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WEATHER 1* ' Warmer Tonight and Tomorrow. MARKETS Stocks Showed Easier Totie, Rails Active, Steels Drop, Cotton Rose 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 hTW i ... 1 nHM f x * ■ *. ' jMh* w Kt % t. ■' > ' ■ ■ 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. Published every day pg excepting Saturdays. fW Five cents per copy kA Sundays. Delivered to your home fifteen mF cults per week. WEEK DAYS PAY NO MORE TRANSRADIO PRESS CHIEF OF “G” MEN DIRECTS CAPTURE 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.