The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 9, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 138. Che Key West Citiern KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FLORIDA, ae JUNE 9, 1936. ‘CONE’S LEAD OVER FIVE GROUPS T0 HODGES NOW 355 ENTER SECOND lerrewarornner ace! PRIMARY BERE PETTEWAY, IN FIRST PLACE,!: THOMPSON AND HART ARRAIGNED IN COURT TODAY CHARGED WITH CONTEMPT IN; H HODGES 46,468 | CONNECTION WITH SPRAY.) i ING OF TREES; EACH FINED| i (iby Associated Press) Hi $50 OR 15 DAYS IN JAIL JACKSONVILLE, June 9.| RECEIVES 51,668; | SUPERVISOR OF REGISTRA- TION MAKES ANNOUNCE- MENT IN ACCORDANCE -~WITH PRIMARY RESULTS i | Figures announced as of-} ‘am Hart, ficial from all Florida coun-j | to the official re- Sam Thompson and S: According ‘ties last night, gave Cone a las " "OP = cents an Ghcrne Gemma) an SS le VE! ae Ee ounty Cler . A. Pea-! A Chay CURR ab he 1 of Registration John Engand there cock of Calhoun county, the’ . x : | : j Will be five groups of local can-} sing { didates in the runoff for county citizens of Key West, were this port of the primary election of Jane 2, as prepared by Supervisor | contempt of court by disobeying: a court order, and fined $50 each last to report the canva said the vote ind 452! °lfiees in the second primary to ‘he Tues 46,823; 23 » June PARTS IN YACHT; ACCOM- PANIED BY WIFE, OTHERS is 55 The last race to be contested in and the county is that between can- Palm didates constable in the sec- In tkis contest En- 5 . the incumbent, leads with 441 votes against 419 given his upenenG C. (Floney) Peli for ca ste Sand a Rus- | | Circuit court will meet tomor- row morning at which time the giand jury, it is expected, will be named to investigate the aileged irregularities in the absentee bal- lots of Tuesday, June 2. State Attorney George A. Wor- of the Eleventh Judicia Cir- arrived by plane from Mi- ; morning and as soon as, is named will take charge | ‘of the investigation. He will be| assisted by Assistant State At-| { torney J.’ Lancelot Lester. On eve and can be heard; ' speculation to the outcome of the investigat’on, not only of the; ‘election question but also there is’ considerabl j ing as to i what other matters are to be in- i vestigated. it is said. | Even experienced attorneys are! reluc -:t ive an expression to thei as to the extent and scope of the investigation, but | all contacted by The Citizen are} convinced that the investigation, | conducted under the guidance of | State Attorney Worley, will be thorough and over every phase of the case. The citizens of Key West, it iwas said today by many persons, lare anxiously awaiting the ex- | pesures of ch'canery and corrup- | tion, if there are any, and in the jminds of many there must be | something radically wrong. As-one | citizen phrased it, “Here is some- thing postively putrid about the, whole thing, but will there be any’ | disclosures?” with an alternate punishment of 15 days in jail. Judge Jefferson’ board totals, B. Browne presided. ;was 176 for Cone When the case of Mr. omp-' for Hodges. held the plant board stated that Mr. 9 s ae 1569 votes and Ralph RB. Pinder Thompson had refused to allow, Hodges, 46,468. : eae eee ‘ with 1064 votes wili be in the him to spray his trees on his prop Petteway’s total was 51,-' gj A erty in Love Lane. This state- ire _ finals for the shr:evalty. 668, his including some un-| Im the race for commissioner Sheriff Everett Rivas. Called to the stand Mr. Thomp- cumbent, Braxton B. W n, will son stated that he had refused to i have his opponent, C. C. Sym- allow the plant board to spray his FAMED SINGER onette. Mr. Warren had 1294 votes in the first primary, Mr. stand the extent or scope of the 7 986. ! injunction and believed that it - NDAY The race for comm’ssioner in only meant citrus trees, ‘ the fifth district, lies between Roy It was brought out on the ' Fulford, with 1203 votes and stand that Mr. Thompson had JOHN CHARLES THOMAS DE-., Cleveland Ni.es, with 75: been furnished with a copy of the For rict, on the Keys, there be fully acquainted with the: a difference of two votes be- meaning and intent of the court tween the incrmbent, E. R. Lowe, order. and his opponent, Raymond M. ie row! sai ha vhe Mal They were tie til adgenbroync said theteewien\ 2 sonal Guarleslkomanmfaricd ies eee other cases had been tried he h: the cut of town absentees were been exceptionally lenient and A oe arabe oe ¢:a few days in Key West, left yes-' a4, Lowe received two votes, giv- that the people of Key West rning on his yacht Mas- in.” him 57 against Mr. Maloney’s would learn that the law was! (uerader, “or eee seat! made to be enforced. That the! ae e ahor 4 Sis iaake cael injunction had been issued out of! es pmas cane circuit court and had been upheld sree | Beach. apt eeu pee nLes COU, Another distinguished guest on to do certain things ordained b fee ae ae Loe pasts law. Did not take any plea Lis - in passing sentence on people he! Vt, ‘ty, te i e late Will Rogers, and sialic tis pe Se “it wa hie duty “See was added to the mu- monte wes yaa Shaner” ™ CURCUIT COURT and he had nothing left to do but i ae leer weet ORT RT | pele neve waee Lex | his home on Long Island. Piant Board Operative Lyle HERE TOMORROW, Deputy Sheriff Theodore sell. ‘Mr. Lyle said he asked Mr. GIVEN E HEARING GRAND JURY EXPECTED To! banana trees on the lot on Caro-| CONDUCT INVESTIGATION line street next to Solomon’s tin; a 4 ie LEGED IRREGULA- shop. Mr, Hart had replied, said| MARVIN CREEL PLACED UN. INTO AL Mr. Lyle, law or no law you can rt! RITIES OF PRIMARY corroborated by Deputy Russell. | BREAKING AND ENTERING Mr. Hart took the stand and with the court’s permission en- tered into a long and detailed! Will Hopkins was arraigned in and the care his had been given.| prank 0. Rob Saturday on a Explained how the spray used bY! charge of driving en automobile the plant board went down the while uncer the influence of liar center of banana trees until it) yor, the tree burst open. {arraigned on a charge of assault He said that he had been treat-' ond battery and was placed under ing trees for thirty or more years,! bond of $100 for the next term and he knew that each kind of: of criminal covrt. That he knew from experience; toxicated, it id arew ok at many things about trees that the ithe case of aszault. When an- plant board did not. jsWering to the assault charge Hop-i He concluded by saying that he {ins is caid to have stated that or plant in his yard. He also in-' remembered nothing. tended to sell all his property Marvin Creel was placed even for half its worth, and go:hond of $100 on a to some other section of the!breal:ing and ente-ing. Ilis case hts would not be denied him. criminal court. The case w: “Now pass sentence on me Judge heard by Jud::¢ Rogelio Gomez. and I'll take it like a man.” The judge did, after eolsinings TIMMS SST SS, be upheld. Each of the ‘iezend- “GENERAL ADMIRAL’ | ants were given until 12 o'clock tomorrow to pay the fine or serve} IS NEW NAZI TITLE the jail sentence. (hy Associated Prean) { BERLIN, June 9.—A new moneas ca edge senpard of! inciais, © Gone: Sheriff Karl 0. Thompson with ment was corroborated by Deputy _ official. ifrom the second district, the in- trees, but that he did not under- . Symonette. ‘ ustice of the peace in the; injunction and therefore should third d singer, who arrived last week for! counted when it was found that impesed small fines in the belie Dy | Mrs. 0. B. Carr, of West The judge said he did not li who for 14 years was associated must be enforced. perty at Key West and took oan The witnesses in this H 1 ‘WILL HOPKINS — 1 | Hart to allow him to spray the) DER BOND; CHARGED WITH | spray them. This testimony was! . i statement of his love for the trees! the court of dvstics of the Peace reached to roots, expanded and: [ast weck the defendant was tree required a different spra The charge of driving while in- intended to cut down every tree he was so drenk at the time he states where constitutional will he tried atthe next term of that the law was the law and mus‘ DEMOLAYS TO re a nom mjral Erich Raeder as “gen- eral admiral.” The new. title Is one step higher than ad- Robert J. Perr: der of DeMolay, ! hold its reg- ular weekly meeting tonight at 7:30 o'clock in Scottish Rite Hall, } corner Simonton and Eaton| streets. i A large attendance at this ses- sion has been requested by Mas- ter Councillor Joseph Richard- son, Chapter, Or- of the fleet (gross- al), which corresponds ‘ield marshal in the army. It equals that of “colonel gen- i miral, and one lower than an ! WOODEN LEG BURNED eral” in the land forces, ai like the latter, carries three stars on epaulets and four MONTREAL, Can. — Billy Hights of this city had a narrow escape from death when his wood- en ieg caught fire-and burned as' a result of a collision with a mo- TRIS IS ISLS F tor truck. | PRE-ELECTION GUESSES | ; COURT CREATED DILEMMA i , ALL LEGISLATION BANNED | TAX BILL WRANGLE ,; WHAT THE STATES DID ition got underway it seemed ap- : publican party mak ithe people a direct opportunity to ; State L@ornine ‘REV. SHEHANE | IS PRAISED BY m | CHURCH CIRCLE |G. O. P. AT CLEVELAND PLATFORM IMPORTANT the New Wage Law RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ‘ Minimum IN RECOGNITION OF HIS CELLENT SERVICE Ex- Once again we see the same; idivision of the supreme jud i i bod, of the nation, with five con- vative members backing the |dietum of Justice Butler that |neither the State nor the Federal | government has authority to fix , Wages for women workers. A vig- jorous dissent by Chief Justice Hughes was supported by thre ; liberal members, who also put in lina, their own opinion attacking the ‘majority attitude as an expres- sion of “personal nomic pre dilection.” As seventeen States have minimum wage _ legislation, several had asked the Supreme Corrt to sustain the New York law. 1 InN SOUTH CAROLINA CITY Re T. Shehane me Fi SENATOR BYRD WOND=RS F. D. RS CAMPAIGN PLANS to the Key West from RELIEF AID VARIED preached his By HUGO SIMS, Washington Correspon- dent of The Citizen the eyes of those in- political events are turned this week to Cleveland, where Repubiican delegates start the init‘al advance of the presi- dential campaign. As the conven- mon on Sunday n‘ght, Mg large Methodist gzegations The Orangeburg, S. Special fore a audience of the and Bapt in Union Servie ¢. and Cc. In his disceurse Times mocrat Rev. Shehane’ The President was among those who called attention to the “no man’s land” that exists long as there is a void between Federal and State authority, but he offer- ed no suggestion except the thought that the opinions would prove interestiny to the people. Labor lead and mary Congress- men were indignant, although The Republican platform will’ s leaders of women professed be studied througho~t the nation s action that the Court allow- in order to ascertain just exactly ed to compete free in ; what the party intends to do, if it the economic world. Rep. Fish, wins the election. The voters will’ Republican, York, was look for positive statements to in- “shocked,” proposed an aniend- dicate where the New Deal is con-' ment to curt. the Court’s author- demned and what legislation the. ity and said the decision was Republicans will sponsor if they worth 1.000.9000 votes to the take control of the nation next D-:mocrats, January. Of course, the Demo- crats will retain control of the Senate, regardless of any possib landslide, but the Republicans have an opportunity to the House as well as the dency. impressed upon the the Christ that they would ingly expressed the felt for the mai kindne shown him in North, his love the congregat‘on and chu asked the people for his new field at Key West. Resolutions were ich it was se orth t Shehane had proven vood preacher. in organizat ces and numeri pace surpassing any } previous 10 or 12 years. “The Sunday hoo! has ed a point where it will soon be- come standar chool, members of which have the required course of s four of the required bo study course and ha their certificates “The Young F ment has been ized and functions fore. Recognizing his ab leadership he , organ hools i to Bay Many other activ flourished during a half years of North and the members Baptist Church } the following evidence spect and esteem in held, was placed on the hook of the church and a forwarded to the First Church of Key West: “Be it resolved that we, the members North Baptist Church, convey to Brother She- '‘hane our sincere thanks and ap- preciation for the great work done while here; and pray that the rcihest blessings of our Heav- enly Father low him cor importance of 1 ad d so parent that Governor Landon, of Kansas, would be the nominee and that, despite suggestions of a Democrat as his running mate, a Republican would complete the national ticket. expre 1 He ratit The fact that the United States Supreme Court is a battleg-ound of conflicting social and economic ; Views, and that the decisions are ed more uyon pevscral philoso- !phies than upon legal certainties more and more «pparent. As one reads the confticting opinions of the ju in cne case after angjher, it is plain to a layman that there is zround for lezal de- sions er way and the con- clusions of the court appears to rest upon the p al mak of the justices theu:selves, we have pointed ct before, this z notac ism of the Cou-i, whi is now functio it was in- tended to func: slowing cown the process of chance in fundamental lezal a-eas. In time, cither through amendment or the !appointmert of. new members on the Court, the law of the land will resnond to the popular will ‘when it is finally and clearly ex- pressed. ve It is not the business. of the writer, in this column, to make guesses as to the outcome of the lection, but it will be" a good! ing for the country if the Re- lf a real giving as nev zppointe party of opposition, thus select its course. Naturally, be- cause of many Republican votes cast in support of some of the New Deal’s measures a severe cas- tigation of everything is not to be expected, although such a devel- yepmrent is not an impossibility. his residen Nor the he minute wh For the benefit of those read- ers who ard interested we call at- tention to one of the clearest pre- election analysis that we have come across, taken from The New York Times. According to this} An interested writer wants to y, based on polls, party dis-'kn«y why we have not discussed sension and various factors, th2;the far-reaching tax bill more writer observes that party leaders ; fy yi in these columns. Well, the generally agree that 27 States, answer is that so long as House };."¢, ia thee dew home” with 232 electoral votes, are safe: znd Senate versions were w idely eae ae oe € their ly Democratic and that 12 States,’ divergent and there was 10 aver Gildren arrival ose 128 votes, are reasonably “meeting of the minds” it would jichway Saturday ; andnee das Republican." Nine be almost useless to attempt to occupying the Bapt'st mame ot States, with 171 votes, are put in keep up with the shifting posi- prc, cteoct : ie i the doubtful column, including! tions from week to week. Months" “t€* Kentucky, Maryland, Massachu- ago we give a rough outline of | setts, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa,’ the situation. There is no way New York and West Virginia. The to tell what such a bill will be coum nena given to the G.! when completed until the legisla- . P. by the arm-chair strategists; tors get togetaer in their final ‘are Connecticut, Delaware, Maine,’ conference agreement. New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, ‘ Vermont, Colorado, Kansas, Mich- igan, Missouri, New Jersey and Rhode Island. night THOMAS ORR. JR., ARRIVES IN CITY COMES IN ON PLANE ACCOM- nator Byrd, of Virgiaia, re- cently wanted to know why the PANIED BY OTHER STUDENTS xpenditures of the government. for ord'nary furpos2s and re would be $600,0000,000 more the next fiscal year than in the ipresent period. He deducted from his calealation the money fox the bonus and wondered why improv-; ing conditions do not bring bout (Continued on Page Four) In 1932, Mr. Roosevelt polled 28,821,857 votes, just 7,060,016 more than Mr. Hoover, whose ad- dress to the Republican conven- tion this week will be s‘gnifieant ‘feature. In the nine pivotal States of this estimate, he got 9,279,191 votes, or 1,942,586 more than the former President. Next Novem- ber therefore the Republicans; must manage to reclaim about a; million voters in these States to! turn baeK the New Deal leader. Thomas D. Orr, Jr., student at school in St. Petersburg, is home to spend the summer's vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Thomas D. Orr. Young Orr arrived Sunday in a Coast Guard plane. . accompanied hy three of his student m; Ed- win Orr, Francis Haffee and Vernon Dellman. They expect “to stay for two weeks or more, and are having one grand time, they say. NEW ADDITION TO HIPPE’S FAMILY News has been received city announcing the birth daughter to Mr. and Mrs. |Hippe. Jr., in Sioux City, on June 4. Mrs. Hippe ‘was before mar- riage, s Celeste Thompson of this cit; | $25 Monthly Payment VETERANS! | We have an interesting deal for you in a new— DODGE or PLYMOUTH We have figures to show you Many weeks ago in these col-/ umns we pointed to- a twilight ; zone, ereated, by decisios of the Supreme Court, wherein neither the States nor the Federal ‘gov-; ernment would be allowed to Ieg-; ‘islate. Barring Federal legisla-: tion because it interferes with | that will prove you can own a State’s rights and setting aside} | DODGE or PLYMOUTH for LESS legislation because it con- than any other low priced car on flicts with the due process clause} the market. or interstate commerce the S preme Court moves to set up aj SEE US TODAY zone in which no sore"! NAVARRO’S, Inc. authority is able to regulate any- stl A aac eee | $25 Per Month—6% Interest ecclesia in the of a c 5 Towa, thing. This danger has heen e: Mi j Dhasized by the recent five-to-| ‘Barean Of Fisheries Compiles Report On Key West Sponge Catches And Fishing Activities FF ee ee eee ee CATCHES MACKERE! 2796. 788 WHILE ON FERRY ‘ : Pounds Ot Fish: Spane- Charies net Valued At $87 582 could not wa: ed Key West to fish, so tried tee Was Saunders until he react it while on the Ferry coming to the Big Pime Key Sumday and caught he aneing mackerel which ts sending back boy Tampa Charles and William R night in company father and grandmother went to Tampa last Tuesday te frrenes his brother arrived Sunday with theo whe to witness the graduation Miss Edna Mae of Mr. Saunders boro High Schoo! William and Charles. J+ will spend the summer vaca tion in Key West "SII SII ILL CONVENTION OF €.0.P. CONVENES SENATOR STEIW=R OF GON TO DELIVER KEY NOTE a daughter from Hi ORE SPEECH TONICHT CLEVELAND, Obeo Aamorimied Pron June 9.—The National Republicas ccmvened Cenvention bere this morning. Th- early hours were spent im getting “teelf organized and attending te mo more than routine busi Varicus committees met = different sections of the vast euditorium at 3 o'clock At 8 o'clock tonight, Sex ator Steiwer, of Oregon, will deliver the keynote speec — Mayor Burton Cleve- land. delivered the wcicom- ing speech to the delegates BELIEVED THAT ALL PRELIM- INARY ARRANGEMENTS TO BE COMPLETED SOON Atterney William lieves that bridge straight pre and ne Mr night JUDGE TAYLOR ARRIVES HERE ACCOMPANIED BY TaY i Key We that it LOR: TO SPEND S=VERAL we DAYS ¥t Wess Members of the Key Junior Drum and Bugle C yesterday afternoon session and selected officers Samue the Higgs—Captain Delio Cruz—Lieutenant. Macy Bosquet—Secretary Chares Stirrup—Treasurer Cecilia Dem —Reporter. THE HAPPY EXPRESSIONS OF FOLKS ENJOYING WAGNER BEER TELL. WHEN YOU NEED A “COOLING OFF” JUST TRY AN ICE COLD WAGNER BEER