The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 11, 1937, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LVIII. No, 9. \ GREAT PROGRESS ACHIEVED: FLORIDA'S WELFARE Pen, 1g shale Ce Ross ©. Sawyer : morning that practically Met Ingutnt Acom- Criminal Court Meets Is Administering Old Age Assistance Today; Ju (igediol 60 The Cittsea) Criminal court for Monroe county convened’ this morning at JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 11—'9:39 o'clock with Judge William Florida’s year-old welfare pro-| V- Albury presiding, and all court hi ofticials in attendance. poe be ieved progress along! A ‘ter the regular preliminaries according the judge announced that he | would draw the jury list from the box and make the venire return- to an informal report just made public by Conrad*Van “Hyning; able! at 2 .0’clock this afternoon, i at which time the docket will be Commissioner of the State Board) eounded ef Social Welfare. : many important lines, + — }All-of his time Saturday was spent in arranging and writing the jury list for the year 1937, which had been selected by the county com- missioners on the previous eve- ning. The list was prepared, the slips folded as required by Jaw and placed in the metal box which has been designated for this use. There were 581 slips each bear- ing the name of a potential jur- ry Drawn The following list of 18 names were drawn: Robert Bethel, KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937. ~ |ClerkFinishes Work [By or, all of which were examined by Mr. Sawyer, Sheriff K..0. Thomp- son and County Judge Raymond R. Lord, and in their presence the slips were folded, piaced in the box and the box locked as is re- quired by law. It was necessary that this be done Saturday afternoon as it was the last day before the opening of criminal court, this mornings! and it was required that the jury box be available at this time, BODY OF MAN OOM MMM. Sat05 CRUSTACEANS TAKEN OUT CANAL PROJECT During the past week there |Archie Albertus, A. H. McInnis, jJackson Lowe, Richard T. Rus- jsell, Samuel P. Higgs, Henry Bul- jlard, A. H. Sheppard, Jr., Colton Park, Blondon Goehring, John A. Knowles; Will P, Roberts, Simon Creole, Jack H. Roberts, Haydn Illingworth, Robert G. Watkins, Robert J. Lewis and C. N. Recio. ie aoe zee =e — Roy Crummer, head of the com- “The most important ‘accom: plishment“of the Stafe and district !>\ boards was that of security ap-| }% proval for administering the old! age assistance program, under provisions of the Social Security | > ; |ROOSEVELT’S ADDRESS Ac?,he said. ; | Assistance to aged persons Reedepabde INTERPRETATION need on a regular monthly allow-| DEMOCRACY’S NEEDS - ance basis began in Florida on October 1. More than 7,000 OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS needy Persons over seventy are| CONGRESS ORGANIZES new receiving monthly assistance payments ranging up to $30 a|4 DEMOCRATIC SWARM month from funds supplied jointly tp teidiate gua Hole cones STEADY ELECTION TREND posi the report showed. The| REPUBLICAN LESSON ite’s share of these funds is be- ing supplied by appropriations LABOR TROUBLE AGAIN from Pr of the 67 counties in] NEUTRALITY PROBLEMS ‘ Swocead In Task WAGES AND HOURS “Phe district boards and staff) METHODS UNDER STUDY the number of eligibles ¢rom each|, . 0” HUGO SIMS, of the counties,” Mr. Van Hyn.| Special ‘Washington. Correspond- ing declared. “Members of the! ent of The Ctiees State Board and their staff .ac-| Making his first public utter- complished a similarly difficult}ance since the election last fall ey & Ragotiating with the So-| President Roosevelt, in his address ‘urity Board to secure ap-j ot the opening of Congress last Freche ed 28°, assistance views that exist between the ju- Pisa apes Hae that it) diciary, in its interpretation of ee: ce 4 adininistration fandamental law, and the legisla- a4 Foi 'y financed program.”| tive and executive branches of the e Commissioner called the’ government, in their effort to work of the district beard mem-| meet modern conditions that chal- bers and their staffs “highly com- lenge democratic government. mendable”. “Their work has de-: veloped community interests and] understanding which is perhaps for a Constitutional amendment, the most valuable result of all.|but he insisted that the document aliens Korie go' on so many. be viewed in an enlightened man- ields, is SO much the respon- ner so that legitimate’y implied piacere hoes so close ee me powers can be sreecined for the st of persons, that its di- common good. is remarks call rection is good only when a seri, attention to what has been pointed ous and responsible group of citi-' out in this column, that the Demo- zens are in charge.” ;erats have 'cdptured two branches Much Aid Given Nof the''government but have been r Ancthak inportant a ag hi utterly oe td to consolidate ad- he welfare board has been the vances ‘under’ interpretatio: of distribution of. Federal . surplus!the Supreme Court, a majority of commodities to approximately 40,-!which doeS' not accept the social, i pee families . the Sete icon tle and political philosophy n addition, many thousan of underlying New Deal legislation. children have been given school} - lunches, atid many more thous-! Admitting that NRA attempted and hav ured clothing made in/to cover too much ground the WPA sewing rooms through the'ChieZ Executive declared that the district boards, according to the problems it attempted to meet report. thave not been outlawed and are “Of particular interest to the. “still with us.” He did not believe future welfare of Florida, wae it possible to secure decent con- the development during the past ditions and adequate pay for la- year, of Rural Child Welfare Serv-| bor, just returns for agriculture ices through cooperation with the|and other desired ends through United States Children’s Bureau”, | ‘Parallet owt serapcons action the report said. “Florida’s plan! by forty-eight States.” He insisted for four rural demonstration cen.| that it is not to be summed that ters and two training units was! there will be “prolonged failure approved early last spring. The, t© bring legislative and judicial Federal contribution for this work amounts to $22,000 a year and is} used for administrative costs of} these welfare units. Each of the} counties in which child welfare! demonstration centers are located} made contributions varying from. $1,000 to $2,500 to provide for children’s care. In the rural cen- ters the best method of child wel- fare work are being demonstrated.| Leaving last night for Miami In the training centers Florida! was the Lighthouse Tender Ivy girls with some experience in so-! and on the vessel was W. W. De- cial work are being given extrz| meritt, superintendent of light- training in child welfare so that) houses, going on an inspection of pare will be oeeuere to enter thir} the aids to navigation in that jeld permanently.” Other Matters Other accomplishments of the} the Seventh. year were listed as follows: In the added section there are Dissemination of information| approximately 63 miles of shore and educational material on be-j line, and in the area are 192 aids (Continued on Page Four) to navigation consisting of two Mr, Roosevelt saw no vital need on January 1, became a part of > }temrand-the extension. of. certain |- Demeritt Leaves On Tour Of Inspection)!" <<" pany which is now carrying on the bond refunding program fér Mon-| roe county, was in the city for sev-| eral hours yesterday discussing with Attorney J, Lancelot Lester the bond situation at this time., action into closed harmony” and that means must be found to “adapt our legal form and our | judicial interpretation to the ac- itual present national needs of the j largest progressive democracy in ieee modern world.” Among other goals mentioned iby the President were Federal ‘laws to supplement State laws in |regzlating industry, immediate ex- itension of neutrality legislation ito meet the Spanish situation, an ‘adequate relief appropriation to {care for needy unemployed cap- table of useful work, low-cost hous- ing and s.um clearance, aid for jferm tenants, enlarging and im- | proving the social security sys- Frank Ingram, state director of ; WPA activities, arrived Saturday! afternoon for a look over the city and the projects which are under way, especially the sewer. In company with Area Super- STR. COLORADO ARRIVES HERE STEAMSHIP YORO OF FRUIT! COMPANY ALSO CAME IN SATURDAY NIGHT Steamship Colorado of the; Clyde-Mallory Lines, arrived yes- terday 10:15 a. m, and sailed 12:30 p. m. for Tampa, Among the ve.sel’s freight was) more equipment to be used in the! construction of the five new| steel finger piers at the Key ue |legislation due to expire unless re- jenacted. This last class includes ‘the RFC, power to devalue the ‘dollar and to maintain the $2,- 000,000,000 stabilization fund. | The Seventy-fifth Congress as- ,sembled last week and promptly | organized. Representative Sam Rayburn of Texas won the ma- jority floor leadership in a contest iwith John J. O’Connor of New ; York. Representative William B. {Bankhead of Alabama was re- elected Speaker of the House, and jhis opponent, Representative Ber- jtrand Snell of New York auto- fay | matically became minority leader |"#Va! station. 4 ; jot thet Repabiicans The principal item of the ship- 1 aita ment was a complete portable dredging machine, with caterpillar}! equipment. which, it is said, can) be used for other purpoves than’ dredging. This equipment will be taken at once to the naval station and set up for work, it is said, and an employe of the company, at Bay City, Michigan, is expected to ar- lrive to supervise the work. Steamzhip Yoro, of the Stand- ard Fruit and Steamship com- pany, arrived 6:50 o’clock Satur- day evening, took on 31,131 gal- lons of fuel oil at the Porter Dock, company, and sailed at 8:45 for, Frontera, Mexico. ! | i | Both houses held a joint session | on January 6th to count and cer- tify the result of the electoral college in the states and to make official declaration of the reelec= tion of President Roosevelt and Vice-President Garner. The Democratic membership ‘in Congress constitutes a majprity more’joverwhelming than hag léx- isted in the memory of the oldest members. Scoring a House gain | of twelve seats in the last election while the Republicans were los- ing thirteen, the Democrats now possess 333 seats, the Republicans 89, Progressives 7, Farmer-Labor- ,ites 5 and there is one vacancy. This means that the Democrats have 76.7 per cent of the House membership, compared with 74 per cent in the 74th Congress and 71.2 per cent in the 73rd. Repub- lican membership, which was 61.1 per cent in the Tist Congress, dropped in succeeding congresses ' LEGION POST TO | CONDUCT MEETING i PROPOSED SESSION WILL BE HELD TOMORROW t to 49.2, 26.8, 23.4 and now stands EVENING at 20. Since the elections of = Members of Arthur wyer | (Continued on Page Four) Post 28, American Legion, are to-| day being advised there will be a regular meeting held tomorrow; evening 8 o'clock in the Legion hall. { It was said today that it is de-| Bond Company Head Was Visitor In City State WPA Director Ingram Visits Here CPP PIS SSS ting will be held in the court room | Li : } nave boon. 9, number. of ermse taceans taken out of the CAME IN ABOARD TUG PET-; “rainage canal which is being REL; PEACE JUSTICE F.! ARENBERG WAS NOTIFIED| OF SEAMAN’S DEATH | Peace Justice Franklin Aren-/ berg was notified Saturday of thej| death of Angel Nogueira, 42, aiieas on the S$, SW. 0. Teagle and} that the vessel would arrive off iow thek nex pe Ws sea buoy yesterday morning for; ing tahen belong to the.cran- the purpose of leaving the body | fich femily, while others are here for interment, | convinced they are small At 6:15 yesterday morning} lebsters. Mr, Arenberg left the Porter! Pisce aie acme, Dock company’s wharf on se ed and will continue, prob- company’s Tug Petrel and at 10, abiy, until some person who o’clock returned with the body | knows his crustacea definite- wh'ch was p'aced with the Lopez! !y decides the argument. ODS OMG Ba,” irom Grscey Key wo ~~ ; “that during an ‘used a smaller bus on the Other matters of importance relative to a refunding program in connection witn another series of iscuss- ed, it is said, and there will prob- ably be a meeting at an early date at which time this matter will be taken up for discussion. crayfish, gave it as his opin- Funeral Home. After reading communications which were sent ashore with the CUBA ARRIVES ‘on of; visor B. C. Moreno, Mr. Ingram visited the projects and later con- erred with Mr. Moreno on the body and securing the opi genera! aspects of the situation. : j to Hog Key vtreteh and Later in the afternoon he depart-|Dz- J- ¥. Porter, Jr.. it was de-, FROM TAMPA sc: scr St ed for Miami. cided that an inquest would not be | that it was necessary ' two trips across.” necessary. i : ie Pee | ! Continuing Mr. In the captain’s communication Vecsey BRINGS IN EIGHTY that it is the devre was contained the information} 4 by THREE PASSENG?RS AND lines to give adequate service that when Nogueira returned to! J the ship, which was then at Aran-| all times and at no time ie ee 16 TONS OF-FREIGHT __ lines have been RARE SPECIMENS i STILL IN TANK The Citizen was recently asked what had become of the octopi which were in the tanks at the aquarium and was constrained to reply that they had either died or been removed from the tanks. However there were this morning, in one of the smaller tanks at the north end of the aquarium, two of these cepha- lopods both about the same size, measuring about 20 inches when their tentacles are extended. They can be readily seen and if the question is asked perature rose to 104 with the ill man evidently growing worse. This continued until the fo!lowing morn‘ng, and at 10:30 January 8 he died, The captain’s letter showed that Nogueira had been in some diffi- culty while on shore leave at sas, Texas, on January 7, he ap-| “Key West has this i ture and his pulse was 67. i . Later that night the pulse in-| Steamship (Cuba, of the P. and S@mey & cited above. creased until very rapid and tem- Q, §, $. company, arrived this morning with 14 first and six sec- WPA PRODUCTS and two first and one second c'ass NOW AVAILABLF ‘passenger from St. Petersburg for | ? Key West. Also 660 first and no! i Aransas and had been arrested ae West arrivals: William! “!TH FOUR IN FAMILY and placed in jail for disorderly Zenute, W, A. Hanskaw, Mrs.| OR MORE also shown that he had fa'len and , j struck his head while fighting E> Dunkina, Grace Ealtersom, Fj 8 with some man who was unknown. yy, Pieces ay ¥:, C. N. Recio, district superviner though his tempera- | peaners dame SORES “i \ questioned, except in the emer- ond class passengers from Tampa second class passengers for Ha- WILL BE ISSUED TO THOSE conduct and drunkenness, It was Hanskaw, Cap Tracy, Mrs. Tracy, Dr. J. ¥. Porter, Jr., was sum. M8. W. T. Curry, W. T. Curry, of WPA commodities, who main- of any of the several em- : Jr., W. M. Mears, A. Chestern,' tains head i 5 . See : oe U 8 iquarters in the com- ployees at the tanks, the |™oned and after making a thos. Dick Carrington, Lewis P. Alt: modity rooms situated at the eor- visitor will be courteously = hing ® man, Sallie Cazias, Alex German,'ner of “Angela and Simonton bedy, reading the statement of the captain of the S. S. W. C. Teagle, gave as his opinion that the cause of death was cerebral hemorrhage, shown where the ‘tank with these creatures is situated. FIIII LI DID Ds MEETING TONIGHT AT COURT HOUSE WILL BE JOINT SESSION TO DISCUSS FERRY SYSTEM Ba'domero Elva, Clyde Watts, streets, is in receipt of instructions Emily Price, W. Mayes, John Ca- from the state office velative to ey. ithe dsitribut’on of products in this } The vessel also brought 16 tons _ = - area. (of freight, one automobile and, |The latest order is to the effect TWO MEN ABO ARD tone sack of mail for Key West: that "prunes, now on hand, be dis- Jone ton of freight and 165 sacks tributed to certified clients, four Sead iaeatas | West to Havana were D. B. Hor. ; Mr. Recio states that ‘ those ‘ton, Claribel Horton and Louise, eligsile to receive these products, BOTH TAKEN TO MARINE Horton. ishould call at the rooms at once, Se ES jand obtain their portion as pre- ‘ISSUES ORDER IN scribed in the distribution regula- SARY TREATMENT i tions. | TREASURY BONIS ~csecxaTomas Lowest Highest last night last 24 hours 28 30 54 72 24 38 22 30 60 78 20 26 14 34 18 28 44 10 80 24 80 34 of mail for Havana. {in family or more, pending fur- Murray M. Bell, painter on the S. S. Cerro Ebano, was taken off the vesse] Saturday by the Coast County Judge Raymond R. Guard 244 and brought ashore to! Lord today issued an order in re be placed in the Marine hospital.,the estate of Perey H. Thompson Wm. E, Mosely, second mate of of which the Florida National the S. S. W. C. Teagle, was} Bank of Jacksonville is guardian. brought to shore yesterday morn-; The order authorizes the bank ing on the Tug Petrel of the Por-|to ho!d and retain for a period of ter Dock compan d also en-! five years United States Treasury tered the hospita treatment. } Bonds in the sum of $200. Draws Up Schedule Members of the city council] and board of county commissioners will meet in joint session tonight Station — Abilene Atlanta Boston Buffalo Charleston | Chicago Denver ; Detroit Galveston Havana , Huron \Jacksonv Kansas C | KEY WEST |Little Rock to discuss matters in connection with the fevry system. The meet- of the county court house. re All members of both bodies have make been earnestly asked to every effort to attend this meet- ing as the matters to be discussed ly important in more than the ordinary sense. are vi Ss E wm al S | lighthouses, 11 minor lights, 49) beacons and 129 unlighted buoys.| WED ARE ISSUED | Mrs. Demeritt left over the| thighway this morning accom-| | panied by Mrs. Lucille Hall, visi-| Records in the effice of Coun-! tor who is returning to her home!ty Judge Raymond Lord, show} {part of the Sixth district which,|in Miami, and Mr. and Mrs. Johnithat during the week ending Sat-|ard to Di | Fleming. Arriving in Miami Mr.) urday there were issued from his | j Elcming, who is employed in the) office two marriage licenses. | lighthouse service, will join the} These issues were made to: El-{ |Ivy, and Mrs, Demeritt and Mbs./is Russell and Nathalie Sawyer;| jeleming will visit for a time be-|Slyvester Huggins and Mary Ber- fore returning home. nice Hunt. aie Duval St. In Scavenger Servic NOTICE Schedule of Scavanger is as follows: Mondays and Thursdays: Front to Southard not including South- ard. Tuesdays and Frid: sion streets. Wednesday and Saturday Division street south to water. WILLIAM KNIGHT, 54 36 718 4 78 40 70 34 28 18 50 jLos Angeles Louisville all streets between Division and ,Miami south to the water. ! Minneapolis announces schedule of trucks} _!” taking over the management |New Orleans s A S lof City Scavenger Service, Mr.|New York any thiakismnes fel Rai Citizen: |Knight states that he is endeavor: | Pensaco’a On Mond.ys and Thursdays,/‘ng to give the peop'e of this city ; Pittsburgh trucks will cover all te-ritory be-| good service and invites any com-} St. Louis tween Front and Southard streets/ plaints which subscribers might Salt Lake City not including Southard. |wish to make. For this purpose'San Francisco On Tuesday and Fridays, all!he has established headquarters at | Seattle Manager.!streets between Southard and Divi-|208 Duval street and has install-| Tampa Phone 123-J sion. ed a phone, the number being, Washington janl1-3t On Wednesdays and Saturdays, ' 123-J. | Williston ervice| William Knight, newly-selected! manager of City Scavenger Serv-| lice, South- 82 52 4