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Aaaociatad Proas Doy Wire Service. For 6* Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West VOLUME LV. No. 214. OVER 200 PERSONS MEET DEATH AS LINER BURNS Decentralization Of Industry Now Seen As Factor In Relief Plans Federal Government Be comes Much Concerned Over Various Problems Facing Adminstration By HERBERT PLUMMER <n tMnrlßird I'rfUl WASHINGTON. Sept. B.— With the problem of relief for the dc*ti tote becoming more end more of vital concern to the federal gov. arnoMt. the question of what to do about it is occupying come of tba best mind* of the administra te*. Those officials directly charged with giving aid to the hundreds of thousands who have been left without opportunity for work be cause of new developments in in dustry are not the only ones try ing tu arrive at a solution of the problem. The cooperation of numerous ether agencies has been enlisted in an effort to develop some sort of a program where the government and private business together can cope with the situa- Man • - * | The answer, all seem agreed. lim in decentralization of indus try the netting up of small fac tories in the rural districts so that ; industrial workers may live in the wintry and rftist' a large share of their food. Decentralisation Seen Home visualise in the not too 1 far distant future change in en vironment for millions and a re turn to the farm and factory coni i lunation of u century ago. The latest census figures show that tuo thirds of all factory wage jobs todav are to he found in three percent of Ihc land of the nation. | Only during the last 10 years ha le vlit i a ligation begun on a large scale. Now' it is estimated that some five million workers arc 1 employed hi mechanical and man-! ufactuhng industry in the country i or in towns of less than 2,500 population. The nucleus around which the i government is centering its effort' in thi* direction is the $25,000,- IMMi subsistence homesteads pro gram. The MSIIA, however, F primarily experimental. _ j Other recovery agencies are! It tiding a helping hand. The Ten-, nessee Valley authority, operating. in an area four-fifths as large asj t oglaod. i- attempting to demon strate the advantages of farm life with part-time factory work. Much of the work of FERA is tied lip with projects for combin ing farm and industrial activities. ‘Pet Child’ Of President Evidence of the administra tion’s been interest in this prob lem was given recently in an un official announcement from the White House that President Roose velt planned to call soon a confer ence of industrial leaders to dis til** the whole problem. Mr. Roosevelt’s personal inter est ha- been shown in other ways ns well. At the opening of the •übM'teiica homesteads exhibit here recently, he characterised the project a one of “my own pet •tuldrru." FRI .nd SAT. SPECIALS large Hhpt. Peanut Fed HENS AND FRYERS Fresh Killed Veal-Spring Lamb Fresh Beef Tongue Swift Hams Sausage i Fryers ami Hens Strictly Fresh Eggs. doz. 38c CENTRAL MARKET Pbeas 20 808 Fleming St. I j ATTENTION GOLFERS: AFTER A HOT “18” ON THE LINKS STOP IN ON YOUR WAY HOME AND GET A DELICIOUS COOLING BOTTLE OF WAGNER’S BL ‘ COUNCIL HOLDS BRIEF SESSION i— ! OCCUPATIONAL LICENSES COME UP FOR DISCUS- I SION LAST NIGHT A regular meeting of the City i Council was held last night, with l ! Leo Warren, president of the ! body, presiding, w ith all other ! members present with the exeep ! tion of Councihnen Cabrera and I Symonette. A letter was read from the Flor-, i ida League of Municipalities deal- ‘ 1 ing with the issue of the Home-! stead Exemption Amendment, re-j questing information from the! local councilmen as to what their sentiment was regarding this! I measure. The council decided to ; take the matter up with the league ; in the near future. Several matters pertaining to occupational licenses were discuss-, ed, with other routine business: disposed of. j The session was a brief one due i to the fact that many of the city’s; affairs are now under the super-J vision of the FERA, w'hich finan ces and directs these operations, j REUNION DAY OF SHRINERS J NEXT SATURDAY WILL BF. j GALA DAY AT WEST PALM BEACH ! Under leadership of Noble Rob-; ert W. Milburn, Mahi Shrin"! Temple Muezzins, chanting tho j traditional Moslem call to assem-j i hie. were causing all eyes of Shrin- j <*ra in this territory to fall upon j West Palm Beach, where next Saturday. Sept. 15, Mahi Shrine j Reunion Day will he held. It is expected the day will be a j gala one, beginning with the early j arrival of out of town Shriners, and lasting well into the night. Fezzes will be worn. Completed plans announced by' i the committe in charge, call for j an official reception of all Shrin- j ; crs. Members of Mahi Temple as J i well as those Shriners who arc j 1 members of other temples either i visiting or residing w ithin the j jurisdiction of Mahi Temple which , extends from Cocoa to Key West, j | have been summoned to attend, j CONCERT AND ! SOCIAL MONDAY ! Trinity Presbyterian Church an-, nounces a concert and social for; Monday at 8 p. m. Friends from the Methodist and j Presbyterian and Baptist Church-. vs will contribute several numbers, j • - WHERE TO GO ! • ••••••••••••••••••••••• i ! TONIGHT Monroe —“Hollywood Party.” S Palace—“ None So Blind.” TOMORROW Church—Services at 7:00, P:3oj and 11 :00 a. m. and 7:30 and) 8:00 p. m. Monroe—“ Hollywood Party.” Palace—“ None So Blind.” - ' ' " * t If There Is Something Wrong With Your Car—j 1 Bring it to us. Our expert | \ mechanics will fix it at j I low cost E ; Lou Smith Service Station ; White and Catherine Phone 522 ■ Wi)t Step Wmt Citizen 'BATES APPRISED | OF'BLUE EAGLE’ SIGNS FOR NRA CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE IN RECEIPT OF LETTER FROM j SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO AD MINISTRATOR I W. Lawton Bates, chairman of , the National Recovery Commit | tee in Monroe County, is in re ’ ceipt of a letter from Charles F. ; Horner, special assistant to the NRA Administrator, stating that new “blue eagle” signs have been prepared and are ready for distri ' bution. “As chairman of the National Recovery Committee in Monroe [ County,” Mr. Bates is quoted as 1 saying, “I am asking the coopera i tion of every business house in the county so there will not be , any unpleasant things to do. “Every firm that has signed ; up for the first Blue Eagle will i be entitled to one of the new Blue Eagles and any one not displaying . the Eagle will be liable. I will have the new ones in a few days,” ; : Mr. Bates continued, i In the communication to Mr. Bates, the fact is emphasized that 1 this is a most important respon ; sibility entrusted to the local com i mittee. | It is stated that plans have i been made for a w ider adverising jof the Code Blue Eagle. To this ■ effect the striking poster has been I designed for use by business es- I" tablishments. Charles Coiner, '• who sketched the original Blue ; Eagle under General Johnson’s di | rcction, is the designer of the new , | poster. Mr. Bates was sent a I copy. ; At no cost each business estab | lishment in the county will be for-. ; warded the new Code Blue Eagle ; upon application to the local NRA I committee. Only one poster may | j be given each business establish-: i meat, which is obliged to show I that it has in its possession the j Code Eagle of its trade or imlus- I try. Mr. Bates was advised to ap ; point a committee charged with ;the distribution and responsible | j for a strict observance of this i rul. i “Heretofore your work has been ; more general in character.” Mr. j i Horner writes, “and it is our hope | ; that you may be eager to untler i take this more specific task. Un- : i lil our supply is exhausted these j posters are available.” SMALL FIRE ON EATON STREET j A small blaze was discovered • shortly after !) o’clock last night/ at the rear part of the building a' t 620 Eaton street, which is know'n as the old George Curry j home. The fire was extinguished I with practically no damage. The fire apparatus responded to the call which was sounded; from Box 121, corner of Eaton! and Elizabeth streets. STORM REPORT ADVISORY 10:110 A. M.—The tropical disturbance is central this morning about 65 miles east-; southeast of Cape Henry. Va., . with somewhat decreased inten-, sity, moving rapidly between north ! and north-northeast attended by; shifting gales and winds of whole j gale force near center. Caution! advised vessels on north Atlantic and middle Atlantic coasts. Storm ! warnings are displayed from East-! port, Me., to Cape Hatteras, N. \ Car. MONROE THEATER J Laurel and Hardy - Jimmie j Durante. Jack Pearl-Lupe , Velez in HOLLYWOOD PARTY Matinee: Balcony, 10c; Orches tra, 15-20 c; Night, 15-25 c i 1 KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1934. Mayor And Mrs. Malone Pictured | In FERA Voluntary Work Program Ip if * ‘ ■ Under a corps of voluntary workers who pledged nearly two ' million hours of free labor to help in the rehabilitation program of Key West, yards are being cleaned up and houses are being put | in order. Mayor W. H. Malone, the first to pledge time in the ! Volunteer Work Corps, is shown in his own yard as he worked out ; many of his pledged hours. Mrs. Malone was with him when he ; paused long enough for i efreshioents. Immigrants’ Conquer Paris Style And Political Fields 111, Associated Press* By RICHARD G MASSOCK PARIS, Sept. B.—Arms and motorcars, fashions and fisticuffs, newspapers and politics in France are the fields in which a few Americans and an American-born Frenchman have risen to promin ence. Opportunity in France, where jobs are jealously guarded for citizens, generally eludes the foreigner. Laurence Vincent Genet, an American machine gun inventor of distinguished lineage, is one of the exceptional foreigners who have made good in Fiance. Other Americans in this group are Ray mond Fatenotre, American-born politician and newspaper publish er; Maine Rousseau Bother, a Chicagoan who has stormed the world’s style capital, and Jeff Dickson, a former Mississippi boy who remained after the war to be come France’s foremost boxing promoter. The celebrated expatriates in clude Gertrude Stein, Julian Green, the American novelist who was born and has lived always in France, and Gilbert White, the painter. Distinguished Family Name Genet, who was born at West Point. N. Y., will celebrate in De cember, as managing director ami vice president of the board, 50 years with the Hotchkiss company, manufacturer of arms and auto mobiles. Except for his service as an en 'sign in the United States navy in KINDERGARTEN Will be reopened next week by Miss Anna BePe Hill. Parents interested will please enroll children at National Guards’ Armory Monday morning at 9. the Snanh-h-American war. he has lived in Franace ever since he ■ came over in 1881, a young engi neer fresh from Yale. , His father distinguished the family name as a brigadier gen ! era! in the Union army in the ; Civil war. His own career and those of his poet nephews, Wil i 1 n.m Rose and Stephen Vincent ' Genet, have increased the fame of the house of Genet. ; Laurence Genet is best known, 1 perhaps, for bis invention of a machine gun which was a stand ard mode! of the French army for i years. He also developed naval, ; field and mountain guns and num erous inventions in motor trails ! 1 t*it. Owns Newspapers Alone among French statesmen,! . f atenotre s training and fortune 1 are of American origin. He was! born in Atlantic City, N. J., of ; I years ago, the son of a Philadel phia girl, the former Miss Elver- j | son, who married Jules Fatenotre, French ambassador to Washing-! i ton in 1891-98. Raymond Fatenotre owns a con-1 i trolling interest in Le Petit Journ-; i al and operates half a dozen pro-; vincial papers, but devotes his j ! time and fortune mainly to poli-1 ; tics. i Since 1930, Main Bocher. who! ! was born some 40 years ago in i ! Chicago, has been one of the big! 1 couturiers of Paris. Creates Own Designs I All the creations of his house i of Mu in bocher are of his own do-' : sign, although most Parisian : ! couturiers buy designs front other, i fashion artists. Bocher studied singing and art; in Chicago before coming to' i Paris in 1911 to train his voice; 1 under European masters. The ■ war interrupted his budding con-! ! cert career and until demobiliza i tion in 1918 he served with the American troops. A civilian again, he fell back on ! art, joining - the staff of an American magazine as a fashion artist. In 1924 he became editor -1 in-chief of the French edition of i another American publication. PUBLIC SCHOOLS i OF MONROE WILL ; REOPEN MONDAY ______ MEETING OF FACULTY HELD THIS AFTERNOON FOR PUR POSE OF PERFECTING AR RANGEMENTS I Public schools of Monroe Coun- I I ty will open Monday morning for [ the 1 “34-35 school term. ; Professor Horace O’Bryant of i I the Key West High School an-1 nounced today that Senior High j pupils should report in the audi-1 torium at 9 o’clock and Junior! High students at 1>:30 o’clock. Both Junior and Senior High! School students should be present j and on time, Professor O’Bryant i stated. A meeting of the faculty was, held at the school this afternoon I at 2:30 o’clock and plans made for ! the opening. Students of the Harris school j should report at 8:40 a. m. Mon-j day and Division street pupils at • 10 o’clock, according to Professor! W. C. Duncan. ; CIRCUIT COURT TO CONDUCT SESSION THIS AFTERNOON MATTER OF MOTION FILED FOR NEW TRIAL IN DEL PINO’S CASE WILL BE HEARD AT THIS TIME The Circuit Court will meet this afternoon at G o’clock at which time Judge Browne will be heard relative to the motion filed by Del Pino’s attorney asking for anew trial of the ease. Judge Browne has had the mat ter under advisement since yes terday morning when the court recessed to reconvene again this afternoon. Passing sentence on Del Pino was deferred yesterday morning when the motion for anew trial was presented to the court. Whatever decision has been made by the judge relative to a new trial is expected to be made known at the session to be held this afternoon. FERRY PARROTT BRINGS FREIGHT ’ ? } , / ' CUBA SAILS FOR HAVANA TAKING SEVENTY-THREE PASSENGERS Ferry Joseph R. Parrott arrived , in port yesterday afternoon at j 6:10 with one carload of grape-j fruit, one of sugar, one rope, two [ of pineapples and two empties. It' also brought 233 sacks of mail. S. S. Cuba sailed to Havana | yesterday afternoon at 12:50 j o’clock with 163 sacks of mail, i two tons of freight, four autos and ; 73 passengers. OLD COLORED RESIDENT DEAD Patience Adams, one of Key j West, oldest colored citizens, died ; on Thursday morning at her resi-! dence, 608 Thomas street. Funeral services will be from St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Catho- j lie Church Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock. (DANCE! Tonight from 10 till ? | RAUL’S CLUB j Music By j j j Bert’* Rhythm Syncopators • Gents, 75c Ladies Free j Ward Line Steamer Morro Castle Hit By Lightning i-- ■ ! most ok those meeting death had re fused TO ENTER LIFEBOATS; GREAT TALE OF HORROR RELATED; CAPTAIN O SHIP DIES OF HEART ATTACK FEW HOURS BEFORE TRAGEDY j 18, t.MK-lalrri I’rrul SPRINGLAKE, N. Sept. B.—The Ward liner Morro Castle burned at sea about eijcht mile> off the Jersey ooast early today when the ship was struck b lightning during a storm. Latest reports indicated that 150 of the crew of j 210, and 200 out of 318 passengers on the ship had landed safely from the burning vessel. The first report received stated that was be lieved that most of the passengers and crew had pet - j ished in the disaster. At the New York office of the line it was reveal | ed that one of those on hoard wa> a Key West mai | but it was not stated w hether he had been reported safe or not. The Morro Castle left Havana on September son its proposed voyage, and many of the passengers to passage on the ship at the Cuban capital, while tin others were made up from sections of the 1 nited States and also from foreign lands. Further details are being aw aited as to the t\a cause of the catastrophe, which befell the liner .j: ! its many passengers and crew. The steamer had HI passengers from Havana to New York, and 259 in transit on a special cruise, tit eluding a party of 90, all members of the C oiicom!’ * Club of German singers, who had just concluded a. engagement in Havana. GREAT NUMBER ON BOARD SHIP ARE TRAPPED BELOW DECKS SI’RJNC.LAKE, N. J.. Sept. S.—Two hundred or t* passengers of the Steamship Morro ('a.stle who met <1 aboard the flaming ship, eight miles at >ea *itrl\ t• •• i died because of their refusal to enter life mem of the crew of the vessel said today. Twenty-five of the members of the crew, intern separately, told practically the same story. it was a tale of horror of men and women frenzied raging flames and a thick pall of smoke resisting ,ll .* tempts of sailors to gel them into life boat' and t - <• Estimates of the loss of life ran a- high a- -too s, . . of passengers, spending their last night aboard Let i- , end of the week’s holiday, were trapped below tb the flames were breaking out in the lihrar\ hi th- !•*. >* of the boat and ranged aft to leave the -upt-i diuetoi,- a hulk. One hundred and eighty-two were reported rt either by other liners or put ashore in lift boat . l.igL- - struck oil tank on the vessel at 3a. m. Eastern t*nd Time, and almost immediately flame enveloped u ■ the liner returning to New \ork from an eight da\ < > ■ to Havana. Captain Robert VVilmot, master of the \, - el. L * died at sea, only a few hours before the tragedy. t .t 1. attack, and First Officer W. F. Warn.* wa.- in < ■•m.ih.ii. .he time, bodies started to wash ashore a leu houi .< he fire, and a National Guard observation plane u n ■ * seeing several more bodies floating in the >ea. ALL OF THOSE INJURED ARE RUSHED TO HOSPITALS; GIVEN AID Little attention was given at the moment to h.*> T... - bodies as all attention was turned to caring !<>r • > ! survivors. Fifteen or twenty of the>e were ru-r . i pitals with injuries, mostly >l a minor naturt W ‘ 1* vivors were given clothing by the Red (’ro-v>, worn, . • town quickly organized to giv * hot coffee ami food •• survivors. Tales of horror were told by the tatigue.t . and passengers. Members >1 the crew, until stopped b\ ~ttu. i t of the deck watch attempting to check tht tian.es ,j (Continued on I’aKe Fourr Key West, Florid*, bee the most equeble weather la the country; with en average range of only 14* Fahreaheii. PRICK FIVE CENTo