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SPECTRE OF DISEASE STALKS GAINESVILLE
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SHOWERS,
SLIGHTLY
WARMER
VOLUME I—NUMBER 2
11 PASSENGERS KILLED WHEN
AIRLINER HITS MOUNTAINSIDE
Storm Blinds
Pilot’s Way;
Three Escape
T. W. A. liner out of Newark wrecks near Uniontown, Pa.—Wife
of Newark Mayor believed to be among survivors—
Injured hostess flashes news of tragedy
UNIONTOWN, PENN.—April 7 ,TP)
Eleven people died today when * a
T. W. A. Airliner hr’tled into a moun
tain side four miles south of Union
town.
Three people escaped death. One
was the hostess of the ship, Mss M.
H. Granger. Although injured, she
staggered away from the wreckage to
a telephone in a nearby farmhouse.
Th;re she telephoned the T. W. A.
headquarteds of the tragedy.
The ship left Newark airport this
morning with 11 passengers and the
crew of three. It was bound for
Kansas City.
Miss Granger, the/Aostess, was the
only member of the crew to escape
death. The other two, Captain Otto
Ferguson and the First Officer, H. C.
H. C. Lewis, died in the wreckage of
the big commercial plane.
The airliner last reported by radio
at 10:09 A. M., eastern standard time.
The pilot gave his position as ten
miles east of Pittsburg. He said a
makng the scheduled stop there.
Pilot Ferguson raid he would fly on
with his dwindling gasoline supply
and try to reach Columbus, Ohio. He
advised T. W. A. headquarters that
he would attempt a landing there.
Uniontown is almost directly south
of Pittsburg. The airliner apparently
made little headway in its fight to
reach a safe landing'gfWr'Sbandoning
th? ?ttempt to land at Pittsburg.
The big airliner, a Douglas trans
port plane, left Newark at 8 o’clock
this morning.
Among the passengers was the wife
of the mayor of Newark, N. J.—Mrs.
M?’*er Ellenstein.
The names of the victims among the
passengers were not learned immedi
ately. Only two of them escaped
death.
Passengers on the plane included:
Charles H. Smith, New Kingston, Pa.
D. D. August, Greve City, Pa.
Crawford Kelly, McKeesport, Pa.
C. G. Bayersdorfe<r, Stuebenville,
Ohio.
Frank Hardiman, Jersey City, N. J.
G. B. Arcy, Park Central Hotel,
New York.
Don O’Neill, 260 Lexington Avenue,
New York.
Hefferman, Governor Clinton Hotel,
New York.
Mrs. Meyer Ellenstein, wife of the
miycr of Newark, N. J.
C. G. Chammimor, address unknown.
R. G. Evans, Pittsburg.
The great plane hurtled to earth
in the heart of the Allegheny moun
tains. Many ships have met disaster
in that vicinity. The ship was ap
parently fully 50 miles off her course.
LONGSHOREMEN MEET
TONIGHT AT NEW HOME
The first meeting of Local No.
1414, International Longshoremen’s
Association has been called for 7
o’clock tonight at the new home of
the local at 318 East Bay street.
The new organization is composed
of negro longshoremen of Savan
nah.
For several weeks Frank Hender
son, International organizer, and C.
M. Fox, local organizer, have been
conducting a drive for membership.
Mr Fox has been chosen business
agent of the Savannah local.
The Initial meeting was to have
been held last night but was called
off when It was found llghlng facil.
Itles had not been completed. Head
quarters of the local are In the
building formerly occupied by the
Savannah Mattress Company.
GIVEN 60 DAYS
Robert Carter, negro, 17. . was
sentenced to serve sixty days on
the Brown Farm after he appeared
in police court this morning on a
charge of burglary.
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SAVANNAH
DAILY
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i Weather bureau officials said that
i rain and sleet were falling over the
- mountains at the time the air-liner
- was last heard from. Pilot Ferguson
radioed then that he would go on to
’ Columbus.
. Uniontown is on National highway
> number 40 which goes over the moun
>! tains.
Army pilots rsported finding of the
. wreckage at about the same time that
Miss Granger telephoned news of the
> disaster.
s Doctors sped to the scene of the
crash from Uniontown, four miles
away.
• The plane was believed to have
s crashed in a field btween the little
> village of Haydentown, Pa., and the
famous Summit Hotel, in the foot-
1 hills of the Alleghenies. Haydentown
is a village of 150 persons, eight miles
> south of Uniontown.
Mrs. Meyer Ellenstein, wife of the
i mayor of Newark, is believed to be
i one of the survivors of the T. W. A.
air disaster in western Pennsylvania.
i
’ TO INVESTIGATE
! WASHINGTON, April 7—(TP)
, Four special investigators of the bu
reau of air commerce left Washing
i ton at three o’clock this afternoon to
' visit the scene of the air tragedy in
i Western Pennsylvania. Eleven people
: were killed in the crash near Uhldn
Town, Pa. Two of the inspectors are
flyl»g, one is going by auto and an-
: other by train.
ON HIS WAY
NEWARK, N. J., April 7—(TP)—
Mayor Meyer C. Ellenstein of Newark
is leaving by plane for the scene of
■ the T. W. A. airliner disaster. Mrs.
I Ellenstein was one of the ship’s 11
passengers. Whether she was one of
those killed or one of the two who
survived, could not be immediately
I determined.
TO RESCUE
HAYDENTOWN, Pa., April 7—(TP)
Emergency crews are on the way to
• the scene of the T. W. A. airplane
> crash. The operator at Haydentown
I just told transradio that almost no
. details of the crash were yet deflnlte-
1 ly known. After reporting the accl
, dent, the hostess of the plane re
turned to the scene.
i The crash, according to the Hay
dentown, operator, occurred several
■ miles from the Summit hotel, near
Haydentown. It is not known there
1 which of the two passengers in the
plane escaped death.
The plane's hostess was understood
■, to say that one of the passengers
. still alive was a woman.
FIRE BLAZING ON
FISHING STEAMER
I
SEATTLE, April 7 (TP)—Fire is
! blazing in the forward hold of the
fishing steamer, "Santa Flavia."
The vessel is a floating cannery
. used in the Alaskan Salmon Fish
ery. The fire broke out this morn
ing. One man is believed trapped in
the hold on the ship. Although the
steamer was tied up to tbe dock,
firemen hav? been unable to put
out the blaze.
i Damages are estimated at $300,-
000.
I GAVE JUDGE $2,500
FOR RECEIVERSHIP
■ WASHINGTON, April 7 (TP)
5 The first witness in the impeach,
ment trial of Federal Judge Hal
sted Ritter of Florida admits that
he paid Ritter $2,500 the same day
s the judge granted him a $75,000 re
i ceivership tee.
1 The witness who appeared before
a the Senate, which sat as an im
peachment court, is A L. Rankin,
Judge Ritter's former law partner.
Rankin said that the $2,500 pay
ment was in cash, with no receipt
given or asked. Questioned as to
why he gave the Federal Judge the
>money in bills, Rankin said:
. "It was an honest debt which 1
I wanted to pay. I didn’t draw a
' chec! “cause I was afraid it would
•subject "Ige Ritter io criticism. ’’
1 Proescution authorities, beaded
by Representative Hobbs of Ala
bama, maintains Ritter granted
Rankin excessive fees and then ac
cepted gratuities from his law
partner. The defense insists that
Judge Ritter was "meticulous’’ in
his dealings while on the bench, ri«
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who were in the store of John M. Elrod Monday morning
when it was demolished by the storm here. Only two per
sons were slightly hurt as the miraculously escaped the
FRENCH EXPECTED
TO FIGHT LEAGUE
ON ITALIAN BAN
Seen Ready To Ask End Os
Sanctions At Meet
ing Tmorrow
GENEVA, April 7—(TP)—A loud
cry for an end to league of nations
sanctions against Italy is expected
from French spokesmen when the
league's committee of 13 meets in
Geneva o nWednesday.
The committee of 13 has been sum
moned to consider the African war
situation a"d receive replies to the
league's recent call for a truce in
the Ethiopian fracas. France is ex
pected to take advantage of the ses
sion to fight for an end to the anti-
Italian economic penalties.
According to well-founded reports,
Foreign Minister Flandin is anxious
to revive the old Stresa front, which
included France, Italy and Great
Britain before the African war broke
out. Flandid, it is reported believes
a strong franco-Italian alliance is
necessary to Insure Italy’s continued
vigilance over Austrian independence.
Unless the Ethiopian war is end
ed soon, France fears, Italy’s man
power will be drained too heavily to
maintain the strong forces which
Premier Mussolini keeps on his north
ern border. As a warning to Ger
many to leave Austria alone. France
is afraid that if Italy is weakened
much more by the African warfare
and the league’s sanctions. Chancell
or Hitler will move into Austria and
re-establish the old Austro-German
combination that was alive before the
war.
With recent Italian victories in
Ethiopia. Flandin feels that Mussolini
is ready to talk peace terms now. The
French believe that the biggest step
towards an Immediate end of the
African struggle would be to lift anti-
Italian sanctions as soon as possible.
BACK BAY BOSTON
STAGES FOX HUNT
BOSTON, April 7 —(TP)— There
was an honest-to-goodness fox hunt
on historic Boston common today.
Before it ended, the chase went
through most of the fashionable Back
Bay district.
Patrolman Eben Flanders covers the
Boston Common beat. He discovered
the fox in—of all things—the branches
of a small tree. He notified the ani
mal rescue league. A man was sent
from that institution to get the fox.
The fox jumped to the ground,
sped across the common, the public
gardens and ran up and down a
half dozen Back Bay srteets. It final
ly tried to squeeze through the bars
of a high iron fence and became
tightly wedged.
The animal rescue legaue's agent
gingerly extracted the fox and hur
ed off to headquarters.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, APRIL 7,1936
Marilyn Millet, Former Wife
Jack Pickford And Brilliant
Star Answers Her Last Cue
NEW YORK, April 7 (TP)—Mari
lyn Miller of- th© musical comedy
stage died this morning in Doctors’
Hosptial.
The actress who rose from vaude
ville circuits to stardom in Flo
Ziegfeld’s brilliant Broadway shows,
suffered a nervous breakdown about
three weeks ago. A toxic complica.
tion developed and since Sunday
Miss Miller's condition had grown
steadily worse. Shortly before ten
o’clock this morning she succumbed
to the ailment.
The girl who became a juvenile
star after vaudeville work rose to 1
fame in Ziegfeld’s production “Sal
ly’’ some years ago.
Critics generally named her
greatest success as "Sunny”. The
male lead of the same production,
Jack Donohue, died a few years
SELECT NEW LEADER
GOTHAM PHILHARMONIC
LONDON, April 7—(TP)—A dis
tingulshed British musician admitted
today that he map become the new
conductor of New York Philharmonic
Orchestra. The prospective director is
John Barbirolli.
If Barbirolli accepts the New York
invitation to conduct, he will succeed
Arturo Toscanini. Toscanini will re
tire this spring.
THREE BIG ISSUES
CLEVELAND, 0., April 7—(TP)
The New York banker, James P.
Warburg, said today that three big
issues will stand out at the republi
can national convention.
He said thore issues will be the
New Deal’s “broken promises, extrav
agant spending and bureaucratic dic
tatorship.”
Warburg said a fourth issue is
equally vital, though not drawing such
a big spotlight as the other three.
“It is plain that we cannot attain
the reasonable prosperity to which we
feel entitled,” he said, “unless we
regain at least a part of our ek
port market.’’
THEUS HEADS NSTA
Charles T. Theus was elected chair
man of the Naval Stores Trade Asso
ciation this morning at its annual
meeting at the Chamber of Com
merce at 11 o’clock. Mr. Theus is
connected with the Ferry and Naval
Stores Company.
Olin T. Mclntosh president of the
Southern States Naval Stores Com
pany. was ’ elected vice-chairman.
Committees will be appointed in the
next fe wdays.
falling tinkers. They are (left to right) Minnie Lee Biddy,
J. W. Biddy, Lee Elrod, John Elrod, Mrs. John Elrod, who
was slightly hurt; Joe Elrod and Chick Story. Picture from-'
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• ago. In private life, the nimble- '
■ footed stage actress was Mrs Ches
> ter O’Brien.
Miss Miller’s last musical comedy
appearance in New York was in
“As Thousands Cheer’’, two sea-
• sons ago. Since that time she had
done little in the theater.
The actress whom th© late Zieg
feld considered the greatest box
office attraction in musical com.
edy was boru in th© middle west.
She was the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Reynolds. Evansville, Ind :
iana claims she was born there in
1900. Findlay, Ohio says Marilyn
was born in that towu in 1898.
Miss Millers first husband was
Frank Carter, a ju enile star. He
was killed in a motor crash Later
the actress wed and divorced th©
late Jack Pickford, of the famous
movie family. O’Brien was her third
husband.
CHINESE BANKER’S
DISCUSS SILVER
WITH UNCLE SAM
WASHINGTON, April 7 (TP)—
Three Chinese bankers sat down
with Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau today to talk over gen
eral banking matters. The trio dis
cussed among other things th©
opening of a branch of their Chinese
bank in New York City. It is be
lieved the international silver sit.
nation received serious consldera
; tion of the four conferees.
COPS GET SPRING TOGS
5 Members of th© county police de
partment are getting ready to step
out in their new summer uniforms,
s The officers were busy today call
-1 ing at the clothing firm of Max
• where they are being fit.
• ted out in the lighter apparel.
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DOCTOR FINDS SUITCASE
Dr. G. H. Faggart brought a black
zipper suitcase to police headquar
. ters last night at midnight which
■ the physician found in the square
1 opposite the Municipal Auditorium.
The bag bore the initials “G. W. T.”
“ and contained dog collars. dog
chains and various papers The
B property apparently was that of
. some one entering pets in the dog
; show at the auditorium and is be
j ing held at police station for a
claimant.
TWO BADLY HURT
IM AUTO CRASH
ON CITY DRIDGE
Victims In Warren Candler
Hospital In Serious
. Conditions
Two South Carolina people were
in Warren Candler hospital this
afternoon in a serious condition
after an auto crash at an early hour
this morning on the Savannah side
of the South Carolina • bridge. ;
The couple was identified as Jas
per Johns of Allendale, S. C., and
Miss Marie Johnson of Luray, S. C.
County police officers reported Mr.
Johns suffered a fracture of the
skull and a fracture of both arms.
Dr. H. L. Levington said the full
extent of Johns’ injuries could not
be determined until an x-ray ex
aminditoh had been completed but
agreed the man’s condition is crit
ical. He is attending Mr. Johns.
Injuries of Miss Johnson, who is
said to have been thrown' out of
the car. consisted of a broken leg
and various bruises. However, her
condition is not regarded as ser
ious as Mr. Johns’. Reports of the
smash-up reached county police
headquarters at’'4:ls ‘o’clock this
morning. A wrecker from the A.
& M. Wrecking and Parts Com
pany garage towed in the badly
damaged coupe auto that struck the
bridge.
County Officers H. H Grotheer
and Talmadge Zipperer investigat
ed and found the car had crashed
into the left side of the bridge
while the machine was headed to
ward South Carolina. A Sipple
Brothers ambulance brought the
injured pair to the hospital. A table
model radio and a suitcase, which
were in the coupe, were taken to
county police headquarters for
safekeeping. » * . • '
DOG OWNERS WARNED
A scor© of Savannahians, both
white and colored ,made their ap
pearance in police court today to
answer charges of not having dog
badges for the year 1936. All were
dismissed. In most Instances the
defendants had purchased a tag
since issuance of the summons to
them Others promised to speedily
equip their dogs with the required
> city badge.
SMITH BOUND OVER
J. D. Smith, 34, was bound over
; to the City Court on a charge of at
■ tempting to smuggle whiskey into
i the county jail after a hearing in
police court this morning.
Polluted Water
Adds Misery to
Stricken Area
Death toll now exceeds 400—many fresk escapes are recounted—
Red Cross reports more than 2000 injured—church
basement filled with bodies i*
GAINESVILLE, Ge., April 7—(TP)
Tornado-levelled Gainesville suffered
the additional menace of a disease
laden water supply today. Heavy
overnight rain which followed yester
day’s death-dealing twister overflow
ed the river and sewage lines. The
overflow swept into the reservoir.
Pure water is being rushed to the
beleaguered town by trucks and trains.
CCC boy* and troops are carting the
drinking water about in palls. All
visitors have been warned to stay
away from Gainesville to prevent the
spread of disease.
The estimate of dead is still about
200. Two church basements and three
funeral establishments are packed
with bodies as the work of rescue
continues. It’s uphill work, however,
and it is believed that it may be sev
eral days before the exact number
of dead’ is known. Total property
damage is set at between eight and
ten million dollars.
The death toll in the south’s de
structive tornado is exceeding the 400
mark today.
National Red Cross headquarters in
Washington, D. C. announced that
they have officially listed 392 per
sons as dead. More vlctlftis were trap
ped by the sudden lashing storm m
two southern towns alone, than were
claimed recently by the week long
floods in New England and Eastern
river valleys.
. The Red Cross , said 155 dead have
already been Identified at Gainesville,
Ga. Searchers are working in the
ruins of levelled buildings—Some of
them still smouldering from fires
that followed the destructive winds.
Five hundred Gainesville people were
seriously injured. Seven hundred and
fifty homes crumpled like paper.
At Tupelo in northern Mississplpl
the Bed Cross listed 152 dead. There,
600 were critically injured. Five hun
dred homes were demolished. Tupe
lo’s most critically injured have been
taken to Memphis hospitals. Those
from Gainesville are receiving treat
ment at Atlanta. • -
JOHNSON TO LEAD
FIGHT ON LEMONS
G. 0. P. LEADERSHIP
Bitter Feud B e Waged Tn
Meeting Here Saturday
Afternoon
Attorney Gilbert E. Johnson to
day admitted h© will lead a group
In a fight to repudiate the leader
ship of J. G. Lemon, negro attor
ney, Charles E. Donnelly and Aaron
Kravitch, when .Chatham county
Republicans gather at the county .
court house Saturday to elect re
presentatives to th© Georgia state
and district conventions.
“This is no ‘Lily White’ fight,’
said Mr. Johnson. “The negroes will
be fully representated in th© set
up which we hope to accomplish.
Our fight is against the old leader
ship, particularly that of Lemon,
which we believe to be unfit.”
Mr. Johnson was chary of dis.
closing his plans before the Satur
day meeting, but admitted his
group is out to oppose any candi
dates put up by the Lemon-dominat
ed bloc for delegates to the district
and state con entions He declined
to name any of th© co-leadsrs in his
group.
Mr. Donnelly is a veteran Repub
lican leader in Savannah. Mr. Kra.
vitch is, according to Mr. Johnson,
a new addition to the ranks.
WISCONSINVOTERS
TURN OUT STRONG
MADISON, April 1 (TP)—Early
indications from Wisconsin’s prim
aries Indicate a record vote.
The chief battle comes in select
ing a Presidential candidate for the
Republican ticket. Democrats are
solidly for the New Deal.
Sen. William Borah in a last min
ute appeal urged voters to vote de
finitely for the man, rather than a
delegation without orders.
Gov. Landon has only scattered
backing. Th© real fight is between
Borah and the uninstructed dele,
ration.
3c
PAY NO MORE
TRANSRADIO PRESS
I Chairman Cary T. Grayson of the
national Red Cross asked today that
all Red Cross chapters redouble their
efforts to boost the original flood
relief fund. This was set at $3,000,-
000 during the first week of the
floods, and now the tornado disasters,
make new funds imperative. The Red
Cross jumped on the job early yes
terday throughout the six southern
states which felt the ornado’s fury.
FREAK ESCAPES
ATLANTA, Gt., April 7—(TP)
While rehabilitation work goes on
today in the storm and tornado de
vastated regions of Georgia, many
tales of freak escapes are being told.
In a frame dwelling near Cordele,
is members of a farmer’s family hud
dled against a wall, while the’wind
came screaming through. When the
storm abated, the entire house had
been swept away—with the exception
of that one wall. There wasn't a
scratch on a single member of the
family.
Near Sasser, the tornado picked up
a house occupied by a negro family.
When quiet prevailed, the five occu
pants, unscathed, walked out of their
front door—only to find that It open
ed on their back yard.
A mother and father frantically
pulled at the ruins of their home in”
search of their eight month old baby.
They stopped when they heard cries
from the direction, of. an, out building
that had miracously withstood the
assault of the gale.. There they found
the baby. How he got there is beyond
the comprehension of the happy par
ents. ' *
FORTYPERSONS |
BELIEVED DEAD
IN TRAIN WRECK
Train Was Dynamited As It
Crossed Trestle
’ MEXICO CITY, April 7 (TPI
workers searched today a
mong the smouldering ruins of a
C ruz —Mexico City expreass
More than 40 paaaengera— Includ-
Ing several Americana are believed
dead. Th© train was wrecked last
night near Paaodel Macho.
Officials at Mexico City say th©
train was dynamited as it crossed
a trestle over a ravine about 75
miles from Vera Cruz. The engine
and two wooden pullman cars were
hurled Into a deep ravine. The
smashed cars burst into flame.
Railroad officials said today th©y
have definite knowledge of the num
ber of people killed. It was learned
that several Americans are among
. the dead and that several more ar©
injured. The total death toll Is
believed to be between 40 and 50
Five members of the Mexican train
crew were killed and three injured
Fortunately the train left Vera
Cruz when few tourist steamers
were there. Easter traffic toward
the Mexican capital was light. Th©
bombing was blamed on bandits. A
large sum of money was in the ex
press car.
Soldiers were ordered to th©
scene from Vera Cruz.
TEACHER TAPED
MOUTHS PUPH S
Cincinnati Board Looks Into
Childrens Charge
CINCINNATI. April 7 (TP)—Th©
Board of Education started an In
vestigation today into charges that
a fourth-grade teacher taped the
months of her noisy pupils.
1 The teacher is accused of putting
adhesive tape on th© mouths of six
r children when they refused to keep
. studiously' sll°nt An acting prln.
clnal. Marie Daohenbach, subatan
. Hated the charges against th© teach
-5 er.
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U. S. OFFICIAL D'ES
CA TI ?G. Anrp 7 (TP) An Amerlc
,'an vWitv off! , 'ia 1 . W. S. Heald died
’ in Cairo vest,erd?y of meningitis.
Heald left b’s dut’-* a' general mana
ge? of th« Shanghai Power Ccmpany
1 to tour Egypt.
1 He arrived at Carlo just a week age.
- Heald was stricken almost Immediatelf
by the dangerous disease. 41