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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

Things that can't please everybody:
An election result, an editorial, jury YER
dict, a boxing bout deciSion.-Tampa Tri
bune. And several other things.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25
You and Your
Nations Affairs
IVA i'm the Courts
!. By ELIOT JONES
Professor Of Trans porfation and Public Utilities.
Stanford University

1t is not generally understood that
the constitutionality of the IVA is
still undecided. The eagerly awaited
decision of the Supreme Court, which
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

biblical quotations: Woe to him
that stabIi beth city by iniquity. -
IIabakkuk PIP.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

After becoming partially civilized,
Congo tribe got heavily in debt and took
to the jungle again. We can understand
that impulse.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

Physical exercise and plenty of sleep
of US are willing to try the sleep.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

Honesty i still the best policy. The
criminal IS made aware of this as we'll as
The Judge. when either goes wrong
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25
WEATHER FORECAST

(Till 8 p. M, Sunday
Key West and Vicinity: Cen
orally fair tonight and Sunday;
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

The lambs are bleating-thOsc that
gamble, not those that gambOl.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

Shipments OF 80 cars Of pune
apples was received on ferries of
the r. +. C Ferry company last
night.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

The suspicion is widespread that JUS
the biggest retainer
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

after today there will be- but
five more days left on which to
register to vote in the June
primary. Registration today IS far
short of what it should be Tax
Collector VIM. r. Maloney said.
Books will be open until > o'clock
May |.
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Subscribe to The Citizen-20c
weekly.
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The 10 members of the GeOr-
gia Press AssOciat; on who passed
through Key West this week en-
route to Havana are expected to
arrive Tuesday afternoon and will
spend several hours in the city
before leaving for Tampa. Every
one who possibly can is urged TO
be at the boat in their cars and
be ready to take the members of
the organization on ride TO
points of interest.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

Graves OF Confederate, dead arc
being beautifully DECORATED with
flowers today by members of
Henry r. Mallory Chapter Daugh-
tiers OF The Confederacy in CONT
nuatiOn OF the program started
yesterday with ceremonies at Bay
view Park. Which were exceed
ingIy beautiful and solemnly
grand.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

BOatswa;n Hommcland. of the
Coast Guard liquor patrol, re-
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25

Key West will have two real
boosters in Pensacola when Mr..
and Mrs. Godfrey Thompson ar
rive in that city. They left Satur-
day evening and will stop off at
Jacksonville For a short stay be-
fore proceeding TO Pensacola
where Mrs. THOMPSON goes to re-
present Justice Temple No. II
Pythian Sisters at the Grand TEN
pie session to be held April IS
and 30.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-04-25
KEY WEST IN
DAYS GONE BY
Happenings Here Just 10 Years
Ago Today AS Taken From
The Files OF The Citizen

c. w. Barron. Boston financier.
predicts that the future value Of
Key Largo will reach the $780,
100000 mark. The Florida East
Coast and the Oversee Highway
are bringing to the Florida Keys
a development which had never
been dreamed of, until within the
past two years. Frank b. Shuts.
of the Miami Herald. who is at
least worth ten million dollars. is
chairman of the Key Largo City
company which has a holding COM
panv known as the Island City
Holding company. There are three
railroad station on Key Largo for
the Havana Special and other pas
senger trains and the Key Largo.
which is a continuation OF the
Dixie Highway planned to connect
New York with Key West.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-04-24

G-Men UnraVel Urschel
Kidnap Case, Capture
Desperate Gang
CONTINUED from Yesterday

But Machine Gun Kelly, con-
sidered the most dangerous of
them all, and his 29-year-old wife
were still at large. In fact, Kelly
spent part Of his waking hours
terrorizing witnesses at the trial,
sending threatening letters to
Mr.. UrSchel and to John B.
Keenan,, Assistant Attorney Gen
eral sent from washington to
prosecute the kidnapers.
The Trial
Bailey, who had successfully
escaped from the Kansas State
penitentiary several months be-
fore and who had slain q Fed
eral agent, three policemen and a
prisoner when he attempted to
rescue the latter in what was
known as the kansas City Mas
sacre," escaped from the Dallas
County Jail after locking several
jailers in the cells. He took a
deputy along as o hostage. But
his freedom was shortlived. He
was captured that same day at
Ardmore, Okla, and returned un-
der heavy guard to Jail.
On September Is, less than q
month after the kidnapping, IL
defendants were brought to trial
in Oklahoma City.
The courtroom looked like an
armed camp. Located on the
ninth floor Of the Post Office
Building, it fairly bristled with
state troopers, sheriffS, local po-
lice and Federal agents armed to
the teeth. The elevators stopped
al the seventh floor and those
who had business in the court
room were searched by deputies
before they were even permitted
to pass the guards stationed on
the stairways with machine guns.
Bailey and Bates were sur.
rounded by 10 Special Agents
carrying side arms and machine
guns. Even the jury and the
Judge were heavily guarded.
Deputies, Federal agents and
local police, all expert marks
men, sat in the audience and
lined the walls.
Bates, who whiled away the
first days Of the trial by making
threatening aSideS every time
Prosecutor keenan, questioned
witnesses was rewarded by hav-
ing . Special Agent stand direct
" over him with q gun trained
on his head and orders to shoot
at the first move.
The prisoners attempted to in
tamidate witnesses, especially Mr..
Urschel, by glazing at them as
they testified.
Though Machine Gun Kelly's
letters must have shaken the
multimillion already upset by
his abduction, he insisted on going
through with his part.
Some of Kelly's letters were
read in open court. One, typical
Of the man said:
Gust a few lines to let you
know that am getting my plans
laid to destroy your sO-CaIled
mansion, and you and your
family Immediately Are you
50 ignorant that you think the
government can guard you and
your family forever.
ain the event Of my arrest
I've already formed an outfit to
dStrOy you and yours. II am
spending your money to have
you and your family killed
nice eh? You are living on Dor
rOwed time, Sap. If the Shan
mons are convicted you can get
you another rich wife in hell. /
ann signing this with my finger.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31

Copyright, 1886, BY United Press
CASABLANCA, Morocco, July 81.
WP)-French military police guard
ed today the wreckage of a great
three-motored Italian Savoia air.
plane which crashed on the coast
yesterday. Government a officials
inquired into the planes origin and
the nature and reason of its load
of machine guns and war munitions,
The plane crashed at Saidia air
field, near Berkane, close to the
coast of Spanish Morocco. Three
aviators, killed in the crash, carried
Italian civilian and military identi-
fication papers. The plane is of
the type of bomber used in the Itai-
ian air force.
A second plane landed on the
coast on French territory and its
crew was held.
A third plane landed off the
coast. Search for it was abandon
ed and it was feared the three men
seen floating on it were lost.
Aviators who flew over Morocco
and the adjacent sea yesterday be-
lieved two more planes crashed.
They said the four casualties were
of a fleet of ten planes. They be
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31

atlVe enterprises OF peaCetul ma
ture two nations ever contemplat-
ed.
Canada gave the chief executive
of the one-times enemy country
the forma welcome reserved here
tofore for royalty and a popular
enthusiasm bestowed formerly only
on popular heroes.
The visit was full of potential
power to develop the cooperation
between Canada and the United
States which has become a poll
tical wonder of the world.
Mr.. Roosevelt planned to talk
over with Lord Tweedsmuir, gov
ernor general OF Canada, and Pre-
mier Mackenzie King, the pos
sibilities of furthering the st.
Lawrence waterways project, of
joint action to save and enlarge
the PaSsamaquoddy tide-harness-
ing project, and of extending reci-
procal trade treaties.
Mr.. Roosevelt expected to- spend
eight hours with Canadian eXecu-
tives before entraining tonight for
the United States and conferences
with the governors of Vermont,
Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
concerning new England flood
control projects.
From official Canadian sources
it was learned that Canada is
willing to reopen discussion of
the st. Lawrence waterway prof.
ect on almost any basis Mr.. RooSe-
Velt might request.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
COURT DROPS
MORALS CASE
Boy Identified As A
Fugitive From A
Detention Home

A morals charge against
Frank Calhoun, truck driv-
er, based on the wild story
of a 14-year-old boy hitch
hiker, was dismissed by
Judge ]. E. Simpson in the Ell
Centro justice court late Thursday
when it was learned that the boy
is an escaped inmate of the juve-
nile detention home at Littlerock,
Ark, and that Calhouns charac-
ter is unassailable.
The court, prosecutors and wit
nesses agreed that the boys story,
in view of developments after
Calhoun's arrest, was not to be
believed.
Character witnesses brought here
from Nevada testified that Cal
houns reputation is good. E. A
Nance, county probation officer
revealed the boys record and trans
gressions.
The youth first told police that
Calhoun made improper advances
to him after picking him up on the
highway from Indio to Ell Centro
Investigation disclosed that the
youth, through an Indio merchant,
had obtained a ride with Calhoun
saying he wished to- visit his aunt
and uncle in Ell Centro.
Officers were puzzled over the
boys motive for advancing his
false story.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
PLOTTO
SPREAD DISEASE IN
DETROIT DISCLOSED

DETROIT, July 81. UP)-;A Black Legion plot
to spread typhoid germs throughout the city by plac
ing them in milk and cheese revealed today in
statement by Fred A. Guthrie cult printer and men,
ber of the intelligence squad to Prosecutor Duncan
c. McCrea of Wayne county.
McCrea announced this the first evidence
of any plans for Staying by the hooded society
Guthrie is held on charges of conspiracy to riot
and in connection with plot to break up political
meeting held by Communist organizer. Previously
he told McCrea of Black Legion plot whereby 13
cult members would link McCreas name with the
organization.
Guthrie named Arthur F. Lupp, state commander,
of the legion and former state milk inspector,
ring leader in the fantastic plot. He also named an
other man, whom he termed a chemist and bacterioo
gist, who is now being questioned by the prosecutors
office.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
MIXUP OVER
BULLET WOUND
STIRS POLICE

Imperial county deputy sheriffs
marked the case of Henry Martin,
20, closed Friday.
Martin, an employe of Los An
geles to Tucson freight line, who
lives at 2742 Allester street, Los
Angeles, is recovering from a bullet
wound in his right shoulder, while
in Phoenix his assailant is recover
ing from the shock of police sur
veillance.
Questioned by Imperial county
officers about his wound, Martin
told them he was shot by two un-
identified thugs in the railroad
yards at Yuma, and robbed of $40,
at about am. Friday. Phoenix
police, in response to an inquiry,
told another story. Records at the
sheriff's office here quoted the Ari-
zona officers as saying Martin was
shot during a brawl in the red light
district of the Arizona city. No
warrant had been issued for him,
the report added.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
TWO SHIP s
MISSIN c IN
STORM WAKE
IOO-Mile Hour Gale
Isolates Resort
Communities

PENSACOLA, July 81.
(UP)-A 100-mile-an hour
hurricane roared through
sparsely inhabited north
west Florida today, leaving
destruction, severed communica-
tions and two schooners with at
least 20 persons aboard missing in
its wake.
Extent of the hurricanes toll
remained to be determined Full
brunt of the storm struck Valpar-
also, tiny fishing and resort
town, east of here. None had been
killed or injured there when anna
teur radio communication with
the village was lost.
Most concern was expressed for
the fate Of the schooner, Bob,
due at Fort Walton late yesterday
Nine persons aboard the vessel
which was feared directly in the
hurricanes path.
Also missing was the small
steamer Tarpon which left Apala-
chicola yesterday afternoon with
a crew of II and possibly some
passengers.
Four coast guard patrol boats,
two from Mobile and two from
the Santa Rosa base, were ordered
out to search for the ships.
Warned by coast guard crews,
most persons along the isolated
northwest Florida coast gained
places of safety before the ter
rifle winds struck.
Fear Reverse
Reports from Panama city said
jured there but flooded Easements.
There were fears the gale would
reverse itself and strike again.
The storm disrupted weather
conditions over a wide area. In
Columbia, S. c., the temperature
fell from 95 yesterday to So this
morning.
A general rain fell. CASTOR
Shoals, reported 4.06 inches.
The barometer here began to
rise shortly before I p. m. today,
leading to the belief that the worst
OF the hurricane had passed. Wind
velocity still was so miles an hour
here.
The British steamer Malva was
washed ashore at Panama City.
Several fish houses were blown
down and the city pier was washed
away All power was cut off into
the city.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
MATE BRUTAL
T0CHILD, SAYS
MARY AST0R
Movie Star Breaks
Down While on
Stand

LOS ANGELES, July 81.
(UP) - A dramatic Mary
Astor testified in superior
court last night that her
former husband, DR.. Fran
klyn Thorpe, had been brutal
toward their four year old daugh-
ter, Marilyn,
Several times the movie stars
voice broke. Once she ,Wept and
could not GO on and Judge Good
win j. Knight sympathetically re-
ceSSed.
She was called as her own prin-
cipal witness in her fight for Gus
tody of Marilyn after DR.. Thorpe's
counsel managed to- introduce the
names of George kaufman into
proceedings. Kaufman'S identity
was not fully established.
Just before court convened for
the third night session of Miss
Astor's suit against DR.. Thorpe,
her counsel filed an affidavit
countering the one of DR.. Thorpe
that accused her of being "enamor-
ed of certain married man" and
quoted an alleged excerpt from
her diary that began Il love
George and the least 1 can do is
to save him from a messy Scan-
dial XXX"
Thorpe's attorney, Joseph An
darSon, croSS-eXamined nurSemaid
Nellie Richardson, who testified
she served breakfast-in-bed to- Dr..
Thorpe and four women on var
ious occasions. SHE did not mod
ify her story.
"Dou you know George Kauf-
man?" Anderson asked.
Had Heard Name
Miss Richardson answered, mo-.
She said she had heard the name,
(Continued on Page 2; Col. a
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
Rescued
AS City Bombarded
MULES, ANGRY
OVER NEGLECT,
TAKE $50 TOLL

OXNARD, Calf, July 81. U.D
Because he hurt the feelings of
his mules, Albert Wucherpfen-
ming, Oxnard rancher, today was
$50 poorer but much wiser on
mule lore.
The rancher had been accus-
toned to caress his mules when
ever near them until he bought
a new automobile and neglected
TO pat the animals.
An irate mule kicked in the
radiator of his new automobile,
believing it responsible for the
rancher sighting them. 1t cost
Wucherpfenning $50 to repair
the damage.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
FORE| CN { R s
PUT ABOARD
i. s. VESSEL
92 Saved Before Air
Raid on Island
TOwn

WASHINGTON, July 81.
(UP) - Ninety-tWo Ameri-
can and foreign residents of
Palma, Majorca Island, to-
day boarded the American
freighter EXochordar, just before a
savage aerial bombardment was
loosed upon the Spanish city, the
master of the steamship advised by
wireless today.
The captains message did not say
how many Americans were among
the refugees taken off on his ship.
He said he left Palma at II am.
while still within sight of the city,
he witnessed the air bombardment.
Details of the bombardment were
not contained in his message.
According to the latest informa-
ton at the state department, the
Spanish rebels hold Palma. Gov
ernment forces are in control of the
neighboring and smaller island of
Minorca. Both Minorca and Ma
jorca comprise part of the Balearic
group.
The Exochorda, an export line
freighter, called at Palma at the
request of the state department.
The u. S. cruiser Quincy was at
Palma yesterday and took off 10
Americans before sailing for Valen-
cia last night. The British cruiser
Repulse took off an additional so
Americans and a number of foreign
residents.
It was believed that the 80 per-
sons evacuated by the Exochorda
included practically all foreigners
who desired to leave Palma.
The state department also was
advised that Americans and other
foreigners were leaving Madrid in
considerable numbers aboard special
cars attached to regular trains
They were being taken to Valencia.
Two guards were provided by the
Spanish government to protect each
of the special cars.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
FOUR DIVORCES
GRANTED FRIDAY
BY THOMPSON

-Four divorce DEGREES, two final
and two interlocutory, were grant
ed Friday by Superior Judge
Vaughn N. Thompson.
Nancy E. Bibbins was granted
an interlocutory decree from Bion
d. BibbinS on grounds of willful
neglect. He was ordered to pay
her $25 a month for support of
two minor children.
john William Young obtained
an interlocutory decree from Hazel
Young on grounds of wilful deser-
ton.
Final DEGREES on grounds of ex-
treme cruelty and deserNon, res
pectively, were granted to Homer
Jenkins from Helen jenkins and
to Otto Hester from Ruth Walton
Hester.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
MOTHER OF 9,
WE'D 29 YEARS,
SEEKS DIVORCE

Mercedes Valenzuela de Martinez,
mother of nine children ranging in
age from 28 to four years, asked the
Imperial county superior court Fri
day to sever the marital bonds tied
90 years ago in the Vale Tacupeta,
Sonora, Mexico
In a divorce complaint prepared
by Alfred Blaisdell, CaleXico attor-
fney, Martiniano Martinez was
charged with extreme cruelty dur
ing the entire period of the couples
married life. He is selfish and vi
cious, his wife's complaint charged,
and often struck and cursed her.
J The couple separated at Calexico
July 6, this year. Mr.. and Mrs.
Martinez were married in Mexico
June 80, 1907
Mrs. Martinez asked custody of
minor sons who are 10, 18, 16, IL,
10. seven and four years old, re-
spectively. Two older sons are %
and 20 years old.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
TEN INITIATED
AT LARGE ELKS
LODGE MEETING

In the largest summer meeting
ever held by any Elks lodge in
Imperial Valley, the Ell Centro
lodge Thursday night initiated
eight of it's own candidates and
two for the CaleXico lodge, which
sent a delegation of 10 to witness
the ceremony.
Secretary Henry Swanson re-
ported feeding lis members and
guests at a chicken dinner pre-
ceding the initiation.
Ell Centre lodge candidates init
lated were Fred H. Voight, Rob-
ert W. st. c. Bowen, Carl j. Rod
gers, Earl w. Waugh, Clyde r..
Talmadge, Richard S. Wells, John
G. Moore, and Conn l.. Acock.
Calexico candidates were Edward
G.. Henig and Cecil A. Ritter.
Seven members OF the BraWley
lodge attended the ceremonies.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
G 80
~ <l
REPoRTER AMR5lMe
Says
Cool Down! Cool Down.

After all these years of lodging
brickbats and looking longingly at
C5her peoples bouquets, RR should
have brains enough to keep an
) iron case around his neck, rather
than sticking it under the gull
lotine of public opinion, but this
business of cooling systems really
\ deserves some protest from those
of us who are more level headed
than most. boy, will that boost
our mailD Cooling systems are
rapidly becoming the bane Of RR's
existence, and the despair of his
employers hours. They are morale
busters of the first order Their
subyersive influence deserves little
less than the attention of the
federal government itself. If I'M
perial county ever goes on the
rocks, it will be because of cool
ing systems. And if this column
ever misses publication. that too,
will be because of cooling systems.
please don't rush forward with
any offers, thought
The whole thing is a matter of
psychology 1t would be fine if
the streets, the alleys, every busi
ness office and every home were
air cooled Then there would be
nc objection. But when some are
and some aren't then a dangerous
situation arises. If you've ever
come out of one of the air cooled
drug stores or Cne of the air
cooled homes into the glare of the
midday heat, than you know what
RR means. You want to go right
back in-and if you've get work
to do elsewhere, then one of two
people is bound to suffer; yourself
or your employer. And, if your
employer suffers, you usually get
it in the neck in the end. In
other words, if you stay there, you
don't get your work done. If you
don't stay, you're uncomfortable
as the devil.
All this folderol started out to
be a short essay about the chicken
: fed Elks whose cooling system
shut itself off at 1890 a. m. Fri
day, right in the midst of the
biggest party of the summer, but
somehow or other it has gone on
, and en- until RR has run out OF
! all available words which might
pass the censor.
Anyway, we wish there were a
cooling system right under our
desk.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
SOIL PAYMENTS
HELD SUBJECT
TO INCOME TAX

WASHINGTON, July 81. Up
Payments to farmers under the soil
conservation program substituted
for the AAA today were held to be
subject to the federal income tax.
The ruling was made by the in
ternal revenue bureau as one of a
series dealing with recent legisla-
tion.
If sustained IN future treasury de-
cisions or not otherwise upset, the
ruling would compel farmers who
receive funds from the federal gov
ernment for reducing their crops
to pay part of it back to the fed
eral government in the form of in
come taxes if they are in the in
come taxpaying brackets.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
REFUGEES POUR
INTO ALABAMA

FLORALA, Ala, July 81. W.P)-
Refugees were pouring in here
early today from a section of the
Florida Gulf centering about 80
miles east of Pensacola on the >ad-
vice of coastguardSmen that q
tropical hurricane would strike
there shortly.
Jimmy Flournoy, orchestra lead
er, who arrived here with his
band along with scores of other
refugees from Ft. Walton, Fla,
small resort town on the gulf,
said coastguardsmen had come
through the town in a truck and
advised all who had transporta-
ton to move inland.
THE town was practically de-
serted when we left" he said. The
roads were packed with cars and
We had an awful time driving here
in the binding rain and high
wind"
Imperial Valley press., 1936-07-31
Last Minute
FLASHES !!
FORMER AIDE GIVES
UP IN LIQUOR PROBE

Los ANGELES, July 81. W.R)--
Shortly after the county grand
jury returned two secret indict-
ments in an investigation of the
state liquor control situation, Jess
Grain, former aide TO Mr.. and
Mrs. Erwin p. Werner, surrender
ed in superior court today. Grain
was charged with soliciting bribes
and attempted grand theft.