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12 PAGES VOL XLV No. 24 PUBLISHED EYERY DAY Tcents PENSACOLA; FLORIDA, FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 2. 1939 IT ro) 0 iY 0) 0) 0 1 vSvO T' 0) 0) J2)lM AJLM) 0 Q) Lra Beacham Is Chosen Next i A Civic Opportunity (An Editorial) Senate Head ROAD PATROL LAW IS PASSED BY LEGISLATURE 1 Force of 60 Men Would Be Financed by Sale of Driver Licenses HOUSE TABLES BILL TO PLACE TAX ONSALES Move to Legalize Gambling Casinos as Means of Revenue Beaten BANK CLEARING TOTAL CLIMBS IN PENSACOLA Increase of $3,496,090 Is Shown for First Five Months of Year NEW CRAFT IS HELPLESS ON B0TT0M0F SEA Fails to Emerge After It Tries Test Dive off English Coast 1 POSTAL RECEIPTS GROW SOLONS CALLED FAILURE All Hands on Sunken Sub Have'Lungs9 LONDON, June -All hands aboard the submarine Thetis are equipped with the Davis escape apparatus similar to the Momsen "lung" used by United States submarines. "No more steel tombs save yourselves," was the admonition given the British navy In 1934 when the Davis apparatus was issued to undersea vessels.

The "lung," an Invention for which credit is given to a London inventor, R. H. Davis, and Lieutenant Commander C. B. Mom-sen of the United States Navy, theoritically can be used at any depth.

Members of a British crew utilized the apparatus In 1931 when the submarine Poseidon sank In Chinese waters. Several of them, however, died during or after the ascent to the surface. SOLONS QUIT TONIGHT SEARCH IS CONDUCTED Governor Signs Measure to Keep Milk Control Board On Permanent Basis Business Is Running About $6,700 Ahead of Same Period of 1938 Legislators Vote to Pass On to Commission Task Of Studying Problem Naval Experts State Men Have Enough Air to 'Last 36 Hours TALLAHASSEE, June -VP) John R. Beachman of West Palm Beach tonight was chosen to be president of the 1941 Florida senate, Before his formal election at the start of the next regular session, he must win a new term in the senate from the 35th district which embraces Palm Beach and Broward counties. An official announcement from the caucus of 19 hold-over senators that make the selection said his nomination was unanimous.

Individual senators said he defeated, on the first ballot, 1 Abe O. Kanner of Stuart, the only other candidate with major support. The 1941 senate Is bound only by tradition to ratify the caucus' selection but it has never been overturned. I The nominee will be 41 years old on July 22. He was born in Unadilla, Ga, studied law at Mercer university, Macon, and at the Detroit College of Law.

1 TALLAHASSEE. June 1. TALLAHASSEE, June 1. VP) State officers will patrol Florida highways if Governor Cone approves an act passed by the legislature today or allows it, to become a law without hie signature. ALL qualified voters of Pensacola will have the opportunity; of saying; Monday whether the city charter should contain authority for the city to acquire, maintain, operate arid lease civic improvements and port facilities.

It is the duty of all voters to go to the polls to confirm nominations of members of the city council. But it is vastly more important that they express themselves on the enabling acts which will specifically confer this authority on the municipal government. There are many reasons why; the voters should cast favorable ballots in the referendum. First The authority they would confer in the charter is normally the authority of every municipal government; without it, the city is hamstrung. Second A favorable vote does not authorize the city council to issue bonds and to incur debt for any specific project.

Specific propects, if the authority is granted by the voters, must be submitted later in an election in which only freeholders will vote. Third If voters fail to approve the enabling acts Monday, the city will be powerless to act for another two years, or until the legislature convenes again. Fourth PWA appropriations are being curtailed and time for starting projects limited. If Pensacola fails, to vote favorably in the referendum, it probably will not have another opportunity to obtain federal grants and loans for civic and port improvements. I Fifth If the referendum shows a favorable vote but with few casting their ballots, PWA officials will not be ft so inclined: to favor Pensacola projects as they would if a large favorable vote is cast.

Sixth Anyone who opposed any of the previously discussed projects could logically vote favorably in the referendum, for freeholders- later will pass upon specific projects. Taken as a whole no sound argument can be advanced against the enabling acts. As a matter of fact the legislature could have passed them without a referendum. But as the lawmakers and the council thought best to give the voters an opportunity to express themselves, they should do so forcefully. The Florida house bundled up the two per cent general sales tax today and smashed the life out of It.

It smacked down, too, a bill to legalize and tax big time gambling It heard Itself called a "failure" In a financial crisis confronting the state. "Then it voted to pass over to a commission the task of surveying The house concurred In senate changes to a bill creating a 60-man highway patrol financed with the receipts from sale of state drivers' licenses costing 50 cents a year. Bank clearings issued in Pensacola during the first five months of 1939 totalled $42,103,215, an increase of $3,496,090 over the figure for the same period of last year, the Pensacola Clearing House association announced yesterday. The total for the first five months of 1938 was $38,607,125, Clearings for May, 1939, totalled $9,646,056, as compared with for May, 1938. The figures for other months this year were: January, February, March, and April, $8,159,997.

An increase over the same month of 1938 was shown in -every instance except January. Postal receipts here during last month totalled $14,851.96, an in i Since the legislature adjourns to morrow night, before the governor will have an opportunity to act, a veto would i kill the measure until ART INSTITUTE the next meeting of the lawmakers. Senate amendments approved by CAUSE OF FATAL PLANE CRASHES STILL MYSTERY Naval Officer Who Married Here Last Friday Is One Of Two Victims the house would place the patrol un HOW THEY VOTED i Representative Everett O. Ma-lone of Escambia county voted to table the two per cent sales tax bill. Representative J.

Edwin Holsberry voted against tabling the measure. Both Holsberry and Malone voted to table the gambling casino bill HEAD SEES NEED der the direction of the governor and the chairman of the state road department and make county judges, instead of tax collectors, the crease over the $13,61426 total for agents fpr selling licenses. OF CMC CENTER Dr. Rubin Tells Why Project Means Practical as Well As Cultural Advantage The senate passed two house-ap the same month of 1938. Thus far this month receipts are running about $6,700 ahead of the same period of 1938, Postmaster M.

O. Brawner said. The increase for the proved fishing bills, one to permit the game and fresh water fish com' mission to get about 12,000 In fed' eral funds and the other to extend second quarter thus far Is about the time for non-resident trip fish $1,700. lng licenses from three to 10 days and raise the cost from $1.50 to $2 HITLER PLEDGES During May, 1939, 19 steamers cleared from Pensacola bay for other ports with cargoes. The num BILL TO AMEND LONDON, June 3 (Friday) (JF) The glistening new submarine Thetis, proud product of Britain' swift rearmament, lay helpless under about 130 feet of water some where at the bottom of the Irish sea today with '79 men aboard.

Reports which lacked confirmation from the British admiralty, said she was believed to have been located by means of a checkered marker buoy shot from the crippled undersea craft commissioned less than three months ago and carrying officers, seamen and the builder's technicians on a trial dive from which she failed to emerge yesterday afternoon. Reports Conflict These reports of her location conflicted, but most of them Indicated she lay some 12 miles out to sea from Mersey Bar lightship or about 25 miles from Liverpool, the great West England port. More than 13 hours after, the $1,638,000 submersible made her last dive at 1:40 pjn, British summer time (8:40 ajn, Pensacola Thursday) not a word had been received from her. It was feared she had collided with some underwater object, possibly theremnants of one of the many wrecked ships which strew the bottom of the sea in the vicinity, and disabled her electrical apparatus, Have Safety Devices Naval experts estimated she contained sufficient air to stay submerged 36 hours, but more than a third of that time had been used up shortly before the first grey streaks of morning light split the sky over Merseyside. Presumably all.

or nearly all aboard the Thetis were equipped -with Individual Davis life saving devices which would be used as a last resort In an attempt to send them to the surface from escape hatches. But observers believed no attempt would be made to use this method of self -rescue until broad daylight when the survivors could be picked up easily. Representatives of Cammel Laird, the builders, and other unofficial sources reported the submarine's marker buoy had been sighted by both planes and surface ves Value of a Community Center to Pensacola is explained by Dr. Nathan S. Rubin, president of the Pensacola Art Institute In a letter to the News-JournaL Dr.

Rubin points out that the vote each. A resolution setting the time for ber in May of year ago was 20. CITY'S CHARTER GERMAN SUPPORT sine die adjournment at 11:55. pjn. tomorrow adopted by the senate and taxation and finance problems and recommending a-program 'for a special session next November which Governor Cone would be 'requested to call.

No Revenue Bills The net result, legislative leader declared, la that there won't be any revenue legislation before the jreg-ular session ends tomorrow night, although many, including Speaker Wood, have predicted a public deficit as high.as a jear, The sales tax bill, prepared by the finance and taxation committee after Speaker Wood demanded revenue proposals, was killed, 50. to 4 by a flank attack cloaked in a motion to put the bill on the table. The same fate was accorded to the gambling casino bill. Sponsors estimated the sales; tax officially called a two per cent sent to the Unanimously Democratic, the leg for the bond issue, now defunct, showed that the Community Center was the most favored project. He says in his letter that people will be given a chance again to vote on islature voted to keep the Republi TO YUGOSLAVIA Baltic States Hold Key to British-French-Russian Assistance Pact DIES IN HOUSE Safety Director, Recorder Measures Postponed by Escambia Solons can party officially alive In Florida by permitting the names of Repub lican candidates to be printed on this Issue, "Again the "opportunity shall present itself to the citizenry of Pensacola to express a will, for or against a Community Center to the general election ballot If the party polls five per cent of the total Naval authorities last night expressed the opinion that no cause would ever be found for the seaplane crash In which a naval officer making his first flight since his marriage less than a week ago and a student flier were killed yesterday morning.

The victims were Lieut, (jg) Joseph S. Cox, 34, of Seattle, Wash, whose marriage to Miss Norma Cook was a social highlight of last Friday, and Alfred Peter Ivey, 23, of Norfolk, Va, a student filer at the Naval Air station. Married Last Friday Fox, an instrutcor In Squadron 1, was married last Friday at Pou Station to Miss Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.

R. Cook of Pensacola. The Rev. David Rose, priest in charge at St. John's Episcopal church In Warrington, who conducted the wedding ceremony, will officiate at his funeral, set for 10 ajn.

today In the Naval Air station chapeL The body will be shipped to Seattle for buriaL No arrangements for Ivey's funeral were completed last night A board of inquiry began an. investigation yesterday but officers said it would be at least two days before it would be completed. Even then, they said, it was doubtful that much light could be shed on the accident because there were no actual eye witnesses. vote cast. BERLIN, June 1.

JP Adolf Hit The governor signed a bill to con ler guaranteed Yugoslavia's borders' tinue the state milk control board tonight in an exchange of toasts house the library, art gallery. Little Theatre playhouse, Music Study group, museum and armory auditorium. When the question was! pre a price fixing agency on a permanent basis. 1 Class of 1939 Only Memory at Naval Academy ANNAPOLIS, Md June 1. VP) The class of 1939 was only a memory at the Naval academy tonight, with the excitement of June week over and 525 new officers on their way to join the Navy's fighting forces.

Graduation- exercises Vpday, colorful in the Navy tradition, ended the academic careers of 578 midshipmen, 53 of whom were not commissioned. Farewells done, the Navy forgot the graduates and turned to the midshipmen yet remaining to be trained as naval officers. The new first and third classmen, the graduates of 1940 and 1942, embark tomorrow morning on the annual midshipmen's cruise. with Prince Paul during a lavish state dinner. The German fuehrer, who is en viously put, the Community Center proved to be the most favored of TALLAHASSEE, June 1.

(Special) Bills by Senator Philip D. Beall to amend the charter of the City of Pensacola, to place the city recorder under civil service and to abolish the office of safety director were Indefinitely postponed by the Escambia delegation in the house tonight. The action amounts to killing the bills. FLOOD CONTROL tertaining his guests royally during the five-day stayrof the Yugoslav regent, said that in Prince Paul's presence "we see a happy occasion BILL APPROVED for a frank and friendly exchange of views which I am convinced can only bring benefits to our peoples and states." Senators Shout" Down Plea For Economy PARK CREATED TALLAHASSEE, June 1. (Special) The house tonight passed senate bill 948 creating Rauscher state park.

NATIONS HOLD KEY (By The Associated Press) The three Baltic states of Finland, gross receipts tax would produce from $5,000,000 to $12,000,000 a year, while the gambling tax was pictured as a $2,000,000 revenue source. "Wo might as well accept our failure in a financial crisis," said Representative Outman of Pinellas. No Special Session Seen i Outman said Governor kne would not call any special session of the legislature. 1 Chairman Harrell of the finance and taxation committee told the house that if it defeated the sales tax bill "there won't be any revenue There will be no alternative he aid, "but for the chief executive to take charge, operate only the essentials of government and withhold the rest" Representative Christie of DuVal also said the house would have no revenue program If it killed the bill, which he referred to as "a gross receipts tax bill." i Representative Tomasello sought rst to kill the bill by striking out WASHINGTON, June lw iJPy-A booming chorus of senators ap Estonia and Latvia were believed proved a $305,267,000 bill for flood TOWERS IS NOW yesterday to hold the key to the John Cornelius Lafferty, a chief machinist's mate undergoing flight control, rivers and harbors work and other undertakings today after stalemated British French Soviet shouting, down pleas for economy. PILOT BILL KILLED TALLAHASSEE, June 1.

(Special) The house tonight killed Senator Joe Sharif bill to Increase the number of Panama City's bar training, was flying nearoy but did not see the mishap until the plane Russian negotiations for a mutual assistance pact. Resembling a college cheering sec London diplomats represented the had struck the water. Lafferty AERIAL CHIEF Becomes Head of Bureau of Aeronautics of Navy tion at times, senators quickly re landed alongside and dived over' little republics neighbors of Russia pilots from four to six. as occupying a dominant position board to" drag Ivey's body from the wreckage. Fox body, was recovered jected reductions of $50,000,000 made by their appropriations committee, added a few minor Items, and then sent the big supply bill back to the house.

now as a result of Russia's Insistence that they be given specific guarantees against aggression. when the plane was raised. Both Drowned sels belonging to the vast rescue-fleet which churned the Irish sea all night long in a ghostly light of flares, searchlights and rockets. Oil Patch Found Yet other unconfirmed reports told of surface craft finding a buoy 25 miles west of Liverpool, and a patch of oil and a lifebelt In the same location. Meanwhile, men-of-war, submarines, anti submarine vessels equipped with secret detector devices to locate submerged ships and Royal Air force planes searched the sea off the mouth of the Mersey (TUBM TO AQE EIOHT) However, a hitch lay in the fact Senator Adams who led Navy doctors said both men, who were flying a primary seaplane which plunged Into Pensacola bay they have indicated a desire to keep out of any ties with any bloc of the futile effort to cut $50,000,000 (TURN TO PAGE EIGHT) from a low altitude, died by drown ing.

powers, although Britain was said to be willing to give them non-aggression guarantees such as those The Weatlie Pallbearers win be Capt. L. W. WASHINGTON, June 1. Captain John H.

Towers, "the Navy's No. 1 flier," became chief today of the naval bureau of aeronautics with a temporary rank of rear admiral. An aviation pioneer and commander of the Navy's 1919 transatlantic flight, Captain Towers succeeded Rear Admiral Arthur B. Cook, who on June 19 becomes commander of aircraft of the fleet's scouting force. given Rumania and Poland.

all the companion projects and merits the same support in the coming referendum. It will be placed as a matter to be considered entirely separate from the items of port development "The opportunity will be given to encourage art in all its forms, bo that we shall be remembered not as a community of people who Tlive and fight wars and die, but as lovers and revere rs In the human spirit. It is as Maxwell Anderson has better said: The national conscience Is the sum of personal conscience, the national culture I the sum of personal culture and the lack of conscience Is an Invitation to destruction, the lack of culture an assurance that we shall not even be "But there is also a very practical aspect to the Community Center idea. It shall not only be a show place for the visitor In our midst, but the auditorium will serve as "a meeting place for conventions. The OJCJS, whose Grand Matron is a Pensacolian would have had its 1940 meeting here and have brought 2,000 visitors had there been a convention hall suited to such a large gathering.

The local National Guard unit will have a proper place to practice arms. First rate entertainment, even grand opera, could be brought here and offered at small cost for the pleasure of all; while the Little Theatre and the Pensacola; Philharmonic orchestra would I have a proper background and facilities for their work. There Is no need to mention again the hundreds (including the kiddles; In the preventorum) who are getting capable Instruction at no cost under the auspices of the federal gallery which would enjoy a finer home for Its exhibitions and creative activities. Tn San Francisco it was an act of God that saw the city emerge in a new splendor; In Chicago it was Mrs. OXeary's cow; and Sin Pensacola may the enterprise of Its citizens promote Pensacola 's progress." S- 1 from the total voted by the house, could not even get a record vote on these items.

Not enough senators raised their hands to obtain the formal roll can. Included among the projects approved by the senate and the house were Apalachicola river, Fla Black Warrior, Warrior and Tombigbee rivers, $443350. Indians Whoop It Up in Park; Police Are Busy TRvTNGTON, N. June 1. JP) The desk sergeant, turned from the telephone switchboard today wiped the perspiration off his brow and said wearily: "I think it's the heat but they swear It's Indians whooping it up near the park." Sergeant Coleman and Patrolman Bader went out to investi- gate and found 23 Hop! Indians from the Colorado cliffs beating tom-toms and apparently eele- bra ting the weather man's prediction of cooler weather.

They were on their way to the World fair. One Is Killed in DAY Sunrise, 4:43 aunset, j4 Ashwell, who with Mrs. Fox will accompany the body to Seattle leaving at 1:30 p. m. today, Lt.

(jg) J. E. Dalquest. Lt. (jg) F.

H. Backe-burg. Lt. J. C.

Lindsay, Lt (jg) W. E. Premo, Jr, and Lt. J. M.

Jordan. T. M. Lloyd is In charge of funeral arrangements. THIS MINUTE By HOWARD MERRILL Ill, hy Baquir ruturu.

Inc.) Explosion in Ohio BELLE VT7E, 6, June 1 JPh-One man was killed and at least tight were injured tonight In an' explosion at the City Ice and Fuel company plant here. The BeHvue hospital said the dead man was Donald Ice, an employe of the plant. In one minute. Great Britain SHOWERS FORECAST Cloudy weather, with local thun-dershowers, are forecast for today. The mercury yesterday ranged from 68 to 81 degrees.

Rainfall totalled .40 Inches. 209 DIE IN BATTLE DAMASCUS, June 1. JP) More than 200 persons were reported killed today In fighting between Syrian nationalists and Alouite tribesmen in the western hills. muunriM p.m.; moonset, a.m.: rxt phase of the moon, laat quarter 9th; high tide, 10:25 a. low tide.

p.m. 1 TEMPERATURE Accumulated deficiency thia month to date accumulated excess this year to date, 13; highest of record thia time of year, lowest of record this time lot year, 65. RAIN' FALL Total for this month to :30 p.m.. normal for June, 4.SS; accumulated excess this month to date total for this year to dajte, 1.I4; accumulated deficiency this year to date. 1.50.

BAROMETRIC PRESSURE (Yesterday) a.m., 29.91; 4:30 p.m., 29.91 HUMIDITY (Yesterday) a.m., 1J nvn. S4: :30 p.m., 99. I TELEGRAPH IC OBSERVATIONS produces two hundred and seventy-five dollars worth of rubber. Largest export from the Philip pines is "Abaca" (manila hemp). Forty-five dollars worth leaves, the Mo seley's Anti Jewi sh Statement Stricken Islands every minute of every hour.

Canadian department stores do Ickes Critical Of Roberts' Fee WASHINGTON, June Administrator Ickes temporarily suspended today a $36,000 fee for the L. W. (Chip) Robert construction firm of Atlanta but approved a $564,000 PWA payment for a building program at the state hospital for insane at MlQedgevllle. Ickes said the advance acquisition was for $600,000. The Robert contract may be all right," Ickes asserted, "but its language is a little bit unusual and we want to find out what lt means.

The $36,000 Item will be temporarily suspended pending Investigation." five hundred and seventy-five dol p-m. Hwrtr Low Rain 82 74 lars worth of sales every sixty sec Apalachicola. Atlinti 6S 82 onds. ,4 JO In the one minute passing whCe you read the words in this column, the Milky Way is moving 7,200 in ..7 60 6 7J ......70 0 ......58 .33 miles through space. Americans have millions of pets.

Each minute 25 pounds of fish is canned for cat and dog food In this country. .22 is that they cannot pay allegiance to both "International Jewry" and to the United States, and that they are fomenting both international war and domestic revolution. When he had finished, there was a long pause, while the general, pursing his lips in characteristic fashion, looked defiance at the committee. Rep. Dempsey (D-NM) broke the hush.

"There is not one sentence In the entire statement that points out subversive activities In this country and I move that the entire sate-ment be deleted from the record." There followed a brief conference among the committee members. "The i 1 1 ee," Healey announced, "has decided that the entire statement win be eliminated." WASHINGTON, June 1. VP) Major General- George Van Horn Moseley, embattled enemy of "international Jewry" and communism, concluded a two-day appearance before the Dies committee today with a prepared statement which the committee considered so grotesquely anti-Semitic; that it was immediately stricken! from the record. The general, who also revealed an apparently gnawing fear that he would be assassinated at any moment by his Red foes, excitedly expressed throughout a long session on the witness stand, his approval of Hitler objectives and accomplishments and his regret that the leaders of some "patriotic organizations" in the United States find the movement personally profitable. His own activities, he said, had cost him money.

But the climax of his testimony was reached with his prepared statement. At Intervals throughout his testimony, he had demanded an opportunity to read it and had been put off. Overnight, he cut it to one-third of its original length, which he had estimated at an hour-arod-a-half. When all committee questioning was done, his chance came. His whole demeanor changed from that of an impatient, indignant and occasionally defiant witness, to that of a man with a mission in life.

He sat upright, put on his spectacles and began reading in a deep, gruff voice which contrasted curiously with the usually high-pitehed and somewhat nasal tone with which he had answered questions. The statement, which he had assured the committee was "good stuff," proved first of all an account of what various people abroad had said about communism and the Jews In 1918 and 1919. The committee shut him off abruptly, precipitating an interchange in which he demanded: "Are you investigating me?" Acting Chairman Healey CD-Mass.) assured him that was the case, and after some further altercation, during which the general promised to stick to, subversive activities in America, he was permitted to continue. The remainder of the statement contained assertions that the Jews "maintain a state within a state, The U. S.

government collects $3 Birmingham Boston Buffalo Chicago rnlla Denver Galveston Helena Huron Jacksonville Kansas City Louisville Memphis Miami Mobile Montgomery New Orleans New York Oklahoma City PENSACOLA Port Eada Raiefsrh St. Louis San Antonio Savannah Shreveport Tampa 3aafau.etoa 70 60 54 70 70 54 76 4S 60 72 to 68 72 78 74 70 74 68 66 68 14 70 70 68 74 70 72 84 66 70 82 8 68 84 58 82 84 92 84 84 RO 82 88 8 8 7 80 1 8 84 78 84 86 86 84 a minute to maintain America's Garcia Admits He Defrauded Creditors waterways! i .0 .08 The cost of crime. Insurance ...74 ...7 ...80 1 74 ...72 ...80 ...69 ...74 ....7 ....74 SO companies in America pay out forty dollars a minute because of bur Work Out Agreement On Appropriations TALLAHASSEE, June 1. pl Senate and house committeemen worked out an agreement tonight on the biennial general appropriations bill and asked for final passage tomorrow. I .40 .60 NEW YORK, June 1.

UP) Carlos Garcia, 45, Wall Street sugar importer accused of defrauding ered- itors of $1,070,427.53, pleaded guilty to first degree grand larceny today in general sessions Ball was fixed at $10,000 and June li was set glaries and robberies in the 48 states. Fifty pounds of cheese a minute are imported into the United States from Italy. .80 .94 .16.