The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 21, 1933, Page 1

ee tena en rece Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 18. Grounds At Incinerator Plant To Be Cleared Off For Municipal Air Port American Legion Post And Spanish War Veterans To Have Charge Of Ac- tivities The city council at its meeting last night agreed to turn the city’s property at the incinerator plant on the eastern end of the island over to the American Legion and Spanish War Veterans to be cleared off and placed in condition for a municipal airport. This action was taken following a request made by Chas. H. Ketchum and E. Phillips, representa- tives of the two organ- izations mentioned, both of whom addressed the meet- ing on the subject. It was the understanding that the legionnaires and veterans will take care of all expense attached to the preposition in fixing up the grounds for the purpose stated. The idea of the. two organ- izations in taking over the grounds is to promote air activities in Key West in the way of air circuses and other meets, with wide pub- planes desiring to make a landing’ here will then be afforded an op- portunity to do so, ‘ A letter was read from the Flor- ida League of Municipalities at Jacksonville expressing delight at Key West having: taken ont mem- bership in the organization,. and mentioned the fact that they were glad to learn that Mayor Wm..H. Malone was planning to attend the convention of the association to be held in Winter Haven January; 26-27. The league also expressed hope that members of the council and other city officials would at- tend. The council has decided to allow payment of taxes for 1932 on a basis of 25 per cent in warrants and 75 per cent in cash, i A. communication was read from W. M. Albury complaining of persons dumping trash on the northeastern side of south shore which it was claimed has become a menace to residents of that vicinity. The complaint was or- dered turned over to the mayor. GEORGE MOORE, FAMOUS IRISH NOVELIST, DIES SERIOUSLY ILL ONLY FOR FEW DAYS; ATTAINED AGE OF 80 YEARS; HAD BEEN FAILING FOR LONG TIME (Ry Agsociated Press) LONDON, Jan. 21.—George Moore, 80, famous Irish novelist, died at his home today. He was seriously ill only a few days but his health for some time had been failing due to old age, Moore was born at Ballyglass, County Mayo, Ireland, February 24, 1852, the son of George Henry Moore, a member of parliament. Instead of an Oxford or Cam- bridge education, which might have been his, he went to Paris, where he frequented the cafes with Manet and Degas. At the outset he turned to poetry and it was not until 1885 that he published his first novel, “Mum- mer’s Wife.” Critics of that time assailed the book as full of de- liberate realism, powerful, but re- pulsive. His “Esther Waters,’’ is- sued in 1894, also met with many attacks from people who thought it: too bold. The product of Moore’s pen ap- peared with regularity until 1916, when “The Brook Kerith,” a ro- mantic life Christ, the sig- nal for andthe strat ot attatk, Lord Alfred Douglas applied for a process against the author under the Blasphemy Laws, but it was denied. Since 1918, when “‘Avowals” ap- peared, Moore published all his work privately. Among the books so issued were “A Story Teller’s Holiday,” “Abelard and Heloise,” “In Single Strictness” and “Ulick and Soracha.” One of ‘the best known of Moore’s works is his “Confession of a Young Man,” written in 1888, an autobiography of his earlier years. In recent year the novelist lived in Ebury Street, London, near the American embassy. GAS BOOTLEGGING IN CHILE FLOURISHING (By Annociated Press) SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 21.— Loopholes in the gasoline rationing system here make it possible for Some persons to obtain motor fuel legitimately and resell it through an accomplice at double or triple the regular price. Scarcity of supplies is aiding this bootlegging. Hoover And Democratic Leaders In Dispute Over _ Decrease In Expenditures (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—A new meney bill said to appropriate $5,284,000 less than the budget asked, was presented to the house today and at the same time a dis- pute was in full jing between President Hoover and democratic leadership over reductions in fed- eral expenditures. Nine million, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, smallest in 13 years of national pro- hibition, was ear marked for en- forcement of dry laws in the fiscal year of 1934 by four department to have debt discussions with Great Britain was “usurpation of author- ity” and was challenged in the senate by democratic leader Rob- inson, who called republican mem- bers’ speech “cheap politics.” Approval by the Nicaraguan chamber of deputies of a state of siege throughout virtually ¢! tire country was reported to the state department in a dispatch from the American legation at Managua. The house ways and means com- appropriation bill reported to the} mittee decided to meet next week house. The semate agreed to an im- mediate showdown on the contro- versial branch bank feature of the! Glass banking bill. A statement by Senator Rob-| relief bill to cotton and wheat and) inson, republican of Indiana, that the Hoover-Roosevelt agreement te consider reenacting a federal gasoline tax. The senate agriculture commit- tee failed to agree on limiting} “domestic allotment” for the farm striking out all acreage reduction provisions. je KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 21, 1933. Roosevelt Inspects Muscle Shoals Project Today; Heard In Address (By Associated Vress) SHEFFIELD, Jan. 21.— Beginning an inspection of the gigantic Muscle Shoals power and _ nitrate project, President - elect Roosevelt told a crowd today “I am confident that congress will work with me and we can get | something practical done” to put “Muscle Shoals back on the map.” Significance was attached to his statement that “we are going to treat Muscle Shoals from a national stand- point.” Senator Norris, of Ne- braska, whom Roosevelt in- troduced to the crowd at the station after his arrival from Washington as “father of Muscle Shoals” is preparing to push his bill for govern- ment operation next session. After the speech the party left by automobile to inspect the project. REVIVE ISSUE “WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.— Muscle Shoals, for 14 years this nation’s monumental effort in preparedness for war, seeks again pursuits of peace. ‘Foday President-elect Roose- velt and members of the Alabama and Tennessee delegations in con- are to visit the government's $150,000,000 munitions plant near Florence, Ala., whose possibilities of fertilizer and electric power pro- duction have been dormant for a decade. Views Differ On Usage Senator George W. Norris, Ne- braska progressive republican, also has been invited by the president- elect to make the inspetion trip. Norris long has advocatd govern- ment operation of the project, but his proposals have been defeated. The invitation to Norris is seen in some quarters as indicating that Mr. Roosevelt may favor federal operation of the power plant. Mr. Roosevelt, in his campaign, while stating that in general he favored private operation of utili- ties, left himself free to support ee A new effort to put to use the G long idle $15,000,000 Muscle Shoals project will get under way today when President-elect Roose- velt makes an inspection trip to the plant. He has invited George W. Norris (lower right) of Nebraska, an advocate of government opera- tion, to go with him. An airview of the project is shown. government ownership and opera~;duction of plant food and its offi- tion of certain utilities. Through three republican ad ministrations all attempts to make use of Wilson dam and its power and nitrate plants have been frus- trated by divergent views on whether the chief product should be cheap electric energy or low- cost fertilizer and whether it should be at the hands of private or public industry. Fertilizer-Making Opposed The last unsuccessful bill for dis- position of the property would have made it a giant fertilizer plant to be operated by heavily subsidized private interests if a lease could be obtained by the president within a year or by the! Muscle Shoals corporation of the United States an an alternative. Mr. Roosevelt’s inspection tour has re-awakened opposition of the National Fertilizer association to what it terms additional over-pro- ‘;cers have informed the president- elect that operation of Muscle hoals. for that. purpose. would be “uneconomical and unnecessary.” They assert that only Wilson dam and its power plant are mod- ern. The Sheffield steam plant, {built 14 years ago, was described as now practically obsolete; nitrate plant No, 1, which never made a pound of nitrogen as absolutely useless, and nitrate plant No. 2, as thoroughly obsolete in that it requires 16,000 k.w.h. of electric energy per ton of nitrogen fixed, whereas mgdern plants using the same process require only 9,000. As to the need for fertilizer, the president-elect has been told that domestic nitrogen production rate of consumption. At the time the Muscle Shoals nitrate plants were built they were the only ones in the United States. There now are nine private plants in operation. JAMES ROBERTS SIGNS STATEMENT ABOUT SLAYINGS NEGRO REITERATES STORY OF AFFAIR AS GIVEN YES- TERDAY; PRISONER’ AP- PEARED COOL James Roberts, fratricide and uxoricide, was again this morning asked by State Attorney George G. Brooks if he wished to main- tain the statement made yester- day as to the slayings Thursday at Tavernier and if he would sign a statement that he had killed his wife and father. On replying that he was ready a stenographer was secured and his entire statement taken down, It was later transcribed and signed by Roberts. He reiterated his statements of | yesterday that he was responsible } for the deaths of his father and wife but that Leroy Woods, the young man who was killed, met his death at the hands of the elder Roberts. Roberts appeared cool and col- lected during his statement and in- sisted that the slaying of his wife and father was done in self de- fense. | We Save You Money On Fimest Quality Replace- ment Parts For Your Car/) * s RSE Loa Smith Service Station White and Catherine Phone 522 | SAITO Sae aa 4 Cuban Scribe Takes Flight From Havana (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 21.—De- claring he had been marked for assassination by Cuban govegnment agents, Salva- dor Diaz Verson, 32, reporter for the Cuban newspaper, El Pais, has arrived from Ha- vana en route to Spain. F uddatutertiadeateuthen! ; Lester And Albury On Way To Tallahassee To Attend Bridge Hearing City Attorney J. Lancelot Les- ter and County Attorney William V. Albury left this morning over the highway en route to Tallahas- see where they go to attend the hearing on Wednesday before the Supreme Court of Rosenthal’s pe- tition relative to the franchise he claims to hold relative to the pro- posed highway bridges. Cuba Sails For Havana Carrying 72 Passengers The S. S. Cuba sailed this after- noon for na with 72 passen- gers. She arrived yesterday aft- erneon from Cuba with 56 passen- gers. Freighter Brazos, of the Clyde- Mallory line, arrived from Gal- veston last night with heavy car- fo, especially flour, for Key West. ments of cigars, live turtle seafood products. CHINESE TROOPS BOMBED TODAY BY JAPANESE PLANES ACTION TAKEN TO BREAK UP CONCENTRATION OF ARMY REPORTED TO NUMBER OF 33,000 MEN (By Associated Press) For the third time this week Japanese military planes bombed Chinese troops today in Kailu dis- trict in northeast Jehol province in an attempt to break up concen- trations of a reported army of 33,000. Heavy punishment was inflicted. Authoritative sources in Geneva The Kep West Citizen a eam omer cern ne neem For 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Thirty Persons Killed With Twenty Houses Destroyed In Explosion And Fire ln H. Drane Of Jacksonville Killed By Wife Following Anniversary Celebration (By Assoctated Preas) JACKSONVILLE, Jan. 21.—|that and get away with it,’ police An altercation that followed a}said Mrs. Drane told them. wedding anniversary party at their apartment early today resulted in the fatal shooting of H. W. Drane, automobile company accountant, and the serious wounding of his wife, Florence. Detectives said Mrs. Drane ad- mitted shooting her husband three times in the chest and then firing a bullet into her side in an at- tempt to commit suicide. “He slapped me and no man can do LOUISE KNIGHT GCES TO TRIAL THIS MORNING TWO JURORS THAT DO NOT BFLIEVE ON ENFORCE- “I’m glad I did it,” she claimed. The shooting occurred shortly after the departure of guests from the party given by the Dranes for friends. “Officers said Mrs. Drane gave no reason why her husband slap- ped her. The Dranes have been married 11 years and have no childrén, They came here recently from. Louisville. ONLY 300 AUTO TAGS SOLD UP TO THIS TIME GEORGE GOMEZ, AGENT, SAYS THIS IS NOT VERY GOOD _ MENT OF PROHIBITION LAW! SHOWING; NO MODIFICA- WERE EXCUSED FROM CASE Louise Knight, charged with un- lawful transportation of intoxicat- ing liquor, was placed on trial this morning in criminal court. There are five witnesses for the state. The defense has no witnesses, When the jury was selected and seated in the box, the necessary quizzing as to qualifications was started by County Solicitor J. F. Busto. One juror, George McDonald, stated that he did not believe in the enforcement of the prohibition laws. He said, however, that he could render a fair and impartial verdict according to the evidence and instructions from the court. Following this statement he wanted to know if the jury would be permitted to taste the liquid in the jugs that were in evidence and on which the charges were found- ed. He was told that he could smell the contents of the jugs but could not taste them. The juror than stated that it would be impossible to determine whether or not the jugs contained liquor and he believed that he would not make a good juror in the case. He was excused, another juror, Charles A. Ingra- ham, replied to the question as to the enforcement of the prohibition law that he did not believe in en- forcement of the prohibition law and he too was excused. After the quizzing was com- pleted by both the county solicitor and Attorney L, A. Harris, for the defense, the following jurors were found qualified: Oliver B. Rob- erts, Eugene Buckley, W. T. H. Boll, Leon C. Roberts, Will P. Roberts and Urban P. Bethel. TION OF LAW EXPECTED There have been but 300 state automobile tags sold in Monroe county since the office was open- ed in December. This, in the opinion of George Gomez, agent, is not a very good showing. Basing his figures on those of last year, Mr. Gomez _ estimates | that there are approximately 1200 vehicles of all kinds in the county, Just about one fourth of these have secured tags, leaving a bal- ance of 900 without the necessary license. January 31 is the last day on which tags can be purchased for the regular charge, says the agent. After that date an additional 25 percent of the original cost will be added. Asked if there was to be any modification of the rule, or if the date on which the 26 percent penalty goes into effect will be set back, Mr. Gomez replied that he was satisfied that after the last day of January the penalty ruling will be effective. Simmons Gets Hearing; Bond Ordered Reduced James Simmons, colored, was given a hearing before E. R. Lowe, justice of the peace, in the sher- iff’s office, charged with assault with intent to kill. He is alleged to have shot another negro, Leroy Henderson, at Long Key last Sum- day night. Henderson, who is in a_ local hospital, is pronounced out of danger by the attending physician. Simmons was first placed under bond of $2,500. Today Lowe re- The case went to the jury this | duced it to $1,000, afternoon and after brief consid- said the Japanese government re-| eration a verdict of not guilty was! Reg, Thomas McGrath League of Nations committee of 19 compromise proposals for con- ciliation of the Manchurian dis- pute. A rupture between the league jand Japan was considered im- jminent. The Chinese national gov- jernment was reported strengthen- ing military garrisons on the coast and in Great Yangtze Val- ley. Troops estimated in some quar- ters as numbering 1,000,000 were reported being sent into North ;China’s war zone. ANKIOUS TO RIDE } | PAULSBORO, N. J.—A poured on the ground and the woman remanded to jail. She is being held on a request from Dade county authorities, charged with disposing of a radio that is under a lien held by the jcompany making the sale. | VIENNA MAY RETURN | TO KEROSENE LAMP (My Associated Press) VIENNA, Jan, 21.—A return to the kerosene lamp is threatened in Vienna. Many householders have deciar- ‘ed their inability to pay rent on the The socialist majority in ure to abolish the moter rent. jected all essential points of the/ returned. The liquor was ordered! ‘ for-| electric meters, which in Austria; She arrived at 7:30 and} mer mayor of this city, John J.) is charged separately. |} sailed at 10:40 with large ship-| Vanneman, has been charged with H and stealing a hearse, going for ajcity council is sponsoring a meas-ishoes which he bought 28 years iride and wrecking it. the! field is still Arrives This Morning Rev. Thomas J. S. MeGrath, S. J., was an arrival over the East Coast this morning for a stay of one week as the guest of Rev. F. X. Dougherty, S. J., and Rev. A. L. Maureau, S. J,, of St. Mary's Star of the Sea church. During the coming week Rev. McGrath will deliver a series of! Holy Year Mission sermons in the! church. Two of the sermons to-| morrow, one at 7:30 each even-| ing during the week and two on! Sunday January 29, MADE OF GOOD LEATHER | ALBANY, Ore.—-Joe Wake*| wearing a pair of ago jand it is expected Mexico Chauffeur Lighting Lamp While Filling Gasoline Tank Resulted In Dis- aster (Ry Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, Jan. 21. —Latest advices today were that at least 30 per- sgns were killed in an ex- plosion and fire in More- lia, northwest of here, while 20 houses were also destroyed. The disaster was caused when a chauffeur lighted a lamp while filling a gaso- line tank of his car. The fire quickly spread to a nearby storehouse containing 60 cases of dynamite, Further advices relative to “are being awaited, and it is feared that possibly more than the number given were killed, while it is be- lieved that several were also injured. Bungalow Destroyed By Fire Early This Morning Fire, discovered at 2:20 o'clock this morning, completely destroy- ed the bungalow at the corner of Virginia and Fort streets. Ashes and a few sticks are all that is left. The rapid spread of the flames and the fact that the interior of the building was a seething fury when the department arrived in- dicates, it is said, that the fire was of incendiary origin. It is understood that the owner of the building is living in Cuba. Relief Workers Here Get Another Payday Today is another pay day for employees of the Emergency Re- lief Council of Key West. Dis- tribution of $509 is being made by Miss Marguerite Martinez and Arthur Sheppard. Names are being selected for the work to be started next week that several hundred men will be used on the projects now being carried out by the council. Key West Rotary Club tendered the council yesterday afternoon a check for $13, which resulted from the weekly collection made at the club luncheon on Thurs day. OLD STRUCTURE BOSTON.—A house built in this city in 1635 by Thomas Bird is still occupied by his descendants and is in goed condition. STRAND THEATER The Home Town Theater Today CALL HER SAVAGE See Page 3 for Reader on This Picture Matinee, 10-15¢e; Night, 15-25¢ MONROE THEATER MAN AGAINST WOMAN Matinee, 5-10c; Night,’ 10-206