The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 10, 1934, Page 1

i _\ accomplices. _ and acquitted four co-defen- _ sought to gain a lighter sen- Cpe Key VOLUME LV. No. 9. Young Dutchman Convicted In German Reichstag Fire - Pays Death Penalty Today Mathes Yan Der Labbe! FUNERAL RITES Refused To Divulge Any; FQR*B, D. JENKS ~ [Information About His Accomplices BODY ARRIVED FROM MIAMI ON HAVANA SPECIAL TO- DAY ACCOMPANIED BY HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER (By Associated Press) LEIPZIG, Jab. 10.—Mar- inus Van Der Lubbe, young} Dutch stone mason, convict- _ ed of high treason in the Funeral services for Benjamin _ German Reichstag building! p. Jenks will be held 4:30 o'clock | : anal beheaded tomorrow afternoon in Fleming Street church where the body will be placed at 2 o’elock. The 24-year-old man “re-| Rev. George Summers, of the ies ee First, Methodist church A peatedly confessed to setting! 3. c. Gekeler, of the F reese fire, but steadfastly refused this! terian church, will officiate. Mr. Jenks died in Miami yes- to divulge any information terday morning from injuries re-| _ about whether he had any jceived the previous night when he {was struck by an automobile while running from the sidewalk to catch a‘street car. The body arrived this morning on the Havana Special, accom- Van Der Lubbe had been under death sentence since “December 23 when the su- -Preme‘court convicted him, | ;’ gitek te arrive over highway this afternoon. He is survived by his widow and daughter, two brothers, Alex S. Jenks and Harry Jenks, and his stepmother, Mrs. Annie Louise Comes, of San Diego, California. Funeral arrangements are in teharge of Pritchard’s Funeral lome. Brief Life Sketch in Key During dants, _ The steps through which} Dutch government _ tence were unavailing. He was told last night Key West newspapers in differ- ent capacities. Tn 1899 he passed the civil service examination for the postal service and was appointed on | Apiil 1, the same year, as mail ; jst He served in that capa- tg, i city until January 23, 1921, when he was transferred to the position of clerk. MANY SOUTHERN _ HAD FREEZING TEMPERA. TURES DURING NIGHT or in which he remained it the trial. Ee ee STATES) came in 1929, after 30 years of| service and halving reached the age of 62, he was investigated by the department, and because of} excellent and efficient service, z the time for retirement was ex- My Annocinted Proan) tended and on January 31, 1932,/) A change to warmer was shown| he was retired on pension. “today in reports from over a The deceased was one of the or- "greater part ad th tied weak of ginal members of the first mil-| ‘the Mi es i pits company organized in Key ississippi River and in lower! West. The company was known} _ Ohio valley states. while many |as the Island City Guards and was tm states recorded freezing |formed in 1889. during the night. Entering service as a private $ over’a considerable sotithe, the ‘was promoted from time to! erm area which extended as farjtime and at the outbreak of the; ‘South as Tampa, was shown’ in{|war with Spain he was first ser-) maps. geant. With others of Key West he} volunteered his service and went) with the company to Tampa, but | did not see any service, as after: several weeks the company was, ordered home, He remained a member of the; When. time for his retirement HERE TOMORROW {showing made by Key West on . C, Gekeler, of the First Presby-| program was better handled and} panied by Mrs. Jenks and daugh- | ® | ter, Mrs, L. B. Hood. Mr. Hood | jects and the accomplishments by ; the | the local council and employes. ‘TUG PETREL HAS (ENGINEER MUCH PLEASED WITH CWA PROJECTS! STATE OFFICER. IN COMPANY WITH LOCAL ADMINISTRA-| TOR INSPECTS ALL ACTIVI- TIES IN THIS LOCALITY H. D. Mendenhall, state engi- ineer for the Civil Works Admin-! istrator, told The Citizen yester- day he was well pleased with the the different projects. In company with W. W. De- meritt, local CWA administrator, |and H. B. Crawford, regional en- !gineer from Washington, all of | the projects were inspected and will be reported on when Mr. Men- jdenhall returns to Tallahassee. Summing up the _ situation, i while sitting in the observation |car of the out-bound F. E. C. aft- lernoon train, Mr. Mendenhall said | there was no other county in the ‘state where the administrative the projects were carried on more jin keeping with the regulations’ than in Monroe county. Charles K. Dodd, assistant civil works engineer, who arrived by. Coast Guard plane, in company with A. H. Chauncey, safety di- rector and W. C. Disbrow, engi- neering inspector, had only favor- able comment to make on the pro- { These officials remained only a short time and returned to Miami in the same plane in which they me. ROUGH TRIP OUT NEAR BAR BUOY aR et PORTER DOCK COMPANY VES- SEL WAS DISPATCHED TO PASSING SHIP TO BRING IN PIECE OF MACHINERY —— The Tug Petrel, of the Porter Dock company, had a rough ex-! perience yesterday evening and last night while on a mission of assistance to the Tanker Olean of} the Vacuum Oil Company. j The tanker arrived off Bar Buoy yesterday and asked that a tug be sent out for a piece of ma- chinery which needed repairing. Captain A. E, Sharpley went out on the Petrel, received the piece of machinery, an eccentric rod, and returned to Key West. } The rod was repaired by a Ipcal | machine shop and late in the aft-| ernoon the Petrel went to make delivery. In the meantime the weather | had changed, a stiff breeze was) blowing, the air was appreciably | cooler, and the tug had a decided- ly rough passage. Delivery was made. While along- side of the tanker a sea was{ shipped that flooded a part of the | tug and partly flooded the engine | room, The voyage-buck was started, | jplane had been bribed by Mus-| 16 independent federal KEY, WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, Duce Brings Air Skill To New Job As Head Of Italy's Aviation Corps West Citsen 1934. | | By JOHN LLOYD (By Associated Press) ROME, Jan. 10.—Benito Mus- solini’s job as air minister, latest} ©® addition to his personal assign- ments, brings him into contact with an old love. Flying is dear to the duce’s heart and not at all outside his experience. In taking over the ministry from Air Marshal Italo Balbo, he set his hand to a task with which he is quite familiar—for Mussolini has gone through the mill; he knows what it is to pilot a plane, and what it is to crack up. Those who are familiar with his} passion for the air say they under- stand what the leader felt when he sent. his. blackshirt fliers winging their way across the ocean and had himself to stay at home. Now they comprehend his joy at taking ; personal charge of the organiza-}’ tion ‘that’ trained. those fliers.« He ‘intends toe give the service} © the same dynamic leadership it en-}. joyed under Balbo. One of his}; first acts after taking the port-'~ folio was to outline to the general} — air staff a secret program to im- prove the service’s already re- markable efficiency. Teacher Lauds Courage Here is what Cesare Redaelli, |, who taught the duce to fly back in 1920 and ’21, has to say about the pupil who, while immersed in preparations that wete to mould | the destinies of Italy, found time, 9 to pedal his bicycle out to Arcore:: |. air field, near Milan, and try his | hand at piloting. “A pupil who scoffs at danger —not for show, but because he is} accustomed to it—makes the in-|. structor feel he can achieve eg sults. I always felt that way with | Benito Mussolini, adding the al tasks, has again taken up. flying He learned to fy more than 10 y Mussolini Prepares To Go Up air ministry of Italy to his person- as this recent photograph shows. ears ago. Benito Mussolini in my ship.” | Redaelli, describing the crash in| which both were hurt, said they had just taken off and were about to pass. over a forest when, he no- ticed the motor was missing. He reached over and tried to steer the plane back to the field, but Mus- solini, at the stick, resisted. The instructor thereupon seized the controls and tried to bank. But it was too late. The plane side-slippéd' ‘and they fell 125 feet. WASHINGTON, 10.— obliga- tion,” President Roosevelt. called Jan. Considering it a ‘moral * Duel’ Mere Incident When they pulled themselves, half-stunned, from the wreckage, Mussolini was bleeding from a gash in his forehead and from a painful knee laceration, but his first act was to telephone the edi- tor of his paper, the Popolo d'Italia, and tell him not to exag- gerate the story, calling it “| incided with the arrival before the trifle.” house of the first appropriations Redaelli says it subsequently | pi) from the committee aggregat- was proved that caretakers of the| ing more than $566,000,000 for agencies solini’s enemies to put an obstruc-} jn the ‘fiscal year beginhing July tion in the gas line. 1, On, another occasion Mussolini | The measure was slated for told Redaelli to hurry the lesson | upon congress today’ to ‘legislate federal guarantee of principal as well interest of farm mortgage refinancing bonds. His concise special message co- Roosevelt To. Ask For Amount... Of $1,166,000,000 Additional For His Emergency Program (By Associated Press) rapid house dispatch to.the sen- ate to take place there beside the District of Columbia ‘liquor reg- ulation bill passed by the house late yesterday. Senate leaders expected.to get from the president ‘his second message this afternoon seeking ratification of the St. Lawrence! treaty, but final arrangements re- mained to be made at the White House, They were acquainted also with the fact that Mr. Roosevelt plans soon to ask $1,166,000,000 additional appropriations to carry the emergency’ program from now) until Jane. | because he had any engagement to { * rosie 5 fight a duel, f \e “The weather was hardly suit- | raul 0 e able for flying,” Redaelli said, |“but he never had been surer of himself. The thought of measur-: ing arms with an opponent spurred him to greater lucidity and ac-} tion.” | Machadista ; Sunday night and early Monday For 54 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Sensational. Disclosure In LaGuardia’s Investigation Of Tammany’s Activities CITY FORCES Of DESTROY MUCH SEIZED LIQUOR STOCK OF CONTRABAND WAS TAKEN BY CAPTAIN RIVAS AND OTHER’ OFFICERS FROM TWO AUTOMOBILES Charges Of Misconduc Filed Against Lemme: man, Commissiener 0 Bridge Authority (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Jan. 10.— The sensation in Mayor La Guardia’s investigation of the Tammany regime which he toppled from power, came today with the disclos- use that charges of miscon- duct had been filed against Fred Lemmerman, commis- sioner of the Triborough Bridge Authority which is in charge of the $60,000,000 bridge project. The charges were filed on behalf of the mayor by the new commissioner of ac- counts, Paul Blashard, who is conducting an exhaustive inquiry into the acts of the old city commission, Lemmerman is accused of receiving $930 as a broker- age fee from owners of the building for consummating & lease for the bridge author- Yesterday was liquor destroy ing day at the city hall when the catch that was made by officers morning was poured into the sewer by order of Judge Allan B. Cleare, Jr. The stock of contraband was taken by Captain of Police Everett R. Rivas, Patrolman Franklyn Arenberg and Constable Ray El- wood after the two cars carrying it were chased over the county road and boulevard into the city. In the lot were 30 five gallon demijohns of aguardiente, six sacks of Rom Caney and eight half gal- lon demijohns of wine, MISS LENA CURRY STRUCK BY AUTO AND BADLY HURT CAR DRIVEN BY JOHN NEL- SON; SUFFERS FRACTURED ANKLE AND ALSO SEVERE | it¥ ffi@@8.- 00 0 ste BRUISES ABOUT BODY o’clock, Miss Lena Curry, 55 years | old, was struck and seriously in-|STATED THAT STOCK VAL- driven} UED AT $250,000 WAS GIVEN TO COL. CHAS, LINDBERGH FOR “SERVICES” While crossing the street at and Eaton 7:30 the corner of Duval streets last night about jured by an automobile by John Neison, The injured woman was aceom- panied by her sister, Mrs. Winnie Young, and had been visiting with friends, They were return- z 18y Associated Prewsy ing home when the accident hap-) WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Sen- pened. John Nelson told The Citizen |*te investigators today heard an he was driving north on Duval) official of the Transcontinental street going to the election of of-] qj ficers for the fire department ine Hog eich — when he felt his car come in con-|- "7 Spares of the company tact with an obstacle and imme-|¥re given Colonel Charles Lind- diately stopped. hergh, and that big mail contrac- He jumped from his car and) tors discussed in advance with for- was horrified to find that he had| mer Postmaster General Walter struck a woman, who had been} Brown specifications for bids on resting on the bumper of the car transcontinental routes that would and had fallen to the ground when} exeinde independents. he stopped. D. M. Sheaffer, chai: Making an attempt to lift her! the company’s ae ge | from the ground he found himself] tee, told of a complicated system Lands To Cuban Farmers unable to do so. Raymond John~) ys04 fur what he called “income son, who lives on the corner, went! tay purposes” in transferring OFFICERS ELECTED FOR EN. SUING: YEAR AT AN. NUAL SESSION « ‘Annval meeting of officers and directors of the First National was held yesterday after. in the bank and officers for elected. effected in the Bank _ Reon © the . the! directors being organization until 1900, when he was retired as first lieutenant’ jane remained on the retired list! from that time until his demise. Mr. Jenks was a member of the} | Patriotic Order Sons of America} tand of the Key West Fire Depat-} j ment, | The name of Lieutenant B, D.; | Jenks is carried on the official jrolls of the Florida National) Guard and in the officer’s diree- , tory. PUBLISHER OF the tug facing increasing winds} and continually drenched by the} waves, After a rough and un-| pleasant voyage she reached the} dock shortly before midnight. MILK BLOCKADE ALABAMA DEAD, | FRANKLIN POTTS GLASS SUC-; MILK RIOTING IN CHICAGO | A firing squad from Battery | |“E” will fire three volleys over} j the grave and the bugler of the! j company will sound taps. | CUMBS TO ILLNESS IN BIRMINGHAM TODAY (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—The Chi- Tcago milk blockade was reported i settled today, after five days of SETTLED TODAY j announced today that Presi-| (My Associated Press) BIRMINGHAM, Jan. 10.— } sabotage and near rioting that re-! |sulted in a milk famine in the HAVANA, Jan, 10.—Ag- riculture Secretary Hevia dent Grau San Martin had | FAMINE RESULTED DURING! signed a decree calling for|er by the government after|ry was taken to her home at 808 the distribution of govern- (By Associated P: ment and Machadista lands} Over Eighteen Thousand Dollars i : j}to his assistance and carried her stock to the noted pilot : = to a nearby hospital. He said stock valued at $250,- {to farmers on a basis of 33) Examination showed that she 996 was given Lindberg for “serv. j A ita | had suffered a fractured ankle,|;...» ‘ jar ir es per | : and a th snicetoeg per capita. land esveeal ‘braleae shia <e — —— —— Machadista were | body. ‘ . peer gn | : Adee ths: incon wine a! with Brown that called for exper- described as those taken ov-| |“ eripoamnged Tat |ience in night flying and conced- | tention had been given Miss Cur-| 4 this excluded independent com- panies from bidding. COUNTY BOARD lands Margaret street, where she resides with her sister and mother. City Clerk Wallace Pinder, __,. —_—. ——_._----—_—. | brother-in-law of Miss Curry told | The Citizen this afternoon that he lea just called ot the home ava] = MEETS TONIGHT ‘that she was in @ serious condi- jtion. That she was suffering from jsevere pains in the back and did; Regular meeting of the board | not respond to opiates administer-|of county commissioners will be the overthrow of the former | } president. | | led to relieve her saffering. held 8 o'clock tonight in the of- Paid Relief Workers This Week Witnesses to the accident: said} fice of Clerk Rom C. Sawyer. Distribution of this sum|*®* ‘river was not culpable, that} Semi annual reports of officers Mixa Curry was dressed in black|of the county ate to be presented land stepped im front of the ma-|nt the meeting tonight, jebine, and the accident was wn-| accounts will be checked. No oth- | avoidable. er matters arg scheduled for dis- cussion, : dis-| Etves, an automobile dealer of this} AS PART PAYMENT j ;made today by Eugene Ro-;and this fund will be BLUE i j ! : city, accepted a heifer, 50 bushels} || Am Sardine Robert Towne. ia berts, paymaster. |bursed tomorrow, complet-|o¢ corm, 1 bushel of sweetpote-| Always The payroll for men em-|ing disbursements for the toe 10 geese and 5 bushels of No WHERE TO GO TONIGHT Palace—Montgomery Players present “Back from Broadway.” Strand—“King For A Night” and “The Right To Romance.” | city. In the meanwhile at Washing-| {ton, farm administration officials | i | after spending nearly all night in’ to the employes on the Civil | will be completed this after- |conference over the Chicago situa-| aie 5 | 3 tion, were kept in readiness dur-| Works Administration rolls) noon at the city hall. ing the day for action if necessary.) for the week will total $18,- STRAND THEATER Franklin Potts Glass, 76, publisher of the Montgomery Advertiser, and member of the United States board of He had been critically ill since last Saturday when com- plications developed follow- img an attack of plearisy and influenza. +; Disbursement of moneys; 11. wit Thomp- ————— | That for. women employes) $2,098.25, | j 1030.36 is the announcement is shown to be SOUTH BEND, Ind-—Perey peed ipcore ties Palace — Montgomery Players! present “Little Orphan Annie”; sereen, “Taming the Jungle.” Strand—“Before Midnight" and “King for a Night.” \ THE RIGHT TO ROMANCE Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- [pop corn as part payment on a inew can tre 15-20; "Night 16-280 | ployes amounts to $15,932.-| week.