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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Key West Firemen entering
against the teams from Miami
end st. Petersburg at the recent
fire chiefs convention at Winter
Haven weren't even hard pushed
to win first honors in the fire.
fighting contests. The reputation
|of the three teams entered in the
race are such, it is said, that sew
erai other departments decided
not 20 compete, feeling that they
had no chance. The Winter Hav-
en- Chiefs story OF the contest
says: The Miami team. in the
first contest, was disqualified be-
cause Of its failure to make a
proper connection. while Key
West made record Of one min
ute and so seconds. In the second
round. Miami's record was one
minute 40 seconds, while Key
Vests was enc minute Al Sec
onds. Key West demonstrated
with ESQ foot hose and got wa
ter in so seconds. ST. Petersburg
had two tries. The first in two
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Unless plans now under way
mature not few of the fifth pre-
cinct voters will be unable to
vote in the coming primary.
There are not far from 1000 quail
flied voters in this precinct. IN
der the law the polls open at 8
O'Clock and close at sunset. On
June 5 this will be at TIA. This
means that the 1900 voters must
cast their votes in IL hours Ia
minutes, or almost three every
minute. Under existing condi-
tons this is an impossibility, it is
shown. Unless something is done,
therefore. to remedy the situation,
there will be a number. it is be-
iieved. who will not be able TO
vote.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

another rabbit
Alas, it's the
S a m e rabbit
used before. and
the trick Tan.
other pump :
printing expert
ment) will cost
us dear.
The obtec-
tons to the ex-
penditure of
four and one
half billion dol.
lcf8 for the
p ur p o s Q of
primin g the
pump are grave
iprloofl Adm.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Happiness. we are told, consists in a
state of mind and not in the possession of
material goods. Nevertheless. the posses
sion Of material goods tends to create a
happy state Of mind
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21
SLAVES WHILE FLYING

LONDON-Flying from France
to England, alone, A. A. Purcell
shaved himself as the airplane
was going ninety miles am hour.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21
The nld-fashioned chan WI

The old-fashioned chap who used to
think he was lucky to have quarter a
week to spend. has young sons and daugh-
tiers who think nothing of spending a dol
lar a day. and in the full knowledge that
the old man is in debt.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Fascism reflects the interests of the
big capitalists, but can only exist by APP
pearing not to do so, and the common peo-
pie are too dence to understand. or too inn
potent to act.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Hopkins, in radio address. as
serts new frontier lies in idleness
Of men, money, machines.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Leaders in democratic countries go
about their work in civilian dress; in die
tatorship countries, they are always in
uniform.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

In the next big war Uncle Sam viii be
prepared to fight for his neutrality.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Social progress is hampered by men
and womeR who. have lots of sympathy but
not willingness to help or to give.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

After this week the electorate and
even those who do not vote will be sur
feited with politics until next November.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

1t is always refreshing to have bust
ness dealings with person willing to carry
out his part of the contract.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21
Faults are thick where love is thin

It is the gentle mind that makes the
gentleman.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Wisdom includes willingness to
recognize that another person, who dis
agrees with you. might be right.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Despite the law in this country, there
are many Americans keeping an eye on the
Irish Sweepstakes in June.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

There are none so dumb, as those who
do not want to understand.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

There would be fewer divorces on
flimsy grounds if people didn't get married
on flimsy grounds.e~e
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Correct this sentence: Uncle Sam is
spending a lot of money for relief, but there
is no politics in it,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21
You and Your
Nations Affairs
Another "Shot i'm the Arm. -
By ELIOT JONES
Professor Of Transportation and Public Utilities,
Stanford University is39

Confronted with a serious depres-
sion now and an election next fall
the administration has dug down in
its magician's hat, and brought out
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21
KEY WEST IN DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just Ten Years Ago Today As Taken
From The Files Of The Citizen

minutes and "A seconds and the
second in one minute and SO Sec
onds". IS
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Governor John w. Martin will
reach Key West tomorrow morn
ing and will speak at Bayview
Park at night, 3 o'clock, in the
interest of his candidacy for the
seat in the senate now held by
Senator Park Trammell. You
have heard many untruths about
the governor, announcements OF
the executives coming state, so
come out and hear the truth. II
will be Interestingly 3isat
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

Editorial comment. Two-thirds
of the Key Vacas stretch Of the
highway is ready for the rock 20
60 down. This means that unless
something unforeseen happens,
the road will be ready quite a bit
before the winter rush Of WISH
tors begin. This is assuring. II
viii be much easier to give ade-
quate ferry service with the Is
miles Of new road in use.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21
IMPROVEMENTS ron KEY WEST
ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN

tIJe 98i
l. Water and Sewerage
Comprehensive City Plan (zoning).
3. Hotels and Apartments. s f8UffI
4. Bathing Pavilion 8l
s. Airports- Land and Sea.
6. Consolidation of County and City
Governments.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

The board Of county commits
sioncrs will meet 7.30 o'clock
Thursday night for the purpose
Of restoring names which have
been enormously stricken from
the books. for the coming pri-
mary. The disqualified list will
be published tomorrow.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1938-05-21

address questions the author Of this newspaper,
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
Right Wing Parties
Want Daladier To
Put Communists Out
Demand Presented In
Chorus from Support
ing N e w sp ape S
Throughout France:
Move Comes in Face
o f Premier's Huge
Budget Appeal

Paris. Dec. 6.-(AP)-Right wing
parties on which Premier Daladier
depends for the life of his govern
ment issued united demand through
their newspapers today for dissolution
OF the French communist party.
A total of 400 Faris and provincial
papers ranging from mildly conser-
vative to the extreme right were said
to have Joined in the appeal to par
Lament and the government"
The move came as Daladier was
seeking to put Frances 93,e85, 900. 900
franc ($2,441.O O0,OOO) budget through
the Chamber of Deputies ahead of
more controversies, Issues which might
endanger his shaky majority. He sue
ceeded last night in getting chairman
OF Chamber party groups to limit the
budget debate to 66 hours, about one
hour of discussion for each $37 600 600
of expenditures SO the deputies could
complete their action December %.
Some of the newspapers demanding
the communist dissolution represent
ed parties which have long been at
each others threats. Many of the
papers not only represented political
parties but were edited and owned by
deputies.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
Drug Firm S
President
Is Suicide
Coster Ends Ii f e
When Sensational Dis
closures Show Him To
Be Ex-Convict

New York, Dec. 6.-(AP)-Philip
Musica, the amazing schemer and ex-
convict who changed his name to F.
Donald Coster and became president
of McKesson & Robbins, Inc, killed
himself with pistol shot in his Fair
field, Conn, home today only a few
hours after his real identity was dis
closed.
His suicide followed the sensation
al revelations that he and at least one
other brother, under the name of
George Bernard, had hidden their
past police records sufficiently well
to become prime moving forces in the
corporation, which last year had
listed assets of $87,OOO,OOO and $40,
100000 in business.
The actual identity of third man,
George Dietrich, assistant treasurer
of the firm, was still in slight doubt,
but Federal authorities held it likely
that he, too, was a brother of Coster-
Musica.
Brother Identified
George Bernard, representative for
one of the firms listed as doing bust
ness for McKesson & Robbins, Inc,
was identified from fingerprints to-
day as Arthur Musica, Brother of
Philip Musica, better known as F.
Donald Coster, president of the drug
firm.
Assistant U. S. Attorney r. I.
Kaufman announced at the same
time he had telephoned the Depart
ment of Justice at Washington to
get copy of the fingerprints of
George Dietrich, assistant treasur-
er of the drug concern:
Dietrich and Bernard were indicted
with Coster for violation of the Sc
curities act of 1884. Kaufman said
he wished to determine if Dietrich
also were a brother of the financial
wizard whose fingerprints, dug from
file rs years ago revealed him not as
a Heidelberg graduate, but as former
immigrant boy from Italy, Philip
Musica, ex-convict and swindler.
Coster, or Musica, became head of
the McKesson & Robbins firm in
1926, made the business eminently
successful, and was coasting along in
! splendor and brilliance until his
treasurer suspicioned that all was
not we'll in the drug business, started
quiet investigation, which brought
the firm into Federal court a week
ago with petition for. reorganiza-
ton. Nas
With listed assets of SS7, 000,0 900, it
became increasingly evident through
state and federal inquiries during
the past week that at leasts SIS, 100000
of the assets. were unaccounted for,
or perhaps nonresident But it was
not until Inspector John Donovan
reached the. files of an old sidestreet
police station that Coster's. real iden-
tity came to light. :
Coster's past was brilliant, but the
new career he had chosen for himself
as a respectable corporation head
widely known in Wall Street, was
even more brilliant.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
Claims u. S.
Is Potential
Aggressor
Resolution Demanded
for Defense Against
ANY" Nation as Well
as Dictator Powers;
U. S. Opposing Edict
Against Force for Col
lecting Debts

Lima, Peru, Dec. 16.-(AP)-Argen-
tines suspicion of future United
States foreign policy appeared today
% be a strong factor in the Pan
American Conference controversy
over declaration against aggression.
Members of the Argentine delega-
zion insist the United States should
be considered a potential aggressor,
and they want resolution to provide
for defense against incursion by any
nation.
Consideration of a cooperative de-
Tense plan so far has been concerned
mainly with the possibility of attack
from nations outside the Americas,
and delegates have said they had in
mind the Observation-Disclosures re-
gimes of Europe.
The Argentine said they feared a.
change of administration in Wash
ington might bring an end to or al
iteration OF the present good neighbor
policy. There was little Indication of
support for this thesis by other dele
cations.
One among their delegation said the
United States was opposing a Next
ican-Argentine resolution against col
lection of government debts by force.
and commended this was an indication
the United States might one day de-
eide to take forceful action against a.
Latin-American nation.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
No One Yet
Picked For
Roper Post
Roosevelt H a sn' t
Made Up Mind Yet on
Any B i g Appoint
ments, He Says at
p re S S Conference;
Huge IVA Deficit
Reported to Commit
tee

Washington, Dec. 16.-(AP)-Presi
dent Roosevelt said today, amid tall,
that Harry Hopkins might be the new
secretary of commerce. that he had
not yet made up his mind on cabinet
requirements.
Resignation of Attorney Genera,
Homer Cummings and Secretary OF
Commerce Daniel C. Roper have left
two vacancies.
Mr.. Roosevelt said he could not tell
when cabinet appointments or an APP
pointment to the Supreme Court
might be expected.
Also asked at his press conference
whether any more designations in the
cabinet were in prospect, Mr. Roose-
welt said there were none he knew Of.
Protection to Hopkins.
Bombarded with inquiries about the
filling of a number of vacancies, the
President said he would soon fill q
vacancy on the Home Owners Loan
Corporation board. He was asked. too.
about reports Governor Frank Muir
ply, of Michigan, would received some
high government position The F'resi-
dent responded that there were manv
such reports.
Senator Holt, Democrat, West Vir-
ginia, said in statement, meanwhile,
if Hopkins, the WPA administrators,
were appointed to the cabinet it would
not be a promotion but a move to
prevent congressional investigation
of his scandalous handling of relief"
Other developments:
Huge IVA Deficit
Congressional Investigators learned
that the IVA lost $310,171 on it's pow
er operations in the fiscal year end
ing June &c. 1888. A preliminary fin
ancial statement of the Authority's en-
tire operations, submitted to the IVA
investigating committee, showed de-
ficit of $748,664 in the five years the
Authority has been selling electricity.
Passenger Fares To Drop.
The southeastern railroads presi-
dents conference voted to establish a
basic coach fare of one and one-half
cents mile as soon as possible. The
present rate is two cents per mile A
spokesman said the lower rate would
be put into effect as soon as tariff
schedules could be published, prob
ably in January. The railroads repre-
sented by the executives serve the en-
tire South.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
AAA Chiefs
Wait Burley
Leaf Voting

Washington, Dec. 16.-(AP)-Agri-
culture Department officials looked
to hurley and dark type tobacco pro-
ducing states today to see if senti-
ment against marketing quotas is
general among the nations tobacco
growers.
About 100000 hurley and $4,000 dark
type tobacco farmers in fourteen
states are eligible to vote in refer
enda tomorrow to determine whether
they want their 1889 sales restricted.
Flue-cured growers in six southeast
ern states rejected quotas in a SINH
lar referendum last Saturday. The
same day cotton farmers, plagued by
low prices, voted by a large majority
to restrict their sales next year.
Department officials attributed the
loss of the flue-cured referendum
partly to good prices the crop brought
this year, and an apparent belief
among growers that if they could
have sold more tobacco penalty free
their incomes would have been great
err.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
fisherman,
Relations
Nearer End

Washington, Dec. 16.-(AP)-
Diplomatic tension between the
United States and Germany mount
cd today with hints that retaliatOry
measures might he invoked if
American property rights in the
Reich are jeOpardized further by
anti-,Dewish and other cOnfisca-
tory DEGREES.
This possibility came to light as
the United States Tenewed its
seycn-mOnths-Old quest for ade-
ouate written assurances from
Germany that American citizens
will not be Disseminated against
because of their race or creed. The
request was so drawn as to cover
the rights of both Catholics and
Jews.
Meantime, Joseph Kennedy, am
bassador to London, arrived in the
United States to confer with
President Roosevelt. He expressed
himself in New York yesterday as
being mot" particularly Optimis-
fist about the outlook for peace
in EurOpe-but 81 don't think
that's any reason for not trying"
Kennedy left at once for WASH
ingtOn to report on the general
European situation. All other AM
erican ENJOYS to major European
countries have talked to the Pres
ident in recent weeks. Kennedy
has taken an active part in seek
ing aid for Jewish refugees from
Germany.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
Labor Chief
Warns About
Long Hours

Raleigh, Dec. 16-(APD-Labor Com
missioner Forrest H. Shuford warned
merchants today to observe the State
laws on hours of work for women and
minors during the Christmas rush pc
riod.
MANY merchants" said Shuford,
seem to have the idea that if en-
ployers return to their stores volun-
tarily for night work and thus ex-
coed the hours fixed by law, there is
no violation. They are in error about
this, and are liable to prosecution"
The commissioner cited the law on
hours of work for women in establish
ments where more than eight people
work, and said he interpreted the act
to mean that for the holiday period
men may be employed for so hours
per week, the limit except for the
Christmas season, and two inventory
periods in 48 hours per week. Women
or girls under IS years of age, how
eevr, Shuford said, are governed by
the child labor law, and those be-
tween 16 and Is may not be worked in
excess of nine hours day, or 48 hours
a week, even during the holiday pc
Rod.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
Trial of Snyder
In Movies Shooting
Is Nearing Close

Los Angeles, Cal, Dec. 16.-(AP)-
Martin Snyder's trial on attempted
murder and kidnapping charges moved
swiftly toward it's conclusion today
with four versions of what happened
in the Hollywood Hills home OF
Pianist Mryl Alderman the night of
October Is, presented for the jury's
consideration.
Snyder is accused of wounding Aid
erman, of attempting to kill Song
stress Ruth Etting, now Alderman's
bride, and his own daughter, Edith
Snyder; of kidnapping the three of
them and of possessing a gun with
the numbers defaced.' He faces max
imum sentences totaling lis years if
convicted.
In a jargon of clipped words all his
own, the former Chicago newsboy,
who married the flaxen-haired Miss
Fitting 10 years ago and guided her to
theatrical fame, told his story of the
shooting yesterday. 1t varied in two
important essentials from the de-
scription furnished by Alderman,
Miss Etting and Miss Snyder.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
Highway Will
Fight Price
For Parkway

Raleigh, Dec. 16.-(AP)-Chairma
Frank Dunlap said today that the
Highway and Public Works Commits
sion had decided to fight the reconn-
mendation of an appraisal committee
that the Little Switzerland Company
should receive $27,111.72 for land con-
demned for the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The commissioners voted unani-
mously, Dunlap said, to instruct Char
les Ross, their general counsel, to file
exceptions to the recommendations on
the grounds it was too high. The
clerk of court who received the report,
Dunlap said, is empowered to affirm
it, reject it and name new appraisers,
or modify it.
eff the clerk of court should affirm
the award" said Dunlap, 1--WE will APP
peal to the superior court, where the
case will be tried as a new one."'
Associate Justice Herriot GARRISON
of the Supreme Court, owns a sub
stantial amount of stock in the Little
Switzerland Company, and appeared
as a witness in the committee hear
;ngs.
Duke-CarOlina Highway.
This afternoon the commission was
to consider proposals it construct a
boulevard highway to connect Duke
University and the University of
North Carolina.
The commission awarded, subject to
approval by the Federal Roads Blu
reau, contracts to the low bidders for
six road projects on which proposals
were opened yesterday. A Gates job
was held up pending adjustment OF
location problems. A Jackson county
Job was withheld until right of way
can be secured. All roadway bids for
an Onslow job were rejected as being
too high, though the low bidder for
structures on the project was award
ed the work.
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
Trade War
British Aim
On Dictators
Will Meet Menace Of
German and Italian
Barter With Latin :
America; Huge Bud
get for Purpose Is Re-
quested of arliament

London, Dec 16.-(AP) Great. Bri-
tain laid the groundwork today for .
trade war, if necessary against the
totalitarian states.
Backed by Prime Minister Cham
berlain's new forcefulI attitude to-
ward Nazi Germany, the export guar
antees bill, seen as a possible aid to
British exporters in meeting Ger
many's barter trade system, was given
second reading by the House of Com
mons.
The measure would increase from
50,OOO,000 pounds to $4,000, 900 pounds
1882, 900, OO0) the tota; export guaran-
tees which the Board of Trade could
grant. It also contains a provision
whereby material assistance could be
sent to China.
r. S. Hudsong, secretary of the
overseas trade department, describ-
ed the bill as one of the methods
without precedent in our history
which Great Britain might be requir-
ed to use in fighting unfair foreign
competition" Members of Parliament
carefully avoided direct reference to
Germany, whose political leaders were
warned by Chan1berlafn yesterday to
beware of Britain's financial power in
war. IN
Hudsong linked the export drive
with rearmament when he declared
that Gin the world of power-politics,
undoubtedly the trade of this country
to a very large extent is dependent
on the question of whether or not the
world believes we are in earnest
about our schemes of rearmament."
Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1938-12-16
De1nandCrows
For Election
Law Revision
Daily Dispatch BIZ. eau,
In The Sir Walter HOGel.

Raleigh, Dec. 16.-Sentiment fol
repeal or drastic revision of the alb
sentee ballot law is not, as many he
lieve, confined almost completely to
the East
casual survey of the incoming legis-
lature reveals that revision and re-
peal sentiment is rampant in East
West and Piedmont; though it is
perhaps true that the greatest vol
ume of outright repeal sentiment
comes from eastern lawmakers.
Not all the House and Senate
members, by any means, are com
hitting themselves on the matter
but most of them will express "oft
the record" and mot for quotation
views when properly approached by
newSmen.
From repeated questioning of many
members from all sections, your cor
respondent regards some action on
the absentee question as almost GER
tain, with repeal, outright and abso-
lutte, as only remote possibility.
Revision sentiment is sure to be
greatly augmented when the State
Board of Elections gets around to
making its recommendations. Chair
man Will A. Lucas and his associatet
have had more actual experience
with the insight into the absentee
situation than any other group in
the State, and when they tell al
they know about it, the result is
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