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

For 54 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West : : 1 Se ee 4 ociated Press Day Wire Service KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1934. Quietest Dresser’s Suit Is ‘Loud’ [ROOSEVELT RECOMMENDS COVERNMENT When Super-Sound Detector Listens VOLUME LV. No. 4. Frauds Involving Millions PRICE FIVE CENTS Of Dollars Revealed: When: French Credit Bank Closes Insurance ieaeinenies Are Said To Be Principal Victims In Bonds Issued During Proceedings (By Associated Prens) PARIS, Jan, 4.—France was shaken today by charg- es that from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 of frauds have been revealed by ‘the col- lapse of the Credit Munici- pal Bank of Bayonne, which _was the city’s pawnshop, and the disappearance of its _ Mysterious founder, . Serge Stavisky. The manager of the insti- tution was jailed December 30, and a warrant was is- sted for Stavisky in con- nection with the recent al- leged issuance of unauthor- ized bonds. Premier Camille Chau- ~ temps with names high in French governmental quar- _ ters are inyolved in the af- - fairs, declared Stavisky, who police said had many aliases, will be brought to justice Insurance’companies were reported by investigators to have been the principal vic- " tims. of the sale of fraudu- ‘Tent. pawnshop bonds which Stavisky, under the name of Serge Alexandre, is charged with issuing for from three to ten times the pawnshop’s legal limit of _50,000,000 franes or about $3,000,000. “MRS. S. KNOWLES IN MIAMI News was received in the city this morning of the death of Mrs. ‘Sarah Knowles, who was in her seventy-third Tia Knowles, Key West, and a > davahter, Mrs. John H. Pinder. Carried On The Key West. Aquarium pro- Sect site and the lighthouse de- partment yard today presents « scene reminiscent of other days when the naval station was active “and there was always something 'BELIEVE CREWS — “IN MINE BLAST ARE ALL DOOMED RESCUE WORKERS ARX BEAT- EN BACK BY FLAMES IN EFFORTS PUT FORTH TO- WARD ENTERING MINE (By Associated Preas) DUCHC OV, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 4.—Fire and poisonous gases swept a dual threat of death to: day toward 120 men trapped by a terrific blast in a coal mine. Rescue workers were beaten back by flames and it was feared all were doomed if not already dead from gas. One hundred and forty we: the mine late yesterday when the blast occurred. Bodies of 16 were recovered and four managed to climb 1,000 feet to the’ surface in safety. ~ REROTARY MEET FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE WAS IN CHARGE OF PRO- GRAM TODAY; SEBASTIAN CABRERA PRESIDES The Fellowship Committee with Bill Bates in charge held forth with theirprogram today at the Rotary luncheon. Chas. E. Smith /was named chairman of the pro- net committee succeeding Rev. G. Stradley, who left the city récently. Sebastian Cabrera, Jr., president of the organization, presided as usual today. , Rev. George E. Summers, new pastor of the First Methodist church, gave an address on fellow- ship, and his remarks proved to be very interesting to the many in attendance at the meeting. Bill Bates read a list of the charter members of the organiza-| ion, also. the various vice-presi- ‘that had setved ‘since the club’s beginning. The usual songs were suhgy and the tession was voted an interest- ing and enjoyable one throughout. At Aquarium Site than be placed and concrete pour- ed for the actual foundation of the structure. Even to a casual spectator it is evident that the -watchword on this structural work is, and is to be, efficiency of a well organized force, the maximum of accom- plishment with the most rigid econ- By HOWARD w. BLAKESLEE (Associated Press Sctence Editor) CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 4.— The fact that a suit of clothes creaks with every movement of the body is revealed by a super- sound detector at the Harvard university physics laboratory. When this supersonic listener is turned on in a room “perfectly quiet to the ear, the air is filled with noises. They. are super- sounds, air waves vibrating at 20,000 or more a second, too high to be audible to the human ear. Silence Is Its ‘Racket’ The noises arise apparently from every kind of motion, how- ever slight. Among these super- sounds the creaking of a good suit of clothes is among «the noisiest. Stand in front of the mechanical listener and slowly bend one elbow. “Grrump,” goes the racket of the flaxing fabric and keeps up eeeccecccoccce ecccccese eccccepeecs Hearing The ‘Thunder Of Silence’ wi ional att? eo” BE OPERATED ON PAY-AS-YOU-CO METHOD FRENCH FLYING | ESTIMATES EXPENDITURES CHARGED ENTIRELY TWO BILLION DOLLAR WAR CHEST TOWARD NATAL, BRAZIL; — concupine paive “SOUTHERN CROSS” COM. PLETES ATLANTIC CROSS- ING; COVERS 1,970 MILES IN LITTLE OVER 18 HOURS (By Ansoeiated Press) WASHINGTON, January 4.—President Roosevelt frankly reported to congress today a prospective $9,000,- 000,000 recovery campaign deficit for the next two years, and asked that the lid be clamped down to put the gov- ernment on a pay-as-you-go basis by 1936. In his message transmitting the budget he estimated expenditures chargeable entirely to the recovery effort of almost $7,500,000,000 for this fiscal year ending June 30. He asked for a $2,000,000,000 war chest to continue and taper off this drive in the following year. (By Asnociated Press) NATAL, ‘Brazil, Jan. 4.—The great French flying boat “‘South- ern Cross” arrived here early to- day completing the Atlantic cross- ing from’ St. Louis, Senegal. this sound as long as the arm is | in motion. Light a match, and above the} soft flare which is audible to the, The plane covered 1970 miles in 18 hours and 17 minutes. All of this, he said, involves the government in bor- rowing $10,000,000,000 during the next six months, but he expressed no doubt of meeting this problem. omy, and continuous application * doing in that vicinity. to the work in hand. ear the supersonic instrument picks up another noise resembling the distant rumble of a street car. Rubbing the palms of the hands) . i That expression—‘“the thunder of silence”—has new megning | here as Dr. G. W. Pierce bends his coat sleeve in front of the super- sound detector he designed at Harvard university. Here « pin:drop together emits a stream of these g#ounds. Tearing a piece of paper sounds like far-off machine gun fire, Sh-h! Quiet, Please A roomful of men trying to re- main entirely quiet registers on the supersonic device like the noises of a herd of elephants. This detector, designed by Dr.; G. W. Pierce, Rumford professor of physics, is part of an extensive investigation of supersounds, In the air these. inaudible waves travel farther than ordinary sounds. They also are transmit- ted by the ‘other substances which carry oo ae suggesting| . County. offi water ore can ee heard near! mile: Music Transmission Possible Music. cari: be transmitted over a specially arranged supersound beam. For this Dr. Pierce uses the inaudible sound of a Galton whistle, which sends out vibrations at the rate of about 25,000 a second, When the listening de- vice is tuned to the whistle it makes a high, clear note. But when a phonograph record is connected electrically with the whistle, the clear note modulates} to carry faithfully every variation in sound of a full orchestra. These modulations are all in supersound frequencies, so that the music cannot be heard except’ when the listening device is cut in to receive the whistle and reduce its high frequencies to the audible range, DEATH LIST IN FLOOD MOUNTS SIX MORE. ADDED IN lea FORNIA’S NEW YEAR’S DAY DISASTER (iy Asnociated Presa) LOS ANGELES, Jan. more victims were added to the! growing list in southern Califor- nia’s New Year's Day flood as searchers prodded: grimly through} piles of debris today bringing the} death toll to 42. Official reports listed 72 other persons missing, and fear grew 4.—Six} wound sound like an avalanche. { Is outside of the} ened ‘court how Baer, This | was decided at a meeting of the! pay, for their telephones. board of county Hast aight. Application was made for ee | stallgtion of a phone in the ti of one/of the officials who heat ess in an office in an- other part of the city. R. | voiced objections to this practice} Commissioner Wm. Porter and moved that. officials who con-| ducted their businesses in offices| | in buildings other than the court) house or county jail, will pay for; the service. The vote was unani- mous. Present at the Commissioners Norberg Thomp- son,’ chairman; Wm. R, Porter, B.! B, Warren, Carl Bervaldi and Roy! Fulford. Clerk Ross G. Sawyer,| Attorney William V. Albury, Tax} Assessor J. Otto Kirchheiner,| Chief Deputy Sheriff Clements; }Jaycocks, Ferry Manager Eugene| Demeritt, Ferry Auditor Roy) Faulkner. { Addresses Board | addressed the board | relative to ments on certain property in Key West and request-} ed that a reduction be made. Assessor Kirchheiner read from his records and explained to Mr. Pogue the method of assessing / property and pointed out that in {his opinion the assessments were} equitably made. Odes Pogue { County Board Handles Much | Business Coming Up At First: Regular Session Of New Year nd. $50, 134, * Report of licenses during De- cember by Tax Collector. Ladd showed a total of $156. - Of ‘this amount $104 went to the state making a_ total’ of | and $52 to the county, The commissioners inspeeted the list of jurors compiled for *. the {coming year and after ‘making some changes in the names signed acceptance of the rota’ — totals 584 names, While the question of the: séled tion of names was being discussed | and the lists checked, Clerk ‘Saw- yer said he had complaitits from two men who claimed their names had not been called during the past year. He named John A. Lord and Fernando Voght. Said he had checked the list, that the names {had been placed in the box but they had never been called, so they claimed, although the box was exhausted before the end of 1933. A resolution was adopted by the board granting to all fishermen the right to take garfish in the waters adjacent to Key West. This was done following the reading of a letter from M. R. Brown, asking that he be granted the right to take these fish. A number of communications and telegrams that had been ex- changed between Governor Sholtz and the chairman of the board rel- ative to patrolling the highways in Monroe county were read. No action was taken as there are no funds lable with which \to pay for this service by officers jin Monroe county. NOTICE TO AUTO OWNERS Automobile license tags for The four motored hydroplane is a Frénch entry in the race with Germany to set up the; first trans- Atlantic air mail line between Europe and South America via Africa. Within two months the French government hopes to set up a daily, service between Paris and Rio de Janeiro. HUGE PWA FUND NOW ‘BANKRUPT’ EXCESS ALLOTMENTS TO BE REVOKED; WILL ASK CON. GRESS FOR MORE MONEY WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.—The government’s $3,300,000,000 pub- lic works fund, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes announc- ed, “went bankrupt” on Dec. 28. At a public works board meet- ing.on that day the last of the money in the fund and more be- side was allotted, Secretary Ickes explained. Some of the approvals will have to be revoked before the final allotments are made public next. week, Plans are now being laid to ask congress fora second public works fund, according to the secretary. How much will be requested will be left up to the president. An- other $3,000,000,000, Secretary Ickes indicated, could be used. Awaiting! fhe appropriations more mooeit tha Pliblic Works Ad- ministration, will co: Hone. to go over pig 56 that they wilk be i} tor tion if and when more money. becomes avail- able. Secretary Ickes declared, however, that no more definite al- lotments will be made until money is available. The administration will not operate on a deficiency basis. | HERBERT JENSEN, The $9,000,000,000 deficit which would swell the public debt to an all-time high of nearly $32,000,000,000, does not take into account the prospective new taxes from liquor revenue and plugging of income tax loopholes, NO RECOMMENDATION FOR TAXES MADE There was no recommendation for new taxes. The executive did recommend the restoration of one-third of 15 percent in pay for federal employes effective July 1, and favored continuation of three cent non-local mail rate. As in his personal address to congress yesterday, Mr. Roosevelt spcke optimistically of the business outlook. “Powerful forces for recovery exist,” he said, “It is by laying the foundation of confidence in the present and faith in the future that the upturn which we have so far seen, will become cumulative: . - “The cotucrstohe' Gl this toundation to Quod ovadiecat government, If we maintain the course I have outlined, we can confidently look forward to cumulative beneficial forces represented by increased volume of business,’ more general profit, greater employment diminution of relief ex- penditures, larger governmental receipts and repayments, and greater human happiness.” It had been pointed out by him in a supplemental talk to newspapermen earlier that more than $10,000,000,000 to be spent this fiscal year is not up to the limit authoriz- ed by congress, SENDS MANY NOMINATIONS TO SENATE WASHINGTON, January 4.—President Roosevelt sent to the senate today nominations of more than 100 government officials named to office during the recess of congress, including Henry Morgenthau, Jr., as secretary of the treasury. { fi Wilcox To Continne Fight For Reopening Of Local Navy Yard By PAUL MAY Special Wetnaten ce of The Citteen WASHINGTON, Jan. 4-—De- spite the fact that the Naval Bu- ‘CONTRACT GIVEN FOR LIGHTHOUSE PROJECTS HERE reau of Operations declared that the Key West navy base would be LEON ROBERTS AND C. J.|*losed indefinitely, Representative far 08 | } PEAT HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED] Wilcox (Florida) stated thet he | OF THEIR SELECTION TO) ¥%=ld continue his efforts to get the government te reopen the station. { CARRY ON OPERATIONS The board advised that it had| 1934 are now on sale at the Tax Leon Roberts and C. J. Peat, of “1 refuse to aceopt this asser- accepted the books, that they had} Collecter’s Office, Monroe County lbeen turned over to the tax col-|Court House. The time limit for| =#er- eaplerer ond alventwer, writes @ new, striking serial Key West, have been notified that] tiem 0 finel,” the Southern vep- Inside the yard a force of men. , is breaking up stones to make ‘rubble for the concrete. A few - yards away another force is mix- ~ ing concrete, \ Others are traveling te and fro with steel buggies conveying the mixture from the mixing beds to “the project where it is being pour-! ed to form the sub’ footings. will be completed this “er tomorrow and the forms will Track Arrives Tonight |: With complete line of Fruits and Vegetables. We will be open until 9:30 p. m. TIFT’S CASH GROCERY Phone 675 1117 Division St. # A watcher this morning found not one worker idling. Every man was on the move and going at the task assigned with a wil! and spirit that aways leads to thorough and early accomplish- ment. There are about 100 men at Knapp, structural engineer jea during the period of work as those under him. With Mr, Knapp directing and Supervising the work. it is said, and no delays because of lack of | material, and men sufficient to carry out the plans, it is believed the structure will be completed within the time limit and the man jours allowed. that many of them might be dead. | iector, and according to the law; purchase of same is until January; The final toll may not be known | the board had no further jurisdic-| 15, 1934, after which the law work and supervising them is F. WwW.) in} These footings, it is expected, charge, who is as actively employ- | Present for months. | Ceececccccccocceoccososs WHERE TO GO Secccccecscese TONIGHT “Dan's Other Niece;”} screen, “Sporting Chance.” Strand—“College Coach” |“If I Were Free.” ‘| TOMORROW | Palace — Montgomery P' present “Dan's Other Niec screen, “Sporting Chance.” Strand—“Stage Mothers” “College Coach,” and and BLOND GODDESS A story of spine-chilling edven next books were!|states “The operation of any | made. | motor vehicle after the 15th of A communication from Rou-jJanuary without having attached jmelle Brown, secretary of the state; thereto a license tag for the cur- pension board. submitted a list of | rent year shall subject the opera-: {pensioners now receiving pensions | tor thereof to arrest and punish- | tion, until the | the firm has been awarded , the [contract for construction and im- | provement work at the lighthouse | depot im this city. Several items in the contract resentative declared, after hearing the decision of the bureau. While the neval redic station has continued operation, the sta- from the county. He asked that) the body. It was so ordered. jout to Frank H. Ladd, tax collec- }tor, by the First National Bank.i showing deposits of $12,043.09 collected | Receipts from the bank made} out to Sheriff K. ©. Thompson; [showed deposi Reports Read | The clerk read a receipt made} | | jan3-3t on 1933 taxes. il 75.48, $82.86' se 15-20; ment as provided by law for the Palace — Montgomery Players|a check be made and returned te ‘of operation of a motor vehicle with-| "| Tallahassee for the attention of|out proper license.” FRANK H. LADD, Tax Collector. STRAND THEATER Dick Powell-Ann Dvorak in COLLEGE COACH Irene Dunn-Clive Brooks in IF | WERE FREE | Matinee: Balcony, 10¢; Orches- Night 18.25¢ ture in @ Mexican jungle; s movie actress kidnaped by savage tribes- men and marked to be « humen | SIIIIIIIM s call for the erection of a concrete) tien proper was closed for finan- | and steel fence about 600 feet in| length. Metal sashes in the coal| cial reasons mere then @ year sheds and about 15,000 square age feet of concrete flooring. The yard in the rear of the} Meanwhile the Pacific fiset, depot is to be graded oiled and sanded. The entire contract| “hich has been protecting Ameri- | means the expenditure in material can life and property during the 15,9090, [and wages of $ im Re | ‘This firm was recently swarded | the contract for repairing and_re- te tte home 1 on the Wot Const. | painting the U. S. weather buresu in Key West,