The Key West Citizen Newspaper, July 28, 1926, Page 1

Associated Press Day Wire Service VOLUME XLVII. No. 178. Boston Transcript Comments On Recent Tax Cut In State ACTION TAKEN SAID TO. BE REFUTATION OF CHARGE AGAINST. LOW FINANCES JACKSONVILLE, July 28.— Under the title “Another Debtless | State” the Boston Transcript, dis- ¢eussing the recent cut in state) taxes authorized by Governor! Martin declares that the Florida | press would seem warranted in’ citing it as a refutation of the charge that this state is unsound and that its finances are in bad condition as a result of last year’s inflation. “President Coolidge has one | rival in tax reduction accomplish- | ments, a man after his own heart, | we might say, in the governor of | Florida,” says the Transcript. “Governor Martin is just an-} Mouncing the second tax cut of | his administration, amounting to | almost 80 per cent. When Sar- | mor Martin took hold, the state | tax rate was 10 3-4 mills, or at | the rate of $10.75 on a thousand, as we would express it here. In the first year of the administra- | tion this was cut one-quarter of a mill, and now the rate goes down to 7% mills, the lowest in ten “years. In addition, the state has jon trial for murder, KEY WEST, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1926. | CUTTER GOES. TO ASSISTANCE — OF STEAMER | SCENE IN WATERS NEAR JUPITER Accuse Boss The Coast Guard Cutter Saukee, | in command of Captain Brown, | was dispatched to the waters | around Jupiter Inlet yesterday for | the purpose of rendering assist- | ance to -the ~ digtressed Italian | steamer which was first reported | as losing its. rudder, after which | it was stated that the steamer was | in a sinking condition. | Other vessels reached the steam- | er in distress, having picked up| the radio call sent out, the tug Willet leaving this port yesterday | afternoon to assist in rendering | aid to the ship. | The last reports received stated | that the ship was in no immediate | danger as the wind had moderated | considerably, and in all probability | the vessel will be towed into some | port as soon as the weather be-' comes more favorable. PROMOTION OF HOME ECONOMICS | (Ry Asnoctated Prexay TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 28. |—Miami and Dade county are tak- Nevin C. Cranford, convict boss in Stanly county, North Carolina, is He is ac- cused of killing two negro prison- ers in his chain gang. A long list of beatings and five deaths | have been laid to him. | Dr. Cumming and His Daughter Or. Hugh 8. Cumming, surgeon general of the U. S. Public Health Service, whose newspaper articles on health are read by millions daily, returns to America on the liner Berengaria after a vacation abroad. With him is his daughter. Di fana Cumming. REPORT ITALIAN ing long strides towards the pro- | | | | AMERIC AN LEGION WILL For 47 Years Devoted to the Interests of Key West PRICE FIVE CENTS | Headed Toward Florida | | JACKSONVILLE, July 28.— Boom or no boom, “busted” or} not “busted”, people are heading for Florida right'now in ever in- creasing numbers according to in- formation obtained by the Florida State Chamber of Commerce. Near Chattanooga, Tenn., is Cherokee tourist camp, a stopping place highly favored by motorists. Grady Llewellyn, manager of the camp, reports that within the last few days from twenty to twenty- five parties of tourists have been | in the camp each night. “More than fifty percent of the inio camp are | tourists coming | headed south”, he said. “The fact that many people say the boom is} over in Florida has not made any difference in the number of per- sons going down and many who} returned to the northern states earlier in the spring went merely to sell their businesess, and they are enroute back to the land of flowers. “There is a better class of peo- ple on tour than ever before in the | belief of many. people. They are| substantial business people and) they know values. They all think | ihat Florida has reached a sub-} stantial growth and that values! will remain stable.” ESFOR SPECIAL TERM GOVERNOR MARTIN IS AU- THORIZED MAKE, ASSIGNMENTS / (Ny Associated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 28. —Governor Martin, under existing statutes, is authorized to assign judges for special terms of circuit court wherever such judges and special terms are necessary, Attor- ney General J. B. Johnson de- clared in an opinion given the ex- ecutive. re The governor, in requesting the eee eee eee ee eee WIRES STILL DOWN The wires northward from Miami are still down as & re- sult of the recent storm, and owing to thesq conditions, The Citizen was unable again today to receive any Asso- ciated Press reports. In all probability, the wires will be working by tomorrow morn- ing when the service will be resumed, | * ° * ° * * * * * * * * * * * . * MAKES SEARCH FOR MISSING SON |considerable other ome $17,000,000 in its treasury and is out of debt. Nor is this « the end; for Governor Martin in- forms his people in language which | pleasantly suggestive, of | Washington, that “by an econ- and that her finances are | in bad condition as a result of the | inflation of last year. | The figures are the more note- worthy because Florida is pressing | vigor her campaign for the | Tepeal of the federal estate-tax | Taw, of which action the Ameri- motion of home economics work | in Plerida, according to Miss! opinion, stated that Judge Bul-|, H lock had been disqualified in the MOTHER APPEALS TO AU- |. STEAMER CITY OF MEXICO} Eloise D. Berry, state supervisor | of ‘home economics for the De- STEAMSHIP IN NO FURTHER DANGER |. rons Xof Public Instruction, tin jd rabies bay? recently returned from a trip | South Floric site hae i | Miss Bere Wing a stay in STANDING BY VESSEL RE-|Dade county, engaged: in an in- ispection of the home economics PORTED SINKING OFF JUPI-| work there, along with Miss Alice TER : i Tyree, supervisor of home econ- omics work for the county. Miss | Berry worked with Ray L. Hamon, Radio méssages réceived ‘at. the direétor of building instruction | tos noey yard today senor! that |foF all schools in Miami and Dade i Pe wists jeounty. the Italian schooner Giorgio, re- super- | ‘ . Dade county, the state i ported in distress off Jupiter’yes-|visoy said, in addition to under-| REORGANIZE AUXILIARY MAN UNKNOWN | NO INFORMATION WHATEVER IS OBTAINED IN’ MYSTERI-| OUS DISAPPEARANCE OF ERNEST RIED | | ING: TO BE HELD ON | FRIDAY EVENING AT CLUB HOUSE The Arthur Sawyer Post No. 28, of the American Legion, will endeavor to organize a unit of the | | case of the state vs. George Sco- field, and that, his’ opinion, Scofield “ should as the, latter had'* been demanding a tria! | have thé judge call a special term of circuit court to try the case. “Under the provisions of Sec-| | tion 3057, in my» opinion, you | would be authorized, or have the | authority, to assign a judge to| hold a special term of the circuit court in whatever county the Sco-} field case is to be tried,” the at- torney general said. “I under-| stand that a change of venue was had from .. Marion Of des. * TR \ % for a "The goyerpor asked , Se SHE we tat the y to transfer!” WHEREABOUTS. “‘eev-rocerwek-amer-|fii a's mc | Sheriff’ Frank Karel, of Orange THORITIES OF STATE FOR ASSISTANCE (By Associated Press) ORLANDO, Fia., July 28.— county, has been appealed to by a} mother in Woodland, California, to assist her in a search for her son, Lester Reed, or Lester Clark. The mother, Mrs. G. B. Reed, of 142 Locust street, Woodland, Calif., writes that she last heard from her'son, Lester Reed, who is sometimes known as Lester Clark, about March 28 last from Orlando | NASSAU SUFFERS FIVE MILLION — DOLLAR LOSS IN HU RRICANE TROPICAL STORM ON. COAST OF FLORIDA STRIKES. AT PALM BEACH YESTERDAY - According to reports received today, the tropical storm report- ed approaching Palm Beach yes? terday afternoon, struck in that vicinity with considerable force, the wind attaining a velocity of between 70 and 80 miles an hour. The damage resulting from the storm at Palm Beach and vicinity, | was estimated at several million ‘dollars, most of the damage being |caused to various craft anchored jin and around those waters, with damage to | shipping at Lake Worth. Hundreds of palm trees Wert uprooted, with roofs blown from a-.number of the smaller houses, with damage reported in various parts of the city as a result of the heavy winds which prevailed in that section all during yester- day afternoon and night. ~~ Reports received algo state that the damage resulting from the tropical storm at Nassau, mas, was estimated at five m dollars, with shipping” being ly crippled by the disturbance. th: over the Bahamas beginning Sunday night and continuing f, @ great length of time. the: \ with general damage. thro |the city of Nassau. Considerable damage 3 perienced at Miami and vi. where the wind attained a ¥ city of 55.miles in puffs, steady breeze being given as. miles ‘an hour, which resulted in the smashing up of several house boats along the shore front, ‘the, wrecking of a number of barges, while other craft were torn j ‘ terday, is still in that.vicinity and|taking the establishment of up-| county. appears to be in no immediate|to-date home economics depart- danger. ments in two school buildings, the EE American Legion Auxiliary next Not the least clue has been dis-|Ftiday night, according to infor- covered to disclose the whereabouts ; mation given a Citizen representa- from their moorings as the wind struck in around the harbor the various vessels were bert! | ean Taxpayers’ League, in a re- gent bulletin, points out that “if | Florida must surrender to con-| course, a3 I understand it, the! and that he advised her to write statute leaves it to your discretion | him at Tampa, where he expected and good judgment.” to go within a few days. The radio reports came from the mship City of Mexico, which purposes, then ‘every state | is standing by the disabled vessel, faust surrender it, and the com-| ang contain the information that wealths become provinces and | the wind has subsided there and legislatures vassals of the) the seas are more favorable. ‘ashington government.” Lereiiy Met only demands repeal o: <|CUT 1S MADE IN | TAX MILLAGE law but denounces it as unconsti- importance if the Supreme Court | (By Axsociated Presa) 7 the right to levy taxes for | tutional; a matter of very high of the United States should sus- | tain her contention. MAKING PLANS FOR |-—-Governor Martin’s cut of the |state tax millage to 744 mills for }1926 means that the people of BIG WATER BATTLE | Florida will pay but two mills more (Wy Assoctoted Prowy |now on eight assessments than OCALA, Fia., July 28.—A fea-| was paid in 1914 on half that ture of the police and firemén’s | many, according to a compilation field day exercises to be held here jof the millage since 1914. Twelve years ago, Florida's on August 5 next under the aus- | State tax was 51% mills. At that tective Association will’ be | the TALLAHASSEE, Fila., July 28. | Dade County Agricultural High | |School, at Lemon City, and the {Senior High School, at Miami, is jadding the same departments to all Junior High Schools. There) are four “juniors” in the county, |she said. APPOINTMENT BY GOVERNOR MARTIN of Ernest Ried who mysteriously | |disappeared after having been| seen the last time at the Lewis Motors Company establishment on Caroline street last Friday forenoon at 11 ‘o’clock. The young man was in perfect health so far as is known and had never appeared to be despondent in arly way. His two brothers and many friends in this city are be- (My Aasoeinted Press) |coming more alarmed over his TALLAHASSEE, Fia., July 28. continued and mysterious absence, |—Governor Martin has announced |and every effort is being made to, the following appointments: {find out where he is or ascertain James A. Thomas, Homosassa, |his fate. justice of the peace, district, No.| Diligent inquiry has been made 2, Citrus county. at the steamship ticket offices and J. H. Croft, Homosassa, con-,8t the Flagler system passenger table, district No. 2, Citrus coun- | Station, but noone remembers his fy. having taken passage from this | H. D. Hughey, Merritt, justice port or departed by rail. He is of the peace, district No. 11, Bre-|Well known in Key West and is } | | } I | \s tive Faulkner. He also stated that he was in receipt of a telegram from Mrs. Bess Craffin of West Palm Beach, state president of the Am- erican Legion Auxiliary, advising that she would arrive in Key West Friday and would assist in the or- ganizing of the unit. Upon being asked what con- stituted eligibility in the auxiliary, Adjutant Faulkner quoted the fol- lowing from the constitution of the auxiliary: “Mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of members of the American Legion, or mothers, wives, daughters and sisters of men and women who were in the military or naval ser- vice of the United States between April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918, and died in line of duty, or afte honorable discharge; or by Post Adjutant Roy E¢ STORM REPORT Shecccscesececooeszesese The following message’ was given out by the local Weather Bureau this morning: ADVISORY—9 A. M.—Hurri- cane central at 8 a. m. along the northeast Florida coast between Titusville and Jacksonville. Mov- ing very slowly north-northwest- ward. Center will pass close to Jacksonville today and quite like- ly move northward near or inside the Georgia coast line. Further advices this afternoon. © (Signed) MITCHELL. BOARD OF PARDONS TO HOLD MEETING According to the letter all the “| mail that Mrs. Reed has sent to Tampa for her son has been re- urned and she expresses fear for | his safety for he had always been prompt about writing to her regu- larly. Lester Reed or Lester Clark is| described as being 24 years old,| | about six feet three inches tall! | with brown eyes and light hi | | Information concerning the; | whereabon‘s of the young man, if| delivered to Sheriff Karel at the court house here, will be imme-} | diately forwarded to Mrs. Reed| } j and efforts will also be made to! | communicate with him and inform | him of h's mother’s desires. | ee ee fe ® ie { i WEATHER FORECAST Two linemen engaged in ing repairs to wires were one of whom was Frank R: caster, who died at Miami B from injuries received during th storm. while another met death Fort Lauderdale while engaged similar work, where the wipd al reached a velocity of 70 mil hour. “ According to sAvices issued the weethér bareau, the hurrica at 8 o'clock this morning along the northeast Florida eo between Titusville and Jackso ville, mov'ag very slowly, northwestward, The center it stated would in all probability close to Jacksonville today, ee it is quite likely to move north: ward near or inside the Georgia coast line. a 4 pices of the Marion county Pro- | . jtime, however, there were only the Florida: Rain in north and * mostly fair in south portion tonight. Thursday probably vard county. |popular with many friends, so it; F. H. Hig! is believed that had he coneluded to leave the city the fact would | women of their own right eligible | to membership in the American Legion and entitled to member-| water battle between the members | \weneral revenue, state school tax, | of the local fire department and /fi.4 by the constitution, pension | NOTICE TO PATRONS . y, Clermont, justice (My Associated Preas) } the county sheriff's forces. The Ocala fire department issued the challenge for such a battle to the Members of the sheriff's office | and it quickly accepted. Despite the advantage that the fire laddies | apparently have over the law en- forcers, sporting fans of this com- | munity are about even on the | favorites. | Seeecceecovevseusceseses after Governor Martin came into | opened up a modern up to date of- joffice, making one more for 1925/ fice, at 505 Duval street, which AMUSEMENTS P MONROE THEATRE TODA Y¥ — “The Footloose Widow.” Comedy — “Lucky TOMORROW—"Moana.” Also] “Fighting Hearts,” No. 5 and) vaudeville. SAN CARLOS ae (of the peace, district No. 22, Lake Bercend Gtate: Bogrd: at Health. | | -ounty, to succepd J: 0 Kling, Te- The current year found the)”, people of the state paying upon |*iened. not only the four ‘assessments | just named, but also the state fed- | eral aid road tax, prison tax, tick | eradication tax and that for the | DOCTORS COBO AND RODRIGUEZ OPEN UP DENTAL PARLORS HERE have been weil known. That he has fallen a victim of foul play cannot be believed by his friends here, and just what could possibly have happened to him they can’t imagine. He just seems to have ship in the American Legion Au liary” are eligible to membership in the auxiliary. The Legion Post is planning a “Get-together-meet- ing” for Friday night at their home on the South Beach. TALLAHASSEE, Fia., July 28. —The State Board of Pardons will' hold its fifial meeting of the year) September 14, and Mrs. Bessie | Gibbs Porter, the secretary, again | requests that all who contemplate asking for clemency for state i fair, shifting gales over north portion, diminishing tonight ‘and fresh to s‘rong southwest to northwest winds ovet south portion, diminishing tonight. South Atlantic: Fresh to strong east to sou'h winds ex- oeepeaee free school text books. | The millage of 3-4 mills for the free school text books was added and 1926. than those of 1924. vanished completely, and the; All. Legionnaires and all elig- mystery that surrounds the young |ibles to the auxiliary are invited man’s disappearance is causing |to attend as well as all buddies| much anxiety on the part of his|thot are eligible to join the Le-| friends and people in general of |g'cn but have neglected to do so} this city. and their ladies. There will be} fan entertainment program and re-; jfreshments. A very enjoyable | evening is anticipated. Dectors Armando Cobo and Ra- ; mon Rodriguez have’ become asso- | ciated in dentistry and have | is second to nene in the state. Couple Are United In Marriage Tuesday latest model. Roth doctors are graduates of cept gales west of longitude seventy-five and north of lat- itude twenty-eight with winds of hurricane force near hur- ricane center. East Gulf: Fresh north to west winds except strong over nertheast portion diminishing tonight. prisoners, send in their applica- tions immediately. j The board meets semi-annual- ly, in the senate chamber. The} first meeting, scheduled for April, was deferred until June, because | B of the illness of Governor Martin. | , At the last meeting of the), board, upwards of 200 applica-|. ~ . ~ . In the future when heavy winds are reported, if you are unable to properly secure your awnings, don’t worry. Phone 134 and we will care for them for you, Yours for service. FIRST TENT & AW: co. NG. MEG, july28-1t, NATIVE STARS tively of South Sen Island ma- Tulane University at New Orleans, ~AT— CORAL ISLE CASINO | THURSDAY, JULY 29 AT 9 P.M. which is rated as one of the lead- ing universities of the country. The public in general is cordially invited to inspect their suite of of- i) fices. | | SOCIALISTS LOSE IN SPAIN; By Jadge Hugh Gunn B. F. Evans and Miss Tillie Toolen were united in marriage | by County Judge Hugh Gunn in| his office at the county court house late yesterday afternoon. Mr. Evans is special representa- | Gerald Hernondez Is Elected To Office In DeMolay Order The Order of DeMolays con- vened in regular meeting at the Scottish Rite hall last night. | | « * . . * “ . . * - . . tions for clemency were reviewedisseseeeevcewtene tives, Never before has such by the board, and indications are | jthat the September sitting will be | as busy as the previous one. | FOR RENT Lower flogr concrete build- COMBINATION | First a good feature picture, | |then a good comedy followed by |Pathe News Reel, then good snap-| ied vaudeville and musical comedy. | |This is what you get at our show. been attempted, but when you see the play, you will marvel of life and love in the South Seas. Gerald Hernandez was elected | ing,- Caroline and treasurer of the lodge and will be ‘| Streets; $75.00 per month. C. N. RECIO, Owner. a cee ADMISSION, $1.50 LADIES FREE tive of The Atlantic Paint Com- pany of New York. The ceremony was witnessed by ,inducted into office at the regu- Malcolm Roberts. Mar meeting next week. TODAY AND TOMORROW— *Rattling Orioles." Comedy—! “Flaming Flapper.” Also musical comedy. See “Battling Orioles” at the SAN CARLOS THEATRE TOMORROW MONROE THEATRE TOMORROW MADRID—Heavy losses are ‘being suffered by the Socialists in every local election. i