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Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service VOLUME XLYVII. No. 95. National Board Of Inquiry To Determine Cause Of Explosion On Board‘Submarine ~ THREE SEAMEN ON VES- Key West Odd Fellows To - - Celebrate Anniversary In Open Session This Evening SEL LOSE LIVES IN ACCIDENT; MANY ARE INJURED (By Associated Press) NEW LONDON, Conn., i 21.—With three seamen dead and | several others injured, six of are seriously, the national board of | inquiry had before it today the task of determining the cause of an €xplosion whith shattered the April) S45. ‘Whe blast took the lives of | Ralph Edward McCormack, gun-| ner’s. mate, second class, of West Lynn, Mass.; Olly J. Cook, sea- man, second class, Danville, Va.; 44 Theodore Holst, Jr., chief boatswain’s mate, of Groton, Conn, Tt was the second major dis- aster suffered by the submarine base here in less than a year. Last September the S-5i, a sister ship} Sf the $49 went down off Block island with 33 officers and men after a collision with the steamer City of Rome. ‘The blast on the 8-49 came without warning, just .after the seamen had finished a meal. No officers were aboard but within © Safow minutes: .compiided ” of” the} ea, their heads hooded with gas entered: the wrecked and gne-tinea tovin abil catried the 12} ‘vietims of the explosion into the open air. Twenty-eight others of the crew in different compart; ‘ments suffered but slightly from ‘the coneussion and the gas which steped through the craft. Dewey G. Kile, engineman first #lass, one of the survivors of the! Mifeted 8-51, is now a member wf the crew of the S-49 and was) im the torpedo room when the ac- ident occurred. He slight effects from gas. | MISS CARBONELL — ENTERS MAY — QUEEN CONTEST battery room of the submarine | 7 * month. suffered | - Bank Robbers SOCOCOO DEEZ OO COR DTEOOOCE Bank robberies’ in. many southern cities are laid to Sylvester Waite: {above} and Pinkston Callicutt.. W: ters is held at Wetherford, Te: Callicutt at Jackson, Miss. Callicutt tg said to have led a gang that held up an entire Alabama: town. last Several: states. are contend: ing for the rfent to fry him. PROPOSALS FOR WATER SUPPLY ARE RECEIVED BOARD OF TRUSTEES ARE} CONSIDERING PROPOSITION | SUBMITTED TO MONROE OFFICIALS Propositions submitted to Mon- Ee County Water Supply Board E OTHER YOUNG LADIES /+,. ringing fresh water from the MAKE RACE IN _CON-| WITH MAY “FES-| ‘AL Clara Carbonell, ' ty the chamber of commerce to! Tepresent the city at the Ponce de Leon celebration at St. Augustine | recently, has entered» the queen contest put on by the Wo-) man's Club. The other contestants are: M. Larche, Jewell Nelson, ter and Virginia Sheppard. A thousand votes are given to wach girl who enters the contest,! ‘The votes are given with all pur- hases of merchandise by the loca! ™erchants and may be bought outright, } ‘The young lady will be crowned | queen of “May at the May day! festival May 6 at the Key West! _—- The contest closes May yra NOTICE jed today | board. mainland to Key West were open- at a meeting of the proposals, These propositions will be tak- May/|®" up at joint meeting of the board wth the city council and | county commissioners early in May, Capt. Clerk D. Stearns, Mary Pin-| chairman stated. M. J. Coffey, vice-president of the T. A, Gillespie Pipe Company of New York, met with the board last night and. this morning, and © conferences were successful, Captain Stearns said. Any company that wishes to submit proposition between now and the time the joint meeting will be held can do so. @aptain Stearns said that he at the harbor convention April 26 at Charleston; therefore the ¢ jference with the city and county We, the undersigned mer- chants, wili close Saturday af- ternoons during summer months instead of Thursday afternoons a heretofore. WM. CURRY'S SONS CO. SOUTH FLORIDA CON- TRACTING & ENG. CO. ne officials has been set fay” May. Seoccececerssecevececoee AMUSEMENT Seocccvccessccescoscooee MONROE THEATRE TODAY — “Dance Madness.” Comedy, “Tailoring.” TOMORROW — “The King or | and machine guns were turned on} “ Main Street.” Al Roach Comedy. were the originators of the Oddj| which was pw The J. Gs White Engi-} “Misg/eering Company and Fuentes West”, representative chosen Company of New York submitted | AFFAIR TO BE GIVEN IN LODGE ROOMS AT | THE GARDEN THEATRE BUILDING the order other -members of anniversary of the founding of the order in this country, Local | lodges, the Encampment, and Re- bekahs are haying their, festivity Odd Fellows of Key Wset like throughout tne’ United States are | this year. celebrating the 107th | KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1926: tonight in the lodge rooms in the Garden Theater building, at which a number of people outside of the order will: attend. Key West celebration is espec- ially fitting at this time, as one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the state, J. A. Weatherford, was yes- terday honored by election to the office of High Priest of the En- campment for.the State of Flor- ida, F. F. Hoffman of this city, who was today’ elected ~ State Grand Master at the grand lodge meeting which is being held at Pa-| jJatka this week. One hundred and seven years ago this month, ‘Thomas Wildey, | - John Welch, John Duncan, John/ Cheatham and Richard Rushworth, | who had been members of the or- der in England before coming to this country, conceived the idea of organizing in - this country. Acordingly, these moving spirits, ‘movement, starting the, first at’ age Maryland, 1819, (The. charter of this lodge}. Pa surrendered "years later hen’ the Grand © ¢ Of the United States was organiged on February 22, 1924) Excelbent Téachings The I. O. 0, F.’has among its membership some of the best men in the tountty today, for the men composing that membership can-| | not help but be impressed by the} excellent lessons instilled by the | | “work” of — the, order. This | “work” is acknowledged by all) who have had tie pleasure of at-| tending meetings where it has been | properly put on by good degree | teams, as being among the best of | | any secret society of the country | | today. The lessons brought out | and inculcated cannot but make better men ofthe members of the |order when they are adhered to.| the three cardinal virtues — of | Friendship, Love and Truth, form! |a small chain but.one very strong, | | Key West has among her citi- | zens many prominent Odd Fellows | j be mentioned Dr. J. Y. Porter and | | Senator W. H. Malone, both Past | | Grand Masters for the State of| Florida. | ,The committees in charge of the | William H.- Henderson, 21, of Fresno, Calif., will carry on for the late Luther Burbank, famous horticulturist. Burbank trained him for four years, revealed his secrets to him and asked that he work with Burbank’s assistant, B. Henderson is shown examining a creations. Coeccccccccccccccesecendcasescesecceseceuscccoses He'll Carry on for Burbank Bertino, after Burbank’s death. torch ily, one-of Burbank’s latest ‘NEWSPAPER MEN ARRIVE IN CITY — -SMEET. MEMBERS OF ~GIA PRESS'ASSOCIATION ON |” FRIDAY hdd » About -a dozen’ newspaper re- perters, members of the Associa- tion. of Reporters of Hayana,.ar- rived. in the city this afternoon from Havana and will remain un- til Friday to meet the nearly two hundred members of the Georgia Press, Associatios, who are to ar-'| rive here Friday morning, many of them acéompanied by their | wives and families. The commission of Havana re- porters arriving here today is ac- |eompanied “by Rafael -Martinez Ybor, chief of the‘commercial sec-} tion of the state department of | Cuba. They will greet the Geor- gia delegation at this port Friday. The three links, emblematical of | ™orning and then accompany them | to Havana. Since the Georgia newspaper | men are to:stay in Key West such | a short time, a program of enter- tainment could not. be planned, of the state, among whom might/but they will be met at the P. &/ | James Roberts. 0. piers by local newspaper peo- | |ple and other citizens, who will! jeonvinee them that they are miss-| ing thg most pleasant and inter- | Ugly Duckling,” Mrs. Philip Cos-|in the Felloweraft Degree. esting opportunity of a lifetime in| entertainment tonight have worked hard t» have a celebration | that will be worth attending an those who attend the celebratio: will be amply repaid in more ways | than one. The committees have |. been appointed from the three lodges, the. Camp ‘and the Re bekahs and will weleome all vis’ tors. Odd Fellows and their fam. ilies and friends are invited. APPROXIMATELY 400 KILLED | IN EVACUATION OF PEKING (My Awogisted Press! | SHANGHAI, Apl 21,—Only! ~|will be a delegate from Key West] five men out of 400 comprising! She guard of the cabinet office es- saped death at the hands of the Kuominchun troops before they) evacuated Peking, says the North | China Daily News. | The newspaper calls it a aie blooded massacre. It says the! extremists persuaded their com-) mandeérs to destroy all the guard of the cabinet office, which fired .| on students during a demonstra-; ‘ion last month. The men were/ them apd only five escaped alive.! not providing for. a long layover | jin Key West. Coccesccccccc cosgseccosooooeseosos ris LA > BAST “EVENING AT - HIGH SCHOOL _ ~ ee { ed | A Florida’ night. program was ‘carried out last’ evening at the literary meeting of the .Woman’s| Club at the Monroe County High | School. Mrs, Melvin Russell was in charge of the program and Mrs. Haydn - Hlingsworth, chair- man. of the music committee. } Sidelights from the Florida, convention of the federation of woman’s clubs was given by Mrs, ; Andrew Miller, delegate at the| convention. Mrs.” Miller outlined ' program of the -ddnvention day by day, giving the interesting por- tions of the speeches. | The ‘following numbers were arranged on the ‘program: Opening song—‘Florida, . My | Florida,” by the Club. » Sidelights from the Convention | LF. FP. W. C3 1926, Mrs. Andrew | | Miller. 4 I Vocal solo—Selected, Mrs, | Danee—Misses Capo and Robin- | | son. Original reading—“Fiorida, the grove. Vocal solo—‘Florid& Nights” | | (Vessels), Mrs. Eva Toranoy ,|0£* the propogition and rendering |Atlanta (clear) .. |Corpus Christi (raining) Dodge City (cloudy) . | Miami (pt. cloudy) {apr21-1t POOOLOCOOO LOR DEEHESEODECOLCRC | Convicts Off To “Living Death” | | work on White street from the For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West ~ MADEN ROUTE OF TAMIAMI TRAIL The chairman of the state road department has decreed that the Tamiami Trail will pass entirely through Collier county, thus prac- tically cutting Monroe county out almost useless the enormous ex- penditure on. road construction by Dade county and the Chevelier corporation. along what is. really the original route of the proposed Tamiami Trail, @he first official notice of this action on the part of Dr. Fons Hathaway, chairman of the state toad department, was received in the city yesterday evening at 6:40 o'clock in a telegram received by Wm. R. Porter, president of the First National Bank and member of the’ Monroe county board of ¢gmmissioners, front J... Otto Kirchheiner,. chairman of the county commissioners here, who is in Tallahassee attending the road department . meeting. The. ‘tele- gram: teads: “Chairman ‘state road depart- iment has designated route road No. 27°as Tamiami Trail through | Collier’ county, Will take over maintenance. of road in Monroe county if built. to requirements of road department. ‘This will be ‘in the form of..an agreement that will be prepared and submitted to Monroe and Dade,counties.” For Dade. and Monroe counties Stations Abilene (raining) . Boston (cloudy) Charleston (clear) Chicago (clear) .... Galveston (pt. cloudy) Hitteras (clear) Huron. (clear) .. Jacksonville: (clear). KEY WEST (clear) Louisville (clear) . New Orleans (pt. cloudy. New York (cloudy) . St. Louis (clear) Tampa (clear) .. Washington (clear) Williston. (elear) NOTICE The regular meeting of Dade! Lodge No. 14, F. & A. M., will ber held this evening, Wednesday the | j21st. All resident and, visiting |Masons invited to attend. Work By order of the W. M. J. J. TREVOR, Secretary. to remodel the portions of road al- ready built and those in course of construction and build the rest of the thoroughfare according to the specifications of the state road department, would make the price prohibitive, county officials here state, and it is expected that the decision of Dr. Hathaway will force Dade and Monroe counties to abandon the project for the time being. The originally planned Tamiami Trail would have thrown seven- teen miles of this thoroughfare. through Monroe county. Dade county had built its portion of this road up to the _Monroe county line, and Monroe county had a number of miles under construc- tion and finances available to finish its stretch of the cross-state highway. Monroe, Dade and tae counties have been well represented by their commissioners at all the re- cent remarkably brief meetings of the road department, held at Mi- ami, Tampa and Jacksonville, while Collier county @Was represented only by Barron Collier, . who is not, it is understood, a county commissioner. Representative. citizens of this county are | surprise and keer © @laappéintment over what they honestly consider 2 most ‘unjust ‘decision in the mat- PROPERTY OWNERS TO MEET . THIS EVENING IN AUDI- TY HIGH SCHOGL - All property owners on White street and other eitizens that may be interested in the contemplated remodeling At White street, are urgently invited to attend a meet- ing of the White Street Civic Im- provement Association, to be held in the auditorium of the Monroe County high senool building to- night, commencing at 8 o’clock. Louis T. Bragassa, the president ‘of this association, has called this meeting. He says the time is ripe for the discussion of the tentative plans for improving White street thoroughfare and constructing a white way the full length of the and sidewalks, beautifying the street. Work of improving White street along the lines contemplated has been in progress several months. The street portion of the thor- oughfate is now finished between | Division street and the County | Road, but the sidewalks are yet | to be laid and the white way sys- tem installed. A large force of workmen are now rushing the County Road to the waterfront on South Shore. Mr. Bragassa says when White | street is completed as planned and equipped with its white way, it is expected that the people along Eaton street will become- suf- ficiently enthused to convert Eat- on street into the same kind of thoroughfare from Duval te White. Should this be done, then Key West would certainly have one of the prettiest and . most modern, strect drive in the world, and one that would afford wonderful pleas- ure at evening time to motorists FIRST PHOTOS OF CONVICT SHIPMENT—France for the first time in two years is send- ing a shipload of prisoners to Devil's Island, French Guiana, that Captain Dreyfus made notorious. | taken beyond the Yellow Temple| Because of its stifling climate, disease-infested jungles and desolate location eonyicts call the camp j ‘the living death.” Here's a view of the embarkation at La Rochelle, France. ‘Notice ‘the types, | gray-haired men, negroes, smiling peasants—some of them mere boys. TORIUM OF MONROE COUN-| PRICE FIVE CENTS TWO OTHER PROBLEMS OF GREAT IMPORT- ANCE ARE DISPOSED OF BY ORGANIZATION (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, April 21: —The third major problem of its session, the two billion dollar war debt settlement with Italy, today confronted the senate. It approved thé other two, the World Court and the in- come tax reduction bill and administration leaders. were confident that they could muster the necessary vote late today to bring about favorable action on the agree- ment between the American and Italian debt commission’ upon which President Cool- idge has stamped his ap- proval, ; While conceding this, op- ponents were not ready to: give up the Yight, with their - chief weapons a motions ‘to . regommit and efforts to have | the terms of settlement amended so as to increase ™ Re: rates. hose oppoding the settle: Sl eH mounts in substanee to a _of the debt at the end of the : "62-year life of the agreement. ‘On the other hand, proponents © argued’ that the whole prin- \eigal will be paid with some interest in addition. The prin- cipal amounted to $1,647,- 869,100 to whieh is added ac- erued interest which brings the total to $2,042,000,000. Dr. J. Y. Porter, Sr. Discusses Dr. J. ¥. Porter, Sr., discusssd the ~ mosquito préblem and remedial measures last evening at the Monroe Theatre. ‘Thiw is the first of a series of talk ita be ‘given by local physicians on*health problems. between the perform- ances at the theatre. The use of kerosene as an ef- fective measure of ridding cisterns of mosquitoes was suggested by Doctor Porter,’ district health of- ficer. Screening cisterns ix not sufficient to prevent or keep out mosquitoes, he said. Delightful Reception Given Se agg Night At Watson Residence On Monday evening a delight- ful reception was held at the home of Mrs. Rosie Watson, cor- ner Varela and Virginia streets, in honor of her son, Julius G. Watson, who was married last [Wednesday to Miss Ampara Montejo, daughter of Mrs. Jose Montejo, of this city. Only near relatives and close friends were present to participate in the pleasures of this enjoyable