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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
ANNOUNCEMENT
OF PROJECTS
FOR FLORIDA
KEW WEST INCLUDED I'm VAR
IoUS SECTIONS WHICH ARE
GIVEN ALLoTMENTS FOR
IMPROVEMENTS

OUy Associated Pressl
TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 23.-Civ.
il Works projects costing $1,3O0,-
600 were approved by the State
Civil Works Administration today.
They arc in Jacksonville, Miami.
Palatka, St. Petersburg, Jay and
Key West.
Work will start Monday on these
projects in addition to work on re-
lief jobs previously undertaken by
the Emergency Relief Administra-
tion which were Transferred auto.
maticaIIy to the Civil Works.
jacksonville led with $3.50, 600
in projects approved, Miami next,
with $323,OOO; St. Petersburg,
$4,000; Palatka, $4,000; Jay,
100000; anu $4,000 for Key
West, for the park Improvement
program at stAte-owned armory
used by the national guard.
In addition there was SIS, 600
for Camp Foster, near Jackson.
vile, and items of about $1,000
for Lakeland, Apslaehieola and
other places.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
Administration Continues
Gold Price At Same Level
Little Attention Paid To
Controversy Over Mat
ters Pertaining To None
tary Policy
my Associated Press,

WASHINGTON, Nov. %.
Paying little outward heed
to the vehement controversy
over the monetary policy, the
administration proceeded
with its gold program today
holding the domestic price of
the metal at the same level
as yesterday. The quota
ton was $33.76 an ounce.
In the meanwhile the
world price was 1886 at
the opening of the London
foreign exchange.
While Morgenthau made
ready to go to Warm Springs
where he will review steps
thus far taken with Presi-
dent Roosevelt neither he
nor members of the Federal
Reserve Board would COM
ment upon the action of the
Federal Advisory Council
in ordering a statement of
the attitude on the gold pro-
gram prepared for private
distribution among member
banks.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
WARNING GIVEN in
CURRENCY VALUES
FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD
ANNOUNCES POSITION
IN MATTER
lnr A..erlai.a Pre..l

NEW YORK, Nov. 2s.-The
Herald Tribune said in a Wash
ington dispatch today that the
advisory council of the federal
reserve board has warned the
Roosevelt administration against
"currency of fluctuating value. 81
The resolution. the Herald-Tri-
hume said. cited seven reasons, and
added ''in view Of the opinion the
federal advisory council believes
that in reestabiishment of our
currency bases on gold It may be
coupled with safeguards to be
agreed upon by international ac-
ton
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
CUBA BRINGS in
81 PASSENGERS

The steamship Cuba, of the r.
and o. S. S. company, came in
yesterday afternoon from Havana
with 81 passengers of whom there
were 80 aliens.
The Tanker W. Il. Anderson ar.
rived AIS o'clock yesterday aft.
ernoon from Port Arthur with q
cargo of fuel oil for the tanks oil
the naval station. The vessel dis.
charged during the night and sail,
cd at 6 o'clock this morning.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
CRIMINAL COURT
TO MEET MONDAY
JUDGE E. C. COLLINS WILL
PRESIDE DURING
SESSION

Criminal court will convene
Monday morning November q,
with Judge E. C.. Collins Of Miami
presiding for the week. There are
number Of cases TO be tried, il
is said.
Judge j. Winning Harris has been
assigned tn hold criminal court the
same week in Miami and will.
Sunday afternoon. leave over the
East Coast To convene court Mon
day morning. He vii he accom-
panied hy Mrs. Harris.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
CHARGE MURDER
WAS COMMITTED
CLAIMS WYNEKooP WAS
SHOT TO DEATH AFTER
EATING HIS MEAL
tny AssoeIatea Pressl

CHICAGO. Nov. 23.-Chief Of
Detectives William Shoemaker as
serted today that chemists had
turned up evidence which "prac-
tically established" that Rheta
Gardner Wynekoop was shot 10
death after partaking Of a Tues
day evening dinner at the wyue-
koop home and that murder
vas committed BY someone in the
household.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
GIVES STATUS ON
TAX REDEMPTIONS
SUPREME COURT ISSUES RUL
ING RELATIVE TO RIGHTS
OF PROPERTY OWNERS
(ny A.socInt~d Pressl


TALLAHASSEE, Nov. 18th.
supreme court today ruled that
failure to pay 1892 taxes in cash
before November I did not com
Plesely deprive a property owne,
Of the rights of delinquent tas
redemptions provided BY che
Futeh Act of 1888. as the lesi..
turs provided that 1892 take.
which became delinquent are re.
deemed within the time prescribed
by law.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
Welfare Workers Believed
!. Trapped In Fire Are Safe

LOS ANGELES. Nov. 23.-The
ITO men cut off by. a roaring
brush and forest fire in the foot
hills northwest of Los Angeles
were reported safe by a motor
cycle officer who ran a gauntlet
of the flames and found them
scurrying to safety.
The men who are county well
fare workers. engaged in unem-
ployment relief work, were max
ing their way over the hills, and
were apparently in no danger, the
officer said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
JOHN D. PLANS
TRIP SOUTHWARK
EXPECTED TO LEAVE HOME
ON TUESDAY ENRoUTE TO
oRMoND, FLORIDA

my AH@AHSAkFM FEEA4t
TARRYTOWN. New York.
Nov z3.--John D. Resksfel-
Ter, Senior. ~ho h eeavsless-
ing from an attack Of grippe.
IL expe<ted 80 leave Absuf
asxs Tuesday for has ~intss
home as Orraend. FIsgida.
A severe Geld preceded his
IIinsss Of the lasa five days.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
Indy ANNOUNCES
PROPOSED ROUTE
tBy Associated Press)

HORTA, Azores. Nov. %.
Colonel and Mrs. Charles
Lindbergh left here today in
their big monoplane, and
shortly before the takeoff he
said he planned to return to
America via Cape Verde,
Africa.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
ANNOUNCE HEIGHT
: in SHAKESPEARE
SETTLE AScENDS OVER SIX
TY ONE THOUSAND FEET
DURING FLIGHT

WASHINGTON Nov, 23.--
Celebration of the barometer
carried by Lieutenant Com
mander Settle in his strato-
sphere flight showed the bal
Ioonists assembled 81 ,237 feet.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
Eighty Percent Of Relief
Workers To Start On New
Program Monday Morning
wAwAwlwGw. ~ -
APPROVE FUND FOR
KEY WEST ARMORY

(By Associated Press)
TALLAHASSEE, Nov. %.
The Civil Works Commits
sion today approved the ex-
penditure of $500 for re-
pairs and improvements to the
national guard armory at Key
West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
TOMORROW

BayvIew Psrk-Di&saondbaIl.
Palaces Texas Tornado
Strand--''Ssrange People" and
.wAElx 81 Gold.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1933-11-23
WHERE TO GO
TONIGHT

Palace--'sTexas Tornado.
Strand--"WaIis Of Gold" ard
'Midshipman Jack"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
CHAMBERS ACT
ON NUMEROUS
PROPOSITIONS

Urging continuation of the hay
grading service in Imperial VAL
ley; approval of numerous legisla-
tive bills; recommendation for the
enlargement and improvement of
Borego state park and plans for
a booth at the county fair, were
among the principal items acted
upon by Associated Chambers of
Commerce at the monthly meeting
held Friday at Holtville.
Roads recommended for inclusion
in the state secondary highway sys-
tenn included: Brawley- inland
Seeley Midway Wells, Kane
Springs-Julian, Holtville- -Brawley
Niland-northern boundary, Winter
haven-Picacho.
Playing the ''Buy American"
movement as impractical, unless it
is accompanied by the practice of
selling American, J. Fred Larson
of the Imperial Valley-San Diego
commerce association. stressed the
necessity of both communities
cooperating to increase trade out of
the port of San Diego.
The application of the quota
system of immigration to oriental
countries was urged by Sam j.
Hume, executive secretary of the
State Council of Oriental Relations,
who declared that the present ex-
clusion of orientals is unfair and
unwise, betting a detriment to the
development of trade relations and
friendly intercourse.
Chester Allison gave a brief ad-
dress on the possibilities of devel-
oping the cotton industry in the
valley and outlined the plans of w.
j. Hartman in financing cotton
growing near Calexico.
The meeting was preceded by the
usual dinner and entertainment
consisted of selections by quartet
and tap dancing numbers by Holt
vile youngsters.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
BALLOT THEFT
!. CAUSES WAR

MEDFORD, Ore, Feb. 81. U.H-
The asserted theft of 10000 ballots
brought a flareup of "civil war
in Jackson county today.
A newspaper editor was horse
whipped by a woman.
Sheriff Gordon Schermerhorn
Mayor Walter Jones of Rogue Riv-
er, deputy sheriff, and two other
men were under arrest.
County Judge Earl Fehl, openly
predicting arrest, arranged $4,000
bond. .
More arrests were promised by
Police Chief Clatous McCredie.
All was the outgroWth of a bit
ter fight being Waged by Sheriff
Schermerhorn to retain office. The
other half of the fight was led by
his predecessor, Ralph G. Jennings,
who campaigned as an independent
after losing the nomination to
Schermerhorn. Jennings claims he
won the general election but that
Schermerhorn destroyed the bal
lots, preventing recount. The ar
rests followed
The topsy-turvy state of affairs
was climaxed when Mrs. Henrietta
B. Martin sought out Leonard Hall,
youthful editor of the Jacksonville
Miner and flogged him with a
horsewhip. Mrs. Martin, president
of the good government congress- y
a supporter of Sheriff Schermer-
horn, resented story Hall had
written
Hall said he would not prosecute
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
FORD ENTERS
BANKING UPON
LARGE SCALE
Assumes Dictatorship Over Two
Detroit Banks With Merger To
Be Made Later On.
CONFIDENCE Is RESTORED
Automobile Wizard Has Novel
Plan For Conducting Affairs
OF Financial Institution.

DETROIT, Feb. %. U.P) = A
banking system which may reyolu-
tionize the financial structure of
Detroit, and perhaps elsewhere,
was envisioned today by Henry
Ford, Millionaire motor car manu-
facturer who assumed virtual die
tatorship of two of the citys larg-
est banks to bring about their re-
habilitation.
Safety for the investor will be
the watchword of the two new ma
tional banks which will spring up
under his dictate, Ford revealed.
Safety is the biggest thing in
banking" Ford said today in his
first public pronouncement since
he came to the aid of the stricken
First National bank and the Guar
dian National Bank of Commerce
Sunday.
There must be safety-first, last
and always. Safety in a banking
institution means to me that a man
can put his money in such a place
and get it back, 100 per cent, any
time he wants
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
MITCHELL. OUT
AS BANK HEAD
Object OF Recent Senate lnves-
tigation Quits AS Chairman Of
National City Institution.
By DELOS SMITH

United Press Staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK, Feb. 27.-Directors
of the powerful National City bank,
meeting hastily at 9 a. m. today
accepted the resignation of Charles
E. Mitchell, its chairman and di-
recting genius who made it the
second largest bank in the world.
By accepting the resignation, the
directors allowed Mitchell to sever
all connections with the National
City bank. The resignation was
direct repercussion of the senate
banking committee hearings at
which Mitchell made sensational
disclosures.
simultaneously James H. Perkins,
president of. the City Farmers Trust
company, was appointed as the new
chairman of the National City, re-
placing Mitchell Perkins had been
elected president and director of
Farmers Loan and Trust on June
16, 1921. and was made president
of the City Bank Farmers Trust
and a director of the National City
bank on completion of the merger
of the two institutions on June 20,
1929.
Perkins, it was announced, as
sumes his new duties Immediately.
Todays session in the great gray
granite temple in Wall Street that
houses the National City bank was
swift and dramatic.
Directors of National City COM
pany acted as swiftly as those of
National City bank.
Hugh B. Baker resigned as pres
ident of the company and his res
ignation was promptly accepted.
In a statement to the United
Press shortly after assuming Of
flee, Chairman Perkins emphasized
that "the primary business of the
bank Is to serve the domestic and
foreign commerce and industry of
the United States in the field of
commercial banking along the same
lines as in the past"
When asked about the future of
the National City company, he
said:
Pending legislative determina-
tion of the status of security af-
filiates, the policy will be to con-
fine the company's activities to
government, state, municipal and
corporate bonds of the highest
character"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
OHIO BANKS
TIGHTEN BAN
BY LESLIE ID. HARROP
United Press Staff Correspondent

CLEVELAND, Feb. %. = Local
bank restrictions spread rapidly
throughout northeastern Ohio to-
day as numerous cities followed the
lead of the Cleveland banks III linn
iting the amount of Withdrawals.
Banks in Cleveland, Lorain, Ely
ria, Canton, youngstown, Massilon,
and Akron were doing business with
varying degrees of restrictions.
In Dayton and Montgomery
county a purely localized three day
moratorium was in effect. In Lima
two of the three banks were re-
stricting Withdrawals.
Practically all the banks joining
in the restrictions today were in
areas directly affected by the
Cleveland and Dayton banks.
The Cleveland stock exchange
met and voted to close its opera
tions. No time limit was placed on
the closing order
youngstown banks joined the re-
strictions spreading through north
ern Ohio limiting Withdrawals to
$100 at one bank and S25 plus five
per cent at another bank.
Governor George White reaffirm-
ed his refusal to declare a state
wide bank noliday ana announced
he would submit to the legislature
tonight bill 10 empower the state
banking commissioner to restrict
local bank operations in emergen-
cieS
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
Blizzard Claims
Yuma Resident

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., Feb. 81. U.P)
Rescued by a searching party af-
ter blizzard which swept the
Grand Canyon country, three COM
panions today told of the death of
Robert Sanders, 10, of Yuma.
They said he collapsed during the
night and froze to death in spite
of efforts to revive him.
Doris Ebsen, 18, San Simon;
Nancy Afford, 10, Chandler, and
William Brown, 10, of Ray, were
those of the party rescued. Search
ers found them on the slope of Mt.
Eden, weakened by exhaustion and
exposure.
Miss Ebsen collapsed and was in
a serious condition today. Search
continued for Sanders body.
The four were students at the
Arizona State Teachers college.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
COUNTY WILL
HELP P|CKERS

Approximately 300 penniless pea
harvesters gathered in the Cali
patria section will be moved out of
the county within 6, short time as
the result of a resolution adopted
by the board of supervisors this
morning.
The itinerant harvesters. who
poured into Imperial county in the
expectation of obtaining work in
the pea fields near Calipatria, have
been reported on the verge of star
vation.
BY virtue of the resolution adopt
cd by the supervisors this morning,
the county will furnish gasoline
sufficient to start the needy fami-
lies on their way to their homes.
Five gallons of gasoline will be fur
nished at the camp near Calipat-
ria, and tanks will be filled at 9TH
er stations, including Trifolium, in
order that the families may leave
the county
B. A. Harrigan, agricultural COM
missioner, will furnish two truck
loads of vegetables so that the
itinerants will not starve during
their trip.
Discussion of the plight of these
people occupied great part of the
supervisors time this morning.
Other business transacted in
cluded recommendation to A. A.
Brock, newly appointed state di-
rector of agriculture, that Roy l..
Wood be retained as state hay in
Spector in this county.
DR.. Warren F. Fox was granted
permission to bring federal public
health nurse to this county, provid-
ed there is no expense to the coun-
ty.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
CITIZENS AID
K|DNAP HUNT
BY CLYDE G. BYERS
United Press Staff Correspondent

DENVER. Fcb. ct. W.Hl-An ar
my of 1000 recruited from the
American Legion, political organi-
cations, service clubs and other
units today initiated an intensive
search for clues in the kidnapping
of Charles Boettcher ii.
They expected to check every
building in the Denver territory
and determine the identity and ac-
tivities of every person encountered
Any person unable to give sat-
isfactory account of himself was
to be reported to police headquar-
ters for detailed investigation.
Albert c. Clark, chief of police,
directed the army of inquisitorS.
He expected to divide the city into
zones, districts and blocks for an
all inclusive campaign.
Police hoped Claude K. Boet-
tcher, wealthy father of the young
social and business leader, would
turn over to them all notes he has
received in connection with the 15-
day-old abduction.
The father had announced ne
would pursue very definite
course of action if the kidnapers
failed to return his son safely to
him by midnight Saturday
Mrs. Anna Lou Boettcher, young
wife of the victim, was reported
seriously ill., Her physician order
ed her into strict seclusion. She
is expecting within month the
birth of her second child. Mrs. D. M.
Mccormick, Boettcher's mother,
was reported near collapse, but op-
timiStic.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
Declare Society
Leader Killed

TACOMA, Wash, Feb. 27. W.P)-
Investigation of the death of Miss
Mary Fitzgerald, young Tacoma
society leader, took a surprising
turn today when police claimed
discovery of evidence indicating she
had been beaten to death.
At the time her body was found
on the beach near Seattle last
week, authorities decided she had
killed herself. Her car was parked
on a pier nearby.
They questioned a man whose
identity was carefully shielded Be-
yond disclosing a theory that the
victim had been beaten to death
in Tacoma and her body thrown
in Puget Sound, they declined to
discuss the case.
A few hours after Miss Fitzgerald
had been buried, Claude Allen,
young married broker, killed him
self. Police said at the time he
was the last known man who saw
the girl alive.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
Three Records At
Ascot Speedway

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 81. U.PJ-
Ernie Triplett and Bob Carey cap
tured feature events of automobile
races at Ascot speedway yester-
day, setting three track records in
the process.
Carey, winning the 100-lap main
event in 45:43,80, broke Triplett's
old mark of 47:04.3 by more than
a minute. Triplett finished second
Chet Gardner third, Sam Palmer
fourth, Babe Stapp fifth, Al Cor
don sixth, and Stubby Stubblefield
seventh.
Carey also set a new record OF
52.40 seconds in the two-lap he'll
met dash, breaking Mel Keneally's
former mark of 1888.
Triplett set the third record by
turning lap in 1881 seconds IN
a qualifying round,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
FOLSOM PLOT
FRUSTRATED
One Convict Suicide And Com
panion Surrenders When War
den Spoils Plans.

FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Feb. 81.
(U.P)-A desperate, but futile attem-
pit OF two convicts to escape from
Folsom prison failed today when
one of the prisoners committed
suicide and the other surrender
ed to Warden Court Smith.
The two convicts, Marty Colson,
%, San Diego murderer, and Lloyd
Sampsell, 33, Los Angeles and Ala
media holdup man, forced their
way into the prison hospital, and
from there proceeded to the ad-
ministration building.
Armed with ingenious prisonI
made guns, the two prisoners held
up the telephone operator and four
other employees in the administra-
ton building. They compelled the
operator, Sherman Powell, civilian
employee, to call Warden Smith.
The Warden was asked to come
to the administration building i'm
mediately on the pretext something
demanded his immediate atten-
ton.
Sensing something wrong, the
Warden called back but failed to
make the connection.
Warden Smith summoned guards
and surrounded the administration
building. Guns were trained on the
building and the convicts ordered
to surrender.
Finally Sampsell emerged. He
was armed. Guards commanded him
to lay down his guns and undress
before he approached the admin
istration gate. The convict COM
piled. He held a brief conference
with the Warden and indicated he
was willing to surrender.
Guns Hand Made
AT this juncture there was the
sound of pistol shot. Investigation
revealed that Colson, rather than
surrender, had chosen death.
He stepped into bathroom ada
cent to the Wardens office and
shot himself in the head with his
own gun.
There was ample evidence the
break had been long planned and
carefully worked out. The prison.
ers entered the hospital on the
pretext of being injured. Once there
they rushed into the administration
building, where they were in COM
mand from 7:30 a. m, to about
1880.
The apparent plan of the two
convicts was to lure the Warden
to the administration building and
hold him and his secretary, Bar
ney Huse, as hostages pending
their release
The guns were remarkable Weap-
| ons. They were fashioned out OF
pipefittingS from the prison quarry
workshop. They resembled in size
as caliber automatic, according
to Warden Smith. The convicts had
Is home made bullets.
Prison authorities did not know
what was used as gunpowder. Each
gun was equipped with a spring
hammer.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-27
Fox West Coast
In Bankruptcy

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 81. UP)-
The Fox West Coast Theatres, Inc,
today filed a petition in voluntary
bankruptcy in United States dis
trict court
The petition admitted the cor
poration's inability to meet its OBJ
legations.
No schedule of assets and liabili-
ties was filed with the petition.
the company availing itself of the
To-day privilege in filing.
The petition, filed by Charles S.
Buckley, vice president, was the
outcome, it was stated, of meet
ing of the board of directors held
last Saturday, at which time it was
decided the company was unable to
pay its debts.