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Associated Press Day Wire Service For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LIX. No. 23. Heavier TaxationF | | Residents Of Floridai.* DOLLAR'S ? 7 o Questions Relative To. > gee Hoare Cnty Sty of Chapler 16/02, Special| shall be prescrived by law: Pro- lidity of ter 18, ial} y law: : LAID OFF OF BRIDGE WORK ‘HOME SOCIETY OF = wa | FLORIDA | beatin Governor Cone Starts in| TAX Lining Up Much Prop-| erty Which Has Gone Un- taxed For So Long | Laws of Florida, 1937, which were | vided, that nothing herein shall | asked Tuesday afternoon of Coun-/ effect the terms of such commis-} | ty Attorney W. Curry Harris by | sioners holding office at the time members of the county commis-/@f such division: Provided fur-| (Special to The Citizen) | NEW YORK, Jan. GPs | terms, or from | TALLAHASSEE, Jan. 27— (FHS) One of the biggest jobs ever undertaken by any depart- ment of the state government has | just been completed: the job of bringing to light the will be added to the intangible tax rolls of the state for the year 1938 and approximately one and @d to the state's general sevenue fund, as the result of the comple- | fion of this work, but that is only | part of the story. ‘When the state legislature ad- journed after boosting appropria-/ tions for state expenditures and | then depriving the general rev- enue fund of several profitable | sources of revenue, it became ap- Parent that something would il gk z Fr Relay ri ge? aa ; the Federal government in 1936 Pitts amounted to $87,065,564, repre-. senting a valuation of $2,176,369,- 100. The assessed valuation on/ ‘all intangibles on the tax rolls of DANCE Tonight. 10 till ? FOR YOUR FLOORS--JOHNSON’S GLO-COAT. NO RUBBING, NO POLISHING. FOR LINOLEUMS, VARNISHED OR PAINTED FLOORS. SOUTH FLA. PHONE sss NEW BRITAIN, Conn., Jan. 27) (IPS).—Just what happens to the| week. lincome tax payment of the aver- é Spats |i & opinion ted limitations of united here today to pay tribute| Kiomey Haris | ignation or otherwise, | to the memory of Emanuel Swed-) The meeting was a special as- | the election of 1932, shall} jenborg, whose birth January 29,/ semblage called for the purpose be filled by appointment by the | 250 years ago, is commemorated | of taking up the matter of redis-/ Governor, as now provided by, |nationally and internationally this tricting the county of Monroc. so| law. oo . | that one member of the commis-| . “Section 2150 of the compiled | The principal event in this! sioners would be selected from General Laws of Florida provides country occurred here last night | the Keys, and was attended by for a change or alteration of the| ) at a dinner meeting at Hotel Del- Chairman Carl Bervaldi, Commis- | county commissioners districts by | ‘Wm. R. Porter and Cleve-|a petition of two-thirds of "the OF THIS NUMBER. EIGHTY WERE DISCHARGED LAST| WEEK FROM CONTRACTS D| AND E Lists of men who have recently been discharged*f¥omi™ work on hitherto when it goes into the United|monico. A message, from Presi-| Soners mortgages Bintes Treasury tll? Busiangmamn | dent Hoceeveli-way.aereived and|tand Niles, Attorney W. Curry | qualified registered voters ofthe | the bridge project!™itimber al- Harris, Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, and 4. Lacey, of this city, learn- i | Deputy Sheriff Bernard Waite. | In the opinion rendered by At- |torney Harris yesterday, it ii . shown that Section 5 of Article | : “ | VIII of the Constitution of the ponee yan ee aaa 3s the | State of Florida provides as fol ot rar 2 Such he oie | Smmeditely upon the rai {and small there is need of that | cation of. Sis cage ad Lam cey and the other 2,000,000 OF! spiritual leadership of which county commissioners o! sev- \Swedenborg was a particular ex- eral counties.of this State shall le. divide their respective counties “T-hope as a result of the forth- into five commissioner's districts, ‘ 5 ~| coming commemoration of the to be numbered respectively from t pictorially showed inst two hundred fiftieth anniversary OP to five, inclusive, and each just where each of his dollars is| ,¢ swedenborg’s birth, by the | district shall be as nearly as pos- spent by the government. A study | Committee of the General Con- | ible equal, in proportion to pop- of his tax payments showed that: | vention of the New Jerusalem Ulation, and therefore there shall | Government salaries (clerks,’ Church, that the world may be be in each of such districts a | turned away from material pur- county commissioner, who shall suits to a contemplation of the be elected by the qualified elec- quiet strength which lies in/ tors of said county, at the time | things of the spirit”. |and place of voting for other } BES SS county officers, and shall hold wert his.office for two years. The ®t DR. 0.N. EDWARDS | mowers: ‘aties and compensation district and by a vote of three-|_os¢ 200. Of thes 80 were dis-| # | fifths of the county commission-; ; “ Hi ‘ers. This can only be done once | “barged last week ‘from Contracts in | D and E, of the S. "Groves and | | “The above section’ carries‘ out Sons Company, and this week 83) the constitutional intent: | others of the same compeny have! “It is an established principle | .).. heen disch i of constitutional law that powers | A oe delegated to one branch of the; 4 lance over discharge government cannot be usurped by cards indicate that most of them | er branch of government. were deprived of work because of +“In addition thereto, said chap-/ the fact that the contracts had | ter 18,072 of the laws of Florida, | een completed, with the excep- 3 Riyklecrrapie the reason tion of certain finishing touches it provides for only four dis- | requiring experts on the type of ticts, which is contrary to the | work. constitutional provision above| Naturally the question arose as quoted.” |to what was to become of these “Asked in what manner the) omission of one of the districts is ‘made, in the book containing the General Laws of 1937, Mr. Harris} said that no provision is made di for a third county commissioners | sideration. : district, but that District Number} Claude Gandolfo, in charge of 2 is provided for in two para-| one section of assignments, told | graphs. | The Citizen that practically all of the state's sixty: 26 YEARS; NORTHER KEEPS OTHER YACHTS AWAY. IT IS ANNOUNCED BY KEY WEST HOSPI- TALITY BAND An excellent and well-arranged | j program of offerings by the Key; st. somes - ee as | West Hospitality Band will be . JOSEPH, Mich., Jan. 27.—| . t played at Bayview Park tonight Judge Malcolm Hatfield today | Years for his health, arrived to-| under the direction of Professor! stated that courts cannot com- Doctor O. N. Edwards, who has the University, of into the i ate lives of freshmen, was revealed: Forty percent of the men the Club were aborigines and not ere lath ae hes | 102-foot long, 20-foot beam yacht, | “Lela”, captained by P. L. Adams. March. The “Lela” 4 Program fi ay the “Stein Song” Brockton was formerly the Selection, “Robert Le Diable” Tobani |. High winds and rough -seas “ ‘ Te" have kept the smaller boats from ea — making port, but there is a good- ” | ly number of spic and span yachts ie, er ae | flying the flags of various yacht } clubs at the Basin. | In port is Lawrence Jones, who | owns the Frankfort Distilleries of | Louisville, Kentucky, with his | 165-foot yacht, “Buccarinéer” and In | eoemwenrins @Sam-| March,-“Onore Al Arte” ve Spt ees Rrten Di B. Sbraccia é = Star Spangled Banner <7 CHARAVAYS ARE WSTORS HEE Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Chara- vay. are visitors in Key West, coming here for the third season, and expect to spend some time. Popular, “It’s An Old Southern Custom” i Popular, “Cocktails For Two” Linderman Popular, “It ‘Looks Like Rain In Gherry Blossom Lane” ‘“Riette”, “Miramar”, “Pinmar”, “Doubloon”; “Nicoya”, “Dawn Hit", and “Zephyr”. OFFICER HAZEN VISITED SSSSFoRSSSRELVF Ro SSRSASR Sas | KRG atasVatslessrs article LOWE FISH CO. Key West's Cleanest and Most Sanitary Fish Market day at the Yacht Basin with his ai¢-edo Barroso. i King | ents are not educated to their du- ed theirs before they were 10. | pete with the cheap dance hall, 36 percent of the women ha’ ioom and questionable thea | cent of the co-eds are blonde. | Seas —_ He eavertet i that Sixty-four women smoked their | | thousands of children will soon first cigaret between the ages of| turn to crime if indifferent par-| 10 and 15 years; eight men smok- | ' The judge lays down specific they slept at least ten consecutive means for treating disobedience, | hours a night. dishonesty, temper tantrums and other symptoms that indicate fu- Britain Approves ture criminal careers in his book, “Children in Court”, which is. be- pany of New York City. Judge Hatfield, whose work with youthful offenders is, $ followed in parent-teacher, ‘ ligious and educational circles,’ ment if added that the ten million chil- Gibraltar dren who are affiliated with no in Spain church cannot be expected to de-/| i velop character and high ethical about the hunt club's negotiations standards or morality. with General Francisco Franco i the committee handling the af- fair, states that $98 net was real- | "27" TE ED AMONG SPEAKERS TO Ceremonies celsbrating the BE HEARD; LARGE NUMBER >“‘hdey of Jose Mart. temeus Cuban poet amd faghter a the Be draw a large to the officers and the Women's Advisory tee, the officers and society's three : i % f : soring committees | i 3 i “| Le fl | : | i i i ; rk ryt Ri I i il i i rhs | | i i 8 | i} a4 i Hf th v i Hi i ' | | He i ' tte & ii f it Ta | i H z 7 : | if Fa 7 lI sei if A] if i! ide ff | | iy z | ef | i i hy i d rt i iy fe i i i 4 ] ni i | ft i ttt