The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 7, 1926, Page 1

» Full Associated Press Leased Wire Day Service For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS Three Million People Delayed In - Travels Owing To Tie Up In + New York’s Subway’Car System| ” RADIO BEACON TO BE INSTALLED wowonen or nusses.ar slightly above. The mild dis- AT DRY TORTUGAS LIGHT STATION bse 3 5 CONSIDER- turbance that was over the i 4 4 g - a | | middle Atlantic States is dis- *) G é as | ABLE TIME appearing northeastward after ‘ ge A radio beacon, the latest and But the little radio compass on} increasing in intensity, and a most marvelous innovation in the|the rescue ship led the vessel! disturbance, apparently of line of aids in lifesaving employed] straight to the sinking steamer, } * VOLUME XLVII. No. 160 GREAT DAMAGE RESULTS FROM STORMS IN OHIO | TWO PERSONS KILLED): IN ILLINOIS; -MANY: ARE INJURED IN VA- RIOUS SECTIONS Byrd Comes Back From’ the North Pole PEOCOOOHSOOSEEHOCOROCOOOOOHOSOOHOOES COOSTOOOOSOTDOHOSOSOTEDSZODLLECLCEOELCE Stee eee ween eee s! rt WEATHER CONDITIONS Pressure is below normal from the Rocky Mountain States to the Atlantic coast except Florida where it is j (hy Asnociated Presa) | © COLUMBUS, ©., July 7.—oni-| Fans weré taking stock today of | (hy Ansoctated Press) the damage done by storms which | “swept many parts of the state esterday apparently with relent- fess fury heightened by high! winds, heavy rains and spectacu- Ast displays ‘of lightning. The extended to central Illinois, two persons were killed @nd one seriously injured by lightning. Damage totalling thousands of “dollars was caused by the storm ‘and at least four persons were in- jured in Ohio... Losses in Colum- bus and vicinity were reported to have reached $100,000 damage and that at Dayton was placed! even shigher, while damages were i i i i still anestimated today in many | ’ Damage to crops was also re- ported in the storm-swept areas although no official estimates were .available. William Cashion, 10, was stunned by lightning while seated - om the front porch of his home here. Lewis Schwets, of Grove City, was talking on a telephone when. - lightning struck the wire ‘and -» knocked him unconscious. __.. Two severe storms hit Zanes- ville end vicinity. During the height of one, Albert) ks, @ machinist, and Miss an employee of the press = “of ‘the American Tiling - Concord, nearby, & gas well was fired when a bolt struck the rigging: The flames were controlled withdut. difficul- Tide? 12 hours of fighting, em- ¥ ployes of the Ohio Well Company |’ at Cambridge, succeeded in extin- guishing « gas well fire with the use of steam. The well was struck by hei : the eee tite sb on (Ptodyets Company a! damage estimated — at [ttt cceteteenensnnntenemenemenel 5 [SWEARING AT HIMSELF Stetions : Abfiene (cloudy) . Atlanta (cloudy) - Boston (clear). Charleston (cloudy Chicago (clear) ... Christi (clear) . Dodge City (cloudy) Wirick, |’ considerable intensity has ap- peared over wesiern Canada and the northern Rocky Mountain States. It is decidedly warmer in the north Atlantic States where tempera'ures are now about normal, and a further warming has taken place over the northern Plains © where temperature is decidedly above the seasonal. Within the last 24 hours there were showers in the At- * lantic States from Maine to Florida, and in western Kan- sas; elsewhere fair weather prevailed. Moderate southeasterly | * winds will prevail over the * Florida Keys tonight and \* Thursday. Me H..B. BOYER, Official in Charge’. | | * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * i i¢ . a, ee ee ee eed COAST GUARD TEAM DEFEATS — LIBERTY BUNCH | i INTERESTING EXHIBITION OF | BASEBALL PLAYED YES-| ‘ } TERDAY RESULTS IN SCORE OF 13 TO7 #£ BN tains ' Yesterday. ‘fifternoon’ the» Coast wds.beat. Tony Head's. ..Key egt Liber. ies by the’seore of 13, to 7. At the nd of the eighth| Toning the score was a tie 7:to 7. During the Coast Guaras ‘halt of} the ninth. they went om ing | rampage and knocked in six r Honk and Prisby pitched for the Liberties while Fritz Lilja took the mound for the Coast Guards. The Coast Guards plays the Marines tomorrow. “The Const Guards « have strengthened their teant ‘through | the transfer of Catcher Talbot from Bax Six, Ft Lauderdale, Florida, to Key West. JUDICIAL INVESTIGATION OR- | DERED IN CASE OF CASHIER | OF CUBAN RAILROAD WHO, WAS FOUND. SHOT | {Ry Agnarinted Peoney i Fe Lad ‘ i “BOOZE SMASHING” EVENTS| + spectors directed by L. T.; Bra-j sire, {7 o’clock this morning’ to. destroy | | the immense quantity of . Lieut. Com. Richard E. Byrd of the U. S. navy, who with Pi’os Floyd Bennett flew the first airplane to, the north pole, being greeted by his family—and officially—on his arrival in’ New York. ‘Right to left, the picture shows: Assistant Navy Secreta y ‘Th €. Douglas Robinson, who extended the nation’s congra‘ulations; Byrd, waying to circl ng eirplanes above; Bennett; Thomas Byrd, the flier’s brother; his mother, Mrs. R. E. Byrd; Goy*rnor Harry F. Byrd of Virginia, another brother; Grover Whalea, head of New York's welcomitg committee, and Harry Byrd, Jr., MUCH LIQUOR COOLIDGES ON DESTROYED AT VACATION TRIP CUSTOM HOUSE eoned) WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF vee ; (By Auncelated Prensa 1 tie Fresident and Mrs, Coolidge ° ; as leave Washington « for summery PRESIDENT AND WIFE NOW White House in Adirondacks. } “ We NEW YORK- © _ * * ee. 4 a | oe niet Paeeplt . | cAndrews sailing’ for . Europe? “SPATE START TH MG RING UN jSays he will not resign until reog- | DER DIRECTION OF L. T. ganization of his department ‘is na en (By Associated Prensa BRAGASSA jcounp jeted, 2% a Seg fall. ON BOARD COOLIDGE’S | Mussolini government suspends ere ea i ar Fre javoid international political ik vocation. inthe’ northwodda: Accompanying the president were Secretary Everett Sanders, military and naval aides, and a number of office and household A large force of ‘customs in: gassa, inspector in charge of the} local customs bureau, startéd.in at) . Mexican’ government officials intox:- |°@% religious regulations werd re- tating liquora secured in raids and |PIY to church dignitaries _ who seintires’ of, the recent ‘past . and. urged that Catholies take active. stored in the custom house base- | Part in national politics. ment vaults, } a The work uf smashing contdin-| Mrs. Budlong: acts as: own, at- ers and: throwing the fiery fluid |tormey in eross examination of overboard went/on at @ rapid rate ther husband after she discharges for four hours before the big. job her attorney in divorces hearing was finished, About. 1,500 gal-/8t Newport, RI. lons, worth at least.estimate $30,- | ee 000, were cons'gned to the sea,| First day of New York subway and ‘remarkably few. spectators {strike ends. without violence. were present to witness the “snd’"|Service cut in half with incenven- event. jience to. millions. Almost every known brand of wee Sa fancy imported Liquor was includ-, / Tucson, Ariz., police hears Mrs. SACRIFI fas seen in Sonora TO VE ed in the destruction of this morn-| Me rson Wi ing. Many bottles. 6f Four-in-|town five days before her .re- One, in handsome containers,’ ported escape from kidnapers. (Pe Aneneinend usually sold for $16 a bottle, were [os Angeles grand jr EVANSVILLE. * ture was by way “of a severe Rumors of illness spread when (the train halted for a few min- sutes at West Philadelphia ® for medicine, but it was only for a toothwath for the president, which had been forgotten. included in the smashitig. A lot’ nas her. of the we: goods were put up so, attractively that it really looked a pity. to smash them. But they are gone, 6,000 strong , Ind. July 7.— William Idi, 22, Japan- by the lighthouse service of the government, is to be built at the |Dry Tortugas lighthouse — station at an early date, W. W. Demer- jritt, superintendent of the Sev- jenth lighthouse district, informed a representative of The Citizen today. These radio beacons contain as equipment an instrument known as a radio compass or direction finder. ‘These instruments are also a part of the radio equip- ments on all the big ocean liners O. S. sent out. “If there had been a radio bea- con at Dry Tortugas during the jritt said, “the Valbanera would not have been lost, for it could have kept its hearing and avoided the point where it went down without one life being saved.” Tne dense fogs on,the great lakes has for ages been recognised jas the greatest merace to naviga- regardless of the error in the S.| hurricane of 1919,” ‘Supt. Demer-| NEW YORK, July 7%—Father | Knickerbocker and family are getting some unwonted exercise, | —walking. The cause is a strike in his pet subway, which forms a huge H- | beneath the surface of Manhattan | Island and enables the New York- | er normally to get quickly from jany partof the island to. any other as the result of high ex- | press and local service. The first day of the strike saw the number of trains and the speed ‘\ nemertitt where a steam: employes as well as secret service, men. I The change to cooler tempera-; storm which the special train en-| countered in crossing Delaware. / tion in those waters. As soon as| “% the valve of the radio compass in| cut in half. ; Doubting whether ie | could get to or from work, the Su became known, 300 v-ssels} average New Yorker avoided “the plying the great lakes were a | strike bound Interborough Rapid mediately equipped with vhem,! Transit Company’s subways and and they can. now follow their! ysed other means of transports- charts as easily in fog as in fair! tion including shanksmare. Tn- weather, | atead of a step or two to a near- The Dry Tortugas radio bea-| by sation, he usually walked * con will be one of the first one| block after block to one of the installed this far south. They| four elevated lines. Ord‘narily | were first placed at points farther | the elevated is so little used rela- north because fogs are prevalent! tively that the Interborough ad there at certain seasons, thongh| Vertises its meri's in order to re- ‘practically unknown in these| lieve the subway rush, ‘waters, | Hundred of busses in places saved some residents long walks. Business and private cara made of today. They have an operat- ing power covering a radius of 200 miles. They indicate accur- ately the direction from which a wireless’ message comes and the exact location of the point from which it is sent. Regardless. of fogs, or storms, a ship within two hundred miles of a radio beacon ean find out its direction and its location, thus enabling a vessel to | steer intelligently and safely even though no lighthouse beacon is visible anywhere. The Dry Tortugas light is visi- ble at sea a distance of twenty imiles, but with its radio beacon! . rt, beacon fully err it can pick up ships 200 miles:costs the government about $5,-| ngestion ii | away ina lead Gente safety. A/000 installed; but such equi gure: than 079,000,000, on vessel in distress’can be located) ments for ships aré available at! neve found their trips to and from exactly by any other ship |% ¢xpense of about $1,800. The) pusiness lengthened by anything equipped with one of these instru-| Dry Tortugas radio beacon equip-| from 15 minute {6 an hour be- ments within a radius of 200/ment has elready been purchased | cause of the atr’ke of some 700 miles, and the distance between and will be installed at an early | subway motormen and switchmen aceurately regis-\date. It will come in duplicate, | for wages of $1 an hour, a 20 per om “weasel to vessel this|*0 that if one set gets out of or-| cent increase, # works the same as ‘er the other will be tmmediately | In contrast te the number of n toimeéhip. available. | Strikers, some 25,000 Traction om- f by* Sunt. | Dry Tortugas te patter: ‘ remaining at work in- er in dis-;most important. lighthouse sta-| “l@ding those on the Tnverborougis tresa in the north Atlentie very tions in the world. All the Gulf | "4 other companies. : lrecently succeeded in having the |traffic passing to and from the! The second.day of the’ strike ‘members of its crew rescued by/ great European ports and mit, arene: ie bo strikers claim‘ng the use of this radio. compass./coastwise trade between North | ene 26 >, motormen 1 se |therwise ell on board would)and South America must use the! Sixt ape ft : sant rT lnave: certainly’. pet'ched. The} Tortuaas light as & guide. throngh| 707 One employes: were sai r : to have joind the walkout during captain of the wrecked shin had the Florida. straights, and it is for) the night. made en error in giving the love-' this reason that this point was the) To these claims, un official of tion of his vessel, naming a point first one in the south to secure @| the company retorted: 100 miles distant from his ship. radio beacon, | “If the entire group. were to” ae ek oe SOR MARIN + elevate ines wou! run as AT COURT HOUSE U. 5, SUB E | GOES. AGROUND Fun | usual.” SSEL WAS BEING TOWED. ERAL SERVICES FOR A. C. HONORE TO BROOKLYN NAVY YARD - ee Three eases were vm for pre- , liminary hearings before County VE: Judge ‘Hugh Gunn this forenoon. | Clifton Leiffield and W. H. Seig- | ler, charged with refusing to pay rent, case fixed up under agree-' ment that defendants pay the rent ' and costs of the court. (| Oly Associated Pronx) TAMPA, July 7.—Funers! ser- vices for the late Adrian ©, Hon- lore, 79, Chicago and Florida reai- ‘ty dealer and financier, who died (By Ansoeinted Presrd yesterd will be held Thuraday NEW YORK, July 7.—The|in Chicago. The body was taken United States submarine — 8-51 /t° Cnicago leat might. rent aground today between the! Real estate holdings of Mr. Williamsburg bridge and the} Honore consisted of thousands of Queensboro bridge, in the East/acres throughont the west const River while being towed to the of Ficrida and a number of navy yard here. |Tampa business properties, He The §-51 had just passed owned and operated a 17,000 acne hrough what were believed to be | ranch near Sarasota. her major perils of the journey James Roberts (colored), un- ‘dawfal possession of liquor, the | case arising from ihe finding of a | sack of beer in his yard on Eliza- | beth street last Saturday by Offi- | cers Ritas and Tucker while they were chasing an escaped prisoner. Roberts claims that he knew noth- | ing of the beer being in his yard, j and that it must have been lef! here, poss bly sinking egain in the STOPS FLOW OF las to number of packages, and no ; telling how s rong as to number One Way toDolt ese waiter. sacrificed his lifs Galveston (clear) .... Hetteras (cloudy) . Hayana (clear) Huron (clear) Jacksonville (cloudy)\ KEY WEST (clear) Louisville (clear) Miami (clear) ........ ‘New Orleans (clear) .. New York (clear) St. Louis (pt. cloudy) . Tampa (cloudy) . Washing?¢n (clear) Will’ston (p'. cloudy) . HAVANA, July 7.——Judicial in- vestiga.ion has been ordered into | the case of ‘Felton Zimmerman, vashier of Cuba Railroad and for- ;mer resident of Inverness, Fla.,/ | Who was found shot to death in his a0} ores Monday. “pg, Medical men declare it is ex- | tremely unlikely that he contmit- | ted suicide as no powder burns! “gg Were about the wound on hié left 70) temple. | 7o|._ A rural guard is reported to [have struggled with Z.mmerman hfor the possession of a revolver, MESaoeneonevererevceenes: the weapon exploding while they wrestled. No arrests have been! AMUSEMENT Sis : eee *| POTEEN HOARD CAPTURED HEATRE | spy res eaten; > | pUBLIN—Thi TODAY — “Thank — YOU." | potecn, or moonsh Comedy—-"Just a Good Guy.” found in Ireland was TOMORROW-—“The Sap.” Al8 | Connemara hills. “Fighting Hearts," No. 2. largest hoard of whisky, ever seized in the seats 5 A DIES AT BAPTISM SAN CARLOS ee TODAY AND TOMORROW. LEEDS, Eng.—As &-y r-old “Ariyne, Wizard of the Accor. | Harriet Morse was being baptized @eon,” also “Bast of Broadway” by a minister she collapsed and and Musical Comedy, died in his arms. i that his white bride might be happy. His body was found in a gas-filled room here last night. He had apparently been dead ten days. Tro weeks ago Idi and Gladys Hines, 19 Were mar- ried. A letter found im the room told of the. barrier be- treen the Japenese and his white sweetheart. . “Hf vou don't give me $100 te get the marriage an- nlled.” it said. STU kil mr self. Father ears that if 1 married » Japanese he would rend both of us to jell T doen't want yon to go te iafl, and would die by inches if T had to go.” ARLYNE Those who love the sccordeon should hear Arly:.c, “Wiserd of the Accordeon.” Hear bor at the SAN CARLOS WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY of kicks per package. ‘ ae 90-FOOT FALL INTO WATER PALKIRK, Scotland.—James Lees fell 90 feet from Castlecary bridge inte a shallow stream but was not seriously hurt. NEW PLOT TO KILL KING SOFIA—Several secret arrests hare been. made following | dis- covery of ano‘ her plot to kill King Boris. At least one army officer is invelved. MASONIC NQTICE! Dade Lodge No. its regular communication Wednesday, July 7, at 8 p..m, at which time a splendid ‘lass of seven will be taised to the degree of a Master Mason. All resident and v ng Masons are invited to attend. A banquet will follow the meeting. By order of the W. M. J. J. TREVOR, Secretary. 14 will hold ©% sim Reed won't hare much invests gating % do in the Second Missourt Congressional district if Clarence Ragsdale, above, Demwerat of Mober- ty, Mo., 19 elected. He has announced that he will ratse his campaign funds by selling copies of Ris speech, “Our Freedom.” for 18 cents each. Bors and giris will receive twe and a balt eents for selfing them, and if elected be promists to donate $2568 to edu- catfenal purpeses in tis district, palyé-2t | court on the charge of comm't.ing | Hewed to be af anscoed mix deep waters of the ind and lost. in the swirling waters of Hell- wate. All seemed to be in order/ for a speedy removal when the un-/ dersea boat suddenly p'led up on reef rocks between the two/—Vernon bridges. | there by parties without his knowl- peso WATER WITH FINGER (iy Anewetatet Presnt LAKE NORDEN, 8. D. July 7. Tertold, 14, © -toder j knows how the Dutch bay felt Dinas BeBe | while holding his arm in « hole ta Becoming displeased with the|the dyke to save the lives of his political views enunciated by one countrymen. i‘ of their professors, 1,500 stedents| Vernon stuck his Yinger in a left the technical high school injhole in the bottom of an off tirat Hanover, Germany, marched to|and kept it there antil he and fils Drs. Warren and Galey, lunacy the station and by special trains brother, Melvin, 8, had drifted commission appointed to examine journeyed to Brunswick, where across Lake Norden in a high into the sanity of Dennis Sweet-| ‘hey enrolled en masse in the local wing ing, report that he is not insene. | hoo! to continue their studies. The boys had found an empty Sweeting was to have been tried! . boat on shore, climed in and be at the recent term of criminal) ifore they realized it were far out “na the ‘eke They had no oars «ed four inches of water seevet hrongh o hole in the bottom va “ Verson stopped the ‘inflow vith bie finger. VISITING IN MIAMI Sheriff Cleveland Niles expects | to leave soon to bring A. Dice from New York to Key West. The sherift says it was not a Key Wes ; negro thst told him about Dice | being on the boat. He wes an out , of town colored man from up the road, the sheriff seys. ? HYPOCRITES? How many hypocrites make = townful? Can you tell? You'll fied the answer in “Thank You,” adapted from || Jokn Golden's play bit. This ix «= We. Fox production and needs no further introduction. STRAND THEA & inscivious act, but the case was nolprossed when the covrt was in formed that the defendant was be-} ' the sheriff was ordered to have = himacy board examine Swee:ing He will now be released from) jail. Mise Consuelo Freeman «i ‘pending « visit in Miami with ~elatives and friends, William A. Freeman. whe bat ; been. om several . deys’ busines: ii winit to Minn, bas tetursed to the elty. . Shanghai will build « modern theatre catering te both Chinese and Europeans, as being one of the first haildings in the city to have a colors front.