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FOU See It First In The Times BAIL TAMPA id A 1 JL 11VJL JLL.O Edition THIRTY-FOURTH YEAR No. 194 FULL DAT AND NIGHT REPORT OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TAMPA, FLORIDA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1928 TWENTY-TWO PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS FLETCHER HITS FART COAST STORM LEOPOLD AND LOEB LAST 7 YEARS NEXT TO GALVESTON TOE EELIG. OF CORRUPTION FLOOD IN DEAD TOLL Makes Eloquent Plea PAR IN 6 YEARS -for Democrats to Stand By Party. Sweets to the Sealdsweet. SEED NEEDED; PRESIDENT IS DECLARES G.

O. P. SMITH SAYS To South Pole To Seek Paroles PARDON BOARD FOE OF SOUTH URGED TO ACT So-Called Issues Are G.O.P. SHIELDS BARES ERROR IN MITTIMUS Laughable, Says Senator. 'Survey Shows 2,50 ITS GRAFTERS Families Are Destitute.

Quoting extensively from public documents and citing the reports Building Up' "Fine Accuses Hoover oi of members of the republican Bit The Atteciatei Prest party to show the "rascality and Records" to Seek Freedom. Miami. Sent. 25. With the corruption" of their own admin-1 istrations of the last seven years, Keeping Silent on Corruption.

By D. HAROLD OLIVER, Associated Press Staff Writer. Helena, Sept. 25. Senator Duncan U.

Fletcher last night delivered an eloquent plea By The Atsociatei Prest Chicago, Sept. 25. An error in hurricane death toll in Florida alone now estimated by Red Cross officials as more than 2,300, the loss of life Tuesday had mounted to a point exceeded by only one national disaster in the history of the United States, the Galveston to Florida democrats to stand by the party and the Readers selected Governor Smith turns eastward by the Houston convention. the mittimus under which Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, were sent to the Joliet penitentiary four years ago makes these today after having thrown a vig The address, delivered at the I orous challenge to his republican tornado and flood of 8, 1900 municipal auditorium, was the sec-1 ond of major importance to be de two slayers of little Bobbie Franks claimed 6,000 lives. opponent, Herbert Hoover, to prove in the face of "corruption livered in Tampa since the open eligible for parole in six more The nearest approach to the re cent hurricane in death toll, ex-mnt at Galveston, was at Johns ing of the national campaign.

The senator took time to discuss virtually all of the so-called Issues of I r. 1 J. Edgar Wall, hardware man and fruit grower, puts sugar in) his oranges "from the ground up," with gratifying results. The picture shows Mr. Wall presenting Mrs.

Mary Crane with a cluster of oranges fertilized with sugar, an original method. years, Hinton Clabaugh, chairman of the state board of pardons and paroles, said today. town, where 2,209 were killed the campaign, but he dwelled in a flood May 31, 1889. No ma. chiefly upon the records made by Text of Governor Smith's speech at Helena, Montana, on party responsibility will be found on Page S-A.

rlne disaster accroaches this fig1 Clabaugh spoke of Loeb and the Harding and Coolidge administrations, and pleaded to his hear r. 1.517 having sunk with the ers not to continue a member of I Titanic and 1,198 with the Lusi The San Francisco earth Leopold as "sons of wealth, who are pampered pets in Joliet." their cabinet in the White House. and crime" in high government Sugar and Mulch Paper rmaka and fire took more than The report made by Senator These men, each under life sent Ron Uvea while the recent Missis circles, the assertion in his speech Gerald P. Nye, himself a republi sippi flood caused but 289 deaths. can, as chairman of the public of acceptance that the republican ence for murder and 99-year sentences for kidnaping, are building up "fine records," Clabaugh said, lands committee, was read by Sen party's record during the last Ripens Fruit 3 Weeks Early ator Fletcher.

The North Dako- Troops To Lake Worth. By The Attociatei Prest tan's report covered the Teapot I seven and a half years "consti Dome case and Senator Fletcher I Jacksonville. Sept. 25. Gov.

tutes a period of rare courage and stressed the strong language used John W. Martin said here today with a view to seeking parole when, because of the error In the mittimus, they became eligible within six years. Edgar Wall's Oranges there to describe the steal which he had ordered additional state na- SLAYER TO GET leadership and constructive ac tion." gave private interests the control tional guard troops into the storm of public interests." One is private secretary to the SWIFT JUSTICE With party responsibilities as his Pass Chemical Tests. first warden," Clabaugh said. "The stricken town oi LaKe worm.

The governor said citizens of the town had appealed for additional State Cabinet For Smith. text and a state next door to Tea other is private secretary to the Protestant chaplain. Yet Leopold Preceding the senator, C. Jay guardsmen and that he had aavisea Honolulu Kidnaper's Guilty pot Dome as his battleground, the democratic nominee in his fourth Putting the sugar into citrus Hardee, director of finance for the state and chairman of the county Adjutant uenerai vivieu ruiuii, who now is at West Palm Beach, speech of the campaign in this val fruits "from the ground up!" ley capital of Montana, last night Plea Denied by Law. By Thr Associated Prest executive committee, presented is generally believed to have been the brains of the prison outbreak a few months ago which has cost, so far several innocent lives and resulted in the hanging of three 1 to make an investigation of the Lake Worth situation and to send Wk -v That is the method which Nathan Mayo, commissioner of ag traced the history of the oil, veterans' bureau, and alien property riculture, who made a short ad there such men as are necessary.

Max Boehning, 27. son of Edgar Wall, president of the dress in behalf of the democratic custodian disclosures, and directed men. Honolulu, Sept. 25. His desire Knight and Wall hardware com Loeb and Leopold were the col a plea to the republican nominee Mr.

and Mrs. v. tl. M. Boclining, .2810 Tenth street, is Tampa's representative on the Byrd exr Washington Aid Asked.

Special to The Timet whom he charged with sitting si to plead guilty and accept quick justice for the slaying of Gill cause. He told the audience that all members of the state cabinet are actively in favor -of Governor Smith and Senator Robinson and pany, is following at his home on Central avenue, with the result peditlon to the south pole. He Okeechobee. Sept. 25.

Reconv lege students whose crime marked the birth of the "thrill" murder. They were defended by Clarence Darrow, the Chicago criminal law lently by during the enactment of this "story of intrigue and corrup Jamieson denied by territorial sailed In the City of New York mendation that the United States Government loan to farming welcomed the opportunity to speak as an assistant engineer from tion," to show how he can look law, Myles Yutaka Fukunaga to yer, whose strategy of having them Panama last week. in their behalf. back with any degree of satisfac tion on that record. that oranges plucked from his trees are ready for market three weeks ahead of the nearest com families in the farm section enough monev to buy.

seed, fertilizer and Mayor D. B. McKay Introduced enter pleas of guilty was one of a series of astonishing Senator Fletcher. He explained day faced a speedy jury trial and equally swift justice in the island's fast moving kidnaping-murder supplies to replant their crops was Enthusiastically Applauded. that marked the entire case.

Fol that Doyle E. Carlton, democratic made by telegrapn to wasmngiun TAMPAN JOINS petitor. Governor Smith delivered his lowing Darrow introducerl nominee for governor, had plan today by George Hi. Jjarren. representative of the department of ned to make the introduction, but That is, if they get their sugar a speech before a crowd that taxed the capacity of the Shrine temple, an emergency call to storm strick drama.

Less than six days after he kidnaped the 10-year-old son of Fred year in advance. sericulture who has completed and applauded him at frequent in en portions of the state prevented thoroueh survey of the territory, Mr. Wall gives his orange trees BYRD ON TRIP testimony the object of which, as he expressed it, was not to keep them from paying for their crime, but to prevent their being hinged The court is passing the double -sentences ee that tervals, especially when he con nis presence. their sugar straight, as one Mr. Farrell, whose trip through the cluded by saying that it "would be Throughout the principal speech area was made in company with A.

might say. He fertilizes the ground erick Jamieson, Honolulu banker, from schoTJTfiTtftuhagw was indict there- were frequent references to exceedingly harmful If. the Amerl P. Soencer. vice director of with liberal applications of brown Nathan Leopold (above) and TO SOUTH POLE Sinclair, Doheny, Fall, Stewart.

agricultural extension service of the sugar. The base or the tree is ed yesterday and arraigned before can people were willing to look back complacently over that past neither should be granted a parole, no matter how long they might serve. then covered with mulch paper, Richard Loeb, "thrill" slayers who will be eligible for paroles in six years because of an error Miller, Denby, Daugherty, Forbes and others who figured in the many shady activities of President and call it a record of great University of Florida, estimates inai from 2,500 to 3,000 families have lost practically all as result of the another innovation in citrus cul-ture, which is said to aid in ger Circuit Judge Alva K. Steadman who refused to accept the Japanese student's plea of "guilty, sir." Mittimus Error Explained. "Loeb and Leopold were sen In the mittimus which sent Senator Thomas J.

Walsh, who mination, as well as to retain mois storm. 1 Hardings appointees to the cabi net and other responsible posts. them to Joliet prison to serve Boehning Gets Chance tenced to life imprisonment and prosecuted the oil inquiries, and These families will need for seed ture. life terms. The judge advised the confessed 99 years," Mr.

Clabaugh explaivned Can you trust an organization and fertilizer and other farm sup What happens then is a matter slayer that territorial law forbade nlies an averagre of $200 a family, for the chemists. like that?" he asked. "Four departments of the government were today. "The mittimus, however, did not specify whether the terms When Member of Crew Quits. Sen.

Burton K. Wheepr, who had a leading part in the Daugherty investigation during the Harding-Coolidge regime, both Montanans, sat on the platform and both joined But the practical results may Lower Temperatures This allows nothing for purchase of new eauinment and rebuilding of a plea of guilty to a first degree murder charge, and required making of a defense. Accordingly, the involved in the thieveiY and fraud, were to be consecutive or concur havean important bearing on the and the slimy trail of criminal cor houses, a service which the.Ameri- With Clouds Forecast future practices of citrus growers rent, and, the mittimus being silent, their terms run concurrently judge said he would appoint a de ruption led directly to Will Hays, can Red Cross will eventually give, in the handclapping at important junctures of the speech. fense attorney today. who are anxious to bring their fruit to government standards at Mr.

Farrel lestimates that half Max Boehning, "son of Mr. and the longer term, imprison former chairman of the republican national committee and postmaster The slayer, who has told police a million dollars of federal money Governor Erickson, of and Mrs. W. H. M.

(Boehning. the earliest possible date. ment, for life, rules in matters of parole. Overcast skies and lower tem he killed the boy within a few general. No official can be chosen rould be used to advantage in aid a report received toaay irom by that party who is not controlled ing farmers, but is not hopeful of peratures gave Tampa its first real Life prisoners are eligible for hours after the kidnaping, and before he collected $4,000 ransom by that organization.

I can not. obtaining more than a quarter mil Montana, also sat near the candidate, who today starts the long jump back to his native state of New York with two more speeches on his schedule at St. Paul Thurs 2810 Tenth street, has joined the south polar expedition of Commander Richard Byrd and Is now testing laboratories which analyzed samples" of fruit plucked from Mr. Wall's trees shows that fruit fer parole after 20 years under ordinary circumstances, with special upon my conscience, vote to con from the frenzied father, has ex taste of fall weather today. The temperature had risen no higher lion.

No federal fund is available for the purpose, and action of tilized with sugar a year ago could pressed willingness to die for his crime. Local law prescribes that tinue in power such an adminis tration." Laughable Issues. President Coolidge will be neceS' some place between Panama and than 76 degrees at 11 o'clock this pass with flying colors the state allowances for good prison records. The best possible allowance, Mr. Clabaugh said, would permit them to apply for parole after 11 years day night and at Milwaukee Saturday night.

two days must elapse after convie eary to provide money from some special fund, He has been strongly New Zealand aboajd the "City of morning. tion by a jury before sentence can After attending the New York Many of the so-called issues, the acid test. In fact, the fruit passed the test three weeks ahead of any other fruit from this locality. New York," one of the three urged to meet the emergency by and three months in the peniten be passed, and 14 days elapse be senator said, are laughable and Senators Trammell and Fletcher, tween sentencing and execution, in tiary, and both Loeb and Leopold, Cooler weather is very likely the latter part of the week, the weather man said. Some effect absurd" and he mentioned them boats in the exploration party.

Other fruits sweetened this year state convention at Rochester next Monday, he will return to Albany and rest the remainder oi the week before taking the stump again. At the reauest of a committee case the extreme penalty is given. also passed the test, but not with holding what Mr. Clabaugh called the "choicest positions" available solely to prevent critics from saying they are difficult to answer. of citizens of the area, Doyle Carl Boehning left Tampa about six a percentage as high as those sugar-fertilized a year ago.

months ago to take a position as to trusties, apparently are making will be felt here of cold weather in the This morning it Tells of Corruption. Governor Smith opened his ad ton, who has personally viewed every section of the area, wired Coolidge also urgently Robinson to Resume exceptionally good records. In the tree that was fertilized Religion, prohibition and Tammany Hall, Senator Fletcher contended, are not real" issues and should have no place in the campaign. As for clerk in the receiving and forwarding agency of the Panama was 18 degrees in Williston, N. D.

The mittimus was signed by the recommended that immediate led' last year the analysis of its fruit shows that its total dissolved solids railroad at Cristobal. The oppor dress last night with a reference to a dispatch quoting Mr. Hoover as telling a group of young students from Maryland that the new There was a total of 1.98 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at eral aid be given. Mr Carlton, Tammany particularly, he pointed judge pronouncing sentence, by the state's attorney who directed prosecution and by the court clerk. was 9.30 per cent with acid of 1.11 Campaign Thursday Hot Springs, Sept.

25. who is here as head of a Tampa tunity to join 5yrd came when a member of the crew of the City of out that Governor Smith does not 8 o'clock this morning and 2.85 inches for the past 36 So New York quit the ship at the per the ratio of solids to acids being 8.38 to 1. For this particular fruit the passing test is 6.35. take orders from the organization but directs the activities of that generation "must begin now to take over the responsibility of the committee disbursing funds, has volunteered his service to go to Washineton if such action seems canal. far this month there has been 9.57 organization.

RICH CUSTOMERS With only six weeks remaining before the election Senator Joe party and to carry it out." He then In signing on the vessel his The fruit that was fertilized this necessary. inches of rain, which makes this month the most rainy September The speaker also pointed to "the record of the democratic party to agreement calls for a salary of one cent a year until he returns to the GYPPED ON RUM Robinson today entered upon what year shows that the total dissolved solids is 9.25 per cent and the acid is 1.39 per cent, giving a ratio of, since 1912. find the "first and the last con Mr. Carlton's wire to Coolidge was: "Have been once over entire storm stricken area and now on second trip. Have just been in United States, and he wrote his pa probably will be his last day of va recited the long history of the oil and other investigations, declaring the sworn testimony that came out of the investigation of the leasing of the oil reserves, was a "story of intrigue, of corruption, of trickery, structive piece of legislation for rents here that he expects to earn Philadelphia Bootleggers Sold cation until the campaign is over.

The maximum temperature yesterday was 81 degrees and the minimum was 68 degrees at an two cents, at least, while he Is the benefit of agriculture and the farmers." He referred to the farm solids to acids of 6.65 to 1. In this fruit 6.40 is required to pass the analysis test. conference with George Farrell, U. He expects to leave his retreat "Alky" for Real Stuff. gone.

S. department of agriculture. Am loan act of the Wilson administra early hour this morning. (Continued on Page Two-A.) 1 I am going chiefly for the ex The test of the Satsuma orange in the Ozark mountains tomorrow in time to reach his home in Little perience, he wrote Mr. and Mrs.

tion and the apparent efforts of Andrew W. Mellon, secretary of the treasury, to take control of the By The Associated Prest Boehning, "You can see the salary Rock several hours ahead of his isn't much inducement, but I feel Philadelphia, Sept. 25. Prices scheduled departure for Springfield, where he will deliver the that was fertilized by sugar thi year shows the total solids dissolved to be 8.90 and the acid 0.88 per cent. The ratio of solids to acids is 10.11 to 1.

The passing test for this fruit is 8 to 1. certain that I will be amply paid War Zone Horrors Reviewed positive not only wisdom but necessity for federal aid in furnishing seed, fertilizer, spray material and general agricultural aid. You can depend on our complete cooperation in making such aid of greatest possible value." PLAN STORM AREA CENSUS. when we do get back. prominent Philadelphians paid for liquor they believed imported but first speech of his western tour The boat left Panama Sept.

17 Thursday night. farm loan system instead of permitting It to be directed by farmers as the spirit of the act intended. Continuing, Senator Fletcher said, in part: Republicans Sectional. and is scheduled to put in at New Zealand before making the final dash southward. which the government says was merely colored alcohol were on record today in the federal court in the trial of Joel D.

Kerper, eo- By Legion Relief Workers Boehning will serve as third as "The republican party was born a sistant engineer. Before leaving sectional party and has never grown Tampa's Place on Gulf Map called society bootlegger. Tampa he was employed for some beyond that. It was organized to A chemist who tested some of time by C. W.

Greene and com After a week of relief and res pany here. bodies that has permeated the air for miles, are and have been wad combat and oppose, even to the extent of force, Jhat region of our united country called the south. That spirit has continued with it This Will Be First Definite Move in Work of Rehabilitation, By The Associated Prest West Palm Beach, Sept. -25. One of the first definite moves toward permanent rehabilitation of the storm swept area of southeast Florida will amount to a virtual census and will be conduct Lies Off Hurricane Track cue work, surpassing in its horror the ruin and death of the bat the assortment seized when Kerper's place was raided last July said the whisky was colored alcohol and the gin distilled spirits with a gin flavor.

The Weather tle fields of the world war, 21 since Its Dirtn. it is not ineuuiy toward the south today in spite of the good will of some of its uncon-trolling and uncontrolled members. The government attorney said ed by the Red Cross, it has been It is not a matter of luck that the liquor "was artificially colored Poltically It is antagonistic to veterans, members of U. S. Tampa post No.

5 of the Ameri 30-called whisky, not pre-war stuff, Highest yesterday 81 Lowest last night 69 announced. Jt More than a week after the dis- the north (this turn is called a recurve), and then move toward the northeast. Some hurricanes recurve over the Atlantic and do not affect the Tampa has been almost immune from the West Indian hurricanes but drinkable. can legion, are back in rampa Harold V. Smith, a broker, tes the south.

It is out of sympathy with our interests. It loses no opportunity to discriminate against us. Its leaders have never understood nor tried to understand the viewpoint of the south and its determination in working out its vital Year ago Highest 87. Lowest, 68 Highest for 38 years 96 Lowest for 38 years 64 from the Pahokee, Belle Glade astrous hurricane the reports of loss of lives which resulted, continue to come in. Red Cross officials here during the past half a century.

and South Bar sectors. Toitnys Temperature. tified he had been directed to obtain liquor for medicinal purposes for his mother, and that he asked Kerper to get some good cham It is a-matter of geographical lo .75 4 8 .70 .77 THE WORST BLOWS In these communities, the ex 72 5 70 9 71 problems. They have never been impressed by the sincerity and justice ing in water ranging in depth from their knees to their arm pits, recovering bodies that have been in the open since the storm of more than a week ago. The stories of filth, of the conditions of the swollen bodies, beggars description.

Experiments were attempted with dynamite, several sticks being used to destroy all that remained of the bodies, but arms, legs and heads, survived such blasts, and the method was found impractical. Because of the condition of the country, many bodies have had to be carried on improvised litters for a distance of two or three miles to high ground where have been heaped on funeral pyres for cremation. There isn't available high ground enough to care for graves and burial in the flooded areas is impossible. L. M.

Hatton, and C. M. Kelt- 2 72 6 69 10 72 3 71 7 69 11 76 definitely have fixed the known dead at approximately 2,300, with the announcement that the exact total dead never would-be learned. Apparently. the most crying need of the survivors was an occupation.

pagne and French brandy. Two cases of this were delivered, he testified, and he paid M00. service men were forced to do for the dead a task that in many cases their own families had refused to do. The recovery of bodies for 8 am. 12:30 pm.

cation. There, is a scientific reason for Tampa's apparently storm proof qualities. Because of certain peculiar ten Dry thermomete 79 77 Wet thermometer 68 72 burial or cremation was regarded Rel. humidity (pet.) 93 79 Tampa's hottest day (38 years' rec of our claims. Some of the politicians in that party have found it profitable, helpful in getting office, to denounce the south, and abuse the southern people.

They have not quit waving the "bloody shirt" to this day, 63 years after the war between the states. They seek to instill in the minds of their constituents suspicions of unworthy motives and a lack of patriotism on the cart of the southern people. Straton Is Heckled as such an unbearable tasK that many residents of the stricken Their farms were ruined those in the Lake Okeechobee sector and those who could go back to work do not have even the seed neces ord), June 3, ISIS, 97.5 degrees. dencies of hurricane storms they Forernnt For 30 Honrs Ending; communities left hopelessly for In Texas Address 8 p. tii.

Wednesday: other sections, leaving in the drift For Tampa and sary to starting out. Red Cross Buys Seed. ing waters the bodies of brothers, sisters, wives and children. vicinity: Partly cloudy tonight Beaumont, Sept. 25.

De The Red Cross has issued orders Joseph R. Colhoun, who com and Wednesday. For Florida: manded the first contingent to spite intermittent heckling from his audience, Dr. John Roach Straton, pastor of Calvary Baptist church, ner served as an advance guard Nine times in 38 years Tampa has felt winds of 40-mile velocity. Weather bureau statistics show that the storm of 1921, when winds reached a maximum recorded velocity of 55 miles an hour, brought the heaviest gales.

Years that saw winds of approximating hurricane force here follow: 1896 40 miles an hour on Feb. 6. 1902 40 miles an hour on Feb. 28. 1903 40 miles an hour on Sept.

12. 1910 40 miles an hour on Oct. 18. 1914 40 miles an hour on Sept. 1.

1921 55 miles an hour on Oct. (Sustained velocity.) 1925 43 miles an hour on Dec. 1. 1926 41 miles an hour on Sept. 18-19.

Generally fair in north and central and probably leave Tampa, attempted to picture the work that has been and "is being done by the American legion. From the state at large there are perhaps 1,500 members of the legion at work. They are doing for the first Tampa contingent. The other members of the party accompanied Colhoun on trucks showers in ex have done comparatively small damage here. For a storm to reach Tampa from the east or southeast, it must first cross the peninsula.

For a storm to reach Tampa from the west or southwest, it must have recurved, declares W. J. Bennett, meteorologist here. Weather officials have found that hurricane storms decrease in intensity when the center passes inland, and a tendency, not so decided, to decrease in energy after the recurve. The West Indian hurricane originates in the Caribbean sea, the West Indies or the Gulf of Mexico during the months of July, August, September and October.

Some treme south portion tonight and and carried all kinds of emergency supplies. anything that needs to be done; Wednesday. Winds, for the Within 30 minutes after we got distributing food and clothing to inaccessible and remote places; re East Gulf: Moderate, mostly "Someof their outstanding leaders still threaten the south with a reduction of representation in the national house of representatives under the false charge that southern states violate the constitution with respect to elective franchise and the right of suffrage. They threaten to enact laws further encroaching upon the powers of the states and assailing the rights reserved by the states and destroying that principle of self-government dear to. our hearts.

Forget Souih. "Except when the republican party looks for delegates to their national convention they forget us. When delegates are wanted from these states, they appear, with the usual equipment, merely for the purpose of the convention and not the least idea of receiving a single electoral vote in the college declaring who is chosen president and who (Continued on Page Two-A.) to several dealers at Okeechobee City to furnish seed to the farmers who can get to their land. It was understood to be the purpose of the Red Cross to furnish the farmers with sufficient necessities to meet the emergency, then when the census is completed, to rebuild their homes, furnish them and supply farm implements sufficient to meet the needs. A requisition upon national headquarters would be made for sufficient funds with which to permanently rehabilitate the homeless, many of whom now are destitute.

While the outlook in the storm irea was far from bright, rays of hope continued to shine through. Adjutant General Vivien Collins (Continued on Page Two-A.) 1 northeast and building roads; breaking up dams of debris that are hindering the to West Palm Beach," Colhoun said, "all of us had our typhoid inrioculation and within another half hour we had breakfast. We lined up our trucks and drove into Belle Glade. From there we made CLOLItl east. New York, reiterated his statement here last night that Governor Smith is the deadliest foe in America of the forces of moral progress and wisdom.

The pastor replied with wit and vigor to various persons who heckled him as he spoke. One woman who shouted "Robinson's all right" was told, "we will see in November." He said that Governor Smith was the first bolter from the democratic party in the present campaign. He charged that Smith had made "a covenant with evil and a league with evil by falling Into the machinations of Tammany." flow of the water. Nauseating Stench. Colonel W.

J. Buck, retired army our way into South Bay by foot, because all the roads were gone. officer and com-iander of the le Rainfall. For 24 hours ending 8 a.m., 1.98 Total this month, ins 9.57 Excess since Sept. 1, 3.18 Deficiency since Jan.

1, 1.27 Temperature. Excess since Sept. 1, degs 8 Excess since Jan. 1, degs 5 Barometer, sea lfvel 8 a.m.... 29.97 Wind 6 miles.

Direction northeast. years no storms of this character are noted. In other years there are as many as eleven. The average number vis about four. Once formed, the hurricane has a tendency to move first toward the "The power plant at Belle Glade was under 10 feet of water and the gion post at Belle Glade, is in command of the work in the field.

The men, stoically bearing the nauseating stench of the decomposing coast of the United States at all. There are those that do not re- (Continued on Page Two-A.) people there had no lights what- (Contmued on Page Two-A.) west-northwest, then turn toward I i.