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WEATHER Cooler Tonight and Fair and Ccutinued Wann Tomorrow. MARKETS Leading Rails, Steels, Motors Drop; Wheat and Cotton Yield Ground. 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 Call 6183 - 7448 To Start Your SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES Delivery Today Savannah Daily Times AS G-MEN ENDED LONG HUNT FOR KARPIS ! Jr JK "HUHS ■L Ik v JI ' * /■ • M Wil i 1> ; - ' % J# ’ 1 : ■ * welter -w v/ < K "X life y . : jF fl r IB- i ' Bl flag <: x | y Bi • B ; BMBII ■»/ ■ BBP- Alvin Karpis, America’s Public Enemy No. 1, shields his face from cameramen as he is 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. IF YOUR NAME APPEARS ON THE CLASSIFIED PAGE YOU WILL BE GIVEN A COMPLIMENTARY TICKET TO ONE OF THE LOCAL THEATERS.—*ou can get the free tickets bv calling at the Savannah Daily l*.nes Office, Lincoln and Bryan Streets. 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. Reported King’s Fiancee flfl I M My HL: ' » • X \ \ 'W wflfl»#£4?x fl / ;■ - - . <- ■ 1 =• This is a recent portrait of Princess Alexandrine Louise of Denmark, 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 ) • • • . ■ ; : 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 ’ ) ' ... - ; *■ . 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. Published every day excepting Saturdays. J Five cents per copy j J* Sundays; Delivered to VZ your home fifteen cents WEEK DAYS per week. pAy NQ MQM TRANSRA-DIO PRESS 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
