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THE POST PALM BEACH MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS LARGEST DAILY CIRCULATION IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, VOL. XXV: No. 171 MONDAY, JULY 31, 1933 DAILY, FIVK CENTS SUNDAY, TEN CENTS TROPICAL STORM NEW DEFINITIONS MATTERN N. R. A.

to Give Time For More Recreation Storm Center Goes Inland Near Stuart Early Sunday Afternoon SIX STATES HAVE DEATH PENALTIES KIDNAPINGS Tropical Blow Gives Section Heavy Rains Rainfall of 7.75 inches fell in West Palm Beach from 6:30 o'clock Saturday night to midnight Sunday. At midnight, the rain was continuing and the precipitation for the two days was expected to set a record surpassed only in the 1928 hurricane when more than 16 inches fell in one day. The rainfall from 6:30 o'clock Saturday night to 6:30 o'clock Sunday night was 3.25 Inches. Shortly after 10 o'clock last night, the heaviest rain which had accompanied the nearby tropical disturbances began to fall and continued steadily until long after midnight. The measurement between 6:30 o'clock last night and midnight was 4.50 inches, virtually all of the raln'falling after 10 o'clock.

was visible as he passed through the section, the highest winds were from 50 to 60 miles per hour, he said, that being in the Stuart area and between 2 and 3 o'clock. Chief Sadler said he, entered the vacuum center or lull at Hobe Sound and it followed him practically to Stuart. Hardly a needle in pine trees along side the road could be seen moving. Retracing his course, he encountered the lull near Gome? and returning to Stuart, he said the weather had improved considerably. On his return home, heavy rains were experienced from Hobe Sound into the city.

Chief Sadler said barometer lows for both Jupiter and Stuart were 29.66. the figure being reached at Jupiter at noon and at Stuart at about 3 o'clock. Commonwealths Move to Protect Citizens From Latest of Rackets By the Associated Prest CHICAGO, July 30. Six states have increased to death the penalty for kidnapings as the sev-; eral commonwealths and the fed-eral government unite to put teeth I into the crime laws to halt the wave I of kidnapings. A survey Sunday showed that at least a dozen states have made their laws more stringent against kidnapers.

In addition to the six states that increased the penalties to death, a few others already had similar laws on the statute books and last week a jury in Missouri paved the way by sentencing an abductor to death. The federal government, aroused over the abduction of the Lindbergh baby, tightened its laws to make the sending of extortion or ransom demands through the malls a federal offense. Police of the world Saturday organized here to pool data to expedite apprehension of criminals, offering assistance to the state and national government in the anti-crime drive. Wyoming made kidnaping and child stealing punishable by death, Iowa changed its maximum penalty from life imprisonment to hanging. Florida and Utah raised their penalty to death but allowed juries the power to recommend life imprisonment.

Montana's legislature provided punishment of five years imprisonment to death. Colorado's legislature approved infliction of death in event a person was killed by abductors or died as a result of ill-treatment at their hands. New Jersey raised its maximum penal term for kidnapers to 30 years after the abduction and slaying of Charles A. Lindbergh, a state reward of $25,000 was posted for information leading to capture and conviction of any abductor. New Hampshire increased its prison term for the crime from "five to 30 years" to "15 to 40 years," in cases Involving minora Vermont changed its maximum to life imprisonment, Rhode Island to 25 years imprisonment, and Georgia from "four to seven ytfars" to "four to 20." Many states tightened their criminal codes while they aimed at kidnapers.

Florida made it a capital crime to fire machine guns or throw bombs in public places. Mississippi now punishes robbery while armed with death. SE Expectation of the local committee to cooperate with and support the President's emergency re-employment campaign in the city will be appointed either today or Tuesday was voiced last night by M. R. Kays, vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, to which has been entrusted the task of handling the local setup.

Mr. Kays said the committee will be appointed shortly after the i-turn of J. O. Bowen, president, who has been absent from the city. The organization's pledge of cooperation in handling local details and disseminating information concerning the act was wired July 21.

In response to the Chamber's request for further information, Hugh S. Johnson, administrator, sent a bulletin on the "President's Re-employment Program" and an organization chart showing the suggested makup of the local organization and its relation to the state and national units. Assisting the chairman of the commitee will be an advisory board of representatives of all civic, professional and business, trade, labor and other similar organizations. "An intensive drive is to be made from August 1 to December 1 to bring about the 100 percent organization and self-regulation of industry and business," Mr. Kays said, "as provided in the national recovery act to control production, elim inate unfair competitive practices, relieve unemployment, improve standards of labor, rehabilitate in dustry and conserve natural resources.

CLASS GRADUATED Gainesville, July 30. t4) Dr. Hassee O. Enwall, professor of philosophy, delivered the commence ment address Sunday night before 200 members of the graduating class of the University of Florida summer school. President John J.

Tigert presided over the exercises. COAST I Only Gale Winds Reported Over Storm Section As Squalls Are Felt ADVISORY Washington, July 30. Warnings down 10 p. north of Miami to Tltusville, tropical disturbance moved inland between West Palm Beach and Fort Pierce, now central over northern Lake Okeechobee moving westward six to eight miles per hour, attended by strong shifting winds and by gales over small area. Center will reach west coast north of Fort Myers Monday morning.

Storm warnings remain displayed from Funta Ras-sa to Tarpon Springs. TWISTING inland near Gomes, a short distance north of Hobs Sound, the first tropical disturbance to reach the Florida coast this year, swirled across the state during Sunday afternoon and last night. The path, was apparently westward. Accompanied by gusty winds and torrential rains the blow had dissipated itself Into a gale by the time it reached the shoreline with highest winds about 65 miles an hour reported at Stuart. No one was reported injured along the 60-mile strip of coast against which the disturbance threw itself in early afternoon and, aside from spotted citrus losses, damage was estimated to be slight.

Brunt of the storm waB reported between Stuart and Fort Pierce where winds damaged fruit trees, mainly. Few buildings were reported damaged from the wind, rain and generally squally weather, according to reports brought back here by relief workers and investigators. No material damage was reported in West Palm Beach or Palm Beach although rain and winds disrupted power service in the resort last night. Fire Chief A. P.

Sadler, who plotted the storm's path for days and predicted Saturday that its center would reach the coast near Fort Pierce, found the "vacuum" near Gomez between 2 and 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Early last evening Ernest Met-calf, chairman of the Disaster Relief organization of this- city returned from an investigation to report that Fort Pierce experienced slight damage to the city. Some powr and communication lines (Continued on Page Three) By the Associated Prest Sarasota, July 30. Residents along the lower Florida west coast Sunday night made ready for the tropical storm which the weather bureau warning said likely would pass into the Gulf of Mexico somewhere north of Fort Myers. Houses were being boarded up and boats battened down although It was believed the Intensity of the storm had lessened considerably since lt entered the peninsula near Stuart Sunday afternoon.

Beach dwellers were warned to take precautions and to leave for higher ground If storm conditions warrant. In Sarasota, the Red Cross, American Legion, and Boy Scouts were standing by if any emergency should arise. Fort Myers felt the Influence of the disturbance with a wind of about 22 miles from the north at 12:50 a. and a barometer reading of 29.83 Inches. Sebrlng, inland to the northeast, reported a barometer of 29.78 shortly after midnight.

WEATHER FOHKt'AHT Florida Showers today and probably Tuesday. WINDS Jacksonville to Florida Straits: Fresh, southeast, diminishing and mostly overcast with occasional showers today. ADVISORY By thy Associated Press Washington, July 30(-The wealhep bureau Sunday night issued the Jol. lowing storm warning: "Advisory, 9 p. Tropiral disturbance moved inland between West Palm, lleaeli anil Fort Pierce, now central over northern Lake Okeechobee moving westward six to eight miles an hour attended by strong, shifting winds Hitd by gales over small area.

Center will reach coast north of Fort Monday morning. Warnings remain displayed on West Florida coast from I'untft Ilassa. at the mouth of the Cnlnosaluitchee river, to Tarpon Springs." WKATHKR TA Station Abbeville Atlanta Atlantic City Huston Huff alo Chicago I le liver Iietroit. Kl Paso (Jalveston Jacksonville Kansas City Key West Los Angeles Louisville Meridian Miami Mobile New Orleans New "York Pittsburgh Itichniond St. Louis Sun Antonio San Francisco Tain pa Vicksburg Washington Wilmington WF.8T IIKACII 111 High Low HIT NEAR TAR SUNDAY NH liH 92 74 ltd 70 OS 711 711 74 111 7S SH 4 11(1 7 72 Ml SO sn 7 74 7S HO 04 KM "(1 911 74 K4 711 94 7 92 112 72 SKI 74 92 72 92 74 90 70 82 S4 NH TH 92 74 94 72 90 74 S3 74 FROM WORLD TRIP FAR BEHIND Aviator 57 and Half Days on Flight Around World By the Associated Prest NEW YORK, July 30.

Jimmie Mattern, smiling as broadly as when he soared away June 3 to fly around the world, completed the circuit Sunday, but his hopes of setting a solo record lay dashed with the wreckage of his plane in the Siberian wilds. The young Texan, who had been loaned a ship to finish the journey after a Soviet pilot carried him from Anadyr to Nome, Alaska, landed at Floyd Bennett field at 3:45 (E. S. He Had flown from Toronto, in 4 hours, 15 minutes. "Hello everybody," he shouted, as he climbed from the cockpit.

A crowd estimated by airport officials at between 5,000 and 8,000 persons gave a prolonged cheer. Twenty motorcycle policemen surrounded the red and silver plane. Mattern, wearing a pair of high Russian boots, limped as he walked to the administration building to be greeted by friends. He had leg when his ship crashed wastelands of northern Siberia on June 14. It was not until July 7 that he reached the little trading post of Anadyr, and informed the world, which had given him up for dead that he was safe.

Paul Codos and Maurice Rossi, who have been awaiting favorable weather for a projected non-stop flight to France, rushed to Mat-ern's side. Representatives of Mayor John P. O'Brien expressed gratification that he had returned safely. Two hours before Mattern arrived, a rescue ship that had flown to Alaska a month ago to join In -the search for the missing pilot landed at the field. With Bill Alexander at the control, the plane was flown here from Detroit after a trip by easy stages from Terrace, B.

C. Others in the party, which was financed by Irving Friedman, Brooklyn brewer, were Thomas Abby, Fred Fetter-man and Harold Person. Mattern, whose world journey had taken 57 and a half days, reached Toronto early Sunday morning after a forced landing at Lion Head, Ont. He rested and then pushed the last lap of his trip. ational Whirligig NEWS BEHInFtHE NEWS Washington.

Step up and meet two schools of thought in industry. Both thought they were smart Now neither Is sure. Both are wishing secretly they had played the other fellow's game. It's all. over section 12 of President Roosevelt's blanket code.

This declares that contracts entered Into prior to June 16 should be adjusted to protect code signers against increased cost of fulfillment. There are many solid business men in town at present who will tell you this provision will end in a lot -of law suits. These are the ones who deliberately shunned new business until such time as a great majority might be wearing shiny rfgjcodes. Vnere is another group that says everything will work out all right. This faction contracted for everything in sight before the President i decided to blanket all industry with an agreement to increase wages and shorten hours.

Now, paradoxically, those who have the business wish they had waited and those who turned It down wish they had proceeded as usual'and trusted to Uncle Sam to adjust things. Obviously it is going to cost more to deliver now than before. You can't pay workmen more to work less hours and make the same low bids of a 'month ago. The group that may think It Is holding the bag should take heart from what National Administrator Johnson told the printing people. When they said they were ready to go on the 32-hour code he assured them he wanted them to make money.

This meant they were to adjust prices accordingly. "If chiselers under-cut you," said Johnson, "tell us, give us the names and we will deal with them in short order. We propose to create under which money can be if'Jde and more employment creates. There is only one way to do it." This should suggest that the gov-(Continued on Page Four) A FEW CENTS A DAY Spent on mi ad in the Post classified section may be the cause of renting; those vacant rooms and apartment or selling and renting houses and stores. Household goods, used ears, dogs, cats and other pets, boats and accessories I Bell promptly in the ready market POST classified advertising presents.

Progressive business houses may merchandise their products or sprv- Ire quickly and cheaply through classified ads. There Is No Substitute For Circulation MARK RE GIVEN AHAPITAL Re-Employment Agreement So Written As To Be Flexible, Washington Says 1 Bu the Associated Press WASHINGTON, July 30 Hundreds of thousands of workers throughout the nation will go to their jobs at increased wages this week while in the capital a long-awaited hearing upon a code of fair competition for steel, America's key industry, will test the machinery of the national recovery administration. As industrialists and labor leaders nrenared Sundav nie'ht for the expected tussle starting Monday over the major code, in wmcn Secretary Frances Perkins will take a prominent part, a tremendous response of the people to President Roosevelt's appeal for higher wages and shortened working hours to spread employment was shown on the recovery administration's chart of progress. In -the Chicago area alone official records of the department of commerce district office estimated that 100.000 persons would be affected by employers' signirfg the agreements with President Roosevelt which are intended to result in greater purchasing power. Boston reported 3,338 agreements signed, affecting more than 50,000 employes; St.

Louis 4,153 for Missouri, and other cities showed a more or less similar response. San Francisco said Standard Oil Company of California with 11,601 employes had come under the agreement along with Associated Oil of California's 4,416 workers, and the city's department stores were virtually unanimous. Pending more complete reports, the administration made no move to total either the number of new jobs to be created under the agreement or those receiving higher wages. It was said this would not be done for several days yet. The administration moved to hasten the signing by issuing a new set of interpretations of the President's agreement so that employers mieht know exactly what they were undertaking.

"The Presidents re-empioymeni agreement was written in language intended to be flexible to meet many varieties of conditions," the administration said. "As a result, Interpretations will be required (Continued on Page Three) SANKEY FOR SHOOTING Bu ths Associated Press henver. Julv 30. A fusillade of shots that Saturday night riddled the home of W. E.

Ellswortn, nar-rnwlv nilgsin? him. offered a clue Sunday which police hope will lead to the capture of the notorious Verne Sankey, wanted for the Charles Boettcher second Kidnaping. Rilawnrth's brunette wife. Fran ces, supplied police with the Information which resulted in solution of the Boettcher case and started a nation-wide hunt for Sankey, alleged leader of the abduction gang. Police Sundav said the attack on Ellsworth's home undoubtedly was an attempt at assassination ana thev Immediately started a wide spread search through the city for Sankey.

Mm. Fllswnrth savs members of the Sankey gang made threats against her life after she had con fronted Mrs. Fern SanKey, wire or the ringleader, In the county jail here. Rankpv and Gordon Elkhorn. an other alleged member of the gang, have been sought in very state from Colorado to Canada since the ab duction of Boettcher.

Denver brok er, from his home February 12. He was freed upon payment of $60,000 ransom, Flying Mollisons Are Guests of President Hvde Park. N. July 30. (P) The flying envoys from Great Britain Captain and Mrs.

James Mollison were received Sunday by President and Mrs. Roosevelt at the family home here. Despite his intention to spend the first week-end at home alone, Mr. Roosevelt happily cancelled plans to welcome the daring flying family from overseas for luncheon ai Krum Elbow. America's own woman flier, the only woman to cross the Atlantic alone Amelia Earhart Putnam and her husband accomDanied the Mollisons here from New York.

OF STORM FROM ISLES up northeast storm warnings here and local residents stood ready to take all necessary precautions against a severe blow. The barometer here never went lower than 29:80 Inches, 20 hundredths of an Inch below normal. Saturday night the storm veered to the north, eliminating the danger here. High pressure areas along the coast caused much or the uncertainty as to where the storm would strike. The high pressure areas pushed gainst the storm, preventing it from sweeping In directly on the coast along Its original path.

Even as late as last night, when all danger had passed, The Post reeclved hundreds of calls concerning the progress of the storm. GOVERY CLAUSE Chicago. July 30. IA) There will' be at least 400,000 additional hours added to the leisure time of Chicagoans due to the President's blanket code and already breweries, movie houses, golf courses and the like are' preparing for a rush of business. Employers representing 51,000 employes already have signified intention of signing the code to shorten working hours and boost wages.

The Illinois Brewers association said the increased leisure would mean increased beer consumption and the association is making plans to boost output 15 to 20 percent. Dr. Herman N. Bundsen, health commissioner, forecast that the increased playtime would add to the span of life and even Sidney Summerfield, marriage liecnse clerk, said he anticipated better business. TAKEN TO OKEECHOBEE More Than 3,000 Persons Are Moved From Section by Trains Sunday More than 3,000 persons, most of them negroes, accomplished mass evacuation of the Cades region Sunday afternoon in three trains provided by the state government.

About 400 of the refugees were white persons. The evacuation was accomplished because of winds shifting to the north and west resulting in fears of lake waters flooding the section. Many were loaded on trains Saturday but did not leave that night when winds shifted. Fears that a part of the Florida East Coast railway tracks might wash out also hastened the departure, according to reports from Belle Glade. One of the principle reasons for the move was because of the high level of Lake Okeechobee, about 17 feet, according to persons reaching here from the 'Glades last night.

Hundreds of others left the lake section in automobiles and trucks Saturday and Sunday. Scores of convicts from state prison farm No. 2 at Belle Glade were transferred to the Okeechobee county jail Saturday afternoon. The mass evacuation was accomplished Sunday afternoon with two trains leaving Belle Glade, the first leaving at about 3:30 o'clock with 40 carloads of refugees and the second train, with 19 carloads, leaving about an hour later. Both trains went to Okeechobee where refugee depots were provided.

At about 5:30 o'clock, a train with between 30 and 40 cars left Clewiston and picked up refugees at Grambling, Moore Haven and other points. Its destination was Lake Child's on the northwest corner of Lake Okeechobee. Estimates were given each car could accommodate 30 persons. The accommodations were provided by the state, A. R.

Richardson, superintendent of the state prison farm at Belle Glade, being in constant communication with F. C. Elliot at Tallahassee, secretary of the Internal Improvement fund, representing the governor. Refugees brought from Lake Harbor, South Bay and Belle Glade were fed by the state, during Sunday, Superintendent Richardson providing sandwiches and coffee and giving milk for the children during the morning. Additional arrangements were provided for feeding them at Okeechobee.

Two guards and four convicts remained at the prison camp, having voluntarily requested permission to remain and take care of the state's property. At 5:30 o'clock last evening, the lowest barometer reading of the day 29.88 existed at Belle Glade. The wind velocity was given as being from 30 to S3 miles per hour several degrees south of west at that community. Six Persons Burned In Boat Explosion Annapolis, July 30. P) Six persons were burned and Injured, two seriously, as a speed boat exploded In the South river near here early Sunday night.

They1 were brought to the emergency hospital here where five were kept for treatment for burns. Brownie Sasada, 39, of Briareliff, received burns on the face, hands and chest as a gasoline tank exploded while he was trying to find the cause of a sputtering in the motor. John Craln, 21, of South Haven, who was blown, unconscious, from the boat by the blast, and Miss Elizabeth Bassett, 15, of Waterbury, who could not swim, were rescued by an unidentified fisherman. The condition of Craln and Sasada were said at the hospital to be serious. Miss Margaret Bassett also had burns.

Gordon Moreland, 22, of South Haven and Miss Veva Utsler, 17, of Millersville, also were under treatment for burns at the hospital. Ernest Rosenaule, 20, of South Haven was treated but not admitted at the hospital. STATE HOTEL MEN WILL DISCUSS RECOVERY ACT Jacksonville, July 30. (P) To discuss the national Industrial recovery act as it applies to the hotel industry, the executive committee of the Florida State Hotel association will meet here Thursday. Leonard K.

Thompson of Miami, president of the association, is in Washington conferring with recovery administrators. He will return for the meeting, which was called at his request by Harry E. Barlow of Jacksonville, executive secretary. The lower east coast last evening emerged from fears of a tropical storm with the passage of the blow inland in mid-afternoon in an area between Jupiter and Stuart. Wire service and power communication were reported as being temporarily disrupted in the vicinity of Stuart with the wreckage of one building a short distance north of the Federal highway bridge and a number of telegraph poles down in the same vicinity.

The wreckage across the highway was quickly removed. 1 Fire Chief A. P. Sadler and Fireman Emory Purdom, both of this city, made'a survey of the area Sunday afternoon, leaving the city at 1 o'clock and returning at about 5 o'clock. Chief Sadler said little damage NEW JERSEY STANDARD PREPARED 10 BACK UP Young Rockefeller May Head Movement to Assist Oil Industry By the Associated Prest Washington, July 30.

Walter C. Teagle, president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, said in a statement Sunday night that his organization "is anxious to do all in its power to carry out the policies of President Roosevelt which seek to lift us out of this depression." His statement followed the recent resignation of James A. Moffett, senior vice-president of the company, who announced that he was behind the Roosevelt recovery program and that his views apparently were "not In accord" with those of other officials of the company. Teagle said the resignation of Moffett was "a matter of great regret He added that if Moffett is named administrator of the oil industry, "he can be assured of the full cooperation and cordial support" of the New Jersey Standard. Some informed oil men previously had said there was a possibility that John D.

Rockefeller, might waive his customary policy of noninterference with his companies to line up the New Jersey company behind the administration's oil stabilization program, Oil authorities predicted that In allocation tt production among the states, the Pogue report, prepared by J. E. Pogue, New York and Washington engineer, last May, would form the basis of the division. This report, which divides production on the basis of interstate movement of oil to market, estimated daily demand until December at 2,250,000 barrels and would permit Texas to supply 896,000 barrels; Oklahoma California 460,000 and other states smaller amounts. Oil leaders here, speculating on the possibility of Rockefeller taking a hand In the Moffett controversy said privately they did not see how he could keep out of it, as the question involved national policy rather than a company quarrel.

AS KIDNAP PRECAUTION By the Associated Prcu Los Angeles, July 30. A movie star kidnaping plot attributed to Charles Arthur Floyd, Oklahoma outlaw known as "Pretty Boy." resulted Sunday in the placing of guards about the Malibu Beach movie colony while southern California officers kept close watch for him. More than a week ago the machine gunner was reported traced to California by federal officers. Later it was believed he had crossed into Mexico with two companions. Officers quoted an aviator as saying the actress was to be kidnaped at midnight Sunday night from her Malibu home, loaded Into a faBt plane which he was to rent, flown to an Isolated spot in the mountains in Mexico and held there until producers of her picture paid a ransom.

The aviator said Floyd was using a large green touring car carrying three machine guns, and that he was armed with two automatic pistols. FOUR CHILDREN DROWN Nazareth, July 30. W) Four children were dorwned Saturday night after a makeshift raft overturned in the deep part of the Nazareth Cement company dam, eight miles northeast of Easton. and individuals In other coastal cities, The Post was able to give accurate Information all during the course of the storm. News flashes posted on the bulletin board In front of The Post building on Datura street drew the attention of hundreds of persons.

Scores stood in a driving rain to read the latest dispatches concerning the storm. Little serious effect of the storm was felt here. Heavy rains started Saturday and continued Sunday, with wind gusts at times reaching as high as 25 miles an hour. Charles Caesar, weather observer at the Southboro fire station, charted wind velocities and dlretcions during the passage of the storm from the Ba Florida Employers Aid in U. S.

Recovery Jacksonville, July 30. (P) National recovery administration agreements have been signed by 2,010 Florida employers, Walter N. Fearce. regional representative pf the administration, announced here Sunday. The agreements affect 10,256 employes, he said.

Employers In 164 cities and towns of the state have signed. fearce requests all Florida employers to acquaint him with the number of persons hired since the drive began. Such information, he said, would give the administration accurate check on the results of the campaign and let Florida citizens know the effect on employment in the state. Data gathered will be published in newspapers, he added. IT Bu ths Associated Press Washington, July 30.

An issue of government securities was offered Sunday to the public for use in retiring indebtedness and to finance the administration's recovery program. Dean Acheson, acting secretary of the treasury, said the issue would consist of $500,000,000 eight year 314 perent cbonds and two year 1 percent treasury notes. The bonds will be the first in two years. Through this program and money in the treasury's general fund, officials hope to have approximately $1,000,000,000 available in mid-August for the recovery efforts. The bonds will be in denominations as small as $50 and the notes as small as $100 making them available to people in ordinary circumstances as well as to large investors who ordinarily over-subscribe all government security issues.

Both issues are free of taxation, except estate, inheritance and surtax levies. Acheson said Secretary Woodin would make certain that persons of small means obtained the amount of bonds which they were able to purchase In furtherance of the recovery program. They will be allotted in full all subscriptions for amounts up to $10,000. Other cash subscriptions will be allotted on an equal percentage basis. By the Associated Press Kansas City, July 30.

A robber who lined up employes of a Kansas City gas company office, took $100, the day's receipts, and then strolled into a nearby drug store for cigarettes and a drink was killed by a police sergeant who died getting his man. Two shots were fired during a Boda fountain scuffle when Morris Bigus, the policeman, attempted to arrest a man pointed out by Ray Nichols, grocery employee who had watched the robber leave the gas office and enter the drug store. The robber, wrestling with the policeman, twisted the officer's gun arm until a shot from his own weapon gave Bigus his fatal wound. But a second shot killed the other, later said by police to havo been identified as William H. Obermeyer.

Money equal to the amount taken in the robbery was recovered. SPECTATORS KILLED Berlin, July 30. (P) Three persons were killed and 18 seriously Injured Sunday when two racing motorcycles at the Berlin stadium brushed against each other and one crashed through a barrier into a group of young people. hamas across the Florida coast line. Boats wero moved from Lake Worth to safer quarters, as a precautionary measure in case a hard blow should strike here.

Last night the city dock was entirely desested. Many business houses hero boarded up before the government advisories Indicated that the storm would not hit this city. The storm followed an apparently wavering course through the Caribbean sea from the Virgin Islands, where It first started, and crossed over parts of the Bahama islands Friday and Saturday. Friday night, all danger to West Palm Beach had apparently passed, but Saturday a change In the storm's diretclon sent WITH RELATIVES AFTER Family Understood to Have Paid $40,000 For His Safe Return Bu the Associated Press Albany, N. July 30.

John J. O'Connell, 24-year-old scion of the politically powerful O'Connell family of Albany, was released to an Intermediary early Sunday by kidnapers upon payment of $40,000 ransom. O'Connell who was kidnaped July 7, was exhausted and suffered from shock and nervous exhaustion. An automobile carrying only young O'Connell and Louis Snyder, attorney, representing Manny Strewl, intermedial who effected the youth's release, climbed the steep mountain road to the O'Connell camp at 4 o'clock this morning, and delivered him to his father, John J. (Solly) and his uncle Dan.

Ed, another uncle, the county democratic chairman, arrived at the camp later. After holding him more than three weeks, the kidnapers appar-netly became alarmed, possibly by the death sentence meted out in Missouri to Walter MeGee, who kidnaped Mary McElroy, and hastened to restore he young Albany golfer and National Guard officer. Last Monday the gang reduced th demand to $75,000 and when the family offered $40,000 and ignored other demands, the kidnapers finally agreed to accept less than one sixth of their original demand. In a limited statement given out for young O'Connell by one of his uncles, he was said to have had the Impression that he was held in a comfortable New York City flat. He also believed Dan O'Connell said, that four or five armed men snatched him, knocked him un conscious as he stepped from his motor car about 1:15 a.

m. July 7. When he recovered consciousness he was in the flat. "I was not tied or ill treated," he said. "They gave me plenty of good food and shaved me twice." The young man's return had been definitely looked for all Saturday, Snyder left Albany Friday, communicated with the O'Connells Saturday and was not seen until he returned Sunday.

Dr. Fred C. Conway examined young O'Connell and said he was suffering only from fatigue and shock. He had no bruises or cuts but one arm bore a red mark, as if it might have been gripped tightly. I FATAL TO 3 PERSONS By ths Associated Press New York, July 30.

A heat wave which brought a temperature of 92 degrees Sunday caused the death of three persons and sent more than, 1,600,000 persons to beaches. Harry Morrison, 54, of Troy, N. was found dead In a midtown hotel room, said by physicians to have been a heat victim. Mrs. Louise Tober, 60, was killed when she fell from the roof of an apartment house to which she had gone for relief.

Benjamin Sanders, 40, collapsed on a street and died. His wife said he had become overheated performing 'acrobatics with a group of friends. Five Persons Injured In Railroad Accident Bu the Associated Press Altoona, July 30. Five persons were injured Sunday night, four seriously, as the Pennsylvania railroad's fast Liberty limited ran through a switch, careened from the tracks and demolished a signal tower at the entrance to the Altoona station. The Injured: Frank Buck, the engineer, of Harrisburg, Carl Licenbaugh, the fireman, of Dun-cannon, Bruce Miller and Charles Hoover, towermen, of Altoona; Lquis Zeidman, a passenger, of Chicago.

Buck and Licenbaugh were scalded as the big westbound locomotive rolled over on Its side and turned completely around, with the front end pointed eastward. SCHEDULES PLANNED Atlanta, July 30. M) F. Warren Oakes, vice president of American Airways in charge of traffic, said Sunday night that due to rapidly Improving business his company soon would put into effect numerous new schedules with bigger and faster ships. A WEST PALM BEACH WATCHES AS IT SWINGS INLAND NEAR STUART West Palm Beach carefully watched the progress of the tropi cal disturbance Sunday as it moved inland near Stuart.

Although all danger to this city apparently had passed late Satur day night when the position of the storm was placed north of here, local residents followed the course of the disturbance to make sure that it would not be near enough to West Palm Beach to have dangerous effect. Thousands of telephone cal's con cerning the storm were handled at The Post Saturday and Sunday. With the cooperation of the Associated Press, amateur and commercial radio stations and newspapers Tliiinfnll (nl p. in 3.11 Inches, llarometer (at idnlghtl, 29.90, TIDKH TODAY High, 1 n. in.

and ,1:19 p. m. 8:54 a. ni, and 7:24 p. m..