The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 11, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 60. Observance Of Day In Key An Outstanding Success Great Enthusiasm Mani- fested By Merchants And Citizens In General During Event “All Florida Doherty Day” in Key West was an epoch making event, all Key West is agreed. On|* every hand could be heard com- ments on the acti s displayed by the business men their patrons, displaying an enthusiasm that was not even anticipated in this time of financial distress. Several merchants who put on sales and agreed to give two per cent of the day's cash receipts, told The Citizen that they were! highly gratified with the results obtained and were sure that many others were elated over the suc- ess of the program. What the total of the two per cent All Florida advertising fund will be has not been determined as yet. The committee who visited the merchants are to again greet them and receive the results from the’ sales. The money collected will be turned over to Wm. R. Porter, chairman of the local committee, who will in turn remit it to Ed. C. _Romfh, president of the First Na- tional Bank ‘in Miami, and chair- man of the state committee in charge of the “All Florida Doherty Day” program. That the enthusiasm was not only among the merchants and their patrons was evidenced by the number of straight telegrams, day letters and night letters filed at the Western Union Telegraph Company's office and recorded by Manager G. D. Kirkland. There were about 70 of these sent to Mr. Doherty during Thurs- day night and Friday, expressing, in various ways, felicitations on{ the state-wide event, and hoping for a long life and great future for the famous developer. It was the intention of The Citizen to publish a list of names of those who sent the messages, but Manager Kirkland said that rules of the company forbade this proceeding, and though sorry he was forced to refuse. GROUNDED YACHT IS PULLED OFF The topsail schooner yacht ssida” with ©. V, Whitney and party on board was pulled in- to deep water 7:30 o’clock last night and left the harbor. This schooner went aground on Whitehead Spit Shoals yesterday morning while leaving port after} a stay of one week. Late yester- | day arrangements were made with} the F. E. C. tug de Carmo, and with but little effort the “Cres- sida” was released, LODGE TO ATTEND KNOWLES FUNERAL All members of Justice Temple No. 17, Pythian Sisters, are as ed | to meet at the corner of White} and Division streets Sunday after- noon 4 o'clock to attend the fun- Doherty West Proves By SIGRID ARNE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 11.— When the democratic caucus chose Rep. Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, for the new speaker of the house,! it unconsciously named an “as- sistant speaker.” Mrs. Ella Rainey for a quarter of a century has been her hus- band’s research secretary. Bills, pleas for welfare groups, reports from committees, pile high on her desk in the corner of her husband’s office every day, and by night they have gone “through the hopper” and are reduced by’ her to hundred-word reports to save the party leader’s time. Handles Many Interviews She is a tall, thin, gray-haired woman with a low voice that keps up a running fire in as many as three different conversations at} one time when the office becomes} crowded. “Come in, governor,” Mrs. | Rainey will start. “Here’s a farmer from Montana I want you! to meet.” She gets the two thrashing out a question and turns to a person wanting help for citi- zenship papers; a Boy Scout who wants her to talk at his club; a; woman’s club representative whol! wants world peace., Even the elevator men hardly! get to the capitol in advance of} the Raineys, who arrive carrying] books and brief cases. Night! usually has arrived before they leave. “Life is too interesting, too im- portant for anything but work,” says Mrs. Rainey. ‘When I first came here I was a good soldier! and made all the teas I was sup- posed to attend, wore white gloves and turned down my calling! cards, LOCAL CONVENT SISTER LEAVING KEY WEST SOON SISTER AMBROSE OF SIENNA GOING TO AFRICA; RECEP- TION AT CONVENT SUNDAY IN NATURE OF FAREWELL Friends of Sister- Ambrose of Sienna will meet at the convent at 4 o’clock Sunday afternoon to bid farewell to this beloved sister who will leave Tuesday, March 14, for Africa where she will be connect- ed with a mission established there by the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. Sister Ambrose came to Key West in 1893 which was in those days almost as far as going to Africa. She taught at the convent and at St. Joseph’s school for 15 years and left in 1908. She spent four years in Rome, N. Y., and one year at the Mother House; fourteen years as superior of St. Mary’s school, St. Boniface and St. | Jean’s convents. One year she was superior at St. Joseph’s Acad- emy, Amherstburg, Ontario, Can- ada, and returned to Key West in 1929 as superior at this con- vent. Sister Ambrose of Sienna was named for Africa about a month} i ago. When there was.a question But now—say, I got a new of opening a mission in Africa, a|¢0at this winter, the first time in large number of Sisters volurtteer-| 15 years, and one of my friends No Time For Farm be Key West Citen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1933. Death Toll From California Earthquake Now Reaches 132: Injured Placed Around 4,000 Mrs. Rainey Gets A New Job Too; She’ll Be ‘Assistant Speaker’ Now Two ‘Promotions’ In One Here Peecccccccvcccsosccccecoscces Rep. Henry T. Rainey’s selection as the new speaker of the house means a “promotion” for Mrs. Rainey too. She has been his research secretary for 25 years. in chil- playing the role/as wife of a ris-,as my excuse for ‘meddling’ ing nan she was known the es of other people’s to the news headlines. When she’ dren.” left college she was one of the} But the children enjoyed’ the first to use the words “social wel-' meddling. Every so often now a Her t began in'full-g’6wn man, grinning widely, boys’ gangs. She knew they would, will step into Mrs. Rainey’s office resent “teaching,” but felt that “amd announce, “Mrs. Rainey, I’m could be-done- witt.laudera/oncaf your. boys,and.. ’ve..got; ship in the right kind of recrea-; boys of my own now. Say, do you tion. So she pitched in. She;remember that game ” taught singing, read and even um-} Mrs. Rainey will have grabbed pired baseball games. his hand with both of hers, tears “You know, we have no chil nd in her eyes. Of course she dren,” she says, “and I use that remembers. “Key West lost one of its best} and ed to go and sent in their names| didn’t recognize me. to the Mother General. Six only} . “Back -home in Illinois we have: ago. These six sisters sailed for] would like to see more often, but) Africa in 1931. there is no time.” 3 Another group of Sisters will Long before Mrs. Rainey was} leave as soon as the navigation| __ x page Nie who labored among the people of WM. CATES HELD 3 Key West for nearly twenty years. Sister Ambrose’s untiring ef- forts will always live upon: the with kind and charitable deeds. WILLIAM W. DEMERITT PAYS Sister Ambrose will be accom- panied on the trip which will be by TRIBUTE TO LATE boat to Tampa, by Reverend Moth- CITIZEN Jesus and Mary, who has been visiting at the local convent since Feb, 27. From Tampa Sister Am-| Citizens and earnest workers when brose will go to Washington, D. sisters there. She will then go di- while discussing the death of the rect to Albany and report to the|™anager of the Key West Invest- Mother House where she will join | ment Company. her companions to sail for Africa, “In addition to his multifarious ell their, Gime. anton the natives | #ement of this compay and othe of that far away land. ‘interests, he was chairman of the It is requested that all those| local Red Cr Chapter who have known Sister Ambrose} worked continually to secure re- honor Sunday. said Mr, Demeritt. _ | Referring to the distribution of} MRS. DE ARMAS jclothes, the two consignments of le {flour that have been distributed; jthese aids to relief, as it was hej Mrs. Lydia de Armas, 74 years! who devoted his time to showing! of Pritchard’s Funeral Home.| Cates, Rev. Douglas of the Church of} | ' opens and among these will be our IN HIGH ESTEEM pages of memory, it is stated, and ec a er of Lourdes, provincial superior it lost William Cates,” said Wil- C.,, making a short trip in the cap- her new field of labor, where she | duties in connection with the man- during her years of service here} lief for the many in Key West |and the one now in storage in the} of age, died 7:40 o'clock tithe necessity of the government God, officiating. | COTTA TIAN | | | who was mainly responsible for } eral services were held this af-| went from Key West that did not] ternoon 3 o'clock from the Chapel! carry the signature of | were called upon a year and a half|a lovely 500 acre farm that we; loved and devoted Sister Ambrose her name will always be linked { t of the order of the Holy Names of . : liam W. Demeritt to The Citizen ital City to say good-bye to the and the other Sisters will devote will attend the reception in herj|who were and are in dire distress,” lighthouse building, Mr. Demeritt night at the residence of her S00, / ordering them to be sent to Key William | The sole survivor of jsaid that Mr. Cates was the one Joseph, 1119 Varela street. Fun-} West, and not one of the papers Armas is the son, Joseph. [EVERGREEN BIBLE VISITORS ENJOY FISHING OUTING LARGE CATCH MADE BY PAR- TY IN NEARBY WATERS ON THURSDAY SCHOOL CLASS HAS PROGRAM (By MAURIECE FELTON) The 9-B Class, under the direc-| tion of Mr alis, presented a pro- gram Thursday morning in cha The freshmen Bs. need to be ly complimented for their lent programs. They surely know how to make the other classes laugh and applaud. é Rev. Gekeler led the devotional by giving an excellent talk on} “Honesty, Courtesy and Integri- ty.” C. B. MeDougal, of Chicago, M. iN. Morrison, of Philadelphia, Lawrence Dougias and Albert Springer, of Duneden, Fla., made one of the biggest and best catches A piano solo by Elizabeth Schif- of the season yesterday while out fert. jtrolling for the big: feliows. A play entitled “Who’s Who in| the House Characters: Owen Ogden, Jo-} seph Richardson; Thelma, his wife, | Katherine Diaz; Bob Falley, Mal-| colm Sawyer; Etta, Bob's wife,| Edna Mae John The party was out in Mr. Me- yacht “Lillian” and un- der the guidance of Captain John Lopez started at once to get! strikes. These kept up until the members of the group were just tired enough to call it a day and return to port. When the “Lillian” docked the fish were placed on the rack at the CLASS ASSEMBLES cc See Dougal’s F.E showe amb . averaging 45 pounds, N ack grouper, yellow- nd mutton fish. out again today to meet*with the same The Evergreen Bible Cl First Meth and e teresting meeting Thursday after-| ., noon in the church annex. Follow-| es aia Sie ing the opening exercises there t mittees. The committee named to visit sick and shut ins, announced 193 visits during the month. | Readings were by Mesdames| Bertie Higgs, y Lundquist, 4 steamer Cuba arrived 4/ afternoon trom| ngers, four ns of freight. | church held an in- Alice Schetrer, Warre NO CHANGE IN STATUS ON BANK OPENING HERE W. R. PORTER SENDS TELE- GRAM TO SECRETARY OF For Be: a 53 Years Devoted to the st Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS ESTIMATED DAMAGE RUNS INTO TENS OF MIL- LIONS OF DOLLARS; TREMORS STRIKE HARDEST AT LONG BEACH; THREE KILLED IN AIRPLANE CRASH EN ROUTE TO STRICKEN AREA TO RENDER AID (By Associated Pressy LOS ANGELES, March 11.—Counting. the earth- TREASURY MAKING APPLI-| quake dead at 132 or more and the injured at about 4,000, CATION TO REOPEN INSTI-; and property damage in tens of millions, Southern Cali- fornia felt the aftermath today of the twenty-second major shock which struck at intervals last night and this TUTION Pursuant to instructions rela- tive to the opening of banks in the United States, William R. Porter, president of the First Na-! tional Bank, sent the morning. Long Beach, where the tremors struck the hardest, | reported at least 67 dead and 1,000 injured. Anaheim boulevard, extending almost two miles in- following; to the residential section, was the*hardest hit, scarcely a telegram to the secretary of the} building escaping without damage. Rehabilitation work started immediately with 2,000 treasury yesterday: ury, ington, D. C. The First National Bank of Key West does hereby apply to the secretary of the treas- ury, filing this as an applica- tion with the, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, for a license to reopen and conduct its usual business, subject to the ions prescribed by the of the treasury and, except as otherwise pro- hibited by law or regulation. FIRST NATIONAL BANK. Simultaneously with the send- ing of this telegram>a like mes- sage was sent to the Federal Re- serve Bank in Atlanta. In the opinion of Mr. Porter it will necessarily take some time before these permissions are granted, as it will be impossible for all banks to be permitted to open at the same time. { Considering the vast number of | banks in the United States, Mr.} Porter would not even make a guess as to what time permission will be granted, but said that im- mediately upon receiving the li- cense the First National would re- sume activities. LOCAL WEATHER OBSERVER MAY GET TRANSFER’ G. S. KENNEDY MAY RECEIVE} PROMOTION IN LINE OF DUTY IN CONNECTION | WITH PROPOSED CHANGES Ry PAUL MAY Washington Correspondent) of The Citizen i Spectal , WASHINGTON, D. C., March 12.—While some changes are ex-} pected in the weather service of! the agriculture department and| fine fish, barracudas,|the head of the bureau now past | ranto retirement age may go, it was in-} dicated today that ald S. Ken-| nedy, meteorologist at Key West, will be retained in the se } A change among the fore: it was said, might move Ken ly] possibly to some station wher the salary is above the $2,600 he| now receives. Under the economy | ruling he would not enjoy this in-| crease in salary, but it would go] To the Secretary of the Treas-/ men called to clean up the city. Les Angeles which counted five dead and an esti- mated 3,000 injured witnessed the crumbling of many brick walls, collapse of few old buildings and appearance of cracks in its new 28-story city hall. Seismologists said shocks might. continue for weeks. MIDIS SG Bam: EXTENDS FEDERAL AID TO SUFFERERS (ity Ananciated Press) WASHINGTON, March 11. —All possible federal assist- ance through the army, navy and public health was extended to C: earthquake sufferers today at the ‘order of President Roosevelt. California banks authorized to advance necessary to relieve the sed by the further were dis- earth. granted by the treasury. Services of the Red Cross were placed at the disposal of the Californians, and offi cials of that organization were dispatched to the scene by airplane. III ILI III aD COURT HEARS CASE AGAINST G. ROSENTHAL INGS IN QUO WARRANTO PROCEEDINGS AS YET Oral hearing in the quo war- instituted George J. Rosenthal, in proceedings against the state supreme court were held terday in Tallahassee. Judge Henry H. Taylor, of Mi- ami, argued the case for Dade and Monroe counties, with attor- neys J. Lancelot Lester and Wil-| liam V. Albury, present. When the findings of the court Make Report On Casualties From more than 100 communi- ties came reports of and damage in’ the most severe earthquake in modern history of Los Angeles and vicinity. Compton reported 13 dead and 150sinjareds Santa Ana, Hont—. ington Park, San Pedro, Wilming- ton, Belle Flower, Artesia, Her- mosa Beach, Garden Grove, Wal- nut Park and Norwalk had least one dead each. The search speeded casualties at Long Beach and other cities as debris was explored for many misving. Three jmien ‘were killed when, an airplane crashed as they were en route to Long Beach aid. With hundreds homeless and clustered in the park at Long Beach, the Salvation Army col- lected food and fuel for prepfr- ing meals. A deep fog settled in on the stricken city from the sea di shielded from view for a time gaping scars on wrecked buile ings. Governor Rolph assumed per- sonal charge of relief work, The United States fleet stationed pt San Pedro sent 4,000 marine and sailors ashore at Long Beach and San Pedro to assist in ho: pitalization, housing, feeding and sanitation measures. En and other hospitals, while ero ed, reported they were able lcare for the injured. Affects Richest Area Part of the richest area in California, covering a 200-mile [section and some 30 miles wide, | was shaken by the quakes. From the Mexican border to Santa Barbara, and from sea edast to | mountains, all Southern Califor nia was involved. More than 2,000,000 people were settled in the belt which in j cludes a $19,000,000 a year citru | industry, the heart of the motion | picture industry and the largest to render jnumber of homes of the wealthy Motion picture plants and heme of the wealthy in Beverly Hill on his record as a step up in| will be announced cannot be fore-| Hollywood, Pasadena, Altad grade and yield him the corre-j told. In the event that the deci- jand San Marino, were merely sponding pay when all such promo-' sion is favorable to Rosenthal, it\the fringe of the waver tions are again resumed. ed, are in classified service, and Secretary Wallace, following jhas not been decided what further) The forecasters, it was explain-| .+.4. will be taken by the coun-|¢ ties interested. Should the decision The blow of death and dest ion centered in a triangular re jgion with its apex in the cent SCENES IN MIAMI eral of Mrs. May Knowles which! the} will be held in Ley Memorial/ church, at 4:30 o'clock, it was an- nounced today, NEW ARRIVAL AT GONZALEZ HOME News has been received in Key \ West announcing the birth of al \2pound boy to Mrs, Kathlene Gonzaler er home in Tampa. Mra. Gonzalez was formerly} iss Grace Barroso of this city. 4 of thelof Los Angeles and extending supreme body be favorable to the southwest through industrial cen Overseas Bridge Corporation, the) ters of Southern California application for the loan to con-| In the center it went right dow {struct the bridges will be at once! to the heart of the industrial vec made to the Reconstruction Fi-j tion, embracing numerous com nance Corporati | munities and dealing with each in Attorneys Le and Albury! greater severity, with the wor jretarned to Key West on the Ha-: havoc in Long Beach. vana Special today. |- The name of Gomez Home} Tonight UNEXCELLED SERVICE | swore was inadvertently omitted Leu Smith Service Station| in sini roll of sent oat CUBAN CLUB Music by Howard Wilson tive to advertising merchants pab-} White and Catherine Sts. ‘lished in yesterday's issue, d yester-| policy of Secretary Hyde and oth- ck f Havana! ers of recent years including Wal- | With 10 passengers from Tampa | jace’s father, is expected to con-| jand 34 from Key West, also 392jtinue those who are engaged in sacks of mail. such technical work as “guessing what the weather will be.” Care-/ ful calculation from the reports from all stations, and thus will e Lodge | make all changes gradually. Elks, are re- lodge room} at 4:30 p. m.,! ttending the rother, E. B.| | ' APPRECIATION | | } is fail to express my preciation to Mr, Bradley - fing, agent of the Peninsular Life }Insvrance Company, for the cour- jteous and kind service rendered during the illness and after the death of my husband, William Cates. He arranged everything ith the insurance Pe ular and amount in ap- NOTICE, B. P. 0. ELKS Key West 5 AO Photo flashes of the tempted assassination Pr t Roosevelt, at time president-elect, by Gui- seppe Zangara, soon to be electroceted, and his shoot- ing of Mayor Cermak, of Ch 0, who subsequently died, as well as other stirring scenes of the event, will be shown at the Strand Theater tonight. at- of the ANIMAL KINGDOM See Page 3 for Reader on This Picture gegen LUXURY LINER Matinee, 10-1Se; Night, 15-25< MONROE THEATER THE LONE DEFENDER Matinee, 5-10c; Night, 10-20 ee mm BANK HOLIDAYS ; LRG TRG CS ECON 8 | NAME OMITTED w nh On the proof of shall never Virginia St. MRS. WILLIAM CATES. eral of our late bi Freyberg. By order of the Exalted Ruler. G. W. GOSHORN, Secretary. receiving ie jeath. His kindness be forgotten. jmaril-it