The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 8, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LV. No. 58. Bandits Rob Bank Employes — Of Fifty Thousand Dollars Incident ae Today! COMMISSIONERS aa | DISCUSS LOWER a. FERRY CHARGES Witnessed Hold-Up AFTER GIVING MATTER AIR. ING IT WAS DECIDED TO CONTINUE PRESENT RATES UNTIL END OF SEASON (By Associated Press) GREENVILLE, South Car- olina, March 8.—A messen- ger and guard of the South Carolina National Bank were held up and robbed of $50,- 000 on a downtown business corner here today. The men, Clinton Foster, negro messenger, and Hugh White, bookkeeper, who was acting as guard, were en- route to the bank from the proposition of making changes ment when two persons ini ford. e i for each type of car. The highest One of the bandits, short, ion of the charges on the ferries was important matter dis- ithe meeting of the board y commissioners wi that a number of d offered objections to for: i last; the’ chatges now in effect and the! The Key West Citisen pm KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1934. [eccccccccccccceces Famous Sons Of Famous Fathers THE MORGANS: GENERALISSIMOS OF FINANGE SOOSSSOSSSOSSSHSSSHSSSHSSSSSSSSSSOSSS CHSSHOSOOOOESE By RADER WINGET (By Asseciated Press) NEW YORK, March 10.—The power of the House of Morgan| has passed from father to oon) through five generations. Greatest of the line have been! John Pierpont Morgan senior andj junior, the third and fourth gen- erations. Fire Gives Him Start H Joseph Morgan, great-grand-: father of the present Morgan,} realized the foundation of his for- | tune and that gf his sons when: fire swept New York in 1835. | The insurance company in! which he was_ interested ae ; claims promptly and reaped re-} wards through sale of new busi-! ness based on the confidence of | | policy holders. | ; His son, Junius Spencer Mor- gan, attained his ambition to be-| i come a merchant with his father’s | ‘funds and increased his capital. | | Financiers To Monarchs | But the Morgan name was not! | to blossom gloriously until John | Pierpont Morgan, born in 1837,| lived to turn the world on finger} tips of gold. | With his death in 1913 his son calmly assumed direction of the! SC COSCOOCOOCOSESECESEEEEEOOLOOEOEOOOLCE and namesake, born in 1867, Eleven Thousand Employes Of Effecting Romantic Union With LONDON, March 8.—Romance, | cease his princely rights for | dike ni-€2its stateic titictionsiessan ix ceases eutamsgriteltheygtcliok true today with the wedding at) his dreams, | noon of Sigvard, Prince of Swe-| Instead of carillon bells peal- ‘den, Duke of the Upland, andj ing for their wedding in | crandinniatpabesSiwellichokiapicte | cis. captiatiet the gaweel | beautiful Fraulein Erika Pateck | | * | forefathers, Sigvard and hii S ol he i 22-year-old daughter of a Ber! | Ned ths chattelageueu at indust: j littl ‘k outside, and In taking his commoner ae ee eee thetic smiling faces in a symp at the registry office in the heart} of busy London, the 28-year-old] throng to welcome them on their prince, like Lennart, his cousin, wedding day. ne Telegraph Co. Walk: Prince Waives Royal Rights In | | | ' | Girl Of “Hlis 3 Fondest Dreams” ed In — Alone $5.50 and the lowest charge $3.50.! gigantic banking house, dickered| On vote it was so ordered, but! with kings and presidents, amass-} Ferry Manager Eugene Demeritt, ed millions and gave away mil-' basing his conclusions on the! lions. present volume of business, show-| Quietly and almost secretly} ed figures proving that this re-}each of the sons started in the} charge under his motion would be stocky and wearing‘ dark _ glasses, got out of the bandit ear and with a pistol forced Passengers And Skipper Aboard — Missing Fishing Boat Rescue’ KEY WEST, 8 a. m., Warmest City in United States PRICE FIVE CENTS Cuban Out On Strike are Serves Entire Is- 33,000 Telephones To Be Silenc- land; Causes (By Associated Press) HAVANA, Mar. 8.—Labor struck another blow at Pres- ident Mendieta’s anti-strike decree today, when 11,100 employes of the Am@ican- d Cuban telegraph mpany, which serves the atire island, walked out ithout warning. The strike silenced 33,000 tlephones in Havana and another 6,000 in the interior as well as the $28,000,000 corporation’s six Cuban ra- dio broadcasting stations and wires serving brokers. Apparently unwilling to continue dealing with the | company through the labor ; department which is study- | ing six demands of employes. | the bank employes to hand| ¢d_ id distinct loss business of their fathers t \ | vision would mean a distinct loss . athers to carry| | skipper is Captain Arnim Dunkel/ the workers dropped every- MIAMI, March 8.—Four pa! over the package, they said. j to the county. A number of‘persons wit-' an sora ee . er ing e matter over nessed the holdup which o¢-! with Chairman Norberg ‘Thomp- curred almost in sight of the’ son, the question was reopened G ill fan): but it one Mr. Fulford withdrew his mo- reenville county jail, but i tion, It was decided to let the was quickly over before present schedule of rates remain A in effect until the-end of the sea- ad wii pealized what Win when a new schedule will be ening. uiscussed in every detail. A Present were Chairman Thomp- The bandits escaped, elud- Commissioners Fulford, B. ing an army of officers who| B. Warren and Carl Bervaldi; * Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, Chief Dep- quickly took the: trail. uty Sheriff Clements Jaycocks, ‘4 a Attorney William V. Albury, Fer- PORTER DUE T0 |ry Manager Demeritt, Ferry Aud- RETURN HOME IN itor Roy Faulkner and Will Free- | man, of the First National Bank. | The clerk reported he had re- | ceived a check for race j funds amounting to $3,000. This i will be apportioned equally to three funds. General Revenue, ! Fine and Forfeiture and Road. MAS LONG STAY IN WASHING-! This check makes a total of $6,-/ }700 received so far from the Florida Racing Commission. A bill of Dr. William R. War- ren for $15, medical attention to TON ON BRIDGE MATTER; RETURNING HERE TO RE- CUPERATE FROM ILLNESS) Eddie Pinder, was denied pay-' ment until further informsfion is received. William R, Porter, manager of} Report On Licenses | Report of licenses issued dur- the Monroe County Road and Toll) ;,.°sfarch by County Judge Hugh Bridge Commission, is expected to} Gunn showed that for issues to a Watkincton merchants $24 had been received. 1 iochegsce Saleen | For the state $16 and for the the next few days, j county, $8. To other than mer- For a long period Mr. Porter within track! {on the name of Morgan. \ j Today back of the thoroughly | ; Guarded door at 23 Wall street; it J. P. Morgan’s two sons, Junius! | S., who was made a partner in| 1919, and Henry S., who was made; 4. is sh th a partner in 1028’ They . are| Pierpont Morgen is shown on the “learning: the basinenl* | seen as he appeared before a sen Mustached Morgan the elder} agen ees ape eee aaa loved his’ children. ~~ i “To this day,” writes John K.; Winkler, the biographer, “the {Morgan children look on their | father’s memory with a degree of | reverence approaching — religious} jawe. In turn, Morgan’s vener: jtion of his father was almost Oriental in its intensity. | “Occasionally, generally late at} {night alone upon the ocean, he} ! would speak of his early life, the careful training his father had; Fourth Corps Area, with ! given him at home and in busi < ness and the latter’s pride when’ Warters in Atlanta, Ga. ‘he first found his son standing. jn Key West this morning by | on his own feet.” * ! Parallel Careers The present J. P. Morgan did not come into the public eye un-j | til his father’s death—at which: Captain E. C. Bomar. time he dropped the “junior” | from his name—but since then! there has been a strange parallel] spection of Key West barracks in their careers. | Both men bolstered their coun-| 44 Fort Taylor and other prop- try’s finances—and added to the | Morgan millions—during major | Wars, - | Each faced a‘sériate investigat- | | ing committee calmly, sailed on} | their yachts “Corsair,” collected | , objects of art, contributed liber-| ‘ally to museums, and each was a! army. General Moseley ley, U. S. A., commander of the head- arrived | plane from Miami. He was ac- companied by his aide de camp, The object of the visit is an in- i erties of the war department in Monroe county. General Moseley is one of the most distinguished officers in the been a His career has | cial empire of the Morgans has been harded down. Major General Van Horn Mose-} of nativé guides. Lieutenant Mose From father to son for sever al generations the gigantic finan- | The late John right, His son and namesake ate investigating committee, while ly. Arrives Here For laspection Of Army Post; ley st d throughout Gene Bell’s Batangas campaign where ‘he commanded numerous impor- tant missions. This finally led him to the staff of General J. M. Lee,-with whom he served in var- ious parts of the world for four years, Enters General Staff Upon return from sev service in the Far East, Captain Moseley graduated from the Com- mand and Staff College and the Army War College,, and entered the General Staff in 1911 as a captain. In 1912 he was sent as an observer with the German and French armies, thereafter going to England where he made a study of the English reorganization of their Wer Office. Many of his ideas and recommendations on or- ganization and training are incor- porated in our army today. ral years sengers and the skipper of the! of Miami. fi here hing boat “Sea Spirit” were| The fishing party left | resched off Elliott's Key nearjearly yesterday morning and here today by a crew of the Coast) when they failed to return the Guard Seaplane Sirus after they| coast guard was u‘ified. had-flung to-the side of thei sl-] Members of te. Hehing party most| submerged craft for 13|were suffering irom exposure | { and lack of food and water. They hours. Tike passengers are Earl Hafer,! were brought here in the sea- of Canton, Ohio; Paul Oschwald, | plane. Edward] | Rumson, New Jersey; The boat struck the reef yester- Clark, Red Bank New Jersey, and day at noon and stove a large The, hole in the hull. .H. T. Ormandy, Toronto. New And Broadened Work Relief Ls Program To Start Within Week STILL SEEN IN The Civil Works program in Flor- | ida today was ordered dissolved; VARIOUS PARTS: skeleton forces to tie AT | loose ends. | WORKERS IN PLANT CLEVELAND, OHIO, In its stead the federal admin- PRO. effective immediately except far | together | thing at 11 a. m. and without notifying officials, walked out, The strike gave a’ power- ful impetus to labor disor- ders-reported in the interior;"~ it was feared. | TROUBLE IN INTERIOR HAVANA, March 8.—Re- ports of violent labor disor- | ders in the interior, including | | Camaguey, reached Havana | today. Dispatches telling of out- after | j } shootings at Santa Clara and breaks were received President Carlos Mendieta ;and his cabinet had contin- , ued in session until the hours of the morning trying problems the striking situation here and elsewhere in the island. Several ly to solve in persons were wounded, two of them grave- ily, and four arrested after a disturbance before the pro- | chants the total was $31.50. For in Washington — tendi to; was i eubington tending to) 920.50, | diocesan lay delegate to several | When trouble with Mex vincial palace at Santa Clara. the state, $21, and the county, matters in connection with the) Sheriff K. O. Thompson report. loan for the 0 Bridges. ed the accepted resignation of C oo ¢ Oc Garrett, Harry L. Pinder and He was in Key West for the) Frank L. Curry, deputy sheriffs. Christmas holidays and returned! He also reported deposits of funds | in the First National Bank to the capital in the early part Mee cciting to $358.26. 0 $358.26. January where ‘he has remained)“ T,x redemptions for the months sinee, of January and February, re- Tm The Citizen of March 1 ap-| spectively, as reported by the peared a telegram from Paul May,{ clerk, were $731.80 and $1,224. Washington correspondent of this! Tax Collector Frank Ladd’s report showed the sum of $844.80 Paper, to the effect that Mr. Por| 1"the Board of Administration ter had been suffering from a 8e-! at Tallahassee. vere cold and intended to come} A communication from the Siliak: be Sevubernte. board of public welfare, relative 3 wes also shown that he had! to pensions for widowed mothers sieidhed Wail Qeclie’a: anders: tert} With dependents was read and ‘ | filed for future consideration. his bed to attend to certain mat-; The report of Clerk of Crim- ers and suffered a relapse. This; inal Court C. Sam B. Curry for made it imperative that he should: the special session of court, which leave Washington for a period ang) ¥®* & continuation of the Jan- remain for a while in a warmer| “8*Y term, was read and approv- climate, fed Before deciding to leave, Porter prevailed upon Judge H. H. Taylor to leave Miami for Wash- ington to take care of the bridge/ situation and Judge Taylor arriv-/ ed in the capital last Sunday, | WHERE TO GO Palace—“Beggars Ermine.” Strand—“Sons of the Desert” CHOCOLATE and “Let’s Fall in Love.” NUT SUNDAE BARS Just Received TOMORROW Palace—“Beggars Ermine.” Strand—“By Candlelight” and “Sons of the Desert.” most colorful one. This is shown triennial conventions of the Pro- testant Episcopal church. A Point Of Difference In their public attitude through ; the daily press, however, the men | differ. | | Senior hated newspapermen thoroughly, but junior has been} Horn Mo: { more inclined to talk for publica-; command o j tion and to pose patiently for Area, with headquarters at Fort | news photographers, apa . But of the two sons in the bus-| McPhe Atlanta, Georgia. He iness today the public seldom| co Atlanta from Fort Hayes, i hears. Ohio, where { John Pierpont Morgan, like his; panded the Fifth | father, is monarch of Wall 5, cuuk inet be street: i rior to April, 1933, . “Mister Morgan's sons,” said a tioned in Washington, D. ¢ |secretary casually, work | he | here.” | by the following review of the | outstanding events of his life. j Review of Career General George Van Major recently assumed Fourth y Corps to Columbus, he Corps 23 : “also FIRETODAYON =: Apparatus from Station 1, Key | + West fire department, was called to a fire on the vacant lot on | White street, opposite Newton street. —long pu It was found that the entire | trackless jungle, ! lot was blazing and the flames in: trails so narrow and low t | dangerous proximity to the garage | hours at a time soldiers were } of the apartment house owned by ed to go | Bob Smith. « |most double to avoid the After a short time the fire growth of vegetation overhead was extinguished with no damage | ways there wax the danger of am- ' to surrounding property. ppine Islands ice there. the fi ibush and of treachery on the part — threatened in 1916, ley was selecte of Staff of vision, Natio’ u commissioned a colonel, Pennsyl- vania National Guard. He is still remembered with admiration and fection by ational Guard pciates of Mexican Border al Guard, The World W most diffie: the ment of Gen- Modern re requires that an amazing nt of supplies and munitions in a steady and never ending ‘stream to the fighting troops. In the latter part of 1917 it became success of the itionary Force de on the brought *| General St ander ¢ Of Date Of Delinquency Of State ived him ¢ operations along f General Mose- (Continued on Page Three) CEED WITH STRIKE DE- istration prepared to launch a new and was SPITE INTERVENTION and broadened work r pro- gram starting within a w Worthy Civil Works projects will be carried to completion un- (By Am Voting on proposed strikes in der the new program and others which conform to a long plan for rehabilitation will be ap- proved, Julius Stone, Jr., acting federal administrator, told advisory committee, s now employed will be d for work in the new on a basis of their need as certified by trained social serv ce workers. Stone will direct the program until his successor is named, Civili Works and mergency Relief Advisory Committee dix- tved itself at a meeting with » today, and immediately was created an advisory council the new program with C. B. San Francisco and Cleveland were i term highlights of widespread labor un- rest. Despite government interven- tion, officials of a — senting 4,500 work in the Fish- er Body Company's plant at Cleve- \d, decided to proceed with a strike vote. In San Francisco, members of m repre- the International Longshoremen's Association were asked to vote on a proposed strike which would be effective March 23. The association has 12,000 to 15,000 members. Labor disputes also flared at other points. ng committee, named of the new organization. ne made it clear the new act in an advisory NOTICE ommittee wil capacity only. And County Taxes | STRAND THEATER Laure! and Uardy in | SONS OF THE DESERT | Edmund Lowe-Ann Sothern in | LET'S FALL IN LOVE | Matinee: Balcony, 10¢; Orches- tra, 15-20; N..: Notice is hereby given that 1933 State and County Taxes become delinquent on April 1. 1934 FRANK H. LADD. Tax Collector. ' ‘ mar&-3t i ‘ the | | | Soldiers operating trains and street cars at Camaguey | reported one shooting. | A few shots were heard in Havana after midnight. ‘GIVES PRODUCTS TO RELIEF UNIT | | | ML Vitlate | Simonton street, today gave for he produce stribution to direct relief clients | the FERA, a large number of | cabbages and tarnips Orders for a quantity of vege tables had been placed with the | Villate company for delivery upon larrival of the U. S. Antares at After the company’s trucks brought the commodities to ty, telegraphic advices cancelie! the orders and there was nothing else to be done except give the vegetables where they were most needed, his was the same asttitade as of the Busy Bee Bake h gave 3,000 loaves of bread | which had been prepared for the ip, to the relief clients yexter-