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OLUME 2—NUMBER 94
SECURE CONFESSION MRS. TITTERTON MURDER
Hope For Rescue Two Entombed
Men Shaken; 20 Feet Rock Away
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DR. ROBERTSON AND SCADDING
TALK TO SURFACE; LATTER IS
ON VERGE OF BREAKDOWN
MOOSE RIVER, Nova Scotia,
April 21 (TP)—Hope for the res
cue of the two men entombed in
the Moose River Gold Mine took a
sharp blow today.
The Canadian Minister of Mines,
Michael Dwyer, admitted just be
for enoon that 20 feet of hard rock
still separate the cave-in victims
from rescue who are frant
ically trying to cut a tunnel
through to the pair.
Dwyers offical statement stun
ned those who had been given re
ports that the renne crews were
less than five feet from Dr. D. E.
Robertson and Daniel A. Scadding
Dwyer gave no explanation of the
earlier erroneous reports.
“The situation, frankly, is not
unduly encouraging, ’’ the Minister
of Mines said. “However, we must 1
not give up hope. The best hard
rock miners in the Dominion are
on the job. If it is humanly pos
sible to reach Dr. Robertson and
Scadding, we’ll bring them out a
live.”
The gloomy report was not re-
WARRIORS WAGING
FIERCE BATTLE AT
GATES ADDIS ABABA
ETHIOPIANS HAVE AS
SUMED “DO-OR-DIE”
ATTITUDE
ADDIS ABABA, April 21 (TP).—
The Italian army and the defenders
of the Ethiopian capital were re
ported locked in a fierce struggle to
day.
The battle was reported underway
on the road leading from Dessye to
Addis Ababa. One dispatch said that
tire Ethiopians had taken a do-or-dic
st: nd in a mountain pass dominating
the read.
An official war bulletin from ital
ic. 1 . '..td-ra.ts’.s at Dessye did not
menti:n the battle. However, Mar
s.i.i LadogLo -aid that the southern
fcasciat ermy was making swift prog
ie:s toward the only Ethiopian rail
rtad.
IL RSJOE oiSWES
OF ROME
CHEERS GREAT STATE
MENT THAT “HARBOR
IS IN SIGHT”
ROME. April 21 (TP).—Premier
Mussolini brought thundering cheers
from 100,000 Italians today when he
spoke frem his balcony in a epcciel
address commemorating the birth
of Rome. Today is the anniversary
of the fabled birth of Rome by the
m t.’leal Romulus.
“After a difficult voyage,’’ said
Mu s Uni, “we are in sight of the
harbor.”
Tho entire city staged a mighty ■
celebration, undampened by failure
of the army to capture Addis Ababa.
That had been a prize plum held out
hopefully several months ago to the
populace, with the promise that the
Ethiopian capital would fal on the
Roman birthday. •
The ceremonies included the
launching of two 8,000 ten cruisers
at Spezia and Trieste.
negro slashes
WAY TO FREEDOM
PRINCESS ANNE. Md., April .
21 (TP) —An armed posse search
ed the woods around Princess
Anne today tor a negro who es
caped from jail after slashing a
deputy sheriff with a penknife.
Tbe negro, whose name is not
known by officials, sprang from
his cell when. Deputy Sheriff W. P.
Holland entered It to briir; him
breakfast. Ths prisoner slashed
Holland’s wrist. They fought down
a flight of stairs. Holland opened
the Jail door to call for help. The
negro brushed aside the deputy
sheriff and ran to his freedom
Holland had more than ten knife
wounds tn bls body.
PILOT,~AIDE MISS DEATH
AS PLANE HITS DITCH
IN LANDING ATTEMPT
HALIFAX, N. S. April 21 (TP)—
Pilot Charles Sutherland and Co-
Pilot Arthur Tappen narrowly escaped
death at the Halifax Airport early to
day. , • .
Their plane struck a ditch and
nosed over In an attempt to land.
Sutherland was Injured slightly. Tap
pen escaped unhurt. The plane had
flown from Boston to bring back
pliotographs of the Moose River Gold
Mtn* rascus attempts. 1
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SauainmWS&nu&ts
layed to the two men who crouch
in their narrow, gas-filled chamber,
140 feet below the surface. Dr.
Robertson and Scadding have bat
tled hard to keep their nerve.
Scadding was reported to be on
the verge of a breakdown today.
Those who listened at the receiv
ing end of a one-way telephone line
strung from the blocked mine
chamber to the surface say they
heard Scadding scream: “Get me
out of here. Get me out of here.”
Later, Scadding apparently re
gained control of himself. When
he talked with those on the sur
face above, his voice was nearly
normal. Dr, Robertson has main-
SCADDING’S DAUGHTER
i CLINGS TO HOPE HER
FATHER WILL BE SAVED
WAUKESHA. Wis., April 21
(TP). —A weary, 15-year-old girl
sits by her radio today and waits
i for the latest reports from Moose
River, Nova Scotia.
She is Ethel Scadding. Her
father. Charles Scadding, is one
of the men who have been en
tombed in the Moose River gold
mine since Easter Sunday.
As the hours pass, the girl's
courage flickers, then strengthens
as new reports of rescue attempts
boom through the loudspeaker.
Ethel, who lives with her moth
er and stop-father at Waukesha,
is struggling to keep that fierce
determination voiced by her cry:
“Daddy won’t die—he mustn’t
diet”
1 £ll. ■uauxolf. and
few jokes
in his conversation with his wife.
Mrs. Robertson listened to her
husband’s voice early today and
left the pit-head, apparently great
ly buoyed by the word her husband
had spoken.
The phone line is strung through
a narrow pipe. > which was drilled
140 feet down. A second drill was
through which food and clothing
started today to provide a shaft
can be passed.
With 20 feet of rock separating
the two cavo-in yictims from their
rescuers, the menace of rising
water inside the mine was doubled.
The underground flood, started
when Dr. Robertson, Scadding and
Herman R. McGill were trapped
In the cave-in on Easter Sunday,
already has filled the lower pas
sages of the mine. Magill found it
too hard to bear the horror of
pitch darkness, the danger of ris
ing waters and the nerve-racking
watt for the rescuers who did not
come. He died yesterday morning
while his companions administered
to him as best as they could.
Dr. Robertson reported that
gases are filling the mine shaft.
He asked for a tube from the sur
face, requested that the miners use
a suction pump to drain off the
vapors. The gases are believed to
have been driven into the shaft
• by the drilling just above
The Moose River Mining Camp
looks like a military base in war
time. There are a dozen cars park
ed around the two buildings, the
bunkhouse and the shanty. Ex
hausted miners are pitched in
sleep on the floors of both of them.
The miners are working in short
shifts. The cramped emergency
shaft, the blinding, choking dust
gases from the earth keep the min
from the drill, and the sickening
ers constantly moving out—for
rest and sleep. Coffee, is boiling in
the shanty. Two workmen have
been making coffee and throwing
sandwiches together for two days
and nights. Th? precious commun
ication line with the entrapped
mon runs to the back seat of an
automobile. The wire is dropped
tude “microphone” was fashioned
147 feet down a two-inch pipe. A
<mt of a flashlight, fountain pen.
This was dropped to the two pri-1
soners in the mine the other end
connects with a headset in the
back of the car.
It’s a one-way line. Robertson
and Scadding can talk freely, but
they have no headset for listening
io the words of those above them.
So when the two prisoners talk to
the surface, a man crouches at the
tiny pipe opening and answers
their questions by “yes” and “no".
AGED COUPLE SPLIT
CHICAGO. April 21 (TP).—When
78-year-old James .Hermanek filed
suit for divorce hla 78 year-old wife,
promptly filed a cross-suit for di
vorce. Each of t4ie pair charged the
other with cruelty.
Heriranck said his wife, struck him
with a dish of eggs. Mrs. Hermanek
replied that she did so because her
husband was cruel first. Mrs. Her
manek won the divorce.
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Death Fails to Halt Party
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A victim of infantile paralysis, little Mary Evelyn Bourque, 13, lay
for months in the respirator at Boston Children’s Hospital, and dreamed
of the birthday party her mother had planned for her. When the day
came the children in her ward had a grand time eating cake and ice
cream—but Mary wasn’t there. They didn’t know that Mary had died
before her thirteenth birthday. The child’s mother insisted that the
planned party be carried out. “Mary would have wanted it,” she said.
(Central Press)
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Two y ouths, Members “Peacock
Murder Gang”, Face Punishment
199 Years Each If Convicted
CHICAGO, April 21 (TP)—Pri
son terms of 199 years each stare
two members of the “Peacock
Murder Gang’’ in the face today.
The boys were sentenced after
pleading guilty to the hold-up mur
der of the Chicago child specialist,
Dr. Silber Peacock.
The youngsters are Durlond
JOBS AND SHEEP
COLORADO GOVERNOR
BANS OUTSIDE HERDERS
FOR HOME TALENT
DENVER, Colo., April 21 (TP).—
Governor Ed Johnson is preparing ■
teday to ask th eWPA for skilled
sh'ep herders, rather than import
out-of-state workers.
Colorado sheep raisers protest they
must have additional help. They say
few experienced sheep handlers are
available in Colorado. They ask that
workers be allowed in the state from
Texas and New Mexico.
Governor Johnso nhas declared no
unemployed may cross the southern
boundary of his state without first
proving their financial responsibili
ties. To enforce the statement, the
governor declared a strip of Colo
rado’s southern border under martial
law. National guardsmen have turn
ed bac kocores of workres since they
erected th elabor barricade.
Said Governor Johnson, “when it
is proven to my satisfaction that
there ar a not enough workers in Colo
rado, we’l allow more to enter the
state.”
JAFFARiOTSABATE
PALESTINE UPRISINGS’
DEATH LIST 19; MANY
ARE INJURED
JERUSALEM, April 21 (TP).—
The death list in the bitter rioting
between Arab ands Jews at Jaffa
and other Palestine cities was offi
cially set at 19 today.
More than 130 were reported in
jured in the fighting that raged for
hours through the narrow winding
streets cf the cld world cities. To
day’s reports said the situation has
quieted down considerably. Police
and troops fought hard to put down
rioting in oti'ar Palestine cities .
NO SPOOKS)-HE
WAJTTS A DIVORCE
ST. LOUIS, April 21 —(TP)
Salesman Her ry Boenlg wants a
divorce. He claims his wife left him
eight years ago because she said their
house was haunted.
The Boenlg divorce petitions says
he has lived in the same house all
these years and hasn’t seen so much
as one little spok.
DISASTROUS FIRE
SHARON. Pa., April 21 (TP)
A section of the business district
of Sharon is in a smouldering ruin
today after a disastrous fire.
Damage is estimated at $31,500,-
000. The fire swept a row of build
ings and for a time imperiled the
whole city,
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SAVANNAH, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1936
Nash and Robert Goethe. Both are
of'flfe' Emil Reck,
and 17-year-old Michael Living
stone. face trial on May 2.
Both Reck and Livingstone con
fessed to the crime and a series of
more than 50 robberies. The two
later denied confessions and plead
ed not guilty.
I JIMMY WALKER PAYS
I VISIT TO SCENE OF HIS
EARLY POLITICAL GLORY
ALBANY, N. Y., April 21 (TP).—
Jimmy Walker left another chunk of
history behind him today. The suave,
snappy New Yorker broke all prece
• dent last night when he stepped onto
the state senate floor and dealt in
reminiscence.
It was the former New York may
or's first visit to Albany since 1932
when Franklin Rocs-:velt heard his
testimony against the charges of
Samuel Seabury. That was when
Franklin Raosevelt was governor.
Senator Elmer Quinn of New York
City Introduced Walker to the sen
ate. Senator Fearon insisted that
Walker speak from the floor. Walker
hesitated, then began speaking. He
summoned up memories of his 16
years in the legislature. Then he
said: “I want to thank y-u all from
the bottom of my heart.' The sen
ate cheered. Walker for several min
utes.
FIFTEENMILL TAX
SPONSORS SEEK TO
WIN OVERTEACHERS
Special Invitations to the educat
ors of the city to r.it'md the meet
ing of the fifteen mills tax amend
ment tomorrow nigV at the Munic
ipal Auditorium wr- issued by the
Chatham County division of the
Georgia Real Sstate Tax Payers
Association.
The invitaions were sent by
George Hunt, chairman of the di
vision, to Ormond B. Strong, su
i perintendent of public schools, and
Aashton Varnrdoe, president of
the Chatham County Teachers As
sociation. Teachers expressed their
Intention of ptuting up a fight to
defeat the amendment at the re
cent convention of teachers in Ma
con.
“We have invited the teachers,”
said Mr. Hunt today, “because they
have keen badly misinformed a
bout the effect of the amendment
on the public schools.”
GIRL 19. FACES CHARGE
SLAYING SWEETHEART
WHEN HE SPURNED HER
SHREVEPORT, La.. April 21 (TP)
Nineteen-yead-old Jo Ann Raspants
faces charges today of murdering her
swetheart, Norwood Carpenter.
Parish police said the girl admitted
killing Carpenter. The shooting' is
believed to have followed Cs.. .’s
refusal to marry the girl.
POT
BEfiINS SiIZLE
IN G. 0. P. RANKS
COMMITTEE MEETS CLEVE
LAND TO DECIDE ON
KEYNOTER
CLEVELAND, Ohio., April 21 —(TP)
The Republican political pot was siz
zling with activity today as members
of the party’s arrangements com
mittee met here to plan for the
June 9, National convention. The big
best question the committee will de
cide is who will give the convention
keynote address.
Characteristic of Republican politics
this year, reports say there are two
STEIWER NAMED
CLEVELAND. April 21 (TP).
Senator Frederick Steiuer of
Oregon was selected today as
keynote speaker for the Republi
can national convention in June.
Steiwer was the candidate fa
vored by supporters of Idaho’s
Senator Borah. The Landon
forces favored Col. C. Wayland
Brooks.
candidates in the field—one backer
by conservative elements and the ether
by the Western Liberal Bloc.
The conservative group headed by
the Landon forces are said to favor
Wayland Brooks, Republican nominee
for Governor in Illinios. The Liberal
bloc is reported backing Oregon’s
Senator Stiewer.
In Washington, the Republican
headquarters announced that Arthur
Curtis of Missouri will act as the com
mittee’s counsel in all cases involving
contested delegations at the convent
ion. Young John Hamilton— chief
cf the Landon forces —is the commit
tee’s general counsel. He asked chair
man Fletcher, however, to appoint an
assistant to handle all convention con
tests.
Reports were also current in the
Capital that the Landon men have
asked Senator Borah to attend the
convention as a delegate and sit on
the resolutions committee. This
would pave the way for a Borah-Lan
don coalition and would prevrntt the
Idaho "lone wolf’’ from “taking a
walk” if he is not nominated. Sena
tor Borah’s supporters say he is go
ing to the convention—but as a
candidate and not a delegate.
WAGE "HIKES
ELEVATOR OPERATORS’ IN
NEW YORK IN HIGH
SPIRITS
NEW YORK, April 21 (TP)—
Elevator operators. Porters and
othrr building service employes cheered
w’agc hikes otday. The salary boost
was a universal one, granted by Ar
bitrator Ferdinand Silcox, in his fin
al settlement of New York’s late build
ing service walkout.
Union Leader James Bambrick said
the wage rise is exactly what he call
ed the walkout to get. Bambrick
labeled the award a victory for the
union. In his written report, Arbi
trator Sicox said he based the wage
award on the principle on the living
wage for all industrial workers. The
order sets minimum wages at $936 to
$1,456 per year for building service
employes.
LABOR FACTION THREAT
AGAIN WORRIES CHIEFS
OF TWO MAJOR PARTIES
WASHINGTON. April 21 —(TP)—
The threat of a new labor party has
again risen today to worry the political
leaders of both old line parties.
Speaking before a peace conference
in Washington, W. Jett Lauck, noted
labor economist, anounced that —“An
American labor party is now being
projected.” Lauck then continued to
point out the necessity for a labor
soon.”
Lauck also made the prediction that
“The British Labor party will undoubt
ly enter into control of its government
party, but did not divulge any more
details on the formation cf one.
Party leaders have long been worried
by what they ser.se as “Political Un
rest’ in the labor movement. Since
Lauck is closely identified with the
nations labor chieftains, they are
w’ondering just how far plans for such
a party has gene. Labor gene: ally
is expected to back President Roose
velt for re-election.
N. C. YOUTH ACCUSED
OF AUTO THEFT HELD
FOR HIGH COURT TRIAL
C. L. Riley, 21. of Durham, N. C..
was reminded to Superior court on
the charge of larceny of an aut:mo
bile when he appeared in police court
this morning.
The stolen machine was thot of
Mrs. Sam Ross and was taken from
in front of the residence ff a friend
whom Mrs. Ross was visiting Sunday.
Police chased two men in the car
t ePort Wentworth when the alarm
scunded. The car was wrecked end
the tw r o occupants fled but Riley sur
rendered later and this morning said
he was the only party guilty.
AUTO THEFT REPORTED
Attorney Robert E. Falligant, 1113
East Fifty-first street, has asked city
and county police to be on th: l:ok
out for his 1934 model Plymouth se
dan which was stolen from in frorlt
of Al Renders place on VicUry
Drive at 10:30 o’clock last night,
Figures in’ the Wen del Fiasco
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Paul 11. W'efiUeT (above), disbarred Jersey attorney, positively identified
the Brooklyn, N. Y., home of Harry Bteefdd (bottom left) as the place
where he had been held captive and tortured until he signed a confession
of the Lindbergh baby murder. Bleefeld was photographed after police
grilled him. QuectLSaed with him was Ids daughter, Mrs. Fay Schloss
man (lower right), and his son-in-law, Martin Schlossman.
(Central Press )
Four Indictments Asked
Wendel Case; HoHman
May Be Linked With Case
BROOKLYN, N. Y„ April 21 (TP)
King’s county grand jurors gathered
today to begin their investigation
into the Paul Wendel kidnap-torture
case.
Before the jurors finish their con
sideration of the weird case, four-in
dictments are expocted to be handed
District Attorney Geoghan for proce
cution. One indictment is almsot
certain against Martin Schlossman,
whose confesion cracked the Wendel
case wide open. Schlossman’s broth-
ZIONCHECK IRKS
WASHINGTON CONGRESS
MAN AGAIN BOBS UP
ON HOUSE FLOOR
WASHINGTON, April 21 —(TP)—
That Zioncheck man—the repre
sentative frcm the state of Washing
ton—was at it again today on the
House floor. It was another one of
his verbal tussles with the wrathy Tex
an, Tom Blanton.
When Zioncheck arrived at the
House he found Representative Blant
on asking to have eliminated from
last Friday’s record some of Zion
checks remarks about him. In them
Zioncheck had attacked Blanton’s
political activities • and ridiculed his
stand on communism, Blanton’s pet
hate.
Zioncheck objected to the elimina
tion. In the course of his speech Zion
check declared that the Texan "had
lied a few times.” But when Blanton
jumped up for a point of order Zion
check withdrew the accusation. Said
Zioncheck, “I want to be corrected
at all times.”
Then the House rebuked him by
approving Blantons resolution 277
to 0.
TO ASK INDICTMENT
SIIO,OOO SWINDLE
CHICAGO, April 21 (TP).—State s
attorneys are ready today to ask an
indictment of real estate broker,
Charles Koepke, who admitted that
he swindled his 60-year-old aunt out
of SIIO,OOO.
Koepke said he needed the money
to keep up a prosperous appearance
when his business went into a slump.
He is accused of several similar swin
dles.
When Koepke admitted in his
aunt s presence that he s:*d her
worthless mortgages for her life sav
ings, the woman fainted-
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excepting Saturdays.
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er-in-law, Murray Bleefield, and a
cab driver, Harry Deiss. also are ex
pected .to be named. The fourth in
dictment may concern a suspect not
yet Identified.
One theory is that the Wendel kid
naping and “confession” were staged
in an attempt to give Jersey Cover:
nor Harold G. Hoffman, fresh, ammu
nition in his battle to save Bruno
Richard Hauptmann from the elec
tric chair. Geoghan has absolved
Governor Hoffman from all connec
tion with the case.
I AWARD VALOR
TWO MEN RISKED THEIR
LIVES TO SAVE PET
DOGS
BALTIMORE, Md„ Afirll 21 (TP)
Certificates of valor will be present
ed today to a couple of men who chan
ced their lives to save their degs. The
first certificate goes to Earl Mohr,
who entered a house and ex
plored it until he found his pet dog,
Snookie. Mohr wrapped Snookie in
his coat and carried the little chow
to safety through the smoke and
flames.
Second award goes to Joseph Rode,
who almost paid with his life for his
heroism. Joseph’s police dog, Rex, fol
lowed him to the rifle range. Rex
wandered into the line of fire. Joseph
promptly dashed out to save Rex.
Joseph was shot in the back. The
bullet penetrated so close to his heart
that doctors haven’t removed it.
G-MEN LOOK INTO
GRAVES TO LEARN OF
POLICE CHIEF’S GRAFT
CLEVELAND, April 21 (TP).—
Fedetal ‘ investigators moved into
Cleveland today to study cemetery
lot transactions which took place
within the past few years.
The G-men’s unusual search follow
ed disclosures in case*of Police Cap
tain Louis J. Radek. The captain is
acused of accepting more than SIOO,-
000 in bribes from underworld fig
ures.
Federal agents became interested
in the case when it was learned that
Radek had Invested heavily in ceme
tsry lots. Agents from the internal
revenue cffice at Cincinnati were
sant to Cleveland to check income
tax return* of big Investors in burial
SWund prepay
TRANSRADIO PRESS
DELIVERY CLERK
ADMITS KILLING
NEW YORK WOMAN
FIRORENZA ‘FOUND BODY’
—SAYS CRIME PRE
MEDITATED
NEW YORK, April 21 (TP)
Police claimed this afternoon to
have wrung a complete confession
to the murder of Mrs. Nancy Evans
Titterton from one of the two men
who found her body.
The alleged slayer is John Firo
renza, a 24-year-old delivery clerk.
Firorenza, according to police com
missioner Valentine, admitted that the
murder was premediated.
Firorenza, another delivery
boy, “discovered” Mrs. Titterton’s body
on Good Friday. The woman had
been strangled with her own cloth
ing and lay slumped in the bathtub
of her Beekman Place apartment.
At the time, Firorenza professed to
be horrified by the discovery of the
murdered woman. *
Firorenza’s confessloi/'Jame after
an all-night questioning fA the hands
of police who arrested him in a mid
town hotel
The alleged confession apparently
Clears up all angles of the case which,
for days yielded not one clue.
GERMAN CRUISER
ARRIVES IN U. S.
STRAINED RECEPTION
GREETS VESSEL IN BAL
TIMORE TODAY
BALTIMORE, April 21 (TP)—
Th© German cruiser Emden will
be received in Baltimore today ,
under strained conditions.
The 5,400 ton warship is in the !
Chesapeake Bay. It will arrive >
this morning for the first visit of :
a German warship to the Port of
Baltimore in 27 years.
Police were ordered to the dock j
early today with orders to watch
for any distrurbance. A line of
pickets recruited from a score of
Baltimore organizations will .greet
the commander of the ship' when
he visits Mayor Howard Jackson at
City Hall. The protesting groups
also have decided to go ahead with
plans for a mass meeting on the
dock tomorrow despite the refusal
of city officials to grant them a
permit for a demonstration.
Speaker Gorflne of the Maryland
House of Delegates has sent a tel
egram to Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull. Gorflne asked that Hull
withdraw the permission granted
the Emden to visit Baltimore be
cause of the high anti-Nazi feeling
the ship’s visit has aroused in the
city.
Because of the high anti-nazi
feeling, the Maryland American
Legion last night reversed its ear
lier stand and decided not to par
ticipate today in the offical wel
come to the cruiser and her 500
men and officers.
nationaldefense
UNCLE SAM AGAIN TURNS
HAND NATIONALIZA
TION MUNITIONS
WASHINGTON, April 21 (TP).—
Uncle Sam turned his hand to na
tional defense today, even as a cry
went up for the nationalization of
munitions.
President Roosevelt was asked to
support appropriations demanded by
the navy department for two new bat
tleships. In the House, congressmen
parsed a bill providing for an in
crease to 4,000-alrplane strength in
the army, during t h enext five years.
Gerald P. Nye’s senate munitions
committee filed its final report. It
unanimously reported that munitions
makers are guilty of war profiteering
and war-promoting. On such a ver
dict, the committee urged that all the
munitions industry be nationalized
“to take the profits, out of war.”
IOWA STATE POLICE
SCAN HIGHWAYS FOR
THREE HIGHWAYMEN
SIOUX CITY, lowa, April 21 (TP)
State police are watching lowa high
ways today for three bandits who
held up the Morning Side State bank,
kidnaped four bank employes and
escaped. The robbers’ loot was
$1,600.
Armed with rifles, the bandit* in
vaded the bank and seized the money
in the teller’s cage. Then they
kidnaped John Scott, Jr., the hxnk
president, Iva Hubbard .a stenograph
er and two other employes.
The robbers fired a wild shot At an
assistant cashier as they fled out of
the bank. The kidnaped workers la
ter were released, unharmed, a ' few
miles from Sioux City.
GUESTS FORCED TO FI «
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