The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 19, 1932, Page 1

===] The Key West Citizen — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1932. [Ancient Irish Cremated Their Dead, Built. Villages On R Relics Of Lake Dwellers Uncovered eeatene | Senator Jones, Chairman | Appropriations Committee, Dies Today In Washington HOOVER CONFERS — ON MATTERS OF For 52 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS VOLUME LIII. No. 275. Harry: Anderson Who Died _—___-.-.—__--__. | Five hundred years before Christ] "® Colonel Raymond Robins, Missing f More Than 2 Months, Found Peace Advocate And- Pro- hibitionist Located In, Western North Carolina Mountains By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE VP SISSISS LS LS 2) the ancient Irish were cremating { their dead in the present Irish Free FUNERAL SERVICE State. FOR H. ANDERSON This is one of the first prehis- SET FOR TOMORROW : Victim Just Before Passing Away Talked With Sheriff Niles At Local’ Hospital | ‘torical facts unearthed in a tive! jyear survey of Irish racial history, {social and economic development} and anthropological peculiarities, | undertaken by Harvard yniver- sity’s department of anthropology, j with the approval of the president’ of the Free State. | Raft Village Discovered i The burial customs, pottery, stone implements and bronze dag-| gers showing how these Irishmen of long ago lived were dug up in a preliminary survey the past. isummer. They were found in a huge cairn on Knockast hill,.a 600-! foot high elevation. | In county Westmeath, at Ballin- derry, the Harvard anthropologists, discovered a raft village of the’ 10th century, A. D. | It was made by lake dwellers,| who started with a huge log raft, for a foundation. On top of this! they added new platforms of peat and brushwood, cemented by clay,! 'to form an artificial island. Some-! Harry Anderson, 27 years | old, died in a local hospital 7:30 o'clock this Funeral services will se held tomorrow afternoon 4 o'clock from Pritchard’s Funeral Home, 901 Division street. Rev. Holmes Logan of Ley Memorial church will offici- ate. The deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Edna Ander- son; mother, Mrs. Hattie An- di 3 one sister, Mrs. Ed- win Thompson, of Miami; four brothers, Charles, Winn, Milten and Ralph Anderson, of Key West. hh had Bude dd (Ny Associated Press) ASHEVILLE, Nov. 19.— — Colonel Raymond Robins, ~ prohibitionist and peace ad- — vocate, was found in western Ney L. Jones, chairman of the |North . Carolina mountains 4 COMING BUDGET se appropriations com-|yesterday, after a disappear- - Cea. mittee, died here early to-!ance of more than two 4 SECRETARY MILLS aoeeas tontha ene Nee bronght fe | Jones, who was defeated |Asheville today.and placed 7% | MUCH LOWER FIGURES’ +), re-election this month,|in a sanitarium under the 94 ee POC wan peacefully surrounded |care of a physician. q MENT TO BE FORWARDED |}, members of his family. Senator Jones went to a ay eemcaw Cpe Aenediated | Prasa) sanitarium for a rest Novem- y WASHINGTON, Noy. ey euwir a exhausted bv his| : WHITTIER, North Caro- lina, Nov. 19.—Colonel Ray; by 5 . H f ter an extraordi ti ft: 4 times 40 persons at a time lived on| Rerasins of in aucient irish “aft villige” aresboing. oxployed!at} exitaordnary meeting © strenuous fight for re-elec- ee sass expecting to leave for mon obins, missing sinc September 8, has been found | PROTEST ABOUT | |this raft. Ballinderry. The villages were corstructed as shown in sketch by) the cabinet called by President '4i, Washington after two weeks, }~ ~’ é alive but suffering from morning. William P. Waples, now in the county jail, will be charged by State Attorney| George G. Brooks. with the murder of Harry Anderson. He is being held without bond. This statement was made by Mr. Brooks this afternoon after an autopsy of the body of Anderson was held by Dr. Nilo C. Pintado, whose find- ings follow: That the knife wound, alleged to have been in flicted by Waples, pene- trated the sternum, pleura, | and pericardium, causing (By Associated Press) SEATTLE, Nov. 19.— United States Senator Wes- i NEW YORK TRIP: Farm Life Revealed .... | toading a raft with brush and peat, sinking it to the bed of a lake, Hoover to diseuss the federal! pleura pneumonia, internal hemorrhage and a septic condition of the pericardium, High wooden stakes formed @| and building a home on this artificial island. One of the rafts, is SAM HART AND OTHERS GIVE Rotted rem-' TALKS AT REGULAR MEE’ T-} protective palisade. nants of dugouts nearby showed how these ancient people reached farm life. ithe land. Bones of domestic ani-; mals, deer and boar told the story, shown above. At right is a burial mound left by the lake dwellers. ' The survey is under direction of, Harvard, conducts the anthropo- Professor E. A. Hooton of the Har-| logical work. W. Lloyd Warner, vard department of anthropology./assistant professor of social an- He will conduct also the physical | thropology, directs the social and “owotrarry Anderson, who and that this condition was the direct cause of death, the other conditions being con- tributary, and all resulting from the knife wound. ‘was stabbed in the left breast last Saturday night in a fracas on South Beach, died in a local hospital at 7:30 o’clock this morning. f Shortly after 6:80 | this morning the nurse on duty ealled Sheriff Niles ‘and told him that Anderson was dy- ing, that he was conscious and was willing te make a statement. Arriving at the hospital the sheriff was taken to Anderson’s bedside. He asked Anderson if he | knew who was talking to him and reeeived the reply, “Yes, Sheriff Niles.” | He was then asked if he knew) that he was dying and replied that | he did. “Have you made your, peace with God?” -asketl the sher- | iff and Anderson replied that he | had and was ready to die. | When asked if he new who stab- bed him, Anderson said, “Yes, Red stabbed me.” Replying to a question by the sheriff he said that he did not know “Red’s” real; name, that he had known him but} i ‘tee and City Attorney. Lester {result in cutting down the millage ING OF BOARD HELD LAST) of their hunting and EVENING iron axes, bone combs and bronze pins filled in details of family and social occupations. At a regular meeting of the city Wooden tubs, barrels, iron knives,’ anthropology studies. Dr. Hugh O’Neill Hencken, sistant curator of European an- ithropology at Peabody museum, as-| economic survey. The project is described as’ a pioneer anthropological survey of a@ modern nation. OF LEADERSHIP IN GOVERNMENT CONFERS WITH PRESIDENT council last night, Sam Hart | dressed sthg.body. relative to the, recent trip of the council to New York to confer with bondholders. Mr. Hart emphatically stated that he thought that the council had! wasted the tax payers’ money in making this trip, saying that he felt that Councilman Freeman, chairman of the finance commit- would have accomplished just as} well as having the entire body make the trip. Mr. Hart register-) ed a bitter protest in connection | with the proceedings, stating that the public was very much dissatis- fied with the matter. \ President Warren replied to Mr. Hart stating that he felt that the| money was well spent, saying that} the results of the meeting = the bondholders would mean a big saving to the tax payers of Key; West. He cited where this would} HE MAY PLAY IMPORTANT PART IN ACTIVITIES (Ny Associnted Press) BERLIN, Nov. 19.—Adolf Hit- ler, making what may be his most. powerful bid for leadership in the on the tax roll to a great extent.| Hindenburg and emerged with a He said that the bondholders in} broad smile and said he had an question as a result of the confer-} = RE ence, would in all probability now engagenient to meet with the presi defer mandamus proceedings | dent again ‘next’ Tuesday. against the city for the amount of | Persons close to the government; bonds, and would allow the city to. indicated the meeting was cordial continue paying interest on same. a . He showec wher. there would |224 would: possibly bring about be a difference of almost 20 mills |thé formation of a national con- ‘ess levied against the roll by this'centration cabinet in which Hit- arrangement with the bondholders. |Jer’s National Socialists wili have B. A. Johnson, local business} 3 contractor, and Charles Archer al-|*” important part. FOR AN HOUR; BELIEVED) German government, talked for an| jhour today with President Von) me! against the action of the council, ee saa cce opie * | also stating that they felt that it When asked if he would recog-| ¥@5 not right for the council to; nize “Red” if he saw him he/|have used the taxpayers’ money, replied that he would, The sheriff |for the trip in question especially | went direct to the county jail, put | @t a time when the city’s finances handcuffs on W, P. Waples, who} were so depleted. £ is being held for the stabbing, and! Attorney Lester notified the} hurried back to the hospital with} board that he had been called to/ Miami on business in connection | the | With the bridge franchise, saying | the prisoner. Arriving at the hospital i so gave brief talks rose CATCHES FISH ! \ THIS WAS EXPERIENCE OF p. Mr. And B. GILES, OF F. E. C. R’'y COMPANY sheriff was told by the nurse in that arrangements had been made — —|STUDENT KILLED (GALA EVENT ON --- IN AUTO SMASH JOHN R. WHITE, UNIVERSITY SOPHOMORE IS VICTIM _ . (By Associated Press) GAINESVILLE, Nov. 19.— John -R. White, sophomore, | | Jacksonville university was | { | killed today when his automo- bile overturned about 10 miles southwest of here. An unidentified girl riding in the car was reported in- jured. White was studying busi- ness administration and law. \ | \Florida Sails For Cuba Carrying 79 Passengers 1 wis Eas The steamer Florida sailed this |afternoon for Havana with 79 pas- sengers.- She arrived yesterday ‘from Cuba with 37 passengers. | Freighter Medina, of the Cly | Mallory line, arrived 12:15 o’cloc this morning from Galveston. Af- ter taking on cargo of sponges, leigars, and sea food in cans and j e sailed for Charleston and New York. , The Alamo, freighter of the jsame line, is due to arrive Monday {morning from New York enroute |to Tampa and Mobile. Mrs. Martinez Will Prolong Visi | Mario Martinez, assistant divi- sion traffic manager with Pan- | American Airways, now | BOARD STEAMER FLORIDA HERE IN CELEGRATION OF SHIP'S! DIAMONDBALL TEAM WIN-| NING FIRST HALF OF RE: | CENT SERIES Music and laughter; dancing | and dinner; fun and foolishness; {hilarity and happiness. The place, ithe P. and O, steamship Florida. |The occasion, the celebration of ‘the ship’s diamondball team win- | ning the first half of the series. {And the host, Cad Coles, chief purser of the line. No instruments devised by hu- man ingenuity for making a din| and racket, that the host had not) provided for the use of his guests. | {Caps in weird and grotesque de-| sign sat jauntily on their heads they danced to the music of W son’s orchestra or joined with the jnon-dancers in sounding “locusts”, | jingling bells, winding horns, and} jusing othe of the devices for din and deviltry. | No happier assemblage has ever gathered on the palatial steamer/ Florida nor more thoroughly en-; |joyed a tempting buffet luncheon ‘and delicious punch than the guests lof Mr, Coles. i Among those invited were: Mr. and Mrs, R. H. Noble, Mr. and M O. J. Haskins, Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Lunn, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ward jlow, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Sands, Mr. and Mrs. J. Roberts, Mr. and M | { } | | i | i | { i | | }for his leaving Sunday, accom- charge that Anderson had just nd jee} panied by Attorney William V. passed away, Justice af the Peace Frank O. | Losing a jewfish, due to a brok- . Williams, Mr. and Mrs.’ *S-Roy Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. visiting, Charles relatives, accompanied by Albury. both of whom will make|en line, on Thursday and catching | Martinez, will remain for another Mangum, Captain and Mrs. Paul the | the fish, recovering hook, line and, week. j Demeritt, budget, Secretary Mills told news- papermen the budget figures t be forwarded to congress will be “considerably lower” than $4,135,- 000,000 submitted last year. After conferring.for nearly two hours members of the official fam- ily left the executive offices say- ing reductions in their particular expenditures could be expected. Mills ‘said’ he. ‘had, informed Chairman Byrns of the house ap- propriations. committee that the} administration “would submit es- timates you will find it hard to reduce.” LARGEST TRADE BALANCE SHO -MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT OF BUSINESS (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.— The largest favorable trade balance for any month of the Present year was announced today by the commerce de- partment. It said October exports was $153,0000,000 and $106,000,000. imports Lighthouse Tender Will Return From West Coast| The lighthouse tender Poinciana, which has been operating on the est coast of Florida as far as Cedar Keys, has received instruc- tions to return to Key West. On her arrival she will take on material to replace and repair bea- cons on the intra-coastal water- ways from Hillsborough Inlet on the east coast to Key West and Cape Sable. The local bureau of the depart- but trials of the campaign ‘and a series of operations jundergone three years ago, ‘apparently undermined his thealth. He was troubled by a {heart affection even before ‘the campaign. His defeat i twas. the first In*S4 “years of amnesia. z The far flung search f the lecturer, peace advocate, prohibitionist and ‘friend @ President Hoover, ended latt yesterday in this village h in the Appalachians. The.b an, ii | public. life. joveraHs, who has made hi 4 t Prohibtison! Adsgeste home here for several weeks — | During the latter part of his| under the name of Raymond ‘eareer as senior United States/Rogers, was identified ‘by his |senator from Washington, Wesley} ' Livsey Jones achieved a reputation /2ePhew, John Drier of New ‘as a sponsor ef prohibition en-|York, who came here for forcement legislation that gave him) that purpose rank with former Representative; se | Andrew J. Volstead, father of the}. Described as a sufferer jnational prohibition law. fi fosia th d hibitie It was in the last session of the trom amnesia, the prohibition 70th congress that Senator Jones}leader is in seclusion at the became author of a law which! drastically increased the penalties! @¢Mahon Hotel, combinia- {for prohibition violations. The,tion hostelry and boar lact provided a penalty of five| house |years imprisonment or a fine of Pe, 1$10,000, or both, for first viola-| Residents of this town tions of the dry statute. 500 Fy ry | Enactment of the sasars| 500 said’ Robins “had ‘gained for the senator widespread here since early Septemijer, ' publicity that virtually obseured tramping the mountains his previous legislative accom- in plishments, which had included the|looking for minerals. Occasionally he took time passage of the Merchant Marine acts of 1920 and 1928. ee Senator Jones was an ardent, Off to make political spe iadvocate of prohibition and in his'es urging the re-electio teampaigns he received the en-|,. |dorsement of the AntiSaloonihis friend, Herbert Hoo jLeague. Besides the increased, They knew him only as BR ) penalty measure, he had sponsored, mond Rogers. ja “bone-dry” law for Alaska and,) ‘before the adoption of the Eigh-! Robins disappeared w route from Maine duman * j |teenth Amendment, an act barring |liquor advertising in dry states. jen The two merchant marine acts were designed to build up private-' lowned American shipping and en-! jcourage merchant marine opera- \tions in this country so that the; | government's activities in shipping would be discontinued. Another: piece of important legislation, of; which he was a sponsor, was the Mississippi flood control act of! 1928. t Washington to keep an pointment with the dent. His disappearance im gave rise to conflicting that he was a reprisal rum runners, that he had | kidnaped by Russian im) and that he was suffering | amnesia. 4 Fathered Many Laws Robins didn’t During the World War Senator jew, ‘Mrs. pdr peppers: . jJones fathered a number of laws from Brooksville, Florida, the Roberts was notified and as act-/the trip at the expense of ing coroner, at once empanelled| Overseas Bridge Corporation, — {sinker, yesterday, is the expérierce | the following jury: Clements Jay-| Mr. Lester, in asking the coun-|of D. B. G r foreman, of the ' for a short st Mrs. Robert Lord, Mrs.) ment expeets the Poinciana to ar- | aiding soldiers and sailors. Among ‘ Me and Mes, Martines came:tni). C.'Key, Me. aid Mrs, 3.1 Ley, | rive akns toe middle of Decem-|them were the increase of travel alarm She left, y but decided to pro- Mrs. C. H. Harrington, Mr. and| be as. the fe tamaet Sewanee for aechacead last night by automobile Charles C, Curtis, Fabio | ¢il’s ——- for the required) F. E. C. Railway, at Key West. [long.their visit during the time Mrs. Ralph Boyden, Mr. and Mrs. etal eee — ce ae ane cima that her hu: 3 0 y. Go-, time off, since he is the city at- hi Mr. d 3 inez’ vac: nd wil x § ere” “ ‘ou! John J, Lopes. E. V. Go: he © e he is the city | Thursday afternoon Mr. and/of Mr. Martinez’ vacation and will J. K. Brady, Mr. and Mrs. G. | sulle; the nequiremenk. ak the! Tasctitiasilin oe mez and William A. Kemp. } With the coroner the jury went} to Pritchard's Funeral Home, view- | ed the body and adjourned until; 10 o'clock Monday morning when | witnesses will be examined. These are Dr. Nilo C. Pintado, John B.} Jason, William Marshall and Frank {Continued On Page Two) 4 | business, WHY NOT KEEP YOUR PRES- ENT CAR IN GOOD SHAPE —IT’S ECONOMICAL May We Assist You? Lou Smith Service Station White and Catherine Phone 522 eaneeeeenaeneeeannsoacessareeaD torney, concluded by saying that| Mrs. Giles went up to the Saddle jeave next Saturday for Miami. he specifically asking this! Bunches bridge, and started fish-| permission of the board to pro- | ing. Mr. Giles line soon ee tect himself against being “fired”! wards began to move slowly! while he was away inasmuch as/through the water gaining speed) DON’T FORGET THE— } this was what happened to him a rapidly. PLYMOUTH SIX short time ago when the Board! He started to play the fish real-| of Public Works dispensed with)izing that he had no minnow on} his services as their attorney while the hook. When about 60 feet) he was out of the city on public/of line was out, the fish gave a! | vicious tug and the line parted. The only business coming up be-' Yesterday, with John Lowe and officers’ reports, committee re-jto the same place, at the same} ports, presentation of current bills | time, hooked the same fish and and the like, and after disposing this time landed it, recovering the} of these the meeting was ordered line and hook that he had lost the: adjourned. ‘day before, Gato & Navarre, Inc. fore the board was the reading of | Anthony Haskins, Mr. Giles went) Qn Display Monday Night i Russell, Mr. and Mrs. John Irwi Mr. and Mrs. Ed Freyburg, Mr. and; Mrs. J. N.-Costar, Mr. and Mrs.! ; Willard Russell, Mr. and Mrs. Cur-; tis Stanton, Mrs. C. H. J. Roberts,’ Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Sullivan, Mr. and Mrs. D. A. DuPuis, Mrs. How- ard Wilson, Ernest Hemingway, Mr. and Mrs. Shirley Cook, Mr.; and Mrs. G. D. Kirkland, << } GAME AT 102 } | GRAND RAPIDS.—License to! operate an automobile has been! ‘issued te Thomas Gerdon of this} city, who gives his age as 102, Pecveccosersecccosensees TODAY'S EDITORIAL POSS Cees OeSesesoeseoeses Why campaign talk is never taken too seriously, whether national, state or local, is shown in today’s leading edi-- torial. BIG ENTERTAINMENT Harris School, Nov. 22, 7:30 p. m.| .; Fairyland Scene, Mock Wedding and Thanksgiving Given Away Free Justice Temple No. 17, Sisters Pythian ADMISSION .... 100 | government furnish uniforms an: other equipment to officers ai cost; the granting of rank to army) nurses and the recognition of the patriotic services of draft board. members. H An advocate of the entrance of the United States into the World Court, Senator Jones by his stand on that issue gave evidence of his belief in fidelity to party prin-| i “Mfter it had been diseased! two or three years,” he once said,| “finally endorsed specifically in’ the party platform and the party i {Continued on Page Four) i {Continued on Page Fos STRAND THEA The Home Town Today SMILIN’ THRO Matinee, 15-28; Night, MONROE THEA