The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 11, 1932, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIll. No. 241. County Council Selects 230 Names To Benefit In. First Allotment Of Funds) Expect Money To Arrive Today Or Tomorrow; All Will Be Notified When Work Is To Start At the meeting of the County-Council for unem- ployment relief last night, 230 names were selected to benefit from the first allot- ment of $2,000 which is due to arrive today or tomor- row. After a long discussion and a careful study of the names and condition of the applicants as set forth in the blanks they had filled out, 170 white males were selected, according to the number of de- pendents listed, and 60 colored males were selected. The- number of white and colored applicants prorated according to the number of applications. Of the white applicants 40 will be assigned to the city cemetery for beautification work and 40 will be assigned to cleaning up the city! park and making repairs to benches and other work. There will be ninety white ap- plicants assigned to that area near the Casa Marina and neighborhood that is thickly overgrown with; weeds and bushes. Of the colored malés assigned to work will be given duties at the: golf course, 25 at the park at the| foot of Whitehead street and 10 others will be assigned to work at the Douglas school grounds. These will -be-under.the supervision of Dr. Alfred DeBarritt. All others ‘will be under the direction of City Engineer B. Curry Moreno. Working the 230 men in this way will give each of them three days’ work at $2 per day with a few dollars left over for necessary in- cidental expenses to be incurred by the council and will use up ap- proximately $1,500 of the $2,000 allotment for the first 15 days in ©, After a careful check of the ligt of those without any means of support and who are unable to work, it was decided that $500 will} be applied to the relief of these! This direct relief to) be based on the number of those who are in each family and who are in greatest need of assistance. The eouncil members wish it un- derstood that it will be useless to ask who have been selected nor it benefit any of the applicants é g il F work will be ready. soon as the money ar- Z g ‘. a sent to the residences of those | ‘ed and they will be advised as, and place to report for ih Fait received the same pro- il be followed. Those to! for benefit from the be those who have the} number of dependents and; greatest need. None of who were first employed will considered when the next allot- ment is received. oo REPORT ON CITRUS CROP ESTIMATED IN EXCESS OF TWENTY-THREE MiIL- LION BOXES i rl } a rt } ‘ (By Associated Press) ORLANDO, Oct. 11.—H. A. Marks, gtatistician for the United! States department of agriculture, in a report today esti ed the total citrus crop for 1932-35 28,500,000 boxes, including com- mercial and private crops. Marks placed the commercial production at 18,500,000 boxes, half million boxes*under earlier! estimates of this amount. He said 6,000,000 boxes would be grapefruit. This compares with! last year’s commercial crop of 18,-| shop of Louis Boisen, a jeweler of | ico, moving west or northwest with’ 900,000 boxes. IN CELEBRATION HERE YESTERDAY CEREMONIES CONDUCTED AT CEMETERY IN CONNECTION WITH ANNIVERSARY OF “EL GRITO DE YARA” Members of the local society of Emigrados Revolucionarios Cuban- os, celebrated the anniversary of “El Grito de Yara” yesterday with a parade ard ceremonies at the Maine plot and that of the Cuban martyrs, The parade formed at San Car- los hall at 4 o’clock and under the direction of Marshal A. H. Shep- pard marched to the cemetery. In the line of march were the Ameri- can Legion Drum and Bugle Corps, and representatives from the Flor- ida National Guard, American Le- gion, Spanish War Vets, Marine Hospital, Cuban Consulate with the guests of the occasjon, Luis Felipe Falbello and Ricardo Sierra, Emi- grados Revolucianarios Cubanos of Key West, Cuban Club, Independ- ‘ent Order Odd Fellows, Caballeros de la Luz, San Carlos Society and Cuban Club. Arriving at the cemetery cere- monies were held at the Maine plot where Chas. H. Ketchum, of the ; Spanish War Veterans and Lieu- tenant H. A, Tellman, U. S. N., de- livered) addresses. At the plot of the Cuban Martyrs, Jose’ Marquez -and* Luis F. Tagle, delivered stir ring addresses. Cuban Consul Rafael Cervino and Henriquez Esquinaldo, wish to give thanks to the many organiza- tions who took part in the cere- monies and express their gratitude to the officials who extended every courtesy, to the citizenry who at- tended the rites. WATER PROJECTS SENATOR FLETCHER OBTAINS INFORMATION FROM SEC- RETARY OF COMMERCE WASHINGTON, Oct, 11.—Sen- ator Duncan U, Fletcher was to- information regarding| day informed. by Roy D. Chapin, | secretary. of commerce, that one of the projects approved and to Lighthouse} Service under the terma of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act, provides for establishment of 400 special channel of the Intercostal Water- way between the St. Johns River ‘and Miami, at an estimated cost! of $11,000 which will materially reduce the costs of maintenance; of aids to navigation in the water-; way; that the other project pro-|the jury he had ‘been approached | vides for replacement of the pres- ent worn-out wooden structures of the Punta Rassa Range front and rear lights, San Carlos Bay, with {more reliable aids to navigation, at an estimated cost of $15,000 and that these and the 27 other projects approved to be undertak- en throughout the country will 30, next. Other proposed projects which dertake under its two-year con- struction program include $25,000 for aid to navigation in Miami gation inside route from Hills- boro Inlet to Cape Sable; $25,000 for an automatic lighthouse mark the Glamalet wreck near at) South end of Florida which would | y,i) replace a lighted buoy, and $14,000 to replace and improve aids to navigation in Tampa Bay. MANY YEARS SERVICE OMAHA—4& watch more than 250 years old is still running in the this city. The Key Secccebecocecoceoococece By F. B. COLTON (Dy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. “Ellis Island” of the ancient past, where early immigrants to Ameri- ca are believed to have stopped off on their way, has given scientists the American Indians were Asia- tics. This prehistoric immigration sta- tion is Kodiak island, off the Alas- kan coast, where Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, has found remains of ancient peoples who passed south- The earliest immigrants paused only-a season-or two on Kodiak, he says, just long enough for their scouts to explore the mainland to the east and south and to prepare for the next leg of the journey, , Which they made ‘by skin boats all j the’ way from Sil evidence that the ancestors of 2 a re ina ¥ — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1 000009 000000O0008SO0000000 00000008 0000900 SE00000008 Alaskan ‘Ellis Island’ Yields Relies Showing Asiatics. Migrated -In Waves Vest Citisen 932. Soldiers For 62 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS “vil War Waged In China And Manchuria; Quarter Of Million Involved The Overseas Bridge Cor-; poration will present the ap- plication for a loan of $10,- Bridge Committee Off To Washington ittee In Struggle ines Government At Nanking Worried; Many | Uprisings Reported In Provinces Members of the city council and county commissioners who attend- (My Associated Press) ed the meeting of the executive SHANGHAI, Oct. 11.— Seats and tools made of carved whale vertebrae, ics found by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka (right) on Kodiak island Dr. Hrdlicka found scores of old village sites on the island, the larg- | acres, indicating it was once thick-' ly settled and probably a diffusion center from which at least a part rom Kodiak island before the lat- ‘Ne people appeared. Whether the 11.—An| est of which covers more than 3! poorly people were victims of whole- sale massacre, an epidemic or sim- ply migrated elsewhere may never be known. | board in Miami yesterday.returned 750,000 .j this morning. These are Ulric BO.DO0:0:, the: -Retonacracs on: Wil Bxpaeayy Joke Rob: tion Finance Corporation inj erts, B. B. Warren, Leo Warren, Washington, this week, It is | Cat! Bervaldi, W. H. Monsalvatge, : Gwe ; Julius Collins and Owen Sawyer. possible that this may be to-| All of the minutes covering each morrow as it is understood: meeting of the body since its in | ception were read and approved. | Fletcher, of Florida, has ar- | explained in detail and every é | phase of the extensive research ranged an immediate hear-) work and compilation of data and ing for the Key West andj exhibits was open to the inspec- Miami delegation. tie a the members of the Glenn Skipper, chairman of the; Members who returned today body; William R: Porter, vice-;say that the mass of detail, maps, chairman; Charles R. Pierce, secre-| blue prints, data, exhibits taken by. tary and H. H. Taylor, attorney,|the committee to Washington is left Miami last night and expect!complete in every way and is one to arrive in Washington early to-; of the most exact and comprehen- morrow morning. sive collections of information that This delegation will be joined: could possibly be assembled. that Senator Duncan U.|'The work of the corporation was} Hundreds of thousands of soldiers waged a civil war and_ rebellion. throughout |China and Manchuria today ‘from the northern border of Mancharia to the Province of Fukien in the south and from Western Szechuan Province to Shantung in the east. Reports also of an im- pending uprising in Chili Province in which Peiping is located were heard here. They were: based on the sudden and mysterious ap- of North America was peopled by!?. The first Americans had more the Indians. ‘han mere beginnings of civiliza- The oldest recoverable human tion before they left Asia, Dr. Hrd- remains inthe north, he believes, iticka says, In the deeper levels of probably are located by way of the old refuse heaps he found ivory Kodiak island over a period of images so skillfully carved that | many centuries, the latest perhaps are evidently portraits of in- jarriving about 1,500 years ago. iduals, well-made, tastefully by others in Jacksonville and on! their arrival in Washington a num-! ber of prominent people will meet with them and appear before the finance corporation when the ap- plication is made. i In the opinion of those who are 4) acquainted with the methods used, Pearance from retirement of by the Reconstruction Finance|General Feng Yu Heiang, Corporation the reply to the ap- plication wil be recetved in 10|eemeem Seeenee days or less. This gave rise to a report . {that he planned to seek con- trol of North China from |Ruins of their dwellings, gravy and slate tools, weapons and refuse are knives almost as sharp as if made 15 feet deep in places. ts “SKeltons from’ the graves show’ that two distinct types of people lived at different times on the is- land. One, the more ancient, re- sembles the California Indians, while the other is related to the Aleuts, natives of the Aleutian is- lands, off Alaska, The. earlier race disappeared MANY TALES TOLD IN SWEATBOX CASE NOW UNDER TRIAL } ;ONE STORY IS THAT YOUTH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE; MANY ‘OTHER ANGLES (By Asgocinted Press) JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 11.— i umber of messengers will’ be undertaken in Florida by the | Testimony corroborating the claim of Robert Blake, state’s witness, that he sought to arrange a suicide story to. explain the sweatbox the next allotment Bind and nun buoys to mark thejdeath of Arthur Maillefert, was/ given by defense witnesses at the \trial of the two former prison ;suards today. James Birmingham, convict and third witness for the defense, told jby Blake, who was’ head trusty at; the camp, and asked if he would join in the plan, Harry Schneider, Detroit viet, Maillefert “make a motion like he was going to hang himself” while in the sweatbox. con- ] i jabout Maillefert’s alleged “mo- | Senator Fletcher expects the light-| tion.” Schneider said the motion house service to.approve and. UD-) consisted of: -Maillefert dropping: his head on the chain and that {Courson was notified. When the jbex was opened the youth was }harbor; $16,000 for aids to navi-! goad | Birmingham asserted that when {Blake came to him “I told him I to| didn’t want anything to do with! it. Blake wanted me to say I saw lefert make signs.” | ADVISORY j Advisory 10:30 a. m. No re- }ports near tropical disturbance. but it is probably central a short ‘distance south of Campeche, Mex- ‘diminished intensity. ready had testified he saw | SON OF CHAIRMAN OF MONT- GOMERY WARD & COMPANY (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Oct. 11.—Se- well L. Every, Jr., son of the chairman of Montgomery Ward & Company, was found dead in his apartment today of asphyxiation. Police announced his death would be listed as ide, while desponcent. | MR. AND MRS. JAMES COR- MACK VISITORS AT MEET. ING LAST EVENING At a meeting of Troop 5, Boy ; Scouts, held last evening in the SEWELL EVERY, JR. FOUND DEAD TODAY FOR FRIDAY NIGHT lecorated implements jaf metab ccs: ; ‘The later arrivals apparently ;were less cultured, for they left ,eruder relics, | Dr. Hrdlicka and three assistants ,worked nine to 15 hours a day, sev- .en days a week, all summer, yet ‘uncovered only a portion of one of }the important village sites on the island. PRO-CUBA CLUB | HAS PROGRAM AT: CITY CEMETERY EXERCISES IN CELEBRATION OF ANNIVERSARY EVENT; DR. CAPOTE WAS ORATOR OF OCCASION The Pro-Cuba Club, composed of l¢cal patriots and a group of refu- ;gees from Cuba, held their exer- cises in the cemetery yesterday at 8 o'clock celebrating the anni- versary of “El Grito de Yara” that was the signal for the first {war for Cuban independence. At the Maine plot Rev. J. G. Stradley, of the First Methodist | church, offered the invocation and | Rev. F. X. Dougherty, S. J., of St. Mary’s Star of The Sea Catholic chureh, offered a prayer for the repose of the souls of the heroes who were buried there. A beauti- ful wreath was placed at the base of the Maine memorial monument, From there they went to the \ t | |Dr. Domingo Mendez Capote was {introduced as the orator of the Body Of Missing Former College President Found (By Asaociated Press) WASHINGTON, Pa., Oct. 11.— ‘students’ strike, disappeared in County officers reported today| Pittsburgh yesterday after leaving that the bedy of Dr. Sis: §. Baker, . mm (or, 6 Sot veh x ce He had been president of the 65, missing former president of! college for 10 years. Washington and Jefferson College,' was for day. Baker, who resigned as head of | two fcotball play: the school last year, following a! fighting in a hotel, s accused of Twenty Members Of Communi Pa (By Ansociated Press) MOSCOW, Oct. 11.—The cen- bad control committee of the com-| } ‘POLICE FIRE ON: munist party today expelled 20 of | } , tinent leaders of the soviet regime! its members, some of them prom- BY DEMONSTRATORS TODAY | since the days of the revolution-} ary movement.” The strike followed the dismis-| id in @ field near here to:| sal of two professors, and possi- had been shot to death./ bility of disciplinary action against; Expilled By Comité! POLICE IN BELFAST STONED| Chang Ksiao Liang, former Manchurian war lord. — Two hundred and. fifty thousand soldiers are in- volved in the fight among military groups seeking coh- trol of Szechuan ce, and the ational government at Nanking is worried: HOSPITAL EVENT HERE YESTERDAY | MERCEDES INSTITUTION WAS " OPENED HERE JUST 21 YEARS AGO Yesterday marked the anniver- sary of the opening of Mercedes Hospital. On October 10, 1911, just 21 years ago, the institution was presented for use of the pub- lie. Combined with the celebration of “El Grito de Yara” the day was one of the most eventful in the hiatory of Key West. From that date until the present The group included eer | Zineovieff, former head of the; {the institution has been under the (by Ansociated Press) | management of Maria Gutsen: “As BELFAST, Ireland, Oct. 11-—! matron of the hospital she has been plot of the Cuban martyrs where | Commintern, and Leo Kameneff,| bi a brother-in-law of Leon Trotzky, } Police fired on a mob of unem- military leader of the revolution, | Ployed men todsy after having, now exiled in Turkey. — stoned by demonstrators, and | | Other members of the group | five victims were sent to hospitals were former followers of Trotzky| with bullet wounds. and members of the ' American Legion hall, a troop hike |day by Dr. Nilo C. Pintado. The the party. served, Scout William Middleton appointed scribe and plans going forward for the tion of patrols and securing uni- forms and equipment. The troop was favored with a visit from Mr. and Cormack. Interesting talks were given the boys by the visitors, The troop hopes that other par- was are i i ents will visit these meetings in} traveling companion, were given a! the futare. The next meeting of the troop ys s Schneider related that after the | was planned for Friday night. The| distinguished Cuban patriot, ex-| probably be finished before June | youth was found dead Blake came | troop will assemble at the home of |®eneral of the Cuban army andj culation of anti-party to him and asked if he would tell! the scoutmaster and hike out to/ Vice president during the incum- | opposing the present policy of col- the picnic trees where games will | bency of Estrada Palma, delivered | jectivization of farms. be played, and wieners and cocoa |@ remarkable address that held the | jattraction of his hearers through- out. The clositg address was given organiza-| by Rogelio Gomez and was a clear’ minence of fierce class struggies and concise description of condi- ons in Cuba and many hard- hips and indignities under which Mrs. James the Cuban people are suffering un- eeseeceserere ,der the present regime. | After the ceremonies Dr. jpote and Dr. Edwin Tolon, his banquet attended by about 50 close \ friends and admirers. In the af- j with a statement saying it “noted | } tions. Ca- | They were charged with the eir-| literature | for safety. Sheriff Receives No Word About Sending Guard For Prisoners Sheriff Niles has received no | notification as to when the guard jhe requested to be sent for the eeccee | Prisoners to go to the penitentiary | will arrive. | On the dsy following that on . which the men were sentenced the ! Tallahassee that the sentences had) The Commintern ended today | the end of capitalist stabilization i period,” and predicted the im- culminating in wars and. revolu- TODAY’S EDITORIAL sheriff wired the authorities in) will be held on Monday evening, |ternoon the visitors were escorted | at the American Legion Hall, be- | to the train by more than 100 men ginning promptly at 8 o'clock, so and women of the Cuban colony; as to permit the scouts to do their who wished the departing visitors; school studies and home work be- fore going to scout meeting. Godspeed and safety on their re- iturn to Miami, praised by hundreds of patients who have come under her care and that of the nurses. , efforts in trying to with which to alleviate ing of those intrusted to care.