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r. The Weather Extreme Northwest Florida Cloudy with mild temperature, followed b7 showers Saturday afternoon cr night and probably Sunday; somewhat cooler Sunday. CE'MTiS Pay No More I I I 5)m til iiii tWi fifth IP1 llffwiW rr LUU.K ON TRAINS FIVE CENTS PENSACOL.A, FLORIDA, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2 4, 1 9 2 8 VOL. XXXII. NO.

324. Their Morse Key 'Adam And Eve' Romance Broken Bury Diamond Joe In Silver Casket INSECTS CAUSE DAYLIGHT PLAN TO SIFT OVER Savings Would Only Draw Out Mosquito Fight, Workers Claim MIAMI POLICE CHIEF JAILED ON MURDER CHARGE i Department Under Grand. Jury Attack With Five Now In Jail DICK PLANS TO DEVELOP FARMS ON HUGE SCALE West Florida Developer Is Working To Colonize Okaloosa Tract BANKER GIVES OWN WEALTH TO PAY DEPOSITORS i President Not Legally, Liable Pays Off Savers Witht Personal Funds TODAY By Arthur Brisbane What Goei Up Balfour Heart Mellon Generous Thorough Japan CHICAGO, March 23. JPf Discovery of the motor car from which three assassins leaped to fire 58 shotgun slugs into his Dody and announcement that Oscar E. Carlstorm, state attorney-general, had ordered an investigation were developments today following the slaying- of "Diamond Joe" Esposito.

Meanwhile Esposito's body tonight lay in his home in a $5,000 silver-plate bronze casket and plans were under way for Little Italy's greatest funeral. PORTLAND. Ore, March 23. (rP Divorce today severed the nuptial ties of Mrs. Edna Mae Dunn and Lowell Dunn, who began married life a few years ago with an "Adam and Eve" honeymoon.

Mrs. Dunn, who as a bride lived about two weeks in the wilds of Washington state in a costume of ferns while her husband speared salmon and hunted game, was granted a decree on showing that her husband was too much addicted to liquor. lie was ordered to pay her $40 a month alimony. NAYS NOW HOLD POWER DETECTIVES ACCUSED 56,000 ACRES INVOLVED BANK WON'T REOPEN TEN DAYS in succession the Wall Street gentlemen have bought more than 3,000,000 shares a day. Yesterday they bought 4.COO.0OO shares.

Ten days in succession the poor bears have said: "Woe is me." What goes up must come down, maybe. But when the American Eagle starts toward the sun in the morning it is tiresome waiting fcr Farmers And Navy Yard Men Overcome Yes Vote At Straw Poll Will Conduct Experiments At Model Station To Adapt Crops Claim Negro And White Man Slain And Murders Were Covered Up 'Golden Rule- Venture Will Cost Georgia Man $40,000 1 fcira to come down. MISSIONARIES IN WORLD MEET ON SACRED SITE Religious Workers Gather In Session On Mount Of Olives DRY OFFICERS DESCEND UPON BEACH RESORTS Alleged Liquor Sellers Closed Under Federal Injunctions Mosquitoes and farmers thrust themselves Into the Journal's Daylight Saving straw vote yesterday to swing the balance far on the 'against' side. Combined votes for one and two hours of Daylight TSaving were unable to offset an onslaught of nays bolstered by one stack of 135 brought in by naval air station civilian employees. The vote last night stood: MIAMI.

March 227 (JPr H. Leslie Quigg, Miami chief of police, late today was arrested and held without bail- on a charge ofi first degree murder. The arrest followed an indictment returned today in which he was named as accessory before the fact in the killing of H. Kier, negro prisoner alleged to have been killed by police officers two and a half years ago. The grand Jury adjourning to April 10, returned with the Indictment a partial report of the police THERE IS revival of hope that President Coolidge will consent to run for a second election this year.

Everybody knows he meant it when he said: do not choose." Everybody knows he means it when he aays now he does not want any of his friends to lilt a finger to nominate him. But the. ol scandal makes a difference in the situation. and every NAYLOR, pa, March 23. (JP) With his own yealth, J.

Carter, president, today began paying In full all depositors in the defunct Farmers' Bank of Naylor because he said he felt a "personal moral responsibility" to his former patrons. Although he was not legally liable because of the failure, the president several days ago also redeemed all outstanding shares of capital stock of the institution so that the shareholders would suffer no loss. His "golden rule" venture was said to have cost him approximately The bank, which listed capital stock and surplus at $25,000, was closed Monday by the state banking department after it had made an audit at Carter's request. A shrinkage in assets exceeding capital stock and surplus was found. Carter immediately bought up all one of intelligence reserves right It was with this socket wrench that 'Jeutenant Graham N.

Pitch, commander of the S-4, is believed to halve tapped ou; tragic Morse code a messages for help as he and his mm were held imprisoned in the shop on the bottom of Province-town Harbor last December. Captain J. D. Willson displaying it. For One Hour 81 For Two Hours ..45 218 to change his mind.

George L. Dick, West Florida promoter, and Republican candidate for governor has opened negotiations for the largest colonization project ever undertaken "in Florida, according to advices from his Chicago office last night. 56,000 Acres Involved If the plan now under consideration materializes, a 56,000 acreage in Okaloosa county between Crest-view and Valparaiso will be opened to development by farmers of foreign extraction. Decision should be reached next Wednesday. According to a telegram from Dick's headquarters, negotiations were opened with Chicago capitalists to finance the project.

The promoter is said to have conferred with Bunte Brothers, Edward W. Boehm and Marhoffer Brothers. Plans Model Farm Clearing and colonizing operations will be 'started immediately, on 160 acres of the tract which have already been cleared, if the deal goes through, the telegram stated. It is planned to establish a model farm on this portion of the tract and tests conducted to show, the adaptability of certain fruit and vegetable crops to the soil. Lands in the colony will only be offered to Polish, Lithuanian and Czecho Slovakian farmers, who were described as "practical farmers." Immediately upon completion of the negotiations, Dick expects to return to Valparaiso 'and proceed with his plans from this end.

ucjjai wuciii uivciwgRwon in progress for the past several weeks, in which it recommended complete reorganization of the police department. Another Indictment was returned today charging Detective R. L. Wood with second degree murder in connection with the death of Victor W. Parnell, 45, white carpenter, killed Nov.

28, 1926. Both Locked Ud WHEN A CHICAGO gang turns Its attention to killing, especially If the man marked is a gang leader, the Job is done thoroughly. "Diamond Joe" Esposito is shot down from behind by his followers. The keeper of the morgue, "Just out of curiosity," turned him face downward and counted 58 bullet holes ta Esposito's back. JERUSALEM, Palestine, March 23.

(JP) Here, on the Mount of Olives, where Solomon worshipped, idols and Jesus Christ preached the greatest of sermons, missionaries from the United States, Great Britain and Europe tomorrow will begin a fortnight of international discussion on religious subjects. It will end Easter Sunday. Near the Brook Kedron the delegates from odd corners of the globe will rehearse their modern-day problems on the spot where Christ discussed the problems of His day and, the future. The delegates will convene near the place from which, some Biblical scholars say, Christ ascended intoHeaven. This spot is marked by a basilica of the ascension, the original of which was erected by Constantine the Great, although the present building is In the hands of the Moslems.

The conference, is an especially enlarged meeting of the International Missionary Council, composed of missionaries of the United States, the British Isles, the British Dominions and the countries of Europe. The chairman of the council is Jonn R. of the American, Young Men's Christian association. INVENTOR SAYS RADIO LED HIM TO BjfjRIED GOLD Deposits Coins In Bank After Discovery Near Natchez; Miss Both men were placed In the county stockade. States Attorney N.

stock which he himself did not hold MIAMI, Fla March 23. (JP) Federal "padlock" proceedings were instituted today against four alleged liquor dispensing, establishments, one here, one in Miami Beach, one in Palm Beach, and a fourth in West Palm Beach. Ten-day restraining, orders, issued on petition of W. P. Hughes, assistant United States district attorney in charge of prohibition cases, and signed by Judge Lake Jones were received, here by mail today.

Defendants were ordered to appear before Judge Jones at 10 a. m. Thursday In Jacksonville to show cause why further orders should not be issued and the premises seized by the United States marshal. Premises and defendants named were: The Log Cabin, Miami, Jack Cleary, B. B.

Tatum, George White, Louis Fink and James Bentley; Elite Grill, Miami Beach, Perry J. Yocum. Harry R. Trattner, Tom Jones, S. J.

Young and D. A. Llewellan, Venetian Gardens, Palm Beach, Dry Rock Construction Company, Saratoga Catering Company, Samuel D. Davis, John Wagoner, and Henry DeSota; 120 North Poinsettia Street West Palm Beach, L. Sheldon Arthur D.

Vitalie and Walter Standeau. LORD seriously 1U with heart trouble, -wa proud of his ability ta plaj a good game of tennis against younger men when past 70. That explains the heart trouble. Men past 68, -no matter how young for their years, have no business playing tennis or any violent game. Professor Mlchelson of the University of Chicago, who, after 60.

played many violent sets, please take no and then forwarded to the banking department his personal check for $32,000 to cover the accounts of all depositors. Terming his action "remarkable" for an official of a defunct bank, the department returned his check, appointed him a special agent and authorized him to re-open the bank temporarily to pay off his depositors. Persons who had known Carter most of his life and been his neighbors for years in this little town were included in those who came to the bank at his summons today to receive their funds. When all have been paid, the president told friends, he Intends to close the bank permanently and not. attempt to reorganize, as some have suggested.

vernon Hawthorne said the indictment against Quigg was for a capital crime and that he would not be admitted bail. The chief was arrested at his office as he prepared to go home for the day. He asked the deputy sheriff who served the capias to take him by his home to deliver a tricycle which he had bought as a birthday gift for his small daughter. The deputy complied. Three other policemen, Lt.

M. Tibbits and Detectives John Cau-dell and Tom Nazworth, already were In the stockade charged with first degree, murder in Kier'i death. he negro wa 4Heged to have teis killed when the officers took him away from the police station to "work on him. He was arrested after it was charged that he mad tice. A man's brain and courage HP may.be young and his' heart old.

SECRETARY MELLON will Ig Air station employees sent a Fpokesman with their 135. Asked why his supporters did nott. favor Daylight Saving he said: Enter Skeeters "In the first place it will make us get up too early. Then at night we have to battle mosquitoes two hours before getting any peace and rest. With Daylight Saving we'd have to fight them an extra hour, and get up an hour earlier in the bargain." "It would work an especial hardship upon rural school children who must do chores about the farm each morning before leaving for school." says a letter signed by H.

L. Briese, of Pensacola P. D. No. 3, Box 311.

He signs himself "a dirt farmer." "The average working man" also made himself heard on the "against" side in a letter from O. R. Taylor, of 522 West Jackson street. Mr. Taylor said the working man and someone in his family who prepares his now getting up in the morning at or 5:30 a.

would have 3rt.e.t "a most inconvenient" hour under Daylight Saving. More In Tavor do not think it right to make it inconvenient for the majority in order to make it possible for a few who have more time at their command to witness a belated ball or golf he stated. Not being' content with simply, marking their ballot in favor of the plan Evelyn Munich, of 1090 West Garden street, also writes in "deadly in favor" while "let's have It as soon as possible" is written on an unsigned ballot. H. W.

Gibbs, of 18 East Romana street, says "It's all right to fool the clock but why try to fool ourselves? Dont think it good business." Mrs. Gibbs says: "This daylight saving is at the expense of morning rest of already early morning STOCK MARKET BOOMS AGAIN CITY LISTENS TO MUSIC IN SKY Giant Monoplane Carries Cigaret Singer nore any action In the Senate asking his resignation. The people will be much obliged for that. The marvel is that Secretary Mellon hal worked fer the people for nothing so long, reducing their debt by millions in the face of asinine General Motor Lead In Upward Climb BATON ROliGE, La, March 23. (jp) George O.

liaher, Baton Rouge inventor, today! deposited in bank vault here $1,242 in gold coins which he claims his "ground radio" machine detected under several feet of earth on a farm near Natchez, Miss, several days ago. The coins, none of which was minted earlier wan 1850 are in denominations of $2-50, $5, $10 and $20. They were contained in an eld fashioned butter Maher said he had been requested not to divulge on whose ground the coins were found, the owner fearing treasure seekers vould flock to his place and trample down the crops. The money was buried shortly before the "fall of Vicksburg in the war between the states, Maher said he was told. The "ground, which Maher patented in 1922, sets off a buzzer hraradio headset-worn by the operator when passed directly over non-magnetic metafl, regardless of depth, Maher claimE.

FLIERS LIVE IN 2000-FOOT FALL Student Aviators Descend In I Tail Spin NEW YORK, March 23. JPy The "boom" on the stock exchange continued today at full blast Under the leadership of General Motors, which advanced $8.25 a share to a new high record at $187.25, the market rolled up its eleventh consecutive full session of TUNNEY GRINS AS FANS JEST Orlando Crowd Remembers That Long Count a hotel where he was a bell boy. At the time Kier's body was found, police declared they knew nothing of how he was slain. Parnell, In whose death Wood wfts held, formerly lived In St. Petersburg.

States Attorney Hawthorne charges that on the night of his death Parnell was walking along ji lonely road in company with Detective Frank Beckham, recently killed by an alleged bootlegger, when a po- 3,000,000 shares or more. The aver TOM WISE is dead, shepherd of the Lamb's club, and a good actor. Years ago William A. Brady asked this writer to. see Tom Wise in a play called "A Oentleman Prom Mississippi," that Brady was producing.

This writer, told Brady: "You have a first-class play and there is In it a young actor playing a minor part. Jumping over chairs, that Is going to make a success. You ought to make a contract with him." The young name, was Douglas Fairbanks. PLATTS VILLE, March 23. (JP) Two student aviators fell 2,000 feet near here today and lived.

Arthur Korening724, and William Goke, crashed when the plane which Korening was flying went into a tail spin at an altitude of 2,000 feet. Korenlng's Jaw was broken. Goke's nose was broken and he was cut about the head. age of 20 leading industrial issues, compiled by the Associated Press, recovered the ground lost yesterday and set another high level for all time. Extreme gains in the active issues ran from $1 to $3 a share.

Today's sales were 3,600,000 shares or sliehUv more than 400,000 shares WORE WIG IN FRAUD DEALS 36 MEXICAN REBELS SHOT below yesterday's record breaking Head Of Bond Swindle King Is Captured In St, Loot ORLANDO, Fla, March 23. Gene Tunney, as third man in a squared arena tonight was Jokingly chided by fans who watched him count out a fighter who had been knocked down in the state Olympic boxing tryouts here. six, seven, eight, nine, ten. out" counted the champion. ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen," counted the fans in unison with the fighter-referee.

The champion smiled off the inference to celebrated Jong count, when Jack Dempsey knocked him down in Chicago. He aeted as referee in two bouts of the tryouts being conducted under the auspices of Rollins College total. Insurgents Slain After Battle At Cave PLANE HELPS STORK'SWORK CAPTAIN AND MATE LOST SHANGHAI says the Japanese government has locked up 10,000 communists in 1,000 cells, to teach them that they miisth'l criticise the Japanese government. The Japanese are thorough and. blieye, the.

right of every man to say exactly what he pleases and what he believes, if he believes what tha believes. A big three motored Fokker zoomed out of the east about 5 p. m. yesterday and slid across the citys sky floor. A few watchers who saw its approach realized that here was something different.

No NY, no Hawk, no Boenning such as the navy uses. They were not. prepared, however, for the difference which was immediately apparent when the big ship's motors were lulled to a comfortable hum. and out of the sky came a voice singing. The single winged plane passed over the business section.

The voice stopped as the Fokker went Into a graceful banked turn, and then started again, talking this time, telling a story from the heavens. As carefully as though its crew was counting every house, the machine threaded back and forth across city streets while from its direction came the same voice, now singing, now talking. Residents tumbled from their houses to hear this marvel, to see Its source. Traffic quieted so that motorists and street car drivers could hear the voice from the sky. Freddie Bell, the "Glad Singer of Glad Songs" was sending words and music down from Bud Knapp's strange airplane amplifier.

The plane. "Old Gold" was piloted by Lew Gower, war aviator, flier for nearly 3,500 hours. They were advertising cigarets and amusing thousands. They have toured the East from Maine to Key West, and are now on their way to New Orleans. speed, barely missed running them down.

Wood, "Hawthorne said. Jumped out of the police car and fired four times, killing the pedestrian without provocation. The police story at the time of the killing was that he stopped to question Parnell and fired in self-defense after the latter had made a move as if to draw a pistol. -Allied With Crime' "We have become thoroughly "convinced that the open violations of law on the part of gamblers, bootleggers, houses of ill fame, are permitted because of an unquestionable alliance with many law en- Twins Bom Shortly After Mother Reaches HospitaL Officers Of Wrecked Steamer Are Missing tor the Fiortk association of the ST. LOUIS, March 23.

(JP) Search through cities for gang of swindlers who have forgea bonds in the last two. years, to the amount of $1,250,000 and offered them for sale led to the arrest here today cf the alleged leader. He gave the name of Louis Slater, '42, a salesman. Slater admitted, "police-said, that he had passed bogus bonds in Louisville, Detroit and several cither places. He said he used a gray.

wig and tortoise shell glasses, found In his hotel room, to give him a more dignified appearance In. selling bonds. EUROPE, it Is said, plans to keep ut American automobile entirely. Amateur Athletic Union. Tunney drew loud applause from some 2,500 fans When he climbed into the ring.

MEXICO CITY, March 23. (JPy Capture and excution of 36 insurgents, who had been surrounded In a cave, was reported; in dispatches received tonight from Zamora In the state of Michoacan. The vlctinis included five "chieftains." The insurgents had refused to surrender when federal troops discovered their hiding places. For several days the insurgents were held in the cave without food and water. Finally they made a desperate attempt to fight their way out, keeping up their efforts until their ammunition was exhausted.

The survivors were lined up at once and shot. So much the Europe. Ah. automobile doubles the value of a man's time. Pord.

General -Motors- and ethers will establish complete plants in Europe and take care of that emergency. NORFOLK, March 23. JP) A hospital airplane of the Hampton Roads naval station played stork for Mrs. Gertrude Bamett of Frisco, a hamlet on the North Carolina "banks" yesterday. Today twins and mother were doing nicely.

There were no doctors In the coast settlement, and the na plane provided the only practical means of travel in the emergency the mother's condition presented. The twins were born shortly after the mother reached a hospital after the aerial ambulance trip. PRIVATE YACHT IS GIVEN STATE GIBRALTAR, March 23. (JPy The captain and second mate of the Swedish steamer Gitos were missing tonight. Their vessel was wrecked off the Spanish port of Tarifa in a gale, and the crew took to the boats.

One of the boats, carrying 12 men was picked up by the steamer Do-mall. The other arrived at Tarifa but It had capsized in the storm and when its occupants managed to right It the two officers were missing. 4 The Gitos sailed from New Orleans February 28. Her destination was Alexandria, Egypt. Boat Will Be Used For Ffch natchery SPAIN GOES back.

to. the League. forcement officers, said the grand Jury report. The Miami police method of handling prisoners was described as "terrifying and damnable." Quigg tonight was suspended and Guy C. Reeve, head of the detective bureau, made acting chief.

At the' same time reinforcement of police patrols was ordered in the negro district. Unprecedented sale of firearms to negroes has been reported all over the city in the list two weeks, Fear Ontbreak Policemen on duty in the district agreed that the rougher negro element, already stirred up by a religious controversy inwhich two were killed, have seized upon the indictment f. officers for. killing negroes as encouragement to oppose police authority, and that there, is danger of a serious outbreak of lawlessness. of Nations, which is wise.

Spain belongs in that league. We hava league of our owrr here, made up of 43 stages 'with free trade and cooperation. When Europe gets "such "i league as we have, some cf will end. Governor Defends, Everglades Plan LIVE OAK, Fla, March 23. A crowd of 800 Suwannee county heard Gov.

John W. Martin 'defend his Everglades financing plan and road building program" here Governor Martin main verbal attack on the report that the new Everglades bbrid' issue will tax counties. outside. the drain Fear Earthquake Caused Tidal Wave Mussolini Bursts Into Free Verse Gas Station Theft Returns No Clues Cross Three States In 4Bunion Derby9 GALLUP, N. March 23.4JP) Runners in the coast-to-coast "bunion derby" entered the third state In their long hike today, with Nestor Erickson, Port Chester, N.

jwin-ning the lap from Lupton. Ariz. Close behind him were Peter Ga-vuzzi, Southampton, Eng, and Arne Souminen, Detroit. The Detroit runner leads the parade in elapsed time for the 708.8 miles that carried the runners across California, Arizona and Into New Mexico. Lindy Spends Day Flying Officials MEXICO CITY, March 23.

(JFi Special dispatches tonight from Po-chutla, said it was feared Wednesday's earthquake caused a tidal wave in the Pacific which has engulfed many fishing villages on the Oaxaca coast. There is no verification of this rumor. WEST PALM BEACH, Fla, March 23. A gift to the state of Florida of the U. S.

S. Dispatch, formerly xthe private yacht of the secretary of the navy, was announced here tonight, by State Shellfish Commissioner T. R. Hodges A telegram received by Commissioner. brought information that his office had been advised that the bill transferring the boat, had been signed by President Coel-idge, and that the craft would be immediately available.

The Dispatch will be used as a floating fish hatchery and patrol boat. "This new boat will add materially to the facilities of the shell fish division," Commissioner Hodges said. "It is a steel hull vessel, 160 feet long, of 23 foot beam and drawing seven feet of water." 'WASHINGTON. March 23. (.

Reports of a filling station robbery in Escambia county near Flomaton yesterday proved unfounded. Sheriff Mcee Penton reported after an investigation. Windows of two filling stations were found partly raised, but entrances were apparently not made by the prowlers. age district. This matter will be definitely settled by the supreme court he said, and predicted that the court will hold the bends only district obligations.

ROME, March 23. JPy Premier Mussolini revealed himself as a free verse poet in a proclamation Just issued in behalf of the national bread days, April 14 and 15. The following message from II Duce will be posted throughout the country and printed on cards which will be sold. "Italian! Love bread, heart of the home, savor of the repast, joy of health! "Respect bread, sweat of the brow, pride of labor, poem of sacrifice! "Honor bread, glory of the fields, fragrance of the earth, feast of life! "Do not waste bread, richness of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh spent another day piloting Washington officialdom through the air.

A high wind raised huge clouds of dust, but it failed to' daunt the crowd cf several thousand that lined the field to watch the flier change planes. A double row of ropes was placed about the planes to prevent accidents. Charge Bank Fraud In Cashier's Trial TAMPA, Fla March 22, (JP) Evidence, intended to establish proof Women Who Attacked Chief To Plead Temporary Insanity Shall the Clocks Be Moved Up? Check here lMV the fatherland, sweetest gift of God, Fort Myers Woman most holy reward of human toiL "Mussolini." Heads Music Clubs Farmers and Merchants bank at Plant City, before it closed its doors on January 14, was introduced by the state today in the trial cr W. Clarence Martiri, former For Daylight Saving (One Hour) For Daylight Saving (Two Hours) Against Daylight Saving Mail Ballot to The Journal LAKELAND. Fla March 23.

The defense of the women, backed by their friends and neighbors in Selma, Ala, began to take definite shape today when Judge Sam Jobbs of the latter city arrived in Birmingham to act as their legal counsel. Blake, confined in a Clayton, Ala hospital with a knife wound in the inflidted by Miss Tubbs, was said to be in a "very serious condition." Physicians said his wound "may result fatally." Miss. Tubbs and Mrs. Monteabaro leaped at Blake simultaneously as the foreman of the Shelby county circuit court jury Alabama Road Head Fails To Show Up Cel. Woclsey Fennell.

chairman of the Alabama state road department who was expected here yesterday to discuss roads in south Alabama which are of interest to Florida, did not arrive. It is not known when he mill com. Announcement of Colonel Fen-nell's expected visit was made by Paul L. Pierce, member cf the Es- BIRMINGHAM. March' 23.

(JP) Mrs. Mabel Monieabaso, 45, and her sister. Miss Cecil Tubbs, 43-, are expected to plead temporary insanity when they "are arraigned' on charges of assault ith Intent, to murder in connection with their attack on' Chief of" Police H. P. Blake of Calera, at Columbiana yesterday.

The two women were brought to the Jail here following the attack, which occurred just after the officer had been acquitted of the murder cf Mrs. Monteabaro's 24-year- lira. A. A. Coult, Fctt.

fcxiajr as elected president of the Florida Federation cf Music Clubs, which closes its eleventh "annual convention here tomorrow, when Junior music club contests will be held War Appropriation Measure Is Signed WASHINGTON, March 23. The annual war department appropriation bill was signed today by President Coolidge. The measure carries a total of $333,500,000 of which $89,000,000 is for the non- ani casnicr, -cnargea wiu emoes-zlling $11,654 of the bank's funds. More than a dozen witnesses, each cf them a depositor la the now defunct institution, were presented cy the. state In an effort to obtain his conviction on 25 counts of an indictment.

Each witness testified as 'to making certain d-posits which they claimed had not been properly Are you in favor or against daylight saving time for Pensacola? If you have views on the subject mar: the above ballot and bring or mail it to the News-Journal office. The Penacola Toumal and News are taking a straw ballot among their readers. The result of this ballot will be given to the city commission which is now considering the issue. Your vote will help decide Eustis ws awarded the national federation trcphy in a contest by five amateur fchocl bands, im km. V4 simmee won the local Chamber gf pronounced him not guilty cf the cambia county joint road commis- military activities of the depart- jsent.

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