The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 31, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 77. Veteran Organizations ed In Proposed Cuts For Expenditures Five Different Bodies Called Into Conference At Treasury Depart- ment (By Amociated Press) -- WASHINGTON, © March 81.—Announcement of the Roosevelt administration’s plan for sweeping slashes in veteran expenditures was considered today by veteran organization officials to be imminent. The administration’s pro- gram for cuts in veterans’ expenditures, authorized by turus Bright Near Dipper FOUR KILLED IN AIRPLANE SMASH TODAY: CARRIED CHAMPION BASE- BALL TEAM OF CANADA;, MOTOR TROUBLE CAUSE OF MACHINE DESCENDING (ity Associated Press) NEODESHA, Kansas, 31.—A_ big. tri-motored private, March airplane, carrying a championship baseball team of Canada, crashed} near here today, costing the lives: of four occupants and seriously congress under the economy |injuring 10 other passengers. act, has been laid before five veterans’ organizations by Lewis Douglas, director of the budget. The five organizations called into conference at the treasury’s department were the American Legion, Dis- abled’ American War Vet- The plane, experiencing motor: trouble, plunged to the ground on! a meadow and was a twisted mass of wreckage, while en route from Tulsa, Okla., to Winnipeg, home} city of the Canadian Toilers team. The dead are: A. H. Hakes,| pilot; H. E. Eggens, co-pilot;) Mike Shea, member of the team,! and Jack O’Brien, Minneapolis,! owner of the plane. | 11,000,000 miles a minute. | position of Cape Horn. erans, United Spanish War Veterans, Disabled Emer- enty Officers Association and Veterans of Foreign Wars. At another conference with Douglas today, the or- ganizations discussed the changes in the program which it said would “go the entire limit” in paring down veteran expenditures. No definite figures of total cuts contemplated in.’ the plan had been arrived at. Veteran organization of- ficials described as “con- servative” the unofficial estimate that cuts might total $400,000,000 to $425,- 000,000. TALLAHASSEE PAY ROLL SHAKEN UP OLD AND FAITAFUL CITY EM. PLOYES REPLACED BY YOUNGER WORKERS The plane left Tulsa today where the team participated in ani international baseball series-wi the Tulsa Diamond: Oilers, bee States amateur champions. It flew lower over Neodesha and crashed shortly afterwards. WW. DEMERITT | MAKES REPORT ON DOVE MOVEMENTS SURVEY MADE COVERING MI- GRATORY ACTIVITIES FOR PERIOD OF MORE THAN TWO YEARS i | William W. Demeritt, who is as-| sisting the U. S. Biological Sur-} vey in studying the migratory; movements of mourning doves} yesterday afternoon sent his re-| port to Washington, D. C., cover-/ ing his activities during a period; of more than two years. Key West is known by the name! of Furthest South Station, as it! is the city furthest South in the} United States, and all records and | reports are so indicated. During the time Mr. Demeritt! has been banding and releasing} birds in Key West, he has cap- tured and given freedom to 706; doves, each one departing carry-| ing the small aluminum. ring on, one of its legs indicating where | caught. Of these some have been killed (Ny Agsoctnted Press) TALLAHASSEE, Fila. March 31.—True to the spirit of these | troubled times, the Tallahassee! in the vicinity of Key West, some} city payroll has undergone aj on the islands near this, others shakeup. Five of the city’s oldest] in different parts of Florida and and most faithful employes have; quite a few in far distant states. | been replaced by younger work-| Also there are some that have} ers. Of the five, one had worked] left and returned to be again! almost daily for 13 years; another) captured and released. 11 years; a third 10 years and the} The history of each bird shot or two others six years. They were} recaptured is carefully in the street department. are mules. HUSKY PRIESTS JOIN POLICE RIOT SQUADS | «my Andnciated Presa) MADRID, March 31.—The/ Spanish republic has two fighting priests of a new variety. Officials of the assault guards, organized as a six-foot, two-fisted and hose-armed riot reserve, an- nounced that the latest batch of recruits included a pair of husky clerics who were accepted promptly and sent out te drill. The officials said the priests enlisted because the republic had quit paying subsidies to the clergy. ‘ They} and the dates of banding and re-| } leasing goes into the record, mak- ing a voluminous set of records that were personally kept by Mr. | Demeritt and sent to Washington yesterday. Se FRESH TONIGHT Broccoli, Lettuce, Celery 10c New Potatoes, 4 lbs. 1S< String Beans, Tomatoes, Tur- nips, English Peas, Se Green Lima Beans, 2 Ibs. . 15¢ Carrots, Beets, Green Onions, bunch Se Fresh Strawberries, qt. 35¢ ORANGES, TANGERINES, GRAPEFRUIT and APPLES TIFT’S CASH GROCERY PHINE 675 } By ROBERT H. BAKER (Professor of Astronomy, versity of Illinois) URBANA, Ill, March 31.— | Arcturus, the star of the Chicags! World’s Fair—and the star whose’ light will help to open it—rises, almost directly in the east at, nightfall on April 1. Later in the evening it will bel ‘higher above the horizon and: ‘therefore easier to identify, - To find this brilliant reddish star} follow the curve of the handle of} ‘the Great Dipper downward and} around to the right. On the evening of June 1 the light of Arcturus focused by tele-! scopes at four observatories in} | different parts of the country on} iphoto-electric cells will provide: jthe electrical impulse required to turn on the light of the Chicago | fair. Forty years ago, while another fair was in progress tn Chicago, {this light that will arrive on June {1 started toward us from Arc-) iturus. Since that time it has been| speeding earthward as fast as) Just now it is less than a million mil-| lion miles away. Arcturus is the brightest star} of the constellation Bootes. Here we can see a_ striking, figure formed by the stars of this constellation; it resembles a knite,| or perhaps the outline of South) America with’ Arcturus in the; This kite Uni- i i figure rises on its side. There are other interesting sights to be seen in the evening; skies ofthe early spring. Most) conspicuous of all are’ the two planets 1 Mare and Jupiter, which Roosevelt Makes Ready For Employing Jobless | After Signing \ Measure (By Asnociated Press) ‘WASHINGTON, March 31.— President Roosevelt today made his ment program a law by signing the bill, while his aides rushed to thou- forest conservation-employ- make ready for enlis' sands from work. He directed the department of labor to supervise enrollment of the idle. Hearings on Roosevelt cities’ jobless for securi- ties bill were opened before the house interstate commerce mittee with a statement by Chair- man Rayburn that the “ public was tired of buying “a pig; in the poke.” The president took into his own hands the administration | farm bill summoning to confer-| | ence members of the senate agtt-| culture committee after they} failed to agree among themselves} on what to do with the bill. | The vast unemployment relief} problem was placed before the! labor conference by Secretary! Perkins. j The president, it was said in com- ‘investing recorded | high quarters, is to have decided) was received Wednesday and he! that the sale of new beer will be! allowed in army posts and naval) stores and canteens in the states which allow such sales. GIVEN HEARING { Carlos Perrer, charged with as- sault and battery on the person of ' Vera Lavong, was given a hearing in the court of Rogelio Gomez, jcompanied back to the Cuba KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1933. Star Beams Traveling Since 1893 Fair Will Tarn On Chicago Exposition Lights April Skies To See Arc- 1 i Bright in the April sky is the star Arcturus, rays from which will switch on the lights of the Chicago Century of Progress ex position. The rays, which will be “caught” by sensitive apparatus, started their earthward journey at the time of Chicago’s 1893 world’s fair. are not far from the familiar|ward journey among the stars. sickle of Leo. Mars will overtake Jupiter on Jupiter is the brighter of the | June 4, when these two bright ob- two and the farther toward the) jects very close together in the east. It is a fine object to ob-| west i in the early evening will at- serve with the telescope. | tract particular attention. Mars has been shifting ‘east-; In June also Venus will begin} - ward recently away from Jupiter, to add its greater luster~to the and toward Regulus, the bright’ starry scene in the west after sun- star at the end of the handle of set. This bright planet will cross the sickle. During April it will behind the sun into the evening turn around and resume its eag-! sky on April 21. MUNICIPAL BAND NEEDS FUNDS TO | PURCHASE MUSIC DECISION MADE AT MEETING LAST NIGHT TO INAUGU- RATE CAMPAIGN FOR SE- CURING NEEDED MONEY CUBAN REFUGEE DEPORTED WILL RETURN ‘HERE! At a well attended meeting of the municipal band, held last night in the San Carlos building, it was decided that an effort will BY] be made fo raise funds with which JORGE PEREZ DE ALDERATE ORDERED DEPORTED AUTHORITIES LEFT YES- to purchase new music for this | aggregation of musicians who are TERDAY ON CUBA | devoting their time toward fur- nishing Key West with much needed musical concerts, New members will be solicited refugee, who was ordered deport-| to join this band as soon as the by the immigration | music needed will have been j bought. An honorary membershipj {drive is now on, and with these} memberships it is expected to raise the funds needed. Mrs. Julia} — Sweeting has been authorized to solicit and collect for these hon- orary memberships. It is shown that members of| this band are not paid, are not} asking remuneration of any kind Judge Perez de Alderate, Cuban ed local authorities, and left on the Cuba yesterday, is expected to return this afternoon from Havana. Alderate, whose father is ployed in the Costa Rican consul- ate in Havana,-was detained on March 22 when he arrived from Havana, and was held pending an investigation of his case. whatsoever, but because of th eir He claimed that his life would] iove for music, and in the belief jbe endangered if he was sent back} t,4¢ Key West should have a band] to Cube. His case was ages | which will furnish musie at stated| jed. In the meantime the Cuba intervals in some public place for refugee colony in Key en took! the benefit of the public, are will- jup the gre met — sod lepart-| ing to give their time to this end. meat of labor in Rapa The band will revive community) The order for his deportation .i,cing under a song leader. This | commanity singing, which won | such popular favor some years! ago, will be featured at concerts) in the city park. A song leader| by | Mill be selected who will direct | *Yithe singing of popular songs also! } those songs which have come down | | eee the years, and with which! everyone is familiar. | ; em- was on the boat the same night; when he escaped and went to the | Cuban refugee colony. Realizing! the gravity of the case he was ac- friends. Shortly after leaving yesterday @ report was circulated that had jumped from the Cuba a suicided. Telegrams to the ship asking if this was true were denied iby Captain C. D. Harrington. The rumer arose, it is said, from threats made by Alderate that he} would kill himself before going back. Those who wish to assist this} band by becoming honorary mem-! bers may see Mrs. Sweeting, or| send their names to her and ed will visit them. ' BIG SURPRISE DANCE}, The Kep West Citwen For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Death Toll In Tornado Striking Three States Now Placed At 22. Court Rules Roy Lewin As Solvent; Must Pay Expense Of Witnesses | During Trial At a brief session of criminal | court this morning, following a re- cess ordered March 18, Judge J. Vining Harris revoked the order allowing the insolvency of Roy J. Lewin, as declared by him; at the! beginning of his trial for embezz- ‘lement on March 14. Judge Harris told The Citizen | that he made an investigation of | the situation and had discovered that the defendant at the time of his declaration was, and is now, solvent. In making his order the judge makes it incumbent on the defen- dant to pay the costs of witnesses summoned in his defense, and the amount to be saved the county will approximate $100. formed on Marth 30 that Roy J. Lewin at the time of filing the jinsolvency affidavit, owned, and | stidl owns, certain real estate in | Monroe county, Florida, and had, and now has, an interest in cer- }tain other real estate in Monroe | county assessed at approximately $1,500, and the court having been misinformed by the defendant’s | affidavit and representations as to his slovency: Now therefore and for. above reasons the judgment and order of insolvency heretofore made and entered is hereby revok- ed, rescinded and made of effect or virtue. And the court being satisfied that the defendant was the IRESIGNATION OF ;defendant placed ander a peace from Washington that the case of justice of the peace, this morning.| Within a few hours after the) The hearing was short as the| Cuba sailed orders were received'| TONIGHT AT CUBAN CLUB complaining witness wanted the by the local immigration bureau’ Given By Crew of S. 5. Cubs | : Music By Howard Wiken || bend. This was fixed at $100 and Aiderate would be reopened for costs, or jail, lanother investigation. i ADMISSION We The order reads in part as fol- pee is solvent, it is ordered and lows: Whereas the defendant at | adjudged that Roy J. Lewin at the the beginning of his trial filed ani time of filing his affidavit of in- affidavit of insolvency on the 14th! solvency was not insolvent and is day of March, 1933, at which time ; not insolvent now. the court was informed that the| A memorandum of some of the affidavit was true; and whereas | property owned by the defendant the court then and there after|and some in which he has an in- due consideration thereof adjudg-j terest was attached and made a ed. the defendant, Roy J. Lewin, | portion of the order and judgment. 2 "A wher hi soni ie snd ae «mater peptone Liggett Concern Operating | Great Chain Of Drug Stores | | Files Bankruptcy Petition (ny sencaueed Associated Preas) NEW YORK, March 31.; vuirndonatt to a resolution —A voluntary petition in; by the board of directors bankruptcy was filed in|adopted yesterday which federal court today on be-}sets forth the corporation half of the Louis K. Lig-;was unable to pay its gett Company which op-| debts in full and authoriz- erates a chain of 450 retail|ed its officers to execute drug’ stores in 35 states. {and file the bankruptcy Supreme Court ae Only Hope For Winnie Judd To Escape Death| (By Assocated Press) PHOENIX, March 31.—Still hopeful she may be spared from j death on the gallows, Mrs. Winnie | Ruth Judd pinned her last hope i tor life today on two possible GOVERNOR SHOLTZ MAKES! moves one by her attorneys and ANNOUNCEMENT TODAY | the ther by the warden of the | state. prison. AT CAPITAL CITY However, neither avenue of/ le -scape appeared likely to be avail- fable to the blonde murderess | whose date for exeeution ix set | for April 21 after the state pardon | board denied her cléeMency. | Her attorneys said an appeal/ fo the United States Sopreme | Court “seems to be the only poe | sibility” to save her from hanging, | They commented they have not | sufficient fonds to carry the case jeter that body. | | i | | {By Associated Preas) TALLAHASSEE, March 31.—Governor Sholtz today announced the acceptance of the resignation of Philip Youge, Pensacola member and chairman of the board of control. The resignation became effective tedey, but the gov- ernor will not immediately announce his successor. REMARRY AFTER 35 YEARS — ST. LOUIS—Mr. and Mrs. John F. Went, who were divorced thirty-five years ago, were remar- ried in this city. } i advertised that when the | Believed Oar Henired Or More Injured; Texas, Louisiana And Arkansas Sections Hit (By Associated Press) Tornadic winds, accom- panied by rain, hail and lightning, killed 22 persons in three states, late yester- day. ‘ The twisting _ terror swooped down on towns and villages in East Texas, North- western Louisiana and South- west Arkansas, and ap- parehtly blew out in North- eastern Louisiana. No accurate estimate of number of injured will be made, but reports over crip- pled communication chan- nels in the storm area in- dicated that more than 100 were hurt. No large cities ys were struck, The death list included five killed at Huntington, — Texas; two at Tex- as; five at bs cee ven- ter; four at San Augustine, f onadlsadpe Hall Summit, Holly, Arkansas. Reports indicate the storm first struck at Lindale on the edge of the East Texas oil field. STR. BRAZOS TO ARRIVE TONIGHT CUBA SAILS FOR HAVANA YESTERDAY WITH FEW PASSENGERS The steamship Cuba sailed yes- terday for Havana with seven passengers, The small passenger list is due, no doubt, to the: in. formation broadcast through the press that the Cuba woyld be tuk» en off the Key West-Cubu : Wednesday afternoon. é So. thoroughly was the matter Cuba left Havana Wednesday morning there was a crowd on the docks to way “adios” and many of the ships in the harbor sounded farewell with theic whisties. The passenger list of seven tak- eh by the Vessel on her trip yeu. terday consisted of five from Key West and two arrivals on the Ha- vana Special, Ferry Parrott arrived 4:20 o'clock yesterday from Cuba with 96 sacks of mail and four mis- cellaneous cars. Freighter Brazos of the Clyde- Mallory line, is due in port to- night from Galveston enroute to Charleston and New York, PLAYS PIANO 61 HOURS LONDON.--Prince MeBridey, athe yore musician of this elty, piano at the Olyinpian ballroom for 61 hours.