The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 8, 1933, Page 1

Associated Preis Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 109. Big Conflagration In 400 Persons Homeless Damage From Blaze Is Estimated At Million And Half Dollars; In- (Hy Associated Prens> ELLSWORTH, Maine, May 8,—Fire believed by ted at’ $1,500,- Dawn today showed JAMES ROBERTS - ARRAIGNED FOR SECOND TRIAL CHARGED WITH HAVING MUR- DERED WIFE WITH LARGE KNIFE KNOWN AS MA. ‘ CHETE; PLEAD NOT GUILTY} It required expert testimony to place ‘James Roberts, Jr., colored, ‘on trial for his life in circuit court this morning. Roberts claimed to be too ill to stand trial. The court decided that there blackened desolate area was a possibility Roberts was where approximately 175j)malingering and sent for Dr. business houses and resi-| Warren to make an examination. U. S. Forestr: Plan ots Nation’s Map With645 Camps Ellsworth, Me., Makes 200 MEN TO EACH CAMP EXCEPT LOUISIANA (2 CAMPS- 800 MEN)-AND: SOUTH DAKOTA (3 CAMPS;—3600 MEN) The government's far-flung der way with the first of the rec tribution of the camps by states. (By Asaocinted Presa) The Bev West C ain KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 8, 1933. | program for relief of unemployment through forestry camps is un- en or Jobless Aid Beer Becomes Legal lh Flo : For e 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West ‘Today As Governor: THREE LICENSES FOR BEER HERE ISSUED TODAY. ONE WHOLESALER MAKES APPLICATION; PRODUCT CAN BE PURCHASED AT THREE DIFFERENT PLACES Three beer licenses were issued | from the office of Frank H. Ladd, tax collector this morning. Just three retailers made application and these were all granted li- censes. Therefore there are three places in Key West where beer can be legally sold. One wholesale application was received from a big AMERICAN LEGION MAKES READY FOR CONVENTION TRIP MAKES REPORT ONGANIZA- TION OF AUXILIARY; LA- DIES TO HOLD MEETING ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON A unit of the American Legion Auxiliary was organized recently and attached to Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, department of Flor- ida, the American Legion in this city, with the following charter members: Mrs. J. G; Piodela, Mrs, W. J. Kemp, Mrs. W. J. Scho- neck, Mrs. H, E. Day, Mrs, GC, E. McCoy, Mrs. C. P. Hogeboom, Mrs. Francis L, Simpson, Mrs. W. S. Office Of Chief Executive: Jammed With Specta- tors As Signature Is Affixed (ty Ansaclated Press) May 8. ufacture and sale of 3.2 beer, wine and like beverages became legal in Florida today when Gover- nor Sholtz signed five acts of the current legislature, giv- ing the state its. first. legal beverage in more than 14 years. Three of the new laws legalized and declared non- intoxicating all beverages |and he will receive his tomorrow, it is expected. The necessity of having to furnish bond, which must for 10,000 recruits, to. take third, of pack horses will be needed in| 5 approved by the state, caused ruits moving into some of the 645 camps. | The map shows the dis. dences stood. Approximately 400 reii- dents were left homele and the Red Cross cared for them. National guardsmen from Bar Harbor arrived to assist im guarding the area. The blaze started in & frame storehouse and quick- | 18 SENT TO HOUSE; EN CONSIDERATION —-- VARI. ¥e (iy Ansocinten Peena) WASHINGTON, May 8.—Quick ministration’s half million relief senate approval was given today to a conference report on the ad- bill and it was sent to the house for final congressional action. The senate finance committee ‘Spproved a compromise on the con- troversal electricity tax providing for a two percent levy on produc- ‘ars of domestic and commercial ‘energy and one percent tex on in. dustrial users beginning Septem-| ber 1. Favorable report on the nomina- tion of Robert Gore, publisher of newspapers at Fort Lauderdale, Deland and Daytona Beach to be governor of Puerto Rico was or- dered by the senate territories committee after a brief hearing. President Roosevelt. nominated Pat Malloy, Tulsa lawyer, as as. sistant attorney-general and Rich- ard Thomas, Kentucky, as district judge of the Panama canal zone. The nomination of George Hoff- men to be Federal attorney for the northern district of Florida was referred to a subcommittee. Unqualified agreement of Bel- gium to a tariff truce as proposed hy the United States was announc- ed by Under-secretary Phillips af- ter a conference with Relgian representatives, He did so and pronounced Roberts suffering slightly from a minor } ailment, but physically fit to at- tend court. The prisoner was brought inte court and soon after his arrival Attorney W. Curry Harris made a motion to quash the indictment of murder, on a technicality. This was denied. The attorney then made a mo- tion to postpone the trial on grounds that the attorneys for the defense, Mr. Curry, Allan B. Cleare, Jr. and J, Y. Porter, IV, had not been supplied with a bill of particulars, setting forth the ‘@xact number and nature ‘of the’ wounds. This was denied. A motion was then made by the defense that due to lack of the said bill of particulars the defense was not ready at present for trial and the defense did not care to plead to the indictment; and asked for a\postponement. This motion was, denied.’ The prisoner was arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the charge of killing his wife, Hazel Louise Roberts, with a large knife, known as & machete, on the 19th day of January, 1933. Selecting a jury took up the time of the court at the morning session. The entire venire of 40 drawn last week and a_ special venire of 10 others were drawn before the panel as completed. Members of the jury are Eu zene R. Albury, Jr., Robert J. Saund- ers, Harry Lester, Walter Saund- ers, Herbert Betancourt, Ramon . Rivas, Hamilton Pinder, Edward Fernandez, Louis Maloney, Omer Perez, Hilary F. Whalton, Ralph R, Russell. GEORGE GOMEZ GETS NEW JOB | APPOINTED LICENSE INSPEC-) TOR OF BEER AND WINE Geurge Gomez, son of Senator Arthur Gomez, has been appoint- ed license inspector of beer and wine licenses for Monree, Dade, Hendry and Collier counties and! will take up his duties at once. Mr, Gomez arrived on the Ha- vana Special today from Tallahas-! see, stopping in St. Augustine to visit his uncle, Alfonso Gomez, in the F. EB. C. hospital, who he sa) is improving satisfactorily. Miami being the largest city in} the territory to which Mr. Gomes has been assigned he will leave: } WASHINGTON, May 8.—Al- place. some localities, In Minnesota,| the delay. ready into 148 national forests is| moving the. vanguard of. Uncle; Sam’s ‘youthful army—i29,999} strong—encamping as part of his’ conservation corps to follow ies! went rugged lumberjacks of old. Six hundred and forty-five; camps, in woodlands covering | more than 160,000,000 acres, will; harbor these recruits, seeking to| build up forests thinned by husky; logging predecessors. The camps will dot 31 staiea| with the far west viding. the setting for most of them. Califor- wnie’s-166. cataps.and: 33,200 placing het in the country’s van- guard. Oregon, with 66: camps prepared for 18,000 occupants, places second, and the national forests of Idaho offer 50 camps Texas, the largest state, has no| Wisconsin and Michigan, canoes; national forest, and, therefore, no} often will be pressed into ‘service camp of this kind. The same ap-jfor lake and river travel. plies to Rhode Island, the smal- It won’t be easy, but the life of lest_state. these new “foresters” will be in The midwestern group has Kan-|decided contrast with the punish- | sas, North Dakota, Iowa, Missouri,|ing routine of the logger of other Illinois, Indiana and Ohio not} “ys. _ He worked long hours in represented in the natural forest ae antes Loses Sate Weert $ weather seven days a week, and, contingent. The Empire state] subsisted on heavy food, pretty of New York is also among the much the same. missing as are Massachusetts, Con-; Now comes the 1933 reertit, necticut, Maryland, New Jersey,|culled from the ranks of the un- Delaware and Kentucky. employed, from everything from Modes of travel from one site hat to tooth paste given him. He to another-‘as the work progresses -Wwill_work.a.maximum-of 40 hours, will vary. In the south and east|five days each week for six; forest roads are well enough deve-| months, and in the warmer. period ; loped to make movement by motor’ of the-year. And he is promised} truck practical. In Idaho and) the “squarest” of meals and plenty other mountainous states, trains of recreation. MAKES MOVE T0 LEVY SALES TAX “FOR SCHOOL FUND RESOLUTION INTRODUCED IN HOUSE TODAY; GOVERNOR is Nor IN FAVOR OF PRO- POSED MEASURE { } i | (My Asnocinted Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 8.—Flor- ida’s eonstitution will be amended to permit the legislature to levy a three percent general sales tax:for the benefit of publie schools if the } legislature and-voters approve a! resolution introduced in the house today by Rogers, of Broward. If adopted by the legislature the proposed amendment will be sub-| mitted to the electorate at a gen-| eral election next year. | Governor Sholtz declared re- peatedly he will veto the general} COUNCIL PASSES | WILCOX WORKS TO HAVE SUBS BEER ORDINANCE: OPERATE HERE ELECTRIC| CONGRESSMAN HAVING _IN., a ‘ TEREST OF KEY WEST AT HEART TO CARRY FIGHT BEFORE NAVAL COMMITTEE: ALSQ ACCEPTS COMPANY'S PROPOSAL ON BUS FRANCHISE special | afternoon, The city council at a meeting held this passed an ordinance on its first z : By. PAvL MAY reading authorizing the sale Of | Spretat Washington Correspondent 3.2 percent beer and fixing aj. WASHINGTON. MMey 8.—Con.! tae ri - af ae municipal — fe sea greseman Mark Wilcox will carry thereof, and providing pres ar his fight to have the submarine 7. | feet stationed at Key West dort The amount of license tax re. ee See ths before the e 7 ‘ quired of all manufacturers, £2} house committee. on naval affairs tributors and dealers for the sale|on Monday or Tuesday. of the product was placed at 50) Wilcox’s proposal that under which said sales conducted. Key ‘ed to Applicants for licenses must go before Judge Hugh Gunn and fill out the regular application sup- plied from Tallahassee. This must be attested to by a notary public. The applicant must take oath that he isa citizen of the United States, that he is over the age of 21 and has never been convicted of any crime involving moral turp- itude. If a firm applies, the ap- plicant must make the same de- position regarding himself and the members of the organization. After this is signed and sealed by the notary public, it is present- e tax collector, who in turn app! it and to the best of his he or she is fit to re- ceive # license. The application carries on the back a schedule ‘license charg- es that can be readily understood by anyone applying, Here: is set forth the charge for practical- ly any line 6f business from man- ufacturer to retajler. Hotels, clubs, boats, restaurants, stores, shops and smaller places of business. There is no fixed levy for coun- ties, the law providing that the county may levy a county tax not to exceed 50 percent of the state license tax. ° In Monroe the county’s levy is just 50 percent of the state. tax. As an explanitory example of this charge, a restaurant with ac- comodations for 15 to 49 persons is charged by the state $35 and Moore, Mrs, R. C. Skelton and Mrs. D. -R. Mangum, At the election of officers, the following ladies were elected to guide the unit for the current containing not more than 3.2 per cent alcohol by weight. They repealed all year: Mrs. J. G, Piodela, president; Mrs. W. J, Kemp, vice president; Mrs. R. C, Skelton, secretary and treasurer; Mrs. C. P, Hogeboom, chaplain, and Mrs. C. E. MeCoy, sergeant at arms. Mrs. Mary E. Day was elected historian and pub- lieity agent. The president of the department of Florida, Mrs. Katherine: T: Smith, and the department secre- tary, Miss Ruth MeLya, stopped over enroute to the Havana con- vention on Friday. 5, and installed the ‘officers, and gaye them ‘in- structions in their. duties. <The. over their. work and lof keeping this. very phrase of veterans’ work active and before the public, it is stated. A special meeting has been called |for Friday. afternoon at 4 o'clock for the purpose of setting the days and hours. of) the, lof the unit, and all % othérs, eligible, for °-membr are ufged’ to ‘atterid.\)” | ments are to be made for the | py sale on Poppy Day, May 27, and also for the Memorial Day exer- cises at this time. Mrs. D, H, Mangum was. un- ‘animously chosen as delegate to the Havana convention, and will leave on the 5. 8. Florida May 9. |. The following delegates of | Arthur Sawyer Post No, 28, Amer- lican Legion, are to attend the con- vention to be held in at the legion hall, by the president, |. conflicting laws. The fourth statute set up a system of regulation and taxation. It imposed a state tax of six cents a gallon off against the sale to persons under 18, : ‘The fifth new *law per- ited advertising of legal. voters in November, 1934, Havana, the county $17.50 making a total/Cuba on the 10, 11 and 12 of the| general election, and if rati- of $52.50. - To this must be added, in a case present month, and have received instructions from the post as to fied will become effective as the above, another 50 percent) action to be taken while there that} only in the event national for the city bringing the total to $70. The city council this after- noon ruled that whatever the charge made by the state, the city will charge 50 pereent of that amount, Tt is known that a large num- ber of potential vendors of beer were waiting until the city council announced the cost of the muni- are important to the legion as @ whole and the ong ory int of Flori- da in particular: Post Arms Will Gomez, and alternates. The Drum and Bugle Corps, of the local post, are to leave Tues- day night on the motor vessel per cent of the amount required! West be use as a winter base for| cipal license before they will apply ' Heron. and will atrive in Havana by the laws of Florida, The ordinance in question takes care of all requirements pertain-| the fleet is now under considera- tion by President Roosevelt. He jed by the county commission, stat) jeomptrotier and sales tax bill if passed atthe cur-jing to the sale of beer in Key ssid he would go before the naval} rent session, hut he hag ng veto} West, and will become a law when | committee in the belief that their} power over proposed constitution- | it is passed tomorrow on its second | endorsement would cause the chief al amendments. third and fin. reading, as the | exec ti ive hi While the senate was in recess} council will meet tomorrow morn. itive to give bis proposal even until 4 o'clock, the house voted in| ing for that purpose. more consideration than might favor of a bill to allow the trans-| The council also accepted the! otherwise be the case. fer of county budget funds. when-i Key Wact Electric Company's pro-| He will suggest that the com- ever surplus exists in one item. {posal for discontinuance of bus, mittee recommend an executive Such transfer is to be ar dori] service in Key West, the details; order affecting the change rather of which were published in The) than the introduction of legisla- Citizen on Saturday afternoon. j tion, he said. county budget commission, AMERICAN CULTURE GAINS FROM PACTS eee | Congressman Vinson, chairman | of the committee, has granted him ta hearing before the committee, FLORIDABRINGS =< ALBURY SPONSORS 3 MONROE BILLS ALL MEASURES VERY IM- PORTANT TO THIS SEC- TION (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 8.— Wednesday morning. Among the important legislation jcoming up at this convention will prohibition is repealed. The governor's office was jammed with spectators as U. J, Delgado and W. 3. Schoneck, the bills were signed. Photo- graphers took pictures of the proceedings. “Signature of these bills |in time for the opening ceremonies | makes it legal insofar as the governor and legisikture can do it, the manufacture and ‘be the recognition of the colored | cevktaa wNSCip to tala dae bare sale of 3.2 per cent alcoho- jhad no recognition as veterans, |tic beer and wine,” the and it is hoped by the post that this matter will be satisfactorily | governor anid as he affixed dizpored of, it is stated. meas- | Among the veterans attending his signature to the | this convention will be Capt, Rich-| ures. ard Curd Daniels, “Uncle Dick,” ? ae LIFTING OF MARITAL from the Marine hospital, who ts [known and loved by all who have jbeen treated in the local Marine hoepital, it is shown. A report of the convention will ibe given the post at the regular jmecing to be held on May 23, by the delegates. BAR TO CITIZENSHIP ON CLUBS’ PROGRAM VIENNA, May &-—Prospects STULL LEARNING of s change in American law mak- ing it possible for American worm- en married to foreigners to regain their citizenship without seturn fing to the United States will be among the subjects diccumed at the third annual conference af tbe lPederstion of American Women's within a brief “time to investigate, thé beer and wine license situa-/ tion there. i . (ty Awsoctatea Pree) he sai BEER FROM CUBA wrancen. ISLAND 1S ANGORA, May 8—An econ-| | GIVEN ANOTHER NAME NORTHAMPTON, Eng. — Oli acce: mat as Omit cause is giving impetus to} part of the cargo arriving from! ‘ Si decid wake UX pe mon Be cone — nn Geaur has! the Penetration of American cal-|pievann om the S Florida Satsre{ (My Acenctated Preset Maurice David, of this elty, who| resigned his position as state auto-| UT? i Turkey. © “lay afternoon condatd of 2,000] LENINGRAD, May 3— has learned four languages since} mobile tag agent. j Heretofore Turkey, adhering to! erates of beer. Each erate con- Wranget Island, the dot of land his seventy-fourth birthday. { oa {Ro international copyright agree-itgins six dozen bottles, 144,000) Borth of Kamchatka whose owner- PERMANENT | PRESCRIPTIONS | ise: s¢'cy force wort, Nee] Sais rie | Resdan Amecka, ‘eis "ad H tions of any foreign wor! by Sonte-of the beverage was con- merican, ritis! and Pegi a WAVES ’ Wis iset us teed c0ae dn ee commercial treaties compel sigied to Greenville, S. 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