News-Press from Fort Myers, Florida • Page 1

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i FORT 1IYERS, FLJL, MONDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1937 FIVE CENTS A COPY MYE 3 Sit Down Strikers Boats Remove Flood Zone Refugees Loyal Blasts Trap Rebels; New Alcazar Told to Hold Post In N(3tv Car Crisis Funeral Today For Dr. Baird, City Booster Came Here as Visitor in 1916; Aided in Early-Citrus and Realty Developments 150 Reformatory Inmates Escapt In Canadian Ulot GDTLPH, Ont, Jan. 17 (Canadian Press) Prisoners nit wild in the Ontario reformatory tonight in a 'riot and P-rising during which officials said they feared as many as 150 inmates escaped. tsing fire and weapons fashioned from pieces of furniture, the Comida swept throogh sections of the institution to cause damage tentatively estimated tt "fS00, 000. At a late hour tonight, combined forces of reformatory gaards and city and provincial police appeared to hare the situation under control after an -afternoon and evening of pandemonium.

One hundred provincial and city police joined staff in rounding up the riotous prisoners who smashed furniture and fixtures, burned bed-clothing and apparently destroyed everything they could lay their hands on. D.Henry Dies in New York; Prominent Visitor Democratic Leader Backed McAdoo Against Smith In 1924 Convention I III i it Ji til, rX i i HflA I i1 iiifif mimm A i l-rixi r. i v. A boat removes children to higher ground as the Black river rises around their home in East Poplar Bluff, Mo. Such scenes "were common in southeast Missouri as national guardsmen evacuated more than 100 families, and one thousand WPA workers strengthened seawalls.

2,000 Spectators Attend Air Show, Young Roosevelt And Miss duPont Invited to Ball Franklin D. Boosevelt, Jr and Miss Ethel duPont, who are spending three weeks at Boca Grande as the guests of her parents, will be extended a personal invitation to attend the fourth annual Boosevelt Birth-, day ball which will be held in Fort Myers on Friday night, Jan. 29, at the municipal auditorium. The invitation will be presented by Thomas Howard, general chairman of the local Boosevelt Birthday' ball committee, and Whit Ansley, who, will fly to Boca Grande Tuesday afternoon. The purpose of the ball is to raise funds for the relief of sufferers from infantile paralysis and SO per cent of the proceeds are sent to the Warm Springs, Ga foundation and the remaining SO per cent tained to benefit Lee -county sufferers.

President Roosevelt's birthday anniversary falls on Saturday, Jan. SO, but on acroant of it being Saturday the dance will be held on the eve of Jiis birthday. Seminole chapter, De-Molay alumni for a second year, is assisting with the arrangements. President Roosevelt is grand master councilor of the Order of DeMolay. Want Road Patrol, Legion Tells Cone ORLANDO, Jan.

17 LB The American Legion's mid-winter conference here adopted resolutions condemning the state highway department's action in abolishing the road patrol and border guard. The resolutions called upon Gov. Fred P. Cone to re-establish the patrol at once. The road board last week voted to end, the border guard against penniless hitchhikers immediately and to end the road patrol after this month.

The board said it was acting on orders from Governor Cone, whose inaugural address Jan. 5 said tha patrol was estab Dynamite Onslaught Seeks To Run Fascists From University City Hospital MADRID, Jan. 17 OP) Socialist troops dynamited the right wing of Clinic hospital today and "trapped a large force of fascists who manned machine guns from an upper floor to stand siege. In striking parallel to the siege of Alcazar last summer, when insurgents held out in underground dungeons for many weeks until rescued by fascist comrades, the Madrid troops set off the dynamite mine at 7 a. m.

They had prepared for the attack throughout the night and tried to storm the hospital, sprawled over many acres in northwest Madrid, at once. The blast destroyed the staircase in the hospital wing and the insurgents were cut off from escape on an upper floor. There they installed machine guns and awaited The operating-room and theater of the hospial, "where the insurgents had concentrated powerful machine gun nests, were reported destroyed. Madrid militia swarmed through the battered lower floors and sniping battles went on throughout the day with a detachment of fascist besiegers of Madrid themselves under siege. Cold, Rain and Fog The government troops pushed operations in other sections of University City, also, particularly in the region about the philosophy building.

Cold, heavy rain and fog restricted action elsewhere. For weeks the fascists have dung to University City positions, despite repeated government attacks. The fascists have, how-; ever, been unable thus far to penetrate toward the center of the capital. Today marked the end' of the sixth month since the civil war broke out in Morocco, a period in which Spain has been torn by internal strife unparalleled "in her history for property destruction and joss of life- appears certain to observers here that, the whole course of Spanish social history' has been changed. For the first time, the Spanish people, at least in that part of the country held by the socialist government, have themselves come into power.

Thousands of men who hitherto held small-salaried Jobs now are being placed in positions of power and authority as heads of defense councils, leaders of political units of the socialist-communist government, members of committees which act as local governments or direct factories and other property to which a degree of socialization has been applied. In the six months period socialist regime has ousted from its officialdom, all representatives of the rightist element. Communist leaders for the first time won cabinet posts. Anarchist and other elements have increased their power Joining with Premier Francisco Largo Caballero to combat -the threat of fascist gov- ernment sought by the insurgent Gen. Francisco Franco.

Russia Declines To Bar Volunteers MOSCOW, Jan. 17 UP) While agreeing volunteers should be banned from Spain, Russia declined today to adopt prohibitive measures of her own in a note to the British ambassador. "The Soviet government, although it presently does not practice the dispatch of volunteer detachments, does not consider it expedient to adopt unilateral prohibitive measures," the note said. It was handed to Viscount Chil-ston by Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff last night and was published today after the latter's departure for Geneva. Officials emphasized the note was not a rejection of the British effort to effect a ban by European powers against enlistments in Spain, but it pointed out Russia feels such a measure now would be futile, unfair and premature that the Spanish fascists and those helping them would" be the only side to benefit.

CALIFORNIA FREEZE LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 W-A new cold wave off the Pacific coast sent temperatures to 25 to Ili degrees over most of the California citrus belt tonight. Floyd Young, government meteorologist, said firing of orchard heaters was started in lemon, cr roves, Union Holds General Motors Broke Faith On Eve of Big Conference DETROIT, Jan. 17 (F) The United Automobile Workers of America, claiming a "breach of faith" by General Motors corpora tion, directed its "stay-in strikers to hold their posts two Flint, plants tonight, on the eve of scheduled negotiations with the huge motor car concern for settlement of the widespread automotive tie-up. The union charged General Mo tors negotiated with the "Flint alliance," an organization formed to crystallize senti ment, which last night requested the corporation for a conference to discuss collective bargaining.

A union spokesman said the alli ance "is not a workers organization." Removal of "sit-down' strikers irum uexieiai iu.tji.vis yicniw, ri I nlnni. w. one poms a vuce Friday in the office of Gov. Frank. Murphy, designed to open the way for direct negotiations be- tween the union and corporation officials.

Cadillac and Fleetwood plants in Detroit, and the Guide, Lamp plant at Anderson, were vacated yesterday. Sees Sew Emergency Homer Martin, V. A. W. president, in a telegram to Senator LaFollette, chairman of a special senate committee investi gating civil liberties violations, tonight charged that the request of the alliance headed by George E.

Boysen was "either directly inspired by General Motors or has been handled through strikebreaking detective agencies which would profit by outbreaks of vio lence. Saying an "emergency nas arisen," Martin left for Flint William S. Knudsen, executive vice-president of General Motors, telegraphed Boysen tonight that "we stand ready always to discuss with your group or any group of our employes any questions 'without prejudice to We shall notify you as soon as, possible as to time and place for a meeting." On the union charges that General Motors inspired the alliance's request, Knudsen said, have never talked to Mr. Boysen in my life." His telegram said "we are proceeding in good faith and in accordance with arrangements made last Thursday (when the governor's conference started) in, the hope of opening the plants as soon as possible so that our employes can go back to work" Tfnf ortunate Bequest Governor Murphy, in Detroit, kept in touch with Genesee county (Flint) and General Motors executives. It was learned authoritatively that the governor regarded the alliance request aa "very unfortunate" but believed it would be straightened out tonight, and that he has told tha union he would see that its mass meeting in Flint tonight is unmolested.

Groups not directly party to the negotiations sought to be represented at Murphy's conference with both sides at Lansing, it was learned, but they were excluded. Announcement that strikers in Fisher plants No. 1 and 2 at Flint, had voted to stay in the factories was made this afternoon, as a crowd of 3,000 stood near plant No. 1 in a cold drizzle of rain, to watch the exodus of more than a thousand men who have held the plant since Dec, 30. Officers of 2,300 national guardsmen sent into Flint after riots near the No.

2 plant last Monday in which 27 persons were wounded, said they did not expect any trouble. Victor Reuther, union organizer who is under $50O bond pending a hearing Jan. 31 on charges of inciting to riot, announced from a sound amplifying truck at Flint Continued on Page Twol Weather la Fort Xyers yesterday (Jan. High, 63, loir 63 four-milo southeast windj part elosdyf barometer 60.ll (8 m4 SO.05 (S p. Forecast Moderate easterly-winds and partly overcast wea ther with continued mild temp, eratures.

Tides at Fort 3Tyers Beach i High p. low 1M9 a. m. Sun rises 1 i-Z, seta 6iS. 31 own thin PA Optimistic C.

BASCOM SL.EMP C. Bascom Slemp Looks for 5-Year Era of Prosperity And Even More, Frrhaps; Noted Republican Visits Her-e Five more years of prosperity was predicted for the United States last night by C. Bascom Slemp, former secretary to President Calvin Coolidee, "who arrived for a 10-day visit in Fort Myers. Mr. Slemp saw still "greater prosperity than now due within the next five years and "the possibility of a stabilization and perma nent, good.

period. Mfa whose, Jiome. is at Cap, -Ivjsit 'fo't. Texas where found too coM at the i Frankli Arms, Mc. Slemp played -it he Fort My ersi golf course then returned downtown to Join shuffle-boarders at the city courts.

Later, he said, he may join hi old friend D. Graham Copeland at Everglades for' a fishing trip. Park Big Opportunity Mr. Slemp saw Florida's big opportunity as the proposed Everglades national park -which would preserve two million, acres in South Florida as a bird and game sanctuary with higrxways and beautification on a "wide scale. Mr- Slemp commented that backing for the project should be organized in order to pu fc it through as quickly' as possible, "Th possibilities of such a national park are unlimited," Mr.

Slemp said. "Thousands of visitors would be attracted to Florida annually, The Everglades possess a tropic fauna to be found nowhere else in the United States and the bird life would be unrivaled. In addition to the natural animal life of the Everglades, monkey colonies and even baboons could be imported as an unusual novelty." Knocks Ocala Canal Mr. Slemp viewed trie Caloosahatchee waterway project, near-ing completion, as a valuable asset to Fort Myers and South Florida but was unenthusiastic over proposed digging of the cross-state canal via Ocala Sir. Continued on Twol Society Stages in Afrotnobiles gan with the crack of a.

pistol fired by Kinston Guest, famous ooloist. As an orchestra played "Horses" ana limit for Two" in ac celerated temrx) and trie non-con testants shrieked for their choices from the sidelines, the racers "streaked" around the course. Jam at the Curve A jam at a sharp curve spilled William de Eahm of New, York and Mrs. Henry BixM of Gross Pointe, into th.e path of other racers, but skillful drivinir prevented more serioixs accident Most oi the drivers rolled trousers to the knee. Each of ttie men had a big number pinned to the back of his coat.

Alfred V. leaman of New York raced with the added handicap of a tall top liat. The teams included Mr. and Mrs. Alfred V.

Lehman, New Continued on Pagre Twol A Funeral services will be held at 4 o'clock this afternoon at the Lawrence A. Powell chapel on First street for Dr. John Baird, well-known osteopath who died early yesterday morning at his home on i.ee street after a lengthy illness. The Rev. C.

T. Tew will officiate and the body will be taken Tuesday to Orlando for cremation. Dr. Baird, who first came to Fort Myers in 1916 as a visitor, has made his year-around home here since 1920 and was known as one of the city's most active boosters. Dr.

Baird became noted in osteopathic circles in his work at Battle Creek, where he practiced from 1900 until he came to Fort Myers to make his home. He maintained his osteopathic work here and had a large clientele among winter visitors as well as residents. Dr. Baird first came to Fort Myers for investigating possibilities of the citrus industry. He was so taken with the city that he immediately Joined with others in starting the Fort Myers Groves development on Tamiami Trail.

Dr. Baird also was active in development of Twin Palms graves and was first to start building in Riverside. In addition he held considerable holdings in other properties. One-San Chamber Friends yesterday estimated that Dr. Baird had brought hundreds of friends and home buyers to Fort Myers.

On one occasion in the early days when he first started coming to Fort Myers he organized a party of 30 visitors who visited the city aboard a spe cial Pullman. Another time he had made a movie film of Fort Myers scenes and activities which he carried to Battle Creek for a special show for friends and pa tients at the sanitariums Dr. Baird described yes terday by one friend as a "one-man chamber of commerce." made it a point to greet newcomer he encountered kept a watch for cars with. outh of -state tags in order to extend a welcome. At cafes he was an.

expert at spotting visitors and never missed the Opportunity to make introductions and tell them of Fort Myers' charms. One of Dr. Baird's dreams was for the establishment of a modern sanitarium in Fort Myers. Plans for his sanitarium included a rest center on Lofton's island in the Caloosahatchee just below the Edison bridge. Mrs.

Baird said last night that she would endeavor to carry out the doctor's plans in building the sanitarium. Strike Halts Terre Haute Street Cars TERRE HAUTE, Jan. 17 (ff) All street car and bus service in Terre Haute, a city of 60,000, was halted here today when employes of the Indiana railroad went on strike, demanding a 20 per cent increase in pay. Employes voted to strike at an early morning meeting. Railroad company officials made no attempt to operate cars or buses and the city was without any transportation service.

The inter-urbans from Indianapolis, also operated by the Indiana railroad, were allowed to come only as far as the city limits. The strikers picketed the car barn3 here. Palm Beach Charity Race PALM BEACH, Jan. 17-LT Society's first wheel chair race, a fast dash through the hazardous by-ways of the exclusive Everglades club, ended early today in a tie. Breasting the finish together were the dark-horse teams of George Kamir and Mrs.

M. Dor-land Doyle (the former Pauline Munn) of New York, and Alexander Hess of Philadelphia and his fair passenger, Miss Lillian Feitner of New York. Nineteen teams, with some of eastern society's leading 'figures among the contestants, started the charity race in those combined wheel chairs and bicycles propelled about the winter colony's streets by negroes. Many of the usual drivers were observed pressing advice upon the substitutes just before the race Congress Awaits Keynote Message From Roosevelt Vanclenberg May Call for Accounting on Huge Stabilization Fund WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (IP) President Roosevelt will begin his second term, this week, engaged in a spectacular conflict with the Bupreme court and with congress directing itself to action on his legislative, program.

On Wednesday at he will stand before a throng at the capital comprising mighty of the nation and its humbler'' citizens and receive the traditional, oath of office 'from Chief Justice Hughes. Then he- Will, deliver an address to which Washington is lodking forward as sounding- the keynote of his second administration and expanding the definition of 3i objectives3' outlined1' in his -recent messages' to congress." r' For congress, the day be an interim in a week mainly de-Toted to carrying forward the. president's partially outlined of approving 'the continuation or extension of laws enacted at his urging in days when the New Deal was young. More Devaluation The senate on Tuesday will begin consideration of i bill to prolong the president's authority to devalue the dollar, already once exercised, and to continue the stabilization fund, that 00 pile of gold with, which the treasury endeavors to keep the currency on an even keel. Administration leaders hoped to push the measure to passage by nightfall but were uncertain whether that could be done.

From the numerically feeble republican minority came indications of opposition, which some thought would prolong the debate until Thursday. The stabilization fund is a sore subject with Senator Vandenberg, a leader on the republican side, and while he would not reveal his plans there was a possibility that he might demand an accounting of how thes fund has been used. The house on Tuesday will start work on a bill continuing the Reconstruction corporation, and on Thursday, the ways and means committee proposes to take up a measure extending for three years the law under which the Continued on Page Two Divorce Cash Residence Bill Georgia's seaboard resort area, Barrett said. Already there are exclusive hotels for seasonal tourists in Augusta, Thomasville, Savannah and Sea Island. Even with present divorce statutes Barrett's home town of Augusta has nearly three divorces for every marriage.

Lawyers attribute this to the city's location on the border of Georgia and South Carolina, the latter without any provision for divorce. The 1936 score stood: Marriages 157, divorces 504. On the other hand, South Carolina gets the marriage trade because that state does not require five days notice of intention to wed, as Georgia does. Aiken, S. nearby resort center, had 1,935 marriagres last year.

400 Go for Ride Parachute Jumper Lands In Palmettos, Clown Excites Crowd Two thousand persons motored out. to the airport yesterday afternoon to see the air show. Most of the afternoon was taken up with passenger hops but when business was dull the boys would go up and give the crowd a thrill with loops, rolls and other stunts. Art Sewell, a parachute jumper, made a leap from about 3,000 feet and Glenn Hoffman, nationally known speed pilots took time off from his passenger business to go up and give the crowd some thrills in his high-powered stunt plane. J.

O. Dock-ery, famous for his stunts in a tri- motored, was kept busy all afternoon hopping passengers and did not get chance to do any stunts, much tne of the crowd. 'i The air-shbw was stolen by Bill btraumeir, representative of the Taylor Aircraft Co. of Bradford, flying a little Cub with a 40-horsepower motor and having a speed of about 70 miles an hour. He turned this little plane every way but loose, doing loops, rolls, power dives and a lot of things that big planes could not do.

The crowd was most amazed when Straumeir came on the field on a bicycle dressed in a pair of pa jamas and a big straw hat on his head and chased a plane down the runway. He came back and took off in the little Taylor Cub, pre tending he could not fly. Stunting very close to the ground, he then flew low over the crowd and shout ed out "How do you get this thing down To close the show Hoffman took Sewell up 3,000 feet where Sewell bailed out to come down in the woods south of the field, landing unharmed in a palmetto clump. Dockery and his tri-niotored Stinson hopped passengers all af ternoon on into the night until about 12 o'clock. The Stinson was equipped with flying lights, land ing lights and also instruments for blind or night flying.

The show was brought here and sponsored by the Virginia Air Service, in an effort to stimulate the interest in aviation around Fort Myers. Airport officials said last night that approximately 400 cash customers had gone up either for the short circle over Fort My ers or the longer air jaunt to Fort Myers Beach and back. Dr. Butler Knocks Child Labor Laws NEW YORK, Jan. 17 (If) Dr.

Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, announced today he had written to the governors of 19 states, ex pressing opposition to the pro posed child labor amendment. He described himself as "a long-time worker against child labor" and expressed the hope the legislatures of the respective states would reject a proposal that "has no direct relationship to child labor." "It should be called the youth control amendment," he wrote, "for its purpose is to put some 42.000,000 of the nation's population, being all those less than 13 years of age, under the direct control of the congress of the United States. "The home, the school and the church would, lose the protection whfch tradition and our fundamental principles have given them, D. Hendry Brown, 86-year-old winter resident, prominent democrat and New Yorkf state died late Saturday in Harkness pavilion, New York City," it was learned, here Funeral services will be held Long Island, Mr. Brown regular visitor to Fort Myers Cilice 1928 and has-been- actively interested in democratic the Lee Memorial hospital, and various civic clubs and activities.

Mr; Brown- formerly spent: his winters in Tarpon but while on a tour of the state in 1928-29 season, he stopped. in Fort Myers and was persuaded to make this his winter home. It chanced that Mr; Brown Xhid the late Josiah H. Fitch, then1 ex-cjty manager, 'in the' real estate office of Henry and the two "prominent New York democrats started talking fever politics, old friends and climate." As a result Mr. Brown decided to move here, renting the Iawler home in Seminole park for the remainder of the season, Mr.

Brown- was formerly sheriff and later democratic leader of Suffolk county, New York. As delegate to' the 1924 "Madison Square Garden convention he was pushed into the national spotlight by heading the only New York delegation to back William G. McAdoo against Alfred E. Smith for the democratic, presidential nomination. He retired from active politics, but his interest was revived here and he supported the Continued on Page Two i 7 Cases on Docket For County Court County court convenes at 9 o'clock this morning with only seven cases on the docket.

A venire will be drawn this morning and John K. Woolslair, making his debut as county prosecutor, was hopeful all of the cases could be disposed of in two days. Trials will open Tuesday with four cases set for "Wednesday. Cases scheduled Tuesday are against Walter Justice for assault and battery, Edgar Owens, negro, using profane language and Frank Boyd, assault and battery. Wednesday's cases are against Jennie Smith, negro, for assault and battery; John Taylor, negro, assault and battery; Sap Lampkins, ne-fe-ro, petty larceny; and Leon Mc-Cormick, reckless driving.

Georgia Seeks With 1-Month ATLANTA, Jan. 17 () State Representative Billy Barrett, author of a liberalized divorce bill, announced determination today to put Georgia in competition with Eeno for the nation's divorce trade. Barrett, 25-year-old attorney and national known bridge expert, said in addition to his legislative proposal he would seek a constitutional amendment to make divorce easy in this southern state. His bill would reduce residence requirements from one year to 30 days. The constitutional amendment would be necessary to the law requiring two verdicts, at separate court terms, before a divorce can be made final- The flow of cash from discontented mate? -wouVi bf boon to lished without direct legislative authority by the previous administration and should be abolished.

The resolution praised the work done by the road patrol in keeping unemployed transients out of Florida, and said the patrolmen performed a necessary function. Commander Harry Johnston of West Palm Beach was instructed to take the resolutions to Governor Cone. Housecar Sailors Buy Sloop Here A pair of sailors who failed to find fun in housecar. cruising sold their home on wheels to buy a sloop and will start repairing it today at Loftin's boatways in the East End for a long jaunt back to Portland, Me. The sailors, Capt.

John Parks and Theodore A. Langzattel, came to Florida via automobile and house trailer, but long years aboard ship had left a yen for the water which they couldn't overcome. They found a ready sale for the car and trailer and invested the proceeds in a 36-foot sloop with a name that caught their fancy, "Vagabond," formerly a Key West pilot boat. Aboard the "Vagabond" they will remain in Fort Myers until late in February until they can install an auxiliary motor and make other repairs. They will precede the return voyage to Portland with a visit to CJubt..