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FORT MYERS, SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 10. 1934. FIVE CENTS A COPY MS Steel Strike Goes to Vote Of Workers Voting Starts Tomorrow in Run-off Races Billion for Federal Roads Voted by Congress; Drought Need Fixed at 500 Millions Toll of Hurricane Mounts as Floods Sweep Honduras -s States Called Upon to Match Quarter of Billion Next Two Years Survivors Clinging to Treetops Awaiting Rescuers After Big Storm STORM WAUMXU a WASHINGTON, June (PC) The weather bureau tonight luuiwwl lununiii nun ill trai ning: "Advisory 0:15 p. m.

Tropic, al disturbance of moderate In-tensity central 'i north III) west northweM wiird nhotit -ight miles mt hour accompanied li.v winds of jralo force near renter, caution advised vessels in southwestern (iulf of Mexico next 21 hours." This Ih the hurricane which wept Salvador and Honduras In Central America. The location fixed In tlio storm warning Is off the coast of Yucatan and the direct loo Is toward Mexico, across the gulf from Florida. PKOGRKSO, Vucatan, Juno 0 MP) A 4 5-milo gale struck ProgreHO today forcing all ships to sea for safety and sinking several small craft In the harbor. No casualties were reported. It Ih feared the hurricane cauHed considerable damage to crops between here and Bayo OblHpo.

TEGCCIC.ALPA. Ilunilur June 9 Uncounted deaths from drowning and survivor clinging to treetops awaiting rescue from flood waters six feet deep were described today in reported from the east coast of Honduras. Plantations? of the American-owned United Fruit company are reported under water In a wid" Mrea surrounding the city of f7imlenta. Property losses in Plmlenta alone were estimated a. J500.000.

Hundreds of cattle havft drowned. Tie flood followed torrent inl rains, almost continuous time last Sunday, accompanying the tropical storm that laid waste to Kan Salvador. All rail traffh; to the bairma region on the Atlantic coast has been Kiisi'endcd owing to floods. Prices of foodstuffs in Teguci. galpa are increasing rapidly.

Heads are Impassable and telephone and telegraphic communl-l at Ions with the interior are out. Mamma one Flooded! The town of Progreso In tho Tela district, a zone rich in banana plantations, was reported half flooded. being at the con-fluence of twe rivers which are rising hourly. It was feared casualties In the I'lmienta district would he heaviest of all. The city was reported totally under water.

Many foreigners, includln; Americans, live in the district. Lack of communications made it Impossible to determine their fate. The council of ministers met with the president today to discuss means of helping Inhabitants Inn Hli-lcken zone unil esneci- to Cut Light Bills Gels Inventor In Jail MIAMI. June 9(P) Chiefly because he neglected to issue directions with his device to reduce electric current bills, C. V.

Pat-ton today was sentenced to serve six months in the county jail. Patton pleaded guilty to tampering jvith an electric meter by connecting: ji device, which he told the court he manufactured for $2 and sold for $10, that reversed the polarity and caused the meter tirun backwards. His arrest came after one user of the device had left it connected too long and the monthly meter reading showed the power company owed the consumer $5. To an investigator posing as a prospective buyer, Patton last night demonstrated how with his device the meter operated in reverse although all the lights in the house were on and an electric heater in use. Pepper Toes Line To Start Tuesday In Run-off Event Will Kaee From IVnsaeola To Key ViVht in 11 Campaign Days JACKSONVILLE, June .9 Claude Pepper, the young fellow who finished the first heat of the senatorial sweepstakes right on the heels of Park Trammell last Tuesday, will start from Pensacola next Tuesday and run all the way to Key West in the final two weeks of the second primary campaign.

With enthusiastic supporters from all over the state he mapped out his campaign here today. His plans call for visiting all of the 67 counties in the 11 campaign days that will remain after his opening gun in Pensacola. He will speak in as many of them as possible. Supporters who met with Pepper here were confident in their predictions of a decisive victory on June 26. The most conservative estimates put his expected majority at Huidreds ot Mitchell, Sikes and Wells voters were listed by name as having joined the Pepper forces nd substantial ''bandwagon" defections from Trammell were reported fiom sections in which the senator was high man.

Pepper carried 38 of the C7 counties. Hails Roosevelt Message Mr. said he would light out the campaign on the lines drawn in the first primary, with particular emphasis on his platform in the lisht of President message. The message mentioned specifically several New-Deal planks in the Pepper platform and included all of them in the general scope of the administra tion program for the next session of congress. "The president has said wonder fully we 1 what I have been trying to convey to the people of Florida in my campaign," said Mr.

Pepper. "I cannot improve upon his statement of the issues. All I can say now is what I said when I announced my candidacy, that I am heart and soul with the New Deal and 100 per cent for Roosevelt. "I have never doubted that the measures of social justice which (Continued on Page Three) Negro Attack Fatal To Wounded Woman DELAN'D, June 9 W) Wounded late Thursday night at her home near Pierson, Mrs. Helena T.

Lou-cakis, 40, died in a hospital here today. said Monrose Hasty and Adolphes King, negroes arrested in connection with the shooting and held in jail in another county, would be charged with murder. Dionne Babies In Maternity CORBHIL. Ontario. June 9- (JP) All now cozlly housed in separate incubators, the Dionne quintuplets today continued to show growing strength, and three of them gained weight in the last twenty-four hours.

Two remained unchanged-Yvonne and Annette and they are the heaviest of the lot. The total gain for the day was sufficient to bring the total weight of all five little girls to ten pounds, three and one-fourth ounces. Dr. A. It.

Pafoe, the attending physician, who brought the girls into the world a week ago last Monday, expressed satisfaction with the new arrangement under which each has her individual in- Gadget I Alhury unci Gomez Here to Seek Franklin Votes In Contest for State Senate With absentee voting to start tomorrow, the state senatorial battle, one of the feature events of the Becond primary, moved to the Fort Myerg front from Key West yesterday with the arrival of Senator Arthur Gomez and William V. Alhury, rival Monroe county candidates for the nomination. Jioth Senator Gomez and Mr. Alhury have their eyes on the Lee county votes cast for Jim Franklin last Tuesday and arc shaping their campaigns in an effort to (rapture that vote. There are also some 300 Krnuklln votes In Hendry county and half that many In Collier which will be Important in determining tlio final result.

Doth Alhury and Gomez expect to spend most of their time In the mainland counties from now until Juno 26, with Fort Myers as headquarters. After Franklin Voles Alhury was high man In every precinct In Key West last Tuesday and his backers said he would not only hold his lead of 364 over Gomez but would annex the 90 Franklin votes and pick up enough more to have a majority of at least 500 in Monroe county in the second go-round. IU also counts on most of the Franklin votes in Hendry county which he said were anti-Gomez. Franklin and Gomez ran neck and neck In Hendry with Gomez high man. 333 to 332.

and Albury more than 100 behind. The Gomez backers do not concede Albury a 500 majority in Monroe county but are laying their lines to offset it In Lee county. They believe they can capture the Franklin votes in Collier county and count on that to more than offset any Albury gain in Hendrj ounty. Tli'c Lie comity ballot will be short this time. City voters will have only five contests to decide.

United States Benator, state seti- (Continucd on Pae Two) Milk War Leaders Flog Price Cutter Georgia Farmer Kidnaped And Beaten With Heavy Strap ATLANTA, June 9-()-MiIk war terrorists today made good their threat of "something worse" by kidnaping anil beating Carl Kaplan into near unconsciousness with leather straps. Kaplan was seized at his dairy last night by three men who posed as officers with a warrant for his arrest, taken several miles into the country and lashed. Picked up near the scene of the attack early today, Kaplan showed a badly lacerated back and hips and said the men beat him until they became too tired to whip him more. He told police he could identify the kid-napcr-floggers. Several days ago a brick was thrown through Kaplan's window with a nne threatening ''something worse" if ho did not stop selling milk below a price agreed upon by most of the dairies in Fulton (Atlanta) county and adjoining De-Kalb county.

Several DeKalb dairymen (much of Atlanta lies in that county) reported sticks of dynamite had been found in their barns with warnings that something worse would happen if thoy did not increase their prices. Night prowlers emptied milk cans at other dairies. Police of both counties today intensified a search for the marauders. Browning Slayers Given Life Terms QUITMAN, June 9(P) R. Z.

Chaney, and Travers Erwin today were sentenced to prison for the rest of their lives after they were convicted of the slaying four years ago of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Browning, concluding a case that for a time was one of south Georgia's most baffling murder mysteries.

Attorneys for the two later filed a motion for a new trial and Judge Thomas set August 11 for a hearing on the motion In Val-dosta. The Brooks county jury, deliberating since last night, today found them guilty with a recommendation for mercy, and Judge W. E. Thomas sentenced to life. Neither made a Johnson Wins Agreement Hy Union Leaders to Let Men Consider Arbitration WASHINGTON, June 9 The government gained ground against its biggest strike threat today when General Hugh John-eon extracted from steel labor union representatives a promls't to put up to their convention June 11 his proposal that a mediation board attempt to avert a general strike in the industry, tentatively called for June 16.

explanations for calling the convention of steel workers were given, one by General the recovery udminl.dratoi-and chief peace negotiator in the controversy, and the other by Mike K. Tighe. international president of the Amalgamated As. soclatlon of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. Johnson said the urpose of the meeting was to decide whether the workers would accept the plan for a three-man, neutral adjudication board for labor disputes In the industry.

Tighe told reporters the "express purpose was to consider and make final arrangements" for carrying out a seven-point program, drafted at an April convention of the Union and primarily concerned with the demand for union recognition. Also Included in the program were questions of hours and wages. Workers Disgusted Their explanations of the con. vention were made after a prolonged meeting between th workers and Johnson. Of those emerging from the conference, William J.

Spang, of the so-called rank and file committee, said he was "disgusted" and proposed to go home. Two hours later, virtually the last of the workers' delegation had packed their bags and left the capital for their steel town homes. Before they left, however, they fired a last shot in the form of an open letter to President Roosevelt, which said that: "If you really mean to abide by your own recovery law. the least you can do is to summon the steel manufacturers to Washington for a genuine collective bargaining conference." The letter said it was "useless for us to waste any more time in Washington in the national run around, rejecting traps set loins" and added that "we are re. turning home t6 prepare for act ion." Other Strikes At Janesville.

employes of the Fisher Rody company said they obtained promises of favorable wage adjustments and a (Continued on Page Two) Florida Girl Gets Puerto Rico Post TALLAIfASSl.CH, Juno 9 ') Appointment of Miss Mary IC. Keown of Iieland to orgnni.e home demonstration work in Puerto Rico was announced here today. Miss Keown now is district a cent for the Florida home demonstration department. Her appointment to the Puerto Kico was made by W. ('.

W'arburtori, director of extension work of the I'nited States department of agriculture. Miss Keown Is to assume her new duties early in subject to obtaining a b-ave of absence from the Florida department. She was connected with the federal department of agriculture In Washington before coming to Florida. Gain Weight Incubators cubator. The danger of Infection is much less, he said, One indication of growing strength is that all five now have developed strong howls, in con-1 trast to the wailing, whining cries with which they formerly express-l ed their views.

Dr. Dafoe was chuckling today over what he termed the "prize" address of any of the numerous letters he has received from all over the world. The letter, postmarked Harrisburgh, Ohio, was directed to: "The doctor in charge of the quintuplets," North woods, Canada. He did not. reveal the contents of the communication.

Most of the letters offer advice on care of the babies. Americans Rattle 11 Pennies Less Than Last Month WASHINGTON. June 9 (P) Americans are rattling 11 cents less in their pockets than a month ago. That is the treasury's computation of money in circulation. Per capita it is reported at $12..

15 as compared with 1 2. IH at the end of April. Total money outside (he treasury and federal reserve banks is placed. by the treasury at This compares with a total monetary stock of NRA Denies Plan To Disturb Codes Fixing Fair Prices iVo Clianpes lo le Ordered In Agreements Except After Inquiry WASHINGTON, June 9-(n Despite a new declaration of policy against price-fixing in codes, it was made clear today that NRA, would move slowly in making the program effective. The disturbance in coded industries caused by initial announcement of the administration decision caused Hugh S.

Johnson to hasten to say that nothing would be done without negotiations with the code authorities and then carefully. Except for such negotiations and with the added qualification that no change will be suggested "without particular relation to the particular conditions in that industry," Johnson insisted that the policy applied to future codes. Few of these are to come since NRA has decided to put all the little industries remaining, nearly 500 of them, under a general code until they can be worked into group" codes for allied lines. Consumers Disappointed Johnson' explanation, made under great pressure from a number of industries, brought a reaction of strong disappointment to the consumer groups and others who had applauded the policy announcement. Privately many said that it appeared the explanation interpreted the policy half out of existence.

Johnson hopes, however, to negotiate virtually throughout indus try an elimination of provisions for open price reporting which may make for collusive bidding, artificial and unwarranted stabilization, or domination of an industry by big plants. The policy calls for neutral, confidential reporting agencies, elimination of the five or ten day period of posting before a price becomes effective, the right to reduce prices immediately and increase them on 48 hours notice. Many Price Agreements Of the first 400 codes approved by NRA 213 have some open price provision and 171 declare a waiting period, but more than a third of the latter have been suspended. The outright price-fixing provisions are much fewer, through an overwhelming number of codes prohibit sales below cost. Thorough price fixing provisions exist in the natural resource codes, lumber, oil and bituminous coal, while the trade codes, wholesale and retail generally provide for minimum prices fixed on individual cost plus a labor allowance.

These probably will be left alone. The grocers' code authority said the new price policy would more firmly imbed into NRA fundamentals the price protections of their pact. The others will get close scrutiny and probably will be amended largely on the basis of consumer complaints. Indiana Angler Gets 118 Pound Silver King Fighting, with his only weapon a heavy rod, reel and strong line, Harold Leamons of Greenfield, finally brought to gaff a 118-pound tarpon in one hour and 20 minutes. The large silver king was hooked in Carlos pass from the fishing launch of C.

C. Trowbridge. Three other members of the fishing quartet, Ray Oliver, Dave Mitchell and George Davis, here from Indianapolis failed to connect with any of the silver fighters, but plan to remain until tomorrow in hopes of landing a tarpon apiece. Roosevelt Asks Huge Sum for Program Of Relief in Midwest WASHINGTON, June 9 (TP) President Itoo.ovclt asked congress today Tor $525,000, 000 for drought relief in a message that coincided with reports of showers and rains over much of the dry a re a. Paradoxically, there was flood dancer from the Floyd and Big Sioux rivers because of heavy rains in southeastern South Dakota, northwestern Iowa and southwestern Minnesota.

The weather bureau said the unusually heavy downpours brought the Floyd river to Its highest stage since "the disastrous flood of 1892." Mr. Ilnnsevelt proposed to use the half billion dollars appropriation to carry out thn program agreed upon with members of congress from the dry belt. The chief executive said the estimates were tentative but he outlined the following provisional allocations: 11 25,000,000 for special work program and human relief. To Ituy Cattle for livestock purchases In addition lo available under the Jones-Connally act. $100,000,000 for shipping, processing and relief distribution of purchased cattle.

$100,000,000 for loans to farmers to finance emergency feed purchases and shipments. tor work camps to acquisition of sub-marginal farms and assistance in relocating destitute farm families. $50,005,000 for work-camps to afford employment in the drought area for young men principally from cities and towns. 25.000,000 for the purchase ot seed for 1935 plantings, and for loans to get seed into farmers' bands. The appropriation was expected (Continued on Page Three) Bandits Rob Same Bank Third.

Time HoltixT Hurt in Illuming Gunfire Willi Magnolia Citizen MAGNOLIA, N. June 9 Two members of a bandit gang who had broken into the bank of Magnolia during the night and hiiidcn atop the vault, appeared suddenly with barking guns just after the hank opened today, obtained $M( and escaped in a hail of lead after wounding two men. J. N. Home, assistant cashier, suffered a scalp wound, and T.

M. Rogers, operator of a filling station near the bank, was shot in the log as he ran out with other citizens to tire on the fleeing bandits. One of the bandits was believed wounded. Officers said a citizen tiled a load of buckshot which spattered admit a door of the bandit machine as the robber was entering the car. The two gunmen who had lain in wait in the bank joined companions in two automobiles and both cars ecapi-d.

Officers did not know how many robbers were in the gang. L. K. Pope, policeman who was on guard at the bank which had been robbed twice before within the past IS months, said he was dis cussing with Jlornc the advisability of investigating the car with the Virginia license in front of the bank when the bandits leaped from on top the vault, tiring their weapons. Tlie officer jumped outside the front, dour, tiring back at the robbers.

In a moment, the two bandits, had wounded Home, gathered up the money and escaped from the building. Road Officials Meet At Sebring Monday TALLAHASSKK, June 9 (') Officials of the state road department will go to Sebring tomorrow for the quarterly meeting of he depart put Monday. Highway beautiftcation, aviation field development, wider highway rights-of-way and other matters will be discussed. Chairman C. H.

Tread way will preside. In Trouble or failing to pay a luxury tax on her .11 -carat, diamond sparkler, Jenny Dolly was fined 1 1 1(1(1, iiH.l in ncs in I'uria court. Dolly Twin Fined 11 Million Francs For Evading Tax Pretty Danrrr May Co lo Juil for Hiding IIuc Diamond Kin" 1'AitlS, June ft (iP) A fine of exactly 1 1 1 6 2 5 francs approximately was Imposed today on Jenny Dolly, one of the iV-nring Dollv twins, for evading t'-ynuttt of luxury tax on a M-carat diamond ring she purchased in 192S. The court uIho sentenced her to tlireo days In Jail, but suspended that portion of the punishment. Miss Dolly, who was not present when the heavy tine was announced, is expected to appeal the sentence, her friends said.

If she loses in the higher courts and is ii liable lo pay, she would be liable to a prison sentence of sev eral months. Increase of tins value' of the dollar in terms of the franc figured In the high American equivalent of the fine. The ring was bought In Cannes for 4,583,836 francs, equivalent at that time to $185,000. The luxury tax, which was not paid, would have been about $32,500. At the trial.

Miss Dolly testified that her secretary had been responsible for the whole transaction and that she was unaware that the tax law had been evaded. The ring later was sold for francs at an auction of Miss Dolly's jewels. Parents Tape Mouths Of Small Children PONTIAC, June 9 (A1) A charge was pending to day against the parents of two small children whom police found tied to a bed, their mouths taped shut, while their mother and father were out for the evening. The parents, Raymond dc liar-rold, 31-year-old mechanical engineer, and his wife, Maybclle, 2(5, will appear in circuit court some day next week to plead to the charge that they "wilfully, unlawfully and cruelly" punished their children. Assistant Prosecutor Patrick S.

Lynch said the maximum penalty upon conviction was from five to ten years in prison. The children, Neonia, 6, and Raymond Eugene, 4, are in the county juvenile home, where they will remain at least until disposition is made of the case against their parents. Attendants said they seemed happy and showed no marks of ill treatment, except those left by the crossed strips of tape which bound their mouths tightly shut when police found them. No action has been started to take the children permanently from their parents. W.ISHIU'UN O.M I AT KI WORCESTKR, June 9 (P) Robert M.

Washburn, writer, president of the (Theodore) Roosevelt club of Massachusetts and stormy figure in republican politics In the Bay State, tonight was endorsed by the republican state convention as Its choice to challenge David I. Walsh, democrat, for the seat he holds In the Pnited Slfiles senate, ft WWlUWIMwl WASHINGTON, Juno 9 (4 Congress today teat President Roosevelt a three year program that will involve an expenditure of upwards of a billion dollar for roads if carried out. In quick succession, house and senate gave final approval to tho Cartwright bill authorizing federal appropriations totaling between five and six hundred million dollars and state matching expenditures of another quarter billion dollara. They approved a conference report which broadly expanded a modest measure introduced some tinio ago by Chairman Cartwright of the house roadj committee. Cartwright said the outcome was "far beyond our expectations." His measure had called for authorization of $460,000,000 to be spent as congress saw fit to appropriate It, without the states' having to put up any matching funds.

Congress ISoosts Total Although that figure was pared down to $224,000,000, congress went much further in providing for continuing the normal federat aid program in 1936 and 1937 fiscal years. To that end, the measure carried authorization for $125,000,000 to be each of those years, upon condition the states match it with an equal amount. In addition, for each of tho same two years, $10,000,000 Is provided for forest highways, for main roads through public lands. J7. 500, 000 for road and trails in national parks and $4,000,000 for Indian reservation roads.

To Ituild Feeder ltoatls The $224,000,000 that does not have to be matched includes $200,000,000 for roads in states. 25 per cent of which must bo spent on so-called "feeder" roads unless state laws prohibit, and $24,000,000 for national park and other government land roads. The deficiency appropriation bill now before the senate carries $100,000,000 for outright highway allocations to states, or about half of the general non-matching road fund authorized in the Cartwright bill. In addition, the measure provides that up to $10,000,000 may be spent for emergency construction, such as roads and structures destroyed by earthquakes or other natural catastrophes. The bill, expected to be signed by President Itoosevelt the first of next week, stipulates that a state must reserve for roadbuilding purposes an amount of receipts from gasoline taxes at least equal to federal highway act specifications.

Officials Fear Fate Of Lost Airliner NEWARK, June 10 (Sunday) MP) An American Airliner which took off from here late Saturday for Kuffalo was hours overdue early today and fears were expressed for the safety of the four passengers and crew of three. The plane was unreported since leaving here. Police of five states were engaged in, a search for it. Airline officials, admitting they were "worried," held hopes the plane had landed in an isolated section removed from communication lines. The plane was piloted by Clyde Holbrook, veteran flier.

Others of the crew were "Tat" Barron, co-pilot, and Miss Margaret Huckerby, stewardess. The passengers were: W. A. Cass; H. Coppins, and W.

B. Bader, oil of Buffalo, and H. Pins-ley of New York. AHSKNTI IC VOTES Absentee voters for the necond primary, June 2fi, can cast their votes in the office of County Judgo David KImer Ward Monday, THE WEATHER lu Fort Myers yesterday (June 1, High K. 10 mile east wind, paid) cloudy, barometer a.

and UO.OI (M p. Forecast; Partly cloudy scattered showers tixhiy Monday, moderate to fret.li southeast winds. Tide at. Fort Myers bench: High 5:. a.

m. and p. low sets 7:2 p. in. C.lly to rush aid to those still marooned.

Advices from authorities at Potrrrlllos to the government bero reported more than 125 buildings destroyed at Plmlenta. They said udvices just received had Informed them new floods were menacing In the uplands. Advice from La Lima said the Important Santiago plantations were menaced. Since Thursday no word ban been received from the cities of Choluteca and Nacaome In the southern zone, reported that time to be seriously menaced by floods. Communications is cut off.

SALVADOR LAID LOW SAN SALVADOR, Salvador, June 9(P) (by Pan-American Airways wireless) A heavy death toll and property loss which will run far into the millions will be shown In the final check up of the damage done by Thursday's hurricane, belated reports from eix provinces indicated today. Still cut off from communications with the Interior and the outside world by ordinary means, 8art Salvador was pushing reconstruction work in an effort to te-etore light and water systems and to prevent an outbreak of disease. Persons who reached her afoot or by mule back reported that the provinces, of La Paz, Cabanas, Avusxanan, ijuiaian, tan viceme i JKiid Miguel were nara nit ry me high wind and rain which took eight or more lives in the capital and rendered BOO persons homeless..