The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 13, 1926, Page 1

‘OLUME XLVIL. No. 165. STATE FIGHTS BATTLE OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN RECENT CAMPAIGN * INAUGURATED “ JACKSONVILLE, July 13.— Florida is fighting the battle of _ sll the people in the country in attacking the inheritance tax pro- vision of the federal General Rev- enue Act declares the American Taxpayers League, formerly the American Bankers League, ‘in a special bulletin distributed © throughout the United States. The text of the bulletin, No, 37, issued under date of June 29, follows: “The resistance which Florida is giving to the application of the Federal Inheritance Tax joint levy provision and the solidarity and energy of their opposition is the outstanding event in the affairs of the nation and one that has met with the applause of thinking peo- ple throughout the country. There is nothing that stirs American life quite so much as a struggle for freedom and a challenge to op- pression; Florida is fighting the battle of all the people. If Flor- ida must surrender to ‘congress the right to levy taxes for state purposes, then every state must surrender it and the common- ‘wealths become provinces and the legislatures vassals of the .Wash- ington government. “Florida has made. two very distinct moves. One hy the peo- _ ple expressing a determination to resist federal dictation on taxa- » tion andthe other in appealing . te the Supreme Court of the Unit- ed to stay the hand of con- | is now uplifted ‘feninst “The. Supreme Court ef the, has given fan petmision to come into court on a petition to ae 398 the conaiitutionality of and it is docketed for a hearing at the October’ session. “Tt is for the Suprenie Court of the United States to decide upon the econstitutionality’ of the act, but it is for the people of the ua- tion to determine upon the public poliey involved in such legislation. Public sentiment ia the court of last resort and the tyranny which congress visited upon the states in the passage of this act has aroused * people from ocean to reas @ state convention of sub- stantial citizens held at Palm Beach, Florida, recently, and en- dorsed by the press and approved by public expression of individuals and groups of citizens, a resolu- tion was pagsed which reveals the spirit and the determination of its citizens. The resolution reads: “*That the State of Florida de- clines to be coereed:into repealing ‘the constitutional provision for- bidding the levying of taxes upon the estates of dead men, but avows the intention of forever maintaining and continuing the constitutional amendment in ques- tion.’ “Florida claims the right to formulate a tax system’ best suit- ¢d to her economic needs; best adapted to her natural gifts, and one that represents the highest thought of her people. It is for the courts and the people of the nation to determine whether they heave a right to do so and with that decision the rights of every commonwealth to think, and act for itself in affairs of state is de- termined.” AMUSEMENTS STRAND THEATRE TODAY ~— Constance Talmadge in “Her Night of Romance.” Comedy—*“‘Nobody’s Business.” TOMORROW — “Three Paces East.” Comedy—“South of ~ the North Pole.” SAN CARLOS TODAY—Dougias McLain in “Never Say Die.” Musical Comedy and Specialty Act—“The Girl Be- hind the Counte ‘TOMORROW—*The Price of a Party.” Also Musical Comedy. lorida Precipitates Strong Fight In Attacking Inheritance Tax Law Key KEY WEST, FoRDA, FURSDAY, JULY 13, 1926. 'BODY OF MRS. ANNIE WHITNEY ARRIVES HERE REMAINS OF FORMER KEY WESTER TO BE INTERRED | IN KEY WEST: THIS AFTER-} NOON | | ‘The body ‘of Mrs. Annie E.| Whitney, daughter of. Mrs. Annie) Albury, 1 Nassau Lane, this city, who died Saturday morning at her home in Miami atter a prolonged | illness, arrived here this morning over the F. E. C. and was con- veyed to the parlors of the Lopez) undertaking establishment — to’ await funeral service at 5 o'clock this afternoon, which will be from the Lopez chapel to the Fleming} srteet -Methodist church. Rev. ‘Thomas R. Adams, ihe pastor, will be the officiating minister. | Mrs. Whitney was the widow of} the late Joseph Whitney, a Spanish war veteran. who died in Jackson-| ville about eight years ago. In| recent yeats she had resided in| Miami, and is survived by two young sons, Allan and Fred. She was 34 years old. The two sons of ‘the deceased | accompanied the body io Key! West. These and her mother are the only immediate relatives sur- viving her. MAN HELD ON CHARGE OF SELLING MOON. SHINE. (By Associated Press) | MACON, Ga., July 13.—George Griswold is held in Bibb county | jail today on a blanket charge in| connection with the death Sunday night of Mattie May Bales, five! years old, which was caused phy- sicians believe by drinking poison- ed whiskey. Griswold. was arrested on com- plaint' of W. Bales, father of the tiny victim, who charges he pur- chased from Griswold last Satur- day half a pint of moonshine whiskey from which the child drank, the father told the police.} PROHIBITION HEAD RESIGNS POSITION (Ry “Ansocinted Prees) MIAMI, July 13.—H. M, Lueket, | head of the prohibition forces inj Miami district, today resigned to become chief clerk of the police | jdepartment of Washington, D. C He plans to leave tomorrow to} assume his new duties. AGREEMENT ON SURRENDER SIGNED | } (Ny Anseeiated Presa) PARIS, July 13.—Terms of the} | Franco-Mortocan accord was sign-| |ment signed in London yesterday | EDMILISDIES jing AGREEMENT ON FRENCH WAR DEBT SIGNED ANNOUNCEMENT MADE _ IN HOUSE OF COMMONS TO-| DAY; ALL INSTALLMENTS OUTLINED ‘ (By Associated Crean) | LONDON, July 13.—The settle-! by Finance Minister Caillaux | covers not only the French war debt but virtually all outstanding accounts between Great Britain | jand France. Announcement to this | effect was made in the House of | Commons today by Chancellor of} Exchequer Winston Churchill. | French. payments he said would | ibe four million pounds, six’ million pounds, eight million pounds and ten million pounds rising to rele million, five’ hundred thousand | pounds annually, the last named \figure being reached in 1930. From 1930 to 1956 payments will be twelve and a half million pounds annually rising to fourteen million pounds for the final thirty-one / years. | INMIAM, FLA. ON MONDAY. DECEASED WAS IN CHARGE] OF DREDGING OPERATIONS | | In ‘CONNECTION WITH : RAILROAD WORK'- es Rete News has been received by rel- atives in this city of the sudden | death of Ed C, Mills, which oc- curred in Miami yesterday morn Ed Mills was well and favor- ably known in Key West. He was in charge of a dredge during the cons.ruction of the Over-Sea railroad and resided here for sev- eral years. He married Miss Dora Perez, a popular teacher in Key West schools for several sessions, a niece of Mrs. Mary Taylor, on Caroline’ street. Mrs. Mills spent a few weeks in Key West quite recently, and has} many friends here who will sym- pathise with her in-her great be- reavement. Mr. Mills is survived by several brothers, one of them, John, being | famous Italian employed on the. boai Anton! Dhorn in the service of the Car-| j negie institute at Dry Tortugas. | Messagse received here did bet give any details as to funeral a) H rangements, ‘OFFICERSUSE = SEIZED AUTO ed here today in connection with Abd El Krim, the Riffian chief, | who surrendered to the French to j de exiled to Reunion, Islands i in the | ell Ocean. PROVISIONS FOR CLERICAL HELP| (Ny Awxociated Presa) TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 13 = |—County commissioners. of Flor- ida may employ clerical assist- ance, wherever the duties of their office justify, Attorney General 3. B. Johnson declared in an fopinion here. ~ VOLUNTEERS FOR EXILE GATESHEAD, Eng.—De- nounced in court os a “fit subject for Seviet rule,” Edward Lawther offered to accept deporiation to | Russia with his family. KISS costs JOB CHICAGO. Mins. Jane Riordan was discharged as hospits! hecause she kissed a conve male patient. AUTOMOBILE CAPTURED RE- CENTLY IN RAID CON. DUCTED The Velie automobile recently | jseized by local customs officers, containing smuggled goods has been taken over by the customs service for the use of inspectors tin discharge of their official duties. Appropriating captured beats and automobiles for the of-; fieial use of custom officials is permitted by an act recently pass- e Local customs officers sav they’ believe that the stealing end burn- ing ef Inspector Peaden’s car some. time ago was the work of smneelers, and now that they are: enabled to use the Velie, captured from smugglers, they frel thet the score has about’ heen evened. SPANISH HAIR-RAISER CORUNNA, SpainLais Sam- eta jumped to escape a snesdins nUTS€ auto, was struck by another and | 0M? F airest oO Esther Hackman of Peru, Il., _ SUDDEN DEAT cvcccccccscvccceccssenes | World Flyer I ERAL THURSDAY 4; Commander Fi will start the tor, around In the cour to fly clear acre non-stop a 44,800-mile fi world in Augns of it he will tr; the Pacific ocean, a flight of 2560 miles. ‘ELEVEN MILLION — PRICE PAID FOR OLD NEWSPAPER | KANSAS CITY STAR TO RE- MAIN IN HANDS OF EDITOR KIRKWOOD AND HIS ASSO- CIATES (Ry Aseocinted Press) KANSAS CITY, July 13:—The} X ar will remain in} Kirkwood, pres- | the hands of frw out editor and his associates. The! sale of the Siar and its morning edition the Times, for $11,000,-' 000 to Kirkwood and associates’ was announced last night by the {trustees of the estate of William; | Rockhill Nelson, founder of the newspaper. Eight bids were considered in the proceeds of the sale to go into the trust fund established by Nel- son in his will for the purchase of a collection of works and repro- duction in fine atts to be main- tained in Kansas Cii Other properties included in the estate will bring the fund &p, to $26,000,000. CANNIBALS IN NIGERIA LONDON ts the) prettiest gir} in De Pauw University, Greencastle, Ind. Her fellow students picked her out of 30 entries in a Contest conducted by the editors of the Zaiversity year ‘book. FERNANDO H. GATO MEETS the Co-Eds NAKING SEARCH FOR ADDITIONAL f TN RUINS OF ARSENAL AT LAKE DENMARK | Western Union’s New . Work is proceeding rapidly on the world’s fastest. cable now be-| ing laid between New York and London for the Western Union. Already approximately three hun- dred miles of it have been laid out from Penzance, England, and the giant ship Colonia is now pushing her prow eastward from Bay Rob- erts, Newfoundland, through waters of the Atlantic to meet this buoyed end, The final splice of this section will be made about the ; middle of July. The Colonia will then reload with cable and will proceed to lay the section from | Bay Roberts. to New York, com- | pleting it in September. While engaged now in the lay- ing of this permalloy cable, ‘the! Colonia keeps a careful record of every mile laid, This is done so | that if a break occurs any seciion oe tae the cable may be picked up| without difficulty and the neces- sary repairs made. To grapple) for a broken cable in the black; depths of the ocean seems to be an | almost hopeless task but so care-) | fully and completely are the re- cords kept. that the picking up ofa particular section in two or three Sales of. water is all in the day’s; works : H PES PRN IN KEY| ‘it is possible to tell from the shore | by electrical measurements how far from either end the trouble} lies. A cable ship then hurries| to the spot which is clearly indi-| eated on the chart made when the cable was laid or last repaired. Hav! arrived at the »"place where ‘cable tg to se np the ship puts: 0 hored b DR. RODRIGUEZ; FUN-| many “Years a pert busifiéss| and forth #érosy the line of cable | mga and prominent citizen of Key| drasging a gtapnel which resem- | bles a five-pronged anchor over | West be = pease ears. Ain the.sea floor...In shallow water ;fluential resident of: Havana, | on ordinary grapnel is used but a simple. matter, once the cable has been hooked, to splice in a new section and then haul up the other end and splice that on, Mest of the breaks, however, occur in shallow water near the) shore as there is little to interfere with the ecable’s smooth working! in the depths of ihe sea. Near the shore the cadle has a host of | enemies both animate and inani-| mate. The worst of these expec-| ially in the warmer waters, is the teredo, the boring sea worm against whose ravages ships’ bot-' toms ere copper sheathed and wharfp.les are conereted. As a protection against the teredo the| shore ends of cables have a layer of brass tape wound about them between the gutia percha. in: tion and the galvanized sheathing wires. In northern waters, icebergs grounding on shoals, ie grind | the cables flut exposin# the eon- ductor or severing it entirely,| Once the carcass of a whale, en- iangled in many loops of cable, was hauled up by a ‘cable ship.! It was diselosed that the animal's | death struggle had parted the ca- ble. At another time the story of what had happened to the in- sulaiion was told by the finding of a shark’s tooth imbedded in the cable’s eovering. Closer in shore; cables are often caught up by the trawis of fishing boats which drag the ocean bottom to a depth of 200 fathoms or more. The first interna jonal cable laid — from Dover, England, to Calais, ie. was picked up by a fisherman thought jt bor iy a new kind of et e have an exagger- dae the-cost of the- pres: ei day cablegram. In 1866 it vost $100 to send.20 words to Eu- rope. Today g 20- week-end | eablegram can be sent ‘o London, for instance, for from $1. to $1.80) SEARCH CONDUCTED BY FORCES (Ry Assectated Proxs) DOVER, N. J., July 13.—Cessa- tion of bombardment by shells to- day warranted unimpeded re- covery of the dead and help to the living on New Jersey's peace- time battlefield. Several hundred soldiers and marines were on duty about Lake Denmark's naval depot in search of additional} victims from the ex- ploding ammunition which-after a flash of lightning Saturday after. noon reduced the depot and miles of surrounding country to rain. Seventeen bodies, ten of which have |been identified through records sent from Washington by | airplane were brought in today. Shifting winds which took ex+ piriug flames toward the unex: plored maghsines caused & stop- page in the explorations yeaterday afternoon by order of Secretary of the Navy Wilbur, ; MAJOR GENERAL WALLER RE. TIRED, WAS IN SEVEN. » de Pinedo, | "| brothers, | Cuba, died quite suddenly ‘in this icity at 11 o’clock lest night at the {home of his brother-in-law, Dr. iE. Rodriguez, 925 Fleming street. | ‘The deceased was born in New} | York. on. May 17, 1873, and was} leducated in New York colleges. | |After locating in Key West. he} was married to Miss. Dolores Rod-| jriguéz, sister of Dr. E. Rodriguez, | 925 Fleming street. The wife and jtwo daughters, Resiroe and Mer- cedez, survive him, as does his lvenerable and _ internationally | wn, father, Eduardo H. Gato,} of Havana. He also leaves three} Eduardo, Jr, and} Thomas, of this city, and Fran- cisco, of Havena; three sisters, Mrs. Abelardo . Hernandez, Mrs. Anas Maria Miyares and Miss aria Gato, all of Havana, Cuba. | "Mr, Gato arrived from Havana} jon July 2, coming to Key West to attend the. Fourth of July cele-| —— and to visit relatives and} ends, He was apparently in} ual health, and went out driving yesterday morning. He) first complained of illness at about | 11 o'clock yesterday. His relatives | soon became alarmed over his con-| \dition, and everything known to} * medical skill was done to save his{ life, but -all efforts of loved ones, friends and. physicians were in vain. He was stricken with heart trouble and the end drew jrapidly near until 11 o'clock, when | | table, cuts it in two and holds one for depths of a mile or more a special form of grappel has been devised which, when it hooks the It is depending upon the location of the| send'ng office. And all one has. to do to send a cablegram, is to lift the telephone receiver and dic-| ‘ate the message io the pperator. | TIETH YEAR od (BY Anointed Prenat of the severed ants tightly. ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey, MORTGAGE FIRM CHANGES METHOD OF REMITT ANCES DESIROUS OF HAVING PAY-| MENTS MADE THROUGH! NEW CHANNELS JACKSONVILLE, Faty 13°— | For the information of Floridians Florida’s automobiie license tags! generslly, and. especially those j who have business h finance concerns, the Florida State Cham- ber of Commerce announces that the Mortgage & Acceptance Cor- sore ion, Baltimore Maryland, which heretofore has conducted substant‘al business in Florda end which maintains Florida head- quarters in Jacksonville, an office at Miomi ard egents in other citivs in the state has sent the foi- lowing notice io Floridians whose July 13.—Major General Littleton W. TT. Waller, United States Marine Corps, retired, died at 2 16 MAKE CHANGE IN LICENSE TAGS ic. * ON AUTO CARS: The general was stricken with pneumonia ten days ago. Ha was | wisiting at the shore with Mr. | MARYLAND CORPORATION 15) |ORDERED THAT ‘WORD FLor. |, Waller. “He was in his soventieth year, IDA BE SPELLED OUT IN) FULL; WOULD MAKE same | Demonstrations of SMALLER } i \ JACKSONVILLE, July 18—~|° The Bubble Boat, origttatad it Deauville, France, has come. to for 1927 will have the word|Key Wet, end demonstrations “Florida” spelled in full instead | will be given every afternoon, be- of abbreviated as in past yeatsiginning at 5 o'clock, at the: Comptretier Ernest Amos has ad-/ Isle Casino. vised H. C. Case, president of the! The First Tent & nerng St. Petersburg Motor Club. “Flor-| Manufacturing Company of Key ida,” in capital letters, will appear | West is distributor for the play- on the bottom of the tag under) ime contrivance, which caq.bq aopn the number. | luring the day at the factory of The Florida Stste Chamber of the company, corner of Fleming Commerce, advised of the change end Margaret streets, from St. Petersburg, has not learn- ed whether it is the intention of! ARRIVES IN CITY paper it holds:: : “NOTICE “Owing to the unfortunste de- he passed away. The announce- ment of his death cast a pall of! gloom over the entire city. 1 Fernando Hidalgo Gato had! been actively identified with the! E. H. Gato Cigar Company many years, and was first vice! jpresident of the corporation at the time of bis death. He was » man) oy. any Florida Bank. “Remit by P. 0. or Express M. jthe Comptroller to remove the outline map of the state now! borne by the tags. Plorida’s tage, ‘saps the Chamber, are too large: tag one end of it, if nttached to! ® bracket on the left of the car, — W. ©. Boutwell, assistant gene oral vassenger egent of the 7. F. c. By. ts in town to mest the velopment in the Florids benking and might easily be reduced iniverty of epilway conductors ere situation we ere forced to discon-isize if the map were eliminated. tiring from Heavens today oF tinue accepting checks drawn on|Recouse of the size of the present leaving on « special trein en route ckeonvilie. ong :: to Je widely popular in business, sociel and fraternal circles, being an ac- tive member of the Coral City) Leotige Knights of Pythias, 2 Masons, the Shrin x Varela Lodge No. 64, aa , Slso Cohan Lodge ‘ae Odd! Fellows No. 15. The foneral service in K West will be held at 6:20 o'clock “Mortgage & Acceptance Cor- porn. ion, “Baltimore, The Chamber declared that any! comment it might make with re ference to the manner in which! ! Floridians should regard the no | tie of the Baltimore concern wonid | “superfluous”. Meryland.” umelly jnte beyond the fender, to he bent or torn off by coming in contact with garage doors of other care while parking. COOLIDGE HAS NO PLAN FOR CAMPAIGN: (My Asanotated Preamp PAULSMITHS, fiew ROMANCE York, Thursday morning at the residence | “~~ | July 13.—-President Coolidgs han. of Dr. Rodriguez, 925 Fleming street, arrangements for which will be announced later, and the body will then be conveyed to Hs. SOMETHING NEW Weber & Fields biggest kit, “Tpe Girl Behind the Counter,” wilt be} [no plan at present fer participa itien ins congrestional this fall sad im its sheeace any isanouncement from him with any van, where a final servier will he stared by the players at San Car-ipeterences to the subject that may | made. MeLain in “Never Say Dic.” a- eondueted and interment will bejlox Theatre today. Alea Dougias | appear should be regarded ay) imere sappesitions,