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THE TAMPA TIM You See It First In The Times HOME 11 Edition THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR No. 117 FL'LL, DAT AND NIGHT REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES3 TAMPA, FLORIDA, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1926 TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE FIVE CENT i 4 I ID Vi Ulc-Uu L-ayWU Murdered FRANCE READY TO FRAME NEW WHOLE FAMILY IS WIPED OUT AS THEY SLEEP EUROPE FEARS LARGE TOLL OF LIFE IN QUAKE Thousands Homeless In Mediterranean -Countries. SENATE PROBE CENTERS EYES UPON PINCHOT Two State Officials of Pennsylvania Are Called. DEBTSPARLEY fSJ. Alii 11 i Crowned "Miss Florida" in Times Beauty Contest fT-innr- innr 71 I 1 ji.iiiii Jiuiiim til uiiiini.ii.qii iiiiiiiimwiiimi iiwiiimwwwiww iimiiii iwwniijiMiMpiiiWMi ri 11 lini 1 1 a 1 a I Miss Lucile Ruth Browne, of St.

who 'was crowned "Miss Florida" by the judges in The Times contest to determine the most beautiful "girl in thetate.J Other photographs of Miss Browne, together with those of eight girls given honorable mention, will be found on page 1-B. rhoto by Lula Smith StudUvSt. Petersburg. Paris Is Preparing to Sidetrack Present Agreement. By tnlernatttinal New Service Paris, June 28.

Possibilities for side-tracking' of the Beren-ger-Mellon -rreement for settle-ent of the French debt to the United Stat.cs, and opening of new'negotiations, were being discussed today. Finance. Minister Caillaux is known to oppose several features of the Berenger-Mellon agreement, a it is reported he has conferred with Maurice Bokanowskl, relative to his heading a new debt mission Yo he United States. M. Bokanowskl was a mei.ibor of the Caillaux debt mission, which visited the.

United States, last fall and negotiated a tentative later rejected. M. Caillaux, it is learned, is willing, accept the Berenger-Mellon agreement and urge its ratification under, two conditions. 1. Inclusion of a safeguard clause; 2.

Abolition of the negotiability clause. It further is stated M. Caillaux feels France should couple debt settlement with extension of credits and for that reason he favors the delegation of Bokanowski to head off a new-debt mission, which would couple the settlement of the debt with definite promises for the extension of American credits to France. M. Caillaux would prefer to lay a debt settlement accord before parliament, with the definite announcement that a plan for credits has been agreed upon in conjunction with the settlement of the debt.

Le Soir stated If. Caillaux already has taken steps for the sending of a new mission to the United States, but this report is accepted with reserve. This was 'made plain today in where incredulity and amazement were expressed over semi-official reports from Paris that M. Caillaux planned to "reopen negotiations." "Of course," said one member of the American debt commission, "if the French government sends an official representative here he will be received. But it is an en-(Continued on Page 7-A.) Children Starving As Parents Drink Jacksonville, 2S.

In a half-starved condition and crying pitifully for food, police today found a two-months-old baby, a 16-months-old child and a five-year-old boy huddled together in a squalid dirt-ridden shack on the outskirts of the city. With them were their. parents, Eugene and Daisy Howard and another man, all badly intoxicated. Investigators from the Children's society learned the Howards had spent their last cent on liquor and had no money with which to feed their hungry offspring. The children were taken to the Riverside Children's home and the parents will face cruelty charges in court later today.

Armed Anarchists Caught in St. Nazaire Paris, -June j28; A dispatch to the' Journal says that two armed anarchists and, one local communist were arrested in St. Nazaire dutng'the visit there Saturday of Myron T. Herrick, the American ambassador, and Gen. John J.

Pershing, who attended the unveiling, of the memorial commemorating the landing of the first American troops on French soil during the wrirld war. 5 State Postmasters Are Commissioned Jacksonville, June 28. The following have been commissioned as postmasters in Florida, according to information received at the local postoffice today: Inez Morrison, Barberville: Clayton P. Bishop. Eustis; Thomas S.

Mc-Nicol, Hollywood; John Wall, Summerfield, and Mrs. Caroline G. Pickard. -Earleton. Beauty Title Is Conferred On Miss Lucile Ruth Browne Here is a likeness of Lena Rowell, who was found this morning fatally wounded in the same house where three others were murdered with an axe last night at 116 South Nebraska avenue.

The girl died within two hours afle? being removed to the Gordon Keller Memorial hospital about 8:30 o'clock. The others were Bee Rowell, Ijena's uncle; Ira Rowell, her brother, and Grandma Rowell, her grandmother. RICH REALTY MAN HELD IN WIFE'S DEATH Mrs. Eugene M. Elliott Dies From Fall DownStairs.

By The Associated Press St. Petersburg, June 28. Eugene M. Elliott, noted in his college days as an athlete and in later years as an organizer, land promoter and as a man of considerable means and affluence, today faced a coroner's jury as a material witness at an inquiry into his wife's sudden death Saturday night. His wife, Mrs.

Elsie Fortler Elliott died at a hospital three hours after her arrival at the institution from a fractured skull said by police to have been incurred in a fa'l from the rear steps of their residence in a fashionable suburb. Elliott was released from custody last night under $25,000 bond, after having passed Saturday night in the municipal stockade." Yertorday he was taken to the county jail at Clearwater where his release was effected after his attorneys had evidenced an intention to seek his freedom through habeas corpus proceedings. Haggard from his experiences, Elliott continued to decline to make a statement. His attorney, Jack Holland, however, declared died of injuries purely accidental and scoffed at the possibility of Mr. Elliott being held in connection with heA death.

State's Attorney to Arrive. No formal charge has been placed against the developer, but it is expected one will be filed today with the final session of the coroner's jury and the arrival'here of Pasco Wilscn, state's attorney, who has been asked to make a personal investigation of the case. Under Florida law a person may be held for 24 hours for investigation, at the end of which time he must be released if a cha-ge is not made. However, in this case Elliott is being detaine at the request of the coroner's jury as a material witness. The negro maid and the butler, both of whom are said to have been eye witnesses to the tragedy, are being detained witnesses and are not allowed to talk.

Elliott told police his wife was entering 'the back door of their home late Saturday afternoon when she fell down the steps and struck her head against the pavement, receiving fatal injuries. Annie Jad-son, the' negro maid, however, told police "the butler saw Mr. Elliott throw his wife out of the back door." Police officials today asserted Elliott was enraged over his wife's move to obtain the divorce and had attempted to Keep her away from the house by locking the front door and attempting to block the rear as she went around to the back of the house. Miss Madeline- Elliott, 16-y infold daughter of the couple, who also is said to have been an eye (Continued on Page 7-A.) Heads' of 2 Men, Aged Woman and Child Crushed In. (Additional Pictures on 10-A.) Two white men were detained by police at noon today as possible suspects pr witnesses in the killing of four members of the Rowell family at 116 South Nebraska avenue, in the Garrison, with' an axe last night or this morning.

Their names were withheld while police searched for a third man whom they be lieve to be the actual They fear the announcement of -the names will frighten the third man to leave the city at once. Four persons members of ont family were slain in their' bed at their 11 6 South Nebraska avenue, sometime between midnight and 8 a. m. today apparently the victims of a fiendish' axe wielder. Heads of the four were crushed as the victims slept." Police have a clue as to the mo--tive but no arrests had been made shortly before noon today.

Ira Rowell, Bee Rowell and; Grandma Rowell were found dead; in their beds about 8 o'clock today and Lena Rowell, aged was taken to' the Gordon Keller hospital, where she died two houru later. A bloody axe leaned against the bed occupied by Grandma and Lena Rowell when police entered the house this morning. It had been used apparently to mutil-te the heads of the four victims. The tragedy was reported by MUs" Ruby Silner, who, accompanied by; her father, called at the Rowell home this morning to go with Lena in search of work. When her.

knock at the front door failed to bring a response. Miss Silner wen about the house to a side windov, through which she saw Lena lying, on the bed in a pool of blood. She ran to a grocery store across the street, crying "Call the police' There has been a fight over there," i and indicated the house where the i murdered people were lying. Girl Rushpd to Call Officers D. L.

Lee and C. P. Carver answered the summons and rushed the young girl to i hos- pital in the hepe she might respond to treatment and tell of the trag- edy. They found Grandma Rowell ly-f ing dead on the bed with Lena and -went into the back room, where Bee and Ira Rowell were lying dead on their bed covered with Hood and with their heads crushed al- most bej'ond recognition. J.

Mack Cathcart, justice of the peace for the city district, immedi- ately empannelled a coroner's jury composed of Jerome Knox, chair- man, Bill Covode, Joe Canning, Otis Downing, L. B. Colsqn and Herman Compton to investigate the murder. After viewing the bodies and examining the condition of the house, the jury adjourned to meet again on Wednesday. xia ioweu is aoouc years oia and is a nephew of Bee Rowell.

45. a carpenter by trade. Lena Row- ell is a niece of Bee Rowell. Grand- ma Rowell is the mother of Bee Rowell and Lena and Ira are her grandchildren. A nightwatchman nearby said he heard a commotion somewhere in wi.

jiuvu akruu, J. in. IU" day, but said "he could not deter mine the exact location at that time. Negroes Hear Screams. Negroes who live nearby said they heard screams in the night, probably after midnight, but they said they did not investigate, believing that some one was ill and in pain.

Miss Ethel Byrd, who lives across the street over a grocery store -at 113 south Nebraska avenue and who was suffering with earache, said she heard someone in the street in front of the store calling "Jack." She indicated, however, she was not unusually alarmed and thought nothing more of it until she heard of -the murder this morning. It was after midnight, she asserted. She said she did not know the exact time. No screaming from the direction of the house where the murder occurred was heard by Mis Byrd. Police say they have two theories on which to work.

One is that a white man committed the murder because of financial trouble, t' 3 other that a negro did the deed (Continued on Page 10-A.) "Beautiful eyes ane found to be characteristics that appeals to the greatest number. Next is hair, stature, and size, brows, complexion, cheeks, form of head, throat, ears, chin, hands and neck. "The students were asked also to state the characteristic that repelled them, listed here were deep set eyes, fullness of neck, big feet, large Pose, small teeth and red hair. "Mathematics tell us the chance of dm win? a royal flush in a gamo of poker is about one in a million. The chance that a person exists who will meet all requirement 1 even less." Bi The Associated Press June 28.

Nearing the end of its inquiry into the $3,000,000 Pennsylvania republican primary, the senate investigating committee directed state officials to appear today for questioning about the unsuccessful senatorial campaign of Governor Fin-chot. Meanwhile, It is pressing forward with its plan to make a comprehensive survey of political activities of the Anti-Saloon league, Women's Christian Temperance union, Ku Klux Klan, church organizations. Association Against the Prohibition, "Amendment and other groups identified -ith prohibition and similar issues involved in senatorial campaigns. This phase of the committee's work probably will not be concentrated, but may overlap or form part of other investigations more directly concerned with recent and impending primary and election contests for seats in the senate falling vacant in March. After completing the Pennsylvania inquiry, the committee plans to take up the Illinois republican primary, in which Senator McKin-ley was defeated Tor renomination by Frank L.

Smith, chairman of the state utilities commission. Senator Carraway, democrat, Arkansas, has called the senate's attention to charges the McKinley force expended $1,000,000 in this campaign, and Smith supporters $2, charge described as "absolutely silly" by Allen F. Moore, Smith's campaign manager. Pinchot witnesses, directed to be on' hand today, were George W. Woodruff, state attorney general, and William B.

Wright, one of his" deputies. In addition to' campaign' activities in behalf of Pinchot, the committee wanted to know more about expenditure of the $130,000 fund raised by the Pennsylvania Women's Christian Temperance union for enforcement of the Armstrong-Snyder prohibition act after the legislature had turned down the governor's request for a $250,900 Both were trustees fTf this- fund. Deny Vast Sums. By The Associated Press Chicago, June 28. Assertions made in the senate by Senator Caraway, Arkansas, that $3,000,000 was in the.

Illinois senatorial (Continued on Page 7-A.) EIGHJ MIAMI MEN HURT AS SCHOOL FALLS Other Workmen Are Believed Buried Under Debris. By The Associated Press Miami, June 28. Eight workmen Vere seriously injured and several others were known to be buried under a mfcss of debris when the George Washington school, under construction at 400 Northwest Twelfth street collapsed shortly before noon today. The injured accounted for at the Jackson Memorial hospital, follow: George E. Turner, carpenter; R.

Jones, carpenter; P. Grand, carpenter; J. Davis, negro laborer; S. Huttman, negro laborer; B. Rumph, negro laborer; N.

Delan-cey, negro laborer; Joe Jackson, negro laborer, Police and firemen responded to the general alarm and succeeded in dragging eight unconscious workmen from the wreckage. While no check of workers could be made in tho excitement' which followed the searchers attempted to locate several laborers believed imprisoned 'or killed under the pile of cement and wood. According to George N. Smal-ridge, president, of the Smajridge Construction companj', contractors for the building, a sharp explosion preceded the giving rise to the belief an attempt to wreck the structure had been made. Slight disapproval was said to have been, registered by residents in the immediate neighborhood at the announcement of a' negro school, it was recalled.

Fire Caused by Toy Gun Traps 7 Persons Chicago, June '28. Sparks from a. toy pistol in the hands of a small boyesterday set off a $5,000 stock of fireworks, started a. fire that resulted in damage estimated at $260,000. to the "Tribe ot and its stock store at Gary, and threatened, the lives of seven people.

Five small boys were making a selection of stock for their celebration when the accident occurred. Miss Julia Anderson, who had gone to the Wsement was cut off from the stairway by the fire and was slightly burned before being rescued. Bit The Associated Pren London, June 28. Meager details were available today regarding casualties in a severe earth quake, or a series of quakes, which shook the Mediterranean countries Sunday evening. In of reports of the collapse of thousands of buildings, it would seem probable that casualties were numerous.

Advices from Rome are more than 2,000 houses on the Island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea were, razed end that the village of Arki hagelo. Arnima, Apolakkia and Monolitho, suffered severely. The center of the disturbance was in or near the Cyclades or Crete. Shocks are thought possibly to have been due to the sudden activity of a volcano on the Creek Island of Santorim, The Archaelogical museum at Candia, Crete, containing many antiquities, was wrecked. At Athens, communications apparently were' broken by the shocks.

The quake northern Egypt severely, causing great alarm at Alexandria, Port Said and Ismaila. Some advices are many buildings were thrown down while others had their walls cracked. Few casualties have been- reported from these places. There were several fatalities in the Egyptian country side. Palestine, including Jerusalem, was shaken, but no damage or cas ualties have been recorded.

According to late reports from Rome. 2,000 houses collapsed in four villages of the province of Foggia. Nothing was said in the dispatch tubout, TMllta seems to have escaped with harmless shocks, which, however, caused great alarm among the inhabitants. In the museum of Candia; an ancient city, capitol of the Island of Crete, antiquities damaged included treasures excavated by Sir Arthur Evans at Anosus, ancient capitol of Greece, and celebrated in legends of Zeus, Minos, Daedalus and others. Singapore Feels Quake.

By The Associated Press Singapore. June 28. Two earth quake shocks lasting 20 seconds (Continued on Page 7-A.) COURT HEARS VENUE APPEAL OF 2 BANDITS Two Affidavits Are Introduced in Ybor Slaying. William. (Wild Bill) Henderson and Tom Castello, alleged Ybor City bandit-killers, continued their fight today to escape trial in Hillsborough county and at 2:30 p.

m. when circuit court reconvened after a two-hour recess, Carroll M. Bourland and Tom Watkins, defense counsel, still were hopeful of showing Judge F. M. Rohles that citizens of Hillsborough were too prejudice against the defendants for an impartial jury to be obtained.

When court opened this morning, Judge Robles cleared the courtroom of spectators and prospective (Continued on Page 7-A.) The Weather Hlshest yesterday 8fi Lowest lastWght 72 Year ago Highpst SS. Lowest 70 Highest for June, 37 ears 97.5 Lowest for June, 37 6a Tampa's hotetst years' record), June 3, miS. A7.3. Todny'R TPiiiiierntorc, A.M. A.M.

A.M. P.M. 12... 73 1...73 2. ..73 3.

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78 7. ..75 8 A.M. 12:30 P.M. Dry thermometer 7fi 78 Wet thermometer 75 75 Rel. humidity (pet.) Ofi- 86 Sun rises :36 a.m.

cSls p.m. Tampa and Tartly cloudy with local thundershow-prs tonight and Tuesday. Florida: Local ndershowers I is lit "nii Tuesday. Winds for 30 hours ending Tuesday, 8 p. Kast.

Gulf: Moderate northeast over north portion and moderate south and southwest over SHOWER. p0rtIon- Kniiifiill. For 24 hours to 8 a.m., ins. 0.53 Total this month, ins 5.91 Deficiency since June ins. 1.61 Excess since Jan.

1, ins. Temperatorm. TCxcess since June 1. degs. 7 Kxcess since Jan.

1. deiis 211 Baromete. sea level, 8 a.m. ..20.93 Wind, two miles. Direction, east MP FARM YOUTH-KILLED SELF, IS INDICATION Coroner's Jury Will Finish Inquiry Late Today.

A coroner's jury verdict of suicide in the 'death yesterday of Robert employe of the Hope dairy, near Citrus Park, is expected this afternoon, when investigation is completed before County Judge H. Cornelius. Disappointment in the love of a 14-year-old daughter of a nearby farmer is believed to have been the cause of the "young man's act. The 'youth was found dying i.i-a small bunkhouse near the dairy barn by another employe of the dairy, when he failed to appear for work at milking time. A 12-gajge shctgun with two empty shells was found off the floor and there was evidence that' the 'gun had been fired with a stick while it was hanging to a peg on, the wall.

A large wound in the shoulder and chest, just above the heart, brtfught death after 40 minutes of suffering. Following report of the tl-ath of Cato, Deputy Sheriff J. Spivey, who lives near the dairy farm, sum moned a Jury, which visited the scene. The evidence obtained will be reviewed this afternoon "before Judge Cornelius. Called Cause.

According to the information ob; tained by Deputy Sheriff Srivey', Catov had been despondent for several days after the failure of his courtship of the daughter of a neighboring farmer. After a quarrel the youth is said to ve told the girl he was going to kill himself. Parents of the girl, hearing of this tl.rort, invited the young man to Sunday dinner, but his mood was unchanged during the day, nd in fenr of what he would do, they sent him back to the dairy farm in company Of two other young men. (Continued on Pago western Colorado and early yesterday approached his lair. A fusillade of shots grerted their approach and he elder Getty fell.

His son succeeded in dragging Getty to shelter, id from there they returned Williams' fire, finally leaving after falling to dislodge the fugitive. When word of the shooting was received here, a posse was formed and went to the Gypsum valley, where on intensive man hunt is under way. Expert trailers and trackers are included in the posse and sheriffs and deputies xpressed belief they would corner Williams and another run tvnuM fniiftTtf' St; Petersburg Girl Is Adjudged State's Prettiest." By MAUY YERGER RAYMOND. "It's 'wonderful!" So Miss Lucile Ruth Browne, daughter of Mr', and Mrs. Harris Browne, 1432.

Euclid St. Petersburg', received the news that the title "Miss Florida" had been bestowed upon her. by the judges in The Times state-wide beauty contest. This decision was reached three days of study by the judges of scores of photographs of candidates. A number of entrants, including Miss Browne' were called before the judges in person last week for "close-up" observation.

What would you do if a telephone rang and without warning you learned that you might be Florida's most beautiful girl might be! How would you feel if it rang again and. you learned that a set of judges perfectly capable of appraising feminine beauty had decided you Perhaps, you might accept that verdict as modestly, albeit graciously, as this sunny haired, brown-eyed girl from St. Petersburg, who found herself heralded as the State's loveliest maid without knowing that her name had been entered in The Times beauty contest." On Thursday, when a process of elimination had decided the St. Petersburg entrant as one among other probable winners, Miss P.rowne was requested to appear before the judges. Victor Is Amazed.

She was amazed. That is.a mild way of describing the emotions of this very lovely and sensible young woman. To put it plainly, she didn't know what. The Times reporter was talking abut. Sometime before, she had been photographed in the Lula Smith studio, of St.

Petersburg. The're-sult was a number of pretty poses ot an, exceedingly pretty girl. TheH photographer read of The Times contest und forwarded a picture of Miss Browne. And one day, among hundreds of other pictures, the judges found one of a winsome girl, lips parted over dazzling, white teeth, a tip-tilted nose, a youthful set to her shoulders, ifnd oh, the loveliest of dark eyes! Judges, at best, are a cynical lot of men, not. versed in the tricks of modern photography for naught.

Many of them had sat for photographs and had emerged veritable Adonises for all their bald heads and crows feet. Lights nnd shadows go a long way. By skillful retouching a Madonna smile may be created from a 'silly grin and retroussee noses may be evolved from merely pug ones. Lucile Ruth Browne of St. Petersburg, who was symbolic in (Continued on Page 7-A.) One Killed, 5 Hurt When Gun Explodes In "Movie Battle" Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, June 28.

A.n unidentified man was killed and five others injured, two seriously, in the explosion of a cannon yesterday aboard the figate "Constitution" while the craft was taking part in a battle scene off 'the cast in the filming of a screen play centered on the story, "Old Ironsides." The six men were on the rigging of the ship when the explosion occurred. The blast blew down two huse' masts, hurling the men. many feet to the deck below. CITY'S BOARD SCHEDULEDW ADOPT BUDGET Wall Tax Cut Bill Also to Come Up Tuesday. With the city budget for the ensuing year tentatively fixed at in excess of $4,000,000, after being slashed many tho-.

of dollars, final adoption is scheduled to be made tomorrow afternoon by the city commission at its weekly business session. Another important matter to come up tomorrow, is the proposal of Mayor Perry G. Wall' to increase the city's revenue and 'reduce the tax rate, by substituting heavier fines for jail sentences in municipal court cases. Although no official estimate wa? forthcoming from City Comptroller A. A.

Miller, relative to the new city budget, it Is believed the final reduced figure will total more than $4,000,000, en excess of more than 1,000. onn over last year's budget. Ftgiires on the assessed and $130,000,000. The assessment last year totalled $71,000,000. The 140,000,000 or more increased, valuation will be more than enough, city officials stated, to take care of the budget boost, with probable allowance for a decrease in millage.

The territorial millage for last vear was as follows: 25 mills; iu mills: C. 21 mills; D. 26 mills. LURE OF $1,000 REWARD SENDS MAN NEAR DEATH IDEAL MATE FOUND ONCE IN MILLION, SAYS SAVANT 'lv The Artoclatci Pre Montrose, June 28. The lure of a 1,000 reward offered for Ed Williams, Western Slope "bad man" and alleged cattle rustler, may cost H.

B. Getty, of Montrose, his life. He was seriously wounded yesterday in a gun battle that followed an attempt by Getty and his son, H. B. Getty, to capture Williams.

Spurred on by the reward, Getty and his son located In the wild Gypsum valley region of By The Associated Press Philadelphia, June 2S. Toun men and women have about one chanc9 in a million of- meeting their ideal mate, in the opinio), of Dr. I 1 Gretmvood Miller, assistant professor of psychology at ihc University of Pennsylvania. "A list of the most important factors entering Into the love a large number of college studen' he announced, "prepared frori ihousands of some idea of the extent to which young people ctnjure in their minds the picture of their future partner, 6'.