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

PALM POST Member Audit Bureau of Circulation City Edition 30 Pages Today NIGHT AND DAY ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE VOL. XVII: NO. 53 WEST PALM BEACH. FLORIDA. MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1925 Single Copy Five Cents Pa FINER BREAKERS CTIM STORM LIVES OF 13 LOST The.

Skint of The 1 South 1 Building Here Shows $329,025 Gain Over 1924 Continue Effort To Get Shepherd Out Under Bail Fall WOO Feet To Explode Old Theory By Test BY JOHN TEMfLE GRAVES TO REPLACE 0L0 GATHER IN RITES AS CRACK TRAINS ARROW REVEALS SCHEME TO BORN APARTMENT HERE To those who love the South and call It their homeland it Is a pleas DEAD ant thing today to contemplate the position and prospect of this great growing region. Emerging In glory COLIJDE IN FOG Fast Express Misses Switch To Plough Into Second Louisiana Flyer and gold from the distant ashes of Tenants Discover Smouldering Survivors of Nation's Worst Tornado Face 4 Months Of Rehabilitation New Hotel to Be Architectural Masterpiece, Fireproof; Housing 500 Guests reconstruction and the long intervening period of poverty, the southern Rtatea are today the Mecca of the Oil-Soaked Room In Kennedy Lodgings whole national prospect, the goal of Building figures for the months of January and February and the first 21 days of March last night were $329,025 more than for the entire three months a year ago. This was found to bo a fact in a compilation made yesterday in the office of V. W. Sanderson, city building inspecUr.

So far this building work costing 51,292,390 has been authorized by tho building inspector as compared to the $903,365 total of the full three months in 1924. Present, figures for March construction aggregate the sum of $310,915. In the entire St. Patrick month of a year ago the total was only A glance at city building records for years back shows that approximately only $15,000 is needed yet to make this month parallel the greatest March in the history of the city-March, 1923 when work initiated was worth $325,825. FLAGLER HEADS REACH DECISION AT PARLEY BADLY HURT ENGINEER SAYS HE BECAME LOST PERMANENT RELIEF QUARTERS ESTABLISHED FIRE BUGS OR THIEVES LAID THEIR PLAN WELL BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS New York, March 22.

After a scries of tests at Mitchell Field today, army flying officers said that the theory that a person falling rom a great height loses consciousness during the descent had been disproved. Sergeant Randall Bose and Corporal Arthur Bergo went up in a bombing plane and, coached by lieutenant M. L. Elliott, parachute officer, performed four delayed parachute jumps. Each man, on the first jump, fell 1,000 feet before opening his parachute, while Sergeant Bose dropped 800 feet on his second leap.

Both said that, though they were falling with terrific velocity when they opened their parachutes, they were fully conscious. Officers in charge of the test said they demonstrated that a man falling from a high building is conscious until the moment he strikes the ground. Chicago, March 22. Attorneys for William D. Shepherd, under indictment for the murder by typhoid inoculation of William Nelson his "millionaire orphan" ward, were busy today gathering evidenca to present to Justice Jacob Hopkins, in criminal court tomorrow in a renewed hearing to obtain the release of Shepherd on bail.

Tho hearing was continued Saturday, midway In an attempt by William Scott Stewart, attorney in charge of Shepheid's defense, to impeach testimony of Charles C. Faiman, head of the National University of Sciences, on which the indictment of Shepherd chiefly rests. 1 Attorney Stewart said tonight that he will presont to Judge Hopkins tomorrow several precedents for his demand that he be allowed to examine Faiman, whose confession jointly implicated himself and Shepherd, "as to whether Faiman's confession was obtained through promises, threats or violence." The coroner's inquest into the death of young McClintock will also be resumed tomorrow. every American pioneer. The census of 1520 attributes to (he cotton states a proportion of the entire national wealth equal to the proportion they held in 1850, before the Civil War, and greater than any they have held since that year.

The year that, marks thus the South's resumption of its earlier economic importance In the nation will, beyond a doubt, be succeeded in rapid order by years which will bring to it a far greater proportion of importance. For with all of Its titanic growth the south is still, in many respects, undeveloped. It is still in gigantic While Maddock Syndicate Will Replace Burned Palm Beach, is Report Five Injured Seriously as Four Speeding Coaches Are Telescoped Expect More Bodies Will Swell Death List of Illinois Disaster But Blankets Hung To Hide Flame Foil Scheme By Excluding Air On the spot which has for 30 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BY TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS New Orleans, March 22. Thirteen Chicagot March 22. Looking up ward and onward, the survivors of measure the of opportunity and promise.

There is available in Cryptically pointing the way, a black arrow painted on the door jamb last night led to the scene of a plot by either thieves or Are bugs to set Are to the Kennedy apartments. The mysterious effort was frustrated by the work of L. V. Mc- the tornado districts of southern yfnhern states, for example, 50 per Illinois ani southeastern Indiana cent more water power than Is re SEEK BABY CARRIAGE FIRE BUGS AS 5 DIE stood shoulder to shoulder today and years been famous as the site of one of the foremost resort hotels In tho world, a new Breakers hotel is to bo erected. Where the low, rambling wooden structure flaunting the well known Flagler yellow color has faced the ocean for season after season, holding high place in the affections of wealthy pleasure seekers, a magnificent, fireproof building designed In accordance with "the prevailing type persons lost their lives in a wreck early today when two fast mail trains of the Southern Pacific railroad collided dining a fog at Ricohoc, between Franklin and Patterson.

Four of the dead were white men, the others negro passengers. Five were seriously injured. The dead Frank Stafford, of Port Arthur, Texas, "news butcher;" E. K. Conery of New Orleans, veteran prayed' for courage to be strong.

Memorial services for the more than 800 dead in the stricken sections Ninch and Robert Perry, who are staying at the apartments, when they hurst open the door of room No. 3 on the west side of the second floor and extinguished a smouldering quired today for all existing southern water power usages. North Carolina is manufacturing more furniture than any state in the Union with the single exception of Michigan, and yet there remain in that state and other southern states millions of feet of virgin timbers untouched. South Carolina has the largest single textile mills in America and yet the vast textile hidustry of the country Is still, in great part, conducted outside the southern states here it be-1 engineer on No. 100; Frank Nebily, Think Pyromanic Started Fatal Tenement Flame And Other Blazes blaze of kerosene-soaked tags in a corner of the room.

It was on the door of this room that the black fireman on No. 109; August Aupast, 'Whipping Boss' With 5 Others Must Answer Charge Of Slaying Negro baggage master of No. 12; nine ne arrow was found. gro passengers wno nave not been identified. It was about 8 o'clock last night when McNipch and Perrv, on going The seriously injured: A.

J. Thibo- Beaches Men Acquire 9,120 mnos nnn vnpn i vein iui u.v i flreman; Frank Mathews, en to their rooms on the second floor of the building, smelled a faint odor i OHUX. of five states marked the first Sunday since tho fury of the elements laid waste a 500 stretch of territory last Wednesday. Ministers and members of all churches joined in a memorial service this afternoon in the public square at Murphysboro, where the storm had wrought greatest havoc. Here, the survivors raised their eyes and their voices to the Almighty praying for strength to aid the weak," the injured, tho widowed, the orphaned and the homeless.

Grateful to God that many had been spared and appreciative of a nation's generously outpoured relief, under the uky of a bright spring Sunday, the worshippers pledged anew their tuith in Providence, in themselves and in their communities. They resolved to build firmly anew. Face 4 Months' Rebuilding. of smoke. Alarmed, they quickly Acres On Kissimmee For $2,000,000 investigated all of the rooms on the UUIIie IIVJ wesiue lilt: luiiuu iitiu.i on which it subsists.

On the border lines between Alabama and Tennessee lio mineral resources surpassing those of any other region, coal enough to supply the South for a thousand years, self- south side, and then dashed to the west side where the odor was very BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Cross City, March 22. The special term of Pixie county circuit court, convened on March 12, will reconvene here Monday to begin the trials of five white men and one negro on charges of first degree murder in connection with the death Oc much more perceptible. They enter BY THE ASSOCIATED PlIEaS New York, March 22. Five persons, including two women and two children, lost their lives early today in a fire that destroyed an East Forty-Seventh street tenement house occupied by 11 families. Four persons were injured.

Fire department officials said the blaze was started by a pyromaniac, who set tire to a baby carriuge in the ground hallway. Ten minutes after the outbreak of of architecture." is to stand as a monument to modern Palm Beach. This announcement, made last night by H. E. ISemis, vice president of the Florida East Coast Hotel company and manager of the Royal Poinciana, following a two-day' conference with trustees of the Flagler estate, was the first authoritative information that the hotel company officials intended to act as everyone was expecting them to do after the destruction of the Breakers by fire on Wednesday.

William H. Kenan of Lockport, N. and L. C. Haines, of New York city, trustees of the Flagler estate, had been in conference with Mr.

Bcmis and Scott W. Loftin of Jacksonville, director and general counsel of the company, since Saturday morning, and the result of their con-sulatlon had been the object of much interest and conjecture. As Fine As Can Be Built Mr. liemis, in his brief announce. ed room No.

3 where they soon extinguished the small blaze with buckets of water. gineer; three unidentified negro passengers. riding on the train were shaken up. The official report said Engineer Mathews of the east bound San Antonio express came through the fog and passed the switch at Ricohoc, where he was scheduled to have put in for the west bound mail. About 900 feet past the switch the two trains came together.

The baggage car and the front passenger coach of the east bound train telescoped. The negroes occupied the coach. The tender and bag The plot was well laid, The bed coverings and piles of rags had been tober 19, 1921, of Lewis Barker, a negro clothing salesman. Indictments against the defendants were returned by a special grand jury which returned its presentments to Judge Mallory F. Home on Saturday, March 14.

Those named in the Four monihs of rehabilitation work, it has been estimated, face the fluxing iron ore in more prodigal supply than even Michigan secretes, magnesium which can be found nowhere else in America, bauxite enough to make all the aluminum and kitchen utensils the nation can use in a hundred years, and water-power rivalling that of North Carolina all awaiting the magic touch that will bring them to full industrial capacity and life. in Florida lies the epitome and climax of all which the whole South promises. Ktsrnal summers and survivors of the worst storm this saturated with kerosene, while papers had been scattered over the floor and hung on the walls. Blankets had been hung over both of the windows to exclude all light of the flames from the outside. In this, however, the perpetrators overreached themselves.

The blankets cut off all the air as well as the gage coach of the other also tele- Continued on page country ever experienced. Four days have passed since the tornado broke, yet the Red Cross has an emergency relief unit in every Continued on page 3 Continued on Page 3. eternal sun, "breadths of tropic BV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Okeechobee, March 22. The purchase of 9,120 acres of land for a consideration of approximately by H. K.

Ilusten and F. H. Orcutt of Alpena. and Palm Beach, associated with J. A.

Hoover of Fort Worth, Texas, and W. P. Montgomery of Toledo, Ohio, and Miami, was completed here last night. The land was purchased from G. Shannon of West I'alm Reach and consists of a strip of land beginning two miles west of Okeechobee City and extending eight miles west along State Road No.

8 to the Kissimmee river and the Harding Memorial Bridge. property adjoins ine south boundary' of the- rand 'purchased by Percy Rockefeller, cf New York, and associates, last Friday, for $1,500,000. It is east of the development at Harding City, being made by Glenn Curtiss and S. IT. Bright, of Miami.

Mr. Monvgomery said the syndicate would be incorporated as Okeechobee Estates with offices here and at West Palm Beach and Miami. Three thousand one hundred and twenty-acres of the land will be improved shade and palms in cluster, knots of acres fabulous in fertility Continued on Pago 3. STAGE SET FOR LAST balm and breeze, air that stirs and soothes, lakes that lap their limpid Hater along rare prolific shores. OF roaclr, and rails that bring sleepln lands to Iifr, riotous colors and ra card for mm ING SLAYING Ti il iant scapes.

The South has arrived, and the this fire, another one was discovered in a tenement a block away. It likewise had been started under the stairs on the ground floor. Resident of the neighborhood were thrown Into such excitement that police reserves were called out to keep order. The police redoubled their efforts to find the "baby carriage" pyromaniac believed responsible for these and several other recent fires, including three yesterday in the same neighborhood. The facilities today were: SWH.

tt.iithei.ijie Walsh, i her 1 c-months-old son, Joseph Mr Margaret Otto, and her eighT-year- old daughter, Blanche, ami Thomas Carey. The body of Mrs. Walsh, with her baby clasped in her arms, was found near a fourth floor rear window through which she was attempting to follow her husband. Patrick, when her escape was cut off by Hie flames. Her husband was badly burned.

The bodies of the three other victims were found in a bath room on the fourth floor, where they had taken refuge and been suffocated. Several daring rescues were made by firemen and policemen. Today's fire was (ne of seven ap indictments were Thomas W. Hig-ginbotham, former lumber camp "whipping boss," D. A.

Parker, E. G. Priest. W. G.

McRune and John II. Winburn, white men, and Charlie Hart, a negro. They were charged with beating and mistreating Barker and later shooting him to death. What was left of the body, supposed to have been that of the missing negro, was found in a pile of ashes near here last December. Judge Home, prior to taking a week's recess following the indictments, announced that on next Monday he would order Sheriff Sam Cha-vous to summon 150 veniremen from which an attempt will be made to obtain a jury to try the first case presented by the state, J.

R. Kelly, the state's attorney, has announced that he would ask1 for a severance and try each of the defendants individually. Both state and defense have been working during the last week in preparation for the trials and it was thought that although hard fights irld stands at gaze like Joshua's Crack Train Ploughs Through Two Baggage Cars In Rear-End Crash at Ajalon. And over and all the material achievements and promises there lives the great spirit of the southern people, a spirit Saves Life By Whisking Girl Away On Door She Was Opening. Georgians Will Tell Court Ciroumstances of Grave Under Dwelling Final Argument on Lease Of Government Oil To Be Heard Today that will not forget the romance for at once at an expense of $750,000, with paved streets, lights and waterworks, 'it vv.rs announced.

Bus service will be inaugurated for home- BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Murphysboro, 111., March 22. A calling card picked up in Murphysboro by Wednesday's twister was IY THE ASSOCIATED TRKSS Chatt. March 22. Answering an indictment charging murder, H. Bennett, of Rome, Ga BY THE ASSOCIATED rRESS Cheyenne, March 22.

With all preparations made and the stage set for the last act in the Teapot Dome drama, attorneys for both 'the seckers, it was said. and his wife, Mrs. Mae Bennett, go carried to Palestine, 111., 210 miles distant. on trial in crimnial court here to SAYS FARMER WANTS RIGHTS, NOT 'MONKEYING' government and the Mammoth Oil the real estate or sell the mighty truths of their spiritual past to serve their industrial and commercial hour. The southern people are greater than all of their prosperity.

They ire still the people who held high their splendid standards while, for 50 years aft u- the Civil War. the four dread horsemen of their Apocalypse rode through their land. They are to be corrupted by prosperity no norc than 'hey were driven to disaster. They ere mobilized today to show the world that they can re-nain brave and beautiful as they grow big, fair and faithful as they jecome financially famous. Hymn well, then, the great South triumphant alike over privation and prosperity, eternal captain of its undying soul! Traveling 60 miles an hour through a blinding rain storm in on effort to make up lost time, the Floridan, crack Illinois Central train, Chicago to Miami, crashed into the rear end of No.

37, Florida East Coast local passenger 'rain, at Camden, 12 miles north of here yesterday morning at 7:15 o'clock. K. T. Cauthorne of Miami, engineer of the Floridan, sustained severe injuries when he leaped from his cab into a pile of cross ties. Two baggage cars, attached to the rear end of No.

37 were converted into virtual fragments when the engine ploughed through them. The fireman leaped to safety and wax uninjured. There was no one in the two "dead-head" baggage cars. According to a member of the crew. will be made by both sides little time would be lost In disposing of the cases.

The defendants have remained in jail pending the calling of their cases, the state declining to agree to their release under bond. parently incendiary blazes within a period' of 21 hours, according to police records. Police'' tonight were searching for a man, who, narlied in the while uni form of a Inker, turned in the alarm for the Fast Forty-seventh street blaze disappeared. HOPE FOR LIVES OF TWO IN MINE SPURS RESCUE morrow. The Bennett's, long prominent in Tennessee and Geargio, are charged with being responsible for the death of Bennett's aunt, Miss Augusta Hoffman, who lived in their home in Chattanooga a decade ago.

The indictment was returned last September, after Mr. and Mrs. Bennett had beeri held under joint bond of $7,500 following a preliminary hearing in July. Mr. and Mrs.

Bennett and their four children came to Chattanooga from Knoxvllie in the winter of 1022 and rented a house in a fashionable residential section. Later Miss Hoffman came to make her home with them, Mrs. Anna Bennett, mother of Bennett, anil sister of Miss Hoffman, The Rev. H. W.

Abbott, pastor of the new First Baptist church which was destroyed by the storm, was the owner of the card. On a bookcase in his study in the parsonage adjoining the church, were 500 calling cards. The tornado sucked up the cards along with houses, telephone poles, trees and other loose things. Yesterday he received a telephone call from a man at Palestine whom he did not know, and who said that one the cards had been found there. A check for $800 to apply on the new church and which was lying under the calling cards was found on the parsonage front porch.

In the Baptist church when it was destroyed the funeral service for the' wife of Dr. F. C. Hiller, of Thebes, HAYS STARTS "OPEN D00.T' FOR MOVIES BT THE ASSOCIATED Pnr.SS BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington, March 22. An equal opportunity with other businesses, not a "constant monkeying" with his own by the government, is held by Secretary Jurdine to be the chief desire of the American farmer.

The sound "farmer-business man." he declared in an interview to be published In the next issue of The Nation's Business, organ of the United States chamber of commerce, instead of seeking legislation to fix-prices and regulate details, wants only legislation that will assist him in "getting reasonable credit on sound security" and in developing machinery for marketing his prod MAN AND WIFE DROWN AS AUTO LEAVES BRIDGE company rested today. Final arguments will be presented before Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy beginning tomorrow. Atlee Pomerene, of government counsel, is expected to make the first statement to the court. Mr.

Pomerene's argument 'will not be in written form, ho said, and will take about two hours. The defense then will have its inning with J. W. I.acey, veteran Cheyenne lawyer, arguing the technical points of the case. Mr.

Lncey's argument likewise will be from notes, he said. This argument probably will be the longest of any to he made, since Mr. l.accy asked the court to set no limit on it. (ieoi'ge P. Hoover, also of counsel for the Mammoth Oil company, and E.

H. Chandler, representat ing the co-defendants, the Sinclair Crude Oil purchasing company and the Sinclair Pipe ine company, also will make a brief statement. The argument of Martin W. Littleton of defense counsel has been set for the last of the Faiimu, W. vk.

March 22. Spurred to greater effort by the belief that possibly two of the 33 miners entombed in the Rarrackville mine of the Bethlehem Mines corporation by an explosion last Tuesday night might still be alive, rescue crown tonight were redoubling their efforts. vo. southbound, had either or was hackincr un few feet south nf the station nt Crmton and the flnirmnn wns hint starting bn-k to npnronnhinp. trains.

F'irirtnn rounded 'urvo nt Kncd ahd and cnl-with tho.lneal. None of the Wt the track, but the -ore shaken up somewhat. The v.ns blocked for several New York, March 22. Establishment of an "open door" department in tlie motion picture industry through which the house is Invited to enter with suggestions and criticism, was announced here today bv was also a member of the family. Mrs.

Bennett since has died. Find Biines I nder House The house was occupied by the ucts successfully, and that will "put him on a par with other business men." "ours wli'lo the vrpniM was being; held. A few minutes after the crash Dr. Hiller sent His son after surgical instruments and started giving medical aid to the injured, leaving the body of his wife beneath the ruins of his church. it was recovered the following One little girl leaving one of the removed.

Tt is believed that the orrential downpour of '-Tin nrovent- Bennets until June, 1917, when Bennett, who held a responsible position with a railway system, was transferred to Rome. Miss Hoffman, during her stay in Chattanooga, was employed in Will H. Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers' and Distributors' of America. Jason II. Joy will direct the new department, ilic headquarters of which will be in New York city.

Mr. Hays explained that it was decided to establish the department after the executive conimitee of the BY THE ASSOCIATED PltESS Forest City. March 22. A Plan and a. woman, believed to be Mr.

and Mrs. John Otto Schwarz, of 5710 Winthrop avenue. Chicago, were drowned near here today when the automobile they were driving plunged off a bridge into 12 feel of wat nr. Their bodies were recovered. ntiflcation was established by papers found on the bodies.

Mr. and Mrs. Schwarz. it is believed, had been wintering in Brownsville, Texas, and were en route to Chicago when on crossing the wooden bridge Mr. Schwarz is believed to have lost of the automobile.

ed the enrineer of the VWirinn GIRL WHO SLEW MOTHER FOR JAZZ GOES ON TRIAL either seeing the siernnl nt the station, or the local until too late to Continued on page 3 defense statements. The government overt the crash. Tt is no known whv he loral nn1 stopped at Camden un will close with argument of Owen J. Roberts. less to pick un orders, ns It was i-ui'iilmr about two hours late Continued on Pago 3.

BELIEVE SEABOARD PLANS FT. MEYERS EXTENSION Kneineer Cnuthnrne was taken to While sommlne officials fear that all who were in the mine at the time of the explosion are dead, there are others who have been laboring constantly in the rescue work who still hold to the bclier that at least two survivors will be found. The more optimistic ones point out that T. R. Dehart, an experienced miner, and a helper, were working to a remote passage, way when the blast occurred and it is these, two who, It is said, may yet survive.

Four more bodies were taken from the mine tonight, and when rescue workers came to the surface they were of the opinion that the mine would be cleared of all its dead by early morning. In all, 15 bodies were brought out today. They were found in a new working off the main west end butt. One of the bodies was that, of Harry Marston, night foreman. It was crushed badly.

the Cood Samaritan suffer CALL U. S. MEN 'MINERS" Washington, March 22. Kurt her evidence to support the charge that American are a race of "Jiners" was given in the report today of the census bureau of a survey of manufac ing from a fractured arm. dislonntert shoulder, several bones broken in bi.

producers and distributors organization hod adopted the suggestion of Its committee on public relations. The "open door" in the industry means more than an invitation to the public to patronize the productions of the Industry, said Mr. Hays. "We invite the he continued, "lo come in and tell us where and why we are not if we are not-measuring up to our job of making the motion picture Industry the force it. should be In promoting the best RAIL STOCK HOLDERS APPROVE BIG MERGER THE WEATHER BY THE ASSOCIATED CRESS San Francisco.

March 22. Dorothy KllingNon, 18, who shot and killed her mother, Mrs. Anna Filing-son, on January 13, will go on trial tomorrow on a charge of murder. Mrs. KMingson was shot down In a bedroom of her home after she had denied her daughter permission to go to a "jazz party." Despite the mur.

dor, the girl attended the and was arrested In a lodging bjuse on January 15. In statements to the police the girl -'Hit hand find numerous minor bruises. BV THE ASSOCIATED TIIESS Fort Meyers, March 22. S. Davies Warftold, president of the Seaboard Air Line railway company, is expected to return to this city next week, it is announced here, for the purpose of selecting a site for ui ie.nftnn i WKATHKR.

Florida Unsettled Monday and Tuesday; probably showers in extreme north portion; moderate east and southeast winds. turers or emblems and signia. The 8-1 establishments engaged In the Industry had a gros output In 1023 valued at $10,500,000. POSTPONE HIGHWAY MEET A meeting of Jacksonville business men, headed by Mayor John T. American ideals.

We Invite sugges dmitted that her love for night life CUTS THROAT IN WRECK Greensboro. N. C. March 22. John F.

Mann. 28, of Burlinirton. died within a few minutes after he had been thrown Into the windshield of h's brother's car which was wrecked one mile west of ft'hsonvilto. enrlv tonight. His throat as cut when he was hurled through the glass of the wlndsheild.

to build for the Seaboard Ai LirJrj. had led up to the killing. She named tions, helpful criticisms, constructive thought and every sort of viewpoint that will aid us in bringing the motion picture up to bo the outstand Alsop, scheduled to be held next Wednesday morning on behalf of the extension ro if on Meyers. Application is to be made to the interstate commerce commission within a short time, It is understood, for permission to extend the railroad ARREST MAN IN PROBE OF MINE DISASTER WINDS. Caribbean Sea and' Windward Passages Moderate east and weath er fair Monday.

Sandy Hook to Hatteras Fresh northwest and north and weather partly overcast Monday. Hatteras to Florida Straits Mod. erate northeast and east and weather fair Monday. Atlantic coastal highway, has been postponed until a date early In April, BY THE ASSOCIATED TRUSS New York, March 22. The present enormous earnings of the Chesapeake and Ohio and HocTdng Valley railways will be offset by those of weaker roads if the Van Sweringens' proposed "Nickel Plate" merger Is effected, according to a Chesapeake and Ohio stockholders' protective committee, headed by G.

C. Scott, of Richmond, which is opposing the lease of the road to the new-system. The committee" asserts that Chesapeake and Ohio dissenting stockholders do not receive as favorable treatment as those of the Erie and other constituent roads, although they should be entitled to it on the basis of the stronger earning positions. a number of youths, some of them players in the orchestra at a cafe, as her companions, and they were questioned by the police. Three of them were arrested for cor ti ibuting to her delinquency, but we-e released later.

No death penalty can be asked for the girl, as the ex. cution of persons under 18 years of age in California is forbidden by law. according to word received by the chamber of commerce. ing public influence that everyone wants it to be." The invitation, he said, would be extended to organizations as well as Individuals. "We are striving to make the most of the Industry's possibilities as an educator and an interpreter of America as It really is as well as the nations' principal entertainment." Mr.

I Hays went on. "We. want to benefit I $50,000 SUIT STARTS What promises to be one of the most contested damage suits ever filed In the county Is scheduled for hearing this morning before Judge C. ChilHngworth. when J.

Tarvis on behalf of Harriett J. Tar-vis, a minor child, will commence damage suit against a Lake Worth physician. The basis of the sifil Is found in th charges that the child's arm has been Injni ed by. not being set properly. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jacksonville, March 22.

The maximum and minimum temperatures In representative cities, furnished by the weather bureau from records compiled at 8 p. follows; MUNICIPAL BAND PROGRAM WKST II MUNICIPAL HANI) KVKItKTT AUVX MONKS, M. ('OMini'lHi Monday 23 PART I. 1. March, "Thunder and Blazes" Fairmont, W.

March 22. Charles C. Groves, a miner, was arrested today at Norton, W. by state police for investigation in connection with the explosion in the Bethlehem Mines Corporation's last Tuesday. Major Pat O'Connor superintendent of the police, sal dhc was a former employe of the corporation.

Three other men uro under arrest here also for investigation. Thirty-three men were caught in the mine at the time of the explosion. The bodies of 2S have been recoverd. MOVIE PAIR ENGAGED BY TUB ASSOCIATED PIIESS I ljlollywood', March 22. John Bowers und Marguerite de la M.ii'e.

both or the Itlins, admitted on their arrival here today from New York that they are engaged to be married but said they hud not. yet set the wedding date. of what the public thinks we could do to make belter use of our opportunity. We realize that wide public co-operation along that line is of the greatest benefit to the Mill. G8 FIRE IN ROTOGRAVURE An eight-page Rotogravure section featuring the great I'alm Beach fire will be issued by The Post April 5.

P.y arrangement with Mr. Foley of the I'oinciana Studi.i, excellent Photographs which he obtained exclusively, will be reproduced. The rapidly increasing circulation of The Post will doubtless absorb the greater part of the output of this magnificent section. Subscribers to The Post of course will'be guaranteed a copy of this wonderful souvenir. In order that you may be assured of receiving a copy of (his Rotogravure feature, you should be a regular subscriber to The Post.

Subscriptions for three months, six months nnd a 'year will be received. Place your ordors wjin the Circulation Department at once. TREASURER DIES BY Tim ASSOCIATF.I) PUCSS Atlantic City, March 21. Henry E. Hucklin, 73, treasurer of the Canadian Pacific railraod.

is dead at the Seaside hotel. Death was caused by lyjieumonia, contracted two days ago. Furik 2. Overture, "Isabella" Suppe 3. Vocal solo, "Love, Here is My Heart" Silesu Kvelyn Curtis 4.

Waltz, "Espunita" (Spanish) Flosey 5. Southern thapsody Hosmer PART II. Slal ions Atlantic City Atlanta Boston Buffalo Chicago Cincinnati Des Moines Fustport Kansas City New York Pittsburgh St. Louis ToiVlo Washington 72 60 32 42 54 60 44 68 r.6 48 60 46 B6 f.0 40 28 36 34 42 12 II 30 4S FASCISM MARKS 5TH YEAR BY THE ASSOCIATKD MESS Rome, March 22. The sixth birthday of fascism was celebrated today by a great mass meeting and a parade of more than 20.000 Mack shirts through the Corso Umberlo.

The big moment was when Premier Mussolini made his first public appearance since the beginning of his illness and delivered a short address to REWARD FOR CAR CUBA MINISTER IS LOSEh Jacksonvillc, March 22. Dr. Hector de Seavadra, a Cuban minister, reported to the police here late today that he had lost a pocketbook containing a letter of credit for $5,000 on the Hunk of Canada, $170 in cash and other val tables, on his arrival here from West. He no Id the pocketbook 1. been lost either on a train or ii the terminal station her.

reward of $25 has been offered fi. "Ballet Coppeliu" 7. Scenes from "Robin Delibes Hood" REWARD FOR JANIS GEMS New York, March 22. A reward of $1,000 for the return of jewels said to be worth $15,000, the property of Elsie Janis, actress, was offered by her mother Mrs. Josephine Janis, here tonight.

Mrs. Janis said the jewels were taken from Miss Janis' theatre dressing room two weeks ago. They inrltt.M earrings, a necklace, und a pen xnt. by Jnke Wilson for the recovery of TWO FALL FROM PLANE BV TUB ASSOCIATED ritESS Aidmorc, March 22. S.

Bennett, oil man. was fatally injured, and William Kcohn, newspaper man and oil writer, was painfully bruised and lacerated when their airplane fell at Sprinper. near here, early today. Bennett died at a hospital here this afternoon. IleKoven "Semlrinldr." 8.

Xylophone solo, Rossini Ms Ford touring car, which, he re. ported to police, was stolen from Sapodilla street, hear the city schools. It bears state license ta.No. C-68910 motor No. 10674730.

Mclvln Merager the wildly enthusiastic crowd esti- TIDES TODATv High, 8:01 low, I. it p. a. 9. "Star Spangled Banner" Key mated at 30,000..