The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 21, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Deyoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVII. No. 303. VARIOUS ISSUES [MEETING TONIGHT ON NEUTRALITY | AT COURT HOUSE) PACT, HEARD | cmstlenaidseidanas DEALING WITH SPONGE ‘INDUSTRY SCUTH AMERICAN REPUBLICS} BEES EES DISCUSS PEACE PROPOSALS WITH GREAT INTEREST TO ALL CONCERNED | W.. L. Wilson, sultant for the WPA in Florida said today he anticipates a large industrial con- By PRESTON GROVER (Ry Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.— South American demonstrated once lassemblage tonight in the court i {room of the cqnty court house; A i Repeucal here when he meets with the sponge’ gt, again their | nterests to discuss the cooperative jidea with sponge fishermen 0: |Key West. evident conviction that the United COLLEGE UNIT | MRS. =. A. RAMSEY, MEMBER 4 State College to assist with plans} of | Che Key rst Citiz at KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1936. | ABATEMENT OF | RAILWAY TAXES | EXPECTED.HERE: AAS TERMED ~ WORKING FOR NEW BUILDING | ROOsEVELT's PROBLEMS | INAUGURAL PROGRAM eee OFFERS HELP CONGRESS NEAR AT HAND THE ELECTORS VOTE PARING RELIEF ROLLS o1.—| WORK RELIEF FUTURE ppointment of more than 100|“ERA OF GOOD FEELING” udents and alumnae of Florida] INDUSTRY DURING WAR OF ALUMNA. ORGANIZA- TION, NAMED ON COMMIT- TEE (Special to The Citizen) TALLAHASSEE, Dec, By HUGO SIMS, obtain a student-alumnae Loommne a at __ »—~ WA sSEENGTIOR \ popular vote, every Roosevelt electoral vote represents 52.679 popular votes and every Landon electoral vote represents 2,085,- 239 popular votes. This disparity has caused some agitation for a popular election of presidents or at least a division of the electoral votes of a state on the basis of the popular vote polled by the presidential candidates, Harry Hopkins, WPA adminis- trator, is finding the going pleaty hard in attempting to pare relief rol's; In December each state ad- ministrator was given a reduced {ty Commissioners met COUNTY BOARD TAKES uP, ’ A ‘ MATTER SATURDAY NIGHT; | LUTION ADOPTED Members of the Boaré of Coun-! tici Saturday . of club members who are te eure night 8:30 o’clock in connection | in their craft on am e=cutsice with matters pertaining to the about December 27. abatement of taxes of the Florida! There wil. be sbout East Coast Railway. ;the fleet and it is expected that Present were Commissioners | most of them : Bic SUCCESS - “STAGED BY KEY WEST LET OPERA COMParT = SERS RETURNED HERE ST URDayY “CHT Members =f = Ker Sen Lge Open ese oe ss Fede B= peThast ee operetta States is a grand fellow whose peace proposals should be with a grain of salt. taken! { to } This plan has been under con-| building at the college was an- sideration for a long time and it: nounced here this week? The Citizen’s Special Washington Correspondent President When Roosevelt allotment of money and instruct- 7 B. ed to fit his program to the fund | NorPere a oe available. It was expected that | arren and Nathan sd 4 Ross C. Sawyer, Chief Deputy) is believed the time has arrived to! when its feasibility can be shown Buenos Aires went the U. S.)and its effectiveness as a protec- delegation with a neutrality pact; tion for the one who takes the which, it could:be pointed to with Sponges from the sea and also the 'buyer and distributor, can be pride, had “kept us out of war” | easily and forcefully demon- with ‘Ethiopia and Italy. Presi-' strated. dent. Roosevelt followed and was! It is for the purpose of going given a demonstration in the Ar-| into every detail of the industry gentine capital that fairly purpled; i the air with felicitations. Down across the equator {ci !to and its relative values to all con-| cerned that the meeting has been! ™ called for this evening and it is U. S. Backs Down {expected that by 7:30 Then began the negotiations.| thre will be a large crowd presen Then the United States began to back out of first one position and} o’clock} ** 5 fee! then another as it found various} ef the Latin American republics} averse to them. Principal agent} to compel the United States back out was Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine foreign minis- ter, president of the league of na-| tions assembly and Nobel “peace} prize winner. | The meat of the United States| neutrality proposal was contained! - : ina 15 =a article providing! 2° Frank, arrived over the high-! that in event American nations! W@y last night from New York, ducked all mediation proposals’ Vi# Miami, and are guests on COMES TO CITY’. to! + ‘GUESTS ON BOARD FRED-. ERICK WAGNER’S YACHT PAULA LOUISE , the needs for the proposed stu- | dent-Alumnae building to Florida holidays | Dec, 18, on a_ state estimated would it which would serve as a center for jof the Alumnae Association iwhich Mrs, SCHMITZ FAMILY | Groveland, is president, j | Mrs. E, A. Ramsey, Key West i named |tion State Finance Committee. /STEAMER ALAMO Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Schmitz and) VESSEL BROUGHT IN HEAVY S 50 student: i resent . lame: 60) studenten errr found three matters to engage his attention; plans for the inaugural ceremonies next month, the ap- parent willingness of business. to cooperate in attacking the unem- ployment problem and the prox- imity of 2 Congressional session during which many national issues will have to be determined. Christmas Friday. during» the which began itizens Alumnae appointed will serve finance committee secure the building which it is cost approxi- The buiiding,| Before. Mr, Rooseveit left Washington for South Amcrica lit was known that he favored a |simple ceremony upon the occa- lsion of taking his high office a j second time. However that may be. the capital wil be crowded fei visitozs on January 20 and Naturally, general sentiment in { Washington is for a big blow-out and the probability is that visitors | wil be well entertained, despite the Presidential inclination for ; simplicity along the Jeffersonian 1 style. ately $200,000. udent and alumnae activities iN be the chief project this year of E. L, Beeson, of umna of the college, has been on the Alumnae Associa- ARRIVED SUNDAY wera. Business men, through -several | organizations, have made p’ain an ' attitude of willingness to cooper- jate in principle, regardlesg,of how i bitter they may subsequently fight | over details of the tasks assumed FREIGHT SHIPMENT FOR KEY WEST reached the capital last week he! some kind of parade is inevitable. | and jnsjsted on. war. with each- board. Mr. Wagner’s yacht Paula! other, other American nations) /oUlse. and in’ vi : : * S : in view of the election re should bolster their neutrality by| Mr. Schmitz was here two years) c+ oamsh'p Alamo, of the Clyde-| turns i hope of ma- : : ' . ‘ sth! - | s indicates some hope of ma. refusing to supply the fighters, ao, recta ea ast Mallory Lines, arrived in Port | jor improvement in the re’ations pal vile ammunition or spl eed of Leeda e Rich che 9:30 o'clock yesterday padeiird desptshreip the Administration and plements of war.” i A "© and after discharging freight; the big business moguls. How- @ nd anes the proposal beg eae and of which he is saijeq 6 o’clock in the afternoon eyer, the acid test will have to be supplanting the league of nations,|/™ Lesage {for Tampa, j applied before there is any way roasen Argentina and caeveral, -, Asiuresident se eres Among the freight items on the | of determining whether the busi- eae - on oe earns be- Mr. Aiea eas habatuect : his! Mises wee 136 tons for the nav-! ness vegtetl Ss atigde seeare or g, Secretary o: ate Hull em . * ‘1S’ al station improvement projects.’ whether they mean what they say phasized it applied only to the, time visiting the various agencies yost of this shipment consisted of j and intend to give the New Dea! ‘The -change of heart is-on-record Americas. The United States proposed that arms shall not be shipped to either side, regardless of which was adjudged the aggressor. That was too big a step for the Latin American republics, for their in- terests are harmonious. Besides, such impartiality would outlaw sanctions, and be contrary to league functioning. Some South Atmerican minds must have asked: “They are telling us that the Monroe doctrine is dead, but are they usine thig means of. insuring against leagtié “intervention in South America” Turns Out As Expected A substifjute proposal was drawn up under which each nation would decide, when the time came, just how neutral it would be. In order to give all the Ameri- ean republics a chance to over a threat of war within the Americas or a war outside, a “permanent” consultative pact was proposed. Saavedra-Lamas wrinkled his nose at “permanent” and that word went out also, leaving the conference to consider merely the proposal for consultation in time of trouble here or abroad, gether with recommendations that all the republics ratify the several already existing non-aggression and mediation pacts. And that was almost exactly the progress Latin-American ex- perts in Washington predicted would be made. Just how im- portant such progress is consider- ed here may be told another time. tt cecal Bermuda Meat Market —Received Today— Large shipment SELECT HENS Also, Strictly FRESH KILLED 40-tb PIGS for Christmas Dinner All at prices you can meet Quick Delivery Whi it Virginia Streets WATCH FOR talk throughout the country and ar-] beams, and channel beams for ranging the multifarious details|the finger piers in the submarine necessary. : base. | However when the time comes! This shipment practically con- Fic 2 vases oe Seat andi cludes the consignments of this amy decide; Key West is; particular class of items to be tie ary for a ee ang-jused in the reconstruction of the jling, and as guest o: - Wagner) finger piers. There were also 82 their anticipations will be real- of the expected H beam piling re- ized. ceived and it is. expected that setting these preparatory to the (REHEARSAL FOR work of rebuilding the five piers CONCERT, TONIGHT will be started at once, Steamship A. S. Hansen, of the| Sabine Towing company, en route from New York to Beaumont, Texas, arrived in, pot. yesterday ; Final rehearsal for the operatic iconcert,to be presented tomarnow. jnight by, members of the Key West. Light Opera Company will be held:at 7:30 o’clock tonight inj afternoon, took on 13,395 gallons of fuel oil and sgiled'6 \o’clck for ; the Overseas Hotel. ' The concert, scheduled for a the destination. , , week ago, was postponed because | of inclement weather. It is to be ‘staged in the Key West High School Auditorium under the sponsorship of the Key West + Woman’s Club, and proceeds from | the sale of tickets will be given in ‘their entirety to the local welfare fund. FOR HOLIDAYS George Allen Warren, who has just completed his studies at Chapel Hill, N. C., and is now a sanitary engineer with the State Bosrd of Health, of Florida, ar- rived Saturday to spend the sea- son with h's parents, Dr. and ; Mrs. William R. Warren. He ex- pects his definite assignment next week. { Accompanying George Allen | was his,brother, William R. War- ren, Jm., student of the University |: 0£,.Flgrida, whopis a'so here for this .yagation with his parents, | SHOPPING OAYS LEFT t us STEAM CLEAN under dur CARS@hW)}paiht it with RUST PROOF PAINT. Come in today and let us estimate on CLEANING alone or CLEANING {and PAINTING. PAUL’S TIRE AND AUTO SUPPLY STORE PHONE 65 Fleming and Grinnell Streets some help in trying out its poli- cies. As we pointed out in this col- umn shrotly after the election, the best tactics call for giving the Administration p’enty of rope. If its policies and schemes are half as bad as the adversaries assert, it won’t take 'ong for develop- ments to ¢-monstrate this fact. This advice: . p, ies equally to the Republicai.., y . » must look ahead, and to business men who fear the consequences program. With the people behind them they must be tried out and after this is done, without leaving any excuse for failure, judgment can be passed effectively on the ivsults, Abuse and obstructive tactics merely postpone the test- ing of the New Deal. The approaching Congressional session will focus public attention upon many issues and there can be little doubt of the imperative nature of Mr. Roosevelt’s leader- ship. His overwhelming victory. won without dependence upon any single group, gives him pow- er to exert, but unless there is re- bellion in the ranks of the New Deal, the President will largely write down the program to be enacted, Details, of course, will not be fixed, but general’ trends and dims will have the White House direction to an extent prob- ably greater than heretofore. Last week on “the first Monday jafter the second Wednesday in December,” the electors of the forty-eight states met in their re- spective eapitals to cast the only ballots whith really count in the election of a president and to ure by registered mail to the lof State their votes. The letters will not be opened until Congress essembles on January 6th to wit- néss the tabulation. With §88 votes expected to be cast for President Roosevelt and eight for Governor Landon, it will be seen that, on the basis of their of the President’s; Vice-President and the Secretary} 425,000 workers wou'd be off the rol's by January first. although some 250,000 farmers were to be transferred to the Resettlement | Admin‘stration, Immediately, there ‘arose a great uproar in the land, with. men fighting for their jobs and some demonstrations and strikes staged. After a week, the Administration. facing the deluge, declared that “no person needing relief wil be d-opped from WPA.” Thereafter the program of re- {000 drought victims will draw grants from the Resettlement Ad- mn ‘istration, getting about haif of the $40 a month they have been receiving for doing WPA work. Some non-relief and administra- tive jobs wil be eliminated and other relief workers, who have ‘contrived to get part-time private jobs, will be affected. WPA em- ployment on July 15th was 2,224,- 293 and on November 28th, 2,- 478,686, although Mr. Hopkins says that but for the drought vic- jtims, the ro:ls would have con- tained approximately 2,226,000, names. Congress provided $1,425,000,- 000 for work relief after the al- lotment from the original $4,- 880,000,000 had been used. It |was expected that this would last {we'l into 1937 but drought relief ‘cost around $300,000,000 and the WPA funds will be practically ex- hausted in about a month, Con- gress will be asked to provide new funds and the President thinks that $500,000,000 wil! be enough for the present fiscal year, al- thuogh the mayors think that $750,000,000 will be needed to July 1st. Afterwards comes the question of an appropriation for the next fiscal year, with the like- lihood that from one billion and a half dollars wi!l be appropriat- ed. The possibiity exists that through the concerted coopera- tion of business men, this figure imay be reduced. President Roosevelt returned to Washington last week to find a jnumber of, suggestions that “an era of good feeling” is about to begin and that some of his most determined opponents in the busi- ness world are ready to cooperate | with the Government in attaining | certain objectives. Chief among j these adversaries has been the Na- jtional Association of Manufacvur- ers. Public reports of a recent convention, held in New Yor’, herald the abandonment of out- right opposition to the Adminis- tration, which seems wise in view ef the election returns, but the declarations of policy of the As- isociation mean little or nothing juntil interpreted by concrete at- titudes of the manufacturers. For example, the Association is for necessary taxation but against any penalties to prevent the build- ing up of “reasonable reserves during times of prosperity.” Ob- viously, there mey be differences of ovinions as to what this means. Moreover, the Association favors (Continued on Page Four) TES. AUCTION SALE Tonight at 8;00 o’Clock ELECTRIC IRONS ELECTRIC TOASTERS ELECTRIC WAFFLE IRONS HOSTESS SETS COCKTAIL SETS COMB AND BRUSH SETS ‘CHINA TEA SETS i j each Sheriff Bernard C. Waite and B.) 22 7a. aie M. Dungan, chief engineer fer the} It is througk the efforts Overseas Road and Toll Bridge) Wegner that Commission, {ling come te A set of resdlutions pertinent to toed o of the question at issue were. read | sound and the sea! of approval placed on}; 54. them after which they were}). handed to Mr. Duncan who took} them with him for Qne of Mr. delivery t0! patches was made 6 |Judge Henry H. Tayler in Miami| when he cought » barmaceds lyesterday. trenchment shifted a bit. The 250,-] resolztions were to be filed FRANK JOHNSON Colonial Hotel Building : ing 25 1-2 pounds and established This afternoon, it was said, the |g record Sen ie =pe> i —— Tallahassee today for prompt ac-j tion in the matter which is con- sidered vitally important. MORE THAN SEVEN THOU- CUBA BRINGS IN 223 PASSENGERS SAND DOLLARS’ WORTH TEEN TONS OF FREIGHT FOR KEY WEST * . Steamship Cuba, of the P. and marked the sale of « sumber of O. S. S. company, arrived thi®/jots of these products of the see wnat ces apa acc feo aie commes ump aot ence ame reswewe. suet Tm 2. a= oe anh tVEHHE ad morning from Tampa and St. Pe tersburg with 19 first and 14 see-| ond class passengers for Key 7 West; 149 first and 41 ee class passengers for Havana. Key West arriva's: Ed. Cault- items of weel offered. Gab of) Pate mast ins, Mrs,“W, Peabody, Miss A. . lots with 392 bunch Pulse i i. eee io Re L. Roberts, Mrs. J. Frank Parramore, Mrs. C. McMul- len, Miss A. McMullen, M. Rims. ; brought $1,177.65. second Summers, | is this merning at the municipal There were approximately 1 ay fey The oe augmenice = es brought $1,101.63. Amsther ‘ group of 10 lets with 498 buncBet Tymne inc The ‘est, memten le | John Lazo, Dalia Valdez. A. Val-| grorp containing 13 lets with 1-/ dez,: Magda’ene Spinola. Cristina bunches brought 122 Spinola, Alda Spinnola, Alice — sical aliens ga aad Spinola, Rhoda Saunders, Irqueda ” oi Justo, N. Goshorn, Marguerite| lots of gress and yellow sponges Goshorn, Mrs. F, Eddy, T. Thomp-|*0ld for $360.93 bringing the te son, Mrs. R. T. Menner, J. R.|tal sales up to slightly more than Blair, C. L. Scheer, Mrs. D. A./ $7,000. DuPuis, Ed. DuPuis, June DuPuis, Mrs. A. Villaverde. GILL ATTENDS The Cuba also had 17 tons of freight, three automobiles and three sacks of mail for Key West; one ton of freight, two automo- biles and 355 sacks of mail for Havana. Lowest Highest r Station— last night last 24‘hours Corrington Gil. assistest od Abilene - 46 68 ministrater of the Werks Pro Atanta 48 smi 4 Boston 54 Buffalo 32 Chicago 36 Denver 50 Detroit .. 34 Galveston - Huron .. Jacksonville .. KEY WIEST - Los Angeles _ Miami -. i Minneapolis SSLSSSSRsaszesz TONY AND “HAPPY” JOHN WITH THE WAGNER WAGON, ENJOY THEIR MUSIC AND HEAR WHAT KR } Ve Mivtelbe presentaicr B