The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 9, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. - No. 110. Florida House Approves Amendment For Exempting | Homesteads From Taxes Would Include. Those Up To Value Of Not More _+Than Five Thousand Dollars (My Asnveinted Preas) TALLAHASSEE, May 9. —The house today ap- proved 82 to 8 a proposed constitutional amendment to exempt homiesteads up to value of $5,000 from taxa- tion. Should the senate approve the measure it will be sub- mitted to the general elec- tion in November next year. Repeated efforts were made to kill the measure and lower its exemption figure. The senate failed for lack of a required three-fifths vote to the resolu- tion desighed to submit to the people a proposed con- stitutional amendment to abolish all ad valorem taxes for state purposes, ; sidered another proposed authorize legislature to levy @ state income tax. Threats of a general sales tax to meet financial needs of the state, counties and schools were sounded in a debate in both houses, opposed such a tax but feared it will become a mat- ter of STARTS —_ LATE — OREGON CITY, Ore.—Mrs, 8. M. Basham of this city, celebrated . her 83rd birthday recently by starting to learn to write. MacDonald Hopeful For Agreement With United States On Tariff Truce KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1933. It’s Gift From Public To Conserve His Health By Swimming PPereTrTriyi titi iiiriitii rit |TAMPA DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS PUT ON PARADE TODAY GIVE ADVANCE NOTICE OF OTHER CONTINGENTS AR- RIVING IN CITY EN ROUTE TO HAVANA CONVENTION The Tampa Drum and Bugle Corps of D. A. V. of W. W., en route to the legion convention in Havana for the state convention paraded the ‘streets of the city this morning: Giving advance notice that other members num- bering more than 700 would at one time be in Key West today. This Tampa corps is making its second visit to the Cuban capital. It is commanded by John H. Spencer, a former Key West boy whose mother, Mrs. J..H. Spencer, ‘was prominent in the delegation at the P. and O. dock this morn- ing to welcome the visitors. These musical boys have, under} Spencer’s command, the distinc! Completion of President Roose-velt’s private swimming pool in the west ¢ : | expected about June 1.. It is S1 feet long, 15 feet wide, with a depth ranging from five to eight tion of being received by the cot The pool, paid for by populas subscription, will enable the President ‘to continue the evercises aging “boi tncngealatny f that have boon of sweh tiarked bencfil to binrin the past. President Hoover and President) t (iy, Ananataten Prqnat jfor him. Visitors to his cottage Checks kept pouring into the Machado. : : | WASHINGTON, May 9.—Early at Warm Springs, Ga., saw him White House and secretaries were On their previous trip to Ha- some morning around June i daily laughing, splashing and play. kept busy returning those that. ar-| vana the Tampa unit was royally president Roosevelt will take ing ball in the water with’ the! rived too late. ! entertained by the Key West ‘young patients at the foundation, Now work is being rushed on the ig ! first plunge in the new swimming the’ sponsors. pool under the direction of Major When he arrived at ihe White D. Gillette, of the public building House it seemed as thongh he’and grounds department, i As he swims the length 6f the) would: have to give up this sport) ‘Theypodl will -be “simple: but 52-foot pool in his powerful crawl| Which keeps: him fit for his long, beautiful, not only in construc- stroke, he will be taking the first working hours. jtion but because of the setting. | 1 " * r First White House Pool Glazed terra cotta in aquamarine. \ genuine exercise he has had since - “¢ baat ge Che: baw beat inthe executive aan: No other president has had ay will line the pool and pale green wimming pool. President Coolidge | terra cotta will be used for a 8ix- |} Drum Corps and the city officials | oe } and this morning a short concert 'P00l being built in the west wing played in the lobby of the of the White House. Ge -in-appreciation of! the be ity shown by this city.! On return from Havana the; Tempeans will stop over in Key ‘West for a turtle steak dinner, cooked as it is nowhere else in the ™* world, and afterwards pay a visit 8!" Is President’s Own Pool Ready Soon ae | i} ders, f (Seca merbert 1B. Rivas, Hamilton Pinder, Edward The Kev West Citsen Plan To Have Y CONVICTS ROBERTS; FIRST | DEGREE MURDER ‘NO RECOMMENDATION MADE FOR MERCY; VERDICT READ + IN CIRCUIT COURT THIS MORNING _ i * — | James Roberts, Jr:, colored, on} ‘trial for the killing of his wife, | | was found guilty of murder in the | Simet degree. There was no recom- mendation to mercy. The verdict was read in cireuit court 10:40 j o’clock this morning. The jury advised early this | morning that a verdict had been | reached and asked that Judge Jef- i ferson B. Browne be summoned.) | The judge arrived at 10:30 o’clock { and the jury was brought into the ! court room. Hilary F. Whalton, foreman of | the jury, handed the findings to | Clerk Ross C, Sawyer, who hand- ed it to the judge. The judge | ordered the clerk to read the ver- | dict and record it. I On motion of Attorney W. C.| | Hatris, for the defense, the jury | Was polled. As each juror’s name | was called he arose and was asked iby the judge: “Is this your ver- | dict?” followed by the question’ \“Murder in the first degree?” to which each juror replied yes. Asks New Trial Attorney Harris then advised the court that he will file a mo- tion for a new trial. The court allowed four-days in which to file the motion but Mr. Harris stated that he will be ready at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, and that. time was set to hear the motion. Jurors. in the case were Eugene F. Albury, Jr., Robert J. Saun- x, Walter Sgun incourt, Ramon Fernandez, Louis Maloney, Omer ; Perez, Hilary F, Whalton and Ralph R. Russell. Within 24 hours after this case 7 Project. PublicWorks Sccccvccesesesescnoeses DIES LAST NIGHT eee EUGENE L, ALBURY, Former County Tax Assessor EUGENE ALBURY DEAD; FUNERAL HERE TOMORROW 2 O'CLOCK; FUNERAL SERV- ICE AT 4:30 Eugene’ L.. Albury, 54 years old, ltook his exe n an electric} foot wainscot. The arched ceil-! P i ; Yeahs Marine hospital, Orerionts: Laws IGhorse”. President Harding pre-{itg Will be finished ‘with an Wory.| ernhce wick nue cf ane cara, | isd €:18"otelock Inst gxaning, 16 Through the arched windows on| ferred a foresome of golf. Presi-|cotored, moisture proof plaster. | est trials on a like charge ety held | the residence, 327 Margaret street. COUNCIL: PASSES {either side he will be able to see/dent Taft liked to walk so well} Water May Be Heated ‘in Key West. e ‘ the sunny expanses of the White, that a bridge he admired on his} On cool days the filtered and! The jury was empanelled yester-| The body will be placed ih the House lawns. He can slip into his, favorite stroll has been named for, sterilized water can be heated, | day morning, Claude F. Lowe was| pirst Methodist church 2 o'clock swimming spit in one of the two'him. President Hoover’s “medi-|agd concealed radiators will heat) {8a¢ 4 (dressing rooms that. have been!cine ball cabinet” met for games| the room. There will be sus-, é : built at the east end of the pool,'on the White House lawn. j Penaiedd sunray lamps and under. ‘The city ordinance pertaining to| *4icining the White House prop-| Then a New York newspaper! water lights. the handling of beer in Key West, | &T- | publisher opened a campaign for] prescribing rules and regulations | Swimming, which played a ma-| funds to build a pool for President} by other presidents as a stable, ‘under which sales may be conduct- |Jor part in his battle to overcome | Roosevelt. Some 40 other papers'green house, laundry ‘and maids’) ed, which was passed on its initial |the effects of infantile paralysis,! took it up,and in a short time the} rooms. It was easily adapted for) reading by the city council yester- | has remained a delightful pastime! necessary funds were subseribed.| its new purpose. day, was passed on its second, third and final reading at a meet- ing of the council held this morn- ing. The ordinance in question is printed:in the columns of The Citizen today and becomes a law lhereafter, BEER MEASURE WEALTHY MAN (ALBURY MEASURES GREAT INFLUX LET HIMSELF PASSED BY HOUSE) OF VISITORS BE KIDNAPED'.... OF wives REPEAL Law IN KEY WEST ae ac nie iat al CREATING WATER SUP- | MEN Ss | | Two f PLY DISTRICT | MORE THAN THREE HUNDRED HE WALKED FROM OFFICE;} | ARE MEMBERS OF AMERI- TWO HELD IN JAIL UNDER| CAN LEGION ON WAY TO CHARGE HAVANA CONVENTION (ty Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, May 9.— The house passed the follow- ing bills introduced by Rep- resentative Albury of Monroe i | | | huh Re aunpae smyth gaedy | Key West was alive this morn- * FREEPORT, Illinois, May 9.— Because their wealthy victim let} Loom et jing with visitors. More than 300 e (By Agecctated Prose? himself be kidnaped and the sher- ill 934, repealing laws | : LONDON, May 9.—Prime| ance with announcements al-| if! *¢pt * step ahead of their plo!,| creating Monroe water supply pees Se eee ee als | two alleged abductors were in jail} district; Bill 935, to prohibit _| and their women folks arrived on Minister MacDonald an-|ready made in the house. _ | today to be prosecuted for’ $25-| Jt hing mackerel in Monroe | the Florida from Tampa. Sonie 000 ransom conspiracy. ¢ 4 : ; . nounced in the house of'com-| This reference to the acsaed William Trevillian, vice presi-| Sow'ty waters with gill seimes | anjoved visits with friends and mons today there was every prospect of reaching an agreement between Great Britain and the United States as to the advisability of an immediate tariff trace. MacDonald said the truce will not prevent continua- tion of work which Great Britain now has begun or was developing in accord- SUITABLE REWARD for return of brief ¢ase con. im care of Key West Drug Co. of certain mesh; and Bill 937 prohi before the commons evident- ly was an allusion to British trade negotiations recently made or announced as pend- ing. recently learned af the plot = MacDonald also touched] ™o"™ed,!h tic tng ta, on the war debt issue, say-; They cave their names as Wil-} dent of the W. L. Rawleigh Com-! | l relatives, others employed auto- j | mobiles and went on sight seeing trips over the city. Not one point of interest from jthe turtle crawls to. the trained | fish in the Club Miramar aqua- jrium but what was at one time | during the morning visited by hun- pany, walked from his office inst evening, expecting to be kidnaped, | Two men seized him and took! him to an abandoned farm. | Two former undercover men ing fishing with purse spines in Monroe county. L. P. Artman of Key West, was coiintrodacer of the bill exempting from taxation gasoline used in motor boats and tractors. called for the prosecution, the first witness. Karl 0. Thompson, | tomorrow afternoon and funeral Claude F, Lowe, called back; 4-| services held froi the edifice at R, Combs, Karl 0. Thompson, call- Jury Excused The jury was excused while the attorneys for the defense made a motion for a directed verdict by the judge. nied. The west wing had’ been used; ed back; J. B. Combs, called back. | 4:30 o'clock. Rev. John G, Strad- ley will officiate. Survivors are his widow, Mrs. Miriam Albury, one daughter, Wil- The motion was de-}™m@ May; three sisters, Mrs B. Lee Pinder, Matecumbe; Mrs. Harris At 4:15 o'clock both state and/B. Alien and Mrs. William J. defense rested. Allan B, Cleare addressed the jury for the de- fense; George G. Brooks at 4:30 argued for the prosecution. He Booth, Homestead; one brother, Remus Albury, of Tampa. 4 Mr, Albury at one time was city |.was followed by W. C. Harris at|tax assessor and for eight years.|ever, it was stated. 4:45 for the defense. Arguments|¥p to January 1, of this year, was closed. county tax assessor, At 4:55 o’clock the jury heard|4g0 while out driving in bade > 54, the charge of Judge Browne, which |mobile he suffered a stroke’ of lasted until 5:40 o’clock, The jury | paralysis. retired to consider the case and at 5:45 court was recessed. Roberts was sentenced From this he partly recovered and was able to attend to his of- two} ficial duties. February 22, of weeks ago to 20 years in the state|this year, he was again stricken, penitentiary, found guilty charge of tion with the kiling of his father. THREE VIOLENT DEATHS CAUSE INVESTIGATION on | and was confined to his home up in connec-| +o his death, He was grominently identified in fraternal and civic organizations for many yeers, and a member of Patriotic Order Sons of America, Improved Order of Red Men, Dade Lodge No 14, F. and A. M., Mabi Temple, Order Mystic Shrine, Woodmen of the World, B. H, Me-/ Calla Camp, Spanish War Veter- ans and the Key West fire de- partment. Pall bearers will be selected from these tions. organiza POLICE MAKING PROBE INTO; Lopez Funeral Home will be in PROCEEDINGS IN PLAIN. charge of arrangements. FIELD, N. J.; ONE CASE RE- JACK HOLLAND, PORTED SUICIDE ‘ : lliam Staubee and Laverne Moore. “Ww TIDTT ing “our aim must be a per-| toeviban paced ra sabmit = MRS. W TURTLE }dreds. Many of the folks were (My Associated Press? kidnaping and help trap the men.! still kight seeing when the train PLAINFIELD, New Jersey, May manent settlement.” He declared June 15, due date of the next installment, | will be an awkward hurdle. t artived from the north. On this train there was another jtheong of men and womer from ATTEND FUNERAL Pe. Harry N.S. Jones ic in re- crip. of news from Nass an- SoS the legion convention in Havana. | ; Z . ——— : souncing the death of hr sister,) When the Florida sailed this a Track Arrives Tonight |} ti- United Spanish War Veter-| Mrs. Wheatly Turtle which oncur pane will a while at the First ed i that city en Sunday. No de-/ than 700 wembers and their fam- With toad of FRUITS and}! wethodist church tamerrow after-; tails of eath have been pe-liliex were on board. as yet Mrs. Jokn VEGETABLES, including Extra |, * noon at 4:15 o'clock for Pe pur Tender Corn and Fresh Straw-!{ 0. of attending the faueral « Petersen. berries. {Eugene L. Albury, who was an ac- Mrs. Turtle, was visit Nacwa | vention, Wednesday, Mhursday and TIFTS CASH GROCERY | tive member of the onfanization with ber daughter at the time of Priday. and return on the Plorida PHONE 675 j for many pears. death. ‘Saturday alterncon. They expect to remain in Ha-| ber of vana during the term of the con-j| disputes with Zeller. 9.—-Violent death of Knight Fao- leett, 53, and son James, 32, fol- lowed by the suicide of Theadore Zeller, today engaged the atten- ali parts of the state. enrotite toi tion of police here. The Faucetts were found thet ft-jte death in = loundey they re. ‘ernocn it was estimated that mare| cently teak over from Zeller. Mrs. Paucett sakt they were on. able te meet the final paymentw! on the business and had frequent, BOXER, IS DEAD: {is Apnocinted Premed NEW ORLEANS, May 9.—- Jack Hollaed, whe turned to from what was physicians as a cerebral hem. orrkage. Helised fell unconscious following » bewt fast sight with Tony Marulle, of New orleans. He remained unconscious te the and, Tulane University, dirs todey described by Key West Delegation Fails To Meet President Roosevelt According To Schedule By PAUL MAY Special Washington Correspondent oe? The Citizen WASHINGTON, May 9. —If the Reconstruction Fi- nance Corporation persists in its refusal to grant a loan to the Overseas Bridge Cor- poration, Congressman Mark Wilcox said today he will at- tempt to have the project |provided for in the public works program soon to be presented to congress. The Florida delegation, which last week reiterated its ap- proval of the project, doubt- less would stand solidly be- hind such a move, he said. The public works program is expected to provide a huge sum for road construction under which heading . the ~ bridge. project would be listed. F Reporting “no substantial pro- gress” ‘after a week of daily con- ferences: with officials of the Re- construction Finance Corporation, Judge H. H. Taylof, W. RB, Porter, and:J. L. Lester plan to leave for Key West Wednesday ‘they said today. ie . The. loan applieation, which was thined down by, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has not been officially renewed, it was said by the Finance Corporation offices, the conversations held during the past week having been merely pre- liminary to such renewal. Backing of thé entire Florida congressional delegation for the project has been pledged, as a re- sult of a meeting held last Friday, Mr, Porter said. No definite pro- gram for furthering the project was worked out at that time, how- The Key West delegation was not, presented to the president by ‘Mri. Ruth Bryan Owen, as it was intended, although members of the party were greeted by Mra. Owen before her departure for New York to deliver three lectures pre- vious to sailing for Copenhagen, They do not contemplate a viait |to the White House before leaving for home, all three men said. DADE NO. 14, F. & A. M. may?-1t