The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 8, 1934, Page 1

Press Day Wire Service - VOLUME LV. No. 7. om s Revenue From _ Beer Tax One: + $35,000,00 000 5. =. : - Nation’s Income 1933 Fiscal Year rin Upward Trend Of More Than $62,000,000 (By Associate? Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.— The nation’s income jumped |’ upward more than $62,000,- 000 during the 1933 fiscal year, and what’s more, it _cost the government less to _colleet it. J ‘Helvering, internal e. commissioner, also dosed today in his an- al report to Secretary Morgenthau, that although 8.2 beer and wine were legal for only a small part of the 71933 fiscal year, the former brought more than $35,000,- 000 and ‘we more,than $80,000. With income taxes carry- ing the bulk of the load, Helvering estimated the to- tal revenue for the fiscal year at nearly $1,620,000,- 000 as compared with slight- ly more than $1,500,000,000 the year before, It cost the government $1.85 to collect each $100, which was 32-cents-less‘than for each $100 the previous. years. Florida contributed $4,-| 278,971 in income taxes, and $3,315,662 in miscellaneous taxes of the forty seven “hundredths of the total. r HAD DOSE OF POSION ALSO _ MILLION DOLLARS WORTH . OF PEARLS WITH HIM WHEN FOUND My Axsociated Preas) Serge “Handsome Alex” Stavisky, alleged $40,000,900 swindler, shot ~ himself in the head today when police surrounded him in a hidden He was first thought to have died instantly, but a hastily sum- moned. pliysician found a spark of life and administered a restorative which apparently brought con-} sciousness. ' | » He had been sought for the past} two weeks following collapse of the Bayonne pawnshop which he founded, Doctors expected him to die momentarily, although they waged a fight for his life so they can turn him over to trial. He had a dose of poison and en worth of pearls with U S.S. BADGER | LEAVES FOR CUBA The U. Destroyer sailed 10 pst this morning ead Cuban waters on regular patrol aluty. The vessel had been in port mbout 10 days. Other U. S. vessels in port are the Destroyers Babbitt and Clax-| jthere were 52 aliens. | IN INTEREST OF LOCAL AQUARIUM RETURNS TO KEY WEST YES- TERDAY; WILL REMAIN UN. TIL PROJECT UNDERWAY IS COMPLETED Dr. Robert O. Van Deusen, di-} rector of the Fairmount Park | Aquarium at Philadelphia, came in on the Havana Special yesterday and expects to remain for about five weeks. At the solicitation of Mayor Wm. H. Malone, Mayor J. Hamp-} ton’ Moore, of Philadelphia, grant-/ ed Dr, Van Deusen leave of ab-! [SAYS ROOSEVELT ‘HAS CAR IN HIGH ON RIGHT ROAD’ PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL! AUTOMOBILE DEALERS AS- SOCIATION SPEAKS AT GATHERING OF AUTO SHOW (By ‘Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—F. W. A | Vesper, president of. the National Wutomobile Dealers Association, told a large gathering of -dealers today that President’ Roosevelt “has the car in high on the right road, headed toward the finish.” He said “it is our job to man | pits to keep the car in shape to do stretch he will get a wave of the icheckered flag as he crosses the line.” Vesper referred to the motor spoke at the gathering held in con- nection with the national automo- bile show. sence to allow him to supervise] CRIMINAL COURT the arrangemients at the Key West Aquarium, now under course of construction. The doctor told The Citizen this! morning that he was very much pleased’ with the progress that has been made between his departure Saturday, December 23, and his arrival yesterday. Although there has. been some delay in securing material, the work has been carried on without any cessation. This morning there ave almost 200/men working ‘on this project. Not on the construction but in preparing material to be used for mixing the concrete and other necessary labor. Most of the tubble being used is being made CONVENES TODAY WITH AGGRAVATED’ AS- SAULT, WILL BE ARRAIGN- ED TOMORROW - William Waples will be placed! on trial in criminal court tomor- row morning 10 o’clock on a; charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, namely ‘a knife. This is one of several cases to be tried at this term’of court. An- || other is that of Theodore. Bethel, While it is understood that the project may not be completed within the time limit set by the Civil Works Administration, every effort is being put forth to have tthe building &s near complete as possible by February 15. fo AR aR ‘CORONER’S JURY IN MORENO CASE RENDERS VERDICT CLAIMED THAT WOMAN DY- ING FROM BURNS ON FRI- DAY CAME TO HER DEATH BY HER OWN HAND That Mrs. Arjymiro Moreno canje to her death by her own hand was the verdict rendered| this morning to Rogelio Gomez,| f ones France, Jan,-8—| justice of the peace, coroner ex- officio, by the jury empanelled to investigate the case. Members of the jury were J. J. Albury, E. C. Gomez, George M. Park, Charles Mathews, Emer- ito Gomez, Fabio Olivieri. About 2:30 o’clock Friday morn- ing the Moreno family. was awak- ened by screams. They hurried to the room of Mrs. Moreno and found her body enveloped in fire from her burning clothing. After the flames were extin- guished she was found to be so terribly burned that it was be- yond medical aid to do aught but relieve her suffering until she died "10:30 o'clock. Members of the family stated that she had been in a very ner- vous condition for some time and; had on several occasions given evi- | dence of mental derangement. It ‘was determined that she saturated | her clothing with oil and then ap-; plied a match. | | with-assault and” battery. Bethel is the negro who resisted arrest by Officers Collins and Torres. When they arrived at the city jail and the prisoner was be- ing placed in the cell, he snatched the club from Collins. The latter: then drew: his revol- ver and Bethel made’an attempt to get’ that. In the struggle the weapon was discharged. The bul-} let struck Bethel on the left side of the head, ranged downward and lodged in his cheek. The following yenire of jurors | was issued to serve during this term: J. Ross Spencer, T. W. Leon, | Herinan W. Albury, Arnold Hen-| son, Captain Charles Curry, Vin- ;cent A. Archer, Henry W. Carey, George Schreiber, Albert Di- Negro, Jr., B. E. Brantley, Paul S. Lightbourne, Sumner Sweeting, Lain Octavio Recio, Alfred D. Cook, Joseph Taylor, George J. Me-Don- ald. ‘The venire was made returnable 9:30 o’clock tomorrow morning. | vehicle retailing code of which he | lis a national code authority, and} FOR JAN’Y. TERM! WILLIAM WAPLES, CHARGED: |her best so when it reaches the| j Frank Guerra,| Dobbs, | } | Fage, the information |the state. | } ' — The Kev West Citisen — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 19384. Peoria Simplicity Rules. Richest Old Men Zaharoff, Europe's 'Mystery. Man: Lives Like Rockefeller eecccccccccccccocessence MONTE CARLO, Jan. 8 found simplicity the keynote Sir Basil, once glamorous “mystery man of Europe,” cannon merchant, entrusted with half the state secrets of the old world, at 83 could scarcely have competed as an athlete with the American “‘oil king” ecccecocescccccoscecccss | Serene In Old Age { | i JOHN DO, ROCKEFELLER John D. Rockefeller, 1 quietly. through the mow r years, has a counterpart in Sir Basil Zaharoff, accounted the richest man in Europe. ' SPOCCCCODSLSOSCOOOOEOOOS COODSOOOOOODOHOAOOOOOEOO® «By Associated Press) .—-Sir Basil Zaharoff and John D.’Rockefeller, two of the! | richest men in the world, both far beyond the traditional three score and ten, have of old age. His Enemy Is Gout at the same age. For that matter, John D., at 93, could get about sprier fashion than his 11-year ju To piay over Rockieiier’s nine-| hole private golf course, Zaharoft| would need his wheel chair as he! has been unable to get about much since his eightieth birthday. He suffers from gout and, while he can walk a bit if he has sup- port, his wheel chair is always at ‘And yetboth men. financial} ‘ings who built up tremendous ‘ortunes from nothing over much the same period of history, are passing their old age in much the same‘fashion. Both have ere rm homes which attract them in ‘the summer. Rockefeller at Tar- rytown, and Zaharoff at Arronville near Paris. And both go south, asa tule, when winter comes, Rockefeller to Florida, and Zahar- off to Monte Carlo. Zaharoff’s sporting activities have been confined in recent years to rowboat excursions in summer on ‘his private lake. Outside of that diversion. he spends most of his time reading. At Monte Carlo, the regime is much the same. He reads world politics with keen interest, gets all the sunshine that he can and pays not the slightest attention to business. Although his hotel. is a stone’s} throw from the Casino, which he is! reputed to own, he never has en- tered its doors, SIR BASIL ZAHAROFF Sir Basil Zaharoff, who made millions selling cannon to’ old .werld governments, now, at 83, passes his days quietly. reading in a wheel chair. zs Two Chile Kl, Twenty TELEGRAM RECEIVED BY DE- MERITT SHOWS MAXIMUM NUMBER FIXED FOR OPER- ATIONS Material -reduction in the num-; ber of men.and‘women on the Civ- il Works Administration rolls, the} number in Key West has been re- duced from 1251 to 1225, making it necessary to remove 26 names }from the list. received Demeritt, Io® In a telegram morning by W. W. cal administrator, from Marcus C. | is headquarters given! that Federal has placed the maximum quota ie Florida at 95,000. This makes it the necessary, | telegram shows, to reduce by more, than 10,000 the listed workers in| Prorated, this will} mean that Monroe county will dis-| pense with the services of 25. The! Jallotment for Monroe was 1104/ men and 147 women, Further along in the telegram, the local organization is advised) Bisa | “please do pot ask for any change] in this allotment as it positively} cannot be done.” The administrator in Monroe} Centuries-old rains of a for | i® told, that any person employed) “School Injured, In Train-Bus Crash hy ankecia Associated Press) BASSFIELD, Miss.; Jan.;school boy had stalled on 8.—Two children were kill-| the tracks near the depot. ed, one critically injured, The vehicle was demolished. All of the children in the bus. lived near Good Hope i community, and were en- tral passenger train crashed)route to a consolidated into a school bus at a cross-| school here. ing here today. It was feared that some of} First reports of the acci-|those removed unconscious dent indicated that the bus,|from’ the wreckage may} driven by a _ 19-year-old| have suffered fatal injuries. | Teachers Of Cuba Begin Island-Wide Strike ‘LOCAL OFFICERS OF CWA ATTEND MIAMI MEETING SHEPPARD AND ELGIN LEAV: 5:6: | cent salary cuts and non- YESTERDAY AFTERNOON;} ; Payment of back wages. MORENO AND WERE MET THERE and more than 20 others hurt when a Mississippi Cen- (By Associated Press) HAVANA, Jan. 8.—The! public school teachers Cuba initiated an wide strike at the opening of STRUNK of| island-| | classes today protesting re-; Havana railway workers | MADE BY OFFICERS HERE LAST NIGHT BENITO PEREZ, KNOWN AS MEXICANO, PLACED UNDER ARREST IN CONNECTION | | WITH PROCEEDINGS | I Everett R. Rivas, captain of police, Patrolman Franklyn Aren- berg and Constable Ray Elwood, made two captures of alleged con- | traband liquor last night and ar- | rested Benito Perez, better known jas Mexicano. Advised by a prominent citizen that cars were speeding on the county road and boulevard, the officers went out to investigate. About 11:30 they saw a big se- along the county road, Flagler Avenue, about 55 miles on hour: The officers gave chase. Offi- cer Arenberg fired several shots at the tires of the car in an effort to effect a puncture and bring the car to a halt. | Nothing happened, however, j until. the car reached the corner of United and Margaret streets iwhen the front right tire was thrown off and the rear tire de- veloped a puncture, Occupants of the car, the offi- cers said, left the vehicle, ran for safety and were not captu' In the car was.found 17 full five gal- Jon demijohns of aguardiente, one half full and two broken. The car’ is said to belong to Manolo Lo, pez, who was arrested later, After this capture, the officers returned to seek the other car and at 1:30 o’clock saw one coming down the boulevard. It was dis- playing no lights, they said, and | going at a 65 mile an hour clip. | Another chase was started. The pursued car increased speed and so did the official roadster of the captain, The speedometer in ced latter registered 67 miles | hour, The chase was continued on we | boulevard, through the streets ot| \ the city and did hot terminate un.} | til a point was reached on Simon- j ton street between Olivia and Pe- tronia street, Here the lead car was brought to a halt with the pursuing car only a few feet distant. In this .sedan was found Perez, jwho was placed under arrest, 10 | full demijohns of aguardiente, | six sacks of Lavine rum and eight Phale gallon jugs of wine. All of the liquor was seized yalong with the cars, taken to the city jail ond placed safely in the j Storage room to be held as evi- | dence at the tri ‘WANTS TO HELP DEPOSITORS OF APPLICATION TO RECON. STRUCTION FINANCE COR. PORATION FOR FUNDS dan with no rear lights, speeding; For 54 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West. PRICE FIVE CENTS California Official Charges Great Waste Of Public Money In Operations Of CWA Forces : LIQUOR CAPTURE Claims Vast Army Does Practically Nothing Drawing Fifty Cents An Hour On Payroll (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8.— John B. Elliott, first vice chairman of the democratic state central committee, in a statement which termed the. management of the CWA here for the past’ four weeks nothing less than a public: scandal, said today: “I, for one, shall not remain silent about it any longer.” Elliott said an investiga- tion had convinced him of a great waste of public money for use of unemployment re- lief, for personal ends and ambitions, betrayal of Pres- ident Roosevelt and gross mishandling and manage- ment of what Washington intended to be a superhu- man effort to aid the jobless, He charged specifically that an army of 16,000 or 17,000. unemployéd had out tools or materials of any kind and in many cases standing around on the gov- ernment payroll at 50)cents an hour. He also said thousands who were working have not been re TO BE INCREASED THREE- FOLD AS ANNOUNCED FIRST OF YEAR (Dy Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 8.—France agreed today to inoreave threefold quotas on America products as announc, the first of the year. The United States embassy an- nounced the conclusion of this at- rangement whereby the United States will be exempted from the French policy to reserve three | quarters of its import quotas for | | bargaining Purposes, MANY D CLOSED BANKS en COMPTROLLER LEE MAKES KYOTO STAMPEDE LARGE NUMBER INJURED IN PANIC-STRICKEN CROWD AT RAILWAY STATION }in any capacity above the quota! gotten civilization became the | stowed, 1225, will be his own per- scene of a modern drama; where | sonal liability. Notification as} Arthur Sheppard, director of the Mayans & thousand or more | to actual man hours allotted will) 4 Joa 4 : 3 years ago offered human sacrifices j be sent out from: Tallahassee to-/ » and A. C. Elgin, chairman te theic gods, remanent of the rece |287> it is shown of the purchasing committee, left their demands threatening a strike in 72 hours if they were not granted. FLORIDABRINGS | 141 PASSENGERS The Steamer Florida of the P| and 0. S. S. company, arrived / from Havana Saturday afternoon | with 141 passengers. Of bs | At the Porter dock company’s; wharf is the Panamanian launch | } Cachita, which a: last week} for a short stay in bey West wa-/ ters, WaT Ia als tries to perpetuate the pagan rites. | | «| over the East Coast yesterday to} This is the sinister, mysterious setting | for Henseat Jensen's new serial, | soescccccccccecocccoecee bs ae BLOND GODDESS, 2 story of TONIGHT y- i | hospital employes 7 : On their arrival they were to! Ma ioe NG ee Palace — Mesigomery Players! be Soleed by B.C Morene, | OMly executed committee or- & tingling romance. a "tele: eae 3 SCFeED,! chief engineer of the CWA, andj ders to begin a strike. urtain st Eight.” E. A. Strunk, assistant disb Strand—“Hoopla” and “Bomb-} peter ene | otticer. The former left Satur-! shell.” j day afternoon and the latter last | TOMORROW | Thursday. { BOMBSHELL Montgomery Players| The meeting today was to be | Clara Bow-Richard Cromwell heid in the rooms of the county in HOOPLA commissioners of Dade county ini} Matinee: Baleony, 10c; Orches- lene court house. tra 15-20; Night 15.25 be present at a regional wecting| It is estimated that 25,000 of CWA department heads in Mi-} doctors, nurses, internes and WHERE TO GO awaited Starts Tuesday, | January 9 THE CITIZEN STRAND THEATER Jean Harlow-Lee Tracy in Palace - | present “Back From ogc The| Strand—“Bombshell” Right to Romance.” jin the meantime awaited the United Railway’s answer to} (By Ansoctates Frees) (By Associated Presa) TOKYO, Jan. 8.—Deaths of 71 TALLAHASSEE, Fia, Jan, 8.| persons and injuries to 56 in « Some $7,000,000 may pour! panic-stricken crowd was report- into Florida to bulge the pock-jed today by the Kengo News ets of depositors in loved | Agency correspondent st Kyoto. state banks if Comptroller J. M.. A crowd was at the Kyoto rail- ‘Lee's applications te the Recon- | way station to bid farewell to a struction Finance Corporation are) group of recruits for the imperial approved. "White bank examiners | hurried through appraisals of all available {assets of closed banks, the comp-|ly explained, |troller announced bere he was sending to the federal government lagency applications for spprent | ——— | mately $7,000,000, |. NEW YORK—Mrs. | If obtained, this money would|Schlembaum of this | be loaned by the government upon | weighs 576 pounds, was j available security in the banks. /Wor leaning aginst Mra. | This security, in many instances, ik, who wanted to : (Continued on Page Three) with attempted murden HEAVY LOAD