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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16
COOLIDGE AND
GALES EXCHANGE
GREETINGS TODAY
PRESIDENTS OF TWO COUN-
TRIES USE w E S T E r N
UNIONS NEW UNBROKEN
CIRCUIT
Especial To The Citizen)
JACKSONVILLE, June 49,

Especial To The Citizen)
JACKSONVILLE, June 49,
President Coolidge and
President Gales of Mexico
today exchanged fluctuations
over the Western-Union's
newly established unbroken
circuit between New York
and Mexico City.
Other Fluctuations over the
new circuit which was estab-
lished today were exchanged
between Newcomb Carlton,
president of the Western
Union, and Eduardo Ortiz,
acting secretary of COM
munications and public works
of Mexico City.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16
ORGANIZER Of CAMPAIGN IN
PENNSYLVANIA PRIMARIES
FACES CROSS EXAMINATION
MRS. RUTH BRYAN OWEN
EXPRESSES CRATIFICATION

Coral Gables, Fla. June 15
Key West Citizen. Key West, Fla
Please express to the people of Monroe county my
grateful thanks for their support in my campaign. be-
candidate because | believed | could effectively
state at this time The cordial response which
have received from the district increased my devo
ton to Florida and her people | cannot express in
words my thanks to those who helped my candidacy but
will try by local service to my state to justify the
fdence of those who gave their vote
RUTH BRYAN OWEN.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16
Order OF De Molays
Hold Eection of
Officers Last Night

At their regular meeting last
evening the Order of De Mclays
elected officers as follows:
Cotton Parks, Master Counsel
lor.
Joseph Mondel. Senior Coun-
selIor-
Will Hamlin. Junior Counsellor.
These new officers will take
the oath of office at the regular
meeting next week. and will he
indueted into their new positions
the week following.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16
PALM BEACH
RESIDENT is ROBBED
MONEY AND JEWELRY
ARE TAKEN FRO NJ
LEO LEVY In AUOT-
MOBILE
(By Associated Press)
p WEST PALM BEACH,

% WEST PALM BEACH,
June 16-Three thousand
dollars in cash and diamonds
valued at $4,000 were taken
from Leo Levy, rich Palm
Beach resident early today,
according to information
just turned over to the police.
Levy was unable to give
police a detailed description
of the highwaymen who step
ped on the running board of
his car as he traversed a
poorly lighted street.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16
MELLON GIVES
OPINION ON
FARM RELIEF
EXPRESSED BY SEC
RETARY BRINGS SHARP RE-
TORT FROM IOWA REPRE-
SENTATIVE
my Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, June 16.-Sec-
retary Melons opinion on the
equalization fee plan of farm re-
lief, now pending before the SEN
ate in the McNary bill, brought
sharp retort today from Represen-
tative Dickinson, republican, Iowa.
"At last the administration is
out in the open," he said in
statement given to the Associated
Press. "When the statement of
Secretary Mellon is stripped of all
specious pretexts, it means that
the interests for whom he speaks
are not willing that the protective
system shall mean anything for
the American farmers"
The secretary's opinion is that
the proposal is economically un-
sound and unworkable, would pro-
vide no permanent benefit for
American farmers, would "subsi-
die" Americas foreign competi-
tors and would increase The cost
of farm products to American
consumers.
Considerable Importance has
been attached to Mr.. Melons
declaration in the capitol, where
the economic principles he opposes
already have been defeated in the
house and are approaching vote
in the senate. One view was ex-
pressed in the Washington Post
this morning which quoted Repre-
sentive Haugen, republican, Iowa,
who sponsors the bill in the house
as saying:
"There is no use to make any
further drive for farm relief now.
We have had our day in court"
Without Warrant
Representative Dickinson de-
scribed as absolutely without
warrant" the secretary's statement
that the equalization fee while
technically to be paid by the far
mer, would in reality be paid by
the consumer. lie said his pur-
pose evidently was Ito solidify OPP
position to the bill, especially
among the working men of the
country" Mr.. Melons arguments,
he added, sounded strangely
like those of Mr.. Hoover" the sec
retary of commerce. If the Mel
lon view sis the verdict of the
administration, then the thunder
bolt that came out of Iowa the
other day is merely the sheet
lightning of the coming storm"
Burdens placed upon them by
the Fordney- McCumber tariff act,
the arbitrary wage scales of labor,
the Adamson eight-hour railroad
hill, he said. have been borne by
the farmers without audible com
plant" because they were "said
20 be necessary for the protection
of industry and labor"
''And now" he went on, "See-
retary Mellon has the audacity to
demand that not only shall the
farmer continue to carry these
enormous burdens, bu., that he
shall also continue to feed the
consumers of the country as cheap
ly as those of Europe are fed,
against whose cheaper merchan-
disc and laborers the tariff and the
immigration law have erected a
Chinese wall OF exclusion. The
cruelty of his suggestion is as
founding
Ever since the Civil War the
farmers Of most of the great grain
belt states have supported the
political sys EN-. not because they
believed that it meant anything to
them directly. but because indus
try insisted thai it had right to a
fair price in the home market, and
also because by these reasons our
lahoring men would be protected
against the So-callcd pauper labor
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16

The regular communication of
Dade Lodge No. II. F. & A NJ.
will be held tonight at 5 o'clock,
Work in the +. A. Degree. All
resident and visiting brothers cor
diAlly invited 70 attend.
BY order of the w. NJ.
]. ]. TREVOR, See.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16

lee r. Herbert OF Bakersfield. Calf,
saved the life of Japanese baby in
a fire at Bakersfield last winter. Now
he has received the decoration of the
Scarlet Ribbon from the emperor OF
Japan. In addition. many japanese
societies in this country have sent
him expressions of tribute.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16
A M use M E N 7 S

MONROE THEATRE
TODAY-"Made For Love. "
Comedy. 'Short kits"
TOMORROW - why Women
Love" Comedy. "a Fraternity
Mixup."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16
SAN CARLOS THEATRE

T o d a y -- Harry Cordray's
Musical Comedy and Moving Pic
lures
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1926-06-16
THE WEATHER

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Evening star., 1926-01-23
INCREASE IN GOLD
IN CANADA SEEN

For three decades prior to 1915 the
world experienced a swiftly rising flow
Of gold into the international store"
says the National Bank OF Commerce
in New York. Discussing the gold
supply. Commerce Monthly says:
lhen came n sharp reduction III
output. with partial recovery in the
past several years. The future of
new supplies is of interest. Even be-
fore the war there We're signs that
the tide OF gold production was at or
near its highest. The return of the
pre-War trend seems Very improbable
Rather, the likelihood is of an out
put we'll sustained or even rising
somewhat above present levels for
time, but over a period tending to
decline
Gold is mined IN about three score
countries. or the total 1929 world
output OF $3.50, 600 900, however. more
than half was produced in Il single
country, the Union of South Africa
over 40 per cent came from the Brit
ish empire. If there is added pro.
duction Of the United States aud
Mexico nearly ninc-tenths of the whole
is accounted for.
since the discovery of the Califor.
MIA fields the United States has CON
II ibULSt 10 the "OliI Supply about
four and one-quarter billion dollars of
gold, a sum greater than has vet
come from any other country. Eut
the major contribution OF the United
States has apparently already been
made, though it will probably con
tinue, for . long time, as one of the
leading producers of the precious
metal
Large increases seem much more
likely 70 com" from Canada. which
has doubled its production since 1920
and which may surpass the United
states within q few years. Mexico.
until the outbreak of revolutionary
disturbances about 1910. Was increaS
ing its output of gold. Were political
stability assured the more adequate
application "f capital and better eco
nomiC organization Of the industry
might make possible some increase
in production.
Evening star., 1926-01-23
Great Economics Made.

in spite Of this enormous reduc-
ton Of passenger earnings with prac-
t!cally no reduction OF passenger serv-
ice, IN spite OF large reductions of
trei.ht rltos and i'm spite nI the great
Evening star., 1926-01-23

rate and will probably continue high
for at least Il month after the anthra-
cite miners return to work, whenever
that may be. The London market eX-
ercised q depressing effect on many
OF the non-ferrous metals. Zinc and
silver suffered the most.
Mills are taking wool in fair guam
tltles, although sharp movement in the
hlllng requirements is awaiting the
opening of the heavyweight lines. Raw
SILK was slightly lower at the week
end than at its opening. Production
OF the New England cotton mills is
steadily increasing, due to iudicious
use Of rayon in conjunction with cot
ton fabric. Many plants are nearing
capacity operations The shoe in
dustry is in good shape. although pro
auction is possibly slightly lower than
at the end of 1928.
tCOpNrIEht 1goG)
Evening star., 1926-01-23
HOPES TO SOLVE PROBLEM
Navy Department Explains Radio
Interference by Stations.

Many protests to the Commerce
Department of undue radio interfer-
ence by Navy stations have brought
the explanation from that department
that the complaints resulted from
use of a certain wave length in broad
casting to merchant ships.
This wave length is ordinarily used
only in sending weather reports to
these ships, which cannot read the
wave lengths of other Navy trans
raitters.
The Navy Department has conferred
with the Commerce Department and
is endeavoring To improve the types
Of receiving apparatus on merchant
ships to solve the problem.
Evening star., 1926-01-23
Ncrger To He Opposed.

The merger forecast by the pur-
chase OF stock in the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific hy the 81. Louis
san Francisco Will provide a vast net
work of lines through the South and
southwest tutal!ug over 1880 miles,
provided it is sanctioned by the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
Opposition TO the merger will not he
lacking from commercial bodies and
shippers who believe the move would
reduce competition in certain terri
tory. The newly merged lines, how
ever, are likely to have plenty of com
petition from the Southern Pacific in
tereStS, which il was thought would
ger the Rock Island, and from the
roads Of l.. f. Loree, proposed to
merge around the Frisco, the Kansas
City southern, the Missouri, Kansas
ana Texas and other roads Also the
combination would throw the proposed
consolidation plans of the Interstate
Commerce Commission into confusion.
Th" merger Will give the combined
roads an outlet to Florida through the
Southern Railway, Northern terminals
III Chicago and 81. Paul, Western
terminals in Denver and Colorado
Springs and FL PasO and connections
through 10 the coast by way Of the
Santa Fe, the southern Pacific. the
Union Pacific, the Rio Grande West
ern ana Western Pacific ana the
tsllI
Evening star., 1926-01-23

Improvement in the freight service
rendered, the economy of operation
has been so increased that there has
been a large increase since 1920 and
1921 in the net operating income
earned by the railways. Most Of their
local passenger train service has, how
ever, become so Improbable that the
maximum economy of operation re-
quires that it be :ially reduced.
Such reductions Of passenger serv-
ice meet with strong public opposition.
People ask how, If the trains are taken
off, they can make local trips when
the weather is such that they cannot
use their automobiles or a motor bus" 1"
Evening star., 1926-01-23
Auto Shows Help Sales.

Automobile shows continued to give
impetus to sales, ana orders placed
with parts and accessory manufactur-
erS during the week promise that au-
tomobile production Will be continued
at a heavy rate. The steel industry
showed slight drop in activity. This
was not due to lack of demand, but
rather to the fact that specifications
against contracts in December We're so
heavy that consumers have not di-
rected shipment of the expected
amount Of steel this month.
Careful estimates based on work
now in the hands of architects, which
forecast the expenditure of over &c.
000 600, ,00O in building this year, have
cheered building material men greatly,
and there have been more advances in
material prices than there have been
declines.
Crude oil prices in some sections
have felt a slight stimulus from drops
in production and lettering of the
statistical position. The production Of
soft coal continues at a tremendous
Evening star., 1926-01-23
MORE BIC MERGERS.
FEATURE OF WEEK.
Employment Holds Up-Auto
Shows Aid SaIes-Huge
Soft Coal Output.
HA j. G. ROYLE.
,ccial Dispatch to The star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, January 23.-In-
dustrial employment today is salts
factory throughout the country in
general, despite the disappointment
over the latest failure OF the operators
ana miners III the anthracite field TO
reach a basis for settlement. The
level of wages is fully as high in most
industries as il was at this time last
year, more workers are on the pay
rolls and . greater number hours of
employment Il week are being pro-
Vided.
The trend toward mergers and CON
Suiidations was q feature ~ he week.
This was apparent in the joining Of
TWO great electric power concerns in
the South, involving plant capacity Of
J'-.Ho0 hOrSeroNer; plans fox Il
gathering of food product corporations
under one head, merging of lumber
ana woodworking u-tgcS-S III ths
Northwest, the move toward joint dis
uihutlou Of daily products and the
progress made toward railroad CON
SOiidatiguS
Evening star., 1926-01-23
RAILROADS FIGHT
TO OFFSET BUSES
Revolutionary Changes in
Five Years Unequaled,
Editor Asserts.

Special Dispatch to The star.
TOLEDO. Ohio, January There
has occurred in the United States with
in the last five years the greatest revo-
luton in transportation that ever has
occurred in any country since the early
construction of railroads. said sam
uel O. Dunn, editor of the halfway
Age. in an address here. The most
remarkable results of this have been
an Unprecedented Improvement in RAJ!
way freight service and q huge loss o!
local passenger business by the steam
railways.
The decline in the number of pas
sengers carried one mile by, the steam
railways between 1920 and 1925 was
about % per cent of their total bust
nes5. on the basis Of the present aver
age passenger rate this represented
loss in annual earnings OF $40 .000, 900
of which about SIQ5 900 600 was suS-
lainei 10y the Eastern lines, S35, 900 600
by the Southern lines and sos 600 0Oc
by the V estern lines. The passenger
business Of the ~ cstcrn lines is now
less than il was Is years ago. while
that OF the Eastern and Southern roads
has declined 10 about what it was
eight Years ago.
There can be no doubt that thu
business has been taken away by the
private automobile ana the motor bus.
Practically all OF It has been short
haul business between local stations.
Communication business out of large
cities and Tong haul, through business
is larger than ever before. Thus far
the railways have not succeeded in
making reductions in local passenger
service to Offset this loss of business.
In consequence. in the country as q
whole the average number OF pas
SenEers carried per train has declined
from 50 to s. and in tho southern
and western districts is only about 81
Evening star., 1926-01-23

Mrs. Mary Baker of Chertsey, the
only woman town crier in England
took over the position when her hus-
band went to war in 1914. Since then
she has fulfilled the duties with mark
ed ability, leading the various local
professions and taking part in other
official functions.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-22
MAUNA LOA|
A G A | \ | n
{ EROP 7 | D N
Pours Forth Boiling Lava
With Renewed Intensi-
ty in Second Outbreak.
OLD FISSURE OPENS
Stream Is Travelling at
Greater Speed Than
Ever Before.
By GEORGE w. WRIGHT
I Cnited Press Staff Correspondent

HONOLULU, I. H., April %.
After having apparently concluded
her 1926 performance, Mauna Lot,
came back for an encore today and
exhibited lava flow of renewed in
tensity.
NhIlc low hanging clouds covered
the slopes the famous volcano tore
open Il sealed vent, threw out Il
fresh stream of boiling lava and
sent il racing down the mountain
side toward the McWHyne ranch
house and Il new srctio of govern
meht road.
At last reports, the stream WAS
travelling at greater speed and Was
propelled by a heavier flow from the
source than any of the earlier out
breaks 1t was within two miles of
the road, observers said.
The new flow was discovered when
Il glare through the smoke was sight
ed. The volcano had opened an old
fissure and was sending the molten
mass over the same course followed
by the main flow in 1926, on the
kona side Of the mountain.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-22
BUCK MOUNTAIN GIVES Up ITS DEAD MINERS
Barkentine Blown off Course Has Gripping Adventure
Secretary Work
TO Be Brought
To the Valley

Secretary of the Interior
Hubert Work, who is scheduled
to arrive in Yuma Sunday to
make an inspection of the La
guna dam, will be met by rep
resentatives Of the Imperial
county board Of supervisors,
Imperial county farm bureau
ana horticultural Commission
er 3. A. Harrigan. Aid for
two imperial county projects,
one the eradication of johnson
grass from the badly infested
Yuma Indian reservation, and
the other, the building Of three
Tiles of hard surfaced road
through the reservation, will be
asked.
An attempt will be made,
county officials stated this
morning, to arrange to bring
the secretary to Imperial Val
ley by automobile, so that the
piNpoSCu Iotttc VI Lie AA-AIflC-
rican canal can be shown to
him.
An appropriation of $4,000
for several years to eradicate
the Johnson grass on the reser-
vation will be requested, and
the Importance of the fight
against the pest OIL the reser-
vation shown.
The road in question is badly
needed so that q satisfactory
means of travel will connect the
Bard district with the state
highway.
Work will confer with Sup
erintendent Preston, in charge
of Yuma Valley reclamation
project on conditions in that
'~c"'i+v. It is also underSt ood
that he will look into the flood
protection needs.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-22
BY United Press Leased Wire
GRIPPING SEA TALE

SAN PEDRO, April %. - A dra-
matte story of adventure and priva-
tion on the high seas was related by
the crew of the four masted schoon-
cr, Irene, from Grays Harbor, Wash
in9ton, when she pulled into port
here today after being at the mercy
Of adverse winds for l30 days.
Il never encountered 50 many
adverse winds in all my 20 years
experience on the seas. said Capt.
Allen +. Rosendahl, who with his
wife and crew of nine men sailed
from Gravs Harbor on December II
wit. a cargo of lumber, bound for
Miami, Florida, by way Of the Pan
ama canal. 20
I'VE We're blown off our course
shortly after we put out and we
never could get the wind with us to
STEER US right. We were within 900
miles of the canal at one time and
were within sight of Honolulu 4:
one time, when another tricky
wind turned us off the course
Two members of the crew were in
critical condition. G. l.. Peterson,
seaman. was nearly paralvzed with a
bad ease of rheumatism and Fred
Continued on page three
Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-22
DRYS AND VETS
STILL IN FURY
OF WINDJAMMINC
Vets Contend They Are
Deprived of Several
Hours of Talk.
BY PAUL R. MALLON
(United Press Staff CorreSpondent)

WASHINGTON, April PA row
was partici pated in the senate pro-
hibition committee hearing today
when Chairman IIarreld, dry, served
notice that the prohibition investi-
cation Was to be arbitrarily closed
with seve, hours and l3 minutes
1 more of testimony.
The committcp. he said, would
make no farth"r investigation on
its own initiative, whereupon the
vets contended they were being de
prived Of two and Il half hours of
, their remaining time.
Harreld said the drys had one
hour and l3 minutes and would be
given three additional hours. Despite
the fact that the vets have two
hours and 30 minutes remaining g
they announced they had closed
their case, Harreld said, 50 they will
be allowed only three hours in all.
The committee agreed to let Mayor
William Dever of Chicago appear
for the vets when the dryS have fin
ished their one hour and 13 minutes
direct examination.
1T lllSj NilucSS was Il. Y. LIN
widdle, superintendent Of the Ma
tional Temperance bureau, Wash
ington, who said no one would con-
tend there had been 100 per cent
enforcement of the law, yet results
were encouraging. .-~
Dinwiddle said that what prohibi-
tion needed was adequate equipment
for enforcement and adequate court
facilities. Lrgalization of beer and
wine would offer no solution, but
add to the difficulties of enforce
ment, he added.
THE uprising that forced adop-
tion of the 18th amendment would be
but a mild zephyr compared with
the storm of protest which would
sweep the country if you were to
adopt the proposal for government
dispensation of liquor he said.
The wet proposal for Il referen
dunn is unconstitutional, Dinwiddie
argued. 1--WE challenge them to Sc
cure championship of their cause by
either the major political parties and
then watch the result he said.
Imperial Valley press., 1926-04-22
SETTLEMENT OF ALL FOREIGN
DEBTS is FINALLY ASSURED

France, the only major debtor ma
or nation which has not yet ar
ranged settlement.
The Belgian debt settlement,
made the unfinished business of the
Senate late yesterday, was to be
brought up for consideration today.
a meeting of the American debt
funding commission will be called
by Secretary of the Treasury Mel
Ion within few days to discuss
settlement of the French $4,473,0 ,000,-
coo debt obligation.
With the Italian debt pact ratified
by the senate, treasury officials
said the JuSo-Slav and French
debts would be taken up at once. A
commission of Jugo-Slav statesmen
is now in Washington waiting to dis
cuss settlement of their country s
$5l 900, 900 debt.