The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 3, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No, 184. Impresario For SEC Shuns Spotlight (On His Hearings Dr. Paul P. Gourrich, Be- hind Investment Trust Inquiry, Declines Hero’s: Role By SIGRID ARNE (By Axsocinted Prexx) WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.—The man who wrote the plot and rl the characters for the security| | 1 and exchange commission’s hear- ings on investmerj: trusts is that compact, calm-looking chap in white linens sitting in a back chair! and saying littl—the man with | bald pate, smooth face and large,| behind gold-} alert, dark eyes rimmed glasses. He is Dr. Paul P. Gourrich, re-! SEC, Presario of the capital’s No. 1 late search director for im- summer show. Dr. | Gourrich ddn’t make a! ripple when he arrived in Wash-! ington two years ago. and he still! doesn’t. He prefers it that way. He likes the dull-looking reports! Piled a foot high on his desk. He just wants to study. } He grew up in ‘a financial| available as to results obtained’ ,,; of and whether or not the provisions! family. Before he was out After Voting 40 Years, Finds He’s Not Citizen (By Ansoeinted Presny HONOLULU, T. H., Aug. 3.— After enjoying the advantages and fulfilling the duties of Ameri- can citizenship for some 40 years, including office holding, and jury service, James Graham P‘acidus Morgan, Honolulu busi- ‘nessman, has discovered he is not an American citizen, A native of Wales, he believed his father had been naturalized. Finding this was not the case, he has applied for derivative citizen- ship. REQUESTS DATA AGAINST TIPPING RESTAURANT ASSN. WRITES TO KEY WEST ABOUT ORDINANCE According to a letter received by the chamber of commerce in Key West, the Natonal Restaurant Associaton is anxious to get some information as to the non-tipping j ordinance passed in this city by, } council some months ago. The Chieago association asks that a copy of the ordinance be sent to Secretary Thomas T. Gil- hous, of the association, together with whatever information is voting | complete view of the country over Che Key. | HASKINS BACK | FROM TRIP TO | PUERTO RICO ' | ; MUCH SATISFIED WITH DIS.) | TRICT; READY TO ACCEPT! ! APPOINTMENT AS supeRin.| i { TENDENT | Henry B. assistant superintendent of lighthouses at! ; Key West, is satisfied that the; \ninth lighthouse district, situated in a beautiful secticn of Puerto Rico, is an ideal place in which to locate. H “We were not afforded such aj; Haskins, which we passed going from Mi-| ami by air to Puerto Rico, but on} ‘the return we were at one time’ “10,000 feet in the'ar and the) jview was simpfy grana,” he to:d H !The Citizen. Mr. Haskins says -he is - very ‘much pleased with the district and | ithe location of headquarters at, {San Juan, and would so apprise {Commissioner of Lighthouses H. 'D. King and that he was ready to ‘aceept the appointment as super- intendent there, when offered to him. When the commissioner was here several weeks ago, Mr, Has- kins was asked how he would like \ i jto be superintendent of the ninth ‘district. He replied he would be} ibetter able tot express himse‘f jafter he had seen the district and tasked permission to go to San! ' Juan and decide. ' Permission was granted and the ip was concluded yesterday when Mr. Haskins returned on the school he had made such fruitful | °f the ordinance is still in force.! render Ivy from Miami where he investments for his father’s office! that another financial house made| him its research director. | He is polite but uncomfortable} at mention of his career. He in-j sists there is nothing like talent. | “People are just a very little above or below average,” he S| plains. “But there are two kinds of minds that make the difference} above or below: the conclusive; and the inconclusive. “The conclusive man wants to know everything he can about! what he’s doing. The inconclusive! one is the kind who thnks he knows) agriculture because he can adatat market figures on Harvester. Study Never Ends “There are no limits study for a man who attempts to handle other people’s money in’ today’s complex financial ture. Suppose he buys nitrate stock. He should know all that’s going on in Chile. Suppose he buys sugar. What is happening in Cuba? ' “Financial directors are like hens. They are never They have to lay an day. Men like Chopin, the com- poser, had other problems. But! at least when Chopin finished a nocturne, that nocturne International to the egg every t was It is the understanding of Sec- retary Gilhous that this is the only city in the eountry where an ordi- nance has been passed making it prohibitive to tip. COP IN IN ACCIDENT |BIENVENIDO PEREZ RIDING! MOTORCYCLE, CRASHES INTO HUB STORE Motorcycle Officer Bienvenido Perez suffered painful] injuries to his right hand about 4 o’clock yes- terday afternoon when, because of a partly flat rear tire, his mo- struc- torcycle became unmanagcable and crashed: into the front of th Store. Officer Franklyn Arenberg, of the police force, and Firemen Will Roberts appeared on _ the scene just after the crash and e Hub through. took Officer Perez to Gardner’s| , pharmacy where his attended to, After this Officer Arenberg and Fireman Roberts secured lumber and made a_ protective hurts were {landed in a Pan-American per last. week, Carl Rom, senior radio electri- ‘ian on the department at Key! ! West, was another passenger on foe tender returning from repair and adjustment work on the radio ‘equipment at Fowey Rocks light-} house. Clip-! GOING ON TRIP’ i ; TO BE ACCOMPANIED BY His’ ' | SISTER, MRS. ADOLPHUS | JOHNSON | | ' | Captain John G. Albury, of a | Lighthouse Tender Poinciana, and’ sister Mrs, Ado!phus Johnson, will} ‘leave tomorrow morning over the! . highway for a tour to points in the | west including Chicago and Den-! ver, Colorado, | The principal idea of the trip is visit with relatives who left: : Key West some years ago and are, ‘now living in Lincoln. Nebraska, Included in the western: group are) a brother-in-law and sister, . , Mi ‘and Mrs, Frank J. Donovan. a si: | presents two brief tab:es ‘industrial production was at 102! remains. | mitigated, however, by the KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1936. : ‘GODMOTHER OF ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS | "Anrsne Keppe a PERUVIAN SALON Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend <npae Cheeks and Tax Bills of Every Individual; Na- tional and International Problems Insep- arable From Local Welfare BATES BEST KNOWN WOMAN NOW AMERICAN SECTION IS PROBABLY AMERICAN Mia: ; 8 ‘Mid-year finds practically all IN SOUTH major indicators pointing strong- ly upward,” headlines the Annal- The other important business publications are in accord with this view. And, coming as it does 64.7 per cent; department store sales, 56.1 per-cent; and struction a m-serly 27.9 per cent. ; Employment recovered 54.6 per; cent, and payrolls 54.5 per cent. The fact that improvement in pay-{ By JOHN SELBY in the very midst of summer, a uati Fates incrtereclt ee ee s > : JEW. an Sipe ais hey Ae Can iy et Bi 0 recessions from spring peaks al-!been no wage-cutting of signific-;two years ago “Tia” Bates was most inevitably set in, it is a great | ance. likes Awessieami. waleiof a Iota testimonial to the amazing! When it comes to forecasting} strength and persistency of the/the near fature, the business com-™" recovery movement, jmentators are agreed that all is | livia. In connection w.th its mid-year| well, Demand for most goods— ‘Now she is probably the best survey and forecast, the Annalist steel, automobiles, ete.,—is hold-);nown Atmerican woman in South which’ ing up, shows no signs of abate-! a ; Ss é are of great interest. One shows!ment. The old question of jo eocaetne _———_ ssi recent. economic changes, and!much of current spending is the|™0re Indians, leading citizens oi compares current conditions with resu’t of temporary influences— Arequipa, Peru, and the “normal” period of 1923-25,{notably, the bonus, which has un-' mother. whieh is given an arbitrary rating! questionably been a strong influ-|* She is one of the most active of 100. According te this table, ! ence in upping summer trade—{grandmethers extant. O7 middle But the general con-/height and plum, she moves like in June, as compared with 86 in sensus of opinion is that under- ‘lightning, She is always moving, June, 1935. Consumer expendi-' lying conditions are good, are im- { usually: talking, and her gray-blue tures were at 103.9, as compared’ proving, and that no important;eyes snap at times like small with 89 a year before. Depart-' recessions can be anticipated. jflames, She speaks English, Span- ment store sales were at 89, a! From the standpoint of the in- , French and several Indian ise of 9 points from June, 1935.‘ vestor, the recent situation has dialects, and slips from one to an- Wholesale prices had dropped'been encouraging, with Depart- j other sometimes disconcertingly. stightly, being at 78.3 as com-;ment of Commerce should cause; Became Famous At Home pared with 79.3, 12 months pre-;a feeling of optimism in this: Curiously, she made herself fa- viously. | quarter. It shows that in 1935, | mous without, figuratively, moving Employment was at 85.5, and'the nation earned $52,900,000,-' out of her tracks. At the time of payrolls at 78. Both of these’ 000. In other words, it spent! her husband's death, three decades levels marked fairly substantial} only $600,000,000 out of surplus.! ago, she was living in the Quinta advances from June, 1935. But, During other recent depressions‘ Bates at Arequipa. She stil! lives neither employment nor payrolls! years, surplus was responsible for! there, her presence in the United ist. - mining engineer stationed in Bo- a grand- ;has paral'eled the industrial pro-'a great deal more of the country’s ‘States being only a visit ‘to rela- distant control duction index, nor the consumer, spending. It seems certain that| tives. spending index. In other words,|this year surplus need not be} When her husband died factories today can produce more, touched at a/l. | “something had to be done. goods than in 1923-25 at a con-| {Bates decided to admit a guest or siderably lower labor cost, and: Governor Landon’s speech of two to the Quinta Bates. The with a considerably reduced force’ acceptance—which pledged the/ guests kept coming, the quinta of workers. This is an unfavor- encouragement of private initia-: (villa) kept growing, and now it and Mrs. ly favorable business picture, and; the pattern everyone anticipated for the people who matter on the it illustrates the vast difficulties: —has inaugurated the campaign! west coast of South America. attendant upon solving the prob-|in earnest. From now on, thej ‘The natives gave Mrs. Bates the lem of unemployment. The lower | political fur will fly thick and!name Tia, which is Svanish for payroll condition is somewhat fast, with hostilities reaching} aunt but is not used in South Ame- fact their most tense point in October. ' yieg quite as its Enelish equiv. that “real wages” (wages based; Interesting aspect of the cam- jent. Her first name is Ana, and on purchasing power) are about paign is the contempt some un-' moct people combine the two the same as they were in the biased and distinguished political yora< and call her Tiana. She “normal” period, as the cost of commentators are displaying to-' jie. that. living mow stands at but 84.5 per ward both party platforms. These, Goat And Small Her Guesis cent of the 1923-25 level. }commentators tend toward the! Tia Bates has entertained a The position of the farmer ig belief that the Republicans miss-! ROE ES aeuda tae also slightly unfavorable. For ex-;¢d 2 great opportunity when they eee ee ena enn ee ee ocd ample, in May the national jin-.made their platform general, (om Lady Montbatten to, Noe! come had reached 82.5 per cent vague, filled it with “eseape) 7" OP Greece to the latest of the 1923-25 level. Cash farm caluses.” They also seem to be-| /cnizelos of Greece to the. latest income lagged behind, at 78. How-/licve that the Democratic plat-| “A0t AMANICAN ei ead ee ever, it is forecast that total 1936) form, while it lacks much in ex-, People come to the quinta and se cash farm income, in spite of the! actness, is the better LGA nay map aE drought, will Le around at per! more appealing document. Pass ign mma ieeaiical cent higher than in 1935, for a But chances are that the plat-ieentsia. ae i total of $7,500,000,000. forms will play very little part Mrs. Bates thinks the qua’ ity o' Phe other Annalist table men-’in the campaign, aside from giving | business men sent by American tioned shows the percentage of. political spokesmen opportunity fitms to South America has im- depression losses so far recover-|to “point with pride” and “view Proved greatly in recent wee ed. In this field, consumer ex-' with alarm.” The candidates them-'_ ATequipa is in a desert, 7,500 penditures register greatest im- selves are the great factor. It feet up on the shelf of the Andes. provement, having recovered 71 will be a-contest between the It can be reached by plane, and per cent of these losses in June. plain Landon personality and the the big Santa ships call st Mo- Industrial i red. gl It personality, {lendo; five hours away by rail- Be eee 4 i road But theré are no motor j Toads to ‘reach the heart Tia tes; one must talk with Are- written, | t t of est Cittzrn Paramount Issue Not Yet Sighted, Despite Heat Of 1936 National Campaign NAVAL STATION | OPERATIONS TO START TUESDAY ABOUT FORTY MEN TO BE | ENGAGED IN WORK AT END OF WEEK; OTHERS TO BE EMPLOY:D LATER According there will b ing on preparatery activities to present e about 40 m the naval station by this week. This given The Citizen this The first of the workers wil mor tomorrow morning. The first work to will be assigned is hich the me removing decking on the three wooden fin- ger piers which are to be rece structed of sie. ine materiz! wil be used work on the other piers. Another group of assigned to certain prepara’ work within several days a! tat of the projects wil. b material arrives. As a matter of Comma < U. Klaus, officer in charge station, there i men wil started ¥ practically ne ‘able factor in an otherwise high- tive and enterprise, and followed ' js the most famous gathering place ‘¢T'al at hand at present an force which wil be p te work this week will be used te get ac- tivities started and w-ll u creased when material arrives un- til the force is buit up te 250 or possibly 300 men With few exceptions men will be taken from ter of the WPA in Key We understood, and wil be paid the ;Same scale of wages. The excep tions will be these men treining and experience them to do special work «Which they have civil serviee or United States labor board cert fication. It was be who-xe pe p:cifica ly will be no one p of th jcanmt bears an from the WPA and in the cial thr ter projects assignment offices case the few ents civil s the tie United Su ‘cation ¢ ented AUTO ACCIDENT SATURDAY NIGHT unt Ne Sign Thus Far That Any Cre Specific Ques- tien Will Be Outstand- ing In Activities BYRON PRICE Rare The tesertmse ~ Waskengton By “Chieti It ia too carly to jump at cos- clusions, but many of these im the active stream of national politics are wondering whether the pre cnt campaign. for all its fury and depth of fe_limg. ever will produce a g-auine paramount issus Certainly there is mo sign thus far that any question of nations above all Fel-cy emerging cthers, or is om the way to =uni- versal recognition as the binge on which the election will tura finished.” \ \Gourrich’s philosophy has been picked up in the Wall streets of the world. He has worked in the bourses of Paris, Vienna, London and New Yor! He made an in- dependent fortune. It is easy to see he enjoyed doing it for him- self, but he wore the harness when he handled other people’s money. There always was another report to read for safety’s sake. He became independent, but his! curiosity still was robust. SEC was formed and offered him a post. His friends argued against it. He would have to neglect his own business. Disregards Friends Advice “But who can help the govern- ment to formulate a policy that will safeguard investors’ money?” he asked. ‘““Can a poor man who has never iiade much? Who will do it if the rich don’t?” His friends groaned. but he came to Washington. Since Janu- ary he has had 50 investigators in the financia} centers, gathering facts about investments trusts. (Continued on Page Four) DR. JULIO DE POO wishes to notify his patients that he will leave Key West August 8 for 1 month for New York to study at Post-Graduate Hospital in that city. EVERYONE'S GETTING WISE TO GOOD BEER TOO! EVERY DAY MORE AND MORE PEOPLE ARE store, the giass of which was shat- j tered when the motorcycle crash- ed. | DIED ON SUNDAY ! | | FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE i CONDUCTED HERE i THIS AFTERNOON Mrs, Evangeline 58, died yesterday afternoon ‘gela street. Funeral services will | be he'd 5:30 o'clock this after- ‘noon from the residence. Rev. ;Guilmero Perez will officiate. { Lopez Funeral Home will be in jcharge of arrangements. | Mrs, Hernandez is survived by jone son, William Hernandez, a jdaughter, Miss Elene Hernandez, jand a sister, Mrs, Caridad Alfon- | 0, of Orlando, Fla. SWIMS AT 90 i | COLUMBIA, S. C.—Although ;She is 90 and a great-grandmoth- ‘er, Mrs, Lydia Anne Browning is ;an inveterate swimmer, recently {Swimming across a , With a steady, overhand stroke. Hernandez, ! 6) o'clock in the home at 516 An-; j ter Mrs, Flossie Doane, and broth | jer George Albury. t | Captain Albury said today. he has been granted a leave of 30; | days and expects to be absent for lghat period. The Poinciana will} {be in command of Chief Engineer} {Herman Demeritt and will be in |the submarine base undergoing | repairs. i | ‘STEAMER ALAMO ! | ‘DISCHARGED HEAVY FREIGHT| AND DEPARTED ENROUTE j i TO TAMPA Steamship Alzmo, of the Clyde- Ma lory Lines, arrived 6:45 o’elock- in the morning from New York, | discharged heavy freight and sail- | jed 9:45 o’clock for Tampa. | Steamship Gatun, of the Stand- jard Fruit and- Steamship com-; pany, sailed 5:30 o’clock Saturday; jfor Vera Cruz, Mexico, after tak- {ing 36,788 gallons of fuel oil at \the Porter Dock company. Steamship Henry R. Mallory, of ; the Clyde-Mallory Lines, is due} this evening from Galveston en | York. ‘took over the situation and gain first class and seven second class : ‘from ‘Noel Coward— 0a ¢ 2° ARRIVES HERE JACK WARREN LOOKS OVER SITUATION IN WORK PRO- GRAM IN KEY WEST jsive service as godmother. VESSEL ALSO BROUGHT IN- LIEUT we ‘ARTHY FORTY TONS OF FREIGHT | ° g AY Steamship Cuba of the P. and/ MAKES COMPILATIONS COV- 0. S. S. company, arrived this! jmorning from Tampa with 15) FOR KEY WEST Jack Warren, field representa-' tive of the WPA auditing depart- ment, is a visitor in Key West to- day on one of hi regular trips to ERING AREA AROUND CAPE SABLE an idea of the trend of events. _{ passengers for Key West; 39 first | Mr. Warren told The Citizen he and seven second class passengers : found everything in first class! po, ee Lieutenant E. R. McCarthy, a :Coast and Geodetic Survey, arciv- condition, and all branches under: 2 his jurisdiction were functioning’ Key West arrivals: S. B. Jaek,'ed yesterday over the highway smoothly and properly. | Mrs. S. B. Jack, E. S. Hirth, Mrs.|after making a series of compila- ee ; Mrs. G. Shultz, Josephine Engel, tions covering the area around . eae Publie Subscriptions |J. Engie, June’ DuPuis, W. F.:Cape Sable. The work was done " |Doughtry, Mrs. W. T. Doughtry,/to furnish certain data required Buy Turkish Planes Jacqueline Doughtry, John Dough-' by the Everglades Park Commis- —- batda Anne Doughtry, Joan Dough- sion. (Ry Assceiated Press) itry, E. Medaid, M.S. Ryan, M. There is quite a lot of compil- ISTANBUL, Aug. 3.—Paid for;P.:Castro, E. Hernandez, Celia!ing and triangulations to be done by voluntary subscription, 17 new; Hernandez, S. Cortalla, Rosalie by the unit under the command airplanes have been added to the Puentes. i ; 0f Lieutenant McCarthy, he told Turkish air foree. } The Cuba sailed for Havana The Citizen, and this will be start- This brings to 178 the number two hours later with one passen- ed immediately upon his return to of military planes which have! ger for Havana from Key West: the Keys where ha has a force of been financed entirely in their,Mrs. Concha Vasquez. '22 men working. construetion by public donation. | The vessel also brought 40/ Practically a!l the survey work Various districts and suburbs tons of freight and eight sacks of authorized for the Intracoastal of Istambul alone have made pos- mail for Key West; one ton of Waterway has been completed ex- lake resort|route to Charleston and New/|sible the building of 47 machines, freight and 201 sacks of mail for!cept a stretch beween No Name to aid Turkey’s air defense. * Havana, | Key and Sawyers Key. although; 4 68 PASSENGERS Coward is one of “her boys.” She is intensely proud of her exten MRS. FRANK HARRIS sUS- TAINS INJURIES TO HER RIGHT LEG Lopez Funeral Home ambulance was called to the corner of Mar |xaret and Eaton streets Saturda night where it was reported that an automobile accident had oc red. Arriving at found that one of the occupant of a car, Mrs. Frank Harris sustained injuries to the jeg. She was taken to her b on Dvision street where attention was given BUDAPEST POLICE NAB ‘FISHERMAN’ (iy Ammerinted Pree=) BUDAPEST.” Ang —Pe bere make a disinction between “fishing” and “angling” Ferenc Mikola was arrested f the latter act@ity, which © ducted when hot summer weather forces apartment dweller: their w_ndows open He carried complete fishing tackle and a bag contaiming shirts. ties, watches and three purse which police say he got by clim jing trees and “angling” <crough | windows. the scene it was ioe ASKING FOR DAILY DOUBLE BEER. DRINK THE BEST