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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22
Improvement ShotOn In
Condition Of ]. Curry
KosU In Hospital

Friends Of Probation Officer.
Joshua Curry, viii be glad to learn
that his condition is greatly im-
proved. and that the physicians
hope and expect 10 save his foot
He Ia at the Samaritan Hospital
at Broad and Ontario streets IN
Philadelphia.
JOSH" AZ he is known by everg
man. woman and child in Key.
has been chairman Of tbe Sick
Committee Of the Elks' Lodge f5r
quarter Of a century. aud tite
quantities Of flowers tbal he hss
sent 70 the sick and afflicted would
decorate Kings reception
His many friends ere glad %
hear # his improved condition.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22
VERY FoRD OF ANIMALS

Queen Wilhelmina # he Meth
erlsnds is very fond 'of animals
and active in humane work in their
behalf
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
DEFERS PROCEEDINGS
ON TAX REDUCTION
MATTERS
fDr AssocIated Pressl

(Dy Associated PFessD
WASHINGTON, June 22.-
With the treasury overflowing
with money even beyond the fond
est hopes of estimates, President
Coolidge has turned thumbs down
on tax reduction talk until the
new revenue law is submitted to
the test of operation during the
coming year.
The president informed his
cabinet officers and bureau chiefs
at the semi-annual budget meeting
last night that this fiscal year,
ending June 80, probably would
be closed with a surplus of $780,
100000. Indications also pointed
TO margins of $1S5,0OO, 900 next
fiscal year and $2O,OO0,O0O at the
end of the succeeding IL months
he said, but withheld promise of
tax reduction pending thorough
study of the working of the new
law.
The $390,OO0, 900 surplus, cal
eulated yesterday on the basis Of
latest returns from second INSTALL
ment income tax payments, is al
most four times the amount fore
cast six months ago.
Income tax returns for this
quarter are expected to reach
s440, 100000 almost $4,000, 900
more than was collected for the
corresponding period last year
despite the higher tax rates which
prevailed then. March receipts of
s505, 100000 also were much high
er than year ago, in the face of
reduction in taxes just authorized.
The surplus will be applied to
the public debt, bringing the total
reduction for this fiscal year to
about sssG.OOO.OOO. This win
leave the debt at $l9, 100000 900.
Proposing to cut expenditures
next year in order to assure sur
plus. Mr.. Coolidge informed the
department chiefs that some re-
duction in personnel must be made
20 offset the increased expendi-
lures brought about by the public
Improvement program.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22
Young Men Leave Here
Yesterday En- Route
To HendersonUille, N. c.

David Glickman, who has for
some time been connected with
the Monroe County Abstract Com
pany in this city, accompanied by
Seheurer Weatherford, son Of r.
L. Weatherford, chief clerk of sc-
counting office, Navy department,
left yesterday for Hendersonville,
n. C.. in which city they will both
be employed by a large abstract
company. They left here ON the
schooner Eureka for Caxambas,
taking with them NJ. Gliekman's
car. in which they will tour 20
North Carolina.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22
GiUe Reception At Home
Last EUening Following
Marriage Sunday Night

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Archer, who
were married here on Sunday eve
ming Rt the Congregational church,
gave a reception last night to their
numerous friends ut their home on
Margaret street, near the corner
OF Fleming.
A band was in attendance which
furnished enjoyable music all dur
ing the evening, with refreshments
being served in abundance.
Everyone in attendance thor
onghly enjoyed The evening" 5
pleasure.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22
Pilot Lives


Lieut.. Henry III. Ogden, round
the-world flyer. escaped death at
an air meet st Flint, Mich, when
his plane crashed from an altitude
of $50 feet This photo was TAX
en- just after he crawled from the
Wreckage cut and bruised but not
~eFiously hurt.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22
MEETING OF PALM LODGE

Regular communication of Palm
Lodge of Perfection No. 10, A. A.
s. R., will be held tomorrow night
at & o'clock.
All members are requested to be
present. as this will be our last
regular communication until after
our regular summer vacation.
BY order of the V. NJ.
A. G. LUND.
c. E. CARING, Sec.
June 22-1t
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22
A M USE M { N 7 S
sseesssssssssssssssssss
STRAND THEATRE

DAY - Money Talks. "
Comedy, Page he"
tom ROW "Hayoc. "
Comedy, Moving Day"
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22
Serpentine Dance
Paraphernalia Here
For Affair Thursday

The paraphernalia for the ser
pentine dance to be given in con-
nection with the De Molay ball at
the Coral Isles Casino next Thurs
day evening have arrived. They
are certainly very pretty and rep
resent the latest designs in such
creations. Elaborate preparations
are being made for this gala
event and tickets are going fast,
the promoters say.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-22

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MUCH LIQUOR
DESTROYED AT
CUSTOM HOUSE
DEFENDANT FIGURING IN
CAPTURE MADE is GIVEN
HEARING BEFORE u. S.
COMMISSIONER

Isaac Mesa, at whose home it
was alleged that $4,000 worth of
liquor was seized by Tampa pro-
hibition officers yesterday morn
ing, was arraigned before U. S..
Commissioner C. Rodney Gwynn
at 10 o'clock this morning for a
preliminary hearing. He entered
a plea of not guilty, but the evil
dence was such that Judge Gwynn
placed his bond at $500 for ap-
pearance at the next term of fed
eral court in Key West. Mesa was
represented by Attorney j. Kirk
wood Watkins.
The large quantity of valuable
liquors seized by Prohibition Of
ficers w. c. Crumbley and G.
Watson, of Tampa. at 1918 Grin
nell street, claimed to be the
home of Isaac Mesa, was destroy
cd by e. Watson in the postoffiee
building last night, the job being
finished at o'clock this morning.
Of the $4,000 worth of liquor,
that would have been sold here for
approximately $4,000, it is esti-
mated. only few cases remain, in
charge of Officer Watson today,
to be used as evidence.
The air was liquor laden on the
second floor of the custom house
this morning, and the lavatory on
that floor was stacked high with
] packing straw, crushed glass,
broken demijohns and jugs. The
liquor had been poured into the
sinks in the lavatory, but the
scent of the liquor remained in
staggering strength.
/ Officer Watson had his hands
full. He couldn't stay in the
lavatory and the marshaPs office
both at the same time. Conse-
Iuently some of the liquor that
started out to be destroyed may
have met a different fate" But
the lavatory stacked high with i'll
smelling debris this morning is
proof that it all didn't get away,
/ for the "evidence" indicated that
a tremendous quantity of booze
had been destroyed.
I In commenting upon the big
liquor seizure Of yesterday, u. S.
Deputy Marshal Lyalle Van Val
kenburgh made the following
statement to representative of
The Citizen:
The 200 cases of liquor seized
By prohibition agents and broken
by same were stored in the mar
shal's office temporarily to as
sist and cooperate with the said
agents. The key to the marshal's
office was turned over to G. Wat
son, prohibition agent. who tool
complete charge Of said liquor,
destroying same. This. is a pro
hibition case.
Il received wine from 3. f.
Dyson. U. S. marshal. that he had
nothing to do with same, that II
was a prohibition case.
"As the customs officers re-
fused 70 store liquors in vault and
as no other place was available,
the deputy U. S. marshal allowed
the prohibition agents to use his
office for the time being"
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
HER0|SM AWARDS
GIVEN RACE men
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Cites Bravery of Two Ne
grOes; Pensions Given.
(Preston News Service)

Pittsburgh, Pa, Feb. 6.-At a
meeting of the Carnegie Hero Fund
Commission here last week among
the 20 acts of sacrifice recognized by
the commission two race men were
considered.
Dependents of those who sacri-
feed their lives were given pensions
aggregating $2,76O a year.
Felix Hood, 10 Beach street,
Fairmont, w. Va, attempted to save
a mother and daughter from drowning
at Fairmont, July 13, 1924. Hood's S
widow received $50 month, with
$40 additional for four children, and
bronze medal Edgar C.. Broyles,
Okalona, Miss, died attempting to
save a man from drowning at Kos
ciusko, Miss, July II, 1924. His
widow received benefits of $40
monthly, $40 additional for two chill
dren and a bronze medal.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
Only Negro Writers Eligible;
Manuscripts Due by Sept. 1 at
Publishers Who Are Sponsor
ing Contest.
IN. A. A. C. P. Press Service)

IN. A. A. c. P. Press Service)
At the request of Messrs. Albert
and Charles Boni, publishers, the Ma
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, announces a
prize of $1,000, to be paid outright,
in addition to royalties for novel
of Negro life, to be written by a per-
son of Negro descent.
Hitherto unpublished manuscripts
may be submitted to Messrs. Albert
and Charles Boni before September 1,
1926.
Judges Named.
The judges of the competition are:
Henry Seidel Candy, Editor of The
Saturday Review; DR.. w. E. B. Du
Bois, Editor of "The Crisis" Charles
S. Johnson, Editor of opportunity; "
James Weldon Johnson, Secretary of
the National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People; Edna
Kenton, Lawrence Stallings of The
N. Y. World, and Irita Van Doren,
Editor of The Tribune Weekly,
Books"
The conditions for the contest state
that in addition to being written by
an author of Negro descent: "The
novel must deal with Negro life in
the sense that one or more of its
leading characters must be of Negro
descent and it's action must show the
influence of this fact"
Full details of the contest may be
obtained from Messrs. Albert and
Charles Boni, sc Fifth Avenue, or
from the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People, 50
Fifth Avenue.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
GERMAN VISITS
WHEREFORE
Official of Government Here on
Business for Country In
vestigates School.
(Preston News Service)

Wilberforce, O., Feb. 5.-Capt. C.
]. Stubal, with his wife, of Dresden,
Germany, who is in the United States
representing the German Govern
ment in Investigating land condi-
tions in Arkansas, visited Wilber-
force University last week.
ITO learn about the country" he
says, zone should study it's schools"
Capt. Steubel was especially interest
ed in the classes in German and
sociology. Capt. Steubal received his
law degree from the University of
Leipsig and has made a special study
of French and Eiglish literature. He
was much impressed with the work
being done at Wilberforce and in his
talks to the students of the classes
visited commended them as well as
encouraged them to build character
and mental strength.
He stressed the Importance of de-
veloping a race of thinkers. He de-
clared, There is no way to stop the
|'progress of a race of thinkers. Show
me race that has progressed and
will show you race of thinkers"
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
QUEEN OF SHEBA CHAPTER
ELECTS AND INSTALLS

The Queen of Sheba Chapter, No.
5, o. E. S., elected and installed the
following officers: Mr.. Walker Will
liams, Worthy Patron; Mrs. Chas.
Force, Worthy Matron; Mrs. Ardelia
Allen, Associate Matron; Mrs. Mae
B. Mason, Treasurer; Mrs. Bessie
Roberts, Secty.; Mrs. Cora Dilling-
ham, Conductress; Mrs. Leila Mum
dell, Asst. Conductress. Appointed
officers: Mrs. Gertrude Williams,
Warder; Mrs. Clara Miner, Adah;
Mrs. Eva Gaskins, Ruth; Mrs. Laura
A. Stanton, Esther; Mrs. Ida Adams,
Martha; Mrs. Susie Yeiser, Electa;
Mr.. Robert Southers, Sentinel; Mrs.
Lou Esters, Herald; Mrs. Carrie
Robinson, Chaplain.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
STUDENT STRIKE
IS S.|NvEST|CATED
Superintendent of Schools Be.
lieves Students Were Man.
aged in Walk-Out.
(Preston News Service)

Washington, D. c., Feb. 6.-Indi-
cation that there will be an after
math of the recent student strike at
Armstrong Technical High School as
a protest against the demotion of
Capt. Arthur C. Newman, principal,
was given at the Franklin School
Thursday.
Following a conference held be-
tween DR.. Ballou, superintendent of
schools and Garnet C. Wilkinson,
assistant superintendent of schools
Thursday, it was learned that DR..
Ballou has been informed as to the
identity of the one presumably in
the school system, who can give a
great deal of light regarding events
which led up to the strike.
The investigation of the school
officials is being made at the direc-
tion of the Board of Education,
which decided it was their duty to
determine whether the pupils re-
solved to walk out" of their own
accord or whether they were man
aged" by employees of the school sys-
tenn or their parents.
DR.. Newman's demotion voted at
the last meeting of the board became
effective January 81.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
MACEY'S OFFERS VALUES
IN SALE OF NEW COATS

Readers of The Echo are to be CIV
en- chance to show how great is
their buying power, and how good an
advertising medium the paper is.
Macey's is offering for sale lip
stick red coat, said to be very pop
ular in New York just now, whose
regular sale price is $3.50. To
Echo readers who present the coupon
attached to the Macy advertisement
in the paper, the coats will be sold
for $4,000.
A years subscription to The Echo
carries coupon which is good for
$500 on the $4,000 price of the coat.
1t has been pointed out that these
coats are real value, the fur alone
on some of them having cost more
than the selling price now quoted.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
JUDGE |MPANELS
IMPARTIAL GRAND
JURY MOB CHASE
Jurymen Asked to Leave Service
If in Connection or Sym
pathy With Crime.
Negro Burned Sept. 20
Publicity Invited in Dealing Mob
Justice to Victim; Fami-
lies Watch.
(Preston News Service)

New Albany, Miss, Feb. 5.-When
Circuit Court convened in New AL
bany last Monday, Judge T. E. Peg
ram with dispatch impaneled the
grand jury. Judge Pegram launched
at once into vigorous charge on law
enforcement, the matter of special in
terest being the lynehing of Negro
by large mob last October. Judge
Pegram gave a good deal of his time
to this crime.
He took up the case of the mob
that took from the sheriff of Union
County a prisoner, Sept. 20, in the
streets of Myrtle and carried him to
the Rocky Ford neighborhood, 20
miles west of New Albany, and after
much torture, as was reported, then
piled brush around him and burned
him to death.
Jury to Be Fair.
The Judge requested each juryman
that if he had any connection or
sympathy with any supposed member
of the mob to excuse himself from
jury service at once.
1t is reported that there were sew
eral hundred people on the scene of
the crime, some carrying their fami-
lies to see the exciting event. 1t is
also reported that this was done
about noon on the Sunday named,
Sept. 20, and that not a member of
the mob was masked. No secrecy
was sought, but rather publicity was
invited.
The judge stated in his charge that
he assured the many gathered in New
Albany where the girl was in the
hospital and where the Negro was
brought from Aberdeen for identi-
fication by the girl that he would
grant speedily hearing in the case
if the people would let the law take
it's course.
Perjury Stressed.
Judge Pegram then called atten-
tion to the crime of perjury, saying
that law could be executed and crime
greatly abated if not wiped out if
men would swear the truth, if they
would regard their oaths. He stated
the severe punishment for perjury
This special charge with reference to
rape and lynching was followed by
the usual charge with reference to
law violation.
Judge Pegram said the lynching
case is the only murder case in the
County. Union for several years has
been singularly clear of this kind of
crime.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
Mencken Says
Negroes Have
Outrun Whites
IN. A. A. G.. p. Press Seryice)

(N. "A. "A. y. L. PreSS SerVlce)
In the February number of the
American Mercury in a review of
"The New Negro" by H. L. Mencken,
in which he inquiries pointedly if any
group of white Southerners can be
imagined making such contribution
as the essays, poems and stories in
cluded within the covers of that
book.
"As one who knows the South bet
ter than most" declares Mr.. Menck-
en-, "and has had contact with most
of its intellectuals, real and confed-
crate, l must say frankly that l can
imagine no such thing. Here, indeed,
the Negro challenges the white
Southerner on a common ground, and
beats him hands down.
II call to mind some of the lead
ing sub-Potomac master-minds of the
orthodox faculty; Henderson of
North Carolina, old Williams of Mis-
sissippi, the editors of the Atlanta
Journal, the Richmond News-Leader,
the Jackson Daily News, the Nash
vile Banner-and l range them be-
side Locke, James Weldon Johnson,
Walter F. White, Rudolph Fisher,
Kelly Miller and half a dozen other
contributors to the present volume.
The contrast is pathetic. The Afri-
cans are men of sense, learning and
good bearing; the Caucasians are
simply romantic wind-jammers, full
OF. sound and fury, signifying moth
ing"
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
NEW COMMISSARY OPENS
AT NORTHERN PACIFIC

The Northern Pacific Railroad
Company has moved into it's new
commissary building at Third and
Commercial SITS. The building, ac-
cording to officials is the finest and
best equipped railroad commissary
in the United States. 1t has it's own
bake shop and butcher shop with
white enamel sanitary fixtures, and
automatic electric refrigerators.
A new observation car will soon
be put on the coast run of the North
ern Pacific and will employ colored
maids. On February 21, one of the
new cars will make months tour of
the East, starting from Chicago, as
an advertisement of the new service
which will be installed.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
BILL PREVENTING
|NTER-MARRIACE
GIVEN CONGRESS
Measure Would Prohibit Mar
riage Between Negroes, Whites
i'm District of Columbia.
Caraway Sponsors Bill
N. A. A. C. P. Urges Protest
Over Such Act; Unfavorable
Results Indicated.
On. A. A. C. P. Press Service)

IN. A. A. c. P. Press Service)
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People has
notified it's branches throughout the
United States of the bill introduced
in Congress by Senator Caraway of
Arkansas which would prohibit the
inter-marriage of Negroes and white
people in the District of Columbia
and make it unlawful for persons so
married to reside in the District or
for those so married and now resi-
dents to return to the District for
residence if they once leave it.
The penalty prescribed by the bill
for any one violating any of the pro-
visions of the act is fine of not
more than $1,000 and Imprisonment
for not less than one year or more
than five years.
kilograms Desired.
N. A. A. C. P. branches are called
upon by the national Office to send
kilograms to the senators from their
state, and to induce prominent white
and colored people to send letters
and kilograms demanding that the
bill be opposed. Local editors of
both white and colored publications
are to be urged to denounce the bill
editorially, and churches, lodges,
fraternal bodies and political clubs
are to be asked to pass resolutions
denouncing Senator Caraway's meas
ure. -r-
The bill is numbered 2160, and
all communications to Senators
should mention it by number.
Reasons Given.
The N. A. A. C. P. gives the fol-
lowing reasons for opposing all such
measures:
1. That marriage should be en-
tirely a matter Of individual choice
between persons who are eligible to
enter the marriage contract under
the general laws of the land.
2. That the Negro cannot in self
respect consent to have himself writ
ten down in the statute books as
something outside and beneath the
human race.
3. That every such law sweeps
away from colored girls and women
the protection, legal recourse and
remedy, where white men are con-
cerned, to which they are entitled as
well as other girls and women.
4. That the enactment of such
laws does not stop intermixture but
sets the stamp of legal approval upon
concubinage, bastardy and the degra-
dation of colored women. deprived of
the protection of matrimony.
The St. Paul echo. [volume] (St. Paul ;) 1925-1927, 1926-02-06
FLORENCE MILLS
RENDERS SONGS
Artist Appears in Concert Civ.
ing Work of Still, Col
Ored Composer.
IN. A. A. C. P. Press Service)

On. A. A. T.. L. Press SerVlce)
Florence Mills, who has heretofore
sung in musical comedy and cabaret,
made her first appearance as a con-
cert singer on Sunday night, Janu-
ary "a, when she sang a group OF
four songs at the second concert CIV
en- this winter by the International
Composers Guild, of which Edgar
Varese is director.
The songs sung by Miss Mills were
composed for her by William Grant
Still, young colored composer, one of
whose compositions was performed
by the Guild last year. Mr. Still has
studied for some years with Mr..
Varese, who is regarded as perhaps
the leading exponent of the new mu-
sic in America.
Miss Mills singing pleased large
audience which applauded her gen
erously, recalled her a number of
times and made her give second
performance of three of Mr.. Stills
four songs. The songs were arrang-
ed for accompaniment by small jazz
orchestra.