The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 23, 1926, Page 1

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FOR 47 YEARS DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF THIS COMMUNITY _ KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1926. PRICE FIVE CENTS VISITOR MUCH PRESIDENT COOLIDGE PAYS TRIBUTE 10 GEORGE TET iim WASHINGTON IN ADDRESS DELIVERED LAST NIGHT AT CONFERENCE OF NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSA_ FRED D. ALLEN, RETIRED BUSI- ee ee NESS MAN OF BOSTON, SAYS : KEY WEST HAS UNEXCELLED| / Tustees of Key West _ BELIEVE COUNTESS CHIEF EXECUTIVE REFERS CLIMATE Yacht Club Plan Meeting To as sdeoiiias WIL BE GRANTED FIRST PRESIDENT | Expressing his belief that Key) To Be Held On W l “THE GREAT | West has the best climate in any sec-| 4 4 TIME EXTENSION EXAMPLE tion- of the country, and that the} ur Brown, tary of the i OF future of the city is to be of such a; Key West Yacht Club announces MYSTERY SURROUNDS ‘SUD- nature that the citizens of the Island: F S | City do not believe, is the opinion ee there wil be'a mesting.of the | DEN ADMISSION TO UNITED | Mr. Fred D. Allen, of Brookline, trustees of the organization held at! STATES FOLLOWING RECENT Mass., who with Mrs. Allen are mak- DETENTION ing their headquarters for the present Z j the offices of the Garrison Park | (By Associated Press? ati tha fernieal Oe sar cat pata <a and Mrs. { a ? j len arrive ere Sunday morning < {| NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Friends Pak On 'and are forced by previous engage- Comoretion, corner of Duval and the Countess of Cathcart now regard = | ments to leave next Sunday, but both Southard streets. the mystery surrounding her sudden March, Waldmere—Losey. ysay their visit of next year will be Pinal action on th tta to be admission to the United States a ten- Overture, From Dawn To Twi-| of longer duration. i = ees & day leave indicative that she will be light—Bennet. Mr. Allen is a retired business man held on Sunday, February 28, will ; able to remain as long as she likes. Fox Trot—Foot Loose—Rupp. |} of Boston, where for years he con- po taken at this meeting, and mem-! They based their belief on the con- Novelty, Ah Sin—Rolfe. * ;dueted a large business on Winter A ‘ | tention that the act she admitted to bers are earnestly requested to be immigration inspectors do not con- present to assist in carrying out fi | Stitute a crime in South Africa where they were committed, and that she bes get a re-hearing and be granted Arthur Garfield admission. Her attorney, ; Hays, wired Secretary of Labor Davis , last night, asking a rehearing. Her, Post 1 Until March 162°" that she ran away to South ' Africa with the Earl of Craven in ZEN = = VOLUME XLVII. No. 46. CUBAN DELEGATION ARRIVES TODAY ON GOVERNMENT SHIP FOR CELEBRATION TOMORROW CRUISER BRINGS OFFICIALS FOR BIG EVENT IN TRIBUTE TO GENERAL MARTI, MARTYR AMERICANS WILLJOINCU-| | BAND CONCERT | The following is the program that BANS IN OBSERVANCE will be rendered this evening, begin- OE DAY WERE EAB rates ORATE FESTIVITIES Arriving in port this morning ° from Havana, was the Cuban cruiser } Cuba, with a large delegation of rep- | resentative officials and citizens of path—King. the Island Republic for the purpose | Waltz, Sur La Mer—vVereecken. of participating in the celebration c Part: Two < | ; zi z Selection, Campus Memories— Allen speak in the highest terms, of Grito de Baire which will be ob- , Seredy. |classing that famous hostelry as Fox Trot, I. Miss My Swiss—Gil-! among the best of the kind he has bert. ' patronized in his travels. . i Serenata Cubana, Enita—Cham-! ee ; who bers. ; CORONER'S JURY FAILS i | 1922 cannot be an admission of Prclignss tives TO REACH VERDICT| The preliminary trials of those ’ar- ‘crime or moral turpitude, Mr. Hays. jrested during the recent raids made contends, because adultery is not a! | x | The coroner’s jury empaneled by as : | ert in Sor 3 { : i crime in South Africa. Justice of the Peace Rogelio Gomez jby prohibition officers that were set “As you know our contention is |to investigate the death of George |f°r today have been postponed until ‘ |Chester Wimberly, of Shady Grove, | Tuesday; March 16. sakaae ee =e |Fla., who was killed in an auto-| The hearings will be before U. S. “Should like. immediate opportunity jmobile accident on the County Road | Commissioner Rodney Gwynn at the to. take this matter up with @ : | ed Pm Sunday, held a brief sessjon —this|customs house in ‘this city. The hank citkic lateninlly so Sa rn understanding of Sim.” Ue. lmorning and adjourned until to-|people who were arrested in these “hi t South > rn rie > said. tmorrow morning at 10 0’clock. raids are ali out under bond. hime ——— x The hearing scheduled for today on the habeas corpus petition filed for Lady Cathcart has been postpon- :ed a week, United States Attorney . Emory R. Buckner, who was to op- pose the writ, contends the admission of Countess Cathcart from Ellis Is- land took her out of the court's juris- diction, and left her fate up to the } i i : ; : if a. m. tomorrow, February 24, at | | Indian War Dance, On, the War-; Street. His future years will be spent in enjoying the accumulation of years j and the greater part of them will be ; spent in Key West. nal arrangments. | Of the Casa Marina Mr. and Mrs. Preliminat’y Hearing In Prohibition Cases served in Key West tomorrow, this being an annual event in memory of General Jose Marti, martyr, : during the year 1895 started an in- age, Frolisome surfection against the Spaniards ' ‘which’ evdhtually led up to the free- dom of the residents of the Cuban republic. The national salute was fited from the naval station as the cruiser entered the hafbor, dropping anchor in the channel opposite the navy docks. . Cuban Consul Domingo J. Milord, accompanied by other representative members of the Cul colony, and! ‘many Americans as |, Tepaired to , the naval station on ‘the arrival of) W. tution, tem, the cruiser where a | held in grdtiog the “aficers Und moron conelusion of the reception | asked of congress. 5 naval station, the members of | Recommendations ‘ncorpartting ; party. proceeded to San Carlos S®n' : | (Special to The Citizen) te the supply yards all up and down the sights. Last night she took s the visitors were official-. “face the facts” conference conclud- r . | MIAMI, Fla, Ped. 28-—How the|this section. | Teayite 6 amen oonene, y reeeived by the Cuban consul and | ed last night by the association . 4 Conmiodiaae aa. & ther officials and citizens, where | against the prohibition att will be Where, in late’ November, there’ e ane clusens, where clarion call ofthe lower East Coast |... nothing but heavy timber, 2x8, ; Heary they remained until after the noon | drawn and presented to congress by| fiat . cad hour when an adjournment was tak-'@ committee of 21 prominent men for building supplies was, answ: 2x10, 6x6 and 6x8 on any yard ad- det avhich th wisnig? Oa en for a while. selected by the conference. The by the port of Key West’s ready!jacent to the railroad between Jack- ae: ld haw ha eer pa specific At 8:80" o'clock tonight there will | committee was appointed after num-'“There!” is little less than an epic.|sonville and Key West, today the: crimes, in “2 oe a pair = be a grand ball given under the} bers of speakers, including members | have been many miles by motor|yards then vacant are fairly well’ term of moral turpitude. Moral tur- auspices of the Sociedad Cuba at) of congress, and men ge white, | through the suburbs. of this rightly-|supplied with stocks of many kinds, pitude, he says, is just about as clear ti the Cuban Club on aie sige welt a in Lisprced bangla hibi, 22med Magic City since I arrived on/ and building activities are going on as mud. ; Fee gant and the deci Te a a ee Geland ans {Thursday afternoon, and wherever | apace. (ZAC the Countew of Cathcart.” be ‘At +4580 o'clock tomorrow there | failure. I have been, as well as all the way} Good feeling, good wages, happy continued, “had put the letter ‘S” jup on the railroad, I have had my | workmen in every trade, all these are. after her name, meaning ‘Single,’ she will be a luncheon given at.San Car- | Comprising the committee are) a a | * eyes wide open for construction and|once more forged into an activity ; still would have told the truth about los Hall at which time diplomas will, Senators Bayard, Delaware and pe vity | hee 2 i : id be -awarded local members of the | Broussard, Louisiana, Democrats; | the physical items that have to do|that shows permanent, esti s Emigrados dela Havana by the Representative Hull, Republican, / with construction. |growth day after day. aes ee + idie i =z possible visiting delegates. Crowell, of: I have talked with many men of! The great need now is for mill- bs sean Paps Pee rs pe, a <p’ Monmouth. when , Cleveland, former assistant secretary many minds. I have questioned fel-|!work of every type for’interior use. idieovend) attic adamant t= orders amounting shmost Sr. Alfredo Maryland; Benedict Lucignani — will of war; James Duncan, first vice-|low travellers and railroad em-|Much flooring is aboard the ships in et PSS was losing the day. HUBERT REASON, Conductor. MODIFICATION OF ~ PROHIBITION LAW - __ NOW BEING SOUGHT, pe peb. 33._—Substi-| f i Key West’s Breaking of Lumber Shortage An Epic of East ss F i i i | i } | | | i 4 ‘ : as 5 ' & situation preside at the luncheon, and there will be © other. events held in connection with the | president of the American Federa-! ployees, hotel clerks and guests, con- harbor here; considerable has come reception which will be attended by tion of Labor; P. S. Dupont, Wilming- | tractors and developers, officers and ‘north through Key West. But there a large number of visitors and local | ton, Del.; Rupert Hughes, the novel- passengers on excursion boats, and|is an almost unbelievable scarcity of ist, and a number of other prominent 21) trom whom I could get the facts. |door and window frames, casings, — The concensus of these opinions inside and outside doors, sash, and residents. At/’3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon Somme oe Peas age Se that six weeks or two months ago, |the required run_of standing finish a motorcade will be conducted in which the visitors will be taken for | meds “2a ee He rate ~/ agg Se - i ds f writing the prohibi | ~"°" ‘"¢ embargo actect, oor and window sides, sills, headers, rs depramnantee sy x e | more recently when the sinking of box leads and mouldings. a ride over the city, visiting the many points of interest, which will tion law, concluded after the George: ‘ “ also include a trip over the Stock Washington beer recipe was read bythe Prince Viadimar here choked; Several shipments of this class of Island bridge out to the head of the Representative Hill. The formula the government channel and bottled stock landed in the port of Key West BIRT RE IE roadway which connects with the had been given to the delegates on|Up Miami harbor at the entrance to and sent to the towns and cities for: ee Washi nm Ball proposed Over-Sea Highway to the menus at the afternoon luncheon, Biscayne Bay, then and just then 200 miles to the northwood, even to F seein? ed mien mainland. = i ; after William H. Stayton, national |supply ships which were directed to Miami, would make a great differ- the best dancers of the a oS tal nd The following is a list of the dele- | chairman of the association, had fail-|the East Coast docks at Key West ence in the ais whic baa x gates waking the trip bere coda to receive from the department 'sounded the knell of the construc- now ready for such supplies could be! The winners of the waltz receiving erat. te. fase < Ramen 0 * of justice a ruling he requested as to tion slump, at least as far north as completed. . ficst prise were Mr. and Mra. Loeis the legality of making it. | West Palm Beach and Hollywood. Besides relieving the already over-' Sarazen of Kansas City, Mo., the two OF FIRST PRIZE ¥} Fe 1 | r ¥ | | | 4H i i f : t il Jose Ricardo O'Farril, Raoul Alpizar A Key West, with the hearty co-' crowded novelty mills up and down second prize going to Mickey Bab-' FOUNDATION CO. Poyo, Antonio Navarrete, Louis F. Fabello, Dr. Frank A. Betancourt, Rogendo Pando y Ponce de Leon, Dr. Jose Garcia Baylleres, Crencen- cio Cabrera Fernandez, Rafael Mar- ANNOUNCES SALES tinez Ibor, M. Garcia Velaz. From 5 until 6 tomorrow evening | the Cuban band will render a con- MANY VALUABLE PARCELS OF cert at Bayview Park, which will be | LAND ARE SOLD DURING the concluding feature of the day’s PAST FEW DAYS program. The following is the program that |: The Key West Foundation Com- will be rendered: pany announces $18,250 additional American and Cuban national sales on tract No. 1. (Continued on Page Five) avg mate Perchene have bees E. D. Jenner of Davenport, Ohio, Lot 1, Block 13, $4,500. Joseph P. Farrell of New York City, Lots 1 and 2, Block 2, $5,500. Andrew J. Page, Lots 1 and 2, Block 11, $8,250. Mr. Page bought this site in Block | 11 in view of erecting a home on it. Mr. Jenner also purchased a lot with | intentions of building a home. NO GLASSES AT 100 WEOBLY, Eng—Mrs. Harriet Davies reads her daily paper and the Bible without glasses, though she is 106 years old. enieniioenenineamniaennemmesiniiaatasasia | YESSIR! THEY'RE SOME BABIES! LEON ERROL With DOROTHY GISH —iNn— “CLOTHES MAKE THE PIRATE” Den't Miss it MONROE THEATRE TODAY i uit operation of the railroad, stepped the line, it would put homes on the cock and Mrs. S. Fewster. and for) into the widening breach and healed | market faster and thus help the, the Charleston, Clinton it to such an extent that building is present astonishing growth which, first, and Mrs. S. Fewster, jgoing ahead today by leaps and Florida is beginning to experience. ‘The first prize for bounds. jsince the turn of the anti-propa- WAS # silver cup, and @ Miami is proud for the towns of | ganda tide. | was rd a, ‘the Atlantic ocean side of the Flor-| Miami and her sister communities “™™¢™* © a on ida peninsula because Key West thus for miles along the East Coast line eae | > ._ | relative to engraving. met these demands, and is con-|both north and south, are strong in % 3 e attended the affair, tinuing to meet them. their praise of the work Key West conche For though today the booms a its people have done and still i f il ene iH at if | i i wa E> i fr ty | f music for the occasion. if it jnearly a score of lumber vesselsjare doing to relieve the conditions | one against the string pieces of |which the embargo helped to bring | {this city’s new dockyard, and though |about and which the channel block-; |there are several other vessels and jing incident accentuated. ; LONDON—Owing to the com- anchor in the harbor, with 37 more| The publication a few daye ago pluints of neighboring residents, the lin deep water off the beach waiting|of a finely written and compre-|Police has forbidden the Highland | ltheir turn to enter and discharge, |hensive article on Key West in Bar-|C!ub to permit the playing of bag-/ lthe cargoes these carriers bring arejron’s and allied banking interests Pipes im its quarters. ' |seemingly swallowed up in motor |paper of New York and the East, has‘ \trucks, or heaped high on ry tx {om ot the nnd Cy tan | i & BAN ON BAGPIPES | / for distribution within a very few/sion of the Island City that is in the miles of here. | Miami’s needs today are eral being met by ships now coming. But every are being

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