The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 22, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 148. New Quarantine Station For Key West Included In Industrial Program Bids On Various sites| JURY ACQUITS For Building Will Be MITCHELL ON Called For Some Time During Summer | By PAUL MAY Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen WASHINGTON, D. C., 22.—The project for construction June INCOME TAX INVASION of a new quarantine station Key West is to ha the new industrial recovery build- ing program, it was learned to- day at the treasury department. Bids on sites for the Key West building will be called for be- fore the end of the summer, gnd probably within the next thirty days, officials of the supervising architect's office said. ‘ormal announcement of the Teeovery program must wait on official appointment of the new relief and public works ad- ministrator, but the treasury and Postoffice departments have been instructed to go ahead: full speed! The charges against Mitchell on those projects which are slated| briefly were that he had illegally for inclusion in the program, of-|failed to report 1929 of $666,666 ficials said. The Key West pro- from the National City "-nk and ject is among this gumber. had made a sham stock sales in Inclusion of the Key West pro- 1929-30 to make it appear he had t in the new pr was pre.| Suffered such a heavy income loss GG Sate Oe Hae TEE toad| that hq cca 5 ae PORT 3 lk ® project was among those|sale to his wife, and one in 1930 Fecommiended to congress by the|to W. D. Thornton, president of scr gekel ct aensene bell sponding the Greene Cananea Copper com- mended a limit of cost for the|P®ny- ‘ “Key West building of $100,000.) The jury as instructed it could This recommendation will be con-| 2¢qit or convict all charges to- trolling as a maximum limit, un-|Sether of the same or any one der the new act, but it has not) © . ' st been détermined whether this) The jury returned for instruc- amount will be allocated for| tions three times, once yesterday, the project, officials said. eee eee COPAY: : F Provisions for the recovery At the conclusion of its third ct, making it possible for the) ®PPearance in the jury returned at a place in (By Associated Press) all counts in the indictment charg- Mitchell was aequitted today on ing him with income tax jevas- ions. The jury which heard the gov- ernment charges that the former President of the National City Bank had cheated the government in 1929-30 of more than $850,. 000, took the case at 11:25 a. m. yesterday. It returned a verdict | little more than twenty-four hours later. waiting for condemnation _ pro- eeedings, will be invoked in the used in preparing drawings ter! sf the new building, it was said at]| FRUIT, VEGETABLES AND VA- tem of planning, treasury archi- tects said. event that an amicable agreement for purchase of the site selected the drafti ivi tl Gere eT be Bais ne! RIOUS OTHER PRODUCTS TO BE LISTED IN BASIC COM- government to get immediate] !ts verdict. Possession of a site by filing FARM ACT T0 cannot be speedily reached, it was indicated at the department. : save both ti id money in this * ay, if a site can be secured MODITIES REPRESENTATIVE TO LEGIS. LATURE TELLS OF BILLS Notice of its selection, without Type plans will probably be which is adaptable to such a sys- PASSED (My Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June 22.—The administrators of the farm act! have decided to apply it to fruit, vegetables and other special crops which are not listed as basic com-} modities in the law. This intention was made known | today with the announcement of the appointment of Dr. H. R. Tol- { chief of the section special crops; division created to carry out a pro- gram for fruits and vegetables. Tolley, director of the Giannini} The outstanding event at the} foundation of agricultural econom- rgeular weekly luncheon of the/ics the university and formerly Rotary, Club today, was a talk/assistant chief of the bureau of|of the charter will be pul (Us Britain Starts War On City Slums; London’s East | End K notty Problem TAX CHARGES, FORMER PRESIDENT OF NEW; YORK BANK WAS INDITED, ON VARIOUS CHARGES OF! NEW YORK, June 22.—Charles | | decided at a recent meeting of the ley. university of California, as | covered by the point discussed, its By OSCAR LEIDING (By Avsociated Press) | LONDON, June 22.—London’s} dens of dirt and disease are the! country’s knottiest problem in a five-year offensive to wipe the slums from the national scene. Every community has been giv- | en until September 30 by the min- ister of health to survey its un- healthful areas and submit a pro- gram for complete abolition by 1938—with only London allowed any extra grace. | Must Seek Land Room The world’s largest city thinks it needs a little grace not only be-/| cause of the relative size and ex-| tent of its sore spots but because the population of those districts are dense and there is no spare land. All slum clearance here must be ‘based on the re-housing of dis- placed peoples. Since they are poor and many need to cling to their locality to be near what work! they can get, they resist attempts! to move them to suburban areas. | Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, is authority for one story reflecting the philosophy of slum dwellers refusing to be dislodged. “A rat in an “ole,” a dweller told him in his vernacular, ‘is bet- ter than a rat out of an ‘ole.” East End District Worst So complex is the city’s problem that not even the London county council which has charge of clear- ance and re-housing, can say ex- actly the full extent of the con- gested areas. The worst. district the council says, stretches northward in a broad belt from Limehouse and| the Thames dock area into the bor- | | oughs of Stepney, Bethnal Green. Shoreditch, and Finsbury. The first three are the heart of London's’ us. East rank of “back-to-back” dwellings, damp and _ ill-lighted - basement caves, and small rooms housing whole families. Tightly Packed Populations Shorediteh, which’ measures} slightly. more than a square mile, | has 104,000 inhabitants; Bethnal | Green, covering 760 acres, has, 98,000 persons to the square mile;} Stepney, 1,767 acres, has 90,000 and Finsbury, the smallest area, | | t KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1933. Before And After In London CODEC OOOSEH ESE OHHOSSOOHDOSOOSOOOOOELELLERERCLOSE Great Britzin has callie? upon ali British cities to plan five-year eampaigns in which to wipe out slum areas. London's East End al- ready hes see some improvement, the pictures showing a block of tumble down shacks which have beer replaced by the airy apart- ment houg. 7}. §87_ acres, has.a population-of 25) fusther program... involying , 995. ‘ jequal area and more-than 80,000 Some of the very large comeeeele| bere was imder way when the ed areas have already been dealt} 931 fniancial crisis put brakes on with, either by. regular clearance) its prog: 2 and development ‘programs or af} eking to take advantage by-products of street and road im-| of iow building costs and low provements, but the East.End te-| ney rates, the government has mains as the most complex cur- Linohed : (ese Snes rent problem. j launched a vigorous campaign kd In 35 years, since 1898 some | cle ar out unhealthful areas within 100 acres of slums have been! five years throughout the country cleared and more than 28,000) and within as short a period as persons have been re-voused; 2| possible in London. Now, MAIN FEATURES OF CHARTER TO BE PUBLISHED SALIENT POINTS OF NEW PROPOSED DOCUMENT To! BE GIVEN PUBLICITY IN| FORM OF PAID ADS Salient features of the proposed new city charter will be publish- ed in the local press in the form of paid advertisements. This was Economie League which drew up the charter. At each weekly meeting one of the features will be suggested for discussion, All of the matters| scope and anticipated results will! be brought out. The publicity committee of the| league will assemble the facts and | the results of the discussion will be published. Only one clause} lished | by William V. Albury, represen-| agricultural economics, has arriv-| weekly with the intention fo hav- | tative to the legislature from this| ed here to begin preparation on| district. meny important bills and passed at the recent session Of the state body, especially those, the mehtod of aid will be chiefly Mr. Albury told of the| the program of relief for special submitted} CrePs Administrators of the act said) ing practically all points covered! jin detail before the election in No-| vember. | It was also decided to introduce the company plan in the league. | divided } Brighter Prospects For Accomplishments Seen At Economic London Meeting (By Axsociated Press) 22. — The;ment was reached at a meeting |attended by James M. Cox, James *'P. Warburg, American technical expert, and Finance Minister Georges Bonnet, of France. The stroke of master-diplomacy in effecting an agreement was de- ribed as having been accom- plished when Cox cast aside tra- ditional plomatic tactics and 2 ecards on the table regard- n position, ch, severely burned in inflation, were said to ompletely of the American m and its definite 4 were fearful that was on the road ion which wovld de repercussions. rg put them right LONDON, American delegation said June in statement today the United States government feels currency stabi-| lization now would be antimely| and would possibly “cause a vio-! t Price, recession” to the det- riment of the conference. The statement said “undue emphasis” placed upon the proposal of tem- porary stabilization of that matter in never was an affair of the delega- tion but rather of the treasury and , | of the United Cox and War on the matter. That the French had been will- ng to quit the conference over the stabilization iseve was au- eth tative confirmed. onference apparently h this crisis both and British expressed central banks States, Great Britain and France. The American gvernment state ment continued it feels “that it efforts to raise prices are h the cc most important ; eontrivution ean make.” evrvoececcecveccccceceescccccces | lacking | Rep West Citisen Activity SSRIS S ESS 4 EXCESSIVE RAINFALL IS | RECORDED LAST NIGHT According to the report is- sued by G. S. Kennedy, in charge of the local weather bureau, Key West experienc- ed an excessive rainfall yes- terday andi Jast night. The precipitation recorded for the period being 4.46 inches, which is unusually heavy rain- fall for this time of the year especially. Most of the rain fell dur- ing the early part of the night, with the streets flood- ed in all sections, mainly in the downtown district. OL bE de |MANY AUTO CARS OPERATING WITH 1932 LICENSES STATE INSPECTOR SAYS ALL WILL BE REQUIRED TO PUR. ‘CHASE CURRENT LICENSE OR SUFFER CONSEQUENCES S. J. Rutherford, state automo- bile license inspector, made staten rday.that a check on automobiles in Monroe county being operated with 1932 licenses indicates a shortage due the state of $12,000. It is the intention of the state, |Mr. Rutherford told The Citizen, ‘to enforce the law relative to the purchase of licenses for 1933 or jSee that all cars and trucks with- jout such tags are kept off the | streets. | The law provides that any per- {son operating a car or truck without the required license can be arrested and fined $500. It is jalso within the province of the | state to seize the vehicle and sell jit within thirty days after seizure | giving the purchaser a warrant | title. George Gomez, former state tax! |agent in Monroe county, has been jchecked out because of being ap- | pointed beer license inspector, and | Frank H. Ladd, tax collector, made {his successor. | Mr. Ladd said this morning that the new schedule of prices will go into effect July 1. This pro- {vides a much cheaper price for! jlicense tags. However, no one |will be permitted to purchase al license for the car he now owns | junder the new order, except when jhe makes sworn affidavit his car ‘has been in storage since January iy 1933, It is within the discretion of} {the tag agent to ask the proposed) {purchaser to furnish witnesses in} support of his affidavit. Between this date and July 1; ithe sheriff's forces, pursuant to} request by Mr. Rutherford, it} icheck on all cars being operated {with 1932 licenses and make a re | port of those so doing, it was! ‘learned at the court house. | j | LIGHT KEEPER BROUGHT HERE | For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Increases In Matter Of Asking Loan __ For Overseas Bridges PRESENTATION OF PROJECT TO PUBLIC WORKS BOARD IN WASHINGTON NOW AWAITS RETURN OF LESTER AND TAY- LOR TO CAPITAL CITY; EVERYTHING SHAPING WELL IN PROPOSITION By PAUL MAY Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen WASHINGTON, June 22.—Further progress to- ward presentation of the Miami-Key West Overseas Highway project to the public works administrative board awaits the return to Washington of Judge H. H. Taylor and J. L. Lester, Congressman Mark Wil- cox said today. Taylor left. Washington Monday with an official of the roads bureau of the department of agriculture, bound for a flying visit to Florida for the purpose of adding to the data which the highway committee and Congressman Wilcox will submit to the public works board. oan ; Lester was in Washington early this week, con- ferring with Wilcox regarding the transfer of the highway project data from the R. F. C., where unsuc- cessful attempts to secure a loan had been made at ' als for months, to he public works board: Both men are expected by Wilcox to return here within a few days. The bridge proponents, in their plea to the public works board, will ask an outright grant of 30 percent jot the estimated $10,000,000 needed to finance the project, Wilcox said. A loan of 70 percent will be asked to finance the balance, he said. *. While the public works program contains no specific allocation of funds for projects similar to the Overseas Highway, the board is empowered to fi- nance them through grants and loans, giving first consideration to the government projects. oar Labor Federation Cites Figures On Employment ee Seen See e 1 MANY cHANGES AT LIGHTHOUSE DEPOT PLANNED CONCRETE WALL TO BE CON- . Y Any further progress, the fod- STRUCTED; MUCH ACTIVIT tatién. anid, dovende uped-tn 6 NOW SEEN AT GOVERN-jtent of ourchesnig power the “ laborer is increased. MENT GROUNDS In April unemployment is «aid to have decreased from 13,369,- 000 to 12,730,000 or 4.8 percent. Tons of sand, cement, rock and} “Trade union reports for May other material are being handied/ show another = not so large. where a} This is most significant of ali - sed egret one possi in| business gains reported this spring are ot eae and is the largest since the depres. tion began. But, unless employ- ment gains more than this, it will (My Assoctuted Prens) WASHINGTON, June 22.--The American Federation of “Labor says 629,000 persons went back to work in April, and a small et undetermined, number in Mi In May the monthly busin: | survey seid, however, “cheerful as jthis news sounds there is no evi- j dence yet that it marks « start of recovery.” progress. The immense cistern now under ! J. A. PERVIS, ILL, TAKEN TO} construction is rapidly taking lshape and when completed will ppsteces hie corps: Senda have a capacity of 265,000 gal- TREATMENT pertaining to Key West and Mon | through drafting marketing agree-| The membership will be roe County. pent, aaite a Lage - in groups ech group oe anti) s man .; Some instances and in others © matters assigned, especially with, th. Site owt Treeoe sant | eliminate competitive factors)» view to checking on non-at-| s horit oe PUREE Chas. H. Esishice aad Wixren 7,| Which they say has increased ¢ endance at meetings and learning SRORatEvely Watrous in attendance as wisiters.(*" risk in dlewribatjon, the cause of the absence. {had been saved fror There was very little activity ‘Soming within the scope of the on the rocks of Pesan high gio Gr groups will be the question of en- [rolling new members, their quali-} the members present discussed : : several matters of minor impor- fications and value to the organ-| fan and French represent ization to be determined before postpone di tance. take nearly two years to get un- employed back tq york, and busi- ness cannot wait two years.” of real accomplish Simultaneously with eation of BO ASK FOR POLICY ON TRADE BARRIERS N, June 22.—America e the Economie Con- a on a resolution in- retary Hall teday. the ¢ | Within a brief time the prop- amas erty that was ceded the depart-} J. A. Pervis, keeper at the; ment of commerce by the navy de-} lighthouse on Alligator Reef, was|Pattment will be practically en-/ bronght to Key West this morn-| Closed and entirely separate from) ng on the ligh tender Poppy | ‘te navy holdings, ing on the lighthouse te Py) A concrete wall will REPAIR WORK COMES TO HALT sta result of the agreeme uso be. con-/ WIDE VARIANCE PERU, Ind.—Charies Eberle, 68, and Miss Dema Rodgers, both of this city, were marrie the clerk's cently. at county office, re- ,jin Key We Building and repair activities ap-j} pear to have come to a sudden hal ‘ Not one perm ‘ing the past wee! of Harry Bake was issue from th e i building an invitation to join is extended Several members, outside | meeting, stated they had heard re-/ orts of a new organization known | s the “Black Shirts”, formed with | he intention of combatting the/ efforts of the league. Howe his matter was believed to g more than a “report.” ilization nv a Jubilant Over News M questi er. Prime president had been |to save the par » embraced tariff lations and wires. measu Hull said “get was considered n fight. and is now « patient in the Marine | hespital. It was expected that the tender; would arrive some time last night, {but torrential rains necessitated jher proceeding at a much slower | rate of speed than her regular 11 afety. iatructed along the lines of division | j the conference | knots, to keep within the limit of | depot and other structures housing ,; } department activities TOMORROW AT SEVEN See Page 2 for Reader On This picture -~aho— TRICK FOR TRICK Matines, 10-1%<; Might 15-25 of the properties, This will be; surmounted hy a galvanized, wrought iron fence. Wali and: fence will be an average height of | eight feet enclosing the lighthouse |