The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 14, 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 ohly 14° Fahrenheit. ONDAY, MAY 14, 1934. PRICE FIVE CENTS Emissary Carrying Ransom Fund VOLUME LV. No. 115. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, > Airmen H On Non-Stop Flight as _ Announce — [ntention ot CRIMINAL COURT p Off From New York | Flight To Rome 100000000000000000000000000000090300 0020 Cece eeeesencccccoeseccccerocoocoocococeeocoooetsooeeree From Ponies To High-Powered Cars; Six-Shooters To Machine Guns Dillinger Hits The Jesse James Trail Confronted With Hijacking Group Pes Cation Vite Killiogs And Pi nderings Shocked A Nation | SEEK RELIEI 7 | Kiduspers Of Gettle And By CHARLES NORMAN t At Moresville, Ind, home of Dillinger’s ; 23 wounds, and blood-stained, abandoned| DROUGHT AREAS Their Victim Are Still (Associated Press Staff Writer) i father, a petition’ asking executive clemency | cars indicate Dillinger has been hit by pur-! Out Of Reach Of 4 i SSS 5 5 his deadly| for the fugitive has been circulated, | suing officers. | a er sae IN MAY SESSION: Pai ene eitmcsoetio 1 ue | ’ | athoriti rifles have given way to John Dillinger’s; Half mtury eatiier, similar petitions | When-the war ended, James and a num-| * oe } alf a century = pet A Re Forty Hours | automatics and sub-machine guns; his horse! ..... signed by Missoufians for James’ band. | 0€T Of Quantrell followers surrendered at ai'MEMBERS OF CONGRESS i has been replaced by an automobile. But in! gia federal post, but were attacked by the sol-! BRING MATTER UP TODAY VENIRE OF JURORS DRAWN) many other respects, the records show, the! The incident sald,to have ‘started the ' diers and escaped after a bloody fight. He! | career of the nineteenth century’s most fa-' James brothers in banditry occurred during | was declared an outlaw, and the hunt began. FOR DISCUSSION din ‘dshchienn eiany j the Civil War when. northern. militiamen | From then on Jesse James was the sworn, TO BE RETURNABLE TO-! 71)... bandit was not unlike that of the pres-| n | LOS ANGELES, May 14.—Kid- i came to the house of their stepfather to leran | foe of all law officers, i ' pugdaly cheens hegmlas sgpeert Boag sero outlaw’s band, Diliin-| the hiding place of C. Ww. Quantrell, surviving | Dilinger, too, is said to have started his} (My Anssetated rene) Ey of William F. Gettle, oil ED AND CASES SET | ger and his men are reported staging a hoid- brother of a southefn guerrilla leader. AMOY |" covgus At: crime afths a grievance. His accom-| . WASHINGTON, May 14.—! millionaire, and their victim, hid up and taking part in a battle with state andj tortured the stepfatherjand the boys’ mother, | rjice in a hold-up turned state's evidence and! Members of congress from the nas| safely away today after a night of | gederal officers in several places at once,| 2d beat young Jesse. got off lightly. Dillinger was given 10 to 20] ‘ . ee, Frank James joi up with Quantrell | years for that first crime. When he finally ; 49H" great crouaht Sere te j ee ee was released on parole, after serving nine | organized today to demand an im-' emisqary carrying ransom of $60,- Criminal court convened this} though the scenes are hundreds of miles | ; and soon Jesse followdd him. His first ex-! ploit was the routing of a detachment of | Patt he lost no time in hitting back at se- relief | 000 escaped presumably from: hi- ciety. i {morning 10 o’clock with Judge | apart. \J. Vining Harris presiding. Clerk | Both men, when the pursuit of them was , A : : 1 northern soldiers. It ik said Jesse killed 22 mediate and wide-spread with his pistol while pufsuing them. Here in brief are the careers of the two! program. . i iC: Sam B. Curry, Sheriff K. 0. j at its height, eluded scores of posses for swift ‘were present, John to visit his fathez. i Jesse James is reperted to have survived | desperados: { The following list of jurors to; Jesse James li John Dillinger iserve at this term was drawn from Jesse James was born in Sep!) John Dillinger was born in In. |the box: T. H. Borden, Ralph At tember 5, 1847. His father was’ dianapolis in 1903. His father is a. Kemp, William F. Duval, Eugene’ a farmer-preacher who settled in! éehurch-going tiller of the soil.: i “ - : ¥ { L.: Roberts, Leroy Roberts Clyde, Clay County, Mo., in 1842, Jesse’s John’s mother died when he was ‘ pretans tpndnrs Sarena ieee es : %. fatner died and his mother mar- three years old; his father mar. (ty Axsodinted Press) BRCOKLYN, May {4Captain| George Pond Cesare Floyd Bennett Field today with an announced inteation of and. Lieutenant Sabelli soared away from} reaching | » Reme without a stop. They gad thnice large; ‘einot 4,500-mile flight in about 40 hours. plene could make the | jackers after repeated attempts to } contact the abductors, A denouement of bizarre series Thompson and other officials; vists to their homes—Jezse to see his mother, | In the meanwhile there were The pla ied fuel | ! ¥ : e plane cafried enough sp a ee to last more than 40 hours. showers over i ., jf maneuvers canie about 3:30 a. the farm belt, but some adminis- Weather reports indicated fa- m. when an intermediary travel- worable winds, but noted a low j ling in a small car with a, satchel i € % = 2 Mrs, Kobpr Pressure arca over the North At- lantic coast which fliers said they * would fly over. DELEGATES GO TO CONVENTION IN JACKSONVILLE AND RED MEN. COMPRISE GROUP LEAVING. SATUR- DAY OVER HIGHWAY Key West will be represented at. "the decision of the supreme trj- trom ‘each organization. fed-Men fvom Tiger Tail Tribe Number 19, ure frank O, Roberts, member of the Great Council; Noe Solomon. apd Wiliam 0. delegates.” Wathace Pinder, { cet Sachem, intended. to but veoragprevented by business nected With his office as city elerk. - © Members of the Minoca Coun. ei] 13 ave Mrs. Bernice Park,| Gfeat Pocahontas; . Mrs. Annie , Great Keeper of Wampum; / Mrs, Alice Curry and Miss Miriam eo Carey, delegates, Mrs. Lillie Hart, Mrs. Raby Saunders, Mrs, Lenora Roberts, Mra Kemp © Mrs, Antoingite Robert. Mas. Antoiaette the ~ highway. Mrs. Kemp *t Coast and yaeveniny on the 8. S4 Florida. BAGLAYS TO HOLD MEETING and; ‘ Raltzell, Manuel Abalo, T. C, Wat-, ‘kins, George H. Niles, Fernando! | Chile, Cleveland Dillon, U. B. 'Roberts, Emerson. L. Archer, Christ Knowles, Julio Barcelo, ' } Daniel Knowles, Carlos Cremata, | Manuel Avila. It was decided by the judge to have the venire returnable for 19 o'clock tomorrow morning. | Docket for this term was sound- ied and cases set as follows: Moses Kelly, aggravated assault, | i |. MEMBERS OF POCAHONTAS Thursday; E. Suarez, Luis Labrado! and James Hyde, violation of laws | relative to the conduct of \ barber ried again. jexpanded destruction of crops. He became shop, Friday; Curtis Darrow, as-| © sau «and battery, Saturcay, ‘ Samuel Kelly, assault and bat- tery, tomorrow; James Cottrell, at- | tempting robbery with a deadly) ; : \weapon, Wednesday. inst Fito Boza, con- $ bunal. DISAPPOINTED , MONEY THAT WAS TO HAVE | BEEN AVAIABLE TODAY t t | | | | Active city employes and for- mer employes wete disappointed | today when they learned that for “some reason or other there was ‘no money available for distribu- ' tion, on their pay accounts, At the meeting following the payment of taxes by the Florida; East Coast Railway and Hotel; aetive employes for one month | ‘and a quarter, and former em-! ployes $25, For active employes and other ,matters the sum of $6,204.88 was {allotted and for former employes $996.29 was to be disbuhsed, mak-| jing a total of 57,290.67, This morning it was confidently | expected the money would be! available but at the bank it was! ‘learned that up to the time of} Jecse James was the mid- west’s cesperado. at - large half a certury ago, leading the law a bloody chase. Time has given some of his ploits a romantic tint, but in some respects. he resembled the most hunted eri today. inal of This photograph was taken shortly before his deat (Photograph from “Strenuous Americans,” published by Liveright Pub- lishing Corp.) eariy skilled in the use of firearms. Yhe following are some of his outstanding crimes: ' in March, 1868, the James band shot up the town of Russellville, Ky., and in the confusion robbed the bank there. It is thought the! booty amounted to $100,000, but some writers of the period believe this is an exaggeration. In December, 1869, bank rob- bery by the James band was com- bined with murder at Gallatin, Mo. ‘Fair’ Booty H On Sept. 26, 1872—Fair Day at Kansas City—they held up the messengers bearing the day's fair receipts, $10,000 in cash. In January, 1873, the James yang held up and robbed the stage coach between Malvern and Hot Springs, Ark. One of the passen- gers was a former governor, year . the bem a rail ; Tn. July of the sa Heaneerstes and’ Yb! “\road passenger train in Iowa, } Shot From Behind t One of the gang’s last jobs was | boarding and robbing a train just jafter it left Kansas City, July 15, /1881/ | Jesse’s followers were being | killed off and some of those cap- tured turned state’s evidence. Jesse went to St. Joseph, Mo.,! where he lived for a ‘time under jthe name of Howard. Governor | Crittenden of Missouri offered a jreward of $10,000 for the outlaw, dead or alive, and gt St. Joseph,: Jon April 3, 1882, a man named | Bob Ford,shot him in the back,’ j killing him. i Roosevelt Urses Home-Financing ‘Mayor Malone Relates Scenes At spay on Program In Message To Congress ith The exception | company, it was decided to pay all} ——--—-—- —----—--— e | SENATOR M’ADOO AT PIRATES COVE | HAVING PLANE SENT TO KEY WEST FOR TRIP NORTH ; «My Associated Presa) | WASHINGTON, May 14.—Gov.! ernment insuramce of private {i-' home construction! and répair was proposed today by} President Roosevelt in a message atl add to em-| nancing for The president urged action | this session on a two-fold program which he saffl would |Wm. H. Malone, containing the ransom in five and tén dollar bills shot his way out of a trap. vied again when the boy was still | in his teens. ; John didn’t take to farming or; schooling, didn’t hold jobs long. His father moved to Moores. ville, Ind., where he purchased a farm, and there John grew u) In 1924 he took part in his hold-up. His accomplice turne state’s evidence and got a two- year term. Dillinger was sentenc: ed to from 10 to 20 years. ‘Sprung’ From Jail In May 1, 1933, he was paroled. In July he and an accomplice hel " ‘i } up and robbed a small town bank.! | Mrs.’ Florence Susan Carey, 52 at et ied 9: , } In Lima, Ohio, he was caught and) {years old, died 9:15 o’clock Sat-} ‘ter coming upon the third of I : urday night at the home, 515} these notes, and while driving w) jailed, but was “sprung” by | & : ‘ is UP Michigan City seniteations pals. Seber aon — peo bas €X-!a dark street between the Old In October, 1933, Dillinger and. ~ Sea enti tari hs | River Bridge and the city of May- £5 | Funeral services were held 4 oe vise seta Papo fe oe lo’clock yesterday afternoon from) Vd, about-eight miles southeast cago, ped. 15, fA the Lopez Mortuary Chapel to of Los Angeles® business district, ‘4 1934, they killed a policeman while Fleming Street Methodist church.| three machines ig’ uport holding up a bank at East Chi-| “Ray, .Shul6e Pablo, .aifielsbea. re vchine sea i cage, Ind. Qn Jan, 25, Dillinger) oe Ray meal ett at iin, pbtiee and some of his henchmen were, songs Ge taeot Boe mer | Quickly sensing from the tenor captured in Tucson, Ariz. He wa’ wf the First M. EB. church. of notes that*machines could not ‘FUNERAL SERVICES { FOR MRS. CAREY Before he whipped out a re- { volver to protect himself from the ‘KEY WEST RESIDENT DIED! &roup he believed to be hijackers, AT 9:15 O'CLOCK SATUR: he had spent nearly five “hours ‘driving through Metropolitan Lox 1 DAY NIGHT Angeles picking up at intervals in- structions which were to have led jto actual delivery of the ransom. JOHN DILLINGER & - Ce | ~ 7. with a wooden pistol which over-' beries, killings and an inten- | and Charles C. Curtis. jfrom him, he opened fire. Shots St. Paul apartment, Dillinger and | Carey, also of Miami, squad of detectives rushed to ‘his reer of Jesse James. Will it ern near Mercer, Wis. This skirm-! ered car as it did to catch up dicated that ranaowt payment in- SCENE WAS Pedro Santana’s alleged ganpb-! IN JERUSALEM iling place in the rear of Angeia! ee eB brought back by, plane to th Sekt Dtiaase be Ioove.te- | é Tmo iss Ser Daniell seaiy contain the kidnapers, Crown Point, In ‘ison. ‘day, aft ii-breaks, eb. |... st eeel 7ts0n,tand fearing an attempt by out- On March 3, Dillinger escaped | Regie Sn aloe |Carl Bervaldi, Cariyle Roberts] siders to inke the ransom. awa ‘ | sive shunt. His weapons |, Mrs. Carey is survived by her| y, wed his guards. Be y were exchanged. a Then came a bank robbery an are modernized—he's a twen- father, Horatio C, Carey, two sis-| The emissary, whose name upon gunfight at Mason City, Ia., in) tieth century hoodlum. But {ter Mrs. Marie H. Trotter and| police request was withheld, fied which Dillinger was wounded. ‘eactain® $504k whens bia tha te Emma Mildred Buffman of to # telephone and notified police Trapped a few days later in hess: sasenbiaes nes aca | iami andeone brother, Oliver C.j headquarters he, was safe and a 2 companions shot their way free. ' | protection, On April 22 the despcrado and’ take the law as long to catch ANOTHER RAID Officers said that two notes his band escaped capture in a tav-: up with this 1934gstyle out- . | were pencilled in Gettle’s hand- law whose steed is a high pow- | writing and with his Shrine life ish left behind two dead—a fed-) BY CONSTABLE membership card attached in- eral operative and a CCC worker; : fs i 2 —and several wounded. i with his Missouri prototype? -_ structions were Iéading to the end PEDRO SAN.| °% his trail as » prisoner, and that he is alive, TANA’S ALLEGED GAMB. - Roosevelt Reception At Capital “The largest check I,ever saw funds were to be distributed as, raid | TORRENTIAL RAINFALL / WASHES AWAY MANY OF STREETS and for the largest amount of follows: $100,000 for the actual, money, I saw in Washington last! activities of the hospital at Warm Staged by Constanble Ray Elwood | street was the scene of a Wednesday evening,” said Mayor! Springs; $650,000 to be devoted; saturday night between 8 andl 2 who returned to laboratory work and the study: from the capital yesterday. jot infantile paralysis and thet Lal-, The check was that which was ance to be used whenever necessi- presented to President Franklyn! ty arose for ihe transportation, of building advising "1 and sundry D. Roosevelt at the reception giv-| patients, who could aot ‘afford to| that the place was “pinched” and} en in the East Room of the White! nay passage to Warm Springs. gambling ® wall of water sweeping down the House by the national committee; Later in the evening there was o'clock. H (Ry Asseeiated Press) JERUSALEM, May 14—A tor- revttal rainiall at noon today sent While the consts was in the! i the started to ccolect { closing the check had not cleared. | pager nyo ete | Senator William G, McAdoo, of FLORIDA BRINGS | California, who was secretary of 103 PASSENGERS. the treasury in President Wilson's) ship, William Ortiz, Jerome Berk- {eabinet, spent a short visit in Key | West yesterday, after. which he _ evitg, Curtis Stanton and Jeff, Steamship Florida arrived from left for Pirates Cove for a brief Knight. will be given their first Havana Saturday afternoon with degree 103 passengers, 83 first class and © Both active and majority mem-'17 second class for Key West and! Senator McAdoo was informed Hers have been ur to attend three first class for Tampa. The in Miami that there was no s and « special invitation is extend- vessel sailed 6:30 o'clock for - ed to all Masons, Tampa, {able landing field for planes at + Ferry Parrott arrived from Key West, but on his arrival here Cuba Saturday afternoon with 27; yesterday he learned there was 2 ployment and provide “tangible! in charge of the President's Birth-/ banquet given in the Shoreham paraphernalia and other thing» streets of Tiberins on the Sea of useful wealth in a form for which! day Ball, for the Warm Springs) Hotel, about four milex from icident to the establisiment. Cap- there is great social and economic} Foundation Fund. | Washington, says Mayor Malone,’ tain Everett Rives and Patroiman | It was three feet long and 18/trapsportation to and from the; Franklyn Arenberg carded the ?3% and reducing much of inches wide, made of the finest) hotel being by buses furnished | : ‘vellum, said the mayor, and the the nationsi committee, of whic be made by private agencies waich! amount for which it was drawn} Henry L. Doherty is the chairman’! would be insured by governmental! was $1,003,030.08, } Carl Boyer, publicity agent for, agencies against loss up to certain | In presenting it to the president Mr, Doherty, was toastmaster at afd the table layouts, two slot ma. ®¥8y- percentage of their advances. | Admiral Grayson, U. S. N., made! the banquet which was aitended chines and a box of bolite tickets, alccaaieaanmeene : Mutuai mortgage insurance un-;a brief speech telling of the mat-: by people from all parte of the: Also two ancks, FATHER MAUREAU der governmental direction to en-' ner in which the amount was se- country, At Mayor Malone's tw Siete. Se gles containing s able pr agencies to make first ‘ cured. ties wore eke tees Medes et eee mortgaze loans on newly con-; On receiving it the president) setts, two from North Caroiina,, T%* P°oprietor was arrested and! structed houses up to eighty per-' made a brief talk and presented) one from New Mexico. one from "leased on posting bond of $100." cent of appraised value of prop-| charge at Warm Springs, who pre-} Wyoming, ene from Miseouri and Father A. L. Maureag ie now acting euperior ond pastor at Mt Mary's Star of the Sea, Cathe Charch. Father Maureay will continue ir erty will be provided. }sented to the chairman of trustees the mayor from Key West, Flor- U S$ DESTROYER 4 ages Would be allow-' who in turn handed it to the treas-! ida. jew ‘this eaparity until his sucteser ts ears of pineapples. Three of them' first class landing field here. He i ng homes up to 60 per-/ urer of the Warm Springs Founda- ARRIVES HERE U. S$. Dettryer Jacob Jones ar-| appointed, it is stated. were in bulk and 24 contained 11,-/ at a bantant hen 466 crates of the fruit. sont FOS AE ee te MEH cont of praised value. | tion Fund. Th sident proposed further! President Roosevelt. then -hu- rived in port Saturday afterncoa. ———————————————— {The Destroyers Bambridge and STRAND THEATER JANET GAYNOR cjl near Steamship Yoro of the Standard Plane co Key West. » Meun- Fruit and S. S. company, arrived The senator is using his private federal insurance for share ® andi morously called the attention of ater.in port today from New York and. airplane, Blue Streak, and lan: c ate holders in building and/alj present, about 1,500, to wit- after taking on fuel oil sailed for, a Viking ‘Aiea meer Miami loan associations similar te insur-i ness that he had turned it over to) ance provided for bank depositors.| the physician and since then it iGoft sailed Saturday evening to join the flect at Gongives, Haiti. mat AE SE aR ToMonRow The Jacob Jones is one of the CAROLINA Paiace—“City Limits.” ‘destroyers amigned to hase at Key Matinee: Belcony, 100; Orches- tre, 16-206; Wight, 15-250 An: importa . Robert J. Perry Chapter, Order of i} be held tomorrow cottish Rite Hall on; ton streets, 1 Four ¢ for member. ; of the Gallilee crowning at least 20 per- need.” base jetits, [ancient city to ruins. Trophies collected were one um-} brelia wheel, three spindle wheeis,! Eaton a Loans for modernization would Entire streets were wathed vacation, = i. > CHICKEN R UED FROM SEVENTY-FOUR FOOT WELL eoccee eeoccescos WHERE TO GO Seecccccccesenececcecese | TONIGHT { Palace—“City Litrtta.” Strand—“Carviina.” Bayview Park—Diameondial!. DURA) which this « dering srean two days. SURVIVE POISONING ing assigned to Agent C. E. Smith, ; Pirates Cove aboard a United| mit a request to carry all of the; —Miss Wini- ef the Clyde-Mallery lines, is the States Coast Guard seaplane. later | $1.322,000.000 appropriation out! ic was now in the hands of the Astbury Steamship Swiftscout, of the C./ coming to this city. ef which public works and other!treasurer and he appeinted ail sk pol in a suicide D, Mallory Lines, Inc. The ship; He is accompanied by his sec- aspects of recovery program’ present « committee as a whole to * survived atid land- will take on 1,000 barrels of fuel retary. Miss Vera Ward, and bix would be financed in the fiseal! watch the treasurer. ioil at the Porter Dock company. [Private pilot, Harry Ashe. ‘year beginning Joly ! ik BRADFOS fred F Let this ei pact, bat Frontera, Mexico. : |after which he! was transported 9. 1; had been planned also to sub-{ hed been im several Bands, but he Strand—“Meledy In Spring” | West. thers are the Zane, Per- ed in Due to arrive tomorrow morn- called attention te the fact that “I've Get Your Number ‘ey and J. Pied Talbots . : that. the and ‘