The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 23, 1932, Page 1

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Associated Press Day W Service VOLUME LIII. No. 278. Guarding Against Gangster Thought To Be Big Problem O'Connor Declares Tex! Cents A Glass As Pro- posed Is Too High; No Profiteering, He Says (By Associnted Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. brewers believing their rainbow of anti-prohibition sentiment has a barrel of! beer at its end, today began laying their prospective trouble at the government’s doorstep. The worst of their fears as expressed by Dr. James Doran, director of industrial alcohol, is the gangster. Representatives of some of the largest breweries told Doran they feared the gang- ster with his machine gun- ~Jike orgenization,...was . get- ting ready to “muscle in” on business and asked the gov- ernment to undertake a strict | permit enforcement if beer is | legalized. ~ Some brewers in the mean-| while aroused beer advocates | im congress by saying they} must get 10 cents a glass to make a profit. Representative O’Connor, democrat, of New York, de- clared that the price was too! high and added: “We are not} going to have any profiteer- ing or stamp out one beer racket let flourish.” to another | ETTA PAPY, TEN YEARS OLD, DEAD; FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS AFTER- NOON | Etta Papy, 10 years old, died in {Katherine Maloney; two daughte: i ire KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1932. be Key West Citsen By WADE WERNER | (ity Annociated Pres) i S7MMERING, Austria, Nov. } 23.—Sinclair Lewis, oft-assailed} ritic of the American middle-| class mind, is settling down for a }comfortable winter here in the best} Austrian middle-class manner, The Nobel Prize’ novelist has| leased a cozy villain this mountain } resort near Vienna, and in Vienna) itself has taken @ town flat such | as the old Austrian bourgeoisie loved to maintain when times were | good. And, like every middle-class | | Austrian who still has the meney, | Lewis is varying his cold weather | program with at least one trip | {into sunny Italy. j He Explores The Air | | The author of “Main Street’! ;and “Babbitt” even has bought himself a radio, and on evenings! | when some of his readers doubtless ; jthink he is at the opera he i |shamelessly staying at home to see ; how many stations he can get. | | Most disillusioning to those who | ;may picture the creator of “Ar. trowsmith” as living, in morose } | clusion, with a sdur eye for fellow-| i | Americans ‘abroad, is the open-} Lewis! H COUNTY TAX COLLECTOR, DEAD ‘hearted hospitality of the j home. The family circle includes, be-| . | sides Mr, and Mrs. Lewis and their! | 2-year-old son, Michael, Mrs. Lew- i ster, Mrs. Howard Wilson, and} 'her little daughter, Pamela. But | ‘there are always guests, especial-| Ny week-ends, and mong Americans ; jin Vienna theauthor is known.as.a! j genial and refreshingly informal | | host. WM. F. MALONEY WM. F. MALONEY _—-DIES LAST NIGHT a i A Household Cat, Too FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE| jjichael and Pamela doubtlessly | CONDUCTED TOMORROW = { Would in on something being 'caid about the family cat, Mitzi, an! AFTERNOON { t feature of the household Mitzi, so the children re jvealed, bathed Saturdays, in suds William F. Maloney, 63 years) senerated by a well-known Ameri old, for 17 years tax collector of oa" brand of soap-flakes, and af-| : ‘or ©" terward is dried in the oven. — j Monroe county, died at 11 v’clock} he Ly SHAW, Calls alao a et night at the home of his son- well-known American product, Mrs, in-law and daughter, Mr, and Mrs, | Lewis (known to Americans as! {Dorothy Thompson, author) li | , z “ to drive it, but her husband some-! Funeral services will be held te-} j : j tim 3 the vehicle a suspicious morrow afternoon 4 o'clock, from 1300 Div! to St. Paul Episcopal chureh, Re Arthur: Arran Funeral Home. Limpor | to them. Lee Pierce, on South street, the home at on street B, Dimmick will officiate. | CECIL HAWLEY OF | oa TEXAS OIL FIRM ra ve:|— VESITING IN CITY Motlier, Mrs. Euphemin Ma-\ 7parFic EXPERT. 1S ACCOM- joney; two brothers, Charlie and Frank; two sisters, Mrs. Douglas) PANIED BY HIS WIFE; ARE bg en tae GUESTS OF WILLIAM R. PORTER e of Lopes | Survivors are the widow, M Mrs. Pierce and Mrs R. ‘om and six grandchildren, YACHT “ALVA” Cecil Hawley, known all over the the home at William and Eaton} streets, 1:30 o'clock this morning. Death resulted from injuries re ceived when she fell from a tree Saturday while playing, | The body was placed in the Con- | gregational church 2 o'clock this} afternoon and funeral services| held at 4 o’clock. Rev. E. R. Evans officiating. Pritchard’s} Funeral Home in charge of ar-| rangements. Pallbearers = were} selected from Etta’s schoolmates. Survivors are the parents, Mr, and Mrs, Charles Papy, four brothers, Charles, Jr., Frank, Douglas and Joseph. sister Enola and grandmother, Mrs Frank Papy. NOTICE Tomorrow, Thanksgiving Day. the office of the Key West Elec-/ trie Company wiil be closed all! day, THE KEY COMPANY, ~ $1.35 VALUE 49c $1.00 Gem Micromatic Razor and, five blades with 35c Palmolive or Colgates Shave Cream all for 49¢ Gardner’s Pharmacy Phone 177 Fre Delivery WEST ELECTRIC nov23-It | LEAVES TODAY | pert with the Texas Oil Company CUBA GOES TO TAMPA; VAGA.| and Mrs, Hawley, were arrivals BONDIA ARRIVES IN PORT ited States as “Stu,” traffic ex- over the highway last night and are guests of William R. Porter. {They are out fishing this after- | noon. The steamer Cuba sailed last] night for Tampa with 11 passen- gers. She arrived in the afte noon from Cuba with 58 passe’ gers, 13 aliens, W. K. Vanderbilt’s yacht Alva,} with owner and party which arrived yesterday entry from fer Mr. and Mrs Hawley will remain until Friday when they will leave | for Havana on a special invitation j given by Tirso Mesa, mayor of Ha- vana and president of the ow on board, } to make commission, One of the best informed and ports and was Dock com-| St noted of the travel experts in the country, Mr, Hawley is con tinually called into conference by officials in this country and other , countries because ef his knowledge of roads and conditions. His articles on road travel are ated in over 800 newspapers ghout the country and hi »s and guides covering the en- re country are much sought af- cleared by the pany, sailed this morning. Yacht Vagabondia, owned by W. L, Mellon, arrived in port this} merning and is anchored in the stream. The vessel came into Key West harbor awaitig orders. Only the and other s of the crew are on board. er wide | travel ¢ officers men DANCE TO-NIGHT CUBAN CLUB FREE TURKEYS Music By HOWARD WILSON 9 P.M. Ti— Mr. Hawley is the son of Wi Chatman Hawley, member of con- gress and co-author of the Smoot- Hawley tariff act. He is noted as; an automobile traveler and aver-| ages bout 80,000 miles each year. Sinclair Lew Winters As morning is, Sinclair’ Lewis, critic of Americar. life, | middle-class Austria this winter. He has rented a I 1 ! Austrian mountain resort. The writer, shewnlat work ddd with?Mrs. constructed by physicists of . the’ ‘Herr Doktor’ Now, Middle- Class A ustria 6 sampling; the’ TURNS OUT NEW SOUND MACHINE | FORMER KEY WESTER cETs! WRITE-UP WITH ILLUS. TRATED PICTURE IN WASH-} INGTON EVENING STAR | | In the November 18th issue of! The Evening Star of Washington, | D. C:, appears @ write-up with an} j illustrated picture showing F. L. | Knowles, who is a son of Mr. and! Mrs. Harry: L. Knowles of Key West, operating a new sound ma chine which is expected | mosquitoes to death with its noises, ‘similar to that made by the | sect. The article in question i reproduced herewith: | By THOMAS R. HENRY | * Primarily to duplicate exactly! ‘various noises made by mosquitves, | in the hope of luring great uum-/ ‘bers of them to destruction, one of | ife. of ,the most delicate’ sound-producin; has bee to run a at'Semméring, machines ever devised Lewis at the radio, sperds his eve nings dialing to sce how many sta- Public Health Service. tions he can get. look and goes to Vienna by train.;than an oce Among the villagers here the uthor from America always is r a erred to as “Herr Doktor” Lewis enough,” he this not so much because he won the Nobel P. tria anyone who looks at once in- tellectual’ and prosperous auto-; schedule matically rates asa flerr Doktor.'am turnin Although the author and his fam-!my mind,” he ily seem completely comfortable them. No, a in Austria, 1 doesn’t play intention of lithem.” ‘residence abr ns because in Aus- s he has no Surope more omas Felton Dies This Morning John Thomas Felton, 66 year: old, 1110 Elgin hi John Th died at his residence 11 Funeral ree 30 o'clock — nee ah APPLIES ervices will be held 4’v'elock tomorrow afternoon from the residence to the Co *ritchard’ gational church, Rev R. Evans, officiating Funeral Home in charge Mr. Felton widow, Mrs daughter, Miami, daring of arrangements his Margaret Felton; one Mrs who the lat is survived by United States Johr Borden » . » Of culture today been him : with De days of hi: two bre ness; 1 tle Senjamin ton grandch Orange, The deceased was a Improved Order Red Men who will ; atte sa body hy PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, Thursday, November 24th, nated by the PRESIDENT of these UNITED STATES, as a DAY OF THANKSGIVING. THEREFORE, I, Leo H. Warren, acting Mayor of the City of Key West, Florida, do hereby request our people to pause for a while in their chily duties to give thanks to ALMIGHTY GOD for the manifold blessings bestowed on us. of worship of your choice and give thanks to Him who has blessed us in many ways during these depressing times. THEREFORE, as Acting MAYOR of the City of Key West, I do declare THURSDAY, November 24th, THANKSGIVING DAY, a holiday. LEO H. Acting Mayor of the City of Key West, Florida. Done this 22nd day of Newmeber, A. D. 1932. Vv, three’ or istence without roots.” " ; Lewis is ‘not following Heavy machine, it can “provide sounds, of work this severdl fi “ said, “nfedit#tint on! quency one cycle per second at the’ ‘QUARANTINE TO. BE LIFTED $00 TO CATTLE TICK reason to believe various IN VARIOUS COUNTIES OF STATE tick quarantine n Brevard, C Seminole counties and the remainder of the and parts of Osceola and St. | difference Lucie counties. To attend a place Its ranke is from the sounds produced by 115 to 9,000 vibra-) tions per second—considerabl above and below the hearing thres-| holds of the human ear. With the; combined skill of the musician and! physicist used in producing the; onal dwelling iplace. fai" = months Amerida ‘ig, long aid, “Kor me;*long would be “ap ex- “1! varying by. one-fortieth of a tone) vibration fre-| wint ‘ tories “aver in| by changing the uropean bai und ‘lower end of the scale and vital role in any of cycles per second at the upper. | That mosquitoes are attracted _ | by sounds, it was explained, still is an unverified hypothesi: It is known that they are highly sociable jinsects, swarming in vast hordes in response to various stimuli. ‘Some years ago Dr. L. O. Howard, .former chief of the Bureau of En-! tomology of the Department of ‘Agriculture, said there was some} sounds acted as swarming stimuli and later it was reported that the hum of ; the generators of an electric power plant located near mosquito-ridden marshes in Massachusetts attracted vast numbers of the insects, 1 But if the mosquito does ' spond to the sounds made by other mosquitoes it is evidently quite a limited response, probably within 5 the federal cat-'a very narrow tone range. This is lifted {the reason for the extreme fine-| i jness of the Public Health Service Indian River,| mechanism. First the actual vibra-j Sumter tion range of mosquito sounds can} {be determined in physical terns} fand then exactly duplicated. Al between tones that} | would not be detectable to the! most delicate human ear might} ec a good deal to the insect. | I 20, department of agri- nnounced effee- will be itrus, and Thus far, no actual experiments jhave been carried out. with the ma chine. It is only one of the num jous lines that are being followe it was explained, to find some at-} traction that will bring vast num bers of mosquitoes into a closely packed group where they can be easily destroyed. Other tests are under considera- tion with odors and colors. It i known that some smells will, under; certain circumstances, prove a», powerful attraction to the insects,| has been desig- to determine exactly what those} smells are. A certain odor will) | work under one set of atmospheric ‘conditions and then fail. ' The sound machine, constructed | Turkey by Frederick L. Knowles, Public: Health Service physicist, was ex-| \plained by Surg. Gen. Hugh s.! {Cumming before a meeting of elec- |trical engineers in New York Wed- jneeday night. WARREN, Hoover Snogests Commisst For Resurvey Of War De ‘THANKSGIVING \Only One Boy Held In morning. Tt, who will be given a further hear but thus far it has been impossible! ine Friday. ; years old, was released yesterday, "MOOT EAMAN, Authority Would Given To Revise Or Cancel Any Of Eleven Billion Owed Nation PROCLAMATION (By Associated Presa) TALLAHASSEE, Nov. Governor Carlton today is- sued a Thanksgiving Day proclamation in which he de- clared: “We need to be re- minded of our duty to give thanks for what he have re- ceived. We passed through a trying year and a_ trying series of years, but we re- ceived generous gifts from the Almighty, from Mother Nature and from our fellows. Who can say our very trials have not been blessings.” Ga DI ELMS: 23.— (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. —Whether a commission should be constituted to re- jsurvey war debts today be- jcame the dominant question \in that dispute. To congressional leaders , assembled by him in the cabi- net room, President Hooyer suggested such agency to go FIRST RECORDED over the field but without EXPERIMENT IN { authority to ts a aka NARROWCASTING °”” of the $11,000,000,000 jowed this country. SEARCHLIGHT BEAM FLINGS| Immediately on leaving VOICES. OF MEN ACROSS the meeting, democratic con- ADIRONDACK FOOTHILLS; ferees went to the hotel “NEW MACHINE TESTED quarters. -of President-clect-- ‘Roosevelt where views were New jexchanged, chlight | The democratic legislators ecred clear of any commit- (Dy Associated Press) LAKE DESOLATION, York, Nov. A beam flung voices of m the Adirondack foothills | in the first recorded experiment it |ment on the president's sug- Jong distance “narrowcastin A 30-inch mirror on the moun- | gested commi tain-side collected rays of a search- | light which twinkled faintly on the horizon at Schenectady, 24|ment, however, that if the milos away. |commission is created it will Out of the stream of light came | 4 8 impulses which passed through a| be with the understanding special receiving set and emerged the act entailed no obligation aiby this country to revise or as human voices The unwavering over which voices | telephone cancel debts, ion, There was a general agree- beam was lephone wire” ed as in ordinary conversation, Four Places Ordered CHANGES MADE AT Closed For Vielation CUBAN CONSULATE me ns SANCHEZ TO BE REPLACED |the recent term of U. 8. eourt four BY ARMANDO LOPEZ; NIETO | places, alleged to have violated the TO SUCCEED RODRIGUEZ | Prohibition act, were ordered f ‘closed this week by Judge Halsted consular |, Ritter, ofices this week affect two of Th the officials, Ecaardo Sanchez, : associate consul and Everardo '¢a? of Richardson's Restaurant on Changes made in the se places are the building in Rodriguez, chancellor. , Duval street; a place at the corner _ 1 Consul Rafael Sakiebent 63 Front and Duval street, known told The Citizen this morning thet = * Mr. Sanchez will be feplaced’ iy nt Seen 200 ar One em Patponie Armando Lopez, who ar-{street, operated by Osear Solano rived yesterday from Havana with }@nd one on Greene street, operated Mr. Cervino and Rafael Nieto, who |by Isaac Mesa. is to arrive from Havana Friday, | The proprietors of these places will take the place of Mr. Rod-|have 10 days, dating from Novyei- riguez {ber 21, to post bonds of $500 Mr. Sanchez and Mr. Rodriguez ‘each. are expected to leave on the steam- er tomorrow for H na. Consul 'Free Turkeys Tonight At Cuban Clab Dance Case Of Stealing Car, There will be = dance given 7 f colored Bight at the Cuban Club whieh wi arrested oa jhe under the direction of Kamer vg the automobile|Delwado. Free turkeys will be smashing © it}*!¥e0 away during the evening. — was ordered od by Judge| The dance will star at 9 o'clock » court, this| With music to be furnished | Williams, of : I He is Willie Inveam, 12, Howard Wilson's orchestra, Another of the trio o boy charge of Alvin all and reh juven PAE A a STRAND THEATER The Home Town Theater Today SCARLET DAWN See Page 4 for Reader on This Pieture Matinee, 10-15¢; Night, 15-25 MONROE THEATER © BILL OF DIVORCEMENT Matinee, 5-10c; Night, 16-15< nf vars old. The one being held now in Ed-} ward Emerson Clark, 11 years, Wilford Wallace, to! at TURKEY DINNER Soup, Stuffed Roasted; Turkey, Lettuce and Tomato Salad, Pumpkin Pud- ding, Coffee and Tea RAMONIN’S RESTAURANT 615 Duval Street i

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