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Evening star., 1936-01-16
AUTO DEALERS TO MEET

A plan to scrap old automobiles
taken in trade this month will be OUT
lined at meeting of Chevrolet dealers
and sales managers tomorrow in the
Mayflower Hotel. Glen r. Weeks.
manager of the Baltimore zone for the
Chevrolet Co., will explain the plan.
The company has set up fund Of
81 ,000, 900 to reimburse dealers
throughout the country for all old cars
taken in trade this month and scrap
ped, 1t was announced.
Evening star., 1936-01-16
Hoouer Stole Recovery Ideas,
Ex.Clerk's$1O,O3O,OOOSuitS Says

Secretary of Treasury employed his
ideas without giving him credit, thus
emitting him to s10,000,000 damages.
The remaining $4,000 damages
were asked because, Barry charged,
he was "undeservedly dismissed from
a s3,400-a-year job in the Treasury's
Income Tax Bureau.
For that, he asked back salary for
six years. amounting to $20.400. He
also asked $40. 900 for losses of equities
in houses whose mortgages we're
foreclosed when he was unable to
keep up payments after losing his job.
Another 81 900 was asked for similar
foreclosure Of real estate.
Evening star., 1936-01-16

Charging that former President
Hoover and Ogden Mills, his Secre-
tary Of Treasury, appropriated his
ideas for ending the depression. a
former Government clerk sued the
United States for s10.032, 900 today.
The clerk. j. K. M. Barry, 2l20 @
street, acted as his own attorney.
Among other things, he contended in
his suit, filed with the Court OF
Claims, that Mr.. Hoover and Mr..
Mills used certain Of his ideas and
information" intended to lift the
country out of the depression.
He said the former President and
Evening star., 1936-01-16
1900 Jobs SLASH
PLANS UNDER WAY
A. A. A. and Treasury Mott.
flying Workers of Change
January 81.

The Agricultural Adjustment Admin
istration and Treasury today were get
ting ready for the personnel reduction.
that goes into effect January 81. taking
the jobs of more than 5000 employees
in the wake of the wreckage of the
farm aid program.
The A. A. A. is sending out notices
to $50 temporary and GA permanent
workers here, while the Treasury is
cutting off about 1000 in the field who
were detailed to work in connection
with the outlawed processing tax. The
A. A. A. field force already is off the
pay roll, being paid on a per diem
basis. and the retrenchment will leave
a staff of approximately 4,300 here.
Tax Staff Held Over.
The Treasury does not propose at
this time to disturb its local processing
tax staff of 500, holding them for
iqu;dating purposes. The A A. A
employees also will go on hquidating
duties now. but in both establishments
there is a disposition to keep intact
their forces, so far as is possible, until
it is determined if they will be needed
for a new farm plan.
II another venture of the sort is
started those employees losing out will
get preference in Unemployment. They
are being put on a furlough status
Many of the A A. A. employees, and
virtually all the Treasury staff-the
exceptions, it was said, were deputy
collsctors-have civil service status.
which will be helpful in finding work
in other agencies. The outlook for
others, it has been said, is not promis-
ing.
Marital Toll Heavy.
In the A. A. A. slash, the marital
status law took heavy toll, 214 going
out because of this. Of the other
permanent workers being dropped, 800
are from the controllers Office, and
200 in administrative Offices. All get
the advantage of accrued leave. which
means they will be on the pay roll
until near the middle of February.
Meanwhile, pay checks held up while
the status of the employees was cleared
by Controller General McCarl, had
been distributed as the result of a
conference yesterday morning between
Treasury officials and the controller
general. Most workers got their pay
late yesterday afternoon The balance
were being cared for today.
Evening star., 1936-01-16
UNIT ELECTS

Allen C. Clark has been elected presi-
dent of the Columbia Historical So
ciety, it was announced today follow
ing the annual meeting held recently
in the Mayflower Hotel.
The other officers elected were Will
helmus 3. Bryan and Maj. Gist Blair.
vice presidents; Victor B. Deyber,
treasurer; Maud Burr Morris, record
ing secretary; John Clagett Proctor,
chronicler, and Henry P. Blair, Wade
N. Cooper, Wade H, Ellis and Walter
S. Pratt, jr., managers.
Evening star., 1936-01-16
HOUSE MEMBERS
TO TOUR DISTRICT
ON TRAFFIC STUDY
House Subcommittee to
Make Series of Personal
Inspection Trips.
A. A. A. JOINS DEMAND
FOR LOCAL REFORMS
Gain in Fatalities Feared Indi.
cation That Record Will Be
Broken This Year.

The Subcommittee on Streets and
Traffic of the House District Commit
tee decided today to begin its compre-
hensive survey of Washington traffic
conditions by making series Of per-
sonal inspection trips.
The first expedition is scheduled
Tuesday. Members will tour all Sec
tions of the District observing traffic
hazards and other conditions which
might contribute to accidents.
Later, inspections will be made at
night to determine what effect dinly-
lighed streets have on the traffic sit
uation,
Evening star., 1936-01-16
C0L0RED MAN DEAD
FROM SUFFOCATION
Body of Milas Maxfield Is Dis
covered When Firemen Re-
spond to Alarm.

Milas Maxfield. colored, "a. was
found dead of suffocation today in
second-f1oor room of his home. 1929
First street, when firemen responded
to an alarm here. The fire, which
was confined to the one room. was
caused by an overheated gas stove.
1t was believed Maxfleld had been
asleep and upon awakening had fallen
near the stove. All windows in the
room were closed. The man was
pronounced dead by Casualty Hos
pital physician.
Evening star., 1936-01-16

sire to delay the survey.
Patman pointed out, however, he Is
in entire accord with the survey, and
expressed belief it would develop a
program that would improve traffic
conditions and curtail the ever mount
ing fatality list.
Meanwhile. the American Automo-
bile Association joined with other
agencies in urging the need for a
thorough survey as preliminary to
traffic reforms in the District.
Higher Than Last Year.
The motor club pointed out that
fatalities during the first half of
January are up l25 per cent over last
year.
If this gain should contigue," 1t
was emphasized, this year will close
with $50 traffic deaths, or more than
double the toll of any previous year."
Among needed reforms suggested
by the club are improvement in jul
dicial handling of traffic cases, sterner
penalties for drunken driving, pro-
lection and control of pedestrians, in
creased personnel for the Police and
Traffic Departments and widening of
the scope of the safety responsibility
law.
With regard to the survey, Repre-
sentative Patman said: Traffic con-
ditions in Washington are horrible.
Automobiles are slaughtering people
on the streets. Something must be
done to stop it."
Carpenter, who also is intensely in
terested in traffic conditions, willingly
accepted Patman's request that he
direct the study. He plans to hold
series of conferences with Representa-.
tive Schultz, Democrat, of Indiana,
who proposed the survey, and other
members of the Streets and Traffic
Subcommittee to work out a program
of procedure.
Public Hearings Likely.
Carpenter indicated the subcommit-
tee probably would hold public hear
ings at which traffic experts and Off
cials Of the Police Department would
be called on to give their views on
traffic conditions and suggest plans
for making the highways safer for
both pedestrians and motorists.
Traffic Director Van Duzer and Po-
lice Supt. Ernest w. Brown are ex-
pected to be among the first witnesses
called before the subcommittee Heads
of traffic committees of various civic
and trade organizations as well as
representatives of automobile organi-
cations also are to be requested to
appear.
The traffic study was authorized by
the full District Committee after
Schultz called attention to the 113
traffic deaths last year, and nine thus
far this year.
Schultz was added to the streets and
traffic subcommittee 10 assist with the
study. Carpenter has requested the
addition of Representative Reed, Re-
publican. of Illinois, who has indicated
his interest in traffic conditions.
Evening star., 1936-01-16
The study will

The study will
be directed by
Represen t a t | v e
Carpenter. Demo-
crat, of Kansas,
instead Of Repre-
sentative Patman,
D e m era t. of
Texas, chairman
of the Subcom-
mittee. Patman
d e | e g a t e d the
Work 70 Carpen-
ter because he is
forced to leave
Washington for
about 20 days,
ard did not do
Evening star., 1936-01-16
Ancient Commerce.

Commerce between India and the
east coast of Africa hourished in the
first thousand years of the Christian
era,
Evening star., 1936-01-16
Elephant Speed.

An elephant on the move easily
makes 5 miles per hour.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22
WEATHER CONDITIONS

The tropical disturbance in
the western Gulf of Mexico NOV
ed inland over Mexico yesterday
a considerable distance south of
Brownsville, Texas. Pressure is
moderately low this morning from
the Gulf of Mexico westward over
California, and over the Canadian
Maritime Provinces; while a
strong high pressure area, crest
ed over the northern Plains States.
upper Mississippi Valley, and
Lake region, overspreads most
northern districts. l. ght to mod
crate showers and thunderstorms
have occurred since yesterday
morning in Florida, and also in a
few widely scattered localities
from western Moth Carolina
nOithwcstw2rd to Colorado and
North Dakota. Temperatures have
fallen from the upper Mississippi
Valley eastward to the Atlantic
coast. and are considerably below
normal Throughout much o. this
area; while readings are gener-
ally above the seasonal average
in the southern portion of the
country. with maximum tempera-
lures of 1912 to 100 degrees re-
ported yesterday in western Kan
sas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, north
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22
THE PEOPLE IMPROVE

There are people who like to proclaim
that the present day is evil, that men and
women are worse than ever and that pub
lie and private morality is at an ebb that
indicates the bottom
We have little or no sympathy with
such citizens, who are generally confused
because the world, as whole, hasn't swal-
lowed their own private idea of every
thing Once in whole we come across an
item that seems, to us at least, to demon
strate that there has been improvement
and for the benefit of younger minds that
may have been conceived by an older mis-
anthrOpe we pass one of these along.
1t relates to the public prints. About
one hundred years ago an enterprising re-
porter printed ali imaginary story, pur-
porting to tell how the astronomer Her,
shell, great son of greater father, had
sighted the moon through a powerful tele-
scope, seeing" among other things, ami
mails like buffalo, antelope and sheep and
"flying' men, named 'vespertiliohomo,
who were very intelligent having created
beautiful buildings.
After an initial full front page the
revelation ran for six days while the
scientist was lost in the reaches of Africa,
where he had gone with a telescope tc
study the heavens. Without fast mail,
cables or radio, he was unable to stop the
use of his name. The story was published
in pamphlet form, selling thousands of
copies and being translated into French
and German.
Later, when the hoax was admitted
1t became known that Richard Adams
Locke was the author of the concocted
scoop. SO little was his reputation as
newspaper man affected he later became
the editor of the New York Sun.
With all the faults of modern news
papers, we can't imagine large or small
newspaper, today, making man its editor,
who was the admitted author of fraud
ulent news" story! Perhaps, however,
the moral of the episode lies in the fact
that the public today expects more from
newspapers than it did in the summer of
1885. Even this demonstrates an increas-
ing high standard, which means improve
ment.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22
ANY DAY WILL DO FOR A START

1t is hard to realize that the long days
of Summer are at hand. and that from this
month on on the hours of daylight begin to
recede, until in six months we come again
to the years shortest day
There are so many plans in our hearts
for our own development, for the growth
of our business, and the improvement of
Key West that we are sometimes prone to
think that time flies too fast We should
remember that the only way to accom-
plish anything is by making a start
Today, long or short is the day to be-
gin. Let every reader of this article, if so
moved, spend the rest of 1886 in trying to
make effective the happy dreams that
sprang up when it began. Such time will
be we'll spent.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22
THE BONUS DISTRIBUTED

With more than twenty eight million
$50-bondS distributed to more than two
and half million veterans of the World
War, and something like ten million adj
ditional bonds to be distributed to hall
million veterans who have not Sert in their
adjusted service certificates, the bonus
question may be considered settled so far
as the national government is concerned.
To the veteran who received part of
the vast sum of $2,237, OOO,O 900 last week
the question has arisen as to how to use
the bonds and money received That most
of TIE bonds will be cashed is generally as
sumed and thus the question relates to the
spending of cash money
Each individual in Key West who has
received his bonus is entitled to use it as
he thinks is best without unsolicited adj
vice from professional counsellors of the
general public. Each veteran understands
his own circumstances and knows what he
wants to do with his cash and our advice to
all veterans is to save or. spend it as he sees
fit
That the vast sum thus scattered
through the nation will have important
bearing upon business is certain but that
1T means a new epoch in commercial af-
fairs is nonsense. We advise all trades
men to go after the bonus dollars and the
best way to go after them is to demonstrate
to the poSsessors that what you have to sell
is not only worth while but reasonable
and wise expenditure
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

ury in their own appropriate do
mains.
Recent events have shown another
disturbing tendency to steer our COM
mercial banking system in the wrong
direction. AS pointed out above. many
critics of the proposed Banking Bill
of 1885 vigorously opposed the pro-
visions in that Act which permitted
commercial and Federal Reserve
banks to load themselves with illiquid
investment paper. Monetary authori-
ties have considered the time-honored
principle that commercial banks
should accumulate short-term COM
mercial paper against their demand
liabilities as an elementary. and al
most self-evident, fact. Too much il
liquid paper caused the commercial
banks much trouble when the busi-
ness collapse of 1929 came.
The tendency to ignore these les
sons led Sixty-nine members of the
Economists National Committee on
Monetary Policy to issue statement
on March Z. 1885, in condemnation Of
provisions of the Banking Bill of 1885
which liberalized the provisions adj
hitting illiquid paper to the portfolios
of commercial banks. Many others
took the same position.
Despite the strong opposition to this
trend in commercial banking, the
Chairman of the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System re-
Gently challenged the nations bank
ers to keep up with the times" by
saying: IF banks are to provide credit
and keep up with the times, they must
get into the long-term capital market
to greater extent. This may be done
either directly or through the pur-
chase of government securities"
Such a principle of commercial
banking is thoroughly unsound. 1t has
led to trouble repeatedly in the past
and there is no reason to suppose it
will not lead to trouble in the future.
Considering the present trend toward
so many unsound things such as in
creased spending, mounting deficits
and debts, and the overlooking of
commercial banks with government
securities, the expression keeping up
with the times" is clearly quite ap-
propriate. But it is also symptomatic
of an exceedingly dangerous trend in
commercial banking. If past lessons
and experiences are of any value as
guides. day of reckoning Is sure to
come.
The lesson In all this is that two
obvious flaws in the management Of
our Federal Reserve and commercial
banking systems have appeared. and
steps must be taken at the earliest
possible date to correct them. But
with the law as it is, neither Of these
mistakes needed to be made. Good
management would have avoided
both.
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was in harmony with the lessons of
experience. and ~ that our CONNER
cial banks Including the Federal Re-
serve banks) should retain their COM
mercial character tics and not be
concerted into investment institu-
tons with portfolios filled with long
term investment paper.
On the first point. the opponents of
the original draft were successful.
The revised Banking Bill of 1885, as
passed. provided for a separation of
the Treasury and the Federal Reserve
Board by dropping the Secretary of
the Treasury and Comptroller of the
Currency from the Reserve Board.
now called the Board of Governors
of the Federal Reserve System. Since
the members of the Board had never
presumed to encroach upon the do
main of the Secretary of the Treasury,
that aspect of the relationship be-
tween the two bodies apparently was
not considered
In any event, no prohibitions were
written into the act; it seems to have
been assumed that traditional prac-
tees. the spirit of the Federal Reserve
Act. the usual recognition of Treas
ury Department and Board limits of
authority, and the conventional sense
of the appropriateness of things would
be sufficient.
Very recently. however, the I'M
precedented happened. The Chairman
of the Board of Governors Of the Fed
eral Reserve System stepped over in
to the domain of the Secretary Of the
Treasury and presented tax plan to
Congress. Thus the supposed separa-
ton between the affairs of the Treas
ury and Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System was i'm
paired, and in manner that was both
unexpected and disturbing to those
who were anxious to insure the prop
er and efficient function of the Fed
eral Reserve System and the Treas
/Addraoo nuocfinoo IN fhe nn
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

Both Cone and Fetteway have stated
they are for the Townsend Pension Plan
10th Cone and Petteway favor the digging
of the Florida Canal: both Cone and Petite
way are avowed enemies of the slot ma
chine; both Cone and Petteway are fine,
clean, honest men; both Cone aid Petite
way are Baptists. Take your choice.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

Griffin was said TO have been
side swiped by one driven by Ed
die Albury The car driven by
Griffin landed in an inverted
position pinning the driver and
his riding companion, Charles
Mackie, underneath. Yet, strange
to say, neither OF the men were
hurt, not receiving 50 much as a
scratch.
Mr.. and Mrs. thomas II. Cato
will entertain tomorrow at the
Country Club in honor o. their
daughter, Miss Albcrtina, who is
home spending her vacation from
Marymount school at Tarrytown,
on Hudson. The guests will be rs
members OF the younger set and
the affair will be ore OF unusual
Splendor.
Captain Clark ID. Stearns,
pA0oioChC Vi Tic AnOIiI ot NOuHCk
water supply board, Paul Boysen,
one Of the trustees, now III New
York, have wired Senator VIM.
H. Malone and Commissioners j.
Otto Kirchheiner, to leave for
New York in connection with a
water pipe line project which they
are negotiating at this time Both
Mr.. Malone and Mr.. Kirchhciner,
left Immediately upon receipt of
the wire
Editorial comment: The fIapper
vote will never be won by the
slogan of the "full dinnerpail",
but the "full ice cream saucer"
slogan may prove a winner.
Little Miss Evangeline Lopez.
daughter o. MIR. and Mrs. Abe
lardo Lopez, entertained delight
fully last night in the home on
County Road in honor o. her
second birthday. There were so
guests at the party. Many games
were played and delicious refresh
ments served.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

The president of big steel corpora
ton. at meeting, in attempting to define
unique. said it was derived from the
Latin ''unus," one, and "equus". horse
No such thing. The word originates from
the Latin "unicuS''. from which the French
unique" was adopted and the English as
simulated the word in meaning and spell
ing, and it means to be without an equal
In this one-horse address the orator was
unique.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

and ba nkin G
authorities of
the C GU n try.
Two Of the prin-
cipal conten-
tions of those
opposing the
origin al draft
were: ID that
t h e affairs o f
I h e Unite d
States Treasury
should be sepa-
rated as far as
possible from
tn o Sc of tn e
Federal Reserve
Board since
r.,oL -1-1--A:-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22
WEATHER FORECAST
Gill 8 p. m, Tuesday,


Key West and Vicinity: Partly
cloudy tonight and Tuesday, pos
sibly occasional showers; gentle
to moderate var Fable winds, most
ly southerly to easterly.
Florida: Partly cloudy possibly
with scattered showers in south
portion tonight and Tuesday and
in north portion Tuesday.
Jacksonville to Florida Straits
and East Gulf: Gentle to mOder-
ate variable winds mostly south
erly to eastcrly; parity overcast
weather. scattered showers Tues
day and possibly over south por-
ton tonight.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

The quintuplets are described as
Americas Little Sweethearts," by the
world. More specifically, the quintette
should be referred to as the product of
Canada America covers too much terri
tory
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

Health requires plenty of sunshine
and not any moonshine.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

Imperial Lotion contains six itch
killing medicines that so down into
skin folds to reach and kill the
cause of eczema, rash, letter. ring
worm and common itch. Pleasan
to USE. Two sizes. S5c and Sl.O0.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

The word is that the old fashioned
family doctor has disappeared. This
means that physicians have begun to send
out their bills on the first of the month.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

If people said what they think
wouldn't conversation Times Union.
On the contrary, it would be spirited and
fists fly in many instances.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

The corner of Margaret and
Eaton streets was the scene of
an automobile accident yesterday
which might have been seri-
Gus bat in which nobody was
hurt. A car driven by William
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

ku Klux is an alliterative corruption
OF Greek word "kuklos' meaning a cir
Gle, and the Khan was added to make the
jingle cor1plete
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

Advertise any way that suits you; but
if you really have something to sell that
the public wants. advertising in The Citi-
zen will do the work.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

The well-educated man has COM
mand of 10000 words-and it takes al
most that many to play golf effectively, or
is it invectively.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

Illustrating once more that there isn't
much i'll name, a Nh Wise of Kansas is
charged with having five wives.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

Seeking hide-out on the keys is a
good place to AVOID trouble and publicity
for time.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-06-22

Sold Out" is the title of a new book
on the New Deal. Perhaps there is some
thing il name.