Evening star., 1933-09-24
FLORIDA LINES
UP IN PLEDGES
TO BACK N. II. n.
Plans Made to Build
Huge Pulp Mill in
Nassau County.
BY GEORGE HOYT SMITH.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. September %.
According to Mrs. Thurston Roberts,
State chairman for the womens divi-
counties remain to be organized in the
campaign to enlist women of the State
in consumers effort. Active work of
the women's canvassers has brought
almost the entire State into line.
Canvassers and workers approaching
employers in this section have secured
more signatures than the census figures
give for Duval County These reports
indicate consumers cannot patronize
any but N. r. A. signers even If they
wish to.
Florida's drive started late but is now
up with the leaders.
fourth district Of Florida. in Jackson
Of national prohibition by Thanksgiv-
ing. He was the first Representative
elected as a wet" In q Southern pri-
mary election last Summer
Already we are seeing good results
from the legalization Of 80 per cent
beer" he said. Beer has brought q
sharp decrease in drunkenness The
lure Of illegal liquor will be decreased
more and more when the eighteenth
amendment Is repealed.
The United States will have cause
to give thanks. The magnificent ad-
ministration of President Roosevelt Is
doing much to bring us out Of the
depression"
Florida will have 81 wet candidates
fully qualified and ready to vote for
repeal on October 10.
The drys. slow about getting their
candidates into line, are still claiming
that they will win, and set the matter
Of repeal back at least one peg The
head of a great Baptist university in
Florida has come out as an Independent
condidate-but his dryness is well
known.
Looking to the erection Of a huge
pulp mill, to secure raw material in
ZenS gathered in Fernandina last week
and made plans for organizing a COM
pany. seeking financial aid from the
Government for the project.
j. T. Allen Of Chicago is promoting
the project.
The estimate is that TOO men would
be employed on the beginning Of work
and 1000 men permanently when the
plant and camps are in operation.
Tests have shown the pine in Mas
sau County makes excellent paper, wood
nber ana fuel.
Waterway Loan Sought.
Two or three million dollars of pub
lie works funds would be used to make
the Atlantic coastal waterway feet
deep from Jacksonville to Miami. about
$50 miles. The waterway Is also to be
deepened and widened from Cape Fear,
N. c., as far south as the St. Johns
River at Jacksonville. This is under
stood to mean the clearing-when COM
pleted-of waterway for small boats,
not drawing as much as 8 feet, di-
rect from the Great Lakes.
The inland waterway allows small
craft to avoid going around Cape Hat
teras, the most dangerous point on the
North Atlantic Coast Hundreds Of pri-
vate yachts come South in Winter and
their passage through the Atlantic
coastal waterway will mean safety for
vessels and crews.
At Palm Beach and Miami there will
be connections with inland canals to 60
direct to Lake Okeechobee and across
the State.
Figurec compiled at the State capi-
tai show that IS counties of Florida
have cut their tax levies this year, some
of the others have increased the mill
age. and few have the same rates as
In the previous year. Decreases amount
ing to from 252 to 10 mills, include
Duval, with Jacksonville as the county
seat; Dade, with Miami; Hillsborough,
with Tampa, and Putnam, with Pa
latka, as big towns. Okeechobee County,
in a strenuous effort to get somewhere
upward from boomtime debts, Is in
creasing the levy 1872 mills.