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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-01
FULL RETURNS
In FOR RECENT
. ELECTION HERE.
VOTE CAST IN ALL OF TEN
PRECINCTS IS GrvEN N
TABuLATED roma HERE<
WITH

Returns from the election of
Thursday which was to deter
mine whether or not the county
would pay to the city from $780,
600 to $50. 900 annually from the
states allotment of gasoline
taxes, have all been received
The returns from the Florida
Keys, on which are located the
Eighth, Ninth and Tenth districts,
were received too late yesterday
afternoon by County Clerk Ross
c. Sawyer and were given to
The Citizen this afternoon.
The complete count of the
vote from the individual districts
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-01
MONROE COUNTY'S COMMUNITY
CLINIC NEEDS FUNDS BADLY

mated SI1.0O, the ST. Agnes feol-
ored) Lodge of Odd Fellows do
mated $500. A Thanksgiving Of
fering was made by the First
Presbyterian church of $500. and
the Rotary Club gives $500 a
month Receipts of the EIks Ball.
$60.50. were given the Council
No other organization contributes.
Drive Underway
A drive to make up the deficit
and keep a favorable monthly
balance is underway. II is expect
ed that number of dances will
be given, and that the boy and
girl scouts of the city viii solicit
funds in a house to house cam
paign. penny jars be placed in al
restaurants and hotels. and re-
ceipts from regularly held NOV
ing picture shows at a local NOV
ing picture house win be avail
able.
The problem confronting the
people of the city IS an emer-
gency problem, DR.. GekeIer said.
'and il demands emergency meas
ures. In this crisis we are APP
peaIing to each and every one IN
the city who can afford 10 give
anything to do so. Every penny
counts. One wishing to donate
may get in touch with any Of the
members of the Welfare Advisory
Council. This Council IS COM
posed of Mrs. Robert Spostswood.
president; DR.. ]. c. Gekeler, sec
rotary treasurer; DR.. William r
Warren, DR.. H. c. Galley. Melvin
Russell. Joe Pearlman, Carl Ber-
valdi. Father VIM. Reagan. S. j..
Clifford Hicks. You can be GER
tain that your money goes to
perhaps the most worthy cause
in the city at this time. The un-
told suffering, misery, sickness
and death prevented by the opera
ton of this Clinic cannot be ap-
preciated until one has seen the
work az close hand All this in a
large measure viii be aIIeviated
BY your subscriptions. Help as
much as you CAM
The total number Of treatments
of patients at the Clinic from
January through November of
1887 were 354l. The total num-
Der Of prescriptions filed were
25s5.
In the Board of Health work,
the total number of field visits
from January through November
were 49, Tetanus Antitoxin to-
tai. Is: Prenatal visits. EOS: Ae-
ctdents, u. venereal visits. 26s;
Sewing Room and Mattress Fac
tory workers physical exsnina-
tons. 49,: n. Y. A. physical ex
aEninations. 81: Inspections at
School 2i42.s examinations.
2oss
The following bills for the
month Of November have not
been paid. Dr. Gekeler reports.
Clinic Doctors. slzz 50: Marine
fcontinued On Page FOUR
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Key Vests Light Opera
Company Plans To Re-
sumo RehearsaIs Monday
Evening

On Thursday night Of nexi
week. the first of winter series
OF concerts win be given At Bay
yiew PARK By the Hospitality
bard. The concert wiz be d.
reeiea bY Alfred Barros0 and win
feature soloists from members Of
the band. Il i hoped that these
concerts. il is said. win attract .
large audience. All visitors to
The city are cordially welcome TO
attend and every effort win be
made TO place and keep these
concerts on as high a musical
baais as possible. il is stated
The program for next week is
now being prepared and promises
to be very interesting and enter
tanning.
The Key West Light Opera
Company viii resume rehearsals
on Monday night. January 3. al
7.30, at the Oversee Hotel. This
group made up of the leading
singers and musicians in town
welcome any visitors or local peo-
pie who are interested IN choral
presenting hight oTusss,
II IS said. The three Gilbert and
Sullivan Operettas now on the
company's repertoire win be re
vived in anticipation Of presenta-
ton both IN Key West and hi.
ami
Last season this group of over
fifty singers made three journeys
to Miami to present shows in
Bayfront Park and for the pasl
three seasons have brought to
Key West at least one grand pro-
duction.
Rehearsals win be held twice
weekly on Monday and Friday
nights. The group is directed By
George Mills White. local super
visor Of the Federal Music
Project.
The following is the program
that was rendered BY the Hos
pitality Band Thursday at the
cCc convalescent Camp. and
vas also rendered yesterday al
the u. S. Marine Hospitals
March, On Parade Egnef
Overture Princess OF India
King.
Popular. It's Easy To Rcsiein-
bex-Hart: ST. Louis Blues
Handy; A New Moon-Brown.
Schothische. Dance Of the Inps
king.
March. Ia Marseiaaisc.
Popular. Boo-hoo: Moonlight
and Roses-Moret.
March. The Huntress-Kinr.
Star Spangled Banner-Key.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-01

These returns are just as given
to The Citizen. and are therefore
not official. The official vote
win be declared after the official
canvass, to be held Monday night
8 o'clock in the court house.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-01-01
Aid For An

No family that has Is cents for
a registration card and ten cents
for each bottle of medicine used
has been refused aid, and in q
number of cases even these small
stipulations have been dispensed
with. DR.. Gekeler stated. In CO.
operation with the Marine Hos
pital all major surgery is done
free of charge. except that the
Welfare Council pays SITS for
every day a patient must remain
in bed at the Hospital after an OPP
Grafton Those who are able reim-
burse the Council for the daily
fee. but there are many worthy
cases who are too poor TO pay
ard their bills are taken care OF
By the Welfare Council Other
receipts come from the City
Council, County Commissioners.
private subscription. Health
Board refunds. and liquidation Of
FERA Home Loans.
The County Commissioners
were pesitioned for an increase in
funds, bat replied that al their
funds had been earmarked. DR..
Gekeler said- The Doctor added
that the County fund provided IS
the smallest given By any county
in the country. The City Council
IS al present working On request
for funds from the Advisory
Council From July ! 10 Decen-
Der l. private subscription has
dropped terribly. : total sum Of
only Sis being collected.
A request was sent % twenty
churches and organizafionx Two
replied ne cafholic church do
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Unless money TO paw a month
IY deficify of $500 IS regularly OBJ
tsined. Monroe CountY's Com
munitY Clinic win not be able TO
operate in the near future" Dr..
J. c. GekeIer. secretary treasurer
of the Monroe County Welfare
Advisory Council. appointed bY
The County Commissioners. an
nounced TO The Citizen today.
This means that $50 families.
approximately 5000 persons who
cannot afford 70 pay ordinary doc
tor and drug bills. viii be deprzv-
ed of very much needed medical
treatment. Miss Margaret Mar
timex. in charge Ct the clinic flies.
adds.
The important work being
done for tuberculosis cases. for
vel ereally diseased persons. for
chronic cases Of advanced cancer,
the major operations performed
at the Marine Hospital, and minor
surgery such as the removal Of
boiis, sores, cysts. finally the
Health Education in prevention
and treatment of diseases daily
brought to clinic patients. VIII all
be discontinued" Miss Made But
Ter. Clinic nurse, reports.
furthermore, if the Clinic is
closed, the State Board Of Health
Unit being operated here may be
withdrawn, DR.. James B. PARA
more, director of the Clinic and
the Health Unit, said. only .
great deal Of solicitation and .
special trip TO Jacksonville saved
the unit for US earlier this year,
the Doctor continued. Key West
VIII suffer previously If the Gin
ic, the treatment side of public
health. is closed, and the Health
unit. the prevention phase, fol.
lows on its heels.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

UNION ARE ON THE
MARCH IN KALISPELL

Kalispell is experiencing a union
boom never before enjoyed. Six
new charters were obtained during
the summer of 1887. The outstand-
ing organization of the whole group
is the Central Trades and Labor
Council. Other unions that are in
process or which it is hoped will be
organized shortly are the bakers,
brewery workers, and BARRIERS. 1t
has taken the working people a long
time to take advantage of the ia
nous clause IA under the National
Recovery act and the cooperation
and protection Of the government
under the National Labor Relations
Act.
More and more the working peo-
pie in all towns and cities will be-
come alive to their new advantages.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24
whitney WAS JUST
A sucker"

Back of the downfall of Richard
Whitney, New York broker, who
has confessed to the embezzlement
of the securities of his clients and
members of his own family and
awaits sentence, is the old story of
the supposedly shrewd business man
who took a flier in Wall Street and
lost his shirt.
Sitting on top of the pile in Wall
Street, Whitney was five-times pres
ident of the Stock Exchange and
broker for j. P. Morgan & Co. and
others of the elect. Yet, in his latest
venture the Debated and disgraced
broker was simply a lamb, ripe for
the clippers.
Former associates pieeed together
the fantastic details of the business
troubles which swallowed up Whit
ney's brokerage business and will
likely send him to prison.
Influenced by BoOtlegger
One of the amazing disclosures
is that Whitney risked his own
reputation and fortune and the
funds of his associates on no bet
ter information than the enthusi-
asm of his ~bOOtlegger in prohibit
ton days.
Before repeal Whitney saw drink
ers turn to applejack as a refuge
from poisonous bootleg whiskey, and
when repeal came he visioned a huge
increase in the consumption of "Jer-
sey lightning" He assured associ-
ates that lawful liquor would do
for applejack what the World War
did for cigarettes.
Like the proverbial lamb, Whitney
at the start bought a modest block of
stock of the Distilled Liquors Cor
poration, a New Jersey corporation
which had gained experience in dis
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

tilling applejack. Before the smash
ended his financial career, at least
temporarily, Whitney virtually
owned the company. His losses are
estimated at more than $1,000, 900.
Bottom Falls Out
Whitney, it is said, paid SIS for his
original shares, which s~kyrocketed
in a few months to $40. It is limited
that this was the result of high
powered manipulation in Wall
Street. Whatever the reason, the
drop was equally sensational.
AS other investors lost faith in the
enterprise, they found Whitney a
willing if not an eager buyer of their
stock. Finding himself short of
cash, he hooked his applejack shares
with bankers, and to protect the
security was compelled to make a
standing bid to buy all shares Of
fered at $11.
When he owned everything in
sight, the bottom fell out. The
bankers again clamored for addi-
tional collateral, and Whitney went
to his strong box and appropriated
the securities of his clients, includ-
ing a trust fund established by his
father-in-law for Whitney's wife
and her sister.
Plagued by Bad Management
Had Whitney been content to in
vest his money and keep his hands
off the management of the distillery,
the result might have been different,
according to Walter E. Ditmars, a
large-scale dealer in stocks, who was
one of those who succumbed to Whit
ney's enthusiasm.
'"The chief trouble" Ditmar said,
was in trying to run the company
from Whitney's office. You can't
run a business from a brokers' Of
flee.
THE board of directors used to
spend hours arguing about the shape
of a bottle or whether we should
buy 100000 gallons of cider or 3d.
900 gallons"
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24
Great Falls Holds
Farm-Labor (ondave
Other Interesting Notes of the
Cascade Assembly.


Twenty-eight counties were rep
resented at the Farm-Labor Coun-
Gil meeting held at Great Falls
March 6. The number of counties
represented indicates the interest
that is being taken in these meet
ings. The next session of these
groups will take place April 3rd,
when it is expected more counties
and more delegates will be repre-
sented.
The Assembly has put Hanks
Service Station and Austin's Serv-
ice Station on the unfair list. The
action was taken at the request of
the Transfers Union.
The Assembly took the H. & M.
Transfer Company off the unfair
list. This firm is now fair to the
unions. They are asking that mem
bers of organized labor and their
friends resume patronage with this
firm.
The Service Cafe on First Avenue
South was declared unfair by the
Assembly at the request of the
Cooks and Walters Union.
A bill is pending in Congress at
the present time designed to have
the prevailing rate of wages paid to
drivers of rural mail routes. The
scales proposed in the measure are
based upon the wages paid in cities
wherein the postoffice is located.
The Assembly is asking that Mon
tana representatives support the
measure.
A committee consisting of Car
penter, Baxter and Johnson were
appointed to interview the local
member of the State Board of Edu-
cation and the manager of the deaf
and blind school to ask reinstate-
ment of one of the members of the
Engineers Union.
y
The Plumbers have placed Fred
Woehner of the Great Falls Drug
Company on the unfair list and
levied a bill of expense against him
of 500. 1t is in the hands of the
grievance committee of the As
sembly.
The Bakery and Confectionery
Workers Union have placed a 5000
bill of expense against Frank Pull
lin, who worked at the local baker
les at the time of the bakery strike.
The bakers are requesting all unions
to bear this in mind, should MIR
Pullin ever seek to gain recognition
in their union.
Continued to Page a.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24
. IT'S STILL PEGLER

Westbrook Pegler, on a rowing as
signment for Scripps-Howard, writes
that the people of Chicago and Kan
sas City like graft and corruption in
public office.
Guys whose personal taste runs
to some particularly smelly kind of
cheese always think everybody
shares their fondness for it.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24
THE coon DIE YOUNG

William Randolph Hearst will sell
his fabulous art collection to raise
much-needed cash for his t~ottering
newspaper empire.
And literally sprinkled gifts to
his many heirs and Marion Davies,
before his death, will save countless
pennies in taxes.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

Carol has set up a royal dictator
ship in Rumania. The seat Of gov
eminent will rotate among Buchar-
est's night clubs.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

BY dramatizing your daily life you
can make your life exciting-and
bearable.
Montana labor news., 1938-03-24

And labor spies and Nazi spies
have the same sales talk; race preju-
dice and red scares.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
KretZ Installed
On Brawley Board

BRAWLEY, April l9.-Formal IN
stallation of City Councilmen Frank
Kretz, reelected, and Harvey E.
Hastain was made Monday night
in a regular meeting of the Braw
ley city council. 1t was the first
meeting of the city fathers since
the election last Tuesday.
Monday nights meeting repre-
sented the last day in office for
Dr.. I. J. Wells, who has been a
council member for the past four
years. Dr. Wells declined TO run
for reelection
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
PORT
TO BE REBUILT

BRAWLEY, April 19.-Brawley's
municipal airport hangar. destroy
ed along with seven airships in a
fire Sunday night, was fully cover
ed with insurance and will be re-
built as soon as insurance claims
are adjusted according to City
Engineer Walter Hopkins, Monday
Ira Rogers, the only airship own
er carrying insurance on his ship
held a $4,000 policy which was dat
ed to expire Monday noon, at which
time it was to be succeeded by a
$4,000 policy, it was reported Mon
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
Negro Arrested
After II Years

NEW YORK, April 10 cUP)-
The South Carolina chain gang,
from which Lewis Doe, 36-year-old
Negro janitor, first escaped II
years ago, reached out for him
again totay.
He must go back to complete a
three year sentence in Aiken, sc,
on a charge of housebreaking and
larceny to which he pleaded guilty
when he was only 10. He served
three months then and escaped
For Is years he was a free man.
then the law caught up with him
in Orlando, Fla, early in 1896, and
back he went to Carolina.
Doe escaped again in November
of that year and fled to New York
with his wife and son. Lawrence,
now II. But last December he was
arrested again.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
Mayor John Dore Dies
After Long Illness

SEATTLE, April 10. CUP)-Mayor
John F. Dore, 81, political ally of
Dave Beck, Seattle labor leader, died
here last night of uraemia after
a long illness. Mrs. Dore and their
four children were at the bedside.
The mayor returned only three
days ago from Los Angeles where
he was hospitalized because of
bronchial pneumonia and complica-
tions. He was stricken in Los An
geles as he was returning here from
Arizona where he went for a vaca-
tion and rest.
While he was in Arizona he was
beaten in an attempt at reelection
In the fight for the office he was
supported by Dave Beck, Pacific
coast vice president of the Team
sters union and a power in Seattle
politics for years.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19

sobbing until her plump should
ers shook under their covering of
blue crepe de chine 1T was really
bad He wasn't just bad boy. He
was a 20-year-old bad boy
Her present husband, Arthur l..
Bernstein, a dapper little man with
his hair parted in the middle, tried
to comfort her in the jury cham
bers of Judge Ruben S. Schmidt,
but she Wept SO hard that even the
ostrich feather on her hat bobbled
sympathetically
The middle-aged Mrs Bernstein,
was definitely double-chinned as
she insisted that her son deserves
none of the money for which he
sacrificed his childhood, was Civ
ing a deposition in answer to
Jackie's suit against her and
Bernstein
The 23-year- Kid" of Char
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
ITALY, FRANCE TO
CONSIDER TREATY
FOR FRIENDSHIP

eign office at noon and they held
their first official conversation on
the negotiation plan.
They talked for half an hour
Blondel was understood to have
asked Ciano whether Premier Benito
Mussolini was ready to negotiate
with France a treaty of friendship
similar to that initiated Saturday
between Great Britain and Italy
Ciano, it was said, responded that
Italy was ready.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
HUGENERS
ENTERTAIN
ON EASTER
ALAMITOS NOTES

Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hugener and
family entertained a number Of
friends at their home Easter sun
day. The guests were Mr.. ana Mrs.
E. Schaffner and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Amsler, Mr.. and Mrs. r.
Phiester and family Mr.. and Mrs.
Osled ana family Mr.. and Mrs Sam
Hillflicker and family. Rev. and
Mrs. Kaiser and family, Mr.. anG
Mrs. John Ritter and family, Mi.
and Mrs. Heuberger, Joe Phiester.
Ella, julius ami Walter Hofer. Glen
and Rosemary Muller.
Enjoying a duck dinner at the
Joe Kemp home Easter Sunday
were Mr.. and Mrs. Basil Spear and
daughter Chrystle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Whitmer and
children of Imperial were weekend
guests of Jacks parents, Mr. and
Mrs. L. Whitmer. They all en-
joyed Easter breakfast with Mrs.
Whitmer's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
I. A. McKinnon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jimmie Wernrich
Of Holtville, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Gray and children of Verde district,
spent Easter with Mrs. Weinrich'S
and Mrs. Gray's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Percy Thomas.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Studer, Bar =
bara and John jr., were guests
Easter Sunday at the Albert Studer
home near Meloland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hans Thams had as
their house guests last week Mr.
and Mrs. Glen Helms of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Richmond was hostess last
Thursday afternoon when she en-
tertained her pupils with an Easter
egg hunt at Alamitos school.
Albert Whitmer accompanied his
uncle, Loyal Whitmer, to Escondido
last Saturday. They returned the
same day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noble Walton of Los
Angeles Wllle IN Jne valley ldS'
week called on Mr.. and Mrs. Frazer
Alldredge.
Chalmer Whitmer motored to Sar
Dimas last week to bring Mrs
Whitmer home with him. Mrs. Whit
mer has been with her father Wht
has been very sick but is now mucl
better.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19

ROME, April 10. CUP) = Count
Galeazzo Ciano, foreign minister, in
formed Jules F.. Blondel French
charge d'affaires, today that Italy
was prepared to negotiate a friend
ship treaty with France, it was said
authoritatively
1t was understood that prelimi-
nary conversations would be started
tomorrow if Blondel received his
Instructions from the French for
eign office in time.
Blondel visited Ciano at the for
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
DOckweiler Gets
Committee Job

LOS ANGELES, April 10 (UP)-
Isadore Dockweiler prominent Los
Angeles county Democrat, was
elected chairman of the Los Angeles
County Housing Authority which
was organized Monday under spon-
sorship of the board Of supervisors.
At a conference with the super
visors, the federal and state laws
under which the new program OF
slum clearance and construction OF
low cost housing facilities is to be
financed was discussed with Claude
McFadden and Beach Vasey. deputy
county counsel, assigned to assist
the body in launching its program.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
100 Old
Negro Get Lease

WASHINGTON, April 10 CUP)-
When the General Land Office re-
ceived an application from Ned
Hillyar1 Of Pomerene, Ariz., for a
three-year grazing lease on public
lands in Arizona an investigation
was ordered.
Hillyard is a 1OO-year-old darkie
which led to some question as to
whether he would be a good risk.
HE was alone at his ranch on
the date of my examination, Com
missioner Fred w. Johnson report
ed. HE was breaking a bucking
colt. 1 can see no reason for re-
fusing him a lease for a few years
at least"
The lease was approved today.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19

lie Chaplin's famous comedy 10
years ago, is suing his mother and
stepfather for $4,OO0,000 which he
claimed he earned while other
small boys were rolling hoops. He
charged that the Bernsteins con
spired after his fathers death to
keep every cent he had, made, to-
gether with the two corporations
in his name, the mansion he had
bought in suburban Van Nuys, and
the two Rolls Royce automobiles
his earnings had put in the garage.
Mrs. Bernstein said she under
stood the law was on her side and
her son any of the money he earn
her son any o fthe money heearn-
ed, even though she loved him
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
Oakland Sought
AS Naval Base

WASHINGTON, April 10 (UP)-
Rep. John H. Tolan, D., Cal, today
announced a hearing will be held
Wednesday by house naval af-
fairs subcommittee on his bill au-
thorizing government acquisition of
the Oakland, Calf, site for a naval
supply depot.
Assistant secretary of the navy,
Charles Edison, is expected to tes-
tify in favor of the bill along with
Rear Admiral Ben Morrell, chief
of the naval bureau of yards and
docks and Capt Henry De F. Mel,
assistant chief, bureau of supplies
and accounts.
The hearing had previously been
set for April 26.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
Nicaragua Rebels
Set Fire to City

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, April lY.
CUP)-The press reported today a
renewal of revolutionary activities
on the Atlantic coast of Honduras,
under leadership of Generals Fell
berto Diaz Zelaya and Rufino Soils.
The military barracks and govern
ment buildings at San Pedro Sula
were reported to have been set on
fire, destroying half of the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1938-04-19
BIRDS FLOCK
TO FIRE

NEW YORK, April 10. CUP)-
The first thing firemen did when
they reached a burning All-State
Freight company truck was to
jettison the cargo. 1t was three
tons of bird seed. Most of the
sacks burst when they hit the
street. Sparrows and pigeons were
not long in finding out about it..
For a time, firemen had to fight
off the birds.