The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 13, 1933, Page 1

oe For 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Associated Press Day Wire Service -@ A iP A ep West Citsen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1933. New Measure Introduced In House - Would Permit Bank Consolidations VOLUME LIV. No. 114, PRICE FIVE CENTS Secretary Wallace Says New Relief Measure Will Be Great Accomplishment yy re ae Another Bill Sent Up To Optimistic Over Outlook! QLD DIRECTORY Of Helping Fatmers With Upward Trend Of Prices (By Assoctatea Press? WASHINGTON, May 13. — “Definite accomplish- ments” are expected to flow from America’s new. broad gauged farm relief law with- in thirty days. That was the optimistic word given today. by Secre- tary Wallace who looks hopefully toward an upward swing to higher and more stable prices, and at the same time to a respite for farmers from the heavy pounding of the auctioneer’s hammer. Heartened by the decision of midwest leaders to call off the national farm strike scheduled to begin today, Wallace plunged into the intricate job of bringing back good times to the in- dustry which had been in the grip of deflationary in- fluences: for ‘thirteen years. ‘Henry Morgenthad, Jr., of sweeping farm relief ation act ‘ n by the ONE KILLED AND TWENTY INJURED DURING TORNADO BODY OF wouan is ALSO FOUND IN RIVER; ALL OF INJURED WERE’ NEGROES LIVING IN OHIO TOWN os {My Associated trees) XENIA, Ohio, May i3.—A White man was killed and 20 negroes injured today when a tornado destroyed fifty small houses in the negro section of this city, uprooted trees and bowled over telephone poles, The dead man was identified as George Gibbs, 60, crushed under the wall of his home, WOMAN'S BODY FOUND IN RIVER XENIA, Ohic, May 13.—The body of a well dressed woman was found in the river here and was identified today as that of Mrs. Nora Coffey, 24, by her mother and estranged husband, Merrell Coffey. ' The mother said the last time] she saw her daughter who was/ shot in the head and thrown into the river, was last Wednesday: night. Officers -immediately been questioning Coffey. SO MUCH PED CAR GLENDALRB, L. 1—When he passed 20 cars on the right hand side, William Scharff, of this city, was fined 50 cents a car by Judge A. J. Case, in a Long Island court We serve a FULL GALLON of that clear white CITIES SERVICE GASOLINE at the regular price | SHOWS KEY WEST | BOOK PUBLISHED FORTY-SIX YEARS AGO TELLS OF THIS CITY HAVING SIXTY-THREE CIGAR FACTORIES Among a great array of data, books and other information in the possession of Judge Hugh Gunn, is the first directory ever published in Key West, 46 years ago. Published in 1887 the book is much larger than any of the oth- ers published in after years and the progressive spirit of the city of Key West at that period is shown by the business section, which among other information, shows at the time of publication there were 63, cigar factories op- erating. Some of them were small but many large and prosperous fac- tories were being operated, some of them employing from 700 to 1,000 persons, according to state- ments made by citizens of the present day who know of condi- tions then. The ‘directory carries 65 full pages of advertising matter exclu- sive of both inside and outside of front and back covers and num- erous other smaller announce- ments. The preface is exception- ally interesting and reads: . “It is with a good degree |... of pleasure, and we maybe. allowed to say, not unmixed. ‘with pride, that we lay before the people of Key West, and the still larger public in gen- eral, the first local directory ever issued of this most de lightful and, from a financial standpoint,, the | leading commercial and manufactur- ' ing city of the state of Flor- ida. Its growth is only lim- ited by. the size, of the island and bide fair to become one of the great Southern Com- mercial Centers. “W. A. BENSEL, “Publisher.” LOCATE BODY OF NEGRO ABDUCTED BY GEORGIA MOB BROTHER OF MAN KILLED IN FIGHT WITH WHITE PLANT- ER, WHO WAS ALSO SLAIN IN PROCEEDINGS (By Annociated Press) WARRENTON, Ga., May 13.— The body of Will Kinsey, negro abducted by a mob after a gun battle in which his brother, Lamar Kinsey, and a white planter, Char- lie English, were killed, was found near here today. The negroes were tenants of English, and the fight occurred at their home when English question- ed them about the trouble with his nephew, Will Kinsey, wounded, ducted later from a phys’ office where he was treated. PLAN INCREASE BREWERY OUTPUT (By Asnectated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Fia., May t | —A-local brewery, the only one Bow operating in the state, has announced plans for doubling its capacity since the legalization of 3.2 beer. | The brewery now has a capac ,of about 3,600 barrels per we | ~ CABARET DANCE Tenight at CUBAN CLUB 10 til? Florida State Collegians 7S Plux Tax Ladies 10 Mothers’ Day, Sunday, May 14. The original han, serenity that the eminent painter ler has an appeal in harmony with the observance of in the Louvre in Paris, evidencing the sublimity and saw in motherhood. 'LODGE DELEGATES |CHAS. PARKHILL LEAVING SUNDAY FOR MIAMI MEET THIRTEEN MEMBERS oF| POCAHONTAS WILL MAKE TRIP TO ATTEND GREAT COUNCIL SESSION | ——— ee ae RRS ED SAT ee Thirteen members of Minoca Temple 13, Degree of Pocahontas, will leave tomorrow | afternoon over the East Coast for Miami to be in readiness of the Great Coun- cil of the order which meets there Tuesday, May 16.°, During the same period the Great Council of Red Men will also asemble. ' The group, representing the local temple, will be composed of Mrs, Bernice Park, Great Winona; Mrs. Annie Baker, Great Keeper of Wampum; Mrs, Ruby Saund- ers, Great Guard of the Forest; Mrs, Sue Elwood, representat Mrs. Alice Curry, Mrs. Lillie Hart, Mrs. Lillie Weaver, Mrs. _ Lillie Kemp, M Mary Cruz, Miss Miriam C: Mrs. Leonora Rob-| erts, Mrs. Cindy Roberts and Mrs. Antoinette Roberts. At the Great Council of Red Men, Tiger Tait Tribe 19, of Key West will be represented by Past Great Sachem Wallace Pinder, of | Florida; C. C, Symonevte and W, O, Sands, delegates; Frank Roberts, member of the financial| | committee, |, Great Sachem Pinder left over} the highway this morning. The | others will leave tomorrow, Symonette being accompanied b; Mrs, Symonette. 'SPECIAL NUMBERS ATBAND CONCERT EVENT TO BE GIVEN TOMOR.' ROW AFTERNOON HON. ORING MOTHRS’ DAY i vt | | | |_---—___—__— There will be two featured num. bers on the Mother's Day pro | gram of Key © West's Municipal Rand tomorrow afternoon 4:30) o'clock at Bayview Park. Mrs.! Rafael Solano, Jr., will sing “That | Old Irish Mother. of Mine” and | Edmund Curry will sing “Mother! Machree” j known daction te hor of these well need any intr t {they are to be heard always in- sures an appreciative audience. The selection of numbers for the instramental part of the ¢n-| tertainment has been made with a view to having an appropriate pro- cram of classical and modern mus- ie. j While the concert is to be giv- en prim My for the muthers of | [Key West, all lovers of music are} invited to be present. DIES IN TEXAS STATE ATTORNEY FOR HILLS- BOROUGH COUNTY FOR NUMBER OF YEARS (By Associated Prena) TAMPA, May 13.— Charles Parkhill, 74, Hil isborough ‘state at- torney and central figure in Florida’s poli- tical history, died today in Houston, Texas, rela- tives were advised. He was state attorney for a number of years. STEAMER BRAZOS BRINGS FREIGHT! LAD SARS DROP IN FLURRY ‘DURING SELLING: APPROXIMATELY TWO AND A; HALF MILLION SHARES ARE) TRANSFERRED IN TWO.| HOUR SESSION (Ny Annvetated Press) NEW YORK, May 13.—Fi- }nancial markets encountered a | flurry of week-end selling today France To Pay War Debt Interest Only (Ny Assoviatea Preast PARIS, May 13.—The French government notified President Roosevelt it will pay $19,000,000 in war debt interest which it de- faulted last December only if a moratorium is. declared on the next debt installment due in June, it was revealed today. Roosevelt, it is understood here, replied that Decem- ber interest must be paid be- fore a moratorium can be granted. STORY ABOUT KIDNAPERS IS TERMED ‘FAKE’ GASTON MEANS HEARD BY OFFICIALS RELATIVE TO ‘CONTACTS’ WITH KIDNAP- ERS OF LINDBERGH BABY {By Ansociated Press) WASHINGTON, “May ~ '13.=-A federal official after investigation of the story told by Gaston Means of his “contacts” with kidnapers ‘of the Lindbergh baby today, pronounced the tale as “figment and many leading shares lost one | to three, points in active trading. | DTransfers were approximately |two and a half million shares for the two hour session. . Selling was principally in: in- | dustrial and utility shares. Pres- ure on rails was moderate. Dairy ;issues and some specialties’ held’ | firmly. In the commodities, hogs re-} mained in a strong spot, reaching, |$5 per hundred weight for the’ \first time since August and corn} VESSEL ARRIVES LAST NIGHT, ¥@® firm. FROM GALVESTON WITH KEY WEST CARGO The freighter Brazos, of o'clock last night from Galveston with normal cargo for Key West.| erating a gambling game, was ar-| Sailing at 12:50 the Brazos car-| rested and given a hearing yes-| ried a large shipment of canned tory, cigars freight. Motor vessel Elma, from Pensa- cola to Miami with a cargo gasoline, came in last night for fuel oil from the Porter company and sailed at 10. and miscellaneous The The greatest thing in the The highest haman embodiment of love is MOTHER. Many on Mother's Day will be wearing carnations and Dock; She arrived & o'clock! Vining Harris at the next term of | Truest Tribute A. LOPEZ GIVEN «| COURT HEARING) the’ 0.! Clyde-Mallory lines: arrived 11:10} | Albert Lopez, charged with op-; terday before Rogelio Gomez, jus- Mr.| Pineapples from the Granday Fac-| tice of the peace. The defendant pleaded guilty | to the charge and was placed under | bond of $100 for his appearance} of; at the next term of criminal court. | Five other defendants are sched- | uled to appear before Judge J.; court. of weird imagination.” Definitely disproved was the statement that the Elizabeth, New Jersey, safety deposit box of Max Hassel, murdered beer baron, con- |‘tained either Mrs. Evalyn Walsh’ McClean’s or Colonel Charles Lindbergh’s ransom money. Means, on trial with Norman Witaker on charges of conspiracy to defraud Mrs. McLean of $35,- 000 an ‘the pretext they could ransom and recover the stolen child. REFUGEES GET HEARING TODAY FIIDINGS WILL BE SENT TO WASHINGTON THIS AFTERNOON Francisco Rubero Rodriguez, Ramon Puentes Beltran and En- rique Sicre Ybarzabai, Cuban refu- gees, were given a hearing today before an immigration board. The findings will be sent to Washing- ton, D. C., this afternoon. Rodriguez and Beltran were world is LOVE. { sending flowers to Mether—a beautiful custom. But many oth tributes or tele; realms of Love and Service. At the throughout eur laad same time man 2 cam no longer reach Mother with floral of greeting; she has been called to higher y Mothers—millions of them iu homes of the unemployed are pray- ing, mot for flowers but for flour; not for confections but for bread: not for greeting owds and telegrams but for food, clothes, medicine and the simple necessities of life. “How better can we honor Mother on Mother's Day,” asks The Golden Rule Foundativun, “than by doing in her came for ether mothers and depdodent children, whe are destitute, Bengry, sick—some of them dying—what ‘she would do so graciously, aboundingly sad lovingly, if it were within ber power? The truest tribute that can be paid te Mother is to share with others the lowe that she se generously and often sacrifi- cially lavished upon us. jto shoot any revolutionists Jeneountered and ask questions| terms will not j afterward, acc@rding / to their |°f Position. lice department, They were told they story. Not wanting to be guilty of any such promiscuous killings, they de- cided to leave the force without the formality of resigning. After thinking over their actions they came to the conclusion that after ‘leaving their positions under the circumstances the best thing to do was to leave the country. In company with Mr. Yberzabal, an attorney's assistant. they secur- ed passage on a isunch and arriv- ed at Key West Wednesday aft- ernoon and went to the Cuban Refugee Camp. Immigration of- ficers were notified of their ar- rival and formally took the men wmto custody. They were released on their own recognizance, pending the decision of the department of labor. NOTICE TO PUBLIC Notice ia hereby given that city licenses for Malt and Vinous beverages for 1933 are due and will be aceepted by JAMES 8 ROBERTS, mayid-it former officers of the Cuban po-| With Proviso SSIS SSaaaSs Lost Ad In Citizen Recovers Tricycle W. J. Schoneck, lighthouse engineer, is convinced that advertising in The Citizen is the right way to recover lost property. Mr. Schoneck’s con left his tricycle on the. boulevard Tuesday night. Wednesday he decided to put.a.lost notice in The Citizen, “hoping” to get the vehicle. Thursday morning his hopes were realized. He was called on by the finder of the tricycle and the property was restored. Mr. Schoneck gave the finder a suitable reward. Everybody happy in the Schoneck family, the finder was happy on rec: the reward, all for 25 cents ex- pended for a lost notice. nahh MATERIAL HERE FOR LIGHTHOUSE DEPT. CISTERN TWENTY LABORERS To BE EMPLOYED IN WORK WHICH ‘WILL GET UNDER WAY IN NEXT WEEK OR SO | Work on thé new cistern at the lighthouse department will start, it is expected, about May 20. The cement is here afd » the «sand, gravel and water proofing ma- terial is due in one week. Concrete work will be under jthe direction of Samuel Collins. \ Plastering will be supervised by |C. J. Peat. T. M. Knowles is to be in charge of the carpenterirg and W. Albury and W. G. Miller general helpers, Twenty laborers will be em- iployed, 18 of whom will be se. lected from the Emergency Relief lists. RULING AGAINST [MARRIED TEACHERS i (By Associated Presn) ;__ LEESBURG, Fia., May 13.— ‘Married women will not be en- |gaged as teachers in Leesburg schools during the 1933-34 school lyear under resolutions adopted by |the school board. The rule applies only to new jteachers, however. Married wom- ee who have taught in former be subject to loss | SPAIN MAKES RULE ON BURIAL PLOTS {Hy Associated Frees) MADRID, May 13.—The gov- ernment has decreed that foreign- ers in the future may not estab- lich private cemeteries for. par- ticular nationalities or creeds. In- stead all Spanish burial plots will be secularized so that any re- ligious rite may be performed in them. j KATE SMITH in HELLO, EVERYBODY! See Page 3 fc. Reader On This Picture alo CHARLIE RUGGLES in MURDER IN THE ZOO Matines, 16-35; Might 15-25< Place Powers Of Hotel Commissioner With | Health Board (Ry Associated Frese) TALLAHASSEE, May 13. —While the senate was in week-end recess, the house held a short session today and passed a bill to permit banks to issue preferred stock up to 50 per. cent of capitalization. It received a number of new measures and adjourned until (Monday. af- ternoon. : One of the new bills in- troduced would permit con- solidation of state banks or trust companies with na- tional banks and preserve existing trusteeships. It was referred to the bank and loan committee. . Another bill would abolish the office of state hotel commissioner and give the commissioners power to the state board of health. A bill to prohibit use of gerine trees was introduced by Kelly and Booth of Pinellas, and Knight, Han- cock and Driver of Polk. The citrus fruit commit- tee introduded « bill to. re- quire grading of citrus; ac- cording to standards of the | department of agriculture. | Creation of an agricultural : prorate commission of five to be appointed by the gover- nor was sought in another bill by the citrus fruits com- Before adjourning the house observed a thirty second period of reverence for Mother’s Day. SIGNS MEASURE |FOR SHIP CANAL TALLAHASSEE, May 13. signed a bill providing for |the creation and incorpora- | tion of ship canal authority ' for thé state. The measure calls for a | commission to be appointed by the governor to plan, or- ganize and construct the cross state canal. Funds totaling $118,000,. 000 would be borrowed from the federal government to build the project. HINTON FAMILY ARRIVES TODAY Mrs. J. W. Hinton and five children arrived this ing on the Havana Special from hea Beach and will spend some tims with Mr. Hinton, whe i+ train dempatcher tor the ¥, ©. C. : Mr. and Mrs. Hilton Curry; par- ents of Mrs. Hinton, secompanied the farsily ss far 2 Miami where they will remain until Tuesday