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'SB' ., -, r That Men, Women and tfcrrn: Tor a Bigger ,j, rnnacola; Unadulterated .' '. c. Sryi; A Square Deal for . r.,-. Discussion of th Prob--Vf' Dl' Without Partiality Full - leaaed wire reports of Associated , Press, Newspaper. En terprlso Association ' and ' other unrivaled features.' .VII PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 23, 1922. PpiCE FIVE CENTS' ' - .. : ' r.. V. WFST PT.A'DT,'n'5! "liniTti n nwr. - - , nn nn r p r- n r m o)uj i THOMAS WHITE 1 IS DEAD FROM PISTOL WOUND r. i Condition Wit mbers of Fam- During Lucid Intervals. A'idte, who shot himself J: lit his home on West Saturday afternoon.! isflooia uopitai at 1:30 !ivis. approximately 24 ii-p'.oraWe occurrence of! .'..re ! 1 -i The Journal of Sunday.! "-f hope wn entertained, j i's physicians or his family, I n;r.'. recovery, so 'Vital' " -eai-hed by the 32-caIlbre! ' n which h fired into hi! 1. :: 1?" regarded hy the sur- j i :eri.1snoe a really remark-j shon'd t;ave lived as lona .r.eonscious from th moment . d '."covered in his bathroom. .ind t.irough his body which V.s death, until early Sunday v;-.r. : Vxr'.il Interval of short :n. During thin Interval he V' critical condition with '. M family and a priest of hi? "h. but It 1 ur.dorHtood that f. divulge any Information n leath wound was inflicted. he conscious interval was of! i-irntlon for the tetim of the) to receive the sacrament of; J: "fth'.te is immediately survived by i t ;f, irho, before her marriage, was " h McKinnon. an adopted in- n-i?hter but a few months of ag" i-i" .-. brothers, his business partner induct of the interest of The M'Mte Store, James A. White, and . J. r.d Edward T. White, of AS hlte i-r' Yir.'te. Ho was SI years of ago and a' r-i married approximately six Ow'iif o the fact, that out-of-town rei - ;.(. not been heard from, the '.o';r "f .V beeqnies has rrofcbeen. ds- Barthou Plan Flayed By German Press Asoc!3rfd rres?) ft-RITN-. O-t 22. The filar, submitted Sv Loul PaT'no'j, as a solution for Oer jimy's flnanrlaJ -llfficutles and fsr plac r;jr :e co'intrr in a position to meet her r.-ptratlor.s payments. J sharply attack 1 vr netlorn of the press, which de , ;t 'o be overt assault on the I'ere rrty of the German republic. ' nemocrsfy, self-determination, the ri-llsmentary system and all state aov- rolarr.ty -n-ould vanish If the French plan 's puf into execution." says the Voche 'rung "X new reparations crlfls Is at .r.1." says the Kreae ZolfUngr, which b.Vi- t TYench grovernment In tha :,:Bnt move Is deViberately plannlns -vr. i ! b!a5 nail," of Germany. 8IQ FIRE IN MEMPHI6 MTMPHT?, Tenn.. Oct. 22. Fire, be '.ve4 to hava orlguiated from a spark Vrm paA!r" looomotlve, late today de jt. d a warehouse of tho Plough Chem . r-mrnny in theouttklrts of the city. Of ds s of the company estimate the loss TICKLESS CLOCK IS LATEST BOON GIVEN HUMANITY German Scientist Ex hibits Invention of Noiseless Time piece. Associated Fress (Vt. 22. The ticklees clock W5' ix '"':?' -t-'t-i. boons promised humanty discovery of a Oerman i.. has been delving in the filiation. A selected audience rrit officials, scientists and :ion today witnessed a dem 't inventions of this nature t.v an engineer. Welnrich head of th laboratorlum i;v;t g ( iiKStocUnlk of Berlin. lime piece, which operates -r. was on of a number of S.iiiferstein used to show the .nportance oscillating pow .i sptred enainea and in the C ships, atrplt' anJ lld" man-Amarlcan corporation .-.Jed in Berlin for world ;i',M.,n of these dincoverles. of Illinois, an American .'., u sitl.l to b actively n lir i!i'er;iions ..r.otistmttuii was featured f ;m (.s.-iUatlntc motor, which u tli.:; first, synohonizint? produclnjc vibrations of . ,ip ,.r disc synchronously n-'i.is of xhf motor". 1 he fivi thai the inventions ' si ins in power. hit upon hi nw lda . Iv.nt the manner in which i ' nil-rents i" irr- i.-, t'. p.irh other. o)Y JULil Lil fc - Lad Stolen, Tortured by Gypsies J5- 4 4 's s v Livid scars covering the body of Russell Smith (bove), TMghton, (Mass.) lad of nine, tell the story of four years' torture at the hands of gypsy captors. Mrs. -Clarence Smith (Inset), ' bis mother, has just reccvore'd him after '-'the S gypsy band abandoned him in MaTne. v ' i , - ', MISS IDONALD NAMED HEADOF c. i mm Convention Chooses De Funiak Springs as Place of Next Meeting. Electing Miss Lillie Mae McDonald of BeFunlak Springs as its next president and selecting DeFunlak Springs as Its next meeting place. the Pensacola Christian Endeavor, District Convention came t a successful close last night at 9 o'clock. The meeting opened last night with a scrip service and was immediately fol lowed by devotional exercises conducted by C. W. Anderson. A report from the resolution com-' mlttee was read and adopted. Two in vitations were reported by the time and place committee, one from DeFunlak Springs and the other from Dorcas. A vote was taken and the convention de cided in favor of DeFunlak Springs as its next meeting place, date of meeting to Tie announced later. Miss Kathleen Monroe of , Pensacola Srh. Quiet : Hour." Mlis Monroe' Vid that Bible reading and prayer were the iip-est things in any Christian's life. The speaker urgea au Mueavwcu Join the Quiet Hour and to spend at least fifteen minutes e'ery day in praver and meditation on God's word. New Officers Installed. Thfl next tntng on me yl(JS.... the installation of officers Mattiidivs In the Field Sec installation service reminded the newly elected of ..,. t the a-reat work and respons ibility that was theirs and isked them following 'Trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ we promise to sere Him to the best of our ability in con secrated Christian service lor P; cola District during the coming J car. The officers elected were: President: Miss LiHle Mae McDonald. TeiSfr Mrs- J. M. TMllon. ecrXy: . H. Register, Chlpley. Treasurer: H. A. Love. Quinc Junior Superintendent: Miss Wilbel- mlna Whltted, Chlpley. Quiet Hour Superintendent: Kathleen Monroe. Pensacola. Tenth Legion Superintendent: Miss Luther McKinnon, DeFunialc. Mr. Matthews rendered a beautiriu j:lo using th'at familiar hymn. "Crown Him." which was enjoyed and appre ciated by all. Delivers Closing Address. , The closing address was given by the field secretary. Mr. Matthews spoke on the f'iur fundamental principles of christian Kndavor. which are: Confes (Contimied on page two.) t1l , r tteMHHl J TO BEGIN FIGHT ONTAX-EXEMPT BOND ISSUES Proposed Legislation To Have Full Support of the Adminis tration. (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON', Oct. 22. Adoption of the pending resolution proposing a con stitutional amendment putting an end to the Issuing, of tax-exempt securities will be urged upon congress at its short session, it was stated today by high of ficials . of the administration. They de clared the question of tax-free bonds was not only the most important thing of, the nation's problems, but of some of the industrials as we'll. It was indicated that the proposed leg islation would have the full support of the administration. President Harding was. expected to renew in his annual! Tampico, Tuxpam and other parts in messase . to . congress in December his locate that the storm which has swept change in? the , organic law. Secretary Mellon and, .... .,. i ed' to reiterate their surport of the res- ,t(A With capital in quantities seeking vestment in tax-free securities fiscal of ficers said the situation had reached the point where a remedy not only was de sirable, . but necessary. Aside . from the direct loss in taxation to both the federal and the state government it was stated that normal development of industry was retareded through inability to attract wealth at anything like reasonable inter est charges. , Another elementofthe situation was in ducement held out to municipalities and other subdivisions of states to issue se curities beyond their normal needs, thus piling up the already huge . public indebt edness. I twas decided that' already in some cases credit waa . being strained and unnecessary burdens placed xipon the' tax payers. I Treasury officers have estimated that for the past several years state and ; municipal bonds to the amount of a bil-1 lion dollars annually have been issued! with the total tax-exempt bonds now out standing around twelve billion dollar. Other estimates place the total as high as fifteen billions. TURKS CLAIM .MESOPOTAMIA LONDON. Oct. 22.- T- oTinectlr, with the financial and o the coming peace cor ed the Truks intend pyotamia. It is ass Turks are seeking loan and political i for oil concessions interests. seiiss vis at . ?(i5 it is report ay ciaim t-? Mes--t.id also that the o'rta'T a lfr-jnch piv.rt in fschinge : ' i b: C; itish ULiJ FREAR ATTACKS MELLON ANEW ON TAX RULING Wisconsin Republican! , Says Treasury Secre : tary Overthrows Action Congress (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON. Oct. 22. Secretary Mellon was charged today by Represen tative Frear, Republican. Wisconsin, with overthrowing the action of con gress by his ruling that Section 220 of the revenue law designed to reach large surpluses accumulated by corporations to prevent the payment of individual surtaxes was not applicable In the case of projected 400 per cent stock dividend of the Standard Oil company of New Jersey. The charge was made in a letter to Mr. Mellon made public by the Wiscon sin representative. The communication was in response to one written by Mr. Frear early in the week calling atten tion to the reported stock dividend and urging t"hat the penalty provision be in voked. Mr. Mellon wrote that Section 220 had no relation to such stock divi dends as that proposed by the New Jer sey oil company but added that thera had been and would be no laxity on the part of the treasury in 'evoking that sec tion "wherever ' there is any basis for so doing." Statute Ignored. "Your letter," replied Mr. Frear un der date of today, "ignores and misap prehends the plain reading and purport of the statute and your ruling assumes the prerogatives of the supreme court when it sets aside this law. "I trust that you are not under a mis apprehension as to the question square ly presented to you because the press has been filled with announcements that the purpose of the stock dividends to be 'issued by the Standard Oil company, and the proposed stock dividend of $500 000,000 in United States Steel, in which you are supposed to be interested, is .for the purpose of avoiding the surtaxes wlitelr wotiJd j!pty. " 5f - theao onwntous amounts, aggregating- over $1000.000, 000, were distributed as cash dividends. Involved Personally. "Naturally as a man of great wealth, interested in sixty or more corporations affected by the ruling on stock divi dends and taxation, you will find your personal interest involved in any de cision, but I assume in your position as a public officer you will be governed by the law and the interests of the public rather than by any personal considera tion. "In your letter to me you. say the cor poration has paid its full tax. This re fers, I take it, to section 230. but the penalty of 23 per cent is imposed by congress in order to reach the unwar ranted surpluses that are held by cor porations and not distributed as cash dividends in order to evade the tax pay ment under the individual surtax law. That is the distinction so clearly made by congress that it cannot fairly be mis understood. It is another way of reach ing the tax on undistributed profits which is undoubtedly permitted under the law and the decision of the supreme court in the stock dividend case. "Your efforts to protect the govern ment treasury in the past have not been directed toward collecting . large and powerful corporations, and in the present emergency overruling the express will, result in a loss to vour action in act of congress the treasury of on Amount reaching several hundred million dollars annually. "I trust that you will reconsider your ruling." Shipping Damaged By Storm in Gulf (Bv Associated Press) MEXICO CITY. Oct. 22. Reports re ceived here from Vera Cruz, Frogresso. the Gulf or wexi-o m Ing the past few Clays nas aone con- cioM. lmaee to snipping. .-e ei ui small vessels were sunk. A rrA ward liners Esperanra and Morro in-'Castle are still ou 'aM r still outsiae era uruz uname ito enter the harbor after having fought.j the waves for two oays. MUST RETURN TO GREECE BERLIN. Oct. 22. The' Greek consu late has instructed all Greeks In Ger Vw.inr.einc to the military classes from 1917 to I?22. who hitherto have been exempt from military sen-Ice. to report within six days in order that they may , Greece. Men of . the 1923 class similar instructions. have received THE WEATHER Florida: Generally fair Monday and Tuesday: little change In tempc-rature. Extreme Northwest Florida: Fair Monday; Tuesday showers and cooler. Winds: iTntterus to Key West: Fresh northeast and weather part lv overcast Monday. East Gulf: Moderate to iresn east and weather generally fair Monday. West " Gulf: Fresh northeast and weather partly overcast: probably local rains Monday. Over Caribbean Sea and VMnd "Wsrd Passage: Moderate to fresh east and southeast and weather partly overcast Monday. Most and of Victims Children Officials Think Blaze Due to Work of Pyromaniac Flames Shoot Through Building So Quickly That Number of Dead Are Found in Bed, Suffocated Without Chance to Escape. (By The Associated Press) NEW YORK, Oct. 22 Fourteen persons, most of them chil dren, lost their lives early today jijiuiuttuiiit. a lie uoiues SWepi Wlin muraer- ous suddenness from cellar to attic of a five-story brick tenement at Lexington avenue and 110th street in the thickly populated East Side. The blaze apparently started in a baby carriage under the stairs in the lower hall under almost identical circumstances as the recent incendiary fire in an upper West Side apartment house wnicn resulted in seven deaths. So quickly did the flames shoot through the bUlldinc that a number of thA AtA -afo tmA ;- . . bed, burned or suffocated without the slightest opportunity toj escape. Nathan Silver and four of his chil dren were among the victims. Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Natilsky and Sid ney and Catherine Sugarman, bro ther and sister of Mrs. Matilsky, also perished. Shortly after 1 o'clock this morn, ing City Marshal Joseph LazarusV while on hia way homo, saw smoke Issuing from the hallway of the building. He ran to the next corner and turner In an alarm. When he returned the whole building, the ground floor of which is occupied by stores, was a mass of flames and exit by the stairways was cutt off. Most of the persons on the second floor succeeded in making their way down the fire escapes, but those on the upper floors had to battle through smoke and flames pouring out of the windows. Several tenants marooned on upper story windows threatened to jump but were prevailed upon by firemen to remain until ladders could be raised. One aged woman, Hra. Mary I nglassfi, who disregarded the warn , Ing and leaped from the .fourth floor received injuries which "caused ' tier death. . . COMMANDER OF ARCADIA AIR FIELDS HELD False Payroll Claims Against Government Charged to Capt. Maynard. (By Associated Press) TAMPA, Oct. 22. Captain William R. Maynard, commanding officer at the gov ernment's Carlstrom and Dorr aviation fields at Arcadia, was arretted at Ar cadia late Saturday on a federal warrant charging he made and presented false; pavroll claims against the government. He was brought to Tampa by Deputy United States Marshal I. O. Price and was released from custody under a $5,000 surety bond about 2 oVlock Sunday morning. He will be given a preliminary hearing before United States Commissioner J. W. Cone, probably this week. Department of justice agents who have'-- a!T ot such as to call for as- be-n conducting a ,t invest of rt lJ &nd dlfltrMM(1 persons the conduct of business at the two aia- . , . t.v,nr. ,. t m .'were belnir cared for bv neignoors on tion fields more than a month pref erred : " vrJ , . "s the charges against Maynard. One agent ni Jj1 la,"'1- w,.. .-.,- said that the charge is based on but one, Mr. Moore flamed Wtfrl; transaction. which involves no great' what hc dred inadequa.e , mm drainage facilities in the section around amount of mone. . . , Major Rov Brown of Mont somen- has hs Property Mr. Moore a '"" succeeded Capt. Maynard In command. T than much of the other land of Carlstrom and Dorr fields. He flewn that locality. from Montgomery to Arcadia Saturday. F. C. Elliott of Tallahassee. Mat making the trip in five and a half hours, drainage engineer, who has been here He assumed charge Immediately upon 'or week, looking after canal control, arrival of the former commander. j said In reply to Mr. Moore statement Iregulifrities alleged to have occurred that the Everglades Is not drained, that ir, ih. "ronducr. of the sale of airplanes no claim has ever been made that the and airplane equipment at the fields last P'an of reclamation is completed. He October 11. are understood to be among pointed out that in literature iss-jed by the matters to be looked Into by the de- state officials tn charge of sales. of eta' partment of justice, together with the land and the plan of reclamation that j checking up of the payrolls and other warning has been g-iven against t"-".!-" financial transactions under the comman-j going into undrained areas, ders' direct supervision. , j Mr. Moore's farm is in Talm Barh Captain Maynard has been in charge sub-drainajre district, J. B. Jeffrie. (Continued on Page Two.) (Continued on Page Two) Crew Pensacola Schooner, Wrecked In Gulf Storm, Picked Up By Hiberias (By Associated Presa) NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 22 A wlre.'eis message receive today by the New Orleans Bluefield Transportation company from the steamship Hiber ias of that line stated that it had picked up the entie- erew of the schooner Ida S. Brooks of Pena. cola, after the sailing craft had been wrecked Ina hurricane In cam peche Bay. The message added . that the schooner had been abandoned, but jy in a fire, believed bv citv officials ' " 1UUIIU til While the firemen were at work on the second floor and preparing to fight their way to the one above, the third floor collapsed, but not before a warning roar had sent the fire men to safety. Nearly a score of persons owe their lives to 17-year-old James O'Donnel, a mechanic's helper, who was eating r.t a restaurant In the vicinity when he heard a woman cry for help. Running to the street he saw the woman leaning out of the window on the aecoind floor of the burning tene ment with two small children by her side. The young man clambered on the sill of a store window, jumped and caught a swinging sign and pull ed himself up to the window. He led the three frightened tenants down the escape to the street and then raced back and rescued the woman's 18-months-old baby, who waa asleep in a crib. Later he went to the roof of an , adjoining . building and by throwing a board over the alley space made it possible for a number of ten. ante who seemingly had been cut ff .from escape on the roof to cross In safety. EVERGLADES ROOD YOBS AT PALM BEACH Refugees Bring Horses, Cattle and Chickens and Say Water 3 Feet Deep. (By Associated Press) WEST PALM BFACII. Oct. . 22. Mor ris Moore, whose telesrram to his wife at Charlotte, N. C, published yeterday indicated a serious situation in the Lake Okechobce section from the' long period or rain, and eighteen other flood refM- ge arrived in W.-t Talm Beach this morning with fifty head of horses. mut- and cows, and several hundred chick-r.. and brought stories of water thv feet deep on his farm at South Bay. a set tleirent two miles south of Lake Okee ch'.bee, about forty-five miles west rf hre. He said a meeting of the South Bay community council had been held dd not mention how many men compriaed ita crew. The H'berias, which sailed from here Oct. '-4 for Port Corter. was laying by the Campeche banks awaiting the end of the storm. Immediately after steaming out into the bay the wrecked schooner was sighted. The rescued crew will probably be taken to Port Cortex. The steamer was delayed five days en account of the storm, but suffered no damao. the advices atated. DEVELOPMENTS OF WEEK ARE ENCOURAGING Wholesale and Retail Activity Shows Per-, ceptible Gains During Week. fB" Associated Press) NEW TURK Oct. 22. Developments t&e past week in Industry and finance are encour3n many respects, wholesale PVpl the cooler weather. Continued strength In .P2S0Vir Sr'fr,: 13,11 industrial factors, TlSSTnZ H foreign and domestic trade has given the market the needed support. A tardy , -( .u awakening of spinners to the fict that a real shortage of the present active de mand. Cotton futures at 23 centa a pound or better are selling at the highest levels since the beginning of drastic de flation in 1920. The effect in the south, already is apparent Prevailing grain prices also contrasted sharply with the recent low levels and with prices of a year ago. While fears of a war in the Near East gave the market its first impetus, continued strength since the fmoothinff out of the difficu'.tk-s In that situation indicate a healthy statistical position. Reports of shortages abroad have been an important factor in the market of late. This has offset heavy marketing of grain which has gone on apace in the face of a shortage of rail road cars. With wheat close to $1.13 a buKhel at Chicago the farmer is getting around $1 a bushel. While he may not realize any great profit at this figure the fact that he Is receiving nearly twice as much for corn as a year ago and other farm, products have risen attests the im provement of his position as compared with a yearago. Steel Sales Smaller Now that fuel supplies are plentiful and the transportation altuatlon is no longer menacing, sales of finished, nteel are smaller and the-demand for'" prompt delivery is less insist enf. The in4ury has made up all the ground lost In the late summer and the trend is toward quieter conditions m1th prices working lower. Operations are being carried on at a rate close to the high for the year 75 pr cent of capacity. Steel has pi!J up at the mills on aaccountf lack cf transportation, but the volume is small a compared with the middle of lf-20. "o! output meanwhile increased somewhat during the past week. Bituminous coal is being mined at the rate of ten mil lions a week and anthracite production continues at approximately S.MO.O tons. While total output is perl'P If" n required for consumption and building ut of stocks, danger of suffering from a possible shortage has pa.'Mied. Pec!inir, fuel prices indicate the easier hltujtion. Loadings Fall Off Car loadings for the week ended Oc tober 7, the Utet date for which figure are available, show a falling off as com pared with the previous week but are lamely In excess of last y.-ar and are close to the high record of 120. Although a dcrcase in merchandise and miscel laneous loadings was largely responib!e forthe lower total this does not mrn a slump in business It indicate? rty r inability of shippers to obtain car. Idi equip. r.ent has now practically d:ipp.'" -ed. and loadings for the current week ate expected to establish a high reoord While the federal reserve (Continued on Page Two.) TO BOLSHEVIK WARSHIPS ARE LOST JNSTORH Several Other Vessels Are Sunk in the Baltic Sea by Winds. tRy Associated Press) RIGA, Oct. 22 The Ruesian e TKired cruiser P.osslya and Gro ioNM and sev eral other vessel" have been lst In a storm In the Baltic sea. The Rossyia was a 12,913 -.n vessel, and the Gromobol, a ship of 1M2' tors The former had a length of 480 fe-t and the latter 472 feet. The Rosslya was laid down al the Baltic Works in 1:I an.1 eomp!-tel In 1 Sfg und the Orontwboi waw started in 18 and completed in IStl. Each . vessel hal a ir t-A ft abont Jrt knots. The Rosa;-ki In pre-war da fiad a compliment of HV.i m-n arid tfc Or omoVfl The Orurtwbot wn emitted ,v a m'.ti nous rtrw at ICronatadt In Novrr,'f r. 1920. It Is probable she a-aa Uter ral'etl n4 repaired. The Roy.a (also ki.-jwn the Rossia) was aald f.bare jrt!ci dated I nth Kronstadt mutiny In the winter of 1921. AD CLUBS TO CONVENE CHATTANOOGA. Tcnh . Oct . 'j2. The first annual convention f tr.- wotit . eastern d. strict Associated Adve rtls'.ng Clubs of the World will open here " morrow m-'riiir.g with .about t"1 d gates in a'tmdance. Man - visitors ' rived today and afl5-regsierin; hes' rjnarteis -nr i4;r, o points of n'r est about ti;e tit: .