The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 21, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 276. Senate Investigation Shows Big Profits Made By Bankers In Financing Of New Concern 'DEFENDANTS IN ‘SLOT MACHINE’ -TRIAL DISMISSED) ba ise TOOK UP ALL OF YES- TERDAY IN CRIMINAL COURT; VERDICT RENDER- ED LATE IN AFTERNOON Case Deals With General Theatre Equipment Inc. ; Profits Said To Be Over $4,000,000 H (My Associnied Press) WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. —Evidence that profits of more than $4,000,000 were made within a few weeks by REGISTRATIONS WITH LABOR UNIT STARTS TOMORROW LOCAL LABOR COMMITTEE TO SIGN UP THOSE WHO ARE DESIROUS OF WORK- ING ON PROPOSED JOBS Registrations with the local! labor committee will begin tomor- row morning in the office of W. L. Bates, opposite the county | court house on Whitehead street. The committee, composed of B. D. Trevor, B. L. Grooms and W. L. Bates, appointed by G. A. Dun-}| can, of the U. S, Department of Labor, has secured the services of Joseph C. MeMahon who will be! in charge of the registrations. advised Che Key West Citwen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1933. Fly To Europe By ‘Hop, Skip And Jump’ --U. S. Aid Sought For Seadrome Test CeCocccccescccces eocccvecce| EXECUTIVE OF Included In For 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Only Short Time Projects Civil Works : Administration's Program OIL CONCERN IS SLAIN BY WIFE |MRS. SHELDON A. CLARK OF PAULSBORO, N. SHOT AFTER STRUCK HER OVER HEAD J., FIRES HUSBAND | (Ry Associated Presx> lan Undertakings Must Be Completed In Ninety Days From Time Of Be- ginning (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Nov. —Only projects which can be started quickly and fin- ished by February 15 will be undertaken by the Civil 21. bankers who financed the or- ganization of the General Theatre Equipment, Inc., was The defendants in the slot ma-| H chine cases tried in criminal court; yesterday were found not guilty | time, nor does the committee know Registrants are that! there are no jobs available at this; when there will be, However, reg- istrations are to be made now to PAULSBORO, N. J., Nov. 21.—| Works Administration, Mar- A bullet ended the colorful career | ous Fagg: Florida administra of Sheldon presented today to senate /4t 4:30 o'clock yesterday after- |noon when court was called to or- | + der after the noon recess, two wit- This vas received after), .ses were introduced by the de-| Ferdinand Pecora, banking |fense. Clements Jaycocks, chief! committee counsel, announc- | 4ePtty sheriff, and Enrique Maye, deputy. _ ed that William Fox, noted| These officers arrested the de- mavie executive had been fendants on a capias issued out of subpoenaed to testify Thurs- criminal court by County Solicitor, J. F. Busto, on affidavits of Jo-! day about the loss of his vast holdings. investigators, These were the only witnesses for the prosecution. The defense witnesses testified that in none of the places visited were there any slot machines found , nor were there any evidences of! any having. been operated. With this evidence by the offi- cers, it was conceded that the case of the state had collapsed and _procedure, and it is expected there was no chance for a convic- that many other witnesses Atter the arguments and the! will be called before the pro-|case was given to the jury for con- sideration they left the court room a Pe Sres AS THOUHE: to RTT ir boat tive minutes seterced| close. with a verdict of not guilty. The investigating commit- tee sitting at the hearing will make a thorough probe into all matters dealing with the HOW ABOUT RUM FROM HAVANA AFTER REPEAL? QUERY IS UNANSWERED (Tampa Tribune) Just about the time the amendment is formally repealed “If he is going into a wet state, passengers from Havana will be making an siete trip and can arriving in Tampa two ways—by| prove that fact, his liquor will not | boat and plane. pe taken away from him, as I fig-| So the question has been asked!ure it,” a customs officer said.| people, even in the absence of def- 18th) inite instructions, say not. To Keep Florida Dry ‘ matter will avoid the usual rush in} seph G, Knight and Clyde Knight. | “ insure possible consideration in: the future. There is no hurry about getting on the list and those applying atj the office are advised to take their time, form in line as indi- cated by the sign in front of the office, and go in the office in such manner as the place in the line warrants. This method of handling the tuations of this kind, and at the me time facilitate the work of the clerk receiying names of reg- istrants, EXCURSIONIST IS HIT ON HEAD WITH BOTTLE ON SUNDAY JOHN JOHNSON CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY J. T. WILLIAMS; INCIDENT HAPPENED ON TRAIN John Johnson is in a hospital in Miami suffering from _ several blows on the head inflicted by a bottle, it is said, in the hands of J. T. Williams, who is in jail in Miami. As far as can be learned these men were excursionists returning to Miami on the F, E. C. train Sunday afternoon, They got into; an altercation and Williams began to wield a bottle, On arriving there a doctor was summoned who declared that John- son was in bad shape and ordered him taken to a hospital for treat- ment. Williams was taken to jail. Yesterday Jack Baldwin, chief of the railway’s special investiga- tors, advised officials of the road | here of the mishap. They said the! 300 -FT. COLUMNSE REST ON BUOYANCY TANKS, t Plans for a lane of seadromes vision something like this as a sort of “tank town” stop on | the aerial highway across the Atla.tic. There would be five such ocean landing places in a con. | templated 30-hour route from New York to London. By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE of five projected to be anchored rounded ends. The columns will (Associated Press Science Editor) every 500 miles on a path across be 300 feet long, holding the deck; NEW YORK, Nov. 21.— ‘the Atlantic. |100 feet above the surface. Their slogan “New York to! Two Other Contestants Cable Three Miles Long z The two other contestants are} The drome will be fastened by} London in 30 hours”—the ‘the dirigible advocates, on one'a three-mile able to a 1,500-ton| big seadrome men _ have,hand, and the one-hop plane:anchor, saucer-shaped and made} advocates, on the other. The|to float until inner chambers are hopes of victory in the first jatter point to an order by one| flooded with. water. The anchor round of a three cornered of the big air lines for six Blanes wil be hitched to a buoy, from cece _ With a 3,000-mile cruising radius.| which the seadrome will swing. by contest for establishing TeS"| The s seadromes, as modeled, re-!a cable. It is pie to keep ular transatlantic l young oil company executive and ; sportsman his wife | membe: {lig after a quarrel with who told police she re- i nothing of what hap- pened after he hit her with a bil- liard cue. Mrs. Clark, former actress, was under police guard at a hospital with a severe head injury, but no charge was placed against her. Police quoted George Johnson, with whom Clark was playing bil- rds in the sixteen-room man- sion when the argument started, as saying Mrs. Clark asked her husband to have dinner at homc, ;and he replied he was going to eat elsewhere, The argument grew warmer, and Clark struck her on the head with a billiard cue, and she left, return- ing with a bloody towel around le hea 2 Sis ap eeae a revolver A. Clark, wealthy toe? bald ela, Architects and engineers who are idle at the time, however, may be employed to prepare plans and speci- fications for larger projects, Fagg said, in preparation for a possibility that congress may extend the civil works program, which under its present set-up, would expire {February 15. Fagg said the proposed jnew dormitories at the state hospital for the insane at_ Chattahoochee and the state. prison at Raiford will not be» undertaken because it will-be.. <;. impossible to complete them in the 90 days time limit. flying ‘semble flat oval docks on talljits head constantly toward the seitice. iers, their tops almost com-/ wind. These hopes rest on the an nouncement that the Public Wo! administration granting a $1,500,000 loan immediate experiments quarter-section of a seadrome—-a floating island of steel. It is one is considering for; on MORGENTHAU GIVES| NEW INSTRUCTIONS a} Civil Works Administration | ' To Handle Relief Activities letely bare steel flooring, under which are two floors of hotel and hangars. This superstructure; stands on hollow steel columns, ; with buoyancy tanks at the bot- tom to keep the drome afloat. The flying deck is to be 1,225 ifeet long, 300 feet wide amid- ‘ships, 150 feet in girth at the AT HORTA, AZORES | FLYING SPEED ON TRIP OVER ONE HUNDRED MILES Hundred-foot waves, it is pre- dicted, will pass completely un- ‘der the deck. | buoyancy tanks are designed to; float the water remains still. Edward R, Armstrong of Hol-} | yoke, Del., father of the ic started making models in 1913. TWO NAVAL SHIPS IN HARBOR TODAY TANKER) W., B. ANDERSON 1S Down where the AN HOUR WOULD HAVE ALL INFORMA. TION OF DEPT. APPROV- ED BEFORE GIVEN OUT (ity Associated F WASHINGTON, Nov. 21.—In | Activities of the Emergency Re- lief Council of Monroe county are to the This today being transferred Civil Works Administration. action is in line with authorization | (By Associated Press) HORTA, Azores, Nov. 21. —Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. their EXPECTED TO ARRIVE TO. MORROW OR THURSDAY Lindbergh, flying big Two naval ships are in the har- bor today. The Destroyer Goff, which arrived yesterday afternoon from Miami and the Sturtevant which has been in port almost one week. The Tanker W. B. Anderson is expected to arrive tomorrow or Thursday with a cargo of fuel oil for the tanks at the naval station. seaplane, covered more than 900 miles from Lisbon today to land safely here at 11:20 Eastern Standard time, today. Their ed laborers at 40 cents per hour and skilled labor at $1 per hour.| All men and women on the relief | lists at this timie who are willing and able to work to be included. | | flying speed was something over 100 miles an | ‘hour. The informative telegram con-} ludes with’ the expectation the! j addition to his order prohibiting received yesterday from Marcus C. | relief program will go forward | and asked quite _often—what | “But Florida is dry. The govern-| assault occurred in Monroe county | ment will use every effort to sce will be ithe, regulations abo sharithe right ifthe state to con! bringing home a bottle of rum for) tinue dry is respected.” the old lady? Boat passengers from Havana} No regulations to fit the new/to Tampa put their baggage on the | situation have been sent to cus-| platform at Key West to be ex- toms officers in Tampa by Wash-j amined. There is no second Search | ington. But they are expected} at Port Tampa unless customs men any day. In the absence of such| have suspicions. The Pan-Ameri- instructions, the force here and at; can Airways plane, soon to be Key West, where the main search-| coming in at Ballast Point, will ing is carried on, is not prepared|toss the luggage out there to be| td answer questions, The depart-| inspected. ment itself is in the air, Perfume Is Seized ‘Alletid Obs: QuaikBitore Take the case of the passenger Before prohibition, ‘a passenger oc pura J _~ from Havana with} from, Havana was permitted to Te-].c¢ ang vod $1000 et turn to Florida with one quart of ei tved reach 00 in total cost, liquor, duty free, provided it was pose does But if it is in listed on his manifest. he te en After prohibition, if he put al ne nin deakie deus "py ar quart on his manifest they simply | ost of the perfume It of the took it away from him. But if}iive that with rom tt Pe he put it in his*baggage and they| “™t Mat with rum. found it—they always managed to “| flea Florida wipes out its dry find it at Key West—they busted| Wn 4 Year hence, if it does, there the bottle right under his nose | Py eR ENaent about and fined him $5. They are doing | OT'REI"E back from Cuba a little} thet today: of Cuba's famous.rum. There will| But will they bust it and fine|>® B® Smashing and fining where | him after repeal? Some steamship |e ete ie fore man's The question now is interesting to travelers, to customs people, to ship operators. “If a Tampan, in New York,| buys six quarts for himself and} jbringe it home in his bag who is and the assaulter is being held pending arrival of sheriff's offi- }cers from Monroe. A warrant for the arrest of} Williams were sent to Miami yes- terday afternoon and Sheriff K.; 0. Thompson will leave within the | | next few days to get the prisoner | and bring him to Key West for, trial. | ‘CREATES STIR IN HOUSE OF LORDS LABORITE CREATES SENSA-. TION BY SHOUTING DUR. ING SESSION | 1 i { acting | | | ee (By Associated a Be LONDON, Nov, 21.—. tion was created in the ee a Lords today when, just as King George concluded*his speech open- ing the new parliament, J. Mc- Govern, laborite, cried out “what! about abolition of the means test and unemployment cuts. It's ba shame while people are starving. McGovern, it will be secanes,| had been suspended from the} house of commons on several oc-} casions for defying the speakers | }woing to stop him?” Sheriff Spen- i jeer might ask. “But if he tries’ } that on a trip from Havana they'll [incident and ceremoniously offer-| in ancient grates recent! |nab him. West crawfish.” ruling and continued to shout, The king took no notice of the: etais. treasury officials from giving in- formation to the press, Acting Sec- | retary Morgenthau has instruct- jed all officers or employes of the | off treasury to submit all public ad- dresses they may make to his as- sistant, Herbert Gaston, proval in advance of their delivery. | In addition to the graph re- Parting the press relations order, it was announced that all legal | matters affecting the department of general counsel would be in charge Herma: Oliphant, to the secretary. a All administrative matters, in- cluding personne! and department- al budget, will be tion of William M Morg under hau expla’ | this way he is divid duties of the u between these ing normal wo men. HUNGARY DISCOVERS ANCIENT SWASTIKAS, (My Axsociated Press) BUDAPEST, Nov. 212 rings and a wheel graved with poraadiicas were found ¥ opened; Ear en Yon see more brokenjed his arm to Queen Mary who near Kiskoeros and datines back | bottles around Key West than Key] was seated nearby in the speaker's! to the Avars who invaded this jcountry 1,000 years ago. for ap- | te undersecretary | @ right on, and the admonition to , former administrator) inform all employes not to worry about positions, Mr. Demeritt told The Citizen! {that all of the information asked for is being compiled along with tration and in a telegram to/ such other data as is deemed valu- | William W. Demeritt sets out the/ able in putting the chang and ent points of the organization! jplans into effect at the earliest ve to the projects in Ke, ossible moment. Asked what project size would be among those suggest- ed, Mr. Demeritt replied tha request had been se see for 000 to be mosquito Fagg. Mr. Fa 1¢ f Emergency Relief programs in Ff , has been made executive r of the Civil Works admin- The telegram first asks if Mr sii Demeritt and other members of| f organization will be ig to work as the heads of the Civil Works Administration in} Monroe county. To this query! Mr. Demeritt replied in the affir-| consulting other! ed in eradication intensive campaign. It is understood that “ ae edinedl: | of this amount can be us projects in this county are | Purchase of material and the ' of " ito be submitted and recommended| 7° Percent will be available w to the state administration through | mare ths a woke eke There are a number é | projects pending but + Asks For Complete List wit be aanneed. Mr | have 20 percent d for th { af ef other f these De and jefinite recet Fagg and his as a clear concep tion and needs in meritt. until more ‘concrete information i from Mr. Fagg as to what can and unty, Mr. Demeritt is! cannot be done under the re urnish the number of} tions set forth by the Civil Works on the relief s who are} Administration. and willing to work | Also how many women. How} many whites and how many color-| ed and what is the earliest date! which a transfer of all work} lief clients could be made a | 30 hour a Bayview Park—-Diamondball. . giving the number of Strand—“Secret of the Blue killed and unskilled persons on/ Room” and “Female.” the lists, } It is also asked that an estimate | TOMORROW furnished of the weekly allot-| Strand — “Midshipman Jack” iment of funds needed for unskill- and “Secret of the Biue Room.” en } WHERE TO GO nt projects on a k basis, ithe telephone,” Stratosphere Balloon Lands In Marshland; Settle Come Out Unin Fordney And jured (iy Asscciated Frees) BRIDGETON, N. J., Nov. 21.—{ America’s first stratosphere bal-| leon jolted to rest in the marsh- land southwest of Bridgeton late} yesterday. As hundreds searched the pine! woods, cranberry bogs and <ulti- vated farms in southern New Jer-| sey, Lieutenant Commander T. G. W. Settle and Major Chester Ford-| ney slept the night through wrap} ped in « deflated fabric of the! big balloon awaiting deybreak. At 6:44 A. M., Major Fordney trudged through the marsh lamde, walking until 9:30 when he reach- led the home of 5. M. Johnson. “I'm bungry and I'd like to use! Major Fordney! calmly announced to the startled farmer. Then he took up the telephone and notified the world of the bal- loonists triumph. “We had « delightful and un- |toward trip,” be said, “except | chat we came down so fast we had to throw things overboard as fast [at we could te lighten the ship.” Neither of the intrepid sirmen were injured, be said. According to their altimeter the highest altitude they reached was 59,000 fect, about 11 miles. STRAND THEATER Lionel Atwill-Paul Locas in SECRET OF THE BLUE Rath Chatterton in FEMALE tee, 18-2005 Night teams