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

Associated Press Day Wire Service ——— ENPLOVES WN CHICAGO'S LOOP AREA Bandits Slay Policeman SEEKING TRAIL Short Time After Their} Automobile Had Collided With Another OF KIDNAPERS PARIS POLICE CLAIM TO (hy Associated Preas) CHICAGO, Sept. 22.—Be- hind a smoke screen laid in Chicago's loop. today, five gunmen staged a_ daring holdup of four Federal Re- Serve Bank employes, and five minutes later shot and killed a policeman, their automobile with another. The robbery, carefully planned and swiftly executed, probably will not net much in loot. W. C.! Bachman, cashier and deputy gov-| Lindbergh ransom money was ernor of the bank, said he believed; paid in American currency, $5, $10 the two bags contained nothing! jand $20 bills, and heretofore’ no pe eee eerste ecmber ort of British currincy was in- banks, The policeman, killed as he and] volved. However, American bills a fellow officer approached the! might have been exchanged for desperadoes’ car, about a mile} British money and the 1,000 pound from the scene of. the robbery,|ote traced to that exchange. ities Cinaoctn, 92.” ENROLLMENT AT STATE COLLEGE __ SHOWS UP WELL overturned after. striking another, ‘ONLY SLIGHTLY. LESS THAN and as Cunningham and Police- man. Morris Fitzgerald stepped in- SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR; ADDITIONAL REGISTRANTS to the street, men crawled from ARE EXPECTED ING BANK NOTE WHICH HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED (ity Ansoeinted Press) PARIS, Sept. 22.—The trail the Lindbergh kidnapers of was collided |mame of a man who- had in his ‘possession a 1,000 pound note identified by the Bank of England as part of the ransom money ex- torted from Colonel Lindbergh. the wreckage and sent a barrage of machine. bullets. toward, the ott fell, mortally, Cunningham wounded, while Fitzgerald jumped , behind a metal sign and returned the fire. Commandeering a pass- ing motorist’s car, the bandits es- caped, F The car left behind bore Flor- ida tag 112-185, LICENSE ISSUED TO DAN BURKE TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 22.— Records of the State Motor Ve- hicle Commission show Florida license 112-185 was issued by the Tampa agency January 31, to Dan{ Burke, of New York. It was reported lost or stolen| 1,642 for the in March and a duplicate was is-| year. _ sued by the Miami bureau. Burke} Additional Said he was a tourist. FERRY COMING FROM MOBILE) fan enrollment in excess of 1,500 VESSEL HAD BEEN UNDER}would cause some difficulty. (By Aasociated Prens) TALLAHASSEE, Fla,, Sept. 22. —Enrollment at Florida State College for Women is only 238 less than it was for the same time last year, S. R. Doyle, college registrar, said today. Enrollment at the end of the same time last registrations this total to about 1,500. Two successive reductions by the state legislature in the college budget, totalling 39 percent, re- sulted in necessary reductions in the faculty personnel, college of- IN LINDY CASE HAVE NAME OF MAN HAV-; sought today by Paris police who! after|said that the prefecture had the| first week was 1,414, as against! week are expected to bring the! ficials said, and they added that} | world and the poss Admiral Byrd and one of planes he will use in his Polar exploration are shown below. The Key West Citoen —. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1933. Weather, Navigation, Wireless Problems Awaits Solution By Byrd In Antarctica codec Previt ite | When Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd reaches the Antarctic on second expedition, he will study many scientific problems, the solution of which would be of much practical value to the world. The studi l include wireless communication, weather, sea and air navigation, shape of the ity that a land bridge once connected South Ameri Africa and Australia. By F. B. COLTON |needle never points with absolute, The circulating air governs raiv (Associated Press Science Writer) accuracy. Allowances therefore and dry weather in Australia, WASHINGTON, Sept. 22.'have to be made for variations in gouth Africa Argentina, Tignrovad wireless <.comertte magnetic force, and the Bet-l o.. snecs aro: cheat areanvbl ee PEOVER Seren . COP ter thea are understood the ‘hiorepe ne ee, ee ree munication, sea and airplane accurately pilots can steer their “™arginal lands” on which crops - ¥ \ships on sea or in air. and herds can be raised success- vigation n weather ; s @ et and | This magnetic force also af- fully only in years of plentiful orecasting are; some-~prae-| fects wireless;*telegraph and tele-"rain, “IT the diy years could be tical benefits in prospect|phone communication, which are predicted on the basis of from Rear Admiral Richard | isturbed by seuss storms” knowledge of Antarctic weather, : ’ é {that result from disturbances of ‘great losses in these regions could E. Byrd’s new Aintarctic ex-'the force. More knowledge is be prevented. pedition. ‘needed of how wireless messages! Shape of the earth, which isn’t } ‘as round as it looks, is another problem that may be partially; solved by exploration in the polar} jregions, The earth is flattened| |slightly at both poles, so that it is jnot exactly round. This makes in, the pull of gravity stronger near and new His projected flight over the|are affected when they pass near South Magnetic Pole may help|the North and South Magnetic solve some mysteries about the un-!Poles on their way around the seen but ever-active magnetic | earth. force that constantly crackles and} wavets' around ‘the earth, 88) ‘Weather knowledge gained around, the earth, as around 4/the Antarctic is highly important the poles. horseshoe magnet. The South because the great unknown con-| Possibility that the Antarctic} Magnetic Pole, about 1,200 miles’ tinent is a “weather breeder” for' continent is not a continent after from the geographic South Pole.|nuch of the southern half of the/all but really two huge islands is one of the two focal points of| oid. Weather of most of the|with the water between them! this force, the other. being the sarth is chiefly controlled by air|concealed by the great ice cap is North Magnetic Pole. jeurrents that are cooled over the!another unsolved problem of the| Effect On Compass Sought =| polar regions, flow near the sur-! “bottom of the world.” The magnetic force around the, face toward the equator, are; Some scientists think Antarctica earth is what makes possible the warmed, rise and return to the once was larger than now and| use of the mariner’s compass, for’ poles at higher levels. Scientists served as a “land bridge” by} it points the needle toward the liken the Antarctic region to a which similar animals and plants! poles, but because the force is great “heart” whose pulsations' reached the now widely-separated constantly varying for some reason. keep this process going in the areas of Australia, South America not fully explained the. compass, southern hemisphere. jand South Africa. i Weather Data Important i i ' istay in Miami, For 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS. Rebellion And Possible Hunger Now Faces Cuba’s Capital (ity Indications Show Ford Motor | Fist 8 Company Will Comply Partly it Cel Sep With NRA Provision On Code In View Of Strike 22.—) automotive circles generally (By Associated Press) HAVANA, Sept. With an outward calm, this 22 22. DETROIT, Sept. There were | ; | capital today sat on a tinder was that the company is re- ane y vising the working schedules so employes work 64 hours strong indica- tions today the Ford Motor company, within a fortnight, box of rebellion and hun- ger. The government was still at odds with political foes, but was expected to reply for a 35 hour work-week,/| negatively to the opposition jand minimum pay of. 43\ demand for resignation. The Ford| Soldiers still had trouble scale at present is 50 cents] with rebel forces of Juan an hour for lowest paid em-'Blas Hernandez, ‘veteran ployes. jcampaigner against Ma- —|chado, in Camaguey prov- lince. | As available foodstuffs dwindled, Havana residents | checked supplies as ware- every two weeks, averaging} 32 hours weekly. The NRA _ code provides will place employes on a 32 hour week basis, thus. bring- ing the company within the work-week provision of the NRA automotive code which it has not signed. Although no official state-! ment was made, comment in cents an hour. FIVEHUNDRED CASE OF FRANK OR MORE GOING | BALBONTIN TAKEN ON EXCURSION, UP AGAIN TODAY :S".""s,,22,"* | VERY ATTRACTIVE RATE) DEFENDANT ARRAIGNED BE-! made that the capital would AND PRIVILEGES OFFERED} FORE COUNTY JUDGE; 18/0 hungry if the strike eon- FOR EXCURSION TO MIAMI) CHARGED WITH EMBEZZLE. | tinues another week, STARTING THIS AFTERNOON| MENT The-insurgents-making up the revolt forces under Her- nandez were reported as numbering more than 2,000, while many of them have been taken prisoners follow- ing engagements precipitated with soldiers in the Cama- guey province. Approximately 500 citizens of| The case of Frank Balbontin, Key West are expected to leave | started yesterday in Judge Gunn's over the East Coast this afternoon | C°Urt and stopped suddenly when for Miami to spend. three nights | ‘2 defendant asked for time to and. two days, returning on the Secure an attorney, was resumed Havana Special Monday morning. |S sity For many months Florida East | Willams Renyers po: Dearenes (Cosat’ ottaati® ‘condidéred the| the embezzlement charges, told proposition of putting on an ex. ithe court he gave the defendant carsion frou Kay. West to Miami|2 suit of blue serge clothes to atin sacl! eee aie \be cleaned and pressed. 2 About one week later he went They de-| cided to do so and at the same! 4, the clothes and was informed rate that the suit had beén stolen. Not time concluded to make a of practically the whole suit but the coat had within the reach ‘been taken. Balbontin offered everyone. An announcement appeared in yr Sawyer the pants which were ke) refused The Citizen that persons who ta’ advantage of the cheap rate can; paihontin promjxed to make} leave Key West tonight or tomor-! good the loss but after two months row night and after a pleasant | p44 passed and he failed to make return Monday! good the promise, Mr. Sawyer morning. ; 3 A jhad him arrested. The price of a ticket is $1.59 for; ‘The defendant's attorney stat- the round trip. Children, 75} eq to the court he did not believe cents. This ticket enables thei there was sufficient evidence to} traveler to check 150 pounds of | <ubstantiate the charge of em- baggage to and from Miami. Also pezziement and asked the court, ;# seat in a Pullman car ean be pur-|iy his honor intended to exact a REPRESENTATIONS FROM WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. —The United States govern- ment will make representa- tions to Havana authorities as the result of looting of an American citizen's home there. Details of the affair were not available at the state de- | partment, nor was Secretary DESTROYER WOOD SEVEN:YEAR-OLD ‘RELIEF ARRIVES \ \ | REPAIRS; TO ARRIVE TO- Registrar Doyle described 1,500 students as “an ideal enrollment NIGHT OR TOMORROW jit efficiency is to be considered” * aie in view of the faculty reduc-} The ferry Joseph R. Parrott is, tions. expectéd to return to Key West shes ee first time in the;|SEVERAL OF GOVERNMENT tonight or early tomorrow morn- ry of the college that enroll- i ; ihe tris Mobite, Ala., with A. R.| ment decreased 50 or more from! VESSELS STILL IN LOCAL Miller, superintendent of the F, E,; the previous year’s figure. Only| HARBOR ©. Car Ferry Company, on board.|four other decreases ever occur-| Several weeks ago the ship lost | red—in 1913 when there was a} one propeller and part of the; loss of 39 students, in 1920, a shaft while about 20 miles from/loss of two students, in 1926, aj The | Key West enroute from Havana. | loss of 36 students, and in 1931,| Wood sailed this morning for the On her arrival she was inspect-/a loss of 16 student i ‘ ed and it was decided to send her} SAILS FOR CUBA ! 1 coast guard Destroyer} | Cuban coast, The Wainwright, GIRL HAS CHILD (Ry Associnted Press) LONDON, Sept. 22.—The case of an Indian girl giving birth to a baby before being seven years old was reported by a Delhi doctor in “The British Medical Journal.” The baby weighed four pounds, three ounces at birth. Beyond suffering fright HERE LAST NIGHT WRECKING TUG HAD BEEN RENDERING AID TO DIS- TRESSED SHIPS | The wrecking tug Relief arriv- hea last night from Santa Lucie In- et, where wrecking operations on {chased for $1.50 addition. bond, to make it reasonable | Hull informed of the name | Normally the regular ticket,; Judge Gunn heard the plea of| 7 [priced at $3.59, does not carry the the attorney and said the court|Of the American. He said, privilege of riding in a Pullman| finds sufficient evidence to hold! apparently, no one was in- the accused for trial at the next) \for the additional price of $1.50. : The traveler desiring to ride in aterm of criminal court and fixed |Jured. a bond of $100. This was made} The | Pullman must pay full fare, $7.18 and the prisoner released. jernment was not recognized, jand the additional $1.50, making a ;total of $8.68. j | For this excursion Key Westers jand it was assumed Ambas- isador Welles would place i ithe protests before the Ha- (My Aw { are being given the same modations and privileges for the} MIAMI, ¢ es ; Vana police or others direct- Money flows in the waters of the/ly in charge. revolutionary gov- VALUABLE MINERALS ARE LOST IN STREAMS accom | small sum of $3, and that they are! taking advantage of the rate is; shown by the record of ticket sales in the office. ! inted Press) t for three days, he said, the | At 2:30 o'clock this afternoon tri-state lead and zine district, to Mobile to have repairs made and at the same time given a gen- eral overhaul. ITALIANS TAUGHT DURING VOYAGES| (My Agaoctated Press) ROME, Sept. 22.—Qualified in- stractors have been assigned to Italian steamers plying between California and Italy to teach pas- sengers the language during the. crossing. Regular classes are planned for beginners and ad- vanced students, with first in- struction set for Triestine Nava- gation company ships. SATURDAY SPECIALS Nice Fresh Veal Milk Fed Fryers and Hens Swift Premier Hama CENTRAL MARKET C. E. ALBURY, Prop. 805 Fleming St. Phone 20 RELIEF WORKERS GET PAID TODAY ; TIONS AMOUNTED TO $427.20 ij Another payday today for workers of the Energency Relief Council. Disbursements amount- ed to $427.20, | This was the third iweek that employes have paid and the office force has been kept busy compiling the pay time roll and preparing the envelopes for speedy distribution. Funds paid out for the week! $682) were $897.60 on Tuesday, on Wednesday and $427.20 today, tmaking a total for the week of 1 $2,006.80. | } } { { { DISBURSEMENTS FOR OPERA. the stream. This morning s | jleft her moorings and came up to! this | been | ordered yesterday to sail for Cuba at midnight, had the orders can- celled at 10 o'clock last night. This vessel had been moved from the dock and anchored in he the Porter dock where she has been berthed for the past 10 days. Vessels of the service the harbor today are U. S. Destroyer Dupont, coast guard Destroyers Upshur, Badger, Wilkes, Hunt and Wainwright and the cutters Gres- ham and Saukee, FREE TRIP TO MIAMI DANCE TONIGHT AT CUBAN CLUB Music By HOWARD WILSON | Admission 50¢ (Plux Se Tax) Children 10c; Ladies Se in mother recovered perfectly and was able to nurse the in- fant for nine months, when it weighed 11 pounds, 2 ounces. ‘STEAMER OZARK ARRIVES HERE VESSEL BRINGS FREIGHT FROM NEW ORLEANS LAST NIGHT Freighter Ozark, of the Clyde: Mallory lines, arrived last night from New Orleans with car- geo for Key West. ing, the vessel took on shipments of cigars and miscellaneous freight and sailed for Miami and Jack- jsonville. Freighter € is due to f the same jline, e Monday morning from New York, enroute; ‘te Tampa and Mobile. After discharg-' the steamer Elizabeth were being conducted. The ship came up to Porter Dock for water ne and upplies, Later the tug sailed for Mobile, Ala., towing the British steamship Josephine Grey, salvaged by the t Willett and brought to the The placed in dry- a ¥y yesterday morning. The day afternoon for Santa Lucia in- let and will continue wrecking op- erations on the Elizabeth. Track Arrives Tonight with complete line of FRUITS and VEGETABLES to be on sale tomorrow. TIFT’S CASH GROCERY PHONE 675 Willett sailed late yester- ;the ticket office reported sale . Ww 587 tickets and it is believed the| i+ of Webb € sale will reach the 600 mark be-!,,, | fore the train leaves this evening. | j ‘BANDITS GET $10,000 LOOT! (Ry Associated Preas) SCRANTON, Sept. 22.-— The paymaster for the Dunlap silk mill at Olyphant, here, was held up near the mill today by four men and robbed of nearly $10,000. SHAVED HEAD re Waring, © cham | Hull said conditions in the ity, Mo. He wants! interior appeared more salvage this runaway wealth: Waring estimates that metallie| favorable than at any time | zine and cadmium valued at more! for the week past, but that jthan $8,000 is carried away daily? s | by the streams of the mineral areaj the situation in or near Ha- embracing parts of Oklahomis,' yang was not so good Kansax and Missouri. j . He advocates measures to pre-| cipitate the the water} 4 thus mineral values. { QUITE FEMININE j NEW LONDON, Conn.—When jJohn McRoberts, “swamp hermit” STORM REPORT lof this city, was taken to the jeounty home he was wearing «ilk | stockings, bloomers, slip and cor- WASHINGTON, D. € -jset cover that he found on the Advisory 10 a. m.—Tropical! city dump. | disturbance is moving slowly west-} saeicapeesaranianntieneniinn {northwestward over Yorsten. _ STRAND THEATER center will reach vicinity of} " Merida and Progresso within next)§ oretts Young-Ricardo Cortes twelve hours. It is attended by) 2” MODMIGMT MARY gales and powibly by winds of | George Artiss-Doris Kenyon in hurricane force over # small area | THE AFFAIRS OF VOLTAIRE Matinee: 10¢; Orches- near the center. Caution advined vewels in the path. tra, 15-20; 18-28< metals in retrieve the near Sept. 22 PARIS—Mile. vette of this city ldance with her head ‘shaved. Elizabeth Ra- attended a completely ; i