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If It for Florida We Prn iUt.ffle News While It 1 8 News. andFloridlansJVe Are for It. PRICE FIVE CENTS TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA, SATURDAY, MAY 7, Sflf" 3 t. ARK Ira A JrC IRIO) RAI1JROADS VOLUME 1. NUMBER 66.

jVet0 a Orleans Broadcasts Denial or lUamgem dp i. MltLl i Mae West Quits Workhouse HOUSE VOTES UN HECKSCHER IS ABOARD LINER FOR GERMANY Tallahassean Gets Radio Report From Delta's Metropolis TO REM AUiORtp FLORIDA'S WIBSI01RS ANIMOUSLY 41 Carriers Abandoning Hope to Enact Pet Bill. LOBBY TAKES HALF A Present Body Could Not Be "Handled" Is Evident. ijff I) a'C f. 'j Without a dissenting vote the House el BepreseaUUves ester-day morning pawed the Davie -bill proTidinr speclfl? penalties for violatiens of the orders of the'-State Railroad ConuniMknL.

8fc ty member of the House voted for'1 the WD, with none, against The measure eame up fat JU regular -course daring the Merging eonsld- i. of measures en third read tag. law Not Changed as Mae West, jailed for ten days as the star in "Sex," the New York. play adjudged offensive to public moraJs, was given an enthusiastic farewell by matrons an, other attendants ol the wckhouse" "the expiration of her term. They pronounced her Uk; iuost $9pular inmate theyhad entertained in many a moon.

tt the measure did tat, change the law -with reference to the rooting of freight and passengers by the "shortest and most direct route," not change tia present provisions of law prohibiting the carriers for chargtrj for transportation overv longer All reference to that of the old Jaw waa 1927. i CITY LIMITS IS FAVORED Mass Meeting Votes Fifty-five To Fourteen. The mass meeting of Tallahassee last night voted fifty-five to fourteen In favor of the proposcal a extend the limits of the city. The vote was taken after the had been discussed by a lumber of civic leaders. The pro-Msed bill, drafted by Fred H.

Davis, speaker of the house, contemplates ihe extenlion or the limits on the north three-fourths of a mile, with exception of the northwes section and one quarter of a mile in the hree other directions. Explains Bill Mr. Davis explained the bill and inswered a number of questions relative to its various features. The jill, as drafted, does not meet with the approval of Senator W. C.

Hod- jes, who suggested that a committeel ae named to meet witn xne ieon county delegation to consider certain amendments which, he desires to propose. Guyte McCord, C. L. Wal-ki o4.CuiiyifiurVexpr. Banner- man were appointed to serve on this committee.

Of course, if Mr. Hodges is not satisfied with the measure it has no chance to get through the Senate. Committee Named The meeting, which was held inj the county court house, was the result of action of the Tallahassee Chamber of Commerce, which some time ago named Payne Midyette, Keith Walker, Mr. Wheler, Fred H. Davis and J.

B. Game, a committee in the legislature. Speakers last night stressed the importance of city limits extension. Among these being Mayor B. A.

Me-ginnis. who outlined the needs of the municipality of it is to continue its development. There is a referendum caluse attached to the proposed -bill- 63 BODIES REMAINING HOMEY Death Toll Of Blast Has Mounted To Ninety-five. FAIRMONT, W. May 6 (AP) Science and the indomitable will of man conquered the Everetts-ville mine today.

Although the blast-torn tlliery still held the bodies of 63 entombed men tonight, its last defenses had been crashed down by the relentless push of two hundred rescue workers. Fierce Fighting. Six days of fierce fighting against fire and deadly gases, carrying the constant Kireat of a second explosion, found 1 reward in the announcement of Chief Robert Lambie of the State Mining Department, that the fire definitely was under control and that the percentages of explosive gases around the fire zone had decreased considerably. Meanwhile, the death toll in the disaster of last Saturday mounted to 95 men when Joe Abish died today of Injuries suffered when the explosion wrecked the tipple. Boothe's Courage Remaining Firm ROANOKE, May 8.

(AP) Although hia physicians predicted that death might come at any time, Walter Boothe, fanner youth, in the grip of almost total paralysis, maintained a feeble hold on life tonight after more than two weeks forced breathing. KTENSION OF stricken tmt of the LSI on motkm the chairman the committee on the HouvA Meand leading. Favorable action by the commit-' teemen having already been taken on the Crews bill, which ties the hands of the Railroid Commission in the matter of "unnecessarily longer routes" that do not exceed thirty miles, it was expected that all 1 reference to such should be stricken from the Davis bill unless an ef fort was to be made to inject ma -Crews bill into the measure as an amendment. This, however, was not Sophie Irene Loeb Scheduled to speak at the Capitol, tonight, on the subject ofVyelfere wort. PIKCHASEOf COIOR ROAD Substitute Bill I To Be Presented To Committee.

A- substitute bill, differingOHv siderably from the original, will be before the House committee on roads and highways at a hearing Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, it is said, proposing to purchase what is wnown as "Connor's Highway." Instead of provision for immediate condemnation proceedings in the event an agreement cannot be reached as to the price of the road, the proposed bill is said to provide only for an attempt to purchase. Under the new measure, it is said, three engineers will be appointed to survey the road and make an estimate as to its cost at the present time. One of the engineers is to be appointed by the Governor, one by the State Road Department, and one by the owners of Connor's Highway. When the estimate has been made a commission, to be named by the Governor, will go over the situation and determine what it is believed the road is worth. The commission would be authorized to negotiate for the purchase of the road and, with the consent of the Governor, to close such negotiations.

Provision for payment of the sum of $100,000 by Jan. 1, next, and ad diuonal payments scattered over a number of is made in the pro posed new bill. Proponents of the measure hope to secure a favorable report from the committee on the new measure, as they say features objected to it in the former bill have been strict en out. "We want Connor's Highway op ened as a free road." said Represen tative Tom Conely of Okeechobee county. "It is the only outlet of the people of Canal Point, and of other places all along the eastern shore of Lake Okeechobee." TVS INJURY DISASTROUS.

BUFFALO, N. May 6. (AP) A week or ten days on the bench probably will be the result of Ty CobVs Injury in the exhibition game with the Buffalo Internationals her today. This was the opinion expressed tonight by Manager Connie Mack before leaving for Cleveland, where the team plays tomorrow. Tf 1 BEFORE HOUSE NEXT GOVERNOR IS INVARIABLY NAMED AT WAKULLA PICNIC The Capital City last night was occupied with the discussion of Florida's next Governor.

Before Sunday, the name of the next I chief executive will be known, they maintained. Conclusions were based on the fact that the biennial picnic tendered by the people of Wakulla county. Immediately south of here, to members of the Legtsla-! ture, was scheduled for today, It Is a local tradition that the first requisite of the next Governor is in attendance at thi festival. Tradition Is born out by the fact that, 'or years past, the occasion has been used for candidates for political honors to make their announcement. Incidentally, the next Governor has always been among those announcing, It Is pointed ci.t.

OF BUILDING Seven Bodies Found Amid Ruins Of Structure. NEW YORK, May 6 (AP) After finding seven bodies among concrete" Moclts of two-story concrete building which with a mysterious explosion collapsed this afternoon, fatigued and drenched workers tonight decided nothing more could be done until daylight. Severely handicapped by water which filled the cellar from a broken water main and which could not be entirely pumped out by fire engines, workers struggled with the wreckage until olng after mark, aided by pow-eiful searchlights mounted on an adjacent roof. When the search was given up for the night, all of the sixty occupants of the building had been accounted for but there remained the possibility that passers-by may have been mutilated or drowned when the walls crumbled and were partly submerged. The Dead The dead: Florence Cavenaugh, 19, steno grapher.

Elizabeth Lovinger, 20, steno grapher. William E. Kelleher. 32. attorney.

Charles J. Quinlay. 55, head of claim department. Charles Malasky, 21, clerk, legal department. Frank Zurmuhlen, 26, attorney.

Robert O'Rourke, 25, filing clerk. All were employed of the Yellow Taxicab company, whose offices were housed in the East 23rd street building. Of the 40 injured, none of the 11 who remained at the Bellevue hospital tonight was considered in a critical Women Faint When the bodies of the two stenographers, the last found, were removed with great difficulty, police were taxed to the utmost to restrain the thousands of specators who had gathered from the tenements of the east side land blackened streets. PENSION INCREASE. Pensions of Confederate veterans and widows will be increased to $45 per month if Senator Gary's bill, introduced yesterday, becomes a law.

Veterans now get $40. from the htate, the persons been lncrtasccr $25 by the 1925 Legislature. MANY KILLED IN EXPLOSION Has Nothing To Say Regarding Frieda Hempel Suit. CHERBOURG, France, May 6 -( API Suddenly changing hia announced plans. August Hecuscher.

American philanthropist, embarked tonight on the liner Deutschland for Bremen, Germany. When informed earlier that Mme. Frieda Hempel had sued him in New-York for alleged breach of contract to pay her $48,000 a year for life, he was listed as a passenger for New York tonight on the Columbus. His name still remained on the Cclum-mus' passenger list this evening. Mr.

Hecksher emphatically informed interviewers that he had "nothing whatever to say" about the suit. Sl.000,000 SUIT. NEW YORK, May 6. (AP Mme. FrteCa Hemple's agreement with August Hecksher, philanthropist, required her to abandon entirety appearances ap "a public concert singer for Irving Lemst, her a torney, declared tonight.

He characterized the alleged agreement-y-under which Mme, has brought suit for approximately 000,000 as -philanthropic on both sides" and asserted that Mr. Heck-scher knew of the Impending suit for more than a month prior to his recent departure for Europe. The attorney was asked if the contract were written or verbal. He declined to answer. Later during the interview he was asked "if the contract were signed In April With an answer on his lips, the attorney stopped, smiled, then said that the contract was entered into at that time.

Mme. Hempel Present. Mme, Hempel who was present, was gracious and entirely at ease during the questioning which lasteo more than an hour, but referred all questions to her attorney. The contract had nothing to do with an engagement or marriage proposal Mr. Ernst stated and "was philanthropic on bath sides." He asserted it would be contrary to the best interest of his client to make public the details which Mr.

Heck- scher's attorneys are seeking to have i added to the complaint. By giving up concerts singer i forfeited earnings of $200,000 a year. Mr. Ernst continued. Her reputa tion as a singer and a money earner is so well established that the'lsug- gestion that Mme.

Hempel seeks Mr. Hecksher's money is an insult, he I declared. Wants What Is Due. "She has lived up to her part ol the agreement while Mr. Hecksher 1 has not.

She seeks onl what is due her." counsel said. Attorneys for Mr. Hecksher offered to settle Mme. Hempel's claim for less than (48,000 a year, but payable yearly, Mr. Ernst told reporters, but the offer was declined since Mme.

Hempel felt that "the consideration" in the contract was sufficient and that a compromise be lowering the value of her services. Stalnaker Dance Bill Is Deferred Stalnaker's bill prohibiting danc-inc on Sunday, when reached on the Calendar yesterday, was deferred over the protest of the author to the next legislative day Monday on motion of Fred M. Valz of Duval, who said he had an amendment to offer. The measure was reached yesterday afternoon' the consideration of bills on Second reading. Mr.

Stalnaker said the measure has been pending" on the calendar long enough that anyone might have been prepared with proposed amendments. But the House voted for the Too Busy Attending To Business, Is Allegation. ENGINEERS CONFIDENT Emergency Funds for Sufferers Found Satisfactory. Reports of General Jadwln, In charge of army engineer' operations in and about New Orleans are to the effect that the Crescent City la in no dancer from floods, according to radio messages received In Tallahassee last night. Tbalnessage, reported by J.

L. Elliot, watchman at the FlorMa State Collect for Women, stated that residents of New Orleans were "too busy attending to thalr own usual occupation to know whether the fleet waters were two feet or twenty-two feet below the top of protecting levees." CITY NOT FLOODED. It was also stated, via radio, that reports emanating from some press agencies and other sources of alleged Information, that the city was flooded and was in serious dangei were untrue, according to the information received from the best the United States army engineers. Mr. Elliot stated that the broadcast reports gave highly encouraging figures of the Red Cross emergency receipts on hand In New Orleans to aid stricken thousands throughout the flood-swept area.

WATCHFUL WATTING. NK WORLEAN8, May 6 (API-While a thrilling drama of life saving was unfolded across inundated Northeastern Louisiana today, engineers directing the forces combatting the Mississippi flood adopted a policy of watchful watting alongside fronts where danger Is likely to de-velop as the crest moves on to thf Gulf. Serious situations were reported in some of the flooded section of the huge funnel between the Mississippi and the Ouachita rivers, but the relief machine was straining every nerve to prevent any serious loss of life. Reports received here from many sections of the flood area were that hundreds of persons In remote places were trapped In their homes. The task of searching them out and taking them to safety was the ope upon which the rescue squadron concentrated.

Several thousands are reported on Macon Ridge, which probably will soon be swallowed up by the rushing flood waters, but offiicals expressed confidence that all of them could be removed before their refuge would be inundated. Towns Threatened. With nearly a score of towns already flooded, others were threatened with serious damage. South of Alexandria, where a threatening situation is being developed by the rising tide In the Red river, more than one hundred Idle men literally have been conscripted by the courts for levee work and plantation owners have been sending large forces from their fields to the danger points. Backwaters from the La Fourche lowlands still were battering the levee at Monroe, a wrwa.01 su.vuu people, and had entered the low sections, which were being evacuated.

The water was not expected to oat miinh-hlohvr and It WHS aXTMCted (Continued on page Eight.) u'- WEATHER FLORIDA: Fair Saturday, and Sunday. llghUvariabla Extreme Northwest Florida: Gen-wrtUJr fair Saturday and CARTER WANTS SALARY JUMP Bill Increases Pay of Hotel Commissioner -To $6,000.00. Jeny Carter's hotel bill, fixing license fees for hotels, rooming and apartment houses and increasing the hotel commissioner's salary' to $6,000 per annuam was introduced in the senate yesterday by Mr. Stewart, of Fernandina. It was referred to judiciary A committee.

It prescribes the following schedule of licenses for hotels and cafes: Five and less than twenty rooms $4. Twenty and less than 30 $6 Thirty and less than fifty $7.50. Forty and less than fifty $10. Fifty and less than sixty $12.50. Sixty and less than seventy-five $15.00.

Seventy-five and less than 100 $20.00. One hundred and less than 150 $25.00. One hundred fifty and less than 200 $30.00. Two hundred fifty and less than $300 $35.00. Three hundred or more $50.00.

Restaurants having accommodations for less than fifty persons fifty or more $7.50. Commission "May Vv It is stated that the railroad Job? by has taken a new tack in the mat ter of th''lnn and short hadl" nro prosed legislation, Instead of few sisting upon the phraseology of the present Crews bill, that the camera shall ho TwmltijMt" tt rharoo Inr freight and passengers those rates which had been legally "applicable over the longer route." the lobby now is said to be willing to change shall" to "may." it is pointed out that the irony of the situation is that the Da vis. CAK SCHOOL BILL PASSES Parents May Select Certain Districts. Senator Caro's bill. No.

15, allow ing parents to send their children. to school in any county district where they are property owners successfully ran the Senate gauntlet yesterday. Senator Hinely opposed the measure, stating in the event of its passage the city schools would be overcrowded, as the tendency would be to seek the best institutions. Mr. Caro made an extended argument for his "pet" measure, the roll call showing a land slide for the proposal.

The Senate also passed the House bill appropriating $125,000 for expenses of the Legislature. The only other general measure passed by the Senate yesterday was the bill appropriating funds for the maintenance of Dade Memorial Park. CAT IS MUSICAL. HOT SPRINGS. S.

D. Bill, a big black cat owned by A. T. Johnson, arouses his owner's family by pounding piano keys until some one appears. Was Discourteous.

the committee occasioned the post-' ponemerrt as the legislative adjaurn-. rr.ent gave the solons their last op-: portunity to return home before the I session closes. Three members of i the committee had already left Tal-; lahassee. Mr. Watson said, and an-j other was preparing to make his exit.

At the moment the postponement was announced, the halls were bdng filled with those interested in the hearing and no small amount of displeasure was forthcoming from the, hundreds of delegates who have come "550 miles away from home at our, own expense" to attend this (Continued on Page ElhtV bill, as first introduced, practically contained the same provisions, fear- ing the matter of reduction of rates to reflect shortened mileage in all cases of "cutoffs" to the discretion -of the Railroad Commission. It is being charged that the railroad lobby feared it could not "handle" the Railroad Commission, -having already seen an order issued -to the Florida East Coast Railway. demanding a revision of tariffs to reflect the shortened mileage by reason of the Moultrie And it is said it was feared that a liberalization of the law leaving the mat- -ter in the discretion ol the Commission would not accomplish any pres ent definite purpose. Later Possibilities Now. it is said, in the hope that at some time in the future some Rail-( Continued on Page Eight.) S0LONS DUCK OUT, LEAVING MIAMI PRO AND ANTI-RACING REPRESENTATIVES AT POST Delegation Peeved When Scheduled Second Lap of Hearing Is Postponed; Hundreds Here on Own Expense Claim Committee Left waiting at the post, the Miami contingent of approximately three hundred advocates for and gainst the opporsed "racing bill" were heartily piqued at the sudden announcement of Senator John W.

Watson, chairman of the Senate Committee on Miscellaneous Legislation, that the second heat of the hearing would be postponed until some day next waak. The announcement was made. It was stated, just a few minutes before the barrier was supposed to have been broken at 7:30 p. m. Quorum Absent It was stated by Senator Watson that an absence of a quorum of SUMMARY.

Mass Meeting Favors City Extension. Railroad Lobby is Balked. New Orleans Broadcasts Denial ef Purchase ef Conner Highway Before House. souse. Dock Out Leaving Delega- Solans tion at reab- Hadson Maxim Jt Claimed by Desahj.

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