The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 30, 1926, Page 1

§ CITY, March 30.— Easter less than a week virtually all of the south- fevered ‘with snow nF > spread oes. Kansas, Oklahoma, and -northern}to a letter sent the department a a white blanket, short time ago relative to the fed- 10 inches deep, snow still falling. A} sr6: ‘ drop in bocrLschagai We-|the letter. received: registere: month of March in that city = ported. . the “Albuquer re’ Ba ge py of the winter” with “ a snow. Springs wild ducks, chilled by the sudden change drop- ped down to wading is in the park and refused to disturbed even’ by the close approach of WIFE IN HONOR OF MANY PATRONS ‘The Hotel Casa Marina enter- tained its patrons last evening ‘with a reception @hrough the courtesy of L. P.} Schutt, manager, and Mrs. Schutt. A large crow of people attended. ©The event last evening marked the closing of the hotel's season. Tomorrow motn'ng’s breakfast at the hote! will break up the Hotel Casa Marina for this winter. ‘The hotel's orchestra left this/ morning for the north. Mr, Schutt announced that, he was exceedingly pleased with the! past season and that it was most successful. There © were + more guests at the hotel this year than | posed of the case of Byrl Curry ever before in its histor, AMUSEMENTS Secccsccccsceesooosoooce MONROE THEATRE TODA Y — “Stish Luck.” Comedy, “Chuck and Bubbling.” TOMORR O W— Fighting Youth.” Comedy, “Polly Voo?” ITS |tory on Southard street, between }ried, and Aance, | i { home of his niece, Mrs. Vernon} pomha: pastor of El Salvador ‘acne! | ENJOYABLE EVENT IS GIVEN) BY MANAGER SCHUTT AND | venendez conducted a cigar fac-! EPLY [ROAD DELEGATION LEAVES ON TRAIN FOR MATECUMBE VIEWERS APPOINTED BY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS WILL DECIDE ON DEFINITE! ROUTE "FEDERAL LAND CITY CLERK WALLACE PIN- DER HEARS FROM WASH- INGTON ON PROPOSED SALE (OF PROPERTY The three viewers appointed by the Monroe County Commissioners to definitely decide upon and designate a route for the Over- Sed Highway across Matecumbe, left on the morning train to begin the work of establishing the line. L. R. Warner, Samuel J. Wilde and Dr. J. M, Renedo are the men appointed by the commissioners for this important: work. J. Otto Kirchheiner, chairman of the board of county commis- sioners, stated to-a~Citizen sentative this forenoon that cumbe who claim’ that the high- | Way passing through their property weuld:¢puse a, preat: falling off to value. He says, however, Pgh a City Clerk Wallace Pinder is in ‘receipt of'a letter from A. C. Dal. ton, assistant to the Q. M. at Washington, in reply eral reservations at Key West which have been recommended for - ~The following is.a copy of _ “In replying to your letter of farch 19; 1926, The Quartermas- ‘ me to advise provisions. of SE238 3. see | “We are not going to let anything ON DIVISION ST. 'S OLD CITIZEN PASSES AWAY) AT RESIDENCE OF NIECE, FUNERAL WILL BE HELD, THIS AFTERNOON great® highway to the mainland,” VESSEL HAS LARGE CARGO ON BOARD. FOR THIS PORT i Juan Menendez, age 5 years, | | born in Madrid, Spain, but for phe steamer Anneberg docked many years a pioneer ‘cigar man-| this morning at the Porter Dock. | ufacturer of Key West, died at|/ She came from Denmark and was 8 o'clock this morning at the| due several days ago in this port. The Anneberg has a large cargo - RR of cement which will be stored in Hicks, 1130. Division street. | warehouses on the waterfront. The funeral -will bé@ this after- | Later the cement will be shipped | noon at 5 o'clock from the Lopez|to Miami and other points on the} chapel to the grave, The god main‘and. The cement is consigned to the} will be conducted ‘by Rev. | MacMahon Construction Company. | fodist church, For a number of years Juan ‘ENTERTAIN AT _ CASA MARINA LIEUTENANT AND MRS. WAR. | NER GIVE ENJOYABLE 5 AFFAIR Duval and Whitehead, and highly esteemed by all with whom he came, m contact in business and social circles. He was never mar- so nieces and nephews are the nearest surviving relatives. The nieces of Mr. Menendez! tare: Mrs. Vernon Hicks and Mrs.| Lieut. and Mrs. Stark Warner |Thomas Moore, of ‘this city, and | entertained last evening at the! Mrs. Roy Norcross,of Miami, The| Hotel Casa Marina with an en- two nephews, Wm. Menendez and} joyable dinner dance. Joseph Menendez, are beth resi-| The invited guests last evening dents of this city. | were: Capt. and Mrs. R. W. McNeely, Capt. and Mrs. Clark D. Stearns, By Arerded Mine Williams, Judge and Mrs. laintiff ourt efferson B. Bri e, Hearing Here Teday| Mrs. William H. Maia and Lieut. _—_.: Commander L, N. Linsley. Cireult court this.forenoon dis- G al Superintendent of Lighthouses Here On Inspection Trip C, Hingsburg, general super- intendent of lighthouses, Washing- ton, D. C., is in the city on an in- spection trip. Mr. Hingsburg is inspecting the seventh lighthouse district and a conferring with William Demeritt, isuperintendent of lighthouses. was LE RS hie Oe | versus the Florida Realty Com pany, the jury awarding damages to the amount of $345.17 in favor of the plaintiff. The petit jury was then ex- eused from court. attendance until Thursday morning, when jury cases will again be taken up by the court. In the meantime the court will pass upon matters that do not require the service of jury. Sen., and; STATE ROAD CAMP BOSSES ARE UNDER WARRANTS ISSUED ALLEGE IMPROPER CONDUCT, AS- SAULT WITH INTENT TO MURDER AND ROBBERY (By Associated Prens) TALLAHASSEE, Fia., 30.—Warrants charging assault with attempt to murder and rob- bery, and which are returnable in Franklin county court, at Apala-' chicola, April 5, have been served by State’s Attorney George W.! Walker, of Tallahassee, after an investigation into alleged camp number 32, nounced. it was an- Those to be arraigned on the} two charges are C. W. Hansford,} the camp captain; W. R. Worth. ington, road foreman, and a negro, convict, who it is claimed, beat al- most into insensibility R. P. Bradford, marshal, and W. GC. Tanton, deputy sheriff, of Carra- belle while the latter were trying to arrest them for raising disturb- March im-| Proper conduct at State Road! = West Radio Station M Silent Period _ Orders Of anita, ; BAND CONCERT © s The following is the program that will be rendered at Bayview |Park this evening, beginning at 45 o’clock: Part One March, National Emblem—Bag- ley. Overtur« Suppe. Fox 7 of the ” | Diser’ Hunting Scene—| Bucalos } Fox ‘iy n-Ah—Clark. vart Two Overture, Orpheus—Offenbach. Idyll, A Mill in the Forest— | Ellenberg. | Fox Trot, Sleepy Time Gal— Egan. Soprano Solo, The Sweetest potery Ever Told—(Mrs. Eva B. Torano)—R. M. Stult. The Star Spangled Banner— | Key. | HUBERT REASON, { Conductor. | SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD Poet and Peasant— ‘ot, I’m Sitting On Top} "4 ances in the negro quarters. The! robbery charge grew out of the alleged theft of the marshal’s gun/ im-cash while the fight in progress. | interfere with the progress of our|Jeffereon B. Browne, which was | -Red Cross roll. call amounted accompanied by a true bill} charging Arthur Baker with firs: gree de: connection with | the killing of the Ranger hoy. Arthur Baker will be arraign- ed before. the court tomorrow| will in all be set for next Mon- Upon request of the “defense Arthur Baker was permitted to) be taken from jail this morni |and an X-ray photograph taken of his head. He was charge of | deputy sheriffs while from behind the bars. This action om the part of the defense is taken as an in- |dication that insanity will be the plea entered by counsel for Baker, though his attorney has made no effect. The Gout of the Twentieth Judicial Circuit of Florida, in and for Monroe County. Temporary Report of the Grand Jury Inquiring in and for the |Body of the County of Monroe id State of Florida, at This Spe- \cial Spring Term of Said Court, March 30, 1926. To the Honorable Jefferson B. Browne, Judge of Above Court. We respectfully make this our temporary report as follows: (1) In the matter of the death of John Ranger we have found and return herewith a true bill against one Arthur Baker for murder in the first degree. (2) We request further time before ‘making our final report in which to investigate other matters requiring our attention. Respectfully submitted, GEO. A. T. ROBERTS, Foreman. R. B. CURRY, Clerk. The personnel of the grand jury that indicted Arthur Baker for first degree murder is: George A. T. Roberts, foreman; R. B. Curry. clerk; Hugh Hind, Charles Olivieri, John J. Albury, Thos. B. Sweet- ing, Thomas Pent, William V Bethel, F. N. Page, P. Vietor Arenberg, William P. Wil- liams, C. E. Dexter, James A Curry, T. T. Thompson, Sweeney, Andrew Navarro, Doug- las R. Trevor, the number of mem- bers being eighteen. The grand jury which yesterday afternoon commenced the investi- Olivieri, | jx | Dr. Alexander C. Humphreys, for nearly 25 years president of | Stevens Institute of Technology, is 75 years old today. . The ee nih collected. te $1,737.61, Mrs. Blanche [Heidlebaugh, Red Cross sceretary ‘announced. The entire collection is’ com- posed of the fallowing amounts: | individual members, $1,597; do- nations, $115.61, and supporting members, $25.00. This drive compares favorably jwith the drive of the previous year. Last year $1,717.05 war teollected. The drive was delayed land. was held only recently, hav- ing been scheduled for last November. The roll call was sponsored by the Rotary Club. LEAVES FOR MIAMI Capt. Clark D. Stearns will leave tomorrow evening for Miami where he will remain several days on busine: | gation of the case of Arthur Baker. | preprietor of the Gold Cup cafe. in jail and denied privi'ege of bail | under the charge of shooting and | fatally wounding John Ranger on the afternoon of Sunday, Febru- ary 28, of the present year, re- assembled at 10 o’clock th’s morn-/| ing and continued the examina- tion of witness. Since grand jury investigations are not open to the public and the deliberations are hae secret, there can be no way of telling the nature of the evi- dence secured from the witnesses. The first witnesses examined yesterday were Ruth Baker, wife! of Arthur Baker, and Florence Reed, an inmate of the Gold Cup cafe unt‘l the place was closed by order of the mayor and chief of ‘police. Laurie Garcia, an emp‘oye of the Gold Cup cafe, who was with Baker, so he claims, at the time of. the tragedy, was next call- ed in by the y, and then of the ime of the 4 . W. Mil- itland Knowles. Testi- given by Sheriff y Cleveland aan Albury d into thi was Dr. J. nded the time he was William sb the scene Recess was taken morning until the usual hour} visited this afternoon at for court te open. COUPLE MARRY "TO "BE ACCESSIBLE), To PUBLIC AT DRUG]; MISS ALICIA BRULL Y CAB- ALLERO WEDS LEE J. REIS- LER OF BALTIMORE, MARY- LAND i Miss Alicia Brull y Caballero, of Havana, and Lee J. Reisler, of Baltimore, Maryland, were mar- ried in Key West last evening by. L. Albury, notary public. Miss Brull’s father was a Lieu- “}yecht Ohio; made a trip around South America and upon reaching the: States resigned, in order to return to Cuba, where he is now located. He was business manager of the Havana Evening Telegram from November 1924 to April 1925. PRINCE OF WALES GOES UNDER KNIFE SUPERINDUCED BY INFLUENZA (By Associated Press) LONDON, March 30,— The Prince of Wales underwent what is termed a sight operation to re- lieve him of pain due to an abscess in the ear, superinduced by an at-/ tack of influenza, Announcement that the opera- tion had been performed in St. | James Palace was contained in a | bulletin posted at 2:40 a. m. It was signed by four physicians, | among them Dr. Arthtr H. Cheatle, lecturer on aural surgery | \at King’s College hospital. The) | bulletin 8 “H. R. HL, the Prince of Wales, | had a return of the pain in the} ear, the condition being a sequel! to the influenza. It was aeccord- ingly decided that a small opera-| tion to incise the drum was neces-/ sary. This has been done and re-| Hef has followed.” ——— | NOTICE To the voters of the First School Board District of Monroe County: I take this method of announc- ing my candideey for re-election as member of the School Board for much less ithe te in difference Tiecole 3 to 6 per cent by volume. The permits for manufacture |), and sale of the tonic were issued for six months and provides that the brewers should assist the gov- ernment in keeping it out of the hands of bootleggers. Wholesalers already have been asked to assist in the enforcement of this provi- sion. The wet and dry leaders mean- | while are marshaling their forces for the modification hearings which the senate committee will begin Monday and continue for two weeks with the time equally divided between the contending groups. Those opposed to the; drastic restrictions in the Volstead| law already have made some progress in this direction, and) legislative representatives of five) organizations holding the dry viewpoint were called to meet to- day as a joint committee to ar-) range for presentation - of their arguments. This committee |Canon William Sheafe Chase of {the International Reform Federa-| tion; Edwin C. Dinwiddie, of the) National Temperance Burea' | Wayne B. Wheeler, general coun- sel of the Anti-Saloon League; | Dr. Clarence True Wilson, of the | Methodist Board of Temperance, | | Prohibition and Public Morals, and Mrs. Ellis A. Yost, of the) National Women's Christian Tem- |perance Union. |Johnzon And Watrous Are Guests of Key Largo City Properties Pres. V. A. Johnson and Secre-| tary Warren J. Watrous were the guests of Key Largo City Proper- ties, Incorporated. at the real es- tate convention in Orlando held) comprises | the First District, subject to the last week. action of the Democratic Primary in Junie next. idered by the Key West Realty | I will state that during my in-|Board to the company through; cumbency I have worked earnestly | Charles H. Ketchum, local repre-| to further the progress of the/sentative of Key Largo City} schools, and will cite the following) Properties, Incorporated. additions to the curriculum since my enteying into office. Commercial course, manual training, domestic science, and) The DeMolay dance which was also advocated free busses for the to be held Friday evening, ‘Aped| kindergarten. 2, has been postponed until Wed- Vv | nesday evening, April 7. All tie-| | ket holders bear in mind. i DANCE POSTPONED ery respectfully yours, CLARENCE = PIERCE. A vote of thanks has been ten-| ‘ot raion fa Orlando, Winter and other cities in Florida, gaveia talk aver Station W. D: B. iS ieee and effectively ex- beg rs But, asks the public, how is this to be accomplished? Simply. by the closer association of those that own receiving sets and enjoy the broadcast grams, I cannot help but think that no man willingly. wishes to annoy his neighbors and the com- munity at large when for a very few dollars he can have his set modified so that he may receive the same or better enjoyment and at the same time permit his. near neighbors to have a little pleasare ‘from their sets too. All that is necessary then is to put the facts | squarely up to the people- eon- cerned, help them as may ve neces leary, and this source of intorfer- jence is eliminated. “There is another form of al- |leged ‘interference in which I am personally interested. There seems to be a general, if not a | growing impression that the Naval Radio Stations are largely respdn- isible for the interference which | makes broadcast programs at times little more than a nightmare, and which belief is not supported by ifacts. It is for this reason, as Commanding Officer of the Naval | Radio Btations of Florida, except ing Pensacola, that I particularly ‘desire to talk to you tonight. | “E think Tneed not mention that spark and are transmitters |cause considerable more interfer- ence than do the tube, parti jcularly im the vicinity in whieh jthey are operated. The Naval shore stations in Florvia. pres operate during the evening hours, |have been or are being equipped with the tube transmitters: «In * js8dition to this the Navy Depart {Continued on Page 3) 2 IRISH LUCK Just what trish luck is ie shows in the play “irish Leck,” the big feature starring Tom Meighan. You have seen him im mony good plays, now se him at his best. MONROE THEATRE TODAY pro-.