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Mayor Defied By Beverage Vendor
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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 93
FRANTIC RACE WITH DEATH TO SAVE
ENTOMBED MINERS; ONE VICTIM DIES
CONNOR OPEN FOR
BUSINESS, LETTER
SENT TU GAMBLE
MAN WHOSE PERMIT RE
YOKED ACTS ON AD.
VICE ATTORNEYS
A. B. Connor today hurled defi
ance at Mayor Thomas Gamble In
a challenge to the city executive
right to regulate "arbitrarily” the
sale of alcoholic beverages in Sa
vannah.
In a letter written by Connor’?
attorneys, Edward J. Goodwin and
Marvin O’Neal, Jr.. Connor told
Mayor Gamble his place of business
at. 114 Ea«;t State street is open for
business. In so many wbf ds, Connor
told- the Mayor that official had
no right to close up his business or
regulate It in any way.
Connor is operating in defiance of
the Mayor's order revoking his per
mit to handle alcoholic beverages.
Revocation of the permit by the
Mayor followed Connor’s trial and
acquittal for violation of the state
prohibition law in selling corn
whisky.
The beverage dealer holds the
Mayor has no right, under the city’s
alcoholic beverage ordinance, to
deny him the right to do business.
Following r Vacation of his per
mit. Connor put his case In the
hands of Attorneys Edward J. Good
win and Marvin O’Neal, Jr. The
attorneys wrote Mayor Gamble
s'eking restoration of the permit.
Mayor Gamble’s only anfiwor wait
a brief I'tter calling attention to
the section of th« municipal alcohol
ic beverage ordinance which pur
ports to give the Mayor the right
to regulate the commerce in alco
holic (.rinks, Gamble blue
penciled the ordinance section und
er which the Mayor supposedly has
the privilege of revoking licenses
‘T - cause ’ in h’,3 own discretion.
Connor's ntto.rcys had filed a
p tiilon with City Council for re
iteration of the license. Thsy with
(l ew the petition, reportedly be
c.use of advice that, the Mayor
purposed recommending Its denial,
ennor was open for business
today as his defiant letter was de
livered by his attorneys to the
Mover.
Here is his letcer:
l??-.r Mr. Gamble:
As th? representatives of
Mr. A. B. Connor, of this City,
whose licann? to sell ‘‘alcoholic’’
beverages you revoked several
several weeks ago, we beg to ad
vise you that we intend to chal
lenge your arbitrary use of the of
fice which you hold, through the
of the Ordinance en
:v ®d by the Mayor and Aidermen
of the City of Savannah May 27th .
1935, which is entitled: "An Ord
inance to provide fdr the issuance
of permits to persons, firms and cor
porations engaged in the business
of dealing in and selling at retail,
and wholesale, legal alcoholic bev
erages, etc. ..."
Mr. Connor, has at no time vio
atrd the terms of that Ordinance,
and at no time did you have "prob
able cause” to revoke th© license
under the terms of the Ordinance.
Our client Is now open for busi
ness, and with due respect for the
high office of Mayor of the City
of Savannah, and with absolutely
no personal feelin' i in the matter
toward you or any of your officials,
he respectfully challenges you to
further molest him tn the conduct
of a business, which, so far as the
ordinances of the City of Savannah
are concerntd he has a perfect
right to conduct.
As stated In our letter of April
14th.. Mr. Connor stands ready and
willing to pay whatever license is
required of him, by any Ordinance
of this City, to conduct his business.
Very truly yours,
E J. Goodwin,
Marvin O'Neal. Jr.,
Attorneys for A. B. Connor.
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Trvffm* 'f<yr'M r ffansatlantic air service between Germany and the United
States w-ill be begun, and that plans for the permanent airline have been
i completed. Representatives of Lufthansa, the German airline system,
discussed their plans with air officials in Washinc-ton last December. Prin-
Italians Marching On Addis Ababa
•LEA FOR PEACEi
0. A. R. CONGRESS
WASHINGTON TODAY
PRESIDENT CANCELS EN
GAGEMENT BECAUSE
HOWE’S DEATH
WASHINGTON, April 20 (TP).—
Pleas for a strong national defense
and world peace competed with each
other today for the capital's spotlight
as 4,000 delegates to the annual
Daughters of American Revolution
Congress convened in their continen
tal hall. Delegates representing 34
oeace organizations met In a Wash
lngt:n hotel.
D. A. R. officials announced this
afternoon that Dr. Gus Dyer, profes
sor of economics at Vanderbilt uni
versity. will deliver his address on
the philosophy of the constitution
at the opening meeting tonight. Dr.
Dyer Is replacing President Roosevelt
on the program. The president’s
speech was cancelled because of the
death of Col. Louis McHenry Howe,
former secretary to President Roose
velt.
Mrs. Roosevelt also cancelled her
reception for the D. A. R. delegates
at White House Thursday afternoon.
Instead, she will appear at the con
vention In person.
Prior to the formal opening of
the congress, a group held a round
table discussion this afternoon on r
communism in churches. Former
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Hyde
addressed the meeting. He declared
that a majority of the pastors In
America are slowly veering toward
communism.
Although Mrs. Roosevelt cancelled
all her social engagements, the high
school girls who won the D. A. R.’s
good citizenyalp contest wll visit the
White House this afternoon accord
ing to the original schedrle. Mrs.
Roosevelt explained that she does not
consider this exactly a social engage
ment.
HOW WILL LEGION
TAKE BURLESQUE IN
ATLANTA’S PARADE?
ATLANTA. April 20 (TP).—Spon
sors of the annual Dogwood festival
are wondering what’s going to hap
pen when the American Legion and
the veterans of future wars march
in the same parade.
The Legion, of course, Is made up
of men who fought for Uncle Sam
back two decades ago. The veterans
of future wars ore str dents who are
carrying on a burlesque drive for an
immediate SI,OOO bonus in payment
of the battles they may have to fight
some day.
Body Mrs. Taylor Who Leaped
Into Atlantic off Charleston, Is
Recovered and Brought Savannah
A sucide at sea and the remark
able recovery of the body from the
ocean off Charleston was the story
brought to Savannah this morning
when the City of Birmingham docked
at the Ocean Steamship Company
terminals.
A 77-year-old gray haired mother
was in Savannah this aftemon, assist
ing In making arrangements for the
funeral of her daughter, Mrs. Elmer
E. Taylor, Chelsea, Mass., who was
drowned when she allegedly jump
ed over the rail of the S. S. City
of Birmingham of the Ocean Steam
ship Company, just north of Char
leston, S. C., yesterday afternoon.
The ship, on which mother and
daughter were passengers, docked at
Savannah this morning from Boston.
The body was recovered an hour after
the plunge into the sea.
No note to explain the drowning
was found. It Is known Mrs. Taylor
had been in ill health for some time
and was in a highly nervous condition
during the passage aouth. The two
ship passengers were en route to vis
it the drowned woman’s daughter,
Mrs. Eva A. Haldacker, who resides
in St. Petersburg, Fla., It was hoped
a stay at the noted resort would prove
beneficial to Mrs. Taylor’s health.
Mrs. Isabel Norris, mother of the
drowned woman, had been talking
on deck with her daughter just a few
moments before the tragedy. It was
just after the older pasenger left the
latter’s side that Mrs. Taylor’s body
hurtled through the air into the waves.
This was at 2 25 o'clock Sundaj r after
non. An immediate alarm was set up
and the steamer was stopped. A boat
was put ever the vessel’s side and sea
men recovered the body at 3:25 o’clock
TAXI WAR ON IN
WASHINGTON; TIRES
OF CARS SLASHED
WASHINGTON, April 20 (TP).
Tourists visiting the capital today
are threatened with the necessity of
walking. A shortage of taxicabs is
considered Imminent. A mysterious
war between rival leading cab com
panies has already resulted in tem
porarily disabling 200 hacks. Most
of the cabs had their tires slashed in
the early hours of the morning.
Police fear that unless the wreck
ing crews ere apprehended, a serious
shortage in cabs might result. The
city is crowded with spring tourists
and 4,000 delegates to ■■ annual
Daughters of American TTevolution
Congress.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1936
vilMf’ttops between Berlin and New York wall be Lisbon, Portugal, the
Azores, Bermuda, and Charleston, S. C. The Germans are building
huge Dornier planes of the DO-X type, capable of flying 3,000 miles
with a 1,200-joound payload. The snips will weigh close to thirty
five tons and will be luxuriouslv appointed. (Central Press)
When the steamer touched at Savan
nah this morning the remains were
taken in charge by Sipple Brothers. A
wire from the funeral home advised
relatives of Mrs. Taylor in Chelsea of
her death. Her husband, who resides
there, did not accompany his wife
on the journey south. It is expected
the remains will be sent to Boston to
night by Sipple Brothers and from
there will be taken to Chelsea for
funeral services.
ARMEDMANiAC
AT FORD PLANT
POLICE WITH MACHINE
GUNS ARE STANDING
GUARD
DETROIT, April 20 (TP)—Police,
armed with sub-machine guns, sur
rounded the Henry Ford Hospital
this noon, In an effort to capture
an armed maniac.
The madman is believed to be
trapped inside the building. H
crept into the nurses’ headquarters
and slugged nursa Esther McKer
cher.
An interne tried to stop the man
iac’s flight, but was hurled aside as
the assailant fled down the hall.
While heavily armed officers
guard all exits, detectives are
searching every room in the hos
pital.
MURDERSUICIDE
VERDICT IS REACHED IN
DEATH CANADIAN
MOUNTIE AND BRIDE
VANCOUVER. B. C„ April 20 (TP)
A verdict of murder and suicide is
expected today in the case of a
Royal Canadian moon tie and his
bride.
Two monts ago. Corporal George
Whitman of the mounted police was
married in Bellngham, Wash., with
out'the required permission of his
superior officers. Friends said the
morntie feared the wedding would
cost him his stripes.
Neighbors he ard two shots In the
Whitman home at Vancouver. Po
lice who broke into the place found
the corporal and his pretty bride shot
to death.
CAPITAL CITY IS
HYSTERICAL, WILL
FIGHT UHTO DEATH
SECRETARY EDEN ASKS
FURTHER PENALTIES
AGAINST ITALY
ADDIS ABABA. April 20 —(TP)
The Ethiopian Capital awakened to
day to the almost hysterical excitement
of a city in the path of a flood or
tornado. For sure that Italian sol
diers are marching on Addis Abab,,
natives are wild with patriotic fervor.
Thousands have volunteered for im
mediate service—to defend the city.
It is reported that Marshall Pietro
Badcglio i$ driving his armies south
ward from Dessye, byway of Ankober.
It may be weeks before the Capital
is reached, yet there is a feeling that
the Italians will make it somehow.
Another column is reported marching
northward upon Harrar, the important
railroad base. When this army, under
the Somaliland commander, General
Graziani, captures Harrar—the im
portant railroad will fall into Italian
hands. Hazy Italian dispatches men
tion great batles and a tremendous
loss of Ethiopian lives. The Emperor,
Halle Seiassise is still strangely mis
sing.
EDEN SPEAKS
GENEVA. April 20 —(TP)— Brit
ain’s Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
told the League of Nations today that
Great Britain is ready to consider fur
ther penalties against Italy as a means
of stopping the war against Ethiopia.
Eden urged the League Council to
maintain all the existing sanctions
until Italy comes to terms.
Eden indicated that Britain with
other nations might take independ
ent action against Italy if all League
efforts failed. This was the first time
that Britain had hinted at steps
against Italy outside of League partici
pation.
U. S. TO TAKE TIME
NAME NEW JUDGE
FOR BENCH FLORIDA
WASHINGTON, April 20 (TJ?)—
The opinion prevailed among Con
gressional Democrats today ‘that
the administration is going to take
its time in picking a successor to
former Federal Judge Ritter of
Florida. Last wek the Senate re
moved Ritter from his office vot
ing him guilty on an article on im
peachment presented by the House.,
The xr , aes of more than a half
dozen Florida Lawyers have enter
ed the private conversations con
cerning Ritter’s successor.
I SUPREME TRIBUNAL
SITS IN JUDGMENT
TALMADGE CONTROL
LEGALITY OF HIS FINAN
CIAL SET-UP IS MAJOR
QUESTIOON
ATLANTA. Ga., April 20 (TP).—
A majcr crisis in Georgia’s political
and financial set-up got under way
today. The State Supreme Court b»-
gan its hearing of an appeal by Gov.
Talmadge from an adverse decision
of t he Fulton County Superior Court.
The question concerns itself with
the right of Talmadge-appointed of
ficials to use money held in four
north Georgia banks. In a split de
cision, a three-judge tribunal held
that th courts have jurisdiction in
the matter. Talmadge maintains
that the legislature alone is arbiter
of his acts. He contends that his
ouster actions are within the powers
conferred on him by the constitution.
Thus, he claims, his new appointees
are legally qualified to hold office
until and unless the legislature de
crees otherwise.
Because four justices disqualified
themselves, the Supreme court today
wil Ibe composed of but two of its
regular judges. Four ethers have
been appointed by Talmadge to sit in
judgment.
SEEK TO INDICT
SEVEN SNATCHERS
ST. PAULj Minn., April 20 (JP
The United States government will
seek to indict seven, men for the
5100,000 kidnaping of Williaip
Hamm, Jr., when the Federal Grand
Jury convenes tomorrow in St. Paul.
Federal agents announced they
solved the 1933 kidnaping of the
St. Paul brewer following the ar
rest of three suspects. They took
into custody Edward Bartholmew,
Bentenville, 111., postmaster and
civic leader, Jack Pfeiffer of St.
Paul and Charles Fitzgerald of Los
Angeles.
Three other suspects in the kid
naping case are now in jail or serv
ing long sentences. They are Elmer
Farmer, serving 20 yeals for his
part in the $200,000 Edward Bremer
kidnaping, and Byron Bolton, who
has pleaded guilty to complicity in
the same abduction. Arthur Barker,
convicted as one of the leaders in
the Bremer kidnaping, is serving a
life sentence in Alcatrez Peniten
tiary.
The seventh suspect is Alvin Kar
pis, Public Enemy Number 1, who
is still at large. Karpis is believed
to have shared leadership with
Barker in both the Bremer and
Hamm abductions: ”
COLORADO GUARDS
PATROL MANY MILES
DETERMINED EFFORT TO
KEEP OUT CHEAP
LABOR
DENVER, April 20 —(TP)— Col
orado National Guardsmen patrolled
300 miles of the state’s southern boun
daries today to keep cheap Mexican
laborers on the other side of the line.
Governor Johnson first charged that
certain railroads and beet suger firms
planed to import cheap labor for the
beet crops. Then he sent soldiers hot
footing it southward to see that his
orders against cheap labor are carried
cut. Governor Johnson said Colorado
has plenty of unemployed of her own.
She doesn’t have to import any.
WOMAN CRASH VICTIM
Mrs. Sarah Cranman, 601 West
Gwinnett street, was slightly hurt
when an auto in which she was a
passenger and being driven by
Irouis Cranman, of the same ad
dress, was in collision at Bull and
Henry streets Sunday night. The
driver of the other car was J. T.
Dawson of Lawton and Gaston
streets. Officers said a case would
be made later.
MORE RELIEF AID
Doing its bit for the relief of the
Georgia tornado sufferers, the His
torical Project of the Works Pro
gress Administration sent in its
contribution to Red Cross head
quarters this morning.
Ths project is composed of ap
proximately forty workers, whose
wages are merely a step above the
i subsistence wage of $27 per month.
To Wed Borah Kin
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Miss Letba Pipes
Formal announcement has been;
made of the engagement of Miss;
Leiba Pipes, 20, New Orleans'
beauty, to Federal Judge Wayne G.’
Borah, nephew of Senator .William;
E. Borah of Idaho.
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HITLER 0 BSERVES
FORTY SEVENTH
BIRTHDAY
IN GOOD HUMOR; BESTOWS
LONG LIST TITLES L
ON AIDES ' k
BERLIN, 'April 20 (TP) .—Chancel
lor Hitler bestowed a long list of
high title* on his aides today as he
celebrated his 47th birthday.
Amid a great military demonstra
tion, the Nazi leader raised General
Blomberg to field marshal of the
Reichswehr. Air Minister Hermann
Goering was raised to a colonel-gen
eral. Other recipients of birthday
honors included musicians, and scien
tists.
A huge military parade then cele
brated the leader’s birthday. 35,000
troopers goose-stepped befdre Hitler
along the famous old Unter den Lin
den. The line of march stretched
out for six miles. Soldiers, sailors
and white shirts marched before the
dictator. With the blare of bands,
the rumbling, of 400 army tanks, the
roar cf plane* overhead, Berlin
showed its martial spirit for Adolf
Hitler. , c
DEATH WARRANT
MINOR MEASURES
ONLY ‘MUST’ LEGISLATION
NOW CONSIDERED BY
CONGRESS
WASHINGTON, April 20 (TP)—
Congressional Leaders are writing
the death warrants today for all but
the most Important legislation on their
calenders. A week-end survey dis
closed to them that congress will have
to remain in Washington until June
15, at least; to dispose of "must’’ mea
sures. These Include the half dozen
remaining dtpartmental supply bills,
and the new tax and relief measures.
The tax measures has been given the
legislature right of way in the house
this week. It 1* expected to ba re
ported out of committee tomorrow.
Debate is scheduled to open on the
house floor Wednesday. This will
probably take the rest of the week.
Leaders optimistically hope to finally
send the measure to the senate by the
end of April.
Then the bill will begin its way
through the upper house. Chairman
Harrision of the Senate Fiance Com-1
mittee says he expects to use two week ß
for committee consideration. Debate
On the Senate floor, however, is expect
ed to be long and bitter. Senators
cannot be bound by the gag rules
like house members.
FIRE MARSHAL ON
GUARD IN THE BRONX
NEW YORK< April 20 (TP)—
On guard through the early morning
hours in the Bronx today was Thomas
Brophy, who catches pyromaniacs.
Chief Fire Marshall Brophy is m
charge of fire fighting and fire pre
vention. Nabbing pyromaniacs is his
own particular business.
Brophy has a big job cut out for
him today. He is looking for the pyro
maniac who set five tenements afire
In the Bronx and endangered 30 fami
lies. Brophy h pretty sure the guilty
person is a man, and probably alco
holic. Pyxom.'-iacs are some Limes
fiendishly clevc< but they nearly al
ways get caught. Brophv expect* to
get this one.
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BE CANADIANS’ FINAL
EFFORT
MOOSE RIVER, Nova Scotia, April
20 (TP).—Officials announced today
that they expect to reach the two
Survivors of the Moose River mine
cave-ln shortly. Only five feet of
rock • remains between the rescuers
And the .tunnel, in which-three men
Were trapped over a week ago.
’ Drath claimed one cf three men-
Entombed in a gold mine cave-in to
day while miners ’worked frantically
Save the other two. (
c^ e ' ln Herman Ma
Gin, , with , Dr. R. E. Robertson
and .Alfred - Scadding, ■ wa* trapped
by a landslide 140 feet below the sur
face of a Moose rivqr gold mine.
■ A huge squad of rescue workers
drilled at top speed to reach the trio
but repeated rockslides and more
’ cavq-ins i balked their rescue at
tempts. Yesterday, they managed
to drill a small hole through to the
underground chamber. They learned
to ther amazement, that all three
were alive. .
The rescue attempt continued with
renewed speed when mine experts
warned that water was seeping into
the mine galleries and all three were
in danger of drowning. !
They sent words of encourage
inept to the entombed men as the
diamond drills bit into' the. rock wall. ;
Feeble replies came back from the
chamber where the three crouched,
straining t heir eyes for the split in
the rock wal which would mean that
the rescv.erers had broken through.
Today, Dr. Robertson sent up word
of MaGlU’s death. His companion.
Dr. Robertson said, collapsed severs 1
days ago when all hope of rescue
had gone.
Mining experts headed by the Ca
nadian minister of mines are prepar- ’
Inga heavy blast of dynamite in a
final effort to break through to the
two survivors. Dr. Robertson and
Scadding have been warned to crawl
as far back as possible into the sub
terranean prison for fear that they
might be buried in the debris.
Pumps are working at top speed
but last reports said the water is
filling the mine shafts rapidly.
RIFLFrULE
IN JERUSALEM
HOLY CITY IS BOILING
WITH TROUBLE—NINE
JEWS DEAD
JERUSALEM, April 20 (TP).—
Bayonets and rifles kept order
through the night in Jerusalem. The
Holy City is boiling with trouble.
Nine Jews and several Arabs are
dead. Nearly 50 are injured. Rioting
between Jews and Arabs made Sun
day a da yofte rror. British troop*
were summoned from theJ" base near
Jaffa. They dec Jared a curfew and
kept the streets empty through the
watchful night.
COURT INJUNCTION
FAILS TO HALT 300
WOMEN PICKETING
COSHOCTON, Ohio, April 20 (TP)
A court injunction failed to discour,
age 300 women pickets at the Indi,
anapolis Glove Company factory to
day. Although the cov.rts had ruled
against mass picketing in the glove
strike, the pickets were on hand to
day when officials attempted to re
open the plant.
Nonstrikers were turned back
when they tried to break tHrough
benches. The:' appealed to the city
and state authorities for help.
The glove factory has been closed
down since strikers walked out on
March 24.
THREE NEGROES HELD
CHARGED WITH ROBBING
CITY DRY GOODS STORE
Three negroes charged with the
burglary of I. Rabhan and Sons,
dry goods store at 42 West Broad
street, will appear lu police court
Wednesday morning. The trio were
arrested by City Detective A. Wi
man and Police Officer J. W.
Hatirlch
A large quantity of dresses and
other articles of clothing, the whole
valued at more than S3OO, was atol.
en when three locks were broken
off the Rabhan • establishment’s
front door about ten days ago. The
men arrested are Charlie Coleman,
22; Edward Gale, 17, and Charlie
Edwards, 17.