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Madcap Solon And. Bride On Way Here
WEATHER
Continued Clear Today and Tonight; Prob- , ,
able Showers Tomorrow.
MARKETS
The Stock Market Was Generally Higher
Today. Cotton Advanced a Few Points.
VOLUME 2—NUMBER 104
HITLER BRANDS WAR RUMORS AS “LIES”
ADDIS ABABA IS
SAID BE HELD BY
ITALIAN TROOPS
REPORT DENIED BY HAILE
—CITY A WILD SCENE
OF DISORDER
ADDIS ABABA, May 1 (TP).—lt
was reported early today that Italiar
troops entered the city of Addir
Ababa at sunrise.
The report lacks official confirms
tion.
Empercr Halle Selassie denied em
phatlcally today that the Ethiopian
capital had fallen before the Italian
affvance.
He said—“ There is no sign of the
Italians entering the city." The em ;
peror added that he would fight to
the end. He declared —"The fall of
Addis Ababa will not mean that we
have surrendered.”
Dispatches said Italian troops
marchsd into the city at sunrlte
The black shirts are reported to have
met with no resistance from Emperor
Haile Selassie’s troops.
Addis Ababa was a scene of wild
confusion throughout the night as
Ethiopians evacuated the imperial
city, leaving the town to a few old
persons, children and foreigners. A
skeleton force of police stayed until
jv t before sun-up, when the Italian
advance was expected. Then they,
too, took to their heels.
Selassie announced that Addis
Ababa would not be fortified in an
effort to stem the blackshirt tide.
Italian commanders have promised
not to bomb the city unless troops
are massed there or fortifications are
thrown up on the outskirts of the
toan., . .
Fascist planes are circling, over Ad
dU Ababa, but have dropped no
bombs. Foreign residents of the Ity
have taken refuge in the bombproof
shelters set up at the beginning of
the war by the various consulates.
In the south. Prince Nasibu’s bafc
tk-torn army is retreating touw.d;
Harar. Nasibu’s troops drew praica
from the Italian General Graziani
for their stubborn defense of Sa 3
Baneh. but were forced to quit their
stronghold when a withering fire
frm the invaders cut down the
Ethiopian ranks like wheat under a
scythe.
chambeFmeeting
IN CAPITOL ENDS
EXPECTED FLAYING OF
NEW DEAL FAILED
MATERIALIZE
WASHINGTON, May 1 (TP).—
New Dealers breathed easier to
day when delegates to the Unit
ed States Chamber of Commerce
convention packed up their duds
for the return to their homes.
Although the Chamber of Com
merce was expected to flay the
Roosevelt administration’s busi
ness policies, the C. of C.. on the
whole, finished its conventon with
only a mild re-proof of govern
mental programs. True, the cham
ber's annual business platform
slapped at several New Deal poli
cies, but there was little of the
anti-New Deal bitterness which
marked the C. of C. convention of
1935.
The annual platform, among oth
er things, called for a cut in the
government spending, opposed fed
eral control of wage- and working
hours, disapproved of the pending
tax bill and demanded the com
plete freedom of the judiciary
branch of the government.
Before the Chamber of Com
merce delegates left the conven
tion hall, they heard Secretary of
State Hui explain the New Deal’s
trade policy. Hull’s address drew
a round of applause which mark
ed the chamber’s endorsement, ir
general, of the Rooseevlt adminis
tration's drive for reciprocal trade
agreements.
BANDITS HOLD UP
BANK IN DETROIT
DETROIT, May 1 (TP).—Three
bandits, armed with machine guns
held up a branch of the Detroit
Savings Bank today and escaped in
a car with $40,000. A young girl is
reported to have been wounded in
gun fire between the bandits and do
lice.
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The Queen and Two of Her Hostesses.
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Here is a new photo of Miss Virginia Mae Pound, 18, a high
school senior of Grand Rapids, Mich., who reigns as Blossom
Queen at the annual Michigan Blossom Festival to be held May
3-10 at St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Below are two of her host
esses, Miss Margaret Dougherty of Benton Harbor, left, and Miss
Mary Jane Anderson of St. Joseph, right.
—Central Press.
THOUSANDS POUR
INTO LOUISVILLE
FOR DERBY CLASSIC
MUDDERS LOOM FAVOR
ITES AS WEATHERMAN
HINTS RAIN FOR DAY
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 1 (TP)
Racing fans trooping into Louisville
for tomorrow’s Kentucky Derby were
greeted with bright sunshine today.
It was the. first clear day since the
first of the week. But the weatherman
dropped a gloomy forecast that it
might rain agaiji tonight. The fore
caster did not say just what sort of
weather is on the books for tomor
row afternoon at 5:45 p. m., when
the 17 three-years-old line up at the
oost for the Blue Grass Classic at
Churchill Downs.
Trainers are giving their horses
only a few pre us seconds of exer
cise today. A breezy half-mile sprint
or two is all can be allowed on the
eve of the big race.
Meanwhile, Louisville and Churc
hill Downs are swarming with the
advance guard of the 60,000 spectators
who are expected tomorrow. Every
inch of hotel space is occupeid.
Prices are soaring in a three-day
boom.
Railbirds talk more of Brevity's
chances in the mud than of anything
else. Some of them are whispering
that the favorite took to yesterday's
soggy track like a duck to water.
Others are saying Brevity’s last
chance is gone if a big colt named
“Bold Venture” takes the post on
schedule.
STR ANGECARGO
CHINESE STEAMSHIP WILL
BRING RARE SNAKES
TO NEW YORK
NEW YORK, May 1 (TP)—The
staemship “Chinese Prince”, which
docks tomorrow from Malaya, is bear
ing the rarest—most dangerous cargo
—the Ne”/ York waterfront has seen
in many a month. Aboard the “Chin
ese Prince”, in tight-locked boxes, are
30 exotic snakes bound for the First
Internal ion al Snake Exposition at
Manhattan's Grand Central Palace.
The exposition opens one week from
today and will run till May 17
Among the reptiles from Malaya
are many never seen before in Amer
ica There is a flying snake, a sea
snake and an iridescent two-headed
snake. Flying snakes from the Malay
iungles and rattlesnakes from Ariz
ona's deserts will match their cold
fascination before the thousands of
visitors at the exposition.
“ARSENAL GANG”
IN HANDS JURY
SEVEN MEN AND THREE
WOMEN ON TRIAL
NEW YORK
NEW YORK, May 1 (TP).—The
fate of New York’s so-called “ar
senal gang” will be placed in the
hands of a jury today.
The gang consists of seven men
and three women who were arrest
ed in a midtown apartment house
raid several weeks- ago. Police dis
covered machine guns, silencers,
rifles, revolvers and sawed-off shot
guns hidden about the place and
blamed the gang for hold-ups in the
metropolis and several other cities.
In winding up his address to the
jury, Assistant District Pilatsky asked
the jury for a quick guilty verdict on
the specific charge of possessing a
machine gun. Said Pilatsky—
“Show this mob the same mercy
they’d show you if they were hold
ing you up with their machine gun.”
LETTERJS CLUE
POLICE ON TRAIL OF MAN
WHO EVADED ARREST
BY PLANE RIDE
WENATCHEE. Wash., May 1 (TP)
—The trail of C. W. McCollum leads
to Salt Lake City today.
McCollum is the man who disap
peared after he took off in an airplane
with Wellington Downs, a Wenatchee
pilot, on what was supposed to be
a short flight to nearby Portland,
Oregon.
When the plane failed to reach
Portland, an alarm was sounded
Then police stepped in with the an
nouncement that MoOollum wa;
wanted on bad check charges, a reck
less driving count and a complaint
of wife desertion. Airports in the
midwest and east were warned to
look out for the west coast flier.
Today, police have a letter from
Pilot Downs from Salt Lake City,
Utah. Downs wrote that he and Mc-
Collum are on a tour of the United
States. Authorities believe that Downs
doesn’t know that McCollum is want
ed. Back at Wenatchee police warn
ed southwestern authorities to arrest
McCollum on sight.
MAYOR INDICTED
BUFFALO, N. Y., May 1 (TP).—
Mayor Zimmerman of Buffalo was
indicted by the Erie county grand
jury today on charges nf violating
the 3t%te election laws.
SAVANNAH. GA.. FRIDAY. MAY 1. 1936
Zioncheck Makes Reservations
Savannah Hotel; Order Out To
Arrest Him; Skipped His Bond
Washington state’s quixotic con
gressman, Marino Zioncheck, was
roaring toward Savannah this after
noon with his 21-year-old stenograph
er bride, leaving a forfeited bond and
an angry set of officials in his wake.
One of the Hotel Savannah's best
rooms was in readiness to receive the
madcap solon and his new wife, who
are on their way to the sunny shores
of Florida to spend a honeymoon far
from the petty annoyances of court
summonses and contempt charges.
There was a faint air of mystery
about Zioncheck’s expected pop call.
A local gentleman walked into th;
Hotel Savannah today and asked that
‘ a nice room” be saved for Represent}
ative Zioncheck. “He’ll stop eff hers
this afternoon on his way to Florida,
the man was quoted as saying. The
day clerk said the man did not Men!
tity himself.
ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 1 (TP)—
Alexandria police today were ordered
to seize on sight Washington State’s
madcap congressman—Rep. Marion
Zioncheck. Yesterday Zioncheck was
BRECKENRIDGE APPEALS TO YOUNG
DEMOCRATS TO OPPOSE ROOSEVELT
ANNAPOLIS, Md., May 1 (TP)—
The nation has Col. Henry Brecken
ridge’s warning that the New Deal
tends to cultivate self-pity among the
ranks of the countiy’s youth.
Colonel Bteckem.'dge, a New York
attorney and Assistant Secretary of
War under Preside,/ Wilson, is fight
ing an uphill battle to take the Phil
adelphia convention away from Pres
ident Roosevelt. His address at An
napolis was one of a stump speech
tour Breckenridge is making through
Maryland in preparation for the free
state primaries on May 5.
“Youth is not to be pitied,” said
Breckenridge. “The wuat service that
could be rendered to youth would be
to persuade it to accept the habit
of self-pity. Youth has the heritage
of the past and the present to choose
from. Youth alone commands the fu
ture.” • ~ ‘ •
Calling on the young Democrats to
vote against President Roosevelt, Col
onel Breckenridge continued—’
. “I would recommend to youth a
frontal assault on the entrenched
LAY PLANS FOR
BATHING BEAUTY
OPENING CONTEST
CASH PRIZES FOR LOCAL
AND OUT-OF-TOWN
WINNERS
Plans were formulated for the
Bathing Beauty contest, one of the
outstanding features in connection
with the opening of Savannah
Beach, at a meeting of the Bathing
Beauty committee held at the Cham
ber of Commerce this morning.
Boykin Paschal, chairman, preeid
ed and Jack Rabey, Alex Cassels
and T. J. McGinley were in atten
dance.
The committee decided to post cash
prizes for all of the winners in the
contest. SSO in cash will go to the
most winsome Savannah bathing
beauty: SSO will go to the most at
tractive out of town contestant. These
will constitute first prizes.
There will be two second prizes
and two third prizes, a local winner
and an out-of-town winner to be se
lected in each division.
Letters will go out teday to the
mayors and newspapers of various
Georgia cities inviting them to send
representatives to the Savannah
Beach opening. The committee
wants an official representative from
each county In the bathing beauty
contest but as many contestants as
a county cares to send will be elig
ible.
There will be five judges to be
named at a later date.
Atlanta newspaper phetographers
are to be invited to attend the event.
They will be the guests of Hotel Ty
bee.
BUS PASSENGERS
SEEKING $15,000
Damage suits totaling $15,263.00
were filed today against Savannah
Beach Bus Line, Inc., by Attorney
Earnest J. Haar on behalf of three
passengers injured in a collision in
-he early morning of March 15.
Passengers Injured were. J. Roddy
seeglng $5,068.00; Harriet Owens
seeking $7,500.00; John M. Folger
seeking $2,695.00.
The suits grew out of a crash on
the Tybee road, in which a Tybee
bound bus crashed into the rear of a
parked truck.
Another slo,ooo' suit is pending. t
arrested for speeding 62 miles an hour
through the stem of the town.
He was charged with reckless driving
and disorderly conduct, but was re
leased on S2OO bond with trial set for
today.
Early today Zioncheck’s lawyer ap
peared for him with the explanation
tnai an important appropriations com
mittee meeting in the capitol prevent
ed the congressman's appearance.
The judge declared that he knew
committees do not meet until after
ten and demanded Zioncheck’s ap
pearance in person. He issued a war
rant for his arrest and forfeited hi
bond pending appearance.
The judge, however, agreed to try
the case without Zioncheck’s pre
sence. He fined the congressman S6O
and costs on the two charges. Zion
check’s lawyer, announced an appeal.
In Washington, Transradio was in
foimed by the Appropriations Com
mittee clerk that there was no meet
ing of the committee this morning
as far as he knew that demanded
Zioncheck’s presence.
A week ago, the young congressman
was finded $45.00 in a Washington
court for speeding and contempt.
army of political office-holders. As
the nation's income dwindles, the
political army grtrws until now pol
iticians are spending sums equal to
one third the entire national income.
One office-holder”, Breckenridge said,
“consumca the total income of five
citizens in 1935. Economic salvation
■can’t possibly issue from a simple
remvoal of the golden calf from Wall
Street to Washington.”
AUSfRIACALLS ON
YOUTH OF NATION
CHANCELLOR IN RADIO
TALK ORDERS THOUS
ANDS REPORT DUTY
VIENNA, May 1 (TP).—Chan
cellor Schuschnigg of Austrial
called up thousands of additional
men to the colors today. All male
citizens born in the year 1915 were
ordered to report for military
duty on October 1.
Th 3 21-year-old youths were
notified of theii conscription by
the chancellor in a nation-wide ra
dio broadcast.
The new military move follows
on the heels of a great mobiliza
tion of Austrian troops near the
German border. Since Germany
has remilitarized the Rhineland.
Austria has signified that she will
develop her defense forces to the
full man power of the nation.
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PNEUMONIA VICTIM
WELL-KNOWN SAVANNAH
WOMAN DIES
VILLE SANITARIUM
Mra. Nonie Rawlings Snow, wife of
James E. Snow of the Snow Laundry
Company, died of pneumonia at the
Rawlings Sanitarium in Sandersville
this morning.
Mrs. Snow was taken ill shortly
after she went to Sandersville to
visit her mother last Friday. Her
condition became so serious that Mr.
Snow left for Sandersville Sunday.
The funeral will be held tomorrow
in Sandersville, where Mrs. Snow
was born. Arrangements will be an
nounced later.
MAY AND OLD SOL
CHASE CAPRICIOUS
APRIL ON IT’S WAY
April ran the gamut of tempera
tures during its 30 days, according to
the monthly report of the Weather
Bureau which was compiled this
morning. The lowest temperature
recorded was 38 degrees on the fourth
and the highest was 92 degrees on
the 15 th.
The mean temperature at 66.2 de
grees was only two-tenths of a de
gree above normal. Rainfall how
ever, with a total of only 1.67 inches,
was an inch below the normal
amount of 2.57. Rain fell for six days
with three thundershowers breaking
on April 1,2, and 10. The greatest
amount of rain at any one time was
94 cn the first two days.
The capricious month had 13
clear and sunny day.s six partly
cloudy days, six rainy days, and 11
cloudy days.
May got off to a pleasant start to
day, with sunny weather forecast for
morrow.
MADCAP ZIONCHECK REPORTED TO BE
ON WAY SAVANNAH WITH BRIDE
B. " ft
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Representative Marion A. Zioncheck and Bride.
Representative Marion A. Zioncheck, Democrat, of Washing
ton, manages to keep in the news. The latest move of the ‘ ‘ play
boy” of Congress, and probably the most important of all, was
a step to the altar. The bride is the former Rubye Louise Nix
of Texarkana, Texas, a typist for the PWA. The couple are shown
above following their marriage in the capital.
LEWIS PLEDGES
LABOR SUPPORT
TO ROOSEVELT
MINE WORKERS CHIEF
GETS PROMISE OF AID
FROM TWO STATES
WASHINGTON, May 1 (TP).—
John Lewis, powerful United Mine
Workers chief, today announced he
has received assurances that two
state federations of labor will support
President Roosevelt for re-election.
The state federations represent Ala
bama and Kentucky.
Lewis, along with Major George
Berry,—President Roosevelt’s indus
trial co-ordinator, —have organized la
bor's non partisan league to re-elect
President Roosevelt. The American
Federation of Labor, however, has
asked the unions to maintain a non
partisan political attitude.
William Mitch, newly elected head
of the Alabama federation, wired
Lewis that his state’s convention en
dorsed the league. The legislatve
committee of the Kentucky federa
tion did likewise.
Both telegrams also contained
pledges of support for Lewis’ fight
for industrial unionism. Lewis wants
to crganize all the workers in each
mass production industry into one
union. The A. F. of L. is opposed to
the idea and adheres to the old line
policy of a union for each craft.
In spite of Green’s plea for a non
partisan labor policy, mcst of the A.
F. of L. chiefs are believed to be pro-
Roosevelt.
HOUSMAN, NOTED
POET, IS DEAD
CAMBRIDGE, England, May 1
(TP). —One of Britain’s most dis
tinguished poets. A. E. Housman,
died today.
Housman shot to fame more
than 30 years ago when the pub
lished his famous bok "A Shrop
shire Lad.” His last book of poe
try was published in 1022. Since
manhood, Housman has taught
Latin at Cambridge University.
He was 77 years old.
SCOUTSTHREAT
GENERAL STRIKE
NEW YORK, Mai 1 (TP).—The
International Seaman’s Union
scoffed today at a threatened general
walkout planned by a group of strik
ing Atlantic seamen for Monday.
The I. S. U. labeled the threat
“empty and meaningless.”
The striking seamen, in a stormy
meeting last night, voted to call a
general strike Monday in an effort
to pull 8,000 seamen ashore and tie
up 300 ships. The strikers are led by
Joseph Curran, who is the target of
inju nction proceedings by the I. S. U.
to prevent his using the union name
in his strike. The injunction hear
ing will continue Monday, on the
day that Curran is to make his
strike call
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. WASHINGTON, May 1 (TP).—
Simplification of the $800,000,000 tax
bill passed by the House appears to
be the first goal of the senate fi
nance committee.
The senate committee, which is
now preparing to revise the bill for
upper chamber consideration, indi
cated its msve for a simplified tax
measure when the committee chair
man, Senator Pat Harrison, asked
treasury department tax experts
whether the bill could not be mould
ed into one tax scale. The bill as it
stands now, calls for four separate
tax scales.
GREEN LIGHTS FOR
NEW NAVY BILL
$531,000,000 TO MAINTAIN
' UNCLE SAM’S SEA
FIGHTERS
WASHINGTON, May 1 (TP).—
Green lights flashed along the legis
lative track today as the $531,000,000
naval appropriations bill started
through the House of Representa
tives.
The bill, the largest peace time
naval appropriations measure ever
asked of an American congress, was
reported out by the House appropria
tions with a request for speed in its
passage. . Majority leaders in the
House began cracking whips which
are expected to clear a path for the
bill before the end of the week.
The $361,000,000 measure combined
with naval funds already at hand,
would give the navy a half-billion dol
lar bank account fcr its 'operations
in the 1936-37 fiscal year. The new
appropriation bill includes provisions
for the construction of heavy battle
ships in case Great Britain follows
present indications and begins a
building program.
A small fortune for the construc
tion of 333 naval warplanes, money
for 12 new destroyers and six sub
marines and funds for a boost in
naval and marine M corps personnel
also are included in the. bill.
THREE AREKILLED
IN IOWA TORNADO
MILFORD, lowa, May 1 (TP) —A
roaring tornado which screamed
through northwestern lowa is blam
ed for three deaths and scores of in
juries today.
The twister, veered northeast after
it smashed down close to Sheldon.
lowa, and whirled up into south
western Minmesota before it New
itself out.
A man and a woman were killed
in lowa when the tornado cut a cross
country ath near Milford. A second
man was killed at Fairmont, Minn.,
when a barn in which he had taken
refuge collapsed.
A motion picture theater was de
molished at Blue Earth, Minn.
Scores of farm buildings, houses and
business structures in the path of the
twister were levelled by the roaring
gale. Several persons are still miss
ing and are feared buried in the ta*;-
led wreckage left by the windstorm
TRANSRADIO PRESS
NO COUP PLANNED
IN AUSTRIA, HE
TELLS GERMANY
MAY DAY IS OBSERVED
ORDERLY IN CONTI
NENTAL EUROPE
BERLIN, May 1 (TP).—Adolf Hit
ler used his May Day broadcast to
day to brand as “lies” all the reports
that Germany intends to invade Aus
tria and Czechoslovakia. There have
been repeated rumors that an eco
nomic coup might be attempted in
Austria, with actual military pressure
brought to bear in Czechoslovakia.
The German realm leader declared
today that the German government’s
intentions are “solely peaceful.”
From Moscow’s Red square to the
main streets of the United States,
the workers and liberals of the world'
paraded today in what they hoped
would be the greatest May Day dem
onstration in history.
Russia’s demonstration was less
military than last year. But there
was a giant parade of workers and
women. Spain staged a noisy dem
onstration of its new Communist
might and there were parades and
speeches In Paris. Vienna police •
rounded up Nazi and Communist
leaders and kept them in jail. Ger
many clapped down a curfew hcur on
cases and beer halls and prepared for
a vast celebration that Nazis slo
gan’ed “let’s enjoy life and make
merry.”
In the United States, Boston Com
mon was picketed with police. The
Communist and Socialist leaders pro
claimed today as their big opportun
ity for a united front demonstration.
The first labor demonstration in
years is being held in Washington.
Liberals are demanding lower rent,
adequate housing, social security and
unionization of Washington workers.
Chicago's parade was to start at 3
o’clock with 670 workers groups reg
istered for the march. Police with
riot guns will guard the line of
march up Michigan avenue. New
York expected the biggest demonstra
tion as a giant parade of thousands
started towards Union Square.
HARD COAL MINERS
POSTPONE STRIKE
AGREE TO TRUCE AFTER
PLEA MADE BY LABOR
SECRETARY
NEW YORK, May 1 (TP)—More
than 100,000 anthracite coalminers
answered the starting whistle today
with their strike threat postponed in
definitely.
The United Miners of America and
mine operators agreed to a truce only
a few minutes before a hard coal
strike was due to be called at mid
night. The truce will keep 105,000
miners at work while union heads and
operators discuss contracts to replace
the agreements which expired last
night.
Credit for averting the strike goes
to Labor Secretary Perkins. Her
chief trouble-shooter, Edward Mc-
Grady, flew to New York last night
and succeeded in drawing up the
truce agreement after presenting Miss
Perkins’ plea for labor p:„ee in the
coal fiels.
DEATH BALTIMORE
WOMAN A MYSTERY
POLICE REOPEN PROBE IN
TO CASE; FOUND DYING
ON PARK BENCH
BALTIMORE, May 1 (TP). —Po-
lice today reopened their investiga
tion into the death on a park bench
of a 39 year old Baltimore music
teacher in the belief that she may
have been murdered.
They asked that her body be ex
humed. The woman, Mrs. Ruth
Bain, was found dying on a park
bench two weeks ago. A coroner pro
nounced her dead from natural
causes after an investigation led to
the belief that she had died from a
brain hemorrhage.
Then the woman’s mother told po
lice the lining of her daughter’s coat
had been torn and some jewelry Mrs.
Bain had been wearing was missing.
Police announced today that Ernest
Wise, who found the woman dying in
the park, allegedly admitted taking
the jewelry from Mrs. Bain and
pawning it. He is being held for in
vestigation.
STORE BURGLARIZED
Police Officer C. M, O’Connor and
J. J. Flaherty reported to police
headquarters today that they answer
ed a call at 6:55 o’clock this morning
to the store of A. Hayes, negro, 1329
Augusta avenue, where they found
the place had been burglarized dur
ing the night. The entrance was ef
fected by forcing the lock on the
fiont door. Eight packages of cigag*
ettes and $lO in cash was taken.