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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