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Service
.VOLUME LV. No. 48.
Planes And Ships Make
Wide Search For Airman
Forced Down Yesterday
Fears Are Felt For Safety
Of Eight Persons Aboard
Transport Plane Lost In
Blizzard
(By Ausrlilfd Press)
Planes and vessels search
ed the sea off New York to
day for the body of Lieuten
ant George McDermott, fifth
flier to die in connection
with the army’s task of car
rying mail.
Enroute to Langley Field,
Virginia, to pick up mail
planes, McDermott and two
other fliers were forced
down amid crashing waves
yesterday off Rockaway
Point.
A navy destroyer picked
up McDermott's companions
weak from exposure.
It could not find McDer
mott nor find the disinte
grating plane.
ANOTHER PLANE
REPORTED LOST
ROCK SPRINGS. Wyoming,
Feb. 24.—Fear for the lives of
eight persons grew today as a wide J
search was organized for a United j
Air Lines transport plane lost in
a raging mountain blizzard and
fog.' " ' *'*~
The plane, carrying five pas
sengers and crew of three from
Salt Lake City toward Cheyenne
failed to reach there on schedule,
and officials said it must have
come down during the night,
probably near here.
This belief hung on the report
of a Japanese section foreman
that the plane frantically calling
fbr directions passed over hia
shack at Emery, Utah, yesterday
afternoon.
He picked up the plane’s dis
tress signal on a short wave .radio,
and rushing from the house, shout
ed it was over Emery, whereupon
the plane roared away into the
blinding blizzard, flying close to
the ground.
DESTROYER OFF
TO GUANTANAMO
After being in port for about
10 days the U. S. Destroyer Jacob
Jones sailed yesterday 1 afternoon
for Guantanamo, Cuba, and after
a stay there will leave for Pana
ma.
Vessels in port today are the
U. 8. Battleship Wyoming, and De
stroyers Bainbridge, McFarland
and Babbitt. The latter vessel
arrived from Cuban waters yester
day.
roTes AND
FLORAL PIECES
PHONE 597
South Florida Nursery
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WE WILL HAVE
20 NEW PLYMOUTHS
Within the next two weeks and will
meet all competition
NAVARRO, Inc.
Chrysler-Plymouth Dealers
QUICK RESULT FROM
LOST AD IN CITIZEN
Peace Justice Frank O. Rob
erts is satisfied the surest
and quickest medium to re
cover lost articles is to adver
tise in Tbo Citizen.
Several days ago Mr. Rob
erts lost his glasses. He wait
ed severakdays before adver
tising. Yesterday he an
nounced in the columns of
this paper.
Less than one hour after
the lost ad appeared Henry
Pazo, an employe of Frank
Johnson’s Bazaar, was at Mr...
Roberts ’office on Whitehead,
had delivered the glasses and
received his reward.
LEGION POSTTO
PUT ON PARADE
MONDAY NIGHT
EVENT WILL BE PRELUDE TO
BEAUTY PAGEANT THAT
WILL TAKE PLACE AT HIGH
SCHOOL BUILDING
Asa prelude to the beauty pag
eant Monday night, Arthur Sawyer
Post 28 American Legion, has com
pleted plans for a public demon
stration.
This will be in the form of a
parade in which the entire mem
bership is expected to participate
as well as the Drum and Bugle
Corps.
According to schedule the pa
rade will form at Caroline and
Duval streets, 7 o’clock, and head
ed by the musicians in full regalia,
begin the parade.
The line of march will be along
Duval street to Fleming thence to
White and direct to the high school ‘
where the pageant is scheduled to
begin at 8 o’clock.
GOODWEATHER
GREETS SOUTH
TEMPERATURES RUN AROUND
ZERO IN MANY OF NORTH
ERN STATES
(By AssssMw rrtMi
Good weather aad reasonable
temperatures greeted the South
today in place of a cold wave pre
dicted earlier this week by the
waathermaa.
While it was around zero in
northern states, the South told
about its weather in temperatures
of above 20*s.
But in Chicago it was one be
low aero, while Pittsburgh report
ed zero, Cleveland four above,
Newark, seven above, aad Wash
ington four above.
®jc Eep Citizen
BEAUTY PAGEANT
CONTESTANTS TO
HOLD REHEARSAL
TO TAKE PLACE MONDAY
AFTERNOON FOR PURPOSE
OF FAMILIARIZING EN
TRANTS WITH PROGRAM
Contestants in the American
Legion Beauty Pageant are to
have a rehearsal in the auditorium
of the high school Monday after
noon at 3 o’clock.
This is not to be a dress re
hearsal. It is merely for the pur
pose of familiarizing entrants with
the manner in which they will be
presented to the audience and the
attitude to be assumed while ap
proaHiing the center of the stage
and retiring from view.
For the purpose of properly
dressing the stage and affording
the audience a clear view at all
times there is a regular routine
prescribed which is generally fol
lowed.
All contestants are requested to
be at the school on time. Any
other information that may be de
sired can be secured from Mrs. P.
M. Crews, Phone 363.
STATUS ISCIVEN
ON DIRECT RELIEF
ONLY THOSE RECEIVING AID
DIRECT WILL BE PROVIDED
WITH COMMODITIES
Only those who are now receiv
ing direct relief from the CWA
and others authorized to receive
this class of aid will be provided
with commodities Monday, Feb
ruary 26.
Instructions are that none of
those who are on the registration
lists as retained on the payrolls
are to receive any of these food
stuffs.
Employes who have been strick
en from the lists may make appli
cation for direct relief. Each case
will be investigated before this is
authorized.
KEYWESTMOTOR
AGENCY EXPANDED
(Tampa Daily Times)
Ramon Moran, of the United
Motor Cos., here, and Dan L. Na
varro, of Key West, have left for
Key West after completing ar
rangements for expansion of the
Chrysler and Plymouth agency
there. The agency was enlarged
due to tHb liklihood of construc
tion of a bridge connecting Key
West with the mainland. Mr. Mor
an also operates agencies at Mi
ami and West Palm Beach.
An announcement in today’s
paper states that Gato and Na
varro, Inc., local Chrysler-Ply
mouth dealers, will receive during
the coming week 20 of the 1034
Plymouths.
The local dealer expects a def
initely increased demand for Ply
mouths this year over last. How
ever. the management of Gato
and Navarro, Inc., states that more
Plymouths were delivered here
last year than all other makes com
bined.
KEY WEST. FLORIDA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1934.
Adventure And Romance Mark
Career Of New Belgian Ruler
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The eventful life-span of Belgium’s new, youthful ruler is shown in these pictures. Successively,
from the left, they depict him when he was 10 years old, in 1911; how he looked in 1913, shortly be
fore he went into the world war as a private soldier; the sergeant of supply late in the big conflict in
1917, and finally as he appeared ust before his thirty-second birthday last November.
(By Associated I’rese)
Thoroughly educated In the
modern tradition of democratic
royalty, Leopold 111. new king of
the Beig ans, nas had a full share
of adventure and thrills.
He was a private soldier in the
trenches in 1915 when only 13
years old; a tourist with his father
and mother in 1919 on a criss-cross
journey of the United States; an
incognito wooer in Sweden, win
ning in 1926 a queen of his own
choosing; collector of rare butter
flies in the Philippines in 1932
and now, at 32, king of Belgians,
ruling the most densely populated
country in Europe and the im
mense tract of the Belgian Congo
in Africa.
He was sent to England at
the outbreak of the World war
and entered Eton, the famous
“public school” of short jackets,
wide collars and “toppers.” On a
holiday in London a German Zep
Six Killed, Score Injured,
When Bus Overturns Today
WICKENBURG, Ari.ona, Feb.
24.——Five women and an infant
were killed today in the wreckage
of a Mormon church bus near
Aguila.
The victim* were crushed in
their seats when the top of the
bus was shattered in overturning.
ACCIDENT OCCURS
ON DESERT HIGHWAY
WICKENBURG, Arizona. Feb.
24.—Rain, whipping across a des>
ert highway, brought death to at
least six Mormon church workers
and injury to more than a score
near Aguila near here today when
a bus carrying them to California,
overturned.
All were returning to their
homes at Gardens, California, aft
er spending four days visiting the
Phoenix.
The bus carried 35 passengers.
The first news of the accident
was flashed by a railroad dispatch
er at Aguilar.
An appeal for help had been
Nice Fresh Veal. Spring Lamb
Stfjetly Freeh Eggs, doe . 26c
Peanut Fed Hens aad Fryer*
Hams, by half, lb 17c
Perk Hans* and Pork Shoulder
CENTRAL MARKET
•Of Fleming St. Phone 20
pelin sailing over the British cap
ital let loose a bomb and a frag
ment hit the princeling in the arm.
Earned Sergeant’s Rank
In the trenches in Belgium his
first job was filling sand bags. He
worked too enthusiastically and
was exhausted in three hours.
Transferred later to the service of
supply, he came out of the war a
sergeant.
Siace then he lias been to mili
tary school, commissioned a lieu
tenant and gradually promoted un
now he is' commander-in-chief
of the people whom Julius Caesar
described as the bravest in all
Gaul.
Leopold is a tall blond, less vig
orous than the powerful father
who could bend an iron in his
hands, but is active, quick-think
ing and mechanically-minded. He
speeds automobiles with as much
sureness as did his sire, likes 1 to
fly. has followed his father’s ex
(By Anaoelated I’rru)
taken to the little desert town by
a youth whose clothes were blood
spattered and speech almost in
coherent.
THREE MORE ARE
KILLED IN SMASH
BETHEL, Kansas, Feb. 24.—A
driver and two passengers were
killed this morning when a Union
Pacafic Stage Lines bus collided
with a truek near here during a
snow storm.
One of the passengers killed was
a negro.
Anotherpa ssenger was seriously
injured and taken to a hospital.
FLORIDA TAKES
92 PASSENGERS
Sailing for Havana yesterday,
the Steamship Florida of the P.
and O. S. S. company, carried 83
first class passengers, nine second
claw, three tons of freight, one
automobile and 28(1 sacks of mail.
Ferry Parrott arrived from
Cuba 6:30 o’clock with one car of
sugar, one of blood, one lumber,
one furniture, one of pineapples,
3.14 crates, 100 sacks of mail, bag
gage. and 16 miscellaneous.
Freighter Brazos, of the Clyde-
Mallory Lines, arrived last night
from Galveston.
HIGH TEST AUTO
KNOCK GASOLINE
AT REGULAR PRICE
Yes! We Abo Have the
Regular Clear Gas
lom Smith Service Station
White * Catherine. PWne 522
ample by digging coal under
ground and has driven locomo
tive*. j
Knows Country’* Lore
Those qualities fit the ruler of
an industrial nation like Belgium.
So, too, his knowledge of French
and Flemish literature, philosophy
and history qualifies him to un
derstand his bi-lingual people.
One of his hobbies is entomo
logy. A 1932 trip took him to
the East Indies and the Philip
pines, where he went butterfly
hunting on Palawan Island, habi
tat of a species with a 10-inch
w’ingspread. He is also an enthu
siastic fisherman in summer and
a skiier in winter.
In the United States he saw Ni
agara Falls, visited Woodrow Wil
son’s sick chamber, watched south
western Indian dances, marveled
at California’s big trees and, in
Cincinnati, said he wished he knew
how to shoot craps.
PLAN DISPLAY
OF MOTOR CARS
CURTIS MOTOR COMPANY TO
EXHIBIT DODGE AND PLY.
MOUTH PRODUCTS
Having secured the dealers’
| franchise for the Dodge and Ply
■ mouth passenger cars and trucks
| in Key West and Monroe county,
j the Curtis Motor Company is plan
' ning an attractive display of these
vehicles.
In order to afford prospective
buyers an opportunity of seeing
these cars and trucks under the
most advantageous conditions the
display will be held in Curry’s
Brick Garage, Simonton and Front
streets.
The Curtis Motor Company
plans to locate on Duval strlet in
the near future.
Tomorrow and Monday a com
plete line will be on display and
all interested persons will have the
fine points and advantages of the
cars and trucks explained.
WHERE TO CO
TONIGHT
Palace—“ Broadway Thru A
Keyhole.”
Strand—“ Little Women.”
TOMORROW
Church—Service* at 7. 9;3d and
1 i a. m. and 7:30 and 8 p. m.
Navy Field—Baseball, Wyom
ing and All Stars.
Palace—“ Broadway Thru a
Keyhole."
.Strand—“Litle Women."
if"! STRAND THEATER ~
Katharine Hepburn and Joan
Bennett in
! LITTLE WOW EN
I Msrisisi Balcony, I®*; Orchoo
tea, 15-20i Night, 15-25*
Claims Relations Between
United states And Japan
Should Be Most Friendly
COLLECTING COINS
FOR RELIEF FUND
FOURTH SON OF FORMER KAI
SER BEGS BEFORE OLD
IMPERIAL PALACE .
(By Associated Press!
BERLIN, Feb. 24.—A Hohen
zollern prince begged for coins to
day before the old imperial palace.
Crowds were on the famous old
boulevard Unter Den Linden form
ed a line so they could drop pen
nies into the money box of Prince
August Wilhelm, who in his capa
city as group commander of Nazi
supreme storm troops, took his
turn on the street corner with
other Nazi officials to solicit mon
ey for a winter relief fund.
The fourth son of the former
kaisar said he had 10 more boxes
in reserve, when it appeared the
one he held would be quickly fill
ed, and said ha planned to stay
through tomorrow collecting
funds.
CRUISERJUNE
. ARRIVES HERE
Cruiser June, from Crystal
Beach, Florida, arrived yesterday
with a party of anglers seek'ng
sailfish and tarpon in the waters
adjacent to Key West.
The party arrived on the cruis
er yesterday afternoon from an
excursion after fish and berthed
at the F. E. C. terminals.
In the catch were several enor
mous grouper, mackerel, dolphin
and barracuda. The members in
the group are out today after sail
fish. 1
Farley De.iies Making Personal
Remark At Hearing About Black
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Port
mailer General Farley today de
nied to the aenate air mail com
mittee that he had made a “per
sonal remark” to Walter F. Brown
about Senator Black of Alabama,
committee chairman, as some in
ferred from testimony yesterday
of tbo former postmaster general.
The “personal remark,” Brown
said yesterday, was mada by Far
Announcing—
CURTIS MOTOR COMPANY
u dealer for ,
DODGE and PLYMOUTH
Pa**enger Car* and Truck* for Kajr Wa*t and
Monroe County
COMPLETE LINE ON TEMPORARY DISPLAY
SUNDAY AND MONDAY
February 25 and 21
Curry's Brick Garage
Corner Greene and Simonton Street*
CURTIS MOTOR COMPANY
KEY WEST, 8 a.m. 72
Warmest City in United States
PRICE FIVE CENTS
Japanese Foreign Minister
Says Both Nations
Should Refrain From Be
coming War minded
<By Associated Press)
TOKYO, Feb. 24.—For
eign Minister Koki Hirota
told the house of peers to
day that both the United
States and Japan must take
“diplomatic action” to pre
vent the two nations from
becoming warminded.
“Both Japan and America
should endeavor not to think
of war,” he said.
He made the statement
while discussing the possi
bility of an agreement to di
vide the Pacific into two
spheres of interest with
America recognizing Ja
pan's supremacy in the west
ern Pacific in return for Ja
pan’s recognizing America’s
supremacy in the eastern
Pacific.
IVY RETURNS
TOTHISPORT
Lighthouse Tender Ivy re
turned to port yesterday after
noon from Tampa. In that city
the boiler tubes on the ship were
replaced and after inspection, sail
j ed for her home port.
The Ivy will sail Monday for
| Charlotte’s Harbor to service and
i replace aids to navigation in that
I section.
(By Aaaaeivte* Preeal
ley on tba occasion of hi* visit to
the post matter femoral'* of flea to
re tar a official ocean and nlr mail
correspondence be #aid waa found
among personal affeot*.
Ho bad refused demands of com
mittee members to say what re
nark was without Farley’s eon
seat.
Farley came from North Coro
llas to deny the implication.