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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 107
ITALIANS TAKE OVER ADDIS ABABA
KARPIS ADMITS
TWO KIDNAPINGS
IN EXAMINATION
CONFESSES HE WAS BE
HIND $300,000 RAN
SOM SNATCH
ST. PAUL, May 4 (TP).— Public
Enemy Alvin Karpis who has con
fessed two kidnapings, is under a
cross-fire of questions today from G
men who are trying to learn the
names of those who helped in the ab
ductions.
Karpis admits he was behind the
$300,000 ransom snatchings of the
wealthy st. Paul banker, Edward Bre
mer, and William Hamm, a St. Paul
brewer. The gangster is held in the
federal building. The desperado who
swore he never would be taken alive,
gave up without a struggle in New
Orleans, then wilted under questions
and admitted his participation in the
kidnapings.
Guilt in these crimes can bring
him a life sentence. A murder charge
might lead to a death penalty. Con
sequently attorneys believe Karpis
may plead guilty and go to prison
in the hope of escaping the payment
of his life for his long crime career.
INSANE?
ST. PETER, Minn., May 4 (TP).—
A former colleague of Gangstar Al
vin Karpis, Lawrence Devol wm oom
mltted to the Minnesota Insane bos
pital today.
Devol who is a convicted bank rob
ber. said he once was a prison cell
mate of Karpis. He was transferred
from the state prison at Stillwell.
Prison doctors declared him to be
insane. Devol was Imprisoned at
Stll water for his part in a Karpis
raid on a Minneapolis bank tn 1932.
FRENCH LIBERALS
TAKE OVER REINS
OF GOVERNMENT
LEFT-WING FORCES WIN
PARLIAMENTARY MA
JORITY IN EASE
PARIS, May 4 (TP)—French,
liberals prepared to take over th*,
reins of government today. The
left-wing forces were swept into
a parliamentary majority by the
run-off elections held yesterday
elections which gave the leftists
at least 376 seats in the Chamber
of Deputies. •' ’ * ;
The day’s balloting turned but to
be a bad defeat for the right-wing
bloc, which were labelled fascist
by their political enemies. The vote
result was termed the biggest left
ist sweep since 1881, when im
perialism made a bid to return to
the French throne and was down
ed by a smashing vote.
The run-off election results finds
the socialist party the big name
in the new Chamber of Deputies,
supplanting the more conservative
iadlcal-socialists in power The
next Premier, due to be chosen in
June, will be a socialist, although
it is not expected that Leon Blum,
national socialist leader, will take
the job. Blum is the man who re
cently was assaulted and nearly
killed on the streets of Paris when
he was attacked by political en- (
emies. The beating left him in poor
health, and it is expected that he
will turn the Premelrshp bld over
to another member of his party.
Radical-socialists and commun
ists, who banded with the social
ists to win today’s run-off elections
say they’ll maintain their united
front throughout the next session
of parliament. Veteran French po
litical observers, however, say it. is
improbable that the three leftist
groups will stick together long
enough to change the French do
mestic and foreign policy to any
considerable degree.
LABOR OPPOSES U. S.
LOAN TO STEEL FIRM
IN SALARY DISPUTE
BOSTON, May 4 (TP)—A plea
from organised labor to refuse a
Reconstruction Finance Corpora
tion loan to a Worcester steel com
pany is in the hands of Federal of
ficials today.
The New England Federation of
Labor voiced the appeal to ttye
RFC Northeastern A F. of L.,
officials asking that a scheduled
federal loan to the Wickwlre-Spen
cer Steel Company of Worcester
be held up until the steel company
agreed to arbitrate a wage dispute
affecting 500 employes.
Labor relations board chiefs and
union heads are slated to meet i>
Boston *or a conference today
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tak€».i to New Orleans airport and rushed to St. Paul, Minn., to stand trial in the Bremer and
Hamm kidnapings. Karpis was captured by G-Men as he entered an auto with another gang
ster and a woman in New Orleans.
BORAH DEFINES
FARMER PROBLEM
NOT ’A COMPLAINT, TffF
SAYS—AFFECTS POCK
ETBOOK OF NATION
CHICAGO,’ May 4 (TP) —Senator
William E. Borah says the Ameri
can farmer has a problem, not a
complaint, and this problem af
fects the pocketbook of the na
tion. »»
The Idaho Senator said that the
farmers’ troubles must be aired,
if the whole nation is to have busi
ness recovery. Borah discussed the
matter in the publication, Rural
Progress Magazine. He said the
two main troubles for agriculture,
are monopoly and a faulty econ
omic system.
The present system, Borah be
lieves, permits raw materials to
collapse and farmer’s incomes to
disappear long before manufac
turers and bankers are even aware
that their own prosperity is being
undermined.
Borah said the city man is hoe
ing the same row as the farmer.
“There wil always be a farm prob
lem,” he said, “so long as the pur
chasing power of the masses is held
at a bare subsistence level. And
there will be an unemployment
and- relief problem In the city just
so long as prices received for farm
products and raw materials gener
ally are out of line with taxes, in
terest charges and other fixed
costs.”
Borah declared that the first
step to business recovery, is to re
store good prices for agriculture,
Then, he said, agriculture can buy
from industry.
WILSONISON
TRIAL FOR LIFE
SHOT AND KILLED SWEET
HEART BECAUSE OF
JEALOUSY
MANSFIELD, Ohio, May 4 (TP)
—Charles Wilson went on trial to
day for the death of his sweet
heart, the socially prominent 17-
year-old Jean Moorhead.
The girl was shot to death a
month ago as she sat with anoth
er young man in an automobile be
fore her home.
TRADE TREATY SIGNED
BETWEEN GUATEMALA
AND UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON. May 4 (TP)—
The New Deal added another recip
rocal trade treaty to its steadily
growing list today.
The new pact is with little Guate
mala. According to the agreement,
announced by the state depart
ment. Uncle Sam will levy no tar
iffs on Guatemalan bananas, cab
inet woods, raw deersyins and cof
fee. In return for the lowered trade
bars, the Central American Repub
lic will lower duties on American
(canned good, auto tires, textiles
and leaf tobacco among other im
ports.
PAGE LADY GODIVA!
lENEE COMES TO TOWN
NEW YORK, May 4 (TP).—
Manhattan's Times Square will
be fully prepared—if and when
Renee Vilon appears to do her
nudist act on the great white
way. Rene is the brash young
woman who arrived last night at
Nywark ariport, popped out of
the Eastern Airliner from Miami
and tossed off her cloak. Be
neath the cloak Renee was wearing
three ‘little spanglee—nothing
else. She wore shoes, of course,
and a platinum wig.
Renee was bundled into the
airlines office and wrapped in
her cloak again. But she said
Times Square wil see her soon—
a great deal of her. Renee said
she might even ride a white
horse down Broadway in true
Lady Godiva fashion.
WPA WORKER
RUNS AMUCK
KILLS WIFE AND MORTAL
LY WOUNDS FOUR
OTHERS
NEW ORLEANS, May 4 (TP).—A
niddle-aged WPA worker, John Wai
ters ran wild with a gun today, kill
ing his wife, and seriously wounding
himself and three step-sons. Doctors
say none of the four will live.
Friends of the laborer say that
worry over money prompted the
shooting.
YOUTHCONFESSES
SLAYING FATHER
MISSISSIPPI LAD ADMITS
HIS PART IN FAM
ILY FIGHT
MERIDIAN, Miss., May 4 (TP).—
A 15-year-old boy, William Church
confessed today that he helped his
mother kill his father during a fam
ly fight.
The boy said his father beat his
Y! other and threatened to kill the
vhole family. No charges have been
brought against the mother and son.
FRATERNITY MEMBERS
INNOCENTLY HARBOR
CRIMINAL FROM POLICE
AMES, lowa, May 4 (TP).—The
r. embers of the Delta Tau Delta fra
.omity at lowa State co’/ge have
beon harboring a criminal in their
horse—but there will be no police
oharges against them.
The fraternity members were un
aware of hs presence until police
liagged ex-Convct Andrew Yates
from the cellar. They said he was
wanted for looting college buildings
of three cities.
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SAVANNAH. GA., MONDAY, MAY 4.1936
CREW RESCUED
FROM SCHOONER
TAKEN FROM FISHING
BOAT AGROUND OFF
WELL-FLEET
WELLFLEET, Mass., May 4
(TP) —The fishing schooner “Mag
ellan” went aground today two
miles south of the Cahoon Hollow
coastgaurd station off Wellfleet.
The schooner has a crew of 10
aboard. She went aground early
today in a pea-soup fog. The vessel
was enroute to Boston from the
fishing banks with 55,000 pounds
of fish.
Coastguardsmen from the Ca
hoon Hollow station removed the
members of the crew in surf boats.
The coastguard patrol boat “Har
riet Lane” has been sent to the
scene from Gloucester, Mass.
TEXANS PARADE
IN CHICAGO LOOP
CHICAGO, May 4 (TP)—Oil
men, ranchers, editors and public
officials of Texas lined up today
for a parade through Chicago’s
loop to climax their good-will tour
for th* Texas Centennial Exposi
tion.
Governor James Allred is lead
er of the enthusiastic delegation.
The chief executive hopped off the
special train clad in boots and
spurs and, of course, a ten gallon
hat. His followers set up a re
opening chorus of cowboy whoops
as Chicago officials welcomed
them.
Leonard Pack, captain of~ the
Lone Star Rangers, -mounted his
movie-acting horse, “Texas” to
head today’s procession.
Tonight the enthusiastic train
load of southerners will check out
of town for Texas, stopping off for
visits in St. Louis and Kansas City
on the way.
BOY,”I4TaCCUSED
OF STABBING PAL
ST. LOUIS, Mo.. May 4 (TP)—
A fourteen-year-old boy, Walt
Franklin, is being held today by
juvenile authorities for stabbing
and trying to drown a 6-year-old
playmate.
Police say the older boy confess
ed to stabbing John Barnes with
a pocketknife, then holding his
head under water. Franklin accus
ed the child of stealing toys.
TOY REVOLVER USED
BY YOUNG CONVICT
IN PRISON ESCAPE
FLINT, Mich.. May 4 (TP)—A
19-year-old convicted bandit, Ray
Rusch, escaped the Flint jail to
day with a toy gun.
Husch, holding a toy revolver,
summoned a turnkey to his cell
He threw pepper in the turnkey’s
eyes and took the cell keys. The
prisoner fled from the city in a
stolen automobile.
PERIL AMERICANS
INCREASE HOURLY
IN ADDIS ABABA
DIRECT SHOTS ARE BEING
FIRED AT LEGATION
WASHINGTON. Ma y 4 (TP).—
The American minuter to Ethiopia
flashed word to Washington by wire
less today that peril to the American
legation in Addis Ababa is increasing
hourly.
Minister Engert said—“ Several di
rect shots have been fired at the le
gation buildings, including the radio
station, since this morning and two
native women in our servants quar
ters have been seriously wounded.”
A short time before this report was
filed, Engert said that an attack on
the legation had been repelled. He
asked for help. The state depart
ment at Washington then telephoned
to London, requesting that the Brit
ish legation at Addis Ababa send re
inforcements. The only way the two
legations in Addis Ababa can now
communicate is by wireless all the
u’ay to London and Washington.
The American state department
was advised by London that radio
communication with the British lega
tion in Addis Ababa was cut off sev
eral hours ago. If the rioting Ethio
pian natives disable the American
legation radio, all word of the situa
tion in the mob-ridden city may be
cut off.
Van Engert said that he could not
establish direct touch with the
stronger British legations.
A band of marauders attempted to
storm Van Engert’s legation this
morning. He said they struck at two
widely separated back gates. They
laid down a heavy riflefire. Mrs. En
gert narrowly escaped bullets.
Engert said his loyal native serv
ants and cooks rushed out to fight
off the stackers. These defenders
held off the mob until reinforce
ments arrived from another part of
she legation. One bandit was killed,
Engert said.
The minister said he might be
forced to abandon the legation and
flee to the British compound.
WOMAN RIDER DIES
IN PLANE CRASH
MACHINE PLUNGES TO
EARTH ON TRIP HOME
FROM THE DERBY
DETROIT, May 4 (TP)—A wo
man is dead and three men are
hurt today aftpr Detroit’s second
airplane crash within two weeks.
The plane plunged to earth dur
ing a return trip to Dearborn,
Michigan, from the Kentucky
Derby at Louisville. Both wings
were ripped from the fuselage
when the craft plowed into a group
of trees.
The woman victim was 34-year
□ld Miss Sadie Rowley of Dear
born. Pilot Homer Bond and two
other passengers, both men, escap
ed with slight injuries.
TENNESSEE IS SEEN
SAFE FOR LANDON
STATE’S 17 DELEGATES
PREDICTED; CONVEN
TION TUESDAY
NASHVILLE, Tenn., May 4 (TP)
supporters of Governor Alf Landon
are predicting that all of Tennessee’s
17 delegates to the National Repub
lican convention will vote for the
Kansas governor.
The state convention is to meet
at Nashville tomorrow. The Tennes
see national committeeman, Will Tay
lor, declares Landon has an easy lead
over al opponents in the Republican
line-up.
Republican party leaders rank Sen
ator Borah as second in strength in
Tennessee.
YOUNG SOCIALITE
CANCELS DATES TO
SERVE JAIL TERM
MADISON. Wls„ May 4 (TP).—A
young socialite, Mrs. Cornelia Ben
nett, cancelled engagements at the
Madson Country Club today to begin
i three-months sentence in the coun
ty jail.
The blond social matron has been
entenced to three months for con
tempt of court. ( The charge grew
ut of her divorce case last year.
Her husband was given custody of
their two children when the couple
were separated. Against court or
ders, Mrs. Bennett took her small
■son to Muskegon, Mich., on a vaca
tion. When she returned. Mrs. Ben
nett was taken before a judge, given
the jail term and ordered to pay her
husband $970 court costs for the di
vorce.
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR
HOLDS OPEN FORUM
BALTIMORE, May 4 (TP)—The
Japanese ambassador to the United
States, Hirosi Saito, will be ques
tioned tonight in an open forum
n Baltimore.
The ambassador will speak on
“Japanese - American Relations.’’
Xfter his talk, the audience will
be permitted to ask him questions
I from the floor.
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22-year-old daughter of Prince Harald, brother of King Christian, who is
reported favored as the bride of King Edward VIII of England. London
dispatches indicate the King and Alexandrine, his third cousin, will
announce their betrothal in the autumn.
HAGOOD REQUESTS
HIS IMMEDIATE
ARMY RETIREMENT
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CANNOT SACRIFICE PER
SONAL DIGNITY AND ,
PRESTIGE
CHICAGO, May 4 (TP).—Major
General Johnson Hagood, comman
der of the Sixth army corps area, to
day requested President Rcorevelt ■to
give him immediate retirertient. His
retirement thus becomes automatic.
General Hagood took command of
the Chicago district Saturday after
two months leave. He was relieved
of command at Fort Sam Houston,
Texas, two months ago for his criti
cism of the WPA. Restoration to
duty came after Hagod conferred
with the president during Mr. Roose
velt’s recent Southern vacation.
In a statement to Transradio to
day, Hagood said that he cannot held
his new job without sacrificing his
personal dignity and profesional pres
tige. The outspoken army man says
he intends to devote all his time to
writing. > . •
He said that he is working on a
book tht he claims will show the
taxpayer how he can get better na
tional defense at far less money.
WASHINGTON, May 4 (TP).—
The war department made the terse
announcement this afternoon.
“The application for retirement of
Major General Johnson Hagood, com
mander of the Sixth corps area was
received this morning at the war d»
partment. It wil be brought to the
attention of the chief of staff, and
acted upon in a routine manner.”
WINDOW CLEANER HELD :
IN $5,000 GEM THEFT
FROM N. Y. APARTMENT
NEW YORK, May 4 (TP)— Win
dow cleaner Charles Olsen is held
in heavy bail for a hearing later
this week on charges of pocketing
$5,000 worth of gems.
Olsen, according to police, was
scrubbing windows at the apart
ment of Mrs. Henry T. Richardson
and Mrs. Richardson stored sever
al valuable baubles in her jewel
case and hid the key. ■ ;
When Mrs. Richardson returned
to her apartment, the key was gone
and so were $5,000 worth of dia
monds, emeralds. saphires and
pearls. The window-cleaner was ar
rested when he allegedly tried to
pawn an emerald pin, identified as
Mrs. Richardson’s.
HAVE YOU “CONFUSION”?
ST. LOUIS, May 4 (TP)—The
Chicago mental expert. Jacob Kas
inin, told the American Psychiatric
Association today that books on
mental diseases have overlooked a
very common kind of insanity.
Kasinin called the mental trouble
“contusion.’’ He said a man is
suffering from “confusion” when
he does things he cannot remem
ber afterward. Going out without
one’s clothes, or picking a single
handed fight with four big bruisers,
are symptoms of the malady—if
the patient doesn’t remember what
he did.
GREAT BRITAIN
GIVES SANCTUARY
HAILE SELASSIE
EMPEROR WITH ROYAL
FAMILY SETS SAIL
FOR HAVEN
Great Britain gave sanctuary to
day to the defeated ruler of Ethiopia,
Emperor Haile Selassie.
The emperor will .board a British
warship late today at Djibouti,
French Somaliland. He will be
taken to Haifa, Palestine. From there
the emperor will make his tragic re
treat to Jerusalem,' with his royal
family and household.
A haven for the vanquished ruler
hvas extended by British foreign sec
retary, Anthony Eden. Eden told the
House of Commons that King Ed
ward’s government felt it incumbent
•to give Selassie refuge. The decision
was reached by the British cabinet
after it communicated with the
French. Eden did not define his
views on the present
political status of the emperor. Se
lassie has hot formally abdicated his
throne.
Eden said that the emperor and his
party would board the warship, En
terprise, about 1 o’clock, New York
time. Selasie has been under the
protection cf the French legation at
Djibouti since he fled from Ethiopia
two days ago.
NEGRO LYNCHED
KILLED BY MOB AT PAVO
AFTER HE CONFESSES
YOUTH’S' MURDER
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PAVO, Ga., May 4 (TP)—A mid
dle-aged negro, John Rushin, was
lynched by a mob a few minutes
after he allegedly confessed to the
killing of a young white man.
The lynching was the second
Georgia mob execution within a
week. A negro was lynched at
Royston, Georgia, last Thursday,
after his arrest as a suspect on
charges made by two women. In
Lepanto, Arkansas, a third negro
was riddled with bullets a few days
ago when he returned to a town
he had been warned to stay away
from.
A coroners jury today declared
it is unable to secure identificatioa
of any of the 200 men who lynched
Rushin. Judge W. E. Thomas, of
Thomasville, near Pavo, ordered
an investigation.
Yesterday Deputy Sheriff Har
bert Kennedy arrested Rushin for
robbery-murder of Marion Pate, 24-
year-old white man. Kennedy says
that before he could get Rushin
to jail the mob rushed him. The
sheriff also says Rushin admitted
his guilt. .
HIT BY CAR—KILLED
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 4 (TP)
—An unidentified man, held over
night for drunkenness, was found
dead today in a city police station.
The coroner said the man had been
drunk, all right, but he had been
hit by an automobile and injured
internally so badly that he died.
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FOREIGNERS ARE
MOWED DOWN IN
REIGN OF TERROR
VICTORS MARCH INTO CITY
THAT ONCE EXISTED
ADDIS ABABA, May 4 (TP)—ltal
ian troops were reported Marching
into the shambles that once was Ad
dis Ababa today.
Unofficial word from the Africa
war region says thousands of advanc
ing native Askari troops are backed
by Whippet tanks and squadrons of
planes. The black shirts reportedly
have taken over the Ethiopian capi- ■
tai which fell into the hands ■of
drunken rioters when Emperor Haile
Selassie dropped his sceptre and fled
in an effort to save his skin.
The unofficial reports—and it must
be remembered that these reports
from Addis Ababa are purely unoffi
cial—said the members of the foreign
legations stood on the roofs of the
embassies and legation buildings,
waving the flags of the countries they
represented.
The Askaris, according to first re
ports, mowed down more than a hun
dred drunken, pillaging Ethiopians
with machine gun fire as they moved
into the Ethiopian capital. Their
first task was tq put out the raging
fire which levelled the native section
of town, and, at- times, threatened to
make charred wood and blackened
plaster of the foreign legations.
, The number of .foreigners slain in
the reign of terror which preceded
the reported entry of Italian troops
into Addis Ababa is not definitely
known.
It is known that the members of
the American legation buckled on re
volvers and shouldered rifles last
night when the drunken hordes,
headed by cut throat Ethiopian rene
grades, swept towards the American
legaticn. One American woman, a
Seventh Day Adventist missionary,
already had been killed by a stray
bullet. She was the wife of a mis
sionary doctor, Mrs. A. R. Stadin,
who dropped a few minutes after
she arose from, her bed to see from
what direction the shooting was com
ing. The other members of the mis
sion were rushed, almost forcibly, to
the American legation, when .It was
feared that entire mission staff
would be wiped out.
When things got too hot at the
American legation, U. S. Minister
Cornelius Van T. Engert radioed foi
approval of a plan to move all wom
en and children to the etrongly for
tified British legation. In Jess time
than it takes to tell the story, Wash
ington okayed the suggestion.
The British legation is manned by
a corps of bushy-beareded Sihkt
(seeks) who are reputed to be the
hardest fighting outfit ever to shoul
der a gun. A Sihk, according to
British legend, takes a wild mob as a
good little fighter takes an unorgan
ized big fighter—that is, the bigger
they are, the harder they fall. -,
The random attempts that have
been made to storm the British lega
tlon are unofficially reported to have
ended with heaps of uninterestec
Ethiopians and only a few. Sihki
wounded.
Italy's reported entry into Addie
Ababa folowed the frantic appeals of
French diplomats, stranded in ths
rict-torn Ethiopian capital. Ths
French, hard-pressed by mobs whs
cried for blood in the belief that
French diplomacy had double-crossed
the absent Emperor Haile Selassie,
sent out radio messages to Asmara.
Eritrea, calling for the Utaian oc
cupation cf the Ethiopian capital ai
soon as possible.
While the French were crying for
help. Minister Van Engert was send
ing Washington a Typically American
message.
“We have nine rifles,” the minister
reported, via short wave radio, and
two shotguns, besides ten revolvers.
We also have a fair amount of am
munition.
“I feel very strongly,” the Ameri
can representative to Ethopia added
“that we should not abandon the le
gation and radio station without a
determined effort to hold them as
they certainly would be pillaged' and
burned after our departure.”
NO DECISION
ON GUFFEY ACT
WASHINGTON, May 4 (TP)—
There will be no formal decision
otdayon the Guffey Coal Act by
the United States Supreme Court.
The high court has again passed
a “Decision Monday” without hand
ing down its verdict on the con
stitutionality of the measure that
has been called “The Little NRA".
because of its regulatory measures.
The court now takes a two weeks
adjournment
EDITORS RANK HIGH
WASHINGTON, May 4— Farm
editors have a high batting average
when it comes to appointments as
secretary of agriculture.
The first secretary of agriculture,
Norman J. Coleman of Missouri, was
raised to the cabinet post from the
editorship of a farm paper in his
state.
Later the cabinet post was occu
pied by E. T. Meredith, editor of a
farm magazine in lowa.
During the Harding administration
the job went to Henry Wallace, edit
or of an lowa weekly farm paper,
and father of the present secretary
of agriculture.
Chester Davis, boss of the Triple
A, was also once a farm editor, lie