The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 3, 1932, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIIl. No. 234. Roosevelt Delighted With ~ Results Of Campaign..T e ;thanthis for young authors of any) MAKES CONE! ‘talent to get on their ‘legs, but Presidential Nominee Re- turns To Albany Today; Takes Part In Conven- tion Held : (By Assoemted Press} ALBANY, Oct. 3.—Gov- ernor Roosevelt returned here today after a three week's campaign tour that took him to the Pacific coast. He said he was “thorough- ‘ly” satisfied that his drive “for the White House gained strength in a score of states visited on the trip with searcely a pause in activities. He wil] plunge into the! democratic state convention which will name a nominee} for the governorship he will relinguish January 1. OFFICERS GIVES ~ BURGLAR CHASE SEEN PROWLING AROUND ELGIN’S HOME; TWO SHOTS FIRED The sounds of two pistol shots fired by Call Officer Harold J.| Key at « fleeing burglar awaken-| TENDERS. AND.1 ed residents in the vicinity of Baton, Elizabeth and “Caroline sireets midnight Saturday. Officer Key was summoned: by a telephone call to that section and was told, when ‘he arrived, that a burgler had been prowling around the home of A. C. Elgin on Eaton street as though trying to effect an entrance. R While he was being given the information Officer Key saw the man in the yard of Mrs. Claude Williams next to the Elgin home; and went after him. Just as he started, the man began running. He ran eastward on Eaton street and when the corner of Elizabeth street was reached turned to the left toward Caroline with the of- ficer pursuing him. Just as the eorner of Caroline was reached Officer Key fired twice at the fleeing burglar, who! was evident- ly untouched by the bullets as he increased his speed and made his escape. ; In the meantime Captain Laurie Roberts arrived on the scene to. assist Key in the hunt. For more than an hour they searched in the vicinity but found no trace of the man. Officer Key is sure that he is a white man. PIES GALORE CLEAR LAKE, Mich.—Six; thousand pies were scattered over, the landscape when a bakery truck IN OLIVIER! CASE WATSON ADMITS HE AND KERR WERE ONES RE- SPONSIBLE Julius Watson yesterday admit- ted to Sheriff Niles that he and Kermit Kerr were the men re- sponsible for the burglarizing of the Olivieri Pharmacy some months ago. Watson’s confession exonerates jIvan Roberts from any complicity in the robbery.’ He ‘told the sher- | iff that only he and Kerr were ‘im- plicated and none of the others. He also confessed: to burglariz- ing the grocery store of Miss Mar- guerite Roberts on Matgaret street, from which a quantity of stuff was stolen. Most of this property has been | used with no chance for the for- jmer owners to recover. Accord- {ing to Watson he lived a kind of “Robin Hood” life, taking from those whom he felt could afford the losses and giving to others | who were in need, He said that practically all of the stuff he and Kerr stole was given away and that he received but very little benefit from the. results of his thefts. He profess- ed being repentant and said’ that. had he his life to live again he would pursue an entirely different eee of existence. \CARRY ON WORK AT SMITH SHOALS SITE ON FOUNDATION FOR. , STRUCTURE ' | The lighthouse tenders Ivy and ‘Poppy, and the dredge are at work {today on what is expected. to be , the last preparatory work on Smith Shoals before the foundation for the lighthouse is: started. Some final clearing of the bot- :tom is needed before the working {platform can be erected and the actual construction of the struc- ture begun, Should weather con- ‘ditions remain as they are today, ; ; this part of the work. should be completed by Wednesday, it is jaaid. ,. The Ivy, which carried a work- ing party to Tortugas last week! returned last night bringing W. J. | Schoneck, assistant lighthouse en- | gineer, who went on an inspection i trip. . | Attorney And Mrs. Malone! Return From Extended Trip} | Attorney and Mrs. Wm. H.) }Malone, who have been motoring] through the states returned over| the highway Saturday. They atl to Endicott, N. Y., to visit friends, | jand then went up almost to the Canadian line, They also spent a! short time in Lexington, Va.,; where Mr. Malone was a student! at college and stopped for a brief! }we say in the first years of the teentury, dnd again in the first ; Lewis’s, and no “Spoon River An- The Key West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, C000 COOOOOTOOOOOOOOOOEOOOOOOOOESOOOOOSSOLOOOOOOSEOOOOOOOSOOOCE Now’s The Chance For Young Writers Says Mencken: SCO EDOCOSSCS GeEEDedeDWTSOEDOCOODEOOCOO By‘H. L. MENCKEN © (By Associated Prevay There never was a better’ time |‘ they seem to be coming forward |! very slowly. ps Half a dozen first books of ex- cellent quality have come out dur- ing the past year, but certainly there has been no such supsurping of really first-rate newcomers as | years of the war. No :“Main Street” has been heard of since thology” since Master’s. i The American novel, in fact, is in a very flabby state, and Ame! ean poetry is almost dead. I re- —— MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1932. Explosions Rock Brick ecacceseoesooos 'to better things. It is a delusion.| Give a youngster two years in} he pulp magazines, and he is ruin-| ied forever. There have been a few exceptions, but they do not ‘run one to a thousand. Another thing that works wainst a steady supply of com- petcnt novices is the change that ‘has come oyer journalism. Most | | American authors, in the old days,| Amended To Year In Jail of-the city room in time they got Judge J. good training there. “Today most of the newspapers -Saerifice every other quality to ed. The reporter no fonger; {writes his own story: he telephones "itn to a rewrite man. To the re- man it is simply so many} Vining Harris this him in reducing the sentence. The member when Miss Harriet Mon- roe in Chicago used to discover’ a new poet every month or so, but; now it is two or three years since He has not seen it, and ‘be more or less flat and stale. morning in criminal court amended! confession of Watson is what made :so his account of it is bound to! } the sentence of Ivan Roberts from} {Thus ‘the ‘impulse to. write well two years in state prison to one; she found her last. ‘It’s Not The Hard Times’ The hatd times have nothing to} do ‘with the’ matter. Just as many good magazines are in being as ever before: the mortality has | fades out, and good manuscripts ‘year in the county jail. come from newspaper offices only Attorney J. Y. Porter, iII., made} Pirarely. They used to come in a gn eloquent plea in. behalf ve, ; , fpod. = ‘Roberts, citing the fact that Julius} ae Men Turn eer | Watson had confessed to Sheriff, | iy Perl et pa eben aon ‘Ys! Niles yesterday that he and Kerr, ome of the dest writing © havei were responsible for the Olivieri! {een of late has been done by busi- burglary and he, the attorney, be- piess men. In these days they tieved that the fact that Roberts have plenty of time on their jo 4 once been charged with this' HENRY L.MENCKEN * {thing new-to say, and knows how id of; ay Sa: Bower faa Gee panies at.ite say it in a plausible and charm- i jing manner. hegiehd et neoag have ieun ba New and then, of course, it hap- pour, CUR ae, -, |pens, else suicide would be these: books, unhappily, are bad,| -o tion among. editors as. it is:fnds, and most of them are full the reduction possible. All of the prisoners had families and had made pleas for clemency. To these the judge gave every consideration Possible but was not to be swerved from his sworn duty. The fathers of Earl Wells and Earl Weech were in court during the session. When asked if there were any others to be heard Mr. Wells addressed the judge. He said that Henry Hall and his wife were solely responsible for his For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Hotel — ‘In Palatka; Fire Breaks Out; Guests Make Escape Uninjured Blasts Believed To Have Been Caused By Escap- ing Gas Which Became Ignited Starting Blaze (Ry Associated Pres) PALATKA, Oct. 3.—Ten guests asleep in their rooms escaped serious injury to- day when a series of ex- plosions rocked the three- story brick hotel James here. The blasts are believed by firemen to have been caused by escaping gas which left but that is surely not the publish- among high grade investment of indignation, and eager to un- crime but was released on a tech-!son’s being in jail. That they ce eee oad eee |bankers. But it surely doesn't But the supply seems to be small. {happen often. A magazine editor’s job, in these! : : days, is very onerous. He has to| 8nd sound-proof room, trying to I spend long hours in a dark; nicality, had some weight with the jwere the ones who had led his son sure and strong feeling is very Judge when he sentenced Roberts astray and they too should be favorable to literary exercises. | © two years for breaking and en-' punished. He feels convinced that | \ So far these business men seem tering the book store of Aquilino | Hall should receive a sentence have escaped the racketeers ; Lopez last week. load it. This combination .f lei He also called attention to the hunt down ‘most of his more com-' figure out why this should be so. petent. authors, and drag them in by the heels, Of the stuff that comes to him unsolicited, not one percent is fit to print. There is an immense amount of writing in the United States, but | iwho profess to turn anyone into, to is that correspondence schools}@d up they will be ruined, just: ;of authorship are to blame. s all the literary drummers, | Before there were any sw vlergymen, schoolma’ams, _ letter-| schools the novice got his training’ ‘iers-and farmers’ wives have’ by reading his betters. Now “hes been ruined. { jon his son, jOne of the guesses I often returng Kipling. When they are round- sorrow that was being undergone} The judge explained that in as| following pleaded guilty| quickly was extinguished. by the prisoner’s mother and be-' much as Hall had lieved that some of the suffering to receiving stolen goods in an would be alleviated if the sentence amount below that constituting was reduced to a term ; n county jail. the lobby a mass of twisted wreckage. The fire that broke out in + ;equally as severe as that imposed| three parts of the building the = explosion The first blast occurred in the grand larceny, he had given him| when @ negro porter struck -stranger—that is, all save a minute portion of it is|gets it mainly from quacks whé!”. Pedagogues are all alike, What-| The judge replied to Attorney imitative and conventional, andjcan’t write themselves, and .are jeyer they touch they spoil. My be-/Porter by saying that in ‘sen-} wholly lacking in ideas. It is aj bent only upon fitting him for the;lief is that those operating in the | tencing Roberts to two years in! rare day: which sees a really first-| hack work of the cheap maga- [i schools have pretty well| prison he was partly actuated by rate manuscript come in from ajzines. Many young authors b finished the United States, in-} a@ manuscript)lieve that they can do that ha lectually speaking. But that is done by someone ‘who has come-j work for a while, and then escape ;something else again. arrested and brought before him; for the Olivieri burglary and ————- thought released ‘on a legal tech- |nicality, he believed him guilty the longest sentence he could ac- cording to law. The judge then read the law covering this of- fense. It is up to the county solicitor to judge and ‘he, as judge, has noth- ing to do with this part of the procedure. Hall had also been used asa state witness and had a match under the staircase leading from the lobby to the second floor. Two other the fact that the prisoner had been / file these informations said the} blasts followed the first one. EIGHT BODIES SENATOR HEARD AT DEMO-| ~ HOOVER'S WORK CRATIC CONVENTION IN ALBANY (Bs Asseeinted Press) Practically all of the data ALBANY, Oct, 3. attack upon the adm ‘as tion of: President Hoover, Senator Robert F.. Wagner, jorary chairman of the York state ocratc convention, told delegates that the “American people will never again accept as gold the brass that was sold to them in 1928, They have learned to identify the medicine man in ‘Bridge Corporation are ready inow and it is believed that ithe application will be made to the Reconstruction Fi- ‘nance Corporation for the jloan of $10,500,000 to con- struct the bridges over the ‘highway, next week. Frank H. Ladd, who spent three j Weeks in Tallahassee preparing land compiling some of this data, said when home last week, that he aganda from truth. We need no new issue for 1928. We accept the issue selected by Mr. Hoover himself.” BRAZIL’S CIVIL to be done before all of the statis- tical matter would be ready. H. H. Taylor, attorney of Miami Will In All Probability Be Presented Next Week jand exhibits of the Overseas} before the end of: Corporation. was sure that very little remained | H However, now that y county solicitor to provide and be- assumed the sole blame of the) yond the power of the judge to in- lerime, with Kerr, thereby eli-! terfere. jminating Roberts from the picture; The prisoners, Weech and Wells ‘he intended to amend the seni said the judge, confessed to enough jtence. - jerimes to give them many years) ; He told Roberts, that he in-\in the penitentiary. On some of| ;tended reducing the sentence! these counts they had not been ar- jprovided Roberts promised to read! raigned, but on those to whieh they | |the! Bible while in Jail, meditate had pleaded guilty in open court preliminary details for the lean on his transgressions and make up/they could have been sentenced to { application. this mind to be a better man. The|25 years. One of the exhibits is a large trouble with the prisoner, said the! In conclusion the judge said that | map, prepared by experts, showing’ judge, is that he would not work./he had at first intended to sen- ithe proposed bridges and cause-!That he, like many others of the|tence the boys to six years but had | way and the relative travel by present generation, had gotten) given the matter a great deal of Searchers IN CLOUDBURST BELIEVED TOTAL DEATH TOLL IN CATASTROPHE WILL NEVER BE KNOWN; 13 GIVEN UP AS LOST (By Ansoctated Prox) BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 3.— in the mountainous auto over all bridges of importance |away from God and were leading serious consideration and decided! Tehachapi area expressed belief jin the state. A full description |jives of the project, its possibilities for‘ and self-liquidation in 30 years, fi-, J ct a i nancial program and the engineer-| tice Haw ls, 0n receiving, fhe, 3 . . «(promise by Roberts ‘that he) guilty to being an accomplice with! pl ces ae prepared Would make every effort to lead the. Parker brotliers ia. thé ito the Reconstruction Finance absolute ruin. + punishment. | ing released, and be a that must lead them to utter! that two years would be sufficient |today that the total death toll from Friday’s cloudburst may nev- Willie Weatherford, who pleaded er be known, Eight bodies were recovered, 13 bur-| other persons are given up as lost, ,better and exemplary life after be-|giary: of the Rios Fish Company,|#nd possibly 20 unidentified itin- model, but claimed that, he was practically |¢rants are believed swept to their ‘According to plans 13.3 miles | Ptisoner during his stay in jail, re-| forced to act when threatened by deaths by the 40-foot wall of of bridges and.13.4 miles of cause-|4uced the sentence to one year in| H. S. Parker, was ordered released are ty be constructed, Work the county prison. ‘ frown the county jail to which he! begin within 30 days after! The judge wanted it distinetly|was sentenced for one year. Judge |funds are made available and will/nderstood that the plea of the| Harris decided he would suspend jbe completed within about two!attorney on behalf of the prion? | sentence on Weatherford pending and a half years. |er's mother had no weight with his good ‘behavior. | The gate road department wage | scale will be employed, which is a} |minimum of 25 cents for com-| hwat | wil the cunyons and searchers many bodies buried. WAR HAS ENDED, *.| York but are expected to return byjand five-day week will be the! REPUBLICAN GUARD ASSUMES | Thursday to attend a directorate | working plan, ex-servie men will ° and W. R. Porter, vice president|mon labor and 40 cents intent With -J Causes Jot the corporation, are now in New| for skilled labor, A six-hour day! 3 (meeting in Miami, when the by- be given preference and no con-j| water that came down the pass following the clondburst. Tons of debris swept through said were undoubtediy MADELIEUTENANT hit a herse and turned over three} times near this city. visit in Norfolk. j Former Road Camp Guards On | Trial For Sweat Box Murder = \ (Ry Associated Preas) JACKSGNVILLE, Oct. 3.—;a heavy chain fastened from his/ Prison stripes of fifteen convi n rag ee aie « * soaps and his feet incased I to receive instruction that lent a) The selection of a jury dragged} realistic background to the start| stowly and got expected to” be! of the trial of two former road) oupleted before tomorrow. camp guards for the sweat box Mrs, Maillefert, who flew from! murder of Arthur Maillefert. thse: Mow Seveny: bheon;: wes de: the} Defendants are George W. Cour- -curtroom to witness the trial of | som and Soloman Higginbotham,’ \.. .on's alleged slayers. formeriy of Sunbeam Camp near here, where Maillefert was found ; Mal. strangled to death last Ju rc ike eal arth Rigger $ th lefert of Westfield, N. J. started WE HAVE THE AGENCY FOR cd'ty uw deci at the wea of s ed by his death at the end of a GLAPP’S = chain in a Florida prison! BABY SOUPS & F camp sweatbox. Maillefert, au} years old, was found strangled to; ‘ABLES death in the sweatbox at Sunbeam \ PACKED tH GLASS abcut his neck and his feet en- KEY WEST DRUG CO. «cased in wooden stocks. AUTHORITY OVER FED- ERAL ARMY “ (iy Associated Press) RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 3. Brazil’s three months’ old civil war ended today with complete collapse of Sao Paulo, rebels’ com- mand, * Colonel Carvalho, commander of the republican guard, assumed ct neck to an cverhead rafter on the POWer in the rebel city as repre-' sentative of the federal army. Reports said General Bertholdo Klinger, whe recently assumed rebel power after the’ collapse of Paulista, civilian government, was a prisoner at the disposal of the federal commander, General Klinger’s fall was the jresult of peace negotiations which A Uittle more than twe years| ended when the emissaries refused | jeeal persecution of church and toe accept federal terms, Regalar Meeting Of Elks Thursday Ni, A regular meeting of the B. P. . E. No, 551 has been announced for Thursday night. The session is scheduled start at § o'clock, te | viets or foréed labor will be used, Mistrial In New York Case jadopted, J, Lancelot ‘Lester, at-| according to the plan set forth in! | itorney of Key West, is in Miami/the application. Travel will con-+ a : (By Associate Press) : ,and devoting all of his time toltinue as usual by ferry boat. | NEW YORK, Oct. 3.—A mis-,his counsel in reporting the in- ' i laws of the organization are to be ‘Mexican Government And TODAY’S EDITORIAL trial was declared today in the ge ae? o Hottery trial of Senator James J.|_ Margiotti said a man came to} I Thevie, Judge Frank J, Coleman| "is home and he recognized =i ptt “ oo | fellow as juror No, Seven, Henry jsaid a mistrial was declared be-'5 Moore. He told him, Margictti! jeause two jurors communicated | said, that Jutor No. 14 is “putting | e i ‘with defense attorneys over the! in against your case.” “Every | | week-end. | day in the corridor he tells the; a nl on roversy; A report of the acts by jurors others that all your witnesses are j were reported to the court by! lying,’ Margiotti said Moore told peichshaaes Defense Consul Charles J. Margiot~| him. (hy Amnociated Meese) | ti, . j., The laivyer said Moore had been | | MEXICO CITY, Oct. 3.—The, the national chamber of deputies! — ber grin commended ge ine rien. pei that the ae i | Mexican goverment today threw; Will meet late today to consider /ti and al lauded Senator vig | attempt iscuss mi of} jdown the gauntlet to the Vatican, ‘be eneyclical | for participating in the action of] the ease. | ever last. Friday’s encyclical in = ; ; ene fl which Pope Pius XI. protested; Cleaning Lot i WHALE POPULATION | against what he called “new and Facing Marine Hospital 10 BE DETER | Catholics” in that country. apa hh i eee } | “If insolent and defiant attitude; 3. B. Warren, of)the board of | ye é ' ' showin im recent encyclical continu. | county commissioners, is having! MELBOURNE, Australia Oct! ed.” President Abelarde Rod-|the unoccupied lot opposite the} i 4 5 | lyigues said in a statement, “I am‘ Marine hospital and the sidewalks! 13.—-Diseovery Il, the royal t¢- idetermined that churches will be /in front of the institution cleaned }search ship operating under direc- lconverted into schools and shops’ up. | tion of the Falkland Inands gov- jfor the benefit of the nation’s! Four county prisoners, in charge | proletariat classes.” of Jailer Robert Lee Albury, is do- The president’s statement wasiing the work which is much followed by an announcement that ‘needed . KEY WEST BOY GETS COM- MISSION IN ARMY RESERVES By PAUL MAY Special Washingt vorrespondont of The Ciizew WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.— Julio Richard Lacedonia, 1826 Fogarty Street, Key West, has been commissioned 2 second lieutenant, army ro- serves, and assigned to the infantry, the war department announced today. 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