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PAGE SIX i Man-Made Islands Rise Like Magic on Florida y s Coast S'" ! - Wmr*' r | RaKmu % FO&rw& Pt/IV/-/?, CC. '. ' : Mc!i\ ,-v '/SS/01-.?- \ (&££&»/J-xers**? -<'*f/?£>F'\ OV ' I ST. PETERSBURG. Fla.—Out •f the shallow waters of Boca {Sega Bhy, “Florida’s most beauti ful mile," three magnificent man ifciade islands are taking form. ; Aided by giant dredges, “sand ; fuckers”. Frank Fortune Pulver, ' former “white suited” mayor of this community, retired multi ■nillionaira chewing gum king, is building a new city in which to | five—and he expects it to be com pleted and ready for home build •rswithin another year. Pulver’B new islands are being (Dade Just at the western city i omits of St. Petersburg. In the i pay at this point, the waters are i irmy shallow. At low tide, the. |l fernarr Macfadden Writes Legislators JFJERNA.RU MACFADDEN has; sent a copy of his remarkable Feditorie'. "Glorify The Home" which) I has been so widely printed, not oniy PtO every member of the Legislature; r Os this State, but to every legislator |CALLS MEMBERS R ’.’£ “NEST OF VIPERS , iAs a Result Pastor of the Flock is i J About to Lose His Job. 1 EfeCharlotts, Feb. 5.—11 f congrcga- 1 Ktion of St. Pauls Missionary Bap- S’.tast Churnh. colored. Gastonia, de- i r dared a religious holiday Wednes g- day and Journeyed to Charlotte to , ■Bear a two-hour wrangle in Superior Rtfcurt concerning its right to elepose [Ptbe Bev. E. W. Burke, 81-year-old fcjftiniater, as shepherd of the tiock. ■KjAlter 40 years of service in vari- B«U8 pulpits of the denomination the Kinged.' pastor, it was contended, had Ktyade the mistake of referring to a Spurge and influential faction of his as a "nest of vipers." MUtinf several superlatives of a dpre- HjJfttivc nature, and consequently finel- Hm himself on the verge of losing when trustees brought Brntion to restrain hint from further ■peaching in the church g£ The defendant was calletl to the HBunla church three years ago nnd, IfitW the custom of the brethren, in,” receiving a slight in his favor. strife arose among the flock Bjp. trusteeg reached into their files ■fiKdiscoYered that rules called for ■BplWe-fourth majority, with which ■Hustlon they sought alt injunc- WSk otter faction immediately islands are high and dry. Here the big dredges are taking sand from the sea bottom and adding to the islands. Soon, sea wall builders will pour heavy concrete retaining bulwarks all around the three islands. Os course there will be yacht and house boat slips. The islands and the mainland will be linked by a wide causeway and paved boule vard. Pulver came here six years ago to retire and enjoy the balmy sub tropical climate. But he couldn’t stand inactivity. He purchased St. Petersburg’s biggest hotel to play with; then he launched the city’s largest laundry to take care of this institution and the com jn unity at large. 1 1 in every State of the Union and to I j the lawmakers at Washington. He says that a body that Is glowing! i with health tan never house the I mind of a criminal. Here are hia I children who are physically perfect I rose in arms, procured the service of It. J. Mnngum and George W. Wilson, leading attorneys of Gae touia. and began to light The revo lutionaries were represented by John G. Carpenter. After an afternoon or bitter con tention Judge Harding arbitrated the matter for the present by sug gesting that Itev. Burke exchange pulpits with others of his denomina tion for the next six weeks, when the case will be opened again at the March term of court. THE NATIONAL. PARK. Winston-Salem Journal, v The campaign for Eastern Ameri ca’s great National Park—a park in the Great Smokies to mutch the park in the Great Rockies—is meeting en couragement that seems to insure suc cess. North Carolina will be the greatest single beneficiary of tWs park. Its establishment will mean the preservation of our most beautifcl mountain scenery. The campaign now on hag for its object the raising of the one million’ dollars in North Carolina and Tennes see to help finance the park project. From Mark Squires, chairman of the North Carolina Park Commission, the Journal learns that more than three hundred thousand dollars of the six hundred thousand allotted to North 4 . At ! , . - .j Askc. ; During a summer vacation it Alaska, he was notified that j friends would like to see him in tht mayoralty race. He tossed his bear skin hat fram icy Nome into the sizzling St. Petersburg poli tical ring, following soon after and winning bands down. Pulver had I some original ideas on how to run ) a newspaper and he put a young fortune into a third paper hers with the result it has the largest circulation and isn’t Quite a yea) old. Pulver has a remarkable person, 1 ality and has become known i throughout West Florida as s i modern Midas. "Everything Frank : Pulver touches turns to gold.” Gov. ■ Martin of this state declared in a recent address. j and never had a doctor. Left to right (top row) Helen, Byrne and ! Byrnece, (center) Mr. and Mra Bernarr Macfadden, (lower row) Beulah, Beverly, Brewster, BerWya and Braunda. Carolina has been raised west of the Blue Ridge. Asheville alone has al ready pyt up over two hundred thou sand dollars. It is expected that an other hundred thousand will be raised b;/ the people west of the Ridge, mak ing their contribution four hundred thousand in all. Another two hiltulred thousand dol lars will have to be raised In the State East of the Blue Ridge. Charlotte has a campaign on now, and the Park Commission is looking to that city for not less tlfan fifty thousand dollars. Other cities in the state, including Winston-Salem, of course, are expect ed to join in this movement. Such a National Park as will be established, if this fpnd can be raised, will be of untold value to the whole state. The park will be worth much to Winston- Salem, mot only as a place of recrea tion for our own people, but for thia city to he known throughout the country as a eity that is within five hours ride, of the greatest National Park east of the Rocky Mountains. A few days after a Parmer had placed his two children in a school a book agent called on him and said, “Now that your children go to aeffiooi ■ you ought to buy them an encycio , pedia.” i “Buy them an encyclopedia? Hang •edif I do,” was his reply. “Let • lk > lik * 1 did ’” THE CbNCORD~DAILY TRIBUNE SOUTHERN REFUSES LOWER RAILROAD AT HIGH POINT Plea That Tracks Be Put in Deep Cut Tht tough the City Meets With Terse Reply From Vice-President. High Point, Feb. yl.—Tentative plans to eliminate dangerous grade I crossings along the main line ot the | Southern railway were laid at a ! conference Wednesday afternoon be j tween Southern officials, city officials ] and delegations from civic bodies ’ ! here. The plans as discussed at this.l meeting embrace the erection of one j overhead bridge and four, under-.j passes. Representatives of the eity and civic organizations made their wishes known through speeches delivered by Fred X. Tate. Joseph D. Cox and Mayor H. A. Moffitt. Mr. Tate de clared that the most satisfactory solution of the crossing problem would be to lower the tracks through the city, bcginfling a half mile or more on either side of the station. H. W. Miller, vice-president of the Southern, averred that, such a pro cedure would be '‘impossible.” It would rout millions on millions of ! dollars, he said. This plan would j j amount to cutting a tunnel over a ! mile long.and putting nil the tracks j in this tunnel. AJr. Miller was emphatic in stat ing that the Southern Railway com-' pany would not consider lowering the tracks. Byway of explanation, he told the conference that bus com pany would have to run their tracks . around the city while the main j tracks were being lowered, which j would cause great inconvenience and i loss of money. The Southern official called attention to the fact that High Point’s progress and prosperity has been linked up with the Southern railroad, and intimated that it would not be for the good of the city to have the rai’way company with drawn from High Point. | The matter of tinancing the eli | initiation of grade crossings was dis j cussed at length. It was thought by both sides that a fifty-fifty basis j would be fair- The estimated cost is ! $350,000. | Mr. Miller told the body that ; nothing could be done about the j crossing at Alton stex-t. which is the ! chief source of disaontent- here. Many citi& larger than High Point have similar crossings he said. Real Estaters. Attention! | New York Mirror. | The Reverend Hr John Roach j Straton has hired another Reverend gentleman to preach in his New York Calvary Baptist Church. Dr. Straton is away to Palm Beach, where he will preach, and as he tells you. "turn back the evil tide.” I)r- Straton says the business boom in Florida has flooded the State with evil. "Because of unexampled prosper ity, Florida is facing the menace of materialism and general Godlrssmrss more acutely, perhaps, at the present hour, than any other part of the country. The greatest issue before Florida is whether they will save their society from the inroads of paganism and maintain their Chris tian idealism." Dr. Straton will preach at I’a’m Beach, where they wear the flannel suits and ride around in wheel chairs. That is bad news for Satan, who loses his championship when ever I>r. Straton appears in the pul pit. But it is good news for the Flor ida rend estate salesmen. Dr. Straton will soon know that | the definition of a Florida tourist is i "a human being entirely surrounded j | by real estaters.” He will learn that "turning back the tide of evil" is child’s pay in ! Florida. compared with turning! back the tide of real estate bargains.) If \V. J. Connors, of Okeechobee j City, and John H. Perry, of Jack- j sonville get hold of him. they will change him from a Baptist minister 1 into a Florida booster. Helium in Russia. New York Mirror. Russia, the so-called outlaw among ) nations. has discovered natural helium gas wells on the shores of Lake Baikal. Already rich in natural resources, : Russia, with its new discovery, has) come into a veritable fortune, i Bureaucrats in Amerien who belit tle dirigibles and other flying ma chines will s<x> nothing significant ?n a generous supply of the valuable gas in Russia- They know of course, that helium is the best gas for air shivis. that it is not inflammable, that it is rare and expensive. Bat- of that? We surely don’t need the gas. they argue. because we haven’t any ; dirigibles left to fill and don't want j any. But Russia, that sleeping giant of | the O'.d World, wakes up long enough to call its new discovery im portant. In all probability Russia will peed its helium and aircraft before we will need ours, if you consider actual defense in wartime the only need. And she. will have both. There is much interest in Jnpan in j the Russian find. Only America is indifferent. New Radio Noise Remover Found By Research Experts. Philadelphia. Feb. 6. Another step forward in eliminating unwant ed noise in radio receiving sets is reported by research workers in the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Harold Pender, dean of the Moore School of Electrica>i Engineer ing, sajd that in collaboration with Dr. J. H. Muller,assistant professor of chemistry, he had perfected a flew non-inductive, high-resistance fila ment to take the place of impregnat ed paper used widely in a grid leak. These filaments are mounted in glass tubes. A coating of metal a thousandth of an Inch thick upon a glass core gives a grid leak of uni form resistance which does not vary ■with weather conditions, whereas the impregnated grid leak varies as much as 100 per cent, throwing the re ceiving set out of perfect adjust ment. A well adpusted grid leak prevents the tubes from “spilling over” drain ed S&3S Chßr ** gradually GOFF WITNESS IN ' METAL CASE QUIZ + •Non Appfaranrti of Mean* Before Federal Grand Jury i* Mystery of Investigation. [ New York World. United'‘States Senator Guy D. Goff of West Virginia added specula tion to the already very much alive [American Mctiil Company case yes ! terday when he unexpectedly nppenr jed before the Federal Grand Jury I which is making a second investiga tion of the return of $7,000,000 in seem-ities to the metal company, The interest in Senator Goffs ap pearance is due to the fact that he was First Assistant to Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, who was in office when the American Metal stock was returned by Alien Property Custodian Thomas W. Mil ler to an allegedly Gcrmnn-controlled Swiss corporation in 1021. Senator Goff was in the Grand Jury room for more than a half hour. He had previously conferred with United States Attorney Buckner and Assistant United States Attorney Kenneth D. Simpson. who has I charge of the new inquiry in which Ha try Daugherty is the outstanding! figure. Neither Buckner nor the Senator had any explanation to offer yester day of the nature of Senator Goffs testimony, but it was rumored in the Federal Building that new evidence had tux'll unearthed by the Grand j Jury which is on the second month lof its inquiry. j Among these rumors was one that Harry M. Daugherty, former Attor ney General, has come forward with information which he previously had refused before investigating com mittees in Washington. Daugherty refused to testify here two weeks ago on the ground that this might incriminate him. He had bee'ii nskeei to answer questions about his personal bank account, but re fused until ordered to do so by Federal Judge Thatcher. Daugherty’s brother, Mai Daugh erty,’is’-understood to have testified that the bank ree'ords were destroy ed. Whether or not Harry Daugherty corroborate!! this on his appearance before the Grand Jury, is not known Goff’s iippenanco is due to the fact that the actual order by which the return of the Metal securities was authorised; was signed by him on be half of the former Attorney General. Goff’s testimony follows that of Adnu IS. Johnson, former Deputy Attorney General, who is said to have bee'll assigneil by Goff as exiun sel to Mr. Miller while the latter was Alien Property Custodian in Washington. Another mystery yesterelay, which gave rise in part to reports that new evidence had be>en unearthed, is the non-appearance of Gaston B. Means before the Grand Jury. Means, serv ing a two-year term in Atlanta, lias been here by Court order since Monday. He has bee-n closeted for several long sessions with Mr. Buck ner. STAY AWAY FROM FLORIDA Dearborn Weekly. The Sian from Florida dropped into The Office. "Very little of the specu lation in Florida is elone by native Floridians. Except where they held land or developed unusual business powers they were not in it. The spexxilators were mostly northerners. | Florida is a northern state anyway— -Iso far ns population gee's. But the ; re>nl estate boom was sound and bas |ed on legitimate demand until Jew i brokers began tto pour in from New ; York and California. California, you know, ehaseet them out. Then the ! razxie-dazzle began. But it didn't I last long. Floriela soon took them in 4 ! hand and chased most of them out. i A man is a fool, however, to buy 'un-. j sight, unseen' anywhere, unless he j knows the real estate man liersonally or haS a fair idea of the proposition. ; "Why, when the boom first broke, i : t was like a floeiel. It reached even | the obscure little sleepy places far off the highway of travel. Real estate offices sprang up ill country garages, lin corner grocery stores, anywhere. | Torches were partitioned off with wire fly netting, aud the partitions rented out for real estate offices. I know of an instance where a horse block in front of a hotel was renteel as an office'—the man had to have somewhere to meet his customers, and the horsebloe-k was all we could find, in a little town, far off in the woods, lots jumped from sloo'to SI,OOO over night—and sold. too. "Os course, there will be big losses, I especially in the business centers. In tlie* end a piece of business property is world only as muth as it will earn. Small business concerns in Floriela have sold for so much that the biggest and costliest building reared on them would still exist less than the lot, and no amouut of business could pos ! sihly pay a return on the investment. In such enses. someone is going to be I caught holding a good big bag. On ! the other hand, people who buy for j the sake of having their own winter ) homes there will probably always be able to get out what they invested. "The poor? Well, if you are pe>or. just stay away. Just stay away! A mechanic can usually find work, but living costs are terrific. Only two years ago a tourist party could rent a camping site for $1 a month. Now it costs at least $6 to put up a tent in the woods. Food is very steep. Ev erybody is ‘on the make.’ And be sides, there is the very serious freight tie-up. Florida has just one railroad neck to the food supply centers, anil that is choked. Hardly anything moves. They went from freight to express and from express to mail— and now the whole thing is jammed. “It is not necessary only to have money—you must have money to lose, before yoq think of entering the Flor ida game these days.” Degtaas. “Move, can you explain wireless telegraphy to <me?” “Yeesnb, if. like die: Es you-all had a long long houn’ dawg, an’ he stretched from Cinehmety to Cleve land, and you step* on bis tail in • ==l C H A R L O T T E-J First Annual ■ AUTOMOBILE ■ (gH • DISPLAY WEEK . §§3 More than a hundred beautiful Motor Cars—with all their — : , ■ " - improvements are being conveniently arranged for your , , { - inspection during this week—an eyent that will afford » ■ r- ? . the admirers of motor cars an opportunity to give each " 1 ~ ‘ - .make a most careful inspection. , .... ■ A Complete Automobile Show in Each Dealer’s. = ' Showroom.' . ■. 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TUDOR SEDAN - mm JT Runabout . . $260 Coupe . . . ss2o'*f M R || Touring Car . 290 Fordor Sedan. 660 11 I II Ctwcdan in color. Dcmoimtmble l| lIUV II “ II F. 0.8. Detroit Here la an example ot the cruelty of deflation: In 1808 the father of Peter Witt, a Cleveland traction expert, purchased a house for $3,000. At that time his dally wage was SB. In 1873 he still owed $1,50p on the house. His wage in the meantime had dropped to $2 a day. All other wages and the price* of all commodi ties had been deflated in like propor tion. He could bay aa large a bas ket of groceries and meat for $2 in 1873 aa he coaid for $6 in 1866. Mortgages, however, were not'de flated. With 600 daya of labor at $6 * day he could have paid oil the or iginal mortgage of SB,OOO. Seven yenra later 750 daya of labor at $2 • day wet* required to pay off the, balance of $1,500. Inflation is equally cruel to the: owners of mortgage*. If • man lends $5,000 at a time when common labor Isollo at $2 a day and the borrower| *•*. . ..•siaife pays back the money five years later when common labor 1b selling at $4 a day, the lender is “out” $2,500. Inflation and deflation are the con sequence of wars. Practically all in vested wealth wan confiscated in the countries of central Europe by infla tion which followed the World War, Inflation robe the strongest vault of its contents just as effectively as a burglar. Deflation burdens the borrower and the owner of large stocka of commodities to the breaking > point To Role “Fire Worshipers.’’ Dastur C. Pavry, an Indian youth, has quit Columbia University to re turn to his native land to succeed Rin <Jead father as spiritual head of In- I dia’s 1,000,000 “lire worshipers.” Al though only 26, the future leader of : his church is a doctor of philosophy Wn^studying 1 for*the"l!he? Monday, February 8, 1926 to succeed hia father. Hs was known to his classmates as “Jal” and is de scribed as a “regular fellow.” Being an expert on all the latest dance steps, he was a popular man on the campus. Besides speaking English. German, French, Italian, Persian, Greek. Sanskrit and Pali, the secret language of Buddhism, he has a com plete mastery of American slang. Before he sailed for his home some where east of the Suez the young doc tor said: “I would like to marry one 'of your American girla—but I cannot, you know. It pains my heart to -leave this country, your Manhattan ——this wondrous isle of blue-eyed maidens, where all is beautiful—end amazing. I love it. I love the peo ple. But I muat go. I was sent here by my people that 1 1 might qual ify to be their religious ruler. My duty lies before me.” Incidentally he explained that the religions of his ancestors is not Are worship at all. but that fire is merely the Zoroadtrian symbol of absolute purity. i