The Palm Beach Post from West Palm Beach, Florida • Page 1

ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED PRESS UNITED NEWS UNIVERSAL SERVICE POST MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS VOL. XVIII: No. 72 WEST PALM BEACH, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1926 20 Pages Today Single Copy Five Cents I PALM BEACH i DRYS SID PAT SENATE RATIFIES COUNTY Florida Today By Frank l'arker SlorkhrhlKO. DECISION Sounds Like the Well Known Riot Act for Hubbies Amundsen Flight To End In Dash Across America Henry Drops In To View Tampa After 20 Years OE ITALIAN DEBT Terms of Agreement Easier Than Those Given to Other Nations ACTION MAY SPEED UP FRENCH NEGOTIATIONS Mussolini's Country Given 62 Years to Pay Two Billion Dollar Debt to U. S.

United News Wnsh'ngton, April 21. Congress has provided for settlement of the Italian war debt of over two billion dollars on terms negotiated by the American debt-funding commission, the senate ratifying Wednesday the pact which was approved several weeks ago by the house. President Coolidge I ready has given assurances that he will sign the bill providing for settlement. The vote was not as close as had been expected, 51 to and was not a good indicate of the fight which has ranged on the senate floor for a month, during which Premier Mussolini has been severely criticized and the terms described as amounting virtually to cancellation. Ratification of the settlement with Paly, which provided more lenient terms than have, been granted to other debtor nations, was regarded PACT FOR PAYMEN Hero is a' paragraph which everybody in Florida would do well to commit to memory.

Jt.s author lo Mr. O. 10. Rehyrnor, editor of the magazine published at lolly wood. This is what Mr.

Reliy-mer says in the February issue of It' we were asked for an opinion we should say that Florida needs fewer real estate offices and more good stores, fewer land itents and more industries, less tall out profits, and more attention arm ing. "youth" is the new name of the official publication of the Florida Society of America. It used to be called "The Hollywood Magazine," but that title, seemed to limit its scope to too narrow a field. I'uder its new name it is one of the most, useful periodicals published in the state. The Florida Society of America took a long slop in the right direction a year ago by announcing that it would award $20,000 in prizes for the best suggest ions for industries adapted to Florida.

The three prizes first awarded went to r. Charles Northon, of New York city, for bis suggestions of manufacturing concentrated foods jollies, fruit and allied products; Parle I Phillips, of Jacksonville, lor a cnritribu-Jion on building materials; and Ar thur Stanley Rings, of Washing on, 7). for a discussion on rubber wnoi' se ai'e all types of industry which fit Into Florida's scheme of things. All industry is based on the products of 11m soil or of the sea. Industry consists in converting those raw products inlo articles of commerce, merchandise ready for Hie ultimate consumers' use.

Florida's industries as y-t mostly jro little rther than the production of the products, which are shipped away in their unconverted stale to be fabricated elsewhere into lite forms In which they will ultimately be used. What the Florida Society is trying lo do Is to stimulate interest. In the performance of all of the successive steps in the manufacture of merchandise commodities from the products of Florida's soil and Florida's waters. The first prize, just announced, for the second period of the society's induslnal cont'st went to K. S.

I'eer, of Rnhsnn Park. named for the same Roeer W. Malison, by the way, whose name, is attached to Tlabson i'ark. FIs. Mr.

I'eer suggested the manufacture of furniture, cabinets, showcases, veneer panels, from Florida hardwoods. The prize of went to Mr. Robert M. Davis, of (meerrs I. Island, X.

for plan for manufacturing men's clothing in Florida, while Mr. Harlow, of t'harlotle, N. vim the 2 "i third prize with 'realise on the conversion of bv- as paving the way for liberal terms 1 the old three mile limit, lo France, the only major debtor i 'I'I'is was the opinion in legal circles hich has not yet come to terms. I Wednesday following a decision by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon States court of announced immediately after treaties under which the senate's fiction Wednesday that he government has been boarding ve.s-would cail a meeting of the debt -'s wi'bih an hour's steaming dis- I PALM BE NKS SHOW GAINS State Call Reveals Strong Position of Local Financial Houses DEPOSITS OF ALL SEVEN INSTITUTIONS INCREASE Huge Cash Reserves, Stable Outstanding Paper Bring Optimism AVest Palm Heach bankers yesterday pointed lo the gain of more than $12, 0110,000 in bank deposits during the past year as concrele evidence of the steady growth and increasing business activity in Ihis city and Ihe soundness and stability of Ihe seven local financial insti-t i it ions. Local banks, according to official statements made pubtic.

jesterday for the state banking department, show deposits aggregating more than the amount, on deposit a year ago. Another important feature in connection with the statements local bankers said, was the strong cash reserve maintained by Ihe local financial houses, ati'l outstanding paper which is fif the soundest quality. While the growth of Hie oily is reflected in the deposits the stability of the local banking institutions is said lo be Ihe most important item disclosed by the publication of Hie statements, The sworn statements, it was pointed out, are absolute refutations of the rumors that have been spread throughout the north against the Continued on Page Three II Governor's Committee Workers Will Confer on Settlement ana Passaic, harrassed quiet We N. April textile strike zone was lnesday night as 1 fi.luin strikers hoped for a settlement of the Kl-week dispute in the meetings which will begin Friday between flovernor Mnore's committee and represents! ives of the mill owners and workers. Although Albert Weisbord, youthful Ilaivaid graduate who is Fading the strike, announced bis belief that the strike was "piactically won." rutn-bbni's of furHur tiouhle were sounded in Adjutant Ceneral Frederick (Jilkyson's announcement at Trenton of Friday's meeting.

Oilkyson's statement that tlie representat ivos in the conference will be men "whom Hie mill owners are ready and willing and negotiate with" was in-torprotol by strikers in indicating thai authorities will dictate against the II was believed in many quarters that tic- a.iutant lie ant that Weisbord would not be allowed in the nieitmgs. lie would not say definitely that the strike leader would be Conl inueil on Page Three PLENTY OF CAS Tallahassee, April 21. I Gasoline consumption in Florida last month was nearly twice as much as for March, II12.1, according to a report of the state department of agriculture. The total number of gallons consumed last month was as compared with in March last year. NEW LAVA FLOW Ililo, T.

April new and big flow of lava from the volcano Marina Ron, which has been in eruption for over a week, broke out this afternoon on the line of the Rill'i How. The lava moved faster than that, of the recent flows. IS ACH OF MANY MILLIONS Leningrad, April 21. The grand finale of the AmunJsen-Kllsworth polar flight expedition will be a flight across the T'niled States by the dirigible Norge, if the expedition's plans are fulfilled, Col. Umberto No-bile, the dirigible commandant, told Universal Service hero today.

After the grilling trip the Norge will be shipped from Nome to Seattle and thence to some American hangar, where it will be reassembled for the cross-ocuntry flight. The dangers of polar travel have not. restrained thousands of persons from all over the world from applying for a chance to make the trip, Col. Nobile said, but among the petitioners he was impressed by one woman who expressed a desire to "lie the first to hoist a lipstick along with Hie American, Norwegian and 1 1 ul inn flags at the North Pole." The continued delay at Leningrad is increasing Hie hazards of the flight over the pole, and is working on the nerves of the commandant and crew, who have yet the prospect of a minimum of SI hours in the air before reaching their goal. ID-WEST 5 Eighty-Degree Maximum Reported from Many Cities in Central Section Chicago.

April AP mor temperatures freekle west weather map today. id-stim-1 the mid-ranging to a maximum of SO degrees in some areas. Thousands who but yesterday had decided that the time had not yet come to rut their to) coals in moth' halls swvitcivd under its glare. The taste of torridily will be but a liny morsel, however. Clouds hid the sun over much of the perspiring area before nightfall and the weather-bureau found unsettled weather, showers and potential thunderstorms in the offing and due to arrive early tomorrow.

-Many localities reported readings of 7S degrees today, among them Chicago. lies Omaha and Milwaukee. Clinton. reported a temperature of SO. In Canada, too, mid-summer weather prevailed, with SO degrees reported from Winnipeg.

In every instance the temperature was by many degrees the highest of Ihe year, although not unseasonable for lale April. generally over the central ''west Ihe warm weather was welcomed by farmers, although In some parts of N'ebraska, farmers reported damage Continued on Page Three Olfi for Miners in Blind Tunnel After Four Under Sand Quincy, April 22 -A A gang of swearing, silent hardpan miners stripped to the waist and their faces and bodies streaked with mud. were on their hands and knees in a blind tunnel of the Feather River Power Company in the bills thirty miles west of here tonight trying to lift the crushing sand of a mountain from Ihe bodies of four of their fellows. Six were trapped in a land.slid" in Ihe tunnel Saturday night -is they were about to go off shift. One, Thomas MeDormott, was taken cur, bruised arrd semi-conscious, late yesterday ami the body of Jack Coyne, veteran Montana and Cnhforrla miner, was leached before dawn today.

The rescue workers lia.l charid away lire last foot of intervening slide late today and were diking out Ihe mud and rock by hand in 1 he search for the bodies of the1 missing men. Two of the victims were reached tonight but the rescuers were unable lo determine imnreclintr ly whelher the men were dead or alive, due to the difficulty of rennwing debris which pinned them down. CCD nonre LLI rUilULO HEAR DRIVE'S El Hearings 'Don't Mean a Thing' Pro-Volstead Congressmen Assert INDICATE COUNTRY STILL OPPOSES MODIFICATION Evidence Brings Widely Different Reactions to Embattled Factions r.y I'niled News Washington, April 21 Dry members of congress have been left unmoved by the senate prohibition investigation which is now virtually completed except for dual arguments of the opposing law yei s. "I don't see. why people pay any allenlion to these hearings because (hey don't mean a one leading dry senator said alter Wednesday's session.

"Not a in the world," another senator slanding ne.iihy echoed. "There isn't a chance of anything being done." These expressions are typical of the Mrmness with which the drys in eoiiLTcss logard the pp-as fee wine and beer. Assuming that these puhlioians knew what their nuifi il uents are thmkinir. Hie inference is that the pages and paces of testimony which have been presented In the senate judiciary suh-eommitteo have caused no breakdown of dry sentiment in the country as What the leisurely digestion of the evidence may produce time is another o'c ''Hon. Continued on Pol: Three WOMEN VOTERS STUDY Jll Prohibition, Aid for Mothers, International Peace Lead League Queries St.

T.ouis, April II. tion, international peace and mothers lead the questions ohibl-aid to which asked women ot the count rv will be to consider during the year which will elapse until the next annual meeting of the Internation League of Women Voters. The national logislat ive program was announced Wednesday by the national board, of the league which is continuing its sessions throughout the week. The main body of the convent ion has sdjou rm d. The league o1od to stand for Ihe following pr gram The merit sMem of civil service I for the prohibitum unit as in a bill ab-cady before onaross.

The Shoppard-Townor maternity act. Study and careful t) of Hie Muscle Shoals project. on Page I'm Tamiami Trail Will Follow Original Survey Line Jack ville. l-'la April lb- The "Tamiami Trail" si late li number from cordaiiei in the This 27, will be roul ie to Collier col 1 with Ihe course 'Jenkins survey." was the formal us laid out I rinnoitnce-ons A. h- state road apt during Ves from the highway moot bore tonight by away, chairman of Hi department, following the day and night the other iiieC commission, sinner was even to his recommend, i the suppott Hons relative to Ihe highway.

Construction will be rushed, Mr. Hathaway said, Willi the highway completed within three and four years, explaining the time as represent big the shortest possible period necessary for the building of a road of such character as lie intends to lay out. There is no possibility of future changes In the route, the commissioner said," Hie decision is definite and final." The decision ends a long period of study given to the routing of the highway, which, when complct'-d, joins Florida's Fast Coast Willi Ihe southern gulf const. jWuducts of peanuts. ON MILITARY TRAIL IS STILUACKING Leading Citizens Argue Many Points on Proposed Bond Issue NEED OF ROAD IS NOT QUESTIONED BY PEOPLE" Ask Commission to Split Pro-posal Into Three Separata Items for Vote Over lu Iming approval of Military (rail as He one outstanding project now nerore Palm Reach county found voice in gifted oratory direct- ed to Ihe county commission vester.

I day by iding citizens, but thn body's de i.ision to call an $8,000,000 bond issue to cover cost of the trail ami two other major highway improvements was again withheld when spokesmen questioned the praotn-j bility of floating more than two arm one-half millions of dollars in bonded indebtedness. Orel Myers, bearing a petition he said was signed by freeholders "from the back country to the palatial homes of Palm Reach" force-fully injected the proposal of an is. sue of to cover the cost of Hie trail alone, lie did not question the wisdom of a new bridge for 1ike Woi-i'i, no- Hie widening of Ocean boulevard, and other major improvements involved in the proposed huge issue, but believed that the county is unable to float an issue of that size, and recommended that his figure be adopted. Continued on Page Three Administration Officials Comment on Action of Voters in Election West Palm Reach officials faced yesterday the task of preparing for the program of civic improvements entailed in floating the $1,00.1,000 In bonds i.uthorized at the election on Tuesday and providing for gaps In Ihe program occasioned by the re-jeilion of items, totaling $960,000. "It.

was purely a business propo-si'ion," said Mayor spencer T. Laln-hert, in commenting 011 the outcome of the election. It was up to tho p-o lo to determine If they wanted these projects; it was not up to the commissioners to try to force them down the city's throat. If they didn't want them, I guess we can manage to get along some way." Outstanding among the problems facing the city commission as the result of Tuesday's flection is the disposition to be made of the ocean frontage, upon which an option had been taken as a proposed site for a municipal bathing beach. The aked for this matter will come up for discus-don tonight at the commission meeting, following the odi-cial canvass of the election returns.

According to both City Clerk II. J. Dougherty and City Manager C. A. Ringham, it is expected that lie bathing beach site will be sold at a good figure in excess of the $1100 a foot paid for it.

Regarding others of the seven re- 'on' mile, 1 on Page Three THE WEATHER Forecast Florida: Fair Thursday; Friday mostly cloudy, probably showers In north and central portions; moderate southeast and south winds. Winds East Gulf: Moderate to fresh southeast, mostly overcast Thursday; showers over west portion. West Gulf: Fresh southeast and south shifting to northwest over west portion, oven-ast and showery Thurs-day. Caribbean Sea and Windward Passage: Moi'erate to fresh cast and northeast, mostly overcast probably showers Thursday. Sandy Hook lo llatteras: Fresh west and snithwest, fair Thursday.

to Florida Straits: Mod erate to fresh southwest and west over north and moderate southeast over south portion fair Thursday. Temperatures Jasksonville, April 21. AP Th maximum and minimum tempera-lures In representative cities furnished by tire weather bureau from records compiled at. 8 p. follow: Station West I'alm Max.

....72 Min. 6(1 Atlantic City 70 Atlanta 78 Roston 68 Rrrffalo 62 43 36 34 50 48 58 32 68 42 46 51 46 41 Chicago 76 Cincinnati 76 Res Moines 78 Fast port f.2 Kansas City 72 New York 72 Pittsburgh 74 St. Ronis SO Toledo 80 Washington 78 Tampa, Fla April 21 "Too many people and too crowded to suit me," said Henry Dugan, 05, when he came down town Wednesday from his home in the outskirts of the city for the first time in 20 years. "I had to come down to get a new wagon," he said as he climbed out of a dilapidated vehicle hitched to a feeble nag. "Where's a telegraph office? I've got to order a new wagon," he inquired of a man passing.

"I've been watching the tops of these buildings but they look a lot bigger down here," he remarked as he peered skyward. "These new-fangled things like automobiles worry me. I won't have anything to do with them. "I've been putting off coming down town for a long time but my old wagon was about to go to pieces so I lowed I'd better get it over with." Act of Congress Necessary to Make Hauls in 12-Mile Limit Legal New York, April 21. Con- gressiorial action now neocs-; sary if the dry navy is to continue jthe procedure started since Hie shilling of liquor treaties with other countries and seize foreign um shins tnnce of the coast do not constitute a law extending territorial limits of the t'nited States beyond the famuu thrce-mile mark.

The "hour steaming" clause has resulted in the coast guard seizing foreign rum vessels within the bruit. Fnless the Fnited States supreme court reverses the ruling of the court of appeals, it would appear that congress must back up the terms of the treaties with laws to cover them. Indications that, this is seerr in a bill sent to com week by (b neral Andrews, so were ress this dry en- forcemeat chief, proposing that provisions for the further limit be written inlo Ihe statutes. Fnless the law is enacted the treaties with Croat Rritain and Norway are seriously affected, if not invalid. euncsiiay decision was given lit connection with libel proceedings brought by the government against Ihe Norwegian steamer Sagatind which coast, guard cutters captured 10 miles out with a large cargo of li'liror.

Continued on Page Three YACHT CLUB MEETS An important special meeting of Hie I 'aim Reach Yacht club will be held in the clubhouse at 8 o'clock tonight. According to Commodore I. II. Conkling. tile session should be one of Hie largest in Hie history of the club as a matter of vital importance to every member will hn discussed.

Policies for the earning year-arid plans for the annual emiso Palm Tree skippers will be de-1 upon. I im-reuse ot i persons in Seven Months, Belief An estimated increase of 17.00(1 persons in the past seven months, bringing the combined population ft West Palm Reach and Palm Iteach to 57,000, was rtvealcd vesterdav in a siarisiical survey compile published by the Greater Reach chamber of commerce cording to these, estimates Palm Reach has a permanent lotion about 00,000 and Palm 1 and Palm popn-Ileaeli about. 7.000. Another evidence of deeid I growth is to be found Irr a comparison of the post office receipts, showing $117,077. ii.1 for the first three months of 1921! alone, whereas for the nine months of January to April, the receipts totaled $171, .111.

OS. for the two communities. Rank deposits as of March II, 102(i, for West Palm Reaidi and Palm Reach were cited 11s and of March It, 102,1, $-1 1,939,318 That building programs for 1926 are larger in proportion is seen in the statement that permits up to September, 192.1, totaled I. whereas for Ihe first quarter of 192(1, $1.2.10,026, or well In excess of ono-ihird the figure for the nine months represented In the preceding figure. new Italy's spirit nnd protagonist for the struggle which is yet to be won before his dream of empire can bo realized.

The fascist insignia symbol of the new empirewas outlined tonight in electric bulbs upon the Colllscum, the Arch of Titus: the Forums and other relics of the Rome of Emperor Augustus, which Mussolini desires to see live again within the brief space of five years. It is doubtful whether any Roman emperor returning from warlike ronipiesls In the colonies ever attained the popular acclamation nccorded to Mussolini on his first great public appearance New York, April 21. -Peter Walsh was doing the best he could tonight, to live up to eight commandments exacted by his wife in court today. Here are the rules he must follow if ho keeps her: You shall not drink. You shall respect jour wife at all times.

Do net teach your children insubordination by Interfering when I am correcting them. Do not brine; your pals home when your are all drunk. (live me your salary each week because 1 can save out of it what you spend on booze. Keep yourself tidy and fit for a woman to look at. Do some repa iritis around the house and make our home beautiful.

Do not smoke in bed. When Peter agreed rules he and bis wife to left the the court room arm in arm mi 1 1 Hi. Notorious Financier Will Appeal Case to State Supreme Court Ja'-ksc 'harles court to to serve the stat mville. April stood ia criminal day. heard himself sentenced one year at hard labor in penitent iary- and grinned.

Convicted on tie- Florida statute conduce of business tin of violating ulating the a dei lar.i- lion of rust. I 'onzi was arrai before Judge J. M. Pe inal court. Afler an ler in crim- hour and a Poni's rniiti-1 motions for a irrest of judge- half of arqumeiit 1 set.

the court detlie new trial and for meiit Smartly dressed browns lie affects, da I ii as ovi and in the deep Polizi appeared faced his Idlest difficult calmly. II to set to work his appeal to tin ite supreme court for He' fil ing of which the court granted him sixty days. In the meantime, I'onzi is out on bond. The charges against Ponzi grew old of his conduce of the Ch'irpon Land Syndicate in which he offered profits of L'l'O per cent in sixty'days to pun-has rs of his certificates of indebtedness. Ponzi's conviction today was his first in Florida.

A federal charge of using the mails to defraud, -brought in connection with his syndicate operat'on, was dismis--d. Ponzi's land scheme, In which he offered for sale lots in a tract of land fi 5 miles west of Jacksonville at $10 each, combined with his certificate of indebtedness sales in the operation of bis land syndicate, lias been suhieeicl to rigorous investigation by city, slate, federal and civic ant llOlgt ies. Pie career in real estate in Florida has been anything but a path of ro- vs. The former P.oslon "financial wizard" frankly admits that the federal charges, slate charges and have seriously curtailed his operations. There was a silver lining to today's cloud, however, for Stale's attorneys recommended to the court lint the indictment against Unsa Maria Ponzi.

Ponzi's wife, similar charges, be nolle pressed, as well as tho," against Mrs. Calcednnia Ah ui, whose husband, too, faces similar chai-e-es. It was also indicate. I that the disposition of Poni's appeal would be awaited before trial anion is begun against Alviti. DON'T LAUGH York, April PS- -Miss a pretty six-flapper, was she laughed njaniiniL I 'abbeaus, year old French 1 re ted today becaus at Patrolman Couloir on the street.

The patrolman insists that to laugh at him is "disorderly conduct." The girl was bailed out by a priest and a city alder-man and three hundred persons who gathered in the coij'-t room. The trial was set for- April BEACH COMBERS BUSY Cape May, N. .1., April PS-Reach combers have been making as much as ten dollars a day by picking ii)) money and jewelry where a new board walk is being constructed along the water front here. Coins bearing dales as far back ns I77G have been found and Robert Chambers found a pearl necklace of considerable value. SENTENCE NO FAKE New York, April 21 1 'S leorge Adams, who.

held up Rl grocery stares witli ii toy revolver, pleaded guilty today and was sentenced to 20 years In prison. This one-day old po tentially the great SVan in Hie Rritish empi' "he succeeded to the yr would occupy jirreater than that of the present quee" She actually would be a queen, occupying a position similar to that held by Victoria find Elizabeth nnd her husband would be consort, Tho baby's ndvent Into the world has revived rumors t' the Prince of Wales Is lire ably wedded to bachelorho that case the girl baby won main third In line to the king unless the Duke and Duchess nf York have male Issue. The child would ascend tho throne Continued on Pago Five Continued on Pace Five Son of Prominent Contractor Was Shot in Sp'ne by Un-. identified Man Charles Rarto, wound' in a sup- posed holdup on I.ake Front road, near Kolscy City, c-arlv Tuesday morning, died last night at 11:30,1 with the circumstances under which Ihe shooting occurred still cloaked in a mystery officer had been unable i to fathom yesterday. Death was attributed to a partial' severance of the spinal column, in-j tun-nig aimost ceniplete paralysis 01 the nervous system.

The young man remained conscious until the last, although he is sail to have made no statement concerning the report of C.len McDonald, his cornpaniaon at the time of the shooting, that the fatal wound was inflicted by a man who asked them for a lift, McDonald, who is being held pending a cheek up nr the report of an unnpprchend'-d truck driver that he shot a man off his running board when two men sought to hold him up early liies.lay morning, vesterdav led Sheriff Raker and deputies to the scene where nlh-ges Rarto re ceived his fatal wound. Little satis faction was obtained from the inves tigation, it was said. Continued on Page Five HIT BY AUTO Knocked down by an automobile, driven by A. C. Montgomery of Kelsey City, as she stepped from a bus in front of iter home at Hie intersection of Thirty-seventh street and the Dixie highway, Mrs.

YV. A. Turner suffered a dislocated shoulder lale yesterday afternoon. According to Hie statement of woman the accident was unavoidable and no charges were preferred against the driver. Officer O'Neal investigated.

The woman was taken later to the hospital to have the shoulder set. At I) o'clock last night nrr Rosemary avenue at Third street, a truck driven by R. Ingram collided wil'r a sand truck, driven by D. Justice. Damages were settled between the drivers.

BURN 40 AUTOS St. Petersburg, April 21. AP Fire, thought to have been started by a short circuit in electric wiring, swept (1R North Side Auto Storage garage here early today, destroying 10 and causing damage estimated at $7,1.000, covered by insurance, it is said. 1 i It seems an absurdity that Flor-years to Ida, now and for many come, one of the create for furniture and fine 1 I I I let ionlly markets cork. should have to Import nil of its hous outside the i hold (A stale, from Woods which form the basis of mo: of the fine furniture manufactured in tie' 'nited Slates today prow so profusely here.

In the little town if Point. N. one of the half-dozen (treat furniture manufaottir-imr centers of the world, has been established, utilizing the native red gum wood which formerly was shipped as raw lumber from that region to Grand Kapids and other woodworking centers. The red tree grows all over northern and western Florida. Its wood.

wlcn stained and polished, rivals walnut or mahogany In beauty. One of the finest homes in Jacksonville, that of Mr. C. II. Lloyd, in Powell place, is finished in red guru and the Impressive beauty of Hie doors, book-rases find panellings of this wood reveal unexpected possibilities to those previously unfamiliar with it.

Florida has not begun to touch the cde.es of (lie stale's industrial possibilities. One of the world's greatest storehouses of raw materials, we are lelting opportunit ies slip when we conlent ourselves merely with gathering the raw materials and sending them away to be manufactured. Kvon the humble palmetto has its industrial uses. One Flor- IWil lilUiMS ,11. emil 1 1 i tablished a complete industry, msnir- 1 filet II rinir vm r-ir-t of hniiUieu Most Important Woman in All England is Only One Dav Old Italy Celebrates Day as Dawn Of Powerful New Roman Empire Lf'f" nn excellent grade from the pal- motto fibre.

Put. on the batiks of the St. Johns river, at Mandarin, saw the other day quantities of the scrub palmetto fronds being dried find baled fur shipment to Germany, where they are subjected to a preservative treatment, dyed brilliant green and fabricated Into ai.lflcial palm trees, which are then shipped back to America to decorate, the hotels, public buildings find homes of the northern regions where natural palm trees will not thrive! That is pure economic waste. There is no good reason in the world why Florida should not manufacture, the artificial palms right hero for all the rest of the world, In these days of rapid and cheap transportation it is no longer necessary to locate the factory close to the market. Tho modern Industrial idea is to make the finished product ns near as possible to the source of raw material.

No better illustration of tire closeness with which the whole Fnited States Is knit together can be found than the amazing fact that every week a solid tralnload of merchandise leaves New York consigned to a group of retail merchants in Tacoma, Continued on Page Three REGISTER Only 9 days remain in which lo refris'''' imrticlpnle in the 1 11 no primaries. Register Willi J. flrier. supervisor of registration, nt the court house. For Information rail telephone 32-19.

Paves Way for Graft The City of West Iihn Iteach paved the way for wholesale ami retail graft on (he public when it passed nn ordinance requiring owners of inilonioliiles to have Ihe brakes on their aiilomoliiles tested once each three months. It is a regulation that in the opinion of the best allorneys of the oily cannot and will not he enforced along the lines of its provision. The (harue tor lesliiii; brake has been arranged at one dollar, to be paid by (he motorist four times a year. Despite the fact (hat eminent attorneys declare this phase of the ordinance to he illegal, it would not lie so had if it slopped there. Nearly 15.1111(1 drivers' permits have been issued by the city and it would cost the motorists, therefore, only somewhere between and SliO.OIII) in inspect ion fees.

lint it will not stop at that. Everything in the world will he wrong with brakes probably not on the first inspect ion hut 11 little later 011. There will have to he thousands of sets of brake linings hoimlit when none arc needed, and thousands of other tilings all the way from the brake pedal hack to the rear axle. The city by this ordinance is put in a position of collusion against automobile owners. It opens the way for legalized graft that ran mount to an enormous total, creating a situation in which the car owner is entirely helpless.

The inspector is not a disinterested person, and the automobile owner first must appease the garage owner inspector before he can get his hrake-test certificate. All hralie-tcsting should he in the hands of the police department and kept there, not funned out to garages. It should he made by the police and the certificate issued without charge, and in general it should he bandied by the city Just as the city now handles the matter of registering anil licensing drivers. The existing hrakc-testing ordinance is a most abominable one. It will create a hundred wrongs in attempting one correction, it will lead to coercion and extortion, and open up the road to unending graft indcr city sanction, Without waiting for any test case and the chance of having irdiiiance invalidated, If the city is in earnest about it nlu believes Il is necessary for public safety, il Immediately should repeal this piece 0' foolishness and draw an ordinance designed to protect the pocket-books of the people ns well as their life and limit.

By Fnited News London, April 21. In a modest home at 17 Rrulon street a red-faced baby girl gives nut her childish wails while all Rngland talks of. her as the most Important woman in the Rritish empire. "Mary Elizabeth," ns tire newborn daughter of the Duke nnd Duchess of York probably will bo known, Is the foremost child in the world today, and her position in line of succession to the throne of England has caused the people everywhere to recall the days of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria, She Is the first child of a son of the king and 11s such she ranks third in lint after the Prince of W'ulcs and the Duke of York. Ry Associated Press Rome, April 21.

For the first time since the hordes of northern invaders crushed its world power, well over a thousand years ago, Home celebrated Its birthday today ns the capital of a "modern Roman empire." There was an intense fcrver apparent In tho ceremonies, announcing to the world that the Italian people nre Imbued wdth faith In the 201 century resurrection of the power and glory which were Rome's when sho was mistress of a large part of the globe. Underlying every one of the ceremonies, which took place In every city and town In the-nation, was message of allegiance to Mussolini as lnsplrer of the Tides Today High: 4:58 low 10:35 a. Continued on Page Five.