The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 26, 1932, Page 1

Associated Fress Day Wire Service VOLUME LIIl. No. 254. Ex-Convict Confesses ¢ To Slaying Woman Who Often Befriended Him, Victim Was Wife Of Of- ficial At Ohio Peniten- tiary; Body Found In Basement Of Home (Dy Asnocinted Prews) COLUMBUS, Oct. 26— An ex-convict, paroled from one murder conviction, con- fessed to Prosecutor Donald Hoskins today of the slaying TO VISIT KEY WEST | Peveweveccoccssencvecces | * recccecces ° ooo | f | For 52 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932. ‘The Machine Age---Where Is It Leading America? Now It Turns The World Secretary Hyde Heard PRICE FIVE CENTS Police Detain Man In Spain For ~ Questioning In Connection W - Kidnaping Of Lindbergh's Baby In Address To Republicans; Attacks Opposing Party (By Asnociated Presa) |Jean Saul Held On Advke Who received Anony mous Note SEVILLE, Oct. 20.—Police { (Ry Associated Press) | i jtoday detained a mian giving LOS ANGELES, Oct, 26.—Sec- He said the tide of public opine! vetary of Agriculture Hyde, in a}ion had turned to the president. ‘his name as Jean Saul, and political address today, accused the| The'seeretary accused democrats! arranged to send him to democratic. national campaign -of | of ‘frantic squawking,’ and assert- of a second victim, Mrs., Daniel Bonzo, 44, wife of the : m th ry Niles captured him. chief record clerk at the Ohio pénitentiary. "Mrs. Bonzo, who was beaten to death at her home yesterday, had the former convict, John Downing, who was paroled last October, after serving seven years of a life term for the slaying of Mrs. Allean Williams, of Cincinnati in 1926. Downing was _ arrested shortly after the body of Mrs. Bonzo was found in the basement of her home with her head crushed. “She's been like a mother did it,” Hoskins quoted Downing as saying. "UNDESIRABLE ~ OPERATING IN CITY NABBED MAN HAS MANIA FOR RENT- ING ROOMS; JUMPS FROM ONE TO ANOTHER WITHOUT PAYING DEBTS INCURRED ' His name is La Von Grosse, and his home is everywhere. At least it was until 1:30 o'clock yes- terday afternoon when Sheriff Now Ydomicile is the county jail. Grosse has a mania, it seems, for getting room and board at a private home, or room one place and board another, and then, find- ing himself without funds, skip- ping to some other congenial sec- tion and playing the same old game. He hired a room at a private home here and also made arrang ment for his meals, time he began to seek other places to be accommodated while — the landlady was seeking him for pay- ment. Sheriff Niles joined in the hunt for a young man, about years old, e feet six inch all and weighing about 150 pounds. He was ‘without a hat, wore a blue ¢oat and soiled light trousers. The trousers matched his blonde hair and the coat matched his blue e: Yesterday afternoon he espied by the sheriff enjoying a w hearty meal in the Stanley Baker restaurant. The sheriff waited w Ul the diner was full. He ed him and found his pocke ty. Ergo, the county car which no better plac for those who eat and do not pay Grosse confessed to being ju @ plain “hitch-hiker” who has bee doing. the same tricks from New Orleans to Key West. He always promised to pay his debts “When L.Get The Money a> 2 - TODAY’S EDIT RIAL Why the Socialist scheme of government contro! as ad- vocated is not practical, when human nature is taken inte consideration, is shown in to- day's leading editorial befriended : his | After a short | JIMMIE DONN District Governor of Rotary COMING HERE FOR OFFICIAL VISIT | JIMMIE DONN WILL ARRIVE ON NOON TRAIN TOMOR- ROW; WILL. ATTEND..REGU- LAR LUNCHEON Jimmie Donn, district L.of Rotary, will arrive ini Rey. ‘tomorrow on the noon train, and will be met at the station by a large number of local Rotarians and escorted to the meeting hall where he will pay an official visit |to the organization at the regular } luncheon. to be held thére:*These atvarigements Were made» at a | meeting held last evening at, the home of Clifford Hicks, president By the local bédy. | He is a past president of the | State Florists’ Association and at the present time is deputy of the Supreme Council of the Ancient jsonry for the Southern Jurisdi¢tion in South Florida, with four -con- sistories in his jurisdiction. ‘Loc: fed at Tampa, Lake Worth, M and Key West. | Mr. Donn has been very active lin ¢ affai having served as director of the Miami Chamber of } Commerce, director of the Boy | Scout Council, and is now a mem- {ber of the Rate & Traffic Board lof the city of Miami. | For seven y ed as a member of the Board of mi Directors of the Rotary Club of | }Miami, and in 1931 was elected as president of the Rotary Club jot Miami. It was during his ad- | ministration that the International Service Committee broadened its activities by giving a scholarship to one boy from Peru to the Uni- versity of Miami, thus adding an- other link to the friendly relations ,of the two countries. Mr. Donn was also a delegate to the International Convention of Re held in Vienna in 1931, representing not only the Miami Club but seyera! other clubs in the district First ‘Snow Bird’ Of Season Lodged In Jail Nothing to do, nowhere to g°, no money to purchase food and no place to sleep, the first “snow bird” of the now having all hi atified in the county jail. Theedore Gibson, colored, experienced traveler of the highways and byways, w: rested Monday on his arrival from the chilly north in search of warmth and hospitality. What he will receive will probably be determined at the next term of criminal court which convenes on November 14. Baa awL@ am. ROTARY GOVERNOR) and Accepted Scottish of Freema-j; 's, Mr. Donn serv-; __|anthropic Committee of the Wom- | | | increased his ability, to do.work, and in United States, the most e' shows that in: the last 89 yeats the nation has increased its energy | |. \By,d.\R.BRACKETT {Rome, during the founding of Eng: (By Asnoetated Press) jland, the power of Napoleon, th NEW, YORK, ;.Qct.' 26.—For! beginnings of the United State: 7,000 years, up to the beginning of }man ate food, wore clothes an ‘the. last.eentury, the :consumption| burned fuel to. warm ; his , home. of the éarth’s resourees per per-;These were the ‘principal son every day. did not change ‘ap-| consumed, and. their, consum| iF a machine; and today: in the-United. States, only 100: yeats later, con-jing a measure ‘of energy. sumptigp..per.person’ is 75 times| At the beginning of the last ¢en- greater; nd two-thirds of. t in-|tury man began to the steam crease ome ‘singe 1900. lengine. Tlie engine required coa These’ are major findings df‘ a|Then\ came other . enginés, othe ten-year research by ‘Techhoeraty, | machines. They: required coal,: c' teclini¢ians.and. engineers working/tion was for man, so man,. in ef- at Columbi iversity under di-'fect, consumed: the: energy neces- ‘rection’ of Howard: Scott. sary for the machines. In-these findings, Scott: says, Thus besides. the. items lies the basic ease of the'present! | wecessary |for his physical distre: nd.they foreshadow even|. existence man now | other greater distress jn the future. | | of the earth’s resources—and © In ancient Israel, Egypt, Greece,’ | at the rate of 150,000 Calories IARRANGE WORK. (eerrwrarae, | F OR SEWING OF a Name Twist \ Costly To Tricky Turk (By Aanvciated Press) KEMERHISSAR, Turkey, | Oct. 26.—By misspelli is Z | mame a peasant of t oatos wks FINE, WOMEN Lads oa made himself officially BEGIN TASK. IN PUBLIC LI-, BRARY - BUILDING TOMOR- | PERS | ROW MORNING | Hanefi gave his name the 1 | feminine twist of Hanife when he registered at his com- discoyered the deception and Hanefi paid for his ortho- graphic feminity in heavy fines. i The Monroe County Council for; | Unemployment Relief - has called boi women to work at sewing in ;the library building. Of these 23 tare white and 6 colored. ; They are te start tomorrow morning making up garments from \the materials furnished the local Red Cross chapter under the super- | vision of Mrs. William R. Warren, jchairman-of the sewing and cloth- jing committee of the council and jassisted by members of the Phil- woman and for seven years escaped military service and ing of age. An inspector from Angora IDENTIFY BODY OF WOMAN FOUND WHO DISAPPEARED RECENTLY jan’s Club. } Any of those summoned for the |work who have sewing machines are asked to notify Mrs, Warren and arrangements Will be made to move them to the library building. | Each worker is supposed to fur- | [nish needles, thimble and ates (By Associated Press) Men to the number of 183 have SAN BERNARDINO, O te upper left shows how man has icient nation, now takes 75 times as much. energy per capita from the earth as he did only a centuty a; meant production at, a more rapid rate than the people have been able to consume: ‘Has 1 BaD O La GM: 3: | they go—too fast, says Tech- The chart | oduction 353 times. lower right This has per capita a day, exclusive of food! represents a gain ‘of 75 times in little more than ‘a century after, 7,000 static i ys This extremely rapid. gain in a {society entirely unprepared for it} produced. similarly rapid) ,@conomic gains and. also violent} uctuations in the economie cycle, | Scott says, Energy production re- mained .at- the rate of 2,000 the title given a research group of and water power. Their produc-/Calories aday for (7,000 years.| over the highway for (Suddenly is expanded. | The expansion was quite smooth | although rapid up to-1900, then it] berame more rapid and began to; | fluctuate violently because the so-} jeial mechanism could not adapt it- self to the increasingly quick Ichange. (CAPT. RUSSELL ~INCOUNTY JAIL "RELEASED TODAY! | —_—— | WAS SERVING SENTENCE ON/| | | SMUGGLING CHARGE; OR- DER RECEIVED FROM U. S. MARSHAL | Captain J. F. Russell, who was! convicted in United States court jsome montns ago, on a charge of smuggling aliens, was released to- . The release order was re- teeived. by Sheriff Niles from C.} N. Hildreth, U. S. Marshal of; ksonville, } Wheit Russell was given his} isentence of six months in the county jail the judge also im-| t posed a fine of $75. His sentence | would have expired November 12,} if he could pay the $75. In thet event that he could not he would have been forced to serve 30 days} lonzer and sign a pauper’s cath. | His release date then would have} been December 12. ! Why his sentence has been less-! ened is not given in the — d by the sheriff. j i ‘LOCAL DEMOCRATS jparty will be distributed in abun-| also been summoned to work be- ginning Friday morning of this number 150 are whites and 35 colored. B.. Curry Moreno, chairman of he work committee is today lay- ng out the tasks which will be al loted as soon as the locations for | the activities have been decided upon. TWO OF SAME NAME | EVANSTON, I—Harry | Porter, of this city, walked up to | Harry H. Porter in the fatter’s; police court and said: “Don't [the similarity. iv ~ names ce you _ thefore H. i Cerney with her skull crushed and Authoriti oday said the bods a woman und slain in a desert near Victorville was identified def- Russell was connected in buai-} ness matters, it is said, with the Aviator Lancaster, who was tried initely as that of Mrs. Ivema Cer-, in Miami some time ago, charged ne . of Los Angeles, and that a search had begun for her hus- was taken from band, Gu Identific after Mr sister reviewed the remai: They said Cerney had been ing since October 14, four t e nude body of ion was Mrs. found by a miner. Mrs. Cerney. they said. estate of het father. with killing Haden Clarke, and here as a wit-/ ness during the trial. established Cerney’s mothe and HOLY FRENCH RELIC 1S; STOLEN AT CHERBOURG j (By Associated Presa) CHERBOURG, France, Oct. 26. ~An unscrupulous visitor to this. ‘ pre- city’s museum stole a 15th century t' sumably inherited @ considerable: reliquary bearing the royal arms infla-' sum of nioney recently from the fof France and confaining’ relics of St. Agatha. attempting to “smear” President} ed their presidential nominee had | Hoover and deseribed the political; become filled with “panic.” efforts of Franklin Roosevelt as! Hyde spoke before a republican “trieky, evasive and insincere.” —_| luncheon. Roosevelt Turns Attention To Legislation For Relief - Of Distressed This Winter (Ry Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—-Gover- nor Franklin Roosevelt return- ed from his southern campaign tour today and amnounced he will be unable to attend the giant ral- ly arranged for him here tomorrow night by the stage and screen vision ‘of the democratic national GO TO TAVERNIER FOR GREAT RALL ‘engagement to make time for con- iN! ferences with democratic and re- publican leaders of both houses of the jislature concerning ied special legislation to relieve dis- \tress among unemployed this ' ter. BE MADE BY MEMBERS INTEREST OF PARTY Members of the Roosevelt-Gar- ner-Sholtz Club left this morning} Tavernier | predictions on his arri to where they will hold a democratic| outcome of the election, but ex- rally 8 o’clock tonight. | pressed satisfaction with most of Before the meeting they will) hie recent campaign tours. entertain with a banquet at the; After a short visit with his wife Russell Arms hotel to which has} he left for Albany. been invited Qhe group of demo-; cratic committeemen on the keys. RECOMMEND. After the banquet the commit-} teemen will repair to the meeting} place and the speakers will tell) of the issues of the campaign and | VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS ALSO ASKS LEGISLATION GRANTING PENSIONS FOR show that a complete democratic | victory is an absolute necessity on | i WIDOWS AND ORPHANS November’8. Names of those selected to ad- dress the andience are: C. Sam B. Curry, Frank QO. Roberts, George | Brooks, Curry Harris, J. Y. Porter. } 1V, Enrique Esquinaldo, Sidney, Thompson and A. B, Cleare, Jr. | During the time of the speaking | and in fact all the time the party; is on the keys, literature, cards! and emblems of the democratic (fy Awsociated Preas) dance. 3 WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Im- According to present plans the mediate cash payment of the sol- Key West group will come in over | diers bonus, enactment of législa- the highway Thursday. jtion granting pensions to widows ae jand orphans of World War veter- fans, and preservation of disability ‘allowances, were recommended to N oT IN President Hoover today by veter- jans of foreign wats | The appeat opposed cancellation of foreign debts and urged more strict enforcement of laws direct- Hing civil service preference for vet-/ lerafts and sid recommendations }later be made for improving vet- BRINGS NUMBER TO SIX OF |...) rehabilitation and hospitaliza- THOSE TAKEN UP FOLLOW. Jon. : { It was taken to the White House ING ACTIVITIES IN JACK. by Admiral Robert Coontz, new | commander-in-chief of the organi- SONVILLE 4 zation. Look (By Awseciates? reas) JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 26.— 5 The arrest of J.C Godwin was an-| Shops Arrives To |nounced by police today as bring-| Over Local Situation’ ing to six the number of suspects | taken inte custody in connection | = —— outbreak of N08: | card *of barber examiners, is in iti . ; the city looking over the situation Authe oe Geos wes | relative to the delinquents who identified he 20 vie-! ‘ ian st flegaers, “cha. reported have Rot paid for their certificates cases of thia type of lawlesaness (of registration. : A 21-year-old boy was the latest! Other matters pertaining to the victim to report he was whipped. s#nitary condition of the differ- The county grand jury wea call- ent places sre being taken up and) ed imto session today and immede thrashed out with the owners. = | iately began questioning witness-| Mr, Sweeting says that is some, es. . places in Key West the conditions’ Outside of the jury room, the ‘are entirely unsatisfactory and he! cortider was lined with those sum--ix making an effort to have all ir- moned to testify. S. A. Sweeting, member of the: regularities straightened out. ; Roosevelt did not indulge in any | (Madrid for -questioning leonnection with kidnaping lof the Lindbergh baby. He was held on the advice jof the American vice consul ‘who called the police after the American consulate re- jecived an anonymots note ifrom two American sailors, stating that they had talked with Saul in a saloon here, land that “he seemed to know entirely too much about the Lindbergh kidnaping.” Detectives who questioned him said he admitted he ‘knew something about the (kidnaping and the distribu- DEMOCRATS OPEN “CAMPAIGN BUREAU ON DUVAL STREET | HEADQUARTERS ESTABLISH. RENEDO BUILDING; SUPPLY OF LITERATURE ON HAND | | 1 } Members of the local demorratic organizations have ¢stablished their headquarters in the Renedo | building on Duval street in that |section formerly used by the A. | Mulberg store. Voters who are in doubt as to any questions that arise prior to the general election to be held No- vember 8, are asked to call and thave their matters straightened ‘ out. { There will be an abundant snp- ; bly of literature relative to the issues of the campaign, cards that have been prepared as guides for [the voters, pictures of Roosevelt, Garner and Sholtz, sample ballots, yand other miscellaneous reading ‘matter. Also a supply of emblenis, | buttons, ete, Julfus Collins is in charge of fhe | bureau and will be found there at ‘all times exeept the regular lunch- jeon and dinner hours. | Absentee Voting Starts; H i Only One Ballot Cast | Absentee voting started this morning in the office of Judge Hugh Gunn this morning, and up jte 3 o'clock there was little activity. As a matter of fact there was but one vote cast and that was voted by C. L. Peterson, chief en- gineer of the wreeking tug Retiet. 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