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THE PALM BEACH WORLD NEWS BY TFE ASSOCIATED PRESS LARGEST DAILY CIRCULATION IN PALM BEACH COUNTY. VOL.XXIIl:No. 124 SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1931 DAILY, FIVE CENTS 81'XDAV, TBN CENTS STARR FAIIHFULL GOVERNMENT IS SLOWLY FORCING SCARFACE CAPONE INTO OBLIVION TODAY ART HVR BR1SBANS (Copyright, 1931, King Feature), Inc.) Hoover Allows Last Fishing Opportunity to Pass Because of Work Orange, June 13. (A) President Hoover Saturday passed up the last opportunity he will have this year to fish at his Rapidan Camp. Instead, he spent the day at work in preparation for leaving Sunday night on his western speech-making trip.

An ardent fisherman, the chief executive intended when he left Washington Friday to spend Saturday morning angling for trout in the Rapidan River before the season closes on Sunday. Venezuelan President Submits Resignation Sought by Congress Caracas, Venezuela, June 13. (P) President Juan Bautista Perez sent his resignation to the Venezuelan congress Saturday afternoon. The congress unanimously accepted it and fixed June 19 as the date for the election of a new president. A cabinet meeting was called to choose one of its members to serve as chief executive in the interim.

The president's resignation followed a demand, made by the congress sitting as a committee of the whole, Ufat Dr. Bautista Perez step down. gal toils except when he voluntarily appeared in court to furnish bonds. Thus Johnson planned to convict Capone' i chieftains first, with the knowledge in mind that evidence against these would be tangible to Capone. Two years were spent in investigating beer and gambling receipts, "ice resort records, bank deposits End handbook payoffs.

Then came the attack. Frank Nitti, "the enforcer," Ca-pone'3 treasurer, is serving an 18-month term in Leavenworth for income tax violation. Ralph Capone, boss of the Cicero bailiwick, has appealed a three-year sentence for the same charge. Jack "Greasy-Thumb" Guzik, Capone business manager, has appealed a five-year sentence, same charge. Sam Guzik, slot machine czar, is serving a year and a day at Leavenworth, same charge.

All's fair in war, was the govern Friday the same federal grand jury that lodged the income tax charge indicted the gangster for the offense that has brought him millions of dollars, conspiracy to violate the prohibition law. With him, 68 henchmen also were indicted on 5,000 charges of violating that statute. Next Tuesday, Capone will be arraigned on both the income tax and liquor violations and at that time, District Attorney Johnson will decide what charge will be tried first. And now, for the first time, the strategy that handcuffed Capone to the courts can be told. In June, 1928, Johnson decided it was time for the government to aid in the get-rid-of-gangsters campaign.

From the outset the "big shot" was the quarry. But Capone was something of a phantom, here today, somewhere else tomorrow. Rumors about him were legion; actual facts were few. Heavily guarded, he kept out of le Public Services Will Be Held in City Park This Afternoon Three organizations will join the West Palm Beach Lodge of Elks in observing Flag Day at 3 o'clock this afternoon with public services in the City Park. These services follow the annual custom of Elks throughout the country.

Co-operating with the local lodge there will be Palm Beach Post No. 12, American Legion; Elks Lodge No. 1530, Lake Worth; Troop 7, Boy Scouts, Lake Worth. Special features have been arranged by Carl Kettler, exalted ruler, to supplement the ritual of the regulation Flag Day service. Ed Bentley of Lakeland, immediate past department commander of the American Legion, will be the speaker of the day, coming here on invitation of Charles H.

Warwick, who will introduce him. The uniformed drill team known as the Elks Patrol of Lake Worth will have the picturesque role of presenting the different flags used to illustrate the history of the flag, given by John Ziegler, local attorney. Mayor E. B. Donnell will give the response.

Musical features will include: Scout Band of Troop 7, under George W. Hulme, a preliminary program; Boston's Orchestra and American Legion Drug and Bugle Corps, during the services; W. C. Deady, soloist and song leader. The following program will be (Continued on Page Eleven) Lawyer Withdraws Opposition to Move Against Amendments, However In announcing that he would not accept an appointment to serve the city as an attorney in contesting the validity of certain improvement bonds, Judge Edgar C.

Thompson indicated Saturday that he was withdrawing opposition to the city's plan to kill charter amendments affecting the bond settlement. Although he did not feel he could accept the appointment under pres ent conditions, Judge Thompson ex plained that he believed firmly that; IS F( Nassau County Officials Question Sister of Slain Girl By The Associated Prrtt lWIINEOLA, N. June County officials question, ed Tucker Faithfull, red haired si, ter of Starr Faithfull, for three hours Saturday in an effort to shed new light on the death of th Greenwich Village girl. At the end of the conference, which was secret, Police Inspector Harold King said their' talk had been about Starr's men friends, her diary on the possibility that there had been a later volume than one discovered in the family's flat and Tucker's own whereabouts from last Friday until her sister's body was found In the surf at Long Beach Monday morning. He said little progress had been made toward clearing the mystery surrounding Starr's death.

Tucker entered the police station and made her exit by a private way, without being questioned by reporters. King indicated he felt there was not much in Starr's diary to pro vide a motive for murder elusive factor in the case which the state has been pursuing intensively for a week. "The diary was evidently begun in 1927 and ends at about the beginning of 1930," the inspector said. "It adds little to material already in hand. If there was a second diary, which seems likely inasmuch as Starr was rather diligent about keeping the flrst one, we may discover it Sunday when detectives will search the Faithfull home thoroughly." Inspector King said his searchers had found a coat Saturday almost fitting the description of that worn by Starr when she vanished last Friday, but that it "obviously was not hers" this latter statement bearing upon an unrevealed telegram found in one of the pockets.

The income of the family of Stanley E. Faithfull, father of the dead girl, was scrutinized Saturday. The inspector said he had traced the father's connection back to pre-war days when he was with a Boston chemical concern. Faithfull still has an income. King said, but the fn hfi about 'he tails" ol it: Striking Miners Preparing "Drives" on Mines Still Operating St.

Clairsviile, Ohio, June 13. A tense atmosphere prevailed in the eastern Ohio coal fields Sat trrlnv night as striking miners me Company at Bellaire where 350 men of union connections. WEATHER I'OHKl VST I''ir Miiirni and Vieniily: Partly cloudy Monday, prnlmbly with local showers Sunday; gentle winds, mostly SnlltllCllsl. i'nr I'lnridn I'nrily cloudy Sunday, probahly wilh lin'jil showers in extreme suiltli portion Sunday; gentle variable winds. YYK.ITIIKR CONDITIONS I'ri'ssmv is relatively high over the Atlantic mid cms! (inir Stales, and il ip liolnw the norninl in Hourly all other sections.

There were nil woll-dof ine.ti disl iirliiinees Saturday williin the hnnn-diiries of i lie I'nileil Sliiies. I.ociil rains oeeiirred in Hie upper I. like region, Mississippi and lower Hhio Valleys, Ken- lucky, and lennessoe. There were also Ihundershowers in Kansas anil N'ehrns-I ka and in oilier widely scattered local. Hies in the oaslorii, sunt hem, and western slides.

Tempera! ures are above the normal in nearly all sections iront ihe Kocky Mountains ea.siward, except, tip. (jnif Slates. Warm wenlhcr also prevails in the 1 "m-i til- Stales, while leinpenitiireg have fallen in and I'tah. It I 'HA III W. (iKAV, Meteorologist in charge WRATH 1411 TAI1I.H Stations Asheville Atlanta Allaiuic Cily Mirniinglmni Itoslnn Milffnlo Chicago Cincinnati Heaver Heiroi! (Jalveston Jacksonville Kansas Cily Key Wcsl 1.08 Angeles Memphis Meridian Miami INVESTIGATION MOVING jRvVARD Max.

Min, Mli 1(0 HO 7(1 7(1 HO 111' 7.1 70 i 7 H8 H4 (U 74 MK ill! id 74 SK ti SO 7li t)2 SS 70 xs fit Nfl 7S HALF ENDED WITH No Major Revenue Bill Has Full Approval of Assembly to Date By The Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, June 13. Florida's extraordinary legislative session was at a standstill Saturday, with more than two thirds of senate and house members attending the opening of a new bridge at Pensacola. With Monday the halfway mark of the twenty day session called by Governor Carlton to consider matters of finance and taxation, the legislature has yet to give full approval to any major revenue measure. The senate and house passed gasoline revenue distribution measures Friday, but they carried different plans of distribution and will require legislative ironing out before a plan acceptable to both bodies can be sent to the governor for approval or disapproval. The senate adopted the Carlton plan of distribution, giving three cents to the state road department, one to counties according to area, one according to population, and one according to specified road mileage.

The house plan, worked out by compromise committees to end a long drawn deadlock between large and small county blocs, was similar to the senate bill with exception of distribution of the last cent. Under the house plan, one half cent would go to counties on the basis of assessed property valuation (Continued on Page Eleven) IS IN REORGANIZATION Properties Will Be Trans ferred to U. S. Sugar Corporation The Southern Sugar Company will be reorganized by the United States Sugar Corporation of Delaware, according to announcement made here on Saturday. The properties and assets of the Southern Sugar Company and the Clewiston Company will be transferred to this firm under a reorganization plan worked out by Bitting, of New York, reorganization manager.

Holders of claims against the bankrupt Sugar Company secured by liens on machinery and equipment, are asked to become parties to the plan if they desire by depositing claims or receivers' certificates with the Central Hanover Bank Trust Company of New York by June 30. Holders of claims secured by land are asked to deposit claims with the Central Farmers Trust Company here, by June 30, and arrangements for similar depositories on all other types of bonds and stocks are to be announced in the near future. The reorganization plan, which it is understood will go into effect July 1, is being greeted jubilantly at Clewiston, headquarters of the development and is regarded as the salvation of this sugar industry in this locality. Details of the reorganization have not been made public, although it has been known for some time that new management was expected to succeed the receivership. Quick Action Expected On Railroads' Plea For Increased Freight Rates 1 i Washington, June 13.

Quick i action by the interstate commerce commission is expected on the application of eastern, western and southern railroads for a 15 per cent increase in freight rates. The petition, due Wednesday, ordinarily would go through a long round of routine, but indications Saturday were that eve effort would be made to expedite a final decision. Railroad officials base their hopes for speedy action to some extent on assurance given by Commissioner Mamanamy last November to western executives that the commission would expedite disposition of any concrete proposal th roads might make. The applicants contend the condition of their roads is such that quick relief is imperative. Street Claims Body Will Meet Monday Paving assessment claims still pending will be settled by the street claims committee in special session at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon.

No provision has been made by the city for extending the time limit for waiving of interest in the cases of settlement of assessments by improvement bonds beyond june it, expiration or the six! months' period. Owing to the fact that no action was taken at the last commission meeting and that this special session was called to clear up pending settlements so that they could be settled within the time limit, it is not expected that any extension will be voted. PECAN PRICES TO GO DOWN Jackson, June 13. (P) The executive committee of the National Pecan Marketing Association ended a two day session here Saturday with an announcement through F. R.

Wilcox, general manager, that the organization planned to reduce the prices of its product to the consumer. Wilcox said this would be done by adopting more economical methods of distribution to reduce the spread between producer and consumer. SPECIA SESSION TAX BILLS PENDING By The Associated Press CHICAGO, June 13. A perfectly planned and executed three-year attack by the federal government has forced Alphonse Capone from the throne of gangdom to the brink of oblivion. Early in the summer of 1928 the offensive against the scarfaced overlord of the underworld was launched by United States District Attorney George O.

Johnson. Link by link the chain of evidence was forged. Every obstacle became a stepping stone to success. Every raid strengthened the chain. Then, last summer, the government finally "got to" Capone.

He was sentenced to serve six months for contempt of court in delaying a federal grand jury appearance. A decision on the appeal is expected next month. Last week the government climaxed its income tax evasion campaign against gangland by indicting for failure to pay $215,080 taxes on a six-year income of $1,038,645. Gangster Wins Fight For Bail; $10,000 Sum Is Fixed, Posted Bv the Associ-ated Amsterdam, N. June 13.

Jack "Legs" Diamond, gangster, won his fight for a freedom denied him since last April 27, as a supreme court justice Saturday admitted him to bail on a gun carrying charge. Bail fixed at $10,000 was posted and Diamond left the Greene County jail at Catskill. Diamond, wounded on April 27, when unknown gunmen fired at him outside a Cairo roadhouse, was constantly under guard of state troopers at an Albany hospital. While recuperating from the wounds he was indicted on the gun carrying charges. On May 30 he was moved to Catskill and two days later arraigned.

He pleaded not guilty. Daniel H. Prior, counsel for the accused gangster, said Diamond would be taken to a higher altitude. His personal physician declared Diamond's lungs were in a weakened condition. The trial of Diamond as well as two of his henchmen, on several charges growing out of an attack upon Grover Parks," a truck driver, last April, is scheduled for June 15 at Catskill.

His bail bonds now exceed One bond -3 for Jf.0,000 covering alleged kidnaping, torture and assault upon Parks. Two Radio Sets, Life Boat and Supplies to Be Carried on Plane Bjy The Associated Press New York, June 13 Two radio sets, a lifeboat and plenty of food and water are part of an emergency kit which the Lindberghs have had installed in the plane they will fly to the Orient this summer. Colonel Lindbergh disclosed Sat- 1 urday the preparations for the safety of his wife and himself in case of a crash at sea. The boat, food and wireless outfits will be stored in a tail compartment of the machine. They will bob out automatically if the heavy plane submerges.

The lifeboat is a collapsible contraption, to be inflated from a bot tle of compressed air. It will hold them safely excepting in turbulent seas and has a mast and sail. The radio that goes with it has a day radius of 500 miles and night reach of up to 3,000. The flier and his pilot-wife have been studying the continental code and will be able to operate the radio. They also have a larger set in the plane, with a range of from 3,000 to 7,000 miles.

The emergency set is virtually unbreakable and can be immersed. It was tested by a fall from the top of a hangar and was submerged in water for 24 hours. It was used afterward when still wet and worked perfectly. Huge "Shake-Down" Racket Uncovered by Federal Agents B11 the Associated Press Springfield, 111., June Federal authorities Saturday succeeded in rounding up three persons whom they believed were parties to a gigantic southern Illinois "shake-down" racket. The name of a woman arrested was not divulged but she was held in jail here.

C. B. Carroll, Decatur, and William Jumbreak, Champaign, arrested Thursday, were held on $20,000 bonds each on charges of impersonation and conspiracy. Special agents from Washington and Chicago, were working on the case in conjunction with local authorities. The investigators refused to divulge the nature of the extortion plots alleged to have been perpetrated by the trio, but it was learned they were what is known to police as the "Mann Act shakedown." DEPUTY IS INJURED Palatka, June 13.

(P) Sheriff's Deputy Earl Sapp, of Palatka, was seriously injured near here Saturday night in an automobile accident on Memorial bridge over the St. 'Johns River. Sapp, attempting to stop his car to avoid hitting a truck, skidded on the wet pavement and struck a car driven by A. P. Oliver, also of Palatka.

A. S. Russell, riding with Sapp, was $400,000,000 Please Sir Oliver Lodge at 80 Thrills for Girls That Ohio Meteorite Railroads ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for an increase In rates of fifteen per cent, which would increase their income a year. The commission will receive the request sympathetically. Railroads are as necessary to the nation as elevators to a tall office building, or veins and arteries to the body, and if rail roads cannot continue operating without the increased income they must have it.

For permanent safety, of course, railroads must find some way to keep up to the times and meet motor bus and motor truck competition, of which they complain. They have uninterrupted rights-of-way, of value inestimable, and with the right equipment, borrowing ideas from Germany, Switzerland and other countries they could run passenger cars 150 miles an hour or faster- The cost would be one quarter of the present system, which carries passengers weighing six thousand pounds in a car weighing one hundred thousand pounds. If the railroads cannot make up their minds to do any experimenting, the government might hire some foreign engineers, and build, as an example, one sample railroad from coast to coast, operating light duraluminum cars, with airplane propellers run by Diesel engines. It is impossible to exaggerate the value of the unobstructed right3 of way owned by the railroads and they ought to utilize them. Sir Oliver Lodge, a great scientist, 80 years old Friday, says men will find "a greater spirit world," to which our senses now give us hardly any clue.

To the statement of Jeans and others that the universe is running down, must stop eventually, everything becoming dead and lifeless, Sir Oliver Lodge replies, as has been done occasionally and humbly in this column, that although the universe may be running down, "there is something constantly winding It up." Sir Oliver thinks men will eventually live to be one hundred. A moderate estimate. If the modern man, a regular microbe and disease germ walking menagerie, can last a hundred years as he often does, a scientific race of 11,000,000 years hence will certainly live three times as long. Sir Oliver Lodge will now write his memoirs, having waited eighty years "to have enough to write." He would have had enough long ago, for from his early youth, his (Continued on Page Seven) State Officials Assist In Ceremonies Opening New Span By The Associated Press Pensacola, June 13. The new two million dollar bridge spanning Pensacola Bay was dedicated here Saturday as the feature of a two day celebration marking completion of the project which started four years ago.

An auxiliary bridge spanning Santa Rosa Sound and leading to the Gulf of Mexico Beach, beach casino and roads on Santa Rosa Island, built as part of the bridge program at a cost of a million dollars, also was opened. Officials of the Northwest Florida Corporation, builders of the bridge estimated between 15,000 and 20,000 cars crossed during the day. The bridge is a connecting link of the Gulf Coast Highway skirting Gulf shores between Pensacola and Tampa. It shortens the distance from Pensacola to Panama City by ninety miles and shortens the distance to Tampa seventy-six miles. Officials of the bridge construction company and officials of financing companies were joined by city, county, state, army, navy and marine officials in dedication ceremonies.

Robert A. Gray, secretary of state, represented Governor Cail-ton. Attorney General Cary D. Landis and Comptroller Ernest Amos also were present. Admiral T.

P. Magruder, commandant of the eighth naval district represented the navy while Major General Lytle Brown, chief of army engineers, represented the army and Captain S. S. Gladden represented the marines. State and County Tax Deadline is Monday Monday is the last day on which property owners may pay their state and county taxes at the office of County Tax Collector Roy A.

O'Bannon. The extension of time for the payment of the taxes was granted by the legislature in April. While the books have been open more than two months longer than last year, little additional revenue has been received at the office. The books close Monday night and payments can not be made on them until after the first publication of the delinquent tax lists when the added cost of advertising must be paid. MURDER TRIAL DATE SET Gainesville, June 13 UP) Mrs.

Nellie Pierce, 40, will go on trial June 22 charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of her husband, James F. Pierce, who was shot during a family quarrel at their home here, May 21. Mrs. Pierce was arraigned Friday nd pleaded not guilty. IN YEAR OF POLITICAL BAM PARIES Struggle Within Ranks for Presidential Nomination Is Looming B'j The Associated Press Washington, June 13.

The trip President Hoover is about to take will usher in a year of struggle within republican and democratic ranks for the presidential nominations. Although the conventions are yet twelve months away, elements in both parties already are pointing toward the day when balloting begins. As for the republicans, administration lieutenants this week left little doubt their cry would be "Hoover again!" Just as plainly, independents of the party have begun maneuvers to prevent a re-nomination. Two of Mr. Hoover's speeches next week will be before nonpartisan gatherings.

In the other, however, he will have a receptive audience for whatever stand he wishes to take on subjects being agitated. This will be at Indianapolis Monday night before the State Republican Editorial Association. Franklin D. Roosevelt continues to be discussed more than any one man as the prospective democratic nominee. He has made no public statement of candidacy, but at the same time his admirers have encouraged wider organiation of "Roosevelt-for-president" clubs.

Neither has any public mention of 1932 come from President Hoover. This did not diminish the significance attached in Washington to the predictions of his re-nomination freshly made by some of his closest associates, coming as they did on the eve of his speech-making trip to Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. The last two of those state!" gave generous majorities to democrats in last fall's senate elections, and turned out eleven republican representatives. Whatever he says of a political nature from now on is due to be taken as indicative of the course to be followed by those working for a renomination. Chairman Fess, of the Republican National Committee, and members of the cabinet brought the drive Into the open at the meeting of young republicans just held here.

IDENT Complete Laval Cabinet Is Continued in Office By Chief hi The, Associated Press Paris, June 13. Paul Doumer was inaugurated president of France Saturday. His first official act was to continue in office the complete cabinet of Premier Pierre Laval. He did this in the face of a strong effort to force him to unload Aris-tide Briand, the foreign minister. Premier Laval and the president were warned the ministry would fall if the veteran Briand were included in the new cabinet.

Whispers that Laval would change sevarl ministers in the cabinet after Doumer asked him to remain as premier promised trouble for the new administration at the outset of its seven year term. The threat against the government is not yet over as that chronic enemy of Briand, Louis Marin informed the premier he had sufficient signatures to overthrow him when the government presents itself to the chamber of deputies on Tuesday unless Briand is dropped. The foreign minister is expected to make an important speech Sunday at Gourdon. Doumer's ceremony of inauguration, held at the Elysee Palace, was over in half an hour. Former Deputies Will Go on Trial in Killing of Mexican Students Ardmore, June 13.

OP) W. E. Guess and Cecil Crosby, former deputies sheriff, will go on trial June 24 on murder charges for the killing of Emilio Cortes Rubio, cousin of the Mexican president. The young Mexican, on his way home from a Kansas college with two companions, was shot to death here last Monday. Manuel Garcia Gomez, one of his comrades, also was killed.

The -officers said they believed they faced armed desperadoes. County Attorney Marvin Shilling has elected to try Guess and Crosby first on the Cortes Rubio killing, regarded as the state's stronger case. THREE KILLED IN CRASH Dessau, Germany, June 13 op) An instructor and two students were killed and their bodies burned beyond recognition Saturday when a plane belonging to' the Anhalt Flying School crashed in the streets here and burned. ment cry, and any charge was used (Continued on' Page Seven) New York, Detroit and Other Major Cities Will Be Drive Objects Bi the Associated Press Washington, June 13. Federal warfare upon gangsters Saturday shifted from Chicago to New York, Detroit and other major cities.

Encouraged by success in the Illinois city, officials are withdrawing agents who worked there for months gathering evidence against Al Capone and other "public enemies" for concentration elsewhere. While they declined to discuss the next move in the campaign begun more than a year ago, it was said gangsters in other sections now would have pitted against them picked government sleuths with reputations for "getting their man." New York and Detroit were named as two of the principal centers in which organized liquor traffic and other rackets have thrived under the leadership of a few vice lords and these are to be the immediate objects of the offensive. Investigations also are to be carried forward in St. Louis. Cleveland, Philadelphia and other "large cities.

The steady, quiet pressure applied in Chicago over a period of months, with the agents working from inside the gangs whenever possible, is to be the modi) of al- tack, with indictments expected I only after officials are confident they have established their cases. MIAMI POLICE PROBE iSE Volley From Passing Au tomobile is Fatal to Young Man By The Associated Press Miami, June 13. Police sought witnesses Saturday for questioning in connection with the fatal shoot ing of W. D. Kennedy, 23, and the wounding of his male companion, by unidentified assailants late Friday night.

The shooting occurred while the two men were seated in an automobile at a soft drink stand near the edge of the city. Kennedy, who escaped from the Miami city jail a month ago, was struck five times when a volley was fired into his car from a passing automobile. He died in a hospital Saturday without naming his as- sailants although he told police he knew them. "They were my friends," officers quoted him as saying, "and I will die before revealing their names." His companion who gave his name as A. Shell, Columbus, was struck In the shoulder by a bullet, police said, had passed through Kennedy's body.

Shell drove Kennedy to the Coral Gables police station and later took him to a hospital. He was ordered held for investigation. Kennedy was serving a sentence for vagrancy when he escaped from the city jail by sawing out a bar in his cell window and dropping to a street below. Police asserted his home was in Fort Lauderdale. The officers said they believed the shooting wan the outgrowth of hi-jacking activities.

Naval Depreciation Ahead of Building, Asserts Secretary Washington, June 13. (PI American naval construction since the 1922 Washington disarmament conference was said Saturday night, by Secretary Adams to have failed to keep pace with depreciation of the ships during that period. The secretary made this statement after outlining the present building activities in an address over the Washington Star radio forum. MONUMENT TO LINCOLN WILL BE DEDICATED AGAIN Springfield, 111., June 13. UP) The monument to Abraham Lincoln, dedicated almost three score years ago by President Ulysses S.

Grant, and recently rebuilt to preserve it for future generations, awaits another president and another dedication. When President Herbert Hoover comes to Springfield Wednesday he will find the emancipator's tomb and Its surroundings appearing from the outside much as it did when Grant dedicated it to "the nation's greatest hero." Plant City Merchant Killed In Auto Crash; Other Driver Accused Tampa, June 13. (4) Joe W. Weaver, 24, Plant City merchant, was killed Saturday afternoon as hia truck overturned in a ditch on the Tampa-Plant City road about 15 miles east of Tampa. His neck was broken and his skull was fractured.

Weaver died while being taken to a Tampa hospital in the automobile of L. O. Archer, 31, of Tampa, who is technically accused in connection with the accident. Johnny Weaver, 15, nephew of the man killed, who was driving the truck, escaped with slight injuries. REAL ESTATE ACTIVITY Local Firm Announces New Business Totaling More Than $40,000 Indication of summer time real estate activity was seen in the announcement of a number of recent transactions, totaling more than $40,000 by the firm of Studstill Hollenbeck, Inc.

Edward Card, New York winter resident, has just sold through this firm an attractive bungalow of hollow tile construction at 612 Park street. This house was bought last year by Mr. Card, who has been occupying this last season a home he bought on Greymon Drive. E. J.

Booth has just purchased and moved into a handsome two-story house on the ridge in Flamingo Park, purchased from the Florida Bank Trust Company, receivers for the First American Bank Trust Company, and occupied for some time by Homer T. Amis. Dr. John F. Binkley has purchased a beautiful home on Potter Road with four bedrooms and two baths, fronting 75 feet bn Potter Road.

It was formerly the home of Edwin Baker and was purchased from the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Company, Another outstanding residence sale reported was that of a two- story house at 720 Flamingo Drive, sold for the Liberty Finance Company to John W. Cummings. This is also located on the ridge and has three bedrooms and two baths, Mr. Cummings is now occupying the house. As representative of the Model Land Company and exclusive agent for their holdings in Palm Beach and Martin Counties, totaling 52,000 acres, the firm recently sold a five acre tract on Military Trail west of Lake Worth to Emma B.

Ball, in addition to another tract recently sold to G. M. Ruch. Among leases recently handled was that of the old Lytal-Pratt building on Poinsettia avenue between First and Clematis streets, for a five year period to Gentry Brothers for Mrs. Evalene H.

Breen. The property has been recently remodeled into an up-to-date paint and hardware store, part of the Gentry Brothers chain with branches in Lake Worth, Fort Lauderdale and Miami. A number of other projects are being handled now by Studstill Hollenbeck, some of which are awaiting definite settlement of the city bond situation. Third Body is Found After Yacht Accident New York, June A body believed to be that of Robert Men-denhall, a member of the party of seven which disappeared with the sloop Sea Fox in Long Island Sound May 23, was recovered Saturday. Identification was established by a card on the body, which was found in Long Island Sound.

The body is the third to be found. The others were those of Mrs, Ethelwyn Marcia Snedden, whose husband, Donald, was the owner and skipper of the craft, and Doris Dewey. Others known to be missing, besides Snedden, are Mrs. Menden-hall, Mark Coyne and Robert Johnston, night club entertainer. Local Resident Will Get Harvard Honors Special to The Post Cambridge, June 13.

With its traditional impressive program Harvard University will celebrate its 295th annual commencement Thursday June 18. John Bernard Beach, West Palm Beach, will be amotng the candidates who will be honored at the exercises. He will be awarded bachelor of laws with honors in recognition of his excellence in professional work. He received bachelor of arts at Yale University in 1928. Mr- Beach is one of the most prominent men In the graduating class, many of the bonds should be con-'two "drives" upon mines still oper-testcd in court, owing to the fact ating.

despite a proclamation issued that many were floated without a by county authorities calling upon necessary referendum vote or with-1 good citizens to aid in putting down out the validity of the circuit court, "grave disorders and lawlessness." Judge Thompson has frankly op-1 Leaders of the Nationul Miners posed the city's intention of with-1 Union, who are directing the strike drawing the charter amendment, said they would continue the drive which would allow taxes to be seg-' against the New Lafferty mine of regated for operation and bond 'the M. A. Hanna Coal Company and payments. This withdrawal was one i start a new one against the No, 6 of the terms of the agreement with mine of the Rail and River Coal the general bondholders. Judge Thompson's decision is in al'e employed.

line with the harmony now existing The men are striking for an eight between the city commission and nmlr diy and reemployment of men the general bondholders, which isitnev said were discharged because considered to be one of the must important, points in the ultimate settlement of the city bond problems. On Saturday he said that although he still thought the withdrawal ai mistake, if it were the best judgment of the city officials to do so, he would no longer make any ob-1 jection. In his letter to City Manager An-' dersen regarding the appointment made June 3, Judge Thompson said: "Under present conditions I do not care to accept the appointment. Kindly let me express to you and the commission my appreciation for this expression of confidence and let me assure you and them that I will in the future as a citizen be glad to assist where I can be of service. C.

D. Blnckwell has already accepted the appointment made at the same time as the one of Judge Thompson. Drought Still Felt In Northwest Areas Washington, June 13 (Pi-Drought, which seared, a large part of the country last year, still holds sway over much of the Northwest. Appeals for government financial aid continue to be made in behalf of stricken farmers facing the loss of another crop. Senator Walsh, democrat, Montana, asked Secretary Hyde Saturday to extend drought loans to Valley County, Montana, where a fifty per cent crop failure was held to be in prospect.

THREE DIE IN CAB CRASH Moline, June 13. (P) Three persons were killed and nine injured in a collision of a motorbus and an automobile here Saturday. The dead were John G. Gaikema, his wife, and A. E.

Kolkema, 62, all of Grand Rapids. Mrs. Mina Por-tenga, 24, daughter of the Gaike-mas, and fourth occupant of the automobile, was injured critically. Eight persons in the bus were cut and bruised, 4 72 74 75 00 UK (it 54 .11 US (i 7(1 Sli (iri S4 71 None 30:11 New York Pittsburgh San Krancisei St. I.ouis Toledo WKST lilCAtTI Ilarnmeter I midnight i TIDKS TODAY HiKh, (1:07 a.

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