The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 7, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LV. No. 57. Millionaire Boss Gambling Rackets In ‘West Side Frankie’ Po ANNOUNCE EARLY Wounded Six Times In! Head And Body; Died Instantly (By Associated Press) CHICAGO, March 7.— “West Side Frankie” Pope, gambler, was shot and killed today at a hotel. Wounded six times in the head and body, he died in- stantly. Pope has been reputed as the millionaire boss of the gambling rackets in Chi- cago. Identity of his slayer was undetermined as no one saw the killer to say whether it was a man or woman. A maid passing the room heard a woman cry out “don’t do that,” then the shots. Two men eariler had in- quired if Pope was register- ed there and were told he; was not, | BOARD OF PUBLIC | WORKS ORGANIZES | HERE LAST NIGHT. NORBERG THOMPSON’ RE- ELECTED CHAIRMAN WITH OTTO BETHEL REAPPOINT- ED SEXTON OF CEMETERY The new Board of Public Works; met last night at the City Hall! trated escapé of five men from, Harding and Coolidge and perfected its and outlined its program of op-} erations in connection with city, activities. . The members present} were Norberg. Thompson, B. Trevor, Frank C. Brown, J. R. * Valdes and Harold Pinder, clerk. Thompson was reelected chair- man with Pinder being reappoint- | ed clerk, while Otto Bethel was! also reappointed sexton of the! city cemetery. Richard Russell was reappoint- ed caretaker of Bayview Park. | There were two other applica- tions for this position, Edward W. Albury and Harry Carey. It was decided at the meeting last night to purchase two trucks from J. Otto Kirchheiner to be msed by the sanitary department, with other needs of the various | departments under the board’s jurisdiction being taken up for discussion. This was the initial meeting of the new board, which is now fully | qualified to function as the re-! quired bonds of the members| were recently presented to the City Council, accepted by that body, with the necessary premiums ordered paid. The Board of Public Works has supervision over the Scavenger Department, Water Works, City} Cemetery, Bayview Park and} street repair activities, besides | looking after many other needs |} of a municipal nature. NOTICE ‘The musical program which was} scheduled for this evening by Dade} Ledge 14, F. and A. M,. has been} postponed indefinitely, organization, | | 7-1t.| Track Arrives Tonight || mar, ‘With complete line of Fruits }| and Vegetables. We will be open until 9:30 p. m. TIFT’S CASH GROCERY Phone 675 | Port j meeting as only 1117 Division St. }| are listed Chicago Slain ARRIVAL SPRING FOR CALIFORNIA SEASON CHANGES IN SOUTH-| ERN_ SECTION OF STATE! FROM THREE TO SIX WEEKS| EARLIER THAN USUAL BES a, (By Aasociated LOS ANGELES, Spring has come to Southern Cali-| Press) H March 7.— fornia three to six weeks early, depending upon the location. Bees are buzzing and almond and other trees are blooming, but farmers are puzzled. In norma! winters citrus grow- ers have to light their smudge pots 25 to 30 nights to ward off frost, but this year three times was the | i { Spring warmth has stimulated! the growth of this area’s three worst pests, black scale, red scale and red spider. PRISON BREAK IN TEXAS WAS AVOIDED TODAY, CONVICT HELD KNIFE TO! THROAT OF GUARD WHO SHOUTED; RECEIVED AID; PRISONERS WERE SHOT (iy Associ HUNTSVILLE, oa March 7.—Shouts of Guard Howard! Bass as a convict held a knife to} his throat, brought aid and fra] ; the Texas state penitentiary to-| day. | Three of the five prisoners! were shot and wounded by guards. | The other two surrendered. | As Bass shouted, Guy Graya,! D.! guard, fired, wounding Pete Finch’ toward the land have who held the knife. | Others dashed for two ladders against the walls, but two of them were shot down from the ladders. | i RELIEF CLIENTS ARE GIVEN BREAD i THREE THOUSAND LOAVES | PASSED OUT TO NEEDY | MRS. CURTIS AND \MRS. ROOSEVELT ‘CHICAGO FOLK 60 ONES TODAY { Direct relief clients of the Federal Emergency Relief Admin- istration are being given 3,000 loaves of bread today. The bread is from the ovens of the Busy Bee Bakery and was originally intended for the U. S. Antares, which wired in for the bread to be ready by March 4. Later on these orders were changed and the ship ordered to Everglades, Hence the bread was left at the bakery. The product is a special order made according to specifications furnished by the steward of the ship and could not be used for the ‘local trade, Direct relief clients are receiving a treat. ‘COUNTY BOARD MEETS TONIGHT First regular meeting in March of the board of county commis- | sioners fs scheduled for tonight at 8 o'clock in the office of Clerk | Ross C. Sawyer. Nothing of importance is ex- pected to be transacted at the routine matters attention. ‘ The Kep West Citsen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 1934. Famous Sons Of F amous Fathers THE WALLACES: TWO SECRETARIES OF AGRICULTURE COSCOCCCCOCEE OOOO OOOOOOOOOSOOOOOOOOOSS COOOOOOOOOSOOOHOOOOOOOO OOO OOOOOOOOO0® Devotion to the country’s farmers and their interests has been the case of the late Henry C. Wallace (left), secretary of agriculture under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, and Henry A. Wallace, present secretary of agriculture. By CARL C. CRANMER Jerence and story is a habit. An (By Aww ted Prens) | open Bible ocupies a table behind WASHINGTON, March 17.—' his desk. For “background,” Henry A.| One of his enjoyments is to Wallace, secretary of agriculture,| sing old-fashioned songs and has generations of soil-loving an-; hymns with Mrs. Wallace playing | cestors, a grandfather who served the piano. on Theodore Roosevelt’s country; The magazine, Wallac: Farm- life commission, arid a father who | er, edited by three generations of was secretary of agriculture be-| the family, was founded by “Uncle | fore him. | Henry,” who was regarded as a Born on an Iowa farm, later.a; cornbelt sage, in 1895 when the | “dirt farmer” “with 400 aéres to} present Wallace was only “seven” manage, he still clings to the ways! years old. The founder previous- | of the country. | ly had assisted in editing the Towa! At press conferences he has the! Homestead, which was absorbed habit of hooking one arm over the! in 1929, by the Wallace paper. back of his chair and talks as! Nephew Also Farm Editor straightforwardly as a farmer} “Uncle Henry” died in 1916, leaning over a barn-lot gate. j and he was succeeded in the e On the walls of his office are aj torial chair by Henry C. Wallace, | picture of his father, Henry C.j his son. One other farm editor | Wallace, until his death in 1924! has come from the Wallace fam-} the secretary of agriculture in the} ily. He is Daniel Wallage, nep- cabinets;| hew of the present secretary, who} and a large aluminum medal on! edits a farm paper at St. Paul, | which is engraved “Henry Wal- \inn. lace, Plowboy champion.” j When the elder Wallace became | \ hybrid: corn | hogs and chickens earne | dered whether | a | passed on from father to son in | and statis he devis- ed the first corn-hog ratio charts to indicate the probable course of markets, forecast price trends fre >m me experiences following the } studies, erop yields from weather r Fun With Adding Machine “Henry and I took an adding machine out to his house and had ‘grand time,” a statistician from. the department of agriculture re- lated:a few years ago after his return from a visit to Des Moines. His. experiments in developing varie ecount in Paul de Kruif’s “Hun- | ger Fighters,” a popular work on science. An interest in mathematics and | weather forecasting caused him to rig up a telescope and to stndy astronomy as a hobby. He won- there really was anything in horoscopes and studied | led by the admin j those unable to comply. KEY WEST, 8 a. m. PRICE FIVE CENTS MACHINE GUNS ADORN ROOF OF CUBAN PALACE AS RUMORS OF NEW REVOLUTION ARE CIRCULATED THROUGHOUT CAPITAL Tea | Percent Cut In Work Hours | To Be Asked Of Code Authorities (hy Associnted Press) WASHINGTON, NRA code autho March 7.— es will be ask-| ‘ion tonight to cut the code of working hours} 10 percent for all industries that! can stand it, with exemptions for} This was made known here to-| day by General Johnson in ad- dressing the assembly of NRA! leaders at work on. labor prob- lems, George Sloan, head of the cotton textile code authority, had said that unquestionably many in-| dustries could take further hour shortening, but he considered it} would be a grave mistake to make| a flat rule as he understood w advocated by Johnson, because would raise false hopes in breasts of every American working man in every home.” Johnson replied that with him| it was a choice of methods between a general rule and taking up each} ‘Sentence Of 25 Years Given Dr. Wynekoop Tantamount To Death __ Penalty Owing COLORED YOUTH ARRAIGNED ON FOUR CHARGES e ! | Theological Str: j secretary of agriculture in 1921,|them a time. Research in feeding | MORRIS ALLEN WILL ALSO BE e, “seed” | his son, Henry A., took over-the | instinets| editorial direction, been ex-| Brought up in an pressed in farm editing, econom-, of “dirt farming,” farm maga ies and agricultural science, was! editing and agricultural s a Presbyterian minister who; and encouraged throughout | preached on Sundays and on week| his father, young Henry was days taught the slogan “Good| champion plowman at 12, an ex-| farming, clear thinking, right, liv-| perimenter with corn plots at 15 | ing” through the columns of his; 2nd a graduate in agriculture at} farm paper. | Ames, where his father had taught ; The living Wallace still has the! dairying. theolog instinct. Illustrating} Mastering mathematics to pug-} }his point with ready Biblical ref-'!sue his agricultural economies “Uncle Henr Wall: of the generations who: atmosphere | ine | ence by, SON LEAVE CITY VISITS SAN PEDRO (Ry Associated Press) * PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Franklin RETURNING TO SAN FRAN.| CISCO AFTER VISIT HERE } | March WITH RELATIVES } 7.—Mrs. Roosevelt and her party flew today for a py.| te San Pedro who arrived Mrs, Thomas Curtis and son, brief it, returning a few mer Pershing Curtis, in Key West for the holidays from San Francisco, yesterday for Havana. From that port they will sail to- Christmas hours later aboard an Amer- left : . | ican clipper. } seeccee eee patel WHERE TO GO eccccccvcccsensevcccoocs TONIGHT _““Beggars Ermine.” “Let's Fall In Love’ and “Easy to Love.” day making the trip through the Panama Canal and up the east coast to their home city. While in Key West th guests of Mrs. Curtis’ parents and Mrs. Charles G. Jo! Fleming street and wi by a brother, Otis Johnson, from Tampa and a sister, Mrs. H. L. Montgomery, Miami, formerly Miss Geneva J ROSES AND FLORAL PIECES PHONE 597 South Florida Narsery en i oy were TOMORROW Palace—“Beggars Ermine.” rand—“Sons of the Desert” Let's Fall in Love.” FOR “SALE CHEAP FLOUR —Apply Office— Clyde-Mallory S. S. Co. S and “ | duction and raising of farm prices rations for animals caused him to devise the minimum diet upon which a human being could sub- vist, and he tried it out for a few days until his mother dissuaded him. In the department of agricul- ture library is a book written by | the elder Wallace in 1924 just be- fore his death. It expressed many | of the ideas of adjusted crop pro- at his son is attempting to put} into effect today. ON FISHING TRIP . {term of criminal court. janother store on Caroline GIVEN HEARING SATURDAY ON CHARGE OF STEALING PAINT AT NAVAL STATION For the third time in » few days, Morris Allen, colored, was arraign- ed on a charge of committing a felony and for the third bound over to criminal court un der bond to be tried at the next time . Last Saturday he was tried for entering a place of business on Caroline street and bond fixed at $150. Monday he was heard on charges of stealing penknives from street. IMR. AND MRS. L. L. O'BRIEN ARE TOLD OF FINE ANG. | LING BY JACK GOLDEN | | His bond was made $2: Yesterday afternoon the ch was theft of clocks from a b jness place on Fleming street and the bond was placed at $100, mak D. | ing a total of $450 in bonds under L. O’Brien,} om Chicago, Mr. Mrs. prominent folk i tions at the Hotel Colonial. L and ar- this week and made reser- the! i the visitors Jack Golden, of hosteiry, manager was telling had in t and the fine waters a mentioned att for a cruise. Mr. and Mrs. O’Brien t the glowing accc cruising under t weather co jons now prevalent here and how such an outing would be enjoyed t with the sport afforded by fishing for big fellows | When Mr. Gol hearers had be imbued the idea they decided to Captain John Lopez was i, provisions secured and ali other preparations made. terday afternoon the party for a stay of one week with the c ed to his pn concluded, ne j nounced he found probable | pital | which he is being held. These hearings were before Jus-! tice of the Peace Frank 0. Ro-| berts, and in each the justice an-! and would hold the prisoner. This youth, together with Earl} Mumford, another is cused of stealing paint from the naval station and the Marine They will be given pre- liminary hearings before U. Commissioner C. Rodney Gwynn, Saturday, TO PAY DIRECT RELIEF UNITS Paymaster Eugene of the CWA and FERA in his office at the lighthouse de- ot tomorrow afternoon to e funds. The pay hour has been set at 2 o'clock and only thore on direct , te receive moncy. negro, ac- berts . Will be | lower ceilin; | higher court c- death itself can - heavy wir of 600 codes individually, “an impossible method.” | DENIES MAKING CHANGE IN SPECIFICATIONS WASHINGTON, March Harry H. Woodring, assistant sec- ret of war, denied today th: nat! e had changed specifications fox + -500,000 of army airplanes as} cies by Major General Ben-| jamin Foulois, chef of the army} air corps. He was the first witness in the| | open hearing since the house mili-| committee began its house-| ordered. investigation of war de-' partment expenditures since! 192 Woodring was p.aced under oath and reminded of testimony by Foulois bef tions committee. Foulois said specifications for airplanes to be bought with Pub- | lie Works allotment were changed | " the assistant secretary 01, and changes called for} | slower speeds, sho: '>r ranges andj the appropria-| Woodring said he didn’t do it and could..’t account for the gen- eral’s testimony. | | To Her Condition (By Associated Vresay CHICAGO, March 7.—On!y | save Dr Alice Wynekoop fron: the! penitentiary. Convicted last night for the i slaying of her daughter-in-law,| Rheta, in an “operation table’ | murder that horrified the nation,| she was sentenced to 25 years in} | the penitentiary. Arguments for a new trial were set for March 24, but the verdict | was regarded as tantamount to “} jeath sentence since Dr. Wyne-| koop has collapsed time and again during the long second trisd and physicians say she is likely to die! any moment with a heart attack. | IVY KETURNS TO THIS PORT TODAY f VESSEL LEAVE ON ANOTHER TRIP UP EAST COAST T this morning from Mareo, Lighthouse nder Ivy retu Cax- ambas and Cape Ror-ano, where were co preparatory to Channel and Mi perations Flor: Ree on the fa Tender been o Poinciana on the b to port, and ~ need Afte work or a strer. ‘ous perio eoast s were encountered where in the wer the back to Ke West. to arrive Anclote River, started the t The tender expecte ne week, ige MAKES REACY TO)! Seven Persons Arrested During Night On Charge Of Conspiring Against Government (Ry Associated Press) HAVANA, March 7.— |Machine guns were plac- ‘ed hastily atop the palace roof today, and the guard as redoubled as new rumors of a revolt flew. A part of the army and cowmunists, rumors said, Ww jplanned to join followers of former President Grau an Martin in an attack ou the palace. Soldiers and __ police acds were redoubled throughout the city. Automobiles loaded with ‘sailors and soldiers moved through the streets. Auto- ists and pedestrians were searched. ~~ Seven men were arrest- ed during the night charg- ed with conspiring against | the government of Presi- 'dent Carlos Mendieta. The cabinet, which sat up most of Monday night, jalso spent last night in session in which stringent measures to meet growing | unrest were approved. ‘NEGRO STEWARD FOUND INSANE CHARLES RUSSELL EXAMIN- ED BY BOARD IN KEY WEST Charles H steward on der Ivy, hai clared insane by a board consisting of Dr. H. C. Dr. Vilo C. Pintado and J. ela Russell, who was the been Ra: ell was reported to the several days ago and diately into his County commission im appointed to examine ndition and report to ¢ Hugh Gunn, cOmm imei» insane, the from and, sidered finds that suffers grandeur is ions of not violent, is ¢ dangerous. Judge Gunn has communic ¢ declared condition of to wr. R. W. Hart, at the Marine hospital if he could not be cared h itution. In Rote to Dr. Hart judge es the condition at the t “oe the insane at Chatta- while ated chief eon a asked in: th the hospi nvo~hee and the instructions that only those who ~re be admitted, because of crow4ed condition at that insti tution, Af "STRAND THEATER Edmond Lowe-Ann Sothern i LETS FALL IN LOVE Adolphe Menjou and Genevieve i Tobin in EASY TO LOVE | Matinee: Baleony, 10¢; Orches- | tra, 15-200; Night, 15-25< the ove | t