The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 23, 1934, Page 1

For 54 Yéars Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Associated Press Day Wire Service The Key West Citsen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1934. If Ten Million ‘Blocks’ Hit You, Look Out! It’s A Neutron Ray PRICE ae CENTS (Administration To Ask Congress For Funds To ‘Build More War Ships EARLY RELEASE OF ED. BREMER VOLUME LV. No. 20. ‘Gasoline Explosion Results In Death Of Four: Persons) Catastrophe Occurs As oil BITTER FIGHT IN Was Poured Into Stove, MAYORALTY RACE Fr Pere Kis) AT NEW ORLEANS COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION ON STREET REPAIR }RESUBMITS PROJECT OF < ING AND SANDING TO CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION: AT TALLAHASSEE |iee A Barrage From A ‘Frying Pan’ By W. A. WELLS (Dy Annociated Press) BERKELEY, Cal., Jan. 23.— The ray that is made of blocks but goes through lead like light through glass—this describes the remarkable range of _ powers of the new neutron ray at the Uni-} versity of California. Destroyers And Subma- rines Are Type Of Ves- City council, at a special meet- Fire | HUEY LONG’S FORCES WAGED STRONG CAMPAIGN TERMI- NATING TODAY AS ELEC- (Ry Associnted Press) CANTON, GA., Jan. 23.— ing held yesterday, adopted a reso-; lution resubmitting the project of oiling and sanding the streets of Key West to the Civil Works Ad- The ray wes produced by twa | young physicists, Prof. E. D. Law- rence and Dr. M. Stanley Living- ston. | An explosion of gasoline be- » ing poured into a stove in a farmhouse kitchen today, took the lives of four, and another life hangs in the bal- ance. The dead are Mrs. Rufus Cochran and three small children. Two other children es- caped, but the father was carried to a hospital horribly burned, and physicians gave him no chance to recover. Information reaching here today was that the Cochran family had gather-| ed in a kitchen near here and made preparations to start a fire in the stove. The wood was placed and gasbline poured over it and a match applied. The explosion enveloped | pa: all members of the family except two. children who agence way.to-es- HULLEY RITES ON WEDNESDAY BODY WILL LIE IN STATE TO- MORROW FROM 10 A. M UNTIL 1 P. M. (Special to The Citizen) DeLAND, Jan. 23,—Funeral services for Dr. Lincoln Hulley, president of John B. Stetson Uni- versity, will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m., in the Elizabeth Hall chap- el, where for 30 years he led daily. morning convocation exercises for students and faculty. President Hulley died at 12:15 noon at the residence last Saturday following # heart attack on Friday sustained |. ‘The body will lie in state in the chapel from 10 a, m. until 1 p. m., Wednesday, with members of the Stetson football team forming a “guard of honor. The body will bé placed in a re- ceiving vault at Daytona Beach| until the Hulley Tower, recent} gift of Dr, and Mrs, Hulley to the university, on which construction has already started, is completed, when it will be placed in a niche at the base, The tower will house} the Eloise chimes, now hung in Elizabeth Hall tower and given to the university in 1915 when they ‘were named after his wife. FERRY LET DOWN FROM WAYS TODAY VESSEL HAD BEEN UNDER. GOING REPAIRS AND GEN. ERAL OVERHAULING | After being remodelled, repair- ed and painted, the Ferry Monroe County, that had been on the ways| for several weeks, was floated! this merning. The vessel is to go at once to resume her regular trips from No! Otis, of Saybrook, Conn., The! number of ic Scrape Name Key to Grassy Key. City of Key West is now making the trip direct from No Name to Lower Matecumbe. After being tied up at the Por. ter dock for about two weeks the! Ferry Florida Keys is to go on the ways for repairs to the bull! and general overhaul. \ TION WAS BEING HELD (By Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS, Jan, 23.— Senator Huey Long’s role as Lou- isiana’s political dictator will get another test in a bitter four-cor- nered mayoralty election here to- day. ministration at Tallahassee. The same action was taken at a missioners relative to the boule- ;vard project and the papers from both bodies were turned over to W. W. Demeritt, warded from his office to the capital in the mail yesterday. Both of the papers for resub-} With 300 deputized citizens! mission set forth that there are standing by to preserve order, the city’s electorate turned out almost enmasse after a vituperative cam-) paign in which the Long angle held the center of the stage. Jailings, court injunctions and threats of military rule, punctuat- ed by blistering charges of corrup- tion and fraud, combined to make the campaign one of the most hec-} ject of a great deal of discussion | oad it join up with an atom tic -in New Orleans’ political his- tory. | The Long angle, injected by Mayor Semmes Walmsley, leader of the old regulars, who broke with Long as the senator, placed} his own ticket in the field, headed| by John Klorer. | Francis Williams, independent, was also centered in the campaign in the attack on Long, and Her- eng Holmes made no active cam- no funds available in either city or county to do this, and both pro- jects embrace work to be done for the general good of the com- munity. Both of these projects were dis- approved by the federal engineer | who was in Key West two weeks | ago, and they have been the sub- since. Of such importance are they that Representative William V. Albury went to Tallahassee to | take up these matters and find means to have them continue. * In Tallahassee he met with the heads of the CWA and was given the assurance that the matter would be taken up with Harry; ; Hopkins, head of the administra- | PREPARE BONDS ~ FOR CITY BODY: MEMBERS OF BOARD OF PUB.! LIC WORKS REQUIRE SAME TO TAKE OFFICE Members of the board of public works are to have the bonds nec- essary before they take office, fix- ed_up within a brief time. J. S. Moore, head of a local bonding company, was authorized at a special meeting of the city council yesterday to make out these bonds at once. Those affected are Norberg Thompson, C. N. Recio, Frank C. Brown and J. R. Valdes, B. D. Trevor, the other member of the board, does not have to have a bond at this time, his present bond being in force until June of this year, Expectations are thatthe bands. ill, be received in the next week as the council is anxious 'to*have & meeting with the board as soon as the members ‘are qualified. MRS. J. SPENCER DIES LAST NIGHT FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE| CONDUCTED THURSDAY | AFTERNOON Mrs. Josephine Spencer, sof years old, died 6:30 o'clock last evening at her home, 305 William street. She was ill only a few} hours, Services will be held 2:30 o’clock Thursday aftertivon from the chapel of Pritchard’s Funeral}: Home, 901 Division .street, Rev. Arthur B. Dimmick, of St Paul’s Episcopa] church, officiating. Mrs. Spencer is survived by her} husband, Ely Spencer; three sons, George S., Key West; Miami; Otis, Coral Gables; daughter, Mrs. Charlotte Loughman, brother, Judge James E. Otis, Tuckerton, N. J.; two sisters, Misses Virginia and Carolina and a TOOK IT TO HEAR HEART BILLINGS, ¥ Mont.—Because his teacher kept chim in school after | the regular session for whispering, | nine-year-old Raymond Goodman! jNember 239, of this city hanged himself. Waldo S.,} house to quarters in the count one| jail residence, Lytle | ting the office fixed up and will} Hartford, Conn.; one {be in readiness tomorrow to trans-} ed that the work be allowed to, continue. After due consideration had been given, the local body was ad-| vised to have. the proj resub-! fitted! with: certain modifications’ relative to cost of ‘material and labor. This was at once attended to and the resolutions of city council and county commissioners added to the application made by the local council ‘of the CWA will, it| appear countless numbers of neu- is: believed, be heeded by CWA heads and the projects granted as| revised DUPONT ARRIVES IN PORT TODAY, CRUISER RICHMOND’ LEFT LAST EVENING ENROUTE TO MIAMI After i tour ‘of’ duty off ‘the coast of Cuba:thée U.S. Destroyer: Dupont arrived in port this morn-! ing = the regular period of rec- feation. Ctuiser Rie) |, scheduled to” sail 11 o’clor! tte ‘night for Mi} ami,. sailed> ral hours earlier,’ leaving port.ghortly after 6 o'clock. Destroyer Tatnall, which had’ been here for more than a week! for recreation, sailed just midnight this morning. Destrowers Badger and Tillman) are the only other naval vessels, in port today. NEW QUARTERS OF OFFICIAL} NOW AT COUNTY JAIL Sheriff K, O, Thompson has re- moved his office from the court act all business, The remodeling work that is go- ing on at the court house by em-! ployes of the CWA made the/ j change necessary, and it may be} that after the work is completed) the sheriffs office will where it has been moved. remain Mr. Thompson asks that all who} desire to communicate with the! office by telephone, will use Num- ber 13, instead of the old office special meeting of the county com-| necessary | director of CWA projects, and for- tion in Washington, he to be ask-! after It is a spray of neutrons, 10,- | 000,000 of them a second, pro- jduced in quantity for the first | time. Neutrons are material par- ticles, variously likened by scien- tists to “billiard balls” and “build- jing blocks.” Reveaied By ‘Fireworks’ | They are ‘among, the recently | discovered “ultimate particles” out of which the mysterious nuclei of atoms are made. Although no neutron, or no neutron ray, has ‘ever been visible, their presence is revealed by the atomic “fire- works” they cause. They can disrupt the nucleus of ‘an atom more easily than any} {other form of energy known to} . {science: But, by contrast, they to build it into something heavier ' than before the neutron hit it. Strangest of all, although they have a known weight 1,800 a that of an electron, they pierce: | the heaviest shields, such as lead. Made In Vacuum Tube They are more penetrating than either X-rays on radium. The new ray here, although only the first jtiny stream of these particles to} be brought outside a vacuum tube, | has energy equivalent to that of {about a milligram of radium. It is produced in a metal vacu- um. tube, shaped like a pill-box and-set between the two poles of an 85-ton magnet. In this mag- netic field the nuclei of deuton atoms, or heavy hydrogen, are set to whirling with speeds equal to {3,000,000 volts. These speeding particles smash against a metal ' barrier, and in the resulting debris jtrons. A lead shield confines all these particles, except the neu- trons, which pass through like bul- lets in cardboard. Pass Through Lead Window Here’s the “frying pan” metal vacuum tube in which the new neutron ray is made at the University of California. The pan’s cover is off, revealing the round, flat “‘merry-go-round”—a brass box in which particles of hydrogen atoms are whirled until they smash themselves. From the smash-up emerge clouds of. neutrons, which are parts of atomic nuclei barrage of these neutrons—“building blocks” of matter—penetrates lead as light does glass. United States Accords Recognition To Cub (My Agsociated Press) WASHINGTON, January 23,—-Ending six months of unofficial relations during which Cuba has been in turmoil, the United States today accorded recogni- tion to the new government of President Carlos Men- dieta. Word of Mr. Roosevelt’s decision was delivered to Mendieta by Cosme de la Torriente, secretary of state. The reaction was spontaneous and enthusias- tic for the most part. President Mendieta expressed the hope that “the Through a lead window in the metal vacuum tube the new ray sprays out into the laboratory. One of the first problems will be sereening it for safety. It spreads like the light of a lantern. Shields which would confine X-rays to a beam in one direction fail to im- prison the neutrons. That they are dangerous to the j human body is shown by their ; disruptive action on hydrogen, which constitutes a large part of the body. being one of the two constituents of water. It has been calculated that a; 'neutron ray wil penetrate the , body more easily than X-rays, and fthat it may possess therapeutic possibilities like both X-rays and radium. Aluminum and lithium bom- , barded with neutrons at the Uni- versity of California, have come} out with increased atomic weight, [due to neutrons joining up with atomic nuclei. (MOTHER OF REY. S. PEELE, DEAD | News was received in the city today from Rev. Shuler Pe | egaings of the Fleming Str { Methodist church, who is now in Gibson, North Carolina, announc- ting the death of his mother in {that city yesterday. Rev. Peele stated in the mes- ‘sage that he expects to return t Key West the latter part of this { | | y, week. Deputies are get-; - nakenanenecerne reer’ } WHERE TO GO i: Palace present “Under Western Skies.” Strand—“Meet the Baron” Son of A Sailor.” TOMORROW i Palace — Montgomery Players present “Under Western Skies.” Strand—“Myrt and Margo” “Meet the Baron.” | ‘and |} Presbyterian church, it has been | announced. Roosevelt government will help solve matters” regard- ing commercial and tariff problems and declared that “recognition gives the people of Cuba a new weapon with which to defend peace and enjoy it.” Colonel Fulgencio Batista, the army leader, as- serted that recent tangible proofs of order and tran- quility led to the American move and that “recogni- tion had come, to the complete joy of the Cuban peo- ple, already overjoyed over an era of tranquility and order inaugurated with the government of President Mendieta.” Passenger Travel Picks Up With 150 Arriving In Key West Today An unusually large passenger! for Havana were refugees from list is shown by the arrivals on the) Cuba, who have been sojourning Havana Special this morning from| i" different ‘parte of the United a States during the parlous perieee northern points. There were 67 passengers for Havana and 83 for Key Now that quiet has been | stored and recognition of re- West, making a total of 150. Cuba Of the Key West passengers iment, these refugees lies are going back to | their native land hoping to take up their businesses and professions, gers) and live in tranquility. were a number who on arrival “Rt the terminals purchased tickets for Havana. Practically all of the pa: IREV. JAS. DAY TO | FERRY PARROTT | BEHEARD TONIGHT) —_ BRINGS FREIGHT James 8. > First Pa tes, pastor of] Ferry Parrott came in from Ha- will Yana yesterday afternoon with one car of mail and baggage and reach this evening at the Trinity | two miscellaneous cars. Baptist church, | MARRIED COOK = 7:30! The service wil begin at 7:3 BOULOGNE.—Henri Cortland, "cock, and there! rich widower of this city, propos: will be a large congregation in at led marriage to his cook of fifteen d years service and was accepted. it is expected NOW EXPECTED UNVERIFIED REPORTS MASK BANKER’S KIDNAPING IN CLOAK OF MYSTERY; CON- FIDENT OF EARLY RELEASE (By Ausociated Press) ST. PAUL, Jan. 23.—Un- verified’ ‘reports. masked the $200,000 Bremer kid: case in a cloak of today as plans proceeded pi mystery apace for what close friends to Edward claimed would lead an early release of Bremer. MRS. BREMER NEAR COLLAPSE ST. PAUL, Jan. 23.—Mrs. Ed- ward Bremer, wife of the wealthy banker held for $200,000 ransom by kidnapers, was represented to close friends today as being near a collapse as members of the Brem- er family denied any contact had been made with abductors. Adolph Bremer, Junior, brother of the young bank president, re- iterated denials of the family that any word had been received from the gang: since ard ‘Was’ seiz- ed last Wesnesday. “No contact whatsoever has been made, and reports that Dr. H. T. Nippert had received com- munication are all hooey,” Adolph Junior, said. AWAIT FUNDS FOR RITTER HEARING FURTHER INQUIRY HELD UP AWAITING ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION (By Aasociated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. —Deeper inquiry into charges of misconduct office agaifist Federal Judge Hal- sted L, Ritter, of the south- ern Florida district, was said by Chairman Sumners of the house judiciary committee to- day to await additional ap- propriation from congress. i sels That Would Be Con- structed Now (By Ansociated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. —Administration plans, to ask congress this session to appropriate $15,000,000 to $25,000,000 for the construc- tion of new warships, were revealed today before the house naval committee. Admiral William Stand- ley urged enactment of the administration approved Vinson bill to authorize. an expenditure of around $380,- . 000,000 to bring the fleet up to treaty limits by 1939, Then-he said if the Vinson bill was passed soon by con- gress, the navy would seek a deficiency appropriation of from $15,000,000 to $25,- 000,000 more to start work before June to permit initial expenditures on 12 destroy- ers of 1500 tons, two de- stroyer leaders of 1800-tons..... and six submarines. The admiral regarded the Vinson bill as the most im- portant naval legislation since the world war. RALPH B. PINDER GOING TO, MIAMI CITY COUNCILMAN OFFERED POSITION IN RACE TRACK ACTIVITIES City Councilman Ralph B. Pin- der will leave over the East Coast this afternoon for Miami to dis- cuss an offer made him as special investigator during the racing sea- son, A telegram received yesterday advised him of his appointment and instructs him to be at the of- fice of the Florida Racing Com- mission in the Florida National Bank in Miami 10 o'clock tomor- row morning, January 24, It is understood from the word- ing of the message that Mr, Pin- der will be assigned to activities at the race track at Hialeah. Administration Money Measure Approved By Senate Committee (By Associated Preas) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—The administration money bill was speedily approved today by senate banking committee after it hed voted several modifications, including a provision making the proposed $2,000,000,000 stabiliza- tion fund temporary and placing | it under the administration of a board of five instead of the secre- tary of the treasury alone. The committee also rejected an amendment to leave the title to gold with the federal reserve valuation through # franchise tax. In the meanwhile President Roosevelt apparently was paying little heed to capitol doings. He called his emergency council to confer on the genera! situation. system and take profits from : Mails and telegraph continued to take lots of complaints. to both ends of the capitol against par- the| ing down on CWA employment. The administration was repre- sented as adamant, however, against making this expensive idea a fixture. Committees concentrated on top- jes ranging from taxes to Philip- pine independence and touching many lesser subjects between. The senate territories commit- tee voted to give the Philippines “one more chance” to accept the congressional independence legis- lation with a warning it will “er the last opportunity given the is- lands for ee | STRAND THEATER | Jack PearlJimmy Durante in MEET THE BARON Joe E. 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