The Key West Citizen Newspaper, February 25, 1926, Page 1

Sal « FOR 47 YEARS DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST OF THIS COMMUNITY WJ VOLUME XLVI. No. 48. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1926. WIDESPREAD SLASHES IN TAXES ARE RECOMMENDED IN NEW REVENUE MEASURE ARRIVES IN CITY TO CONFER ON WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—En- BENJAMIN SCHWARTZ, PROMIN- actment into law of the revenue bill) ENT ATTORNEY OF BALTI- MORE, TO HOLD CONFERENCE WITH JEWISH COLONY. | SIGNATURE OF PRESIDENT AWAITED FOR LEGISLA-; TION TO BECOME EXIST-' ING LAW. proposing tax reduction of $387,-/ 000,000 this year awaited today only Benjamin Schwartz, attorney at w of Baltimore, Md., and editor of the the Jewish Times of both Baltimore and Washington, arrived in Key West today to confer with the leaders of Senate approval late yesterday by the Jewish community here concern- , ing the relief problem of the Jews in a ‘vote of sixty-one: to ten. of. the Palestine and Central Europe. compromise reached in the confer-' Mr. Schwartz represents the United Palestine Appeal which is being un- ence with the house completed the dortaken -. throughoat, thait United work of congress on its first and States for five million dollars, of probably. most important piece of which Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is the islati “ “ national chairman. ' tion this session. Mr, Schwartz is director for other The total amount of reduction Parts of the state with headquarters goes almost $40,000,000 beyond the in Miami. The funds to be raised 7 Rea i to sett! 1 f outside limit which Secretary Mellon! blah rt agen eae yer anita had indicated the condition of } the signature of President Coolidge,” who was expected to approve measure. { Palestine the thousands of colonists the who are flocking to the Holy Land. : ‘treasury would permit, but favorable{ Mr. Schwartz is prominently iden- action by the president is believed tified with the community life of assured on the promise of adminis- Baltimore, where he is a member of tration leaders to forestall some of the ©xecutive committee of the ee ‘the pending bills « calling for adai- * NCeiam: Secretary of the Bosrd 0 ree: venig 5S ™ Jewish Education, president of the tional expenditures. Jewish Art Theatre, and chairman of The widespread slashes in taxes the Educational Department of the ‘would become effective in most Y- M. H. A. 5 instances immediately upon en-| * He is also a member of the Gov- actment of the measure and income etnor’s Inter-Racial Commission, sec- tax payers would have their assess-' retary of the Mayor’s Municipal Wel- ment cut by more than $200,000,- fare Commission, a member of the 000 with: the reduced retes-effective Faculty of the University of Balti- on first payments for this year, more and a graduate city manager. jy He ae | KILLED TODAY j The principal fight developed over | WITH ON BOARD SHIP CUBAN VISITORS LEAVE LAST, NIGHT FOR HAVANA AT TER- MINATION OF ANNIV! EVENTS seh The Cuban celebration of “Grito de Baire,” which was conducted in Key West yesterday, was brought to a close last evening with a farewell, reception held on board the Cuban cruiser Cuba, anchored in mid-stream. REGULAR SERVICES WILL BE LIEUTENANT COMMANDER F. Judge Jefferson B. Browne and - Senator William H. Malone were among the guests who delivered ad- dresses at the luncheon held yester- day on the government vessel, be- sides several others making up the, °f Key West and in all other parts of captain of the yards at the naval’ visiting delegation who were heard inj addresses delivered on the enjoyable occasion. The cruiser was brilliantly illumin- ated last night with numerous incan- descent lights of various colors, the harbor presenting a picturesque and gorgeous scene as the rays from the ship’s lights spread out over the en- tire bay bordering the channel. The string of lights extended from: the bow of the vessel up to the ex- treme tip of the ship’s two spars, sus- pended between the masts, and then precipitating to the after part of the cruiser’s deck, which was aglow with the radiant light from the illumina-! tion effect carried out. The visiting delegation from Ha- vana, accompanied by Cuban Consul Domingo J. Milord, Dr. J. M. Renedo, president of the San Carlos Institute, and many other representative local residents, accompanied them on a’ motorcade yesterday afternoon which; took them for a ride out -over the! Stock Island bridge to the head of! the road that will connect with the! proposed Over Sea Highway to the, mainland. The members of the celebration being exceedingly delighted with the! trip made to Stock Island, where they} -delegation expressed themselves as ; Were afforded an opportunity of , Viewing the municipal golf links at} ihe ag-i the same time. Each and every member of the reception “accorded them during their sojourn in the Is'and City, all! of whom left during the night on the Cuban cruiser when the vessel depart-; EPTION | conducted at the local synagogue. Snr ee PRICE FIVE CENTS GREAT DREADNAUGHTS OF AIR FEATURE PROGRAM PLANNED BY NAVAL COMMITTEE exsany JEWISH PEOPLE TO CAPTAIN OF YARD | OBSERVE FESTIVAL OF PURIM SUNDAY CONDUCTED AT SYNAGOGUE HERE IN CONNECTION WITH) EVENTS OF CELEBRATION | On next Sunday the Jewish Solna! the world will celebrate the festival of Purim, and ceremonies will be The word Purim means “Lots” and it was so ¢alled because Haman drew lots to decide on what day the Jews’ of Persia were to be exterminated. He had influenced the King against! them but Mordecai and Queen Esther! came to the rescue and‘on the four-' teenth day of the month Adar they} were saved. The story is told most beautifully and poetically in thei Book of Esther. This festival emphasizes the great lesson that those who plot to harm others will in the end suffer them- selves. It also teaches the beauty of | loyalty and the glory of an ideal man- hood and womanhood as illustrated by the hero and heroine, Mordecai and Esther. EDDIE PLANK, BASEBALL STAR, DIES WEDNESDAY GREAT LEFT-HANDED PITCHER SUCCUMBS TO PARALYsiIS| WITH WHICH HE WAS STRICK-| EN RECENTLY | | | | | ; Bregation were high in their praise of, The baseball world today was mouta- ing for Eddie Plank, one of ‘the; greatest left-hand pitchers of his time, who died yesterday. ‘ant Baltzly took up the position of | NAVY DEPARTMENT PLANS EXTENSIVE PRO- GRAM OF EXPANSION IN ACTIVITIES (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25— Navy plans for great dened. maughts of the air, bristimg woth guns to ward off sirglame <t- tacks, underlie action of the house naval committee = pro viding for construction of tee expansion program to the house. A glimpse of sew monsters that have been designed. given es t AT NAVAL STATION IS TRANSFERRED BALTZLY WILL PROCEED TO HAMPTON ROADS ON ORDERS RECEIVED i | Lieutenant Commander F. Baltzly, station, has received orders to leave, for Hampton Roads, and will leave. Key West within a week. | Lieutenant Commander Baltzly has, been ordered to Hampton Roads, se where he will remain until the middle of June. From Hampton Roads he) will take the transport Henderson to! the Philippine Islands. Coming here five months ago from} the U. S. S. Niagara, on board which | he was the executive officer, Lieuten-' the captain of the yard at the naval station. } Lieutenant Commander Leonard N.} Linsley has been ordered here as re- lief from the Bureau of Engineering, navy department, Washington, D. C.' He will arrive in a few days. MUCH INTEREST IN: ABSORPTION OF RAILRO. ATLANTIC COAST LINE CONTROL THREE SYSTEMS IN SOUTHEAST FOLLOWING SOLIDA } of the Attatita) Ax and Atlantic Railroad the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the inheritance tax which the sen-|“RED” SHANNON. DIES FROM/ed for Havana. He was stricken with paralysis| which was announced yesterday by ate voted to repeal but which was BULLET FIRED FROM COAST! kept in the bill by the house, which , three days ago. Death came four months after Christy Matthewson, Colonel B. L. Bugg, receiver of the A. B. & A. The latter railroad has GUARD GUN; MAKE PROTEST TO WASHINGTON COBB'S ADVENTURES modified the rates, in contrast to‘ the jhis right-handed rival in several two previous reduction bills voted since the war, almost complete agree- ment was reached between the party leaders on the vital income tax sche- dules. (By Asseciated Press) MIAMI, Feb. 25.—While E. W. “Red” Shannon, known to authori- ties as “king of Miami rum runners,” | lay dying in the hospital today with’ RECEIVE BIDS a builet in his back, from a coast ON 5 iguard gun, yacht owners and citi- MEETING WILL BE HELD THIS PRGA : AFTERNOON WHEN counciL.|\" '*°#** © what is characterized MEN WILL CONSIDER OFFERS | >y eye witnesses as an unjustifiable TO BE MADE |kiliing. Shannon died shortly after The City Council will meet this af-|toon today. ternoon at 5 o'clock at which time | bids will be received for the sale of | improvements bonds to the amount jthe spectacular capture of Shannon’s of $225,000, the floating of this bond >°at off the private docks’ of an ex- issue being ordered sometime ago in {clusive © beach hotel Wednesday connection with the passage of anjnight. Carl G. Fisher of Miami ordinance drawn for this purpose. : m 2 Several bids bearing interest at | >°2°% 2"4 other eye witnesses claim the rate of five andsa half per cent the fusillade from the spied per annum were received at the last | boat that fatally wounded Shannon | meeting held, all of which were re-|was fired after Shannon and the jected following considerable dis-| crew of the rum boat had signified cussion on the subject. * =n: i The councilmen have advertised |"*™ etait ety by for six per cent bonds, and it is ex. | Putting up their hands and calling! pected that several bids will be re-|t© the coast guardsmen. . ; ceived at the meeting this afternoon | Official inquiry into the shooting | with the rate of interest specified in|¥@S being made today by Com- the call issued following the regu-|™ander C. G. Porcher, in charge of lar session of the council last Thurs- | the Miami Coast Guard unit. He day. said thus far his investigation had A portion of the funds to be pro- [revealed no irregularities on the part vided in the floating of the bond is-,°f the coast guard,, that the inquiry sue will be used for the construc- | Would be continued and an official tion of nine additional holes to the Teport made to his superiors. golf course, the filling in of low, That Shannon was the rum run- land adjacent to the links, the pav- "¢r who hurled open defiance at ing of a large number of streets and General Lincoln C. Andrews in Mi- the construction of sidewalks. ,;ami waters about a month ago by = tossing overboard three cases of liquor in plain sight of the Andrews The Trouble With Wives coast guard boat and then escaping What is the Treuble with in a speedier craft despite fire from the guardsmen became knewn teday Wives—that’s what the world and his wife would like to Shannon was running a cargo of knew. Well, this is the story liquor into Miami when his speedy ,eabin cruiser “Goose” was approach- of a bride whe found out. And you'll find out how funny a ed by a smal! coast guard boat con- veying General Andrews from shore matrifumnial comedy can real- ly bet to his cutter anchored at sea. Cross- MONROE THEATRE iY zens of Miami Beach were preparing a protest to be filed in Washington The protest comes as a sequel to jing the path of the Andrews boat at }full speed, Shannon is said te have TODA aon distareed. | following a whirlwind courtship. COVER MUCH TERRITORY ASSOCIATED PRESS HEAD QUARTERS, Feb. 22.—Investigators of the marital adventures of Noel Cobb, Anderson, S. C., youth, today were wondering how much more ter- ritory the seemingly ever-widening circles of his activities would en- velope. Already, ten cities in six states have been involved . News dispatches to date revealed knowledge of him in the following, cities, arranged as nearly in chron- ogolical order 2s possible, according to his actviities: Anderson, S. C., his home, where his fam‘ly is well known and highly respected. Columbia, S. C., where he attended for one year the University of South Carolina. Nashville, Tenn., where he was a. theology gstudent at Vanderbilt Uni-| versity. and where he met Miss Mar- garet Farmer, pretty Dothan, Ala.,| student at Peabody College. Jefferson, Ind., where he is be-' lieved to have gone through a fake) marriage ceremony with Miss Farmer } Louisville, Ky., where he attended) the Presbyterian Theological Semin- ary. Dothan, Ala., where he went with his “bride” and was received by her family and filled for one Sunda: pulpit i Church, and in which city he was ask-. ed to leave by Miss Farmer's father, following suspicion. Birmingham, Ala., where he pre- sented himself to church officials and officials of the Birmingham-Southern College as a “French diplomat,” and obtained letters of introduction to students of divinity at Emory Uni- versity in Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga. where he presented his letters and was well received by Emory students and introduced by them to their acquaintances, and where he was found three weeks later unconscious on the streets suffering from a strange mental malady later pronounced “dementia x.” Miss world’s series battles, had succumbed >¢e® in the hands of a receiver since| to tuberculosis. Plank was 51 years old. His phy-! | Sician said that 16 years of strenu-' ovs work with the Philadelphia Ath- leties and one season with the St. Louis Federal League Club had left his heart in a weakened condition. { Many telegrams of condolence! came to Mrs. Plank and her ten-year- old son. At the Athletics’ training camp in Fort Myers, Fla., Connie Mack said: “I feel like a father must feel when he has lost a son. The world has lost a fine, clean sportsman. Eddie was one of the smartest left- handed pitchers in baseball. He was master of the cross fire delivery and that was one of his big assets.” Thomas S. Shibe, president of the Athletics, said: “A great ball player in his day and a lovable character, one of God’s noblemen.” Funeral services wil! be held Satur- , day afternoon from the First Pres- byterian Church. The body will lie in state from one, until three o’clock. Large Crowd Attends Prayer Services At First Methodist Church’ There was a very large and en- thusiastic audience at the First; Methodist Church last night in at- tendance at the prayer meeting held in connecti i i grounds. There will also be another prayer service conducted this evening at the Ley Memorial Church, which will | be under the leadership of Rev. L. Munro of the First Methodist Church. } We Are Running the Usual SATURDAY NICHT DINNER DANCE —AT— CASA MARINA Thie W--&, 27th Inst. ; j assets of $1,000,000,000, and 1921. | This gives the Atlantic Coast Line’ control of three railroad systems in! the southeast, the third one being the) Louisvil'e and Nashville, which was: acquired several years ago, but has been operating it as a separate com-| ] Under the agreement effected be-| tween the A. C. L. and the A. B. & A., a reorganization of the finances of the A. B. & A. is fully provided for.- It adds 640 miles of trackage to the A. C. L. system, which already! extends through Virginia, North/ Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Als-, bama. The A. B. & A. extends from) Atlanta through the heart of Georgia’ to Brunswick, on the Atlantic Coast, junction with the A. B. & A. being effected at Offerman, Ga. The consolidation forms @ main! trunk line between the L. & W., lines| in Alabama and the A. C. L., in Geor-| gia, the only important junction therefore existing being at Montgom- ery. Recent reports from New York in-| Fire Desartment Responds dicated that a plan was in prospect looking to the merger of the L. & N. and the A. C. L., which would involve a ee eth ene ae ia a ee oo 13,000 miles of in these in addition to those Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana. , The agreement provided for issuance of $60 in stock of the new “reets, company for each $100 in A. B. & A. been created by the burning ont of } i | | i ; mon stock of the new company be held by the A.C. L. The reported merger of the A. C. and L. & W.. said to involve two roads besides these two and the B. & A. They are the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis and the’ Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio. The latter road runs from Spartanburg, S. C., to the coal fields of Kentucky | AMUSEMENTS | | TODAY — “The Trouble With Wives.” Comedy, “Nicromantic.” | ToMORROW—“The Tower of " Comedy, “Hoses ¥-" SATURDAY EVE=INC 900 P.M TO 1260 PF. = GEORGE WALZEES LA i ke