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The Washington times., 1933-09-08

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Drinking, Disorder
Result in $40 Fine

Despite his charge that the po.
liceman who arrested him was
brutal and unjust, Joseph Orr
Pratt, 81, a shorthand reporter
living in the 300 block E st. N.
w., was fined $40 by Judge Ralph
Given in Police Court today on a
charge of drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct.
Pratt admitted he had had
something to drink, but denied he
WAS drunk.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16

other native growths, and would
also undertake to encourage the
organization of junior garden
clubs among the boys of this city,
and also the planting of COM
munity gardens. The work of this
committee resolved itself auto
maticaIly into four divisions: Con-
servation. source of plants, junior
garden clubs, community garden
ing.
Wallace B. Kirke was appointed
chairman of conservation; Mrs,
Wallace B. Kirke. chairman junior
garden club work; L. p. Bostwick,
chairman community gardening,
and Miss Parker assumed the
chairman of the source of plants
division. Each chairman was en-
powered to select his assistants
II was the sense of the meeting
that all trees now on the island
should be conserved until they ear
be replaced by more desirable
species, both for the purpose OF
providing habitaticns for birds and
10 insure continued rainfall. as il
has been found in other localities
that denuding the land Of trees
and shrubs tends 20 materially
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16

qualities and adaptability to thi:
climate.
It was adopted that all gumbo-
limbo trees, of all sizes, no matter
how small, now growing on the is.
land, also seagrapes of all sizes
native cactus or prickly pears
sisal. sanseveria, live-forever
should be left growing.
II was decided to conserve al
shrubs and vines that are now
screening unsightly oushouses.
Other plants and shrubs to be con-
served viii be marked by the com
mittee. ..
An appeal will be made to ali
citizens of Key West TO furnish
as many plants, shrubs and trees
as possible. TO be used in this pro
posed repianting campaign. These
may be delivered to the Woman's
Club nursery, Duvai street, or To
the home Of Miss Parker, South
street, or notify any member oil
the committee who will gladly cal
for any plants donated.
TIE committee adjourned r.
meet Sunday afternoon at
o'clock to 60 over the island and
select classes Of plant life to b
conserved.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
ACCUSED TORCH
SLAYER'S CASE
TAKESNEW TURN
SAMUEL FURNACE, PRISONER
WHO SPENT NIGHT IN POI
LICE STATION FOUND ILL
AND HURRIED TO HOSPITAL

LONDON, Jan. 16.-The case
of Samuel Furnace, accused torcf
slayer, took another dramati.
turn today when the prisoner, who
spent the night in a police station
was found i'll.
He was hurried to hospital
where he is reported suffering in.
ternally with symptoms apparently
suggesting some form of poison.
ing.
The 39-year-old builder, who
hid out in a boarding house read
ing detective stories, while Scot
land Yard searched for him, il
accused of numbering his friend,
Walter Spatchett.
One of the most involved recent
murder mysteries of London, al
most had famous Scotland Yard
baffled, since Spatchett's burned
body was found by firemen who
were called to extinguish a blaze
in Furnaces workshop.
Three bullet wounds were found
in the body.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
Conservation Committee
Outlines Plan For Work

The first meeting of the Con-
'servation Committee of the Mon
roe County Council for Unemploy-
ment Relief, was held Saturday
night at the home of Miss Mollie
Parker, chairman, at 8 o'clock.
Those present with the chairman
were w. w. Demeritt, chairman
Monroe County Council for I'm
employment Relief; Mrs. W. j.
Phelan, Mr.. and Mrs. Wallace B.
Kirke, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. P. Bost-
wick, Mr.. and Mrs. w. v. Milling
ton, Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Leuthi.
Wallace B. Kirke was appointed
vice chairman of the committee,
and MRS. w. v. Wilmington, secre-
tary.
1t was determined that the COM
mittee, in addition to the work of
conserving native shrubs and
trees now on the island, would as
sumo the responsibility of re-
planting the cut-over lots with
suitable trees, shrubs, palms and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
CORCAS ANNUAL
ESSAY CONTEST
OPENED TODAY
HENRY T. DoHERTY, DONOR
OF PRIZES FOR CONTEST
DEALS WITH ECONOMICS OF
INSECT MENACE
(Special To The Citizenl


WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 16.
The fifth annual essay contest
for high school juniors and seniors,
sponsored by the Gorgas Memorial
Institute, Washington, d. c., has
been announced by Admiral Cary
T. Grayson, president of the insti-
tute.
The contest opened in all high
schools today and will close on
Friday, March 10. The subject
will be "The Problem of the Mos
quito and Other Insect Life in Re-
lation to Sanitation, Health and
Industry" The donor of the prizes
is Mr.. Henry L. Doherty, presi-
dent of the Henry L. Doherty
company, New York City. Mr..
Doherty. who is particularly inter
ested in the insect menace, was al
so the donor of the awards of the
previous essay contest sponsored
by the Institute.
High school winners will receive
| a Gorgas medal and will qualify
for entrance in the state contest.
State winners will be awarded SlO
in cash. and viii qualify for en-
trance in the National contest.
Winner of first national prize will
receive $500 in cash, and a travel
allowance of $500 to Washington
to receive the award; End national
prize will be $50 in cash, and the
3rd prize $50 in cash.
Winner in each high school will
be selected by a faculty commit
tee appointed by the principal. The
winning essay. with official en-
trance blank and photograph of the
winner win be forwarded by the
principal to the Gorgas Institute
for entry in the state contest. A
lcommittee of three state officials
will judge the winning high school
papers and select the winner in
each state. The winning state es-
says will then be entered in the
national contest, the judges oil
which viii be the U. S. commits
Sioner of education. the surgeon
general of the u. S. public health
service and the director general OF
the American college of surgeons
Fifteen thousand students in IS
states and the District of Column,
hia participated in last years Cor
gas essay contest. The winner
was Miss Harriet II. Jones, Albany,
New York: End prize was awarded
to Mr.. H. Shepard Fuller. Wash.
ington. ID. c.; 3rd prize 20 Miss
Katherine Donaldson Tack, Tulsa
Oklahoma.
For detailed announcement and
instructions write 10 the Gorgas
Memorial Institute. 1891 G. Street
N. W, Washington, u. c.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
Articles Printed In
The Citizen Broadcast
OUer Various Stations

Once again The Citizen
and Key West has been given
widespread publicity. The
"Air Dispatch, over its
various stations in Florida
has selected articles from this
paper and told of number of
highly interesting events and
news items that have APP
peared recently.
Among those that were
broadcast are the following:
An editorial under the caption
"Fisherman's Paradise. "Old-
est Resident Dies" This is the
story of Jane Sawyer, colored,
1o2-years-old.
Catches Fish Hooked Be-
fore" The story of the jew
fish caught by D. b. Giles, car
foreman r. E. c. R'y. " Cuba
Approach Digest's Words
About Key West" from a
travel story Of Key West in
the Literary Digest.
Lays Claim To Only
Pumpkin Vine Here, the
story of the pumpkin vine at
the residence Of Customs In
spector L. A. Gabriel, which
bears fruit that grows in the
form of an interrogation
mark.
All of these stories were
given to the world from
stations WAX, jacksonville;
WDAE, Tampa; WDBo, Or
lando: WQAM, Miami. and
WRUF, Gainesville.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
Havana Police Kill One Man
During Raid In Which Arms
And Ammunition Are Seized
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
HAVANA, Jan. 16.-Tip-
ped by informers police
searched the residence of
Leonor Carvajal in a Cerro
suburb and found six rifles,
ammunition and a sack of
dynamite. An armored
truck waited nearby.
Three unidentified men
appeared and when they
were ordered to halt fired on
the police who returned the
shot killing one of them. The
other two escaped.
The dead man was un-
identified.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
Japanese Accuse United States
Diminishing China WithArms,
Ammunition And Financial Aid
Italian Relations With
Chinese Strained Over
Staying, OF Messenger
On Battlefront
my Associated Press,

The United States was
accused in Tokyo news
papers today of furnishing
money, arms and ammuni-
ton to China for use
against Japaneses forces.
Ambassador Joseph
Grew emphatically denied
all charges.
A Japanese war office
statement said Americans
were furnishing Chinese
airplanes and automobiles
described as ARMS.
LIN the meantime Italian
relations with the Chinese
nationalist govern m ent
became strained because
of the Staying of an Italian
messenger by Chinese
troops while he was pass
ing q Sino-Japanese bat
tlefscat southwest Of
Shanwaikwan.
Italian authorities said
he had been guaranteed
safe passage and that
Rome was expected to de-
mand satisfaction from
the Chinese.
japanese airpIanes
bombed and heavily dam
aged Chinese headquar-
ters in Kailu and Jehol,
and a Chinese counter at
tack on Tungliao was an
ticipated.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16

FOR STABILIZING
OF SCHOOL FUNDS
STATE SUPERINTENDENT OF
PU Lie INSTRUCTION
SAYS BOARDS SHOULD BE
RESTRICTED IN FUNDS
(By Associated Press1

TALLAHASSEE, Jan. To-
Sterilization of school finances
was recommended in the biennial
report of w. S. Cawthon, state
superintendent of public instruc-
ton, made public today.
The school laws should be
amended, the report says, to make
state appropriations for aiding
counties more certain of payment
even if smaller in amount.
County school boards should be
restricted in their use of state
funds and enforced school tax
levies should be required in coun-
ties and districts, it adds.
CaWthon recommended that
county school boards be limited to
paying only current expenses, in
Guiding teachers salaries with state
funds and that past due school OBJ
legations be met from county and
district funds obtained by enforc-
ed tax levies.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16

lessen the annual rainfall on the
adenuded sections.
Miss Parker stated that the
mahogany that grows on the near
by keys is the simon-pure ma
hogany out of which fine furniture
is made, and this tree was selected
by the committee as the principal
tree to be used in replanting the
city, both because of its beauty
and rarity, and also because it is
wind and salt-spray resistant.
1t. was announced that Marvin
Thompson of Tavernier, had gen.
erously offered to donate 1000
young mahogany trees for this
purpose. The sapodilla tree was
also selected because of its beauty
and delicious fruit. Among the
Towering trees selected for beauti-
fication purposes are the spath-
modea (tulip tree), the beauhinia,
(orchid tree) royal poincianna,
frangipanni, oleander and hibiscus,
because of their ever blooming
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
Eight More Banks In St..
Louis Fail To Open Today
Guy Associated Press,

ST. LOUIS. Jan. i6.--Eight St.
Lenis banks failed TO open today
making q total Of Is backs with
aggregate deposits exceeding $751;
900. 900 20 close in the city ard ST.
Louis county within the last IL
days.
Nest Of the closed institutions
are small ReiEhborhOOd banks,
They are the Twelfth Street Ma
lioaaI Bark. Laslede Trust Com.
P~Ry, choateau Trust Company.
Natural Bridge Trust Company,
Lowell Bank, Grant State Bank,
Sarah Olive Bank Of So. Louis.
Sersggs, vandsrvoort and Barney
Bank.
In each case the decision Of d.
rsstors TO close waa attributed 10
reeent Withdrawals by depositers,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
REGIONAL OFFICE
VETERANS BUREAU
Is OPENED TODAY
FIRST OFFICIAL ACT WAS
THAT OF DISTRIBUTING
PAYROLL AT ST. PETERS
BURG INSTITUTION
tRy Associated Press,

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. To-
The regional office of the
Veterans Administration Bureau
was opened officially at the ST.
100000 Soldiers Home today with
the first official business being
the distribution of an $4,000 pay
roll for the first half of January.
M. Bryson, regional director,
said the home will not be ready
for members until March l or
later.
The bureau was moved here
from Jacksonville and consolidated
with the home as an economy
move.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
I[lZlllll
Investigation Move
Leaks Into Havana

HAVANA, Cuba, Jan. rs.
The news that Congress-
man Hamilton Fish has in
aroduced a resolution re-
qaesting President Hoover 10
Investigate conditions in Cuba
leaked into Havana clan.
destinely yesterday despite the
rigid press censorship. OPP
ponenss of President Gerardo
Maehado expressed the hope
that the United States would
Intervene. Havana nowa-
papers, under military censor
ship. and government eff
eiaia refrained froun men.
tioning the resoIatien.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
MRS. ]. WILSON
SAYRE Is DEAD
DAUGHTER OF LATE PREsI.
DENT WILSON AND WORK.
Err IN SOCIAL. SERVICE

CAMBRIDGE. Mass. Jaa.
16.--Mrs. Jessie Wilson
Sayre, daughter Of the late
President Wilson and life long
worker in social ssrvsee and
the cause Of world peace.
died late iast night az the age
Of IS.
Mira. SayTe was the wife of
Professor Francis Sayre. new
~ appointed state somrnis-
sioner 81 correction. and mem
Der OF the Harvard Law
School faculty.
She suessmbed to the ef.
feet Of . gall bladder opera
tion, performed Saturday.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16

WANTED-0000 Turks Cap and single hibiscus plants red,
pink and between
planting Key West February the month pruning
won't all citizens of Key West please all cuttings
them yourselves deliver notify
chairman of the Conservation Committee Keep the colors,
sarat and mark each bundle.
Also please all your cuttings and deliver them
All plants and shrubs
be used by this
replanng lots Of your city.
city full dress before the bridges through
hence maxi hast o prepare its attire.
CONSERVATION COMMITTEE,
MolIie Parker, Chairman
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
AIMEE HUTTON
SAID TO SHOW
IMPROVEMENT
EVANGELIST UNDER COURT
ORDER TO APPEAR ToMoR-
ROW IN BREACH OF CON-
TRACT SUIT BY DIRECTOR

Los ANGELES. Jan. 16.--Dr.
L. C. Audrian today reported a de-
cided improvement in the condi-
ton of Aimee SempIc Mcpherson
Hutton, evangelist, reported crit
ically i'll on numerous occasions
during the last two years.
She is under court order 10
appear tomorrow at the trial Of
the $4,000 breach of contract
suit brought against her by Roy
Stewart, film director, who alleges
he was employed by Mrs. Hutton
to make a motion pi=ture in which
she was to be starred.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
No Action By Finance
Corporation nBridge
Loan Before March 4
Key West Project Along
With Many Others Now
"In The Mill" Slated
For Action Later
by PAUL MAY
Special WashIngtOn Correspondent
of The Citizen


WASHINGTON, Jan. 16
Because "nobody's job il
safe" on the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, action
ON the Key West bridge
loan is unlikely before
March 4, at least, an official
of the finance corporation
said today.
Declining to be quoted, on
the ground that his job also
was hanging in the balance,
this official pointed out thai
the personnel of the corpora.
ton was selected largely
through political channels,
and that President Roose'
welt, after his inauguration
will be Immediately faced
with the task of virtually re-
organizing the loan body.
While officially the cor
poration is still functioning,
he said, actually It has
Stacked off" on its work
and is ''coasting on its heels
until after the change of ad.
ministration has been made,
Positions on the RFC staff
are made ON . temporary
basis, and are outside the
civil service. While whole.
sale discharges in clerical
personnel are not expected.
because of the scandal thai
would be involved, radical
changes in key positions
seem certain, it was asserted,
The Key West project,
like a number of others, Is
Gin the mill" and slated for
action eventually; but with
the "mill'' slowed down, and
no immediate emergency
urging speed, prospects foI
action before the Roosevelt
cohorts take over the helm
are very poor, this official in
sisted.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.
Refusing to yield the
floor for a previously an
nounced speech on prohibit
ton and preventing an
agreement to vote tomorrow
on the Philippine veto.
Senator Long Of Louisiana,
today began the fifth day of
the senate filibuster against
the Glass banking bin.
Long declined TO relin-
uuish the floor 10 Senator
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
Committee Fails To Agree
On Beer Bill; More Delay
GBy Associates Press,

Sheppard of Texas, for his
customary annual address on
prohibition--this time To
commemorate the thirteenth
anniversary of the Eigh-
teenth Amendment.
A weeks delay for the
Collier Blaine bill to legaIize
3.05 beer and wine was
forced when the senate
judiciary committee failed to
reach an agreement on the
measure.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16
NEVER TOO LATE

PHOENIX. Ariz. - Confessing
that his conscience forced him to
admit a $4,000 embezzlement,
Kenneth S. Farnham of this city,
surrendered to police.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-01-16

SPOKANE, Wash.-onIy eight
tenshs Of one per cent Of the pop
alation of this city are claased
as iliiterate.
Milford chronicle., 1933-04-21
DOVER GUNNERS
SURE OF TITLE
Increase Lead In State Shoot
League Race To Forty Targets

Dover Gun Club further clinched
the Delaware State Trapshooters
League championship last Friday by
winning the regular shoot of the
league over the traps of the Bowers
Gun Club. Dover broke 228 out of
$50 targets and increased their
margin over second place Milton by
48 clays. With only one more shoot
On the schedule they can hardly be
beaten out.
Milton finished second on Friday
with 217 breaks. Milford was third
with 213 and Bowers last, one tar
get behind.
Dover is far in front in the sea-
sons standing having shattered 1923
birds in 1850 tries Milton has brok-
en- 1875; Milford, 1913, and Bowers,
1880.
In the league race Clarence De-
Bow, Grover Frear, and Bob Willis
led with scores of 47x50.
The individual matches attached
to the schedule found some action,
Norm WRIGHT taking the lead from
DR.. Pierce in the high over all count
scoring 322x350 to 319. In the best
six out Of seven shoot class race,
Pierce maintained his lead in A.
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Milford chronicle., 1933-04-21
HENRY'S WEDDING
A HUGE SUCCESS
Large Crowd Attend American Leg
lon Show On First Night

The first performance on Wednes-
DAY night of the American Legion
play, "Henry's Wedding" went down
in the annals of Milford's home tall
ent shows as one of the best ever
presented before a local audience.
The riotous, laugh-provoking musi-
cal comedy kept the audience of ov-
er one thousand people in an uproar
the entire evening.
The plot of the show worked
around the fact that if Uncle Henry
(Joe Boston, was married before
Jack. his nephew, (Price Webb) he
would get 100000. but if jack was
married first, Jack would get the
500 900. Jack and his two boy
friends, Ted George Jester) and
Harris donald Smith, decided to
kidnap Uncle Henry and hide him
away until after Jack was married.
While the boys were trying to Kid
nap Uncle Henry two gangsters
Max Orkin and "Eggy" Denney.
come i'm and take Uncle Henry away
from the boys. Uncle Henry's bride
to-be, Samantha Green (Mrs. Frank
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Milford chronicle., 1933-04-21
FREDERIC WALLS
DIES In SUSSEX
Georgetown Business Man, Politician
SuccumbS After Weeks Illness

Frederic Walls, 81 years old. one
of the most prominent residents OF
Sussex county, died at his home at
Georgetown Sunday night after an
illness of several weeks. He was
born on a farm near Georgetown on
January 7. 1871, the son of the late
George and Eliza Walls.
Mr.. Walls was educated in the
public schools of the county and
then engaged i'm farming and later
i'm making bricks. In 1898 he was
appointed to the superintendency of
the Sussex County Almshouse, where
he remained for IL years, retiring
from that position in 1908.
For four years, from 1909 to 1913
he served as a State detective under
the late Andrew G. Gray at that time
Attorney General. In 1912 he start
cd in the mine prop and piling busi-
ness and in 1913 formed the George
town Lumber Company, with / Dol
phus Short, of Milford, his son. Jas.
Everett Walls, head of the Walls
Lumber Company, of Middletown,
and another son, George Elton Walls,
as partners. Mr.. Walls was presi-
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Milford chronicle., 1933-04-21
BILL HELD
PROPERLY ENACTED
House Attorney Finds Saturday HOl-
iJay Does Not Involve Pocket Veto

After extensive research and
study of court decisions in other
states dealing with similar cases,
Stewart Lynch, attorney for the
House, has given Senator Van SAINT
an opinion that the bill he intro
duced to legalize horse racing in
Delaware and which was passed by
both branches of the General As
sembly, is now a law
The same applies to the bill which
was introduced in the House and
passed by, both branches, making it
necessary for coal to be weighed
before it can be sold. Mr. Lynch
contends these two measures be-
came laws when Governor c. Doug
lass Buck failed to veto them.
Mr.. Lynch points out that, under
the Constitution, it is necessary for
all bills to be presented to the Gov
ernor and he is allowed his discre-
ton on signing them, but if he does
not want to veto them, the Constitu-
ton provides a bill becomes law
the tenth day after it is presented
to him, unless the Legislature. by
adjournment, prevents the Govern
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Milford chronicle., 1933-04-21
SEN. VOTES SEPARATE
SUPREME COURT
Estimate Creation VIII Save State
$1,O0O,OOO Charter Trade Yearly

Provisions for separate Supreme
Court and an entirely new system
for the courts of the State is made
in a bill passed by the Senate Mon
day afternoon. 1t is an amendment
to the Constitution and was passed
by the General Assembly two years
ago. Should it be passed by the
House, to which branch it was re-
ferred for consideration, it will be-
come a law. IL will not have to 90
to the Governor for his signature.
The bill was introduced by Sena-
tor Keith who, with Senator McIn-
tire and Stewart Lynch, attorney for
the House, strongly urged its adop-
ti8n 1t was opposed by Senators
Cannon, F'rasher, Latchum, McCabe
and Neugebauer, all Democrats and
all of whom voted against it. Sena-
tors Glenn, Hart and Steen, Demo-
Gratis, voted with the nine Republi-
cans to pass the measure.
Senator Keith and Mr.. Lynch said
the proposed act will provide a
measure of protection for the cor
poration business of the State.
While the new Supreme Court will
cost the State about $4,000 annual
ly, it is estimated the charter busi-
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