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

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 86. The Key West CitwBen For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West z KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 1933. PRICE FIVE CENTS eoccccccccccccece House Gets Bill: To Tax Wiley Believes Severe Wind Gust. Caused Akron. Sure It’s A Passing Fad, Jig-Saw MakersAgree, But Busy Presses Turn Out 30,000,000 Weekly 0000009000 00000000 9000000805067 SOCOSCOOD COOOL OS OODOOODOO OOS DOOSOOSOODOSOOOOOOOTOOOOOOES Beer With Revenue To Be To Crash Upon | High Sea, Survivor Testifies Before Naval Board Making Inquiry Of Great Dis- aster (My Associated Press) LAKEHURST, April 11. —Lieutenant Commander Herbert Wiley today told a naval board inquiring into the wreck of the Akron that ‘was caused by a gust of wind” a few seconds before the dirigible crashed which was caused by her tail striking the water. Wiley said he based his opinion on the fact he had not felt any wind blow through the control car, that |living—a natural tendency to obey Cialists used to claim they could) the ‘feel of shock” was dif- ferent from any he ever ex- perienced, and he would not be sure of the exact order in which events occurred just before he was washed out of the ship into the water. Wiley said he believed a down current of air pulled the dirigible in the center of terrific storm down to Wiley, who _ previously stated he did not believe the Akron was struck by light- ning, said she might have been struck without suffer- IMMENSE JEWFISH BROUGHT T0 PORT CAPTURED ON TRIP MADE TO SOUTHWEST KEY ON YACHT ANN Catching a jewfish 7 feet inches long and weighing 426 pounds was the experience of Ben- s| } By J. R. BRACKETT {By Asnociated Press) NEW YORK, April 11.—Ap- ie ~~ | proximately 30,000,000 jij ws WAS EDUCATOR OF, From a business devoted leaden PROMINENCE merely production of elaborate wood puzzles a few short months ago it has jumped to, mass {production of enough paper puz- |GREAT POET, WHO DIED YES- TERDAY, WAS SON OF PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER; BORN AT GERMANTOWN nominal jzles to bring about $1,500,000 weekly to manufacturers and an- ‘other $500,000 to $1,000,000 to retail distributors. Sales Drop—Rentals Rise Outdoor sports coming to fore now have reduced sales, say manufacturers, most of sas Nosnebneee’ Wiiese | whom are willing to admit the jig- PRINCETON, N. J., April 11. Saw is a fad; but while sales have Henry Van Dyke, who died yester- been failing, renting has incre: “severe! day, was undecided in his youth'ed. A large New York chain book} whether to become a preacher or a Store reports demand for the writer, eventually achieved prom- many-pieced wooden puzzles on a inence as both. rental basis. This chain has been In addition, he was an educator Tenting puzzles for 20 years at of note and - war-time United fees varying according to the States Minister to the Nether- Puzzle’s size, lands and Luxemburg. | dJig-saw puzzles are not jig-saws “The source of Van Dyke’s at all to expert sawyers who use versatility was his vitality,” a ® real jig-saw to cut the puzzle out friend of long standing said of of wood. Back in 1909 when there him. “He had a very real love of ‘Was another jig-saw craze, spe- | human impulses—and he followed recognize the saw work of various it.” jexperts, Now for the paper puz- The son of a Presbyterian min-'Zles only one puzzle is cut from ister, Dr. Van Dyke was born at wood: Into the crevices left by Germantown, Penn., November 10, the saw are fitted thin strips of 1852. He was descended from a Sharp-edged steel. Whdn the line of Hollanders who settled in Wood is removed there remains an New York in 1652, later genera- outline of steel which is placed in tions of which fought in the Revo-,@ machine resembling a printing jlutionary War, | press. The steel die is pressed Growing up in Brooklyn, to down on cardboard, cutting it in- which place his father had moved, ;to pieces. young Van Dyke early displayed Picture Is First Step some of the aggressiveness of his ancestors. It is related that ho | | to| the} jig-saw ¢ The first step in making puzzles + Turned Over To Schools — WOLKOWSKY TAX |Measure For Retaining PROBLEM CLOSED | Seventh Cent Gasoline BY GOVERNMENT] 1° Passes Howe Par- ing Day ALLOWANCES MADE FOR TES OVERPAYMENT AND EX- aBy Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, April 11. CESS ASSESSMENTS FOR THREE YEARS | —The House passed 63 to sored bill to retain the seventh cent gasoline tax, while the senate postponed consideration of the measure | By PAUL MAY Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen, ~ WASHINGTON, D. C., April 11, —A long drawn out tangle over lincome taxes of Frank Wolkow.| after fighting off amend- sky, administrator of the estate of A. Wolkowsky, of Key West, was| to take the revedue closed today when the government | from the state. allowed for overpayment and over-! The house received a bill to tax 1928 and 1929. legalized beer and wine and send Based on bank deposits in| the revenue to schools; to levy a ae. ene ae Pca Rev-/ general sales tax of two per cent enue claime . in taxes) j cases, The workmen at this stamping press is one of thousands busy turning out the nation’s estimated {plus $9,222 in interest. It wa: Rectincoess i beds fates 30,000,000 weekly jig-saw puzzles. The sketches illustrate the operrtion of the die press, after th |shown by the ‘taxpayer, however, | Yention for revision of the state blades are fitted into a base of the master jig-saw puzzle, as cut by the jig-saw tool. that the sums traced through the | Constitution, : ; ‘ : E Florida banks were not his, except} The senate received bills to tax is the selection or production of a;boxes are sealed by machinery and |for handling. 1 i | painting or drawing. This is|the job is completed. One New| The, fad brought. in its wake Astor fredorarg he already had re-| chain stores; to reduce salaries of jprinted and affixed to cardboard,;York puzzle plant. produces 3,- | small-sized boom to paper box” Phys the first step in the ad state officials; establish state debt parce 16 and 20 puzzles to Teal van ante one pacetecnee, ey ae estimat- justment was to allow the taxpay- funding commission and redistri <3 ational oduction at about|ing that in February the jig-saw 9 Hf These are cut into ones, twos or 30,000,000. ceteand: Wasirael audee walt ok er, $20,126 for an overpayment in| congressional units of the state, ;fours, depending on the size of the} Makers of ,the traditional saw- the newsboard purchase. Further. t,o tae healt hank : r $92 in The house also passed bills to |die-cutting machine to be used,'¢ut wood jig-saw experienced a!influence on the paper business !gtead of the $80,357 claimed by|2mend laws for suing out writs jand then are stamped out. G small boom about a year ago. A}came with the demand for the the bureau. For 19 4 of error,:and to clarify the law or machines break up the stamped ‘box-maker suggested a paper puz-|cagdboard from which the puzzles ‘was Seal tek a liabi ‘ sheet, feed the pieces through a‘zle to an advertiser and from then}wete cut and for lithographed Pic-| ¢37 402 had bee: hopper into a cardboard box. The on business came almost too fast'tures. ‘ ¥ vd iq i { i } jassessments in 1927, i payer. once attempted to “lick” an older y for baat a horse, The fencounter, wl disastrous- ly to himself, was avenged two ‘weeks later when he administered a drubbing to the same offender. Graduated In Brooklyn At 16, Dr. Van Dyke was grad- uated from the Brooklyn Polytech- nic Institute. He received his A. B, degree from Princeton in 1873 and was awarded the senior prize in English literature. Unable’ to) decide between — preaching. and | writing as a career, he regarded a course in theology as worthwhile in either vocation and_ entered Princeton Theological Seminary. After his graduation in 1877, he/| spent two years in post-graduate | (My Ausocinied Press) work at Berlin. | MIAMI, April 11.—Six automo- Returning to the United States bile loads of “men in white robes’ e was ordained a Presbyterian were hunted today as authoritie: minister in 1879. He tried to get sought a solution of the slaying o a country pastorate, but was un- Burton Willson, and the serious successful, Then he decided that wounding of R. F. Raulerson in a writing probably was his real voca- house here. tion, Neighbors said the SEARCH FOR GANG “CLAIMED TO HAVE SLAIN MIAMI MAN ALSO SERIOUSLY WOUND- ED ANOTHER | t men in vitation to supply the pulpit of the'and shortly afterward several United Congregational Church of ‘shots were fired. Willson, clutching ‘a pistol, was' B MIAMI ALLEGED TO HAVE) Immediately he received an in- jwhite robes drove up to the house, | The averpayment of $20, thus is listed as eligible for a fund claim in behalf of the tax. mie payer. The taxpayer’s victory grew out of the fact that he was| introduced a sales tax bill, esti- lable to show the large sums at- mated it would bring $15,000,000 tributed to him never were his and}@nnual revenue into the state ,that they formed no basis for the | treasury. 2 claim made against him. A beer and wine tax bill was in- It happens, however, in some|tréduced in the, house which is « “cases where the government loses, companion to the bill jout in such a tracing of bank de- legalizing 3.2 per cent beer and {Posits, the facts brought out aid| wines sent to. the finance and {revenue agents in getting a line} taxation committee. jon funds at first attributed to the} A bill to tax all retail stores wrong person, and all chain stores, was intro- As to other members of the! duced by Andrews of Greenville, | Wolkowsky’ family it was found to substitute for the 1931 act that Isaac and Freda made over-| which the supreme payments of $1,454 in 1928 phot pabocase held Beams} Bes . personal WASHINGTON, i 1 [Sgr $2,159 in 1929. Frank way, to Lower Matecumbe Key.|A complete program for a huge ly also paid too much taxes one The 50-foot arches have a head-\transportation regulation agency! year and too little the next, but WINNIE JUDD [ROPER PROGRAM ON NEW AGENCY To Legislative Action For | |s compLETED | Securing Prope r Franchise» TION REGULATION UNDER Now that the Florida supreme erly from Long Key is 0.71 ois! DEPARTMENT OF COM- Rosenthal from the bridges situa- {bridge providing a horizontal open- ing of 50 feet between fenders; 1 Corporation| mile of causeway; 0.34 mile of 25-foot arches; 0.72 mile of cause- tion; the Overseas (ty Associated Press) will take action at once to secure| needed legislation at Tallahass: } ‘room of 18 feet, and the 25-foot;under the commerce department the net result was in his favor, Soigalalcmemtsiens cota: 11 ‘has been completed by Secretary opening the way to a small refund |Roper and laid bfore President /in the final settlement. Roosevelt. | Under a set up as outlined te-' MIAMI CHILD EATS day in administration quarters, ; the interstate commerce commis- It is proposed, it is have the legislature pass bills 1° Other Sections From Grassy Key to Lower} |Partmert to grant the Overseas Matecumbe Key the proposed) |bridges and causeway are paralled ‘authorising the state highway de-| franchise ¢ Corporation a | with and 400 feet northerly of the sion would remain a separate unit! RAT POISON, WILL siasiee, elec APPEAL jamin Sawyer and a group of Newport, R. 1, which he accepted temple. retaining its quasi judicial func- who left Key West Satur- ‘on condition that he should not be found shot through the day afternoon, went to Southwest Key and returned yesterday, on Mr. Sawyer’s yacht, “The Ann’, In addition to the large jewfish the party took five others weigh- ing from:15 to 20 pounds, A num- ber of Nassau grouper, one weigh- ing 65 pounds, lots of muttonfish and pork fish and others, They also shot a number of birds, When the fishermen returned yesterday and tied up to the dock, the fish were shared among those who were assembled to meet them. Others were present and it is conservative estimate, said Eve! ett Rivas, to say that more than 75 families were meals from the catch. Joe Johnson was captain the guests of Mr. Sawyer Cleveland Niles, Nathan Phillip Niles, Jimmie Everett Rivas and Simon Creole. and Simon had the only mishap of the } trip, Mr. Rivas’ line caught on the!” mango roots and while he was try- ing to extricate it Simon fell over the side. Everett hauled him in- te the boat and did it so suddenly that Simon was jarred from head to heels. He sat down on thwart streams vf water running from his gotiden clothing. So disconsolate @id he seem from his ducking that the others laughed heartily. Simon looked at his friends and sai melancholy tone, tyou laughing at?” and no one re- plied. supplied . with] in. the (My Associmted Srex) DETROIT, April 11.—Wil- liam Metzger, 64, one of the best known figures in the to construct the bridges as plan-| Florida East Coast Railway bridges) tons while its administrative activi- TO SUPREME COURT; WILL j ei and causeways, with the fill sec-| tons w gs \tions, open arch construction, and'ties will be transferred to the new As soon as this is accomplished drawbridges located at right angle 98°". of ,offsets to corresponding sections} An — ns ged of ere . ‘of the exisiting railway bridges.|merce would preside over ai | $11,000,000 which has been pend-| po: Knight’s Key to No Name | transportation division with four | |ANOTHER REPORTED TO BE| BE REMOVED TO DEATH IN CRITICAL CON- CELL. IN SHORT TIME DITION ithe application for the toan (By Associated Presa) PHOENIX, April 11-—With but a day or so remaining before Winnie Ruth Judd is removed to the death cell, her attorneys today planned a direct appeal to the state supreme court for her re- jlease by a writ of habeas corpus. Mrs. Judd way sentenced to dis at dawn on April 21 for the “trunk murder” of Agnes Letwi. She lost another legal move yes- terday in a superior court deci- sion denying her a new trial. (By Asnoviated Preset MIAMI, April 11.—Jose- phine Blakeney, 3 years old, died today as the result of cating rat poison tablets in a belief they were candy drops. Her sister, Poyce, 17 months, who also ate the poison, ‘ an automobile borrowed for | tide. early days of the automobile mae Sis “jand Luxemburg. i with “Well, what are: dustry, died today after a lingering illness. He was one of the org ers of the Northern Motor Car Company and later one of the organizers of the old Cadillac Motor Car Company. ARRIVAL AT HOME OF ABREUS Mr, unce to them Saturday, their home in New York Mr. Abreu is a son of Pro and Mrs. Jose Abreu of this city, ‘and hie wife was formerly Miss Alvarez of Tampa. a candidate for permanent oc- Raulerson was wounded cupancy of the pulpit, Three weeks abdomen. later he was elected pastor of the’ Investigators have not determin: ily in debt and badly split up.” He -_——— said afterwards of the circum- stance, “A sense of duty took me' WW, by the back of the neck and said,! Stay here and tend to your job?” | TODAY IN DETRO! Accepts Pastorate | : cH In 1883 he was called to pastorate of the Brick Presby- ONE OF BEST KNOWN FIG. jand accepted with the provision ‘that he should stay not more than AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY five years.. He remained eighteen. resignation in 1900, and he ac-| |cepted a profess rship of English! Literature at Princeton Univer-| fof Woodrow Wilson, president of ithe university, and in 1913 Wil- as President of the United }States Minister to the Netherlands He remained in Ithat post until 1917, when he re- church which he had found “‘heav- ed the cause of the shooting. ‘He remained four years. the; ; > Zork ity | jterian Church of New York City URES IN EARLY DAYS OF | Overwork and ill health forced his sity. There he became a friend} appointed him | United (Continued on Page Four) STRAND THEATER NEW The Home Town Theater TODAY Double Feature CHRISTOPHER STRONG See Page 3 for Reader on This Picture also —— GIRL MISSING Matinee, 10-15e; Night 15-25¢ ee eu an- born at and Mrs, Gerard A he birth of a be Apr i -jof | | William Russell, colored, who} was arrested yesterday on a! charge of trespass, was given a} hearing this mornihg in court of Rogelio Gomez, justice of the! peace. He pleaded not guilty to the charge but the justice doubted, him and held him for trial at the; next term of criminal court. The judge told him that he did not believe that he would receive any punishm in criminal court.) That he believed he is one of the} class ef offenders known as a} peeping Tom”, and he was going} to see that he spent a while in jail/ before his trial. He fixed his $250, i jing before the Keconstruction Fi-|Key the proposed highway follows Separate units under him, each jislature, to present to the federal! provided by the railway bridges. construction starts, there will be; j OF THROWING UP jto complete. EN HEARING THIS Proceeding easterly from No }way; 0.11 mile of 25-foot arches; ‘bridge providing a horizontal open- ‘s -foot arches; 0.64 mile of ‘nance Corporation will be formal-', straight line, leaving the line of |headed by a director. iy made, it is understood. ithe railway, but providing prac- With a franchise granted by tically the same clearances :' BANK CASHIER | body along with the application, | i members of the Overseas Bridges | | {clear to sequre the loan. | jbetween 3,000 and 5,000 men em-| {ployed on the project which, it is HANDS | Plans For Project The plans show the following} |propesed causeway and concrete MORNING 0.4 mile of causeway ;! of 50-foot arches; 0.9 imile of causeway; 0.87 mile of 10.4 mile of causew 0.11 mile ‘oot arches; 0.69 mile of causeway; 6.14 miles of 50-foot ling of 106 feet between fenders;/ 0.74 mile of causeway, to Knigt Key. Easterly from Grasey Key causeway; 0.25 mile of arches; 1.5 miles of causeway; miles of 50-foot arches; 0.16 mile the state on authority of the leg-| navigation and tidal flow as are | i t When the loan is granted and | |SHOOTS AT BANDIT INSTEAD estimated, will require two veer? conpuan DEFENDANT GIV- jarchviaduct construction: }50-foot arches; 0.58 mile of cause- arches, including a swing draw- s 0.66 mile of causeway; 0.26 mile of causeway, to Long Key. East- bond at ASHEVILLE, Ala., April 11.—! Pulling out a pistol and firing in-j stead of obeying a command to throw up his hands, J. C. Dubois, | cashier, seriously wounded one of ; the two men who attempted to/ hold up a saving bank here to- | day. | Lieutenant H. J. McManus, U.; The men entered the bank and's ¥., who was stationed in Key asked Dubois to change a dollar West for two years, returned Yee and then drew a pistol. iterday from Guantanamo, Caba, Dubois shot one of them who gerompanied by Mrs. MeManos was not identified, and bis com- and their children, Sally and Mary/ NEW YORK, Apr. 11—-A dyna- panion fied in an automobile. = Patricia. The latter was born in mite explosion today wrecked the Key West. Hfront of the home of William | While awaiting the departure of Geisler, department of justice ithe train for Philadelphia where agent, engaged in confidential in- Pa.— the lieutenant. has been transfer-ivestigations here for the govern- ob red, they were entertained by ment. Hy a Captain and Mea C. D. Harring-| The blast did considerable dam- age, but no one was hert, Police ise without clues, FAMILY | 1S DYNAMITED SOJOURN IN | ae 1S DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AGENT AT NEW YORK (By Aesertated Prone) AY LAW VIOLATES SUND. BOHANG SPRINGS, After he violated the Sunday servance law by the mile of potind of butter, Arnold Garonsik ton and Mr. and Mra Ralph Boy- of this city, paid a fine of $9.70. den.