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PALI BEACH POST MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS LARGEST DAILY CIRCULATION IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, VOL. XXV: No. 147 FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1933 DAILY, FIVB CKNTS SINDAT, TEN CENTS THE Italian Flyers Await DEATH OF YOUNG BRIDE Ashes of Mizners Not To Be Scattered GOVERNOR NAMES CONFERENCE SAFE FROM COLLAPSE IN STILL IS UNSOLVED CASE BUDGET OFFICIALS By the Associated Press At Thursday's Inquest, the county LONDON Ifl Kes Unroofed, Trees Up rooted as Tropical Storm Hits Land By the Associated Press HTAMPICO, Mexico, July 6 A 1 hurricane lashed Cludad Vic toria, capital of Tampico, Ttrurs-day night, uprooting trees, unroofing houses, and leaving the city In darkness. Residents were alarmed as the strong' winds came close upon torrential rains that struck the city at nightfall. No deaths were reported.

The winds and accompanying high tides caused some damages as well to automobiles on beaches, bathhouses, and other buildings. The storm was apparently centered at Soto la Marian and moved almost straight westward inland. It was expected to die out in mountains west of here. fc-pus Christi, Texas, July 6. CV-J, P.

McAuliffc, meteorologist at the weather bureau here, reported late Thursday that the tropical hurricane from the Gulf of Mexico had moved into northern Mexico. High winds were reported to have done considerable damage to water front buildings at Port Isabel, ten piers were badly battered by high water. Store fronts at Harlingen, San Benito artd Los Fresnos were boarded up. High winds and rain squalls had damaged the cotton crop and early citrus fruit Brownsville, Texas, July 6. UP) A tropical storm which swept from the Gulf of Mexico toward the mouth of the Rio Grande turned south and moved over a sparse-ly settled section of Mexico between Brownsville and Tampico, In the state of Tamulipas.

The storm aner giving a foretaste of its power by turning over an oil tanker loaded with 5,000 gallons of gasoline near Point. Isabel, apparently switched its course to swing over a region of few settlers. Jl J. Schnurbusch, chief observ ifJtr the weather bureau here, expressed the opinion the storm struck land approximately 35 miles south of Brownsville, He believed, with others, "however, that the lower Rio Grande valley, although not In the direct path of the disturbance, might receive heavy rains and high water, especially if the' storm 'carried heavy precipitation to the mountains in the direction of Monterey, Mexico. Cotton and early citrus fruit crops were damaged by rain and wind which preceded the storm proper.

AROUND WASHINGTON Washington, July 6. Shhhh: You must whisper and act mysteriously when you speak" of "The It is a secret council Mr. Farley has established to bring order out of the patronage chaos. It is the inapjrmost circle of all inner admln-iftsifrton circles. The rules are just like those of a college fraternity.

No one Is supposed to know it exists. Those who know, would not dare to tell the names of the council men. The secrecy is supposed to protect "The against congressional and other pressure. The name Is appropriate because there are about ten members. Also becausee the council is a publicly unknown quantity.

If you do not tell anyone It would be safe to disclose to you that most of the councllmen are cabinet members. The postmaster general is Mr. himself. In Beats nearby are Commerce Secretary Roper, Attorney General Cummings and Secretary of Interior Ickes. Each government department is represented by someone, not necessarily a cabinet officer.

There Is at least one outsider, an adviser whose name has rarely appeared In print. He Is Emile Hur-ja, a political expert, who can most limes be found behind the chair that Farley sits In. This may sound like foolishness to you offhand, but there Is plenty cjLjense to it. jje administration has been hop-pftj from jam to jam on this patronage business. Many close friends of the democratic family are bleat- (Continued on Page Four) WHAT HAVE YOU? SOMKONR will trade for house and lot, iiitoniohlle or what have yon? that puts it squarely up to XOII, rfoean't it? Well, what have you that you aro no longer usintr.

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REMEMBER THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR CIRCULATION HURR CAN MOVE STRUCK TAUST TELLS OF RAIL DEALS AT SENATE HEARINGS Probe Committee Hears Giant "Poker Game" In Buying Lines of By the Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 6. Competition between the great eastern trunk line railroads in buying up strategic competing lines In the prosperous days of early 1929 was likened to a "poker game" before the senate banking committee Thursday by Frank E. Taplin, a Cleveland capitalist, whose family reaped more than $11,000,000 profit from one of the sales. Late in the day, Taplia told the committee he set up trust accounts for his children to lessen his income tax. The statement was made after Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, said his investigation showed Taplin, as trustee for his son, lowered his income tax for 1929 by $374,921.

In that year he filed his return as an investor, although in 1926, a deduction had been claimed as a dealer in securities. Appearing at the last session of the committee before its adjournment until October, Taplin readily told how he sold under an "oral" agreement 22,930 shares of stock in the Pittsburgh and West Virginia railroad to Pennroad corporation, the Pennsylvania railroad holding company, in 1929, at a price far in excess of the market, after negotiating with other trunk lines. The Pennroad corporation, he said, also loaned him $1,950,000 the same year with the understanding he would keep control of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad away from the Van Sweringen interests. Taplin, who is president of the Pittsburgh and West Virginia, said 109,000 shares of that road's stock, or about half of the total sold to Pennroad, was obtained through a syndicate first organized by him in June, 1923, at an average price of $52.50 a share. The total of 222,930 was sold to Pennroad at $170 a share when the market was around $140 or lower.

Ferdinand Pecora, the committee counsel, figured the profit to the syndicate was around $12,807,500 and since the Taplin family and the North American Coal corporation, controlled by the witnesses, owned 97,953 shares of the syndicate's 109,000, they got "nine-tenths" of the profit. Taplin testified the remainder of the shares sold to the Pennroad were obtained through individual agreements with stockholders who wre allowed, he said, "to tie up" Lwith him on the profits on promise they would not dispose of their stock until the Taplin sale negotia tions were completed. The witness told Pecora under questioning that he wanted to "un load and get out" as he felt the financial structure was "topheavy." He submitted a list of the owners of the shares sold to Pennroad for $38,000,000 and said he and other members of his family owned about half of them. By the Associated Press New York, July 6. Markets moved to a uniformly strong closing Thursday.

Speculation for the rise in stocks became ardent in the last hour when industrialists got tip a good head of steam. The new average gain of 2.4 points put the Standard Statistics-Associated Press composite at 94.1 another new high. Sales reached the sizeable total of 6.574,220 shares. Stock exchange traders read a generous budget of favorable business news, and also found that the trend of commodities was helpful to equities. Corn raced to new high records for the season, pulling wheat after it.

Cotton closed $1.10 to $1.30 a bale higher. Railroad shares were particularly buoyant. Pennsylvania's Increase in loadings brought a swift rise of more than 2 points in that system's stock; New York Central did as well. Tobaccos, steels and oils drew liberal followlngs on the late upturn. Utilities made their best bid in the morning.

Farm Implements and motors finished strongly. Gains In active leaders ranged from 1 to nearly 6 points. Dentist is Drowned After Boat Capsizes Tallahassee, July 6. UP) The body of Dr. W.

L. Taylor, Bain-bridge, dentist, was recovered from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico at Turkey Point, south of here, late Thursday. Dr. Taylor and a companion, Julian McCall, of Quincy, had been missing sinca Tuesday, when the two set out on a fishing trip in a 14-foot skiff. The skiff was located some distance from Taylor's body, the boat was upright when discovered, but indications were it had capsized.

The body of McCall has not been recovered, and search continued with a patrol vessel of the state conservation commission and three seaplanes from Pensacolo naval air station participating. Articles For Sale Are you watchtng your own interests by reading the ads appearing In The Post Classified Columns under classification 90? You wilt greatly benefit by taking advantage of the opportunities to buy these articles at extremely low prices. ca Weather Improvement r- Reykjavik, July 6. UP) General Italo Balbo and the 100 Italian aviators piloting ah armada of 25 seaplanes to the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago Thursday night awaited improved weather conditions for the next stage of their flight, to Cartwrlght, Labrador, 1,500 miles away. The squadron reached here late Wednesday after a 930-mile hop from Londonderry, Northern Ire land.

Emergency arrangements have been made for a landing at Italla-haas, Greenland, for the armada in the event a non-stop flight to Cart- wright is impossible. MINT TO Thompson Announces Roebuck Appointed Him to Aid In Cleanup The lid is being clamped down in Palm Beach county, said spokesman for County Solicitor W. E. Roebuck late Thursday afternoon after announcement that four al leged gambling places in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach had been ordered to close. Solicitor Roebuck could not be reached for con firmation of the announcement Appointment of Edgar C.

Thomp son as assistant county solicitor to aid Mr. Roebuck in the closing of alleged gambling houses, bookies and other places of ill repute, was also announced by Thompson. Thompson was sworn in shortly after noon Thursday by Mr. Roebuck at the latter's home, according to Thompson. Details of the latest move of the county solicitor could not be obtained Thursday as Mr.

Roebuck could not be found at home during late afternoon or last night. Along with the report that three alleged gambling places in West Palm Beach had been ordered to close by Thompson, the assistant county solicitor, during the afternoon came a well substantiated re port that Mr. Roebuck's office had ordered witness subpoenas Issued for approximately 40 persons, returnable before him at 10 o'clock this morning. These subpoenas were said to be for persons flamed in a recent crim inal court case over the closing of an alleged bookie establishment on Datura street. Thompson, during Thursday afternoon, acting on his newly acquired authority visited four places, three in the city, one of them an alleged bolita office on North Rosemsry street, and two alleged gambling dens in the business district The last visit was made in North Palm Beach at the establishment of an alleged bookie.

The latter place apparently was doing a flourishing business, judging from the number of automobiles parked around the building, it was said. Thompson, when questioned on the appointment, praised efforts of County Solicitor Roebuck, saying the latter was willing to do all in his power to enforce the laws; that no complaints had been made to him regarding the alleged gambling being done openly in the county. Strict enforcement of the laws now will be the procedure of the solicitor's office, Judge Thompson sold, who added that all of his actions are being taken under Mr. Roebuck's orders for law enforce-ment Judge Thompson was a candidate for state's attorney in the last general election and during his campaign promised law enforcement if elected. He was defeated in the election by Jack Salisbury.

WILL BE IN OCTOBER By the Associated Press Tallahassee, July 6. Governor Dave Sholtz said Thursday he probably would set some day in October as the time for the special election at which Florida will vote on repeal of the 18th amendment to the national constitution. Under terms of the recently enacted legislative act, the governor will set a date for the election at which 67 delegates to a state convention will be elected from the state at large. In voting for wet or dry candidates Floridians will express directly their attitude on the repeal question. The state repeal convention will bo held on the second Tuesday of the month following the election.

The convention will be here. Wet and dry organizations recently held state-wide conferences to plan for the campaign which will precede the election and to select tentative delegates favoring their respective causes. Anti-Prohibitionists Drawing Up Slate Jacksonville, July 6. UP) Rob ert H. Anderson, local attorney who Is chairman of a committee selected at a recent meeting of anti-pro hibitionists at Ocala to select the state's 67 wet candidates for the coming repeal election, said Thursday night he doubted if the complete slate is named at a meeting of the committee to be held here Friday.

Anderson said the task is so large the committee probably will not complete Its labors in one day and other meetings will be held in the near future. The slate will not be announced until it has been completed and those listed have agreed to serve, Anderson said, Los Angeles, July 6 MP) Ashes of Wilson Mizner, noted wit and writer, and those of his brother, Addison, Florida architect, will be placed in a San Francisco mausoleum, John D. King, hotel manager, said Thursday In denying Wilson's ashes would be scattered over the bay city from the air. Wilson Mizner died here April 3. His brother succumbed in Palm Beach last February.

King, a friend of the family, said disposition of the brothers' ashes will be made in accordance with instructions from a niece, Mrs. Isabel Hollins of Pebble Beach, Cal. IS G1VENFREED0M Boy Held, Man Sought in Connection With Atlanta Abduction By the Associated Press Atlanta, July 6. John King Ott- ley, 65-year-old financier and sports man, was kidnapped on the main street of Atlanta Thursday by a fruit peddler and a young companion, and four hours later he talked his guard, a high school boy, into aiding his escape. His two kidnapers demanded $40,000, got less than $10 and one of them a boy of 17 who told police he Is James Bowen, of Lavonia, was persuaded by his prisoner to release him and then accompanied Ottley to the village of Suwanee from where the financier called home that all was well.

The boy was arrested and agreed to lead a posse to a retreat where authorities believed they would locate the other kidnaper an older man who is known to Ottley. Ottley said the older abductor often sold fruit in front of his house and that frequently he picked him up in his automobile and brought the peddler to town. Gentle and moral persuasion by Ottley brought his release. The boy was left to guard the financier president of the First National bank and a horseman of national repute while his older companion returned to Atlanta with a note demanding ransom. The boy removed the blindfold from the banker's eyes and listened to Ottley explain that his grave act would lead to stern consequences.

Then the boy agreed to release him and together they went to Suwanee, 30 miles north of Atlanta, where the banker called his home. Officers took the boy in charge and he led them to a fastness where they believed the older kidnaper would be captured. The pair abducted Ottley is he drove toward his office about 8 m. The banker saw the peddler on a corner and when the man hailed Ottley he stopped. Ottley said the man pushed a gun against him and forced him Into the back seat of the automobile.

Then said Ottley the young man appeared and drove the car away. Ottley was blindfolded. They drove to a woods near Su wanee where Ottley said the older abductor forced him to write a note to his wife. The kidnapers wanted $40,000 ransom. Bit the Associated Prtss Tallahassee, July 6.

Joe Cormier, director of the state beverage department, is going after those fellows who have been bootlegging beer in Florida since the 3.2 brew became legal. Already more than 200,000 bottles of beer, on which no state tax has been paid, have been seized by Inspectors, Cormier said, and a concerted drive on beer tax dodgers will be planned at a meeting of all beverage tax Inspectors at Orlando next week. Most of the untaxed beer has been brought in from New Orleans, Cormier said. No arrests have been made yet, he added, but those having beer in their possession on which taxes have not been paid, have been forced to pay. Second offenders, he said, will not get off so lightly, and first offenders also will be prosecuted when the drive gets well under way.

Up to July 1 collections from manufacturers', wholesalers', and retailers' licenses amounted to $74,785. As half year licenses at half price now are available, Cormier said, receipts from licenses are expected to show an increase in the next few months. Steel Rail Monopoly Possibility is Probed Washington, July 6. UP) Word that an investigation was being made to determine if the Aluminum company of America and steel rail concerns had an international monopoly came from Attorney General Cummings Thursday with a warning to 'American industry to "come under the wing" of the national recovery legislation. Otherwise, the attorney general said, any violation of the anti-trust laws would be made at their peril.

In response to questions, the attorney general told newspapermen the price of steel rails and aluminum' had shown a "steady rise" while other products had dropped. MURDKP.EIt ESCAPES Jacksonville, July 8. OP) Police here Thursday night were notified of the escape from the state prison at Raiford of Walter C. Boleton, who was sentenced to life Imprisonment in 1925 from Dade county for murder. Boleton was trusty at the prison and left some time during the day.

Bay St. Louis, July 6. An "open verdict" was returned by a coroner's jury here Thursday in the death of Irene Moore Taconi, 18, Mississippi State Teacher's College co-ed and secret bride of Nolan Taconi, 22-year-old Teachers College football star, who was found fatally injuted on the beach here last Friday. The jury reported the young woman had died of injuries, adding the notation that it was unknown to the jury whether the injuries were "self-inflicted" or "inflicted by others." Mrs. Taconi, clad in a damp bathing suit, was found by fishermen at the base of the eea wall with a fractured skull, broken arm and numerous body bruises and police first reported she had probably fallen from the sea wall while going out for an early morning swim.

She died several hours later without regaining consciousness. IPAL Patrons Will Appear at Meeting Scheduled Next Tuesday Morning Aroused by the action of the school boards in failing to reappoint Harry Howell, principal of the Palm Beach High school, and substituting R. F. Williamson, Boyn-ton principal, who has been under fire, a large number of school patrons were preparing to voice their protest next Tuesday with the board of public instruction. Although the A.

groups cannot take part as such in political controversies, outstanding members of the organization have announced their intention of appearing as parents and -individuals before the board. Unless the board listens to their protests on behalf of fairness for teachers, ousted from the school system through purely technical application of the new residence law, and for harmony in the high school, patrons have indicated that they will resort to more stringent methods. Mass meetings, petitions, possible law suits, or even recalls were all under discussion Thursday in the general flood of unfavorable comments. A. S.

Bussey, former president of the Palm, Beach High school A. and leader of the fight to fi nance the eighth month of school, as an attorney questioned the legality of applying the residence law to school teachers. In his opinion, the legislature did not mean for it to apply to teachers, and if it is applied, It is subject to legal attack. He stated that it was most unfair to teachers to keep them waiting till mid-summer and then dismiss them on a technicality. RIOT SQUAD IS SEN! TO By the Associated Press Washington, July 6.

More than 30 Washington policemen, armed with riot equipment and tear gas guns, Thursday night were rushed to the District, of Columbia reformatory at Lorton, Virginia, after reports were received from there of a tense situation that resulted in an outbreak. Trouble was feared by the authorities when word got back to the prison that A. C. Tawse, superintendent, who was popular with some of the men, had been released late Thursday as head of the institution. The reformatory, In an Isolated and heavily wooded section about 25 miles from the national capital, has no prison wall.

Nevertheless, its various buildings house 2,700 prisoners, 30 of whom are life termers. Ernest Brown, superintendent of Washington police, and Inspector L. I. H. Edwards, on: of his chief aides, rushed to the spot in police cars to superintend the effort to make the reformatory as nearly as possible an armed camp.

In an effort to keep word of the absence of Tawse from seeping Into the prison, all visitors, including' newspapermen, were barred from th- wtlnitv ThA rtfnt-enulnned no- lice squad was held out of sight of the prisoners so that no indication would be given of any unusual prep arations to keep order. Motives of Machado Attacked by Cuban New York, July 6. UP) Dr. Em-ilio Nunez Portunondo, member of the Cuban congress, Thursday attacked the motives of General Mario Menocal, former president of Cuba, in criticizing the mediation of Ambassador Welles in Cuba's governmental affairs. He charged in a statement that Menocal, a leader of the antl-Machado revolutionary movement, "has a moral agreement to favor his revolutionary associate, Colonel Carlos Mendieta, as a candidate for the presidency," said Dr, Portunondo.

"He desires to evade this agreement and, therefore, does not favor peaceful mediation but prefers armed revolution for only by this method can he ever reach the presidency." DU PONT BUYS HALCYON Miami, July 8. UP) The Miami Herald says It learned Thursday night the Halcyon hotel, long a landmark in downtown Miami, was purchased by the Alfred I. Du Pont financial interests for $333,600 at a court sale Monday. The Du Pont interests already own the Alcazar hotel and the Florida National bank at Miami, FOR THIS COUNTY Arnold, Williams, Fleenor, Hand and Stuckey Are Appointed GOVERNOR SHOLTZ Thursday named the Palm Beach county budget commission under authority of an act of the recent legislature providing for a five man board to serve without pay. The appointees: Herman Arnold, Kelsey City; Miller Williams, West Palm Beach; G.

W. Fleenor, Lake Worth; Lauren C. Hand, Delray Beach, and L. L. Stuckey, Pahokoe.

The governor made a number of minor appointments in other counties during the day and conferred with department heads on reorganization plans. Tallahassee, July 6. W) Governor Dave Sholtz Thursday held a series of conferences with departmental heads under his jurisdiction for the purpose of reorganizing tha departments to make them fit tha new appropriations which went into effect July 1. The governor said some employes would be dropped, some salaries reduced and in general work of the departments better organized for more efficiency and economy. About 30 employes, the governor said, have been let out as a result of the merger of the shell fish commission, the game and fresh water fish commission and the geological survey into one conservation commission.

The governor said his conferences with department heads would cover work of the conservation commission, beverage department, tag department road department, forestry department, auditing department, hotel commission, live stock and sanitary commission and possibly others. The chief executive also announced he had asked for the resignations of all members of the stats board of public welfare, with tha view of reorganizing the board. The present members of the board are Mrs. Jessie A. Ball, Jacksonville; Mrs.

Carrie V. Mackenzie, Leesburg; Mrs. Florence Bostaln, Tallahassee; Roscoe Martin, Miami, and E. E. Watson of Fort Myers.

STATE PRISON CAMP IS 1 By tha Associated Press Brooksville, July 6. A two-day mutiny at the Tooke Lake stats prison road camp near here was broken Thursday as 18 convict leaders in the disturbance meekly surrendered to civil and military authorities and were sent back to the Raiford penitentiary in a prison van. The surrender ended a riot which began Tuesday In protest over a lack of pie and cake on the Fourth of July dinner menu during which 37 convicts took possession of their wire enclosed camp. They broke up camp furniturs and drove civilian guards outside. Two detachments of national guard troops from Tampa were called to prevent a wholesale break.

The convicts held the enclosure since Tuesday noon while officers awaited the prison van. No attempt was made to rush the barricaded convicts and there were no casualties. After the first few hours of the mutiny, the disturbance developed Into a siege of the wooden mess house and dormitory within the enclosure. Tin convicts had several axes, machete blades and butcher knives, but they faced two machine guns at opposite corners of the enclosure and the guns of civilian and military guards. Trouble had been expected when the convicts were to be returned to the penitentiary, but the leaders marched out readily one by one as their names were called by Captain J.

S. Deveraux, camp superintendent who was the first to step Inside the camp since the disturbance began. The supposed killing of one of the convicts who wanted to surrender was enacted within the enclosure for the benefit of ths guards outside. The guards within saw a man apparently being beaten, the convicts milling around in great excitement and finally taking the "body" into the barracks building. Eight Fugitives Sought For Missouri Massacre Kansas City, July 6.

UP) Ths. department of justice-Thursday ordered the arrest of Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, Oklahoma killer, five escaped Kansas convicts, Verne Miller, former Huron, S. sheriff, and William in connection with the machine gun slay ing of four officers and their prisoner, Frank Nash, at the union station plaza here June 17. The announcement by Director of Police Reppert that Miller and Welssman were known to have had a part in the slaughter, was followed Thursday by the appearanca of circulars issued by the United States bureau of Investigation, asking for the arrest of Floyd and tha five convicts. The circulars were issued at Washington under direction of J.

Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau. They named Harvey Bailey, Wilbur Underhlll, Ed Davis, James Clark, and Robert G. Brady, who escaped from the Kansas penitentiary Memorial day, and Floyd, attorney told the jury he was "thoroughly convinced" the case was a suicide and exhibited notes found with the girl's clothing near the sea wall to support his conten tion. Nolan Taconi, the young hus band, testified he "refused to believe" the young woman had com mitted suicide. Taconi said he and Miss Moore had been married secretly while he was attending Teachers' College on August 25, 1932, but that they had not informed her parents of the marriage until last Thursday evening, a few hours before the girl's' death.

He said he called at the Moore home that evening and with his bride told her mother and father. He testified that a scene ensued in which his father-in-law accused him of violating the law by marrying a girl under legal age and then ordered him out of the house. Debt Liquidation By Liquor Talked London, July 6. UP) Laughter Thursday greeted the suggestion of a Scotch member of the house of commons that a large part of Europe's debt to America might be liquidated by payments in kind, namely shipments of wine and whiskey. F.

A. MacQuisten started things by asking if Neville Chamberlain, chancellor of the exchequer, had considered the possibility of Great Britain and France offering to liquidate the debts to America "by the delivery of commodities which the latter do not themselves possess but which are In great demand in the United States." RELEASE OP FACTOR By the Associated Press Chicago, July 6. The expected return of John Factor, kidnaped market plunger, failed to materialize Thursday night and new mystery was added to his now six day old absence. At the Morrison hotel where a board of strategy held forth hoping to negotiate for his release an Lanonymous telephone call came In saying: "Factor's already on the high seas." Efforts' to trace the call were un successful but It did much to damp en the expectancy which has been held by Factor's friends that he would be freed within a few hours. Leon Bleet, personal Representative for Factor, regarded the call as a hoax, however, and added he placed little significance in reports that the abductors supposedly were headed for Mexico via New Orleans.

John J. Grosch, New Orleans detective chief, had detectives watching all Incoming highways Into the city for a large sedan. Grosch refused to divulge the source of his information but said Factor's abductors were reported headed for New Orleans. Jerome Factor, 19-year-old son of the missing speculator, himself a kidnap victim last April, withheld comment Bleet previously said he expected developments in the case soon and indicated he expected Factor to be returned. Arms Reduction Plans Abandoned Until Fall Washington, July 6 UP) The administration Thursday abandoned all plans for Informal arms reduction negotiations until autumn, convinced nothing could be done in the meanwhile to reconcile the prevailing and persisting disagreements on this vexing question.

This was disclosed by an announcement that Ambassador Norman H. Davis, chief delegate to the Geneva conference, would remain in the United States until early September, when the assembly of the League of Nations will meet WEATHER FORECAST Florida Generally fair today n(l Saturday except scattered aftermon thundershowers in south and central portions. Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Moderate easterly winds; mostly overcast weather, probably local showers today. WEATHER TABI.B Hlatlon- High I.0W SO 4 4 58 4 A8 mi Hti 74 74 74 78 72 All 62 72 74 72 7 74 78 82 72 en 72 Ahevllle Atlantn Atlantic City Hlrminjiham Hoston Huffalo Chicngo Cincinnati Iienver Detroit hi Paso (Jalveston Jacksonville Kansas City Key West Little Rock l.os Angeles T.ouiavllie Memphis Miami Mobile New Orleans New York St. Louis Han Antonio an Francisco Tampa Washington WEST PALM BEACH Wi 82 Sfl UN 8(1 72 no so S8 88 to 86 81 90 88 88 7 92 84 90 88 84 92 92 ftt SO 8 84 Rainfall (to n.

nil .82. Barometer (at midnight), 30.00. TODAV'S TWF.B High, 0:54 a. 8:31 p. m.

Low, 12:07 a. 2:07 p. m. NIOHT GAMES Southern Association New Orleans, Atlanta, 7. Indianapolis, Kansas City, 2, Monetary and Tariff Matters Excluded From Meeting, However Bit the Associated Press I ONDON, July 6.

The world monetary and economic conference, given up as lost by prominent delegates even as late as Thursday morning, was saved from complete collapse late Thursday by President Roosevelt, acting through his secretary of state, and with the assistance of the Canadian prime minister. A decision, to continue the conference, but with monetary and tariff matters excluded, was reached by the steering committee In the second of two meetings during the day. Acting on last minute instructions from the President and disregarding the vote of his own delegation favoring a recess, Cordell Hull, American secretary of state and chief of the United States delegation, made a quiet and earnest plea to the committee for the life of the conference. He was vigorously and promptly supported by R. B.

Bennett, the Canadian prime minister. Georges Bonnet, chief of the gold bloc forces which had brought the conference to an impasse seemingly making a recess unavoidable due to conflict over stabilization of currency, finally found his forces crumbling. In the end he was the only member of the committee to demand an adjournment. The conference was saved not without a compromise to the recalcitrant gold group, however, as the resolution finally adopted by the committee set forth their refusal to consider any monetary questions. Neville Chamberlain, British chancellor of the exchequer, whom the gold group had regarded as at least lukewarm toward their proposal, responded to the vigorous plea of Bennett, speaking for all the British dominions, and he also quickly got behind the move to keep the conference alive.

British quarters pointed out that the resolution drawn up by the committee in no way bound other countries not to consider monetary problems among themselves, hut the question as to how much of the world parley had been saved was left for subcommittees to work out. A report will be made to the steering committee next week, probably Monday. The viewpoint of the gold bloc members, as well as of some others, was that monetary questions as well as tariffs, quotas and all other trade restrictions which might be useful in protection against goods from countries' with depreciated currencies, were definitely off the slate for possible discussion, at least until such time as the dollar and pound are stabilized. A French spokesman asserted "the conference Is effectively dead" and expressed the view that little would be left to do after next Monday or Tuesday. Some Dutch and Swiss delegations began packing their bags and a few prepared to leave Immediately.

By the Associated Press Roanoke, July 6 All charges against Joe Bryant and Mr. and Mrs. Norman Harvey in connection with a weird plot to extort from Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh in February were dismissed Thursday by the government for lack of evidence. The defendants have steadfastly denied knowledge of-letters sent to Colonel Lindbergh threatening 'kidnaping of his second son unless $50,000 was deposited in a hollow stump near Roanoke.

Assistant United States District Attorney T. X. Parsons said failure of handwriting experts to find any resemblance between the handwriting of any of the three and the handwriting in the notes caused the government to drop the cases. Bryant, 19 years old, was arrested here February 9 shortly after he attempted to cash a $17,000 check which had been planted by a Roanoke police official In a hollow stump he had used as a postofflce to carry on exchanges with the extortionists while posing as a representative of the famous flyer. Bryant, presenting the check to a bank teller, received a package supposed to have contained the money.

He left the bank and was joined by HarVey, who ran when he saw R. C. Johnson, chief of the Roanoke Identification bureau, who had investigated the matter. Both were arrested, Harvey as he attempted to get Into a car occupied by his wife. Mrs.

Harvey also was held. Cotton Reduction Plaa Is Meeting With Favor Washington, July 6. W) Farmers in 16 cotton states have offered to plow up more than 2,600,000 acres of their growing crop In return for cash benefits and options on government held cotton. This was reported unofficially Thursday" after Secretary Wallace and George N. Peek, chief administrator of the farm act, made an optimistic report to President Roosevelt regarding progress In the acreage reduction campaign begun last week;.