The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 2, 1937, Page 1

No decision has as yet been @mnounced as to the nature of ‘REPAIRS |rwenry - THREE BUILDING! PERMITS ISSUED DUR- ING JANUARY the charges which will be filed} Building permits issued during aginst Benigno Roque, now in county jail for stabbing Police Officer Bennie Pierce early Mon- day morning. County Solicitor Allan Cleare, Jr., said today that cheriff’s office and Assistant State Attorney J. Lancelot Les- ter, had collaborated with him in quizzing 15 witnesses and when the resylts of the wounds haye| been definitely established, the charges will be preferred, As the case now stands the charges could be assault with in- tent to commit murder, nothing has been said, pointed out, as to what the charges| Mrs, Bertie Higgs will be, no announcement can be| Chas, S, Lowe ..... made at this time. Should the case seriously than anticipated and the'Mrs. W. H. Norman wounds prove fatal, it was said, the matter will be placed under the jurisdiction of the assistant state attorney. gt ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS or Happenings That Affect the Dinner Pails, Dividend Local Welfare the month of January numbered 23 and the total expenditure in- volved was $9,115, Practically ali of the permits was for repairs to residences and places of business except two which were above the $1,000 the| mark. Previously acknowledged $1,066.50 L. P, Artman .... as 10.00 Mrs. H. R. Demeritt 1.00 Catholic Card Club - 2.00 Catholic Daughters - 5.00 Cuban Club —. 3.00 but as! Mrs, Gladys Roberts 1.00 it was!Mrs. Geo, Archer 1,00} 1.00, 1.00, Monroe Theater 5.00 result more} Colonial Hotel _.. 5.00! 1.00 QOsear N. Norman 1.00 B. P.O. Elks 5.00 Miss C, H. Ford 1.00 W. M. S, Baptist Church 5.00 ndividual; Na- It is exceedingly difficult toyper cent—from $40,000,000,000 present a fair appraisal of indus- try’s condition these days, There are so many conflicting factors, 80 many diverse influences, that it is next to impossible to use the ordinary barometers in measuring actual achievements and failures. One school of business commen- tators takes it for granted that continued prosperity is assured, and gives the credit to the New Deal. Another school is extreme- ly anti-New Deal, and discounts advances that have been made. The third school attempts the dif- ficult job of analyzing conditions without bias or prejudice and, as is usual in srch matters, this school | probably comes nearest to being right, Mr. Roosevelt’s second inaug- ural has naturally caused eompari- sons between conditions as they were when he took office in 1933, to $62,000,000,000. All this is on the credit side. On the debit side are a number of vital problems which have not yet been solved. Unemployment still j hovers around the 9,000,000 mark —at the peak, in 1933, it touched an estimated 15,000,000, In spite of better business and increased consumer income and _ spending, relief expenditures are practically as great as ever. The Federa) debt is at an all-time record figure, and the budget is as yet unbalanc- ed. Taxes on industry—as well as! on indivdiuals—are at record lev- els. So as the Administration enters its second term, it can look back with satisfaction on various achievements made during its first four years—but it must a'so look ahead tovissues and conditions that are undecided, an that are as se- and conditions as they are today-.|rious now as they were in the worst And the picture, in: the hard-headed commentators, is mix- ed and bewi'dering. + The United States News recent- ly made a neat summing up of view ofjof the slump. First indication of what President.intends for the second four years. of the Administration, is found in his inaugural address. Adnzinistration assets and credits! This speech was commended on its as they apply to industry. In the| phrasing and eloquence. first four years of the present Ad-| pers which are generally opposed ;free produe-jto the Administration found much ; Naval H tion made remarkable advances.|to admire in its context. There is! finished in another two years. A} Some industries even exceeded|a growing feeling that the Admin-|few weeks ago the Public Works) their boom-petiod experience and|istration will not go farther left Administration are operating at record production} this term than it has—some think | million do‘lars to the project.” ministration industrial levels. The national income has been increased 50 per cent—from Newspa- it is taking a right turn. Interesting fact is that the : : TO RESIDENCES VISITS lhar ‘and the Gulf of Mexico. the, APPEARING ALMOST FOR- EIGN TO TOURISTS MAKING A special story sent out from Key West by the Chicago Tribune Press Service, and printed in that paper on January 9, gives a de- seription of how the Island City appears to a stranger, telling of its foreign atmosphere and de- pieting various activities carried on here. The article is reproduced be- low: “This southern-most city in the United States, with the exception of its army and navy posts, ap- pears in the eyes of tourists as a foreign land almost as exotie as it lis deseribed by a travel prospectus relief administration, “Uncle Sam’s tourist booklet. says that in the Negro quarters ‘rich and husky. voices break out into song’ and.‘a whole family and its guests dance the rhumba,’ and ‘handsome girls parade up and down.’ You may not find this, jbut you'll hear Spanish spoken by Cubens and Negroes on streets of unpainted houses of West Indies colonial architecture surrounded by ‘the trorical foliage flowered by the hot sun, On the waterfront you'll see fleets of weather-beaten small craft with weather-beaten jfrom their nets, Two Long Ferry Rides “The drive here from Home- stead, Fla., the southernmost town on the main'and, includes two long ferry rides, one of 14 and the Lother of 17 miles, and 118 miles of pavement across islands and jlong wooden bridges between the islands. There is little population jon these Florida Keys with their mangrove thickets that rise but a ifew feet above sea level to separate tlantic ocean from Florids “The scenery is mainly marine. Clouds and cora] shoals vary the ;eolors of the water from a light jyelow, an aqua marine and a deep purple. A tropical early morning jshower approached.as dark gray \slanting lines from a black cloud sailed over the Atlantic. It dropped ja deluge for two or three minutes and then as the cloud sailed west- | ward across the Gulf of Mexico, ;the warm sun painted a double rainbow with a width, and inten- sity of color not found in we] north. Get Tickets In Miami “The ferries, while affording pleasant interludes to an automo- ‘bile tour, are effective dams te jany volume of recreational travel. | There are only two sailings each iway daily. Tickets are sold in M-i ami and in Key West, the south- jbound driver arriving at the dock | without a ticket is told that he can jget aboard only if there happens to be room. If the vessel has its load of twenty-one ears the un- informed driver must return 98 miles, to Miami, The tarfif for a small car was $3.50, with 50 cents }more for each passenger in addi- | tion to the driver. “The federal government is now ; working to complete a highway of ferries to this military and allotted another | } | LEWIS’ TACTICAL ERROR BLUNTNESS INEFFECTIVE MAY HURT LABOR CAUSE SLOAN MISSES BALL~ PUBLIC REACTION LEGISLATION AHEAD RUNCIMAN’S VISIT HULL’S POLICIES GAIN HUGO SIMS 1 ent of The Citizen The surging flood waters of the Ohio, . moving - xelentlessly to- i ‘jward»the Mississippi, attracted | with General Motors and in. issued by the Florida emergency} major attention in Washington as’ flict with other labor groups, . Seanned = re- about'the, extent of the disaster. With thousands | and many others certain to be affect- ed before the wall of water flows into the Gulf of Mexico, every resource of the>Government was thrown into the work of rescue. Heads of relief agencies weve con- stituted a special flood board and Harry L. Hopkins given an office in the White House to coordinate activities. against flood waters, went on a 24-hour basis, using a!l equipment and prepared to utilice all re- sources. The Red Cross, a semi- official organization, wes in charge of relief to victims, aided by the Navy, the Coast Guard, the CCC, | j will look out for the best interest the WPA and the Public Health Service. Power boats, airplanes, communication trucks, serums, supplies were rushed into the af- fected area. Every effort was being made to avert an epidemic of influenza and to ward off ty- phoid and other diseases likely to follow the high water. Last week the Ohio river val- ley area saw its worst. This week will determine whether the giant Mississippi, with its latest flood contro] measures, can handle the vast volume of water poured into its band at Cairo. Army engi- neers, working feverishly ahead! of the crest, built up emergency dykes last week, hoping to pre-! vent serious breaks in the protec- itive levees along the great river, but with full knowledge thet new! factors, such a rampage by the Arkansas river. may mean far more serious difficulties and far greater huntan suffering. Mean- while the nation gave its sympa- thy and sent its cash to provide relief and hoped that further damage would be forestalled. John L. Lewis, militant Presi- dent of the United Mine Work- ers, has been an ardent advocate of the New Deal and a determined supporter of the President. Mr. Lewis is leading a bitter fight with the American Federation of Labor trying to convert it from jeraft unionism to the “vertical” system. His own organization and seven other powerful unions 1 outpost. It will probably be!formed a Committee for Indus-| trial Organization and launched a drive to organize the millions of mays production workers. The C. I. QO. sponsored strikes which closed down the General Motors plants, involving 139,312 em- ployees. vaccines, food, clothing and other} IESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, the Lewis si such a claim is not sustained by the election figures but even if it) was the blunt statement of Mf. Lewis would hinder rather than accelerate presidential interfer- ence in behalf of labor. It should be remembered that there is with the Almerican Federation of Labor contending that the Lewis faction does not represent even the workers of the United States. In fact, the craft unions claim jthe right to organize labor in the. jautomobile plants and it is known that many members of the A. F. ;mands that the President, take sides with him, against the A, F. lof L, as well as the industry he’ | fighting. ; Undoubtedly, the people of the’ | United States are sympathetic in their general attitude toward labor and convinced that the income of _ the worker and farmer must be jinereased. This does not mean, however, that the voters of this feountry are willing to leave the fimal decision in regard to labor’ voice to represent the mass of our! feitizens, Generally, the idea is }that the President represents all the people of the country, joey the organized labor groups, and that in any approach toward a settlement of a strike that he ‘of the nation as a whole. Labor |leaders, such as Mr. Lewis, cap make.no more serious mistake than to assume the right to de- mand either government or pop- ‘asa matter of course. | | public generally scoring a “boner” for John L. Lewis, the way seem- ed open for Generali Motors to make some progress toward win- jning public support. However, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of ' play completely and j strategy of the rankest kind, re- fusing to attend a conference to which he had been invited by Secretary Perkins. His action was taken because the workers continue “to hold our plants un- lawfully” and thus no parley could be held. The President, commenting on | this, expressed his disappointment land called Mr. Sloan’s refusal a | “very unfortunate decision.” Thus the White House balanced the | scales and maintained an impar- tial attitude toward the strike, which apparently ad beens! a bit by his earlier’ comment on the Lewis statement. ‘The. latter, [leaving a conferénce, was, asked 5 | whether there had been any ref-| erence to what the President ha said but, without disclosing what went on in the White House, {smiled and replied, | there really comes a time. .. - | The public reaction to the down strike, in which strikers re- main in plants without working, } , has hardly been apparent. How- ever, the tactics of the C. were likely to react against the strikers, especially if A. F. of L. i serious division of labor Saas of L. also supported the President, Mr. Lewis, involved: ina: peioean which had been offered on anata ml G, of the Hast of the projects. were being not With newspaper men and _ the} ‘the motor company, muffed the! exhibited} “You know,! I. O.}/ Of course,|, i | Members of the Oversea Road and Toll Bridge Commission, B. M. Duncan, chief engineer manager, and A, L. West, | | reading and recording the 28: ids! the »\At.3 o'clock the. bids on the! ested, the bids were in excess of. the estimates furnished when the} proposals were sent out to the, construction companies. However there will ‘be substantial reductions in some of| fore the actual bids will be an- Coffin And Inoon by WPA employes working | \on the sewer project at the west-} ern end of Eaton street where that } street is joined with Fort street.} Just how many of the gruesome relics of bygone years were found} in the excavation was not de-} j termined, but it was declared that at least six of the groups of bones; were encountered and placed in| piles to be reinterred when the ex- } cavated dirt and sand is placed in| the excavation after the pipes are laid. When the interments were el inally made is not known exactly, | !but an extract from “Key West, ; |The Old and The New,” by Judge | Jefferson B, Browne, reeds as fof lows: H “The first graves were made on; the western beach between the town. and Whitehead’s point, most: of them in the space between the} (Marine hospital and Emma street. | {A visitor to the island in 1930 de-} seribed: them as being marked by ‘a few plain stones to tell that the} ‘ possessors of the little tenement! below once lived and died’.” ' ee se ace reccscsecooccrseces | TEMPERATURES Lowest Highest last night last 24 hour | | Station — bilene j Atlanta | Boston designer, were this afternoon, Poimately i bess | Skeletons Unearthed At een! = % iy quisitions paving of Key tity maw ad ie SWI ithis contract, j Jools bomen BP ree Six bids were read on Contract rough carpenters laborers. F, which specified construction of some; 15,543 feet of complete ses oi oF deck on the railroad bridges known at State Employment | craft w t The War Department, bearing! questions to labor organizations.|the bids as combination bids were} as Paget Channel Bridge, M'ssouri men in oil skins unloading catchey! the major brunt of the fight, There must be some authoritative) offered on most of the projects,| Little Duck Bridge, Ohio Mis- but which will be some hours be-| sonri Bridge, Bahia 4 (Continued on Page Four) “ALLENS One Lees a number of VIOTOIEITS skeletons and parts of skeletons were discovered yesterday after-| BURT ‘ON SMITE LANDS SAILFISH Concluding an afternoon of excitement and successful angling, Burton C. Smith, guest at the Casa Marina, brought to boat a fine speci- men of sailfish, measuring seven feet one inch, weighing 48 pounds. Mr. Smith, accompanied by Mrs, Smith, and Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Newell, all of Rochester, N. Y., were out with Captain Begley Filer, and had a very good catch, even before the sailfish was taken, their take consisting of various specimens of the gamey fish which are found in these waters, Among the fish were 10 amberjack, averaging from 40 to 50 pounds, barracuda, mackerel and grouper, prac- tically all of them above the average, it was said. But, of course, the strike of strikes was when the sail- fish took the bait and hook, and Mr. Smith began play- ing it, realizing what the prize meant, and was careful in his methods until the mag- nificent specimen was brought to boat. bridge | Demands for workmen from the fice are expected to be great'y Honda-Ohio increased soon after the bids for the next five projects om the Keys have been opened and the con- | tracts awarded. rreewes NAVAL STATION RES. ERVATION Robert Alen, who conducts the syndicated column, “Washington Merry Go Round,” and Mrs, Allen, known to the newspaper world as Ruth Finney, who is a columnist with the Scripps Howard League of newspapers, arrived this morn- ing by plane from Miami and are occupying quarters in the naval station. In company with the Alens were B. P. Garnett, of the Edi- torial Research Bureau, of Wash- }ington, and Mrs,, Garnett, who is alos as:ociated w.th the Seripps Howard League of newspapers. | They have also been assigned } quarters in the naval] station and lane comfortably situated, Sounded Like Big (tr Ameciated Press) | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.— | Listeners in on the police radio \thought patro! car Taraval No, 1 | was getting a big order when they theard this: H “Man annoying woman between | Athens and Moscow. Respond.” | To the radio patrolmen it was !simple enough, and they went to | the rescue of a lady in distress in the range of streets named after DEMOLAYS TO oat | MEET TONIGHT Mr. Lewis is generally consid-! ered an astute leader but the con-' | sensus Of opinion is that he made ja blunder in telling a press con-; ference that his organization look-! $40,000,000,000 to $600,000,000,-| much-famed “Brain Trust’”—made } 000. The agricultural income is|up of so-called liberals and rad- | approximating its pre-depression | icals—is entirely dissolved. All of | ratio to the total national income. | the major figures of this once pow- | Commodit, prices are not far from | erful group are out of public lify | the 1923-25 normal. Bank dep ‘4ja number having accepted high-/ its have advanced more thar @ salaried private enterprise jobs, | There wil! be a meeting of Rob- | workers commenced a battle fo! the “right to work.” In othe words, by a policy of conciliation] Chicago the General Motors Corporation, | Denver = it seems to us, had a chance to} Detroit win public favor, which is wha zalveston will decide the labor questions Havana AAA 4 4 44 4 4 Ee : Grass Fire Illuminates i | jert J. Perry Chapter, Order of De-|ed to the president for aid. Blunt-, involved. So long as its officials; Huron . 10 ' ‘ on sete eae "Si BER Z ee Molays, held tonight, beginning at|ly he declared, “we have advised! gigyt all efforts to confer,on the!Jacksonville . 70 Ez F ‘; f ty 0 o'clock, at the Scottish Rite|the administration . . . that f6r j.cue and indirectly rebuff the| Kansas City 20 i as er UL . Fs S an i United Sta es D | Hall, corner of Eaton and Simon- | six months the economic royalists Government, regardless of the KEY WEST 84 i . B25 . aad ; epu |ton ‘streets. i ___ [represented by General Motor= reason ascigned, there is little Little Rock 40 | Meesiniitin © a3 There will be ritual practice | contributed their money and used prospect of winning public sup-!Los Ange‘es . 64 | About 8 o'clock last night let the brush and grass } after the meeting, states Joe their energy to drive the adminis-| ort among the mass of Amer-| Louisville 34 | flames were seen aricing from the laa 5 He arom YS Richardson, master counsellor, and jtration out of power. The Ad- icans. Miami ... 78 [section of Trumbo Island ad- ™¢ o"event Up “} ‘all majority members are request inneapolis .. Game Warden Arrives ministration asked labor for help} ee i 0 -.. Would endanger property ted to attend. |to repel this attack and labor! The publie interest in labor New Orleans 60 jaeens bs Palm Avenye. spd wih, Only at one time, = the F Z Se i }gave its help. The same economic questions becomes serious when aj New York 42 |in a short time those viewing the slames were getting too the Rexford McCleod, United States, his sane af activity coment the [roseuiaty now have their aoe in’ strike in a few key plants can tie; Pensacola . 62 i scene from a distance were under’ road was it found necessary to deputy game warden, was an ar-| area and land and the Keys rang- FR E E D A N CE labor. The workers of this coun-' yp large-scale industries and im-! Pittsburgh 34 ithe impression that a section of use the apparatus and Engine rival in Key Wect yesterday and ing from No Name Key to Mar- es His i | try expect the Administration to! peril national recovery. The long-| St. Louis 22 ‘the city was in flames. Number 2 was put im operation pete a his activities. in| Si": Sue omorrow Night, 8 till \help the workers in every legal er the impasse remains the great- Salt Lake City 14 34 i _ The alarm was sounded, and but was only active a short time, , SORE: 398 In making his visits to the Keys) GLOQOPPY JOE'S | way.” Subsequently, Mr. Roose-|er pressure will be for some leg- San Francisco 42 52 ‘fire apparatus was rushed to the when it was decided that the this district. and patrolling that section of the} Blues Singing, Tapping, Trucking velt said, “I think, in the interest islation permitting government Seattle s 40 |scene. The pump from the bar- water was no longer necessary. The new deputy game warden} district Mr. CeCleod said that he! “Music by Rudy's Swing Band |°f the people, there come moments’ agencies to intervene, conduct/Tampa . 78 lracks was put in operation, but The grass and brush burned for told The Citizen that his assign-| will use his cabin cruiser, which yq Admission No Couvert, When statements, conversations hearings, make decisions and put! Washington 48 ) Chief Harry Baker, of the Key about two hours, Chief Baker | ment will last indefinitely, that‘he has ready at all times for use. land headlines are not in order.”! (Continved on Page Four) Williston ...... 4 | West Fire Department, decided to. said.