The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 27, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LV. No. 50. Number Of United States Vessels To Base At Key West During Coming Fall “Warships Will Come Here! FURTHER CUTIN For Maneuvers Follow- RELIEF WORKERS _ ing Activities In North- ern Waters MORE THAN THIRTY PERCENT TO BE LAID OFF THIS WEEK FOLLOWING INSTRUCTIONS RECEIVED BY OFFICIALS B) fAUL MAY | Special ‘Washington of The Citizen WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb, 27.—Between Septem- 21 and November 1 a oe of warships will tie “up for several weeks at Key) Bs. it was announced to- _ day at:the office of Senator Park Trammell, chairman of the senate naval affairs com- 7 ~, the fleet which will ons a notice was posted designating ters after having past the number will be reduced to 365, summer months in northern! except that the number of em-j {ployes on federal projects will be. waters, it was said. { retained exclusive of this allot-' It was not known how, we Soe rders receive in allahassee many vessels will be in the’ from Harry L. Hopkins, and trans- harbor, but Admiral Wil-, mitted to Wm, W. Demeritt, local , : ‘administrator show that it is nec- peo ag Standley, chief of essary to redyce the number of naval operations, has in- formed Trammell that a number of ships would be : here, istration has again been ordered drastically redueed, More than; week. sons prnored amounted to rw 000 by March 2, drivers: of their own teams trucks. The telegram ‘structs that these instructions do and { specifically in- The names. of the... -ships not..include. employes on’ federal} Atlantic. ‘ projects as reductions in these are being made by the federal depart- ments. Sufficient clerical help is {to be retained in order to insure the accurate completion of all ac- counting and other records. On the basis of the above in- structions, Mr. Demeritt is au- i thorized to employ a maximum of | 365 for the payroll period begin- i : t IN FIVE STATES: ning Friday, March 2, and ending Thursday, March 8. jon federal projects and emergency educational projects are allowed | in addition to the above. Mr, Demeritt told The Citizen ‘these orders will mean cutting _ will be announced at a later date, it was said. WORK OF “ACTIVITIES CARRIED ON IN, AREAS AFFECTED BY TOR- NADOES; COLD ADDS TO, f proximately 290 persons as there are 699 employed at present. Retaining 365 on regular pro- jects and approximately 40 men {iy Ansocinted Presa) BIRMINGHAM, Feb. Rabilitation of tornado-ravaged ‘teas in fiye southern’ states went forward eeey; fa pbrees ‘weather. |to be laid off Friday of this week. ALLOCATE F FUNDS - Cold Saved in te add to discom- FOR NEW BEACONS that killed 17 persons in Mississip.| SUPERINTENDENT DEMERITT pi, Alabama and Georgia, and in-| ADVISED OF APPROPRIA- jured hundreds of others, TION OF $36,000 Winds also unroofed houses and id other damage in these three} ww pemeritt, superintendent states and South Carolina and/of lighthouses, has been advised, from the department of commerce | 4 a at Washington of an appropria-} tion of $36,000 for the Seventh, Lighthouse District. MORE FAVORABLE WEATHER - WILL BE AWAITED TO SEND VESSEL OUT Sailing of the Lighthouse Ten- det Ivy has been postponed, until | more favorable weather conditions | prevail, it was learned at the depot ' BROTHER OF “SCARFACE AL”, WAS RELEASED TODAY morning that these funds are for aditional structures in Tampa Bay and vicinity. Six iron structures and a num- ber of minor aids to navigation are to be placed. ‘RALPH CAPONE today. The tender was scheduled to} leave for Charlotte’s Harbor for relieving and replacing buoys and! started on the trip last night, heavily laden with navigation aids. When the ship reached <a (By Associated Press) LONG BEACH, Wash., Feb. west Entrance to the harbor the) —Ralph Capone, elder brother of IS NOW ORDERED Monroe county’s quota of em-! ployes on the Civil Works Admin, 80 percent are to be laid off this; box, Last week the number of per-j CWA employes in Florida to 34,-) This includes} Employes; t from the payrolls this week ap-| 27.—Re-| on federal projects will leave 204) | gold ‘OTHER ELIGIBLES Tt was learned at the depot this! The Bey West Citisen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1934. ‘(Rush Of World’s Gold To New York Marked By Deft Trading Maneuvers By RADER WINGET (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Feb. 27.—The great gold race of ’34 is on. Speed ~ | and secrecy are the watchwords - millions are at stake. Plodding sourdoughs back in ’49 were just pikers with picks scratch- ‘ing for comparative pennies after a big strike at Sutter’s mill. The modern gold race | changes from sleepy burros sleep transatlantic liners and air- ; Planes. The modern prospectors use pens instead of picks. It is simply a case of buying gold at a low price in London or j other foreign centers and selling! at a higher price in New York, Just as simple as that... but the {| new gold diggers must know their! | exchange rates better than the! ae -niners knew their sluice, How It Is Done | Here is the technique of digging! j wealth from gold, A. D, 1934: A banker wants to buy ‘1,000,-! 7 000 pounds sterling in gold. Ue} | sells his dollars to buy pounds, | et perhaps paying $5,000,000 for the! 1,000,000 pounds, depending on! | the exchange rate. | Then he calls his gold broker in} New York and gives his order, The| gold broker deducts 1-40 of 1 per- | { | cent as his fee and cables his Lon- don representative to buy gold at| the market. i scene to i The 1934 gold rush dwarfs the rich strikes of the forty-r-iners in California. Sleek liners laden with precious hoards speed over the ocean to New York to take advartage of the price of gold set by the pres. At 11:15 a, m., London time,! ident. Behind the buying and selling of. the metal are the sccret computations and maneuvers of the gold | i six hours ahead of eastern stand.| ttaders, who figure profits in fractions, Their brokers keep the trans-Atlantic telephone and cables hum- | y | ming with orders as the ‘gold point’ varies and the chance for a profit looms. Here’s gold being unloaded | ard time, the gold brokers meet in} London to set the price of gold for| ‘" New York: the market opening. The order igi (by, Aknucinied Prenn) executed at the best price for f. 0, b. delivery at the ship’s side} WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—A government loan {in London, { To transport the gold across the} of several million dol- lars to Cuba for to. New, York -there- is a:« charge of 25 cents to $1 per $1,-! chase of silver in country was ‘Mrs. Benjamin Sawyer Declared Winther “Tir Beauty” Pageant Put On At High § School Last Night Vieing with 39 other contest- to two, Miss Rosalind Grooms and! | Mrs, Sawyer. As they me out on the stage for last decision. of the judges, the applause was! | deafenin They | the merly Miss Bunnie Niles, was de-! mander of Arthur { No, 28, was introduced 000 in gold, Protecting the gold in| shipment is insurance costing from| 45 cents to $1.70 per $1,000 in! gold. Additional Exepnses There, is a jam of shipping fa- cilities at the moment because} there is only a limited space in which to store gold properly, and! surance companies will allow! only a certain amount of gold on Yone ship. Rates have changed ac. cordingly. When the gold gets to America! there is a customs house brokers’ | fee of about $3.20 per $1,000, 000 |. in gold, and then the trucking company charges 5 cents per $1,-' 000 in gold as a transportation fee! from the pier in New York to the | government assay office on the tip of Manhattan. Armed guards hold guns as the is jerked from armored; trucks and rushed into the assay | office vaults. Tests are made on the gold to| determine whether it comes up to! specifications, and the owner paid $35 an ounce, the legal price | set by the president. But there is a deduction by the} government of 1-4 of 1 percent for} handling, and other charges which vary with each shipment. pur- this described today in informed cir- cles as probable. ants in the American Legion| Beauty Pageant last night in the High School Mrs. Benjamin F. Sawyer, who was for- genase red to the secluision of| scenery and H. E, Day, com-| Sawyer Post! by master of ceremonies, j Ted) ¢ "9 | Pauly, | Mr. Dey thanked the audience tion, and then announced he peal FOR PRI RI “Miss Key| ROOSEVELT DEMOCRATS clared the winner. This was the decision of com- petent judges, who were guests at/ the Colonial Hotel, who were un- | about to present to | West”, | gift of the post. |the name of Mrs The manner in which the con-jPlause was loud | beyond | j}and it was at le five minutes} before he could continue with the of alll resents ation speech, who witnessed the process of eli-|" The winner in this contest will] mination in determining the win-| represent the local post in the} ‘ner. te-wide pageant to be held at! First the entrants paraded in| Gainesville in April, and should groups of 20 each, and then the|she be fortunate enough to be de- (eliminations gradually reduced clared the winner in this event | the number until there was one/ will be accorded a trip to Miami | group of six. | during the American Legion Con- Final elimination reduced ais rae in Miami this year. i known to any of the contestants . the loving cup that was the! - When he called} Sawyer the ap-| nd continous and to whom none of the con-} testants ‘weré known. test was conducted was criticism, is the opinion DATES IN ELECTIONS (My Assoetaced Press) WASHINGTON; Feb. Roosevelt democrats declared a “hands off” policy today in re- FOR POSTMASTER 1 TWO BESIDES HARRIS CERTI- FIED BY CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION | gards to democratic candidates in Deaths In Various Catastrophies Over Country Reach One Hundred: (By Assecited Press) Four days of catastrophe, aloft | ord- breaking blizzard that eas | the coming primary elections. James A. Farley, as chairman, in a statement, said the national | | committee would take no part for | | or against any democratic candi-/ | | date. (Ry Associated Press) The statement, however, was WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. The post office department teday that the understood not & Fine powdery snow ceased fall- gre: fend aground, have brought sud-! ed last week. ‘den death to nearly 100 persons) pply to pro- ve republicans known to ing last night in most sections, announced jhave the approval of the admin- and highway traffic istration such as Senator Johnson j seal moved haltingly today. ‘of California, and Norris of Ne- smashups, lethal carbon monoxide, | Many commusities were isclat-| ******- | im the United States. civil service commission had | pon Train wreck, plane crashes, bus! certified to Postmaster Gen- eral Farley the following had been found eligible for ap- pointment as postmaster at Key West, Richard H. Kemp, Sam E. Harris Fred J. Dion. and above all fury of winter | ed by high drifts, especially grim |New England, and thd food ‘aies| WHERE TO GO SSSRESSSESSSESSSESEESESS ic TONIGHT | Palace—“Broadway ' Keyhole.” Strand—“As Husbands Go” and storms, have swelled the j t ! | | } | jage grew more severe in Long Island villages. | toll. 1 } Thru A The mercury, pl ‘g toward MAKE DECLARATION IN RE-} GARDS TO PARTY CANDI.. 27.—) Wai SENATE FAVORS — NEW FUND FOR WAR VETERANS TWENTY-NINE THOUSAND MORE TO BE RESTORED TO ROLLS WHOSE DISABILITIES ARE OF SERVICE ORIGIN (iy Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.— With the ad ration forces ap- parently submitting, the senate today added another e: $55,000,000 annually for j War veterans to the independent office’s bill. Without opposition vote, it-adopted the restoring to rol 9,000 veterans wer evesumed to gin, suc who were or record | taken off by the economy law of} a year ago. The amendme... gives veterans | full former rates and puts the 'bur- den of proof on the governmeng to show disabilities were not of serv- ice origin. The proposal also restores full} former rates for service ccnnect- ed disabilities with $100 a month | for total permanent disabilities. - | REVISE NEW AIR MAIL MEASURE WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—-The house postoffice committee today completed preliminary revision of a new permanent air mail bill approving .its. general provisions under which carriers whose con- tracts have been cancelled may ob- tain new contracts, The McSwain resolution for a |thorough investigation by the {house military committee into! {army aircraft equipment was ap-} | proved by the rules committee, | NEW COMMISSION | TO BE CREATED ; WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—An | administration bill to create a fed- eral communications commission} |of seven members to regulate for- eign and interstate telephone, tele-| {graph, cable and radio services, was introduced today in both {houses of congri ANNOUNCE DEATH | ” OFC. H. RANDALL. ewes se Charles Hewett Randall, son of Dr. and“Myrs) Charles Hj. Randall of Newark, N. J., and grandson jof Mrs. W. D. Cash of this city, ; died suddenly Thursday night at | the home ‘of ‘hit parents. ceased was 20 years old, and when a small boy attended the convent kindergarten in this city while visiting his grandmother. Funeral services were conduct- jed Saturday, and the body accom- panied by parents and other rela- tives, left yesterday for Connect | cut where interment will be made. Mr. Randall was a consistent member of the Episcopal church! and @ member of the choir in his parish. His mother was the f-r- mer Miss Elizabeth Cash of this! city. |BUILDING NEW FLEET | FOR VENETIAN CANAL’ (Ry Asseecsmted Press) VENICE, Itaiy, Feb. Twenty steamboats being bu ‘or passenger traffic the Grand! Canal are to be for Vene-| jtians who fell f fascist cause. F a bronze plate memorializing name it bears, UNEMPLOYMENT IN PORTUGAL FALLS (Ry Associated Pres) LISBON, Feb. 27 “h boat will have ~ed to its bow man whose; the pmendr ent) The de- | hting for the: ~Portugal'’s; KEY WEST, 8 a. m. rmest City in United States PRICE FIVE CENTS Fear Much Greater Loss Of Life Than First Reported In Train Wreck Last Night Seven Bodies Recovered With 28 Of Injured In Hospitals; Accident On Pennsylvania Railroad (By Associated Press) PITTSBURGH, Feb. 27.— With seven bodies recover- ed and 28 persons in hos- pitals, fear was expressed to- day that the death list from last night’s wreck of a New York-bound — Pennsylvania jtrain may be doubled. An engineer and fireman of an Akron-to-New York train were missing. Railroad officials also said three pas- sengers, not yet accounted ror, were seen in a day | coach. Crews of men worked fev- erishly througk the night searching a tangled mass of | steel, iron and brick for ad- ditional bodies feared to be there. The railroad said 36 of | the 70 passengers were re- ported being hurt, including those in hospitals. ‘The cordition of~ severat was critical, due to injuries, shock and exposure in near Ba weather, ier The train was speeding along 10 minutes behind jtime when it jumped the | tracks. The engine, tender and | five steel coaches piled up at | the bottom of a 20-foot em- | bankment, knocking down a Hl signal tower and three- ake brick building. ‘FINAL HEARING ' GIVEN SAILORS ‘THIS MORNING | RESULT OF TRIAL OF TWO AL- LEGED TO HAVE PASSED COUNTERFEIT BILLS, WILL BE MADE KNOWN SOON a N. J. Rountree and W. Taylor, jlors of the U. S. Navy, were taken before U, 8. Commissioner ,C. Rodney Gwynn this morning } for fina! disposition of their case, They are charged with passing | counterfeit $5 purporting to have | been issued by the Federal Reserve i Cank of Atlanta, Ga. | The forma] hearing was con- cluded yesterday before the com- missioner, who said he would take the matter in its entirety under | consideration and decide what dis- _| position he would make of the «se, or| Commissioner Gwynn told The Citizen he is awaiting advices from Admiral Charles 8. Freeman, «1 command of the Specia} Service ; Squadron, of which the Goff fs a junit, before rendering a decision. It is expected that the admiral | wit reply this afternoon, possibly \tomorrow. When the reply is re- ie ived Commissic..ce Gwynn will | fix the bond for Rountree and Taylor. STRAND THEATER | | winds were so strong and Seas too | high to permit the trip being con-| a ithout danger of losing | the buoys. Hence the} Spek antered the ship back tal { “Searface Al.” left McNeil Island/ penitentiary today a free man aft-| - er serving two years and five! nounced in The Citizen Mr. Harris! months for income tax evasion. | received the recommendation of He said he would enter legiti-/ Representative Wilcox, which is! mate business in Chicago. equivglent to the appointment. Editor’s Note: As previously | as it struggled, in many cases | zero, struck the northwest today | wain, to dig out of a 36-hour snow- fall, which followed another rec-! TIRED OF USELESS LIFE “Convention City.” TOMORROW Palace—*“He Couldn't Take It.” Strand—“Should Ladies Be- have?” and “Convention City.” SHEFFIELD, Eng.—“Tired of ‘ living a useless life,” James Mar-) { tin, of this city, committed suicide} hanging himself. Joan Blondell-Adolphe Menjou in CONVENTION CITY Warner Baxter-Helen Vinson in AS HUSBANDS GO Matinee: Balcony, 10¢; Orches- tra, 15-20c; Night, 15-25< unemployment figures are failing; steeadily, latest official statistics/ showing 20,000, of lex than half! the namber of a year ago. The reduction is attributed to public work on roads, bridges and schools.;