The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 12, 1926, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire _ Service ' VOLUME XLVII. No. 164, / KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JULY 12, 1926.- For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West Rancher Rode 180 Miles With Story of Custer’s Last Stand “ASSOCIATED PRES A CORRESPONDENT AT - HELENA SENDS. OUT : NEWS TO COUNTRY (Dy Associated rress) HELENA, Mont., July 12.— Fifty years have elapsed since Andrew J. Fisk, Associated Press! correspondent in the little fron- tier town of Helena, first flashed to the world news of Gen. George} A. Custer’s crushing defeat at the battle of the Little Big Horn. Yet today Fisk’s “‘scoop” stands among the greatest newspaper “beats” in modern journalism. And, by a strange coincidence, “the nation, through Fisk’s pen, _first heard of the tragedy one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of In- dependence. Monfana Published First Historians differ as to the paper which first published the story of | Custer’s battle, the semi-centennial observance of which started recent- ly at the Custer Battlefield in Southern Montana. Some credit “the Helena Herald, others the ~ Bozeman Times, although all now they both printed the news before the appearance, shortly af- _ter midnight of July 5, of an extra of the Bismarck (N. D.) “Tribune, The Tribune’ sold for 26 cents and carried the story of the se ams and a list of the easual- wteaie days passed: from time Gen. Custer, in command of the _Sevnth cavalry left old Ft. Lin- _coln, near Bismarck, in search of the village of hostile Sioux, witil| ors, » word of ‘Wis icit ‘stand réached » Fisk and the outside world, Nine baie Bare ne He er broadeast through the medium of “Rika ee wee Horate Countryman, a Yellow- Teer eee ences eee . * FUNERAL SERVICES FOR NOTED AUTHOR ne (By Associated Press) COLUMBIA, &. C., July 12. —Funeral services will be conducted today for Ambrose E. Gonzalez, author, editor and publisher, who died at his home here yestrday as a re- sult of a stroke of paralysis he suffered 12 years ago. | * * * * * *| *| +} «| *| *| . i* « * le |* * * i* * « eee eee ee eee ees COUNTY ENGINEER TO MAKE SURVEY OF ROAD WO! CLIFTON BAILEY GOES TO LOWING REQUEST MADE FOR SURVEY At the request of W. G. Blan- chard, president of the Tropical developers of the townsite of Po'n- giana, on the mainland portion. of Monroe coun‘y at the juncture of Mexico, County Engineer Clifton G. Bailey left yesterday enroute making an investigation and sur- @Oint UP THE LINE FOL-| Florida Development Corporation, | Lost Man’s river and the Gulf of |as to that locality for ‘the purpose of | :|MORE KILLINGS — ARE REPORTED BY BANDITS |THREE PERSONS ARE. aor! TO DEATH ON REFUSAL To TURN OVER AUTOMOBILES | TO GANG | (ily Annoeiated Press) CHICAGO, July 12.—Cicero, scene of the recent spectacular | McSwiggen party slaying, counted | three more killings today, ap-| parently prompted by a desire of | jhold-up men to obtain automobiles for marauding. 2xpedition:. A taxicab chauffeur, who pro- {tested against surrendering his} ear to the pair of robbers was mortally wounded and stripped of his uniform and thrown from his machine while less than a block away. A young man and young woman sitting in a car in front of the home where the chauffeur was approached, were slain when they remonstrated against giving up their automobile. The police are holding up) Thomas McWain from whom they obtained a statement implicating himself, and a man known fo them! “Curley.” MecWain said that he and “‘Cur- ley” hired a cab to go to Cicero and shot the chauffeur, Ludwig, after which they spied an auto- |mobile oceupied by Fred Heine. 1 Making Twins Out of Strangers START WORK IN LAYING OF NEW CABLE BETWEEN NEW YORK AND LONDON Work has been started on the! the speed with which the impulses | laying of the world’s fastest cable. | pass ihrough from one end to the Elsie Peck end Reba Morgan, of Los Angeles, aren't related at all—but | 1¢ will lie on the floor of the At-|°thre, it makes possible, however, they’re twins, or . vse to it. ~ ge she'd look like Bisie. Elsic ts at the icft in this picture, Plastic surgeons remodelled Reba’s profile | MEMBER OF U. S. MUSEUM TO CONDUCT RESEARCH WORK IN WATERS Clarence R. Shoemaker, sie lica oe tant curator of the division of; marine _ invertebrates, States National Museum, Washing: | ton, D. C., is in Key West prelim- inary to his visit to the Carnegie! among the problema of the waters | Laboratory at Dry Tortugas, for) he purpose of studying the amphi-| pod fauna of that region. The Anton Dhorn, a vessel op-} erated by the Carnegie institute) branch at Tortugas arrived in port, Saturday to convey Mr. Shoemak-— er to the laboratory. This exiensive marine texy at Dry Tortugas, Mr. Shoe-; labora-| _ AROUND TORTUGAS and causes of diseases of fishes, | jand the distribution and food United | habits of fishes and other marine | organisms, such as the turtle, crab, | crawfish, ete., come as principal of th’s vicinity to be studied. But Mr. Shoemaker's main ob- | laboratory ot this time is to make a study of the small crustaceans, known as amphipods, which form a very important constituent of the food of fishes. tontents of fish, much is learned By the study of the stomach} the sending of such sharply de- | fined signals that the intervals at ; munication between New York and | which they follow each other are | London. It will have a capacity! considerably reduced without over- | of 2500 letters per minute, will | lapping. \ | be eight times as fast as any cable| In the manufacture of the new | now connecting these two points,| cable care has been exercised to |and will be able to show its heels! follow all of the standard specifi- leven to ihe new permalloy-loaded | cations for cable manufacture with | cable uniting New York and south-| the single exception of the addi- ; ern Europe by way of the Azores.| tion of the permalloy loading. The new cable, which will be’ | The size of the copper conductor the twentieth across the Atlantic; has been slightly reduced from |and the ninth to be operated by| standard practice so that the diam- the Wes:ern Union Telegraph eter of it and its permalloy wrap- Company, will be ready for serv-| ping will be equal to that ordi- ice in September. It will span the | narily used for copper alone. Atlantic from Bay Roberts, New-| The to’al diameter of the conduct- foundland, to Penzance, England.| or and its pormalloy wrapping is This section of it will be laid first.| just a fraction short of a fifth Upon its completion, the section! of an inch, the remainder of the | from New York to Bay Rober's| cable being used for insulation will be laid. The actual work of|/and protection. The completed | lantic and wiil afford direct com- | ject in visiting the Dry Tortugas| the laying of. the cable will be| deep sea section of the new cable done by the Telegraph Construc-| tion and Maintenance Company, of Greenwich, England, which manufactured it. The laying of the new cable is the result of a demand for in- is only an inch in diameter. As the water becomes more shallow near the shore, heavier cables are used. The copper conductor, however, is of uniform diameter throughout, the increased bulk and } COCR RSOOSOREEEY PI0ETEDETODEOOSCOSOOSEROORSOENEES PRICE FIVE CENTS OF WAR JOHN W. WEEKS: NOTED OFFICIAL PASS- ES AWAY AT SUMMER HOME IN LANCASTER, N. H. (By Asseciatea reas) LANCASTER, New Hampshire, July 12.—John W. Weeks, war secretary under Presidents’ Hard- ing and Coolidge, died here at his summer home at 3 o'clock stand- ard time this’ morning. | Death came from angina pectoris, and followed a long fight for health. Weeks died without recovering consciousness from a coma into which he lapsed early Sunday morning. Mrs. Weeks, his son, Sinclair, and Mrs. John Washing- ton Davidge, his daughter, were at his bedside when the ond came. Brief Life Sketch It was generally assumed in the event the Republican party won the national elections of 1921 that John W. Weeks would be a pen: ber of President Harding's « net. His selection for Secretary of the Navy or Seeretary of the Treasury was regarded as certain. — vey of the road from Poinsiona to|9¢ and Miss Mary Blang, 23, and the Tamiami Trail, under instruc-| demanded surrender of the ma- t'ons from the county commission- ‘chine, but beth protested and were | shot to death. MeWain was cap- tured after-an ar ee chase. ‘TRAFFIC TOLL ee the regular. meeting of the county commissioners Mr. Blan- stated it comer here. are. over., “sever thousand of Tots" within’ the ‘tract; ‘a ee portion | -of ‘whom are us of settling there as soon as the area is made accessible. The developers, he maker stated today, is supported;im regard fo their feeding habits by the Carnegie Institute of Wash- | and distr’bution. Yngton, D.C. It is completely | * ~ Mr. Shoemaker says the results fitted wi.h all apparatus and every | of these sindies benefit every en- facility for studying the peg, oe that has any connection of sea life, both economic aud tax- ).Ayith the at ome of’..the- sea. onomic.. Scientists from “ govern-| loc Mahone be ment. insbitutions and. universities ag ten te iced go there during the summer sea’ { coptain fish lived upon and also son {o carry on investigations and knew. where suth food crows in secure further knowledge iof the the sea, ‘hey would know just ex- | of the improved New York-, “Azores power, has twin screws, a no~mal problems of marine life. The re-| actly where to go to find the kind creased facilities for trans-At- lantic communications much grea:- er than before the World War, jAs there had long been in se th ergs ‘ng the ¢ pena ig métdbPérm + ‘permallog an “and yin wel lcable and the laying now of the! j automatic devices for hag? | ‘te | weight. being the protective armor His success as a financier was. | tox the working part. ‘The ship which will be used. in ‘ the la: f the cable in the > Tiago eat of the, baif|effaire had boen recorded. ax ft- ting him for the navy secvetary- nage and a net [nage et 6008 “Tt is equil ‘ engines: of 5,000 pirat gan | steaming speed of 14 knots, and stone rancher, Indian fighter and| said, have already spent about a scout, who rode 180° milés with| half million dollars in improving) but one change of horses to reach| the conditions of the townsite and Helena about noon on July 4. Tells Story to Fisk Countryman learned the. story from “Muggins” Taylor, a scout from the Little Big Horn battle- field, who half dead from ex- haustion, reached _Countryman’s Tunch house at Stillwater, Mont. Countryman volunteered to carry the news to Bozeman and rush it to Washington over the govern. ment wire. He arrived there only to find the wire down. There was ngthing to do but continue the gruelling race to Helena. Helena was celebrating Inde- pendence Day. Fisk ever alert for news, had strolled downtown. Sit- ting in his office, he was startled by the appearance of a dust-cov- ered rider who spurred his jaded horse down the street, tumbled from the saddie and staggered into the building... It. was Horace Countryman, The exhausted courier gasped out the story of Custer’s last stand. By the time he had con- cluéed, Fisk had written the thrill- ing recital in. long hand. story from his’ pen, Horace Countryman, then went out to The Associated Press. The Official Report Gen. Custer took personal com- Maj. Reno was given troops A, G and M, and Capt. Benteen H. D.} and K, ard Capt. McDougal head- ‘ed Troop B, which acted as guard te the pack trains. The battle’ movement, reported by Gen. Terry te the Adjutant General on June, 27, was in part as follows: “At noon on June 22, Custer started with his whole regiment and a strong detachment of scouts and guides from the mouth of the Rosebud. Up the river he struck © a heavy Indian trail, which he found led to the Little Big Horn. There he found a village of al- most unexampled extent, and at once attacked. Maj. Reno with ,,, three companies was sent into the} valley of the stream at a point) where the trail struck it. Custer with five companies attempted to/ enter it about three miles lower down. “Reno forded the river, and! charged down its its left bank, dis- (Continued Gn on Page Two) they have petit’oned the county. commissioners for assistance in the construnciion of a‘road from GIVES LIST OF NUMBER KILLED AND “INJURED ASSOCIATED -PRESS HEAD-|—— sults of their studies are presented | to the public throughout the pub-| of fish they: want.” Mr. Shoemaker expects to re- j new and still further improved = a complement of 150 men, A rich life experience in the 60 | ble between New York and Lon-| Neations of the Carnegie Tnstitu-) main at the Dry ‘Tortugas labcr-! don. tion. Such problems as the disdases ; years preceding the appointment was found to have equipped Mr. The operation of laying. a sub- | mari rine cable begins with the land- | atory until the plant» closes for; Like the cable to the Azores, , the full season. the new New York-London cable} will be loaded -with permalloy. This is an alloy of iron and nickel ing of the first shore end. This part is co'led in the first of the ¢able-storage tanks kept on board} ship. The shore end is buried in Weeks for that duty also, and he soon was recognized as a ‘‘for- tunate selection” for the aimy, the townsite to the nearest point QUARTERS, July 12.—Traffic in | which under “certain conditions then facing the post-war problems The; quoting | j that the center mand of Troops C, E, F and L} on the Monroe county link of the Tamiami Trail, the matter being held in abeyance pending a report on all phases relating to the sub- ject. MAKING PLANS TO ‘FINISH ROADWAY RUSHED TO COM- PLETION That Dade county plans io rush construction on the Dade county end of the Over Sea highway is ind.cated in reports commg trom | Miami that J. D. Redd, chairman of the Dade county commissioners, has asked for $125,000 out of a | forthcoming bond issue of $2,900,- |} 000, for the ‘cons.ruction of the }road and bridges along Dade | county's portion of the thorough- | fare. | . Commissioner Redd — considers of traffic has shifted more and more to extreme | Southern Florida, and tha! the Over Sea highway will be perhaps the most traveled highway in this section of the state, and for this reason he is asking for an amount which he deems will be sufficient to finish the work on this import- ant highway as it should be. Coeeeeceeaevonereseesese AMUSEMENTS Seeseceseceoesooes STRAND THEARE TODAY—“The Golden Strain.” Al Roach Comedy. TOMORROW—Constance Tal- _in “Her Night of Ro- Comedy — “Nobody's en mance.” | Business.” SAN CARLOS Douglass McLain in “Never Say Die.” Musical Comedy Specialty Act, “The Girl Behind the Counter.” i DADE COUNTY END TO BE) TODAY AND TOMORROW—* 11 southern states killed 34 per- sons, injuring 246 during the past week, a survey conducted by the ;Associated Press revealed. The total compares with 37 |killed and 249 injured the week previous. © North Carolina lead all south- ern states in the number killed, }with seven, Alabama followed) \elosely with six, while Virginia and Florida reported four each. Georgia’ lead in injured, with) 42 for the week, ‘Alabama second| with 32, and Florida third with (31. ) EQUALIZATION BOARD DISSOLVED | my Anseciated Press) | NEW YORK, July 12.—Sugar)| equalization board created during the war to exercise government; supervision of marketing sugar in| the United States, was directed to/ dissolve by President Coolidge in! an executive order made public to- day. Large Crowds Attend Monroe And: Strand Theatres On Saturday, The movie fans of Key West are ; evidently keenly interested in the free trips to the Sesqui-Centennial exhibition which are being offer- ed by the Strand and Monroe Theatres. Both houses “enjoyed good pat- ronage Saturday, especially the? Monroe, which showed “Behind the Front.” This was one of the best comedies of the season, the lead being played by Wallace Beery. Mr. Carbonell, manager of the Monroe, states that he has booked the best plays obtainable, includ- ing such as “The Johtistown Flood,” “Brewn, of Harvard,” “East Lynne,” “Three Fates East,” and others equally as good. In a little more than three weeks two people will receive t and jfree trips to the centennial at the lexpense of theatres. these two local VETERAN LETTER CARRIER PAYS VISIT TO CITY CHARLES D. DUFFIE PUTS’! IN 32 YEARS IN CHICAGO! IN GOVERNMENT ACTIVI-| TIES | | | | | Charles D. Duffie, a civil serv- | ice employee who has been deliv- ering: letters in Chicago 32 years, | was an interesting visitor at the Key West postoff'ce Saturday af- ternoon. He said he was glad to meet the “boys” here. Mr. Duffie stared in as a letter} carrier in Chicago on ~ May = 12, 1895. He is now president of the jociation of letter carriers in the | windy city with a membership of 3,000. He is also treasurer of the | national association which now has | 52,000 members. This veteran Chicago letter car j rier had come ‘o this state to at-! tend the annual convention of the! | Florida division of the National Letter Carriers’ Association, held July 4 and 5 in Miami. He then visited Tampa and St. Petersburg and took a trip over to Cuba. He was enrouie from Havana to Chi- cago when he spent a while here Saturday. Mr. Duffie says this is not his, first trip to Key West, for he was) ‘here when only a boy, in 1890. but ; he had a distinct recollection of Duval street and the beaches here. He likes it fine here now and will }re:urn at frequent intervals in the future seasons. NOTICE TO MASONS Regular communication of An-! chor Lodge No. 182, F. & A. M., will be held tonight at § o'clock. All members are requestéd to at- tend. Visitors are always - wel- come. GARING, Secretary. Cc. £. Jaly12-1t ‘SHERIFF NILES, GOES TO BRING PRISONER BACK {a deep trench running to_a point | has a magneiic permeability many; beyond the low wa‘er mark. One tmes that of any other known, jend being made fast on shore, the substance. Engineers experi-| cable is paid out automatically \ mented for some time with vaw-| over the stern and sinks of its own ing percentages cf these two ele-| weight as the ship steams ahead. ments under different conditions| From the tank the cable i¢ led to bring back with him A. Dice, alias’ thousandthe of -an | the | York. | the result that. the Proportion of} approximately BO per cent nickel! and 20 per cent ivon, annealed’ COUNTY OFFICIAL TO TAKE A, DICE, NEGRO, IN CUS- land heat-treated in a particdlar| + TODY, WHO 15 NOW IN NEW! ed was found to be commercial-} ‘ jy producible at a cost which was YORK JAIL not prohibitive. Arcund the copper conductor of | | the new cable, which is 3800 nau- Sheriff Cleveland Niles left at! tical miles long, is wound a single et | continuous strip of permalloy one 7:30 last night for New York to, sah bf ak Woh. wite and i inch — thi ck. Lorencio Ortega, to answer te the) The permalloy is bedded in a spec- cherge of double murder m this | ial compound which is first applied city, it being alleged that during to the copper conductor in a thin! too mach slack, the brakes oi dis then coated on its out-| side with the same compound. the result of this loading of) a paroxym of rage he met a for- sai mer sweetheart, Mercedes Car- mancha and her escort Manuel Jiminez on Whitehead street Sat-| pormailoy is the capacity of up-| wday night June 26, opened fira, Wards of 2500 letters per minute} on them with a pictol, killing the, which -he new cable wll possess. | man instantly, the woman dy.nz While it is not strictly accurate, | 20 minutes. later. electrically speaking, to state that | Dice disappeared immediately | the loading of the cable increnses | | after the shooting, and every .pf- of temperature and .s.rain. with) he drum of the paying-out ma-| thine. This maca‘ne is . eq with brakes which can be instantly ndiusted to regulate the speed ith which the cable passes over the drum. The cable leaves the vessel over a great pulley or | sheave at the stern. Between his and the drum it passes over a dynanometer which indicates the strain on the cable. If the read- ing of the dynanometer indicates that the ctrain is too great the | brakes are eased off. If the ‘scale ind’cates that the cable is | going out at a rate which will give t ghtened. The whole atmosphere on board the ship while the cable is laid ia one of constant wat neas, from the experts who vise the uncoiling af the from the tanks to the watchers the stern who keep track of ¢ |number of miles paid out. } ficer of the law in the cify searched for him, but his hiding place was not located. On the following Monday at midnight Dice was seen by a colored man as he sipped aboard the Mallory Line Steamer San Jacinto when vessel was docked here en- route from Galveston to New The matier was immedi- ately reported to Sheriff Cleve- land Niles, who got into radio com- munication with the master of the San Jacinto and had Dice located and arrested aboardship. On Fri- day morning following the vessel armved in New York, and Dice was turned over io authorities there, Sheriff Niles received by mal yesterday morning the extradition papers from Governor Martin, and started on the next outgoing train for New York. He expects to be. back with Dice in about ten days. Chief Deputy Joseph Kemp was left in charge of the affairs of the erconena bow) cabranere kata sheriff's office during the absence ithe county jail goreghareg his case of the sheriff. im cirenit court was nolle promed. ROBERT SCOTT PLEADS GUILTY TO (fy Associated Frew) CHICAGO, July 12.—Robert Seott today pleaded guilty to the} murder of Joseph Maurer, drug clerk, for whose slaying of prison- ers, bis brother Russell Scott, has; been sentenced to hang on Octo- ber 16. MURDER CHARGE: } San Carlos Another girl Show. the lookout for good talent. To- ‘dey and tomorrow they play Also Douglas Mclain in Say Die.” of reorganization and reduction to % Kies! Bais It‘was seid of him that he “slid thoroughness and quickness that spelied confidence throughout the Wa> Depattment for the staff of- ficcrs and hundreda of subordinate mee a ‘hose who sought it “on th | metinds used by the hoy Locty {soon found it, They had only @ review the many-sided life of the man, which showed at a glance that he hed ‘lived® among live things, hed lrarurd to know them i E § H & ‘3 : nett ; i a i :