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i Orlando morning Sentinel A "INLAND FLORIDA'S GREATEST NEWSPAPER" 4 Pages Today 1 EXCLUSIVE UP) NEWS EVEBT MORNING VOL. XVII NO. 205. ORLANDO, ORANGE COUNTY, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1929. FIVE CENTS PARTIES MERGElNew Tourist rnn n.TTir mi Attractions rnn datti mi PORTION OF BUS (ftrpat Spflrrh tiv i mi hit m' Wl-Gtll WCdl Oil Started Airnlane Billion Dollars Washed Away in Exchange Slump Sought Here For Missing Forced Down in Flight Greater Entertainment Scope to be Discussed at Meet Tonight Proposals for increased and more varied entertainment features to attract and held the interest of winter tourists in Orlando, on a larger scale than has ever before ibcen attempted, will be presented Dy sPeahe" 90-Year Old Heroine night in the chamber of commerce i building private carriers but the rul- The mas, tr d0C3 afft'Ct the VaIidity of mm Jlfrwtf niial'l a 1 IIm TAX LAW HIT III COURT OPINION Private Carrier Part Held Invalid By Judge Jirk'cnvvirir moo i The 1929 bus and truck tax aw is unconstitutional insfH, it f.

I the applied to common car- riers. Judge DoWitt Gray said in an opinion handed down in circuit court here today. The validity of the law was contested by John Mathews, local attorney and member of the Florida house, through a habeas corpus proceedings by E. S. Smith, oper-1 ator of a truck for hire against, th.

eWiff made the arrest under the new act. Charges Made Smith was charged with having operated a truck and traMtfr for compensation, without having made application for a certificate of public necessity and convenience and without having paid the two cents per mile tax advance deposit as required by the 1929 law. Judge Gray held that "it is beyond the power of the legislature by legislative act or command, to transmute a private carrier into a common carrier, and it is likewise for hire submit to all the rules, regulations and burdens of a common carrier in order to do 'business." The act, in addition to placing a mileage tax on motor vehicles for; hire, placed such carriers under the state railroad commission. The court stated that the fact that the Capl. Ira Kaker (left) and Lieut.

Bernard Thompson at Roosevelt Field before taking off on their second transcontinental refueling flight which ended when the plane was forced down. They have abandoned business men and other citizens in. terefted in promotion of tourist en tertainment, was called by President Harry M. Voorhis of' the Orlando chamber of commerce after a conference of merchants and professional men at a downtown hotel. The meeting will be open to the public, and suggestions for putting the city in a position to compete with rtsort centers on the East and Wist Coasts in gathering its share of the 'tourist crop" will be sought from those attending.

According to sponsors of the movement, no time should be lost in preparing for what all foiecasts indicate will be the greatest winter season in Florida's history. Delay of only a few weeks will handicap the city, in their opinion, and injure th chances of Orlando sharing to the fullest possible extent in the tourist traffic. Plans will be discussed for a festival or major celebration in Orlando at the height of the winter season, which might be made an annual event, and would be as char- nrniief i nt thin aU Starts Report Lost Airplane Shoe Shine Parlor Started Story Later Plane Company r-arilla carnival to Tampa, the i boynnd the power of the legislature Pence de Lccn celebration to St to ncconiPlls, this forbidden pur-Augustine and the Mardi Gras to pose by milkmK Pr'vte carrier railroad commission naq not ai- it credence, tempted to exercise the power con- The transcontinental air transferred on it was not considered as nort upon, receiving the report, New Orleans. FLY QUARANTINE CHANGE ASSURED SAYS FLETCHER Claims He alirg7ruit Would Result In Marmalade WASHINGTON. Sent.

5 (JP) run DHi ill uii TADirr icciiri I Hll IT lOullL G. 0. P. Independents And Democrats Combine D. HAROI.n ni.lVKR fAitucialed I'reiw Staff Writer) WASHINGTON', Sept.

5. tJP). The combination of Democrats and Independents in the senate, which for weeks held the export debenture plan in the farm relief bill against the wishes of President Hoover, was renewed today to oppose the administration group in the pending tariff bill contest. As a result of an agreement as to procedure reached between Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, and Senator Borah of Idaho, spokesman for the western farm state group, the effort to limit the tariff revision to agriculture will be deferred. After the senate reconvenes Monday, a motion will be made to start debate on the administrative provisions of the ICepuulican measure.

of Kill Kobinson contended the merits of the bill should be debated first and said that after the country was adequately acquainted with the changes proposed by the finance committee majority in the House measure, many Democrats would favor a motion to recommit similar fo the Borah resolution which lost by one vote last June. In announcing the "understanding" between the two groups, Borah would not go into details, but he said the Independents would have no objection to deferring a recommittal motion, if it was decided to make one, until after the debate had proceeded awhile. As for the resolution of Senator Thomas, Democrat, Oklahoma, to strike out rate sections of the bill except that relating to agriculture, but under which industrial tariff amendments could be proposed, the impression among the Democrats and western Republicans seemed to be that this was impractical. Smoot Senator Smooth, of Utah, in charge of the bill for the financial committee majority, said ho would not object to consideration of the administrative provisions first, so the initial clash on the tariff itself seems destined to revolve around these sections in the final part of the bill. Senator Simmons of North Carolina, ranking Democrat on the fi nance committee, will move that the administrative sections be dealt with at the opening of debate, but before doing so he will seek a vote on his proposal to obtain from the treasury for the information of the senate membership a record of such profits and losses of taxpayers as may be disclosed in income tax returns.

Existing law provides that such information may be furnished only to two or three congressional committees in executive session, but Senator Simmons believes it is discretionary with these committees to turn over this data to members of Congress. Bank Riddle Brings Prpbe Man FixeT $500,000 for Self but Fails to Cash Checks NEW YORK, Sept. 5. The American Bankers association hired detectives today to solve a financial riddle unprecedented in the history of banking, the puzzle being that a man had apparently got it all fixed up to obtain $500,000 that didn't belong to him, and then didn't take it. On August 30 six of the city's largest banks received code telegrams bearing the signatures of banks in Denver, ordering them to place from $75,000 to $100,000 each in the Chase National bank to the account of.

the Bank of Telluride, Colo. The banks did as they were requested. The Chemical Bank Trust company and the First National bank deposited $100,000 each and the Guaranty Trust company, the Equitable Trust company, the National City "bank and the Harri-man National bank, $75,000 each. Last Saturday a man saying he was C. D.

Waggoner, president of the Telluride bank, appeared at the Chase National bank and presented cashier's checks for certification. He had documents identifying him and the Chase bank certified the checks totalling $500,000. The man then walked out and has not been seen since. Nor, so far as the Chase bank knows, has he cashed any of the checks. "The whole transaction was perfectly regular so far as we are concerned," an official of thejChase bank said today.

"The money was deposited with us by (he six banks and we are satisfied it was Mr. Waggoner whose checks we certified. We have had no word at all from the hanks which deposited (Pl.KASK Tl UN TO PACE Senator Duncan U. Fletcher today Florida, and the fourteenth amend-forecast approval by the Depart- ment of the constitution of the RESOURCES OF NATION CALLED OUT FOR HUNT Fate of Huge Transport Liner Still Mystery GALLUP, N. Sept.

5. The Transcontinental Air Transport pas-senger plane "City of San Francisco" which flew out of Albuquerque, N. Tuesday with eight persona aboard, still was missing tonight, apparently down in the wild and almost uninhabited section along the New Mexico-Arizona border. The army, navy, T. A.

and other air lines were combining in the greatest air search ever wijt-J nested in the west, but the fate of the plane, its five passengers and three crew members was as much a mystery today as it was Tuesday. aise ncpori Tracing a report, accepted as true last night by the T. A. that the plane had been found and that its eight passengers, had been killed, T. A.

T. officials today found that a Gallup school bus driver, credited with being the one who started the rumor, had heard the story from an unidentified man in a shoe shining establishment here. Further reports that the plane had been seen from the air, that the approximate spot of its crash had been located, and a half dozen other rumors proved erroneous. While planes searched overhead, six hundred Zuni Indians, crack woodsmen of the southwest, scoured the rugged country near their reservation at Zuni, N. M.

One report said the plane had fallen in that vicinity, The Indians returned to their reservations without having found any traA- of Army and Navy WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. (JP) Army and nuvy aviators in the southwest and on the Pacific coast were ordered today to participate in the search for the missing Transcontinental Air Transport liner City of San Francisco, believed lost between Albuquerque, New vAJexico. and Kingman, Arizona, with five passengers and a crew of three. Responding immediately to the appeal of Colonel Paul Henderson, president of the Transcontinental Air Transport line, for id in the search, the war and navy depart ment aispaicneu instructions to commanding officers of two corps areas, the eleventh naval district, and the battle fleet on the Pacific coast to Tender all assistance possible by sending out searchers.

the number of airplanes to par. ticipate in the search over th rugged and dry terrain in the southwest was left for the various commanding officers to decide. Major General John J. I lines, commanding the 9th corps area, at San Francisco, has ordered plane from the pursuit and bomhinir squadrons stationed at Rockwell Field, San Diego, to get underway as soon as possible. Whatever aircraft he has within sevpral him.

dred miles of Winslow, Arizona, also are to be dispatched. The navy department instructed Admiral L. M. Melton, commander of the battle fleet off San Diego, and Rear Admiral A. M.

Robertson, commander of the 11th naval district ut San Diego, to dispatch whatever aircraft is necessary for the search. The order also said the navy planes would coordinate with the army and the aircraft nf tl, T. A. T. company in its operations itom a base at Winslow.

Major ijeneral William Lassiter, commander of the 8th corps are, at San Antonio, also was instructed to aid with whatever aircraft ig in the vicinity of the route of the missing plane. WOMAN KILLED AND TWO HURT IN CRASH Car With Pa'rty Bound North Turns Over SAVANNAH, Sept. 5. (JP) Mrs. Martha McMahon of 128 East Ninth street, Jacksonville, was killed and Mrs.

Rena Combs and Billy Combs, also of Jacksonville, were injured when their automobile turned over on a highway near here today. to Ne York. The automobile skid- ded on the wet road as Mrs. Combs, who was said to have been driving attempted to pass another car on. a curve.

McMahon was thrown out of the machine as it turned over and was crushed to death as it fell upon her. The injured were brought to hospital here. Mrs. Combs was badly cut about the face and was taken to the operating room upon her arrival. Billy Combs, student at the University of Florida, sustained an injury to his shoulder.

STREET SHAKEN BY SALES WAVE Babson's Statement First Blamed For Drop NEW YORK, Sept. 5. (AP) Upwards of one billion dollars in quoted values was washed away in a sudden flood of selling which swept over the New York Stock Exchange in the last hour of trading The reaction, which came with startling suddenness after pools had succeeded in marking up scores of issues $2 to 14 a share, many of them to new high records, was the wortit since the break which fol lowed the raising of the New York federal Reserve rediscount rate )rom 5 to 6 per cent a month ago. Net declines in many active stocks ranged from $3 to JSX8.75 a share. Habson Blamed At first.

Wall street was inclined to lay the blame on the publication of a statement by Roger Babson, well known economist, that a break in stock prices rivalling the Florida land boom was imminent. Later, many observers agreed that it was a natural correction of a top-heavy speculative position created in the feverish bullish activities of the last few weeks. The market was a bit nervous at the opening because of the increase of more than $100,000,000 in stock exchange member loans last month, announced at the close of yesterday's market. Early selling was well absorbed, however, with the retention of the 5 Me per cent rediscount rate by the IJank of setting at rest recent rumors of an increase, as a stabilizing factor. Pools became bolder as the- session progressed! and started to whirl up their favorites, first in the copper and then in the public utility and railroad groups.

Rails were advancing at a brisk in me uiuunu mis ami ine whole market turned downward. Sales Flood So great was the flood of selling that the ticker quickly fell 25 min-1 utes behind the market and was nearly an hour late In recording the last quotation. The daj sales ran over 6,600,000 shares. After the close of the market, the New York Federal Reserve Rank announced an incrcas of $137,000,000 in brokers' loans in the week ended Wednesday, setting another new high at which contrasts with a year ago. BRIAND ADVOCATES FEDERATED EUROPE Declares Combine Impossible Not GENEVA, Sept.

5 P) Premier Aristide Briand of France, orator preeminent among the statesmen of today added new laurels to his crown as he launched his ambitious project for the establishment cf a European federation which has been popularly interpreted as a "United States of Europe." The address before the League was mainly devoted to a review of its work and analysis of problems still to be sojved, but later at a luncheon attended by international journalists M. Briand went further into the plan lor a European federation and indicated the goal as a political as well as economic organization. He said that although the idea had been described as a dream he was nevertheless convinced the nations of Europe could establish closer ties to their mutual benefit. Piemier Briand in asking the governments to give closest attention to the possibilities of a European tederation said that in addition to military disarmament tcontmic disarmament also was needed. THE SENTINEL Has Published Classified Advertisements in 1929 Those who start advertising their houses and apartments now will be assured of early rentals.

further attempts for the present. Wild Rumor Of Finding Unidentified Man Found to Have Credited by LOS ANGELES, Sept. S-l An erroneous report last night that the missing transcontinental air transport pa.ssengej plane City of San Francisco, had been located south of Gallup, N. and that eight persons aboard were dead, proved today to have founded upon nothing more than a rumor which passed th rnn i'h channels tending to give gave the information to the, press and notified relative of bite pa.v sengers und members of the crew of the plane. The.T.

A. T. announcement said it was reported the plane had been located in the Black Rock Wash country by a mail carrier, whose report was" delivered to a Santa Fe railroad agent and authenticated by the MUSCLE MEN IN CHICAGO SLAIN Two Gangsters Shot Down By Rival Thugs CHICAGO, Sept. 5. (JP) Gangland staged another of its double executions today and as usual the only evidence left police was the bullet-torn bodies of two young racketeers.

The victims. Frank (Cy) Gawley and Edward Westcott, were found early this morning by a workman, Ivincr alongside a seldom used street in a sparsely settled northwest community. They had been shot repeatedly through the back, apparently having been stood up with their faces to the street and executed. The executioners performed their task well. Police found not the slightest trace of them and had onlv the criminal records of the slain racketeers as a basis for an investigation.

They both were known as "muscle men," threatening their wav into racketeering groups for their share of the rake-offs. They had been mixed up in several police scrap and were identified with a west side gang. It appeared thev had been either kidrmed or else "put on the spot" bv "friends." There had been no struggle, all signs indicated One of the men clutched two nickels in hU hands. Whether he had been surprised and kidnaped while waiting to make a phone call or whether this was oangland's method of saying the men were "cheapsters" was Police a usual linked the two victims with various crime and affairs but had nothing definite on which nin their theories. CARLTON TO RETURN HOME ON SATURDAY TALLAHASSEE, Sept.

5 (JP) Governor Doyle E. Carlton will return to his office Saturday, following trips to West Palm Beach, Tampa and other south Florida points, it was announced today at his office here. The governor went to West Palm Beach to assist in organization of the "new drainage and flood control boards for the Everglades, and from there to Tampa to formally welcome a moving picture outfit which will shortly "shoot" pictures on the west coast. in Asfociatei Preti Phof Mrs. Henry Hushey, HO, of Og-denshurg, N.

rescued Louis Seigal from the Oswegatrhie river after he had slipped into the water while washing his hands. The Weather ft- If we don't marmalade, wi al Iran atll or.n. vfri let. TODAY'S TIDES Hih 10:37 a. 10:50 p.

i 4:21 a. m. 4:47 p. m. OHLANIfO WEATHKR Following are rainfall and barometric obfuervKtiuns for the 24-hour period in Or Undo ending ml 8 a.

m. y.t'rdi.y, furnhhvff the torWnrin IFHtitm. Precipitation: 0.87 in. Harotnetcr: maximum, M.ftft minimum, LOCAL TEMPERATl'KIC Unofficial i Maximum. 88.

Minimum, 71. STATE FORECAST Iah-jlI Ihundrrnhower Friday and flt-urdny. Maximum and minimum tmieratiiri of representative cities a ram pi led from weather bureau report at 8 p.m. follow: Awheville aft 64 Atlantic City 7 72 Atlanta Kf 70 Hoaton ttf 62 Huflahi X6 70 Chiravo 72 72 Cincinnati 9i 68 Fjwt Port fiO 54 Kanaan City 72 New York 7fi 70 Pittfthunrh W) 6 St. I-ouia 72 70 Toledo Ktt (iS Waihinuton 72 Jacksonville H5 74 Miami Ht 74 Tampa 74 News Summary general i Great March for Ut air lintr.

Billion dollar wipta out on aieck t-ckangt. Partita line up for tariff flghf. Portion of boa tax act called unconstitutional. Fly quarantine modi ft rattan expected by Fletcher. i Muerle men killed in Chicago cant war.

Schneider cup races to open today. LOCAL New tourUt entertainment in city to to theme at meet tonirht. Hi-Y croup to handle second-hand book exchange. Special bus rates to Miami announced. SPORT Pirate knock Red Lucas out of box to trip Reds.

18 to S. Montgomery even post-season series with Tamp Smokers. Fight program at Punch Bowl postponed until tonight. Stars defeated in third round of amateur golf tourney. PAIR CHARGED WITH MURDER OF PLANTER COLQUITT, Sept.

5. A formal charge of murder, in connection with the killing of Jeff Davis, 58-year-old Miller County planter, was lodged today against two young white men, Joe Albrit-ton, 20, and Clarence Bush, 21. both of whom were placed in jail. Davis' body was found in a creek near here Monday with three bullet wounds in tne back and another at the base of the skcll. A brother of the slain man, who swore out the warrants for the arrest of Albritton and Bush, said that between and $300 which Davft had in his pockets shortly before his death had disappeared.

A story told- by Marion Dennis, negro employe at the Davis farm, authorities said, formed the principal evidence against the two men and apparently established a motive other than robbery for the slaying. Dennis and another negro laborer, J. B. Jones, were held as KuspeHs after the finding of the body. Santa Fe and the Western Union.

It developed today that the Santa Fe telegraph operator at Perea, N. had received and passed along to his superiors in I.os Angeles reports that a school bus driver of the Zuui Indian Reservation had seen the wreckage of the plane in the Black Rock Wash region. The Perea operator explained today the report had come 'from his wife who received it from the school bus driver. Officials' t-Hhe T. A.

at Gallup, N. who attempted to trace the origin of the report, said the school bus driver, credited with having located the plane, stated that he had merely heard the report from an unidentified man in a shoe shine parlor. SCHNEIDER RACE TO START TODAY Speed Planes To Seek 380 Mile An Hour Velocity CALSIIOT. England. Sept.

5. if) Minor jnishaps, so frequently ssociated with high speed con- tests, today marked the last practice sessions for the Schneider Cup race. The tourney between the speed kings of the English and Italian air forces is to start tomor row, the forecast being for fair I and warm weather. The first day's program will be devoted to navigation tests. In the Italian team the machine assigned to Dal Molin is the plane in which Major Bernhardi set up a world's record of 318.5 miles an hour in 1927.

The young officer suffered a punctured float in to-' day's test and was saved from sinking only when a speed boat poked its bow under the starboard wing. The English outfit also had to put in reserve a Glosier Napier 6 in which Lieutenant Staintortn was practising. It developed trouble with its gas line. Estimates of the speed that will be attained in the races, have gone up to 360 and even to 380 miles an hour. These have been based upon the tests- but whether such speed has, actually been attained has been carefully concealed by both teams.

Admittedly, therefore, the preliminary estimates are only rough approximations. There will probably be an interesting supplement to the racing. The Italians, who have said they hold little hope of winning the Schneider Cup, were reported as intending to attempt a new world record on a straightaway flight, where speed alone will be the object and the dangerous corners of the cup course will be eliminated. Tonight the Britishers were credited with a similar intention and it was said they would make the l) Monday with two of their Glosier Napier machines. rtlCBC rUAUnC nf 4MC FLIERS CHANGE PLANS FOR ENDURANCE LEAP WICHITA, Sept.

5 (JP) George R. Hutchinson, owner-pilot of the "City of Baltimore," refueling' endurance plane which was forced down here this afternoon, after an unsuccessful refueling attempt, announced tonight he and his co-pilots changed their plans about starting a new endurance flight from Wichita and would fly tomorrow to Detroit. i i it "is not the test of the constitu- tionality tl tv. Quotes Decisions After quoting, decisions of the United States supreme court on similar cases, the court said it is i "therefore the opinion of the court that chapter 13,700, Laws of Flor- ida, 1929, violates sections 1 and 1 12 of the declaration of rights of tli constitution of the state of United States, insofar as the same relates to private carriers for compensation. "Having reached this conclusion, the next question is whether or not this holding makes the entire law unconstitutional.

In section 18 of the act, it is provided: "Section 18: If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this law is for any reason held unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this law. "It therefore appears that this opinion of the court does not affect the validity of the act as it relates to common carriers." Bentley in First Fight State Road Head Battles Editor of Tallahassee Newspaper TALLAHASSEE, Sept. 5 (JP) Resenting editorial matter appearing recently in the Florida State News, afternoon newspaper, Robert W. Bentley, chairman of the state highway department, engaged in a fist fight today with Fred O. Ebcrhardt, publisher of the paper, in the State News editorial room.

The fight lasted for only a few moments, visitors to the newspaper and editorial workers separating the two men. Bentley took offense at an editorial captioned "Poor Florida" and also a paragraph appearing as a i follow-up to the editorial in a col umn conducted by tberhardt. According to the publisher, in a brief conversation between the two men prior to the clash, the road chairman referred to the editorial page matter as "scandalous and libel ous." Bentley was accompanied to the newspaper office by Ben A. Mcgin-niss, the road department attorney, who assisted others in separating the combatants. In a brief statement following the affair, the road department chairman said he went to the newspaper office to demand a retraction of the reference to him in the column, which he declared he considered "an attempt at defamation of character and absolutely libelous." He said he then invited Ebcrhardt "to stand up and take a licking." He would not discuss for publication the editorial, declaring he did "not care to enter into a controversy." ment of Agriculture of his request for modification of the Mediterranean fruit fly quarantine.

Announcing that he had an appointment tomorrow with Secretary Hytle and C. L. Marlatt, chief of the Bureau of Plant Quarantine and Control administration. Senator Fletcher declared he believed favorable action would be taken. Appointment Made Peter O.

Knight. Tampa, citrus grower, and the Senator laid the matter before the President yesterday and were referred to the department, with whose officials an appointment was made. Senator Fletcher today declared there was no need for restrictions on sound fruit. "It's nonsense to restrict shipments of citrus fruits to 11 states in the northeast when they are thoroughly inspected and certified to be free of infection," the Senator said. "It is our request that shipments be permitted throughout the country.

Wants Protection "Of course Florida wants to protect every locality, but there is no sense in placing restriction on fruit that never was infected and never will be. No fly has been found in the affected area since August 7, and then only one or two. "As for freezing of fruit, or heating after October 1, that would be impractical. Freezing is too expensive, and heating would make marmalade of- the fruit." MAN KILLED WHEN CAR HITS FENCE WATERVILLE. Maine.

Sept. 5. IP) A man believed to be E. J. Hartnett of Miami, or Hing-ham, was killed today when his automobile crashed through a fence at Mudgett's curve in the neighboring town of Burnham.

Three fence rail passed through the car, one hitting Hartnett and tearing away the side of his head. The body was removed to an undertaker's to await word from relatives. In the man's clothing were found two bank books of a Miami bank, both made out to E. J. Hartnett He also had an Elks membership card.

The local Elks lodge had taken charge of the case. MAN WANTED IN STATE ARRESTED IN GEORGIA COLUMBUS, Sept. 5-0P) C. C. "Lum" Griggs, of Phcnix City, was arrested here today and given into custody of a deputy sheriff who held extradition papers for his return" to Panama City, for tfial on a charge of robbery..