The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 6, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 108. Kidnaped Child Restored To Parents:After Ransom. Of $80, 000 Js Turned In Rigid Sia aselion Con- | ducted To Ascertain Identity Of Abductors| Of Girl (By Associated Press) WOODS SHOLE, Mass., May 6.—Neil McMath, with his 10-year-old daughter Margaret restored to him unharmed: by kidnapers. to- day, continued to undergo rigid questioning by. state authorities which has. been in progress virtually un- interrupted since last night. Also being questioned with him aboard the coast- guard vessel were William Lee, McMath’s business as- sociate, Cyril Buck, Harwich garage man, and Harold Sawyer, resident of Har- wich. Authorities ‘sought by their questioning to deter- _mine what they know con- cerning the identit,; of the kidnapers who enticed the girl from school Tuesday (and whe restored her to her termine the exact location of the shack in which the child ‘was kepta prisoner and the source of Transom Money. 'S ARE MADE IN CASE * HARWICHPORT, May 6.— Kenneth and Cyril Buck, brothers, the latter one of those on the ‘boat “Bob” when kidnaped Mar- garet McMath was recovered, ‘were arrested today by state’ police. General Daniel Needham an- hounced ‘the Buck brothers were under arrest with Cyril as the go between and Kenneth as the man In the car who wore a black hood ‘when the, girl was restored to her. father. The Bucks were questioried fome time before their arrest was announced. In the course of questioning, N m said Kenneth admitted having had $10,000. Two other men are being sought, Needham said. Asked whether he believed the brothers were members of the kidnaping gang, he replied he be- Hieved it to be good assumption. DISTRIBUTION OF BIG SCHOOL FUND OVER HUNDRED AND SEVEN. TY-NINE THOUSAND PROVIDED and cowncil, and it was decided IECONOMIC L LEAGUE SUBMITS MATTERS BEFORE COUNCIL MAIN CONTENTION THAT OF OUTSIDERS DOING BUSI- NESS IN KEY WEST WITH. OUT PROPER LICENSE The city council at its regular meeting last night heard. several members of the Economic League of Mey West who addressed the meeting relative tg several mat- ters pertaining to the progress and welfare of the city. Among the speakers were E. A. Strunk, William Mendell, Chas. H. Ket- chum, Bernie Papy and Sebastian Cabrera, Jr. The main contention was that of outsiders coming here and do- ing business without a proper license in competition to the mer- chants of Key West who pay their’ licenses for the privilege of con-| ducting business, and it was stated that they felt that the home mer-| chant was not getting a square deal in this matter. It_ was brought to the attention; of the council that it was under-|” stood that there are a number of j persons selling different wares in Key West who have no - license for doing same, and the league requested the council to take the | cup’ th ' tor Ree ie if this be true, and if so to have the parties in question come forward and pay proper license the same as the other business people. here are compelled to do for the privilege of carrying on in their respective lines. : The’ tidtter of city scrip was also distussed between the league that both organizations cooperate in this matter in order that the issue may be made a success. Bus Matte: A proposal for. settlement of. the street bus controversy was) presented at the meeting by the Key West Electric Company, but! the matter was laid over until next week due to the fact that there was not a full membership’ present last night, Monsalvatge’ and Collins being absent from the meeting on account of othet duties. The proposal reads that for the consent of the city of Key West | to the entire abandonment of the! bus system of the Key West Elec. trie Company, the company will) agree to the following: Pay the company’s 1932 city taxes with city warrants and can- cel the balance of the city’s ine! debtedness to the company as of May 1, 1933, Reduce present rate to city for) street lighting from $23.16 per light per year to $19.00 per light} per year for a contract period of two years. Reduce the present general) lighting rate from 16.8¢ per kilo- watt hour to 15c, less 5 per cent} discount for prompt payment of bills. Reduce present service charge} of promotional residential service) jrate from $1.25 per month to $1.00, The company will agree to has} .KEY WEST. FLORIDA, CILER MAKER Lovers of thoroughbred horseflesh are flocking today to Chur: | hill Downs at Louisville for the fifty-ninth running of America’s great- est turf classic, the Kentucky Derby. More than 50,000 spectators were expected to watch a score of the country’s finest three-year- olds fight it out over the mile and a quarter route. If the experts are to be trusted, the winner should be found among the four can- SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1933. didates shown above. W. R. Coe’s Ladysm O, winner of the Florida Derby, has been Boilermaker is feared if for no other reason than his allegia the E. R. Bradley stable, which has produced three Derby winners. Tie Key West ~- For 58 Years Devoted to the — Best Interests of Key West uck’ Bomb Explosion : Havana Ki | FIGURES SHOW KEY WEST HAS DRY SPELL According to information obtained from G. S. Kennedy, official in charge at the local weather bureau, Key West is now experiencing an un- usually dry — spell. which started on November. 10. The total _ precipitation from that.date to May 6, in« clusive, was. 4-50 inches, while the normal. rainfall for that period should be 9.30 inches,/showing « deficiency of 4.80 inches for that period. The last dry spell prior to this was in 1926-27. The total precipitation for that period from November to i ive, was 3.75 inches, while the normal for that period should have been 17.62 inches, showing a deficiency of 13.87 inches. . Charley trongly backed, while to Sarada, an eastern colt owned by F. A. Griffith, established himself | ©" PP Oa aa” a “dark horse” by beating a group of Derby eligibles last week at Haves De Grace. OLD OFFICIALS REPORT ATTEMPT TOWARD ROBBING IRIOTING BREAKS | OUT ANEW AMONG | THIEVES TRIED TO ENTER; PLACE SITUATED AT COR- NER OF SIMONTON AND DI- VISION THIS MORNING Mickey Sawyer, night salesman | at the filling station at Division} and Simonton streets, made an un-} successful effort to capture two} thieves who attempted to break into the station early this morn-| ing. | About '4 o’clock Mickey was awakened by the barking of the; station dog. Looking around the} place he saw the ray of a flash; light the marauders were using to| locate the hooks on the door. | He armed himself with his pistol ; ' and went out of another door fol-| lowed by the dog. But the_rob-| bers saw them approaching and started running down | street towards Elizabeth. Realizing that he and his faith- ful dog were being outdistanced Mickey “decided that if he coul not overtake the fleeing men bullet could and. started pulling | the trigger of the revolver. | Snap! snap! snap! went the hammer byt no report followed. Around went the chamber twice with Mickey pulling the trigger | ‘hoping for one explosion. At last | his hopes were realized. But not} by an explosion. The gun went} off with a sound like a decadent} paper cap pistol. i One of the fleeing men turned! into Elizabeth street, the other sealed the Convent fence and dis-| appeared among the trees and Mickey, with his safety gun and the dog returned to the station. This morning The Citizen was! shown the gun by Mickey and Mr. ‘RELIEF NEEDS a SEEK TO PREVENT WORKERS FROM ENTERING SHOE FAC-| TORY WHEN WORKERS HAD CALLED STRIKE 1 | (By Assoctated Press) | LOWELL, Mass.,"May 6.—Riot-; ing broke out anew today as a} crowd of strikers sought to pre- vent workers from entering the Backer Brothers Shoe factory. Two men were arrested by po- lice who charged a crowd - that pelted automobiles, carrying work- ers, with stones and other missiles. Seventeen were arrested in sii ilar disturbances last night. It was the third serious one} since 8,500 shoe workers quit work recently. The shoe company announced it will close the plant permanently today and move from here. | i GROWING LESS! STATEMENT FOLLOWS SUR-| VEY OF AGENCIES ON | UNEMPLOY MENT . May “slight but definite apturn” President Roosevelt told the ber of commerce of the United! | States had been witnessed in most) {industries during the past few) weeks, apparently has already} 'BANDITS HOLD UP CATCHER OF “MANY: STRIKERS: “CHICAGO CHARLES BERRY OF SOX AND THREE OTHERS HELD PRISONERS WHILE) PLACE WAS RANSACKED (By Associated Preas) , CHICAGO, May 6.—Four shotgun bandits held Charles Berry, catcher for the Chicago White Sox, and three persons prisoners for more than two hours while they ransacked their apartment and escaped with jewelry valued at $1,500 and $150 in cash. The robbery occurred - in the apartment of Joseph other Comiskey, ot of the CONVICTED FOR SLAYING CHILD FOURTEEN WORK |PAUL OAKLEY SENTENCED) TO FIFTY YEARS IMPRISON. {TWO PROJECTS NOW UNDER MENT FOR CRIME IN CASE TRIED AT LINDEN, TEXAS (Hy Associated Press) LINDEN, Tex. May 6—Paul Oakley, self-styled “divine WHITE! ‘CONTINENTAL CONGRESS’ } } 1 | | heal-j tion are using 14 workmen. been reflected in the unemploy-}er” was convicted today of murder|aré employed on the \dence” will be drafted. URGE ECONOMIC RECONSTRUCTION NAMES ON SLAB AT COURT BLDG. é Se ee eineniasigs ah PROPOSED TO HAVE DATE ITS CONSTRUCTION CUT IN- TO MARBLE TO BE READILY DEMANDS RETURN OF CON-; VISIBLE TO PUBLIC TROL OF GOVERNMENT TO PEOPLE Visitors. 'té the county . court house frequently ask when the building was constructed. There is nothing readily apparent which indicates the date the structure was built, hence the inquiry. Just within the entrance to the hallway, on the left hand wall, is ja marble slab which carries the names of the county commission- ers at the time the building was completed, as follows: B. 8. Whalton, chairman F. R, Maloney Carlos Recio A. L. Pendelton L. Andrews T. J. Ashe, superintendent of Constryction But this slab docs not carry the year, 1890, in which the court house was built. The one place that this is shown is on the front of the building underneath the clock, but no one looks for a cont i struction date placed there. (ity Associa WASHINGTON, May "6—De- mands for return of control of the government to the people made to- day before a “continental gress of workers and farmers for economic reconstruction.” Delegates coming from farming; and manufacturing centers of} many states heard Norman Thomas socialist leader, Senator Frazier, North Dakota, and John Simpson, president of the Farmers’ Union, issue strong calls for immediate united action. The organizing committee said a “new declaration of indepen- con- Farm and unemployment relief, government ownership, civil liber-| Judge Hugh Gann will, at the ae banking and negroes’ rights | nett meeting of the, county com- | are some of subpects up for dis} inisgioners, suggest that a ~ stotie | cussion, j cutter be employed to cut the date jon the slab beneath the names of the commissioners. ON NAVY 48S GOOD RESUL WAY AT LOCAL NAVAL RESERVATION SEEDS ISSUED TO UNEMPLOY- ED BY GARDEN CLUB OF KEY WEST | Two projects at the naval sta- Six} submarine} Excellent results have | sale of beer in Mohroe Injuring Anvtine VIPS DOLD LM. Bon Dropped: Outside Of Newspaper Office Kill- ing Police Officer; Pass- erby Hurt é (By Associated Press) HAVANA, May 6.—Ter- rorist bombers struck again today killing a policeman terrific explosion outside the newspaper Heraldo De Cu- ba mangled Policeman Juan Fernandez. He died shortly afterward. Before his death he told authorities he went to pick up a package deposited pre- sumably by men seen speed- ing away in an automobile. The package exploded. A passerby, Mario Leal, was injured. The police seized a man who said he was Armando Leon. Another bomb exploded in the streets but no property damage was reported. ——--- - APPEAR IN CASE. OF LOST SAILOR ACTRESS TO BE CALLED UPON , To ‘TESTIFY ‘AT HEARING IN apa, INCASE, OF SAILBOAT CAPSIZING (My Associated Preand MANY LICENSES. TAX COLLECTOR SAYS ABOUT TWO HUNDRED WILL MAKE | hassee that he will need sbout 200 licenses to be issued for ferfeit any rights which. it Albertus. The cartridges show in held or now holds to do a street the identations made by the ham- jment relief situation many) in the slaying of Bernice Clayton, | base breakwater making ‘neces- tained by those whe planted birt (Ry Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 6. —The state department of public instruction today re- ported distribution of $179,. 431 in state funds te the pub- Vie school systems of the 67 counties. The money was provided from various funds provided IT’S TIME TO TUNE UP}! Your Car For Summer! Qaly Expert Workmes will toweh your car at Lou Smith Service Station White and Catherine Phone 522 railway or bus transportation business in the tity. Adopt Resolution * A resolution was adopted to} have our representatives in the legislature oppose a bill pending which would place the regulation mer Jee tite * 'G. GOMEZ LEAVES of the pistol, with the pro-} still in the sh ;of municipal utilities in the hands |* Jof the railroad commission. The! resolution sets out that it ix felt} that the various municipalities inl ithe state operating their own utili-| f, | ties are more capable of regulating, jsame than the railroad eemmis-' jsion, and therefore it was recom-/ ; mended that this power be left in’ ithe same hands. Thig action @as Jtaken in cooperation with ‘other | Florida cities who the! ‘assistance of the Key West body’ in this matter. FOR TALLAHASSEE. George Gomez left over the East Coast yesterday afternoon to, jJoin his father, Senator . Arthur Gomez, at Tallahassee and remain indefinitely. He was accompanied as ‘far = Fort Lauderdale by his - mother and wife, who will remain there until the legislatare o when they will return, panied by the senator. accom- high blood pressure. | need: WALLACE PINDER TAKEN ILL TODAY) j City Clerk Wallace Pinder was taken suddenly ii] just before poon teday while at his office in the city hall, and was later taken to his home. Mr. Pinder was isid up with a similar attack gust a. short time ago, which is said to be main); ' ear-old czipple, and sentenced | sary repairs and eight are employ-| table seeds issued to the unem >0 years imprisonment. Oakley's /ed on the painting program in the|ed by the Garden Club of nel announced that = motion] station proper. or a new trial will be filed, The provecution asked the death | » While the defense asked an acquittal on the ground of in- anity. It attempted to prove Oakley insane when he placed his’ bands on Bernice’s throat while; praying for her recovery — paralysis. Oakley contended “the devil a. him to choke her. orcas WEDDING NORTHAMPTON, the marriage of Eng. — i from in-} Ati Miss Ella Gun-/ ness and Ralph Foley, deaf mutes, ‘the projects. Approximately $406 to show her appreciation of this city, the bridesmaid and | will be expended for material and | some of ber small crop j>est man were alse deaf and dumb. | $900 for wages. | Weat. The openings and roof of the’ Persone having land that jnew administration building, for-,unplanted were provided merly the federal building, the these seeds, which were donated (roof of the marine barracks are iby the Kilgore company of Plant being given new counts of paint City, to the Garden Chub of Key and other structures on the sta-| West, and consisted of beans. cnr- jtion will be dressed up. ‘rots, collards, tabbeges, peppers, It is alse proposed te lay a new |tometoes and turnips. sewer line at the communication) Quite s number of folks s#- | reservation at the eastern end of cured the seeds from the club com- jth: island. And a new pipe line, | mittee and in most cases the vege- Connecting the two large cisterns tables came up within an exceed- ‘forming the main water supply at! ingly short time after sowing. ithe station, in to be installed. Mex. H. Wallace, of 1102 White Local workmen are to be em- (street. Way one of those whose Locsi workmen are employed on vegetables speedily matared and she gure the com- ‘mittee members of the club,