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

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 236. ——. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 193: Havana Gets Eighty-Two: Two Persons’ Killed In Height Of Storm With) ANT) GAS SERVICE Twenty Or More Receiv- ing Injuries ty Associated Press) HAVANA, Oct. 5.—Storm barricades were removed to- day with the passing of the 82-mile an hour hurricane that caused slight injuries to 20 persons, sank small vessels in the harbor, and led to an orgy of looting. Soldiers ended the looting by killing two robbers. At the height of the storm one trooper and one sailor were killed, and one civilian wounded by snipers who fired on them while they tried to disperse thieves. Politics were at a standstill during the sto: but Colonel Fulgencio Batista, chief of army, and American Ambassador Sum- ner Welles conferred earlier. | , Batista assured Welles the lives ' and rights of officers captured Monday in the National Hotel | battle would be respected. STORM MOVES INTO ATLANTIC MIAMI, Oct. 5.—The movement of the tropical storm apparently in a northeasterly direction into the Atlantic Ocean from Havana, to- day removed further possibility of dangerous winds to the lower Flor- ida east coast, the government ~ aweathersbtremu- here aimduhéed.” TO MAKE RACE FOR CAPTAIN OF POLICE iGOOD ELECTRIC IN STORM PERIOD WORKING CREWS OF COM-' PANIES RENDER EVERY, ASSISTANCE POSSIBLE IN MAKING REPAIRS | | i { onstrated by’ the working crews! pany and the Key West Gas com- Speed and efficiency were dem- of the Key West Electric com- pany in repairing the inconven-| | iences ‘due to wind ’and water, ex-) perienced by the patrons of the companies. \ EXCESSIVE HEAT REPORTED TODAY IN CALIFORNIA HEAVY RAINS ALONG LOWER FLORIDA COAST; FREAK STORMS IN HOLLYWOOD AND FORT LAUDERDALE New Whirligig Microscope Looks Two Ways At Once By HOWARD w. Sees Coccccecccccccccccoccces Associated Press Science Editor . AVOODS HOLE, Macs, October| Seience Gets A Helper 5.—A new, whirligig microscope !'*® which can look in two directions! at once is in use at the Marin Biological Laboratory here. It allows the scientist to mag- nify and to compare two group: of microscopic animals simultan- 'eously while subjected to high cen- trifugal forces. The feat is much like being able to see both New !York and London simultaneously. Rotating Disc Used (ity Associated Press) Further possibility of dangerous winds to the lower east coast of} Florida was removed today as the tropical disturbance which threat- ened this area moved out to the 5 ‘ Atlantic ocean after lashing Key, The whirligig is a double cen- West with outer winds. trifuge microscope, devised by Dr.) Across the continent, southern|E- Newton Harvey of Princeton’ California hoped for relief fromj¥Niversity, and Alfred Loomis of the blistering heat that set new|Tuxedo Park, N, Y., the broker- records, scientist. This centrifuge is a Los Angeles yesterday swelter-|dise somewhat bigger than a din ed at 100, the hottest day in four|er plate, rotating at several thou-; years. sand revolutions a minute. | Pasadena and Glendale had 103!’ Opposite each other, near the| while Riverside registered 104. |*im of the plate, two holes are; Heavy rains fell along the lower} sunk in the disc, but they do not Florida east coast. penetrate it completely. In each; Three small freak storms ap-|f these depressions is placed aj parently caused by the tropical, Soup of living animal cells. Con-: The Kev West Citisen 3, PRESIDENT OF CHICAGO CUBS’ TEAM IS DEAD WILLIAM VEECK SUCCUMBS TO AILMENTS IN ST. LUKE’S HOSPITAL; CONDITION WAS SERIOUS SOME TIME (My Assoomted Preas) CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—Wil- liam Veeck, president of the Chicago Cubs, died today at St. Luke’s hospital where he had been suffering from Leucemia or excess white corpuscles in the blood. Veeck entered the hospital * several day: 0, and his con- dition was prounounced crit- ical from the start. Oxygen was administered last night to assist breathing. Three circuits, Numbers 5, 6,, disturbance were reported in Mi-| necting the holes is a corridor,| and 7, of the electric company ami’s residential section, Holty-{making a straight line across the, giving service to stores and resi- dences were operating during the; entire night. Four were out of commission. As a safety meas- ure, the street light circuits were cut off about 10 o’clock last night. Before 11 o’clock this morning all circuits were restored to ac-, tivity. The street circuits will) be operating tonight. { Repair workmen for the gas! company were busy this morning! restoring service to certain sec-| tions. | Water in the drips was{ the cause. of the restricted flow! of gas. | As soon as headquarters was ad-| vised of the condition the repair} erews were sent at once. The drips were freed of water and! irculation-of the fluid was resum- STATE SENATOR HARRISON HERE « plate. The corridor is fitted with! mirrors and lenses, which reflect {the images of the animals in both holes to a mirror sunk in the exact center of the plate. { Both Colonies Seen At Once | Looking at the central mirrors’ through a miscroscope ocular, the scientist sees both colonies simul- taneously. | When the plate revolves, the cells begin to reveal the different substances of which they are com-| prised. Centrifugal force — sey i arates the substances, causing! them to gather in layers, like! stripes on stick candy. The lay ers form because the mat have different densities. The, lightest of these stay closest the center of. the whirling. plate, ‘while the heaviest move outward} toward the rim. This separation does not kill the animals. Therefore ordinarily in- ing a two to ane repeal vote in visible life processes can be seen jin action better than by any other method yet devised. An example of the use is to di-} vide a goup of cells of the same! wood and Fort Lauderdale. Three persons were slightly hurt and some property damage to residences. FARLEY CLAIMS FLORIDA FAVORS REPEAL 2 T0 1 POSTMASTER GENERAL RATH- ER OPTIMISTIC OVER OUT- LOOK; TO BE HEARD IN AD- DRESS AT TAMPA MONDAY How a new type micro- scope looks in two directions shown at the same time is above. At top scientist looks down at hole in plate revolv- ing 8,000 times a second and sees simultaneously objects sieht icakk on both sides under lights. ‘WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—Pre- | Diagram below shows how P ind lenses carry views from both sides to center Florida where he will speak next and up to eye. week, Postmaster General Farley COUNTY BOARD GETS REPORTS FROM OFFICERS COLLECTOR LADD MAKES HIS REPORT ON DEPOSITS MADE TO VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS | OF ADMINISTRATION At the regular meeting of the | commissioners | board of county held last night, Tax Collector F. H, Ladd reported deposits made in the First National Bank for the month of September. Deposits for credit to ‘he va- rious county funds, $371.49. To various school funds, $1,021.11, making a total of $1,392.60. Present at the meeting were Chairman Norberg Thompson, SEND TROOPS TO QUIET TROUBLE IN MINE AREAS | NATIONAL GUARDSMEN oR-| DERED INTO ILLINOIS COUNTY BY LIEUTENANT; COLONEL ROBERT DAVIS! (iy Associated Press) HARRISBURG, IIL, Oct. 5.— National guard troops were order-) ed into Saline county today by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Davis after picketing miners along a fif-} teen mile front were accused by officials of the Peabody mine of persons. id he expected to move diers into the county. ials of the mine said at least three persons were jously wounded by incessant firing of picketers and appealed for medi- cal attention. However, local authorities said they had been unable to get any- one to brave the bullets and go to the rescue. In the meanwhile power lines leading into the mine were cut by picketers and the Big Four railroad bridge near the property was blown up. REPENTS FOR ACT CHICAGO—Three years after a thief in this dity stole Miss Amy Thornton’s purse containing $40 he sent the money back with a note signed “Repentant.” {wounding more than a score of! For 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Key West Barracks And Fort Taylor Not To Be‘Abandoned; In Line For ‘Improvements Trammell Makes Recom- mendation That Funds Be Alloted For Govern- ment Projects By PAUL MAY Special Washington Correspondent of The Citizen WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.— Instead of being abandoned, Key West Barracks and Fort Taylor stand a chance of get- ting additional funds from the War department for re- pairs and improvtments, it was learned today at the of- ifice of Senator Trammell of Florida. } Trammell has been trying to se- jcure an allotment for the two Key | West posts under the recent grant jof $50,000,000 to the War de- ipartment from the Public Works administration, it was said. War department officials de- nied published rumors from Wash- ington and other places that the Army contemplated abolishing either of its posts at Key West. A member of the Army chief of staff who declined to permit the use of his name declared that “the department most emphatically states that it has no intention of closing or curtailing its Key West posts,” according to Trammell’s office. . War department officials said that’ the y did not intend “to further contribute, to unemploy- ment by reducing expenditures or by abandoning army posts. { GUEST OF STATE SENATOR ARTHUR GOMEZ WHILE said today he saw his job of put- ting over the dempcratic repeal! animal, putting half of each into} each hole. One of the cell groups! 'PECORA OUT FOR — Commissioners Braxton B. War- ren, Carl Bervaldi; Clerk Ross C. Center Of Storm Passes Key MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT OF Sawyer and Chief Deputy Sheriff, & |will be in sea water, the other in oi i CANDIDACY TODAY; HAS HAD EXPERIENCE OF MANY YEARS IN POLICE WORK Will Richardson, well known business man, owner of Richard- son’s Grocery on Eaton and Eliza- beth streets, today makes his for- mal announcement as a candidate for the office of Captain of Po- lice in the coming city election in November, Mr. Richardson has many years of service on the police force to his credit, having served eight years thereon and retired several years ago to enter the grocery business, The candidate has a World War record, having served in the 150th Regiment, 38th Division, “Over There,” “during which period he conducted himself as should a representative of this nation in the great war, it is shown. “You've tried the rest, now try the best,” says Bill to a rep- resentative of The Citizen today. “T feel that I am qualified for the office, and if elected, I will, with | vessels in the harbor were sched-/ calling for the deportation of all the help of the other members of} Uled this morning and the situa-'Communis' the police force, see that the laws and ordinances of the city are en- forced,” “I will appreciate the support and confideneé of the voters and|streyers Wood, Semmes, Hunt and sion of the spread of Communism | if! Badger and Coast Guard Cutters in the United States and for leg-| pledge them faithful elected to the office. SLIGHT DAMAGE TO BOULEVARD County officials and many in- terested citizens who were of the opinion that the waves on South Shore had caused further croachments on the boulevard service during the storm, had their fears; the tender Ivy to the Porter tug) Coeeeeeee: allayed this morning. Homer Herrick, county — engi- (TO INVESTIGATE IN KEY WEST State Senator M. O. Harrison, representing the 36th senatorial! district, came in over the east coast yesterday for a short visit) and is the guest of State Senator) Arthur Gomez at his home on North Beach. Senator Harrison is assistant head of the Conservation Depart-| ment of Florida, and his visit was; made primarily to discuss conser-' vation matters with officials. | Both Senator Harrison and his: host were visitors at this office this morning and The Citizen was pleased to be able to quiet their} fears as to the storm being likely to do any damage to the fruit crop) of the state, it having curved and was probably headed toward An-} dros Island, in the Bahama group.| NO MOVEMENT OF i SHIPS IN HARBOR { 'record as No movements of government tion is the same as it was before yesterday. Ships in port are U. er Sturtevant, Coast Guard Destroy. De- Tuscarora, jand Gresham. Saukee | Yamacraw, | SHIP’S DAMAGE An investigation is to be held within the next few days to de- en-| termine responsibility for the acci-} oct5-1t |dent which resulted in damage by ‘Petre. | Tuesday afternoon the Petre | meer, investigated the condition hwas going out of the Porter Dock and reports that while there was|company slip and the Ivy was go- some damage, in addition to that ing to anchorage in Man 0° War @one by the storm of September 1, it was nogligiblé. | harbor. The vessels collided and/ jthe damage to the Petre! resulted. plank just about fii Three more speeches, he opined, | will just about finish the task. Farley speaks in Tampa Monday | night on repeal after the corner-; stone laying at Clearwater's new) post office that day. LEGION OPPOSES RECOGNITION OF SOVIET RUSSIA ALSO TAKES STAND AGAINST ALL COMMUNISTIC ELE- MENTS CALLING FOR THEIR) DEPORTATION | (My Ansoctated Prem) CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—With loud! cheering the American Legion’s! national convention today went on opposing diplomatic recognition of Soviet Russia and} The legion's policy was contain- ed in a report brought to the floor; by the Americanization committee, and it also called for the suppres-/ islation to provide proper penal- ties for campaigning for Com- munism, NOTICE, B. P. O. ELKS i All members are requested to; be present at the regular meeting tonight at 8:00 o'clock. Business! of special importance to be taken! oes Sal DR. A. COBO, Exalted Ruler. WHERE TO GO pera ite sci. acwny” “Turn Back The Clock” | at j P. ‘TWO BUILDING ‘GIANT LAUREL TREE ON SOUTHARD ST. j time. jbegun to grow well when lout its closely-leaved | again. jer the wind shifted into the north. i narcotic liquid. Then the mi-; croscope shows moment by mo-! nient how the cells react different-/ ly to the narcotic than to their normal environment of water. ATTORNEY’S JOB (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.— Ferdinand Pecora, counsel for the Senate Banking Com- mittee, decided today to run for district attorney for New PERMITS ISSUED’ Two building and repair per-| mits were issued from the office} of Harry Baker, building inspec-| tor, during the week ending Octo-| ber 5. | A sleeping porch is to be con-| - structed as an addition to the resi-| LIVERPOOL—Thomas Dorner, dence at 704 White street. Owner,|a policeman in this city, arrested John Costar; cost, $200. his divorced wife for driving Erect garage at 1106 White| recklessly and she lost her license street; cost, $100. f months, York county on the ticket with Joseph McKee, indipen- dent candidate for Mayor. ARRESTS DIVORCED WIFE 4 Reset For Fifth Spread; Has Remarkable Growth| BLOWN DOWN AGAIN, THE FOURTH TIME: of The giant laurel tree on South-Jed to cut off the limbs ard, near Bahama went |tree near its body, and by 10 30} x did a o'clock, with the use of blocks! eR OREIN SOEY SEIS) MEMES sacha! thd Searah na aed | ;Up to an upright position to grow} shorn of all its glorious spread,’ again as it had grown four times! for the fifth time. During the 1909 hurricane the laurel was blown down for first |W It was reset, and just} and it was} one ‘Slip the street, but is standing up again, though of are many trees in have been blown down up again, but judging from Literary Digest's in the Night.” l years ago, people bowled over the next year at the height of the hurricane which | publi struck Key West in 1919. tin f the The laurel then grew and spread | side urious or ¥ and, The Literary Digest thought it was ently funny when it clipped tement from a paper which ‘Some trees were blown down yesterday that were limbs branches for nine years, when, in| suffi the 1919 hurricane, it went down ja \ san This morning, a short time aft-jin t the west, the laurel fell across atement of fact went in-j Clements Jaycocks. Bond of. Miss Margaret Martinez for notary public, of $500 with the American Surety Company, was approved. County Judge Hugh Gunn re- jported po licenses issued during the month of September. Clerk C, Sam B. Curry, of the criminal court, submitted a detail ed report of cases disposed of a’ the September session. Clerk Sawyer’s report of the morith of September was read and approved. All bills were read and ordered paid when fonds are available. KELLY MAKES P OF “NOT GUILTY” «By Annoctated Prema) OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 5. —George “Machine Gun” Kelly and wife, Kathryn, pleaded mot guilty today to federal kidnaping chi bas- ed on abduction and som of Charles Urechel, lionaire. STORM REPORT Warnings were changed northwest storm warnings 9:30 a. m. from Key West to Jupiter and on the west Florida coast Boca Grande southwar The tropical disturbance was central this morning about 40 miles south southeast of Miami, moving northeastward attended by dangerous shifting gales. It will r .|cause strong north winds possi * reaching gale force at times and shifting to northwest late this afternoon or tonight from Boca Grande to Florida Keys and north- east shifting to north gales today and shifting to northwest tonight north of the Florida Keys to Jupiter. Northeast storm warning dis- re-; ceipts for tax redemptions during | from | 29.232, {Once again Key West has es- Instead of getting the full force; of the hurricane, the center of the| caped the ravages of a storm that tin the early hours of the night | threatened disaster. | isturbance passed 0 this morn. jing about 50 miles to the south- east, and is probably headed in the direction of the Bahama Islands. The lowest barometer reading} | West 50 Miles To Southeast Some of the stores on the west side of Duval street were flooded. The wind driving the rain under the doors. Goods on the floor in several places were damaged. The large glass in the window of the Kress store at the corner of Duval ‘street, was broken by the wind. The opening is boarded up and preparations are being made to replace the glass. Qne small boat lost the super- structure and a houseboat yacht, moored at. the causeway leading recorded in the last 40 years, ©X-| from Palm Avenue to the air sta- | cept in the major disturbances dur- jing that period when Key West! was directly in the center, was) shown by the instruments at the | weather bureau this morning at! 2:30 o’clock—29.09, The greatest force of wind j shown by the anamometer was 42 | miles, at 4:20 this morning. This record is registered for a period , of five minutes, and does not show the force of the wind in “puffs.” A conservative estimate places the velocity of the wind during | short periods, measured in seconds, at between 65 and 70 miles. The same wind record prevailed in Key West during this disturbance, as | was shown during that of Septem-| lber 1, this year. | At 8 o'clock this morning the wind from the northwest had a force of 34 miles with indications of gradually diminishing in pow- The barometer reading was} and slowly rising. In Havana at the same hour the barometer re and the win Ps The feature of the distx was the tation 11.85 inches, which i ly twice the normal for the month of October. to | precip approximate | ulting the to be ible. A number of trees were uprooted, others broken branches strip-/ ped from a great many. ' Business places and suffered ve tle, as far as can be ascertained. There was some Damage rex fr winds ia shown nm residences ‘tion, broke her lines and swung in on the beach. No damage re- sulted, it is said. On the water front, west and north sides of the city, slight dam- age was done to a number of boats, all of which can be repaired at a nominal cost. In Man O’ War harbor the tug Bafshe, lighthouse tender Ivy, and a number of other vessels rode safely through the gale and are ready for duty today. The tanker Occidental, of the Texas Oil company, and two barg- es, anchored in the harbor, near Whitehead Spit, were also in good condition this morning. Government ships in the sub- marine base were all ready for service this morning, not the slightest damage to any of them being reported. Despite all the vicissitudes and ineonveniences due to wind and ‘the torrential rains that oceur- fed at brief intervals throughout the day, The Citizen was issued ly on time. The corps of delivery boys was rom right on the job, and as noon as each received his papers he was off to make safe and quick deliv- ery to the hundreds of subseribers janxiously awaiting authentic news Lee Tracy-Mae Clark in TURN BACK THE CLOCK street, its branches reaching tyond the fence on the south side! Ke of the road. joke c in a position to! played north of Jupiter to Titus- true mn, but] slight damage to boats statement | ville; strong northeast winds thi* the garrison bight, wh nored in fett the At 9:15 hundreds of trees in i this| afternoon will shift te north to-|full force of the no land also that from the northwest. night over that section. ast winds, Lionel Atweil-Gloria Stuart fn SECRETS OF MY BLUE ROOM Nw tegte Mae eee