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1 1. 1 THE FORT 40TH SIX SIX DAYS DOLLARS A WEEK YEAR FORT MYERS, FLORIDA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 20, 1924 MEMBER ASSOCIATED OF THE PRESS PRICE 5 CENTS NOW FOR THE FINISHING TOUCHES HEY! PORTRAIT OF ME PAINTED BY ME AT CLEVELAND O. P. G. DEMOCRAT CONVENTION A MODEL OF ORIGINAL CAPITAL BUILDING, 10G CABIN, PLANNED TALLAHASSEE, June 20.

The committee on reception and registration for the Tallahassee Centennial plans to erect on the site of the original capitol building here a model of the log cabin in which the government of Florida was first housed in November, 1824. The site of Florida's first capitol obtained by the committee, on the southeast corner of the present capitol grounds. Walter V. Culley, head of the committee on registration, who is also Boy Scout master, plans to have the boys assist in erecting the log cabin and to use it during the Centennial as registration headquarters of the throngs of visitors expected from all over the state and various parts of the United States. It will also be headquarters for the reception committees.

Although no information is at present obtainable as to Florida's capitol building beyond the fact that it was a log house, it is know to have been located on the southeast corner of the capitol grounds next to where the chemical laboratory now stands and is supposed to have been one of the typical one-room log house common in Florida in the early days. H. Clay Crawford, veteran secretary of state, has talked with men, now dead, who had seen the first capitol and told one of the members of the publicity committee that the reception committee has correctly located the site. WILSON'S POLITICAL WILL TO BE OFFERED AT N. Y.

CONVENTION BALTIMORE, June copyrighted dispatch from a staff correspondent in New York to the Baltimore Sun today says: "Woodrow Wilson's last political will and testament- doctrine of party principle and policy- -is to be laid by a group of his followers before members of the resolutions committee when the time comes to write the democratic platform." Grave Growers To Meet In Lakeland The meeting of the Florida Grape Growers Association has been set for July 11 and 12 in Lakeland. A large attendance representing 21 counties of the state, is expected. In addition to the display of all varieties of grapes that will be maintained, it is announced that growers of blackberries and avocados will cooperate in the exhibit with displays of fruit representing their industries. Manufacturers of growers' supplies, insecticides and small machinery have also been invited to exhibit. Inquiries of persons interested should be addressed to N.

G. Nicoll, member of the executive committee, MYERS HEY, BUDDY! (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, June The distribution of application blanKs, for adjusted world war compensation provided for in the soldier bonus act, has been started by Major Robert C. Davis general of the army, and will be completed by June 28th. Mellon Will Attend Trial of Means (By The Associated Press) NEW YORK, June were issued today requiring the presence of Secretary Mellon and his secretary, Arthur Sixsmith, at the trial of Gaston Means and Elmer W. Jarnecke, in Federal court here next Tueday on charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition law.

LABORITES NOMINATE MINE CHIEF ST. PAUL, June to a conclusion in an eight-hour session. the National Farmer-Labor Party convention adjourned day night after nominating a ional ticket, adopting the platform advocated by the communists and electing a national committee. The Foster Ruthenberg coherts were in the saddle throughout the procedings, voting down all attempts by Minnesota farmers to change the nationalization planks in the platform and hooting those who advocated modifications. Delegates trickled from the hall in small groups as item after item of the economic program was jammed through.

'The national nominees are: For president -Duncan McDonald, Illinois. For vice-president-William Bouck, Washington. McDonald is former president of the United Mine Workers of Illinois. His home is in Springfield. He was nominated as an Industrial worker.

Bouck owns a fruit ranch in the Pudget Sound country. He was presented to the convention as a representative radical farmer. Both were nominated by acclamation. McDonald being declared the choice after farm delegates had been I persuaded to forego all attempt to get the convention on record for Senator R. M.

LaFollette as a presidential aspirant. They were assured the national committee would negotiate in an attempt to get him to stand for the convention's action, the promise being made that McDonald would be pressed in the campaign only in case LaFollette repeated his refusal to have anything to do with the Paul gathering. This. did not satisfy W. J.

Taylor, and a number of Nebraska farmere and they left for home. Their decision was hastened by a (Continued on Page 0 mete is only one Fort Myers and ninety million people are going to find it out." TRONAS A. EDISON. M'DOWELL IS GUILTY SAYS JURY VERDICT (By The Associated Press) CLEARWATER, June dict of guilty, with a recommendation for mercy was returned by the jury in the case of Frank McDowell, tried here this week for the murder of his mother on the night of February 19th in St. Petersburg.

The jury had the case in its hands for a few minutes more than two hours. Young McDowell was in the court room when the jury filed in, and sat nervously with a slight smile playing over his face. He received the verdict calmly although his face paled as it was read. McDowell's fate was placed in the hands of the jury at exactly noon today. LEAVES $1 FOR DAMAGE TO ROOM, KILLS SELF SAN DIEGO, June A.

Wolski, 50, signed a farewell note as a physician of Minneapolis; and nimselr by shooting through the right temple at a hotel here recently. In a note in care of the coroner he left a check to pay the cost of cremation and $1 to reimburse the landlord for possible damage to the room. CHRISTIANS PLAN TO MEET IN STOCKHOLM SWEDEN IN AUGUST (By The Associated Press) STOCKHOLM, June crown prince of Sweden has been named chairman of the Swedish committee which is preparing to entertain the delegates to the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work to be held in Stockholm in August, 1925. The conference will the guests of the Swedish nation. The purpose of the gathering is declared to be an attempt to concentrate thought on the mind of Christ as revealed, in the Bible toward the great social, industrial and international questions prominent in post-war civilization.

Dr. Arthur J. Brown of New York: the Archbishop of Canterbury; the Archbishop of Upsala and the Oecumencial. Patriarch. of Constatinople are joint presidents of the international committee which is arranging for the conference.

The European section at Stockholm will have 175 delegates, the British section 135, the American section 150 and the Eastern section 85. Allied organizations such as the Y. M. C. Y.

W. C. Evangelical Alliance, Student Christian Movement, International Missions Committee, the Salvation Army, and Christian Endeavor movement will each have a representative. COCA COLA KING WILL DIVORCE HIS YOUUG WIFE (By The Associated Press) ATLANTA, June 20-Asa G. Candler, Atlanta capitalist, has brought suit for divorce from his wife Mrs.

Mary Little Chandler, al- leging cruel treatment. The divorce petition was filled in the Fulton coumty superior court late yesterday became public today. Candler is a millionaire and the founder of the Coca Cola Co. He was married to Mrs. May Little Ragin, public stenographer, a year ago.

After a honeymoon to a number of the northern cities, the capitalist installed "his bride in the palatial Candler home in the exclusive Druid Hills section of Atlanta. Some months ago Atlanta's social and business circles were startled by the announcement of chief of police Beavers, that Mrs. Candler and two Atlanta business men, W. J. Stoddard and G.

W. Keeling, had been atrested in a raid on a fashionable apartment house in the north side residential section, while they were sitting around a table on which was a bottle partly filled with liquor. The trio was released on bond and when the cases were tried before the recorder, the charges against them were dismissed. STRICKEN WHILE IN SURF WILMINGTON, June: -Joseph Thompson. 44 years old.

New York. died suddenly of heart trouble in the surf at Wrightsville beach here Thursday morning. PRESS HENLEY PLACE LOTS SOLD BY MRS. BARNWELL Mrs. W.

F. Barnwell reports the sale of the tract of land 160 foot water frontage by 200 feet deep in front of the Thos. H. Phillips home in Henley Place to Mr. and Mrs.

Racquet of St. Petersburg: for approximately $100.00 per front foot. The new ownerg have not definitely decided what they will do with their purchase but will undoubtedly improve it soon. Mrs. Barnwell also reports the sale of Lot No 2 on.

Henley Place to C. J. Nill for $8,000.00. This is the second time this lot has been sold within a month. The second sale was at a substantial advance over the first sale.

It is next to the new Standard Drug Store and Druggists everywhere. DANZIG WAR VETERANS DEMAND FREE LAND AND MEDICAL AID (By The Associated Press) DANZIG, June problem of a soldier's bonus is occupying the senate of this ancient free city. The 16,000 veterans of the world war ing in Danzig declare that they are unable to get along with the dole that they are now receiving under a German law of 1906. Among the demands are preference in the allotment of land for homesteads, free medical treatment, a 300 per cent increase of the weekly allowance, and an extra allowance to blind -soldiers to defray the expenses of their trained guide dogs. HIGH PEAKS TO BE SCALED Associated Press) EDMONTON, Alberta, June attempt to scale Mount Robson will be made this summer by the Alpine Club of Canada.

Arrangements also are being made for an expedition to scale Mount Logan, Canada's highest peak, in 1925. Y. CONVENTION TO HAVE 2,600 IN ATTENDANCE (By The Associated Press) NEW YORK, June -The tentative program of the Democratic National Convention follows closely the schedule of procedure which has prevailed in previous national sessions of the party. Many leaders believe the convention will last ten or 11 days. The first formal assembly of the 2.600 delegates and alternates at the main auditorium, Madison Square Garden, will be at noon of Tuesday, June 24.

Cordell Hull of Tennessee, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, will call the convention to order, and a member of the New York City olergy will pronounce an invocation. Mr. Hull's introduction of the temporary chairman, Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, will be followed by the Senator's keynote speech. Mayor John F. Hylan of New York will deliver an address formally welcoming the convention to this city, and adjournment will be taken, probably at abeut 3:30 p.

until noon Wednesday. The report of the Committee con Permanent Organization will start the second day of the convention, after which the committee on rules will report. Meanwhile the committee on resolutions will commence its work and start drafting the platform. The report of the credentials committee will conclude the regular business of the Wednesday session. With the permanent chairman presiding, the convention will open its third day at noon, Thursday with reports of the committees.

The platform probably will be presented to the convention on Friday. The nomination of candidates for the presidency, of whom a score already are in sight, will begin late Friday or early Saturday accompanied by the traditional band-playing, singing and noisy demonstrations as each candidate's name is put forward. Thus the convention will adhere to prescribed formula for only the first five days. If nominations are not made immediately, there will be consinuous day and night sessions, exsept on Sundays and continuous baltoting until a nominee for president and a running-mate for the vice-presdency shall emerge from the fray victorious. The 1920 convention at San lasted nine days.

Some local party counsellors predict the impendng conclave, confronted by so many. candidates to choose from, will be kept busy for 11 days. Should their arognostications prove correct, the candidates would be named on the Fourth of July, OFFICIAL PAPER FOR -LEE COUNTY AND FORT MYERS All the News "While It is a PAUL FRANKLIN AND BRIDE TO BE HOME JULY The marriage of Paul G. Franklin and Miss Harirett M. Crane took place at the home of the bride's parents in Daytona on Wednesday, June 18th, as was announced in the Fort Myers Press.

The wedding was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Crane, 208 Palmetto avenue, at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning in the presence of the immediate families and Mr. and Mrs.

W. W. Gibson and Hunter Brown, of Fort Myers, only. The pastor of the Daytona Methodist church performed the ceremony. in white roses and the bride The house, was beautifully decorated carried a bouquet of the same.

Hunter Brown was best man and Mrs. Crosby, sister of the bride, was bridesmaid. Breakfast was served after the ceremony and the bride and groom left by motor for a tour of the east coast, taking in West Palm Beach, Miami, Key West and other points. The young couple will return about July 1st to make their home in Fort Myers. Mr.

Franklin is one of the progressive young business men of Fort Myers, the son and partner of Ex-Mayor W. P. Franklin, He has a host of friends who wish for him and his charming wife a long and happy married life. Mrs. Franklin very popular in social circles in her home city and will be warmly welcomed to the City of Palms.

NINA PUTNAM A FREE DEALER WEST PALM BEACH, June Nina Wilcox Putnam noted writer Thursday was granted license to become a free dealer by the Palm Beach county circuit court. The court authorized her to take sole charge her property, and manage it to the same effect "as if she were a single woman" and granted her all other I property privileges enjoyed by a woman in Florida. GEORIGA BARS FLORIDA MELONS STRAW PACKED (By The Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, June Hardee will refuse to allow an industry of Florida to be ruined by the action of a Georgia official and says so courteously but flatly. Some weeks ago Peter Bahnsen, Georgia state veterinarian, issued an order that watermelon shipments from Florida bedded in straw, were not to be allowed to enter that state, claiming such bedding carried cattle tick infection and that the state of Georgia had spent three and one-half millions of dollars in the eradication of the evil. The Georgia official and Florida officials appealed to Federal authorities, but the Georgia official remained obdurate.

BEACH PICNIC C. L. Employes And Friends En- Outing The working force of the Atlantic Coast Line Railway enjoyed a most pleasant outing last night at Crescent Beach. A picnic supper eaten at Nelson's Casino was much enjoyed. Swimming was indulged in by many of the merry party, The following were present: Mr.

and Mrs. Frank Hart, Mr. and Mrs. J. W.

Griffis and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pate, Mr. and Mrs. J.

B. Neil Sr. Mr. and Mrs. J.

B. Neil Mr. and Mrs. Powell, Mr. Craig G.

W. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Daniels. The following were guests of the A.

C. L. force. Miss Frankie Stewart, Miss Maxwell Hall and Herbert Wittmeyer. WANTS DRY LAW ENFORCED NEW ORLEANS, June The Louisiana Pharmacentical Association, at its recent convention here, went on record as being solidly behind the en forcement of the Volstead Law.

Another resolution adopted by the association favors an enactment of the Volstead act, creating a stringent law governing the sale of all beverages containing alcohol. FILIPINOS INHERIT $1,000,000 the Filipino widow of Cyrus, Inlish, who died fifteen years ago in Ilo Ilo, are heirs to a large estate. It was reported in to lio that they have inherited property worth more ther BOMB THROWN BY CASSISSIN MILLS FOUR (By The Associated Press) Hong KONG, June death list resulting from the attempt of an unknown Chinese to assassinate Governor General Merlin of French Indo-China, at a banquet in Canton last night, now stands at four. H. G.

Gerin, silk merchant, died today of injuries received when the bomb exploded. It has developed that the governor general probably owes his life to the fact that the would be assassin mistook Gerin for him. LONDON VISITORS LIVE ON SHIP (By The Associated Press) LONDON, June of the serious lack of accommodations durliving what is known as the social season here, a party of 500 Gothenburg 'students have chartered a ship in which they will live while visiting England. The vessel is to anchor off Greenwich in the Thames. S.

S. JOHN F. SMITH WILL START NEW RUN ON FIRST OF OCTOBER CANADIAN BOYS ASK TO TAKE AMERICAN CITIZEN TRAINING Brigadier General C. H. Martin, A.

C. of G-2, recently received letters from five boys in Big Valley, Alberta, Canada, asking for full information on the C. M. T. they having read an article by "Babe" Ruth relative to the summer's camp.

"I notice that all expenses are to be paid for one month. Will you please send me complete information on this, as I am thinking seriously of going? I may spend my vacation their if the camp is suitable," seems to be the tenor of all five letters. In reply General Martin had to inform the boys that unless they were citizens of the United States they could not be enrolled for training. Since they had not mentioned what their citizenship was, however, he inclosed application blanks and other information for their use in the event theat they were real U. S.

citizens. DIXIE HIGHWAY WILL BE OPENED IN AUGUST IN ST. LUCIE COUNTY FORT PIERCE, June -The Dixie Highway through the north end of St. Lucie county will be completed and opened within another couple of months, according to present indications. The stretch from Vero to.

Wabasso will be completed within the next month, it is expected, while the Wabasso-Sebastian stretch should be completed in two more months. The former piece of highway will be on the penetration type, and the latter of concrete. On the Vero-Wabasso stretch, on which work has been under way for the past year and a half, nearly all the rock-laying has been finished and the job is now in its final phase. pouring of concrete has been started on the Wabasso-Sebastian stretch, and good headway is being made, the goal being to finish up the job in a couple ple of months. The completion of these two projects will put the Dixie highway in first class shape from one end of St.

Lucie county to the other, eliminating the north-county detours. that for the past year and more have been the source of many complaints. The rest of the highway is smooth, asphalt, providing an excellent driveway. On the $175,000 bridge which is being built across the Sebastian river on the county line of St. Lucie and Brevard counties, steady progress le being made and the structure is beginning to assume definite shape.

The present bridge across the stream will provide passageway until the new structure can be completed. Arrested on charges of spreading false reports of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen's death. Him Wong, correspondent for Reuters at Canton, has been ordered deported from China for 10 years. Officials of the Fort Myers Steamship company have announced the purchase of the 350-ton steamship John F.

Smith, of Norfolk. The vessel will take the place of the motor ship I. W. Riggs and will ply between Tampa and Fort Myers, October 1. The company, operating under the name of the Royal Palm line, will bring the steamship John F.

Smith to the west coast within a short time to make alterations and improvements for the winter season. The vessel is an iron hull steamer, 126 feet in length, screw propeller, having a draft of about nine and one half feet loaded, and a speed 15 knots. It has a freight capacity of about 350 tons and stateroom accomodations for 50 or 60 passengers will be provided. The Royal Palm line has been contemplating the purchase of a large passenger and freight vessel to take care of the increased business between Fort Myers and Tampa for more than a year, according to W. J.

Hunter, vice-president and local manager for the company. The company plans to develop the passenger end of the business and for that reason the John F. Smith will make stops at St. Petersburg on both her north and south trips. PLAYMATE OF ROBERT FRANK IS THREATENED CHICAGO, June 20.

Kidnaping threats, modelled after those sent by Nathan Leopold. and Richard Loeb, kidnapers and slayers of Robert Franks, and threatening the lite of Irvin Hartmann, ten years old and a playmate of the Frank boy, caused the police Thursday to guard the home of Irvin Hartmann, wealthy furniture merchant. The letter, demanding $10,000 ransom under threat that the boy would be kidnaped or killed, was written by a person of little education the police believe, and detectives assigned to investigate it termed it the work of a "fool." But the police took no chances on a repetition of the Franks kidnaping. The Hartmann family lives in a fashionable South Side residential district just a block from the Franks family and it was Young Hartmann who told of seeing an automobile draw up to the curb as the Franks boy walked along the streets, and upon looking a few seconds later. saw the automobile driving away while the Franks boy had disappeared.

Leopold and Loeb, the millionaire's sons who confessed the kidnaping and killing of Franks, said in their confessions that they had considered, the Hartmann boy as a victim for 4 The letter sent to Mr. Hartman demanded that he send the money old bills, make up a package, and to a desiguated West Side corner. aud throw it over a bish teach there,.