The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 20, 1926, Page 1

SEXTREME HEAT IN CHICAGO — Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME XLVII. No. 171. KEY WEST, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1926. TAKES HEAT WAVE CARRIES MERCURY 10 HIGH MARK IN MANY SEC- TIONS OF COUNTRY (By Asnociated Prexn) CHICAGO, July 20.—The tor- | rid wave prevalent over virtually the entire country from the Rocky Mountains/eastward has sent the mercury to record heights in @ number of midwestern lo- ealities, and caused more than a score of deaths. : In Chicago alone, which until thes Yesterday enjoyed moderate tem- peratures due to lake more than twelve deaths were at- tributed to the extreme heat. The high mark of 94.2 was reached here, exceeded however in portions of South Dakota, Ne- braske, Iowa and Kansas, temperatures generally breezes, rangec between 98 and 107, the latter in Mitchell and Pierre, South Da- IN MANY SECTIONS OF COUNTRY aay {My Asnocinted Prova ? MISSOULA, Montana, July 20. —Heavy clouds of smoke over- hung the timbered regions in the northwestern part of the United Staies as several thousand fire fighters continued’ their battle with forest and brush fires that have claimed a dozen lives and have wrought extensive damage during the last ten days. Thruogh California, Nevada, Idaho, Washing:on and Montana the fires raged on the east. Available United States troops from Fort Missoula were sent into fre lines last night ‘in an attempt to control the blazes that have covered upward of thirty thousand scres on all sides of Glacier Na- tional. Park. OFFICIAL DIES OF HEART DISEASE {Ry Associated & NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 20.— Frank M. Thompson, 65, attorney general of Tennessee since Sep- tember 17, 1913, died here this morning following a severe heart attack. aki es ON PLEBISCITE {Ry Associated Prenat MANILA, July 20.—The Philip- ime senate today passed ove jovernor General Wood's veto bill providing for a plebiscite o the question of independence. SeSeeeerevceseeceeseeese AMUSEMENTS MONROE THEATRE TODAY—“The Phantom Ex- press.” Also Comedy and Vaude- ville, STRAND THEATRE TODA Y — “East Lynne.” Comedy—“Give Me Strength.” TOMORROW—"The Exquisite Sinner.” Comedy — “Wages of Tin.” SAN CARLOS TODAY—*Deserted at the Altar.” Comedy——“Charley, My Boy.” TOMORRO W—“Bad Com pany.” Also Musical Comedy. OVER TWELVE LIVES where \|rail and telegraph communication | Wednesday the heat in the British | KEY WEST NOW ENJOYS USUAL BALMY WEATHER Temperatures In Many Parts of World Vary Greatly | Exceeding Records For Past Twenty-Five Years; | | west Section of Argentine; Heat In British Me-! tropolis Registers 121 Degrees On Glass Exposed | To Sun | { In Key West, where are neither ly affecting the prosperity of the chimneys nor winter, the weather |United States, conditions existing throughout the | Many scientists are cited as in- world this summer would seem to’ dorsing the theory, though their| be a topic of extreme interest. |xtterances are not given. These Two or three days ago 22 feet of | include Dr. Rutgers Sernander of snow were reported in the south-|the University of Upsale, Sweden; west section of Argentine, in @/ Helmut Gans of Switzerland, Rolf dispatch from Buenos Aires. | Northagen of Norway and Guner The present winter there, if Key Exrtman of Stockholm. Westers can imagine it—the pres-| sir Napier Shaw, the only Brit- ent winter—is said to be the worst | ish expert quoted, admits cautious- in 25 years. Snow has been fall- ly that the measurements of solar ing in some sections for more thar radiation the last few years indi- a week, paralyzing. all activities! cate “radiation has been less and and creating a food’ shortage at ‘joss each year, but of course there some points. is possibility that this is due to The temperature has faller| progressive improvement in the eight degrees below zero, Fahren- method of measuring.” heit, in the neighborhood of Chu-| The past week southern England but. The snowfall in the foothills entered upon the third day of aj of the Andes, near Nequen, has|hoat wave with the temperature not been equaled for 30 years.|in London standing at 81 degrees} Advices from Mendoza say that|in the shade. At noon last Sie be Sd seis route hav’) metropolis registered 121 ‘degrées n,badly tied up. jon a glass exposed to.the sun, ‘The snow is 22 feet deep in the| ‘At the. same time, beautifuk and vicinity of Juneal on the Chilean! sinny Italy4was suffering from| co - = co Railway | unprecedented deluges of rain, and ai om ‘ely. that normal sieit damage wus weported: Tailway communication will be ré-'" “yet despite weather conditions ies anger gsi aed end” of jas the cables report them, summer umust. ¢ winter there is de-'is the same in all parts of’ the scrihed as the severest since 1873. | northern hemisphere, according to ‘Kodiak—not the home of the|the calendar from the June sol-/ camera of that sort of a sounding |stice to the September equinox. as sagiep ere pscndad Behca tey to say from June 21 to! at for the irs' ime nown pt. * there, wild geese are nesting in| In Ireland it is said the weather marshes along the coast of the jis more mild than in New England | Alaskan Peninsula, 1,000 miles/or in most parts of Britain, and farther south than the Yukon|the contrast between winter andj Delta River. It is believed the|summer is not so marked, though} birds sense the coming of an un-|summer seems to arrive earlier in| nsual early winter, nossibly before Ireland. In Boston the average] the goslings could flv. |January temperature is 28; in| The presence of ice in: Bering | Dublin 42 degrees. In Boston the | Twenty-Two Inches of Snow Reported In South- | Russell and Robert Scott SHCOCCOCCOSOOSO OSLO OSOOODSOOSOODELEOTESEOOOOOOEO® Both convicted of the same murder, Robert and Russell Scott gree.ed each other in the Chicego jail after Robert (lef) had been sentenced to life imprisonment. Russell is under senience of death and is to be hanged this fall. GRAND JURY STARTS WORK INVESTIGATING AFFAIRS OF KERS TRUST COMPANY $$$» ORGANIZATION _.ADMIT INABILITY TO MEET WITH BOND REPRESENTATIVE 4 { i } | MEET DEMANDS COUNTY BOARD CONFERS) | (Ry Ansocinted Press) WITH W. N. WATKINS RE-) ATLANTA, July 20.—The Ful-| LATIVE TO FINANCES ON ton county grand jury today be- | HIGHWAY MATTERS | |gan an investigation into the af- |tairs of the Bankers Trust Com-} ! ‘ : | The county commissioners met Pany, whose financial embarrass-| in special session this morning for! ment has been officially blamed the purpose of holding a confer-/ Sea is keeping the temperature of jJuly average is 72 and in Dublin Norton Sound far below the pe ag is 60 degrees. son’s average. Weather condi-| But New England is suffering} tions may affect in some way the}from drought and delayed spring | food supply of wild geese, causing and an unprecedentedly cool sum-| them to seek new nesting places. (mer this year. In Concord and} ence with W. N. Watkins, repre- | £F the closing of 80. small banks sentative of Marx & Co., of Birm-/in Georgia and Florida last week. | ingham, Ala., relative to the mat-} ter of offering additional bonds of the highway issue for sale to get funds to carry on the road The federal receivership for the Trust Company was granted after! the Atlanta creditors brought upon | ‘be delays. surety officials. For 47 Years Us Interests oi Key W ’ PRICE FIVE CENTS TWO OKLAHOMA OFFICIALS — BECOME GRAZED BY LIQUOR RUNNING AMUCK IN HOTELS Massachusetts Adopts Drastic Automobile Law To Protect Pedestrians EVERY AUTO: CAR IN OPERATION MUST BE COVERED WITH SUF- FICIENT INSURANCE | | BOSTON, July 20.—Not since registration of cars and examina- tion of automobile drivers had such a drastic measure to protect pedes- trians and automobile owners from the careless driver been adopted as a Massachusetts law. This will require that the owner of every automobile operating within the state be covered with insurance of at least $5,000, a| bond of that amount, or securities or cash of that value. The law will become effective Jan. 1. In the meantime state officials! and representatives of | companies are working hatd © on plans to speed up registration next year, for it is expected that the new insurance ents will than -twite’ 2s much suing of-license plates ant drivers’ licenses and examination: of ap- plicants. SS Incidentally it will mean that Massachusetts will be the most ex- vensive state in which to operate an automobile. It is expected that when Jan. 1 comes around thousands of owners will hesitate more than once before they put up the insurance policy. } Insurance companies will be flooded by people wanting policies! and if there is any attempt to in- vestigate the holders before con- sidering them good risks there will | Then there will be} those who are turned down by} From such decisions there is) | provided an appeal to a state com-|July 20.—Commissioner Fenning mission, too. Just how many of the policies That will mean delay,! OFFICERS CONFER ON MATTERS IN RECENT MURDER THEORY ADVANCED THAT CANTON PUBLISHER MAY HAVE BEEN KILLED BY PITTSBURGH GUNMEN (Ny Associated Prean) CANTON, Ohio, . July 20.— Theories that Pittsburgh gunmen killed Don R. Mellett, Canton pub- lisher, were strengthened today at a conference between Lieuten- ant Peter Conners of the Pitts- burgh homicide. squad, and Ora Slater, Cingjnnati detective, con- ducting an investigation for Stark county. After the “conference Conner} sped back to Pittsburgh ‘to fight! ‘habeas eorpui dee brought by George Pisaliag held in Pitts- burgh in connection with © the murder investigation. » OFFICIAL STEPS OUT OF OFFICE COMMISSIONER OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TENDERS RESIGNATION i | (By Axsocinted Prensa) PAUL SMITHS, New York, of the District of Columbia has re- signed. The resignation it was) announced at the executive offices | FOUR PERSONS ARE SHOT AND SEVERAL CLUBBED DURING IN- CIDENT (iy Associated Press) MUSKOGEE, Okla., July 20.—Four persons were shot and wounded, two seriously, and eight others clubbed by two Muskogee officers who early today became crazed by liquor secured in’ rr’. and ran amuck in three hotels, The officers, Paul Davis, deputy sheriff, and Ves Co- mack, city detective, ran about . the halls of the hotels bat- — tering down doore and firing | at guests as they lay in their | beds. When the ammunition be- . cam: exhausted, they beat - the victims with clubs, and amashed windows and fik- tures, Fellow officers responding to the riot eall were forced to _ shoot Davis several times in the fight to overpower him, His condition is critical. Cor- mack was easily subdued and placed in jail. Several other persons believed to have beea injured, but had pot been re- ported to the police. Officers investigating the case said Davie and Cormack hed been engaged in liquor raids during the evening. A search of their roome reveal- ed several empty bottles and @ quantity of whiskey. BANK MATTERS Herbert Browne, Washington’s ocean weather expert, says it is to be 1927, and not this year, which will see the return of the so-called summerless 1816 type of weather. |In 1816 ice formed during the Lexington, Massachusetts, on June rank on the highway to the main- 17, there was a killing frost, and/iang, Nothing definite was deci- jmarket gardens were hit severely.|4oq upon, and the matter will | Trees throughout the district have | probably be held in abeyance un- their leaves edged with brown, /+i) the next regular meeting, or bankruptey -proceedings following the appointment of a temporary receivership in the Fulton county and are half dead, Many beauti- ful white birches, the pride of |New England lawns, stand sere jand dead through drought. There have been fewer thunder \storms this summer in the north, due doubtless to the fact that the general average of weather has been sub-normal, and therefore not of the lightning-breeding type. Despite what the scientists say, that “the seasons. are not chang- ing’ something _ is happening | ;throughout the wold, which is at- tracting the attention of people everywhere. Here in Key West) how little can even we who know! snow, through having come into contact with it during winters in the north, believe or comprehend that 22 feet of snow choke the Argentine district of South Am- erica today! Or how can we be led to con- ceive that the vast valley reaches tof the great White Mountain range in New Hampshire lie under their winter mantle of white, un- melted because of the cold sum- mer weather, while vacationists summer in-the fields as far south jas Pennsylvania. Browne bases this prediction on the decrease in ithe sun’s radiation which has been |below normal for more than three | years. | He foresees a severe winter |just ahead with heayy snowfall jand long continued cold waves fol- |lowed by a late spring. A Swedish scientist is predicting the return jof the “fimbul winters” to north- lern Europe, for the same reason, {that is three winters without in- |tervening summers worth speak- ing of as such. These fimbul win- ters are disastrous to crops in jorthern Europe. This week the Westminster jazette, published in London, gave great prominence under seare-headlines to an article about ithe Ice Age, which it asserts is labout to commence again. Accord- ling to a copyrighted cable in the |New York World, “This summer jmay be the last worthy of the mame. With the passing of the period of maximum sun spots in at another special session that may be called. The agreement, plans and spe- cifications for the Monroe county portion of the Tamiami Trail, as drawn by the state road depart- ment, have been received by Clerk D. Z. Filer, but were not examined at the special meeting this morn- i SIX ROBBERS HOLD UP MESSENGER superior court. The temporary receivership was granted on a petition from a bauk of Umatilla, Florida, which al- leged the Trust Company obtained dollars for distribution to small banks in Georgia and Florida. The Umatilla Bank declared that the Trust Company admitted its (Ny Axsociated Pre ST. LOUIS, July 20.- six robbers today shot and wound- ed Sandy Morgan, negro messen- MANY INJURED ger of the City Trust Company, | when he resisted a hold-up, and IN TRAIN i escaped in an automobile with WRE $16,000. . inability to pay. ive or PEDDLER’S GIFT TO TOWN (ILLINOIS CEN TRAL COL. LIDES WITH WORK TRAIN DUBLIN—The town of Ennis- killen is buying many shade trees with $3,000 given by James Rich- ards, an Irish peddler. will go to insurance companies is # j merely a guess. The amount will ¥4% Placed in the hands of Attor- run into millions. But with all, ney General Sargent by request of the extra cost of operation and the President Coolidge before the GEORGIA COURT increased amount of claims to president left Washington. ' settle and defend, the insurance | supce INSTRUCTS GRAND men state the law is not going to be a bonanza for them. While it is generally admitted that eventually this new law will benefit both sides. it pointed out that special traffie courts will automobile cases, both civil and criminal. As it is now, it takes about three years for a case to go through the courts for final settle- ment. é A traffic court of this nature has already been recommended here. Just what effect this new law will have on the sales of new cars is problematical, With practical-| ly all cars being sold on the time payment basis, it means that the purchaser is going to be heavily loaded with payments on the driver’s license fee, registration fee and the premiums on his in-! surance. Meanwhile, the other states of, the anion will be watching with interest the first attempt in the world to give uniform protection Funeral Rites For | Ossian Acheson Set For This Afternoon’ Five o'clock this afternoon is! from it several hundred thousand {have t be established to handle ithe hour set for the funeral ser-| vice over the body of Ossian Ache-} son, aged retired seaman, who died) yesterday at his home, 618 Wil- liam street, at the age of 68) years. The funeral will be from} the residence to the Congregation-; al church and will be conducted} by the pastor, Rev. Eldridge. i The pallbearers will be selected! from friends of the deceased in/ this city } Mr. Acheron enjoyed the friend- ship an! esteem of many people! in this city, and it in expected that) a large congregation will attend! the obseqaies this afternoon. | KILLS HUNDREDS, EPIDEMIC CALCUTTA—Hundreds of na- tives are dying on the Arakan coast of Barma following a tidal JURY TO ASCERTAIN FULL DETAILS IN RECENT FAIL- URZS 5 —— (Ry Ansocintes Preans ATLANTA, July 20.—The grand jury in Fulton county super- jor court today was called upon by Judge G. H. Howard to ascertain the cause of the closing of “so many’ amall banks in Georgia, atid to learn “why the failure of the Bankers Trust company has ‘af- feeted so many small banks.” With this instruction in his charge to the jury, Judge Howard added: “if you find anyone has violated the law of state, and caused or contributed to unfertun- ate result, you know your duly, and | apprehend you will fearlem- ly perform it.” “EAST LYNNE” the next two years, the sun’s pow- ér will decline, with resulting low- er temperatures and revolutionary changes in the life of our planet.” Among changes predicted are a fall of five degrees in the averace temperature, movement of the Polar ice cap farther south to be- set Atlantic steamer routes with ieeberss, and much later spring. affecting production and cost of food. It is figured that the wheat- rrowing belt will <-have te mor much nearer the Equator, serious | play at snowballs in the guiches and ravines a mile or two above their tennis courts and golf links. Truly, nature is plaving strange) tricks on the humans this 1926. The truck gardens of the north are almost one month behind in their products: new potatoes which should have been on sale ‘three weeks and more ago are just coming inte the market; green peas are in tradition presumed to he thourh ereen. in time “rine” (Continued om Page Five) (Ry Associate? Press} CHICAGO, July 20—A dozen persons were injured today when “ ANY” BAD COMP the Illinois Central Railroad. sub-' You are judged by the company) urhan train, collided with a work! you keep. See “Bad Company,” a’. 7 stirring play of the silver screen. |=" the yards. Also vaudeville and musical comedy specialties. SAN CARLOS THEATRE TOMORROW BLIP aIIr aaa. AS ES bd badd Six of the injured were taken to ithe heapital where it was said ail would recover. The suburban train was crowd-_ ed with passengers bound for; downtown offices when it met the work train bead on. i “East Lynne” has been the beast known love story for the pxst fifty years. Ne doubt you beve read the book, and if you have vou certainly will want to see the picture. Hf you have not, soe “East Lynne” anywey. It's a wonderful picture. STRAND THEATRE - TODAY in a financial way to those who are injured. or their families if they are killed, by the reckless drivers. NOTICE The regular meeting ef Dade) If the person writing me @ let- Lodge No. 14 will be held Wednes-| under date of July 14. and day evening, July 21, at & p. m. siening himself as W. A. Sands, Work in the E. A. Degree. All will call at 330 Elizabeth street resident and visiting Masons in- I will be giad to give him some vited to attend. valuable information. | By order of the W. M. (Signed) W. A. COOPER. 4. J. TREVOR, jaly20-1tx Secretary. wave that overwhelmed many villages. NOTICE | july26-1¢ :