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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 97
REPRIEVES SPARE PAIR ON BRINK OF DEATH
Negro Confesses 45 Burglaries;
Two Local Merchants Involved;
Will Be Tried At Wadley, Ga.
Two Savannah merchants are to
face trial at Wadley, Ga., on charges
of buying and receiving stolen goods
following the arrest at Wadley of
Charles Mitchell, negro, on 45 charges
of burglary.
Mitchell, police revealed today, has
confessed to breaking into 45 stores,
railway box cars and storehouses be
tween Savannah and Wadley. Trac
ing of the loot led to the arrest here
yesterday of the two white Savan
na hians.
Sergt. Fitzgerald took into custody
Denny Vandcra. 25, whom police said
operated a store on the Ogeechee
road, and George Massourides, 49,
whom officers said was the proprie
tor of the Central Quick Lunch, res
taurant, located at 321 West Broad
street. Sergt. Fitzgerald said Mitch
ell, who also is known to police under
the aliases of James Murray and Si
mon Tucker, pointed out the restau
rant proprietor and Vandora as per
sons to whom he had sold some of
the articles purloined in the many
burglaries. Both merchants denied
the charges. '
STATE’S FLAG
OATH LAW BONE
OF CONTENTION
MASSACHUSETTS STATE
SENATOR OFFERS
HIS AID
t
BELCHERTOWN, Mass., April 24
(TP)—The possibility that the case
of the three little Opielouskis may
prove a bone of contention in the
Masachusetts legislature grew strong
er today. ♦
State Representative Roland D.
Bawysr, one of the legislators who
voted for the state’s flag’ oath law,
today offered his aid to the father of
the three children.
The three youngsters have been
barred from school and threatened
with a disciplinary training school
sentence because they refused to sa
lute the flag at school exercises, as
required by Massachusetts law.
Their father is a member of the re
ligious sect, “Jehovah’s Witnesses.”
Members of the sect refuse to pay
ho.r.'age to anything but what they
term the works of the Diety.
Sawyer told the children’s father
that it a superior court appeal from
the juvenile court’s training school
order fails, another appeal snould be
made to the county commissioners.
The state legislator suggested that
the county commissioners could then
place the children on probation.
Replying to the request that he
head a movement to repeal the flag
law, Sawyer said:
“If the law is working hardships,
it should be amended, but not re
pealed outright.’*
COOL YOUNGSTER
FOILS KIDNAPERS
HENRY KOCH, JR., GAINS
PRAISE OF PENNSY
POLICE
ALLENTOWN. Pa., April 24 (TP)
A 10-year-old boy who escaped from
a kidnaper today is praised by the
Allentown police as “one of the cool
est youngsters in the country.”
The boy is Henry Kock, Jr., the son
of a wealthy Allentown department
store owner. While on his way to
school Henry was hailed by a stranger
in a car at the curb.
A stranger in the car called: “Your
father told me to take you down to the
farm. He wants you to see some colts
down there.”
As the Koch family owns a farm
outside Allentown, the boy entered
the car. Instead of heading for the
farm, however, the driver sped in an
opposite direction. Reaching a se
cluded spot, the kidnaper pulled Henry
from the car, bound and gagged him
with adhesive tape and left him
lying in a thicket.
COUNTER WAR
IS THREATENED
CHEAP ALIEN LABOR IN
COLORADO CAUSES
TENSE SITUATION
SANTA FE, N. Mexico. April 24
(TP).—The war against “cheap alien
labor” In Colorado brought threats of
a "counter-war” from Governor Clyde
Tingley of New Mexico today.
Colorado’s Governor Ed Johnson
declared martial law along the state’s
Southern border to stop the Influx of
Mexican workers from New Mexico
and Texas. National guardsmen have
turned back 425 men since the patrol
began last Monday.
Governor Tingley warned Colorado
officials that national guardsmen
were stepping on the line into New
Mexico in ther zeal to stop transient
laborers, said the governor:
"If Colorado is going to become
hgh handed in this matter, New
Mexico will do the same thing. We’ll
halt every truck coming into New
Mexico from Colorado and force the
drivers to unload their shipments be
fore entering the state.”
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The two local business men were
turned over to police authorities of
Wadley and Jefferson county in
which the community is located, and
were taken to Wadley last night by
these police officers along with the
negro Mitchell.
Police have been Investigating the
burglaries ever since Mitchell was
capture dat Wadley about two weeks
ago. Yesterday afternoon Sheriff
Jim Hubbard of Jefferson county, the
chief of police of Wadley and other
officers brought Mitchell to Savan
nah.
Vandora and Massourides will be
tried shortly at Wadley on charges
of buying and receiving stolen goods.
Though their alleged offenses were
committed in Chatham county, the
charges constitute felonies and may
be aired in any court of the state.
Police said Mitchell told them he
had sold to Vandora three suitcases,
containing drygoods, shoes and the
like, and three burlap bags stuffed
with cartons of • cigarettes, all of
which were listed among the prop
erty stolen. They said th® negro
stated to officers he had disposed of
about S2OO worth of cigars to the
restaurant proprietor. None of this
property allegedly purchased by the
Savannah merchants was found, au
thorities said. It is understood Mit
chell is a Georgia negro but is not
from Savannah. As far as could be
ascertained, none of the burglaries
took place in Chatham county.
SNUBSNEWDEAL
GOV. WHITE, MISSISSIPPI,
SPURNS U. S. AID
FOR SCHOOLS
JACKSON. Miss., April 24 (TP).—
Governor Hugh White has served no
tice on the New Deal that he wants
none of its financial support for Mis
sissippi schools.
Speaking before 10.000 teachers in
convention ,the Mississippi governor
warned' them, stf’rply against repeat
ed appeals for government aid.
Said he: “We must make the meost
of the raw materials in our state if
we want to increase our wealth. We
know full well that the federal gov
ernment will not only control the
money it gives us for our schools, but
will want to control the schools.”
The governor declared New Deal
aid would precipitate racial disputes
in Mississippi if it were allowed to
go through. He asserted that the
Roosevelt administration, if it sup
plied Mississippi school money, would
insist that negro and white children
be thrown together in the same
classes.
TRANSRADIO EXPLODES
FALSE RUMOR OF DEATH
OF CHARLIE CHAPLIN
SINGAPORE. Apri 124 (TP).—
Early today in Hong Kong, China,
one of those fantastic rumors popped
up—to the effect that something had
happened to Charlie Chaplin. The
report had utterly no foundation, but
London editors Jumped with alarm.
One of them reported that a New
York agency had circulated the story
that Chaplin was dead.
Transradio quietly and quickly
went to work and learned that the
rumor was positively false . Charles
Chaplin is alive and well in Singa
pore.
RUTH NICHOLS WILL
MAKE FIRST PUBLIC
APPEARANCE TONIGHT
NEW YORK, April 24 (TP)—
The plucky little woman flier, Ruth
Nichols, will make her first public
appearance today since the plane
crash last year that almost cost
her life.
Miss Nichols, who holds one of
the five airplane and engine me
chanic’s licenses ever issued to
women, will speak at the Peace-
Aviation luncheon, given in her
name.
ROOSEVELT TO BE
HEARD TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, April 24 (TP)
Franklin Roosevelt will put the
finishing touches today to the
speech he will deliver Saturday
night in Manhattan before the Na
tional Democratic Club. Then he
will clean up the loose ends of his
White House business, hold a con
ference or two and probably go to
bed early Tomorrow, the Presi
dent will go to New York and to
morrow night he will speak to the
National Democratic Club at Man
hattan's Hotel Commodore. Gover
nor Herbert Lehman of New York
will be the only other speaker.
Both speeches will be broadcast
nationally.
The President, will spend the
night at. his Manhattan home and
motor next day ot the Hyde Park
estate. He will return to Washing
ton early next week.
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Moose River, N. S., and an artist’s sketch of rescue work is
shown obove. Diagram shows the location of the men and
Ickes Gains In Plea For Funds
ROBERT REYNOLDS
ADDRESSES D. A. R.
ON ALIEN VOTING
NEW OFFICERS WILL BE
INDUCTED INTO OF
FICE TODAY
WASHINGTON, April 24 (TP).—
North Carolina’s Senator Bob Reyn
lids addressed the morning session or
the Daughters of American Revo
luteion congress in Washington to
day.
Reynolds spoke on registration of
aliens. The North Carolinean ad
vocated tightening up on the immi
grations laws and demanded a bettter
means of checking on aliens after they
arrive in the United States. He also
told of his efforts to defeat the ad
ministration sponsored Kerr-Cooledge
deportation bill in the senate.
This afternoon the Congress will
formally induct Into office ethe seven
newly elected vice presidents general.
They are: Mrs. Emaline Stret, of Con
necticutt; Mrs. Mortimer Pratt, of
Missouri; Mrs. Harold Graves, of
North Dakota; Mrs. Thomas Mauldin,
of South Carolina; Mrs. Eli Dixson,
of Illinois; Mrs. John Ward, of New
Jersey; and Mrs. Haris Baughman,
of Louisville. The Congress will clsoe
with a banquet tonight.
“SHARLIE’’INBAD
RADIO COMEDIAN WANT
ED IN NEW YORK ON
WIFE’S CHARGES
AKRON, Ohio, April 24 (TP). —
Cliff Hall, the famous “Sharlie’’ of
Jack Pearl’s radio skit “Baron Mun
chausen,” is expected to waive extra
dition to New York today.
Hall was arresetd on non-support
charges filed by his wife, June Rog
ers, in New York. He was taken in
custody backstage at an Akron thea
ter, where he is appearing with an
other radio character, Joe Penner.
Hall said he had paid his wife more
than $7,000 since the couple separat
ed. He admitted he had sent her no
money within the part few months.
The wife complains that although
Hall is earning a big salary, she and
her child are virtually destitute.
ALIMONY ROW GOES
INTO REVERSE GEAR
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111. April 24
(TP). —The sun shone especially
brightly for 71-year-old Gilbert Win
ning a retired railroad engineer, this
morning.
Winning testified in his suit for
divorce that he had given his wife
$36,000 of his life earnings.
The judge granted the divorce—
then ordered Mrs. Winning to pay
her husband S3O a month alimony.
He also decreed that she must turn
over a SI,OOO mortgage, and their for
mer home.
Winning says the alimony and his
railroad pension of $65 a month will
be enough to get along on.
SAVANNAH, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1936
The men and an artist’s drawing of peril they fared.
Moose River Gold Mine Never
Be Worked Again; Two Trapped
Men Saved “In Nick Os 1 'ime’
MOOSE RIVER, N. S., April 24
(TP) —The old Moose River gold
mine would have buried its un
happy prisoners forever —if they
had not been rescued when they
were. Dr. D. E. Robertson and Al
fred Scadding were carried out of
the watery mine just in time to
prevent the old shaft from becom
ing their
Today, the old mine at Moose
River has sunk nearly a foot.
Within 48 hours miners expect the
HUNGER MARCHERS
ANGRY; SOLONS TO
ADJOURN SESSION
BEGIN BOMBARDING NEW
JERSEY LAWMAKERS
WITH TELEGRAMS
TRENTON, April 24 (TP)—Hun
ger marchers stormed and fumed
today when a scheduled special re
lief session of the New Jersey As
sembly, was suddenly called off.
The hunger marchers stuck to
their encampment in the state sen
ate chamber. After voicing their
opinion on the legislators’ session
cancellation, they began bombard
ing the missing assemblymen with
scathing telegrams.
These wires went to Newark,
where a group of legislators are
meeting behind locked doors at the
Second Presbyterian Church. The
pastor of that church is the Rev
erend H Clee, Essex Coun
ty Republican leader and head of
Jersey’s Clean Government League.
Although the Newark session is
not an official pariey, political
leaders at Trenton expect it to pro
duce some taxation plan to meet
the state's nemaching relief situa
tion. Jersey relief clients have
been without funds for nearly a
week because the legislature has
failed to pass the necessary tax
bill.
No explanation was given for the
sudden cancellation of the special
session scheduled for today. Hun
ger marchers who descended on
the state capital several days ago
to invade the state house, maintain
that the assembly is afraid to meet
under the ridicule of the irate re
lief clients.
This theory was voiced in the
telegrams sent Clee’s group at Ne
wark.
“You’re all sissies,” the wire
said. “Instead of facing the prob
lem like men. you’ve taken a run
out powder. This is a slur on
the people and we resent it.”
where rescuers worked frantically to get them out alive. The
two men (a third died) are Dr. D. E. Robertson, left, and Al
fred Scadding, right. Dr. Robertson was co-owner of the mine.
—Central Press.
rescue shaft to be closed entirly
by the sinking earth. They say the
mine will never be worked again
Not that the two survivors of the
frightful episode might want to.
Herman Magill is desd. He died
down below during the hours when
the others didn’t know whether
they would ever come out alive.
Dr. D. E. Robertson is recuperating
at Moose River. Alfred Scadding
is recovering at Halifax. Their
families said the old mine could
fall to pieces now and they’d never
care.
FLYING BOATS
RICKENBACKER, U. S. ACE,
PREDICTS WEEK-END
TRIPS TO EUROPE
ATLANTA, April 24 (TP)- -If Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker is correct, flying
boats will be crossing the Atlantic
on regular schedule within twelve
months.
That is not all the famous world
war ace predicted to members of a
luncheon club in Atlanta. He puts
five years as the time limit before
week end jaunts to Europe will be
more or less a matter of course. He
envisioned new airplanes carrying 40
passengers, with 20 berths, complete
dining service, and all the latest
transportation conveniences.
What’s more—Rickenbacker figures
'that within the next few years planes
will be speeding along - commercial
lines at 300 miles an hour.
five arelndFcted
in wendel charge
DETECTIVE'S SON AMONG
MEN ACCUSED OF KID
NAPING LAWYER
BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 24 (TP)
—Ellis Parker, Jr., and four other
men are under indictments this morn
ing which charge them with kidnap
ing and manhandling Paul H. Wen
del.
Wendel is the middle-aged former
Trenton, N. J., lawyer who said he
was kidnaped and forced into a con
fession that he kidnaped the Lind
bergh baby. His fake confession de
layed execution of th elate Bruno
Hauptmann.
Ellis Parker, Jr., is the son of New
Jersey’s best known rural detective.
The others indicated ar Martin Sch
lossman and his father-in-law, Harry
Blecfeld, ycung Murray Bleefeld and
Harry Weis:. Young Parker was as
signed to the Haupmann case by
Governor Harold Hoffman of New
Jersey.
MANY LAWMAKERS
CONGRESS FAVOR
HIM OVER HOPKINS
REPRESENTATIVES PRE
SENT PETITION TO
PRESIDENT .
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 24.—Secre
tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes
has ‘.‘sold” a large number of mem
bers cf congress on the idea that the
kind of relief employment he advo
cates is better than the kind Relief
Administrator Harry L. Hopkins fa
vors.
Approximately 180 representatives
actually have petitioned President
Roosevelt to see that Ickes has the
disposal of at least half, or there
abouts ,of the additional $1,500,000,-
000 asked for by the administration
to keep PWA and WPA activities go
ing. ■ • '
Briefly, Ickes wants relef money to
go into permanent Improvements,
while Hopkins argues for “made
work,” popularly known as “boondog
gling.”
Ickes’ reasoning, of course, is that
the country should get something of
real and lasting value for what it is
spending instead of broadcasting
funds in what virtually is charity.
Hopkins, it scarcely is necessary to
say, has no objection to lasting value,
and, indeed, asserts that he is get
ting quite a bit of it out of his so
called “boondoggling.” His conten
tention, however, is that the sort of
improvements insisted on by Ickes
cost too much for raw materials, not
leaving enough to go into wages.
Ickes admits that a job of leaf
raking, for example, undoubtedly is
nothing whatever but wages, except
for the price of the rake, whereas the
construction, say, of a new public
building involves the purchase cf
steel, cement and numerous other
items, as well as expenditure for la
bor to put them together. Further
more, he points out, labor is required
to provide the steel, cement, et
cetera. Thus, according to his ver
sion, as many hands are employed In
the erection of a useful building as
can be employed at useless leaf-rak
ing.
All that may be true, concedes
Hopkins, but it is too slow a process;
what is needed now is immediate em
ployment.
No, rejoins Ickes, it is not a slow
process; work on a new building can
not be started in a minute, but the
instant it is authorized the produc
ers of the material required for it will
get busy.
Hopkins denied this. Much time
is lost ,he says, in merely planning a
big improvement, but a huge force
of men can be set to leaf-raking on
almost no notice at all.
PRESIDENT HAS C£)LD
WASHINGTON, April 24 (TP)—
President Roosevelt is nursing a
slight cold today. The President
cancelled his regular press con
ference when White House physi
cians urged him to rest.
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excepting Saturdays.
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PAY NO MORE
WARDEN HALTS
HIS LAST SPEECH
McALESTER, Okla, April 24
(TP) —The last-minute reprieve
which had twice saved James
Hargus from the electric chair
failed to arrive this morning.
Hargus was a negro, con
demned to die for killing a po
liceman. He walked the last
mile with a firm step.
He entered the death cham
ber and went into a conference
with the warden. After it was
finished. Hargus turned to the
witnesses, said he:
‘*l had intended giving you
a piece of my mind, but since
the warden doesn’t want me to
say much, there is nothing for
me to do but sit down and die.
Good bye and good luck.”
PRINCE WOUNDED
NATIONALLY KNOWN
SPORTSMEN SHOT WITH
STRAY BULLET
BOSTON, April 24 (TP)—The
nationally known sportsman, Gor
don Prince, lies seriously wounded
in his Boston home today.
Prince was accidentally shot in
the neck while aboard his yacht off
Beverly, Mass. The bullet nar
rowly missed severing his jugular
vein.
Authorities say the sportsman
was shooting at targets on the
shore. Prince was hurried to a
Boston hospital and treated for a
deep neck wound. Later he was
removed to his home.
floridlTcollege
SWEPT BY FLAMES
NEGRO STUDENTS FLEE
FIRE IN JACKSONVILLE
INSTITUTION
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 21
Flames swept th'e south
land’s big negro* school, Edward
Waters College, this morning and
raged four hours before they were
checked. The fire started from an
undetermined origin, somewhere in
the teachers quarters and raced
through the buildings.
The entire girls dormitory, the
dining room and many classrooms
were left In ruins. President C. F.
Long said the loss would be more
than SIOO,OOO, but hoped Insurance
would <ovqr it. There were no
serious injuries. Students marched
quickly frbm the flaming structure
while firemen quelled the four
alarm blaze.
PRESIDENTOFCUBA
IS OUT OF DANGER
ON GOOD WILL TOUR, GO
MEZ DEVELOPS COLD
IN NEW YORK
NEW YORK, April 24 (TP)—
Doctors ■ clustered around the bed
side of the President-elect of Cuba
today and pronounced him out of
danger.
The Cuban President-to-be, Dr.
Miguel Mariano Gome , collapsed
at his New York hotel suite soon
after his arrival in Manhattan on
a good will tour.
All. social engagements, includ
ing a reception at New York’s City
Hall, were cancelled. First fears
that the Cuban President-elect was
in a critical condition gave way
to more optimistic bulletins from
the bedside.
The latest reports say Dr. Gomez
is recovering rapidly.
WIDOW OF EXECUTED
ANARCHIST LEAVES
ESTATE TO PET DOGS
CHICAGO, April 24 (TP)—The
$12,000 estate of Mrs. Nina Spies,
widow of an anarchist executed af
ter Chicago’s Haymarket riots, will
go to support her two pet dogs.
Mrs. Spies died April 9, the oper
ator of a shabby rooming house on
Chicago’s west side. The two pets
which will be supported by bonds
and cash found in her safety de
posit box are beng kept at the
dog pound.
Her husband was one of four
men hanged for starting one of
Chicago’s bloodiest riots en May
4. 1886. The daughter of a weal
ths eastern family and a Vassar
graduate, Nina Van Zandt married
Spies by proxy while he was in
jail waiting execution. She went
through a proxy marriage cere
mony with Spies’ brother.
Ing Pictures” will be presented by
DERST IS HONORED
E. J. Derst, who is attending the
annual convention of the Southern
Bakers Association in Coral Gables
was yesterday elected to the board
cf governors of the organization.
'lr. Derst is president of the Derst
Baking Company.
Mr. Derst will return to Savan
-1 nah Monday or Tuesday.
TRANSRADIO PRESS
SECRETARY STATE
REQUESTS DELAY
IN EXECUTIONS
HULL TELLS GOVERN
GREAT BRITAIN MAY*"
MAKE INQUIRY
SACRAMENTO, Cal., April 24
(TP) —Two San Quentin convicts
were saved from the gallows today by
reprieves from Governor Frank Mer
riam. The reprieves were granted
less than an hour before the time
set for the executions.
The two convicts are Alexander
Mac Kay, a British subject, and Joe
Kristy, an American. They were
given their dsath sentences because
of their part in a San Quentin prison
break during which members of the
state prison board were kidnaped by
convicts .
The leader of the convict gang,
Rudolph Straight, was killed by a
sheriff’s posse at the er<l of a long
chase. The fourth member of the
convict gang, Fred Landes, turned
state’s evidence and was given a life
sentence.
Merriam’s last-minute reprieve of
Kristy and Mac Kay was requested by
Secretary of State Hull. Hull asked
the California governor to grant the
reprieves, if possible, so that the
British government could complete
its investigation of Mac Kay’s case.
PUERTO RICANS
MAY GET THEIR
INDEPENDENCE
SENATOR TYDINGS SPON
SORS MEASURE CALLING
FOR REFERENDUM
WASHINGTON, April 24 (TP)
The. Puerto Rican Commissioner in
Washington, Santiago Iglesias, was
strangely silent today on the pro
posal to offer his island indepen
dence.
The resolution was introduced
with no advance notice by Senator
Tydings of Maryland, chairmanof
the Senate committee on territory ’
and insular affairs. It proposed a
referendum. tn November, 1937 on
the question: "Shall the people of
Puerto Rico be sovereign and in
dependent?”
Commissioner Iglesias said ihe
would make no cofment on the
bill until he had studied it thor
oughly. He indicated neither dis
approval no approval.
Meanwhile Senator Tydings
claimed he had administration sup
port for his measure. It was in
line with the present American
policy, he said. He declared that
conditions on the island have led
to the belief that the American
system is not functioning properly
there. “In fact,” he said, “the
more we do the worse conditions
seem to become.” Recent elections
in Puerto Rico, he said, have been
disgraceful, corrupt and fradulent.”
STUDENTS TO VOTE
FIREWORKS EXPECTED AT
THREE-WAY CONVEN
TION TONIGHT
EVANSTON, 111., April 24 'TP)
—Fireworks are expected tonight
when Northwestern University
students hold a three-in-one politic
al convention.
Republican, Democratic and So
cialist students are gathering und
er one roof to choose a single fav
ored presidential candidate for all
groups. The session will be at tend
ed by all the political trappings—
red fire, brass bands, parades and
all the rest.
Keynote speakers will Include
Kentucky’s Democratic governor,
Albert Chandler; Missouri's Re
publican senator Jim Reed, and a
prominent Socialist party leader.
The tri-party convention prelimi
naries have been featured ecent
ly with parges and counter
charges mat first one party and
then the oher had plotted a cut
and dried convention vote for their
favorite candidates.
COLORADO REPUBLICANS
TO CONVENE TOMORROW
DENVER, Col., April 24 (TP)—
Colorado Republicans will meet in
Pueblo tomorrow to select dele
gates to the G. O. P. national con
vention in Cleveland.
' The state convention is expected
to be somewthat of a “love feast”
National Convention delegates
have been “pre-selected” in coun
ty meetings, and no contests seem
likely to mar the peaceful progress
of the meeting tomorrow.
AMERICANS GAMBLERS
CHICAGO. April 24 (TP)—.
Those nickels America puts in slot
machines, the dollars bet on the
ponies and the other money spent
in gambling totals $6,600,000,000 a
year. Editors of the (magazine,
“American Business” have just
totaled up America's annual gamb
ling bill. They reported that bets
on horse racing claim $3,100,000 of
fambiers’ money. The remainder
goes to slot machines, and in var
ious other pools and wagers.