The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 24, 1933, Page 1

ite Delays On Public | ng Bill Today “MORGAN CITES. "REASONS FOR By NOEL THONRTON (iy Asnociated Press) NEW YORK, May 24.—Federal and state officers, pushing their, attack against gangsters, are en-; countering a changing battlefront in the ranks of the racketeers. | Not only have new leaders or billions of dollars from its vic- tims, but they are carrying their ' “conspiracy to coerce” tactics into} HEAD OF MAMOTH BANKING | many new fields little touched be- CONCERN OBJECTS TO HAV. fore. pe ING HIS FIRM PLACED in| Besen With Vote Controlling. || According to newspaper ac-!! SAME CLASS WITH OTHERS} counts in the early part of. this) ‘ century, modern racketeering» be- gan with the organizing of strong-| pa (By Anngctated Press) » arm: hoodlums;toi control votes by/ “WASHINGTON, May 24.-Ob-| threats.” The! saine’‘methods' were) jections by J.P, Morgan vo: plac-i-ysed: to: evtort bounty: from. the: ing his giant private banking firm] trucking industry and during: the? under the same examinations now| past decade the idea | flourished required of:commercial-banks were } jn illegal beer and liquor traffic. recorded. by him today before the} Liquor racketeering quickly senate investigating committee, | blossomed into a’ criminal dynasty He gave as a reason that “our! of big and easy money, with gang Seige tel ten ti Lae sla, | 288 in New York, Chicago and much more confidential an rela- é ‘. tions between a commereial bank | Detroit prenching out thal. 7 $F Press) May 24.— lay delayed |. “public debt ¢ ales tax meas- in the house ite, was referred ) thrust. forward to direct this crim-| |} BANK TRADING x= element in its mulcting of| - KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 24, 1933. : Fighting The Gangsters On New Battlefronts Senensess ve enecere = Fe CKET SHAKEDOWN ’ they had intended grilling: ; taxation committee. itive action was tak- olution proposing a amendment’ to con- offices of county tax id assessor, The pro- pe submitted to the elec- ct year. bills to halt on into Florida of which the state tax has and its customers can be.” The committee swung into this phase after making public a list of recipients of loans by the Mor- gan firm which included form: Vice President Chas. G. Daw Ambassador Norman H. Davi Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange; Charles E. Mitchell, former head of the Nationgl City Bank, now on trial on charges of tax evasion, and other prominent figures. tivities until they became nation- al in. scope. ‘Public Enemies’ Listed Three years ago the » internal revenue department took emphat- ic cognizance of this menace by launching an unrelenting atack at! the one weak spot of the: rack- eteers’ armor—their habit of evading income tax payments. Lists of “public enemies” were name, This barrage had its first results in Chicago when Al | 00000000 00000000000000000000 0000000000000 0009000000800 000909 000 OOS POSO DED CCOSOOCESOODODOSEOSCEDS The LAW And The RACKETEERS covered that gangster killings had eliminated several of the ones In, quick succession bullets wiped out Vincent “Baby Face” Coll, Larry Fay, Jack “Legs” Diamond and Vannie Higgins. ! Now the federal investigators ‘are making efforts to find Wax- ie Gdtdon and Dutch Schultz, both of whom were suddenly miss. ing from public circulation. Own- ie Madden, another on ‘their list, is in Sing Sing. ; | Of the list of “big shots” orig- linally named by the government, | |only William Duffy Ciro Terran-| jova and George Demange, to- ; gether with the missing Schultz) jand Gordon, remain prominent in! ! New York’s area. Another recent addition to} these ranks is Charley Phil Rosen- berg, former: bantamweight cham. pion. He-has just been senten- ced to prison ona charge of using: , Yacketeering methods in the poul- try markets. | A Cleaning Racketeer ‘ In Chicago, the old Capone or- ganization is reputed to be con- trolled by’ Murray Humphries, a dapper young man with marcelled. hair and a power in the cleaning | and dyeing industry. At the’. moment Chicago detectives are! unable to find him in his _ usual haunts. i William “Three-Fingered-Jack” White, who is now appealing aj one-year sentence, and William “Klondyke” O’Donnell, who had (a disorderly conduct charge dis- {missed in February,, are said to For 53 Years Devoted to the “ Best Interests of Key West Clauses At Geneva Meeting STORY OF CITIZEN NEWSBOY = (Ry Associated Preas) BEING BITTEN RELATED) GENEVA, May 24.—Inspired AT MEETING OF LEAGUE) by President Roosevelt's doctrine HELD LAST NIGHT that the United States is ready to consult powers in the event of Prevalence of vicious dogs inj menace of war, England today in- the city of Key West was a sub-) troduced at the disarmament con- Ject Bech — “¢ - at ‘the egy ference revised clauses dealing meet 0! ie Economic je of Key. West Inst night. with international. security. One member cited an instance}’ These clauses stipulate in case of a newsboy of The Citizen! of a breach or threat of a breach who, this week, was told by the|of the Briand-Kellog Pact, the owner of a police dog to enter| League of Nations or any non- “would not] member such as the United States bite him.” + or Russia, may propose a general Entering, as bidden, , the _ lad] consultation. found out that though the dog “would, not bite” he did and the| PERU AGREES TO newsboy is carrying today the SETTLE DISPUTE mark of the dog’s fangs on his} GENEVA, May 24.-—Pern today face. definitely accepted the League of Another member, whose voca-| Nations plan to settle the dispute tion requires him to be out at any| With Colombia over the Leticia time of night, told of being snap-| border territory. ped at by a dog on. Fleming} The plan entails evacuation of street. seized land and placing the disput- A number of instances were|&4 8rea under jurisdiction of a Peru Definitely Accepts Plan Offered By League In Settlement Of Dis- pute the house as the dog As. to the Mitchell loan which the recipient has said now stands | at some six millions, Morgan told the committee it was at ‘present “under collateralized, jaid, and to allow war WILL MAKE ATTEMPT TO AT- TAIN SPEED OF 600 MILES AN HOUR IN NEW RECORD HASSEE, ay 24.—In- : vehicle tag (iy Aawocinted Pree) DESENZANO, Italy, May 24.— Sputred by her recapture of the world. s) record, Italy is pre- paring new efforts.to attain the 600 miles an hour velocity which we air minister, General Italo Bal- , Says is within sight of avia- tion. A mystery ship being assembled at the government. high speed school here is alnjost* ready for trial flights. Feel Sure of New Mark The men. working on ‘it will be surprised if it reaches. anything: like the mark. General Balbo has! t, bat they: expect it to surpass the 426.5 miles gn hour recently made by Warrant Officer Fran- cesdo Agello in his’ “Red Bullet.” Balbo says it may take a man a decade. to find the means of pro- pelling himself through the at- mosphere at 10 miles a minute. It is practically certain though that by then he will have achieved such j speed, he recently told the senate. es within the fALLJ EE, May 24.— ie vote in the senate on House 1812 introduced by Repre ntative William Y. Albury. * of Go., providing for a bridge highway district for-building ne highway bridges, was ive to the bill fixing sal- of Monroe county officials, it ; witere the: county. com: - ’ salaries will remain aa] i ; nt. F ¥ STRONG ‘ON REPEAL Meanwhile the mark is being pate See pushed steadily forward. Agello's ; record was 20 miles an hour faster FORTY-ONE TO ONE IN eve ea the mark set by the English | TWE! utenant, O. H. Stainforth, in STATE RESULTS «dae { 1981. On one lap above Lake Garda the Itslian made 432.8 miles | an hour, but the reeord was cal: ‘ culated on. the average. Record Just A Try-Out | The greatest secrecy surrounds F fe be | be two others who share Hum-! cited in which dogs had either league commission. and Ralph Capone and the Guzik brothers, Sam and Jack, were seht to prison. Meantime a group of wholesale together with in ke the a aaah MEMORIAL DAY PLANS MADE BY WAR VETERANS OF DEPARTED AT MAINE PLOT TO BE DECORATED Coramittees from Arthur Saw- yer Post, American Legion, B. H. McCalla Camp, United Spanish War. Veterans, Arthur Unit Legion Auxiliary and the Legion Drum and‘ Bugle Corps, have completed plans. for ceéle- brating Memorial Day. Sunday evening, May 28, organizations will assemble front of the First Baptist church at 7:30 o'clock. At 7:45 they Sawyer the special sermon to be delivered by Rev. W. P. Page. Tuesday, May 30, the various units and Troop 5, Boy Scouts, will meet in front of the, Harris school on Southard street and go thence to the Maine plot in city cemetery where Memorial Day } 1 } Racketeers, no longer confining themselves to the liquor field, are spreading into many other lines of activity, including the poul- and dyeing ,business. Officials York are --hunting 0. William “Three-Fin. O'Donnell are said to | phrey’s power, | i. These current leaders are the, from the various forces investi-; gating racketeer activities in new fields—which include milk, fish, and poultry trades; cleaning, dye-' end? frundry: Industries; "kid- naping, “‘out-law”-labor unions and abuses of the new 3.2 beer et iF ee siemanee se oe : régulations. ‘CAPITAL STIRRED ' OF ODD FELLOWS LUIS CUERVO LEAVING TODAY DEPUTY GRAND MASTER ‘WM. MENDELL; PROGRAM OTHERS AT. MIAMI WHO) ARE BEING SENT TO UMA.! TILLA FOR TREATMENT i + Luis Cuervo, crippled lad, }whom a collection was made for| Members of local lodges I. 0. O. to| Fs and Rebeccas will .meet in 4 .,.,| Joint session tomorrow night | enable his being sent to a hospital! the hall on Caroline pitas The jernoon for the Harry-Anna Home} Deputy Grand Master for ctipples at Umatilla, Fla Mendel, of District Number 24. He will be aceompanied Organizations which have been | sister, Miss Polores Cuervo, as fer! podge No. 18, Cuba Lodge No, 15 as (Miami where he wil! Se made Equity Lodge No. 70, Odd Fellows; ® member of a gtoup ef other{ Sparkling Waters Lodge No. etippled children who are sent to the Home. |, The Harry-Anng Home takes its} | beceas. Mineme from the donors Harry R,' ganization, visiting members of the! |p. Miller and Mrs. Anna Miller, of | lodges, are cordially invited. D. \Bustis, Fla. The three stoi linally intended for a hotel, ¢ ing | be a surprise and delight. | $252,000, was given to the State bos Association for a. crippled! pleasurable children’s home. t Although under ‘the jurisdiction | ments. jot Florida Elks, it is expected to }beéome a.home serving Alabama, | | Georgia, North and South Caroli jas well, At present it i directed by a commission of which; | Governor Dave Sholtz ix chairman. excitement | | CRIPPLED LAD WILL JOIN | SESSION CALLED BY DISTRICT , GERARD. SWOPE, | { RECTOR IS HEARD IN IN- ARRANGE| VESTIGATION BEING CON.: ; for treatment, will leave this aft-| meeting was called by District William | gold stock ‘to Mrs. + Mitchel! 14) being! and Friendshpi Lodge No. 85, Re-|, Mitchell ‘is on trial for evad- All are assured an evening of; ‘ and a said Mitchell made his claim “in A Lare bountiful supply of light refresh-j j the preparation of the new ship. Official confirmation of its exist- ence has been limited to a state-: exercises will be held for the; honored dead of all wars. Graves’ been Among the donations that have} © institution is one; IN MITCHELL TAX | FOR HOSPITAL TOMORROWNIGHT! DODGING HEARING «+ rowsto seren) "0 BANK Di. DUCTED IN NEW YORK . (By Associated Vrexs) NEW YORK, May 24.— in! Through Gerard Swope, the gov- ernment obtained testimony, today ithat efter Charles E. Mitchell “to record @ loss” $09 he would havé to pay no income tax in 1929, lie | invited to be present are Key West then ‘ahnde:a alain (on the Na tional’ City Company in an effort ; to avoid loss of the stock. ing income tax in 1929-30 by al- In addition all friends of the or- | legedly fake sales stocks. Swope, director in both the National City Bank and National spa- D. G. M. Mendell has arranged «| a ageeps testified sence "con i cee ile build orig: iP f entertai t jing an ‘ormal meeting of Na-' several ti he en asked will enter the edifice to hear a Ct by acco and tile building. orig: | program of entertainment that will | ng sever: mes tional City Company directors in March of last year at which he broad terma,” saying he originally | bought the stock in behalf of the | National City Company and sug- ‘gesting the.¢ompany ought to |hold him harmless. jones receiving especial attention’ motion it was decided to requ A ‘ , Colombia accepted the prcgram bitten or frightened citizens. S eke weika, tgo. Mayor W. H. Malone to issue or- hate wat. ders. requiring that any or all or- NO VERDICT IN dinances pertaining to dogs at r "i e sand ‘not muz- BY ROOSEVELT’S APPEARS NO VERDICT WILL MANY PROPOSALS | BE REACHED BY’, JURORS _ HAVING MURDER CASE UN- , DER CONSIDERATION Wee’ oF eee eee Up to the hour of going to press MENT 15 CAUSE FOR GREAT she favy, tye shee Seueaee iia re- SPECULATION hereof sel ng In court circles it is the opinion that the trial will result as did the previous trial several weeks ago. (iy Associated Prenn) when, after trying to reach a ¥er- WASHINGTON, May 24.—/dict after 48 hours, the jury, on Again it appears President Roose-| the afternoon of May 3, declared | velt has made the politically mind-!it was impossible to agtee and ‘ed-in Washington blink their| Judge Jefferson B. Browne 4e- ‘eyes at another maneuver——this!clared a mistrial. time. in regard to the proposal to!, At 10 o'clock thie morning the repeal the eighteenth amendment.! judge appeared in court and sent This question, so important’ inj for the jury. Foreman Paal the nominating-and election cam-| Monsaivatge stated that no) ver paigns last year, has received! dict had been arrived at amd it ‘seant public attention from’ th@lwas his belief that none would White House since March 4. Apart) pe. ; from the statement authorized on} Asked by the court if there was ithe day that congress voted to any point of Isw on which the ubmit prohibition repeal, that hel» cubers of the jury wished to be ee Bors ig eagle: has been! informed, the foreman replied ent abou' . thin, ¢ | And efforts have been made to boar pee ape or ogee jhave him say something, too. At) roa. i+ impossible to agree, aid his bi-weekly press conterences, | 5. Monsalvatgs, “3 Judge Browne. ordered the By HERBERT PLUMMER Each time he. has , fo comment. smilingly shunted the suggestion. | Jurors to retire to the jury room ” end remain there until 6 o'clock Now he comes forward with his|#t which time he will cali court bill seeking industrial recovery|to order and recelve the report. which carries with it a tax im-| Lf. however, in the meantime a crease. And he adds that provi- | verdict is arrived at, he will go te {sion should be made for the re-ithe court house om call of the iduction or elimination of these/ jury. inew levies “whenever the repeal lof the eighteenth amendment. . . jshall have been ratified and the repeal of the Volstead act effect- eg CLOSING NOTICE During summer months our store and lumber yard will be clos ; { - AR i ; | ment that it ka expected to set q/ of veterans buried there will be| of $21,000 was a gift from! NO ARSENIC TO BE USED | Pidiieal absabrets: bine | Sewnsiderably higher speed” than! decorated. 'the racing interes! Miami. Services will be under the di-! | SAYS COMMISSION. j think} ed on Thursday after 12:90 o'clock [na more subtie or astute sp-| noon. | the “Red Bullet.” Ageilo’s flight! 5* ' pa | ‘was described as merely a “pre-|rettion of the American: Legioo. J WELLS | Paratory demonstration.” | The principal address will be de-) Je | A-departure from the ordinary | livered. by CG. H. Ketchum, com-/ means .of propulsion is the “Bul-| mander of B. H. McCallie Camp, tet's” principal feature. Two! U.S. W. V. od } propellers set on a sleeved shaft,! Appropriate musical selections! lone behind the other at the nose | will be furnished by. the choir of} [growers if they spray. citrus fruit} Lof the fuselage, turn in opposite di-|the First Baptist. eurch, - Rev./ 8 with arsenic they do so at. their! }recti They are driven by a| Page will open with prayer andthe house knows as the “Cellar! oun. peril. i missionaries at Tungehow, | B4-ext “V" type motor of 2,-/Rev. Stradley, of the First Meth-| House” on Eaton street, next to; Mayo said the'state arsenic Inw| miles east of here, reported f __. | 8@0 horsepower. odist chureh, will offer the befie-} the corner of Grinnell, fired st = has not been repealed, and it is|newnd fighting on the outskirts ss } |. The plane, painted red, is set on! diction, . iprowier in his yard last » unlawfui to spray despite that. the | Tungchow, despite trace reports. jhiw industrial recovery bill ts be- FRESH SHIPMENT pontoons, It has a single low wing, During the ceremonies each of} Mr. Wells walked out o bill was pending in the legislature, Mimionaries struck to their ing considered by congrem, sirgr: ‘NUT SUNDAE BARS jf) of duraluminum and a metai body’ the organizations represented will; porch avd saw the man wal t» amend the present laws. | posts after evacuating 70 Ameri-, the various Mates to quicken their; ———and—— with wooden tail surface& iplace # wreath on the Maine! through bis yard, Wh He said he had been advierd|ean children atiending school efforts to set up the feremary! NEWLYWEDS | Agelid) 30 years old, has been | menument. The customary three/ hailed by Mr. Wells that » few growers had ‘slready, there. jmachinery for dispawl of 3 flying sffice 1924. He has been! volleys will be fired “and Caps} ran, twas the th sprayed groves with arsenic, and} Chinese reinforcements were re-, question. Others inaket ‘that Teka Bialivery |ettaches to the school for five| sounded by the Color Squad, ofjwas fired. The: identi se inspectors are checking the groves, ported arriving with more fight-' will wait until congress adjourn: . ; years. the Dram and Bugle Corpe. ipwin wa: ghe saat, jing imuninent. tefare further action, The repeal nes 9 the city of New York was approxi- mately 41 to 1. i in 359 of New York City’s 3,794 districts not singlgzete wassast agaings oe ER MAYO |BAT TLES IN SECTION COLONY OF AMERICAN MISSIONARIES NEAR Preach could have been made to| SOUTH PLORIDA CONTRACT. the question of repeal than this,| ING AND ENGINERRING CO. He has thrown ost a lure, they|may24-1t say, that will be hard to resist. | (STRAND THEATER What's Next? { At any rate, the president: ‘The Home Town Vhenter TODAY seams to have’ given sew thought (Ry Anwerinted Preset . PEIPING, May 24—American' $2 Mt question, even inw oe —Deuhle Festnre—~ ESTHER RALSTON ia’ , See Page 2 for Reader On This Picture {Ry Associated Frees) } AT IN Y } ,TALLAHASSEE, May 24.— | sranenaret: | Commissioner Mayo today warned; James Wells, ho resides in ry it that he may abe Matines, 10-180; Might 15-256 oes nt leatned,