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DEM volume vm TALLAHASSEE, fLOltlLA. THURSDAY, OCT. 27, 1921. NUMBER 45 THE DAILY OC-RAT PROPERTY DAMAGE OF STORM RUNS S5 WTO MILLIONS; DEATH LIST RE ACHE McRae Estimates Storm Damage at Six Million WILLWRECKROAD TO STUDY PROB: LEMS A Sometime within the hext few months a new road two and one half miles long is to be broken up in what is probably the most wishes to emphasize that dur-cxtensive study(of road service ing a series of meetings to be ever undertaken in the United held at the Baptist Church, be- States. The road is located in gmningjnext Sunday, 'the jgosH FINAL APPEAL BY LABOR BOARD TO CALL' OFF STRIKE (ASSOC! TE1) PKKSS Chicago, 111., Oct.

27. Ben Hooper, a member of the labor board went to the masonic tem- pie this morning where the presidents and general chairmen and the executive committees of the five big unions are in session. Hooepr is expected to make a final appeal on behalf of the government for calling off the threatened strike. The board's proposal as is reported, is to guarantee that neither the wage cut nor the rule changes will be considered until all the pending-cases are disposed of. Hoopers presence led to the reports that W.

G. Lee of the trainmen, was backing the peace Illinois, about 12 jmiles isouthj pel as held forth in the New west of Springfieldf and parallels, Testament is to be preached in the Wabash Jraftroad. ri jthel its simplicity power. The tes't road Ithere are. ho jcurvej Rev.

W. R. Lambert, D. who 1 lie grades iVary from zero to was at one time the popular pas- four-tenths of one per cent, with tor of the Baptist Church at an average grade of one-tenth of Quincy, later associated with ttu one per the maximum and Southwestern Theological Semi- minium grades extending over nary and then pastor at Denni-very short distances. The sub- son, Texas, is to preach twice! move.

Hooper saij- before going into the meeting was making the call unofficially i and "that he had a vague possibility for the settlement lit mind which he would outline to the union men. There has been much discussion in the union and in railroad circles as to the possibility of the labor board putting out an. order that the strike was illegal and ordering it called off. The board mem GOSPEL TO BE PREACHED IN TALLAHASSEE 4 This head line does; not imply that Tallahassee has never heard the'gospel preached but iti each day at 10:30 A. M.

and 7:30 P.M. Dr. Lambert is a preacher of power and has had a wide range of experience as an evangelist. He is a member of evangelistic staff of the Flon-, da Baptist Mission Board. He is weir known in Tallahassee and will be heard gladly by a host of friends who will' cooperate him in winning the lost of Tallahassee to the Lord and Savior.

This special series of meetings will begin Sunday, October 30th and! continue for twa or more weeKS. iiie pastor nupes mat ih)e membership of Uhd church i mi. i iL.ii wil-Vihold in readiness our Lord and serve humanity during these meetings. The congregations of the other churches and the public are cor dially invited to attend all services. BUNYAN STEPHENS The person who talks with out thinking is not always to be censured.

There is a height to which some brains can not ascend. truck traffic. The trucks are be weighed and the weights will be gradually increased from a licht load to one 50 ner cent greater than that allowed by Illinois law. The number and weight of loads required to produce failure in the various sections will index the behavior of the variou? types of pavements when subjected to different kinds of traffic. Auto Trucks Will Make sands of Trips The traffic test of the Thou- road will be accomplished by means.

of a battery of ten motor trucks driven by trained operators. The wrecked by the test and the ae a partment highway engineers will be in possession of in formation which will re- suit in more scientific roadi building and resultant saving of many times the 0bst of the road a I i 1 CHURCH CENSUS TO BE TAKEN ON SUNDAY, NOV. 6TH Arrangements are about complete for the religious census which the protestant churches of the city will take in the city and the surrounding territory, Sunday November 6th. It is planned to have committees and sub-committees to canvass every home in the community and ascertain td what church each member of the family belongs,) if any. If not a member of a church the preference will be asked.

The work is being done under the auspices of the Sunday Schools of the city. Every me interested in religious work is invited to assist on the committees. CONCERT WONT BE GIVEN MONDAY rror. k. jvi.

beaiey receives word from the Newberry Exposition Band, which were to have appeared at the High School Auditorium next Monday night, will be unable to appear on account of the illness of some of the members of the band. An noUncement will be made later if they come to Tallahassee. PRES. INSPECTS CAMP BENNING Columbus, Ga. Oct.

27 President Harding and his party arrived here this morning from Birmingham and spent several hours inspecing Camp Benning. The party goes to Atlanta this afternoon where the president will speak late today. repair the damage. Orange and grapefruit drops are few. The hill and lake section has no flood damage although it is estimated that twelve to fifteen inches of rain fell.

Cedar Key Unhurt Gainesville, Oct. 27. Passengers arriving here today from Cedar Key, an island koff the west coast of Florida, reported that the town of Cedar Keys had passed thru the tropical storm which has been rag ing thru Florida, without dam age. Cedar Keys is north of Tampa. Gainesville suffered no damage except to telegraph and tel ephone lines.

Tampa Papers Out or Commission According to information reaching Tallahassee tThursday the roof of the Tampa Times building was blown entirely off and the Tribune" was forced to print an abbreviated edition at Plant City Wednesday morning, its own plant being inundated. No copy of these papers have reached here since less of life reported at Passa-jrrille, a gulf resort southwest of here as the result of the hurricane and the property damage is probably less than $50,000. The death list here remained at two and property loss is estimated between a half and one million doJlars. Six piers on the water front, including the municipal recreation pier and the Atlantic Coast Line railroad pier are swept away with" the loss of a quarter million dollars and at least fifty small boats are sunk. The streets were cleared of debris today and the electric pouer which has been off since Tuesday, was stored in the down town section.

The high tide and rough seas here Tuesday afternoon backed the water from two to three blocks into the city flooding th' low places. Damage Estimated at $5,000,000 Taitvpa, Oct. 27. damage of that section of the peninsular which was swept by the hurricane, is estimated at five million dollars by insurance men here, who have been ana- lyzing the reports reaching Tampa from other sections. Damage in Tampa is estimated between one one-half and two million dollars, but it will be several days before a definite figure can be made! The known death list early today still stood at five; two in St.

Petersburg thrpe in Tampa and vicinity. The Seaboard Air Line tracks from Tamm to St. Petersburg are blocked. The hiirhwpv bridge across the head of the old Tampa bay near Safety Harbor washed away and crashed into the Seaboard bridge tearing down a portion of it. It will be ten days before trains will be able to go through.

Highways everywhere are damaged, no wires to Pinellas county. Fruit and Truck Damage Eti mated at 50 to 60 Per Cent. Tampa, Oct. 7. Report om all sections tell of heavy jrom all sections tell of heavy damage to the citrus fruit and truck crop3 estimates ranging from loss of per cent, in the coastal regions of Pineiyis 'thirty to (fifty per cent, in Hillsborough' and down to from five to ten per cent in Orange and Polk counties.

Hits Lake County Tavarcs, Oct. 27.Intermit-tcnt flashes of sunshine this morning broke a continuous 70 hour wind and rain storm. Lake county has taken invoice of its damage and finds it immaterial, The heaviest blow came last night when large trees were uprooted and ornamental vines suffered severely. It is believed that a twister was in the bag of tricks of unruly elements for some large pine trees were felled splintered from top to bottom and curled up like molasses candy. Electric light and telephone systems suffered from fallen trees.

A few hours will Commissioner of Agriculture A. McRae gaye but statement Thursday regarding the damage of the storm. He secured information from State Marketing Commissioner at Jacksonville. The line of the storm was along the north line of Pinellas county on the gulf to about Daytona on the Atlantic. The 1 Pi.

TIT. Buuin line was uviii i i. iujcia on the gulf to Cocoa on the Atlantic. The entire storm area covers strip of about 100 miles thru which much damage was done, the heaviest damage area covered a strip of only about fifty miles. Mr.

McRae estimates the damage to fruit and vegetables less than 10 per cent, Much of the fallen fruit can he saved thru prompt action on the part of the owners of the groves The 'property -damage in the whoe area according'to Mr. Mc. Rae Is" estimated at about 000,000. Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater are hardest hit.

Damage at Tampa is estimated at $3,000,000, and St. Petersburg $1,000,000. Only five lives reported lost up to this time. The cities which the storm gtfuck with pinT14. ntv less damage are Bradentown, Dade City Lakeland, Bartow, Wau-Orlando, Kis- chula.

Arcadia. simmee, Sanford, Titusville, Daytona, DeLand, Fort Myers, (little or no damage), Punta Gorda, slight damage. Had to Huw Their Way Thru Hewing a trail through the wind-torn and rain-swept region between Wall Springs and Tampa Tuesday night, W. W. Clark, member of the state road department, reached Tallahassee at an early hqur Thursday morn to attend the meeting of that organization being held here to- day.

Mr. Uark gave 1 he Vem ccrai a grapnic story oi ms inp, it. A- a. a a aescnDing me aamage io crops and property throughout that section. Mr.

Clark, in company with a dozen other mgn, blazed a trail through the heavily inundated section between his home at Wall Springs and the cigar city. Some idea of the havoc wrought by '-the hurricane) which struck that section might be estimated, he said, through the fact that it took the combined forces of the party more than three hours to cover a one and half mile stretch at Oldsmar. Mr. who is the owner of extensive citrus interests placed the loss on His crop at more than fifty percent. In the.

region4 -farther north, along the trail of the storm, he said, the It I i 111 1 aamage wm inaraiy rcachi tnat figure. Two Lives Lost in St. Peters- burg; I grade soil is uniformly a brown silt 'Joam, except for two small stretches where it more? nearly approaches gumbo. Built of Common, Road-Making Materials There are seven general types of paving in the road, the idea being to have represented the cMef materials used in road-making so that engineers may stddy the effect of known 'and measured traffic of varying degree upon each 'kind of road. The seven types are: Portland cement concrete.

Three and four inch lug brick constructed monolithic and with Portland cement concrete base Three and four inch lug brick constructed semimonolithic and with a Portland cement concrete base. Three and four inch bituminous filled lug and jlugless fcrick on Portland cement concrete base, Three and four inch bituminous, filled lug -and lugless brick on macadam base. Asphaltic concrete with and without binder course on Poi land cement concrete base. Asphaltic concrete with and without binder course on macadam Built by Illinois and Federal Government The road, known as the Bates experimental road, was constructed by the division of high-ways, Jllinois Department of Public Works and Buildings, in cooperation with the Bureau of Public United States Department of Agriculture. Actual work was begun on the road In June, 3f20, and it was finished some ti ago.

Since its completion the State and Feder-al Goven-nifnt engineers, by i bers would not discuss the report this forenoon except to say no such order had been prepared. Strike Not Yet Settled Chicago Oct. 27 Hooper remained with the) union officials for some time after leaving he said the not yet settled; that a settlement could hardly be expected while he was at the meeting. The union meeting broke up soon after Hooper left with the announce-men that the five organizations would hold separate meetings at one o'clock and a joint meeting at three. LITTLE ENTENTE THREATEN HUNG.

(Associated Press London Oct. 27. r- The little entente 'composed of Rumania, Czech Slovakia and Jugo Slavia sent a note to Hungary demanding the surrender of former Charles and tthe demobilization of the Hungarian army and reparations sufficient to defray the expense of the. 'little entente's, mobilization. Unless Hungary replies satisfactorily within two days little entente troops will enter, Hungary.

inra BY DYNAMITE (ASSOCIATED PRESSl Pittsburgh, Oct 27. The Gray Wolf Mine near Gross, Kansas, was wrecked by two charges of dynamite shortly be- fore midnirvht 1-ist nirht. numerous daily observation, loading of the trucks will be in-have ben measuring the effect creased after each 1,000 trips, of heat, cold, moisture and oth-j The maximum wheel load prober elements upon its surface and will not exceed 12,000 on the subgrade. These observ pounds which is half as much yation have beerij taker! on again as the legal load in Illinois, sections and mucn information When the test is completed, has been obtained will be months hence, the road will be valuable in building roads in the future. Thus the road has seasoned.

At the proper time now approaching, the first motor vehi- cle will be turned aponi it. It i planned to subject the high- ASSOCIATED PRES3 DISPATCH) St. Petersburg, Oct 27. No 'oved..