The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 16, 1933, Page 1

aces eee tem ene Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 13. No Action By Finance Corporation OnBridge Loan Before March 4 Key West Project Along With Many Others Now “In The Mill” Slated For Action Later By PAUL MAY Special Washington Correspaudent of The Citizen WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. —Because “nobody’s job is safe” on the Reconstruction loan is unlikely March 4, at least, an official of the finance corporation said today. Declining to be quoted, on the ground that his job also was hanging in the balance, this official pointed out that the personnel of the corpora- tion was selected largely through political channels, and that President Roose- velt, after his inauguration, will be immediately faced with the task of virtually re- organizing thé loan body. While officially the cor- poration is ‘still functioning, he said, “slacked off” on and is “coasting on its heels” until after the change of ad- ministration has been made. Positions on the RFC staff basis, and are outside the civil service. While whole- sale discharges in clerical personnel are not expected, because of the scandal that would be involved, radical changes in key positions seem certain, it was asserted. - The Key West project, like a number of others, is “in the mill” and slated for action eventually; but with the “mill” slowed down, and no immediate emergency urging speed, prospects for action before the Roosevelt cohorts take over the helm are very poor, this official in- sisted. Eight More Banks In St. Louis Fail To Open Today e DIMI OLs. (By Ansociated Press) ST. LOUIS, Jan. 16.—Eight St. Louis banks failed to open today a total of 16 banks with aggregate deposits exceeding $15,- 000,000 to close in the city and St. Louis county within the last 12 days. Most of the closed institutions are small neighborhood banks, They are the Twelfth Street Na- tional Bark, Laclede Trust Com- pany, Chouteau Trust Company, Natural Bridge Trust Company,, Lowell Bank, Grant State Bank,/ Sarah Olive Bank of St. Louis, Seruggs, Vandervoort and Barney Bank. Im each case the decision of di- rectors to close was attributed to recent withdrawals by depositors. RECOMMENDATION. FOR STABILIZING OF SCHOOL FUNDS STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION SAYS BOARDS SHOULD BE RESTRICTED IN FUNDS (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Jan, 16.— Stabilization of school finances was recommended in the biennial report of W, S. Cawthon, state superintendent of public instruc- tion, made public today. The school laws should be amended, the report says, to make state appropriations for aiding counties more certain of payment even if smaller in amount. County school boards should be restricted in their use of state funds and enforced school tax levies should be required in coun- ties and districts, it adds. Cawthon recommended that county school boards be limited to paying only current expenses, in- luding teachers’ salaries with state funds and that past due school ob- ligations be met from county and district funds obtained by enforc- ed tax levies. REGIONAL OFFICE VETERANS BUREAU IS OPENED TODAY FIRST, OFFICIAL ACT WAS THAT OF DISTRIBUTING _PAYROLL AT ST. PETERS- | BURG INSTITUTION (My Associated Press) ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 16.— The regional office of the Veterans’ Administration Bureau was opened officially at the $1,- 000,000 Soldiers Home today with the first official business being the distribution of an $8,000 pay- roll for the first half of January. M. Bryson, regional director, said the home will not be ready for members until March 1 or later. The bureau was from Jacksonville and consolidated moved here} with the home as an economy)" move. | NEVER TOO LATE PHOENIX, Ariz. — Confessing! that his conscience forced him to} admit a $22,500 Kenneth S. Farnham of this city, surrendered to police. Investigation Move ‘Leaks’ Into Havana/| HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. 16. The news that Congress- man Hamilton Fish has i: troduced a resolution re- questing President Hoover to investigate conditions in Cuba leaked into Havana clan- destinely yesterday despite the rigid press censorship. Op- ponents of President Gerardo | Machado expressed the hope { that the United States would intervene. Havana nows- papers, under military censor- ship, and government offi- cials refrained from men- tioning the resolution. Ad ‘ested in the insect menace, was al-j \State winners will be awarded $10 embezzlement, | ¢, {receive $500 in cash, and a travel} i. ; i — The Key West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 1933. Restless whil to halt tax sales pass relief measures. GORGAS ANNUAL ESSAY CONTEST OPENED TODAY HENRY..L,. DOHERTY, DONOR OF PRIZES FOR CONTEST DEALS WITH ECONOMICS OF INSECT MENACE (Special to The Citizen) WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 16. —The fifth annual essay contest) ‘for high school juniors and seniors, sponsored by the Gorgas Memorial Institute, Washington, D. C., has been announced by Admiral Cary T. Grayson, president of the insti- tute. oh The contest opened in all high) schools today and will close on Friday, March 10. The subject! will be “The Problem of the Mos- quito and Other Insect Life in Re- lation to Sanitation, Health and; Industry.” The donor of the prizes is Mr, Henry L. Doherty, presi- dént of the Henry L. Doherty company, New York City. Mr. Doherty, who is particularly inter-| so the donor of the awards of the, previous essay contest sponsored by the Institute. High school winners will receive ; a Gorgas medal and will qualify for entrance in the state contest. in cash, and will qualify for en- nce in the National contest. | inner of first national prize will allowance of $200 to Washington! to receive the award; 2nd national prize will be $150 in cash, and the 3rd prize $50 in cash. Winner in each high school will! be selected by a faculty commit- tee appointed by the principal. ‘Sag winning essay, with official en- ‘trance blank and photograph of the winner will be forwarded by th¢/ ~~ | principal to the Gorgas Institute | for entry in the state contest. A committee of three state officials will judge the winning high school} papers and select the winner in each state, The winning state es-{ says will then be entered in the | im national contest, the judges of which will be the U. S. commis-} sioner of education, the service and the director general of | ithe American college of surgons. Fifteen thousand students in 48 | bia participated in last year’s Gor-} gas essay contest. The winner} was Miss Harriet M. Jones, Albany, New York; to Mr, H. Shepard Fuller, Wash- ington, D. C.; 3rd prize to Miss} ‘Oklahoma. For detailed announcement and structions write to the Gorgas! waiting for relief le; d farm mortgage foreclosures. At La Mars they stormed the office of Judge C. | were orderéd to halt fired on W. Pitts (upper right) demanding a halt in foreclosures. Judge Pitts suggested a five to seven months’ moratorium on farm products. Gov, Clyde Herring (upper left) predicted the new lowa assembly will Below is a group of Iowa farmers. tion, Iowa farmers took i ‘Japanese Accuse United States Of Furnishing China With Arms, — Ammunition And Financial Aid - Havana Police Kill One Man During Raid In Which Arms - | And Ammunition Are Seized 'ACCUSED TORCH it upon themselves and organized Conservation Committee Outlines Plan For Work The first meeting of Ga! Gok eesta: Con-, roe County Council for Unemploy- ment Relief, was held Saturday night at the home of Miss Mollie Parker, chairman, at 8 o'clock. Those present with the chairman were W. W. Demeritt, chairman Monroe County Council for Un- employment Relief; Mrs. W. J. Phelan, Mr. and Mrs. Wallace B. Kirke, Mr. and Mrs. L.. P. Bost- wick, Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Milling- ton, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Leuthi. Wallace B, Kirke was appointed vice chairman of the committee, and Mrs. W. V. Millington, secré- tary. It was determined that the com- mittee, in addition to the work of! conserving native shrubs and ‘trees now on the island, would as-; re- with sume the responsibility of planting the cut-over lots suitable trees, shrubs, palms and! lessen the annual rainfall on the |ervation: Committee of the Morz/denuded sections. Miss Parker stated that the mahogany that grows on the near- by keys is the simon-pure ma- hogany out of which fine furniture is made, and this tree was selected by the committee as the principal tree to be used in replanting the city, both because of its beauty and rarity, and also because it is wind and salt-spray resistant. It. was announced that Marvin Thompson of Tavernier, had gen- erously offered to donate 1,000 young mahogany trees for this purpose. The sapodilla tree was also selected because of its beauty {and delicious fruit. Among the flowering trees selected for beauti- }fication purposes are the spath- modea (tulip tree), the beauhinia, (orchid tree),,royal poincianna, | frangipanni, oleander and hibiscus, because of their ever blooming i } WANTED—10,000 Turk's Cap and single hibiscus plants, red, rose, pink and apricot, between planting in Key West. February now and next June for is the month for pruning hibiscus, street won't you, all citizens of Key West, please save all your cuttings and either root them yourselves chairman of the Conserv: arate, and mark each bundle. ‘ion Committee. or deliver them to or notify the Keep the colors, sep- Also please save all your croton cuttings and deliver them to or notify the undersigned committee. that you do not want yourselves All plants and shrubs can be used by this committee in replanting the cut-over lots of your city. Our city must be in full dres: s before the bridges come through, hence we must make haste to prepare its attire. CONSERVATION COMMITTEE, other native growths, and would also undertake to encourage the organization of junior garden| clubs among the boys of this city,! and also the planting of com- committee resolved itself auto- matieally into four divisions: Con- servation, source of plants, junior — clubs, community garden- “Wallace B. Kirke was appointed chairman of conservation; Mrs. surgeon | Wallace B. Kirke, chairman junior} Igeneral of the U. S. public health / garden club work; L. P. Bostwick, and Miss Parker assumed the istates and the District of Colum-|¢bairman of the source of plants} Each chairman was em-| posed replanting campaign. These| agreement to vote tomorrow division. powered to select his assistants. It was the sense of the meeting be replaced as it} jto.insure continued rainfall, has been found in other loc: Mollie Parker, Chairman. | qualities and adaptability to this j climate. It was adopted that all gumbo- imbo trees, of all sizes, no matter | how small, now growing on the is- Ini {munity gardens. The work of this} land, also seagrapes of all sizes, native eactus or prickly pears, sisal, sanseveria, _live-forever, should be left growing. It was decided to conserve all shrubs and vines that are now screening unsightly outhouses. Other plants and shrubs to be con- ‘served will be marked by the com-} | mittee. | as many plants, shrubs and trees/ as possible, to be used in this pro- may be delivered to the Woman’s; Club nursery, Duval street, or to | | meet The committee adjourned Sunday afternoon at 3) ities! o’eloek to go over the island and| Long declined to Memorial Institute, 1331 G:Street,| that denuding the land of trees! select classes of plant life to be! W., Washington, D. C. and shrubs tends to materially} conserved. For (By Associated Press) HAVANA, Jan. 16.—Tip- ped by informers police searched the residence of Leonor Carvajal in a Cerro suburb and found six rifles, | ammunition and a sack of; dynamite. An_ armored truck waited nearby. Three unidentified men appeared and when they the police who returned the shot killing one of them. The other two escaped. The dead man was identified. ODI L LDL LL Articles Printed In The Citizen Broadcast Over Various Stations Once again The Citizen and Key West has been given widespread ‘publicity. The “Air Dispatch”, over _ its various stations Florida has selected articles from this in paper and told of a number of highly interesting events and news that have ap- peared recently. Among those that broadcast are the followin; An editorial under the caption “Fisherman’s Paradi: est Resident Dies.” This story of Jane Sawyer, colored, 102-years-old. “Catches Fish Hooked Be- fore.” The story of the jew- were travel story of Key West in the Literary Digest. “Lays Claim To Only Pumpkin Vine Here”, the story of the pumpkin vine at the residence of Customs In- spector L. A. Gabriel, which bears fruit that grows in the form of an_ interrogation mark. All of these stories were given to the world from stations WJAX, Jacksonville; WDAE, Tampa; WDBO, lando; WQAM, jiami, WRUF, Gainesville. "SIIDOIOLD. _SLAYER’S CASE TAKES NEW TURN SAMUEL FURNACE, PRISONER WHO SPENT NIGHT IN PO, LICE STATION FOUND ILL AND HURRIED TO HOSPITAL (By Associated Press) LONDON, Jan. 16.—The case of Samuel Furnace, accused torch slayer, took another dramatic turn today when the prisoner, who spent the night in a police station was found ill. He was hurried to a_ hospital where he is reported suffering in- ternally with symptoms apparently bp elcid some form of poison- ing. The 89-year-old builder, who hid out in a boarding house read- ing detective stories, while Ae, land’ Yard searched for “him, ‘is aecused of murdering his friend, Walter Spatchett. One of the most involved recent murder mysteries of London, al- most had famous Scotland Yard baffled, since Spatchett’s burned body was found by firemen who were called to extinguish a blaze in Furnace’s workshop. Three bullet wounds were found in the body. AIMEE HUTTON SAID TO SHOW IMPROVEMENT: EVANGELIST UNDER COURT ORDER TO APPEAR TOMOR- ROW IN BREACH OF CON- TRACT SUIT BY DIRECTOR (Ny Associated Press) LOS ANGEL#S, Jan. 16.—Dr. L. C. Audrian today reported a de- cided improvement in the condi- tion of Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, evangelist, reported crit-} ically ill on numerous occasions during the last two years. She is under a court order to appear tomorrow at the trial of the $24,000 @reach of contract suit brought against her by Roy Stewart, film director, who alleges he was employed by Mrs. Hutton ite make a motion picture in which she was to be starred, Committee Fails To Agree On Beer Bill; More Dela | WASHINGTON, Jan. —Refusing to yield tion and preventing jon the Philippine veto, 2nd prize was awarded | that all trees now on the island | the home of Miss Parker, South! Senator Long of Louisiana, | should be conserved until they can| street, or notify any member of by more desirable|the committee who will gladly cai! today began the fifth day of |Katherine Donalson Tack, Tulsa,;species, both for the purpose ofifor any plants donated. | providing habitations for birds and |the senate filibuster against the Glass banking bill. relin- iquish the flogr to Senator (By Associated Presa 16.;Sheppard of Texas, for his the| An appeal will be made to alljfloor for a previously an- prohibition—this time chairman community erdiociioe, | eisine ns of Key West to furnish! nounced speech on customary annual address on to prohibi-| commemorate the thirteenth an jnanizereery of the Eigh-| jteenth Amendment. A week's delay for the! Collier-Blaine bill to legalize 3.05 beer and wine was| forced when the senate judiciary committee failed to reach an agreement on thel measure. | 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Italian Relations With Chinese Strained Over Slaying, Of Messenger On Battlefront (Ry Associated Press) ..The United States was accused in Tokyo news- papers today of furnishin; ig money, arms and ammuni- tion to China for use against Japaneses forces. Ambassador Joseph Grew emphatically denied all charges. A Japanese war office statement said Americans were furnishing Chinese airplanes and automobiles described as “arms”. In the meantime Italian jrelations with the Chinesé nationalist government became strained because of the slaying of an Italian messenger by Chinese troops while he was pass- ing a Sino-Japanese bat- tlefyent. --southwest ~ of Shanwaikwan. Italian authorities said he had been guaranteed safe passage and that Rome was expected to de- mand satisfaction from the Chinese. Japanese airplanes bombed and heavily dam- aged Chinese headquar- ters in Kailu and Jehol, and a Chinese counter at- a _ 2 gas was an- MS J. WILSON SAYRE IS DEAD DAUGHTER OF LATE PRESI- DENT WILSON AND WORK. ER IN SOCIAL SERVICE (By Associated Press) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 16.—Mrs. Jessie Wilson Sayre, daughter of the late President Wilson and life long worker in social service and the cause of world peace, died late last night at the age of 45. Mrs. Sayre was the wife of Professor Francis Sayre, new- ly appointed state commis- sioner of correction, and mem- ber of the Harvard Law School faculty. She succumbed to the ef- fect of a gall bladder opera- tion, performed Saturday. SMALL PERCENTAGE SPOKANE, Wash.—Only cight- tenths of one per cent of the pop- ulation of this city are classed as illiterate. 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