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• VOLUME LIV. No. 58.
EY WEST TO OBSERVE DOHERTY DAY
9 •
Roosevelt Addresses
Special Congress On
Important Bank Issue
President Asks Power
For Taking Care Of
Many Outstanding Prob
lems
ABy Associated Press)
WASHINGTON, March 9.—ln
a few crisp words, President
0
Rooqpvelt urged the specially
convened congress today to em
power him immediately to open
“soundf* banks.< To reorganize
other banks and to provide cur
rency expansion.
Arrangements sped in both
senate and house to do his bidding
once the former organization was
completed.
Throngs gathered in the gal
leries to hear the presidential
message read while he remained
at work at the White House desk.
“Our first task is to reopen all
mA|i nsk kogikia tf a.
, utuuruur
went at once into his emergency
plan. “I ask of congress im
mediate enactment of legislation
giving to the executive branch of
the government control over
banks for protection of depositors;
authority forthwith to open such
banks as already have been as
certained to be in sound condi
tion and other such banks as
rapidly as possible.
“Authority to reorganize and
reopen such banks as may be
found to require reorganization
and to put them on a sound basis.
I ask amendments to the federal
reserve act to provide for such ad
ditional currency, adequately se
cured, as it may become necessary
to issue to meet all demands for
currency and at the same time to
achieve this end without increas
ing unsecured indebtedness of the
government of the United States.
I can not too strongly urge upon
congress the clear necessity for
immediate action."
The president called those
recommendations * “an essential
preliminary to subsequent legisla
tion directed against speculation
with funds of depositors.'*
He also revealed he soon will'
request congress to enact two
other measures “of immediate
urgency” —proposals believed in
democratic ranks at the capitol to
be power to reduce government
costs including veteran’s funds
and to provide half billion or so
for public projects to spur em
ployment.
It was believed bank reopen
ings tomorrow will be made pos
sible.
ROATRYCLUB
MEETS TODAY
MEMBERS LISTEN TO RADIO
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT
ROOSEVELT
The rrgulnr noon-day luncheon
of the Rotary Club today was riv
en over to listening to President
Roosevelt’s address to congress,
which was greatly enjoyed by
those present.
There was a good attendance
at the meeting today, but prac
tically nothing was done in the
way of businesM owing to the fact
that there were so many desirous
of hearing the chief executive ad
dress the nation in the special
session of congress that got under
way today.
BERVALDI WILL
ACT POSTMASTER
AWAITING EXAM.
NAMED FOR POSITION TEM
PORARILY; TO BE FILLED
BY ELIGIBLE FROM CIVIL
SERVICE EXAMINATION
lly PA 1)1. MAV
Sprclal WnshlnKlsn Correspondent
of The Citizen
WASHINGTON, March
Hollon R. Bervaldi, assistant
postmaster at Key West, will be
acting postmaster there pending a
civil service examination to estab
lish a list of eligiblcs for the reg
ular appointment, Congressman
Mark Wilcox announced today.
Bervaldi was named to fill the
vacancy caused by the death of
the former postmaster, Charles S.
Williams.
Congressman Wilcox said he
would ask the postoffice depart
ment to call a civil service exam
ination as soon as possible in or
der that a regular appointed post
master might be named.
It was said that Bervaldi was
named because the postoffice de
partment is too busy at the pres
ent time to consider regular ap
pointments.
All residents of Key West will
be permitted to take the civil
service examination for the post
mastership and out of those tak
en, a list of three will be certified
from which the new postmaster
will be picked by Congressman
Wilcox.
Key West has a second class
postoffice and its postmaster re
ceives a salary of $2,900 a year.
Bervaldi will be paid on this basis
during the time he serves as act
ing postmaster. The regular post
master will be appointed for four
years.
STRONG CASE
ON ABDUCTORS
PREDICTED TWO REMAINING
SUSPECTS WILL BE
CAPTURED SOON
Ml; Aknorlalrd I'rrM)
DENVER. March 9.—The po
lice case against six suspects in
the Charles Boettcher, 11, kidnap
ing has become “ironclad”, Police
Chief Albert Clark said today.
He also predicted that two of
the six persons not yet in custody
will be captured before the day
passed.
They are Verne' Sankey and
Gordon Elkhorn. believed to be
fleeing to C%nada.
ROSENTHAL CASE
COMES UP FRIDAY
QUO WARRANTO PROCEED
INGS TO START IN SU
PREME COURT
Oral hearings in the quo war
ranto proceedings against George
J. Rosenthal by Attorney General
Cary i>. Landts. Dade County and
Monroe County, relators, will be
gin at 9 o’clock tomorrow morn
ing in the supreme court at Tal
lahaasee.
The complainants in the ouster
proceedings wilt be represented
by Attorneys 11. H. Taylor and J.
Lancelot Lester for Dade County,
and Attorney William V. Albury
I for Monroe County.
€t)t liep Wts\ Citizen
VARIOUS CITIES
COMPLETE PLANS
ON DOHERTY DAY
MERCHANTS IN DIFFERENT
LOCALITIES GIVE ENTHU
SIASTIC SUPPORT IN MOVE
MENT INAUGURATED
(Special to The Citizen)
MIAMI, March 9. —Twenty-
three cities, representative of al
most all sections of Florida, today
reported the completion of their
local organizations for participa
tion in All Florida Doherty Day
tomorrow, March 10.
Merchants in all of these cities
are giving their enthusiastic sup
port to the program and a sub
stantial nucleus for the state-wide
advertising fund, so earnestly ad
vocated by Col. Henry L. Doherty,
seems assured.
Cities reputing full participa
tion in the event arc: Bartow,
Bradenton, Clearwater, Daytona
Beach, DeLand, Fort Lauderdale,
Fort Myers, Fort Pierce, Key
West, Lake Worth, New Smyrna,
Ocala. Orlando, Palatka, Palm
Beach, St. Petersburg, Sarasota,
Sebring, Stuart, Tampa, . West
Palm Beach, Winter Haven and
Miami.
With slate-wido participation
virtually assured, committees in
charge of local Doherty organiza
tions in all sections predict that
March 10 will mark an important
milestone in the history of the re
sort development of Florida.
Great areas of additional park
ing space were made available in
Miami today. Colonel and Mrs.
Doherty will be the honored guests
at many gala events tomorrow and
indications are that they will re
ceive the acclaim of one of the
city’s record throngs.
NEW RULERSHIP
IN MANCHURIAN
SECTION TODAY
CHINESE DESERT TERRITORY
WHERE STUBBORN BAT
TLES WERE RECENTLY
FOUGHT WITH JAPANESE
<11; ANanrlalrd I'rrul
Following close on the heels of
the Japanese and Manchukuoan
troops who swarmed over Jehol
province in the last fifteen days,
Manchukuoan rulership was being
established today in that terri
tory.
Manchukuoan officials have
taken over cWhtrol of villages and
cities deserted by the Chinese in
the face of the campaign which
carried invaders as far as the
Great Wall separating the pro
vince from China proper.
Over a stretch of 250 miles
there are many deserted villages
with 85 ' r- of the buildings unoc
cupied and with only aged persons
and children thereabouts.
SHOLTZ DECURES
UNITY OF PEOPLE
RATHER ESSENTIAL
Ulr AnurlitrO PrrHl
TALLAHASSEE, March 9.
—Governor Sholtx today - is
sued a proclamation calling
upon the people of the state
“to declare their faith in our
president” in national emer
gency.
Sholts declared “there es
ists in the United State* an
emergency demanding nation*
at unity—even more complete
and unselfish than that neces
sary in war—in support of
cur president who is faced
with responsibilities as grace
as have ever confronted n
great leader in onr history.”
He asked the people to “co
operate fully with the presi
dent in taking suck prompt
and decisive action as will
guarantee economic stability
and relieve unemployment
thereby restoring confi
dence.”
KEY WEST. FLORIDA, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1933.
tL
(VIOPIDA’S NfcW
ZANGARA ENTERS
PLEA OF GUILTY
WHEN ARRAIGNED
BROUGHT INTO COURT TO
DAY AT MIAMI; COURT MAY
IMPOSE DEATH PENALTY
OR LIFE IMPRISONMENT
<11; AMorlalrd I'rnii
MIAMI, March 9.—Guiseppe
Zangara today pleaded guilty to
charges of slaying Mayor Anton
Cermak, of Chicago, when his mad
attempt to assassinate President
Roosevelt here February 15 failed.
“I want to kill the president,”
Zangara said when he took the
stand. “I want to kill all kings
and presidents. I tried to shoot
Mr. Roosevelt before when he talk
but lots of people in my road and
I can’t do it.
“I feel I have right to kill him.
I know they give me electric chair
but 1 don’t care, I’m right.
“It don’t make no difference
who I kill—l kill Mr. Hoover or
Mussolini if I see them first. Yes
I kill Mr. Roosevelt if he come in
this room now.”
After Zangara left the, stand
the court recessed until 2 o’clock.
The court may impose the death
penalty or recommend life im
prisonment. j
Notice to the Public
There will be a public meeting held in the
County Courthouse tonight, at 8 o’clock, for
the purpose of further discussing the con
templated issue of baby bonds. The report of
the committee appointed by the former meet
ing will be discussed in detail and plans form
ulated for the organization of the association to
carry the proposition into effect
AIL citizens are invited to this meeting,
especially the business men. Merchants are
urged especially to be present, hut all are cor
dially invited.
W. H. MALONE, Mayor.
Fishing Lodge Now
Under Construction
On Key Vacas Site
BIG SHIPMENT OF
MONEY TO HAVANA
FOUR OFFICERS ACCOMPANY
FUNDS SENT THROUGH
LAST NIGHT
E. O. Jones, J. R. Boyd, J. F.
Bradley and J. A. White, postof
ficc officials, arrived yesterday
on the Havana Special accom
panying a large shipment of
money being sent to the Federal
Reserve bank in Havana.
What the amount is could not
be learned. Various statements,
based on articles regarding the
shipment in other newspapers,
placing the amount for $4,000,000
to $14,000,000. It was shipped
on the Ferry Parrott to Havana
last night.
• ... .
To Be Known As “Som
brero Lodge;’ 1 Calls
For An Expenditure Of
$25,000
Edmund H. Htnrejr of Wilming
ton, Delaware, is having con
structed on his holdings at Key
Vacas, a fishing lodge that is to
be known as “Sombrero Lodge.”
Mr. Harvey has been a visitor j
to Florida for many years and j
three years of the time was spent
at Fort Lauderdale, fishing and
enjoying exploration trips in that
section.
He came to Monroe county last .
year and decided that this section 1
of the state wa<* the one in which
to locate. He then started ncgotia-j
tions to acquire a suitable place
on the keys and several months*
ago purchased 51 acres on Key!
Vacas.
Immediately after getting the;
property he began the foundation!
and cistern of the lodge and up to;
this time has expended about $5,-
000, The structure, which is to
he diamond shaped and modern in ,
every particular, will eventually
cost approximately $25,000 and !
be finished in May.
A part of the holdings of Mr.f
Harvey consists of a lime grove,|
approximately 40 acres in extent!
which is in good condition at preo-j
ent and will be kept so. Mr. Har-;
vey, his wife, sister and baby are
making their home at Key Vacas
during the work of constructing
the lodge.
FROM JURY TO JAIL
SALT LAKE CITY.-Police in
this city who sought Thomas Fig*'
gsns on charges of beating bis;
wife, found him serving as a jar-*
or in district court and trans
ferred him to jtiL
MerchantsßespondTo
AD Florida Movement
WithMuchEnthusiasm
BUSINESS FIRMS AGREE TO CONTRIBUTE
TWO PERCENT OF RECEIPTS IN TOMOR
ROW’S SPECIAL SALES TOWARD MOVE
MENT; MUCH INTEREST IN CAMPAIGN TO
ADVERTISE FLORIDA
Key West merchants have responded with a will
to the All Florida Doherty Day idea as is evidenced
by the number who have joined in the sales day move
ment which started in Key West this week.
The business men of the community, at least those who believe
that the depression will soon be only a memory, have responded to
the call for a great sales event to be held tomorrow, to assist the
Doherty complimentary movement and thus express their faith in the
proposed Florida advertising program.
They have entered their names on the list of those who have the
interests of the state at heart and thns demonstrate iheir belief not
only in Florida but in the belief that within a short time the entire
country will emerge from this great economic crisis, a greater and
richer people and a strengthened nation.
Determination by the cities of Florida to register with Colonel
Doherty their full approval of his proposal for the establishment of
a fund for a survey looking toward a coordinated state-wide adver
tising program, has prompted the committees in charge in all cities
to exert every additional effort to overcome temporary existing dif
ficulties all of whom have met with much success.
Mayor’s Proclamation
The people of the State of
Florida have determined on
celebrating Friday, March 10,
as All Florida Doherty Day.
It is proposed to celebrate
this day in a practical man
ner, in special trading condi
tions, the raising of funds
for advertising Florida, and
in determining on a campaign
of future publicity that will
assist in bringing Florida be
fore the country in its true
and proper light.
Therefore, I, as mayor of
the city of Key West, call up
on our people to suitably
celebrate this occasion in an
endeavor to assist ourselves
and honor a man who has
labored unceasingly for our
advancement and benefit. I
request that city officials co
operate with our business
people in making this day n
success, that we may make
it known to our people and
to our friends our apprecia
tion of tkis great occasion.
W. H. MALONE.
Mayor.
CRIMINAL COURT
TO MEET MONDAY
Criminal court of Monroe coun
ty is scheduled to convene Mon
day March 13, with Judge J. Vis
ing Harris presiding.
There are a number of cases to I
be called at this session, several J
of them being cutting and beat
ing affray* and possibly one of
more senou* aspect.
/
STRAND THEATER
Tb* Hums Town Iksatsr
Today
Double Feature
THE KING'S VACATION j
See Page 3 for Reader oa Thus 1
Picture
also -
SAILORS BE GOOD
Matinee. 10-lfcs Night. lf-2Se
h- 1
For 53 Years Devoted to the*
Best Interests of Key West
PRICE FIVE CENTS
* Participating Merchants
I Following is a list of merchants
and firms, submitted to The Citi
zen by the committee in charge of
this part of the program, who
have agreed to put on sales and
give to the general advertising
fund two percent of the total cash
sales of tomorrow:
First National Bank, Joe Pearl
man’s Inc., Mrs. Andrew Page,
Manhattan Restaurant, Dr. Val
des, Frank Lewinsky, A. Lurig
nani, Theo. Holtsberg, Kren#
Store, George Kantor, Odilio Diaz
Grocery, Oriental Pharmacy, K.
Appel.
A. Kinhorn. Strand Theater, D.
Aronovitz, Gato A Navarro, Frank
Holtsberg, Delmonico Restaurant,
The Key West Electric Cos. Cabrera
[Bros,, Palace Theater. Gales Tin
[Shop, Ambrose Cleare, Peter Rob
; erts’ Fish Market, Monsalvatge
; & Drane.
Mcltzer Motor Cos., Wm. Men
-1 dell, Berlin A. Sawyer, Key West
Drug Cos., Pierce Bros., O. S.
Long, Raymond Curry, F. Malgado,
F. H. Solomon, Sawyer's Paint A
Cycle Store, Richardson’s Gro
cery, John C. Park, Juan Calleja,
Lumley A Roberts.
Chester Thompson Curio Store,
Maloney A Peacock, Archer’s
Grocery, J. K. Matched. Olivieri’s
Store, Key West Coca Cola Bot
tling Cos., Norberg Thompson, G.
C. Roberts Hardware Store,
t Thompson Plumbing Cos., Wro.
Curry's Sons Cos,, Paul Demeritt
Bros., Allen B. Cleare.
Columbia Steam Laundry, De
pression Grocery, Sweeting's Ser
vice Station, Roker’s Service Sta
tion, Bethel’s Service Station
(‘has. Saunders Wholesale Gro
cery, Abelardo Lopez Grocery, R.
A S. Service Station, Gomez Home
Store, Herbert Weech Grocery,
Busy Bee Bakery.
Panama Meat Market. Ham Fin
der’s Cash Grocery, B, Weiatraub
Grocery, Frank Johnson, Lace
doma Grocery, The Gift Shoppe,
George Parks Diaz Broth
ers, Francisco (’astro, J. M F*r
nandez, Fausto’s Grocery. Juan
Mayg, Lou Smith, Charles Smith.
Sooth Florida Contracting and
Engineering Cos.
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
VANCOUVER, Wash. Tbu
Rev. J. T. Jeating, marrytag par
son of this city, baa bong an elec
tric ttgn n front of h home to
advert km the fact that ho k “open
for business day and night.**