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WEATHER/ SHOWERS. SLIGHTLY WARMER VOL. 1 i.U. HOFFMAN TARGET LASHING ATTACK SAVANNAH KILLER, BRAGG, ESCAPES GANG SLEW HIS WIFE ON BROUGHTON SVREET His Deed Drew Indignation Here In 1929 Waldon M. Bragg, convicted Chatham County murderer, is today a fugitive from justice. Bragg, accompanied by another convict serving time for burglary, escaped from the chaingang work ing on the highway near Millen ac- I cording to a telephone report to the Savannah Police Department by H. L. Jenkins, In charge of the gang. The escaped Chatham County kill er will be recalled as the principle figure in «ne of Savannahs most celebrated murder cases. He slew his wife at the corner of Whitaker and Broughton streets and, after felling her with the first bullet, stood over her bodj r and pumped a stream ot lead into her body until his automatic was emptied. According to the convict eamp official, Bragg escaped yesterday at 9 a. m. Accompanied by Ernest Payne, convicted burglar, the two men, watching their chances, leaped into an orange colored truck belonging to the highway department and made their get-away. Savannah police were quickly • notified and all officers were warn ed to be on the watch for Bragg It was anticipated that he might I try to slip into Savannah where L relatives reside. The murder of Bragg’s wife drew ' attention because of the ruthlessness of the deed. Mfrs. Bragg, a young woman in her twenties, had been separ ated ?rom her husband for several weeks. To support herself she se cured employment in a five and ten cent store located at Broughton * and Bull street. According to the evidence pre, j sented by the state, Hiagg w^TU-rf* t.outside the store until the knocked off. When she fft the store, he followed her. She sojn ’ realized she was being followed and crossed to the north side the street. When she sensed i treme danjer. she broke into a Jun and had almost reached the inter ior of the Plnkussohn Cigar store, at Broughton and Whitaker, when Bragg filred the first slot. drop ped to the pavement. Spectators, amazed by the act, soon f)‘d in all directions. The killing occurred In the late afternoon and tfet particu lar corner was crowded w’ith shop pers and those awaitiig streetcars at this junction. Bragg, unawed fy his deed, stood over her body ?id emptied his re volver. He Avzt overpowered bv a few’ pedestrians before escape. Taken to the barracks, he was found somewhat intoxicated. He re fused to explain his act at that time. At the trial, he accused his es tranged wife of keeping company with, another man. Ernest J. Haar, defending the prisoner, entered a plea of Insanity by reason of extreme jealousy. The slayer escaped the chair and was given a life sentence. He is described by the police as age: 34; five feet, six inches; 116 pounds; brown hair and gray eyes. His companion is described: age 38; fair; 170 pounds; five feet. 9% Inches. COURT ORDERSHALT U. S. POWER LOANS Memphis Light Company wins Temporary Ban In Washington WASHINGTON, April 4 (TP)—■ The Distrlc of Columbia supreme court stepped in today to block tem porarily government loans for mu nicipal power plants in Memphis and Chattanooga, Tenn. The Memphis Power & Light Com pany won a temporary restraining order to bar the public works ad ministration from loaning Memphis $10,000,000 to build a local power system. A loan of $6,000,000 to Chattanooga for the same purpose was barred by similar action by the court on the appeal of the Tennessee Elecrtlc Power Company. Both cases will be heard April 9. WASHINGTON S FAMOUS CHERRY TREES BURST FORTH IN GALA BLOOM TODAY WASHINGTON, April 4—(TP) —I The capital’s famous Japanese cher-1 ry blossoms will burst forth in all j their glory for thousands of visitors tomorrow. Capital parks officials announced today that the recent below freezing weather in the District of Columbia failed to harm the fragile blsosoms. In jgftditlon. they said, the 30 mile §mtfllMiWTOQiiiiiES FLOOD DAMAGE HIKES TRADE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL CIRCLES WASHINGTON, April 4 (TP) —Widespread increases in whole sale and retail trade were cred ited by the Commerce Depart ment tonight to Easter shopping and buying to. replace flood damage. Several department stores re ported tu'.eo fo.‘ the week ended April 1 as 20 per cent above the same w*!ek last year. The Com mercc Department's weekly bus iness survey of 31 principle nities also showed other depart ment store trade shot up 17 per cent with favorable weather pre vailing. SAVANNAH HOME LOOTED BY THIEVES Burglars Get SSOO Haul In West Broad. Street Apartment Jewelry, clothing and old coins, the whole valued at about SSOO. were stolen some time last night when the residence of Harry And rews, 506 West Broad street, was burglarized,. - according to a police report. f Mr. and.'Mrs. Andrews closed up their which occupies the ground floor of their home a few minutes-'after midnight. When they arrived jn their apartment upstairs they tyiund the rooms ransacked and njtified police. Radio Car Of ficers-J. C. Floyd and C. L. Carter responded. Andrews told the officers the burglar overlooked several valuable Pisces of old jewelry which includ ed a diamond bracelet and diamond 'ear pendants. The stuff listed as stolen was: two suits of men’s dresses, two pair of trousers, a S3OO diamond ring, a woman’s overcoat and the large box qf old coins. Entrance was made by breaking the screen and window next to it on the first floor. ICE TRAPPED FISHING VESSELS SEND S. 0. S. Giant Ice-packs Crush Trawler Fleet Like Egg-shells VALDIVOSTOCH, April 4 (TP) A fleet of Norwegian fishing trawlers locked fast in the ice in the white sea sent a desperate call for help tonight. The trawlers are being crushed to pieces by giant ice-packs in the treacherous waters off arch angel in Soviet Russia. Nine vessels have already been pinched like eggshells between clos ing icebergs. The crews of the de stroyed trawlers scrambled to safety on the ice and were picked up by other vessels. 21 trawlers are still trying to fight free of the grip of Arctic ice. Both th Norwegian and Soviet governments are trying to rescue the imperiled fishermen. MODERN MAN OF SEAS PLANS TO REBUILD OLD PIRATE MANSION FRIENDSHIP, Md.» April 4 (TP) —A modern man of the seas, Com mander Hugh Le Clair of Uncle Sam’s navy, is working on plans to. day to reconstruct a 230 year old mansion once roamed by priates. The old mansion, "Holly Hill", located about half a mile from the water, figures in scores of degends of bucaneering on the Chesapeke Bay two centuries ago. A secret vault* the mansion connects by under’H%und passage with a cave near the water's edge. The cave, according to folklore, once was the storage house for the treasures of the notorious eighteen th century pirate, Hogarth. Commander LeClair bought the mansion from the family that had owned it more than 100 years. He plans co restore the nine foot high fireplaces and English murals of old "Holly Hill’’ and make it his permanent home. wind that whipped around the tidal basin where the trees are located did no damage. Government policemen are all set to handle a record crowd on the banks of the Potomac tomorrow. E’. ery available officer will be on duty from early morning until lane at night. A simplified method of know ing traffic through the parks Yhas been devised. \ May We Present 1 he Savannah Daily Times? ——————————————— iiO. ■ HB HW"! -*> 1 iKI H tj 111 JLJflfcß - .-> .fl wfl jdflfl *■"■■■ ■■■ ii «■ ■ —■■■■-, DETROIT HEARS OF NEW MONEY SCANDAL Grosse Pointe Farms Has $38,000 Shortage Report Says DETROIT, Mich., April 4—(TP) Additional charges of a shortage in public accounts rocketed through Detroit today. Henry Mauer, attorney for a Detorit suburb, Grosse Pointe farms, decler ed the village books are S3B 000 short. He said he intends to question John Kerby who was Grosse Points farms clerk until he resigned recently. The alleged discovery came on th? heels of a $345,000 shortage discov ered in Detroit proper three weeks ago. A national bank of Deroit xice president, James O’Shea, is under in dictment in connection with the dis crepancy. The assistant Detroit budget director, Harry Tyler, shot himself when the $349,000 shortage first was revealed. WATERS THREATEH SCORES OF TOWNS Tennessee River Valley Com munities Fearing River Overflow. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 4—(TP)— Scores of towns in the ennessee river valley are bracing themselves against the threat of the stream to flow over its banks. Driving rains in nearby mountains have sent menacing flood water roll inging down the watershed. One of the chief danger spots is where the river enters northern Alabama. Valleys in the region are being evacuated as lowlanders await the expected 15 foot flood stage. BIG ART COLLECTION OWNED BY ROOSEVELT GOES ON EXHIBITION WASHINGTON, April 4 (TP Washington’s all set today for the opening of an art show that’s sure to be a smash bit. The reason for that confident pre diction? Well, it’s not only the best thing of its kind in the world but it has the distinction of being creat ed by no less a person than the Presdent of the United States. It’s President Roosevelt’s cele brated collection of paintings, prints and models of ships. It goes on i blic exhibition at the Corcoran Museum tomorrow after today’s private showing. Museurx officials have prepared for a record attend ance all during tk time tl &uow is on —which will be until J - ,3. Two hundred and four Ite »are in the collection an<* it tak up four galleries in the nationally known mvseum. Attt lants hav; been busy for days aad days ar ranging the things in ship shape order. Unusual and rare is the display embroidered in and woven into hooked rugs. Two of the ship models are more than a century old. One is a model of the bark. Mary, built by an Nestor of the Presi dent, Captain Isaac Delano, in 1827. Another is a model of the ship Con stitution, built in 1812. BOSTON SOLONS HEATED BY FIRE-PROOF COAL BOSTON, April 4 (TP)—The Bos ton Finance Committee wants to get to the bottom of things. Three members of the committee are on their way to the coal mines near Pittsburgh, Pa., to begin an investigation of Boston's so.called •Tire Proof Coal.” The Investiga tion is a result of complaint of per sens on relief that they are getting <-oal which will not burn. The in vestigate rs want to learn the source of the coal. The committee first plans to •visit the Anthracite. Institute in New York. With this issue, the SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, makes its bow to Savannah and the state of Georgia. Before taking this definite step in the field of afternoon journalism, the SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES has spent months in preparation. No detail, no matter how minute, has been overlooked in paving the way to a successful, per manent and popular periodical. Large sums of money have been spent in equipping the plant, located at Lincoln and Bryan streets, with the best of modern equipment. As a compact, complete unit of publication, the facilities of the SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES is comparable with any publication in the state. Starting modestly as a weekly paper last July, the organi zation which has been rounded out to an efficient, highly trained and experienced group of newspapermen and women, has found its news service to Savannah and the state wel comed to the extent that expansion into the daily field is now not only timely but necessary. The paper has built up an enviable circulation which has been ever increasing. THERE HAS NOT BEEN A SINGLE MONTH SINCE THE START OF THIS PUBLICATION THAT THERE HAS NOT BEEN ’AN INCREASE IN CIRCULATION! Such a record is signfi cant and encouraging. “ In changing the name of this paper from PI BLIC 01 INIOM to the SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, the paper meets the need of the proper explanation that this publication will now be brought to the homes of the subscribers six days in every week—namely, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday morning. The policy of the paper is to be unchanged. It will con tinue in the future as it has in the past to stand for go™l, clean government. To that end it will be aggressive. The treatment of the news will be impartial and will be presented to the reader forcefully and fairly. THERE MILL BE NO OUTSIDE INFLUENCE TO HAMPER. RESTRICT OR DIC TATE THE POLICY OF THIS PAPER! Through the facilities of TRANSRADIO PRESS MIRE SERVICE, the SAVANNAH DAILY TIM?S will be in con stant touch with the world. Teletype printers have been in stalled and will be in continuous operation EIGHIbEiN HOURS every day. Thus the paper will be protected and informed of the world’s news and, from a point of continuec hourly service, will be second to no paper in the state. The best and highest priced syndicate features and news photos have been includd in the daily paper to b e brought DAILY TIMES will be all that Savannahians and Georgians have long since seen the need. It will print the NEWS fearlessly, unbiased and intelli o-ently. It’s editorial page will continue to be forceful, clean and courageous. With the presentment of these facts the undersigned publisher asks your friendship and suppoit. YOUTHFUL TRIO SEEN AS TRIPLE KILLERS Alleged Slayers Doctor Held For Two Other Murders CHICAGO. April 4 (TP)—The number of murders charged against the boys, who admitted killing Dr. Silber Peacock rose to three today. Eighty-two year; old Mathew Hol stein allegedly died from a beating two of the bandit gang gave him a month ago during a hold up. In ad dition to confersing to the murder of Dr. Peacock, the boys say they also shot an elderly tailor while they were robbing him. The four boys three of whom are 19 and the other 17, have been formally charged onb with shoot, ing the physician when he resisted their stick up. Their arraignment was delayed until Tuesday to al low a public defender time to study their case. VET DONATES BONUS TO F. D. R’s. CAMPAIGN WASHINGTON. April 4 (TP)— Another world *v: veteran—Wil liam forh 'a of Richmond Heights. Missouri—today contributed his World War cash bonus to Presi dent Roosevelt’s campaign fund. Vorhees wrot- Forbes Morgan. Secretary of the Domocr; .ic Na tional Committee, that he was op. posed to the bonus payment on principle. Nevertheless, he said, “I want my small amount to help keep the traditions of a wonder ful President.’’ President Roosevelt has twice veto ' ‘he bonus payment. It was passed by Congress se eral months ago over a Presidential veto. Vor hees is the second veteran to do nate his check to the Demor.atic War Chest. PLANS WAR ON PROS COLUMBIA, S. C„ April 4 (TP)— There’s a strong possibility that the state of South Carolina will take a hand in driving professionalism from college athletics. TYBEE EXCITED ON EVE OF BIG ELECTION DAY Mayor And Six Aidermen To Be Chosen At Polls Tomorrow Election at Tybee tomorro.w promises to be a tense and excit ing affair with Merritt W. Dixon, Jr., offering competition to Orrie Bright, present mayor. Both can didates have a large following, and both have posted tickets setting forth the aims of their administra tions. Mayor Bright has been living at Tybe© for several summers. During his administration numerous streets on the island have been paved and the new board walk and parkway besides other improve, ments having been brought about. The most important piece of work, from the viewpoint of property owners, under Mayor Bright’s lead ership is the erosion control going on under the Works Progress Ad ministration. Mr. Dixon has lived at Tybee for forty seasons and ha~ served as chief engineer of the town of Tybee. His father, the late James M. Dixon was at one time mayor of the col ony. Mr. Dixon represents the Bet ter Business Administration, whose principal cry is “Reduction of taxes,” and whose platform en dorses “equal rights to all and spec ial privileges to none.’ NEW YORK HINTS QUIZ INTO WENDELL CASE Brooklyn Prosecutor Plans To Question Detective Parker MT. HOLLY, N. J., Arril 4—(TP) Officials hl”' ,d tonight that Detec tive EUR - arker might surrender to New York authorities in order to get the Hauptman case investigated outside New Jersey. ( Distriot Attorney Geoghan of Brooklyn visited Mt. Holly today to question Parker about the supposed .kidnaping of Paul Wendel. Wendel signed a confession saying he had kidnaped the Lindbergh baby. Later he repudiated it, charging that it was forced from him by torture while he was held prisoner in Brooklyn., Geoghan did not see Parker. He indicated that he may ask arrests in the Wendel case. Parker's friends say that Governor Hoffman might refuse to let New York state extradite the detective. They believe, though, that the Burl ington county sleuth might be glad to submit to Investigation by offi cials he considers unprejudiced and beyond control of New Jersey’s at torney general Wilentz. District At torney Geoghan §ald he would return to question Parker tomorrow. FORMER ROYAL FAMILY OF SPAIN HOLDS SECRET CONFERENCE IN NICE NICE, France, April 4 (TP) Members of the former royal family of Spain held a secret conference in a hotel in Nice today. The family gahering was presided over by the former King Alforso. It is understood that Alfonso is con sidering making an open appeal to the Spanish people to unite for the suppression of the rising radical forces in their country. Eldest, son of Alfonso, Count Co vadonga who is in disfavor was not at the conference. But pearsons close to the family believe the royal fath er and son will soon be reconciled. The count offended Alfonso’s by marrying a Cuban girl who was not of royal blood. However, the recent sickness of count Covadonga has softened the displeasure of his father. EVEN BEST FRIENDS SHUNNED MR. PAPPAS BEFORE HIS OPERATION ROME, April 4 (TP)—Friends of Theodore Pappas complained that ht carried about him day and night a •tightly unpleasant garlic scent was non plussed. He swore that he had given up garlic entirely as soon as he heard the first complaint. He finally went to a doctor. The physician was puzzled too. He f'nally discovered, however, that a piece of * irllc had lodged in a section of the man’s lung. The doctor removed the garlic. Pappas reported an immediate pickup In the hospitality of his friends. HOYNES READY TO START AS TAX RECEIVER Baker’s Successor Will Be Sworn In Tomorrow Morning Thomas M. Hoynes unanimous choice of the Chatham County board of commissioners for receiver of tax r?‘"iras, will be sworn in early Monday morning before Judge Gor don aussy, ordinary. .. The court order electing Mr. Hoynes to succeed the late Marcus Baker until the primary is held next month is now in the hands of Governor Eugene Talmadge and is expected to ’ be- returned with his signature in tinie for Mr. Hoynes to take the oath of office Monday. Mr. Hoynes said today that his resignation from the Works Pro gress -Administration, of which he has been district administrator for nine months, will take immediate effect, as his new duties require that he reopen the tax receivers office as soon possible. The of fice has been closed since the death -of .Mr. Baker on Thursday Donald J. Nichols, WPA distript engineer, has been appointed to succeed Mr. Baker on Thursday succeed Mr. Hoynes. The board of commissioners will run Mr. Hoynes in the primary as a candidate for election to the full four year ■ term, which begins in January. 1937. A salary of approx imately $250 per month, will be piad ibe official this year, the County paying a. portion Q.f thjs amount monthly, while the state pays the remainder in October in a lump sum when state taxes are returned. Mr. Hoyes has been prominent in ’Savannah’s civic and business life for a number of years, having twice been mayor and three times president of ihe Chamber of Com merce. He is a retired district manager of the Standard Oil Com pany. SOCIALITE LOSER IN POST OFFICE FIGHT LEALIZE LOTTERIES WASHINGTON, April 4 (TP) The New York Socialite Mrs. Oliver Harriman lost round one of her current’ battle with the post of fice department late today. Mrs. Harriman is head of the National Conference for Legaliz ing Lotteries! Her organization is apearing before Post Office Solic itor Crowley to prevent issuance of a fraud order that would bar them from using the; mails. ; The organization’s lawyer asked that the paragraph in the complaint which states 1 that Mrs. Harriman offered $60,000 in prizes without having, the cash in the bank be stricken out. Crowley refused to do this. Mrs. Harriman did not ap pear in person. FISHING OF PRESIDENT BOTHERED BY WINDS MIAMI, Fla., April 4 (TP)— Strong winds interfered today with President Roosevelt’s fishing as the White House yacht moved a little to the southwest of its location yesterday. In a message to his aides in Miami, the President said that he caught some bluefish and other rare varieties yesterday. The strong winds are expected to let up tonight giving the President another good day for fishing tomor- rnur row. . . _ INTERNATIONAL POLICE FORCE TO KEEP HARMONY IN EUROPE IS AIM OF FRANCE PARIS, April 4 —(TP)— France ade a hasty draft of a new peace plan today to throw back at Ger many. The plan is the French an swer to the proposals of Chancellor Hitler to keep thnlgs quiet on the old western front. The French plan will be submit ted to her fellow Locarno powers and to the league of nations. 5c I PAY NO MORE t .s.• i -ii Pr s® G.O.P. LEADERS ASK JERSEY GOVERNOR TO QUIT POLITICS t Bruno’s Body Be Cremated | And Scattered Over Saxony Forest TRENTON, N. J., April 4 (TP)— ’ Governor Harold Hoffman's activi- ' ties in the Hauptmann case made him the target of lashing attacks by two New Jersey Republican lead ers today. One, former Congressman Frank lin Fort, of Newark, announced his ■ i opposition to the Governor as a candidate for delegate at large to the National Republican Conven- tion at Cleveland. The other, vice president He-iry Du Bois of the . Bergen County Associated Republi- j >can Clubs, asked Hoffman to retire j from, the to “protect the Republican Party, if possible, from the ghastly situation he said has | arisen from the Hauptmann case.’’ ; Fort, who has taken no f.c've ; part in politics for the past five i years, 'said: “When the governor makes a mockery of our courts ard iuries and drags his high office into the mire. I cannot remain silent.’’ The governor sharply wired Du Bois that when it becomes neces sary for him to. stop fighting for ; the things he believes to be right in order to remain in a party, he i would withdraw from it. The gov ernor added: “I do not believe yuu represent the wishes of the mrty or the j-ank of Jersey citizens.” The -Jersey State Police heaji. Col. Norman Schwartzkopf is re viewing the Hauptmann case to night to decide who to recommend for Jersey’s $25,000 reward Governor Hoffman called upon him today to su ait recommenda. ticns for the person or persons en titled to the reward which the state offered for the arrest and convic tion of the Lindbergh kidnaper. The body of Bruno Richard Hauptmann is to be cremated and his ashes scattered in Saxony For est where he played as a boy. Tranhradio learned this today from a member of the family of one of-Hauptmann's spiritual advisers. Mrs. Hauptmann will go to Ge*- many with the remains according to present plans. Later she will re turn to the United States with her son. Mannfried. . d The over-wrought widow is not I expected to make the trip to Tren. | ton today to claim the body of her husband. Instead she will be re presented by Attorney C. Lloyd Fisher. , HOOVER SARCASTIC I IN NEW DEAL ATTACK Former President Blames Roos velt For 1233 Bank Panic. FORT WAYNE. Ind., April 4—(TP) Former President Hoover made an other sarcastic attack on the New Deal tonight. Hoover addressed a re publican meeting in Fort Wayne. He surprised his listeners with the Intimation that President Roosevelt was in large part to blame for the banking panic of 1933. He insisted . that the New Deal has been no more ’ responsible for business improvement i since 1933 than a rooster which • crows before daylight is responsible ' for the rising of the sun. ~3tU paSaatp luapisord Jautioj apj, the New Deal has done little to re duce unemployment, has turned re-• . lief into a political machine, and ' has greatly increased governmental expenses instead of cutting them. 1 Said Hoover: "Some of the mul- 1 1 titude of New Deal policies have been > right. The American people do not ■ expect policies undertaken to reach 1000 percent batting average. "However statistics s’" that the New Deal’s batting r.v-rage on prom . Ises has been .933. On major policies ' it has been .030. On the constitu tion it has been .006.” L CATHOLIC YOUTH GROUP > HIT ‘FUTURE WAR VETS’ 1 SPOKANE, Wash., April 4 (TP> ’ The spring convention of the Cath- I olic youth of the inland empire lash -1 ed out today at he veterans of fu -5 ture wars organization. t A convention resolution declared t that "the mocking demands for a - bonus for unsought wars reeks with communist propaganda.” France suggested that the league form a body of international police to keep order in Europe. She propos ed that each of the big powers pro* vide four mechanized dlviakms pf troops and that tfte little, league nations each have one stand- Ing by These troops would be called I out for emergency polite work I against any violator of the peace. I I a