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Administration New Tax Bill Passed
WEATHER
CONTINUED WARM TODAY AND
TOMORROW, PROBABLY SHOWERS
MARKETS
Stocks Turned Lower. Wheat and Cotton
Worked on Downside.
VOLUME 2—NUMBER 102
GAMBLE REPORTED COERCING WPA WORKERS
HOUSE APPROVES
TAX MEASURE BY
VOTE, 267 TO 92
BILL NOW GOES TO SEN
ATE—BE CONSIDERED
TOMORROW
WASHINGTON, April 29 (TP)
The House of Representatives
passed the administration’s new
tax bill today. The measure calls
for a graduated tax on undistribut
ed corporation earning and for a
tax to recover impounded AAA
processing t.-.xes. The bill now
goes to the Senate.
The vote was 267 for the bill and
92 against.
The Senate Finance ■■ Committe
will start public hearings on the
tax bill tomorrow. Chairman Pat
Harrison hinted strongly that the
Senate Committee —like the House
Ways and Means Committee —
would limit suggestions for the bill
to those contained in President
Roosevelt’s message of March 8.
The only three amendments tacX
ed on the bill in the House came
froff the Ways and Means Comfit
tee.
SAVANNAHBEACH
PLANS FOR SEASON
BEAUTY CONTESTS TO
MARK SUMMER OPEN
ING NEXT MONTH
Two bathing beauty contests,
one for the fair daughters of Sa
vannah and one for damsels
throughout the Coastal Empire,
will provide the opening day of Sa
vannah Beach, Saturday, May 30,
with gayety and color.
Plans for the season’s opening
of Savannah’s resort were made
at a meeting of the Chamber of
Commerce yesterday.
The committee decided that two
contests, with two prizes, would
stimulate greater interest in the
opening and bring a much larger
number of beauties from other sec
tions of Georgia and from South
Carolina as participants. William
Breslin, president of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce, who pre
sided, appointed the following to
serve on the beauty contest com
mittee: Boykin Paschal, chairman;
Jack Rabey, and T. J. McGinley.
A dinner at the Hotel Tybee and
an evening concert, featuring a na
tionally known orchestra are also
included in the tentative plans.
The program will follow closely
the successful one of a year ago.
An advertising campaign to bring
the resort to the attention of other
secitons of t’ e country will be put
on.
Members of the Savannah Beach
Committee present at the meeting
yesterday were William Breslin,
Harvey Wilson, president of the
Chamber of Commerce; Ira F. Wil
liams, Boykin Paschal, James Aver
ett. Jack Rabey, T J. McGinley,
R. M. Charlton, A. P. Solomon. Jr.,
A. F. Solms, Mayor Orrle Bright of
Tybee, W. H. Haar, and Mrs Eve
lyn Baker.
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AT DEATH’S DOOR
STILL TRYING TO REMOVE
PIECE METAL FROM
HER LUNG
Tenn ■ April 29
(TP).—Sixteen-year-old Pauline Lane
lies near death today while doctors
prepare to make one last effort to
remove a small piece of metal lodged
in her left lung. 8
Pauiine accidentally breathed in an
inch lorg piece of a cigarette lighter
several days ago. Pauline has un
dergone one operation which proved
unsuccessful. The physician hopes
to remove the object today with a
spec.al pair of forceps sent by a Pil
a de! phi a specialist, Dr. Chevalier
Jackson. Dr. Patterson admitted
that should the last attempt fall llt
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reporter, cuts the bonds of Hilda Utterback, 19, who had been lured by
kidnapers to an abandoned Virginia farmhouse, bound and left to
strangle. Finney found the girl after posses had combed the woods in
vain. He is shown, above, struggling desperately to beat death. Below,
■ the girl, recovering, smiles her thanks in a hospital bed.
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New York Police Raid Bridge
Parties Under Gambling Law;
Crusade Stirs Up Indignation
NEW YORK, April 29 (TP).—Man
hattan police continued their cru
sade against gambling today when
they raided a bridge party at a fash
ionable midtown hotel. Previously
they had broken up a bridge game in
one of the city’s high pent houses.
Indignant men and women charged
New York’s police department with
“ridiculous activities.” The raids
were made early today by plain
ckthesmen who said they bought $35
worth of scrip money at one spot and |
used it to play what they called
games of chance.
The hotel ballroom raid came dur
ing a charity affair. Police quietly
herded theri prisoners downstairs and
WANTS TO DEBATE
HOFFMAN READY DEFEND
HAUPTMANN STAND
AGAINST CHARGES
TRENTON, April 29 (TP)—An
Invitation to debate the Bruno
Hauptmann case on the public plat
form confronts Franklin W. Fort
today.
Fort is Governor Harold G. Hoff
man’s opponent for the position of
New Jersey delegate at-large to the
Republican National Convention.
Fort announced, when he filed his
candidacy, that he vould base his
campaign solely on the governor’s
actions in the Hauptmann case.
In his initial campaign address.
Hoffman defied Fort to defend
what the governor termed “obvious
police attempts to prevent further
investigation of the Lindbergh
crime.” The New Jersey executive
argued that he had acted entirely
within his authority as governor
and cited the fact that Fort’s fath
er, the late Governor J. Franklin
Fort, granted reprieves to several
condemned murderers.
“I am willing’’, said Hoffman, “to
debate the Hauptmann issue with
Fort on any public platform in the
State of New Jersey.”
into patrol wagons. The bridge play
ers in the penthouse were indignant.
A police inspector answered them,
said he—“l don’t care what kind of
game they were playing. As far as
I’m cencerned it was gambling.” Nine
men were charged with running gam
bling devices.
GENE NOT TO
ENTER PRIMARY
ROOSEVELT FORCES SAY
SIO,OOO WILL BE
RAISED
ATLANTA, April 29 (TP)—
Doubt that Governor Eugene Tai
made will face President Roosevelt
in a Georgia primary this June was
general today.
The President has filed for the
Cracker State’s preferential pres
idential primary, slated for June
3. Georgia Democrats who oppose
Talmadge’s candidacy for the pres
idential nomination say they’ll
raise the SIO,OOO primary entry
fee. The sizeable entry fee was set
by the TaJjnadge-controlled state
executive l ommittee in what was
labelled a Xlove to discourage Mr.
Roosevelt’s candidacy in the Geor
gia primary.
If no primary opponent enters to
battle the President in Georgia, the
primary will be called off and the
SIO,OOO returned.
MYSTERY MOVEMENT
OF AUSTRIAN TROOPS
VIENNA, April 29 (TP)—Thous
ands of Austrian troops were rush
ed from Vienna and eastern Aust
ria towards the Salzburg and Tyrol
ean districts today.
The troop movements were of
ficially labelled training maneuv
ers. However, prevalent rumors
say the move was ordered to meet
rumored heavy concentration of
German troops along the Bavarian-
Austrian frontier.
SAVANNAH, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936
F. D/S PROPOSALS
HANDLE JOBLESS
IN SCRAP BASKET
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
DECIDES TO ADOPT
OWN PLAN
WASHINGTON, April 29 (TP).—
President Roosevelt’s proposals to end
unemployment lie in the United
States Chamber of Commerce scrap
basket today.
In its place, the C. of C. has pro
posed its own plan for relieving un
employment—a plan which ignored
the presidential suggestions.
President Roosevelt called for
shorter hours as one way out of the
unemployment rut. The Chamber,
after a round table conference on un
employment, replied with a call for
increased production, lower costs,
withdrawal of the government from
private business fields and the de
velopment of new industries.
The Chamber’s recommendations
will be included as a main plank in
the 1936 platform to be drawn up at
the Chamber of Commerce conven
tion before adjournment. They were
in reply to a plea for co-operation to
end unemployment, voiced by Secre
tary of Commerce Roper.
SEARCHONFOR .
FOUR FISHERMEN
DENSE FOG OVER LAKE
MICHIGAN HANDICAPS
RESCUERS
CHICAGO , April 29 (TP).—The
dense fog over Lake Michigan is slow
ing up the search for a fishing ves
sel missing since yesterday.
A coast guard patrol boat* has
groped trough the fog for more than
15 hours hunting for the fisherman
“Waterfill” with it# crew of four
men.
The missing boat is the H. Water
hill. Coast guardsmen headed to
wards the fishing grounds northeast
cf Chicago when the boat failed to
return to port last night.
WEISS CLAIMS PARKER
WAS BRAINS BEHIND
WENDEL KIDNAPING
NEW YORK, April 29 (TP)—
Charges that Ellis Parker, Jr., was
the “brains” of the Paul H. Wendel
kidnaping were made today by a
man who admits taking part in the
snatching.
Harry Weiss, Brooklyn cab driv
er. confessed to his part in the
strange kidnaping soon after he
reached Brooklyn. Southt by detec
tives for more than a week, Weiss
waived extradition when he was
located in a Youngstown, Ohio
rooming house. He is one of the
five men indicted on charges of kid
naping Wendel and torturing him
until he signed a worthless con
fession to the Lindbergh murder.
Parker, the son of a Burlington
County, New Jersey, detective, and
an indicted fugitive, engineered the
kidnaping, according to Weiss. The
cab drive? said he joined the plot
when young Parker promised to
get him an appointment to the New
Jersey State Police Force.
NEW YORK TO DEDICATE
ALL-GLASS BUILDING
AT DINNER TONIGHT
NEW YORK, April 29 (TP).—Ar
chitects and civic leaders will gather
tonight to dedicate Manhattan’s new
all-glass building.
The futuristic structure is the
Schenley tower building, Broadway
and 42nd street. Dedication exer
cises were sponsored by two civic
groups, the 42nd Street Property
Owners and Merchants Association
Mayor LaGuardia will be the prin
cipal speaker at a dinner which will
feature the dedication.
The new structure includes an 80-
foot glass tower, topped by a three
sided star, 12 1-2 feet high and light
ed by 1,000 bulbs. The building it
self will glow under the beams of 44
floodlights hidden about the struc
ture beneath ornamental reflectors.
ICY WATER PLUNGE WINS
HERO MEDAL FOR MIDDY
ANNAPOLIS, Md.. April 29
(TP) —Today will be a big day in
the life of Midshipman J. M. Cease,
one of the plebes at Uncle Sam’s
naval academy.
A regimental dress parade will
stand at attention today .when
Cease is presented with a gold life
saving medal, given by the Treas
ury Department.
The midshipman, a native of
Lawton, Oklahoma, was cited for
saving the life of 12-year-old John
McWilliams when the boy fell
through the ice while skating near
the naval academy. Cease plunged
into the icy water and fa <jsd a
rope around the boy’s wai.ii, en
abling those on shore to haul the
lad to safety.
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KING FAROUK
Wish King Faud I of Egypt
dead at Cairo, international in
terest is focused on Prince
Farouk, 16-year-old son and the
monarch who rules under a re
gency. The new king is a stu
dent at Kenry House, Kingston
Hill, England.
HUNGER MARCHERS
STAND DOGGEDLY
BYTHEIRGUNS
VIEW NEW JERSEY LEGI
SLATORS WRESTLE WITH
PROBLEM
TRENTON, N. J„ April 29 (TP).—
The New Jersey hunger army, its
ranks depleted by desertions, sat
doggedly on in the assembly cham
bers today while legislators wrestled
with the giant problem of relief
Republican asemblymen and sena
tors are meeting today to thresh ort
the problem of how relief funds may
be provided to handle aid for unem
ployment until the end of the year.
State Senator Barbour said that seme
JOBLESS IN ST. LOUIS
CAMP IN CITY HALL
ST. LOUIS, April 29 (TP)—
More than 50 unemployed men
and women took over the St.
Louis Council Chambers today.
The leaders of the group said
they were determined to camp
in the city building until the
Council increases the relief bud
get and puts 14,000 people back
on relief rolls. The relief client
list was slashed recently.
The demonstrators maintain
ed strict order.
measure which would net about $2,-
000,000 a year might swing the job—
if the cities do their share. The leg
islature is due to meet again tonight
to try to pass some form of taxation
measure and a bill to provide relief
funds.
New Jersey towns and cities went
to work to try to find away to han
dle their individual relief problems if
they get no help from the legislature.
Meanwhile in the Trenton state
house their mock legislature conven
with their mock legislature conven
ing now and then to “pass” the most
absurd “bills” they can think of.
One bill “appropriated” $50,000 to
buy wings for weakfish. Some cf tt<
leaders made boasts that “this thing
has only started,” and promised dras
tic action to force relief.
TED HUSING AND
SAVANNAH GIRL WED
AT GRETNA GREEN
HARRISON, N. Y., April 29 (TP)
—Th© Gretna Green of New York
State, the town of Harrison, has
another famous name to add to its
marriage list today.
The latest notable to stand up
before the Harrison Justice of the
Peace and say—“l do” is Ted Hus
ing, the radio announcer. Husing
married movie actress Frances
Sizer after the couple slipped away
from New York and motored the
fe wmiles to Harrison.
Miss Sizer is a Savannah, Ga.,
girl.
ROOSEVELT AND
LANDON PILE UP
IMPRESSIVE LEADS
MASSACHUSETTS GOES 10
TO ONE FOR KANSAS
GOVERNOR
By TRANSRADIO PRESS
President Roosevelt and Kansas
Governor Alfred M. Landon rolled
up impressive leads today in the
Massachusetts Presidential Pri
mary. In Pennsylvania’s voting, it
was Mr. Roosevelt, and Idaho’s
Senator Borah who was unopposed.
Colonel Henry Breckenridge offer
ed himself in Pennsylvania to
catch the vote of disgruntled Dem
ocrats. Breckenridge was buried
under the Roosevelt vote.
Landon is leading in Massachus
etts almost 11 to one. No attempt
is being made to tabulate the vote
for Roosevelt. Landon supporters
say that the Bay State vote means
certain nomination of the Kansas
governor. ,
Massachusetts will send 33 dele
gates—unpledged—to the Republi
can National Conpention. It is con
ceded that the heavy Landon vote
will influence most of the delegates
to his support.
Senator Borah’s unopposed race
in Pennsylvania failed to win an
enthusiastic response. His vote
total Is lagging far behind the
totals for local candidates.
Pennsylvania Republican* turned
down Mrs. Gifford Plnchet who ran
for the Congressional nomination.
She was defeated by John Connel
ly. Mrs. Pinchot Is the wife of the
former governor.
THREE SUSPECTS
SLAYING OFFICER
HUNT GOES ON FOR MEN
WHO TERRORIZED
INDIANA
HUNTINGTON. Ind., April 29
(TP) —Police today seized three
suspects in the slaying of Indian
apolis Police Sergeant Richard
Rivers. But authorities say they
are doubtful that the men belong
to the gang who shot down the of
ficer. One of the suspects gave his
home address as Detroit. The sec
ond says he is from San Jose,
Calif., and the third claims he
lives in Cleveland.
A mob of four men is being
hunted in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky
and Illinois for the murder of Ser
geant Rivers. They shot him when
he and other policemen tried to
trap them in an Indianapolis doc
tor’s office. The gang also is ac
cused of the $15,000 jewelry shop
robbery at Lima, Ohio, on Monday.
APPEALEXPECTED
on Lottery ban
WASHINGTON, April 29 (TP)—
Appeals from a postoffice order
barring two contests from the
mails as lotteries are expected to
day.
The order, signed by Postmaster-
General Farley on recommendation
of Postoffice Department Solicitor
Karl Crowley, affected contests
conducted by the National Confer
ence for legalizing lettering and
the Golden Stakes Advertising
Company. A New York society
leader, Mrs. Oliver Harriman, is
head of the conference, while Al
fred E. Smith, Jr., acts as vice
president and counsel for the Gold
en Stakes outfit,
Mrs. Harriman complained bit
terly at Crowley’s ruling. She in
sisted that the Postoffice Depart
ment Solicitor ruled the conference
swepstakes admissable to the
mails before the contest was start
ed.
An appeal from a similar ban,
recently imposed on the Grand Na
tional Treasure Hunt, is now be
fore a District of Columbia Court.
MAKER OF DOG FOOD
TAKES ISSUE WITH
SENATOR DICKINSON
CHICAGO. April 29 (TP)—The
head of a leading dog food indus
try. M Katz, thinks lowa’s Senator
Dickinson is all wrong when he
says the nation’s poor eat dog food.
Senator Dickinson charged in
the senate that high food prices
under the New Deal have forced
poor people to eat 20 per cent of
the dog food manufactured in
America.
Katz says there would be no rea
son for poverty stricken persons
to eat canned dog food when other
articles are cheaper. Canned beans,
and bacon, Katz points, cost less
money.
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INVESTIGATORS LEARN MEN
TOLD REGISTER AND VOTE;
FAILURE MEANS LOSS JOB
REPORTED ACTIVITY OF CITY’S MAYOR CENTERS ON
• PAVING AND MARKET PROJECTS—HIS TRIPS TO
ATLANTA OCCASIONS SPECULATION AND EM
BARRASSMENT.
Insidious intimidation of WPA workers, coerc’on which is
patterned to force them to cast their votes for Mayor Thomas
Gamble in the next city primary if they expect to be retained on
present or future projects, is revealed in reports of conditions
existing among workmen now employed on WPA projects here
in which the city administration has supervision.
This intimidation is allegedly being
practiced “under cover” in the pav
ing project and the construction of
a Farmers Co-operative Market.
The paving. project which has em
braced the resurfacing of Abercorn
street, is said to be the nest of activ
ity. Here the city administration
has full sway in the supervision of
the construction.
Under the terms of the enterprise,
the city furnished bonds for its share
of the cost of the construction. Fur
ther agreement called for the WPA
to furnish the labor and half of the
material for the work. The city was
to furnish the skilled labor and su
pervision.
The set-up calls for the employ
ment of hundreds of men, on relief,
who are divided into gangs ranging
from 25 to 60. Over each of these
gangs there is a foreman. The ma
jority of these foremen are furnished
by the city administration. They, in
turn, reportthe supervising en
gineer. ,
The method of political operation,
according to reports made by inves
tigators, provides for the spokesman
from the city hall to pass the word
to the city engineer, he in turn,
passes it to the various foremen. The
foreman then take his men into his
confidence and, to employ the slang
of the workmen .they are given “the
office.”
Interpreted, this means they are
told they must be registered; their
family must be registered. They
must be prepared to cast their vote
for the continuance of the Gamble
regime “or else.”
Fearful of what is* to happen next
week, after the time limit for regis
tration will have expired, workmen
who could not afford to pay back
poll tax or supply the money to get
their wives and voting-age children in
good standing, they await the axe to
fall in expectation of their discharge.
This, they expect, is to come when
the registration list is scanned for
their names.
The same method of operation is
reported to be existing in connection
with the construction of the Co-oper
ative Farmers Market. This co-opera
tive market project was thoroughly
revealed by this paper at the time
it was promoted. Briefly, it calls for
the city to finance a privately owned
and operated concern until such time
the property is improved by the con
struction of buildings. Then this pri
vate concern will be in position to
negotiate for a federal loan, giving a
mortgage on the property for some
$16,000. This $16,000, whch has al
ready been advanced by the city for
the construction, is scheduled to be
TRIO DETAINED
MAN, TWO WOMEN FACE
COURT ON LOITERING
CHARGE
J. E. Irby was sentenced to 60
days on the Brown Farm and Mrs.
Mildred Spqnce and Miss Mabel
Smith were given their choice of
SIOO fines or 30 days at Hampstead
Home each in police court this
morning where they faced charges
of loitering and disorderly conduct.
Detective Sregt. T. H. Ellis and
Detective W. H. Sapp arrested the
trio. They told Recorder Mercer
H. Jordan complaints had been
made to the department about the
three loitering about a down-town
hotel and said none of the defend
ants had any legitimate occupation.
It was not brought out in the tes
timony this morning, except for
a passing reference, but the move
ments of the three edfendants had
bad been traced by officers in an
attempt to run down a bogus tele
phone call to the Macon police de
partment the other day. Police be
lieved one of the defendants in
court todr.y was responsible for the
telephone call The caller pretend
ed to be speaking for the local po
lice department, occassioning the
arrest of a i in Macon who
was later when local au
thorities assured the Macon of
ficers the call from Savannah was
a fake.
TRANSRADIO PRESS
returned to the city. The legality of
the project was raised by this paper
since it was admitted that the fed
eral loan office was to be led to be
lieve that the project was sponsored
and to be owned and operated by the
city.
Mayor Gamble’s frequent trips to
Atlanta where he confers with Miss
Gay Shepperson, state WPA director,
are "being given considerable concern
and occasioning much speculation in
cidental to the report which reveals
the “vote-getting plan.”
It is known that Mayor Gamble’s
constant trips to Atlanta, ignoring
the local officials of the WPA, have
been a source of embarrassment to
those various local directors who
have been in charge of WPA projects
here, not excepting the present cne.
The employment of tactics designed
to coerce men and women to vote for
any political party or individual is in
direct violation of federal orders.
National Administrator Harry
Hopkins has been vigorous in the
enforcement of this order. He has
definitely, on not occasion, but
several, informed WPA directors and
officials it will cost them their joos
if such intimidation to insure votes
are aiscovered in any unit of tire
WPA. It is for this and other rea-
that WPA officials acre are un
aware of the being employed
In the WPA projects to perpetuate
the Gamble administration.
Discovery of the alleged conditions
today is expected to bring on a fed
eral investigation here. It is under
stood that the national administra-,
tion headquarters in Washington will
be informed, with the request that
Department of Justice men be sent
here to properly safeguard the en
forcement of the WPA non-political
order.
Morro Castle Suit
WIDOW OF CAPTAIN ASKS
$200,000 FOR DEATH
OF HUSBAND
NEW YORK, April 29 (TP)—
The widow of the Morro Castle’s
master, Capt. Robert Wilmott, is
asking $200,000 for her husband’s
death.
Mrs. Matilda Willmott has filed
suit in a Brooklyn Federal Court.
She charges that her husband'?
death was due to overwork and
neglect, for which she holds the
Ward Line officials to blame.
Captain Wilmott died aboard
ship only a few hours before fire
was discovered on the luxury liner
off the coast of Jersey on Septem
ber 8, 1934. More than 100 passen
gers and seamen died in the infer
no.
Mrs. Wilmott’s suit charges that
her husband, weakened by the
strain of long hours on the bridge
—necessary because of incompe
tent subordinates —was advised by
physicians to rest. Captain Wil
mott. her suit claims, applied for
leave of absence on September 1,
1934, but was turned down by the
Ward Line officials.
ZIONCHECK WILL
NOW CHECK HIS
PLAYING - WEDS
WASHINGTON, April 29 (TP)
The more staid members of
the House of Representatives
have little hope that Washing
ton Congressman Marion A.
Zioncheck’s marriage will trans
form him into an ultra-conserva
tive.
Zioncheck married a pretty
Texas stenographer, Rubye Nix,
in Annapolis, Md., after he bor
rowed $2 from the clerk who Is
sued him his marriage license.
Returning to his Washington
apartment, the youthful stormy
petrel of the House cooked up
a batch of stew, showed news
men his ability as a ping-pong
player, donned an Indian war
bonnet and then drove off to
play golf with his bride.
Mrs. Rubye Nix Zioncheck
had no statement to make. In
stead, she just giggled.