The Key West Citizen Newspaper, October 29, 1932, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIII. No. 257. $ argon Sentenced To - 20. Years: For: Sweatbox Marder Of New Jersey Lad New Trial For Former Prison Guard Denied; New Bond Fixed Pend- ing Appeal Of Case (By Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Oct. 29. —George W. Courson, con- } victed of manslaughter for the sweatbox death of Ar- thur Maillefert in Sunbeam/ prison camp last June, today was sentenced to 20. years, after Judge George C. Gibbs denied a new trial. The court gave Courson the maximum sentence un- der the law. He showed no emotion as sentence was pro- nounced. Judge Gibbs fixed the new bond pending an appeal at $10,000, which C. A. Avriett, Courson’s attorney, said he hoped to raise today. “Your act was so culpable, | so negligent, and with such disregard for the life of the deceased, that while it is with deep regret and sorrow 1 must now pass sentence,’ said Judge Gibbs, “it is now my duty toremand you to custody of the sheriff of Duval county to be turned over to proper authority at the, state penitentiary to serve the full term in this | NEW YORK CITY; | APPROXIMATELY $1,000 int “PROPRIATED TO SEND, DELEGATION TO CONFER WITH BOND HOLDERS City Attorney J. Lancelot Les- ter and Councilmen Owen Sawyer, I John Roberts, Will Monsalvatge! and Julius Collins, left over the highway this morning for New York. : Tomorrow morning William Freeman, chairman of the finance! committee, and Councilmen Ulric; Gwynn and Leo Warren, president; of the council, will lenve in come! address “the rally which will be) A, $4,302; pany with Frank Papy for thejneid in that section of the park! Class B, $114,125; same desti: ion. They will be joined in New; York by Herbert Sawyer, of the firm of Shutts and Bowen, There, 'SANTAELLA CO. PLANS WORKING FOR FULL WEEK’ FIRM HAD 2 PER WEEK; BUSINESS SHOWN * The A. Santeella manufacturing plant. will, be- ginning Monday, October. 31, work the full week instead of the five day week that has the past cigar been in effect for two weeks. Some months ago the lack of orders forced the plant to have the force making certain sizes work alternate weeks, in order to make an equal distribution of the employ- ment. Two weeks ago the whole force went back to work on the five day week program until today when orders were received to put the entire shop on the full six een ex vee week. TO STAGE RALLY THURSDAY NIGHT AT PARK GROUND JUDGE W. H, BURWELL ‘FROM MIAMI WILL BE PRINCIPAL SPEAKER; PARADE TO PRE- CEDE SPEAKING Judge W. H. Burwell, of Miami, ; Who has just returned to Florida from a conference in Georgia with; Governor Franklin D, Roosevelt, Democratic nominee for president, will address the voters of Monroe; county in the interest of the Demo- eratic party at a gigantic rally to} be held in Bayview Park Thurs- day night. The rally, which will be the greatest of its kind ever staged in Monroe county, will be preceded; by a street parade in which 300} red flares will play a conspicuous art. The Carabinas, American Le- gion) Drum and Bugle Corps and the municipal band will participate. | |Evety voter in the city has been in- vited to take part in the parade which will form at the intersection of Duval and Greene streets. Judge Burweil will bring to the | voters of Monroe county a direct message from the Democratic pres- | idential nominee. He is one of the most forcible speakers on the} i stump for Democracy today and! ‘is in demand throughout the state. Several other local speakers will used for diamondball, THE COMMITTEF. BEEN GIVING WORKMEN ONLY FIVE DAYS! INCREASED | churia. The Kep eocccgccogoooece Japanese General Reveals Plan * For AddingJehol To Manchukuo COCCODCCEOLOOOSS C8OOOOSOOOOODSSOOOSOOOSELOCOO® Copdeccccccccescceccccocecee| By JAMES A. MILLS (Ry Associated Pres») MUKDEN, Oct. 29.—Lieut. Gen. | Kuaniaki Koiso, chief of staff of the Japanese army in Manchuria, frankly admitted here that Japan intends to annex the province of} Jehol, north of Peiping, to the new; state of Manchukuo. | He added:that it would take two or three years and the efforts of 80,000 Japanese soldiers te sup- press banditry and bring real peace to this troubled land. said Japan now had only 35,000 troops in the’ whole of Man- “It is essential,” -he said, “that | we -put Jehol under. Manchukuo’s control. Without-order established there, peace Cannot be maintained on: this: side-of the present border. “We may. launch our Jehol eampaign within 2 few weeks; certainly it: will start before | spring.” * The general blamed the Jehol {situation and the resurgence of { banditry, train wreeking and kid-| | napping hereabouts,..on _ Marshal | Chang, :Hsaio-Liang, who jousted as war’ lord. of Manchuria | Jin the automn of 1981. j “Chang is doing everything pos- | sible to undermine’ the new gov-| ernment: of Manchukuo, and, by; inspiring bandit ‘raids and kidnap- ings, is trying to give foreign pow- ers the impression: that neither Japan nor the new state can keep order heres _. “We do not seek further clashes with his armies, but he probably will force them upon us. He must take full responsibility for the consequences.” The general agserted that Japan had no intention of absorbing Manchurian — terri- CHECK TAX ROLL ; DURING MEETING PLACED IN. HANDS OF COL- LECTOR MALONEY | | Tax rolls for the year 1932 were presented by. the assessor, Eugene L. Albury, at the meeting of the board of county commissioners last night. After the inspection and check- ling of the amounts was over, the; books were voted’ accepted and j jplaced in the office of Tax Col-j leetor W. F. Maloney. A copy was ordered sent to Comptroller Ernest Amos at Tallahassee, This morning the assessor had the book for the collector placed in his office and’a copy will be sent today ‘to the comptrolier_as ordered. The books show real estate and personal valuations as follows: nt, $3,020,630; delinquent, 1,657, making 9 total of $6,- 87. The total amount of the assessments is $289,500.73. | Intangible personal taxes re- {corded show: Valuation in Class | assegsments, $8.61; assessments, ' |$236.88. Total valuations in both ja and B classes, $118,427 with Freegaaln totalling $236.88, | Hes4 } — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1932. ~ States. Gen. Kuniaki Koiso (above) says' Japan intends to add Je- hol, shown on the map, to‘ the new state of Manchukuo. integral part ‘of “We want. Manchuria onty for! commercial and industrial pur-fhe poses,” he said, “Also we need it) the kingly way,’ which is the code as a home for. those of our surplus population who wish to come here. “Japanese immigrants are —ex- cluded from .the. United States, -| Australia, New Zealand and sev- eral other countries. Brazil wel- comes us, but mostly we are ative _ Toads, construct en toward China which has no barriers against our race. “Also we must depend increas-| ingly upon. this territory for coal, | timber, foodstuffs and other raw; materials. Manchurian trade, in! fact, is vital to our national ex-| For 52 Years Devoted to the | Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘France Advocates Conscript Plan. Abolishing Profession: American Accord Essential Phase istence. ; “If the League of Nations or any one or two powers tries to thwart our plans, we must resist with all our might. *Hence it follows that we can- > mot accept in any sense the dictates of the rej | ,the Lytton commission made + at Geneva. 1 “But it will be necessary to al. low Manchukuo to develop her own ; pens Japan. will give the new! ‘state vevery legitimate assistance, | pbutwe-Shall-not attempt to dom- | linate:ithe: government “nor force! | our: will upon the people. {. “If itis to sueceed, Manchukuo | oi will require ‘the continued help | Several hundred endangered today jnotyonly of Japanese experts, but as two mountain families trie to} of engineers, architects, business | shoot out their difficulties with jmen and advisers from other for-j rifles and pistols in front of the leign countries like the United | courthouse. She also will require for-; Fifteen to 20 shdts were fired eign capital to exploit her enorm-| before deputy sheriffs and police ous natural resources, lay new/Chif Pearl Osborne succeeded in railways, build! breaking up the fight by arresting | electric power plants and erect; two of the men. factories.” Passersby fled into stores and| Gen. Koiso said it was also | hid behind automobiles, and one} Japan’s aim to assist Man- | or two lay flat on the pavement. chukuo in the development of {Three of the wounded were by- a “moral civilization.” standers, “We wish to teach the people} re the principles of what we call Five Wounded ~ Endangered —Five persons werd wounded and! 4 of our life in Japan,”’ he explained. “In that code we find the founda-! of Guy ethics, our conduct, and{ our lives. “If Manchukuo follows this; kingly way,’ she cannot fail to, become a great nation.” CTOTETTL Hs. DREDGING NEW TRADE FORMER” HUMAN FL FLY’ (iby, Aasoets Press) COLUMBUS, is never satis- ‘in between” ex- Formerly he was known as the “human fly.” Among his exploits was the scaling of the Weolworth building in New York. Down on the ground now, he is foreman with the and is en- » guns, and other articles from the bottom of the river as he did in climbing the world’s tallest buildings. VL hhh hdeded VISITING GOLFERS PLAY HERE TODAY; ARRIVE IN CITY THIS AFTER- NOON OVER EAST COAST The Miami-Biltmore golf team arrived over the East Coast today {and this afternoon are trying to keep the local Country Club play- ers from a much longed for vic- tory over the visitors. NUTRI ON ENSLOW samen Ww LANDS TENFISH ON PORTER DOCK’ |DENIZEN OF DEEP WEIGHED | | DISHES PARTS OUT TO ALL { Enslow Sawyer, wanted here| COMERS for arson and also for estreating | i his bond of $3,500, continues to be! Simon Creole was acting in the located in different parts of the | capacity of food distributor on th country. | Porter Dock Company’s wharf this’ Another writer to the sheriff has ‘Piorning, and about 25 folks, not positively identified Sawyer in|¢ounting their families, were fur- oseberg, Oregon. This Sawyer | ished with the base of a good eal, (2) is deseribed accurately, Pa 5 @eding to photographs in : | Mr. Creole, an ardent site| sion of the sheriff, hit S| while angling on the dock, hooked! tion is said by the ~~ oie and succeeded in landing q jewfish' painter and interior decorator. jweighing about 75 pounds. One He is said to havelahumber of of those fat and healthy kind that! paintings’ in different’ places in{are a souree of sastrqnomical) Rozeberg and once in a while sells | Pleasure to the epicure. one om which he manages to ex-| Within 30 minutes after the oo ist. work as an interior decorator, but | skinning and cleaning it had the best of his time ‘is. spent, ac- | started and a short time after that cording to the writem? in \‘ ‘hanging around and doing noth-| ple leaving the dock and each one ing.” \had sufficient for a real fish din-| Sheriff Niles has written the jner. chief of police in Roseberg and} pains Sco inane urnished i si rnished a complete des eription | FI gvida Sails For Cuba | Carrying 43 Passengers of the wanted man. The steamer Florida sailed this} SAID ONE positive IDENTI- FICATION MADE IN ROSE- BURG, OREGON; SEEN IN| OTHER SECTIONS Two Cars Auctioned Off At Custom House; Affray By Kentuckians (By ‘Anevetncea Presa) PINEVILLE, Kentucky, Oct. 29. ; 78 LBS.; LOCAL AMATEURS | At other times he ggts a Tittle! was on the dock, the process of} just ‘there was a small parade of peo-| leveieh Premier Succeeds And Many In Shooting In Winning Over Cham- ber Of Deputies In New Disarmament Plan (hy Associated Press) PARIS, Oct. 29.—Premier Herriot today won the Cham- ber of Deputies over to the new French | disarmament plan providing for conscrip- \tional armies in Europe, and American accord in such ‘guarantees for security as the United States “had en- visaged itself.” The conscriptional plan is the basis of a new scheme and would abolish all profes- sional armies such as the German Reichswehr in favor of a short term conscriptional system. Ameriean participation in the guarantees was one of the conditions under which France will be willing to launch into the conscrip- tional army plan. The chamber voted con- fidence in the government on the disarmament plan. REPORT GIVES KEY WEST LOW ‘DEATH RATING ISLAND CITY SHOWS LEAST NUMBER OF DEATHS WITH EXCEPTION OF ONLY TWO TOWNS IN FLORIDA Stephen: Lee, 58, and son, George, 17, were said to have been jon one side and Elijah McGeorge, | 40, and Martin McGeorge, 26, |brothers, on the other. | Elijah McGeorge was out. on {bond charged with having killed iJim Lee, son of Stephen Lee, four | months ago in an argument over puccearne! s wife. Bullets struck the court house, shattered store windows and broke | automobile glass during the firing, | There were about 150 persons on the block at the time. Stephen |Lee and the McGeorge brothers were placed under arrest’ and George Lee was sent to a hospital. | Roosevelt Gets Further _ Assurance Of Support In (iy Associated Press) ALBANY, Oct. 29.—Gov- ernor Franklin D. Roosevelt iwas faced in the New Eng- land states today with the | assurance of Alfred E. Smith, | jwith whont he spent a friend-| ly hour last night, that} j“everything was. all right | j over there.” Leaving Albany about! noon, the governor was on this last long swing of his tour which will have carried | \k@n from Maine to Cali- {fornia. i} | (Oty Associnted Press) WASHINGTON, Oct 29. The bureau of the census today reported there were 18,102 deaths in Florida during 1931 compared with 18,229 in 1930, 18.194 in 1929 and 18,945 in 1928 “SLEEPY” DRIVERS The death rate per 1,000 esti- jmated population was 12 percent LAW PROVIDES FOR REST PE- |in 1981, 12.3 in 1930, 12.7 in 11929 and 13.7 in 1928. RIOD AFTER TWELVE =| There were 7,911 deaths in urb- HOURS DUTY ‘an Florida in 1981 and theré were }10,191 in rural Florida, In 1930 [the total for urban Florida was | 7,869 and for rural Florida 10,560 (By Associnted Prensa) \In 1929 the figures were 5,722 TALLAHASSEE, Fis.; Oct. 29.| ang 13,221 and in 1928 they were ‘Chauffeurs and drivers of motor | = |b and trucks in Florida are ee eee dates ts Pe | prohibited by law from remaining , ; sh, * on duty lonzer than 12;hours with-|'4a'# Principal cities during 1951 {out an eight-hour rest period, | City c {Chairman Eugene 8. Matthews of Daytona Beach . 1941 277 1989 ‘they will meet with some of the, bondholders and discuss a re-! financing proposition. At first Mr. Lester and Mr. Freeman were appointed to join! with the representative of Shutts and Bowen in the proposed me GRAND CHANCELLOR ing with the bondholders, or their representatives, and an appro: PYTHIAN ORDER TO HOLD DISTRICT MEETING | afternoon 1:20 o'clock for Havana the state railroad commission said \Gainesvill with 43 passengers, She arrived | today. 1 yachaavie lyesterday from Cuba with 38 pas-} .The commission chairman made | xe, Oa... gers. athe statement in commending ‘1 sistand Tanker Herbert G. Wylie, wits. Georgia authorities for a drive to, yiceui , in@5,000 barrels of fuel oil for the; rid the highways of “sleepy” driv-| 1.44. 230 1,945 204 231 » 1,286 506 504 205 637 189 139 1,180 a78 Three weeks ago the Key West (COLORED SUSPECT | PICKED UP TODAY, or| { |THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN; | CONNECTED WITH AT- | TEMPTED ROBBERY aggregation went to Miami for a! Two automobiles, in use by the; |match with the Miami group, and.-estoms service, that were, con- | what the Biltmore team did to the | sidered surplus supplies, weil’ sold! locals was quite enough to arouse |#t Public auction yesterday in the Key West team a keen de-|front of the custom house by!p 'p ©. R’y., and P. and 0. S is [sire to wrest victory this afternoon | Depots Colleetor L. T. Bragassa.' company, arrived in port is |from those who defeated them The bidding started off at $10) ’rning and ia discharging cargo U, $, BUYER OF MUCH In the event that the localyzen each car. For a short time it to the tanks at the terminal) ae | COFFEE FROM BRAZIL come out victorious in the match * spirited, a number of bidders decks. (By Associnted Press) a deciding series of matches will joining in. The ears finally were} 3 Body Of Mrs. Brinson RIO DE JANERIO, Get. 29 niche. ibe arranged for later in the sea-]bid in by Trevor and Mor‘), one; ig’ Judge Raleigh Pettaway, grand/ son. of them for $44 and the other, } ‘omorrow The United States bought ~ more, Will Arrive T: |of the better grade of coffee from | Another meeting was called for} chancellor Knights of Pythias, was! William Partingten, colored, was} On their arrival today the visi-| for $46. j last night. At this meeting it was) an arrival on the Havana Special | picked up by the sheriff's éeputies| tors were met by Lionel Plummer, : decided to send the entire council! this afternoon from Tampa. The/this morning as a suspect in con- j Clem C. Price, H. M. Norton, Wil- | Brazil last year than all of Europe. and a further appropriation of} object of his visit is to hold a dis- nection with the attempted robbery | liam Watkins and Robert Spotts- chiefly beeause Unele Sam in the $350 was made, making a total of | trict meeting with the local lodges! Thursday night of the building] wood and taken by auto to a hotel. world's biggest coffee drinker and $950, to cover the expenses of the! The judge is accompanied by‘ used by the staff of nurses of the} From there they went to the Coun- essece |Fis., yesterday morning, did not rere it mild and expensive while ine today, but ix expected to be \Europe takes haruher and cheaper on Train 75, whieh is due 11:50 | varieties. {8t. Augustine _.. 1St. Petersburg . Tallahassee . tion of $600 was made for the ex- H pense of the trip. This was at the meeting of council Thursday! Tampa West Palm Beach i *| The body of Mra... Lizzie Brin- TODAY’S EDITORIAL son, who died in New Smyrna,! trip. | Mrs. Pettaway, who, on stepping | Marine hospital, {try Club for luncheon and a short se acs ‘om the train, was presented with} Farrington is the second man to| time afterwards play started. o'clock tomorrow morning. Early this morsing Pritchard's! ja bouquet of beautiful roses by Bibe arrested by the sheriff's forces WE GIVE THE KIND OF | committee of members from Jus-\ during the Investigation that eae. NO AUTO WoRK SERVICE OTHERS jtice Temple 17 and Key Westistarted yesterday morning and is} ers Funeral Home, which will be in BOAST ABOUT Temple 20, Pythian Sisters. jstill being carried on. The other; LONDON.—Convicted of . libel, [charge of arrangements, was sd-| JOHNSON, } During the stay Judge and Mrs./ j suspect is William Russell, also} Miss Kathleen Moore, of this vised of this in a telegram which tow, 78, of this city, to be Loa Smith Service Station || penned =a guests of Jedge| colored, who was arrested Thurs-|cits, refused to say she wat jalso told that arrangements for] one of the oldest blecsmithe in efferson rewne in his home ber y night, a short time after the j sorry, declaring she would rather/ jthe services will be made after the} pgenr che = ghee White and Catherine Phone 522) 15 t. FF. C. apartments mbery attempt was frustrated. ns te jail i ‘arrival of the body. on avtomobiles, ii PREFERRED JAIL