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_ jana as asserted’ by Senator _ form,” he added, Colonel E. R. Bradley, Ken- ‘Associated Press Day Wire Service. - For 54 Years Devoted to the » Best Interests of Key West VOLUMELV. No. 85. Sullivan ‘Denies Having Dictated ‘Nomination Of Revenue Collector (fen os New Orleans akin Also VISITOR CLAIMS Asserted That He Has| KEY WEST GREAT Never Been Connected | With Gambling GEORGE BEHM, OF TROY, - (My Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 9. —Colonel John: P. Sullivan, New Orleans lawyer, denied Before the senate finance} ‘committee today that he} dictated the nomination of; D..D. Moore as internal revenue cOllector of ° Louis- ING HERE “Tarpon fishing is the greatest sport than an angler can enjoy, ; and as long as life lasts, and I am able to handle a rod and reel, I West to enjoy the sport.” , Beh f Hi Long. Thus said George im, o oe ‘ Troy, New York, who spent a ¢ “Sullivan also said. he - never in his life had been connected with gambling. Sullivan said, “I don’t know how to gamble. 1] might say perhaps to my} per, yellowtail, amberjack and mortification that I don’ Chotiers of the hundreds of kind! know how to roll dice. I} | found in these waters. He then! t d oti decided he wanted a tarpon, fant weven read 8 FAacimg; i. succeeded in catching sev- although ) oral but none of them were of any| testimony _ by;great size, although many times’ 4 larger than the fish he had been: used to catching in the north. tucky sportsman, had been|- Before leaving Mr. Behm show-! that Sullivan owned one-|ed The Citizen a collection of; | photographs he is carrying back to} _ third of the stock in the Fair- | New York with him to prove to: | grounds.race track in New. his friends what great sport can jee had in an eae West waters. foe PON FISHING and night when weather permit-; ted, before leaving over the high-' way for New York this morning.} Mr, Behm first went after ordi-/ previous Sullivan also denied Long’s , charges that he-had ‘soe TWO FINE SPECIMENS ARE CAUGHT BY VISITORS HERE SATURDAY KEY WESTER, DIES —e en occi Surpassing their former catches! aS. At SANE tarpon this'season, C. A. Gross; “TaRIUM 1 IN TAMPA ‘ON and HL A. McPherson, of Green f Bay, Wise., returned to port Sat- SATURDAY NIGHT finest specimens ever caught. 2 One of the fish measured 6; has been received: ta e; feet, 4 inches and weighed 128 ‘@nnouncing the death of Jo&n! pounds and the other measured 6 Wi Sands, aged 59 years, which j feet, 1 inch and. weighed 117 at Cook’s Sanitarium: in} pounds. on Saturday fight at| Friday these anglers returned o'clock, to port with six magnificent silver Sands, who was familiar], “8 among ii many friends oe feet, 5 inches long and weighed .” was a former resident] 83 pounds, Several others were al-} West, but had heen re-! most as large. im Tampa for a number of} ‘CIVILIAN CAMP MEMBERS LEA’ Served as deputy sheriff in! West-for 12 years under the of Frank Knight eb srowg 'T. Hicks, respectively which hé removed to Tampa where he served as chief detective for three years, and also deputy sberiff under Sheriff Will ‘Spen- cen, after which he took up work the sanitary © department as an inspector. He also} sat SS served house detective for the First Sos Rae Soe 7 mea Jack Dillon, Robert Bethel and Whe deceased is survived by his George Saunders, members of the} widow, Mrs, Eva Sands; daughter, | Civilian Conservation Corps camp: Maria; son, Russell; sisters, /&t Homestead, who ware spending | Ada Rivas and Mrs. Mary|® Vacation with their families, left en the afternoon train yesterday. THOSE PASSING TESTS HERE RECENTLY Accompanying these young men’ i were four others who passed phy-) sieal tests Friday and Saturday,; who left for Miami for assign- ment. They are Albert Joseph | Almyda and Bert Buckley. {Brand tre Prank tinker ws MANY RATIONS. Whe purchased the Kemp home on! meen ateamence! — ISSUED TO POOR bome.in Wrightsville, Pa. Amportant business matters| sé¥eral weeks before they intend- listed,en the rolis of the FERA od. ‘They expect to return early, ‘marked a new high for the period inthe fall, ifrom April 2 to April 7, accord- During that time 896 contiplete | THREE DAYS ONLY ‘rations were issued. Distributions ) Factory representatives of | Comisted of 1,082 pounds of but- Machine Co., of- oo ~ {224 pounds of lards, 819 pack. dy Sewing Machines. Cali} *f¢5 Milk Wheat-0, 4.495 pounds Stowers Music Company. lof smoked pork and 729 packages tArnao, Frederick Knight, Avenue and remained for} negessitated the. family leaving! Issuing of rations to the needy po ee BES je to the records. ter, 1,258 cans of roast beef, 1,- fering Singer service on all nes iOf Cheer, The Key FISHING PLACE: NEW YORK, SAYS HE PRO-' whose names appear in the ! POSES TO CONTINUE COM.; will pay an annual visit to Key! month in Key West fishing day ; nary fish and caught many grou-, urday afternoon with two of the: kings, the largest of which was 5/ FOUR OF NUMBER WERE: os Key West, Florida, has the most equable weather in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit. KEY WEST. FLORIDA, oveccccccereccvcccscsoooocoococoocooocoossososecee, { By RADER WINGET } | (By Associated Press) | NEW YORK, April 9.— ‘Mayor LaGuardia — who} likes to be known as “a| man of the people’—can point to nine city employes Social Register. | Some are paid no more than $1 la year, but they’re on the payroll working shoulder-to-shoulder with| , better paid and less prominent femployes to help LaGuardia re-; ee the city. | Many other socially. outstanding | i New Yorkers have gone to work; | for the new administration. But the nine, by virtue of their in- |’ ‘clusion in the ultra-ultra Social Register, represent the very loftiest social stratosphere. , Wed To Countess { On the mayor’s secretarjal staff lis Clendennin J, Ryan, Jr., grand- !son of Thomas Fortune Ryan, the ‘ millionaire copper king. He is; married to Countess Maria Anne! | Wurmbrand-Stuppach of Austria, | Their St. Patrick’s Cathedral nup-} | tials made big news in the social! | world. | William Fellowes Morgan,. Jr.,{ | president of the National Fisheries j association, is LaGuardia’s com- missioner of markets. Fisheries | and all, he’is listed on page 562 ! the Register. Berle, club man, “brai tenement house commit: oT mayor's secretarial staff. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1934. Pest Citen 1OC OOOO OOO OOOOOOO OOO OOOO SOOOOSOOOOOOAHO SOOT OOOOOESOOOOOSOS OOO OOOOOOTHOTISSOOSOOOCOOOCE® Blue Blood Colors New York Politics Mayor LiGesidc Man of The People--Has Nine Social Registerites Aiding ee ©0022200000000000000025 New York society is going in for practical politics at city hall. working for the city are (left to right): O’Ryan, a much-decorated major general in the army and LaGuardia’s police comm truster” and city chamberlain; Langdon W. Post, Winston Guest, polo star and poli Among nine Social Register ical adviser; John Fran mer; Adolf A. Roosevelt campaigner and ioner; and Clendennin J. Ryan, Jr., who married a countess and works on the John Francis O’Ryan, a major} ———— ;general with numerous decora- , tions, is police commissioner. The, | Regis er, page 593, counts only {the Military Order of becis| Wars, the Pilgrims and Metro- politan of Washington as his "distinctions. He has, however, re- service! Langdon W. Post, Harvard, ’23,|berlain, in an interview published campaigned for Roosevelt and La- Guardia. He now is tenement, i™ house commissioner, leading La-| Princeton, said that charges of a Guardia’s war on fire-traps. | Adolf A. Berle, Jr., who when aj Red plot ta ‘everthrow. the govern. wee child could quote Latin bet-| ter than English, is city chamber-/ lain. The Register doesn’t list his; played on Dr. membership in the so-called Roose- | velt “brain trust,” but it does; *°™* of the boys.” speak of his clubs, the City Mid-; «The | day, Cosmopolitan, Colony and the’, py. | National Society of Colonial, | Dames. -He also is a Harvard man jot "13. |. Lawrence B. Dunham, who has/ inside story of “the terrible scan- just a line in the Register on page! dal, ” 9 ecre- cog one gf the mayor's secre!” When questioned shout leged plot of “ An Alexander Hamilton oo | Alexander Hamilton, the great- pe eroeeried yal: grandson of the first secretary of j the treasury and a nephew of J. P. | Morgan, is a special deputy com- i missioner of markets at $1 a year. Alan R. Stuyvesant, who (descended from the old Dutch families that settled New York, is secretary to Police NRO? in O’Ryan, Winston Guest, a former Yale {athlete and the first to be given a 10 goal handicap in American in- | door polo, works for $1 a year asi jadviser and consultant to the} | fusion party minority in the board! ‘of aldermen. The Social Register] says Racquet & Tenis, Meadow; Brooks, Yale '27, Colimbia "32. | PRES Ree eS CO JAMES GIBSON GIVEN HEARING James Gibson was today’s issue of the Daily’ ment were the result of a joke William Wirt “by, boys” were unidentified! Princetonia, undergrad- juate publication, but other Berle told what he described as an! nt- The: brain trust” rec Wirt, INSURANCE ut RETURNS SUNDA EMBERS PENINSULAR COM. PANY WENT TO MIAMI } | FOR MEETING j Members of the employe group | jot the Peninsular Life Insuran | company of Key West who were arraigned! j attending a meeting in Miami, re- {mez Saturday afternoon on 8) Special jcharge of assault and battery. | “PSsial- After the testimony was all in| The left | Justice Gomez said there was suf-'noon over the East Coast to ficient evidence to warrant the de-|other groups from West Palm fendant being placed under bond! Beach and Miami to hold a get- of $100 for trial at the next term! \of criminal court. party Friday after- join together meeting. Those returning ye and lay were Superintendent Mrs. Emil WHERE TO GO Sweeting, Agents P. M. Roberts, ls M. Varela, Bradiey Sweeting, Henry Russell, Glenwood eet- z, Carroll Bethel and BR. Deigado. } ‘O. S. Long, manager of the company, Mra Long, and Miss 'Nellie Louise Russell, cashier, {who left last Friday, are expected Life”ito retarn tomorrow or ‘day. fPeoneeegperedererarsccee TONIGHT | Palace—“Moalin Rouge.” Strand—“Only Yesterday.” TOMORROW Palace—“Moulin Rouge.” Strand—“His Doyble and “What Price Deceacy.” j was hearing so much about. tre! ymond,, Claims Charges Of Red Plot To Overthrow Government Was Joke ss | OF FERA TODAY, \ooeeeucen tans BROUGHT ABOUT story on that terrible scandal, in| PRINCETON, April 9.—AdolphiBerle L broke into « broad grin, [ceived the distinguished front Italy, Rumania, | Depland, Pronce and Belaivah | Botley Je» New York City cham-| Princetonian sao, “Pve just heard the inside ;Which the govd doctor was at a ,barty with some of the boys who are connected with things down at ashington. “Wirt started asking questions! out the Roosevelt revolution he They) were all in pretty good spirits and hed kidding the credulous old; duffer. “Confiding that Roosevelt was 'a Kerensky, they said he was just! waiting for the right time to start his revolution, “After two years there be a Stalin who would take |the government.” On further questioning said he made “the boys” to take Wirt for “a good ride,” over decide long Banking Committee In Favor Ot New Unit To ‘Regulate Exchanges (My Associated WASHINGTON, April 9.—The |New York stock exchange scored te smashing victory in the senate returr banking committee today by a 10 ‘to 8 vote to create a new commis. | | sion to regulate exchanges instead lof giving jurisdiction to the fed- leral reserve board and federal , trade commission. The committee adopted an Will before Peace Justice Rogelio Go-! turned yesterday on the Havana’ amendment by Sen. Glass of Vir- xinia upsetting plans of bills for hors and President to have exchanges regulated by » existing governmental agen- As it now stands a commission three members appointed the president and conf the senate would be set up te ercise all powers of the bill orig nally proposed to turn over to the reserve board and trade cormmis- Wednes, would, Berle | and they unfolded details, | ‘WORK CEASES ON SOME PROJ ON ACCOUNT OF PORTION OF MONEY OVER BUDGE- | TARY NEEDS | Some of tne employes working on FERA projects decided to ase working this morning, jgause they objected to part of their earnings, over and above their budgetary needs, being held jin escrow, Other in connection h the provisions under which {the work is being carried on were considered objectionable, it was said, and these matters were cited matters wii workmen and Arthur Sheppard, | director of work. It was shown that the rules and| pairs to water mains; 44-10, coun-iend O. S. 8. be-| when a meeting was held with the | PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Blind Veterans Of World War CANNON TRIAL : CALLED TODAY | DEFENSE MOTION FOR GOV. ; ERNMENT TO SUBMIT FULL | | OVERRULED (My Associated Press) | WASHINGTON, April i defense motion that the govern- | ment be required to submit a full {bill of particulars was overruled} | today in the District: of Columbia as court as Bishop James Cannon, Jr., and Miss Ada Bur- roughs went on trial for spiracy to violate federal corrupt Practices act in the 1928 ‘presi- dential campaign. Robert McNeill, Methodisi churchman’s chief coun- Southern sel, insisted that the government be required at least to set forth “when, where and by what saeanet Ada Burroughs conspired Cannon to fail to report the con- tribution of Edwin Jameson.” wh Cannon and Miss Burroughs are; ‘charged with failure to report $48,000 of a $63,300 contribution made by Jameson, president of New York insurance company, the"anti-Smith cumpaign. Justice Peyton Gordon held the | indictment “good wien it suf- in facts of the chasg® so he may go} to trial.’”” ‘RELIEF PROJECTS GET APPROVAL OF ENCINEER BOARD 1 VIDED WHEN NEW | PROVEMENTS ARE START-' ED BY FERA Interest was added tod: in {FERA plans when it was ani ane ed three projects which had been resubmitted had by the engineer’s board. These are as follows: 44-15, re IN WASHINGTON. BILL OF PARTICULARS WAS) 9.—A; con-} ficiently advises the defendant of MORE WORK WILL PE PRO.’ IM- been approved | Will Be Adequately Cared For | New Ruling Shows They | Are Entitled To Nearly Twice As Much As One Losing Leg (ty Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 9. ; —Veterans | today laid down a rule that blind veterans of the World {War are entitled to nearly twice as much as for a sol- dier who lost a leg in ‘tion. administration ac- In answer to a_ written question, it was said that a blind veteran restored to the rolls by new veterans’ legis- lation is entitled to $150 a | month, plus $50 for a nurse ,or attendant, though the blindness resulted from “willful misconduct.” A World War. veteran with “disarticulation of a leg as a result of combat with the enemy can _ re- ' ceive a maximum of $119 a | month,” the bureau said. even ‘HUDSON MOTOR CO. «SHUTS DOWN TODAY ) UNARLE OBTAIN PARTS { ‘now OUT ON STRIKE (My Associated Press) DETROIT, April 9.—The Hud- [son Motor company announce a [shutdown effective today at 1 o'clock because of the inability to youtain parts, particularly th {manufactured by the Motor Pro. ducts Company where the in progress. The announcement of the shut- down said the plant would remain closed until “we can get @ new tsource of supply or the strike at [the Motor Products is settled.” ‘FLORIDA BRINGS | IL] PASSENGERS strike Steamship Florida, of company, the P. arrived jregulations relative to the money/ty court house and 44-8, eity hall. | Saturday afternoon from Havuna | being held in eserow and all stip- | On each of these it was shown |with 111 possengers.. Of these 66 ulations and provisions regarding! that \more money fot labor and |firts class end seven gens were work on FERA projects are issued out of Washington, and those in! these applications being granted [three charge of local work and depart- | material will be required and! | Assures they will be carried out in for Key West and 3 first and econd for oobi The vessel sailed for Tampa ments, have no power to make any | accordance with original plans and 6:30 o'clock with 43 passengers i chang: , no matter what the cir- leum ances, After the conference was con- cluded it was the consensus of ae that the objectors would to work. It is understood this will be done tomorrow morn- ing. WINTER VISITOR } specifications. | Continuance of these projects under the present provisions jmeans that many hours will be added to the allotment sud more work provided for those on the | projects than would have been [had the proposed increase been | denied. ‘TWO MORE ROTARY { _ RETURNING HOME pp scaThS LEAVE MISS HELEN HOLT HAD BEEN GUEST OF MR. AND MRS. CHARLES CURTIS Roosevelt ; A pending « delightful sea- son in Key West guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cartie in the home at Carvline and Simon- Miss Helen Holt left afternoon for New treets, rday York. In their younger days Miss Holt and Mra. Curtis were schoolmates n New York and Canada, and the dship formed at that time has ed with the pa years. « Holt told The Citizen thet rhe ays looks forward with the cost delightful anticipation to her visits to Key West and Mrs. st as eagerly awaits her che say Curth arrival | KEMP AND RUSSELL TO JOIN | OTHERS AT MIAMI, GO. - ' ING TO EUSTIS, FLA. Wm. P. Kemp and Melvin Russell, superintendent ef public instruction, left on the afternoon train Saturday as delegates to tne ‘Rotary conve ntobe held in Eustis, Florida Arriving at Miami they « joi other delegates who preceed ed them and the party will travel from Miami by automobile to the destination, ~-Ooe Other delegates from Key Wee are E. A. Strunk, Jr, Sebartian Cabrera. Jr, B. Curry Moreno, B. D. Trevor and W. L. Bates. Mr. Moreno left Priday by train and the others left Saturday morning ovec the highway. Dr. {freight and bagxage. Steamship Agwidale, of Clyde-Mallory Lines, arrived ‘port this morning 1:50 o'rlock with “he heaviest freight ship ments for Key West that ty been received me time. The ship sailed 6 o'clock for Tampa and Mobile, Freighter Ozark, of the line, is due to artive in. port ning from New Orleans, route to Miami and Jacksonville the in same this en LIGHT TENDER GOES TO TAMPA Lighthouse Tender Ivy sailed 10 o'clock last night for Tampa bay to place s bucy marking the chan This work finished, the will return to Key West Wednesday Tender Poppy sailed today for Punta Kawa to construct a new range light. The new structure ix t trom to ~eplace the oid tende to be of one of wooden construction. STRAND THEATER | Margaret FullavanJohs Boles a ONLY YESTERDAY Motines: Balcony, 106; Orches- i] tre, 15-200; Night, 15-25< Has RINT:

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