The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 28, 1926, Page 1

“Full Associated Press Leased Wire, Day Service VOLUME XLVI. No. 101. Chicago’s Assistant State’s Attorney Known As The “Hanging Prosecutor,” Slain In Machine Gun Fire Last Night ae . SEVERAL OTHERS ARE. KILLED IN, BATTLE) STAGED BY GANG-| t ~$TERS IN AUTO CAR} (By Asnociated Press) CHICAGO, April 28.—William | H. MeSwiggen, a youthful assist- ant state’s attorney, known as the “hanging prosecutor” because of his zeal .in conducting criminal trials, was slain last night in a blast of machine gun fire poured by: gangsters into an automobile into which he and’ three. other men KEY WEST, Ba SEA WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1926. ‘PROPOSALS ON - | | TAMIAMI TRAIL . OF STATE ROAD DEPARTMENT CLAIMS TWO United States Government To | Build Causeway At Fort ort Taylor | WOODEN “BRIDGE NOW Portia were riding. & Bw? of his companions ‘also + were killed. They were James J. Doherty, reputed leader of beer| Tusiners of Cicero, a suburb and |. Thomas Duffy, owner of a saloon. ‘The hail of lead came from an -automobile, which drew up beside “ear in which MeSwiggen and companions were driving in Roosevelt Road at Sixty-sixth avenue on the boundary line be- tween oot. and Cicero. * were. delving into # of possitile “motives | for the shooting, John Stege, vet-| eran captain of detectives, said Pr the assistant prosecutor was Misa Dorothy Walker of. Portage. ! Wis., is, Wisconsin's first and only woman district attorneds She holds office In Columijia county, and in 900 cases has tiad only #wo acquit and one disagreement. PRESS MEMBERS ROADS WILL BE PROVIDED INSTEAD OF ONE (By Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Fla:, April 28.; — Agreements between’ Collier, | Dade and Monroe’ counties, pro- |posed by the State Road Depart- jment for construction. of the SPANNING GAP TO BE, TORN AWAY IN IM. (oz "rol nore forwarded PROVEMENTS }announced by Dr. Fons A. Hath- away, the. department ‘¢hairman. The proposed. agreements pro- 5 . : ivide for the construction by Col- According to information re-' joy county of a standard road eeived by The Citizen’from Lieu-|four miles in‘length, from the tenant William L. Johnson, sta-| Trail, which is State Road No. 27, |tioned at the Key West Barracks | ag to''the Mburoe: county «tine connect with. a road. .whie! Monroe county constructs. Th | quartermaster department at Key! |latter county wilt build a stands | West has received authority to con-| ‘ard road from there through th | with the coast artillery forces, the/ _ AREFORWARDED For 47 Years Devoted tothe _Interests.of Key ‘West ~ oe FUNDS IN CITY'S REGENT BOND ISSUE FOR ci IMPROVEMENTS TO BECOME AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY fapansaiuonscapnacaaseagenkocecne -cacasbncs sonestanecasesauaesic. 2° So Now They'll Run the Town a While BONDS ARE IN HANDS OF CITY CLERK TO- DAY; SIGNATURES TO BE AFFIXED Bright, new, crisp bends totaling “|in value $225,000 are in the hands of City Clerk Wallace Pinder to- day for the purpose of receiving the signatures of Mayor Leslie A. Curry and the City Clerk. The bonds have already beer:’ vali- -|dated by D. Z. Filer, clerk of cir~ cuit ‘court. This bond issue was floated istruct a sand-morel causeway to old) {Wort Taylor to repiace the present | | wooden bridge now spanning the [gap ‘between Fort Taylor and old} } Fort Taylor. | Lieutenant Johnson states that jcontracts for this work will be let jas the result of sealed proposals | to be “sent to the local quarter- |master, and says that” parties in- terested in performing this work should communicate quartermaster at the Key West (Barracks for necessary informa- jtion and copies of proposals. | The old wooden bridge has been {standing for many - years taking \care’of traffic between Fort Tay-! with the) \county along the line followed by \the Chevalier Corporation to the | Dade county -line. The road de- jpartment will build a standard road from there to the point on |Road 27 in Dade county where = latter highway turns north- westward. | | When all the roads have been | | constructed, it was stated, the de- | partment will take them over for maintenance, Dade county is to cooperate |with the road department in building Road 27 in that county) jand also the other section of the} road in that county to connect | with Monroe county’s road, an | will furnish the necessary rights-| One day before DeKalb,, Mo., a town of $00, held its annual election, five women made up @ campaign ticket and bégan going after vote s.~ Next day they were elected, and the town’ll be run by women for the next year. Left to right, the new officeholders: are Mrs.-S. A. Mallory, councilman; Mrs, S.; J. Hull, city clerk; Mrs. J. W. Mc Adow, Baraes Mrs. John Pyles, councilman, and Mrs, Charles Clink- enbear, councilman. 3 WOMAN'S CLUB RECEIVES LETTER ON REGISTRATION MEMBERS OF ORGANIZATION | ARE URGED TO QUALIFY) FOR COMING JUNE PRI- MARY : Deputy Sheriffs Stage Raid Yesterday Seizing | a And Slot Machine some time ago for the purpose of street improvements. The entire issue was “bought” by - Walter, Woody, & Heimerdinger, of Cin- cinnati. This money will now be- came immediately available, and the city will be enabled to start work on the strezts included in the improvement - program. When the present work on White street is finished; the paving’ of Newton street will be taken up, _- The gouneil ordinance provides that the following streets shall be eS marked sot death because of his Prosecution of John Sealisc -and Albert Anselmi, Genna gangsters, under . sentence to 14 years © in ‘way Clerc “Plane ‘were quickly made ‘the slayers with their machine "Were soon on the scene,” Stege asserted. cormection with this theory, ago Tribune said that only | ago McSwiggen had told | Peporter that he had been of:| $30,000 to neglect his duty aid the two gunmen in gain- : * their freedom, for the slayers began im- om under the direction off ttorney Robert E. Crowe, | who declared he was astounded at thé temerity of the killers. -Three-men who found Deffy| lying mortally wounded near the} ‘MUCH: PLEASED. __ WITHBAVANA sagan eaurerrion © AR | RIVES’ HERE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON EN .ROUTE To) TAMPA — The 170 members of ‘the Gor. | gia Preis © Association arrived aboard the’ S. §. Cuba yesterday and were met st the dock by, a group of local press men. stated that they were shown the time. of their Us in the Cuban capital. The members Visited the prési- All| geone of the shooting were hela | dential palace and paid their re-/ ie early today for further question: > MeSwiggen and kis companions spects to President Machado. Dye ‘ }toe a slight executive was not-able to receive | anc mer driving toward Chicago when | the illness. the -tiational tors when they drove to Se. ear drew aia sg place the |*S mansion Wednesday. @un in range. After the) They were given a banquet by “volley the oceupants of the | Manuel! Aznar, editor of £1 Pais, Se car deserted — their |at-which government officials and fe and as they ran away/ ji.) no ‘were sprayed with bullets. Duffy | fol and died several hours later |“ ps @ hospital. The other three} score of the Georgia serib a staggered back to the automobile | Havana: news writer’. and sped away. |200 persons attended A mile and a half from the} The Georgians ed Secne the bodies of McSwiggen|zas. This tour include: and Doherty were found. The po-|the famous Bellamar. c: lice believe that the fleeing car drive through the*provineial capi- was overtaken but whether the tal. victims were given their death) The Georgia Press members left wounds in their own car or in that | last night for Tampa, from wher of the attatkers was a matter of | they will ¢o to, Winter Haven and Wwspaper. men” were pres- Matan- trip to ent, Addresses were made by half | re than} llor and old ‘Fort Taylor, and with! of-way for both highways in Dade the new causeway the government, county, | forces operating at» the reserva-| “It will be.scen that the effect! tion will be able to handle trans-| |» this proposgl is to give t porn with much more ease, jfeads instead’ of one;“and two meen <3 “Hets"to the’ ‘T¥ail from Monroe (ORDER SALE Kage Tome Dr. Hathaway said, “as re OF RA RAILRO | well as utilizing every foot of road | jheretofore constructed by the jones. IMMENSE LINE TO. Go om SEIZED CARS CARS- DER AUCTIONEER’S wenowcaxs SOLD TODAY AT | ‘AUCTION SALE; CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT DIS- POSES OF STOCK ON HAND (By Ansoet Press) CHICAGO, Apri 53.—A_ rail- road worth three qyarters of a} billion ‘dollars will go under the} auctidneer’s’ hammer at Butte, {Montana, “within the next few months. t An order of, sale and a fore- e@ decree were entered in| court by Judge James H. A Dodge touring car and a Ford n against the Milwaukee/ truck that had been seized by cus- Paul railroad—the biggest | toms officers in liquor raids were | ey decree of legal his-|sold at auction at 11 o’clock by L, T. Bragassa in front of the Lundahl, . master in| postoffice building. chancery, hearing claims against} Mr. Bragassa is usually a good the read since it went into the|auctioneer, but he had a hard line hands of receivers some months|to offer ‘the people today, thor- been named by Judge|oughbred “stock,” but for which son to ¢onduct the jsale of no pedigree could be furnished. { railroad’s holdings, valued by! The Ford truck went to Willard ximately $750,-/Gomez. ‘He was the highest bid-| The court will set a der and it was knocked off on him ortly for the beginning of for $8.00. h is expected to take/ The Dodge created some inter- © weeks to complete. |esting rivalry in bidding, but the The order ef the sale embraces raise was only a dollar at a time fall the’ property of the road, one;and somewhat slow. Joe Russell! of tho biggest systems in the'was the successful bidder and was ERAL BLDG. Flerbert aro, | their interest in the Juhe primary | IN OPEN BIDDING AT FED-| § The following etter, urging’ the / members of the’ Woman’s Club to patriotic: duty to the nation was received recently by Mrs. A: D, Luethi,: corresponding seeretary, | from Mrs. W. A. McLaren, of; Mi- > ami, vice-president of Section 11,| of the Flori@a Fedcration of) Woman's. Clubs. Mrs. McLaren’s message to the clubwomen of Key Weft stressed ‘the necessity for election, and: urged the chairman of . American Citizenship to: see that every member complied’ with this ‘requirement. Her read: “Dear Mrs. Luethi:-—Your note of congratulation at hand. , Think it so nice of you and your club té end me such a nice note.of greet-/ ing.’ I surely appreciate it. “Will try to visit you next fall at the latest, and have the plea- _ letter |“ | Mrs Elizabeth Spears of Amarillo ‘Tex.. ts bunting for her mother. whom she hes never aven She was Mexicano’s stand, corner Pe-/ler, from White to northeast side tronia and Elizabeth streets, was|of Thompson; amounting in all the first place raided. The pro-/to about thirteen miles of prietor is in Havana, and while the — officers were serving the search| The o Road, warrant upon the man. in charge thoroughfare from of the place, the proprieto¥’s wife | to the eye took a gallon jug and some hottles| ¢alled, is of! of liquor into the bath room, lock-|by that name, ,ed the door behind “her, smashed | Pinder says, . | the Ae containers in the bathjin the “tity. records, itub,/turned on the water, and in/avenue.” this way destroyed the “evidence”| Key West relly. before the officers could gain en-| miles of splendidly paved trance to the room, the officers state. There was evidence of the evidence, but the evidence was gone, A stot machine was pulled aure of meeting you all. 3 | born 26 veara.uge and adopted inm | “lam making this note answer) mediately by Mra 4 L. Galdwin, a! | friend of nef real mother Now the three things. The first is to thank} fenton we ie ead. 0nd’ ate. and with the present program city will rank with ners any its size-in the United States for | you all for your thought of kind-/ ness and congratulations. Second, | we were all urged. to ‘have al Mother-and-Daughter Banquet the) first part ‘»f May. Either to have’ the daughters entertain , the| mothers or vice versa. If a woman | hasn't a daughter, she can borrow | one for the banquet. Third, and | most important: Be sure: to regis-| ter! And do it before April 30, ; as that is the last day to reg’ster} for the June primary. Stress. the} necessity to the Chairman of} ; Amer‘ean Citizenship for, visiting, | the members and see ‘that they} have attended to this important! matter, getting in touch with them} in every possible way, so that) Spears 1s seeking the real one Au rhe ee Se the mother’s came Millie Godfrey. ‘CATS AND DOGS T00 NUMEROUS AT STOCK ISLAND, RESIDENTS COMPLAIN OF PARTIES MALS THERE TO STARVE TO DEATH When people in Key West des! _|Uhe curios at the county jail. LEAVING ANI-! at this place and is now among| mileage * agen eae pao The La Concha cafe, on Duval jetreet, was next searched by the > ‘officers, - and quantities of baesrdi, jaguardiente and: gin Ft PRISONER jstized,. A man named’ Betancourt |was arrested in connection with N FROM OFFICER ithis raid. He was given<a pre- {liminary hearing before County naa “aire April ” ope |Jadge Hugh Gunn this morning | Sheriff W. D. a bound over to court. early today had found no trace “Gone Forever and Never to} Charles Davis, hegro, who was eturn, A. M. Martin,” was = from him and a deputy near ed ae fieers raided a place on ‘Smith country and operating 11,000 in thirteen statts to the Pacific ites sof from awarded the car for $50. Storage! to the amount of $45 has to be! paid by the purchaser, bringing} each woman may be reached: Any sire to get rid of cats and dogs | lane. The parties had been rent- one over 50 years of age.doesn’t/ they take them to Stock Island ing the place and fixtures, and it speculation. Indications , were | that McSwiggen had’ put up a desperate struggle to escape or! overpower his captors. The fate of the fourth member) of the McSwiggen party jis a mystery and the autemobile et not been found. SCOTTISH RITE MASONS All members of class of Perfec-| tion are requested to be present at 7:30 Wednesday evening. at the Scottish Rite Hall ise By order of the V. Cc. EB Gin, apr26-3t Secretary. Seeeceseeervaseevesseses AMUSEMENTS SOoveeccoocccccccscccose : MONROE THEATRE “TODAY -— “Don't.” Comedy, “Salute!” TOMORROW—"He a Prince.” Comedy, “Chicken Feed.” } ready \then to Waycross, Ga. the dispersing center, ‘TO GIVE RECITAL THURSDAY NIGHT i MARY ELIZABETH GRILLON: TO BE HEARD AT CONVENT OF MARY IMMACULATE A piano recital will be given ‘at the Convent of Mary Immac te tomorrow evening by M Elizabeth Grillon, at which an excellent program consisting of many ‘select numbers will be ren- i dered. invited which will All friends are tend the affair, be given in the entertainment hall of | * the institution now being . made for the scheduled event, which. gives promise of being an jenjoyable one throughout. ‘ to at-) the price of the car up to $95. It has good tires all the way around, | and is a pretty good old car. Funeral Services Held 2 is expected to on of the road t ion of it by new own- The National C Bank and nn, Loch and Company, of New pay any poll tax—but as the tax/and leave them. there, the people |is upderstood that they left town | goes to the schools all should pay. | residing on. that.island claim, and about two days ago. “Mrs. Ruth Bryan~ Owen, no they think. some measure. should | doubt, will be in your tewn before | be adopted to stop this inhumane | warrants issued jlong, and I hope that the women |irextment of these domestic ani-|Gunn’s court. | will all turn out and give her a! | most hearty welcome, regardless! of whether you vote for her or not,’ Yesterday Afternoon For. Mrs. Louisa Willians, Mrs. Louisa Jane Williams, who} died at 4:30 morning at her late home, 1032) Catherine street, was buried in| the city cemetery yesterday ai ternoon at 4:30 o'clock following funeral service at the First Meth-) odist church conducted by Rev. E.} L, Ley, pastor of Ley Memes} church. The funeral was largely artend-| ed and the floral offerings were profuse and beautifal. Mrs. Williams’ was nearing 70) € Sponsors of the reor- gion plan most’ prominently mentioned, , Misc Carbonell Stands | > All Alone In Contest For Queen of Festival ss Clara Carbohell-js the only ant retaining in the race May Queen now being con- lucted under the auspices of the Woman's Club in connection with val fo be staged at the racks, all of the other having, withdrawn the race, iss Carbonell has added 699 votes to her count since the last announcement was. made of the’ [anaine | great-grandchildren. 4 but because she is a woman, a | mother, anda grandmother, and a. | most wonderful speaker. “Thanking you all in advance; do by being good American citi- zens and registering before April | 3th, and thanking you once more, although my pen fails: to tell my full appreciation. of your thought, for my electicn to vice-president }of llth Section, I am, Most sincerely, SARA L. McLAREN, 1250 Avenve Castile, Coral Gables, Fiorida. | April 17th, 1926. mals. The residents of Stock Island do not like to see these poor ani-| mals starve to death, so they hav (been fecding | their homes. o'clock yesterday for the good work know you will becoming so great that to keep: them from starvation throws a heavy burden on the good people of the quiet island, they say. Mrs. Anns Hollerich, who lives on. Stock sland, says cast away) cats and dogs are becoming a: (ndisance over there, and she thinks! (something “ought te be done to These raids were made . upon from Judge | Representatives of | A conn, meee Oe Light Company, Jacksonville, and |W. D. Burnham, special factory’ representative of Frigidaire, Mi-. mi, were in the city Saturday and Sanday. | Mr. and Mrs. Canthrall were the ‘guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. “P. §.—I enjoyed so much the/€xpense, and she hopes that the for Frigidaire in Key West. Mr. all.—S. L. Me.” years of age, and is survived by | opportunity of meeting Mrs. War- Proper suthofities will investigate Burnham will make her husband, George Williams,' ren and Mrs. Miller at the F. F.\the matter amd take whatever te Key West in the . ithree daughters and one son, also| W. €. at Jacksonville, and hope steps that may be. necessary to| company. There are a number of grandchildren and in the near future to meet you’ prevent this unmerciful form a mete cab _ West. ‘