The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 11, 1926, Page 8

~'PAGE EIGHT METEOROLOGICAL NOTES ISSUED BY WEATHER BUREAU GIVES DETAILED ACCOUNT OF OBSERVATIONS CON _ DUCTED DURING MONTH OF JULY The mean pressure for this month, 29.98 inches sea level, was exactly normal. Under the in- fluence of a tropical disturbance Which was first reported on the 22nd as being about 100 miles éast of the island of Mariinique, W. L, the lowest pressure of the month, 29.78 inches, was recorded on the 27th when the storm was central off the southeast Florida goast: An area of high pressure that moved in over the Dakotas on the 13th, settled over the South Atlan:ic States and on the 20th, the highest barometer reading, 30.14 was observed. The mean temperature for the month was .3 of a degree below normal. The highest, 92 degrees on'the 14th occurred with a south- ‘Western Electric amplifiers All the News Thats Fit t Hear | DIVORCE CASE THE KEY WEST CITIZEN NO ALIMONY IN WIFE OF LUDENDORFF Is | RECEIVING PENSION GRANTED (ity Associated Press) BERLIN, Aug. 11.—Gen. E. F.| | Ludendorfé, whose wife was re-| jeently granted on| grounds of neglect, draws a pen- | |sion of 15,600 marks a year from! |the federal government it has; been revealed. Though he is re-| a divorce $ | ported to have made a substantial | take the place of newspapers in Moscow public square. (Wide World Photo.) wes: wind. One of the peculiar- ities of this station is the maxi- mum extremes of temperatures nearly always occur with a south or a southwest wind of light ve- locity. The lowest, 71 degrees ‘gecurred during a thunderstorm on the 2nd. On this day also, the greatest daily range, 20 degrees, was recorded. During the month $0 degrees or above was reported on 12 days. } The average hourly wind ve- locity was 8.0 miles. On the 15th # 36 mile wind blew from the REGULATION ON APPROVED AND ADOPTE BY BOARD OF EDUCA. TION D (By Associated Prexs) SCHOLARSHIPS } ONE HUNDRED AND SEVEN-/ | CONTINUE TO TY-FIVE ARE IDENTIFIED (Ry Associated Treas FIND BODIES cash and property settlement on is former wife, ho alimony was| greed upon because the court! realized, it is said, that Luden-| |dorfi’s pension might be shut off) ‘at any time. | Ludendorff, who is 61, is one} of 40,000 officers who | served] mder the former Kaiser and are} These four newly-married couples of Williamsport, Pa., have clubbed together and rented a house, pooling th sult they are living for only $60 per couple each month. They are, left to right, Mr. Mr. and Mrs. James Dawes, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Haine: riage Mrs. Grady, Mrs. Dawes and Mrs. Zimmerman These Newlyweds Beat the High Cost of Living OLD J. way funds to pay for Harry, one of tie husbands. ind Mr. and Mrs. Herman Zimmerman. Be' WEDNESDAY, AUGUST il, 1926) $ PRESENTATION OF MEDALS ON MARRIAGE AN- NIVERSARIES nes (By Associated Preast ‘ BERLIN, Aug. 11—The Hohenzollern custom of fostering domestic felicity by presen’ medals to couples on their go! en anniversary has been revived by the evangelical church of Prus> sia. Fi The Prussian ministry of the int terior recently announced _, th: gifts of 50 marks in cash woul be presented to each couple mar- ried fifty or sixty years. The \medals will be presented only t4 church members. 3 | According to designs of Prof- jfessor Richard Pfeiffer _ of | Konigsberg, the brorfze \will show an aged couple kneeling 3 Grad i ss vs fore . mare rs of |drawing pensions from the repub-; lic totalling $31,000,000 a ‘NEW CLASS OF |. Few of them are incapaci {Th were retirely becau the army to 100,000 men. Democrats, |Socialists and Communists have jhave been trying to abolish the RESULTS FROM ORDER ON | pensions, especially because of the many officers like Ludendorff are} MONEY REGISTRA. connected with national fascisti) TION organizations. : | leescccoccevenscovceenene | (My Associnted Presa) thé franc andthe ensuing govern- ;ment order that the smallest pur- | CLASSIFIED | | | C 0 L U M N chase “of foreign money must be \registered have resulted in the PARIS, Aug. 11—The fall of | ! { | |UNEARTH THREE | BOXES OF DYNAMITE! (My Avsocinted Press), PENSACOLA, Fla., Aug. 11.— ‘Workmen while making excava- -tions for railroad tracks in the western section of the city un- learthed three hoxes of dynamite, iwhich are “aid to have been buried | |for several years as no work has {been done in this particular terri- jtory for a long period. The boxes vere about two feet beneath the ‘soil. No reason has yet been deter- }mined for the boxes being buried at this place. ‘beside an altar renewing tal vows, The edge contains the following inscription: “Be happy in your hopes; patient in your sor- NT | rows and believe in prayer.” BODIES OF MEN FIGURING IN 4 (Continued from Page One) | fans Zischek, whose. namé lyears ago was inscribed on thé memorial tablet of dead. wart “* heroes, has returned to his home “town of Gauting near Munich with getting slong nicely today. —_|* Tha "gen ceiuen, “orgheshie Judge Gunn and Sheriff Niles|, oectic tee the svave ms say that the Boy Scouts of Troop} "polegetic for the grave mistake sie : ‘of listing Zischek as dead, placed reated them jy at their en- tt i the ‘heen'a cal ‘3 campment on Pigeon Key. They|* ire eR prepared a fine jrent free. x lunch for . the! BUILDING PERMITS until the coroner’s investi is finished. The three 1 have been transferred to the Mi cedes hospital and are reported county officials just before their departure last night. The section foreman who lost his life in the} Werth for 5 consecutive minutes during a thunderstorm. This was the highest velocity for the month, notwi hstanding the tropical dis- turbance of the 22-28. On the 27th.the wind reached 35 miles per hour from the Northwest. The prevailing direction was Southeast, as usual. Of the possible amount of sun- shine; 79 per cent occurred. There were 10 clear, 8 overcast and 13 partly cloudy days, this month. The total precipitation, 5.68 inches was 2.09 inches above the normal. Of this amount 1.54 inches occurred within a period of one hour on the 2nd. During this rainfall, in 15 minutes, 1.04 inches was recorded. Excessive precipi-} tation occurred also on the 11th, 15th and the 16th. / On the 15th, during a thunder- siorm between 7 and 8 P. M. there oecurred a meterological phenom- ena without precedent at this sta- tion insofar as the records what cover a period of 56 years, are concerned. There was a fall of heii from 7:18 p. m. to 7:20 p. m. The Thunderstorm advanced from northeast and was probably by strong convectional ac- wer the land areas of the r island lying in that direc- tio vd It was more pronounced in eharacter than the usual thunder- s which, in th‘s locality, is or- dinazily of a mild or moderate ‘type, and was attended by a strong squall of 36 miles an hour from the N. E. and N. which iasted | bout 20 minutes and heavy rain from’ 7:10 to 7:40. Temperature abruptly fell from 91 to 71 de-| grees. The hailsiones ranged in| size from a small pea te half-an- inch in diameter, were somewhat | milky or translucent as to tran parency, and rather scattering i numbers. While no damage re- sulted, this phenomena caused} TALLAHASSEE, Fla, Aug. 11,|. PARIS, Aug. 11—Although it i} ths talidetuk cigniavenhs ov is narly eight yesrs since the end erning the awarding of scholar-|0f the World = War, American ships in the University of Florida | Searchers in the old battle area | and in the Florida State College} are continually finding bodies of for Women, under the act of the| American soldiers who fell in bat- legislature of 1928, were approved | ‘Je and were buried hastily nearby. | and adopted by the State Board| Searching has been going more or| a of Education: Every applicant for a scholar- amination whether he or she has competition or not. The question for the examina- tions shall be based on the fol- lowing: Four years of work in high school English, one year in high school algebra, general his- tory, and American history and constitution. The competitor for a scholarship who makes the high- est average grade on the cxami- nations in the above named sub- jects shall be awarded said scholar- ship, provided that no person shall be awarded a scholarship who does not make an average grade of 70 grade on no subject below 50 per cent, Examinations for scholarship: shall be held on the first Thw day in June and the third Thurs- day in August of each year at the county seat of each county, un- der the supervision of the county superintendent, upon questions prepared in the office of the state superintendent of public instruc- tion. Students failing for two con- secutive months in half of the subjects taken at the institutions of higher learning shall forfeit the scholarship and be required to return the amount of the fund used for the stipulated expenses. |PROPOSE INCREASE IN FREIGHT RATES deep intcrest and wide comment inasmuch as comparatively few) people in Key West had ever wit-| nessed a similar occurrence, There is.authentic information to | the effect that ha‘l fell in Key | Westin 1868 or 1869, Other miscellaneous phenomena} were thunderstorms on 16 days,| solar halos on 5 days and only 1 lunar halo. | The tropical storm was an cst usual one, in that it was quite se-| vere for so early in the season.| As was previously stated, it was| first reported on the 22nd moving! and the Georgia>*Veneer & Pack-' sentence commuted to lif elated Press) TALLAHASSEE, Fila., Aug. 11. The State Railroad Comm n gave notice th effective Sep- tember 1926, there would be an incr in the rates of crate material, earload, from all ship- ping points in the state of Florida to all destinations on the Florida East Coast railway. The in se came as a result of complaints by the Elberta Crate company, of Bainbridge, ship is required to stand en ex-| per cent on all subjects with a less regularly during the entire} period since the armistice, but in| recent months the Oise-Aisne, | | Meuse-Argonne and Somme sec- | tors have been literally combed! with the result that 261 bodies | have been found, of which 175) |have been positively identified. | | The searching work is being | done by three separate partics| | consisting of an American inves-| itigator and, foug or five labo The investigator works by map | and terrain over ground where cer- |tain regimenis and battallions fought and from which men are} still carried as missing. The quick growth of vegetation has made the work difficult, as gr and bush have grown o porary burial places and, ; changed the entire appea the land. Recently the bodies of se marines wére found in the O | Aisne sector, buried together,, th ;being one of the largest “finds jin many months as usually only | single bodi @ recovered. | |SAVES LIFE OF | PRISON GUARD. | | Os Axsoe | APALACHICOL 11. . J. Peacock, gus |state convict camp near here, probably owes the fact that he is ‘living to a negro life jnamed Frank Goodman, | When there was a br in the camp and three long-time men jmade a getaway, they overpower-! jed the guard and threatened his! life. They were prep to kill him when the negro, Goodman, begged them to spare the ruard,| reciting how many actual favor Peacock had done for them. ! The plea had it ct for Pea- jeock wa |, but was mere- ly di: e the trio made off into:the swamps. Three days! later they were located and re- arrested after one hed been sh in the face. Goodman was at one der a death sentence but h the im- in a northwesterly direction. It|ing Company, filed with the In- prisonment, kept this direction, pas to Nassau, B, W. I, during the night of the h. =Because of its near proximity, northeast storm ngs were ordered displayed| at Key West at 10 p. m. on the 2ath. They were continually dis- played until 4 p. m. of the 26th! When they were ordered changed to hurricane warnings because the storm had changed to a more} westnorthwesterly } sing close cour How- ever it soon resumed its northwest | movement and swept up the Flor. ida coast, first striking the co. between Jupiter In Miami. On the 27th at 10 a. m. warnings} Were changed to Northwest. In| this locality there wa; no damage whatsoever, doubtless gue to amp! Warnings given out by the re le Bu- M. Observer, Tempo GOLDSMITH, arily in Charge. | It» Elettrie Co terstate Commerce Commission, showing that rates of the Florida Railroad Commission on crate materials from Jacksonville to points on the Florida East Coast railway and from other points in Florida to the same destinations, were less than the rates being haul from Jacksonville on business originating at Bainbridge or Brunswick. The complainants further alleged that the charging ast /of higher rates from Jacksonville t to East Coast points on crate materials originating at Bain- bridge and Brunswick than was rged on like traffic ori¢- state of Florida, “gnjustly and unlawfully dis- criminated against complainants, in violation of Section 2 of the act to regulate commerce.” of twins occur births, ESCAMBIA VOTES TAX REDUCTION PENSACOLA, Fia., Aug. The board of count 11. commi: bcharged hy the carriers for the ers of Escambia county h a tax reduction of five half mills, which is said to heaviest cut in tax millage lyears in this county, The ec x rate is now 2 mills. Reduction of the tax voted when the br coming was pr co-ordinated with the come from the assessed va property. The budget contained a sion of t be the Advertisements under this head; growth of the new class of boot- will be inserted in The Citizen at the rate of le a word for each in- ion, but the minimum for the) rst insertion in every instance is 25c. Advertisers should give their! ;, re are thousands of foreign- ers living in southern France on There was recently opened in ‘Tegggrs, the outside law dealers in| Paris by the Salvation Army a ho- ismall Ameriexn and English bills.|+21 for working girls, with 743 rooms, where modest but comfort- : ab’e accommodations may be se- mall incomes, many of cured at an extremely low price. f ivirg their remittances street address as well as their tele- Faw howe ih de form oF small phone number if they desire re-| sults, inotes sent by registered mail. The/ Payments for classified adver- Keone ee a list of these tisements is invariably in advance,,Pe°P€ and arrange lar bill is sometimes as to change five points but regular advertisers with ledger’ their home money as they need’ quotation. ‘dollar bill a week. The bootleggers price for a dol- high above the as market, His profit on a five accounts may have their advertise-|French currency and at a higher! dollar bill is usually more than meals Gates. rate than is paid by the banks. FOR RENT FURNIS June 28- 5 franes. —_—_—_----_-_—- second list of customers includes who constitute his clientele, are' Por it is on record that he was; Queen Marie of Roumania ha jHeaple who ere collecting foreign willing to pay these prices rather wont to escape from London and |announced her intention of vi: SHED apartment, White! money with small but regular pur- than go through the formality| the worries of State, and pass Sat-|ing America in September, ace: Apply 503 Duval street. (Chases. Many-of these have a necessary to buying foreign cur-'urday to Monday at Hampton {standing order for as low as a rency in a bank, The poorer classes accident had been a jolly good) AT OCALA, FLA. jfriends of the boys of Troop 1, (Ry Aavocinted Prona) and just before the fatal accident] OCALA, Fla,, Aug, 11.—Build- occurred had passed a bunch of |ing permits for the city of Ocala {the scouts on a hike, and waving during the month of July totaled jhis hand said, “How are the boys/$421.964 as compared with $19.5 |this morning?” The next they kn: 037.65 for the same month: last jof him he was dead. year, it was reported at the sity Spi aE SVE, linspector’s office today. Present The week-end habit has heen |conditions it was said point to claimed as the inveniion of no less|Avgust being another high’ month ja person than Oliver Cromwell.|in the building field in both busi: At any rate, he was one of the|ness and commercial properties, 4 earliest of those who cultivated it. panied by her daughter, the Court. jcoss Teana. ‘URNISHED apartments, all mod- ern improvements at Campbell | Paul Boysen, 619; reet. aug2-12px | UNFURNISHED cottage, 1101) Flagler avenue. All modern’ > improvemer Ga sdo! per month ri Apply F. R. Maloney, 916 Elizabeth’ street. augl1-4tx CORNER GREENE AND ANN STREETS—Opposite City Hall —Suitable for storage ‘rooms, garage, repair shops, etc. Ap-) ply The Citizen. d2c20/ FEMALE HELP OPPORTUNITY for woman, take orders for beanti-| ful hosiery. Fashioned and full-fashioned, all colors; pay every « Quality Silk Hosiery, Norristown, Pa. aug 11-1tx! = | WANTED WAL. .ED—Those who desire en- graved visiting cards to give us their~ orders. The Artman Prese 125 Duval street, in The Citizen building a24) FOR SALE | ‘or Sale—Dressers, | , beds, ete. Apply reet. avg. 9-Stx | F € > 704 Carol: FOR SALE—General Electric Motor. Five horsepower, 1,800 R. P. M., 22.1 Ampheres, 110 Volt, 60 Cycle. This motor is in splendid werking condition and the price is right. Apply to Citizen office. mare | FOR PRINTED SOCIETY STA- TIONERY, The Artman Press, 125 Duval street. Phone 66. | SH AFTI D PULLEYS FOR SALE CHEAP. Apply Citizen office. may6 e BURR MURRAY DALHART STANLEY RUBBER STAMPS — When in need of Rubber Stamps, see the Ariman Press, 125 Duval street, Key West Florida. ef WARRANTY deeds, mortgage deeds, netes and other legal blanks. We keep them in stock. The Artman Press, 125 Duval street. tf REAL ESTATE BARGAIN LOTS on Grinell street, 106 ft. 9 in. by 108 ft. 6 in; reasonable price. Address P. O. Box 92. mar 11 LE CORNER—Southard nd Elizabeth; 69 ft. on Eliza- beth, 100 ft. 6 in. on Southard. E payments. 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