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Newspaper Page TextLikely 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. Call 6183 - 7448 To Start Your SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES Delivery To lay < ______ ____ _ § nudttii®blwA)ftililQ[imes Shooting an Accident I a*- C i jbl ♦J" fc ' VBSR JHB ' V- i... ... © by Mumyr Kortnan What police • 1 suuude Wt'tnpT xnffcci- , dent by Doris Dudley, 18-year-old ; actress, shown with her son by a re . I cently-annulled marriage. The mis hap occurred in the New York apartment of her fiance, Sidney Kingsley, playwright. * (Central Press) I < 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 (Continued on Page Three) 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 ~~ B R B* I ■ > W ■ fll I . Jsßa jsßßk ili 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. ’ »•- • • * Published every day excepting Saturdays. J Five cents per copy a Sundays; Delivered to your home fifteen cents WEEK DAYS per week. pAy NQ MORB VeissTells of Torture ■ IK. y L 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) . . €•«*».' 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.