The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 24, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVI. Lewis’ Grip On Labor: League Tightens With Talk:Of 1940 IN CONDITION OF MRS, DUNCAN ADVICES RECEIVED TODAY TO EFFECT THAT PHYSI- CIANS ENCOURAGED IN IM: PROVEMENT SHOWN . 202. Various Activities Carried; On By Different Groups Having Bearing On In- dustry By PRESTON GROVER (By Axsocinted Prensy WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—The enthusiasm with which Labor’s Non-Partisan League delegates greeted the prediction that they were on the way toward forma- is much improved today according ;to information received today from the Charles Esdorn hospital in Walterboro S. C., where Mrs. tion of a liberal party quite evi- dently caused John L. Lewis to! draw a tighter rein upon the ;the automobile accident which re- sulted in the death of Anne and j Bob Duncan, The news of Mrs. Duncan’s con- dition was received by H. E. Day,} movement. The league was formed for the most part of followers of the United Mine workers chief in his break with the Ajmerican Federa-| tion of Labor. Their immediate | pleted their Xray examination purpose is to swing as much as or head. The physicians are very }much encouraged over her condi- tion, it is said. | Details of the accident as given | by eyewitnesses and received by league and New Deal coordinator} The Citizen in an Associated Press’ \ despatch are that Duncan, apparently, lost control of the car as it reached the foot of a light hill on United States High- ;way 17 about two miles from) Walterboro. | The car travelled along the {road for about 200 feet on the shoulder of the road before turn- ing over twice. Bobbie was killed {instantly. Anne died one hour and a half later. Funeral services for the dren were held 5 o’clock yester- possible of the labor movement behind President Roosevelt. George L. Berry, head of the for industrial cooperation, assur- ed delegates at their recent con-: vention that they would “have a share in the establishment of a liberal party in 1940.” That was a longer step than had been taken by any leader of the league. There has been talk of the league acting as the necleus of a new party alignment, but} never before had it been commit-! iday afternoon at Rock Hill, S. C.,! eeditoit j former home of Mrs. Duncan. Talks Calmly Indeed it seemed a step longer; boro late Saturday than Lewis wished to take. When! by C. W. Thomasson, af bake) it came his turn to speak, calmly explained in his deliberate, | R. A. Bissell, of Miami; Mr. and phrase-making style that the first! Mrs. Frank Harrison, Jr., C. B.} step was to re-elect President| Cooke and T. B. Massey, of Talla- Roosevelt. Then would be time; hassee, Mrs, J. T. Thomasson, Mrs, enough to consider what part inj the politics of 1940 would be tak-| en by the league. It appeared to be a part of his strategy to pre- vent the movement taking on the appearance of a one-man build up. i There are those in the league who already talk freely of Lewis as a presidential candidate in 1940 at the head of a_ liberal party movement that would in- clude farmers, labor and what they term “liberal minds” ar- raigned against the “big corpora- tions” and the “Wall street bank- ers.” They argue. that Lewis powerful figure in the movement whose views are well] known throughout the country, - and whose association with Presi- There will be a special meeting dent Roosevelt might give him at} of city council tonight at 8 o’clock least the semblance of an “heirjat which time tax apparent.” will be the subject of discussion. To Seek New Laws It is understood this will be the {What thought has been given to} only matter to be brought pos such a prospect by Lewis can only! the meeting. be surmised. He has announced! At the meeting last sil as his number one aim the im-! night a communication from T. B. proving of conditions for labor. Bennett, tax agent of the Florida! Through politics he hopes to pro-' East Coast Railway company w: gress faster than in the past. 'read, in which it was askel thai accompanied | Dunean’s sister and her son, T. C. Thomasson, of Lancaster, S. C.. arrived Saturday evening and another sister, Mrs. R. D. Watt. of Tacoma Park, arrived later. SPECIAL MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL | SET FOR TONIGHT TAX EQUALIZATION WILL BE SUBJECT TO BE DIS-; CUSSED; NOTHING ELSE SCHEDULED is 32: labor Conceding that he may have let! the assessment of the road be re-} his mind dwell on the presidential! duced from $500,000 to $60,000.' idea, has he measured the ob-| This was placed on file. stacles he would confront? Is it) (Pursuant to the statement by possible the American voter would) WPA Director Herbert F. R. Reck be as disturbed by a candidate so’ made at a previous meeting, rel- obviously drawn from. fractional; ative to maintenance of the! labor ranks as by a_ candidate; aquarium which could not be con- drawn directly from what Lewis! tinued by |the WPA, it was de- terms the “Wall street bankers?”! cided to employ a mechanic at a Regardless of what the league) salary of $75 per month and a’ may mean in 1940, jts leaders and; helper at $60. the labor groups in. general are! ,These men, it was said, would planning to press the, next ¢on-| bé litted on the city’s payroll on gress for wage and hour Tegisla~| the” same basis as other city em-| tion that will replace that upset | ployes. This action is in the already by the supreme court and; nature of an experiment to to bolster other labor measures| continued for 30 days. Mrs. B. M. Duncan’s condition ; Duncan was taken Friday after, secretary to Mr. Duncan, at head-} quarters in Key West Physicians/ with the city, county and eitizens,| brought in over the highway, {in charge of the case have com-! ;and find no injuries to the back; chil-} Mr. Duncan arrived in Walter-| the securing, hauling and placing, he! Wales, a brother of Mrs. Duncan,' equalization , be] RECK TO KEEP PUBLIC POSTED ON OPERATIONS {LOCAL DIRECTOR OF wPA| PROPOSES TO COOPERATE IN ALL MATTERS IN IN- TEREST OF KEY WEST Herbert F. R. Reck, appointed WPA director in this district, intends to keep the pub- lic informed on matters pertain- ing to Works Progress Adminis-} {tration activities in order that | there isunderstand ing of the administration’s atti tude. Discussing the WPA work, Mr. Reck said: “It is my intention that the people of Key West at all times be informed as to what the WPA is doing; how it is doing it; what) is coming up in the near future.) In short all the hows, whys, whens ;and wheres of our work, r “Only so can we work to the | best advantage of everybody con- }eerned and be in a_ position to} render the utmost in co-operating: recently Oniy through complete under-| standing of our processes and the| bounds within which we must} |work can the community make the fullest use of our facilities. “From time to time I will fur- nish the local press with informa- tion concerning our activities | which, I believe, will be of special | | interest. A letter just received is jof that nature and is self ex- | planatory.” H | _ The letter is one which is ad-/ | Iressed to all supervisors and foremen and reads in part: “It jhas been the practice in the past | permit private individual: wanting materials for fills, road-| ys, ete., to haul off spoil from. the sewer, Garrison Bight, or other jobs to provide it. This be stopped.» suex information the rob- bing of spill from the sewer proj-! ect in the past is necessitating of upwards of 5,000 yards of ma- terial from Garrison Bight to re. place spoil removed and which i is now necessary to replace for! back fill. The unnecessary addi-| | tional expense this incurred will ‘amount to approximately $5,000.) | “Hence the necessity of fine i mediately stopping this practice. ‘Supervisors will hereafter be held| personally responsible in _ this| jMmatter and in the case of viola-; j tion of this order will be charged iw ith misapplication of government | funds. “The same principle will apply| 'to any other material bought for! jor produced by the Works Prog-| | Yess Administration.” a Mr. Reck explained that this! does not mean that no marl well] be allowed individuals for build-| jing drivewa: filling in places} i where necessary. Marl from Gar-} !rison Bight will be allowed on this, i basis: “We will issue permits to} | private individuals with the un-! derstanding that for each load of} jmarl they haul for _themselves| they haul a load to whatever site| we designated. This makes the} marl from the Garrison Bight! available at very slight cost to} ithe individual.” D. BARKER IN NEW POSITIO News has been received by Mrs.! } Eugene Albury that her brother, | Dan M. Barker, has accepted a. position as assistant to Manager: | Russell Sawyer of the Miami Bak- ng Co. Mr. vyer is a cousin of} Mr. Barker and is a former Key! | Wester. Mrs. Barker and little daugh-; ter, Peggy Ann, left recently to| tjoin Mr. Barker in their new j home, { | i ! PREFERRED JAIL. i CHICAGO.—When Miss Ella! }Ferguson of this city was arraign-' MEN EMPLOYED TO \ big day tomorrow when Battery {tice on the 12-inch mortars. Che Kry West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1936. AUTO ACCIDENT THIS MORNING COLORED MAN, BYSTANDER, WAS SLIGHTLY IN- JURED ON STRIKE TODAY: DISPUTE OVER 'HOURLY RATE TO BE PAID IS CAUSE OF DISPUTE; PICKETING KEPT; OTHERS FROM WORKING LOAD METAL WENT | \ Shortly after 11 i 1 ( ity averted at the corner of Pe- arrived for Steamship Queen City pQ 2 ‘tronia and Simonton streeis, and * : + . | this morning from Miami al; in trying to save a crash of car cargo of 1500 tons of scrap stee!| colored man was slightly injured to|by the the Up to the hour; hicles. | Arturo Lujan started and scrap iron for shipment of one of ve- ports in Japan. his car of going to press none of the tronia near Simonton street. Was coming out behind 2 ear park- jed in front of the. store. going ing are on strike and asking for east, at the cerner-when a deliv- lery wago. going south on Simor- ‘ton street .was swerved around on metal had been loaded. Men employed to do the load- higher pay than the owners of the; metal agreed on, it was said. The /to Petronia to avoid a. crash, trouble first started, it was stat-; The driver of the delivery ve- ied, when the Key West workers, ;hicle had little time in. which to |who were hired last week, learned ; think ee os menetl ee i swiped je auto, damagin: e lthat about 30 colored men were | render darthenlete rae wa the car, ran up on the sidewalk on Upon the arrival of the ship the; Petronia street in front of a men had agreed to ask for an in-;lunch stand right in to a group of | crease in their hourly rate, but this | colored men. afternoon no agreement had been! One of them received minor in- reached, and the metal was not be-} juries to the right lef in the vicin- ing moved. lity of the knee. He was taken to At one time men started to go!a hospital, where it was found that on board the ship and while they|the leg wa: sprained, were donig so they were kept busy | ‘dodging mw s hurled at them by; |GEO. SAUNDERS others on the’ dock. ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE; INCREASE FORCE AT NAVY YARD ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY. | SEVEN MEN NOW EMPLOYED 1 ders, who had been in Miami for three weeks, returned to working West Saturday evening over i highway. On the trip home, Mr. Saunders About 30 of these are’ stopped at Tavernier, where he j enjoyed a day’s fishing with Cap- pai Tom Johnson. radio! ‘They went after bonefish es- pecially, says Mr. Saunders, and the while many of these were caught, there were also various other specimens landed during the trip. Mr. Saunders terms Captain Johnson a “real fisherman,” and says that he knows the “game” | thoroughly, and also states that a day’s outing with him is sure to bring the desired results. There were 127 men the on naval station projects this norning. assigned to the renovation activi- ties at the distant control station. The others are at naval station and on the demoli- tion of the to be rebuilt in steel. inger piers which are Some of the material has arriv- ed and other consignments are ex- | ‘ive at an early date. s soon as a sufficient amount} rrives to warrant additional men| being employed they will be se MRS. M. NOTTAGE to work, it was said. ‘TARGET ET PRACTICE _ HERE TOMORROW pected to a FUNERAL, SERVICES, ARE BE- ING CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON { 1 TO BE ‘iain ON BY NA-; TIONAL GUARD UNITS AT FORT TAYLOR Mrs, Mary Nottage, age 82, died at 7:15 o'clock last evening} , at the home in Fort Taylor. The | funeral will be held this afternoon at 5 o’clock from the Lopez chapel to the First Methodist Church, Rev, J. A. Tolle officiat- ing. Survivors are two daughters, !Mrs. Sam Ingraham, Mrs. Wing Lee; three sons, William, James tand Franklin Nottage; 13 grand- Last weck it was announced} 9; Idre re - |that the practice with the mortars | higren and seven great grand-| ; Would be held Wednesday, and the} 155 millimeter rifles would be} Tuesday. At the encampment it/} was learned this morning that the routine had heen changed and the! 1155 millimeter rifles wotld be! j fired Wednesday instead. Regular service charges will be ; used in the mortars tomorrow and | citizens in the neighborhood of the fort are cautioned to do as} usual, leave windows partly openj and glass doors ajar during the! firing period, to gvard cracked panes and panels. Today was a busy one at the National Guard encampment, ‘everybody on their toes for the} + \“E” of Key West and Battery ”’ of Pensacola go through prac- yer, B. E. Brantley, John Nelson, Paul Lumley, Charles Perez and Geo. M. Parks. NEW ARRIVAL IN LOWE’S FAMILY Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Lowe of against/1013 Southard street have receiv- o'clock this} : ‘ H morning an accident was narrow- |from where it was parked on Pe- | He} z 2. Mr. and Mrs. George H, Saun-j Keyj DID LAST NIGHT Pal'bearers will be Berlin Saw-} | ANOTHER BAND “CONCERT ATFORT | TAYLOR TONIGHT. EXCELLENT PROGRAM TO BE RENDERED UNDER DIREC- TION OF CAESAR LA MON- ACA } the regimental band, 265th Coast | } for the concert to be played 7:90 c’clock this evening at the Fort Taylor encampment, Two numbers on the program will introduce singers who have pot*appeared in previous offer- ings of the band, it is said. One of the singers is Jack Senter, who will be heard with the Key West favorite, Jack Purnell, in a de- {<eriptive presentation of “Knock, | Knock, Who’s There.” The other | singer will be Sergeant G. ‘Hicks, 72nd Highlanders of Can- leds: attached to “A” battery of Jacksonville, who will sing “Roan in’ in the Gloamin’” and “On Mi-| ami Shores.” George Mills White will sing a selection from “Naughty Mariet-} ta,” “I’m Falling In Love With Someone” and with Janice White | will be heard in a selection from {“The Chocolate Soldier.” | There will also be a descriptive jfantasy, “A Midnight Festival,” with musical effects in the dis- tance. This selection will be one of the treats of a musical evening which, it is said, will be filled with surprises, PROGRAM March, “The Chimes Liberty ................ Goldman Egyptian Ballot in Four Parts Luigini Popular, “All My Life” from the picture, “Laugh- ing Irish Eyes’ Stept Vocal Chorus by Private Frank Purnell. Overture, King” ... Popular, ‘Knock, Who’s There?” Lopez and Morris Featuring Frank Purnell and Jack Senter. Tenor Solo, “I’m Falling in Love With Someone” from “Naughty Mariet- ta” Herbert George Mills White. 17, Descriptive Fantasy, | Midnight Festival” of “it 1 Werte . Adam Knock, 5. 6. “A Carlini With Instrumental Effects in the Distance. Popular, “A Melody From the Sky” from the pic- ture, “The Trail of the Lonesome Fine” Mitchell and Alter Vocal Solo by Frank Purnell. 9. Vocal Solo, “ Gloamin’ ” Sergeant S. G. Hicks, 72nd High- landers of Canada (“A” Bat- ae of Jacksonville). 0. “On Miami Shores,” Waltz to be sung by Sgr. Hicks! 11. Selection from “The Choco- late Soldier” .... Straus ; Featuring Janice White, Soprano;} George Mills White, Tenor. |The Star Spangled Banner. 8. Roamin’ in Director La Monaca Said the band will play a concert to- morrow morning 10:30 o’clock at ithe Marine hospital, RECK TO GIVE TALK TONIGHT WILL BE HEARD AT MEETING; OF GARDEN CLUB AND TREE GUILD ! Herbert F. R. Reck, director of Director Caesar La Monaca, of! i ‘ Artillery, Florida National Guard, | ( has arranged another program or instrumental and vocal selectiors that | Key West, Florida, has the most equable climate in the eountry; with an average range of only 14° F. hrerheit FIVE CENTS Eee ct Storm Warnings By Teletype Cut Hurricane Death Toll + PRICE PID ISS STs @A\ Shins Send Out Messages YOUTH CATCHES By Radio; Wires Relay BI “i ; ae Alarm; Public Apprised Fred Thompson, ei ‘ i Of Impending Danger years old, of 1425 Eliza street, hooked and killed a barracuda, four feet long and dragged it home to show his parents. He was fishing from the beach. The youthful angler had hooked a fish some short time previous and lost his line. He went home, secured a strong- er line and larger hook, and started’ to fish a; He hooked the four prize, managed to get it close to the shore, took sev- eral turns of the line around a tree, got in his father’s boat which was moored at the beach, went out to the fish and with a piece of iron struck it until it ceased its struggles. He then marched home dragging his prize be- hind him, said his mother. TOOT OoITID ‘operator at a teletype machine and from Key West to Browns- By FRED G. WILLIAMS (iby As ed Press) NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 24. —A hot dry patch of air gently tin the Caribbean. It gathers mo- mentum and twists and turns, ; carving majestic arcs across the moet open sea. The silvery needlé in a ship’s barometer swings around— 30.00, 29.80, 29.40, 29.00. A ship's master hands a message to his radio operator. Across the ether it flashes in ‘code to the weather bureau sta- tion at Jacksonville. From an |WILCOX LEAVES AFTER PLEASANT | VISIT IN CI CONGRESSMAN MEETS MANY and left the storm moves through OF HIS FRIENDS; HOPES TO the tropics. RETURN SOON FOR ANOTH.! miele Sania ER VISIT : ropical stom i ville, Texas, gulf cities get warn- 1 ings. A tropica! stor i on its way, | oonibly to dissipate itseif on the | open sea, pos roar into some Veering to right ge comes from centering over }eastern Bz Storm as at nine a. m. attended by hurricane high tid ded keys Storm war Congressman J. Mark Wilcox; j winds and and son Joseph were outgoing pas-| Poe of The storm a ars he sengers on the regular plane ear) rectly ing for Miami yesterday after-! southern Florida. noon. Although intending to re-! are hoisted main until today, the con-' Inhabitants gressman, circumstances made it caution. necessary for him to leave earlier | The Hurricane Strikes than expected. > { Then the Before leaving Mr. Wilcox was’ veers again. asked his opinion of the outcome! 24'row channel between Cu . . : Key West. It roars up of the presidentia] elections and’ sult, beadeditowaidilen said that there was no question’ Again messaces click over that Roosevelt would be government teletype and said that it. would be a nice Visory reaches the thing for Key Westers to turn out The storm is he in full force in November and _raiso, Fla. cast their ballots, Finally “I have had a wonderful visit,’ by the weateh which I naturally expected, have inception 800 » y, strikes. met a number of my old friends Winds of 100-mile-an-hour force and made others. My visits at tear inland. Buildings are wreck- the encampment Florida National ed. A tidal wave rolls over the Guard were delightful. In fact low-lying land. But in! my entire time in Key West has they have heeded the w been'a very pleasant vacation the weather bureau marred only by the terrible trag-, hours before. have ht safety. edy which came into the life of Death Toll Small my friend B. M. Duncan. In the first storm of the season, “Tell those friends that I did thousands inhabitants of the not get an opportunity of seeing northwest Florida coast fled from that I hope to be back in Key beach houses and permanent homes y West before long and will again ahead of the tropical blow. | want to meet with everybody who Few were killed or injured— can make’it possible to do so.” thanks to the weather bureau’: department of tropical storm f casting, coast guard and warnings Vastly cording to teorologist resulted from system bet n southern coast McDonald agree Mark Tw anythir for the 1 ying Boats are warned. said n these areas use the blow It slips through the ba and the center of into acola the ! new ad- ed points. Valpa- elected led for followed sinee its the hurricane, hitants,’ if rnings of iscned 48 radio improved WwW. = at New at the i wervine, MeDonald, Orlean new If i | | 'MIRAFLORES ARRIVED SAT- URDAY AFTERNOON FROM PHILADELPHIA and ities | with the late n that “nobody can do er”, close in- ' ! i Steamship Miraflores, of the Standard Fruit and Steamship company, which arrived 2:15 inte Saturday afternoon from ville oecay sailed 5:30 o'clock! GARDNER FAMILY ter Dock company. i Another vessel of the same com- pany arrived 4:55 o'clock Sun- day. This was the Granada, from |ed an announcement of the birth} New York. After taking on 47,- | of a son, Charles Malcolm, born: the local WPA, will give a talk! 466 gallons of fuel oil the vessels ito their son and daughter-in-law, | this evening at 8 o'clock at ajsailed for Frontera. George | Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Lowe, of | meeting of the Garden Club and| Steamship Colorado, of the ETOWAH, Tenn. — Nehemiah Miami, in a Philadelphia hospital. ! Tree Guild to be held in the Pub-iClyde-Mallory Lines, arrived 10:30 i A |Butler of this city was sought for} Mrs Lowe visited here two! lic Library. o'clock yesterday morning from { n overseer of: the trash and} theft. Bloodhounds were put onjyears ago and made many friends| Mr. Reck will address the meet-| New York. Heavy shipments of “ ACY, garbage damp pile is to be ap-| LEEDS, Eng.—James V. Green his trail. When arrested Butler} during her stay in the city. {ing on beautification in connec-|lumber were on the vessel and GARDNER’ S PHARM. pointed at a salary of $90 month-! of this city was arrested on his; was found using one of the dogs; Mr. Lowe is now stationed in, tion with the program outfined. four carloads of beer for Key “The Rexall Store’ now under attack in the court. Charles B. Sands and Fernando | ed for theft, a young man offered Camus were appointed to handle! | to marry her, but she said she pre- | | the Schooner Greyhound, of the! ferred jail. KOD )AK FILMS {sanitary department. There was) no salary fixed for these duties. | Fresh Shipment—All Sizes Mrs A MODERN SLEUTH? making hi - a received SHORT HONEYMOON annow! facing birt of a dau chter to Mr Mrs. Gardner. The baby seven pounds. , are reported doing nicely. is ly and will have a helper who will; honeymoon on a charge of em-inzmed Sherlock Ho:mes, Jr., for!Miami, being attached to the! It is requested that all interest-] West. After discharging the ship receive $40. bezzling $81,000, (hunting rabbits. Coast Guard Cutter Pandora. sed in the matter be in attendance. sailed for Tampa. EVERYONE'S DRINKING THE NEW “DAILY DOUBLE” BEER. GET IN LINE AND CALL FOR “DAILY DOUBLE” NEXT TIME YOU WANT THE BEST IN BEER