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WE ATHER OI7DY rONIGIIT AND TOMORROW, SLIGHTLY WARMER MARKETS Yesterday’s Losses Were Recovered in To day’s Market. There Was a Rally in Prices. OLUME 2—NUMBER 94 SECURE CONFESSION MRS. TITTERTON MURDER Hope For Rescue Two Entombed Men Shaken; 20 Feet Rock Away — ■ ■—" '■ " < 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 * 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. o _____ Death Fails to Halt Party wit® -F <:■?..^7..JSA.. ?.<U-j'U ".'x* J (&. 0 ’s■ x ' xX , 'V. 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) i 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, * 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 i w. •-« •• -wSit >:- 5 ' » • t < e- ■--IBS IB Il i Bww ISli L" * wEm S■ ■ '• 5® - - 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- Published every day excepting Saturdays. Five cents per copy & T* Sundays; Delivered to W your home fifteen cents WE ek DAYS per week. pay NQ MORE 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 « - FIRE SWEEPS F r HAMILTON, <' Scores -of gue'- aid day when 'll • Heavy com tus sived " ’ • ? ’ though f‘ " ’ . ' .• . .<■ , <j|jf ■' w , ■ •••••- ■ '