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OFFICIAL FAFXB FO 113 TIE FRT MTEE COVKTT ASH FOBT MTt3 PRESS "Then oly ea Fort Myers and Bluetjr BilUloa people are olf to flsd 4nk" THOMAS A. 1DIBOH. AU tko 5wi "Wall it It MM" 40TH YEAR-NO. 123 PRICE 5 CENTS FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 16, 1924 SIKMHt OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SIX DATS A lVtl SIX DOLLARS A YEAH 7n fnlM 0 0 FKT Sflt 5 mas CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS FQRT MYERS STUDENTS AT SOUTHERN COLLEGE RECEIVE RECOGNITION W. R.

WALLACE AND INVERNESS MAN TO BUILD NEW R. R. ROTES CALL IN NEWSBOY 1 A BODY UPON HURT WHEN HE W. R. Wallace Company, of Fort Myers, have the contract for Parcel No.

2, of the Fort Myers Southern Railroad Company to be built from Fort Myers to the Collier County line, a few miles south of Bonita Springs. Parcel No. 2 Includes several con- Crete culverts and the two bridges, one at Estero and the other spanning the Imperial River at Bonita Springs. Work is to- begin at once and it Is to be finished within eight months; Under the double column heading: "Editorials By Embryonic Journalists of Southern," last Sunday's Tainpa Tribune printed aide oy side excellent articles written by two popular Fort Myers young ladies who are jnaking great progress in their, studies at Southern College, Lakeland. One article is by Miss Thalma Tarrcr, the daughter of and J.

S. Tarrer. The Other is by Miss Lucile Godnian, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.

O. God-man, Miss Tarrer'a article headed "Cultivation of Palm Displays One Among State's Many Charms" follows; CK PIN WIRE IDES INTO no notary Wheel was in action yesterday at the Kote meeting the This pert of the construction of the Franklin Arms Hotel. Travel's Piatt, a t'reasjiewsboy suffered a severe laceration of the neck Monday when he accidentally rode into a barbed wire fence and cut himself necessitating the tuking of several stitches to close the wound. Young Piatt was delivering papers for a friend, on a route ho had formerly carried, and in cutting through (By THALMA TAKHEK) In all the wide realm of the Tropics, where nature is most lavish in the display of her charms, no plant Ora E. Chapin look the chair in the absence of President Al C.

Williuins, and kept the meeting at high speed throughout. The flag address by William Jenkins and the invocation by John Gay struck responsive chords and were heartily applauded. The "Rotary Smile Song was sung Fort Myers Southern -Railroad Company, a subsidiary of the A. C. will cost in the' neighborhood of $100,000.

One Itundred fifty men will be employed on the Job.v D. V. 'Morrison," Inverness, has received the contract, for constructing the rlght-of-woy from Fort Myers to the terminus of the railroad. Mr. Wallace was advised by wire today from Wilmnigton, N.

of tMluals the palm in lending character a vacant lot in which the fence had but recently been erected came upon it. too suddenly to prevent himself be- 11 i t- i ng thrown from his bicycle. Dr. H. Parnell who attended the with great gusto after which the YX 1 WV I I CSy I r- i boy, said that had the cut been the acceptance pf his bid.

His friends slightly deeper it would undoubtedly here, of whom The Press is one, meeting got down to the business of the day. Clinton Bolick reported to the Club on the Citrus Convention at Orlando and stated that it. had devolved into a (Continued on Page 6) hBve proven fatal. heartily congratulate him on his receiving this important contract. Travers is now resting as euaily as could be expected at his home on Anderson avenue.

SHE WOVT APPEAK Juke Ifa men's Widow Kef uses to und distinction to the scene, and nowhere in this country is it possible to cultivate successfully, so extensive a group of varieties as hero in Florida. The palm is one of the lead ing features in the landscape, and certainly the one on which our Northern friends place the most emphasis. It therefore behooves Floridians to ray particular attention to the palms, und to use them as often and to' the best advantage possible. Palms of Florida are divided into three groups Group These palms for street planting and parkways, including Palm, Plumy Cocoanut, Cabbage Palmetto, and California, Fan Palm; Group II, Those for center parking strips in streets, including the Blue Cocoanut, Chinese Fan Palm, and the Silver. Thatcher Palm; Group III, Those lor general, lawn planting, parks, including eth Acro-nionia Totoi, the Sago Palm, and the Leaning Palm.

Without exception, the Royal Palm (Oreodoxia Regia) is the most regal and attractive palm of the tropical garden. The trunk, very straight, gray in color, and swollen at the base, WIN HI ADDRESS BIG uimrrinr iirnr Hrt STEVENSON PROGRAM CONVENTION Testify in Oil Scandal (By Tlie Asaoclated Pre) CHICAGO, April Georgia Hamon Rohrer, widow of Jake' Ham-on, slain Oklahoma politician, served with a subpoena last night to appear before the Senate Oil Committee was quoted as saying she. would not go to Washington under any clrcumstan-' ces. She said any paperB of her bus- band the Committee wanted were probably burned long ago." -a feoud Dcuiuvist 'g'liU ueHl'" have been given any Republican secrets Mr. Hainan was supposed to possess." Mrs.

Rohrer stated. HUUItlMntntf I. S. STUDENTS SEARCH IS MADE FORT MYERS' anal John AV Martin, of Jacksonville minimum candidate for Governor, will address FOLK HEALED TO PLAY BALL a big crowd in front of the court A recent development among diseases and pests of citrus fruits has been Aphids, which curl tfnd stunt the young foliage on orange and tangerine trees, and cause the bloom and house here at 8 p. m.

Friday, in behalf Fl ORMER VETERAN AND of his candidacy. '''(" Mr. Martin, who is gaining ground every day his friends say Jn his pre- DmORROW Ti BY EVANGELIST newly set fruit to drop. They are Primary campaign, speaks at Punta Gorda tomorrow afternoon and at Ar BUREAU CHIEF sometimes called plant lice, and are the same that get on peppers, water melons and other vegetable crops. Hv The Aosorluti'il I'rcsM) CORDOVA, Alaska, April 16.

The airplane "Seattle" in which Major Frederick Martin, commander, left Seward yesterday' morning is the ob The time is 4 o'clock tomorrow. Leaving Tampa, after one of the They are greenish to blackish looking cadia tomorrow night. He will spend all day Friday and Friday night in Fort Myers where' he hat mnay friends. (Continued on Page 3) IS INDICTED The place is the athletic field on Mc most successful revivals ever staged in the peninsular state, during which hugs, and at one stage of their life history have wings and fly. Gregor Boulevard.

The score is ject of search today in the vicinity Well that's what the argument is Ordinarily they are held in con more than conversions recorded and 3,000 ill and infirm were about. Sotihomores and Freshmen of (Hy Th AitttiK-latrt! PrrM) BALTIMORE, April 16. Charles R. trol by their natural enemies so that they do not become very plentiful on citrus, but the average low tempera the High School have challenged the Seniors to play a game of baseball of Kialagvik Bay in northeast at the southwestern tip of Kod-iak Island by the United States destroyers "Corry" and "Hull" and the steamship "Starr." It is believe! it was forced to light on the water of the bay. The three other planes arrived safely at Chignik late yesterday, ac tomorrow afternoon.

Of course, the JOHN W. LANGLEY, CONGRESSMAN, 10 Seniors Jumped at the chance to wipe out last year's defeat. This is an annual event and is al cording to a wireless message receiv-j Fortes former director of the Veterans Bureau was indicted by the Federal grand jury here today at the close of an investigation into the sale of army supplies alleged to be worth three million dollars to the Thomson Kelly Company, lor 600,000. Forbes is charged with conspiracy to defraud the Government. Nathan Thomson, the buyer of the supplies and Charles Oleary, chief of the supply division of the Veterans Bureau at the time the goods were sold also were in-r dieted.

ways put on with a great show of "pep" by students of the several classes. Last years' game looked rosy for the present Seniors until the seventh inning, when things began to BE TRIED ON ed here. The despatches did not explain why tlie "Seattle" was forced down. Major Martin yesterday had trouble in hopping off and was preceded by 'the other fliers by several minutes. win rather suddenly.

Bang! hit and and the present Sopho mores carried away the laurels, 'much to the disappointment and disgust of COVINGTON, April 16. Representative John W. Langley, Republican, of Kentucky, pleaded not guilty in federal court here yesterday to the their confident opponents. The came though not by. any A GRASS means of professional brand, is sure ture prevailing this Spring have favored the hatching of the Aphids, but hindered the hatching of the parasites, hence the Aphids have multiplied, unhampered.

Some growers growers are having difficulty in con-troling" them with dusts and sprays. At the Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Florida State Horticultural Society, which will be held in Tainpa, from April 22nd to 25th, inclusive, G-eorge F. specialist from the Tobacco By-Products Chemical Corporation, of Louisville, will discuss their control by means of tobacco sprays and lists. Other speakers on the program who will discuss troubles of citrus trees are: If, K. Stevens, of Fort Myers, "The Economic Spraying of Citrus Trees." "VV.

W. Yothers, of Orlando, "Purple Scale Control, following the Use of liordeaux-Oil Khiu1kIoii for Mela-nose." W. VV. lierger, of Gainesville, "The Cottony Cushion Scale. Vedalia Situation in Florida." T.

J. Harris, of Winter Haven, "The Possible Relationship, of Dlebaek to Fascination in Other Plants." J. R. Watson, of "Cro-tolaria as a Trap Crop for Pumpkiu Bugs." i to furnish a treat to all who witness It. In order to raise money for the High School Annual, the contestants have decided to charge an admission of 15 cents for school children and 25 RUNNING ILL JAP EXCLUSION LEGISLATION IS UP TO PRESIDENT Cents for adults.

The gate receipts resembles a great cement column. The foliage crown, consists of dark, glossy, green leaves, 10 to 16 feet long. However, the Royal Palni is not without rival. Its greatesf rival is the Plumy Cocoanut tCoeos Plumo-sa), a native of Brazil, but widely grown in Florida. It often reaches height of 40 feet or more, and is crowned by a plumy crest of long, feathery, swaying, dark green leaves, making a formal and very striking picture.

The Cabbage Palmetto, a member of tho Ciiunt Sabal family is used extensively for street planting as far north as Kentucky, but it is also used In another way. The bud of this palm is used for eating purposes. It tastes and is prepared in the same way that cabbage is, and it is from that fact that the palm gets its name. Ono of the most picturesque palms grown in Florida, is tho California Fan Palm (Washingtonia It is more picturesque than the Sab-als both in form and in chraactor of foliage. It makes a massive trunk, crowned by a compact head of tough "fans," plentifully furnished with white threads, which have given it tho common name of "Thread Palm." Probably the best known species of Group II, is tho Blue Cocoanut (Cocos Austdalis).

This palm appeals to many people because of its adaption to a very wide range of soils and conditions. It thrives well on the poorest sandy Boil, if given half a chance to get established, as well as on "fills" made from fresh-pumped sand along the coast. For decorative work in parkways, and on small lawns where large palms arc often too big, it is unexcelled. It is different from all others of the palm family, and is characterized by being dwarfed and bushy," with gray-green foliage, dense and arching. The Chinese Fan Palm (Livlstonia Chincsis) is a fine decorative "plant, and is more widely used as a house plant than any other kind.

It is a native of China but can be used for either indoors or open air in the extreme South. The leaves of this plant are often 6 feet in diameter. Fortunate, indeed, are those who have a Silver Thatch Palm (Thrlnix Mlcrocarpa) In their gardens. It is a dream of sheer beauty, and can be Introduced into shrubbery border of enclosed gardens, or around mirror-pools, with telling effect. It is a dwarf plant of perfect grace and symmetry, with lovely fan shaped leaves, on the lower side, which givoi tie palm the name of Silvery Thatch And now we come to the largest and probably the most important of the three groups those pains for general planting, parks etc.

headed bv the Acrorr.onia (Castas S3 ais HI FULL TILT prayed for, Raymond T. Richey, revivalist-healer, opens his Southeastern Georgia campaign at Hazelburst on Friday, April 25. Several Fort Myers persons- have been healed at the Tainpa meetings. Many here are interested in Evengelist Richey's great work which closes at Tainpa Sunday night. The Tampa meetings, which lasted four weeks, were but duplications of the St.

Petersburg and Bradentown meetings, daring which thousands professed their faith in Christ asd thousands were healed of physical infirmities. "1 have felt (he call to Georgia and cannot leave this section of the country without staging one more Old-time revival meeting In Georgia," Mr. Richey explained in announcing his intention to re-open ills campaign in Hazelhurst. Georgians were made acquainted with the Richey Evangelistic Party last July when it staged one of the largest revivals ever held the state in the auditorium at Atlanta. Aside from the salvation of souls, which is Kvangelist Richey's principal aim, he advocates and practices faith healing.

Heaps; of crutches in the tabernacles at Houston, Texas, at Petersburg. Bradentown, anil other towns too numerous to mention, hear mute testimony wonderful healing powers of this modest iittle revivalist. During his Florida eampaiga. Mr. Richey prayed for more than 9,000 persons, many of whom had been suffering from maladies deemed incurable by the medical "I do not heal; my Jesus heals," Mr.

Richey says in denying any supernatural power. His contention is that anyone can be healed of any spiritual or physical 111 who has faith in Christ. "The extent of the healings depends on the firmness of the faith of the one seeding the healing." the evangelist says. At the Tampa meetings the truth of this assertion was borne out in the tact that many who had failed to receive in will bo divided on a 60-10 basis, tho winner receiving tho greater per Come one! come two! come three! come all! and seo a dog gone good game of baseball. K.

R. I-acey ami George. Morgan, officials of the Grass Fibre of Leesburg, are, at the Bradford Ho tel. They were busy today greeting Illy The AxMirlittdl Press) WASHINGTON. April 16.

The Senate having made doubly clear Its ein phatic rejection of Ambassador Hani-hara's protest against the exclusion of 'Japenese from the of immigrants -admissible to the United' States, interest in this phase of the their many friends here. The sawgiass pulp mill at leesburg is runniiiK full blast these days and ELKS TO MEET INK. OF P. HALL nights and stockholders lue Jouj-jj Yesterday The Press erroneously announced tho Fort Myers Lodge No. BIG DANCE AT NELSON'S CASINO 12S8.

l. P. O. Elks will meet tonight pany hero will be. pleased to learn that so great is the demand for the sawgrass product that the mil! can't keep up with its orders.

Gilbert D. Loach, of Leesburg, brilliant newspaperman and able executive, is tho daddy of this big enterprise which is rapidly helping to pu Florida as a paper pulp producer on the map. in tho new "Prcsybterian Hall" under the Zero Hour plan and that there immigration question turned today to, the attitude of President Coolidge an the 'reaction of the' Tokio Govern-ment. The Senate is expected to pas the trouble of arranging some quota pro vision by the end of the week. 's The points in difference with 4k House measure will be ironed ou: before the bill goes to the Fres'ltfu for his final approval.

was tin attendance contest with t-iO in the pot. Uf course, the meetnig place. is the new Pvthi.m Hall and the manner In which the word Presbyterian got JOHN LANfiLKY charge of conspiring to defraud the government in the alleged removal of 1,400 cases of whisky from a distillery, near Lawrenceburg, in 1921, JIK'l) WEI-COME IT in, in its place Is one or me mysteries that occasionally occur in newspaper offices. No indication has been given of the future, course of Coolidge regarding the exclusive provision. It is the predict ion of congressional The Press bones that none of the Lodge members will lose out on the 0 bucks through going to the Church Nowhere in the world will you find more enchanting moonlight nights than are experienced in Fort Myers.

You of course noticed last night's magnificient junar display and realize that nowhere is it more enchanting than at beautiful Crescent Beach. It will be equally attractive tonight but on Thursday night it will be ir-resistable for Manager J. H. Nelson of Nelson's Casino has arranged for another dance along the same lines that made a like affair last week so popular. The Nelson Casino" 'dancs, if" the first one can be taken as a criterion, ar going to among the bright spots of Fort Myers' pleaaure Beekers thj3 --r April 16.

Prime Minister MacDonald respnding today io a speech in the House ctf Commons by Major General Zeeley former president of Air Counsel who advocated that the Premier call an international conference for air disarmaments declared he Id welcome an invitation by any other power to take up the whole naestion of armaments. leaders that he will sign It. The adoption of the amendment excluding Japanese immigrants yesterday was wore or less formal and was a completion of the Senate action of majority, the auggostion in Ambasaa-Monday, rejecting by an Increased dnr Hanihara's letter urging 4 tinuance of the gentlemett's stee rum Try Him iu Wushlnidnii WASHINGTON, April 16. Congressman of Kentucky, charged with conspiracy to withdraw liquor from bonded warehouses, will stand triafv here-' before answering further Indictment lodged against him in Kentucky! according to a ruling by Jude IhU ta the federal court, instead or to tne new ryinmn nan. SERVICE AT ST.

LUKE'S Lenten service will be held at St. Luke's Parish House this evening at 7 o'clock. AH members arc urged to be present by the beloved. Kector. the RfcY.

gUortu stantaneous healing were later healed as their faith increased. "What God. has done for the people of Florida and many other states ni which we have held revivals, He can and witl'do tor the people of Georgia. All we need is faith. Have faith in '3 1.