The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 26, 1926, Page 1

* : i if is A H ° iz ' ' Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME XLVII. No. 176. TRAFFIC IN SOUTHERN STATES CAUSES LARGE NUMBER OF FATALITIES FIGURES COMPILED SHOW 157 DEATHS WITH OVER ‘THOU- SAND INJURED « (By Aasocinted Press) ASSOCIATED PRESS HEAD- QUARTERS, July 26.—Traffic exacted a toll of 157 lives, and in- jured 1,030 persons in eleven southern states during a period from June 28 to July 25, inclusive, ‘it was revealéd in a survey con- ducted by the Associated Press. "Despite the fact that the peak of the summer season was reach- 5 ‘ed during the season covered, and ‘when the automobile owning pub- lie was seeking “great open “spaces” for succor from the torrid “confines of cities, the total fatali- tiés with the exception of June was % ‘the smallest of any month this : a . “More persons were killed dur- * than any other week of the month, North Carolina led all etates in a Sead. number of TESTS FOR AIRWOMEN LONDON—A schedule of tests women aviators has been pre- All must pass before they carry passengers. z pee eeevemeseres x “WEATHER CONDITIONS * Continuing its northwest- * ward movement the tropical storm is now a mtly off © the Florida coast ‘and centered * over the northern Bahama Is- Ld ~ Northeast “storm * warnings remain displayed * from Titusville to Key West. * This storm is of hurricane P tere and all. vessels are ‘warned to exereise cat in _ ® ite vicinity. high- * tion of the and is South- the last 24 hours showers along the ntic coast and lo- * the middle Missis- * iu F = ; Killed Man Rev, Dr. J. Frank Norris of Fort Worth, Tex., is at liberty under $10,000 bond following the slaying of D. KE. Chipps, wealthy lumber man. Chipps called at his study to remonstrate with him for his attacks on the mayor of Fort Worth, and Dr. Norris said he shot when Chipps threatened his life. RED CROSS AIDS SUFFERERS FROM BIG EXPLOSION ORGANIZATION’S DISASTER "FORCES ARE‘OPERATING AT _ LAKE DENMARK, NEW JER. ‘SEY 1 Civilian vietims of the arsenal explosion at Lake Denmark, near Dever, New Jersey, are being eared for by American Red Cross disaster forces, operating under T. R. Buchanan, Assistant Nation- ‘al Director of the Disaster Relief Service. j Director Buchanan, acting un- der instructions from the Mayor's Citizens’ Committee, has con- solidated all relief forces under the Red’ Cross banner. An ap- propriation from National Red Gross funds has been authorized and Chapters in New Jersey, New York, Peansylvania and Delaware have bevn given permission.to re- ceive funds contributed - for dis- aster relief. In a report to National Hegd- anan said that the society is car- ing for 900 refugees and estimated that an additional three hundred, ‘seettered to other sections, have not been taken into account. From |300 to 350 homes were damaged, jhe stated, and between 50 and 75 ‘quarters Tuesday, Director Buch- | | MEMBER OF WATER DISTRICT sees ereeeeesees STORM PASSES UP FLORIDA COAST (By Associated Press) MIAML July 26.—The hur- ricane swept up out of the Carribean Sea today sideswip- ing the lower Florida East Coast with a heavy wind travelling between 40 and 50 miles an hour. No damage is reported. eee eee eee ERO HERD * * * 2 * * * * * * * * * ° ° Soe PR wee ee eee Oe PAUL BOYSEN RETURNS FROM TRIP NORTH BOARD ATTENDS CONFER- ENCE HELD IN NEW YORK CITY Paul Boysen, contractor of this city and member of the board of trustees of the Monroe water dis- rtict, has returned from an ex- tended trip on which he visited a number of states and poinis of interest in the east.and north. Mr. Boysen, while in New York, attended all the conferences held with the J. G. White corporation and that firm’s New York bankers relative to the’ proposed fresh water supply pipe line from the mainland. These conferences, he said, continued through eleven days and were regularly atiended by himself, Capt. C: D. Stearns, Senator Wm. H. Malone and others from this county. Ne definite agreement with the White people was. reached, however, and Mr, Boysen says he is unable to say -what will be the ullimate outcome of these negotiations. | On his way back through New York, however, Mr, Boysen thinks that he ren across 9 firm that will be glad'to consider laying the pipe line and would do so under very favorable 5 visited ihe offices of é“Cotipany, 7 Dye sees ee found = mem- bers of the firm very much inter- ested in. the proposition and are preparing a tentative contract or proposal, which should arrive in Key West in the very near future. and may open up the way for the laying of the pipe line upon more favorable terms and conditions than had been con‘emplated by the trustees and citizens in general. Mr. Boysen had the pleasure of cglling on Harry Boyajien, at his big jewelry establishment in New York.. He found that Mr. Boya- jian conducts a large wholesale and retail jewelry business and operates a jewelry manufacturing plant, the firm being highly rated. He says that Harry is at the pres- | ent devoting his time to the assis- tance of C. A. P. Turner in arrang- ing finahcés for the construction \ of. the three toll bridges on the over-sea highway to the mainland. Says Harry is highly enthusiastic over the prospects and seems to think that Mr. Turner will be able} to put his proposition over. Mr. Boysen spent some time vis- | iting at the home of Mr and Mrs. | | A. Blunt at Cheatham, New York, | mysterious and continued absence. | | INVESTIGATION IN - where they took him on motor) tours covering over 2,000 miles} over New York State, Massachu-! setts and Connecticut. He says! he had a wonderfuk trip all the; way round and saw much beauti-| KEY WEST, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JULY 26, 1926. Plays With 2,000,000 Volts . Dr. Harris J. Ryan, electrical expert. of Leland Stanford University, and Edison prize winner, has get, up an experimental station near Pala Alto, Calif.,. where he soon will send 2,100,000 volts of electricy spitting through the air—the greatest electrical strengt! ‘h ever generated and controlled. by man. _ He predicts a tremendous development of power generating sta tions and lines on the. west a coast in the next decade. WOOD ALCOHOL CAUSES — DEATH OF DISAPPEARANCE OF ERNEST RIED REMAINS MYSTERY EFFORTS TO LOCATE EM- PLOYEE OF LEWIS eke “COMPANY SINCE FRIDAY; PROVES TO BE IN VAIN The disappearanc foi Ernest Rt Ried, who was last{seen at 11 o':! cloek'iast Friday at the Lewis tor Companyestablishment whe he was employed, temains a pro- found miystery and every effort to find him has been utterly in vain. s The young man has been. with; ihe Lewis Motors Company about six months, coming to this city from Bridgeport, Conn. He has two brothers, Bob and’ Tom, also connected with the Lewis .Motors Company, Ernest R. .Ried, the missing young. man is 27 years old, and-had\been rooming at-321; Simonton sireet until the time of) his disappearance last Friday fore: | noon. | Every possible effort is being made by the brother and many} friends of the missing man to dis- cover his whereabouts, but he seems to be gone as completely as} if he had vanished from the earth. | His friends and relatives can’t imagine what has happened to him. They have no reason to suspect | foul play have heard of no acci- dent of which he could have been| a victim, and inquiry at the local} hospitals revealed that he had not been found suddenly and seriously | ill. His brothers and friends are | becoming much alarmed over his| Many Friends Visit Negro Prisoner Sunday | At County Jail Here POLICE DEPARTMENT CLOSES LARGE NUM- BER OF SOFT DRINK ’ PLACES IN BUFFALO (iy Ansocinted. Pree) BUFFALO, ‘N.-¥., July 26. Thirty deaths were recorded today in Buffalo and vicinity from wood alcohol, with two dealers being arrested, one on _ .® homicide “elite - Over the week end the death toll in Buffalo, was 13, while an equal ‘number died ‘in Toronto and other Ontario towns, with four deaths in Lockport, N.-¥. ’ Twenty soft drink places in Buffalo have been closed by the police department. SEVERAL MORE ARRESTS MADE BUFFALO, July 26.—Six additional arrests were made today, and other persons are being sought in a combined drive of American-Canadian officials in an effort to dry up the source of poison liquor, and punish those responsible for its distribution, RELIGIOUS MATTERS (Ry Asxecinted Press) MEXICO CITY, July 26.—The For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West Approve Road Plans ONLY SURVIVING SON OF | ~ ABRAHAM LINCOLN DIES FOUND DEAD TODAY IN| °** BED AT SUMMER HOME BY SERVANTS OF HOUSE Fight Is Off Seccccceeceesevessoeroce (By Agsceinted Press) MANCHESTER, Vt., July 26— Robert T. Lincoln, only surviving son:of President Abraham Linccln, was found dead in bed at his sum- mer. home today. Death was dis- covered by perante whe wear to call him. Lincoln who, had served as sec-|- retary of the war minister to Great Britain, and for years as president of. a pullman company, had been in feeble health of late,| - and would have been 83 years old on August 1. Brief Life Sketch Fat and circumstance so united Arnaldo Mussolini, brother of Ita- ly’s dictator, who recently chal- lenged Gen. Bencivenga to a duel because of an article the latter wrote, won't have to fight after —— PRICE: FIVE CENTS Monroe County Commissioners Submitted — STATE DEPARTMENT'S CONTRACT IS UNANI- MOUSLY AGREED ‘TO, BY OFFICIALS The state road department's contract with Moaroe county. re- lative to this county's portion of the. Tamiami Trail, as tecently received from Dr, Fons Hathaway, head of the state road department, was unanimously approved and accepted by the county commis- sioners in @ special sessidh held in the county court house, start- ing this forenoon at 10 o’clock. The agreement is in substance the same as has been stated in these columns before, but in or- der that the citizens in general may have a thorough understand- ing of the conditions of this im- portant transaction, the contract, 4s approved and signed by the county commissioners today, is reproduced herewith, omitting the that Robert Todd Lincoln, last of the Great Emancipator’s imme- diate family to bear the name, was all. His seconds, after calling on | '@#! ¢aption, a technical descrip- = general, reported that he had/ tion of the Monroe stretch of the ven “an evasive answer,” an ¥ that Mussolini need not fight to| ‘Pail and the signatures of the uphold his honor. SUNDA NUMBER ARTICLES ARE TAK. ENS AWAY BY THIEVES, FAMILY WAS OUT ON Pic. NIC DURING DAY and gave his father. the first defi- nite news of the surrender. On the ‘evening’ of the same day, he was in Ford's theatre when John Wilkes Booth shot and fatally wounded the president. Later in jife, Lincoln, though’ adverse to holding public office, became the of war in President Garfield’s cabinet. He was su} )to. accompany the chief on a trip. to the New England siates, July 2, 1881, but a last minute development pre- vented. He went to the station to explain, arriving just es Guiteau shot Garfield. eoecaneseegeecocsocosccs STORM REPORT ceesecoesses: The following Robbers visited; the home of Louie Bierna, corner United and Margaret streets, yesterday after- noon during the rainstorm. They ransacked the house and stole a number of articles and money, in- cluding « pair of pearl earrings, a child’s saving bank containing $3.84, bursted open the quarter gas meter and took $3; emptied a j Small pocketbook of some loose change; stole a hammer and saw, eresece jand perhaps other things that message was thave not yet been missed. \ |given out by the Weather Bureau Louis Bierna and family were this morning: — gone on a little outing and picnic Advisory, 10 a. m. Nassau re- Yesterday and were detained by |port missing, but the hurricane {the rai. When they returned center passed near that place dur- Hast evening they found that the ing the night. It is still apparent. (screen door had been cut and the ly moving toward the northwest. |home robbed and the contents of No evidence yet of recurve to- at room scattered over the joor. ce an Seen) teaitt, Clontant aaad Straits and off the enst Florida |Chief Deputy Joseph Kemp are officials, 1. That the said County of Monroe, will Gonstruct or cause to be constructed: a standard finish- ed road in every respect in ac- cordance. with the minimum state the State Road Department, and» 9s the southern branch of State . substantially the line>of the road now being projected or construct- ed by the Chevalier Corporation to the eastern boundary line of said Monroe Coynty at a point just south of the southwest corner of Section 18, Township 54 South, Range 36 Bast; it being tnder- stood and agreed that the con- struction of said goad shill’ be commenced and carried to com- pletion as expeditiously and speed- ily as may be. 2... (@) That the State Road Department will guarantee ~ the construction by Collier County >of a standard finished road in every respect in accordance with — the |minimum state specifications ‘te be furnished by said State, Road Department to Monroe County, as afore id, from the point on State Road No. 27 in said Collier Couf- ty where it crosses the ppint of intersection of Sections £0, 11, 1% and 16 of “Township 63 South, Range $2 Eeot due south for a distance of four miles to the boundary line between said Mon- roe and Collier Counties to con- nect vith the roed by mid Mén- roe County herein agreed to be constructed; the said constructidi of said road by Collier County to + bei ceastion ik | totally destroyed. The Red Cross beara North Dekota Fis furnishing three meals a day to & tnd slong the central. and east.°) 799 persons and has provided tures sien). o{elothing and shelter for all in ures fre Dractical- "\need of it. It lias giten medical Rocky Mountain pla- #}aid to 88 persons. ; i *|. A page was written in Red +l Chose history by the Dover Chap- *lter, the director added. It went | */into action within five minutes of . coast. Further advices this after- | investigating the case. The sheriff |be commenced, as provided in an noon, |asays he is confident that the rob-/ agreement between the Depart: (Signed) jbery is the work of the samejment and Collier County, at & fh har {bunch of youthful criminals who |time to be named and designated ADVISE CAUTION |broke into Mulberg’s store andiby said Department and to be Doe to the sheence of reports|Thed the home of Bascom ithereafter completed within 6 teow nad sesecis near the {Grooms recently. Every effort |time then to be fixed by said De- Sipcrtsaa conte®, hurvicane warn-| "ll be msde to captare the guilty | partment, 5 ings are not issued just now hop- | parties and break up the ring. ing to receive « more definite line | Oe Ae Stva's wath However, PREDICT ANOTHER i A oath department of interior has order- It'was a big day in jail yester- | 4 sn investigation of the pastoral | pad br, ea Ng waitin |letter issued yesterday under the! |back from New York to answer to | » ¥ ei } of archbishops and} oe Se ee ee eR eS Sythe charge of double murder in | Signatures jconnection with the killing of his | bishops. } WEATHER FORECAST . former sweetheart and her escort| The letter announced that be- is 8 jhere on the night of June 26. (ginning next Sunday no priests Florida’ Increasing clowti- “| Hundreds of feiends went to |would officiate at religious cere- ness followed by rain tonight * 5 | ithe first explosion and Dr, How-/|* end Tuesday. Increasing * visit Dice yesterday, and most|monies in . Catholic churches *jand §&. Deck, chairman, was one |* east atid northeast winds over *)°’°? °F* carried flowers or a throughout Mexico in view of the ‘dhould be: taken} CAVE-IN OF LAND r present. His cell this morning | government’s intention to put in-| °™ . 4 * lof the first persons'to bring any-| "oth portion and northeast * 7 |. hed with | bi lhe ftnek th | for hurricane winds, especially at) *lone out of the arsenal. |* and north over south portion, * e em ee oo as and J . t (Ry Associated Press) fotiage and he had stacks of gifts |religious institutions. } ; hing gale force the * ° ! | Signed ‘| puidack Seek nud ta Wlac. @(sPreed before him.” “I om fecting| The letter call thik slterta:aill| MITCHELL. |, MEMPHIS, Tenn., July 28— | MAYOR GIVES AWAY COAL ida straits this afternoon or * better and very much encouraged,” (be made to have the anti-religious | Major Donald H. Connolly, chief Peeeeveccovguscvssoccece | early tonight and probably in * he said as he Jooked over the provisions ps detachment of the United States USEMENT remainder of peninsula to- * things that were brought him. jamended. |Army a ag bere efter an <I r 'HREE QUTSTANDING ajepection groand; about 5 2 te PROBLEMS OF U. S. * cave-in which occurred near the se stan anaco + | Mississippi River front here yes- MONROE THEATRE night. South Atlantic: Increasing. easterly winds over north por- i ; By Associated Press “iterdsy, predicted thet another TODA Y—“The Johnstown CHEYENNE, Wyo., July *jcave-in would likely occur today 7 ” Comedy—“Wm. Shack- 26.—The United States is * ” Also vaudeville. * ful country, pretty resorts, great | mountains and large cities. Pi MITCHELL. f | mil finished road in every respect in accordance with the minimen state specifications to be furnish. S. M. GOLDSMITH, ‘Temporarily-in-Charge. ee . - . . . . . . . . . . . . oo —— (Continued on Page Five) Constance & of the constitution|gessceseusereeeee . BATH.—-Mayor Cedric Chivers is distributing coal to poor families from his private stock. * 2 * THE OVER SEA HOTEL COMPANY Has recently inaugurated a new schedule of summer rates for weeklv roomers, the annex of this vovular hotel has been set aside for thie purvagse at the followine heretofore unheard of low rates. Room, single, $3.00 per week; double, $5.00 ner week. Hot and cold running water in ever~ room and the usual hotel service and accommodations that cannot be had st a private rooming house. Make your reservations by tele- phone, or call and see ine manager. . OVER SEA HOTEL COMPANY e PSOLOSSSOOSSSSOSOSSESSOSOSSOOSOSOSOLOSESESOSEOOS CHEAP BANANAS Topay AND Tomorrow—| GEO. 1 KNOWLES Raider.” Comedy and | tion and increasing northeast and north winds along the * — aos | SMRILUS east Florida coast, probably reaching gale force and in- conservation of natural re-*| “The Sky Heider” ls one of sources and control of nation- *) the most thrilling and interest- eeeeewee creasing to burricane force 4 : : ee See ee eee ee es