Mr. Reid asked that an assistant
to the corporation counsel be assigned
to be at the services of the investigat
ing subcommittee, so as to advise on
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BRUCE BARTON
Distinguished maga zi n e
writer, who obtained the
notable interview with
President Coolidge pub
lished this week in The
Star, has become a" regular
contributor to this news
paper.
Watch for his first arti
cle “About Quitting a Pay
ing Job,” tomorrow in the
Editorial Section of
The Sunday I
Star I
J
sesţy
FLORIDA’S FEARS
OF DISEASE END
Sanitation Is Established in
All Cities Except Flooded
Moore Haven.
By the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla., September 25.—Re
habilitation took renewed impetus
through Florida’s hurricane-stricken
area today, a week after the devastat
ing storm, with fears of famine,
pestilence and riots allaved.
An optimistic spirit prevailed. Stores
and business houses have opened to
dispose of depleted stocks and par
tially ruined merchandise.
Threat of typhoid has passed with
improvement in sanitation and a bet
ter water supply in most of the
striken cities. Throughout yesterday
steady streams of persons were in
oculated with antityphoid serums
and public health officers are making
a thorough inspection of all food.
At Hollywood, Miami and other
cities in the path of the gale, crews
of men are clearing away the tangled
mass of w-reckage. burning vegetable
matter and the decomposed bodies of
animals and swamp reptiles.
Moore Haven Is beserted.
At Fort city officials
have given over full control of the
sanitary work to the Red Cross,-while
at Moore Haven remaining flood water
made absolute sanitation impossible.
The last refugees from Moore Haven
left the devasted city yesterday.
