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eine; Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LV. No. 72. Woman And Two Children For Whom Search Was Made, Found Firs Thought ‘They Had MARINES GOING Met With Mishap; Posse} 70 GUANTANAMO | Spent Night Hunting Inj NEXT | FEW DAY Mountains THOSE CAMPED AT POR’ EVERGLADES WILL EVEN- TUALLY BE SENT TO PAN. AMA TO JOIN FLEET (By Associated Press) MORGANTOWN, W. Va., March 24.—Safe and well was the word; brought today of the mother and } | her two children for whom i marines, will all Those United States camped at Port Everglades, leave in a few days tor Guantan- amo, Cuba, it was learned today. At Guantanamo they will go in-! Ito camp and early next month go ito Panama to join the fleet, which lis arriving from the Pacific coast, might after} for assignment to different ships. The marines were assigned to duty in these waters during the a friend near Terra Alta, and had! time conditions in Cuba were un- < | certain and it could not be deter- mot been subjected to th 01 eee Pe tee nie **| mined what would be the result of of the frigid mountain nights. the sporadic outbreaks in differ- Authorities holding the progress ent parts of the island. { Now that peace and woman and children for West Vir-| has been restored to Cuba and her Giaik olilaies. Ipeople, the necessity of keeping the marines in close proximity to | the island has passed, it is said, jand they will be returned to their FOR 3 MISSING | regular peace time duties, MORGANTOWN, West Vir-! gin mart 244 mines» wes MANY CONSULTING small children who set out to find | OFFICIALS ABOUT TAX CERTIFICATES her, are believed to have perished | i in snow-covered Cheat mountains. ! Posses with torches sought them all last night in the hill country, near here without success. COUNTY CLERK SA|;WYER Is. KEPT QUITE BUSY ANSWER. ING INQUIRIES RELATIVE TO-PROCEEDINGS anxious ppsse spent night | Mrs. Pearl McNear, who left her | lonely mountains. mountain home Tuesday, is Oskland, Md., with her two young They arrived last spending three days at the home of | SEARCH STARTED Authorities said Mrs. Pearl MeNear left home Tuesday, ieav- ing this note: “I’m going to kill myself, and old Cheat river will find my body. If it’s found don’t; kk at me, because you. hated me ie ae aren. cd Her crippled daughter, Lucille,! | Many persons are daily going 9, read the note, and wrote one! to the office of Ross C. Sawyer,’ of her own, then took six-year-old county clerk, taking up the mat-' Betty by the hand and left the ter of tax redemption house, | Mr. Sawyer told The find mother, 7 is being kept continually busy “we won't be checking up on property and re-, ceiving payment from owners who are anxious to liquidate their ob- | ligations, Last Sunday the clerk was in the court house the entire day and each night during the past week ae found it necessary to remain Vin his office until a late hour. He expects to be kept busy all day tomorrow calculating accounts and making out receipts, Both Clerk Sawyer and Tax Col- INTERESTING MEETING OF Htector F. H. Ladd are of the opin- ORGANIZATION LAST EVE- jon the instructions issued by the NING; CAPTAIN SANDS £0Vernor relative to tax books be- ing closed by April 1, delinquent BACK IN OLD PLACE list published in May and the sale j | of property the June Rule Day will Reorganization Of the Golden bring increased activity, as there Eagle Drum and Bugle Corps took | is but one week until the books are place last night at the lodge hall; te be closed. on Petronia street with Charles| ‘A summary of Governor Sholtz’ Sands, former captain, in his old, structions was published in The péaidion. Citizen yesterday, and many quer- A very interesting and enthu.| ies have been put to these officials siastic meeting marked the open-! in the: short time since publica- | | j } “If we don’t os note read, REORGANIZATION — OF EAGLES DRUM ;said the ; mergue’s demand for j to fight, The Kep West Citwen KEY WEST. FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1 934. 'Doumergue Curbs Treasury Grabs; Tells France To Amend Constitution (By JOHN EVANS) t ‘By Annociated Press) PARIS, March 24,—France is| | about ready to change her consti-} tution to protect her pocketbook | _from parliament, : Premier Doumergue crystallized ; j thought on the subject when he! chamber of deputies! should be prohibited from initiat- ing, or increasing, proposed ex-| penditures, i Hundreds of deputies, privately, | jen approved the idea but few,; ' publicly, liked to lead the way.! Now there is free discussion of it. ; First Steps Taken Furthermore, by heeding Dou-! budget ac-} tion with less debate and by giv-| ing the determined veteran powers’ to effect government. economies | and manipulate tariffs, the cham-} ber is considered by many of i members to have taken the f steps toward a practicai realiz: tion of the reform. Parliament would retain the| right to approve and to diminish! appropriations proposed by the! government but the plan would! be to save it from If by can-| i i \ | ‘celling the chamber’s prerogative | to spend the people’s money on| its own initiative. | At the same time, many depu- | ties contend, there should be dras- | tic reform of parliamentary rules | to eliminate red tape, limit debate ; and prevent what Americans know | as “pork barrel” tactics. Budgets Go Into Red i Never does a government put! through a budget without having! __ usually —unsucces: ‘to prevent special appropr for favored districts. After budget is adopted there are al ways special measures with provision for raising money to pay | the bill. Budgets, therefore, balanced at the time of passage, soon were in| the red, especially in these times; { of depression. when income. is! ; overestimated by short-lived cab-! ‘inets whose members know they} won’t be in power when eee ing comes. Doumergue took the British | .' parliament as his example in pro-! posing the chamber spend money except cabinet’s proposal. Would Limit New Jobs That method, it is argued by proponents, would make easy. | many economies and would pre- | vent enormous expenditures such as the present. French social in-! ¥ surance plan. It would prevent, ¢ should upon not! the! jalso, many schemes for the gov-. ! ernment to take over industr' . for the sake of party programs or} to create new jo jt Already the government has on} t its payroll 850,000 persons who. ! draw about one-half of the gov-| ! ernment's revenue. These include the civil functionaries and the ¢ army and navy. Andre Tardieu, former premier, | for months has urged also a dras-!¥ tic reform of the constitution to! !X days, give cabinets longer life. would ally dissolved by a vote throwing a government. He believes deputies and sena-! i tors would think twice He} ¢ over-| ": DEMERITT GETS Key West tox Relief, serving ‘under the new set up are; have parliament automat.|Werkman before $8 Decries Parliamentary feanibie 0000000 OOOO OOOO OOOOOOOOTECOOODOOEOOOOODOOOOODS Gaston Doumergue, veteran pilot of the French ship of state, | has been given dictatorial power over governmental expenses and now suggests that the chamber of deputies, shown in a crowded budget session, should be deprived of its constitutional right to in- itiate public spending. MANY SPECIMENS | NO REPLY ABOUT | TAKEN HERE FOR RELIEF POSITION, SHEDD AQUARIUM LOCAL, ADMIN.LS TRAT ons MAYER AND COMPANIONS TO LEAVE MONDAY ON, TANK CAR WITH FAIRLY} AWAITING WORD HEADQUARTERS QUEST TO BE RELIEVED FROM: ON RE.! | | LARGE COLLECTION Mayer, of the Shedd Chicago, and his | companions, will leave Monday afternoon over the East Coast on the Tank Car Nautilus with a fairly large collections of tropical fish. The car with Dr. Stitles, Pat Lally, and L, H. Ayers arrived Marchi 13, and since then the tanks have been daily receiving a supply of! beautiful specimens. Shortly after the the weather became large number of se taken. These are come addition to Dr. ‘aquarium in 1 a Asked this morning if he had! a eceived any reply to his reque: o be relieved as administrator in Federal Emergency W. W. Demeritt replied he! nad not. Mr. Demeritt’s objections to . Mayer, principally against that part of 0. G. he provisions which place certain versons on direct relief who are tble and willing to work. Instructions are that a rant’s budge regis- y needs will de- ermine whether he is to be em- ved. If these needs e less or a month than he can earn in six days, he is to be placed on lirect relief. For example: One man, among others, cited his budget at $7.50 weekly. His earning capacity in eight hours daily at 80 hour~—he skilled is $38.40. 0 days his bud- requires $30 but his earnings n six days will be approximately than his budget, hence arriv bs 1 and meen ver ar » alwa the gamer ed with his success. Dr er told The Citizen that he had not secured as many fish as he would have liked, but the weather has not been of just | the right kind for getting the | r and more beavtiful ounding in these waters. However, he has purchased ber of various kinds of including ents the I a month of large angel more n fis tanks, and the doctor was delight-| fish ing of a new chapter in the his-| 0”. tory of the corps with many of} the members making talks for| the good of the band and an in- structive talk from Captain | Sands, | Captain Sands stated that with; the cooperation of all membe present, the corps would be able | te establish itself as one of the best organizations of its kind in the state. j Appointments made are as fol-' lows: Tom Eden, Drum Ma. Jack Williams, bugle instructor; Delio Cruz, assistant bugle in-| structor; Gould Carry, drum = in-| structor; Joseph (Boty) Richard-) som, assistant drum instructor. Other members of the corps are: George Albury, Hector Bar-' } Florida, of the P. {Cuba FLORIDA TAKES 69 PASSENGERS first-class passengers the Steamship dO. SS. Havana yes- 12:30 o'clock. The ship also carried fwo tons of freight, three automobiles and 212 sacks of mail. Ferry Parrott, of the F. Car Ferry company, arrived from o'clock yesterday aft- ernoon with 25 empty cars, 191 sacks of mail and one car of pine- With and 17 ond, company, sailed fo: terday at placed on direct relief ek. Able bodied s Mr, receive a dole. objectionable feature, Demeritt, is that there no provision made to There are women who did ex- old are anxious and capable, in the office| he shall be at abo at $10 a we and w MRS. ELIZA CAREY“: DIES LAST NIG Mr has been put a nu Mrs. Eliza Carey, 83 years old,’ \),,, died 11:40 o'clock last night aft-!\4,,, er a long illness, in the family avn home at 544 Windsor Lane. re Funeral services will be held lieves that as the 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon jiinistrator from the Congregational chureb, ani his « where the body will be placed at 2 o'clock. Rev. E. R, Evans will officiate. Members of the Improved Or- j, voting themselves out of by ousiine a cabinet. Demer- men, women to work. ber of work under the not provided for instructions. lastly, Mr. Demeritt be- position of ad- tries remtuneration have been given that some f the office, .) years, not of queen angels, of that family ful waters. or deep the eels, and one has been Dr. moray the most beauti- found in these kefish inhabitants of the tanks hold three which are taken hough he cannot c very rare which, ugh the catch is not as large as usually as great to Key trips his companions expre i with results obtained; advantage of every under the adverse wind as satisfi expecially made and the var as on some former) West, the doctor and ss themselves number | snake | for; rosa, George Carey, Otis Cash,’ Floyd Dillion, Fred Knight, John MeMahon, Willard Saunders, John Sawyer, Charles Stirrup, Edwin Sweeting. Jack Lopez, Bert Wat-'teans, and after discharging kins, Julio Avalo, Mike Perez, | freight sailed 8:50 o'clock for Mi- Ralph Farraldo and William Watk-| ami and Jacksonville. er. Freighter Brazos, C9 TE ETE fline, came in at ) o'clock and Our Repair Department J jerthea at the Porter: dock until MUST PLEASE YOU— Ff the Ozark sailed. She discharg- If it doesn’t ed freight and took on cargo of TELL US! seafood products, live turtle, Lou S ith Ss sce Stati sponges and other miscellaneous items, sailing 11 o'clock for White & Catherine, Phone 5229 i Charleston and New York. apples, 474 crates. Steamship Ozark, of the Clyde- Mallory Lines, arrived e’clock last evening from New Or. of the same der Red Men will attend the serv-. , ices and pallbearers will be select- ed from the organization. Mrs. Carey is survived by widower, ‘uomas Carey; one daughter, Mrs, Samuel Gates; two sons, Leon and Eddie Carey, and 13 grandchildren, the NOTICE | We are moving our office from 88 Duval Street to 512 FLEMING STREET, effective Monday, March 26. Railway Express Agency}: | Ceecccccccccococccescose | WHERE TO GO TONIGHT Scand clerk at the been eaeehe: in , fill- the “Roma —“Dane Palace- Strand nquency Ww ac- the ‘ geal par able The appointment CUSTONS CASHIER | Ass 24.— «ty WASHINGTON, March Automobile manufacturers, ferring with administration offi-| ! jals in an effort to prevent the! I | strike in the industry, issued a | statement today saying they had | | impartial board to pass on labor grievances, but they charged paasin that the labor unions intend i to obtain a dominant position. | tration officials expected _ settle ment of the dispute within a few | hours. Manufacturers spoke in reply to rep strike depended only on the will- Impartial Board To Pass On Labor ‘Grievances In Auto Car Industry con-! | agreed to the appointment of an! Despite the statement, adminis-! KEY WEST, 8 a. m. Warmest City in United States PRICE FIVE CENTS | ate yingness of the man \the government check union mem- | bership claims with payrolls are correct, ement to let and say whether they “If that is j issue,” the statement said, it » be no misunderstanding to what it means, It means that i the union refuses to tell the manu- 'facturers whom the union repre- sents, “It wants the right to act for employes without disclosing their | authority for them, “It is like a lawyer saying to| you, ‘I have a client who is suing vou. I won't tell you who he is, at I will bargain The union’s refusal to say who it represents is just another indi- the industry. Different Reactions On France’ $ (By Assoc! A French note on disarmament \ | | 1 i H | \ | H vto Great Britain, made public Fri-! bea, was received with noticeably, different reactions today in every nation concerned, | In Paris, it was hoped the aote | would result in British seeking United States reaction toward a French request for guarantees of security. Zs .: Reveal Profits Of Doher S By Nations Disarmament Note: inted Press) In London it was said England) weld do nothing of the sort. In the United States it was sai | not enter into any sccurity guaran-| teeing agreement with France or, anyone else. At Geneva, hv.ae of the League; of Nations, hope ~vas expressed ' that everyone might be willing to tiie in the guarantees. rty In | the only remaining} “let; as "flatly thar the United States would! Fourteen Persons burn To Death With Eighteen Injured In Fire At Federal Bureau ln Lynchburg, Va. iene Boiling Over On Hot Stove Was Blamed For Disaster, Worst In City’s History (By Asxociated Press) LYNCHBURG, Va.—Mar. 24.—-Fourteen persons were burned to death, and at least 80 others injured in a fire i that swept the federal tran- sient bureau here today. The bodies, charred apparently | some of them { beyond | recognition, were carried to undertaking establishments, | while the injured were car- iried to hospitals in every available hearse, ambulance, s that the settlement of the cation of its Purpose to dominate! | truck and private car. Three of the dead were negroes, the rest white. | One hospital where 70 of the ‘victims were admitted, reported ‘ about one ihird seriously burned. Power facilities were cut off at | one hospital, rendering it impos- | sible for that iastitution to aid | the Injured. j Gr hot | boiling over on | stove was blamed for the holo- a the. worst remembered in | f+ chburg’s history. Williams Rash, the cook, said he had begun preparing break- ; camst, | fast ‘or approximately 200 occu- pants of the building when the grease Sni'ed over quickly, setting the place afire. Men sleeping un cots on the | floors above, became panic-strick- jes at the first alarm of “ . j led down the high wall {around the building, and other: aay from windows. Some Service Securities Co. Stocks RACING YACHT : DAY GOES TO JAIL; DEFAULTS | IN BOND ¥en <tiet counset tor (OFFICERS MAKING FINAL CHECK OF FORMER CASH. IER’S ACCOUNTS H, E. short At a late hour yesterday, Day, about $5,300 in his collec who is alleged to be tion cashier of the customs hous i committed to the county jail in de of a bond of $3,000. Up until the time of his forn fault i ral 8. Com Mr. {commitment to jail by U missioner C, Rodney Gwynn, Day was in the custody of © Agent P. J, Galvin, who acco: d him on his numerous ques secure bond. | In this way he was given every ‘consideration and allowed to take ible °P po: portunity whereby he | would be able to secure the ed bondamen. Today Mr. K. G. Linden are making of the former cash s at the customs ho First National Bank. to verify to a certainty the findings before preparir pers in the case » the grand jury A n and | or pres ROSES AND FLORAL PIECES PHONE 597 South Florida Narsery ad? (By Asseeiated Prexs) WASHINGTON, March 24. | the trade commission, today told | the house interstate commerce con. mittee that Henry L. Doherty, utility magnate, made a personal { profit of $19,900,000 in dealing ARRIVES HERE THIS MORNING | VESSEL WILL LEAVE WITHIN SHORT TIME FOR ST. TERSBURG TO BE PUT TRIM FOR EVENTS PE- IN with Cities Service Securities com-}| pany stocks. Appearing to urge strengthen- ing of information provisions o. the revised Fletcxor-Rayburn stock exchange regulation bi'l, Healy said that in a period three years, the corporation » $1,100,000,000 in securities only $80,000,000 went .nto capital. - COUNTY FORCES es, who receive three differ court bow paid Fun Employe from tre reesi mae feiture June, 1932, and these from the Kead Fund ic chetke for Augu and ng paid for Arriv from in port this morning ey I cap au the berthed at the F pier while th owner, Vadim formal entry ‘ ketch terminals and part aroff, , made of ve customs house is to for ©} at the The short ti where yacht leave Peter » put i part in th trim take race from St. P in which ves types compete. va el other Yachting ex narie’ and from appearances wil contender to reckon wit next month. The ve the 5 German ship beilding art ar Bremen, seel is oduet w Owners are Vadii ine Makaroff an¢ - t a combinat Mr Joseph: “ Mak General * R| ~. | STRAND THEAT Joan DANCING LADY Matinee: Balcony, 10¢; Orches- tra, 15-20¢; Night, 15-2S¢ Crawf 6