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Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 185. Great Damage Results From Storm Striking At Several Towns In Texas And Mexico Wind Velocity Reported At 80 Miles An Hour; | City Crop In Lower aa Grande Valley Suffers | (Ny Associated Press) BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Aug. 5.—Damage to the! lower Rio Grande valley: citrus crop from the gulf) storm was estimated at five| per cent of the total crop by Ralph Buell, managing edi-| tor of the Brownsville| Herald, after a survey of| about three-fourths of the’ groves, | Wreckage of damaged) homes and buildings litterdd | the country-side as residents sought to determine if there! was any loss of life. Wind velocities ranged high as 80 miles an hour. Scarcely any buildings in Point Isabel escaped injury. Brownsville hit | heavily, and Matamoros, across the Rio Grande _ in! Mexico, had many buildings unroefed or wrecked. STOCK EXCHANGE TEAR GAS BOMBER ARRESTED TODAY | was * iment of justice. The Kep est Citwen ——— KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933. Peceeccvcecesecesesesesee Virginia’s New First Lady Knows Governor’s Job; . ith Business Pollard Courtship Mi (By Associated Press) ' RICHMOND, Va., August 5.—! Virginia has a First Lady who! could act as governor too. When Miss Violet Elisabeth Mc- Dougall and Gov. John Garland jPollard were married July 31, in; Winnipeg, Canada, home of the, bride’s mother, the executive of-| jfices lost an txecutive secretary | GENERAL'S AID who had won the commendation} gi |of the four governors under whom MODERN REPRESENTATIVE, *he has served. ; ; | There had been suggestions from | AT AUSTERE DEPARTMENT her friends that she aspire to the! OF JUSTICE IN WASHING. | °*3t¢’s highest office herself, but she cast aside these overtures with | TON IS STELLA AKIN NEW ATTORNEY. la smile, choosing instead to beconie! {the wife of the governor from} j whom she has taken dictation for _ |the last three and a half years. H Romance Kept Secret WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.) The romance in the executive "i me . {office did not become known un-} —The one-time erinolined | 5, the engagement was announe- ladies of the south now have ed. Governor Pollard at the time ESSERE lwas presiding over the governors} representa-| 7 CaliZornia. z | Daily, Miss McDongall had gone |about her multiple duties, person- jally supervising all official co jspondence; dictating much of it;; jadvising and consulting with thej| i governor; and condyeting all pa: don routine except formal hear- ings and final decisions. The executive mansion halls and garden paths will not be new to her, Since the death of the governor's wife she had been fre- {quently called upon to lend her! domestic knowledge to household! problems there. As bride and groom they will} live in the century-old executive! mansion until the expiration of Governor Pollard’s administration in January. They will have the! istinction of being the first new- ed occupants of the stately) ion in thé memozy.of.two: By SIGRID ARNE (By Axsocinted Press) 1 a very modern tive at the austere depart- Stella Akin, one of the newly sworn in special assistants to the attorney general, is the fi southern woman to gain admit- tance to this branch of the federal government, She is a young Savannah, Ga., lawyer with curly red hair, spar- kling brown eyes and a low voice softly southern in its accent. Fito Boza No Crinolines Here Miss Akin went to the attorney- general's office to take her oath of office just as any other titan- haired lady might—with a ‘jade! green hat to set off her bright colored locks, a matching green purse and wearing a smart black and white figured crepe dress. There she.found not only torney-General Cummings waiting to see this new member of the de- e 1 Fito Boza was arraigned in Y criminal court this morning and generations, sentenced by Judge J. Vining’ It was in the same mansion,; Harris to three years confinement| partment, but Postmaster General| however, that Susanne, the gov-!at hard labor in the state peni- “Jim” Farley as well. ernor’s daughter, was married tentiary Raifor He Farley, no doubt, remembered | early in his term to Herbert Lee on statutory the way Miss Akin tramped up and| Boatwright of Washington, al-! : OES down Ohio, Michigan and West) though they did not live there af-| charge by a j | Virginia during the last campaign |ter marriage. | Before passing the and the long hot days and nights| “Conotary” Is Clue |judge told the prisoner that. the at the Chicago convention when} { ad- Miss Akin worked around at was found guilty a ury last week. sentence When and where the courtship jury which found him guilty the! between Virginia’s jovial and) qressed a communication to the xed Romance W Romance that flowered in the Virginia state land Pollard and his secretary, thé former Violet E! will preside over the historic executive mansion (right). Sentenced To Three Years In State Penitentiary ec5e ecccceseane e jitol (left) at Richmond has united Gov. John Ga#- abeth McDougall, who as the state's first lady (KENTUCKY STARTS. “FIRING AGAIN AT FRENCH AIRMEN START FLIGHT’ SEEK TO SMASH RECORD SET; GUN SHOTS FIRED BY BRITISH AVIA- j | TORS | (iy AsNecinted Press) HARLAN, Kentucky, Aug Blazing guns and exploding dy my A ewectates) Eneee) the start today of a primary elec COUNTY ELECTION °° al of patronage by | | officers in vinting others to of-| THREE MEN INJURED; DYNA-!to appointing MITE THROWN; FIVE HUN-) | DRED RIFLE AND MACHINE) 5—| na-| ‘ 2 (mite, injuring three men, marked civil office or position For 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS ROOSEVELT OKEYS ~ DECLARATION FOR INDUSTRIAL PEAGE Appoints _ Distinguished Labor - Capital Leaders To Administer Effort ANTLNEPOTISM LAW NOT MEANT | _~ FOR TEACHERS | SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA | (By Associated Presa) HANDS DOWN RULING RE- WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. LATIVE TO ACT PASSED BY! President Roosevelt today LEGISLATURE {approved a joint declaration | for industrial. peace, pro- |posed-to him by leaders of Peace ay Associnted Vress) | TALLAHASSEE, Aug. 5.—-Su-j i) gusty and labor in an wn- ipreme court ruled today the anti- i nepotism law passed by the recent | Precedented effort to end all ‘Jogislature does not apply to; disputes. school teachers. The president promptly Because of state iaws governing | " }appointed a board of seven, jthe examination and appointment | lof school teachers, the definition; headed by Senator Wagner, fof nepotis: loes not extend to, y, “ Ithem the court held. | New York labor ' authority, A test of the law was bronght | to administer thé national {by Gertrude M. Robinson, Hills- | ff {borough county teacher, who it] Peace e ‘ort. ty charged, was related by mar-; Other members of the riage to a member of the school} és | board. {board are William Green, The court held’ she is not within! bresident American Federa- ithe prohibitions of the act, saying,” “nepotism has been defined as a tion of Labor; Dr. Leo Wol- public’ man; John Lewis, president fices or positions by reason of;of United Mine Workers; their blood or marital relationship | authority, | Walter Teagle, president of rather; han because of merit or ability ef | Standard Oil, New Jersey; appointee.” \ 3. “Our construction schoo! statut-| Gerard Swope, president of company, \es is that under these laws teachers’ General Electric jare requested to be appointed be-{ i as ‘ cause of their demonstrated and/and Louis Kirstein, Boston ved ability to teach and not by} merchant, n of their family status or} ; The president said the the usual political co: eration, .|that may apply to the ordinary document is ‘on a par with tion of Samuel Gompers’ memorable it permitted | .|to be filled at the di: N, Aug. 5.—A tion in Harlan county despite the; the appointing authorit, | presence of four national guard {companies who had been ordered when jon duty as a result of pre-election outbreaks Thursday and Friday; when two were killed. | The injured included Theodore | EUGENE DANIELL NABBED|clock. Started As Stenographer BY POLICE IN HOTEL:! Miss Akin was just 17 years old PT es |war-time demand to pre- ‘disputes” and chatacterized P OSTMASTER JOB asan “act of economic BROOKLY scholarly governor and his effi-| ourt, signed by F. F. Hoffman,! panera 3 cient and jmild«mannered ‘secre- : trans-Atlantic flight to “no- r : tary began is a question yet unan-| foreman, and the other members, CHARGED WITH FELONY;, during the toh ihed al she obtain-|swered, but the secrecy has made/ asking leniency. ed a stenographer’s position in a!j is alate fey ms OFFENSE 1S SERIOUS [inteyats office. ‘The Big, brownlton, eh, anita offenses, jlaw books interested her so much| judge, the cour where” began the Lieutenant Maurice toand Paul today said Rossi} obligated Codos, French} This joint (iy Associated Preas) NEW YORK, Aug. 5,—Eugene | Daniell, Jr., of Somerville, Massa-| chusetts, was arrested today on a charge of placing tear gas bombs, resulting in the closing of the New York Stock Exchange yes- terday. He was picked up by detectives in’a hotel, charged with malicious | mischief as a felony because the damage created by the bombs ex- ceeded the misdeameanor ance. Inspector John Lyons said that} Daniell, under questioning, ad-! mitted he was the man who placed} a package, believed for a time to contain a bomb, on the steps of the home of Mayor James Curley of Boston, recently. allow- VARIOUS PROBLEMS BOTHER INVENTORS tated | | ress) | Aug. 5.—Here’s what! British inventors were worrying; about last year: trying to obtain| solvents which would remove uni-} formly all kinds of dirt or stain;| the problem freeing motor gum-forming — con-! retaining “anti- ‘onstituents; increased and automatic volume to minimize fad- ing; and, hy- draulic transmissions, gear chang- ing contro by accelerator pedals, and increased vision. The nptrolier general of patents re- i applications totaling compared with 36,117 1931. —_—_—— Let ws tone up that MOTOR, it will xiv MILES pe and PLEASURE MILE Lou Smith Service Station White and Catherine Phone 522 Se 4 rs of knocking” radio selectivity control for automobiles, a ce viv 37.- in} more allon more canned soup that in three years she was ad- mitted to the bar, the youngest woman to gain that honor in her state at that time. Since then she has been secre- jtary for her state’s democratic | jcommittee and v e-president of the National business and profes- sional women’s association, all the while keeping a general law office going full tilt. No Time For Golf “Just a general practice,” she explains, “divorces, claims, even four murder trials. It was so fascinating I had time for nothing else. Don't ask me if I play golf. I just don’t have time.” j Her activity explains that lack of time. The day she was sworn in she chatted a few moments and then began looking around rather vaguely. Her new chief, the at torney general, asked her if she was looking for anything. “Why, yes, my desk,” she aa ‘I just thought I'd go to work.” So she did, in partment. the claims de FLORIDA TAKES 45 PASSENGERS The steamer and O terday af Havana vith Ferry Pa yesterday Florida, of the P. compa’ e 2 15 passenger ott arrived from Cuba 5:10 o'clock sacks © 1 oen- rnoon o'cloek for baggage miseel car 340 Galveston, Freighter Brazos Mallory morning Texas with shipments of food products She sailed 5:10 for New live lines, th arrived York tle, with cigars, i meat and cellaneous cargo. DIES OF STARVATION B ae CHICAGO Ar her voice. Some have recalled quotations | from the “connotary” Governor {Pollard prepared for his friends}mended by the jx jlast summer, a volume containing such as the one just “definitions not found in the dic-'the court can use its tionary.” leretion. “Woman (sometimes spelled] The judge expressed the belief {double you o man),” he wrote, “a/that the jurors in arriving at the |member of that sex always right) verdict of guilty, did con- |except when they stop to think ientiously and were | “Gentlemen,” said-apother pas-|scientious in asking for Isage, “is one who can. disagree! He then stated that it | without being disagreeable.” intention, before reac “Courtship—A man pursuing aj petition of the ju to sentence woman until she catches him,”)the defendant t e ithe chief executive wrote. half of the maximum provided b | Bride Native Canadian the law. But would take in con The “connotary” was written! sideration the plea of ing a vacation at White Sul-| make the sentence three years ‘© McDougall,| Before the defendant was ar- back: T@igned Attorney William V. Al bury, representing the firm Lester, Harris and Albury, neys for the motion for a new He mate an ek the court, cit every aspe act merciful when it is so a= ses neluded own dis- so also the jury and 'phur Springs, and 3 there disaptching his orders to his office, incidently took dic- tation for the “connotary” in off moments. A native Canadian, Mrs. Pollard still has a slight British note to She has an excellent reputation as a bridge player, likes ad and is inclined toward do- stic duties. Governor Pollard is 61 and Mrs. Pollard 44. atto: defense, trial quent app argued a ing the and e reasons on whi al ¥ to men in their | RELIEF WORKERS ARE PAID TODAY workers the Relief Council today. nt was just $304.80. Dis- slightly tot yesterday was bil excej was at fir Thursday today court STRAND $200. prisoner which $500 and was $1,000 week, however, on Monday ; a large amount will paid out to workers who were syed one, twe and three days raised to $1.5 was THEATER Dav Tonight at Miramar Club PEG O MY HEART On the Boulevard His Band Barbara Kent-John H BEAUTY PARLOR Matinee: Baleony 10¢c; Orches- 15-20c; Night 15-2Se Music by Howard Wilon and GOGD TIME! GOOD MUSIC! tra, : Middleton, resigned Harlan police | aviators, took off from chief, and republican candidate for | Floyd Bennet Field in an at-|sheriff, whose leg was injured. A : | The injured said they were tar-| tempt to set distance gets of an outbreak at the precinct! reco lof the Tway Coal Company camp, Eecores la mile south of here. | *They planned to cross the| They told officers they went to| {the precinct with a dozen other +imen, ten minutes before the open-| see if the bal- in accordance a ocean via Newfoundland and then “just keep going.’’ ing of the polls, to lot box was empty with a signed agreement of two factions. A controversy veen two groups iddieton and supP ran from the mine ompany office and sought shel- tojter beneath a concrete porch. They said about five hundred 340 miles set by} ., fro and a ached to a as thrown to the edge of the it exploded. guardsmen were from Harlan questioned Persia, Africa or Russia may be their landing place,; but they prefer to land in developed be- t yrters Karachi, India. The record they seek smash is tick piece of of 5. two British aviators. COUNCIL HOLDS BRIEF SESSION of the na where hur to the scene porch A jred Sever here 1 ‘i men were Captain Diamond Perkina nal guard, INSTRUCTIONS ON ~ SCHEDLUED EXAMS Persong aspirir As DONATION MADE TO MER- CEDES HOSPITAL TOWARD PAINTING BUILDING 1 at its regular for government fficie f paint ta arried OM at! wearing ir pital. This ac-!of t ywing a requ » the matron of the in-) 2™ne will be be inforn this future and free through | witi + helpfs: stitution. It was stated that the s of the relief workers. also ordered ma dior the repairir i carried on by lernment pe: counci positions. purcha “<= BIG DANCE | TONIGHT Coral Isle Casino | | From 10 till 2 Ladies Free} tees jFORT Y-FIVE APPLICANTS FOR, machine | ‘ lested in securing worth while gov-/+ | statesmanship, ‘appeal proposes the creation ofa distinguish b POSITION ACCORDING TO |" . suished: ee ntAnis CHca EL jto Dass promptly on any case jof hardehip or dispute that {may arise from interpreta- The number of didates for’ 4; ‘ ; ipcatlindas ineceadel- daily andi tion or application’ of the Arthur Pastorini, secretary of the| president's re-employment civil service commission in Key} ” West, has been forced to send to, #8reement, ‘ President Roosevelt ap- Washington for more application ; num-| Pointed the tribunal, shortly blanks When, on Thursday, the | er of applications distributed had | after he won an agreement reached 22, it was thought the supply would be sufficient. To-{to end a strike in the Penn- however, it seems that there! are more than 45 aspirants for the honor of postmaster as that num ber of applications blanks have been given out and others have been requested. j ral months ago it was con- fidently stated thgt five at the nost would enter the lists for the honor, but events prove how futile it is to forecast what) the outcome will be w al, it bh sylvania coal fields, involv- ing 7,000 and threatening 200,000 more. workers HEMINGWAY AND FAMILY LEAVE bsequ a politic- said, i | Mr. and Mra, Ernest Hemingway fand child, Mra Hemingway's sis ter and Mr. and Mrs. Charivs Thompson, left yesterday on the Florida where they will spend sev- eral days fishing. Mr. and Mrs, Thompson will re turn to Key West while the Hem ingways will leave Monday for Spain and after a short stay pro- ceed to France for a stay of sev- eral months. In November Mr. Hemingway will leave for British Fast Africa and Abyssinia. Enroute he will be Charies Thompaen, and pend several months hunting big game, in the African jangics. LIGHTHOUSE DEPOT WORKMEN LAID OFF the light ina- { this 16 men at projects. the layoff orary and work will be ja aid vera STORM REPORT —Wait and Dance With—— CAESAR LA MONICA AND HIS BAND CUBAN CLUB Sundey Night Admission 7S Cents WASHEN( ,! A TON 10 er co Dv near; by srbance wed © ast Texas, ifting gale » Mew Browns attended

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