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MEMBER OF AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS POST LARGEST DAILY CIRCULATION IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, VOL. XXV: No. 176 SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1933 DAILY, FlVf! CUNTS SIMIAV, TEN CENTS THE PALM BEACH Florida Hotel Men Vote Temporary Code N.R.A. COMMHEE WILCOX ARRANGES Mammoth Balloon to Try Hunt For Stratosphere Cosmic Ray IRE INDUSTRIES LUG UP UNDER BANNEROFN. R.

A. HURRICANE HITS TEXAS COAST WITH INCREASED FORCE FARM LAN IN DRAINAGE AREAS Europe Ready For War, Says Henry Morgenthau New York, Aug. 4. UP) A statement that "all Europe is ready for war" was made by Henry Morgenthau, sr Friday as the diplomat and democratic counselor returned from abroad. A delegate to the wheat conference in Geneva and later an expert with the Americans in London at the economic parley, the former ambassador to Turkey said war is brewing in Germany.

He declared that the policies of Chancellor Hitler, if successful, will work for a general war, and that If these policies are unsuccessful civil war will result within that nation, and spread over the continent. When the rays of the sun begin beating on the huge bag and expanding the hydrogen gas their heat, then will start the dash into the stratosphere, where it is always 67 degrees below zero and there's no air to breathe. Settle is confident of riding safe and serene through the upper regions in the metal ball, seven feet in diameter, sealed tightly shut, and constructed of magnesium alloy 25 per cent lighter than aluminum. A few hours in the purple haze of the stratosphere, and Settle will begin dropping back to the earth. The speed of the descent will be controlled by dropping ballast, consisting mostly of instruments placed on the outside of the gondola to record the antics of the cosmic rays.

Each instrument will float toward earth by a tiny parachute addressed to Professors Robert A. Millikan and Arthur H. Compton, each of whom hopes to prove thereby his cosmic ray theory. By the Associated Press Chicago, Aug. 5.

(Saturday) A mammoth balloon early this morning was ready to soar from the earth, swinging a young naval officer away toward the moon on an uncharted Journey into space. Scientists hoped the flight would I take him 10 miles and more above the earth into the stratosphere, the layer of nothingness where they believe rests the answer to the riddle of the cosmic ray. Nearly perfect weather, for which he had delayed for weeks, caused Lieut. Comm. T.

G. W. Settle to decide that he would depart on his epic adventure into the skies. Settle, advised by August Piccard, pioneer explorer of the stratosphere, chose night time for his take off because of temperature conditions. During the cool hours of darkness the balloon, so large that a full acre of fabric was required to cover it, was expected to float about 15,000 feet above the earth.

Court Dismissed Howell Suit, But Says Law Does Not Apply That the two year residence law is inapplicable to peVsons employed to hold positions In the public school3, was held Friday in circuit court here by Judge C. E. Chilling-worth, This decision, handed down in the case of Harry Howell vs. the board of public instruction, is not expected to have any effect on possible reinstatement of the ousted principal, as the court held that it is "without right or power to require the defendants to either employ or retain the plaintiff as an employe, it being within' their discretion as to whom they shall employ and as to whom they shall appoint, and as to when or for what reasons, If any, any such appointment or employment shall be vacated." Outstanding importance of the suit is considered its possible, effect on employment of other teachers, who have not as yet been replaced, and as a basis for any possible damage suits on the part of any employes who may be kept out of employment on recount of -the two year residence law. S.

Bussey, attorney for Mr. Howell, amended hii bill Friday morning to set forth that the residence law does not apply to the board of public instruction as its members are not officers within purview of the act. with authority to employ any person to work for state or county; that the positions of teacher and principals are not filled by persons "employed for the state of Florida or for any county of the state within the meaning and purview of the and that the board by so construing the act so as to prevent Mr. Howell's acceptance of the position to which he was appointed had infringed on his liberty and deprived him of "property and the right to acquire property." The amendment was allowed and the bill as amended was dismissed without prejudice. Mr.

Bussey had asked that the board be enjoined from employing anyone else, and that the act be declared unconstitutional. It Is not expected that this ruling will have any special effect on the school board, as a list of approved teachers has been endorsed to fill any vacancies. It was indicated at the school board office that teachers on this list would have preference over any others in making up any vacancies that might exist. Florida Legion Posts Called Into Action St. Petersburg, Aug.

4. (P) In accordance with the battle orders of Louis Johnson, national commander of the American Legion, summoning all posts of the American Legion into immediate mobilization to fight the economic war of 1933 and made public through President Roosevelt Thursday, Joe S. Clark, department commander of the American Legion of Florida, in a statement Friday called upon each post commander of the 110 posts of the Aemrlcan Legion of Florida, together with their auxiliaries, to call a special meeting of their Legion posts- and units, and by a proper resolution offer their loyal cooperation and service to the official representatives of the national recovery administration in their respective communities, and to cooperate in achieving its Storm Gains in Velocity After Leaving Florida; Damage Is Heavy By the Associated Press BROWNSVILLE, Texas, Aug. 4. A hurricane roared into the fertile Rio Grande valley from the Gulf of Mexico late Friday damaging homes, crops and electric lines and menacing the lives of persons in the lowlands.

The wind velocity here increased to 70 to 75 miles an hour and the barometer dropped to 29.29 at 6 p. m. Limbs were torn from trees and hurled through the air, buildings were unroofed and plate glass windows damaged. Port Isabel streets were littered with signs, awnings and the fragments of roofs and porches. Fishing shacks along the shore were demolished.

San Benito reported a barometer reading of 29.28, with an estimated wind velocity of 60 miles an hour. The wreckage of signs and debris also cluttered the streets here. One house and four beach shacks on the lower end of San Padre island were smashed in by heavy seas. Campers and a detachment of cavalrymen were marooned on Brazos island, also near the mouth of the Rio Grande, but shore observers said they were on high ground and appeared to be in no danger. The storm, with a wind velocity of 60 miles an hour, disrupted light and power lines in Brownsville and severed telephone connections with Port Isabel and the coast guard station on Padre island.

When the last report was received from Padre island at 4:30 p. the barometer there stood at 29.17, a wind of an estimated velocity of 70 miles an hour was (Continued on Page Three) CHER TO GET FUNDS IN LITIGATION By the Associated Press Tallahassee, Aug. 4. Affirming a previous decree, the supreme court Friday ordered payment of funds on deposit with the clerk of the circuit court of Palm Beach county to Mrs. Bula Croker.

The decision, is the result of a 10-year litigation with J. B. McDonald and the Palm Beach Estates over sale of residential property. The court directed further' appropriate proceedings In the Palm Beach circuit court to determine what part, if any, of the funds should be paid to Mrs. Croker.

While the same provision was made in a previous hearing on Nov. 17, 1932. the Palm Beach Estates appealed for another hearing. St. Lucie Inlet Bond Order is Handed Down Tallahassee, Aug.

4. UP) The state supreme court Friday ordered the St. Lucie inlet district and port authority to levy sufficient taxes to pay interest and principal now due or becoming payable during the next fiscal year and on a $1,000,000 bond issue. The commissioners must obey the writ, or show cause why they should not on Aug. 15.

The ruling was in a case brought by Janet McNee, holder of 43 of the district's $1,000 bonds. Although the bonds are not matured, interest past due has not been paid. Five Bodies Sought After Denver Flood Denver, Aug. 4. (A) Searchers waded through tons of silt and debris Friday trying to locate five persons, believed to have perished in Thursday's flood.

Denver meanwhile threw open Its doors to hundreds of refugees made homeless by the billion-gallon deluge which swept a 35-mile path of devastation onto this city from the broken Castlewood dam. The known deaths remained at two Tom Carey, Denver, and Bertha Catlin, ranch employe. WEATHER FOHKCAST Florida l'urtly elnudy, probably showers today mid Sunday. iNim Jacksonville to 'lnrlda straits: Moderate Hotith and southwest winds over north portion and moderate east over south nurtinn; fair today. PREPARES DRIVE 10 AIDJECOVERY Officers to Be Named, Sub-Committees to Be Appointed For Work THE West Palm Beach N.

R. A. advisory committee, named arly this week by J. O. Bowcn, president of the Chamber of Commerce, held its first meeting Friday afternoon and started the machinery Into motion that is expected to battle It out with "old man depression." The first move was the appointment of ten, within the group, to go into session at 10 o'clock this morning, with the responsibility of selecting a general chairman for all committees, a general in charge of activities and a lieutenant-general.

The latter office will be given to a woman, In accordance with the wishes of the national administration. Decision to make the offices appointive, instead of elective by the JJvisory committee, was after 'AJsh-es of the meeting were ascer tained by Mr. Bowen, who presided over Friday afternoon's gathering, which was held at the Chamber of Commerce He immediately announced his committee of ten, headed by D. F. Goodell, as chairman, which meets this morning.

The balance of the group include J. K. Williamson, A. E. McMillan, Mrs.

Mary Brandon, Mrs. G. C. Barco, R. V.

Berry, J. H. Gregory, R. D. Hill, L.

R. Baker and Julius Blackburn Appointment of officers In the "anti-depression" army, will not necessarily be from the ranks of the advisory committee. The committee may draft the services of any man or woman in the city, and expects to make its selections according to qualifications along the lines needed in the work. After the three officers are named, selection will be made of the various sub-committees, headed by colonels and rnajors, for three types of work, publicity, educational and sales. The general setup as outlined by -General Hugh Johnson, national administrator, calls for a chairman of the advisory committee, a general in charge of functions, the lUtenant general who is assistant 'ti the general, three colonels in vfarge of publicity, educational and volunteer national recovery sales.

The publicity division is split to include press, poster and amusements and radio. The educational division Is divided into speakers, information and appointments. The sales army calls for 48 workers together with captains and majors. ational Whirligig news behInFthe news Washington It will be Interesting to see whether one Able Goodman finally steps out of the penitentiary ten days hence on parole. Abie is completing the second year of a four-year sentence for having been discovered in New York with a ton of opium in his possession.

The narcotics bureau is very much opposed to his parole. They think privately that Abie took a rap for a higher-up say Waxie Jrdon, the big Manhattan racke-(FV-, for instance and if he won't -Silk they want him to finish out his penance. The wealthy Mr. Goodman a ton of opium represents about half a million In cold cash has had his ups and downs in getting out of Jail. He became eligible for parole last November.

It was denied the month following. Then a gentleman named Ormon Ewing stepped Into the picture. This was quite recently. Ewing is democratic national committeeman for Utah. Goodman's case was reopened.

On July 5 the parole board decided his good behavior entitled him to leap from durance vile on August 15. Ewlng's activity in the case was unknown to most of the powers that be until stories were printed that he was appearing in Philadelphia trying to get a permit restored to the Harrison Cereal Beverage company. This is one of Waxie Gordon's breweries. Its license was revoked after a little gunplay in Elizabeth, N. that left two of Waxie's chief lieutenants deader than a herring.

Unfortunately they died with the now-famous permit No. 315 in their room, 'JSl was right after the Phlladel-Wila story appeared that Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Stephen B. Gibbons, one of Postmaster General Farley's close aides in political matters, heard that Ewing also had been active In the Goodman case. The narcotics bureau reports to (Continued on Page Four) SUN DA Y'S POST Place your cinsslriea s1 In the loart-ln publication In Palm Bench County. You roach the greatest number of prospects at the lowest cost; on the day that everybody has the most time to read your advertisement Take advantage bf our four-day rate a few cents spent on a classified ad In Sunday's Post may rent those vacant rooms, apartments and houses or Bel! that piece of real estate.

Household goods, used pars, boats and many other articles, find a ready market through Cost classified ada. Progressive business houses may merchandise their products or services quickly and cheaply. Thert Is No Substitute For Circulation Jacksonville, Aug. 4 UP) Florida hotel men have submitted a temporary code to federal authorities covering the industry under the national recovery act. More than 120 hotel operators, at a meeting here Friday, voted to "stand by" pending completion of a national code which is being considered at a conference at Washington of hotel men from every section of the country.

No points of the temporary code approved here were made public, Leonard K. Thompson, Miami, president of the State Hotel Men's association, announced. AFTER JOURT ACTION Rulings Being Completed On Various Points o.f New Decision By the Associated Press Tallahassee, Aug. 4. The attorney general's office Friday night ruled that 1932 taxes cannot be paid with bonds under terms of the supreme court opinion upholding the validity of the Futch act for redemption of delinquent taxes.

The clause allowing redemption of tax certificates in bonds covered only 1931 and prior years and does not extend to 1932 taxes "under any circumstances or conditions," Attorney General Cary D. Landis said. County bonds or bonds of any district within a county, except drainage district bonds, the attorney general said, "may be used in redemption of 1931 and prior years taxes when delinquent certificates arc held by the state and they are over two years old." Landis' ruling covered one of the moot questions of Interpretation of the court's opinion. His ruling was made in a telegram to Karl B. O'Quinn, clerk of the circuit court at Clearwater.

Numerous persons telegraphed the attorney general and comptroller Friday asking if drainage district bonds could be used in redemption of delinquent taxes of a County or other taxing districts within the county. This, Landis said, cannot be done. However, bonds of road and bridge districts, school districts and such are applicable for redemption of delinquent county and district taxes in the county in which the districts are located. They will be accepted at par value in the redemptions, although many bond issues are now quoted far below par. Landis said rulings on other points In the court's opinion probably will be completed Saturday and will be made public as quickly as possible.

Gandhi is Arrested, Sentenced to Year Poona, India, Aug. 4 (P) The Mahatma Gandhi, free for just four minutes Friday, is again a prisoner in Yeroda Jail under a new and more permanent status. He was sentenced to one year of simple imprisonment because he declined to accept conditions under which he was released. These were that he refrain from political activities and remain in the Poona district. When Gandhi was released from Yeroda jail last May he had served 16 months under an indefinite imprisonment sentence, the government granting him freedom in order to escape responsibility for his health during a fast he was undertaking.

He was brought back to Yeroda jail last Wednesday, having been rearrested as he was about to launch a new civil disobedience campaign. Citrus Exchange Talks Moving of Headquarters Tampa, Aug. 4. UP) The board of directors of the Florida Citrus Exchange passed a resolution Friday afternoon to submit to its 18 sub-exchanges the question of whether the organization shall come under a state law permitting agricultural cooperatives to change their charters by a two-thirds vote of their member units or a trrree-fourths vote as at present. The resolution was passed after the directors were informed by William Hunter, exchange attorney, that a three-fourths vote of member units would be required to change the exchange charter to permit it to move headquarters from Tampa to either Winter Haven or Orlando.

The charter requires that headquarters be maintained in Tampa. French Flyers Plan Atlantic Hop Today Brooklyn, N. Aug. 5. (Saturday) UP) Lieutenant Maurice Rossi and Paul Codos, French aviators who have been waiting nearly two months to start a flight in quest of a new distance record, announced early toaay that they definitely would take off at sunrise.

Shortly after 4 a. m. (E. S. they plan to lift their big cabin plane from Floyd Bennett field and head out across the Atlantic ocean.

Their course will take them over Newfoundland but they have no definite destination on the other side. They plan to fly as long as their fuel holds out. FLORIDIAN IS SUICIDE Beach, Aug. 4 (P) The body of A. M.

McGeehee was discovered In a hotel room here Friday. His wrists had been slashed with a razor. A coroner found the death suicide. McGeehee registered from Orlando. In his pockets were found 46 cents.

He appeared about BO years old. Coal Strike Settled, Johnson Looks to General Policy On Labor Trouble Hyde Park, N. Aug. 5. (Saturday) (P) President Roosevelt in a formal statement early this morning announced a truce between management and labor in the bituminous coal strike in Pennsylvania.

Acting on the suggestion of General Hugh S. Johnson, Industrial administrator, the President stated that the strike had been called off "to await the resolution of the whole matter at the coming hearings on the coal codes." Bit the Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. An accord reached on the Pennsylvania coal strike, Hugh S. Johnson Friday night took to President Roosevelt a plan for dealing with any general labor troubles that might arise In carrying out the industrial program.

As described in some quarters, the plan called for the creation of an emergency in the industrial administration to handle disputes that might spring up in the path of the wage raising-hour shortening processes of the recovery administration. Behind him as Johnson sped through the air to the presidential vacation ground, the code formulating and approved process was stepping ahead at a rapid pace. Fourteen wage and hour agreements for as many industries were approved Friday. The fourteen industries which received permission to put into effect their own wage and hour provisions pending hearings on permanent codes, were: producers of ice cream, wheat flour, lumber, paint, varnish, (Continued on Page Three) ACTS TO END STRIKE By the Associated Press Havana, Aug. 4.

The Cuban gov ernment Friday night moved swiftly to combat a fast growing turbulence of the last few years. Arrests of striking workmen passed 200, and authorities directed police to permit no meetings of labor unions, even though constitu tional guarantees President Mach- ado recently re-established assure all Cubans the right to meet peace- bly. Headquarters of the Railway union and the Motorists' and Conductors' syndicate, whose members were scheduled to meet Friday night, were dark. Further organization of the strike, placed late Friday under the direction of a central committee, went forward in secret. President Machado threatened striking Cuba with martial law.

Almost simultaneously Clenfue-gos, In Santa Clara province, flared into violence. Demonstrating hundreds shattered shop windows, battled police who sought to dissolve them, wounded three and sharply resisted rural guards called to disperse them. President Machado declared he would call out troops if necessary to end transportation and allied strikes threatening Havana's sources of food and general commerce throughout the island. Stock Prices Slide In Curtailed Session New York, Aug. 4.

UP) The stock market shed a few modest tears on its own account Friday before the gas bombs sent brokers pouring out with swollen and streaming eyes. But the market's grief was of limited character compared with the physical discomfort of floor members and employes. Price declines In the short session, so abruptly ended soon after noon by the ruthless gas, ranged from fractions to around 2 points. The ticker had clicked off a volume of only 540,020 shares before the forced evacuation of the floor. A decline of 1.8 points was registered by the composite Standard Statistics-Associated Press average for 90 selected issues.

10,000 Are Drowned In Chang River Flood Shanghai, Aug. 4. (P) Chinese dispatches from Sian, Shensi province, said Friday ten thousand persons were drowned and an equal number made homeless in floods along the Chang river. The reports 6aid 200 villages were destroyed and that river dykes collapsed at Sanyuan. A typhoon reported heading toward Shanghai from the vicinity of Guam continued northward and was said to have struck the coast of Korea.

Official weather reports said it passed 200 miles off Shanghai. Public Works District Leader is Appointed Atlanta, Aug. 4 UP) The appointment of Henry T. Mcintosh, editor of the Albany, Herald as regional advisory for the ninth district of the federal public works administration was announced Friday in Washington. Mcintosh accepted the appointment tendered by President Roosevelt In the place of J.

Monroe Johnson, of Marlon, who was unable to serve. The region comprises Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina, Federal Land Bank Will Consider Applications Says Telegram REPRESENTATIVE J. Mark Wilcox, of West Palm Beach, last night announced that the Federal Land bank at Columbia, S. would consider applications for farm loans on lands in drainage districts. Previously, the government had refused such loans and Mr.

Wilcox made special efforts at Washington to arrange a reversal of this stand. That he was successful Is Indicated in his telegram last night to E. G. Kilpatrick, of Pahokee, co-receiver in two drainage districts, as follows: "Federal Land bank Columbia now in position to consider applications for farm loans in drainage districts. Ruling made today that insofar as state drainage act is concerned mere fact that land is located in drainage district will not prevent loan being granted." Explaining that two-thirds of the farms in the Florida peninsula are in drainage districts, Mr.

Wilcox recently told newspapermen the federal government had taken the position that the bonds issued by the drainage districts were first liens on the farms and that each separate farm was liable to Its full value for bonds issued, leaving nothing as security for the government in making farm loans. Recently the Florida supreme court ruled that land in drainage districts could be held only for the special benefits assessed against it and that each farm was not liable for the entire bond issue. Mr. Wilcox had furnished the farm board and the Columbia Farm Loan bank certified copies of the decision, emphasizing that it showed farms in drainage districts in his district retained values in addition to the drainage liability assessed against them and that the government under such circumstances must change its position and hold such farms entitled to loans. tiV' (In AtitsiJelJ'rtsM Washington, Aug.

4. Leadership in the federal government's drive against organized crime was assumed Friday by Raymond Moley, assistant secretary of state, with announcement that he would not concern himself with individual such as the O'Connell kidnaping at Albany. Moley, who moved Into the justice department under special assignment from President Roosevelt to fight racketeering, kidnaping and gangster activities, will direct his efforts toward coordinating the law enforcement agencies ot the federal and state governments. An emphatic "no" was Moley's reply to questions as to whether he would resign from the state department in the face of reported differences with Secretary Hull. The assistant secretary assumed his new task with a show of eagerness but warned against expecting any sudden or immediate results in the drive on organized crime.

Moley will serve as a consultant, to cooperate with Attorney General Cummings and his assistants. While Moley agreed one of the big problems to be studied was some means of effecting better cooperation between the central and state governments, he declined to express any opinion as to how this should be done. He said his work with the department of justice would last a month, or possibly a little longer. Two Men Arc Killed In Pre-Elcction Fights Harlan, Ky Aug. 4.

(A) With 150 additional state troops ordered into the county to supplement 50 already on duty, and two men dead from fights attributed by officials to pre-election trouble, Harlan county was tense Friday night on the eve of a bitterly contested local primary. The second slaying In as many days occurred late Friday at Wal-lins Creek, ten miles from here in, Harlan county, about the same time Adjt. Gen. H. H.

Denhardt was ordering the extra troops to be on hand for Saturday's balloting. The victim Friday was Joe Lee, 40, deputy policeman at Walllns Creek. Reports brought to the sheriff's office here said Lee was shot during a quarrel with another man over election cards. Steel lias Gone Limit, Washington is Told New York, Aug. 4 (A) The steel industry Friday informed the national recovery administration that it had "gone the limit" In the matter of its code and could go no further.

Robert P. Lamont, president of the American Iron and Steel Institute, in a communication addresred to the Washington authorities, said: "We call attention to the fact that, in accomplishing the great purpose of the national recovery act, the members of the code have already gone beyond anything that can be justified by present conditions. They can justify themselves to their stockholders only by the realization of the hopes aroused by the cffoits of the national administration. They cannot go further." TEAR GAS BOMBS SEND ILL STREET BROKERS FROM EXCHANGE Stock Market Transactions Are Brought to Close by Release of Fumes Boston, Aug. 4.

UP) Boston police late Friday night arrested four men allegedly members of the ring responsible for the tear gas bombing of the New York stock exchange. The arrests were made in a Milk street loft on a tip telegraphed here by-New York police. The men, all from Boston, said they were members of the "com; moner or international party." Police said they found "the makings of three bombs" in packages addressed to President Roosevelt, former President Hoover and Norman Thomas. Socialist candidate for president at the last election. "The packages contained fuses and alarm clocks for setting off the fuses," Police Lieutenant Timothy Donovan said.

By the Associated Press New York, Aug. 4. Two tear gas bombs Friday played greater havoc with the New York stock exchange than all the bull and bear markets In history. Someone identity unknown set the bombs in an intake pipe of the big building's air cooling system. Fifteen minutes after their fumes had been released exchange had closed for the day, hundreds of brokers, clerks and other occupants of the structure had struggled weeping and choking to the street, and the New York police were seeking those responsible for the most exciting incident Wall street had experienced since the Morgan property was bombed with far more destruction years ago.

No one Friday was seriously hurt. Eight hundred-odd Brokers plus a throng of telephone clerks, pages and other employes had lolled through a dull morning market and as the clock turned noon were look-(Continued on Page Three) Poisoning of Cattle Being Investigated Jacksonville Aug. 4. UP) More than 40 head of dairy-cattle from two dairies in Duval county were poisoned Wednesday and Thursday nights, Sheriff. Rex Sweat announced Friday, and an Intensive investigation is under way to locate the persons who placed the poison.

Twelve cows were killed at the Tcague dairy and eight more were expected to die. At the Witten dairy 22 heifers and two milk cows were suffering from the effects of poison. Employes at one of the dairies said they noticed two cars near the place Thursday morning and found footprints along the fence outside the pasture. The poison was mixed with "feed and thrown into the grazing pastures. Roosevelt Optimistic Over Strike Situation Hyde Park, N.

Aug. 4. UP) President Roosevelt watched with Increasing optimism Friday the efforts for solution of the strike In the Pennsylvania coal fields, but it was -made clear he will appoint arbitrators only if both sides request it. He is leaving the federal side of the dispute in the hands of Hugh S. Johnson, industrial administrator.

It is the understanding of the President that two of the three main points in dispute have been solved by some companies with the miners and that the question of procedure on the remaining stumbling block Is iiow under consideration. Death Warrants Signed For Two Murderers Tallahassee, Aug. 4. (A) Death warrants for Clarence D. "Red" Casey and James Milligan, convicted murderers of Frank D.

Palmer of Miami, were signed Friday by Governor Dave Sholtz, fixing the execution for the week of Aug. 14. Palmer, a druggist, was killed Dec. 31, 1931, in an attempted holdup of his drugstore. It was said at the governor's office that Florida's first quadruple execution, scheduled for Aug.

7, would not be halted. Four negroes Izell Chambers, Charlie Davis, Jack Williamson and Walter Woodwardwill die for slaying Robert Dorsey, Pompano fish dealer. RKSCUKD MAN ARRESTED Corpus Christl, Texas, Aug. 4. UP) A man who gave the name of Jack Davis but later told newspa permen he was John A.

Dann, after being taken exhausted from a battered sailing sloop which had drifted through a gulf hurricane. was arrested Friday on a fugitive warrant. Sheriff O. E. Hobbs of Panama City, telegraphed officers here that the man was wanted there on charges of grand larceny for theft of the sloop.

He was moved from a hospital to county jail. LaGuardia Endorsed As Fusion Candidate New York, Aug. 4 UP) The republican mayoralty committee swung into line Friday behind the fiery Fiorello H. LaGuardia, independent republican and former congressman, chosen by a bi-partisan committee to replace Major General John F. O'Ryan as the fusion candidate for mayor.

Endorsement of LaGuardia ended months of internal disagreements among the fusion groups seeking to oust Tammany Hall from control of the city government by defeating Mayor John P. O'Brien. The blanket code for retail merchants, as advocated by the N. R. was adopted by local retailers, 50 strong, at a meeting held in the Chamber of Commerce offices Friday afternoon.

It is effective Monday, August 7. The code calls for a 40 hour working period per week for an employe with a minimum wage scale of $12 per week. It also specifies that a store maintaining an opening schedule of more than 52 hours per week prior to July 1, cannot drop under that figure now. Those who maintained a lower schedule, however, may maintain the same hours. G.

Leland Hatch, chairman of the Merchants division of the Chamber of Commerce, presided over the meeting and the group named, a committee which is to draft a city ordinance which will make such closing hours mandatory. Such an ordinance will be presented to the city commission at an early date. A mqtion was also passed to adopt a 48-hour week schedule, opening at 9 o'clock in the morning and closing at 5 o'clock In the afternoon. This move, however, is subject to approval by the national administrator, General Hugh Johnson. Old Law May Affect Payments to Farmers Copyright by the Associated Press) Washington, Aug.

4. President Roosevelt Friday was called upon to rescue from jeopardy plans of farm administrators to distribute about $200,000,000 to farmers within the next 60 days as benefits for agreements to curtail their output of wheat and cotton. i A 58-year old law has been interpreted by some officials as requiring definitely that when the government makes a payment to any part it must withhold sums due it. If this interpretation is upheld it would cause a substantial portion of the payments, probably one-half, to be offset by large sums which farmers scheduled for benefits now owe the government, much of it in default. Called upon for an opinion to clear the impasse Attorney General Cummings had drafted an opinion but referred It to the President at Hyde Park, N.

Y. Daytona Beach Has Concrete N.R.A. Results Daytona Beach, Aug. 4. UP) Several concrete results of the N.

R. A. campaign here have been announced, including: An increase of $300 a week in the payroll of a chain store and the addition of 15 employes. An increase of several hundred dollars in the weekly payroll of a lumber company by raising wages from 20 to 35 cents an hour. Hiring of 50 additional men by Daytona Beach filling stations which fixed $14 as the minimum weekly wage.

An increase of $90 a week In the combined payrolls of two theaters. TABLE SUPPLY STORES RILEY'S GROCERY FLAMINGO GROCERY MAY'S GROCERY WEST PALM BEACH MARKET SCANDELL MEAT MARKET TRIO MARKET STEVER'S POULTRY FARM FLAMINGO POULTRY CITY FISH POULTRY CO. JACKSON'S MRS. O. P.

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