The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 3, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LV. No. 54. Currency Stabilization Fund Of U. S. Shown To Be Intact winter, G overnment Has|DELEGATES OF OF Deficit By Reason 4 : Bookkeeping Change In Month-End Statement (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 3. \ —The treasury in its second month of revalued, manag- ed dollar, operated today with its $2,000,000,000 cur- rency stabilization fund still intact. For the first time since January, however, it had a deficit—minus $2,352,175,- 000. This was by reason of the ‘ bookkeeping change that ap- peared in yesterday’s month- end treasury statement. COLORED YOUTH | HELD FOR THEFT CONFESSES TO STEALING POCKET KNIVES; OTHER "| CHARGES FILED —— Morris Allen, colored youth, is! a confessed thief and is now in the county jail. He has confessed to the theft of a dozen pocket knives from the Roberts hardware store _ ow’ Carolin€ trot: ~' thrée of the} ~ knives have been’ recovered. Another charge that will be lodged against him is the theft of three small alarm clocks from the INDUSTRY WILL BE GIVEN VOTE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES | TO BE GIVEN VOICE DI- RECTLY ON POLICIES AS ADOPTED BY GOVERNMENT (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, March 3.—} Elected delegates of industry for the first time in American his-j tory will be allowed to vote next week directly on policies of the government. NRA chiefs now plan a massed meeting of code authorities as a sort of loosely-constituted con- gress of industry. Its thousands of delegates will; be called upon to record by ballot | their views on the more contro- versial issues debated in code re-; form meetings. Votes will be advisory only and without legal force of those cast in congress, but they will vitally | affect ensuing actions,of the ad-| ministration. DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD STUFFS BIG HELP FOR NEEDY | THOSE DROPPED FROM WORK. | ING ROLLS OF CWA ARE PROVIDED FOR BY ADMIN- ISTRATION While the disheartening effects hardware store of Pierce Brothers, of the enforced lay off of employ-| on Fleming street, Two of these) ¢s of the CWA are being deplore: have been recovered and Allen has| by many, there is a bright side been positively identified by the to the situation given by the dis- Purehasers. tribution of food stuffs, to those Recovery of the knives andj in heed. alarm clocks was made possible by} This is the opinion of a number tof people who have been remov-} | its purpose the permitting of all ‘COUNCIL RECEIVES | BONDS MEMBERS OF PB. WORKS BOARD ORDINANCE PERTAINING TO PARKING FOR HIRE CARS ADOPTED AT REGULAR MEETING LAST NIGHT | At the regular meeting of the city council held last night, a com- munication was received from | Mayor William H. Malone advis- jing the board that he had rear- | ranged the hours of the police de- partment in order that better serv- ice may be obtained all along the line. A complete outline of the new duties as arranged for the heads and members of the police | department was published in The Citizen yesterday. Embodied in his letter was al | request to the council that an ad- | ditional man be employed for the | police department for a period of 15 days. The mayor explained} that this extra man was needed | in order to allow one of the; ! patrolmen two weeks off on fur- | lough inasmuch as the rules of j ‘the department specify that each! member is entitled to a vaeation | once a year for a period of 15 days. The request was granted, the mayor to make the selection ; for the temporary position. | Bonds Presented | The bonds of Norberg Thomp- son, J. R. Valdes and Frank C.! Brown, members of the Board of Public Works, were presented to | the council last night, with the | necessary premiums ordered paid.! The bond of B. D.. Trevor, an-/ | other member, has not expired as | yet, no new bond being ‘necessary in this case, while the bond of C. Nestor Recio, the fifth member, | has not been fixed up as yet. However, it is shown that with fouromembers,.-the-board is’ able}. to function. | An ordinance pertaining to the parking of public auto cars on Duval street, near Fleming, was | passed on its final reading. It provides for a certain space on | the main thoroughfare where no other vehicles except for hire cars| will be permitted to park. New Ordinance Another ordinance that had for NAME LOCAL UNIT something inadventently said by Allen which was a clue on which Constable Ray Elwood and Traf-j but who who have been enabled to fie Officer Alberto Camero start-| Secure commodities for their fam- ed investigating. ilies, Within a short time they had got} Records at the on the trail of the clocks and re-| building at the lighthouse depart- covered one. Later Constable El-| ment show that 5,044 pounds of ed from the roster of employes’ distribution | ‘wood recovered another clock and three of the knives. The charge, however, on which the youth is now being held is that of entering the store of Jeff Ad- ams, on Caroline street, with in- tent to commit a felony, He was given a hearing this) morning before Peace Justice Frank 0, Roberts on this charge! and remanded to jail in bond of $100, IVY RETURNS T0 THIS PORT LIGHTHOUSE VESSEL HAD BEEN AT WORK AT CHAR- LOTTE HARBOR After several days work Charlotte Harbor the Lighthouse! Tender Ivy returned to port this morning. The vessel was replac-| | ing buoys on the west coast and) landlord for back rent and dam-! age to furniture, and a warrant! When! the money was paid the warrant | was withdrawn by Superior Court! attending to other work in that section. Word has been received at the} depot that the Tender Poinciana has been held up at Tavernier for} several days, unable to continue! the routine on beacons. i Tender Poppy has been having| a rough time at Anclote Island. | Heavy winds separated the pile-| driver barge from the vessel and! drove it aground, Captain John Peterson writes; that the thermometer went down to 40 which is not the kind of; weather that will bring joy to Key Westers. EXPERT REPAIRMEN Are always on duty to take care of your MOTOR TROUBLES Lou Smith Service Station smoked pork and 4,384 pounds of| flour have been distributed this week, of butter and milk-wheat-o. It is understood that a larger volume of butter and the milk- wheat-o will be distributed next) week. Bulletins are td be post-: ed giving the necessary informa-| tion, it is said. STEPIN FETCHIT PAYS JUDGEMENT NEGRO FILM ACTOR SAID TO! BE FROM KEY WEST IS NOW FREE Stepin Fetchit, tor, who originally t) Key West, it is said, $1,404 fudgement in geles and is now free. The negro was sued by came from) has paid a Los An-| his was issued for arrest, Commissioner Kurtz Kauffman. The award asked by the land- | lord was originally $2,450 but re- duced when Fetchit went through pennreerey: PATROLMAN KEMP TAKES FURLOUGH ,, Bienvenido Perez, formerly connected with the Key West po- lice department, was today ap- pointed by Mayor Wm. H. Malone to temporary duty. Patrolman Joseph Kemp has | been granted a leave of absence | for 15 days and Officer Perez White & Catherine, Phone 522]| will fill the vacancy created. long with small quantities! negro film ac-! | automobiles to park on either! side of Duval street, between j Fleming and Angela, for a period | not to exceed 15 minutes, was ‘read, but after considerable dis- j cussion, was killed on roll call. | The report of Chief of Police Ivan Elwood showing the amount | of $457 collected in fines for the month of February, well as reports of other officers. Following the reading of cur- j rent bills, and a few other mat- | ters-of a routine nature, the meet- jing was ordered adjourned. | BAKER FUNERAL | HERE TOMORROW, | Funeral services for the late Caleb Baker, who died in Miami | Spltives afternoon, will be held | 3:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon ‘from the First Methodist church! where the body will be placed at 12:30 o'clock. Rev. George E. Summers will) officiate. Pallbearers will be} selected from Tiger Tail Tribe 19,} Improved Order Red Men, of} | which organization Mr. -Baker | was a member, was read as; } { eoce eeecccccce WHERE TO GO TONIGHT Palace—“The Private Life of } Henry VII.” Strand—“Going Hollywood.” TOMORROW Charches—Services at 7 and 11:00 a. m, and 7:30 8: 200 pn and; id—Baseball. he Private Life Henry VIII. Strand—“Going Hollywood.” —SPECIALS— Nice Fresh Veal, Spring Lamb Strictly Fresh Eggs Peanut Fed Hens and Fryers|' Hams, by half, 1 . We Pork Hams and Pork Shoulder CENTRAL MARKET 805 Fleming St. Phone 20 of; j { j | meet at Southern, March 13, | elect an honorary chancellor for; | conferring of honorary degrees. The Kep West Citsen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1934. Stalin’ 's Epithet For Foreign Enemies «Slogan Of Soviet Defense Becomes SCocceccccccccoccseccesees® Joseph Stalin, soviet leader, started something when he warned foreign enemies to “keep their h snouts out of our. soviet potato patch.” Here was drawn by Moris Efimoy for the newspaper, at the left, headed “Warning,” of the red army, and carried the snouts into our soviet garden.” elled: “Those who dare to attack (Ny Associated Press) ! MOSCOW, March 3.—In the| ' midst of Far Eastern war talk, a} new slogan has been popularized! here, designed to hurl defiance at, potential enemies and to symbolize the confidence of Kremlin lead- fers in the outcome of any pos- sible conflict. “We will teach them (the ene-, my) to keep their swinish snouts out of our soviet potato patch,” is the catch-phrase, first given to} the public by Joseph Stalin, num- ber one man of the proletarian | dictatozghip, in his report to the The other, by Averin, cartoonist of “Communist Education, | though reiterating its desire for) dier behind a-wall laughing at a re two cartoons, based on that theme. The one “Red Star,” organ explanation: “Just so they'll lose all desire to poke their swinish is lab- our country will receive this!” All-Union congress of the com-| munist party. | prints and ffrom speaker's ros- Thus labeling all nations cher-| trums throughout the country and ishing aggressive designs against! has been,used as the theme for the Soviet Union as | numerous cartoons, Stalin emphasized the country’s} Among the latter, two readiness to defend its borders al-! out. One shows a red arm “swine,” stand peace, After he uttered it, the sins was echoed by Klimenti Voroshi-! lov, commissar for war; V.! Molotov, pr lent of the coun ef peoples’ commissars, and oth- ers. fat hog which is beginning to lurch after apparently having been effectually dealt with. The other pictures another red soldier transfixing with his bayonet the snout of a porker clothed in | foreign uniform. a ! ' FOR CELEBRATION | IN COLLEGE EVENT, MAYOR MALONE. AND THREE, OF CITY’S » PASTORS AP- POINTED ‘MEMBERS OF JUBILEE COMMISSION en) , March 3.—Four Key West citizens have been ap- pointed members of the Southern College Golden Jubilee comr President Ludd M. Spivey, nounced today. They are Hon. William H. Malone, Rev. G. E. Summers, Rev. Shuler Peele, and Rev, W. J. Martin. The commission consists of 200! prominent Floridians. They will to: Southern and to make plans for} the institution’s jubilee celebra- tion in 1935. | The, meeting of the commission- | ers here this month will be part of an elaborate Founders’ program announced for March 12 and 13; to celebrate Southern’s forty-ninth anniversary. Speakers will be Bishop John} M. Moore of the Southern Metho- dist church, Roger W. Babson and Harrison E. Howe of Washington, D. C., editor of the Journal of; Industrial and Engineer Chemis- try. Bishop Moore will speak on the night of March 12. Mr. Babson will be a luncheon speaker March 13, and Dr. Howe will deliver an address at climactic exercises hat night, which will include the An organ recital, an informal reception, a tea, an alumni meet-j ing and an academic procession | will be other features of the two-| day program. | FLORIDA TAKES | 150 PASSENGERS With 135 first class and 15} second class passengers the Steam-! ship Florida of the P. and O. S.} S. company sailed yesterday for/ Havana. The ship also carried two automobiles, 10 tons of, freight and 166 sacks of mail. | Ferry Parrott, of the Florida! East Coast Car Ferry System, ar-' rived 5:40 yesterday afternoon from Cuba with one car of —_ tage, 16 miscellaneous cars an 157 sacks of mail. Freighter C. W. Powers arrived this morning from Collier City jand discharged a cargo of food at the Mallory asin allay aa | HAPPENS DURING CROSS EX- French Government Concerned It has been blazoned in daily | TRAFFIC SHOWS NEED OF BETTER ROADS TO _ SURVEY REPORT RECOM- MENDS OVERSEAS BRIDGES, TRUCK LANES OTHER SUG- GUESTIONS (Miami News) Highways leading into this sec-} tion of Florida are far from ade-} quate for the efticient handling of increasing numbers of south- bound tourists, according to al statement today Ft the Dade county traffic surve,. Improvement of the highway system, buildin, nd resurfacing of more roads, and especially es- tablishment of southbound traffic lanes for trucks are among the suggestions. Desirability of opening a southern outlet out uf Miami into the sections of the lower coast by substitution of bridg- es on the Overseas highway for the ferries which now im- pede travel is also stressed. This would tend to add var- iety to the vacation possibi In Debts Owed United States PARIS, March gue government today was report- —The Doumer- the question of debts owed the United States may be settled. AMINATION DURING TRIAL FOR MURDER Although the question has not | yet been discussed by the cabinet, | it was learned the government (iy Associated Press’ CHICAGO, March 3.—Dr, | wants to find some solution. It was thought likely the cabi- Alice L. Wynekoop, on trial for the second time for the | "Ct Will take it up as soon as press- ! [ise domestic problems are settled. 'BABBITT MAKES daughter-in- today slaying of her law, Rheta, collapsed during cross e: mation by the state. The prosecutor had been | taking her: question by ques- | | DESTROYER WILL PROCEED | To JACKSONVILLE DUR- i ING AFTERNOON tion through the made by her after fatement in- question in which she retold her “confession.” the stream the better part of today, the U. S, Destroyer Babbitt scheduled to sail this afternoon for Jacksonville. After being anchored in Suddenly the aged woman turned to the judge and called | i to him in a low voice. He did | not hear her immediately and | defense attorney jumped to his feet pointing to the col- The leans, Destroyer Bainbridge, } has been in port for a period of recreation, is scheduled lapsing woman. judge which ordered the jury removed. As they filed out, Dr. Wynckoop leaned over to one | day morning. ‘MAN ARRIVES F FOR _ HOSPITALIZATION S$. Manson, of New Orleans, an arrival on the morn- ing train, assigned as a patient in the Marine hospital at Key | West. On arrival of the train he was | assisted to enter the ambulance of the Pritchard Funeral Home j and taken to the hospital. \- What One ci Decided side gasping for breath. She was wheeled out, but after a wait of 20 minutes was wheeled back into the courtroom again. The doctor completed her my, being on the stand and the trial was adjourned ntil Monday. ROSES AND FLORAL PIECES PHONE 597 South Florida Narsery ties in this area and would thus work toward a lengthen- ing of the season, the report says. The survey’ of incoming traffic shows a considerable increase in southbound tour- ists over Among di traffi urve surfacing of § 7 been the re-! enth avenue and! of ond avenue, The | Brickwell avenue extension now is} {under construction, while the re-| surfacing of Tamiami trai) and the building of read 26-4 to Lake! KEY WEST, 8 a. m. Warmest City in United States PRICE FIVE CENTS Notorious Killer And Bank Robber Forces His Way Out Of “Escapeproof” Prison Armed With Machine Gun, John Dillinger Takes Other Prisoners From Cells (By Associated Press) CROWNPOINT, Indiana, March 3.—John Dillinger notorious killer and bank robber, awaiting trial for murder, walked out of the “escape proof” Lake county jail today with a negro pris- oner, each armed with a ma- jchine gun. Dillinger’s the escape from | prison in charge of Sheriff Lil- Jian Kolley, apparently climaxed weeks of waiting and planning during which he whittled. a dum- | my pistol out of the wood in his cell, | He used the pictol today to j threaten a guard and forced him to v.lock the first floor céll in j which Dillinger and four other | prisoners were locked, - \ Once outside the cell, Dillinger and his companion went to the warden’s office, seized two ma- chine guns, and departed with | Deputy Sheriff George Blunt as | hostage, They took Blunt to a nearby garage, stole an automobile and forced Edward Sager, an attend- ant, to accompany them, ‘They’ headed -north toward Gary and Chicago. Mrs. Holley, who had declared Dillinger would never escape from her jail, immediately order- ed all entrances of the jail locked and guards posted about the build- | ing. Dillinger forced all four pris- oners in the cell to accompany him, but three of them willingly gave up to deputies after they Okeechobe in progress, | Teached the street. Contracts are about to be let} for widening the federal highway} to the county line. Most elaborate precautions had been taken to guard Dillinger day and night since he was returned The traffic survey has been used to furnish data on the} {Chapman field project, the Over-} seas bridge project, the water! works loan of $560,000 which was] also} | here several weeks ago from Tucson, Arizona, Mrs. Holley had. provided addi- tional guards today after an air- plane was seen hovering over the | jail. READY TO LEAVE! After a short stay at that Flor-} to Charleston and remain for two! weeks and then sail for New Or-| lengthy | ; to sail for the Cuban coast Mon- ccaeecmraneniannmiesmimmmana? approved by the PWA and million dollar application causeway repairs, CONVICTION IN MURDER HEARING | CASE DEALS WITH POISON} WHISKEY MURDER OF DR. JOHN PRESTON KENNEDY | | (iy Ansocinted Pi ida metropolis the Babbitt will go} Dean, woman physi | day was convicted of poison whiskey murder Dr. John Preston Kennedy. The jury fixed the penalty } at life imp Attorneys | linger released at Peotone, Illin Two hours after the escape, Dil- i two men hostages. The escape was one of the most daring on record. Eighteen extra guards and six deputy sheriffs had been detailed to the jail with orders to kill Dil- linger if he made the slightest move toward freedom. Mrs. Holley became hysterical ‘immediately telephoning poli | nearby Gary “send all police and | guns you got—Dillinger’s loose,” she shrieked, ‘A. PRITCHARD GREENWOOD, ip- | MADE EMBALMER } {NOTIFIED YESTERDAY OF PASSING TESTS WITH FULL CREDITS | Andrew Pritchard, son of Regi- jrald Pritchard of the funeral }hor-e of that name, is now a full i fledged embalmer and will be the would immedia‘ Dr. Dean was sit- dowr clenched sentence. ti ‘th hands, but received the ver- dict calmly. walked out, but broke down sobbing She smiled as she as she was led to a wai room. Judge West said awfully hard to send a wom- an to prison for life, but there never was any doubt about her guilt.” ‘ {resident practitioner under his fa- the Mr. Pritchard has been study i for more than three years and fei fally qualitied to take the exami- | nation some time ago. Tuesday and Wednesday of this week he appearec Sefore the state board of examiners in Tampa. , Shortly after his return yester fay he was officially notified he had passed the tests with full | erodits, STRAND THEATER Marion Davies--Bing Crosby in GOING HOLLYWOOD Matinee: Balcony, 1c; Orches- tra, 15-20c; Might, 15-25<