The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 9, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 214. Great Increase Made In Allotments For Emergency Relief In Monroe County. Twelve Thousand Dollars MARYLAND MAKES Monbly Wil Be E-| READY FOR VOTE pended In Local Opera- tions MINNESOTA WILL ALSO VOTE Allotments for Emergency NEXT WEEK ON QUESTION Relief in Monroe county are today placed at $12,000 monthly. This is the gist of} "'*™**N YFARS ~*a telegram received at the _ . offices of the local council ‘ (By Axsocinted Press) Maryland is approaching its de- today. ina telegram setting forth cision on prohibition with a mini- mum of excitement. ON PROBI ISSUE} FOR SECOND “TIME WITHIN! t FrOSSSTOCSeSeSSSOREEECES | Ganging Up On Gangland KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, < the decision, M. L. Mont- gomery, associate director, wires the amount of the al- lotment and also that a check for $4,162 was mailed yesterday. When relief was first started in Monroe county the amount was $4,000 monthly, with checks arriv- ing weekly. Later this was in- creased by several thousand dol- lars. Both W. W. Demeritt, chairman of the local council, and Miss Heen Willimas, chairman of the social Service comn.ittee, have been put- ting forth every argument for an Observers said the culminating in the election to be held next Tuesday, is marked by apathy. Minnesota will, next week, vote on prohibition for a second time within 15 years. Some 700,000 persons are expected to vote next Tuesday to determine whether Minnesota will join the parade of states who have already favored repeal. Maine, the state where prohibi- tion was cradled in its infancy, will vote Monday whether to be- come the 24th to turn its back on the Eighteenth Amendment. campaign Who pays for bombings like these? Not only the owners of the St. Louis laundry wrecked (left) or the Cleveland restaurant (right), crime experts agree. These and countless others are blamed on racketeers, whose tribute exacted from business is passed on to the c onsumer in higher prices. By SIGRID ARNE (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. Every time an American cit- izen spends a dollar, an esti- mated 25 cents goes to rack- eteers—the estimate being: «: Senator Royal S. Copeland’s. tribute of 13 billions of dollars— levied by the underworld on bi ness, His figures indicate an annual! a fourth of the annual income—} trucks. i- | And that tribute goes into! of increased prices on goods.’ “Take the poultry racket. | York City, because of its Be, lJewish and Italian population,! buys $200,000,000 worth of chick- jeaeerey ear. “Poultry shipped from the AS and unloaded from poultry at Jersey City and placed in| ; coops which are loaded onto trucks) land taken to the city by ferry. poultry cars, certain coops, certain} If he doesn’t the ck ens never reach the market. Refusals Bring Violence The shipper can use only certain| “Hotel operators are forced to use certain laundries or somehow their linen is ruined with acid. “Cleaners must use certain | cleaning fluid or the garments are | ‘lost’ or ruined. Bombs Freely Used | “Trucks of silk goods on the jway to market are hi-jacked and {unscrupulous merchants sell the {silks that were stolen. “Restaurants fight each other, and suddenly the business of one ruined by a stink bomb thrown in among the customers. The odor jremains for. ew ' days and the trade increase in the allotment based \ on the known conditions extant in the city, an and ithe direful poets of Studies Matter When Mrs. Bertha Bedell, direc- tor of social service for this dis- trict arrived in Key West on her first visit, the matter was laid be- fore her for consideration. So im- pressed was Mrs, Bedell by the situation as outlined, that she de- cided to give the matter more in- timate study. * She left Key West but, return- eu within.a few days. and: eduring stay made an intensive study f conditions as outlined in her Pia ici seseauh ks with Mr. Demeritt and Miss Williams. Later the matter was} WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.— taken up at the meeting held in Education by personal contact for Miami which was attended by the} ¥omen, and money-raising by men, heads of departments in the state | today comprised Mrs. Franklin D. and the United States. Roosevelt’s program to save peo- Seckedig ‘dhe ee actual sordSe eg ; : ler views, expressed as a mob- Spe smal ot the investigations) itization for human needs at a the et ae ee — conference, began round table dis- 4nd the chairman of social servieeyCieto's Stuer nevtien: “e ‘** + - inter’s relief problem. ater thagyiaccegel oo Unless communities are alert and meet problems “people will This added sum to the allotment lightful th f weentiniy thintize te’ thie” clamtifica statve and the delightful theory o: 5 vernment won't help them one} tion of work periods which are to Iie” Mrs. Roosevelt thoy ber of members in the familygacon GOES TO CUBA| Bight and over, six days month- ly; six or seven, five days; four or jCOAST GUARD CUTTER TUS- CARORA ARRIVES FROM EDUCATION BY PERSONAL CONTACT FOR WOMEN AND MONEY-RAISING BY MEN 1S PART OF ARRANGEMENTS days; one individual with no de- pendents, two days. ADVISED ABOUT the price of goods, paid by the! consumer, Reaches Every Home The fii have« ed by Senator Copelan: York, who as chairman of the sen- ate’s committee on racketeering} is investigating the underworld’s hold on business, “Racketeering has reached the; point,” he says, “when it enters’ every American home in the form Fg of New “Take the case of a friend of! goes elsewhere. i mine who owns a business building on, Fifth avenue. A man called to;es affected include sigin a, protective asso-/¢leaners, bakers, coal, ciation at $15 a week, My friend} roofing. garages, produce, refused. The next day the win- cream, meats, florists, dows were broken. ,Sured ‘and the windows were re- | placed. Again they were broken.! He was in-| washers, and moving pictures. “The first step in a renew and now he has to pay the} gators, $15 weekly tribute. jlarge their powers.” PLAN SEARCH FOR MISSING AIRMEN, NAVY DEPARTMENT WILL SEND DIRIGIBLE MACON INTO NEW ENGLAND (ty Associated Perens) WASHINGTON, Sept. 9. —The navy department plans to end the dirigible Macon into New England, and probs. ably Canada, to search for the men in two balloons of James Gordon Bennett race as soon as the weather clears officers to obtain lity. five, four days; two or three, three ST. PETERSBURG SCHOOL OPENING: The steamer Florida sailed yes-| Pupils of the senior high seal for Havana with 10 pas- are instructed to report in the |Sengers from Key West, making a/ auditoritim promptly at 9 o'clock: total of 102. The vessel also car-; Monday morning and those of the} ried 176 sacks of mail and five Junior high are to report 9:30) automobiles. o'clock. | Ferry Palma arrived from Ha- Professor Horace O'Bryant/¥ana 6:20 o'clock with one car of States that it is necessary for all! ‘avocados, one car of tile and 134 pupils to be prompt in their re-'sacks of mali. sponse to the instructions as the! Coast guard cutter necessity for attendance at hours specified is imperative. | burg and is berthed at istation wharf. U. S. S. Destroyer Goff arrived yesterday afternoon for NOTTINGHAM, Eng. —- Mrs, and sailed later for Cuban waters. Maud Collinson of this city was!” The U. S. Destroyer McFarlane, arrested for fraud in selling love! Which has been on duty at Ha- powders that failed to win a hus-| vana, arrived this afternoon for band for a lady customer. {supplies and fuel. Liberty parties nnn are ashore for a few hours. You SAVE MONEY by]: buying your AUTO needs at NEWARK, N. J.—John Cullan, 56, of this city, told police he had Lou Smith Service Station ja dog which was starving to death; Ph jwhile he was in jail, so they let White and Catherine saz jhim out long enough to feed it. the naval ARRESTED FOR FRAUD GETS SHORT RELEASE supplies | servic Everett R. Rivas, now fan employe of the Key West Fire Department, enters the race today for Captain of Police jand his announcement lis found on another page of The Citizen. Mr. Rivas has had @ wide experience as sn jofficer of the law, For © {three and a half years Tuscarora j the , arrived yesterday from St. Peters- | he was a police officer, on the city’s roster. For a like period he was itraffic officer for the county and patrolled the county highway. His in this capacity received the commenda- |tion of the officials, After this he was deputy sheriff under Cleveland Niles for two lyears and for the past ltwo years has been a [member of the fire de- partm During his time as a pab! himself to win the approbatio and believes he has made a = mirers to warrant his entering t EVERETT R. RIVAS ENTERS’RACE. FOR CAPTAIN OF NIGHT POLICE = Member Cuba’s Revolutionary Group Stowaway Aboard Liner LARGEST PAY YET | sew" vom" S.p.""s—e FOR RELIEF UNIT Morro Castle, delayed two hours Wednesday at Havana, due Disbursement of funds the| | pay ‘off of employes of the En jwer cy Relief the, largest since the in to excited activities of ABC agents, docked here today with a Couficil Yyesterda council! member of the Cuban politico- as formed in Key West. Raa oe More ‘than 700 men were paid, ogores Penney: EACeD: Seeaek: 00.8 y of these were employed on: stowaway. work following the jstormy weather of last week, Thej ‘amount paid out was $1,784.40. He identified himself as Alfons | Cases, declared he was selected ie lottery to board the ship and “get” a “Machado agent named; No one of that name | was discovered aboard. } | anphy, Cuban mai Also aboard was Matthew Mol- r of the ; United Fruit company, and Augus- The | departure of Molanphy and his | family was marked by threatening | attentions of laborers on a Cuban | dock. The trouble } open or closed shop for company jtine Cabarez, contractor. arose over Cabarez, whose other | mame is i of reports that Diaz, professed ignorance uniformed men j sought to obtain $100 from him, ‘eee he left Cuba. EVERETT R. RIVAS Tonight from 10 till 7 MIRAMAR CLUB (On The Boulevard) Music by Howard Wilson's Band “Only a partial list of business- laundries, flour, ice, ice window- battle against these conditions is to en- The insurance company refused to! large the force of federal investi- and then, second, to en- Spanish | The Key West Citisen 1933. For An immense throng ascembied| at Bayview Park last night to lis- ten to speakers who expounded the question of the bond election} to be held September 18, one week \from next Monday. Many who went for the purpose of hearing the talks on the bond election, without- any thought of! participating in the election, were }surprised to learn they were free-| holdersand could vote on the! bond issue. H The‘speakers dwelt particularly on the necessity of voting for} bonds if they had the interests of the city and county at heart, and} the explanations were so clearly set forth that quite a few wh were opposed to voting the issu readily agreed after the differen phases of the proposition were ex-| plained. Mayor Wm. H. Malone, Tax Collector Frank H. Ladd, Dr. William R. Warren and Samuel! Hart were the speakers. After 'the first three had gone into the) |specific details of the bond ques- tion and had clarified the ques-! tion as to who is and who is not considered a freeholder according! to the law, Mr. Hart addressed the ; audience. i While making his appeal for voters to go to the polls on elec- tion day and vote for bonds, the speaker interspersed his talk with bits of humor and history which | kept.the audience in» a~ good} humor. Mr. Hart told the story of his great feat of eating a bunch of! bananas with more than 100 fruit’ on the stem, which gives him the; right, he said, to say that if Key} West had no other champion they} had the champion banana eater of} the United States, which called forth prolonged applause. During the evening the Muni-| cipal Band of Key West delighted the crowd with selections and be-! fore the speaking began played a concert from 8 o’clock until 8:30. IPRICE CONTROL PROVISIONS IN CODES ARGUED NEWLY-RAISED OBJECTIONS ENGAGE ATTENTION OF IN- DUSTRIAL ADMIN ISTRA- TION AT WASHINGTON ¥ Annocinted Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. {Newly raised objections by NRA {consumers’ advisory board to price jcontrol provisions in codes of com-| petition, engaged the attention | | Immense Crowd Hears Bond Election Issue Explained LBS S SLs. ROBBER ASKS WOMAN FOR KISS; SLAPPED (iy Associated Press? CHICAGO, Sept. -9—It was all right when a robber took Miss Gladys Raymon: purse at a pistol point, A she never objected when he removed a $250 diamond ring from her finger, but, when the same gunman asked for a kiss, she slapped him down. He escaped. Fe bak he dhe had ak| ‘MASONIC SCHOOL TO BE HELD HERE DURING OCTOBER PAST GRAND MASTER WAL- LACE R. CHEVES TO CON- DUCT SESSIONS BEGINNING OCTOBER 9 For three days beginning Octo- ber ber f1, a school of instruction on work in the Grand Lodge of Ma- sonry will be held in Key West. Past Grand Master Wallace R. Cheves, of the committee on work, will open the school 2 o'clock in the afternoon on October 9 in a hall to be designated by Right Worshipful J. J. Trevor. This information is contained in Mr. Trevor. The letter addressed to Masters, Wardens and Secretaries says “your grand master very much hopes that each and every one of} you will take advantage of the op- portunity to improve yourself in 9 and continuing through Octo- a letter received by | the authorized work of the Grand Lodge.” On the afternoon of October the Grand Master will be present and | personally devote the entire after- |noon to instruction | Law, in Masonic Jurisprudence, Lodge Pro- dure. and the best method of reating interest among the bretheren in lodge work, of the industrial administration today while it awaited the filing! of objections by bituminous coal) operators to a compact drafted! for their industry by General John- | son. | The board asked the master code | for retail trade be held up pend- ing investigations by a special coni- mittee into the entire subject of} minimum price control, which it} regardé¥ as the major policy ques- tion. CAPTAINPAUL | KOEING DEAD| .| ‘My Anscetated Press) GNADAU, Germany, Sept. 9.—Captein Paul Koe commander of the super: us marine Deutechiand, who made two crossings of the Atlantic in 1916, died today, aged 66. SATURDAY srecsaisi| KEY WEST VEAL KEY WEST PORK CENTRAL MARKET C. E. ALBURY, Prop. 805 Fleming St. Phone 20 ! j } j j - i ' i i | i j i | he Merece The hearing that was to have been given Harry Dongo, suspend-| ed municipal judge, by the city! council at the city hall tonight, Ihas been postponed due to fact that City Attorney lot, who is now out of the i at this time. held when date not be able to ar The hearing will be Mr. Lester arrives, the | which is not known now. \HOSPITAL GETS BASEBALL FUND, Maria Gutsen, president of | Hospital, told The | this morning that she had) 4 $24.58 from the receipts | ame of baceball recently played between two local teams. The money is to be applied to he funds of the hospital for the purchase of necessities for the in- = Mrs 0c. REAL COLD BEER the | J. Lance-} will | of} 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS ainst Cuba’s New Junta ‘Government Appears AsImminent Secretary Of Navy Arrives At Havana Last Night; Four U. S. War Vessels In Harbor (Special to The Citisen) HAVANA, Sept. 9.— Rumblings of a possible coup. against*the four-day- old: junta grew today as 200 army officers-were held vir- (tual prisoners in. the -Na- tional Hotel. He | der the deposed de Cespedes | regime, had convened to | consider their course, when jseveral companies of sol- [cere swooped down on the hotel, and, with machine guns, surrounded it. © . | At Washington, Presi- jdent Roosevelt remained: at the White House to watch the swiftly moving events of unsettled Cuba. He can- |celled plans for a fishing ‘trip in the Potomac and hoped the serious step of in- tervention would not be |forced upon the American government. The executive commission \ of five now ruling Cuba had under consideration a change in the present form of “gov: ernment, involving the prob- | able selection of ‘a president, Sergio Carbo, a cain ta of the junta 6aii This turn in thie ' wide- | spread political picture came |as the United States cruiser | Indianapolis, with Secretary | of the Navy Claude Swanson ‘aboard, dropped anchor in | the harbor. | The Indianapolis, which came here from Annapolis, | joined the cruiser |Richmond and two destroy- ‘ers, the Bainbridge and the | McFarland. GETS PROMOTION IN LIGHT- HOUSE SERVICE AT SAN PRANCISCO | | | | Thomas H. Curtis, formerly of |the lighthouse service in Key | West, has been raised from the | position of second mate to a cap- | tainey at the station in San Frah- cisco. More than @ year ago Ceptsin | Curtis, then a first mate, was ‘transferred from this station to the west coast and was demoted to second mate. Letters received vod the family in Key West show he has been | raised to first mate and then made | 5 captain in the short time he has iserved on the coset. | His family and friends por agpomes jthemselves as being elated over ithe news of his promotion. STRAND THEATER Bert doen copie — in Kay pacer wine govern ih STORM AT DAYBREAK - Matinee: 100; tre, © 15-286 i ! i i ae