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PAGE FIVE Saturday, September 18, 1937 THE FORT LAUDFRDALE (FLORIDA) DAILY NEWS ine Ban Becomes Effective On Oct 1 State Slot DOUBLE OR NOTHING! ngSeiuudl ecady IPir Kleir Tirade And Ylfi-iroffle Btfeafly 0 Woo Ds Cinme Enrollment In Dillard School Reported at 600 Negro Students Plan Many Extra-Cur ricular Activities Legislative Blessing To End For 12B000 Gaming Devices Nov Operating In Florida Estimates of Amount of Money Played Since 1935 Law Made Machines Legal Range As High as $100.000,000 (Editor's Note: now the 1935 Legislature legalised slot ma Rebuilds Navy, Strengthens Air Forces Openly Display Of Power Seen As Clear Warning: To Mussolini chines, how tha 1937 Legislature prohibited them, and what happened to them In the two rears will be told In a series of four With Blng Crosby and Martha Rare In the star positions, and love articles, of which this Is the first.) TALLAHASSEE, Sept 18. VP) The protection of a two-year-old law will be remoTed from some 12,000 (lot machines In Florida when clocks record the hoar of midnight separating- Sept SO from Oct. 1. Then the machines often celled "one-armed bandits" will be outlaws. ly Mary Carlisle, Andy Devlne, William Frawley and Fay Holden supporting them, "Double or Nothing" presents three new song hits which already have been widely received.

Bug's voice is augmented by a "sing band" in one number, an aggregation of boys and girls who imitate musical instruments so closely that it Is Impossible to tell their music from melody supplied by a dance orchestra. Martha is their operation punishable by heaTyfr of chance or of other outcome of By MILTON BRONNER (5EA Serrle Earaiu Staff Xmm- LONDON, Sept. 18. "I wish to Heaven about 30 Italian naval attaches were here now." The speaker was a British naval officer, who was watching the great coronation naval review held such operation unpredictable by him, the user may receive or be come entitled to receive any piece of money, credit, allowance or thing of value, or any check, slug. a song-nnd-dance girl who can't get Following an enrollment tbla week of 600 Negro pupils in elemen tary and high school grades of the Dillard School, Clarence C.

Walker, principal, announced today that the students were ready to begin class work as well as a number of extracurricular activities. For the first time the Dillard School is offering a full-time course in home economics for girls and manual training and practical work for boys. We realise that alt Negro children will not be teachers nor will enter the professions but wilt find their great field of usefulnef as cooks, nurses, maids and laborers in various occupation," Walker said. "Our schools, therefore, should train those who are to enter this branch of service to perform their work effectively and satisfactorily for those who employ them Practical Course Registrations In home-ma kin. courses total 109 girls and In U.

practical work boj-Helea Greea la home economic teacher, and Horace Lewis ha charge of manual training class Forty-two boys reported for foo ball practice during the week wit A. Davis as coach assisted by li Bethel and M. Lewis. A choro group of SO Is reporting for da 11 practice, and Henry Thomas, wh is in charge of music, is arrsnglu fines or Imprisonment. For two years they stood available for play In virtually every kind of establishment open to the public trade In Florida.

In larger cities there even were slot machine emporiums where batteries of the devices lined all wall space. There Is no available public record on the amount of money played Into the machines or returned by them to the players since they were legalized by the 1935 legislature. Estimate which everybody said token or memorandum whether of value or otherwise, which may be exchanged for any money, credit, allowance or thing of value, or by King George VI last spring at Spithead. Before his eyes were some 60 miles of British warships a display of strength that no by a certain dance tune without funny results. "Double or -Nothing" is a gay romance which concerns the efforts of four would-be money-barons who et oat to win a million through a freak will left by an eccentric millionaire.

Blng Crosby, as a crooner on the bum; Martha Baye, as a dance cutie who Just can't resist which may be given In trade, or the user may secure additional chances other nation on earth, except the United States, cou'd equal. or rights to use such machine, apparatus or device, even though It Although Mussolini, by his ac British supremacy In the Mediterranean began In 1704, when a British fleet seized the great rock of Gibraltar. This reproduction of an old print shows the battle In progress. Since then Britain has Jealously guarded her Mediterranean life line." may, la addition to the clement of were guesses ranged as high tions In the Ethiopian and Spanish 1100,000,000. Some machines ad chance or unpredictable outcome of wars, showed himself willing to that certain Andy Devlne risk war with England in order to which on April 1 of this year stood vertised a payoff ratio as high as 70 per cent of each $1,000 played.

as a golfer, and William Frawley make Italy dominant la the Medi as a phony business man, all hare Federal Suult Filed at 148 squadrons, with a personnel strength of 4850 officers and 61,000 terranean, the Inescapable fact re Dam To Protect Pittsburgh From Floods Wears Finish their fling at trying for the mil such operation, also sell, deliver, or present some merchandise. Indication of weight, entertainment or other thing of value. Slot machine opponents In the 1037 legislature said they considered the law "puncture proof." mains that in such a war England lion, but they do not reckon with enlisted men I The Federal government recently filed action against a group of slot would hare all the odds in her fa Blng's heartbreak. Miss Carlisle, British strategist do not believe machine operators and collected who gets Into the race with all her that any great city or manufactur Could Lock Doors on Italy about half a million dollars of de heart as the tape breaks. "Double or Nothing" Is at the Sunset The r-LOOKl- In such a war, Italy could prob ing area can be made absolutely safe from swift bomber attack.

As a result, heavy orders have beeen PITTSBURGH, Sept 18. (JP) The last concrete on the Tygart River dam a giant faucet holding back a potential 27,500 acre-feet ater today, Sunday and Monday. Carpenters Stage ably close the Mediterranean to British merchant shipping and make the transit of British war Walkout In Clash placed for the Fairey Battle and Bristol Blenheim medium bombers, and for the heavy bombers of Hand, ley Page Harrow, Armstrong Whit- of water was being poured today ships extremely dangerous. But DAVIE NEWS linquent federal Income taxes. How much other Income tax they paid Is not a public record.

A great hue and cry against the unlicensed and untaxed operation of slot machines In some counties pre- ceded the passage of laws legalizing and taxing them in 1935. Then a greater hue and cry against legal operation of them preceded the 1937 legislature's action repealing the law. In between, 81 of the state's 67 marking one of the final steps in the Initial project designed to England, In her turn, could completely lock the doors on Italy. Over Wage Scales worth Whitley and Vlckera Welles- KATIE'S IN THE MOVIES This week-end at the Sunset theater patrons will have the opportunity seeing Eatherine Bawls, Ft Lauderdale's own aquatic star. She is featured in the Paramount News showing Saturday, Sunday and Monday, in conjunction with Blng Crosby's latest hit "Double or Nothing," announces George Zane, theater manager.

protect Pittsburgh from flood waters. The dam is two miles up By her possession of Gibraltar and the Suez canal, and her Im Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth King of Union Men On Hollywood The fastest of these la the Bristol Blenheim, which has a cruising stream from Grafton, W. Va.

mensely superior fleet, she could Lauderdale were recent guests at CoL W. E. R. Covell, head ef the completely paralyze Italian sea the home of their parents, Mr. and Theater Job Demand Overtime Pay speed of 279 miles an hour at an altitude of 14,000 feet and which borne commerce outside of the Med Pittsburgh district of the United States Army Engineers, described iterranean.

Italy needs vast sup Mrs. Alf Griffin. Mrs. George Kinnlck and daugb counties voted In local option elecrj Is said to have done better, In practice flights, than the 300 miles an the dam as the largest east of the plies of raw material such things The Hollywood carpenters union for a group of 100 voices froi junior and senior high schools. Twelve boys, forming a schou boy petrol, are cooperating with 1.

girls who constitute a reserve pa troL The principal said that thes. boys and girls are being trained self-government that proper be bavlor habits may be dissemlnateii through them to other students. Address By Principal Opening exercises of the school were held In the New Bethel Negro Baptist Church. At a student and teacher mass meeting, the principal said, the willingness of the group to bind up broken ties was shown when the colors blue and gray were selected. "Certsinly they could not have paid a better tribute to the man In whose honor the school is named.

Dr. Henry Hardy Dillard. a true Southern white gentleman who believed with Booker T. Washington Jbat the best friends the Mississippi. It will hold back wa- as coal, copper, Iron, cotton, wool hour, ton speed of the Italians' ter, Betta Belle, of Lauderdale were and contractors have clashed over wage scales in construction of the ter in time of flood, release water crack bombing planes.

recent dinner guests of Mr. and and grain from overseas. England could shut off her supply with ruthless certainty. new Sparks theater there, it was Mrs. James Hill.

For Accurate Aim in time of drought, and may some day be used to generate electric Some of us recently were Invited reported today. J. H. Cordell, su perlntendent for the Balrd Con Everybody Rides On Strange Thing power. Furthermore, to keep British Mrs.

Orln Cope and daughter. to witness exhibition flights of uons in xovemner, 1930, to outlaw the machines. Four voted for their continued operation. The others did not vote. The supreme court ruled, however, the machines could not be forced out unless the legislature authorized refund of licenses already paid, or until the license year expired.

Outlawed for 1937 Act The 1937 legislature voted no license refund. It made the machines Rising 209 feet above the bed of structlon Co. of Jacksonville, con new British planes." We saw one ships out of the Mediterranean would not be a fatal blow. They Lurlene, of Fompano spent Wednesday and Thursday with Mrs. Cope's the river, as high as a 20-story tractor, said the walkout followed huge bomber which, with an Ingeni his refusal to pay time and one-half parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. N. Ousley. building, the structure will form a lake with 68.8 miles of shore line.

ous slotted-wlng device, was able could still sail around Africa, by way of the Cape of Good Hope. Called Viscosity for work on Saturdays. to slow down In Its flight to what looked like a mere crawl a feat South African ports will be made The carpenters local announced It will be a check on the drainage from 1200 square miles, about 6 bigger to take care of the large recently that on Sept' 1 it would Miss Ellen Shaw, Miss Margaret Strange of West Virginia and Miss Dixie Millard visited friends and which would enable its crew to percent of the total drainage are ships which would have to take the taboo on Oct 1. Now It will be take very accurate aim at the chos go on a 40-hour week schedule with time and one-half pay for South Atlantic route to the Far unlawful to own, operate, offer for relatives In Miami this week. en target.

of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers above Pittsburgh, Col. Covell said. Negro had were la the South." ho operation or possess a slot ma We saw also a new Hawker nart overtime. This step was taken, union officials announced, to create said. "He was right la the back By HOWARD W.

BLAEESLEE STATE COLLEGE, Penn, Sept 18. (JP) Everybody rides whether In autos, subways, trains or plane In part on a mostly unknown thing called viscosity. This Is a quality of lubricating Jimmy Ousley and John nerring East, and steps are being taken to perfect the defenses of Capetown and Durban against attack from the air or the sea. chine. Any person who violates this law may, upon conviction a biplane equipped with a constant-speed airscrew, by means of which ground of every city Is the Negro more work.

or jiiami spent several days re first time, be fined 1230 to $300, settlement out of which come cooks. it was able to leave the ground in cently at the home of Mr. Ousley's Cordell maintains that the union had agreed to finish the theater Wilcox To Explain precisely four and one-half seconds washerwomen, gardeners, janitors, nurses, maids and laborers. Their Britain Rebuilds Navy In addition, Britain's tremendous or imprisoned for three to six months in the county Jan. A second offense brings a fine of 1500 Job on a 44-hour week at straight (by a stop watch) after it had be parents, Mr.

and Mrs. J. N. Ousley. Mrs.

Hurdle, who has been seri health and happiness vitally affect Municipal Statute gun to move, and which sent it up oIL In an age of high speed viscosity Is Important In safety. It la rearmament program must be taken into account. to 750 or imprisonment for six to ously ill, is staying at the home of scale pay, and that he forwarded estimates that had been made on that basis to his employers, and that he cannot allow the Increase every citizen la the city. The cleaner, the more law-abiding and to an altitude of several thousand feet inside of a few minutes. eight months, and for a third of This vast five-year plan calls for Mrs.

Ed Long of Lauderdale. fense the fine is 1,000 to $5,000 or known that In speed engines pressures on the oils rise to thousands To Speak At State League the spending of $7,500,000,000, all more responsible they become, the better contribution they make to Lion Still Has Claws The Bise of Hitler in Germany, over the orlglnsl agreement. On October 1 of pounds. w. Gale; Mr.

and Mrs. Philip Shaw and son, Jimmy; Billle Completion of the theater was the town." It is known also that pressure but two billions of which Is to be raised by direct taxation. Five new battleships grim giants of 85,000 Mussolini's open plan to secure JACKSONVILLE, Sept 18. (JP) and Rosalind Gale and Mrs. Crimm changes viscosity.

But how much has been a matter of guesswork and Cells of new police buildings In tons, with 30-knot speed and arma of Miami visited at the home of scheduled by Dec 1, Mr. Cordell said. He says the Jacksonville carpenters' union scale is 75 cents an hour compared to $1 at Holly The Florida League of Municipalities called a conference of city ment of 15-Inch guns are being dominance In the Mediterranean, and the dismaying possibilities Inherent In the Spanish war all of these Jarred Englishmen out of their complacence. Mr. and Mrs.

I Shaw recently. Chester, England, are electrically heated. mathematics without exact conclusions from either. wood, and points out that he left The pressure changes have been Mr. and Mrs.

Tommy Hill of built. So are three large aircraft carriers, and a number of fast cruisers especially designed for anti-aircraft defense. a attorneys for Oct 1 In Orlando so that Congressman J. Mark Wilcox might explain the amended municipal bankruptcy Act to them. his regular crew in Jacksonville They felt that the British lion found by young Dr.

R. B. Dow, In a new high pressure laboratory, at Miami recently visited Mr. Hill' mother, Wrs. T.

Hill. had become too fond of purring with the expectation of using all local help in erecting the theater. Imprisonment for one to five years. The law gives back to local of-' flclals, sheriffs, constables and others, the responsibility for prohibiting the unlawful operation of slot machines. State Comptroller J.

M. Lee shared this responsibility with them for the last two years, because he had to enforce collection of the state's licenses of $120 for each machine. With the taxing law no longer effective, the comptroller has no further jurisdiction. In the last two years, he collected for the state treasury. "After October 1, I'm out of the picture, thank goodness, he said.

Slot Machines Defined The prohibiting law, known as the Pennsylvania State College. He While these ships are being softly; and so, when Field Marshal The Bill was Introduced by Wil rushed through, the existing Brit cox In the last session of Congress. Sir Philip Cbetwode recently ad id iele left Friday morning put oils under a pressure of 2A.000 pounds a square Inch, at 130 Fah It passed and was signed into law. dressed a dinner gathering in London, he made this remark renheit He reports that Pennsylva Invitations to attend the confer with other members of the Broward Connty American Legion for New Tork to attend the national ish fleet in the Mediterranean has been reorganized and strengthened. It now consists of three battleships, two battle cruisers, four heavy "I am willing to use union men, but I am not able now to pay time ane one-half for overtime on a 40-hour week basis, he said.

We have steel work to get done, and then expect find enough non-union workmen here to finish our The British lion still has a few nia oil Increased its viscosity 25-fold. Oklahoma oils went up 85-(fold and Opening The Downy Flake Shop 'MONDAY September 20th at 39 Wall Street I NICHOLS, Prop. ence were issued by P. Owen. secretary of the league.

He said a general fiscal reshaping la expected as a result of the law. California more than 100. claws left, and he has recently been to the dentist to have his teeth sharpened." cruisers, five light cruisers, two of the new anti-aircraft cruisers, an Job." aircraft carrier, 88 destroyers. Sunshine records of England eight new submarines, 10 anti-submarine patrol vessels and 19 of the The Persian water pipe is knows as a "hookah." Smoke Is drawn through a vase filled with water, by means of a long, flexible stem, or tube. SPRINGER RETURNS POLICE PARADE German Hospital Opened By Queen KASSEL.

Germany. Sept. 13. (JP) show that the country had 1313 hours of sunshine In 1906, 1424 latest minesweepers. City Commissioner Springer of Hollywood arrived home today.

In some classes of ships, this hours In 1911, 1296 hours In 1921, Dewey Whitmore, 40, Intoxica having delivered the Miami Coca fleet equals Italy's entire strength. 832 hours in 1931, and only 829 hours in 1932. tion, disorderly conduct, $15 or 15 Cola diamondball team, semi-final To the initiative of Queen Elena days. ists in the national tournament, A Huge Air Forte But by far the greatest item in Senate bill 899, defines a slot machine as: "Any machine or device is a slot machine or device within the provisions of this act if it is one that is adapted for use In such a way that, as a result of the Insertion of any piece of money or coin or other object such machine or device is caused to operate or may be operated, and by reason of any element of Italy, Germany owes Its first hos R. Rester.

speeding, 1 10 bond es The American 1-cent piece, com pital for special treatment of in safely back in Miami. Mr. Springer took the Miami players to Chi England's Immense rearmament treated. CAP. USER'S SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE Will Feature CARROLL STOKELL With Guitar and Singing NORTH FEDERAL AT 17TH monly known as a "copper, really J.

B. Starling, reckless driving. cago in the trailer he uses for Hol program Is being made in the air. The last annual appropriation aircrsft was next $15 or 15 days, suspended on good flammation of the brain (encephalitis) recently opened here. Queen Elena had been told by her daughter Glovanna, queen of Bul lywood Beach Hotel service during contains a bronze composed of 95.

percent copper and 5 percent cine and tin. behavior. the winter. year it will be bigger. It is almost Stokes Etheredge, speeding, $5 garia, of a cure discovered by a impossible to buy an airplane in or 5 days.

Bulgarian herbalist. She had clin England today for civilian pur Ed Vansingle, 34. drunken driv ics opened in Borne, Milan and Tu ing, 5-day mandatory Jail sentence, poses. More than oo.ouu men are rin. $50 fine or 80 days in jail, with an working at top speed in BrtUan aircraft factories, turning out A visit to her elder daughter Ma- additional 30-day sentence suspend ed on observation of a 90-day driv planes for the government.

And all of this is to increase an air force falrta. who lives here as the wife of the provincial gavernor, Prince Philip of Hesse, resulted In two Ger ing privilege revocation. man experts being sent to Italy to study the remedy. -The new clinic. -A- Real Suggestion! TO PARENTS WITH Children of High School Age WE HAVE FOUR AUSTINS PRICED FROM named for Elena, is to get med icinal supplies free from Italy until Germany can produce them.

"Igloo," famous dog mascot of Admiral Byrd, once was Just a IFriemids of AiriUnuir (Serif Eitli The TESTIMONIAL DINNER for AEnrnmLmn asmmiFiFinrini WILL, BE HELD AT 7:30 P. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, At The Masonic Temple, Fort Lauderdale (This dinner sponsored by Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood Chambers oi Commerce, Doric Lodge F. A. M. No.

140; Rotary Clubs of Pompano, Hollywood, Fort Lauderdale and by other friends and associates of Sir. Griffith. Reservations accepted through noon Tuesday.) STAG TARIFF I Al! Friends of "Grif" Cordially Invited stray cur, roaming the streets of Washington, D. A lady found him, cold and hungry, took him home, and later presented him to Byrd as a mascot for his polar D0.VT FORGETfi Ad FrSdlay 25c CARTER'S PIULS 12c SHOULD HAVE BEEN 75c Carter's Pills J2C kVU 4 A I tvl VHDI11 1 See These Exceptional Buys Before You Make other arrangements for your Children's -Transportation. POWELL MOTOR CO.

AUTHORIZED FORD and LINCOLN DEALERS 1GS. W. First Ave Fort Lauderdale TICKETS MAY BE HAD FROM: Mayor J. D. Butler, Deerfield Roland Hardy, Pompano Mayor Lewis Moore, Ft.

Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce, Lauderdale J. J. Clinton, JJB. Fraser, Lauderdale Oift A ftraooa 4 Eroaiac Beck's Drag Store, Lauderdale J. P.

Warren, Dania Mayor Arthur W. Kellner, Hollywood Sheriff Walter Clark, Court House L. O. Hansen, Court House Frank Sterling, Davie GOOD MUSIC SPECIAL ir Tom Collins. VI Logan T.

Brown, Lauderdale (This Ad Paid For Br Frlcnda of Arthur Griffith).

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