Savannah daily times. (Savannah, Ga.) 1936-????, April 08, 1936, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextWEATHER BHOWERS, SLIGHTLY WARMER VOLUME I—NUMBER 4 LANDSLIDE FOR BORAH IN WISCONSIN; STAGGERING MARGIN FOR ROOSEVELT NEW DANGER MENACES STORM-WEARY SOUTH; FLOOD WATERS SIX STATES OLD MAN RIVER DOES HIS PART TOWARD MISERY Red Cross Wo»*ks At Feverish Pace To Aid Gainesville ATLANTA, Ga., April B—(TP) A new danger confronted the storm weary south today as raging flood waters followed in the wake of howl ing tornadoes which ripped through six states. 1 Etreams in Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, South Carolina and Alabama are reported rising steadily as torrential rains which followed the high winds swell creeks and rivers to flood peaks. Thousands of lowland acres are under water while relief agencies, already over- 1 taxed by the tornado disaster, work at top speed to care for those made homeless by the new flood threat. At Gainesville. Georgia, and Tupe lo, Mississippi, National Guardsmen, ed Cross workers, W. P. A. and CCC me nare aided by civilian groups as the hunt for tornado victims goea on. More than 200 perished in the Tupelo tornado disaster, while the bodies of 183 storm victims already I have been recovered at Gainesville. J Guardsmc have arrested more than i a dozen persons at Gainesville on loot* I ing cher-es. A shortage of water has t sent scores of tank cars, with the 1 precious fluid, into the Georgia town. GEORGIA HUSSARS HOPE TO CAPTURE HONORS AT TEST Savannah Troon Tn Face An nual Tnanection Tonight Membprs of the Savannah troop of tbp G'o-gia Hussars have been busy polishing up their brass buttons in preparation for the annual federal inspection which is to be concluded tonight. Lieut. Col. W. H. W. Youngs, D. O. L., of the Tennessee National Guard began the annual inspection of the property and personnel of the local troopers earl ythis morning. Shortly after 6 o’clock, together with Captain A. Lester Henderson, commander of the troop, he began his rounds. The field office, stables, horses and equipment were given the once over this morning. Members of the troop are to report at 7 o’clock to night at their quarters. Prom there they proceed to the Daffin Park drill field. There the soldiers will ex ecute maneuvers under Capt. Hen derson, Lieut. Fred H. Quante, Lieut. Charles S. Rockwell, Jr. and ‘‘non coms. Specialists will be given an oral quiz and the machine gun squad will evecute a problem under the guidance of Sergeant Carl Martin. Inspection will be closed with a visit of Lieut. Col. Youngs tomorrow night to the medical* unit at the Hus sar's Armory of which Capt. Geoge Touchton is in command. Last year the Hussars at Savannah were rated “satisfactory" after their annual inspection and were compli mented on their showing. This year the troopers looked confidently for ward to the same verdict. FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR AUGUSTUS SALTER Funeral cervices Lr Augustus Salter, who dlid Saturday in El Paso, Texas, were held this afternoon at 3 o’clock at the chapel of Henderson Brothers. The Rev. George Oliver Taylor con ducted the services, and burial was in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Mr. Salter was 54 years old, and though born in Savannah, had not lived here for the past twenty ears. He is survived by his wife, Mis. Ausust’ts Salter, a brother E. E. Salter of Chattanooga, Tenn., and several nieces and nephews, among them Lawrence Salter of Savannah. Pallbearers were J. T. Wells, Jr., Herbert Hodges, William Bythewool, Marion Woodcock, C. J. Ward, Law rence Salter. Call 7900 - 7448 To Start Your SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES Delivery Today Savannah Daily Times On Trial for Life i S J?s m Mrs. Grace Du Bois of Los Angeles' is shown on the witness stand, testi fying in her own defense, at her • trial for the slaying of her physi cian-son. The state charged she . killed her son because she wanted to exterminate her family line. j (Central Preta) J UNCLE SAM TABOOS SHIRLEYS NEW FILM U. S. Appeals Court Grants Injunction Against Capt. January NEW YORK, April 8 (TP)—A federal court has put a ban on the showing of Shirley Temple’s new movie, “Captain January.” The U. S, Circuit Court of Ap peals granted an injunction block ing the 20th Century Fox Films Corporation from distributing and showing the picture anywhere at all. Lionel Barrymore stars with the child actress. The injunction grew out of an in volved copyright situation. The suit was brought by L. C. Page and Co., of Boston. The publishers also include the elderly author, Mrs. Laura Richards, of Portland, Maine, as a party to the suit. They claim the company purchased only the silent picture rights. Not rights to produce a talking picture. Little Shirley does her best work in the talkies. Attorneys explained sadly in court that the movie corporation has already spent a quarter of a million dollars in producing the new picture. COLD SPRING SEEN AID TO CHERRY BLOSSOMS LASTING UNTIL EASTER WASHINGTON, April 8 (TP) The National Parks Service an nounced today that it believes the internationally famous cherry blos soms on the banks of the Potamoc at Washington will last through Easter Sunday. The blossoms, which annually at- 1 tract thousands of visitors to Wash ington, were at their zenith yester day. The Parks Service believes that the unusually cold spring weather may help to preserve them until Sunday. The biggest threat to the blossoms now are the pre vailing strong winds. In the meantime, thousands of visitors from all states are jam ming Washington to view the blos soms. and Incidentally, to see Con gress in session. The capitol cor ridors are so crowded that Con gressmen and Senators complain they cannot move from one cham. her to another rapidly enough. NEGRO BOUND OVER Nile Addison, 21, negro, was bound over to city court after his appear ance in police court this morning to answer a charge of larceny from the Chatham Iron and Metal company. The arrest was made by Detective A. Welman and H. F. Beebe. LOBBY PROBERS TURN SPOTLIGHT ON CRUSADERS Anti-Prohibition Group Must Tell Ao+’vitieg Since Repeal WASHINGTON, April 8 (TP)— The black lobby investigating com. mittee turned its spotlight today on the national crusaders. Senator Gibson of Vermont, who is directing this phase of the Sen atorial investigation, called a re presentative of the crusaders to the witness stand today. The crusaders is an outgrowth of the old anti-prohibition move ment begun in 1929, Since repeal the organization has changed its aims to fight forces opposed to its conception of sound government The New Deal has been vigorously attacked. National Commander Fred Clark of the Crusaders told the commit tee that his group was brought to. gether “to oppose all forces destruc tive to sound government.” Senator Gibson asked Clark a bout the Crusaders’ opposition to the Tennessee Valley authority. Clark admitted that his organiza tion sponsored a radio attack on the T. y. A. He said the Crusaders won support from the American Liberty League and the National Steel Company with respective don ations of $15,000 and $8,250. BARREZ IS NAMED TO FILL ZAMORA S PLAGE IN SPAIN President Ousted For Dissolv ing P*>rliawent. More Than Twice MADRID, April 8 (TP)—The first President of the Spanish Republic. Niceto Alcala Zamora, is out of of fice today. Zamora was removed from office by a parliamentary vote which ac. cused him of violating the Consti tution by dissolving Parliament more than twice during his admin istration. Premier Azana named the Presi dent of the Spanish Parliament. Diego Bafrez, to serve as President until Zamora’s term runs out 20 months from now . Zamora’s political doom was seal ed by Leftists who hold a big mar gin of power in the Parliament. Although the President once was jailed on his Liberal stands by King Alfonso, Zamora was accused of go ing over to capitalist factions since 1931, when Alfonso deposed and Zamora was elected president. The expulsion vote was 238 to 5 as the President’s former political support ers threw in with Radical and Left Wings deputies to ballot Zamora out of office. MRS. ELLA STEINBERG IS BURIED TODAY Funeral services for Mrs. Ella C. Steinberg, widow of the late Charles C. Steinberg, will be conducted at 4 o’clock this afternoon at the chapel of Fox and Weeks by the Rev. C. C. J. Carpentor, rector of St. John’s Episco pal Church. Mrs. Steinberg died last night at her residence, 216 East Henry Street. Burial will be in Bcna venture Cemetery. Mrs. Steinberg is survived by her son, John H. C. Steinberg of Savannah: a brother, Capt. G. B. Wheeler, Sr., of Marlow; two nieces, Mrs R. L. Walker of Atlanta and Mrs. Roscoe Snooks of Clyo, and two grandaughters. She was a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy and of St. John’s Episcopal hurch. •WHITE HOUSE CHANGES MADE BY ROOSEVELTS LISTED BY MAGAZINE , NEW YORK, April B—(TP) The feminist weekly, “Equal Rights,” . thumbing through its files has sum . med up a few of the changes Mrs. • Franklin D. Roosevelt has made in • White House customs. 1 High on the list was placed the - first lady’s stern frown against the heavy velvet rope that used to sepa rate honored guests from the rest of ! the folks at White House receptions, i Besides that, said the feminists, Mrs. - Roosevelt has Inaugurated an annual o spring dance for writers, set up a e smoking room for large functions: and decreed a dinner on the night of the all-masculine gridiron banquet for the "widows of the gridiron club.” SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1936 FREAK TORNADO DIPS DOWN INTO MISSISSIPI jjkiL? • -I s JbyP l % ■B iM"ID - ■ -Mfy ~* More than 75 lives were lost, 500 persons injured and damage of $2,000,000 done by a devasting cyclone that swept away a large portion of the city of Tupelo, Miss. Here’s a WANTS USE POISON GAS INVESTIGATED Eden Reminds League Com mittee Os 1925 Agreement GENEVA, April 8 (TP)—British Foreign Secretary Eden today ask ed the League’s Committee of 13 to investigate reports of poison gas in the Ethiopian war. Eden reminded the committee that a 1925 league convention had absolutely banned the use of poison gas and it was the league's duty to learn whether either Italy or Ethiopia was using the forbidden gas. The Committee of 13 then adjourned to question Red Cross authorities regarding reports of poison gas attacks. Two columns of Italian infantry bored steadily southward into the heart of Ethiopia today as crumb ling defense forces broke and fled in panic under a rain of death from the skies. Emperor Haile Selassie, accord, ing to Italian reports received at Asmara, Is scurrying towards Addis Ababa on muleback. Spies in the Ethiopian ranks reported that the Emperor had abandoned his high speed auto in the fear that it would make an easy target for Italian fliers who are combing the region south of Dessye for shot at the lit tle monarch. The Italian war office at Rome today eased the mind of foreigners j at Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa, when it issued a communique prom ising not to bomb the two Ethiopian ' cities. Dire Dawa. Ethiopia’s chief j railroad town, is manned by a French garrison stationed to pro tect French interests in the king dom’s only railroad, running from Addis Ababa to Djbouti, French Somaliland. UPKEEP COMES HIGH FOR SOUTH POLE DOGS KIN OF BYRD FINDS DALLAS, Texas, April 8 (TP Those two husky dogs which Ad miral Byrd brought back with him from the South Pole are proving ex pensive in their eaMng habits. The dogs disappeared yesterday from the home of the explorer’s cousin, Harold Byrd. A farmer living near Dallas found the dogs in his backyard. He also found the feathers of some 25 chickens.. For the dogs, the farm er collected a $35 reward. For the devoured chickens, Byrd paid a nother $25. Man Who Confessed Lindbergh Kidnaping Says a New Jersey Car Used By His Abductors NEW YORK, April 8 (TP)—The disbarred Jersey lawyer who claim ed kidnapers beat him till he con fessed the Lindbergh baby murder claimed today that a New Jersey state car was used by his guards. Brooklyn’s District Attorney Wil liam Geoghan is investigating the report. The lawyer. Paul Wendel is still in the Mercer County New Jer. sey jail. Wendel told investigators that he took the license number of an au tomobile which followed the car in which he was kidnaped. The in vestigators traced the number to the New Jersey Department of Mot or Vehicles. Wendel said the men in the state car where his compan ions during his confinement in a state institution for the insane. CATHOLIC SEMINARY SWEPT BY FLAMES Students And Priests Flee Fire In Massachusetts Institution BRIGHTON. Mass. Apdil 8 (TP) Roaring flames drove 200 students and half a dozen priests from the Philosophical house at St. Jchn’s Seminary in Brighton today. Four alarms brought speding fire companies from Boston Newton and j Brookline Firemen drove back priests ' and students who tried to save relig ious relics hundreds of years old. The t five-story building was almost destroy YOUNG DEMOCRATS PREPARE PLANS JEFFERSON DINNER RAT'T’TMORF AprM R—— The Yeung Democrat’:? Dlubs nf M»wl»r*d tod»v announce final nians for the Jefferson BMbdav celebration in Baltirrmre Monday nlrht, which will mark President R*oose”elt’« speech in his camna’tm for re-election. More than 20 000 nersora are ex isted to crowd into Baltimore’s Fifth Regiment armorv to hear the i nrpsMent, sneak. His talk will be over a nation-wide radio | hookup. , Hundreds of ofh A r Domocratlc ; prou*A|n pverv state of the nation . will in t.h° celebration by rad* - ' A series of Jefferson Birthday balls will be held in a score of cities under the sponsorship of the Young Democratic Cluhs of America. specimen of the damage, Tupelo’s new $40,000 brick school house was almost completely demolished. The city is today digging itself out of the derbis. s Possibility that tiie Federal Gov ■ errnent may step into the Wendel • case grow stronger-as assistant U. ■ S. Attorney Gutman prepared to confer-with 'District Attorney Wil liam F. X. Geoghan of Brooklyn. Geoghan is. investigating Wen. del's story that he signed a cS?.’ sion to the Lindbergh murder after he was kidnaped and held prisoner for 10 days in a Broklyn basement INSPECTORS AT SCENE TRAGIC PLANE CRASH fa’lure Radio Fean Aligned As ftause Os Accident TTNIONTOWN, Pa;. April 8 (TP) —Government inspectors and air line officials are on the scene today going more deeply into the cause of yesterday’s tragic plane crash. Indications still point to the fail ure of the radio beam signal as the primary cause of the disaster. The three survivors of the crash, including the hostess, are recover ing. Airline officials and government aviation heads clashed today over; the cause of a wreck which claim ed 11 liVes. Departmentof Commerce inspec. tors deny that faulty radio beams were responsible for the crash. Transcontinental and Western Air line authorities had maintained that their big airline, the “Sun Racer" smashed into a mountain side at Uniontown. Pennsylvania, because the all-important radio beams failed to function properly. Os the 11 passengers and three , members of the Newark-to-Pitts- I burgh plane’s crew, only two pas. i sengers and the ship's hostess es ? caped death. One of those rescued 1 was Mrs. Meyer C. Ellenstein, wife i of the Mayor of Newark. N. J. She is in a grave condition, des - p’te an emergency blood transfu s sion performed last night in a ® Uniontown hospital. Doctors say 7 she is suffering from two fractr*ecf 3 legs, shock and loss of blood. , The other passenger who escap n ed sudden death is Charles G. Chal v linor, of Cleveland. He first was y identified as Stanley J. Bayers s dorfer but later corrected the mis. I take. Bayersdorfer was killed in the crash. INEW ENGLAND GANG EMPLOYS ATTORNEYS TO FREE GANGSTERS BOSTON. ApHl '8 ‘(TP)—Attor neys for New England’* most fam i ous criminal gang filed a court pe ■ tltion today to release the gang sters from prison. The bandits are members of the Carl Rettich gang. They are serv ing long terms for the $19,000 Fall River mail truck holdup. Their at. torneys presented nine objections to the state’s prosecution of. the gang. They claimed that the war rants used by th9 state police in arresting the gangsters were il legal. The petition will be argued before the Circuit Court of Appeals next week. MARCH RIGHT UP WHITE HOUSE THEN MARCH AWAY AGAIN WASHINGTON, April 8 (TP)— Unemployed W. P.. A. pickets marched to the White House today and then .marched away again. The picketers were members of the Workers Alliance of America ] and four affiliated organizations. They marched to the White House after picketing; WPA headquar ters in an effort to see Relief Ad miniptrator Harry Hopkins. White House policemen slosed the gates to the grounds. When the marchers arrived their spokesman ; was told that the President and all 1 of his secretaires were out of the capital. The marchers left. The .picketers are in Washington from all parts of the country. They have demanded free food, shelter and transportation home. ACTING BUDGET CHIEF SEES NATIONAL DEBT 1 37 BILLION IN 1937 i WASHINGTON, April B—(TP) . Acting budget director Bell said today that the national debt may be 37 billion dollars by the end of 1937. i Bell said he couldn’t suggest any , economies which might keep the debt from growing to that unprece dented figure. Bell said the debt will be 34 1-2 • billion dollars next June 30. In ad i .dition, he anticipates a deficit of r inore than 2 1-2 billions in the next f fiscal year. Bell told a congressional committee h that the administration expects to . tefund the debts as they fall due .He , declined to predict how long the re funding policy must be followed. He said he was unable to tell whether -a slump In government securities 1 would impair the U. S. banking sys tem. f ;• ' ... ■ . 'Hr 3c PAY NO MORE TRANSRADIO PRESS UNINSTRUCTED SLATE FALLING BEHIND PRIMARY Victory Seen As Good Omen For Neighboring States. MILWAUKEE, Wi*., April 8 (TP) —Afternoon reports on the Wisconsin Presidential primary In dicate a landslide for Senator Borah. Returns from 566 of the state’s 2,918 precincts give Borah delega tion candidates a lead of from 1,500 to 3,000 votes over the uninstructed slate backed by the Republican State Committee. Senator Borah fought to control the state delegation, which could vote for either Governor Landon or Qplonel Knox if sent uninstruct ed to the Republican National Con. ventfion. Two outright Landon can didates trail both the Borah and unijjstructed tiokets. Inf the Democratic primary the antKßoosevelt group fell far be hind as delegates instructed to vote for the President piled up a staggering margin. Senator Borah is conceded to have gained control of all but two or three of the Republican dele gates. Wisconsin sends 24 delegates to the Cleveland convention. • In Milwaukee, Mayor Dan Hoan, the. genial, two-fisted gentleman who has ruled the city government for 20 years, is conceded to have didates, trail both the Borah and woj(i his fight for' re-election. Sher iff Joseph Shinner. Non-Partisan op ponentof Mayor Hoan is trailing by some 10,000 votes. A GOOD EFFECT WASHINGTON, April 8 (TP)— Carl Bachmann, national organizer of the Borah for President cam paign, declared today that the Idaho Senator’s victory in the Wisconsin Republican primaries will have a good effect on the voters in neigh boring Illinois. i Said tiachmann: “The Wisconsin vote demonstrates to the country that the people in the mid-west are not going to let the people in the east pick the Republican candidate for President. It also shows that the group necessary to win the election for the next Republican nominee favor Borah.” DEATHLIST SOUGHT IN TRAIN BOMBING Believe 50 Were Killed In Mexican Trestle Tragedy MEXICO CITY April 8 (TP) Con flicting reports made it difficult to day to estimate the number of pass engers killed in the bombing a raid road bridge at Paso Del Macho, in Vera Cruz state. First reports set the death toll at more than 50. Officials of the Mex ican railway, however, insist that only eight were killed when an Express train plunged from the shattered bridge. Fire which swept the splintered coaches and spread to cars which stayed on the smashed) bridge destroy ed-the train and possibly conmmed bodies which were not included in the railroad’s official death list. Reports that several Americans aboard that train when it plur>w»d into a ravine were denied by government and railroad authorities. FOUR CHARGES BRING SIXTY DAYS ON FARM A straight sentence of 60 days on the Brown Farm was meted out in police court this morning to J. J Curry when he appeared to face four charges. Curry was charged with disorder ly conduct, being drunk, resisting arrest and attempting to cut Mrs. Jessie Guest, 1606 Habersham street with a knife. Officer C. C. Carroll made the arrest. FORMER SAVANNAHIAN DIES IN JACKSONVILLE Mrs. Annie O’Keefe, widow of the late James O’Keefe and former Savan nahian, died at her residence in Jack sonville lest night after a brief illness. She is survived by a daughter. Miss Bessie O'Keefe and two sons, Edward and Harry O’Keefe, all of Jacksonville. The body will be brought to Savan nah tonight, funeral services being conducted tomorrow afternoon at 3:45 at the chapel of Albert Goethe and at 4 o’clock at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Interment will be in the Catholic Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Edward Fitz gerald, M A. Goethe, John Galina* Harry Galina, Edward Brown, an* William F. Brown.

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Savannah daily times. (Savannah, Ga.) 1936-????, April 08, 1936, Image 1