The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 3, 1934, Page 1

* Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 54 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West Key West, Florida, has the. most equable weather in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit. West Citsen — KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1934. Half Of World’s Weather Is ‘Born’ Near Admiral Byrd’s ‘Hermit Hut’ PRICE FIVE CENTS Claimed Armed Revolution In Very ‘Apparent Fourteen Thousand Rifles Government Shows Deficit Of Two And Hal Bilion Dollars asthe, oth ER OVER FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS IN CWA WORK {FEDERAL GOVERNMENT France Now SENATOR LONG ‘PASSENGER ON Months Ot tv Fiscali PASSING SHIP | weifncbiiee | BROUGHT HERE Five Billions ee MRS. LOUISE W. KONE cAME| WASHINGTON, ‘April 3,| ASHORE TO HURRY TO) : : HOME IN ARKANSAS OWING —The government. closed nime months of the fiscal} 79 ILLNESS OF MOTHER “year today with expendi- tures of $4,848,000,000 and age eres ey senger on the Steamer West Hika, a deficit of $2,542,299,000. of the Waterman S. S.4Line, was; “As this was made known, ! brought from the ship thismorn-! ing to Key West by the Porter; the treasury was planning Dock company’s Tug Petrel with for $1,000,000,000 of April} Captain Clarence ‘Thompson’ in i command, Sepecieg, and poting sgreese: Mrs. Kone boarded the’ vessel’ considered tangible eviden-=j at Havre, France, and was en- _ces of business improvement. | "4" = i Z radio message advising of the se- Mrs. Louise W. Kone, a pas-| tt | t J i Fi FH f FFPEESHE Hits of oul : | Florida through the Civil Works No satisfactory explanation of in 1897 became Superior of the! there was no need for his return the origin of the fire could be giv-' Jesuit order in the South. He oc-/ SPENT THIS AMOUNT IN FLORIDA BETWEEN NO- VEMBER AND MARCH (By Annocinted Prean) JACKSONVILLE, April The federal government spent a $15,707,030 S| grand total of in Administration between last No- vember 27 and March 10, L. War-| ren Baker, state CWA auditor, said. Payrolls accounted for approxi-/ mately 75 percent of the total, Of materials purchased valued: at $3,000,649; 98 percent was pur- chased in Florida. The peak of employment under the CWA was in January when approxinfately 95,000 workers were on the payrolls. BRIEF SKETCH OF REV. POWER WHO DIED HERE ARTICLE PERTAINING TO VETERAN PRIEST WAS TAK- EN FROM NEW ORLEANS! TIMES-PICAYUNE By F. B. COLTON 1 (Associated Press Science Writer) | WASHINGTON, April 3. —The weather of half the} world is born near the frigid} spot where Admiral Richard! E. Byrd will keep a lone vigil! i through the coming antarc- tic winter, observing wind | and temperature. ' | Below will be found a_ brief iological sketch of the late Rev. In his snow-buried hut the ad- miral will be almost at the take- ‘William Power, S. J., ,-who died} off point of great masses of air). March 28 in Key West. It is.tak-| which _more..or, less. continuously + en from the New Orleans Times-| circulate from the south pole to! Picayune of March 30: “Rev. William Power, S. J., vet-j ly governing, weather of the south-: eran Jesuit priest who was for! ern hemisphere. His wind-meas- abled vessel which proceeded un- years assigned to New Orleans! uring instruments will supply val-i too localized to be of immediate ‘and this vicinity and who was for} uable new scientific data on how! usefulness in weather forecasting nine years superior .of the order} this air behaves. at the start of in the South, died Wednesday at/ its. weather-breeding journey. Key West, Florida, of pneumonia, Air circulates continuously be- according to word reaching New| tween both the north and south Orleans yesterday. poles and the equator, and . this “The body will be taken to the} movement is one of the fund Jesuit order’s burial ground at| mental causes of weather, the; Spring Hill college, Mobile, today! weather bureau explains. for funeral services and _ burial Land, Water Are Factors there. Rev, Power for the past EE several years has been assigned to! The air is cooled over the polar | parish work in Key West. “Born in Dublin, Ireland, on April 19, 1855, Rev. Power join- ed the Jesuit order in. Southern France on July 22, 1873. He came to New Orleans in 1876 and _re- mained at the old College of the Immaculate Conception in Bar- a street’ for a year.’ He was idiepihanuinn then transferred to Woodstock, | 4 Maryland, ee he pursued his} MIAMI, April 3.—President theological’ studies for seven years A A f ahd in. 1888 pean; , Ordained: 3 Roosevelt sailed into new south- priest. ern waters today, determined to! “Several iyears later he ‘was A ee | transferred to the College of the} continue his happy bag a) Immaculate Conception again for| cruise over the weekend. I a year and in 1895 he went to Spain for further study. Upon! | his return he was transferred to/ er a consultation with congression- | the mission service at Manresa} ms House for a short time and later|al leaders who had assured him \Roosevelt And His ship was pointed south aft- cupied this position for nine to the capital this week. years. Afterward he was trans. ferred to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he became rector for sev- eral years of the Jesuit House) there. “In 1915 Rey. Power was ap- pointed the representative of the! i the south polar region where half the world’s weather is hermitage” is shown on tie map. | “advance notice Party Proceed To New Section On Fishing Outing, j happy.” the Yacht Nourmahal pro- | and Salt Banks. Federal Government Has largely responsible for storms of every kind. Ad: Antarctic winter, ob: ing wird and temperature, born.” The approximate lecation areas, falls near the surface, and the poles, The chief immediate then flows north or south, as the! value of Admiral Byrd’s observa. case may be, toward the equa-|,. ~ + ie torial: regibus: ‘There 1¢ ts’ warnied| tions will be to his own expedition again, rises, and flows back to-|'" Planning trips into the in- ward the poles at a higher level, terior. and the process then goes on con-| Gales Up to 100 Miles tinuously, | The admiral’s anemometer, or In practice, this air circulation | wind-measuring apparatus, prob- is complicated by the irregular, e ei disthibation’ a? land. aha ably will record gales blowing up water, | ‘i by ocean currents, rotation of the] to 100 miles an hour, says Dr. earth, surface features of the con-| William J, Humphreys of the tinents and decreasing density of weather bureau. His weather the air at higher levels, | vane will record prevailing winds Admiral Byrd probably would) as blowing from the south but oc- the first man in history to casionally may blow in other di- ‘make weather observations orenycoetiongs so long a period as seven months} Although he will keep his vigil south pole. jis our summer, Byrd can expect While his observations will be as great variations in tempera- tute as the United States usually | hag between summer and winter. they will supply valuable informa-' His thermometer probably will tion, and a ring of such stations|range’from 40 above zero to 70 established permanently around} below. both the south and- north poles; Byrd will be located east of the uld be of undoubted usefulness: real “home of the blizzard” in An- in weather. predictions, say weath-|tarctica, however. This is a re- er scientists. gion west of Little America where Such stations jexplorers have found a wind ve- locity averaging 50 miles an hour through an entire winter. | ADOPT REPORT ON PURCHASING ARMY AIRPLANES HAVE IGNORED INTENT OF CONGRESS could wireless ”* to the outside world of what was happening near ted Press) With the word “All well and ceeded"to a’ héw base today in the} vicinity of Elbow Key, Light Cay The president's two elder sons, | (8p Abibeiniet Prous? James and Elliott, were enroute! WASHINGTON, April to his fishing grounds from here | report to the house, holding above reproach the actions of Harry H. | Woodring, assistant secretary of }war in connection with the pur- . j chase of $7,500,000 worth of army 000) > was adopted unanimous- jly today by the military sub-committee. The report also contended cer- tain army officials for years have by naval plane. They are ex. pected to return tonight. affairs bd TERMS BRADLEY CHIEF RACKETEER SENATE FINANCE COMMMIT. TEE MEETS TOMORROW TO NOMINATE REVENUE COL- LECTOR (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 3.—Sen- ator Long of Louisiana told the senate today that Colonel E. R. Bradley, race horse breeder a>4 sportsman of Kentucky, was th “chief racketeer and gambler in the United States.” Rising to point out of personal privilege to comment on a dis- patch describing the burning in effigy of himself by some Ken- tucky race track men, Long said Bradley’s chief lieutenant in the “gambling” business was John P. Sullivan, of Loui-iana, and ad- ded the latter was “in charge” of {the internal revenue department jat New Orleans. The senate finance committee jmeets tomoriow on the nomina- |tion of D, D. Moore as internal {revenue collestor at New Orleans, Moore was nominated over the j Protest of Long. JOHN V. JOHNSON ‘DIES THIS MORNING ‘FUNERAL SERVICES ARE BE. ING HELD HERE THIS AFTERNOON the equator and back again, large-' a¢ 4 one-man. station so near the during the antarctic winter, which, | John V. Johnson, 72 years old, idied 4:15 o’clock this morniug at , the residence of his brother-in- law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Baltzell, 804 Elizabeth street. Funeral services are being held | this afternoon 4 o’clock from the , Lopez Funeral chapel on Bahama street, Rev. James S. Day, of the First Baptist church, officiating. Pallbearers are Cleveland Niles, Walter Johnson, McDonald, Jack Phela: Koch and Louis Bra: Mr, Johnson is survived by one sister, Mrs. Dora Baltzell, and two brothers, George xnd Thomas Johnson. Malcolm | In Seabury PECTION OF LOCAL GU 3.—A| MEMBERS GETTING EVERY-) THING IN READINESS FOR TONIGHT Headquarters of the Second Battalion Florida National Guard, which ix also the armory for ~ activity today. Everything is being done to get the building, equipment and per- sonal effects of the personne! Gesixe} Sheriff Thomas Farley | Are Reported To Have Been Smuggled In For | Use (iy Associated Press) PARIS, April 3.—Definite assertions that an armed rev- olution in France is being prepared by both rightists and leftists, were made to- day. Secret service and judi- ‘cial police under Judge j Saussier, investigating mag- jistrate, are known to be hunting hidden arsenals, but | Desire Ferry, editor of La | Liberte, owned by former Premier Tardieu, says the ; hunt is “too late.” ' Fourteen thousand rifles { Were reported to have been | smuggled into France before | Marshal Petain,*war minis- ter, induced the cabinet to order a close watch of the | Lurders, | Thousands of automatic pistols are said to be arriv>, bing in Paris daily, consigned to big arms firms. Ferry charged that the ri- fles were destined for com- i : | munists and ‘socialists’ while jthe communist newspaper, Humanite, reported the pis- ‘tol shipments were for the j rightist factions. JULIUS WATSON RETURNS HERE Julius Watson, who was releas- ed Sunday from the State Prison (at Raiford, after serving two j years of a 20-year sentence, re- j turned home yesterday. | Pern, Dea | (Ry associated Press) | NEW YORK, April 3—Former | | Sheriff Thomas M, Farley, H furnished the nation with the “tin box” episode of the 1932 Seabury prosecution of the city graft in- quiry, died today at the Fifty Ave- | nue hospital. He was operated on three weeks .| ago for appendicitis, and hie con- tery “E” was a scene of unus.al) dition became critical yesterday. 'He was a Tammony politician of | the old sehool for years, Farley was the benevolent « | (My Asseciated Preas) | WASHINGTON, April 3.—The | federal government has a maxi- mum amount of $800,000 ready to keep rural schools in Florida open til the end of the term. PETERSON GO TO NEW YORK Cornelius Petehson, chief enxi-| meer of the Wrecking Tug Relie?,' is te leave over the East Coast this; afternoon for New York where he- has been called by the company) form is taking a tardy but firm the wrecking fleet. | place on Mustapha Kemal’s pro- ‘Chief Peterson's mission is to; gram for Turkey. Modern prisons get the Wrecking Tug* Warbler and the country’s first peniten- readiness to come to Key West tiary are to replace the gruesome replace the Relief, whieh is to} mediaeval jails left over from the sent to New York for extensive; dark regime of the sultans. on the boilers. | Of the 193,000 prisoners in It is understood that the crew Turkey, only a small minority Which will bring the Warblér will are incarcerated in decent build- return on the Relief to New York, ings. The others lie in ramshackle as mo change in the personne) of disease-ridden jails with no food the vessel stationed at Key West! except that which is sent in by is anticipated, friends, GRUESOME SULTANIC JAILS ARE DOOMED (Ry Assocta Press) ANKARA, April Prison re- j is salary earnings iy more than Ceeseccessoccecesere TONIGHT Palace—“Gallant Lady.” Strand——"No More Women and “Cross Country Cruise.” government can compared | ter Dock company and, Manager with more than $2,300,000,- Hétel Colonial to rest until this sea, to reach the steamer which is! _ GOVERNOR DAVE SHOLTZ IS- Hika was off the Azores Island: ‘d'the West Hika, and the. their day. _ s Mrs. Kone was advised that by fee we Sholtz has proclaimed’ the difficulties under which it is The | to agriculture by insect SOON EXTINGUISHED BY depot about 6:30 o'clock yesterday. the shop near where the forge is’ dren a love of nature and a know-! en, it was learned today. Wilbur! School teachers were! ck some time later. then ignited the wall after the. election there. After the election ARRIVES TODAY pride in the fact that invariably! Ireland, spending his time in visit- oe THIS AFTERNOON This reeord of efficiency golden jubilee as a member of his | the Porter Dock company's} of her daughter, Mra Charles 4 retreats at the Jesuits’ house at! Other ships are expected to) spent to employ teachers in school qyouonnow Rese@!, William Knowles, Sr.. Alice White-Lew Ayres in Palace—“The Zin of Nera Mer- route to Mobile, Ala, Receiving a Routine operating expen-| rious iliness of her mother at the. ses at the close of March] home in Little Rock, Arkansas,’ # she decided to come ashore, H totalled slightly less than; 4 message was sent to the Por-| $2,000,000,000 + = 3 Charles Taylor sent the Petrel out to the West Hika for the pas-! 000 in revenue. senger. Arriving at the dock, | ts Mrs. Kone went at once to the APRIL 20 SET afternoon when she will — leave’ ; over the East Coast for home. { The Tug Petrel had to make a AS BIRD {long trip, about 12 miles from the’ ; | Sea Buoy, or about 20 miles at DAY IN FLORIDA '<*:..¢ : having lost the rudder, | Mrs.. Kone told The Citizen the; mishap occurred when the West’ ‘SUES : PROCLAMATION IN’ 2"4 for two days the Steamer Cit, a of Omaha tried to get close enoug! GENERAL RECOGNITION OF to render assistance but was pre- i ) vented by tempestuous seas. Ab. last lines were gotten on a voyage fo the United States re- {7 Auvecinted Prenn) Vsudped with the City of Omaha! :. TALLAHASSEE, April 3.—And’ acting as the rudder for the dis, _ Bow the birds are going to have’ | der, her own ‘steam. bird life to . seaports me coming to Key West and taking a the common welfare, = i train to Little Rock, she will be and especially to the agricultural home before the West Hika reach- interests,‘ is a subject deserving ‘ed Mobile, as the progress of the | more general recognition,” Gover-; vessel is exceedingly slow due to‘ 0 as Bird Day in Florida.! proceeding to the destination. governor's official eee oe said, in part: | H show that the } ctcrsro: | OF LIGHTHOUSE $1,300,000,000 and that i everything rais- } BLAZE DISCOVERED IN SHOP;! LOCAL FIREMEN x i Fite Gab: 'wildoverdAl in the blacksmith shop at the lighthouse afternoon. “An alarm was.sound*)’ ed calling the apparatus -to the, scene. Arriving, the department found} located, blazing. In a few min- it that “the preser-| utes the flames were out and the bird life must come in a; danger past. measure through instilling minds of the school chil- ledge of her benefaction, the gov-/ Johnson, blacksmith in charge,! urged public schools, socie-| said the electric current to the individuals to cooperate in| forge was turned off shortly be-j restoration and conser-) fore 4 o’clock and the place was arrange special classroom! Some pieces of heavy metal, | > ss | on bird life for April 20.) were being shaped at the forge and 0 a anvil in the afternoon and it is Jesuit order in the South to go to/ | been ignoring the intent of con-| both officials and men, in readi-} possible, it is said, a spark may Rome and vote upon the Presi i a gress and law by purchasing air-| ness for the Inspection to be held lord of the old Yorkville section have smouldered for a while and ‘dent-General of the order in ion' STEAMER CEIBA | planes without competetive bid-| tonight. ae See BK the city. ; ! It ix ever us with the local a office by | shop was closed, { he’ was appointed Special Superior [oe wie outfit, members of which take ”" pig ope ese _ é ‘ef the Order by the newly-elected ne then Sorensen ene eee | President-General for the pro-| KNOWLES RITES the battery is commended for the! Yet when he was unsble to ex- | vinces in Canada, Belgium and condition of the equipment andj plain satisfactorily the powexion I jalso the personal apper-ance of} of more than $350,900 in excess jing, those places, : | Steamer Ceiba, of the Standard! |the officers and men. Tn 1923 he was again made a! Fyait and Transportation company, : | : member of the mission's staff of; hea thts saecalnn anal This money is part of a total of jeppearanee the battery hopes the order in the South and during/#""'¥ed '® Por © ane | nearly $12,500,000 Funeral services for Mrs. Eli2™ | see continued by the ruport of the the same year he celebrated his| took on 600 barrels of fuel cil) 5555 o99 in excess of calary earn-| beth Knowles, who died Ferner | inspection by Major R. T. Gibson. t morning, will be held 5 o’ch U. S. A., senior inctructor 26515; ee order and was selected to repre-| Pier. j imax that the this afternon from the residence | peeiment C. A. who will arrive io- sent the Southern division in| This ship is bound from New send out to 17 states for rural day. Rome again at the triannual con-| York to Frontera, Mexico, and is’ schools. | Curry, 618 Ashe street, to Flem-j — tvention of the order. He was the | expected to make regular callx at; Harry Hopkins, relief admini+ ing street Methodist church, Rev. ; wr THEATER first man to institute laymen’s! this port in the future. trator, said the money wor Shaler Peele officiating. ' STRA * | Pallbearers selected to serve | Ednuund Lowe-Victor McLazien Manresa. make this a port of call as the local! districts that had used all their are: William Cullingford, John in NO MORE WOMEN “For the past few years he has| pilots association has agreed to available loca) funds to stay open. been assigned te. parish work,| make » special rate on pilotage of; The maximum smount for|Willism Knowles, Jr. Jeseph|? CROSS COUNTRY CRUISE } an” first at Grand Coteau, Louisiana. | vessels regularly stopping at Key| Georgia ix $1,800,000 and Ala-|Kemp and Robert George Wat- Matinee: Balcony, 10¢ Orches- Strand—“You Can't Boy Every- and later at Key West.” West. bama $2,290,000. kine, _+: On tre, 15-20c; Might, 15-25e |[ithing” and “No More Women,”