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Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service VOLUME XLVII.- No. 58. Immense Submarine Recently Constructed Will Engage in Maneuvers inKey West Waters: Outstanding Charitable . Act by Local Red Cross ‘UNDERSEA CRAFT IS 341 FEET LONG; ONE OF LARGEST IN EN- TIRE SERVICE The submarine V-1 has just been constructed and will be sent to these waters within a short time. “The submarine will en- gege in deep sea diving for several weeks around Ports- mouth and Hampton Roads, Va, Then she will proceed to Key West to engage in maneuvers between Dry Tor- tagas and Key West. @ BAND CONCERT The following is the program that will be rendered at Bay, ew |Park this evening, beginning at }7:45 o'clock. Part I March, — National Bagley. Fox Trot, Fuzzy Wuzzy Bird— Weeks. Overture, Pique Dame—Suppe. Fox Trot, Fiest Hits No. 1— Sciacca. Selection, Mikado—Boettger. Waltz, Wedding of the Winds —Hall. This is one-of the largest “submarines in the navy, 341 feet long and 27.5 feet wide. Part il Fox Trot, Fiest Hits No. Sciacca. Diseriptive, A. Trip To Coney Island—Tobani. Selection, _ Woodland—Luders. Fox Trot, Sleepy Time Gal— Whiting, March, Officer of the Day— Hall. The Key. s— REAT VIOLINIST “TO BE HEARD IN CITY WEDNESDAY BPREM ZIMBALIST, FAMOUS IN ISLAND CITY TO- Star Spangled Banner— HUBERT REASON, Conductor. A Trip To Coney Island. Serio Comique Fantasia Syn. Rush to ‘the boat. All aboard. Whistle. Life on the Ocean Wave. Italian band “playing on board steamer. Appearance of jubilee singers. All ashore. Whistle. Ete. +) Mrs. Eva B. Torano will sing “At Dawning” and “Santa Lucia.” The concert tomorrow night ~ ON SLAYING OF BATTLING SIKI 1 friendship of the old_mas- : “ deeply, rooted. Tent year’. Ma,| STORY OF WHAT HAPPENED Zimbalist, the cooperation of| WHEN HE CALLED MEN Jascha Heif organized a gala) concert in honor of Prof. Auer’s| birthday. He enlisted the aid of | Josef Hofmann. Sergei Rach-| maninoffvand Ossip Gabrilowitsch | and the al évent, at high} prices, @ very large sum. | lations were made today as to the The most striking moment of the }mysterious slaying of Battling evening came when Zimbalist and Siki in Hell’s Kitchen last Decem- Heats played s triple concerto | ber. The last few minutes of his spite -his fame; Efrem Zim- the renowned violinist who ‘andes helpful a: guide as ever he was—a fact which Mr. finds of great advan- KITCHEN EPISODE (By Associated Prens) NEW YORK, March 9.—Reve- Emblem— | + “WHITE TRASH” IN HELL’S} Hinist. being Leopold Auer, who !f¢ were spent in a saloon brawl LITTLE CHILD AP- PROACHES HEADQUAR- TERS ASKING AID BE GIVEN FAMILY Tap. Tap. Tap. And then not | another sound was heard throbgh- out the house. The Red Cross sec- one stirring down below stairs, and hearing the timid knock below, she proceeded to investigate. A little child stood at the door ho'ding out a note to her, which begged for food. She told the Red Cross secretary. that her fAther had been ill and had not been was nothing to eat in the house. The secretary gave her a note | grocer, who would supply her with | groceries for the next few days. | The girl wished the note to be re- | turned so that she could beg fur- ther. But the secretary explained |to her that she represented the | Red Cross and she would take care of her until work could be secured | for the father. In twelve hours the Red Cross the | was in the home and had instruct-' the new service proves success-| jed the mother in the of the food for the kid The Red Cross secretary urges that all needy cases be r@ported to her so that. they can be handled Seog that organization, 7 much anno; fs the Tineesiee ee a organization is faryand wide, good reaching into the tiniest re- | cesses of the home, teaching fami- \lies better -ways in which to live | and aiding them in their needs. Mrs. Fernanda. Carbonell - Makes Parchase of First | New Model Paige Auto ition | Mrs: Fernanda Carbonell, wife \cf Juan Carbonell, owner of the | Monroe Theatre and Strand, has |purehased a 7-passenger De Luxe Paige. This is the first car of the new model to be sold by the Page & | Villareal Motor Company of this} | city. retary busy in her home heard no! working for weeks, and that there; and directed her to a nearby; KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1926. ORGANIZATION OF NATION'S DRY AIR. REAR ADMIRAL BILLARD, COMMANDANT OF COAST) GUARD, ISSUES INSTRUC-| -- TIONS TODAY (By Asnociated Press) - WASHINGTON, March 9.—Or- ganization of the nation’s first-dry air corps was ordered today by; Rear Admiral Billard, command- ant of the Coast Guard. The deficiency appropriation bill just signed by President Coolidge; allots $150,000 for establishment; of the Coast Guard air service.) | With this fund Admiral Billard) plans to establish five bases along: the Atlantic coast from New Eng-| land to Florida, where patrol boat) | stations now are located. A plane | {equipped with a crew of several | men will be assigned to each of these places. | Stratagetic points in the Coast) | Guard campaign against rum|} smuggling will be selected ani navy type seaplanes will be used. | Attention will be given to naviga-| tion protection as well as to rum} fighting. : A>board was named today by) Admiral Billard to outline the. policies of the new air service. It includes Lieut. .Commanders S. S.| | Yeandle, aide to Admiral Billard.' tS. V. Parker, commanding officer’ of the destroyer McDougall; E. F.| ; Stone, who piloted the NC-4 in the| first airplane flight across the At) jlantic; and C. C. Von Paulgon,) commariding officer of the Coast! Guard base at Gloucester, Mass. ~ | STATUS NOT: “Key West, which is one of a seale to represent ten times projects. ment. “The success (of the Highway Florida are man-made. Original cance. Man and his labor makes (By C. W. KEY WEST AND FLORIDA'S PARALLELED IN HISTORY OF THE WORLD Barron) the oldest ports of the country and never represented many millions, may alone in a few years easily represent a hundred’ million dollars. “The development along the Florida Keys is planned upon as many hundred-million-dollar “Mr. Meacham bought the eastern end of Key West at $500 an acfe, but he knew he would have to spend $5000 an acre to make his development and realize his profit. “He has ordered his dredges and is making plans for sev- | eral years ahead, and for at least a five-million-dollar develop- Over the Seas) will be greater } than ever came from the Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railway. It will be unparalleled in the history bf the world, “Key West best demonstrates the fact that land values in investments sink into insignifi- the values, performs the service for many individuals, and gathers the profit for the service. Additional appropriations will! Ine asked next year, the Great Lakes, the’ Gulf of) ; Mexico and the Pacific Coast, if; iegg t APPOINTED MEMBER OF JUDGES. COMMITTEE TO PRESIDE AT BISCAYNE BAY REGATTA > |UZAL MeCARTER, OF FIDELITY ORGANIZATION, | REACHES KEY . WEST ON. LARGE, YACHT BOAT Morris N. Partridge has been | appointed a member of the Judges! ermrmig ee Pen Bay, Uzal McCarter, president of the; Mr. Partridge received an inyi-; Fidelity Union ‘Trost Company,’ tation: from Charles Chase, Jr.,. to, Newark, N. J., and Mrs. McCarter. ' be present at a meeting of this committee on the morning of} March 10, which will be held at the Flamingo Hotel. Commodore A.| f . A. Schantz is chairman of the com-| by E. A. Pruden, vice-president of | | mittee, __| the bank, and Mrs. Pruden. | Mr. Partridge said that he will) The McCarters make their home| | be unab‘e to attend the meeting tints". a aes Inauguration of Yellow The. Yellow Cab system was in- augurated yesterday in Key West. Two cars are now operated under the management of Charles Maur- \raiu, and all that is necessary for one to do to receive prompt and efficient taxi service is to call the. Hotel La Concha, and one of these automobiles will-be at your door. aré “spending several days in Key| The cabs arrived Sunday from |ing the year of 1925, according West on their large yacht, the New York, coming directly from |to published reports, |Juniata. They are accompanied the Yellow Cab Company, . whose | ame is well known throughout the country for good service. The service will be both day and night -serviec, and will in- in Summit, N. J. Mr. McCarter| clude train, home and other calls. For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West” PRICE FIVE CENTS Barron Sees Key West Worth Hundred ~ Million Dollars After Over Sea Road Now Under Construction Is Completed _ ‘Will Be Greater Asset To Island |. City Than Flagler’s Railway Editor Writes Second Article = - - Meacham Teaches the Lesson That Man and His Labor Make. Se e THE Stations Abilene (cloudy) - Atlanta (clear) . Boston (clear) . Buffalo (clear) . Charleston (clear) Chicago (cloudy) . | Corpus Christi (raining) | Dodge City (clear) | Galveston *(pt.. cloudy): . | Hatteras (clear) . Huron (clear) . Jacksonville (clear) KEY WEST (clear) Louisville (clear) WEATHER escece C. W. Barron, within . a few weeks a visitor in Key West with jhis son-in-law, Hugh Bancroft, ‘is indefatigable in his work of eoun- |Florida. Qn the 17th of February The Citizen published a splendid NINETY PER CENT OF FILMS > USED IN ENGLAND ARE Merrick MADE IN UNITED STATES, West, in the ing, Key REPORTS SHOW of its modern development, iMustrates that values in are man-made. Two hundred and twenty-five Maleolm million feet of moving picture legs astate patter’ wun films were exported by manufac-jly interested in Olym; to the jturers of the United States dur-|north of Palm Beach, owned by the Picture City " 2600 acres costing about a million dollars two years last April. this he was associated with Joveph P. Day of New York, “Tony” Biddle of Philadelphia and. others. It had six miles on the front, and Meacham assisted Ninety per cent of the films }used in England are made in the ‘United States, Germany 80 per |eent, and France 75 per. cent, ac- cording to figures shown in the report. The film sent to foreign coun- vg ' 4 | |on March 10. Arthur M. Brown,|™ pit | i still plays with the art and fire! With men he had cal‘ed “white CONGRATULATIONS |who has also been appointed a| Sid that he visited Key West 25) The cabs are commodiously jtries from America are in the of his virtuoso days. That a violinist’s musical complishments should not be fined to violin mastery is the view of Efrem Zimbalist, who plays here on Wednesday at the! “High School under the auspices of the Art Society, } “The violinist who knows only | the fiddle,” says Zimbalist, “shuts | off from his vision the broader | aspects of music, It is possible | to gain much from the violin, but} if you play only that instrument and study only its literature, you will be in the position of the Englishman dn Kipling’s poem— “What do ye know of England, who only England know?’ “A knowledge of the piano i indispensable for every musician, fer the piano provides ort cut te acquaintance with almost every form of musical composition. A musician who has not mastered harmony and counterpoint lacks the foundation which enables him te understand mftasterworks. And finally, a musician must learn to know almost every sort of music, from the song to the symphony, from the etude to the opera. Then, corm; } called | trash,” ‘ The story of what happened in the early hours when ‘the Senega- lese boxer’s body was riddled with bullets was told today by an. 18- year-old youth, Martin Maroney, who was arrested on a charge of homicide. Pplice believe, how- ever, that the youth had fled be- fore Siki was killed. Maroney has given the names. of several men who were in~a Ninth Avenue lunch room where i is believed to have been shot. Maroney said, entered the lunch room in a drunkén rage, eight men “white trash’ and hurled a chair at them. The men leaped at*the boxer and during the fight that followed, Maroney fled. A few blocks away he heard shots, Two detectives say they first suspected Maroney when they overheard him in a telephone beoth discussing plans to make a “getaway because the bulls are too tlose to us.” The detectives, dis- guised as truck drivers, had fre- quented a Ninth Avenue Social Club for weeks investigating Siki’s death. if he be a violinist, his instrument ses gS ue becomes not merely an instrument Children’s Meeting To but al medium. 22 ee Be Held In Tent Here On Wednesday Afternoon All children of the First Con- gregational Church Sunday school, and all other children of the city as well, are invited to attend the meeting to be held tomorrow af- ternoon, ming at 3 o'clock, in the mt on Southard street street when a special service will be held for the children. ‘The service is to be conducted by Evangelist Walt Holcomb, who has been conducting meetings here for the past week or more. A SOUL Tt is sometimes said the mist over a city is the tears of its Ghetto. The city has a soul, and Richard Barihcimess bares it in “The Beautiful Ci featuring Dorothy Gish, which shows at the Theatre Monroe TODAY FOR THE CITIZEN FRANK LOVERING PLEASED Brown will be present for the re-| around these waters and return taxi meter is on the inside of the | TO SEE THIS PAPER GOING AHEAD Medford, Mass., March 4, 1926. Editor, The Citizen:—My copy |of The Key West Citizen reborn come | the initial issue of Monday, March )1. I want to congratulate you on the clean appearanee of the new Citizen, upon its business-like make-up and its typographical dis- play. Its increased space for both news and advertising will be ad- antageous to reader and adver-| tiser alike, and from the stand- point of the business office par- | ticularly this enlarged form with added opportunities for display of reading’ and advertising matter member of this committee will) carry a letter from Mr. Partridge! | to. the committee, | “Both Mr. Partridge and Mr. } gatta March 19-20. e eecovepeces the mails this morning— which ougat to appeal to the busi-' ness interests of the forcefully. It came that in our profession —your today and mine in another day—I was in intimate touch with city very years ago, and when taken around | furnished like all of yellow the city, could scarcely realize cabs in comfortable seats, up- | that such a fine little town could holstered in brown leather, easily spring up. The party will fish’ accommodating five people. The jeab, so. that the passengers may ‘be able to follow the trend of the 00? cost as they ride along. | “Ride once, ride’ often,” may jbe aptly used in reference to a * 'spin in a yellow cab. | Enters Plea of Guilly 'When Arraigned On Charge } eescecee: When arraigned before’ United States Commissioner Rodney Gwynn in this city on the charge jot smuggling laces and em- |brojderies inte this country from | Cuba, George Hovnanian, of Bos- jentered a plea of guilty. The contraband goods were Hovnanian was detained in jail re until he furnished the re- main unexposed film to be used | ‘erprise | by camera men and picture pro- ducing concerns The figures indicate that the \United States leads all other jeountries in the manufacture of | movie film at the rate of from 75 ito 90 per cent, The Indian River Association, Ltd., of England had owned the easterf half of the island of Key | West for more than 15 years and | probably had been long anxious to / iget its money out. i | William’ R. Porter of the First rived at Love Fieldghere, late yes- terday afternoon after hopping off from Little Rock, Ark., at 11 ta. m. | An erroneous report was given }out at Love Field last night that ithe. plane had not arrived. | ‘The aviators are i ry Preti el H F iH fF f = i ay fi Regular communication of; F é E it quired $250 bond for his appear- paim Lodge of Perfection No. 10, | thousands of papers every year) from a:] over our great land. As) I think back upon some of these! today I can name few or none! which in similar circumstances! have offered a product of more at- | tractive set-up. I_realize the con- ditions under which you labor there. I think you have met these conditions in a most remarkable and praiseworthy manner, perhaps; none too seon, but soon enough _ when I vision what is the way of/ great good is so swiftly coming for Key West. With kind, and may I say frat- ernal wishes for fresh successes.’ Very truly yours, ; jance at the next term of federal ‘eourt in Key West. i & i ‘at Seottish Rite Hall, Wednesday evening, March 10, at 8 o'clock. All members are requested to be present and visiting brethren are invited to attend. A. G. LUND, V. M | 60 PEOPLE © That's. why we can give you SERVICE

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