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Likely Ask Death For Alvin Karpis
WEATHER
Partly Cloudy Today and Tomorrow; No
Change in Temperature.
MARKETS
Dull Trading Marked Yesterday’s Market;
Industrials Sagged, Cotton Declined.
VOLUME 2—NUMBER 106
NATIVES BURN ADDIS ABABA; BLOODY RIOTING
Six Guards Wounded In Prison Rebellion
MUTINEERS ARE
QUICKLY SUBDUED
IN MICHIGAN PEN
MADE BREAK FOR FREE
DOM; ONE STILL IN
HIDING
JACKSON. Mich., May 2 (TP).—
Six prison guards were wounded to
night when convicts in the Mich
igan state penitentiary staged a re
bellion which thieatened to get com
pletely out of the guards’ control.
The uprising was led by three negro
’ p isoners who incited their prison
mates to rebellion when the guards
started to lock them in their cells fc».
the night.
loi several minutes, pan lenunimn
tcigned in the prison as guard*
fought with the convicts.
The leaders were finally cornered
and two of them severely beaten by
the guards. The third negro man
aged to get away, and is hiding some
p.ace inside the prison walls.
Tr« warden issued a statement to
night, saying—“everything is under
control now. We do not anticipate
further trouble.”
NEW TAX MEASURE
SEEN AS A MENACE
TO U. S. INDUSTRY
SENATE GROUP TOLD BILL
WILL PENALIZE BUSI
NESS Efficiency
ay 2 XJP).—
Further opposition popped up against
the administration’s $800,000,000 tax
bill tday when several witnesses tes
tified before a senate committee
hearing that it would hurt business.
John W. O’Leary, of Chicago, ap
peared before the committee as a
representative of the Machinery and
Allied Products Institute. He told
the senate finance committee, that
the mere idea of such a bill had al
ready caused cancellation of orders
in the durable industries. O'Leary
said the tax measure would penalize
business efficiency and promote inef
ficiency .
Prof. Fred Fairchild of Yale uni
versity. testified on behalf of the
Connecticut Manufacturers’ Associa
tion. He opposed the idea of trying
do force, through taxation, a greater
distribution of corporate earnings.
Prof. Fairchilds said he favors •ax
ing corporations only on undistribut
ed earnings, and of taxing stockhold,
ers only on earnings paid out in divi
dents.
Stanley A. Sweet, president of
Sweet, Orr and Company, New Yor.
was another witness. He proposed
that congress follow the English sys
tem whereby a tax is placed on cor
poration earnings over an average
period of fhree years.
MILKMEN STRIKE,
CITY CARRIES ON
CANTON, May 2 (TP)—The city
of Canton took over emergency
milk deliveries today when the
milkmen walked out on strike.
The drivers called the strike af
ter a month of unsuccessful nego
tiations for higher wages. The men
will confer with dealers again late
this afternoon. Meanwhile the
Health Department arranged for
delivery of milk to hospitals, to
homes having babies, and to all
sick persons.
GAS EXPLOSION IN
JERSEY CITY; 10 HURT
JERSEY CITY. N. J.. May 2 (TP)
An area several blocks square In
downtown Jersey City was shaken by
a gas explosion today.
The explosion broke 100 windows
tn the vicinity of Hudson and Essex
streets. Crowds ran into the streets
In wild alarm. Ambulance surgeons
treated 10 persons for shock and mi
nor injuries.
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LEWIS FOLLOWERS
CLAIM VICTORY
SPEAKERS TO ADVOCATE
INDUSTRIAL UNION
SYSTEM'
CANNONSBURG, Pa., May 2 (TP)
The followers of Labor Leader John
L. Lewi? won a victory today in the
convention of the Amalgamated Iron,
Steel, and Tin Workers. The con-
. vention voted to let Lewis send speak
ers to advocate his industrial union
system at the convention, and also
I to appoint a committee to study the
• Lewis f)lan.
MORGAN SILENT ON
NYE BOARD PROBE
| BANKING FIRM REFUSES
TO MAKE PUBLIC DL
GEST OF QUIZ
NEW YORK, May 2 (TP)—J. P.
Morgan & Co., refused tdaytomake
pubHc their digest of the testimony
before Senator Nye’s munitions com
mittee. The bankers declare that
i stories on the proposed report, print-
• ed in certain newspapers today, were
1 taken from preliminay memoranda
were subject to change, and had been
released without the bankers’ author
ization.
The published excerpts from the
( memoranda were described as an at-
' tempt to refute charges that Amer
j ican banking interests forced the
United States into the World War.
i1 The memoranda said Nye’s cemmit
i tee’s conclusions were based on an in
complete study of the cause which
s took Nncle Sam into the World War.
; H U L L’S AMERICAN
PEACE PLAN READY
WASHINGTON. May 2 (TP)—Sec
retary of State Hull offered a new
plan today to keep peace on the
American continent.
The proposal will be submitted tc
the forthcoming Pan-American con
ference. The plan provides for a state
ment of the rights and duties of neut
ral nations in their trading during
wartimes The state department alsc
proposes that the 21 American repub
lies should pledge themselves not t<
make any ne wtrade discriminations
The government’s plan will be con
sidehed uy a diplomatic committee
which is drafting a tentative program
“ for the coming peace conference.
BE TRIED FIRST
FOR KIDNAPING
WILLIAM HAMM
SHAKES “LIKE YELLOW
RAT” WHEN NABBED
BY ‘<G” MEN
ST. PAUL. May 2 (TP) .—Gangster
Alvin Karpis stands stripped of even
his reputation fcr courage tonight as
he tosses in St. Paul’s federal jail.
U. S. agents who captured Karpis
in New Orleans say he shook ‘‘like
a yellow rat” when the “G-Men”
rushed up to him with drawn pistols
He was dragged aboard a fast air
plane and whisked to Kansas City.
There the plane stopped while “G-
Men” and prisoner dined in their
seats. Floodlights were turned on
the plane to prevent any attempts at
escape or rescue.
Then the plane zoomed on through
a fog to St. Paul. There Karpis spent
the day confronting witnesses in the
various kidnaplngs and other crimes
laid to the gangster. He is suspected
of five murders, including the notori
ous Kansas City Union Station mas
sacre in which five men were killed.
The federal men indicate that the
prisoner will be tried first for the
kidnaping of the St. Paul brewer,
William Hamm. It is possible,
though, that an effort may be made
to send Karpis to the electric chair.
The man arrested with Karpis.
Fred Hunter, prbably will be tried
at Cleveland for the $46,000 mail
train robbery at Garretsville, Ohio.
Hunter's brother Al was arrested at
Warren, Ohio, and hurried to Cleve
land for questioning today.
• Chief “G” man, J. Edgar Hoover,
*ald today that no reward will be
paid for the Karpis capture, thus in
dicating that the job was done solely
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TOWNSENDCHIEFS
OPEN NEW DRIVE
HOPE FOR 20 MILLION CLUB
MEMBERS BY FALL;
HOLD MEETING
BALTIMORE, May 2 (TP)_The
national board o* directors of the
Townsend Plan announced a drive to
day for 20 million members by Sep
tember.
The state area manager for north
-1 ern California, Edward Margett, was
, appointed head of the membership
committee because of his record made
in his area in geting new members,
i The Townsend direcors estimatde
, that they already have 12 to 15 mil
> lion persons whe e.’.her belong to their
organization or sympathize with the
movement. They say that the mem-
Ibcrship drive, if successful, will in
sure the enactment of the plan to
provide perslcns of S2OO a month for
1 all persons over 60.
i The national directors met in Bal
timore today with their leader, Dr.
i Francks Townsend, in the second day
of a two day session to make final
plans for the second annual national
Townsend convention in Kansas City
in July.
WOMAN BRUTALLY
BEATEN TO DEATH
CHATTANOOGA THEATER
OWNER’S WIFE VICTIM'
KILLER IN HOME
CHTTANOOGA, Tenn., May 2
, (TP).—Every available ' policeman
was turned out today in a search for
the murderer of Mrs. Eula Mae Me
, Connal.
Mrs. McConnal, wife of a Chatta
nooga theater owner, was found fatal
ly beaten i» her home. The room
showed sign: «f a terrific struggle.
Before she died, Mrs. McConnel
' managed to vnurmur that a white
r man was responsible for the crime.
r ATTEMPT IS MADE
TO SETTLE DISPUTE
PITTSBURGH, May 2 (TP)-
7 The striking employes of the Col
e umbia Radiator Company asked
the county court today to appoint
a board to try to settle their dis
-0 pute.
i’ The strikers have been out since
“ last January. In their petition to
Judge Musanno, the strikers refer
-8 r?d to a law passed in 1893 which
° provides for the appointment of
•q three arbiters by the courts when
s jver such a board is asked in labor
j lisputes. Court attaches say thir
> e is the first time in the history of
n Allegheny County that the law has
been invoked.
SAVANNAH GA.. SUNDAY. MAY 3; 1936
HERE’S TED HUSINtf AND BRIDE
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Mr. £ad Mrs. Ted Husing, a
Ted Husing, radio announcer, should be a'ble to air matri
>nonial troubles or happiness now following his marriage to Celia
Ryland, an actress, at Harrison, N. Y. The Husings are shown
above in New York in private celebration of their marriage.
Miss Ryland has been known in private'life as Frances Sizer of
Savannah, Ga. • ’ ,
Press.
Where Is Zioncheck? Local
Hotel Still Waiting Arrival
Barney Oldfield Os Congress
Where is Congressman Marion |
A. Zioncheck and his bride?
That’s what newspapermen up
and down the coast would like to
know; officials and night clerks at
a local hotel would like to know
—and, perhaps a few speed cops
betweenJiere and points in Florida
would like to know as a mope or
less precautionary measure.
The ‘madcap’ congressman from
Washington state made reserva
tions for his bride and himself at
Hotel Savannah last night. The
bridal suite had been set aside for
them —but at an early hour this
morning, they had not yet appear
ed.
There seemed to bs an air of
mystery around the hotel reserva
tion made in Savannah. A man,
unknown to the hotel officials,
rurde the reservations for the cou
ple Friday night. It was the first
intimation that the much public
ized Congressman was headed to
Savannah. He failed to appear Fri
day night but yesterday the hotel
received confirmation of the reser
vation.
TORRIO IS SOUGHT
IN N. Y. SHOOTING
NEW YORK. May 2 (TP).—AI I
Capone’s sponsor, Johnny Torrio, is
on the dodge again.
Orders went out to pick up Torrio |
.vhen a man believed to be one of
his lieutenants was wounded serious
ly in a gang shooting. The wound
ed man, Louis Silver, was shot down
in midtown New York last night 1 . Po
lice arrested a man who was running
from the scene.
Torrio, «who once held high posi
tion in Chicago’s underworld and the
man who introduced Capone to Chi
:ago, was released in $104,000 bail
after he was seized on federal and
tate charges. Since his release, the
car-faced racketeer has dropped out
of sight.
YOUTH, 17, KILLS COUSIN
WHO CALLED HIM SKINNY
NEW YORK, May 2 (TP)—Seven
i ieen-year-old Vincent Comerford was
arrested tcuay on a charge of shoot-
i ing his 12-year-old cousin to death
j because the boy called him ’‘skinny.’’
The vicLm was Char us Rotante.
’ The Comerford youth fust said the
, shooting was accidental. U: f ’"i- ques
i<;ning, pcltce declared he coiuejed
that the shooting was uelloerate.
5 y oung Comerford will be taken into
homicide court Mon< aj •
I Zioncheck was arrested again
yesterday in North Carolina. Ap
parently, it is getting to be a habit
with him. . ,
Presumably,, the United States
Representative from Washington
State, Marion Zioncheck, is speed
ing tonight toward the fulfillment
of his much distrubed honeymoon.
The Representative who is noted
for his heckling in the House, and
of late for his well publicized tus
sles with police on speeding
charges—not to mention his sud
den marriage a few days ago—got
into trouble again today.
Forfeiting a bond of S2OO only
yesterday in the police court of
Washington s neighbor city, Alex
andria, Zioncheck and his new
bride again started south on their
honeymoon.
They got as far as Shallotte,
North Carolina, when they were
recognized. The sheriff gave chase
He said he had to do 70 miles an
hour to do it, but he finally caught
up to Zioncheck. Then he took
him to the Shallotte jail and made
him wait there until he had check
ed with Alexandria authorities and
made sure he wasn’t wanted there
any more. The Alexandria matter
was settled when an unknown per
son appeared in court and paid
Zioncheck’s ne, which was in ad-!
1 dition to the money forfeited.
INFLATIONFORCES
PUSHING MEASURE
HOPE TO SECURE PASSAGE
OF FRAZIER-LEMKE
REFINANCE BILL
WASHINGTON, May 2 (TP).—
Heartened by the administration’s
promise that no parliamentary strat
egy will be used against tnem. House
inflationists worked hard today to
line up their forces. The inflation
ists are trying to secure passage of
the Frazier-Lemke three bilUon dol
lar farm refinance bill.
The measure is expected to come
up for a vote on May 11. This as
sured when 218 members of the
House signed a petition bringing the
bill to the floor. In spite of this,
inflationists feared that house lead
ers would employ recesses and other
strategy to rob them of thier chance.
Majority Leader Bankhead, how
ever, infrmed them that they will get
a vote on their pet measure and that
the administration will use no legis
lative trickery to stop them. Bank
head’s assurance is believed to come
from the fact that Democratic lead
ers are sure they can beat the bill.
STEIWER ANSWERS
ROOSEVELT IN HIS
NEW YORK ADDRESS
i SAYS ‘NEW DEAL’ IS MADE
UP OF THE ‘DIS-
r CARDS’
NEW YORK, May 2 (TP)—The
Republican keynoter, Senator Stei
wer of Oregon, hit out hard at the
New Deal tonight in a speech ans
wering the President’s Jefferson
Day address in New York a week
ago.
Said Senator Steiwer: “The New
Deal is truly made up of the dis
cards of all the old deals. If you
can Imagine intricacies made whol
ly inscrutable and contradiction
confounded with confusion: that is
the New Deal.”
The Republican leader was ad
dressing the Queens County Rer
publican Club at Jamaica. Long Is
land.
“The crowning glory of . the
President’s philosophy," said Stei
wer, “is his declaration for lower
taxes.’’ “But how," asked Steiwer.
‘can there be hope for lower taxes
when we confront a steadily
mounting cost of government?
Mow can taxes be lowered when
the number of federal employees- is
increas’ng and when the adminis
tration actually boasts that it plans
a deficit? _ower taxes result from
thrift and econuipy and not from
recklessness an<J--spendWg. The
burden of supporting federal ex
travagance is added to the cost of
living and becomes a charge upon
every man, every woman and every
child, including even “the forgotten
man.’’
“A budget balance is imperative
ly needed,” he concluded. “but
equally important is restoration of
sanity in government.
BLEEFIELDSAYS
PARKER PLOTTED
WENDEL‘SNATCH’
CHARGES DETECTIVE AR
RANGED PLOT TO
SAVE BRUNO
NEW YORK, May 2 (TP).—
Brooklyn prosecution authorities say
the lid is off the Paul Wendel kidnap
case. , . ...
They base their claims on the con
session reportedly made by Murray
Bleefleld, who admits a part in the
snatching. Bleefield, hunted for
days, surrendered to Brooklyn detec
tives at Cincinnati, waived extradi
tion and began to talk as soon as he
reached New York.
Bleefield flew to Cincinnati from
Savannah, Qa., where he had been
in hiding. Brooklyn detectives bare
ly missed nabbing him in a hotel in
Savannah jvst before he boarded a
plane under an assumed name. Po
lice were waiting for him when he
reached Cincinnati.
Bleefeld says that Ellis Parker, sen
ior, chief detective of New Jersey’s
Burlington county, plotted the Wen
del kidnaping. Wendel, a dsbarred
lawyer, was held and tortured for 10
i days in a Brooklyn cellar until he
signed spurious confessions to the
Lindbergh kidnaping. These confer
sions were o'feied by Parker in what
appeared to be a last-minute attempt
to save Bruno Hauptmann from the
electric chair.
The returned fugitive, Bleefield.
said that the Jersey detective asked
him to help run down a man Parker
accused of kidnaping the Lindbergh
baby.
“He told me,” Bleefield is quoted
as saying, “that he had had Wendel
under surveillance for months. Park
er said he was working with the full
authority of Governor Harold G.
Hoffman of New Jersey.”
Bleefield said, Parker personally
approved of the sxth confession,
which Wendel wrote. This confes
sion, according to Bleefield, was
mailed to Parker by his son, Ellis
Parker, from New York.
The detective’s son is still hunted
under an indictment returned by a
Broklyn grand jury.
MRS. TYDINQS DIES
HAVRE DE GRACE, Md., May
2 (TP) —Funeral services will be
held Monday for Mrs. Mary Tyd
ings. the mother of Maryland’s
Senator Millard Tydings.
Mrs. Tydings died at her hom
in Havre De Grace last night a.
the age of 72. The Senator was at
'her bedside when she died. ’
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VeissTells of Torture
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larry Weiss, captured fugitive
nember of the quintet indicted for
he kidnaping and torture of Paul
I. Wendel, is shown (luring; a pause
n the questioning by District Attor
ley F. X. Geoghan, of Brooklyn,
4. Y. Weiss described, Ellis Parker,
r., as the master mind in the kid
naping.
(Central Press)
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BILBO ANNOUNCES
HE WILL OPPOSE
PAT HARRISON
MISSISSIPPI SENATE FIGHT
WILL ATTRACT
NATION
JACKSON, Miss., May 2 (TP).—
Mississippi’s junior senator, Theodore
Bilbo, said tonight he would oppose
the re elecv.on of Senator Pat Harri
son to tiie U. S. Senate. He said he
would support (ormer Governor Con
nor . for election to the veteran sena
tor’s seat.'
Said -Bilbo —“I’m going to oppose
Harrison because Mike Connor is a
thousand times bettor and more cap
able than Pat ever will be.”
The Missisippi senatorial fight Lt
expected to attract national atten
tion. Senator Harrison is a staunch
Roosevelt supporter, and chairman of
the powerful finance committee of
the upper house. He has been a lead
er in the New Deal. '
Senator £ilbo said that he plans a
national speaking tour. He said:
“I’m going to speak in every state
in the Union if I can. And I’m go
ing to support the Democratc party.
I’m just against Harrison, that’s all."
BANKBANDITGANG
SOUGHT IN DETROIT
DETROIT, Mich., May 2 (TP)—
The five bank bandits, who robbed
the Detroit Savings Bank of $50,-
000, are thought by police to be
hiding in Detroit.
Every state highway is block
aded by police. Ohio State Police
have been asked to join Tn the
search for the robbers on the
theory they, may have escaped
from Michigan before the blockade
was formed
THOUSANDS OF FARMS
TO GET ELECTRICITY
BY NEW U. S. GRANT
WASHINGTON, May 2 (TP).—
Rural Electriclfication Chief Morris
Cooke tonight released good news for
thousands of farmers.
New allotments totaling $1,490,000
io build hundreds of miles of distri
bution lines, Cooke said, will serve
3.300 farms previously without elec
tricity.
The allotments were to the follow
ing area: Three projects in Wiscon
sin-Henderson county, Kentucky-
Catoosa and Toombs counties, Geor
gia—Osceola, Arkansas—and the pe
ninsula counties of Virginia.
.! TOBACCO MARKET
NEW YORK, May 2 —Tobacco
•rices remained unchanged today,
’right futures closed at 19 cents,
;id. Burley futures held at the nom
Inal price of 15 cents. There were
no sales.
TRANSRADIO PRESS
HAILE’S FLIGHT
ENDS RESISTANCE
AGAINST ITALIANS
FRENZIED, DRUNKEN MOBS
LOOT PALACE—DEAD
LIE IN STREETS
ADDIS ABABA, May 2 (TP)—
Addis Ababa is burning tonight
while conquering Italian soldiers
■push southward along the imper
ial highway toward the city.
’r.-Panic and greed of tribesmen
burned the Ethiopian capital into
a place of terror and defeat as
- Bo4n as the populace learned that
. EMperor Haile Selassie had fled.
Hhotjting men ransacked and fired
stores and bouses. Natives fired
upoh gach other with rifles given
them to make war against the Ital
ians;
Marshal Badoglio’s Italian col
umns are still two score miles
away, moving slowly along Wast
ed roads toward a city which has
turned upon itself. It is believed
Haile’s flight marks the end of or
ganized resistance against the
Italians.
A vivid picture of the disaster
came to Washington, D. C.. via
radio. The four U. S. radio men
in Addis Ababa stayed by their
set while the 4 mob raged outside
the American legation, firing rifles,
yelling, fighting and killing in the
weird light of burning* buildings
’The radio men reported at on«
time this evening that the rifle
fire was one continuous roar. Wind
was blowing the fire away from
most of the foreign legation build
ings.
I Mobs looted the liquor store* as
! the royal train steamed - out. of the
east African city. Drunken natives
r began fighting in the streets. The
dead lay where they had fallen.
The wounded crawled to safety."
Some 30 Greeks, six Russians,
and a few Americans took, refuge
in the American legation. They
s will be cared for as long as mobs
bar them from their own consul
ates. Hundreds of foreigners and
some Americans found safety in
the well-fortified British legation.
■ Officials believe all the 53 Amer
icans in the capital are safe.
Among them are numerous hls
, sionaries.
The Emperoi’s departure left the
' country without a governmental
author’ty. Selassie’s warrior chiefs
i refused flatly to support him in a
. last stand to defend Addis Ababa,
i He lett the city with his wife on
I the railroad leading to Djibouti, .in
French territory Behind him was
• the imperial palace built a year
ago. It was one of the firot buUd-
’ ings sacked by the looters.
British officials believe tonight
that Haile Selassie still has some
chance of recovering his throne
at a later date. He refused to ab*
d catr. His sons remained loyal : to
i him. He is still—legally—the ruler
| of his fallen kingdom.
i The rioting in Addis Ababa has
continued through the night.
Flames crackeld in bare, dappled
. groves of eucalyptus trees. Fire
leaped from one thatched hut to
1 another.
Foreigners say the Italian army
i must hurry if it hopes to capture
anything more than a heap of
ruins
The Imperial Palace hag been
sacked.
FAMED CHORAL SOCIETY
TO BROADCAST TODAY
BOSTON, May 2 (TP)—A world
wide radio hook-up will carry the
voices of Boston University’s fam
ous Choral Art Society throughout
the nation and to many foreign
countries tomorrow afternoon.
In the evening the society is
making its final Boston appear
ance at a concert in the Church
of the Covenant, under the direc
tion of Dr. H. Augustine Smith.
ROOSEVELT AND MOLEY
ON FISHING CRUISE
WASHINGTON, May 2 (TP)—
President Roosevelt and his friend,
Raymond Moley. are off tonight
for a week-end fishing trip.
Moley, who was the original
brain-truster, joined the President
• on a cutter trip down the Potomac
. to Chesapeake Bay. Mr. Roosevelt
, decided to drop politics for a few
hours while the rockfish, sea trout,
s and hardheads are making their
annual run.