The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 2, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West No. VOLUME LVI. 132. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1936. Che Kry West Cittizrn Key West most equable country ; CENT DR. W. R. WARREN ea eIeae es Lawyer Arrives After DEFENDS WILCOX | IN SPEECH MADE (By Associated Prenn) RICHMOND, Va., June 2. —An attorney dashed into court just in time to hear his client drawing down a $50 fine for possessing a slot ma- chine. Judge Folkes commented: “Too bad, but your client didn’t really need a lawyer. When a policeman puts five cents into a maciine and draws out 20 nickels there’s not much to argue about.” PDL LI LI SI SI I Ss WINNEMAN FAILS AGAINST WILCOX ANSWERS DENUNCIATORY | REMARKS MADE BY, SPEAK-! ER DURING ADDRESS GIV- EN AT BAYVIEW PARK was} 1 Dr. William R. Warren a surprise speaker at the politi meeting last night at which two! speakers, Frank 0, Spain for B. F. Paty and George Winneman for the Townsend Old Age Revolving were scheduled to | Pension Plan, censed at the denvnciatory marks made by Mr. Winneman} relative to the administration of} Congressman J. Mark Wilcox, as were hundr of others, and} hastened to dispel from the minds; of the people any effects which/ may have been left by the venem-} ous remarks of the ornare And this he did in a brief talk | in which he clearly and complete- ; ly destroyed the arguments of | the previous speaker and ridicul- ed the statements of “this er who comes to Key West and} tries to destroy our faith in a man| who has proven his worth to us and has done everything, more than he promised.” i ; In a glowing tribute to Mr.| Bayview Park. Wilcox the doctor gave in brief an! outline of Mr. Wilcox’s career . . and continued with the admoni-|"™& of his talk that Mark tory statement, “Remember what: happened to us when we acted ad-» versely in regard to the campaign of the Inte Senator Mark Tram- mell, and the dire results which "é™@rkable remark, that = followed.” jmarkable for its inanity, Concluding, the doctor said that | one agreed, that anyone it would be very unwise at this! could have done the same thing. time to do anything except givei He then told the age old story to our present congressman Seon of the man in stateroom 17, using the fourth district, our _whole-| Mark Wilcox as the politician, ir hearted support and show our ap- lea of the lawyer in the orig: preciation of the accomplishments | j.4) story, and mentioned the for Key West which has marked! name of Mr. Wilcox at least 12 i GR eC and | times, and each time in a ven- ke a si aeticen an tas Ln He ay ur | omous manner which aroused the ee De may Ge able todo the | ico of tie audience, th ings ep has pr is : ooh Hs he has promised. | | Continuing the speaker said that heed ee was, more loudly there was no question about Mr. cheered, if possible, at his perora-' Witcon's dome all pecsible: for ite eae he was at the begin-/ ‘man to do in his position, but that . {Cannon would do more, sia After telling again the story o! | Johnny and his pie, the Scotch- ‘planation of the Townsend Plan, jand wound up by a scathing de- EXPONENT OF CANNON WAS > UNABLE TO WIN CROWD IN SENTATIVE George Winneman, exponent of for the Age Pension Pan, failed to make governor Townsend and ‘a hit last night in his speech at Wil- cox had accomplished all that.a man could do, for Key West, then qualified this statement by the is every- else PORTED MAROONED ON PORPOISE KEY | brought a laugh from the listen FIND | NO TRACE a bysths abeolateLfallicy, ofthe tatement. }man on his trip to America and this cheese and crackers, he plung- SEARCH MADE FOR MEN RE- jed into a dissertation without ex- jnunciation of Mark Wilcox. No; { aie! Lieutenant Parrott of the ouil Guard air for and crew return- ed late yesterday afternoon after a futile search for two men re- ported ma:ooned on Porpoise Keel about 40 miles from Key West. The story of the marooned men, CLYDE-MALLORY VESSEL HAD| j was found in a floated up on the Petersburg and Coast Guard, it is request they be With the arrival of the plane; Sunday it was decided to wait un-! til yesterday as it was too late at the time of arrival to start the search, which was begun early yesterday morning. When the plane was said that an exh was made of Porpoi other keys in that vicinity, but not the slightest trace of the men could be found. It was said that the paper found in the bottle was not dated, so it was impossible to determine when the message and bottle was dropped into the water. Nevertheless, true to the tradi-! tions of the s iee, the group on the plane did as always, covered the ground on the key and the; vicinity, in a_ thorough search.; but did not find the reported} marooned men nor any trace of} them. bottle which! beach near St.! ven to the; id, with the arched for. HEAVY FREIGHT FOR KEY WEST Steamship Alamo, of the Clyde- Mallory Lines, arrived Sunday at noon from New York with heavy freight for Key West, discharged and sailed 12:30 o’clock for Tampa, Tanker Alabama arrived 2:05' Sunday morning discharged 2 000 barrels of fuel into the Texas Oil Company tanks at the Porter ; Dock Company, and sailed 4:30 p: m., for Port Arthur, Texas. Yacht Mascotte with owner H. returned, it tive search Key and rived Saturday berthed at the Terminal docks 0: \the F. E. C. R’y. DEMOLAYS TO evening and 5 Members of Robert Chapter DeMolay are advised of PRES CRIPTION S| the meeting to be held 8 o'clock With a fresh and pure stock of drugs to draw on, we can give! you the very best in medicine/ when filling your ‘prescriptions. GARDNER’S PHARMACY | | Eaton and Simonton streets. clave to be held in the important matters to brought before the meeting. Client Draws $50 Fine! i ATTACKS MADE ON REPRE.’ rang-|the A. Pat Cannon candidacy for } i Old The speaker said at the begin-: MEET TONIGHT; Discussion of the proposed con-! FRANK SPAIN GIVES TALK AT a BAYVIEW PARK IN | { | DELIVERS ADDRESS TEREST OF FATY; HIGHLY COMPLIMENTED J. MARK WILCOX For more than one hour last (night at Bayview Park Frank O.} | Spain, supporter of the candidacy | for governor of B. F. Paty, thrill. 'ed an audience which was largest which has assembie-j at the | park for any previous meeting. | The speaker started nis speech iwith a istatement of Congressman J.} Mark Wilcox’s accomplishments for the fourth district and recall- fed to the memory of his hearers i that time four years agd when he ‘stood on the same platform and! {advocated the election of Mr. Wilcox. He said he was again like mission and for a man_ of {similar attainments and ability, j Whose name was outstanding in the state and of whose election he felt certain, and that was B. 'F. Paty, candidate for gover- nor. Telling how some fears ago Mr. Paty sold a parcel of land for $50,000 dollars and laid the sum ide with the remark that “some ‘day I'am going to use that in my !campaign for governor of Flor- ida,” he had assiduously kept to ‘his word and had never touched that reserve fund until he started his present campaign. For that reason, Spain, Mr. Paty dvct his campaign as he sees fit, ,can sveak when and where he wants, say what he pleases, with- out having to consult any in- dividual or group of individuals, because every cent being spent on his campaign in his personal funds and therefore he need ask nothing of anyone. Mr. Spain is confident that B. F. Paty will be in the second pri- mary and is also confident that if elected he will make the best gov- je:nor Florida ever had. WILLARD HOPKINS | IS GIVEN HEARING | DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH BEATING AND DISROB- ING WOMAN on a said Mr. Willard Hopkins was arraigned ! yesterday before Justice of the Peace Frank QO. Roberts, charged with beating and disrobing a woman while in an automobile. | From the evidence it appeat j that: Hopkins was very much _in- toxicated and had given the wom- an a terrible beating and during; the process of administering the ; thrashing had torn every strip of | clothes from the woman’s body. When the evidence had all been} | heard Justice Roberts placed Hop- | kins under a bond of $100 for | his appearance at the next term j of criminal court. He was re- ‘manded to jail in default of the bond. At the sheriff’s office it was! TRICT AND BROTHER WERE | the; | charge of being intoxicated while | ! said that Hopkins would be tried Wednesday or Thursday on driving an automobile, STEAMER GRANADA : ARRIVES IN PORT: VESSEL TAKES ON FUEL OIL} AND SAILS FOR FRON- TERA, MEXICO B. Plant and party on board, ar-; Steamship Granada, of the | Standard Fruit and Steamship Co., {arrived in port 3:15 ovclock this | morning from Philadelphia, con- J.- Perry; signed to the Porter Dock com-! and pany. The ship took on 44,315 gallons | ‘tonight in Scottish Rite Hall at of fuel oil and sailed for Fron- burg last evening to have | tera, Mexico. Joe Plummer, IN-| j ALSO} is able to con-; Three Key Westers were ship-| Jacksonville! ped on the Granada and left on! Burton will remain here for one in August is scheduled as one of |the vessel for Mexico, They are! week to spend a vacation, be Eugene Slais, Raleigh Roberts and; are occupying one of the cottages ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- arable From Local Welfare | A little less than a year ago, a | committee of the House of Repre- a bill, support of sentatives was considering which had the strong the Administration, but which was regarded as unconstitutional by imany congressional lawyers | both parties. Contmittee members |stitutional question made them hesitate to recommend its passage. So President Roosevelt sent the vividly complimentary | committee a brief note which was! price-fixing. It simply to make headlines throughout the country: “All doubts should be re jsolved in favor of the bill, leavin }to the courts, in an orderly! ifashion, the ultimate question of constitutionality . . committee will not ‘permit doubt. as to constitutionality, howe reasonable, to block the suggested legislation.” That note stirred up one of the lieveliest debates in the New Deal’s history. Friends of the Ad min dent had shown a sensible and logical attitude—that it was up to gressmen, to decide whether or not a law is constitutional. Opponents said that the note made it appar- j to circumvent the basic law of the j land. The bill was the Guffey Act, designed to stabilize the long cha- otic bituminous coal industry. In effect, it created a “little NRA” with sweeping powers over this in- dustry. It had hardly pi d both houses of congress and received the Presidential signature before court action wa started. Slowly it {wended its way through lower courts, with fair suecess—Federal jurists s all, it was a constittiona’ law. Then, a few weeks ago, the Su- preme Court spoke the final word. The Guffey Act was unconstitu- tional. However, the High Court’s de- cision did not entirely blast the hopes of friends of this type of legislation. and it did bring to the fore s interesting possibiliti The Act imposed a tax of 15 per cent on all the bituminot mined in the country coal h the plied with the code defined in the Act would get 90 per cent of | ‘tax back, while those who did comply with the code would not nothing back. The Supreme Court. nothing back. The Supreme Court, in a six-to-three decision, read by Justice Sutheriand, held that this was not a real tax at all but a penalty, and was illegal. | Thus, there seems little chancejin the belief that he could get a| cincts, |that Congress will be able to create valid legislation to control! fan indus’ labor policy (unless | that industry is beyond doubt in rstate commerce) or to use the ‘WPA OFFICIAL — "ARRIVES HERE . DIRECTOR OF TAMPA ODIS- GUESTS OF THOS. D. ORR Frank Icgram, director of the district Tampa, nd his brother, Mayhew Ingram, prominent business man of Dade | City, were visitors in the ¢i j yesterday as guests of WPA Di rector Thomas D. Orr. | They arrived Sunday at Jo’clock from St. Petersburg }company with Lieutenant W. | Burton, commander of the Co: {Guard Base at St. Petersburg, at R. jand Mrs, Burton, in a plane from} |the base piloted by Lieutenant | Parrot, acting commander at the | base. ; Yesterday the ers were out fishing with ' Robinson, made an_ excellent ; Which they planned to take with them on the return to St. Peters Ingram _ broth- Roy | West fish for supper. Lieutenant Burton and Mrs. and jat Fort Taylor. of ration said that the Presi-' the courts, not a group of con-} ent that the President was seeking’ eemed to think that, after, provision that operators who com-! the; get! ,| Court, »{acts which are now 4\ inj assistant to Mr. Orr, | catch | Key’ ‘power to tax to destroy coer | j within an industry which refuse to abide by Congressional strictures. | However, the Act also contained | another vital provision—it allowed| a National Bituminous Coa! Com-| mission appointed by the President! to fix minimum prices at which coal may be sold. And on this the | also favored the bill—but the con-' phase of the law, the High Court was much le: lefinite. i The majority decision did not} pass on the constitutionality of aid that in-! asmuch as all provisions of the Act were, in its opinion, inseparable,/ (all must fall together if one were| found invalid. The minority de- cision, read by Justice Cardozo and} I hope your: Stone, regarded price-fixing as legal, And a third lone decision, | read by Chief Justice Hugh sented from the majority decis —with which he agreed on other phases of the Act—on the ground ‘that the various parts of the Act’ were separable, and that consid-} eration of price-fixing was prema-! ture, ' Upshot of all this is that New: Dealers feel that Congr can pass laws fixing prices for an in- ry, as long as it refrains from} ing labor provisions or tax- penalty provisions. It is apparent that many Administration aims could be achieved through price- fixing alone, inasmuch as wages, working hours and similar matters hinge to a very large extent upon: prices. Thus, those who believe in the principles of such measures the NRA, are going to make their sentiments again felt in proposed, jedislation, and the potentialities are highly interesting and tant. impor-, | @he Guffey Coal Act has again raised discussion as to just what, President Roosevelt would like to do to the Constitytion. i As everyone knows, the New Deal’s Supreme Court batting average has been very bad. It won’ in the gold seize and TVA cases—! it lost in all other cases of impor-! tance, including the NRA, the | AAA, and the Railway Pension! , Act. | ! he opinion is growing in some quarters that President Roosevelt, if reelected, may go before the people and ask for an amendment! to the Constitution which would either curb the powers of the High! or expressly make legal) | illegal. Tt is} i thought in other quarters, that the | President may prefer to wait until! ‘a number of Justices retire—! , Which is forecast for next year—; more ‘liberal” court through his; appointive power. Little is heard/| {from public officials of such possi- | hilities—they’re too full of politi- ‘cal dynamite. j 'SICK MAN WAS | BROUGHT HERE i ; TUG PETREL GOES ouT ~ MEET STEAMER; MAN PLAC- | ED IN MARINE HOSPITAL t i | Ambulance Tug Petrel, of the Porter Dock company, was called early this morning to meet the Steamship Occidental, of the Tex-! s company, and take off a sick ; man who was to enter a hospital. The Petrel, in command of Captain Clarence Thompson, re- turned at 9 o’clock with the pa- jtient who was at once taken to he Marine Hospital. There it was learned that he was William Carvilie, noe of the ship’s fire- ; men. ‘SPONGE SALES HELD MONDAY Sponge sales at the Municipal sponge dock yesterday were small in comparison to the sales of last , | week Monday, when purchases of two bidders totalled $1,201.25. Total of the entire purchases’ of yesterday amounted to but $926.40. i , Precinct SOTTO T TS ELECTION RETURNS The Citizen will, post the election returns tonight on a bulletin beard in front of the office, at regular intervals as they are tabulated in the differ- ent precincts. All are invited to “The Citizen's Party,” is a regular event election time. BLO sI I ISLS, join which during PWA Allocates Construct Overseas Bridges -* | i | | lic Works | Ickes has allotted $3,600,000 to Money To Sum Allotted For Project Shown To Be $3,660,000 (my Ansocinted WASHINGTON, D.C., Administrator June 1.—Pub- Harold L. Over- FOUR DESTROYERS iseas Road and Toll Br idge Authority COMING THURSDAY MEN ABOARD THESE SHIPS! WILL BE PAID OFF AT THIS PORT Four United States Destroyers, the Childs, Barry, Gilmer and Wil- liamson, are expected to be in Key West the latter part of this week, possibly Thursday. How long the vessels will remain was not learned but it is under- stood they will be paid off at this port and the distribution of pay will be approximately $14,- 000. CHECK MADE OF VOTES CAST UP TO PRESS TIME BALLOTS IN TODAY’S PRI- MARY UP TO HOUR OF 3 O'CLOCK As is customary on eh day, of votes cast in the different pre- as completely available, before going to press. Every precinct within the con- fines of the city was visited _be- tween 2 and 3 o'clock, with the results: Voted following Qualified 2 In a number of pr culties have arisen been set aside to be turned over to the canvassing board for their decisions. These votes total approxima ly 73 and were held out for va ous reasons. They are divid: among the different precincts s: Precinct 1, 4; 7; precinct 4, 11; j precinet 6, 26; pre- D. Hall. of a ballot was located In the first ward B. Sugar Loaf, called for and when his name in the book he was informed had voted an absentee ballot Mathew Holland, in the same ward, was told he could not vote as he had voted absentee. Both of these voters protested they had not done so claimed that something evidently was wrong. and they made oath they had not voted. It is understood that si lar cases occurred in other eincts. It is said that the matter the absentee ballots is to be placed in legal hands for investigation. a i ($3,600,000 to the Overseas ‘Toll Bridge Authority 'of highway bridges fron SHOWN THAT 2,193 HAD CAST asaloan for the construct of the ion Oversea Highway Bridges. WASHING TO N. RBC Public Works aca | nounced formal approval of a loa i > a ] Road and * construction West the mainland following the old Florida ‘East Coast Railroad roadbed Although ¢ iV! to Key Li announced Saturday the House of presidentiz Public announcement of L Loan, the Senator ft secretaries had ad proved ! was not knowr i The Citizen gives the count, _| APPLY precinct} he, most recent The White He from PWA, and would writter approval. EBERHARDT SEEKING WORK = GOES TO MIAMI EMPLOYMENT cust FOR WITH NATIONAL YOUTH ADMINISTRATION their annual employment Youth James Mr Adm: Fort said this m For his last confe-ence advised administr: said that his ville, the would be that Ke on But said, as he bers of fa case of students have graduated will be econsider- ose mem In the these wh. relie ied. DURING ELECTION DAY EXCITEMENT, PAUSE A MOMENT AND REFRESH YOURSELF WITH AN ICE COLD BOTTLE OF WAGNER BEER. SOLD EVERY WHERE