The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 29, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LV. No. 25. Former French Premier Given Task Of Forming New Cabinet 'NO LIQUOR IN WHITE HOUSE (By Asnociated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. —A statement that no Daladier To Have Organi- zation With Sufficient Strength To Face Ger-| man Disarmament Issue) a (By Associated Press) PARIS, Jan. 29.—Edouard Daladier, former premier, was assigned again today to head the French govern- ment. President Lebrun gave him the task of form- ing a “public safety cabinet” for a vigorous house clean- ing of financial scandals and for restoration of the shaken public confidence in the gov- ernment. Daladier, it is understood, plans to take the portfolio tilled liquor will at any time be served in the White House, but “there will be no fixed rules as to the serving of wine,” was issued today by TWO DAYS MORE’. TO SECURE:AUTO' EXTENSION OF TIME LIMIT TO EXPIRE JANUARY 31; STATE ‘LICENSES of foreign affairs himself, ousting Joseph Paul-Bon- cour. To give the cabinet a strong position to face Ger- many in the disarmament ALL DELINQUENTS WILL BE HAULED BEFORE COURT Only two more days to buy state licenses for automobiles, says Tax Collector F. H, Ladd, and The Kep West Citwen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1934. EFFECT CAPTURE OF TWO ESCAPED CONVICTS TODAY MEN IDENTIFIED, WHITNEY WALKER AND RAY JOHN- SON, ARE TAKEN UP BY OF- FICERS AT TALLAHASSEE (Ny Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Jan. Two men identified by officers as | Whitney Walker and Ray Johnson, escaped Oklahoma convicts, were captured here today after sher- liff’s forces cornered them and Indications Point To Great TRYING 7 ol Success Of President’s Ball gereietaon BALL To Be Given Tomorrow Night MAYOR WILLIAM H. MALONE the| At 11 o'clock President Roose-! COMMUNICATES WITH SEC- (velt will begin his radio address “ which’ it is expected will last 30, "ETARY OF NAVY. ASKING morrow night in the Country Club, minutes. In addition a number) REQUEST BE GRANTED of famous oraters will be heard {and some of the most famous ar- |tists of stage and screen will en-| Te price jy | Onto 3 i The J. L. Stowers Music com- $1.25. Of this amount $1 is to pany has tendered the use of the go to the Warm Springs Founda- finest radio in the establishment » < and George Lucas, of the Key tion Fund for the cure of infan-) Wot Electric company, is today to’ ile paralysis. The 25 cents is for, make all the eiectrie connections jand have the instrument in finest, To this end the mayor today j receptive order tomorrow night. j| sent a telegram to the secretary; Women of different organiza-| That the scene will be gorgeous’ of the secretary of the navy set-| ! | | i | | | I | | Committees in charge of President’s Ball to be given to: report the sale of tickets to be very encouraging. Hopes are entertained by May- jor Wm. H. Malone and other of-! ficials that the ships now in port will remain here until after to- morrow to allow the personnel to attend the President’s Ball to be given at the Country Club House tomorrow night. being charged incidental expenses. ! j opened fire when: the men appar- {were slightly wounded. Campbell, | chief . deputy sheriff; said the) men were spotted Joe as they rode along the street near j two banks. Off ped them on a side street. Walker was serving a life sen- tence in Oklahoma when he es- caped. CAPTURE OF THREE tangle, it is said he would|there are approximately 350 cars|; NOW COMPLETED unite the ministeries of war, navy and air into a national defense ministry. The new cabinet will sup- plant that of Camille Chau- always been an extension, usually} “fishermen,” with Irvin Thompson 30 temps, which resigned Sat- urday amid rioting and de- monstrations in all parts of Bayonne Municipal Pawn- shop scandal. RICHARD ALBURY ~ DIES ON SUNDAY FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTED HERE THIS" AFTERNOON Richard T. Albury, age 89, who is the oldest member of Dace Lodge No. 14, F. & A. M., having held the office of Tyler up until the time he became too feeble to attend to the duties, died at 5:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon at his residence, 419 Grinnell street. Funeral services will’ be ‘held this afternoon 4:30 o’clock from the First Congregational’ Church, Rev. E. R. Evans, officiating. The body was paced in the church at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The Pritchard Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. The Improved Order of Red Men and Dade Lodge F. & A. M. will attend the funeral in a body, and these orders will hold serv- ices at the grave. Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. J. W. William and Mrs, E. Perez; one son, Ralph Albury; si teen grandchildren, five great granchildren, and one brother, Alonzo Albury, who is an inmate of the Old Soldiers Home at John- ston, Tenn. Seececscsovecssocese WHERE TO GO Palace — Montgomery “Players present “Ten Nights hi -a Bar Room.” Strand—“I'm No Angel.” TOMORROW Palace present: “Goin? Up.” Strand—“The House on Street” and “Day of Reckoning.” CABARET AUSPICES WOMAN'S CLUB Friday, February 9th ATHLETIC CLUB . Montgomery Players 56th and trucks without them. When the governor was pre- vailed upon to extend the pur- chase time from January 15 to | February 1, it was done, it was : Said, because there had in the past days, This year the governor did not intend to extend the time, but when he did so he stipulated that it would be for not sore than.16 days and after January 31 any) owner or driver of an automobile! or truck without a license, will be held as a violator of the law. On Thursday, February 1, sher- iffs throughout the state will be instructed to seize all cars, arrest the drivers or owners and take them into court, to answer to charges of operating without the prescribed license. MANY BEACONS SHOWN MISSING The United States Lighthouse Department announces that Hawk Channel} beacons or daymarks re- ported missing will be replaced as Soon as practicable. It was also shown that Elbow Reef Beacon D, daymark, missing; Conch Reef Beacon G,:daymark, missing. Crocker Reef Beacon H, day- mark, Tennessee Reef. Beacon, daymark, Turtle Harbor Middle Ground Southeast Side Beacon 4, West Shoal Beacon 1, and Fowey Rocks Beacon V, are also report- ed missing. BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR ROOSEVELT There will be a President Roose- {velt’s Birthday Party given at El {Fenix Hall, corner Simonton and Angela streets, Tuesday evening, January 30, beginning at 8 o'clock, which will be sponsored by the Knights of Pythias. | | benefit to the Warm Springs, Ga., Foundati js <= STOP SIGNS Stop and slow signs exactly what they say. Many accidents could have been averted had the driver paid more attention to these signs. j | te protect the driver or the pedestrian. Obeying signs on the highways and streets will help make this a safer state. REMEMBER, AUTOM O- BILES KILLED OVER 500 PEOPLE IN FLORIDA DUR- ING 1933. LET'S STOP IT. (By Governor’s Committee on Public Safety.) EC hdddde dd The affair is being given as a. McALESTER, Oklahoma, 29.—The arrest and wounding of Whitney Walker and Ray John- son at Tallahassee, Florida, today completed the recapture of Okla-, homa_prison’s three escaping’ captured at Miami last week. The men fled prison last August after getting permits to go fish-| ing in the prison lake. All three; were life. termers. | TWO WOMEN ARE ARRESTED TALUAHASSEE, Jan. 29.—A {few hours lates, officers arrested two women who said they were wives of the convicts, The women, and & man_ who gave his name as Homer Arthur, jwere taken in a house one block from the campus of the Florida State Women’s college. Officers found about $10,000 in| liberty and treasury bonds, and} $4,000 in cash in suitcases in.the house, They also found four shotguns, two rifles, two pistols anda quan- tity of ammunition, POINCIANA BACK IN PORT AFTER LENGTHY VOYAGE LIGHTHOUSE TENDER HAD BEEN ENGAGED IN OPERA. ‘TIONS ON EAST COAST IN DEPARTMENT'S ACTIVITIES After a lengthy period of work replacing and repairing beacons on the east coast and along the intracoastal waterways, the Ten- der Poinciana, of the Key West lighthouse district, returned to port yesterday, Approximately 1,000 palms, secured at points on the keys. arrived on the vessel and will be used in the beautification program now under way. The Poinciana will remain in port for work on the lighthouse pier and in the harbor. When this is completed she will leave to erect electric lighted beacons stated intervals from Bis | ! coconut | ently sought to resist arrest. Both | {are doing this are making every i tions are today preparing the club ' is assured by the committees and a ting forth the preparations that | ‘touch of naval and army color is have been made by Key West,} expected to be added by the at-!and how the people of the city| tendance of the army and navy; have entered into the spirit off | contingents. | this great tribute to: the president. ly will this be so in the! _ Unless there is some necessity rooms for the event and those who effort to make the affair the most brilliant ever given in Key West. Plans for the entertainment! \gon:the:shipe.to: be went to other features of the evening, it is said, event the secretary of the navy, parts, the secretary is urgently re- | will be perfected this evening. responds favorably to a telegram) quested to allow them all to re-j There will be a brief address by | sent by Mayor Malone requesting’ main at Key West until the con- Mayor Malone and a number of | that orders be issued allowing all! .jysion of the ball. local artists will be heard in vocal naval ships to remain in port un-| Especia WASHINGTON HAS 3 trailed them and sees | Jan. | and musical numbers. ‘til after the ball. Cold Wave, Fires Reported Throughout Nation Unheralded and winter came back to the south to- unexpected day on the wings of frigid blasts, _ which had their origin in far away] Cold gales fanned fires in wide-| Alaska and northwestern Canada. The tumble of the mercury was as much as 53 degrees in some, southern areas following a Sunday | Shortly after midnight the on-! of spring-like weather. slaught struck in full force send- ing the mercury to eight above at| Nashville following a Sunday read- ing of 65. The middle west got the | | first glow from the icy wave and in Chicago the wind averaged close; to 40 miles an hour. H One of the nation’s coldest} spots was St. Paul, with a reading | of 10 below. | At Eau Claire, Wisconsin, it (By Associated And Deaths Press) i was eight below and several small | buildings were destroyed by ter- ‘ific winds. | ly separated places, and three per- { sons were burned to death and| many injured. Damage runs a seven figures. A third of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, was destroyed last night with damage between $500,-/ 000 and $1,000,000. At Troy, New York, a club) house of the Veterans of Foreign Wars was burned, jing two men. A three-year-old child was burn. ed to death when a cottage was destroyed at Hammond, New Jer- sey. | Seven firemen were injured in blazes which swept a row of frame dwellings in Brooklyn. FORTALEZA, Brazil,; Jan. 29.—Italy’s premier} trans-Atlantic air mail plane | crashed on the beach twelve miles south of here early to-| day and was found by a Pan-! American Airways mail and | passenger plane. | A rescue party brought in} the four occupants of the | plane. Only two were slight-! ly hurt. \ | The i Rome early Italian plane left Saturday Ray to Long Key and then iCape Sable, ' NOTICE, | Tonight, one feature only—“I'm j Ne Angel,” is the only feature at- jtraction to be shown tonight. Same will be shown in connection j with news and comedies, Tomorrow, Tuesday, a double !feature program, consisting of }“Day of Reckoning” and “The | House on 56th Street.” Two great ‘attractions at the price of one. Don't miss Tuesday's show as it jis guaranteed to be one of th {best of the season, jan29 to was due in Buenos Aires to- day. The 1934 Italian Plane Crashes On, Beach Today Near Fort Aleza, Brazil (By Asnociated and/° ress) It left Dakar, Africa, ear-| ly yesterday and reached the | Brazilian coast about 10 p.!cipally of yellowtail, muttonfish, { saa , |barracuda and mackerel. |m., off its course, and wan-| dered aimlessly until the gas- eline gave out, when it NEW ARRIVAL AT HOME OF 6. KOCH Mr ann and Mrs. George R. Koch birth of pounds, ince the 10 Sunday boy,/ 1:30 the a at in weighing ek home morning 1023 Watson street. reported PLYMOUTHS Will Arrive Monday, February 5th THE CAR THAT HAS EVERYTHING Before You Buy Any Car See the 1934 Plymouth j | ‘largest brought in by a | visiting relatives several WORKING FORCE ON AQUARIUM TO BE IN 2 SHIFTS EIGHT HOURS EACH DAY FOR EMPLOYES; WORK WILL BE; CARRIED ON . THROUGH WHOLE WEEK Intensive activity marks the progre: n construction of the Key West aquarium and this week will see the men assigned to the working of 8 hours daily during the entire week. It has bee ndecided to work two shifts. The first started this morning and will work today, to- morrow and Wednesday. The next Snift will work Thursday, Friday and Saturday. To perfect this arrangement the men numbering more than 200 have been divided in two groups, to work alternately as provided. This does not conflict with orders governing CWA projects but will, it is believed, speed up the work. COLONEL WOOTEN ON VISIT HERE TAKEN OUT ON FISHING TRIP AS GUEST OF DR. VAN DEUSEN —_— Colonel W. P. Wooten, U,,. S. A., ig among the Gistinguished visitors in Kéy West at this time and is a guest at the Hotel Colonial. The colonel went, out fishing Saturday as the guest of Dr. Rob- ert O. Van Deusen and had a great day, he said,. They brought in a wonderful catch consisting prin- Number of other kinds were in the catch which was one of the fishing | party of two in some time. MRS. A. MALCOLM DIES IN NASSAU \ Mrs. A. A. Malcolm, sister of | Christopher Knowles of Key West,} \died shortly after midnight yew} terday at the home in Nassau. The information was received by Mrs, Kngwles yesterday morning. | Mrs. Malcolm was well known to many friends in Key West. Four brothers are living here: Robert W. Knowles, Christopher! Knowles, Albers Knowles and] William Knowles. Another survivor, besides her} husband, is Mrs. William Allen, known to friends, and acquaint-; ances in Key West and Miami as} Loretta Knowles. She was here} weeks | ago ' MAE WEST in I’M NO ANGEL Matinee: Balcony, 10¢; Orches- tra, 15-20¢; Night, 15-25¢ For 54 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Congress Completes Action On Administration's Money Bill Roosevelt - Garner Signa- tures Only Thing Left To Enact Measure Into Law COLDEST WEATHER (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. —A_ destructive windstorm (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. —cCongressional action was completed today on the ad- ministration’s money bill, leaving the signatures of Vice President Garner and President Roosevelt all that is necessary to enact it into a law. It required only a few min- utes for the house vote on concurrence in the senate amendments to limit to three years the life of the proposed $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, and the OFFICIALS COME | HERE FOR VISIT «ime positon = j content of the dollar by 40 to 50 percent. Unanimous consent was given by the house to chang- es placed in the bill by the senate last week. The president will receive the bill tomorrow. NEW ROUND TRIP RAILROAD FARE IS ESTABLISHED SMALL CHANCE FOR OBTAIN- ING LOW RATE EXCURSION NOW BETWEEN MIAMI AND KEY WEST, OFFICIAL SAYS blew the coldest weather of the year into the capital to- day. After a near gale uprooted several large trees and tossed the a small sailboat onto shore from usually, an im- mune harbor last night, the thermometer dropped to 10. A further drop to five was predicted tonight. MOVING PICTURE JESSE L. LASKY, PRESIDENT OF PICTURE CORPORATION, AND TWO OTHERS ARE GUESTS AT COLONIAL Jesse L. Lasky, president of the Lasky-Paramount Moving Picture corporation, his son, Jesse L, Lasky, Jr., and Albert Kaufman, department head, are in Key West for a few days’ fishing and are} guests at the Hotel Colonial. Mr. Lasky and his companions} came to Key West at the sugges- tion of Zane Gray, noted author and sportsman, who told them “go to Key West and you will get the finest fishing in the world.” They went out fishing yesterday and are out again today. On re- turning to the city yesterday aft- ernoon the boat berthed at the F, E. C. terminals and began to un-t load the catch. Kingfish, barracuda, grouper and mackerel and other kinds were caught, the entire take weigh- ing 260 pounds. Lynn J. Irvin, district passen- ger agent for the Florida East Coast Railway, replies to the let- ter of the local chamber of com- merce relative to excursions be- tween Miami and Key West. Mr. Irvin shows that the pos- sibility of any low fare excur- BOULEVARD WORK TO BE CONTINUED, REPAI| i PO Oe Sern les ceseadicteig far, aevedi foe FERENT STATUS FROM six days, and have now under omit consideration a new proposition. SYREET, HAP OIRS This, it is understood, will be a st i 2-day all expense trip to Key The Citizen’ has been asked. by| West and return for only $9.45. a number of people whether the, They propose to issue a leaflet entire boulevard repair work is concerning these excursions and te be stopped. The answer is no.; with newspaper advertising Mr. Orders from Washington which’ Irvin is satisfied a large number cancelled the oiling and sanding of! of visitors “of the substantial city streets repealed orders in the, kind” will be coming to same class of work as pertaining; West. to the boulevard as published in| —— ae this paper January 26. FLORIDA BRINGS All of the work outlined for re-| pairs of the boulevard, including! the damage done by wind and wa-, ter during the stormy season last} year is to be finished. j This work is being supervised} The Steamship Florida of the P. and directed by the State Road/and ©. S. S. company arrived Department although registrants | Saturday afternoon from Havana from the CWA lists are doing the} with 42 passengers, 10 of whom work. : were aliens. Key The New 1934 HEVROLET Now On Display Open Until Late Nights -’ MELTZER MOTOR CO.