The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 15, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LV. No. 64. Skipper Of Burned United States Gunboat Fulton For British Tars Making Rescue Only Eight Members From Ship’s Crew Were In- jured; 187 Saved From Fiery Death (By Associated Press) ‘HONGKONG, March 15,| —A gallant tribute to British} tars, who saved 187 Ameri- can sailors from a fiery death on the flaming Gun- boat Fulton, came today from the Fulton’s_ skipper, Commander Harry Mc- Henry. While the Fulton still burned on} Hong-| pirate waters, north of kong, Commander McHenry and his men, safe in the harbor here, reeounted their harrowing exper-: iences following the burning of the engine room bearing and sub- sequent fire which immediately spread to fuel oil tanks and got completely out of control in a few minutes. The men were brought in early today on the British Wishart, which saved them the Commercial Steamer Tsinan, The fire aboard the Fulton in! the meanwhile, was expected to roar for hours as tugs began tow- ing the ship into port. ) i Right of the American crew were injured, none seriously. McHenry said the British dis- play of seamanship “will go down in naval annals.” FIVE BUILDING . PERMITS ISSUED | SLIGHT INCREASE OVER AC- TIVITIES OF PAST WEEK There was a slight ircrease in requests for building permits this! week ever those of last. Five were issued this week from the office} of Harry M. Baker, building in-} spector, Construct composition roof at} 1228 Duval street. Owner, F. Gispert Estate, owned in Havana; cost, $100. Build garage and make repairs at 421 United street. Owner, E, Gispert Estate; cost, $85. Apply composition roof on building at 2330 Staple avenue.! ©, 8. Lowe; cost, $200. | Repairs to floors at 601 Caro-} line street. Owner, R. H. Kemp;} cost, $25. H New galvanized roof at Duval | ‘| ‘and Angela streets. Owner, B, C. Moreno; cost, $50. State Board Of Education H Has New Plan For (By Asse TALLAHASSEE, March 15. imple procedure of chang- the By a one of its rules, ate board of education will supply its) part of the newly announced fed- eral state program for operation of schools in counties where local funds are exhausted, . The rule which probably will be changed at the next meeting ALL SCOTTISH RITE MASONS are urged to be present at the Scottish Rite Hall, Friday, March 16, 7 p. m. for supper and to meet SOV. GR. H, COWLES, GOV. DAVID SHOLTZ, JAMES DONN, Deputy The Supreme Council. of CMNDR. JOHN of This invitation includes every Scottish Rite Mason in Key Destroyer | and! Faas ++ ~The twembers extended coygrat-! ; by Sebastian Cabrera, Jr. | the state Has High Praise ‘GENERAL FARRELL HEARD TODAY AT ROTARY MEETING) i GIVES SCOUT MOVEMENT; GRAM CARRIED OUT ING SESSION ADDRESS ON BOY; PRO-| DUR i} Genera] P. J. H. Farrell, who is} a Visitor to Key West, was thej principal speaker at the Rotary| luncheon today, talking on the! subject of “Boy Scouts.” / The general gave an talk on the organization, he him-| excellent self having been one of the orga who has worked diligently in bringing the units up to their j present standards, He showed how rapidly the or- | ganization had expanded, telling! of the great interest manifested! by the people of the country, who | are ever ready to assist in any way} possible for its advancement. The speaker demonstrated the; many excellent traits making the! cout bodies, with the membership | continuing to grow daily. The matter of members attend-} ing the district conference to be} held this year at Eustis was di cus ed at the meeting, with hop ding as large a! F delegation as possible. i A community service program! was carried out at the session to- day, Ben Trevor, chairman, hav-} ing charge of this part of the; | proceedings. | izers, ulations to T. H. Pittman and! Chas. E. Smith on the new ad-! ditions to their families, a new) arrival being announced recent- ly at each of the homes of these active Rotarians. The meeting was presided over| WHERE TO GO ° TONIGHT Plaace—“The Morning After. Strand—“Massacre” and “Slip- pers East.” “ TOMORROW Palace—“The Morning After.” Strand—“Man’s Castle” and CHARGES CRUETLY WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. David Gedney w iz pounds, of this city, did not dan with his wife, who weighs pounds, she went to the courts! for a divorce, charging cruel and inhuman treatment. Ww hen} 125 <0 } which Operation Schools. ed Presn) the state board, governs use H state school funds by counties. At present 87 and a half percent of apportionment must go » and 12 and a_ half to transportation and of to teache percent | other operating expenses. By changing the rule, the state} board may allow counties which have exhausted all their local} funds to devote all or increased part of state funds te payment of transportation and other ex- penses, provided teachers’ salaries are guaranteed from some source, Federal Emerge! ministration at Jacksonv other ney Relief Ad- le last! night approved a plan to furnish | | teachers’ salaries where funds for} this purpese are not otherwise provided if the state pays trans- portation and other costs neces-| sary to maintaining schoo! The state accepted this n.d and today details were being} worked out at FERA headquarters! by Walter Wilbur, who will direct} the program for meeting each} | county’s individual needs along | j this line. {Monroe county ferry will i day jof the | the ‘reach Miami at an early hour to, ‘attend an important meeting. ' | appointment of J. R. Combs {deputy sheriff at Tavernier. | required bond, which.agcompanied| Thy-hand hath. made. our- natiod | j Sohnp Arthur Alexander, the notification, FERRY WILL SAIL| EARLY HOUR WITH GOVERNOR ABOARD P COMMISSIONERS GRANT RE- QUEST OF CHIEF EXECU- TIVE; OTHER MATTERS HEARD AT MEETING i To enable Governor Dave Sholtz to reach Miami at an earlier hour j than gular schedule tire, the: leave the No Name Key landing at 5:30; o’clock Saturday morning instead re of 8 o'clock. nor Sholtz will arrive Fri- afternoon in company with John H. Cowyes, Sovereign Grand} {Commander Supreme Council A.} R. Masonry, Southern, Jur n, and James Donn,! Deputy Supreme Council South-/ ern Florida, It was explained by Chairman Norberg Thompson at the meeting | county ¢ sioners last! night that the governor had made, the request for early sailing of ferry in order that he may! It was unanimously agreed by; ithe commissioners that the sailing hour would be set for 6:30 o’clock,} and Ferry Manager Eugene De-; meritt was instructed to issue the} ; Was 48 y the ssioners B, B, Be chairman, | Warren, Roy | Fulford, and Cai aldi. Clerk Ross C. Sawy y Manager| Demeritt and Custodian Thomas | Whitmarsh, On motion carried, it was cided to allot $500 of the }racetrack money received Tallahassee to the fine and |feiture fund and the balance the general revenue fund. A communication from Sheriff K. 0, Thompson announced the| as} The! Comm de-! nex from| for- to! was approved. Depository accounts for the ;month of February were checked and approved, | The Citizen was designated as; the paper to print the laws passed legislature. This action is made} according to a bill passed requir- ing the distribution of the acts, MAKE SURVEY OF STEAMSHIP — FRIEDA HERE | FINDINGS TO DETERMINE } j WHETHER LUMBER WILL} UNLOADED TO MAKE VES.| SEL MORE SEAWORTHY = | "At 4:20 o'clock this after- noon the survey w: pleted and it was decided that by taking on oil and water the ship could be stabilized and proceed on her voyage. Hence there will be no need for the force of stevedores. A survey is this afternoon being! held of the Steamship Frieda! arrived yesterday and! berthed at the Porter Dock com-} pany’s wharf with a 15 degree list] to starboard, caused by a leak. | What the outcome of the sur- vey will mean will not be disclos-! ed until late this afternoon when the result will be disclosed by George E. Bernard, representing the United States Salvage Cor-} poration, who arrived over the | East Coast today. In the event that unload the cargo is deemed there is a large liste ing of} necessary, number of men with checkers and experi- enced stevedores, who will rapid- ly remove the cargo. The sh bound Angeles, with and spruce tim In the deck -000 feet. non the ship was al s! en kee with the {starboard compartments being re- load there are This afte the port com- "Monroe County | Ferry Will Leave NO NAME KEY Saturday Morning at 6:30 NORBERG THOMPSON. Chairma | Holmes, ! famil ; to early distinction. | medicine, | To die for her is ; solemn court argument, The Kep West Citizen KEY WEST. FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1934. F amous Sons Of Famous F athers THE HOLMESES: POE T AND JURIS T e By MELVIN E. COLEMAN (By Associated Prexs) NEW YORK, March 1 punctilious Oliver Wendell the “great liberal” of! the supreme court of the United} ! el ind. | ly, | States, owes his humanitarianisn to his poet father, his legal acu-j men to his mother, the daughter of a chief justice of Massachu-| setts, i It was, in fact, from the post of | his maternal ' grandfather that} the retired Nestor of the high! court went to Washington. { Through his father’s family he! is related to the Wendells and! Quincys, names which reflect lead-} ership in New England and the nation from the beginnings of the republic. So, too, his mother’s the Jacksons, trace baek In far-off,| there was in Thomas Holmes, a law-} pre-colonial days London yer. Alike In Personality The two distinguished sakes of this and a preceding gen- eration were alike more in per- sonality than in achievement. The poet and writer of Lincoln’s time physician by profession and a literary light, at first, only by) avocation. It was not until he} s old that Holmes the} elder definitely “arrived” in the! field which made him famous. The son, except for the civil, war service which interrupted his! studies, always has been a law- | yer. Both were, however, lec turers at Harvard, the father in| the son in law. Each was’a patriot, the father in song and inspiration, the son in! deed. The poet wrote in his} “Army Hymn”: “Wake in our fires, The holy faith that warmed our | sires; name-} | } | breast the ivan free; serving Thee.”! The son, answering Lincoln's | first call for volunteers, was! wounded thrice—at Ball's Bluff,! Antietam and on Mary Height, | jat the 1933 session of the Florida! at Fredericksburg, famous battle-! grounds, A Meeting In Wartime The “like father, like son” as-' pect of the pair was _ illustrated | after Antietam when Dr, Holmes tried to reach the bedside of his wounded son. Field hospitals, base hospitals, camps, we searched vainly for long wee! Then one day the elder Holmes The name “Oliver Wendell H olmes” mep: the poet and essayist and his son, the jurist. The former su-! preme court justice is shown here bust of his father at the Hall of Fame, New York university. Four Men Held In Monroe County | Jail On Charge William Taleaferro, Keak ky 3} | wstine, Fla.; John Wesley Burns,| Ohio; (Crip), of Key West, are in the: Lima Herman Roberts} county jail pending hearing on | charges of being implicated in a robbery in Key West Tuesday. | John M. Veitengruber, a vi tor from Collingswood, N. stated he had been robbed going up the gang plank of teamship Florida. He was jostl- ed by a man behind and one who was coming down the gang plank was walking through a troop train | and a bedraggled — soldier quietly: “How do you do, dad? “How do you do, son?” equally quiet reply, Holmes the eld and bombast. So does his said, | was the | disliked noise jurist ison, And when you stick on conver- sation’s burrs Don’t strew your pathways with those dreadful urs,” | wrote the rather. And the son, in the midst of a asked a! ponderous-minded attorney nee weighty questions in the lawy own language, cogitated the swers a moment, and then vulsed the staid court with: “That's going some!” ‘Gems Of Exquisite Diction’ Justice Holmes’ decisions have been described as “gems of ex-| quisite diction”; so, too, have his father’s essa Simplicity of ex- pression, conciseness ma state- ment and a humorous twist when! wit would illumine the point char. acterize H The son, through all his court work, championed human rights when they came in conflict with vested interests. The father eulo- rized: “The freeman, casting with un- hased hand ste that shakes the turrets of the land.” ; ‘MAKE CAPTURE | highway three suspicious looking men in a! ; and their actions An investigation a but no results were obtained on Tuesday. Yesterday Deputy Sher- iff Enrique Mayg left over the for Miami. He saw car which was driven by Robe Effect Arrest The conversation of the in conneetion with a description of one of the men suspected of b plicated in the robbery, Deputy Mayg he trail and he them under arrest. group ving been im- convinced Was on hot ‘SLOT MACHINE BILL UP AGAIN. (Special to Te JACKSONVILLE Regu again wil Citizen) machines attention of their z each. is OF R. DARROW . who was in ch. Rudolph Darrow, West is uncle, last year, captured in Miami A telegram advising the iff's office of his capture was re- ceived this afternoon. He brought back to Key We: on has been St.-Aug-) added to the deputy’s determina- Lowe, | Lowe, in whose charge | oners were placed was made famous by two| along with a photograph of the s Citing Robbery| There were other circumstances} in connection with the case which tion to apprehend the travelers and send them back to Key West. | He advised the group he was deputy and despite their prote: tions arrested them while on the| ' ferry boat. Arriving at the Mateeumbe ferry slip he was met by Clande} son of Peace Justice E. R.| the | instru with i to .No tions to take them back Name Key, Brought On Ferry This’ was done and on the ar-! rival of the ferry there Chief! Deputy Clements Jaycocks and! Pez ustice Rogelio Gomez took | charge of the prisoners. | Mr. Lowe drove the car with the a oners to Key West with Mr. Jay- | cocks and Mr. Gomez in another | car acting as rear rd. Taleaferro, le ider Burns are charged with princip in the theft erts is charged with be and being} Rob- | an ae-| and cessory. T inary | given prelim-; the vic » men will be hearing as tim of the allege from Havana to which ¢ tin Tuesday ident. returns he report con after ing the FEAR MANY DEAD — FROM CHCLONES Austra- lia, March 15.—Seventy- five persons were either drowned or missi ng to- the result of the Queensland, bet day as cy clones north coast centering weer ns and Cooktown Mrs. Ht ty kill arette and rebak z Kacmarich drink: 40c CABARET 40c Each Friday Evening ATHLETIC CLUB Music By Howard Wilson Ladies Free | Monroe County } Bridge Distric the feels greatly improved i he has returned to | had been ex | highway. | sician’s orders . F | er climate until the effects of hiv | Center, Long Island, to iden- | further developmenc-. ‘FLORIDA BRINGS KEY WEST 8 a. m. . 67 Warmest City in United States PRICE FIVE CENTS Kidnapers Of Max Kasoff, Auto Rental Agent, Carry Out Death Threat; Body Of Victim Found PORTER GREATLY IMPROVED FROM RECENT ILLNESS STATE BRIDGE MATTER HAS{ NEITHER BEEN APPROVED! NEW YORK. March 15. NOR TURNED DUWN; WAIT.| , The kidnapers of Max Kas- ING FOR DEVELOPMENTS | off called members of his | family last week demanding | Cnly Five Thousand Dollar Ransom Demanded Of Family; Shot Twice In Head; Other Wounds i t Wn. R. Porter, chairmar of the| $5,000 ransom, Road and Tollj told The Citizen} since { or we'll send him home in pieces, an ear first.” the warmth and sunshine of his home city. { Altogether For several weeks Mr. Porter | four phone calls. ill in Washi he had been there were The last one Sunday night said “so ington, D. € | for months in the interests of the YOu notified the police, eh? application for bridges over 1. |OK. We fix.” Today members of the went to Rockefeller He at last became so ill that * was imperative he follow his phy d seek a warn. family illness passed. i tify Kasoff’s bedy. Asked about the bridges, Mr. | Porter said the pplication has} He had been blindfolded, neither been approved nor turn- the head, and ed down” and they ave waiting for | through the neck and there was a | deep eut on the head where he At is understood the matter | had been struck apparently with will be eventually taken to the! 4. length of a ‘less president with a complete history; of conditions extar. in this city ‘The body was found early yes- and the needs for a projcet like | terday in front of a billboard a the bridges to bring about a jOcern Side. It was frozen and change for the stter_ in Key! partly covered with snow. His ‘Weet. Gee was in clothing labels, | The medical examiner fixed the. ee of death carly Monday Fs j Morning, shortly after. the last” 2 one call announcing ~ “We shot twice in once “INSULL LEAVES OUT OF ATHENS Kasoff, 37, well known WIFE CLAIMS HIS oo rental agent, disappeared ABOUTS WAS UN. t Thursday night. At first the family did not take KNOWN TODAY the demand for ransom ly, because Kasoff was such practical joker. Even a kidnap hoax was not too much to expect. Anything for a laugh. Receipt of the lette- also de !asnding $5,000, however, caused {them to repert him missing, al | though police were not told of the hidnap threat |HIGHWAY FERRY Police detained two maids and; ARRIVES HERE one man servant for examination.! auto- seriou (My Associated Press) ATHENS, March 15.—Mrs. Samuel Insull, Sr., said today her husband, former Chicago ul ies operator, had fled from Athens but she did not know where he | had gone. hy the FLORIDA KEYS TAKES EQUIPMENT AT PORTER DOCKS Previously in the day ON Greek government had declared’ Insull had to leave Greece before midnight. Ferry Florida K ree county . of the Mon ystem, arrived yester- Porter dock for a life | the submarine base where berthed while undergoing r 1.aliens,; The trip was made to r of the P.! all property from the dock wt returned! will be used to hold the lum from Ha-| which wil , | Steamship Frieda. ier Body Warns Of Impending Strike In Automobile Industry 4 Press) the corporation was addressed to the NRA labor beard seeking to conciliate employers day at the With Stear 8 68 pasesnger the Florida and O. hiy S. company be removed from yerter afternoon uy? <i WASHINGTON, March 15.—} The American Federation of automobile and bor warned today that 2 mome.-; ployes, tous strike impends in the auto- Strict NRA branche observance of both legislative Aware of widespread non-co mobile industry, and the G: al upied Motors Corporation gave sims! pliance protests, President Ko: taneous notice it would never vii ruinforced regulati s guvernment contractu of L. Usion as: squire expect codes STRAND THEATER _ Richard Barthelmess MASSACRE Wynne Gibson-Prestor in SLEEPERS EAST Mstince: Balcony, 10¢; Orches- tra, 18-200; Night, 15-25 recognize A. F such. Vv ews given we themse' n