The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 25, 1926, Page 1

Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service VOLUME XLVII. No. 124 Youngsters Take Seats Of Authority CITY OFFICIALS CO-OP- ERATE IN ACTIVITIES IN OBSERVANCE OF MANY EVENTS Today Key West had quite a shake up in its public officials. The boys of Monroe County High School are in the seats of author- ity. Last weck the student body elected a mayor, police justice, fire chief and police chief. This morning at the High School audi- torium, City Auditor Chas, H. J. Roberts, acting for City Clerk Wallace Pinder, administered the oath of office to the newly elected officials and to the appointees of the mayor. The boy officials for the day are Mayor Carl Nelson, Police Justice Kermit Baker, Fire Chief Floyd Roberts and Police Chief Earl Yates. The mayor appointed the following: Policemen Gilbert Thompson, Neil Knowles and Wm. Johnson; Jailer John Archer, and Sanitary Inspector Joe Cleare. The city officials have given splendid co-operation to the Ro- tary Club in carrying out tht Boys’ Day in Government. During the day Fire Chief Ralph Pinder personally explained the work pf his department to the newly in- stalled chief, Floyd Roberts. Po- lice Chief Cleveland Niles took Earl Yates under his care and aid- ed him in policing the city, the boy patrolmen working side by side with the policemen on duty. Mayor Leslie Curry took per- sonal charge of Carl Nelson, and together they ran the city in fine shape. Police Justice T. S. Caro sat side by side with Kermit Baker on bench at-theyaftesno’m session “Police Court, anid gave the new judge the benefit of his experience in handing out the lectures and the sentences who were haled before the court by Police Chief Yates and his brother officers. At the chapel exercises of the school during the remainder of the week the boy officials will report their observations to the student body. Boys Assemble This morning 10 o'clock the boys of the Harris, Division and County High Schools assembled at | the High School after seeing their representatives publicly e the oath of office to guide the destinies of the city for the day, listened to three talks on government. Frank H. auditorium, and add, having served two terms Mayor of the city, was the Rotarian -selected to ex- plain the intricacies of city gov- ernment to the b Judge J. Vining Harris talked on the subject of county govern- ment. Senator Wm. H. Malone con- cluded the program by talking! about state government. Daring meeti “Americ ed Banner.” This is the second annual Boys’ Week of the Key West Rotary Club, and from t nterest shown by the boys the exercises and ac- tivities will be a fixed feature of Key West for years to come. the g ng ng the boys and the SUSPECTS IN HOLD- UPS ARE TAKEN IN amy A TAMPA, (“Wild Bi” Tom Coste! ef hold-up killing of brought William Henderson and suspects in a series here involving the a cafe proprietor, were to Hillsborough county jail early Per cal 5 arrested Ic in ver to lo TO THE PUBLIC I dee ret that my offer te Mr land Curry ferent f ply reg R was in my finance it feel feeling BY t, verybody ix en in this Curry CLEVELAND. NILES to the wayward ones} In Boys’ Week ‘SAILOR BURIED IN MAINE PLOT FUNERAL CONDUCTED THIS AFTERNOON FROM LOPEZ CHAPEL \ Jose Romerro, water tender second class, U. S. N., off the U. S. S. Hannibal, who was drowned here early Saturday morning when he fell overboard from govern- ment barge No. 66, was buried this afternoon. at 3 o'clock in the Maine plot at the city cemetery, under orders received from the navy department at Washington yesterday afternoon. The funeral was from the Lopez chapel to the grave, the service being conducted by George Crit- tenton, of St. Paul’s Episcopal church. The yoyng sailor was given a full military funeral, which was well attended by uni- formed men and a number of civilians. The instructions from the navy department contained no infor- mation as to the young man’s rela- tives, and it is not known here whether they were ever located. Builder of Trumbo Island Makes Stop Here Last Evening Howard Trumbo, builder of Trambo Island at the F. E. C. terminals in Key West, passed through the city last evening from Havana en route to’New York. Mr. Trumbo. has “miny warm friends in this city and enjoyed a hearty hand-shake with a number of them during his short stay in the city last night. Mr. Trumbo is engaged in the manganeze ore mining business in Cuba, but he says Key West will always be near to his heart and that he is highly pleased to note the remarkable progress the city is making in all lines, PLAN CONFERENCE WITH GOVERNOR pottited Preas) TALL AHASSED, May 25.— | Sheriff Elam Weeks, of Clay coun- ty, and State’s Attorney Charles |M, Durrance will confer with Gov. | Martin tomorrow regarding the | promotion of dog races in Clay county, it was stated at the ex- Jecutive office today. The conference will be held at |the request of the governor, who it was stated, acted upon a tele- gram received Sunday from the state’s attorney. The governor, it was explained, jis anxious to obtain first-hand in- |formation about the sport in Clay |county, and particularly with re gard of alleged gambling, which! were scheduled to be considered today by the county grand jury. ‘STUDENTS STAGE WILD CELEBRATION | Acneciateg Presa) Mich, May Seven students of Mich College spent last night in jail] here, a number of students and policemen are nursing bruises and | cuts and an immense strip of | wooden bleachers at the athletic field at the college at East Lan- | sing, three miles from here, are | burned as a result of a student! celebration of a baseball victory | last night. | (ny 2 an State| Michigan state defeated Mich igan big ten baseball champions, 8 to 5, the first victory of the col lege the University in base ball in eleven years After the victory student came to Lansing and shortly after dark started a huge bonfire in the square opposite the pushed the milling mas students and policemen down street toward the and there over the tion police of the sta even « lead ers were placed in jail erssece ER USEMENTS Seeeeececesescseesessoee MONROE THEATRE TODA Y¥ — “The Crime.” : TOMORROW Dancer.” Comedy, _Splendid “The Mad “Hot Heels.” |terdzy afternoon at the home of }menced to fail. EVENT TO BE | be rendered on the MRS. S. ALBURY PASSES AWAY AT HOME HERE FUNERAL SERVICES TO BE CONDUCTED THIS AFTER- NOON AT FIRST CONGREGA- TIONAL CHURCH Mrs. Sarah Sophia Albury, an aged and most estimable woman of this city, passed away late yes- her daughter, Mrs. B. A. Baker, 920) Fleming street. She had at- tained the age of 82 years and caine to this city from the Baha-| mas 40 years ago. | The funeral will be this after- noun at 4:30 o'clock, from the} sidence to the Congregational | chureh, Rev. A. F. Eldridge, the/| Congregational minister, will of-| ficiate. Men who have long been members of the Congregational] church are being selected to act as pall bearers, and it is expected that the service will be largely | _ attended, for there have been few women more widely known and more highly esteemed in this city. The deceased had been a widow 20 years. She is survived by three daughters and two sons: Mrs. W: W. Demeritt, Mrs. B. A. Baker, Mrs. E. E. Ingraham; Wil- liam A. Albury, all of Key West, and R. G. Albury, of Tampa. Sur-| viving are also 18 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Mrs. Albury was one of the pillars of the local church of the Congregational denomination, and | was a zealous worker for good} along all lines. Intellectually she | had.few equals, and she was an| admirable example of energy and| thrift. Members of her family would gladly. have ‘furnished her] every necessity, comfort and luxury of life, but she took pleasurable pride in being self supporting, Her needlework was known throughout the country, and she received frequent orders from cities of the far north and extreme west. She always had ample funds for herself and money to purchase little presents for her grandchildren every time they came to see her, all from the earn- ings of her never-tiring needle in jturning out different designs of |efore Judge fancy work that were in demand MAY ASKCASE The Key West Citisen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1926. Memorial to Elks’ War Dead This $3.000.000. building. @ memoria) te the more than 1000 members of the Order of Elks who gave thelr Hives during the World War. will be dedicated with impressivé ceremonieg on July 14 It is located in Cht : eago® south side park district MAN POSING AS BARON ACCUSED — OF MARRYING SCORES OF WOMEN; SWINDLES MANY OUT OF JEWELRY (Ry Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA, May Accused having married BE CONTINUED - them ou tr and swindled of 0 core or more wor more than | Whitman, | Broc ok, was being held without bail) y valued at 200,000, Robert! Baron Beaver) AUBREY LEE APPEAR BEFORE CIR- CUIT COURT NICKLES TO jtoday. after a pursuit of sev- rags the continent and (My Asaselated Press) SANFORD, May Lee Nickels, who has fed trial, eH “ovaiting k a5 on the K of 000 in 1925. specific charge is that R Francis Camp, , out of $69,000 in on several occasions during past few years on a charge of at- tacking a young white woman of | Another i he swindle oan, of this cit new trial and a change of venue! ;, to Wallace Wright circuit court at Sanford tomorrow ith a girl and who has secured a} to Seminole county, is appe: Whitman barber stopping sted in the a hop of a hotel, where he com- the country over. Some few months ago Mrs. bury was made lame Tl seemed to crush her spirits} somewhat, and her health com She had money deposited especially to defray her| funeral expenses, had a shroud | made of her own selection, and| had selected two of her most in | e friends to dress her for! burial. | She will be greatly missed in| the church, the community the home. Al- by a fall.| and | | | SCOUT TROOP PLANS SOCIAL GIVEN AT HOME OF MRS. MIL- LIGAN Troop 3, Girl Scou leadership of Mrs. Archer, will give Wednesday evening, b 7:30 0 "clock Milligan, 315 Fleming street. Re freshments will be and an enjoyable evening's entertainment is promised all who attend. The following is the program t will under the F, ‘ocial ginning at erved occasi > Johnson Piano Duet belle Hill. Saxophone and Kin Clog Re Da Duet—Cyril il Curti Ellis Bradley ding Roberts. € nia Hansen. , Jayne Lewis. Violin Se ign—Will Roberts. MORO OUTLAWS DEMOLISH FORTS Reading — and ber ¢ {til |INTER-CITY MEET jh the home of Mrs. | « morning, at which time it is } rk detectives said |thought that his attorneys will a a to follow b fora continuance of the nd lavish tips another term of court. | hard to A. B. Wilinson, 1 1 attor- | 6% n appeat before Judge clined to te!l much about Wright this morning and asked himself, a. that he had jthat the setting of the case be de- and daughter on the operatic ferred until counsel for Nickel and did not wish to injure could get here. The y had be- ease ur hotel attaches, but red serting a hor'ties, ord of hi release from detectives swindle women in St. Louis, Sin OF ROTARIANS AT QUITMAN, GA. (Ry Axsociated Presse) TALLAHASSEE, t 200 rath Ga., to attend and’ deserted York, Chi- Minneapolis, Buf other al cities, i. The married, w Franci and Arreste co d in seve aid to have alway 1 their wive l sede ed cash bail man, 7 51 years club ear attendar lorida the assee old. for F s of I s Lacy F. Lewis Dies On May 16 At Home In Lynwood, Va. lu wer Thoms tunt ue ditt presenting beautifal PL Om battlh presentin, with each ¢ Luey ented by burlesq between and “unethi featured the ev MANY KILLED IN TRAIN ACCIDENT Associated Press) 1e busine Marine for a number Lewi Paul where (By MUNICH, Twenty-fo and r enger the ur Scomt IS RTE MASONS: HW will 10, Lod ning, May summe are ay reby G: LUND, V. XM. g fleeced | diamonds and then disappear- For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS DARING PRISON BREAK RESULTS IN AILLING OF FOUR CONVICTS MOTHER OF R.F. ENTERTAINMENT SPOTTSWOOD DIES 70 BEREPEATED IN JACKSONVILLE AT HIGH SCHOOL AT ARKANSAS FARM FUNERAL SERVICES TO ab |TOM THUMB.- JENNIE JUNE | PINEBLUFF, Ark., May 25.— CONDUCTED aaron | WEDDING TAKES PLACE ON} The bodies of four convicts today WIDOW CF LATE J. G.! EVENING in| Were the mute reminders of the | | boldest prison break ever recorded SPOTTSWOOD | | | | | | | | | ;|GUARDS OPEN FIRE ON PRISONERS WHO MAKE ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE | | | | THURSDAY AUDITORIUM at the Arkansas State Farm at Tucker, about 35 miles from here. | Benny Casey, believed to be the \leader of the quartet, attempting to escape, has the back of his head blown off and his face badly muti- Robert F. Spottswood left for Jacksonville last night on receipt of a telegram announcing the sud- Starting promptly at 7:45, the} little ceremony will be performed, den death of his mother at her|*fter which will be given a very home in that city yesterday after-| Short, but very special program. lated noon. The primary class, consisting of | AoE : ‘ Mrs. Spotswood is leaving this) about 78 girls ranging in age from| JO" Birchield has four wounds afternoon and will arrive in Jack-| two to seven years and 20 boys of | i his body, inflicted by a pistol sonville in time for the fune sin aes ace faithfully. prac bullet. vhie’ wi me ages, y .. | which will be held from the family | fee if pales pipe William: © Bishbo,© sila Jabk home at 4 o’clock tomorrow after-| ticed three times each week for the Walle ob Contos eas noon in Riverside, a suburb of| past six weeks. in order to show to| "84@, of Crawford county,, Ar- Jacksonville. the public, what the little people kansas, has his head badly muti- Mrs. Spottswood-was the widow] of Lee Memorial Sunday School | lated. | of the late J. G. Spottswood, for} ean do. Boyed Jewell, of Chicago. the way ae eoete Lila Haris has been the! fourth man, has his head almost va ay, wi led abo wo years teacher for several years, | _.. Ms leone sof this Tom Thumt, | Severed from his body. | _ No details of the death of Mrs. yedding is largely due to her gen-| The men endeavored to escape i wood were given in the tele jtle, but firm control over these| from two trusty guards at | little children. She has only toj farm and were shot and fatally phic communications, except that she dropped dead at her home| }look at se tots in her swe et! wounded by the guards soon after at 3 o’clock yesterday afternoon. | gracious vay, and almost as bY! the attempted escape. : | Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Spotts-| magic, the chatter of little-voices| Warden Deo Horton, of. the wood will return to this city after! js st Hed and all is quiet and °r-|farm, over long distance tele- derly. | phone, last night, would not reveal altending the, funeral. | the names of the guards who did ‘MANY VICTIMS the shooting. He declared he had changed his belief that other con- | victs were implicated in the shoot- LIST OF CASUALTIES IMPROVEMENT BILL SIGNED a it was learned late iast the | | night, hax @ mottier in a Chicago | MEASURE PROVIDES REPAIRS| ‘formatory. She was sentenced to a term of 18 months for send- TO MANY FEDERAL | ing dynamite through the mails to BUILDINGS | AT | her son. Casey's death avenged the slay- ing of David W. Burns, record clerk at the Kansas State Prison. (Ry Axwocinted Press) | Casey killed Burns on a train near ASHINGTON, May 25.—The| Alicia early last year, after Burns $165,000,000 public buildings bill| had gone to Texarkana to return under what is planned to build and | him to the state prison in Kansas, | Jewell was sentenced to life on sin many | ine ¢, sed we sas was signed today by Presi (By Axssocinted Press) MUNICH, Ma Munigh’s | fire ‘brigades and first aid organi-] gations toiled all night extricating | the victims of the wreck in the east station, where a passeng train crashed into a standing train. | The latest official report ezrly| this afternoon stated that 25 per- The ons were killed and 83 injured,| THe bill many of them badly. The injur r federal buildings arm for bank robbery. The shooting occurred four o'clock yesterday afternoon. The four convicts were working with others about a mile from the prison camp in a cotton ficld. The temperature was around the 95 pogtee mark and they declared ey were sick, | _ Two trusties, one on foot and | the other riding a horse, placed over the men. When in a small neck of woods about half a mile from the farm camp, the men made their break. The -trusties emptied the magazine of auto- les, age 82| matic shot guns and pistols, undey evening Because of the fact that it late home, 524) 4 record for slaying in this county buried at 4:30! within 48 hours, Pinebluff at first fol- | Was moved by the tragedy, but late : the | last night settled back into the oduct : .|Fleming street list church, | USt@l civic interests. Coming in a pastor, Rev.|the wake of the slaying Sunday He had: Seen we ing of Deput iff Brian “ars and| Vick. of this city, and the eda eee ii layer soon after, it daughters, | ‘B° ge TS f “4 Resume Work On Daval Street White Way; City To Complete Project citi about dent Coolidge. does not stipulate where the money is to be spent, but con- ed received first aid near the sceng a stipulation that each allot- of the collision. j ment must be approved by con- : he engiiesk hatiaeeen cay before it can be paid out of | ¢ train says he had no warning of | treasury. the train in front of him, but rail- roz s declare the nig} nals were properly set. Frohibition Cases Are Transferred To Federal Court For Hearing * tains of fare the Funeral Services Are Held Here On Monday For Theos. P. Knowles, Diao P. Kno ho died nt his treet, were Grinnell es of Keec ami prohit d Givhans, ers, {o'cl esterday ernoon, which with th originated funeral at 5 us raids ¢ offic in thi ome t ferred to federal and will ed at th Thome ~ in Ke had followed the ’ leaves three ten grandchildren creat-grondchildren © of “tonr« MANY ARE HELD IN States mar LYNCHING CASE «my lated & val strect white ¥ f Flor FORT MYERS, May 25,-—/this morning, with every , . Seventeen being held in that there will be no jet up in the adia in con-, Work until the neching of The ci and the for fi have been tran killin: ling upaet West 7 life court, next y ession held in a A habea 1 per Ann the “) two case urt ¢ ail here job is completed. y has taken were prepared and The papers ; is f the job, pay the work NO CHANGE IN MOROCCAN SITUATION « Moreno the morning the try men, id without bond. nga started he men have CROOK COMEDY William de Mill has and produced the cleverest crook comedy. written REVOKE LICENSE OF DELAND REALTOR " screen's A ro- raffles. es mystery, melodrama mirth, speedy action and good acting. For a splendid time see “A Splendid Crime” at the MONROE THEATRE TODAY of a female Associated Preaa) The regi occupa icate and estate op- ed today in Judge John Pea- ty court. farms rder issued by usia cou