et seems that many conflicting viewpoimts will be presquted to the platform-busiders certain Ne ene professes to know just what course will be favored by Mr_ Reesevelt, in whese hands control of the comvention is = pected te rest one has suggested exactly wha! A year has elapsed the dent srggested that the NRA mn, simee decis: n all of its implication meant the “horse and buggy days Sev month: etary a turning back eal have passed Wallace referred AAA legalized since te one ure o: the deci- sion as constitutimg « steal During the interim mest admin- istration leaders have been scying little but ing much. Only poradic puilic eriticisms of disclosed bow thin have deep feeling of disappomtment embrace the po- of the New [ time the fire burning. It would be ver if the heat of it did not the Philadeluhia conven courts the among those wh hitieal philcsoph But al was Leen strange reach tion. Roosevelt men wo to see the propose di J 2 con-titutional amendment broad powers of the federal tf such matters a* abor, prices and prodr< tion. gest that unanimeus d required to in- aw by a supreme Some world be content merely reaffirmed the validity of the measures which the highest court has overthrown, and then threw in a few pungent references to current judicial practices and tendencies. Some tke arty ening govern weges agrieu! Oth action validate a decision if the part faith the | urs al be ourt Of course that these divergent views may be compromised im private. and little heard of them on the floor of the convention. Few politicians believe a con- stifutional amendment will be em- bodied im the platform, but few are able to see how the conven- and brother, Romey, Acosta, Key their supporters, it was decided to|so by applying to Scoutmaster J.\tion can remain entirely silent on West. sissue it one day earlier. = Boza or to one of the scouts. j the subject. 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