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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
DEMOCRATS TO
MEET TONIGHT
RALLY TO BE HELD AT KEY
WEST HOSPITALITY
HOUSE

Election Day, November g, is
but few days away, and there
remains mucl. to be done between
today and then and it is up to the
people of Key West to concen-
trate on getting out as large a
vote as is possible ON election
day.
For this reason, said Mayor II.
C. Galley all democrats are being
called to attend q meeting tonight
at 8 o'clock in Key West Hospital
ity House. There are several rea-
sons for this rally, said the may
or, which will be explained to
those earnest democrats who are
interested in the welfare of Mon
roe county, and have the future
of Key West at heart.
An announcement on this page,
"Calling all Democrats, should in
duce large assent ly to be at the
rally tonight, it was said, and
those who attend will not be DIS
appointed when the plans are ex-
planned and the detectives made
clear.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
Captain Edwin Musick In
augurated Service In
Initial Flight To Havana,
Cuba

Nine years ago today the
worlds largest air transport sys.
tenn stretched its first wings here
when Captain Edwin Musick. later
famed for his transpacific flights,
made the first trip from Key West
to Havana, Cuba.
Since that time the 9O-mile line
has grown to over 10000, said to
be by far the most extensive on the
globe. Next largest at present is
Air France, which covers a.
600 miles of lines. Pan American
now operates more than twice as
much airways mileage as all the
domestic lines within the United
States combined.
From the handful of men hand
ling Pan Americans small opera
lions here nine years ago, the per-
sonnet has increased to more than
3,400. These are stationed in
ports large and small, in the West
Indies, Central and South Ameri-
ca, Alaska, China, on isolated mid
pacific bases between California
and the Philippines, in the New
York executive headquarters and
in traffic offices on major cities
throughout the United States. In
Miami alone, chief operating base
of the mother division" 500 peo-
pie are employed.
The little 90-mile air line, which
made it's initial flight from this
city nine years ago today, now
serves SO countries and colonies
of the western hemisphere and
spans the Pacific to the Orient.
At it's start Pan Americans
fleet was only three tri-motored
Fokker transports. There are now
142 airliners in operation and they
have flown a total of more than
205,000,000 passenger miles. A
total of 124 grand radio control
stations guide these vast opera
tions and the system has achieved
the remarkable reliability record
of 99.93 percent of scheduled
flights completed.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
WPA OFFICIALS
COME TO CITY
PYNCHON AND SANDQUIST
ARRIVE ON BOARD ROAD
DEPARTMENT PLANE

E. A. Pynchon, Florida WPA
administrator, and o. A. Sand
quist, director of WPA activities
in Dade county, arrived by state
road department plane las rl-rn-
ing and were met at Pan Amer
lean field by Roy Goodman, direc-
tor of WPA. activities in Key
West.
The object Of MIR. Pynchon's
visit is to look over the accom-
plishments of the program here
and to discuss with Mr.. Goodman
other proposed projects which are
to be started.
. While they were in conference,
Mr.. Sandquist. who is known as
Sandy to hundreds of people in
Key West, where for many years
he made his home, was meeting
some of his friends of former
days, and enjoying himself.
Both these visitors plan on
leaving this afternoon about a
o'clock for Miami where Mr..
Sandquist will remain while Mr..
Pynchon proceeds to Jackson
Vile.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
LICENSE TAGS
BEINGESUED
more RAPIDLY
AUTO OWNERS. MINUS NEcEs-
x SARY TAGS, MAKE WAY TO
CITY HALL TO SECURE
LICENSES OVER DUE

From the hour of noon yester-
day until this afternoon, City Tax
Colleetor-Assessor Sam Pinder
and City Clerk Wallace Pinder
have been busy on the matter Of
issuing to hesitant automobile
and truck owners licenses fer
their vehicles.
Yesterday afternoon officers Of
the police department started On
their final task OF issuing notices
to delinquents before tickets re
quiring their presence in police
court are placed on those cars
which are minus the city tag.
Within a short time after ac-
tivities started those who had
been summoned began to appear
at the offices in the city hall. 70
fork over the $3.50 to Tax Collec-
tor Sam Pinder, get their receipt
and then go to the office Of Clerk
Pinder and get the tag, or tags.
as the. case may be.
Well there was not exactly 3
rush yesterday, but there were
quite a number issued to delin-
quents. And the same may be
said of this morning which was
very productive in the matter Of
cash, although there was no
scramble on the part of owners.
There still remain quite a few
persons who operate automobiles
who have not secured the city
license. These will be given the
necessary notice and if a re-
peater is found necessary. then
next appearance will be in police
court and they can ''tell it to the
judge"
F" uIiS tAiSSC aSbAhtl4SS NCACs an
are still, going on. another force
for the collection of delinquent
taxes was set in motion by City
Auditor Willard Albury.
Mr.. Albury is also city occupa-
tional license inspector and the
machinery of his office was start
ed yesterday, and is still in mo-
ton, summoning those whose
names do not appear on the books
as having complied with the law
and secured an occupatiOnai
license tax.
Those who have not the re-
quired license are being advised
Of the necessity of getting one at
once and should this warning be
evaded, well Auditor Albury is
telling them the other side of the
story.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
Worlds Largest Air Transport
System Began First Operations
In Key West Nine Years Ago
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HUMMING BIRDS
BOARD DAILY AT
TEXAS HOSPITAL
(By Associated Press)

LEGION, Tex, October
disappearing the daily
diet of approximately 500
humming birds is the odd hob
by w. r. Sullivan has chosen.
Groups of the tiny bids
dart into Sullivan's room at
the Veterans Administration
hospital, alight momentarily
on light fixtures, zoom around
the ceiling and are gone.
twenty-five boxes for food
have been placed throughout
the hospital grounds. A con-
tainer of sweetened water out
side Sullivan's window at
tracts the greatest number.
The birds start their visit the
middle of March and remain
until September.
Sullivan said some of them
have a Widespread of eight
inches, although the average
is two and a half.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
INDIRECT TAX
ISSUE Is TOPIC
OF DISCUSSION
QUESTION OF DIRECT AND
ALSO INDIRECT ASSESS
MENTS NOW CONFRONTING
VARIOUS STATES
By PRESTON GROVER
Inr AaAOcIafel PrcRhl

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2S.-Pub'
licly there is a veritable moral
crusade against that suddenly aw-
full thing, the indirect tax. Priv
ately, however, those tax experts
who for years have sweated to
find new sources of revenue to pay
for the ever increasing. load OF
benefits foresee indirect taxes con-
tinuing into the long distant flu
ture.
The question of direct or indi-
rect taxation is not one which con-
Germs only congress. The states as
well are brought persistently face
to face with the question of wheth-
er to clap on a tax that every vot-
er will see and kick about or to let
him become acquainted with the
tax indirectly by levying it upon
some business or industry which in
turn will levy it upon the public.
Called Academic Matter
To many this matter of indirect
taxes seems quite academic. A
corporate income tax is a direct
tax upon a corporation, Tut few
doubt that such tax is often pass
ed on to the consumer in the price
of the corporations products.
Even direct taxation develops
queer quirks. Across southern
Idaho lie the highly taxable rails
of the Oregon Short Line. Blaine
county is far from the main line,
but needs money for schools and
highways. So, like a long arm,
one strip of Blaine county reaches
clear around the county that lies
between it and the railroad. By
that means it reaches a 15-mile
strip of main line railroad upon
which to levy a direct tax.
But does the New Yorker, nibb-
ling at an Oregon apple hauled
across that Is miles of railroad,
know that part of the freight on
the apple went to taxes and that
he is helping to pay for Blaine
county schools and roads?
See Little Effect
Direct taxation is advocated on
the grounds that it reminds the
taxpayer what he is paying for his
roads, schools and benefits. But
certain tax specialists suspect that
so much tax viii inevitably remain
hidden from the ultimate taxpay-
er that the effect of tipping him
off on a few would be lost anyway.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
CUBA ARRIVES
FROM HAVANA

Steamship Cuba, of the P. and
o. s. S. company, arrived yester-
day afternoon from Havana with
eight American citizens and eight
aliens, all of them for Tampa.
There were no passengers for Key
West.
The vessel sailed o'clock for
Tampa with three passengers
for Key West.
The vessel sailed 5 o'clock for
Tampa with three passengers book
ing from this port: Eugenio Mar
tinez, Alberto DEF Pine, John
Burke.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
BOLIVIA LOOKING
& TO IMMIGRATION
(By Associated Pre.s)

LA PAZ, Oct. 2S.-Bolivia,
which attracted only a small share
of the thousands of settlers who
came to South America in the past
so years, is planning to stimulate
immigration.
The country's population is
about 100000, a moderate in
crease from 1882 when the first
census showed 100000.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
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BOLIVIAN-ARGENTINE
LINE BEING MARKED
By Associated Press)


= LA PAZ October Is
A stretch of Bolivia's boun-
dairy with Argentina is be-
ing marked temporarily by
mixed commission pend
ing ratification by the Ar
gentine chamber of deputies
of a border treaty negotiated
in 1925. -
A reputedly rich deposit
of tin has been shut off
from development because
of the uncertainty about the
frontier.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
STR. MIRAFLORE
DUE HERE FRIDAY

Steamship EirsflsreS. e res
Standard Fruit and Steazzkr
company Il DIE 20 arrsre NJ Key
West Friday from Philadelphz-
The vessel Is conzixne6 - -
Porter Dock company, w1n rzke -
q supply Of fuel OF and AL Ear
Fr0ntera. Mckee
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
EX-JUDGE LEADS
POLISH THIEVES
ny Associated Press)

GDYNIA, Poland, Oct. 2S.-By
choosing as their leader a former
judge, a band of burglars here
managed to fool the police for sew
eral years.
"Hizzoner" finally became over
confident, however, and he and
the whole gang have had to move
into a penitentiary.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
MANY VISITORS
ATL0CAL YARD
ON NAVY DAY
COAST CUARD wzSSEL oNLT
ONE n PORT. Was DECoz-
ATED IN coNNECTIoN wTTH
EVENT

Thozxh there ~=-e - a @zE
xi.;ssrs Al to Key 49, 49,
statioa ~ th=re h@~- - - $50
mer Navy Days th=rs ~~-- $3.50
q few at the Iss&l y~ra y--.--a-E.
said LisutenAai W. nzzs. sfs-
Ger in eharEs, snS al es1r.-@@
extended
The only vessel Of the Uz1-ed
States service in the harbor 49,
terday was the Coast Gzzrd CT
ter pa, which was IN ~ful dres
and presented = beautiful ghL
Another beautiful sighr Ezz rhe
Steamship Cuba. Of the P and O
s. s. company. which Was deeked
from rails to trucks IN the mzzE
eOlored flags and presented .
beautiful appearance aS she entsr-
ed the harDor from Havana ys<
terday afternoon
In the morning the rzdi8 operz-
tors AZ the naval cation sszr 81
the message from Secretary e ne
Navy Claude A SEGns0n. A.
dressed to al ships IN the Anen-
can Merchant Marine. and Z -
reasonable 10 suppose. 4 = SID
that al ships, At least rhsse IN rse
travel lanes OF enroute % pert
dressed ship IS requested
Or course ships IN the merchzn1
marine are all CHASED a. shipz ~
the service Of the United State
navy in the event that Wz- i g.
elarel.
Lieutenant Klaus sid tai Ne
was surprisingly pleased ~ ths -
ception given By these merrnzzts
who were asked 70 allow the Nay
Day pacards 70 be placed in rh~ir
stores. and also AZ the nuz-ber -
flags displayed IN al parts q ne
city yesterday
Yet, ne said. Key West . nz1-
urslly navy-minded- and TIE -
captivity Of the pe0ple 70 any P-O-
position affecting the naTT - A.
ways evidenced On days E1eh -
Navy Day, and ether celehrz1uas
which are On or fer the nzvy. -
ships OF personnel
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
JUMPS THROUGH WINDOW
PORTAGE,

PORTAGEvILLE, Mo.-Shap
Kimes of this city dreamed his
home was on fire. Still asleep he
jumped through q seeond-story
window and suffered a broken
leg.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
THOUSANDS OF
REFUGEES MOVE
ACROSS BORDER
MANY ScURRY OVER LINE IN
TO FRANCE IN TAKING
FLIGHT AHEAD OF INSUR-
GENTS DRIVE in SPAIN
By RICHARD C. MASSOCk
my Associated P.essi
nANCuApINEA E-C.

DANCHARINEA, Franco-Span-
ish Frontier, Oct. 28.-Life in those
parts of Spain conquered by the
insurgents creeps on at its usual
slow pace. Ruined stroekeepers in
battle-swept towns wear worried
faces but for the most part, the
citizenry you see is indifferent to
the struggle
AS General Francisco Francois
armies close in on Madrid what
civilian war enthusiasm there may
have been seems to have disap-
peared. Those who will talk about
the war profess quietly the pa
triotic belief the fighting will soon
be ended in victory against the
reds"
Same Old Routine
Until it does merchants sell out
their stocks from shelves that can
not be replenished until peace
comes. The hotels are filled with
camp followers. Daily siestas still
last three hours when not a wheel
turns. Peasants in broad-brimmed
thick-felt sombreros ride their
burros through the streets or lead
their oxen on shell-torn roads.
Farm wives spread chickens, rab-
bits, peppers and melons on the
pavement of market places.
Families mourn their dead with
in their homes. Emotional flag
waving is indeed rare. Yet nobody
speaks out against the war, per-
haps because prison awaits the sus-
pected malcontent and firing
squads the "traitor." =
Nobody can be neutral" said
the commandant of an occupied
city. "Either he be for us Or
against u.s."
Refugees Desert Towns
The anguish of civilians in cities
and villages, devasted by shell and
bomb, can only be supposed for
they have fled, leaving behind only
a few who hid throughout the bonn
bardments awaiting the iberator
of their political faith.
/ saw no more than 100 civilians
in the battered streets of Toledo
though was told few thousand
of its $4,000 inhabitants remain
ed in seclusion in their patios be-
hind nail-studded doors. Of those
l saw, four were women and two
children joking with couple of
soldiers who were eating lunch off
a mattress at a well in front of
some smoking ruins.
A matronly woman in widowed
black rode with me in a broken
down. bus with six fascists from
Talavera to Toledo. She has, she
said, lost her husband and two
brothers in the fight for Toledo.
One brother was a pilot of a ma
tionalist bomber shot down only a,
few days before near the road
we travelled. Along the highway
she could see bodies of unburied
soldiers.
Widow Stoical
Yet bitterness was lacking in
the woman's conversation.
"They died for Spain's liberation
from the reds" she said without
emotion. "Their deaths will be
avenged"
In Toledo I crawled through
gaping hole in a suffered store
to find the proprietor picking
among his Uttered stock of cutlery.
There was not very much left.
Had his store been looted?
eyes, but not much" he said.
''I hid much of my stock upstairs
where / live. So did other store,
keepers. But we are ruined. Every
body is gone. There are no Gus
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
BRIDGE PARKING
SHOWN TO HALT
MOTOR TRAFFIC
PRACTICE FOUND To BE CAR
RIED ON MAINLY AT BOcA
CHICA SPAN; SAID TO BE
VERY DANGEROUS

of the Bcca Chica bridge, it was
said yesterday by Postmaster Sam
Harris, who states that the driver
of the mail truck has reported this
condition on a number of occa.
siens. OF course the occupants of
the automobiles are fishing.
Not only are the cars eontin-
ually on the bridges but. on one
occasion three We're on the span
at Boca Chica and it was neces-
sary for the driver of the mail
truck to get out and ask that the
cars be moved to allow him to
pass.
The persons asked to perform
the act of lining the cars on one
side, allowing ample room for the
truck to pass, seemed reluctant to
do SO, it was said, and smi.ingly
took their time to do as requested.
In addition to the dangers of
parking on these bridges, it was
pointed out, bait is strewn over
the decking and hooks are some
times found in the center of the
bridge, left there by careless ang-
lers.
This morning Bob Smith, motor
man with the Florida Motto: Lines,
was asked if he had ever found it
necessary to stop his bus and ask
that the cars be moved in order
that he might get his vehicle
through. He replied, mo-, but
cont ;nued with, Parking cars on
those bridges is decidedly dan
gerous and will eventually result
in a wreck which will cause serious
injury, if not DEATH"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28

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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-10-28
Claude Pepper, Candidate For
United States Senate, Heard
In Two Speeches Here Today
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Evening star., 1936-05-07
.CLEAR|NCS REACH
PEAK SINCE MARCH
Total for 22 Leading Cities
Jumps SO Per Cent
Above Year Ago.
ey the Associated Press,

NEW YORK, May Bank clear
ings for the opening week of May
turned upward to reach the highest
level since the period ended March 10,
when the total exceeded $1,000, ,000,-
600. The totals for % leading cities
in the United States for the week
ended Wednesday. May 8, as reported
to Dun & Bradstreet, Inc, was So
67l. $4,000, against $6,242.917 900 for
the same week Of last year, an increase
Of So per cent.
This contrasted with a loss Of l4.3
per cent in the previous week. At
New York City clearings were $4,625,-
$4,000 a gain Of per cent as COM
pared with the amount reported for
last year, while the aggregate for
centers outside of New York Of
$2,o45 1865, 900 was 114 per cent
higher.
The total for the last week showed
rise of ,228.000 when COM
pared with the figures for the week
preceding. A year ago, for the corre-
spending two weeks, gain of $751;
703 900 was recorded.
All except three of the cities in
cluded reported gains. The largest of
these increases appeared at Pittsburgh,
Cleveland, Atlanta, New Orleans. De-
troit, st. Louis and Dallas The losses
occurred at Richmond, Minneapolis
and Kansas City.
Figures at leading cities showing in
creases and decreases as compared
with those Of 1885, are printed here
with; also. daily bank clearings for
each month this year:
Evening star., 1936-05-07
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
ACTIVITY FEvER|SH
British Pound Is Strong.
Paris Heavy Seller of
French Currency.
BY tho Associated Press.

Foreign exchange markets were
scenes of feverish activity in all CEN
tiers today as official control agencies,
spectators and large international
banking houses went into action, each
to serve his own purpose.
In terms of the dollar, the Brit
ish pound sterling was strong, French
francs were unchanged and other
gold units were steady.
Paris, home base of the turbulent
franc, was reported a heavy seller
of the French currency in all centers
and an equally keen bidder for other
units, including Belgian belgas and
Holland guilders, which sent both
above their gold export points in
Paris.
Operations Of the British euualiza-
ton fund and American sterilization
fund injected large element of un-
certainty into the situation. In New
York francs failed to move away
from the well established rate of
6.583s cents, and In London the French
unit yielded to 1850 to the pound.
against Wednesdays close of 1885.
In New York the pound sterling
was 1s cents higher at 49Is, guilders
were unchanged at 6785 cents ard
belgas were .02 of a cent higher at
l7Ol cents. The dollar was 1915
cents lower in London at 497 3-l6 to
the pound, and in Paris it was un-
changed at 6.58 cents to the franc.
Publication of the weekly statement
of the Bank of France, revealing gold
losses Of S77,544,000 during the week
ended May /, brought rush of franc
offerings from Paris at the opening
Of European markets, some hours
ahead Of New York's opening, which
Evening star., 1936-05-07
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. May 4, Omitted States
Department Of Asriculture) .-Hoss. H.
900. including $500 direct; few early
later bids 10 or more lower. top, 1923.
scattering. 1S0-22O pounds. 1O.l5al0 IS:
very. little done on other weiRtts; sows
barely steady at s,60as 90 few 600.
Cattle. $500; calves. 1000; fed steers
10 to Is lower: bidding and getting few
cattle a5 of; but waterfills liberal enough
decline. only tidy light steers and iisht
yearlinss Getting action, killing quality
most early sales s.s5ss. 90; stocksTs and
feeders dull: she stock. includinF. yearjlng
heifers. steady early: but rather top.
fully >. steady; s,fIyy practically TOP .ggsighty
mostly S.0Oa9 90.
Sheep. 1000 fat lambs mostly steady.
shade lower in instances: better, grades
fairly active. others. slow: early bulk
wooled offerings. grading medium to low
choice IL GOAL .35. holding best above
ewes. 4.75a5.25.
Evening star., 1936-05-07
FEDERAL LAND BANKS
NEW YORK. May Rl.-Federal Lane
d. u. ncrn IL
(ouotations as of . o'clock.)
FOREIGN MARKETS.

LONDON. May dP.-Small advances
were registered in most sections of the
stock market today and a sood tone pre-
vailed. Trading was quiet. attention being
occupied mostly with week end settlement
Of accounts. Canadian Pacific shares we're
firm on good dividend prospects. Rubber
issues and traus-Atlantics closed below
their best prices OF the day. The CLOSING
tone was firm
PARIS Domestic issues continued their
decline in the Bourse today. Bank OF
rentes one franc Internationals. such as
Suez. Canadian Pacific and central mining
shares. were active and higher. The close
was irregular
Evening star., 1936-05-07
April Steel Rate
At Highest Mark
Since May of 1880
I3y the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, May 7.-Steel pro-
t,uction during April was the greatest
Of any month since May, 1880, and
exceeded April of last year by nearly
so per cent, the American Iron d
Steel Institute announced.
Production of open hearth and
bessemer ingots reached total of
3,942,254 gross tons in April, which
compares with 3,342,619 gross tons N
March and with 2,640,602 gross tons
in April of last year.
In May, 1880, total of 3,s82,el5
gross tons was produced.
- The industry operated at an aver
age of $500 per cent of capacity in
April, as against $3.50 per cent in
March and 45.88 per cent in April a
year ago.