The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 6, 1933, Page 1

For 58 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West est Citben KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1933. Associated Press-Day Wire f Service VOLUME LIV. No. 263. PRICE FIVE CENTS States Needed To Favor TAKES VERY LOW Repeal To Do Away With Prohibition (By Ansoeinted Presa) WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.— Spirited last minute argu- ments and predictions today created a fervent interest’ in tomorrow’s repeal and may-|' oralty elections. Two things put unusual significaiice into’ the off-year elections—orly three of the six states voting need to favor repeal to make certain of prohibition’s ‘of- ficial death about December 5. The states voting are North and South Carolina, Utah, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Kentucky. Statewide and mayoralty contests are expected by some politically interested to indicate the direction of na- tional political currents. In New York, where Tam- many Hall's fortune is in the alance,. three candidates, ‘O'Brien, McKee and LaGuar- dia, all pre d election by overwhelming plutdlities, Predictions in the. main were for heavy and record voting in most states. MAYOR WM WOULD DROP IN LONDON, UNEASINESS OVER FUTURE ACTIVITIES BELIEVED TO BE CAUSE; VARIOUS QUO- TATIONS STATED Cty Asdodinted Prévny ” ~ sLONDON, Nov.’ 6.—The “Amer- feon dolly 'skidddd’to new levels today under’ ‘pressure “be: | lieved prompted largely by nervousness over its future which low fat one time forced the quotation of an extreme rate of 4.92 3-4 to the ‘pound. Relaxation toward the end of the session resulted in the closing quotation of 4.90 3-4 compared to opening of 4.86 1-2. The final rate was still the rec- ord low since England and Ameri- ca slipped off the gold standard. French francs also were being converted into sterling in some volume largely the result of bud- get uncertainties, but at the same time all gold currencies were weak- er on sterling. ADMINISTRATION OBSERVES DROP WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—The administration. watched the dollar slide to a new low level today, but ‘would give no hint whether its gold buying activities abroad were link- ed to the skidding exchange rate. Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the RFC, said it so far has purchased $2,800,000 in domestic mined gold. Authorities are surrounding their, operations with the greatest secrecy lést speculators profit. ‘Officials today fixed the price of domestic newly mined gold at $32.84 an ounce, 17 cents higher than Saturday, and 38 cents high- er than the London quotation. MUSSOLINI MADE MINISTER OF AIR ~ AND NAVY FORCES KING EMANUEL MAKES OTHER SELECTIONS TO FILL. IMPORTANT POSTS AFTER RESIGNATIONS (Hy Associated Prena) ROME, November 6.—King Vic- tor Emanuel made Premier Mus- solini minister of both navy and air today after accepting the resig- nations of Air Marshal Italo Bal- bo and Admiral Guiseppe Sirianni. Alt the same time the kin; nam-| ed General Valle undersecretary of air’ and Admiral Cavagnari under- ‘Hello, Earth---Universe Calling! ---In A Steady Beat Of Radio Waves By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE | (Assiociated Press Science Editor) HOLMDEL, N. J. Nov. 6.—A new dream of obtaining power} from the stars of the milky way is| opened to scientists in the form} of radio waves streaming endless- ly across space from a_ source seemingly about 40,000 light- years distant from the earth. These star rays, electro-mag- inetic impulses, of a wave length of 14.6 meters, have been iden- tified definitely for more than a year on a receiving set operated here by Karl G. Jansky of the Bell laboratories. These electrical |waves might be considered in the) va of a potential celestial “power } ine.””, Hiss Is Indication When Mr. Jansky turns a sen- \sitive, directional ' antenna to- {ward the’ milky way, the incoming St raight From The ‘Power House’ POCCOCOOSOS OCC LEOOOOOTOSOSEOOLOHESAEEREEC00R8 Soecoeccccccocooooccocoes Ford Motor Works Lays Off Half Of Forces *In TROOPS STAND BY IN STRIKE OF FARM UNIT AUTOMOBILE CRASHED IN-' 'TO FARMER’S TRUCK (My Assoctated Press) Mammoth Concern Tries To Bring Average Working Hours Within Require- ments ' (By Associated Presa) DETROIT, Nov. 6.—Half of the men employed at the Ford Motor Company’s River Rouge plant were laid off today in accordance with a iwaves show their presence ina faint hiss. This sound increases distinetly if the antenna is pointed| jsouth, about half way down to secretary ‘of the navy. Balbo was ‘named Goverrior of i Uv) . R WAVES ALWAYS (HIT IT DIRECTION OF The farm strike situation was altecent company announce- seething tempest today with troops| tent that it planned to bring standing by in Iowa awaiting a the average working ‘hours Libya, taking the place of Mar- shal Badoglio. both Balbo and Sirianni a cordia! auto- Premier Mussolini sent graphed letter thanking them for their long and loyal cooperation. Balbo was raised to the rank of air marshall from general upon his return to Rome following a} mass "trans-Atlantic flight he led to Chicago and back. Air officers described Balbo as dejected and said he would take a vacation of several months be- fore assuming his post as Libya governor. The assumption of military ministries by Mussolini had been rumored for a year. CONSUL GENERAL po, — ‘okedit | CONSULATE HERE comes | ithe horizon: This southern point is directly in line with the center of our universe. Off in that direction,} 40,000 light-years away, lies a! mysterious gravitational hub, ;much of it veiled from telescopes by clouds of dust and gas. The visible portions are a blaze of jlight, evidence of millions of somewhat massed stars. Ray Direction Fixed That center always lies in the same fixed direction from earth. Even the world’s annual 600,000,- 000-mile circuit around the sun is too small to affect this direction. And at all times of year, Mr. Jansky finds, the main stream of waves comes in the same direc- tion from the distant hub. Their source, he says, is un- known. He suggests that they may originate in the energies of the youngest stars or that the direction of the waves has sbnie- thing to do with the 15-mile-a- second motion of the entire solar; system. A third idea is that the hiss picked up at Holmdel is a -second- ary radio wave set up in the earth’s atmosphere when star radiations strike the ionized layer of air, whith canopies: the entire! earth at altitudes of 100 to 300) miles. CODE CONTROL | | Karl G. Jansky listens to th bombardment of the earth by sta |impulses streaming from the center of the ui tional antenna he has determined that the hissing si come from the direction of the ce house” of the star waves. signals made by the continual F radio wa’ ree, nter of APPROVE FORM AS “USED LOCALLY BY > RELIEF OFFICIALS COAST GUARD | VESSELS START ON TRIP NORT call to arms as General Hugh S. Johnson, recovery administrator, turned to his middle west speak- nig tour. : One farm picket was killed and, several injured yesterday near! Dakota City, Nebraska, when an; automobile crashed into a truck farmers were dumping. There was a bright spot in the picture, however, when John D. Moore, technical advisor of the that instead of a general anthra- cite coal strike in Pennsylvania, the miners would be back on their jobs. FARM PICKETS ON BRIDGES WAHOO, Nebraska, Nov. 6.— Three hundred farmers today pick- eted bridges on roads leading from this cowhty. to. Omaha... Loaded trucks were permitted to BLANK PREPARED BY AR-| THERE WILL STILL BE QUITE) pass if the driver agreed not to THUR SHEPPARD IS RECOM. MENDED FOR USE IN OTHER SECTIONS BY COUNCILS Efficiency on the part of em- ployes of the local Emergency Re- recognized by others tnan those officials whe have come in contact with the clerical staff in Key West. lief Council is being ‘A NUMBER OF SHIPS OPER- ATING .IN..LOCAL AND CUBAN WATERS Exodus of coast guard ships from these. waters started this morning with the sailing of the Destroyer Semmes which left at 6 haul another load of farm products, to market. B. PEREZ NAMED IN COURT CHARGE PUT UNDER BOND ARRESTED FOLLOWING AFFI- within the NRA code of 35 a week. Officials, while declaring that “half of the men are being laid off” did not give the exact. figures as to the total emplovment in the plant. Last week they said prob- the “universe, “power! national labor board, said he hoped ably 9,000 would be laid off, possibly for seven days. _ The last official figure given by the company for the total employment at the plant some’.weeks ago was 46,000, |, $ see It v wontite oe q ‘ibe a5 laid off today havé been brought within regulatigns of the auto code the regt'of the employes will be given a sim- ilar lay-off. LARGE FUND P TO RELIEF VERY HELPFUL' In a letter to Arthur Sheppard, o'clock. The vessel returned short- director of work, Mrs. Marie M |ly before noon and sailed again in Meredith, director of social service} company with the Destroyer Bad- DAVIT FURNISHED BY PAUL OVER SEVENTEEN. HUNDRED Edgar Butarri, consul general of Cuba, came in on the Florida CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF CITY. ASKS COOPERATION OF CITIZENRY AGAINST PROM- ISCUOUS PRACTICE Mayor Wm. H. Malone told. The Citizen he is as anxious to stop the promiscuous use of firearms. on the island as any one, and asks}: the citizens to aid him in sup- pressing this dangerous practice. He has had a great number of . calls advising him of the reckless use of fire arms but has not re- ceived any definite information as. to who the culprits are. Officers of the police force have been instructed to arrest any person caught so breaking the law, and while a number of rifles, of small calibre, have been left by lawbreakers fleeing from officers, the offenders have escaped. Asked ‘about shooting on gov- ernment. property, the mayor re- plied that he had asked Major W, W. Rhein, U. S. A., in command of | was heard this afternoon. the barracks and Fort Taylor, and DEFENDANT CHARGED WITH VIOLATION OF INCOME TAX .LAWS; ENTERED PLEA OF | GUILTY WHEN ARRAIGNED Judge Halstead L. Ritter, of; United States court, arrived in Key West this morning over the East Coast and convened the tri- bunal this afternoon 3 o'clock. Accompanying the judge were John Holland, district attorney, Cc.) N. Hildreth, Jr., U. S. marshal; Harry Lowe, deputy U. S. marshal; ! Earl Spriggs, clerk of court and Charles W. Clark, internal revenue | investigator. = { The case of the United States against Rafael Rodriguez, charged with violation of income tax laws | Rodriguez pleaded guilty to hav- had been told by him that at this} ing failed to make a report on in-| time there are no outsanding per-! come received through the sale of | mits issued from his office, for[liquor. That he failed to make a| shooting on government reserva-/tax return on a gross income of | tions. Mr. Malone feels that with the $26,793.88 for 1930 and he at-} tempted to evade payment of $1 - Saturday afternoon to meet Con- sul Berardo Rodriguez and inspect the work of the consulate. Mr. Butarri is well known to a} number of folks in Key West, as he was here for.almost two years | as one of the refugees who fled the wrath of Gerardo Machado, former president. Shouts First Man To Be Sen. tenced For Crimes Committed During Machado Regime (Havana Post) “Ave Maria!” he shouted in a husky voice, and almost col- lapsed at the feet of the two soldiers who stood beside him. marked the climax of te Carreras, ex-member of the palace police and first of the defendants to receive sentence for crimes committed during the Machado regime. The blow which staggered Carreras was the words of fis- cal judge, Dr. Ricardo Aguero: “Twelve years and six months in prison.” PRESIDENT’S PROGRAM ALSO HELPS PUTTING MEN BACK TO WORK (By Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Code| control and the’ president’s reem-| {Ployment agreement were said to-} day by the’ American Federation of Labor in its November survey; | of business to have put 4,000,000 | men back to work. | | Of these it was said that over 1,700,000 were reemployed in the| | July to September period. | Unemployment was still de-| creasing in October, according to } trade union figures. j LODGE, MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT; DISTRICT SESSION OF ODD) FELLOWS ORGANIZATION | AT CUBAN HALL with 83 passengers. in St. Lucie county, asks for a copy of the record form being used by Mr. Sheppard for products distribution, The writer cites that Mrs. Ber- tha Austin Bedell, director of s0-| scheduled to sail between 2:30 and| Was All other coast guard| by the sheriff's office on affidav-{to clients of the Emergency Re- cial service for this district, had called her attention tothe form which was easily made out and greatly increased .efficiency in handling this particular branch of work, Mr. Sheppard will prepare one of the forms and it will be sent at once to ‘the social service director in St. Lucie county. MANY LEAVE ON SHIP FOR TAMPA FLORIDA ALSO BRINGS 86 PASSENGERS FROM HAVANA The Steamship Florida, of the P. and OQ. S. S. company, arrived | Saturday afternoon from Havana With 86 passengers, 46 of whom were aliens. The vessel sailed 6:30 o'clock Among them Key Westers taking ad- ger. The Destroyer Herndon sailed about 11:30 o’clock and the Hunt left at noon, The Wainwright, berthed at Porter’s dock, was 3 o'clock. ships that are’ scheduled to go north are expected to be out of port by tonight. After these are gone there will remain the Saukee, which will re- main as this is her home, port, and jthe U. 8. Desttoyer Claxton which is to sail tomorrow for Cuba. Vessels of the coast guard that have been operating in these wa- ters are the Upshur, Wainwright, Hernon, Badger, Semmes, Wood, Hunt, Wilkes, Tuscarora, Unaiga, Yamacraw and Gresham. Coming here they carried the flags of the| U. S. Navy. Today they are fly- ing the flags of the coast guard. With the departure of the coast guard ships there are left in these waters and the waters adjacent to | Cuba, one battleship, the Wyom- ing; one cruiser, the Richmond, Jand the following destroyers: Clax- ton. now at Key West; Tillman. MESA CHARGING TAMPER.! ING WITH ELECTRIC WIRES Benito Perez, alias Mexicano, arrested Saturday afternoon it furnished by Pay], Mega, guper- intendent of distribution for the Key West’ Electric eorhpainy.’ Perez is charged with having connected wites to divert the cur- rent of the company to prevent the meter registering, and thus) avoid paying toll to the company for the “juice.” There will be no preliminary jhearing of the case as the capias on which Perez was arrested was issued direct from the office of County Solicitor J. F. Busto. After the arrest Perez was re- leased on bond of $100 which was fixed by Judge J. Vining Harris. Tatnall, Reuben-James, DuPont, Badger, Bainbridge, Twiggs, Tay- | lor, Goff, Cole, Ellis, Talbot, Bab-| bitt and Sturtevant. 1 | What the orders concerning} ‘the destroyers at Key West are; j has not been given out officially, | SMALL SUM OF MONEY CAN TAKEN; NOTHING ELSE FOUND MISSING RODRIGUEZ HOME! DOLLARS FOR FIRST FOUR DAYS OF MONTH An appreciable amount has been | distributed:in the past several days lief Council, who have completed projects it various sections of the tity. Friday Paymaster Eugene Rob- erts’ paid out $1,221.40 and Sat- urday $508.06 was distributed. | This made the total ‘or the first four days of November of $1,- 729.45. | Lists are now being arranged to carry the names of children of |relief workers who are attending ; School and for whom lunches will | purchased with funds provided for this purpose by the state council. SON OF MEXICAN BANDIT INSANE (thy Asnoctated Press) LOS AUGELES, Nov. 6— Pancho Agustin Ville, 21, son of the late Mexican bandit, Pancho Villa, has been adjudged insane and ordered committed to an asy- dum. He became so violent in the 500.14 upon a net income for the | year. He was fined $50. Hl The indictment was returned last month by a federal grand jury sitting in Orlando and is based on | records seized during a liquor raid some months ago, on the place of | business conducted by Rodriguez. | Several other matters of import- | JOHN JOHNSON * SERIOUSLY ILL ance are to be passed on by the} judge at this session of court, but John Johnson is reported to be! this is the only case to be heard, critically i at the home of his| it is said. No jury was subpoenaed sister, Mrs, Clyde Baltzell, 804! to serve for the session. Elizabeth street. On Wednesday applicants for Another Key West resident, who,! naturalization will be heard, and/ it is shown, is seriously ill, is Al! the judge and officers of the court fred Higgs, who resides at 713] will return to Miami in the after-! Southard street, Roon, ‘ cooperation of the citizens, giving}: the names of all:recognised law- breakers, this pernicious practice will soon be stopped. Throughout the trial which took place ii special court originated for the purpose of Prosecuting scores of ex-offi- cials and employes of the gov- court room during the hearing [that he had to be strapped to = j cot. | Prior to the hearing, young Villa jhad received treatment in the psy- | eopathic ward of the General bos- | pitel here, where he was brought on the eve of his departure for his native country with « film com- pany. f ced fares on the, but it is understood that there will Thieves last night entered the | An open district meeting of all, line for an excursion of nine days! be from one to four vessels here at| home of Mr. and Mrs. Francisco {Key West Odd Fellows has been Tampa. ‘times, coming principally for oil) Rodriguez on New Street and de- lordered for tomorrow night at\ Freighter Colorado of the Clyde, and supplies, | parted with a small sum of money | Cuba Lodge in the Caballeros de la| Mallory Lines arrived 9 o'clock that was in a can. Luz Lodge Room on Amelia street. | this morning from New York. Aft-| © It is said by neighbors that one The meeting has been called by {er discharging 160 tons of freight of the miscreants was a long, lean, ‘Enrique Esquinaldo, district dep-|the ship sailed 1:15 for taagat futy grand master of Cuba Lodge |snd Mobile. | No. 15, and William Mendel, dis-| jttlet deputy grand master of Dis-j itriet No, 24. j | Members of Key West Lodge! } Neo. 13. Cuba Lodge No. 15 and Equity Lodge No. 70 have been i ;¥ited to attend. An interesting | program has been arranged for the occasion. WHERE TO GO cocccccccceccsscceccoees | 2k) eras aoe ma ree was a short, rsom, too san ut person, but it was too] dark for either of them to be rec-| Bayview Perk-—Diamondball. j + pay: | ened i Strand—-“S, 0. 8. Iceberg” an: It was easy to gain access to the “Pilgrimage | susideuies, i wes leawued. saan = ae cee in Paiace—“Tarzap the Feariess.”| er committing the theft the enl-/ - ‘ountry Club sched-| ~ ts left the door open then | Henrietta Crouman — esday the 7th, has been TOMORROW | leaving the premises. There was Angel in PILGRIMAGE postponed to a later date. | Strand—“Aces of Aces” and “S between $8 and $9 in the can, it! I otince: imag Sey Orches-| | nov, 6-1t,0. 8, Iceberg.” oy 16Gie betes) Following the sentence he staggered from the courtroom between two soldiers. He will be removed shortly to the Model prison in the Isle of Pines to start serving his term, officials said. F The scene of the trial was in the former quarters of con- gressional records on the ground floor of the Capitelic. COUNTRY CLUB NOTICE } » the departure of: the; rd ships the opening} is said. i