The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 1, 1934, Page 4

PAGE FOUR SOCIETY Woman’s Club To Meet Next Week There will be no meeting of the Key West Woman’s Club tomor- row afternoon. The first meeting of the new year will be held on Tuesday, January 9. Due to the regular meeting date following the day after the first day of the year, officers decided to postpone the meeting for one week. PERSONAL MENTION Mr. and Mrs. John Lowe and daughter Nancy left over the East Coast Saturday afternoon for a ‘visit with Mrs. Lowe’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sweeting, at Miami Beach, Herrick Curry came in over the East Coast Saturday to spend the: season with his father, Kingman Curry, at the home Simonton and Southard streets. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Williams, son Joseph, Jr., Mrs. Rubie. Bur? rell and Mrs, Wm. H. Knowlés, formed a party yesterday after- noon, leaving over the East Coast for a vacation at Miami Beach. Al Cathrall employed by the F. E. C. Railway company, who was in Key West for the week-end, a afternoon for Long L, P. Artman, Jr., son of L. P. Artman, publisher of The Citizen, and Mrs, Artman, who was spend- ing a week with his parents, left yesterday over the East Coast for New Orleans, La., to resume his studies at Loyola University. Frank R. Dunaway, who was spending a few days. with Mrs. Dunaway and son, Frank, Jr., at the home of Mrs. Duna . mother, Mrs. Blanche Herrick, left over the East Coast yesterday for the home in Jacksonville. Charles Lunn left over the East Coast Saturday afternoon to join Mrs. Lunn and son Arthur, who are guests of Mrs. Lunn’s brother- in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Courtney, in Miami. Mr. Lunn, who is a football enthusiast remained over New Year’s to see the game between University. of Miami and Duquesne. Mts. ‘Ted Canova, daughter Betty Ann, and mother Mrs. Wil- liam 0. Sands, left by launch yes- terday morning, accompanying Mr, Canova, and expect to remain in Miami for the rest of the sea- son, Leons To Spend Week In Miami Miss Magdelin de Leon and mo- ther, Mrs. Frank de Leon, will leave over the East Coast this aft- ernoon for Miami where they will spend a week with relatives and friends, They intend to , return next Sunday in order that Miss Mag- delin, who is a teacher at the Har- ris school, will be ready when school opens Monday, January 8. Mrs. Walter Kemp left on the! afternoon train Saturday for Mi- ami where she will spend a while with relatives. Juan Borges, who was spending a few days in Key West with his family, left on the afternoon train Saturday. Ben Gardner, employed with the Florida East Coast Railway company ‘in St. Augustine, left yesterday afternoon after spend- ing a short time with his mother and other relatives. Mrs, L. V. Waldron and chil- dren arrived over the East Coast Saturday from Deerfield, Fla., to spend a while with Mrs. Waldron’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Archer, of Caroline street. Mrs. Lillian Gwynn was an ar- rival on the Havana Special Satur- day and is the guest of her son-in- }is now about to ORANGE STATE OIL COMPANY WILL HOLD CONVENTION IN CORAL GABLES; STRUNK, KEY WEST DELEGATE EA NEW ATTRACTION | ' TUES. NIGHT AT PALACE THEATRE: | MONTGOMERY PLAYERS WILL OPEN ENGAGEMENT WITH COMEDY IN THREE ACTS; VAUDEVILLE ALSO “Sometimes a theatrical event} appears of such importance that it stands out above everything! else during the current season like a beacon-light in the history ; of human progress. Such an event} “occur in Key West. Every once in a while we{ have the pleasure and the honor} of presenting some extraordinary attraction, and I desire to inform my patrons so that they may be prepared to come out and see the greatest show of the season,”| states the manager of the Palace Theatre. } “The extraordinary attraction which I am how about to present to the show going people of Key West is the ‘Montgomery Play- ers,’ who will open an indefinite; engagement at the Palace Theatre, law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Blondon Goehring. Dave Daughtry and R. O. Bar- ber, employes of the P. and O. S. S. company, have severed their connection with the company and left Saturday over the East Coast en route to Mobile, Ala., to join the Standard Oil Tanker Libby. Matias ‘Vildostegui, former em- ploye of the First: National Bank in Key West but now with the First National of Miami, arrived yesterday fora visit of two days with his mother and other rela- tives, Mrs. James Walker, daughter Ruth and son James, who were spending several days in Key) '} West with relatives and friends, left yesterday afternoon for the home in Miami. cai Guthrie Babcock, who was spending two days with his father, Claude Babcock, and other rela- tives, returned on the / afternoon train yesterday to Miami where he is employed with the Florida Power and Light company. Sidney Berkowitz, who was spending’ the Christmas holidays with his parents, M. E. Berkowitz, chief pharmacist'at the Marine hospital, and Mrs. Berkowitz, Saturday afternoon for ville, to resume his studies at the University of Florida. | GUARDS PUBLIC IN DUCE’S PLAN MUSSOLINI’S RECENT DECREE PUTS FINISHING TOUCH TO TEN - YEAR MOVEMENT BEARING ON MATTER By ANDRUE BERDING (By Ansociated Press) ROME, Jan. 1.—Government financing of industry is proceed- ing apace in Italy, while both manufacturers and bankers look on, with much wonderment as to its eventual development. Many of them envisage the day when all the public’s investment in industrial -activities will be made through the medium of the government, Mussolini’s recent decree per- mittin,, the state to guarantee not only the principal but also a modest rate of interest on the bond issues of private companies! puts the finishing touch to a ten. year movement in this direction. Treasury In Control There exist in Italy fifteen pub- lie utility financing corporations established for national purposes and supervised by the minister of finance, who is represented on their governing bodies by a ma- jority of votes. As the Associa- tion of Italian Corporations said in a recent report: “These semi-official financing institutions’ are indeed a charac- teristic manifestation of facist economic policies.” ‘These institutions were either! 000 gasoline filling stations founded or reorganized by the state to finance all kinds of in- rdustrial and agricultural activity.} They include the’ Bank of Naples,| this morning with large shipments} Tampa; C. H. Roumillat, the Bank of Sicily, the St. Paul’s| Credit Institute of Turin, credit consortiums for public works, utilities and agricultural improve- ment, the Instituto Mobiliare Ttaliano and the. Industrial Re- construction Institute. The last two are the most im-! portant. They issue short or long-| term credit. Mussolini’s latest de-} cree extending the government’s guarantee of principal and inter- est to private corporation bonds | entrusts the Industrial Recon-; struction Institute with examining and recommending the companies to be favored. Guards Public’s Investments The capital and reserves of the fifteen banks and institutes is! $,678,942,334 lire, more than} 193,000,000 at par. Half of this) is distributed among the banks = Naples and Sicily and the St. Paul's _ Institute, historic} foundations, The Association of Italian Cor- porations’ report says: “A eredit system has thus been built up which relieves the deposit; banks of the duty of financing: all starting Tuesday, January 2,” he! says. Mr. Montgomery has selected! only the most versatile performers from all over the country and is bringing them here to Key West in one big show. Each performer! is a star in his or her respective! line of work. Many “high class! vaudeville acts will be. presented! during the engagement that have appeared on big vaudeville stages throughout the country, it is stat-| ed. ! The company is under the per-j sonal direction of Mr. Lowrie Montgomery and each perform-| ance will be staged with special scenery painted by the. scenic artist who is associated with the Montgomery Players. There will be many features and surprises} presented during the engagement} of the Montgomery Players in the! Palace Theatre. The ¢ompany will start its en- gagemnt here tomorrow’ and will! appear each afternoon starting at 3:45 o’clock and evening a 8:00 o'clock. FLORIDA BRINGS 139 PASSENGERS The Steamship Florida, ‘of the} P. and O. S. S. company, arrived were aliens, | The vessel sailed 6:30 for Tam-| pa with 43 passengers, freight and} mail. H Freighter Alamo, of the Clyde-} Mallory Steamship Lines, arrived | of freight for local merchants, | and sailed later for Tampa and} Mobile. i Tug H. C., Cadmus, of Mobile,} Ala., arrived in port Saturday} evening with two barges in tow.! The barges were anchored in the! stream and the tug came up_ to} the berth at the Porter Dock. High winds and rough seas} made it necessary for the vessel, } and barges loaded with phosphate, | to await calmer weather before} continuing the voyage to Charles-| ton, S. C., and Wilmington, N. THE KEY WEST CITIZEN (Special to The Citizen) MIAMI, Jan. i—Invitations have been issued to Florida region- al distributors of the Orange Siate Oil Company for a two-day con- vention, January 5-6, at the Miami ! Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, according to C. B. Chinn, secre- tary-treasurer, who is in charge of program arrangements, Coincident with the issuance of invitations, J. E. Fenn, vice-presi- dent and general manager, an- nounced that the company had en joyed a 44 percent increase in volume of sales during the past year. The company, a Florida in- stitution, is exclusive distributor in this state for Cities Service gasolines and oils. The convention will be .attend- ed by some 60 officers and rep- resentatives, including the 40 bulk plant distributors from all over Florida and will celebrate the first year of the Orange State Oil Com- pany’s expansion program. Dur- ing this period the company has in- creased ity coverage from 4 to 30 counties and its filling station out- lets from 125 to 300, with cen- tral distributing offices at Miami Tampa and Jacksonville. “‘We are unusually proud of our record of growth during one of the worst depression years in’ his- tory,” Mr. Fenn said, “and. we are taking this method of thanking our bulk plant distributors, whose cooperation has helped to make this accomplishment possible.” Henry L. Doherty, head of Cities Service, is expected to speak at the Friday night banquet, accord- ing to Mr. Chinn, though no def- inite announcement could be made at this early date. The distribu- tors will meet for a luncheon Friday noon, followed by a busi- ness session and inspection of the company’s plant at 368 N, E, 58th Terrace. A.sightseeing tour of} the Miami area and inspection of filling stations is planned for Saturday. The Miami Biltmore golf course will be available to guests Saturday afternoon, Bulk plant distributors who will attend the convention include: A. T. Shelfer, Arcadia; J. S. Morris, Jr., Bartow; Jesse A. Cox, Clearwater; A. E. Cason, Delray; H. F. Solomon, Ft. Lauderdale; W. E. Morgan, Ft. Meade; F. E. Forg, head, Ft. Myers; S. D. Bennett, Ft. ; Grover Alison, Gaines- ville; Alonzo Lewis, Homestead; O. W. Collins, Jacksonville; E, A. Strunk, Jr., Key West; H. S. Skip- per, Lake City; Rodney Lake, Lakeland; Swain F. Bowers, Lake Placid; Leonard Sombret, Lake Worth; W. C. Anderson, Lake Wale W. A. Pierce, Macclenny; A. Woodburn, Marathon; C. L. Craig, Matecumbe; Dean M. Scott, Melbourne; S. A. Moses, Ocala; left' Saturday afternoon from Havana} Miller O. Phillips, Orlando; R. W. Gaines- With 139 passengers, of whom 47; Sanders, Pahokee; Ed F, Hayes, Palmetto; R. N. White, Plant City; John K. Shugart, St. Augus- tine; F.C. Barrios, St. Peters- burg; W. D. Pope, Sanford; M. L. Bass, Sarasota; Andrew Lester, Jv., Stuart; W. F. Higginbotham, Tavares; Titusville; G. S. Slaughter, Wauchula; John F. Hayes, Webster; G. C. Kirby, West Palm Beach; George C. Brown, Winter Garden; H. H. Shell, Winter Haven; D. E. Rob- erts, Worthington Springs. Tra Nobles, Vieda S. Morrow, 30 year-old assistant city attorney of Seattle, also noted as a ski-jumper in the Pacific northwest, has been named as an assistant in the United States Department of Justice. Subscribe to The Citizen. oe ogee SITE FOR PROPOSED CONVENTION business. and which provides for| the needs of all branches of pro- duction, toward which it directs the flow of national savings. “The investing public thus en- joys the protection afforded by} the supervision and control ercised by the government not} only over the bookkeeping and ad-} ministrative methods but over the! / character of the business trans-| | acted, while the ratio of invest: ments assigned to the different! activities can be regulated with’ due regord to the national in- terest.” There are something like 318,- in the United States, i ; | iar Bc tractor seprentinn.: doomns y 5-6, to celebrate a 44 percent increase in volume of sales durin ¢ the past year for Cities Service baleen BYNOPSIS: Curt Tennyson reaches the lake in the Canadian wilderness. where his amphibian should be, and his partner, Smash | Desplatnes, away. Qurt wants to jo capture Karakhan. desperate and wealthy he wants to Fy whois mak- 2 ae, uy, o intention of killing him. Curt’s handg are. tied. ag hourly ‘Teeste LeNotr and his Indian allies take Sonyg nearer Karakhan, Chapter 42 THE MEETING ONYA made herself stop thinking of. anything beyond tomorrow morning. She would need all her strength and poise for her meeting with Karakhan. It would be fatal ta. brood about the future and let it upnerve her. The future must take care of itself. All that day ber thoughts had been running on her father; and now, on the trip up the dark river, they came hack to bim, and she tried to feel that he was with her in spirit, watching over her safety again a8 he had done during that white Siberian winter. As she looked above the tree tops and saw the Sdcred W hanging in the northeast sky, she remembered the tong-ago-eyening in distant irkutsk when he had first pointed |; {t-ont to her and-Carl, and recalled winter ‘nights in the Lena Woods when the. three of them bad lain huddled together, ‘without fire or sheiter,.. listening for enemies and watching the constellations swing around the pole star. Now: he and Carl were gone, and under the far-northern Canadian sky she was watching those con- stellations. alone. Dead, he and Carl, hef .neafolk who had been all. the world to her—she dared not let her- self think of them as dead, for it was‘ only: fécently that rhe had pulled bérself out of the black bot- tomless tragedy of their deaths and found heart to go on living. Karakbai was readifig a batch of month-old ' heWspapers- that mid- night when: the three runners came into bis cabin with LeNoir’s report. The moment -he heard about the escahg of Ralston and his partner, he made up his mind to get away in his planée'as soon as he had light enough for flying. The reassurance which LeNoir relayed—that those two hed fled south and the main band was coming north as a guard reassured him not at all. Sharpened by twenty years of keeping abead of the law, his intul- tlon told him it was time to go. ba fellow Ralston had a charmed ut é: He wavered ’ over ‘what to do about Sonya. On Helen Mathieson, or any of the others, he would not have wasted a thought; but Sonya Volkov stodd out by herself, one of the rare personalities of his life time. In the last few days he had been thinking of her till she had be- come a madness in his blood; and all the clamorous impulses within = rebélied' at the thought of leav- ng by She would g6 along with ‘him will- ingly; her passionate letter left no doubt that she Would follow him to the world’s end, On the swift flight to Mexico she would be an impedi- ment, true enough—an extra person would cut @own the gas load, and inquisitive officials along the coast might ask questions, since he would be flying with a gizl. But the risk was slight, his burden would be a precious burden, and when he got to Mexico he would have her there with him! After throwing his personal ef- fects into a duffle bag, he went down to the hangar, turned the Speedair 80 that it headed lakeward; and untied all the mooring ropes except one slip-hitch around a pontoon brace. Once he sta to make bis getaway: it would distinctly wise to go in a hurry. - He wanted to be skimming out upon the lake, beyond canoe and rifle reach, before his intention burst upon LeNoir and Siam-Kiale. ‘Thay. were going to ture ugly when they realized he was escaping and texting them hold the sack. The Speedair was so vital to him that be ordered a pair of Klosobees, two of his bodyguard whom he could trust, to stay there at the hangar and guard the ship. It was just possible that LeNoir might suspect nim of wanting to escape and might try to cripple the plane. At dawn, when the ten canoes came swinging around the timbered headland, he was standing on the log pler, waiting. Strung out for several hundred yards, the flotilla skirled up along the shore toward bim till ef last, with pulses ham- P& mering, he picked out Sonya in Le Noir’s craft. LeNoir stroked hs canoe in front of the others and nosed in to the landing. Sonya rose up, swaying slightly to the rocking of the water. Karakhan reached her band, clasped it, helped ‘her step up on the logs. “Sonya!” He greeted her in their native tongue. “You have really come! 1 haven't quite believed it until now!” Sonya’s clear eyes looked at him steadily. She did not respond to the pressure of his hand. “Yes, I've come,” she said, in an even voice. “I'm glad to meet you again.” Karakhan was disappointed—and puzzled. Her greeting had none of the passion of her letter. But per- haps it was only her natural shy- ness before LeNoir and the Indians. “You're tired,” he said, with a show of solicitude. He could not take his eyes from her—the golden softness of her hair, the loveliness of her face and throat. “Come up with me to the cabin. I’ve a break- fast of sorts ready for you.” He lowered his voice, though none of his lsteners knew a sentence of Russian: “Then we're leaving here. Immediately. I'll explain, dearest, when we're alone and a thousand versts from this place.” As they walked up the footpath to the cabin, he grew more and more disappointed and mystified by Son- ya’s attitude. This meeting with her was not as he had expected. She seemed even colder and more dis- tant than in Victoria, when he had so dismally failed of a conquest, NSIDE the cabin he took her fore- ibly into his arms and kissed her, thinking it would break down her shyness, Sonya turned her face away, and he felt her whole body stiffen—at the mere contact with him, it seemed, “What's wrong, Sonya?” he de manded. “You don’t appear at all glad.” He was impatient with her coldness and utter lack of response. Sonya freed herself, without an- swering. She stepped over to the rough block table and behind it, so that it stood between her and Kara- khan. With a glance about the room and a glance at the Indians’ out- side, she confronted him. “It’s been a long trail from Vie toria here,” she said, dropping the last pretense of friendliness. “And it was a long hunt before that, to get my first trace of where you'd gone. When I look back, it seems as though I've had one continuous miracle of luck in finding you. But that’s past. I’m here.” Karakhan stared wide-eyed at her, with all his ardor forsaking him. He saw, at last, that her coldness was no girlish make-believe but a dead earnestness, The expression in her eyes made him suddenly afraid. “Your conquests with women have always been so easy,” she went on, “that you can’t Imagine any woman not falling in love with you, and so when you get a letter from one that called you ‘Beloved’ when she meant “You white beast,’ you swallowed the hook and sent your man to bring her to. you: “You were proof against traps and poison and the professional police hounds, but you weren't proof against that lure! You've had your way with a great number of women and you came to regard them as harmless things. But where men— all the men eve> sent after you— failed to bring you to account, it was a@ woman who trailed you, and reached here, and’s here now!” Karakhan backe. up a step and his jaw dropped. If anything of bis delusion about ber remained, the loathing packed into that epithet, “You white beast,” toppled it and shattered it to bits. A suspidion volted through him—did she know? Had she found out? impossible; he had worked too carefully and anony- mously, But was anything impos- sible to one who had trailed him as consummately 18 she had done? Her next words left him in oo doubt. “There in Victoria, when you started negotiating with father and Carl about that lumber importation, 1 told them that you were a dan- gerous man, as dangerous as & cobra. They didn’t take my warn ing, because 1 had no evidence ex- cept my intangibie judgment of you. With those worthless safe-conduct papers that you forged they went away to Viadivostok—to close that big lumber deal for their company, they thought. And the police got them when they landed, as you in- tended. And there—in the Louf- yanka—in that execution chamber under the hill—fatber and Cari——” (Copyright, William B. Mowery) Sonya, tomorrow, comes te the climax of her mission. STEAMSHIP Co. UNITED STATES FAST MAIL ROUTES FOR PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES Effective April 27, 1933 Leave Key West for Havana Tuesdays and Fridays 12:15 P. M. Leave Havana for Key West Wednesday. and Saturdays 945 A. M. Leave Key West for Port Tampa Wednesdays and Satur- days 6:30 P. M. Tickets, Reservations and Information at Ticket Office on the 71 J. H. COSTAR, Agent. er ee Cte a a MONDAY, JANUARY ODE OF THE MOMENT RAIN AND STORMS. _ USHER IN NEW YEAR (Continued From Page One) Philadelphia breathed a sigh of relief when a 40 degree rise was experienced, MORE DEATHS ARE REPORTED TODAY LOS ANGE’ ES, Jan. 1.—The death toll which may reach 12 more, wit « score injured and hundreds homeless was counted in southern California today as the result of torrential rains, the heaviest on record. Every river and creek bed in the Los Angeles area was over- flowing, inundating a large area thickly populated, (CUBAN SOCIETY NAMES OFFICERS The local organization “Emi. grados Revolucionarios Cubanos,” met yesterday at the San Carlos building when an election of offi- cers was held with the following being named for the various posi- tions to serve for the ensuing term; Juan Perez president. Juan Pazos, president. Jorge Sanchez, vice-president. Bernardino Gonzalez, recording Rolo, honorary secretary. Benito G. Guito, corresponding A number of southern Califor-| Secretary. nia communities within 50 miles of the city were isolated, An undetermined number of; young people was believed to have drowned late last night when the weight of their two automo- biles broke down a wooden bridge over the swollen Los Angeles riv- er. = Three others were killed , in traffic accidents,~ It was still raining today with no sigh of a let-up, Mrs. Marian ‘Clarke, Fraser, N. Y., has been nominated: by’ the Re- publican party to succeed her late husband, RepresentativeJohn D. Clark, in congress, A total of 5,035,000 motor vehicles of various descriptions; are on the farms of the United States. | Felix Rodriguez, Santiago Cor- dova, Jose Cartaya and Berardo Garcia, directors, Itehing Between the Toes is re- Heved quickly by noplying Im 1 Remedy at. time. - gists are authorized to refund your money if it fafis.—Advt, PALACE Randelph Scott-Martha Sleeper in BROKEN DREAMS Matinee, 10-1 Se; Night, 10-206 Key West's First Funeral Home Key West's First Ambulance Service PRITCHARD Phone 548 Never Sleeps ‘TT WILL SAVE ME*40 between now and spring!” « “That'swhyl boughtmy GENERAL ELECTRIC Refrigerator Now!” a Weep fe ar 8 ne ings on food alone meet the payments on our GE ly payment pian.