The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 19, 1926, Page 1

Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service VOLUME XLVII. No. 119 COMMANDER IN CHIEF! SAYS VETERANS ARE| NOT “DEAD ONES” BY| ANY MEANS (My Associated Press) | BIRMINGHAM, May 19.—-The| men who followed Lee will “carry | on es long as ean travel,” General W. B. Freeman, commander in chief, said here to-| day in the keynote address at the| opening session of the 36th annual Yeunion of United Confederate! veterans. “Away with the talk of a limp-| ing army of old-men. Nonsense th’s talk about last reunion,” he! shouted. General Freeman's _ attitude,| coupled with the sentiment of} many of his followers, appeared to! have suecessfully combatted the | movement in certain quarters to| disband the organization of vet- erans. In fact, the sentiment to- day seeméd’ so well crystalized | that the question will probably not come to the floor of the meeting. “The veterans are not ‘dead ones’, yet,” Gen. Freeman assert- ed. “Sixty-one years nave passed since we wore as soldiers the uni- ‘forms that lighten this hall to- day. Most of us Confederate vet- erars have passed 80' years. The youngest is beyond the three-score and ten that are the tradition span} two of us of longevity. We want no funeral |. orations delivered over us. We ask no sympathy, we covet no tears, far from it. We are met in im sorrow, Save’as we! who: have. left assembled to réjoice, Mourn, and we greet the with a cheer. / ‘Why is it so? I put the ques-| tion now, and I essay to give the brief anawer at this time because! > it seems to me that if the spirit of our gathering is understood, the right pitch can be given to all our deliberations. “We are met encouraging cheer, because, first of all, we have pride! im our cause and gratification at| the memory of our efforts for it.| - Were this the fall.of 1860, instead of the spring of 1926, we would} hope that cool judgment would! prevail and that the appeal to/ arms might be avoided for our| ‘country and our brother's sake, But if war had to come, every man| of us, Iam sure, would do pre-| cisely as he did in the day of test, | except that he would try to ren-| der larger service to his State and, to the Confederacy. In.the words | of an illiterate but ardent old; rebel, who was asked about. his! war record, We aix.’t ashamed o: nothing we have done, It is | RAL FREEMAN MAKES STIRRING Radio Receivin ee seccoes. Vanishes “| radio Walter 8S. Ward, son of .the multi-millionaire bakery king, has mysteriously disappeared from his. New York home. Police fear foul! play. FREICHT EMBARGO IS LIFTED ON ALL-SHIPMENTS INFORMATION GIVEN OUT BY OFFICIALS OF FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY TO- DAY | The freight embargo in Florida! as beeh éntirely lifted, and no! ADDRESS. AT CONFEDERATE. REUNION g Sets For Use Of Lighthouse Keepers The Key West Citsen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1926. ‘FUNERAL FOR OSCAR CLEARE REMAINS OF DROWNED MAN INTERRED THIS MORNING ‘COURT JUSTICE VISITING HERE DURING WORLD WAR IN NAVY | | | | | { | Osear Cleare, who was gener-) | ally known by his nickname “Les-| Strum, of the Florida Supreme \ter,” the aged fisherman who lost] Court, is a-visitor in Key West. | | his life off the Boca Chica coast; Justice Strum be remem- lyesterday forenoon, was buried! bered as Lieutenant-Commander | his morning at 9 o’clock, the fu-| Strum, who, at different periods, will e Supreme Court Justice Louie W. 'SECRETARY HOOVER IS \habited land, the most important lights in the} \Service, and it marks the westerly! jentrance to the Straights of Flor-| bound to }t | neral being from the Lopez chapel INSTRUMENTAL IN SE: tig arias: diay Attame Sub |of the Fleming street Methodist CURING EQUIPMENT church, was the officiating minis- FOR SERVICE 594 Mr. Cleare lost his life while oug |fishing yesterday with Frank | Gates. The man had left the hoat. Secretary Hoover’s request for sb quest fF | on a sand bar, and when they. at- receiving ‘sets to be tributed for the use of lighthouse con- risen so that they were compelled | keepers at isolated locations has| +o swim a part of the way. While swim the deceased | been met with prompt and liberal! making this response in-one instance that has| was stricken with heart fallerys been learned here?‘ One of: the| Which was primarily the cause o| : | his death, according to expert tes- great ‘electric’ concerns of the | timony given by Dr. George R. country. has donated 150 fine,| Plummer before the coroner’s | four-tube receiving sets to aid in| jury, which had been empaneled} making more endurable the loneli-| hy Justice of Peace Rogelio Go- ness of the lighthouse keepers. | mez. The jury found that death Two of these excellent receiving | was produced by heart failure, sets have been sent to W. W. De-| The deceased was 65 years old. | tempted to return, the tide had} was stationed here while in com- mand of vessels. Justice Strum was city attorney | for Jacksonville, and | candidate to succeed himself to| the Supreme Court Bench. ape Marie Roberts Dies This Morning; | Funeral This Afternoon’ is now a Rose Marie Roberts, the 3- months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman A. Roberts, died at 18:80 o'clock this morning at the| Ffamily home, 1904 Staples avenue. | The funeral will be at o'clock {this afternoon, from the residence | !to the grave, and Father Maureau,| ~ of the Catholic church, will be the officiating priest. . merritt, © superintendent. ‘of fae} Seventh Lighthouse: district to be! installed at two of the stations; most entitled to them by extreme | isolation of position. | One of these will be installed) at Dry Tortugas station, and it is not definitely decided just where! the other will be placed. The! Dry Tortugas light’ is 63 miles! from Key West, the nearest in- It is also one of ida, It is the first object sighted | by ships.en route from, the Gulf to Atlantic” and Mediterranean | ports, and’ thousands” “of vessels | ‘on the Gulf coast; take their departure from it year | after year. — ‘ | An. idea of the way these radio} sets are appreciated by the light-; EVENING; SERVICES TOMORR( AFTERNOON Monroe County, Dies From Injuries Received Monday PASSES AWAY.” LAST | of St. Joseph's first air mail package. | | . ; { his children. seenied to have) weighed heavily upon his mind, ‘for. he was always deeply de-| te th chad givenhis| Boe. new layeatt the same, nf Ics) ;Baby, Barbara May. "=~ | Sheriff Roland Curry was 55) years old, and “had entered ‘upon; his second term as sheriff of Mon-| \roe eounty in January, 1925. Four} W. E. D. STOKES, SR., For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS FINANCIER AND HOTEL OWNER, DIES IN NEW YORK - Christening Airmail Plane evccee | { Citizens of St. Joseph, Mo., held a public jubilation ceremony when the first plane on the new air mail route left St. Joseph for Chicago. This picture shows Marie Hogan, “air mail queen,” christening the plane Miss St. Joseph. Immediately after . taking this picture Photographer M. P. Habecker put the negative on-the plane and it was carried to A Service’s office in Cleveland as part The new route is from Chicago to’ Dallas. } spemessoaronesntne ree WHITE STREET CIVIC ASSOCIATION TO PLANT WHITE OLEANDER TREES ~ ALL ALONG WIDE. THOROUGHFARE At om meeting ade. Wehite: documents Which will be present Street Civie Association held on ed to the city ‘fduncilmen: at the Monday evening it was decided io: vigulax meeting to be held” or inaugurate 9 campaign in connec. May 26. All ‘interested in the tion with the planting of white widening of White street: @re re-| house keepers may be gained by) reading the following letter which was written to the electric com-_ pany making the donation by Chas. Johnson, keeper of the} lighthouse at Dry Tortugas: - “Dear Sirs: In behalf of the } lighthouse keepers, Dry Tortugaz} Light Station, and our wives and/ children, I desire tp acknowledge | with a thousand thanks the receipt ; of the four-tube * * * radio set! lon the shore of Bahama Islands, |for a number of yéars. Roland Curry, sheriff of Mon- | years before. his first tenure as| \toe county, who was fatally in-)sheriff, he had.served four years \jured at 12:30 o'clock Monday as depnty under Sheriff A. H. M--| ‘been .a- police: officer in this city| Early in| died at 10 o'clock last night at|his career Sheriff Curry was one} his home in the residence portion |of the pioneer sponge men of this of the county jail building. jport, and met with much success! The death of Sheriff Curry in that line of trade, being up to came as a distinct shock to this the time of his death considered} community, for it was not be-|an authority on the sponge fishing capsized boat and the dog rocks oleander trees, twenty feet apart, quested to. be present at the coun- PASSES AWAY AT HOME 238 WEST 73RD STREET AT EARLY HOUR THIS MORNING. Information was received | today by The Citizen in As- sociated Press dispatches from New York announcing the death of W. E. D. Stokes, Sr., financier and hotel own- er, who passed away at his home in that city at 238 W. 78rd Street, this morning. Mr. Stokes was long in the publie eye because of. the sensational divorce proceed- ings brought against him by his wife, Helen Elwood Stokes. The deceased, who was 73 years old at the time of his death, was the father of W. E. D. Stokes, Jr., who was married in Key West recent- ly to Miss Florence Critten- ton, the newly-weds now be- ing in New York on their honeymoon. Life History The history of William Earle Dodge Stokes is chiefly the history of his litigation—both divorce and civil—which kept him almost con- stantly in the courts and the lime- light. His marital career, consisting of two marriages, one divorce and an unsuccessful attempt for five years to divorce his second wife, Mrs, “Helen Elwood Stokes, at- tracted wide attention. Stokes was born in New York in 1853;-and inherited from. his battker father, James Stokes, prop- y valued at $11,000,000. Fig- dites revealed by his second wife, when she sued him for dower rights, showed that his net estate was $7,238,000, all along White street from South jafternoon when caught between a |Innis. Prior to this time he had! Beach to Diviion street, with 350 or more figured on in the plan- ning. ! C. C. S¥monette was appointed a committeeman to call on prop- erty owners on that thoroughfare you so kindly contributed for our [lieved that his condition was so\and the sponge business im all its| who have not as yet signed the use, I ean assure you this will} be responsible in a very great measure for reducing our loneli-| ness, ‘by bringing us in contact with the world at large, and with} the set we will ‘be able to receive} bers, as well asdectures and ser-| mons: . | “This set has been tected out at great privilege to have contact) permits for the movement of lum-| the Lighthouse Depat here ‘and is| with a historic cause, or a mighty ber or any other shipments,will be | giving excellent results. leader.. It is inspiring to serve in the decisive moments of man’s! achievement. It is the greatest | satisfaction, I think, to have) fought for such a cause, to have known such leaders and to have shared such moments. Having ‘that satisfaction, what have we to fear of old age? How could we be gloomy? And what have we %» dread at the hand of time? Eight major wars” among great powers or strong alliances have been fought since our struggle; ended. “Among them has been the bloodiest, moxt colossal struggle of all times. Armies have fought! for’ months on fronts ten times as long as that of our greatest en- gegement More men were put out of action in the western cam- paign of 1916 than were enlisted in the Confederate armies from the first call for volunteers to the fast coming of gray beards, An army of correspondents, observers end historians has written of the gallant men who fought these re- ‘cent wars, and-of the generals who led them, And What do wefind? Are our comrades forgotten and our commanders names clipped? Preeisely the reverse.” } Seeeveeccersceevess ee \AMUSEMENTS _ Peeevecneccesesevecceses MONROE THEATRE TODAY—“The Cave Man.” Comedy, “Wide Open Spaces.” TOMORROW — “Soul Mates.’ Comeiy,Sky Record.” required, according to announce- ment given out at the local. office of the F. E. C. Railway. The embargo was+almost com-' pletely removed some time ago, | except in'the matter of shipments, of lumber and cement, for which permits were stil required. Now there is no embargo on hipments of any kind and freight transpor' tion has been restored! | to normalcy. NOTICE City Tax Books for the year 1925 will close May $1. All taxes/ wmpaid on that date will be adver- tised according to law. ARTHUR H. SHEPPARD, 16t City Tax Collector NOTICE, K. P.! All members of Isle of Sea Lodge No. 104, Knights of Pythias, are hereby summoned to be at Castle Hall, Fleming strect, at 3 o'clock tomorrow, for the purpose of attending the funeral of our deceaSed brother, Roland .Curry. MILLARD B. GIBSON, C. C. GRADUAT! NICE BJNE San Carlos “Scatter Sunshine ii «(Cards CARDS Store ith Greet. It. will be installed at the lighthouse and placed inservice immediately upon my return.- Again thanking you, |L am, respectfully, Chas. Johnson, keeper L. H. S.” Those of the Dry Tortugas Lighthouse keepers who have families usually reside with wife and children at Tortugas. except during school terms, for the chil- dren must attend echool in Key est. Mrs. Julia Sweeting To Make Report of Pensacola Meeting critical. The members of his; phases, household are prostrated with} Surviving Sheriff Curry are his| grief and much sympathy is being | widow and seven children, as fol- expressed for them throughout/lows: Mrs. Gladys Keaton, Mr the city. |Mispah Haskins, Naomi Curry On account of the swollen con-' Gilbert Roland Curry, Helen, Ida | music and other entertaining num-| ition of Sheriff Curry's chest Fay and Barbera May Curry; also Where he was crushed between one sister, Mrs. M. Roberts, Little! the boat and the rocks, it had/River, Fla. been impossible for physicians to It is known that Mr. Curry be- determine the nature and extent:-longed to a number of the ef his injuries, and no alarm -was fraternal erganization lodges in felt over his condition until about! this city, and members of such or- 9 o'clock last night, when un- ders are invited to attend in favorable eymptome developed and bod‘es and porticipate in the cere physicians. were quickly summon-' monies incident to the funeral ed. After 4a consultation the | service, which will be at 4 o'clock physicians announced that the end tomorrow afternoon, from the was near.” He then sank rapidly residence to the First Methodist/ and breathed his last at 10 church. The service will be con- o'clock. ducted by the pastor, Rev. L. When put ashore here at mid-|Munro, and the funeral. will be night Monday night, Sheriff under the direction of G. Frank Curry said he realized that he Sawyer of the Lopez undertaking would not recove>, and expressed petition for the additional widen- ing of the street from Division to. Trumbo Island for the purpose of ecuring their signatures to the VARE-LEADS IN PRIMARY RACE. FOR SENATOR ADVOCATE OF MODIFICATION OF PROHIBITION REGARDS HIMSELF AS VICTOR IN YES TERDAY’S CONTEST (Ry Axmocinted Press) PHILADELPHI Congressman Wil | campaign. . ‘ : |. On his graduation from Yale cil: “meeting at the time - sited! Ty iversity in 1874, Stokes showed when the matter will be taken up)a talent for finance and ‘became | associated with his father in busi- ness. On the latter’s death he ‘The meeting on Monday night | bu It the Ansonia Hotel and co . * | ducted it until 1911 when he le: was presided over by Louis Tt od it for along term for sever: Eragassa, president of the organ-/ million dollars. | His first marriage was in 1895 . Rita Hernandez de Alba pert in the discussion entered into| Acosta, daughter of a wealthy the! Cuban landed family, described by | Paul Heleu, the painter, as “the thoroughfare, and other matters; most nearly perfectly beautiful woman in the world.” They had one child, W, E. D. Stokes, Jr., and in 1900 she divorced him secretly, alleging ‘nfedility. oe = Later she became the fiancee of districts, gave Vare 529,044; Pep-| the Rev, Percy Stickney -Graut, per 413,504; Pinchot 253,206. | former rector of the Church $f the Although Vare said the returns| oe eg whe was torbiddew by ind cated his nomination, neither ighop Manning to.marry ‘her be- - cause she was divorced. of his opponents would concede In 101%, Stokes. married Miss defeat. Senator Pepper based his | Helen Elwood, Denver, Col. hopes on returns from districts| was 22 years old while the hotel outside ef the Vare strongholds| man gave his age as “over 45 years in Philadelphia. Gov. Pinchot was old.” Two children were born to silent. them. Vare attributed the vote given| Stokes, in 1910, began divorce him to the modification issue} Proceedings, alleging misconduct hich he: stressed. throughout the; >y his wife “with upward of ten | corespondents.” Mra. Stokes re plied with a. cross-bill charging “cruel and. inhuman treatment.” After two years’ litigation the court ruled that Mrs. Stokes had for discussion. ization, with all present taking 8 Ito relative to the widening of fn connection with the improve-| ment program outlined. ! His nomination and - election, | next November as United States enator, he said, would foree con-| deep concern about the welfare of his children. He was rational and talked intelligivly until about five minutes before he pass 's expected that the ohsequies be largely attended: for Sheriff Curry was popular with hosts of triends in this city and/ “him&elf; as. vietér in a ithe grand temple session to. Key ed away. He seemed to realize all along that death would soon come to him, and the future of Mrs. Julia Sweeting, who had been attending the grand lodge meeting of the Pyth'an. Sisters - held in Pensacola, has returned to the city, and reports havirig had a most enjoyable outing. Mrs. Sweeting will make ber report of West Temple No. 20 on Monday, night. NOTICE, K. OF P. All Knights of Pythias of Key West are requested to as- semble at the K. P. Hall on Fleming Street at 3:00 o'clock tomerrow for the purpose of at- tending the funeral of our de- ceased bi sr, Roland Curry. T. S CARO, District. Deputy. All members of the Anci of Freemasonry in the Vall moned to lay aside other duti Hall at 3:30 p. m., Thursday, of attending the fumeral of o1 Curry. Biue Ledge Masoms are i throughout the state who will learn with genuine sorfow of his sad and untimely demise. ATTENTION SCOTTISH RITE MASONS eat and Accepted Seottish Rite of Key West are hereby sum- ice and meet at the Scottish Rite May 20, 1926, for the purpose ur deceased Brother, Reland nvited to attend with us. By order of A. G. LUND, Lad deration of the prohibition is- the national Republican F By virtue of the office, he contended, he would be a dele- e at large to the 1928 Repub-| convention and in a position to present plank which the { the platform would be compelled to advocate pf modifica jon imws,, today by regarded |, enatorial | fight for the Republican nomina tion for United Stat On _ incomplete yesterday prifna’ leading Senator Gee Wharton Pepper, cupphrted by the forces if Scengtary of the Treasury Mel- ton by T1bS40 fate, “with Gifford -Pinchety’ hone’ dry candi date, third= * Returns from enatorial, from Vare wa ‘onal re ation concider seriously. hiladelphia gave Vare the vote which put him in the lead through out the state. Senator Pepper an first outside of the city. Pinchot’s heaviest vote the anthracite mining some of the industrial ections end a few of the agri enlture districts. r 6,968 of the'#.za1 ” on in counties, FOR GRADUATION NOTICE JUST RECEIVED TODAY HUYLERS-AND PAGE & See resident and visiting Masons SHAW’S. CANDIES are invited to attend the regular! : meeting of Dade Lodge No. 14 to} - be held this- evening at 6. Work! in E. A. Degree. i 3. J. TREVOR, Secretary. not been proved unfaithful, but that she did not deserve a divorce because she had written endearing letters to her husband during the period of the cruel treatment.” With difficulty Stokes obtained a retrial of the case. But before it began District Attorney Pecora disclosed that four witnesses had testified falsely in relation to Stokes’ charges that his wife had been seen in the apartment of Ed (Continued cn Page &) WOULD YOU Would you marry « man you had never seen? Put yourself in her place—this gorgeous girl suddenly called on to take such step. You'll be thrilled at the outcome. See “Soul Mates at the MONROE THEATRE TOMORROW