The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 26, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 99. Roosevelt And MacDonald End ~ Conference On World: Many Issues Of Great Im- portance Taken Up Dur- ing Recent Conversa- tons ——— Former Steel Establishment Of Sound Currencies Needed Says | Co. Head (Wy Annociated Press) PITTSBURGH, April James Farrell, former president of the United States Steel Corpora- tion, told the national foreign ‘grade council, today “we are in a ‘transition stage that promises sub- stantial -progress toward . interna- tional. understanding and settle- ment of major questions bearing on the world economic situation.” “Our manufacturers have not lost their skill or capacity to pro- duce on competitive cost basis,” Farrel said. “With revival of buying abroad our exports of fin- ished manufactures again will be in demand and will constitute the chief item of our export trade. The most presing need at the pres- ent is establishment of sound cur- rencies in all countries.” ADMIRAL BLUE'S SON “SKIPPER” FOR ROOSEVELT FRIENDS WARN HE BETTER HAD. KNOW HIS BUSINESS; PRESIDENT HIMSELF By HERBERT PLUMMER (iy Aunocinted Press) WASHINGTON, April 26.— Friends of a smiling young naval lieutefant in the capital are hav- ing a lot ‘of fun with him these days warning him to be on his guard when President. Roosevelt finds time to take to the sea. Lieut. John Stuart Blue, son of | the late Rear Admiral Victor Blue, chief of naval operations during a part of the world war, will be the president’s skipper. when the Sequoia shoves off from the Washington navy yard over we@k- ends for quiet cruises down the Potomac and along Chesapeake bay. The president’s knowledge of the sea and his ability as a sailor are well known. ? At Home Asea Mr. Roosevelt is versed in the of huge] technique of navigation, too. And | house, at the staticn and start! amounts of silver and aecordingly| that’s why young Blue is coming | in for kidding from his comrades. It would be rather embarrassing, they point out, for the commander- in-chief of the navy to. shoot a question at-him that he couldn’t answer. And he’s likely to do just that, 26.—} KEY WEST. FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 26, 1933. CONGRESS STILL ~ 'ROBERTS CASE RETAINS POWER. | NEARING END IN IN ALL ISSUES RUBBER STAMP IDEA PER- TAINING TO ROOSEVELT GRIP IS DISCREDITED IN VARIOUS QUARTERS { | ALL EVIDENCE IN. SHORTLY AFTER 10 O'CLOCK; JURY TO GET CASE SOMETIME THIS AFTERNOON By HERBERT PLUMMER i (By Annocinted Press) WASHINGTON, April Ever since President Roosevelt his father, will, in alk probability, embarked on his _ breath-taking} course in asking that his authority to deal with the “emergency” be} All evidence was in shortly aft- j broadened, a favorite topic on/er 10 o’clock this morning. The Capitol Hill has been that of how state introduced several witnesses congress has been steadily signing! who testified to finding the body away its powers. Deol par piri im the’ room as Hs z {to blood an e seeming attempt Demagyats. aswell. as. repablic| ies shacedliahot Rotiess aha jeans have sounded their warnings: Leroy Woods who was supposedly | Bat despite their expressed fears, | Killed at the-same time, —~ they have gone along with the, For/the defense there wete but president's requests. pees persons) called .. to. testify. | “He has asked for this bill ey aco Roberts, mother ofthe: ee j ape : ycused, and Dr. William, Warren, | be passed,” more than one has’ eyjjed’ as. an expert witness. oid | said, “and, so far as I am con-'had examined the accused as to i cerned, it shall be done.” jis phish aha mental condition. Tiss |G tiletaken ide over,|_ The mother testified that her tac patie et ace json had been throughout his child- ss “hood ~ a . weakling, subject to {gress has become a mere rubber | “seizures.” Had been attacked a ;stamp for the president during! number of times by epileptic fits these weeks since March 4, land shortly before the events at And nothing more clearly dem-| Tavernier had had one of these at- onstrated this fact than Roose-} tacks. velt’s sudden and dramatic sus-| Dr. Warren stated that the de- pension of the gold standard, fendant was of the moroni¢ type. Inflation Expected Of subnormal intelligence and an | It has been predicted by many| epileptic subject. He has high in close contact with congress, blood pressure and hardening of that some sort of currency infla-| the arteries, Asked by Mr. Brooks tion was inevitable. jif he could not find 100 persons To that small but insistent} daily on the streets of Key West group of inflationists, who for al og practically the mental capacity, long time have been advocating! the witness replied that he could, this move, there have been added} At the conclusion of Dr. War- slowly but surely increasing num-jren’s testimony the state — rested lana likewise the defense. bers. In private conversations, and in their public utterances on} After a brief rest court resum- the floor of both senate and house,| ed with Mr, Brooks beginning his the battle has gone on incessant-largument. He was follo' for, ly among those of this group. the def by Allan .B. “> plans sbmasthilige Weald kive Ni Attor’ Mir" Clouse conginded been done about inflation long ago|Mr. Malone took up the defense had it not been that nearly every-; case and continued until body was in accord in the belief} when recess was called, until that the president’s emergency | o’clock this afternono. proposals should be attended;,to} When court. resumed Mr. Ma- first. Get these absolutely neces-! lone resumed ‘his arguments and sary nieasures, out of the way, it, was followed by Mr. Brooks jwith was agreed, and then we will talk | the elosing argument. about inflation. | The confession of Roberts, part But consideration of the sub-|!of which was yesterday admitted ject. was, in the opinion of many, | in evidence by Judge Browne, was being too long delayed. Sentiment | used by both the defense and pro- {had grown tremendously, It was; secution in the arguments, The {bound to find expres: j prosecution endeavoring to show i A Bryanesque Warning |that the murder was done with And it came. | malice, a forethought and that the The narrow margin by which; confession was made by a sane the Wheeler amendment to the; man who was not coerced into farm bill, proposing the coinage of | making it. {silver at the old Bryan ratio of 16 The defense used the text of the {to 1, was defeated in the ‘senate confession to establish the claim j caused observers to sit up and | that no sane man would have jtake notice. Here was something | made such a confession unless un- to be reckoned with. |der pressure and also to establish |. Then 59 or so democrats of the | the plea of self defense which, in advocates of inflation, held connection with the plea of mental ja rump caucus, Presumably this; inferiority, the defense is endeav- | caucus was to organize opposition | oring to convince the jury is the | to stricter rules in the house pro- | incentive for the killing. | posed by the leadership. Its effect | {was to cause the leadership to| abandon such plans. (GOLD TREASURE The case of James _ Roberts, 26.—; colored, on trial for the murder of i go to the jury this afternono. republi- jon the wall, Mr. Roosevelt and his | advisers did see it, and acted. | | Nellie Tayloe Ross To Directorship Of U. S.. 1, However — He Learns (Of What Is Essentials Of Fourth Measure (By Associated ress) WASHINGTON, April 26. —The administration’s cred- it-currency expansion plan headed into the third day. of | debate in senate with leaders predicing certain passage either late today or tomor- row. Labor’s acceptance of fed- eral production control and opposition to minimum wage legislation was expressed be- fore the house labor commit- tee by William Green, pres- ident of the American Fed- eration of Labor. : The president (intends to name Nellie Tayloe Ross, for- mer governor of Wyoming, as Director of the Mint. Charles Adams of Arizona NAMED DEFENDANT IN ALIENATION SUIT OF $100,- 000 BY WIFE OF GARFIELD LEON, ACTOR (ly Ansoeiated Press) NEW YORK, April 26.— Mrs, Fay Webb Vallee, wife of Rudy Vallee, was named |. defendaat in 2 $100,000 alienation affections suit fil- ed today by Mrs. Kathleen Leon, wife of Garfield Leon, actor. to leave his wife. The sum- mons in the suit was served (By Associated Press) April 26. MANY CHANGES IN POLICIES OF NEW ADMINISTRATION . Ty manufacture and sale of 3.2 |IN INTERNATIONAL AS WELL! percent beer and wine, and AS DOMESTIC : |AFFAIRS,/ sent them to the governor for NEW REGIME DOES MANY|his signature. THINGS IN DIFFERENT WAY| The fourth bill passed by the senate, setting up 4 reg- (By BYRON PRICE) ulatory and taxing system for (Chief of Bureau, The Agsociated As the Washington conferences committee. with foreign statesmen proceed, it becomes more apparent daily ¥ that American ‘ foreign policy| Commended passage of the turned a long-to-be-remembered| beer and wine bills said, “f corner on March 4, 1933. In the international theatre, as : in domestic affairs, the new ad-|™Y. Signature from these ministration is attempting, funda- three plicated by depression and war made Per ye or sold in the state un- and the military epitit is rising. No one, til after the legislature emer- knows what spark may set off’ 6) gee from ite deadlock om the wo! ex] ion. Up to a certain point, the views| t@% and regulation bill. of Hoover and Roosevelt about’ Legislators predicted the this situation Both have locked with dread on! t&% and regulation bill will o possibility fen general be finally approved, and all 9 pparent con-; walion ot Gan ditheaio aft sping Our measures will become a the United States out of such a| law by the end of the week. Furthermore, both have cnvier| as one of the surest means of ens-| ing national irritations. But when it comes to practical methods of dealing with the prob-} lem, Mr. Hoover and Mr, Roose- 5 $600 WILL BE DISTRI- As Hoover Saw It bedi aes Will Defer Signing. Until. sideration by the house sub; — Governor Sholtz, who rec- will be forced to withhold Mr. Hoover's theory of the de-| BUTED TO MEN IN OPER- He applied an export gold em-(| on Mrs. Vallee April 7. stant thing. : ae oa ‘An incident the other day illus-|8P&o, with the implication that a trates this interest. At one of his|"™#naged “inflation” of the cur- bi-weekly conferences with the |Tency could be expected. press, he took time out to show, Congress had shown that it was i The handwriting was to be seen | i | definitely renched the part- j A few days earlier counsel for Vallee announced the | Vallees “have finally and pression was that it originated in ATIONS CARRIED OW - Another day of gladness for FIFTEEN THOUSAND POUNDS’ OF STERLING OFF HAMP- still in the saddle. ing of the ways.” i | workmen of the Emergency Relief Council is scheduled for tomorrow. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 26. | . oh —United States and Great| Britain lined up ‘today for SILVER PLAYS seven-point world economic GREAT ROLE IN Yecovery program embracing tariff reductions and higher NEW STAND _ President Roosevelt andj see Piles Minister MacDonald) (AX "o PROMINENT. PLA ended conversations with a} !NFLATIONARY MOVEMENT declaration of Dedctiaiadiog! RECENTLY (UNDERTAKEN on agreements to be sought BY NEW ADMINISTRATION at the June world economic | conference. Even as they; By J. R. BRACKET said . : (ity Associated Prens) aid goodby, American and}’ pw york, April 26.—Silver, French economic experts at-| once man’s princial money metal, tacked the problem has been east by its advocates for 3 The president and Mac-\#" important — oo ee Donald declared for an in| "0"! one, ‘he American Inflation: crease in the general level of} How might silver be used to commodity prices; reorgani- Ane prices, the object of infla- zation of commercial poli-| For many years before and for cies luction tari awhile after the more general oe + ved % of. ffes adoption of the gold standard, the quotas and exchange restric-| value of silver was set by law just ions; world expansion as the value of gold is defined. : 08 When silver was abandoned by r capital expenditures} the major nations, its value de- _governments to stimul:te clined because the demand for it) 5 as a currency support fell. i reestablishment of} Silver Extensive Money Base - & of more than’ -half the © 8 and improvement / of | population—China, India, Mexico and South American countries—is f dependent on silver. With the ‘ ae decline of the value of silver in f Sa AT J jgold standard countries, the trade | of :these, nations; with ,gold. stand- rl ard countries! has) béen (severely VAL STATION |22ait™ S - Silver advocates argue that it . Roe because it required more silver tombuy from the gold stand- » lard countries the money with x ye which to buy their products. PLANS ALSO CALL FOR tx] Thus any plan which raises the + | price of silver either by making ANG NEW SEWER LINE AT its money on a larger scale or by - (COMMUN holding it off the market is cal- FICATION RESERVA-| lated to benefit these countries. ‘TION AT END OF, ISLAND | Pe he gr a ego az ‘entative plans of e govern- : ment suggest the Lapereptamgs he A “9S lowing the debtors of the Unil ‘The commanding officer at Oe cates GO pay part of thele Gebta naval station has received approv-’ at Jeast in silver. ‘This would in- al of his plan to make necessary) volve ‘the purchase repairs s i painting some of the buildings. | # rise in tts mee of capone 4 The openings and roof of the tee eee SE: woe andar | countries. mew administration building, see Congressional advocates of sil- merly ‘the federal building, the) ver have ‘urged the use of silver reof of the marine barracks are to/ as a basis se — oe be given new coats. of paint:anit) With gold. This would b Tsing, 00. His interest in ships is a con- other structures on the station will] it for debt payments, be atressed up. Tf the currency had a silver If is also proposed to lay a new! backing, the government would Sewer line at the communication | have to nae pad just “ pil jon ut the eastern end of | Stores gold, fe removal of the?) om what he.deseribed as one of | the island. And a new pipe ilae) oe he ae = Ett the most humerous things he hac | connecting the two large cisterns! price were not set for it. observed in a long time. forming the main water sappiy at! The proposal for the coinage of the station is to be installed. {silver at atte means that ae H Lecal ere .| would be valued at one-sixteent plo: Exgeinaand te “ Approx. the value of gold, and that the imately $600 will be expended for Fovernment basse Tce piven materia! atte , offered and sell si dema: paee SP Ot t4e wanes. jat that price. The phrase “16 to The farther inflationary effect of encouraging the use of silver as money would be in lowering the '1” is simply a definition of the TENDER Ivy GOES j proposed value of silver. \value of each unit of money by, bay country in the days to come. | 1), , increasing the amount of money. The lighthouse tender Ivy att this morning. to install a new type SPECIAL SALE i ol burning refrigerator at Amer- jean Shoals light station Norge and Majestic Electric Refrigerators This type of ice making machine and refrigerator has been under Terms Low As $2 Down And $2 Weekly @ long test at the lighthouse ¢e- partment and meets with every J. L. STOWERS MUSIC COMPANY requirement, it is said. In the event that a lengthy trial proves of value to the comfert of the keepers and excellent in the prestrvation of food, other statio' that have no electrical connections will be provided with the ee) us. Holding up a newspaper clip- sercl rete” ANOTHER ATTEMPT ping, he pointed out a picture - | T0 ERECT LIGHT: a big ocean liner turned over al- most completely on its side, Then with glee, he read aloud the cap- j tion on the story: | “Tests on ship to be successful.” Many A Sail Ahead ' stabilizer Sead | CRRRATIONS TO BE STARTED’ SHORTLY ON SITE AT Incidentally, Lieutenant Blue as the president's skipper may prove to be the master pilot of the Po- tomac river and the Chesapeake | Down at the naval academy at | Annapolis, just a short distance; from the capital, a fleet of sail } boats, used as a part of the train- | ling given midshipmen, is anchor-| ed. Sailing is Mr. Roosevelt's fav-/ | orite method of enjoying the sea. | REACHES CHURCH BRAINERD, Minn.—The jig- saw juzale was used in church in | this city when the Reverend E. A. pres Baptist pastor, employed driven are already in place, and| squirrels whose mother lost her) a giant pussle throngs entering a church as a sermon il- lustration. SMITH’S SHOALS Another effort isto be made by lighthouse department ta es- tablish the lighthouse on Smith's Shoals. This will be the’ third time that work has started and forced to be discontinued because SHIRE OF BRITISH NAVY RECOVERED IN SALVAGE (By Associated Prens) j NEW YORK, April 26.— | Treasure in gold that has lain | at the bottom of the sea since. the British cruiser Hampshire sank with Earl Kitchener during the war, is being salvaged, said reports received here today. Advices said a salvage ship is working off West Orkney Islands apd brought to the surface 15,000 pounds of ster- ling in gold—first of the | | j i \ i | | | } | CUBAN POLICEMAN REPORTED DYING ANTI-GOVERMENT TERRORISM (iy Annnctated Prema of unfavorable weather conditions. The tender Poppy, with new en- gine recently installed, is now tak- ing op necessary equipment and as soon as weather permits will’ go to the shoals and start erecting a new working platform. } {| Seme of the disks through (which the wrought iron piling are! treasure in the Hampshire's strongboxes. Details of the salvage oper- ations were lacking. CAT ‘S SQUIRRELS METAMORA, Ind.—Four fox js soon as the platform is con-j life by tumbling from « tree have progress | been adopted by a cat belonging to Louis Baker, of this city. {structed the work will rapidly, it is expected. | | ST. LOUIS—A "Miss Alice Wilson was found in her mouth was arrested, : dollar WOUNDED IN ACTIVITIES OF | cent bystander, interested FED i a few men are to be paid. Tomorrow thers will be paid out was, so to speak, $660.45 which completes the dix- : i k r i ft 1 ir! : i f | i : E ? it if Es i