The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 17, 1926, Page 1

Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service VOLUME XLVIL.. No. 117 Funeral Services Governor Albert W. Gilchrist FEAST OF WEEKS Set For Tuesday At Punta Gorda FORMER CHIEF EX- ECUTIVE OF STATE DIES IN NEW YORK ON SATURDAY EVENING, (By Associated Press) PUNTA.GORDA, Fla, May For Former | Too Clean | —This city was in mourning ot day as a result of the death in| New’ York Saturday night of AL bert W. Gilchrist, ernor of Florida, and citizen of Punta Gorda. The body was expected to ar- rive here Tuesday morning. The| funeral was set for Tuesday af-' ternioon. ‘The Masonic lodge will! ~ have charge of tlie ceremonies | Interment will take place in In- dian Springs cemetery, banks of the Allapatchee River. former gov. | on the in accordance with his wishes. All| commercial will be suspended Tuesday- afternoon in order that his fellow townsmen may attend the services. Mr. Gilchrist’s death followed numerous ,operations. at a Ne-v York hospital. traceable to 4 wound on the. left thigh. His first’ operation. came at Columbia, S. cs last - June. Later he disappeared and after a jong search was located int the in- where he died. activities > The body left New York last! night accompanied by Dr. Robert W. Gibbs, his half brother, and attending physician, and a small party of friends and relatives. Life Sketch PUNTA GORDA, Fla., May 17. —For several weeks Punta Gorda bad been expecting word that her most nationally “known citizen, a man loved by every acquaintance in his old home town, had left to It was directly, “Uncle Bela Hughes, 79-year-old Confederate veteran of Mexico, Mo., | nas been granted a divorce from his | wife of eight weeks because she tn- | misted that he “keep too clean * This extreme cleanliness interfered with his business, he said, which is run ning a chicken farm. so he gave her $500,°24 chickens and some canned fruit to get her consent to a divorce. NEW BUNGALOW ~ CONSTRUCT AT MATECUMBE MRS. RECA PEACON OF KEY WEST 1S OWNER OF MOD- ERN BEAUTIFUL BUILDING ON ISLAND em, Mrs, Reca Peavon, 6f ic city, is having built: for- her- own oc- casional occupancy a modern and beautiful bungalow on.the pretty ‘beach of Matecumbe island. The/ ‘construction work is now going, along nicely under thé supervision) of Melville Russell, Brothers, a contracting firm of) this city, and it is expected ,to ,be| completed within two weeks. This will be one of the coziest | some homes along the Florida ikeys. It will be of frame con- struction, one story high, and will contain six rooms, bath, wide front of Russell | and most comfortable of the hand-| ‘OBSERVANCE OF HERE WEDNESDAY i REGULAR SERVICES TO BE| CONDUCTED AT SYNA- } GOGUE; DESIGNATED AS! CONFIRMATION DAY | 1 | © | On Wednesday, May 19, the \celebration of the festival. of |Shabuoth will be observed by the Jewish people with regular ser- | vices to be eonducted by the local rabbi at the synagogue, corner of | Simonton and Southard streets. | It is given. this name, meaning} ithe Feast of Weeks, because it was | jat the end of seven weeks of} counting after Passover, as en-| jjoined in the 23rd chapter of | | Leviticus and the 21st chapter of | ; Deuteronomy. Like so many | religious holy days it was connect- ed with the soil, a farmer's festi- ival at the close of the seven har- |vest weeks. Later a_ historical significance was attached to it) land it became to the Jewish peo- |ple spiritually important as the jday of the Giving of the Weeks crowns for the Jewish people the physical freedom which the Law of Mount Sinai. Thus the Feast Passover symbolizes by the self- jconsecration to the behests of the |spirit' and the injunctions of the | Moral Law. Because this festival was once| |the farmer’s harvest feast and | \later became the Feast of the First | |Offerings of the spiritual life, it) |was only natural that it should be |ehosen as the Confirmation Day| when the youth of Israel are con- secrated to the faith of their fath-} ers. Through the ceremonial of \Confirrsaton a new significance \and a profound solemnity has been | added to this festival. MAKING READY \PENNSYLVANIA CANDIDATES | { IN LAST.APPEAL TO VOTERS | (By Associated Pres) PHILADELPHIA, May 17.— |Opponents in the triangular con- test for the Republican nomina- tion for the United States senate | will be busy appealing to the | York from here. |north of Miami KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1926. Probing Chicago’s Gang Murders | the top of the world, from King’s| «my Ausxoginted Prens) MIAMI, May 17.—Having put, her passenger cargo of 280 per- sons safely ashore, the Clyde liner Seneca today was riding easily at anchor, a mile off Miami bar, listing slightly to starboard, following springing of a leak ow Saturday night, en route to New High city and state officials were present. when an official investigation into Chicago's gang murders, including the killing of Assistant State's | Attorney McSwiggin, was launched by the Cook county grand jury. This photo, taken in Judge William, Brothers’ courtroom, shows Attorney Gen- eral Oscar Carlstrom (left) and State’s Attorney Robert Crowe in front, and Sheriff Peter Hoffman (lefty and Chief of Police Morgan Collins be- | aind them. PASSENGERS OFF AT | ‘THE WEATHER | {Stations Tem. | PUT ASHORE atiere cca) oa | Atlanta (clear) 58 ‘Boston (cloudy) 48 | STEAMSHIP SENECA BECOMES | Charleston (clear) 68 DISABLED OFF MIAMI BAR| Chicago (cloudy) 64 Corpus Christi (cloudy) 72 ‘ON SATURDAY NIGHT EN | Dodge City (cloudy) 54 ROUT OR! Galveston (pt. cloudy) 70 Gore re NEW: tae Hatteras (clear) . 60 Hurno (clear) 48) | Jacksonville (clear) : 60 KEY WEST (pt. cloudy). 70} | Louisville (clear) - a Miami (clear) ..... New Orleans (clear) New York (pt. cloudy) | St. Louis (cloudy) |... Tampa (clear) 62 | | Washington (clear) Williston - (clear) 48 42 The origin of the leak is not crew believes she seraped a pro- | Gaptain Leek then asked them tay lier blade from a tug imbedded | don ‘life Littles and piepars| in the harbor, as she passed out-| for boat drill. bount Saturday. The leak was not) The passengers were taken off | discovered until she was 17 miles | the ship Sunday afternoon and re- | bar, when the | moved safely to the city. Because | fears of Captain Leek. were arous-| of having sh‘pped so much water ed. ‘the Seneca was not able to clear Quietly turning her, Captain}the bar on her quick return trip. Leek made for Miami, and it was not until the lights of Miami.Beach Saturday night and Sunday pump- were seen that the passengers had | ing water kept the eraft afloat. FLORIDA EXPOSITION ON EXPLORERS AE [SAET A ee watts) * ers for a bridge across Torch | northwest of here Thursday night, 62) ani 52) planned for the explorers by the 62| residents of Nome when it was} jin Nome. | ne ewnairdes eer aatteped cables ty hold the Serie ifbte. vessel Write and a crew Tugs working’ at her side all} (ae of his chang: }other than to The Key West Citoen For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS KEY WEST TO BE REPRESENTED ON FLORIDA EXHIBITION TRAINS | PLEASED WITH AIR VOYAGE STEAMER FROM SOUTH TO TAKE PARTY TO THE UNIT- | j ED STATES | bees (By Associated Press) | NOME, Alaska, May 17—The} adventure Captain Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth, | heads of the first expedition over | over, | Bay, Spitzbergen, to Alaska, to-| | day awaited a steamer from the} south to take them to the United | States. The Italian airship Norge, which they and their 16 associ-| ates arrived at Teller, 75 miles in is being dismantled for shipment! south by steamer, when the permits resumption of navigation. Colonel Umbreto Nobile, chief pilot of the Norge, is supervising} its dismantling. Captain Amundsen, Ellsworth, Captain Oscar Wisting and Lieut. Oskar Omdahl, arrived here in a launch from Teller yesterday. Omdah! will return to Teller. They received a chilly recevtion, | ite different from the welcome | ice announced the flight would end) Elaborate preparations were made here to receive the Norge. The. flying field was of 100. men were Yecruited to tndle the dirigible. A triumphal | larch was erected on the principal | street of Nome and the buildings were decorated with flags and bunting. When it was learned that Amundsen had changed hi plans and descended at. Teller, plans for the reception fell flat. Few went to meet Amundsen when Peewee erereranes!| APPROVE PLANS FOR MONROE COUNTY BRIDGES * (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, May 17.— The Secretary of War today approved plans of the Monroe * county, Florida, commission- * . . + * * + * * * * * . * Channels between Ramrod * wm. R. PORTER MEM- :| BER OF COMMITTEE | SPONSORING MOVE- | MENT | | | | | Resources and advantages of and Lower Torch Key, and * Key West. * ee POLICE OFFICER KILIS NEGRO SATURDAY NIGHT : HARRY ROBERTS SHOOTS MAN) WHO GRABS CLUB BEATING. THE OFFICER BADLY OVER) HEAD Will Wright, a negro’ track jlaborer for the F. E. C. railway, was shot and instantly killed by Police Officer Harry Roberts Saturday night. The fatal shot fired in a -dark- alley on Angela street just off Duval, to which point the negro had pulled the officer in his repeated and desperate efforts to either escape or slay Officer Roberts, the po- liceman says. Officer Harry Roberts states that he had, arrested this negro! for drunk and disorderly conduct, and had him in a touring car con- veyi im to the city jail, when the pr er gtipped him and a struggle ensued in which they both got out onto the ground. The of- ficer then decided to lead the prisoner to j thinking that he was way. They had not gone far un- ‘tl Wright made another desperate | effort to get away. Then Officer Roberts decided to make for Du-} val street with his prisoner so that} +|Key West and Monroe County, as */well as those of other sections of */the state, will be graphically set *|before the people of the United |States during the coming winter jby means of the most far-reaching jadvertising project yet undertak- jen in the history of the nation. | Announcement to this effect was |made in Key West today by Fred iL. Shaw, Jacksonville, representa- jtive of the Florida Exposition |Company, which contemplates the {sending of five Florida exhibition trains throughout the nation. | Mr. Shaw, who is travelling the jState in the interests of the pro- jject, explained to local business and professional then, and The |Citizen that the company is.a non, profit organization of important municipalities and counties of the state, with important men its of- ficers and directors. Key. West, jhe said, is represented in the di: rectorate by W. R. Porter, presi- dent of the First National Bank and a county commissioner, The five trains, each of ter jcars, it was explained, will leave Jacksonville in November, striking out to -various sections of the country and stopping for varying periods of time in important cities and towns. The trains will be on the road approximately four months and upon their retarn to Jacksonville will have practically jeovered the United States and | Canada. Origin of Plan The plan of the sale com- pany, originated by. Bird M. Rob- inson, Washington, president of the American Short Line Railway } jeould better control him in this) Association, has the endorsement of United States Senator Duncan U. Fletcher and the entire ¢con- | gressional delegation. Mr. Robin- son, by virtue of his experience as ja railroad executive, has been the launch bringing him from Tel-/ he could get aid if he should need | designated director general of the | ler arrived. Amundsen made no direct ¢ in’ pla remark that he} thought « wireless station should/ be erected at Teller because of its} superior harbor. it. He got his man as far as Micken’s Lane, a dark alley on Angela ‘street, when the negro | company by the officers and di- |rectors, Mr, Robinson recently announced that the simultaneous grabbed him again, succeeded in| departure of the exhibition trains taking his club away from him;|from Jacksonville in November pulled the officer into the dark | will be the occasion of a celebra- A MILLION- DOLLAR PIER: history the story of his activities and lovable life among fellow} pioncers. and rear verandas and a screened| Voters up to the last minute be-! sleeping porch. Under the floor |fore tomorrow’s primary. Sena-| lis an immense cistern that will|tor George Warton Pepper and) jlane, beating him brutally oyer|tion, state-wide in its scope, in Th le: were pleased with] . linciy wear The Nowe they \the head with the club. Police-| which the governor, United States . , behaved’ perfectly. The|man Roberts says the negro was|senator and other dignitaries will Albert W. Gilchrist is mourned here not as an ex-governor and statesman of national fame, but) as a good man whose fearless honesty and intense interest in the; “welfare of others has perhaps|; been the greatest single factor in the building of a better Punta! Gorda. Governor Gilchrist’s death was} directly traceable to a minor wound on tha left thigh, which led to en operation last June in Co-; lumbia, S. C., where he was at-! tended by his half brother, Dr.) ‘Robert W. Gibbs. Several months Aeter, while in New York for medi- ~ tal treatment, Mr. Gilchrist dis- ~ ‘Sppeared and was lost to all his friends both in the great city and friends here with whom he cor-| comfortably furnished with mod- est also i responded. Finally # search made, upon request of the Florida state | senate revealed him sick and alone | in the Hospital for Ruptured and} Orippled. Paradoxial as it may teem, Florida was ut the ties “Gilchrist” county of her former governor, who at the time was suffering, alone, lost to the world. in « hospital in East B2nd street The story of his suffering and faith is best told by an excerpt from a recent letter to A. P. Jor- dan, at Punta Gor “The latter part of June, 1925, a major surgical operation was performed on my left leg, at a Columbia, S. C., hospital. The tinued cn Page 8) i Seceeeeeeervcessesescece AMUSEMENTS eeeccenecncccece MONROE THEATRE TODAY-—“The Splendid Road.” Comedy, “Bonny Scotland.” TOMORROW — “Lord Jim.” Comedy, “Hold Tight.” time | Raming one of its two new coun-| ers are wespectfully requested to natorial in honor} meet at the Monroe County High | three aspirants, Jadge Samuel E. hold over 12,000 gallons of water, ‘and the home will be équipped with a modern electric, plant that will furnish illumination and also} jafford power for fans, pumps and! \irons, The interior will be finished in| | Upson board with all lockers and/| |closets built in. The building will be thoroughly and substantially sereen¢éd throughout. Mrs. Peacon’s Matecumbe home | {will be painted pure white on the) joutside and will put forth a very {pleasing appearance in every way when it is finished. She expects to spend some time there as soon as this new home receives its} finishing touches. She is plan- jning to have it completely and i j jern furniture of her own sele tion, / CALLED To MEET All White street property own- School on White street at & o'clock tonight. NOTICE TO VOTERS FIRST DISTRICT T have been requested to an- nounce that I am not the Frank Roberts who is a candidate for the School Board for the First District. member of J. FRANK ROBERTS. {Congressman William S. Vare ar- {ranged for radio talks today from! Philadelphia stations. Governor| Gifford Pinchot had a speaking | lengagement at Stroudsburg in the | | afternoon and at his home in Mil-; \ford at night. Mr. Vare, who is running on a wet platform, said he would de- jvote his final plea to the dry | voters, feeling that his nomination | and election would be as much to \their advantage as to those favor- ting modification of the Volstead} we Both Gov. Pinchot and Senator Pepper issued a statement deny- ing “eleventh hour lies” they de- elared had been circulated by sup. porters of their opponents. Inter- keen in the Republican }gubernatorial race, in which there are four candidates, John S. Fish- er, Edward E. Beidleman, Con- gressman Thomas W. Phillips and John K. Tener. For the Democratic nomination there guber- are Shull, Monroe coun William E Porter, and Judge Engene Bonni- well, Philadelphia. BOMB EXPLODES NEAR U. S. EMBASSY IN BUENOS AIRES Associated Press) May 17.—A bomb was exploded in front of the United States embassy late last night. No one was injured and slight damage was done. only NOTICE City Tax Books for the year 1925 will close May 31. All taxes unpaid on that date will be adver- tised according to law. ARTHUR H. SHEPPARD, [mayI$-16t City Tax Collector JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 17.) Plans for a Florida Exposition jscheduled on the Million Dollar |pier at Atlantic City, N. J., | being effected by A. Conrad Ek holm, managing director, who i | making a personal tour of the state in the interest of the project. Mr. Ekholm is ree ig favorable re- sponse from various industrial, agricultural, realty and civie lead- ers of Florida to his proposal to place the state resources before thousands of summer visitors at Atlantic City this year. J. C. Penny, the millionaire philanthropist and developer; J D. Bourne, manager of the Duke interests in the state; Nathan Mayo, commissioner of agricul- ture; T. F. Ragsdale; Mayor John T. Alsop, Jr.. of Jacksonville, and others have been seen by Mr. Ek- holm and have expressed them- selves as being sold on the pro |posal to advertise the state. In addition to endorsine the oreject. the Denartment of Agri cultre is plannine to supply about $16.900 worth of literature relat- ing to the state's turer at the exposition and a huge electric sien. which cost several hundred dollars. The state’s aid is contincert upen the Florida State Chamber of Commerce en- dorsine the proiect Mr. Fkholm is in St, Petershure this week conferrine with Herman A. Dann, president of the State Shember. The Florida Frnosition is sche- inled ta he held im Atlantic City ~» the Million Dollar Pier from y 1 tn Sentember 15 afs thi resources, a lec It is planned to operate the Florida Exposition under the aucpices of the Florida State Pub- licity Council, to be made up of, ice particles flying from the pro-| murder. several of the foremost men of the | Peller threatened to puncture the|down, clubbing him | gas cells. state. The council program wh will show the agricultural, industrial, resort and residential features of the state. The Florida Exposition would be held in conjunction with exhibits by in the including Hollywood by Coral Gables, Lakewood , and national advertisers display on the various developments hown mammoth pier annually. Mr. Ekhe eral very sucees Auantie City, among them being the National Advertisers Exhibi- tion, the Home and City Beautiful Exposition, the Jersey Hotel position and the National Art i Industry .Exposition. It is imated that 16,000,000 persons visited Atla City during the jast year, and a large per- re of them attended the vari exhibits yim has conducted sev- ful expositions in New on d displays. This year, due to the opening of the Delaware River Bridge and the Sesquicentennial in Philadel- phia, all past records are expected to be broken. Philadelphia will have hotel accommodations for less than 10 per cent of the cen- tennial visitors and about 90 per cent of them are expected to seek Atlentic City for accommodation: Mr. Ekholm is certain that a large percentage of the throngs coming from every state in the nion and from foreign countries ill plan to give aj *® “\dered expelled from Mexico, son. an be attracted to Florida and that the state’s unlimited ad- vantages would be more appre- ciated if presented ovroperly to *his vest audience. The Florida Exposition, he believes, would oresent these advantages compre- jhensively. r The mommath pier with ~ than 100.009 sonare feet of it opsne and with jt< enter. nemt feoteres aoe reach the v srtional audivnee averaging 2 900 persons daily during the sea- makes on ideal m sta to fight from Spitzbergen w eventful except for the stretch} from Point Barrow to Teller, when | flight. The landing at Teller was ac- complishec with ease, after an anchor had been cast in the fozen harbor. The gas cells were com- pletely deflated in half an, hour. Amundsen and Wisting have the dist.nction of being the only two men in the world to have visited both the north and south poles, Wisting having ccompanied Amundsen on bis discovery of the’ outh pole. REVEREND EXPELLED FROM-MEXICO ON WAY TO WASHINGTON (By Associated Press) MEXICO CITY, May 17.—Or- the George Caruana, was on his way. to Washington via Laredo. He was ordered to lea on the ground that he entered the country in an improper manner contraventional t6 the clauses of the Mexican constitution dealing with foreign ministers of the gos- pel. Qn arriving at Washington he is expected to receive instructions from Rome as to his future ac- tivities. le had six days after notification of his expulsion which to leave Mexico. Before departing, Monsignor Caruana, who is a naturalized American citizen, issued a state ment in which he denied the charges of the Mexican govern ment. He said he had notified James R. Sheffield, the United States ambassador of his predica- ment and that the ambassador had forwarded his side of the issue to Rt. Rev. in a Washington. emed to have pulled him into \that alley with the intention of The negro had him over the} A fair wind aided the: head, and it was as a last resort|the Miami ip in the southern leg of the!that the officer, while flat on his | Commerce; back underneath the negro who! was beating him, managed to get} his gun out of the shoulder strap, reached up over the negro’s bedy | and fired, the ball entering the negro’s body just under the right shoulder blade, making its exit at the top. of the head, it is believed, but on account of wounds in the negro’s scalp the exact point where it went out was not located. Justice of Peace Rogelio Gomez immediately empanelled a coroner's jury and held 4 session Saturday night, reaching the ver- dict that it was a case of justifiable homicide Will Wright, as the dead negro was known by his fellow workmen, left no information as to his age, relatives or place of residence. He was buried Sunday morning at the expense of the city by G. Frank wyer of the Lopez undertaking company. Officers state that Will Wright evidently came to town hunting trouble Saturday night. He was arrested and jailed here Satur- night a week ago, and this did et well with him. His boss arranged his fine and got him out. He was heard to express his de sire for revenge on the police of- ficers here. Officers believe that he loaded up with liquor Saturday night with the sim of “getting even” with the cops. MANY DELEGATES Six thousand delegates from the United States, Canada, Hawaii and Ports Rico are expected to attend the first American Health Con- gress, to be opened at Atlantic City teday under the auspices cf the National Health Council. H 3 un-|@ giant in strength and size, and | participate. | Vice presidents of the exposi- |tion company, numbered among | outstanding citizens of the state, are T. J, Pancoast, president of Beach Chamber of John T. Alsop; “Jt, mayor of Jacksonville; E. B. Green, Bradenton, state highway commissioner, and Senator W. C. Hodges, Tallahassee. Cities represented .in the com- pany, and directors residing in each, are as follows: Miami: C€. D. Leffler, presi dent of the Miami Bank and Trust Company and member of the ‘city commission; F. W. Webster, presi dent of the Coral Gables Chamber of Commerce; E. R. Graham, gen eral manager of the Pennsylvania Sugar Company; C. H. Reeder, Crow-Reeder-Curtis Company; J R. Riach, ‘president of the Mia Shores Chamber of 3 Mareus Milam, and Mr. Pancoast Jacksonvilles Lorenzo Wilson, president of the Florida Agric tural Chemical Company; Col Kay, general counsel of Clyde Steamship Company and genera! solicitor for the Atlant Coast Line; John Baker, “Baker and Holmes Company, and Mayor Also Commer Ww H. Raymond, (Continued on Page 5) “LORD JIM” “Lord Jim” venturs story of the sea. Here a man risks his life to come back. The story is by the mas ter writer Conrad and features Percy Marmount. MONROE THEATRE TOMORROW is the greatest ad.