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

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 154. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, Baldwin Defies Clamor Of Foes; Says He'll Quit ‘hh My Ow Own Time’ } rarvenings That Now Believed He Is De- termined To Remain As Head Of Government At Least Another Year By CHARLES P. NUTTER (Associated Press Foreign Sjaff) LONDON, June 27.—“I will _ Fetire in my own good time” hac Baldwin's only public reply to repeated de- been Prime | Minister mands ithat he auit public life. This clamor arose amid waves of criticism that swept Great Brit- ain after the sanctions policy against Italy failed and the bud- get leakage scandal forced Bald-i win’s colonial secretary, “Jim” Thomas, out of both the einen and parliament. Best authoriies believe Baldwin, his anger and stubborn; streak aroused by now the attacks, is; determined to remain head of the| government until after the coro- nation of King Edward hence. a year i i} Changes Make Enemies Since the general clections last Reed hospital, | ANNOUNCE DEATH OF COLONEL ELLIS IN WASHINGTON ’ WILL BE REMEBERED AS HAVING BEEN STATIONED AT KEY WEST DURING YEARS OF 1907 AND 1908 Mr. and M received-notice of the <feath Colonel Richard T. Ellis, U. S. A., who died this week in Walter Washington, after a long illness. Colonel Ellis wa and a hero of the Spanish 4 can war, and a_ distinguished commander of field artillery dur- ing the world war. He will be pleasantly bered by many Key W. ibeing on duty at Key West bar- racks during the ye: 1907 and 1908, when there were four com- panies at the post and the Ninth Band of the Artillery Corps -was remem- S stationed here. During his stay in Key Wes he became known to a_ host of friends and was the leader of so- November gave Baldwin a sweep- | cial activities at the barra ing mandate to continue in power,’ nearly everything has gone wrong for the aging premier. The cry arose yery soon after “Resign! the when the country’ votes were counted, turned plan to stop the jopian war, Colonel, Ellis was twice de: ed for gallantry during the war with Spain and was made an of- Hficer of the Legion of Honor by Resign!” the French government for | World War services. his His Spanish War decorations included! a Silver Star Medai for against the Hoare-Laval: gallantry, at San ‘Oak Lear Cluster, Jacinto, and and another and foreed Baldwin to scuttle his Silver Star award for pursuing a foreign Sir Hoare. Baldwin’s action in naming An- thony Eden to the post appears to have made a mortal enemy of his} old friend Sir Austen Chamber-' lain, just as Baldwin’s earlier ac- tion in leaving the Rt. Hon, Win-! ston Churchill out of the cabinet} embittered. that notab!e who sup-} ported Baldwin in the electien after fighting him for years the India bill. Reminded Of ‘Mistakes’ | Neither of them has missed an! opportunity to fire barbed gibes into the prime minister, repeated-| ly calling him to for his} answers to emba ques-| tions, or reminding h | failure of ¢ in policies. The old cry has been revived that Britain alienated Italy witho- out benefiting Ethiopia, pare weakened the League of Nations, | tried out ha measures to; stop the conflict, and that Brit-! ain’s whole foreign policy is a col-! lection yincertainties and in-! ane L On top of these developments the story of the budget leakage’ broke over Baldwin’s head. minisier, Samuel { Call Premier ‘Dormouse’ Members of parliament all-; ing Baldwin “the dormouse” be- cause he has not lashed back at the rising tide 07 ctiricisr Gen-! eral be'ief there, however, is that he will not much longer restrain, himself. “Once again the hov full ery after Baldwin. Will they get him this time? Th is no other question being discussed in Westminster, member of parliament, cent article. Bernays reached the conclusion! Baldwin won't be hounded out of office, but that he wil! retire af-j ter the coronation because of his} age, nds are in ina BULLET HiTS BUTTON TOLEDO, 0. — As 6-year-old Eddie Hightower of this c.imbed up the steps to his front door a baliet, supposedly by a prowler, gianced off a but- ton on his clothing. Junior Drum and Bugle net DANCE Tonight, 10 till ? RAUL’S CLUB ADMISSION | $1.00 superior | through dangerous and | country to force the liberation of 22 was a lieutenant at the time. force of insurgents difficult Americans held captive. He A graduate of the Army War College and the Industrial College, he was retired in of duty. " LESTER GOES ON TRIP * TO MIAMI TO MEET WITH OTHERS TO DISCUSS MATTERS RELAT- OING TO BRIDGES Assistant Staté ‘Attorney J. Lancelot Lester left over the highway this morning for MSami jand tomorrow will meet with | Judge H. H,: Taylor, and Wim. R. Porter and Norberg Thomps ‘who left Cuba this week for Mi- ami to discuss matters pertaining to the bridges. Tomorrow evening Miss ence Sawyer, deputy clerk, will leave by plane for Miami where’ she will be joined by Mr. Lester and pro-| Flor- county ceed to Jacksonville to attend the | meeting of the Sate Democratic! Executive Committee to be held {Tuesday morning in the ‘flower Hotel. CUBA BRINGS IN 42 PASSENGERS - VESSEL LEAVES LATE AFTERNOON ENROUTE TO TAMPA IN Steamship Cuba, of the P. and city} O. S. S. company, arrived from planks: Havana yesterday with four pas- fired! sengers for Key West, two first ministration t and two second class; 10 first class for St. Petersburg, and 25 ong and three seconds for Tam- Pe The Cuba sailed at 5 o’elock for St. Petersburg with the fol- lowing passengers embarking at jKey West; Mrs. Bernard C. De- | witt and baby, Ferrell, Mrs. Jack. Beker Ross Johnson, Alvin Cos-;} filton Curry have! of! ovat. | vention came War! 1934: for disability acquired in the line that one‘ of Landon’s principal as- | better political writers, is that he tis not a particularly’ exceptional yman, He is a mediocre speaker— | ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS ffect the pin Pails, Dividend Checks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- arable From Lecal Welfare Yes, the forecusters were wrong. im: cticaily all of the myriad news columns conducted in the coun- 'try—including this one—antici- | pated fireworks and warfare when “searcity.” Restriction of ports, A national land-use gram, whereby abandoned and {non-preductive farm lands will be \leased or purchased by the govern. ment and used for purposes of | wild-life conservation, watershed protection and flood control, ete. much- lic “Stop Landon!” Provision of ample farm credit at movement would take on cyclonic: low interest rates. ! proportions, Instead, it was nev-| of cooperative marketing. er more than a passing breeze, | FINANCE: Stop and within two days of the con-| ed spending.” Balance the bud- ivention’s start it shrunk to almost!get by drastie cuts in expendi- a dead caim. The other candi-|tures. Revise the Fede-al ida ¢ no less ambitious than! system. Oppose further before to carry the GOP banner} devaluation. ‘into the November lists, but they | eign powers toward saw the handwriting on the wall,! stabilization as soon jand accepted it. They had as tional interest justifies it. | much chance of stopping the Gov-| FOREIGN renor of the sunflower state as. of relative isolation is advocated, ‘they had of stopping the tides—!and opposition to American. par- ‘when the New York and Penn ivi 1 delegations hitherto con-: {sidered doubtful, were polled and ; showed heavy Landon majorities, lit was all over but the formality , | of calling the roll of states. The same thing became true of the the elephant tromped into Cleve- land. The xpected that the { | dollar current League of Nations. ling allianees in and peaceful powers, MONOPOLY: The platform: ‘denounces private monopoly, fav-! viee-presidential nomination, ors vigorous enforcement of all) {when Senator Vandenburg refus-, criminal and civil laws to stamp ed second ce on the ticket, Pub-: it out. Pledges maintenance lisher Knox the logical and free enterprise. nevitable choice. In addition, the platform The rise of Landon will go cords itself as being in favor of down in’history as one of the most; the merit system (civil service) ' ‘remarkable events in American) for government _ workers, politics, whether he wins or loses, nounces the use of patronage to! in November. Two years ago few! cteate “political machines,” and persons outside of the Middle! advocates Federal regulation of Wiest even knew who he was. A Securities concerns, interstate ac- year later he was a national fig-, tivities of public utilities, ete. It ure. And by the time the con-' pledges itself to the complete ‘round, it couldn’t: maintenance of Constitutional; be questioned that his was the! safeguards’ for *thé” individual, | great measure of popular Repub-|and the safeguarding of freedom! lican support. As everyone knows,' of press, speech and radio. merce amen cet e CALE OR MEETING AT BAYVIEW PARK Old Guard’s influence in the con- vention was practically nil. The! immedizte group around Landon| ACCEPTANCE SPEECH OF ROOSEVELT TONIGHT TO BE HEARD ON RADIOS affairs, with all foreign elations consists of young men—some of | them in their twenties, few be-; yond their middle forties. Lan- don himself is under fifty. Equally vemarkable is the fact i i sets, according to some of the It has been definitely decided but his manner of delivering a} sd not to hold the meeting of Roose- talk endears him to many listen-; velt Nominators which was sched- ers. He is never dramatic—and juled for Bayview Park tonight, {that many regard as a virtue, in| BL oll ee Ot Gale to hear the acceptance speech of President Roosevelt. different personality from his op- | ponent, Master Showman Roose- Hundreds of people have pressed themselves as preferring velt. He is a quiet, slow to make ,to remain at home and there hear up his mind, chary of experi-; ments. There is a wide streak! | the speech, which is to be broad- of liberalism in his makeup, and that appeals to millions of voters. Proof of the fact that he knows ae ze what he wants, is found in his! 4¢lphia, and in lieu of this atti- telegram concerning the Republi. | tude it was believed the crowd can platform. The platform, try- would be too small to warrant ing as it did to please conflicting | this park being lighted and the interests within the party, stu: #mplifiers arranged. diously avoided coming out for a| It was suggested by members , Constitutional Amendment giving; °f the committee on arrangements | ;the states power to regulate | that as many persons, as were so wages, hours and working condi-| inclined, would invite friends to tions—a power the Court held they do not now pos-| | talks to be made and which will sess. It also studiously avoided be concluded with the nomination ing anything very definite acceptance speech of President bout the gold standard. Gover-; Roosevelt. nor Landon says he favored the! amendment—and that he wanted} a dollar exchangeable for gold on demand. Otherwise, he said,! DALLAS, Tex. A he stood by the platform as writ-: that began when Virginia ten, ENDS IN WEDDING A romance Prit- voters ever read aj party platform |a “ticket” for speeding ended in a —it is usually long, involved, and | wedding. is far from racy. Whether that is{ true or not, the Republican pla’ form—shorter than most—de-! serves a reading by friends and foes of the GOP alike. As was to be expected, it begins with a ! sweeping denunciation of the New \Deal. Then it gets down to what, ‘the Republicans want, and in-| cludes the following important OUR NEW SHIPMENT OF DODGES and PLYMOUTHS WILL ARRIVE TOMORROW NEW COLORS NEW COMBINATIONS Will, be open all day tomor- row and every night next week to display these new cars. COME IN NOW FOR A DEMONSTRATION NAVARRO’S, Inc. RELIEF: Return of relief ad-; © non-political local; agencies familiar with local con-/ ditions. Federal grants for re lief to states and territories. SOCIAL SECURITY: All citi- zems over 65 to receive money | enough to maintain them in com-! fort, the money to be derived! |from a “direct tax widely distri-/ , buted.” | AGRICULTURE: A ptogram| }of “abundance” instead of one of; pro-! Encouragement | “uncontroll- | tax! Cooperate with for- i AFFAIRS: A policy! \ticipation in the World Court or; No entang-| of | re-' de-| ex- cast from Franklin Field, Phila-; Supreme their homes to listen in on the| jchett, a traffie policeman of this} It has been Gheenced that few | city handed*Miss Marie MeMillan, | area. SATURDAY, JU 27, 1936. Che Key West Citizen = Several Of Supreme Court's Coast Guard To Use Loud MUCH INTEREST IN BRIDGES BY OUTSIDE FOLKS HOUSING DEPARTMENT IN, RECEIPT OF MANY LETTERS EXPRESSING PLEASURE ON LEARNING OF NEWS | | \ | { as the na-; | During the past few weeks hun- dreds of letter: ‘ceived by Miss een W _ the Housing Department o h WPA expressing happy reactions to the announcement of the al- lotment for the Oversea Bridges. ! Most of these, however, have {not been after reading articles in the paper, but after receipt of a post card, hundreds of which were sent out by M Willi to friends and winter visitors now in different parts of the country. Typical of the letters is one from H. F. McLaur vertising agent of the Bur.ington and Quincy Railroad company, who was here last sea- son with his family and were guests at the Casa Marina Hotel. Mr. McLaury writes: ‘As a mat- {ter of fact I have not read any: thing in the newspapers about the appropriation for the highw pridges from Miamj to Key We: ceive your post card of June 19. “Unless all signs fail Mrs. Me- Laury, baby and I wi.l be back: cra there this winter, for we \are nthusiastic about Key West as ever and, judging from past experience, it has the almost unique advantage of being safely | away from the cold weather.” { PROGRAM SUNDAY | AQUARIUM PARK i WILL BE FIRST OF CONCERTS | TO BE GIVEN BY HOS- PITALITY BAND H What is promised as an un- usually good program has been arranged for tomorrow afternoon; and will be heard 4 o’clock at the! Key West Tropical Aquarium | Park inaugurating the first of} the summer weekly concerts here, by the Key West Hospitality: Band. Benches were being moved to! the park today so that the audi- ence will have comfortab!e places to sit during the concert. It was also pointed out that there is ample space for parking autos. The park is well shaded and cooled by the breezes from} the Gulf of Mexico. It was for these reasons that the Aquarium | Park was selected for the series of concerts, it i: id, ‘TRAVEL BUREAU NOW OPERATING INFORMATION OFFICE IN MI.! AMI BEING MADE ‘VERY ATTRACTIVE | | | | | ! All matters in connection with ; the transportation office in con- nection with the Key West infor. ; mation bureau in Miami have been jarranged and this part of the bu- |Teau is functioning satisfactorily, jit was said today. The information bureau is lo. cated at 303 North East First Street and for several weeks has been under course of being made (attractive and | Visitors, | With the addition of the trans- | portation office information re- | garding wel facilities in all | branches been made available | {te the public, | , dime could straddle it was doubly good news to re-' ; zens of the j; without due | and indust i tional Amendment Nat- | urally Arises In Pro- ceedings By PRESTON GROVER (By Awsockned Prens WASHINGTON, June the ence between the views of man, | Republicans and Democrats as to! differ. | Decisions Looked Upon In Speakers To Give Warning Same Light By Both Parties On Storms During Season ‘Much Talk Of Constitu- MANY EMPLOYES jew Equgmest Te Be ie ONNYAROUS tei F= Ore TO BE DROPPED mg Threechoot F_ersd Area |LAY-OFF ORDER | ALL YOUTHS AFFECTS UNDER 27.—a! YEARS OF ACE: TO BECOME EFFECTIVE END OF JUNE All Natienal 1 what could be done to meet the! situation arising from the coal law and the New York min imum wage law. Talk of a constitutional amen. ment sprang up naturally. The court said right of tract (agreement on wages) could not be abridged, and that mini mum wages could not be fixed by law. Some who wou'd like see federal laws able to bring about ge agreements feel, neverthe less, that the right of contract an important right and. further, that itis only one step ing minimum wages maximum wages. The How to open a gay tion wihout inviting in a Dilemma for ventila- storm was the technical question pro: jected in certain quar That part of the /amentment upon which the sion was based reads: “No state shall make or any law which shall abrid privileges or immunities of United tes; nor shall any state deprive any per- son of life, liberty or property, process (that’s the famous phrase) of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdic-| {tion the equal protection of the | Taw: The fourteenth amendment was !cdvaneed shortly after the Civil War, largely as the basi supon| which Confederate states could; re-enter the Union. Besides the due process” ‘among other things, that any dis- nchisement of males (or in j this case Negroes) would _ bring on a proportionate reduction in congressional representation. Years Bring Change Most Confederate states de- nounced it, but it was ratified by! a majo y of the states the Union. Its original purpose largely has been lost sight of with the pasage of years, It has become a pedes- tal upon which has been stacked volumes of “court law’ almost every phase of fourteenth deci: e the citi- y- While some ors refer to it as the “corpora aa protective amendment.” even they consider it has become ;so much a foundation stone of | business law as almost to pre- clude tearing it bodily out of ae ettien by repeal. ADVISORY The following advisory was is. | sued by the United States Weath-/ er Bureau at New Orleans,! su-! * preme court decisions against the | roll con-j 13 | nation. “,en ar fixing’ sewing ro enforce dvring the time they clause, it provided, | iday afternoon ffecting | business 1 yrailory Lines, caustic commenta- | | through the local station, at 11:30} and was s. a. m. today, The Citizen by G. meteorologist in charge: i “Hurricane warnings displayed, 11:30 a. m. Corpus Christi to Matagorda Bay, and storm warnings north of gorda Bay to Galveston. Kennedy, north of Corpus Christi, next few hours, probably attend- ed by winds of hurricane force over a small area near center.” furnished; northeast Monroe County Mata-| Circuit Court room at the Co Disturb-! Court, House on Monday morning, entertaining for, ance developing rapidly short dis-'| June 29. at 10:30 o” | tance east of Corpus Christi, and purpose of adopting sui | will move inland short distance’ lutions upon the death of Judg: within; J. Vining Harris. tion s age t instruct i morning |L. Fort from R. ¢ { rector. This young NYA emp | proximat fected by j reduce about The young m« ing gainfully NYA here wor project out the remain. recreational learning clerice] work. emploved at ing fancy and still others are various othe learning other The loe ing expr struction Jacksonv lle young men and not reached birthday. He bh their eight pes, he said have emp!oyed they have been ted beth in practical experi work. STEAMER YORO COMES 1 TO PORT =~ cutter VESSEL TAKES ON FUEL OIL AND PROCEEDS TO FRON-. NEW RULING IN LIQUOR MATTER TERA, MEXICO OH on — The Steamship Yoro, of the ard Fruit and Steamshiy pany, which arrived from Philadelphia. Stand- SHOWS “ L yesterda CONTENT QUANTITY poerieony CAN BE ENTERED tera, Mexico, gallons 63 31. within | Deck company Another company, the Gr errive from Phil and is a!so consign ter Dock company. Freighter Alamo of due morning from New York an route to Tampa. Coast Guard Cutter which was absent from the port and drydock for repairs, and overhaw returned yesterday afternoon ‘BAR MEMBERS TO: MEET ON MONDAY « ATTOR- ve! elphia Mone the € tom {MONROE COUNTY NEYS TO ADOPT RESOLU- TIONS OF RESPECT bar of im the @ The members of the will meet nty itor: VOO-DOO DANCE ble reso- Tonight. 10 till 7 HABANA MADRID CLUB This announcement was made Dei Woods’ Orchestra today by Judge Jefferson B.| Script $1.00 Ladses’ Browne. 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