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Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME LIV. No. 144. Proposal For Reduction In Tariffs Submitted At London Med By America Continuation Of Tariff Truce Included In Other Sugfestions Offered At Conference Auorlatti Preu) LONDON, Jans profor general ten percent reduction In wet ted to the economic conference bp America, it learned today. Other American are: continuation of the tariff trace, bilateral trade agreements, and compensation and clearance agreements.

In meanwhile experts have reached and submitted to their home governments for approval a tentative agreement on controlled stabilization. It provides for control of exchanges to smooth out fluctuations, rather than definitely fixing rates. It was said only Washington approval was lacking, and this is expected before the markets open Monthly. Fourteen nations will accept the Roosevelt truce on tariff i changes, making 33 in all. The new nations are Bolivia, Chile, Dominican Republic, Guatemala.

Geeeee, Iceland, Paraguay; Persia, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Uruguay. NO WORD YET FROM MATTERN RADIO STATIONS GETTING IN TOUCH WITH MANY REMOTE POINTS NOME, Alaska, Jaae 17- No word bu yot boos from Jimmy Mottorn litu bo took off Wodnotdftjr of from Siberia for Nemo, but Alaska airman said tkat tkia waa aot unusual in flying in tko far Japanasa and Alaakan radio stations worn (atting in tooak with ram ota fishing rossdls and aattlamants along ka Asiatic and Alaskan coasts. Roosevelt Reaches Boston Today On Sommer Vacation GREAT DAMAGE BY WATERSPOUT ONE MILLION DOLLAR DAMAGE AT SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN (By OsssstaiMl rteeel SAN SEBASTIAN. Spain. city was strock today by a waterspout which canard damages estimated at $1,000,000.

The of Paulina don, hoary weight pugilist, at Barrio Antigua, was dontagod and Uncudon rescued oororal persons from drowning. Been Our Business for many poors ta know AUTOMOBILES. Bring yonr CAR to' os and wo will dtt rust. ten Smith Service Station White and Catharine 522 ECONOMIC LEAGUE MOVES TO OBTAIN NEW VOTING LIST CHARLES TAYLOR AND WILLIAM L. BATES ADDRESS MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL ON MATTER LAST NIGHT The matter of ordering an entire new registration of electors for the coming' city election was brought before the regular meeting of the city council last night by Charles Taylor manager of the Porter Dock Company, and William L.

Bates, both of whom attended the meeting as representatives from the Economic League of Key West. Messrs. Taylor and Bates addressed the council, making a request for said action, and also endeavored to ascertain what additional cost would become necessary in having entirely new books written for the purpose as stated, with the understanding that the league would finance whatever amount that may be required to have this work carried on. It was explained by the two spokesmen that the main idea was to prevent duplication of voting such as it was said has been carried on in prior elections in cases pertaining to the names of deceased persons appearing on the books "whereby another resident sents himself to be of that name, and if not detected, m'oceeds to cast a ballot which affords a person an opportunity to vote twice. Another point brought out was that of the names of non-residents.

who have moved away from the city, whose names still appear on the books, with the same practice followed as is shown in the case relative to the names of deceased persons. The ordinance committee was instructed to confer with the city attorney for the purpose of ascertaining whether this movement can be put into effect in the way of an ordinance or whether it requires a legislative act During the session last night an ordinance was passed on its first reading providing that aii bread baked and sold in Key West must meet the sanitary requirements over which the city health officer has supervision. It also specifies! that the vehicles in which bread is delivered must be closed in properly with tight-fitting doors conforming to the sanitary regulations as laid down by ordinance. The other part of the meeting was taken up with the reading of reports and other like matters of a routine nature. Atasrlslrt Promt BOSTON, Roosevelt arrived here today vacatioa heat.

Oa his unusually broad shoulders rusted unique powers of the war-time comasaoderda-chief with approval of coagress to fight it out with depression. The president is aware of his duties and had them well in com-! mand. He has planned long for the July attack to put men bark to work. Satisfied his organisation is intact for July, the first movement he approached was the playground of two weeks, determined to store up energy and power to smash it (into action. He detrained here for a motor tnp to Groton School to visit his two on his way to the AmWrt jack, li which will be sailed under his crew up the North Atlantic (const for the next two weeks.

goal is CampobcUo Island New; Brunswick, the family summer ground near the tip of Marne. Citizen CHECKING UP ON CONGRESS a a The Special Session And Its Emergency Tbe special session of congress moved toward adjournment with a record of legislation unprecedented in peace time. Outstanding cogs of the recovery machine it designed to revive lagging measure to balance the budget, supervised by Lewis Douglas, budget director; to expand credit, with William H. Woodin, treasury secretary, immediately in By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE Illy Associated WASHINGTON, June 17.

gigantic business pulmotor, ptobabty the massive machine ever built by any government for constructive purposes, has been fashioned by congress under the direction of the Roosevelt administration. Some cogs in this machine are already functioning. By fall its JURY DRAWN TO HEAR SWEETING CASE IN COURT DEFENDANT SUING KEY WEST ELECTRIC COMPANY FOR AN AMOUNT OF $7,500 FOR ALLEGED DAMAGES A venire of 18 jurors was drawn from the box this morning to act in circuit court on the case of Mrs. Annie T. Sweeting versus the Key West Electric company, damage suit for $7,500.

Jurors to be summoned are Louis William G. Pent, J. Frank Walter Thompson. J. W.

Marzyck. Chester Tift, William R. Finder, William M. Ellsworth, Daniel Knowles, Alfred Barroso, Gerald 11. Adams, Henry' Saunders.

Arthur Thompson, i Samuel Adams. E. W. Manuel. Claude Johnson.

George M. Carey, and Alfred Curry. The venire was made returnable 9:30 Tuesday morning. All jurors named who have not been summoned by noon Monday, shuld call at the sheriff's office This suit is baled on physical alleged to have been suffered by Mrs. Sweeting when she was a passenger on one of the i buses of the company.

To avoid striking a car, driven I by a woman, the driver of the bus. Lain Dobbs, is alleged to swerved his vehicle and collided with a pole. Sweeting was! thrown forward by the impact and asks for injuries die were received at that time, PALACE GLORIA SWANSON in Perfect Understanding Mettaee. I0.IS*; Night. KEY WEST.

FLORIDA, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1933. designers expect it to be hitting on all of its big cylinders, pumping new life into the business structure with the expenditure! of billions of dollars on employment-giving construction and for 1 relief of the debt-ridden in city, village and farm. Government The record-breaking array of! major legislation enacted in three, months reaches into practically, every field of economic activity, touching the baker, the butcher and the candlestick maker. It establishes an extraordinary partnership between government and industry and between Uncle Sam and John -Farmer. It vests Says Work Will Be Found For Million Men Out Of Emergency Relief Funds (By AwMdatcS Prt) DETROIT, Jane L.

Hopkins, administrator of tko $500,000,000 federal emergency relief fund, told the National Coaforeace of Social Workers today ke expects 1,000 aew public works projects to put 1,000,000 men to work by October 1. He said the depression had 4,000,000 families and 18.000.000 individuals from support to public and outlined policies to be followed. emphasizing that the states must bear a fair share of the of their own relief problems, and that there must be of relief administration, federal, state, county and; city to determine to the best possible degree who needs relief and who does not. Hopkins said the recovery act the greatest of operating to take people off relief and place them on of employment. Numerous instances have to attention, Hopkins where have approached relief agencies the Meal they were cut rate employment agencies where could be obtained at less than a self-stm-, wage." have no intention of permitting federal relief becoming involved in any dttmflmL where pay their work-1 eta starvation and expect; them to get the difference from; 1 relief charge; to coordinate railways and end cut-throat competition, a job entrusted to Joseph B.

Eastman; to unite industry in a cooperative effort to restore prosperity, with Col. Hugh M. Johnson directing; and to bring relief to the farmer, a task in charge of George N. Peek. The whole machine is designed to revolve about President far-reaching program designed to aid tbe rehabilitation of industry.

unprecedented powers in President Roosevelt and the administrators of the larger relief projects. Measures dealing with industry, agriculture, employment, banking, bankruptcy, mortgages, railroads, government economy, securities, taxation and power development have been enacted. Virtually ail are aimed at one general banishment of economic distress. Employment Increase Sought Every major piece of emergency legislation is designed to bring about an increase in employment, a rise in wages and in price levels and restoration of the purchasing power of the farmer' WEALTHY BREWER HELD FOR RANSOM ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS DEMANDED IN CASE OF KIDNAPING IBjr ST. PAUL.

June Hamm. wealthy brewer, today vts added to local kidnap victims which has included three others in eighteen months. Hamm was abducted Thursday, but were not aware of the crime until word was received from the that Hamm would be killed unless a ransom waa paid. Police are hunting Verne Sankey wanted for two similar as is involved in the Hamm kid- naptng. MRS.

H. GALEY LEAVES ON TRIP Harry C. Galey and daagto ter, Him Ruth Rose, left over Eadt Const yesterday afternoon' for Philadelphia where they wtO spend' a while with They will be joined by Doctor Galey about July and proceed to! Chicago where they wtU remain; several viewing the wonder- and wage keys to increased business volume. Spearhead of the nationwide attack on the depression is the National Industrial Recovery bill, which will be directed by Col. Hugh M.

Johnson. This bill is a two-edged sword, providing for the expenditure of $3,300,000,000 for public works on the one hand, and the co-ordination of industrial effort on the other by joining business units in trade associations for cooperative endeavor. The purpose of the bill is to increase wages, stop cut-throat competition, revive industry with huge government expenditures. G. FOX AWARDED DAMAGES BY JURY IN COURT TRIAL AMOUNT OF $12,000 WOULD BE PAID DEFENDANT BY RAILROAD COMPANY ACCORDING TO VERDICT George M.

Fox was today awarded damages of as a result of his suit against the Florida East Coast Railway company. The jury concluded their deliberations shortly after midnight and rendered a sealed verdict. This was opened by Judge Jefferson Browne when court convened at 10 o'clock this morning The figures in the amount were not very clearly shown and the judge asked the jury the amount. The members replied twelve thousand dollars. Wm.

H. Malone, attorney for the company, addressed the court relative to certain matters that were argued the day previous. After this had been decided to filed a motion praying the court to set aside the verdict and grant anew trial. The attorney based his argument on what to considered an excessive amount, in the verdiet and was answered by Mr. for the plaintiff, who argued that under the the amount could not be to view of he testimony given, ess-; pecmlfy that relative to the injuries received by Mr.

Fox. At the coactosean of the argu meats Judge Browne advised council to take the matter Mr. Fs entered suit ito miffod asking churning: his to resisted from a suffered to IWI, the direct cause! 0f which fealty used while the employ the: ft R. Four Officers Slain Gunmen In Efforts Made To Release Mail Robber LIQUOR GALORE DESTROYED DY CUSTOMS UNIT OPERATIONS CARRIED ON THIS MORNING AT FEDERAL BUILDING; MANY VARIETIES MAKE UP LOT Liquor in streams. Good stuff.

Real Hennessy brandy. Rare old 1873 Bacardi. Not to Mill Creek whiskey nor a river of beer. All of this running into the sewer in the seizure room of customs service in the federal building. Through the courtesy of G.

N. Goshorn, deputy collector, The Citizen was today permitted to witness the destruction of a load of intoxicants that was seized several months ago on a boat, the 19940. The blower, used to carry off the fumes of alcoholic stimulants when on orders from headquarters, was started shortly before 9 and the destructive forces assembled on the hour. Mr. Goshorn checked while E.

R. Kirkland. Charles Wardlow, Will Lord, Harry Warren and H. E. Day assisted in the work of destruction.

The Citisen was pregppd into service handing bottles to Mr. Kirkland who started the work with 12 quarts of Hennessy brandy. Then followed 12 quarts of Ron Cana, 24 quarts of 1873 Bacardi, 12 quarts of Peralta brandy, 17 quarts of Domecq brandy, and 51 pints of Mill Creek rye whiskey. Following this assortment five 6-gallon demijohns of Bacardi, one 6-gallon demijohn of gin and 22 five-gallon demijohns of Ron Cana were opened and the contents sent after the other stuff. Concluding the work, 99 sacks, each containing 24 bottles of Crystal beer, altogether 2,376 containers, were placed in the pit and the contents smashed with a small crow bar.

KERMITKERR ESCAPES FROM STATE PRISON' PETITION FOR PARDON WAS RECENTLY CIRC A CONTAINING 654 SIGNATURES Kennit Kerr, of Key West, on September 23. was sen- 1 traced to serve 20 in state penitentiary, made from Raiford, according to vices received by The CHI ten to-, day. Karr was Died and convict, and on charges of breaking ind enter tog and arson. Mrs, Kerr recently circulated a petition for pardon, signed by $4 attorns of Key West which she was preparing to send to the governor. It to not believed that the caped prisoner will hto way to Key Wert, as to would, nat; urally, fear apprehension by local authorities when discovered, which to woo Id to eventually.

TO NAME BRIDGE COMMISSION SCON Governor Dave Stadia to expect- I ed to make the appomfmeat of the roe roonty Bridge District when to returns to Taltahamae early 'next week. iafnrmetion was received to wtev from Taliafcesnee today mj reply to a telegram seat to capital hy The 1 For 53 Years Devoted to the Best Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Frank Nash, Noted Bandit, Recaptured Yesterday Also Killed In Shooting Affray (By AwaeHated I'rru) KANSAS CITY, June 17. Four officers woro slain by machine guns and another wounded in front of the Union station by gunmen who apparently sought to release Frank Nash, Oklahoma mail robber, who was being returned to Loavenworth prison. Nash, one of the few surviving members of the A1 Spencer gang, was also killed. The kilters fled in automobiles after pouring fire into the officers parked in an automobile.

The dead are Nash. Raymond J. Caffrey, agent of the bureau of investigations; W. J. Grooms.

Kansas City detective; Frank Hermanson, city detective, and Otto Reed, chief of police of McAlester, Oklahoma. The wounded was Lackey, federal agent. Accounts differed as to the number of men in the killers party. Some saying that there were two and some four. The officers had arrived with Nash, who was captured yesterday In Hot Springs, Arkansas, having escaped from Leavenworth in 1931.

The shooting started as officers escorted the prisoner to Caffrey's car. All of the dead were shot in the head. Windows in the station were broken by the hail of bullets, ami consternation reigned among a large crowd of travelers. HASKINS BACK FOLLOWING TRIP OF INSPECTION ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF LIGHTHOUSES HAD BEEN TO STATIONS ALONG FLORIDA REEF B. Haskins, assistant superintendent of lighthouses, returned yesterday afternoon on the tender Ivy from sn inspection trip to light stations on the Florida Reef.

Inspections were made at Fowey hocks, Csurysfort and Alligator lights. When the tender reached Sombrero high winds and tempestuous seas made a landing impossible. Inspection of this light arftl be made at a later date, Mr. Haskins mid. The Ivy, today, went to the V.

E. trrmmala to load two carloads of plain pi inline to used itt the construction of working at and other points in the dtafcrtct where aids to navigation are to be erected. In the event of fair wdstbec tender Poppy will, early gfft week, place the knot two piling for the foundation for the light at Smith Busk. Five of the piling are ptsee. As soon as tha last two are driven work of erecting the superstructure wfS be started and carried through to STRAND THEATER GABRIEL OVER THE WHITE HOUSE THE STORY Of TEMPLE DRAKE ta-ito; NighS MONROE THEATER DEADWOOD PASS Malta-.

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