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oa . - Associated“Press Day: :Wire Service. » For 64 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LV. No. 88. - Turkish Court Refuses Further - Consideration To Help {nsall Insull Plans. Completed. Toward HOME THEATRICAL isdetaciaasa READ FROM; On Journey Taking Him pdiimpaisere mi shir incest Press) _ ISTANBUL, April 12.— ‘The Turkish court of appeals refused to consider Samuel Insull’s appeal against extra- dition, and authorities’ noti- fied“him “immediately he would be started on his re- turn trip to the vo States without delay,. : This decision blasted. the}. ~ ast hope of the famous fugi- tive’s lawyers to halt his ex- Turkish authorities com- pleted plans for starting him toward Smyrna this evening at which place he will be turned over to American agents tomorrow, continuing in their custdy to the Unit- |COUNTY BOARD GETS REPORTS ENGINEERS PERTAINING TO NEW BRIDGE FROM KEY WEST TO STOCK ISLAND 4 PRODUCER BURNS j LOSS OF A. C. BLUMENTHAL RESIDENCE RUNS AROUND © HALF MILLION At the regular meeting of the county commissioners last night a communication from the U. S. en- gineers in Jacksonville was read, (By Associated Press) LARCHMOND, New York, April 12.—The ornate home of A. C, Blumenthal, wealthy New. York theatrical producer | and real estate operator, was destroyed by fire today at a loss estimated between $300,- (000 and $500,000, DELEGATES TO partment has applied for permis- sion to construct-a bridge from Key West to Stock Island. The specifications for this bridge and, other matters in con- nection therewith were published in the issue of The Citizen of} April 5. Present at the meeting were Chairman Norberg Thompson, Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, Commis- sioners Wm. R. Porter, Carl Ber- valdi and Roy»Fulford. Commis- jsioner B. B. Warren is in Miami on vacation. Others present were Chief Dep- uty Sheriff Clements | Ferry Auditor Roy Faulkner, Fer- ty Manager Eugene Demeritt and several interested citizens. EVENT ARRIVE ing heen Tax Assessor J. Otto Kirch- GROUP COMES HERE YESTER- heiner’s estimate of two percent commissions on real and personal DAY FROM HAVANA EN.- property assessments on the spe. {cial road and toll. bridge dis ROUTE TO MIAMI FOR CELE- | yas shown, to’ amount to $2,- ON FINANCES showing that the State Road De-! Jaycocks, ; €d States aboard the export BRATION TOMORROW | 387.39, to be paid in four quar- . Among the arrivals on the P. and O. 8. S. Florida from Havana! yesterday wag a group of dele-! gates to the Pan-American cele-| bration to be held in Miami, to- morrow and Saturday. | In the party arriving at Key West were Mrs, ‘Maris Albertini, Liner Exilona. % ~ ROTARY CLUB HEARS REPORT: ‘ as Mary Lastra, Mrs, ' ‘Antonia| terly payments of $596.85. Check for $1,500 from: Comp-. ¢, j troller J. M. Lee was announced as being received by Clerk Saw-' jyer. This is part of Monroe coun- ty’s share of the State Racing; ; Commission funds. Up to date, $9,209 has been received, leaving an estimated balance of $4,500 due the county. Reports Given West Citvsen KEY WEST. FLORIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1934. WASHINGTON HEADLINERS “Dr. Tagwell One-Man Target For Critics Of New Deal ee ccccccccccccccecscesee® By STEPHEN McDONOUGH (ity Ansocinted Press) ! WASHINGTON, April 12.—A jlittle bewildered at ‘red -revolu- | tionist”” charges crackling around ‘his prematurely graying head, Prof. Rexford Guy Tugwell, the man who has been called “too good !looking to get any - sympathy,” goes quietly about his business oe assistant secretary of agriculture. | A mass of detail and routi met ‘has fallen upon his shoulders while | Secretary Wallace has been drawn , deeper and deeper into that inner circle of cabinet members shaping| the basic program of the Roose-! velt administration. Those who know him best | ‘this 42-year-old doctor of _ phil- osophy who writes learnedly on economics, history, literature and sociology is amused at the stir being made over him. i Frequently a project arousing the wrath of anti-administration leaders is labelled a “Tugwell! ‘brain wave,” scoffed at for its} “pretty language” and set down as a crack at the constitution. Ace Brain Truster ; Tugwell, known as Mr. Roose-' velt’s ace “brain truster,” has written several books trines expressed in them some- times get him in bad with the con- servatives on capitol hill and else-; where, His “The Industrial Discipline”, i { written long before he met Frank- ple orchard in Niagara county. New service \lin D. Roosevelt, has been the fuel: hours of political oratory on‘ ag of the constitution, yet, Tugwell insists his ideas are not original or revolutionary and points out that many date back to: the economic philosophies of an- cient Greece. i <Those who expect to find in |Togwel a vociferous soap-box rad. and doe-* POCCOCECOO COCO OOOOLOOOSOOEOOOE OOOO OCCCOOSO OOO SOCOOOLOOOOSOSESOOOCOSTOOSOOOOOOSE | Doctor { TUGWELL | jed son of toil, the professor likes : (rains running. Radicals prefer to: ‘to roam through his father’s ap-| blow up the station and forego} until the new structure is! ral ready.” The professor frankly favors disciplining the few forthe good lof the many. Built A House York, or stroll over the lawns o his own home on the shores of Lake Ontario. Shuns Controversies i Tugwell has kept his own coun-; isel_and refused to be drawn into ‘ eontroversies. austie use of his youthful ap- He feels that much said about) pearance and his tile when they his philosophies not only is incor-;quizzed him during committee ‘fect but also unfair. He resents, hearings. ;pure food and drugs Dill made Key West, Florida, has the most equable: weather in the country; with an average range of only 14° Fahrenheit. PRICE FIVE CENTS ‘Roosevelt Concludes Fishing In Bahamas; Leaves Out From Miami Enronte To Capital Near Tragedy To Members Of Party When Train Narrowly Misses Auto And Trailer RETURNS FROM | AFRICAN TRIP i { 1 | |FAMOUS WRITER AND AD.| | (By Associated Press) MIAMI, | April = 12.—A near tragedy to members of ; his’ party today, marked the = jdeparture of President Ernest Hemingway, famed writ-! Roosevelt for Washington at er, adventurer and big game hunt-; the..-conelusion:..of. a. two | er, Who was absent from Key! West on a big game hunt since | weeks’ fishing trip to the a} Bahaman waters. last summer, returned home on the Havana Special from A traia narrowly missed pote a combination auto- VENTURER GIVEN GREAT, OVATION ON ARRIVAL! HERE YESTERDAY ov Congressional opponents of his} j York yesterday and was gi en} pee of the most enthusiastic tions ever accorded a celebr Mrs. Hemingway, son, Pui, a! mobile trailer carrying Gen- group of artists and writers, Mr. Bod: Mri? Chavles. Thompese andj Cr! Hugh Johnson, recovery other Key West friends were administrator; Marvin Mc- waiting with a jazz band to give a! = ;, : ed vociferous welcome to the return- Intyre, presidential secre ing author. | tary; Donald Richburg, NRA When the train was pulling {nto attorney, and about 20 news- !the terminals the group gathered | near the tracks and just as it was) Paper correspondents and {slowing down the band started al {thrilling march accompanied by shouts of welcome as Mr. Heming- | way stepped from the Pullman. ‘Much Thrilled He told The Citizen that his big} {game hunting expedition into the| ‘wilds of Africa was pashed with} jthrills and he enjoyed ‘it more {than any other experience in his! their wives, as they were en route to the docks to greet the president, after he had | arrived on the Yacht Nour- mahal ‘from the fishing grounds in the gulf stream. ° OF DELEGA | Aleolet. Miss Maraste Dumas, | | He makes no. ‘inferences that he has a leaning’ The implication was lost on the Clerk C. Sam B.C “speeches, is not a socialite and}toward Rus: Hé “admits being man = sociph rhage 2a — rete: sf oo coal 2 igesd , foll rts. He is a student,‘a liberal, if a liberal is one whol with his own hands, who wrote a ine, Octavi " Hu ; follows no spo! ‘VENTION. DISPLAYED A igaruahdes, hols. amit eee filed. ‘author, book-lover and adept sont is ‘dissatisfied with things as he | monograph on Thomas Hardy MEETING TOD. .Froilan Dominguez, Jr., Mrs.! Deposits during the month to versationalist. His outstanding. finds them, but never a scheming and who said when he came back | AY: Ee speed a the account of:the county as made | charact lutionist. ifrom overseas military service! laria Nunez, Jose M. Lorenzo | ; characteristic is a deep love of the; revolutionis' } SEL TO ROLLS by Sheriff K. O. Thompson was} yon country. | “Liberals,” he says, “woud like! that the whole thing made him] aaron md Don, Caren, read and ordered placed on file.| 5 The celebration is to be one of placed on file.) Farm-born, but no horny-hand-' to rebuild the station but keep #. * "Most of the time of the Rota- read and approved. This showed. thelsick in body and soul. the greatest in which Cuba has Judge Hugh Gunn’s report of | tians, was taken up at today’s! Citizen was told, and many of the| collections of $470.25, apportion- Late Cold Wave Brings Sails | pattcpated for many year, The] weaver sated dung, March was, ‘BIG INCREASE IN {most important personages. from) oq as ..follows: "To the state; | deer family, including some of the} jrarer species found exclusively in} The trailer barely cleared jlife of adventure. } 3 Last week on Saturday this pa-' the tracks by inches.as the per ‘carried an article chronicling’ train rented byt "a gil some of the exploits of the party by ‘aid 2 which was made up of the author, | crossing in the ‘residential Landa Seca anlleg and Charles! district, midway between 01 There was also a description of ‘hotel headquarters. of the some of the animals killed, among! party and the docks. them being five lions, leopards, i rhinos and many varieties of the; A police escort darted j across the tracks in front of j the oncoming train. | The driver of the auto- Africa. First Information ai the, . esta of Smpacties covered oyer delegates, was display gikeed oes every member ex- delight on the win- trophy, with much en- shown by all over the et Pearlman was present . at ing as the guest of Sebas. Cabrera, 16. president of the ho presided, Russel, agent of the Oil Company in Key owas taken in today as a new with the glad hand of ‘fellowship extended him by the —_ in. at- “GREAT DESIRE TO STUDY CHICAGO—Arraigned for tak- hg four books from. # book store in this city, Edward Martin told the judge that he desired to study) Modern fiction and coukdn’t afford! to buy the books. RF hg 2b oy Republic. will. be: in’at-i¢313.50; to the county, $156.75. Report of Tax Collec’ Frank | "The Cuban: Gunbonts Guba andi Ladd showed deposits in the Patria left Havana last might with First National Bank for the month about 250 soldiers“ and marines, 4¢ March amounting 'to $4,927.98. bet bey ee vageer bi ae sey Clerk. Sawyer reported collec- no Zayas, was to leave this tions, principally tax redemptions, morning for Miami with “Miss! o¢ $9,580.67. Cuba”, Miss Conchita Estraviz, ERY who.will represent the island in the beauty pageant. “ Jorge Manach, secretary of pub- lie instruction, will go as personal representatives of President Men- dieta at the Pan-American confer- enceta be held Saturday. i Alberto Crusellas, president: of ; 4), the National. Tourist Sptinistion, and Sergio Geykel will represent the ene” of Havana,‘ ‘Dr. ‘Mariano Gomez. Six army airplayes and two. to Bill Presented Bill of the Miami Herald for! advertising Key West was present- jed. It showed the advertisement jhad appeared twice with 88 inches! each time at $1.54 per inch, mak-/| ing a total of: $271.04. Tt was the sense of the meeting at this advertisement had been sb Sey for one issue and — it was decided to hold the matter Miguel oyer for further discussion. r. in the tax ‘collector’s office The need of a decimal tabula-| Cuban military bands) will be in| attendance and ‘about 20 news- paper and magazine writers, STEALS TO HELP SON LIBERTVILLE, he, became a thief so that might m: ke a clergyman of his {Pee “New Reforms Written Into (By Asnociatea Press} HAVANA, April 12.— Reforms calculated to quiet; were| written into the aero turbulence political today. They were announced iy! Presidéit’ Carlos» Mendieta! i this morning after a long séssion of his weary cabinet.! ‘Among the minor .con-' stitutional. reforms are rules! governing functions of the new council of state. . Gaba’s Constitution Today IFLORIDA BRINGS 104 PASSENGERS Returning yesterday afterneen from Havana the P. and O. S. S. company Liner Florida brought 104 Sire smear of whom 58 wete' planes were brought to the city f afd were guest with Lieutenant, SThete weed 80° tiret Uses’ anal Ti, — Lloyd; Wetzer of this city confessed that | was shown and it was decided to/ order one. The price .is $203,! $23 cash with the order and 12! monthly payments of $15. * Bills were read and paid when funds are Depository. aceounts ordered | available. | for the! at month of March was read, check- ed and approved. | CUBAN PLANES ARRIVE TODA OFFICERS GUESTS OF LIEUT. JACKSON AT LUNCHEON ABOARD SHIP Forr military planes of the Cuban government arrived in Key As Far South As Tennessee By 1 Apeotined Press) | A sharp change to colder weath- her today brought snow to many re-| (gions extending as far south as Tennessee and a warning from | forecasters that frost may ni Protected plants tate south a temorrow. Much of the Lake region had snow today. |drop with a reading of 38 i | | morning. | | Several points reported a drop) of 20 degrees from yesterday, and | Nashville recorded a 26 degree GOVERNMENT this Press) April (My Asxociated Chany WASHINGTON, of. the leek to colder affected most! 12.— country east of the id was the greatest the region from the Gulf of Mex-| signed to raise $92,000,000 a year) ®las additional revenue. ize and Ohio river. Squadron Searches For American Fliers Lost In Chinese Waters. ~ (By Assccinted Press) | SHANGHAI, April 12.—Nine planes roared in and out of the idk caper uacasken Six | teday in a frantic search for three; | Americans lost since early Tues-| | {day im a hazardous flying area. A cold northerly wind of near} gale proportions blew up aleve} West this morning and landed at! | the China coast to increase fears} the Pan-American field, They were met at the field by Piecteg ant W. B. Jackson, officer in charge at the naval station, and} a from the Destroyer Me-} Farland. The officers who came on the. Jackson at a luncehon given on_ 18 second class passengers for board the | Key West and nine first and two!’ j Second class passengers for Tam- pa. At, 2 o'clock the ‘aviators re- tarned to the landing field and! jook off for Miami to be present The Florida sailed 6:30 o’clock}as one*of the contingents from, pilot, took off in his big bomber) joinson will leave on the after- ‘for Tampa with 17 pamengers andj Cuba at the opening of the Pan | this forenoon. but reported by ra-| noon train to remain a few Ameri¢an celebration tomorrow. itor the three, James Finck, of} Miami, Florida; Robert Gast, } Louisville, Kentucky, and Carlson of Donna, Texas. No word had been received} irom them since they hopped off! the Shanghai-Canton mail| route. Finck and Gast manned, bene plane. Prank Hawkes, American speed i on ‘dig that after driving the great, of} It adopted an amendment | the revenue bill by Senator LaFol. existing law. | Exemptions on craft into the teeth of ere reduced from combing the island studded bay, $40,000. Kross winds | $50,000 he had seen no trace of the miss- LEGISLATION TO ing men, | PAY DEPOSITORS Darkness forced nine planes to} land without result. ‘MRS. JOHNSON IS OPERATED ON V. A. Johnson received a tele- | uns banking committee depositors in closed banks, but limited which may be paid $2,500, the in fail eccce TO GO gram this morning from his son, WHERE Dr. V. M. Johnson, pathologist at the Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach, that Mrs. Johnson underwent a major opera- tion in the hospital yesterday. i The many friends of Mrs. John- | son will be glad to learn that the operation was saccem{el and is resting comfortably today TONIGHT Palace—"Charming Deceiver.’ “This Side of Heaven.” Dr she Mr. {charch. Palace—"Charming nd—“This Man Is “Heat Lightning. days; Str at West Palm Beach. *s INHERITANCE TAX | VOTED BY SENATE, laancein TO RAISE NINETY-| | TWO MILLION A YEAR a | ADDITIONAL REVENUE FOR the hunt and the hunters with thei ir) ae senate today voted for a big inerease in inheritance taxes ae BATES DISPLAYS «ROTARY CIRCLE, itette, Wisconsin, republican, mak-! ing the range of super inheritance } or estate levies one to sixty per-/ ‘cent as against one to 45 in the i estates to WASHINGTON, Tpril 12.—The! fice to show the silver cup won| today; by the Key West Rotary Cinb for approved legislation to pay off national amount te Seeccceseesssssceesseees Strand—*“Heat Lightsing” and Wm. Kemp's Home—Silver| PD. Trevor. E. A. Strunk, Social by Ladies of First M. E.! Deceiver.” | Mine! night. Dr. Kemp returned on the! It was through the courtesy of} e > Mr. Thompson who returned tast| Mobile followed despite the Thursday, accompanied by Mrs. shrieking locomotive whistle, Thompson, who joined the po ; in Palestine, that the information| #"d just managed to get the )machine across the tracks in concerning the hunt was gain«’ From a talk with him and ; * . so opportunity of viewing the many “ime to avoid a collision. Had Marvelcas Time The president told newspaper- photographs depicting scenes of {men aboard hix special train he had a “perfectly marvelous time just Jazying around’ on the cruise. He appeared healthy, kills, the story was written. Mr. and Mrs. Hemingway re- jturned to the United States the early part of last week and Mrs. Hemingway came home on the Ha-j j Yana Special Saturday. | with a coat of tan and showed no 1 pa slar concern over the con- {ere ional situation. j Rather he indicated everything | was in order for an early conclu- jsion f the administration pro- ‘gram. He declined to i pending legislation. Hoe was met here today by May *. G. Sewell with whom he 4 before boarding the train, Thousands of cheering a- rs lined the route to the depot. president passed Bayfront where a year ago an at on his life by . who | TROPHY WON BY comment on © | WAS CALLER AT THE CITIZEN <), OFFICE TODAY; RETURNED 0 FROM EUSTIS CONVENTION | Pa TASE EVENING jtempt was made | Assassin Culeerpe killed Mayor Anton | W. L. Bates, one of the seven! ne fired at the then | delegates to the Rotary confe lect. fence at Eastis, Fla, wax o co! at the office of The Citizen of- ape president- ‘AQUILINO LOPEZ LEAVES HOSPITAL The cup ix a beautiful examp'>" Aquiling Lopes has of the jeweler's art. It is of silver sory from his sun, Attorney on black base, and is 16 inches Aquitine Lopet, Ir., whe tall, with the Rotary emblem on! von: an appendectomy ceveral jthe side near the rim and 1 yecks ago in Tampa, advising he ornately decorated left the hospital Tuesday of thir | It carries an inscription show-; peck ing when and for what it wae efore returning home Attor », Presented to the Key Went oF) ney Lopes will spend a week or ganization. The trophy last yea! more in Tampa as guest of M was also won by the local club. ind Mra, Mariano Alvaret. Members who attended the oO jeonference at Eustis ore: Mr. STRAND THEATER I Rates, Sebastian Cebeers. 21 25 cisnile Rexteli-tiin. Deer “tn Medea eee De HEAT LIGHTNING The first six ve-.] Lione! Barrymore Vay Benter the highway last | ‘@ THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN Matines: Balcony, 10¢; Orches- 5 tra, 16-206; Wight, 15-25< ‘the greatest number of ma ies’ covered by any delegation si the! ‘ conference, reewtved under vin Russell, B. C. (Wm. P. Kemp. turned over Havana Special today.