The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 5, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 210. Florida’s Storm Damage Placed At One n Dollars; Texas Coast Suffers From Hurricane South And Central Por| SOP OOME OO tion Hit Hardest; One| HEAVY LOSS OF Hundred - Miie Wind) J VES IN TEXAS} Highest Reported | (By Associated Press) Houston, Sept, 5.— HARVEY BAILEY ESCAPES FROM TEXAS PRISON CHARGED 'WITH KIDNAPING (ity -Annoctated Prenn? JACKSONVILLE, Sept. 5. —Estimates of property Staggering property OF OKEAHOMA’ OIL MIL- damage and‘heavy loss LIONAIRE AND . SHOOTING: of life fromthe troipeal’ hurricane \that hammer-- ed the lower Rio Grande valley for sev- eral hours was indieat- ed today by the first meager reports from the stricken area. damage was placed: at’ well over $1,000,000," and + the}: death list increased to two. The dead were a fiagman mamed Davis, killed when eleven railway cars were wrecked between Sebring and Lake Placid, and Henry Corneil, negro, killed in the WO OODOIOOM# DS FOUR OFFICERS, PRISONERS |" (iy Assedinted Prenat DALLAS, - Sept. Bailey, charged. with kidnaping Charles F. Urschel, Oklahoma oil millionaire, and with the shooting of four officers and their prison- ers at Kansas City, escaped from Dallas county jail. He covered the jailer with a gun when the. latter went to the | 5.—Harvey | collapse of his home at Go- mez, Property damage at Stuart and Fort Pierce was estimat- ed at $1,000,000 and accur- ate estimates of citrus losses! ‘were not compiled. ’ The weather bureau Ported the storm recurved inland east of Apalachicola, and moved. through. Talla- Heavy rain, and wind gusts of 35 miles an hour continues here and in other’ north Florida cities. } ‘eeercenein ° DAMAGE FROM | STORM GROWS Florida was counting at least $1,000,000 damage to homes, business and citrus, after the tropical storm struck the state on the east eut path, damaging fruit through the south and cen- tral portion and blew into! the Gulf of Mexico north of nue TANKER HARVESTER ARRIV- Texas Oil company, which arrived cell to take breakfast. Bailey then locked the jailer in the death cell and escaped in the | officer’s automobile, He was later ce driving north out of Dallas. When he took the breakfast up, (the jailer found Bailey with a pis- tol in his hand. He walked a small flight of stairs to the death cell above the fifth floor. The jailer unlocked the door of the runaround and found Bailey ES IN PORT YESTERDAY} had sawed his way out of the in- lividual cell and was in the run- WITH DAMAGED STEERING) around. “I ought to kill you, but GEAR you’ve been so good to me that J : won't,” Bailey’ said. : RELIEF GOES TO AID VESSEL IN NEED OF HE “Give me those keys in a hurry: ” The wrecking tug Relief sailed! oy" “ge? ucts’ Bailey command: from the: Porter dock Sunday| the jailer in the death cell. He morning, going to the assistance | then walked down to the sixth of the British steamer Josephine} floor where Ed Morrow was jailer Grey, which was wrecked during} °" duty. bs } He covered Morrow and asked the storm of last Friday which de-' spout the elevator.. About that Vastated the coast of Cuba in the} time the elevator came up with a vicinity of Cardemas and Matan-; negro operator and a jail chef. za. Bailey forced; Morrow and the chef into a cell. appeared, but Bailey ran the ele- vator down to the first floor. There he covered another offi- cer and forced him to conduct him to the jail garage where he took a car and sped away taking Texas, fii i i, to Bayone, N. J., with a cargo once officer, WHR iia. The tanker Harvester, of the in port: yesterday with damag- ed steering is undergoing repairs and will leave as soon as these are completed. Bound from Houston, kerosene and gasoline, the véeisll scrim oa Set] MRS, JACKSON DIES urday in the gulf. was the worst blow he had ever) encountered in his many years at} The negro dis-' sea and that to move about the! —. The Kep West Citsen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1933. Cuba’s Revolutionary Regime Appears To Have Fallen; Said Power In Hands Of Socialists SCOCOCCCCOOOCOOOEOOOSOOOOOOTO OO SOEOOOOOOOOOODO0CCE All’s Quiet On The Uvalde Front ---A Real Vacation For Garners ‘When Vice President and Mrs. Garner go back to their Uvalde, |. Texas, home, shown in the background, his “cabinet” is complete, with the addition of his son and da ughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Tully Garner, and Genevieve Garner. | (By Associated Pres ' UVALDE, Tex., Sept. 5.—Far. Mrs, Garner hi from the hubbub of Washington little except. super with its problems of national re- president’s correspondence _ this covery and international affairs,'jsummer, for she is his secretary. ‘Mr. and Mrs, John N. Garner have She is aided occasionally by her ; been spending a quiet summer hol- daughter-in-law, Mrs. Tully Gar- jiday in their Uvalde home. ner, whose home adjoins the vice . So casual is the vice president President’s summer “white house.” lof the United States about his of- Sometimes she goes to a home |ficial duties that fellow towns- town bridge party now and then, ‘people have to pinch themselves to church, and on shopping trips | occasionally to realize he is really “down town,” but it’s all done right here in their midst. without show. Usually Found At Home | Garner has refused steadfastly “< Garner-has’*beetrhere ever since +0. make any public speeches, al- congress adjourned. He has rarely though Texans have sent him hun- left his home, nestled in a clump’ reds of invitations to appear at pienices and other 1 time to do tend the vice ‘of peean trees, except to go on a barbecues, fishing jaunt or a hunt with some’ events. ihounds recently given him. | There is a good deal of tele- phoning and telegraphing from the Garner home, however, to say ‘nothing of the work that goes on Joined Odd Fellows A diversion from his regular program of seclusion was his in- itiation into the Uvalde lodge of Odd Fellows, The occasion of his in a little frame structure only a “riding the goat’? drew members few steps from the comfortable'of that fraternal organization j house where the Garners live. The from great distances, the first i Garner “offices’’ are in that build-| time some of them had been “to lodge” in many months, ‘Boat Party Thought Lost _ Returns Here Yesterday | ing. A happy party of six pleasurejed. Though ships passed, one Seekers returned yesterday from} within about a mile, the signal was Sand Key after having been ma-| unheeded. jrooned there since last Thursday} In the city preparations were} Virgil Lowe Goes To His Death By Drowning; Truck Highway Bridge Skids Of Son, Billy And Claude|" POOwars aaa. Johnson, Occupants Of Car Saved; Efforts To Find Body Fail Virgil S. Lowe, 56 years old, met death by drowning yesterday morning-about 7 MACFARLAND GETS ORDERS TO LEAVE: | The U. S. S. Mac- | Farland, which has j been berthed at the na- | val station pier for the received go to o’clock when an automobile} ‘truck which he was driving, | went over the bridge at Bo-! ca Chica. | ! Claude Johnson, who was| in the truck, is at a local hos- pital, suffering with a com-! pound fracture of the right | leg and other cuts and bruis-} es about the forehead and! neck and»a slight injury to| his right hand. | ing this country to in- Billy Lowe, son of Virgil,} tervene. was also a passenger. He TIS SALSL ALAS | went through the terrible ex-|— s cea erences perience with no injuries and | told the first coherent story | of the accident. While going over the bridge it, | was noticed that the radiator cap had fallen off. Mr. Lowe applied; the -brakes to stop the truck and recover the cap. The vehicle skid- jded, tore through the guard rail | and went down out of sight in the channel. | After a terrific struggle to get {out of the cab on the truck, Mr. | Lowe and his companions started to swim to shore. Billy _was past 10 days, orders today to sea. From preparations made before sailing and other indications, it is believed the ship has been ordered to Cuban waters to be held ready in the event that an emergency arises requir- DIES SUDDENLY: | FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE} CONDUCTED TOMORROW AFTERNOON { | eee | William S, Scheurer, 60 years! jold, died suddenly yesterday af-| | ternoon at 2:30 o'clock at his home| 1231 Georgia street. Mr. Scheurer} | Shouting directions’ to, his father For.53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Indications Are President De Cespedes Will Re- sign; American Inter- vention Imminent (By Associated Press) HAVANA, Sept. 5.— The government of pro- visional President De Cespedes, which suc- ceeded the deposed Machado regime _ less than a month ago, this afternoon re- signed and turned the over to the revolution- nation ary junta. The five men named by the Extreme Left Wing of Radicals will rule. HAVANA, September 5. commission of |—Cuba’s revolutionary gov- ernment, a month old, was prepared to resign in favor of a commission of five men selected by leaders, sdldiers. and “national police, “who seized power through a bloodless coup d'etat night soon after details be- came known that Washing- ton had ordered United States warships to Cuba. de who was inspecting the storm area, was summoned back to Havana, and was expected last President Cespedes to resign. The coup placed power in the hands of radical social- ists, representing student groups and the A. B. C. so- ciety. had just finished doing a bit of and Mt/ Johnson was'Bringing ‘up/Work in the house, _ He stepped the rear. around to the rear ofthe dwelling| Tampa. Communication with the southern portion of the state| remained difficult, but meager reports disclosed the! loss of but one life. Henry; Cornell, negro, who fetionea to leave his home near Palm| Beach as the storm ap- proached was killed when his home collapsed. On Texas Coast |afternoon., Their families and| being made for vessels to go| decks was impossible. BODY TO BE SHIPPED TOMOR. Ferry Parrott sailed this mor- ning for Mobile to have a pro-| ROW AFTERNOON TO HOME peller, lost last week while the| IN MARYLAND ship was enroute from Havana to} Key West, installed, Other re-j eee pairs are to be made to the ship.| Mrs. Lillie May Jackson, 69 Rnaealacg ans ears old, mother of Captain Wil- n I. Jackson, died 2:15 o'clock FLORIDA HELD this morning in the residence at in the mortuary chapel of the Ben- |jamin Lopez Funeral Home. Rev- UNABLE TO LEAVE OUT ON/erend J. G. Stradley, of the First | Methodist church, will officiate. 1219 Pear! street. Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon 3:30 o'clock friends thought they were lest. | :earching, and it w Their destination when leaving! that an airplane be summoned to i Key West was Tortugas. There | cruise in the vicinity of Tortuga {they found mosquitoes too bad for| hoping to locate the missing men. | comfort and decided to return to Manuei Gomez, in charge of the Sand Key to fish and enjoy their; communication of the ' vacation guard, was called into con- And they had a great time until | sultation the happy thought of Friday when the storm swooped | “pluggin; in on the disconnect- {down on the island, carried away | ed telephone line to the lighthouse a large portion of the beach and: was put into actuality. lalong with it the launch, owned This was at 11 ‘o'clock. {by Eddie Saunders, a member of! ‘the pa | few need desper jate remedies, so it was suggested | | coast An sn. moments afterwards d communication decided to! was under way and by coast 826 2:30 o'clock vessel Goes From Sight { Suddenly Mr. Lowe disappeared | from sight and was not seen any? jwhen he was stricken and died| ‘instantly. - Funeral services will be held wer was received immediately. A! 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from j the First Methodist Church where) jthe body will ‘be placed at 2} o’clnck,’ Rev. J. G. Stradley wil! officiate. The funeral will be in charge of the Pritchard Funeral/ Home. ' | Mr. Scheurer was a member of B. H. McCalla Camp Spanish War | Veterans. The organization will} meet at the church 4:45 o’clock.! The services and interment wiil be} onducted with full military hon-} ors | He is survived by his widow, | more until early this morning. A vigorous search has been maintain- \ed ever since the accident. Dyna- | mite was used in the hopes that the concussion would bring the body to the surface. | Diving apparatus was used by lexperts but after long and care- {ful search the effort was aban- |doned as the water was so muddy jects were indiscernable at a distance of a few inches, it was said by those conducting the op- erations. + j A party of four men stayed on Privates, corporals and sergeants of the army arrest- ed or sent home the com- | missioned officers and seized control, guns at the principal street placing machine corners. They said the commission- ed officers will be restored to Power after the radical gov- ernment is installed. Soldiers were dissatisfied Although there was no fighting in the about pay cuts. ACCOUNT OF STORM The body will be sent tomorrow gain entrance to Sand Key light! the vessel returned with the men on| ais: Alice Scheurer, one ’ son, Brownsville and the gar- den country of the lower Rio | Grande was cut off from the} | world today by a hurricane, | The steamer Florida, of the P. : : *jand O, which smashed homes, | rive this morning from Tampa. crashing trees and damaging | T"* supp roost igorgay el he IN GULF i | Sunday crops on a marked path. Noy hind schedule, and was to return » nie: this morning. pe dpred to sutvey the dam-7" wy tice conditions in the vicia-| age until the winds abated.|ity of Tampa prevented the ves-| Sh ae sel being taken up to the dock The center apparently and the sailing was postponed. It ranged inland near Browns-|was said this morning by Agent * Bs tte 1J. N. Costar, the ship will resume Ville and that city was in. an))., citing Thareday, arriving at] area of blank silence. |Key West Friday m Gales also smote Corpus (Continued on Page Three) \TEXAS PHARMACIST | 1 nn | —JERSEY ICE CREAM— (My Amsactated Preset All Delicious Flavors Including |} PLAINVIEW, Tex., Sept. 5.— FRESH PEACH iA Plainview pharmacist, Bud Mil- _ ler, has patented a device for at-' Gardner’s Pharmacy taching price tags and display! Ph 17? Free Delivery cards to the tops of bottles or other small containers. afternoon over the East Coast to }the home in Lonaconing, Md., for which to make a distress interment. i jsons, Captain William I Jackson , ing ships that assistance was need - company, did not are! sng Earl C. Jackson; one daughter, Mrs. Anthony Olivieri; two sis- ters, Mrs, Ed Tull and Mrs, Min- nie Mason and one brother, Charles Mitchell, WASHINGTON, D. C., Septem- ber 5.—Advisory: Southeast storm warnings displayed 9:30 a. m. from Jacksonville te Charleston and warnings changed to small crafts from Tampa to Cedar Keys, Fla. The disturbance is central about WORKS OUT SCHEME: 75 mites cast of Apalachicola with sold yesterday at the county court j considerably diminished intensity. house. Tt is now moving northward or north-northwestward about miles and hear. pass near Thomasville, Ga, or before noon. The West moved inland near Brownsville. by 10 records in the office. Tts center will Gulf disturbance This action is in line with laws en- station and find something with| on board. gnal. | In the party were E. P. McGet- hoisted | trick, H. A. Donovan, Oliver Hask- »seph Hash William Man-/ el and Eddie Saunders, | A flag was found and PROPERTY SOLD |SEVERED PARTS — | HERE YESTERDAY OF BODY FOUND | ADVERTISED FOR SALE AND ipeNTIFIED AS BOUGHT IN FOR STATE LOURIER JOBB, THIRTY-YEAR- OLD WOMAN One piece of the property ad vertised by the county tax collec- tor for sale for taxes duc, was (Ry Ansocte DETROIT, Sept. 5.—The ar and legs of a woman, backed roughly from her body, found in the northwest- ern section of this city, have been identified by finger- prints as Lourier Jobb, 30. The police have started a search for the rest of the bedy. Press) It was bid in for the state by Mrs. Mary Lopez, keeper of Each day, until October 2. one piece wil! be sold. On t date all property is to be disposed of. ‘acted by the last legislature. the bridge the entire night watch for the body should it arise to the surface. At 3 o'clock this morning an object came within range of a light that was being used and members of the party a; few seconds afterwards recognized lit and positive state it was Mr. Lowe. Tide was rushing through the bridge as strong as a mill-race, it is said, and though attempts were made to get the body they proved ineffectnal and it went probably through the waters of the creek into the Florida Straits. The experience of Mr. Johnson was one that he will long remem- ber. While fighting against the tide with his broken leg dangling causing untold suffering, he found (Continued on Page Three) KINDERGARTEN Starts Monday, Sept. 11th Kindergarten Bldg., corner Rey- molds Avenue and South Street. Enrollments, Monday A. M. out | Philip, and a grandson. | } MAKES SURVEY OF BOULEVARD Homer Herrick, county engi-; neer, is today making an estimate of the damage done to the boule vard and will make » report of his , findings at the meeting of the county commissioners tomorrow! .. |night. Estimates vary from $15.000 to $49,000 and one person who bad gone under the boulevard and ex amined the area washed oct by the waves during Friday and Satar- day, stated his belief that it will take $100,000 to completely re- 5 NORA ARES the damage. shift jof power or disorder on the streets today, auto- armed young men were dashing about the streets and there was fear of bloodshed be- fore nightfall. Leaders denied communis- tic tendencies, and said they wanted economic reconstruc- mobiles carrying tion, respect for foreign ob- ligations, and formaiion of courts. There was talk of asking (Continued on Page Three) j STRAND THEATER Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in AROUND THE CORNER Ann Harding-Wm. Powell in DOUBLE HARNESS Matinee: 106; Orches- tre, 15-200; Night 15-256