The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 16, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West No. 144. Three Key Westers Injured VOLUME LVI. In Auto Smash Near Miami Mrs. Benj. Roberts, Mrs. soverreees W. Russell And Miss, 'D’You Like Statistics? Irma Pinder Were Those a eee weene = e ~ (By Associated Press) Figuring In Accident NEW YORK, June 16.— If it’s statistics you want— Excess reserves of member banks of the federal reserve system crossed the $3,000,- 000,000 mark last year. The sum, if converted into dol- lar bills and laid end-to-end, would have stretched around t.e earth at the equator 11 times, with enough left over to reach from New York to Melbourne, Australia, via the Panama canal and Tahiti. 77 Elianbeth ‘CAR HELD, OWNED | BY MAN IN CUBA The accident occurred on News of an automobile accident in which a group of Key Westers en route to Miami were the par-: ticipants, was received on the late plane from Miami yesterday | afternoon. In the group were Mr. | and Mrs. Benjamin Roberts, Irma| Pinder, sister of Mrs. Roberts and: Mrs. William Russell and five-/ months-old | daug’iter, Ann. highway two miles south of Mi-— CRUSOE WAS SIMPLY PRO-! TECTING INTERESTS OF ITS OWNER ami, according to the informa-! Mr. Roberts, driver of the} tion. automobile, was undecided which way to turn when he came to_ Protecting the interests of a cross-roads, tis being his first man who left his car in storage trip to Miami over the highway. cuit court this week against Cla Due to the fact that it was dur-' once Crusoe, of the Colonial Gar- ing a heavy rain and quite dark,' age, for the recovery of the car iby the General Motors Accept-' jance Corporation, speed, possibly 15 miles an hour.’ he was driving at a slow rate of Some time ago the car was Blinded by the bright headlights left in storage with Mr. Crusoe by the owner, who went to Cuba.} ‘It later developed that the Gen- into a pole about two feet off the! oral Motors Acceptance Corpor: Red ition had a lien on the ear which from an approaching car, he drove Nat ee . was. a-Buick Sedan. Tile impact shattered the wind: shield and flying glass was re- covery of the car which, it was stipulated in the court action of replevin, is valued at $568.10. Mr. Crusoe would only relinquish the car through court action, it Was shown, |ARRIVE AFTER sponsible for a number of cuts] received by Mrs, Roberts, which! it was found necessary to with stitches. Mr, Roberts the baby were uninjured. Pinder close and Miss received several minor cuts and Mrs, Russell suffered a leg injury of a minor nature and was bruised in her body, The sh is said to have oc- curred in front of an ice plant, employes of which rushed to the feene and with all haste hurried the occupants of the car to a hospital where first aid was ren- dered, after which they were! taken to the home of relatives. Miami police took charge of the! wrecked car and according to the informant. it is still in their pos- session. The Key West group! expects to return by bus tomor-| row afternoon. The slow rate of speed Mr. Rob- erts was forced to maintain, prob- ably saved the lives of the oc- of the car when it crash- st the pole, according to the partic’pants. The Key Westers left merning for Miami. gine trouble, they were forced to miss the ferry and stoppea at U. S. PRINTS TONS Perky with relatives of Mrs. Rob- OF PAPER TO PAY erts until Saturday morning when the trip was resumed. i Reaching the other side of the water gap, engine trouble again developed soon after the trip was resumed, which eventually re- Preparations to several places on CAPTAIN BzRT SINGLETON AND CREW CCME IN AT NGON ON MOTOR BOAT Leaving mi ;morning and maki and there, the 2 {Hunky Dory, jday with Capt | ton and a crew consisting of Cha Nelson and Kenncth Sessler, 13 and 14 respectively. A stormy trip but e good little boat and a sturdy crew made good weather of it, and the jol-y little party of mariners landed at Key West, no worse tor the experi- ence. last Friday harbor here ‘aot moter boat, ved at noon to-i Friday Due to en- (ty Revectatea Prom) WASHINGTON — June 16, pay 3,500,000 sulted in the car being towed to: World War veterans bonus total-| Homestead. The trouble was ing $1,924,000,000 presented the corrected and the trip continued fcderal burezu of engraving and until ended by the smash-up. printing with a stupendous jo! Hamilton Pinder. father of One hundred znd_ twenty-five | Mrs. Roberts and Miss Pinder, tons of paper were required for; left over the highway this morn- printing. ing to be with the folk in Miami. The same process used in Store Clerk Recognizes “1, onas ui Stolen Dress; Calls Cop on white taper: ae caeeae ;tint and are featured by an en- !graving of And~ew Jackson. Printing was the greatest rush job the feGeral bureau of en- graving and printing has had the ed. (My |Assovtated Pronx) AUGUSTA, Ga., June 16.— Helen Snellgrove, department store clerk, looked up to inquire what a customer would like. ‘its history. The .customer was a stranger, The fi but her dress was familiar to Miss Febrear, 1936, by Robert Snellgrove. ; V. Montzomery, a veteran, em- So she summoned a policeman’ ployed at the buveau. and charged the customer with| A total of 25 cesses, working | theft the night hefore dresses from the Snellgrove resi- dence, bond was printed on » Were needed to have {bonds ready for delivery. brought about the action in cir-, i Action was brought for the re-; STORMY TRIP: in Bert E. Single-! aged | SOLDIERS’ BONUS. printing of currency was employ-! greenish j in; of two at full specd deginning February! the; KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936. Che Key Wiest Citizen ‘(CAWTHON MAKING | ACTIVE CAMPAIGN | FOR NOMINATION: | SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC, INSTRUCTiON CHANGES HIS TACTICS IN CAMPAIGN OF; SECOND PRIMARY (Special to The ©.thzen) | TALLA‘IAS june 16.—W.| |S. Cawthon, state superintendent | ‘of public instruction, said here today he had yielded to the in-| jsistence of friends and will wage! lan active campaign for the demo-} ;eratic nomination in the second! i un-/ | This annoucement jis an jusual bit of news in view of the! t that Caw has held a} | polit: cal office for 14 years with-j lout engaging in politics, Appoint-| led to the office he now holds in} 1°22, Cawthon has remained ati his desk in his office here in and; lout of | making non campai, without ; one camozign speech or piece of campaign; ars. tissuing one | literatur ; Even this year, with five en- tries in the race for superinten-: \dent, Cawthon p»id his qualifics ition ‘fees and kept on working. | While sound wazons were blazen-j; ing their messages to the voters | H i i i i and while the streets of the cities ; Were littered with printed mat- ‘ter, Cawthon spent no money and} (exerted no personal effort to re-! tain his position. His stand _is| that the people employ him for} a certain job and it is his duty! to stick to that job. | Depending solely upon a repu-} |tation for rugged honesty andj | devoticn to duty, Cawthon weath-/ lered the intensive campaign of! four opponents and enters the} cond primary for the nomina- j tion. - | The state superintendent rose} ! from; obseuri by his own efforts; and obtained an excellent educa-j ;tion. He is an alumnus of the | University of Florida and has! studied at other leading institu- ; tions. In his career as an educator he (has taucht in schools ranging in isize from one teacher rural | ‘to the leading high schools and the university. Cawthon was one of the first j to advocate a definite state fund for the adequate payment of! ‘teachers’ salaries and he favors} ; complete separation of the school} fund from the general revenue! ! fund. AUDUBON SOCIETY | i UNIT PLANS TRIP :TO MAKE ANOTHER TRIP TO BIRD SANCTUARY AT | for Political Parties Now Hear Tax Troubles Of Mine Men PITTA TS Oil Interests Also Seek-!CA!MED THAT MONEY SPENT ALL YEARS LEAP (By Associated Press) AVIGNON, France, 16.—By an ancient custom still fully observed, every year is leap year for Proven- cal girls. On the principle that the the way to a man’s heart lies through his stomach, the maiden bakes a cake called “fougasse.” This she places with a jug of wine outside her home, some old houses having niches in the wall for the purpose. The favored swain eats the cake and drinks the wine, leaving in its place a silken scarf. The girl wears this to church the following Sun- day, and a few weeks later the wedding bells ring out. Should she change her mind, she jilts the youth by offering him a handful of oats. SIS SSS SS ST4 June ‘MAKING SURVEY OF | RAILROAD UNITS | COMPILING NECESSARY DATA INCIDENT TO RELINQUISH- ING OWNERSHIP ;Chief Engineer L. C. Frohman, Florida East Coast Railway, and Engineers R. L. Langford, V. R. Gorham and P. P. Pierce, are making a survey of the railroad right gf way. trestles and,yiaducts from the mainland to Key West. This survey, it is said, is one of the necessary actions to be com- pleted, and data compiled and prepared, before the company |linquishes ownership of the tr ete., to the Monroe County Road and Toll Bridge Co. sion for the construction of proposed bridges. tles the COURT HOLDS BRIEF SFSSION : CASE DOCKETED FOR THIS i MORNING WAS POSTPONED : UNTIL THURSDAY Circuit court met in brief ses- sion this morning and the case of | Helio Renedo versus the Atlantic Mutual Fire of Savannah, today was Insurance company which was docketed postponed until | Thursday. TORTUGAS Members of the Audubon So- ,ciety, who visited at Tortugas and spent some time in the study of the birds at Bird Key, are again making the trip to that area. It was announced today that the members of the society will ‘leave tomorrow from St. Peters- burg on the Coast Guard Cutter Nemesis. It is their intention, it is understood, to spend most of their time at the great bird sane- tuary 6n Bird Key. !Ghost Town’s Buildings | Standing After 44 Years; | (Ny Axwociated Press) CARTHAGE, N. C., June 16.— A ghost town sleeps 40 miles from here. Once engaged in the produc- tion of millstones out of Moore 'eounty grit, the town has been abandoned 44 years. i The buildings are all there, in-j cluding homes, postoffice, hotel, {stores and other structures, but no people. | The stained hotel register shows. the last entry was made April 2, j 1891. The streets are grown over! in weeds and shrubs. Why human beings abandoned the spot is a matter of conjec- | ture. It was shown that Attorney De. ; Jcurnette; of the firm of McKay, Dixon and DeJournette, repre- senting the defendant compan was not able to reach the city from Miami, but would be here Thursday. LIGHT TENDER LEAVES TODAY POINCIANA NOW AT MIAMI HAVING REFRIGERATION SYSTEM REPAIRED Tender Ivy, left “this morning to replace a decapitated buoy in! the harbor and upon returning was immediately ordered out to East Washerwoman Shoals to re- light the lantern, which was re- ported extinguished. Tender Poinciana is at Miami having the refrigeration repaired. Tender Poppy is at South Boca Grande constructing | permanent aids to navigation in hat vicinity. a FOR SALE 1936 FORD Only 3000 Miles—Like New! —Only $550— NAVARRO’S, Inc. system | Favorable To Their Or-| erations By PRESTON GROVER {Hy Associated Prennt WASHINGTON, June 16.— Mining and oil prospecting inter- the j new tax bill pending in congress, arried to the Cleveland Repul:- fight their ; porate capitalization so the pinch L ests, caught in the pinc: of lican convention their for | permission to revise cor- | wouldn’t hurt so much. j They are non-partisan about | their de Tey will go | Philadelphia also seeking a plank es. to (urging relief. they want giving and to ; More particularly an amendment to the bill ‘mere favored excess profi! i capital stock tax treatment new corporations, such as mine development companies and inde- | pendent oil prospectors, while the concerns are getting on their feet. To illustrate their view, consi er a mining company developing a gold property with a $100,000 | cap‘talization. (And $100,000 cay italization doesn’t always mean the company has that much money.) j How Plan Works { _The operators face this dilem- ma. If they caapitalize at $1,- 000,000 they must pay the cap- ital stock tax of $1.40 per $1,- 000 on the whole million year aft- er year, although actual company assets may be much less. Yet if they e lize for only $T00.000 and ke ore mak- ing the property worth $1,000,000 hey must pay an excess profits 2x on all but 10 percent of the ine! This tax ranges 8 to 20 pereent. in, if the mine company s to repay mcney borrowed ginally, and to pat aside more to build a mill. a tax (undee the hcuse plan) of tauch as 4212 percent is -y-plied cx all .et aside for either ease. n ef Nevada pr nt which would permit corporations every two ears to increase or reduce their al valuation. Thus a prof- say, oF $10¢,000, which would 100 pe-cent on a_ capitaliza- tien of $100,099, could be chang- !ed into a profit of oniy 10 pe~cent ' (end no ess profits tar) in- creasing capitalization to $1,000,- Revisicn Protested a2 senate big corpo: protest went up that j then could jugz! ,times of fat or lein earnings so s to minimize excers profits and Pittman pro dae then that corporations he permitted to re- value thei cata only © dering first three yc: rs. This, he would protect 4,000 new mining compan’es in the west and an untold ivami-er of independent Without aid, no one development. ‘amendment iwe vexld invest in mine nate foes of his in isted capital could be fornd. | The senate froxned on the | proposition, rough —- Pittman lergved that protection of these {small mininz and independent oil toperatozs offered a means of bovine small industry started. ;Old Building Looks Same, But Inside Goes Modern | {Ry Associated Presa) | CHARLESTON, S. C., June 16. {—Renovators of Vanderhorst row, howe? of the oldest apartment hous- jes in the United States, have re- stored the exterior of the big {brick structure on the waterfront here. But the interior of the build- jing. erected by General Arnoldus | Vanderhorst in 1800, contains |lights, radios, portable telephones and fan plugs in each room, elec- trie heaters, showers, and other innovations that would have pezzled the original occupants. IN OLD PROVENCE. ing To Obtain Seapent from, some sick protection, | , ‘covering the various ‘WAR ADDS DEBT BUT ITALY SEES BALANCE AGAIN WAS NOT WASTED; MUCH MILITARY EQUIPMENT PRO- VIDED IN PROGRAM By ANDRUE BERDING FEy Ansocinteg Brena, ROME, June 16.—| aly’s con- quest of Ethiopia cost just $1,- 000,000,000 up to the middle of May. It means nearly a 10 per cent addition to the public debt. But Thaon di Revel, finance minister, says it is aot just money On the of the ledger are new har hun bridges spent for nothing. other side bors new doc! eds of of new roads, and bar- racks, and, A fine militar cluding airplanes hine-guns fighting st world. And, finally, A new empire. The latest appropriation, nounced in the offic 2.045.000,000 lire, brings ‘the to- tal of war preparedness and war appropriations to 10,000,000 lire. which is j a few sous un- der $1,000,000,000. Occupation Costs Mount The war is over, but the ex- penses carry on. Haile Selassie’s armies are crushed, but aimost half of Ethiopia remains to be occupied. A foree of well over 100,000 soldiers must be kept in East Africa for months, maybe yea: How has Italy paid her way? No figures have been issued to illustrate this interesting ques- tion; but the budget estimates for 1936-1937, with their in- creased interest figures, offer a reliable method of working it out. The budget lists lire increase in interest of the consolidated conve: bonds. A holder of a consol 3.4 per center turned it in to the government with 15 lire in cash and got a 5 per center. For the 15 lire cash the state pays 1.5 per cent more interest, or 10 per cent on the 15 lire. Consequently the lire, capitalized at 10 means the government 6,750,000,000 from the sion. Next there is an increase of 100,000,000 lire interest on short- term bonds, which must be capi- talized at 5 per cent, meaning the government received 2,000,- 000,000. Interest Charges Multiply Then comes am increase of 50,- 000,000 lire interest on bonds given in exchange for Italian citizens’ holdings’ of foreign bonds, which, capitalized a 5 per cent, means a receipt of 1,000,- 000,000. Finally there is an increase of 50,000,000 lire interest on short- m notes borrowed by the treasury from state credit insti . insurance companies and sources. This, capitalized means the govern- ment received 3,000,000,000 lire. To this must be added a 2,000,- 000.000 lire increase in the not circulation from January 1, 19: to May 10, 1936. The sum total of all these in- 14,750,000,000 lire— which more than comfortably covers the total appropriations, 12,110,000,000, The total in-, — and equipment, artillery which increase gth in the 000,000 because ion 675,000,000 per cent, received 5 per cent, comes is increase loans and conversion was 889.000,000 lire, which the treasury must now pay annually until the bonds are re- tired. interest ADVISORY ADVISORY. 9:30 A. M.—There has apparently been some re- development of the tropical d‘s- turbance during the past 12 hours and a rapid movement northeast- ward. There are indications of a centet of moderate intensity about 400 miles southwest of Bermuda moving rapidly northeastward Caution advised in region of Ber- muda and smaller vessels in path. miles! ' SUPPOS=D conver-! County Board Decides To Give Only Mainland Portion Of Area For National Park OOOO TODS. Ys, Other Matters Are Coconut Tree Climbing Heard At Special Meet- Reserved For Natives ‘ (Ry Awsocintes Prener HONOLULU June 16— Tecurist tales notwithstanding the Honolulu police depart- ment is determined to dis- courage visitors from climb- ing coconut trees on thoroughfares public which Two recent visitors were so informed when an officer im- terrupted their assault on a pair of palms near a down- town office building. Residents say only Hawai ian boys can climb te si pery trees, anyway SS bt is to be donation glades Nationa definitely de mecting o he stoners, < afternoon SEARCH MADE FOR MEN ON CRUISER Present at the meetin Chairman Cari Be-vaid sioners Wm. R Thompson. Br g and Nathan Nile TO BE SOME- IN VICINITY OF WHERE Sawyer, Attoracy Wa and Sheriff K. O TORTUGAS Coast Guard Key West noon to make a search f Booth and compan‘on, from veste said t on < cabin cruiser, somewhere in the vicinity tugas. At as M started least that is Booth Tortug word has been it is con. ured that they possibly be in t ewhere As no word was received uy this morning 128 was search. the and his companior for but as 1 received from them le Guard r oin in the ived abo ordered The plane clock this morni the tool to i, came d near later Note: Plan aiternoon and ort arrival ct Marquesas Lrothe Joseph Be on the plane, was i an that Cru with his brother and panion on doard, morning Key SPONGE SALES HELD MONDAY TOTAL SALES FOR DAY EX- CEEDED THIPTEEN HUN- DRED DOLLARS re + ansie w LT. PERROTT WAS WELL KNOWN HERE CoMmiINnc While offerings nicipal dock yesterday, there were a number of s on the the ale of a single pf wool x the owner $3 90 bun Other PLATE PILOT=D HERE W'T PARTY of ber ale wool, t yellow sponges. Total sales ing th wool, } lar toe $1, gether yellow, ¢ and When Chores Are Done , Brothers Dig For Gold ~ (My Amsocinted Prenn) LINCOLNTON, June 14 —Ear! and Alec > an believe in diversification of farming te! so they mining as a sideline—pro‘ When the usual chores of agri- tor culture do not de hr gies, they dig go! old farmpl: It started after they gold particles on top of following hard rains Then they struck a vein deep eda stamp and already have marketed eral tons of gold ore Ga.. the greur obta SOME MEN SWEAT AND SWELTER THRU SUMMER. OTHERS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT WAGNER BEER WILL KEEP THEM COOL AND COMFORTABLE