The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 6, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LV. No. 56. Cuba Faces Serious. Situation Resulting From Strikes With Threats Of Further Disorders Cabinet Of P President Men- FINAL ORDER IS dicta Remained In Ses-| GIVEN TO INSULL | sion All Night Pondering Over Conditions TO LEAVE GREECE GOVERNMENT RULING SAYS FORMER AMERICAN UTILI-; TIES OPERATOR MUST GET OUT IN 48 HOURS (By Associated Press) HAVANA, March 6.— Strikes and threats of disor- ders plagued Cuba today as the cabinet of President Mendieta was facing per- haps the most serious situa- tion since it was formed, con-| !"*¥! former American uti sidered. drastic precaution- operator, was served today with a| ary measures. government order to leave Greece The weary and heavy-| within 48 hours from this oat eyed cabinet members re- mained in session all night. Among other things they considered was the suspen- sion of constitutional guar- antees and dissolution of la- bor unions, Proposed government ef- fort to break the strike of Havana dock workers was held in abeyance today, but soldiers operated the street cars and trains between! embark upon the first American) Camaguey and Santa Clara.’ + which passes CARL ROM WORKS | (By Associated Press) ATHENS, March 6.—Samuel| ing. The government decided upon} this stand yesterday, but delayed} actual notifying of the former Chicagoan. At the same time Insull was given a essary police travel | “it ly permit. If he fails to comply volu: with the order, government offi-| cials said, I ll will ‘be forced to mer through ye Key West Citizen FIRST OF APRIL DATE SET T0 END ALL WORK OF CWA TELEGRAMS RECEIVED HERE OUTLINE ALL ACTIVITIES TO BE CARRIED OUT IN VA- RIOUS DEPARTMENTS Telegrams received yesterday and today at headquarters of the CWA and CWS show that all work is to be brought to a stop by April 1, instead of May 1, as was first understood. W. W. Demeritt, local adminis- trator, received a telegram yes- terday shortly after noon request- ing that the state engineer’s of- fice at Arcadia be advised before 4 o’clock whether material already on hand or already requisitioned ; | can be used on present and suc- ceeding quotas before April 1. In reply Mr. Demeritt wired that all materials on hand and those requisitioned for Monroe county projects can be used be- fore April 1 provided prompt de- livery is effected of materials listed on outstanding requisitions. Immediately following this an- other message was received ask- ing for prompt telegraphic report based on the man-hour quota, of estimated ‘dollars absolutely necessary for material to close out projects which cannot possibly be abandoned,” Ask Estimate Be Made This estimate was to be over and above material requisitioned or now on hand and based on completion by April 1. so asked that an estimate be fur- nished for the amount required for contract equipment and rental. In his reply Administrator De- meritt estimated that his estimate for materials which, are required for projects could not be abandon- ed Was $6,800. “For truck rent: It was al-} KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1934. | By NOEL THORNTON | (By Associated Press) | NEW YORK, March 6.—On aj morning of 1907 a tall, spare-| framed man swung in long strides} through the halls of the United; States capitol, making his way to} the house of representatives. By} j his side, hand clutching tightly to} that of his father, trotted a blond) — ' boy with clear, penetrating eyes. | | The Charles A, Lindberghs hadi | arrived in Washington, the father } as congressman from Minnesota and the son to see for the first; | time that rostrum where he was !in later years-to stand and re-; ceive the congressional medal of; i honor. | Father and son, the Lindberghs, | of a sturdy Swedish-English fam-| { ily, resembled each other in both i physical appearance and personal} | characteristics. | Constantly Together | They were constantly together, | these two... the son now, in a} | serawling hand, addressing envel-j opes in his father’s office... lat-;( er, the two embarking on a fort-j night’s canoe trip over the flood | waters of the upper ‘Mississippi! ... Then, in 1923, the son, pilot-| ing his first plane, flying his father ; on a senatorial campaign roun “Lone fighters’—that descri up, a flight that ended when the) ,op, Both were well under way on two cracked-up in a farmer’s corn| their friends knew very much abo sensi-; Charles as “uncommonly the! ble” and only smiled over youngster’s enthusiasm for me-| til he married Anne Morrow, chanical details in driving an| “we” meant himself and his air- automobile to the Pacific coast, | plane. Both Disliked School | Too, like the father, the son’s| They both disliked school, andj relations with the press have not) the extreme reticence which has! been exactly cordial. But, where; become almost a synonym for the! the son merely resented what he son was manifested in the father| thought was interference of the! when he, at last decided to go to! Rewspapermen, the father de-} collége. He was already enrolled: lighted, in annoying the editors at the Ann Arbo? law school be-; and, at times, thrusting sarcastic ‘ore even nts ibst intittiate Friends at-them,-He onee advocated ishment of the senate and Famous Sons Of Famous Fathers THE LINDBERGHS: STATESMAN AND AVIATOR 0000000000000 OCOO OOOO OOOOOOO OOOO DOEDS COOCOOOOSSOSESOOOOSSOOOOOOOOOOSOOOOSS, The father thought of young; Here is an early photograph of the two. | groups. | In a 15-minute speech he clarified ; 1 | { } \ } { | bes the Lindberghs, father important projects before even | ut what they were doing. And the | her characteristics with his son. economic ruin for the mas: was the leader of farmer and He, jabor | This crusading for the masses} led him into conflict with Wall/ Street, but he held his own be-| causg there have been few men in congress who understood mone-! tary problems as well as he did. and settled a debate over. Panama} canal toll#“Which had niyétified | | A. J. ANGLE AND ARTHUR G. KEY WEST, & a. m. Warmest City in United States PRICE FIVE CENTS Mrs. Roosevelt Arrives At Miami Today; Leaves Aboard Plane Going To Puerto Rico CUSTOMS HEAD AND ASSISTANT ARRIVE IN CITY |“First Lady” Of Land Greeted By Large Dele- gation Upon Reaching East Coast City (By Associated Press) WATSON CONDUCTING SUR-| JAMI, March 6.—Mrs. VEY OF LOCAL PERSONNEL) Franklin Roosevelt arrived OF SERVICE here today by train from ‘Washington, and after a A. J. Angle, collector of customs| hasty breakfast departed for Florida, and Arthur G. Wat-) aboard a large seaplane for ssistant collector, are in Key] pyerto Rico to obtain first i t, conducting a survey of the * . sonnel of the local unit. hand information ae health With the present congress inj and economic conditions in Washington taking up budget mat- Kae fea ters for the different departn.ents,| He insular possession, Mr. Angel told The Citizen the Alighting from the train, may be some changes necessary in} Mrs. Roosevelt was greeted the local force. : : i » changes may necessitate, at the station by a delega- s to other points in the! tion of city officials, club state and the status cf an in vidual will be the devermining fac- women, and Mrs. Hortense tor in his case. Wells, democratic national If a customs eniployee has aj z 33 large family anc the change to} committeewoman for Flor- The son went even farther; un-! cause he believed it would mean|some other point will entail an} j, | I ida. appreciable increase in expenses, he will be among ‘%e last to be considered for transier. In the case of au employee who has bought a he--e, is paying for it and will. be placed in a Position} the West Indies, where he could not make the pay-} ments and sustain his family in’ They chatted briefly, then Mrs. Roosevelt, anxious to | begin the aerial trip thy” th hastened to a hotel, ate a light break- | another city, he will be among the! fast, then motored to the in- last to be transferred. [eos i The entire purpose of the ‘sur-; ternational airport where vey, it is-showm-in. the event) she and # purty of six; board® changes are made necessary, is to} "l'knew that he” planned to enter} the ab the legal profession. Similarly! the vice-president merely to con-| the son started his famous flight} found the newspapers. He was ed a seaplane. Six other passengers also $4,000; equipment rental, $925. These estimates are for mater- ials in addition to those on hand ngress for weeks. ca ior Hae transfer those employes to whom cetera aecenciee |the change will mean the least in| AFTER CHECK-UP MENTS TO EQUIPMENT AT FOWEY ROCKS LIGHT Carl Rom, senior radio electri- cian with the lighthouse depart- ment, is at Fowey Rocks light- house-today making necessary adjustments of the radiobeacon. ‘The engine generators are also being inspected and a check is to be made. William Vassie, ma- chinist from the Key West depot, is going over the engine, install- ing new piston rings and making other necessary repairs. *Mr. Rom will continue to Port Everglades to make repairs to AT EXPRESS C0. | THIEVES ENTERING PLACE | | ON SUNDAY NIGHT JUST SIMPLY TRIED TO DESTROY ARTICLES After a thorough checkup of} the contents of the Railway Ex-; | press company’s downtown office today it was decided that there was nothing taken by the thieves | who entered the building Sunday |the Emergency Relief Adminis- to Paris without fanfare. This reluctance to talk of him- self came out further in the father when he was asked for his auto-; biography for the Congressional | Record. He wrote, simply: «cl A. Lindbergh, republican, Little Falls,” even disdaining to spell out in full his first two names. One remembers that the son, be- fore flying to France, asked for letters of introduction to persons there. Father Not ‘Good Mixer’ The son inherited the trait of being a “lone fighter,” a man who tration. traveled and thought by himself. It was also shown that the rea-| A biographer wrote of the older son for advancing the time for| Lindbergh, “He was not a good! or requisitioned and work should be completed by April 1. Estimates for cost of materials for new projects for which appli- cations have been submitted are set as $9,087. Truck rental, $225. If applications for new projects are approved and materials fur- nished promptly, the engineering office was assured that all will be completed by April 1. This morning advices were re- ceived showing that after April 1, all men on the CWA rolls are to be changed to work divisions of be | he jon tation for | probably was inculcated When a boy he would | perch on his father’s shoulders as} torren | father. j currents of the M his emotional. highly amused to note that publishers agreed that it might| a good idea at that. Sharing Per: the | The younger Lindbergh’s repu-| without by being swam through the sippi home. Both w e. He was strictly a j for the cure of economic ills. had not long been in congress be-' | fore he became the leader of the | insurgent group. was He fear his near He most al} quiet, un-! | ploits to The elder Lindbergh feared ao! “good will ambassadorship,’ sader In the end, like most crusaders | iner expenditures and inter- of the masses, he lost popular jruptions in their economic system tory. He lost his fight to keep! of living. his country out of war, lost his| RARE ECE struggle for monetary reform. He went back to the mid-west and SCHOOL BOOKS led the Non-Partisan league, whieh) demanded state ownership of util- BEING MENDED ities. H There is this last similarity be- . tween the two, father and son: | Young Lindbergh, after his ex.| WORK CARRIED ON BY WOM- further aviation and) EN WORKERS CONNECT- ED WITH CWA into Mexico to explore ruins. The elder Lindbergh, aft- er his brilliant record as a poli tician and economic — reforme confessed, at last, that his great- Over 1,000 books from the Ki | West High School Library are b | were aboard the plane with the “first lady.” MRS. L. VITZELIO “DIES THIS MORNING | | FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTEED HERE THIS AFTERNOON Vitzelio tlock this morning in 713 Simonton street. d| militant against America’s enter- est ambition was to have been a ing mended and painted by CW. Funeral] services will held at night. ceasing operations of the CWA| ‘mixer’ then or ever. . . He live Roy Hamlin, qualified finger} WS in order to have the presi- too much alone. * dent’s new relief program put in print expert, took photographs of | © : on {pi money drawers and other ac oee aa) Son Domes ticles in the office that gave evi-| Would Speed Up Work dence of having been handled by; Asked what effect the new or- the persons who gained entrance| ders would have on the local sit- and these were developed today.| uation, Mr. Demeritt told ' The What damage there wad is that Citizen he was taking up the ques- ~ BRINGS IN MAIL to the three money drawers which | tion of materials this morning and were ruthlessly torn out and/|asking’to have the shipments Ferry Parrott, of the F. E. C.j thrown on the floor as though the speeded up for the aquarium pro- Car Ferry company, arrived yes-| marauders, finding no money,|ject. — H terday afternoon 6 o'clock from/were angry and started to destroy | Engine and pumps and the large Havana with 135 sacks of mail,|that which was of no value to| number of sheets of plate glass baggage and 16 empty cars, them for this project were ordered Feb-| swelled eastern rivers to ruary 2 and approved. Up to date } i nothing has been heard from] ®*f Point today. { 5 | them. House Labor Committee Votes | More lumber for forms is need- jed and when these are made the E | ly F NRA Acti ee j concrete pouring program will be {given impetus and this work pro- (By Associated Press) jc0eed without hindrance. Hereto- fore the lack of lumber for forms WASHINGTON, March 6.—In} For national legislators in the lime with the administration goal) meantime, requirements of army electric lights and other aids and then to Egmont Key to make ad-| justments to the synchronizer of the radiobeacon at the light, women workers at the school}4:30 o'clock this afternon from | building. the Lopez Funeral Chapel to St. | Valuable books which have be-| Paul’s Episcopal church, Rev. Ar- come too dilapidated for use are|thur B. Dimmick, officiating. | now being put into The| Pallbearers will be Edward Mat- of the book is sewed and|hews, Charles Mathews, John J. replaced and pasted.: Albury, Thomas Johnson, Morris In many it has beecome| Cochran and Charles ©, Curtis ary to replace the cover; Mrs. Vitzelio is survived by entirely. | four daughters, Mrs. Mary Biaza, After the books are assembled,| Mrs, Amelia D, Oliviera, Mra. are g a coat of quick} Geneva Cook, of Key West, and drying enamel and afterwards’ Mrs. Lulu Villareal of Tampa; hellaked by Lee Pierce, building| three « Albert, California; ndet | Willie, Tampa; and Frank, of Key Ww } ing the world war and solely be-| poet. Eastern Rivers Swell: To Danger :4GIVES STATUS IN. Point When Ice And: Siow Melt ACTIVITIES CWA | ACTING ADMINISTRATOR: York! GIVES OUT INFORMATION TO ALL COUNCILS servict body old covers case nece => Queens section of New (By Associated Snow and ice melted by two; en days of summer-like temperature,| City saw streets flooded when iperi Thi ? al » to the students,” stated} Two brothers, Hiram F. Pent, rofessor O’Bryant, “as for the|of Tarpon Springs and Lawrence ast several years there has been| Pent, of Atlanta, Ga. There are o fund for the replacement of/16 grandchildren and 16 great- library books.” «! grandchildren, Bandits Believed To Be Headed By John Dillinger Hold Up Bank (By Ansoewted Press) S SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota,; mobile bumpers and from vested nels ged ae daylight: 10%" of nearby buildings . police who drove up to bandits, headed by a man believed the hank were halted with a burst to be John Dillinger, held up the of machine » fire sand were foreed to leave their ear, and disarmed by men on guard Hale Keith, policeman, wa . 07 side of the ban many colend: five dat beak dee] gone oe te eames” gate through a window as the officer 4 on the sidewalk. He was in the back and arm. Pursued to a point about two miles from the town, the bandit foreed the girl hostages to stand avont as shields while they drove ack three cariosds of officers and citizens with their machine cuss Oe a esata became clogged with slush.) work has been a wonder- Over in New Jersey ice jams in the Passaic River and its tri- fu P; i n streams had left their) isi inal ctheed aeben ace the! butaries menaced sections of Ber- | flood sta istrator for the CWA and FERA | gen county. i] Florida, tod Lowlands in upstate New York ecticut three children, were inundated. d waters of rivers and ministrators DEATHBED CONFESSION ; were relieved of respon: ies TOULOUSE, France | heres ter on has delayed the concrete work ma-| terially as only one set for each} vi |section was available and these; “°*tiaued to ri for reemployment of at least 1,-' and navy occupied their debates’ would have to stand until the mix-/ 000,000 more men by private in-| after the morning committee ses-' dustry, the house labor commit-} sions on tax stock exchange con- tee today voted unanimously for) trol, cotton reduction and other & flat 30-hour week) for NRA in-! bills. ure set, ' Then they were removed and} had abandoned their homes, and) deathbed Albest dustries subject to modification! s by a governmental board case, GROUPS DEFAULT replaced and the same routine had} jte be followed up and so on up to] ome school was closed. Rain add- the present, With the addition of more lumber and the making of| to the danger. Si likes’ chectige ox <ther r-| ON LOANS SECURED new forms this work and its ac-j; —— gencies, | WASHINGTON, March 6.—A jreport filed with the federal trade NON-OBSERVANCE commission shows that two large 4. iS NOW CHARGED |companies in the Van Swearen- | *% WASHINGTON, Some families in three towns! On’ nis Gordienne of | @P8CTY ed that he suffo-| 20 years ago by Stone admin will be admini y solely to d continued cooperat ty councils. | this city conf win- 3 pnaibilities j cated his w daring j burying her in a sand pit. on Security National Bank and Trust! .... eee WHERE TO GO Peo reccccscecscscccoeses TONIGHT Beggars Err ~—“Easy to Love ce Eve.” TOMORROW “Beggars To hasten the peogrew of ell ~— ON DISPLAY TONIGHT men were added to the force this} THE CAR THAT ALL AMERICA IS morning, proportionally inereasing| TALKING ABOUT the man hour output, T H E CHRYSLER AIRFLOW NEW PLYMOUTHS ON DISPLAY NAVARRO, Inc. 601 Duval Street shot company today, wounded a patrol- companying delays will be avoid-| March 6.—!/gen railroad group have defaulted NRA codes review rang today)on loans from J. P. Morgan and with charges of non-observance | Company, and a group of New) 000000 and opposition to further cuts in| York bankers, TER labor hours, but a will to cooper-|| There was no indication how- | a en aa ate with the administration was, ever, that Morgan and Company T. we Recaps zgoccag evident, too. for any of its associates had ever er 1 TO LOVE Amid scenes paralleling con-! called for payment of loans total- re eee re gressional speech-making, mem-jling more than $40,000,000 @r EVER SINCE EVE bers of code authorities spoke | taken any steps to foreclose on|} Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches- their minds, them tra, 15-20; Night, 15-25¢ ployes as hostages =nd fled guns, the’ |) Ermine In