davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
SAFETY PATROL
LEFT This A. M.
GROUP DEPARTED ON EARLY
BUS EN- ROUTE TO
WASHINGTON

Parents and friends turned out
this morning at 7 o'clock to watch
II boys and girls of the city's
Safety Patrol leave for Washing
ton, ID. c., in two Florida Motor
Line busses.
The patrol members will arrive
in Washington tomorrow night
to begin a round of the capitals
points of interest, with a parade
scheduled for them down Penn
Sylvania avenue.
Students who left here with Mr..
and Mrs. Myrtland Gates. director
of the patrol, were:
Gerry Albury. Dolores Boney
Dot Martin, Antonica Smith,
Rosemary Kerr, Zelma Dee Crit
fin. Myrtland Gates. Jr.. Johnny
Cerezo, Jack Smith of Division
Street School: Phyllis Six and
Billy Spencer of Harris School;
Ralph Solano, Hector Castillo of
st. Joseph's School; Jenny Saun-
ders, Larry DeLouse, Milo Albury.
John Owen M0nsalvatge of the
High School tag
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
OHIO COUPLE WILL
MAKE HOME HERE
HIGHLY PLEASED WITH CITY;
CAME HERE FROM WASH
INCToN COURTHOUSE

L. II. Rogers, former operator
of the Fayette stock farms near
Washington Courthouse, O., and
an ex-judge with the American
Kennel club, New York. has ar
rived in Kew West with Mrs.
Rogers to make his permanent
home here.
Highly pleased with the city.
Rogers said he had been in every
section of the United States, but
only in Kew West had he and Mrs.
Rogers agreed on a site for their
permanent home.
The couple came here from
Washington Courthouse after he
had disposed of the stock farm
there, the largest in Ohio. Mr..
and Mrs. Rogers are living at the
Carleton home on Windsor Lane,
until home is completed for
them on Flagler street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
Alice Reid Griffin Found
Guilty Of White Slavery
Wl[llIw%M 80
LION OF JUDAH
ROARING AGAIN

my AEtABp
Adds ABABA. May T.
King of Kings of Ethiopia.
Conquering Lion of the Tribe
of Judah. Elect of God. Light
of the World.
This was the title that
Halle Selassie packed along
with him to England in 1886
when Italy threw him out of
Ethiopia.
Now he's back. entering
this capital city yesterday
with the title and more. for
the English who wouldn't
help him five years ago are
just as mad now at the Ital-
aims as he is. and just as set
on driving them entirely out
of the country.
AS descendant of King
Solomon and the Queen of
Shebah. by his own reckon
ing. Halle Selassie can look
down on upstart royalty like
the Windsors. He is 49-a
small. bearded chief of tall.
bearded tribesmen. The out
side world first became aware
of him in 1923 when he en-
tered Ethiopia in the League
of Nations. to which he ap-
pealed when the Fascists in
vaded.
A dozen years later. his
beard. his pre-Chamberlain
umbrella, his encourage of
tribal chieftains and his in
credible array of titles
caught the public fancy and
made his name a bY-word.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
NEGRO YOUTHS
HELD IN JAIL
THREE ARE AWAITING AC-
~ TON OF JUVENILE
AUTHORITIES

Three negro youths this morn
ing were being held in county jail
awaiting action of juvenile au-
thoritieS on a possible charge of
breaking and entering. The boys.
one of whom was sentenced in
juvenile court less than a month
ago on a charge of petty larceny,
were seized by sheriff's officers
on the complaint of Sam Thomp-
son, Emma street resident.
Thompson said he returned
home yesterday afternoon 10 find
three boys in his house. gathering
up glass deni-johns which he had
stored Thompson caught one of
the youths by the shirt, tearing il
off. but all three escaped. taking
with them some of the derni-
johns and fountain pen.
Sheriffs officers. acting on
Thompson's complaint. identified
the thieves as members of a gang
and located them shortly after
ward.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
BRITAIN INCREASES
ARMY in IRAQ WAR
NEW TROOPS MOVING INTO
IMPROVED POSI-
TON
tDy Associated Press,

CAIRO, May 7.-Three more
transports of British troops were
moving into position around
Basra in Iraq today, but official
sources admitted actual informa-
-tion from the fighting front is
scarce.
A brief communique said the
British position had improved
and reports indicated Iraq troops
around the Habanniyah airport
had been driven back.
German inspired reports from
Berlin said Iraq soldiers still
were menacing the airport and
moved on to take up strong po-
sitions near the British position
at Basra.)
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
LAUNCH PROBE
into ATTEMPTED
DUANE SUICIDE
IN DEATH INQUEST
OF MISS THELMA BALKAN
TINE SLASHES SELF WITH
SAFETY RAZOR BLADE

Thomas Duane, rooming house
employe who testified yesterday
at an inquest into the death of
Miss Thelma Ballantine, one of
the roomers at the establish
ment, today is being held in
county Jail for investigation
after an apparent suicide at
tempt.
Duane was rushed to Marine
hospital last night after witness
es said he had Slashed open his
left wrist with safety razor
blade. Later, after treatment, he
was taken to city Jail, then trans
ferred to the county Jail this
morning.
Ernest Sanchez, first person to
see Duane after the wound had
been inflicted, said the man
staggered out of a beer garden at
Simonton and Catherine streets,
blood pouring from the gashed
| wrist, holding the blade in his
right hand
Sanchez said Duane called:
See, l did it now.
With blood pouring from his
wrist onto the ground, Duane
staggered down Simonton street,
disappearing in an alley. Later,
as police officers searched for
him, a telephone call informed
them that a wounded man had
been seen near the beach at the
southeast end of Duval street.
Officers found Duane stretch
ed on the Duval street pier, ap-
parently too weak from loss of
blood to walk farther.
Duane's testimony at the in
quest merely established the fact
that the woman had been Sc
riously ill. Jurors later recessed
until Friday to await analysis of
her stomach contents, since there
is question whether her death
had been a result of the pneu-
monia from which she was suf-
fering, or of an overdose of a
sedative.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
STUDENT BORROWERS
MAKE GOOD RISKS
tny Assaelatea Pre..l

ANN ARBOR, Mich, May T.
Student borrowers make good
risks, the University Of Michigan
reports,
During ~ year period, only
three-fourths Of one per cent 81
money loaned by the student fund
was charged off as q loss, The
majority Of final failures 70 pay
were due 10 death or 20 per-
rnanently disabling illness. the
presidents 1899 40 report says
Since the fund was eftablished
at the university in 1927. a total
Of s1.BIi,27l has been Ioansd 60
students.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
|UNARMED EXPERTS
RIDE TO BATTLE
WITH NAH ARMY
MANY GERMAN OFFICERS IN
FRANCE HAVE NO INTER
EST IN GUNS: ATTENTION
PUT TO PRODUCTION
BY ANGUS Nj. THUERMER
AP Feature Service Writer

BERLIN, May You can
meet in France today many Ger
man officers who have no inter-
est in guns and field maneuvers.
Doesn't sound like the German
army, does it?
But ask one of those. fellows
how to run a coal nsinoy-- where
and how the best steel is made
in occupied France. Ask him
for 20 ways that an army can
use wool, mercury, mineral
oils. He'll tell you-and how!
He would be one of the many
specialists attached to the Ger
man armed forces. Before the
war he might have been an
economic expert at a univer-
sity, a crack industrial leader,
a production chief, factory
manager or a business expert.
Came the war and mobiliza-
ton. He was ordered to the
war economics staff.
Members of this branch
went with or followed close
lY behind fighting troops in
France. Consultation with his
economic adviser might have
caused an artillery commander
10 lombard all round an i'm
porfant industrial plant with
out firing a shell into the plant
itself.
Germany was watching out
for factories (which might be
turned to producing goods for
the Reich as soon as troops had
driven past.
The value of each known in
dustrial unit in fighting areas
was. known TO economic Off
GERS when they went into the
field.
An economic officer. upon en-
terlng a town in which a factory
was known TO be operating.
would Sc that it was supplied as
soon as possible with electric
current, water. coal or whatever
was needed to keep it making
what it had been making under
French control
Behind this organization Of
specialists is Reichmarshal
Hermann Goering who holds
the strings on German eco
nomie life in addition 10 his
duties as chief or the air
force.
When land operations in
France came 10 an end. the work
of the economic experts really
began in earnest. The Job was
this: Get those factory chinneys
smoking; get those mills rolling:
keep the coal coming out Of the
mines and the war booty stream
inc back 10 the smelters.
The main job for French fac
tories textile mills and coal
mines is 10 take the burden OF
civilian orders off the straining
German industrial machine.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
ALLEGATION OF
AIRPORT FUNDS
TENTATIVELY MADE AVAIL
ABLE FOR WORK ON
BOcA CHICA PROJECT

A tentative ALLEGATION of $685.
900 has been made available to
Civil Aeronautics Authority for
work on the Boca Chica airport,
a telegram to County Attorney
Julius F. Stone, Jr., from H. Har-
vie Perkins, regional CAA air.
port engineer, revealed today.
Perkins telegram said the
work will be handled by us.
army engineers, apparently
meaning the end of previously
announced plans for its construc-
ton by WPA.
Perkins suggested that land
title should be secured by the
county without delay. A letter
to Carl Bervaldi. chairman of the
county commission, will give
further details, he said.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
GALVESTON LANE
BUILDING BURNS
KEY WESTEHS WATCHED
FIREMEN BATTLE FLAMES
IN NEGRO DWELLING

Hundreds of Key Westers last
night watched firemen battle
flames In a one story negro dwell
ling at Galveston Lane. Answer
ing an alarm al few minutes
after IL o'clock, fire engines rush
ed to the scene. but the blaze was
not extinguishcd until the home.
had been destroyed
Until early this afternoon. resi-
dents Of the house had not been
Identified. although firernen said
no one was injured.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
|CeIllalIAnd British Units STAGE
Aerial Warfare On Large Scale
Hundreds OF Planes Bat
tie Over Channel Along
South Coast OF Eng
land
apy Assoclated rres.l

SBy Associated Fressb
Aerial warfare on the scale of
the giant German raids last Sep
tember ragged over Europe. the
British Isles and the channel
last night and this morning. as
both sides seemed intent on put
ting their sky battle on 24-hour
basis.
Hundreds of German and Brit
ish planes battled over the chan
mel along the south coast of Eng
land this morning, as British
aircraft rose to repel a daylight
raid which followed by less than
an hour the departure of the
night raiders.
Glasgow was admitted in
London to have taken a terrific
pounding through the night, but
the air ministry insisted Ham
burg had been hit every bit as
hard. Explosions which rocked
the German city after the first
load of bombs had been dropped
were said by British flyers to
have been the result of fires
reaching German arsenaiS IL
Hamburg.
British formations at the same
time were raking the French
coast with bomb and machine
gun attacks.
A Berlin communicate said
the morning fight over the chan
mel had resulted in destruction
of six British planes, with no
German losses. while London
said six German and ono Brit
ish plane had been shot down.
In the night bombing attacks,
London said Germany lost nine
of her raiders. while Berlin did
not make an estimate on the
number Of Raj casualties.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
NESS DROWNINCS
SAID ACCIDENTAL
coRoNER's JURY RENDERED
VERDICT YESTERDAY
AFTERNOON

A corners jury yesterday aft
ernoon rendered a verdict of &C
cidental death in the drowning
early Sunday morning of MIR.
and Mrs Roy Ness in the waters
of the p & o. steamship slip.
The jury, called by Peace JUS
tice Franklin Arenberg, said it
was the opinion of the body that
the car was driven by Ness and
that its plunge into the 25-foot
channel had been accidental. The
couple came here from Brooklyn,
N. Y, and Ness was employed
here on a housing project.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
THREE BUILDING
PERMITS ISSUED

Three building permits for re-
pairs and construction yesterday
toiaIled Sl370 in Building d.
spcctor Ralph Rus4lI's office
Permits werk Issued to The
Church 81 God for construction
Of a two-Etorv frame building.
to cost $1,000: To Milton Russell.
323 Margaret street, for . neW
roof. $40. and 10 Bernard Allen,
T33 United street, general re-
pairs. 500
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
ELLIOTT GLEATON
GRANTED DIVORCE

Elliott Gleaton. who gave Key
West as his address, yesterday
sTon a divorce from Adele Bryant
Gleaton. Coral Gables, on the
ground that her previous mar
rage had not been dissolved. The
couple married in October. 1910.
at New London. Conn
GIeaton's divorce was the
Second or tire xaFre charge 70 be
granted here within week
Herman r. Berry. who also gave
Key West as his address. woa =
divorce On that ground IaSa week.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
House Passes Four Bills
AffectingMOnroe County

TALLAHASSEE. May THE
House passed four measures af-
fecting Monroe County, which
were introduced by Representa-
tive Bernie Papy. The bills fol-
low:
House Bill 70s permitting
licensing of liquor establishments
within 500 feet of the San Carlos
School at Key West operated By
the Cuban government"
House Bill IT'S, creating an
elective office Of the County At
torney Of Monroe County"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
KEY WEST PROJECT
is GIVEN APPROVAL

The Citizen is in receipt of
the following wire from SEN
ator Claude Pepper at Wash
ington:
Il am glad TO advise that
the President has approved
WPA Project S026s in the
amount of Ss2.55s.00 to re-
habilitate. renovate and i'm
prove buildings and utilities
and improve grounds at Key
West Barracks. Fort Taylor
and East and West Martello
towers. which are harbor de-
lenses of Key West.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
COVERED WITH TRADITION

CAMP SHELBY, Miss.--Stsff
Sergeant William RoIoff of the
1i2th Engineers sleeps under a
blanket used by his father, John
Roloff. when the latter was a
private with the same outfit on
the Mexican Border in 1915.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
HOW TO REPLY
TO SPEED COPS
(By Asaeeiated Preas)

SAN FRANCISCO. Nav $50
you think you know how fast that
other car was going? well, you're
apt to be wrong.
The California Automobile as
ISOLATION has records of 2l,000
tests. made recently, indicating
only 10 out of 100 drivers are
able to estimate the speed of a
passing auto within five per cent.
More than half of those tested
were 90 per cent or more in error.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
TWO PROPERTY
SALES RECORDED

Charles Speaks. Connecticut
resident, yesterday purchased for
about $1,000 a 50-foot lot on
William street southeast of Flem-
ing. The property formerly be-
longed to Phillip B, Roberts, Key
West
T. r. Pritchard. in another
transaction, bought from Mary A.
Lowe lot on Fourth street near
Seidenberg, The transaction in
volved about $500.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
Plans Are Made To Have
Army Deliver Special Mail
tWaShingfon Correspondent
OF The Key West EitixenI

fWashsngfon Correspondent
OF The Key West cisixenI
WASHINGTON. D. c.. HaY ?.
The War and The Post ofiiss
Departments have agreed on ar
arrangement whsssbY ell rex
isssad. iassssd. and spseisI dsE
livery mail 10 Army enlisted men
al gsY West Barracks and FORT
TsYIos viii be delivered By The
Army.
This Army service viii b. rem
dered ~ aIl military poets. camps
and stations. except "a officers
homes. hesdqaartera. hospitals.
ard either places xheFe il Ia
definitely known that delivery
ean b. made ard expedited ~
ire Use Of special delivery mes,
senEeT8
COD. parcels, hoNeyeg. win
be delivered ~ me poai Office
as- -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
House Kills Senate-Approved
Bill Relative To Candidates
(By Associated Press)
TALLAHASSEE. May THE
House today killed So to 2s the
Senate-approved bill prohibiting
state officers from becoming
candidates for some other office
unles stheY resigned 80 days be-
fore the primary.
(By Associated Press)

Opponents of the bill declared
the measure was aimed chiefly
at jerry w Carter, who cam
paigned for governor and senator
while a railroad commissioner.
Rep. Shivers of Washington
county said the bill would pro-
hibit officials running for other
offices at state expense.
Governor Hollands plan to
place $750,000 of Murphy Act
money in the general revenue
fund was approved by the House
and rejected 6-5 by the Senate
characterization committee.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
Witnesses Proved Bawdy
House Operator Arrang-
ed For Transportation
From Georgia Here
SENTENCE

Federal Judge John w. Hol-
land shortly before 3 o'clock
this afternoon sentenced Alice
Reid Griffin TO three years and
four months in a federal
prison.
Judge Holland ordered that
the convicted white SLAYER be
turned over to the United
States attorney general to be
placed in an institution of a
reformatorY nature for the pc
riod of the sentence.
Defense attorneys imme-
diately filed notice of an ap-
peal TO the fifth district cir
cult court of appeals at New
Orleans. The Reid woman.
however. said she is willing TO
begin her sentence. pending
the appeal.
a l2-man jury in Judge John
w, Hollands court shortly after
noon today found Alice Reid
Griffin guilty as charged in q
federal indictment of Mann aci
violation.
The Reid woman. who was ar
rested March ii by F.B.I. men
from Miami. was convicted on
the governments allegation that
she brought a prostitute. Mar
garet Allen, from Atlanta. Ca.
10 work at the Alice Reid bawdy
house on Howe street.
Witnesses YESTERDAY afternoon
had testified that the Reid wom-
an went to a house of prostitu-
ton in Atlanta, made arrange
ments to pay Jimmy" Harmon
and another man $50 apiece for
every woman they procured for
the Key West house. and brought
the Allen woman here in a car
belonging to Catharine Poynter.
As Defense Attorneys Bart A.
Riley and Louis Harris argued
their case before the jury this
morning, the Reid woman still
had not taken the witness stand
in her own behalf and the de-
Tense had not produced a wit
ness.
Drawing literally on quota
tons from the Bible. the Consti-
tuition of the United States, Vic
tor Hugo and Shakespeare, Har-
ris told the jurors this morning
his client was a ''kind hearted
woman who had been betrayed
by her deeds of kindness even as
had Jean Vatican. Hugo's hero in
the novel. Lies Miserables".
The Mann act, he said, was not
intended TO protect admitted
but was for the pur-
pose of saving innocent girls
from being sold into slavery.
Harris. and Riley. who follow
ed him before the jury, based
their entire case on bitterly
derisive attack on the govern
mentS witnesses. Describing
the Allen woman and Harmon.
who is serving an eight-month
term in the Fulton county ga.
Jail, as thieves from the lowest
stratum of society, the attorneys
Continued on Page Fourl
~-~-~--- -
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07
COMING EVENTS
THURSDAY

Social meeting Of Junior Woman 8
Club. s O'Clock
Rotary Club meets 1915 p. II.
ST. Paul's Parish Hail
Li0ns Club meets at SO pm
Lions Den. Seminary Street.
County Commission meets in
County Courthouse. 800 p.m
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07

House Bill III amending the
law creating the Overseas Road
and Toll Bridge District
House Bill $50 authorizing
Monroe County TO levy up To three
mills to match federal funds"
The first mentioned bill was
passed by the house despite a ral-
lng % the attorney general yeSter-
day that licenses could not be is
sued to establishments operating
within 800 feet Of the Cuban
school.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07

Key West. Florida. has the
most equable climate in the
country; with an average
range of only IL Fahrenheit
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-05-07

Associated Press Day Wire
Service
For 81 Years Devoted to the
Best Interests of Key West
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-19
Spent Most Of Bribe on Debts

well, there's sense going into that"
Hamilton in his confession before Circuit Judge Harry
B. Kedan said he had spent most of the $1,000 he kept for
himself out of the bribery money to pay debts.
I've been in debt for years." Hamilton declared.
1--WE been sinking and more into debt. 1t costs
money to be in politics had to borrow money to make
both ends meet
II owed more than $4,000 to about 25 friends. One
of these fellows had given $500. None of them
actually pressing for the money but it worried
wanted to clear those debts up.
$50 when got this bribery money paid those
fellows off, No, won't tell you their What good
would that do?
spent another $4,000 paying off the mortgages
some lots just spent the rest-I can't tell
what forust spent it for living expenses and things
Hamilton said he had hoped the $4,000 year job as
councilman would be sort of sidene to his regular real
estate and building business
But instead" he continued ut turned out to be
1Shour day job 1t cost lot of money just to be in
politics. There tickets for this-dOnaons for that
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-19
EWaId Active i'm ALL
Veteran Councilman, First Elected to Office in
1922 Holds Card in Bricklayers' Union
copyright By Detroit lines. All risht. reserved

seat vacated by the death of
Councilman Arthur f. Dingeman.
SUPPORTED LABOR
During his years as a council
man. Ewald has always been ac-
tive in the interests of the work
ing man and unions. During the
long discussions as to whether
"ster' or concrete" construction
should be used on the Herman
Gardens housing project, one of
the arguments that swayed Ewald
to concrete, he said. was the feet
that there were more "hours for
bricklayers" on the concrete con-
struction.
Ewald is married. has two sons,
Walter, Sc. and Robert Jr.. "a. and
his home is at 1902 Monte Vista
avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-19
u. 5. Writer Escapes
As Plane Is Shot Down

ROME. March 19.-QNS)-An
American newspaper correspon-
dent swas aboard a British plane
shot down in Albania on Saturday.
the Italian tStefanD news agency
said today.
The American was not seriously
injured, according to the report.
Italian officials are making an eff
fort to ascertain the American S
identity
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-03-19
Couldn't Resist Easy Money

The Hamilton home is small but nicely furnished. II
about S600O the councilman said and bears
$500 mortgage Hamilton has been married IS years and
lives with his wife and 26-year-old stepson
"Why did do it?" he asked. "WeI, a said before
il looked like easy money going to vote for
crete construction anyway. Get that point going
to vote for concrete anyway believed and still think
concrete construction is better.
$50 when these offered me $4,000 to vote the
way had already made up my mind simply couldn't
resist the temptation"
Here Hamilton pushed the spaniel away and with eyes
flashing, angrly declared
Those lawyers referring to mentioned in his
confession) they the Ones
He paused and then continued: