The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 15, 1926, Page 8

PAGE EIGHT STATE SENATOR MPDANIEL TERMS . . LIQUOR CHARGE POLITICAL DODGE : PENSACOLA, Fia., Apl 15,— 4AP) State Senator W..R. McDan- iel, who was charged with possess- ing Jiquor and conspiring to bring it into the United States by gov- ernment agents when 1,200 cases of whiskey were seized recently at*Port St. Joe in.a statement. to Journal, declared that it was alba “political scheme,” it was dlisdlosed here today. «The senator stated that he was not placed under arrest, and that hé Was really a victim of circum- stanecs. ““T was at the place at the time the raid was made,” the state- tment said. “I had appeared there strictly on a legitimate. business Ptoposition 20 minutes before the Févenve officers came. I was standing by my car. when they . The place of bisiness this. red liquor was found located just a little more than a. quarter of a mile from the main eounty graded highway. It is a ‘where any person is welcome tu go and as good citizens as we heve been to this place. I never have been in any manner connec- ted with liquor situation.” ‘There was no arrest: or hand- euffing, Senator McDaniel said. “Two men tried to get the pro- officers to take charge of me because I happened to. be ¢, but they would not do so, me they. Twas not with the affair, It was : ey : ta-pay me a el je nd ie ‘> ‘moral, injury, ynder rortunity they:;had.at t thine. eon- liquor as aby moan er affair and “all effotts to con- With it is only a /politi- ” | on $500 bond was United States. » who stated that had ‘the Senator under arrest with six other men and |. 1,200 cases of og ara ona in the pogt St, Joe harbor. i Wi Pepvecvcveceoocosochnoce await clarification of tes- fimony Secretary of Assistant An- drews to senate committee that nawintoxicating beer would nee Prohibition. ‘ bas ce See. New. York, foe a2 re roadhouses and brosdway night ‘elbs, 5 Amundeon-Elisworth polar di- Higible Norge sails for Leningrad & ee ee toa vA 7 ew Pen, plier lead cand’ mela. bara Sete to new low lev Sets Cebtarshtaer fenlaed. fe pe mame gene Bergdoll, th Hhreatens coun- ¢oun- ter libel suit against American Sachs after his acquit- at Mosbach, Germany of a = of seducing a minor. % =e that the operations. were be- '.|the system to be installed. {LIGHTS TURNED — ON AT COURT HOUSE GROUNDS LARGE NUMBER VIEW IL. LUMINATION AT GROUNDS LAST NIGHT FOR FIRST “The white way completed yes- terday to illuminate the grounds about the: Monroe county court house was turhed on for the first time last night, and was the sub- ject of much complimentary com- ment from the many motorists and pedestrians passing that way during the evening. It is doubtful if arly other court house premises in the state is as beautifally illuminated at night, and no lawn could be prettier, the people were heard to remark ‘ast evening. All seemed to appre- ciate the progressive’ spirit shown by the county coitimissioners. in installing this excellent lighting system, which will add’so much to the appearance of the city during evening hours and afford addi- tional pleasure for the local folks of all ages. Paul Monsalvatge, overseer at the grounds, supervised the con- struction work carritd on by the eounty prisoners, and kept the At-| Work well ahead all during the ing carried on, cooperating with Gounty Engineer Clifton G. Bailey, who outlined the plans for * MAKE READY FOR ‘| STATE MEETING PANY TO BE REPRESENTED “AT INVENTORY CONGRESS NEXT FRIDAY eye ® JACKSONVILLE, April 15.— As indicating the interest taken/in the Floridd Takes Inyen- tory Congress to be next Pri. day at Palm Beach, the. committee oh afrangements today ‘announced that numerous responses are be® ing ‘received to its juest that utility companies rej to it esti- mates of expenditures for better- ments scheduled for this. year for | filing as part. of the. permanent record of the Congréss. The committee made public several of the estimates received during the last few years. The Tampa Electric. Company advised that its program involves an ex- penditure of $3,000,000. The Key West Electric Company has an $80,000 program while the Pensacola Gas Company contem-| plates expenditures amounting to $40,000. The Zephyrhills. Elec- tric Company has a. $15,000 pro-;| gram for 1926. : 4 Gecevgpocesoocogooooooss “"Borman Thomas, Socialist leac-| Seaneggounocetoscosensed! &, is arrested at Garfield, N. J.) under riot act while addressing woolen mill strikers; six girls wae White House. f - - ‘Edward WwW. Browning, wealthy Bi-year old New Yorker, says romance with 15-year old Fran- * Browning was a beautiful case of love at first sight and Bfomises to be endless. * Judge Ben Lindsey speaking at Rosa, Calif., funeral of Lu-| Burbank describes him as) |. aad religious man I ever Teague of Nation non-partisan ‘association reveale in New York) ogee showing declines of birth through; ticularly in large cities. Attorney General Sargent refus- @& to answer several questions of senate committee investigating Prosecution of Senator Wheeler. ESCAPE FROM =~ ‘JAIL IN MIAMI) Sey. (By Anaccinted Press) woMIAML, = April 15.—-Two ‘Wegto killers and four other pris- sawed their way out of the county jail here, their es- net being discovered until hours later. Sixty-first anniversary of the| death of Abraham Lincoln. Annual observance. of Arbor| Day in the State of Utah. | Fourteenth anniversary of the; sinking of the Titanie, in which/ | More than 1500 lives were lost. | Bliss Carman, celebrated poet and author, today celebrates his | sixty-fifth birthday anniversary. | The Alabama political campaign, | | which is to culminate in the_pri-| maries next August, swings into; | fall action today when Lieuten-/ ant Governor Charles S. McDow- ell, the fourth entrant in the con- t civilized world, | te for the governorship, sac ly opens his campaign. i MARRY TODAY (By Asseciated Press) PARIS, April 15.—Mlle. de )Bearn; daughter of Prince Henri; ide Bearne et de Chalais, and John} HFreemas, son of the late William | 5) Freeman, were married today ‘at, the church of St. Honore de Eyin./ Prince Henri was formerly charge @affaires at the French embassy at Washington. We loose—you gain when you change that fan. See The Key West Electric Company. aprid AT PALM ae _|KEY WEST ELECTRIC COM. TODAY'S EVENTS | Si=w setae!“ * 3 moe ¥ Steere re * i WEATHER CONDITIONS ag * xf auusving sonata ih * mang < see Ieee hook soe England with increased tensity, another disturbance has appeared over western Canada, and rather strong region from the upper Mis- sissippi Valleys and Great . = * * * * < * * Rio Grande Valley. * — Within the last 24 hours * there were rains in Texas, * widely scattered showers in * the south Atlantic States and * rains or snows in the Lake * region. ae * Temperatures have risen in * the séuth Atlantic States and * it. is decidedly warmer over * the northern Plains. On the * other hand it is colder in the * region of the Great Lakes, * lower Ohio Valley, middle * Mississippi. Valley, . central * Plains States and. west Gulf * States where temperatures * have fallen 10 to 20 degrees, * and where the weather is un- * seasonably cold.. Over the * Great Plains it is freezing * southward to Oklahoma and * the Texas panhandle. * Over the Florida Keys to- * night and’ Friday the winds * will shift to- northerly afd * become moderate, * fresh. * * * . possibly H.:B, BOYER, ies in Charge. 6.0 0b w0 din 00.0.0 0/0.8 Women of Finland appear to be willing to accep all the obliga- tions of citizenship. The Lotta Svard (whatever that ‘means).. of that northern country has 41,000 members and it is said to be the only arthy of women in the world. esse Sdpacecsces| vise Slory f2 cara ake men eeeely nce, but regular H with ledger accounts may have their advertise- ments charged. © POR Rae FOR RENT—Large’*airy apart- ment.. All modern conveniences, 823 White ; street. Apply 503 Duval ‘street. apré FOR . -RENT—Furnished ment. Apply’ 836. Duval street. —Suitable for storage ao. as ‘WANTED STENOGRAPHERS WANTED— Great demand for stenographers, “ Gregg. System, the popular, modern system, taught by Dr. Rogers, corner Grinnell and Washington streets. apri5-itx ‘WANTED—-Those who desire en graved visiting cards to give us) their. orders. The Artman | Pikesville, Ky. to famed New York publisher, at the ms, | but keeping away from liquor un- jec20|be a fairly good rule. SIDELIGHTS. ee oes Sixty girls employed in a lisle offered a ten per cent raise in wages if they would wear isle stockings, instead of silk. Need- less to say, the girls scorned the offer. Robbing a former presidettt’s daughter brought no serious con- sequences to two New York boys. They stole some articles from the apartment of Miss Margaret Wil- son, but upon learning the iden- tity of their victim, they. return- ed the property and ‘Miss Wilson refused to sign a complaint against them. t Mrs. M. M. Coleman stood up and fought out with pistols a family feud with her brother-in- law, Ernest Coleman, whom she accused of slandering her, at Ernest is” dead, while his slayer was unscathed, but she must stand trial for mur- der, and it is a pretty safe guess that she will be acquitted. Eight million pianos in this| country are out of tune, accord- ing to members of the National Association of Piano Tuners, who declare that: the.ination is losing its ear for, music. Still a well- tuned piano would be woefuily out of place in a gece 3 jazz *| orchestra, Averaging about 160 miles’ an hour, or. two and two-thirds miles a minute, a mail airplane cover- ed the 726 miles between Chicago. and New York in four hours and 35. minutes’ actual flying time. A few years ago such a feat would have made big news; now it is ust part of the day’s work. 5 os. Grover Cleveland was eulogized | ut a large memorial meeting held} in New York on the 89th anniver- sary of his birth. Like Bryan, } Cleveland was thrice the Demo- eratic candidate for the ~presi- dency; but unlike Bryan, he yas) elected twice. Students of the Ecole des Biax- Arts in Paris recently becamp dis~ satisfied because of the meli- ness of the women, whom. the school employed as mode's, |, 50} they put up a ghastly trick. Wh an unusuelly unattractive Igdy posed for their sketching, _¢ach student drew the picture of a enmel and turned in it to the in- structor. Faculty and the lady were mad. ‘The recent death of Henry Holt, | age of 86, recalls his famous apo- thegm concerning whiskey, utter- -jed on his 80th birthday: “Any young man whp drinks whiskey is & “fool and any old man ‘who doesn’t is another.” He failed t state just where he drew the line, til the age of 80 would probably A golden opportunity to get an electric fan. See The Key West Electric Co. apri0 OUT OUR WAY POR SALE | —_— |FOR SALE—Motor boat, length! 25 feet by 8 feet 8 inches. Mo-! tor newly overhauled and boat newly painted, Has large well,| 2 new sets of batteries and 2 new sets of coils, equipped with electric lights, skiff, fishing tackle and many other extras.! Owner leaving city in 3 days. Call Vie Realty Company, 141 or 152. . apri5-3tx FOR SALE—General Electric) Motor. Five horsepower, 1,800 R. P.M, 22.1 Ampheres, 110 Volt, 60 Cycle. This motor is in splendid working condition and the price is right. Apply to REAL ESTATE VALUABLE CORNER—Southard, and Elizabeth; 69 ft. on Eliza- beth, 100 ft. 6 in. on Southard. Price $15,000, one-fifth cash, remainder in one, two and three years. Address P. 0. Box 536.) marii BARGAIN LOTS on Grinell street, 106 ft. 9 in. by 108 ft. 6 in; reasonable Address P. 0. Box 92. mar i __ MISCELLANEOUS RUBBER STAMPS — When in need of Rubber Stamps, see the Artman Press, 125 Duval street, Key West Florida, tt ~ 5 mar2} PROMISED (By Associated Press) NEW.YORK, April 15.— Edward W. Browning expects ~ to realize his greatest ambi- tion—to preside over a happy home and family. He fell in love-at first sight in the spring and his romance promises to be endless: Such is the explanation of the wealthy 51-year-old real estate operator of his mar- riage last Saturday to Fran- ces Heenan, 15-year-old school girf. = In a statement issued at Cold Spring, he says he had no intention of an ‘immediate matriage with his latest “Cinderella girl” until the ac- tion-taken by the Children’s Society to investigate his re- lations’ with her made a wed- ding desirable as “a rebuke to those who either con- ceived or believed. the mo- - tives attributed to me by the Children’s Society.” “My greatest ambition is to preside over a happy home and family,” the statement goes on, “my ideals were readily shattered by the un- fortunate outcome. of . my first marriage. “We will try ts find a suit- able place to retire from the public eye to a quiet, happy and domestic establishment. It is not considered gocd taste to discldse the destination of the honeymoon trip we hope to take later. What will happen aftcr our return, who Knows?” The bride is still under the treatment. for- acid burns which she siys were inflicted by. an intruder in her mother’s Manhattan apartment before the marriag>. | TODAY IN WASHINGTON Aececececose0eecg0ceCCee Bankruptcy bill is before house. * Senate takes ‘op miscellaneous bills. Wets conclude. at prohibition hearing. * ~ Miss Ellamarve Failor, former- ly of .Texas,-is now an. assistant United States < district attorney, assigned to criminal Lowers in New York. e No better electric fan made han the Emerson. See the Key West Electric Co. a apri0 (Allan B. Cleare & Company Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants 511 FRONT STREET P. QO: Box 13 Key West, Fla. GOSH, DIDTA SEE HOW Sic HE. LOOKED WEN WE HELD OuT FER A CENT MORE, SO WE CUD DIVIDE iT MOMENTS WED UKE LE OVER— - SurcK FELLERS NEW Yo — ae 3 would -7 for her, but, she wee’ her own, _ CHICAGO. mond, who ers bo ti younger, explains} P like, I a8 drink: andf sm age A al AND ACID PROOF DOORS AND ANY SIZE MADE TO ORDER Spectal Mill Work Facilities Seasoned Cypress Used for Frames EXPERT CABINET WORK es, Fit and Satisfaction AND SCREEN Steel toll-brid reece amare toa Line for municipal waterworks soon to: ' mainland. Pi t , sh Gnd the Florida Rese ee ne Ways now being installed through the * - Building permits and Bank deposits rapidly baad ‘Key West postal receipts show an. average increase over last = of 30 : Best natural in: Florida.” Export ports reach $47,000, 900.00 aa porn hy Duval Mortgage Company. First n to home owners.and home vhesripesres 00. On improved income 12,500. Applications received at No. 614 Duval Street. 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