Newspaper Page Text
GAMBLE ENDORSES NEGRO REPUBLICAN
WEATHER
bHOWtRt,
»li«htly
WARMKR
3
VOLUME I—NUMBER 2
DEADLY TORNADO RIPS THROUGH THREE
STATESTO REAP DEATH HARVEST OF 500
Gainesville, hardest hit
POINT; OVER 100 KNOWN DEAD THERE;
MISSISSIPI AND ALABAMA SUFFER
I (BY TRANSRADIO PRESS)
4 tornado, ripping its way across northern Georgia, dipping here and there in its
eneei m HU and destroy, had, at a late hour this afternoon, collected a death toll in Georgia and
MiaaUrippi exceeding 500.
•WOMVILLE, Ga., April 6 (TP>
--Tr*Mwa44o correspondents nave
M raaehad tornado-ripped Gaines*
Ml** where two big fires are now
*Mlng.
Fire engine companies from At
lanta, Buford and Lawrenceville
are -eembaltinc the flames which
threaten the whole town. Thirty
bohtee hare been found. Unofficial
reports .place the death toll of the
bowline tornado which smashed
down Just before nine o'clock this
moralqg at M)0. Hundreds .were in
jured. ' j
The flailing winds smashed the
main part of the town. Buildings
• erumpled Uike a child’s house of
•arde. f'tW'e -complete blocks of the
basineior -aetcion and seven square
blocks at Mornes were demolished.
Ambulances are wailing into the
stricken; town from surrounding
MUaa. tlodtors are frantically ap-
Cling for -more nurses and med
supplleH. ’’
.Ptfiraction and death is on every
band. .Up one street and down the
ether the dreadful scenes of the
storm’s fury are on every hand
communication wires are down in
tangled heaps.
At mid-day the water supply was
-Mill cut off. A temporary tele
phone headquarters has been hast
uy set up just outside of town to
handle emergency calls. The Red
Cross is speeding doctors, nurses
and supplies from Atlanta.
Half an hour before the black
!u.';n*V«narled down on Gainesville
tt howled .through nearby Actworth.
From Gainesville it jumped to Toc
coa'.; Georgia* then smashed down
once more at Anderson, South Car
olina? , r -
Late yesterday the death dealing
Tornado struck first at Tupelo,
Mississippi. There the number of
known dead! reached 100 soon after
noon. Twenty-five persons were re.
ported-dead'and scofes more injur
ed in -tytoneville, Mississippi about
40 miles ndrth of Tupelo. . - Still
standing churches and public build
ings bate been converted Into emer
gency Hospitals. ' '
Manilhl law has been declared at
are now enroute to
GalrfeevilU. Tender hands put 100
seriously Injured aboard a train at
Tupelo,,enroute to Memphis for
hospital qare. • ’ . .
TO-AtKWGRTH
ATLANTA. Ga., April 8 (TP)—
The destructive southern tornado
moved from Gainesville to Ack.
worths Georgia, killing and injur,
lag aniuhknown number of persons.
■ 110 IN MISSISSIPPI
JACKSON, Miss., April « (TP)—
The governor’s office estimated the
death toll from Mississippi’s tor
sado at 250 this afternoon. Hund
reds are known to be critically in.
Jared. Many of them will not re
•over.
The Mississippi adjutant general
has called out additional * state
troops.
Tupelo felt the full force of the
tornado. More than 10| are now
known to pe dead. Millions of dol
lars in property damage is reported.
’ * MARTIAL LAW
-JUPELO, Miss.. April 6 (TP
-Martial law has been declared in
tbb tdttsado devastated sector a
rettdd Tupelo. The troops under the
ysiatonaJ direction of Adjutant Gen
«r«l O’Kaefe, Are searching for the
bnllrf of victims killed in last
alfM’a tornado,; ,
25 MORt ;
BOONEVILLE. Mltoj «
(T^)— Twenty-five person, gfa said
to be fitod and oeorec tajur*d ~in
too* *♦ W ■
al MB *ary. ,
, >frl ALAIAMA ■
tM through
mnirrr fit Tiamga tbu morning
to •fit'W * 5»-*>raado
toal -'-gtoMMsed fitoM northwestern
M«todto.toto Alabama. T ,
The ewod
wtrea waMfifi
ease* 1 th* (MCraaMMi 1
The «e»W wf toe towns area was;
Ittn. . -I
buitd
aA TUp«lCt*»d. dflier stricken >
ViutO
L oD
towns are filled with the dead and
injured.[
Tupelo "ears a death toll of more
than IbS. Southern Tennessee es
timates its dead at five. Arkansas
reports two people killed.
A driving rain which followed
the twister hampered rescue work
CADETS HELP
GAINESVILLE, Ga., April 6 (TP)
—Cadets at the Riverside Military
Academy in Gainesville are helping
with rescue work in the tornado
smashed town.
Girls from the Brenau Academy
are helping care for the Injured.
FIND 40 BODIES
OVERALL FACTORY
GAINESVILLE, Ga.. April 6
(TP)—Forty bodies have just
bene recovered from the ruins
of an overall factory crushed by
the tornado this morning. Res
cue workers are digging franti
cally In the wreckage of store
buildings. More bodies are being
found hourly. Already the death
toll in Gainesville alone has
rtached 10tr. Firemen are naw
dynamiting buildings to put out
fires raging in many sections.
The water supply is still shut
off.
HORTON SMITH
TAKES LEAD IN
AUGUSTA TOURNEY
AUGUSTA, Ga.. April « (TP)
Horton 3r , .lth too’, the lead today
in the Masters Golf Championship
with a 72-hole score of 285.
Smith was winner of the tourna
ment in 1934. He played his final
36-hole today in 140 Strokes. His
play on the final two rounds was
four strokes unde. par.
Smith’s 285 was considered good
enough to win the tournament.
NUDE STATUE PLAN .
MAKES OLD TIMERS
IN TEXAS HOPPING MAD
‘ AUSTIN. Tex., April 8 (TP)—
Many a Texas old-timer is hopping
mad today over a plan to erect a
nude statue as “The Spirit .of
Texas Pioneers.”
A committee selecting a suitable
group for the Texas Centennial .hit
upon a model depicting a hardy
pioneer family conquering the fron
tier in their blrthdgy suits. A de
luge Os angry howls resulted.
Artists from the east pointed out
the proposed statue exemplifies
modern art. They explained it was
all symbolic. ,»
That didn’t satisfy one man who
knew Texas in its six shooting lays.
“My gijandpappy wore plenty of
clothes when he settled this coun
try,” the old timer said, “Why, we
might have been ’bit’ by a rattle
snake!”
CHOCTAW INDIAN _
HELD WIFE SLAYER
MCALESTER, OKLA, April «. (TP)
—A full-blooded Choctaw Indian, Al
bert Carney, faces charges today of
; slaying his wife. Mrs. Camay, who
Is also a member of the Cnoctaw tribe,
was found beaten to death on their
,lonly farm heme in west Mcalester
last Saturday night.
Call 7900 - 7448
H To Start Your
!
DAILY
TIMES
Delivery Today
, -
i Both academys were out of the
storm's path.
More than 30 doctors are working
’ feverishly, and a fleet of ambul
• ances and private cars has been
i carrying injured out of the city
ever since the storm’s fury struck
this morning.
Transradio corresponedts count
ed 28 dead. Police estimate that
many others died or received in
' juries that will prove fatal. Red
Cross headquarters are set up in
the dining room of the partly mash
[ ed Dixie Hunt Hotel in the town
square. Several buildings were still
1 burning in mid-afternoon.
N. Carolina
Solon Victim
Os Stabbing
U. 8. Senator Attacked By
Man Who Makes
His Escape
WASHINGTON, April 6 (TP)—
An unidentified assailant stabbed
North Carolina’s Senator, Robert
Reynolds, this morning. The man
attacked Reynolds with a knife, but
inflicted only minor wounds.
Squads of Washington police are
cruising the streets radiating out
from the capitol searching for the
attacker. He leaped upon the
North Carolina Democrat in the
Senator’s office in the Senate of
fice building, the attacker was out
on the streets. Police are working
on a partial description of the man.
who is thought to be deranged.
Senator Reynolds has been fili
buster was to be temporarily side
tracked today while the senate took
up a scheduled impeachment trial
of a southern judge,
MRS. HAUPTMANN
SOBS AS BRUNOS
BODY CREMATED
Private, Brief Services Held At
Grem&tory Ch&pel
MASPETH, L. 1., April g (TP)— ,
The body of Bruno Richard Haupt. ,
mann was Cremated today. The cre
mation followed brief funeral ser
vices. ? i t
' Private ’ceremonies were held in
the Fresh Pond Crematory Chapel.
The’Reverends John Mathieson and
D. G. Werner offered prayers.
Mrs. Hauptmann sobbed quietly.
At her side was Greta Henckle,
whom the Haupmann case prose
cutors showed to be a close friend
of Bruno. Others present were
Lloyd Fisher, Bruno’ attorney, Har
ry Whitney,- a relative of Mrs.
Hauptmann’s and Robert Hicks,
who acted as one of Governor Hoff
man's private Investigators.
In nearby Brooklyn a cleaner,
named David Fromberg partially
substantiated Paul Wendel’s story
of his connection with the Haupt
mann case. Wendel charges that he
was tortured until he confessed the
Lindbergh baby kidnaping to his
kidnapers. His confession won
Hauptmann an extra 72 hours of
life.
The cleaner Identified Wendel’s
suit as one that had been taken
to him by a man othei than Wendel
at the time the Jersey lawyer says
he was held. Wendel had told of the
suit cleaning incident. The cleaner
said there were blood stains on the
shoulders of the coat, indicating
that Wetidel Md been tortured.
WHAT WOULD BARNUM
SAY ABOUT THIS?
ST. LOUIS April 6, (TP)—lt will
cost Barnum and Bailey’s Circus just
11,500 for preventing a b?y from
slipping into the “Big Show.’’ Fifteen
year lod Herman Broyles wori those
damages from the circus.
He complain He complained a
guard struck him ncn he was discover
ed peeing Under the tent.
Testimony showed the youngster
may suffer permanent eye injury as
I a result of the attack i
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1936.
TOWNSEND PUBLICATION SCRUTINIZED BY PROBERS
y / >2
wtoHB , /J
James R. Sullivan, committee counsel, reads from t he Townsend Weekly
The Townsend National Weekly,
official organ of the old age pen
sion organization, comes in for
scrutiny at the congressional in.
Securities Board
Hit JJy Ruling
MARILYN MILLER
BELIEVED DYING
Famed Ziegfeld Star In Toxic
Condition
New York April e. (tp)— The
famed Ziegfeld star, Marilyn Miller,
is near death. Attaches of doctors’
hospital said her condition is very
critical this afternoon.
The nimble-footed dancer who made
musical comedy history on Broad vay
is suffering from Toxic condition. She
was considered out of danger yesterday '
but doctors now say nere recovery <
is doubtful. ’
Miss Miller is Mrs. Chester O’Brien 1
offstage. She suffered a nervous break- 1
down about three weeks ago and en- ;
tered doctors’ hospital for treatment.
SAVANNAH BEACH
ELECTIOH STIRS
RESORT S VOTERS '
1
Mayor And Six Aidermen To '
Be Named Today;
Police Busy
Savannah Beach was a busy and
bustling place when the polls at the ’
Town Hall opened this morning at
10 o’clock for the election of a may- ‘
or and six aidermen to serve the 1
next two years. A. L. Hildreth, chief 1
of the police department of Tybee, 1
stood on gu?id during the day, and *
Frank P. Mclntire, attorney of Tybee,
gave legal advice on any problems
that arose during the election.
B. H. Levy and A. Perry Solomon
checked voters as they entered, the
former handling the present adminis
rtation’s ticket, and the latter taking
charge of the new party’s backers.
On the boards for reelection are i
Mayor Orrie Bright, aidermen; J. (
Ferris Cann. W. S. Lovell. Sam Blu
menthal, W. C. Logan, H. F. Sharp
ley and Dr. H. Y. Righton.
On the opposing side are Merritt
W. Dixon, Jr., for mayor, and the ;
following for aide men; Stephen N. i
Harris, John D. McGillicuddy, A
Perry Solomon, Jr., Walter A. Nor
ton, Miller Kaminsky, and C. F.
Schafer. I
TOBACCO MARKET
NEW YORK, April 6 (TP)—The
tobacco market remained in the ,
doldrums today. Bright futures clos. i
ed unchanged at the bid price of
19 cents. Burley futures were un- '
change at the nominal price of 15 1
cents. There were no sales.
yestigaiton of the Townsend group
in Washington as James R. Sulli
van, committee counsel, questions
Robert E. Clements, resigned co-
High Court
Cuts Powers
In Decision
Constitutionality Os Act Not
Affected By Jones
Case Verdict
WASHINGTON April, 6„ (TP)
The United States Supreme court to
day ruled against the securities ex
chnge commission in respect to its
regulation barring the withdrawal of
securities registration statements.
The court did not rule on the con
stitutionality of the act itself;
The decision was handed down in
the case brought by J. Edvard Jones.
New York oil royalties broker. He had
attacked the Commission’s refusal Lo
permit him to withdraw a registration
-tatement for SIOO,'WO worth of oil
participation ertifi' tes. He assailed
tne constitutionality of the whole sec
u*.' e u exchange commission act at
the same time. The court, however, !
made no ruling on validity of the a.t
which was passed in 1933.
Justice Stone, Brandeis and Car
doza dissented frem the Majority ourt
opinion.
Jones’ attorneys argued before the
court that the law itself did not deny
the withdrawal of registration state
ment. He charged it was a commission
regulation, of which notice was given
only in ne sp.-per articles.
U. S. STEEL
HITS NEW HIGH
NEW YORK. April 6. (TP)—Chair
man Taylor announced optimistically
today that the U. S. Steel Corporation
is operating at its highest level since
1930.
Taylor told the annual stacknolder’s
meeting that the present operating
rate is more than 60 per cent of cap
acity production.
All the directors of the vast steel
c'ncern were re-elected. A dozen detec
tives sat among the 200 stockholders
present, but the meeting passed off
without trouble. One stocknolder
wanted to know why steel executives
were paid what he calls fabulcus sal
aries.
Chairman Taylor answered that men
capable of handling big jobs are
scarce. He said they must be welt
I paid if the company ; s going to hong
i onto them.
» founder of the Townsend group,
■ concerning medical advertisements
i Promises of rejuvenation in the ads
■ brought laughter.
Parades Help
Nation Honor
Army Today
Reviews, Air Shows Also
Staged By Maby
Camps In U. S.
WASHINGTON, D. April 6 -
(TP) Officers and enlisted meh
tumbled out early this mirning In ex
ery army post in the eounry. Today
is army day and Uncle Sam’s fight
ing men will celebrate the occasion
with dress parades, reviews and air
shows.
The nation’s capital will witness the
most spectacular army day parade
when thousands of khaki-clad troops
will tramp down historic Constitutiori
avenue. Included in the line of march
will be rumbling tanks, squadrons bf
well-trained cavalry, lines of- field'
artillery, a few heavy coast artillery
guns and the fast-moving vehicles of
the army transport division. Over
head, planes will wheel and dip tn a
salute to the traditions of the army
and the meii who have fought and
died for army ideals.
President Roosevelt will be missing
from the grandstand this year; He is
away on a fishing vacation and in his
absence vice-president Johri Nance
Garner will take t« salute of the
army forces as it passes in review.
Army day was inaugurated As a
celebration to mark the anniversary
of America’s entry into the world
war. Today’s celebration commemo
rates he 19h anniversary of the dec
laration of war against the central
powers.
Pacifists will observe the day, as
well as militarists. The national
council for prevention of war will
meet before the statue of tne late
Senator Robert LaFollette, of Wis
consin to honor the representatives
and senators who voted against
America’s paricipation in the great
war. Among the speakers will be
Representatives Lundeen and Knut
son, who both sild "no” when the
war vote was polled.
Six senators and 50 congressmen
voted against the declaration of war
19 years ago. Twenty-nine are still
living and all have been invited to
attend the peace ceremonies. Lundeen
and Knutson are the only two anti
war representatives still serving In
congress. Senator Norris of Nebraska
is the only active member of the up
per chamber who voted against the
war declaration.
■' 1. ■■ ■ ■ ■ ■ f ;
WRITES WPA HEAD TO HELP
LEMON REGAIN POSITION AS
WHITE COLLAR NEGRO CHIEF
(— —. - \ ,> . »• • 1 /■■■ ■ :' ♦ » j,<i '
GAMBLE’S LETTER
April 4th, 1936. < ~
Miss Gay B. Sheppersoh, administrator \ 3.7
Works Progress Administration of Georgia - 5 • ‘
10 Forsyth St. Building,.' , . »:r
Atlanta, Ga. • i <.* ■' • *-» • '
My dear Miss Shepperfcorf: ♦
J. G. Lemon, a well known colored attorney of this city- '
who has been selected.to head the survey of the ‘.white colkr’
class of negroes in Chatham county,.dayman;of good repute/
very intelligent,- energetic, andjMroughly capable in every -
.way of supervising this wor^ifrFmost satisfactory manner; - 1
I understand that this work is going bn in a number of
cities of Georgia and elsewhere and ! see ho reason why'SaV-i*
vannah should not have a similar survey; conducted by cbL *
ored employes of the'WPAJin;order to ascertain fietaW
conditions surrounding colored teachers,, stenographers,
nurses and others who are included in the class referred to, : '
I hope that the project ’willbeinaugurated.inconjunc
tion with similar projpects in .other cities. •
With best wishes, , •
I ~ Sincerely yours,, . . .////
[ . / -THOMAS GAMBLE, Mayor.
\ 11 1111111 -•- 'J J'- . ../ 17 .11l LII '■IIIIH l'i- I
A thorough investigation >y .THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES
today disclosed thaVMayor Thomas Gamble has endorsed a di*
charged fiegjp Republican, under>:Ki a own signature (cop/of
which is now-in the hands of the editor of this paper)' for rein
statement as an official in the WPA ranks at-a monthly salary
Os $l5O. ' ’ . ■ i ... . ; ; -r
The negro involved is J. G. Lembp, negro RepubßcanUttpw,,
who, following a protest raised by this paper,
charged as the director of a project to make a ‘ survey
negro white collar workers’-in this district '/
When this paper learned that -this negro, for political
sons, had been installed in this position in-the face of a-general
order to reduce the ranks of the relief workers then on cut’-pay.
it raised a vigorous protest/both in print and to offifeiaf chan--
nels in Washington. The result was that Leihan
days and was'fired. „ ~ . -/•
Following his discharge, Lemon took his.case to his
good friend, Mayor Gamble. Apparently, he found a ready
listeher for here is an exact copy .of .the .letter , which the chief
executive of this city wrote to the the W'pl iH Georgia :
Mayor Gamble’s appeal for the ? white collar’ hegroes-tea-'
chers, stenographers ,and nurses woiild, hndefr ordinary 'circum
stances be* accepted a humanitarian, Savarinahiahs obseHed
today—if such appeal did'not coiiie siihultSrilspliMy
to discharge seven-hundred and fifty destitute white
SavaanaWWPA rdMitfcii week!
That Mayor Gamble should have forgotten hid:offteiaLiJbai
tion so far as to dabble into, a Republican political manedvbF bt
the expense of white woffien, who; by the* loss bf their jobi Arid'
the subsequent suffering bf jtheir chirred defending iip6ii?tiO
for food; must pay for his magnanimity toward hid riegbbJtl
publicari friend; drew the indigri'atibri Os those who leaHW bf
his adt tqday; *
The 750 WPA employes to b.e discharged w&k ineji&h
those now employed at the iriattress factory; thd
on Barnard and Jones street and the Community't&rden Jirhjeefc ’
The last Hamed project includes wbmeri add Unemployable med
who because of the. physical infirmities, Cbtiid not do manual
labor even if provided for them.
The history of the Lemon‘case goes back'to March £0 wljen
it first became known that the .local WPA authorities had re
ceived brders from Washington to appoint Attorney Lemta as
director of the negro white collar’ project with stilt Muthbfity to
hire his own associates. > - r
This promptly angered local WPA authorities who quietly
saw they were being made political pawns by Washington, poli
ticians to lure the negro Republican vote in Georgia. However,
they were powerless to sidetrack the dictates of the capital
bigwigs. 1
Attorney Lemon’s salary was fixed at $l5O per month.
His political importance included $25 per month expenses—this
for gasoline money and such to provide transportation so he
could ride around to see how the ‘white collar’ relief worker*
were getting along. His first official act was to appoint another
negro Republican, J. G. Garey, who has, in years past, been gctfvo'
in party affairs. His salary was fixed at $43 per month.’Lemon
then added two negro women at $43 per month salaries.
All this lasted four days until the disclosures madefby this
paper brought the proper pressure to bear in Washington. Lenn
on and his crew was then let out.
Lemon’s maneuvers now, aided by Mayor Gamble, are for
the purposes-of having his project reinstated.
There would, perhaps be no protesting voices raised to the
creation of a ‘white collar* negro project is such a political
checker play did not come at a time when chieftains of the WPA
have ordered drastic reductions of all class workers from ths
‘p.vrolh. '
3c
PAY NO MOBK
- wGamMMMßtoWtotoMMtoMMaMto
transbadio press