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VOLUME I—NUMBER 6
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England Lays Down Law To
Italy; Demands End of War
More Embargoes
If Ethiopia Is
Further Invaded
GENEVA, April 10 (TP)—Great
Britain warned today that she will
deman I more league embargoes a
gainst Italy unless the Ethiopian
war is ended immediately.
The waruins threat was made by
British Foreign Secretary Anthony
Eden before the League of Nations
Peace Committee. . , .
Eden lirst asked that negotiations
to make peace between Italy and
Ethiopia get underway without de
lay. When this demand was rejected
by the French delegate, Eden sug
gested that the league sanctions
committee would meet to impose
an oil embargo against Italy. Eden
announced that he will ask the
Portugese chairman of the sanc
tions committee to prepare the com
mittee to assemble at a moment’s
notice. Eden indicated the commit
tee might gather at Geneva on
next Friday,
0.. Thursday the league peace
committee of 13 will again assem
ble. That das was fixed after to.
day’s stormy session which ended
in a split between the French and
British delegatee.
The French Foreign Minister
Flandin opposed the British demand
that the league grind down on
Premier Mussolini.
The French view was in line with
France’s desire to gain Italian sup
port in her struggle with Germany.
France indicated plainly that she
is willing to let Mocsclinl make
peace with Ethiopia on his own
terms.
Not so Great Britain. Secretary
Eden insisted that Italy should halt
her drive on Ethiopia while peace
is being discussed. Eden added that
the League Peace Committee should
stay in sessicr until the Italian
government said yes or no to
s>eace proposals.
POLICE COURT AIRS
AUTO CRASH CASE
The la t chapter in an exciting
episode which opened yesterday at
Port Wentworth and featured two
auto' accidents, the injury of two
motorists, the shooting of a negro
passenger in one car. and a thrilling
chase by centy police officers of a
fleeing negro driver, was written in
pol'ce ccurt this morning.
The whole affair was reviewed when
two docket ca;es were called. George
Odum, negro, of Tillman, S. C., was
given a sentence of a straight six
months on the Brown Farm. George
was the instigator of most of the ex
citement. County Police Officers F.
B. Adkins and H. H. Grotheer chas
ed the car Odum was driving for
36 miles —all the way to Tillman
i where Cdum and a fellow pa senger,
Eciwai’d Pinckney, also a negro, were
arrested by Deputy Sheilff C. U.
Floyd. For a time the pursuit reach
ed a 65 mlle andhour clip.
It wes late yesterday afternoon
county police headquarters was noti
fied of an accident on the Augusta
road at Port Wentworth. An auto
driven by Harold Rosholt, 31, of New
York City had collided with one
driven by R. E. Blackbum who is
employed at the Sears Roebuck Store.
A knot of people had gathered about.
The negro's car knocked down Ro
sholt and J. M. Green, a filling sta
tion attendant who was in the group
of spectators. The county officers
jumped into their maheine and set
.out after the negro car which had
mot abated its speed.”
BAKER’S TRIBE WILL
COME TO SAVANNAH
Phil Baker will take his tribe of
entertainers on a trip through Sa
vannah when his radio program of
May 3 hits the air. Through the ef
forts of J. C. Cook, local repre
sentative of the Gulf Refining Com
pany. Savannah will be the city
visited by the radio %tars at that
.time.
I Savannah has appeared in sever
kd radio itineraries of late through
She Chamber of Commerce’s deter-
Mtiination to advertise the “city by
sea.”
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Rivers In South Georgia
Continue To Leave Banks
ATLANTA, Ga., April 10 (TP) —The rivers in south and central
Georgia are continuing their gradual rise today. The Chattachoo
cnee, Savannah, and Ocmulgee rivers have left their banks ani
swept into the lowlands. The rivers are swollen from the recent
driving rains which follow the devastating tornado.
The Stribling Memorial Bridge over the Ocmulgee River has
been closed owing to the high water. Little damage however, is
expected.
Gainesville’s Poor Suffer
Most Bishop O’ Hara Finds
On Visit To Stricken Area
That the miserable condition of the
poorer families of Gainesville is the
most pitiful and distressing part of
the wreckage left by the recent tor
nado, was the report of Bishop Ker
ala P. O'Hara this morning, al. *tie
discussed the sights that met -aun
on his recent visit to the desolated
area.
The homes and tenement settle
ments of the very poor were com
pletely demolished, the bishop said,
the poverty stricken colored families
being in a particularly destitute con
dition. A sad sight indeed, he observ
ed, was to watch families standing
over the ruins of their houses trying
to salvage domestic ware or small
possessions.
Asked what is the greatest need of
the people in the storm weary sec
tion of the state, Bishop O’Hara re
plied, “They are in need of every
thing —of food, clothing, shelter.
Scarcely a home is left standing ex
cept in the residential district on the
fringes of the town. There are no
hotels, and the people have no place
to sleep except among the ruins of
their dwellings.”
Every church in the city was dam
aged considerably except the Roman
Catholic cathedral, the bishop said.
Bitter Internal
Battle Looms
G. O. P. Here
Gather to Elect Delegates
Tomorrow; Lily Whites
, put up fight
AU signs point to a bitter internal
battle for leadership of Chatham
county’s Republicans when they gath
er here to elect delegates to the state
and district conventions tomorrow
afternoon.
Always uproarious in their periodi
cal conventions here, the several hun
dred supporters of the G. O. P. in
Savannah, most of them negroes, are
expected to uphold their reputation
for lively gatherings at tomorrow's
get-together.
Gilbert E. Johnson, leader of a
bloc which has pledged itself to re
pudiate th eleadership of J. G. Lem
on, negro attorney, declined to re
veal hU plans today. He admitted,
however, that his group will fight io
elect him to the chairmanship of
the convention.
Possibilities of another “Lily
White” fight, such as has thrown
many another Chatham Republican
convention into uproar in past years,
were foreseen today. But nobody would
admit anything. Mr. Johnson has
said that his group is not prepared
to wage a “Lily White” battle, the
bugaboo of every convention to date.
But rumor had it that when the bat
tle begins it will rapidly develop into
one.
Charles E. Donnelly, whom Mr.
Johnson claims is aligned with Lem
on's leadership, said today he doesn't
intend to get into the promised
scrimmage. In past years Mr. Don
nelly has taken an active part as a
white leader in the local G. O. P.
ranks.
Superior Court Judges
To Convene In City
The first convention in twelve
years of the judges of Georgia's Su
perior Court will open here at the
Savannah Hotel on May 28 and close
on May 30. At this time the rules
for practice in the Superior Court will
be considered for revision.
Judge Robert N. Hardeman of
Louisville, judge of Superior Court
for the Middle Circuit, will be in
charge of all arrangements of the
meeting. Judge James B. Park.
Greensboro, judge of the Ocmulgee
Circuit, and Judge William E. Thom
as, Vidalia, judge of the Southern
Circuit, assisted Judge Hardeman in
sending out calls to the convention.
The three senior judges of the state
have each been on the bench for
twenty-two years.
As it is made of stone it remained
unimpaired except for a few tiles on
the loof.
Bishop O’Hara, accompanied by
Father James Grady, arrived in
Gainesville on the day of the torna
do at 11 p. m. He immediately re
ported to the Methodist Church, In
which the Red Cross had set uo head
quarters, and placed the resources of
the Catholic church at the disposal
of the organization. The city was In
darkness, and the Red Cross workers
were carrying on their activities by
the light of oil lamps. A torrential
rain was nouring down, adding to the
misery of the homeless men, women,
and children.
“I was impressed by the splendid
organization of the Red Cross,” the
Bishop said today. “No words can
describe the perfection of its organi
zation. It is deserving of the help of
every Georgian.”
He paid tribute also to the untir
ing work of Georgia doctors and
nurses who stayed on duty day and
night ministering to the injured.
A collection will be taken up in
the Catholic churches. all over the
state on the Sunday' after Easter to
assist in the rehabilitation work of
the Red Cross.
TOBACCO MEASURE
PASSED BY HOUSE
WASHINGTON - , APRIL 10 (TP
—A bill which would permit tobac
co states to draw production con
trol agreements between them
selves is before the Senate.
The measure passed the House
by a roll call vote of 189 to 117,
despite the battle waged by Repub
licans who called the project a new
dea maneuver .to get around the
Supreme Court’s AAA decision.
Representative Dewey Short of
Missouri led the battle against tho
bill. Short labelled the measure a
stubborn refusal by the administra
tion to admit the AAA had failed.
Late amendments to the House
Bill authorized states not mention
ed in the original measure to par.
ticipate in the model control act as
soon as they passed the necessary
state legislation. States mentioned
in the act include Virginia, Ken.
tucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas and
Georgia.
FATHER OF TWO GIRLS
ARRESTED IN NEW YORK
CALLED MODERN FAGIN
NEW YORK, April 10 (TP)—
Two little girls and their father
are in the hands of police today.
Detectives say the father, Harry
Meyer, trained his two daughters.
14-year.old Ellen and 12-year-old
Margaret, to be two of the most
accomplished thieves that police
have encountered in years.
Ellen and Margaret were picked
up after Manhattan housewives
complained that they missed val
uables and cash after two little
girls came to their door, selling lot
tery tickets. The children, when
searched ,were found to be carrying
a stolen diamond ring and a size
able sum of money. Ellen and Mar
garet immediately broke into tears
and said they had stolen because
their family was on relief and didn't
have enough to eat.
Police found loop-holes in their
story and called the father to the
police station. After questioning the
two children admitted they stole
because their father wielded a
heavy hand with the hair brush
if they returned from their daily
excursions without a plentiful sup.
ply of cash and stolen jewelry. In
all, the pair are believed to have
grabbed cash and valuables worth
$5,000 during the past couple of
weeks. The lottery tickets, by the
way, were worthless.
Meyer was thrown behind bars
on charges of receiving stolen
goods. The nimble-fingered little
girls were taken over by the soc
iety for the prevention of cruelty
to children.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1936
Easter Holiday For Cadets Cut Short By Death In Crash
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Charles H. Smith Donald R. August Robert G. Evans Crawford T. Kelly
Four cadets at Valley Forge (Pa.) Military academy, en route Robert G. Evans, an orphan who lived at the military academy;
home for the Easter visit with their families, were among the Crawford T. Kelly, of McKeesport, Pa.; Charles H. Smith of
11 victims of the crash of the TWA air liner in the mountains New Kensington, Pa., and Donald R. August, of Grove-City Pa.
near I montown, la. Ihe four youths, left to right, above, are There were three survivors of the crash. . • .... *
U. S. AGENTS
SCOUR SKIES
CALLESPLANE
BROWNSVILE, Tex., April 10
(TP) —Federal authorities are
watching the Brownsville airport
today for a tri-motored plane bear
ing formed President Plutarco Cal
les of Mexico and three of his
political aides.
The four Mexicans were seized
at midnight in a surprise raid on
Calles home at Mexico City. Report,
cdly the government forces blame
the former “Strong Man of Mexico”,
for the bombing of a train near
Vera. Cruz Monday. A dozen people
were killed in the blast.
Officers held the prisoners un
der strict guard until dawn. Then
they were rushed to a plane. Of
ficials said the men would be taken
to Brownsville, and ordered to stay
out of Mexico.
The arrest of Calles Is said to
have been ordered personally by
President Cardenas.
For 11-years Calles dominated
Mexico. Last year he was eased
from power by President General
Cardenas. Government forces
charge that Calles has been trying
to regain his place in Mexico, thru
agitation among the Catholics.
Calles is bitterly <opopsed by the
Labor and Socialist forces which
support President Cardenas. •
Germany’s Envoy
At London Dies
LONDON, April 10—(TP*)— The
German Ambassador to Great Britain
succumbed to a heart attack today.
The ambassador was ’ 55-year-old
Dr. Leopold Von Hoesch. He had
served the Nazi government at Lon
don since 1932. Recently he has ha
a major part in the turbulent diplo
matic discussions which followed
Hitler’s march back to the Rhine.
Much of Dr. Von Hoe-ch’s diplo
matic career has been spent at Lon
don. Until the outbreak of the world
war, he was secretary to the German
embassy at London. He also had rep
resented Germany in Turkey, Norway,
Spain, Bulgaria and France between
1918 and 1932'.
NEBRASKA SOLON PLANS
BAN ON GLOOMY SONG
WASHINGTON, April 10—(TP)—
Nebraska’s Representative Stefan is
going to decide this afternoon wheth
er he will introduce a bill banning
the Hungarian suicide song—“ Gloomy
Sunday.”
Stefan has invited a small group
of his friends to a conference to pass
judgement on the song. He says he
will play a transcription of it and
then decide about introducnig the
bill.
The song has caused quite a sen
sation both in America and Europe.
Numerous suicides have been attrib
uted to it. The words relate the story
of an unfaithful swetheart who fails
to keep a tryst with her lover.
BRIDE KILLS SPOUSE
IN CHICAGO TAVERN
CHICAGO, April 10 (TP) A bride
of three months, Mrs. Andrew Martin,
told police today that she shot her
husband, to death in a tavern beause
he entered the place with another
woman.
Customers of the tavern fled in
pcnic when Mrs. Martin fired five
shots at her husband. Three bullets
struck Martin. Another slightly
wounded a customer. Martin died
on the way to a hospital.
Witnesses said they saw no one
accompany Martin as he entered the
tavern. Mrs. Martin later told police
she had quarreled with her husband
recently over money matters.
Opening Evelyn Ritter Hospital
In Ridgeland Next Thursday Marks
Realization Young Doctor’s Dream
RIDGELAND, S. C., April 10—The
formal opening of ths E.elyn Ritter
Hospital in Ridgeland next Thurs
day, April 16th, will mark the reali
zation of the dream of Dr. Adolph
Ritter, Jr. The new structure, which
boasts 23 rooms with 17 beds, 12
white and 5 colored; modern x-ray
equipment, laboratory, drug-room, and
completely equipped operating room,
is as modem a hospital ag can be
found in any city.
The formal opening will material
ize in the shape of ‘open house” at
the hospital on the afternoon of April
16th from two o’clock to five o'clock.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend. Mayor W. J. Ellis of Ridgeland
will act as master of ceremonies, in
troducing the speakers. Among the
speakers will be Senator H. Klugh
Purdy, Rev. Or H. -McKinnon, Rever
end John Wilder of Savannah and
the Reverend W. Currj-, Superintend
ent of the Warren A. Candler Hos
pital in Savannah. A musical pro
gram will be provided during the af
ternoon by a Savannah orchestra
and guests will be shown through
the hospital. Refreshments will be
served on the lawn.
The first Ritter hospital was open
ed just six years ago. on April 16,
1930. It was a tiny affair of three
rooms, kitchen and offices but it was
the beginning of the dream of a
young doctor who had received his
M. D. degree just two years earlier
at the South Carolina Medical Col
lege in Charleston. By dint of will
power, diligence and application, Dr.
Ritter built up his practice. The
first patient in the hospital, two
year old Lonnie Cleland, of Ridge
land, scored a complete recovery af
ter suffering some time w.th pneu
monia. At this time the personnel
consisted of one nurse, Miss Jennie
Lee Goethe, of Garnett. S. C., who
had been employed by Dr. Ritter in
1930, and was in charge of the old
hospital up to the time of its ex
pansion vzhen she assumed the du
t'es of Private Secretary and Office
Nurse.
In November, 1933, William K.
Vanderbilt, Jr. died tn the old Rit
ter Hospital, after suffering fatal in-
EX CONVICT SEEKS
LINDBERGH MONEY
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Spit’s Hunt For Ransom
Bills Shrouded by
Veil of Mystery
CHICAGO, April 10—(TP)— Mys
tery veils the activities of a Chicago
ex-convict and his lawyer today. The
two are on an eastern journey in
search of a hidden bundle of Lind
bergh ransom bills.
The former convict, Stepjien Spitz
was released from prison two weeks
ago. Spitz said he could lead his at
torney, Bernard Finnegan, to the
place where he has the ransom mon
ey hidden. Spitz explained he bought
the bills at a discount shortly after
the kidraping cf Charles Augustus
Lindbergh, Jr.
Attorney Finnegan’s wdfe says her
husband keeps in daily touch with
her—but has not hinted as to the
success or failure of his mission. She
c ays his only remark is, “our work
is progressing nicely.”
WOMEN STRIKERS DEFY
PICKET BAN IN OHIO
COSHOCTON, Ohio, April 10
(TP) —Women strikers defied a court
injunction today and continued pick
eting a Coshocton glove factory.
The court injunction was issued
”este:day. It forbid further picketing
of the factory. The plant ha sbeen
closed for two weeks. Once the women
pickets used clubs to prevent reopen
ing of the plant.
Company officials indicated there
would be no attempt to reopen the
factory until Monday.
juries in a motor accident near Ridge
land. In the new hospital, a bronze
tablet, commemorating the n’remory
of the young scion of the famous
Vanderbilts, has been hung on the
wall of the lobby. William K. Van
derbilt, Sr., made a generous dona
tion to the hospital.
In September, 1935, the work of re
modeling the old hospital began al
though not completed until January,
the hospital was in use by Novem
ber, now with the installation of
steam heat, indirect lighting, elevat
or, and every convenience that mod
ern methods have made available
the hospital, which should be the
pride of Ridgeland, is formally open.
The personnel includes: Miss Vera
Elizabeth Woods, graduate of St.
Luke’s Hospital in Jacksonville, su
perintendent of nurses: Miss Thelma
Wilson, who received training at
Roper Hospital in Charleston, and
Mrs. Luella Ragins, graduate of Park
View Sanatorium, Savannah, both
member of the nursing staff; Miss
Winona Davis, Student nurse, Mrs.
E. A. Arnsdorff, book keeper, and Mr.
Rudolph Ritter, laboratory technician.
Mrs. Addle McKenzie Clegg, also a
graduate of Park View, is operating
loom supervisor and office nurse to
Dr Ritte ris Miss Jennie Goethe.
. Dr. Ritter was bern at Ruffin on
October 3, 1893, the son of Adolph
and Mrs. Harriett Lyons Ritter, he
early expressed his desire to enter
the medical profession. In 1918, he
received his pharmaceutical degree
and operated a drug store in Ridge
land until 1922. When he returned
to Medical College to prepare for a
career in medicine. In 1917, Dr. Rit
ter married Miss Evelyn Gertrude
Arnsdorff, of Yemassee, S. C. for
whom the hospital is named. Two
sons, Edward and Albert, are now
attending Porter Military Academy.
Dr. Ritter is a member of the
Cea tai Medical Society , and , M,s.
Ritter is secretary of the Auxiliary*
of the organization. Prominent in
Civic and professional life in Jasper
and adjoining counties. Dr. Ritter has
done much toward the development
of the low country section< of the
state.
SAVANNAH PLANS
BE REPRESENTED
CHARLESTON MEET
Public Hearing 1 ■Mil 13
Improve Intra-coastal
Waterway
Ph ns for Savannah representation
'’t the public hearing to be held at 10
O’clock on the morning of April 13
at Charle:t*n, S. C., on the river and
the S'vannah river, were discussed at
a meeting this morning at the Cham
ber of Commerce.
Th? ses'on w?s called today by Cant.
Frank W.-Spencer, chairman of the
rivers and harbors committee of the
Chamber of Commerce. Attending
were represenatives fr:m the four oil
companies which have plants at
Captain Spencer said after
the meeting these companies would
aoubtless send men to the Charleston
would not be S&vannahians. They
probably will be dispatched from the
companies. headquarters.
, It is planned to increase the mean
low depth of the waterway twelve feet
between the Savannah and Cape Fear
rivers. Lieut. Col. Creswell GirlingUn,
United States district engineer, will
attend the Charleston hearing. He
’eft Savannah this morning fcr South
Carolina.
Col. Garlington will attend a public
celebration at the Soc'te river bridge
near Myrtle Beach, S. C. tomorrow.
The festivities will mark the opening
of the last link in the intracoastal
waterway between Wilmington and
Charleston. Later he goes to Charles
ton for the hearing there.
Party Chiefs Turn
Eyes On V/. Va.
' WASHINGTON, • April 10 <TP)
The little border state of West’Vir
ginia assumed a position of relative
political importane today as the lead
ing candidates for presidential nom
ination entered the preferential pri
mary.
Pclitical observers in Washington,
who had hitherto paid little attention
to the state, are now watch ijig the May
12, primaries with keen interest.
President Roosevelt’s nanje will head
the Democratic ballot. His application
was forwarded by senior Senator Neely.
It is believed that there is little doubt
that the states Democratic delegation
will be pledged to him. Admini
stratitn strategists, however, are said
io have selected West Virginia as one
of the states in which the President
will seek to demonstrate his popu
larity with the voters. *
The real fight will be in the repub
lican ranks. Senator Borah’s candi
dacy was entered by Carl Bachmann,
of West Virginia, who is the Idahoan,s
Washington campaign manager. He
will seek to wrest the state delegation
from Walter Hallanan, national com
mitteeman, and other members of the
regular republican organizations who
have announced they favor Governor
Alf Landon of Kansas.
‘W-MEN” HIT CHISELERS
Will Prdbe Efforts to Divert WPA
Funds From Proper Use
A new campaign against work-re
lief “chiselers” has been begun by
Dallas Dort, head of the WPA di
vision of investigation, who says that
so far his ‘‘W-Men” have held graft
under the $4,000,000,000 work-relief
program to an “infinitesimal” amount,
but that he proposes to tighten up
his investigative force now active in
the field. »
Dort says attempted pay-roll pad
ding,, use of relief workers to im
prove private property, and attempts
to collect money from job applicants
have outnumbered other effoits to di
vert work-relief funds from their prop
er. use.
With a field staff of 125 men, Dort
says he is confident that “there is
little crookedness we don’t hear
about.”
To prove his contention that pun
ishment of relief grafters is sure,
Dort said that after a year and a
half his agents had just arrested a
former Virginia case worker on a
warrant chraging false issuance of
relief work slips. He was traced to
Birmingham, Ala., and arrested by a
WPA field agent.
ATTORNEY HAAR
OPENS NEW ATTACK
IN BEER LITIGATION
A $25,000 damage suit came as
a sequel today to W. J. Richter's
brief two days as receiver for the
Southern Distributors, Inc., when
Attorney E. J. Haar filed proceed
ings charging Mr. Richter with in
stituting the receivership malic
iously and putting the beer distri
butors to unnecessary trouble and
expense by being "stubbornly lit.
igiotis.”
Southern Distributors, naming
the Jax Ice and Cold Storage Com
pany, of which Mr. Richter is local
manager, a joint defendant, seeks
punitive and expenses damages tot
aling $25,275 plus attorney fees in
addition.
ACTRESS RECOVERS
DETROIT, April 10 (TP)—Doc
tors announced today that the beau
tiful Katherine Crawford, former
movie . star, is recovering rapidly
from her overdose of sleeping pow
ders.
Miss Crawford, wife of James Ed.
gar, Jr., heir to a million dollar
sugar fortune ,said she mistook the
directions on the box of powders
and took too much of the mixture.
3c
PAY NO MORE
TRANSRADIO PRESS
PROMINENT MAN J
KILLED WHEN HE ”
OPENED PACKAGE
Wilkesbarre, Pa. Terrorized by
Infernal Machines;
Four Blinded
WILKESBARRE, Pa., April 10
One man was instantly killed and
four people seriously injured today
by two dynamite bomb explosions at
Wilkesbarre. The bombs had been
sent through the mails.
Two other packages thought to
contain two more bombs, addressed
to the county judge and a former
sheriff, were intercepted by postal
authorities. Postal investigators be
lieve the deadly packages were mail*
ed by a madman in Wilkesbarre.
The dead man was a prominent
politician, Michael Gallagher. He was
slain by the blast of a bomb he
opened at noon. His son-in-law Clin
ton Lehman was injured.
About an hour earlier the insur
gent miners union leader, Thomas
Maloney and his two children were
seriously wounded by an identical
bomb in Georgetown, a Wilkesbarre
suburb.
Former Luzerne county Sheriff
Luther Knfifen heard a radio broad
cast warning for citizens to be on
their guard against opening heavily
wrapped packages marked ‘‘sample."
He received one and turned it over
to postal- investigators immediately.
Clerks in the Wilkesbarre post office
intercepted an identical package ad
dressed to County Judge Benjamin
R. Jones.
' Doctors say that all four of the
injured people—if they live—may be
permanently blind. Maloney’s hand
may have to be amputated.
LANIER TEAM * <
WHIPS S. H. S.
Lanier High School of Macon won
every one of the matches played in
the tourney between their racquet
eers and the Savannah High School
tennis team at Daffin. Park th|s
morning. The visitors snowed ud
der the SHS hots by a 5-0 score.
There were four singles games
and one doubles match. A second
doubles match in which John Mc-
Grady and Jack Wilder of Lanier
were to opppse Ralph Clements and
Donald Tyre of the Northsiders was
called off due to rain.
The scores of the singles matches
follows: Cecil Kelly, No. 1 Lanier
man, and John Tyre, No. 1 man of
High School, Kelly winner, 2.6, 6-2,
6-4; Jack Wilder, Lanier, and Gar
rard Haines, High School, Wilder
winner, 6-2, 6-3. ,
In the only doubles match of the
day the Tyre brothers faced Kelly
and Evans of Lanier. The visitors
took the local boys in this match.
2-6, '-3, 6.3.
End Testimony *
In Cobb Case
Special Auditor Julian Corish
today completed taking the testi
mony of witnesses in the court bat
tle over the salvage of Albert L.
Cobb’s abortive 1934 campaign for
Congress.
Attorney Marvin O’Neal, Jr., re
presenting C. J. Darden, who claim.ii
W. J. Ryan, Jr., and Max Horn
stein are attempting to get all thu
salvage for themselves by seizin,i;
the property he had staked as coil
lateral on Mr. Cobb’s defaulted note,
and Defense Attorney Aaron Kra>.
vitch, have been ordered by Auditor
Corish to file briefs.
Auditor Corish, appoint
ed by Superior Judge Jc%n Rourke,
Jr., to untangle the conflicting mass
of testimony for the court’s guid
ance in determining Mr. Darden’s
injunction suit to stop foreclosure
against his property, will likely no-t
be prepared to submit his finding!*
for some time.
Five S ates Fesr
New Flood Threats
MEMPHIS, Tenn. April 10 (TP*
The lash of incessant rains ij
driving the Missisippi and Ohio rivers
cut of their channels in five state
today.
Reports indicate that 1,500 familial
from Alabama to as far north as Ill
inois are fugitives from the surginn
waters. At .east 100,000 acres of
farm land are swamped.
The Missisippi is reported over its
banks from the mouth of the Ohio
Cairo, 111., to Memphis, Tenn
Alabama rivers are flooding the streets
of Montgomery and Gadsen. Crum
bling levees at Caruthersville, Mo are
causing alarm. ’’
Army engineers say the flood waters
will rise beyond the peak predicted
formerly between Cairo, where high
leveesare believed strong enough to
hold off the waters.
F. D. RETURNS
WASHINGTON, April 10 (TP)
President Roosevelt just arrived
at the White House after his three
week Florida fishing trip. The Pres
ident looked like a picture of health
as he stepped from the Presidential
Special at Union Station.