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WEATHER Mostly Cloudy and Continued Cool Tonight and Saturday; Possibly Rains. MARKETS Today's market opened irregular. Cotton and Wheat opened higher.' 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.” a nu q niwwJiiihi (!) lines 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. ENTOMBED MEN AND ARTIST’S SKETCH OF PLIGHT IN MOOSE RIVER MINE . A MEDICAI SUPPLIES nIW dowk' -I ■. HMHHB ¥ 3f_ shaft] j MV f WHESE CAVE-E I down to S S occurred H mi ft. ESE* t TO [RESCUE <1 Wft I I Wal . | CREW F I < W A, J J jlkv iB 14 I -FOOT LEVEL- Peril faced by the two men entombed in a gold mine at’ 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. Published every day excepting Saturdays. Five cents per copy Sundays; Delivered to Kz »e°r w«k 6 CCn ‘ S WEEK DAYS 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.