The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 14, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 89. Florida House Passes Beer. Bill: Vote Cast On Measure 72 To 20 Bill To Legalize Beverage Will Be Sent To Senate Now For Its Considera- tion (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, April 14. —The house today passed 12 to 20 the compromise bill to legalize the manufacture and sale of beer and wine in| Florida, and also by a vote of 80 to 7 a measure setting up a tax schedule on the manufacture and sale of beverages. The bills now go to the senate where the beer and wine bill . were introduced several days ago. Passage of the beverage bills followed only a brief debate. Minor corrective amendments were made. ‘ The house defeated an amend- ment by Representative Sapp of Bay county, calling for a county local option provision in a bill to legalize beer and wine. © It.voted down a proposal of Representative Worth of — Hills- borough, to’ call for a state-wide sen veves: at such time as the ‘naeali bill, year will be given to the public free school fund. The senate received another judicial recireniting pill, adopted; resolution memorializing congress; to retain the present protective| petition with Florida. fruits and tariff on produce sold in com- vegetables, and, adjourned until Monday after holding a short executive. session assumably to consi appointments to the highwa; commission made wre-| viously by the governor. * * The beverage legalization bill establishes beer and wine of 3.2 per cent aleoholic content as non- intoxicating and medicinal. ALFONSO GOMEZ + NOW IRONING ‘UNDER TREATMENT AT HOs- PITAL IN ST. AUGUS- TINE Alfonso Gomek, who is treatment in the F. E. C, hospital in St. Augustine, is greatly im- proved and shows steady gains daily. Ben Gardner, who came in from St. Augustine today, The Citizen that Mr. Gomez om sisite remem “8s MAN KILLS THREE, friends in Key West and to tell them that he is getting along nicely*and hopes to be back in a short while, He is being taken out for rides into the country by a friend of Senator Gomez who goes to the hospital daily. COUNCIL TO TAKE There will be a mecting of the city council held tonigh? 8 o'clock at which time the matter of issu- ing city serip will be taken up. The scrip and stamps are now in! possession of the city authorities, | who are making ready to put out the first issue. } FOR EASTER same $1201 _ $1.20)! ROSES, dozen ...... SOUTH FLORIDA NURSERY PHONE 598 EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE SUNDAY AT BAYVIEW PARK' EXCELLENT PROGRAM Easter sunrise service which is in Park will open at 6:04 morning. The Reverend E. Rich- featured annually Bayview of the service which will be par- REVEREND RICHARD EVANS’ OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH TO BE IN CHARGE; |" Sunday! ard Evans, pastor of the Congre-| gational church, will be in charge Tie Key West Citizen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1933. War Debts Pivotal At White House Meet peove By FRANK I. WELLER (By Associated Press) The subject promises to be brought into the discussions here participated in by President Roose- velt, Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain, Edouard Herriot of France and the representatives of other powers which have been ;signed to insure success of ° this summer’s big gathering at’ London. Debtors ‘Key Nations’ There would be no contractual |relation between debt readjust- ment and such world economic problems as tariffs, import quota restrictions, money and exchange \limitations and similar More than 60 nations will be rep- ented at the world conference. The war debtors, however, in- \ clude. key nations in the économic log jam and it appears to be the ‘thought of the Roosevelt adminis- | tration that new accords on debts ‘might be bartered for new policies on trade, For example, Secre- tary of State Hull in all his state- }ments on the subject consistent- tly has linked war debts with tar- iffs. The administration is eager for the success of the world economic jconference, particularly in de- ticipated in by representatives of | stroying trade barriers. Secretary the various churehes+in this city. ‘The program’ includes an invoca- tion by the Reverend S. W. Rog- ers. Hymn—*All Hail to The Pow-) er of Jesus Name.” Scripture Lesson — Reverend Holmes Logan, pastor Ley Mem- orial church. Prayer—Reverend W. P. Page, pastor of First Baptist church. Hymn—*Christ Arose.” etna ~nevernnd John GC. Gekeler, pastor First Presbyterian church. _ Hymn—“‘Jesus)Shall Reign.’ ve 3 nediction—Reveréhd (J. “1. Coulliette, pastor Fleming " Street Methodist church. The public is invited to attend this beautiful service to be held in bho itch Nan Park. ‘RELIEF WORKEE WORKERS NOW NUMBER 322 THAT MANY ARE ENGAGED| IN OPERATIONS HERE © | TODAY ‘There are 322 men working to- Hull has indicated that if a new policy is to be adopted on debts, the debtor nations must agree in principle on questions to come be- fore the London gathering. That implies to some observers that debt negotiations might be held with any of the interested, nations which would agree to trade recip- rocity. Debt Held Uncertainty The idea would be to allow the debto: aio appear at London ready to join “an international movement for destruction of trade barriers, without any handicap due to un- certainty as to debt payments. A lowering of United..5) tariffs is I'this pidture becatise is the practice of a debtor nation GIVE TESTIMONY IN BRIBERY CASE TRIED IN MOSCOW WITNESSES TELL OF DIFFER- ENT AMOUNTS PAID; CRIMES AGAINST SOVIET STATE BY ENGINEERS | asked to take part in the talks de-| puzzles. | Laying Basis For World Economic Parley U.S.S.R. $37,953,006 WAR DEBT PRINCIPAL DUE U.S. 2,627, 580,891 [$11,506,501,456. | i | Likely to prove a pressing problem in the approaching White H dent Roosevelt; on the one hand, and representatives of foreign gov: the war debts, held by many to be a barrier to economic recovery. T| the obligation is divided as to debtors’ to Uncle Sam, the bars below outstanding, as to the major debt ors, and as a whole. to_meet its obligations by taxing;set the obstruction wrecking fha- the wealth created by the sale ofjchine in motion, goods and services to the creditor.| .The amount due under the re- This country’s foreign trade was ‘funding arrangements of the valued at only $992,217,000. for! [post-war years totalled $22,143,- the eight months ending with Feb- |539, 993 spread over a period of 60! ruary whereas it Was $83,680,142,,| years, $10,621,185,993 of the to- 000 for the same period in 1929.) tal being intere: The administration appears to! Eleven Billions Unpaid believe that much of this loss could| * Down to date, including pay- be regained if all nations cooper-| ments prior to the funding agree- d_to tear down, trade barriers. dgnents, debtor nations haye:paid_a debt situation would be a lever to| $443,310,743 was principal and THREE HUNDRED PASSENGERS ON TRAIN AND SHIP Two or Three ING WERE ENROUTE TO HAe| VANA TO SPEND EASTER| HOLIDAYS (By Assoc! WASHINGTON, April 14. —Secretary Perkins, who Public Works Program lemkatarct os ricer. ani To Start in 5 Months OF PINEAPPLES ON FERRY BOAT | ARRIVAL OF PRODUCTS OF- FICALLY OPENS SEASON IN KEY WEST; TRANSFERRED AT F. E. C, YARDS } With the arrival of three car~ 5 {loads of pineapples, 1440 crates, on the ferry Parrott yesterday } afternoon, the season for 1933 | was officially started. What amount of, fruit will be shipped through this port this sea- son has not been learned, as the ! shipments will depend entirely on ; | the markets of the north. | Last year with a wonderful crop {in Cuba, the pineapple season was ouse co:versations between Presi- 4 short one. Shortly after the ernmerts, on the other, is that of | shipments began the market he map shows how the principal of (slumped and thousands of pine- indicating the amounts paid and toe , rotted on the forms. in Towards the end of the m some of the finest kind of ruit was sold for 1 cent each. William Monsalvatge has been Most. of these payments .came Prsccrei tees tot ~ \from loans which American inter-| handled by the Florida East Coast: ests made to Germany so fons! Baila. out of Key West this | country could meet its.reparations | .eason. ‘$1,230,926,551 interest. The pri if cipal still“ owing totals $11,598,-\* 501,453. When these loans were halted, the Lausanne conferences of last sum- mer agreed to cut German sare tiong about. 90 payments to the former = wo percent, subject to. itlit considers its handling of the! total of $2,627,680,897, of which| success of debt negotiations ta ithe United States. | Bilin ted Preas> {from Washington that a. shipment, ed by an administration farm) of clothing, for which request was nned made several weeks ago, has been Sat pie by . Senator ordered: sent at once. : For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West ~ "Wired From Bombs. __Exploding In Havana (THREE CARLOADS | Troops Called Out To Stamp Out Terrorism; Revolutionists Give Warning Of “Red Week” (By Associated Press) HAVANA, April 14-— Troops were called out to after 17 bomb explosions jured several others. The blasts came on heels of several ietters to the police, that yesterday would start “Red Week in Havana.” Cavalry was called out after police started a round- while throughout ‘the city automobiles we Si ele sll day on the two and three day! (By Associated Press) schedule of the Emergency Relief} MOSCOW, April 14.—Russian Corporation and 125 one day men/| testimony to support charges of are to be put to work tomorrow.| bribery and sabotage, were pre- Since work started on the pro-| sented today at the trial ‘of six jects in April more men have been British engineers accused of high be to work than at any other | ¢Times against the Soviet state. time since ‘the allotments were! One Witness told of taking a made! by the state council. bribe of $1,500 from L. C, Thorn- When-the ore day men have! %”. one of the defendants. : finished their daytomorrow af-| Another said he had been paid ternoon, practically every man on| $500 by William MacDonald, an- Costigan, democrat of Colo- The list includes 12 dozen hose The F. E. C. line and the P. and| | for weeks had been working |0. S. S. company were very busy} at suidlday. hauslilig the more than| Om @m employment program 300 passengers who wefe enroute | | for President Roosevelt, said ito Havana for the Easter holidays. When the Florida arrived “| sia it is possible to start a Tampa this morning she had ap- { $2, 000,000,000 or® $3,000,- proximately 60 passengers most of | {whom were going to Cuba. The} 000 public works {noon train brought 257 for the| boat and a large number for Key} program within four or five months. for infants, 48 dozen hose for rado in an amendment he | iris, Oi ‘dontn’ tans' fe wale, offers to the bill. 18 dozen work hose and 24 dozen lightweight hose for men. An investigation into the Shite ark ak does ile far refusal of North Carolina, | infants, 24 dozen waist » suits, Georgia, Alabama and South | *"0't, 18 dozen union suits, short, {for boys, eight dozen union suits Carolina to permit railroads: | for women, 12 doten bloomers and) to continue surcharges al 12 dozet-vests for. women, For men there was shipped Guemci deltas; ty Goat Rice will close the series of meet- ings which have been held in the Methodist churches of the city under} the unemployed list will. haye| ther defendant. worked. Pay day will be the early part of next week it was learned and Nordwell paid him $2,500 and gave him a fur coat to damage a } A third witness said — Charles; the distribution of money will be|‘tTbine at the power plant, the largest that has taken place ‘lene Monroe Council was “ BRAZOS DUE T0 ARRIVE TONIGHT CUBA SAILS YESTERDAY vee HAVANA WITH 22 PASSENGERS POISONS HIMSELF MAN COMMITTING DEEDS WAS RECENTLY RELEAS- ED FROM ASYLUM Freighter Brazos will arrive tal aa from. Galveston. She wil take on cargo of 1334 cases < }sea food products, cigars and sponges and sail for Charleston Jersey, April 14.—Joseph [and New York. Kencek, 50, recently released | The S. S. Cuba sailed yester- from the asylum, today shot j| day for Havana with 22 passen- to death his wife and two gers and 246 sacks of mail. childrey and then fatally | Ferry Parrott returned from] poisoned himself. | Havana yesterday with three canal Asother daughter, Rose, of pineapples, one car of horses, 16, was shot and seriously (with attendant, one car of mail wounded. jand six miscellaneous cars. } See erermee sti seornets Yacht Kex, of New York, with} |. WANTED: CLEAN FACES |owner, F. L. Martin and party, | : arrived this morning and is berth- MADRID. —in a recent beauty ed at the Porter Dock Company. j coutest in this city, the Spanish) Power boat C. W. Powers, of] officials compelied the contest- | the Thompson Fish Company, ar-! ants to wash their faces with soap! rived in port this morning from} jane water before they agpearéd | Collier City and discharged cargo} at the judges’ stand, ut the Mallory dock. INSPECTORSOF = West. | ‘The railroad is now running the} first of the series of excursions at| one cent a mile and the P. and O. S. S. company announces greatly reduced rates on special-days. As it is the intention of both; companies to put on these reduced | rates at intervals througohut the summer, it is reasonable to con- clude, says the management, that | traffic by boat and rail will be; greatly increased through Key West during the season. | SHIPS ARRIVE) i 3. R. Blair, U. inspector of | hulls and J. W. Sullivan, U. 8, in- spector of boilers, arrived on the | Florida this morning from Tampa! and will inspect vessels of the P. and O. S, S. company. } Tomorrow they will take pas-| sage on the Cuba, remain in Ha-j vana over Sunday and complete in- | specting that ship. Returning they} ‘will inspect the Florida and leave Tuesday for Tampa. | | PRE-EASTER KABARET) TONIGHT At Qver-Sea Hotel Ballroom }) 10—Big Acts—10 ' Under Direction of Mra Virgil | Cordero—9 p. m. Till 3 a m jj ADMISSION _. 50 An effort to include sugar | beets and sugar cane in a rate of just a fraction more than! basic commodities was cover-! mission. freight bills was ordered by, | the i interstate commerce com- | dozen union suits, short, 12 dozen|been delivered by this earnest, trousers, nine dozen overalls andj able preacher in these meetings ithree dozen jumpers. For boys, caused hundreds of people to 12 dozen knickers, nine dozen ie | overalls and three dozen play suits South Carolina Signs Beer GENERAL A. AMES DIES LAST NIGHT | LAST OF GENERAL OFFICERS} OF WAR BETWEEN STATES (Ty Associated Prenat ORMOND BEACH, April 14.—The last of the general officers of the War Between the States, General Adelbert Ames, 97, West Point's oldest surviving graduate and for- mer golfing <companio: of John D. Rockefeller, died at bis home here late last night. He was in good health un- til yesterday when he was saddenly stricken. ra or coveralls, j The general assortment of ;goods shipped include 270 ‘blankets, 90 comforters and 204 | Yards of bed shooting, Governor Measure Today (By Associated Press) COLUMBIA, April e { |} Governor Blackwood today; 14.—) (LEGAL PRODUCT RETURNING | signed the beer act legal-| izing sales of beer and wine. fof 8.2 per cent alcoholic! lcukemt in South Carolina’ \for the first time in 16 yoage:| | ‘The measure was ratified iby the legislature after the | | house with roars of “ayes” | jeoncurred in’ the senate | measure. THIRTEEN ALL AROUND of a family of 13, were 13 yrars old Friday, the 13th. IOWA NOW MAKES 'BOY look forward to this last hour when Dr. Rice will speak on “The Meaning of the Sacramept” and aa per,” Rev. John G. Stradley, min- ister of this church, states. ARRIVES AT