The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 24, 1934, Page 1

Former Resident Asks TOLL FROM HEAT Full Information Be/ WAVE IS PLACED Sent Dealing With Ac-| AT 496 DEATHS tivities COMPLETE PLANT DESTRUC- Out in Ketchikan, Alaska,) tion 1s THREATENED the rehabilitation project in’ worse AREAS, ACCORDING Key West by the FERA is} TO REPORTS the subject of) diseussions, writes Charles Peterson, (Dy Associated Press) chief engineer of the light-| WASHINGTON, D. C., July 24. house Tender Cedar, who} Growing in: intensity, the heat eg ane onan wave ram its toll of human lives Chief Peterson iswbrother| "8? Sateen see” of Mrs, Herman Roberts ‘se ais age eenss 1904 Angela street and asks Dought intensity and in @ letter, received from | ?l#** destruction were threatened him this week, to be for-,'™ many of the worse sections and warded accurate and com-| other areas, heretofore merely w plete Information relative to| pleasantly hot. faced serious re, the scope of the program, | sults. Mr. Roberts will comply| Crop loses were placed at many with the request Of his! yuadseds of millions of dollars by brother-in-law and send! copies of The Citizen from! duly 5 to date giving a com-! prehensive history of the re-| habilitation of the city and the intentions of the FERA thousands were given up at force to make Key West the Ber.'*!*- Humag suffering reached spee- |tacular proportions when tempera- ‘tures mounted toward Sunday agronomists, and cat- tle by the thousands have been lost from the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, and many other d ‘highs, which, in Oakes, N. D., was! 111; in five Ilinois cities, 106; in ‘Lincoln, Neb., 96; _Minn., 109, and generally in the ‘southwest more than 100, PENINSULAR COMPANY REP.) Off Lake Michigan a. few miles RESENTATIVES ATTENDED }the temperatures Monday was 108 and many downstate and western MEET IN JACKSONVILLE points reported even higher read- ‘| tm Kansas Gity, Mo., experts, Members of the supervising meeting over the drought eme and collecting departments of S¢"¢y, described Missouri crop “ i ie Peninwiar Lite Insurance forge as the “poorest in his Company branch in Key West,! Virtually all livestock markets who were attend lexpected, and some of them re- ae sista ccived a rush of deliveries, duc meeting of the company's em- to the inability of farmers to main- ployee in Jacksonville, retwrned tain their stock longer in feed and ever the Bast Const yesterday, |¥4ter- : Those returning were Miss] 4. Experts told the National Hay ssociation that the crop this year Nellie Louie Russell, Emil Sweet-| would be the lowest in 40 years, ing, ©. W. Sweeting, J, G, Sweet-| due to the drought. the, Ramon Delgado, J, M. Varela} The heat was not so severe on ead H. GO. Russell, ; eastern seaboard, . Baltimore P. M. Roberts, who tert with 8% cmoving a cool 76 and other the group, left for Louisville, {endings there were comparative- Ky., to spend » while with his son : ly comfortable. Weather forecasters saw no re- Sed deughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. lief from the heat, most of them ‘Pherles Roberts and they little} predicting even higher tempera- daughter. tures for today. ADDITIONAL LIST OF THOSE WHO HAVE JOINED VOLUNTARY CORPS Another list of ws of those who have jeined the voluntary werk co ts being printed in +his teewe of The Citizen and will be found on Page 3. de thie lit ore 406 names, In that of yesterday's there were O70 sarees, making @ total of 776) tended to spend his vacation, names aad the number of hours) August 1 to 15, with his family in feck Bee pledged, and still there|North Carolina. He pledged him- ate hundreds of others being list-' self to forego that pleasure and ed and made ready for publica-| devote that period to work as a en on succeeding days. volunteer. While many of these names are! ‘There are many more instances thee of relief clients there are} which could be cited, especially in bande of others—business and! cases where men or women are profewsional men and women who signed up on relief rolls and are have signed up to do their sting | pledged to do this extra work, eed many of them have alrea This viuntary program is in no started, while others are yet to/way connected with relief pro- begin jects, but separate and distinct © ee one of many instances!branch which will neither con- where the worker wally deny-| flict with relief work nor will it in tet bieweli an anticipated pleas.) any way assist it or those who are ute, take We case of S. D. Mac-| listed on the rolls as clients, ready, chief sanitary inspector of the state board of health, As any employe of the state he is entitled to 15 days‘ v: ion an- nually. When he signed his pledge he wrote across the face FLASH: TOLL OF HEAT WAVE OVER COUNTRY NOW AT 426 DEATHS. KEEP in Campbell, | of the certificate that he had in-! SUITABLE JOBS WILL BE GIVEN TO VOLUNTEERS (0 DEFINITE PROGRAM FOR ACTIVITIES HAS BEEN DE-| ! CIDED UPON AS YET BY| | oFFicras ; Daily The Citizen is being ask- ed what manner of work is to be! ired of those wha have signed! as the Galcahciy Weck core of thal FERA and daily the same reply is! given that nothing will be asked) \of any person that is impossible. { Officials of the administration bare anxious to: have the people of | i |the city know that no person who! Haas signed up or intends to vign | ' i i which is distasteful or for which up is to be aasigned to any task’ } they are not equipped. j At this Duncan is devoting much of his | ;time to working out a plan for! , making assignments of the volun-| time, Administrator | are but a few, is the c who hil most beautiful baby in ant every state will be placed on disp : and visitors to the Fair will each working: teers and compiling a A a i i program which can be applied to! those who have volunteered, It is an altogether erroneous idea, it is shown, to think that per- | {sons will be assigned to any tasks jwhich they will be unable to per- form. A typist will not be called “on to paint houses, nor will a painter be asked to “take a let-; {ter.” i | While nothing definite has been “announced, it is expected that most of the work assignments will ‘be for the completion of work started NOWAriA, (is Annoet CHICAGO, July, 24-—While Melvin H. Purvis, the iwhich has been tice’s bureau of investigation , beautification. there, refused to disclose whether { It is pointed out by administra- tion officials that improving the | appearance of the houses in which jpeople are living, and jwill add to the attractiveness of {the city in general and this will tattract tourists. { With tourists will come creased revenue to all business and this will mean increased employment, which is one of the main consummations being aimed at in the rehahilita- ition program. 1 It was expressly stressed at a | conference this mornin that there iis no reason why there should be any, doubts in the minds of people ‘relative, to any question. When jin doubt about any matter, ask !and the information will be forth- i coming. |. However, it. is useless to ask , those who are not acquainted with ithe plans and intentions of the administration. Ask those of- ‘fieials who know and ready and \lucid answers will be given to any ‘questions which are not clearly ‘understood by the questioner. it was a woman’s tip which led Dillinger to a death trap outside grounds, North Side theater, neverthe- less a “girl in a red dress” w popularly credited with being the in- “finger” who put the desperado lines of on the spot. i naturally Protected from the possible vengeance of the remnants of the Dillinger gang, the girl was said to be secluded under police and federal guard in a downtown hotel suite with a male companion. “The person who gave the tip probably will never known,” said Purvis. “All L can is that E won’t discuss it. Wouldn't I be a fine guy to reveal a tip?” “The girl in the red dress” wa reported to have been one of two women tended th theater with Dillinger. The one in red, after emerging from the th ter, precided him across the alley where the desperado was — shot down. Taken Into Custody women, the policemen their report, ken be aid to have Both id in were Somewhere among the thousands of entries in the Sears, Roebuck baby contest, of which these pictur: rica, at the Sears exhibit at the new World’s Fair, in Chicago, Winners from for their choice. The winning baby will receive $5.000 Dillinger Falls In Hands will bs judged the | tion it is. known open for possible. lay there, August 1, be allowed one vote} arranged in the August 11-18. in cash. and a;$5,000 educational policy. A total of 15,303 awards, totaling $40,000, will be made. In addi. exhibition of photographs of the contestants will bo Bridges To Help Key West In Rehabilitation Program Aimee ec hare Baa ME Sk [RENDER VERDICT [Miami Periodical Also | IN THEATER FIRE} Sess» Yer Fovosbi Of Island City’s Re- |CLAIMED JACK PEREZ CAME| covery Activities TO HIS DEATH BY UN. AVOIDABLE ACCIDENT | Verdict in the matter of Jack! some Ray Perez, who came to his death jin the fire at the Strand Theater on July 6, was rendered yesterday and presented to Justice | Frank 0, Roberts, coroner ex-of-|'cently ficio. Despite the fact that Key West has been receiving pretty hard knocks from several cities of the state in connection with the rehabilitation program re- instituted by the “Tha rae bk Gab dats: scam FERA unit, it is shown that that the deceased came to his practically all other cities or death by burning in the fire of the| towns in Florida of any con- Strand theater and the fire was| sequence are lending their the result of an unavoidable acci- dent. i Peace {hearty cooperation toward having the Island City take Those who composed the jury} its former status as one Fernando Gato, Fabio Oli- J. P. Stickney, W. F. yer, G. M. Park and George E. Me- | Donald. of that a movie company has its eyes baby stars among them. A special | were i the leading ports among the various places throughow Sears bullding, for Farm Week, this rapidly-growing state ewe WHERE TO GO eeee Sree Palace—“Jane Eyre.” Monroe—‘“I’ll Tell the World.” Favorable Comment RED CROSS MEET HERE TOMORROW In today’s editorial seetion The Citizen, will be article reproduced from the Mag found « Herald, which speaks very fw ably of Key Went, which Federal Agents Through i i { 1 { | i There will be a meeting of the! Bayview Park—Diamondball. TOMORROW Palace—“Found Alive.” Monroe—“Double. Door.” ij comments on the selfieh yed by many other ward the Island City in habilitation activities. The ing of the article im quests pire cities youthful | cTpe 2 ogre 9 local Red Cross Chapter held’ to- Ip rom ¥ ir e — morning, beginning at 10; into ~ custody “agents, by the Great secrecy was thrown over head of the department of jus-'cfforts to learn through. whom and tioned, is the Ministerial Alliance en bir how the trap was effected by fed- eral men and East Chicago, In- diana, police. The following re-, ports, unofficialy, were in gen eval circulation as the purported “inside” on the spotting, trapping and slaying of the twentieth cen-| tury bad man: | That a “girl in red” led him to! jhis death, the only oné of his | molls to “doublecross” him. | { That the “girl in red” led him! to the wife or sweetheart of a jmail robber and traded Dillinger for the freedom of her mate and} ithe rewards offered—$15,000 by | {the federal government and five} states. \ That the i] girl in red” was. un-| | earthed by jovich of the ergeant Martin Zark-| } Who had taken a st Chicago police, | furlough — es- pecially to “get” Dilliger for the| killing of his friend, Policeman | William P, O'Malley, slain by Dil-| inger mobsmen in an East Chi-| cago bank robbery. Hl ! As the campaign got under | way, Homer S. Cummings, federal } attorney general, arrived for a} ‘brief conference with Purvis. | “This marks the end of the} trail for Dillinger,” Cummings, said. “but not for the department of justice. It’ is merely one more planned | jepisode in a |campaign against crime.” SMALL FIRE ON WHITE STREET i Fire apparatus responded to an alarm which was sounded from | Box 331 at 11:40 o’clock last |night and found that an oil stove in a lunch room on White street! jnear Division had been burning| but the flames had been subgued before the apparatus arrived. FREIGHT STEAMER ARRIVES IN POR Steamship Agwidale, of the; Today subpoenas were issued Clyde-Mallory Lines, came in yes-}for John England, supervisor of terday from New York and after! registration; Frank H. Ladd, tax discharging freight sailed forjcollector and Ross C. Sawyer, Tampa and Mobile. |county clerk, calling on them to Ferry Parrott arrived from have their records in readiness for Cuba yesterday afternoon with| examination tomorrow. 136 sacks of mail. baggage and 11 miscellaneous cars, County Solicitor J. F. Busto vigorously prosecuting his investi- gations relative to alleged frauds in the First and Second primaries in Monroe county. Several persons have been ex- amined and the solicitor is gradu- i ally securing such data as may ' jlead to discoveries which may be i of |salient points in the securing | data. be asked questions relative to the records County Solicitor Proceed s With Probe In Alleged Primary Frauds, custudy. Mr. England trations, Mr. Ladd on ithe collection of poll taxes and Mr. Sawyer will be asked to pro- duce the minutes of all meetings of the board of county commis- sioners which referred in any ;manner to the primaries. | Others are to be summoned, said Mr, Busto, and he expeets to have more than 50 people up for jquestioning before he concludes {his investigations, which are of- ficial and ordered by Governor | Dave Sholtz. This order was issued from the | gubernatorial mansion on July 13 jand published in The Citizen of ‘that date. It calls for vigorous jinvestigation of complaint: |frauds in the recent primar. |tion in Hillsborough, Duval Monroe counties, yin their {on the re; and federal ¢ du :- "hopes of the oclock, at the Public rooms on Duval, street. Included in the different ; ganizations that will attend in’ ad- th, PRODUCE TWINS AT 70 MICHIHUANA,. Mex, + Al- ough she is 70 years old, $ ditions to those previously men- Rosario Lanta is said to have Library, H | ors) is shown, by those who are to oppose lending a helping {to a stricken community, ma | productive? ‘much good) a * ora | Herald's article demons i “iv! by rehabilitating Key rth to twins at her home in| other the We of Key West. an indirect way, | profit } aut to be Ai) Ete ests VERRESEEL ically receive the b Sholtz Moves For Harmonious, Militant Democratic Line-Up — jis reproducing from the rived bu from a gee vival rased travel t various other the country connection, The Ne (By Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, F'a., July. In the 1928 presidential elec-| 24.—Governor Dave Sholtz called tion, Florida stepped out of the Democratic ranks and threw its upon the State Ex-' support to Herbert Hoover, the Republican candidate, by am jority of about 40,000 votes over Alfred E, Smith, the Democratic presidential nominee. Pensacola Key West city | line of this city ag Democratic ~~; ygraphical standpoi ecutive Committee today to of its insolvency wt about mainly b | brought the rem ' + tivities, and thetic “strive with every fiber of our peak hops being to maintain in Florida a Governor Sholtz said there had been increased interest in Ke past few, years in election tolto an exter Democratic pa committee post: which “augurs well for the future of the Democratic party of state, symp dit way We united, harmonious and _ militant the in Democratic party.” He appeared before the annual oon be meeting of the party committee “to give an account my stewardship, recognizing my obli- gation to carry out the principles of the party platform on which I was elected, old wa The reconmme oa this nk The six ‘major platform which he said “it ot less in the power of the state ad ministration to make effective” were listed as: 1, 2 probler was 1 tion prog the fe Reduction of state taxe | of Consolidation of govern- | big mental boards, agencies and posi-| th tions “without impairing the effi-| The ciency of government.” | Pensacola 3. Abolition of | Six major planks in the party’s 1932 platform, the governor said in the prepared text of his |dress, have been followed, and “I feel that we are well on the way to complete the fulfillment of the | pledge.” Turning polities, jJames A, Farley, chairman of the j Democratic National Committee, as a “modern Moses who ted us out of the wilderness of Re- publican misrule into a new day! 6. Measures for {and a new deal. employment and the During the 1932 political cam-j| of prosperity. paign, and since then, the gove |nor said there had been rted cooperation in the Demo- jeratic ranks, ad- the briefly to nepotism n| here governor national | »mployment. Strict rnment operations, State advertising tourists, settlers the deseribed economy in ‘ nd industries. | relief of un restoration i | Reduction Tax Levy The governor reduction of one state tax le of 7 the total, would reductions of about annually if other taxing bodies in the countries and destricts f the lead. Although the 1933 reduced appropriations for {ly governmental about $1,500,000 annual J.i governor said, “actual the,in the state government state| the past year is evidenced by fact that in no dep: ment has the budget been exceeded.” The general revenue budget ha been balanced, he said, and for the ‘st time in several years state is living within its mean: whole. reported that a half mill in the! and space 4 per cent of esult in tax $2,500,000 Party's Responsibility “You who are here today have la party responsibility which is, in jessence, a governmental sibility and I as titular the Democratic party jcharge you to be not lof that responsibility. “Under the able leade: your chairman, the Hone B. Hodges of Lake City, Democratic party of — this has become a militant organi tion which as long as it en-! will place a quietus on the opposition for a repetition of the political de- bacle of 1928.” respon- of in Florida legislatur unmindful t operati nued on Page MONRO! i econom during the E THEATER we Trac TELL THE WOR Baleony, 10« 15-20c; Night TT the ‘ THE SYSTEM COO L WITH ICE COLD WAGNER'S “PRIDE OF FLORIDA” BEER