The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 29, 1926, Page 1

Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service VOLUME XLVII. No. 128 Mexican Bandits Release .. Two Of Americans Captured U. s. EMBASSY STILL STATUS OF SITUATION RELATIVE TO APPOINTMENT MADE FOR SHERIFF AWAITS WORD AS TO FATE OF THREE OTHERS HELD (By Associnted Press) MEXICO CITY, May 29.—The bandits in the Tampico region have released Messrs. Briggs and of Greely, American employees the’ British El Aguila Oil Com- pany, who were captured Thurs- day and held for ransom, but the fate of the three other Americans in the hands of outlaws in sev- eral other sectioris of the country was still uncertain today. The American embass is still, awaiting word as to the fat of John J. Shanklin, of Canyon, Texas; ©. C. Braden, of Laredo,| Texas, and a mining engineer named Gallagh Last reports said that the bandits in Vera Cruz who were holding Shanklin had threatened to kill. him Thursday night if a ransom of $20,000 was not paid In the absence of any reports to the embassy today regarding Shanklin, the belief prevailed that he has not been killed. Mrs. C. Braden, at Laredo, Texas, has received a message from B. F. Yost, consul’ at Torreon, denying re- ports that her husband had been hanged by the thumbs. Yost has sent his vice consul to Mapimi to negotiate with the ban- B. dits for the release of Braden and| Ayles B. Gallagher. The Briggs reported released: is| “believed by Mrs. V. W. Briggs, of Brownoville, Téxas, to be her hus-| band. ADOPT QUICK LUNCH IDEA LONDON BUSINESS MEN FALL IN LINE WITH AMERICAN CUSTOM (By Associated Press) LONDON. May 29. \business men are adopting the American quick lunch idea and are not eating as much as former- ly. Dr. W. J. Haworth, medical of- ficer of health for the city ‘of London, cofmmenting in his annual report on the reduction of the number of “the more expensive and luxurious city restaurants” says: “The heavy meal of former days is being replaced—tI am re- ferring the successful men in the higher administrative ranks— by a lighter meal occupying not a quarter of the time and as was the custom in years gone by, when lunch was a sort of a mid- day feast. “The increase the type of cheaper restaurants has certainly benefitted a large num ber of people, who take a sand- wich and milk, tea coffee at the noon hour.” vondon in newer DELINQUENT TAX LIST The county delinquent tax list appears in today's issue of The Citizen makes almost list three newspaper page the names, a tion of prop 8, containing nt, and descrip ertised for y tax collector. rty taxes by the coun Peeereeecersscvccveboees AMUSEMENTS Seeeerrecesesecevesecoes MONROE THEATRE TODAY The Vani hing Am TOMC STRAND THEATRE Jack H United States! vam ie The Key West Citen } 1 | } | | ‘WORKING TOWARD COMPLETION OF SPANISH TRAL | | STATE ROAD NO 1 CAN NOW | BE COVERED IN COURSE OF | TWELVE HOURS, IT IS AN- NOUNCED State Road No. 1, the Old Spanish | Trail, is so well advanced toward jcompletion between Jacksonville jand Pensacola that the run of | Florida An State at- cording to the Chamber of Commerce. |trip from Pensacola to Jackson- ville this week, driving at night, made the run from \landing at Mulat, to Jacksonville in eleven hours and ten minutes with one hour and eleven minutes |devoted to stops along the route. |His running time was 9 hours 59 minutes for the 373 miles. The ferry trip across Escambia Bay requires about fifty minutes while the distance from the ferry Jand- |ing to Pensacola is nine miles. | The Trail has been completed from Jaeksonville to Tallahassee, |177.miles, and engineers now are setting .stakes at various points | preparatory to hardsurfaeing the |vand clay road. Construction is in |progress between Tallahassee and |Quiney. The present road is in | points. West of Quincy the twenty miles \to Chattahoochee has been com- | pleted for the most part while the |final surface is being applied else- jwhere. West of | the old road is being used to Bevis |Mill but it is in excellent condi- tion since Jackson County is keep- |ing a road erew busy upon it. The leompleted Trail is encountered at Bevis Mill and from that point all the way to Chipley, through Marianna and Cottondale the mo- torist has a perfect highway. From Chipley to Caryville the old road is in fair condition but extremely rough in spots. Construction of the new highway is proceeding east of Caryville toward Chipley along a different route. West of Caryville the Trail for a distance of nearly forty miles, through Ponce de Leon and DeFuniak Springs, to the Okaloosa line, has been completed. struction through Okaloosa is in progress, and with completion of the remaining few miles the road will have been virtually finished all the to the ferry landing at Mulat, In the 378 miles between Jack- sonville and Mulat there is not one foot of the road that cannot be negotiated in high gear and the only stretch that the most par ticular driver could call “bad road” three mile section near the Okaloosa-Walton county line where one b the choice of run. ning through deep cand or of pull ing through the new roadbed which has not yet been surfaced. Automobile ‘And Street Bus Collide Today On Fleming Street of the leeked horns with this One street busses an Oldsmobile morning, at the corner of @ and Rahama stree’ < seems to have gotten battle. The car E. McCo; Insurance fend at the time of the ¢ ereii ng drive A. Barr Tt i th Chattahogchee | | | The situation existing here in| connection with the office of} sheriff of Monroe county is the subject of wide discussion and has} |brought forth the expression of | | many opinions relative to the time | the sheriff appointed by the gov-| / ernor to fill the vacancy caused by | | the death of Sheriff Curry will bel jentitled to hold the office. | The Revised Statutes of 1920,| |Section 399, under the caption | “Filling Vacaneies,” says: “In all | such cases and in all other cases in | e | | | office be a State, district or county | office (other than a member of the jlegislature) it shall be the duty of | the governor to fill such office by| | appointment, and the person so} shall be filled by an election as | provided by law * * * ” | The law on the question is given | of Florida, page 32, | | Section 6: “The term of office | for all appointees to fill vacancy | Constitution shall extend only to! | the election and qualification of a | Successor at the ensuing general! | election.” | Section 7: “In all cases of elec- | | tions to fill vacancies in office such | jelection shall be for the unexpired | term.” ‘ | So under the statutes and the | constitution of the state, it appears, | that the appointee for sheriff of | Monroe county, unless elected in j the primary and general election, | call only hold the office until Jan- | uary, 1927, when the sheriff-elect | {will be inducted into office along | with the other county candidates | | elected to office in the primary and} | general elections. | Quite a number of people con-| | the late Sheriff Curry had expired. | | This position, it seems, is not | borne out by the Constitution and | Statutes of Florida. | | In response to numerous re- | quests, The Citizen has looked up | the law on the matter and is pub- lishing it for the information of | the public. ‘KEY LARGOANS TO CONFER ON WATER SUPPLY COMMITTEE OF PROPERTY OWNERS COMING TO KEY WEST TO MEET WITH CAPTAIN STEARNS county | Con-| Capt. Clark D. Stearns, presi- dent of the board of trustees for the Monroe water supply district, is in receipt of a telegram today informing the trustees that a com- mittee consisting of five of the principal property owners on Key Largo will arrive in the city during y tomorrow to be present morning for the purpose of spending the day with the water trustees, discussing the plans, prospects and propositions for the proposed pipe line from the main- land to Key West. The committee was appcinted at the joint meeting held in Miami on Wednesday evening of this week, the same night ‘on: which the com- bined meeting was held at the court house here. Their coming here is an unmis takabie indication that the people up their way are intensely inter- ested in the vitally important mat- ter of getting a fresh water sup- ply, and that they are ready to ex- tend every aid in the quickest, most practical and economical way MASONIC NOTICE special communication of RING, POLLLLLCAZLLL| KEY WEST, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1926. MELLON-BRUCE NUPTIALS BIG EVENT OF TODAY WASHINGTON’S BRILLIANT SOCIAL EVENT ATTENDED | BY MANY DISTINGUISHED PERSONAGES ¢ (Ry Associnted Press) WASHINGTON, May 29.—The wedding of Miss Ailsa Mellon, daughter of the secretary of the| to David Kirkpatrick Bruce, son of the Democra‘ treasury, atur from Maryland, provided the capitol’s social elect today with| the season’s most brilliant event of | the kind. comparable only to the whi house wedding in 1905 of Alice Roosevelt to Nicholas Longworth. With Miss Cragie McKay, of JACKSONVILLE, May 29.—| Which @ vacancy may occur if the | pittsburgh, as maid of honor, and James Bruce, of Baltimore, broth- er of the bridegroom, as best man, for high noon in the small Bethlehem chapel the ceremony was set nearly 400 miles can now be made | appointed shall be entitled to take|of the Cathedral of Saints Peter comfortably in twelve hours ac-| 4nd hold such office until the same |and Paul. The Episcopal ma z service was in charge of Bishop J. E. Freeman and Dr. Hugh Birk- |tache of the Chamber, in a motor} in Sections 6 and 7, Constitution | head of Baltimore. President and Mrs. Coolidge and other high government officials were among the two hundred to the ferry|in any elective offices under this| witness the wedding. FLORIDA WILL ~ CHALLENGE NEW FEDERAL POLICY PROPOSES FILING INJUNC- TION AGAINST MELLON CHARGING DISCRIMINATION, AGAINST STATE: ; (Dy Ansocinted Dressy WASHINGTON, May challenge the new federal policy of remitting to states which have such levies a part of the inheri- tance taxes imposed by the new federal revenue act. : Attorney General Johnson, un- der instructions of Governor Mar- tin, notified the court that he would ask, probably next Tuesday, for permission to file an injunction against Secretary Mellon, charging unconstitutional _—_ discrimination against Florida as well as against Alabama and Nevada, which also have no state inheritance levies. A number of citizens of Florida have decided since the federal act passed, the petition asserts, leav- ing estates subject to taxation un- der the federal law. The effect will be to take several million dol lars out of the state each year, Florida argues, thus inishing material sources which it could use in raising revenue. The federal law is described by Florida as an invasion of its tsovereign rights and an effort upon the part of congress to coerce the state into imposing estate or in- heritance taxes. PONZI, FINANCIAL WIZARD, TO RECEIVE SENTENCE TODAY (Dy Associated Press) BOSTON, May 29.—Charles Ponzi, one time financial wizard, has been ordered to appear in Suffolk superior court next Tues. day for sentence. The supreme yesterday overruled his exceptions to a sen- tence of seven to nine years for larceny. court Many regarded it as| 29.—} such condition as to require at|tend that the appointee, in this| Florida, which has no state inheri- least one hour for the twenty-|¢ase, would be entitled to hold the| tance tax, formally gave notice in eight mile run between these two) office until the four-ycgr term of| the supreme court that she would Blue Grass } When the little city of King City, | Mo., holds its unique Blue Grass Seed Festival on June 3, Miss Ruth Pul- @ teacher, will be queen of the proceedings. Gentry county, of which King City is county seat, markets more blue grass seed than any other country in the nation. REFUSES TO. GRANT LOWER SUGAR RATES | INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM- MISSION DENIES APPLICA- | | TION OF FLORIDA EAST COAST RAILWAY CO. i} | i (Ry Assovinted Press) | WASHINGTON, May 29.—The Interstate Commerce |has:denied the application of the | Florida East, Gonst railway for- an: Commission on Cuban imported sugar from |Key West to Jacksonville than to | intermediate points. The application was for a rate of 25 cents a hundred pounds sub- ject to minimum weight of 40,900 ' pounds. : The that actual competition with water commission found ‘Tne: ville direct does not exist and that it was not shewn that competition Feith wetinedcignn shipped to Jack from Port the establishment Wentworth of sonville warranted the rate. ee . . NEW APPOINTMENTS Mayor Leslie A. Curry has * appointed Harold (Jakie) Key * |* as captain of the night police and Robert Carey as call of- * ficer, according to informa- * tion g.ven out at the office of * the chief of police this after- * noon This leaves the appointment of a police officer to take the place made vacant by the pro- motion of Harold K t to be made Sheriff ting thi +t Niles is today get- in shape for. his * s chief of police to be * and turned uccessor, Chief Ivan El * d ook audite his over to At the same proce Sheriff Ni pects things will be in * for him to take charge sheriff's office by Tues next week. sher hape f the * of SMM ORME L EME L LLL DINNER AT Country Club Tonight Club House Newly Screened No Mosquitoes to Bother MUSIC BY KEY WEST COUNTRY CLUB ORCHESTRA VLAAbAbAAAbtbetettttéis b DANCE THE b € z . N & N = ority to cstablish a lower rate! tween Cuba and Jackson-} » up to date, she says, « 00 foundation in fact ~ facts are CORONER’S JURY IS EM-| a Miss Mexico PANELLED TO MAKE! | INVESTIGATION FOL- | Ralph C. Morine, who it is al- |leged was shot five times by E. R. | Bodine, pumpman at the F. E. C. jpump at Cudjoe, on Cudjoe Key last Thursday morning at 9 o'clock, died at 5 o’clock this morning at Dr. Lowe's hospital in this city. The dead man was 34 years old and is understood to have a wife lin this city. His home is in Genoa, Colorado, where his fath- er, Jake Morine, and his ster, Blanche Morine, are understood to be living at the present time. | The body was turned over to G. |Frank Sawyer of the Lopez un- dertaking parlors, and will be held pending instructions from his relatives. Justice of the Peace Rogelio Gomez empanelled a coroner's jury this morning, and after view- ing the body adjournment was taken until Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, as it is necessary to examine as witnesses members of a freight crew who happened see the shooting while their train stood at the Cudjoe station. A |negro who is one of the most material of the eye witness to ‘the tragedy, cannot be found, and his evidence is very much desired by the jury making the investiga- tie jet: to interview with a Citizen repre- sentative this forenoon, said her husband's full name is Earl Ran- som Bodine, and that his age 37 years. He has aged parents living at Bloomingdale, Michigan. She does not want the news to get to Bodine’s mother, who has jheart trouble, for she fears the shock would be too great for her. Mrs. Bodine says she and her husband have been married 19 years. They have no children, she says, apd have been residing in Whiting, Indiana, until coming to Florida some time ago. They had been at Cudjoe Key just one month. Her husband, she says, belongs to the Odd Fellows and Knights of Pythias, with member ship at Whiting, Indiana. Remit tances have been made for dues though ceipts for the last payments, just recently made, have not yet been received. Mrs. Bodine will main in Key West to be near her husband, if she ean find an ork to do. She was in tears during her interview th The representat've, and pathy was expressed for her says she re Citizen much sym " those present in the sheriff's of fice. “My husband has never been in eny kind of trowble before,” told the people present There are a number of rum concerning circumstances that lead up to the fatal tragedy, but | The eing withheld until th actual evidence is made a matter eeeveneeecsccees THE WEATHER Se eeeoresesecerscsesoeees Stations Tem. 64 64 Abilene (cloudy) Atlanta (cloudy) Roston (clear) Charleston Chicago ( felegr) 64 clear) Corpus Christi Dodge City tele Huron (clear) Jacksonville (cloudy KEY WEST (clear) T ¥ he wife of the man who is! charged with the shooting, in an) Varia Bsther Purrev, 20. ts Mexico's prettiest girl, and as such ts repre paenting her country in en interna tonal beauty pageant tn Galveston. Tex. She lives at Pachuca, Hidalgo. the central part of Mexico. and was chosen in competition with senuritas from every province. FORMER KEY WESTERS MAKE TRIP 10 CITY MR. AND MRS. HOMER SWEET- ING AND PARTY ARRIVE ON YACHT BOAT FROM miami | WITH GUESTS Sweeting, of Miami, former Key Westers, and Mrs. Homer are in the city aboard the yacht} Sal Fran, visiting relatives for a few days. ftrs. Homer Sweeting is visiting her mother, Mrs. Mary Thompson, on Margaret street, and | her sister, Mrs. Sam Pinder, on Eaton The; cruise ve as their guests on the and Mrs Mr Sealy Sweet- little Sealy Robt. and Mrs and their ing, Jr., ing son, " and Mrs. all of Miami, and ters. All the Mrs here. ecting isiting her B. D. Jenks, Mrs. sbaum, Mrs, Mamie Adams, Perpall and two Theodore and Milton Nellie ruising down this way when anchored for ening, little Sealy erboald and came The party Ex liami, wned pper wh ream, itement rar thought han heft Sal Fran, and held on to thi " child it All the harge of i dur For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS KIRCHHEINER IN CONFERENCE WITH STATE ROAD DEPARTMENT | Man Shot At Cudjoe Key | Dies Here This Morning ‘CHAIRMAN OF COUNTY | BOARD CALLED TO JACKSONVILLE RELA- | TIVE TO PROJECT J. Otto Kirchheiner, ch: ir- man of the board of county commissioners, is in Jacks«n- ville, having been called there by a telegram from Dr. Fons of the state road department, Hathaway, chairmen who expressed a desire to hold a Mr. Kirch- Redd, man of the Dade county com- conference with heiner and Mr. chair- missioners in Tallahassee. It very likely that the head of the is considered as state road department has ce- cided to reopen the Tamiami Trail proposition, and if such is the case, this conference in Tallahassee will be a meeting of tremendous importance to Monroe and Dade counties, LIQUOR SOLD — _ ON VESSEL TO WASHINGTON FOR INSTRUCTIONS | | | | \ | (By Associated Press) | LOS ANGELES, May 29.—Tihs, | Los Angeles Times says that liquor has been sold to visitors aboard the cruiser Hamburg, Ger | first war craft to visit the Paci coast since 1914, The newspaper describes W. W. Anderson, assistant prohibition ad- ministrator in this district, ‘as re- luctantly admitting that federal operatives boarded the vessel two days ago at San Pedro and obtain- | ed evidence in the form of bottled | beer that tested 4.8 and 4.6 per | cent. Facts in the case haye been “forwarded to Washingtow for in- structions,” while the beer’ has deen locked in the federal vaults here. “Our men had no taining the beer,” Anderson i quoted 2s having said. “Their only | difficulty was to evade the mob | that swarmed about the ship’s can ,{ teen, and to find an officer j would sell to them. This | did, paying $1 a bottle.” |SEVERAL INJURED IN TRAIN WRECK hy As ORLANDO, May |ing to a report received at th cal Atlantic Coast Line ¢ trouble who they |northbound passenger train nu jber 82 split a switch at Lake Alfred |shortly before noon today and in jured several passengers The train at 1 o'clock was due in Orlando RENOVATING HOME Mrs. Frank Hayes is ha interior of her residence corner of Eaton and Villiom treats, completely renovated, with several other improvements added to the home, which adds wonder fully to the appearance of the place. ng the THE INDIAN The story of the red man in his latest stand ag: t civilization, is “The Vanishing American With a cast of 10,000 Indians, “The Vanishing American” is one of the greatest pictures of the year MONROE THEATRE TODAY en and