The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 26, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to th Best Interests of Key West tar VOLUME LVII. No. 255, Navy Day To Be Observed Tomorrow;: Local : Station: To Be Thrown Open: To: Visitors Aneval cat J Celebra- ‘CLAUDE PEPPER tion Of Birthday Anni- DUE WEDNESDAY | versary Of Late Theo- { dore Roosevelt CANDIDATE FOR SENATE TO ADDRESS VOTERS AT 1:30 O'CLOCK STATE COLLEGE | i | CLASSICAL CLUB | PLANS PROGRAM MISS ROSE APPEL, KEY | STUDENT, BECOMES AFFILI-{ ATED WITH UNIT OF AS-| TRONOMY By CYNTHIA PEARLMAN (Special Tallahassee Corespondent of The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Oct. 26.— Miss Rose Appel of Key West j Secretary Claude A, Swanson, recently became a member of the of the United States Navy, has = Astronomy Club at. Florida State sent notices to all navy yards and College for Women. The members Claude Pepper, candidate from Che Kry Wiest Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1936. iE Looxine ec at ELECTION PREDICTIONS CONFLICT AMONG POLLS DIGEST PREDICTS LANDON RESULTS QUESTIONABLE THE MARYLAND POLL INDICATES ROOSEVELT HOW! GROUPS LINE-UP TWO OTHER FORECASTS CONSENSUS FOR F. D. R. WHAT THE WRITER THINKS By HUGO SIMS, Special Whshington Correspon- that the poll was coyducted with undue favor toward h'm. The po!l conducted by the In- stitute of Public Opinion is at- | tracting considerable attention be- cause of its claim to reach voters not included by the methods of The Literary Digest. The latest tabulation here gives the Presi- dent 390 electoral votes and Gov- ernor Landon 141, with Mr. Roose- yelt getting 51.4 per cent of the popular vote. Governor Landon 43.8, Mr. Lemke 3.6 and _ other ;candidates 1.2. The managers of |this pol! assert that their predic- tions are based upon nearly 300,- 1000 ballots, plus the work of near- tly 300 canvassers who seck to con- ships of the first line of defense| announcing Tuesday, October 27, as Navy Day ry of the birth of Theo-j dore Roosevelt, has been chosen! for no one of his time did more! Florida to the United States sen- ate, is due to arrive in Key West on Wednesday and will address ithe voters from the porch of the This day, which celebrates the;|Key West Art Gallery about 1:30| o’elock, it is expected. . The invitation to | Pepper to visit Key West was joint!y extended by the Young Candidate} jrecently held a telescopic observa- jtion of Saturn and the Pleides. |This club is an organization for those who are interested in As- tronomy. At the first meeting of the c'ub, Dr. Harold F, Richards, the faculty advisor, spoke on “Our Relation to the Universe.” dent of The Citizen taet voters not represented in a Two weeks ago the writer prom- mailed poll. lised to give a final survey of the! presidential campaign, with an»in-' The Institute. has also attempted dication, if possible, of the result.|te answer certain questions by This is not easy to do because of | means of special tabulations. As ja number of factors.which were, a. result it asserts that th» Presi- discussed at that time: Moreover,: dent will get'53.8 per cent of the the reader should understand: the’ ballots east by:non-votets in 1932 difficulty of sizing up a political and 57 per cent of those casting LOVING CUPSTO Wilcox Addressed Voters Here OME Concresman is Gwee | TWO MORE ARRIVE ent Rint ty WILL BE AWARDED TO COUN- TIES SHOWING LARGEST PERCENTAGE OF DEMO- CRATIC VOTES Chief Deputy Sheriff Bernard) Waite is all enthused with the idea | of Monroe county getting one of | the loving cups to be given by the! incoming governor at tht inaugura- tion ball on the night of January} 5, in Tallabassos. i Those cups are to be given to! the county which shows on elec-! tion day, November 3, the largest! percentage of democratic votes, | and Mr. Waite says there is no rea-| son why Monroe county should not ! get one of the cups. One of the cups is to go to the i The first meeting of the Clas- ; Democratic Club and the Monroe’ .ica} Club was held a short time Recent legislation assures the |County Democratic Committee,!ago, and the program for the en- people of the United States that|@nd after carefully going over his; tire year was outlined. This is a to launch the modern navy. campaign out of a mass of conflict-! their ballots for the first time. The | county with a registration of 3000} ing evidence, ! poll’s tests show that Mr. Roose-|or less and the other to the county | velt will secure from 58 to 65 per| with a registration list of 3000 or cent of the vote in the ten largest; over, and democratic committee- It is common to discover that by 1942 there will be a navy/itinerary, Mr. Pepper advised heiclub for those students who are ¥ ee «sy {interested in the classics and in!trained political observers, after which has attained the present | Would be able to arrive in the city | the parallel between Roman and| special ripe i gtaten treaty limits. The sympathetic at-} Wednesday morning, October 28.' modern I'fe. An interesting study | come away with opposite opin- titude of the administration, the! ,. es sched es eune stranded tas | eimade tithe sare ander ions. Moreover, there is no gen- . ‘it will be necessary for him to ar-' zation of the ancient Greeks andj eral agreement among the various: ji i <a aus and oe pve es about noon, attend a collation; Romans. Among the freshmen} polls aise pariactad That of | ral fad in sr ener is inspiring, it is shown, and jus! whi i is giv-| A i ini ent WI iwhich Miss Betty Maloney is giv-!who became members of the club/the Institute of Public Opinion: of those unuer rorty-five years of cities in the United States, that he will receive 53 per cent of the farmers’ votes and 52 per cent of , the women’s votes. The poll ez iincludes a_ tabulation of age! men 2nd committewomen are ask- ed to communicate this offer to all the electorate of their individual counties. Discussing the possibilities of Monr.e getting one of these cups, Mr. Waite said to The Citizen he believes that a concerted effort tifies the pride taken in the naval ing at her home on Caroline street, | this year are: Ila Drawdy, Ft. t service. |and afterward make his address to' Myers; Frances Pooser, Arcadia; Secretary S\ , mer jthe voters. | Louise Lurey, New Smyrna, and aa nee Peigimee , pes nl It is intended for him to meet! Cynthia Pearlman, Key West. meePeon eo ‘'as many people 25 possible before; A number of informal dormi- country recognize in the navy an|the address is made as it will be tory teas were given last week in instrument designed to preserve necessary for Mr. Pepper to leave j the parlors of the residence hall's. the peace and security of this’ 8S soon as possible after making; Among those invited to attend i 1 1 1 land Cynthia Pearlman. After hik-; Atked this morning when he ex- ing up and down the hills of Tal- jPected the sewer project in Key lahassee, through fields of bram- zs 5 this address in order to be in Fort | were: Faye Adams, Rose Appel, ipeah Alls vemels\in the NAVY | Pierce early in the evening to de-| Elizabeth Ayala, Jennie Mae John- in United States waters will full!}iver another address, ison, Cleo Kemp, Frances Lowe, dress ship tomorrow from 8) Kathryn Lowe, Marjorie Roberts, ; o’clock in the morning until =" M0! SEWER PIPE Mary Sullivan, Linton Vitte, Eloise} set. | | .. |Guito, Anne Kennedy, Alice Park, Lieutenant Wm. Flats, 6fficer Cynthia Pearlman, Edna Roberts in charge at the Key West naval; RECEIVED SUNDAY and Marjorie Roberts. station, announced this morning} The Spanish Conversational that tomorrow the station will be! G’ass, of which Rose Appel is ai open to all visitors and he hopes! member, held a breakfast recently. | that as many as can find it pos-j PROGRAMA CEEES (LOR COM, Spanish was spoken throughout sible hpi visit the station and} PLETION OF PROJECT LAT- |the entire moet. note the progress being made on | A long hike was enjoyed re- the program which is now being TER PART OF 1937 cently by a group of students, | carried on, among whom were Anne Kennedy, 0 BUS B 1 w, {bles and briars, and over and USED ON KEYS; cee coupistsda WEA DE! ghrongh barbed ‘wire fences, a fav- a} rector Roy Goodman said that if) orable picnic spot was finally lo- jnothing occurred to deter the cated. Delicious hamburgers were | progress of the work, he expected then cooked over a blazing fire definitely presages the releection; 45. and that Governor Landon jof President Roosevelt, with a' . a) get a majority of votes cast hint that his electoral college ma-!1,y those ubove ghat Limit. Of jority may be overwhelming. On| considerable importance, if true, jthe other hard, the Literary Di-| is ‘the poli’s indication that the igest poll, which enjoys quite a) president vill receive the support — oe {reputation, is just as overwhelm-| 4¢ g9 per cent of those benefiting | HAD NAME CHANGED | ing in favor of Governor Landon. from relief measures. et ihe Onpesiey-afroeliapubrahed St { DETROIT.—Miss Eleanor Buck! Hearst newspapers and other) iyo other polls deserve men-!of this city disliked the name! journa's, seems somewhat inclined | tion in this survey, One is the work ; Buck so much that she had it watds of this city was granted = on the part of everybody interest-| led will secure for Monroe Sure jone of the cups, the presentation | of which will be the highlight of the Inaugural Bal!. ‘TR IIILIIL#4 to the Kanszs candidate, although its percentage figures are promis- ing .to the President. i There have been other polls but most of them are local or state af-|Clection to be determined by eight ; fairs, conducted by certain news-} papers. Two which pretend to national coverage are those of The American Press, taken by 2 num- ber of county seats newspapers, and that of the Farm Journal. The American Press poll is incon- clusive beeause, while it repre- sents the votes of a number of readers of small newspapers, they are im scattered areas. The Farm Journal poll is top-heavy with re- turns from a limited number. of states. Both of these polls, it of Dr. Daniel Starch, leader of a 'yesearch organization, whose re- 't compi‘ation gave Roosevelt 47 per cent, Landon 43 per cent, Lemke 1 per cent and left the !per cent listed as undecided. _The magazine, Fortune, which based its conclusion upon polling 1,600 key persons every three months, gives the President 59 per cent, Landon 37 and listed four per cent as undecided. Incidert'y, the Fortune polis reveals practically no change in the President’s strength since January of this year. Weighing these factors and bearing in mind that the nation- wide polls do not agree, the reader changed to Seaver, A few months/separation order on testimony j later, she married Bernard Buck, that her husband often held 2 bet * no relation. | Poker to her feet to torture ber. Third Of Three Contracts — For Bridge Work Expected To Be Awarded This Week J. R. Stowers, member of the} Overseas Road and Toll On the sccond contract the Groves company was also the low- = Citing the metter of Ge =o Bridge} est bidder, the figure being $613,- coastal waterway 20d the pre TRANSPORTING PASSENGERS/ AT THREE DIFFERENT POINTS One of buses of the Florida Mo- tor Lines is operating it would be completed by the lat-: “ter part of 1937. At first the outline of the plans {called for finishing the work and having the system earlier, but there have completed been a lhetween | number of setbacks and it became! ‘and a happy time was had by all. ;should be noted, give a majority i for Governor Landon. jis reminded that the tabulation! District commission, who setarned , 299.14, for placing 13,690 feet of | tien te bewe the miend toute <= Moser Channel CUBA BRINGS IN Grassy Key and Hog Key and | necessary to compile another plan vEsseL ALSO BROUGHT FOR- Marathon, transporting passengers | from one side to the other from ferry to ferry. This as decided upon last week during a conversation be- tween Frenklin Albert, executive officer of the FERA in charge of} the ferry service, and the mana- which extended the time for com- pletion, Mr. Goodman said that another! consignment of pipe for the proj-! ect had been received yesterday and would be used on the section which is unfinished, on .Caroline street. TY TONS OF FREIGHT FOR KEY WEST Steamship Cuba, of the P. and 0. S. S. company, arrived this 20 PASSENGERS: ger of the Florida Motor Lines in Miami. The driver of this bus will re- main with his vehic'e overnight and this service will be continued until the new ferries are placed in service. When this new service is! inaugurated the buses will go! through on the ferries, it was said. With the present schedule the ferries are making one trip daily, leaving No Name Key at 10 a. m.,| arriving at Lower Matecumbe at 2:30 p. m. Southbound, the fer- eee enh poems Ni | activities, was advised this morn-, oe Se Wy SNCS AEE: < ‘Ol ing by telegrant to ‘fill as rapidly; Name Key ot 2:45 p. m. This! a." possible’ the daulnciss on the schedule will be maintained until ization. i ti K business warrants two trips being|ToUs of sina na st made daily. Asked how matty there ‘were, In T Presa) TWO MARRIAGE ‘| Rpveasiatly80 -acaneiea ~iis| gine PERMITS ISSUED | applications for about. one-third | rickshaw, There were two permits, marri-;of Social Welfare as to their Paul Caraballo and Maria Go-| will give all necessary informa-} sj of. that number. Applicants must be the son or age licenses, issued during the| needs for the work, week just past from_the office of} Mr. Fort is to be found on the mez; Robert Curry and Alice Jane} tion to applicants for part time Kemp, work on the NYA program. morning from Tampa with four jfirst class passengers for Key | West; 14 first class and two sec- jond class passengers for Ha- NYA VACANCIES WILL BE FILLED “3:01. at this port were Mra. in Lounders and child, G. Flynn and A. Stevens. > The S. S. Cuba also brought 40 | tons of freight and two sacks of mail for Key West, and 223 sacks lor mail for Havana, _/ | Steamship Alamo, | Mallory Line: v ' yesterday m APPROXIMATELY EIGHTY TO BE GIVEN EMPLOYMENT IN PROGRAM the clyde. | 2 o'clock | James Fort, director of NYA, cargo at the Mame ibe;-aiid sall-} ed 4:15 o'clock for Tampa. Singapore Now Rides Rickshaws one of the last surviv- | ing relics’ of the “unchanging east” stifl in nopular use in big cities, been mechanized. “Tri¢ycle rickshaws” are now! being tried out in Singapore, fol-j{ lowing their successful adoption in Ba: i Twstead of dragging the wheel- ‘chair on foot, the coolie now in a saddle in front of the ve- jicle and pedals his passenger along. daughter of a person on relief rolls or be qualified by the Board County Judge Raymond Lord. Is-| second floor of the WPA head- sues were made to: quarters in the naval station, and; ed | REGAL BEER HAS STIRRED THE TOWN! HAVE YOU BEEN DRINKING YOUR SHARE OF THIS GOOD, WELL AGED BEER? | The poll of the Literary Digest jhas been subjected to critical an- alysis in spite of its successful pre- dictions in the past. While it shows a strong marg'n .for,the Kansan, its last report available, at this time, does not, include. the, ballots from,’the largest cities of the nation, / where Democrats, as sert the Pyesident will rececive large majorities, Moreover, poll itself demonstrates that a ma- jority of those voting cast ballots for Hertert Hoover in 1932 when everyone knows that President to two. viously impossible to definitely assign a value to the figures in the Digest poll from New York, Ilinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio and other states. Naturally, the out- come of any forecast is clouded when there is no guide from such large states. the| below does not pretend to give the writer’s prediction but is based entirely upon a study of the po mentioned. They are not neces- sarily conclusive because obvious- ly where they disagree, some of them aré wrong. Here then is the} “greater weight of’ the evidence” the week ‘beforé'‘the people march to ‘the polls? FOR ROOSEVELT: 161 Electora} Votes State | Alabama: | Arkansas Florida | Georgia 3 | Rogsevelt won by a ratio of three; Kentucky For this reason, ic is ob-t {Louisiana | Maryland Misstmeeet 'New Mexico . North Carolina Oklahoma ..... South Carolina Tennessee Texas {Utah One of the contributing reasons j Virginia se s A ey wiry discharged | for doubt as to the Literary Digest | poll was the effort of the Balti- more Sun to ascertain the inten- tions of the voters of Maryland. A ballot wes mailed to each register- ed voter of that state, with the re- sult that Roosevelt obtained 63.99 per cent, Lendon 35.38 percent and the minor candidates less than the return of 274,742 ballots, more than one-third of the total number of registered voters. By comparison, the Digest figures, based on 31,822 ballots, gave Roosevelt 52 per cent, Landon 45 per cent and the minor candidates 2 per cent. (The fractions make up the missing one per cent.) Ob- viously, both polls cannot be cor- rect. The Baltimore Sun came out against the President during the poll and this removes any idea 16 States .......... FOR LANDON: | State— | Conneetient * Kansas Maine . Oct. 26.—Thejone per cent, This was based oN} wacsachusetts New Hampshire Pennsylvania Rhode Island | Nermont Wyoming . 10 States ROOSEVELT INCLINED: 112 Electora) State— Votes Arizona 3 (Contifiued on Page Four) Is | | bridge deck on jyesterday from Miami where he! bridge. 7 ' On the third project which calls, was poment at the ewarding °f | for constructing 15,543 feet of contracts of two of the projects complete bridge decking om Pacet ‘Channel bridge, Missouri Little last Friday, and the opening of! Duck bridge, ‘ $i bridge, Bahia Hi | and Spanish Harbor Said Mr. Stowers, the owerds | lowest figures were . the Hardaway Construction Sage reagan. ‘ Ga. and were made to Wannamaker | gregated $506,348.58. | The low bid on the fourth Wells, of Orangeburg, S.C. The os ion of 98 mil Wannamaker and Wells bid was, roadway between Key Vacas | Big Pine Key was $130,050.53 $159,99362, and that of the! and was made by the Groves com- Thomason Company was for $365,-; P®"¥- nae ee 489.98. s : . a ition, Norfolk, Va; EH. Work om these contracts will be’ aay “3 < started, Mr. Stowers believes with-| porated and the Belcher Of Com- im the mext two weeks, and it is| Pang: both of Mimi Me his opinion that the third of the! After the bids were contrétts will be awarded before | 1n°%, Sere Sabuisted amd the end of this week. 15 Roa Bids, which were opened Satur-| > ore bids for four new contracts. and a HT | i i" | t i | | | | ' ft § Lt ti i ni) ; i He ! ; Ls] PPP rf | | timates made by the engineers.; The total of the lowest bids was $1,821,247.56, while the engi- neers’ estimates aggregated $1 382,000 for the four projects, There is a possibility of three the awards going te the Groves and Son Company of Mi neapolis, Minn. The lowest said Mr. Stowers, for pre 12,375 feet of complete deck on the right of way Knights Key and Pigeon Key bridges. The company’s efter! was $571,449.31. ; ‘ tif i I! Hi i { | f ‘ . i rt i bEE i 8 f ut : if % ¥ ! fr Ps tek " RA & i be | eer iF 3 | Fit | Ay 4] | Hl ; | : ij i tf | a it i f ie wb i $ : i ee a] ° R