Tampa Bay Times from St. Petersburg, Florida • 1

Hitter's Threat What were Americans thlnklnr when the European war-clouds were thickest? What did they think of Hitler's demands and the Munich agreement? While nations faced war, Dr. Gallup found out. Turn to pate 4 for survey. IVcathor FLORIDA Cloudy, rain m-cept In extreme northwest por tlon today. Saturday partly cloudy and somewhat unset tied.

VOL. 55, NO. 79 COMPLETE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIRE SERVICE ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1938 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES FIVE CENTS It's Not a Hurricane! 'Round World 'Dream Boat' Runs Into Grief Here Storm in Gulf "IV Hitler to Demand Czechs Hand Over Areas to Hungary Moves Toward South Florida SENATORS BACK It Will Hit in Vicinity of Fort Myers if Present Course Continues; City and Whole Coast to Get Wind, Rains A moderate tropical storm intensity wns moving toward vsx'vy. liiorninx with indications that it would go across south Honda, probably in the vicinity ot Fort Myers, some time today, brinjr-itiR winds and rains to St.

Petersburg and all other west coast sections. At 3 o'clock this mnruinp, ville issued the following advisory: jtnfffn mi iiiiiiujiiiiiijiiiiiiii The moderate tropical disturbance centered at 1 a.m. Eastern Standard time approximately 200 miles west southwest of Fort Myers continued to move eastward about 14 miles per hour attended by winds and squalls up to 40 to 48 miles pr hour occurring mostly north of center. This disturbance, which is not of hurricane intensity, will pass over southern Florida today attended by rains and heavy squalls. Small vessels in this area should remain in port and precautions by persons on exposed islands and beaches should be taken until storm passes.

Storm warnings remain displayed south of Tarpon Springs to Key West and northward on the east coast to Stuart, Florida. At midnight, the weather bureau reported: "Pressure has fallen slowly but steadily over the Florida peninsula during past 12 hours and wind velocities have risen in the Tampa bay area during the past four hours, with Tampa reporting a maximum velocity of 38 miles per hour." Northeast storm warnings were ordered displayed at 9:30 p.m. between Tarpon Springs and Fort Myers, on the west coast. Southeast warnings were ordered for the coast from Fort Myers around to Stuart, on the east eoast. Highest winds reported in the vicinity of the disturbance Mere 48 miles an hour, which is moderate gale force.

St. Petersburg at one time last night had a 43-mile wind. Hurricane winds are estimated at from to 90 miles an hour. All of his lile Ernest J. Moy, a newspaperman, dreamed of a trip around the world.

Upon retirement recently he built a 58-foot luxury yawl and started on the trip from Tampa Monday. Last night he stood on the seawall at St. Petersburg's waterfront and saw the stormy waves of Tampa bay batter his ship about because of a fouled anchor. Coast Guardsmen got a line aboard the yawl at 1:30 a.m. and then suspended operations until daybreak when new efforts will be made to make her fast.

This picture was taken last night. Coast Guards Work Frantically in Effort To Save Grounded Yawl Beset with heavy seas and winds which were near gale force, Coast Guards aboard the patrol boat No. 145 battled hour after hour last night to save the 58-foot yawl Dione, after the craft dragged anchor in Central Yacht basin and drifted dangerously hear a rugged concrete sea wall just north cf the Atlantic Coast Line railroad pier. At 1:30 o'clock this morning, after three attempts had failed, an eight-inch line was finally put aboard the yawl. Coast Guardmen then suspended operations until Fuehrer Will Back Prague, However, Against Further Polish Claims By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nazi circles predicted last night that Adolf Hitler would tell Czechoslovakia's foreign minister bluntly and directly today that the Prague government must cede quickly to Hungary those, portions of the republic where Hungarians obviously predominate.

These sources said the fuehrer would lose no time in making his stand clear to the Czechoslovak foreign minister, Frantisek Chvalkovsky, who sped last night toward Munich to see Hitler. At the ame time, they said he would assure Chvalkovsky that Germany would not stand behind any Hungarian demand lor any Czechoslovak territory not predominantly, Hungarian. Polish Demand Vetoed It was said that Bratislava, for instance, must not be counted upon by the Hungarians as a future Hungarian city. Nor will Germany favor the Hungarian-Polish idea of a common frontier to be created through the incorporation of Carpatho-Russia (Ruthenia) in Hungary, these informants said. Germany was said to be in receipt of information indicating that not only the Carpatho-Rus-sians opposed this, but also the Ukranians in Poland who see in a forcible junction of this section of Czechoslovakia with Hun gary a violation of Woodrow Wilson's principles of self-determination.

Hitler, it was pointed out, therefore would approve a new Czechoslovakia composed of Czechs, Slovaks and Ruthenians. It was held likely that these three component parts of the republic would enjoy complete autonomy, having only the army and foreign policy jointly with the other two component parts. It was believed Hitler would see Chvalkovsky at Munich instead of Berchtesgaden when they meet to discuss the fuehrer's will toward the dismembered republic. The international commission in Berlin, meanwhile, has Germany now has virtually all of Sudetenland she would get under the Munich four-power accord. Piebesclte Not Needed The commission decided that, subject to a few minor changes, the line to which German troops advanced inHhe first 10 days of October would" be the definite border between Germany and Czechoslovakia.

The commission decided it was "unnecessary" to hold any plebiscite, something it had been empowered at Munich to arrange for mixed German-Czechoslovak areas in Czechoslovakia. A German-Czechoslovak committee has been formed for regulating the details of the right of option for peoples who find themselves on the wrong side of the border, a right the peoples may exercise until April 1. Uppermost was the question of how, and under what terms, Hitler and, with him. Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy would be willing to guarantee the new Czechoslovakia. Germans considered that it was a foregone conclusion the Czechs by their actions would have to admit that the entire policy of alliances and friendships under former President Edouard Benes was wrong Hungary called upon the authors of the four-power Munich accord last night to meet again "as soon as possible" to settle her territorial claims against Czechoslovakia.

The appeal to the heads of the four major western potters Britain, France, Germany and Italy capped a day which saw the breakdown of negotiations between the two countries and mounting military preparations on both sides of the Hungarian-Czechoslovak border. Hungarians Arrested The government of autonomous Ruthenia reported order had been restored in Czechoslovakia's eastern reaches after martial law was declared in three districts. Several hundred alleged Hungarian terrorists were arrested. On the other side of the globe, international attention was turned on the declaration of high Japan ese army officials that they were prepared to take extreme meas ures to end what they said was assistance to China by third powers. These sources said bluntly that Britain and France have been "consistently unfriendly" to Japan's cause, but that the United States had neutral, "which Japan appreciates." (In Tokio there was a popular belief, supported to some extent by press comment, that British and French aid to China through Canton necessitated the south China offensive begun in Kwang-tune province on Wednesday.

(The newspaper Nichl Nichl said: "Both British and French See HITLER, Page 2, Col. 1. WALLACE FARM SURPLUS PLAN King Critical of Crop Proposal WASHINGTON. (JP) The ad ministration's proposal to sell surplus agricultural products to low-income persons at "bargain prices" won powerful support on Capitol Hill yesterday. Discussion turned immediately, however, to the probable cost of sucn a program and how the money would be raised in fi.

nance it. Senator Borah. Idaho Rpnuh- lican, endorsing the broad outlines of the program, as made public Wednesday by Secretary of Agriculture Wallare sairf ho ho. lieved it would cost less than the present crop control administration. Borah urged the last con gress to do away with crop limitation and provide for eov- ernment purchase of surpluses and their free distribution to the needy.

Senator Wheeler. Montana Democrat, who said he was favorably impressed by the surplus disposal program, said frankly he did not know where the money was coming from. Currency Expansion Wallace recently has advocated re-enactment of processing taxes. Some southern senators, faced with a large cotton surplus, have expressed interest in currency expansion measures. Senator King, Utah Democrat, critical of Wallace's proposal, saw in it "another raid on the treasury." Most legislators hesitated to estimate the cost of a program such as Wallace outlined, but they recalled that Senator Schwel lenbach, Washington Democrat, had given congress high cost fig ures last winter in opposing Bo rah's suggestion that the govern ment buy crop surpluses and give them to the needy.

Schwellenbach estimated it would cost $1,051,000,000 to pur chase the surplus of the wheat, corn and cotton crops of 1938 at "parity prices. He said the cost of processing these crops to make them ready for the consumer would be 2.44 times as great as the original purchase price. Senator Wheeler, asserting that the present farm program had "broken down," said he favored a dual price system for three or four major crops. "We've got to come to the two-price system," he declared. "The farmer should be given the benefit of a fair price on the home market, and be permitted to dis pose of his surplus at the world price level.

E.CSegar, Creator Of "Popeye," Dies jM- y. -z- E. C. SEGAR SANTA MONTICA, Cal. (JP) E.

C. Scgar, artist and creator of the comic strip character, Pop-eye, the sailor, died at his home here last night after an illness of six months. He recently had undergone an operation for removal of his spleen, but had grown steadily worse, lapsing into a coma Wednesday night. Segar was born in Chester, 111., and got his first job on the Chicago Herald under R. F.

Outcault, then in his heyday as creator of "Buster Brown" and "Tlge." He went to New York in 1919. It was not until Jan. 17, 1929, that Scgar introduced more by accident than careful planning, a scrawny, bow-legged sailor with a Jutty jaw and forearms like hams. Crystal City, the spinach center of America, recently erected a huge statue of "Popeye" in their city square. ONLY $5,000 FOR THE SEASON! If you want to rent a house for the winter for only $5,000 turn to the classified advertising section and see the ads under classification 154.

If you want to BUY one for much less than this (or much more), see classification 167. The best in real estate sales and rental listings is advertised in The Times EVERY DAY. Adv. but definitely not of hurricane Florida's west coast early this the weather bureau at Jackson GIRL STRUCK BY SKIDDING AUTO Mozelle Groseclose Accident Victim Miss Mozelle Groseclose, 19, was severely injured last night at 7:45 o'clock when struck by an automobile as she attempted to board a street car on Central avenue at Twenty-fifth street. Police said Russell Buckholt, Treasure Island, the car's driver, tried to swerve when he saw Miss Groseclose in front of him.

The car skidded on the wet pavement and struck the young woman, knocking her to the pavement. Mound Park hospital last night reported her condition "fair." Although exact extent of her injuries had not been determined, the attending physician said she sustained fractured ribs and other internal injuries. Miss Groseclose and her mother, Mrs. G. R.

Groseclose, have been living at Chapman's camp, 2514 Thirteenth avenue north. The two came here about four months ago. They earlier had lived in Virginia. Oil Tank Farm Razed bv Fire LINDEN, N. J.WP) An eight-acre oil tank "farm" of the Cities Service company lay in smoldering ruins last night as mop-up crews worked around-the-clock clearing wreckage left by a conflagration that raged for mort than 20 hours.

The blazes was smothered out before noon yesterday and 1,500 exhausted firemen and volunteers went home, satisfied that their day and night battle had kept the fire from enveloping one of the world's largest oil refinery centers. Eliot McEldowney, advertising manager of the Cities Service estimated damage of $500,000 in 22 tanks and 10.000,000 gallons of oil destroyed by explosions and flame. Scores of firemen and spectators suffered minor burns and other injuries. Inside News Page Bridge 18 Beauty and You 1" Classified Ads Continued Story 10 Comic Page 19-2" Emily Post 17 Ernie Pyle 2(1 Editorial Page Financial 21 Jimmie Fidler 10 Institute Public Opinion 4 Meetings Today 2 Our Children 1" Obituaries Raymond Clapper Society 17-18 Sports 13-1 Theaters 2 Woman's Page lt-n Weather Your Garden Walter Winchfll'i column did not arrive in time for this lu. It will appear tomorrow.

NMMf iMf 67 TOWNS JOIN IN "BLACKOUT" AIR RAID TEST North Carolinians Assist Army FORT BRAGG, N. Sixty-seven towns in 21 eastern North Carolina counties were plunged into almost total darkness last night in the biggest "blackout" test against aerial bombardment ever tried in America. The blackout was designed to confuse a squadron of "flying fortresses" from Langley field, in a theoretical bombing raid on the airdrome at the United States army reservation here, where mimic war games have been in progress for a week. From Fayetteville, near here, almost to the Atlantic seaboard, civilians in an area covering more than 8,000 square miles shut off the lights in their stores, homes, factories, and even on their automobiles. Civilians Co-operate Official reports on the effectiveness of the blackout test were lacking pending contact with the invading pilots, but ground officers said they were generally pleased with the experiment and that the co-operation of civilians was "excellent." Newsmen wh6 ascended with pilots and flew over the area reported that the least co-operation in cutting out the lights came from motorists on the highways.

The pilots said they were able to spot many automobiles on the highways and consequently could get a fairly accurate position of towns, which, being so dark, stood out in the beams of so many automobile lights. Some of the homes, too, were lighted during the 30 to 45 minutes of the "blackout," the observers reported. The town of Goldsboro was reported to have been the darkest. Power Not Shut Off The signal for the "blackout" was given by the more than 2,000 volunteer air warning net observers doctors, lawyers, farmers, coastguardsrrien who have been spotting the invaders in previous tests even at the highest altitudes See BLACKOUT, Tage 2, Col. 6.

Only requirement to enter the window trimming contest is that the windows be trimmed by Monday, remain in place during the week and that the articles reflect the spirit of Doll-Up Week. Judges will be Burwell Necl, secretary of the Senior Chamber of Commerce; Keith Meyer, secretary ol the Junior Chamber of Commerce and Mrs. Charles iake, club woman. Judging will be done next Thursday and the names of the winners announced Friday daylight. The Dione, owned by Ernest J.

Moy, middle-aged one-armed for mer owner of several British Co lumbia newspapers, left Tampa Monday on the first leg of an 80,000 mile storybook pleasure jaunt around the world. Two memebrs of the crew were aboard the yawl as the seas bat tered her about unmercifully. Capt. Moy and his wife had gone ashore before the ship dragged her anchor. Three Attempts Blocked High-breaking seas and whip ping winds until early this morn ing had blocked three attempts on the part of Coast Guard crews to extricate the craft from her dan gerous position.

The Nemesis, a 165-footer with more powerful engines, stood helplessly by, unable to lend her aid due to the shallowness of the water. Called at 5:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, the crew of the 75-footer succeeded in getting a line aboard the disabled craft, but was compelled to cut the tow line with an axe when howling winds suddenly drove them dangerously near the Atlantic Coast Line pier. 4-Inch Line Snaps Working desperately, guardsmen succeeded in getting a second line aboard. Fifteen minutes of unsuccessful maneuvering were suddenly ended, however, as the four-inch hawser snapped. During the first two attempts Capt.

Moy and his attractive wife stood on the seawall in a drenching rain excitedly screaming directions at the Coast Guard crew. After the hawser snapped, the 75-footer returned to its base and procured an eight-inch hawser. Capt. and Mrs. Moy were taken on board and the patrol boat, under the command of Lt.

E. J. Roland, executive officer of the IDLE MEN AND MONEY PARADE BACK WORK Employment Goes Forward Again NEW YORK. (JF) Idle men and dollars were on the march back to work yesterday in the nation's factories and financial markets, reversing the autumn trend a year ago. Up-to-minute job figures were lacking but there were various, hints that employment was mov-j ing up with fall acceleration of industrial revival.

Included was the announcement 8,000 men would go back to work in the Chrysler automobile plants next week following job gains in automotive centers recently as assembly lines sped output of 1939 cars. Steel mills were regarded in Wall Street as likely sources of employment gains on a rising tide of demand for industrial metals. The return of idle dollars to employment in security markets was resumed with a rush after the Columbus day recess in trad ing. Many shares soared to the highest prices recorded on the quotation boards in a year or more. In yesterday's dealings, hun dreds of millions of dollars were added to an estimated twelve-billion-dollar rise in listed share values since the Munich four-power conference two weeks ago.

Since then stocks on the average have risen about 20 per cent, almost matching the mid-year upturn for rapid climbing. 'At the close, gains in representative stocks ranged to more than $4. United States Steel, often the leader of bull markets because of the company's key position in the industrial field, boomed to a new high for the year above $65 for a net gain of $2.37. Up $2 to more than $4 were General Motors $51.12, Chrysler $82.62, Anaconda Copper $40.50, Westinghouse Electric $121.50, General Electric $47, Sears Roebuck $79.50 and Du-Pont $148. Among the day's indications of autumnal revival were: A report by Dun Bradstreet that building permits issued last month in 215 cities totaled compared with In August and $86,769,028 in September, 1937, despite the fact there normally is a "seasonal" drop of about 10 per cent from August to September.

A trade report the Union Pa cific railroad was inquirying for 30 locomotives in what some observers took to be a hint of more rail equipment demand later. Wall Street reports from Detroit that orders for 1939 automobiles were mounting, giving producers incentive to lift pro duction and employment. RELIEF CLIENT LOSES $11,100 CHICAGO. (Ff A man who had lived with his wife in a single room and received relief complained to police he had lost $11,000 which was sewed into his coat, Police Sgt. George Michaels reported last night, Michaels said Otto Freitag, 58, reported he missed the money two hours after he had fallen un conscious on a west side street.

The storm was described byi the New Orleans weather bureau as a moderate tropical disturb ance, lt was first discovered in the Gulf of-Mexico Wednesday. Yesterday it was located in the mid-gulf south of New Orleans. It was following an erratic course and at one time approached to within 270 miles of the mouth of the Mississippi river. At noon yesterday it was 350 miles south of Mobile, and was moving eastward at about 10 miles an hour. One report last night put it about 275 miles slightly north of west from Key West.

And in Tampa, W. Talbott, weather bureau meteorologist, said from present indications the disturbance wopld pass over the coast near or south of Fort Myers. He said there was no well defined center but that squally weather extended over an area about 300 miles wide. The winds were not strong enough to endanger shipping, he said, adding that the chief threat would be from high water on low-lying beaches around Fort Myers if the storm continued in the present path. Heavy rains sweeping into St.

Petersburg yesterday caused considerable alarm here. At mid night the city was thoroughly wet and slightly inconvenienced in parts but otherwise Damage Is Light Power lines serving parts of the Oulf beaches were reported down and a few telephones were out of order, but damage was not be lieved extensive. Heavy rains the first here this month drenched and in a few places flooded city streets. On Fifth avenue north between Twenty-fifth and Twenty-seventh streets motors of several automobiles were stalled by high waters. A few signs were blown down by high winds, which Coast Guard officials said reached a 45-mile-an-hour velocity.

Rain began falling just before noon yesterday and at 1 o'clock .34 of an inch was recorded. By 5 o'clock in the afternoon this had increased to .66 of an inch. The Tampa weather bureau estimated that more than two inches fell between 5 o'clock in the afternoon and midnight in this area. At 1:30 this morning the Florida Power corporation reported to police some electric lines were down at Fourth avenue and Eleventh street south, where a tree had been blown over. Police hung warning lanterns there, others at Fifth street north and Second avenue, here another tree had fallen into Fifth street, and several more in the flooded area in front of the high school.

9:30 P.M. Bulletin A bulletin from New Orleans at 0:30 p.m. said: "Northeast storm warnings ordered 9:30 p.m. Tarpon Springs to Fort Myers, and southeast storm warnings south of Fort Myers around to Stuart, Fla. Moderate tropical disturbances attended by winds and squalls up to 48 miles per hour central at 7 p.m., eastern standard time, near latitude 25 degrees north, longitude 86 degrees west, which is about 275 miles slightly north of west from Key West.

moving eastward about 17 miles per hour. With further eastward movement, the disturbance will likely pass over southern Florida Friday. Small vessels in southern Florida waters should remain in port and exposed islands and beaches should be avoided." Nemesis, returned to renew its rescue efforts. The 75-footer, itself was taking a terrific battering from the winds and waves as she battled to get a line aboard the Dione. Four times a dragging anchor prevented her crew from getting a line either aboard the stricken ship or shore.

Several times the patrol boat drifted dangerously close to the railroad pier. To Use Rowboat As a last desperate measure, the 75-footer put in at the government pier in the yacht basin, picked up a small rowboat, and returned to the scene. They finally succeeded in getting the line aboard. Since leaving Tampa Monday on the proposed world cruise, the Dione has been pursued by hard luck. Tuesday afternoon the yawl arrived in the local yacht basin after she had lost her rudder while cruising near Egmont key.

The crippled craft was anchored in the basin and while Capt. Moy and his wife were arranging to have the ship repaired in a local marine ways, she started running adrift when a sudden high wind turned her, winding an anchor chain around the anchor. Dragging her anchor, the craft was soon driven toward the forbidding sea wall, and Coast Guards were summoned. "It all goes with the game," Capt. Moy said early this morning as he carefully watched the rescue attempts.

"I'm hoping the Dione is as strong as I believe her to be I hope she will not pound to pieces." FIRES ARE CHECKED Slight drizzles, diminishing winds and increasing humidity gave new hopes Thursday night to hundreds of men fighting forest, brush and peat fires on the Minnesota-Ontario border in a region where 20 persons per ished Monday. merchandise that would contribute to a more attractive town or home. The Doll-Up sponsors figure that any and every line of business has some article for sale that will contribute toward making the home, its owners and their surroundings spic and span for tire opening of 4he winter season. Take a Look! Window Trimmers Compete For Doll-Up Week Awards Attention, window trimmers! Here is a chance for you to garner some "long green At least as much as $15. Here's how: Sponsors of Doll-Up Week yesterday decided fo extend their campaign to store winddws throughout the city.

For the best trimmed windows during the week a first prize of $10 will be awarded with a second prize of $5. Only condition Is the windows best depict the spirit of Doll-Up Week. They may include anything from rakes to wearing apparel or from a bucket of paint to a ne living room suite, or any other.