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if 1 tLl Si! Member of Associated Press Weather Forecast SHOWERS TONIGHT AND TUESDAY VOLUME TALLAHASSEE. FLOPwIDA MONDAY, OCT. 15, 1923 NUMBER 20" ii WK II II ii auks GOVERNORS BE INVITED HERE CLARKE MADE COUNTY TAX IERIFF MORRISON DEMENTED FOUND HALF NUDE IN A1 SWAMP NEXT CONFERENCE ASSESSOR TO SUCCEED MR. AMES FOR (By the Associated TresB) fGovernor Hardee, aceomianied by Mrs. Hardee planned to leave this afternoon for West Baden, Indiana, to attend the conference of governors bes'pning Wednesday and the gov-err Jr will extend an invitation tthe state executives to come to Florida next year for their 'conference arter -which they will be asked to spend two or three days on a trip over the state.

Thegovornor plans to attend W. L. Clark was named tof succeed Major W. O. Ames as county tax assessor.

Governor Hardee made "the announcement of the appointment just as he was leaving for the governor's conference in -Indiana. The governor generally does not make an appointment to' fill the vacancy so quickly as he did-' this one, but apparently he had good Reasons for announcing the appointment at this time. In the first place he was leaving to be gone ten days or two weeks and evidently he did not want to keep the pepple guessing who would he their assessor for this length of time. Then, too, tax books for this year have not been turned over to the collector and it is understood that the county commissioners wanted the appointment made quickly so that the books could be completed. Mr.

Angus JMorrison, sheriff of Wakulla county, was found Monday morning wandering in Wakulla river swamp, half nude and in a demented condition. He disapppeared from his home last Thursday. His friends were apprehensive of harm, and at once began a search for him. He was found Friday in a shack on the edrje of the swamp well barricaded with firearms. Not being sufficient in number to apprehend him the friends went for help but on their return he had escaped into the swamp.

The search continued, with his final apprehension. Sheriff Morrison is a most amiable man and a splendid officer when not under the influence of whisky. A petition was presented to Governor Hadree several months ago asking for his removal on account of drunkenness, but on the promise of better conduct he was retained. It is now believed that drink has thoroly unnerved him and that he will be oommited to the hospital ia Chattahoochee. JEWS DISAVOW; ADDRESS 0N; PALESTINE QUESTION MRS.

WEBB DIED OF NATURAL CAUSES. SAYS THE CORONER DICTOGRAPH FOUND IN MRS.STOKES' HOTEL SUITE (By the Associated Press) New York, V. Y. The American jewish congress disavowed the address yesterday of Israel Zangwill, author and publicist in which 'he asserted that the Jews must "foresro their political aspirations regarding Palestine. The disavowal took the form of a motion which carried unanimously after an address by Dr.

Stephen A. Wise, chairman of the executive committee. "I can not mike it too clear, he said, that Mr. Zangwill spoke for himself and not for the American jewish congress, ne spoke to Israel but not for Israel. ARBITRATION MAY BE NECESSARY TO SAVE A COLLEGE executive offiwr, naval department, and in spite of the serious handicaps unted Confederate veterans, says this -t.

put 1 jfcvrmatipn is not correct. Mrs. L. M. has carried on and hundreu of rtmocrat boys and girls hve been trained in office by phone today that lr.

i'hii. the constrtKtive way for better ti hack's information is incorrect'--zens. The students have ben equipt An article written by Apple-to earn their livelihood ia lines that yard, follows: (By the Associated Press) White Plains, N. KJtz-gerald announced that he had filed a certificate at Harrison, stiting that Sirs. Gertrude Gorman Webb, the wealthy New York and Philadelphia society woman whose death at the fashionable Westohester-Biltmore country club" ai-out three weeks azo was officially investigated and that the had died of natural causes, The 4njuest scheduled for tomorrow has been ralltd off, added, the grand jury sessions woul I be continued today.

TOURIST MOVING TOWARDFLORIDA ATLANTA. The auto tourist travel toward Florida from the northwest has started and the movement to the tand of flowers from the north and east 3 beginning to get under way. "Within a month the, highways leading to Florida will have many cars passing over them daily. It is the annual migration of people who wish to escape the rigors of the northern climate and who find ia south Georgia and Florida the sunshine and the fcalmy weather they need to make the winter, one of contentment. Toorists wbenthcy to the study road editions carefully, gather inforaatioa concerning the condition of the various routes and pick: the route that has the least Btraflier bad stretches of roadway Affairs at the M.

college do not stem to be very much -on the tlm burning of Duval hall Thursday nisht. The local telegraph office was besiesed with girls Monday morning sending messages requesting permission to return home, stating that they were afraid to remain in the school under present eondition3. A. A. Turner, one of the A.

M. the conference at Washington also. Coolidge will Psesent His Views on Prohibition Washington, Oct. 1. President Cool-idge will present his views on prohi bition to the governors at the law enforcement conference to be held here Saturday, and.dn the meantime lie will have no comment to make on Governor Fmehofs suggestion that the president take into his own hands the task of the drylaw enforcement.

IX MEM0RL1M In loving memory of my dear husband, Rev, Seymour Grady, who went away from U3 to our Heavenly Home one year asrt today, 13, 1922. His going was so sudden we can't yet be reconciled. His alrsence still seems like he is on a journey. We still listen for that buoyant step and merry whistle. We know he is in 'God's loving care.

And we love to think he is very close by. We can recall many beautiful things he Las said atout "departed loved ones, the memory of these being sweet to our hearts. They never juite itavp x-, beloved who hare passed' Through the shadow of death to the sunlight above. A thousand sweet memories are holding them fast To the- places they blessed with their presence and Ioyc work which he and the Itooks which he read mutely, though still with an eloquence And the sons that he sung, and dear words that lie said. Yet linger and sigh on the desolate air.

In Mew threaded morn and the opaline eve. When the children are merry or crimsoned with sleep, We are comforted even, as lonely we grieve, For the thought jf that rapture forbids us to -wVel. We toil at our tasks in the burden and heat Of life's passionate noon. They are olden in peace. It i3 well.

We rejoice that their heaven is Bweet, And for us one day all the bitter will cease. We, too, will go home o'er the river of rest As the strong and lovely before us have gone. Our sun will go down in the beautiful west, To rise in the glory that circles the throne. V'-'V'- Until then we are bound by our loe and our faith', To the saints who' are walking in paradise fair: They have passed beyond our sight, at the touch of death, But they live, like ourselves, in God's infinite care. MRS.

SEYMOUR GRADY. Dr. J. K. Johnston returned last night from Atlanta where the attended the Georgia Tech-Florida game at-urday.

Mr. L. Crump of Capitola was in the city Monday. He reports work progressing well on the big new lumber plant at his place. Mr.

ami Mrs. Nathan Ong had as their guests for, the week end Mr. R. McGregor and Mr. Blake Holton of Bloomington, III.

They the trip motor and will continue their tour the' east, coast where they have extensive citrus fruit interests. college ornca ana a practica, man, and wood wkefi greatly deplores the unfortunate blacksmith3 and tbe rU UnzU affair and feels that it may be set- home horticul-tlai satisfactorily between the stu-J ture and Qursln W0Hithy J)er. dent body and President Howard if on 0t in California eft tte ml the matter can be arbitrated by dis- sufficient funds to erect a passionate and responsible men. He and also a feels that a settlement aust be made for the negro gkls to at once to save the fiuest negro edu- trained nurses s5nce estab1ish. cational institution in the state.

ment many of these n)a(Je Bryan Mack, editor of the Pensa- fine nurses and have been of inesti-cola Journal, has the following to mable good to their race. Not all say in reference to the matter: The Strike at the Segro College It is with considerable regret that the news of the student strike at the Florida A M. college for (By the Associated Press) New York, N. Y. Charles li Erb-stein, the Chicago attorney for Mis.

W. E. D. Stokes today confirmed the reports that a dictagraph had been found in her isnite in the Hotel Commodore. The instrument, he said had been found by W.

Dannenberi, a Chit-ago investigator, who made it hi? business to inspect rooms each day. The machine was discovered, he added while he was conversing with Mrs. Stokes' mother. Ila advanced no theory as to who installed the instrument. 1 fl AMES Ig LAID TO REST Many friends and relatives attended the funeral services Sunday afternoon of Major W.

O. Ames who died Saturday. The services were held at the Episcopal church and were conducted by Rer. R. E.

Boykin, rector. Following the church services the remains were carried to the Episcopal cemetery where buriel ceremonies were. held. The pall bearers were G. T.

Whitfield, Paul V. Lang, B. A. Meginnis, Frank S. Hartsfield, L.

M. Lively and R. B. Council. 5 NOTHING HEARD FROM THE LOST VESSEL Key West, Fla.

The- fate of the City of Everett will never be knowa is the grim belief exprest in shipping circles. Ivere after all. Efforts to locale thet missing vessel had failed. For hours the Comal and A. C.

Bedford cruised that part of the gulf of Mexico from3 which the doomed steamer sent its last S. O. S. call, but no trace of it or life boats could be found. The sea was heavy; too heavy for life boats to successfully weather it, was the report that both masters of the rescue beats sent back.

The last message the world received from the missing vessel was short and significant. It read: "Sink ing stern first; will launch life boats." ever had on the Alabama. Its commander was very simple in hii habits and too democratic to put oa much style. He was just a plain "old salt" sailor of the old days. After the sinking of the Alabama, Admiral Semmes was placed in command of the James River (Virginia) squadron.

In due course I was made his messenger boy. As I happen to know, he was a man to be loved absolutely fearless, but as tender as a woman. Put it down in your note book, and be prepared to swear it, that there is no "silver from the Confederate cruiser Alabama" in Tallahassee or in any; other city, nor anywhere else for that matter. AriXKYAJUV Executive Officer. Naval Denartment.

United Confederate Veterans. SOME MISTAKE ABOUT SILVER E. FhilUrick gave the Democrat- information Saturday regarding Vue silver being in Tallahassee which was taken from the battleship Alabama which was destroyed during the civil war. Col. T.

J. Ar.nlevanl. Bad History Editor Democrat: I don't know who gave you that information in Saturday's paper about silver from the Confederate cruiser. Alabama. floating around loose in Tallahassee.

It just so happens, if there ever was any, which I doubt, that there is not the smallest relic in existence to tell the tale of this ill fated ship. Nothing that was ever aboard of her could possibly be found. She went down "head on" and only the fact that there was an English vessel, the "Deerhound," (Capt. Winslow) in close proximity, prevented great loss of life. Nothing whatever wa3 left of the Alabama, except floating spars, tc.

to tell the tale. These "idle vaporinss" of those who know nothing about the Confederate States navy (and the army as well), in the interest of the youug people of the south, who are studying its history, ought to stop. They are giving the children a false idea of the people who commanded our torces. I just happened to know Admiral Raphael J. Semmes, a very plain man in his habits.

I doubt if there is hardlya family Tallahassee but that has more silver in use than he the institution to continue to cooperate with its faculty in giving to the negro youth of the state, a first class institution and whatever statements that have gone out to the contrary are without foundation, he said with reference to statements' which he said had gone out about the school that had a tendency to put it in a false light in the eyes of the people of the state. The general policies of the institution are not in any sense changed. There should be no fear On the part of parents who desire to send their children to the school as they will be given every protection, he added. Destruction of one of the buildings by fire a few nights ago will not interfere with the class work at the school, Howard said. Prof.

Howard attributed the strike at the school to the influence over certain members of the student body by a "disgruntled teacher who is not now in the employ of the institution," and another teacher "who coveted the place as head of the institution." It was learned that Dear. Thomas of the college of arts and sciences at the institution left here yesterday. negroes is read, but the unfortunate 2ens of the negro race in this state occurence need not prejudice anyone and is destined for long vears of against the state education of the useful service for Florida unless a negro citizens. The "strike" id by few ill advised students create a pre-young and immature lys and girls, judice on account of the strike there and youth does many foolish things. against the president and his method The editor of the Journal knows Prof.

Howard, president of the college, against whose administration the strike is directed, and i3 glad to enable them to make good homes, and provide for their families. The boys have been trained in acricultnrp and hrrtirnH.ir. a car. have followed the profeion. but the knowledge gained there has enabled them to make better homes.

The college is a Tery wo.th while institution. It bas triads hpttpr ri4 5 of doing thinsrs. Board of Control Investigated The demands of the students who struck at the A. M. colleee fr VVF icvutu 11 Liltflr CiaSSPS Tftrinr w'lV be expelled.

AvStrike Students Leave for Home -Students at the state A. M. col-1 lege for negore3 who failed to res- pond to the invitation of W. n. A.

Howard, acting president, to return Jo their classes and such duties as were required of them, following the which began Monday, besan leaving the institution Saturday for their homes. School of P. rials thought UtfT probably 100 would go, including ntthis time. professor Howard stated that 'ex- of those who have been guilty of misdemeanor 11 Pino1 tlu stp'to will follow, but added that is taking some time to find out who were responsible for wrong doing and who have to be sent away from the school. The board of control stands behind' say that Howard is entirely capanie negroes here last week were too of successfully handling the uprising trivial to be considered, according to Howard is no smart alec in the lpast'j information made public today con-He is a well balanced, practical; and cerning an investigation made by two zealous worker in whom the raenv! niemlws of the.

board of control. Iters of the board of control placed They were E. L. Wartman and W. L.

confidence to run the Weaver. AH students who were lead-Howard for a number of yearsfwas ers in the strike have been expelled director of the machine shops U'affJitVas stated, and all students who to It. The highway that is good air the way is the favored one and Rets the greater number of tourist cars. Besides those who travel by auto hundreds of tourists use the trains. Passenger traffic manager, A.

D. Daniel, of the Atlanta, Birginsham and Atlantic railway said that the tourist travel over his road this year would be the heaviest probably, that it been in several years. Special equipment has been provided by the road to meet the heavy demand for passenger travel that is expected during the nest two or three months. Many people who used to go to Florida are now stopping off at towns in south Georgia, said Mr. Daniel.

Thomasville ani other south Georgia cities which attracted attention years ago when wealthy northerners built homes in that section, are as popular as ever if not more so and our passengers from day to day now include many nationally known men who go to this partof south Georgia to spend the winter. Several hunting parties have already been car ried over our lines and others are expected in the near future. There is in these south Geonria towns to attract the northern visitor, and in a number of Instances they have made large investments in property in that section of the stae. Bernard Taming, Walter Moore, II. J.

Yaeger and Eaton Burr returned last night from Atlanta where they attended the Georgia Tech-Florida university game Saturday. and Mrs. Ralph Rhodes and baby left Sunday in their car for Starke where Mrs. Rhodes will spend a while visiting her mother. Mr.

Rhodes will return today. wilt i luuuowiai at oimiwco. fic has taught the negro boys how to make good citizens by teaching them how to make good carpenters, smiths, painters and other practical trades. During the time Young 'was president, Howard used his students in keeping the buildings in a state of repair, and when he becAme pf-ej4- dent he naturally insisted that', all students do something in a practical way in addition to thir book sta dies. It is this practical tr-iniing that, those whose parents have requested the students seem to object to, find they be permitted to return home it would seem that Howard wag exactly right in preserving ind demnnding such service from all sta- dents.

Few Fliridans realize the that has been accomplished at this negro college during the last twenty years. institution has been given scant aid from the Florida legislature and the headway made ha3 been against.

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