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Inquiry Shows Lemon, Negro
i Attorney, Rich Land Owner
Man Mayor Tried
Get Relief Job
Is Well-To-Do
' Operates Recreation
Center Built With
WPA Funds
Records today revealed that J. G.
Lemon, Republican negro attorney
endorsed by Mayor Gamble for a re
lief Job with a $l5O monthly salary
attached, * a well to do property
owner.
An Investigation by the Daily Times
revealed that Lemon owns several
thousand dollars worth of city prop
erty in his own name, that his wue
owns property and has an income,
end that Lemon has income from va
rioua other sources in addition to
fees obtained through his law prac
! 1936 tax return, on fUe In
I the office of County Tax Receiver
I Thomas M. Hoynes, shows property
i assessed for taxation purposes at
, $7,590. As property is assessed by the
state and county for tax purposes at
j approximately 50 per cent of its vai
ue. this means the city property own
ed by Lemon 1s worth at least $15,-
The negro attorney’s tax return for
1935 showed an assessed valuation oi
SIO,BOO. Tax Receiver Hoynes’ records
, showed that several pieces of Lem° n J>
property had been disposed of in
the interim between making his 193 j
and 1936 returns. Based on the per
centage at which the tax assessors
value property on the tax returns,
Lemon’s property in 1935 had a mar
ket value of well over $20,000.
In addition to the property owned
by Lemon in his own name, he is
said to be part owner of a building
at Minis and George streets known
as the Savannah Home Association
Building. The building was construct
ed originally by the members of the
Home Association at a cost of some
$17,000. Lemon is said to have ac
quired it in company with an asso
ciate by means of a recent foreclos-
Ul Lemon is reported by negro citizens
to be doing a lucrative business at a
colored swimming pool and recrea
tional center in the southwestern sec
tion of the city. Lemon operates the
swimming pool and dance hall, to
gether with barbecue stands and otn
er concessions as head of a group
of negroes known as the Five C’s.
According to a city alderman, the
colored recreation center was con
structed with a WPA appropriation
and afterwards turned over to the
negro committee to operate. Besides
heading the committee which con
trols the recreation center, Lemon is
said to act in the capacity of manag
er. Negroes say admission to the dance
hall and swimming pool is charged
and that barbecue and beverages are
sold at regular retail prices. It could
not be learned today the extent of
Lemon’s earnings as manager of the
colored recreation center.
Lemon’s wife, Mattie Lemon, is list
ed as owner of a piece of property
on east Henry Street assessed by the
tax receiver at $1,500. This means
the property would have a market
value of between $2,500 and $3,000.
Lemon is reported to have purchased
the property before his marriage for
about $6,000.
Lemon’s wife has been a teacher
at Paulsen School since 1924. She re
ceives approximately S9OO annually for
, nine months work as a teacher.
. A city alderman who declined to
be quoted said today tl.at Lemon had
from time to time been “very useful”
to the Gamble political machine. May
or Gamble is endorsing him as head
of a negro “white collar” project un
der the WPA. Followir 7 a protest
by the Daily Times at the hiring of
Lemon, a negro Republican, at a sal
ary of $l5O a at a time when
WPA forces here are beir.» reduced
all along the line and needy white
'people are being deprived of their re
lief incomes. Mayor Gamble wrote Gay
B. Shepperson, state administrator of
the Works Progress Administration in
Georgia, reiterating his endorsement
of Lemon and requesting that he be
put on the project.
Lemon, meanwhile, is reported to
be going ahead with his survey op the
negro white collar project
THEUS TO APPOINT
HIS COMMITTEES
Standing committees for the nav
al stores section of the Savannah
Board of Trade will be named short
ly by Charles T. Theus, general
manager of the Farie Naval Stores
Company.
1 At the annual meeting of the nav
al stores section held yesterday
Mr. Theus was elected chairman of
the executive committee. O, T. Me.
Intoih was named vice chairman.
Mr. Mclntosh is president of the
Southern States Naval Stores Com
pany. Each naval stores firm is
allowed one representative on the
1 executive committee.
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Discharged Women Here Storm
Auditorium; To Take Case Hopkins
Spokesmen for several hundred women laid off from
the WPA sewing project Monday were today preparing
to take their case to Harry L. Hopkins to regain their jobs.
A group of the women gathered in mass meeting in front
of the Municipal Auditorium this afternoon to vent their
chargrin and make plans to wage a fight for the retention
of their jobs.
Mrs. Lucille Lane, 305 Montgomery street, acting as -
spokesman for the discharged sewing women, charged she
and 400 others were given their dismissal without prior
notice Monday. Seeking explanation, she says, they ap
proached Miss Anderson and Miss Sipple, office workers
on the sewing project. They were told simply, she says,
to “get out and look for work.”
Mrs. Lane says the group of women of which she is
leader will take their complaint to Harry Hopkins, Gay B.
Shepperson, state administrator, and Senator Walter F.
George.
Donald Nichols, WPA administrator here, said the re
ductions in WPA projects will continue steadily.
MICKVE ISRAEL BROTHERHOOD MARKS
PASSOVER FEAST WITH MAHY PRESENT
AT SUPPER GIVEHIH TEMPLE HERE
The seven day festival commemor- the tyranny of Pharoah.
ating the deliverance of the Israelites The scriptures relate how Pharoah
from their bondage in Egypt began with many chariots and men pursued
when the Brotherhood of Temple the Jews to bring them back to bond-
Mickve Israel held the community age. The Jews reached the shores of
sedar or passover feast last night at the Red Sea and thought themselves
the temple. lost, when Moses stretched forth his
The supper wa« a beautiful and rod and rolled back the waters of
solemn affair and was attended by the sea. The pepole then crossed over
approximately 140 membvs of the on dry land to the other side. Pha-
Jewish community. In other parts of roah, speeding after them, was in
the city home festivals were held, at the midst of the sea when the last
which several families gathered to- Israelite reached the shore, and the
gether to eat the unleavened bread Bible says that the waters closed over
and recall the heroism of Moses in him and his chariots and hid them
leading the children of Israel out of forever from the sight of man.
slavery across the Red Sea to the Special services will be held at Tern-
Promised Land. The unleavened bread pie Mickve Israel Sunday at 6 p. m.
1s a memorial to the haste with which and Monday at 11 a. m. Monday will
the tribes gathered together their be- bring the seven days of commemora
longings and fled from Egypt and tion to a close.
RED GROSS PLEA WEST BROAD STORE
FOR RELIEF FUNDS LOOTED BY THIEVES
ON AIR TONIGHT Rabham Emporium Robbed Os
Women And Children
$17,500 Quota Is Set For Sav- Dress Stock
annah To Aid Storm
Victims A large haul of merchandise was
secured by burglars who some time
A plea for the people of Savannah ea rly this morning ransacked the dry
to come to the aid of suffering friends S°°ds establishment of Israel Rabhan
and neighbors in the Cordele, Gaines- an d Sons at 42 West Broad street. En
ville castastrophe before disease men ‘ranee was obtained by forcing three
aces the stricken communities w* on the front door,
be broadcast over the radio by tho It was stated at the business house
c i that the value of the loot obtained
Rev. John S. Wilder, this evening and large but early thia aftern oon
running through the rest of the week. | an estimate of the loss had not been
The broadcast is one of the activl- completed. The stuff stolen consist
ties of the local Red Cross to raise e d largely of women’s spring dresses,
funds for those left homeless and children’s dresses and men’s under
destitute by the storms. wear.
The popular pastor of Calvary Bap- The burglary was discovered at 6
tist Church will be assisted by the o’clock this morning by Patrolman C.
entertainment staff of WTOC, which W. Overstreet. It appeared the rob
will put on songs and other musical bers had used a lever of some sort to
numbers for the benefit of the deso- pry off the locks.
lated areas of Georgia. On hand will
be a squad of messenger boys from FORMER CITY ATHLETE
Western Union, who will speed out pinr'TTP'E'P ATT'N'fT AFTIPP
for donations a« fast as they are . rJtTv*,
telephoned in at the radio station. APPENDICITIS OPERATION
Mrs. Louis J. Roos, executive sec-
retary of the Red Cross, said today j ames Mclntlre> of Mr. and
that the cooperate of Savannahians .
in overcoming this major disaster is Mrs - Franlc Mclntlre . whose sudden
needed to its utmost. The committee illness called his mother to hi® bed
in charge of raising funds will meet side in Baltimore yesterday, was re
this afternoon at 4 o’clock at the ported “getting along nicely’* at an
headquarters at 34 Drayton street to early hour this morning,
devise new schemes for bringing in young Mr. Fclntire is confined to
contributions. Members of the com- the John Hopkins Hospital where he
mittee are Robert W. Groves, chair- underwent an operation for acute
man; Mrs. Fred Wessels, Jr., C. S. appendicitis Monday. He is an em-
Henry M. Garwes, James P. pj o y e of the Iron and Roofing Works
Houlihan, Sam L Varnedoe, George of Baltimore and was formerly a
H. Smith, and Thomas M. Johnson. po pular athlete at the Unversity of
Also attendmg will be Capt. Robert
M. Hitch, chairman of the disaster Mr Mclntire will return to her
co ~, mittee '. „ .. . . , , duties as district director of non-man-
The Quota of fun ff tobe / a^ n e . d , ual projects of the WPA later In the
Savannah is now $17,500. $7,500 of wee fe 4
this amount 1s designated to assist
the flooded areas of the east, where __—_______________
the specter of death from pestilence
is still haunting hundreds. The re- CAPTAIN CLANCY
maining SIO,OOO is for the relief of riTWW rtnpv rtP
Georgians, many of whom were in- vrJ.VXi« wun vji
jured by the destruction of buildings IRfil NEWSPAPER
in the raging tornado, while others
are without shelter.
Police Captain J. J. Clancy’s
nnUUrDOr DUDE All mail this morning contained a very
UUmnlKLntfE DUIICAU interesting curio in the shape of
1 __ a New York newspaper. It was
IQ nDEIIEn lIEDF sent him by his daughter, Miss
IO Vi tlltU ntllt Elizabeth Clancy, who lk residing
in New York.
’ The Savannah co-operative office toTwonv Tht
ot the Bureau of Foreign and Do- " Valfn wJpuSuhrd’uaT.t
• mestic Commerce opened for its the tlme wh€n 6e aport of 84.
first dty of operation this morn- vannsh had been taken over by
! in?. the Union fleet during the War
Joseph G. Stovall, who is to be in Between the States. The entire
1 charge, stated all of the office front page was taken up with
1 equipment had not yet arrived but dispatches incident to the capture,
that everything would be ship-shape At the top center of the page was
within a day or so. The Savannah a map of the terrain of the fall
bureau is located at the Chamber *n seaport.
of Commerce which has generously ...
) donated space for it.
Miss Ruth Douglas is to be at
tached to the new office u ite
stenographer.
Thero’i nothing that can
add to tho beauty of
your noma like a lotcly
POTTED PLANT or
FRESH OUT FLOWERS
Don’t forgot that
CORSAGE for “HER’V
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1936
RECALL PICKETS
AT PAPER MILL,
STRIKE GOES OH
Not Needed, Says Shires; 200
Men Turned
Back
Pickets have been withdrawn from
from ’■ ■» Ur’-" Paper and Bag Com
pany plant at the Hermitage “be
cause we dor’ even need them,” John
P. Spires, president of the Building
Trades Council of the Savannah
Trades and Labor Assembly, told the
Daily Times today.
There has been no picketing since
last Saturday, when, according to Mr.
Spires, ♦be last militant striker was
withdrawn. But the strike is still - 1,
he added, and there is no immediate
outlook for a settlement.
“We withdrew the pickets,” said
Mr. Spires, “because there were not
enough non-union attempting to take
the jobs to warrant our maintaining
a picket line out there. They can’t
get enough scab labor to carry on
out there. We succeeded in turning
back about 200 men who attempted
to come in on the job out there.
Since then there have been no more.
I believe we have the mstopped.”
Fifty-seven union carpenters walk
ed out on the Bag Company plant
job March 26 in protest against al
leged long hours and failure of the
construction company to meet their
demands for time and. a half on
overtime with double pay for holi
days.
J. T. McLellan. superintending the
Job for Merxitt-Chapman-Scott .charg
ed the union carpenters broke faith
with the company in walking out on
the job. He has consistently refused
to meet their new demands. He de
clared the construction company will
meet its contract to finish the job
by June 1, whether the union car
penters return to the Job or not.
LOCAL COPS PRIME
FOR PISTOL SHOOT
April 17 has been set as the date
for the pistol shoot between members
of the police department team, teams
from Parris Island and the Savan
nah Rifle Association team. Police
Captain J. J. Clancy announced this
morning.
There will be two teams from the
Marine Corps at Parris Island. The
shoot will be at Fort Screven and
will probably get under way about
3:40 o’clock in the afternoon. Ar
rangements for the contest are being
made by Captain Clancy and full
details are to be announced later.
NEGRO YOUTH NABBED
AS STEALER OF BELL
Whether the bell he is alleged to
have stolen is going to toll out some
doleful news for him will be learn
ed by Tom Young, 22, negro when
he appears in police court tomorrow
morning.
Officer W. H. Sapp has placed
young Tom on the docket for tomor
row. The negro is accuse dos stealing
a bell from Rourke’s Iron Works at
10 East Bay street.
S. L. MORGAN RITES
SET FOR TOMORROW
Last rites for Spy L. Morgan, who
died last night after a short illness,
will be held tomorrow at 3 : 30 at his
home, 18 West Duffy Street. The
Rev. John Sharp, pastor of Grace
Methodist Church, will conduct the
services assisted by .he Rev. Henry
J. Black, pastor of Si. Paul s Luther
an Church. Burial will be in Bona-
Mr. Morgan was 31 years old and
had lived in Savannah for fourteen
years, being employed by the Sugar
Refinery. He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Myrtle Farrar Morgan, of Sa
vannah; his mother, Mrs. Hattie G.
Morgan of Clyo; three slaters, Mrs.
Ralph Ashmore of. Waco and Misses
Jewel and Catherine Morgan of Clyo;
five brothers, Lewis T., Milton, and
Wilmer of Clyo; Elton Morgan of
Clearwater, and Clarence Morgan of
Fort Benning.
coolidge pal dies
NORTH HAMPTON, Mass.. April
8 (TP) —The old cobbler and phil
osopher who was one of Calvin
Coolidge’s closest friends is dead
today.
The wise old Irishman. James
Lucey, died after a long illness. He
was 81. When Calvin Coolidge was
a student he took a pair of shoes
to Lucey for repair. Their acquaint
ance grew inti a lifelong friendship!
POLICE COURT BUSY
More than a score of offenders ap
peared before Recorder Mercer Jor
dan in police court' this morning to
answer charges of not providing their
dogs with badges for 1936. Most of
those docketed were negroes. All were
dismissed after they had shown up
with the tags or promised to pur
chase them.
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GOING ON A LONG TRIP—TO PRISON
Mrs. Mabel Willys Mrs. Hazel Glab
Bound for the California women’s prison at Tehachapi, Calif.,
Mrs. Mabel W illys, left, under sentence of from one to 10 years
for manslaughter, and Mrs. Hazel Glab, under a combined sen
tence of ••seven jears for will forgery and second degree murder
for the death of her husband in 1928, help each other pack in
Los Angeles jail.
ECHOES OF COBBS FRUITLESS
CONGRESSIONAL UAtaPAfliN BE HEARD
BEFORE AUDITOR CORISH TOMORROW
Echoes of Albert L. Cobb’s unsuc
cessful campaign for Congress in 1934
will be heard here tomorrow when
Special Auditor Julian Ccrish at
tempts to unravel the tangle around
the underwriting of the campaign. '
Mr. Corish was appointed auditor
by Superior Judge John Rourke, Jr.,
in the injunction suit brought by C.
J. Darden to restrain W. J. Ryan, Jr.,
and Max Hornstein from foreclosing
on his property in what he charges
is an attempt to double the money
they put into the Cobb campaign at
his (Darden’s) expense.
The Cobb campaign was underwrit
ten to the tune of $2,000 by W. J.
Ryan, Jr., Charles Cochran and Max
Hornstein, who entered into a three
party contract. They in turn were in
demnified by a group of eighteen
people, all o fwhom signed the con
tract. The money was borrowed from
Mrs. Rita Lovett.
The Congressional candidate fail
ing to pay the loan which financed
his campaign, Mrs. Lovett brought
suit against him and C. J. Darden,
and all of the co-signers who had
entered upon a promissory note with
VOLLEY BALL CLUB
PLANS SEASON
The Y. M. C. A. volly ball club
with a total of twenty members to
their credit had a supper meeting
yesterday at 6:30 o’clock to discuss
plans of continuing volly ball
through out the summer. John Nixon
was elected president of the club
and Capt. Elmer Noble was elected
aecreteary and treasurer.
Edgar Terry, chairman of volly ball
committee is flighted with the pro
gress made by the team during the
last six months. The volly ball club
is an outgrowth of the fellowship
and enthusiasm developed by this
activity at the Y. Last month volly
ball was one of the most popular
sports with an attendance of over 400
during each month.
The league which is now eoir-r on
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him. Mr. Darden had put up deeds
to secure debt on two pieces of Sa
vannah property as security for the
note.
According to the petition filed by
O'Neal and O’Neal, representing Mr.
Darden, their client now claims that
Mr. Ryan and Mr. Hornstein collect
ed the money on pro rata bases from
the eighteen signatories to the un
derwriting contract and paid off the
note held by Mrs. Lovett. They re
rused to accept a pro rata share from
Mr. Darden, however, he charges, on
the claim he was primarily liable for
the entire amount as co-signer of the
note. They then proceeded to institute
foreclosure proceedings against the
property he had put up as security.
Now Mr. Darden charges, although
Mr. Ryan and Mr. Hornstein have
already collected the amount due
Mrs. Lovett from the eighteen signers
of the contract, they are attempting
to obtain his property for themselves
and thus make him the brunt of the
entire campaign expense.
Decision on the injunction sought
is pending the findings of Special
Euditor Corish.
will last until the first of May and
then a schedule will be formed.
Cant. Noble’s green team is leading
the league with Bill Bythwood’s blues
running a clns« second. These teams
meet every Wednesday night at six
thirty, as also do the reds and whites.
TOHN T. MURRELL
FUNERAL SERVICE
John T. Murrell, who died last
night at his residence. 408 West Hull
street was buried in Bonaventure
Cemetery this afternoon, following
services at 3:30 o’clock at the Irvine
Henderson Funeral Home. The Rev.
John S. Wilder conducted the rites.
Surviving Mr. Murrell are a sister,
Mrs. W. H. McCartney of Savannah,
and a brother, Edward Murrell of Nor
folk. Va.
GIRL WHO INSPIRED
GLOOMY SONG DIES;
MELANCHOLY VICTIM
BUDAPEST, April 8 (TP)—The
girl who inspired the song “Gloomy
Sunday” is the latest victim of its
melancholy.
Nineteen persons have commit
ted suicide since hearing the sad
haunting melody written by the
Hungarian composer, Laszlo Javor.
In Chicago last week a man died
clutching a copy of the sheet music.
In Paris several drowned them
selves.
Composer Javor was inconsolable
today. He said: "Four years ago
my fiancee left m and married a
nother man. They went to live in
Sicily. Then, one dreary day I sat
down and wrote ‘Gloomy Sunday.’
I found no publisher for my song
until I few months ago. Today the
news of Vera’s death reached me.
She left only two words as a fare
well message.
“Gloomy Sunday.”
The song is to be published short,
ly in America.
SEES INDIANA SAFE
MIAMI, April 6 (TP—lf Gover
nor Paul McNutt knows anything
about his state, Indiana will give
President Roosevelt a 100,000 ma
jority in the next Election/ The
Hoosier executive goes further and
predicts a sweeping victory for the
present administration throughout
the. nation. Vacationing in Miami,
McNutt has recently visited a great
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VICTIMS OF TORHADO
DURIED IH TUPELO
Services Held For 216 Killed
By Twister; Relief Work
Goes On
TUPELO, Miss., April B—(TP)
Survivors of the disastrous tornado
which ripped through Tupelo turned
to the vast task ofrehabilltation to
day.
C. C. C. workers aided civilian
groups In the burial of 216 tornado
victims in hastily prepared graves.
Twelve ministers, their churches
leveled by the storm, murmured brief
prayers over the open graves.
Governor Hugh White, who person
ally is directing the rebuilding of the
stricken area, ordered all large build
ings not damaged by the twister con
verted into first aid stations and
temporary hospitals for the 1,200 in
jured persons.
The governor estimated property
losses to exceed $7,000,000. Relief
workers under his supervision report
ed that 1,000 homes were damaged,
as well as churches, school buildings,
power and communication lines.
"Relief trains bringing food and
medical supplies have taken care of
the city’s most immediate needs,”
said the governor. "We must turn
immediately to the rehabilitation
problem.”
many states. He says he has found
an overwhelming sentiment for the
President in the south and west.