The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 2, 1933, Page 1

For 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Associated Press Day Wiré Service VOLUME LIV. Che Key West Cite No. 286. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1933. PRICE FIVE CENTS Litvinoff And Postmaster ~ General Farley Arrive In ‘ Naples Aboard Big Liner Ressiiis Chesnisent On re-| JUDGE AKERMAN ters Voraye Fron U.5.; HEARD TODAY IN fone NRA CODE Vacation ASSERTS CONGRESS HAS NO (By Associated Press) NAPLES, Dec. 2.—Flying| AUTHORITY TO ATTEMPT a red flag, the Liner Conte] TO REGULATE PURELY IN- de Savoia, landed Russian! TR4STATE BUSINESS Commissar of Foreign Af- Be ae eet a ig 4 (By “Associated Press) xim Litvinoff here) taypa, Dec. /2—Federal day after'what he told|Judge Alexander Akerman’ today sn aa ike py pheld that: “congress had no au- hROWEPADRMMED ASAD. 8% | ctiy to attempt ° to regilite cellent voyage to the United ! purely intrastate business.” States. In the first NRA code action The same ship brought | Provent in federal court in Flor- - lida, Judge Akerman refused, to Postmaster General James; MiGtt ae ihjuadlion mnaght be x Farley, American democratic} group of St. Petersburg cleaners ‘: . to restrain a competitor from national chairman, who is on} vist plaintitts called practices a brief vacation with his: in violation of the NRA code for ‘wife. eléaning and dyeing industry. ‘ A The opinion covering six type- Litvinoff said he had noth-/| written. pages. challenges the au- ‘ thority of congress, and declares ing to say for the present re- the restraining order, if granted, garding his forthcoming,;“would be a mere gesture. to £ 73 which the court could not compel taiks with Premier Mus- sleidlagas?” solini, but would make a - statement later in Rome. After conversing for sev- HIGHWAY FERRY eral minutes in the salon of aa, ARRIVES HERE | | ‘Italian ‘government and others, Litvinoff board- ed an automobile for a trip to:Sorrento for lunch, and _will take a train there for}. Berthed at the Porter Dock is H the Monroe County Ferry Mon- | jroe County. The vessel is here for ‘|}regular annual repairs and over- ‘{haul, and will go on drydock early next week, Manager Eugene Demeritt told The Citizen. This ship will be the first of the three ferries to undergo re- pairs under the allotment of $9,- e 966, which was created for this The Lighthouse Tender Poppy: work from funds of the Civil sailed this morning with H. B.| Works Administration. Haskins, assistant superintendent) AS soon as the work on ,this ‘bf Hebthousds.on-t ‘i carrier is completed another will i be repaired and upon completion Inspections will be made of the} y¢ the work the last one of the lights at Sombrero Key, American} |ine will be placed in drydock for ' Shoals and Tennessee Reef, overhaul, United States’ Public Debt ANNUAL REPAIRS AND OVERHAULING e — stincvon boc 2-—rv«| ONE DESTROYER WASHINGTON, Dec, 2.—The United States public debt increas- ed $483,859,000 during Novem- ber, showing $23,534,115,771 as a new high. >» Receipts during the month were slightly less than $209,000,000. Ordinary expenditures * were; slightly less than ~$206,000,000, but emergency expenditures for various phases of the recovery], program Were nearly $300,000,- 000 to make November's outlay about $500,000,000, Emergency expenditures ac- counted for another $200,000,000 with the treasury balance at the close of the month, $1,107,000,- 000, compared with. $909,000,000 at the close of October. The deficit at the end of Octo- ber, The deficit at the end of the first five months of the fiscal year, including emergency expen- ditures was $772,000,000 plus, compared to $1,151,000,000 plus the same time last year. THREE OTHER GOVERNMENT VESSELS REMAIN IN PORT ing reserve. Destroyers Bainbridge, Mac- expected to sail Cuban wate Supply SI Antares, U. navy, is expected to arrive Mon. day with stores and other cargo. Monday If you are enable to buy A NEW CAR Let us make your car LOOK AND RUN LIKE NEW White and Catherine Phone 522 Shopping | days to - ISSUE) E COUNTY COMES FOR| LEAVES TODAY Farland and J. Fred Talbot are} in port teday. The Bainbridge is} “ JURY ASKS DEATH PENALTY IN CASE OF MARK H. SHANK AKRON, OHIO, ATTORNEY WAS CHARGED WITH POI- SON MURDER OF FOUR MEMBERS OF ONE FAMILY (By Associated Press) BENTON,. Ark., Dec. jury unconvinced by his plea of 2—i insanity, has ordered the death penalty for Mark H. Shank, Akron, Ohio, attorney, charged with the poison murder of four members of the family of Alvin Colley. The verdict was returned late last night after a jury deliberation of nine hours. The" defendant showed no emo- tion, but his wife, who was given credit for planning most of his defensé, collapsed and. was car-! ried to a hotel on a stretcher. The defense announced it would renew the fight to free Shank, who was tried only for the mur- der of Alvin Colley, who, with his wife and two of their children, died from, poison placed in grape- juice at a picnic last August. NEW MEASURES ON SECURITIES NOW PREDICTED SENATOR FLETCHER PRE- DICTS LEGISLATION TO BE ENACTED COVERING VA- RIOUS ISSUES (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.— Chairman Dunean U. Fletcher of the senate banking "committee, to- day predicted that legislation will be encated at the next session pro- viding federal supervision of se- curity exchanges, modification of securities of publicity pact and strengthening of revenue and banking laws. Reviewing what he called abuses disclosed by his committee's two- year inquiry into Wall Street practices, the veteran Floridian told newspapermen he felt the committee would feel the same way about remedial _ legislative needs as he does. “There ought to be some form of government supervision of marketing agencies handling se- curities,” he said, EXTRADITION OF INSULL ORDERED APPEAL GRANTED}BY asl FUR HIS KRETUKN 10 ILLINOIS (By Associated Press) TORONTO, Dec. 2.—Mar- tin J. Insull, former Chicago Utilities director, his tight against extradition to the United States today when Justice A. C. Kingston, of the Ontario Supreme granted an appeal of Cook county, Hl, for his return. Court The U.S. S. Destroyer Twiggs! sailed this morning 8:30 o'clock! for San Diege, Calif. where she! will join the vessels in the rotat-| At the same time it gave Insull a right te appealagainst the judgment in 15 days. Il was arrested for ex- jon to the United States face trial, and was released two hours later on $10,000 bail, ! - NOTICE \Money Battles That Made History The ‘Thirty Years War’ | Among outstanding figures in money battles near the end of the 30 years following the civil war were William Jennings Bryan and President Grover Cleveland. Bry an’s advocacy of coinage of silver on a “16-1” basis here is shown ais depicted in a contemporary cartoon. pictare showing the New York stock exchange on “Black Friday,” September 24, 1 of the report that the U. S. Treasury was selling gold. By CARL C. CRANMER . (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.| —tThe 380 years’ history of the United States after the almost continual battle.” “money Even today, as arguments rage about the Roosevelt administra- tion’s money policies, echoes from the earlier struggle come rolling on. yoIt.split. the democratic party, made Cleveland perhaps the most! pressional elections polled. 1,000,-! hated and the most admired man in his time, produced two “third party” movements, and witnessed the climatic of William Jennings 1896. ‘Hard Money’ and Toryism Norman Angell, writing in 1929 in his book “Money” of earl American financial history, said, “In some sense ‘hard money’ be- came associated with Toryism, monarchism, and oppression, and paper money with Democracy, campaign Bryan freedom and rights of the peo-/ ple.” The Greenback Battle The battle over the greenbacks had its origin in the issue of $450,- 000,000 of legal tender bills, un- supported by specie, during the Civil war. The first act of congress injthe currency. The treasury be-|the crash of 1989-against which }Which is three more than 1865, was to provide for gradual! gan to feel the drain of its gold, background the money issaé’ has) during the same period in retirement of this non-interest | supply, and in 1892 Cleveland was,returned in 19330, ‘ finally | in| pearing debt, but two years later i ongress rescinded its action, | Finally, after the democrats hai regained control. of the lowe ; house following the panic of 1873 ja lame duck congress in 1875 e! {civil war is an account of an. 2cted the resumption act, provid-, ling for specie payments for the greenbacks by January 1, 1879. ; The greenbacks reached parity | with gold in 1878. Greenback Party Organized But continual need -for fresh capital in the west resulted — in organization of the Greenback (party in 1876. The party put up | presidential candidates in three felections, and “in ‘the 1878 ¢on- 000 votes. By 1892, the issue was lost sight of in the demand for the | ganization of the populist party. Little attention was paid to the act of 1873 discontinuing coinage ; of silver dollars, later referred to jas the “crime of 1833,” because j for several years silver had. been {worth more as-bullion than as coins. But about that time numerous European countries went on ‘the gold standard, abandoning silver, and silver production in the Unit- ed States jumped from less than | | $1,000,000. in 1861 to $45,000,-; ‘000 by 1878. | Cleveland Serves New Term Two limited silver purchase acts were passed in 1877 and 1890, to | lift the price of silver and expand | ANNOUNCE RATE OF PAY FOR ALL RELIEF WORKERS MARCUS FAGG, EXECUTIVE} OFFICER CIVIL WORKS AD-} MINISTRATION, CLARIFIES, MATTER { | ‘To at once end all controversies as to the rates of pay to be given road and street workers under} |the Civil Works Administration | program. Marcus C. Fagg, execu- tive officer of the administration} ifor Florida, has announced these jby telegram. } This information was received itoeday by the local council which jshows that rate of all county and state roads outside of municipalities is to be 3% per hour. On all r istreets within the city limits the trate must be 40 cents an hour. Workmen can be employed for eight hours daily, provided that ‘worked in any week. not more than 30 hours may be; j j ' FOR SALE We will not be open at any§) This re- 4931 Ford Town Sedan Excellent Condition Meltzer Motor Co. Elks Memorial Service Tomorrow Afternoon At Congregational Church | The anaual Memorial Services! | of Key West Lodge No. 551, Bene-| volent and Protective Order of Elks, will be held at the First Congregational Church tomorrow afternoon, beginning at 3:30 o'clock. An excellent and appro- Priate program has been arranged) for the occasion. the day will be delivered by Dr. William R. Warren. This annual event of the Elks’} has orgarization during the past been held at different places, where there have always been « large crowd attending. and it is safe in saying tomorrow's mem- orial will be no exeeption to the rule. The program, which is made up of various numbers, follows: Order of Exercises 1—Organ solo. “Gavotte” Med- erne,” Staitz, by Mrs. E. R. Evans. .Cleveland...Bryan... - a four-year absence, despite a de- free coinage of silver, and in or-} eee In the background-is an old 869, upon receipt returned to the White House after fection of large numbers of “Sil- er Thatioeratet and organization of the Populist party which polled , 1,000,000 votes and elected 15 congressmen. Cleveland drove through his re- peal of the silver purchase acts when the panie of 1893 was blam-! {ed on silver, but when prosperity , failed to return quickly, silver ‘advocates said more silver and not less was needed. Bryan’s Entry Dramatic The climax came in 1896. Hard- ly. known....in_ national ._ poli Bryant, the 86-year-old “Common- | er,” swept the democratic conven- tion with his “éross of gold” ,; Speech and became its presidential choice. ‘The “Gold Democrats” |, ‘bolted to independent ‘candidates, | and the republican McKinley took ; a.stand for the gold standard, and ‘was elected. In March, 1900, the gold stand- ard Act was niade law. - The panic of 1907 convinced | many of a need of reform of the} banking, rather than the money,} system, with the result that the! Federal Reserve system was creat-| ed in the Wilson administration, | and it was thought that panics/| | and depressions had been made im-} possible. | i {with its attendant inflation at ; home and abroad, depreciated cur- | rencies, gold hoarding by govern- ments and indiyiduals, and finally | { | | Works council utes INCREASE SH SE SHOWN But then came the world war,|than those Warren, Hicks And Freeman Resign As Councilmen; Walk AQUARIUM SITE DISCUSSED AT MEETING TODAY WAGNER PROPERTY SELECT- ED SHOWN TO BE IN LITI- GATION; WILL ENDEAVOR TO EFFECT COMPROMISE The site for the proposed aqua- rium for Key West was the sub- ject of a discussion this morning in the office of City Attorney J: Lancelot Lester. This week the Civil Works Ad- ministration announced the allo- cation of $30,250 for this pur- pose and the site for the struac- ture is the main item now at is- sue. Those who attended the con- ference were Councilmen Joe Ca- brera, Ralph B. Pinder, J. Frank Roberts, Miss Ileen Williams, so- cial service director of the Civil nd Mr. Lester. The logical site for the aqua- rium is decided to be the Wagner property at the foot of Simonton street. This property is now in litigation. The matter was placed in the hands of Attorney Lester and he will get in touch with the attor- neys representing the mortgagees with a view to effecting a com- promise whereby ‘the city can se- cure the land for the aquarium, IN OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES ISSUED FORTY-EIGHT OBTAINED BY BUSINESSES OTHER THAN THOSE CONDUCTED UNDER HEAD OF MERCHANTS During the month of November this year 48 occupational licenses were issued to’ businesses other conducted by mer- chants, which is 12 more than were issued in 1932 when only 36 were issued. To merchants, 77 were issued, issued 1932 when 74 were issuéil. Thee Fig- ‘Out Of Meeting Last ‘Nigh Heated Diseussion Follows Address Given By Dr. Warren On Status As Councilman Dr. William R. Warren, C. G, Hicks and William A. Freeman, members of the new City Council, tendered their resignations at a regu- lar meeting of the board held last ‘night following a heat- ed discussion © precipitated over the “proceedings that were carried on and placed in effect at the inaugural ceremonies held recently. The three members walked out of the meeting following the arguments, after which the remaining four council- men accepted their resigna- tions. There was a large number of interested specta- tors in attendance, includin, many women... Dr. Warren was the first to © talk, citing the various things that had taken place : pressed themselves in a like man- ner during the discussion which a as to the nature of things as pertained to the busi- ness that had been carried’ on by the council up to that time. Dr: Warren’s thain point of argument was:that he felt that the adopted in, making ap pointment§ to: the various offices in the:neW Sdhinistration, inélud- ing the committee : 3 nts by thé board, was entirely out of order, saying “that everything was done by the four other mem- bers, with the other three having had no choice in the matter what- ever.” He said that he was profound- ly surprised to have read in the local press an article, the subject of which was: “To the victors belong the spoils,” and elaborated on this statement in general, mak- ing reference to the procedure as lowed by the four members in { The oration of | | { —America, lodge and ience, Smith. 3.—Ceremonies, lodge officers,| ritual. H —Invocation, aud-) Rev. E. *) { 5.—Soprano solo, “Blessed Are} They That Mourn,” Ward-Step- hens, by Mrs. John ©. Gekeler, ac- companied by Mr. J. J. Trevor: | 6.—Ceremonies, roll cail of ab-! j sent brothers, ritual. (With taps iby Mr. Leroy Voght.) i 7.—Soprano solo, “When Day Is Done,” Katsher, by Mra. Morris 'E,. Berkowitz} accompanied by | Mrs. Hastings Piodela. | 8.—Quartette, “The Chair,” Root, by Rev Gekeler, Mra. John C. Mrs. Carl Bervaldi, Mr. Hogeboom, accompanied by |P. Bernard Roberts. | 9.—Ceremonies, lodge officers, j ritual, 10,—-Oration, by Dr. William R./ | Warren. 11.—Violin sole, “Fantasia, The |Last Rose of Summer.” Parmer, iby Mr. G. N. Goshorn, Jr. ac- j (Continued on Page Four) Ev i } } i Vacant} Jobn CC. | Gekeler, | / jures are taker from the rie Us gieton whee they ‘have fol- in the office of. Judge HughGa wed ‘the slogan thentioned right Revenue resulting from these}throvgh in the administration of licenses this year are from othér than’ merchants, $222.50 £26) the state and’ $136.25 to the tobnty. From merchants the state receiv- ed $652 and the county $326. In 1 the state received from their duties, ‘Pig /upbiker reiterated several times hid displeasure at the policy adopted, and was frank in his re- marks as to the stand he took in the matter, iby other than merchants, $284.50 and the county, $144.75. From mer- chants the state received $640 and the county $160. For the period covered in 1933 the state received a total of $874.50 and the county $462.25. In 1932 the sum received by the state was $924.50 and the county $304.75. POTUGAL TESTS OLD GOLD VEINS (iy Ansnoctathd Prens) Prescribes Reconsideration Dr. Warren informed the coun- cil that he would reconsider his first resignation tendered the day following the inaugural ceremon- ies in reply to a request from the jcouncil that this be done, on the condition that all . appointments made on “inauguration night,” with the exceptions of cases where jthere was # unanimous vote, be rescinded. At the conclusion of his re- marks, Councilman Leo Warren asked Dr. Warren several ques- LISBON, December 2.—Gold'tions, one of which was: “Doctor, mines in the Valongo distriet{ was it not a fact that you had en- which have not been worked since; eavored to secure the position of the Roman cecupation, are to be| city auditor for Jim Roberts, who exploited by an Anglo-Dutch syn-| ‘* a relative of yours, which means dicate which hopes to get profit that you were playing polities the jelds from the low grade ore|*ame as everyone else?” In re- iply, Dr. Warren said that he had |not at the time mentioned by Leo Warren, but on further quee- tioning he admitted to having talked to Mr. Roberts some time prior to the election about the (Continued on Page Four) STRAND THEATER William Powell-Mary Astor in THE KENNEL MURDER able ans of a new process. TO GO WHERE TONIGHT "Sunny Side Up.” - t—"The Kenney Murder, Case” and “Berkeley Square.” | TOMORROW i Palace—“Sunny Side Up.” Strand—“The Kennel Murder} Case” and “Berkeley Square.” ij