Panama City Pilot (Newspaper) - July 28, 1939, Panama City, Florida AUDIT OF BAY COUNTY JUDGES OFFICE PUBLISHED THIS ISSU on Page Sportsman's Paradise St. Andrews Bay Panama City Pilot VOLUME 32 CONSOLIDATED WITH LYNN HAVEN FREE PRESS Panama Port of The Lower South NUMBER U. S. TREATY TALK NEW BUSINESS FIRM TO COME TO CITY Columbus Firm to Move Large Fender And Body Plant Here Soon Removal of the entire shops of the Gray Fender and Body of to Panama City with a planned expansion of its facilities was announced here this morning by Eugene F. president of the Georgia one of the largest of Its kind in the Gray announced that already about 30 tons of machinery of the Columbus plant had been moved here and that more than 75 more tons would be moved immediately and housed in a modern brick building on Watson The building will have a floor space of 5,000 square feet when completed and represent the investment of several thousands of The Columbus manufacturer also stated that he was removal of a broom factory from Columbus to this The plant has a capacity of 200 brooms per day and a substantial he Frequent Visitor Here In announcing removal of his 30-year-old business from Columbus to Panama City Gray said he the decision after a dozen years of visiting this city during the summer Ife has visited here annually to enjoy he The Columbus manufacturer and business man has also a site In St. Andrews for construction of a which will be built The sale of property for both and plant here Loan Co. establishment of his plant on the Coastal highway the bayou Mr. Gray said he would expand the properties to include marine boat shelters and machinery for complete boat Construction of the main building has already been Ml A MI LOSES Supreme Court Holds That Proposal Is Invalid July 28. city of Miami tailed to win Florida Supreme Court validation of a municipal bond Justice J. B. Whitfield wrote the court's decision holding that the proposed issue would cause the city to exceed its charter limit until all original bonds had been exchanged for refunding bonds or Justice Rivers Buford Justice Armstead Brown did not participate In the 4 to 1 The Miami charter limits the city's indebtedness to 15 per cent of the assessed of real and personal which was in 1038. The Supreme Court said charter limitation is effective despite a 1931 state law providing that refunding bonds are subject to debt ceilings Im- by charters or aws Profit U Shown In Stabilization July 28.-(^)- The Treasury's Stabilization Fund was shown today to have made a profit of in the nine months ended March 31. Quarterly reports on the the which buys and dollars in the world's money will b3 made in response to The treasury said total assets of the fund Mar. 31 were MISS MERKY BALL or the death of Miss for the past eight associated with the Cove the summer was received by friends here - as. house mother at during and Officers Keep Lookout For Escaped Bandits JIM AND JOHN MAKE IT UP The year 1940 may see Democratic strategist James A. Farley and Republican strategist John D. M. on opposite sides of the political But when the liner S. S. Manhattan sailed from New York the other day with both they nosed for their picture shaking hands just as pretty as could SENATE FOES WOULD SH E L V E LENDING July 28.-(AP)' After administration senators narrowly defeated three restrictive amendments to the lending opponents countered today with a final drive to consign it to a committee Republicans and dissenting Democrats claimed enough votes to return the measure to the senate banking committee further thereby killing it for this but supporters confidently predicted passage before While this showdown was approaching in the an test of strength was shaping up within democratic House The party members will hold a caucus tonight at which advocates of the lending will try to bind the entire group to support it. Concerned lest factional strife break into the administration leaders took steps to insure a full A two-thirds vote will be needed for any Some antl - Democrats contended that the caucus bind those present to abide by Its They argued that dissenters either could walk out or could make personal objections to any Noon Stock List 2s.-(ap)-tiiq stock ItB position but met with much there was no especial weakness unci were numerous were to down a near the fourth wore Bonds and commodities gave a slightly uneven NEW July 28-(AP)-Noon At Chon & Dyo Am Can Am & U Am T & T Am Tob U Am Woolen - T & S Atl est Lino Atlantic Steel Corp Coca Cola Col a & 1 Cont Crucible Steel Ou De N - aon Mot T & U Mot III Cent Ues & My Tob U & Kash Murray Corp R Radio Mot Tob B Seaboard Air - Sears Roebuck Sou Pao iou Ry sta on N j Corp Co 170 3-1 OS 1-2 46 1-4 1U7 8(1 1.4 4 2C 7-8 30 10.3-4 20 64 1-8 83 127 1-4 7 7^ 38 1-8 63 34 6-8 15U 1-2 38 1-2 48 3-4 30 1-2 6.S 13 3-4 108 3-4 BO 3-4 to ti IS 1 40 1.4 3.8 70 3.4 IR 3-8 18 1-8 41 7.8 3,4 11 7-8 n 6-8, PLANET TURNS GOLD SHOULDER Scientists Make Effort to To Contact Mars NEW July 28.-(/P)- Mars turned a cold shoulder to swing music last night and just as frigidly ignored a radio message that sped out into space at 186,000-mlle-a-second clip effort to bridge a little matter of 36,000,000 Engineers and scientists tried the code to Mars a Morse - NNN and when no they tried to warm up with a broadcast to the red planet of American That didn't So the engineers turned off their 100,000 watt shooting from the plant of Press at N. and called it a They had hoped the signal might bounce back In six minutes and 28 seconds and be picked up by a receiver at N. Y. Man's generally accepted theory that radio waves seldom penetrate beyond the atmosphere got more support in the Faded Into Distance Apparently the signal didn't get beyond the electrified blanket believed to cover the earth far out or the signal just became too weak to return after it had traveled the 36,000,000 With the planet closest to earth In 15 the New York World's Fair management announced it would stage a against a mythical attack of The Fountain area was to have - been while guns blazed at planes That didn't amusement concessionaires refused to douse their explaining they hadn't been notified of the Earth in faraway Argentina were blamed on the proximity of the planet bv panic-stricken But In many places throughout the world students and scientists gathered to study the not only last night ut on succeeding until the sphere slowly recedes into the reaches of AND THEY'RE NOT who live in the same room and sleep In the same have not seen each other In Engineer J. leaves for Houston ancl returns D. O'Leary same Qlty TWO DESPERATE CONVICTS nl STILL AX LARGE Five Others Captured After Daring Escape Law enforcement officers of Bay and surrounding counties this morning were keeping a sharp lookout for two of seven desperate Florida convicts who escaped from a road camp near Milton The two remaining at large this morning were believed to be hiding in South Alabama or Northwest July 28.- Florida convicts sulked in the Covington county jail after alert Alabama officers ran their commandeered automobile into a dead-end road and cowed them by Although the men were armed with a shotgun and taken from their guard at a camp near they did not return the Alabama The stolen car overturned near here as the pursuit got too and the convicts made a dash on foot for Deputy H. Gantt said the officers then opened not having used guns while the motor chase was Four of the men Dogs were on the trail and the fifth was caught about an hour None was After being notified by the sheriff at that seven men had struck their guard on the taken his and apparently were headed for Sheriff Tom Head of Covington established a He and his men sighted the five in the stolen car late near the Still Hunt Two Florida officers still were looking for the other two The five men held here will be returned to the peninsula state Those recaptured were listed as Adolphus 28, of serving five years for cattle Herbert 29, of serving a five-year term for auto John 41, of serving ten years for Fred of Palm serving a life term for and Fred F. 41, of serving six years for Deputy Sheriff Joe of Santa Rosa county said one of the convicts struck the guard with a shovel and the ers took his pistol and stole a car from a nearby farm for their he In the state prison bureau listed the two convicts still at large as Joe serving 20 years for breaking and entering In Duval and Leo sentenced to 4 1-2 for breaking and entering ' in DeSoto Last Of Famed Miyo Brothers Succumbs To Serious Ailment July 28. William Jamos world renowned surgeon and last of Rochester's two died at 4 a m. today from a serious tor wnich he underwent an operation April a. He was 78 years Son of a country doctor trained him to become one of history's greatest Dr. as he was known to thousands of died in his At the bedside were Mrs. two arid Dr. D. C. Balfour and Dr. Waltman both members 01 the Mayo Clinic and H. J. business manager of the shortly alter he returned from a winter vacation at last Dr. Will underwent an stomach operation lor a very various condition at the lamed clinic here founded by his his late Dr. Charles H. Mayo and himself more than half a century Closes Brilliant Career of Dr. Will to a close a medical career thai paralleled that of his equally famous who died in Chicago May 26 from His illness prevented Dr. Will from attending the funeral of his brother but he even resumed visits to his office and went on short automobile ne nad to in the words of attending and yesterday tlie clinic announced tlie famous surgeon was slowly losing A third member of as famous a medical family as the world CAMPAIGN A I D AND REVISION SEEN PROMINENT WOMAN DIES July 28. Georgia Melson wife of George president of the Collier Florida Coast Hotel died today at summer home at nearby Ponte Vedra Mason had been ill only a short July 28.-(/P)- John L. denunciation of Vice President Garner stirred up such a congressional tempest today that some legislators said it had improved chances for revision of the law at this Lewis was demanding Congress make no change in the law when he told the House labor yesterday that the 70-year old vice president is a poke evil old Ignoring the CIO leader's opposition to any stand in which the AFL labor committee agreed after a tempestuous closed meeting to try to bring so-called amendments to the floor next A short time the rules committee decided to send to the floor three separate proposals iu changing the law and let the chamber take its A tangled parliamentary situation was certain to Lewis bluntly accused Garner of for what he called the against in the and am against him In 1939 and will be against him In 1940 when he seeks the presidency of the United Angered and astounded friends of the Texan rallied to his support in both the Senate and Several of them quickly predicted that outburst would help Garner Without A Is Unwelcome Guest At Miami July 28.--(/P)-A strike the steamer Florida has caused an interlude in the episode of Halm 47-year-old Russian Jew who Is literally a man without a who has traveled back and forth five times tween Miami and Havana as migration officials pondered his was an unwelcome guest in the county jail When the Florida sails again Flukman will be on the but he has no hope of being permitted to land In where his wife and four children United States Immigration also will not admit He his right to American citizenship 1933 when agents 9^ smuggled ashore In the He served a short jail sentence and was ordered Cuba to The Russian government also declined to receive him because he had become a resident of Cuba m 1923. Because the United States had no diplomatic relations with Russia at the Flukman remained here under a deportation order until 1939, when he voluntarily went to Cuba to rejoin his Two months later Cuban immigration police arrested him and sent him to where he was refused admittance and ordered back to the On July 21 he was back to was again rejected and sent to ship strike interrupted has Sister Mary died last March 31. She assisted Dr. Will for a quarter ii and won his an the foremost of hla Weird Boyhood Speaking once at Los Angeles of his boyhood brother and I grew up 10 be physicians just as boys on a farm grow up to be We began by talcing care ot father's keeping his vlean and riding about country with him on his From the age ol 10 1 was his first surgical and Charlie began giving anesthetic wnen ne was a lad of 12. first operation by the clamp method for tumor was on a blacksmith's wife and he a clamp forged by her had a good made In which cost and I remember clearly that it was bought only after long discussions between and mother because the only way to get all at once was to put a mortgage on our It was about 10 years before that mortgage was paid off. taught us osteology from the of Cub one of the 39 Indians who were hanged after the 1862 Father prepared the skeleton for laboratory use and it still is one of the prized possessions of the Mayor a-s is tlie microscope which was bought at such great performed as many examinations as he and Charles and I always When I was too small to see the details of the he put me at the head of the table where I could hang on to the hair of the corpse in order to lean forward and When I was about 16 ho and I performed one of these examinations one night in an abandoned a remnant of frontier on the outskirts of He finished about 11 said he had a call to make and left me to sew up the I can still hear the dismal creaking of the old hotel sign as it swung in the night was sent to the University of Michigan because it had just opened a graded medical course of three school years of nine one of the first such courses in the Up to that time medical education had consisted of two series of lectures of about five At Michigan In his junior year was one of the founders of Nu Sigma Nu national medical He outlived the other five He was just starting practice in the summer of 1883 when St. Mary's forerunner cf the Mayo came into The institution Irom tornado which hit Rochester and left many dead and injured in its and his brother labored mightily with their father in emergency and were aided by sisters from a convent school 01 the Order of St. Tlie next day the mother superior told the that in the night she had seen a vision of a largo hospital in Rochester perpetuating the Mayo work and my age I can't to do what you have the Mayo told my sons can carry on the He donated 20 of his acres as a site for the the obtained funds for the building and thus a Protestant doctor and Catholic nun were allied in starting a significant The lived past his 92nd birthday and saw much of the dream come true before his death in 1911. St. Mary's became the center of the Mayo work Father and sons were chief members of the staff and Dr. Will particularly For years he was busy there dally from 8:30 a. m. until He and his brother at first performed all the operations personally but as the practice grew they took Into association men skilled in various phases of medical and surgical Eventually the clin c staff had more than 150 doctors on Its regular roll and the foundation personnel Included as many About half the latter were chosen annually from 1,500 applicants among honor 8tuant8 medical Ex - Brakeman Named to ICC William J. who rose from railroad brakeman to on Interstate Commerce is shown in after appointment by President Previously he was with the I. C. ' N safety ARMY WARS ON KANGAROO RATS Huge Rodents Delay Work On Dam HULLS GETS ECHO FROM EVERY Denunciation of 1 Agreement May See London in Accord 1 LAS July 28.- a battlefront of Southeast Colorado sand the United States Army Is waging a Upon the army's success hinges speedy construction of the Caddoa Dam for irrigation in Colorado and The chief enemies are kangaroo rats which jump and have long and sand a species of hairless Army assigned by Congress to build the were confident today of eventual but rodent war Is a struggle they didn't poisoned said C. L. Etter of the soli conservation who was called in to assist the Impossible to estimate how Insects destroy their bodies in a day's Would Relocate One requirement for construction of the on the Arkansas was that its builders relocate Santa Fe railroad tracks crossing the area to be by the The best route lay across a sand Railroad officials refused to accept this route unless the dune could be Etter recommended a covering of He the engineers planted experimental patches with cane and The rodents appeared and dug up the They came from burrows In the sandy surfaces of the dune and from nests in scattered So the war on the rodents Whole dunes were covered with poison have the rats In the Immediate area pretty well under control Etter they seem to come from expect trouble from them for some NEW ROAD MILEAGE 28.- 0. WPA said today that WPA workers had built or Improved approximately 88,039. miles of streets and the Associated Chinese rejoicing and a Japanese suggestion that the treaty protecting foreign rights in China be abrogated further resulted today from the United denunciation of her 1911 treaty with Secretary Hull's to Japan that the treaty lapse Jan. 26 injected an tant new in the Far Eastern situation and brought repercussions from Europe as Official circles in London Britain was considering ing Washington's lead by nouncing the trade treaty of 1911. Japanese resentment was pressed in the newspaper J organ of the army ultra - nationalistic which said is rasing favor of abrogation of the nine power treaty without as Japan's f Pledge to China I - The nine-power by the United V Britain and five other ' pledges them to China's Integrity and intercourse between China and other powers upon the basis of equality of The foreign office Japan would to elude a new treaty if the A government desires to do conformity with the new tlon in East He to that recognition of Japan's conquest of China would not be ' a condition for signing a ' i In China's J there was gratification over the move and Foreign Minister Wang declared it clear that American policy be Judged by deeds than Results Still Unclear What American meas might follow the treaty atlon when the six-month limit has expired remained but In Washington tor of the Senate Foreign Relations served notice would ask action next January J on his resolution for an on shipments of war supplies ta k said the should set at rest Great Britain was ing the foreign policy of United States in the Far The only Italian newspaper to s II called treaty denunciation a new episode In the white bloodless economic conflict against totalitarian Are Warned Anti-British agitation in China as British dents outside the foreign cessions in Tientsin received ters warning them to Tientsin or Two hundred Chinese las penetrated the southern tlon of last night and abducted 28 Including policemen under Japanese In Britain 16,000 were mobilized for a swift up of suspected Irish army terrorists to be under Britain's new lence act or questioned in with recent Robbery Suspect Is Unable to Hide July 28.-(jP)-:}' When Tampa police got a request from Brooksville police to be oji the lookout for a negro listed as Robert headed southward on a they put it down as a routine call for a But the man was easily once he had reached the Tampa city Astride which he had the entire 45 miles from he gave off the a traveling junk Wj officers searched wrapped around his electric an electric fa naif a tain an assortment aret lighters
