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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
MUCH WORK YET
TO BE PERFORMED
BY LEGISLATURE
BOTH BODIES FACED WITH
GIGANTIC TASK WITH BUT
LITTLE MORE THAN TWO
WEEKS LEFT
(Florida Press)

TALLAHASSEE, May Ia
With but a little more than two
weeks until adjournment, the 1888
legislature finds itself facing a gil
gantic task with the calendars of
both the house and senate crowd
ed and much important legisla-
ton still to be considered.
Talk of possible extra session
continues. The governor, however,
stands firm in his belief that all
necessary issues can be decided
within the period of the regular
session and he is opposed to cali
ing an extra session, which he
termed "unthinkable" in his Sec
ond message to the legislature.
Committee work has been prac-
tically completed on most of the
major bills and these are in shape
for quick passage, and are being
given special order on the calen-
dars. The senate and house have
both given individual action on
many of the measures requested
by Governor Sholtz.
Both legislative bodies settled
down to work this week determine
ed to push through important bills.
Day and night sessions are being
held.
Among the more important
bills. some of which will probably
be passed this week are the coun-
ty officers fee bill; motor license
tag bill; judicial circuit reduction
bill; congressional reappointment
bill; bond refunding legislation;
salary eduction bill; and the bien-
NAL appropriations bill calling for
an expenditure of more than $6.-
600, 900 year for the next two
years. This is more than $780,
600 higher than the administration
bill, which carried the recommen-
dations of the budget commission.
The school Capitalization bill,
giving the state board of educa-
ton more power over the state
school system is scheduled for pas
sage this week.
Up to the present time little has
been done toward carrying out
the governors wishes for CONSOLE
dation of departments and offices,
although several efforts have been
made in that direction.
So far, only q few of the ma
jor measures have received final
legislative approval and been sent
to the governor for his signature.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
MISS HILL SINGS
AT ROTARY MEET
QUESTION OF ORGANIZATION
or ANOTHER SCOUT TROOP
is TAKEN UP TODAY

Miss May Hill, honor guest ct
the Rotary luncheon today, REM
dered several vocal selections.
which were greatly enjoyed by
those assembled on the occasion.
Jerry Trevor gave q talk in the
interest Of Troop 5, Boy Scouts,
urging all to contribute support TO
the unit. while the subject Of or
ganixing another troop, and the
selection Of q scoutmaster, was
also brought before the meeting.
The Rotary members pledged
their hearty support to the troop
now in existence. and which il
under the leadership Of ]. A. Bora.
and also in the matter of looking
10 the formation Of the additional
unit.
There was . fairly large number
Of members present 1t the meet
ing today. all manifesting great
interest in the various matters CONF
ing up FOR discussion.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
SHORTER HOURS FOR
PALM BEACH WORKERS

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.
May 1s.The Emergency Relief
Council of Palm Beach county an
nounced that decision had been
reached in which working hours
for those employed by the council
will be reduced from seven hours
to six hours day. The change
becomes effective at once.
Pay rates Of IS cents an hour
for white men will remain the
same with the men receiving $40
day instead of $2.45. Negroes
will receive $1.10 q day under
the new program.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
Urge Speed On Hearings
For Legislation Bearing
On Public Works Program
Secretary WOOdin In First
Appearance Before Com
nittee, FavOrs Move
ment
CRy Associated Press,

WASHINGTON, May IL.
Administration exhorted
the house ways and means
committee today to rush the
hearings on the public works
industrial control legislation
introduced yesterday.
In his first appearances be-
fore the house committee,
Secretary Woodin spoke of
the urgency with which Pres
ident Roosevelt views the
Importance Of the great bill.
He was backed by Budget
Director Lewis w. Davis.
Chairman Doughton APP
peaIed that the committee
forget partisanship.
This bill should be taken
up in al seriousness for i
affects AL the people Of the
country" said WoOdin.
Four separate ways Of
raising money 10 fund the
$4,000, 900. 900 outlay were
put before the committee,
without recommendation spe-
officially.
A flat sales tax Of one and
one fifty, or one and one
eighth, with no exemptions
was one plan.
Three others involved rais-
ing the income tax plus an
increased gasoline tax 70 one
and three quarters cents. or
levies On tea, coffee and CO
Goa, or miscellaneous taxes
covering such items a. small
er admissions, and long dis
lance telephone charges
which are now exempt.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18

OVER COUNTRY OF
GREAT MAGNITUDE
WOULD ABSORB THREE Bill
LION FUND FOR PROGRAM
OF PUBLIC WORKS; OVER
SEAS BRIDGES IN SCOPE
Especial 10 The citizen)

N0pGCI4A 10 ne (tktEGn3
WASHINGTON, May 1S.-Ac-
foundations of planned municipal,
county and state public works con-
struction which has been postpon-
ed during the past four years to-
gether with federal public works,
can easily absorb the three billion.
three hundred million dollar con-
templated federal public works APP
preparation, A. C, Tozzer, presi-
dent of the Associated General
Contractors of America and a
member of the Executive Come
mittee of the Construction
Leagues National Committee for
Trade Recovery, declared today.
Backing his statement with the
incomplete but detailed compila-
ton Of over 3400 planned projects
from all parts of the country
which have been submitted to the
Administration by the Trade Re-
covery Committee, Tozzer asserts
that the list constitutes over a two
billion dollar volume of sound and
necessary public works which can
and should be built in the imme-
date future. This latter figure
does not include federal projects,
grade crossing eliminations and
slum clearance. He estimates that
work could be initiated on ma
jority Of them within the next 3
to 9 months.
The list. itemized by states, in-
cludes bridges and tunnels, sewer
age and sewage disposal. water
works, flood protection, irrigation
and drainage, highways. streets
and paving, port and harbor devel-
opment, schools and libraries,
hospitals, prisons, asyiums and in
stitutional buildings and miscel-
laneous municipal projects includ-
ing parks, incinerators, airports
and municipal gas and electric
plants.
Tozzer emphasizes that, while
the Trade Recovery Committees
list is still incomplete and while
information is lacking as to need
ed public works construction in
many of the communities. II Ii
known that many Of the projects
are needed Immediately, TO take
care of deferred requirements Of
the public, without anticipating
future normal demands for such
facilities.
With national, authoritative
leadership for q public works pro-
gram once established in Washing
ton, Toner stated that the local
organizations for planning and d.
recting all types Of work are now
in existence to direct and carry
out the program 30 that conssrue-
ton to relieve unemployment can
be started throughout the c0san~
try simultaneously.
IN Florida there are two major
projects in contemplation. One ii
the 800 900. 900 crosA-state ship
canal from the Atlantic Ocean 10
the Gulf Of Mexico, and the other
the 81 900 900 bridge PROPOSE
lion over the wafer gaps on the
Miaini-Key West highway.
Besides these two, there are 22
minor projects for florida 1T an
estimated cost Of sfe. zss. 900.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
GERMAN NATION
JOINS IN CAUSE

BERLIN, May 1S.-The whole
German nation rallied today be-
hind the government in soIemnly
assuring the world that her hall
lowed ideals are universal peace,
universal disarmament, and prop
erly working ECONOMIC machinery.
Such aims were included in Hit
ler's speech yesterday.
Newspapers took the stand that
success Of the world disarmament
conference now was dependent
upon the rest of the world extend
ing a friendly hand to Germany.
Baron Konstantin Won Neurath.
foreign minister, has left for
Geneva to represent Germany in
the disarmament conference.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
START WORK OF
DREDGING CANAL

FORT LAuDERDAI.E. Pa.
Nay II. Dredrlng werk ms been
started On he Florida Eazs Coass
canal Eink hekween New River and
she Pairs Beach eesnty hHse.
A ppraxsmasely g. .oaa f,tfl will
- spent III xgmpleslnx ths dreag.
in. TIE eanzl wsli - anaimtain-
ed b. the federnl gevegmmenk ~
! eons 81 sf7s. GO annaaTsy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
BASE BILL
TO GET HEARING
REPRESENTATIVE SEARS IS
GIVEN PROMISE ~
vInsOn

EhairHnan VfnsDn, GeoTgsa, ct
the house naval eommissee. haa
ssrcrnlaed hearing 10 der Sears.
representative - large. AZ Flores.
% hsK bail TO establish ) naval
baae ~ Key West
Asked whsn the hsH wssl ~
beard Chasrsnas vfmsen sid shs
nAvai cosnansstes II very bRay -
shs pgessnt sine bns - esnId -
saga sA@a i he@StmK viii be Rsvsn
81 10 seaAlon e eongxeaa
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
GOVERNMENT WILL
SELL MOTOR BOAT
VESSEL TO be AucTIoNED
orr AT FEDERAL BUILD
INC TOMORROW

Motor beat vl64s6 will be sold
III noon tomorrow ID front of the
federal building 10 the highest
bidder.
This vessel Il one Of those seix-
ed some time ago on charges Of
having been engaged IN smuggling
operations between KEY West and
cuha.
Advertisements covering the
vessel have been published three
times IL the columns ef The Citi-
xen.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
Disarmament Was Topic
OF Entire World Today
Destiny OF Movement Rests
In Hands OF President
Roosevelt And ChanceI-
Iir Hitler


Disarmament was the topic of
discussion today throughout the
world. The destiny Of the dis
armament conference in Geneva
appeared to be resting in the
hands Of President Roosevelt and
Chancellor Hitler.
This view was taken as the re-
suit of rapid-fire events Of the
past forty-eight hours which I'M
cluded RooseveIt's message to the
world and HitIer's address to the
Reichstag.
In Berlin today, the Prussian
diet was to meet for the last time
until 1897. An empowering act
was adopted to shear the Prussian
diet of constitutional powers. 1t
was supported Dy nationalists ana
socialists.
The diet, however, will be sub
jeet to call. Officials in Italy
awaited a statement before COM
menting.
UnoffieialIy, however, 1t was
pointed out that Italy had agreed
with Germany's views and upheld
the right of Germany to arms
equality, and that country's con-
tention that post war treaties
be revamped.
Former Premier Edouard Her
riot in Paris said that on the basis
Of Hitler's speech, Germany will
claim equality on the sea after
being given land equality. The
French believe that acts alone will
prove German sincerity.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
WOMAN KILLED
IN AUTO SMASH
FIVE ALSO INJURED IN Ac-
cIDENT SOUTH or
BELLEvlEw

OCAIA. May IS.Mrx John
Dohson. &C Howey. was killed and
five persons hurt, two critically.
today when a. automobile over
turned soash a. BELIEVER.
The left rear tire blew eas and
tire ear overturned twiee. landing
ON its wheels 81 The highw4y. A
child 81 four escaped iniuxy.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
ADVISORY

WASHINGTON. y. 6. aay IS.
is53.Advkaory 1880 >. M Ep
absence ~ vessel reports frpm
southern Gulf tropical Disturbances
northwest 81 Yneasan Has made
little progress
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18

KANSAS CITY Robert Mar
shall Of this city gave away his
daughter. sister-in-law and cousin
at triple wedding.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
KlPr PAY SECRET

ST. LouIS. Mrs. Henry Lam
son. Of g. city. complained 70 the
police I'd, her husband would net
tel her hew much be earned.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18

A Florida Justice of the
Peace was here today seek
ing the return of 10000
rounds of ammunition seized
by the customs collector sew
eral days ago near his home
at Tavernier.
Justice E. R. Lowe, of Tav-
ernier on Key Largo, con-
tended the ammunition was
given to him and he had .
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18

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to accept and retain il.
The ammunition was seiz-
ed possibly on the assump-
ton by customs men that il
was for use in Cuba.
The story of the finding of
the ammunition in question
was published in The Citizen
ON May 10. giving details of
the seizure.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
ROOSEVELT SIGNS
SHOALS MEASURE

eBy Asaoe,atea Press,
WASHINGTON. May H.
President Roosevelt today
signed shs Musels Shoals
Tennessee Valley Develop
meat bill making il Law.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
GIVES AWAY THREE

meat bill making Il . Law.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-05-18
Justice E. K. Lowe In
Washington On Efforts
TOReCOyer Ammunition

WASHINGTON, May 49, perfect right under the law
"A Florida Justice Of the to accept and retain it,
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
Of GOLFER
MOVES COURT

Even the law turns a Sympa-
thetic ear when a frustrated golf
er is brought before 1t charged
with spanking an S-year-old boy
who insists on rolling milk balls"
in front of him at the crucial mo-
ment Of teeing up.
Horace E. Yost. 1900 block OF
Morse st. N. E., who has three
youngsters Of his own, lost his
temper yesterday while playing
golf on the Anacostia golf course
and padded Paul Ludwig after the
latter ignored repeated requests
for peace and quiet.
Pauls father, who lives in the
1000 block Of Fairlawn Ave. s. w.,
had Yost arrested and charged
with assault.
Yost, when arraigned before
Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police
Court, admitted the spanking but
insisted it was not hard enough
to hurt. Paul, rubbing himself, 3,
disagreed on this point.
Henry E. Woodward, president
of the Welfare Recreation AsSo-
citation who runs the golf course,
testified that children playing
golfers had hurt the profits Of the
association. Judge Schuldt took
YoSt's personal bond and dis
missed the case.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
Long Titles Irk Tired Clerks
In New Park Offices
RE:s3

Names mean little, according to
poets and philosophers, but when
it comes to titles the Interior De-
partment has drawn some whop-
pers as a result Of the merger Of
Public Buildings and Parks. with
Interior August 10.
The organization, until recently
headed by Lieut.. Col. U. S. Grant,
which handled all local park
matters, was known officially as
the Office Of Public Buildings and
Parks. BY Executive order it was
transferred to the Interior Depart.
ment and the National Parks Ser.
vice, which in turn had its name
changed officially to the Office Of
National Parks, Buildings and
Reservations.
Local parks had to be admin.
istered under a separate title 50
the old Office Of Public Building
and Parks became the National
Capital Parks Office.
Frank T. Gartside, former chief
Of public parks under Colonel
Grant, now bears the following
formidable title:
"Frank T. Gartside, Acting
Superintendent Of the National
Capital Parks Office of National
Parks, Buildings and Reserva-
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
RIVAL FEDERAL WORKERS GROUPS MAY BURY HATCH
Judge to Urge
Curfew on
Radios

Judge j. Chew Sheriff and
Judge Joseph C. Mattingly in
Upper Marlboro are agreed to-
day on one proposition-that
the radio is Public Enemy No. /.
Judge Mattingly desires quiet
at his court sessions and has
asked that neighbors at the
court house cut off their radios.
Yesterday, Judge Sheriff handed
down a legal opinion in which
he nominated himself as a mem
ber of a commission to adopt q
curfew for radios and to draft
other ordinances against noise.
The radio is the most annoy
ing thing in preSent-day noise
if it is not manipulated properly,
he said, and so fined Claude
Ritchie SIS and costs on a charge
Of assault and battery. Ritchie
is said to have rebuffed too
strenuously the objections Of
his Stepfather, to having the
radio turned on late at night.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
OFFICERS
CHANGED

Three important personnel
changes as a result of the merger
of National Parks with the Office
Of Public Buildings and Parks
August 10 have been revealed by
Arthur E. Demaray, associate di-
rector of the newly created Office
of National Parks, Buildings and
Reservations.
John L. Nagle, chief engineer
for the old public buildings and
parks office under 1t. Col. U. s..
Grant, retains his former duties
but in addition works on projects
throughout the East under the
direction of Oliver D. Taylor,
Eastern division chief Of the ma
tional parks office.
Similarly, Irving H. Payne,
landscape architect, and August
Hanson, park naturalist, have ex.
panded their duties and report to
Charles e. Peterson, Eastern divi-
sion chief Of branch plans and
designs, whose office Is in the
Munitions Building.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
BUSINESS TURN
REPORTED IN
BALTIMORE
Trade Revival Well Under Way,
Chairman of NRA Grievance
Group Declares

BALTIMORE, Sept. 16.-Visible
signs of business recovery are
shown for the Baltimore area in
a report just submitted by Col.
w. D. A. Anderson, chairman Of
the NRA grievance committee, in
which accomplishments of the
NRA campaign here is summa-
rized.
Only in the construction and
other heavy industries have no
gains been made, but the report
suggests that when the public
works gram gets into full
swing these businesses will show
improvement.
The report made to Mai. Gen.
Paul B. Malone, chairman of the
MIRA campaign here, shows depart
ment store sales for last month
were above those for the cor
responding month Of 1882, that
collections have shown material
improvement, that the rental
situation is reviving and better at
tendance at motion picture the
aters indicates more prosperous
family budgets.
A total of 1881 complaints have
been received by Colonel Ander-
sons committee, most Of them
from small retail stores, small
restaurants and the clothing and
needle trade industries.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
BABCOCK PLANS
RETURN TO
D, {. SOON
New Head of A. F. G. E. to
Quit as Manager of Civil
Service District

e. Claude Babcock, newly elected
president Of the American Fedora.
ton Of Government Employees, is
expected to reach Washington to
assume the duties Of that office
as soon as he can properly leave
his present position as manager
Of the Civil Service district center.
ing in San Francisco.
Babcock has been on the Job
in the West only a little more
than a month, having been sent
there after he was ousted as sec
retary Of the Civil Service Com
mission, following a recommends
ton that the offices Of secretary
and chief examiner Of the com.
mission be combined.
Was A. F. G. E. Officer
He was at that time secretary
Of the A. F. G. E., but resigned,
since he was not to remain In
Washington, and Cecil e. Custer
was named as MS successor IN
that capacity until the conven'
ton.
Babcock was formerly q mem
Der Of the N. F. F. e. and became
active in A. F. G. e. affairs after
the break between the two Or
ganizations.
Once Headed Veterans
He was also, some years ago,
national commander Of the Dis
abled American Veterans, which
organization he did much to
build up.
He left Washington in July to
assume his new duties in San
Francisco, but the convention Of
the A. F. G.. e. was apprised Of
his readiness to accept the prest'
dency if it were extended to him.
His acceptance indicated that
he would resign from the Gov.
ernment service and come East
as soon as circumstances permit.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
YCUT RETURN
HELD UNLIKELY
BEFORE EJAN.1 |
Law Specifies U. S. Salary
SIaSheS Are Effective
for Six Months

Competent legal authorities in
the Federal service said today
that they saw no opportunity for
restoration Of Government sal
aries, wholly or in part, before
January i.
The law seems to be specific
on the point that deductions in
basic salary rates are to cover
six-month periods, they hold, and
for that eason considerable
doubt was expressed that there
would even be an attempt to
change the situation until that
time.
Some Relief Seen
It is generally accepted, how
ever, that a considerable measure
Of relief will be afforded during
the coming six-months period
probably to the extent of halving
the present cut.
Even if the law permitted a
prior change, it was said, the
Bureau OF Labor Statistics would
not have time to fix the amount.
Costs Studied
The bureau is now working on
living costs in the District and
elsewhere as they affect Govern
ment workers, and its recon-
mendations will guide the Budget
Bureau and the President in fix
ing the salary rate Of Govern
ment workers for the coming six
months period.
incidentally, the bureau is
adopting the suggestion Of its
former chief, Ethelbert Stewart,
that a more accurate index for
present-day conditions be devised,
inasmuch as the one now in use
was worked out for 1913 and the
standards Of living have changed
greatly since that time.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
Contract Is Revoked
On HdLf-BuiLt School

Revocation Of the contract Of
the H. w. Cord Company for con-
struction Of an eight-room addi-
ton to the Keene School, at Blair
and Riggs Rds. N. E., was ordered
yesterday by the Commissioners.
This action was taken with the
consent of Harold w. Baker, D. c.
superintendent Of construction,
the contracting firm and its
surety, the Royal Indemnity Com
pany, after it was indicated the
company could not continue the
project.
The school was scheduled for
opening of the fall term but at
the present time it is only about
60 per cent complete.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
P, 0. PUBLICITY
FUND SCANT.

Generosity is always connected
with mention of the Post Office
Observation-Disclosures and
other manner of patronage, you
know.
But there's one division within
the department itself hard
pressed to discover any sort OF
generosity.
That division is the press
headquarters-the place which
supplies news to papers in all
parts of the country.
Yet the publicity men who run
that division complain that they
scarcely ever see the fruits OF
their labor.
Why? Because $1O0 a year to
buy newspapers doesn't begin to
buy news sheets that they should
under ordinary circumstances be
permitted to peruSe.
Their budget doesn't permit
them to buy any Sunday papers
at all. They do buy three local
newspapers, one from Baltimore,
two from New York and that's
all.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
G. U. COgsWeU Heads
Kenneth Nash Post

Kenneth Nash Post of the
American Legion elected Guy U.
Cogswell as commander for the
coming year at a recent election
Of the post. The meeting was
held in German Hall, First and
Upshur Streets.
other officers elected are Ron.
aid G.. Thring, senior vice COM
mander; Robert E. Lee, Junior
vice commander; DR.. L. Benton,
chaplain; Wilbur B. Keely, quar-
termaster; Robert R. Allen, ser
geant at arms, and N. Y. Wilt,
Judge advocate. Appointments
made were Ellis R. King, adju-
tant, and George E. Emhau.
finance officer.
The Washington times., 1933-09-16
MODERN|ZAT|ON
Of R, R. DUE

Experiments for the moderniza.
ton Of railroad passenger traffic
are being surveyed by the Railroad
Coordinator's Office, according to
information at the Department Of
Commerce today, to determine
how railroad traffic can be made
more useful and attractive to the
public, as well as more economi-
cal.
Air conditioning and other re-
cent developments are being exam
ined in the light of this survey.
This work is undertaken in con.
nection with the general program
Of the Coordinator's Office, which
includes surveys Of less-than-car.
load freight handling, carload
traffic and marketing.