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PAGE SIX 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. LOST LOST: TOPAZ PIN IN OLD fashioned blue enameled setting. Red cloth belt. On Bolton near Price street. Reward. Call 2-2037. EASTER GIFTS ROSARY - O&PS3 £2TD iDENTIIFIATION ESAOKUSTS CONGRATULATIONS SAVaNWIH D.*XLT TIMES L LINDA'JER, JEWELER 423 WEST BROUGHTON STREET ■■t— 1 ————*——■ .. ■_ .. „ W-v *' * .* 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 RICHARDSON’S FLORIST BULL A LIBERTY STS. DIAL 2-3158 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. JAMES M. CARGILL PRINTING i;N(iKAVIN(i £9921 TELEPHONE | 15 bay St., west jib* 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 ! , . MEMBER ESTABLISHED 1889 mfmbcb FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE ’ <«-• ' MEMBER CORPORATION 1. FEDERAL RESERVED BYSTEM / <</#* ' / YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE / AN OLD DEPOSITOR - \ / to Obtain a \ \ / Personal* Loan Here ' \ y Any with a \ 11 - salary or other depgaafifele sourgrof income, who 1 | needs money f hmt.e improve ments, to repay, debtvorfor any one of a host of 1 i other constructive purposes is heartily weleom# at l \ our Personal Loan Department I \ You need not be an old depositor, nor need yon ow* - I \ property to obtain a Personal Loan here. We believo / \ that we have cut red tape to a minimum and wa / \ know that our rates are moderate and fair. / Y We’ll be glad to furnish _ j ‘ \ THE LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK / \ AND TRUST COMPANY / \. SAVANNAH ■ / 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 D A IMT* Beauty Rest Matresses * /\IIN 1 Sp«W *20.96 SPECIALS I Piece ... 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Salvage Sales Company 114 — 120 WEST BROAD STREET 114-120 W. BROAD ST. PHONES 4430.4611 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.