The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 29, 1934, Page 2

U.S. CRIME REPORT of this year were of persons between ages of 15 and 24, those of 19 years ceeding the number in any other group. criminals were arrested for larceny being considered. us The report also shows; contrary der record is relatively pared with many other cities, while February were the months of fewer ” By MARCY B. DARNALL, Editor of The Key Wen Ctiven |) : {| months. to pay: a code authority as-} irs. D. B. Ormiston, publisher | cerning the high prevalence of crime oF PEAREARM RG, BOE PRD SHAHN A report. issued by the Department.of Justice discloses that two-thirds of the ar+ rests for crime during the first six months the ex- age The greatest number of youthful and burglary, and, contrary tothe general be- lief, more native-born than “fi mborn were arrested, relative populations of each te popular belief again, that Chicago's mur. low when com- the highest murder rate was made by Chatta- nooga, Tenn., closely followed by Jack- sonville, Fla., and Memphis, Tenn. Of 89 cities for which statistics were given 19 re- : PRUST, LANDIS & KOHN ported no murders during the half year ae py New York: ne gi meer igi eovered by the survey. 7 It was observed that. January and ar- : rests for murder and aggravated assault, SI D E > i G H | S while during these months robbery and 3 burglary were unusually prevalent. Pre- vious reports showed that for some reason | this variation was usual during the winte: } Plenty of statistics are available con- in a News, a weekly paper of Linneus, | the United States, but in spite of all efforts Mo. defied the NRA and all its works. She saidvher paper was a family affair and | “wefdon't need any help from General | Johtieon to ren it.” The-News has never displayed the Blue Eagle, and Mrs. Ormis- | pressing criminal activities. MILLIKAN’S WARNING | for 4 bottle of iced tea. | > - 1 Dr. Robert A. Millikan, president of : 7 att + 1 & t . ~ a. 4 aed ES A ~ sees =| California Institute of Technology = “a , = te: ro a = Pake’s | world-famed physicist, sounds a note snths on ‘ to tts 14, 000- warning against this current trend. Peat hands knees to Jy footyummit in 13 hours, But tbe term-| | little progress is being made toward sup- In contrast with the large number of ton says if she had one she would trade it | university professors of decidedly Socialis- | | tic leanings, who favor ever-increasing gov- | { ermment control of business and industry, the and of He declared in a recent radio address - that the nation’s worst enemies are the for the gutcRer “political philosophers and _ sociologists, ; at ieeclwed in the Wborions | ®°™* of them in high places, who are pro- moting the tendency toward the govern- ; —— : thing.” ment weakens eif-reliance, ments ownership and operation of every- He added that this whole move- discourages to a British soldier of Egyptian ‘troops private initiative, and diminishes oppor- Turks in 1832. A caravan bring-j tunity. pd a A ; —s see Striking specifically at government se od wh | private industry, Dr. “a grenade. Hungry for 2 smoke, the! soldier thought of rolling some tobaceo in | - iit aq aff the Indian paper used to! “I regard the man who urges the wragi powder for his rifle. The idea | ion of the powers of the state into the worked, and a world-wide industry was | OPerative fields, which private industry born: | can and will handle equally well or bet-! P: | ter, as the enemy of free government—the os BPS | most pernicious influence in American Former President Hoover recently | 3;¢. today.” bought another lerge farm in California. | Dr. Millikan possesses one of the and proudly showed it to his old friend, | keenest minds in the world, as well as the General Frank T. Hines, who visited him | courage to express his convietion. In this ; recently. The general looked it over ad-} period of uncertainty and unrest such wise ; miringly, but joked his former chief, 2ay-| councel as his should be welcomed and ing: 3 “VU het you bought it just to get. | heeded. som AAA money.” i ee ; reed j KEY WEST BOUND! mong the most hazardous - occupa- } Boe tional net-including those involving oor | (Miami Friday. Night) of vaplent death, is that of ‘carving tomb- Miarninns have found. an. outlet for theirex- stones and the like; especially by the sand-| ‘a eneeeesE re taking week-end tips to bladd method. Infection of the iungs; Key West and watching the rebuilding onee Florid throbgh inhaling stone dust is to | carry the worker to an early gra Mor ij | argest city, ve. talit) records show that the average sand- bleder is ready for his own tombstone at | the Ave of 45. and it’s a trip weil worth while, autoists ms in advance, « Key West trip’ by auto is unique. j about a 90-mile drive ferr to Lower Matecumbe, ville, Pa., is celebrating the 75th ary of the modern petroleum in- | which had its beginning jin the dritling of the Drake well near that city in August, 1859. The development of the ; oil industry, especially since the advent of { the laufomobile has been amazing. The | United States produced more -than a bil- | put f bee arrels of crude oil in 1929. It is said, hovdever, that more money has been lost in drilfing dry holies than has been made from progecing wells since the inception of the indigstry is boarded. Then over the water j tei to Key West. are hospitable. spend on g with a smile. then is the time for their neighbors; fo through with a bit of help, and/Miamian hould show *BRy a new penal code Germany may give persons condemned to death privilege of committing suicide by poison or p The idea, of course, is not new, a revival of an ancient Greek custom Jy was perhaps very old when his mis- countrymen forced Socrates to drink the hemlock in 399 B. C. All Key West needs is enconragement. Ameriea, now is the time to take it, and you’d ter he going. politicians,—Miami Herald. for the | if the trip affords pleasure and value received, ex- | of what | Dee to radically reduced rates on the ferry, } have to After | the 20 you drive for 40 more, y, and then the rest of the » in that southernmost city of the They haven’t-- mueh s, but what they have i When a people are determined to come back, eome emem- of '26, and thé heljt re- appreciation and give a help- And and learer insight into one of the quaintest cities in bet- What this country needs is a strike of ert J. Perry Chapter.! -enger to Miami this Tuesday night at 7:30} Isadore ppelrouth who Scottish Rite Hall,; spendi few we in ! Raton and Simonton streets. Max} York and other points in the no! | Moiishine, Secretary. ee returned to the . Mrs HIBISCUS, BOUGAINVILLAEA, POINSETTIA : * A. Wil accompanied by chil- rs hy Ta) TST RS A 4-4 tie ealled ab the ond afi dren, and: dohn, were ps SCOTT KEY ROSE BUSHE ‘ x the sixth inning beeause of rain} RACH e Cc , desert at Lake Bonneville, Utah. Pp STEAMSHIP Co. ———— & UNITED STATES FAST MAIL ROUTES FOR Hi . . . . PORT TAMPA—HAVANA—WEST INDIES South Florida Contracting & Ce | Effective April 27, 1933 if . j + ee Key West for Havana Tuesdays and Fridays 12:15 j h ne Leave Havanu for Key West Wednesday. und Saturdays } Phone 598 White and Eliza Streets | #8 Leave Key Westfur Port Mettipel Wednesdays end Satur “Your home is worthy of the best” ' jays 6:: fa i ' Tickets, Reservations and Information at Ticket Office on the | } Dock, ‘Phone 71 | “s. HL. COST..R, & gent. | ERATE RG RON --—-- -— Se deciennieupin cca | TX IIIIILIOIOIIUEEUM dba THE KEY WEST CITIZEN 77 Records Fall as Ab Jenkins Speeds More Than 3000 Miles in 24 Hours | Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Moderate northeast winds over north portion and gentle variable winds over south portion and Temperature® | = partly overcast tonight and Thursday. East Gulf: Moderate east and WEATHER CONDITIONS —— The tropieal disturbance has moved soytheastward and i*« sp parently central this morning Pe 100 miles south of Galves. ' «| Yesterday’s Precipitation -0 Ins Normal Precipitation ... .16-Ins, Tomorrow's Almanac ton, It is attended by gules and winds of hurricane force over & small area near the center and will probably move northeastward Heavy rains have continved om the east Texas coast, Galveston WEATHER FORECAST reporting 2.16 inches during the | last 24 hours and rain has alte (Til 8p. m4 Thursday) bthide . dine de Key: West: ann (Vicimityy Pasty | marning ta tae Siabt Sakon, aa cloudy tonight and Thursday,! 11. atlantic States from merth: ;ern Florida northward, the | amounts being heavy at Jackson. | ville, Fla., 1.60 inches, and Mer- tteras, N.C, 1.40 inches. The ‘northern field, of bigh pressure Lis erested this morning over the ‘Lake region and has caused on- seasonably low temperatures fram the upper Missi ppi Valley east ward over the Middle and North Atlantic States, Detroit, Mich.. aad St. Louis, Mo., reporting the lew, est of record for this time ef pear, with readings of 44 and 42 dm Barometer at & a. m., today: Sea level, 29,93. probably showers Thursday; gen- POE a " tle variable winds. vrees, respectively. & pak: 5 i. Florida: Partly cloudy, prob-| The maximum temperatens of ably showers in extreme north 91 degrees yesterday at Key Wem THMMOT 2999 scorching heat of the day, and the black of the night, with tempers tures as. high as 120 r inset at the left s! the desert. Pre portion tonight and Thursday and | was the highest of the sumumer in south and central portions G. 3. KENNEDY, ‘Thursday. j Official In Charee Ab Jenkins, veteran speed king, shattered 77 world, international and A.A.A. speed records in his recent 24-hour run on the hot salt ‘The lower photograph shows a tire check-up of the big 2%-ton 240- horsepower machine by E. Waldo Stein, Firestone field representative holes on the course had been filled |WhO, saw the tires, battery” and with crushed rock as hard as|SPark plugs made by his company granite with knife-tike edges. At|come through this greatest of all the right Jenkins is shown receiving }endurance runs without tropble — through the! con i mother. lof anv kind. Jenkins is shown above hurtling through space at an average speed of 127.2 miles per hour including all stops for a distance of more than 3,000 mile: A FINANCING PLAN TO REPAIR AND, MODERNIZE YOUR PROPERTY YOU MAY APPLY for credit to make hous ing improvements, if you can repay in regular im staliments over a period of from one to there years. ~ Repairs or alterations often de wonders by adding to the value of your home or other Property. Do you want to know about the plan spon and humorist, father of the Court justice, ; born at Cambridge, Mass. Died , there, Oct. 7, 1894, ‘ retired Supreme KEY WESTIN | DAYS GONE BY - Today’* Anniversaries Happenings Here Just 10 Years| 4, Ago Today As Taken From The Files Of The Citizen John Locke, famed Eng-}| | lish’ philosopher, born. Died Oct. 28, 1704, genera ul . { inane treatment Cor animals, barn| sored by the United States Government and ap- Steamer Comal “Ane et New York. Died | Proved financial institutions? arrived in port yeste |. 2769"Rose |: Fiulippine “ueb-)-4 gag: experienced perhaps the worst ©2e. Middle West pincer,’ re-} URE IF SO, CONSULT— rvice. Off the} !igieus teacher, known to the In- 1857—Mary Garrett Hay, New coast of C he plowed into{ dias by the name, “the woman; York suffragist and civie wooker, THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF KEY WEST a ten had swept up} Who always prays,” born in’ born at Charlestown, Ind, Died Reoih Basten and Nase wager oy Franee. Died at St. Charles, Mo..| in New Rochelle, N. ¥., Aug, 2,| Your Sane timated ta be sixty feet high, bat-| Nev. 18, 18 | 1928, tered her from stem to stern. A —— | Reeiaiitenne e : passenger, in describing the trip.; 1805-—William. G. Brownlow! PAE ee ae - 7 eaid, “Others won the ship might Hiewilos ‘nee TNR Sonlnelnlnemallarheaed th achearkegcaardiidechiathertidhardhaitiaithasdictbathahataod have expected to come out of itl py er, Tenn adit gave tnt ete ee tte A A em alive but T didn’t.” i riabeaiOsTS Gil Rerigtaes GH Ny aa i Wythe Co.. V At the home of Miss Cornelia Warren, 826 White street, friends: of the Twelve Pal Club w de- | ville, Tenn., Senator, born in Died at Knox. | 29, 1877. 1809—Oliver Wendell Holnies, | \ Lumber for Storm Shutters r honofs in lightfully entertained evening. An famed, Boston physician, poet scheme of purple club’s colors, w. inscription. “Tw ed in lar paper me. Griff d also on the ¢ v hitting stars . uly for the occasion. bet Se Baty Gorden me 9% 3 BEADED CEILING PINE, Mizpah Curry was the hon-) t'm« Aratid straaie pub eact HK . M. $25.00 eee Vix4 BEADED CEILING, CYPRESS, 40 00 Wednesday afternoon, Miss Cur-! 1; Mtondeoy ac nite Per M. 5 ry, daughter of Sheriff and My: afternoon [MAE Keb Roland Curry, “will become’ the: Yar, Caphdd) Wad, <12 SQUARE EDGE PINE, bride of Anthony .>Haskins: on! .\, iiatie Ee a Per M 00 Sept. 2. Rae Louise Russell v ay “quel bind mh Hf Ma... * vti.ile ep a voingarsived oa “ ae Sway stag dS Pat as ie 1x6 No. 3 FLOORING, 9 racing” cae with the its Tor" Tits] Borer, was the bride, Miss Elena Pe Me! ee * yA ) Bie ire yak. graop 1 e BP eat ea A § h performed the Eeioraiy seinen * ee i} mony. The flower girl for the ' County to. connect groups of is- St cndnea. pee vata " Gor ' land: with Key West. . .The in-| “Cn0o7® ’ ein the value of the real es- = ‘ efitted by the road build-{ Pérsonals: Rev. FB. L. Ley, equals the entire cost of the! iting in olina, returned on i ' Henry work, . .The city of Key V taking on ne life bh ihle by automobile. 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