The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 16, 1926, Page 1

_Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service ~ YOLUME XLVII. No. 64. City Plan Conference Will Explain Value of Spur Track On Key West Water Front < Two Speakers Will Discuss Place of the Railroad In + PROPERTY WORTH . Sach An Extension Might ~ Parallel Caroline Street To Tap Navy Yard (Special to The Citizen) » ST. PETERSBURG, March 16. “The Place of the Railroad in the City Plan” will be the topic of two men eminent in this line of zoning wtudy at the National Conference jon City Planning here the last ‘three days of this month, __ It is a topic of intimate worth to Key West, ‘a forward-looking ‘Florida city. which now has City Plannirig under serious ¢considera- ion. Key West will never be a aca terminus, of overwhe!m- ig complexities, but as she grows as greater demands for ter- al facilities are made, the, H ofthe Florida East Coast must spread in a thicker network 7“ Trumbo Island, and extend towards the Naval Station the business whick shipping will bring to ont lands bordering the Mar-| reading. a story in » New Orleans 9 run behind Eliza- will cross an extended! “Greene street and to! Front street. -gouthwest from} such a spur track might be and when conditions along between Front the water to cross! end at, or even cross! 1g direct haulage | possibilities contin-| 4 E il a at i i i to grow, that more| , wharves and} will thereupon oe re- that on that side of the bulkheads and dredging afford splendid facilities for from which cargoce discharged directly into cars without the expense Should the future years offer tal West necessary and gainful) industries which a competent City| Planning ordinance did not ban would prove more or nuisance because of noise; it would be quite possible; dredge and fill unlimited areas’ yw bottoms outside the) ear ferry slips beyond) y lumber ships have) ling in recent months, | acre or a hundred could be wfactured there, ds upon these areas great factories could) rise unhindered, thus increasing) the taxable property of the city while at the same time so far sep-/ sng the unpleasant features from the residential sections tha they would cause no harm and) create no alarm. Discussion at the Planning Con-) vention of just such conditions; and possibilities as have been out- lined in this despatch will enter inte the addresses to be delivered on the subject of “The Place of Railroads in the City Plan,” which will be presented by Harland Bar- HLL bh ia 4 FEEASR EE rt tholomew, of St. Louis, and C. F. Loweth. e From a study of the program which has been tentatively given out in advance of the Zoning Con- ference, it is evident that matters of vital interest to Key West and her future will crop out in every made here and in every “Round Table” conducted. This feature of the Conference, the question-and-answer hour, will be held daily, and will be directed by Edward M. Bassett, an ack- nowledged leader in interpreting the functions of City Planning Boards. : BAND CONCERT The following is the programy that ,will be rendered at’ Bayview Park this evening, beginning at) 7:45 o'clock: Part One March, Promotion—Nicola. Fox Trot, Titina—Scotto. Selection, Morning, Noon and Night (in Vienna)—Suppe. Fox Trot, Oriental, Abdal!ah— King. Caprice, The Whistler and His Dog—Pryor. Fox Trot, I’m Going South— Woods. Part Two A Musician astray in the Forest —Hermann. Selection, moor—Moses. Fox Trot, Me and the Friend Monaco. Soprano Solo, A Dream and a} Southern Melody—Mrs. Eva B. Torano. The Star Spangled Banner—| 5 Lucia di Lammer- Boy) e Key West Citsen - KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MARCH 16, 1926. OFFICALSOF = CUBA ON VISIT. TO MAGIC CITY CUBAN CONSUL DOMINGO J. MILORD LEAVES THIS MORNING TO MEET DELE- GATION IN MIAMI PLAN EXHIBIT AT CONFERENCE CITY PLANNING FLORIDA REALTORS TO PLACE SUBDIVISIONS AND | . TOWN SITE DEVELOPMENTS | ON DISPLAY AT MEETING | ORLANDO, Fla., March 16. | Pians of Florida’s best subdivisions and town site developments will be on display at the National City Planning Conference to be held at St. Petersburg March 29, 30. and | 31, according to the Florida Asso- ation of Real Estate Boards. | At the request of Flavel Shurt- | leff of the National Conference. who is completing arrangements for the meeting, Carl McClure, of Fort Myers, president of the As- sociation, has issued a call to presidents and secretaries of the 85 real estate boards in the state, asking them to collect and send plans to the exhibit committee at St. Petersburg: Mr. McClure will | | { i | According to information given out by Cuban Consul Domingo J. Milord, a party of distinguished officials of the Cuban government will arrive in Miami this afternoon on board the cruiser Cuba, which Was placed at the disposal of the of the Island Republic. Included in the party making the trip are members of the family of President Machado; Carlos Miguel de Cespedes, secretary of, public ‘vorks; Dr. Frank Menocal, Senor Antonio Martin, Captain Adolfo Panne and Senor Felix Gronlier, former Cuban vice-con- sul at Key West. delegation by President Machado} DISMISS CASES IN COURT HERE THIS MORNING BONDS GIVEN BY SEVERAL DEFENDANTS IN LIQUOR CASES ARE CANCELLED; GIVES QUT INFORMATION Today was the-time set for the hearing of. the several liquor cases resulting some time ago from the raids made here by prohibition agents when T. S. Lowe and Mrs. M. Lowe, Albino Morales, Joaquin Barroso, George Ortiez and Pablo Fernandez. were arrested and held for a preliminary trial before ; United States Commissioner Rod- ney Gwynn. There has been much activity as a result of the raids made at the time, the prohibition. agents leaving the city the same night for Miami, “which resulted in Many procedures being followed jin order to have the officers re- For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS John Johnson, Old Resident of Key West, Commits Suicide by Drowning Two Men Rescued From Boat Are Landed at This Port THE WEATHER eeesce Stations Abilene (cloudy) Atlanta (clear) Boston (clear) Buffalo (cloudy) Charleston (clear) Chicago (cloudy) .. Corpus Christi (cloudy) Dodge City (clear). ..... Galveston (pt. cloudy) - Hatteras (clear) address the conference on “Plann- ing Opportunities and Problems in Perjods of Rapid Development.” “The conference, will bring to Florida the leading city planners ing the ann and of the country. Recogni: close relationship between ing subdivisions, town-sites' | city,” cities, and real estate develop- ment, we earnestly desire that the realtors of the state actively co- operate with us by both attendance and exhibition material,” said the message to Mr. MeClure. “The exhibits: will be of par- ticular ‘interest as the more im- portant developments and those of planning merit will be displayed. We would like to have general plans, showing lay-out, location of features, gtey rather than artists’ “bird’s eye view” promotional plans,” ais : Plans of both members and non- members will be collected — ze nished, according to Pau! ‘ (By Associated Prexs) OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss., March} Mereath., exeeutiye, secretary of 16.—Leon R. Jacobs, a New York 5 lure . ; nder in his sensational! Chamber of Commerce, states that case in White . Plains. | the conference be attended by recently, had not replied to City Planning, me in. this reser fown.| oF: the important tities of America » P.B. Lee, a local, business man, ang will be the most * important wrote’ Mr. Jacobs yesterday after! conference of its kind ever held in the south. The New York Committee is Key. HUBERT REASON, (i Conductor. , ATTORNEY FOR LEON R.\JACOBS RECEIVES LETTER INDICATING HE IS NO LONGER WELCOME IN RESORT TOWN newspaper which quoted the visit- ing attorney as believing that the! residents of,,Ocean Springs are “showing ‘little faith in their own, loverners at 7ape: “soumsasern | states to send a message to the | various cities of their respective | now extending an invitation to the! According to original plans it/appear here to testify against the was propesed that the delegation| defendants held in the cases make the trip to Key West on the! which would-by the rules of the P. nics Pages en shige by ne court come before the commis- ami, but for some reason sion re prelimi xd meth chataed, o€ which tirelit cnaity for preliminary proceed- was decided to make the trip direct} 4 short time after the raids to Miami on the government Ves-were conducted, it was learned sel. : ae that the commissioner had no The party wil remain in the) knowledge. of the proceedings un- Magic City until Saturday, after|ti after the arrests had been | Which the delegation will board) made, and the parties in question | the cruiser on the return trip |to| placed in jail. | Havana, this being the time limit It is understood to be the cus- in connection with trip outlined. (tom of prohibition agents to in- Consul Milord-left.qn the morn-| form the commissioner and ing train for Miami, where he will genuty marshal of the operations meet the delegetion on its arrivall+, he started in most instances, | in the Magic City this afternoon,| hut from all indications the local and will remain ‘there sll during! o¢¢icers had no inkling whatever the stay of the visitors, ret * dit 4 to Key West on Sunday or Mén- bola: 3 ings tobe: carried | | day. 4 * - . | The cruiser Cuba, it will be re- Shor thie fo sarap pews * | called, was the government vessel borids cancelled with the si i arriving here a short time ago with P officials on board for the Cubem|resred -srom further liability, * + « jaccording to information re- | celebration, which was staged in ; | Key West, and at which tine thalvmeee stom United States. Clam ship was so brilliantly illuminated 2 | at night “while riding at anchor in The Cuba is one of the best ships meintained Sef as a prisoner ‘of the United States, in compliance | with orders issued by the depart- ment handling the case. Baker is now in the county jail the Island City during anniversary celebration events put on by the| people of the €uban_ republic, ; . 4 joined by the American residents |Chareed with first degree aeqeing in general, who have always af- in connection with the,alleged re- | |filiated with the Cuban colony in| ®*?* Killing of John ‘Ranger who} Huron (clear) .. Jacksonville (clear) . KEY WEST (clear) Louisville (cloudy) . Miami (cloudy) .. New Orleans (pt. cloudy) . New York (cloudy) - St. Louis (cloudy) Tampa (cloudy) .. H. B. PARKER AND C. F. JONES ARE PICKED UP BY STEAMSHIP LOUISIANA H. B. Parker and C. F. Jones, the two men who were rescued late Saturday from a 22-foot motor boat while being tossed at the mercy of the waves in a storm of Daytona Beach, near Mosquito light, by the steamer Louisiana, were taken from that vessel by a coast guard patrol and landed at this port yesterday, The men gave a graphic account of the heroic efforts they made to keep their leaking boat afloat dur- ing the storm, bailing until- they were utterly exhausted, and were just about ready to give up when the Louisiana was sighted just at the latest dance hit numbers. sundown. They had left Daytona early Saturday morning on a fish- ing trip. Soon engine trouble de- veloped, and they had-drifted far out to sea when a Gulf storm came along and further increased the hazard of their perilous situation. Efforts to attract the passing ship wou'd have been futile, had not one of the men thought of a rifle that was brought along. This was fired in rapid succession and the sound was picked up by members of the Louisiana crew, and they were told to hold tight, that a lif boat was being lowered to them. The little 22-foot {was too near.gone to waiting, so the young men set o1 Washington (clear) . ‘Williston (clear) .. DE MOLAYS PLAN - GIVING DANCE AT LA CONCHA HOTEL AFFAIR WILL EON WEDNES. DAY 3 EX MUSIC TO BE FURNISHED one of We excellent. orchestra to 5 music forthe oecasion, and Se | eae icgurieg creas ee excellent dance program has been terday, inquiring after the arranged, \consisting of many of of her son, ete { epreerrema er edah ra eat The members of the pooulat NEW organization are looking forward | to the event with great pleasure, provements under way, letter written by Mr. Lee continued: “You, yourself, have taken about $21,000 profit out of two! real estate deals here, and Ocean Spring: has been as kind as it knows how to you and your client, Leonard Kip Rhinelander, giving both hospitality, rest and seclusion ences in the east. “The citizens of Ocean Springs resent your interview as published because it is unjustified and un- true and gives the outside world a very wrong impression about our intention to build a community that will be second ¢o none in the south. “YT can, on behalf of Ocean Springs citizens, only hope that you may have a pleasant journey back to New York.” Mr. Jacobs and Rhinelander have leen living a quiet life in a} cottage here for several weeks, HOSE ON FIRE AND WATER SALES SPRINGFIELD, Mass. March 16.—Far “fire and water,” “bankrupt,” and “got to have the cash” sales in Springficld if a resolution After having cited im-| hi | states, urging them to be repre-| whatever event may have been put | sented. |on in the Island City. | The exhibit of plans $f Florida's, | developments will be one of | GLEN STEW. ‘ART | most important features of the en- | tire conference. Ample exhibit | space will be given to this and, if, Conference a year ago, that fea-| ARRIVES IN CITY THIS MORN- {ture alone attracted nation-wide! ING ON YACHT ; comment, and it should be even BOAT more interesting here. | United States diplomatic service | the proper exhibits are made, it) will be of tremendous value to the; COAST GUARD : | stopped off here this morning on . CUTTER SAUKEE | his yacht Centaur, Pittsburgh. | Mr. Stewart, who is retired, was. | ® as one time in ghe state depart- 5 VESSEL ment at Vienna. He was also sec- { | retary of the embassy for two BRITISH SCHOONED TAKEN, ¥¢2"S in Cuba. OVER SOUTH OF SARA.) Mr. Stewart is aceompanied by | SOTA WITH MUCH LIQUOR) Wilford Murchie, New York, lum- | ON BOARD {ber dealer. They left for Dry SESE | Tortugas, where they will spend The Coast ea Cutter Spee several days fishing. jcaptured a Brtlish schooner, the/ Capt. Thas. C. Pent, of this c'ty Norma L. Conrad, 22 miles south ix piloting the yacht on the trip. of Sarasota, with several thousand | anq will conduct the party over the _ Ny Faro 5 ol heephrth hog fishing grounds in the vicinity of radio a tion did not give the number of He. Grande aad Tortigns, ) prisoners taken, but it is presum- ed that the rumrunners aboard the) schooner were arrested. The Saukee, Capt. H. F. Browne, Jr., was en route to Mo- bile when the British schooner was certainty that Key from your recent strenuous experi-| state of Florida. In the New York! Glenn Stewart, formerly in the ALL SET FOR WEDNESDAY NITE? ; was shot down a short time ago |and it is expected that there will |in the westerly section of the city. rt i Tt was also learned today when |tending the affair which gives |the case of Paul Parrish was call- | promise of being an enjoyable jed, Deputy Marshal Lopez report- one throughout. ; fed to the commissioner that he | \had called for Parrish at the jail | GIANT LIZARD AIM |to produce ‘hith before the com-| jmissioner and was informed by |: |the jail keeper that Parrish was ‘not there, whereupon the com-/| |miseioner instructed the deputy : jmarshal to ascertain if Parrish | ZQOLOGISTS- TO HUNT ALSO jwas present in court and his! A RARE TYPE OF MONK |name was called by the deputy, SEAL ON WORLD TRIP }marshal without receiving an an- | 2 |swer. | PROVIDENCE, R. L, March The commissioner then an-/16,-Plaas were discussed, here, jnounced that action would be de-/jast night, which would send {ferred in this case until the mat-|four persons and a small auxi- _ter was submitted to the United |liary schooner completely around |States District Attorney. \the world in search of a giant | This is the defendant recently lizard and a rare species of monk jreported in the columns of The jseal. The lizard, greatly desired | Citizen, who, while under bond j}py museums of every nation, is for appearance before Judge jexpected to be found on a small | Gwynn this morning, was arrested | isiand in the Malay group; the |by Sheriff Curry for the sheriff | seal in the watérs of the Mediter- \at Fernandina under a charge of ‘ranean Sea. International inter- forgery, and was subsequently | est manifests itself in the plans jtaken to that place by a deputy and should they be successful sheriff from Fernandina. ‘nature scientists will be furnished It seems as though while Par-/with data they have sought for tish was in jail pending the aT- ‘years. rival of the deputy sheriff from |” Jesse Metealt of New York has | Fernandina, the surety on his | sponsored. the plan of the expedi- federal bond was requested to be /tion. He is m brother of Rowe B.| réleased therefrom, representing | Metcalf of this city, who recent- to the commissioner that he could ily announced his intention of ac- not produce the defendant, that jeompanying Donald MacMillan on be an unusually large number at- | OF SEA QUEST ASSUMES CHARGE AT NAVAL STATION CAPTAIN R. W. McNEELY RELIEVES CAPTAIN C. D. STEARNS UPON RETIRE- MENT FROM SERVICE Capt. R. W. MeNeely, new commandant, took charge of the seventh naval district this morn- ing upon the retirement of Capt. |Clark D. Stearns from active ser- | vice. 5 | Captain McNeely geomes from Pensacola where he was in the naval air service and was former- ly in the engineering department iat Washington, D. C. : ‘@ Captain Stearns has associated jhimself with Johnson -& Johnson, |now changed to Johnson & John- son, Ine., with offices at Duval land Southard streets. Captain land Mrs. Stearns will make their home with Col. Robert M. Thomp- ison on his the Ever- glades, which is at the naval sta- tion. A SARDINE CANNERS - | EASTPORT, Me., March 16.— |The convention, to be held here | March 22 and 23, will bring to- adopted by the retail mer- chants by this city goes through. There has been an epidemic of this type of “merchandiz- ing” here recently, and the view was expressed that many of the special sales have not been in the interest of the better mercantile standards. captured, and the vessel, crew and | cargo were taken in tow for that port. The wire'ess report of the seizure of the vessel received by Capt. John Berry, in charge of the ‘local coast guard station, stated that the Norma L. Conrad at- tempted to outspeed the Saukee _| but was overtaken after a lively chase, and that a number of other boats, evidently rumrunners, were SURELY! DE MOLAY DANCE IN BALL ROOM OF HOTEL LA CONCHA the custody of county authori- ties, and that the commissioner thereupon issued a committment to the Monroe County sheriff commanding the sheriff to retain Parrish a prisoner of the United States, if, in fact, he was in his custody, which federal committ- ment seems to have been ignored. ‘ Asked if he would have dis- missed the case egainst Parrish if Parrish had appeared this morn- | |the defendant was then in jail in his trip to the Arctic this June. /£ether majority of the owners Mr. Metcalf is also the nephew of @nd operators of the 40 sardine nited States Senator Jesse H.'canning factories on the Maine Metcalf and of Stephen O. Met-|¢ast, together with dealers in cal of Providence. lolive oil, cottonseed oil, mustard, Indications now are that good fang cans and other factory Metcalf will be accompanied by (Supplies. bis wife’ nal Tw. and Mra: Robert At this convention it is expect- Cashman Murphy of Bronxville, |¢d that the decision of a majority N. Y. of the packers on the proposition |to enter the $6,000,000 sardine | packing merger be learned. About 60 per of the Maine He had fought off love—now he was fighting for it—for the kisses of a madeap maid! It’s calling you, the hour when lovers sometimes forget. See Milton Sills in “The Unguarded Hour” at the MONROE THEATRE TOMORROW seen about the British schooner when the vessel was first sighted by lookouts on the Saukee. Capt. Berry has also received reports that Motorboat K-1938 has been seized-near Fort Pierce, as has also the Motorboat V by federal officers at rt, Fila. This aafiet ed basa ceeuaoiea ts DON'T MISS THIS AFFAIR send a vessel to tow these two vessels into Miami. The messages to Capt. Berry did not state the | ADMISSION: $2.00 reason for the seizure of these two j beats. WEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH 17, 1926 ing, in accordance with the terms} of his bond, or had been retained | in jail under the federal committ-/ \ment, as was done in four of the other cases, Judge Gwynn replied | im the negative, but declined to/ state why. i Asked for the reason for dis-/ missing the four cases, Judge’ Gwynn admitted he had received | a communication from the Unit- | ved States Attorney suggesting, | (Continued on Page 4) i ST. PATRICK'S DAY DINNER DANCE Wednesday, March 17th eanners are said to be in favor. | eevcccccvesscoocscsesess| AMUSEMENTS Seeoesseees MONROE THEATRE TODAY—Pola Negri in “Flower tof = Night.” Comedy, “The Seamps.” : TOMORROW.—Milton Sills in’ “The Ungusrded Hour.” Comedy, | The Fighting Taylor.” | BODY IS FOUND EARLY THIS MORNING AT OLD P. & 0. DOCK FOOT OF DUVAL ST. The lifeloss and badly decom- posed body of John Johnson, a familiar figure about town for many years,/was found floating face down ab the east side of ‘the P. & O. dock and warehouse at the foot of Duval street at an early hour this morning. A rope had been made secure about the neck and shoulders “& then brought down and made fast about the waist. To this an elbow of a six-inch iron pipe with two flanges screwed on had been attached, evidently by the dead man, and with deliberate intent of ‘suicide. It was a gruesome find for little ° i when he went down to the docks this morning to. see after the small boats that ; in his charge at the parlors was summoned. " Oo was towed ashore by Deputies Dillon and Albury, where definitely {nmnish -His mother wired Gapt. G.N. Mul- | was found this morning. Clayton Johnson, a son of drowned man, was among the ‘to the lifeless form of © : Fie E > $ ze § ra i i Ef il FF ci eT att id 25 ie aie 5 John Johnson was a native of z : z Z i 3 ey ata f feet 3s 12:00 M. TO 2:00 P. M. A real good lench gotten wp te business J