The Key West Citizen Newspaper, September 25, 1934, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. Se Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West ‘VOLUME LV. No. 228. Great Interest Now Centered... In Big Celebration Contest: Toward Selection Of Queen, Quite A Number Of Eo-' MAKING STUDY OF tries Already Made In Outstanding Feature Of Coming Event When the coronation of a king and queen takes place as the event in the two-day celebration of El Grito de Yara here October ® and 10, one of 14 Key West young ladies will be crowned queen with Adolfo Naranjo, se- lected by the National Associa- tion of Hotel Representatives Cuba as prince for the celebra-; tien, The period for registration of | contestants the campaign loved last Saturday, and today those whose names had been reg- istered for the contest were nounced by J. S. Moore, local Legion post, in charge of the contest, Ballots have been distributed by Legionnaires to a score of mer- chants who are giving them out with purchases made at their stores, and customers should ask for ballot tickets, it was shown. Each ticket has a value of votes, and for each cent’s value of & purchase, a ballot is given, ex. | meander of tl {| study before the BOOK RELATIVE TO TAX COLLECTIONS F. H. LADD, COUNTY OFFI-! CER, MAKING STUDY oF! ITEMS AS PERTAINS TO AS- SESSMENTS In the new issue of the volume of the Compilation of Laws Re: lating to the Assessment and Col- | ' | leetion of Licenses and License | Taxes are many changes, This book has just been receiv-; ed by Tax Collector Frank H.! Ladd and he is giving it much! first day of | October when licenses become: due. In the volume are the enact-) ments of the legislatures of 1929 to 1933 relative to licenses, the contents are more comprehensive. than any heretofore issued and | contains many changes. Many businesses are listed | which have not been carried in| former volumes and a number of | side lines which have been carried} in stock in connection with other | merchandise are listed separately. | In the former compilation of | laws the index of the contents is} contained in four and one-half} pages. In.the present issue the! os CITING: LEARNED ON GOOD AUTHORI- TY GOVERNOR WILL BE ASKED TO APPOINT SPE- CIAL PROSECUTOR Three arrests in the matter of alleged fradulent conduct of the} at the! Fifth and Seventh Precincts were} First Primary election consummated yesterday after- noon. Freeman D. Hall, E. CG, Gomez and W. B. Curry were apprised; of their alleged culpability by sheriff's officers and immediately made the bond of $100 which was fixed by Judge J, Vining Harris. W. E. Huston, for whose ar- vest a capias was issued, did not wait for service from an officer. ; He saw the announcement in The} Citizen of the capiasses having} been issued for the arrest of; clerks and inspectors and his} name among them, He reported | ; to the office of the shriff and ati | once made the required bond. It was learned on good author- ity that Governor Sholtz will be) requested to appoint a prosecutor to assist County Solici- tor Aquilino Lopez, Jr., in con- ' ducting the case. COMMUNITY CLUB PLANS MEETING special The monthly meeting of the! Key West Community Club will, cept that, tickets have been printed.index covers twenty and a half be-held in the club room of the only in the denomination of 26 votes, If @ person makes a cent purchase at a store, he should re ceive one ticket which is good for 25 vot if he makes a 50 —_ purehase, he should receive tickets, good for 50 votes. Here is the list of candidates for the honor which will come the evening of October 9, when the @bronation ceremony starts the two-day celebration: Nela Arno, Martha Carbonell, Consuelo Car- mona Anna Louise Castro, Solita Cobo, Rosa Cru Mo- Yaima Ochoa, zy Grace Rive Catherine Saun- ders, An Tuttle, Josephine Ubieta and Josephine Vascos. The first tabulation is to be made the latter part of this week unced, and pictures are of the three high con The photographs are to be sent to Miami and Tampa, it is planned, where there is consider- able interest in the approaching celebration here of El Grito. de Yara. \ It in absolutely necessary that Persons start turning in votes at} the Key West Administration at on in order that the first tab- wlation can be made, ‘t was shown, CHARLES ELWOOD GIVEN PROMOTION and Mrs. Ashe strect a 25 | Ray Elwood of in receipt of m the Charles who is now located ‘exas, with the United son, “i States Im chief clerk, stating that he has; been promoted to the position of) border patrol inspector. Mrs. Elwood was formerly Miss! Bitta Gato, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Fernando Gato ot this 4 NOTICE igration Department as, ' ba | tense and pages and lists separately and in-| dividually every conceivable form| of business that can be -entered| into, ‘ Trinity Presbyterian Church, Wednesday, from 6 to 7 p. m., ac- cording to an announcement by Rev. A. DeBarritt, Linked With ith Lindbergh Tragedy; cae aaeeeea Associated Prexs) By GEORGE TUCKER ' NEW YORK, Sept. 25.—It is 4 p. m. in Greenwich street and the| ; steel gates that barricade the en- trance ot the valuted courtyard of Greenwich poiice station buckle, but do not gi as the mob strains and tugs to catch a glimpse of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the’ man who is charged with receiv: ig the Lindbergh ransom money. Haupt- ; court room where sit the But they do not see He is high in a _ secret | chamber, ringed by accusers, tight. | | lipped, adamant. They see, instead, scores of men with yellow cards in their hats, and scores of others with rectang- ular contraptions with flashlight bulbs attached. These are the re- porters and photographers called | to the spot to record the climatic | chapter in the biggest kidnap story | the newspapers ever ran. htsticks Wielded They see dozens of policemen! nad plainclothes men come and go} in a continual stream. They see! | stout coppers rap skulls with their nightsticks when the crush at the ti icade becomes too great. Inside, in the courtyard, the re- porters and photographers ar waiting. They take | |stock of the surroundings, won-! Occupational and Professional be due and payable October 1, 1084, at t office of the County Tax Collector in the County Court Rouse, All persons requiring such Heenses please take notice as ther Must be procured to continue In business. FRANK H, LADD, Tax Collector, Monroe County. Sept, 22- at) Jersey the night before Charles! room. \dering how they Licenses for the year 1934-35 will| break through that will manage to! crowd and! h telephones when the flash mes, Heavy footsteps resound in the; hallway. But it is only a plain- | elothesman. He goes directly to! four detectives who stand at the! door of a 1932 model car—the! automobile that was said to have! been stolen somewhere in New | tion, ‘ lice, | Hoover | tigation, department of justice. | of the man, his identi A. Lindbergh, Jr., wa: ‘General Is s kidnaped. Waiting He nods significantly. There is a shout, and through a confused | babble comes the long awaited an-| nouncement: “The general is waiting, boys.” “Show your passes! Show your police cards!” yells a policeman, standing in the gloomy stone door | way. The rush is on, Through the corridor, a turn to the left, up! three flights of twisting stairs.: On pell mell through another cor-| ridor and finally into a small! thre: Tense, but radiating satisfac-| ironed-haired Police Com} missioner John F. O’Ryan faces the press. At his left sits Col. H.| Norman Schwartzkopf, superin-| tendent of New Jersey state po-| and at his right, J. Edgar! of the division of inves Then The News “How about it, general the cry. “I have an important statement to make, gentlemen. Then I am { | | | | ;gonig to let you photograph the | | prisoner and the money,” says General O’Ryan. A hundred reporters breathlessly. Cameras in ness, thé photographers ed for Hauptmann’s arrival. | Now the statement—the name| his cap | Reporters shout questions :| ” “Did he kill the; ture. “Did he confe: baby?” Cameras Focused Somebody lifts an extra chair! onto the raised stand where the} three chiefs sit, A reporter jumps into it for a second so the photo- graphers can focus cameras. | Suddenly—as if by some prear-| ranged signal—tbe stir and con- fusion cease. Every eye is train- ed on the door. Hauptmann the| i is led into ‘Chiet of ¥ m NEWPORT, R. L, Sept. 25.—The American defender, Rainbow today defeated the! British challenger Endeavour: for the fourth straight time, in their series for America’s cup to retain the historic in- ternational yachting trophy,: [unless the British protest is est Citen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1934. victory. The American boat, Rain-| ‘bow, won by 55 seconds, i covered tie required course’ allowed, ruling out today’: "| | i | of thirty miles in 3 hours, 40 | minutes and 5 seconds. The time of the challen- ger, Endeavour, was 3 hours, j@1 minutes. Sheriff Thompson Receives Letter From Bureau: Of; Prisons Relative To Notice Admonishing Prisoners “Unless you are back by 6 j o'clock, we will lock you out.” This alleged admonitory notice to prisoners in the Monroe coun. | ty jail is, quoted in a letter from the bureau of prisons of the De- partment, of Justice in Washing- ton to K. O. Thompson, Monroe county sheriff. The letter reads: “‘We have re- | ceived a newspaper clipping which indicates that prisoners held in the Monroe County Jail at Key West are permitted to leave the | jail during the day, provided they return at night. The article states that there is a sign over the door which reads as follows: “Unless you are back by 6 we will lock you out.’ “We are not accepting ‘t article as facts, but would appre- ' | ciate your sending us an expres- sion with regard to it. The gov- {ernment has been using this jail ae Drama. Follows Arrest Of Man for its prisoners and if a rule such as the paper purports does exist, we should not feel to continue using it.” Sheriff Thompson displayed this letter to The Citizen and also the | following clipping from a Florida disposed ; ee Warns Key West Prisoners “Key West, Sept. 11.—(AP)— | Strict rules govern the Key West jail. Privoners are turned out in the day time under the require | ment they return at night. A sign over the door reads, ‘Unless you | are back by 6:00 we will lock you out’.” | j Sheriff Thompson discussed! this matter with The Citizen today | and said he is looking for the of the Associated Press responsible for sending out representative such an atrocious lie, “There are times,* said the sheriff, “when we have allowed prisoners to go to see their fami- j ties. However, this has been al-} lowed only when it has been clear- 4y proven that it was an urgent necessity, such as severe liners; or possible death. And whenever such srevitegea) have been accorded a prisoner the! prisoner has aiways been accom-| panied by a deputy sheriff or, in| wfew instances by. the sheriff and} a brief time limit set on their ab- | sence from the jail.” j Asked if there had ever been any irregularities noticed by The, n. the reply given the sher-! was that for the past four years or more The Citizen has been a daily visitor to the court house and jail and has never notic- | ed any action on the part of the sheriff or his force to ir te! there was any truth in statements! to the effect that prisoners were allowe privileges other than! those provided by the laws gov- ; erning prisons and inmates, The sign which has been on the door in the wall ail for y is still there and reads: “Visitors allowed from 5! to 6 P. M.” | any urrounding the} | Return To Old Fundamentals . Seen In Housing Plan ‘om Reversal of Whole Mod- ern Trend On Prin-' ciples On Which Bank-' ing First Began By BYRON PRICE Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Unlike many of the Roosevelt | policies, which spring theories new to American thought, | the banking aspects of the hous-| i ing program represent essentially | a turning back to old mentals, The program proposes to make) character, rather than collateral, | for - loans. the the accepted security That is a reversal of whole Hi . modern trend, but a reversion to the principles on which banking! irst began. In effect, the government now says to the banker: “Here John Jones. He wants a loan, but can give only his word that he will repay. He is an honest man, with a good record for keeping hi (Continued on Page Four) is from | funda-| ‘JAPAN BUYING FLORIDA METAL | | FIFTEEN SHIP PS DURING THIS YEAR CALL AT JACK- SONVILLE (By Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Fila., —Japan is increasing its pur- | s of scrap metal in Florida. | Records of the municipal docks | and terminals bureau here show | 6 tons of} ailed from this port! apan during the first cight months of this year. The movement in sponding period of 964 tons. ‘DAUGHTER BORN AT ALVAREZ HOME | } Mr, and Mrs, Ernesto Alvarez! announce the birth of a daughter! born Sunday morning their home on Packer street. Both mother and baby are ing nicely. the 1933 corre- was 5,- i | | | at do: | \ | re [THREE ARRESTS {American Boat Rainhow Defeats [LEGION TO ELECT Kan te AMENDMENT TO BY-LAWS OF POST GOVERNING DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS TO BE TAKEN UP AT SESSION Among the matters of interest and importance to come before the regular meeting of Arthur Sawyer Post No. vith Death Of Watson Can Be Tried On Manslaughter ar Charge ‘CONSUMPTION OF || BEER IN FLORIDA SHOWS INCREASE 28, American! Legion, tonight will be the annual: election of post officers, it was stated today. Officers to be elected are post j commander, first vice command- er, second vice commander, ad- jutant and finance officer, chap- lain, historian, sergeant at arms and three executive committee- men, An amendment to the post’s by- Jaws, governing the Drum and Bugle Corps, will also be voted on at this meeting, it was learned, and in view of the fact that only those World War veterans | good financial standing are eligi- j ble to hold office or have the privilege of voting, the command- | er urges that all such veterans be | at the meeting tonight, which will begin at 8 o'clock, and elect of- ficers who will function to the best ; interest of the post and its mem- bers, and also determine, by their vote, the disposition of the amend- ; ment to the by-laws, Veterans can qualify for eligi- bility to office, and all other priv- ileges of the organization, up un- | til the time the meeting is called} to order, states, Commander Moore! and he urges all who can do so to take advantage of this} fact tonight. ‘MAKE READY FOR PARK ‘CABARET’ “KIDDY” AFFAIR TO BE PUT ON TOMORROW AT BAY- VIEW PARK Plans day for the “Kiddy which is to be staged afternoon at Bayview Park under the supervision of the parks and recreation department. Cabaret’’ The contest will begin at o'clock and prizes will be present ed to the three best numbers pr sented. The cabaret is being ar- ranged by Miss Nell Rove Knight! and Victor Larsen, supervisors of | the park program and promises to be highly entertaining. MANY TAKE PART IN DOLL CONTEST WINNERS IN COLORED PARK EVENT HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED More than two dozen children participated in the ‘show held Saturday at negro doll Nelson of the parks and recreation partment. The winners were: For doll, Mercedes Hannibal, Geraldine Ming and Elva Care Best dressed, Mercedes a Geraldine Mingo and Ja’ Thompson; largest Mrcoiss | Hannibal, Margie Evans and Rosa- lie Henderson; ugliest, Eugenia Johnson, Evangeline Suarez and Rosalie Henderson; small leen Henderson, Louise and E de-| Siar ‘FEW LOTS SPONGE ARE SOLD TODAY: lots ing at the . the total There a few sponges sold this mor municipal sponge wharf eipts being approximately | |$350. Most of the sponge sold were grass and wool. There is not a great deal of ac- tivity in the market at this time. it is said, and no appreciable s are expected until the Christmas season approaches, were of | are being completed to- tomorrow ' 4; the; AUGUST TAX STEN BY BEVERAGE DEPART- MENT EXCEEDS ALL PRE- VIOUS MONTHS } {By Angocinied Prena) TALLAHASSEE, Fila., Sept. 25.—Consumption oy 3.2 beer in Florida is still on the increase, and August tax collections by the state beverage department topped ;8Dy previous month since the brew was legalized in May, 1933. J. A. Cormier, beverage de- partment director, reported Aug- ust collections of $45,849,86, against collections of $28,553.10 in the corresponding month of last year. Collections for other compara- tive months, Cormier said, were $42,315.94 in July of this year as compared to $26,658.78 in July last year; $40,899.87 and $27,- 788.41 for June, and $40,230.38 and $24,738.50 for May. Total collections in May, June, July and August of this year were ; $169, 296.05, an increase of $61,- ! 557.26 over the corresponding pe- riod last year. So far this year, the beverage department has issued 3,945 beer | dealers licenses, an increase of 293 over 1923. ‘PAT MURPHY, WAR _ VET, DIED MONDAY | WAS AT ONE TIME INMATE OF : MARINE HOSPITAL OF KEY WEST H | (My Anvociated Presa) t TALLAHA 3, Sept. Pat Murphy, known as a promin- ent lobbyist in state legislative ses. sions for many years, died yes-| | terday in the state hospital at Chattahoochee, where he was ad- | mitted recently for medical treat. } ment. | For a quarter of a century,! Murphy was active in behalf of! various legislation when the gen-| eral assembly held its sessions. He | compiled and published personnel! {| records of the legislature, Murphy was a Spanish-Ameri can war veteran, and had been 3 patient at various times in gov- | ernment hospitals. ! So far state officials and { others in the capital knew, Mur | phy had no relatives in the Unit-+ }ed States. He of} | Ireland. j | The Spanish-Amverican War Veterans’ organization started ef forts to locate relatvies in Ire-| land. If none is found, Murphy was a native j English Park under the supervision | will be buried in the state hospital | ” cemetery. Mr. Murphy well known in Key West, and was at one time n inmate of the United State Marine Hospital here. “ANNOUNCE DEATH , ‘| DOROTHY PERRY. i meee WIFE OF LINCOLN PERRY KNOWN ON SCREEN AS STEPIN FETCHIT | LOS ANGELES, Septmeber 2 Dorothy Perry, ry, known in motion pictures Fetchit, in Mon. rovia after a lingering illness. wife of Lnicoln pin died Stepin Fetchit, the well known negro comedian, was born in Key’ West and has played many roles pictures. He atured player in the sereen play, “Stand Up and Cheer.” seen this week at {the Monroe Theater. in was a f 'a motor vehfele | person, \f | person | tox Law Covering Driving Of Vehicle Under In- fluence Of Liquor Is Reproduced Willard Rey Goodwin, whe ix bei held in the county jail to await the action of the grand jury in the matter of the death William Watson Saturday more- ing at Key Largo, can be tried for manslaughter, it is shown, This is in reply to a greet eum- ber of queries propounded to The Citizen by readers whe saw the article covering the death of Watson in the issue of yesterday The facts as set forth in The Citizen showed conelusively that Goodwin, by his own admission was driving the truck im whic Watson and Harris were pass gers and that he was uncer the influence of liquor at the time This admission was not at the hearing before the core jury but was made te an offi of the law’ while the prisoner w on his way to Key West from scene of the accident, Await Grand Jury Action What will be the result o hearing when the matter brought before the grand jury another mavter which eannet be decided until the grand jury pre sents its findings. Referring to the queries o this paper and the reason fo | holding Goodwin for the act of the grand jury is set forth the law covering th by a person which is cited made met low: “It shali be uniaw while in condition an or under the fof intoxicating liquor te jextent as to deprive b ull of bh culties te drive o the highways fares of truck, or any other ¥% pelled by gasoline, ga tricity, steam or other “Any pel violation of this fined not se than $100 than $250 and costs at possession Flori or ve mobile, cycle jon conv | prisoned for not | and not more tha however, damage of an damage’ r any per ate? sulting person, he net more than $500 also be imprisone | three months “If the ¢ ing be cau while shall Convictic sions of t n bar to a oe *“Tonicnt Monroe Mic “Embarrasing Mome Palace—“Dancing Ma TOMORROW Was A \ Monroe and “Midnigt _MONROE_ THEATER Richar« MIDNIGHT ALIBI i EMBARR.*. .SSING MOMENTS Matinee: Baleony, 10¢; Orches | tra, 15-20c; Night, 15-25 DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK THAT THE FIRST PAIR ATE THE FIRST APPLE AND THAT WAGNER'S BEER IS FIRST CHOICE IN THE KEY WEST MARKET