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SPECTRE OF DISEASE STALKS GAINESVILLE ' •• ■ ‘I WEATHER 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. Call 7900 - 7448 To Start Your SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES Delivery Today lints 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« What a Tornado Means To Georgia ... - 7 » iiiiMiiiimi • -4 •*-» Aft, V ; fUr 'XEmul a .... .■ BTb &W*IMF /JBHHKB j: ’/WMPI nE AA m w ;TBt- T X »5^ F W W * k Js* 1 B. g4wiT I jHH j attfg I > 4 .■ £iH. MMBtf- E Acworth; Ga. Pictured here are seven of ten people " 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-' General Press. - ’ • 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. e 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. > - « - r 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