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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. paulinelane 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 life hCPe WoUld remaln for the girl's Cali 6183 - 7448 To Start Your SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES Delivery Today § its | Rescuing a Kidnaped Girl IB f I >"<■ .4 jfl / wRF * / Sf - Ta / '•-V-'V ,X : -> This remarkable picture was taken as Peter Finney, Washington, D. C., 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. . (Central Preet) 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. Father Dies-He Rules ' nMfIBB x OffiffiT tF v M9SMSL * | W E —Central Press. 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. Published every day excepting Saturdays. J Five cents per copy Sundays; Delivered to your home fifteen cents WEEI ? DAYS per week. pAy N 0 MOR j; h k 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.