Tallahassee Democrat from Tallahassee, Florida • Page 1

TALLAHASSEE BEACH TIDES 18 t. m. I flin 3:52 p. nu 10.22 p. m.

UlMl 3:42 a.m. High Wptln! Psslwy showers to ll tulllcr night and In west portion; moderate to fresh southwest winds. DAILY DEMOCRAT TH (first Quarter) Moon S-t 12:27 m. AT LIGHTHOUSE NOVEMBER 18 VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 312.

INTERNATIONAL NEH1. NBA FEATLRE SERVICE TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1931. FULL LEASED WIRE ASSOCIATED PRESS rl UWL EX-ACTRESS HELD AS i i i 1 i i Under arrest charged with having killed her husband. Justin Cobb (left), during a quarrel, Mrs. comedy actress, was treated for severe body lacerations in a Brockton.

hospital. She is alleged to have told authorities that her PRICE 5 CENTS RAINS FORECAST IN MANY STATES RY WEATHER MAN Rains or Thundershowers to Follow General Rains in Midwest Atlanta, Nov. Nov. 17. (AP) Rains which deluged parts of the western cotton belt yesterday and last night were promised for many southern states tonight or tomorrow by weather bureau forecasts.

Many sections have been suf fering from a long drought. In parts of South Georgia. North Florida, Eastern Alabama, and North Carolina, forest fires recently have swept through tinder-dry trees to do great damage and throw a pall of smoke over the southeast. Rains or thundershowers were predicted tonight or tomorrow for parts of Kentucky. Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina.

Georgia, Florida. Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. Slightly cooler weather, with a slight breeze, prevailed in many parts of the lower south today. The breeze lifted the smoke pall from Atlanta, where the mornings have been foggy for more than two weeks. Heavy rains fell during the 24 hour period ending at 7 a.

m. today in Abilene, Texas. Oklahoma City, and Kansas City. Abilene had a fall of 2.16 inches. Oklahoma City 4.28 inches and Kan sas City 1:64.

Precipitation also was reported over the lower Missouri and the upper Mississippi valleys, with heavy rains at some points. No heavy precipitation was expected in the southeast by the local weather bureau, however, as most of this area's good rains come from disturbances in the southwest, and not the mid-west or northwest, where the present storm is now located. Des Moines Iowa, was about in the center of the disturbance this morning. States to the north of Georgia probably will see more rain than Georgia itself, although rains were predicted for the west and north portions of Georgia late tonight or Wednesday, and in the southeast portion Wednesday, the bureau said. Storm Hits Oklahoma Oklahoma City, Nov.

17. (AP.) Winds reachiing tornado proportions struck in eastern Oklahoma early today as an accompaniment of a drought breaking deluge over the state. At Okemah several downtown buildings were damaged and nun-, dreds of window panes broken. A number of residences and other buildings were partly unroofed. Trees and telephone lines fell throughout Okfuskee county but no one was reported injured.

At Lake McAlester, near McAl-ester, small buildings were razed, trees uprooted in a path a mile long and 600 yards wide. Water supplies were replenished, winter grains saved and pasture lands drenched with needed water. At Oklahoma City the rainfall totaled approximately four inches assuring relief from a threatened water shortage in the city reservoir. Ponca City reported ...06 inches of rain, the heaviest this year. SOUTH GEORGIA FORESTS VIEWED Foresters Make Plans for Visiting North Florida Area Waycross.

Nov. 17 (AP) Foresters of 25 states attending the 12th annual convention of the National Association of State Foresters today continued inspection of south Georiga forests and made ready for a trip through northern Florida. The convention began yesterday at a breakfast in Savannah, moved to Brunswick, where the delegates were entertained at lunch, and came here for a night meeting. Paul W. Chapman, director or Georgia vocational education in an address at the meeting here said Georgia "must become forest conscious." He stated land now growing unprofitable crops could be made to pay through forests.

From Jacksonville the foresters will make a trip through parts of Florida. COMMISSION HEARS ARGUMENT ON RATES The state railroad commission today resumed its public hearing on proposed rules and rates governing motor carriers operating in Florida. The hearing was attended by a large goup of motor and rail transportation repriUUves. IP SEARCH IS MADE FOR 8 MISSING IN SMALL BOAT Craft Adrift in Delaware Bay as Dense Fog Envelops Area Bivalve. N.

Nov. 17 (AP.) One of the heaviest fogs to settle on Delaware bay In years overshadowed the fate of eight persons today as search continued for a 26-foot motor launch in which five Millville high school youths and three teachers went on an outing Sunday. Eleven coast guard vessels searched the bay all night, making slow progress in the fog, while yesterday their force was aug mented by privately owned launches and other vessels. A seaplane, which was forced back after a start yesterday, was held in readiness to take off as soon as a rift appeared in the fog. Harper Chance, 16, whose fath er built the motor launch, was skipper of the missing craft.

With him were Isabelle McCaughey. 25, cf Philadelphia, an English teach er; Alma Moyer. 26. Kulpmont, teacher of French: Hanna Ewan, 21. of Millville; Irvin Ewan 18.

her brother, and Marshall Roe. 18. and his brothers. Kei. neth.

15, and Harwood. 17, of Dorchester. They left at 2 p. m. Sunday.

Dozens Trapped San Francisco. Nov. 17. (AP) A storm which trapped dozens of persons in the snow-covered mountains of California, among them Noah Beery, screen actor, held much of the American northwest and the Pacific slope in its cold grip today. Mountain roads, especially those leading over the Sierra Nevada from California to points east, were closed.

Dozens of mo torists were rescued after hav ing been forced to abandon their automobiles. With but six exceptions, all of those marooned were reported safe last night, including Beery and two companion, who struck out Sunday morning into the snow-clad San Gabriel mountains near Palmdale. to search for Robert Elliott of llano, who was reported lost. Elliott was found by an Indian and brought to safety, but Beery, O. G.

Nonis, his ranch foreman, and A. L. Hendricks, a real estate man, were themselves lost. Caught in a terrific windstorm which followed a heavy snowfall the three braved the elements for thirty-six hours. They found shelter in a deserted cabin Sun day night.

Early yesterday they started the hard trek back. The returned to Hollywood near exhaustion late last night. 2 ARE HELD IN W0MAFSDEATH Husband and Another Man Charged with Murdering Mrs. Price Geneva, Nov. 17.

(AP) H. C. Price, 27. and Wallace Bowen, 21, of Newville are in jail at Geneva charged with the murder of Price's young wife, whose death a week ago was reputedly caused by an automobile plunge over an embankment on the road 15 miles from here. i Price was arrested in a Dothan hospital, where he had been a patient since the alleged accident, and Bowen was taken into custody at his home in Newville, in Henry county.

Sheriff Driver of Geneva county said a joint warrant has been sworn out charging the two prisoners with murdering Mrs. Price, and that an automobile axle retrieved from Hurricane creek, where the automobile went into the ditch, is being held as evidence. Sheriff Driver said the woman carried a $3,000 life insurance policy payable to her husband, and containing a double indemnity clause for accidental death. Price Is the son of a prominent banker and planter of Newville. He made no comment when he was taken into custody, officers said.

M'LEAN WILL PUSH HIS DIVORCE CASE Taris, Nov. 17. (AP.) Edward B. McLean, Washington newspaper publisher, will continue his divorce proceedings at Riga, his attorney said today, despite a restraining order issued yesterday by the District of Columbia supreme court. "When the papers are served on Mrs.

McLean," said the attorney, "I am sure that the Washington court will recognize the principles of international law 1 INSIDE STUFE i BEAU FQ2 The movement to encourage the early buying of automobile li- cense tags is a commendable one. It will give school teachers their salaries before the Christmas vacation period not afterward. It will react to the general prosperity of the state at that period when the Christmas spirit is in the air and money gets circulating habits which it does not have at other seasons of the year. Buy your tag early! They will go on sale December 1. The current squabble among race track interests regarding dates of meetings will do the racing game no good.

While not familiar with the claims of both sides, we do know that Joseph E. Widener is representative of the best set of sportsmen in the country and that he can be made a real Florida asset. The racing commission should see Its way clear in giving him a fair break in the selection of dates for his Miamt track. Widener is the calibre of man who wants the sport of kings carried on a high plane. If horse racing is to be continued in Florida it must be conducted on a high plane.

Harold Colee, executive manager public affairs of the Florida Motor Lines, is in Tallahassee- today in the interest of greater safety on the highways. Colee is an organizer and it would not surprise us if he does not get bus lines, truck lines and private auto operators lined up in a program which will result in prevention of accidents rather than sorrow after they happen. E. P. Owen.

secretary of the Florida League of Municipalities, commenting on the recent Democrat editorial. "A Blow Below the Bslt," writes that the state can rest- assured that Liberty magazine's story taking a slap at Florida will receive the earnest attention of city officials, at the League's convention in New Smyrna December 3 and 4. The League has been of great service to the state since its organization some years aeo and its official publication, the Florida Muniei-i pal Reocrd, is one of the state's lnest publicity mediums. "We heard a story the other day aKMif a min trhri Hptrminpd tfl commit suicide. He bought a rope.

a can OI Oil, a DOX oi maicnes, a dose of arsenic and a pistol. He went to the river, tied one end of the rope to the limb of a tree and the other around his neck. He tVion cnturntoH hi rlothincr rith oil. lighted a match to them, took a dose or arsenic, pui me muzzie Vi i-ilctnl tn hii hpart and pushed the boat from shore as he pulled the trigger. me Duuei glanced, cut the rope and he fell into the river putting out the fire.

He became strangled and coughed up the arsenic, swam out and declared himself a candidate on the Republican ticket. West Palm Beach taxpayers are facing a 160-mill levy to raise in one year, as a result of the recent order of the supreme court. The city was ordered to raise the money for bond holders. The city has already issued script in payment of city employes. i Business men are assisting city officials In working out a plan to raise the money.

A city sales tax, auto driver's tax, garage collection tax and other methods have been proposed. Others de- clare raising the money in one year an impossibility and will ask bond holders for a long-term refunding agreement. The situation Is the echo of the boom. Chairman Smoot of the United States senate finance committee continues the claim that a sales tax "on ultimate sales would be absorbed by the seller of the goods rather than be passed on to the consumer." The last time this was claimed by Republican advocates of a sales tax it brought a statement from the president of the American Automobile Chamber of Commerce saying that the manufacturers of automobiles could not be expected to absorb any sales tax. Other manufacturers feel the same way about it.

The sales tax will be paid by the people who can least afford it. It is distinctively a Republican measure, designed to lift the burden of taxation from those who fear a raise in the higher brackets of Income tax rates. Florida will have one of the best jv'seasons in her history, according to Ben H. Bostain, hotel commis-' sioner. In a Jacksonville paper.

He is Just returning from New York where he had a Florida exhibit at the National Hotel The exhibit is still in the metropolis and will continue to bring publicity to the state. If Florida can become the topic of the country now, there'll be a lot of people who will want to come here this winter. Ira is GREAT WELCOME AT Foreign Minister to Talk With Hoover Tomorrow Night Washington, Nov. 17. (AP.) Received with warmth and splendor, Italy's foreign minister Dino Grandi set today upon a path of preliminary ceremonies before formally offering President Hoover his country's "contribution to.

the common work for the com mon good." So the statesman described the purpose of his visit in a first utterance upon Washington soil. Fittingly, his earliest rendezvous this morning was at the marble shroud of the unknown soldier. Chief thought in Grandi's visit is the preservation of the peace for which the warrior gave his life. Late in reaching the camtal last night, the 36-year-old minis ter and Signora Grandi were welcomed with the full honors due foreign guests of the nation. A few minutes later they were presented to President and Mrs.

Hoover at the White House. In formal greetings were exchanged in English and the couple hurried off to Secretary Stimson's home for dinner and a good night's rest To Dine At White House Signor Grandi will not discuss world problems with the president until after a formal dinner at the White House tomorrow night. Meanwhile he has defined the general purpose of his visit in a statement to the press and in informal chats by the fireside at "Woodley," the Stimson home, in fashionable northwest Wash ington. He talked after dinner with Senator Borah, and unlike Prem ier Laval of France, his immediate predecessor in that scene, Grandi found himself in fairly close accord with the outspoken chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. The Versailles treaty gave them common ground.

for both want" it revised. Said Borah as he left: Seek cooperation i "I like Grandi very much." In his first statement to the press since landing at New York yesterday afternoon, Granli stressed the necessity for cooperation among all nations. He described Mr. Hoover's move for an inter-governmental debt moratorium as "timely" and said it marked the beginning of a period of "intensified diplomatic activity" with the heads, of all nations talking things over personally "to find the best way out of the difficulties of the moment." Secretary Stimson's visit to Rome last July was "most welcome," he said. CONTINUE STUDY OF RACETRACKS State Commission Extends Session on Applications for Permits The Florida racing commission today continued its study of three applications for horse race track licenses and four for dog race track licenses.

The applications were presented yesterdav at a public hearing here. Two of the three horse tracks and three of the dog tracks are located in Dade county. One horse track and one dog track are in Palm Beach county. Widener Silent Miami, Nov. 17.

(AP) Joseph E. Widener, head of the Miami Jockey club, arrived here today hoping that the Florida racing corn lission will use testimony he gave before it "for the best interests of horse racing in Florida." "I have nothing to say Just now, other than that I have done my best to lay the entire case before the racinsr commission," he said Mr. Widener, under oath yesterday, testified before the commission that William Dwyer, owner of St. John's race track near Jack is the actual owner of the proposed Tropical park track at Coral Gables, and that it was not owned by local men who applied for a license to operate. Operators of the Hialeah and Tropical park tracks sought con flicting dates of operation from the commission.

CONDITION OF ALF TAYLOR UNCHANGED Johnson City, Nov. 17. (AP.) The condition of former Governor Alfred A. Taylor. 83.

who is threatened with bronchial pneumonia at the Appalachian hospital here, was reported un changed," today by his physician Dr. Harry v. Miner. WASHINGTON JL UU CHINA DEMANDS WITHDRAWAL OF JAPAN'STROOPS Reports that General Mah Had Accepted Peace Terms Denied Mukden. Nov.

17. (AP.) Jap anese military Information said today the Chinese General Mah Chan-Shan had formally demanded the withdrawal of Japa nese troops from the region of the Nonnl river bridge. Reports that General Mah had accepted Japanese terms for peace were found to be incorrect. Japanese Consul Shimizu and Major Hayashl, resident Japanese military officer, left Tsitsihar for Harbin, ending direct relations between General Mah and the Japanese. Mah Standing Ground Tokyo, Nov.

17. (AP.) General Mah Chan-Shan, the Chinese commander in Manchuria, has submitted a set of counter proposals to the Japanese General Honjo, dispatches from Mukden said today, but is standing his ground south of Angachi with no indication that he Intends to withdraw. Dispatches from Harbin earlier in the day indicated that General Mah had accepted the Japanese demand that he withdraw, but the Mukden report of the counter proposals said he would fall back only if the Japanese evacuate the Nonnl rfver sector and give guarantees that General Chang Hai-Peng shall not be permitted to use the Taonan-Anganchl railway. Will Not Withdraw General Mah also repeated his assertion that he cannot with draw all his forces north of the Chinese Eastern railway because of the presence of bandits in the Meanwhile. It was said that military authorities here had decided to ask the cabinet that reinforcements be sent to Manchuria quickly, because of the increasingly threatening situation there It was announced that Lieutenant General Ninomiya.

vice chief of the general staff, will leave for Mukden this evening "on an im portant mission." THREE ALLEGED KIDNAPERS HELD Suspected of Having Ab ducted John J. Lynch in Wisconsin Chicago, Nov. 17. (AP.) Three men. suspected of having a part in the kidnaping of John J.

Lynch, millionaire turf man at Lake Geneva, were arrest ed last night. They are Michael TTant, Mich ael ana Frank Sullivan. The trio was believed by Pat Roche, investigator for the state's attorney, to be part of a gang of kidnapers which operated in Rockford. Peoria and other nil nois cities. Police intimated they might also have had a hand in the kidnapings of Ralph J.

"Fuz zy" Pearce. Rockford gambler and Alexander Berg, St. Louis furrier. Witnesses to the Lynch kidnap ing were to attempt to identify the trio today. Roche said.

Lynch was held a prisoner a week after he was seized by the kidnapers. His release was made August 27 after a reported ran soni of $50,000 was paid. GAMBOLING ABOUT TALLAHASSEE Bv DEWITT LAMB I saw today-Some of the new women's styles Blocfc fur gloves, with wide cuffs Oil cloth belts Overblouses The new glove bracelets Turquoise stones to match green felt hats Frilly and 1ussy wool skirts Shirred snugly at the hips Military pockets Metal buttons Jerseys with counter diagonals Pleated fan trimmings Pale blue velvet hats that are two parts plume and one part half cocoanut shells White Doeskins with red stitching And wine red kid pumps, with bag to match Loose lacings Puff sleeves Peau de'Ange It was a woman's party And we thought of Marvin Watts and his vocabulary Dairymen going to Gainesville J. Tarlowski of Monticello With a wrecked Buick Sheriff's deputy Joe Campbell, untangling him from another car SENTENCED SB "9 Though Mayor Harry Mackey of Philadelphia and others interceded in her behalf, Mary Mazmanian (above), 18-year-old school girl. remained in Moyamensing Prison to which she was sentenced after an automobile accident in which two persons were killed.

Judge Utley E. Crane, or the Philadelphia Municipal Court, was unmoved by pleas that the six-month sentence was unjust. GANDHI IS READY TO WAGE FIGHT TO BITTER END Nationalist Leader Has No Intention Giving Up Struggle London. Nov. 17.

(AP) Mah- atma Gandhi's Indian national- alists will fight "until eternity! for full control of the army in India, he told the federal struc tures committee of the round ta ble conference today. "We will go through fire and storm and distress." he said, "and if it be God's will, through a shower of bullets to obtain our in dependence. "The nation which has no control over its defense forces is not a responsible nation, and if the British people think it will be a century before we can be trusted with control of the army, then for that century the Nationalist con gress will wander in the wilder ness. If India cannot have conv plete control over the army then the army should be disbanded will wait until eternity if I can not get control over the national defenses. AUGUSTA PLANS LIGHTING PLANT Bond Issue of $2,500,000 Proposed for Construction of Project Augusta, Nov.

17 (AP) The city council of Augusta votd early today for authorizing the issuance of $2,500,000 in bonds to build a municipal electric light and power plant. The council remained In session until 3 a. m. The vote was 14 to 2. C.

A. Collies, vice president of the Georgia Power company, headed a delegation of that company which urged the ciiy not to enter into competition with it. The Augusta canal commission, which has charge of the project, has determined to build a Diesel engine plant and later construct a hydro-electric plant on the canal, which is a municipal project. Paul N. Pope, attorney of Jacksonville, who represents banking Interests that will purchase the bonds, announced his clients were satisfied with the prospects of the issue.

TOURIST CLUB IS IN 2 -DAY CONVENTION Many Delegates Attend Winter Haven Meet Winter Haven. Nov. 17. (AP) Officers and directors of the Florida State Tourist club Federation opened a two-day convention here today. They discussed plans for an All-States Tourist day at the Florida Orange festival here January 28.

resident J. s. Taylor, state fed eration head, is official host. The morning get-together ses sion was presided over by H. Over peck of Orlando.

The afternoon session will be in charge of P. W. Conant of St. Petersburg. HUSBAND KILLER Emily Cobb (right), former musical her down a flight of stairs and BIG LIQUOR RING IS REVEALED AT ALABAMATRIAL Defendant Tells How He Paid Officers For Protection Opelika, Nov.

17. (AP) A story of liquor dealing on a large scale was in the record today as Dan Dozier Janet, admitted 'big dealer," faced cross-examination from defense attorneys in the second day of the trial of 46 Phenix City residents on charges of conspiracy to violate the national prohibition laws. Janet yesterday was on the stand for more than four, hours. Brought here from the federal penitentiary at Atlanta where he is serving an 18 months sentence for liquor law violations. Janet testified former Mayor Walter E.

Sherrer of Phenix City had assured him he would not be molested if he supported the working man's ticket in the 1928 municipal election. Paid $20 Per Week Janet testified that over a period of many weeks he paid J. M. Blair, former chief of police, $20 a week for "protection" on each of three places he (Janet) operated in Phenix City and his automobiles used in running liquor. He also testified that Blair on two occasions had given him whisky to "serve the trade." once a ten-eal- lon keg and again five gallons.

He claimed he paid the "protection" money "until the night before I went to the penitentiary." The defendants include iwo state representatives, Charles T. Clayton of Russell, who. while a state law enforcement officer. Janet said, aided in a raid on his garage; Claude B. Gullatt, former commissioner and now repre sentative from Lee county, former Mayor Sherrer, E.

L. White, for mer commissioner, several former Phenix City patrolmen and others prominent in the business life of the city. COPS ATTACKED BY COMMUNISTIC MOB Woman Leads Band Charging on Officers New York, Nov. 17. (AP) A mob of 500 men, led by a woman, charged down early today upon two policemen guarding an East 14th street restaurant, scene of recent disorders.

One officer was knocked down and kicked by members of the mob, said to be communists. The woman leader was seized by a policeman and thrust into a taxicab, only to be pulled out from the other side of the cab by her followers. The police were obliged to draw revolvers and fire several shots into the air before the mob dis persed. One man was arrested. DEFUNCT BANK PAYS ITS FINAL DIVIDEND West Palm Beach, Nov.

17 (AP) A final 11.5 per cent dividend, totaling $21,000 was being paid depositors here today to wind up the affairs of the defunct National bank of West Palm Beach. It was the fifth dividend paid by the bank, making total pay nicnts of C5 per cent. husband, while intoxicated, threw then committed suicide. MIAMI TO HAVE BIG PLAYGROUND FOR IDLE RICH Recreation Center Backed By $15,000,000 Capital Planned New York, Nov. 17.

(AP) A $15,000,000 recreational center to surpass the drawing power of Deauville, Lido or Biarritz, has been mnounced for Miami, Fla, by Henry L. Doherty, public utili ties magnate. The center win be known as "The Florida Year Round clubs" and will include the Roney Plaza Cabana Sun club at Miami 3each, the Miami Biltmore Country club at Coral Gables and the Key Largo Anglers club. A program of outdoor recreation will be offered throughout the year. The Miami Biltmore and the Roney Plaza will continue as hotels.

Included in the attractions offered the guests will be two golf courses, numerous tennis courts, trap shooting, horse back riding and fishing grounds. N. B. T. Roney of Miami Beach.

developer of the Roney Beach, will be president of the organiza tion, and Charles M. Moon, Miami attorney, will have a place in the organization. W. G. McMeekin will continue as manager of the Roney Plaza and Marcel Gotschl as manager of the Miami Biltmore.

Mr. Roney left here last night for Miami to complete plans for an immediate opening of the clubs. ARREST PAIR ON ASSAULHHARGE Speakeasy Conversation Leads to Taking of Miami Men Miami. Nov. 17.

(AP) A speak easy conversation between two men here landed them in jail in connection with a Saturday as sault on a 30-year old nurse. Names of these suspects and two others arrested last night were not given public pending completion of investigation by chief of detec tives L. O. Scarborough. All denied knowledge of the case.

Police learned that one of the men addressing the other in a speakeasy, said "the papers are all wet. It wasn't $56 they got from the woman. It was only $48. The speaker's companion, police said, recently completed a five year term in state prison on a robbery conviction. The two other suspects were arrested at their room near where the automobile of C.

H. Howard, 33. school teacher and the nurse's companion at the time of the rob bery and assault, was found aban doned. The couple was held up. bound and gagged with bits of their clothing while one of the robbers pointed a pistol at them.

Both men were armed. The nurse was carried some distance in front of Howard car by one of the ban dits who assaulted her. She ef fected her release and freed How ard. who had been taken a block in the rear of the car. The robbers drove away in the car,.