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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Application For Bridges
VIII In All Probability
Be Presented Next Week

preliminary details for the loan
application.
One of the exhibits is large
map, prepared by experts, showing
the proposed bridges and cause
way and the relative travel by
auto over all bridges of Importance
in the state. A full description
of the project, its possibilities for
self-liquidation in so years, fl
nancial program and the engineer
ing features are included in nine
page application to be prepared
to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation.
According to plans 1872 miles
of bridges and 1874 miles of cause
ways are to be constructed. Work
will begin within 80 days after
funds are made available and will
be completed within about two
and half years.
The gate road department wage
scale Val be employed. which is a
minimum of 25 cents for com
mon labor and 40 cents minimum
for skilled labor. A six-hour day
and five-day week will be the
working plan. ex-servie men viii
be given preference and no con-
viets or forced labor will be used.
according to the plan set forth in
the application. Travel win con
tinue as usual by ferry boat.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
MAKES CONFESSION
in OLIVIERI CASE.
WATSON ADMITS HE AND
KERR WE'RE ONES RE-
sPoNsIBLE

julius Watson yesterday admit
ted to Sheriff Niles that he and
Kermit Kerr were the men re-
sponsible for the burglarizing of
the 0livieri Pharmacy some months
ago.
Watson's confession exonerates
Ivan Roberts from any completely
in the robbery. He told the siler-
if that only he and Kerr were inn
plicated and none of the others.
He also confessed to burglariz-
ing the grocery store of Miss Mar
guerite Roberts on Margaret
street, from which quantity of
stuff was stolen.
Most of this property has been
used with no chance for the for
mer owners to recover. Accord
ing to Watson he lived kind of
robin Hood" life, taking from
those whom he felt could afford
the losses and giving to others
who were IN need.
He said that practically all of
the stuff he and Kerr stole was
given away and that he received
but very little benefit from the
results of his thefts. He profess
ed being repentant and said that
had he his life to live again he
would pursue an entirely different
mode of existence.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03

Practically all of the data
and exhibits of the Overseas
Bridge Corporation are ready
now and it is believed that
the application will be made
to the Reconstruction FL
nance Corporation for the
loan of S1O.5OO,000 to con-
struct the bridges over the
highway, before the end of
next week.
Frank III. Ladd, who spent three
weeks in Tallahassee preparing
and compiling some of this data,
said when home last week, that he
was sure that very little remained
to be done before all of the statis-
teal matter would be ready.
II. H. Taylor, attorney of Miami
and w. r. Porter, vice president
of the corporation, are now in New
York but are expected to return by
Thursday to attend directorate
meeting in Miami, when the by
laws of the organization are TO be
adopted. J. Lanceiot Lester, at
torncy of Key West, is in Miami
and devoting all of his time to
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Roosevelt Delighted With
Results Of Campaign Trip
Presidential Nominee Re-
turns To Albany Today ;
Takes Part In COnven-
ton Held
fBy Assoelafed PreasI

ALBANY, Oct. 3.-Gov-
ernor Roosevelt returned
here today after a three
weeks campaign tour that
took him to the Pacific
coast.
He said he was thorough
"" satisfied that his drive
for the White House gained
strength in a score of states
visited on the trip with
scarcely a pause in activities.
He viii plunge into the
democratic state convention
which will name a nominee
for the governorship he will
relinquish January 1.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
CARRY ON WORK AT
SMITH SHOALS SITE
TENDERS AND DREpcE WORK
ON FOUNDATION FOR
STRUCTURE

The lighthouse tenders Ivy and
Poppy, and the dredga are at work
today on what is expected to be
the last preparatory work on Smith
Shoals before the foundation for
the lighthouse is started.
Some final clearing of the bot
tom is needed before the working
platform can be erected and the
actual construction Of the struc-
ture begun. Should weather con-
ditions remain as they are today,
this part of the work should be
completed by Wednesday. it is
said.
The Ivy, which carried work
ing party to Tortugas last week
returned last night bringing w. j..
Schoneck. assistant lighthouse en-
gineer, who went on an inspection
trip.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Former Road Camp Guards On
Trial For Sweat Box Murder

heavy chain fastened from his
neck to an overhead rafter ON the
sweathox and bis feet ineased in
heavy stocks.
The seleesion Of jury dragged
slowly and not expected to be
completed before tomorrow.
Mrs. Maillsfert. who flew from
her New Jersey home. was In the
courtroom 10 witness the trial Of
her sons alleged slayers.
\ little more than Two years
ago. when ne was 10. Arthur Nal.
iefert Of Weskfield. n. j.. ssarted
a aaest for q job which was elimAx-
ed BY his death a. the ead ef a
heavy chain in : Florida prison
camp sweashex. MAkllefest. n
ysArs old. waa fsaad .sranglsd 10
death in tAs swsAshex ~ Ssaheam
prisen eamp. near here. the chain
about his meek and his feet en-
cared - ,x.oAen steeks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03

thing new to say, and knows how
to say it in a plausible and charm
ing manner.
Now and then, of course, it hap
pens, else suicide would be as
common among editors as it is
among high grade investment
bankers. But it surely doesn't
happen often.
spend long hours in a dark
and sound-proof room, trying to
figure out why this should be so.
One of the guesses ! often return
to is that correspondence schools
of authorship are to blame.
Before there were any such
schools the novice got his training
by reading his betters. Now he
gets it mainly from quacks who
can't write themselves. and are
bent only upon fitting him for the
hack work Of the cheap maya
zines. Many young authors be-
lieve that they can do that hack
work for while, and then escape
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03

By H. L. MENckEN
(By Associated PressD

There never was a better time
than this for young authors of any
talent to get on their legs, but
they seem to be coming forward
very slowly.
Half a dozen first books of ex-
cellent quality have come out dur
ing the past year, but certainly
there has been no such supsurping
of really first-rate newcomers as
we say in the first years of the
century, and again in the first
years of the war. No main
Street" has been heard of since
Lewis's, and no Spoon River An
thologys since Masters.
The American novel, in fact, is
in a very flabby state, and Ameri-
can poetry is almost dead. | re-
member when Miss Harriet Mon
roe in Chicago used to discover
a new poet every month or SO, but
now it is two or three years since
Sne IOuHu Hef last.
It's Not The Hard Times
The hard times have nothing to
do with the matter. just as many
good magazines are in being as
ever before: the mortality has
been mainly at the other end of
the line. And the publishers, aft
ter bad scare, have begun to
pour out books again. Most of
these books, unhappily, are bad,
but that is surely not the publish
ers' fault. They would print bet
ter ones if they could get them.
But the supply seems to be small.
A magazine editors job, in these
days, is very onerous. He has to
hunt down most of his more CONF
petent authors, and drag them in
by the heels. OF the stuff that
comes to him unsolicited, not one
percent is fit to print.
There is an immense amount of
writing in the United States, hut
all save a minute portion of it is
initiative and conventional, and
wholly lacking in ideas. 1t is a
rare day which sees really first
rate manuscript come in from a
stranger-that is, . manuscript
done by someone who has come
s.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Explosions Rock Brick Hotel
In Palatka;; Fire Breaks Out;
Guests Make Escape Uninjured
Sentence OF Ivan Roberts
Amended To Year In Jail

him in reducing the sentence. The
confession of Watson is what made
the reduction possible. All of the
prisoners had families and had
made pleas for clemency. To these
the Judge gave every consideration
possible but was not to be swerved
from his sworn duty.
The fathers of Earl Wells and
Earl Weech were in court during
the session. When asked If there
were any others to be heard Mr..
Wells addressed the Judge.
He said that Henry Hall and his
wife were solely responsible for his
sons being in jail. That they
were the ones who had led his son
astray and they too should be
punished. He feels convinced that
Hall should receive a sentence
equally as severe as that imposed
on his son.
The Judge explained that in as
much as Hall had pleaded guilty
to receiving stolen goods in an
amount below that constituting
grand larceny, he had given him
! the longest sentence he could nc
eording to law. The Judge then
read the law covering this Of
+, Tense.
IT is up to the county solicitor TO
file these informations said the
judge and he. as judge, has moth
ing to do with this part of the
procedure. Hall had also been
used as a state witness and had
been granted q certain immunity
which was in the power of the
county solicitor to provide and be-
yond the power Of the Judge to in
terfere.
The prisoners, Weech and Wells
said the judge, confessed to enough
crimes to give them many years
in the penitentiary. On some of
these counts they had not been ar
raigned, but on those to which they
had pleaded guilty in open court
they could have been sentenced to
Is years.
In conclusion the judge said that
he had at first intended TO SEN
tence the boys TO six years but had
given the matter great deal Of
serious consideration and decided
that two years would be sufficient
punishment.
Willie Weatherford, who pleaded
guilty to being an accompiiee with
the Parker brothers in the bur-
glary of the Rios Fish Company.
but claimed that he was practically
forced TO act when threatened By
II. S. Parker, WAS ordered released
from the county jail to which he
was sentenced for one year. Judge
Harris decided he would suspend
sentence on Weatherford pending
his good behavior.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03

Judge j. Vining Harris this
morning in criminal court amended
the sentence of Ivan Roberts from
two years in state prison to one
year in the county jail.
Attorney ]. Y. Porter, Ill, made
All eloquent plea in behalf of
Roberts, citing the fact that Julius
Watson had confessed to Sheriff
Niles yesterday that he and Kerr
were responsible for the Olivieri
burglary and he, the attorney, be-
lieved that the fact that Roberts
had once been charged with this
crime but was released on tech
nicality, had some weight with the
judge when he sentenced Roberts
to two years for breaking and en-
tering the book store of Aquilino
Lopez last week.
He also called attention to the
sorrow that was being undergone
by the prisoners mother and be-
lieved that some of the suffering
would be alleviated if the sentence
was reduced to term in the
county jail.
The judge replied to Attorney
Porter by saying that in sem
fencing Roberts to two years in
prison he was partly actuated by
the fact that the prisoner had been
arrested and brought before him
for the Olivieri burglary and
,, thought released on a legal tech
nicality, he believed him guilty
then and at the time he was SEN
fenced.
However, now that Watson had
assumed the sole blame of the
crime, with Kerr, thereby eli
minating Roberts from the picture
he intended to amend the sem
tence.
He told Roberts that he in-
tended reducing the sentence
provided Roberts promised to read
the Bible while in Jail, mediate
on his transgressions and make up
his mind to be a better man. The
trouble with the prisoner, said the
judge, is that he would not work.
That he, like many others of the
present generation, had gotten
away from God and were leading
lives that must lead them to utter
and absolute ruin.
/ Judge Harris, on receiving the
i promise by Roberts that he
would make every effort to lead q
/, better and exemplary life after be-
/ ing released, and be model
prisoner during his stay in jail. re-
duced the sentence to one year in
the county prison.
| The judge wanted it distinctly
understood that the plea of the
attorney on behalf Of the hrison-
er's mother had no weight with
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
OFFICERS GIVES
BURGLAR CHASE
SEEN PRowLiNc AROUND
ELGINs HOME; TWO
SHOTS FIRED

The sounds of two pistol shots
fired by Call Officer Harold ],
Key at . fleeing burglar awaken
ed residents in the vicinity OF
Eaton. Elizabeth and Caroline
streets midnight Saturday.
Officer Key was summoned by
a telephone call to that section and
was told, when he arrived. that a
burgler had been prowling around
the home of A. C. Elgin on Eaton
street as though trying to effect
an entrance.
While he was being given the
information Officer Key saw the
man in the yard of Mrs. Claude
Williams next to the Elgin home
and went after him. just as he
started, the man began running.
lie ran eastward ON Eaton street
ard when the corner of Elizabeth
street was reached turned to the
left toward Caroline with the Of
ficer pursuing him. just as the
corner Of Caroline was reached
Officer Key fired twice at the
fleeing burglar, who was evident
u untouched by the bullets as he
increased his speed and made his
escape.
In the meantime Captain Laurie
Roberts arrived on the scene to
assist Key in the hunt. For more
than an hour they searched in the
vicinity but found no trace of the
man. Officer Key is sure that he
Is a white man.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Coc NT0D011n<o. NOUS The Chance
I'D y V1OllOhOlle For Young Writers
: see . . 0 . . 81 . 6 &c zee

to better things. 1t is delusion
Give a youngster two years in
the pulp magazines, and he is ruin
ed forever. There have been q
Few exceptions, but they do moi
run one to thousand.
Another thing that works
against a steady supply of com
petcnt novices is the change that
has come over journalism. Most
American authors, in the old days,
began in newspaper offices, and
if they were careful to get out
of the city room in time they got
"a good training there.
i Today most of the newspapers
sacrifice every other quality to
speed. The reporter no longer
writes his own story: he telephones
it in to rewrite man. To the re-
write man it is simply so many
words. He has not seen it, and
so his account of it is bound to
be more or less flat and stale.
Thus the impulse to write well
fades out, and good manuscripts
come from newspaper offices only
rarely. They used to come in a
flood.
Business Men Turn Literary
Perhaps somewhat curiousIy,
some of the best writing / have
seen of late has been done by bust
ness men. In these days they
have plenty of time on their
hands, and most of them are full
of indignation, and eager to un-
load it. This combination # lei
sure and strong feeling is very
favorable to literary exercises.
So far these business men seem
TO have escaped the racketeers
who profess to turn anyone into
i Kipling. When they are round
led up they will be ruined, just
as all the literary drummers,
|rlergymen, schoolma'ams, letter.
barriers and farmers wives have
been ruined.
Pedagogues are all alike. What
ever they touch they spoil. My be.
lief is that those operating in the
public schools have pretty well
finished the United States, in
tellectually speaking. But that is
something else again.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
EIGHT BODIES
ARE RECOVERED
in CLOUDBURST'
BELIEVED TOTAL DEATH
TOLL IN CATASTROPHE
WILL NEVER BE KNOWN, -
GIVEN UP AS LOST
0ny A.seeIatsa T.se.sl

BAKERSFIELD. Oct. b..
searchers in the mountainous
Tohachapi area expressed belief
today that the total death toll
from Fridays cloudburst may new
err be known.
Eight bodies were recovered, 10
other persons are given up as lost,
and possibly 90 unidentified tim
Grants are believed swept TO their
deaths BY the 4)-foot wnlI Of
water that came down the pass
following tire eloudburst.
Tons 81 debris swept through
the canyons aud aearehera said
many bodies were undoubtedly
buried.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
BRAzIL'S CIVIL
WAR HAS ENDED
REPUBLICAN, GUARD ASSUMES
AUTHORITY OVER FED.
ERAL ARMY
lny As.ec,ate.l l,res.l

RIO DE JANEIRO. Oct. b.
Brazil's three months old civil
war ended today with complete
collapse of Sac PaGla, rebels com.
mand,
Colonel Carvalho. commander Of
the republican guard, assumed
power in the rebel city rs repre-
sentative of the federal army.
Reports said General Bertholdo
klinger. who recently assumed
rebel power after the collapse II
Paulista. civilian government. was
a prisoner at the disposal Of
the federal commander.
General Ringers fall was the
result OF peace negotiations which
ended when the enaissaries refused
10 accept federal terms.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Tampering With Jury Causes
Mistial In New York Case

NEW YORK, Oct. 3.-A mis-
trial was declared today in the
lottery trial Of Senator James =.
Davis. Judge Frank j. Coleman
said mistrial was declared be-
cause two jurors communicated
with defense attorneys over the
weekend.
A report Of the acts By jurors
were reported to the court BIZ
Defense Consul Charles J. Margiot-
ii.
The court commended Margiot.
ii and also lauded Senator Davis
for participating In the action Of
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Attorney And Mrs. Malone
Return From Extended Trip

Attorney and Mrs. Vim. HI.
Malone, who have been motoring
through the states returned over
the highway Saturday. They went
to Endicott. N. Y, to visit friends.
and then went up almost to the
Canadian line. They also spent a
short time in Lexington. Va.
where Mr.. Malone was student
at college and stopped for a brief
visit in Norfolk.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03

MEXICO CITY, Oct. 3.-The
Mexican government today threw
down the gauntlet to the Vatican
over last Fridays encyclical in
which Pope Plus H. protested
against what he called new and
legal persecution of church and
CathaIics'' ID that country
If insolent and defiant attitude.
shows IN recent encyelical continu-
ed. President Abelardo Rod
rignex said in q statement. Il AM
determined that churches viii be
converted into schools ard shops
for the benefit Of the nation 5
prolesariat einsses
The presidents statement was
followed ~ an announcement that
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
WAGNER ATTACKS
HOOVER'S WORK
SENATOR HEARD At DEMO
CRATIC CONVENTION IN
ALBANY
Wy Associated presS)

ALBANY, Oct. lin an
attack upon the administra-
tion Of President Hoover,
Senator Robert r. Wagner,
temporary chairman of the
New York state democratic
convention. told delegates that
the American people will
never again accept as gold the
brasa that was sold TO them in
1928. They have learned to
identify the medicine man in
. miracle worker. They have
learned TO distinguish prop
uganda from truth. We need
no new issue for 1928. We
accept the issue selected by
Mr.. Hoover himself"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Prisoners Cleaning Lot
Facing Marine Hospital

b. B. Warren. OF the board Of
eouaty commissioners, il having
the anoecupied lot opposite the
Marine hospital and the sidewalks
in trent Of the institution cleaned
mp.
Four county prisoners. IN charge
Of IaiIer Robert Lee Albury. i do
Ing IRE werk which II much
nsesfsG.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03

JACKSONVILLE. Oct. s.
Prison stripes Of fifteen convict
.-itnssses marched ia under guard
20 receive instruetion that lent =
realistic background TO the start
Of che trial Of two former road
camp guArds fer the sweat box
uasrder Of Arthur Maiilefert.
Defendants are George w. coar-
san and SoiemAn Hieginbotham,
Formerly Of Sunbeam Camp near
here. where Maiilefert was fo1nd
strsneled 10 death last june , with
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
WHALE POPULATION
TO BE DETERMINED
lns A.-aelsar.I I.re.sl

MELBOURNE. Australia. 0ra.
3 Discovery II. the royal re-
search ship operating under dsree-
ZION of the Falkland Islands gov-
ernmsas. has sailed into TIE AMI
arctic 10 estsmate the whale pOpH-
lation IF the fexion. In ire er~w
ars See Fsrstfsh sxisntsxs3.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03

his counsel IN reporting the In
cident.
Margiotti said a man came 20
his home and he recognized the
fellow as juror No. Seven, Henry
j. Moore. He told him, Mafaiotti
said, that JnsDs No. IL Is putting
in against yonr case Every
day In the corridor he tells the
Others that All yonr witnesses are
lying Margiotti said Moore tod
him.
The lawyer said Moore had been
drinking. but that the juror didn't
attempt TO discuss the merits ef
he case.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Regular Meeting OF
Elk: Thursday Night

A regular meeting Of the B. r.
Q. Z. No. s5i has been announced
for Thursday night.
The session II scheduled "a
start az s osc1eck.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
PIES GALORE

CLEAR LAKE. Mich. Six
thousand pies were scattered over
the landscape when bakery truck
hit a horse and turned over three
times near this city.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
TODAY,S EDITORIAL

Why sonstrssiioa Of shs
bridges will add ns&ferisIiy Co
the asmbsr ii anglers aloss
the FIsrid. ksys. wAiek srs
esasiausax 10 gals shsir
risksfsi title .. the Fisher
man's Paradis~.- i asse1sssd
= snasyss se.dsna editorial
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1932-10-03
Mexican Government And
Vatican In Controversy

the national chamber of deputies
will meet late today to consider
the cncyciical.
Evening star., 1932-02-14
The Milk Pail Full

THE malignant spread Of economic depression
! when human foresight is lacking or human
seifishness prevails Is well demonstrated by
development Of the past year or two in the
dairy industry.
The precipitate drop in grain prices made
grain farming improbable for the small farmer
who could buy grain at prices so low that he
found little advantage in putting in the labor
involved in raising his own. He found the
less trying and exhausting activities of his
dairy more profitable and instead Of continuing
the growing practice Of culling out COWS Of low
productivity maintained his herds on an even
more extensive scale, thus increasing the total
milk production.
In the meantime, the grain farmer, with lit
Tie money to spend because Of his low income,
was unable to buy manufactured goods and IN
dlstrial workers suffered loss of income Is
q result. The industrial worker, in turn, was
forced 10 buy less milk 50 that as q result
the dairy farmer, until now probably the most
prosperous husbandman, Is threatened with .
surplus which may bring about serious drop
in prices paid for dairy products
The Department Of Agriculture IS stressing
the wisdom Of sulling I'LL improbable cows
from the dairy herds and calling upon the
iairymen to watch market conditions closely
10 avoid disastrous surpluses It Is human
NATURE perhaps to expect some enc else to do
the reducing but If such an attitude Is general
among dairy farmers the Nations milk pail
may run over