The Key West Citizen Newspaper, June 8, 1926, Page 1

The Key West Ctisen KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1926. A Wonderful Church and No Congregation Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service For at Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West eRe, PRICE FIVE CEN TS U. § Army O al Inspects Eqipmen’ At Ibal Reservation ——_ VOLUME XLVII. No. 136 Motorcades Over Florida During Vacation Period | Suggested By State Body | crear pevevoraent = ROMIE DILLON PRACTICALLY ALL SEC-| DIES SUDDENLY | TIONS IS REPORT HERE LAST NIGHT JACKSONVILLE, June 8.—The | ( suggestion of the Florida State FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS TO Chamber of Commerce that Flor-! BE ANNOUNCED LATER; idiane with only.a brief period ar} RESULTS ; FROM ACUTE INDIGESTION i | | \w. L. TAYLOR OF SIGNAL CORPS DISPATCHED TO KEY WEST BY WAR DEPARTMENT —_— | | ELECTION|ASS ict | ES OFF IN/GF matcH wi QUIET MNER WITH 2,074' BALLOTSAST UP TO 3) O'CLOC: ILL PUT HEON | FOLLowinG 1 | BE GIVEN a UR Electrical Inspector w. L. Taylor, signal corps u. S. Ay is in Key West today mating the annual electrical inspec- their disposal for vacation this! summer spend the time motoring | about the state*to aequaint them-| selves with the progress of its! development has struck a respon- sive chord from Pensacola to Key; Romie Dilice; aaesas wares well as |known fisherman of this port, The Vero Beach Press, com-| menting editevially upon the pro-|died suddenly last night about 12 o'clock from an attack of acute; posal, declares that “the idea that| indigestion. He was rooming at Florida doesn’t amount to much) outside of their own sections is 3 the corner of Simonton and Front} streets and was taken severely ill} still held by too many Floridians.’’| “Nothing is more effective in| dispelling this notion that a mo-! at his home. It is believed that he was trying to make his way tol FIRE DRILL AT the nightwatehman at Curry’s| CONV SCHOOL ‘DEATH A cool, cl lushered in bright morning} hregular n | annchev. Cipill be hel “tion for the War Department. joonday es t. Tay- f the locay at new and handsbesrst time i ‘epuntry | Cfbuilding at 12:30 o'eft | Thday, when each Rotarian wil} | becompanied by his wift, his sjtheart or a friend. fter the luncheon there will be ajlf match in which all the Ro- thns and their guests will be jited to participa. It will be troke contest Sf nine holes, fo prizes will bj given, one for winning Rotaian and another the successtl guest. The dges of the folf game will be ac Gwynn, C/arles Muldrow and [liftord Hicks; During th/ afternoon, any of the ladies qsiring to enjoy card games will {nd an ample number of dainty ybles awaiting them. Mrs. Nwman, of the Country | Club, wi donate the prizes, and 2S: am He is inspecting the F lor and Martello Towers - d will return to he has |for the elec that is going on| A magnificent $300,000 church is just being finished at Letoy, Tl., which will have.no con- gregation at all when its doors are thrown open. One J. T. Cruimbaugh, rich land owner, who died #1905, left a $300,000 tract of land to build and support a Spiritualist church, and his will was recently sustained by the supreme court after extended litigation. There is not a Spiritualist with- in miles of the church now, but the edifice has been built in accordance with the will. | today. The polls stallation, an Washington when finished. In the towers on the beak back of the Martello, Tefers deyflopment lights inches ed at & o'clock. \Crowds soonjhered abut the \voting placesd ballotin start-| <clip. lis be- ill be \polled, as ththas been tice-| | at} the ‘, |places since tl pening ‘hou } ed off at a lieved that | | sub - division i STATE POLITICS FREE "FROM MUD SLINGING WEATHER CONDITIONS INSTRUMENTS OVER FLORIDA DUR- STOLEN FROM ‘CONVENT AND HARRIS | ING ELECTION DAY . SCHOOL LEAD ; REPORTED IDEAL le YACHT BOAT ‘ge vote there are five sestch with lenses sixty in These by’ underground cables wit¥ Fort Taylor and Press continues. “South and Cen-| tral Florida have little knowledge} him of his condition, but did not live to get there. of the progress being made in northwest Florida and ‘the citizens of that section generally are un-/ familiar with what is going on out- . | side of their own territory. See-|| Romie Dillon owned a fishing ing is believing, and the average |smack that he usually moored at resident of Florida can’s 60 Very) the Curry dotk, and she was far away from home without see- e e familiar figure about the water- front, where he enjoyed the friendship of one and all. Some| 1 years ago as the result of | blood poison the amputation — of | ing things to make him open his one leg became necessary, and! able activity ing | diameter. are con- nected tor tour through the state,” the; Sons Company building to inform) The candites FINAL TESTS FOR PRESENT TERM ARE CONDUCTED;| are opergted from there when \ friends. are wong they are used. eyes. “A hundred motorcades organiz- ed this summer for visiting other sections of the state would be one of the best things that could hap- pen to Florida. Anything that les- BIGINCREASE IN CAR SHIPMENTS der has been nintain| The. polls willlose of and the counti sens sectionalism and provincial- ism is worth while and, cannot fail to bring about a better citizenship, and to know Florida better is to love her more and to possess a greater wonder! Would Justify Trip The Chamber. declares that in West Florida alone. there is enough to see to justify a two weeks’ tour of that section. Few Floridians know that mariners who have entered every rt in. the world declare St. Andrew's Bay and the waters about Panama City probably the most beautiful on earth, even exceeding that of | the famous Bay-of Naples. Val- paraiso Bay is another beauty spot and thousands of Alabamans spend their vacations at one or the other. During August South Floridians can see blueberries on trees 20 feet high in the Crestview vicinity or they would be inter- ested in the! watermelon seed. in- dustry in Jefferson county, which produces annually 80 per cent of | the world’s supply, and the world’s | largest fullers ezrth mine at Quincy. Pensacola is one of the most interesting cities in the state and the resident of the peninsula, seeustomed to progressive deve! since that time he had been maimed. The final competitive fire drili, in the schools of the city was con-| ASSOCIATED PRESS HEAD-| ppreciation of her many} , ./Cuba, last Saturday, will arrive in A coincident in connection with the death of Romie Dillon is the |™e"t Ralph Pinder at the Con- fact that on the eve of the city|vent of Mary Immaculate yester- election last. November news was|day forenoon. ia ia that soiglny 2 omy area The closing tests of the school Dillon, had died at Lake City. 1 ted The deceased is survived by two Seam at aly the spebool AS FEDOFEE! sisters, Mrs.*John Russell Kerr,|0¥ Chief Pinder resulted as fol- sters, . . 410 Simonton street, Key West, lows: - Convent 20 seconds; and Mrs. Rex Shaw, of West Palmjris School, 28; Division Beach; also one brother Cleveland Dillon, of this city. { The funeral service will be held|"rC°» 21- ve lat the Lopez chapel at 4 o’clock| The Convent and the arris tomorrow afternoon, and will be|school are leaders for tie entire conducted by Rev, L. Munro, pas-|term record. The Convent shows tor of the First Methodist church. : . ;: The sister of the deceased from the least ons Fequited in vacating the building, but there are less | West Palm Beach will arrive at 6:30 in the morning to attend the |students there than at the Harris obsequies. |cided upon at the convention of Body of H. K. Cold fire chiefs next October in New Due To Arrive On —- orieans, at wnicn time the medals Boat This Afternoon offered by the International As- {sociation of Engineers for best | ‘The body of Hjalmar K. Cold, a 'ccords in school fire drills will former citizen of Key West who ® 8warded. Chief Pinder says died of paralysis in Havana, | be is confident that Key ischools will show as good report Q. 88 any others in the state, and ex- West | | 7 ducted by Chief of Fire Depart-| @UARTERS, June 8.—From the northern border of Florida to the tip of the peninsula from the sea-| demo- | cratic voters in the state trooped | > |shores and the interior, |to the polls today to ‘east. thei |votes for, candidates for nomi-' Har-| nation for three national offices Street and many state and county \of- | School, 30; Monroe County High|fices of judicial, legislative and| | administrative prominence. | \and removed all doubt of a heavy joff-year primary vote. Clear and | |warm weather greeted the voters) \throughout the state. | Candidates last night brought | i. ‘ ‘ |their campaigns to a close. The’ \school, This rating will be de- jcontests for the nominatjons were jaingularly free from mud slinging jand most of the candidates based ‘ti |pleas. Each of the candidates de- livered closing addresses in the jeenters where they expected to poll their main strength. No major issues came to Iht Weather conditions were ideal, | THREE MEN BOARD BABOON IN HAVANA HARBOR, VES- SEL LEFT HERE LAST TUES- DAY here ln. Karo tiry ated for\Havana and failed to arrive at destination unt'l Thursday after- noon, her delayed passage causing much alarm in this city because | two Key Westers,-Miss Helen Les- ter and Joe Porter Mountjoy, were aboard the yacht as guests of the seems to have found further bad j luck awaiting its arrival in the Ha- | vana harbor, according to the fol- i lowing news item which appeared in the Saturday issue of the Ha- jvana Evening Telegram: | “Ben Ames, Jr., had no sooner cast anchor in Havana harbor cir appeals on strong personal | Thursday night, after his arrival] there has not been [here on his yacht Baboon and set- tled down for a much needed sleep when he was rudely awakened by unfamiliar footsteps. Mr. found three white men prowling around over his beautiful yacht, Ames! commence, | At 8 o'clock tlis afbn \ |074 votes had begn cast fire | |precincts in. the city The pretty yacht Baboon, which | No. 1, 209; 2, 270; 3, 6 74;! ’ f | would be 3,110 votes c | Under that estimate abo cent of the vote had be (at this hour. There w owners, Ben Ames, Jr., and bride,! jeitizens qualified to vot |primary, and it looks vei like the total vote will siderably in excess ¢f thjj.! | mate. | tt is dntereating: @ nothg| TRANSFERRED T0 MEDICAL CORPS) by any candidate in yet there has never jeen mary in which the intest local people was greal. | #/ | | they wifbe well worth trying for. The ntire program for the | It has been estimated bere | a peec! cam 2 event /ill be a very informal one, in theregular Rotary way. Seastian Cabrera, Jr., George "| Perpill and Bill Bates compose the conmittee on arrangements. They askire every one “w good. time, @ col place, and no mosquitoes. They have a big pull with the weather man and guarantee that only delightful weather will be T turned on that day. Fun—they led} have fixed up a full supply of it— | and will dish it out to one and all 17/ in mammoth measure. They want one and all to toss dull care away and be out at the Country Club | Thursday to pass one of the most | delightful afternoons they have | ever heard, seen or read about. ‘LIQUOR TO BE i hye! 4 ah-| ofe; \4 } CAPTAIN JOHN J. MAHER RE PAIGE OUTPUT SHOWS GREAT GAIN OVER 1925 te, arab Ie Shipments of cats Dye ree Detroit Motor Car Company con- tinted to increase in May, with a gain of more than six per cent over the record for April. The May total was 4,909 cars, includ- ing both Paiges and Jewetts. The new Paige models, introduced in February, have won widespread recognition, so that six time’ s many were shipped in the first five | months this year as in the same period of 1925. Continued demand is expected, the company’s production schedule for June calling for increases ov | May for both the Paige and the Jewett. Mr. And Mrs. Dongo To Make Motor Trip To Numerous Points Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Dongo, Elizabeth street, and their fi opment of municipalities, would) Key. West aboard the P. & | hat : in | quick'y discover that the city on|steamship Governor Cobb this) Pects that two prizes will come to Pensacola Bay is keeping step with | afternogn, and will be conveyed Key West, one for the Convent but before he could arouse other! 4 forecast of the jult é members of his party his-uninvited ! guests jumped overboard and made be useless, as those CEIVES INSTRUCTIONS TO laren Anna, Dorothy, Léote, HAVE SUPPLY IN STORE| Joseph and Juanita left on the |afternoon train today for Miami in the campaigning. Voters cast their ballots in compliance with ° usuAly the Florida parade. West Florida|to the Lopez parlors to await and the other for the Harris offers hundreds of miles of excel- | Jent highways through hill country | Sah’ plussing scoamy. and tn the| vicinity of Chattahoochee a verit- able duplicate of the Ozark Moun-) tarns. | Other Points In South Florida, the central) section and both the East and), West Coast, are three distinct va- rieties of country with the Ever- glades providing a fourth unlike anything in the United States.’ The Floridian wh. has not visited » Miami, West Palm, \d other resort centers on; Coast has gadly neglected | his Florida education. The drive along the Indian River in the vi- einity of Cocoa, Rockledge and Eau Gallie alone is worth a jour- ney of a thousand miles. From West Palm Beach through the Everglades to the shore of Lake Okechobee at Canal Point is a sec-j tion no Floridian should fail to see. Tt would effect a better under- standing of the state's drainage project and the careless weeds late in the summer, hefty enough to bear the weight of a man many feet above the ground, would bring & realization of the richness of the soil the state is endeavoring to re- claim. For 34 miles from Canal Point to Okeechobee the Connors Highway rims the edge of the larg- est lake but one in the country. Between Okeechobee and the Ridge county below Sebring, In- dian Prairie, a marsh of enormous area, with clumps of palmettos here and there, prompts one to ponder upon the extent of idle land im the state. The Ridge Section, Lake Stearns, funeral service and burial tomor- | *¢hoo!- tow. afternoon at 6 o'clock. Chief Pinder expressed deep The funeral will be from the|®PPreciation of the aid and co- opéz chapel to St. Paul’s Epis-|°Peration so cheerfully extended copal church, George Crittenton him by the teachers and ‘officials and Sam Goldsmith, laymen read-|°f the schools and Sister Lewis ers of the Episcopal church, will and Mother Superior at the Con- conduct. the. service, |vent in conducting these fire drills G. Frank Sawyer of the Lopez dur ing the school term now clos- parlors will be the funeral di- '"& rector, See Eres School Exercises ADVERTISING BELIEVER At Garden Theatre Governor Friend W. Richardson On Thursday Night of California is also an editor and ~ has faith in publicity, which he The commencement — exercises reaffirmed in a speech before a'of St. Frances Xavier's Los Angeles advertising club, say-| (colored) will take place at Gar- ing: “I am a believer in adver-'den Theatre on.June 12, at 8:30 tising. My name has become as p. m. famous as anyone’s in this state.) An interesting prégram will be It has even become as famous as given by the: well-trained pupils some of our well-known colic/of the school. remedies,” Mrs. G. Palacio’ . C. Rus - ————— scll, Miss P. Adams, Miss A. Wel- Sebring, Avon Park, Lake Wales, ters and Miss M. Seabrooks, are Mountain Lakes, would cause one members of the committee on ar- upon his first visit to wonder if he | rangements. were in Florida, Lakeland, Tam pa, Clearwater, St. Petersbui Bradenton, Sarsota, Fort Myers, and scores of other centers on the West Coast would amaze persons A M U § E M E N T § from other sections upon their eescccceceesecceseccoces first visit. Winter Haven, Haines MONROE THEATRE ity, Auburndale, Polk City, Kis- . A ae simmee should not be neglected TODAY. ‘Womanhandled. by anyone who is interested in the |Comedy—“Breaking the Ice. TOMORROW “Classified.” progress of the state. The State Chamber declares Comedy—“The Marriage Circus.” there is enough of interest in Flor- age ida to keep a Floridian busy six SAN CARLOS THEATRE months, even though he devoted) TODAY—Harry Cordray’s Musi- his time constantly to sightseeing. cal Comedy. Moving pictures. school ! @rerevecseccses the Bryan primary plan, naming first and second choice for the of- fices. For vot Inited States senators, the ys were choasing among Dun- can U. Fletcher, veteran Floridian democratic standard bearer in the senate, Jerry W. Carter, state hotel commissioner and John Van Valzah, legista- tor. a former state Center of Interest Interest centered, however, in the fourth district setto for the congressional nomination, in which W. J. Sears, of Kissimmee, jand representative for six terms, has determined opposition in his race for renomination from Flor- ida’s first woman candidate for a major office, Mrs. Owen, a daughter William Jennin From the we of Bryan rn section of the etate--the third congressional district-—-have come reports that a stiff contest has been waged be tween J Smithwick, Pensacola, the incumbent and Thomas A. Yon, Tallahassee. Plorida’s polit merry-go- round was whirling slowly to top pending the renewal of action when the fall election approache: with its uncertainty of republican rtrength. In previous years the democratic primary had been con- sidered as an equivalent to clec- tion but with the influx of citi- .zens from other and republican states as the state’s development has proceeded, doubt has been cast into the overwhelming rule of democratic powers. the late their escape in a small boat. “Upon investigation he discov- ered several valuable ship instru- ments-missing. He reported his loss to the Port Police who are making every effort to capture the thieves.” “DEAD MAN” RETURNS HOME FAMILY COLLECT INSURANCE TO BURY PENNSYLVANIA RESIDENT (Ry Associated Press) JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 8. ‘When Edward Liberty, 89, digap- peared last September his family conducted a search and finding the body of a man whom they iden- tified as Liberty, buried it as tha’ of their kin. Liberty now has re turned to his he near here, ex plaining that he had been working in Onio. Money collected on life insurance was used to inter the b hought been Lit His wife hi to have died during ence in Ohio, AVIATOR LEAVES FOR TRINIDAD (Ry Aaseciated Press) FT. DE FRANCE, Martinique, June #.—Bernardo Duggan, Ar- gentine aviator, flying from New York to Buenos Aires, left Ft. De France at 6:20 o'clock this morn- ing for Trinidad. | show pretty good jud; dicting election resull it up this time, It will be easier ! winner tomorrow day. PLAN EXTEAVE MOT( TRIP MR. AND MRS. HRY PERE ROW LEAVING TO! MORNIT Harry Perez, wthhas been in years, the accom her will verd the lighthouse ser 23 now chief engineex#boar lighthouse tender ivy, panied by Mrs. (Piz ister, Miss Dellie Banche leave with their aw’ the schooter Earp morwing point tended north aboat an will sth on jotor tour d expect f° months. They will stop Tampa then! Coolidge to be a member of the) go to pive Oak toWisit relatives,| 5 ich they fill proceed to Hudson land, river } Albany,” Tle Niagra Falls will ¥ visited and he returd trip through Narry Mickfan, Chicago ad St. Louis, B. E. Haney, thenjack to the Land of Flowers. after New Prk and up the homg will be mide d d Z, bile a tomorrov an ex a rf in my) HOUSE TURNED OVER jave given ame the| x of the Key it is to-) to ha» transferred to the the cast and t ‘ \capt. John J. Maher, alate West army bar TAG js } ipt of inst a, is in receip' v. 8 army, Mdical department, 88 bar-| rels of whkkey now in custody of | Deputy UsS. Marshal Van Valken-| | burgh in Key West. } } This liquor Wg been in the cus-) tody of the U. Silarshal’s office} for several years, alld: has been stored in the basement of the Key) West postoffice building. } Lieut. Earnest Thompson, coast | z_ artillery ill take this liquor over for the War Department and ship same to New York. NAMES MEMBER JEFFERSON MEYERS OF PORT- LAND NOMINATED FOR POSITION rT Cazames from which (My Annocinted rrew? WASHINGTON, June 8.—Jef- ferson Meyers of Oregon, was jnominated today by President ay ing Board. Mr. Meyers, a resident of Port- a former state treasurer He was presented to dent by Senator Mc of that state, to succeed so a democrat who gned recently. \has been shipped. tructions | } SHIPPING BOARD o which point their automobile Starting on otoring tour from the Mag y the family will visit Philadel- phia and take in the great Centennial Exposition now in progress there. They will then go to New York and Niagara Falls before starting back to Key Wes, and expect to be absent from city about five weeks. NOTICE, MASONS! All resident and visiting Masons in the city are requested to meet at the Scottish Rite Hall Wednes day evening at 4:30 for the pur pose of attending the funera) of Bro. H. K. Cold of Alpha Home Lodge Ne. 72, New Orleans. JOHN C. PARK, W. M., Anchor Lodge. ROY J. LEWIN, W. M., Dade Lodge. LUIS GONZALEZ, W. M., Felix Varella Lodge. | June 8-1t | “WOMANHANDLED” “Manhandled,” sce the answer to it interpreted by the star Richard Dix. This play has « combination of comedy and drama bound to please everyone. “Woman- handled” will be shown at the MONROE THEATRE TODAY If you saw