The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 10, 1936, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service. For 56 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West WORE se By a No. 87. | Che Key West Citizen —: KEY WEST, FLORIDA, Two Boys Planning Robbery Of Stores Placed In Jail Ride Around City On TSI ISL LSS O RCSWELL WINANS MAKES! Stolen Bicycles Making’ Selection Of Places They; Proposed Entering i] Ridiag on stolen bicycles and recennoitering the possibilities of | easy robbery and valuable loot, | cad) theiplantaedani peocess/oE be:| ing carried out by Bertie Disdel and Eliberto Quesada, when the| majesty of the law intervened and store-breakers | | now the would-be are in county jail These two would-be robbers | started out last night by stealing! two bicycles from a local apart: | ment house and began riding over the city to select the most prom-! i i} ising places for their intended depredations. They visited the rear of the place Rupert Knowles on Caroline street, but were frustratéd by the appearance on the scene of tan Alberto Camero and a group of officers who had already ed up the trail and were then beginning | what ended in the round-up and capture of Disdel and Quesada. When finally canvit they were} surrounded by Ca,t Camero, | Officers Paul T Basil Tynes, Fr n and W. F. Collins. Disdel was eught j in his home Telegraph Alley} at 3:30 o’clo his morning and | Quesada wn t -throe-hourst later. At one period of the chase four shots were fired by the officers | with a view to bringing the boys to a halt, but the sound of the} shots proved as an tant and | the fleeing boys accelerated their | speeds j They confessed to theft of the} bieycles and that they had planned | to break into ihe Knowles place, | but were frightened by the ap- pearance of the officers from | whom they had hidden. iB Besides the Knowles place, | their other objectives, the young { men said, w the Tift and Lowe places of business on Division | street, j FURNITURE TRADE HOPES FOR BOOM. IN FLOODED AREA: coniuctced by o (hy Associated Prem CHICAGO, April 10.—The fur- } niture industry looking for- ward to an upturn in business! when eastern flood waters sub- side. Lawrence H. dent of the Amer Mart here, saye a record bre; spring market is in prospect in May largely because of the floods. “An enormous replacement market, in add n to the normal need for furnishin has been created in the ed ar ” “he say “In thousands of homes, furniture has been destroyed or réndered unsuitable further use. “While some fa ies will unable to ford to refurnish, large percentage will be in market for al of equipment.” the 1913 of Ohio and el: lowed by a for ferniture s' s in that their prospe: of that year. Price levels for the spring mar- ket are reported higher and an additional upward trend is ex- pected. for be} al the home! lained} valley} fol-! of business; Many deal- | y. he said, trace y to the inundations! 2 ypes flood SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE Tomorrow Night 10:00 o’Clock RAUL*S CLUB Music by Pritchard’s Orchestra ADMISSION . ---- $1.00 ing, WHOLE SCHOOL CLOSES {WHEN VIRGINIA IS ILL (By Associated Press) JUNCTION, Tex., April 10.—When one pupil of Dis- trict 18, Kimble county, is ill it’s an epidemic and sc ool clos: Virginia Lee fourth-grader, is pupil. There is a school building, but it is not used. A room has been provided at the 9,000- acre ranch of her father, Dr. S. O. Ridenhower. Ridenhower, the only FSI LI ILI LI I SI I Is ALABAMA FIGHTS » AUTO DEATH TOLL: WITH FIRST: AID} SAFETY COMMISSION BEGINS ESTABLISHING STATIONS AT VARIOUS POINTS ALONG HIGHWAY (By Associated Prexs) MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 10. —Attempting to curb casualties and deaths from auto- mobile accidents, the Alabama safety commission has begun es- tablishing first aid stations at strategic points along the high- ways. Usually located in filling tions, they are equipped by Amer- ican Red Goss chapters and are designated. hy: large.-signs ..read~ “First Aid Station, American Red Cross.” Each shelter so designated is equipped with a telephone to call professional aid, or an ambulance to remove the injured to a hos- pital where further treatment can be administered. mounting sta- Plan Numerous Stations Rence Tipton, state safety di- treetor, said a study was being imade to determine areas where accidents are most frequent so that first aid stations may be lo- cated at these points. Six sta- tions have been opened and ft is planned to place more than a score in operation this year. Frank R. Hoercher, Red Cross field director, is cooperating with Tipton in determining sites and is giving the necessary training {to personnel. In addition ' every man on the state’s highway patrol force is being given a course in first aid work. Scheme Already Working The value of such work recently was demonstrated when Patrol- man John Bryant of Decatur ad- ministered first aid Sheriff Edgar Blalock, whose throat was slashed by a negro. Bryant, a member of the escort. applied first aid and his physician ! said his knowledge probably sav-j ed the deputy sheriff's life. Each man on the A'abama force carries a complete first aid kit in his motorcycle or car. BAND CONCERT HERE SUNDAY A band concert will be sented Sunday after Key West Hospital at} the Convent of Mary Immacv- | late, it was announced today. The} j concert will start at 3:30 p. m. Emphasis wi!l be placed on ; sacred music, in keeping with the Easter Season. Arrangements are being made so that it will be possible for the audience to be in the shade dur- ing the coneert, it was said, and the public is invited to attend. New White Linen SUITS $10.00 UP On Display at MENDELL’S MEN’S SHOP pre- "MARINE SERGEANT to Deputy) the | ul THE GOOD OLD SUMMER _TIME IS THE SEASON OF PLEASURE AND THIRST FOR COOLING DRINKS. [DIVORCE IS GIVEN | TO GAY ’90 BRIDE: STORY OF LATES SHE WAS WOOED { ! AS INVALID AT TIME | REPAIRS TO GUN THAT BE-: | | i CAME JAMMED IN FACE OF (Thy Associated Prexx) CONSTANT FIRE OF ENEMY; CHICAGO, Aoril 10.—Thej jstory of a romance of the “gay; \*90’s” that cooled with the turn-! NEW ORLEANS, April 10.—! ing of the century was repeated | Service in the U. S, Marines is|Pefore Judge Joseph Sabath cistinuallya developing eeue) dior fo ueee noe Heme Y ree CbRES lotte Weightman. of heroism and valor, and Lieut. h b iful Edward A. Robbins. USMC, tells ne i eae a i an experience of a sergeant whose courts apeimere puaaie _ =! said. “I was an invalid. He used } cool bravery while under fire t _ Santo Domingo jungles earned fer } fas tio ee ie eae ee aad him a Congressional Medal of | N10) © an Weamere teat Honor. i Mrs. Ww. Tha fight was against bandits| Mt* Weightman xecalled that) who were being driven back by | '” a mest tive: years es | the Marines, sent there to clean | her eee ee otegds Rd chidpclice:a © section: <qliere| Vere Ns Dat tm 2802, she tor” ietritls’ warfare had threatened | “fed he ordered her from their ithe peace of the country, as well a : | “Once I went back,” she sai ae It was a hot day in July, 1916, | “but he refused to admit me.’ } as Lieut. Robbins relates the] Evidence revealed Mrs. Weight-; story. Fighting had been from; man had been receiving $1 a day one shelter to another through the| .enarate maintenance since 1904.’ jungle country, and the Marines; = * iad emerged into the open with| After hearing her story, Judge | the enemy in trenches and using! Sabath gave Mrs. Weightman a} modern weapons with consider-! divoree from Charles Weightman | able effect. land restored her maiden name, A corporal placed a machine) Weightman signed cver a $1,000! gun behind a log lying across aj insurance policy in lieu of ali: road and opened fire. Two bullets} mony. | hit him and he was dragged back! | i out of danger. It was at this REN DUELES CAS E point Sergeant Roswell Winans, NOT CONCLUDED arrived with a Colt gun and com-: menced firing. Within 20 feet of | Winans. seven men went down,} i wounded, and another was shot dead. i [ _ Winans’ ‘stood erect, GIVEN MEDAL FOR HEROIC SERVICES ROMANCE RE:; (Special te The Citizeny in} “It was as foreign lives and property. | FURTHER INVESTIGATION TO, BE MADE OF CHARGES OF | AIDING ALIENS gun jammed—but he bullets singing all zround him, and repaired the gun} without leaving the post. He; miraculously escaped wounds or| injury throughout the hot en-j; counter. Winans stayed with the jammed gun until it was repaired and saw; the enemy routed. For his heroic action he was awarded the medal and promoted to commissioned rank in the Marines. H Armando Rendueles, of this city, who was arraigned in United | States Commissioner’s court in Mi- ami yesterday charged with aid- ing and abetting aliens in thi city, denied the charges. Rendueles was arrested in Key West last week and taken to Mi-} ami for hearing in connection} with the arrest of three alien women, who were intercepted by Officers Gerondo Roman and Heb- ! jler Todd, while on their way to} jNo Name Key to take the ferry to Matecumbe. | The commissioner postponed the | i decision of fixing bond and order-! ed that Rendueles be held for} | further investigation. | | es Contributions in Key West to GONZALEZ INFANT the Red Cross fund for flood and} RIT | ES TOMORROW; storm sufferers today passed the! $260 mark. This is just a little) more than-half, it is pointed out, | | | Exciquio Gonzlaez, infant zon| of the quota of $500 set for this Previously acknowledged $253.16 of Mr. and Mrs, Serafin Gonzalez, | WPA Sewing Room 9.38 | died this morning 7 o'clock in} Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. {the home at 916 Windsor Lane. | ean “3.00! Funeral services wlil be held} ieedore Roberts ae 2.00 tomorrow afternoon 5 o'clock} | Eugene Roberts, of the WPA ‘from the residence, Rev. A. L. finance department, told The; Maureau, S.J. of St. Mary's Citizen that the $6.50 credited to Star of the Sea Catholic church, iim in the amount collected at| Will officiate. the Administration Building,! _ Survivors are the parents, three | should e been distributed as/| Sisters, Georgina, Gertrude and follow Joe McMzhon, E. L. |Soledad; two brothers, George Roberts, Tia Kerr, S. B. Hertell, |2"d Armando, ‘ Evgene DeBarcy, Foustino Ren-j | dueles, $1 each; Marguerite Mar-| ‘tinez, $0.50. RED CROSS FUND SHOWS INCREASE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR STORM AND FLOOD SUFFERERS PASSES $260 MARK | TURN PEACEFUL ISLE INTO BOMBING UNIT (Ry Associntea Press) THORNEY ISLAND, England, ae JOSE SANTANA, 94 { {small island, off the aia coast | jof England, to make way for mili FUNERAL SERVICES ARE oe Had eso hangars and land- | ing fields. | ING CONDUCTED THIS | Three hundred farmers and la- AFTERNOON j borers are -being transferred to | the mainland. Their centuries- } old cottages and manor hoases aré | 4 iving way to modern steel anc Jose Santana, 94, died 2) © o'clock this morning in his home | “n@rete- i = |. Three bombing squadrons are at 1108 Georgia street. Funeral! ; services are being held 5 o'clock) “0? Sationed on the ‘sland. | this afternoon from the residence, | Rev. A. B. Dimmick, of St. Paul's’ Radio Lunch Counter { | Episcopal church, officiating. | Today and Tomorrow The decea:ed is survivei by || Fish Chowder Hot Souse} Pi sons, Cecilio, Mannel, Wil-| Short Orders lism and Steve, and on2 daugh-jf| All’ Kinds of Sandwiches ter, Maria, There are also eight Ne#t fo Monroe Theater grandchildren. CURB SERVICE 1 ‘ | than at any time since the supreme } { build their case for presentation jand now a score or more of stu-! FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1936. FIGHT TO KEEP “NRA IDEA ALIVE) LABOR LEADERS BECOME: MORE DETERMINED TO OBTAIN SUBSTITUTE ‘RELOADING C CARGO ONITALIANSHIP OUT IN | HARBOR, TOW OF TUG PETREL oF PORTER DOCK COMPANY | BEING USED (Ny Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 10.— The official passing of NRA from j the alphabetical group of deal” recovery agencies finds or-' ganized labor. as represented by; ite leaders in Washington, letermined to obtain a substitute “new Work of returning to the Ital- ian Steamship Maaddalena Odero, the cargo removed by vessels of | the Porter Dozk company was re-} {sumed this afternoon. Hl The first cargo of cotton, which | was stored in the company’s house, was placed on the Barge | ! Monroe County today and at 2:15! | o’el i v » Tug! at the proper time. The oppor-| Rees = tunity probably will not come un-; Cargo removed by the Porter ‘til after the November elections. ! ; company vessels consisted of 700, If the present administration! ! bales of cotton and 10 tons of emerges victorious few doubt it! paraffin wax. It will require two, will come. |trips of the tug and barge to get! Already the A. F. of L. has as- | the cargo back to the ship. { ! sembled data to prove that the re-! There was also taken from the covery which followed the death! ‘hip 1200 barrels of fuel oil from | of NRA has not been justly shar-} ie part of the cargo which con- ed by the workers, of 1000 tons of the liquid. Th The most serious situation, oil was this morning pumped ‘they contefid, is the lengthening back on the vesse! by the Belcher of the work week. Oil company barge which was} ‘JOSEPH V. ALBURY. ame e by two tugs of Belcher : ‘DIES THIS MORNING The two tugs, Pioneer and L. FUNERAL SERVICES ARE TO: R. Hisey arrived with the barge Tuesday night and started pump- BE HELD TOMORROW AFTERNOON | Bie } | more } court decreed its death last May. Quietly but painstakingly they have built and will to ware- | continue ing the oil from the ship early; | Wednesday morning when the | Maddelena was floated. j This afternoon it had not been | {determined ‘when the steamer, | would sail, but it was believed that she would resume her voyage | Sunday or Monday. | CABLE STEAMER | READY TO LEAVE fethodist Church, Rev. Shuler| TAKING ON FUEL OIL AT. cele officiating. | | Pritchard’s Funeral Home is in} PORTER DOCK PREPARA- | charge of arrangements. ! Improved Order of Red Men, of | TORY TO PROPOSED TRIP which the deceased was a mem-j = er, will attend in a body, andj from which pallbearers will be selected. The body will be placed in th church at 2 o’clock. Survivors are three sons, ' Willard, S. Chesly end J. Howard Albury; three daughters, Mrs. | | Aniws Malone, Mrs. G. K. Camp- bell and Mrs. F. W. Humphrie, and thirteen grandchildren. jed it to return Monday. The CRITICISM LEADS ‘vessel is in command of First TO FLYING CLUB Licutenant V. M. Kimm, who \likes Key West, he says, and al- (by Aeweciatea Press) |w ays enjoys his visit GREENCASTLE, Ind., April 10.—Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam, TENDER HUNTING ; SUNKEN VESSEL | | Hl president of DePauw university, told his son Robert he’d rather see |him fly an airplane than ride a ! Tender Ivy of the ?-\ department, is working eight miles southwest of Sanibel motoreycle, As a result DePauw today Island, for the purpose of nee a sunken barge, considered a flying club, one of the few organizations on a college ca’ menace to navigation. Tender Poppy is today at Mi- us. After his father’s admonition ami and tomorrow will be active in Hawk Channel. Tender Poin-i Robert gave up his motorcycle and began taking flying lessons, at the Indianapolis municipal air- port. When he won his pilot’s li-| cense his father, presented him ciana is carrying out a program of activities between No Name | Key and Matecumbe on the Intra- - | coastal Waterway. in- | ' structions. with his own plane. | PIAISAP LL LAA ‘FRUIT TT VESSEL ; Soon, the flying club was organ- ized, Robert was elected president, senns DUE TOMORROW leer SELASSIE SENDS | j LIONS TO TEXAS BOY; i Fruit carrying vessel Mira- flores, of the Standard Fruit and \Steamship company, is due in | port tomorrow from Philadelphia | | consigned to the Porter Dock com- pany. The vessel, which is plying be-: i tween northern ports and Mexico with cargoes of bananas, wil] take |bunkets at the dock and sail for | Frontera. in Joseph V. Albury, age 74, died this morning 3:20 o’clock at his residence, 709 Frances street. i Funeral services will be eu iomgecrow afternoon at United States . Army mine | planter and cable laying ship e| Seecas Wm. M. Graham, was at the Porter Dock this afternoon R pee on fuel oil preparatory to leaving 5 o’clock for Cristobal, Panama. { The Graham arrived at Key West last Friday. Sunday the vessel started for Panama but trouble to the steering gear fore- lighthouse about’ dents are receiving flying (Ry Asxociaved Press) i BROWNSVILLE, _T ec x., April 10.—Empéror Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is sending two lions from the royal ken- nels to Manuel King, Browns- ville boy lion tamer. “Train them, put them in your act and send the Em- peror a picture of them,” are the instructions sent to Man- uel by Howard Winner, news- reel cameraman now in Eth- PHONE 177 When you want Quick and Ac- curate Prescription Service. We'll lions and obtained the gift | call for and deliver them. for him from the Nepws.” GARDNER'S PHARMACY weerareaa mT vention of firemen f-om ‘ROOSEVELT BACK IN WASHINGTON (My Associated Press) WASHINGTON, D. Cc. April 10.—Suntanned from more than a fortnight’s fish- ing in southren waters, Presi- dent Roosevelt and age returned to the entour- capital today. The corporation surplus tax and the $1,500,000,000 for relief will cccupy his at- tention at once until disposed of. Mr. Roosevelt will deliver an address is Baltimore early next week and later im the month in New York. ‘MAKING PLANS FOR FIREMEN’S MEETING HERE CONVENTION TO OPEN APRIL Key West, Florida, has the most equable c country ; range of only 14 mate in the an average Fahrerhest PRICE FIVE CENTS Treadway Feels Very Hopeful Of Bridges Being Built Over a Today Frem Sheltz Giv- ing Every Assurance Of Project Bemg Approved C. B. Treadway chairman of t © state road department, said this morning ot 2 joist meeting of the beard sioners, city council and bridge ef county comme commission, that be felt <onfi- det the bridges over the railrosd viaducts and trestles would be constructed Besides the members of the there were about Giffcrent units 100 sted citizens present m= the court roc™ at the coumty court Treadway gee an cuti.me of the accomphkshmests becuse to bear Mr by him since bis appointment as negetiater for § - purchase of the tailway's extension 20; LARGE NUMBER OF s- REPRESENTATIVES ARE TO BE IN ATT=NDANCE Just 10 days more and the con- other sections in the state will bezin Key West, opening on the morn ing of April 20, through April 21 an The Key West devartment made every preparation anj continuing 22. has looking forward to giving the visiters great reception and plans hav been completed for the general en tertainment features which 2 ways form pa:t cf these guther- ings Just how many visiting organ- izations will come and the num ber of fire fighters will be here has not been fully determined but that there wil! be a large ag- gregation from | departments in the southern part of Florida has been assured. Sessions will be held morning and afte-noon every the | Hotel Colonial, Chief Harry Bak- jer said, and it is expected {every ‘member of the Key West that Department will tcke part in the | program. * SAM HALL, 57, DIED YESTERDAY FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED THIS Sam C. Hall, age 57, died at 5 e’clock yesterday afternoon at a local hospital. Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the chapel of the Pritchard Fun- eral Home. Rev. Shuler Peele of the Flem- {ing Street Methodist church will ‘ officiate at the burial. Survivors are Mrs. Julia Nel- son and T. Reginald Pritchard. Key West; Mrs. Thos. Pyfrum, Mrs. Edwin Mullins and Mrs. SPECIAL Saturday, Sunday and Monday] CAR WASHED AND WAGNER BEER WILL HIT THE SPOT. YOU TRY IT! Miami and other; in Washingter and other ma 5 o'clock from <tr the nad secur { deta. and bad p matter just a Ettle more than one yeor frem the time work = started Be said he bad received 168 per cent cooperation from the differen: bodies m Key West and the people as 2 whole He asked (Continzed on Page For)