The Key West Citizen Newspaper, November 24, 1933, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 279. Ambassador Welles: To Be Replaced In Cuba” By Jeffers Roosevelt Looks Forward| To Peaceful Agreement In Island Republic In Near Future (By Associated Press) WARM. SPRINGS, Nov. 24.—President Roosevelt is changing ambassadors at Cuba in the confidence of an early establishment of the government there meeting | his conditions for recogni- tion through stability. Apparently satisfied that the provisional government i Rotary Visitor Peecvecccercocecocescoes: aa ‘at a very early date. of President Grau San Mar- tin “will reach some peace- ful agreement” in the near] * j MERRILL E. BROWN Or; jzer of Hi Y Club In Key West ‘MERRILL BROWN Welles ater his return to| OLVES ADDRESS Cuba to complete an under-| ~ AT ROTARY CLUB standing is returning to the; United States as assistant secretary of state, and Jef-|ROTARIAN OF LONG STAND-| s ferson Caffery, present as-| "ING COVERS MANY SUB.’ F secretary, is going to| JECTS IN TALK AT REGU- Havana. ‘LAR LUNCHEON YESTERDAY Very apparently a com- % plete understanding has been reached in the troubled. Cuban situation which ori- ginally impelled the _ presi- dent to send Welles to Cuba) to settle. STEAMER FLORIDA RETURNS TO PORT VESSEL WILL RESUME RUN} TO TAMPA TOMORROW EVENING future which “may result in| general support of the gov- ernment,” he announced the diplomatic transfer late last night. Merrill E, Brown of Jackson- ville, a Rotarian of long standing, was a speaker at the regular mect-| ing of the Rotary Club yesterday.' He is in this city organizing a Hi Y¥'Club inthe Senior High school. Mr, Brown, referred to the pur- pose of his visit and said to the Rotarians that the Hi Y Club had four corner-stones: Clean Scholar-} | ship, clean athletics, clean lan- guage and clean personal habits. The speaker then emphasized the fact that a new world was being built. He “said there is no standing still and there is no “‘per- petual motion.” It is either growth or decay. Self satisfac-! tion and complacency are dan- gerous. Mr. Brown said the people of! this country are seeking three | great ideals—‘“Truth, Justice, The Steamship Florida, of the P. and. S. S. company, return- ed this afternoon from Mobile where she went last week for gen-| Peace”—with all that they involve. | eral overhaul and repairs. He is concerned right now about With the arrival of the Steam-|the money situation and declared | ship Cuba tomorrow afternoon| that capital will be slow to seek from Havana, the Florida will investment in new channels until there is a plan worked out that take up her regular schedule be-' wil) stabilize money-curreny, en-| tween Havana, Tampa and Key/courage credit and strengthen West, leaving for Tampa 6 o’clock. banking. The itor compliment- The Cuba, it is understood, will/ed the Rotary Club on its plan of} be taken’ out of service until the leadership in Key West and awe) sibitis ockatulss gh the eee ‘Mass action is motivated by group goes into effect. po a tte Secces RAFAEL KNOWLES [NAVY TUG COMING ” GIVEN eee TO THESE WATERS U.S. S. KALMIA WILL BE AS- Rafael Knowles, Bighead, was: given a preliminary hearing yes-} SIGNED TO DUTY HERE FIRST OF NEW YEAR terday in Judge Hugh Gunn's court on charges of using profane language. After hearing the evidence in the case, Judge Gunn decided there U. 8. & Kalniis wit be assigned The Army and Navy Register of November 18 shows that MAKE READY FOR RELIEF WORKERS TO START WORK IGHTY PERCENT OF EM- PLOYERS TO BEGIN OPERA- TIONS UNDER NEW HEAD ON MONDAY MORNING EI Approximately 80 percent, 849, of the clients on the registration lists of the Civil Works Adminis- tration in Monroe county, will be put to work Monday morning. ed this morning by William W. jtelegram from Marcus C. Fagg, executive official of the adminis- j tration. The telegram also assured the local body that hopes were enter- tained in Tallahassee of securing additional funds at once to — put all of the other registrants to work In connection with this informa- {send to Tallahassee Monday a re- | port of activities starting and the exact number of persons who went to work. At a meeting of the Works Committee of the CWA, held this morning in the office of Mr. De- meritt, all projects were consid- ered that had been submitted in- cluding those carried in the article in The Citizen yesterday relative to the $100,000 allocated to this county for improvements and re- pairs. All of these projects were dis- cussed form every standpoint by the committee and given unan- imous approval. One of the outstanding units of the project program to be un- dertaken next week is the con- struction of a connecting link of the southern edge of’ the botile- vard with the city proper: It was consepsus of opinion of the board that Bertha street be repaired and improved to further this purpose which will actually bring this end of the boulevard right into’ the city. John Park, who has’shown his deep interest in.all movements for the improvement) of the city, has consented to. the , excavation of rock necessary for this work from ithe northerly end of his property adjacent to the street. Action in this matter is to be communicated at once to the offi- cials in Tallahassee and Mr. De- meritt hopes to receive word to put to work on Monday all of the registrants who have been trans- ferred from the lists of the Emergency Relief Council to the roster of the Civil Works Admin- istration. Members of the council and es- | pecially of the several committees are to hold their regular meeting | tomorrow morning when other matters relative to the project programs are to be considered. WILL ASK BONNET - TO FORM CABINET (By Associated Press) PARIS, Nov, 24.—Official sources shid today it w: pected that President L: will ask Georges Bo: * minister of finance in the cab- inet of Albert Sarraut, over- thrown last it, to form a mew cabinet and serve as pre- mier. ecccce eeccecccccccoce WHERE TO GO TONIGHT Harris School—Operetta. High School Gymnasium— jasketball, This announcement was receiv-) Demeritt, local administrator, in al tion Mr. Demeritt was asked to; | The Kep West Citwen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1933. Trammell Makes Strong Urge To _ Reopen Navy Yard At Key West Burial In Yellow River Mud Fate Of Vast Area In China For Brush Fire In California Completely Out Of Control ° (By Axnoelated Preas; | LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. Hl Y CLUB W. —Tke disastrous brush fire in the; foothills northwest of Los Angeles} ORGANIZED HERE | roared on today unabated, com-| MERRILL E, BROWN OF JACK- | Pletely out of control. i | It erossed the ridge into the} | thickly populated Eary Canyon; {and was headed toward Arroyo! | Seco, source of the Pasadena mu- :nicipal water supply. The flames. moved along a jag- ‘ged five mile front, fanned by a | treacherous wind. i | Rose Bowl is in Aroyo Seco, but: no brush surrounds it, and it is in{ little danger. | The county fire warden’s office i SONVILLE, Y. M. C. A., DIRECTS ORGAN- IZATION The Seventy-Fifth Hi Y Club in} REPRESENTING! 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Secretary To Senator Wires The Citizen Of Matter Taken Up With Secre- tary Of Navy The Citizen today received an unsolicited telegraph mes- sage from Ed Ahearn, secre- |tary to Senator Park Tram- mell at Washington, stating | that Mr. Trammell yester- ;day afternoon called on j Secretary of the Navy Swan- |son and strongly urged him \to reopen the Naval Base at | Key West. Senator Trammell in pre- Why the turgid Yellow River is known as “China's sorrow’ indicated in this picture, taken on the site of a village after the la est flood subsided. Then men are sitting on the ridge pole of house buried in mud. In the background is the roof of a larger | building in front of which is the top of a residence with the tiles torn placed the damage already done) at more than $4,000,000. Just how many homes and cab- ins were destroyed is undetermin-| jed, but some estimates are as high as 150, i Florida was organized in Key] senting the matter, par- Merrill E. Brown of ticularly stressed the im- the| Portance of this base to the jnavy, on account of the con- today. representing Nov. 28.—Six s of village ied under mud SHANGHAI, thousand square mi and farm land buri |from two to 15 feet 10,000 additional square tripped of crops is but a part of the toll taken by the Yellow Riv- er, “China’s sorrow,” in its latest flood. In the months of destruction which ended only recently, 600 towns were destroyed, 3,000,000 people made homeless and millions more impoverished. How many thousands lost their deep and away to permit the owner to explore his home. By Asnociated Presny miles, In Earl Canyon are the estates! Florida State Young Men’s Chris- of Victor MeLaglen and May tian Association, has been lives when the water tore through Marsh, of the movies. ! {the provinces of Honan, Hopei and_| + ‘Shantung never will be known, In WOMAN CONFESS China nobody counts loss of life) j ‘DAUGHTER-IN-LAW | ‘The club council is composed of |DR. ALICE WYNEKOOP FINAL. {iorace O'Bryant, Rev. J. G- Strad-| in a disaster. The topography of the flooded LY ADMITS. FOLLOWING ey, Jerry J. Trevor, Charles E. {Smith and J, A. Boza. | district has been transformed from VERBAL SLIP DURING PRO-| 11. installation ceremony was here! The |direeting the organization. } |following officers were installed:| H. Selma E. dent. i Maurice Felton—President, Smith—Vice Presi- | | Curtis H. Stanton—Secretary. | Ygnacio D. Carbonell—Treas- j urer. CONVICTION IN LIQUOR TRIA PENNSYLVANIA STATE SENA- TORS AND OTHERS IN- VOLVED (ity Asnorinied Prens) PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 24.— State Senator John McClure and co-defendants were convicted to- May on a federal charge of parti- ation in an alleged Delaware } " so? ; county liquor “protection” orga’ pecifically charged with conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law. Among those convicted were Eugene White, chief clerk at the state house, representatives and a number of Chester's republican leaders. | The first ten of the defendant | sissies suspended sentences of 18 months each. | O..N. Smith, chief of the Dela- ware county detectives, was 1 inst cane ia akdRien, te a:cux- pended sentenc® and placed on | three years’ probation. Civil Works Administration Approves Fruit Fly Survey a crowded, fertile area into a deso- ate mud flat. Houses have been teovered to the ridge poles. The farmers. who owned the buried acres are gone. Only a few stragglers have re- ‘turned to start anew on this fresh! |sheet of earth, a fight for bare ex- CEEDINGS |directed by Mr. Brown with the patcaes {cooperation of the members of the (is Associated Press) ;council, and took place today at CHICAGO, Nov. 24.—Lieut. the high school building. There Otto Erlandson announced today |are 28 boys in the club and the that Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop first regular meeting will be held had confessed to slaying her 23-'Wednesday night of next week at tyear-old daughter-in-law, Rheta.|7 o'clock. The club will meet istence, “She has ocnfessed she did it,” y week. the officer asserted, and hurried; The Hi Y Club is in reality a) back into the room where the’ High School Young Men’s Chris- 2a __,| questioning was proceeding. jtian Association, and is, composed -—A i The announcement came after.of High school boys who have determine her son, Earle, pleaded with her! united in a common and challeng- ,fruit fly losses in the quarantine'to confess if she did it. {ing objective, and are seeking for of three years ago was tentative-| She had told him not to worry! themselves and their fellow stu-| |ly approved today by the Florida; that she had not slain his wife. {dents the highest standards of ,civil works administration. The alleged confession was re-|life and conduct. The purpose of} | The civil works administration, potted to have come from the el-|the Hi Y Club is “To create, main- jagreed to furnish the necessary derly woman physician after ajtain, and extend throughout the labor and clerical work for the;Verbal slip in which she acknow-| school and community high stand- jsurvey pyovided citrus organiz jledged she had been with Rheta, ards of Christian character,” it is jtions provide transportation that|When the latter undressed. | stated. imay be required. |_ The girl was nearly nude when! Mr. Brown said today that the) Tentative approval slko’ condi- found shot through the back Tues-' Key West Hi Y club is the South-| tioned upon the approval of the|48% 7 an operating table, She ern most club of this character in peopiusd: caceds in civlk works Previously had been chloroformed. the United States. He expressed i Five ene rea himself as highly pleased with the councils in counties where quar-| fine spirit of cooperation which (Ey Associated Prema) | TALLAHASSEE, Nov. fruit belt survey to | jantine: tin eRe . o: .. |he has received from the school There is no immediate estimate ,officials and from the student ‘of cost of labor in making such C T body. ja survey and plans will be dis-| | The members of the glub will’ cussed more fully later today or} | begin plans at once to have their tomorrow. officers attend the tenth annual The white collar man is also to| JUDGE MAKES DENIAL CF) oss of Hi Y Club officers to have spectal consideration under) ANY KNOWLEDGE OF {be held in Daytona Beach in the} WRONGDOING j the civil works administration, | jearly spring. and women will be considered in the same class, it is announced to-| day. | Heading the list of proposals Re . for these classes was indexing} ‘he howse judiciary committe and modernizing public records of|the official conduct of Federal social welfare and other public! a surveys and employment of teach-|2 728° Melted Ritter ended is ers where counties are unable to! following a denial from the wit- ay salaries, mess stand by Judge Ritter him- | self that he had any knowledge of | LINDY REACHES | being guilty of wrongdoing in the ~— CANARY ISLANDS ~ | request of Congressm: | Wilcox, and was joined in } Judge Ritter. U.S. DESTROYER : ARRIVES IN PORT (My Associated Press) MIAMI, Nov. 24.—Hearing by ° JACOB JONES DUE TO REACH) | HERE SUNDAY OR | MONDAY | The U. S. Destroyer Twiggs ar- rived in port this afternoon and will take on 1,500 gallons of fuel oil. } Destroyer Goff sailed yester-} for patrol duty off the Cuban coast. Destroy fice. The inquiry was called at the mn J. Mark by (My Anseciated Preas) LAS PALMAS, Canary Ie- lands, Nov. 24.—Colonel and 4 Jacob ; Washington is keeping templated removal of the | fleet to-southern waters, and also in connection with the present trouble in the Cuban Republic. The message also made reference to the fact that Senator Trammell’s office in in close touch with the Navy Departmént~in this” connec: tion, and will do everything possible to have the base re- opened, COUNTY BOARD TO APPEAR IN BEN HUR CASE COMMISSIONERS SUMMONED TO BE PRESENT IN PRO. CEEDINGS REGARDING TAX LEVY TO COVER BONDS County commissioners: of Mon- roe have been summoned to appear in Federal court in Key West on December 4 to answer the com- plaint of the Ben Hur Life Asso- ciation in a suit for $10,000. Service was made yesterday aft- ernoon by Harry Lowe, deputy United States marshal. The sum- mons was issued by E. R. Williams, clerk of Federal court and witness- ed by Judge Halsted L. Ritter as judge at Key West. Some weeks ago the Ben Hur Association had a mandamus js- sued out of the supreme court of Florida requiring the county com- missioners to make a levy on the tax assessment roll of the county sufficient to bring the millage up to a figure permitting interest to be paid on road and bridge honds ‘owned by the association. This mandamus was answered showing that # sufficient levy had been made to meet these obliga- tions. The answer also showed funds on hand to meet certain ob- ligations, It is believed in offi- cial circles that the present suit is seek payment of the sum ask- from the funds now heli by county commissioners. to ed, the LEFT HIM IN JAIL KINGSTON, Eng.—When - Al- nes is due ior Lorring of this city wan jail- in port 8 y or Monday to Fe \ed for being drunk, his wife re- the Destroyer Sturtevant iriceg to bail him out, saying » which will go to Norfolk for over-| 10° 2” tat would do him haul and repatrs at the navy yard.) was sufficient cause to hold the)tg duty in these waters shortly aft-| defendant who was placed under} er January 1, 1934. bond of $50 for trial at the next; This ship, a navy tug, which was} term of criminal court. being repaired and was under or Congressman Tarver, Georgia, | democrat, chairman of the com- | mittee, said he reserved the right Mrs. Charles Lindbergh ar- rived here today after a flight from Ponte Delgada, Azores. Palace—“Red Haired Alibi.” © Strand—“My Weakness” and Strange People.” lieve ders to proceed to San Diego up-} COUGH AND COLD REMEDIES Buy Them At a Saving At Gardner’s Pharmacy Phone 177 Free Delivery {will remain on the east coast. Upon arriving in the Seventh N District the vessel will base West, it is said, and assist . S. Mississippi and New } Mexico, in carrying supplies from this port to the ships. on being made ready for service} : COLD AND FRESH 10 CENTS PER GLASS DEPRESSION CAFE 513 Fleming Street te reopen the hearing if it deemed necessary. ' | The committee will report TOO MANY WIVES SATURDAY SPECIALS Florida Peanut Fed Fryers and Hens — Swift Premier Hams]; Starting Monday we will havell| congress in January. «Florida Peanut Fed Turkeys:- = j : a | Emoneration ov impeachment CENTRAL MARKE | a 2 205 Fleming St. Phone 20] proceedings are possible verdicts. } { } hem Pierre Legniere; s city boasted that he had; 30 towns, Mine. Legniere, evidence that won her s i ALL STAR CAST in STRANGE PEOPLE Sally Ellers~Norman Foster in WALLS OF GOLD 10; Orches- tra, 1 "base