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PALM BEACH POST I THE WEATHER The Spirit of Voit Palm Beach J-Or-ERATION Partly cloudy Thursday and JLJOl Friday. VOL. XIII. Associated Press Leased Wire West Palm Beach, Florida, Thursday Morning, Oct. 27, 1921 Single Copy Five Cents nmn till 1ST DiAST JiiSillTS IFii OUT LAKE FRONT FILL AND BOULEVARD AT SOUTH BRIDGE HARDING URGES NATION TO SOLVE RACE PROBLEM Damage to West Coast Cities Mounts Into Millions of Dollars STORM IN CALIFORNIA.

(lly AkhimIhIimI Press) Sacramento. Uct. 26. Many houses were unroofed, windows were broken and other damage, as yet uiicsthnated, was done by a strong wind approaching the strength of a tornado which swept through the southern and eastern part of Sacramento today. The wind tore a path approximately three-quarters of a mile through the district.

A torrential rain fell after the wind storm and flooded streets and gutters. Tampa Suffers Greatest Damage, Sunset Beach Completed Destroyed, Five Hundred Houses Wrecked in Ybor City Petersburg Water Front Completely destroyed, City in Darkness for Three Days Pass-a-Grille Wiped Out DEAD FROM STORM (By Associated Press.) Tampa, Oct. 26. The known dead of Tampa are: Jimmie Jurrno, killed by live wire Tuesday. Mrs.

D. Wilder, drowned today. Louis Voire, drowned Tuesday. At. St.

Petersburg were two known deaths. F. C. Wolfe was crushed when a roof caved in on him, J. W.

McLean died of excitement while closing the win Repeal Excess Profits Tax Certain Jan. 1 (By Agsueluted Press) Washington, Oct. 26. Repeal the excess profits taxes as of nexi January 1, was made certain today with Hie adoption by the senate without a record vole ot a provision in the tax revision bill providing onlj for its collection this year. The provision adopted is a substitute for the excess profits section of the existing law.

Before accepting the original pro vision in the bill, the senate voted down, -12 to 31. an amendment by Senator Keed, proposing that foi 1121 and therealtcr the excess profits taxes be 20 per cent, on the net income of 'corporations, between 15 per cent, and SO per cent, of the invested capital and -JO per cent, or the net income in excess of 50 per cent. Six Republicans joined with tin solid Democratic minority in supporting this amendment. The senate also voted down, 42 to .13, another amendment by Senator Keed, proposing that the excess profits tax be 20 per cent, of the net income in excess of 50 per cent ot Hie invested capital. Kigbt Republicans supported this amendment and one Democrat, Glass, opposed it Having disposed of the excess profits section, the senate proceeded to consideration of the corporation income tax section under a unanimous consent agreement that would dispose of on the calendai day tomorrow all amendments tc, this section except that offered by Senator Walsh, Democrat.

Mass.v chuselts, proposing in lieu of the 12 per cent, income tax on corporation? recommended by the finance coni-miitteo, a graduated tax, as follows Twelve and one-half per cent, on the net income up to 15 per cent, on the net income between and $300,000 20 per cent between $300,000 and anil 25 per rent, on the amount in excess of $500,000. A committee amendment, limiting after next January the $2,000 exemption now allowed corporations having net incomes of $25,000 oi AsHocluted Pri'StO Lakeland, Oct. 2G. South Florida spent today hi recapitulating the damage estimated to run well into millions of dollars caused by the gulf hurricane which tore northeastwardly across Florida's peninsula yesterday. At times attaining a velocity of 70 miles an hour, tha gale wrought destruction to smaller obstacles in its path, but only in a few instances, according to reports causing a loss of life.

While there have been only three or four isolated cases of deaths from the storm it is feared the clearing away of the debris in Tampa's wrecked portions might add to the list. Of the cities and towns within a radius of forty miles of Lakeland that could be reached by automobile today, Tampa appears to have suffered the greatest damage. The Bay Shore Drive residential section from Franklin street to Port Tampa is a panorama of destruction. Trees are down, houses with roofs torn away and foundations weakened from the tidal wave that swept in over the seawall from Tampa Hay have collapsed and logs and other debris swept in on the onrushing waters crest now grace what were once the beautiful lawns of the Hyde Park section, one of Tampa's most fashionable suburbs. Along the water front large sections iP fVirt iwii'm itft ttf rwl ivi i ti if cf tvw tl iit wi Ul LIU- i1vllIl tttlt.

Otrv-f'v lJ MllVi Jllll Sl tnivi.lt- 1 washed into the bay. Houses immediately adjoining the boulevard were crushed in by the gale without apparent resistance." Sunset Peach, a popular resort of Tampa, was completely destroyed. Small houses were torn down and washed away and the white sands of the beach now show no vestige of ever having been inhabited. less, was adopted without objection or a record vote. As a result of the unanimous con sent agreement the Republicans held in abeyance their plan to force a Continuous session and the.

senate adjourned at 5:30 p. m. until 11 a in. tomorrow. AVIATORS KILLED (By AHBoriuted Press) Honolulu, Vt.

Ul-ric Bouquet, of Brooklyn, N. and Staff Sergeant Vernon K. Vickcrs, of Montgomery, were killed when their airplane crashed in flames while they were attempting to join a flight formation at a 2,000 foot altitude. BRIAND VINDICATED. Illy AHsnrhili'tl Prt'Hs) Paris, Oct.

2o. The policies of the cabinet of Premier Briaud were sustained by the chamber of deputies tonight when a vote of confidence resulted in 381 voles in favor of the government and 12b against it. Agreed Upon by City and Officials of County; BRIDGE PLANS TO BE REVISED Boulevard from Ben-. ton Street to Okeechobee Road City and county officials and representatives of tlic contractors and engineers for the new Koyal Palm Bridge, at a conference yesterday "morning, reached an agreement wlierehy it is to be made possible for the city to make the till and lake drive around Phillips Point from Benton street to Ukeechobee foad. This lias been held up since the county had already received a permit from the federal government to make the necessary fill for the west end of the bridge, and the change will necessitate an amended permit and revised plans and contract on the bridue work.

As a result of the conference the bridge engineers, Harrington, Howard and Nash, were instructed tc revise, the bridge plans, allowing for a 230-foot fill and the contractors will change, their estimate to conform with ibis chaotic, which will cut that amount off the western approach to the bridge. tf the nroiiosal of the contractors the Heckler Company, on this new basis, is acceptable, to the conn tv. an amended permit will be re quested and the city will be able to forward its application nr permission to inakc the fill and build the seawall. liesides representatives the en uineers and tuuli actors at the meet ing were members of the city com mission, the city manager ami county Engineer K'y Goodman. Gen.

Julian S. Carr Heads Confederates (lly Anaueliiti'U Vtvm) Chattanooga, Oct. 2b. General Julian S. Carr, of Durham N.

was elected commander-in-chief of the United Confederate Veterans to succeed K. M. Vanzandt of Texas, and Richmond, was chosen as the. place for the next reunion at the closing session ol the veterans', convention. The annual parade, the big event of the reunion, will he held tomorrow.

Commander Vanzandt delivered a brief valedictory to the veterans. Richmond won the next reunion v. .1. ..1 C.I over ivasnvioc aim phur. Okla.

The reunion went on record with a declaration that these reunions would be continued from year to year so long as there are as many as four veterans left alive and able to travel to the reunion city ami so long as the people of southern cities sec fit to invite them to come. The convention voted to accept an invitation to send representatives to the memorial exercises at I oinl Pleasant, Ohio, in commemoration of the one hundredth auniversay ol the birth of General Grant. Judge hdgar Scurry, of Wichita Falls, was unanimously elected coiu-inandei-in-chiel ol tile Sons of Confederate Veterans at the final business session here today. Judge Scurry succeeds Nathan Forrest, of Atlanta, secretary of Lanier University. Dr.

William Calloway, of Wilmington, N. C. was named commander of. the Army of Northern Virginia. Other officers elected were F.theridge, of Chattanooga, commander of the department of the Army of Tennessee; J.

S. Davenport, of Oklahoma, commander ol the Trans-Mississippi department. Congressman W. D. Upshaw, of Georgia, took charge of the.

meeting for a few minutes and raised funds to help pay the expense of a monument to he erected at Harpers Ferrv, W. in honor of Henry Ward Shepherd, a negro, who was killed at the time of John Brown's raid, and in perpetuation of the memory of other slaves who refused to join Brown's party. NEGROES HOMELESS BY FIRE Illy AflNiM'inifti I'rrsa) Durham, N. Oct. 26.

Ninety-four negroes were 'made homeless early this morning when fire destroyed 22 dwelling houses in Hayti, Durham's negro settlement. The damage was estimated at Local welfare officers have launched a campaign to obtain aid for the negroes, many of whom are in destitute circumstances. COUNTY COURT. Will Jenkins, arrested by County Speed Officer Malphurs was fined $5 by Judge C. E.

Cliilliugworth yesterday afternoon for driving a car without the proper license. Lay Aside Prejudice and Face Future Courageously SOCIAL EQUALITY OUT OF QUESTION Increased Educational Opportunity Urged By AHMivmii'd Tress) Birmingham. Oct. 26 North and South, whites and blacks, were admonished by President Harding here today to put aside old prejudices and pretenses and set the face of the nation courageously toward a constructive and permanent solution of the race problem. In a sweeping presentation of his views, which was received with varying manifestations of emotion by a crowd of several thousand whites and negroes, the president declared social equality between the races must not bo considered a possibility but that the black man must have an increased political, economic and educational opportunity if the American nation is to live true to its principles of democracy.

The address, one of five delivered here by the president during a day's v'sit to the semi-ceu-tenial celebration, was driven home with vigorous gesture and deliberate utterances such as Mr. Harding seldom has employed since he became chief executive. He spoke with a manifest determination to drive his shaft to the heart of tile racial disagreements and to make the pronouncements one of the most plain spoken of his administration. The crowd before whom be ap peared was packed in the inadequate coulines of vvoodrow Wilson Park and man hundreds on the outskirts apparently unable to hear, kept up a hub bub which made his declarations inaudible to all but those close by. Cheering swept the segregated sections allotted to the negroes as liny caught portions of the speech relating to political and economic opportunity.

In the white section there were occasional ripples of applause as the significance of a phrase here and there was realized and pondered by those near the speaker. Jn other parts of the city during 'i dav crowded with events of many varieties, Mr. Harding was received with a succession of intensive de monstrations, for a mile he rode through surging crowds, roaring checrhnj accompanying from start to finish. He was cheered nearly a minute when he appeared speak at a luncheon after the park address, and he received repeated as attired in scholastic cap and g( vn be addressed the students Birmingham-Southern College and then wearing a Masonic apron he laid the corner stone of a new Masonic temple. Throughout the day tin' president insisted that his visit to the heart of the South was wdiolly noii-parilsan and evervwdiere be went he was accompanied by Senator Dunderwood of Alabama, the Democratic leader of the senate.

At a reception late in day at the club he aske I Senator Underwood to stand at his side and shake hands with each of those in line, anil in his luncheon addiess he paid a warm tribute to the statesmanship of the Alabami senator. During the evening he paid a call on Mr. Underwood's mother in the residence section of Bir.ninglniy.. (Ily AmhucIiiUmI Press) Birmingham, Oct. 26.

The right of the American negro to broader political, economic and educational advantages, based on a pride of race, but never on an aspiration for social equality, was championed by President Harding here today in a plainly worded enunciation of bis views on the whole American race problem. i hese are sonic of the principles on which the president appealed to Hie nation to 'lay aside old prejudices and old antagonisms" and give support to a constructive policy of racial relationship: "Politically and economically there need be no occasion for great and permanent differentiation, provided on both sides there be recognition of the absolute divergence in tilings social and racial." "I would say let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote." "I wish that both the tradition of a solidly Democratic South and the tradition of a solidly Republican black race might he broken up." "I would insist upon equal educational opportunity for both." "Men of both races may well stand uncompromisingly against every sug gestion of social equality. Tins is not a question of social equality, but a question of recognizing a fund- Continued on Page Six.) STUART BUILDING PERMITS FOR FIVE i Town Is Constructing 15 Miles of New Sidewalks TAXES REDUCED, DEBT ABOLISHED Many Streets Have Been Widened During Past Summer (Special to The, Post.) Stuart, Oct. 20. -Building permits for the last five months here have amounted to one hundred thousand dollars and this will he greatly increased in the near future.

During approximately the same period of time twelve miles of sidewalks have been laid, and there are three miles more under construction. Several streets have been widened, the property owners giving from ten to fifteen feet off the front of their lots for the purpose. One lot was purchased outright in order to extend a street through to connect with another. In many instances the work was paid for at the lime by the owners of abutting property, and the city advanced the rest, about $0,000, which will be repaid in installments. Under the direction of the mayor and council, who serve without Com peiisauon, mis work lias Ueen un dertaken, and moreover the tax rate-has been lowered two mills.

When they took office there was a town debt of several hundred dollars, which has been cleared off, and this permanent revolving fund of established for improvement work. Members of the council arc Harry Dyer, chairman J. Taylor, T.e-Roy Ricou, Boris Kuril, ami J. N. Dunham.

There is talk of re-electing them in December. The Reverend Bourne, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church, has been assisting at special services in V'ero the past week. His pulpit was filled during his absence by the Reverend Snyder, a minister from Kansas who is spending the winter with his son, 11. L. Snyder, at the Tropical Farms.

Mr. Snyder took for bis theme "Progress," (Continued on Page Eight) ence to the recent audit of the Jacksonville Audit Company is likely to have a disastrous effect on the Florida securities. The St. Louis dispatch containing the article referred to is also enclosed. The letter and copy of the paper is sent you for the purpose of showing you the necessity of decided action being taken from an authoritative source; in fact, we are of the opinion that an emphatic denial by your office of the widespread charges of irregularities ill the affairs of the Lake Worth drainage district, when such denial is based upon a thorough investigation made by you, is the only thing that can counteract the effect of such charges." Governor Hardee's reply was as follows "Tallahassee, Oct, 17.

1921. "Messrs. Blackwcll, Domie.ll Cracken, "West Palm Reach, Fla. "Gentlemen "1 have your favor of the 14th instant with reference to the affairs of the Lake Worth drainage district, have today asked Messrs Mucklow F'ord, of Jacksonville, to undertake an audit of the affairs of till' district and to assist them in such manner as they mav deem ad visable, Messrs. isnam Kannoipn Company, engineers, lacksonvillc ami Mr.

Frank P. Fleinniing, attor-ncy-at-law. "Vours very trulv, "CAREY A. HAKDKF-. "Governor." Two weeks ago Governor Hardee had repudiated the implication contained in a dispatch sent out from Lake Worth that the Jacksonville Audit Company's audit was made with his sanction.

In a letter dated October 4. he wrote to the attorneys for the district: do not know the 'nmlit tl-1 I 1 A. I x.i.i affairs of the district. 1 did not know that the books of the district were being audited until I saw in the press some reference to the report of the ainitt company." DR. HADLEY GUILTY.

(Ily AHNodiitoil I'rcHH) Richmond. Va, Uct. 2b. A ver diet of guilty of murder in the first degree was returned by a jury in Henrico county circuit court here this afternoon in the case of Dr Wilmarth A. Iladley, formerly S.

army surgeon, who was charged with the murder of his wife. Mrs. Sue Kathleen Tinsley Iladley, whose body was found in the Jamus river near here about three years ago. DURHAM, N. SUFFERS FROM WATER SHORTAGE (Ily Anneliiteil Press) Durham, N.

Oct. 26. Manufacturing establishments in this city will be closed down today and will continue closed three days this week as a means of giving relief to Durham's serious water shortage. The manufacturers agreed to the general closing order in a conference with City Manager Rigsby. Mr.

Rigsby has announced that further drastic steps will be taken unless an improvement is shown in the situation. NEW CURFEW LAW SENDS CHILDREN HOME 8 O'CLOCK Kiddies Under Twelve Must Be Off Street When Bell Rings SPOT LIGHTS NOW PERMITTED Parking Ordinance Is Being Revised, by City Manager Curfew at eight o'clock for all1 children under twelve years of age was ordeerd yesterday afternoon by the city commission at an adjourned meeting which convened at the city hall at five o'clock. The curfew ordinance as now amended directs the chief of police, to ring the curfew bell twice every evening, at eight o'clock to warn all children wiio have not passed their twelfth birthday that they must he in the house unless accompanied by parent or guardian or some responsible adult, and again at ten o'clock for young persons between the ages of twelve ami sixteen years. As in the case of the ten o'clock curfew, parents will be held responsible for children out in defiance of the new curfew. This amendment was first recom-incnilcd two weeks ago by tile commission, the opinion being that ten o'clock was too late an hour tor young children to be permitted on tne streets, and the city attorney was requested to draw up Hie change.

It was ordinance day for the commission yesterday and they also passed one permitting the use of spot lights within the city limits provided that ihey are carried at an angle to strike, the street not more than 21! feet in front of the car and well to its right. This change was made to conform with the complaints against the old ruling absolutely forbidding spotlights, many persons complaining that they were necessary at certain dark corners in order to avoid running into pedestrians and persons on bicycles. Hereafter it will be a city as well as a state law that no person under 16 may drive an automobile on the city streets. Unhealthy dogs or cats suspected of an incurable or contagious disease want to watch out for the veterinar ians from now on. If they arc caught running at large they may be im pounded and in case they cannot be restored to health the veterinarian may of them, according to another ordinance voted into effect After prolonged discussion of a traffic ordinance regulating parkiiif on Narcissus, Olive and Poinsettia streets between Banyan and Datura streets, the ordinance was referred to the ciey manager and chief of police for redrafting.

The general proposal is to permit no parking in these blocks for more than 30 minutes between six in the morning and six in the evening, and to allow only a 30 second slop on one side of the street. The new plumbing ordinance which recuilates the plumbing cod and the licensing of plumbers, was taken un again and was still under discussion when a recess was declared until five o'clock this afternoon, i dows of hi home. The entire water front of St. Petersburg was washed away, but as yet it is impossible to de- termine the extent of the damage there. The some 150 residents of Passa Grille were saved, though I the island was damaged to the extent of approximately 000.

I This city's property loss is shared half by the street car, tele phone and telegraph companies. About one-fourth of the damage was borne by roads and bridges. The remainder of the estimated loss is widely scattered among I buildings, principally among the residential section. FINAL ATTEMPT TO END STRIKE BE MADE TODAY Conference to Be Held With Executives of All Parties GOVERNMENT PLANS ACTION Will Not Permit Strike to Interfere With U. S.

Mails By Associated Press. Jefferson, Oct. 26 An order directing the railroads of Missouri ti) make an estimated I reduction of in grain. I grain products and hay rates I based upon this year's crop, was I issued todav bv the state public I service commission. The order I becomes effective November 9.

ti.y Press) Chicago. Oct. govcrnniciil will make us una auemm 10 pre--i u-nt the threatened general railroad strike tomorrow morning at nine. o'clock, when presidents, genera' chairmen and executives' commit tees of the five train service unions meet here at the conference reported to have been arranged at the instigation of the Railroad Labor Board. I ne Labor Board's investigation of the causes of the strike terminated abruptly at tonight when the five union leaders asked permission to make announcements to their men.

Strike Inevitable Chicago, Oct. 2(. F.xecutivcs of the Big Four brotherhoods and the Switchmen's Union of North Amer nfter a day of verbal jockeying ith the United States Railroad La bor Board, declared late today that "no power on earth save a satisfactory settlement" can prevent their men walking out beginning next Sunday morning at 6 o'clock. Their declaration came at the close of a day of fruitless questioning, when Judge R. M.

Barton, chairman of the labor board called each union president in turn and asked him four questions, the third of which was: "If the board shall declare a strike is not justified and should not occur and direct that the employees not strike, will that order be obeyed?" The union chiefs, Warren S. Stone of the engineers, W. G. Lee of the trainmen, L. K.

Sheppard of the conductors, W. S. Carter of the firemen, and T. C. Caslien of the switchmen, declared in turn they had no power to cancel the strike order, expressed the individual opinion that their men would not obey an order from them or the board to remain at work, and reiterated their previous declarations "thai only satisfactory settlement" could avert the walk-out.

Such a settlement, they said would be reconsideration by the labor board its twelve per cent wage reduction order of last July 1, or a movement by the individual railroads to confer with the unions and set aside the board's order. (Continued oa Taee Eight) Audit Affairs Lake Worth Drainage District Orderedby Governor Hardee The downlown section of Tampa was more fortunate than the out- skirts and the suburbs, the damage in the city proper being confined to the breaking of plate glass windows, the tearing awav of awnings and the unroofing of buildings. A ware house, occupied by the Gulf and Southern Steamship Company was destroyed, as was part of the Mai-, lory Line ducks. Here and there throughout the; city are stranded street cars, the victims of the sudden failing of the city's plant. Telephone and i.i.,-irie liidit win danulc ill a tan- mls iviui, 0f an S1.rviee.

C(lsel valivc estimates place the ilK). 000. The storm, traveling north, appeared to concentrate its full force on Ybor City, the Latin quarter of Tampa. Nearly 500 houses were wrecked in that section. In the Palmetto Beach section approximately four square miles of ground was inundated.

Women and children in this section were rescued by a band of forty volunteers and carried to safely in the highlands of the city. All the dwellings in the trlitiO vvitp I'omnlrtclv de- i "i i I 11 i u'i. 1 y- mii'j un.v lioais nrougiii nuo piay weie wi 'out and wreckage gave mute lence of their fate To get back to Ybor City, large sheets of tin roofing were torn from the roofs of business buildings and hurled several hundred feet against houses to break windows. Among the business houses being seriously damaged in this section were the National Biscuit Company, Peninsula Paper Company, C. H.

Moorehouse, Cumberland and Liberty Mill Company, J. (J. Brantley Company, The Consolidated Company, Avery and Owen Company, Lucas Brothers, Jackson Grain Company, Perkins and Sharp and a number of smaller Cuban industries. The anxiety felt for the safety of some students of Southern College at Clearwater beach was relieved this afternoon when messengers reached Tampa stating" that all the students were taken across the bay into Clearwater early Tuesday. Fifty automobiles from Clearwater negotiated the long bridge while the storm was breaking.

The students ami members of the faculty fled with only their immediate possessions. Several of them were taken to Grey Moss Clearwater and it is reported some slight injuries were sustained when that buildiin; later was badly damaged. The last automobile to cross the jridge was barely ahead of (he tearing away of a long span of the bridge, il is STORM GOES TO SEA. toy Assitrlnlcil PrcHH) Washington, Oct. 26.

Tht tropical storm which swept the Florida coast with such disastrous effect yesterday was central tonight about latitude 19 and longitude 75 degrees, the weather bureau announced and was moving slowly eastward. This would put the storm about midway between the South Atlantic coast and Bermuda. In Clearwater the power and ice plant and a theatre were badly damaged, according to reports reaching here, while small boats in the harbor were tossed and twisted about at the mercy of the wind. One party described how automobiles picked up and tinned over. Reliable, communication had not yet been established tonight with Pass-a -Grille, Manatee, Sarasota, Venire.

Br.ideil-town, Palmetto, Terra C'eia, F.l-lingtou Or any of the towns on the Tampa Southern railroad, a branch line of the Seaboard extending from Turkey Creek to Sarasota. rrecs) Jacksonville, Oct. entire waterfront of St. Petersl urg was wiped out by the storm, yesterday, the worst gale the city has ever experienced according to a message received by the Times-Union tonight from Thomas W. Parkins, of St Petersburg, deputy license collector (or Pinellas county, Mr.

Parkins said he had traveled in an automobile from St. Petersburg to Brooksville to send the message. Pass-a-Grille was reported as wiped out he said. His telegram follows: "Came from St. Petersburg to Brooksville in Ford car; only means get wire connections.

This city badly damaged and obse rratiom coming through county that "er cent, citrus fruit gone. "Reports say, a. Pass-a-firille absolutely wiped out. Entire St. Petersburg water front wiped out.

AH previous storms no comparison. Town in total darkness for at least three days." (lly I'resn) Fort Myers. Oct. 16 (Tunta Kassa cable station) The fiercest gale this section has known in several years raged here for .10 hours beginning at midnight, Monday, and attaining a maximum velocity of HX miles an hour. Transmission, service was prostrated while the properly loss for this, Lee county, is expected to total well over a million and a half dollars.

Reports from Sanibell and Cap-tiva Islands were to the rffeet that waler covered the entire islands. Es-(Contintied on Page Five) C. I). Blackwell, of the firm ol Blackwcll, Donnell McCracken yesterday confirmed the report tha'. at the request of his firm as the district attorneys, Governor Carey A.

Hardee had directed Mucklow Ford, certified accountants, of Jacksonville, to make an audit of the affairs of the. Lake Worth drainage Governor Hardee has alsi asked Isham Randolph Company engineers, of Jacksonville, and Frank P. Plemiuilig, attorney, of Jacksonville! to assist the accountants in the audit in any manner the accountants deem advisable. Mucklow Ford are. the firm of accountants wdiosc representatives J.

C. Richard and G. L. Wright are now making 'an audit of the books and records of the city of West Palm Beach. Mr.

Wright said last night that he did not know whether he and Mr. Richard would be assigned to the audit of the Lake Worth district's affairs or whether accountants would he sent from Jack sonville. The information of the governor's action was first disclosed in a letter from Mr. Mucklow to a resident of West Palm Reach, although the governor's action had been taken October 17. Criticism had been made of a former audit of the Lake Worth district's affairs, undertaken recently at the instigation of a minority of taxpayers, on the ground that that audit was not assisted by competent and disinterested engineers, wdiosi opinion, it was said, was necessary to an interpretation of contracts.

Governor Hardee's action was based on a letter sent to him under date of October 14 by Blackwell Donncll McCracken. attorneys for the district, as follows Several (lavs ago we received a letter from Mr. I. T. McCarthy, of Wills Sons McCarthy, which we enclose to you herewith.

This letter explains itself. You will note that Mr. McCarthy quotes from letters he has received from St. Louis parties, and from these, letters it appears that the publicity with refer.