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VOLUME 2—NUMBER 110
HOOVER CAPTURES LAST OF KARPIS MOB
Fire Razes Savannah Beach Homes
Beach Blaze May Have Been
Incendiary; Savannah Youths
Held In Jail For Questioning
Tybee Island was swept by its
third disastrous fire since 1930 early
ths morning and two youthful Sa
vannahlans were being held for ques
tioning on a suspicion the blaze was
of incendiary origin.
The two young Savannahians were
being held in the Savannah Beach
jail for questioning this morning aft
er the burning of seven cottages lo
cated in the block on the ocean be
tween Second and Third streets at
Lovell’s Station.
Fighting the roaring flames which
wei'e being fanned by a 30-mile-an
hour northeast wind, the Savannah
Beach and Fort Screven fire depart
ments finally brought the conflagra
tlon under control after a hard two
hour’s battle.
The fire was discovered about 2:30
o’clock this morning. An early esti
mate placed the loss at $20,000. It
is understood many of the dwellings
are insured.
The fire disrupted for a time long
distance telephone communication
with Savannah and late this morn
ing a number of the island telephones
were still out of commission.
Police Chief A. L. Hildreth today
told The Times over long distance
telephone that he had arrested Earle
Blackstone, age 25. and Frank Mc-
Coy, age 20. Both, the chief said,
had been employed for the past sev
eral days in doing some repair work
on the home owned by Mrs. Julia
Bailey. This was one of the homes
entirely destroyed and reports said*,
the blaze started at this dwelling.
Chief Hildreth said the pair held
had permission to fleftp in the Bailey
home and spent last night there. He
was still holding th» two late this
morning, but was of the opinion there
was nq. actual incendiarism at the
Briley nome. He said it was very
likely the fire had begun by accident
but there was some slight discrepan
cy in the stories of Blackstone and
McCoy as to what time they had re
tired for the night.
Only one lone wall of all the seven
bu.red homes was left standing when
v t efforts of the Savannah
B- and Fort Screven fire depart
rr had finally gotten the flames
u: ontrol. A detail of 100 men
was patched from the fort with the
fire ckpartment to lend assistance.
The owners of the burned homes
are: E. B. McMillan, Mrs. Julia
Bailey, O. B. Strong, Estate of U. H.
MoLaws, Thomas R. Jones, Mrs.
Daisy Mclntyre and Mrs. Mattle R.
Dlsecker. Police Chief Hildreth said
as far as he was able to ascertain to
day the only homes which were oc
cupied last night were those of Mr.
McMillan, Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Dis
ecker. The Disecker home is tenant
ed by that family the year round.
Only Blackstone and McCoy spent
the night at the Bailey residence.
The cottage of J. C. Slater
in an adjoining block to the one
swept by fire caught fire several
times but each time these incipient
blazes were extinguished.
A. Perry Solomon, former chief of
the Savannah Beach fire department,
suffered painful cuts on the fingers
of one hand from broken glass and
a bad bruise on the chin when he was
accidentally struck by a hose nozzle
during the fire. At the time he was
assisting Fire Chtof M. R. Young of
the beach department in directing
the fight. Mr. Solomon was taken
to the post hospital at the fort. There
it was found he was not seriously
hurt and he was able to return to the
blaze after first aid was given.
Word of the beach conflagration
reached Savannah about 2:30 o’clock
this morning. Fire headquarters
here was ordered to send help to the
beach.
Assistant Fire Chief George B.
Johnson sped toward the island and
a few moments later apparatus from
Booster Company No. 5 and Engine
Company No. 7 was on the way.
When Chief Johnson reached the
scene he found the blaze was under
control and there was no need for
service of the local department. He
turned about and flagged down the
two Savannah companies on the
Tybee road and bhe Savanah fire
men returned to the city.
The conflagration created intense
excitement oq the ' island as the
flames shot high into the moonjlt
skies. Hundreds gathered from
other beach homes and from Savan
nah to watch the work and |n many
instances to lend assistance to the
firemen. Time after time sparks
swept through the air by the Wind
set afire nearby grass plots and pal
metto trees. *
The alarm to Fort Screven awaken
ed Major Hudson and Adjutant Cap
lain Childs. They at once sent the
boat fire apparatus and a large force
V soldiers to help fight the flames.
Aiderman Wiliam Logan of Savan
nah Beach was lavish today in his
braise of the work of the Savannah
Beach and Fort Screven fire depart
ment and soldiers in checking the
fire before It enveloped the entire
north end of the Island.
The blaze was completely under
*
§ nu n nnabwf) nil u Tinies
control a little over two hours after
it-had been discovered. The dwell
ings burned form a cluster just oppo
site the water tank of the town of
Savannah Beach.
All of the homes destroyed were of
the usual type common to Savannah
beach. A kitchenette and showers or
garage were on the lower floor and
sleeping quarters of each family on
the upper story. Practically all of the
dwellings were said to be valued at
about $3,000 each. This did net in
clude the house furnishings which
were lost in several instances.
The McMillan home was being oc
cupied by Philip Ledbetter, who is
employed as a buyer at the
Adler department store.
Mr. and Mrs. Ledbetter, their two
children, Barbara, age three, and Sal
ly, age two were living in the Mc-
Millan cottage. Mr. Ledbetter’s
mother-in-law, Mrs. Sheppard, and
her daughter, Miss Edna Sheppard,
were also guests at the Ledbetter
home last night. All of the occu
pants escaped in safety when the
home caught fire but house furnish
ings of the Ledbetter home were
completely destroyed.
Savannah Beach has seen three
other fires of considerable extent in
the last 15 years.
Two of the blazes were in 1931. A
section near the strand burned. The
blaze started early in the afternoon
and it was sundown before the flames
were gotten under control. A loss of
s bout $50,000 was sutained when the
Solms, Carbo, Izlar and other proper
ties were destroyed. Anumber of
stores, rooming houses and private
liomes . were consumed by the fire
which smouldered for several days.
In Septefnber of the same year the
large frame hotel, known as the Ty
bee White House, on Butler avenue,
naught fire and burned to the ground
nth a loss of about SIO,OOO.
The largest fire the beach has ever
had was in 1921 when the entire
western end of the Izlar avenue sec
tion was wiped out and property
valued at more than SIOO,OOO went up
in smoke. At that time realty values
were much higher than they- are to
day. A number of homes and some
rooming houses and business struc
tures were razed in the fire which
lasted half a day.
bitter“battle
OVER LENIENCY
FOR R. BUNGER
STATE AND DEFENSE BE
FORE PRISON COMMIS
SION DEATH CAR CASE
A legal battle for and against clem
ency for Richard H. Bunger, 25-year
old Savannah-convicted death car
driver was being waged before the
Georgia prison commission here this
afternoon.
Armed with recommendations for
leniency from 11 of the 12 jurors,
plus a highly commendatory letter
from the chief of police at the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway, where Bun
ger worked. Attorney Aaron Kravitch
had high hopes of winning freedom
for his client.
But Assistant Solicitor General An
drew J. Ryan, Jr., was on hand to
wage a bitter fight against Bunger’s
release. He held a letter from Oliver
and Oliver, Savannah atorneys, stat
ing the case of George V. Home,
guardian of the little girl victim of
Bunger’s speeding automobile. The
letter sought the prison commission
to turn a deaf ear to Bunger’s plea
for commutation.
Bunger has served more than
three months of a twelve-months
chain gang sentence for the death of
little Ann Butler. Charged with mur
der after his car, in a wild Armistice
day ride, had struck down and killed
the child on Ashburban road, a jury
found Bunger guilty of involuntary
manslaughter in the commission of
a lawful act. The conviction was for
a misdemeanor. Judge John Rourke,
Jr., applied the maximum sentence.
Bunger admitted he was drunk
when his car killed the Butler child.
But he blamed his condition on the
influence of an 18-year-old girl com
panion.
thunderbolFchild
IS INJURED BY AUTO
Juanita Harden, age 9, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Harden, of
Thunderbolt, suffered a compound
fracture of her right leg last night
when she was struck by an automo
bile near Bannon Lodge. Police re
ported the car was being driven by
Mrs. J. H. James, of 1223 East Thirty
eighth Street. The accident was
said to have been unavoidable. Ths
little girl was said to have ran out
in front of the machine. The child
was taken to Oglethorpe Sanitarium
where it was said today she is “doing
nicely,”
Il Duce’s Victorious Army Sweeps Through Ethiopia
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Men and machines which won Italy’s war against Ethiopia, are pictured
here. The modern motorized unit which brought doom to Haile Selassid’s
dreams of victory, and the Italian troops who fought through tropic
CALIFORNIA VOTE
CHEERS ALL SIDES
IN G. 0. P. SPLIT
“STOP LANDON’’ FACTIGN
SEE VICTORY AS BLOW
KANSAN’S CHANCES
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 (TP)—-
Virtually every figure in the Repub
lican Presidential nominating picture
found some satisfactory angle to the
California primary rseults today.
Leaders of the “Stop Landon” drive
say that the victory of an uninstruct
ed convention delegation slate was a
hard blow to Governor Landon ana
proved that the Kansas Governor's
nomination at Cleveland is by no
means a foregone conclusion. Landon
ites, on the other hand, say that
local issues dictated the primary re
sults. Many Republicans who backed
the uninstructed ticket —reportedly
controlled by former President Her
bert Hoover—favor Landon as the Re
publican nominee, according to Gov
ernor Alf’s campaign managers.
Defeat of the outright Landon tic
ket, the Kansas Governor’s support
ers say, was chiefly due to a faction
al battle between Hoover Republicans
and those who strung along with
Publisher William Randolph Hearst,
sponsor of the Landon ticket.
Senator William E. Borah's backers
beamed at the Landon defeat. The
Borah forces believed that what may
have beaten the Kansas Governor in
California—opposition to Hearst—
may be repeated in other primaries
and at the Cleveland convention.
Those calling for the nomination of
Col. Frank Knox, another Republican
hopeful, also took the California re
sults as a sign that the Presidential
nomination is still an open affair.
Landonites maintain that the South
Dakota primary results made up for
any reverses suffered in California.
Virtually complete results give an un
pledged convention delegation slate
an edge over the convention delegates
pledged to Borah. The 'unpledged el
egation is generally regared sympa
thetic to the Landon cause and the
South Dakota results are heralded by
Landon suppo/ters as evidence that
Borah will not realize the support
he expected from the North-Western
States.
TOOMUCHPOLITICS
WOMEN LQBE WPA JOBS
WHEN THEY SEEK PO
LITICAL POSTS
BOSTON. M ay7 (TP)—Five WPA
employes have lost their jobs because
they disobeyed orders and ran for
political jobs. Three of them were
elected.
The ambitious WPA men violated
the WPA rule against mixing work
and politics. They became candidates
for the pre-primary Democratic Con
vention and three of them proved
successful. Massachusetts WPA Ad
ministrator Piul Edwards discharged
the five employes but did not disclose
their names.
SAVANNAH, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1936
BRITAIN MAY DEMAND LEAGUE
CONTINUE SANCTIONS ON ITALY;
BAYONETS RULE ADDIS ABABA
OFFICIAL CIRCLES ROME
SILENT ON EUROPEAN
CONQUEST ATTITUDE
• • • ' ■. I
LONDON, May Tz (TP)—Govem
mentment officials expressed belief
today that Great Britain will ask
the League of Nations to continue
sanctions against Italy for the pre
sent.
It was considered unlikely that any
league nation would consider asking
an immediate end to the economic
penalties against Premier. Mussolini.
It appeared doubtful however, wheth
er Great Britain was prepared to con
tinue sanctions Indefinitely. Officials
of South Africa have urged that the
league penalties be extended until
Italy comes to terms with the league.
British leadens still held hope that
Mussolini would allow the League of
Nations some say in the disposition
to be made of Ethiopia. Observers
pointed out that Itay’s establishment
of a puppet state in Ethiopia would
do much to ease the dangerous situa
tion and lessen the sting of the lea
gue defeat. The situation would be
ROOSEVELT CITES
GEORGIAVETERAN
WASHINGTON. May 7 (TP).—An
Atlanta veteran of the World War
was today’ awarded the 100th Oongres
sinal Medal of honor for gallantry in
action during the war. The presenta
tion was made by President Roosevelt
at the White House.
The recipient is Captain Samuel
Parker, of the Atlanta Infantry Re
serve, and the brother of Judge John
J. Parker, whose nomination as Jus
tice of the Supreme Court was re
jected by the Senate a few years ago.
The award was for Captain Parker’s
heroism in action near Soisson*
France, in July, 1918. Parker was a
lieutenant then. In the face of mur
derous machine-gun fire. Parker led
his platoon toward the German ma
chine-gun nest and captured six guns
and forty prisoners. He was wounded
during action the next day but re
fused to leave his command even
though he was unable to walk because
□f his jinx injuries.
SENTENCED FOR ASSAULT
Clarence Heyward was sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary by
Judge Hardeman in Superior court
this morning on a charge of assault
with intent to murder. On a bur
glary charge. Charlie Coleman was
given one year in the penitentiary.
In the case of Roy Geiger, charged
with burglary, a sealed v*»-dict was
returned-
I rains and fever are shown above. At left is Marshal Pietro Badoglio,
commander-in-chief of the Italian forces in Africa. At right, inset, is
Gov. Bottai, of Rome, reported first to enter Addis Ababa.
further improved, they said, if Mus
solini w’ould allow France and Britain
to have .spheres of influence as pro
jected under their treaty of 1906 v.dth
Italy. Premier Mussolini has indicated
clearly, however, that he will make
his terms without consulting other
nations. . ' ■
• •
IL DUCE MEETS COUNCIL
’ ROME, May 7- (TP)—The Grand
Fascist Council headed by Premier
Mussolini was summoned today to
hold an extraordinary session this
Saturday. The Fascist leaders are ex
pected to draw up a proclamation for
the annexation of Ethiopia.
The proclamation probably will be
withheld frQm. public announcement
until Monday. Oh trat day the Lea
gue of Nations council -meets to de
bate Ethiopia’s fate.
Official circles in Rome are silent
on the- league's attitude. .They (re
iterate that French and British rights
in Ethiopia will be preserved. However,
Italian officials argue that Ethiopia
is without a government sifice Em
peror Haile Selassie fled, and that
Ethfopia ras no representative to ne
gotiate at Geneva unless Italy creates
one.
They state that Ethiopia must und
ergo a long semi-military rule with an
Italian Governor General in charge.
The- present Secretary of State for
Colonies, Allesandro Lessona is prom
inently mentioned for the Governor
General’s post. Certain native chief
tains who betrayed Emperor Selassie
may be rewarded with nominal pow
ers as Provincial Governors. Among
these would be the Ethiopian traitor
Prince Gugsa. who handed the Ital
ian conquerors Tigre Province in the
early days of the war.
•
BAYONETS RULE
ADDIS ABABA. May 7 (TP)—The
rule of the bayonet was imposed on
the Ethiopian capital today by the
city's Italian conquerors.
Marshal Badoglio ordered martial
lew and set up a special military
court to put an end to rioting by
Ethiopina natives. Marauders and
Italian soldiers are removing me
bodies of those killed during the four
days reign of terror. They estimate
that 500 Ethiopians were slain in the
rioting which converted the Addis
Ababa business district into a shamb
les. The British. American, French
and Italian legations appear to be
the only substantial buildings which
escaped the native fury. The city gov
ernment is now being administered
jointly by Marshal Badoglio and the
Italian Governof. Giuseppe Bottai.
Their offices are in the Italian leg
ation.
All the American citizens in Addis
Ababa are accounted for except
Transradio Press’ War Correspondent,
Miss Eleanor Meade. It is believea
that she may have boarded a train for
Djibouti and escaped the days of an
archy. The U. 3. Minister, Cornelius
Van H. Engert, reported Miss Meade
unaccounted for.
‘VON HINDENBURG’
HEADS FOR JERSEY
GIANT DIRIGIBLE OVER
SEA ON MAIDEN FLIGHT
- * TO UNITED STATES
ABOARD THE DIRIGIBLE VON
HINDENBURG. May 7 (TP)—The
engine telegraphs of the largest air
ship - afloat, - the German Dirigible
"Von Hindenburg,” were locked at
"full speed ahead” today.
The “Hindenburg” is out over the
Atlantic this morning on her maiden
voyage to the United States. -Carry
ing 51 passengers and crew, of SS, the
giant Zeppelin left its home port at
Friedrichsrafen, Germany _,and head
ed for Lakehurst, N. J. •
Aboard the long, cigar-shaped air
ship, are more<than 20,000 pieces of
mail. • Each one will be a stamp
collector's prize when the maiden voy
age is completed by the landing at
Lakehurst. •
In command of iae Dirigible are Dr.
Hugo Eckener and Capt. Ernst Leh
man. Dr. Eckener, who recently clash
ed with nazi government heads in a
political squabble, apparently has
bean given authority over Captain
Lehman, although the pair are rated
equally in official ranking.
Engineers aboard the "Von Hinden
burg” were ordered to pile up speed
i nan attempt to cross the Atlantic
to New Jersey in 70-hours. After a few
hours’ lay-over at the New Jersey
airport, the Zeppelin will head for
German home port to complete her
first round trip to the United States.
The flight is the first of ten schedul
ed round-trip voyages to be made dur
ing the year.
PARENTSENDORSE
STRIKE OF PUPILS
ORDER CHILDREN WALK
OUT WHEN CLASSES
ARE CUT
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y„ May 7
(TP) —For once in their young lives,
some 200 pupils of the Huguenot Pub
lice School played hookey today and
their parents backed them up.
The parents called a strike of the
pupils in protest against a decision
of the school board which would elim
inate the upper three grades next
year. Pupils in the fourth, fifth and
sixth grades w’ould be transferred to
neighboring schools. The space in
the Huguenot School would be used
for the administrative offices of the
school board.
School Superintendent Clifford
Bragdon said school is going on, any
way, with regular classes in every
iudy. The strike is entirely peaceful.
Some of the mothers formed a picket
line and marched up and down in
heir kitchen aprons.
HAVE YOU ANY?
LONDON, May 7 (TP).—A
stamp collector named Robson
Low has offered his §O,OOO home
at Wimbledon in exchange for a
good batch of stamps. Anybody
can apply, and he probably will
be accepted, if his stamps are
good enough.
Said Low—“l am always n
the lookout for first-class stamp
specimens. I suddenly decided
that I would like to move and
that I might get some interest
ing offers if I offered to exchange
my house for a valuable stamp
collection, instead of trying to
sell it in the usual way.'*
FIREMEN BURN
COMMUNIST FLAG
ON CAPITOL MAST
REDS RAISE SYMBOL OVER
BUILDING HOUSING U. S.
SUPREME COURT
WASHINGTON, May 7. (TP).—
When the bright sun rose this morn
ing it revealed to the blinking Capi
tol that the Red Flag of the Com
munists was flying high over the
United States Supreme Court.
It was like finding a horse in the
refrigerator. Bewildered police assem
bled around the eighty-foot flag pole
and held a little conference. Then
they began an unsuccessful struggle
to lower the emblem. They worked
for an hour and a half. The flag
stayed up.. The prankster who put if
there had securely knotted the hal
yards, and while the sun rose in the
sky, the emblem of the Third Inter
nationale beamed a bright red on the
snow-white Supreme Court building.
Government workers collected across
the street and roared with laughter
at the unhappy policemen. The cops
finally gave up and called a fire
man. He climbed the swaying pole and
set fire to the Red Flag with a gaso
line torch. One policeman displayed
a copy of the Harvard Lampoon—the
college humor magazine. He said he
found it at the foot) of the flagpole.
It was opened to an article titled,
“Down With Capitalism!”
Police in Washington hadn’t been
so mortified since they found a 21-
year-old negro who h id been sleeping
and eating all winter long in the
cellar of the Capitol building.
old7ge~club
. TO HEAR ELMORE
CLAXTON JUDGE TO TALK
AT CHATHAM COUNTY
MEETING TONIGHT
Judge E. ,C. Elmore, of Claxton,
prominent Georgian, will be the speak
er at the meeting of the Old Age
Pension Club of Chatham County,
which will be held tnighb at 8 o'clock
in the fraternal heme of the Eagles,
110 East Perry .Street. D. L. Shealy,
temporary chairman, urges the public,
in the interests of the Old Age Pen
sion, to attend this meeting.
General W. L. Grayson will be in
stalled as chairman of the organiza
tion tonight. Other officers to be
inaugurated are: J. J. Hoffman, first
vice-chairman: Carl Mendel, second
vice-chairman; D. L. Shealy, third
vice-chairman; Leon Deutsch, fourth
vice-chairman; Mrs. J. L. Cole, fifth
vice-chairman; Mrs. J. H. Harvey,
sixth vice-chairman: Miss Reitta Har
vey, secretary; T. E. Zipperer, treas
urer, and the Rev R. H. Daniel,
chaplain. All officers and committee
chairman are requested to assemble
promptly at 7:45.
The Early Bird String Band will
be a unique feature of the entertain
ment. Mr. Shealy will announce the
Mother’s Day program to be given at
the B’ljou Theater and will also make
several other announcements of the
utmost importance, he said today, to
those interested in pensions for the
aged.
FARLEY PREDICTS
CONNECTICUT SAFE
IN ROOSEVELT CAMP
HMRTFORT Conn., May 7 (TP)
Connecticut Democrats are encour
aged today by Postmaster General
James A. Farley’s prediction that the
Nutmeg state wil go to President
Roosevelt in November.
Farley, a recognized shrewd polit
ical prophet, claime dthe Connecticut
victory in an address at Hartford, ar
ranged by the Democratic state cen
tral committee.
“The president,” said Farley “is go
ing to be indorsed next fall by a more
decisive victoyr than he scored in
1932. It is with a full heart that I
name Connecticut as one of the sttes
that will contribute to the re-election
of the president.’’
Farley admitted that the nation’s
recovery under the New Deal was not
—as he put It—"as abrupt as was the
descent.’ ’ However, he maintained,
the recovery drive has been steady,
substantial and sound.
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COKER - CAMPBELL
RAID AT 5 A. M. ROUNDS UP
. MOBSTERS WITHOUT
FIRING A SHOT
CLEVELAND, Ohio, May 7. (TP)—
The nation’s chief G-Man, J. Edgar
Hoover, smashed the last of the Kar
pis-Barfcr kidnap gang today when he
personally directed ths capture of Har
ry Campbell and Sam Ooker.
The Cleveland Department of Jus
tice Bureau said first reports indi
cated that Campbell and Coker offer
ed no resistance. Hoover left almost
immediately for New York. He is be
lieved to have left the. two bandits
in jail in Cleveland.
Hoover led a raiding party of Fed
eral agents at 5 a. m. this morning
to capture the last two members of
the notorious Karpis-Barker kidnap
gang. . •
WIFE CAPTURED
CLEVELAND, Ohio—Depart
ment of Justice agents announc
ed todfty that the 19-ydw-oM
wife of Harry Campbell was cap
tured along with Campbell to-,
day. The agents also seised
$2,900. J. Edgar Hoover **G”
man chief, said the girt probably
did not know her husband was a
gangster, and that he expected to
release her shortly.
Harry Campbell and Sam Coker
were nabbed without a shot being
fired. The G-Men worked so swiftly
and quietly that the capture had
been effected and Hoover was en
route to New York before the story
was generally known. Campbell elud
ed G-Men when Karpis was captured
less than a week ago in New Or
leans. He will be rushed to St. Paul
to face charges in the Bremer kid
naping. His capture will clear the
way to the prosecubion of Karpis—
the former Public Enemy No. I—on
the same indictment.
The Justice Department closely
guarded details of the raid this morn
ing. Hoover left so suddenly for the
east that it was impossible to get an
extended account of the capture.
Cleveland. Washington and New York
bureaus of the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation were awaiting further word
from Hoover.
The capture of the cripple, Camp
bell, and his small-time companion,
Coker, closes the careers of the last
gunmen-“snatchers” in the gang or
ganized by Alvin Karpis and “Ma”
Barker. It leaves only one consider
able criminal wanted for kidnaping
still at large in the United States.
He is not a Karpis gangster. He is
“Scarface” William Mahan, who
plotted and engineered the sensational
Weyerhaeuser kidnaping in Tacoma,
Washington. /
Killed A Physician
Hoover announced today that the
Karpis gang had killed a physician,
Dr. Joseph Moran, who had altered the
fingerprints and faces of members of
the gang, because thev feared the
doctor would squeal.
AUCTIONISMAGNET
HUNDREDS ATTEND SALE
PRESIDENT COOLIDGE'S
BELONGINGS
NORTHAMPTON, Maas., May 7.
(TP) —Hundreds of persons came
from near and far today to bld for
the furniture, dishes and vlctrola ree
ords of the late Calvin Coolidge. The
rush was almost a stampede until the
crowd got inside the Smith School
arena where the auction is being held.
Mrs. Grace Coolidge, widow of the
late President, wasn’t there. She rt
traveling abroad.
There were about 400 items for
the auctioneers to dispose of. Some
of them were in the Coolidge family
for years. Others came into their
possession during Coolidge’s years in
the White House. There were book
shelves and desks, a mahogany din
ing room suite, several rockers, some
china and some old phonograph rec
ords —including “America,” * Laad
Kindly Light,” and several ragtime
tunes.
AMY MOLLISON
BREAKS AIR MARK
CAPE TOWN. South Africa, May 7
(TP)—The famed woman flyer, Amy
Molllson added to her laurels toddy
by breaking the speed record between
London and Cane Town.
Mrs. Molllson brought her plane to
a perfect landing after cutting off
11 hours and nine minutes from the
previous record of three days, four
hours and 18 minutes.. Mrs. Molli
son made the hazardous flight of
7.501) miles in 1.00*) mile stages At
each point she barely stopped to have
her plane refueled. She flew dow»
the west coast of .Africa.