The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 24, 1938, Page 11

SATURDAY, DECEMBER Santa Claus Really Has a : Post Office ‘This is the doorway to Santa Claus land, a real village resting in the Indiana hills. which’ has become world-famous because of its Christ- masy name and also because Abra- ham Lincoln lived there from his seventh to twenty-first years. Santa Claus is an unincorporated village but its post office does a land-office ; business each December because * ¢housands of people send their le+ ters there to be cancelled with the famous Santa Claus postal stamp.’ Lapepeneininy- sence emote 24, 1933 BATTLE FOUGHT FOR A HILL; EUROPE’S JITTERS INCREASE. By VOLTA TORREY ' AP rcaturé Sérvice Writer A conceaied @s weil as unde- clared war had simmered for yeats along the frontier between Russia and Manchoukuo. Just where the boundary lay, geo- gruphers could not say. And in August, 1938, so many bombs burst on a hill called Chankku- feng, hear that uncertain fron tier’s eastern end, that the whole world worried, and wondered. . . Was Russia, China’s friend, di- verung Jepan from the war in China? .Or was Japan, Ger+ many’s friend, distracting Russia from the erisis in Cze¢hoslovakia? Or were both sides’ frontier forc- es merely fighting to avoid being moved to bigger and _ bloodier , battlefields? Few could say. But Tokyo and Moscow’ diplomats compared maps, ordered an armistice, and agreed to let a commission draw the line between Russia and Man- choukuo. tues War Dog Days August 15-was expected to be; “Der Tag” in Eufope. It wasn’t.! But the buiid-up continued every.: August day. Hungary’s kingfish,’ , Admiral Nicholas_Horthy, went to Getimaty to ‘study goose-step- | ping. Bulgaria’s King Boris got nis neighbor's permission to re-| arm. Spain’s Insurgent Presi- dent Freak scuttled the non-in-; terventionists’ plans. Germans, ' marched as to war, and ousted a; British passport officer from Vienna for espionage. “Tt will soon no longer be pos- , sible”, Secretary of State Hull! breadcast, “for some. nations to. follow the way of force and for! other nations at the same time to/ I | | ' choose. and follow the way of reason”. Moscow flyers feted “Lindy”. | troducing | a phone girl, drowned after mis- handiing dynamite. Another Element French Chemist Jea Perrin re- vorted discovery of a 93rd ele- ment. Oriental dysentery invaded Owcsso, Mich. German micro-| scopists magnified germs 100,000, limes. Women voyagers through Colorado river rapids brought back new kinds of cacti. And the Queen Mary set a transatlantic speed record. New York’s District Attorney | Dewey, prosecuting James J. Hines, publicized “policy”. Bar- bata Carroll of Maine posed for photographers covering her fa- sher’s trial for murder. The Cleveland’, torse slayer’s 11th and 12th victims were found. Charles | Bird, ex-Public Enemy No. 2, was; caught in Baltimore. And the al-' leged “baking to death” of four! Pennsylvania prisoners was prob- ed. ‘Angels’ and Solons Father Divine’s “angels” moved to a new “heaven” near Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Hyde Patk place. Senators Alben W. Barkley, Ben-; nett Champ Clark and Ellison D. Smith were’ among the many) moving into election finals, and} those who, were beaten in pre- liminary polling included Sena-| tors James P. Pope and William G. McAdoo. | Tue Harlan County, Ky., labor conspivacy trial’s jury couldn't agree. The Dies inquiry came toj{ the fore, with J. B. Matthews in-; alleged Communist} “fellow travelers” and suggesting | that reds might even be hiding, behind Shirley Temple’s swirling ; skirts. Norma Shearer decided not to be “Scarlet O'Hara”. Warner | | Oland died, Lupe Veléz divorced | | Johnny Weissmuller, Dancer: | Germany’s big landplane crossed tried “the yam” and the “Lam. | the Atlantic. The Hawaii Clipper, | beth Walk”. Hollywood with 15 aboard, was missing in| ‘Alexander's revive Ragtime Band”. | the Pacific. Frank Hawks died;Summer coheerts drew record ina crash near Buffalo. Dan ithrongs. And radio _listeners| ' Dodge, million-heir bridegroom of dialed in on “Information Please”. | = | monix, the body of Serge “Hand-' real of this Be of the country, dees have a pest Hull expesds trade-pact drive, corvinced other nations will fol- Jow British example, MOST SWINDLE KINGS FIND — SUICIDE EASIEST WAY OUT. By JACK STINETT AP Feature Service Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 24.—When !the bubbles burst, the swindle kings can’t take it. dent of McKesson and Robbins, stood before a bathroom mirror i in his palatial Fairfield, Conn., home and ended his amazing life of crime with a 38-ealiber pistol, j he became the fourth great fraud | to take “the easiest way out” in the last seven years. A fifth | jumped bail and fled but was | captured before his ship cleared | port. | In less than a-fortnight of in- | vertigation Coster’s financial ma+ | chinations within the $86,000,000 | drug firm were bated. Almost | simultaneously came the discov- ery that the greatly respected, ' luxury-loving wizard of finance was really Philip Musica, twice- convicted swindler. The house of cards which the one-time Italian cheese importer had been’ building for 12 years | under the name of Coster crash- ed even before all of Coster’s fan- tastic ups and downs could be uncovered. Match King Tumbles j In March 1932 Ivar Kreuger,; the Swedish Match King and in-} ternational industrialists, shot} i himself in his sumptuous Paris! apartment. Afterward it was! discovered that the assets of “one of the world’s richest men” were} mostly ledger manipulations run- ning into hundreds of millions. In January 1934, in a cabin in; the little Alpine village of Cha-' some Alex” Stavisky was found. Police announced that the cen | tral figure in the $12,800,000 French municipal pawnshop scan dals had taken his own life In the early summer of the same year, C. C. Julian, one-time millionaire oil promoter in Cali- fornia and Oklahoma, drank poi son. in his Shankhai hotel room He was a fugitive from federal justice, a virtual prisoner in Shanghai’s International settle- ment, one of the few plates in the world from which he could not | be extradited. | Charles Ponzi is one of the few great bogus financiers of the generation who is still alive, hav- ing been deported to his native Italy in 1934. But eight years earlier when the state of Massa- chusetts cought to send him to prison for from seven to nine years, the “little wizard” jumped | bail and shipped for Genoa, Italy He was caught when the ship touched New Orleans. Like To Swindle ‘Many of the men and many of WOM ODO DIDOOVOIIIOI SOLS. IA#IAALLALALZLAALALAL LLL da the scandals ¢reated b; their | swindles have had much in com- | mon. All loved luxury. ger’s palaces and apartments | were filled with art treasures; | When F, Donald Coster, presi-|he was said to live with @ check, flying on Howland, Baker, Jarvis book in his hand: Julian, at the height of his: wealth, lived like an oriental’ prince. Stavisky spetit lavishly | and entertained in the highest so- | cial circles in France. Ponzi had a. palatial home at Lexington, ' Mass., and was dtiven about in an enormous cream-eoloted auto- | mobile. Coster-Musita’s pride, was a beautiful 132-foot yacht on | which he often ¢ruiséd and én-| tertained. | Kredger, Stavisky and Coster-' Musica moved in the highest so-! ciety. walked with’ kings and potentates; lent them | millions. _ Stavisky’s box at the lraces was next to Frante’s presi- dent, and when “Handsome Alex’s” perfidy Was uncovered, a icabinet went down with him. Coster-Medica was one of Wall Street’s gods (the second this ‘year to “take the rap,” but Rich-: ;ard Whitney's case was different from these and not based _oh the ikind of theft: that would plate ,him among the great swihdlers). What the end.of the stery in the drug company case will be is not detefmined, of course, but in every other instance ‘thére has oe (oeere: Chak dade de bth Lh dh hed IN WILL BE SUPER THE SEASON'S MALONE 812 Fleming Street mB “od restipe mere Just A Reminder 1939 YOUR FAVORITE BREAD MALONEY’S THE KEY WEST CITIZEN centlemen, et nathing vou dismay—” Hawaii Yule Greetings _ Leave Church Service| Broadcast to Islands To Catch Thieves | In Pacific Territory HONOLULU.—For the past three. years. Hawaii has broadcast Christ- mas greetings on December 24 to several lonely islands which have beome potentially important along aviation’s equatorial Pacific area. The messages, from station KGU, go out to the dozen or so young Americans who for three years have . been keeping the Stars and Stripes (iy Associated Press) 1 EDNA, Kansas, December 24. | —When it comes to capturing the interest of a church congre- gation, chicken thieves are too much competition for the pastor! of the Trenton United Brethren church. During Sunday evening servi- ces a woman entered while a hymn was being sung and whispered, “They're stealing Jim Christmore’s chickens.” Before the hymn ended all the male members of. the congrega- tion were on their way to the Christmore hen coop where they interrupted the task of two men who were emptying the roosts. The men filed by dropping and other tiny Pacific islands. THREW BOTTLES INDIANAPOLIS. — Paul Dun- bar was “sort of mad” at his wife. That was why, he in- formed the police that he tossed beer bottles through the window of her beauty shop. | doning an old car. { ee me i United States-owned mine in, While the Manatee of Sea-cow silver’ Was common to the waters of Florida at the time Hernandc | DeSoto landed in Tampa Bay 400 been a trail of tears behind’ the ! years ago, they are practically ex- swindle kings. i tinct today. It is the plan of the Ponz’s original investors, back | S:ate Fish & Game Department in the 1920's were said to have; to exhibit a live Seacow and calf put $15,000,000 into his interna-; at the Pan-Amefiean * Hernando tional exchange scheme in Bos- | DeSo‘o Exposition in Tempa, Jan. ton and thousands more were | 31 to Feb. 18. A huge tank is now sunk in his Florida real estate. {| under cocsrtuction for exhibiting Although Julian had stepped | these marir.e curiosities. out of the Julian, Petroleum Co. | 3 in Los Angeles then that com; ! pany collapsed, it was referred | to as a $100,000,000 company. His | successors were sent to. the pen-! itentiary. In Oklahoma, Julian’s} second company sold stock and; interests to the tune of $3,500,000. | Mexico, world’s largest producer, is closed by strike. -SOFT BEST WISHES YorBROS. Phone 818 Ce hdddhdkdddddddddedidedideddos yea”. ! home, their bags of chickens, but aban- $eAdndttdkddtdddddd. | Cowboy Prefers Buggy While During Spree BUTTE, Mont. (AP).—Horse- flesh has one big advantage over gas buggies, a Montana cowboy philosophically told the judge. “When you get too much fire- , belt a hoss to take you automobile water under has sense enough he said. “An takes you to jail.” your Charged with drunken driving, the cowboy said he came to town! to paint it red; traded his horse for a jallopie after two drinks and “got myself arrested”. The judge. g: him 20 days and suggested he ap car for horse when he gets out Fish Bit Off More Than He Could Swallow OKMULG EE, By Phil Niche blind when he k Okla. was in (AP)— aS a duck ard a commo- big bass madly whipping the shallow wa- ter. In the bass’ mouth was a half-swallowed 12-inch catfish. The fin of the had stuck in the bass’ cye, causing him maddening pain. Nicholas brought home the ¢ nce. tion nearby and foun catfish ANOTHER YEAR HAS ROLLED BY AND IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO ONCE AGAIN EXTEND TO YOU CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. WE TRUST YOUR HOLIDAY WILL BE MOST PLEASANT AND THAT GOOD FORTUNE WILL ATTEND YOUR ENDEAVORS THROUGHOUT A HAPPY TIIPPITIPPLLAL DS IAALIAZLLLLLALLALL ALLA Typists for U. S. G-Men ine Buy Gifts for ‘Children’ WASHINGTON.—Girls working in the typing section of the G-men’s fingerprint division at the United States Department of Justice, will stake their three “adopted” fami- lies to a Christmas dinner on De- cember 25. Last Christmas the girls adopted three needy Washington families, agreeing to help them throughout the year. Annually the federal bureau of investigation em- ployees distribute food, clothing and toys for orphans, hospital patients and other needy people of Washing- ‘ton. ; State Safety Director Ash Frank urges parents to be tremely careful in the use of fire- over the Christmas holi- s and also urges that they ard themselves and their fami- lies from the perils of heavy high- | way travel. “Death”, Frank | warns, “is not a pleasant holiday ; guest”. e PAGE ELEVEN Roosevelt’s Greetings Broadcast to U.S. Navy WASHINGTON.—Christmas greet- Wags Mom President Roosevelt and high ranking officials of the Navy department will be flashed Christ- mas éve from the radio towers at Arlington, Va., to the fleet and na- val ships and stations throughout the world. The message is an an- nual custom, awaited by American “gobs” and officers alike in their iron-clad battleships thousands of miles from home. WEARS MOURNING TURIN, Italy n unnamed girl in this city, 15 years old, was forced to wed an unwanted bridegroom, and wore black mourning for her wedding, in protest. House test looms in Townsend plan because of strength of Re- publcian advocates. The Season’s Greetings id a — From — The Porter Dock Company \) FOOT OF DUVAL STREET Phones 24 and 55 SPMD LD SSS. a. Yachtsmen Attention MDP TLS. We Offer— COMPLETE MARINE SERVICE Including FOREIGN CLEARANCES At Our KEY WEST MARINE SERVICE STATION Basin At Porter Dock Texaco Products IALLALALAAAAAAAL To Our Key West Friends AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. ee ed CASA MARINA PETER SCHUTT, Manager IAA ha nbd dn hdd ddd heddddeddddh LI AZ ECULELAZLALZLZLZLALLLLZLLLLLL SL (ABE VLAZALALALALLALLALALALLALLLAMLLLAAALALAAAALAA AA gd