News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 1

aaaaaBBBpiBaaaBVBak aaaaaMBam ffkaaaaaaaaai BakBaaaaH rni irir ttti ID. TV IV iOj OFFICIAfc Tkttll' F03l tit jQ tr--SrS''IY -d i.mh "Tker It only pa Fort Vjwt ad ninety sillllqa pecpU are (oIb flat Jt iiKf a at; i ijdlje. mm PRICE 5 FORT MYERS, FLORIDA SATURDAY! AFTERNOON, NOVIJM'BJiflR 22,1324, Going DownVin Arctic FORMER LANGFORD HOME IS OFFERED CITY AT COST FOR PUBLIC LIBRARY Simon Rosen of Arcadiav Stern Brothers of Fort Myers, Will Sell Property WUV -i -j Fort Myers is tQ have a fine library building. j- The need of a suitable building tot a public library In Fort Myers is great and this fact has been realised tV the Business and Professional Women's club and Miss M. I Flossie Hill and Miss Kate C.

RobertV baye Jaeeik en? deavoring to and prifchaae ft building for this purpose." A few days ago Simon Rosin; of Af1 cadia, and his and 41ST YEAR NO. 1. FULFILLING QUOTA Street Drive Today Offers Citizens Opportunity to Help Afflicted Humanity 'Fort Myers Red Cross Roll jCaJl drive is being pushed vigorously toward its successful completion by Carl C. McClure, chair- man of the roll call committee, Miss Margaret Gilbert, executive secretary of the Welfare Federation and other officials In charge. J.

C. Munoa and W. S. of the committee ore awarding 100 per cent posters to the Fort Myers Nfirms having the honor of having a complete membership in the Red Cross, among their employees. The street drive which comes to an Mrs.

Dick Doyd and Mrs. Charles Miles. The following girls are acting as solicitors: Ethel Godinan, Louise Johnson, Dorothy Kinzie, Frances Botts, Agnes Bellamy and Mary Cath- erine Davidson. The young ladies above named will be on duty up till 6 o'clock at which time they will be renlar-Prt with Catherine Jennlne-a. Betty Faulkner Wilma Pearce and Mary Turner.

Leo county owes much to the services of the Red Cross und the roll call drive now going on is an opportunity to' express appreciation in more than words. Join today. REVIVAL SWEEPS HOLY LAM) BEHllT, Syria, Nov. 22. A great religious revival movement is sweep 1 1 ,1 i 1Ug Byriu au imau yi uuiuiig ine reiugee uiihuua ioyuia- tion driven out of Turkey during the past two years.

Missions are crowded as never before. Services are held daily and it is difficult to squeeze through the crowds which surround the churches. At the request of the Armenian church, orphanage buildings of the Near East Relief have been made available for overflow meetings. SCUFFLE ViTH FRIEND K. I'ndy, In Custody Sheriff 7 Chanced With Crime "In Condition lo Talk" (By The Associated 1'ress) ORLANDO, Nov.

22. N. B. Broward, Nephew of former Governor Borward, and son of Malcolm Broward of Jacksonville, was shot and killed shortly after one o'clock this morning in the home of Hal K. Cady, the latter being placed under arrest.

The police say three shots were fired, one striking Mrs. Cady on the Sheriff Karel has refused to let anyone see Cady until after the Inquest which took place at two o'--clock this According to the sheriff Cady is in no condition to talk and is in a haze. "He did not even know that he had shot his wife," the sheriff said, "un-- til I told him of it, nor did be seem to realize that he had shot Broward, lie secmedlo be under the Impression that Broward 'shot himself when he slipped on a rug." When asked by the sheriff if they were fighting, Cady they were scuffling "and ha rhowed me a place on the chest which was somewhat l.rulsed, the sheriff said Cady claimed Broward had bitten him there." Cady is apparently under the influ ence ot liquor, according to Sheriff Karel, ED CROSS POSTERS ARE AWARDED FIRMS i I Waters had been crushed In an scenes, from a rescue al lc Jaiii. hip. 10 EMPLOY WELL OVER 15,000 EH Lee County In District timber Three Containing 10,95.1 Karms In 1W0 WASHINGTON, D.

C.Nov. 22 The department of commerce Is about to take a census of agriculture covering the crop year 1921 and relating to conditions on or near January 1, 1925. This is the first census ot agriculture to be taken midway between the de cennial censuses; the act of. congress authorizing it is based on the belief that, with rapidly changing conditions in agriculture, the census will begin on December 1 and is to be completed on or before January 31. As rapidly as possible after the receipt of returns statements will be released for the press, by the Census bureau at Washington, relative to production ot the principal farm crops and the values of farm properties, Including land, buildings, machinery, and livestock.

I 1 flC VUUIUCIdUUU Will iuuc services of 15,000 to 20,000 enumerators' acting under the direction of 212 supervisors, who- have for the most part been selected from tha employees of the bureau of the census find the department of agriculture, Employees of the forest service will secure the census returns for most ot the farms within the national forest reserves in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Washington, West Virginia and Wyoming. Sample questionnaires are being widely distributed to the farmers, to familiarize them with the information soou to be called for by tho enumerators. In addition to tho usual inquiries relative to production, values, and farm expenses, tho schedule calls for the amount of taxes paid by the farm operator on farm property, Including real estate tax, personal propctry tax, and special assessments. il. In important to ascertain Just what the burden of taxation resting upon the farm really is and how It compares with the amount of taxes paid by other interests.

This may point the way to a more equitable adjustment of the tax burden. Farm Censns Only Ilerctoforo tho census of agriculture has always been tuken in Connection with a complete con's us of population. This time It will cover the farm population only, showfni; the number of persons living on the farm, including the family 1)f the I be brought out by two inquiries; one! jcalling lor the value of products of the farm sold through a fanners' marketing organization, and the other calling for the value of all farm sup plies purchased from or through a farmer's organization. An additional index to the marketing conditions will sinking off the Alaskan coast, after she Earl Kossnian. photographer (f arctic BAND CONCERT By EOKT VERS CONCEUT IUN1 tonhrht, 8:00 O'tiwk OVE.MBElt The Conqueror, March, Tcike.

Princess of India, Overture. King. Oh Baby, Fox Trot, DeSylva. Moonlight Blues, Waltz, Deane. Why Did I Kiss That Girl? King.

Intermission America First, March, Losey. Hunting Scene, Bucalossi. Forpret Me Not, Fox Trot, C. H. O.

No Dream, Waltz, Esner. Trophy Point, Egner. THE INQUIRING REPORTER F.arh day he ask a unostloa of prn-im-hI IntiTcM, on tlie Ktreets of Fort Jljers. Qucsllon: "Where do you think the new postoffice building should be located?" here Asked: First and Hendry streets. J.

C. Mitchell: "I think the postof fice should be located somewhere between Main street. and the river and between Broadway and Lee, streets. It should be centrally 1 S. M.

Smith:" The postoffice should be located northwest of the new Atlantic Coast Line station either on a corner of Jackson or Lee street." Colonel Halgrim, Postmaster: "It goes without saying that the post-office should be near the business center of the city Preferably between First and Anderson avenue on Hendry or Jackson streets." SIMPLE SERVICE TO OF Pall Bearers Composed of Life Long Friends of President llardliitr's Widow MA It I ON, Nov. 22. The funeral services on Monday at the Epworth Methodist church for Mrs. Warren G. Harding, will be simple.

The republican glee club is to sing "The End of a Perfect Day," which was Mrs. Harding's favorite. The Rev. Jesse Swank, her pastor will deliver a short sermon. The Rev.

George W. Landis, pastor of the Trinity Baptist church of which Mr. Harding was a member will reafl the Scriptures. JiAROING STATE KELIGIOIS CAMPAIGN (By The Ansorlatert Press) WEST PALM BEACH, Nov. 22.

A movement Is on foot here- to launch a statewide campaign for religious education, designed to promote sech teaching in every Florida community. Encouragement of vacation Bible schools, week-day schools of religious training, and other methods of religious teaching will be two of the aims of the movement. 1530,000 BOND ISSUE" FOR HENDRY COUNTY GIVEN BIG MIY New 100,000 Court House anil Koad Improvements Assured For Plonerr County (Special lo the Press) LA Nov. 22.Hendry county's bond iBSUe for $330,000, voted on November 20th, has enrried by a large 'mijority, in some scttlemenls as high as ten to one. It takes men of nerve and with a vision of what the f'Uure holds in lHlole Plu ovcr lul A 0.00 to develop an infant county which is only a year old and with a very small population on its nearly 700,000 acres of fertile soil.

And Hendry county has just this kind of a citizenship. The initial credit for launching the movement for a bond issue is almost entirely due to the county commis sioners who withstood the first crit- lieisms when most folks were luke tn thn taw country residents thought it absurd a pioneer C0Kny tQ take BUch a plunge to a perdition of taxation as jthey imagined. But the County Com missioners M. E. Forrey, E.

E. Good-no, M. F. Boisclair, Thomas O'Brien, and J. M.

Taylor quietly continued their cmpaifrioTenliglvtenment aided by Editor Eddy of the local paper and your correspondent of the state papers also attempted to mirror their activities faithfully. Then Perry Hull. LaBellc's mayor did a progressive act by going to Tallahassee and Jacksonville and interviewing the biggest land owners and taxpayers of Hendry county (nop resident) also drain age experts, etc. When he found, them all real friends of Hendry county and not only willing but eager to bear their share of the necessary taxation and when he found Vice-President Gaines of the Consolidated Land Company wondering if the bond Issue was big enough' instead of being too heavy as some critics thought', he came home thoroughly i converted to the bond issue and the! development which it will bring to Florida'3 pnnnlu TVlon' JlIllffA Palrl- well of Britol. Tennessee, arrived here with his family as usual to spend the winter and just in time to make a stirring, convincing speech at a citizens mass meeting where Mayor Hull gave the account of bis trip and the tide was turned.

Many regretted that Hendry county's most noted land owners, Henry Ford and Barron Collier could not be interviewed. Just what Hendry county's bonds will bring on the day of sale after the pecessary legal proceedings of advertising thorn no. one knows. The county's fiscal agent, B. I.

Vance, of Arcadia, 1ms assured at least par value. Court House and Heads A new Court House for Hendry county is to be built with $100,000 from the bond issue, and the remain-ins? 130,000 is to bo used on the hard roads. The' latter are earnestly advo cated by the biggest investors in Hen- (lry rounty as being the most vital factor in progress and the absolute- ly necessary "next step" ti take4 in development activities here. President Gaines of the Consolidated Land Ce.mpany has expressed himself as be-lieveing that the opening of the Palm Beach-Fort Myers Highway via J.a-Bolle, which will allow Jacksonville-Miami east coast tourists to cross the state lo the West Coast at Fort Myers and directly north to Tampa, will do more for all of South Florida's development than any one other thing. Cosmopolitan Population Congressman Drane who spoke in LaBelle last week commented favorably on the fact that many states in the Union and some foreign countries are, represented in LaBelle's citizenship.

This "melting pot" of ideas from a. widely diverging geo graphy is resulting in rapid progress for Hendry county a progre3 that might fairly be called phenomenal, considering the prlmitivo conditions of development here only a few months ago. 1( REASING OFFICE SPACE. The Lee County Packing Company la adding another, room to its office 3i'-ice. The new addition will just about double the size of the office.

There will be vary little fruit packed in Lee county until after 1n. CRACK 101 ELEVEN TO PLAY OF F. THANKSGIVING DAY Greatest Celebration In History School Will Be Staged On 27th GAINESVILLE, Nov. 22. Dads, grads and friends of the University of Florida are coming to Gainesville Thanksgiving day, November 27th, 1924, for tha greatest celebration in the history ot the university.

Thej Florida-Drake football game will be; the chief attraction. Drake university of Dos Moines, Iowa, has one of the strongest football teams In the Mississippi valley and the Florida team stands among the he.st In the South. The game alone will he worth coming a long way to see." Since Thursday i a holiday the students have planned an interesting program beginning Wednesday noon, November 26th, in order that all who come may see the university in operation. Major B. C.

Riley, director of the general extension division, in charge of the program, says, "Wednesday afternoon visitors will be welcome in class rooms and laboratories. A great mass meeting will be held in 'the gymnasium at ,8:00 p. m. and will be followed by a short Informal reception for parents, friends, students and faculty. At 10:00 p.

m. everyone will go to the big bonfire. Thursday. Thanksgiving Day, will Slart with a dress parade of the University Battalion, followed by visits to the Palm Gardens and the new Auditorium. The afternoon will be given to the football game and stunts by the students.

This will be a great opportunity for the people ot the State to see thelf university. All who expect to come to Gainesville on this occasion should write immediately to Secretary J. E. Johnson, University Y. M.

C. for hotel reservations and to James L. White, dlercctor of athletics, for foot ball tickets. These men should be addressed at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Red Fox Killed By Automobile Dazzled by the headlights of the approaching car a red fox allowed himself to lie run down and run over by a car coming down Road 5 from Sarasota.

The occupants of the car got out and killed the fox and brought it to Ike Shaw who will mount It. There are a good many gray foxes in Lee county but very few red ones and the mounted specimen will be worth while. The incident happened near the Miakka river. The men the car were Alex Knight' and Dr. H.

Lee Chllson, of Bradenton, and Mose Kusscll, of Dublin, Ga. CAKPENTKRS PL AX LABOR BASK (By The A (( laird rrc) CHICAGO, Nov. 22. A labor union bank with capital ot $5,000,000 and in Us own biiilding, is planned by the ciirponler's district council of city, to its officials. this i Schools Across River Undergo Inspection Miss Georgia McFerron.

country school inspector, has returned from tho New Prospect and Samville school which she found in good condi She was much pleased with the i garden the school children at Samville have planted. Miss McFerron would like to see other schools emulate the example of tho Samville school and plant a gar- don and Mowers. VASILOr BUYS HOME Charles Vasiloff, propietor of the Poiusettia cafe, has bought of Walter mt. yhpuou purcnaseu anoioer casi frort Myers piece oi property tnrough the Joe Sanberg agency this morning, This buy consists ot seven lots near ithc Hendry grocery and amounted to Vasiloff has been offered a 'good bonus on his purshasc. 1MPU MOiUAi W.

E. Dodd, of Fort Myers and Miss Maggie Iiobinson ot near Auburn were married at the home of the brides parents last Monday evening. Mr. Dodd Is connected with the Fort Myers Roofing and Painting company, I I tl'ho Sv -liuoner Aiclic IsySPrn here The picture was taken by lUetCOUNItM-OF JULES VERN HERO O.cttMioirraphy Soelely Plans Careful Exploration Of Oceans Willi Nnvy As M'orkliifr I'nlt lv The Assdralci Press) WASHINGTON. Nov.

22. Jules Verne's exploration of the sea bottom by the mythical Captain Nemo 13 to have its counterpart in reality, if recommendations embodied in the final report of the Conference on Oceanography to the secretary of 'the navy, made public today, are put into practice. The U. S. Rainbow, which has recently been on service in the Orient, would be fitted out or oeeanegraphic researches under the plan as outlined by Lieutenant Commander George E.

Barndt, U. S. Navy, secretary general of the conference. The region of the Culf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, and neighboring parts of the North Atlantic, extreme through the Panama canal into the Pacific, have been selected as the starting point of the expedition. An estimated expendi ture of $57,500 would be required at firsts i 4 National Kesearch Progrnni With Captain F.

B. Bassett, U. S. hydrographer of the navy, as its president, the conference recommended that research work in oceanography form a permanent part of naval activities. Those who took part in the conference included representatives of the state, treasury, war, navy, Interior, agriculture, and commerce departments, the Smithsonian institution, the national academy of sciences and national research council, the library of congress, the Carnegie Institution and Shipping board, as well as Secretary Wilbur, Captain F.

W. Wallace, editor of Fishing Gazette and Herbert J. Browne, long-range weather forecaster. To Develop Ocean's Ilesourees A national cooperative program of rosearch in oceanography is the goal seen by the conference. To explore some of the ocean waters that cover five-sevenths of (ho- earth's surface and exploit food, plant and animal resources in them, and gain scientific, geographic, economic and climatgj information, is the motive that prjrnpts it.

The definite objects which the conference had in mind are: discovering, developing and utilizing, the resources of the sea; facilitating navigation of the sea and air and improving communication by radio and submarine cable; promoting human welfare through scientific discovery and the progress of knowledge and safeguarding human life. Work in the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans would be undertaken at a later time. Corns Scientific Problems Among the scientific problems to be taken up are: shapes, contours and depths of ocean basins; evaporation and rain, fog and snow over sea and land areas; distribution and periodic changes in atmospheric pressures and winds; ocean currents and vertical circulation of ocean waters; sea-water chemistry; shifting of shore lines, warping of margins of continents and submarine upheavals and dislocations; nature and composition of sea bottom; previous connections and changes in existing connections between continents; areas and features of submarine volcanism and earthquake sedimentation; light penetration in sea water and its UNCLE EmanUel Stern, of the, Boston Store here, bought the Langford residence, corner of First and Fowler Dr. J. W.

Coffey, ot the Seminole Realty Company, knowing Sitrion Rosin and his big heartedness, wrote to Mr. Rosin and explained the need of a building for public purposes here and that tha Langford -home, which ii a handsome brick 5 structure, located, would Just anjwcr the purpose. vir i. Today Emanuel Stein received a letter from Mr. Rosin stating that feu and his associates would turn, their contract over to the Women' club tat exact cost without a ebt profits Dr.

Coffey gave Mt'i treely. the' opportunity olfefed the city by these four big hearted then there should bo no reason at alt- that the money can not be rsrtscd -rtnmMl-ately. -y, The property wa sold dirt $jbeap and it is only in a lifetime that it' Is possible to secure' property farplbllc purposes for less than It Is Fort Myers needs the -'Langfo'rd property. Let everybody 'pet' May and raise the necessary mbnojf dooe Simon RoBin.i Mannie Stern, Joe Stern, Vt, ahu Roberta are all to edntjfqtaiaWd tn-tVir In. hmw of jfofi city and the people thereof.

DISTRICT OFFICtiiL OF LEGION AUXILIARY pa. Miss Kinaia Lathfnp of BraleatoH win pay Offlf Ul tall la Cfty Miss. Emma Lathrop, Ifrsf district of Amerltfali Legion auxiliary, department-ot Florida, will be in Fort 'MyeN making an' annual official ytfit of auxiliary in tie' first congressional district, over which has charge. Miss Lathrop, whoVe home is in Bradenton, is well knows In -Legion and auxiliary circles ot Florida. ana Mrs.

Watt Lawler prealdent of the'l'qft Myers auxiliary 1 especially" fcnJlous that all members be Monday night to receive thelf The official visit Of Lathrop falls oh the regular meotipf night ot the auxiliary and a Special program has been planned lu hef honot. Southern Mountaineers In Pictures at Church Pictures, ot the mlseion ork among tlfSouthern nvounlalna, wll be unownvt the evening service si the Presbyterian church Sunday. The mountain people ot the South-are amone- the most lnteTfesttngtnd most truly Americah, ot.any people In the country. v- Girl's Club Meeting, Is Well Attended Miss Lynn.McNutt' Weni' to, Alva Thursday, Lester Fox, where she had two meeUits. one with the women' clut and the other with the girls' club.

11 She had a meeting ot the glrl 1ul. at the Gwynne Institutes yesterday and the attendance was so large -that the club was divided into." sections ind Mrs. Clinton Hollcfc Mrs.v Llde Truluck appointed asaiataht Instructors. At future" meeting's the. teachers have agreed to assist.

MOON AND TIDES New Moon: p. m. First Quarter: 3rd, .6:18 p. in; Full Moon: 11th. a.

m. Last Quarter: 19th, 12:38 p.m.' (AT CRESCEJfT.BSACn) Satnnlay, Xoyeiabor 22nd Hlfh Tides: and 11:43 p.m. Low Tides: 4:51 a.ra. and Sunday, SSrl High Tide: 18:15 p.m. Low Tides: Monday, KotemWr fltk High Tides: 12:20 A.m.

and Low Tides: IMJa.tn, The active pall bearers will be Mai-, operator and tho farm laborers and colm Jennings of Columbus, George their families. These will S. Van Fleet. E. K.

Uhler, J. F. classified as under or over ten dergast, O. S. Rapp, Dr.

Carl Sawyer, years of age and as white or colored. C. D. Schaffner and J. A.

Schroeter, The extent to which farm operators all of Marlon and old friends of Mrs. jused the purchasing and selling faelli-Harding. i ties of farmers' organisations will Palestine Seeks to Clear Up Land Titles JERUSALEM, Nov. 22 A complete real estate survey is the latest reform to be introduced in the Holy Land by the British administration, which announces the engagement of "an who was lately advisor to the i Egyptain ministry of finance and previously inspector of the survey, de- partment of the This expert advise 'the government on, the etVmpletlon of the survey of Palestine; and on the best method of undertake Ing a land settlement. The agricultural progress of Palestine is' greatly hampered by the existence of many disputed land titles and undcrtcrmined boundaries, as well a3 by other defects in the land system inherited from the Turkish regime, i Because of disputed titles' Zionist institutions and Individual Jewish colonists are still experiencing difficult be brought out by answers to Inquir-1 Thomas the remainder of his Hill ies as to the kind of road adjoining Crest addition, consisting of ten lots the farm, whether concrete, brick, i and a good house.

The deal was macadam, gravel. Improved dirt, or nuido by Joe.Sandberg and the con-unimproved dirt, and the distance to slderation Is understood to be around the nearest market town, Through $3,000. Soldiers Ordered To Marlon WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. A detach ment of 100 men with the necessary officers were ordered from Fort Haynes at Columbus, to proceed to Marion today, by the war department, for duty in connection with the funeral of Mrs.

Harding. Motorists Warned Against Fakers WASHINGTON, Nov. 22. Warning against "fly-by-night" "concerns en gaged in selling meaningless "service contracts" and against fake insurance and motor organizations was issued TURKISH PREMIER QUITS (Hj- Th Aioi'lrttert 1'res) CONSTANTINOPLE. Nov.

22. Ismet Pasha, Turkish premier, resigned today because ot ill health. Dethl Hey is to be his successor. hearing on plant and animal life; motorlsts throughout the coun- tributlon of the intensity of gravity; (ry Thomas Henry, president of! distribution, relative abundance and! the American Automobile Association, ui mis cuaracier me v.eii-j sus seeKs to secure iniormntion rcia- tlve t0 conditions upon which to a considerable degree the success of lfarnl operation depends. HoNda U-iimiih Tho department of commerce has completed tho rreliminary flrKaniza-j tion of the field work on tho census of agriculture for tha Slate of Flor- Ida, and announces the names and I addresses of the supervisors of the I three districts into which, the state! has been divided for census purposes, together with the probable number of (continued on page 2) i interrelations of various forms of' plant and animal life; visibility under different atmospheric conditions; height, length and velocity of ocean waves, and the location and extent ot fields of static and electro-static disturbances and investigations ct other (continued on.

page 2) ies in purchasing land. r-ven alter the completloin of a transaction, the i-icAfV tha owner to sell is freauent- I ly jiKstioned by squatters who claim ownership of the land they cultivate, with resulting delay in throwing ope.i I lares areas; for tntensive CUltivation. I.