The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 4, 1932, Page 1

] EE AEE START Sy Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIIl. No. 2385. R.F.C. Advances Over . Billion Dollars To ~ InDepression Matters Florida Receives Half Mil-| TRAFFIC MAP OF |e cumecie tnstiation of Wash no Te Be Used am Re-| FLORIDA-CUBA IS : ‘tivity on the sun that sends out lieving Much Distress) Over State ;CAN BE SEEN AT CHAMBER (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.— Advances of $1,182,734,958 “in actual cash” to aid agri- culture, commerce and indus- try to recover from the de- pression, were announced to- day by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in a} summary of loans made dur-| ing the first seven months of } its operation. From February 2 through! August 31, the corporation said, “QF $1,118,532/968 wes lent to 5,599; FE "f borrowers, and $64,201,989 through the secretary of ¢ulture, to 507,632 farmers erop production purposes. In addition advances to, states! and political subdivisions for re- lieving distress totaled $35,455,171 from the enactment of a relief law in July to the close of. business) September 30. Florida got $500,000. TOWN DESTROYED -BY FOREST: RESIDENTS RUSH THROUGH FIRE LINES DURING NIGHT agri-} for NOW ON DISPLAY The Key West Citizen — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1932. Electrical Spray From Sun On Earth Key To Radio And Compass Trouble ees gee eis pee eeesecccvecocs SCoccovvoveseccesoe , _|How Sun Spouts Electric |Particles {| CReeeoeroceveccocseegccosssssnaceooesessocencoece | By’ F. B. COLTON (by Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. Streams of electric particles, sho’ out from the sun like water from/ a spinning lawn sprinkler, are pic-/ tured as the cause of electrical dis- turbances on earth in a report of | ington, A new way to measure the ac- jithese streams, described by Dr ‘Julius Bartels, may aid in over- F : | coming these disturbances and 4 H pave the way to future advances/| 4 Oe | OF COMMERCE; EXECUTIVE BOARD OF CORPORATION TO in radio and wire communication. | ' Dr. Bartels has found the force Z | of the streams: varies through 27-, An i day periods, the time of the sun’s; { rotation and changes in the foree/ i 1 Says Using Convict Labor For 52 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS General Economic Conditions Of ‘OnUpwardTrend,Claims Head Of American Bankers Assn. |says U. S. Matched Her Strength Against World In Financial Troubles And Won Fight _To Have Small Effect On Unemployment Situation (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Oct. 4.—H. H.; and that the new poliey will not (By Axsociated Press) LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4.— America matched her great HOLD MEETING’ ‘THURSDAY}can be:measured by changes in the , istrength against the world The traffic map of Florida and Cuba, gotten out by the Overseas Bridge Corporation is now on dis- play at the chamber of com- merce. It is comprehensive to the minutest detail, showing all of thé roads in Florida and Cuba in red while the rest of the map is in {black and white. Lines marking the ferry route from Key West to Cuba and the proposed ferry line from Cuba to Yucatan are indicated as possi- bilities when the bridges are com- plete. The proposed meeting of the ex- ecutive board of the corporation ito be held*Thursday in Miami to adopt the by-laws is said to be one of the final acts of the body be- fore the application is presented to the Reconstruction Finance Cor- poration. While no specific date for this has been determined it is believed that the committee from the Over- 1 seas Bridge Corporation will leave Miami.next week for, Washi be Leo Warren, representing the city council, as, member of the ex- ecutive board, expects to leave to- morrow morning over the highway or in the afternoon for Miami to attend the meeting Thursday. Wm. earth’s magnetism. Earth ‘Soaked? In’ Minute When the earth runs into one of | the streams of particles, it is) “soaked” in Jess than a minute,| ‘Wells, chairman of the state road | department, today said the de-| | partment’s new policy of using on is being done by convicts, [convict labor instead of employed| The policy is, he said, that no {labor for maintenance work will} free labor will be employed for fu- tenance work is now being carried result in the discharge of employ-! ed laborers, as what little main-! \that thought financial ruin pee in store for the United ‘States and won, Harry J. That is why so-called “magnetic storms,” unlike ordinary storms, ! Z loften begin simultaneously all aver | ; SSNS, 1 {the world. ! y ; Seorr | Magnetic storms are disturb-| | ance of the earth’s magnetism and: ad fs a electricity caused by the streams’ of particles and have no connection} with thunder, storms or other) ;) 4: 5 ) im diagram cause radio, telegraph storms due to “weather.” They; new method found for measuring the activity that causes this spout- sometimes interfere with telephone i,5 may bring improvements in electrical communications. Photo- and telegraph communication 0) ¢,.5h above shows how surface off the sun looks, \ much that it is impossible to send’ : rinessages, and also disrupt radio'ions (mutilated atoms) or mole- ba scientists have detected their | istence indirectly. { transmission. cules. They do not actually reach The streams take about a day the earth, but are stopped by the ‘One method of detection is ob-! and a half to reach the earth from atmosphere before they approach gervation of the aurora borealis or the sun.- They originate at certain within 50 miles of the surface. Ef-'iorthern lights, which is a glow re-! definite points on the sun’s sur-'fect of the particles on the miag-'sulting from collision of the! face, but not necessarily in sun-jnetic field that surrounds the earth streams with gases in the upper at-| spots, as formerly believed, says is the actual cause of the magnetic mosphere. Another is noting of} Dr. Bartels. tstorms. ‘changes in the earth’s magnetism: Atmosphere Stops Particles | No one ever has seen or meas- resulting from currents generated} The'streams may be electrons, pote these streams from the sun, 4 eee Har | eae eer ANGLES IN \“BIRD HOTEL” CHECKS OUT 50,000 GUESTS| | i the surface of the sun as shown id compass trouble on earth. A Electric particles spouting fr§m / y the collision. } -MENOCAL, NAVAL iJ. have little effect on the unem-| ture maintenance work. {Haas, of Philadelphia, told ployment situation in Florida, | The next meeting of the high-!the American Bankers As- ‘He said the department is doing way commission here probably will Ae . . * minimum maintenance work now be October 19, Wells said. sociation in his presidential address at the annual conven- ition today. One Hundred Dollar Fine "ssn sta iday,” he said, “represent a Imposed On Juror Causing Pence : Mistrial Of Case In N.Y. mic conditions” «3 compared to the “banking panic” that | surrounded the convention a year ago. In the very trough of the | depression, he said, foreign 4 (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 4.—Henry J. Moore told the court he Moore, juror, who caused a mis-| “sorry and had not intended trial in the case of Senator James| harm anyone.” Davis, who was charged with! The judge said he was convinced lation of, the federal lottery! there was: no corrupt laws, was sentenced today to pay| when Moo: a fine ef $100. or. spend five the Pennsylvania hotel last jail, His name was also strick-' Friday, and that was why he was from the jury list. {mot sending the juror to jail. was to! ‘yuin was. ahead for the Uni-_ ted States continued to dump securities in American mar- ~|kets and withdraw proceeds jin gold. Special Panel Of Jurors For , WAUKEGAN, IIL, Oct. 4.— NOW BROUGHT ouT In 20 years more than 50,000 birds have boon checked im | sii ius WATSON TELLS SHER-| |R. Porter, vice president of the corporation ‘is also a member of]. i OFFICIAL, DEAD; the executive board, representing}. | : Monroe county commissioners. DECEASED WHO WAS MEMBER | “Then suddenly in | June came the end of Europe’s jability to take further gold 4» TO SAFETY iBy Andociated Pream and out of William I. Lyon’s PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 4.— The town of Cochran in the coast mountain timber country was de- stroyed by a forest fire today af- ‘COMMISSIONERS... OF CIVIL ENGINEERING! bird hotel here. | The birds, lured into traps CORPS, WAS STATIONED IN| 4, food, are checked! out at j2-hour intervals with govern: IFF OF EXTENSION BIT! USED IN BORING HOLES To| GAIN ENTRANCES Trial Of Former Prison Guards} j : froza this, country. America ._—'MANY INQUIRIES had matched her strength (My Aasveliated Prean) JACKSONVILLE, Oct. ter having been surfounded on all sides by roaring flames. * All residents, numbering 200 or more rushed through the fire lines to safety during the night. Some } able to save household goods. | MEET IN TAMPA! KEY WEST DURING WAR | Commander Adolfo Jose Men- ‘BOARDS OF FLORIDA STATE} ocal, Civil Engineer Corps, United | States. Navy, died in the Naval SOCIATION TO CON- 3 he 2 Hospital at Mare Island, Cali-; VENE OCTOBER 7 ment - supplied aluminum | Failing to get a jury from the | bands attached to their legs, | regular panel of 85 veniremen to} that el = re Each day a new angle is dis-|t?¥ two former prison guards for) eeper patronize: y eavered in ths, ‘operations that | the torture death of Arthur Mail-| migrators can let him know { G 8 i their next stopping-place. were so long carried on by Julius} !¢fert, New Jersey youth, Judge | Watson and the gang that he had| George C. Gibbs ordered a special | against the world and won, jbut other countries seemed to appreciate it before we ourselves realized it.” ABOUT NEW LIGHT FOR COAST LINE AGAINST INSULLS FINDINGS OF GRAND JURY PRESENTED IN COOK COUNTY (Ry Associated Prous) CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Three true bills charging Samuel and Martin Ht with em- bezzlement, larceny and lar- ceny by baillee, were returned by the Cook county grand jury after less than an hour's deliberation. Capiases Fest were issued immediately. MAKE TRY FOR j INDICTMENTS CHICAGO, Oct. 4.—Prose- sull, senior, and brother, Mar- tim, in the Insull utility de- bacle which cost investors hundreds of millions cf dol- lars. FIND VARIETY | (Special to The Citizen) TAMPA, Oct. 4.—The Florida [State Association Boards of Coun- {ty Commissioners will hold its an- }nual meeting:in Tampa, with head- quarters at the Hillsboro Hotel, on (October 7 and 8. ! Most of the sessions of this con- vention will be held in the hotel, which is located in the heart of the city and just opposite the | Hillsborough County court house. {A large attendance is expected. ‘ORDER EXPELS PAPAL DELEGATE DICTATED TODAY BY PRESI!- DENT RODRIGUEZ OF MEXICO ly Asacetated Press) MEXICO CITY, Oct. 4.— President Rodriguez today F hh uke ude hued, fornia, Sept. 19, and was buried September 26 in Arlington Nation- al Cemetery with full military hon- {panel of 60 men to report 4:30. | DEPARTMENT HEADQU ART, The state charges Solomon Hig-/ ERS RECEIVE REQUESTS j gathered atound him. | Several of the burglaries com-} E MASSEY, NEGRO ors. Conimaudie Menscal waa bork jan extension bit had been used} in Havana, Cuba, May 11, 1867, RALLY MEETING make openings in doors enough ; and was appointed. to the Civil (for a man to get his hand through! Engineer Corps, United States | :to turn a key or operate a night} Navy, as a citizen of the District} MONROE COUNTY EXECUTIVE j joi ch or yale lock. | poblaaghegedeg kate Naval Sia.| COMMITTEE TO ASSEMBLE | Especially was this noticable in| tion during. the Spanish American | THURSDAY NIGHT |the operations at the Olivieri! Wi Pharmacy where four holes ‘were! made in a door panel in order that! the lock could be reached. Yesterday Sheriff Niles talked this phase of the robberies over with Julius Watson who admitted jthat an extension bit had been Jused and directed the _sheriff| where it could be found. Going to ar. In 1904 he assisted in the cok| . ‘ : struction of the Naval Station at} Democrats of Key West _ will Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and iajmest in the county court house } 1906 was attached to the Navy Thursday night for the first pre- Yard, Pensacola, Florida. After|¢lection rally to be held by _ the service in the Phillipines, he was|Democratic Executive Committee |Sen‘Pre as public works officer of Monroe. Ses Francisco, California, and a Several speakers are scheduled ter being stationed at the Naval/ address yes Pag A Among | the place as directed by Watson em are Attorney #. YT. rortetr'the sheriff found the tool and has! Air Station, Rockaway Beach, L.| Wee teed tec tneapacity wus) tll, Frank O. Roberts, Willian H.lit in te opting | I, was retired for incapacity sus-| a } tained while on active duty and} Malone Enrique Esquinaldo and) Another phase of the robberies| | that had kept the officers puzzled placed on the retired list May 10,}Sam E. Harris. 1921. | What Monroe county and the/was finger prints, or rather the! | Commander Menocal’s son, Lieu-| state as a whole needs and what jack of them, as far as Watson is’ jtenant George L. Menocal, United | the Democratic Party hopes te/ concerned. Prints of the others! i States Navy, is commanding sub-| achieve in the November electionS! were found and proven, but no- j marine | will be the themes of the speakers.) where was there any of Watson’s { All interested in the future of the! found. = DEMOCRATS PLAN |mitted by these men showed that ;#ingbotham and George W. Cour-| i} son caused Maillefert’s death by| SHOT LAST NIGHT LEO RIVAS, ANOTHER COLOR- ED MAN, DOES SHOOTING, IT 18 CLAIMED FOR PLANS FROM prosrec.| confining him in a sweatbox with; TIVE BIDDERS ON SUPPLIES a chain around his neck and feet! 1 in stocks. } | Eleven tentative jurors were ob-! Offices of the lighthouse saat | tained from the regular panel. | ment are being. deluged with re- Shortly before 11 o'clock last ‘quests for plans and blue prints} DOHERTY DEFERS | of the lighthouse to be constructed | jon Tennessee Reef. Tnight Leo Rivas shot Ernest: Mas- | Some time ago trade papers in| sey as the latter was threatening VISIT HERE NOW «= north and east carried the ad- | to enter Rivas’ place on “Angela i vertiser-ents for proposals for) street near the Key West Electric ; furnishing the material for the! Company power. plant. Both are structure, j negroes. WIRES MAYOR CURRY EX-| Yesterday sixteed firms made| Massey is said to have been PRESSING REGRETS IN RE- {application and today plans and, drinking and had an altercation PLY TO INVITATION j blue prints are being tarned out} with Rivas, threatening to. injure by the dozens,. These will be tush- him. Rivas is said to be an in ‘ed to the applicants as the bids for | valid. | furnishing the material ure to be; With an ice pick in his hand Mayor Leslie A. Curry, who re-| opened October 21. {Massey is said to have been trying cently invited Henry L. Doherty| The lighthouse is to be exactly ‘to force an entrance through ® and wife, who are now in Miami, | the same type as that for Smith’ door when Rivas fired the revol- to visit Key West at this time be-| Shoals and the foeal plane will be|ver, The ballet went throujh # fore returning north, is in receipt |49 feet from high water mark. | door panel, entered Massey's right of a telegram/from Mr. Doherty} iside, inflicting a dangerous wound. expressing his regrets at not hei istate are expected to be at the | Attorney Albury Plans saci Su | Attending Meeting Of | ae | Commissioners In Tampa| Moore And McDermott Move Offices To Old dictated an order expelling Monsignor Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, Papal delegate, from Mexico. This action was the result | of the controversy carried on | | Asked by the sheriff how he had }guarded against leaving any fing- ler)prints at any of the places he had confessed to burglarizing, Wat- json smilingly replied that when jhe worked he used rubber gloves. ie able to make the trip as requested. | Mr. Doherty states that he and) Mrs. Doherty, are still, very ap-/ preciative of the kindly reception accordéd them by Mayor Curry and others during their last visit) to the Island City. Mr. Doherty's | The wounded man wax taken to NOTED AIRMAN ithe Marine Hospital and kept thera tuntil late this morning when he CRITICALLY LL | srico seats mrian' Wor j Rivas is being held without bond in the county jail pending the re- {was taken home. He is a veteran WILLIAM S$. BROCK SUFFER-;|*v!! of the wound. Attorney William V. Albury, } [legal representative of the board] fof county commissioners, will leave jon the Cube tonight to attend the} J. S. Moore and Vincent meeting in Tampa of county com-/ Dermott, comprising the missioners from sll parts of Flor-) Forwarding Company, have moved t ida. their offices from the Kress build-| j OF COINS FOR CHANGE The call for this meeting was is-|ing to the office building on Du-| (My Associated Press) sued about twe months ago. Tt val street that was formerly the | MAGALLANES, Chile, Oct. 4. | "as decided by the local board that | Hotel. Jefferson. |_During @ recent shortage here! Monroe county should be rep-| Mr. Moore says that he is highly) of small coins and one peso pieces, ;resented. Commissioner Fulford) pleased with the firm's new loca-} | shopkeepers used postage stampsjleft over the highway -yesterdayjtion. The offices are cool and) jas change. The province is so farjand will join Attorney Albury in/spacious and are closer to the! jfrom the capital that coinage sup-]Tampa for the meeting to be held/ business center of the city than) * plies are bard to obtain Thersday and Friday these just left. CAARLESTON——-Fishermen of} this city caught an 11-foot shark) and found in its stomach ham} bones, beef and chicken bones al GIVE STAMPS INSTEAD &® seaman’s coat. jtelegram, which is self-explanatory follows: between the government and ether factions for several days. Hotel Jetterson Bldg. ' | P@eeecccercccccscooceess TODAY’S EDITORIAL ING FROM CANCER, RE- PORTS STATE ish children under the ages of 20 in driving of automo- biles, with a view of impres- sing upon them the many dan- gers to be met im traffic ac- identa, i ainppetie es ot pg alba Gardner's “Service with a Reputation” Matines 10-15e; Night 15-250 See Page 4 For Reader On This Picture